Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1905 — Page 5

Mrs Clark Lutz will be home ’rom Hope hospital, Fort Wayne, fhursday The several weeks spent here have in away been beneficial, .Itbough her condition is not exotly what was hoped for. A little girl in mmh excitement ashed into the parlor which was all of company, and exclaimed: Mamma, just think of it.” Think of what, my darling?” ur eat has a whole lot of twins nd I didn’ even know she was tarried.” Mr. and Mrs. Wertzberger went i Laketown, Monday, where they ill make their future home. This rung couple were married yesterly at the home of the bride northest of this city, and their baggage as neatly decorated with approbate sayings. Rev. Bohn, of Edgerton, Ohio, is refused to accept the call of the ' : manuel's church, giving ill health i his excuse. The committee will eet again on next Monday and sue call for some other preacher, his is the pulpit formerly presided ter by Rev. Schmitt. It is rumored that Jesse Robinson id “Kadle” Meibers are coatem ating going South and open up a über mill, and that Lase Ellis is .inking seriously of joining the ivs and acting in the capacity of ,mp overseer. The first two imed may leave some time next edt. Mr. and Mrs. A. Newborn enter ined a number of ther friends inday afternoon, and evening at eir home on Fourth street, and om reports a fine time was had. inner was served at six o’clock id was served in a dainty manner, he evening was spent in numerous lines. Some of the countv superintenmts of the state are considering e adoption of the rule whereby e applicants for teacher’s licenses II be limited to three examinaons, and if they do not succeed in itting the proper per cents in that me, to prohibit them from making ■ iplication again until the followg year. - Under the provisions of the Indiia game law the season for shootg quail which began November i closed December 31. The sean has been a very unfavorable one om the fact that in the early eeks on account of the drought, ie ground was so dry the dogs mid not scent the game and coniquently.[comparatively few birds ere killed. 3 J. W. Bowers, of Monroeville, as in our city Monday and cidentally dropped into this office id renewed his subscription. Mr. ewers says that he has been hav- , g considerable trouble securing s mail, owing to the changes in the >utes, but is now firmly establishlon rural route six, out of Monaville, and hopes that they will it take it away from him. While cutting feed Tuesday i the Peoples & Holthouse Fashion ables, a small iron bolt became itangled in the cutting apparatus, .using the machine to be broken . several pieces, the fly wheel nar>wly missing one of the men who ere working there at the time, his machine is run by water pow- ■, and is a powerful concern. The ss will be quite heavy. Fortuitely no one was hurt. When the Kansas country editor ■ps his pen into the inkpot of fine riting, he is bound to leave a retty trail. We extract as follows om an obituary in a Bourbon ounty, Kansas, paper: ‘‘About ve o’clock yesterday afternoon the aath angel noiselessly entered the [. E. parsonage, touched gently the naciated form of the parson's aughter, left a piece of inanimate ay to the tender care of weeping >ved ones, and bore back to the osom of the Master a human soul.” The Geneva Herald said: Otto olds accidentally shot himself in ie leg Sunday night, in a most eculiar manner. He was awakued in the night by what he snposed was someone trying to break ito their house, and he arose and nth revolver in hand set out to eteot the intruder. He discovered lOthing wrong, and went • back to •ed, taking the revolver with him. ie went to sleep and was dreaming •f burglars and shot off the revolver. The only result was a wound n the leg above the knee. It was a cere flesh wound and nothing serous. Dr. Uollins was called and iressed the wound. The bullet was found among the bed clothing.

Rev. Jones was Sunday installed as pastor of the St. John Lutheran church north of this city, the installation being preformed bv Rev. C. Sohronankoosky. Rev. . Jones will preach his first sermon ’ ext Sunday. Among the society events of the week will be a dinner party at the elegant home of Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Allison, Thursday evening, they with Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas doing the honors. The invitation list is large and the company to be then entertained will be numerically healthy The editor of the Prairie View News came near being killed last Sunday while ringing the church bell. The clapper came loose and crashed down through he belfry, missing him but a few inches. “This,” says the Osborn Farmer, “shows what the Lord thinks of an editor.” C. H. Getting, who resides near Williams, informed Charlie Voglewede Tuesday that he was the possessor of a two-headed calf, which would prove to be a mate for the one already owned by Charlie. Mr. Oeting will bring the same in in a few days, and if it is in good shape Mr. Voglewede will send it to a taxidermist. A farmer returning home from hunting the other day found his neighbor just leaving the house, and being of a jealous nature, drew his gun and filled the man’s legs with fine shot. Ala w suit followed and it was learned that the man was there to borrow the local paper. The law suit cost $75 and the doctor bill was $25 and $1 would have saved the trouble. The Marion Zouave company, now appearing in vaudeville performances in a number of southern cities, will make a tour of Cuba within the next year. The Zouave company made a hit in the south wherever it has appeared. Soon after their appearance in the south a company which was proposing to make a tour of Cuba decided to take the Zouaves as one of, the attractions. A little Syracuse girl who had just returned from an evening’s “skate” on the lake last week began telling of her experience and mishaps by saying: “You had ought to seen me, the first time I stood up my feet went up in the air and I came down plump’on my" “Minnie?” screamed her mother. “Well what?” "They just scooted out from under me and I came down on my b ” “Minnie!” cried her sister “Well can’t you let mo tell this? I came down on my brother.” A story is in circulation to the effect that a Bluffton couple got married a short time ago and boarded the train on their wedding trip. Strolling into a Pulman sleeper the groom said in a confidential tone: “Mister, me and my wife just got married and are looking for the best accommodations this train has.” "Looking for a berth, I suppose,” said the duksy son of Ham, as he turned to assign seats to the other passengers. “A birth! Thunder and lightning, No! We just got married. We only want a place to stay all night. ” This afternoon in the circuit court Attorneys Breen and Morris, representing Paul E. Wolf in the suit against the Fort Wayne Gas company, presented a motion for a change of venue from the presiding judge, and Judge O’Rourke ap - pointed Judge Erwin, of Adams county. A few days ago on a demurrer to the answer Judge O’Rourke held that the Gas company under its latest, contract with the city had the right to shut off gas from manufactories and gas engines. Wolf seeks to preserve the supply for his gas engine if possible. —Fort Wayne News. When you get catalogue from a big mail order house, just look and see what they pay for postage. Also investigate and see how their terms of credit are in case you don't have the ready [cash; how much they will subscribe toward keeping up the sidewalks of your town or turnpikes of your county. Just write and see what they will give to assist the poor in your community. After you have done this and received their reply go to your home merchants, get their prices, deduct the cost of transportation of the goods you are thinking of buying of the mail order house, and see if it is not more to your advantage to trade at home.—Rising Sun Re oerder.

A young Swedish girl just from the old country attended church at Minnesota town and the pastor hastened to her with words of welcome and expressed a wish of calling cn her soon. The girl blushing hung her head and said, ‘■‘Thank you sir, hut ay have a fellah. ” Superintendent C- D. Kunkle is mailing to all members of the Great Northern Indiana Fair association report of the financial condition of the association. The report includes a statement of receip s and expenditures for the past year, and is an excellent showing for the management of the greatest fair on earth. The young women connected with one of the western colleges have a very new fad. The college colors are white and blue, and to show their loyalty they are wearing one white stocking and one blue one. Just who discovered this to to be a fact is not known but it is not at all likely that other college girls will adopt this novel method and show their colors. A pretty good story was told at the Undertaker’s convention, about a minister. He had been officiating at so many funerals that he knew the service by heart and one day a wedding was held in the church. After preforming the service he horrified the audience by announcing: “Now all those who wish to view the body will pass up the middle aisle and down the side.” The death of Mrs. Frank Liebenguth at Los Angeles, California, was reported in the Democrat a few days ago. At that time it was thought probable that her remains might be brought here for interment. Mr. Kirsch received a letter from her husband today stating that she would be buried in California, as the family expect to make that their home. Mrs. Liebenguth was formerly Miss Anna Miller of this city. The Artificial Stone company at their annual meeting Isat week reelected the following oflicres for another year: President, Dr. C. L. Simkins; vice president, Abe Hocker ; secretary and treasurer, Rudolph Schug. With the exception of Philip Schug the old directors, C. L. Simkins, Ruuolph Schug. Abe Hocker, David Augspurger, . Dan Stauffer, David Lehman, were re-elected. John Rohrer takes the place of Philip Schug.—Berne Witness. Otto Mumma, the young man who was fined $2 and costs for slapping Miss Grace Gerwig in the face, is not laying the fine out in jail. He did not have the money to pay the fine, but called upon his mother for assistance. She went his surety for the amount of the bond and he stayed the docket. If the fine is not paid by the young man in the prescribed length of tme his mother will have to pay it for him or he will have to go to jail to lay it out. —Bluffton News. Postmasters Lehman and Schlagenhauf, of Berne, and Linn Grove, have been instructed by the postoffice department to exchange mail between the two towns through Mr. Burkhalter, carrier on route one, from Berne, who carries a lock pouch between the two towns since yesterday. In this way communi cation between Berne, Linn Grove and Bluffton, is more direct. Heretofore it usually took three to four days to receive an answer from our neighboring town Linn Grove, as the mail had to be sent byway of Dooatur and Bluffton.—Berne Witness. The poisoning of Crystal Krauss, in this city several months ago, has caused the State Board of Pharmacy to draft a bill to regulate the sale of poisonous compounds The bill was prepared by David Hecht of Evansville, and will be introduced in the H mse ny Representative Phelps Darby, also of Evansville The bill makes it unlawful for any person knowingly to sell to any minor under sixteen years of age, except upon the [written order of an adult, any of a long list of poisons, including carbolic acid, chloroform, opium, arsenic and morphine Os the druggist [the bill says: “And before delivery shall be made there shall be recorded in a book the name of the article 1 the quantity delivered, the purpose for which Jit is alleged to be used, the date of delivery and Jhe name of the purchaser and of the dispenesr” The penalty provided is a fine of not less than $5 or more than SIOO, to which may be added imprisonmen t not exceeding six months —Hartford City Times

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Very peculiar about eirls. When they are little they won’t go even into the parlor at night without a light because there might be a man there. When they grow older they won’t have a light in it because there is a man there four or five nights a week. A wise man of this city has added two new maxims to the world’s already valuable collection. They areas follows: “We ought never do wrong when people are looking,” and “No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.” Warsaw, Ind., Jan. 15.—Gen. Reuben Williams, editor of the Northern Indianian and Daily Times, of Warsaw, died at his home here today as the result of exposure while returning from the inauguration of Governor Hanley at Indianapolis. He was seventy-three years of age and had edited the Northern Indianian here for fifty years, being one of the oldest editors in the state. He was colonel during the civil war and was one of the commission which tried the “Indiana conspirators” in Indianapolis. He was held captive in Libby prison for months and at the close of the war commanded the first regiment to pass the president’s reviewing stand. Lesh & Lesh have filed in circuit court at Huntington a complaint of more than usual interest in that it discloses some facts which are of genuine news to the public. The complaint is entitled Lesh & Lesh vs Dora M. Hamilton and is in two paragraphs. The first three para graphs recites that [soon after the wreck of the Purdue special on the Big Four railroad near Indianapolis in which Jay O. Hamilton, son of Mrs. Hamilton,'was killed, in Octol>er, 1903, the plaintiffs were em ployed as attorneys to recover from the railroad for the death of Jay, then, seventeen years old. They recovered $4,000 from the Big Four and were to have received onethird of the amount recovered but Mrs. Hamilton has never paid them. A dispatch from Geneva to the Fort Wayne News Saturday said: “Considerable mystery surrounds the sudden disappearance of Miss Katherine Williams an attractive and accomplished school teacher, from her home at Bryant, four miles south of here. During the holidays she left to visit with friends and relatives at Fountain City, Ind. She left there December 31, and since then has not been seen by any friend or acquaintance, so far ae known. A coincident which led many of her friends to believe that she would return was that she was joined at Richmond by James Elbertson, a well known young man of Bryant. It is supposed that they would marry and return here. However, the only thing which has been heard from the couple was an anonymous letter written from Richmond to her parents, stating that the nuptials had been solemnized at Richmond. A search of the records in that city did not disclose the fact that a license had been issued.”

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Rev. E. A. Allen and Mrs. W. A. Hutchinson went to Fort Wayne this morning to spend the day with Mrs. C. J. Lutz at the Hope hospital. Reports from the election of road supervisors are coming in slowly. In Hartford township Fred Liddy, Courtney Runyun, , Jam«s O. Price and Luther Martin were elected. In French township a tie vote occurred in district one, the contestants being Jacob New houserand Daniel Smith. The other three districts selected William Stepler, Louis Schindler and John Newhouser. George A. Kintz was chosen in district four Washington township, and outside of that, no reports have been received. Not much interest was paid to these elections, partially because of a lack of interest, and partially on account of the cold weather which began Saturday. Union township selected J. E. Ehrsam, Herman Bittner, Barney Hackman and Fred Theime. Preble township chose Ernst Doehrman, John Witte, William Meyer and Peter Bowers. Sheldon, Ind., Jan. 16.—Mrs. Ceia Mills received word that her husband, late sergeant in company B. Eighth infantry, committed suicide at Fort Slocum, near New York City, on December 26. Sergeant Mills had just secured his dis charge from the army whgn he shot himself. There had been trouble between Charles Mills and his wife and several years ago they separated, and he enlisted in the regular army. Last October he was home on a furlough and a reonciliation was effected, the couple agreeing to live together again after his discharge. The cause of his suicide is not known, as he was supposed to be in good spirits over the forthcoming reunion with his wife. Besides his wife, the other surviving relatives of Mills are his father, L. B. Mills, a farmer living near Fort Wayne, and an aunt, Mrs. Rose Murray, of Ossian. Mrs. Mills was formerly Miss Celia Farrell, of Sheldon. Mrs. Diana Work, a native of Allen county, whose mother was the first white female born within the borders of Fort Wayne, is dead. The end came to her about 7:15 o'clock Saturday evening at her home 1509 Winter street, and was the result of cancer of the throat. She had suffered from the ravages of the disease, and though she made a plucky fight in spite oLher advancing years, her decline during the past few weeks was very rapid and it was known for some days that dissolution could not be far distant. Seventy years ago Mrs. Work was born on a farm on the side of the present Odd Fellows’ cemetery, near New Haven. She was the daughter of William and Jane Reynolds, both membres of pioneer families of Allen county. Her mother, Jane Reynolds, was the first white female child to be born in Fort Wayne. While this interest ing bit of the history of Indiana has never been written, it is said that the birth place of Mrs. Reynolds was a cave within the present limits of the city —Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

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Architect Oscar Huffman will draw the plans for the new SIO,OOO Uarnegie library. He was elected at a meeting of the library committee last night, and will begin work at once. He has already prepared several sketches and has an idea of what the committee desired, hence he will be able to please them. The oommttee were unanimously in favor of giving the [work to a home architect and this left them to decide" between Mr. Hoffman and Eugene Christen. The vote resulted four for Huffman and three for Christen, and the former was declared elected. He will visit sev- - al surrounding cities to r~ their libraries and will soon have acceptable V He will superintend tion of the building Attorneys Fruc 1 ' a divorce sui' Mrs. Mary Kelln al separation from k Kellar. The ooi ing some trouble s, both it seems flesh n of their only obiid, < tiree years old. Rumor of kidnapping have reached the police, but this case will likely settle rhe whole matter. The affair reached the climax last evening, when Frank attempted to remove the household goods. Today a restraining order was issued and the divorce case filed. The complaint says they were married July 17, 1900, and lived together until yesterday. Mrs. Kellar accuses her husband ot failure to support her and their son, of drunkeness and cruelty, says he cursed her and at one time pointed a revolver at her and threatened to kill her and the child. The story is one familiar in courts. Mrs. Kellar asks for a divorce, custody of the child, SI,OOO alimony and a weekly alowance for their support. The owner of»the land and not the tenant is entitled to the possession of the bones of all mastodons or mammoths that may be exhumed from the cemetery for prehistoric animals that may be found along Barren creek or any other part of the county or state. So says a j ury in the Grant superior court. The ownership of the mastodon found last March on the Dora E. Gift farm along Barren u creek, a few miles from Fairmount, h-<s at last been determined. The settling of the question, however, may not stop with a jury as an appeal to the higher court may be taken because of the unusual features of the case ■ and the points involved which have not been heretofore decided upon The bones were sold to a New Yoik museum for SI,OOO. No other case I lilje this one has come up before the courts of Indiana. There is no precedent on record so far as attor neys could determine. Many new questions were raised during the trial of tne case, and the taking of the evidence was a tedious mat ter. The case did not go to the jury until yesterday at noon. The verdict was returned four hours later. According to the juiy's ver diet, the Smith brothers will be required to turn over the money received from the sale of the bone to Gift, the plaintiff in this stfl - .