Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1907 — Page 1

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I THEMcMILLENS TO HAVE GUESTS Birthday Party for Celona Majors— Pythian Sisters Elected Officers—- . Other Society Notes. V By Perle Burdg. The principal society attraction of Monday night was the entertainment given by the “Gleaners” of the Presbyterian church. This club called the Gleaners consists of sixteen girls who form one of the leading Sabbath school classes of the church and Mrs. James Fristoe as teacher, and leader, has elevated them to a high standard of girlhood. Their motto and their name are based on the book of Ruth. The first glance as one entered the church jvas very pleasing for every place that was convenient was banked with flowers, ferns and potted plants. As the doors of the lecture room were pushed! Ibatck It displayed ja scene representing a school room, sixteen desks with the same number of pupils, Miss Florence Sprunger as teachIfcr, and Free Fry singer as Joe. This brought back to each one of the audience who had passed over those days the memories of their school victories, hardships and pleasures for the class played their part to perfection. During the school hour Miss Sprunger sang a song entitled “School Days” the words being composed by True Fristoe. She was assisted by Free Frisinger and chorus. These same girls gave scenes from the story of Ruth, such as The Parting Scene of Naomi, Ruth and Oryrah; The Gleaners; Ruth in Barley Field. These scenes were simple but impressive, »nd it is hard to decide which was truly the best. There were several other numbers on the program consisting of instrumental solo by Mr. Will Shelton, who is a noted young musician of pur city. Instrumental duet by the Misses Bessie Schrock and Irene Schirmeyer, which was readily received by the listeners “Trio from Ruth” by Mesdames J. C. Patterson, T. B. Thomas, Chas. True, Messers C. J. Lutz and J. C. Pattersen; vocal solo by Miss Florence Sprunger; reading “The One Legged Goose,” by Miss Fllye Smith. Miss Smith was encored and she responded in a graceful manner by giving “Twins I Guess.” The las', number was a drill by the Gleaners. This closed the program, which was so interesting from one number to the other and which deserves high praise for never was an entertainment given in our city that caused the pleasure that this one has given, and they Gleaners, wish to take this means of thanking each one who took part and in the future they hope to do the ma favor if possible. The church was crowded and the girls cleared seventeen dollars and fifty cents.

' With pretty gifts and merry smiles the little invited guests of Miss Celona Major gathered at her home to celebrate her eighth birthday anniversary, which was Monday. Various game were played and the afternoon rolled by without warning. At four o’clock Mrs. Major served a dainty luncheon of peanut sandwishes, marble cake, fudge, popcorn balls and lemonade. The small guests who enjoyed the party were: Francis Schaffer, Wayne Schaffer, Francis Mangey, Mildred Schroll, Helen Chapman, Grace and- Anna Garard, Cora Peck, Glayse Flanders Jerome Gregbry, May Babcock, Winifred Maddy, Tena Hendricks, George Schug, Mary Patton. The Pythian Sisters had their regular business meeting last evening. During the time they elected officers as follows: E. C., Bessie (Long; E. S., Maude Hour; E. J., Nora Ahr; M. T, Anna Vance; P. of T, Mrs. Sellemeyer; Or G., De&a Sellemeyer. At the close of the meeting the letter R’s served delicious refreshments. i The young men of the Columbian club will give a club dance for members and their lady friends only on Thursday evening. Especial music Kbeen prepared and an excellent e is planned. The following relatives from Ft. Wajme will arrive in the city to be th e guests of Mr& McMillen. Miss Minnie Orvis and Grandma Ferrey, Saturday morning and will be entertained during the day: Mesdames H. G. Olds, Noble Olds, Carlie Olds, M. C. Ewing, L. T. Bourie, Dr McCaskle R. D. Boyles and Miss Deedemonia Bourie. Among the delightful events of last Sunday was a family reunion given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Hart at Monmouth. The guests included U

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Mrs. Hannah Swaidner and daughter, Miss Harriet, of Colorado Springs, Col., H. M. Hart and wife, Kirt Hart, wife and two sons, and Mrs. Alice Watson and son, of Ft. Wayne. All did ample justice to a heavily loaded table and the day was a very happy one. Mr. C. A. Thompson and wife of Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. ,H. W. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Wid Dorwin and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hendricks and families were delightfully entertained at the home of Jacob Longenbarger and wife on Sunday. After eating a fine dinner they rested for an hour, then proceeded to the lawn, where the time was sepnt for a few hours exchanging stories, and at 4:30 p. m. Mrs. J. A. H. made a motion that the ice cream and cake be passed, Dorwin seconded the motion and Jake opened the can and all present did a plenty to the cold product. Quite an enjoyable time was had, and all left for home after passing resolutions that Jake’s was a good place to go and that we would meet again soon. o PRES. W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN Engineers are Establishing the Levels and Will bet Ready for Grading Work Before Fall —Ballasting the Track. The Ft. Wayne and Springfield railway company is not only enjoying a fine business on its Ft. Wayne-De-catur trolley road but it is going rapidly ahead with the ballasting work and is also pushing the surveys on the proposed extension from Decatur to Celina, O. Mr. W. H. Fledderjohann, president of the company, was in the city yesterday and stated that work on the new extension will begin before fall. The extension will be 29.7 miles in length and leaving Decatur, it will pass through Pleasant Mils, Ind., and these Ohio towns: Willshire, Rockford, Tama and Celina. When the extension is completed the company will have a fine road about fifty-five miles in length. . Mr. Fledderjohann stated that the chief engineer of the company, Mr. A. W. Fishbaugh, yesterday started out with a force of surveyors to establish thg levels on the new extension. The surveys have been made and tnA engineers will have! everything in readiness for grading work to begin before fall. The company is at present devoting its energies to ballasting the Fort Wayne-Decatur road and getting the road bed in shipshape. The company has a fine gravel pit on the Heaton farm, which it purchased, and will have more than enough gravel to ballast the road. Two steam engines are now in use and a steam shovel at the pit is capable of loading a car of gravel in six minutes. Mr. Fledderjohann is highly pleased with the business of his road so far and the returns from both the freight and passenger departments have been more than satisfactory. During the heavy electrical storm which raged to the south of Fort Wayne Sunday night the company shut down for two hours to escape damage and came out of the disturbance unscathed. —Ft. Wayne JournalGazette.

MRS. CHAPMAN IS DEAD. Wife of Well Known Evangelist Warsaw, Ind., June 25. —Mrs. J. Wilbur Chapman, wife of the noted Presbyterian evengelist, who has been at death’s door for the past three days from blood poisoning, died this morning atl:3o. p Two weeks ago one of her legs was amuputated at a hospital in South Bend and she has been in a critical condition since that time. She was 39 years old. Her remains will be taken to Albany, N. Y., her former home, for burial. It was in that city she met Dr. Chapman eighteen years ago. o o -< ANNUAL PICNIC AT BLAKY GROVE Big Event Scheduled for Next Sunday ? —A Ball Game. A grand old-fashioned picnic has been arranged for next Sunday in the Ed W. Blakey grove, a half mile north of Blakey church and a quarter mile east. Various kinds of entertainment has been arranged for the after noon, among these being a base ball game between the married men and the boys of Blakey church. Refreshments will be served and a good time is guaranteed.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 27, 1907.

AT CROSSING SOUTH OF TOWN Well Known Farmer Killed and Hi« Body Carried Several Blocks on the Engine Pilot. Jacob Miller, an aged and respected pioneer citizen of Monroe township, was hurled into eternity instantly at 5:15 Saturday evening when his rig was struck by the north bound passenger train due here at that time. The accident happened at the crossing just south of John Frisinger’s residence and the unfortunate man was struck with such force that his body lodged upon the pilot of the engine, was carried to the Krick & Tyndall factory, a distance of three or four blocks before the train could be stopped. Mr. Miller had been in the city during the afternoon doing some trading and started home about five o’clock. It is presumed that as he neared the fatal crossing he saw the train approaching, as at that point the track is clear for a mile, and thought he could cross ahead of the train. The horse managed to get across, but the buggy must have been square on the track, when the engine struck it. The horse was cut loose from the rig and trotted on down the road. The buggy was completely demolished and strewn along the track. Mr. Miller’s body lodged on the pilot and remained there until the train could be stopped and his already lifeless remains carried tenderly into the baggage car and taken to the G. R. & I. depot. His legs were badly mangled and his skull crushed, the top of his head being torn off and causing instanteous death. The train was a few minutes late at the time and was traveling at terrific speed. Mr. Miller’s body was held at the depot several hours, awaiting the coroner’s inquest, and was cenveyed to his home Sunday. The deceased a wife, three sons, Albert, William and dharles, and three daughters Miss Sadie Miller, Mrs. John Badders and Mrs. He t rman Meyers. The coroner’s verdict declared the death accidental and it is probable that no blame can be attached to any one. Relatives and friends of Mr. Miller were shocked when they heard the news and many who had talked to the man but a short time before refused to believe it, but the identification was complete. He was seventy years old. The funeral services were held at Berne at ten o’clock Tuesday morning. o BOND WAS FIXED AT SBOO Andrew Miller Case is Being Tried at Ft. Wayne—A Marriage License Issued. Louis Clark, the Berne man arrested by Constable Sam Kuntz, at Ft. Wayne last Friday, for wife desertion, was given a hearing before Squire Joel Liddy who bound him over to the circuit court, fixing his bond at SBOO. He failed to find friends and is now in jail here. It is said that though Clark has been making $2.40 a day since last January, that he had give his destitute family but one lonely dollar in all that time. A marriage license has been granted to Orville Wherry, aged thirty, an Allen county farmer, and Mary A. Barkley, aged twenty-one a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Barkley, of Union township. Judge Heaton and a jury are trying an Adams county case sent here on a change of venue. It is the case of Andrew Miller vs. the Grand Rapids &’ Indiana company for SSOO damages for,fire, which is alleged to have destroyed grass and an orchard belonging to Miller. Moran & Peterson, of Decatur; and Hanna & Greake, of Ft. Wayne, represent Miller. Zollars & Zollars represent the railroad com-pany.—Journal-Gazette. o ■ POSTOFFICE CLERKS PROMOTED Four of the Local Force Secure Increases in their Salaries. Washington, D. C., June 25. Special to Democrat: First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock last evening promoted four clerks in the Decatur postoffice, to become effective July Ist as follows: One clerk from SSOO to $600; one from S6OO to S7OO and two from S7OO to SBOO. The clerks who profit by this recommendation are Samuel Shamp, George Everett, J. A. Beery and Miss Fay Smith.

SAYS BALOONS NOT A NUISANCE Arguments Change Law Before a Legislature, but Court Has Not that Power. The supreme court yesterday reversed, the "Sopher case” in which Judge Jra Christian, of Noblesville, held that all the liquor license laws of Indiana were unconstitutional and that a saloon was a nuisance per se. After reciting the charge that Sopher kept a place for the sale of intoxicating liquors at retail without stating that it was disorderly or otherwise improperly conducted, and that the court excluded all evidence tending to show that gopher’s saloon was operated under a county license. Judge Jordan said, in deciding the case, in concluding his opinion: “While all citizens of this state have a perfect right to cry out or declare upon the hustings or before the legislature or other assembled bodies, that the liquor traffic cannot be legalized without committing a sin, and while their arguments might be sufficiently potent to persuade or induce the legislature to absolutely prohibit the traffic, they could not be of no avail before a court which can neither make nor make laws. • * ♦ “In conclusion we hold that the statute of 1875, is not open, under the constitution, to the objections urged agaihst it by counsel for the appellee, and we, therefore, affirm its validity. We conclude that the affidavit in this case does not charge a public bffense and that the lower court erred first, in overruling appellant’s motion to quash it; second, in excluding as evidence the license granted to him by the board of commissioners of Hamilton county, under which he sold the liquors in question, and third, in convicting him of the offense charged upon the evidence. The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded to the lower court, with instructions to grant appellant a new trial and to quash the affidavit.” 1 — O -— — SHE WAS NEAR TO DEATH - • u, Jr Dr. M~O»car of Ft. Wayne, and Dr. Clark the Surgeons—She is Recovering. Mrs. J. H. Railing, a well known woman of Union township, was operated upon Monday by Doctors McOscar of Ft. Wayne and D. D. Clark, of this city and a large gall stone and her appendix were removed. Mrs. Railing had been suffering untold pain and agony for several months and it was upon the advice of her physician, Dr. Clark, that she consented to an operation. The operation was a success in every respect and every vestige of the dread complaints were removed and she is getting along in nice shape and will no doubt regain her former good health. She is now under the care of Miss Conklin, a trained nurse from Ft. Wayne. The gall stone was one of the largest ever found by the physicians of his section, being about two inches long and near an inch in diameter. Without doubt the lady would have died within a short time had the operation not been performed as either the gall stone or appendicitis would have proven fatal. o HAD LED A WAYWARD LIFE Chadey Fox Tires of the Tribulations of this World and Will Die from His Wound. * Portland, Ind., June 26. —(Special.) —Charles Fox,son of Joseph Fox, a saloon keeper here, made a desperate attempt to take his own life this morning at about 7 o’clock. The youth has been having considerable trouble for several years, not cnly with cutside people, but also with members of the family, and he has not attained a very good reputation among the better class of people of P.'riland. We are informed that he has been playing a wild west role during the past year, the culmination of which i. 3 this suicidal attempt. He was seventeen years old, but was twice that age in experience. Physicians who, attended him say his death is a certainty. The lad was at home and seemed in usual spirits when he went to his room and with his 32-calibre revolver put a hole through his head.

HUNDREDS OF VISITORS COMING The Program Begins at 9:30 a. m., and Continues Through the Entire Day. The local Eagle aerie are planning a big Eagles’ picnic to be held at Steele’s park on Tuesday, July 16th, an event that promises to be a delightful one for the members of this fraternity. Every aerie within a hundre ‘ q miles of Decatur is to be invited no doubt a large crowd of the ' a*.nity members will take thi For several weeks the ge has been arranging for the ,/hieh will be the biggest in .istory. The day’s program with a grand street parade in which twenty-five aeries will be represented, headed by the city band. They will march to the Steele’s park, where at 10:30 Mayor D. D. Coffee, who is worthy president of the local aerie, will deliver the address of welcome. The dance, hall, boat and swimming races will be the amusements until noon when a big dinner will be served. During the afternoon H. H. Evans, state deputy organizer of Greencastle, will deliver an address, then comes mule, pony and the fat men’s races, and then a base ball game between the Eagle teams of Ft. Wayne and Decatur, in which the “rooting” promises to be an interesting part of the afternoon's contest. — -O' PRICE OF ENVELOPES IS RAISED Government Increases the Price Four Cents per Thousand. Under an order dated May 21, 1907, postmasters are notified that under a new contact for the manufacture of stamped envelopes and wrappers, taking effect July 1, 1907, the prices at which they will be issued by the department to postmasters, and sold by postmasters to the public, are increased four cents per thousand over the present selling prices of the 1903 price list. , All stamped envelopes and wrappers delivered to purchasers beginning July 1, 1907, will be at the new prices even,, though the order tberq, sos was taken before that date. Order No. 340. provides that from and after July 1, 1907, when in addition to the stamps required to transmit any letter or package of mail matter through the mails there shall be attached to the envelope of covering ten cents’ worth of ordinary stamps of any denomination, with the words “special delivery” or their equivalent written or printed on the envelope or covering, under such regulations as the postmaster general may prescribe, the said package shall be handled, transmitted and delivered in all respects as though it bore a reguation “special delivery” stamp.

NO POSTOFFICEAFTERSATURDAY And Curryville Citizens Must Find Some Other Amusement. After next Saturday there will be no postoffice at the little town of Curryville and the citizens of that place, as well as the farmers in the vicinity, who have been receiving their mall there, will be' placed on rural routes and “going to the postoffice,” one of the main recreations of the village, will be discontinued. A. S. Abbott, postmaster at Cralgvllle, said today that he had received instructions from the postoffice department to go to Curryville next Saturday and check out Postmaser George Drum. Mr. Drum has served for many years in that capacity, the position never having been considered a political “plum,” and hence not aspired for by any of the constituents of Mr. Cromer. He will return to his farm near Curryville when released from duty. Mr. Abbott thought this morning that rural route number one from Craigvllle would pass through the town and that the county patrons of the abandoned office would receive their mall from Magley on rural route one. In order to reach the community both of the routes mentioned must be changed considerably.—Bluffton Banner. * — t Officials of several of the railway lines are considering the cost of concrete telegraph poles, and it is likely that several of the companies will in the near future adopt the concrete pole in preference to wooden poles now used, which are constantly becoming more difficult to obtain.

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INDIANA YOUTHS PASS EXAM’S For Naval Academy—Federal Government Will Not Interfere with the t Gambling Boat. Washington, D. C„ June 2^.—Clerks in thirty-three postoffices were promoted and their salaries increased from SIOO to S2OO each. The highest . v paid is $l,lOO. In the Indians office alone eighty-two clerks * ere advanced. Four Indiana young men were successful in the general examination held week for admission to the navaP academy at Annapolis. The marking of the examination papers, completed today, shows that of the 285 young men who took the examination, 158 successfully qualified. The four Indiana men who got through are: T. H. McSheehy, of the Eleventh district; E. H. Rehm, of the Seventh district; W. F. Kurfees, of the Third district, and F. G. McCord, of the Second district. Kurfees was a first alternate and McCord a third alternate. The federal government will not interfere with the gambling boat, City of Traverse, on Lake Michigan, wrote the department of commerce and labor, reciting that the states of Illinois and Indiana, as well as the city of Chicago had been unable to stop the operations of the gambling boat, and asking that the federal government come to the rescue by revoking the boat’s navigation license. After Consulting with the department of justice, Chief Uhler, of the bureau of steamboat inspection, decided today that there are no grounds on which the government can take the boat’s license away. In his letter to Mayor Busse, Mr. Uhler will suggest that the states of Indiana, Illinois and Michigan acting in concert ought to be able to drive the boat off the lake if each has laws against gambling. The controller of currency has approved the Union! National Bank of Indianapolis as a' reserve agent for the First National bank of Loogootee, and also for the First National bank of Poseyville, Ind. L. P. Mitchell, asistant controller of . the treasury, has returned to his desk after a two weeks’ vacation spent at 1 his old home in Newcastle. Arthur R. Underwood and David L. Vandament, of Indiana, have been appointed special agents to collect statistics of religious bodies in connection with the work of the bureau of the census. They will receive a salary of $5 a day when employed.

i OUR COUNTY BOARD OF REVIEW ’ Finds the Required Advance on Vai- ! nation of Property Was Made Here and Praises the BoardI. • Parks M. Martin, of Indianapolis, a member of the state tax commission, . was in the city yesterday, his duties being to check off the county board of review, in their work up to date. The state is requiring an advance on the valuation of the various counties, and the commissioners are now visiting the boards of review insisting that this advance, of from fifteen to twenty-five per cent. In this county Mr. Martin found an average increase of the valuation of seventeen per cent, and he pralsed the board very highly for the manner in which they had conducted the affairs of their office. In Wells county he reports he found they had not made the necessary increase and the state board will without doubt order the same advance of the required amount This was the day for hearing cpmplaints from Berne and up to noon only one person had appeared to object to his appraisement. — —o On Saturday morning 65 tickets were sold to Decatur, for the county commencement. Berne and the south half of the county furnished more than one-half of those present. The commencement was a grand success for the first one of its kind to be held in this county and Supt. Opliger deserves praise.—Berne News. • . - o Frank Gass went to Portland this morning on a business trip.

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