Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1906 — Page 5

{IVITY IN THE OIL FIELDS rt Mercer is Laid up with a uple of Fractured Ribs and a Few Bruises. meva, Ind., April 30. —Mr. and Robert Poet entertained all the hers of the Geneva schools at er Sunday and the occasion was la very happy one and one that shall long be remembered. Mr. Poer is the ? superintendent of the schools and f during the year just ending has proven his worth and ability in this position. As this is the last week of school, of trials and tribulations for the teachers, the dinner party came ■ at an opportune time for the guests to really enjoy themselves. There seems to be a slight tendeuj ey toward an increased activity in the oil fields just at present and it cer■i tainly looks good to everybody. The two late jumps in the price of grease has, to a certain extent, been the cause and it is believed that there will be another raise this week. There is not much drilling being done, but it is said that several strings are to be started soon. With the arrival of | nice weather, business prospects are brightening. M ' While Albert Mercer, who lives 1 south-east of here, was ploughing Saturday afternoon, he met with ■ rather a peculiar accident which * proved serious enough to lay him up for several days. His plough was goi,ng along as smooth as could be and Mr. Mercer was ‘just thinking how nice the ground was working, when suddenly the plow point struck ■ a buried snag and the plow thrown Pl over in such a manner that one of 1 the handles touched Mr. Mercer’s side and fractured two ribs. He will lay up for reputes this week. Geneva, Ind., May !.•—As advertised, the bids for the building of the new I. t). 0. F. block were received Monday afternoon but the contract was not let because of the complexity of the several bids regarding some of the old material from the former building which is to be used in the erection of the new block. There were eight bids submitted, among them being Frd Hoffman, W. H. Meyers and Mann & Christen, of Decatur. The range in the bids were very great there beng a difference of some $3,000 between the low and high bidder. The committee, who has the matter in hand will devote today and I tomorrow to studying the different bids and the contract will probably be let Thursday. The little shower of Thursday evening was only 3. “teaser” for the farmers who report that a good warm rain is needed in their business very badly. The ground is almost too d>’ to work good and in some places it looks as though a small earthquake had cracked it open. Everything so far points to a very successful season for the farmer and .he’s a man. Geneva, Ind., April 28. —Because of a recent ordinance passed by the council prohibiting the distributioir of hand bills, crculars and other advertising matter, unless ' a certain sum is paid for the privilege, a great deal of this out-of-town advertising has been stopped,' but there is one Portland store that is bound to Advertise here even if it costs big money. They send their stuff through the mails and would rather pay big postage bills than to pay a small Get SCOTT’S Emulsion When you go to a drug store ' and ask for Scott’s Emulsion you know what you want; the man knows you ought to have It. Don’t be surprised, though. If you are offered something •Ise. Wines, cordials, extracts, etc., of cod Kver oil are plentiful but don’t imagine you are getting cod liver oil when you take them. Every year for thirty years we’ve been increasing the sales of Scott’s Emulsion. Why? Because. It has always been better than any substitute for It. Send for free sample

sum into the Geneva treasury and thus be allowed to make a house distribution. If they would do the latter, I you see, it would help the town and that is far from what this firm wants to do. They want Geneva trade and, while people here can get what they want of the home merchants, they are not Satisfied unless they spend car fare, a little higher price for the goods, and maybe get buncoed in ’ Portland or some other foreign place. Otto who so the last eighteen months, has been employed in the Porter & Anderson drug store, left this morning for West Baden, where he will investigate a position offered him. Before accepting this, Me will go to Jeffersonville, where an-, other place is open for him. Both position are splendid and pay neat salaries and it is a well known fact that Otto ean make gopd in either place for he has proven he is up in the business a trade getter during his stay here. The invitations have been issued for the commencement exercises' and they are certainly little beauties. The class color is purple and the invitation and programme is printed on a motled white and purple card tied with a single bow of purple ribbon. A large number of invitations have been sent out. The exercises are to be held in the Methodist church one i week from Tuesday evening. hid., April 26.—The eighth annual commeneemest exercises of the Geneva High School are to be held in the M. E. church one week from next Tuesday evening, May 8. The graduates are Miss Leota Burke, Worley Reiff and Guy Shoemaker. The program is as follows: Piapo Duet “Poet and Peasant,". .-—7-- ~. ."MeSdames Green and Merriam Invocationßev. W ells Quartette"Arise, Shine” “Push Ahead”Worley Reiff “What Woman Has Done” Miss Leota Burke “Why I Am Here”.... Guy Shoemaker ‘.‘Spring Song”Quartette “The SMyfiSirk”.... Quartette Presentation of Diplomas... S. W. Hale Benediction.’;Rev. Mower. The Baccalaureate sermon will be deliveby Rev. Mower on Sunday evening, May 6, at the U. B. church. ——— A letter from Mrs. Jennie Studabaker says she expects to arrive home soon. She Jjas been at Denver for several weeks and has enjoyed herself- immensely. W. H. Shelter left last evening for Benton Harbor to bring his wife home, who has been confined in a hospital at that place, where she underwent an operation to have a tumor removed. The Marion, Bluffton and Decatur High schools will run an excursion to Toledo, Sugar Island and Dertoit on June 12th. The rates established will be $1.25 to Toledo and $1.75 to Sugar Island and Detroit. The Muncie, Hartford City and Ft. Wayne traction line, operating between Muncie and Bluffton, has been sold to the Indiana Union Traction company, and it is said that through cars will soon be operated between Muncie and Fort Wayne. J. B. Nisbett, agent for the W. H. Brown Land Company, left yesterday with Fred Mutchler for North Dakota where the latter will take a general survey of the country. Fred will also visit with relatives in that section of the country. r ■>' ■ Mrs; Frank Mann, of Muncie, and Mrs. L. C; .Helm, of Decatur, who have tyeen guests of Peter Hoffman and family in Linn Grove, returned home Friday. Mrs. Mann is State pYesident of the Rebecca lodge and gave a lecture ip, Linn Grove Thursday night.—Berne Witness. z A deal was made this morning whereby Henry Yocum purchased the stables owned by Lee Stultz on Jefferson street and took possession this morning. Mr. Yocum will run a livery • and boarding stables and will make the concern up-to-date in every respect. Mr. Stultz will go to Wren, 0., where he has secured a lucrative position. John Rex informed us today that he had just returned from Ossian, where he had been at the bedside of his father, Uncle John Rex, who is very low, suffering with heart trouble. He is eighty years of age and this makes his condition more serious as he is unable to battle with the disease. He cannot possibly survive out the week. Hon. Horace Stilwell, whom many will no doubt remember as having been a candidate for congress, is due to have a severe mental, shock. There was one inspector in the district, a Wells county man, who had more than enough money to pay the election boArd members and he brought the money to town yesterday to have it sent/back to Mr. Stilwell, who sent the n/ney to pay for the board.— ' Bluff An Newt

JESSE HOWER FOUND GUILTY Convicted at Fort Wayne and Will Have to do Time From Three to Twenty-One Years. William Goodman appeared in ■ court Monday morning with his attorj ney, S. A. M. Butcher and plead guilty to petit larceny. He is the fellow j Marshal Green corralled and later found a job lot of jewelry and a watch at his boarding house. The plea of guilty registerd is for the watch, the value of which was placed by him at $lB, and upon which he claims to have paid $5. He was working in a jewelry store at Bradford Junction, and it was from this store the theft , was made. In answer to questions by Judge Erwin, the prisoner stated thht he was thirty-three years old and that this was his first offense, he never having been arrested before on any charge. The court has the matter under advisement and will pronounce a sentence perhaps tomorrow or next day. ' _ k The jury brought in a disagreement in the Hall-Reiff case, which was heard before Judge O’Rourke. The jury retired at eleven o’clock Saturday and battled until eleven o’clock Sunday, but without avail, and was discharged.. It seems that the jury disagred as to facts, and from the first ballot to the last, stood nine for Reiff to three for Hall. This is the second suit, and the costs have reached such an amount that the lawyers have agreed among themselves that the easiest and best way our of the entanglement is to submit the case to Judge O’Rourke and let him make the findings. Should the parties agree, this- may be done. State vs. William Boyd for selling liquors in violation of the Nicholson law will be tried tomorrow. A demurrer-to £ted in the case of Holthouse, Schulte & Co. vs. Nancy Fleming estate. • • —— Sautbine vs. Coffman, a suit to quiet title, was submitted to the court, with findings for the plaintiff. The title was quieted as to all defendants, and John Schurger appointed commissioner to make deed. The suit of Hannah Wells vs. Jacob Moore and twenty-five others, was heard. It is a suit to quiet title which was ordered as to all defendants. A separate demurrer in four paragraphs, was filed by Milter in the case of France vs. Miller. Peter Soldner, as guardian in the Van Alman estate, filed a current report, which was allowed. Harriet M. Bowers, as guardian, filed both a current and final report, which-w*ere allowed. —J William T. Waggoner, as guardian for Perry McDaniel, filed a final report, which was allowed and 'he jvas ordered to pay the balance to the widow. s * ■ , T. H. Ernst, as administrator in the B. F. Breiner estate, filed a petition to have buildings insured, which was allowed. One of the cases tried by Judge Erwin at Fort Wayne last week was State vs. Jesse Hower. The defendant formerly lived here and will be remembered by many of our people. His wife died at Fort Wayne on January 19, of this year, and just before she died, she made a confession that her husband was guilty of criminal abortion, from the effects of which she later died. Jesse Hower was indicted and the jury brought in 'a verdict of guilty, which means a state’s prison sentence of three to twenty-one years. William Goodman, who was charged with grand larceny, accused of having robbed jewelry stores in Ohio and Michigan, and plead guilty to petit larceny, was this morning senteced to a term of sixty days in jail and find ten dollars. He is thirtythree years old. Kuebler & Moltz Co., vs. James K. Niblick, on account, demand SIOO, is the title of a new case filed by Lawyens Hooper & Lenhart. Judge Hench, of Fort Wayne, was attending to legal business before Judge Erwin today. A demurrer was filed in the ease of Belus E. Van Camp vs. Chris. Hoffstetter, a S7OO damage case. '» - - The state case against William Bird, cause continued on motion by

J. Riley Morris, through his attorneys, L. C. De Voss and D. E. J Smith, has filed suit against H. A. Fristoe to restrain the latter from I engaging in the business of retail or wholesale tobacco dealer. Morris I says in his complaint that he bought I Fristoe’s smoke house last January and that Fristoe agreed that he would not again engage in the same business here. The court granted a tem- ! porary restraining order until May ] 11, when the summons is returnable. Jaqua & Havey, attorneys, have filed a new case on change of venue from Jay county entitled Andrew J. Peterson vs. The Farmers and Merchants bank, on conversion and account, demand $2,000. In the divorce case of Mary Rice vs. C. J. B. Rice, the plaintiff filed a petition for an order to modify the judgment in relation to the custody of the child. Peter Holthouse vs. J. A. Fleming, et al., claims for $104.02, a demurrer was filed to the complaint and one clause sutained. In the case of the First National Bank vs. Frederick Koenig, the demurrer previously filed to each paragraph of complaint was overruled. William Scott vs. Martin Kirchner, damages, $75, an answer in two paragraphs was filed; rule to reply to second paragraph. James 0. Ball, guardian for John E. Fetzer, filed a current report, which was examined and allowed. A marriage license has been issued to George W. Tester and Edith Isabella Hackman. Both are well known young people of this city, the groom being an employee at the Schafer Hardware Store. Bench warrants were issued for China Schumacher and Charles Phillips. Bond fcesd at five hundred dollars. Arguments were made in the case of William Hall vs. John H. Reiff and Henry Alberson. ’The jury retired at eleven o’clock to wrestle with a verdict. With the end of the Hall-Reiff case the labors of Judge O’Rourke are finished for the present at least. He has been on the bench the entire week having exchanged work with Judge Erwin, who has been the acting judge in the Adams Circuit court. Judge Erwin returned today from Fort Wayne, where all during yhis week he has been holding court for Judge O’Rourke. It was a busy week. As we go to press the jury in the Hall-Reiff case is still out. Judge O ’Rourke left this afternoon for his home at Fort Wayne, but before going appointed Shaffer Peterson to receive the verdict, if one is returned and make a record of the verdict returned. This was done by mutual consent of all the attorneys interested in the case. Attorney Lutz has filed a new suit entitled W. F. Nagle Electric Company vs City of Decatur, suit on city orders, demand $llOO. A new case filed today by Attorney Jacob Butcher was entitled Adams C.| Ford vs. Clark F. Fink, demand. S3OO, a suit to recover on a note for $l5O, given April 11, 1904. Smith & Moran, of Portland, and Peterson & Moran, of this city are attorneys in a new case filed today entitled State on relation of Tray Huey vs. Henry Decker, trustee of Wabash township, an alternative writ of mandate to compel the building of a partition fence or compensation therefore. William J. Slatttry vs. Angola Oil Company, foreclosure of chattel mortgage, cause dismissed and costs paid. The cause of William Hall vs. John H. Reiff and Henry Alberson, suit on not, demand $525 is being heard today before a jury. The case was tried a few weeks ago and the verdict w r as set aside. Robert A. Andrews, who was convicted of petit larceny was immediately sentenced and began his term of five days in jail. He will pay his fine of ten dollars and will bfe released next Wednesday. A marriage license has been issued to Roy Hook and Florence Tinkham, of Blue Creek township. J A bench warrant has been issued for -Fred Rohrer, on a grand jury indictment for violating the election

I Kuebler & Moltz Co., vs City of I Decatur, on city orders, default as Ito defendants. : Harvey Rice vs. city of Deeatur, lon city orders, $250, default as to [defendant; judgment f0r.5188.52. Manufacturers’ Fuel Company vs. city of Decatur, on city orders, $600; default of defendants; judgment for $488.56. , German Building & Loan Co., vs. , Jennie Case, et al, default to cross complaint by Case and Case. German Fire Insuranc company ys. Graham & Lower, bill of exceptions filed by defendants and made part . of record. : D. W. Beery vs. G. R. &I Ry. Co., ’ damges $1,000; answer filed in two paragraphs; rule to reply. 1 Heller & Son have entered their appearance for J. S. Bowers, .as to 1 cross coplaints filed by the defendants in the Elm street sewer case; rule to answer. [ , First Natibnal Bank vs. Frederick Koenig; answer filed in three pragraphs; rule to reply. ' William Scott vs. Martin Kirchner, ( damages; demurrer fild to each paragraph and overruled. The Adams County Bar Association held a session this morning and endorsed Judge Erwin for judge of the supreme court. President R. S. Peterson presided and members of 1 the bar expressed themselves as favorabl to Judge Erwin’s candidacy and a committee to frame resolutions was ‘ appointed, consisting of P. G. Hooper, C. J. Lutz and D. E. Smith. They reported soon and the resolutions were unanimously adopted. Judge Erwin was notified and in a short speech thanked the members of the bax, £of. their action. .. ' The Ladies’ Aid Society of the ■ Presbyterian church will meet Thursday, May 3rd., with Mrs. Fred B. Tague, on Madison street, 2nd door 1 west of B. J. Terveer’s. Every lady of the church and all other friends are most cordially invited be to pres- ! ent. ! Indiana oil has gone to 93 cents, 1 another raise of two cents having been annouced yesterday. Local pro- ! ducers believe there is no question ! but that there will be dollar oil within a few months and if this is the case, there will be increased'activity in production. ’ The Continental Insurance company yesterday adjusted Joe Johnson’s loss on his house, wheih burned last Sunday, allowing him the full amount of SI,OOO. The loss on the 1 household goods of Sylvester Johnson, who occupied the house, was also adjusted by the same company. I Word was received this .morning from Woodburn, announcing the death of Barney Hetker, one of Allen county’s oldest citizens. The message did not disclose the cause of his death, but it is presumed that old age hastened the end, as he was past eighty years old. He was a brother of Mrs. Garret Hessler, of this county and the father of Mrs. Anthony Wertzberger, also of this county. Josephus Yarger, the Wells county fanner whos is suspectel of paving fired two barns on his own farm, near Nottingham Monday night, is under arrest at Bluffton on a charge of arson-, and the grand jury will investigate his case. Yarger declares that four men, armed with guns and ropes, appeared at his home on the night of the fire, ordered him out of the country on penalty of being hung and then fired his buildings. Miss Anna Winnes received a paper, Monday from her brother, Harry Winnes of Reedley, Cal., which has a very clear and vivid story of the terrible disaster that visited San Francisco a few days ago. The paper contains a very accurate account of the experience of Mr. Winnes white in the doomed city and relates many terrible and pitiful sights that he saw after arrivng on the scene, several hours after the damage had been done. We are unable to polish the same owing to our limited space. J. D. Winteregg, of the insurance firm of Hirschy & Winteregg, has been .doing some work for the Citizens’ Telephone company in the way . of securing contracts from farmers for rural telephones. Mr. Winteregg has made a number of soliciting trips to the country and has been able to return with a bunch of signed contracts from every trip. Farmers who have not yet arranged for a telephone should not fail to call at the office of Mr. Winteregg, who is ready to take orders for telephones and who can give all the ejetaited information them.—Berne Witness.

Their Absence Explained. During an acrimonious debate in the house shortly before the civil war Mr. Potter of Wisconsin made some very sharp strictures on Mr. Pryor of Virginia. The result was a challenge from Pryor to light a duel, which Potter promptly accepted, naming as terms bowie knives at five paces, terms which he well knew Pryor would not dare to accept, as he was a small man, While Potter was a large, powerful man and familiar with the use of the bowie knife. Pryor declined on the ground that the proposed terms were beneath the dignity of a gentleman to accept, and so the matter ended. But on the day following the challenge, while the result was still unknown, both Potter and Pryor were absent during roll call, and when Potter's name was called a Quaker member rose and in mild voice said, “Mr. Speaker, I am informed that the gentleman from Wisconsin had a Prior engagement.” And when Pryor's name was called a moment later he rose again, saying, “Mr. Speaker, I hear that the gentleman from Virginia has gone to be as clay in the hands of the Potter.” Doable Thinking. Professor Jastrow, writing In the Popular Science Monthly of the causes of certain lapses of speech, recalls the singular power that Sir Walter Scott, among others, possessed of conducting two trains of thought at the same time. When highly developed this power enables its possessor subconsciously to find words expressing a thought already formed while at the same time shaping the next thought period in conscious preparation. An instance is given by Scott's amanuensis, who relates that while dictating the novelist would sometimes search through a book, finding and reading a passage, and thus keeping two trains of thoughts going simultaneously. The amanuensis discovered the fact that Scott was doing double work In his brain through the occasional occurrence in the dictation of a word which did not fit in the sentence, but four or five lines farther on the place where the word belonged would turn up. ’ Candlelight. Hail, candlelight, without disparagement to the sun or moon, the kindliest luminary of the three, if we may not style thee radiant deputy, mild viceroy of the moon! We love to read, talk, sit silent, eat, drink, sleep by candlelight. They are everybody’s sun and moon. This is our peculiar and household planet. By the midnight taper the writer digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal if we would catch the flame, the odor. Night and silefice call out the starry fancies. Milton’s “Morning Hymn In Paradise,” we would hold a good wager, was penned at midnight, and Taylor’s rich description of a sunrise smells decidedjy of the taper. Even now a loftier speculation than we have attempted courts our endeavors. We would indite something about the solar system. “Betty, bring the candles.”—Charles Lamb. A Useless Model. An English manufacturer of pottery is the subject of a joke told in the Liverpool Post. While on a continental tour he purchased a Sevres vase for some hundreds of pounds and brought it home most carefully. Thinking that the foreman of his works might gather i a hint from the design be called that gentleman in and showed him the treasure. “How do you like it?” he asked, the foreman took the vase in bis hand, turned it over and returned it. with the brief reply, “I don’t think I can learn much from it.” “Why not?” asked the manufacturer. “I don’t like telling you, sir.” “Come. Out with It.” "Well. I designed that vase myself. It is a foreign imitation of our own work and is worth £5 at the outside.” Will Row Till Judgment Day. There is a shivery, shaky legend among the people who live along the Hudson river which is to the effect that that stream is the everlasting boating waters.of a specter who is personified as Ramhout Van Dam. Away back In colonial times Ramhout and bls friends were drinking until late at night. Finally this man Ram- ( bout started for home, some distance up the river, in his boat, swearing that he would row the distance if it took “a month of Ramhout never reached home, and the superstitious people say that he has been condemned to row till judgment day. Hlb Daughter. A gentleman who was once stopped* by an old man begging replied, “Don’t you know, my man, that fortune knocks once at every man’s door?” “Yes,” said the old man, “he knocked! at my door once, but I was out, and ever since then he has sent his daughter.” “His-daughter?” replied the gentleman. “What do you meim?” "Why, Miss Fortune.” The Unusual Way. “Do the Blanks manage to keep up appearances since they lost the greater part of their fortune?” “No. They don’t bother about appearances. They just use what little money they have to make themselves comfortable.”—Detroit Free Press. A Change. Old Gentleman (pointing to lanky youth at his side in the tram car)—How much for this boy—half fare, I suppose? Conductor—Well, no. He looks as if he were kept on half fare at home, and needs a change. Full fare, please.—London Answers. His Mistake. ' - ■ Rupert—Why did ye ■ ask her to marry you? Harold—We 1, I C»ought she was sensible, but hanged If she didn’t accept me!