Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1906 — Page 5

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— . —-ss; „ . ■ The C. W. B. M. Society and the Aid Society of the Christian church will e > /hold their December meeting at the ( home Os Miss Merle Burdg on Mercer t avenue. All members are requested I to be present by the order of the pres- • ident. | j * There will be a meeting of Decatur a Chapter No. 112, R. A. M., at Masonic a hall on Wednesday evening, December Tj 5, 1906, All members are urged to 1 be present, as it is the last stated i meeting of the year and., business of a importance must be attended to. Mrs. D. E. Studabaker was stricken I with a sudden attack of heart trouble 1 while up town ‘Saturday evening and 1 a cab had to be called to take fier £ home, Her friends will be glad to 1 hear that she is much better today, 1 and is able to sit up a'part of the time at her home.—Bluffton News. 5 A large force of workmen are bus- S ily engaged in putting in the founda- « tion for the mammoth bam of Rice & ( Boch, on First street and from now 1 on the same will be rapidly pushed to 1 completion. The barn is to be of mod- < ern structure and will be fire proof. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Studabaker left < at noon today for Chicago, where they 1 will attend the great stock show now 1 in progress there. . They may remain t over Wednesday of next week to at- ’ tend the annual charity show in which 1 the worlds’ greatest actors will partic- i - '.-s.xixr.x-—, • ipate. » ■ i ft-ft . ‘ 'ft‘ tft ' From all present rumors next week will see the installation of electricity * on the interurban line and the gravel 1 that is now being brought into the 1 city limits with steam will be hauled 1 in with electricity. The wire is now I all up to the gravel pit and the city ' line will be installed this week, and 1 by Monday will be ready for use. Notice was received this morning that 1 the balance of the wire will be ship- : ped Friday, and the balance of the 1 line will be rushed to completion. 1 ' ~ . --ft‘

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— .■ . ~~ — The following lexers remain uncalled for at the postoffice: Glen Johnson, Ora A. Brown, A. O. Bolen, O. L. Lotta, Frank B. Shaffer, G. J. McNutt, C. B. Ford and A. D. Elzey. Revival meetings are still going on in the Morrison building, with large attendances. Souls are being saved and many souls made to rejoice. Mrs. Mattie Matthews of Lima, Ohio, is helping. Rev. D. B, Kessinger will preach Tuesday evening, Dec. 4. Come, all are welcome. Dr. E. H. Leßrun was toddy notified by the authorities at Washington that his pension had been increased from from now on he would receive the sum of seventeen dollars per month. His old pension called for sixteen dollars, an increase of one dollar. Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday at the office of Secretary of State for the Decatur Packing & Produce company, Decatur; capital SIOO,000; directors, Fred Scheiman, J. H. Voglewede, Ferdinand Bleeke, Daniel N. Erwin, John S. Bowers, Herman Gerke and H. Fred Scheiman, The famous Corner Rod and Gun Club of Fort Wayne, will send their bowling team, champions of Indiana, here Thursday evening, to meet the strong Klondyke team of this city. They will play at Kern’s alleys on Monroe street and the games should attract a crowd of visitors as the admission is free. Mayor Hamilton will go before the county commissioners Monday to make a further effort to land a stone pile for Bluffton. The board has had the matter under consideration for the past month and will make some definite proposition by Monday afternoon.—Bluffton Banner. The Rev. Daniel Burkholder of Galion, 0., left again yesterday afternoon for his home after a short visit with his parents in Wabash township. While in town Mr. Burkholder was the guest of the Rev. Kattman, the two being old school mates, having graduated from the Tiffin, 0., college in the same class. —Berne News. The G. R. & 1. depot is undergoing a general cleaning up and when completed will be fine and dandy. The side walls and celling are receiving a new frtesh coat of paint and the wood work is being varnished ’ The G; R. & I. people are certainly keeping up their property in' nice shape. . The Blue Front Store is putting up a new sign that will be strung across the street, advertising their business. The sign after night will be used With electrical effects. This move on the part of this store shows their progressive nature and speaks well for the management. When you come down street this evening, cast your optics on the same. Operators employed in the exchange of the Home Telephone company at Logansport inaugurated a strike on Thanksgiving day because the com>any would not grant them a half holday, and eight of the operators walked >ut. Their places were filled by traind substitutes, and a force of forty operatdH is again complete • Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Daniel of Preble, 'entertained at a Thanksgiving dinner in honor of Mrs. Nellie Cross of Marion The guests included Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mereness and daughter, Mr. and Mrs, ; W. S. Cross, H. W. Cross and family, Misses Hannah and Sophia Jaebker and Miss Mabel Welty. It was a delightful and happy event. Surveyor Baumgartenr held a ditch sale today, resulting in cleaning con-, tracts being let as follows: Lewis Reynolds ditch, section one, Derrick Barklow, $499.17; section two, Derrick Barklow, $339.57; section three, Dave Cook, $lB5. On the Jacob Huser ditch J. G. Miller and Jacob Huser bid exactly the same, $670. j ft -.ftft ' v ■ .■' - '-ftft • • 3ft ,

I Work on the furnace factory is progressing in fine shape and the buildings are beginning to loom up as a reality. The carpenter work is being done by Mann & Christen and they have a large force of men at work, pushing the same as rapidly to com-, pletion as possible. The buildings will be up-to-date in every respect. City Civil Engineer Vogt has completed his report on the North Second street improvement and the same will be presented to the council this evening for their approval, and will no doubt be accepted. The work of notifying the property owners will be taken up and carried out and they will be given a chance to look over their assessments. Harvard University this season realized the big sum of $55,707 off of her foot ball tehm, which goes to show that the great college sport is not dead yet. This is elean profit, as the players receive nothing for playing and the sum is turned into the treasury to carry on the athletic sports of the school. All the player gets is the glory and the bruises. Manson Reiff entered pleas of guilty today in four cases, charging him with selling liquor on a holiday and was fined $lO in each case. On one plea of guilty to selling without license he was fined. S2O. John Wilson plead guilty to four charges of selling on a holiday and got a fine of $lO in each case. The other eighteen cases were continued. —Bluffton News. D. S. Wittwer and Jonas Sprunger fell from a scaffold while at work putting up spouting at Henry Schindler’s house Wednesday. Mr. Wittwer received some internal injuries and is confined to his bed while Mr. Sprunger got off without scarcely a scratch. They had constructed a scaffold on a ladder and the ladder broke, letting them fall about ten feet. —Berne Witness. A team driven by Will Zwick of the firm of Gay & Zwick, while at the depot this morning where he was awaiting the arrival of a steel overbox, became frightened knd in some manner twisted around and broke the tongue. The horses were quieted before any further damage was done. Will took the tongue to a repair shop, had it fixed and returned to the ..depot and while attempting to back up, the tongue again broke. Will then became disgusted and started to his place of business driving the team with one hand and pulling the ambulance with the other. S' During the last five years the price of everything that has to do with the making of a newspaper has advanced! Type, ink, paper, labor, machinery, all have gone upward in price, and indications are that the price of white paper will further advance, owing to the scarcity pf raw material. During , all this advance in price for their products, their subscription price Mas remained the same, advertising rates . have been very little advanced, and , many of the standard forms of commercial and job printing are still done at the same old prices. It is the only trade on record that has not been benefited by the advance in prices. i ' l , RNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OFFICERS , Popular Lodge Selects its Leaders for [ .ft./ the Year. , - - : ■ft ~ >-. m The members of the Knights of Columbus Monday evening at their spa- ’ jious lodge -rooms in regular session ’ and transacted some very important ' business in lodge circles. The chief ’ caiise of the meeting was the election ' of officers for the coming year and ‘ the following members were selected: ’ Grand knight, G. N. Christen; deputy grand knight, Dr. H. F. Costello; chan- ; cellor, H. J. Yager; warden, Ben ftKohne; financial s.ecretary, Tom Ehinger; recording secretary, Frank Wem--1 hoff; lecturer, Ed Meyers;- advocate, 1 John C. Moran; inside guard, Charles 1 LoSe; outside guard, Joe Wolpert, and ’ trustees, Frank Heiman,.. W. A, ICueb--1 ler andftDyonis Schmidt. The men se- ' lected are all .competent and worthy men of the order and will fill their ’ offices with credit to themselves and '■ their order. After the close of the 1 meeting of the. lodge, the members enjoyed a smoker until a late hour when they adjourned. L 7- , ■ THE ELECTION IN JAY COUNTY Is to be Held January 9th, on Trac- • * tion Line Subsidy. The county commissioners are in sesion for their December meeting, 'and the session promises to be a busy one. One of the first things done Monday morning, was the granting of the petitions for elections in Wayne and Bearcreek townships, to vote or. i the question of granting subsidies of $25,000 and SB,OOO respectively, to aid in the construction of the Ft. W’ayne & Springfield railroad from Decatur to this city. The elections were directed to be held on January 9, and the proper notice was ordered —Ftnlland | Commercial-Review. 7' ‘ ’ r '' ft?-.' - '

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: J". ! THE ARE WORRIED Rumor Is That Five Insurgents Will Bolt Branch. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. More than one Republican politician of State reputation perspired freely today when confirmation was made of a rumor that has been current for several days to the effect that five Republican representatives-elect intended bolting the party caucus St the opening of the legislature. A member of the Marion county delegation in the lower house declared with unusual candor that he and one other member of the delegation, whose name he declined to give at this time, had decided to remain away from the party caucus if the nomination of Emmett F. Branch of Martinsville, for speaker, seemed assured beforehand. “Two Republicans from the Tenth district are with us,’’ he said, “and we have another one in the State who is thinking our way just at this time. We are not quite ready to say who will be our candidate for speaker, but the chances are that it will be a Republican who is not closely allied with the governor, as is Mr. Branch.” A rumor to effect had been in circulation for several days and the lieutenants of Gov. Manly as well as close friends of Mr. Btauch had heard of it; but they did not take is seriously until it came straight from a member of the Marion county delegation. The latter had declined to express his views for publication if his name was to be used at this time. o PETITION is liberally signed Amounts Asked of Washington Township is i 525,000, Monroe $15,000, and Wabash, $12,000. ' The three petitions, asking for a subsidy for the Fort Wayne & Springfield company, has been filed with 4he board of commissioners, and the date .of election was arranged for Wednesday, January 9, 1907. The petitions ask for $25,000 from Washington township, Monroe $15,000 and Wabash $12,000, the same to be paid by taxation, payable in two years. The petitions are in the usual form following the„ law governing such transactions, and the amount asked is within the limit of two per cent, which can be voted for such purposes. Ther petitions are liberally signed by the voters in each township, and if they are any criterion of the feeling! of the people, if would be safe to say I that the will have smooth 1 sailing, However, those opposed to! the subsidy proposition because they believe it wrong in principal, are already lining up their forces, getting ready to resist all efforts to further increase the taxes in the townships through which the road passes. The commissioners will appoint election inspectors in each of the precincts in the three townships, and the election will be held jp all things to conform to the general election, the returns being made to the county auditor where a record is made and if the subsidy , carries the amount of tax| required will be entered upon the taxi duplicate. ! - ________o_ WILL CARRY ON THE FIGHT Ex-Sheriffs of the State Propose to Fight for Their Rights. Ex-county sheriffs over the State are preparing tb carry their fight for the “in and out fees” through the Supreme court. The Appellate court a few days ago reversed itself, upholding Judge Leffler in his decision of the Tom Starr case, when the latter was refused the fees. Ex-Sheriff Swain of Delaware county, together with Sheriff Sourbier of Marion county and a number of others have arranged to carry on the legal battle and a conference of attorneys will be held in a few days looking to the transfer of the case from the Appellate to the Supreme court. Thqre are pbout half the counties in the State that have been paying the sheriffs “in and out fees” which in some instances run up into the thousands of dollars. ■/ ' ' - ■ h BETTER TUN SMNKINfi. Spanking does not cure children of bed wetting. There is a constitutional causi tor this trouble. Mrs. M. Summers, Boi W, Notre Dame, Ind., will send free to an, mother her successful home treatment, with firil instructions. Send no money, bul write her today if your children trouble you in this way. Don’t blame the child, the chances are it can’t help it This treatment also cures adults and aged people troubled with urine difficulties by day or night.

THE BOND OF SHERIFF IS FILEdI Twelve Thousand Dollars Worth of Insurance is Placed on Infirmary Buildings. Liquor licenses were granted to C. D. Murray of this city, John Hey of Williams, and Walter A. Hunt of Linn Grove. Among the county officers’ reports are the following: Clerk —Crimnal cases, $268.48; probate $217.01, marriage licenses $l2B, other licenses $4.50, transcripts $16.20, certificates $25.75, insurance $5.50, naturalization $6, miscellaneous $36.35, total $707.79. Sheriff —Fees taxed $5.40, fees received $61.45, total $66.85. Recorder — Deeds $l5O, mortgages $146, other instruments $25.60, miscellaneous $48.15, total $370.25. The bond of Sheriff-Elect Eli Meyer has been filed. The bond calls for five thousand dollars, and bears the signatures of Eli Meyer, Abraham Meyer, Benedict Liniger, F. G. Eichenberger, Emil Erhart, Harvey Harruff, and Albert A. Butler. The board placed $12,000 insurance upon the county infirmary buildings, it being distributed among the following agencies: Hirschey & Winteregg of Berne, $2,400; W. W. Briggs of Geneva, $2,400; Jesse Sutton, $1,200; E. B. Adams, $1,200; D. E. Smith, $1,200; and Gallogly & Lower, $3,600. The petitions for subsidy election were filed with the board, they each being signed by many times the required number of names. The date of election is Wednesday, January 9. County Treasurer Lachot will be ready for settlement with the State within a few days. Himßelf and clerks are chasing along toward the last long column of figures, and when properly balanced, settlement will be made. Dr. J. M. Miller was re-appointed as secretary of the Adams Cohnty Board of Health. Dr. Miller has served in this capacity for the past year and has rendered a faithful service. R. S. Peterson and Clark J. Lutz were appointed as election commissioners for the subsidy election. They served in a like capacity at the last general election. The inspectors who served at the last election will also be named for this election. | Q Famous Strike Breakers. [ The most famous strike breakers ip ( the land are Dr. King’s New Life Pills, i When liver and bowels go on strike, they quickly settle the trouble, and the purifying work goes right on. Best | cure for constipation, headache and dizziness. 25c at Blackburn Pharmacy, at the sneeze stage.” FROM EFFECTS OF DIPTHERIA 1 Benjamin Andrews Died Yesterday Afternoon. —... ■■ - Benjamin M. Andrews, the fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.''Robert Andrews of Blue Creek township, died I Monday afternoon at the home of his ' parents at two o’clock, death resulting from the effects of diphtheria, from which he had suffered for eight weeks. The young man was one of the most poulai* men in Blue Creek township and had. a host of friends. He contracted the dread disease some time ago and battled long and hard to overcome the effects, but it had taken too firm a hold and his constitution was unable to withstand the ravagings of the same. The funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at ten, thirty o'clock at the M. E. church at Monroe and interment will bfe made in the Ray cemetery. I’reventics. as the name Implies, prevent all Colds and Grippe when “taken at the sneeze stage.” Preventics are toothsome candy tablets. Preventics dissipate all colds, quickly, and taken early, when you first feel that a cold is coming, they check and prevent them. Preventics are thoroughly safe for children, and as effectual for adults.' Sold and recommended in 5 cent and 25 cent boxes by W. H. Machtrieb. Card of Thanks. We desire to offer our sincerest thanks to the friends and neighbors and also to the members of the Ben Hur lodge, who assisted us during the sickness and death of our beloved husband and father. Martha Spuller and Children. Piles '• quickly and positively cured with Dr. Shoop’s Magic Ointment It’s made for Piles alone —and it does the work surely and with satisfaction. Itching, painful, protruding or blind piles disappear like magic by its use. Large, Nickel Capped glass jars, 50 cents. Sold and recommended by W. H. Machtrieb.

I MAY CONCLUDE BY TOMORROW Trespass Case Appealed to the Circuit Court—Fred Strickler Will , is Probated. A new crimnal case filed in circuit court today, was entitled State' vs. Benjamin F. Burkett, trespass, being an appeal from Joel Liddy, justice of peace in the town of Berne. Burkett was arrested upon affidavit filed by Freeman Evans, who alleges that on November 27, 1906, said Burkett drove upon his land in Monroe township and being notified to depart, to do so. Burkett was tried before Justice Liddy on November 28, where he was fined five dollars and costs, amounting to $26.05, whereupon Burkett appealed to the/circuit court. James C. Harmon, administrator of the Sarah J. Harmon estate, filed a petition for the sale of real estate. Waiver of notice filed. , T. H. Ernst, administrator of Benjamin Breiner estate, filed his final report. Norman G. Lenhart vs. Alexander R. Bell et al., partition of real estate, proof of publication of sale filed, report of sale, deeds ordered for inlots 10 to 19, inclusive, deeds reported’and approved. Homer Watkins, charged with larceny, bled a motion, for change of venue from the court. The will of Fred Strickler was probated, the first item providing for the payment of all his debts, the second that all his land belong to his brother, Frank Strickler and wife, who also get the household goods. His personal property is bequeathed to a brother, Oran Strickler, who is to pay S2OO on debts of deceased. The will was written November 8, 1906, and witnessed by John Mercer qnd J. F. Shaffner. . - AN INDIGNANT WATER PATRON Registers a Complaint About Water Meters. It is rumored about town that the users of city water are to have a twelve and a half dollar water meter forced upon them on the first of January, 1907. If the rumor be true why all this secrecy? The unsavory odor of a former water meter swindle has not been entirely dissipated from the olfactories of Decatur taxpayers, and the talked-of meter promises to be still more odoriferous. To a few people twelve dollars and a half is a mere trifle, but to hundreds of families in Decatur i.t will be a heavy burden, and in many cases it will mean the using of cistern or well water. If there is a good reason for this why not enlighten the people? The only reason the writer has heard given is this: “Some people do not pay their water rent and they waste the water.” Then why not shut them off, instead of compelling honest people to make good their delinquencies? Let this matter be aired. ' MARIE L. HOLLOWAY. A GX'ARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Itching, Blind, Bleeding, Protruding Piles. Druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINTMENT, fails to <!!”•* in 6to 14 days 50c. o SURPRISE ON WILLIAM TIEMAN Friends and Neighbors Remind Him of His Birthday. It certainly was a beautiful scene, on Sunday afternoon, when the friends and neighbors gathered at the home of William Tieman to remind him of his forty-sixth birthday anniversary. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Hosemeyer, Mr. and Mrs, Will Aumann, Mrs. Fred Tieman and sons, Harry and Albert, Herman and George, Misse Lizzieand Bertha Hosemeyer, all of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Chris Pqchler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Poehler, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wietfeldt, Herman Wietfeldt, Mrs. Ed Eye, Mr. and Mrs. Will Gerke and family, Mr. and Mrs. August Busick and family, Mrs. Eliza Gerke, Hugb perke and Misses Caroline and Ida Gerke. At six o’clock a bounteous; supper was served, when the 45 present did full justice 'to the meal. Mr- , Tieman was presented with beautiful presents. All present report a good time, and they all wish Mr. Tieman . many more such happy birthdays. — . To Mothers In This Town. Children who are delicate, feverish and cross will get immediate relief trom Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for act on the liver, making a sickly child strong and healthy. A certain cure for worms. Sold by all druggists, 25 cents.