Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1904 — Page 5

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I Remember the bargains at the I five and ten cent store. 134d30 I Wanted—A first-class meat cutI ter. In Ci ire of Dyonis Schmitt, I dty Meat Market. 168d4 I Wanted— Some one in each townI ship in this county to manufacture our I cement posts. A splendid opportunity I for right party. Goshen Cement Post I & Block Co., Goshen, Ind. I This will be the last chance to go I to North Dakota before the crops are I gathered, August 2. See Dick TowuI eend for rates and particulars. Office I over First National Bank. 7-27 std I This will be the last chance to go I to North Dakoto before the crops are I gathered, August 2. See Dick TownI send for rates and parciculars. Office I over First National Bank. 5-27 std I Salem Sunday school will hold a I Social two and one -half miles east I of Decatur next Saturday evening, July 30, near the church. All are cordially invited. •Committee. This will be the last chance to go to North Dakota before the crops are ; gathered, August 2. See Dick Townsend for rates and particulars. Office over First National Bank. 7-27 std There will be a meeting of Co B. Thursday evening. Every member should be present as there is a great * , I deal of work to be done and the time is growing short. Let every member ' be present. (). G. Hall, manager of the Temperance Billiard Hall, is offering a special inducement to billiard players ( who play at his place. The man who makes the highest run in the next sixty days is entitled to a box of good five cent cigars. $12.00 from Chicago to St. Paul or Minneapolis and return via Chicago Great Western Railway. Tickets on sale August 8 to 11 inclusive, good returning until August 26. For further information apply to any Great Western agent or J. P. Elmer, G. P. A., Chicago, 111. The North End Democrats, a base ball team of which the first requisite of each member is that he must be a democrat, defeated the South End team today by a score of twelve to seven. The boys are made of the right stuff, and say that’s the way Parker will beat Roosevelt. The excursion to Rome City on August 5, will be under the auspices of the Monroe Y. M. C. B. for the benefit of the Methodist church there. Fare sl, which includes admittance to Island Park, the concerts, lectures, moving pictures etc. Many people from over the county are planning to go that day. You better go tool F. L. Goodwin, representing the national commission Co. Indianap-, oils, opened his brokerage office in room four, Stone block, today, and is arranging to take care of all business that comes his way. He secures the market price on all stocks grain and live stock from the leading market cities of the country. Harvest Hand Rates to Minnesota -ad North Dakota. Every day during August the Chicago Great Western Railway will sell tickets to points in Minnesota and North Dakota at the low rate of sl4 each from Chicago to parties of five or more traveling on one ticket. Special low rates for return trip. For further information apply to J. P. Elmer, G, P. A., Chicago, 11lCounty Superintendent Brandyberry and wife, and C. F. Teeple and wife will leave next Tuesday for a trip to the St. Louis fair. From there the ladies will return home, while the gentlemen will make a tour of the west, especially of Colorado, in which state Noah Brandyberry resides. The trip will certainly be an enviable one in which all the sights of that great country will be properly focused.

| A young wolf was shipped through here this morning from Coffeyville, Kansas, to Hartford City. The animal was perfectly tame and would effort to bite any one. •John Rupright, the veteran honey man, brought into town Monday 236 pounds of that luscious commodity and of course every pound of it was soon taken by his various customers who have purchased honey from him for years. Uncle John either has the right kind of bees or knows how to care for them, for the honey he sells is the best on earth. A disastrous fire occurred at two o’clock Tuesday just across the Wells county line at Echo, when the barn, grainery, stable and corn crib belonging to John Graft was destroyed, together with a portion of the contents, including grain and machinery. The loss is estimated at |3,000 with S7OO insurance in the Friedheim Mutual. The blaze was discovered at two o'clock this morning and within an hour the damage was complete. The cause is unknown. Dave Volz has disposed of his saloon business at Decatur and was here today for the purpose of investigating the advisability of erecting a new business block in Bluffton. Dave owns the vacant lot facing Walnut street and lying to the west of the Seabold livery barn. If he decides to build a structure will be erected on this lot. Dave was at one time in the saloon business in this city but sold out to go into business at Decatur where he has been located for the past threee or four years.—Bluffton Banner. Martha Fox a fine running horse, the property of Tommy Haviland, died Tuesday morning of congestion of the stomach. She was only sick a few hours. She was valued at $250. This mare came from Chicago at two years old and was eight when she died. Veterinarians Houser of Bryant and Bricker attended the horse but could do nothing. Tom Haviland always rode the horse and was present at many races attracting much attention, because of his youthfulness and his skill as a rider. This leaves him one running horse, Candle Bloom. As a mark of esteem in which Martha Fox was held Mr. Haviland had her buried with a ten dollar blanket wrapped around her. —Geneva Herald. Mrs. J. Frank Mann returned from Greensburg, Saturday afternoon, where she went to attend the meeting of the committee of the Odd Fellows, which has charge of the building of the addition to the home for the aged and the orphans of the members of the order. The contract for the work was let to the Pulse & Porter Co. of Greensburg, fora sum of $44,000. Work will begin Monday and pushed until finished. Thre are about 65,000 members of the lodge in the state and raise to the money for the improvemnt for that home each member was assessed 50 cents. The members of the committee which has charge of the work are Mrs. J. Frank Mann, of Muncie; Mrs. E. G. Holgate of Bloomington, and Mrs. Rose F. Tabott, Orleans Ind. Mrs. Olive E. McGrew, of Indianapois., and Mrs. C. Ainsworth, of Greensburg True Fristoe, of Decatur, Ind. who has been a yearly visitor at Winona nearly all his life has come forth as a music author and pub's her and his first piece, "The Twist of the Wrist” is now being put on sale. The composition is a march or a slow dragg and the piece has much melody and harmony to recommend it to the music loving public. Mr. Fristoe is not only the author, but he is the pu Usher and distributor of his work. He has just returned from trips to his home at Decatur. Fort Wayne and other places where he has placed his composition on sale. It will probably be placed on sale at Winona soon. True R Fristoe the. author, is a young man of seventeen summers. He began taking music lessons before he was before he could read print. He now , nlays the clarionet, the cornet, the , violin the piano, and the pipe i organ. He directs a band and or- , chestra at his home Decatur, ano > has frequently played £ , aon of Mr. and Ml* w t of the Fristoe oottage.-Warsaw Union.

Dan Berry returned this morning from Great Falls, Montana, where he was buying horses. He purchased twenty five car load of animals which were shipped to Indianapolis where he will hold a big sale. The Country Club have a magnificent home on the banks of the historic St. M arys, at its most picturesque point. There indeed has nature been resplendent, adding both beautify to the eye and comfort to the soul. Their club house is beyond criticism in its various departments, being patterned after the present day genius of architecture. There is more solitary joy at the home of the Country Club than any place under the shining rays | of the sun. The members fish, hunt, eat and sleep and to their hearts content,and at the present time are enjoying to the fullest extent these privileges. The Democrat scribe desires to acknowledge the receipt of the privileges of the club for several hours Tuesday. ‘‘We do not need to fear that the market will go any lower,” an oil man is quoted as saying,” and you will see the crude take an upward flight within the next few days. While there is only a prophecy, it is based on past experiences. Thirty-eigth cents has been chopped off the price of the local porduct within the last six months, and other grades of crude have suffered to a similar extent. From a $1.30 in February Indiana has fallen to 95 cents a barrel, and she'll not go any lower. Johnnie D. has oerrtainly realized enough of the longgreen’ the expense of the operator to make all the donations to the colleges and the institutions that he intends to make for a time” A stockholder of the Dceatur Cement Block & Roofing company informed us last evening that the company was preparing to put up a cement block building at Steel’s park so that the same would be their exhibit during the coming fair. The roof of the buildings will be covered with their new roofing material and a man will have full charge of the house at the fair to explain its merits to the public and to figure out the cost of construction to any one who may so require. They are contemplating putting up a neat substantial building, and one that will meet with the approval of the directors of the fair, and will make it a permanent structure. Work on this building will be commenced in a few days so that it will be completed in time. The progressive Niblick & Co. store is to have a new Monroe street front that will outshine anything of the kind in Decatur. This old concern never imroves without doing it right, and this change will be noticeable when complete. The contract will doubtless be let this week and the work completed dur ing August. Two large plate glass windows will be put in, extending, back from the street nine feet and with prism transoms at the top. It is probable that beveled glass will be used, though this has not been fully decided. Between the two windows will be the entrance, which will be eight feet wide at the street and narrow to three and one-half feet at the door, which will also be of heavy, bevelled glass. The new front is to pattern after the Wolf store, the handsomest inlFort Wayne, and will be one Decatur may well feel proud of. A continued session of the city council was held Tues, evening and the library question came up for discusssion. Upon motion by Mr. Fordyce, T. C. Corbett and E. X. Ehinger were unanimously chosen as members of the library assscciation. Mr. Teeple then moved that the council approve the resolution heretofore adopted Fberuary 1, 1904, in regard to the asssessment of a library tax of one mill on each dollar of the valuation in property in the city of Decatur. Mayor Coffee ordered the roll call on the adoption of the motion which resulted as follows: Aye, Teeple, Buhler, Fordyce, nay, Porter and Gaffer. The matter of changing the grade on part of Monroe street referred to the committee. Upon motion a resolution was adopted providing that the sum ot S9OO be transferred from the sinking'fund to the general fund for the purpose of paying interest on school bonds and the funded debt. The matter of codifyir Ay ordinances was referred . diciary committee with i re” t employ or order the work done.

Commencing June Ist the G. R & I. will sell 15 day round trip tickets to northern resorts on G. R. & I. also to Frankfort Mich, and Ann Arbor and to points on the Pere Marquete R. R. from Grand Rapids at rate of one fare plus 50 cents for the round trip. Sheriff Butler came home Tues, night from Indianapolis, where he had been to obtain requisition papers from Governor Durbin for the return of Chauncey Miller from Springfield, 111., to this city, where he is wanted for forging a check of $75 upon Martin Gerke. The latter accompanied Sheriff Butler to Indianapolis where he remained while that officer came home to secure duplicate affidavits. He returned to Indianapolis last night and will proceed to Springfield today expecting to return by Thursday evening with his prisoner. Sunday afternoon at Hartford was held the funeral of J. E. Wolverton, the man whcf willed $20,000 to the Masonic ledge of that city for use in building a new hall. The funeral was one of the largest ever held in Blackford county, 130 members of the Masonic order being in the line of march. Wolverton was an eccentric old bachelor who never married. When he died a will was found [which left SSOO to his brother, $1,500 to his housekeeper and the balance of his fortune amounting to about $20,000 to the lodge he loved. Homer Parrish, who has been confined in jail for nearly a week, awaiting a preliminary hearing on a charge of forgery, was brought before Mayor Coffee yesterday at nine o’clock, and was given a hearing. A plea of not guilty was entered by his attorney David E. Smith, and the state introduced what witnesses were present, there being five in all incuding George Chronister whose name was forged, Charles D. Murray, who cashed one of the checks. Lee Vance, who cashed another, Marsh Burdge who gave Parrish the check book and Roman Barthel the man whom Parrish asked concerning how to fill out a blank check. The state then rested as did the defense and Mayor Coffee promptly bound Parrish over to the Alams circuit court in the sum of S3OO. He will no doubt give bail. For the first time in many days the Grand Rapids railroad had a wreck near our city, this one occurring Tuesdayevening about 9 o’clock just north of the railroad bridge. A through freight southbound was running at their usual rate of speed when from some unknown cause the train broke about the middle, causing ten cars to jump the track and pile up along the right-of-way. The blockade for a number of hours w’as a bad one, and just at a place where the train men could not get to it. The wreck train was called out cf Fort Wayne and responded in a short time, and at once proceeded to clean up the debris, which however took them four hours. The passenger train that is due here at eleven-eight was forced to run over the Erie track to Huntington and then on the Wabash in to Fort Wayne. Regular trains were running on time this morning. Fortunately no one was injured in the wreck, but the damage will reach up in the hundreds of dollars. Columbus O. July 26—With $35000 in gold C. P Cole, president of the Lancaster bank, made a dash in an automobile from Columbus to Lancaster, covering the forty miles in one hour and twenty-eight minnutes, and arriving in time to prevent the bank from closing its doors in the face of a run. Hearing by telephone of the trouble, Mr. Cole secured the money from the Ohio National bank in Columbus, but missed his train. To avoid the danger of delay he hired an automobile, and with F. L. Klosewetter, cashier of the local bank, started on the race across the country. Crowds lining the sidewalk about the bank gave a cheer as the automobile arrived and the nature of the cargo was made known. The run on the bank, however, continued throughout the day, the bank meeting all demands. The amount with drawn is not known. The bank is capitalized at 50,000. It had deposits in excess of $300,000. Mr, Cole is the father-in-law of Mrs. Fanny DeVilbiss-Cole and is well known in this city. He has ■nerous assets and can meet any ossible run it is believed.

Attorney Fred Fnichte will be the style of the new lawyer who is now busily engaged in getting his office in shape in the rooms over M. Burns formerly occupied by Dr.P. B. Thomas. Mr. Fruchte expects to open his new place of business by the first of August when he will be ready to answer all the knotty propositions of law and give needed legal advice. Mr. Fruchte first started to read law with Attorney D. B. Erwin with whom he stayed for two years, then going to Indianapolis where he entered the law school, having graduated this spring with high honors. Mr. Fruchte is a brilliant young man and we predict success for him in his chosen profession. The luckiest man in the Indiana oil field at this time is Tony S. Richards, age twenty-three, a linotype operator of Muncie. Four years ago Richards, a poor boy, came to Portland and secured an apprenticeship at the linotype in a daily newspaper office. He contracted to work one year at $5 a week for the chance to learn the machine. He was a frugal lad, and out of his $5 saved $1.50 every week. A t the end of the year ~he bought a lot in the town of Redkey for a few dollars, with his savings. He went to Muncie and soon had a job at regular wages. Again he saved and bought other lots adjacent to ‘ the first one purchased. A few weeks ago young Rchards organized an oil company to drill on his lots. The company was named the Linotype Oil company and the first well just recently completed, is one ot the most remarkable ever drilled in Indiana. Two 250-barrel tanks were filled in twenty-three hour s and Richards could readily sell his property for $250,000. The appeal recently made by Commander Lucas of the Indiana j department of the G. A. R. posts j of the state, asking for contribu- j tions with which to take the band of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans Home, of Knightstown, to the national encampment at Boston, during the week of August 15, has brought in only about S2OO. It will take at least SSOO to send the boys to Boston. Assistant Adjutant Gen Balsgey said that, unless the contributions increased, a personal appeal would be made to several men about the state to contribute to the fund. The semi-annual report of the posts of the Indiana department show 7 that during the last six months there were 258 deaths of members —the largest number of deaths in the history of the department for such a period. There was a decrease in the membership of the order during the half year of seventy-two. The department now has a membership of 15,502. Queer Figuring. Some queer figureing is developing from the sorry mess of tangled credits and debits of the C. B. & C J railroad. The Bluffton News has 1 this account of the road’s financial bearing. The attorney for the receiver for the C.B. &C- is getting pretty well along in the investigation of the road’s affairs and says that instead of an indebtedness of $700,000 against the road there really will be valid claims of something over $300,000. One thing that will be given attention will be the million and a half bond issne. One peculiar fact about the bonds is that they have been put out lavishly as collateral security for loans here and there. There was a bond issue of $5,000,000 which it has been impossible up to this time to sell, says the Muncie Star. Seven hundred and fifty of these were placed in the hands L. C. Davenport, of Bluffton as trustee, to deliver at the rate of $20,000 per mile as the extensions were named from Portland to Salimonica and from Bluffton to Huntington. The other $750,000 have been used as security for borrowed money until all were put out, and strangej ly, the records of the company’s business do not account for all ot these bonds. The receiver has been able, of course, to locate all the large bondholders, but there are doubtless many who gave up small loans that will have to be heard from later. On the $750,000 in bonds put out one third of that amount of money was borrowed in cash or received in material. The bonds accounted for as security are as follows: Bluffton capitalists to secure $3,600, $150,000 bonds chants National Bank, New York, to secure $6,000 $12,500; Cambria

Steel Co., Pittsburg, to secure payment of $69,500, $252,000 bonds. Two claims that will no doubt bo questioned when the affairs are settled in court will be those of General B. Nettleton, of Chicago, who holds SSOOO in bonds, and Attorney A. L. Sharpe, of Bluffton who holds $16,000. Both claim that these bonds were given them for services rendered. The purpose, counsel for the receiver sivs, is to ask these men to tell what these services were, how and when they were performed. There are twenty-five or thirty individuals in Portland holding bonds for loans and there are perhaps twenty at Pennville. The BraceyHoward 7 Construction Company has filed a mechanic’s lien against the road for $550,000, but this is doubtless large and will be greatly reduced when the amounts already paid are deducted The One Hundred and Sixtieth. In 1905 it is very likely that the members of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana volunteer infantry will make a trip to Chickamauga Park and there spend probably ten days in barracks, tasting the pleasures of camp life and army experience renewed. Plans are now underway in Marion, Tipton, Wabash, Logansport, Anderson, Warsaw, Columbia City, Decatur, Bluffton, Lafayette, Ossian and Huntington and it is expected that a complete and comprehensive scheme for bringing about the trip to the national park at Chickamauga will be discussed and perfected at the Decatur reunion of the command August 11. It is well known that in case the men are called upon to pay the full price for the journey few will go to represent the regiment in the south-ern-bound reunion. But it is urged that if a compact, responsible and reliable organization can be secured with bonded officers and facilities for taking care of the business a plentiful fund may be saved in a year by the monthly payment by each member of a small sum. It is urged that each must pay 51 a month into a common treasury, the money thus paid to be used for the purpose of chartering a train for the trip down and the journey home from Chickamauga. It is represented that 300 members of the command ought to go into the scheme, and that this would mean that each man would be forced to pay only about 53 car fare. A commissary stocked out of the common fund and cooks hired by the party in the same way are other details planned by the enthusiastic supporters and promoters of the Chickamauga reunion scheme. And it is said further that in case this plan carries nicely the regiment may turn its attention in years to come to other camps occupied at different times by the men of the One Hundred and Sixtieth regiment, even venturing to Cuba in course of time. If 300 men pay in at the rate of 51 a month each for the trip to Chicka--1 mauga during the twelve months to come,a fund of 53J>00 will be in hand, and no one person will be financially strapped because of the outlay for the journey. The southern trip of the soldiers has been much talked of, but has never reach a practicable stage until this year. It is believed that something will be “doing when the plan now considered is put before the Decatur reunion. It is hoped that ; there will be a large turnout August ! 11.—Marion News-Tribune. Wawassee Lake Ind. tickets on sale until September 30. Return limit October 31st 1904. $3.10 for round trip. Rome City Ind. Season tickets good until October 31st $2.30 15 day ticket $1.95.

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