Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1906 — Page 1

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NUMBER OF VALUA3IE BO'OKS ■ — I Gifts From the Holthouse Drug i Co., and Rev. John C. White I The public library shelves will soon have added to them a ffirge gif/t of books from the well known drug firm of Holthouse, Callow & Company. The Library Board are vpry grateful for so generous a gift, and the patrons of the library will enjoy the reading of them. Rfcv. John C. White also presented the “Falstaff’i edition of Shakespeare in five voltimejs, works of Edgar Allen Poe in ten volumes and Drunpnond’s Layi in the Spiritual World.” The following list is from Holthouse 6 Callow Jean Ingelow, Poetical Work !, Tales, Edgar A. Poe; Waverly, Walter Scott Essays of Elia, Emerson; The Sketch Book, Irving; Lucile, Meridith; Old Mortality, Scott; Plutarch’s Lives; Essays, Emerson; Queen’ of Ihe Air, Ruskin;'Perfume of the Violet, Howe Famous Men, Page; Romolal Eliot; Stories from the French, sant; Diana of the Cross-Ways, Meredith; Gulliver’s Travels; A Nemesis, Cobban; Forging of the Fetiei’s, Mrs. Alexander; Ruffino, Ouida; Ajiigeliue, Percival; The Honorable Mi’s. Vereker, The Duchess; Christie Reade; The Blithedale Rpmaitce, Hawthorne; Mr. Fortesqne, Westfall; The King’s Talisman, Cobb; (proofced. Path, Alexander;! Aurette, Grevijle; Jeijsy 'Allan, Kennedy; Brighthide, Benjamin; Frivolous Cupid/ Hope; The Little Savoyard, Arthur; Great Hesper, Barrett; Addie’s Lupton; Merle’s Crusade, Carey; Sartor Resartus, Carlyle; Evqngeliine, Longfellow; The Blithedale Romance/ (copy 2), Hawthorne; Cranfofd, jlaskell; Gold Dust, Yonge; ChiMe ![larold’s Pilgrimage, Byron; The Mystery of Cloomber, A. Couon Doyle i Essays of Elia, (copy 2.) Emerson ; jßeSfamc and Lillies, Ruskin; Paradise Regained, Milton; Liberty, Mills; Natural Law in the Spiritual j World, Drummond; Queen of the Air, Ruskin; The House of the Woltf, Weyman; Tillyloss‘Scandal, J. M.(Barrie; '" Tft'vc’riw Ttf- a Ethics of the Dust, Ruskin: John Ploughman’s Pictures, Spurgeon; Paul and Virginia, Ste. The Queen of the Air, Ruskin (Copy 2); Stickit Minister, Crockett; I Kavanagh, Longfellow; Barrack Rohm Ballads, Kipling; Mine Own People, Kipling; Sign of the Four, A. ’ Conan Doyle; Light of Asia, Arnold*; Plain; Tales from the Hills, Kipling; The Princess and Maud, Tennyson;. The Phantom Rickshaw, Kipling; Idylls of the King, Tennyson; The Princess', Tennyson; Macbeth, Shakespeare; The Lays of Ancient Rome, Macaulay; Mannion, Scott; A Senfim mtal Journey, Sterne; Poems, LowgJJ ;-La Belle Nivernaise, Daudet; Discourses of Epictetus, Long; Thoughts <|f Marcus Aurelius; Wierd Tales,.Poe; Tan-gle-wood Tales, Hawthorne; Mosses From an Old Manse, Hawthorne; Emerson’s Essays, 3 copies; Lays of Ancient Rome, 2 copies, Macaulay. ■ —o —.—4_ ■ FATAL FIRE IN KANSAS fcITY. Four Killed and Forty Seriously Injured. < . Kansas City, Oct. 25. —Four people were killed and forty seriously hurt . in a fire which destroyed the Chamber of Comnjerce building here this morning. The building was foiir stories high and the ladders Would only reach to the third story. Most of the people •were hurt by jumping. Jesse Fore', a laborer, seeing escape impossible i my other way. dropped hm wife and >uby from the fourth-floor to firemen a the top of ladders.' They w ere caught < .nd passed down, and Ford then jui iped himself and was saf- caught by two firemen. 1 ■ — — —o — i NEGROES MUST LEAVE Two Hundred Citizens Take tie Matter in Hand. Franklin, 0., Oct. 31.—Mayor George McLane totjay issued the following statement: “At a meeting last night of '2OO prominent citizens it was dytermined to investigate the character of all negroes in the City. Law abiding . L negroes wll not be disturbed but;, the Aethers must leave. There will bp no, U'.nchings but the law will be allowed t<> take its course in whites case. I The pdVlic can rest assured there will roc no jjdiSjtabance. ?■ I

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MEETS HERE IN TWO WEEKS Prof. Watkins, a Former Candidate for Governor of Ohio, Will Be One of the SpeakersWithin a few days programs will be sent out for the Adams County Sunday School convention, which is dated to occur here 8 and 9. The officers are Jesse Rupp, president; J. T. Merryman, vice president; Mrs. C- Vogt, Miss Inez Everett, Rev. Kleiwer and A. S. Burley, secretaries. The opening session will be held at the Presbyterian church, Thursday evening, November 8, and at this time the principal address will be delivered by Prof. A. S. Watkins, LL.D., of- Ada, Ohio, his subject being, “What These Sunday Schools Need.” Prof. Watkins is a wonderful speaker and has a reputation all over Ohio, having been the last Prohibition candidate for Governor in that state. Friday morning a splendid program r will“ h$ rendered., in whicli a number of Ideal workers will take part and Rev. E. AV. Hid penny of Indianapolis will talk on ‘••‘-Growing Teachers.” Business, reports of commi t tees and splendid talks and lectures by various persons will take up the time Friday afternoon and evening. It is. the desire of those in charge that this con-' volition be the most successful in the ■ history of the association and they want your help. The complete program will be published in a few, days. —o WORK ON RINK BEGINS. I •.'•*• . ’ Will Be Completed In About One Week. ;ft . i ' The work of laying the new floor in the Schafer room began this morning, Linn & Patton having the contract. The floor is to be of the finest grade of hard maple and w 7 hen completed will equal any seen in metropolitan skating rinks. Several posts have been taken out of the room so as ’ ( to penait when, complete the rink will be a model one. The opening will be announced in a few days, but it is probable that the work will not be completed for a week or ten days. The rink will be a strictly moral place and will likely be a popular amusement room for young and old. KITTIE STEVENSON ELOPES. Will Marry a Traveling Salesman, Say Her Friends. An unsigned communication tells of the elopement of Miss Kittie Stevenson, a waitress at the Burt Efouse, and Mr. C. H. Drayfus, a travling salesman representing the Ivin, Frank & Co., clothing, house. The couple left here on the early westbound train on the Clover Leaf yesterday morning, and according to our informant .are probably married by this time. Mr. Drayfus was here Wednesday and that evening Miss Stevenson told her girl friends that she was going to marry him and would leave the following morning, which they did. o BIRTHDAY DINNER A SUCCESS. .; Dora Marie Maglty Proved a Charm- . ing Little Hostess. . Little Dora Marie assisted by her father and mother, was hostess at a dinner party given in honor of 1 her third anniversary yesterday at their home in the country. A royal good time was had by all the little folks, who did ample justice to everything, especially the birthday Cake And cream. Mr. and Mrs. Htnry Magley, Charles Magley, Ferd Peoples, Ed Christen and family, Dee Lewton, Bert Lower and Mrs. John Peterson and children, Mrs. John Heller and children, Carl and Hazel France and Claude Peterson were the guests. It was also Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Peoples’ w’edding annievrsary. and Mr. Peoples’ birthday as well as 'little Ferd Christen’s birthday anniA'Crsat ” o The work along North Second street is progressing in, nice shape and the contractors will no doubt have the same completed by the fifteenth, the time specified in their contract.

DECATUB, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1906.

INSPECTORS HARD TO FIND. New Law Makes It a Difficult Job to Fill. The county. central committees of Indiana have had more than the usual trouble in securing competent inspectors for the election to be held November 6. The job of an election inspector is not what it once was, according to the new law enacted in 1905. More especially is the job of an out township inspector trying, for he must bring to the county clerk’s office as soon as the count of the election board is completed the returns, no matter what time of night it is. ,This may be all right for the city inspectors, but for those ten, fifteen or eighteen miles away in bad weather, it means a greater hard.ship than heretofore. The section of the-law relating to inspectors says: “It shall be the duty of each inspector of elections as soon as the ■ certificates required by law to be signed by the precinct election boards ; have been signed to deliver the 1 pvith one of the lists of voters and i -one of the tally papers containing the ; vote of the precinct for all state, • district and county officers voted for, - and with-the ,bags required by law to ? be refui-ned by said inspector to the > clerk of the circuit court at the court r house for the use of the board of - canvassers, and that there may be . no delay in the canvassing of the vote of any county or city it is de-| glared to be the duty of the clerk to keep the clerk’s office open all night upon the night of any election at > which county or city officers are voted for. ’ ’ Aside from the unwillingness of good men to take the job of inspector there are so many things that disr qualify, a man for the place. One of - the main qualifications is kinship to -a candidate. This year there are t numerous candidates and it is hard - to find men willing to act as inspec- - tor who are not related to one of 3 them. The slightest degree of kin--3 ship disqualifies. i ’ • - d 4— ANOTHER PIONEER DEAD. i 1 J Jonathan Herran of Monroe Township Died Yesterday. f Jonathan Herron, aged 74 yeats, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Monroe township, died yesterday afternoon at l;30 o’clock at the r home of his son-in-law, John Durbin, south of the city,, after 'an illness bf several weeks’ duration, death resulting from old age and liver trouble. He w r as born in Ohio, where he resided until a young man, when he came to this county, where he made his home until his death. The funeral services ’ will be held Friday morning at the Pleasant Valley church and interment ' will be made in the Smith chapel cemetery. BOWLING LEAGUE TO OPEN. ■ . I K. of 0. Team to Meet B. P. O. E. Tonight. The bowling league opens tonight at the Palace alleys when the K. of C. team meets the Elks. The contest promises to be one of the best of the week and each team will have plenty of rooters. On Wednesday night the Palac team ■will meet the All-Stars and on Friday the Klondykes meet : the Postoffice. The league will soon be going in full blast and great inters! will be manifested before long. Each team has its backers now who blieve they will win. Watch the , standing of your favorites. o MADE POLITICAL SPEECH. Congressman Cromer at the Court House Last Night. < The Cromer meeting last evening 1 was rather slim. It was slim in 1 point of numbers and' lacked the J fighting spectacular display that was i so prominent upon his previous ap- 1 pearance here in the role of a speaker. r . Hon. R. S. Peterson presided and did i the thing up in his usual pleasing way. e Congressman Cromer made the usual 1 arguments that are being made to s save his congressional life. The crowd c was exasperatingly small.

COUNTRY HOME DESTROYED. Spark From an Engine Sei Fire to Summer Kitchen and the House Was Burned. (Special to the Democrat). Geneva, Ind., Oct. 29. —The home of Barney Ford, located a mile and a half east of here in Wabash township, was totally destroyed by fire Saturday. The household goods were also practically ruined, those ffltved from the fire being practically rained by the drizzling rain. A com shrdder was being operated in the barnyard, a short distance from the house and it is believed that a spffi-k from, the engine set fire to the summer kitchen, the blaze soon spreading to the house. The men made a heroic effi it to stop the flames but could do nothing and the loss is. total, being csiv.iated at over $2,000, with insurance. The house was a very large one. o THE MAN WASN’T CRAZY. . . , ■■ - ' 4 He Was an Inventor With Modern Ideas. Dr. John H. Girdner, the alienist of New York, was visiting an insane asylum. He met a man in the hall.. “'Who are you?” asked Girdner. “Me?” said the man. “Why, I’m here,wbut I ain’t crazy. Not on your life. All the rest of them are crazy, but not me. I’n an inventor. I have got an invention that will make me so rich that John D. Rcokefeller will look liek a poor man beside me.” “What is it?” asked Girdner. “A patent fly-cqtclier.' Greatest thing in the world. Here. I’ll show you how it works.” •The man took a sheet of paper am drew a bird-cage. “That,” he said, “is a parrot’s cage—just a common cage—but you observe that on this side there is a door with a heavy iron knob, and that on this side there ' jS a door-w-itfr a-’hAvy iron .-knob, and that there is another .dpor on the other side, alSo with a’ heavy iron knob. “Now. you sec, you take this parrot’s cage and put it on a pedestal . fourteen feet high, the pedestal standing on a marbel slab. Then I place a ladder on the othes side reaching up to one door and a ladder on the other side leading to ■ the other door. “This is how it works. The unsuspecting fly comes along and climbs up theladder on this side. It opens the door by means of the iron knob, walks through the cage and opens the door on the other side; Then it starts down the other ladder. “That’s where we catch him!” the inventor continued excitedly. “That’s where the invention is. That’s where I shall get my money. You see the fourth rung is missing in this second ladder, but the fly doesn’t know it, and he falls on the marble slab and breaks his neck. —Saturday Evening Post. —. o . MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETING. At the Home of Mrs. Dora B. Erwin Tomorrow. The Woman’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church will meet with Mrs. Orphia Irwin Tuesday afternoon October 30. The program will be: Paper “Persia” —Mrs. Fannie Dugan. Music—Miss Bessie Shock. Paper—‘The Mormans,’ Mrs, Edith Dicer. Reading—Mrs. Heller. Reception Committee—Mesdames Erwin, Atz and Murray. Ladies are requested to meet promptly at 2 o’clock and bring thimble and needles. ;— O Henry Dellinger and wife were over from Decatur Thursday to see his brother, John Dellinger,and Mrs. Dollinger’s father, the venerable Wm. Dellinger, of this town. Mr. John Dellinger at this writing is reported as being vety low, with little or no hope for recovery. It was thought Tuesday that he could not live the night Sunday when W. H. Hunter and the Herald man -called at his home, Mr. Dellinger was too ill to be seen by callers. However, Wednesday morning he seemed a little bet-ter.—-Willshire Herald.

HAD BEEN ILL SIX MONTHS. But Friends Weje Hoping for Her Recovery Until Yesterday. Butler Ind., Oct. 30 J C. Patterson. Decatur Ind. “Agnes fell asleep in Jesus, oh, so sweetiy, at twelve oclock, G.H. MYERS.” The above message received aere t one o’clock this afternoon, tells a story that has saddened the heart of nearly every citizen of Decatur. it means that Miss Agnes Schrock is flead! ■ One of the fairest and loveliest young ’ adied of this community, one whom i everyone adored and loved, one whose life has been an open book* whose ’ years have been filled with kxad acts and Christian teachings, ha» been taken from us. It is hard toßelieve, and while all our hearts are (|*d, we can but sympathise withjbroken j hearted mothers, sisters, and brothers Miss Agnes’ illness dates j|ack six months v> hen she suffered ad attack of typhoid fever. The, disease was , slow but persistant and the efforts of 5 several physicians proved futile. Afte four months her condition iihproved slightly but the fever could not be i broken. She was taken to Rome City r for a month and gained strength , though very slowly. After her return > here she seemed to improve k slight!j and her friends and relatives hoped 1 for her ultimate recovery. Two weeks ago Mrs. Schrock accompanied Agnes to Butler for a visit with Rev. Myers ? and family, and from day to day encouraging news was heard until yesierday morning when the first mes- , sage announcing a turn for the worse i came. , 3 During yesterday afternoon she ref gained consciousness and was abl® to ' recognize those who gathered ak her , ■bed'si'3m^ 1 and listers j including Miss Bessie and Will from this city, Robert, of Crawfordsville, . and Miss Nellie of Indianapolis ar--1 rived in time to talk to her. At 8:30 - last night she again lapsed into uni consciousness and slept peacefully > until her death at noon today. r The sad news flashed from lip to lip here and everywhere were heard the sincerest expressions of sorrow. } In all the city there was no one more popular, and there are many sad , hearts today. ; Miss Agnes had just passed her twenty-fourth birthday, and had : spent her entire life in Decatur. She : was a graduate of the high schools ■ and was a talented and accomplished youßg lady. For several years she has held a responsible position at the Old Adams County bank, and the , officers of tl at institution speak in the highest terms of her ability. The remains will probably arrive here on the 1:19 train over the G. K. & I. tomorrow afternoon, and the funeral will be held from the house at ten olclock Thursday morning. Several physicians will conduct a post mortem examination this eventng to ascertain the exact cause of death and Drs. Beavers and Coverdale of this city will likely attend. MR. BERRY QUITS CLOVER LEAF.

Mechanical Superintendent Accepts New Job. L. W. Berry, of the Clover Leaf, superintendent of the mechanical and transportation department of the company. having his headquarters at Frankfort, has handed in his resignation to take effect- at once, he having accepted the position of superintendent of the mechanical and transportation departments of the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway, with headquarters at Warkiek, New York. In his new position Mr. Berry 7 will have much larger duties than he had with the Clover Leaf, he having the inspection of the transportation for the entire system one of the largest in the east. Along with the increased responsibilities there is a corresponding increase in the salary of the position, ■ : ' ■..

WEEKLY

K. C. BOYS WIN TWO GAIMES. t Lead the League—Palace Team Will Play P. O. ’s Wednesday Evening. STANDING. K. of C 3 2 1 .666 Elks 3 1 2 .333 Stars .....0 0 9 .000 Palace 0 0 0 .000 Klondykeso 0 0 .000 Post Officeo 0 0 .000 Ihe City Bowling 1. ; opened last evening, the Irst games being between the K. of C. team and the Elks, the former winning two out of three games by easy sailing. The games were all well-played although not sensational high scores were-made, the players at times being handicapped by miserable splits and difficult chances. The K. of C. team started right offi the first game with a rush and wqn by a total of sixty-eight pins. The Elks, however, won the second game by the narrowest of margins, only two pins separating the two teams. The Isat same was also won by the K. of C. and n consequence today they are Icadiig the league. The scores made were as follows : • K OI 0. P-: 1 ng .. ... ... I'ls 165 I'ffi Niblickl74 .1,53 133 Colchin.. .. ... .. 159 192 173 Johnsl3o 91 154 Wemhoff. 136 172 166 ■■■- - ■ ■ ELKS. Marigoldl36 141 130 Graham-141 128 > 146 Selher 122 187 139 1 rancel46 171 134 , Studabakerl3l 148 . 178 676 775 727 ; . NOTES. The K. of C. upset the dope last evening by winning two out of-three > games. ■ Kolchin of the K. of C. team had the high average for three games. He ' made nearly 175 pins to the game. : for the .K. of C., fell down, badly n the second game by bowing only 91. This score prevented his team from making a clean sweep of the series. The Palace and Postocffie teams will play next. These games come off Wednesday evening. t > The Elks are composed of a lot of good bowlers* who will make themselves known before the season ends. Colchin made the high score last evening, 192, n the second game. The Stars and Klondykes will battle Friday evening and both teams think they will win. 0 OBITUARY OF WILLIAM CULLY. The Life of Another Veteran and Pioneer Citizen. William Cully was born in Allen county, Indiana, June 6, 1844, and died October 28, 1906 aged 62 years, four months, twenty-two days. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn his loss. In 1866 he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Haley, to whom was born ten children, one son and nine daughters, after which the mother and four daughters were called away, In the year 1896, October 18th, he was again united in marriage to Mrs. Mary A. Wick. To this union one son was born. He was always a kind and loving husband and father, and at all times ready to please his many friends.

In 1880 he united with the United Brethren church at Decatur, Indiana, and remained a faithful Christian and church worker. -For a few years the trials became hard and he neglected his church duties till about five tears ago, when he picked up his cross, and to his death was a good Christan worker. August 9,1862, Wiliam Cllly, vhile a boy sn his teens went forwae to serve hs country. He enlsted in Co. H, Indiana Infantry, and was discharged at Indianapolis, Indiana. Augusta 8, 1865, giving three years of his life in defense of his country. During those three years of service as a soldier he had to endure many hardships and with the rest of his command fought several battles. At all times and circumstances he was always ready and willing to faithfully discharge his duty.

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