Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1912 — Page 1

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FIVE ROADS ' WERE SOLD ! Contracts Let for Five Macadam Roads to be Built in Adams County. Numerous bidders Contract on Bridge to be Let I Tomorrow—Commissioners are in Session. I The board of commissioners are in ' she midst of one of the busiest ses- j lions in some months. The letting of i gwbe road contracts was the busiest part .of today’s work. Tomorrow the con- ■ he* bridge will be let ■t’.id there are other important affairs 510 be disposed of. I County Treasurer Yager filed his reI ■port of taxes collected during the Hyuonth of January, which was approved Kpy the board. V i Bt- The petition of M. F. Parrish and ' Others for a macadam road was found sufficient and C. C. Ernst named as engineer and Melvin Babcock and J. O. Parrish as viewers. I Harry Jeffries was awarded the contact for winding and keeping the * lourt house clock in repairs, the sum Jp!lowed for the service being fortySve dollars. — | The board allowed the G. R. & I. pri'.ilroad the sum of S3OO as damages for the opening of the A. P. Hardison Bit al. road in Wabash township. . K The Decatur school board reported names of thirteen children to it horn help had been given, providing them with books and clothing, so they can attend school. — ■ The macadam roads were sold as follows: Rich road —J. H. Smith, contractor, Benjamin Haberger, superintendent; Baumgartner road —A. J. Cr.se, contractor, and J. H. Steele, superintendent; Aschleman road —Noah Bciberstine, contractor, and Arnold Aschleman, superintendent; Engle road —Jacob Musser, contractor, and J. B. Corson, superintendent; Juday, or Butcher street —J. H .Smith, contrac- . tor and Aaron Bricker, superintendent. ’ i — h t ( Bids on the macadam roads were 1 as follows. i Nicholas Rich Road. : t Hnk Hisey $6947.00 I Stricker $5989.00 1 •M>hn H. Smith 5941.00 i L. O. Bears 6241.00 t Greenville Gravel Co 6792.60 < Merryman & Fugate 6411.00 < Engle 6900.00 1 Engle Road. 11 S®cob Musser $2820.00 i L O. Bears . .*. 3425.00 < BBreenville Gravel Co 3450.00 < H D. Engle 3290.00 I ■Berryman & Fugate 3100.00 < I W. Frank 3171.75 Baumgartner Road. A J. Case $6300.00 H Haugk 6858.00 Bal Snell 7250.00 1 Stone Co 6849.00 t ■ If. Faust 7137 50 Merryman & Fugate 7400,00 t Schug 7030.00 i Aschleman Road. 1 Khn H. Smith 3240.00 Barry Meshberger 3982.00 1 L O. Bears 3842.00 i IK Musser 3600.00 i Kevi Augsberger 4235.0 C t Bnah Bieberstine 3940.00 < Butcher Street. 1 Shn H. Smiths233o.oo i S O. Bears & C 052529.00 I & Musser 2594.00 1 I , PROMPT SETTLEMENT. — Bfulian Franke, of Fort Wayne, agent i the Penn Mutual Insurance com Mpy, was here today and paid to Mrs. ■J Laman, SSOOO, in full of the pelflf carried by her husband in this ■ppany. Proofs of death were made B a week ago, and the payment has exceedingly prompt; A State Life Mat was also said to be here this aftMoon, matting settlement.

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DAVID GIBSON FUNERAL. Funeral services for David N. Gibson, a well-known retired farmer of Marion township, Allen county, who died at his home Friday evening at ; 10:30, will be conducted Tuesday | morning at 9 o’clock from the resiI donee, south of the city, on the De- | catur road, and at 10 o’clock from the I Catholic church at Hesse Cassel He j is survived by the widow, two sons: ■ Edward and Henry Gibson, two daugh- ! ters, Mrs. Frank Wyss and Miss Gib- | son, one brother and t hirteen grand- ■ children. Mr. Gibson is to many here. MEET AT WABASH • ■*. That City to Entertain the North Indiana Methodist Conference. — IONE FULL WEEK Sessions March 27 —Arrangements Being Rapidly Completed. 1 „ I The North Indiana conference of the ' Methodist Episcopal church will meet in Wabash on Tuesday, March 7th, and continue in session one week. The iay electoral conference will meet on Friday of the conference session. The lay conference meets once in four i y ears to elect delegates io the general conference and is composed of one layman from each of the pastoral charges in the conference. E. O. Ebbinghouse, of Wabash, is the acting secretary of the conference and will ; make up the roll of its membership. The North Indiana conference was organized October 16, 1844, at Fort Wayne by Bishop Waugh. It then comprised all the north half of the state. In 1852 the conference W'as diI vided and the Northwest Indiana conference was organized. There are now 64,000 members of the conference and the total value of the church property is now $3,390,100. The amount ! paid for benevolent causes last year ! was $136,173, besides $144,000 paid for building and improving church property, and besides this many thousand dollars were paid for current expenses. Wabash has entertained the conference in 1863, when Bishop Morris presided, in 1881, with" Bishop Simpson, ?«id in 1888, with Bishop Merrill presiding, and this year Bishop Moore will preside. This session will be of special interest because the delegates to the general conference will be elected. The laymen elected will be called to sacrifice a month of their time for the honor conferred upon them. It Is considered perfectly nrnpei for them to announce themselves as candidates for these honors, and there are a number of very prominent laymen whose names wil Igo before the iay electoral session. Among them are: B. A. Helm of North Manchester; W. H. Charles of Marion; M. B. Stults of Huntington, Dr. J ,M. Moulder of-Wayne, Dr. Wil 11am Enslen of Fort Wayne, E G Eberhart of Mishawaka, and several others of equal prominence. A wjjg.am of great interest will be rendered and the attendance from'throughout this district will be a large one. OVERCOME BY GAS, Bluffton, Ind., Feb. s—Jack5 —Jack Moynihan, manager of the local station of the Indiana Lighting company, and John Marshall, an employee, were partially overcome by gas Saturday even ing while mending a break in one of the sinx-inch lines on the east side. Ihe extreme cold had contrated the pipe and caused two lengths to fall apart at the union. The entire pressure on the line was escaping through the aperture. After Mr. Marshall was overcome two physicians were summoned and remained with the workmen until the work was done. Their services were needed by Mr Moynihan. The workmen were able to work only a few minutes at a time. —O 7- — STORE TO CLOSE. Boston Store Will be Closed Tuesday Morning Until Noon. Owin to the death of Mrs. Frances Kuebler or Shelby, Ohio, mother of W. A. Kuebler, this city, the Boston store will be closed Tuesday forenoon, during which time the funeral will be held at Tiffin, Ohio.

DEATH OF MOTHER t Mrs. Frances Kuebler, Shelby, Ohio, Passed Away ’ Saturday Evening. . FROM OLD AGE — > Was Mother of W. A. Kuebler of This Citv—Funeral I Tuesday. | Following a year's decline in health, ! I brought on from advanced age, Mrs. j Frances Kuebler, mother of W. A. Kuebler, this city, passed away at the home of her son, Father Kuebler, at Shelby, Ohio, Saturday nighU death having been hovering near for several i - weeks past, and the end was not unex ■ pected. Mr. Kuebler, who had been at i f her bedside for the past week, where I he had been called when a more serf-1 ous stage was noticed, was present at the time of her death, and shortly aft-. er ward sent the sad news to Mrs. I Kuebler here. She had passed her eighty-fifth milestone and although not , suffering from any particular ailment i , her system had become so frail and weak that the daily requirements of ’ her earthly life had become more than ' she was able to withstand, and she ; calmly and sweetly passed away. She . was a lady beloved by many and only ! ! a few years ago visited here where ; i she became acquainted with a number I j of people, who will he well rememberjed by those whom she enjoyed Mrs. , i Kuebler and daughter, Marcella, left i | Sunday morning for Tiffin, Ohio, to ati tend the funeral, and where the re- . i mains taken for burial. She .-s I survived by five sons and three daugh 'lters, who are: Herman and Joseph of ; Toledo, Ohio; Father Kuebler of Sheiby, Ohio, and Will of this city; Frances and Emma, at home, and Airs. Rosa Henzy, of Tiffin, Ohio. The funeral will be held on Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock from the Catholic church at Tiffin, Ohio, and during the forenoon ' the Boston store here will be closed, opening again at noon. COURTHOUSE NEWS i i Court Opened This Morning —First Day Was Rather Quiet One. NEW DOCKETS LATE Prevent Making of Court Docket—Marriage in the Clerk’s Office. William A. Sipe, administrator of the Andrew ,i. Sipe estate, filed report , qf sale, which was approved; sale con- : firmed i | i C. E. Bollinger resigned as guardian I j .of Martha A. King and Jesse C. Sut- ; idn qualified as such. Inventory filed , ajid approved. j h L. C. DeVoss appeared for George 1 , Baker, charged with forgery. j, — In the case of Irvin D. Landis et al. ] vs Adams County Publishing Co., et , al, for appointment of receiver, ape- , tition was filed by the Western , Newspaper Union for order- on receiver to pay judgment against defendant. Philip L. Andrews also filed petition for payment of labor account. Daisy Runkel of Geneva and Garfield , Yoss of Berne were quietly married at , 8:30 o’clock this morning in the coun- < ty clerk’s office by ’Squire J. H. Stone. ■ The bride is a daughter of Jacob I. ; Runkel and was born February 13, j 1888, and the groom is a son of Fred < Yoss, and was born February 7, 1890. : Real estate transfers: Miltan Scott to Henry Lehrman. 60 acres, Union tp., 1 $7000; Charles A. Glendening to John , Brown, lot 19, Geneva, SI2OO. ; The February term of court opened , this morning, but the bijsiness was ; very light, owing to the fact that the i new blank civil and criminal court I

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dockets were celayed in arriving. When they arrived this morning they were found to oe all probate dockets, | so the civil and criminal docket is beI ing made up on one of the probate books, to prevent further delay in waiting on the others. The clerk and other officials qualified to do so were busy filling out the regular quarterly pension vouchers. TRUSTEES MEET. — Trustees J. A. Fleming of Union j township and Sam Butler of Washington township were at Geneva today attending a meeting of trustees for the purpose of looking after such business as required their assembled presence cl the usual line of affairs, as on previous occasions. RAZED TO GROUND Fire Totally Destroyed Fine Brick House of Martin ■ Reinking I f IN PREBLE TOWNSHIP I Loss Several Thousand— Originated from Furnace Pipe Between Walls. The fine brick-veneered house of Martin Reinking, north of Preble, one of the finest residences in Preble township, was completely destroyed by fire between 7 and 8 o'clock this morning, resulting in a several thousand dollar loss. The fire originated from a defective furnace pipe, between the walls of an upstairs room, and was noticed shortly after breakfast, when the heavy volume of smoke began to pour forth. The telephone lines soon brought aid from the neighbors and a bucket brigade was formed. They worked heroically, byt owing to the heavy smoke, which drove the workmen away, and to the fact that the fire was confined between the walls, where it was difficult to get at, noth--1 ing could be done to put the fire out, I and the house is a total ruin. The | brick veneer walls partially crumbled , to earth, and the razing was completi ed by pulling down the remainder. The I 1 party succeeded in getting out all the ' ' contents of the house excepting that of | one upstairs room and the basement, and the loss on the household goods will be fully covered by the SSOO catsied thereon. The house was built about ten years ago, at a cost of from between $4,000 and $5,000, and was insured for $2,500 in the Preble Mutual Insurance company. A brick summer kitchen, about four feet from the house, joined thereto by the porch, was saved, the fire-fiighters, who pulled away the porch, thus preventing spread from the house. DEFENSE CLOSED CASE. The closed its case at noon Saturday in the trial of the civil case, growing out of the seizure of fair-, grounds liquor last September, and the submitting of the case was ended. Judge Merryman, who has been hearing the case, stated that it would be impossible for him to return to the city to hear arguments for three weeks. Christian S. Ridenour, who swore out the affidavit on which the search warrant was isswed for the seizure of the liquors, was placed on the stand by the defense to show that, his name was not on the tax duplicate of the county, although a long resident of the city. Fort Wayne ■ Journal-Gazette. ADD MORE LAURELS. Union township-farmers continue to add to the laurels gained by that township ,as breeders of fine hogs. Saturday William Schamerloh sold to Scheumann & Buttler, nineteen hogs weighing in all, 5,710 pounds, and bringing the sum of $342. William Bieberich sold three wagon loads, netting him $552.91. o — TO MOVE OFFICE. Dr. T. H. Soldner, the newly installed dentist, who has his offices in the Stone block, has bought an office in Berne ,his home city, and is removing his goods to that place today. He enjoyed a good trade here but desires to remove nearer home, where surroundh. o s will be more congenial.

PASTOR RESIGNS J. M. Dawson Sunday Read Resignation as Pastor of Christian Church OF THIS CITY Has Been Here Twenty Months and Has Been Great Uplift to Church. It was with great regret and surI prisje that the congregation of the local Christian church heard read to j them at the morning service Sunday, i the resignation of their pastor, the I Rev. J. M. Dawson. The resignation I is to be effective March Ist, at which time the pastor will have served here twenty months. His work in this church has been an earnest and successful one, and the growth and upbuilding through his efforts in this i time have been remarkable. The church and its various societies have i doubled in membership, while the spiritual advancement and uplift have ' been correspondingly great. The maj terial advancement was also great, i many material improvements having I been made to the church building, duri ing his pastorate and through his i work. The Rev. Dawson stated that : he felt that his work in this field was finished, and that he would leave the church in a prosperous and growing condition, and that the work could be i taken up with ease and carried on by his successor, whoever he may be. The Rev. Dawson and family have been residents of this city during his pastorate here, coming from Indianapolis, near which place he served as minister. They have made many friends during their stay here, and it i is with regret that all learn that the pastor and his earnest and efficient help-meet and family will soon leave. The Rev. Dawson has not yet announced his future course, but the best wishes of his many friends here will , follow him to his new home, assured that the same unbounded success will follow him in his new field His successor here not not yet been chosen. a strangFbird Strange Duck-like Bird Killed Saturday Afternoon Near Sugar Plant. UNKNOWN SPECIES Wonder is Great at Such a I Bird Being Found in the Dead of Winter. I D. M. Hensley is rejoicing over a | fine specimen added to his large col-: 'lection of stuffed birds, but is much! 1 puzzled over the variety of duck, as an I 1 examination of all the natural histories I available has failed to bring to light j any like this one. it is a ducklike bird, and was killed Saturday afternoon late near the site of the new beet sugar plant by Fred Blazer. The bird had been run down and filled ! with shot, but this failing to kill it, !it was run under the ice along the river, where a blow on the head finish-' ed it. It has the regulation web foot, ■ and the body of a duck, but its bill is a long, narrow one, with saw-tooth edges, hooked under at the end. The body is mainly white, but the head and greater part of the long neck, are coalblack On the back is a tri-angular-shaped black blotch, shading to gray in the tail. Why this lone bird should be found here, and in the dead of winter, is a puzzle. MOVING TO ELKHART. I. D. Landis, a former newspaper man of this city, whose household goods have been stored here for several weeks, has sent word to have them shipped to Elkhart, where Mr. and Mrs. Landis will live, he having a position there as manager of a newspaper, “The Truth.” Mr. and Mrs. C. Abel returned to Chase, Michigan, after a visit here with the Wisner and Huy as families. 1

RE-ELECT BATSON. At the meeting Saturday afternoon of the Wells county democratic central committee B. A. Batson was reelected to the office of county chair man and John E. Swaim was re-elect-ed secretary of the committee. There were no other candidates for either office. The. committee was addressed by Mr. Batson and by District Chairman W. A. Kunkel, who also is a pretin;- 1 committeeman. Some time was given to discussTiig plans to comply with the registration law. —Bluffton News. A DEATH TRAP Is Conceded to be UnfavoraI ble Location of Depot at Lynn. I ; WILL MOVE DEPOT Agitation of Movement Followed Death of Charles Cloud at That Place. The G.-R. & I. railroad is interested in the agitation for the moving of the depot at Lynn, which is placed in such a position that necessitates the cross- , ing of many switches and rails, thus making it a veritable death-trap. The recent agitation was begun immediately after the unfortunate death of Charles Cloud, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cloud, of this city, which occurred there a few weeks ago under the wheels of a Big. Four engine, will probably result in the moving of lhe depot. A Lynn paper says: “Realizing the great danger at the crossings near the depot and the extremely unhandy location of the union station, the Commercial club got busy a few' days ago and wrote the Big Four and G. R. & I. division superintendents and at the same time addressed the state railroad commission setting forth the facts in the case and asking that something be done to safeI guard our people from the great danger at the place. Replies were received from each party and sometime last week the president and secretary of the club were notified by the commission that they had arranged a meeting at this place for last Saturday and asking them to have a few of ruir reprepresentative citizens there to go over the situation with them. Judge McClure of the commission. Superintend ent Neville of the Big Four and two representatives of the G. R. & 1., met them, and the grounds w r ere carefully gene over. It did not take them long to be convinced of ’be dangerous location of the depot and the need of better means of reaching the same and the judge plainly favored the removal of the depot from its present location to a place on the opposite angle of the tracks, which, with the rej moval of the Y, w’ould remove all of j the danger to those going to and from ! the dei»ot. The railroad representa- ! fives set forth the great expense that I would be incurred to them in making I such a change and ask that they be | given a few days in which to take the matter up with the different Iroads and that they then be allowed to meet the Commercial club and make them a proposition. This the judge agreed to and told them he would expect something definite done inside of thirty days, and wanted it understood that it must be something permanent before the action would be sanctioned by this board.” WILL MOVE TO INDIANAPOLIS. Ed Augenbaugh, well known resident here for a number of years, came home Sunday evening frwn a days’ visit to Indianapolis and other cities of Indiana. He has rented a home at Indianapolis and will move there about the fifteenth of the month, expecting to open a wall paper store at Twenty-fifth and College avenue. Fd sold his residence here to Levi Miller recently and will soon be a resident of the capital city. — n — WENT THROUGH BRIDGE. It is rumored that a freight on the Clover Leaf went through a bridge at Cayuga, in this state Sunday night, spilling fourteen cars into the river, it is not known whether any people were injured.

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FEAR OF HUSBAND 1 Left Mrs. James Worden to Roam Cold Streets in Preference to i RIDING WITH HIM s 1 Intoxicated to Relatives’ Home—Befriended by I Kind Decatur Party. James Warden, who has appeared in - police court in this city many times, for intoxication, and who was at one time put under a peace bond, after running his family from home and ■ threatening them with bodily harm, is again in the Decatur limelight, and as usual, his family has been made to suffer through him. It seems that Mr. Worden and iamily nave been living lately at Gas City. Saturday evening Mr and Mrs. Worden and two children, aged about five and seven, came to this city and expected to go to the home of relatives east of the city to visit. s#r. Worden became intoxicated j as usual, and the trip to the homo of , relatives was delayed, and about 1 o'clock Sunday morning his wife and i children were found, nearly half-frozen ' i on the streets of the city, pleading and s | begging with him to give them enough 31 money to secure a room somewhere i where they could rest in warmth and i comfort. The poor woman and chil- . dren were noticed by Harry Jeffrey, '; who took them to the Madison house, 1! where Mrs. Hayslip, the landlady, kindly gave them a room, Mr. Jeffrey j I digging down into his pocket and pay- ,! ing the two dollars therefor. He then ; looked up Night Policeman Melchi, , i and knowing that Mr. Worden had i enough money to repay him, having I I some seven or eight dollars with i told Mr. Melchi the circumstances, and : asked him to take the fellow in hand. > I Mr. Worden was then taken to the Madison House to settle up. It went very much against the grain of Mr. i Worden to hand over the money for the room for his wife and children, and it is said he grew’ rather noisy, and acted in away that did not accord with Mr. Hayslip's notion of the way a man should conauct himself in the presence of ladies, and he proceeded to knock the noisy James down. Mr. Worden got up without further ado, apologized to the ladies and pro ceededtopay. Mrs. Worden, it is said, stated that Mr. Worden had wanted to come here Saturday and bring one of the older children with him. Knowing that he never left home without getting into trouble, and fearing to trust him with the child alone, she came along. He filled up as usual on booze, and later in the evening wanted to hire a horse and rig to drive to to the relatives’ home east of the city. This, she says she was afraid to do as she is in great fear of him, and was begging for the money to secure rooms here, when kindly befriended by Mr. Jeffrey. STEPHEN BROWN SUCCUMBS. Miss Allie Wass of Union township, Adams county, received a letter a day or two ago from relatives in Kansas, announcing the death of an aged uncle, Stephen Brown, who died at the heme of his oldest daughter, Mrs. John Gilchrist, in Kingmann, Kans, on Thursday, January 25, 1912, at the age of ninety-one years and one month , The deceased was one among the first settlers of Monroe township, having come here in an early day with the Wass family in which he was connected by marriage, purchased and settled on a forty-acre tract of land, being the southwest forty of the farm . and present home of Peter McArdle, op the Monroe and Madison township . (Allen county) line. With his wife and fajnily he toiled and cleared up this land and lived there a number of years, finally selling it about the latter part of the seventies and with his family moved to Kansas and purchased a farm, near Kingmann, where he died, and where he leaves a son, a daughter or two, with grandchildren and other relatives. He also leaves a large circle of relatives and old acquaintances who reside in Monroeville, Fort Wayne, Monroe township, other parts of Allen county, also in IT.ion township, and other parts of Adams county. All will regret to learn of his death. —Monroeville Breeze.

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