Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1906 — Page 1

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Carlysle Flanders. the little son of Mr. and Mrs. George Flanders, is ! very ill with inflammatory rheuma-j tism at the home of his grandpar i ents, Mr[ and Mrs David Flanders, j Mrs. Flanders is at Cincinnati where i 3 her mother is very ill with but very little hope for recovery. Before a crowd of uninvited guests Miss Rebecca J. Engle and James F. EeHenbavgh of Geneva were united in msrraige yesterday at Squire Smith’s office by the honorable Squire who did the fancy job. Immediately after ceremony the yo ng couple were congratulated by those present and went their way cooing like two pet doves. Ed Touhey and Marion Mentzer cn Saturday evening got into a rag chewing match on the street, the result being that Mentzer was lodged in jail on a charge of provoke, preferred by Touhey. He was arranged this morning before ’Squire J. H. Smith and plead fuilty, being assessed a fine of a dollar and costs. Being unable tc pay he will lay it out. Sheriff Butler went to Geneva where he arrested Michael McGriff and William Byrd, each of whom gave bond in the snm of <6OO and 1200 respectivly. These arrests are upon grand jury indictments tor violating the Nicholson laws. McGriff got a dose of six indictments while Byrd got off with two. The laying on of bands” forcer tain complaints, especially in children. is now taking the place of the mind cure. A mother cured her boy of cigarette smoking with one dose, lhe laid her hand on the boy’s neck, her right band on the substantial slipper and then laid it where it would do the most good. It cured him and a relapse is not looked for. Monday night’s wind storm was neo of the most severe in the history of Decatur, though no’great damage has be=n reported. The storm broxe during the afternoon and continued unabated during the greater part of the night. Several signs were torn down, windows shattered, and one of the iron cornice pieces on the M. E. church was blown down ; light damage is reported from the country though nothing severe. Telegraph and t’lephoue li"es all over the country were destroyed and news today has been rather hard to get Isaac Darst died a few days ago at his home in Bloomington, Illinois, after an illness of several years with paralysis. Be was born in Miami county, Ohio, April 23. 1822, and in the forties he lived at Linn Grove in this county, go ing from here, to Illinois in 1847 in a prairie schooner. He engaged in farming and became quite wealthy. He was a liberal subscriber to the fund for the erection of the Deaconess hospital at Bloom ington. Mr. Darst was a brother of Grandmother Mary French of French township. Grandmother French is now 87 years old and the only surviving member of the Darst family. Mr. Darst is also an uncle to Mrs. Peter Hoffman, Mrs. John Stiner, Mrs. Lovina North and Marion French. The result of the precinct meetings over the district assures the selection of John H. Terhune as • district committeeman by a large majority. It is very probable that •when it comes to the convention at Manice Tuesday he will have no opposition whatever, the name of Dr. Newcomer of Elwood, not being .presented. It is said on good an thorty that Dr. Newomer would not have had the Cromer support even had Cromer been able to control the delegates. Mr Cromer had se looted John Frisinger of Decatur, for this honor But since Mr. Cro met will not have anything ap preaching the control of the convention, itj is the general opinion that no candidate whatever will be put up against Mr. Terhune and that this selection will be made unannimous There will be 158 delegates in the convention and Mr . Terhune already has from a hun- ■ dred and fifteen tc a hundred aid twenty-five votes—Anderson Her • aid.

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Mrs. H. H. Bremerkamp went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit with her daughter, Stella, who is attending business college at that place. Miss Stella fell last Friday and fractured the bones in her left wrist and her mother went this morning to ascertain how serious her injuries really are. The premium committee of the Great Northern Indiana Fair Association have revised the list which now awaits the approval of the directors who will meet in the Sheriff’s office, Thursday, Jan. 18. Several important changes have been made and a great number of old premiums have been raised and some stall rents have been reduced. The directors will no doubt adopt the new premium list. The Wolpert sisters enteitaioed a number of their friends last even ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Baker in honor of Frances, Rose and Joseph Brickner of Tiffin, Ohio. The evening was spent in playing progressive pedro, the pri zee being won by Miss Lena 'Appleman and John Weber and the consolation prizes by Miss Clara Weber and Harmon Gillig. After the awarding of the prizes a threecourse luncheon was served, fol lowing which y*'e guests departed, voting the W&lpert girls as charm ing entertainers. Cyrus Weaver received word Friday from Batavia, lowa, announc ing that Floyd Boone, aged eighteen years, had been accidentally shot through the hip and that death followed in a few hours. The message did not disclose how the shooting occurred, only that it was an accident. Mr. Boone was a brother of Vane Boone, who has reside with Mr. and Mrs. Weaver ever since he was two weeks old, and he is grief stricken over this sad news. The news also [affected Mr. and Mrs. Weaver as the Boon family has seemed like their own children to them. None of the family, however, will attend the funeral, as the time is too short for them to make the trip. The remains of Miss Ida Warmouth, aged eighteen years, who died yesterday morning at the Hope hospital at Fort Wayne, arrived this morning in charge of her father, Sidney Warmoutb, and were taken to Preble, their home, where the funeral services will be conducted next week. Miss Warmouth was taken ill a few days ago and on last Wednesday went to Fort Wayne and entered the Hope hospital, where she was going to submit herself to an operation for stemaoh trouble. However, Thursday night she took a turn for tho worse and on Friday morning passed away. Her father was informed by telegram early yesterday and immediately went to Fort W’ayne and took charge of tho remains. Miss Warmouth was a beautiful young lady and was a leader among her friends, who will mourn their loss as no one can fill hfr place She was also well known in this city. No funeral arrangements have as yet been made owing to the fact that news concerning the arrival of relatives from Kentucky is being awaited. Tho .Union Chapel Sabbath school submits the following report for 1905: No. of Sunday school sessions for the year 1905, 51, number of business sessions, 3 number of scholars enrolled for the year, 73; number of teachers and officers, 14; total enrollment for the year, 87; amount of regular collections, <54.30; amount of special collec lions, 15.07; total collections for the year, <59.37; average collection perJSunday. amount col looted from other sources. <6.90;. The young mens class taught by Burt Wolf proved to be the banner class of 1905, as well as it was in 1904. This class contributed during the year <IB.OO. The Sabbath school is progressing in an excellent manner, and endeavoring to per form tie mission for which it has been The teachers and of the reorganisation fori 1906 are all faithful Sabbath sohoo workers and continued progress 119 06 is assured. Jess S vartz.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1906.

Under the statutes of Indiana the kind of a fight known as an, “affray" is a serious thing. It is defined as follows: If two or more persons, by agreement, fight in any public place, the person so effend ing shall be deemed guilty of an affray, and shall, on conviction, be fined not eoxeeding <SOO each and imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding five days each.” Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Briggs left Tuesday for an extensive tour of the west. They go direct to Phoenix, Ariz., where they will visit Mrs. Brigg’s parents, who are wintering there and after a few weeks'stay in that section of the country they will visit many of U’e California cities and other parts of interest, in the Western states. They will be absent for some time. E X. Ehinger, accompanied by his son, Lawrence, left Tuesday or Dunkirk, New York, where Lawrence will enter school to prepare himeelf for the priesthood. When he enters this school he will not be allowed to return to his home until he has finished his course, which will take twelve years. He was advised of all these facts during the past year, has been studying hard for this work and could not be turned from his ambition. Thia is the same school that Anthony Confer and Carl Crawford are located and he will thus have considerable company. The work is hard but Mr. E linger is fully satisfied in his own mind that he can master the same and will enter the schocl with determination. This is the same school that Father Valentine, who spoke here last winter, started in. Union township proposes to get out of the mud, and in support of this intention have filed with Auditor Lewton five petitions for that many macadam or stone roads. As file! the petitions are designated as the Blakey macadam road three miles long, the Sohamerloh road four miles long, the Ahr road three miles long, the Hart road three miles long, the Stegmeyer road three miles long. This makes a total of sixteen miles and when they are all complete Union township will be one of the best macadam road townships in the county. The petitions will be presented to the board of commissioners on Monday, February 5 and should no objection be offered an election will be called. As a pointer at this stage cf the game we suggest that the only way these roads can be carried at such an election is for every voter to vote for every road as petitioned. It can not be hoped to carry any one two or any other part of the total number of roads. The only wav to stop a fight and carry through any one of them is by an aggressive campaign for all the roads. Let every one favoring I road improvement stand square for all the roads, and Union township is sure to get in out of the mud. Convoy, 0., Jan. 16,—This town was nearly wiped off the map by a deroe tire which broke out at 11:30 o’clock Monday night, and which for hours, swept everything before it, twenty-four buildings being destroyed. The blaze originated in a grocery store, from some unknown cause, and within a saw moments the fierce wind had fanned it into the greatest conflagration ever witnessed in this part of the country. The fire continued all night and swept two entire blocks to destruction. Tan business houses and fourteen dwellings were burned to ruins, including the bank, posteffioe, telephone building and the Presbyterian church, the latter being the last structure to . burn. The loss is fully <75,000, with insurance for peruaps half that amount The buildings wore all frame but one. a brick, and burned like tinder. The local fire department was helped by volunteers and worked like demons, and to their efforts is due the fact that any of the town was saved. The VanWert fire depart ment wero summoned to the some I but encountered a wreck, whi -h delayed them an hour and a half. | and they arrived too late to be of I any service. |

Monday night between eight and nine o’clock, amid a terriffic windstorm two ice houses on the tile factory ground, east of town, belong ing to Jacob Hunziker, burned to the ground. C. C. Baumgartner had cleaned them out in the afternoon and no doubt dropped burning ashes from his smoke pipe. The loss is about <SOO _ with no insurance. The heavy rain that proceeded the fire by a few hours saved John Eicher’s farm buildings and straw stack near by.—Berne Witness. Interest is becoming manifest in the first annual show of tho Adams County Poul try association, which is scheduled to be held in this city January 30-31 and February 1-2. A meeting of the members was held hero yesterday, when some of the preliminaries were completed. It is expected that the show will be a great success and every possible effort is being made with that end in view. The committee are making an effort to sell 500 admission tickets at ten cents each and have already disposed of one third of them. Help this enterpiise along by purchasing a ticket. Judge Lane of Spiceland, Indiana, has been selected as the scorer, his reputation in that line be ng equal to that of any man in the United States. Get your poultry ready for this exhibit and make arrangements to attend. Such an enter prise is of great benefit in more ways than a few. By a decision of the Indiana su preme court rendered recently the importance of the office of road supervisor is emphasized and the error so many farmers make in disregarding the elections for the obscure office made manifest. The court holds that a road supervisor has unlimited power to command the property and persons of citizens in the line of his duties, and he is not bound by the instructions of the township trustee nor can the trustee withold money neoessarv to be used. It says that a road su pervisor may take wood, gravel, sand, stone and earth from adjoining land to u«e in repairing a high way, and charge his township with the appraised value; that he may require the men living in his district to do the work necessary tc repair a road, and that without the consent of the trustee the supervscr’s power to take materials and im press labor so far as is necessary is practically unlimited. It also holds that the supervisor’s duty is as broad as his power and he can be compelled to do these things, even though his trustee may object. In the case referred to, the trustee had forbidden the supervisor to do certain necessary work, but that was held not to excuse him from the performance of his duty. Thursday evening the local order Knights of Pythias held a roll call meting in honor of the charter members cf their orders, and from all reports a most enjoyable even ing was spent. Out of the original thirty-three charter members, there are only four left, and on last , evening three of those were present, namely Godfrey Christen, A. R. Bell and Fred Schafer, the fourth, C. T. Darwin, of Lafayette, being unable to attend, but when his name was called a letter from him to the lodge was read. When the three charter members got up to speak in response to their , names a stereoptioon .view of each was thrown on a canvass. Over o<e hundred members were present and the addresses bv the different members of the order were given as follows: Godfrey Christen, “Char ter Members’ Daniel Erwin, “De ceased Members;” R. K. Erwin, “The Old Ritual;” E Burt Len hart, “The New Ritual;” Jonas Tritch, “The History of the Order.’ Imediately after these addresses Clyde Rice was given the work in the third rank and became a full fledged K. [of P., after which a banquet was served, which includ,ed all the dainties of the season. 'During the progress of the same leach of the three charter members 1 "<M-e presented with a boquet. j Tee meeting wis a successful one ‘ and the members are to be oonaratI nlated up m the m inner in which it I was c arried out.

E. M. Peoples took charge of affairs at the Burt House Tuesday and will, from this date on, con tinue as “mine host. ” He is a cap able, faithful business man, who I will continue the reputation of I The Burt as one ofjthe best hotels in Northern Indiana. R. M. and Nathan Link of Paris, Illinois, owners of the building, were here today and transferred the lease from Mr. Humphries and arranged for several improvements which I will add materially to the comfort and convenience of the house. Mr. and Mrs. Humphries expect to leave Thursday for El Reno, Oklahoma, where they will reside. During their two years as citizens of Decatur they have become quite popular and lave formed many ties of friendship which are hard to sever. However, they [expect to frequently visit their friends hern, thus oountinuing the acquaintance which has been a pleasant one. Mr. Humphries owns the El Reno Democrat, one of the best newspapers in the Territory and during his first month of ownership has proven himself a natural b:rn editor and we predict great success for him in this field. George W. Cromer, for ten years congressman from this, the eighth district of Indiana, has 'ost his organization, practically meaning hi s defeat by Horace C Stillwell, who will be a candidate against him at the coming republican convention. Friday primaries were held in every county in the district with the exception of Randolph, where the fight is on today The results given out today show that Cromer retains his power in Delaware county in which he resides, and in Adams county, while Horace C. Stillwell, of Anderson, his opponent for the nomination in the campaign now in progress has won in the struggle for the control of the organizations in Madison Jay and Wells counties. In Delaware county Cromer, retained control of the machine by a vote but slightly decreased from two years ago. Madison went to Stillwell who carried sixty nine of the eighty six precincts; in Jay Cromer took but four preoints out of twenty and in Wells he landed only fouateen out of twenty eight. In this county Cromer’s organziation is practically perfect there being but one or two Stillwell committee ( men. As chosen from the various ! precincts the new committeemen are: Union C. S. Mumma; East, Root, Jesse Warner; West Root, John Evans; North Preble., Sam , Spangler; South Preble, Robert , Case; Kirkland, Will Ehrman; East Washington. Elmer Cook; West Washington, Bob Galbraith; North St Marys, A. M. Brown; South St. Marys, R. O. Ellston; North Blue Creek, J. W. Dague; South Blue Creek, Sam Tumbleson ; ' North Monroe, Hazel Andrews; Middle Monroe, Lee Keefe; ‘A’ i Berne, John Hilty; B Berne, C. G. Egley; French.V. D. Bell; North 1 Hartford, Noah Pusey; South Hartford, Luther Martin; North Wa bash, J. H. Smith; Ceylon, Josiah Aspy; “A” Geneva. Morris Wells; > ‘B” Geneva, F. J. MoWhi ney; first waid Decatur, “A,” J. M. Fiising1 er; first ward Decatur, “B,” J. G. 1 Smith; second ward Decatur, “A,” 1 C. V. Connell; second ward Decatur, “B” Sam Butler; third ward ’ Decatur, “A”, D. W. Beery; third 1 ward Decatur, “B”, F. L. Litterer; ’ West Jefferson, Jess© Buckmastet.; > East Jefferson, George Brewster The district delegates for Decatur • chosen are Jesse Sutton, R. S. Pet erson, jr.,W. A. Lower, and Weikel, Calvin Peterson. andO. C. Schaffer. At Berne C. J. Egley and Mr. Parr were chosen as delegates. These will go to Muncie next Tuesday, where a convention is to be held for the selection of a member of the state committee. Mayor John Terhune of Anderson, is selected for ' tie place without opposition. The Cromerites have pus up a game i fight but it begins to look as ■ though his days as republican . controller of the old Eighth were > drawing to a close. The new committe in this county met nt eleven o’clock Saturday i at the office of Chairman John M. Frisinger, in thia city, and Mr. 6 Frisinger was unanimously reelected as county chairman.

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Albert Egly, who has been teller at the Peoples' State bank since its organization, handed in his resigation to the board of directors i yesterday morning. The resignation caused quite a little'surprise in the business circles. Mr. Egly has accepted a position with S. F. Bowser A-Co., at Fort Wayne, as collector. This company manufactures oil tanks and other articles by the wholesale and does an immense business, they having in their employ an office force alone of over fifty people and nearly one hundred traveling salesmen. Mr. Egly is to be congratulated upon securing this position, as it is a more lucrative one than the one at the bank, wih good chance for promotion.—Berne News. The city council met Tues, evening, every member being present, and Mayor Coffee presiding. The minutes of the last meeting were read by Clerk MoFeely and upon motion were adopted as read. Teeple then moved to adopt the resolution to take up three water works orders that have heretofore been ordered and issue on o. dor instead which motion carried. Teenie then moved that the bill of the Sunday Creek Coal Company for the amount of <622.91 be allowed which carried. Upon a motion by Fordyce the council will meet January 25 at one o’clock at the ooun cil chambers and take up the Colchin sewer matter. The commit tee on the Dicer claim were no* ready to report and upon motion by Porter was continued until the next meeting. Porter then moved that the city attorney proceed by legal redress to collect of S. G. Humph reys, manager of the Burt hotel, a water works bill to the amount of <21.62, and an electric light bill to the amount of <17.70. This motion carried. Upon a motion by Porter the matter of Frank Gast concerning a water bill was referred to the water works committee to adjust and report back to the council. The new ordinance concerning the burning of rujbish in alleys, was then read for the first time, 'all councilmen voting yes. Gaffer then moved that the ordinance be advanced to a second reading which lost. Upon a mo tion by Porter the finance com mittee, with the [assistance cf the city attorney, were instructed to proceed to make a temporary loan to such an amount as they deemed necessary. Porter then moved that the resolution in the Neptune sewer be adopted. Teeple moved that the new water woris ordinance be advanced to a first reading, which motion ,was lost. Upon a motion by Buhler the ordinance concern ; ing flagmen at the different railroad ; crossings was advanced to a first ; reading. Gaffer then moved that ; the ordinance be advanced to a ; second reading, which lost. The ; bill of L. C- Helm fcr firemen’s service at the Bremerkamp fire was, upon motion by Fordyce, al i lowed. The [bill of Thomas and ■ Wemhoff for service at the fire was, upon motion by Teeple, referred to ; the fire committee, as there was ; some dispute concerning the same. , j The following bills were then read I and allowed: W. E. Fulk, pay roll, <12.60; Clint Fisher, labor, <3 60; First National bank, interest, . <125.00; J. R. Patterson, express, . <1.35; James Eady, labor, 75c; C. I Vogt, 1aber,2.25; Sylvester Spaag ler, rent, <10; James Bain, electric light used in clerk's office, <6 J. D. • H ala, supplies. <l2 02 Old Adams • County banfc, interest, <1.117.50 C. & E. railroad company, freight, <523.45 W. J. Archbold, interest, , <36.49 John Thomas, hauling coal, s <165.84 Safety Cylinder company, supplies, <3.68 Knapp Supply ' company supplies. J<3?.12 Brooks ’ Oil company, oil, <12.19 Sunday . Creek C-»al company, coal, <622.91 Fort Wajne Electric works, supplies, <101.91 Fostoria Glass oonc--1 pany, supplies, <6.60 Union Oil , works, oil, <39.52 Kirosh & Sellemeyer, supplies, <11.16 Smilh, , Yager & |Falk, supplies, <17.30 i William Burkhead, laoor, <4.25 P. J. Hyland, labor, <52.90 L. C. Helm, fire, <56.60. ... -

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