Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1906 — Page 5

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ONLY SIX SPECIAL MESSAGES A Do-Nothing Session—-The Wood Alcohol Industry Owned by the Whiskey Trust. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Indiana has been sending a number of her school teachers over to the Philippines from time to time, and here is another chance. According to a telegram received at the Bureau of insular Affairs 120 additional American teachers are needed. Fifty or more will paid salaries pf $1,200 a year. The teachers will be selected from those passing civil service examinations. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The attempt of the members of the house to raise their salaries, turned oht to be a first class piece of comedy. The Republicans had agreed that .salaries should go up and they were to stand together on the proposition, but when they discovered that not one-third of the Democrats intended to vote for the raise they took fright. It was a case of wanting to do a thing but being -afraid -to do it in the e>d. The only Indiana members who voted for the increase that had been agreed upon were Foster, Fred Landis and Overstreet. The vote was 106 to 188. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—1 t is announced at the. white house that the president will send six special messages to Congress this week. One message will deal with the naval personnel bill, which contemplates the more rapid retirement and promotion of naval officers, and one will transmit the report of Secretary Metcalf on the alleged discrimination against Japanese in San Francisco. Other messages relate to the Isthmus of Panama the public land question, Secretary Taft’s report on Cuba, and one will be a reply to the Senate’s resolution calling for information regarding the discharged negro troops. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The advocates of ’ ship subsidy, are making a final rally for the legislation they want, 5 They realize that it is now or never. If there had been a vote on the bill v ih cdmmlttee today it would have been beaten; and the subject would not

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i have been revived this session, but | there has been a postponement of a | vote in committee until January 7, and in the meantime the forces that are bound to bore anoher hole into the national treasury will be busy. They are counting on the president sending in a special message early in the new year. That will help to stiffen the back bone of some of the Western Republican members. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Unless the president uses his “big stick” this session of Congress will not accomplish anything’worthy of mention. On Thursday adjournment will be taken until the first week in January. This means that there \will be only two short months in which to do business. It is the determination of the leaders in the senate and the house to make it a do-nothing session unless the president, with public sentiment behind him 1 forces legislation. It has not been the expectation of the president that he 1 would get much from the session, but there are a few things he is exceed--1 ingly anxious to have done. I f ’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The com- • missioner of Internal' Revenue is about i to issue an order amending the regular ’ tions providing for the denaturing of alcohol which it is -believed will bring grief to the whisy • trust. When Mr. ■ Y.erkes first issued his regulations pros viding for the denaturing of alcohol, •■ he stipulated that at least 10 per • cent of wood alcohol must be added ■ to the pure product. Since issuing s those regulations, however, the comi missioner has been informed that the : whisky trust obtained complete control i of the wood alcohol industry and has - been preparing to nullify all beneficial • effect expected from the competition ;1 of the denatured product by maintain- ’ ing at an exorbitant point the price I' of the only article which can be used i for denaturing purposes. > —, oA CARD OF THANKS. i We desire, in this manner, to thank , our many kind friends and neighbors . j who -so ably and kindly assisted us I during the illness and death of our l beloved daughter, Miss Zella Miller. ; | Dr. J. M. Miller and Wife.

ADAMS COUNTY’S GOOD ROADS Two Hundred and Sixteen Miles of Improved Roads in the County. The State Geologist has completed his annual report, a volume of fifteen hundred pages. The greater part of this report is taken up with the public roads of the State and their improvement, dealing with the subject by counties. By comparison there is not a county in the States that comes within gun shot of the number of miles of macadam roads that is owned by this county. And also by comparison it is noted that the expense of repair is not one-half of that necessary for graveled roads. His report gives the following of this county: Area in square miles, 335; population in 1900, 22,232; miles of public roads, 675; miles of improved roads, 216; percentage of road improved, 32; miles improved with gravel, 102.5; miles improved with crushed stone, 113.5; average original cost of gravel roads per mile, $2,000; average original cost of stone roads per mile, $3,200; total original cost of improved roads $567,200; annual cost of repairs per mile on gravel roads 5 years old, S7O; annual cost of repairs per mile on stone roads 5 years old, $25; miles of improved roads (gravel) built in 1905, 3; miles of improved roads (stone) built in 1905, 7; miles of improved roads Igravel) contracted for 1906 , 4; first Improved roads built, 1889; proportion of improved roads built since 1895, 10 per cent. Adams county lies on the eastern border of the State, the fourth county from the northern boundary. Its county seat is Decatur. The topography Is simple, being very plane, broken only by the valleys of the St. Mary and Wabash rivers and their tributaries. Two moraines, both low, follow the courses of the rivers. The drift is very thin as a rule, rock being found almost everywhere in the county at depths of 35 to 50 feet. The chief glacial deposit is till —yellow, stiff clay, extending to the rock as a rule. Occasionally thin beds of gravel occur just above the rock, but they are of no economic value, except as water reservoirs, Unless the streams have removed the top layer of till. There is not half a dozen “workable” gravel deposits in the county* and probably will not be. Perhaps the largest deposit is the one in the edge of: Decatur, northeast of the court house. The river here has removed most of the clay, leaving 8 to 12 feet Os stripping. The material is quite sandy and not good for road use. About 3% miles from Berne there is a gravel pit on the farm of Chris. Hostettler. The gravel is little better than quicksand, but it is used on roads in the absence of better material. Another deposit of gravel occurs about three miles north of Decatur, in the river: bottom. It has been worked for roadstuff, but is about exhausted. The Erwin gravel pit four miles northeast of Preble is being worked at present. This deposit is along a little stream where some of the till has been removed. The gravel is mediocre, but is used for roadstuff. There are no other gravel deposits in Adams county worth mentioning.* The sentiment here is 1 pretty strongly in favor of macadam, even where it must be imported. This is no doubt wise when the poor quality 'of' gravel is considered. The crushing plant at the Julius Haugk quarry, about a mile north of the court hduse in Decatur, is a modern one. The usual types of machineryama. in. use as. follows: Gates’ gyratory crusher, automatic screens, steam drills and derricks. Mr. Haugk, the owner, gives the following data: Men employed, 20; capacity (yards per day); 80 to? JOO.. He; says further that roads may be built of rock from this quarry at a cost of $2,500 per mile. Trials of the rock for macadam have been uniformly sue- 1 cessful, the material packing smooth , and wearing well. The rock is hard to get at, being under 12 to 20 feet of till except in the river channel of which it forms the bottom. About 300 yards south of Haugk’s quarry the Fritzinfeer quarry gets into soft buff limestone that works well for building material and burns good lime. It is, however, too soft for road use and too expensive to get out. At Pleasant Mills, Woods & Morris, contractor', have an excellent plant for the. nr'zing of macadam. It is of the usual modern type. The rock herfe is quarried for the most part from the river bottom. It is a white limestone, the most handsome in the State aside from the best oolitic. It has very much the texture of marble and is pure white. According to the records of some of the roads built from this stone it can not be excelled. Roads down 8 years are in perfect repair today without any •expense since they were built. The Blue Creek quarry, 2% miles south of Pleasant Mills, is a rather ex- ‘ tensile affair. The plant is of the, usual type, with a capacity of 200 1 yards per days, and employing 30 to I

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-- . -- ■ 35 men. No figures as to price were available. The rock here is a thinbedded, blue limestone, hard and well suited for road material. The State Geologist also had a very good article upon Improved road building and road materials, both of which are well worth the reading. We have a limited number of these reports, which we will be glad to give to any one who calls for them. o THE JUVENILE MASQUERADE Glen Neptune Wins First Honors With Fifty Contestant—Other Prize Winners. Saturday afternoon wap children’s day at the skating jink and a hundred little folks enjoyed the occasion. About forty or fifty juveniles, gowned in almost every conceivable costume, Indian witch, cow boy, colonial gentleman, clown, negroes, fairies, flower girls, base bal player, sailor lad, Topsy, dude and many others were there and the hundred spectators, young and old, enjoyed every minute of the contest. The judges were the Misses Pansy Bell, Lucile Hale and Marie Beery, and their decisions were generally approved. Glen Neptune, who imitated and old man, hunch-backed and with flowing beard, captured first prize, a 10-skate ticket, and proved himself a little comedian, though only ten years old. Miss Edith Long, as an Indian princess, secured second prize, Free Frisinger, as a western girl cow boy, got third and Dan Tyndall, as a sailor lad got fourth. At three o’clock the contestants unmasked and a hundred children enjoyed the skating for two hours. A big crowd enjoyed the music Saturday night. This week, music will be furnished Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights. o BRICE THOMAS’S XMAS LETTER The Modest Request of a Genuine Hoosier Lad. During the past week we have received at this office countless hundreds of letters to Santa Claus, from our, young friends. Many of them have been ffi interestipg, but the following from five-year-old Brice Thomas, deserves the first place in the album: ■- ■ Decatur, Ind., Dec. 14, 1906. 228 South Third St;, Dear Santa Claus — : I Want a fish for Xmas, and I want a dog what jumps up and down when you press his rubber; I want the little automobile what’s got a top to it and a light and a man and woman, ’en I want a camel and el’phant, and a horn, horse, house, goat, magic lantern, cuckcop game, a hopping bird when you wind a key it hops, a play revolver what shoots paper wads, a doll baby, and a little chair, the doll baby only as big as the chair, I want a bug ’at flaps its wings, a baa-baa sheep, a great big tin soldier, a little telephone, a monkey what winds up with a key and not one ’at jumps up and down with a string, a drum, a tenor drum like Richard’s, I want a little hard coal stove like ours if you can make it . BRICE THOMAS. __p Miss~Anna Loser two popular young people Os our city were united in marriage last evening by Squire Smith at his office. The ceremony was witnessed by. a large number of the friends of the contract- . ing parties and they were showered , with congratulations by those present. . Squire Smith did his duty in his usual , pleasing manner and said he tied the . I knot to stay. The Democrat extends , congratulations. - - ' - - - --- -

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OBITUARY OF JOHN SPULLER. John P. Spuller was bom January 2, 1854, and died Nov. 27, 1906, aged 52 years, 10 months and 25 days. Mr. Spuller was bom and reared on what is still called the Spuller farm in Union township and lived for many years where he so recently ended his earthly pilgrimage. His wedded life with Martha Luckey dates from Marfch 18, 1875, which ties death alone dissolved. *A family of two sons and one daughter was bora to them to bless their home. His life was not without the religious side. He was converted January 1876, as a young man, united with the Evangelical church and remained a faithful members until the end. During these 30 years he held nearly all the various offices of the church and at the time of his death was a trustee. He was ever willing to lend his aid and influence for the advancement of the church, as also his position during the last few years plainly showed. As a neighbor he was obliging even unto the sariflee of home interests. In his business dealings he was prompt, his course a straight forward one. He pursued his calling with success. He began as a renter and attend unto a good competency. He was publicspirited, interested and active in every movement intended for the promotion of the welfare of the community. As a member of fraternal orders, he was an untiring worker and a capable officer. But in the home he was best known as a kind father, an indulgent and devoted husband. It was here that his spirit showed itself as mild, his daily life uniform, seldom impatient. His death seems untimely to us but we bow to higher wisdom —to that of a loving and allknownlng God. There remains to mourn his deeply sorrowing family, widow, two son, Dallas and Willis, and one daughter, May, and one grandchild, the circle of which is broken for the first time. There also remain, stepmother, two brothers, Albert of Adams county, and William of St. Louis, along with many relatives and friends. We all feel a loss at his departure. The disease which laid low a strong man was typhoid fever, from the ravages of which he suffered about five weeks. He fell asleep in peace. His family was at his bedside, to whom he had given his last word, namely, To be faithful and loyal to their Master and His cause. Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the northwind’s breath, And stars to set—but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, > O, Death. 0 — IS WANTED IN THE LEAGUES But Will Probably be Barred, as He is Claimed by Five League Teams. “While the old Interstate was breathing her last and all the players knew that the end of everything would be only a matter of hours, the fellows got to receiving offers from other leagues,” says Scotty Cameron, the Detroiter, who starred with the Marion, Ind., club, of the ill-fated organization. “Our club had led the league through most of the race and all the fellows had telegrams that they’d show around —all of them but me. The day our manager came around and told us formally that it was all off, I was the most mournful player in the United States, for I had hit away over .300, and thought I’d surely be in some demand. I went to bed, determined to start for good Old Detroit in the morning an almost cried myself to sleep. I had just dropped away when there came a thundering at the door. “ ‘Perhaps it’s an offer at last,’ I said to myself. The boy had a tray with a bunch of yellow envelopes on it. To my surprise he skinned off the whole handful and handed them to me. They came from the Central league, the Southern, team in the lowa State. I was tickled , to death and lost my head. I didn’t mean to let my chance go by so I got up and put on my clothes and wired my terms to just seven clubs of those that wanted me. Six of them wired. . back the next day, accepting my figure. Four of them mailed transportation. Alt of them, as I found out after-, ward, sent in their claim on me to headquarters. And there I was in a pretty pickle. I tried to get a couple of them to withdraw the claim and failed. Then I sold the tickets I had gotten and jumped over the barriers pendent outlaw ball and I guess it’s Decatur for me for life, for five of those fellows have claimed me for 1907.”—Detroit Free Press.

PUBLIC SALE. The und rsigned will offer for sale at his resiu nee, 4% miles east of Decatur and miles north of Bobo, on the old Bowser farm, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., on Thursday, December 27, 1906, the following property: 6 head of horses: Gray mare, 12 years old; gray horse, 6 years old; gray mare, 5 years old; roan mare, 3 years old; general purpose horse, 4 years old; colt, 6 months old. 3 head of milk cows. Jersey cow, fresh in March; red Durham, fresh in March; 3-year-old heifer, fresh in April. Hereford bull, two years old; 14 head brood ewes, one Shropshire buck. Brood sows. One brood sow with eight pigs by her side; brood sow, will farrow in March; three young sows, 3 pigs, two months old. Farming implements. McCormick binder, Hoosier disc drill, McCormick mower, hay rake, iron roller, feed 1 grinder, corn sheller, pair bob sleds, two breaking plows, check rower, 1 spring tooth harrow, spike tooth harrow, drag, 2 two-horse cultivators, single horse cultivator, double shovel plow, set log bolsters, tank heater, , hay ladder, 3 broad tire wagons, wagon bed, set dump boards, iron kettle, road wagon, 3 sets double work harI ness, 2 sets single harness. Also one Packard organ, 3-5 of 36 acres of growing wheat in the ground, 150 shocks of fodder, hay in mow, : com in the" crib, household goods and : many other articles. TERMS—A credit of nine months will be given, the purchaser giving note with good security on sums over : $5.00; less than $5.00 cash. II D. W. HLL & CO. J. N. Burkhead, auctioneer. o ZELLA IRENE MILLER. From lips divine, like healing balm, To hearts oppressed and tom, The heavenly consolation fell, Blessed are they that mourn. Unto the hopes by sorrow crushed, , \ noble faith succeeds: And life, by trials furrowed, bears. The fruit of loving deeds. Yes, heavenly wisdom, love divine, Breathed through the lips which said “Q, blessed are the hearts that inoura They shall be comforted.” Was it not the same voice which said: “Let not your heart be troubled, ' I go to prepare a place for you.” “I ' .will' come again and receive you.” "Yet a little while and ye see me.” Then Why do we mourn for dying friends. Or shake at death’s alarm? 'Tis, but the‘Voice that Jesus sends To call them to his arms. These thoughts are brough to mind by the calling home of Zella Irene Miller, bora April 24, 1890, in Mendon, 0., and died December 11, 1906, in Decatur. When she was but 18 days old her mother died, and December 24, 1891, Dr. Milter married Miss Sadie M. Archbold, in whom Zella then one year and seven months old, found a loving, faithful and devoted mother. To this union were born two sons and one daughter, all having preceded Zella to the better world. In January, 1897 she joined the M. E. church in Mendon and December 12 of the same year was transferred by tetter to the Decatur church. At the time of her death she was in the eighth grade in her school work. She was a faithful Sunday school scholar and member of the Sunday evening girls’ choir, and a member of the :Queen Esther Band. She was the delight and life of her home, where she was the happiest' and where she will be the most missed., She seldom crossed the threshed till she would call: “Mamma, are you here?” Kindhearted anj cheerful in disposition, she made friends readily, and many are sad hearts today who weep in real, sympathy with the devoted father and mother, grandparents, uncles and aunts.- , . She was taken ill about two years ago and from a very severe sickness she never recovered fully. White it was hoped that time would assist in eradicating the disease? yT Jond hopes were crushed-and just, As her young life was blooming into sweet womanhood. the “Reaper” with his sickle keen, chose' this fair sheaf for his garner. -Just whyw/e do not fully understand, but < Sometime, when all life’s lessons have been learned, And sun and stars forever more have set. The things which our weak judgments here have spurned, <■ ~Tfie things o’er which we grieved with lashes wet, “ Will flash before us out of life’s dark night, As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue; And We shall see how all God's plans an* right, ’ And How what seemed reproof was . Jove most true. But. now today. Then be content, poor heart! God’s plans like lillies pure and white unfold; We must not tear the close-shut leaves Time will reveal the calyxes of gold; And if, through patient toil, we reach ♦he land Where tired feet, with sandals loosed, may rest, Where we shall clearly see and understand, I think we all will say: "God knew the best.”