Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1904 — Page 2

COUNTY CONVENTION. The Adams County Democracy to Nominate a Treas urer. At a meetng of the Democratic County Central Committee it was decreed that a delegate convention he held at the court room in this city on Friday April Bth. at ten o’clock at which time a candidate for treasurer of Adams county will be selected. A con venton is some thing new for the Adams county democracy, they stricty adhering to the primary system as a means of making candidate elections. When the other nominations were made last January, it was then thought that- no county treasurer would be elected this year. Since however, the opinion has been handed down that the law extending the terms of county officers was unconstitutional. As yet there has been no decision by the supreme court but it is certain to come and in line with the opinons already given by learned members of the profession of law. There beng but the one office the committee thought best to give the convention a trial, it being cheaper, and perhaps as satisfactory to the masses of the party. The delegate representation will be one delegate for every twenty votes or fraction over ten votes cast for the presidential* electors in 1900. This will make a representation in convention as follows: Precincts No. delegates Union 8 E. Root 5 W. Root 6 N. Preble 5 S. Preble 6 Kirkland 7 W. Washington 6 E. Washington 5 N. St. Marys 2 S. St. Marys 3 N. Blue Creek 4 S. Blue Creek 4 N. Monroe 7 Middle Monroe 5 French 7 N. Hartford 7 S. Hartford 5 N. Wabash 5 Ceylon 4 E. Jefferson 5 W. Jefferson 4 Decatur, Ist. A 4 Decatur. Ist. B 5 Decatur, 2nd. A 7 Decatur, 2nd. B 5 Decatur, 3rd. A 5 Decatur, 3rd. B 7 Berne A 6 Berne B 5 Geneva A 5 Geneva B 6 Total 165 Necessary to choice 83 The committee also decreed that the selection of delegates should be by mass convention in the the precincts, the highest vote governing and to be the choice for delegates. These mass meetings are to be held at any hour between one and nine p. m. of Thursday April 7, the day previous to the county convention in this city. The precinct committeemen will no doubt report the precinct meetings, r and the time and place will be given extensive notice. The convention details were placed in the hands of the campaign committee, which is composed of Judge Erwin, D. E. Smith, Clark J. Lutz, J. T. Merryman, A. P. Beatty, Calvin Miller, H. S. Michaud and A. W. Carpenter, who will proceed to give us a convention that you read about. Completed Survey. Chief Engineer Cleveland and his assistant, Mr. Skinner completed their survey of possible sites for Clover Leaf yards and division buildings at noon Friday. Mr. Skinner left at 11:25 for Frankfort, while Mr. Cleveland remained to complete some investigations cf

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the court house records. They were assisted by Engineer John W. Tyndall of this city. Every piece of I ground from the old fair ground ■ west to Thirteenth street has been i measured and surveyed and a ' record of same is being prepared i and will be in the hands of President Shonts by tomorrow. Until I some opinion is given by that offii cial and his associates as to the ' magnitude of the improvements which he may desire to make here at this time as well as the future opportunities, it will be impossible to give an estimate of the grounds. Presidennt Shonts will probably visit Decatur again in a few days and decide after a personal investigation. However, the desirable locations have already been condensed to three properties, namely the old fair ground, the Jeleff land and old cemetery and the strip of land Ivng between the Clover Leaf and Chicago and Erie roads from the transfer house west to Thirteenth street. The latter is the best location and the only serious question is whether or not the room is sufficient. Mr. Cleveland was interviewed this afternoon and said: ‘‘l can give no definite estimate as it has been impossible for us to decide on which location would realty be the most advantageous. However, the delay will only be for a few days until Mr. Shonts can express his desire. The several locations are all excellent and any of ■ them should be made into good | yards. In my opinion the round house here should be at least a twelve stall building and such a house would cost from 110,000 to 112.000. Besides this will be the repairing shops and the artificial ice plant and refrigerator house. The making of Decatur a division i means a future for the city and ■ merchants here will be greatly surprised at the benefits they derive from such improvements. I will have my report ready for Mr. Shonts by this evening and will leave at 9:19.” Decatur citizens are more enthusiastic than ever and scarcely a dessenting opinion has; been heard. It is the general believe that whatever sum is neces-! sary should be raised by voting a tax and this may be the outcome. The opportunity is the best Decatur has had in years and if landed as now seems certain means that our population will be doubled within a fev years. Messrs. Cleveland and Skinner were enteit lined at the Commercial Club last evening and both expressed themselves as being favorably impressed by the spirit of j hustle so apparenl among Decatur's businesss people. Mr. Cleveland said, “a town with such a class of men is bound to prosper.” Further word from the Clover Leaf official and a definite estimate will te anxiously awaited. The proposition sprang into life rather quickly and even the road officials have not had an opportunity to decide for themselves what will be necessary or best for everyone concerned. Clover Leaf employees and officials are all well pleased with the prospects for Decatur and are doing their share of boosting and every boost means much for our city.

Last Day of School The Monroe school is preparing for their closing day exercises which will mark the last day of the term, next Friday when the following program will be rendered: Recitation, “Asking Mother" Miss Lew ton Instrumental Solo, Adda Brandyberry Play— * Dr. Care-AU” Room Three Recitation,“What is a Gentleman,’’ Stella Duer Recitation, “An Old Man’s Story” Dessie Andrews Dialougue, “flab a Shine, Sah?” Room Two “A Backwoodsman's Views”, O. V. Graham Instrumental Solo Pearl Ray Comediette, “Frank Glynn’s Wife” Room Two Solo, O. V. Graham Recitation, "Little Budd” Miss Lewton Recitation, “A Schoolboy’s Com- ® plaint Willie Ruper “Death Doomed” G. H. Laughrey Comedy, “Hans Van Smash” Room Three. Henry Lauhgrey is the teacher

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Extended an Invitation. The following invitation has been 'extended by Mr. French Quinn, representing the Commercial <_ lub to President Shonts: Mr. T. P. Shonts, Pres.. Clover Leaf R. R. Co., Toledo, Ohio. Dear Sir:—On account of our business relations which have been so pleasantly begun, and also our desire to meet you and become better acquainted with you socially, we beg to extend to you all the courtesies of our club and hope you will see your way clear to honor us with an early visit. Hoping to be remembered pleasantly to the other gentlemen of your staff, and that we may have the pleasure of a visit from them also, I beg to remain, Quinn, Pres. Commercial Club. Officials of the road who were here with the surveying party last week intimated that Mr. Shonts would like to visit Decatur and the citizens at once hastened to urge him to do so. The result if he accepts should be profitable to both the railway and the city. No rep >rt of the action taken on Surveyor Cleveland's report has yet been received and it will probably be several days before any news is at hand. However a party who is deeply interested in the movement informs us that he thinks beyond doubt the company will ask for the territory between the railway tracks west from the transfer house to beyond the city limits. Meeting of Red Men. The Fort Wayne Sentinel says: I An event of great importance to i the Improved Order of Red Men in J this vicinity is the district meeting which will be held in this city on | April 29th. This is one of a series i of meetings held each year in different parts of the state for the pur- i pose of promoting interest in the 1: order, of teaching the unwritten i work in a more uniform manner | and to more closely unite the different tribes in social and benevolent work. A special session of the grand council of Indiana will be held in the afternoon for the purpose of conferring the great council degree on these who are eligible, and afterward the exampilfication of the unwritten work will take : i

place in charge of the great council i chief. In the evening there will be a short street parade, after which the Red Men will Jproceed to Har-i omnv hall, where the first, or adoption degree, will be conferred by Mechecannnochqua tribe No. 1601 of Fort Wayne;the second warriors' i degree by Okloboji tribe No. 237. ■ of Wabash, and the third or chief's degree by Mishinewa tribe No. 81 of Huntington. The tribes of this district are located in Montpelier, Ridgeville Huntington, Bluffton, ; Keystone,Garrett, Mill Grove, Dunkirk, Baldwin, Decatur,Van Buren Barker’s Mills. Wabash, Auburn, Red Key, Warren, Hartford City, Strofh, Monroeville, Lagro, Uniondale, Dillman and this city. Reports from these tribes indicate that there will be a large attendance. A Close Call. Otto Bremerkamp had a very narrow escape from instant death last Friday and in all probability his presence of mind is all that saved him. He is employed by his father in his grist mill and his work includes the looking after the enigne. During the morning something got wrong with the machinery up stairs which necessitated the stopping of the engine until repairs could be made. Otto at once hastened to the basement and took hold of the lever to stop the engine and in so doing his coat, which at the time was unbuttoned and flapping around caught in the fly wheel and commenced to draw him in fast. Just at this moment his brother Raymond, came into the engine ’•oom, and noticing his perdicament grabbed him by the feet and thus held him until he could slip his coat off and ‘thus free himself While in this position he was struck in the small of the back and on his

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right leg by a projection on the wheel. His brother assisted him up stairs where his wounds were immediately looked after and he was sent home, This morning he is hobbling around on the street with the assistance of a cane. This was ' certainly a very narrow escape for had he been completely drawn into rhe wheel he would undoubtedly have been crushed to death in stantly. It was only the timely appearance of his brother that saved him. Real Estate Transfers. Abe Schnepp to Emma Traster pt i sec 33 St. Marys tp 12400. Geo. W. Jackman to W. A. Fon ner pt sec 16 Root tp <I.OO. John Barclay to Benj. Batxer lots 133 and 131 Berne <9OO. J. W. Wilson to R. O. B-ard pt see 33 Hartford tp 5 acres <450. RoyArchbold to Sophia E. Hudnett lot 96 Decatur <I6OO. John W. Kelley to F. A. Louis pt sec 24 Jefferson tp 80 acres <4200. Mary Barkley et al to Phillip Schemmer pt sec 4 Union tp <IOO. Samuel Butler to A. A Butler pt sec 3< Root tp <-' . C. C. Sprunger to Helena Leichty pt lot 372 Berne <ls David E. L’hl to JamesL. Wheel- : er lot 238 Geneva <2OOO. David Studabaker to Mathew Miller lot 341 Geneva <llOl. For Sale or Rent—A 11 room house with good barn and five acres of ground, on West Monroe street. Inquire of Simeon Weiand, city. 2-2 w I have one hundred thousand dollars 100,000) to loan on real estate at 51 per cent interest. No commission. D. B. Erwin, ts ...Legal Advertising... APPOINTMENT OF EXECUTOR. Notice la hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Executor of tie estate of Sylvester Wolf, late of Adame county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. A. R. Wolf, Executor. March 12, 1904. 2.3 tor benetitof creA ofasAgnee 1CE0Fappointmenr Notice is hereby given, to all whom it may concern, that the undersigned has been duly appointed assignee, and has qualified as such, of the estate of Louis A. Henning, and the matter of said assignment is now pending in the Adams circuit court of the state of Indiana. pb E>’CH QUINN. Assignee. Dated this March 11.1904. 3-3 Merryman A Sutton, Attorneys. ( CINCINNATI, RICHMOND & FORT V WAYNE RAILROAD COMPANY, Richmond. lnd„ March 17, 1904. The annual meeting of Stockholders of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Railroad Company will be held at the office of the company in the city of Richmond, Ind . on Thursday, April 7, 1904, at 10 o’clock a. m.. for the purpose of electing eleven directors and transacting such other business'as may properly come before the moding. 3-3 S. B. LIGGETT, Secretary. N° T E?TATE FIXAL SETrLBME NT OF Notice is hereby given to the creditors heirs and legatees of Eliza J. McConnehey. deceasa’ r? aPP® B * i_ n Adams Circuit Court, held ia„n e< ?iS r ’ on the 33th day of I April. 1904. and show cause, if any. why the final settlement accounts with the estate of said decend . t should not be approved: and I said heirs are notified to then make proof of . heirship, and receive their distributive shares Wn.i.tnn B srTTr.«s. Administrator. Decatur, Ind.. March 21 1904. 3.2 ' Merryman & Sutton, Att’ys.

: TO NON-RESIDENTS The State of Indiana, I County of Adams. ) In the Adams Circuit Court, February term, 1904. William P. Bartllng ) William C. Cockran, ? ' John Smitley. It appearing from affidavit filed In the above entitled cause, that William C. Cockran. one of the above named defendants is a non-residents of the state of I in liana Notice is therefore hereby given the said William C. Cockran.. that they be and appear before the Hen. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the 2nd dav of May. 1904. the same being the 19th Juridical Day of the next regular term 1 thereof, to be holden at the Court House In the City of Decatur, commencing on .Monday. the 11th day of April. A. D, 1904. and plead by answer or demur to said complaint. or the same will be heard and determined in his absence. WITNESS, my name, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 9th day (SEAL of March. 1904. DAVID GERBER. Clerk. 1-3 By Paul Baumgartner, Deputy. J. C. Moran and F. M. Cottrell. Attorney for Plaintiff. X'OTICEOF MACADAMIZED STONE ,-A ROAD PETITION Notice is hereby given that one. Mathias Thomas together with num rous other perI sons resident freeholders and voters in the iVashington township. Alams county. Indiana, have filed their joint petetion lin the auditor’s office of said Adams i county. Indiana, asking and praying in their [ said petition that the board of commissioners [of said Adams county. Indiana, build and co struct a free macadamized stone road in said Washington township, over and upon the public highway situated on the following | route, to-wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of section thirty-five i 35), township twenty-seven 27 north, range fourteen (14) east, running thence west on the section line between sections thirty-five (35) and twenty-six (26); thence'south on the section line between sections thirty-four i34i and thirty-five (35). or to the township line between Washington and Monroe townships and there to terminate; the same being two miles in length Said road to be known as the East Washington township macadam road extension The said improvement prayed for In said petition to be supplementary to and a continuance of said East Washington Township macadamized road No. 3. And that Monday April 4,1904, has been set and fixed by endorsement upon said petition as the day and date when said petition will be beard by said board of commissioners. in their room and office In said auditor s office in the court house in said Adams county. Indiana, and of the pendancy of said petition and of the bearing thereof all persons interested will take due notice. ABE BOCH, Auditor, 52-3 Adams County, Ind. SALE OF REAL ESV TATE Notice is hereby given that Clark J. Lutz, a commissioner appointed try the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana, in the case of Sophia E Hudnett et al, vs Margaret Reppert. et al. to make sale of certain real estate in said cause, will on Saturday, April 2nd, 1904, at the law office of Clark J. Lutz, over the First National Bank, in the city of Decatur, Indiana, offer for sale at private sale fox not less than the appraised value thereof, the following described real estate tn the said county of Adams in the state of Indiana, towlt: Inlot number eight hundred and fifteen (615) in John Meibers addition to the city of

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I Decatur, Adams county, Indiana the same is designated on the recorded pint f said addition to said city. i Also inlot number seven hundred and I thirty-two i~fi) in Adams county addition to . the town mow city) of Decatur. Indiana as 1 the same is designated on the recorded plat ’ of said addition to said said town. Also part of the south half of section eighteen 118) in township twenty-eight i - north of range fourteen (14) east in said county of Adams, state of Indiana, and more fully described as follows:— One hundred acres off the east side f the ’ southwest quarter of section eighteen l'i ■ township twenty-eight (28) north of range 1 fourteenil4>east in Adamscounty. Ind. ■- Inz ’ theeast partof said south-west quarter ■ !■<■ . tion eighteen (18) heretofore conveyed by I Christian Fuhrman to Charles Fuhrman mI taining one hundred acres more or less ilso f the lot or fractional number five isi of section ■ eighteen (18) township twentv-eighf 2- north 1 of range fourteen < 14i east in said county and 1 state containing thirty-three and 50-100 acr- ■ more or less; also fractional lot number six <6l of section (18) township twenty-eight . north of range fourteen (141 east containing • -ixty-four and 50-100 acres more or less, all in Adams county. Indiana, except fnm the above described land the following tracts — I Commencing at the southeast corner of ’ section eighteen (if) township twenty eight 128) north of range fourteen 1141 east in said county and state, thence west with the section line twenty (20) perches to tlie state line road, thence with said road in a northerly ’ direction twenty-one (21) perches, thence east ten (10) perches to the bank of the river at the mouth of the run. thence with the bank of the river to the fraction corner where the east line of said section intersects the we‘t bank of said river twentv-six '2>. perches thence with said section line nineteen 1 perches to the place of beginning containing three acres more or less. Also, except the following tract f and: Commencing at the southwest corner 1 east half of the southwest quarter f-• - tion eighteen (l’i township twenty-eiz t . north of range fourteen (14) east in Amis • county Indiana, aforesaid, running t:.-nce . east two hundred and twenty-six rods and twenty (20) links to the center ' tinriver road, thence north forty-two 12 ie- • grees west, eighty two (82) rods and - \ • links, thence north fifty-six <56) degr-• - ,t one hundred and sixty-four ( |64i rods t- t tie half section line, thence west forty i rods and twenty links to the northwest corner of the ea«t half of the southwest quarter <f as- ■ oresaid section eigeteen (18) thence south one hundred and sixty (160) rods and f <ur and one-half (44) links to the plaoe of beginning, being the tract of land heretofore conveyed i by Charles Fuhrman to Samuel Fuhrman. Said real estate will be sold free of all liens and tor not less than the appraised value thereof and in seperate parcels. TERMS OF SALE. ’ One-third cash, in hand on day of sale; onethird in twelve months, and one-third in twenty-four months from date of sale Deferred payments to bear six per cent interest from date and to be secured by freehold and mortgage security to the satisfaction o! said commissioner. Said sale will be continued from day to day until all of said realestate is sold. ' 51-4 CLARK J. LUTZ. Commissioner.

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