Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1906 — Page 1

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|OUGH SLEDDING Committee | (fill Fight Hard \ M ADAIR THEIR CHOICE Bestern Headquarters Will be Open K ed in Chicago Soon After S Congress Adjourns. ■if the Democratic congressional has any influence o|epreCromer will encounter rough it; i i ngressional race this Rar. The congressional committee Ren,is to make a hard fight to beat Rtmer. Its hopes have been excited K the rivalry between Republican eiR ent e it: the. Eighth district over the nomfnatio.n It is beKved that the intense feeling then Roused will cost Cromer many votes. Rie congressional committee's choice Rr the Democratic nomination is J. R. JJ. Adair, of Portland, and there R'now no reason to doubt thqt Adair Rill be nominated. Some interesting Rtirespondence' has been going on Rlative to the part which the con■ressional committee is expected to Rke in the Eighth district fight. K The Democratic Congressional K ; -.-.... will open western headquarters K Chicago soon after congress adRtrrn>. Representative Jas. T. Lloyd. K Missouri, will be in charge. All Ks the committee’s operations in InKiana will be directed through the Ktestern branch headquarters. RepreKentative Lincoln Dixon, the Indiana Kimber of the committee, will be eotiKnlted frequently in regard to the Kork in the Hoosier state. The uvmKittee expects to elect Democratic ■wagressmen in th? Second and ■Twelfth districts and will fight for ■several other districts. —Louis Ludlow. ■YESTERDAY AT MARION

■iiggest Success in History of State ■ Organiraticu is .Tins Year's ■ Convention. ■ Marion, Ind., June 21. —The next ■ convention of the Indiana Sunday ■School convention will be held at ■ Kokomo. This announcement probably ■ bemad* today at the afternoon ses- ■ sion of the convention. The officers ■ will be announced at this afternoon's ■ or evening’s session. g The day close*! yesterday with about ■ 'BO visiting delegates in attendance ■.and with two meetings, one Very ■ crowded at the Presbyterian church ■ and another good one at the Temple ■ Congregational church. 9 The evening session at the Prgsby- ■ terian church was given to the gradu- ■ sting exercises for those who had I completed the teachers’ ’ training ■ course. After the praise service the I Bev. Alpheus Trueblood led in prayer. ■ State Vice-President Edward W. Felt I presided. Superintendent Halpenny ■ made the report on the teacher train I mg the Sunday school gradI in the aftrenoon and orI lonized the alumni. I THE figley-hook nuptials I I Occurred in Btoe Creek Township f Wednesday. (• I Miss Goldie Hook and Mr. James I Bigley were united in marriage WedI nesday evening, June 20, at the home | the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. I' L. Hools in Bine Creek township. I Alanis county, Indiana,*Rev. J. A. I Hoffman of Willshire, officiating. The I ceremony was performed in the pres-I-nee of near and m few I mvited guests. The groom is a son I Nathan Figley of Blaek Creek I ’ownship, Mercer county. ‘Sftnd is a I ioung farmer of known character and I w,t rth. The young people will take I ? abode ii a favu hi Black I township. They have the sinI ,e 'e well wishes of a s host of friends, i"" ilishire Herald. @ •» • ® '

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July as rev. hicks sees it Storms. Tornadoes and Other Mix- I f * ' tures in the Dose. For the month of July Rev. Hicks has a bill of fare in the weather line . that is a mixture of good and bad. The first storm comes on July 5. Terrific electrical disturbances, with heavy, tomadic storms over central to northwesterly regions, will be perfectly natural. If severe and general thunder storms do not relieve the electric and magnetic strain, abou the 4th to the 7th, the temperature will increase. Hail, rain and thunder storms are to daily oceurances, and “cloud bursts" may help the thing along. A reactionary storm period is central on the 10th, 11th and 12th. The crisis of this period will fall on and touching Thursday, the 12th. at which time look out for storms. A regular storm period will cover the 15th to t*e 19th. central on the 17th. Notwithstanding “anybody can safely predict that it will be warm in July.” we predict that it will be warmer at some times than others, and that this period—the 15tJj to 19th will lead up to one of July’s warmest periods. More thunder storms and local “cloud bursts" are probable about 17th to 19th. A reactionary storm period is central on the 22nd and 23rd. in which storms and seismic disturbances will be reported. Change to rising barometer and some cooler will follow these reactionary disturbances for twef or three days—say from the 23rd to 25th progressively from west to east. A regular storm period run from the 26th to the 30th. being central on the 28th. As early as the 26th. the last storm period in July will showdecided indications of approaching summer storms. During Friday the 27th to Monday the 30th high temperature. low barometer and threatening thunder gusts will pass eastwardly over most parts of the country. LOCALS SHUT VISITORS OUT

Winning by a Score of Two to Zero— Hartford City Has a Good Team. The game with Hartford City Tuesday. while it lasted, was one of the prettiest games played so far on the local grounds, but darkness and rain terminated the contest after one man was out in the sixth inning, Umpire Dorwin calling the game for twenty minutes. However, at that ■ time it was raining hard and the game was called. The score reverted back ‘to the fifth inning, thus giving the locals ihe game by the score of two to nothing. the second shut out this week. Totals IS 0 1 1’ 6 1 Score by innings— Decatar » 0 0 2 ® *— 2 Hertford fity ....0 00 0 0 0-0 Batteries— Railing and Hillinger; Fisher and McFerren. SUMMARY—StoIen basas Aug. Two hir Bist 1 .'ails —Ort FUher 3 Hit bv Pitched ball-Fisher. k out—By Railing 4; by Fisher 6 Wild pitch—Fisher. Hits—Decatur ?ime of game—o.4o. Umpire—Dorwin.

CAUGHT HER ARM IN WRINGER Miss Dessie Beery Was Painfully Injured. *" • i Mi-s Dessie Beery w painfully injured yesterday and in a very pecular way. She and her sister. Miss ' Marie, were in th# wash room, where .Marie wa4 turning the wringer. Miss Dessie stooped over to pick up Some- . thing and as she did so, her sleeve ’ caught in the, wringer, drawing her . elbow into the cogs and crushing the bones slightly. She fainted from the pain, and was in a rather serious condition for “a '-w minutes. It is- believed she will stiff* no ill effects from the accident, though her arm is badly bruised. We note from the Hartford CityNews that T>r. J. W. Younge is a Christian physician, and i», devoting his life to making men better, both = mind e " -1- If 11 «paper reports are . -,-t, the ' Dr. does not work at this siul-savmg business.iml rime.

DECATUR, INDIANA,THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1906.

A RECENT RURAL ROUTE ORDER ’ Goes Into Effect July Ist and Must be Obeyed. ~*F “ ~ — The following is an official order recently sent out from headquarters: Postoffice Department, Division of Rural Delivery, Washington, May 20, 1906. To Postmasters: 1. On and after July 1, 1906. patrons of the rural delivery service will a be required to display signals on their boxes when they leave mail in them for carriers to collect, as after that date, carriers, when serving their routes, will not be required to open and examine any mail boxes exeept those to which they have mail to deIver and those on which signals are displayed to indicate there is mail for carriers to collect. 2. Those patrons whose boxes are not provided with signals must attach thereto some device-which, whqji displayed, will plainly show passing carriers there is mail to he collected. It is not necessary, that such device shall be ether complicated or costly: a verysimple arangement will answer the purpose. 3. Carriers must lower the signals on boxes after making collections, provided no mail is left therfn; and must display the signals when they deposit mail for patrons, unless the patrons have made request to the contrary. 4. The carriers must be instructed to promptly inform patrons of their routes with regard to ths order, and you should, wthoiit expense to the department, use such other necessary 7 means for informing them as will secure a complete understanding and full compliance by all patrons on the date mentioned. 5. Two copes of this letter are herewith inclosed, one to be immediatly posted by you in a prominent place in the public part of the postoffice,and the other to be placed on file. Very 7 respectfully, P. V. DE GRAW Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.

BEGAN ON THE RIGHT-OF-WAY J. B. Holthouse at Bluffton in Interest of Traction Line. J. B. Holthouse of Decatur, came to this city this morning and began the work of securing right-of-way for the new Bluffton-Toledo traction line, which is to be built east from Bluffton, paralleling the Clover Leaf. Mr. Holthouse said that the engineer would be here again next week to look over the route, and to consider the feasibility of making a change in the route so that instead of striking the Clover Leaf at a point wqst of Fairview jt will run eastward along the pike past both the Fairview and Elm Grove cemeteries, then running north to the railroad. A proposition has been made by the traction company to J. L. Myers that if right-of-way is given across his quarry property they will skin off the ground down to the rock and will buy Crushed rock for ballasting purposes if he puts in a crusher.—Bluffton News. IN THE LIST w ® Os Mennonite Graduates to go as Foreign Missionaries. Goshen. Ind., June 26.—Twenty-one graduates of Goshen college,the Mennonite educational school, have volunteered for service in the foreign mission fields. They are: Dennis Rupp and A.ias Oyer. Flanigan. Ill.: Elsie Byler, Newton. Kas.; Elsie 'Drange and Annie Anton rietu, Chicago: Emma Herschey, Palmyra, Mo.: G. H. Rutt, E. J. Rutt, Albert Rutt, C. D. Easch, I. W. Royer and W. R. Ebersole, Goshen: J. E. Hartzler, East Lynn, Mo.; R. R. Ebersole, Hudson, Ind.; Frank Hamilton, Lake Charles, La.; Ida Hertzler, Concord, Tenn.; Martha Christophe!, New Paris, Ind.; Francis Zook, Berne. Ind.; Nora Lambert and Adeline Brunk, Elkhart. Ind., and Florence Culp, ( otombiana, O. Dennis Rupp and Amos Oyer will go to British East Africa, and R. REbersole and C. D. Easejj, Ip South America. The others wilt be assigned to foreign countries by' the Menonmite o*;r I of missions.

THE WORK MUST BEGIN* SOON Within Ten Days According to the Agreement—Bedford -Stone for Curbing. The city dads met in continued session Tuesday evening. Mayor Coffee presiding and every councilman answering the roll call. The contract between Haugk & Woods, the successful bidders on the construction of north Second street was read atjd approved by the council, after which the contractors signed the same for themselves, and under the direction of the council, the mayor aivd cityclerk signed on behalf of the city. The contract states that work shall be commenced on the improvement within ten days and shall be completed in ninety days. Upon motion byVan Camp, the council concluded to adopt the Bedford eurb stone, instead of the Berea stone which will be furnished at the same price by the contractor. This move was made owing to the fact that several of the councilmen thought that this was better stone. . No other® business coming up, the council adjourned until their next regular meeting. ASSISTED IN THE SERVICES Rev. White and Judge Erwin Took Part in K. of P. Memorial.

The Memorial services of Chas. A. Knott lodge K. of P„ at the M. E. church Sunday' afternoon were largely attended, the number of Knights present exceeding that of any previous occasion. The sermon was preached by Rev. White, pastor of the First M. E. church at Decatur and was pronounced by all who heard it as one of the ablest expositions of life character they' ever heard. It certainly deserved the close attention it received from the congregation. The music for the occasion was also of excellent quality and suited in character to the solemnity of ihe occasion. The services at the cemetery w'ere ritualistic except the feeling address of Knight Richard K. Erwin which was greatly • appreciated by both the Knights and their friends who had ■gathered to partieipate in and witness the services. Since the institution of the Chas. A. Knott lodge fourteen Knights have passed the portals of death’s door, the remains of eight are resting in Willshire cemetery. At its regular meeting Tuesday evening Chas. A. Knott lodge unanimously voted a expression of thanks fb Rev. White, Judge Erwin, the trustees of the Willshire ehurch and the pastor in charge, Rev. J. A. Hoffman, and the ladies and gentlemen who, assisted in the services, as a just token of appreciation on the part of the lodge.— Willshire Herald.

THE READING CIRCLE BOOKS For State Teachers Chosen —A Word About Them. Books for the state teaches*’ fading circle have been selected for the coming school year find the announcement has been made to the county superintendents. The two books for the course are ‘‘Basis of Practical Teaching” by Prof. E. 8.-Bryan, president ' Franklin college, and “Essay- m Application.” I*y Charles Van Dyke, a noted author of New York. The first book is along the lines of pedagogy but deals with the subject in a general manner. The latter book is a work on sociology' and deals with questions of importance to all classes. The books will reach the local dealers in a few weeks. Arrangements have been concluded for the Fort Wayne league team to play a return date here Friday of this week. This team was here last Friday and won by a score of two to one. They are playing the fastest ball of any team in the - Interstate league and all who saw them here, said they were the best seen on the loci! diamond., this season. Our team is playing better ball than ever and the game will be » battle from start to finish.

TgE BENEFITS WILL BE MANY Ninety Per Cent of Right of Way in Van Wert County Has Been Secured. The Cleveland, Van Wert & Indiana Traction company is meeting, with a success that is unprecedented in enterprises of this kind. In Van Wert county the line is surveyed with the exeeptio’n of a short distance in the immediate vicinity of this town. Os the surveyed line ninety per cent of the right of way has been obtained by donations made by the farmers. The traction line is the farmers’ road. It is to the farm what the steam road is to the shipper in t»wn —an outlet to the market and the cheapest and swiftest means of travel; The farm that was three or four hours from town on the mud road moved up to one hour from town when the pike was introduced. The same farm moves up to from ten to fifteen minutes to town when the traction’ line is introduced, and with this saving of time (he value of the farm is increased. The farm on .the traction line is ■•right in town." It sells for a higher price and is the first sought for by the man who buys. In fact the man looking for a new location sees the farms on the traction line first and from them takes his pick. The farms that are not on the line are a second consideration and the farther they are from the line the farther they are from the market for farm lands and farm poducts. The farmer on a traction line can copie to town, stay an hour and return home. The time consumed is less than it takes to hitch a team, unhitch it and do the other work of preparation for the

trip. His children are within a few minutes ride of the best schools in the county, his family' can attend the theatre or meetings of different kinds in town and return home without a serious loss of time. The horse can stay at home and plow while the women and children go to town and do the shopping. Upon the whole, the ■ farmer who is on a traction line, moves up several notches. He has all the privileges of the man who lives in ’ the city and none of the heavy ex- ’ pense in many ways that comes to the j man in the city,. The traction line. , in return for its many benefits costs I him the right of way. ad nothing more, while the pike is a heavy fife running through a long series of years. With a traction line and a ru- . ral free delivery the farmer is “mon- ■ arch of all he surveys.”—A an Wert . Bulletin.

WAS AN OLD CITIZEN Lived in This County Many Years— Funeral Services to Held Tomorrow. Davd Reefey, an old and respected citizen of near Monroe, died at two o’clock Sunday afternoon, aged sev-enty-eight years and twenty-six days. Two weeks ago. on a very' warm day. he started out to one of the fields to watch the work. He had gone about fifty or sixty rods from the house, when he suffered a Sun stroke, collapsing from heat exhaustion. He was taken back to the house and nursed tenderly' for two weeks, but his extreme age made recovery impossible and death relieved him yesterday. He was born May 28, 1828 near Berne. Switzerland, and came to this countryin 1§34. He has resided in Adams cognty for many years and-was well known. He leaves a wife, four sons and three daughters to mourn their loss. The funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at Backestoe ehurch. interment in the cemetery near by. The procession will leave the house at 9:30 a. m. WERE MARRIED LAST SUNDAY. Amos K. Stoneburner and M. Leona Stoutenberry, both well known in Kirkland township, were married Sunday at one o'clock by the Rev. Jacob Heller. After the ceremony was concluded the couple went to the picnic at Preble and spent the remainder of the day with friends there. The groom is a farmer near Honduras, where they will make their future horn* ’ * st

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A WEDDING Miss Kleinhenz and Mr. Krick Married EVENT OCCURRED LAST NIGHT Happy Young Couple Leave on a Honey-Moon Trip Through the East. Miss Mary Kleinhenz, the prettydaughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kleinhenz. was united in marriage to Mr. Geo. Krick Tuesday evening. The ceremony was performed at eight o’clock by Rev. H. Theo. Wilken, at the latter’s home on Fourth, street, Miss Ervin and Mr. Lawrence Kleinhenz being the attendants. After the ceremony the happy couple went to the home of the bride’s parents on Fifth street, where they were greeted by their friends. They had intended to leave on an evening train for the east, but friends of George’s prevented their early departure and they , were detained until the next morning, when they left for Toledo. They will be at home soon in a cottage on south Fifth street. Mr. Krick is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krick and a member of the Krick, Tyndall Manufacturing Company. He is one of Decatur’s best young business men. The Democrat congratulatee. ,

WERE MARRIED FIFTY YEARS They are the Parents of D H. Hr / sicker of This City—Presently Were Many. — ’ I The fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Hunsicker was celebrated Tuesday the 19th at their home in Monroeville, Indiana, and lasted from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. About fifty covers were laid for dinner. The immediate family' consists of three children, D. H. Hunsicker of Decatur. Henry Hunsicker of Bluffton, and Mrs. Chas. C. Myer of Fort Wayne. Othe r relatives and friends present were Rev. and Mrs. George Martin, Monroeville; William Morgan, Monroeville; Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hunsicker and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker, Decatur; Mrs. Charles Meyer and daughter, Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mas. Henry Hunsicker, Mrs. Catharine Johnston, Bluffton; Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Summers and son. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Heiser, Mrs. Mary McMullen, Ossian; Mr. and Mrs. Marcien Briner and son, Tiffin, Ohio; Messrs, and Mesdames Theo. Heckber, Ossian; Jacob Miller. Bloomville, O.: John Persuhn and son, Hoagland; Fred Stahr, Monroeville; John H. Pletcher, Lima, O.: Niswanger, Fort Wayne; Fred Heiser. Sheldon: Mesdames Ida Reiff, Bloomville, O; Lucinda Edwards, Hattie Mandarf, Monroeville. Also the ladies of the W. R. C. of Monroeville, and the Rebec'-;* ladies were present, and all that were present enjoyed the day. A very pleasant time was enjoyed by them any' relatives and friends who were present, and the presents received by the aged and happy couple were many and beautful. The day was given up to entertainment and pleasure and will ever be remembered pleasantly. MRS. LANIGAN DIED SUNDAY Popular Bluffton Lady a Victim of Consumption. Mrs. Dan Lanigan, one of the most popular women of Bluffton, died Sunday night at ten o’clock, after a long illness with consumption. She was thirty-two years old and was formerly Miss Lulu Ferguson of Peru. The funeral services will be held M ednesday aftrenoon at two o’clock from the home in Bluffton, Rev. Cecil officiating. Mrs. Lanigan was quite well known here.