The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-19

public buildings. The latter is one of the
most elegant in Indiana. 1t is of pressed
red brick with white stone trimmings; steam
heated and gas-lighted clock tower, with
four six-foot dials, and mammoth 81, 900
clock, which strikes the hours on the court
house bell. The approaches are completed;
there is a neat iron fence, plate-glass win
dows, ample corridors and Offices The
building was completed without stealings,
inside of 100000, and is credit to city,
county and contractors The latter lost
money on the job owing to the advance in
iron and lumber, but came to the scratch
and finished the work like honest men.
The Jail and sherIff's residence are comely
and elegant costing upwards of $40 200.
Franklin has Masonic and Odd-fellowS'
lodges, Knights of Pythias and Grand Army
of the Republic.
There is telephone exchange and $50 tel
ephones connecting with Indianapolis and
associated towns. There is a steam fire en-
CINE and volunteer fire department.
The Franklin Starch Works, Thompson,
White Go, have works costing 800, 900.
They consume daily 100 bushels of corn,
getting from each bushel twenty pounds OF
corn starch The refuse gluten and bran is
sold TO farmers and for fattening hogs; one
hundred pounds of it are considered equal to
a bushel Of corn. They employ fifty men
under Mr.. G. w. Toombs as
foreman. The process of separating the
starch from the gluten and bran is ingenious
and interesting; the manner in which the
eight-inch cubes OF solid starch shrink in the
drytng-rooms, and crystalline into the pris-
matte fragments in which it comes to the
trade suggests the possible method of the
formation of the Giants Causeway and SINH
lar geological structures.
The Union mills and elevator of Melon
aid, Wright u Co., are doing good grist and
Touring trade.
Franklin has two banks; the National, OF
which John Clark is the leading spirit, and
the Franklin bank, of which R. T. Over
street is president.
Franklin has excellent church buildings;
the First Presbyterian was built in 1924, and
now has the Rev. William Torrance for its
pastor. Rev. G. S. Scott is pastor of the Bap-
list society; Rev, w. J. Duncan, of the Meth
odist, and Rev. Mr.. Conner of the Christian
Church There is also Catholic organiza-
ton and African Methodist and Baptist
church societies.
Three miles west of Franklin is the Hope
well neighborhood, in which the second gen.
Grafton of a colony OF Kentucky Presbyter-
ians are living the ideal life, at peace with
themselves and all the world besides. Law
suits are unknown, and temperance reigns;
they are striving to keep the ten command
ments and the eleventh also This
is one of the most peaceful,
religious, intelligent and desirable neigh
borhoods in the State of Indiana. Until
recently they main tained private academy,
now merged with Franklin college. Farms
are here worth from $50 to 800 an acre;
property is safe, the door string always hangs
out, and we have an evidence of the peace,
quiet and comfort that always accompany
right living and action.
Of newspapers, Franklin has three the
Jeffersonan, edited by G. Henry and J. G.
Holt, and the Democrat, edited by
Luther Short. The latter is now in Europe
in the interest OF his paper and of Mrs. Short,
nee Miss Hemikin. Success to "their wedding
journey" There is also a two-cent daily
Herald edited by F, C. Williams, which
gives the days news and gossip, and saves
the curious and inquisitiye much laborious
walking