Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1903 — Page 5

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The state tax board refused to susjin an appeal for the reduction in Bsessmeut of the Decatur Lumber lompany of this city, and the same ill go in as returned by the county card of review, at ?10,830. A Massachusetts pastor has just reigned because the church wouldn't aise his salary above twelve dollars week, which help some in exphrinig why there are so many more ank clerks than theological students. Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New r ork World, has provided $2,000,00 for a school of journalism at jolumbia Univesity. A new buildig costing $500,000, will be erected n Morning Side Heights and the chool will be n itional in scope. The sheriff of Jay county thought k had a man spotted there that fas wanted here, Frank Steed. The ecords here show that about two ears ago he was wanted for some ifficulty at Geneva but the case ras later dismissed. Every county will be represented in be educational exhibit to be made y Indiana at the St. Louis exposition, ‘he samples of pupils’ work will be elected from country schools, and if be city schools make displays they rill be in a separate exhibit. Hall, Son & Fulk have another exursion on tap for the first or third 'uesday of next month, in which they rill take you to most any port of the 'est desired. On September 15, they ave one to the Red River valley in be state of Texas, where some barpins in their line of trade are open. Dick Dalton the well known Erie ection boss has resigned his posion and on October Iwll go into be Erie train service. He will bein work on the road as brakeman nd expects to work himself up to conductorship. Dick has many riends since his stay in this city <-• Mrs. Bryson leaves on this event's train for Lagrange and will eturn tomorrow at 1:19 with the aneral party. On their arrival ere tomorrow the remains will be iken to the Bryson home, and the uneral held from there. As yet he time of the funeral has not een arranged. The Coverdale family will hold a bunion tomorrow at- the Jacob lawly farm south of this city. This ■ the old Coverdale home, and prearations are going on to make it be scene of a memorable assembly. he guest of honor tomorrow will e Jonas E. Schaver, of Muskegon aunty, O. Dinner will be served t the farm residence. The state hoard of tax review will ot change the assessments of Wells ounty property’ for the reason that t was assessed property by the )cal board of review. John C. Wingate, a member of the board, isited the board of review when > was in session here and informed he members that Wells county land ad been assessed at about the ight figure and would not have to e changed. Farm land is rated at 23 an acre and land improvements 30 an acre.—Bluffton News. Tell me not in rotten rag tim kings are always what they seem, 3r there’s little modern butter hat is really made from cream. Ireakfast foods are built of sawust, left in hunks or chopped us) ne, and a man oft orders beefsteak nd on horse meat he must dine, lives of great men all remind us if re want to be thought wise, we must lake some brand of pickles then itch in and advertise. Let us then e up and doing, there are many j* be done, and if we don’t do be other, they with us will have he fun.

Rev. J. A. Sprague of Monroe, Wednesday officiated at the marriage of Robert Hathaway of Monroe and Miss Ida Babcock of Honduras. The newly wedded will likely live in Monroe where Mr. Hathaway owns a home. Perhaps the busiest people in this city now are the coal carriers. There is an almost continual procession of wagon loads of coal being carried to the different factories, stores, and private residences. This is the first year that coal has been used here extensively, but car loads of this fuel may be seen at any time on the side track of the various railroads Charles Voglewede who recently returned from a trip through the east saw the great British and American racing yachts while at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. He says they are big looking boats and are more of canvas than anything else states that while the boats lay at their moorings there were thousands of people who came up to take a look at them. The sheep raisers in the United States, Canada and England are asking the authorities of the St. Louis exposition to name John L. Thompson, president of Indiana state board of agriculture, as superintendent of the world's fair next year. Mr. Thompson lives at Gas City, and has been identified with agricultural exhibits for many years.

Tuesday a family reunion was held at the home of George Gay, four and one-half miles east of this city. Those present were John Green and family, Edward Green and family, P. J. Hily and family, J. L. Gay and family, George Gay and family, Peter Showalter and daughter and M. L. Holmes. It was one of those genial, jovial, pleasant events where one present enters into the spirit of merriment, and has a glorious good time. Electrical Contractor W. G. Spencer has just finished a small lighting plant for W. B. Hale of Geneva. The plant consists of a fifty light direct connected Marion Abbet machine and it certainly is a pretty outfit. The machine is made at Cleveland, Ohio, and is considered one of the best makes to be had. Mr. Spencer has the agency for the Abbet company and is prepared to install all kinds of machinery from a small induction moter to a city lighting plant. Mrs. Harry Knoff brought suit this morning to eject Ben Middleton from her property, which he has been renting. Mr. Middleton filed an affidavit for continuance on the ground that his wife was sick and unable to move. ’Squire Smith after due consideration refused to grant a continuance under the circumstance. Ben said he would take a change of venue out of the township. But after some parley and Ben was given thirty days to find a new’ lodging. Isaac Roe after a long and lingering illness died at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. He has long been a sufferer from cancer of the stomach, which proved fatal. Had he lived until next month he would have been sixty years of age, and during all those years has been a resident c f thi- Warih-infljtpn township Vyrng.. four miles south of this city. He is thtFA'-her oig’ght children. His wife and companion died some fifteen years ago. At this time no arrangements have been made for the funeral. The annual Methodist Sunday school picnic was held at Gil pen s grove, east of this city Tuesday. The picknickers in their carriages and wagons headed by the Tocsin brass band, paraded through second street this morning. The Tocsin band proved the center of attraction during the day. It is composed of sixteen pieces and is there with the goods when it comes to playing good music. The concern is well organized and equipped in neat uniforms. Walter Johnson, who works in this city is a cornetist in the Tocsin band. - Dan R. Vail who graduated from the Decatur High Schoo] with the Class of 1903, will leave for Andover, Massachussetts about the seventh of September where he will enter Phillips’ Exeter Academy for I boys. The Phillips school ’is one lof the oldest and most reliable . preparatory schools in the United I states. It is closely affiliated with I Yale and for that reason Dan will 1 take his preparatory work at AnIdo ver. After two years work in that institution he will enter the Scientific department of T ale for a j four year course. •’

The Fredrick Koenig and Mary Spangler which was announced sometime ago in the Democrat, will take place at St. Marys Catholic church this morning at 8 o’clock. The parties concerned live south of here and are well known in this city. Miss Mabel Engle went to Indianapolis Monday where she will work in a wholesale millinery store for a week or more. After learning the fall’s styles of trimming Miss Engle will resume her duties in this city at the millinery store of Mrs. Isaac Peterson. Mrs. Rosa Shores of Frankfort was here Tuesday the guest of A. P. Beatty. She is the sister of A. B. Prescott, the Clover Leaf brakeman injured near here some time ago, and has been at his bedside ever since the accident. Mrs. Shores says Prescott is growing worse, and his death may occur within a few days. Prescott received a terrible jolt, it will be remembered by being thrown against a mail crane. He is injured internally and kidney trouble is now bothering him in addition to the complications. The injured is hourly given alcohol baths, and his physicians have no hopes of his recovery. Mr. Prescott is a cousin of A. P. Eeatty of this city. The news of the death of Mrs. Ora Moon will indeed be sad, though perhaps not surprising news to many Decatur people. Mrs. Moon has been suffering over a year with consumption, and for several weeks it was known, that her recovery would be miraculous. Tuesday evening, heart trouble, with which she had been suffering a short time carried her away. She died about eight o’clock at Lagrange and her relatives here were at once notiified. Mrs. Moon was formerly Etta Anderson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Anderson, who now live at Rivarre. She was born and raised near this city and in 1880 was married to Ora Moon, a former well known contractor here. About three years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Moon removed to LaGrange where Mr. Moon has since been engaged in the hardware business. The time and place of the funeral have not been decided upon. L. G. Williams, a traveling salesman from Indianapolis who reached here at noon over the Clover Leaf reports a wreck on the Big 4 at about 7:30 Tues, morning. He was a passenger on the train and was following a freight, and when about a mile out of Wabash, the freight cut' off their caboose and one box car to do some switching, leaving a flagman to notify the passenger engineer of their presence. The two cars were near a curve in the road bed, and .of course could not be seen by the tminniijri on the nassenuer. .They • i.”. iW .«••••'« • W* were traveling at about a rnirtyfive mile an hour clip and took a header in the freight caboose, making kindling wood of bo*h freight cars standing on the track. No one was hurt, but a complete shaking up resulted, and several of the passengers were scared Until their liver turned blue. The engine was somewhat the worse for wear, but after some repair stood the trip into Wabash, where it was exchanged. Williams is the ' owner ‘"of some Adams county realty and was here looking after the same. ~y

The body of Charles Brown was taken through from Lima. Ohio, to Geneva, Tuesday morning for interment. Brown was killed by falling under the trucks of a freight train on the Lake Erie & Western railroad at Lima Ohio. Monday. He was a brother of Robert and Joseph Brown, the well known oil well contractors of Geneva and a son of Joseph Brown Sr., w’ho died at Geneva less than two weeks ago. The Lima Ohio News gives the following account of the finding of the man’s body: It was a greusome find the night switch crew of the Lake Erie and Western made this morning at about half j»ast three o’clock on their tracks at a point about midway between the Main and Third street crossings. It was the body of Charlie Brown, hack driver known to a great many people here simply as ‘‘Brownie He had driven hacks for different liverymen here for the last eight or ten years, in fact has been up in front ever since he was a small boy in knee pants. For a long time his people lived in this city, but some time since they moved [to Geneva, Ind., where Brownie secured work in the oil field, and about ten days I ago his father was buried there.

If the agricultural department succeeds in its attempt to kill weeds by steam and if its method of applying the steam is not too expensive it will not have labored in vain. Pete Fhinger, an employee at the T. C. C Ibe J cigar factory, slipped and fell W die oh his way home Monday rd; if and broke the bones of his wrist and hand. He did not suspect at the time that his wrist was broken, although he knew it was badly hurt and he did not see a doctor until next morning. Dr Costello was called and found the hand so badly swollen that it was very difficult to handle. The injured man is a cigar maker and the fracture no doubt will be a costly one for him. It is highly probable that he will not have the full use of his hand again which will greatly handicap him when working at his trade. The viewers on the P. Holthouse ditch, with W. E. Fulk as engineer, began the tedious task of framing their report, which will later be filed with the auditor of Adams county. As surveyed the ditch is 72,834 feet long and is supposed to drain over 25,000 acres of land. Some 300 land owners will be effected in the construction of the ditch. From the above calculations it can easily be seen that the contemplated drainage is about the largest piece of ditch improvement ever attempted in the county. The work of equitably assessing the land is a task where it brings into forcible play all the good judgement of men experienced in drainage. The benefits to be accrued to each land owner along the ditch has to be assessed in accordance to the benefits to be derived. Taking into consideration the large acreage and vast number of owners of realty and you can estimate the responsibility that rests with those in charge of the viewers report. They will likely conclude their labors some time during the week. James K. Martz was in town and told the Democrat that rig builders would complete a derrick on his farm and by some time next week the drilling of a test oil well, in wild cat territory will begin. The well is being drilled by the Cadillac Oil Company of Detroit, Michigan, who own 500 acres in leases

surrounding the well to lie drilled on the farm of Mr. Martz. It is located just one mile south of Monroe and it is a mile and a half from any producer. The drilling will be done with a bran new set of tools and it is hoped that the result will be a gusher of a pronounced type, in which the crude will flow in a stream large enough to choke a cow. In speaking of crude the oil men are soon anticipating a raise or several of them, in the price of the raw article. They advance the large and increasing production, the supply falls woefully short of meeting the demand. The increase in production in this county is very satisfactory, and shows an increase over former operations. In the last several years this county has produced many thousands of barrels of crude, and present indications point to a continuance of his production. Deputy- Clerk Haefling is still in dust and old records in his work of indexing the records at the county clerk’s office. The job he undertook is somewhat more portentious than it would seem by casual observa tion. The work dates back to 1836, the beginning of Adams county in governmental form which is sixtyseven years ago. To go over the records for this length of time and index properly every piece of paper filed there in that length of time and you have the task under way by the deputy clerk of Adams county. It is enough to cause brave men to fall by the wayside, but Mr. Haefling is wading through and some of these sweet scented days will have finished. When that time 1 comes the records of the clerk of the Adams circuit court will be a credit to the county, as well a credit to him who performed the labor of making it so. Some of the early records are interesting. We saw one yesterday in the way of a bond for the magnificent sum of SSO, given by one Phillip Everman as guardian of Ez’-a Lister, then ten years old. It was dated November 11, 1839, and acknowledged by Sara--1 uel L. Rugg clerk. Mr. Lister is known by all the present generation he having just died some three years ago. Many others are of like * interest to those who live at this time.

These Cool Evenings Remind us of the Necessity of a FALL TOP OVERCOAT • We are Showa va_ riefy in all the New Effects and styles, in fine, all - wool ';;-y J materials. Prices, 56= to sl2= Also some fine CRAVNETTES, RAIN -OR - SHINE COATS. ALL SUMMER GOODS GO AT WHOLESALE PRICE. See our Window for Spec- A K ia Good Things in 125 Doz. Men’s and Boys’ Fine Shield Bow Ties, worth 25c, go at 10c each. GUS ROSENTHAL The Square Man. Decatur, Ind.

On Monday. September 7, one week from next Monday, begins the September term of the Adams 1 circuit court. At present the outlook is not overly bright for a very large docket, but of course there yet remains time to increase the number of cases and to give the court, the clerk and all the lawyers in town a round of action that will cause them to perspire freely before frost catches them. One reason for the seemingly dull season at openingpf. the pew: term. , by the clearing up shower given the old docket during the summer vacation began. Cases that had long adorned the court record, and which had become familiar to every court official for the last several years, was either tried, settled or compromised. But few remain. They were a good thing to fill up with and make a bluff of lots of business but otherwise they became a sort of a hydrophobia every time some disposition was necessary. This makes a nice clean docket and what there is, is the genuine article, not the least enfeebled with old age or chronic disability. However, the summer vacation failed to blossom like the rose and hatch out a very healthy assortment of circuit court disagreements. This state of affairs either signifies a state of peace, sobriety and happiness, or a dullness of appreciation of proper respect for those who sit in judgment and weigh out justice in apothecary doses. It is a fact that during the many vacation weeks but thirty cases have been filed. Os the thirty mentioned twelve are divorce cases and eight are appeals from justice of the peace courts. This leaves but ten cases that can be credited to partition and quiet title suits, andj similar cases’that tickle the vanity and purses of the lawyer. The probate business, however, wil be up to the standard and the usual number of estates will be given the ’ finishing touches by the court. To this may be added the guardianships which will be reported and acted upon. So when we sum the whole thing up and make due allowance for the usual rush that follows the opening days, we may find the September term busy up to their eyes, and dispensing justice with hot hands.

The Boston store front was trimI med Saturday, and it is certainly a I beauty. The large windows giveample room for display and the goods within are very tastefully arranged. When in full motion a big pulley broke at the Jefferson street factory of the Decatur Egg Case Company at nine o'clock yesterday and several employees had a narrow escape from serious, if not fatal injury. The wheel that broke was connected with the fly wheel of the engine and it makes about 125 revolutions per minute. It is very heavily built, measures three and one half feet in diameter and has a fourteen inch face. The accident came without warning as nothing was apparently wrong with the machinery and were it not for the fact that the men were luckily .sti!,n<i;pg where flaw jvere. would have liecn hit by the' ifying ‘ pieces which went with enough force to tear a hole through an inch board partition. The ragged holes in the partition of the engine room will bear witness to this fact. The pulley which gave away hangs overhead iir almost in the center of the factory. Around this in various parts of the building about twenty men were at work and they all consider themselves to have been very fortunate in escaping injury . At the time of the accident the pieces only flew toward the engine room as but a section of the wheel gave way and to this condition they attribute their escape. The pieces fiew back toward the engine and for that reason the men at the planer and matching board had the most narrow escape. Homer Ehrhart.Adam Wise and Will Bushnell were in the most dangerous position as the flying pieces, which weighed several pounds apiece, only missed them a few feet. The quick action of Henry Ehrhart, the engineer, possibly saved a greater smash up. As soon as he saw’ by the shaking belt that something was wrong he rushed in and stopped the engine. Operations at the factory will be suspended for several days as it will be necessary to send to some supply house for a new pulley.