Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1906 — Page 6

WAS ILL FOR NEARLY A YEAR Husband and Two Children Survive— Funeral Services to be Held Monday. Martha A. Hamrick, wife of Warren Hamrick, the rural route carrier, died Friday, evening at her home on North Second street at seven thirty o’clock, after an illness dating back from last December, death resulting from tuberculosis. She was born in Blue Creek township on April 20, 1878, being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Case. She was reared in Blue Creek township and it was there that she received her early education. She was united in marriage on February 14, 1898 to Warren Hamrick and to this union was born two sons, both of which survive. Mrs. Hamrick was, during the latter part of December, 1905, stricken with a heavy cold that seemed to settle on her lungs. She was given the best of medical care and attention but all effort on the part of her physician seemed useless and she gradually drifted into consumption, the end coming last evening. She was a member of the M. E. church, was a devoted Christian and church worker and all during her illness she was never heard to complain, bitt constantly kept her faith in her God and said, “His will be done.” The funeral services will be held Monday at twelve thirty o’clock, at the house, Rev. Kohn of Willshire, 0., officiating, assisted byRev. John C. White of this city, and Interment will be made in the Salem cemetery. She leaves a husband, two sons, a father, mother, and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Friends desiring may view the remais any time tomorrow afternoon. o ? RESULTS OF MARRIAGE AGENCY Michigan Man Got a Wife, But is Now Divorced From Her. Robert M. Scott has obtained a divorce in Cass county, Michigan, from a wife whom he “won” through a Toledo matrimonial agency in 1903. After a correspondence the woman came and looked over the farm. There were long rows of corn, good buildings, well kept fences, plenty of well bred stock, and a good expanse of fertile acres. She decided she loved the man, and the parson was called. Mrs. Scott occupied the family boudoir for one week, moved upstairs, “where the air was better,” and lived two weeks, and then left. She immediately filed suit for divorce, alleging cruelty, and demanding $2,000 alimony. She went no further, and Scott, tiring of the delay, applied for a divorce on the ground of desertion. The woman was not present, but was represented by an attorney. She got no alimony, and her total financial returns for her three weeks’ matrimonial agency married life were S2O, which her attorneygot.

The corn husks aro a root and a half thick and ail the stalks lean towards the west. The geese ducks., and chickens are growing a coat of fur under their feathers and are rubbing borax on their feet to harden them up. All the one-eyed owls are leaving the country a month earlier than usual and the bob-tailed squirrels are laying in sweet potatoes as well as nuts for the winter provisions. All the toadi stools on the old logs have wrinkles in them. The last time that this happened. we had winter weather that froze the handles off plows. Rabbits are sitting around with a humped-up look about them and field mice have •wrinkles in their tails. If this means anything it means 20 degrees below zero from November through to May. Kansas has a new rule, diawn by the State board of health, which is an interesting contrbiution to the solution of the pure, food problem. “'The sale at retail within the State of Kansas for human food of any domestic or wild fowl or game or fish that has been kept in cold. storage with entrails. crops and other offensive parts undrawn is prohibited. Tno service for food of any such domestic or wild fowl or game or fish is a’so prohibit-, od.” With each State lies tlm respon sibility of protecting its people against impure food produced and consumed within the State, and many of the States are waking to the!/ responsibility. There will be no delivery of mail < n the rural routes on Thursday, November 29th, because of the fact that the department recognizes it as a legal holiday. There also will be no delivery of mails by the city carriers, but patrons may call at the windows at a stated hour in the morning to receive their mail. Farmer# all over Indiana are preparing to wage a vigorous campaign before the coming session of the Indiana

legislature to secure a repeal or at least a modification of the new ditch and drainage law, passed by the last legislature. No piece of legislation in 1 recent years has so aroused the farml

SWINDLER’S ARREST WANTED Reward Offered for the Man Who Works the Farmer*.

Farmers and others are warned to be on the lookout for a stranger who is industriously working a swindling game among the agriculturists. A reward of S3OO for the arrest of John Butler, alias Hoover, Kline, etc., by the authorities at Quincy, 111. This is the manner in which Butler works: After a short stay in a county, he looks up farms for sale, saying he intends to buy. After the abstract has been obtained and all preliminaries arranged, a deed is made out and sent the farmer selling the land for his signature. Butler intercepts the deed, taking the farmer's mail if necessary forges the farmer's and notary's signatures, which he has obtained, to the deed and presents it to a banker or somebody loaning money asking a loan that he may make improvements to the land. In return, he offers a mortgage on the farmer’s land which the money lender supposes he has paid for and is in actual possession of. The loan is made and mortgage given, after which Butler skips out with the money. Butler is 58 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high, weighs 190 pounds, has dark ruddy complexion, eyes brown, dark hair mixed with gray, prominent cheek bones, broad forehead, smooth face, heavy built, broad shoulders, legs unusually thin for body. He is a fair dresser and wears black or dark clothes. He is unassuming in his ways and method of talking, and is said to be able to deceive the most careful of men. Watch for this swindler. o < — MEMORIAM FOR J. W. PLACE. Leaves have their time to fall And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath. And stars to set —but all —> Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O. Death! Whatever promise and beauty we see, yet this is a dying world. Immortalitv has no place under the circuit of the sun. That which is deathless and ever blooming is far beyond the hills—mortality is here: immortality is yonder. Corruption is now: incorruption is by and by and forever. ‘Neither can they die any more” is not spoken of flowers, or of leaves, or grain, or trees, or present forms of men. For all these die. It is the divine prediction of something future. It compasses an eternal fact, and brings it to the soul. Every moment some child of Adam hurries away from earth. And how often have we been called upon to accompany the remains of some dear one to its last resting place, and lovingly, tenderly and with sad hearts, we perform the same rites for our deceased brother. James W. Place, who departed this life November 18th, 1906, aged 47 years.

It availeth nothing to say to his wdiow and other relatives that we deeply sympathize with them in their sorrow, or that the community has lost a good citizen or remind the lodge that another faithful and worthy brother has been called from labor to refreshment: yet we may mingle our tears with their and remind them that human beings die in number bevond the tickings of the clock by dav and night, on and on. the years and centuries through. Going—dying; dead and gone. This is the record of the swinging pendulum. Summer and winter. there and here, of old and new. as Time’s vibrations mark the nearing iudgment and eternity—it is death, death; one by one from first to last — every moment, another death. Somewhere a hurried, gasping closing breath —father, mother, sister, brother. husband, wife or darling child. The height of virtue is to help his fellowman. And love will dream and Faith will trust. (For He who knows our need is just) That something, somewhere, meet we must. G. CHRISTEN. A. H. SEDLEMEYER, ORVAL HARRUFF, Committee. —o Don’t grumble. The most unfortunate class of people living upon this green earth are the grumblers. They rob home of its joys, society of its dues, and themselves of the best things of life. From the days the children of Israel “grumbled” and were sent on their tedious wanderings for forty years in the wilderness, up to the present hour, the world has been full of grumblers. It is “too hot” or “too cold,” “too wet” or “too dry.” People in reasonable circumstances have visions of the poorhouse, while the rich grumble that they can’t get rich faster.

Fred C. Boltz of Fort Wayne, was Indicted today on four counts as follows: Charging receipt on stolen stamps unlawfully, knowingly and feloniously, February 19, S2OB worth; Februray 19, $208.80 worth believed to be from Millersburg postofflce; June 20, $165 worth; April 9, 8,400 two-cent stamps and 3,007 stamps believed to belong to the Granger office. ijr. W. C. Van Nuys, a former Hartford City physician, has been chosen as superintendent of the epileptic village at New Castle. All epileptics in the state who heretofore have been confined in the county Infirmaries will be sent to the State institution at New Castle.

COMMERCIAL CONGRESS ADJOURN They Will Meet Again Next Year ' -at Muskeego, Indian Territory. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 23—After electing H. D. Loveland of San Francisco, president for the ensuing year, adopting two resolutions by William J. Bryan after they had been voted down by the committee on resolutions and accepting a platform indorsing the proposition submitted by Secretary of State Root for encouraging our merchant marine, and for increasing our intercourse with South America by adequate mail facilities, the transMississippi commercial congress adjourned late today to meet in 1907 at Muskogee, 1. T. The last session proved stirring and ended in a victory for Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan was not present, having left this morning for Columbia, Mo., to deliver an address. The first of the Bryan resolutions favored the indorsement by the congress of the resolution adopted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union at the London session in favor of settling of international questions impartially by a court or commission of investigation befoqg declaration of war or the opening of hostilities by any country. The second resolution sought to place the congress on record as being opposed to private monopolies and, believing them “indefensible and intolerable, favors the enforcement of existing laws and the enforcement of such new laws as may be necessary to protect industry from the menace offered by the trusts,”

SECRETARY OF STATE WRITES Cuts Two Months off David Gerber’s Term—Decision Doesn’t Effect Other Officers. James P. Hnefling, clerk-elect of the Adams Circuit court will assume his office November Ist, next, according to his commission and to a letter just received from Fred A. Sims, secretary of State. This action, brought about by a decision of the Supreme court, shortens David Gerber’s term two months, as his commission does not expire until January 1, 1968. When Mr. Haefling’s commission arrived a few days ago. he noticed the date and thinking that perhaps a mistake had been made, immediately wrote the Secretary of State, who replies as follows:

Department of State. Indianapolis, Nov. 22. J. P. Haefling, Decatur, Ind. Dear Sir:- —When a commission was issued to the present incumbent of the county clerk's office this action was taken under the statutes extending the term, but since the question has been in the Supreme court and determined adversely to the clerks in the matter of extension, the term of the present incumbent would necessarily expire November 1, 1907, and the records of this office have necessarily been corrected to accord therewith. Our actions are based on an opinion by the Attorney General. Under this opinion you go into office November 1, 1907, and continue until November 1, 1911, as your commission reads. Very truly yours, FRED A. SIMS, Secretary of State.

The opinion spoken of was written by Attorney General Miller November 12, 1904 and confirmed by him November 15, 1906. It effects only the clerks, the law being held good as to all other officers and they will assume their places on January Ist. Prosecutor Henry B. Heller, Sheriff Eli Meyer, and Treasurer John Lachot will begin their duties January Ist, next, while Recorder Steele will begin a year later, Judge Merryman November 23rd-, next, and Clerk Haefling November Ist, next. o Made Happy For Life. Great happiness came into the home of S. C. Blair, school superintendent, at St. Albans, W. Va„ when his little daughter was restored from the dreadful complaint he names. He says: “My little daughter had St. Vitus’ Dance, which yielded to no treatment but grew steadily worse until as a last resort we tried Electric Bitters; and I rejoice to say, three bottles effected a complete cure.” Quick, sure cure for nervous complaints, general debility, female weaknesses, impoverished blood and malaria. Guaranteed by Blackburn Pharmacy. Price 50c. oThe plat of the house of representatives in the office of Demarchus Brown, state librarian, shows the seats picked out by the different members of the house. The plat now shows that seats Nos. 26 and 28—companion seats—have been selected by Emmett Forest Branch and John H. Edwards, one of whom is an avowed candidate for the speakership, of the house and the other alleged to be a candidate under cover. In the event that both are defeated, they will, of necessity, be very chummy while the house is in session.

NEW WILL HAVE HIS TROUBLES As Acting National Chairman—Many Perplexing Problems are to be Solved. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The Washington residence of Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks will be a center of social hospitality during the coming congressional season, as it was during the last. These social activities will commence with the dinner which the vice president and Mrs. Fairbanks will give for President and Mrs. Roosevelt on Dec. 15. Later they will give a reception to the senate of the United States, to which all the senators will be invited, and at various times following the senatorial reception entertainments will be given for members of the house of representatives. All the members of the house of representatives will have invitations to the vice presidential mansion during the season. There will be the usual number of house guests at the Fairbanks home during the winter, and the season will be varied by numerous small dinner parties.

When Harry S. New becomes acting chairman of the Republican National committee he will find that life is not exactly a bed of roses. There are ominous signs of a lively contest over the place of holding the next Republican national convention, and as the head of the national committee is supposed to exert a great deal of influence in the matter, Capt. New will find himself in the vortex of contending forces. Pittsburg has put in its claim early. A new hall Is being erected there that will seat 10,000 persons comfortably. Louisville and St. Louis also are regarded as probable applicants, and Chicago is a perenial candidate. Elmer Dover, secretary of the Republican national committee, does not hesitate to say that Chicago is his preference. o TRYING TO STOP DESERTIONS Seven Per Cent of Enlistment Deserts —Firemen on Erie and New York Central Agree. (Scripps-Mcßae Special.) NEW YORK, Nov. 26.—When dawn broke today in Nassua street, fortytwo experts were still at work on the books of the National Bank of Com--merce, commonly known as the Pierpont Morgan bank, second largest in the world. Bernard Mann, a clerk, has been in court, charged with stealing a check and great irregularities are feared by the officers.

AVASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—-Notwith-standing the efforts on the part of the department to put a stop to the desertions from the army, the rate is steadily increasing. Military secretary Ainsworth in his annual report, made public today, says the numbe:’ of desertions during the year reached over seven per cent of the total enlistment. Last year it was six per cent. NEW YORK, .Nev. 26. —Both the Erie and New York Central firemen have come to a settlement which is satisfactory, said Grand Chief Hanrason of the locomotive firemen, as he left today for home. —o PREVENTS MEN FROM WORKING Old Man Who Kills Another in a Poker Game, Takes Refuge in a Mine at Midland. TERRE HAUTE, Nov. 26.—W. A. Watson, a merchant of Midland, Ind.,

was shot by Louis Shuley, an old miner in a poker room here last night. Watson died at four o’clock this morning. Shuley, the murderer, is seven-ty-one years old. He escaped to the Traver Hill mine at Midland and says he will kill any one who attempts to arrest him. Shuley had lost persistently in the poker game and' after a quarrel left the room. Returning in a few moments he shot Watson without warning. The mine Shuley entered is 200 feet deep and is connected with thirty-four other mines, giving h'im an underground range of eighteen miles. He may escape after the most unique chase ever known, though armed men are guarding every opening. Over 300 miners were prevented from going to work today, as they feared Shuley would kill them. He is armed with a shot gun and plenty of ammunition and has demonstratjed his nerve. Or--. —______ A GUARANTEED CURB FOR PILES. I Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruditning Pies Druggists refund money if IPAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no matter of how long standing, 'in 6 to 14 days First application gives ease and rest. 50c If your drugg-ist has. It, send 50c in stamps and i' will be forwarded postpaid by the Pa’ ,la Medicine Co., a Louis. Mo. 0 _ 1 M. F. Rice returned last evening from Richmand, where he spent Sunday with Mr. and Mr*. P. W. Smith.

INDIANA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION Big Attendance it Wanted—Effort for Increase in Salary. Teachers and school officers believe that the time is ripe for an aggressive movement toward raising the salaries of the teachers in Indiana and at the coming meeting of the State teachers’ association the agitation will be started in earnest. The time is thought to be an opportune one because the teachers will meet in convention in Indianapolis practically on the eve of the meeting of the State legislature and this matter will be given full consideration. The officers of the association are Sending out circulars to the county superintendents and the teachers asking that a large representation of the teachers be present at this year’s meeting of the association as the sal-ary-question will come up for final action. At the last meeting of the association a special committee was appointed to get the matter in shape by which the salaries of the teachers will be placed on a higher basis and this committee is now ready to make a full report. A bill will no doubt be drafted by the association to be introduced in the legislature and members of the association will then be appointed to champion the act through the assembly. The speakers for the association have been selected. Dr. Henry Van Dyke the poet and essayist, will give an address the afternoon of Dec. 28. Dr. Van Dyke is the author of “Blue Flowers,” “Essays on Application,” and “The Other Wise Man.” Other speakers are Dr. Carroll Wright, president of Clark's college, Miss Julia Richman of New York, Miss Jane Adams of Hull House fame, and Governor Hanly. Dr. Clark will give his famous address, “Is There Any Solution of the Labor Problem?” The session of the State teachers’ association will be held in Indianapolis Dec. 27, 28 and 29. Nearly every teacher in Huntington county is preparing to attend the sessions. n BUYS THE JONESBORO PLANT Old Business Principles of J. W. Place Will be Continued by Place & Confer. At a conference held Saturday afternoon between Mrs. Kate Place and Mr. H. L. Confer, it was decided that the J. W. Place ice cream manufacturing plant in this city should be continued just as heretofore Mr. Confer to act as manager, conducting the ice cream, soft drink, ice and poultry business. The old business principles ■of Mr. Place which have caused this concern to prosper for a quarter century, will be continued. Mr. Confer purchased the Johesboro plant from Mrs. Place and will have sole control of that concern, but will remain here to conduct the business here. He thoroughly understands the business, having been a member of the firm for a number of years and will conduct the affairs in the thorough and systematic manner established. The J. W. Place Company is one of the best known in this section of the country and do an immense business. Just now the principal efforts of Mr. Confer and his assistants will be devoted to the poultry business. Here’s success so the new firm. — o — RETURN FROM MICHIGAN TRIP Adams County Men Report it a Very Good Country. Messrs. Wm. Biebold and Wm. Scott have just returned from a trip to Missauke county, Michigan, where they went to look at the land. Many people who formerly lived at Berne now reside in that county and the boys say they all seemed well pleased with their new homes. The country is fast filling up and new improvements are being made rapidly. Fall crops are looking good. Wheat looks fine and the potato warehouses are filled to overflowing. Nearly all the farms still have good timber on them and the timber business is a flourishing industry. The boys report that many people are going in there and buying land and the value of the farm land is rapidly increasing.

IS ALL THE RAGE AT BLUFFTON Bluffton Ladies Chew Gum, Smoke a ' Pipe and Use Snuff. Chewing gum is more prevalent among Bluffton women than smoking is among men. Don’t you believe it? The next time you go to a theatre < just count the ladies whose faces you can see and then count how many are chewing gum and you will find that three out of five are engaged in this little diversion. And when the orches- : tra starts up a catchy air and the i chewing goes with the music it is something pretty to see 50 or 100 ] jaws working in unison and keeping ; time.—Bluffton News.

JOHN MOSER WILL PROBATED Case Filed Against the City—Motion H Filed in Rohrer Case—Two Mar- S riage Licenses Issued. fl Marriage licenses have been issued I to Walter Stuckey of Wabash town- I ship and Ada Lehman of Monroe township, and to Elbert Roop of Van Wert | county, Ohio, and Minerva M. Meyers of this township. The latter is the daughter of David C. Meyers. The will of John S. Moser was probated this morning. He bequeaths all his estate after the payment of debts and funeral expenses, to his beloved wife, Christena Moser. The will was Written June 2, 1903, and was wit- * nessed by John Huser and Peter D. Steiner. Attorney A. P. Beatty filed a new case today, entitled the Johnson Coal Company vs. The City of Decatur, demanding the payment of two city orders. Each was drawn in the sum of $24,96 an<j issued Jenuary 1, 1905. Pearl Barnell vs. Aaron Ireland, damages $2,000, J. Alvin O’Donnell withdraws his appearance as attorney for plaintiff. Nelson Bricker vs. Soloman and Caroline Habegger, slander, demand $5,000, was dismissed and costs paid* “■ i First National Bank of Decatur vs. Frederick Koenig, suit on judgment, demand $550, cause dismissed and costs paid. Amanda Sells vs. Ora Sells, on petition to modify order for custody of child in a divorce suit, set for hearing Monday, December 3rd. State vs. Fred Rohrer, violation of election law, motion to quash each sparate count of indictment. Edwin Mansfield, guardian for William Cummins, a lunatic, filed an answer to the petition filed by William Frazier, for an allowance for labor,. Frazier allowed $73.90 to be paid out of proceeds of sale of real estate.

Lucy J. Gregory, guardian for A. Cl Gregory was ordered to pay her ward SSO to enable him to prepare for trial, he having filed a petition to have guardian removed. The money must be paid within five days. Gusta Cramer, administratrix of the estate of Sarah Cramer, filed, her final report. o HE ENTERS A GENERAL DENIAL

Evidence Was Rather Spicy—Squire Smith Will Probably Render Decision This Evening. Earl Thrailkill, the young man who has gained considerable notoriety in the past two weeks for criminally assaulting his mother-in-law, Mrs. Fred Bender, and then eluding the officers, but who was finally apprehended by the police at Huntington, Saturday, 7 and returned to this city Saturday afternoon, was given a hearing Saturday evening in Squire Smith’s court, and the evidence which was quite spicy was heard by a large crowd. Mrs. Bender was called to the stand first and told in detail how he committed the heinous offense and how she had been overpowered and was forced to submit. The story she told was as published some time ago. Thrailkill was then placed on the stand and denied every allegation. He denied the fact that he had seen her that day and swore positively that she had not come to his home on the day in question, and as to the offense he was innocent. Squire Smith took the case under advisement and promised to render his verdict some time today. The case is attracting a great deal of attention and the verdict of the court is being anxiously awaited. Squire Smith rendered his decision at noon today, it being a verdict of acquittal for the defendant. The court in handing down the decision claimed there was not sufficient evidence to bind him over to the circuit court. Hence, the famous case is closed. o SENT OUT THEIR FIRST ISSUE The Journal Publishing Company is Formed.

The Decatur Journal with P. L. Andrews as editor, has appeared in weekly form, and is a creditable candidate for the honors of a Republican newspaper. The Journal plant has been purchased by a stock company—all Republicans except one—and it is their intention to furnish Decatur and Adams county a Republican newspaper. The Democrat extends the usual greetings and wishes the Journal a long and useful life.