Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1905 — Page 3

W drTcanada I I Ophthalmic Specialist. I ■ B ■ Practice limited to the oorrec- ■ ■ tlon of defects of the eye. Glasses ■ ■ fitted to relieve strain, with its ■ ■ numerous functional symptoms: H ■ to Improve vision and for loss of ■ ■ acc tn mods tlon due to age. ■ ■ REFERENCES THE BEST. g ■ At Dr. Coverdale’s office, at B ■ Decatur, Ind., V 1 TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7,1905 I

Portland now boasts of a company of uniformed Rank Knights of Pythias, the same being installed Wednesday night. Col. Redding .. and staff of Muncie, done the mus- ' tering act. A bill will be presented to the legislature asking for a change in length of court terms for the Blacks ford-Wells circuit. The new bill provides for a six weeks’ term in Wells county, and five weeks in -J Blackford. Two old soldiers each with a wooden leg were walking down the pike when a thunder shower broke loose. They hastened into a shed in a nearby barnyard. They sat down on a box, pulled the door, too but each allowed his wooden leg to protrude. The clouds soon passed and the farmer coming out into the yard yelled , “Hey, Jane, did you push the wheel barrow into the shed?” The Central Passenger association granted the Clover Leaf an east and west bound differenial of <1.20 between Toledo and St. Louis. It will be a basing rate for all passenger business west of the Mississippi, even to the Pacific coast points and for far east bound business when tickets are sold in St. Louis, the rate to New York being <18.05. The differential, however, will not be shows in the St. Louis rate sheet. Farmers are eagerly looking forwird to the nearing time when they will open their sugar camps and t oey are anticipating big runs of tle syrup making sap from their sugar trees this year. The winter thus far has been ideal to precede a big syrup and sugar year and unless [maple syrup is plentiful this [season the farmers in this county will be sorely disappointed. Already the sap is commencing to flow from the maple trees where limbs have been broken off. There is a report that a new schedule will go in effect on the Clover Leaf soon. Little is known about it so far, but it is said that it will be nearly like the old time table. The change in schedule will go into effect, it is said, about the first of February, probably the first Sunday in the month, which will be the fifth. With the new schedule some new fast trains are to be put on, both passenger and freight, the latter meat trains. One of the fast passenger trains will be known as the “Twentieth Century Limited,” from St. Louis to Toledo, marring connection for Buffalo. It ' w.ll pass through here about noon I and will get passengers into Buffalo I the same evening. ~ * There are two reports current re- ! garding the future of the Erie Rail road company. One is rather vague and uncertain. The other is definite and specific. One says that there is a transcontinental development in which the Erie will figure, but fails to state particulars further than that it is the result of a bring ing about of a settlement of the Northern Securities case. Big changes are expected to follow that settlement, and it is now thought not to be far away. But there is another development which is nearer home and which seems more rea sonable, about which three are posibilities of an interesting character. It is known that the refinancing measures of the C. H. & D. are nearing completion, and it is stated that as soon as this has been accomplished there will be a change in the railroad map which will lead to a close traffic alliance, if not a combination, of the Erie and C. H. &D. roads. It is believed that the anouncement of such an alliance will be made soon after February 1. F. D. Underwood, president of the Erie road, announces the appointment of James H. Maddy as special representative of that line, with wadquarters at New York

A dispatch from Washington states that the membres of the Lincoln League of Indiana are trying to get Secretary Hay to deliver an address at the annual meeting of the league in Marion February 13. Auditor Sherrick’s bill for the collection of sequestered taxes is under fire from the “tax ferrets” of the state. A simliar bill introduced two years ago, was successfully opposed by the “ferrets,” whose business in Indiana counties it supplants.

Mr. and Mrs. Roman J. Holthouse and family returned this morning from Jonesboro, Arkansas, whe .”e they were visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Holthouse. Roman has during the past several months has been touring the Southern states in the interest of his shoe firm. An argument is out against men wearing hats. One writer says that Indians never wear hats, and baldheaded Indians are rare. But we must all remember that the wives of Indians are not boss. There is something in that. Baldness is not always caused by wearing hats. The wearing of breeches has some thing to do with it, says annexchange. The Clover Leaf has made a contract to build a cinder pit one hundred and fifty feet long for cleaning their engines at Charleston. The new improvement will be made of concrete and will be large enough to accommodate ten engines at one time and will be the means of doing this line of work in a rush. The management will also add a crane elevator co the docks there. With this latter improvement an engine oan be loaded with coal at a great rate. The season for the distribution of garden seeds has arrived and the clerks of the Indiana congressmen are working overtime writing the names and addresses of constituents on countless little slips. The slips will he sent to the department of agriculture, where each slip will be pasted on a package of seeds and put in the malls. The first consignment of seeds sent out go into the southern states where the sea son is already well advanced. It will not be long, however, until, Indiana is reached in the distributing process. Each member gets 12,000 packages. Cards were received Friday by a number of Decatur people from St. Paris, Ohio, announcing that Miss Carrie Florence Zerkle was yesterday united in marriage to Mr. Henry Joseph Hopple, the wedding occurring at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Zerkle. Miss Zerkle was quite well known in this city, having for nearly a year and a half been in the employ of the interurban company as stenographer, and while here made a host of friends who will no doubt be surprised to learn of this happy event. The cards further announce that Mr. and Mrs. Hopple will be at home to their many friends after March Ist, at St. Mary's, Ohio. The Democrat joins with Miss Zerkle’s many friends here in wishing her a long and happy married life. The grjom, Mr. Hopple, is a wealthy oil operator who owns valuable leases n the Ohio field.

John Lose, the barber, who has been traveling throughout the wilds of Arkansas for the past two weeks, arrived home Friday hungry, tired and sleepy and not much taken up with the beauties of that state. John states that he made a thorough examination of the condition of the state and found that with the exception of two months there was no oold weather and that the general climate was good. He also discovered the fact that farms could not be bought for a song as thas been reported around here, and that the value of land was increasng daily. He found the cities in the northern part of the state in a flourishing condition, and up to date in every respect, but found that the man who did not go there with money had as hard a time of getting along as he had in Indiana. Mr. Lose states that excursionists are arriving there every day all with the same intent and purpose of buying cheap land in which respect they are being disappointed. He found the general health of the Decatur colony located here good, and stated that all were making money hand over fist and living like kings. It is indeed probable that Mr. Lose will not return, but will content himself with his present lot among the Hoosiers-.

To increase the salary of county superintendents and at the same time to raise materially the standard of their qualifications are the objects of a bill that has been drafted in the office of the state superintendent of public instruction and was introduced in the house. An exchange speaks of a man who, it is said, always paid for his paper a year in advance. As a result the has never been sick in his life, never had corns on his toes, nor toothache, his potatoes never rot, his baby never cries at night, his wife never scolds, and he succeeded in serving three years on the school board without being cussed. James C. Kelly, of Council Bluffs, lowa, returned to his home last Saturday, after spending three weeks here with his relatives and friends. While here and at Decatur he met quite a number of his comrades that were in the civil war with him and had many a heartv handshake and talk over old times. His brother Milo and S. H. Teeple accompanied him as far as Decatur. —Geneva Herald.

Reports have reached the city that there are a gang of grafters working in and near Continental, Ohio and are working toward this oty. There are two men who go through the country and stop at each and every farm house, wishing to place grafts of pear, apple and plums on various orchard trees. One lady near Continental gave them permission to place grafts in some of her trees. They went to work, placed 110 grafts in one tree making a total of ~50 grafts in the orchard. They charged her at the rate of five cents a graft which amounted to <37.50. She had to pay them Because the work had been done. Many more orchards were stripped the same way. It will be well forth- farmers in this section to be on the lookout for these men for they will no doubt put in their appearance soon. Clerk David Gerber Monday forwarded to the Indiana State Bureau of Statistics his report of business for the year 1904." The same shows that 175 civil cases were filed dur ing the year, twenty-five letters of administration were issued and twelve guardiansnips, six decrees of foreclosure of mortgages, five Adams county people were declared of unsound mind, 18 marriage licenses were issued, ten people declared their intentions of becoming American citizens, or which number one was originally from England, six from Germany, one frcm Russia and two from Switzerland. Sixteen divorces were granted, sixty-four criminal oases were filed during the year and sixty-six disposed of. Nine of these were convictions for felony, twenty-eight for misdemeanors, twenty-nine criminal oases were dismissed. There were eleven convictions under the Indiana liauor laws. The report sets out the year’s business in detail and is an interesting one. Rev. Hicks has sent out his February menu in the weather line, and the first storm is due on the 3rd. A progressive warm wave with falling barometer will appear first; cloudiness, with rain, turning to snow, will follow, and these, attended with more or less storminess, will pass central to eastern parts of the country from about the 3rd to the sth By the Bth and all the phenomena of the first storm period will have nearly or quite disappeared, except the cold. Change to warmer and falling barometer, followed by return to cloudiness and rain and snow will again be advancing from the western parts. On and touching the Bth and 9th look for rains with electrical storms. The next storm period is central on the 14th, extending from the 12th to the 16th. The passage of regular winter storm conditions may be counted 'on' this period. First, February rains, turning to snow and sleet squals, winding up with rising barometer and cold wave. The 19th, 20th and 21 will bring general and very active winter storms, the first stages of which will be warm] and tropical—rains with lightning and thunder, espeo ially on and ’’touching the 21st. But in quick order look for change to colder with blizzardous visitations. The last storm period for February runs trom the 25th into I March. On and touching the 27th and 28th. growing change to falling barometer warmer and cloudiness will merge into wide spread rains, fringed on the west and northwest , tangents by s row, high winds and i much colder. $

G. G. Burry and Miss K atie Lieohty called at the county clerk’s office here Friday morning and purchased a marriage license. Mr. Burry is now a resident of Pandora, Ohio, where he is engaged with his brother in the well drilling business. He was marshal of Berne a few years ago, r/nd is well known in this county. Miss Liechty is the daughter of Emanuel Lieohty of near Berne. The wedding occurred Friday and Mr. and Mrs. Burry left Saturday for Pandora, their future home. The editor sat in his easy chair, lighting his pipe on his auburn hair. A halo shone over his face, but his knees were out and his feet were bare. And he sang a song both sad and sweet, while the flies died all around his feet, for he had no ford in his shop to eat, and the ground outside was covered with sleet. Now what in the world was the cuss to do- He had eaten the paste and swallowed the glue; he hadn’t a drink, he hadn’t a chew and while he starved his whiskers grew and the villian still pursued her. Bluffton shcools will hereafter be open eleven months in the year instead of nine, but pupils may attend any nine months and still have a three month’s vacation. A very large majority will no doubt take the summer months for their vacation as usual. The school term begins September 4 and continues tc August 3 for the next year. It is hoped this plan will save building another school building. Superintendent Wirt’s plan is to have the new system go into effect February 17th, which will be the beginning of one of four terms during the eleven months. The plan is not to apply to the high school, which has been conducted on a flexible system something of this order for some time. Under the new plan pupils can take only three of the four school terms and the idea is that about one fourth of them will be taking a vacation at a time, thus relieving the overcrowded condition of the schools.—-Bluffton News.

P. Poyneer, the manufacturer of the noted seed and grain separator, informed us that he was busy unloading a oar load of separator material that had just arrived from Oxford, Ohio, and was storing the same in his present place of business on North Second street. Another car load of the same material will arrive m a few days from Kalamazoo, which will be used in the construction of these machines. The material in these two oars alone he values at <3,705 and from which he expects to construct 1,020 machines during the coming year, and that the largest number of these machines would be sold and shipped to various points outside of this county. The proceeds will come to this city as this is where Mr. Poyneer is making his home, and the amount will reach in the neighborhood of <35,250, which is a very low figure. He stated to a representative of this paper that a number of business men had already come to him asking him to organize a stock company, as they desired to interest themselves in this and run the same on a much larger scale. To all these men, he has turned a deaf ear and is now laying his plans to oragnize a large stock company, he himself to take the same amount of stock as the other business men. so that he will be no more interested than other members. After this company is organized and fully launched he expects to make the move of having the company build a plant of their own, which will be a building of only one story, but of considerable dimensions. He would also induce the company to manufacture several other articles that he has had fully protected by patents, and which he knows will be ready seLers and money makers. It is his intention to turn this separator out by machinery, which can be done much oheaiwr than the way he is now now turning them out and have electricity as his power which he says he can arrange for with the city and which would answer the same purpose as steam. If everything turns out in the shape that Mr. Poyneer has arranged and the business men see fit to take a hold and push this enterprize to the front and assist Mr. Poyneer in every shape and form the new enterprise can be in full running order in sixty days, and a number of men who are now out of employment will be given steady work the yeaj

Former County Sheriff Whipple purposes to permit 4 the county to enjoy no game of solitaire in the practice of suing people. Two weeks ago suit was brought against him on his official bond by order of the county commissioners tofcolleot the sum of 2<,500 alleged to be due the county from him. He now comes back at the commissioners with three suits aggregating nearly a thousand dollars. The first two suits, <s6o.7s’and <l4O respectively are for interest on certain fees which were held up by the county oommissoners for a long time, while the third is <256.40 for committing and discharging prisoners at the county jail.—Portland CommercialReview. G. W. Ryan, who is opening the bowling alley in the John Weber building, informed us that Everett Ball, the young man who came here on January 18th, to oversee the putting in of these alleys returned to his home at Paris, 111., a few days ago and informed his friends and Mr. Ryan that while in this city he had been robbed of <108.75, the alleged robbery, taking place between the Clover Leaf and Erie railroads, while he was enroute to the train to ascertain matters concerning the arrival of the alleys. Ball claimed that two men, one slender fellow and the other a short heavy set fellow did the work, which was near Schafer’s saloon, forcing him to throw up his hands at the point of a pistol, and relieved him of his cash, leaving him penniless. He claims to have at once notified the polilce, whom he says paid no special attention to what be said. When Marshal Green was informed as to this transaction today he said it was news to him, as no alarm had been sent in on that day or night, for the police say that the night men never informed him of toeing called out upon this kind of a mission. As it stands, Mr. Ball undoubtedlv got tangled up with parties while in Fort Wayne and was relieved of his cash there. Mr. Ryan states that the money had been borrowed by Ball and that the bank at Paris, would loose the whole amount, which was <lls. The bowling alley is nearing completion, and will be opened to the public this evening.

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Yesterday the remains of Mrs. Amelia Schott were brought to Geneva and laid to rest in the family lot at the Alberson cemetery just over the Wells county line. Mrs. Schott had been in an asylum for insane since in 1877 and the record of the'family to which she belonged is perhaps one with few equals for distressing circumstances. Mrs. Schott was the eldest daughter of the late William Snyder who died only a few weeks ago at his heme five miles west of Geneva. He was the father of eleven children and the mother of these eleven died in an insane asylum thirty years since. The oldest son, Philip committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor six years ago and another son Samu el. aged 22, killed himself by hanging in his father's barn eleven years ago. A daughter Elizabeth died in Easthaven asylum in 1888. Three years ago last September another daughter, Mrs. Anna Simmons dropped dead in the orchard at her nome "ear Domestic while on the same day her sister, Mrs. William Clendenen died in the Richmond asylum. The caskets sat side by side at a single funeral and both were buried in one grave. Another member of the Snyder family, Mrs. Lucy Fields, wife of David Fields, has been twice in the asylum, and George one of the youngest children, was in the asylum three years ago, but has recovered and is making a reputation as a man of rare business judgment. William Snyder, regardless of all of his cause for remorse, was never insane, although his mind weakened for periods of months at a time, and he was noted for his thrift. He owned five or six hundred aor*r of land liesides acquiring consi'’ other property. There very suspicious circums’ nected with the ’sudde Mrs. Simmons but a < vestigation and a pi* amination of the . n the body was ex weeks after her I establish a case ag who was suspected <_ responsible for her death. Tnere is little doubt, however, that she was poisoned.—Portland CommercialReview.

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