Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1906 — Page 1

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WELL KNOWN OVER COUNTY .<e&> . Bad Lived Here Over Fifty Years and Was Very Successful in fjk Business Dealings. ;, jjTfirj. . Abraham A. Sprunger, president of the Bank of Berne, and one of the most successful business men of the •county, died at his home at Berne last night at eleven o’clock. He was sixty-five years old and had lived in Adams county fifty-two years. He suffered from an attack of Hagrippe last spring and never fully recovered, for six weeks having been quite sick with heart trouble and dropsy. Since last Friday his death had been hourly expected. The funeral services will be held Thursday mpming at nine o’cloak from the Mennonite church at Berne. 'fhe Berne Witness today published the following account of Mr. Sprunger’s life: i “Abraham A. Sprunger was bbrn Ftbrlary 22, 1841, on Corgemontbreg, •Canton Bern, Switzerland. He was the second oldest of a family of eight •children, of whom three, the oldest, the late Dr. Peter A. Sprunger., and younger ones, Katharine and .iftonas, together with the parents, preceded him in death. He came to this country with parents and broth«ers and sisters on July 6, 1854, settling first in Wayne county, Ohoi, -and removing to this place on Octo4th of the same year. • “On November 22, 1862, he. was rmarried to Anna Sprunger, daughter -of Abraham Sprunger, deacesed. (Thus Abraham A. Sprunger,, whose ; '".'father’s name was Abraham B. •Sprunger, had an Abraham Sprunger as father in law..) To this union •was born one son, Levi A. Sprunger, after which his mother died on April 4, 1864. “Mr. Sprunger married again on -January 11, 1866, taking for his -companion a daughter of John Luginbill, deceased, Maria Moser, then a ■widow with two children, Levi Moser jahd Mrs. Sarah Lehman. This union was blessed with three children, Ly- • «dia, wife of Burkhart Lehman; Sam«el A., and Emma, wife of David F Lehman. On December 14, 1872, his ' second wife died, and on May 3, 1873 Mr. Sprunger again entered matrimohy by taking to himself as a third wife Magdalena Neuenschwander, daughter of Abraham Neuenschwander, deceased. Os the eight children which were the offspring of this uuuop, two died. Alina and Ferdinand and. 'six are still living, Mary, wife of Edwin Gilliomj Albert, Alfred, Amelia, wife of Hiram Baumgartner; Hrapn and Ella. All his children are living in Berne or in the vicinity. “The deceased is survived by 2 Fred living north of Berne and Rev. John A., now at Birmingham, 0., and three sisters, Mrs. Sam* uel Lehman and widow Anna Lieehty in Berne and Mrs. Christian J. Sprunger, at Woodburn, his wife, ten children and twenty-six grandchil" I dren. Two grandchildren died. L o ~ -GOSHEN MAY BE VERY DRY .■Remonstrance Out That Will Close Out Many Saloons. Prospects are that Goshen will be A “dry” town. Residents of the third ward of that city are circulating a .remonstrance and saloonists fear ■* .-signatures of a majority of the residents will be secured by the temperance workers. The liquor agitation s parted through Irvin Whte head’s isoquest for a license to open a saloon -in the rear of the Northern Idiana fl ißailway station opposite the German Baptist church at that place. Practically all of Goshen’s saloons are located in that ward and if the remonstrance is effective they will have <to move out at the expiration of t’qeir licenses. Goshen .saloonists are be- , -sieging Whitehead to withdraw his 1 petition for a license, hoping that 1 such action will stay the agitation. 4 —O : I The city dads will meet' this evens: ing in special session at the Library | building aud take up matters of im- « portant interest. The matter of ne- | gotiating a loan will be given due J) (Consideration as the matter of paying K .city orders is something that is worB| trying our city fathers.

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CONDITIONS HAVE IMPROVED Spices and Oils are Purer Than a Year Ago. As a result of the work of the labratory of, the state board of health, food and drug conditions in Indiana have improved in the last year. This is especially true as to spices, vinegars, cream of tartar and olive oils, according to H. E. Barnard/ the chemist of the labratory. “Last year about every other sample of cloves and pepper was adulterated ( usually with ground cocoanut shells,” said Mr. Barnard. “Recent analyses show that two samples out of fifty were bad, a considerable improvement. “Now the wholesalers are protected in their desire to. push the sale of good goods,” continued Mr. Barnard. “Now, when cheaper grades of spices are asked for they can tell the retailer that he buys them at his own risk, as the state law prohibits the adulterations, and the state labratory is enforcing the state law. The result is, usually, that the retailers buy the genuine spices.” Mr. Barnard sad there were still a great many vinegars that were not what they should be, though the per cent of adulteration was not more tan half what it was a year ago when it was 92 per cent. “Really, there is only one firm that persists in selling vinegar that is improperly labeled,” he continued, “and that is a wholesale firm outside the state. The attitude of the Indiana wholsalers is excellent, many of them refusing to buy vinegars until they have been tested in our labratory. “Os fifty-seven samples of cream of tartar recently examined, only one "was impure; that contained alum and starch/ and was evidently made by an expert, as the acidity was good. The -samples of olive oil that were bought *at the groceries"recently wefe all good. These were ail bottle goods, %nd their excellence is due, in part, I think, to the establishment of the port laboratories, which see to it that all the iipported oliye oils are pure. The druggists * samples of mixed oils were not so good, four out of the last batch of five examined containing cotton seed, peanut or lard pils.” o LOGANSPORT HAS NEW RULE List of Scholars Absent From School is Published. In former days when you were absent from school the knowledge of the fact reached the parents only from an overly inquisitive teacher or a tattle tale schoolmate. Now, however, the power of the press is called into action to place this information daily before the parents of children at school. Hereafter the list of pupils absent from the Logansport schools will be published daily so that - all may see who was absent. In the event Johnny Jones is absent with the knowledge and consent of his parents this innovation will work no hardship but if Johnny Jones has absented himself with his own consent for the avowed purpose •■■of fighting a hornets’ nest the publicity will result in a wqodshed interview that will make the scion of the Jones family lose xAll respect for the man who invented the printing press. • The school authorities foresee a startling decrease in the number of absentees as the result of giving publicity to the number absent each day. o CHARLES PETERSON TO WED Event Will Occur at Las Vegas, on Wednesday Evening. Invitations have been received here which read as follows: ‘ ‘ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tudor request your presence at .* thd : marriage of their daughter, Minnie Katharine, to Mr. Charles Smith Peterson, Wednesday evening, September 26, 1906 at 8:30, East Las Vegas, New Mexico.” The groom is the son of Attorney and Mrs. Shaffer Peterson of this city, and is well known here. He went to Las Vegas about two years ago and is engaged in newspaper work.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1906.

TRAINS WILL RUSH THROUGH And no Tickets Will be Sold There, According to Orders From Headquarters Sent Today. After September 30 ,the town of J Monm >utb, one of the oldest towns ■ n Indiana, so far as the Grand Rap- ; ids railroad is concerned, will be a ! thing of the past and will be wiped | off the map in railroad circles. This ? is an order sent out this morning Ij « aii agents along the line informing I them that after the above date they ( will sell no tickets to this historic town and no trains will be requited ■ to stop there. The station is abolished by the railroad company owing ' to the lack of patronage and for years there has not been a ticket ' agent stationed there and all passengers desiring to board the train were forced to do their own flagging . and attend to their own wants. The effect of this order will not be felt so much by the citizens of Monmouth owing to the fact that the idterurban line which is now under completion s will soon be finished and the people will thus be afforded an outlet, but until that time those desiring to ride on the Rapids will be forced to' come to Decatur and buy their tickets. The order was issued by General Passenger Agent C. L. Lockwood, at Grand Rapids, Michigan. 0 , ’ WILL STUDY LUMBER BUSINESS , Jesse Sellemeyer to Enter the South1 west Forests. t L ‘ Jesse Sellemeyer, son of Mr. asd , Mrs. A. H. Sellemeyer, expects to I leave the first of the month for r Huttig, Arkansas, where he will enter the vast forests of that state and ’ fake'"tip the study of lumber manufacture, that state affording the best ’ , I' , opportunities as the. state is thickly ‘ populated with mills. He will also '■ study the nature of each kind of wood as nature produces it and ex- > pects to return in one year thorough- ; ly educated in this line and will no ' doubt become an expert timber man and thus follow in the footsteps of liis father, who, for years, has been ' engaged in this business in Decatur. Jesse is a splendid young man and we predict success and a bright futl ure for him. He will enter the business under the tutorship of Frost Trigg Lumber Company at St. Louis, who are reputed as being one of the foremost timber firms in the south- ' west, their business extending all : through the vast territory of that , section of the country. Jesse expects to commence at the bottom and work himself to the top until he becomes ' an expert. He will no doubt during ■ that time be compelled to live out of , doors a greater part of the time and is expecting to meet with and experience a large number of hardships which are customary in that section of the country. He does not expect to return to this ciy unil his education is complete. o : OLD LODGE QUITS BUSINESS A. O. U. W. Has Suspended in Indiana. With the closing of the office of state grand recorded of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, maintained in Evansville for more than twenty years, the order practically goes out of business in Indiana, all persons retaining their membership being .forced J;o send their remittances direct to the home Office at Meadville, , Pa. The office was really closed at Evansville Sept. 1, but it will- be kept open until October 1, in order , to transfer the accounts of members to the main office. Indiana is the , first state in the Union to close up | and send the business to the home i office. It is said to be the beginning of a general plan to concentrate the . entire business of the order at Mead- | viUe. o The case of the State against John Sprawl, charged with provoking one , John Drake, was heard last evening in Squire Smith’s court and resulted , in a verdict of guilty and a fine of a dollar and costs, which Sprawl paid ; and was discharged.’ 1

FERD BOHNKE WAS INJURED Hurled Head First Against a Road Scraper. Ferdinand Bohnke. sou of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bohnke, who reside in ■ tne west part of the city, met with a jvery painful accident yesterday afternoon while assisting the electric lline men in erecting poles along ■North Second street. Young Bohnke rwas employed as a driver, the poles .being erected by the use of a long rope and pulley to which a horse is hitched, and in this manner held in ■the right place until firmly .set and secured. The signal had been given Bohnke to start up, which he did, but in so doing his foot became entangled in the rope and he was hurled with considerable force against a heavy wheeled scraper that is being usel in the excavation of that section of the street, his head striking a long catch bar, cutting the .scalp and otherwise injuring and bruising him. He was taken to Dr. S. D. Beavers who dressed his injury and pronounced the boy in no apparent danger, as the wounds were nothing serious. However, it is a mystery to all that he escaped without receiving a fracure of the .skull. o JUDGE ERWIN AT MARION Held ,a Rousing Meeting on Last Friday Evening. 1— | Peter J. Coyle, Democratic chairman of this district, who is holding meetings with the county, committees dt the different county seats, finds much to encourage him. A rousing meeting was held at Marion- Friday and , was addressed by Judge Richard K. Erwin, Democratic candidate for judge of the supreme court, and by George Rauch, Democratic candidate for congress. After the meeting Chairman Coyle said: “I believe that the prospects for the election of George Rauch are splendid. The opposition to Landis is growing more pronounced every day and in Grant county we would not be surprised to see a Democratic victory. I believe Rauch will carry eve©’ county in the district but Cass j and would not be surprised if there was a big landslide.” Judge Erwin .says he finds the same conditions of affairs. The anti-Landis sentiment is growing stronger every day and the prominent Adams county leader says it "does not take much of a politician to figure out the defeat of the present congressman. —Hartford City News. o RECEIVER HAEFLING REPORTS And Asks to be Allowed to Pay a Dividend of Fifty Percent on Loch, Dirkson& Co.’s Acounts. n Thomas T. Lister vs. Walter E. Lister, et al., default as to all defendants, D. E. Smith appointed guardian ad litem and filed answer. Noah A. Loch vs. Edward Dirkson and Charles H. Zwick, Receiver Haefling filed a current report and asked to be allowed to pay a avidend of fifty per cent. John S? Bowers vs. Thomas W. Watts et al., Elm street sewer assessment and foreclosure of lien, SIOO, before Judge Fox of Richmond, demurrer to cross complaint sustained, - leave to amend, amended cross com- ; plaint filed, answ’er to amended cross complaint filed by Bowers. William Scott vs. Martin Kirch- . net, $75 damages, reset for trial Friday, October 5. . _ 1 State vs. Grover Everett, defend- , ant discharged on motion by the | prosecutor because evidence could not . be secured to sustain the charge. 4 ’. In probate court, George Dellinger 4 administrator of the John Bilder- ; beck estate, filed of publication j of notice to non-residents. Jacob Kauffman, guardian for j Fred Amacher, filed his current re- , port which was allowed. I Marcellus E. Hutton, guardian for Jeannette, George, Franks and Ben- ] jamin Baunghman, filed final report j as to Francis and current report as to Benjamin. 1 ' V

OWNED BY FRISINGER & CO. Best Lot of Horses Ever Exhibited in the State—Mr. Frisinger Will Arrive This Week. Thirty-two of the handsomest and largest horses that have been seen in Decatur for a number of years are at present quartered at the Frisinger & Co. stables at Steele’s park, they having arrived yesterday by express from New York, arriving there from Belgium last Friday. The thirty-two head consist of twenty stallions and twelve brood mares and they are all beauties. However, the horses at present do not look as well as they will in a month from now, owing to the fact that they have endured a long trip during the past three weeks and are tired. This, however, will soon wear off and the animals will again take on flesh and show to a better advantage. The horses are from the best Belgium stock produced by the old country and represent nice, neat, round sum, as horse flesh is now at its highest point. The animals are sorrels, blacks, bays and roans in color arid are well built, which denotes power and strength, and which will ahapt them to any use desired. Mr. Frisinger who made this trip to the old 'country, is still in New York, getting his necessary papers filled out and will arrive home the latter part of this week, it taking some time to pass all the red tape as required by the custom officials in regard to the shipment of foreign horses to this country. The barns are filled daily with sightseers and lovers of good horse flesh and those who have inspected the same are high in their praise concerning them and one and all are of the one opinion that they are the finest lot of horses ever stabled in this country by any firm. Frisinger & Company have a wide reputation in this line and past experience has taught them that it phy.s to handle the best, *nence the cause of Mr. Frisinger’s a delay in the old country is due to . the fact : that he was purchasing nothing but the best and took his time so that he would make no mistake in his selections. An extra supply of stable hands have been put to work and these men are devoting their entire time and attention in getting the horses in shape to show. The boys at the barns are accommodating and take special pride in showing the stock to those desiring to inspect them. The animals will be rounded into perfect conditior as .soon as possible and will then be put on the market. 0 OFFICERS MADE TWO TRIPS To the Scene—Willard McConnehey and Family Had a Saturday Night Celebration. ' The story that Willard McConnehey, who lives on the Steele farm east of this city had murdered his two children*and tried to kill his wife Saturday night, caused considerable exditemeiit Sunday, •. bu>t proved untrue. McConnehey was ; drunk Saturday and during the evening had some trouble with his wife on the streets here. They finally went home together and after arriving at their domicile the quarrel was renewed. Andy knocked his wife down, whereupon one of the children grabbed a flat iron and hit his father * on the head, putting him out of s commission for awhile. Mrs. McCon- t tiehey then ran to the home of a 1 -neighbor for projection. On the way c she met a young man whom she told.c that her husband had murdered her c two children and tried to kill her. I As she was spattered with blood the \ young man believed the story and J hastening to a telephone, .summoned j s officers from this city. Sheriff But-'f ler went out and found the story.a as told above. Later he was sum-'I moned again and thinking perhaps fi •that another battle had ensued he t again went to the scene accompanied j: by Marshal Green, but found that 1. Willard had received the only serious a injury, and he will likey feel nothing I more than & headache for a day or d two. 1< Mrs. McConnehey appeared before b Prosecutor Moran this morning and 1; filed an affidavit against her husband I for a.ssault and battery, and Wil- 1 lard will probably be arrested today. 1

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WILL MEET AT PORTLAND Week of October Fifth and a Splendid Program Has Been Arranged. PORTLAND, Ind., Sept. 24.—Theprograms have been issued for the thirty-third annual convention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance I nion of the state of Indiana, ivhich will be held in the Methodist Episcopal church in this city, Oct. 5 to 9. The program for the five days session has been completed by the president, Mrs. Culla J. Vayhinger, of Madison, and the secretary, Mrs. Josephine Waliner, of Bluffton, and is replete with many good papers ( and talks that will be of great interest to everyone engaged in this class of work. In the opening night welcoming addresses will be made, on behalf of the city, by Judge John F. LaFollette, and on behalf of the local W. C. T. U. by Mrs. Sumner W. Haynes, president of the Jay county organization. The response of these addresses of welcome will be made by Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley, state vice president, or Liberty. The election of officers and trustees for the coming year will be the chief business on Saturday afternoon. Saturday • evening will be given to a diamond medal contest, in charge of Mrs. Julia Overman, state superintendent of this’ department. There will be a large number of contestants, all of whom have in previous contests won gold medals. W. C. T. U. speakers will occupy the various pulpits of the city at the morning hour on Sunday. The principal event of the afternoon will be an address by Mrs. Rebecca Trego, oh evangelistic vt'ork. There will also be an address in the evening’ by a prominent W. C. T. U. worker. Reports will be the main business of Monday morning. An address by the Rev.,E. W. Halpenriy and a memorial service in change of Mrs. aMrtha Gipe, will occupy the time on Monday afternoon. In the evening will be an address by Mrs. Florce Richards. The Tuesday morning session will be given up to work of closing the meeting. The following are the local committees in charge of the arrangements for the convention: General chairman, Mxs. S. W. Haynes; entertainment, Mrs. Gertrude Fulton; hotels and restaurants, Mrs. A. J. Graves; Music, Mrs. W. L. Ferris; reception, Mrs. Frank .White; decoration, Mrs. Flauding; finance, Mrs. J. W. Headington; courtesies, Mrs. C. J. Roberts; packages, Mrs. William Nelson; railroad secretary, Mrs. Wilson Rice; Sunday services, Mrs. John Shewalter; telephone and telegraph, Mrs. L. W. Holt; ushers, Mrs. John Hiatt: pages, Mrs. J. W. Headington; pressr, Mrs. W. A. Humphries; postmistress, Mrs. Frank White; Sergeant at arms, Mrs. Gertude Fulton; bureau of information, Miss Gertrude Giipin; cabs, Mrs. J. H. Polm and Mrs. A. J. Graves. A rate of one and a third fare for the round trip has been granted on all railroad » ;*i 0 , INTERESTING SESSION IS HELD Every Teacher but One Was Present and a Splendid Program was Rendered. At 9:00 a. m., Saturday, Sept. 22, the teachers of the six north townships of this county, met at the Central school building of this city, to hold the institute announced a few days ago. The meeting was called to order by Supt. Opliger, and was opened by singing the hymn, Holy, Holy,. Holy. The devotional services were conducted by Mr. Schlund of Preble township. The teachers responded to roll call with quotations from the Bible. The response showed all present except one. Miss Bertha Bunner was elected secretary. The first subject, .“The Township Institute” was presented in a carefully prepared paper by Miss Belle Barkley of Union. This was followed by a paper on “The Teacher” by Miss Dora Grandstaff of Root. A general discussion of these two papers followed. A declamation was rendered by Miss Margaret Beery of Kirkland. “The Basis of Practical Teaching” was ably handled by Messrs. E. S. Christen of Root and Melvin Mallonee of Washington.

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