Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 274.

I ACT ION I IS TAKEN H School Board Today Arrang- | ed to Refund $11,500 IsE sue of School Bonds. ■ the council agrees | Controversy is Settled—New I Building Impossible— I Other Arrangements. J The Decatur school board today arranged to take up the $11,500 Issue of' ; bonds, and this will be done at once, the idea being to make SI,OOO due each year until ail are paid. This will settle the controversy which has been on for several months between the board and the city council as to who s should take them up under the law. ♦ The bonds were issued in 1894 for the building of the South Ward school : building and were made due in sixteen years. The school board desired k to build a new’ school building next * year, and in fact there is a dire necessity for such an improvement, as with the annual increase in the number of students, in all the grades and particuK larly in the high school, it is a quesItion that will not be easy to solve — the taking care of the pupils. However, the matter became complicated and concerned greatly both the board and the council, whose only desire was to do the right thing, and please their constituents. The matter came to a focus a few days ago when City Attorney DeVoss filed a suit against the schodl board demanding that they take up the bonds. After much reflection, viewing the matter from evt ery point, they finally decided to do so, provided the city council in regular session, should so ask them. Such I action was unanimously taken Tuesday night and today the board began I the work of reissuing the bonds. The school board seems to have acted wisely, there being several reasons J why they should take this action In the first place a law suit might be a I long and tedious and expensive affair, I which would be serious to both the i school board and council, as well as to I the people. The two todies had t agreed on a friendly suit to test th. matter, but it might, have required the ! supreme court decision to settle the I matter. Another thing which caused ♦he board to take the action they did r is the fact that they can refund the bonds at four per cent, while the city would have had to pay five, a saving tn the taxpayers of $1,250. With the present effort of every one in Decatur to get together, to avoid factions and to do those things for the best interests of all the board decided a« they did, and we feel that they are entitled to the (support of the [ , ayers of Det atur. As to taking care of thb pupils p next year, this will be done in some way at the proper time. The in, -ense in population is expected to be :n t north part of towu. The North Wrd school was bni’t v’lh the idea that in the future more room might be ne.es•ary and it can be doubled in size at a small expense. This will likely be done next year and the schools will be held up to their present high standard. At best if the board were to try to build now’ they could only erect a very ordinary building. The present school board believes that when a new building is erected it should be good enough for half a century to come It will be several years before they can do this, and It will take some “ u-m" to get along until that time and retain our high school commission, but it will be done in some manner or other. Most people will at least rejoice over the fact that the mailer is settled and without a suit in court. IMPORTANT MEETING. At the regular prayer service at the Christian church this evening, an important matter will be brought up for consideration. The attendance of all members and those interested Is. the church work, are requested. PYTHIAN SISTERS' DINNER. Be sure to go to the K. o: P- -ome | tomorrow, Thursday, to get a go<» chicken pot-pie dinner and supper. See, the menu elsewhere in this paper.

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HAS TAKEN THE FORD AGENCY. John H. Stewart, the well known i linotype operator at this office, has ecI cepted the agency for the Ford automobile for this section of the county. 1 he Ford is without doubt the best 1 ar cn the market for the money and •d;. Stewart expects to dispose of a .■■ nil’, r of them during the next year. • e ■ve passenger car, complete,,with ! i ai.-l v.-ndshle’d, and all other accessories, sells for S7OO. If interested • see or write Mr. Stewart. COURT HOUSE NEWS I oday is the Second Anniversary of Hon. J. T. Merryman’s Judgeship THE GRAND JURY Still Grinding—Action Taken in Several Civil and Probate Matters. Today is the second anniversary of , the day Judge .1 T. Merryman took the bench of the Adams circuit ' ’ court, his term uelng thus just half expired. Inventory number one of Fred C. j Buuck, administrator of the Ernst | Buuck estate, was approved. The case resulting from claim of money in the guardianship of Perry F. Miller, has been set for trial Friday, ! November 24th. The Kalamazoo National Bank vs. ■ ! Coppock Motor Car Co., on note, de- i mand, $450. Demurrer, separate and ' several, overruled. Separate and sev-: eral exceptions by plaintiff. ■ - Henry Bittner vs. Christian Bittner, appointment of guardian. Answer ' filed by prosecuting attorney; answer ’ filed by clerk. i Elizabeth A. Nix vs. Daniel P. Overholser et al , cause dismissed and costs paid. 1 The grand jury, which entered into session Monday morning is still grinding away. It is thought it will finish ■ Its work this week. i Edward A. Kirchner vs. Bertha I Kirchner et al., possession and dam- j ages, S2OO. Motion by plaintiff toi ■ strike out part of defendant’s crossi, complaint overruled. Exceptions, and ten days granted plaintiff to file said exceptions. Demurrer to cross-com- > plaint filed. Rebecca Eady, administrator, vs. i City of Decatur, damages, SIO,OOO. An- ■ swer iu one paragraph filed. True & Runyon vs. William Wor- ■ den, on note, $l5O. Judgment on note lor $141.25. Costs against detenaant. In the mattei of the receivership of ■ the Adams County Publishing company, an intervening petition was filed by J. Bruce Patterson, by J. C. Patterson, his next friend, asking that his claim of $150.70 against the company for labor performed by him be allowed as a preferred claim. Marriage license: Grace Lindsey, born November 7, 1890, daughter of John Albert Lindsey, of Linn Grove, to wed Herman Breiuinger, farmer, I born August 9, 1889, son of Lewis Breininger, of Wells county. Real estate transfers: Nelson S. Fuhrman to David Fuhrman et al., realty in Monroe, $100; Hattie D. Reddout to Michael -I- O'Hara et al., lot 404. Geneva, $850; Evans J. Price et al. Almira R.l’rice, lot 170, Geneva, quit claim deed, sl. “WOLF” WAS A DOG. The party of hunters who organized to go out and shoot a “wolf” that had been terrorizing the east, vicinity, after a delayed tilp. went out Tuesday and shot the beast, which proved to be somebody’s old gray dog that had roamed away from home, sleeping in the corn fodder and other wild places ! far from the “haunts oi men,’’ unt it became almost wild. It was found ■ later that the chickens and other poulitry killed recently were killed by a i skunk, which had been later run down 1 under a barn, and that the “wolf-dog was innocent of the blood of the pou - try, as at first charged against him.

TAKELARGECROWD " ” i Yeomen Are All Prepared to Confer Degree Work Upon Ft. Wayne Class. ON MONDAY EVENING ■ “’any to Accompany Team and a Special Car May be Chartered. Not for some time have the Yeomen enjoyed a more sociable as well as profitable evening as the one of Tues- | day, when they met for the purpose to complete arrangements for their going to Fort Wayne on next Monday evening, November 27th, when they will confer work upon a class of candidates of the Fort Wayne lodge. If a sufficient number can be secured they will charter a special car and if not they will leave on the 6 o’clock car over the interurban, so as to be in good time for the evening’s entertainment. The Fort Wayne lodge, which i extended to them the invitation to I confer the work has conferred upon I the home lodge a favor, and for which they greatly appreciate. Ever since they received the word they have been putting- in a great deal of practice and are in a better shape than ever before, and expect to merit the esteem of the neighboring lodge in which they ■ are held. A number have already re- | sponded, that they will attend and i they will be largely represented on ■ the occasion of the happy event. o ATTEND EVANGELISTIC SERVICES Rev. J. M. Dawson, G. T. Burke and E. H. Shoemaker of the Christian church went to Huntington Tuesday noon, remaining for the evening evangelistic services conducted there by the Fife Evangelistic company. They report a very good meeting. AFTER MANY DAYS Steamship Michigan Lands in New York—Mr. J. M. Frisinger on HIS NATIVE SHORE Again—Ship Came in Last Night—Twenty-two Days on the Water. — i Tho anxiety of several days felt by the members ol the firm of Frisinger & Sprunger, the well known importers of Belgian horses, over the nonarrival of the ship, “The Michigan,” on which J. M. Frisinger left October 31, with twenty-two fine Belgian horses for tho company’s stables here, was relieved here this morning when A. M. Bowen of lhe local office, received a telegram from B. B. Tee pie, from New York City, announcing that the steamship arrived in New York bar-, ■ bor Tuesday night. The voyage has been a long and stormy one, the vessel having been I twenty-two nays on tne water, whereas the regular trip under usual circumstances, requires but seventeen. Mr Frisinger has been several months in Belgium, buying the horses for importation here, and left Antwerp, Belgium, instead ot Hamburg, Germany, as stated Tuesday, October 31st, sail- ( ing for the United States Mr. Teeple. one of the company’s men, has been in New York City a week, anxiously ’ awaiting hourly and daily, the arrival ■ of the ship, which was due here November 11th. - TAKEN ILL. Josh Krick, an employee of the Krick & Tyndall tile mill, was suudenly taken ill at the factory while at work the other day, and it was necessary for his companions to assist him home. A physician was called and he became better, being able to resume bis work the next day.

Decatur, Ind. Wednesday Evening, November 22, 1911.

FROM SISTER'S BEDSIDE. L. T. Brokaw, who on Saturday last, , was called to Indianapolis on account !of the serious illness of his sister, Mrs. Sarah Williams, who suffered a stroke of paralysis, returned home Tuesday evening and stated that he found his sister just as the telegram read. Her entire left side is afflicted and she is helpless, and at the leaving of Mr. Brokaw’ she still remained in a very low’ condition, and tho physician stated that she might live six I months or she may pass away at any j moment. once” T pupil —_ I Os Ed Christen in the High School Near Petersburg 'i Was Edward Stibbins ~. f i i WHO IS NOW HELD J r Near Vincennes for Probable Implication in Murder of ii Father. j ■ — ! (United Fiess Service.) ’ i Vincennes, Ind., Nov. 22—(Special ’ | to Daily Democrat)—Edward Stibbins, 11 ; the Indiana university graduate, ac--1 cused of the killing of his father from 1 ambush, with either revolver or rifle, ’ today made his first statement regard--1 ing the case since he has been arrested and in prison here. “Thtyigh ’ things now look decidedly against me. 1 I am not guilty of the murder of my 1 father,” said Stibbins. “The newspaper accounts have greatly exaggerated things, and when I tell them what 1 ', know I am sure that things will appear in an altogether different light.” Slater Edward Stibbens, aged 31, of near Vincennes, who is in jail charged with implication in the murder of his father, George W. Stibbins, the wealthy farmer living near Vincennes, who was found dead Saturday evening with a bullet wound in his head, and whose funeral was held Tuesday, was at one time a student in a country ; high school near Petersburg, taught, by Ed Christen, now a teacher in the Decatur schools. After Stibbins’ graduation from the school taught by Mr. Christen, Stibbins attended the state normal at Teire Haute and also the < state university at Bloomingtou, and later became a high school teacher at Elwood and Montpelier. Ray Stib- ( bins, his brother, was also a pupil of’ Mr. Christen. The father was murdered Friday night in his horse lot, and the bullet wound in his head, it is said,; ' was not made by tho revolver found j near the scene. It is said -conditions i show that tne shot was fired at a distance of no more than two or three feet. Foot-prints were shown, and it is said will be used in trailing the murderer. These foot-prints, it is said, correspond to those of Edward Stibbins, the son, and lead apparently from the direction of his home. He is in jail, held until an investigation leading to the apprehension of the murderer can be made. An Elwood dispatch says: “Edward Stibbins, the alleged patricide, now being heldtat Vincennes and charged with the murder of his father, was employed as science and history teacher in the local high school for several years, leaving here in the middle of the 1909 term to take charge of his father’s - farm near Vincennes. The news of the murder pad his arrest has aroused one of the greatest sensations the Elwood i schools have ever experienced. While here, Stibbins was known for his mo- ■ rose temperament, and is said to have . been one of the most unpopular teachers the school has ever had, yet he was prominent in church, work.” 1 »J ’ " ■' “ — '■ I DR. HOLLOWAY BETTER. A card received by Mrs. C. J. Weaver this morning from Branson, Missouri, from Mrs. Bertha Winch, brings the good news that her mother. Dr. Marie L. Holloway, until three years ago a resident of this city, who nas been dmigcrously ill with Bright’s disease, has rallied and is very much better. Dr. Holloway is, however, still • bedfast, and it is thought the improvement is only temporary, and that there are no hopes for a final recovery.

TIME FOR PLOWING Mr. Wagner Urges the Farmer to Get Busy on Beet Ground at Once. IT WILL PAY YOU — I Tile the Low Spots—Agriculturist Offers Few Suggestions to Farmers. I In an interview with a representative of the Daily Democrat last evening Mr. E. M. Wagner, field manager lor the Holland-St. Louis Sugar com- ; pany, said: “The prospects for a big crop of sugar beets in Adams county during I the year 1912 certainly looks bright. The acreage will be large and the interest already manifested by the farmers assures a good crop. There are, however, some suggestions I would 1 like to make at this time, that if foii lowed, will save them much work next spring. The most important thing : just now’ is the plowing. This should ( be done at once, especially on sod grounds that you expect to put in beets. Plow deep. You can’t get too deep, and the labor thus spent will come back to you when you harvest. Along the low lands, open the farrows so the water can get off and so the ground will warm more quickly in the j spring. If there are any low spots in) the field you intend to plant in beei? 1 you should if possible put in short row’s of tile to the big tile, thus preparing for a season similar to the past one when we had so much rain. You can do much now to make your iirst year’s crop of beets a success, and you should remember that in the beet crop the same as in all others, the farmer who farms in a systemat- I ic manner is the successful one. I j expect to return to Decatur within a i month to remain permanently and will , from time to time be glad to offer any i suggestions that will aid the farmer | in raising a big crop of beets.” DRY VOTERS CALLI i Convention to be Held at Tomlinson Hall, on Tuesday, December sth. OPPOSE THE SALOON i Will Demand That Party Organizations Express Themselves. Notice of a “Call for a non-partisan i cohvention of temperance voters’’ has been received here, the meeting to be i held m tho form of a mass and delegate convention at Tomlinson hall, Indianapolis, on the afternoon and er-! ening of December sth. The call says the convention is not for the purpose of organizing a new political party, nor for embarassing the old ones, but, to enable the people to devise ways and means for making an effective demand that the parties shall express i the convictions of the great body of the people of Indiana on the saloon ( i issue. Delegates and alternates are to ■ be selected rrom each county in the i state. The call was issued as the re- ; suit of a meeting of about 200 ten:- i 1 peranee workers and is signed !:;■ j several hundred Indiana men, includ-I1 ing from this county, J. N. Parrish, De- j catur, and Fred Roher, Jesse Rupp j1 and E. A. Luginbill of Berne. The call I says this convention will be the most i important one held in Indiana since the civil war and calls upon every enemy of the saloon, men and women j i to be present. j i FRACTURED RIBS. : . I' Fred Bauman, nn employee of the 1 Krick & Tyndall tile factory, had the i misfortune to slip while at his work, : 1 r iling against a hay rack in such a ! i wav that thr6e ribs were broken. He I • will probably not be able to wors until February Ist. Mr. Bauman was ' :uarried quite recently, and is now liv Ing in this city, until spring, when he will move to his farm southwest of Monroe.

TO SOLDIERS’ HOME. Lewis Brighton, a veteran, was taken to the soldier’s home at Marion and placed in the hospital for treatment j for Bright’s disease. Robert Black- i ! burn accompanied Mr. Brighton to the ; home and saw him properly cared for. : Mr. Brighton has been making his home for the past year at the Park house in this city and is well known to many here. He lived at one time j in Geneva, and was also a druggist in several Ohio states, during his life. ■■■-. THETOLLOF DEATHS Joseph A. Meyers Succumbed This Morning After Six Weeks’ Illness. MR. HENRY BERNING Was Also Called to Reward —Jacob C. Johnston Another Victim. After an illness of nearly six weeks, the last two of which he was continuously bedfast, Joseph A. Meyers, one of the prominent farmers of the county7 residing three miles west of the city, answered to the summons of death at 6:45 o’clock this morning, j after enduring an inness, which since I Sunday, had been a most baffling one, and die end s’nee then had been expected. The first dawn of his illness was in the taking of chills, and he, not thinking of the seriousness at the time came to this city for medical attention. He was at once advised to repair to his home, he already having a high fever, and shortly afterward ty- | phoid fever wended its way in, his ! condition becoming worse from day to ! day and the assistance of a nurse ' made necessary. Although his condl | tion was serious he did not take to • his bed until two weeks ago, and since ! then the closest attention was neeec- ' sary both day and night. On Sunda. ■ last he took a turn for the worse and ! a second nurse was necessary. For a ] while on Sunday he rested much eas ier, and stated to those caring for him that he felt belter than for some time. On Monday he still continue serious, and in addition to the high lever which he had, pneumonia set ii: ‘ and it was at once seen that there war no hope lor him, as the condition o - his heart was also very weak, am. I eeath relieved him at the above stated ’ hour. He was born in this county fifty- ‘ four years ago the thirtieth of last Au- 1 gust, and his whole life was spent in . this county. Four years this coining ■ February ne was wedded to Miss Eliz- ; abeth Spuller, who with two brother., i and three sisters survives. They are , Bernard H. and John S. Meyers, Mr. ' John Tonneiier, Mrs. Anthony Vogle- ' wede, all of this county, and Mrs ' l Theresa Plock of Fort Wayne. The I funeral will be held Saturday morning ' at 9 o’clock, stanlard time, from the St. Mary’s church. Interment will be i made al the St. Joseph cemetery. Jacob C. Johnston, for many years ' a well Known far -jer of the county, but who has been, living a retired lii'e for some time, being until three or four years ago a resident of North Tenth street, this city, died this morning at 7 o’clock at his home in Pleasant Mills. Mr. Johnston had been ail ing with heart trouble, but had be . up and around until Monday, when he became worse. Mr. Johnston was near the age of four-score years, and leaves a wife, Eleonore, and three children. The children arc Frank Johnston of this city, Florence Starkweather of Newark, Ohio, and Lee Johnston of Columbus. Ohio. The daughter arrived today noon, but the funeral arrangements will not be mad< until the son, Lee, is heard from. Henry Berning, one of the prominent farmers of Adams county, resid ing a mile and a half west of Bingen, passed away at 11 o’clock today, after a long illness from dropsical complications. He has been ailing four oi five years, but became worse Sunday since when his decline has been rapid. He was about seventy-five years of age. Mr. Berning is survived by his widow and the following children: William Berning of Hoagland, Joht: Berning, east of Williams; Mrs. Henry Rodenbeck, of near this city;. Mrs. Lawrence Koenemann of Preble township; George, at home, and a son,-Fer-dinand, residing in Wisconsin.

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CITY COUNCIL MET It is Up to the School City to Issue the Matured School Bonds. ORDER WATC i IMAN ’Tells Us.;d o.i Clever Leaf do No-: Give Required c-i.;. e—Allow Bills. A brief but interesting session of ( the common council was engaged in | Tuesday evening by the city officials, alla.ll members responding to the roll 1 call and the meeting was presided over by the honorable mayor. The ! most important work of the evening ' was the matter calling for the refund- ■ | ing of the school bonds of the South : Ward school building, which matured jon July Ist, and since which time i there has been considerable dispute !as to who was to reissue them. The ■ council, which some meetings previous | had taken steps for the refunding of ’ , same, and which was vetoed by the I mayor, saying that it was not a city ! debt but a school city debt, and ow- -. ing to the controversy w’hich arose ' therefrom was taken to court by the f I city, and asking the school city to I suing of the bonds, would pay the in- ' | Councilman Hale made a motion that -1 the city, in consideration of the is- , i suine of the bonds, would pay the in* i terest from the time of maturity which s was July Ist, until the date of saie, 11 which will be within a short while. A i) petition signed by a number of prop- - i erty owners asked that a sewer be ■. constructed in the south part of the i' city and which would be of great ben- - ’ efit to a large number of people. This s was placed in the hands of the street > and sewer committee, which will report at the next regular meeting. Another petition with the names of many i . citizens attached, asked that the Clo- ! ver Leaf railroad be ordered to place a ■' watchman on Thirteenth street, as the bell signal which they now have in use does not give the necessary protection which they wish and is to a certain extent a menace to the traveling public. They claim that the automatic bell, which la being used at the present time, sounds the alarm if switching is being done in the yards, and at numerous times they are forced to wait, and not being able to see a train, have io get out of their rigs and look where it is, and quite often the trains do not intend to pass the 1 crossing. Councilman Chronister deemed that while the bells were in use on several other streets and were not giving the best of service, he believed he would make a motion that would include the different streets. The motion was that the clerk notify the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railj road company to take down the bells j which are now in use on Eleventh and ! Thirteenth streets and that they place ’ a watchman on these two streets and the Erie one on Eleventh street, the i latter to serve for both roads as the ’ crossings aro near enough for one - man to care for the business of both roads, the same to be done within thirty days. The interurban company is to be notified by the clerk to look after their right-of-way along Chestnut and Russell streets, and to fill with gravel or stone the holes which have come there since the last repairs were made. The purchasing committee was authorized to buy a claim and allowance docket to be used by the clerk. Sam Franks, who is serving as merchant policeman, filed the names of thirty-eight business men who had signed his petition to serve as watchman, which were ordered to be placed on record as was the one which he p»eviously filed with the city council. The following bills were then allowed: John W. Coffee $ 16.99 Lucy J. Gregory 40.00 National Mill & Supply Co. ... 12.20 D. F. Teeple 9.41 John Sprague 13.50 Lewis Hammond 14.50 Wesley Hitchcock 20.00 W. J. Archbold 5.25 First National Bank H- 21 ’ Ft Wayne Electric Works.... 28.62 Protective Electric Supply Co.. 43.84 O. E. Raker W- 20 Electric Appliance Co 25.25 Dominion Coal Co 16.10 Victoria Coal Co < 2 - 04 Wm. Burford •••• 37.50 Ft. Wayne Oil & Supply t 0.... 4.75 Lachot & Rice ... 3.70