Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1904 — Page 3

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I I 1 ■ 1 " — I » I Bjorn to Mr. and Mrs. Isadore | Friday —a big bounoI in ; boy, and Isadore says it is the I oily boy in town, and is passing I out the cigars today with a face I in smiles. Both mother H babo doing well. | Be .' in and Daniel Sutlief return'll | a st evening from Fargo. North I Ifakota, where they spent the !i).| I ®mmer, expecting when they left | K re to make that their future >, but became discouraged, afcd thought Indiana a much bette’ country. >, Whist club met Friday night * 1 Jith Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heller at home on North Third street. H always, the meeting was enjoyab r. The high scores were made bi Mrs. Heller and Mr. Moltz. S club will probably meet each fLek from now on until spring. in- ■ A southern Indiana clergyman T'" >' a widower and the father of ■pro ( harming grown daughters, is something of a wag. During vacation he sent the following to his daughters: “Have Kst married a widow With six Home tomorrow." The lay he arrived at home alone found his daughters in tears. ■v. where is the w-widow?“ thc-y in unison. ‘Oh,” he re»>i.ed. a merry twinkle in his eye, married her to another man.’' I N<> word as yet has been received Bp.m Bluffton in regard to the foot |Bb 1 game here Thanksgiving and Bn all probability nothing will, as city is not sporty enough to Shave a team of any description. ■>’ even a base ball team. The B><’.vs are willing to make any conto have them appear and I Brill afford them the best of treat■nent ar| d promise not to handle I Mmy ( 1 them roughly in the game I Hit *' y e fc possible that they may I Bnuster up nerve enough to come.

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Trustee-elect Decker, o f Wabash township, was here filing his bond a necessary evil, before assuming the responsibilities of his office which he will do on the first day of the coming year. • Attorney Amos Hirschey of Bern% filed a new case in the office of Clerk Gerber Thursday morning. The title of same is Eli Baumgartner vs Henry N. Higgenbotham and twenty-five others, suit to foreclose mechanics’ lien, demanding $250. The defendant is the manager of the Berne Canning company and this is the tenth suit against that institution. Talk about troubles! Father Schirack, of St. Henry, Ohio, met with a horrible death near that place Thursday, by being thrown from his buggy in a runaway and striking his head against a telephone pole breaking his neck and producing instant death. Father Schirack was quite well known here, having visited with Father Wilken on several different occasions. His brother was at one time a partner of Dr. Keller and practiced in this city, the firm being Keller & Schirack. A wreck on the Grand Rapids railroad near Ridgeville Saturday caused passenger train No. 7 that is due here at 7:59 to be three hours late. The wreck from what the agent here could learn was due to a truck on a heavy loaded freight car breaking, causing it to jump the track and pull several cars off with it. The wreck train was called from Richmond and it took five hours of hard work to clear the track for general freight and passenger traffic. Passenger train No. 7 went over the Panhandle from Ridgeville to Redkey, then over the Lake Erie and Western road into Portland, using their own track from there into this city. The damage done will amount to several thousand dollars, which the company will loose. No blame can be attached to the employees, as the wreck was purely accidental. ft is quite probable that before another year passes Decatur will have an artificial gas plant. General Manager Murdock of the Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas company was in the city last week and stated that his project was being considered by the company and would very probably be carried out. The fuel qeustion is a serious one, espcially that part of it that pertains to cooking. Your house may be heated by furnace, steam heat or any other way, but the old question of how to heat the cook stove conveniently remains a question. That artificial gas would be welcomed for that purpose as well as for lighting in many homes is assured. The Logansport & Wabash Valley company have their lines in and the plant could be installed at a small expense. They would cut off the plant in the field, also, Geneva, Berne and Monroe and only attempt to operate such a concern in the towns the size of Decatur and larger, where they own natural gas plants. The company will hold a meeting in February, when the question will be decided definitely.

The Clover Leaf is arranging to install a new time card as soon as the world's fair closes and the heavy travel to St. Louis abates and a proposed schedule of trains has been partly outlined and submitted to agents for their approval. Nothing definite has been decided in the matter, however, and when the new card goes into effect it will probably show changes from the | schedule first submitted. The let-1 ter to agents states that trains Nos. 1 and 2, the two noon trains, will run about the same as at present, east at 11:37 and west at 11:10, but in the other four trains there will be radical changes. Train No. 3, now due here at 5:05 o’clock in the morning, leaves Toledo at 11:55; p. m. and it probably will run later to accommodate points west of Toledo, although the present time suits Toledo very well. Train No. 5 the Commercial Traveler, now due here at 8:41 P- is t 0 lettV ® Toledo as now proposed at 6:.0 p m an hour and one-half later than at present, which would make it due here about 10:10 p- m. Eist-I bound train No. 6, due here now a 5:05 a.m. will leave St. Lotus at 8 p m., an hour later, which would . bring iO»re.U»»««®eolo<* Train No. 4, due now at 6:-0 east bound, is to be au hour and fifteen m innms later, ' into XtTbont'the second or third Sunday in December.

Governor Durbin has just received notice froifi the war department that vouchers to the amount of $9,191.51 had been allowed the state of Indiana for money expended in the mobilization of the state troop for the Spanish-American war. This money was expended by the state after the [troops were mustered into the government service. The claims had formerly been disallowed, but were granted under an act of April 27, 1904. Four new cases were filed with the clerk of the Adams oirou t court Saturday. They were entitled Della F. Fetzer vs B. W. Sholty, administrator, de bonis non, of the Walter A. Fetzer estate. Abe Hocker vs A. S. Bowman, Berne Canning company and others, mechanics’ lien, demand S3O. Louis Habegger vs Berne Canning company and others, mechanics’ lien, demand S2OO. Phillip B. Thomas vs Leander Johnson, suit on account, demand, $175. People think it easy to run a newspaper. An exchange says that one week's experience would change the opinion of most people on [that subject. Did you ever count the words in a column of ordinary newspaper print? There are about two thousand words in a column. Suppose you sit down and write a thousand words on some subject and then another until you have written eight or ten thousand. Try it, and see if it is right easy. Keep that gait up for a month, a year—see if it is easy. Then chase a local item all over town and after you have gotten the facts all right, condense them into a few lines in a few seconds. Do this for a dozen items that seem insignificant after they are important; then have the items criticised and inaouracies pointed out to you when it is too late to correct them. Oh, yes, it is easy to “run” a newspaper.

A landmark on the Old Rice farm now owned by Alexander R. Bell and known as the Bellview farm, was destroyed Monday morning. It was a large pine tree, which has no doubt been seen by every citizen in the northern part of this county, and was remarkable for the fact that it was the only known piece of pine ever grown in this county. Mr. Bell was forced to cut down this old landmark for the reason that it stood in the way of some much needed improvements that are to be made on the premises. The work of cutting down this historical piece of timber was placed in the hands of Doolittle Reynolds, who did the work in a most amaz ing manner, first telling Mr. Bell where the tree would fall, stating that he would injure none of tne surrounding shrubbery. Everything carried out just as he had stated. The tree will be sawed into pine boards at the P. W. Smith mill in this city and will be the first piece of piae timber ever sawed into lumber in Adams county, and when reduced into lumber will make nearly 800 feet. Thus has another old landmark of this county been wiped out of existence. The erection of a great $300,000 building by the Pythian Grand Lodge of the state, the construction of a handsome new Castle Hall by the association composed of six of the fifteen local lodges of the order and the building of a new modern home by Indianapolis Lodge, ‘No. 50 and all within a radius of less than two blocks from the new fed eral building, has given Pythianism such a boom in Indianapolis as the order has never before known lin its history in Indiana. The I board of directors of the Castle Hall Association now has under consideration two sets of plans for the new structure to be located at Ohio and Hudson streets. Both contemplate buildings five stories high and one—which thus far ap pears to be the most popular with , the building committee-pro vide s for a structure of brick, stone and steel, with a pretentious corner tower ; a magnificent curved stone entrance and four commodious storerooms on the ground floor, offices on the three next floors and lodge room, drill rooms, parlors, property rooms, kitchen, banquet hall and ante rooms on the upi>er ; floor. The building is to cost not Jess than $50,000 and a committee appointed to canvass the local lodge membership for the sale of individnal stock has met with large snooes*. It ’ s “°w believed that when the spring building season opens the splendid n* Ohio street home for the Knights be well under way.

John F. LaFollette boeame judge of the fifty circuit of Indiana Thursday morning, John M . Smith vacating the bench after six years of very able service. The change in the judges was attended with very little ceremony. Only a few members of the bar were present, they seemingly having overlooked the fact that sometning wits to happen which comes '>nly once in every six years, if that often. After taking the bench -fudge LaFollette announced that there will be no more court until the December term.—Portland Commercial-Review. ’SquireSmith’s court was a busy place Monday, trying the case of D. E. Scott vs James Waggoner. The case originated on the issuance of two insurance policies written on the new home of Mr. Waggoner, for which the complaint states that Mr. Waggoner refused and still re fuses to pay, and the plaintiff demanded the payment of twelve dollars, the amount of the premium on the policies. The evidence on both sides was convincing, Mr. Waggoner declaring that the amount demanded was more than he had contracted for, and that he had only ordered Mr. Scott to issue one policy instead of two. On the other hand Mr. Scott testified that Waggoner had ordered the two policies. The court after hearing all the evidence and the arguments by the counsel found in favor of Mr. Scott in the amount asked for. The case will no doubt |be appealed to the Adams circuit court. Judson W. Teeple represented the prosecution and L. C. Devoss the defense. The case was stubbornly fought by both sides. In a recent issue we told of Mrs. Douglas Dudgeon tele honing to Sheriff Butler to secure help, saying her husband was breaking up the furniture. She was [referred to the Berne authorities and according to the following from the Willshire Herald, Douglas led th? Berne marshal a merry chase: On Thursday the marshal of Berne drove out to the Dudgeon farm and arrested the proprietor and took him to Berne for trial, and he was bound over to the next term of court. He came to the home of his brother, Frank, in Blackcreek township, Mercer county, Ohio, accompanied by the marshal of Berne, to secure bail. Failing to secure it there, they left the place. The marshal got out to open the gate and when Dudgeon drove through he forgot to stop, but’eontinued on up the road at a very lively pace, and left the officer looking bewildered. Dudgeon drove to the home [of his brother-in-law, R. H. Ainsworth, three miles north, and without telling his sister that there would probably be a man along looking for him, he went in and went to bed. The marshal went to the home of Mrs. Tickel, a sister of Dudgeon, and' not finding him there he followed on until he came to the farm of Mr. Ainsworth. Seeing Dudgeon’s horse and buggy standing in the yard, he was sure that he had his prisoner located at last. He went to the house in sjreat haste, and meeting Mrs. Ainsworth in the door he grabbed her very roughly and pushed her to one side and started on in the house. He next encountered Mrs. Ainsworth's sister, Mrs. Springer, who had been attracted by the commotion outside. She was subjected to the same treatment as the first lady, and was handled even more roughly. The ladies not knowing his business, refused to let him enter the house. Seeing that he had made a blunder, he began to scrape and apologize but this had no effect on the ladies, and he was forced to remain outside until Mr. Ainsworth arrived home. Mr. Ainsworth was at one of the neighbors and was telephoned for. When he arrived home and heard what the gentleman from Indiana had to say for himself, Mr. Ainsworth informed him that he was out of his jurisdiction and told him that Mr. Dudgeon could go with him if he wished, b it that he could not enter the house or in any way disturb him, and more, that he would have to wait there until the marshal from Willshire could come out and take charge of him. AU this time Dudgeon was in the house asleep, and had no idea the excitement his escapade was causing. The marshal from Berne was brought to Willshire, but nothing was done about the matter, and he-, was turned ldt<se, and returned home sadder. but. wiser. When last heard from Dudgeon was still at the borne of his brother-in-law in Ohio.

According to reports received from Berne their new eloetrio plant is now practically completed and ready for use, and a thorough test of the machinery and dynamos will be made the first of the week to ascertain the power of the new plant. Manager Stuckey has been rushing the work to completion as fast as possible and in the course of a few more days Berne will be as bright by night as it is by day. The street lights are now being placed in position the exact location having been decided upon a few days ago and they are now nearly all up and ready for use. Workmen are busily engaged in wiring various residences as the demand for this new kind of light is great and everyone in Berne who is able will have his or her property lighted by electricity. The plant put in by this Berne company is one of the most complete and modern establishments now in use, the machinery being of the latest pattern and the power being fully competent to light three places the size of that city. Berne is justly proud of this new addition, and she has a perfect right to be, as she is now far ahead of any city her size in the k state, and some that are larger, and her citizens are always looking ahead for something. The Democrat congratulates Berne citizens upon there enterprising spirit and hope she may continue in the same line. The city council room was the scene of a rather stormy session Friday night that being the date set by the committee for hearing objections to the new assessments for the Elm street sewer improvements by the property owners affected. The history of this improvement is well known. Recently the present council began an effort to effect a settlement with Contractor Bowers and to have the suit against the city, now in the Jay circuit court dismissed. An offer was made to Mr. Bowers whereby the Shamp branch of the sewer was to be repaired to meet the requirements of the original specifications, the city to assume a greater part of the indebtedness and a general reduction aggregation about twenty-five percent from the original price was to be made To this proposition Mr. Bowers did not reply and the law takes silence in such instances as an acceptance of the proposition. A committee to re-assess the properties affected or benefitted was appointed and last night was the time appointed for property owners to object to said assessments. [They objected in terms not to be mistaken. They were represented by Attorneys C. J. Lutz and A. P. Beatty, who argued toe question thoroughly and filed written objections setting up eleven reasons why the assessments should not be made, as follows: First—the committee appointed October 6th to make the changes in the assess ments had no legal power and their act was void. Second—The committee so appointed had no legal authority to act. Third—That the sewer was not constructed according to plans and specifications and therefore the property owners have no benefit to be assessed on. Fourth—That the sower has never been completed according to plans, that the final report was never filed or the final estimate reported. Fifth—That the report of benefits to the property of objectors is in excess of the benefits and far in excess of the cost of construction. Sixth—That the pretended report of the cost of the sewer includes SB,OOO for extras for which no benefits should be charged. Seventh— That the council has not caused the final estimate to be filed by the city civil engineer as required by law. Eighth—That the pretended report was prepared by private citizens who were not appointed or author ized to make said report. Ninth— That the assessments are too high, exceeding ten per cent of the value of the property benefitted. Tenth That this assessment is void because on March 17, 1903, a resolution was adopted by the council annulling the final estimate of the cost and setting aside the engineer’s report. Eleventh—Th it the orig inal contract with Mr. Bowers was fraudulent and his bid was not the lowest. The objections were typewritten, requiring several pages and were signed by Peter Frank and sixty-five other proprety owners affected by the sewer. The committee who heard the objections included Porter, Gaffer and Kirsch. They will report to the c> unci! Monday evening gftnd the matter will tlgui be voted on by that body.

Ross Mallonee, a well known young man of this city, who is at present in the employ of Mann & Christen, the contractors, had a most thrilling exparicence last Thursday night, and one that he will long remember. These contractors at the present time have under construction a handsome two-story school building just north of Uniondale, several miles, and necessitates the employment of a number of carpenters, which are transported every week to and from Decatur. During the week the men board and room in a vacant house, which is near their work. Among the men in the employ of this firm was a young man who lived near Uniondale, and who was a carpenter, and in assigning the rooms to the men it was the misfortune of Mallonee to draw this stranger for a bed fellow. Everything progressed smoothly until Thursday night, £when this fellow took a notion to go crazy, and what he did while under this spell was a caution. Ross was awakened by the man breaking some of the furniture, and in attempting to reason with him, got the fellow so angry that he turned on Ross and would undoubtedly have killed him had not the other workmen, who were in the adjoining rooms been awakened and come to his rescue. After a struggle of twenty minutes the insane man was at last overcome and made secure with ropes and held thus until morning when the sheriff came from Bluffton and placed him in custody. Ross says there was no doubt about the lunacy of the man, and that hereafter he will be more careful in picking his bedfellow, as he does not care to pass through another experience of that nature. The young man will be examined some time this week and then taken to the asylum at Richmond.

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