Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1906 — Page 1

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DOG ORDINANCE Passed First Reading Before the Council TREE HYDRANTS TO BE CUT OFF Sidewalks Within Fire Limits Must Hereafter be Built of Cement —Other Business. ; The city council met in continued session Tuesday evening Mayor Coffee presiding and every councilman being present. The council at once proceeded to get down to business and upon a motion by Burns the Dog ordinance was read a first time, which is an ordinance to require each and every owner of a dog to scure a tag for the same and have the dog registered in a ledger which shall be kept by? the clerk. The ordinance, however, was laid on the table until the next regular meeting when several changes in the same will be made. Burns then moved that an ordinance be drafted by the city attorney, requiring that all sidewalks that are in need of repairs, or that are to be built new within the fire limits shall be constructed of cement. Motion carried. Van Camp moved that all watering troughs and hydrants that are now running free for the benefit of the public be cut off with the exception of the City Fountain situated at the court house. Motion carried. The specifications on the First street improvement were read and upon motion by Van Camp were referred to thestreet and sewer committee for their inspection. Burns moved that placards announcing the fact that the spitting ordinance was in effect be printed and tacked up in conspicious places. Motion carried. Burns moved that the matter of having the cards printed and put up be referred to the purchasing committee with power to act. Motion carried. Van Camp then moved the council adjourn until next Tuesday evening, their regular meeting night. Motion carried. TWO CONVENTIONS AT ALEX. Madison County Democrats to Nomi- . I ■ nate County Candidates. At a meeting of the Democratic central committee of Madison county, held in Alexandria on Friday, it was agreed to hold the Maui son county . convention in Alexandria on June 28, the me day as has been selected for the congressional convention which -will also be held there. It is the first time that a county convention in that county has been held away from the county seat. Alexandria thinks that it can handle the two conventions on the same day easily. The county convention will meet at ten o’clock, have 'a short preliminary session and adjourn, the congressional convention meeting immediately afterward. It is expected that this, will be very short and that the regular, afternoon session of the county convention will not be delayed. FEELS GRATEFUL TI THE BOYS Judge Erwin Expresses Appreciation of Nomination. Editor Democrat: Allqw me to thank you and through you the people of Adams county, irrespective of party affiliation, for their kindness and assistance in secure for me the nomination for supreme judge for this district. And I especially desire to thank the delegates to the state convention and, others who attended, for the masterful way in which they labored with the several delegations to bring about ; the result attained. Thankfully yours. R. K. ERWIN.

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FATHER OF MRS. M. P. BURDG Henry Kuhl Wandered Ten Miles in the Country, But Turns Up AU Right. The Burdg family was in a fever of excitement all day Sunday owing to the fact that Henry Kuhl, the aged father of Mrs. M. P. Burdg, had wandered away from the ’ Burdg home and could not be located, and for a time, they feared that something terrible had happened to him. However, about four o’clock, he was located about ten miles south-west of the city and is now at the home of his daughter, feeling no ill effects of his long tramp. The old gentleman came to this city Friday to make a short visit with his daughter, and was contented until Saturday evening, when he began to worry about his pension papers. He left the Burdg home about five o’clock and the members of the family paid no particular attention to this fact, thinking he was going down the street to meet hs daughter. Mrs. Burdg came home about six and her first inquiry was concerning her father. She was told he had left home and a search for the old gentleman was immediately started. They searched all night, but without avail. Sunday afternoon, however, Dr. J. M. Miller and M. P. Burdg started out in an automobile and started in a south-westerly direction. Upon their first'inquiry, the got trace of the old man, and about four o’clock located him about ten miles south-west of the city upon the public highway and ' still walking. They* put him in the auto and returned to this city and to the Burdg home, where is now nstalli ed. Mr. Kuhl is seventy-five years of age and is in a feeble condition, but •his long walk did not seem to affect him in' the least, and he is feeling remarkably well today. ’’ ADDITION TO SCHOOL BUILDING . Will Christen Gets the Building and P. J. Hyland the Heating Contracts. 1 Aside'from electing a superinten--1 dent of schools, Saturday evening, the school board also opened bids and awarded the contract for the erection of the addition to the Central school building, mention of which has prevously been made. The addition is 46x56, two stories, to be erected on the south side of the Central building. The new addition will embrace two rooms on the first floor and a chapel above, making a much needed improvement to the school needs of this city. The bids filed with the board were W. H. Meyers, $7,884; Fred Hoffman, $7998; C. E. Suttles, $8,697; Linn & Patton, $8,759, and Will Christen, $7,790. The latter was the lowest, bid and the contract was duly awarded. Bids were also opened for heating of the building, both old and new additions, the bid of P. J. Hyland, $2,722.55, was the lowest and the contract was awarded. Bids on both the building and heating were below the estimate, and were quite satsfactory" to the board. Time was given until October 1, for the completion of the building and heating, and to this end the work will be rushed. STILL ANOTHER PIECE OF PIE J. R. Spivey Apponted Postmaster at Bluffton. J. R. Spivey was Monday appointed by President Roosevelt as postmaster in this city. The recommendation was made by Congressman Cromer some days ago and now that the president has acted, the only thir that remains is for the senate to confirm the appointment, something that will no doubt be done in the very near future. J. R. Spivey, the next post- ; master of Bluffton, Sias been a resident of the city and county for the past ten years. He was here when Cromer received his first nomination, was for him at that time and has re- i mained a loyal supporter since then, i During his residence in Bluffton, Mr. ; Spivey has been employed as chief ; clerk in the C. C. Deam drug store, j In that position he has won for him- 1 self a host of friends who will be glad i to learn of his good fortune in secur- ] ing the appointment to the postmas- ] tership.—Bluffton Banner. i

DECATUB, INDIANA, THUBSDAT, JUKE 14. 1906.

SAYS IT 'iS VEBY SUDDEN i. —, Discussed the Beef Packing Scandal But Would Say Nothing About Himself. Scripps-Mcßae Special. Berlin, June 11.—William Jennings Bryan arrived here today and found the newspaper men waiting fur him. When told that Indiana among other states had declared f• r him for president, he replied smiling broadly< vnxuM J. bey ax. “ This is very sudden. ” Bryan firmly declined to talk politics as relating to himself, but discussed the beef ' packing scandal in a few brief words, saying that the innevitable tendency of private monopoly is to increase the price of product and to lower its quality. Why should anyone expect anything else from a trust than the lowering of quality where monopoly is established. Bryan expects to ’ leave here for St. Petersburg, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, Denmark and will arrive in New York on Princess . Irene, August 29. He will sail for home from Gibralter. RESULT OF CANCER OF THROAT Wandered in Here a Few Weeks Ago and Was Cared For at Widow Martin’s Home. Benjamin F. Whitten, an old soldier, who for some time past has been making his home with Mrs. Martin, Jhe widow, who resides near the north ward building, died Monday night about ten o’clock, after months of suffering,, death resulting from a cancer. He had been taking treatment from Dr. C. S. Clark for some time,

but the disease seemed to have too firm a hold on his constitution and he could be afforded no. relief. He suffered intense pain, but with the pluck and courage of the soldier that he was, bore the punishment without flinching. A message was sent to a daughter at Baker City, Orgeon, the only known relative he has, and, unless something is heard from her soon, the funeral will be held tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Martin, and interment will be made in the Monmouth cemetery. The old man wandered in here several weeks ago and soon afterward became bed-fast. A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION How Lttle Knocks Finally Wear Out a Town’s Possibilities. Don’t knock your town. A little weak chick .with its Soft little bill can break its way out of an egg with comparative ease. Those of you who have tried cracking an egg on your knuckles wonder how the chick does it, observes one of our exchanges. Scientists have a very simple expanation for it, which is this, the chick knocks from the inside and the arrangement >f ti.e panicles that make tl.e shell are such that they are easily driven apart from tue v-side, but wedge:'. i-i---gether when struck from the outside. It’s the same with a city. Tin konck 8 from the outside have little effect, but even light taps from the inside are disastrous. It’s the knocker at home that hurts a city. Don’t ; knock—boost intead and there will be ' no knocks from the outside.

AFTER WRECKING TWO HOMES His Ellicit Love for a Woman of His Church is Discovered by Irate » Husband. Rev. W. T. Sanders, pastor of the United Brethren Circuit at Collett, Jay county, has fallen from grace fend will no doubt be forced from the ministry. He has been intimate with Mrs. Ezra Jackson,‘one of his flock, and consequently two homes are broken. Thursday night, Mrs. Jackson went to prayer meeting while her husband stayed with his sick mother. About 9:30 o’clock Mrs. Jackson came home and insisted on sitting up and allowing her husband to go to bed. Jackson went upstairs, but not to sleep. Instead, he stretched himself out on the floor, close by the window where he could command a good view of all approaches to the house, and awaited developments. Shortly after 11 o’clock, he heard his wife walk softly over the floor below. Poking his head out of the window he saw her open the front door as if to come , out, chancing to glance upward, she saw his head out. of the window and at once returned to the house and to bed. Jackson still remained on watch feeling certain that more was to come. He was right. In a few minutes after, he heard the gate softly open and saw the Rev., Sander slowly approach the' house. No longer able to control the •righteous wrath within him, Jackson called to the preacher and demanded what he was doing there at that hour of the night. Instead of answering the man turned and ran. Jackson overtook him and compelled him to return to the house. There in the presence df his mother, Jackson compelled his faithless wife and her paramour to admit an intimacy which has existed and been kept up covering a long period of time. After his confession, the preacher was allowed to return to his home, nothing being said of it at the time to his own wife and family. He had a wife and four children, two boys and two girls, the oldest, a girl being 12 years of age, and the youngest a boy aged 15 months. Jackson, who is 36 years of age and his wife, 25, have but two children, a boy aged 6, and a girl, aged 4. Both children are deaf mutes. Saturday morning, Jackson took his wife to Portland and with the children took her to her parents at St. Marys, 0. He returned on the evening train, leaving the little girl with her mother. He has the boy and it is said the lad will be placed in the home at Indianapolis. The morning following the discovery- of his unfaithfulness which has now wrecked what was once two happy homes, the mm ; or left for (be western part of the state, where he had previously made an appointment to preach a memorial address.

AFTER THE TRACTION LINE • - Berne Business Men Held Important Meeting. The Berne Business Men’s Association held their regular monthly meeting Thursday evening and a majority of the members of the organization and a number of the business people not yet members were present. The principal business before the meeting was the discussion of the east and west electric road possibilities as presented to the town by parties interested in the Bluffton & Marion road. The Association appointed a committee of four men to confer with the officials of the proposed road with a view of inducing the men to build the road via Berne. The men appointed are Eugene Runyon, Julius C. Schug, C. Stengel and J. P. Habegger. —Berne Witness. SUCCESSFUL SUPERINTENDENT J % To fill .the position of superintendent of the Union City schools, which was made vacant by the resignation of Prof. L. N. Hines, who was selected to head the Hartford City schools after the resignation of Prof. Drybread, the school board has selected 0. H. Blossom, who for five years has been superintendent of the Rockeville, Indiana schools. The new man is a graduate of Indiana university and the Tri-State Normal at Angola, and is a native of Decatur. There were seventy applicants for the position.

THE BOARD WAS UNANIMOUS William Beachler, of New Bremen, 0., to be Superintendent of our . School. At a meeting of the school board Saturday evening, a successor to H. A. Hartman, as superintendent of the Decatur Public schools was chosen. Quite a campaign for the place has been going on for several weeks and it culminated in the selection of Mr. William Beachler of New Bremen, O. The selection was made by the unanimous consent of the board, they being of one mind when the vote was taken. Mr. Beachler will become the head of our public schools, with an experience of twenty-three years in school work. His recommendations were of the kind that count, and his personal appearance clearly indicates that the board made no mistake in his selection. His long service in school work has been confined to Union City, Rockford and New Bremen, Ohio, and at each place comes the tidings of an experience and qualification that ranks so well in school work. Mr. Beachler is a graduate of the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and Earlham College, at Richmond, Indiana, and he holds a life teacher’s license. His work shows his ability to maintain the standard attained by the Decatur public schools. Mr. Beachler has a family of four children, one of them a graduate of the New Bremen schools this year. He will move his family to this city within the next month or* six weeks, providing a suitable home ean be secured. In the meantime Decatur people will extend a glad hand to himself and every member of his household, and will bid them welcome to our city. The school board were fortunate as well as wise in their selection. Something like fifty applicants sought the place, but the board wisely looked at nothing but that would redound to the good of the schools, and for this deserve commendation. DESTRUCTION OF FRANCISCO An Illustrated Story of the Fall of the Fair City of the Pacific Coast. For the benefit of the Civic Improvement Society, W. B, Culliss will deliver his new illustrated lecture, “The Destruction of San Francisco, Fair City of the Pacific Coast, ’ ’ at the Baptist church on Tuesday, June 19. The synopsis of his lecture follows: Landing of the Spanish missionaries 1776; the Presidio; the mission Dolores. Yerba Bunna, San Francisco in 1847. The Golden Gate. Chinatown. Italian quarters. The Bfirbary coast. : Low life in early days. San Francis-

co awhile ago. Its public buildings, splendid fine residences, magnificent churches and colleges, art galleries, beautiful parks and Phasme resorts. The city in the throes of earthquake and flames. The fleeing, homeless, suffering population. Martial law. Heroic act of two priests extinguishing the fire in St. Marys church, and their saving a part of the city. Refugee camps, shooting ghouls, relic hunters. Planning for a new city. Brave words of . Archbishop Riordan before the general committee. Portrait of his Grace. Cliff House. Seal Rocks. Lessons of the hour. Good night. All superbly illustrated with the Stereoptieon Grand. Tickets of admission, 25 cents. NOMINATE A COUNTY TICKET The Democrats of Huntington County in Convention.

The Democrats of Huntington county held a most enthusiastic county convention Saturday and nominated a ticket which meets the approval of every Democrat. The ticket is headed by Hon. Samuel E. Cook, for judge of the Huntington Circuit court. He is one of the best and. one of the most popular citizens of his home county, a lawyer of exceptional ability and will be elected judge of that circuit. Hon. John W. Kern made the principal speech of the convention, other speakers being Judge R. K. Erwin of this city and John Isenbarger of North Manchester. The convention was more than enthusiastic and the Democrats harmonious. „

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AT PENNVILLE Burglars Robbed the Post Office FLEEING ACROSS THE COUNTRY Posse in Pursuit—Officers Everywhere Notified to be on the Lookout. Penville, Ind., June 13.—Four masked men robbed the safe at the postoffice here about 1 o’clock this morning. From the loud report made, it is presumed that the men used a heavy charge of nitroglycerin to get into the safe. The robbers escaped, taking with them all of the money, stamps and blank money orders in the safe. The people living near the postoffiee were awakened by the work of the robbers. The first ones that-, appeared on the street were promptly driven back into their houses by shots fired at them. They were not long iij the town and left on horseback, going in the direction of Montpelier. The robbers shot freely as they left town to scare away pursuers and in all about 50 shots were fired. The marshal soon secured assistance and at once started in pursuit of the robbers. Postmater John L. Sharp was unable to state how much the men had secured until he had examined affairs but said that it would run between S2OO and S3OO. All of the surrounding towns have been notified to keep a lookout for the robbers. ARE ONLY TWO NECESSITIES •( Good Roads and Good Boxes Needed to Retain Rural Service. Recently many inquiries have reached the postoffice department from Indiana with reference to the department’s attitude on rural mail boxes. . In answer to these inquiries, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Degraw gave out a statement, in which he says: In return for the vast sums of money expended in maintaining rural delivery and the inestimable benefits derived through it patrons of the service are asked to do but two things, namey, to provide themselves*with and properly erect suitable boxes which are waterproof and fit receptacles lor mail, not necessarily boxes that are patented, and to maintain the roads over which rural ..routes are laid out iu

• condition to be traveled with facility • and safety at all seasons of the year. ■ 3 When rural delivery was first in- ' troduced as an experiment, and up to August 1, 1901, there was no requirement, as to the kind of boxes to be used for the reception of mail on rural route, but patrons could and did erect any sort of receptacle for the purpose that suited their fancies, and these included every conceivable sort. Cigar and cracker boxes, oil and powder cans, old bootlegs, tiling, rabbit gums, and shingles nailed together, affording no protection from the weather, and wore as unsightly as they were inappropriate. ARE NOW LAYING THE STEEL Business Booming Along Ft. Wayne & Springfield Railroad.

The laying of steel on the Fort Wayne & Springfield Railroad has begun in earnest, some fifty men now being engaged in this work, under Moses Henry. Steel is now delivered for more than six miles, and the 20th one thousand five hundred tons will be shipped, and when this is carted out along the line, it will begin to look like the real thing. The management is highly gratified at the progress being made and are busy from early to late arranging the necessary details for the carrying forth of this great work. The car barn * will soon be completed .and everything considered, there is plenty of business for this great industry.

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