Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1906 — Page 5

A big bouncing ten pound girl babe marie its appearance at the home of < Mr. and Mrs. Earl B. Adams this i morning and Earl is at present busily ( engaged in passing the icgars and j reading up on baby talk. Both mother ; and babe are doing well. The county commissioners held a special session Saturday afternoon. ( They signed up a number of bonds and let the contract for spouting the : new county farm barn to Schug I Bros., and also contracted with the ’ Schafer Hardware Co. for lightning ; rods. 11 Suffering from a terrible night- ' mare, during which he awakened his wife Peter A. Wilcox of Marion, was found in a dying condition at 3 o’clock Thursday morning and expired before a physician could be summoned. The doctors declare the man’s . dfeath was undoubtedly due to the ( nightmare, which affected his heart. 1 ( Phillip Besler in advance of “The Girl From Kansas” company, is in our city, billing the big attraction. ; Mr. Besler is an old trooper, having : been in arvance of Frank Mayo, Hoverly’s Minstrels, C. D. Hess Opera Company, a*nd several others, and “The Giri From Kansas” ought to be a good one with Mr. Besler in advance, as he has never advanced a cheap show in his. life. The Wayne Knitting Mills, after encouraging the people to believe there was hope of securing a branch in Van Wert, and after our people had seventy-five applications for. jwwork, the Wayne concern notified them that .they would not locate a r . factory in Van Wert as they were afraid they could not secure the necessary help.—Van Wert Times. You can always tell whether a man is married or single when you see. , him go through a screen door. If he is married he approaches the door cautiously, glances nervously around, then takes off his hfct fcfid swipes it up and down, the door two or three times. He thgp quickly opens the door about two or three inches, squeezes through and closes it with a quick ■ snap. The length of time he has been married may be deterinined by the degree of fear and nervousnuss indicated in his countenance. — o— ; —— Postmaster Frisinger has received notice that a United States civil service competitive examination for position of clerk or carrier in the Decatur postoffiee will be held in this City on November 24, 1906, commencing at nine o’clock a. m. Applications for this examination must be made on the prescribed form which with necessary instructions may be obtained at the postoffice. Applications will not be accepted unless received by C. W. Moss, secretary, board of examiners/Cincinnati, before 4:30 p. m., October 15, 1906. All persons wishing to' take this examination should secure blanks and fill them out at once in order to allow time for any necessary corrections. o Otto Green, the youngest son of Marshal Ed Green, was very painfully injured last evening at nine o’clock at the home of David Gerber, and as a result is confined to his bed in a very serious condition, the true extent of his injuries not being known, but it is feared the young man is hurt internally. The accident happened while the young man was going home in company with several other young fellows, and when he ar- * rived at the Gerber home,, he thought he would make a short cut across lots for home and unthoughtedly stepped into Mr. Gerber’s yard, and as it was dark, never supicioned danger until he was hurled headlong into space, alighting about seven feet below on some stone and timber, into a eellag that Mr. Gerber is having put in at his home. His comrades heard him falLand rushed to his assistance, finding the young man unconscious and unable to move. In some manner they got him out of the cellar and he soon afterwards revived and was ass sled home and Dr. S. D. Beavers summoned, who made a thorough examination of the boy, finding several large ugly bruises upon his right side. The young man complains of severe pains in his side and it is feared by his parents that he 'is suffering from internal injuries, the result of which cannot be determined for a few days. . — —o— Judge Cooper of Kokomo is endeavoring to bring about the custom of having all fire arms and daggers, brass hu >kles and other articles of Deadr.qo.l Dick varitey excluded from er bition in store windows. He claims that the sight of such things have' a great deal of influence upon the youngesters of the community. A number of eases of petit larceny against young boys have been preferred within the last few months, and the new movement of the Judge is considered a good one.

John, the eighteen months old child j of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Miller, died at < one o’clock at the home of its par-', ents on Nuttman street, lifter an ill - ; ness of three weeks, ‘death resulting from spinal trouble. The funeral will be held at the Catholic church , Thursday morning at nine o’clock I, Interment in St. Joseph cemetery. |. The high school base ball team de-, seated the White Sox last evening at : Steele’s park, in an interesting game • by a score of seven to six. The high school as they now line up are a strong aggregation and will give all . comers their troubles in defeating them. They will play the pbstoffice i team next Wednesday after school i hours. Mrs. M. Gilson of Cardwell, Mo., < Mrs. Sallie Merriman of Blue Creek township, Mrs. Lucas Welsheimer of, Churubusco, and Mrs. Belle Kephart | of Ada, 0., all being sisters and while visiting in thife city Concluded to | visit Moser’s studio and have a group picture taken. The ladies, whose maiden names were Gilpen, were born and raised in this county and are well known. The Ft. Wayne & Springfield railway company made the proposition to extend their traction line from Decatur south through Berne to Portland, if Berne people will take stock to the amount of $25,000. A meeting of the business men has been called for next Tuesday evening to oonside!r the proposition, which . seems not unreasonable. All members of the business men’s club and others who can should attend the meeting.—Berne Witness. The show last evening was attended by a fair sized corwd and was greeted with much enthusiasm and applause. The company was one of the strongest that has ever showed in the house and the cast was well balanced throughout. The plot and theme ,of the play was carripii opt,to perfection and disclosed the fact that every member of the company were aeto Tand actresses Io rr-fection. “As Told in the Kills” would no doubt be welcomefl again ,to our city. He was a thin, fragile young preacher, but not- half so helpless as he looked. He could see what was going on, even during the last prayer. Just before closing the service he said calmly, but with a good deal of impressiveness *to the square inch. “Those in the congregation who not get their things all on during the prayer can do so while I pronounce the benediction.” During which, however, the audience could hear each other’s watches tick. On Monday morning the new proprietors of the Star Restaurant, Jesse Roe and John Custer, took possession. Both are very pleasant and courteous young gentlemen and we are sure will keep the .business up to the high standard it now has. Mr. Eddington will stay in the restaurant until a good baker is found to take his( place.—Willshire Herald! Mr. Eddington, the retiring owner, is an Adams county product, having been reared and educated in Decatur.. ————:r —O Since he close of the base ball season here the local fans have become very much interested in the American league race, in which New York and Chicago are very conspicious and every evening the fans gather at Dick Chirsten’s place of business, where the scores are received and eagerly scan the board to see, if their respective club won. The opinion as to the winners of this flag as between Chicago and New York is equally divided, but watch, our readers, that Cleveland does not sneak in and get the bunting. Ollie Craven, who has been talking of organizing a bowling team and who met the representative of the Decatur bowlers yestrday, stated this afternoon that he would be unable to say before evening whether or not a team from this place would arrange a series with Decatur. As stated yesterday, John Kern was here to try for a series of five games, two to be played at Decatur,, two here and one on some neutral alley. The bowlers who have had experience in team work have been doing little or no bowling during the s.ummer and haven’t yet decided to accept the challenge.—> Bluffton Banner. Up at Milwaukee one ;of the city schools is likely to be on account of fleas. The scholars have to scratch so much, they haven’t time to study. All the power of the city is being exerted to exterminate the fleas and save the school but the outlook is not favorable. Meanwhile, the boys of the school out 2 P 1 the boys of other schools who were i reluctant to return to studies while the sun shines warm are praying that the fleas may come out victors over the authorities and the scourge become general.

I 1 ■ Vince Bell, the well known AdamsL county farmer, has completed the deal for his farm as stated in the! News some time ago and will receive’ for the 160 acres the price o's $16,000? In addition to that he gets the use' of the farm until January 1, 1908,; one year from next January, which is worth another thousand dollars. ) When that time is up Mr. Bell will! move to Bluffton to reside. —Bluffton; News. j ( City Clerk Elliott was up in the air this morning for a short time, thinking that one of the city records had been stolen. As a matter of fact it had bene moved from its usual place in the city hall and Ed didn’t happen to find it. He got excited and the more he looked the more rattled J he became. He was of the opinion that the asphalt people at Fort ' • Wayne had the book and was going ‘ after it hot foot when he was sudIdenly relieved to find the document " in another case. —Bluffton Banner. A shocking sensation was created in Lima, Ohio, by the announcement that a baby had been thrown from a , Pennsylvania train by its mother and , had been found along the track with" ( out a scratch. The enterprising, newspapers soon formed the theory that the baby had been deserted by ; a wealthy girl of a prominent family to hide her shame. It was decided to give the baby to some good family for adoption and the bequest was io be made after the last act in a Lima theatre. When the baby was taken from the cradle to be given away it was found to be a baby pig weighing thirty pounds. John Kern proprietor of bowliug alleys at Decatur, is in Bluffton this afternoon trying to arrange for a series of games between bowling teams in the two cities. He is trying to arrange for the first games to be played at Decatur next Tusday evening. Teams exchanged games betwene the ; two cities a few years ago, and they went off pleasantly, never reaching the strenuous point attained ,by base ball. The series of games will likely be arranged. John Lich‘ tenberger who is in Fort Wayne today, will try also to arrange for contest games between Bluffton and Ft. Wayne clubs. This city has some good bowlers who should- be able to hold their own. Bowling offers no excuses for strife and disputes sue as are found in base ball —Bluffton News. The annual missionary convention of the Bobo M. E. circuit will be held at the Pleasant Mills Methodist church, Tuesd&y, September 25. The following excellent program will be rendered: Forenoon. Praise and Prayer, C. G. Nelson; Our Work for the,Freedmen; Has it Paid! M. B. Morgan; Missionary Success in India, J. 0. Stutsman; The Great Congregation of the Church Extension Society; An Appeal for Larger Giving, David Wells. Afternoon. Praise and Prayer, C. G. Nelson; The Minimum and Maximum of Spiritual Giving, C. -B. Dougherty; The Methodist Book Concern; Its Contributions to the Church, W. H. Daniel; The Triumph of Missions the Hope ofthe World, W. P. Heron; Our Obeligation to Increase cur Collections and Keep Every Charge in “Class First” for Missions, J. C. White; Were the Fathers Justified , in Laying the Foundations for, and Have Their Children Been Wise in , Maintaining a Methodist University < in Indiana? C. E. Line. Evening. Praise and Prayer, C. G. Nelson; Address, Rev. C. U. Wade, D. D. A basket picnic will be served at the church. Everybody is invited to be present at all three services You will miss a rate treat if you’are not there. Come, and by your presence make this the greatest day of the year. There will also be services at 1 Mt. Tabor and Clark’s Chapel in the evening at 7:30. Come one and all. C. B. SWEENEY, Pastor. — o— ' SERIOUS WRECK ON WABASH _1 ——l Three are dead and Forty Badly i Injured 1 Decatur, 111. September 26—Train 1 No. 8, north bond on the Wabash s was wrecked near Bement, Illinois. f Three are dead and a number injur- 1 ed. The -dead are Engineer K. M. 1 Bntler of Peru, Fireman W. W. 1 Allison, Peru, and Mail Clerk Whit-. 1 ing of Pent, several fatally. The passenger train collided with a 1 freight. The injured have been taken ( to the Danville hospital. A. T. Vail of Ft. Wayne was ( attend- , ing to timber business in our city to ' » J

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STRAIGHTEN OUT FINANCES Ordinance Was Adopted At a - Special Council Meeting Held Last Evening The council met in special session, last evening, Mayor Coffee presiding and ever councilman answered to roll call. An ordinance was proposed authorizing . the Mayor and City Clerk to enter into a contract with McDonald McCoy & Company of Cincinnati, O. for the sale of refunding bonds in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to bear interest at the rate of four and one-half per ceent. per annum payable in the , demoniations of Five hundred dol- ■ lars. Each bond to have date of j October Ist, 1906, two thousand to mature ten years from said date and two thousand each year thereafter until all ’are paid. The interest to be paid semiannually on the first day of .April and October each year hereafter. Principle and interest payable at the Old Adams County Bank of this city . This ordinance was then passed and adopted. A representative of the McDonald McCoy & Company was present and stated the kind of a contract he would make which proved very satisfaettry to' the council in every respect. The situation at present .is such that the council was forced to make some arrangements of this sort to take up out standing orders and to meet bonds that are now due on the water works plant, and a relief of this kind is'just the thing to get the city on its feet and in a good financial standing. A contract was entered into with this firm and the matter closed up. The bonds will arrive in a few days and will be duly signed and returned to this firm and the city will then receive a check for twenty thousand dollars and will at once begin to take up out standing orders and pay them off. The deal as- made by the city dads is a good one as it saves the city something like three hundred dollars in interest and will make the credit of Decatur first class. A petition was then filed by Attorney D. D. Heller on behalf of a lumber of properly owners which brings the Colehen Sewer * matter again before the council. The record in-the old action »; as incomplete and th£. property owners thought • thebest way was to commence all qyef, which means another legal battle for all concerned. The contract and guarantee between the city and Eureka Fire Hose Company was read and ordered spread of record. No other business coming before the council they adjorned. to meet in regular session on next Tuesday evening. A petition from the property owners along First street asking that they be premitted to put in their sidewalks of brick, stone or cement, was read and upon motion was laid on the table no action being taken. The quarterly report of the mayor was read and ordered spread of record. The appointments of John W. Coffee as Street Commissioner and C. Vogt as City Council engineer together with their oath of office were read and ordered spread of record. -o — HAPPY EVENT AT BARGER’S Crowd of Pocahontas People Were the Guests. A crowd of .Pocahontas people chartered the Evening Star Sunday morning and trailed to the beautiful home of John Barger about eight miles northeast of the city, in response to an invitation issued by Mr. Barger’s sister, Mrs. Rosa Heffner, who is also a Pocahontas lady, belonging at Harrisburg, Pa. Her husband’s health began to fail and they went to San Francsco in hopes that he would regain his health and while there he died. Mrs. Heffner- was there at the time of the earthquake and she can tell of some very interesting sights. She afterward came back here and is making her home with her broter for the present. Those present were Grandma Shelly, Oscar Shelly, wife and daughter Grace; Sam Purdy wife and e)hfldien', Eugene French and wife, Otto Reifert, wife and children; Mrs. Frank Vore and daughter Hixon and children, Cora McLeod and children, Criss Mankey and family, Rosa Heffner and Ada Elliott of San Franciscg, Miss Kate Barger, and John’ Barger and -children. The crowd sat down

to as fine a country dinner as could I be prepared any place and afterward partook of a watermelon feast. Mrs? Sam Purdy won in a watermelon contest. —Blufftoh News. o CHILLING BLASTS OF WINTER Promised by Rev. Hicks Within a Few Days. The probabilities are that the reactionary storms in progress as October comes in will reach their culmination on and touching the 2nd. Severe and dangerous tropical storms are indicated for southern parts of the country, with a wide and forceful storm center coming to meet them out of the northwest. The regular storm perion charted from the 2nd to the 7th, will take up the disturbances and renew and prolong them during the first week of the month. Taking the country as a whole, every variety of storms from tropical and tornadic southward, to boreal, with early sleet and snow in the extreme north and northwest, are among the probabilities at this time. A reactionary storm period is central on the 10th, 11th and 12th. Look at this time for a return of storm conditions —rising temperature, falling barometer' and return of cloudiness and autumnal rains and gales, with storms all the way from vicious lightning and thunder, to sudden change into, almost winter storms and temperatures. A regular storm perod covers the 16th to the 20th. In all probability this will prove one of the most severe to dangerous storm periods of this month, if not the whole autumn. Tropical storms, with high temperature and lightning and thunder will be natural on and about the 16th. As these conditions pass eastwardly across the country, many sections will be visited with high to violent gales all followed by sudden revulsion to rising barometer, with snow and marked change to colder over northern .sections. A reactionary storm period is central on the 23rd to 25th, at which time change to warmer, falling barometer, with cloudiness and more autumnal rain may be expected. A regular ktorm period eowrs . last five days of the month. Falling barometer and change to warmer will appear in the west early in this period, storm areas will develop in the .same regions, and during the 28th to 31st, wide stretches of cloudiness, rain anA snow will pass across the whole country from west to east. The culmination of these storms will probably center on the 31st, on or before which date an early cold wave with decided dashes of autumnal snow and gales, will be well on their sweep from the northwest. — i—o • CONVENTION IS IN SESSION The one day convention at the Methodist church had a fair attendance in the morning session, and afternoon session is splendid. The very popular pastor of Fort Wayne, the Rev. C. A. Rowand will address the convention at seven thirty this evening. You are welcome to come and hear this eminent minister of the gospel. His words will do you good.

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