Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1903 — Page 3

DOCTOR E. J. Beardsley, I Central Practice and Surgery. ■ sneci&l Attention given to Kye. Ear, K Thrtit »nd Chronic Diseases. Expert in fittioo Wasses. Mveautpped for treating Eye. Ear B’ r 0 »nd Catarrhal case.. I CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postoffice. 1 F«tDE j!CE—cor. Monroe and Ninth ata .sHot'rs ••'o 11 a. n«'2 to 4 p.m. ' * &

i < Jacob Franks died at her a t Monmouth St 11:30 a. in. rrdav of consumption Os the - e l< after an illness of several >ks. . e assessors, who have been at , k for the last two months, .retting ’ heir report*, ready and expiration of the alloted time I have all their work finished up. he Odd Fellows at Linn Grove [erect a handsome 44x72, two ■r brick building this summer the accommodation of their pr The plans will be drawn Oscar Huffman. he express companies are the st particular corporations in the ntrv into whose lands could [ a piece "1, foreign money. In their business transactions if [ r a frits accept any than United tes money it is sent back to Ltt‘ their.o'tvn risk. young njan employed on Jim Lien's farm west of Steele was [?• hurt Friday in a peculiar L n ,. r . During the wind storm landing in the-barn when L door was blown striking f. i fearful blow. His skull was fared and Ills shoulder crushed Ihe is in a very serious condition, IN rth Juson barber carries the I ring ad in the North Judson y-c "Facial upholsters and igners of features, whiskers Lined in all languages, automatic ir cut and hydraulic ' shampoo, total in connection. No extra h-ge for ambulance. Gas, Inform or ether. Frank Trinoski barber. laud M, the pacer owned by Dr. IM Miller of this city, was >.4.1 Pittsburg Friday and brought [sum of |J'O. The little animal -,i >■ a t the bidding on W lively. During [her try out lb w her speed she shied at a p . and fell. Had it not been ti > accident it is believed she Bill have brought SSOO. L J. W. Tyndall and Miss ■tie. Studabaker arrived home Brsday from Crawfordsville. Lr. they attended the annual portion of the Indiana Union of Irary clubs, which closed there iterday noon. They report a It delightful time and say the Ittings were the most interesting ihf history of the organization, l-rul Lew WfllJ'top took an |re part in entertaining the Iters. The next meeting of the I n will be held at Fort Wavne a |r from next October. Officers F eliyted as follows: President, k Eva Rollback of Wabash; r president. Miss Eliza. Browning. I Indianapolis: secretary and I'Urer.Minni.- McKnight of Craw |iwiile: chairman of the> program Imittee, Mrs Frank . Baylor of F'cl members of the program pittee. Mrs W. E. Davis of Fort | 'ss Caroline Howland of Ihnapolis, Mrs. J. P. D. John of F-ncastle and A. D. Moffett of f ■ The program of the entire ping was an interesting one and I 1 ? literary people of national fLinence attended. I- 9 ®

——— —I Comparative Statement of IRST NATIONAL BANK Decatur, Indiana. o flu 3 RESOCRTES. April’9,l9o3. April 30,1902. and discounts •? 406.036 42 I 359,846 93 ' bonds 26.034 37 2a,500 00 hstM Unt - T ) b ° IICIB 3 l’oOO 00 6 ’ 453 64 state and furniture 4,000 00 Ranges 93,368 7o °‘’“™ £ t 32,75172 25 > 980 °' • ••••••••• — 5 O SO ■? 533,883 99 liabilities ntal c ino GOO 00 J 100,000 00 $ o? u-!™ » profits 7.7.7:.*.:::::::::: w*«9 •j455,56141 390,623 . DIRECTORS uKrJgj R^ s l? ent - ** C ’ A ' D E X A EHINGEK. Ain’t Crshier ! J « H^oPK e - PreßWent - D. SPRANG. >■ «• “ ASON ' -

The viewers'report upon the two proposed St. Mayya macadam roads, j together with ttn estimated cost of the same, will be ready to present r to the board of commissioners at' their June session. The petition calls I for two roads which will give the ! r majority of citizens in that township a good macadam and will be worth every year the total cost of its instruction. The data of eleca tion will have around about the first of July at whigh time the matter - will be definitely ’settled. Accord- , r ing to the viewers report as filed the estimated cost of the north road e■ is 116,570, and of the south road 1 114,140. ■ Just twenty years ago Thursday 1 a heavy snow fell in Decatur, in fact 1 ■ a Rs over the country, the event lj being unparelelled before or since. ' - ■ The date was May 21, 1881 and is ■ distinctly remembered by many of . ? the older inhabitants and even by , ) the younger generation. The , r weather previous to that, had been < r quite comfortable in fact very ' i warm, and at noon of the day chil- , .dren went to school barefooted. , . About three o'clock snow began . falling and continued far into the 1 night, house tops and trees being j heavily laden. The next day all I f signs had disappeared and within .. I twAty-four hours it was nearly as j ’ warm as it was before .the storm. Loo Wilhelm and Miss Mary : i Mumma were married Wednesday j 1 - at the home of the bride's parents, ' r I four miles east of this city. The 1 i ceremony was impressively peri formed before seventy-five, as- 1 r sembled guests by Rev. Ryan, who : < lives near Huntington. The wedl ding festivities continued until late . . at night and a good time was had. , Mr. a fid Mrs. Wilhejm will reside . j on North Eleventh street and al- . ready have a neat cottage fitted up , . for their occupancy. The groom , is a skilled painter, who works under the employ of Peter Gaffer, ■ t - while the bride is a very popular j. ( ■ young lady, well known-in this city i and they have a long list of friends who wish them happiness. On Sunday, May 17, at four o'clock 1 p. m., at the home of the bride's t parents, corner of N. F. and First 1 street, Gas City, occurred the mar i riage of Miss Myrtle Foughty to Mr. t Charles Sipe of Steubenville, Ohio, e t Rev. .Charles White, pastor of the v i First M E. church of Ulas City ■ 5 ..tlieiating. The marriage was in the presence of more than fifty guests, those out of the city being Mr. and Mrs. Middleton, of Union City, and Mr. and Mrs. Middleton of Cincinnati, Mrs. Anderson and daughter. Pansy of Muncie, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Moon and Mr. and Mrs. Del Lake and daughter of Decatur, Misses 1 Emma Fields, Josie Eland. Sophia 1 Brogan and Daisy Wise and Messrs. ' Newton Williams, Dwight Fields of i Marion and Mr and Mrs. Sipe ol < Sieiibeiix'iiiv, Ohio. Ci* Monday evening the bride and groom were ' given a grand reception and were 1 the happy recipients of many fine S presents, the most costly lieing a fine ’ piano by the groom's parents. The ' newly married couple left the fol- ’ lowing morning for Steubenville 1 where they will make their future ' home. They have the congratula- ' tions of their many friends who f wish them a happy and prosperous 1 future. Mr. Sipe is a proficient tin * plate worker and has a paying posif turn with the tin plate company of f Steubonville. Miss Foughty was a f member of the First M. E. church ( s choir of Gas City, where her vocal | 1 attainment won for her favor and 1 res])ect. She was quite well known 1 and numerous relatives and friends here extend congratuations.

Miss Nellie Krick, at present a teacher of room three, of the north ward city schools, has tendered her resignation and will not ask for a place here for next year's work. Her resignation does not state the reason, but it is believed she will accept a position as teacher ot offe of the higher grades of the Anderson schools. Miss Krick lias a splendid record here and will succeed in her work wherever she goes. This makes four of the present teachers who hi ve res gned, the other three beirg Prof. Merrill, principal of the high school, Miss Eva Acker and Miss Olive Dailey, w’ho is now at Bloomington, undt r leave of absence and who has.

signified her intention of going east next year to take a more thorough oourse. The Springfield & Fort Wayne Street Railway company are fitting up elegant offices and headquarters in the Studabaker block on South Second street and will soon be ready to take care of any business that may come up. They say the contract for grading the road bed between here and Fort Wayne will be let within thirty days and that those who are skeptical about the line being constructed will soon see evidences that they are mistaken for the line is to lie built at once. The company, the promoters say, is ready and willing to put in the road and will do so when minor details have been arranged. They also state that a large power house is to be constructed here and this city will be 'made one of the intportant divisions of the road. Our man about town talked to a number of persons lately and many expressed themselves about the unusual number of people of this city who are oh the sick list. It is a fact that many are under the weather and the doctors are kept busy night and day. At this time of the year all kinds of illness is encouraged by nature and the people of a community should do all in the power to perserve good heatlh. Unsanitary conditions should not be allowed and every citizen should consider it his duty to keep the premises on which la- lives free from trash, rubbish or anytihpg that breeds contaminating diseases. This duty it seems has been sorely neglected and many alleys of the city tire sour with decaying rubbish which are veritable hot beds for typhoid fever and other disease germs. The people should not wait for an order from the health officers but should do it for the good of the community. It seems to be the best solution for the disease question and citizens and authorities should work togther and clean up the city and keep it clean if they wish to avoid an epidemic.

Judge Shively of the Wabash circuit.. yonri ha> ,ftuportant decision involving several debated points in the new street improvement act, as it relates to the assessment of benefits and damages for street improvements and to the cost of improvements. The plaintiff in the action was Capt. Alexander Hess, formerly clerk of the supreme court, who objected to the street improvement assessment on a piece of property owned by him at the corner of Manchester avenue and Erie street. The lot has - forty feet front on Manchester avenue and 140 on Erie street and is wedged shaped, i When the benefits of improvements was taxed up by the city commissioners the benefits were platted at $320 through the opening up of Erie Street. Captain Hess objected on the ground that his 'l’Cs were only forty feet deep and that he was obliged to pay as much as those on the saijie street whose lots were 150 feet deep. He claimed that the lot waswrrtli only S3OO before the improvement and no more than S4OO afterward while the cost of making the street added to the assessed benefits would exceed SOOO, or S2OO more than the lot would bring. Judge Shively decided that the assessment by.the lineal foot, under the act of 1901 is wrong and holds that the commissioners in making the assessment should consider the property as a whole and without reference to the frontage. Warren Sayre, attorney for the city contended that if the decision stood it would prevent all public improvements in the future, but Judge Shively emphatically opposed this view. Captain Hess' assessment was reducted 44 per cent. If this wiew of the la,w is sustained in the supreme couri it will change the whole method of assessing benefits and damages.

—-' ' - Mr. Farmer: Do you need a corn plow? If you do, we honestly believe this is the plow you will e buy if you see it. I vB MOLINE,ILL. If | —La UwTM [|m Y/ji £ i/Z Iffl ----- ® I J. w ■ NEW ELK. Note some of the advantages of this plow, You have either a perfect riding or walking plow. You guide your plow with a push of of the foot and not the side motion. YOU CAN ADJUST this plow so that you absolutely have no weight on your horses’ necks, that is, it makes no difference whether it is operated by a 75-pound boy or a 200-pound man, whether you walk or ride, you never have any weight on your horses’ necks. THE WHEELS are adjustable. TWO-INCH SHIFTING device on the arch. ADJUSTABLE HITCH so that you can plow in any kind of ground or any condition of soil. It is made by the JOHN DEERE PLOW CO. This alone means the “best on the market.” PRICE. Imposts you no more Jihan the ordinary plow. To plow vour corn with a “New Elk” corn plow puts corn in your cribs. You find them at Brittson Bros.

Warrants were issued here this afternoon for the arrest of William P. Streeter, president of the state board of charities. A. W Butler, secretary of the same organization and Mrs. Deborah S. Wall, matron of the orphan’s home at Marion, Indiana. They will be ordered to appear before Judge Erwin of the Adams circuit court and state why they should not be punished for contempt of court. Mr. Butler and Mr. Streeter are well known men and received their offices by appointment of the governor and their arrest will no doubt create a stir of excitement over the state. Their official position also makes them officers of the orphan’s home at Marion of which institution Mrs. Wall, the other defendant is matron. The affidavit was filed by Attorney J.. C. DeVoss on information of Mary Bentz and the action is taken to secure the possession of her three children who are being held from her contrary to an order of court. Mrs. Bentz was granted a divorce from her husband, Joe Bentz, in 1899, and at that time the court gave the mother the custody of the children with the provision, however, that the father was to be permitted to have them visit him at times. Shortly after the granting of the divorce Joe left here and

the next heard of him he had been ; convicted of forgery and sentenced to the penitentiary In two .years Ihe was released on parole and went j to the home of his parents at Marion. While there a sudden desire came upon him to see his children and he sent an appeal here that they :be allowed to visit him at his parents' home. They were sent .over and after a few days Joe had them placed in the orphan's home there and the mother has been unable to get them back. 1 . Since these happenings Joe has, : violated his parole and is again in the penitentiary. A prominent attorney here says that in his opinion if the defendants in this case are guilty of contempt of court, they are likewise guilty of kidnapping. Mrs. Befftz is a daughter of Herbert Pennington. An order was sent to the sheriff of Marion I and Grant county to serve the suns mons on the parties. The proI minence of the defendants will make ; the case of interest all over the state and particularly so as the procedure is one never before attempted in . Indiana. They are orderedto appear . Juhe 8. Mrs, Stlyder of Portland, who j has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cook, returned home I today.

l Clate Dorwin, engineer at the 1 water works, reports the loss of a J gray mare which was stolen or s-trayed away Saturday night. It is a western mare with brand on left ■ hind leg. A reward will be paid for her return. W. P. Edmundson, geniel proprie- ; 1 tor of the Decatur Lumber company j yard, is strutting about the streets this week, with a happy smile on his face, a« he tells of his large family. jand though they are of the canine tribe, hesavs they are some comfort. I * «> Jack Bremerkamp came in from Huntington „ Sunday ( where he a® £ bandoned Wallace shows with which he nas been traveling since the season opened. Jack failed to secure the job which he year and was so dissatisfied with a psoition in the hash department that he quit ® altogether. Miss Arbye Loch entertained the Fin de Siecle girls Thursday evening in honor of Celina friends. The evening was very enjoyably spent and very much#fun had in a progressive flinch game. In this contest the first prize was won by Miss Jessie Winnes and the eff< >rts of Miss Lola Jackson were awarded with the * second prize. Delicious refreshments culminated the affair which was very enjoyable and social like.