Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1905 — Page 5

■ ■■ ' Dr. D.D . Clark had the honor Tuesday of riding on the first inter urban oar that was run over the Van Wert & Delphos line going from Van Wert to Delphos. He says the line is a dandy and in good shape, and is bound to be a money-maker. Niblick & Company are in the midst of their annual sale, an event looked forward to by many people. This dry goods firm have the reputation of doing just what they advertise and as a consequence their sales have become very popular. Read their advertisment in today’s issue. Squire Smith performed his first wedding ceremony for the year 1905 at his home Monday morning, uniting Miss Carrie Suddeth and Albert Griener in the holy bonds of wedlock. The Squire says this was a fine start and he expects to do a flourishing business the balance of the year. Those desiring to assist Mrs. Magner, who had the misfortune of losing all her property by fire, may do so this week by delivering their donations to her new home over the Frank Gast cigar store, where she will be located for the balance of the winter. Thomas Biggins, brother to Miss Catherine Biggins, of this office aud also to Mrs. C. K. Hively, died very suddenly at Tecumseh, Mich., Sunday morning. The sisters left Sunday evening over the Clover Leaf to be in attendance at the funeral, which will take place at Clinton, Mich. Mss Agnes Schrock, who lost her furs the evening of the Yuletide ball, has had the same returned to her. Night Policeman Reynolds found them. Miss Schrock advertized in the Daily Democrat and states that she is now a firm believer in advertizing, and that it always brings good results. Rev. Smith, who for nineteen years has served as pastor of the St Emanuel church in Union township, left on Tuesday for his new charge in Alhambra, Illinois. In token of the high esteem in which Rev. Smith is held by the congregation which he leaves, he was presented with a beautiful gold watch on Christmas day. Russell de Wert, a Monroeville youth was arrested at Fort Wayne Thursday by Deputy Sheriff Gladieux on a charge of stealing a savings bank and a small rifle from the home of Mrs. Hester Peckham, at Monroeville. The prisoner claimed an alibi, but said his chum, Carl Pine, of Monroeville, knows about the affair. Pine may be arrested. The United Brethren Sunday school elected the following officers for the year 1905: Superintendent, F. A. Dibble; secretary, Lilbe Steele; treasurer, John R. Cline; librarian, Zeima Steele; chorister, Cecil Harb; oragnist, Galie Nelson. To the boys and girls, and older ones as well, if you have no place in the Sunday school, we say come wtih us, and we will try and do you good. Sunday was Grandin ither Tee pie’s seventieth birhtday, and the children took advantage of the occasion and assembled at the homestead one mi'e east of this city and treated her to a genuine surprise party. Relatives from Van Wert, Ohio, Wren, Ohio, Rockford. Ohio and this city were present and the occasion was made one long to be remembered. A good old fashioned country dinner was served, including turkey, chicken and in‘fact everything else imaginable, which part of the program was easily the chief event of the day. The afternoon was spent in playing games and talking over old times, and at a late hour all the guests departed wishing Grandmother many more such happy events. Mrs. John S. Peter :on ard Mrs. D. M. Bensley gave a very prettily appointed luncheon Tuesday at the home of the latter, in honor of Mrs. 1 Dick Neptune and Mrs. French Quinn, w ho will soon leave for their new homes in the Southwest. Much enjoyment was given the guests at the table by trying to answer queries found at the places, Miss Elizabeth Patterson guessing the greater numbei. At the close of the luncheon each one present drank a toast to tty- honor of the guests. Those present beside the members of the Yoilng Matrons' club were Mrs. Ora Fiance, Mrs Hiram Gregg, Mrs. Herman Con ter, Miss Minnie Orvis, Miss Rose Christen, Miss Carrie Craig and Hiss Elizabeth Patterson.

Mrs. John C. Moran and daughter, Margaret, returned home to Decatur Friday evenng, after a week’s visit here with her mother, Mrs. Lena Yager.—Brene News. The bonds of Surveyor-elect Baumgartner and Coroner-elect Falk were filed and approved by the board of commissioners. The former calls in amount for SIOOO and the latter for SSOOO. A scissors grinder down east has just died leaving an estate worth $50,000. That is more than alleged millionaires leave behind them sometimes, and shows that a man .nay become comparatively wealthy by good management even with a very small Income. New York, Jan. 2.— Statistics show that more than $230,000,000 worth of property i . the United States was destroyed by fire in 1904, making the largest annual ash heap in the historyof.the country. While the Baltimore fire of last February was to be compared in magnitude only with the great Chicago fire of 1871, the record of 1904 without that conflagration would have been the most disastrous of all recent years save 1900, f.nd would have nearly equalled that year. Marvin Kuhns has purchased an interest in the souvenir stand at the Ohio penitentiary and is now a full fledged merchant. The souvenir is considered a bonanza at the big institution. Chas. Young, an Erie county prisoner, owned it for along time (and when he was released a few weeks ago he took in the neighborhood of $3,000 which he had earned from the business. It is said that a strong effort will be made in the near future to secure a pardon for Kuhns. He is now a model prisoner. Bluffton, Ind., Jan. 2. —E. B Williamson and Charles C. Daam of this city left with a scientific expedition for Central America. They accompanied a party of scientists from Indiana University and Ohio State University. The party will make collections of the fine insects of the countries they will visit and will also gather specimens of the fish found in the Southern waters for the United Statesgovernment. The expense of the party will be shared between the universities and the United States government. There is one place in Indiana where the people have all the gas and more than they can use. This is at Winchester. People who spent the holidays there declare that the gas pressure is so strong that at a'l times only about a third of the gas is turned on in the stoves even in the coldest weather. Winchester is supplied by its own company and during the summer and tall they struck some excellent wells. The result is that the pressure is strong enough to melt a stove down if allowed to run full force. While other towns are complaining about the pressure, Winchester sits by in the warmth of their fire and take the world easy. “ Dr. Jerry McKean leaves Monday for Indianapolis, where he will com plete his college work in the Indiana Medical school. He will return in the spring and at once enter in to the practice at Monroe, having formed a partnership with Dr. Par rish, the well known physician of tnat place. Dr. McKean, we are informed, stands high in his classes, and his diploma will carry with it a thorough knowledge of his chogen nrofession. He has been a hard worker, and having natural inclination to medicine, has therefore been unusually successful. He is well posted and" we predict a prosperpous future for him. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. McKean of this city. The Berne electric light plant which is now running smoothly, have issued their schedule of prices, which are very reasonable compared with the rate issued by other plants surrounding, and are in one respect cheaper than the rate charged by our own plant. The meter rate is eight cents per 1000 watts, which is the same rate charged by our city plant. W hile the flat rate for sixteen candle power is thirty-five cents, our rate is fifty cents, in this respect making the Berne rate fifteen cents cheaper than our own rate. Berne now has a fine electric light plant, which places her business people in a more progressive light and speaks highly for the enterprising nature in this town.

The Sunday school association "of Indiana has favored our county with three weeks’ service of their Field Worker Edward D. Goller. He expects to conduct a convention in every township in the county. Each Sunday school worker should co-operate with him and place Adams on a basis equal to the other counties of the state. The n tallaton of the officers elected for the ensuing year by the G. A. R. and W. R. C. posts will be held at the C. B. L. hall in the Studabaker block this evening at 7:00 o’clock. The invitation is extended to all G. A. R. and W. R. C. and Sons of Veterans and their families, also all ex-soldiers and the press to be present. After the installation a campfire will be held and a good program rendered. A good time guaranteed. Don’t miss it. Committee. Edward G. Geller, of Indianapolis, is here in the interest of the State Sunday school association of Indiana. Ho is the field worker, and will undertake the Jtask of organizing Adams county by townships, completing the same before leaving. Dates and the program for these organizing meetings will later be announced. Mr. Goller is a very gentlemanly appearing young man, and we hope those who are interested with him will give him the required assistance. In an interview with John Burns this afternoon, that gentleman was prepared to say that he was fully satisfied that Governor Durbin would never issue a pardon to John W. Terrell. Mr. Burns went to Indianapolis yesterday for the purpose of filing his counter petition with the governor for his consideration. He found the petition fcr a pardon already on file and also placed his documents in the hands of the state’s chief executive. The petition that was in the hands of Mr. Burns was signed by three hundred and sixty voters of Nottingham twonship. Not a signature was allowed on their paper un less the man was a legal voter. In addition to these there were the names of the eleven jurors who signed the state's petition.—Bluff ton Banner. Hogan Bros., of South Dakota, extensive breeders of fine stock, and who control one of the largest stock farms in the west, known as the Haberdeen stock farm, arrived last evening from their western home in company with Eli Sprunger, who has been touiing the entire west interesting stock men in Belgium stallions, and are today engaged in looking over the stock owned by Frisinger & Co., which are stabled at Steele's park, and which number twenty - six head. Thse men are contemplating buying several of these htyh bred stallions, and came this long distance to inspect what Frisinger & Co. have for sale. Mr. Sprunger has been absent for several months, and during that time has disposed of several animals, which have been delivered and given perfect satisfaction. The firm of Frisinger & Co are becoming famous throughout the entire United States in this line, which speaks very highly for our city. They are sustaining this reputation by handling nothing but the best stock. Wednesday's Bluffton News said: The prospects at this time are bright for an interurban line between Bluffton and Marion, but the question now is what company will do the building? Three companies are in the field, two of them with the avowed purpose of building a line from Marion to this city and ultimately to Decatur and thence to Lima, Ohio. . One is the Interstate Traction company of which A. L. Sharpe is president, while the other is the Marion Traction company with a number of Marion men back of the project. But the third company gives as bright prospects and has more substantial plan to offer than either of the other two. This is the Kokomo, Marion & Western Traction Company whch is just completing their first section of interur ban line, a spur 30 miles long, from Kokomo to Marion. R. F. Cummins of this city, is a member of this company and he is authority for the state ment that when the company completes the work now under way, which will bring their line into Ma rion, they will at once plan to build additional lines and have j_in view IhS construction of lines to this 1 city, Hartford <hty or Frankfort t the coming summer.

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A beautiful and sacred New Years event occurred Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Christen when their little grandson, Stanley Godfrey, son of Mr. and JMrs. Frank Christen, of Chicago, was christened. Rev. E. A. Allen of the First Presbyterian church performed the ceremony, whichw as witnessed by the immediate relatives and a few friends. Rev. Allen said the name Stanley Godfrey Christen certainly stood for many Christian ideas. Stanley was the name of the great explorer who carried the faith into darkest Africa. Godfrey was the name of one famed in bible history and Christen means to baptize in the holy faith. The pretty ceremony was an inspiration and an appropriate New Year event. In the next legislature there will be fifty-six lawyers—twenty-two in the senate and thirty-four in the house. To watch these limbs of the law, and keep them from skinning Indiana out of hide, horns and hoofs, there will be twenty-two farmers—four in the upper and eighteen in the lower house To watch the farmers and see that they do not drive any sharp legislative bargains with the state eight bankers and bank cashiers will be present, and should the bankers suffer from a congestion of bills in their own behalf, six doctors will be on hand to administer physic warranted to pass any old bill Seven manufacturers will do their level best to turn out good stuff and fourteen merchants will look after the correctness of measures. One minister will labor constantly to lift his colleagues heavenward while one miner will tunnel in the other direction, and if the aggregation doesn't give the state a fair deal four honest editors will bepresent to throw the whole caboodle into the tunnel and clap the lid on. The meeting of the state teacher's association at Indianapolis was most interesting. Many new and scientific features were discussed, the most prominent among which was the presentation by W. E. Stone, president rs the Purdue university. | and Prof. W. C. Latta, an instructor in that institution and head of j the government's agricultural ex- j perimental station at Lafayette out-■ lined to the county superintendents I plan to teach argrculture in the: dristict schools. President Stone’s: idea is to make scientific farmers of j those children in the rural schools who intend to follow farming after completing their education. He; would teach them the ‘'ways and wherefores,” as -he remarked, of crop production, instead of having | them follow the same paths as their fathers and grandfathers have probably done for decades past. Prof. Latta elaborated on President Stone’s ideas. Agriculture could be taught in much the same way as nature study and botany are now taught he said. At the afternoon session needed changes in Indiana text books were discussed The general opinon seemed to be that there should be but one physiology, instead of two, in use at present—the elementary and the complete.

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Special attention is called of our j readers to the new time card issued yesterday by the Clover Leaf railroad. A decided change has been made in all the trains both east and west from thirty minutes to nearly three hours, and it would stand you in hand to look the same carefully over if you are contemplating making a trip in the near future. ' EAST BOUND. No. 6, Com’cial TravTer 6:33 a. m. No. 4, Express daily, 7:33 p. m. No. 2, Mai l daily ex Sun 11:30 a. m. WEST BOUND. No. 5, Com’cial Trav’ler, 10:08 p.m No. 3, Daily Express, 3:46 a. m. No. 1, Mail, daily ex Sun 11:30 u.m Number of sessions during the year, fifty-one; number of private, official subsidiary sessions, three; number of scholars enrolled for the year, eighty-six; number of teachers and officers, fourteen. Average attendance per Sunday, forty-six. Total penny collections j from the various classes during the. year, $40.16. Special collections: during the year, $7.84. Other amounts received, $44.52. Grand total for the year, $92.52.T0tal amount of expenses for the year, $41.59. The young mens’ class, Burt Wolfe, teacher, proved to be the banner class for the year in the contribution, it being $12.25. The Sunday school in general has greatly appreciated the faithful and meritorious services rendered by their capable corps of teachers and officers during the past year. All feel assured that the report for 1905 will be just as good. They are determiaed to improve it. Jesse Swartz, I Supt. Miss Jessie Bauseramn, Sec’y. Benjamin Pillars, treasurer. .The Euterpeans met with Mrs. F. M. Scheirmever Tues, evening Mrs. Thomas represented Brahms in the music section; Mr Kenyon, Pope in the poetry section and Mrs. Rose Holbien in the art section. Mrs. Thomas had thoroughly prepared her part of the program. Miss Carrie Thomas gave a minute talk on Brahms. Miss Irene Schirmeyer, Miss Francis Merryman, Miss Marie Allison and Miss: Carrie Thomas rendered well preI pared musical numbers. It was a I matter of j pleasure and pride to ’ I those present to hear the great 1 I masters so ably interpreted by our: own home talent. Mrs. Thomas, I read a five minute paper on Br-a | hms, which was very interesting and instructive. No work was pre-: : pared for the poetry section, but: thanks to the resourcefulness ot i club members, many interesting'' : facts in the I’fe of Pope were giv-! en. Miss Studabaker. gave the j work in art. She had little time! ito prepare for the evening, but her I I knowledge of the subject enabled, her to present the artist and his J work in the best way. After adjournment an improptu programwas rendered. Miss Schrock and Miss Smith each gave a reading and the musicians present very obligingly gave the club their favorite, which is always their best selections. Those who know the talent and attainments of all the above mentioned young ladies will appreciate the delightful evening tnjoyed by those present.

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| Dr. Aspy was attending a meeting of the pension board here today. The “city dads” were in regular sesion Tues, night and did the usual amount of routine business. Mayor Coffee presided and all members were present. Mayor Coffee filed his report for the quarter ending December 31, 1904, showing that I SI7OB had been received for liclenses, etc., The report was approved. A resolution was adopted directing the clerk to issue a city order for SIBO to pay interest on school bonds now due, said order to be paid out of the sinking fund. The contract with Mr. Johnson, showing a reduction of thirty dol lars in the price of the new motor and engine was ordered spread of record. Upon motion the room recently vacated by Trustee Coffee was allowed for use by the water works superintendent as an office, i The following bills were allowed: J. M. McDonald & Son, supplies, , $5.04; Clover Leaf Ry Co., freight, $104.26; Johnson Coal Co., coal, $49.92; Catherine Ritter, labor, $49.75; John Bueter, labor, $6.50; L.C . Helm, pay roll, S2O; Enos Lord, labor, $1.50; Schlegel & Hennefort, labor, $8.20; J. J. Glutting, labor, $1; Frank Miller, labor, $3; Fred Mills, supplies, $1.99; Geo. D. Barnard, supplies, sl2; Fred Spuller, labor, $28.75; Daily Demoort, advertizing, $10.85; J. C. Patterson, messages, $4.24; Henry Stevens, labor, $1.50; C. & |E. Ry Co., freghti. $93.60; M. Burnes, goods, $1.50; L. C- Helm, salary, $16.50; I F. McEwen, labor, SI.BO. Walter Fetters has received his discharge from the postoffioe department and is no longer a member of Uncle Sam’s great army of workers in the rural route service. Mr. Fetters was dismissed for “pernicious political activity” whatever that may be. He is not the only carrier who has received his discharge since rhe present administration was safely established in the seat of government. Others, who ! like Mr. Fetters, dared to work for ! what they deemed their Own interest. have been ditched on the j same puny charge, but as Mr. Fet- ! ters is a Bluffton man, the matter is brought directly home. A 'pi'Stoffice inspector was here reloeptly investiagting charges that i were made against Mr. Fetters, j who was secretary, of the National, J Leter Carriers’ association. What ;he discovered is not known but it I was probably enough to satisfy I the department and the congressI man that Mr. Fetters was [a dangerous man, in that he believed in showing favors where favors were granted. In other words he was : discharged for assisting in the distribution of a circular asking the carriers to vote for democratic congressmen or congressmen who pledged to make some effort toward seeing that the salary of the rural carriers was raised. This is the extent of the paernicious political activity indulged in by Mr. Fet- ' ters. He was faithful in the dis j charge cf his dutie here and no complaint was ever filed so far as in known by his patrons of his route. — Bluffton Banner.