The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • 24

if IRST STATfe LEGISLATURE SLEEPS ON RIGHTS RESORT REGION Crothersville ums HOOSIER PRIDE JROTHERSVILLE GROWING AST CRESCENT Hater Works Sewer System MILLING COMPANY Oth IUCH WORK IS UNDER WAY CROTHERSVILLE INDIANA the ho fireproof Ohio the are Dealers in MANUACTURERS Gilt Edge lour and Corn Products LEADS STATE IN TOBACCO WELLS Manager the Crothers Largest Manufacturers of Turned Wooden Ware CROTHERSVILLE INDIANA DREDGE LAND Soil 10 to 20 eet Deep Bottom the inest Thousands of' Acres of Birdseye View of the Plant and 15 Miles Long 75 eet Wide Why Go South or West? No Better State in the Union Our Capacity Is Over 25000000 Turnings Annually Can Show ou This ame Now Land Improved Selling for $15000 per Acre Have arms from 40 Acres to 1 500 Acres Right Along Dredge Ditches S' And Crothersville Indiana Hauling Our Own Lumber to the actory Ji a WANT AD IN THE STAR IS A WANT AD IN THE HOME ARES URMEO built by the to the Ohio Tag Bal Coal Speaking of southern Indiana Spen cer County reaches as far south as any other county in the state It contains about 410 square miles of land and leads all the other counties of the state In the production of tobacco In addition much corn is raised in the rich bottom lands along the Ohio River two railroads Monon conne HEALTH AME EXTENSIVE A i fV ft A short distance from the world famous whetstones CM SCENT Lt WTmA 5 VI 8 and? Concrete and Brick Street Work Projected of the best equipped mills in The company is now going a modern corn elevator owing wonderful advancement being Mr Mr tai a a Lick West the JcrotmTrsvilleT Wi Mills hillside with back ground gardens of flowers in bcrn a favorite resort iduttrtas Show Marked Increase in Business and Expansion In General 3000 hotel products for hotel Snrincrs I Intel by Mr Taggart is places of the kind a capacity for en guests who come a Thomas manager of last two or West There valley lead i tirst rate The farmers dispose of a large amount me an and i The growth of Crothersville has been ronderfpl since from an unknown town few jfears ago it has developed into fnanufacturlng center from which pods are shipped to all parts of the imted States and abroad Prepara Ions are now under way for the im kediateU building of water works a fewer system and concrete or brick Lreets all of which will be begun this bring The town has the of being one th ripest KiiM inARR Mniera monx Pennsylvania road from Indianapolis to Louisville largely because of the efforts a live hustling organization of young miness men pulling together under the fommercial Club or Chamber of Com merce head The result Is that the frowth of this town in the last year or has been about double that of any Rher in this section of the state In het it is the only town in Bounty that shows a gain of thirty hven per cent in population A num hr of business houses are nov under bnetruction and are tn bo completed his year There is not an empty resence in town in fact there are at fresent a number of families working fere who have to store their furniture In account of a shortage of houses An pcellent opening is offered to some Entractlng firm to come in this year Ind erect houses to supply the short fee fa jit is not asserted that the town is looming but it is growing as a natural fesult of the growing manufacturingants pay roll is the largest of iny town of its size Agricultural de klopments are especially of interest bring to the dredging and opening up the most fertile valley in Indiana theuscatatuck River valley I Canning Company Grows I A few years ago some farmers started fe organization known as the Banning Company to can tomatoeshis business started in a little frame felldlng They succeeded in getting ln brested with them II Rider and Rider two young men who had pre ously received training in a large can ing plant With this training and from his start has grown one of the mostregressive packing plants in Indianaoday these two men still young inBars are president and secretary of a Backing corporation the Rider Packing Jompany doing a large volume of busi less with plants at Seymour reetownnd Medora but with headquarters atrothersville I The White Wood Products Company bw one of the foremost handle manu fecturing plants in the country onlv a few years ago was operating a small mop making bucket handles whichone would seem a small businessnder the effective management and badership of White however this Business has grown to millions of turn fegs per year The company now has Kktng ovens and stalners and enamels Bkese handles in any color desired Mr white enlarged the plant and it is now hown as one of the largest broomandle plants in the country supply Kg a strictly high grade broom handlee is now installing new machinery to In 1733 the Virginia General Assem bly chartered the town of Clarksville in Clark County The charter still holds good and It Is probable under the de rision of the Indian Supreme Court it still has legislative jurisdiction over the corporation although it lias been many years since Ry attempt has been made to exercise any uuthvrity battles Since several hundred soldiers have 4 a i vnr AX 'A fnr ST Alt 11 IVKSDAV MARCH 12 1919 I i 1 4 4 a rench Lick and West Baden Valley Continues to 'Grow in Importance try to handle promptly the new busl ness that is coming to him This young man only 33 years old is now a mem ber of the executive board of the Broom Handle Association of the United States Cooperage Plant's Success Years ago the Hyatt Cooperage Com pany of Crothersville was a name known to all this section as the manu facturers of heading and staves While other plants have moved out and quit business this firm now owned by the Benham White Company is still man ufacturing tight barrel heading and staves In addition it now makes wagon and automobile spokes During the war it filled one of the largest sin gle orders let by the government for gun carriage spokes It is at present filling a large contract for wagon and auto spokes This firm ships lumber from all sections of the state Into its mill The Crothersville Lumber Company under the management of 8 1C Benham and Robert Benham manufactures hardwood lumber and quarter sawed oak It is not uncommon to see whole train loads of line logs sent into their side tracks in one day They oper ate a modern band mill also a planing mill They now have acres of ground piled high with ricks of finest lumber as well as auiea of logs at the mill They supply some of the largest furni ture firms in the state with quarter sawed oak and walnut No town in Indiana has more piling tim ber than has Crothersville Robert Crawford located there a few years ago with very limited mans and engaged in the handling of piling and wagon hubs The last two years this man has fur nished enough piling timber to differ ent railroad and private construction concerns to build a city over Lake Michigan if they were all used for that purpose at the same time shipping wagon and buggy hubs to all sections of the country lour and Grain Business The Crescent Milling Company man ufacturers of Hour and grain products has one Indiana to build 1 A made in this section in the tiling and dredging of the fine corn lands The Ritz Tile Company is an exten sive manufacturer of tiling which is be ing used more and more in the develop ment of the farming lands The growth of the business of this firm alone is or a of the best signs of the better farm! methods being employed in the sur rounding territory The wealth and prosperity of a com munity can not be gauged in a bet er way than by its banks and Crothers ville can say that it has one of the largest state banks between Indian apolis and Louisville The town has two banks and the growth in deposits in the last year was over 30 per cent Crothersville is well supplied with churches having the following denom inations Methodist Baptist Christian terlan and Lutheran Ther is a good common school and high school with an excellent body of teachers The vast dredging operations that are being carried nut around Crothersville involving the expenditure of a half mil lion dollars will undoubtedly open up some of the best corn land in the coun ty One farmer purchased 240 acres of this land in stumps and timber cleared and tiled it and is now having to pay an income tax Another last year re ceived $252 per aero from tomatoes raised another sold pumpkins out of his cornfield that brought him $25 per acre in addition to his corn which was fine Crothersville Is to be on the market highway which win oe state from South Bend River Reach is head of vilie Commercial Club pt AfN AM Thidcri there is a trolley line won limit mat In file ins in and out and connecting the two towns There 'ire two railroads the tj 1 1 i urn fi fifl A West Baden and 'rench Ilck with the mam iiuch aim tjivmb n'm ij'w iranspyx ii laun itvmucr of their products to the hotels and hills surrounding the valley have abundance of fine ash oak poplar sycamore timber Owns Two Hotels Mr Ballard owns two first class tels the Homestead and the Colonial The Homestead is brick building in the center of West Baden and is open the year round It is a institution and has ac commodations for fi large number of guests It features its baths which are under the management of Dr Arthur who also manages the hotel The baths at the Homestead arc known throughout the country Mr oilier hotel the Colonial is located about midway between rench Lick and West Baden and is a comfortable place Sir Ballard also has a beautiful home almost half way between rench Lick and West Baden and ho has large farming interests In and about the val ley West Baden like rench Lick paved streets electric lights nice stores good churches and is a mod ern and healthy little place to live It is a good trading renter for that part of the state Both rench Lick and West Baden have their own newspa pers West Baden has a modern flour mill and rench Lick a canning fac tory towns mn rlfl scenic beauty but in stories of stirring interest of the early days of the state West Baden and rench lack are about 125 miles from Indianapolis and about that distance from Cincinnati are about fifty' miles from Louis ville and about 250 from Chicago In the busy seasons of the spring and fall special sleeping and parlor cars are run from New York Chicago and other cities to these health restoring resorts throughout the world as health resort the Baden valley is growing in Importance ur more than a half century its heal ing and invigorating waters have given It renown Tn a small way it was a health resort as early as the civil warThousand of people of the older gener ation can recall journeying to rench Lick Springs and West Baden by stage coach from the nearest railroad sta tions Even In the early days when Indiana began to take form as a leading stale rench Lick and West Baden weru reaching out dor public attention Within the last few years a magic touch has been applied to this locality by public spirited men like former United Stales Senator Thomas Tag gart Edward Ballard and a few others who have invested large fortunes there who have been particularly active In Its development Within the last two years Pluto water has been exported to Europe for use of the American Expeditionary orces It has been exported to South America Cuba and other foreign countries for a number of years there by extending the fame of tlm springs hern and helping to advertise the state of Indiana Thousands of people visit West Baden and rench Lick annually not only for health but for rest There is in fact no more beautiful or more picturesque spot in Indiana than the rench Lick West Baden valley or that matter it would be difficult to se lect a more beautiful point in or Mississippi valleys Hotels Big actor The hotels operated here by gart and at West Baden by lard Jiave done wonders at transform ing this valley into one of the world's famous resorts The hotel properties in the valley are valued at millions of dollars They are beautiful buildings equipped in the most modern manner and surrounded with beautiful wooded hills Tlie little valley itself is the home of several thousand people the two towns rench Lick and West Baden being centers of a rival friendly Interest Mr Taggart became a prominent factor In the valley several years ago Mr Ballard Is a native of the county and has spent most of his life hero be ing identified for a number of years with the big hotel at West Baden owned and operated by the Sinclair estate The Big Sinclair Hotel was taken over nearly a year ago by the government and converted into a hospital for sol diers seriously injured in me on the western front in Europe been sent to West Baden and the big hotel there will be used as a until Sept 1 this year if not longer The rench hick owned and operated one of the wonder in America It has tertainment of 80U from all narts of Taggart Jr has been the the hotel property for the three years It is a big i proof structure set upon a a beautiful forest as its and front and a nine hole course One eightcen hole course was completed several years ago and Is well known to thousands of golfers' lie has completed another clghtec holc course on the hills near the hotel Thia course is regarded as one of the sportiest in America The town of rench Lick is a mod ern little place Il has several small hotels It has six churches splendid schools a number of good stores well paved streets a bank electric lights telephones waler works cafes mov ing picture theaters and many beautiful and comfortable homes It is well 10 The first territorial Legislature of Indiana consisted of the Governor and three judges appointed by Congress They were not authorized to enact new laws but could adopt any law prevail ing in any of the states which they might deem applicable to the territory Names of Taggart Ballard and ers Linked With Charm ing History One of the Largest and Oldest Broom Handle Manufacturers in the United btates with thousands ot people from Aew York Chicago St I ouis Indianapolis and oth cities for many years In connection with the hotel Mr Taggart has a large bottling bouse at which concentrated is bottled and dls tributes throughout the world Huge arm at Hand Mr Taggart has a faun of nearly teres in connection with bis properties Ho raises garden Tie lias a mag nificent dairy of Holstein cattle to pro vide milk for the hotel He has two sporty eigiileen holo golf courses at loan Manufacturers of Broom and Vacuum Cleaner Handles Bucket and Pail Handles Wood Parts for Cooking Utensils Spokes for Automobiles and Wagons Barrel Heading and Box Shooks Hay Seeds and Mill eeds Land now Being Dredged by Three Large Dredge Ditches the Largest of Which Is it' tSsinev I 1 1 4 ll SSh ssr rtfc IfW sr I I I I CIIESCfiA 'fl 'Y elevator cq! a a g' Il i I 4 L' A I I I I I I I I I 'Z fi I' 8 WHITE President 1 i 7A KX KXXXX 7s I 1 1 4 1 'r I i I 'A 'A A wl If ARES nODW URMEO.