Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1906 — Page 1

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THE TAX LEVY J3Y TOWNSHIPS Fifty-Three Gravel Roads Adorn the Tax Duplicate—Decatur’s EL. Levy Raised. T — Auditor Lewton has completed the tax levies for next year, and are given below. The State tax is 12 cents, State school 116-10, benevolent 5 cents, State educational is 2% cents, county 50% cents, county sinking 7 cents, turnpike 9 4-IQ. These levies are the same in each township and corporation. In addition. Union township—Stegmeyer gravel road 20 cents, Bleeke 24 cents, Moses 9 cents, township 25 cents, special school 18 cents, road 10 cents, bridge 10 cents, tuition 7, poor 1 cent, total $2.22. Root —Decatur and Preble road 3 cents, township 35 cents, special school 15 cents, road 25 cents, bridge 10 cents, tuition 15 cents, total $1.96. Preble —North Preble road 20 cents, Ewell road 10 cents, Worthman road 13 cents, township 20 cents, special school 45 cents, road 25 cents, bridge 10 cents, tuition 5 cents, total $2.46. Kirkland —Decatur & Bluffton road 6 cents, Peterson & Prairie 11 cents, Kirkland 11 cents, Decatur & Bluffton extension one 7 cents, extension Peterson & Prairie 6 cents, township 7 cents, special school 12 cents, road 5 cents, bridge 10 cents, tuition 14 cents, total $1.82. Washington—Decatur & Bluffton road 6 cents, East Washington 4 cents, Decatur & Monroe 7 cents, West Pleasant Mills 1 cent, Decatur & Pre*ble 3 cents, extension one East Washington 2 cents, extension two East Washington 2 cents, extension three East Washington 4 cents, extension four West Washington 2 cents, extension two Decatur & Bluffton 4 cents, extension three Decatur & Bluffton 12 cents, extension one West Washington 1 cent, extension two West Washington 2 cents, extension three West Washington 4 cents, extension one Decatur & Monroe 2 extension two Decatur & Monroe 2 cents, extension three Decatur & Monroe 3 cents, extension one North St. Marys 2 cents, township 9 cents, special school 15 cents, roatT '2 cents-, bridge 5 cents, tuition 11 cents, poor 4 cents, total $2.02. St. Marys—North St. Marys 35 cents, South St. Marys 30 cents, Moses 9 cents, school 15 cents, road 8 cents, bridge 3 eents, tuition 20 cents, poor 1 cent, total $2.14. Blue Creek —Woods road 40 cents, North Blue Creek 39 cents, township Bcents, special school 37 cents, road 8 cents, bridge 2 cents, tuition 10 cents, total $2.32. Monroe —Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove read 7 cents, Bollinger 4 cents, Peterson ■& Prairie 7 cents, extension ■one Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove 8 cents, extension two Pleasant Valley ■& Oak Grove 8 cents, extension three Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove 5 cents, extension one Monroe Township Central 8 cents, township 10 cents, special school 40 cents, road 5 cents, bridge 5 cents, tuition 4 cents, total 82.04. } French—French Township Central road 30 cents, extension one French Township Central 25 cents, extension one Reynolds 4 cents, township 15 cents, special school 25 cents, road 5 cents, bridge 5 cents, tuition 8 cents, total $2.10. Hartford —Extension one Jlmtown road 22 cents, extension two Eckrote 12 cents, extension two Bears 11 cents, extension one Reynolds 4 cents, extension three Reynolds 12 cents, township IQ cents, special school 17 cents, road 10 aents, bridge 5 cents, tuition 18 cents, tntal $2.14. Wabash-Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash road 8 cents, Ilirschey 4 cents, extension one Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Township 11 cents, extension two Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Township 11 cents, township 10 cents, special school 25 cents, road 10 cents, bridge 3 cents, tuition 9 cents, poor 3 eents, library 1 cent, total SI.BB. Jefferson —West Jefferson 9 cents, : South Jefferson 15 cents, township 10 • cents,, special school 10 cents, road i 10 cents, bridge 10 cents, tuition 11 ■ cents; total $1.68. Decatur —Decatur & Bluffton road 6 ( cents, East Washington 4 cents, De- ; catur & Monroe 7 cents, West Pleas- , ant Mills 1 cent, Decatur & Preble 3 cents,, extension one East Washingington 2 cents, extension three East : Washington 4 cents, extension four I West Washington 2 cents, extension ’ two Decatur & Bluffton 4 cents, exten- t sion three Decatur & Bluffton 12 cents, 1 extension one West Washington 1 i

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cent, extension two West Washington 2 cents, extension three West Washington 4 cents, extension one Decatur 6 Monroe 2 cents, extension two Decatur & Monroe 2 cents, extension three Decatur & Monroe 3 cents, extension one North St. Marys 2 cents, special school 37 cents, tuition 35 cents, poor 4 cents, corporation $2.20, library 7 cents, special 10 cents, total $4.74. _ Geneva —Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Township 8 cents, Hirschey 4 cents, extension one Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash township 11 cents, extension two Geneva, Ceylon & Wabash Township 11 cents, special school 50 cents, tuition 50 cents, corporation tax $1.38, total $3.70. Berne —Monroe Township Central road 7 cents, Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove 4 cents, Bollinger 7 cents, extension one Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove 8 cents, extension two Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove 8 cents, extension three Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove 5 cents, extension one Monroe Township Central 8 -cents, special school 15 cents, tuition 35 cents, corporation 90 cents, total $2.80. Monroe —Monroe Township Central 7 cents, Bollinger 4 cents, Peterson & Prairie 7 cents, extension one Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove 8 cents, extension two Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove 8 cents, extension three Pleasant Valley & Oak Grove 5 cents, extension one Monroe Township Central 8 cents, corporation 50 cents, total $1.95. ' ■ — JOHN P. SPULLER IS DEAD Spent His Entire Life in This County and Was One of the Best Known Citizens. After a battle of over five weeks against the terrible disease, typhoid fever, John P. Spuller died at 1:30 o’clock Tuesday morning at his home in Union township. He was one of the best known citizens of this county, his entire life having been spent in Union township, where he was born, on the old Spuller farm, January 2, 1854. He was an industrious, patriotic, Christian citizen, an earnest worker in the North Salem Evangelical church of which he had been a devout member practicably air his life. He was also an untiring lodge worker, being a member of the Ben Hur’s, National Union and Pathfinders. Five weeks ago Saturday, he became ill with symptoms which soon developed into typhoid. All that medical science and careful nursing could do was done, but to no avail, and for a week past, his life had been despaired of. For two days past, his death was almost momentarily expected. Mr. Spuller was an earnest ,and sincere worker and believer in Democracy and took an active part in the many campaign battles for years.

He was married in 1875 to Miss Martha Luckey, who survives her husband, together with two sons, Dallas and Willis, and one daughter, May. Besides these, the relatives are two brothers, Albert of this county, and William of St. Louis, and a step-moth-er, Mrs. Emily Zimmerman of this city. The funeral services will be held at 2:30 o’clock (sun time) Thursday afternoon at the North Salem church, leaving the house at two o’clock. Rev. Haist will officiate and the various lodges will attend in a body and take part in the exercises. — o ——- THE MOORE LAW IS A WINNER ndiana Making Great Progress Against the Saloon. The anti-saloon league has issued a bulletin in which it says: “The Moore remonstrance law has been in force 15 months. It has proved the most effective temperance law ever enacted in this State. One hundred and sixtey-seven townships and 14 city wards, containing in the neighborhood of 375,000 people, have, by its use, rid themselves of saloons for two years. This is more dry territory than has been won by any State in the Union in the same period except Oregon. One hundred and twenty-four townships are still dry by use of the former Nicholson law; 361 townships are, dry, independent of temperance laws, making 647 dry township in the State out of a total of 1,016.” Dave Gottschalk and D. C. Yoder are buying draft horses for shipment to Boston and will ship a carload from Berne this w r eek. They were in Indianapolis last week and bought eighteen head there and bought seven last Saturday at Fort Wayne.—Bluffton News.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1906.

NEW MACHINERY IS PURCHASED City Council Buys Engine From Allesj Chambers Co., apd Generator of | Fort Wayne Electric Works. T ' The city council met in special session Monday evening at the council chambers, this being the time set the hearing of bids for the construction of the McLaughlin sewer. Everjy councilman answered to roll call anjd they at once proceeded to get down ■ o business. The street and sewer coi imittee filed their report on the Nor h Second street improvement findii g that the same was completed in accordance with the plans and speciflttations, and they recommended that the engineer make and file his final Report on the improvement, and uppn roll call the report was adopted. The proof of publication was filed in the McLaughlin sewer matter and was ordered spread of record. Christen then moved that the council proceed to open the bids filed. This motion carried and the following blds were read: Henry Stevens, $360; Frank Hauken, $359.75; W. P. Colchin, 357.50; Samuel Butler, $357. The bid of Butler being the lowest, Christen moved that he be awarded the contract and that he be requiied to furnish a good and sufficient bond in the sum of seven hundred dollars and that he enter into a contract with the city according to law. A resolution requiring the city engineer to file his final report and assessment roll on North Second street was read and adopted. Upon motion by Burns the bids on the engine were opened and read and were as follows: Alles, Chambers Co., $2,575; Atlas Engine Works, $2;463; Bass Foundry & Machine Co., $3,645; Hamilton Coreless Engine Co., $2,240. Burns moved that the council accept the bid of the Alles, Chambers Company of Milwaukee, on the coreless engine, which carried. In securing this engine, they in all probability have contracted for the best piece of machinery on the market today. In fact, their bid and the bid of the Bass Foundry of Fort Wayne, were the only two bids that met .with the approval of the council, as the'engines handled by these companies are the best manufactured, and it was for this reason that the council accepted the IJId of the Alles, Chamber Company, as they outbid the Bass Foundry concern. Van Camp then moved that the generator contract be awarded to the Fort Wayne Electric Works of Ft. Wayne, the sum being $2,400, which motion carried. There was only one bid submitted besides the Fort Wayne Company, that being the Alles, Chambers company, which was not considered, as the Fort Wayne company easily outbid them.

The generators secured by the city are the best on the market and when set up, our city plant will compare favorably with any in the State. The new machinery will be installed within the next sixty days and from then on it is hoped the city will be free from further complaints upon the lighting system. Christen moved that the purchasing committee look after the matter of drawing up the contracts and having them properly executed and the deal closed up. Motion carried. The council then adjourned, as there was no further busines sto take up.

SURPRISE FOR MRS. SHAMP Her Lodge Sisters Help Her Celebrate Her Birthday. A complete and a pleasant surprise w’as that given Mrs. Sam Shamp at her home on Mercer avenue, last evening, when the Ben Hurs and Rathbone Sisters, of which she is a member, to the number of fifty-three, called to remind her of her birthday. They were all masked, which caused a large amount of amusement. One of the features of the evening was the side degree which was given to all who were present and it caused great merriment among them. The Rathbone Sisters presented her with .a beautiful gold Rathbone pin. At a late hour, a two course luncheon was served, and the occasion was one long to be remembered. o The wife of a farmer had a sister come from Chicago to make a visit. One day the threshers came and the guest insisted on doing the work alone and sent her sister away to rest. When the twenty-seven threshers filed into supper that night they found a sandwich tied with ribbon, one chicken croquette, one cheese ball the size of a marble and a button hole bouquet at each plate.

A RECOUNT IN ALLEN COUNTY An Effort to Overcome the Plurality of Judge O’Rourke. A recount of the spoiled ballots rejected by the election officers of Allen county at the last general election will be taken up tomorrow morning before the board of commissioners and at least three days will be necessary to complete the task with a possibility that a week may be consumed. The count is made upon the demand of Judge B. W. Skelton. Republican county chairman, under the belief that enough votes can be counted to overcome the majority of twenty-four secured by Judge Edward O.Rourke of the Allen Circuit court. Just how many ballots were rejected can not be ascertained. While there is space left on the outside of all the packages in which the election officers should have inserted the number that were not considered good this was omitted in a great many precincts and there is no way of telling what they contain. County Clerk W. A. Johnson estimates that there will be at least 400. Should, the commissioners decide that the election officers were right and the ballots not counted should have been rejected Judge Skelton has the right of an appeal to the circuit court, which in this case entails a peculiar situation for the reason that one of the contestants presides over that court. It is certain that in event of an appeal a special judge will be se lected. —Ft. Wayne Sentinel. o ADAMS CO. MEDICAL SOCIETY

Held Session in This City—Dr. Thomas Read Paper. The Adams County Medical Society met on last Friday evening at the office of Dr. Smith, with a full attendance of the medical fraternity of Decatur. Drs. Mattax, Price and Swartz came up from Geneva to attend the meeting. Dr. P. B. Thomas read a most excellent paper on Pneumonia, and its treatment. In the discussion which followed, the paper was very highly complimented by all present. The December meeting will be held in Geneva. Dr. Price will entertain the society with a paper, the subject of which has not yet been announced. The unexpected happened when the secretary was made the recipient of a handsome Christmas present by the members of the society. This organization is growing in numbers and interest. Its meetings are harmonious and profitable.

THEY ELECTED THEIR OFFICERS The I. O. O. F. Lodge Room the Scene of a Merry Time. The Odd Fellows had a time on tap Monday night that was plesaant from in the evening until late at night. They first elected new officers, they being: Edward Highland, noble grand; E. Burt Lenhart, vice grand; Edward Brush wilier, Recording secretary; L. C. Helm, financial secretary; H. Harruff, treasurer; Samuel Butler, trustee. They then conferred degree work having three in the first, four in the second and five in the third degrees. One of the most pleasant times in the history of this prosperous order was that of last night. * - —oHAS AN EYE LIKE A RABBIT Earl Thrailkill Underwent a Peculiar Operation. The Saturday Huntington NewsDemocrat said of Earl Thrailkill: “Sheriff Mahoney this afternoon arrested Earl Thrailkill, a young man of Bluffton, who is charged with committing rape on his mother-in-law. The man was taken by the sheriff in the office of Dr. M. Krebs, where he had been for the purpose of obtaining treatment for his eyes. He is the man on whom Dr. Krebs performed an operation several months ago, i grafting on his eye part of a rabbit’s I eye. Mr. Thrailkill was improving < nicely and came §to this city today to : have the eye examined by the doctor.” i

A pretty but incredible bee story comes from Wall Street, lowa. According to the dailies, when J. Seer, an old apiarist, died recently, all his bees showed marked interest and on the day of the funeral they accompanied the remains to the grave, flying great swarms about the casket, and finally they swarmed in the cemetery trees. Mr. Seer had been accustomed to tending the bees for years.

DESCRIBES THE MEXICAN CITY As a Land of Delightful Climate, Twelve Months in the Year. A letter was received this morning from Russ Harruff, who is at present located at Oaxaca, Mexico, stating that he is getting along nicely and likes the country better than ever. He gives a pretty description of the country, which may prove of some interest to our readers and which we herewith publish: This place “has something like fortyfive thousand inhabitants. The Indians or lower class (who we call Indians, as this they really are) are of a higher type than those about Mexico City. The climate is milder and gets but little warmer than does Mexico City, which is higher and several hundred miles to the north. The vegetation here is of a semi-tropical variety, including bananas, oranges, pineapples, lemons, etc. These fruits are cheap ere; for example, limes (little lemons) cost about one-sixth of a cent, Mexican, each. Five nice oranges can be bought for’ three cents. Bananas are as cheap in comparison. Fruits are a good part of one s diet in this part of Mexico as well as in many other parts. The principal industry is that of mining which is carried on quite extensively. There are districts in all directions. Some are producing gold, others silver, some lead and still other, iron and many contain a combination of several. New railroads are being built in all directions and soon this city will be one of the most important in the republic. Five persons were arrested here a short time ago, for complicity in revolutionary movements. Nothing has occurred in this respect since. There is no fear- whatever here as to anticipated trouble. Oaxaca is about a mile above sea level and is in the tropical zone. If the elevation would not be so great the place would be unhealthy, at least, it would be more so than it is. o CAUSE OF BLAZE IS UNKNOWN * House Was Owned by Fred Schafer and Was Occupied by Elijah II Mann and Family.

A fire that for a time threatened to do great damage, broke out in the house occupied by Elijah Mann at the corner of Sixth and Jefferson streets, and owned by Fred Schafer. As a result, the house was totally destroyer and several other properties for a time were in danger. How the fire started is a mystery that no one seems able to explain, and the inmates escaped, .only saving a part of their personal effects and household goods. Owing to the early hour the fire department was late in getting started and when they did arrive on the scene the fire was beyond control and the firemen were forced to content themselves with saving the surrounding property. The house, although not a new one, was in first class condition and had been kept up well by the owner, and no doubt was worth a thousand dollars. The house was only partially covered by insurance, Mr. Schafer carrying six hundreds dollars in the Royal company, while Mr. Mann carried four hundred on his household effects, this being in the British-American company. The neighbors responded nobly at the first call and did some very heroic work in getting some of the household property out of danger.

FIVE DIE IN A ST. LOUIS FIRE Two Hundred and Fifty People Locked in Burning Hotel. (Scripps-Mcßae Special.) ST. LOUIS, Nov. 28. —Penned in as were the victims of the Iroquois thearte at Chicago, 250 inmates of the Salvation Army hotel at the corner of Ninth and Market street, early this morning, were trapped behind barred doors, when flames broke out on the first floor of the building. Five men met death by leaping from windows, when they realized other escape cut off. None of them thought to use the life preserver ropes on the wall. The hotel was filled to its capacity. When the clerk sold the last bed, he barred the doors, as was the custom, to keep out the other hundreds who apply. A cigar stub throwh down the elevator started the fire. A hundred people were more or less injured. a

CIRCULATION 2800 WEEKLY

TWO CHILDREN ARE KIDNAPPED Old Man From Kansas Uses Western Methods at Portland. Fay, aged 6, and May 4, the little daughters of Jasper Henson, we r e kidnapped at the noon hour Monday by their grandfather, William Woods, and are by this time, probably well on their way to Kansas, his home. The seizure of the children occurred at about 11:30 o’clock, or as the primary grades of the west ward school were being dismissed for dinner. Shortly before 11 o’clock, Woods, accompanied by a couple of other men, whom the livery men did not know, appeared at the Nogle livery barn on Main street and hired a horse and buggy, saying that they wanted to drive to the stone quarry, three miles west of the city. Instead of going directly there, however, they drove to the school house, just as the children were being dismissed. The older of the two children goes to school, and as she emerged with the rest, the grandfather took her in the buggy. Driving rapidly to the home on West Walnut street, it is said Woods entered the house and brandishing a big revolver in either hand, threatened to kill anyone who Interfered with him, took up the other little one, who was playing on the floor, and returned to the rig. Whipping up the horses, the men drove rapidly westward. It is said that they went to Blaine where the grandfather boarded an interurban car for Muncie, from where he continued his journey westward.— Portland Commercial-Review. o ARE PUTTING ON THE PRESSURE They Do Not Want Revision Until 1910—Brick Favors an Extra Session. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—With the arrival of the president, the vice president and Speaker Cannon, to say nothing of the influential senators and representatives, business at the capital is looking up. The “standpatters’* are here in force to persuade the president, if possible, to refrain from saying anything that will tend to commit the party in power to tariff revision in advance. of. the . pr«pdeatial election.'Many ardent revisionists are also here, and within the next few days the president will hear plenty of argument on each side of the questions. It is settled, of course, that nothing will be done at the coming short session. The question to be decided is whether there shall be any tariff changes befpre 1909 or 1910. The "standpatters” are satisfied that the president’s message as now written contains no reference to the tariff and they will do their utmost to

I see that it goes to Congress in this , shape. ■ .j Some of them are willing to go to the extent of giving the country to understand now that the Republican party will revise the tariff in the sixtyfirst Congress if it is retained in power, and if deemd necessary make a definite promise to that effect in the platform to be framed in the summer of 1908. Representative Brick is advocating an extra session of Congress next spring to deal with the tariff. “I am clearly of the opinion that there should be an extra session,” said he today. “There is a great deal of unrest in the country and it does not seem posisble that we can keep going on this way indefinitely. All over the country the sentiment for revision seems to be growing, and it is not the part of prudent men to ignore the demands of the people.” HE MIGHT HAVE ESCAPED Attempt to Blackmail Hinshaw Said to Have Been Made. A story coming from Lynn, Indiana, says that the Rev. William E. Hinshaw could have escaped going back to the penitentiary if he had paid Sheiff Freeman of Wabash $2,000 for alienating his wife’s affections. The story says that Freeman first offered to “hush up” what had happened for SIO,OOO and then by means of a siMMng scale finally got the sum down to $2,000. It is said Hinshaw’ spurned every offer of blackmail and took prison instead. ■ -o The Brushwood College Macadam road will be sold in commissioners’ court oa December 7. The road traverses a part of Hartford township.

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