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Bazaar Stores-The Fair, Morris Five-and-Ten-Cent Store.
Bicycles and Sundries-Albert Gilham, L. N. Marlow.
Bill Posters-Fred Seitz & Sons.
Billiard Rooms-DeArmond Hotel, James Ford, Pierson Cigar Store. Blacksmiths-C. F. Brown, Brodie & Ricketts, S. E. Cline, Wade Coil, Hiram Collins, William Espy, Charles Ferris, Arthur Terrell.
Boiler Works-Joseph L. Luchte.
Bottling Works-Michael O'Conner.
Bowling Alley-Pierson Cigar Company.
Brick Manufacturers-W. H. Isgrigg & Son.
Buggies and Carriages-Haas & Son, Isaac Layton, George Mont- gomery.
Building and Loan Associations-Greensburg Building and Loan Asso- ciation, Workmen's Building and Loan AAssociation.
Building Material-Jones Lumber Company, Pulse & Porter. Strickland & Trester.
Cab and Transfer Lines-Big Four Livery, Charles Beeson, Powell & Son.
Carriage Painter-Edward Roberts.
Cement and Drain Tile-Greensburg Commercial Club, Allen Brothers. Chiropractor-Dr. H. Dennis.
Cigar Manufacturers-William Oliver, Harry Suttles, Erdman & Sons. Cigar Stores-John Ford, Pierson Cigar Company.
Clothing- Carter & Company, Huber Clothing Company, Ironclad Clothing Company, J. M. Woodfill's Sons.
Coal Dealers-D. M. Blackmore, Ewing & McKee, R. S. Meek & Sons, Clifford Jones.
Concrete Building Blocks-F. W. Willey.
Contractors-Allen Brothers, Barringer & Tumilty. Edward Dille, James Duncan, W. H. Isgrigg & Son, Joseph Kelley, M. McCormack, Pulse & Porter, J. A. Roszell, Smith Brothers, Williams & Son.
Dentists-Orlando Burns, F. C. Eddelman, A. E. Gilchrist, A. O. Hall, H. S. Hopkins, C. A. Kuhn, E. D. Mclaughlin, R. J. Russell.
Drugs-J. H. Batterton, Henry & Company, Magee's Pharmacy, Joseph S. Moss, St. John & Guthrie.
Dry Goods-Dalmbert & Company, The Enterprise. George W. Magec, Minear Dry Goods Company, W. W. Woodfill.
Electric Company-Greensburg Electric and Gas Company.
Express Companies-Adams, American.
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Feed Dealers-D. M. Blackmore, Nading Elevator Company, J. M. Hornung & Son.
Florists-Ira Clark & Company, W. C. Konzelman, R. Burtsch.
Flour Mills-Garland Milling Company, Hornung Mills.,
Foundries-Greensburg Foundry and Machine Works.
Funeral Directors-Kirby Bros., E. G. Schultz & Company. Eugene Rankin.
Furniture Dealers-Woodward & Christian. E. A. Rankin, E. G. Schultz & Company, Styers & Son.
Gas Companies-Citizens Gas and Supply Company, Greensburg Gas and Electric Company, Muddy Fork Gas Company, Sand Creek Gas and Oil Company.
Groceries-Fred Wetzler, Bee Hive Cash Grocery Company, Crooks, D. A. Morris, Woods & Gray, A. L. Everhart, Golden Rule Store, Louis Huber, Linegar Brothers, James Littell, Samuel V. Littell, J. C. Marshall, New York Grocery, People's Grocery, Robert Huber, Sherman Doles, Lit- tell & Stewart, Sturges & Wilson, Max Penn, Norman Eubanks.
Groceries (wholesale )-WV. H. Robbins & Company.
Hardware-Bonner, Hart & Ryan. Corbett & Rohe, Barnard, Garver & Shively.
Hair Dresser-Mrs. James Eaton, Mrs. A. J. Kendall.
Harness-J. Haas & Son, James H. Randall, Charles Woods.
Hardwood Lumber-E. E. Doles, N. G. Swails, Frank Donnell.
Horse Buyers-J. H. Christian, Hunter & Crews, Carl Swift.
Hotels-Cottage, DeArmond, Espy House, Portland.
Hides and Furs-Samuel Levenstein, Weaver & Company.
Ice Cream and Confectionery-Jolin Cosmas, Frank S. Kabey, Amer- ican Candy Kitchen, George Kessler.
Ice Cream Manufacturer-Link & Kabey.
Ice Manufacturers-Meek Ice Company.
Insurance Agencies-Albert Morgan, Mrs. C. C. Lowe, A. Habig, A. L. Howard, Miller & Ryan, J. H. Parker, Charles Zoller, Patrons of Husbandry, Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Company, Mendenhall & Grant.
Jewelers-George W. Clemons, J. W. Owens, Philip H. Spohn, C. H. Thomson & Company, C. D. Tillson, C. B. James.
Junk Dealers-Samuel Levenstein, W. H. Weaver & Company.
Justices of the Peace-W. W. Dixon, C. E. Shields.
Job Printing-Charles Childs, All City Papers.
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Livery Barns-Applegate & Parker, Big Four Livery and Feed Barn, J. F. Clemens, George S. Littell, Moss House Livery.
Loans and Rentals-William Flemming, A. Habig. L. E. Laird, P. T. Lambert, Oscar G. Miller, J. H. Parker, G. M. Thompson, Charles Zoller, Frank Ford.
Loans and Chattels-Capital Loan Company.
Lumber Yards-Jones Lumber Company, Pulse & Porter.
Machine Shops-Joseph L. Luchte. Greensburg Foundry and Machine Works.
Meat Markets-Louis R. Bobrink. H. Kammerling. McCormick & Richey, Robert Huber.
Millinery-Dalmbert & Company, Lena Littell, Anna Wheeldon, Mary L. Hatfield. Minear Dry Goods Company.
Monuments-South Park Monument Works.
Musical Instruments-George Lanham, Christopher Link, J. W. Owens. Newspapers-Standard, Democrat, News, Review. Daily Times, Graphic. Optometrist-C. C. McCoy, Phillip H. Spohn.
Osteopath-G. C. Flick.
Physicians-P. C. Bentle. Charles Bird, F. P. Bitters. D. E. Douglass, C. B. Grover, T. B. Gullefer, C. F. Kercheval, C. C. Morrison, E. T. Riley, I. M. Sanders, R. M. Thomas, Paul R. Tinsdale, D. W. Weaver, B. S. White, James S. Woods, S. V. Wright.
Planing Mills-Greensburg Planing Mills.
Poultry Fanciers-C. J. Loyd, J. F. Strasburger. A. Goyert, C. Brown.
Poultry Remedies-A. Lowe.
Poultry Supplies-C. J. Loyd & Company.
Produce Merchants-Goyert & Company.
Restaurants-Benjamin Meyer, Michael O'Conner, Seitz, Garrett Sparks, J. P. Phillips, J. Turaschi.
Second-Hand Dealers-Oscar Sparks, J. E. Mobley, J. W. Jackson.
Shoe Repairers-John Doerflinger, George Tekulve, Michael McCor- mick.
Shoe Dealers-Donnell & Son, Edkins & Son, I. Carl Mitchell, Roy C. Kanouse, Styers & Son.
Sign Painters-James Duncan, Blaine Ham, Morton Davis.
Steam Laundry-Greensburg Sanitary Laundry.
Stone Quarries-Greensburg Limestone Company.
Telegraph Company-Western Union.
Telephone Companies-Central Union, Decatur County.
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Transfer Companies-Greensburg Transfer Company.
Tailors-Will C. Ehrhardt, J. D. Ford, W. C. Hann, D. R. Kerr, George J. Kratt, H. L. Wittenberg, Ware & Cassler.
Upholstering-E. G. Schultz & Company, E. A. Rankin.
Vacuum Cleaning-J. W. Parrish.
Veterinarians-C. B. Ainsworth, A. D. Galbraith, I. B. Levy, L. A. Wood.
Wire Factory-Bromwell Brush and Wire Goods Company.
THE DECATUR COUNTY INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE COMPANY.
The first attempt in Decatur county to secure local telephone service was made in June, 1900, when two hundred leading citizens of Greensburg and farmers of the vicinity, at a mass meeting, organized the Decatur Tele- phone Company, and made provision for the sale of stock, erection of lines and the installation of a switchboard at Greensburg. Since its beginning, the concern has had its share of ups and downs, but now is in a very com- fortable financial condition, with more than two thousand subscribers.
Stock was sold at twenty-five dollars a share and the company was capitalized at thirty thousand dollars. At the beginning, there were about one hundred subscribers. The first officers of the company were: S. L. Jackson, president : Morgan Miers, vice-president ; Charles Zoller. Jr., sec- retary, and J. H. Christian, treasurer. These officers, with C. P. Miller, formed the board of directors.
In 1902 the telephone companies at Westport and Letts Corners sold ont to the organization, and by this deal three hundred additional subscribers were added to the Greensburg exchange. Some time later the Newpoint Telephone Company and the Alert Telephone Company arranged to lease the privilege of the Greensburg exchange and the one hundred patrons of these two companies are now served free.
H. C. Stockman, then county treasurer, had the honor of introducing the first telephone used in Greensburg and Decatur county. In November, 1877, he opened a private line between his office, in the court house, and his grain elevator, six squares away on Monfort street. It was a great curiosity and many Greensburg residents heard their first "hello" over this line.
The Greensburg switchboard is of the highest type now in use and is designed for both speed and secrecy. It is know as the North automanual system and is a combination of the automatic and the old-style switchboard
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Only a few operators are needed at this board, and they are unable to hear conversations that take place on the various lines.
Recently the company has been making an annual profit of eight per cent., which is given to stockholders in the form of reduced rates. Stock- holders are limited in voting to four shares and all business of the com- pany is transacted at an annual stockholders' meeting, which is always largely attended. There are now about one thousand stockholders. The present officers of the company are: C. P. Miller, president; W. V. Pleak, vice- president; J. H. Christian, secretary and treasurer, and F. S. Chapman, general manager.
MILEAGE AND VALUATION.
The total mileage and value per mile of all telegraph and telephone lines in Decatur county are as follow :
Miles.
Value per Mile.
Western Union Telegraph Company.
385
$55
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
391.2
75
Central Union Telephone Company
516.5
36
New Long Distance Telephone Company.
40
46
Decatur County Telephone Company
1,659
23
Napoleon Telephone Company.
7
Zenas Independent Telephone Company.
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12.5
20
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1
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1
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1
1
1
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THE GREENSBURG IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.
The Greensburg Improvement Association had its birth in 1892, when the Baxter Carriage Company, of Cincinnati, hunting another location, sought to secure a manufacturing plant in Greensburg. There were a number of con- cerns manufacturing cheap buggies in the Queen City, and the town had fallen into disrepute from the carriage manufacturer's standpoint. A number of prominent citizens of Greensburg pledged themselves to provide the neces- sary funds to build a plant, and arrangements were made to move the plant here.
Then some difficulties arose between the company and the Greensburg people, and the latter, for self-protection, incorporated the Greensburg Improvement Association. The first officers were Marshall Grover, president ; W. B. Hamilton, vice-president, and D. A. Myers, secretary. Other mem- bers of the board of directors were Louis E. Lathrop and Henry Christian.
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The difficulties were amicably adjusted and the association purchased one hundred and ten acres adjoining the city on the northwest, known as the Meek farm, which it split into town lots and sold, netting a profit of about thirty thousand dollars, which was applied to the erection of a suitable plant.
The company operated for a few years, but could not breast the hard times of 1896, and went into a receivership. When its affairs were wound up, the plant was sold to the Lincoln Carriage Company, headed by W. B. and Edward Austead, of Connersville. This company operated the plant successfully until 1905, when it was wiped out by fire, the entire brick building being destroyed, with a loss of one hundred thousand dollars.
The plant was partially rebuilt and a hay bailer company, organized to commercialize a new invention, was launched, but this concern was unsuc- cessful and the building is now occupied by the Kelly Manufacturing Com- pany.
At least one growing concern had its inception and start in Greensburg. This was the Greensburg chair factory, which is now located at Anderson, Indiana. The company outgrew its space here and received an offer of a free factory site in Anderson. Local stockholders were bought out and the factory moved. It has grown to be one of the best manufacturing enter- prises of Anderson.
The Greensburg Improvement Association now owns the Kelly plant and a number of lots which were parceled from the original plat and never sold. These plats contain five acres each and are suitable for improvement as suburban homes.
GREENSBURG COMMERCIAL CLUB.
Recognizing the fact that no city grows and accumulates wealth, save under wise direction and careful safeguarding of its interests by its own citi- zens, leading business and professional men of Greensburg took steps, in 1906, for the organization of a commercial body, which would afford these essentials for the future welfare of their municipality.
The first meeting was held in the office of the mayor, March 5, 1906. when a committee was named to draw up plans for organization and draft a constitution and by-laws. This committee was composed of George E. Erd- mann, Harry Lathrop, Charles M. Woodfill, Dan S. Perry. C. D. Tillson, Oscar G. Miller and James E. Caskey. At a later meeting, the constitution prepared was adopted and Walter W. Bonner became the first president.
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Other officers elected were: Charles Zoller, Jr., vice-president ; Oscar Miller, secretary, and Dan Perry, treasurer.
The enterprise was made a stockholding concern and six thousand and forty dollars was subscribed. AA tract of land was bought and sold in town lots, netting the club a profit of three thousand, five hundred dollars, which was made the nucleus of a factory fund. A hay-bailer factory and a shoe factory were brought to Greensburg, but both discontinued operations after a short time. A large number of factories which sought sites in Greens- burg were. after careful investigation, refused financial assistance, and many thousands of dollars thereby saved local investors.
Since its organization, the club has always maintained a very substantial balance. The latest report of the treasurer places the assets of the organiza- tion at four thousand, nine hundred and thirteen dollars. Most of it is invested in short-time securities, so that it can be made available at any time needed.
When the automobile manufacturing fever was at its height, and mush- room plants were springing up in all parts of the state, a company was organized in Greensburg for the manufacture of a six-cylinder car, to be called the Hamiltonian. The sum of fifty thousand dollars was raised and the company was incorporated. Some steps were taken toward opening a factory, and then the entire matter was dropped. Officers of this company were : W. W. Bonner, president : Harry Woodfill. vice-president: C. P. Cor- bett, secretary and treasurer, and Harry Hamilton and D. A. Myers, direc- tors. Although this company had the endorsement of the commercial club, it was in no sense an organization undertaking.
New directors of the organization elected in 1913 were : Locke Bracken, John H. Batterton, C. C. McCoy and Ed. G. Schultz. The holdovers were John F. Russel, Roy C. Kanouse and James E. Caskey. John F. Russel served that year as chairman, C. C. McCoy was elected secretary, and Roy C. Kanouse was re-elected treasurer.
Stockholders in the club authorized the directors to sell the Skeen building, which the organization owned, to George Montgomery. Mr. Mont- gomery had recently lost his place of business through fire. The building was sold to him at a price somewhat less than its estimated worth, as it is the desire of the organization to foster any enterprise which tends to build up the city.
At a later meeting, that year. Edwards Doles applied to the board for a loan at less than the usual rate. His spoke and rim factory had been burned and he wished to rebuild. The Commercial club responded to his
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request and loaned him several thousand dollars at very liberal rates and on very easy payments.
In 1914, J. F. Russel, James E. Caskey, Roy C. Kanouse and E. G. Schultz, directors, whose terms expired that year, were re-elected. Georg E. Erd- mann was elected to membership on the directorate, taking the place made vacant by the removal of Locke Bracken. John H. Batterton was elected president, the other officers remaining unchanged.
In 1914. the club pledged fifteen hundred dollars to secure the A. L. Lewis plant, located at Marion, Indiana, for Greensburg. The offer was accepted by the Marion company, which is now a permanent fixture, with bright prospects of becoming a large manufacturing plant. Old directors and officers were re-elected in 1915.
Since its formation in 1906, the present Commercial Club has accom- plished a great deal for the city of Greensburg and the citizens thereof. The worth of a commercial club is not always to be measured by the number of manufacturing plants it secures for a city, but more often by its success in sifting out the good from the many fraudulent schemes offered to gain the public confidence. A commercial club is a guide post, or financial advisor to a city, to clear the way to safe investment, and the Greensburg Commercial Club has ever been on the alert, truly active in behalf of the best interests of the city.
THIE GREENSBURG BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION.
Co-operation is the watchword of modern business. Lawyers and phy- sicians, recognizing the value of mutual helpfulness, long ago, organized county, state and national organizations and used these bodies for the purpose of furthering their professional work through more efficient service. Fol- lowers of the other professions were not slow to fall in line.
The retail merchant has, in almost every instance, been the last to avail himself of the advantages of co-operation. The keen competition of present- day business life has in a measure been responsible for this condition. While retailers realized that there was a great economic waste through purely inde- pendent business methods, for a long time they felt themselves powerless to change conditions.
If John Smith, deadbeat, beat a hardware store out of a bill. the owner of the grocery, who had previously lost through extending credit to Smith, laughed in his sleeve at the owner of the hardware store. It was amusing to learn that some other unfortunate had run counter to the bill-beating
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Smith. The groceryman nursed his feelings in secret for a time and then turned to laugh at the deadbeat's next victim.
After a while. Smith made the rounds of all the places where credit was obtainable and then found but two courses open to him-either he must pay his bills as he contracted them or move out of town. Now, the merchants of his town knew that he would not pay his bills, but they had paid high for their knowledge.
This sort of thing went on for years. Perhaps Smith left town, but others of his kind, under the same or other names, came in his place and the economic loss continued, a heavy drain not only upon the merchants, but also upon honest customers who were saddled with a goodly portion of the merchants' losses.
At last, the retailers roused themselves. They were confronted with the knowledge that if credit was to be extended at all. in fairness to the man who paid cash, it must be extended wisely. Accordingly, various merchants arranged for exchange of confidential credit information. In a short time every merchant in town was attracted by the idea and an organization was perfected.
Four times the business men of Greensburg have attempted such an organization and three failures have resulted. They relied largely upon word-of-mouth information and transacted what little business they had through officials chosen from the standpoint of popularity rather than from any unusual ability in organization work of this nature. Consequently, each of these three organizations, started under most auspicious circumstances, worked energetically for a time, lost efficiency, lingered for a time and then passed out of existence so quietly that even the professional dead-beats scarcely knew the exact hour of their passing.
The Greensburg Business Men's Association, the Greensburg merchants' fourth co-operative venture, was organized May 6, 1914. It differed from its predecessors in that it had a central office, with a paid secretary to do the work of the organization and look after details which had formerly been neglected by volunteer workers.
The first officers of this organization, who still manage its affairs, were Samuel Bonner, president : George Parish, vice-president; D. A. Betterton, treasurer, and Harry Lathrop, secretary. These officials are assisted in the management of organization matters by the following men, who, with them, comprise the directorate of the association : Clyde L. Meek, W. W. Bonner, Walter W. Crisler, Lemuel Dobyns. Roy C. Kanouse, Mort Richey, E. G.
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Shultz, Robert St. John, George Shoemaker. Charles Thomson, C. P. Corbett and W. C. Pulse.
Besides guarding its members against losses through unwise credit extensions, through its confidential exchange file, the association also protects them against loss at the hands of promoters of valueless advertising schemes and itinerant peddlers. Members of the association agree to pay out no money to solicitors of any kind unless they have received the sanction of a special committee.
This committee is composed of three men, whose identity is unknown to the general membership and to one another. They report upon each appli- cant to the president and if two approve his project he receives the commit- tee's sanction before he begins his canvass. During the first year of its existence, this committee passed upon twenty proposed advertising schemes and declined to sanction all but four. The estimated saving to the merchants of Greensburg through protection from the unworthy sixteen was placed at four thousand dollars.
Membership dues in the association were one dollar a month, and Greensburg merchants found its assistance so valuable that all but eiglit business men in the city had identified themselves with it before the end of its first year. At the end of its first year the organization had one hundred and ten members, eleven of whom lived in Adams, St. Paul, Letts, Sandusky, Newpoint and other parts of the county.
As a result of this co-operative venture, a better feeling grew among business men of Greensburg and the organization aimed at larger under- takings. Membership meetings are held each month and are well attended. During the summer a "Big Wednesday" is held once a month and special entertainment features are offered to bring citizens of Decatur county to Greensburg. The association conducts an annual street fair, works for good roads, sanitary living conditions and is a twenty-four-hour-a-day booster for Greensburg and Decatur county.
THE GREENSBURG CHAUTAUQUA.
In the last decade, a large number of chautauqua programs have been offered in cities and towns through the Middle West. In some instances, the public has held aloof or, at best, taken but a mild interest in efforts made by public-spirited citizens to bring the best in music, in oratory and kindred arts to them at prices so low as to belie their real worth. In such locations, the Chautauqua was a failure from the start and was rarely repeated after the first attempt.
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But in places where there is a genuine public interest in matters of political importance, where there is a real appreciation of music, where people are alive to other things which make for sound knowledge and a more than veneered culture, the chautauqua has taken deep root and is accomplishing results which can be obtained in no other manner.
The success of the Greensburg Chautauqua Association, which offered its first program in 1911 and has occupied the field ever since, speaks well for the citizenship of Greensburg and Decatur county. As was of necessity the case, the first chautauqua held in Greensburg was something of an experi- ment. No one knew whether the event would prove a splendid success or an ignominous failure. In order to make the experiment, it was necessary that some one should guarantee the promoters against loss. The merchants of the city readily agreed to become guarantors of the undertaking and the first program was announced. It was so popular and so successful from every standpoint, that it was repeated the following year without first securing a list of guarantors and has been so conducted ever since. For business reasons, the association was incorporated in 1914, under the laws of Indiana, as an organization to promote general culture, and not for profit.
Management of the Greensburg chautauqua is vested in the board of directors of the association, together with James L. Loar and James Shaw, of Bloomington, Illinois, who were largely responsible for the introduction of the chautauqua in Decatur county. These men had been engaged in the business in Illinois for some time, but made their first attempt to conduct a program away from home in Greensburg.
Although the association has, in several instances, made money from its programs, it has, in all cases, given its patrons the benefit, by spending it the following year upon better and more expensive numbers. Since the first year, all meetings have been held at West Academy. The program is given about the middle of August and usually lasts ten days.
The following celebrities, among others, have spoken from a Greens- burg chautauqua platform : William Jennings Bryan, Richmond P. Hobson, Senator Thomas P. Gore, George W. Bain and Bishops Quayle, Hughes and McDowell. Innes' and Vatales' bands have given concerts and some high- class dramatic talent has added variety to the programs.
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