Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1915 — Page 2

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FOR SALE —House and lot in the Meibers addition. Will sell at a bargain. Call at this office. 46t3 PIANO TUNING—High class work, strictly guaranteed. Orders left at Gay, Zwick & Myers will receive prompt attention. —Harry Sawyer, Ft Wayne, Ind. 240m-t-tf

WOOL BLANKETS We have about a dozen pair of wool blankets left from our large assortment and which we must sell in the next week or so. These blankets are the very best that are made, of regulation size and full weight. $7.00 blankets will go at $4.25 $6 00 “ “ $3.98 , e have a fairly good assortment of the 27 by 54 Velvet Rugs which we will close out at $1.09 —i ■

FOR SALE —Three bronze turkey Toms and one hen; 24 pigs and 3 brood sows. Inquire of Sarah Ayres, Monroe, Ind., R. R. No. 2. It. WOOD Fpit SALE —Good cook stove wood for sale. Leave orders at the Joe Rice North End grocery.—Lester Robinson. 48t3

FARM FOR SALE — 162 acres within 4% miles of Decatur at a bargain of taken at, once. Inquire of Eli Meyer; ’phone 3-N. 52tf LOST —Ladies’ mink fur muff be tween the Mills grocery and the Schlickman feed barn. Finder please return to this office. 50t3

CITY ORDINANCES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) The second ordinance ordering the I roperty owners to trim their shade trees so that the branches would not be lower than eight feet from the sidewalk, was unanimously passed on its first, second and final readings. The ordinance will go into effect at once and provides for a fine of not more than ten dollars for persons failing to abide with the rules therein set forth. The third ordinance will be of great interest to all water consumers as it changes the minimum water rate from $5.00 a year to the following rates: Forty cents per month for a flve-eights-inch meter; 60 cents per month for a three-quarter-inch meter; SI.OO per month for a one-inch meter: $1.40 per month for an inch meter; SI.BO per month for a two-inch meter, for each and every month, as a service charge and in addition thereto for the first 15.000 gallons. 25 cents per thousand gallons, for the first 30,000 gallons, 20 cents per thousand gal ions for the next 30,000. and 15 cents nor thousand gallons for all over 000 gallons, 10 cents per thousand gallons. It also provides that no one would be furnished water from the city plant at a different rate and that ell meters installed after April first would belong to the city. The ordinance will go into effect April 1. It i also ordered that the bills would bo due the first of every quarter, and that the property owners must keep the meter in a convenient place, and see that no damage was done to it, either from freezing or by othe: means. The fourth ordinance, forbidding he placing of ashes on streets, alleys, idewalks and highways within the city limits and providing for a fine not exceeding ten dollars for those violating the law, was also passed. The ordinance will be in effect at nee. A proposed vehicle ordinance fail 1 to pass as one of the eouncilmen objected to several sections contained therein.

The purchasing committee was ew. I 'lowered to buy a car load of paving I brick and a car load of sand, the saiuI ‘o be used in bricking the alley lead I ng from Second street to the waterI works plant, and in constructing a I Touse for the new air compressor 4 bought by the council to be installed ? at the waterworks plant. t The matter of selling an old scraper I iwned by the city to Julius Haugk j was referred to the street and sewer omraittee. The matter of cleaning | Third street was also left in the I lands of the committee. I The following bills were allowed, ind the meeting adjourned: Natl. Mill & Supply Co $ 71.25 •'t. Wayne Electric Works ... 56.27 Liberty Mfg. Co 13.00 Union Meter Co 1.77 Thompson Meter Co 5.88 Pittsburgh Meter Co 5.00 M. A. Hanna & Co 168.11 John Coffee 136.63 t3raun & Son 2.87 T. St. L. & W. R. R. Co 572.69 M. S. Flory 30.81 Waterworks pay roll 56.00 I. D. McFarland 2.00 Glen Allen Fuel Co 38,20 Hinch-Briscoe Coal Co 53.74 National Meter Co 3.09 Ft. Wayne Oil & Supply Co. .. 8.79 Decatur Herald Co 1.20 • Otto Reppert 12.25 1 Philip Summers 2.15 M. J. Mylott pay roll 182.50 Isaac Chronister pay roll .... 45,60 City cf Delphos, Ohio 625.00 Bi-Lateral Fire Hose Co 260.09 ) A. C. Foos pay roll 130.00 : Orval Harruff 37.50 > Citizens’ Telephone Co 6.00 Citizens’ Telephone Co 3.17 ’ L. C. Schlegel 2.75 ; Jesse Hurst 4.80 J A. C. Foos, extra labor 23.00 ; City Firemen 62.50 I Decatur Volunteer Firemen .. 5.00 I Police pay roll 80.00 G. R. & I. R. R. Co 464.70 o FACE AND ARMS BURNED. Miss Bess Congleton, teacher in the. 1 üblic schools, who lives with her mother, Mrs. Mary Congleton, on South Third street, was severly burned about the face and arms last evening. She was attending to the furnace and had just banked it for the night, when it exploded, the flames encircling Miss Bess, who received painful burns about her face and arms. She is under the care of a physician and unable to teach today. o POINT TO DEFEAT. Washington. D. C., Mar. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat) —All indication today in congress pointed to defeat of rmal credit and incidentally to the defeat of the agricultural bill. o FOR RENT —Four furnished rooms for light housekeeping, 609 Monroe street. ’Phone 521. —Mrs. B. W. Sholty. 25-t-t-s-ts

JUSTICE NAMED Commissioners Appointed E. Burt Lenhart as Justice of the Peace Today. WAS BUSY SESSION Six Roads Will be Built— Advertise for Two for Next Month —Bridges. The commissioners today appoint 1 E. Burt Lenhart us justice ot the ,peace to succeed J. H. Stone, who was elected, tut did not qualify. Three petitions were filed for the place, the others being J. H. Ward and J. W. Merriman. The beard appointed the following superintendents of roads: Selletneyer road. John Wagoner; Lose road. J T. Lose; Hessler road. W. E. Kintz; Hirschy road, John Witwer; Ken road, I. G. Kerr; Teeters' read, Alfred Ryf. Viewers' report on the J. M. Bollen bacher road was approved. The view ers on the Henry Scheuman road ask ed an extension of time for repcit and were granted until March 2.1. Contracts for supplies for the couu ty infirmary were let as follows: Gro cedes, Niblick & Co.; dry goods. Run yon-Engeler Co.; shoes, Charlie W glewede; clothing. Teeple, Brandyber ry & Peterson; drugs, Smith. Yagei & Falk; tobacco, Frank McConnell: fence posts, Decatur Lumber Co. The viewers’ reports on the Bow ers road and the Yaney road in Kirk land township were accepted and a? roved and the auditor ordered to ad vertise for bids for April 6th.

County Treasurer W. J. Archbold tiled his report of taxes collected dur ing the month of February. Ed Augenbaugh .trustee of Wash ington township, and W. H. Miller. . county truant officer, were authorize d I to assist the poor as petitioned for. Extras on the Heckman road to the . amount of $45 were allowed. , Plans and specifications were adoot- ’ ed on the following bridges: Mesehberger in Hartford; Eckrcte.in Har ford: Mann in Wabash; Schurger in Root; Liemenstall in Kirkland; Ger . ber in French; Schwartz in Monroe: > Meyer in French and Walker and ( Jones in St. Mary’s. The auditor wa: . ordered to advertise for bids, to be received April 6th. i The bonds for fifteen roads were de , liverey by the Democrat Company to- , day. Six of the seven roads sold yes , terday will be built as soon as the bonds are sold this month and bids on , two roads will be received next month ! making a total of twenty-three roads , to be built this year. ! The Burley road which was men i tioned yesterday as a macadam road ( is a petition to change the width of a road. MONEY TO LOAN. The Decatur Abstract & Loan Co. is in a position to make all kinds of loans. Plenty of money. We make loans on city property. Low rate of interest. The Decatur Abstract & Loan Co. E. BURT LENHART, Secretary. — -O— — HUPMOBILE FOR SALE. A Model H. car, 5-passenger, in fine condition. A bargain for any one who wants a car. Inquire “C,” Daily Democrat. —o —— Let us oil and repair your harness. Prompt service and prices right. SCHAFER HDW. CO. o AGENTS WANTED-To take orders for the new book, Billy Sunday s sermons and his message, the only authorized edition, contains all of his most effective sermons and a history of his career. Over 200,000 persons have heen converted by his preaching. Agents take from 50 to 100 orders per week. Retail price, SI,OO. Liberal commissions. Write now to the Book Department, Novelty C. Co. 501 McGregor Ave., Canton, O. 40t4 FOR RENT—Eight-room house on Monroe St. Inquire ot toder’ 44.0

UNN ON c«u,< ""IS day, March 4, 10.00 »• First Ward. gi District No. 1. Secti‘"i ' v _ Chas. case. Chestnut street. Mr Peterson, loader. B __Mrs. QDistrict No L M(i Weldy, Winans, Keklonga strt i leader. , i—. s—Mrs. Lee I,istrl ;\ N °. r tr Mr Gibson, les* Stults. Oak stre. t. No. 3, Section A-M«. Wilaon Lee. Mercer avenue. line, tea/ ~ Mr . Joi.l) District No. 3. Section B • r Frlsinger, 326 Winchester .tree . S. E. Hite, leader. No- 3. Mclntosh. 329 Line street. - • Baumgartner, leader. Second Ward. District No. 1, Section A Mr Smith. 229 South Second Rogers, leader. , jpuDistrict no. i. section B Mrs. W yon. 315 Madison street. Mr . leader. 4—Mrs H District No. 2. Section - - - DeVoss. 210 South Fifth street. Kcv. Hessert. leader. District No. 2. Section . Sprang, 603 West Madison street. Mrs. McCombe, leader. ..... District No. 3. Section - i »• Grant Russell, North Eir. th stre .. Mrs. A. C. Ball, leader. , „ District No. 3, Section B— Mr-. .-O Baker, 1188 Tenth street. Mrs. Ball leader. . ... District No. 3, Section Frank Hurst, Thirteen and Maoism) streets. Rev. Harman, leader. Third Ward. District No. 1. Section A-Mrs. J. 0 Ball, 348 North Tenth street. Mrs Harman, leader. District No. 1. Section B-Mrs. Z Teeple, 318 North Eighth street. Mi.:s Etta Mallonee. leader. District No. 2, Section A-Mrs. Chris Weldy, West Marshall street. Mrs Stephenson, leader. District No. 2, Section B-Mis Judge Merryman, corner Second am' Marshall streets. Mrs. Emma Daniel. I , . leader. District No. 3, Section A—Mrs. Dore Erwin, North Second street. Rev. Hanna, leader. District No. 3, Section B —Mrs. Earl ' Butler, 714 North Fifth street. Rev. 1 Borton, leader. - ■■ —o COURT HOUSE NEWS. (CONTINUED FROM I’AGE ONE) amount in the hands of the executors was ordered paid io Enos D. Lehman, guardian of Elizabeth Lehman. The executors were discharged. Inheritance tax report was filed in the estate of Henry Wortliman and April 1 was the date set for the hear ing of the same. In the est ate of Louise Kennedy, appraisement was filed. Additional bond was filed and approved, report of sale approved, deed ordered, reported av.fi approved. In the estate of Christian Wente, re port of inheritance tax appraisement was filed and April 1 set as the date for the hearing. > Upon petition of J. F. Lehman, Ik was authorized to expend not more than SSOO to put a furnace in a busi ness building belonging to his wards. Clarence Sprunger et al. Enos D. Lehman qualified as guar dian of Elizabeth Lehman, an infirn person. One of the heaviest war revenue re ceipts from land deals of this county is doubtless that of today, evidence’ in $22.50 worth of stamps that were affixed to the deed for land in Mon roe township, deeded from Joseph am! Elsa Warner to The Straus Brothers Company the consideration being $04,669.25. Peterson & Moran filed a new cast this afternoon entitled Ada Roe ,- s . Omer Butler, suit on note, demand *3OO. Real estate transfers: Walter 1) Hancock et. al. to John Brown, realty in Wabash tp, $1050; Lilliam M. St John to John Brown, real estate in Wabash tp.. $1000; Carrie Scherer to Sfirmi l !t Uman ' 41 aCreS ’ Monroe tPJ 6500; Albert S. Zurcher to Jacob J Eicher, 80 acres. Wabash tp.. $8300; William L. Foreman to Ida M. Fish er, 40 acres, Bi ue Creek tp., $5000; Jos Warner to The Straus Bros. Co realty m Monroe tp., $34,669.25. I WANT-A man in each district to Plan. Apply Liberty Institute, R o . se.. Tours to the Exposition. Company endorsed by Banks, Mercantile Houses, Railroads. Large returns organizers.-630 Pythian Building in dianapolis, Ind. fi ’’ 1 F< ’“ S ‘ LE “ E »S I I.h baby ■PIXX " W ' ' VI “ 44’3

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