Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1905 — Page 1

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VOLUME XLIX.

Ex-Surveyor G. E. McKean arrived Tuesday morning from Joplin, Missouri, where he has been located several months. He has sold his interests there and expects to remain here permanently. Anthony Holthouse returned home to , Jonesboro, Arkansas, last evening, the urgent demands of his large manufacturing business causing him to cut short his visit here. He spent a week among his old friends and had an enjoyable time. Attorney Homer C. Underwood today makes formal of his candidacy for the democratic nomination for municipal judge. Mr. Underwood is the present deputy prosecuting attorney, and has been an active worker in the ranks of Fort Wayne democracy for some years.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. Mrs. W. H. Daniels went to Fort Wayne yesterday to attend the annual district convention of the Home Mission of the M. E. church, which is being held there today, she being president of the conference. She was accompanied by Mrs. John Vail, who is conference treasurer and Mrs. Amspaugh, who is secretary and Miss Barge who is field secretary. Commissioner Z. T. Sweeney has received word from the government that a fish oar would arrive in the state some time this month to stock the streams. How many fish will be liberated in the streams of this section is not Known, but he says numerous applications have been made. He thinks that this year the government will distribute at least thiity million fish of all game sorts in Indiana waters. Invitations have been reoeiyed in the city announcing the wedding of Eirl D. Adams, a lawyer of Decatur to Miss Annie Elizabeth Falling, of j Flint, Michigan. The young man is a son of L. D. Adams and a nephew of F. P. Adams of this city. The wedding will be solemnized at the home of the bride, in Flint on the evening of the fourteenth and the young people will make their home in Decatur, after a short wedding 1 journey. —Bluffton Banner. John P. Schwartz, a young Amishinan, about twenty-one years old, and a son of the old leader of the sect, Peter Schwartz, will leave in a few days for a pleasure trip through France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and England. He expects to be absent a year. He says he has no relatives there and is simply going to see the country. It is rather out of the ordinary for an Amishman to travel for mere pleasure, but John is nevertheless bent on seeing the world. Judge Lafollette has ordered a special grand jury drawn to investigate the recent crossing war between the Panhandle Railway company and the Muncie & Portland traction line at Redkey. William Purdy, a Panhandle detective, was killed by Patrolman William May, of Redkey, during the fight and three other men suffered bullet wounds. It Is commonly believed that May will not be indicted, as it 18 said that a hundred witnesses will testify that the fatal shot was tired in self-defense after at least two shots had been fired by Purdy. I Without doubt, D. M. Henslay, the jewler now has one of the finest jewelry stores in the state of Indiana, and if you have not seen the same since he has repaired it, 't will pay you to go in and take a look. The business room has a ll been repapered and repainted and the room made larger by taking out a hall way. The furniture 18 all new and of the latest pattern and compares favorably with the company of Chicago. Beedes this he has restocked the e i°re with all the latest and fancy jewelry on the market and carries 8 v ery heavy stock of the same, n connection with this he is handling fancy chinaware and cut glass, is a new feature to his line. he store is a dandy and Mr. ensley ig be oongratulaetd up°n his improvement and the citishould be proud to have a J Kzen of such pushing enterprise.

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The Sunday ’school convention, for Blue Creek and Jefferson townships, which was to have been held at Steele Sunuay was postponed until next Sunday. The inclement weather last Sunday was the cause of the change of date. The Geneva cornet band should have received a call to the Decatur fair one day duiing the week. Our boys are well organized and are giving excellent concerts every week. The boys and a good many of the ’citizens [in ’the south end feel that our boysfshould have been given a chance.—Geneva Herald. Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison went to Fort Wayne Eriday evening, where she joined Mrs. Vesey and they left that city Saturday for New York, where they go to meet Miss Hattie Studabaker and Miss Margaret Vesey, who will arrive there Mon - day, after several months abroad, i The party will visit a week in the east, arriving home next Saturday. • Miss Tena Schurger was delightfully svipiiffd Mcrday at her country home by forty of her young friends in honor of her twenty eighth birthday. The evening was spent in games, dancing and musica nd a fine time had. Refreshments were served, after which the guests departed, wishing I Miss Tena many more such happy occasions. Bluffton girls have invented a game which they call “Missionary” I and for hugging it is said to beat waltzing all hollow. The young men represent r he heathen line upon one side of the room and the young women represent Christianity on the the other side. With repeated backsliding from the faith on the part of the heathlen the game can be prolonged all I night. Miss Marie Allison delightfully j entertained fourteen of her friends ; Friday at her home o i Second i street,in honor of Miss Naomi Gregg of Kokomo. The evening was spent in playing games and listening to 1 music rendered by different members present. Charles Loch captured all the prizes offered. Refreshments were served during the evening, and the guests departed voting Miss Marie as a charming hostess. Johnny Hudson, fifteen years old, who robbed his step-father, Randall Spargue, of eight dollars, and spent it for clothes, stood bebefore Judge Erwin this morning and with tear-dimmed eyes told his story, admitted his guilt and plead for leinenoy. He was fined five dollars and sentenced to ten days in jail, but when he begged for a chance to pay the money back the court relented, and suspended sentence. Little Charlie was very fond of watching his mother dress. One day when she was brushing her hair, he exclaimed: “Ma, why dot s your hair snap so?” “Because there is so much electricity in it,” she replied. Charley sat looking at her very thoughtfully for a few minutes, and then he could contain himself no longer, when he burst out with: “What a queer family we must be! Grandma has gas in her stomach and you have electricity in your hair.’ ’ A new law firm began existence Monday when Shaffer Peterson and John C. Moran combined their offices under the firm name of Peterson L Moran. Their rooms are in the New Studabaker block, where Mr. Moran has been located for several years. Mr. Peterson, senior member of the firm, is one of the oldest practitioners of the Adams county bar and enjoys a practice unexcelled by any Decatur lawyer Mr. Moran is serving his third term as prosecuting attorney, and though one of the youngest members of the bar here, is considered one of the most successful. He is an earnest, faithful worker | and enjoys a splendid practice., The firm will certainly prove a winner imd will enjoy a lucrative I patronage. P. K. Kinney will continue lis office in the same rooms and B W. Sholty. insurance agent, and broker, will also *ave desk room with t hem.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, • SEPTEMBER 14, 11)05.

It has just been discovered that Silas Myers, who has been for twenty years an inmate of the Kosi oiusko county poor house, is entitled to a pension and a place in the soldiers’ home, and he has been transferred to the military home at Marion. Joe Roy and family will leave Thursday for Hammond, Ind., where they will make their future home. While in this city, Joe has been bar tender for Lase Ellis, and his successor has not been chosen. He has accepted his old position at Hammond in the shop, and will resume his new duties next Monday. He will keep p >sted as to Decatur doings by reading the Daily Democrat. The little son of Mr, and Mrs. Edward Chronister, who was injured a few days ago, bv being run over by a wagon loaded with dirt, is slowly improving and his physician, Dr. S. D. Beavers, now believes him out of danger. The case is a peculiar one, and the boy’s mi raoulous escape fi om instant death is a mysterv to all. The little fellow is resting easier and seems to be free from all pain, and may soon be able to be up and about again. The Decatur string of race horses have been shipped to Van Wert, where they are entered for this week’s races. True Worth is entered in the 2:18 trot and should be iu the money, as he has not lost a race this season. The fast little green pacer, Diamond D., is entered in the 2:03 pace and should show up well in this class. The balance of the Decatur horses are in good c mdition and should give a good account of themselves. A large crown of Decatur sports are contemplating taking in this trip Harold Davis, the eight year old son of G°orge Davis, living one mile west-of Pleasant Mills, met with a severe and painful accident about eleven o’clock today. He fell thirty feet from a hickory tree, breaking the left leg just above the knee. Dr. J. W. Vizard dressed and set the broken limb and the pa 1 nt is now resting easy and will get along all right. The fall was a hard one, hut no internal injuries were sustained. Tae broken leg however, will be sufficient to keep him housed for several weeks. The Portland Oregonian, says: “Miss Helen May Irwin, one of Indiana’s clever women correspondents. who is making a tour of the coast for a number of Indiana, Indianapolis and Cleveland publications, is in the city. Miss Irwin has beer in Portland for a couple of weeks, studying the exposition, religious and educational conditions of the city, and before leaving the state she will make a study of these conditions in various cities in Ore gon. She is diocesan correspondent for the University of Cleveland, and the Columbian-Record, of In dianapolis. She also represents two newspapers of Fort Wayne, Ind. Miss Irwin is much'impressed with the beauties of the exposition, and has promised to immortalize the Rose city in a poem, for, like many Indianians, she is a poet”. The first wireless message ever received in Decatur came yesterday, when Miss Hattie Studabaker, then several hundred miles at sea and aboard the Manitonka steamship, sent word home of her safe voyage. The message was sent byway of the Marco in station, and was received at the Sias Conset station. It read, “Safe voyage—will reach New York Monday morning. Marguerites writes. Hattie.” The me ssage was addressed to Miss Studabaker’s sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison, who with Mrs. Vesey, another sister, from Fort Wayne, left Saturday for New York, and who no doubt surprised Miss Hattie and Miss Margaret Vesey when they landed this morning. To those who have always looked upon the telegraph and telephone as wonderful, almost miraculous sys terns, can scarcely believe it possible that a message can be sent through the air without even a wire to assist in carrying the vibration, J but s ip future years such messages j willffio doubt be very common oc-i currences.

i The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth ' Nicklas, who died near Osaian, were transferred here for Springfield, Ohio, where interment will take place. Louis Nicklas, a son i of the deceased, accompanied the .remains. Undertaker A. Elzey, the drove through to this city with bodv. Prosecutor Moran filed a new 1 criminal case in the circuit court entitled the State vs The Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas company. Marshal F. Aspy of Geneva is the complaining witness, and says that on October 10, 1903, the gas company charged him three dollars rent for a meter and $2.50 for setting it, insteda of furnishing it free as required by law. The case should prove ap interesting one. Carl Moses, whose success in showing his herd of Berkshire hogs has been reported, continues to add laurels to his list at the lowa State fair. Last week he showed against seven herds cf Berkshires and won seventeen first prizes. Competing against over 3,000 hogs he won the championship and sweepstake premiums over all. Adams couutv is certainly proud of her stock record. Carl is showing his herd at Lincoln, Nebraska, this week. The Commercial club of Marion has been wo-king for several months to raise a factory fund of SIOO,OOO for the purpose of getting additional factories in Marion This amount in subscriptions ha s been reached. A new organization known as the Young Men’s Booster club, has been formed and this organization proposes to raise an additional fund of SIOO,OOO to be expended in getting factories and in other ways advancing the interests of tie city. “Gentlemen of the jury,” soid a lawyer, * what kind of swearing has been done this case? Here we have a physician, a man who from his high calling should scorn to tell an untruth. But what did he testify, gentlemen? I put the question before him plainly, ‘Where was he stabbed?’ Unblushingly, his features as cool and placid as marble, he replied that he was stabbed an inch and a half to the left of the medial line, an inch above the umbilicus. And yet gentlemen, have proven by three unimpeached witnesses that he was stabbed just below the railroad station. ” A mutual insurance company has been organized by the members of the Red Men and Haymakers’ lodges in Warren Each member of the order may become a policy holder in the insurance company by paying the sum of one dollar into the treasury. Out of the fund thus raised the death benefits are to be paid. And upon the death of a policy ho Ider an assessment of one dollar, shall be levied against the surviving members. In that manner there will always be enough money in the treasury to meet one death claim.—Warren Tribune. Levi Miller of near Linn Grove, was in town, shaking hands with his many friends. Levi is one of the most popular men in Southern Adams county, and he knows it now, if never before. He is reasonably well fixed in worldly possessions, and a year or more ago agreed with himself that he had worked long enough and would spend the balance of his life in rest. He kept the vow until a few mornings ago, when he decided to clean out an old well, donned his overalls and started. He had been laboring only about fifteen minutes, when he heard a commotion, and climbing out of the well beheld a great crowd of his friends, some weeping, others consoling his wife, and still others laughing hysterically. He says that settles it, if people are going to make so much fuss when a man wants to work he will never try it again. In seme way a report had become circulated that he had died suddenly near Muncie and a great throng of people from Berne and Linn Grove had driven to the home to console Mrs. Miller. Levi says he has no idea how it happened, but he does know there is no truth in the report.

i What was no doubt the first shipment of chinaware that ever was shipped diiect to Btrne fr„m Japan was received li«t week one day by D. Bixhr. It was a lex i containing gold inlaid china, hand painted, and was shipped from Mioo, Japan. The hand-painted china is very popular and in de mand but the fact alone that it came from Japan will no doubt double the sales of this ware.— Berne News. John Whitmore captured the third premium at the Decatur fair last week with a fine colt sired by Espoire du Boise, the Belgian draft owned by A. P. Hardison, There were seventeen head of suckling i colts in this show and as fine a lot as we ever saw. Espoire du Boise also took first in the Belgian class and sweepstakes over all Belgian s and Norman. Noah Shoemaker, who has charge of the horse has him at the Portland fair this week. He has also five of suckling colts entered. — Geneva Herald. Bishop Herman J. Alerding of the Fort Wayne diocese, left last week .for New York, from where he sails Saturday on the steamer Genoa for Rome, where he will make his five years’ report to the pope. He will be absent about two months. Last evening he was surprised at his Fort Wayne home by many of his people, and the entire Fort Wayne clergy, who called to wish him Godspeed and hope for his safe return. The Very Rev. J. H. Oaohtering, vioargeneral of the diocese, made an address and presented the bishop with a purse of nearly $2,000. A special to the Star from Washi rgten, says the Vigo County National bank, of Terre Haute, will not epen its doors again, according to Judge Francis Oldham, chief of the insolvent division of the office if controller of the currency. For a time there was a good deal of talk of resumption and active efforts were made to that end, but it was found to be impossible to comply with the controller’s conditions. The movement has been dropped, Judge Oldham says, and the receiver will now proceed to wind up the bank. The Clover Leaf officials have decided to bore for oil and gas in this city and will begin active work at once. An expert oil man and driller was here in company with A. A. Shane and other officials of the Clover Leaf, and it was decided to bore five wells on the sixty acres by the repair shops and yards here. The oil industry of this and surrounding sections cf the country have called the attention of the country here. Oil and gas is in this section, and it ts hoped that the Clover Leaf will strike five gushers.—Charleston Courier. Dr. J. M. Miller, county health officer, and Dr. E. H. Leßrun drove to Kirkland township Thursday to examine the herd of cattle which are infected with a supposed contagious disease, and found that the herd, twenty-seven in number, are the property of Louis Bracht, a well known farmer. The disease, Dr Leßrun says, is what is known as ophthalmia, is contagious, and to prevent a spread of the disease and save stock, cattle should be shut up in a dark place and kept separated. It is a disease of the eye and often causes blindness. The report of j Dr. Leßrun was sent to the state veterinary, whose duty it will be to come here and investigate. Speaking of the disease, Dr. C. V. Connell, another well known veterinnary, said: “Thedisease prevalent in cattle at this time of the year, of which there are large numbers of herds throughout the county reported to be afflicted is specific ophthalmia or catarrhal conjunctivitis. It is not necessarily a contagious disease, but appears in a euzootic form and may effect one cow or the entire herd. It seems ro be more prevalent in low lands and the cause is usually attributed to some irritable material carried in the atmosphere cr eminating from the soil. Kis not a fatal disease, but in some cases the eyesight iis completely destroyed.”

CIRCULATION 2800 WEEKLY

NUMBER 28

J >hn Frisinger, who has been in ■ Belgium for several mouths, buying horses for the firm of Frisn.ger & Co., v.ill sail this werk for heme. : He has purchased sixteen head of full bloi ded Belgian stallions and the tun h he will accompany borne . are valued at S3O,fCC. Thia firm i has disposed oi mere draft stallions during the past few years than any single company in this country. This lot of horses is said to be the finest ever seen here. They will be kept at the company’s headquarters at Steele’a park. The Gay family held their annual reunion at Steele's park Thursday everyone present had a most enjoyable time. The Gays and those related to the Gay family were there from far and near, and were all sizes and ages. The relatives commenced to gather at the park early in the day and at noon one of the largest crowds in the history of this family’s reunion was present. At twelve o’clock all were seated at a long table, which was loaded with good things, and for one hour they ate. The afternoon was spent in numerous pastimes, including a game of ball among the young men, The Christina Union church held a big picnic in the Joshua Bright Woods, three miles south of Peterson, yesterday. It was a big delightful day for old and young and those between, and every soul present enjoyed the event. FouiSunday schools participated and an interesting program was carried out. Among the ministers who took part were Rev. Noah Stalter, Rev. C. T. Payne, Rev. Jacob Heller and Rev. Lorenzo Pease. Os course the best part of the day was the big basket picnic, when fully five hundred people indulged in an old-fashioned feast. The total receipts of the Warren fair weie $6,020.06. All the bills against the association have not yet been presented and the managers do not know what the disbursements will b«, but it is safe to say that every bill will be paid and a handsome surplus will be left in the treasury. The receipts this year exceed those of a year ago by more than S3OO, and while there is not as great an indebtedness hanging as a year ago, the expenses this year are greater than they were last. There were more premiums to be paid and the purses in the speed department were higher. A good dividend will be paid.—Bluffton News. The council held a continued session Tuesday evening, Mayor Coffee presiding, and every member present. The annual report of City Electrician Mylott was filed and duly accepted. Herman Derkes filed a petition for a sidewalk on south Fifth street. It was referred to the proper committee who reported favorably and an ordinance was adopted ordering the construction of said walks. A report of the school board was read, declaring that a tax levy of thirty-seven cents on the $l3O for a special fund and thirty-two cents for the tuition fund is necessary. A vote for such a tax lost, as did another for a levy of thiity and thiny-seven cents for the same purpose. Later a motion was made by Gaffer to allow the levy as requested and charge the school houses for electric light and water, but this also failed. The electric light committee filed their approval of Electrician Mylott’s current report. The library resolution accepting the gift from the city schools carried on seoo n d reading. The tax ordinance was called up and read, but the levy for each purpose was left blank, and no action on fixing the levy was taken last night. It was docided by vote, however, that a tax of twentv cents on each SIOO of assessable property be made to pay for the water hydrants. As there are ninety-five hydrants in the city this makes an average o thirty-five dollars for each h ydrant per year. A motion for a thirtyfive cent levy for street lights lost, as did another motion for a twelve and one half cent levy, the latter failing to get a seoond. The council adjourned to meet >gain this evening.