Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1905 — Page 5

len ? ,»-■”!” —~ Chase Dickerson and daughter, of ’tt New Lisbon, Ohio, were guests of *i John Mayer and family here yesterday, being enroute home after a •j- visit with relatives at Monroe. Mr. Dickerson is an engineer on the , Chicago & Erie. Joe Depinet left Tuesday for Fos toria, Ohio, where he will visit for several weeks with relatives and other friends. This is Mr. Depine t’s first visit to Fostoria in years, and he will once again visit the old homestead. Hogan Bros., who have been buy ing up stock here for a few days, left this morning for their home in South Dakota, having purchased twenty-two head of Adams county horses, which will be shipped direct to their big stock farm in the above state. W. H. Fledderjohan went to Fort Wayne Tuesday, taking with him $300,000 worth of bonds, which he will have acknowledged from Fort Wt yne. He expects to go to Indianapolis where he will thor oughly examine the large interurban oars. W. W. Oman, has been appointed deputy postmaster at Bluffton, he taking a vacancy made by the resignation of George Sharpe. It is the opinion of some of the wise ones that Mr. Oman will succeed to the postmastership, the next time a new deal is made. The city council at Fort Wayne is preparing an ordinance to safeguard the people against fire in theatres and public halls. Sm iking will be prohibited as a precaution against fire and another clause against spitting in the floor is to be inoororated in the interest of good health. John Lose disposed of one of his fine Leghorn roosters Tuesday to William Van Camp for sls. Mr. Lose hardies only the full blooded fowls and'he is receiving like orders everyday from surrouunding chicken fanciers. It is the intention of Mr. Van Camp to go into the chick en business proper. J. H. Chamberlain has p irchased 100 head of horses in this county, which are being shippe 1 to Indianapolis, where he will conduct a special horse sale next week, and at which time he will dispose of 7CO head of fine horses. He states that the market is fair and expects to receive a fancy price for all of his animals. This is probably the biggest shipment of horses ever made from this city. Will Archbold, the Adams Express man, is the proud possessor of a brand new little red delivery wagon, and without doubt Will is the proudest man in Decatur as he now goes driving around delivering his goods with his head in the air as much as to say, “I guess lam it with my new wagon.” The wagon is a hummer and Will may feel justly proud of the same after what he hud to contend with for several years. Immediately after the organization of the Stare senate Monday the new lieutenant governor, Hugh T. Miller, announced the senate committees. The names of John W. Tyndall of this city appear on five of the important ones and also on one of the three joint committees. He will serve on tho following committees: Finance, manufacturing and mining, roads, cities and towns, swamp lands and drains and joint library committee. Miss Kittie Christen entertained a number of her lady friends Tuesday afternoon from two to five at a thimble party in honor of Miss Emma Jackson, who is to be mar red on January 25 to Mr. Robert Meyers, of Columbus. Ohio. The afternoon was most enjoyably spent and Miss Jackson was the recipient of a number of beautiful and costly presents. Refreshments were served and at a ]ate hour the guests departed, wishing Miss Jackson a long and happy married life. Another case of small-pox has appeared at Bryant. This time it is in the family of Daniel Montgomery whose daughter, Lona aged twenty-three, has taken ill of the disease. It is not believed that Miss Montgomery contracted the infection from the other small pox patients who have been in quarantine at Bryant for some time. It is said she was exposed on a recent visit to Van Buren® The two daughters of George Goff who have been quarantined for several weeks at the home of Caroline Haffner Wilgns at Bryant were released Bunday,— Portland Commercial

Mr. and Mrs. O. P. M ills and Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Steele of this city, were at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Yager yesterday, attending the wedding of their daughter. Miss Rose to Mr. Elton Crum, teacher of District No. 6, of Kirkland township. A history of Mrs. Chadwick has been written and will no doubt soon be upon the market. The book will hardly sell well enough to enable her to pay off her loans. It would not be a bad idea if the proceeds of the sales were applied in that direction. Father Valentine returned to Cin oinnati, Ohio,Monday, after making a two weeks’ visit here with Father Wilken and assisting in a special church service, during which he delivered a series of lectures. Father Valentine may return here at some future date on a similar mission. W. I. Bisheiler, the man who was injured Thurtday morning at the Grand Rapids freight house, was taken tn Fort Wayne last evening, which place is his home. He will rest until his injury will again permit him to resume his work. It was necessary to assist him on the train. Word has been received from Ratch Blackburn who is at Chillicothe, 111., stating that he will leave for California, in a few days to take up a special course of training in railway work. He will be absent one month, and at the expensse of the Sante Fe railroad company. Rev. W. H. Daniel for a number of years a presiding elder, and one of the prominent ministers in the North Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, has purchased a twenty-one acre farm near Decatur, and will establsih a poultry and fruit business.—Albion Democrat The American cow is an institution of huge dimensions. She produces annually 8,000,000,000 gallons of milk, 1,500.000,000 pounds of butter and 200,000,000 pounds of cheese, not to mention hides, leather, glue, hair, horns and other products. Her total diary crop is worth over $500,000,000. Mrs. P. G. Hooper pave a ghost party to a few of her friends Friday evening who helped her entertain a few nights ago. An old witch and five ghosts were present, with whom an agreeable evening was spent. At about 8:30 o’clock a delicate luncheon was served, consisting of mulberry sherbet, fruit cake, escalloped oysters and peach jello, with stripped cream and Maraschino cherries. By order of the postoffice department the rural mail carrier must keep account of the condition of the roads over which he travels and send in his report an accurate account of the impassible places, and how much attention the patrons of his route give to keeping the roads in passable condition. It is the purpose of the department thus to test the interest a patron has in the service. The Bluffton Business college opened Monday. They will teach commercial bookkeeping, commercial law, rapid calculation, spelling, penmanship and stenography. Especial attention is given to arithmetic. The bookkeeping department is in charge of Professor P. A. Allen, who is thoroughly competent to handle anything in this line. Mr. Lester will have charge of the shorthand and typewriting departments while J. B. Merriman will deliver the lectures on commercial law. Dow Ostiorne, seven years old, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Osborne, died at the home of his mother °ast of this city at six o’clock Monday, after several weeks’ illness with typhoid fever. During nearly all his life the little fellow had suffered from a brain affliction, though fairly healthy in body. Just a year ago the child’s father, Joe Osborne, was taken to prison to serve a life sentence for the murder of his father in law. John Busenbark. During that memorable trial the names of his children became quite familiar to our readers. Dow lacked but two weeks of being seven years old. Mrs. Osborne seems to have suffered more than net share of afflictions during the past year, and she certainly has the sympathy of many. The funeral service will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o’clock at Union chapel, and interment made at Maplewood cemetery in this city

’Squire Smith had the honor of performing his second wedding ceremony of the year Friday, uniting Miss Clara Adair and Mr. John ' Clayton in the holy bonds of wedlock. The happy young couple live in Allen county near Hoagland. The ’squire is certainly starting the new year right. Mr. Samuel Epstein has sold his interest in the Bell clothing house to Mr. Homer Friedman, formerly of Decatur. Mr. Epstein has not yet decided upon a location. He has been in business here for ten years and his resent period of idleness is the first vacation he has enjoyed in twenty-five years.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. An institution to fit young women for the responsibilities of matrimony, including cooking, sweeping, bedmaking, caring for children and other household duties will be established in Lafayete. The institution will be known as the Lefoy School of Home Culture, and will be located in Highland Park. The course will cover two years, and that it is aimed especially for young women just out of college and those who are contemplating matrimony. The school will open next September and will be conducted on the residence plan. L. M. Rice left Monday for Elwood Ind., where he has accepted a position with the Sailor Drug company. Mr. Rice while in this city was in the employ of the Holthouse Drug company, where he was well liked. This new position is a more responsible one, and is a step higher in his business, and incidentally, carries a larger salary than he received here. The Democrat wishes him success. Monday night about a dozen of the young friends of Robert Luke called on him to remind him of his birthday. Their call was so sudden and unexpected that though he was somewhat pale, occasioned by a recent illness, yet he turned decidedly paler as they trooped in and unceremoniously jostled him. After regaining his self-possession somewhat he invited all to turn in and have a good time, which they did in a manner characteristic of the young. Logansport Ind., Jan. B.—Daniel Tuigg, who was brought from Warsaw and placed in Longcliffe hospital for the insane two weeks ago, made his escape Thursday night and all search for him has been in vain. It is supposed he got away on a freight train. Tuigg is the man who shot three men on a Pennsylvania passenger train near Warsaw several months ago, and he is a dangerous man to be at large. He seems sane on all subjects except being under the impression that enemies are pursuing him for the purpose of killing him. William Scherer, of Monroe, returned to his home Friday evening from Denver, Colo., where he has been the guest of his son, R. M. Scherer for about three weeks. Earlv last spring young Scherer left Monroe for the west. His parents were unable to find out where he was until he wired them from Chicago and stated his intention of going to Denver. The next word his relatives received from him he was acting as professor in one of the city schools. Several weeks ago he parsed the civil service examination and received an appointment from the government in the immediate vicinity of the Panama canal operations. He will leave Denver March 1 for the Isthmus and will at once begin his duties there.—Berne Witness. Representative William Colvert, whose brother Charles lost the left arm above the elbow in a corn shredder this fall, will introduce a bill in this session of the legislature aimed to prohibit manufacturers from turning out shredders without safety devices that will make loss of members impossible. He says he thinks such a bill will become a law. One of the provisions of the bill is that each farmer work ing about a shredder shall have one end of a log chain fastened to his leg and the other end to a convenient tree or stump and the chain shall be of such length as to not permit the farmer to get nearer than ten feet to the machine. Another provision is patterned after the election law. It requires that a heavy card two by three feet in size with a copy of the law and a pictnre of the shredder and men chained as contemplated by the law, shall be placed on every corn shock in the state as soon as the shook is greeted.—Anders«,n News. I

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Marriage licenses have been granted to Jesse L. Shimp and Sar ah E. Weaver, Charles E. Crum and Anna J. Yager. Williard Steele informed us that he had scraped all the snow off his pond, and that the same was now in elegant condition for stating. The ice is smooth and slick as glass. He has gone to considerable expense in getting the pond in this shape, and will charge all skaters the small sum of ten cents for their pleasure. He states that large crowds are in attendance each day. Fred Patterson returned to Indianapolis Friday to resume his school work in the dental department, after spending the holidays with his parents. This is Fred’s last year at school, which will close in June. He has not fully decided where he will locate, having several places in view. During this present term he expects to take a complete course in porcelain work, and make this a side line with his dental work. Reliable information has been received in this city from Mattoon. 111., that one Evreelt L. Ball, will in a’few days ship his New Brunswick bowling alleys from that place and open up a fine bowling alley in this place. He has secured the old window screen building which was formerly occupied by a bowling alley, and which can again be pressed into service with little or no expense. Mr. Ball will put in two alleys, which are new, having only been used two weeks, and only lightly at that. Decatur will without doubt support a first clt.ss alley and Mr. Ball will meet with success here. John Barnett, who resides in the south part of the city, while enroute home at noon Friday, suffered a stroke of paralysis near the residence of Charles F. True, and fell to the sidewalk. Passers by hastily went to his aid and assisted him into Mr. True’s residence, and medical help was called. After allowing him to rest for a few hours he was conveyed home in a carriage, where he will be given the best of care. Mr. Barnett has been in the best of health and was feeling good when he came down town this morning, and the attack came unawares to him. As we go to press he is resting easier, but is still deprived of the use of his limbs. "Third time is the charm" is an old adage and if proven true the Shimp family of Geneva will likely secure a divorce. Mrs. Clara Shimp, through her attorneys, D. D. Heller & Son this morning filed suit in circuit court for a decree of divorce from her husband, Valentine Shimp. Last September a similar suit was filed and in 1901 Mr. Shimp filed suit against his wife. In each instance a reconcilaticn was aftec.‘ed before the case came to trial, but this time they claim to be in earnes’. They were married September 29, 1898. The last complaint says that Shimp has cruelly treated his wife, beat, cursed and neglected her, threatened to kill her, and in various other ways made her life miserable Mrs. Shimp also accuses her husband of infidelity and of threaten ing to kidnap their orly child, Marie, a two year old daughter A divorce, custody of the babe and the restoration of her maiden name, Pile, is asked by Mrs. Shimp.

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Orville C. McLaughln, of Portland, has been chosen as chief journal clerk of the house. This is the third legislative session in which he has held important positions. F. E. Smith, a young man who recently came to this city, notified us Saturday that he was preparing to open up agenreal repair shop, and would be ready for business by Monday. He expects to do all manner of gun smithing, saw filing, and in fact anything that may come under the head of general repairing. His place of business will be with H. S. Porter, the harness man, and should you desire any work of this description, he asks that you call. Portland, Ind, Jan 10—Myserious features connected with the burn ing of the New Portland hotel Saturday nght were discussed by citizens of Portland today with more interest than the fact of the actual loss. Apparently no effort was made to remove the furniture from the burning building, although there was time to have saved a great deal. The blaze stared in an unused empty room on the third floor in which there was no file Three hours before the fire a man called from Ridgeville over the telephone and asked the exchange opera the fire was at the New Portland hotel. An alarm of fire was turned in Monda y at 2 o’clock a. m. by some one, stating that the Centra] school building was on fire. The company responded in nice shape and made a fine run to the building. After arriving there and getting everythin:, in shape to work, it was found that the alarm was false and that the only fire there was the one that Janitor Michael Wertzbreger was making in the furnaces, as was his usual Monday morning custom. The flickering light of the lantern in the cellar no doubt aroused the suspicion of some of the nearby neighbors who turned in the alarm. No harm was done, but the fireman are kicking on account of being routed out so early in the morning on a wild goose chase. The company that presented the moving picture show Monday inglit at the opera house were greeted by only a few people, hardly a dozen being present. The pictures were good, as was the feature of “Creation," and had this company advertised little more extensively, would undoubtedly ha ve had a full house, but as it was no one knew there was a show on. As a result of last night’s preformanoe the company is stranded and have stored their goods away here in the P eople’s & Holthouse stables, where they will rest until enough money is raised to get them out. The Company included the proprietor, an old man from Germantown, Ohio, and a young man and his wife, who operated the machine and did the singing. After the show the old man and his actors quarreled and the latter were discharged without pay and without a cent in their ’pockets. This morning they employed Attorney D. B. Erwin to attach the old man’s property. The action was began at once, but before it proceeded very far he old man thawed out and settled, paying his help $6.15. They left for Jbrt Wayne this after noon and the old man will probably take his magic lantern and go home.

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The Niblick & Co. January sale : is progressing in fine shape and a large amount of business was done last week,’which this company hope to double this week. This sale is attracting people for miles around. Mrs. Rebekah Malony, an aged and respected resident of Adams county, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sol. Hetler, one and a half miles southwest of Steele, Ind., Thursday morning, December 29th, at eight o’clock. Mrs. Malony is survived by four of her children, Charles and Walter Malony, of Muncie, Ind., Robert Malony, who lives with his son, Joseph, south of Willshire, and Mrs. Sol Hetler, with whom she was making her home at the time of her death. She was in her eighty-first year and had nine grandchildren living and two great grandchildren, who are the children of Joseph Maloney. The funeral services were held at Salem church at 10 o’clock a. m. Sunday January 1, and were in charge of Rev. Sprague—Wilshire Herald. Henry Oestermeyer, the father of Mrs. Sophia Rempis, of this city, died Thursday at his home, six miles north of Decatur. He was a pioneer farmer of Adams county and was also well known here. He had resided for fifty-four years on the farm where his death occurred, coming here from Germany when a young man. He was seventy years of age. Mr. Oestermeyer is survived by his wifi and the following children: Mrs. Sophia Rempis and Miss Lizzie Oestermeyer, of Fort Wayne; Henry, Fred, William, Ernest, Miss Anna and Miss Caroline Oestermeyer, all of Adams county, and Miss Minnie Oestermeyer, of Toledo. Mr. Henry Meyers, of his city, was a brother-in-law’. The decedent was a member of the German Lutheran church. The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at the Fuelling church, north of Decatur.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Judge A. B. Anderson in the federal court Monday had the unusual experience of declaring that a deserter was not a deserter. The case was that of Marion T. Mott, now known as Marion T. Harrison, who was. upon the order of Admiral Converse, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, arrested by United States Marshal Henry C. Pettit, charged with deserting from the United p States ship Newark at Norfolk, Va., Nov. 25, 1904. Under the name of Marion T. Harrison a habeas corpus petition was filed in the United States court declaring that the boy’s parents had died many years ago and that until recently the boy, who is now 17 years of age, did not know his true history. He has lived ever since his infancy with the Mott family, and S. R. Mott was his legal guardian. At the death of S. R. Mott no other guardian was appointed. The papei s signed by Marion Harrison at the time of his enlistment, two years ago, were supposed to have been made valid by the permission of Sherman Mott, with whom, Harrison was living. Since Sherman Mott was not the .boy s guardian and the boy baing but 15 years of age, it was averred that the con tract was in no sense a contract and that Harrison could therefore not be a desertei. The court upheld this view and Harrison ’•caa discharged.