Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1903 — Page 1

lLL the news A LL THE time.

lUME XLVII.

bl( , township conies to the nt ivith the announcement of two Je candidates for trustee, they David J. Dilling and John ■ chte. mis-state men tor rather a sen¥in which the wrong meaning . -iven was published a few Dings ago when giving an sent of Miss Meyers, the young -reared in this county by Mr. jirs. John Wafel. The state,t was made that after the death Wafel the young lady ■ thrown upon the world and jdto make her way. This is not iwehavo since discovered but made up her niind • ll ° should j some work and therefore : np sowing. ipocial services will be held in (arj-s Catholic church on Christmorning, from seven to ten K k. Arrangements are under , for an orchestra to accompany regular church choir, thus asjug some especially fine music the occasion. The services also he' interesting. That the rch will be crowded with memsef the congregation, as well as trs, is a foregone conclusion. I orchestra mentioned will be Irr the leadership of Harvey f,an old hand at the business of ipping musical turnouts. It is do say that there will be no flies be musical feature of the Christservices at this church. few days ago the interurlian (picked up its belongings and [itself from Monmouth to Midll Run where they will be locatir some time to come. The jof this was owing to the fact the grade from Monmouth to river bridge just north of the has been completed and it was wary to move to take up the Ist another section of line. Os le the grade as it now is, is not complete as only the rough I was placed in and it will no-' fete going over again to level even up before same can be for any practical purpose the ion this line line is progressing and a good force of men are [busy at all times. At present Tubman informs us that no bus seen the ghost at their new jing ground. ffiday afternoon at about lo'clock the house situated on firm of James N. Fristoe about Mies south of town and cccupifMichael Stevely as tenant, completely destroyed by fire »a mass of ruins. Mr. Btevely Jone to see his mother who just a mile away and who is Bed to her bed owing t< an accithat had befallen her a few prior by being shot with a it gun while they were butchered while thus engaged his f mysteriously took lire then he arrived at the ptace 15 once stood his home he i nothing but the smoldering 1 Unfortunately Mr. Stevely Btl no fire insurance and his b a severe blow to him as •c possessed in the world was ®fed by this fire. We, also fctand that Mr. Fristoe carried France on his house, so it is loss all the way around. 8 * V. M. S. Club have comI all arrangements whereby *lll hold a Society Ball on Biber 29, This club is always ihte when it comes to anyWthis kind and they never *“By expense, time or labor F their social gatherings a A large number ofjinvitaFillbe sent out and undoubtIBuniher of out of town people Ppresent, as it. is their inten P iiake this one of the best they have ever given to mends, am] should you be one F number to receive an inviD°U should congratulate your P o u good luck, as an inVita 0,11 this club means a good J'tm music will be* furnish l !ln d Miller.the famous i orchestra and this feature 1 °uld insure the dance going i that it will be a success. 111,1 tine entertainers ami L 'lf'tibtedly have a large,

The Saratoga Independent is a n w paper published at Saratoga, Randolph county. The editor is Ora V. I ague and it starts off with indications of a successful career. While delivering and collecting his usual grist of mail Monday on Route No. 5, M. J. Butler, the carrier noticed a fine turkey fast in the mail box of one of his patrons. On investigation its legs were found to be securely fastened and ’ card bearing this label, “For the Mailman.” It was attached to the bird. Mr. Butler says this makes it possible for himself and family to enjoy Christmas dinner just the same as people who are not mail carriers on a rural route. The Terrell case cost;Wells county $1654 and the defendant several .times that amount. The Osborne case now on trial in this county will not be so expensive but will reach a very snug figure. The jury it is thought now will servo about twelve days, figuring from this standpoint a two dollars each per day makes S2BB, their board will cost about $l5O, the court reporter i will get SSO, the bailiff about SJO and other expenses will run the bill up to about SIOOO, and this is a I low figure for a murder trial. About eight o’clock Tuesday even ingthe water works whistle sounded the West. End fire alarm and three companies responded. The Central and West End hose companies and the Hook and Ladder Aggregation made the run but found the fire out. While the family of Dick Reed was [absent from the home on North [Ninth street, a curtain in the [ kitchen eaught fire from a lamp and the woodwork quickly ignited. It had a good start when two of the children returned and the alarm was immediately given. The fire was extinguished with a few buckets of water and the damage done was very slight. Had the fire a few minutes more start it would have doubtless teen a serious conflagration as it was located in I the most inflammable part of the ! house. i The city from uow on will be under | better police protection than it has I ever been before. The gong that was [ ordered sometime ago was today atj tached to the electric light pole in front of Kalver & Freidman clothing j store and arrangements have been i so made that if there is a call for the j police that all a person have to do is !to call central by telephone and she touches the button and the gong does the rest, calling and notifying ' the police. In connection with this, however, there will be a telephone placed in the stairway leading up to the police court and the officers can more easily detect where they are wanted. Thus you may readily see how much better our police protection will be. Not that our police have not been doing their dutv in the past but owing to the fact that they had to be looked up whenever any trouble was on hand it easily allowed the guilty parties to make their escape: while now the chances for capturing them will he j rendered much easier. Last Wednesday was a gala day : for more than seventy five friends, ■ neighbors and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Neuensch wander at their beautiful country home near Fort Wayne. Mrs. Neuenshwunder reached the sixty first mile stone of life’s journey on that day and to say that she was about one of the youngest and happiest persons in the whole company is putting it very mildly. A very elaborate supper, such as only grand mother Neuensch wander knows how to prepare was served at six o’clock and again at midnight the guest were tempted with a second feats. Mrs. Neuenschwander received a large number of costly presents ! showing the esteem in which is held ‘by al) her acquaintances. Among j the guests from a distance were Mr. and Sirs. Sol Neuenschwander and MrjfrHeo. Dreibert of Fort Wayne. Mr and Mrs. Reuben Lord and ■sons of Monmouth and Frank (Jrieser and family. Everybody in [ the immediate neighborhood were •present and enjoyed the pleasure of i the occasion.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, I’lo3.

Henry Krickenberg and wife of I nion townshp. are today rejoicing ovor the advent of a new member of their household in the shape of the finest looking boy in the county. The youngster arrived in time for breakfast this morning, and everyone connected therewith is happy as a big sunflower. The annual meeting of the Great Northern Indiana Fair Association will be held in Berne on December 29, next Tuesday. This is one of the important meetings of the association, and when all committees and superintendents are appointed. The work of next years exhibit is outlined and discussed and in all respects is a. general meeting in behalf ol the welfare of this very important association. The officers as well as all members have lost none of their enthusiasm and the next exhibit will te no exception to the high standard already set forth these association fairs. The bunch of Grant county boys who have been here for a week past are certainly one of the test crowd of good fellows we ever met. Jokes are fri ely exchanged among them and of course we can scarcely help hearing one now and then. The latest is on Harve McCaskey, a hale fellow, well met and a prince in the Green township crowd. Harve has a weakness for sorgum molasses and the boys say that at one time ho called on a neighbor, saw a bowl of sorghum and refused to go home until he had tasted to his heart’s desire of the dark brown stuff. B? that as it may he is now enjoying sorghum of the real kind on his pin cakes at the Murray. He was home over Sunday and when he arrived at the hotel Monday he had two gallon of the molassas he loves better than any other liquid that ever flowed from a little brown jug. It is generally understood that an attempt will bo made in the next legislature to amend the Nicholson law by abolishing the blanket remonstrance feature of it, and the leaders of both parites are fighting shy of the proposition. Among the republicans it is declared that it means political suicide for the party that tries it. and the democratic leaders assert they would lx 1 fools to endanger their ohances of success by interfering with the law. All the same, the movement has started bucked by the brewers and the liquor men and helped along by men in both parties. A wholesale liquor dealer is authority for the statement that two years ago the liquor associations, including the brewers spent $35,000 to elect men to the legislature who would vote to amend the law, and he says that twice that sum will te spent next year, if necessary. Joel Weldy one of the progressive business men of Fort Wayne died at his home in that city Sunday evening at 5:20 after a protracted illness with appendicitis. He formerly lived at Berne where he taught school and started the book bindery business which grew to such pro portions after moving to Fort Wayne and which now occupies a a three story block. Mr. Welty also promoted, in connection with other business men, the Fort Wayne Box j company, which has flourished and grown until now it occupies the four story building on East Columbia, formerly occupied by the Foster furniture manufactory. Mr. Welty of late vears has devoted his time to the box factory, leaving the management of the teok bindery to his associates. He was president of both concerns, was secretary of the Mexico Colonization company and was interested in other successful enterprises. Seventeen years ago Mr Welty was married to Miss Dinah Lohman, of Berne. She survives him with six children Magdalena. Harry. Viola, Paul, Ivan and Carl. Joel Welty was a man of excellent character and sterling qualities. Short funeral services were held at the residence at 1 ] o’clock Wednesday morning and at 12:35 the remains were taken to Berne where services were held in the afternoon at th<® Mennomte ( church.

An endeavor will bo made to add a social feature to the many other privileges of the Cominer - • cial Club. A social evening every • few weeks will be attempted and French Quinn, F. M. Schinneyer L. G. Elilngham were named topre- ■ pare a program and arrange for the first social evening in the very near future. Charles Estel who lives about four and one-half miles south of the city had a very novel experience with a fancy rooster he owns. He went out to feed his chickens and noticed the rooster’s craw was all swollen up about three times its normal size. He of course thought that the chicken was effected with some kind of a disease and would die, so taking 1 it up in his arms he took his knife and cut into the craw and extracted '. there from corn, oats gravel and in ' fact everything imaginable that a 1 chicken would eat, and so found a piece of bone about one inch long and a half inch wide sticking in its throat. He pulled this out and sowed up the wound and the rooster today is as good as ever. Mr. Estel accounts for the accidents by think- , ing the rooster tried to make a hog out of itself and bit off too large a piece and it got stuck on him. Now every time the rooster tries to crow , ■ it has a stitch in its throat. Jim Place, the ice cream inanu--1 facturer breeder of fancy dogs and owner of fast horses, was humiliated yesterday about ten o’clock • by falling in the St. Marys river. Jim was on the river watching and instructing his men how to cut ice and store it away and in so doing got too close to an opening in the ice, bis feet slipped out from under him and he slid gracefully but with a tearful look on his face into the icy and raging water of the St. Marys. He went down and down until nothing was seen of him but his two ears as he came up. He came up spluttering and spitting water and at once proceeded to use his aquiatic ability and swam to | shore, in fact had one seen him ho ; would have thought it was a large steam boat ploughing itself through the water. Jim was at last dragged forth from bis watery resting place and on searching himself found that while in the water he had captured a pocket full of fish. He changed clothing, but did not go near the water again hut used a megaphone. The township high school will soon lose another instructor of experience who is going to leave Joliet,because the salaries paid here are not equal to those offered in other cities. C. S. Simcoke, who has charge of the commercial department has accepted a position on the faculty of tho new McKinley high school at St. Louis. Mr. Simcoke will Degin his duties at St. Louis Feb. 1. He will continue his work at the local high school until a few days prior to that date. The appointment conn's to Mr. Simcoke in tho nature of a promotion and carries withit a substantial increase of salary The instructor is to receive $l,OlO per unum for his ser vices. His present salary is $750. Mr. Simcoke began his work at Joliet in September 1901. He organI ii'od the commercial department nt • the high school. Under his direction the work in this department has become one of the most thorough and popular courses in that institution. The number of students enrolled is 100. Instruction i« given in all the subjects taught at a first class commercial college. Instructor Simcoke’s home is at Decatur, Indiana. Prior to coming to Jaliet, he was principal of one of the ward schools of that city and subsequently he taught in the Decatur high school. Tho departing instructor has been popular with the stulents and teachers at the high school and he has many friends who regret that he is soon to leave Joliet. The high j school, to which Mr. Simcoke goes, is a new institution that has been jadded to the educational system of iSt. Louis w ithin the last year. The j building will te' jopen for pupils for the first time February 1. The faculty throughout is a new j one.—Joliet .111., ) News.

Mrs. A. E. Rose delightfull entertained the Friday Night Club at her home on Third street Monday and from all reports they certanily had a fine time. A full membership was present and the evening was wiled away by playing pedro and a very spirited contest took place for the prize offered. At the close of tho last game it was found that four ladies were tied for first place and an extra game had to be played to determine the winner and Mrs. John Heller proved to be the lucky party, receiving for her pains and labor a fine Haviland China cup and saucer. After the excitement had subsided a fine two course lunch was served which all did justice to and at the eleventh hour all adjourned to their respective home, voting Mrs. Rose a fine entertainer. The out side guests who were present and joined in the festivities were Mrs. Floyd Britt son, Mrs. George Flanders, Mrs. John Peterson, Mrs. Thomas Reed and Mrs. John Heller. As set forth in Friday’s issue of the Witness the vexatious saloon question in Berne is on a fairway towards settlement now. The three saloon keepers of Borne, the validity of whose licenses were (or is) tested (in case the present pending compromise should fall through) on December 31st in the Jay circuit court, have offered the remonstrators a compromise in which they agree to go out of their present business for good on April 1, next, and not to engage in the same in any shape or form again (saloon or club room) provided their cases in the Jay county court are continued to that date and then dismissed on their paying all the costs. It may be borne in mind that their attor ney, Shaffer Peterson, has lieen chiefly instrumental in effecting a compromise, as he was well aware of tho hopelessness of their side of the case. In view of this fact their attorney himself admits it is asking a good deal by the saloon keepers of tho magnanimity of the remonstrators to asks for three months more to conduct their business on the illegal license. Never theless the majority of the remonstrators seem ready and willing to generously acquiesce to the terms of the compromise, simply for the sake of peace and good will and the more so because the remonstrators are well aware that the present holders of the illegal saloon licenses are not the only cause of all the trouble.—Berne Witness If an offer which the News has been informed has teen made indirectly to Mrs. Lucy Wolfe is accepted she and her little daughter, Baby Marie, the daughter and i granddaughter of John W. Terrell, will appear in Chicago as attractions at the McVickers one of the largest theatres in that city. The manager of the theatre has written to Cassius 1. White, so the latter infirms the News, asking him to try to secure the wife and daughter of Melvin Wolfe to contract for an engagement. The killing of Melvin Wolfe was an occurrance which at. tracted attention all over the country and the three weeks trial with its sensational disclosures has increased this interest until all personages connected with the tragedy would bo objects of great curipsity • wherever they might go. The man- • ager of McVickers realizes this fact ■ no doubt and is anxious to secure • an attraction that will cause a stir.! Whether Lucy Terrell will accept the offer or not is a queston of doubt and will not be decided at least until after the jury brings a her father’s ease. Mr. White says that after he received the letter requesting him to try to secure. Terrell’s daughter to come to Chi ■ cago with the boy. that he went to i I consult Terrell in the county jail ion the matter. Terrell told him to [ see Lucy and Air. White did so. It • was a matter t hat she had not before [ thought of and at first she would ! not entertain the proposition, but [after consulted friends. With j them he decided to give the matter no further thought until her father’ fate was decided and there the question now rests. If she ‘ shouhl go to Chicago she would no doubt be paid handsomely for lan engagement of some time.— [ Bluffton News.

CIRCULATION 2800 WEEKLV

NUMBER 42

Charlie Voglewe le t ikt-s this manner of informing the public that his place of business will be closed on Christmas day, The Albion Manufacturing Company of Tremont, Ohio, has written the Commercial Club accept ing their proposition made several weeks ago, agreeing to move them to this city, and set up their machinery ready for business. The Albion Manufacturing Company, make cupboards, wardrobes, stands and tables, and while they are not a fat and sassy corporation, yet they are a comfortable manufacturing concern, organized under the laws of the state of New Jersey, and are doing a clever business with a capital of SIO,OOO or $12,000. At present they employ some thirty’ jx'ople, but are located in an inland town without the convenience of even a single railroad. They desire bet ter shipping facilities and other lux uries that go with a good railroad and buisness town, hence their desire to change. At a meeting held at the Commercial Club last even ing it was arrange for A. Van Camp to visit their institution at Tremont, make an estimate of the worth, stability and value of their plant, and the cost that would a<» crue in moving them here. On a rough estimate it is thought that. j this expense will not exceed S3OO •or S4OO, which would tea cheap figure to calculate upon a concern that agrees to employ from thirty to fifty people at a minimum wag*; scale of $1.50 a day Mr. Van Camp [ will make the trip the first of next : week, and upon his return will [ furnish the information, ujxja which the club will either endeavor to move them or reject the propo sition. Two members of the company were here some weeks ago. and both bore the ear marks of honest and honorable men, who would be ideal citizens of the best, town on the map. Should thop come they’ will occupy the old Lynch factory building now owned by A. Van Camp, and which could easily be arranged for their business • needs. The production of the play “Little [ Trixey”by the High School Dramatic [ Club and given under the auspices [of the Rathbone Sisters for sweet I charities sake, it was greeted by a large audience Mondas night at Bosse’s opera house. The play was absolutely pure in sentiment and the story and the comedy was of the highest order, and brilliant in dia • logue. The theme was elevating and the production on a whole, was [ fully appreciated. The parts of [ the play were true to life and can Ibe found in every community. [ The comedy’ characters of an eratic j dude and a susceptible widow. I who like all other widows was anx 1 ious for another plunge into the sea jof matrimony, were well taken and , carried out by' True Fristoe and j Vada Martin, and were ridiculously [ funny’ and the mere speaking of I their lines kept the house in an up roar. The part of “Little Trixoy” • taken by little Mary Erwin cannot !te commented on enough, as the ]Kirt was a heavy one, and for one of her age to carry’ it through without an error, certainly speaks very highly for her, and showed the earnest work of one who desired to play her part well. In fact she was the center of attraction and the basis on which all the other parts were built. Special mention should te given to Henry Thomas who so skilfully' drilled the mem ters of this club and under whose guidance the play was brought to such polished standpoint. The play on a whole was a success, not only in a dramatiepvay but also in a finan cial way and tho proceeds of this charitable act will without doubt bring much gladness to some of the : lonely homes of this city, and should the Rathbone Sisters ever contemplate giving another jHirformamv [of this kind they will eertainly be greeteil with a full house. Between the acts a polite vaudeville was introduc'd and was as follows Gornet solo by 4esse Sellemeyer. a panto mime and sKirt dance, song by Marie Beery and dance given by Anna Snellen, bass solo by Robert Erns bergor, with piano accompaniment . by Miss I'essie Pc cry. 1