Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1906 — Page 2

•PHONE PROVES EFFECTIVE Rev. Mygrant Succeeds in Preventing the Wedding of His Young Daughter. Union City, Ind., Sept. 20.—Pretty Miss Annabl Mygrant, who is only 16, daughter of Rev. W. H. My grant, pastor of the Evangelical church at Portland, objected to going to school any more, and so she ran away with W. H. Westfall, a farmer living at Buck’s Corners, northwest of here, expecting to be married in Kentucky, but telephone intervention prevented the pair from securing the necessary license. Mr. Westfall is 36 years of age, a widower with three children. But the romance is all over. Miss Annabe is back under the parental roof at Portland and her lover with his children on the farm preferring to be there than in jail. ! During the Jay county fair Jin August W. H. Westfall went over i to Portland to see the sights and visit with a relative, the Rev. Res. Whije at the fair he met the fair Annabel and on his part it was a case of love at first sight. He saw the young girl several times during his vist and on his return wrote a very loving letter, which she showed to her sister, but did not answer. However, Mr. Westfsfcl did not lose heart, so last Sunday he again journeyed to Portland and met the fair school girl that had won his heart. Sunday he went to church twi<je, heard the Rev. Mygrant preach and talked as much as possible to Miss Annabel. School had , starteicf, whidji 'did not please the girl, and her lover took advantage . of this fact. He told her how to i beep from going to school. They < would get married. ( On Tuesday, while the Rev. My- ; grant was at Decatur visiting a sick i son, Westfall and Miss Mygrant left Portland in a buggy and drove to this city, where they left the rig j iand went to Dayton, where , they were unable to secure a marriage license. On Wednesday they journeyed to Cincinnati and across the river to Newport, the paradise of runaway lovers. 6 But in the meantime papa was on £ the trail. Learning of the elope- £ ment, the Rev. Mygrant hurried here and finding which (way the lovers had traveled, began to use the tele- < 'instructing |a|l officials to ' refuse them a license. At Newport, £ Ky., they were intercepted and find- i ing that they could not secure a 5 license, returned here today. Westfall was taken in charge by £ the city marshal, though no charges had been filed, while the Rev. Mr. t Mygrant met his runaway daughter, i Several conferences followed. It r was finally decided that the young ; girl should return to her home and : school, while the farmer would be ; allowed to return to his family on i the fam. ' , All of the ■ parties left the city ; this afternoon. The lovers were not ; allowed to gpt together! again, ,or ; even to meet and say good by.— < Muncie Star. Miss Mygrant is known here, • having lived here for several years, s when her father was a pastor here. • o ’ , PECULIAR ACCIDENT HAPPENS I’assenger on G. R. & I. Train is i Slightly Hurt. A rather peculiar accident and one which might have been more serious ■occurred at the crossing, three miles ■south pn the G. R. & I. a few nights ago. Frank Martin, a young man was taking a clover huller to the Rumschlag fam and his team got stuck at the crossing. It was getting dark and Frank propped up the tongue of the clover huller to prevent it protruding over the track. The northbound passenger train jarred the rig and the tongue fell just as the last car passed. It is said several windows were broken and that one passenger was slightly injured. o DETECTIVE ASSOCIATION MET The Adams County Detective Association held their annual 'session last evening at the Meibers hall and ;a large attendance was on hand. After disposal of routine business, the initiation of several new members, the following officers were elected: President, Wiliam Baumgartner, of Berne; vice president, A. A Butler; secretary, J. Fred Fruchte; assistant secretary, Dallas Butler; treasurer, Wm Miller; Captain, Emil Franz, ■executive committe, Matthias Miller, James Hurst and Joseph Rumschlag. The association now has 239 mem<bers and is growing steadily.

i SUPT. COTTON GIVES PRAISE ? To Indiana Newspapers for Better School Conditions. In commenting on the fact that . better conditions prevail now in the ■ Indiana schools than ever before, jFassett A. Cotton State SuperintendI ent of Public Instruction, in a bulle- . tin just issued, declares that the :! prosperity of the people, effective 1 legislation, including compulsory ed- ’ ucation, a higher standard of teach- ’ ing ability, better school organization /and the influence of the press, all . make for these improved conditions. With reference to the newspapers, the bulletin says: “But none of these forces could . have succeeded without the support s of the newspaper. The press of Indiana has been constant in season and

out in its advocacy of educational progress. When a teacher goes into a community he can depend on the newspaper man as an ally in his campaign against ignorance. They have a common cause. In the agitation for better salaries that has been going on every newspaper of any standing in the state has stood for larger wages and the success that has come and that will come will be largely due to the newspapers. The editor is interested in everything that will benefit the community and school superintendents and teachers should work with the editor. They should be students together of the problem of education. They together should be molders of public opinion. If this is not the case as a general thing it is safe to say that the trouble lies in the teacher himself. There is no force that so makes civic righteousness in a community as ‘ a good, fearless newspaper, and the school and the paper should be j'ound working together.” o An Interesting Article Written for The Democrat. The Indian implements known to every one as axes or tomahawks, grooved and ungrooved, are found aiifl met with in almost every section of the United States. In shape or ::orm they resemble our axes of to dhy and very greatly in size and weight. The smallest of them, which according to my humble opinion, Were nothing but playthings with which Old-Man Afraid of His Horses Spotted Tail, Little Big Man and whatever their sobriquet may lave been, gaddened the hearts of their children, measure but a few inches and weigh but a few ounces. The largest axes are often more than a foot in length and weigh as much as twenty six pounds. It would appear insuperably difficult or wholly impossible to do with them any work for which we commonly use l an ax or hatchet; and yet, thej aborigines made a general use oti and contrived to accomplish a great deal with them. They were manufactured from various materials such 'as: greenstone, diorite, sandstone, quartizite, argillite, slate, sintite, porphyr and granite, predominantly however from the latter. Concerning the implements in question Joseph Francois Lapitau, a French Jesuit missionary, who was born in 1670 and died in 1740, in his book entitled “Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquaine” writes the following: “They are made of a kind of very hard and tough stone and it requires much labor to make them fit for use. They are prepared by the process of grinding on a sandstone, and finally assume, at the sacrifice of much time and labor nearly the shape of our axes, dr of a wedge for splitting wood. The life of a savage is often insufficient for accomplishing the work, and hence such an implement, however rude and imperfect it may be, is consider! a precious heirloom for the children. ’ ’ When making an ax or tomahawk .th Indian workman generally and quite naturally chose a stone as nearly the desired form as could be 1 procured, and in so doing he avoided a large amount of labor. The abo- . riginal American, if we can give credence to the accounts given of I him by early travelers and observ- . ers, was not likely to make unneces- } sary exertion. While at work there , was no need for his better half raising : the warning cry and saying to him: f “Now, Lo, do not exert yourslf, do ; you hear me!” “Exertion” was a t word not to be found in his vocab- , ulary. In this respect the Indian was , the exact counterpart of “Weary •, Willie” and “Dusty Roads,” the tramp alias hobo in these our days - who neither is very fond of labor, be it physical or intellectual. When the

I 1 ax was finished the difficulty of pro- J viding it with a handle arose. “Lo’\ was not at a loss, he selected a young tree, of whiqh he made a handle without cutting it splitting one end and inserting the stone. The tree grew, tightened around it, and enclosed it so firmly that it hardly J could be tom out. If the ax had a groove, the mode of fastening the ’ handle was the following: A withe • of proper length, perhaps two feet, • was bent around the groove, or a ( forked sapling served the same pur- ; pose, which was firmly bound where both ends met with strings of rawhide or material of some othr kind. Stone axes or tomahawks were in l -use in the “land of the brave and the free” from time immemorial!. And not only were they used in America but as the students of history know—the world over, in the so called stone or flint age. They were used in Europe by the Germans at as late a period as the Thirty Years’ War, and are supposed to have been used by’ th Anglo Saxons at the battel of Hastings. J. H. K. o HEETER-CARPENTER WEDDING Frank Sullivan’s Trotter in Van Buren Races Today— Dr. Ward Home From Indianapolis.

h ' GENEVA, Sept. 20.—Next Saturl day is to be a big day for Geneva. ’ There’s agoin’ to be a free balloon ( ascension and parachute drop. The . business men have arranged for this and Madame LaFere, who is said to be one of the most daring balloonists in the iand and one who makes the highest and most risky flights, will do the ascension. The place from where the ascension will be made has not been selected yet, but it will be near the business sectioq of town. Most of the farm work is done now and so a very large crowd of country people are expected in to enjoy the first, last and only balloon ascension of the season. Frank Sullivan went to Van Buren last evening to see his horse, Anderson Mack, go in the races there today. This horse is one of the gamest little trotters around here and is entered in the 2:30 trot today. The week of the Portland fair he made 2:26, but was dated back to enable him to enter the .30 trot at Van Buren. This may be the last race he will go this season and'it is probable that he will be brought back here for the winter. Mr. Sullivan has been very successful this season as this horse has taken money in every race entered. ♦ Dr. Ward, formerly of this city, but who, for the past year, has been making his home with his brother- | in-law and nephew in Indianapolis, is back here looking up his old acquaintances. He has not been in the best of health and comes back to get the benefit of good country air and healthy food. He will stay here until he is much better and while resting he will look after the Improvements which are to be made on his property in West Line street. The marriage of Mrs. Alice Carpenter to Mr. W. J. Heeter was solemnized at the former’s home in Shackley street Wednesday eveping. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Wells of the Methodist church in the presence of only a few of the intimate friends of the bride and groom. They will make their home . here. ; o The following letters remain un- ' called for at the Decatur postoffice: . Mrs. Iva Miller, Miss Nellie Stevens, ; Mrs. Wjm. Whitcomb, Miss Rachel [ Mrs. Fannie Mors, E. • Watston, A. J. Narvaez, C. W. Mili ler, Miss Myrtle Seldon, Miss Eliz- - abeth Smith. The meeting held by the Democrat- ; ic county committee Monday after- [ noon was one of the best committee j meeting ever held in the county. > The grand jury room was packed, as l was the hallway leading to it, with . members of the committee and Demo- > cratic workers. The speech of Hon. J R. K. Erwin was one that the Demo- - crats would like to have made in . every school district in Blackford j county. It was a “hummer.” John » Burns, chairman, is getting the forces : well organized for the campaign.— > Hartford City News. 1 The case of the State against - Frank Smith, charged with running 3 an automobile contrary to law and r causing a runaway, which was to 3 have been heard yesterday, was cons tinned until next Friday, owing to 3 the absence of several important wildnesses, who could not be present.

'OTHERS ARE BADLY INJURED | Sleeping Car Badly Damaged—’ Freight Crew Called in to Explain I. ' ' the Cause of Wreck. A wreck occured Saturday morning about two thjrty o’clock on the Rapids railroad at the depot in this city, caused by a freight train running into the rear end of passenger train No. four, and that a great loss of life is not chronicled is a mystery to all the train men as well as the passengers. As it was a large number of passengers were injured, being shaken up and bruised but nothing serious resulted and those receiving injuries will soon recover. The worst injury was ,in all 1 probability received by John D. Stults, who sustained three broken ribs and several severe body bruises. , Dan Beery and Elmer Johnson, both 1 of this city, were knocked down and ; received severe body injuries which, however, are nothing serious. The two baggage men were knocked ; down and several trunks piled uponjt them but only one of the men was £ injured. What thle extent of! his injuries are, however, we are un-

able to state, as he stayed with his train and finished his mn. Number four is the southbound 1 passenger train that is due in this city at two thirty-one o’clock in the morning. The train left Ft. Wayne on schedule time, carrying a heavy load of passengers, and were ’ running right bn time when they stopped at the depot in this city. As the passenger left Fort Wayne a freight carrying twelve cars and the engine running backwards, wa o sent out and ordered to Ridgeville to get a train of coal and return. The freight was running several minutes behind the passenger. The city limits were reached and the freight slackened their speed, but whether it was negligence, or the train crew was asleep, no one seems able to state. Nevertheless, the freight crashed into the rear of passenger train number four. It was just at this time that the Decatur people who were aboard the train had started to get off, and as the crash came those who were standing, were hurled to one side of the car or other, some being knocked down and others being jammed against seats and other furniture of the car. Quiet was soon restorea and everyone gotten safely from the train, and the attention of the crev,was then called to the extent of the damage done. The Pullman ear on the rear of the passenger was badly battered up, the entire end being caved in, while the tender of the engine on the freight was put out ot commission and unfit for use. The Pullman was occupied by a number of people, all of whom escaped injury, although they were shaken up and bruised to some extent. Every I glass in the Pullman was broken out, I and several other cars were damaged i slightly. That the wreck did no further damage to life and property is a mystery and the entire train crew marvels at the fact. The crew on • * I the freight train was ordered to report in Fort Wayne this rooming before the superintendent and it would be a safe wager that some body will lose their job. The Pullman car was set off here on the side tracK and ' |he passenger resumed the trip south, minus a sleeper. 1 The railroad detective was in the city today looking up those who were injured and will in all probability : try to settle all cases and thus avoid , a law suit. I ———— o Coal dealers are smiling for their business is steadily increasing, denoting that the winter is not far away. The class of people who take - time by the forelock and put in a -'plentiful supply of fuel is coming ■ into prominence with the coal deal- . er, and this will be followed by a s rush of business as soon as the first l “cold spell” arrives. ■| A letter received from Scotty • Cameron, our fast second baseman, states that he is feeling fine, but 1 misses Decatur. He enclosed a clipI ping of a ball game he played in 1 Sunday, which shows that he was ’ four times at bat, got three hits, one a two base, one a three base and the other a single, which won the game t for the D. W. R. team he was play- ; ing with. He also had a stolen base, I a sacrifice hit, two put outs and two! > assists. He played left field. He ■ stated that the D. A. C. team that > was defeated was the fastest in De- - tfoit. Scotty sends his regards to all. . ... . .......

( NEW SUIT ON NOTE IS FILED I By a Portland Attorny—Claims Al-' lowed—Other Legal Business I Today. , j John Burri, a resident of Monroe township apd a former citizen of Monroe township, was naturalized, this morning in circuit court. . Attorney Frank B. Jaqua ot Portland, filed a new case today, entitled The Citizens ’ Bank of Portland vs. William Shoemaker, Michael McGriff and W. H. Shepherd, notes, demand $3lO. , i The Edward Stahley petition for a highway, was set for trial Mon day, October Ist. i Rebecca Jackson vs. Dore B. Er- 1 win, administrator, demand $289.89,' , finding for estate and judgment' against Peter A. Heath for $302.55.1 ' Daniel Jackson vs. Dore B. Erwin,' admmstrator, claim $69.15, submit-J ted, allowed $73.90, to be paid out of assets of estate. Peter Bixler vs. Jasper Case, ma-' licious prosecution, $.1090, dismissed and costs paid. \ |

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Martin Kirchner, administrator J with the will annexed, of the William R. Kirchner estate, filed proof of final settlement and final report and was discharged. j I .Martin L. Sfntih, guardian for Nellie Smith and others, filed a current account and same was allowed? oWatkins 'Cough Cure has no equal for coughs and colds. Try it. Last Saturday a deal took place in this locality whereby William Peel sold his home farm of 80 acres to Fred Yoss, a hard working thrifty German farmer near Berne, for $5850. Mr. Peel has owned the farm for thirty-nine years clearing it shortly after the civil war. a neighbor we regret to lose Mr. Peel: we valued him highly for his sociable and helpful qualities. Mr. Yoss will take posession in November and Mr. Peel will leave Tuesday for , Michigan, accompainecl by one of his sons, where he intends to buy a homesteads —Berne Witness. ' j PARKER’S , HAIR BALSAM Clr* rinses and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Restore Gray Kair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diseases & hair falling. Tg

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