Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1914 — Page 3

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| WEATHER FORECAST I Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Joe Tonnellier went to Fort Wayne yesterday. Frank Gass was a Fort Wayne visitor yesterday. Harry Hoffman was a Fort Wayne visitor yesterday. Miss Nellie Springer was a Fort Wayne visitor yesterday. Attorney Ed Meyers of Fort Wayne was here yesterday on business. John Weber Sr. and daughter, of Fort Wayne, was here yesterday on business. Jacob Burley of the south part of the county* was here yesterday on business. W. S. Maxon superintendent of the Cliffton Oil Company was here on business yesterday. Miss Ethel Conran, a nurse from the hospital at Kalamazoo, Mich., is here visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Phil Summers. Mrs. Rosalia Smith is- -spending a few days at the home of her parents in Decatur, Indiana.—Sturgis TimesDemocrat. Mrs. W. A. Sigrist and Miss Mary Sigrist changed cars here enroute to Fort Wayne from Glenmore, 0., where they visited. Mrs. Mat Kirsch, Mrs. Fred Mutchler and Mrs. Peter Kirhch went to Ft. Wayne to be guests of the Salem Reformed Ladles* Aid Society, yesterday.

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Ben Lang and John Joseph went to Fort Wayne today. Mrs. Ben Rice went to Ft. Wayne for a short visit yesterday. Miss Mamie Teeple went to Fort Wayne yesterday morning, Mrs. D. C. Meyers went to Fort Wayne yesterday morning. Mrs. Homer McKean and Mrs. Van Bauhnian went to Fort Wayne this morning. Mr. and Mrs. David Winteregg of Monroe township spent the day visiting in Fort Wayne. Mrs. W. F. Rosen winkle of Fort Wayne arrived last night to visit over today with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Rainier. Mrs. C. C. Cloud went to Ft. Wayne yesterday morning to call on her husband at the Lutheran hospital. He is getting along nicely. Miss Marie Patterson accompanied Mrs. Harry Deam to Chicago this noon and will spend several days as the guest of Mrs. Deam. Adrian Herman, who was operated upon yesterday, passed a good night, considering the seriousness of the case, but is a little better today. A sister of V. D. Bell of Craigville, who resides in Columbus, Ohio, .will arrive here today from Richmond, where she went by automobile from Columbus and will be a guest of her niece, Mrs. George Everett. Postmaster J. W. Bosse received a bulletin from Albert V. Leonard, settlement agent, giving information relative to U. S. reclamation settlement land in the Shoshone district, Wyoming. This includes farms of from 40 to 80 acres. This is in the irrigation district.

Attorney D. B. Erwin was in Fort Wayne on professional business. Kit Cowan, the Bobo merchant was a Fort Wayne visitor yesterday. Mrs. Martin Miller and Mrs. Will Moshberger left yesterday noon for Fort Wayne to join the other ladles as guests of the Salem Reformed Ladles' Aid society. Mr. and Mrs. True Frlstoe who are playing at the Majestic theater, returned to Fort Wayne yesterday noon after spending the night with the James Fristoe family. Mrs. George Simmers and son, Harry, went to Fort Wayne yesterday to visit with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Myrtle Dush and to attend the Ft, Wayne fair. George Cramer of Chicago Is here visiting with old friends. Mr. Cramer was formerly employed here at the automobile factory, but is now in tile drug business in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. James Fristoe spent last evening in Fort Wayne with their son, True Fristoe and wife, who played for two nights in “A Night on Broadway” at the Majestic theater. Music lovers should bear in mind the oratorio "Jerusalem,” to be given Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the St. John’s church by the choral society. It will be a big musical event. Mrs. Harry Braden left this morning for Elkhart, where she will join her husband and make their future home at that place. Mr. Braden has been at Elkhart for the past three weeks. Miss Leon Peterson, who is spending the summer in this city with her aunt, Mrs. Robert Ernsberger, went to Decatur Tuesday evening where she will spend a few days visiting with relatives and friends.—Bluffton News. Jacob Straus, a pioneer in banking circles of Ligoner, and well known throughout the state, died at his home at the age of eighty-four years. Death was due to apoplexy and his condition has been regarded as critical since the stroke which he suffered on Friday of last week. Miss Helen Cook, A. S. McKee, Herman Aschbaucher and Mrs. Frank P. Adams and George Morris and family motored to Decatur today where they attended the funeral of Robert Quinn. Miss Cook played the pipe organ for the services and Mr. Ashbaucher sang a solo. —Bluffton News. City Councilman L. L. Baumgartner and Peter Kirsch and Civil Engineer Orval Harruff went to Wabash this morning, where they will spend the day examining the different oil road coverings which the council is figuring putting on Tenth street. The preparation will be selected at a special meeting of the council next Tuesday evening. C. W. Davison, for many years town marshal, is lying unconscious at his home on North Main street, at Ossian, suffering from some form of Bright’s disease. He has been in failing health for some time but only went to his bed Tuesday evening. His wife and two daughters, Mrs. Boyd Hunter, and Miss Lura, a student in school, together with friends, are caring for him. Mrs. Henry Carrier, aged about 55, wife of the forman of the galvanizing department of the Red Cross factory, was run down and probably fatally injured, about 3:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon by a Clover Leaf switching train, the crew of which was switching at the time in the local yards. The accident occured at the Wabash Avenue, or Stringtown crossing of the Clover Leaf, just south of the Buck & Guteius handle factory,—Bluffton News. Fireman A. H. Hartwig, of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railway, was painfully injured perhaps seriously, Wednesday afternoon when he was struck in the abdomen by the shaker bar in his engine, when it slipped out near Monroe, Ind. He was working on passenger train No. 2, due north out of Fort Wayne at 4:10 o'clock and was brought on to this city on that train and taken to St. Joseph’s hospital. Dr. E. J. McOscar company physician, who attended him. said last evening that it could not be told for two or three days whether internal injuries had resulted. Mr. Hartwig lives at 2520 Johns street. — Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. An explosion that tore to pieces the compressor through which all gas for Bluffton and Decatur is pumped and set fire to the room, endangered the entire gas plant on Superior street at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday morning and gave the members of the downtown fire companies an interesting quarter of an hour. The cause of the explosion is unknown, but the entire compressor was demolished, and a force of mechanics is rushing 'he repairs today to get the pumps started before the surplus of gas in the big south side tank gives out.. Neither Bluffton nor Decatur will suffer because of the accident, as the big south side million foot tank is completely filled and it will take considerable time to empty it.—Fort Wayne News.

PETITION FOR MACADAM ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: Before the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana, October Term, 1914. The undersigned, your petitioners, who are freeholders and legal voters of Wabash township, in said county and state, respectfully pray your honorable board, and ask that you order and cause to be constructed to completion a free crushed stone macadam highway in said Wabash township, over and upon the following route, towit: Commencing in Main street in the incorporated town of Geneva at the point where eaid street is crossed by Sixth street, Main street at this point being a free crushed stone macadam highway of said township, thence east with Sixth street to Hale street, thence north with Hale street to Shackley street and there to terminate, Hale street from thia point north being now a free crushed stone macadam highway of said township, as is Shackley street from this point west. Your petitioners further inform your body that the road so sought to be improved is now’ a public highway of said towmship, is less than three miles in extent, and is rods in extent. Your petitioners pray that said highway be drained and graded to the width of twenty-four feet, and a track ten feet wide in the middle of said grade be paved with crushed limestone to the depth of eight inches in the center and six inches at the edges, that limestone screenings to the depth of four Inches be evenly distributed over said crushed stone. That to pay for said improvement, the bonds of Adams County be issued and sold, payable in twenty semi-an-nual installments and to meet the payment of said bonds and interest thereon, you cause a tax to be levied on all the taxable property of Wabash township, tax sufficient to meet said installments with interest thereon as same become due. That improvement be made, bonds issued and sold, tax levied and collected, in conformity to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled an act concerning highw’ays, approved March 8, 1905, and amendments to said act enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, in the years 1907 and 1909, permitting the extension of free gravel and macadam highw’ays of less than three miles in extent, and the improvement of streets in incorporated towns and cities without submitting same to a vote of the township. That said road be known and designated as the Harvey Pyle Macadam Road. Respectfully submitted: Harvey Pyle, Wm. Felds. Wm. Drew, W. L. Thornhill, D. Houdeshell, John Studer, Thomas Drew, J. A. Coolman, Wm. Atwood, W. C. Glende'ning, W. F. Pyle, Chas. W. Muth, W. A. Wells, J. M. Wells, C. C. Mosser, 3. H. Teeple, John C. Manley, Geo. W. Cooper, L. L. Mattax, Arch Houghton. James H. Kelley, John W. Kelly, sr., F. F. Gregg. F. J. MacWhinney, J. H. Barr, Nathan Shepherd, Albert Kuntz, Will Wasel, C. F. Fink, Jesse Throp, W. W. Triplett, M. J. OTiara. R. R. Bradford. W. W. Briggs. Chas. Reiciieldeffer, D. H. Linton. W. D. Cross, O. O. Juday, Wm. Stritsey, John E. Briggs, D. W. Slater, J. W. Kelly, sr.. Dan Beeler, James H. Kelley, J. J. Scheer. T. L. Winship, Josephus Martin, A. P. Hardison, jr., J. W. Walker, Alfred Koontz. R. L. Butcher, Homer Pontius, Vernon Pontius, O. M. Graham, F. S. Armantrout, C. A. Haviland, John Snyder, Chas. D. Porter, Samuel Egly, Adam Egly, Christ Haviland Clark F. Fink, A. G. Briggs, E. S. Callihan, A. M. Vorhees, Jerry Lucurt, L. L. Neal. ,W. J. Nelson, D. W. Ferris, J. A. Long. Fred E. Lindsey. This petition will be'presented to the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, October 6, 1914, at which time the taxpayers of Wabash Township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. THOS. H. BALTZELL, 18-25 Auditor. « o • Albert Sellemeyer was a Ft. Wayne visitor last evening and was a guest of True Fristoe at “A Night on Broadway,” at the Majestic, with which company Mr. Fristoe is connected. George Steele, who is opening a novelty store at Huntington, has already received a car load of goods and is arranging his stock. He expects to begin business in two weeks.

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The babe of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Reed of Detroit, Mich., was christened ' Paul FuUenkamp Reed. Letta Fullenkamp and Ed Weisling of this city were sponsors for the babe, who was christened last Sunday. Mrs. George Wertzberger, sr., of Hammond is here for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Baughman. Her daughter, Mrs. George Wertzberger, jr., accompanied her here and is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Odle. <