Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1907 — Page 6

ARRANGEMENTS FOR LOT SALE The Sale Will Likely be Held In the Court Room—Buainese Houses Asked to Close. • The ministry of Decatur is rep- ♦ * resented in the Factory Fund en- ♦ * terprise. Rev. H. Theo. Wilken • • and Rev. George Augmeier, both * * of the St. Mary’s parish, signed * ♦ the pledge yesterday. The latter ♦ * purchased a lot some years ago, * • in a similar contest where he was * ♦ located, and afterwards sold it for * ♦ twice the money paid originally. * ♦ This is the usual story. * • •••••****•*** The sale of lots by the pledge and ribbon route, is going merrily on, the list today exceeding that of yesterday, when twenty-nine were turned in. The contest gets better as it grows older. The people are just beginning to grasp the magnitude and the benefit to be derived from locating a factory here that brings more people and more business. They are just beginning to realize that Decatur can, if she will, do something great. The people are responding nobly. We can not resist again congratulating our loyal and progresisve people. This little contest as brought to light more evidence that Decatur is chuck full of progressiveness than anything ever attempted. They are all working too. This is what counts. The Pledge Committee is beating the bushes with force and good results, names are coming in and pledges are being signed, and from everywhere comes encouragement and good cheer. Arrangements for the lot sale will soon begin. It will likely be held in the court room, and every business house in the city will be asked to close for an afternoon and to help in the sale. It is proposed to make this a big day in Decatur, and arrangements to that effect will go forward without delay. In the meantime the sale of lots on paper will continue, and if you have been missed, get a pledge and sign it and a badge and wear it

TWO MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES A Quiet Title Suit—Smith Divorce Case Set For Trial—Other Legal Matters. Attorneys Peterson & Moran represent David D. and Mary Clark,' John and Rose Baker, who are plaintiffs in a quiet title suit filed against Emily and Joseph Johnson, complaint on notes and foreclosure of mortgage, demand S2OO. The complaint consists of six paragraphs. The Berne' Lumber Company has filed suit against Elizabeth and Adam Cully and Hiram Kraner, to foreclose a mortgage, demand $350. Merryman & Sutton are attorneys for plaintiff. Another new case filed is that of William L. Keller vs. John Higgins and others, suit to quiet title. The case was filed by Schurger & Smith, attorneys. Peter Smith vs. Odessa M. Smith, divorce, set for trial Thursday, March 21. Frank R. Hill vs. Elias S. Liby et al., suit on note, demand S2OO, separate demurrer filed by each defendant. L George M. Beard vs. Eli Meyer et al., false Imprisonment, separate demurrer filed by defendant Green. James E. Moser vs. Harry Cordua, appraisement filed, proof of posting and publication of notice of sale filed. Elizabeth Kern vs. Chicago & Erie Railway company, damages $1,500, change of venue granted to Allen Circuit court * -o TEACHER IN BUSINESS COLLEGE Miss Porter Accepts Position at BL Marys, O. Miss Edith Porter of this city, is at present located at- St Marys, 0., where she has secured a position in the St. Marys Business College as an instructor in short hand. She assumed her duties last week and says she is getting along exceedingly well and likes her new location fine. The school was recently Installed and Miss Porter being a graduate of the Fort Wayne Business Callege and being an applicant for a place as one Os, the Instructors was selected from a large class. She is very proficient in her work and we predict a successful career for her as an instructor. She will spend Sunday with her parents, then return to ?t. Marys to resume her duties.

WEIGHED EVERY FOUR YEAR* Indiana in the First Territory Whore the Malls are New Being Weighed.

The weighing of mails —an interesting quadrennial proceeding —is now in progress in the third contract section of the United States, of which Indiana is a part. The task begun on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 12:01 o’clock, and it will contintfe for fifteen weeks or 105 days. This weighing process takes place every four years and upon the information acquired by it is fixed the compensation which the government shall pay the railroads for carrying the mails. This compensation is based on the amount of mail actually carried, and in order to ascertain the amount many men are employed through civil service channels and are paid $3 a day. Not until the civil service lists are exhausted are congressmen permitted to recommend weighers. The third section, where the weighers are now doing their work, comprises the area lying between the Ohio river and the Canadian line and the Missouri river and Buffalo. It includes the states of Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Missouri. About 700 weighers are employed and it is their duty to weigh every letter, package and paper carried from initial to terminal points. Each train carries spring balance scales for weighing the smaller packages and warehouse scales for heavier packages. One day last week nearly forty-five tons of mail or 89,000 pounds, was handled by the weighers on one train in the third section. —o — PURCHASES A PALACE COACH Fashion Stables Own an Up-to-Date Outfit Louis A. Holthouse has in his possession at the Fashion Stables one of the prettiest and up-to-date coaches that has evefr been seen in our city and something that cannot be duplicated in the state. The outfit is known as a Palace coach and is used exclusively for weddings, parties and funerals. It has three seats and is trimmed in black satin, with a satin tufted top, being rubber tired with nickleplate trimmings. The inside is fitted with several electric buttons which are used to attract the attention of the driver. The rig was built according to the Instructions of Mr. Holthouse at Detroit, Mich., and is something out of the ordinary as nothing like it had ever been constructed in Detroit. The rig is a beauty and speaks volumes for the progressiveness of Mr. Holthouse, who is endeavoring to give the people of Decatur attractive turnouts. It would pay you to stop and take a look at the rig. ——o —————— WARSHIP ON THE OHIO RIVER

Washington, March 15.—For the first time in American history a warship flying .the colors of the United States will ascend the Ohio River to Evansville, Ind. Senator Hemenway has received the president’s promise for a naval demonstration. The gunboat Wasp was selected for the service. o— PRESBYTERIAN MEN’S CLUB A Surprise on Mrs. McKean—Wedding Invitations—Ladies’ Aid Society Meets. BY PERLE BURDG. One of the most leading society events of the season was the sumptuous six o’clock turkey dinner given by the Mesdames J. T. Merryman and C. H. Bell yesterday at the beautiful home of the former in compliment to Mrs. DeVilbiss and Mrs. Fanny Cole of Lancaster, O. About twentyfour ladies responded to the dainty invitations which were Issued requiring the presence of each at 4 o’clock. After the guests had assembled each took part in a name contest, Mrs. C. A. Dugan proving to be the champion. There were seven small tables arranged in the spacious rooms. At six o’clock the dinner was served in five courses in a very graceful manner by the Misses Pansy Bell, Lucile Hale and Marie Beery Each guest found her place by pretty little Easter greetings on post cards with their address. After the dinner an advertisement contest prevailed during the rest of the evening, Mrs. W. A. Lower leading the ladies in having the greatest number of answers. The guests were: Mesdames J. H. Heller, DeVilbiss, Fanny Cole, R. S. Peterson, P. G. Hooper, R. K. Allison, W. A. Lower, John C. White, J. T. Archbold, Roy Archbold, C. A. Dugan, John W. Tyndall, D. D. Heller, J. S. Peterson, Sarah Miller, F. M. Schirmeyer, W. W. P. McMillen, John Niblick, Frank Dibble, A. R. Bell, Ella Bell, Mias Wargaret Bell.

FLSAD GUILTY AT HAMMOND Burglarized a Store Leet January— Three Boys Sentenced at Same Time—Free ng Has Family. Among the first cases to be disposed of in the superior court today were those of Lewis Freang and the three Chicago young men who robbed L. Levey’s tailor shop one night during the latter part of January. Each of the four men pleaded guilty, Freang to grand larceny, and the trio consisting of Jos. Hall, Frank Storts and Ed Mahoney to robbery and were given Indeterminate sentences of from two to fourteen years in the state reformatory at Jeffersonville. They were also disfranchised for ten years and were given an additonal fine of $lO to pay the court costs. Freang is a notorious character and a wife deserter, having left a* wife and child in Decatur, Ind. Before pronouncing the sentence upon the three young men from Chicago the judge lectured them saying he knew he was giving them a rather severe sentence but that he had learned through past experiences that the court’s leniency is generally abused and that by giving them the severe sentence he hoped to cure two of the prisoners of the cocaine habit, while the third one really had something coming as he had already served time in the bridewell in Chicago. Whatever caused their delight at the sentence is not known but it was noticed that when they were taken back to the jail they danced and jigged and jollied each other as though they were going to a picnic.—Hammond Herald.

Freang’s wife lives here and was preparing to bring new proceedings against her husband for desertion. She will probably secure a divorce. o- - ■ ■ THEY MAY NEVER GET IT Frankfort Citizens Have Put Up a Chock for the Clover Loaf. There is a certified check in the hands of the county auditor for SSOO that may remain there for some time, notwithstanding the fact that a demand has been made for its return. At the time the election was ordered for the voting of the subsidy to the Clover Leaf for the Improvement of the company’s shops at this point it was necessary that the expenses of the election be guaranteed by some one, inasmuch as there was no appropriation available out of which the necessary funds could be taken. Parties here in the city accordingly placed a certified check upon the Farmers’ Bank for SSOO in the hands of the auditor and the election was held and carried. The law provides that in such cases where the election carries that the party benefited by the election shall pay the expenses, so that in the end the cost of the election will be paid by the Clover Leaf. The parties that gave the check made a demand upon the auditor for its return but the demand was refused as the Clover Leaf company had not paid the expense of the election. It is quite likely that the company will wait until the tax is placed upon the tax duplicate, the money collected and paid over to them before they pay the expenses so that from all indications the certified check is doomed to remain in the hands of the auditor for a long time to come.— Frankfort Crescent.

THE END IS NOT YET IN SIGHT Plea in Abatement Filed in the Terrell Case. The end of the long drawn-out Terrell murder case is not yet in sight. Judge Erwin was here from Decatur today and heard motions in the case, but postponed further hearing until the first day of the April term. The defendant’s attorneys, Stine and Hindman, filed a plea in abatement and the court gave the state until April 15 to answer this plea. The plea set* out that the original <ndlctment having been quashed it became the duty of the court to hold the defendant in custody and instruct the next grand jury to return an amended indictment on the same case, but that on the contrary the next grand jury without the court’s instructions brought in an entirely new indictment, which indictment they allege \s not legal. If their contention is fv.stalned there will be no indictment pending against Terrell as the old indictment is stricken off the docket.— Bluffton News. o — Joseph Hower, the geuueman who was accused of using strong language one evening last week, while the Mission was in session and who threatened to whip several young men for throwing paper wads, denies the allegation in emphatic language

CAGKET COGT FIFTEEN HUNDRED And His Entire Funeral Two Hundred Dollars Moro Worth 9100,*0 But Lived Like a Beggar. Johp Korney, a rich, old bachelor miser, who, for many year, lived juet across the line in Jay county and who was found dead Monday morning, was given an elanorate funeral, the cost of which, if he knows it, must certainly be causing him grave concern. Though worth a cool SIOO,000, Korney lived like a pauper in a hovel and his costly funeral was a strange counterpart to his stingy life No doubt his heirs decided that once at least his body should travel in the style deserving of his wealth, which did him such little good in life. The Portland Sun says of his .funeral: s “The casket which was ordered by the relatives of the deceased through the undertaking firm of Scolez & Williamson of this city, was constructed entirely of pure bronze metal throughout, upholstered with the finest grade of white satin, with an inner lining of curled hair. It contained a full-length beveled plate glass cover and was highly burnished in a dark gun metal color, with handles to match. Instead of the ordinary thumbscrews being used to fasten the outer top, it was secured with cement, thus making the casket waterproof and air tight The resisting powers of this metal is well known, it being almost indestructible. The exact amount of money expended on the burial outfit of Mr. Kamey is not known, but the casket alone cost $1,500 and it was incased in a steel vault when lowered into the grave. The cost of other necessities are said to be in the neighborhood of SIOO and at that rate the expense incurred by the heirs to his estate make a total of at least $1,700. The funeral was held at the Christian church at West Liberty, Thursday afternoon at two o’clock, conducted by the Rev. Aaron Worth, with Interment in Gravel Hill cemetery one mile west of Bryan.”

SULTANA REUNION ANNOUNCED Will bo Held at Xenia, 0., on April Thirtieth. The twenty-fourth annual reunion of the survivors of the Sultana will bd'held in Xenia, 0., on April 30 and the members of the association who reside in this state have received invitations to attend. A number of the survivors live around in adjoining counties. — — .. . The Sultana was a large Mississippi steamer that had been employed by the government to carry Union soldiers from Vicksburg to Cairo. Nearly all of these soldiers had been

released from Confederate prisons at the close of the war and were on their way home. When the boat left Vicksburg, it carried 1,996 enlisted men, thirty-six officers and fifty-five Confederate soldiers. At 2 o’clock on the morning of April 27, 1865, when the boat was thirteen miles north of Memphis, Tenn., one of the three boilers that were used to propel the boat, exploded and set fire to the steamer. Quite a number of people were blown into the river and were drowned. Others were caught under the wreckage and burned to death. Many others were drowned by jumping into the river to escape from the burning boat. 1,479 of the enlisted men and officers on the boat were killed or drowned. It stands today as the most terrible river calamity that has ever happened in the history of the United States. , —o — SALOONKEEPERS SPRING ONE Offer $20,000 if Huntington Will Out Other Joint*. Huntington is trying to raise a SSO, 000 boom fund and the saloonkeepers and breweries there propose a novel scheme to swell the fund. There are twenty-seven saloons at Huntington, all doing a fairly good business. The owners of these places held a meeting thisjweek and agreed upon their plan to raise the remainder of the fund. The agreement is that if the Huntington eounty commissioners will agree to remonstrate against the opening of any more saloons in the city until the population reaches 25,000, the saloonkeeper* and the brewery will subscribe the remaining $20,000 at once. Not only wilt they do this but they will do all in their power to promote home trade and will buy absolutely nothing outside of the city themselves. The liquor dealers are more anxious to boom Huntington or at least as much as any other class of merchants, but they say that if other saloons are allowed to swarm into that city they will make nothing by assisting in the boom. o I. L. Babcocie has opened a real estate office in the Meibers building over Voglewedes shoe store and is now nicely quartered. A new sign was placed at the head of the stairway this morning, announcing his business. Mr. Babcock is a hustler and we predict success for him. ■- » --- ; - - . '

CONCEDED BY DEPARTMENT Whs Pratoe the Gtaie Wetiwsh stall- , read Will Run • Drainage and Road Building Lecture Train. The department of agriculture concedes to the state of Indiana great credit in the matter of road building. The encomiums of the department in this regard ought to be a source of pleasure and satisfaction to every Hoosier. In road building Indiana stands at 'the head of all the states in the Union. At this time 35 per cent of the total mileage of roads in Indiana is surfaced either with stone or gravel. This is. a record in whfch the national government takes great pride and which is cited by the officials of the department of agriculture for the emulation of less enterprising states. Ohio stand next to Indiana. At present 33.7 per cent of the total mileage of its roads is surfaced with stone or gravel.

Why does Indiana lead in road building? This question, asked of officials of the good roads bureau, elicited a two-fold answer. It was conceded that Indianlans seem a little more enterprising than the people of other states, but it is alo asserted that the Hoosier state Is wonderfully blessed with road building material. Indiana probably is better supplied with gravel, the officials say, than any other state. The glacial drift brought down from Michigan and the Canadian country farther north vast quantities of gravel and deposited them in Indiana. Furthermore, what nature has done has been effectively supplemented by legislation. The Indiana laws with reference to gravel road construction are very full and complete. During the last ten years Indiana has raised the enormous sum of $11,000,000 In bond issues to build roads, and during the same time Ohio, which Is next to Indiana in road building advancement, has raised only about $6,000,000 by bond issues. In addition the total annual expenditure on roads including cash, labor and bond Issues, last year was $4,335,000. The Wabash railroad proposes to educate the farmers of Indiana on the subject of drainage and good roads. It is preparing to run" "a special train through the state, from the rear platform of which lecture on drainage and road building will be delivered by experts of the department of agriculture. At the solicitation of the railroad officials the department has promised to send with the train C. G. Elliott, who Is one of the most compe tent drainage experts in the country. He will take with him a supply of charts and magic lantern slides and will make a plain talk that “he who runs” may understand. io AN INSCRIPTION IN THE SKY Was Written in Hebrew Proclaiming a War With Japan. The Bluffton News says: A story that sounds like a big myth or a bad dream comes from a neighborhood southeast of Bluffton near th ? Wells-Adams county line. The story came to a Chronicle reporter through Charles Kapp, the paper hanger, whj said he got the story from the foun-tain-head. The story is to the ffeect that a party of neighbors on their way a few nights ago to the John Bierie home to bid the lit’er and his family goodbye before their departure for Ohio, saw clearly outlined eastern sky a large and bright hand pointing to an inscription also brightly illuminated. This quotation he said was in Hebrew and when interpreted was found to refer in some manner to the Japanese troubles. How any of the party was able to decipher the Hebrew the story does not say and Mr. Kapp did not remember the exact words. He says the story has caused great excitement in the neighborhood where it started. It sounds like somebody’s wild dream and the News simply gives it for whatever it may be worth. - — o 1 With such towns as Delphos, Bluffton, Frankfort, Hartford City, Dunkirk, Portland, Winchester and Lebanon having good ball teams this season, there is no reason why the fans of this city should not be able to see real live sport during the coming season. All of the above named cities have organized and are now busily engaged in getting their men secured for the coming season. All the independent teams will open the season some time during the month of May. Say, don’t you wish that month would hurry up And get here?

“Our new chef,* said the manager of the restaurant, stopping to chat with the patron who had deep lines between his eyebrows, “is a wonder. I really believe the man could take an old rubber shoe and make an appetizing dish o fit.” “That so?” asked the patron, tapping meditatively with his fork upon the steak that had been served him. “Suppose you tell the waiter to take this steak back and ask the chef to fix up a rubber shoe for me.”

HEUY-DECKM CAGE M in Fever of the PtainUff, Sueteining the Mandate Other Affaire of Today's Boeel on. s The various assesors of the townj ships met at the office of Sheriff eyer today to talk over ana sum up their work so far done, and compare notes; for the purpose Os equalizing the assessments. County Assessor Gentle presided and every assessor was present, except the ones from Hartford and Blue Creek townships. The surviving partnership of Ray & Durbin, was the title of a new entrjrj on the probate estate docket. An inventory and bond were filed and approved. Arguments were heard today in the case of the State on relation of Troy Huey vs. Henry Decker, trustee of Wabash township, writ of mandate, Peterson & Moran of this city and Smith & Moran of Portland, appeared for the plaintiff and Jacob Butcherand Merryman & Sutton for the defendant. The court found for the plaintiff and directed to proceed inj accordance with prayer of petition. TO LOOK INTO LABOR EVILS The United State 8 Treasury to Circulate Seventy-One Millions Dolto Avert a Panic. Washington, March 16.—1 t may out after all that the presidents of the great railroad systems will not come here to see the president That there is a hitch in the arrangements for their coming was admitted today by officials high in authority. It wasi said at the White House at noon that! no word had been received from the I railroad presidents. When J. Pier-Il pont Morgan left here Monday night! it was the understanding that within! two or three days the railroad offi- | cials would communicate with Secre- i tary Loeb suggesting a date for the| conference. Yesterday afternooriß Presidents Newman of the New York! Central; Mellen of the New Haven;! McCrea of the Pennsylvania, and J Hughitt, of the Chicago & Nnorthwes-I tern, conferred in New York city, and! according to private information re-1 ceived here, they failed to reach any I agreement with reference to the proposed pilgrimage to the president Washington, March 16.—The president is determined that the forthcom- ; Ing investigation of the conditions under which women and children are employed in the industries shall thorough. He has instructed the bureau of labor that he would like to have the investigation completed within a year so that the reports may be available for the use of congress at the next session, provided the legislative body shows a disposition to apply a remedy for the evils which are known to exist. Washington, March 16.—The United States treasury will throw into circulation, if need be, $71,000,000 in order to avert a money stringency while the speculators are engaged in a “panic” of their own making. Secretary of > the Treasury Cortyelyou made this an- < nouncement yesterday afternoon. ( ° a Shoppers often wonder why it is that so many goods have such odd prices attached to them—sl.l2, $4.99, $3.24, etc. —put they seldom realize that odd prices are one of the retail ’ trade secrets for selling more goods.. Few customers, especially womffli, are in such a hurry to get away that that cannot wait for their few cents change and while they are waiting they gaze around at- other goods. Often something strikes their eye which they are positive they simply , must buy and occasionally the clerk makes another sale before the customer leaves the store. It is said that odd prices are reponsible for fully 15 or 20 per cent of each day’s sales. o ‘ Former Sheriff George W. Stout,fl has returned from the Panhandlew country in Texas, where he purchased! a half section of land. Mr. Stout isM much pleased with the country there. ■ He says the land is of the richest I quality and sells from $12.50 to S2O fl an acre. The climate, he says, isfl fine and the country destined to be-M come great. He says oats and wheat ■ crops are planted In the fall, pastured« through the winter and in the sum-' mer yield great harvests. The land in the Panhandle is being sold to i farmers who wifi till soil which has heretofore been used as pasture lands. —Fort Wayne —o— In order to save the SIO,OOO subsidy voted by Turkey Creek township Kosciusko county, which stipulated 1 that cars must be running by March 14, directors of the Indianapolis, Hunt- ’ ington and Columbia City traction line sent an engine and one car carrying officials over the line between Syracushe and Vawter park Thursday. Track laying is going rapidly forward on other portions of the new road, j ■' ' k