Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1907 — Page 7

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NEW DEVICE FOR MILLERS A Patent That Will Leave No Flour in Middlings. Roy Stafford, of this city, has devised a bolting arrangement for use in grist mills that from general appearances would indicate that he has prospects of making a nice bunch of money through his ingenuity. Roy is employed at the North Main street mills and is a miller of ability. Millers have long known that in the shorts, or middlings that are left after the flour has been separated from the wheat, there is a considerable quantity of good flour. In fact the finest grade, that could not be separated with the devices now in use. By running the shorts through the machinery tipie after time it might have been accomplished in the end, but this would have entailed an amount of expense that would have counteracted all the saving. Roy had devised a bolting arrangement that takes the middlings after they have gone through all the machinery now in use and from the middlings from a bushel of wheat, at least calculation a pound of flour will be secured. —Bluffton Banner. _o ,— HAS THIRTY DAYS’ TIME ft’s a Big Job, and Every Parent Should Willingly Lend His Assistance. Fred Fruchte, who has been deputized by . the local school board to take the school enumeration, started out Thursday to perform his arduous duties, and last evening reported that his success had been fair. The job, although it seems to be a soft snap, is far from it, as it requires a house to house canvass and means a talk with the head of every family. The taking of the school enumeration means much to the local school board and it is the duty of every citizen to give the' enumerator the correct answer to all questions without any parleying, as it has to come. From all present indications the enumeration promises to exceed that of last year, which speaks well for our schools. Mr. Fuchte has thirty days in which to finish his work, and every parent should lend their assistance in making his work, as light as possible, and they may be able to do this by giving the number of children atattending school from their family and their ages promptly. o The Fort Wayne-Decatur division parallels the old Piqua pike and is on a private right-of-way. There are eight bridges on the line, the largest of which spans St. Marya river. This bridge is 155 feet long. The line is operated by single-phase alternating current with a line pressure of 6,600 volts. The overhead work is of the latest type of catenary construction and the line throughout is well designed and well constructed. The present car equipment is of three large passenger cars of the three-compartment type and one ex-, press car.

SHE GREATLY APPRECIATES. Mrs. Ella Mereness Thanks Her Many Kind Friends. Will you allow me this method of expressing my gratitude to the people of Decatur and surrounding country, for their kindness and friendliness, shown Mr. Mereness and myself during our short sojourn with you? We returned here after losing our honpe and practically without means to settle and buy stock, etc., to stock our place. What did the business men of Decatur do? Refuse credit? No, indeed; and one and all extended the helping hand, gave me time and more than that, never even asked me to settle until convenient so to do, not knowing if I would succeed or not. But thanks to them, I will be able to settle in full in money. But my gratitude for their trust and faith in my honesty will never cease. I wish specially to speak of our departed brother W. H. Niblick, also C. A. Dugan, Keubler & Moltz, A. Vancamp, Holthouse Drug Co.,Shaffer Bros., Noah Lock, Baker .& Anderson, Anna Winnes, Gay & Swick and the telephone girls. Many others I might mention, but these in particular as my dealings were dally almost with them, and many times when the clouds were darkest and but little hope of meeting obligations, their words of cheer and encouragement have kept me up, and I also wish to mention Oscar Fritzinger and wife, parties who bought my home. They have been staunch ifriends and I thank them and hope the dear old home, “The Cross Farm,” may blossom and bloom and bring forth abundance to repay their efforts. Now, in leaving Decatur and my many friends I have only this to say: The majority of you have seen me grow up in your midst, have known my joys and sorrows and know that I love my home here, and my only reason for ever leaving is to be near my children in my declining years. But my best wishes will remain with you one and all, and may prosperity and happiness ever be the lot of one and all in Decatur. Not be|ng able to see you all I take the plan to say goodby and God bless you is my prayer. ELLA MERENESS. EXPERIENCE WITH A CYCLONE Dan Schenck Writes an Interesting Letter; D. J. Schenck is in receipt of a letter from his son Dan who is teaching school in Alabama, and who recently had some experience with a cyclone. He writes as follows: Spring Hill, Ala., April 5, 1907. You know when something out of the ordinary happens all the big newspapers put out what they call an extra. Well, this is an extra. The occasion that calls it out is a cyclone, which passed through this district. Only think that a real live cyclone passed within a half mile of my school and destoyed three houses (one of them belongs to one of my patrons) and tore down a dozen barns and wrecked half the fences in the country. But fortunately only one man was seriously injured. The storm passed within a quarter of a mile of my boarding house, so it is safe. I was down to Fred Gerdon’s at the time of the storm, and when we first heard it it sounded just like the hum of a thrashing machine. It kept getting louder and louder until at last we became terrified and Mrs. Gerdon and the six little children took refuge in a dugout. Fred and I stood outside and faced it. The tornado swept by us about one hundred yards to our left, and it surely was an awful sight. It looked like a dust whirl, only on a gigantic scale and it was blacker than a stack of black cats! After the wind stopped the rain fell in torrents, when the clouds broke and the stars came out one by one and looked calmly down on a dozen desolate homes. Thanking my lucky stars for my escape, I am ever your son, DAN J. SCHENCK,. Jr. -■■O — MARRIES A CHICAGO LADY Mr. De Jackson and Bride Arrive In Decatur. — « Dee Jackson arrived Thursday evening from Chicago bringing home with him one of the Windy City’s fairest women as a bride, and they are now visiting at the home of William Jackson and family. The wedding ceremony was performed Sunday evening in Chicago at the bride’s home. The bride, Miss Lucy Crider, Is a popular young society lady, of Chicago, having made her home on Wentworth avenue where she had a host of friends. The groom Is well known In this city, having lived here practically all his life, and has a host of friends who wish him much joy and happiness. The young couple may make their fuure home in this city. Q Arthur Fisber made a business trip' to Ft. Wayne this morning. I

REGARDING THE NEW ACTS Hook and Line Fishing Remitted at Any Time of Year—Sale of Game and Fish Prohibited. For the benefit of Adams county lovers of hunting and fishing we publish the foliowipg letter from Z. T. Sweeney, giving a summary of the new fish and game laws: Columbus, Ind., Mar. 29, 1907. Dear Sirs—This is a summary of the laws enacted by the last Legislature as pertains to fish and game. A full text of new laws will be out about the first of July, and a copy may be obtained then by remitting two cents to this office. Prohibits possession of quails from January Ist to November 10th, applicable to incorporated storage companies as well as individuals. Cuts bag limit on quails and ducks to fifteen per day. Any person having hunted three days or more consecutively may have a total of fortyfive of either, killed by himself during such hunt. Provides open season for waterfowl from September Ist to following April Ist. Prohibits dove shooting at all times. Open season on squirrels, July Ist to October Ist. Hays bill provides closed season on squirrels, November Ist to following July Ist, and Section 608 of the law of 1905 makes it unlawful to hunt any kind of game from October Ist to November 10th. The two laws together makes open season on squlr’rels from July Ist to October Ist. Makes open season for woodcock, July Ist to October Ist, and November 10th to January Ist. Any resident land owner may hunt on his own land anywhere in the state without license, and his children living with him, also his tenants, are givers similar privilege. But if he or they hunt anywhere in the state except on his own land, license must be secured, that license being obtained of the Clerk of the county in whicn applicant resides, except in Marion county—such license being obtained at the Commissioner’s office in the state house in Marion county. Such license costs one dollar, and the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game must spend one-third of all such license money in buying live quails and other species of game for distribution throughout the state for the purpose of restocking the state with such live game. Allows hook and line fishing the year around in all the waters of the state except in Bass Lake, it being unlawful to fish through the ice in that lake. The restrictions provided for in Section 616 of the Acts of 1905 relative to fishing through the. ice, are still in force. Sale of game fish caught in this state is prohibited, and proof of sale or offer of sale of any such fish is prima facie evidence that such fish were caught in this state. None but officers of the Fish and Game Commissioner may confiscate nets, seines, etc., and a conviction for possession or use of such nets, etc., must be made before any fee can be collected for seizing or destroying same. Legalizes sale of game fish caught in any private pond, but person selling or shipping such fish must present affidavit that such fish were caught in a private pond, and a private pond is defined to mean any body of water not greater than ten acres in area, lying wholly within or upon the lands of any land owner. Z. T. SWEENEY, Commissioner of Fisheries and Game. o GENEVA REBEKAS ENTERTAINED One Hundred and Fifty Out-of-Town Visitors Were There. The Geneva Rebekah lodge entertained about one hundred out-of-town, visitors Wednesday evening at their new lodge rooms. Winchester sent a delegation of thirty-five. Decatur fifteen and Portland 35. The delegations were met at the train Wednesday afternoon by a reception committee, who escorted the orders to the lodge rooms where supper was served. When the lodge was called to order, three candidates were on hands to be initiated, the degree work being conferred by the Winchester degree staff. After the work of the evening addresses were made by a number of the visiting members and Miss Byrd, of Winchester, rendered several literary selections. At midnight a banquet was served and the > three lodges returned home on the three o’clock train. —Portland Com-mercial-Review. o DEMORC AT Want Ads Pay Big.

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BASE BALL IS ASSURED Decatur Will Have a Good Team This Year—Season to Open Decoration Day. The base ball season for 1907 was formally launched Friday evening at the commercial club rooms when the directors of this association closed a contract with Ralph Behringer, of Frankfort, to manage and captain the team this season. The contract was closed without much trouble, as Mr. Behringer’s ideas concerning a ball team compared favorably with the ideas of the, directors of the assoclaion, and we predict a successful season. Under the terms of the contract, Behringer is to manage and captain the team. He is to sign all ball players and has the power to discharge the same without any meeting of the directors. He is to attend to the matter of making all daes and to attend to the wants of the team in general. In fact, all the local association will have to do is to attend to the financial end of the business. Behringer informed the directors that he had a line on a number of good men whom he could sign at reasonable terms, and stated that the team be put into Decatur would be no experiment, but would be composed of well seasoned men, who were ready to jump into the game at a moments notice. Mr. Behringer himself is an experienced man, having followed the national game for several years, and is fully acquainted with what it requires to make a winning team. He is a hard and conscientious worker, and will get everything out of his men that can be gotten. In signing Mr. Behringer, the local management have made a ten strike, as no better man could have been secured. About one hundred letters addressed to secretary Vaughn from ball players were read. Among them being letters from Burns, Henderson, Notts, Linderbeck and Hillinger of last season’s team, and an army of other men who consider themselves fast and able to deliver the goods. Mr. Behringer will not have his men report until May 20th, as the season will not open until the Decoration Day .when a double header will be played. While here Behringer had a talk with Tom Railing, and it is possible that Bluffton will lose the service of Tom this season, as he intimated he would like to play here if satisfactory terms could be made. Now that the season has been started let every fan put his shoulder to the wheel and push the good cause along. o NOT A CHANGE WAS MADE Entire Corps of Instructors Re-elect-ed for Service for Next Year in Public Schools. At a meeting of the Decatur school board, the very important matter of selecting teachers was taken up and disposed of by the selection of the same corps of instructors now in service. This is the first time in history perhaps that not a single change was necessary, but as each teacher has given satisfactory service, it was decided to re-elect, as each had filed application. The list includes Prof. William Beachler, superintendent and C. E. Hocker, J. C. Tritch, D. A, Baumgartner, O. E. Frazee, Rose L. Dunathan, Emma Byerly, Mattie Bailey, Mary Miller, Lizzie Peterson, Bess Congleton, John R. Parrish, Florence Johnson, Della Sellemeyer, Eva Acker, A. D. Suttles, Grace Coffee, Nellie Winnes, Nora Ahr, Clyde Rice, Rose Egan, Emma Sellemeyer and Fannie Rice. The schools were never in better condition and each teacher has I given entire satisfaction, there having been practically no complaints. The board believe they have acted wisely In their action and we predict that the year 1907-08 will be the most successful in 'the history of the Decatur schools. —— - ———o Bluffton is just now thinking of imitating its sister town of Decatur, by chasing out of its midst, a number of colored men wbo have been working there on some sidewalk construction work. Because the colored men are willing to work for $1.50 per day and mind their own business; it is said that a number of the white men of the town are threatening to organize to run them out of town. It >is not intimated that the negroes have not been law-abiding, but only, forsooth, that they have insisted upon being allowed to earn, by hard work, ( the living which is every man’s due. —Portland Commercial-Review.

PROGRAM WAS A GOOD ONE Many Speeches by Grand Officers and a Large Class Initiated Into the Mysteries. The last session of the District donvention of the Pocahontas lodge was held Thursday evening at the Red Men’s hall and the Elks rooms, in the third story of the Studebaker building on Main street. The grand officers, Mrs. Iva Hunemieier, of Washington, Mrs. Rosier, of Richmond, Ind., and Mrs. Graham, of Anderson, Ind?, arrived on the noon train from Muncie where they were attending the convention. The convention at Muncie showed that they had forty councils in their district, which is the largest in the state of Indiana, and the number of councils of this district numbers eleven, which is the smallest in the state, although if it is the smallest, the reports show it to be among the very best of the state. The work of this year has been the most prosperous year of the district, and the reports were fine from each council. The opening session for the public was held from seven to eight-thirty o’clock, at the Elks’ rooms. Mrs. James Fristoe presided over this meeting and she proved that she was more than capable of handling such a vast crowd, which she did in a dignified manner. The opening-address was made by Mr. A. P. Beatty, in which he gave the three main principals of the order, which are Freedom, Friendship and Charity, closing with the welcome to the stranger among the guests. The response' address was made by the Great Pocahontas, Mrs. Iva Hunemieier. Next was the duet rendered by Mrs. C. J. Lutz, and daughter, Miss Jean. This was highly, appreciated by all. Following the duet came a splendid reading by Miss Merle Burdg. A vocal solo was rendered by Mr. Fred McFeeley, of Fort Wayne, Ind., which was a surprise to all of his friends in Decatur. Mr. McFeeley was formerly of Decatur, but is now at the stated place. An excellent reading from Indiana’s favorite writer “Riley” was given by Miss Faye Smith, and also the Great Keeper of Records, Mrs. Graham, of Anderson gave a reading which was encored, and that was responded by “When Pa was Initiated into the Red Men’s Lodge.” Then a few remarks were made by the Great Prophetreps, Mrs. Florence Bain, of Decatur, which were followed by a pleasing talk by Mrs. Rosier, the Great Wenonah, of Richmond, Ind. After this a call was made for another vocal solo by Mr. McFeeley, who freely responded with “Every One is Meant for Some One.” This closed the program. Then the Majella council was summoned for the purpose of conferring the degree on the following candidates: Mrs. Mary Hunt, Mrs. James Gay, Mrs. Goldie Gay, Mr. E. N. Peoples, Mr. William Bulter, Mrs. Emma Bulter, Mrs. Arabella Welder, Edith Johnson, Elize Johnson, Katie Zeser, Florence Bence, Daisy Helm, Julia Amesbaugh, Mrs. C. J. Lutz, Elizabeth Graber, Carliona Fedderjohnn, Charline Louthas, Luella Sullivan,Charles Rinehart, Mata Rinehart, John Yager, Charles Ernst, Mrs. D. B. Ervin, Mrs, Richard Roop, Miss Jean Lutz, Mrs. Levi Presdorf, Mrs. Sarah Porter, Simeon Hain, William Darwachter, Mary Watson, Gusta Craner, Mrs. Mose Henry, Mrs. Scheman, Mrs. Enso, Mollie Cross, Cory Worden, Mary Peterson, Ella Merreness, Rena Hoffman,Ella Laughlin. The members of the degree staff exemplified their work in a very impressive manner. It was praised highly and they were all congratulated ,on their success. After conferring I the degree the Great Pocahontas cldsed the meeting, which was immediately followed by a sumptuous and elaborate banquet, after which the guests and friends enjoyed a social hour until the ladies returned home on the midnight trains. The number of guests who were present last t evening was remarkable.

FARMS Bought Sold and \ Exchanged CALL OB WHITE O. GANDY CO. 205 West Berry St. FT. WAYNE. END.