Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1907 — Page 7

. —•• -J .■ J "w . —'L ■ - ■ r. — lm jll oraminw NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. « — Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Ferdinand C. Klickman, deceased, to appear in the Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on the 6th day df May, 1907, and show cause, if any, why the final settlement accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship and receive their distributive shares. AUGUSTE KLICKMAN, Administrator. Decatur, Indiana April 10, 1907. Peterson & Moran, Atty. 6-3 t NOTICE TO BIDDERS. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners will on Monday, May 6, 1907, -•- • receive sealed bids for the rental of the old fair grounds. Bidders will be required to file with their bids a check •calling for an amount equal to their bids. . The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. MARTIN LAUGHLIN, DAVID WERLING, WILLIAM MILLER, , Commissioners. Attest: —C. D. Lewton, Auditor. ' 6-3 t NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Mary Braun, deceased, to appear in the Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on the 11th day of May, 1907, and show cause, if any, why the final settlement accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. JOHN W. COFFEE, Administrator. ~ Decatur, Ind., April 15, 1907. J. T. Merryman, J. C. Sutton, Attys.

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court, April Term, 1907. No. 7369. Daniel I. Weikel vs. Martha C. Lynch. Suit on sewer assessment Jien. It appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that Martha C. Lynch, the above named defendant is a non-resident of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Martha C. Lynch, that she be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the Bth day of June, 1907, the same being the 54th Juridical Day of .the present term, to be holden at the Court House in the City of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the Bth day of April, A. D. 1907, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard -and determined in her absence. Witness my name, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 16th day of April, 1907. ; DAVID GERBER, Clerk. By PAUL AUMGARTNER, Deputy. A. P. Beatty, Attorney for plaintiff, [Seal.] 7-3 t NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State, of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: In the Adams Circuit Court, April Term, 1907. NO'. 7370. Daniel I. Weikel vs. Allen T. Lynch. Sult on • Sewer Assessment Lien. It appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that Allen T? Lynch, the above named defendant is a non-resident of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Allen T. Lynch that he be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the Bth day of June, 1907/ the same being the • 'Juridical Day of the present term, to f be holden at the Court House in the ’ City of Decatur* commencing on Monday, the Sth day of April, 1907, and plead by answer or demur to said ■complaint, ol the same will be heard and determined in his absence.* Witness, my name, and* the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 16th day of April, 1907. DAVID GERBER, Clerk. By PAUL BAUMGARTNER, Deputy. A. P. Beatty, Attorney for plaintiff. [Seal.] 7-3 t

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE: The undersigned, administrator with the will annexed, of the estate of Mathias Schafer, deceased, hereby gives notice that by virtue of an order of the Adams Circuit Court, he will at the Old Adams County Bank, Decatur, Indiana, at the hour of nine a. m., on Tuesday, May the 14th, 1907 and from day to day thereafter until sold, offer for sale at private sale, the following described real estate: Commencing at the center of the street on the east line of In-lot three hundred and thirty-five (335) in the southern addition to the town (now city) of Decatur, Adams county, Indiana, thence west along the south line of the street, one hundred and thirty-two (132) feet; thence south parallel with the west line of Winchester street forty (40) feet; thence east parallel with the street on the north side of said lot one hundred and thirty-two (132) feet to the west-line of Winchester street; thence north on the west line of said Winchester street, forty (40) feet to the place of beginning. Said sale will be made subject to the approval of said court, for not less, than the appraised value of said real, estate and upon the following terms! and conditions: .Cash if the purchaser! desires to pay the full amount of the; said purchase money; or one third cash in hand on day of sale, one thirdIn ine months and one third.ln eighteen ' months, evidenced notes of the purchaser, deferred - payments to bear in-1 terest at the rate of six per cent, from date, waiving relief, providing for at-

torneys’ fees, and secured by personal i security and by mortgage on the real estate sold. Edward X. Ehinger, Administrator with the will annexed. 6-4 t MACADAM ROAD PETITION. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: • Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom ae legal voters, householders and free-holders of and in the township of Root .in the county of Adams, and state of Indiana, do hereby respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Root township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route to-wit: Commencing at the north-west corner of section twenty-four (24) in township twenty-eight (28) north range fourteen (14) east, running thence north on the highway dividing sections thirteen and fourteen (13 and 14) and sections eleven (11) and twelve (12) to the north-east corner of section eleven (11), township and range aforesaid, running thence west over the public highway dividing sections two (2) and eleven (11) to the north-west corner of section eleven (11) township and range aforesaid and there terminating. Said road being less than three (3) miles in length and to be known as Extension No. Five (5) of Root township. Said proposed improvement connects at the commencement thereof with a free gravel road of said Root township, and at the end or terminus thereof said proposed road connects with a free gravel road of said Root township, both of which said gravel roads at the end and commencement of this improvement were constructed under the laws of the state of Indiana, for the construction of free gravel or macadam roads.

Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway above described be graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon such broken stone there be placed crushed stone screenings, and that there be built, made and constructed upon said highway what is known as a macadamized road. Your petitioners further show, that the public highway thus sought to be improved is a public highway already established and is one of the public highways of said Root township. Your petioners further ask, that said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-two (22) feet and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of ten (10) feet and to a depth of ten (10) inches in the center thereof, and to a depth of eight (8) inches at the side thereof, and that the crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to a depth of three (3) inches upon satd broken stone. That said road be constructed as a double track. We ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, payable in twenty (20) semi-annual installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Root township in Adams county, Indiana, in a sufficient, amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds, as they may become due, that said road be built and that said bonds be issued and said tax be levied upon said property of said Root township in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the state of Indiana, passed in the year 1905, and amended in the year 1907 in the Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana for the year 1907. We further ask that the board take the different steps as required by law to have said improvement constructed and made, and that they construct the same under and by virtue of the laws of the state of Indiana, providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. J. S. Lower, Wm. H. Tiemann, Wm, Wietfeldt, K. A. Drummond, J. S. Warner, L. C. Lenhart, James O Hoagland, J. E. Cooding, David Flanders, W. A. Fonner, W. J. Miller, Elijah Walters. S. Workinger. James H. Knavel, Frank Haley, H. A. Fuhrman, Date Steele, Isaac Brown, Ed Wietfeldt, G. W. Ruckman, Reuben Baxter, Oscar Fritzinger, Louis H. Ziegler, H. C. Fuhrman, John E, Mann, C. C. Sheets, G. Fuhrman, Th. Hobrock, Chas. F. Fulling, A. ,R. Wolfe, Henry Rodenbeck, L. M. Grandstaff, August Walter, John Bucher, , Abe Boch, J. N. Knapp, L. H. Boknecht, F. W. Lehrmann, Ernst Conrad, Henry F. Fuelling, Fred C. Hoile, >• Martin Gerke, William Ostermeyer, Fred Busuk, Ernst Franz, Chas. Boknecht, Henry Franze. This- petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, on

Monday, May 6, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Root towhship may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. C. D. LEWTON, 6-3 t. Auditor of Adams County. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, March Term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident free holders and voters of and in the township of Monroe, in the County of Adams, in the state of Indiana, do hereby respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Monroe township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route to-wit: Commencing at the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of section 24, in Monroe township, running thence west on the half section line through section 23 and section 22, to the south-west corner of the northwest quarter of section 22, and there to terminate the same being two (2) miles in-length connecting the Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove macadam’ road with the Monroe Township Central Macadam Road. We ask that you'take such action on this petition as you are authorized to by virtue of act of the General Assembly of the

state of Indiana, approved March Bth, 1905, and any amendments thereto. And we recommend that said highway be forty (40) feet in width, and that it be Improved by making thereon what is known as a double track, and that one track be macadamized by placing thereon crushed stone, with screenings on top, to such width and depth as the viewers may deem best; that a United States mall route now passes over said road and We further ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by said county of Adams, payable in twenty semi-annual installments for the payment of which bonds, we ask that there be a tax levied upon the taxable property of said Monroe township and the town of Berne in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principle of said bonds as the same shall • become due and payable under and according to the provisions of said act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March Bth, 1905, and any and all amendments thereto. The improvement herein prayed for to be known as an extension of the Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove macadam road, the said Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove macadam rpad being a road petition and voted on under an act of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana, approved March 3rd, 1893, and the amendments thereto, and constructed pursuant thereto. Nicholas Rich, Andrew J. Muser, Ben Habbegger, Albert Meyer, David N. Sprunger, Emil Flickinger, David O. Lehman, Jacob Baker, J. B. Dull, A. B. Dougherty, J. A. Habegger, R. G. Link, W. M. Clymer, Jacob Musser, John J. Soldner, David Sprunger, Simon Gilliom, Emanuel Lehman,Wm. Reusser, Noah O. Baumgartner, J. F. Lehiqan, A. Sprunger, Ed Luginbill, Noah* Wulliman, Paul Felber, D. S. Wittwer, David P. Somer, Wm. Miller, Chas. Lehman, D. N. Stauffer, Dr. E. Franz, J. W. Craig, J. C. Schug, Jacob Egly, Amos Ellenberger, D. L. Shalley, W. Wittwer, C. A. Augspurger, Ferd Ryf, Chr. Deusser, L. A. Sprunger, George M. Hedington, M. Burkhulter, E. A. Luginbill, W. Baumgartner, A. E. Mischand, Benj. Sprunger, John Rohrer, T. Mischand, Sam Simison, Jeff Lilchty, A. A. Sprunger, E. D. Engeler, E. M. Ray, C. L. Simkins, Frd Rohrer, Amos Hirschy, Bert Parr, Benj. Nussbaum, D. C. Lehman, S. Sprunger, Abe Beer, Jacob Huser, W. T. Waggoner, S. F. Lehman, W. P. Hendricks. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, May 6, 1907,

at which time any taxpayer of Monroe may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 7-3 t. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, March Term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident free holders and voters of and in said Wabash township in the county of Adams, and state of Indiana, do hereby respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Wabash township, over and upon the public highway, situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the south-east corner of lot number one hundred and twenty (120) in the town of Geneva, Wabash township, Adams county, Indiana. At the center of railroad street, running thence east on Shackley street to Hale street: thence north on Hale street to the center of Line street; thence east on ’ Line street and the center of section twenty-eight (28) to the northeast corner of the south-west quarter of section twenty-eight (28); thence south on the half section line to the south-west corner of the north half of the north-west quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-three (33) thence east eighty (80) rods to the south-east comer of the north half of the north-west quarter of the north half of the north-west quarter of the nqrth-east quarter of section thirtythree (33); thence south to the southwest corner of the north-east.. quarter of the north-east quarter; thence east to the south-east corner of the northeast quarter of the north-east quarter of section thirty-three „ (33); thence south on the section line between, sections thirty-three (33)' and thirty-four (34) to the south-east corner of section thirty-three (33) to the boundary line between said Wabash township, said county And state, and Jay county, Indiana and there to terminate the same being about two and threefourths (2% ) miles in.- length, all of the above being in township twentyfive (25) north range fourteen: (14) east. Said road to be extension No. three (3) of the 'Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Townsnip Macadam Road. Said highway thus sought to be improved intersects and connects at -the commencement thereof with the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road, a macadam road heretofore voted upon by the voters of said Wabash township, Adams county, Indiana, and is to be an extension and is an extension of said macadam road. Said highway thus sought to be improved terminates and ends on the south boundary line of said Wabash township, and there connects at theterminus and end thereof with an improved highway on the boundary line of Wabash township, Adams county, Indiana, and Bearcreek township in Jay county, Indiana. Your petitioners further ask your honorable body that said highway above described be graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade and that there be built and constructed upon said highway what is known as a macadamized road, and your petitioners further show that the public highway sought to be thus improved is one of the public highways of said Wabash township. ' ■ ■ I Your petitioners further ask that; said highway as above described be graded to a width of--twenty-six (26) feet, and that broken stone be placed: thereon to a width often (10) feet and that the broken stone be placed thereon to a depth of-ten (10) inches in the center thereof, and Yo a depth of eight (8) inches at the sides thereof. ■ - ' ■ • 2 . That the name of said road above described shall be called Extension

No. 3, of the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash Township Macadam Road, that the same be a double track system, one of dirt and the other of crushed stone. j We ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds, issued by the coun- i ty of Adams, in the state of Indiana, I payable in twenty semi-annual install-; ments or series, and for the payment J of which we ask that a tax be levied ' upon the taxable property of Wabash l township, in Adams county, Indiana,! and upon the taxable property of the towns of Geneva, situated in said Wabash township, said county and state, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as they may become due. That said road be built, that said bonds be. issued and said tax be levied upon said property of said town of Geneva, and of said Wabash township, Adams county, Indiana, in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of thte state of Indiana, passed in the year 1905, and as amended in the year 1907, in the Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana for the year 1907.. We further ask that the Board take the different steps as required by law to have said Improvement constructed and made, and that they biuld and construct the same- under and by virtue of the Laws of the state of Indiana providing for the extension of free gravel Or macadam roads. S. W. Hale, P. A. Macklin, S. Zerkle, J. H. Linton, John O. Kramer, Jessie Ford, T. E. Mann, C. A. Mann, Frank Haviland, W. A Wells, Fred E. Lindsey, Frank Haughton, Jacob H. Zehr, Ada M. McKinick, Geo. B. Robinson, W. W. Briggs, Homer Pontius, M. E. Hutter, C. A. Haviland,' J A. Anderson, J. M. Wells, O. C. Fink, W. C. Campbell, F. J. McWinnery, Frank Kratter, Michael McGiff, J. H. Rieff, Chas. Hutt, H. M. Aspy, J. Banning, John Pitts, John A. Didot, C. A. Whiteman, J. E. Briggs, A. P. Davidson, H. J. Greene, E. S. Callihan, J. W. Deitsch, C. D. Porter, G. E. Fink, J. T. Love, F. F. Gregg, P. F. Bink, Abe Shoemaker, D. B. Linton, Noah Shoemaker, Josephus Martin, A. G. Mastick, Noah Shepherd, L. L. Mattox, C. O. Rayn, W. C. Pearse, John Brand,A. A. Mason,David Fox, Alfred Kinney, A. M. Redding, Samuel Egly, James H. Kelley, F. M. Connor, Bowen Vanenon, Socrates Cook, W. J. Nelson. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, May 6, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Wabash township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 2-3 t. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor.

PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, March Term, 1907. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of and in Monroe township in the county of Adams, and state of Indiana,do hereby respectfully petition your honorable body that you proceed to have a free macadamized stone road constructed and completed in said Monroe township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route, to-wit: Commencing at the south-west corner of section seventeen. (17) township twenty-seven (27) north range fourteen (14) east in Adams county, Indiana, running thence east over and upon the highway between sections seventeen (17) and twenty (20) and sections sixteen (16) and, twenty-one (21) and terminates at the north-east corner ’of section twenty-one (21) to»nsliip and range aforesaid, that the improvement thus prayed, for is less than three (3) miles in length and connects at bbth ends with a free macadam -road both of which roads had been voted upon by the voters of said. Monroe township and said roads were constructed under the laws of the state of Indiaha, providing for the construction of free gravel or macadam roads. Your petitioners ask your honorable body that said highway above described be graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade and that upon such broken stone there be placed stone screenings. Your petitioners further show that the highway thus sought to be improved is a public already established and is one of the public highways of said Monroe township. Your petitioners further ask that said road as above described be graded to a width of twenty-four (24) feet,and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width' of tten (10) feet and to a depth of eight (8) inches at the sides thereof and to a depth of ten (10) inches in the center thereof,,. and that crushed stone screenings be placed thereon to a depth of three (3) inches upon said broken stone, that said road be constructed as a double track, that the name of said.road shall be Monroe Township Extension No. 6. We ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the state of Indiana, payable in,twenty semi-annual installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask, that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Monroe township and the towns of Berne, and Monroe situated therein in Adams county, Indiana, in a sufficient amount to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as they become due, that said road be built and that said bonds be issued and said tax be levied upon said property of said township in accordance with the Acts of the Legislature of the state of Indiana now in force and passed in the year 1905, and as amended in the Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Indiana for the year 1907. We further ask that the Board take the different steps as required by law to have said improvement constructed and made as petitioned herein and. that they construct the same under; the laws of the state of Indiana now in j force providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. C. C. Beer, Paul Girod, Robt. Schmit,' Amos Ellenberger, Noah Ellenberger, _ ■Fred Neaderhouser, C. E- Stuckey, J.' W. Hare,: H. H. Stuckey, Emil Juilberat. C. G. Egly, John M-. Amstutz,) Peter • Soldner, Gideon Reisen, Wm. i Baumgartner, Dr. R. Sprunger, Amos, 1 Hirschy, J. D.’ Winteregg, C; C- Yoder, Jefry Llechty, Dennis Striker, Ed Luginbill, Wm. Miller, H. S. Mlschand,

John Wittmer, Abe Beer, Louis A. Brounner, Emile Brunner, Jacob Huser, Mathias Striker, Burkhart Lehman, M. Jacobs, A. J. Liechty, Fred Braun, J. J. Lilchty, Christ Iniger, Jacob Raichert, Peter Steiner, Silas Sprunger, Peter F. Graber, Magdalena Zurcher, Peter Inuger, Peter J. Moser, Jacob Graber, Jacob Schwartz, John McCarthy, Sylvester Johnson, Rudolph Schug, D. D. Shalley, Levi Moser, Peter Nusbaum.John Nusbaum, Emanuel Sprunger, Christian Hllty, Chris Stengel, Amos Reusser, J. O. Schug, Edwin Lehman, C. C. Schug, Albert Stauffer, Sam Johnson, John F. Mazelin, Daniel Mazelin, John J. Schwartz, Jacob Musser, William Nussbaum, John J. Soldner, Peter F. Mazelin, David F. Mazelin, Peter H. Habeggar, Christ Chrlstener, R. E. Smith, William Sherer, Jacob J. Roth, J. E. Johnson, Jacob J. Schwartz, Eli Beer, -Victoria Graber, David D. Winteregg, Deniel H. Habegger, Jamea K. Martz, Jacob Scherer, Albert Meyer, Joseph Rich, Ira David Biberstlne, Wm. F. Schug. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on Monday, May 6, 1907, at which time any taxpayer of Monroe township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. 2-3 t. C. D. LEWTON, Auditor. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. * Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, will receive sealed bids for coal, on Monday, May 6, 1907. Sealed bids will be received for eight cars of coal for use at the court house, jail and county asylum. Blds will be received on Hocking Valley steam lump from deep mines, or lump Pocahontas coal. Bidders will be required to file their blds as required by law. The Boaru reserves the right to reject any and all bids. MARTIN LAUGHU.i, DAVID WERLING, WILLIAM MILLER, Commissionrs. Attest: —C. D.'Lewton, Auditor. 6-3 t THEY MET AT NAPPANEE Rev. Alfred Fowler Chosen Secretary for the Coming Year—Changes > : { Made. 4 ■ J xi.-iU

The Rev. Alfred Fowler has just returned from the meeting of the presbytery of Ft. Wayne held at Nappanee. The meeting was one of the best held in years. There were a large number of delegates, and the year was a very prosperous one. There was a steady advance in the finances over that of former years, and also a larger access of members in the various churches of the Presbytery; There were only two resignations of pastors at this' meeting. Rev. Walter M. Elliott, pastor at Lima, Ind., was elected moderator, and the Rev. Alfred Fowler was chosen secretary. After the meeting of the Presbytery there was an afternoon and evening spent in discussing the JSabbath school work. The old system of the International lessons are to be superceded by the new and modern method,which has been adopted by many Sabbath schools already, that of the graded school. The name to be' changed from that of the Sabbath school to that of the “Bible School.” The Presbyterian Board of Publication have for some time been supplying the most Elaborate literature for the new and up-to-date “Graded Bible School.” It means in the future .the actual , and systematic study of the Bible, and regular examinations —written examinations as is arranged in the public school system. Christian people throughout all the churches are hailing this new and needed and practical departure in the training of the young people in the knowledge of the best and greatest of all books.

SICK BUT A FEW DAYS Was Only Eighteen Year* Old— Leaves Husband and a Few Days’ Old Babe—A Sad Death. Mrs. Annie Dykeman, aged eighteen years, died Sunday afternoon at two o’clock at her home near the Chappel church on the Dykeman farm, after an illness of a week’s duration, death resulting from septic poison, the result of child birth. She was one of the best known young people in that part of the county and was formerly Miss Kittle Nidlinger, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ohn Nidlinger, and her untimely death is mourned by all who knew her. She was a bright young woman and was a leader among her associates and was beloved by all who knew her.- The funeral services were held Tuesday afternon at 2 o’clock at the Chapel church, of which she was a member. Rev., D. B. Kissinger officiating and intrment was made in the De-aiur cemete-y She leaves a husband, an infant baby and- a father and mother to mourn their loss. 11l but a fw days, her untimely death has caused.the deepest sorrow and the loved ones are heart broken over the sad affair.

IT IS A BURNING QUESTION Friends of Taft Want Him in Ohio— Certificates Now Issued to Aliens. Washington, April 18. —The president read to former Governor William Larrabee, of lowa, today the speech he expects to deliver at Indianapolis on Memorial day. The lowan was asked to criticize that part of the speech dealing with the railroad situation. From friends of the former governor to whom he talked after the conference with the president it is learned that he expressed disappointment because the speech does riot favor a federal physical valuation of railroads at this time. He also disagreed with the president on the suggestion that there is danger of states going too far in the regulation of the railroads. “I defy any person to point out a single act of any legislature this year which has done actual harm to the railroads,” said Mr. Larrabee. On all other points involved in the regulation of railroads the lowan says he agrees with the president. Some of the chief executive’s friends have pointed out to him that he might well forego a discussion of the railroad problems on Memorial day,but his mind apparently is set on talking about the railroads in his Indianapolis speech. Washington, April 18. —The burning question among politicians here is whether Secretary Taft will abandon his trip to Hawaii and the Philippines scheduled for the late summer and fall and put in the time he has intended to devote to that trip to a campaign in Ohio. It is known that his political managers communicated with him while he was in Cuba and again at Porto Rico on the subject without getting any satisfactory answer fjom him. They want him to abandon his traveling plans and get into the presidential race full armored. His reticence leads them to suspect that he will, on his return to this country, announce that he intends to keep his engagement to be present at the opening of the first Philippine assembly. 1

; Washington, April 18. —As a result . of a number of conferences between officials of the department of com- [ merce and labor and the department . of justice a plan has ben devised for , obtaining proper examination of aliens r before certificates of naturalization > are issued to them. It looked at one , time as though the good features of ( the new naturalization law would be I wholly neutralized by the failure of , congress to provide funds to enable the government to find out whether or . not applicants for citizenship were ( entitled to naturalization certificates. •- ;—o . SURPRISE FOR MRS. J. D. MEYERS ; A Dance at the K. of C. Hall—Shakespeare Ciub’s Last Regular Session for 1 Year—Club and Church Doings. The very charming daughter of Mr. ; and Mrs. R. D. Linanstall, of Peterson was united in marriage to Adol- ) phus Straub, telegraph operator of Chicago, Thursday. The bride is a well known young lady of Peterson and has a host of friends here who has visited here on several occasions. They will make their home in Chicago. Another very simple wedding occurred Thursday was when Miss Chloe Watson of Berne, was claimed bv Mr. Edward F. Moser, a traveling salesman. They returned oh the noon train to Berne. ..Another quiet wedding Wednesday evening was the one of Miss Rachel Beaver to Mr. Dick Buckmaster in presence of a few friends and relatives. " » AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING A very enthusiastic meeting was held Wednesday night in the K. of P. Hall by ex-members of company No. 70 U. R. K. P. tor the purpose of reorganizing' the company. A temporary reorganization was affected, electing Mr. Orval Harruff chairman and Mr. Walter B. Johnson, secretary. Suggestions along the line of reorgainization were made. Judging from the amount of interest shown, there will be little doubt of reorganizing the company that will give a new impetus to the K. of P. lodge in Decatur as well as be a credit to the community. Brothers, now is the time to show your loyalty to your order. You will find the best subordinate lodges and the strongest, workers or those lodges where a live U. R. K. P. company is in existence. Brothers, do we need this . influence in our lodge'?- Your answer will be for or against this organization as may be indicatd by your willingness to help complete the reorganization next Wednesday night in Castle Hall. Cqme and help the good work along. All members of the lodge invited.