Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1901 — Page 1

ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME.

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Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Mann and their little grandson, left Tuesday for Muncie, where they eat Christmas dinner with J. Frank Mann and ilyProf. Charles Simcoke arrived home yesterday from Jolliet. Illinois, where he has charge of the commercial course in the high school. He wdl remain here during the holidays. J. Kirk Mann, our former street! commissioner came home the first of i the week from Paragould, Arkansas. I where he is running a potash factor* and is getting along in good style. The foot ball game scheduled for yesterday between the Decatur and I Fort Wavne Library Hall team was declared off. the enemy failing to get their men together for the occasion. The Union township Santa Claus procession was out in lull force Monday night, and in the words of our reporter, all the negroes and Dan Tucker family turned out in such a style that it chased all the mice and rats, dogs and cats out of little old Union into Ohio, the great state of sensational turmoil. The gas came on Saturday night in good style and everyone was happy after several days of freezing. The

pump and engines were all repaired I by nine o’clock Saturday night and ' have been working nicely since. The company officials say they will be able to furnish plenty of gas through , the rest of the winter. , Misses Genevieve Hale and Bertha Heller will entertain at a New Years Eve party at the beautiful home of the former on Fifth street. About forty invitations have been issued to i their young friends, and the old year's closing hours will be happily spent in dancing, games and other social amusements. A number of out of town guests are expected. Well! talk about your Christmas gifts. Dr. Roy Archbold says he re-, reived theoniy oneof any consequence i in Indiana, and we vouch for the doctors earnestness, for the present was a bouncing ten pound boy. who arrived early Chrutmas morning. Mrs. Archbold is doing nicely, the boy is already making plenty of noise and Roy says home is complete. College students who hail from De | , catur and are taking instructions from | the various colleges over the country came in on evefcy train last Friday and Saturday and are enjoying the holiday vacation Aith parents and friends. Among the number are Lawrence Hughes. Earl Coverdale.

Jerry McKean, Chicago; Dick France Fred Patterson. Jessie Robison. Indi anapolis: Bob Shrock, Charles Adies perger, Crawfordsville; Will Rieter. Ted Brock. Rollin Laughner. Earl Fristoe. Purdue; Miss Josephine Niblick, Delaware; Burt Townsend. Luna. I and others. The Bluffton Banner gets back at > Decatur in a recent issue as follows: ■ Bluffton people have always labored i under a lielief that anybody who was 1 I so unfortunate as to live in Decatur was a little bit slow, but there is a \ ; young man in the city who is ready to swear that the Decatur girls are just a few months behind. While in that city July Fourth he made the, auaintance of a Decatur belle and ore leaving she made him promise B fewrite her a letter. This he did H tnd failing to receive a reply, forgot B til about the incident until a letter B from the lady yesterday recalled it t. •. B memory. B Berne’s new brick street, a paven ••nt that runs a mile through the entire |B business jxirtiou of the city, forms a j J '* B * B a big law suit. Decemlier |S 2i is the date set for filing a remon ’•rance, and many of the business m> > £■ hare pooled for that purpose. They gM claim that the curbing is not as large BH J 8 the specifications call for. that th*brick were not rolled, that the sand Bl contained soil and also that the curb Kl a 8 " as Got backed. The job cost SSO. £■ WO and the remonstrators number Wong them the most influential men jtthe villago. Four of them wen here g ■“*• week and Frank Dailey went to ml today to preparearemoustraiu • S, ® p•* presented to the town council Wil rdday night. Bluffton News.

Hie annual farmers' institute is an ILM J™ o®*! 0 ®*! for Wednesday anil Thurs kSi ■ n liiry s '*‘ a “d i,th ’ a "* l " IQ Win the Adams cin-uit court room |H| ®this city. The arrangements am B 3 ® charge of of the following efficient Vr • D. Kunkle. presiilent; 1. ' *®eter. secretary: I). (’. Sprunger M and Fred M. Falk, musical ■■ The program as heretofore HMCT ; , .‘’’d is a most interesting one 9H ton » i al tendance in the his MH ''•*« association is exps-ted ||k| those who will take a promi MN ft-.P®!} > n the proceedings are MM ..u Thorp of Medford. Wiscon H’O rH ' *1 w. Bates of Broad ItipplEMM iJ* 0 * and D. I. Duncan of Selma KB •otiH* 1 ' ' Th ,, *‘ three lisdures alone KB tail f P rov ' t^H sufficient entertain ■MI ram )r m< ‘ Ht an J one > * >u ' 'he pro HM toi ln | l ?’ o> ? , ‘ttt<e have arrangisl fora lEfl bulti interesting selections by Uli Wh ‘“'’hidingD. (’.Sprung-. UM .Will Dy “ , ‘’‘ , ''K"soii, Agnes MH ■ Snn 'h- Henry Coulter. WIM and C. S. Momma. iriaiL a 1 rt ” er ' n Adams count vshould M| »o atte.nl.

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-.t Z ru'- r ' " h ° 111,8 been "'orking at Tiffin, Ohio, for several years came wither 1 n,ay e “j° y the bol >davs with relatives and friends. He was S'Ku I,yMi » John Stoneburner was out doing a , \ mas serenading Tuesday afternoon, the music being furnished by one of his high class phonographs, I | He called at the Democrat and favor ed us with two hot selections. The campaign will be on in earnest from now on and the real battles will lie fought during the next ten days. I’or a few days interest has rather aggtsl on account of holiday business, | but from now on the finish will be hot. i The little son of Mrs. Michael Englehart died yesterday morning after ?.." bo . rt 11 illnes «- He was a bright little fellow and his death made the usual joyous Christmas a most sorrow tul day for the mother relatives and friends. William Englebeck left Tuesday} morning for Chicago from where he will go to his own home at Mencelone. | Michigan, his family having preceed ed him two weeks ago. He will pur ' chase a complete stock of goods atl Chicago and will prepare himself to!

give the latest styles to the up-to-date I dressers of Mencelone; and we know . he can do that very thing. The Did bi Stebbins rural comedy' company failed to ap|>ear here Mon day as advertised. Business has been ! poor with them for several weeks and I they closed down at Frankfort last | week. Although business in other ' lines seems to be pretty fair, there is an awful slump in the theatrical trade. 1 hree consecutive companies booked here have closed before arriving. The big $3(X),000 oil deal between )J. H. Hardison, of Geneva, and the | Superior Oil company of New York was closed last week and the transfer ; has been placed on record. The deal I is one of the largest ever made in this section and the new company will proceed to devolope the Adams conn ty oil field as it has never been before. | They will put six strings of tools to ! work next week. A horse driven by Mrs. Albert 1 Knavel fell down at the Boston Store corner Monday afternoon and if the I catch basin to the sewer had been | 1 ’ large enough the entire rig would 1 i have been floating in the St. Marys I river long before this. As it was the horse succeeded in getting his two ; front legs in the opening and caused ! I his owners no little trouble extricat , ; 1• \ W v. t • T 1 FV, Ea ci a ■ .a. F-», vza a.t za lal zx z-K.a ■ I

mg him from his uncomfortable posi ' tion. A boy who was also in the rig ' jumped and escaped unhurt. Mrs. Knavel remained in the rig and was I likewise lucky enough to escape un- . hurt. , It is said by those who have a fair I chance to know that the recent intense < <cold and its proceeding storm arehav- i ing a disastrous effect on the quails ' and other small birds. The ground I was covered with a thick coating of ice liefore the snow fell, and this preI vents the birds from burrowing down < ' to the dry earth, upou which they are able to find a spot to warm their bodI ies. They fly about constantly on the move.'and after a time succumb to ' the cold and hunger and die. In some i : parts of the county numerous quails have been found dead in the snow, while in other counties the loss is re ported as very heavy, hundreds of the ' dead birds are being found. I, The fuel famine of last week was I felt considerably here, especially at; the electric light and water stations. 1 I The gas was shut off at these places : ■ and with onlv a small amount of coal I ■ on hand it looked a little like we were about to be in the dark and in fact J • we were. It was impossible to ob-| . taiu coal to run longer than Saturday , midnight and a little before that hour j [; the lights went out and the machinery - j was at a standstill until Monday . I morning when several car loads of i r i coal arrived and brought relief to. i those who depend on electricity for i , i lighting purposes. Enough fuel was j I saved to keep the water works plant | } going, thus protect ing the city against 1 tire, but the supply was nearly exhausted when the coal arrived. _ ~1L„ 1 D I

For nearly three months J. 1 ■ Crist, a well known farmer has been ! searching for a little pug dog winch! I he supposed to be lost. He has spen much time and several dollars but without result until a few days ago I when he found out that the dog had been killed by a neighbor l»y. Th< bov and a companion were out hunt ingone day, when they saw the dog running along the road, and the least provocation one of them »bot | him. Afterwards when Mr. i was making a vigorous search for the | ' Zine the tv became frightened and. ■w rbs i romping with hM I* t i * uld ias well as ■» ,lir " , ' a|)V v^lt |, or Ifectly hannless and ukp j i iSSitX, | are unable to sone. *

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We are under obligations to Elmer 1 1 Moser and wife, for beautiful Christmas favors in the photograph line, x'r ‘°r onr editorial cap to both. May they live long and prosper is our holiaay greeting. Dave Coffee who broke his leg two Weeks ago by falling on the side walk is again able to Ire about his store, although pretty lame. Only the smaller ankle bone was broken and he will soon be as active as ever. A large deer and several wild turkeys were received Tuesday morning from Arkansas, having been sent by the party of Decatur hunters who are I enjoying themselves there. A num- , ber of Decatur people eat venison for Christmas dinner. j “Bum Killer" Brown, as he is ■ “ n o.'vn about Berne was given a pre ■ liminary hearing before 'Squire James H. Smith. Saturday afternoon and was bound over to court on a charge lof burglary. Brown is the man who terrorized the Amish settlers and was j arrested last week by Sheriff Erwin. 'He will be tried in the circuit court } some time soon. Mary Brandyberry was granted a divorce last week from her husband j Jesse Brandyberry. She was also given S3OO alimony and the custody lof the children, the defendant being ordered to pay five dollars into court each month for their support. Cruel 1 and inhuman treatment was proven, it being shown that Jesse has several times knocked his wife down and otherwise abused her. A unique horse deal was made the first of the week at Linn Grove between Eli French and Fred Bowman. Eli proposed to sell the animal at onequarter cent for the first nail in the horse s shoes, then double the amount for each nail. Fred believing that he would be getting much the best of the bargain readily accepted the offer, but when finding the calculation to run to fifteen millions of dollars he declared the deal off—Bluffton News It was a lucky thing that the cold wave came just when it did. Had it come a short time before, the damage it wotdd have done to the wheat crop could not be estimated. As it was, the cold came while the wheat was protected by the snow. Although the snow was not very deep, it was deep enough to serve as a covering to the grain. A small amount of snow has fallen since this cold snap set in. This also helped to preserve the wheat. There is no danger to the wheat on account of this present weather unless the snow melts and it again turns cold.

The Bluffton Evening News of Monday said: Daniel Beeler left last night for Lima, Ohio, and Christmas eve will lead to the altar the widow of his brother, Mrs. David Beeler. The couple will on return from Lima reside at the farm home of the groom near Vera Cruz, but expect then to remove to Bluffton where Mr. Beeler will build a home on his lot on East Washington street. On the same evening his daughter, Miss Emma, will be united in marriage to Levi Todd at Valparaiso, leaving for that place tomorrow morning. Mr. Todd is studying law at that place and the couple will make Valparaiso their home until his graduation. An exciting incident occurred at Frankford Mondav night while the Haymakers were initiating a class of candidates. One of the candidates, whose name the lodge members would not reveal, became frightened at some of the things that he thought were being done to one of his companions and watching his chance, he bolted for the door. Down the stairs, three steps at a time, he went, with two of the lodge men in full pursuit. They reached the street in time to see his coat tails crack around the corner, and gave chase. They run him him around the square and finaliy captured him. They then carried him back to the hail and made a good Haymaker out of him in the most approved style. At a banquet following the business meeting he made a speech thanking them for running him down.

The following details regarding the making of a new Pope are quoted from Mrs. BellocLowndes paper in the January Lippincott’s Magazine. “Let us pas.: the jealously guarded barriers and place ourselves in the vast Pauline Chapel, where morning and evening the Cardinals come to vote until the Pontiff is chosen bv the necessary two thirds majority. Seo, there are the three presidents of the ballot, a Cardinal Bishop, a Cardinal-Priest, anil a Cardinal-Deacon. At the altar is a Cardinal, making oath that he will cast his vote without intrigue or favor of man, but on his conscience for the greatest glory of God and the best welfare of the church, Kising from his knees, he passes to the centre of the chapel, and there More the three presidents he places his vote into a chalice, and so do all the other Cardinals present m turn. Each bal lot-paper liears in a feigned hand the na ,ne of the Cardinal for whom the vote was cast, while on one corner is written the name of the voter. The latter is carefully folded over and waled, not to lie pubjished unless nil election is made.”

Nearly all the churches gave entertainments Xmas eve and the little ones were given their annual treat of windy, etc. The programs were all well rendered and the children went home happy, to dream of old Santa Claus and'the gifts he would bring. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan entertained a few guests last evening in honor of their daughters Christmas I tree. Everyone enjoved themselves, especially the little folks who seemed to realize that Christmas comes but once a year, and to want to make the most of it. Lou Yager took a walk about town Sunday, the first in several months, and the smile on his face told plainly the enjoyment he felt in having re I covered from his long illness sufficiently to be able to go it alone again. 1 He is improving rapidly and will soon } bo able to resume his place on the , road for the Fort Wayne Drug Com ! pany. The third Sunday in January has been set aside as McKinley dav among the churches of the state. Frank L. Jones, secretary of the Indiana auxil i iary committee, formulated a circular letter to be sent to every minister and Sunday school superintendent and the presidents of young people's societies in the state, urging them to cooperate in raising funds on McKinley Sunday. The marriage of Miss Erin B. Bobo to Mr. Charles L. Archbold occurred at the Methodist parsonage Friday evening at 7:30, Rev. C. G. Hudson officiating. The wedding was a quiet I one and Mr. and Mrs. Archbold are already at home to their many friends at their cottage home, corner of Fourth and Madison streets. Both are popu lar young people who have scores of friends. The Democrat offers congratulations. At the Eighth district democratic convention in this city January 2, W. H. Eichhorn will be a candidate for district chairman. Bartley Camp I bell, of Anderson, has declined to stand for the renomination, and Lew Ellingham, of Decatur, has refused to take the place. Two years ago Mr. Eichhorn could have had the nomination for asking, but did not want it as he had his eye set upon the county chairmanship. This he resigns this year and will ask the district chairmanship in its place. J. Frank Mann, of Muncie will be the opposing candidate. Bluffton News.

Ed Bovine was in town Monday celebrating the approach of Christmas, by the aid of a few beers. He became pretty noisy and was called down by Marshall Hart and became very tame until he had seated himself in his buggy, where his wife and baby were r liting for him to take them home. Alter seating himself comforably he must have considered himself out of danger for he at once opened up a string of obuse for Mr. Hart that would cause a deacon to blush for shame. However the officer proceeded to take hold of him and gave him a couple of “yanks” to remind him lie was not yet beyond the limits of the law. No arrests were made and Mr. Bovine has probably awakened by this time. Attorney General Taylor has re ceived numerous requests of late for opinions regarding the duties of township trustees iu making annual reports. Under a law passed by the last legislature it is incumbent on all township trustees to prepare annual reports and have them published in a newspaper of general circulation in their respective counties before the first of January. The law is plain on the subject, but the trustees or part of them have not been able to projierly interpret it, it seems, and have besought the attorney general to give them instructions in the matter. A gentleman called on the attorney gen eral the other day in liehalf of certain township trustees who wanted an opinion on the subject, and the attorney general held that they must abide by the law and have their annual reports published by January Ist.

Tne stockholders of the Decatur Oil & Gas Company met last Saturday afternoon at the court house and the meeting was one of importance to every member of the company as a new organization was completed. It was decided that the company incorporate under tho state laws and such prodeedings were ordered, the capital stock being fixed at S7,(KM). consisting of 700 ten dollar shares. Certificates of stock are being printed and to each member who has paid up stock, one will be issued for each ten dollars. A new Ixiard of directors was chosen as I follows: John D. Hale, James H. Stone, George W. Roop, George W. Woodward, William Hoile. George Trieker and William H. Teeple. These directors will meet in this city Jan uary 15, at which time new officers will be elected for the ensuing year. The company have put down several wells, one of which located on the William Teeple farm is a good gas producer. Another well is l>eing drilled on the same farm and if another gasser is secured the field will be developed at once. Until the result of this test is known the company will make no further state ment of future intentions.

1 | Marriage licenses for Christinas e j week have been issued to these parit | ties; A. E. Ayers and Margaret e Eicher. Joseph J. Rich, and Mary n \oeder. J. F. Richards and Ellen 1 j Riesen, Fred Bracht and Liddie d j Henschen, Charles Archbold and j Enn Beatrice Bobo. Balser B. Huber . and Maggie E. Weldv, Ira R. Tare n | and Inez G. Clem. si H. M. Romberg, of New York. ’> | came home Monday and is enjoying tla ' s '\dh his family and friends, t He is holding a splendid position e, with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and is prosper ,j | mg. He has just concluded an in 1 ; specting trip over nine southern states, ■ and enjoyed a few days at the Charles I ton exposition and which he reports alright. r . ( Grant Emery, a former Decatur 1 j boy who was mixed up in the Will--01 shire robbery scrape and who was -1 captured in Missouri last week was given a hearing at Van Wert Saturs day afternoon. He entered a plea of “guilty and was promptly sentenced ’1 by the judge to two vears hard labor in the Ohio state penitentiary. He is | the eighth number of the gang to pay I for their crime. 1 Dr. H. F. Costello, secretary of the board of health, has received an offi- ■ cial circular from the state notifying f him of a new form of death certificate which has been adopted and must 3 1 be used by all physicians in reporting ' ] deaths. The new form is in aceord ? ance with that used by the United j j States and all registration states and t has been adopted for the sake of , I uniformity. The secretary is further 1 s ordered to supply all physicians with < j the new forms and to see that the old 1 . ones are destroyed by January 1.1002. > When Sidney Lanier was allowed 1 to die in poverty he left to a heedless | public a rich inheritance of learning 1 and literature. Some of this is only 1 > now coming out. and in Lippincott's ' ’ Magazine for January there is the g I first of two papers on “The Music of t ' Shakespeare's Time.'' which show the ( scope of the dead poet-musician’s t > mind. He knew more than almost j • any contemporary about the Eliza- t ■ bethan times, and he could render j ; what he knew as no other author of t his day. The paper given at this f ' season of'winter music is delightful ( reading and is rich in fact and poetic • allusion.

County Superintendent Brandy berry is at Indianapolis attending the ■ forty-eighth annual session of the •: Indiana State Teachers’ Association. ' I The meetings convened at the State '; house this morning at eight o'clock ''and will continue until Saturday 1 j noon. Tho program is divided into 1 j sections under the following heads: General Association. County Super--1 intendents, Elocution and Reading, Classical, High School. Music. Math- ■ ematic, College, Primary and English. I Under each of these department heads ' a suitable program has been arranged ’ including papers by the liest instruc : tors and educators iu Indiana. In I connection with the affair the seventeenth annual meeting of the Indiana Acadamy of Science will also be held today. A move in electric lines hardly uu derstood here is the incorporation of ! two electric lines at Indianapolis Wednesday. They are the Ft. Wayne Northern Traction company and the Ft. Wayne Southern Traction com pany, each capitalized at $200,000 incorporated bv W. B. McKinney, of Champaign, ill.. H. E. Davisson. John Ross McCulloch. P. R. Stephens and jR. S. Nelson, of Ft. Wayne. The Ft. Wayne Northern proposes to operate lines through Ft. Wayne, Auburn, Garret, Waterloo. Butler, Kendalville, Albion. Ligonier and Goshen. The Ft. Wayne Southern is to build through Bluffton, Montpelier. Hart ford City. Decatur. Portland, Muncie and Richmond. Nothing is known here of the proposed line. If it is ever bu.lt it will look like a snake getting away from a farmer’s boy armed with a hickory club. Blackford County Gazette. A politician in the southern part of the state made application for the hand of his sweetheart in the follow ing novel manner. “My dear miss: I hereby announce myself a candidate for your hand and shall use all honorable means to secure the nomina tion. I know that there are many candidates in the field.'and I hesitated liefore entering the race but now I am in to stay. My views on love and matrimony have often been expressisl and need not be repeated here. You know I favor the gold standard of love and a maintenance of that standard. If you decide to confer upon me the favor I seek, pleas** fix a date for caucus with your mother. I have no objections to her acting as temporary chairman of the permanent organization. Should the result of the can cus prove satisfactory, we cat* soon hold the primaries and select the place and (fate of convention. 1 never believe in long campaigns, so if you decide to honor me, 1 will ask you to i make the date a*swon as possible. Devotedly yours.” The young lady answered as follow by telegram: “Caucus unnecemry. Nominakon unanimous. Come at once aim fix date for ratification."

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s New cases filed since our issue of I last week are entitled Samuel Hurless ‘ I nnd E. Brown vs August Kohlhorst ■' | and L. Harshman, complaint to set 1 I aside conveyance of real estate vs ' i fraudulent. David S. Mauller and Harry R. Moltz, ex parte, appointed jury commissioners. Susannah Ritter ’ vs Amos Troutner, complaint for an accounting. Judge Erwin has appointed the jury commissioners to serve during his term ami has made the following splendid selection: David Manlier, of U nion township, and Harry Moltz of this city. These men will select the petit and grand jurors for the coming six years and we have no doubt will perform their duties faith fully and well. They succeed George H. Martz of Monroe township, and J. Q. Neptune of this city who have at tended to tne business in a competent manner for the past six years. The following is the list of readers who have accommodated us with the cash for their subscription this week Janies Frank, C. \V. Crist. Charles Beilienck. Frederick Kohler. ('. E. Martz, Mrs. J. M. Sherwood. Mrs. Jennie Clever. John Beiberick, Wm. Fever, J. D. Martz, Ferdinand Jack John Steele, Dr. C. S. Clark. Otto Blakey, Al. Buhler, Elmer Johnson, Ira Steele, Fred Scherry, D. G. M. Trout, John D. Stultz, George M Haefling. Sylvester Wolfe, Dayton Steele. Mrs. Ira Blossom, C. M. How er, M. E. Hower. Frank Judd, P. P. Sprunger, J. M. Andrews, Andy P. Zeser. and Jacob Eady. The Logansport and Wabash Vai ley Gas company is having all sorts of bad luck. Tuesday one of their big double pumps in the gas pump ing station in Knox township, was disabled by the breaking of the piston rod arms. J. S. Bowers, the manager, took the parts to Cincinniti and had new ones made, coming back with them Friday morning at 12:3V. Thursday afternoon, the piston in the second double pump broke. It was taken to Redkey and welded but it didn't run five minutes until it broke again. This left but two small pumps to do the work. Patrons in Geneva. Berne. Decatur, and other points, supplied by this company, thus got to do a little extra cussing liecause of lack of gas. Portland Commercial Review.

Dr. J. S. Boyers was at Fort Wavne Monday evening attending the 'an nual meeting of the Allen CountyMedical Society, of which organization he has been a member for several years. The meeting Monday even ing was one of business and pleasure. Officers were elected after which the society was addressed by Dr. W. A. Evans of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, on the sub ject. “Economic Relations of Tidier

culoeie.” The lecture is said to have been high class and at the conclusion of the discussion a rising vote of thanks was tendered Dr Evans by the society for bis instructive and interesting lecture. The members of the society and their wives repaired to th** dining room of the New Aveline hotel, where a banquet was served. During the feast Dr. McOscar acted as toastmaster and a number of re-

sponses were' made, among the best of which we are informed was “The Medical Society and Its Intrinsic Worth.’’ by Dr. Boyers. Adams circuit court was not in ses sion yesterday. Judge Erwin and his assistants being busy devouring Christmas turkey, etc. Business up to Tuesday evening was transacted as follows: Aaron Rothchild vs. Charles Pape, et al., set for trial Tuesday Jan uary 14. Lillian Bovine vs. Henry Bovine, cause dismissed at cost of de fendant. John Shank vs. Mary M. Shank, et al., leave asked and granted John Shank, Frederick Shank. Joseph Shank, Sophia and Samuel Daugherty and Rosa Smith, to file second paragraph of answer to cross of Sim eon Smith, same filed, rule to reply, reply filed by Simeon Smith. Harvey S. Miller vs. Laura McConnell, et al., partition, sale reported and confirmed, commissioner allowed s*>’.», 25, final report filed and approved. Fred Tague vs. Hattie Tague, et al., partition, sale of eighty acres and 120 acres reported, leaving tract of 200 acres unsold, separate deeds ordered. Mary F. Brandyberry vs. Jesse Brandybeiry. divorce granted, custody of the children and S.’KX) alimony, defendant ordered to pay five dollars into court by the tenth of each month for the support of the children, judg meat against defendant for costs. James A. Wyatt vs. Dora V. Wyatt, divorce granted to plaintiff, judg ment against plaintiff for costs. Ar thur S. Nowles vs. Mary E. Millet, et al., mechanics lien, demurer sustained. leave granted to amend complaint and same filed. Roma Merryman vs. William J. Myers, et al., appearance by C. J. Lutz for Defendant Myers, rule to answer. Rachael A. Martz, vs. James K. Martz, defendant re strained from selling or encumbering personal or real property until furth er orders of the court. Susanah Ritter vs Amos Troutner. acet., finding for plaintiff in sum of $1288.41,and furth erdecrwxl that defendant shall de liver to plaintiff items of credit set out in complaint in payment of said judgment.

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