Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1907 — Page 6

L. C. Helm, agent for the Phoenix preferred accident insurance company of Detroit, last evening paid James M. Rice $37.50 for injuries sustained a few days ago by falling from a buggy. Santos Drummond predicts that in the year 2,000 the young people will enjoy the pleasure of taking their honeymoon in an air ship. How happy we will be. See the tirship Friday evening at the Baptist church social. There will be an election of a trustee of Salem Evangelical church to fill vacancy caused by death of one member of he board. The election will be held at the church on Tuesday evening July 16th, at 7:30. A. B. Haist, pastor. tainly there is either something wrong with a company that lowers the price of the finished product or he is trying to put a pin under a competitor. As Marion is crowded as to newspapers, it is likely the Chronicle has lowered its price for the latter reason. C. D. Kunkle, secretary of the Great Northern Indiana fair association, left this morning for Ft. Wayne, where he will attend to matters pertaining to his association. He will go to Lima Wednesday, where he will endeavor to secure a number of entries. . James L. Gay and wife and Dr. J. S. Coverdale and wife left Thursday for Clear Lake, where they will remain for several days fishing and camping out. They made the trip in Mr. Gay’s new Auburn auto and as nothing has been heard to the contrary, they made thq trip all right. Six wagons loads of dirty black gypsies made a short stop in our city today while enroute from Ft. Wayne to Portland and the women during their short stay in our city endeavored to make expenses by telling fortunes. From all reports they did not fare very well and were soon on their way to fairer and richer, fields. From all reports no-serious accidents happened as a result of the Fourth of July celebrations and we have thus one thing to be thankful for. Os course the usual number of slight burns were necessary to let the little ones know that the Fourth has come and gone, but as to serious accidents nohing resulted worth mentioning. Cal Miller, contractor for the Baldwin and several other crushed stone roads in this county, has purchased a traction engine and a number of dump cars with which to haul crushed stone. The scarcity of teams compelled him to make this move, as the late spring has interferred seriously with his work. —Winchester Journal. As forecasted exclusively in the Journal-Gazette, the Wayne hotel will change to the European plan. The change will take on* July 15, and Manager Tyler will open an elegant case in the parlor on the ground floor. He will retain the main dining, room as a banquet hall. The first hotel in the city to adopt the European plan was he Hays house and about two weeks ago the Randall followed the same course. —Journal-Gazette. Indiana is to have a candidate for the presidency of the Woman’s Relief Corps, G. A. R. and patriotic Hoosier women are doing everything in their power to aid the success of their state in the approaching election. At the last, the twenty-fourth annual convention of the state organization held at Ft. Wayne, May 23 and 24, Mrs. Melissa Caylor, of Noblesville, was unanimously endorsed for the national presidency and it is her campaign which her sisters of the state are urging. "The worst 4th of July’accident in this part of Indiana took place in Ft Wayne and Andrew Weber, aged 16, is the unfortunate lad. Like many other boys of his age he was celebrating, and was trying an experiment. Not content with the use of ordinary powder for his toy cannon, he broke a giant firecracker and poured dynamite coaked powder into the cannon from it. He then took a steel ramrod ten inches long and almost an Inch in diameter and inserting it in the cannon struck it with a hammer. There was a terrific explosion, and the ramrod struck him in the forehad, tearing away the skull and laying the brain bare. His eyesight was also destroyed. He was still, alive late at night, but there was no chance for his recovery.

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: The price of hay, according to local r dealers, has advanced considerable in 5 price and the new quotations may be I found in our market sheet. The hay - market hereafter will be furnished us by the old reliable hay man S. W. t Peterson. I Mr. and Mrs. J. Winters, of Hunting- • ton, were enroute to Portland yester- ■ day to visit his father, John Winters, r and returned last evening to be the . guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Winters . and family until evening, when they > returned home. ■ About 100 members of the local i tribs of the Ben Hur order went in a special car over the Decatur interurban line last evening to Decatur to attend initiation ceremonies and a ban- : quet given by the Decatur — Journal-Gazette. Judge Artman, who rendered the decision holding that liquor selling is not a business that can be licensed, is in . great demand as a public lecturer. His decision has given him a great deal of notoriety from which he is likely to profit. His extreme views attracted a great deal attention. —Logansport Pharos. The new tile floor that is being put in the new Murray hotel is a beauty and the two men who are laying the same are certainly experts in that line. The tile are manufactured at Toledo and are of the latest type and pattern and when completed will add materially to the apearance of the buiding. Treasurer Archbold informed us today that those who were effected by the recent license ordinance were coming to the front and making their respective settlements without a murmur. This is the last day and those failing to take advantage of the same may find their respective businesses closed down. The first square of the Madison street improvement between First and Second streets was completed yesterday afternoon by Brown, the brick layer and his associate workmen. The square is laid in perfect shape and presents a very nice appearance. The street committee will no doubt accept this square in a few days, after which it will be open to the public for use. Alvy Buffenbarger returned last evening from Portland, where he pitched a game of ball for the Portland Sluggers against the Mayors own of Dunkirk ,and succeeded in winning his game by a score of three to two. It took Porltnad fifteen innings to defeat the Dunkirk boys, and from all reports it was a fine game and Buffenbarger demonstrated to the Portland fans that he was a pitcher. John R. Bonnell, of Crawfordsville, collector of the Seventh revenue district, has compiled his 'annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907. The report shows the remarkable increase for the year of $2,747,610.22. If this incomprehensible sum $2,702,305.35 represents the gain on spirits—high wine and alcohol. In 1906 the income tax on spirits was $14,692,173.81, while this year it was $17,394,479.16. The man from Bluffton who had the pipe dream concerning the Decatur cat, received an awful jolt as a result of the two ball games and his many friends who pinned their faith to his hunch of hot air will no doubt in the future pass his dope up as being rotten. We are proud to say that the cat has returned home and is now being used as a mascot by the team. Say, that cat certainly was a good mouser. The Marion Chronicle, an evening paper published at Marion, came out last evening with the announcement that from now henceforth it would be a penny paper instead of a two-center. Various reasons are given for the decrease in price by the management, but the public will likely take it as an acknowledgement of weakness on the part of the Chronicle. With the price of labor, paper and everything that goes into a. paper nowadays, cer“It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to give, barter, or sell either directly or indirectly, to any child or children under sixteen years tobacco or preparations of tobacco 1 to be chewed or smoked by said child or children; or to give, barter or sell the same to any person whomsoever, with knowledge that the same is to be chewed or smoked by any child under the age of aforesaid, or to persuade, advise, council or compell any child under said age to chew or smoke tobacco. Nobody will deny the fact that the rural free delivery system and the telephone have been of great advantage to persons living the rural district but one of the latest roles in which the two are combined to the benefit of the farmer came to light Thursday when a man living several I miles from town called the postoffice and requested that the carrier delivering mall at his home bring him a , large nqmber of postal cards and sev- ’ eral postage stamps. Just like having servant of your own. No wonder that I once in a while somebody thinks to present the rural carriers with a box of strawberries, a few potatoes or a warm brick—but the telephone girl? I ..

.1 MOTORMAN HAS GOOD HEAD a .' , e y Stops His Car in Time to Avert a s Serious Accident—No Blame to Car Offiolarfs. A head-on collision was narrowly ’ averted Friday night on, the interurban 5 line between the passenger car that f is due here at niift o’clock and thb gravel train which for the past two 1 weeks has been hauling out gravel 1 along the line. The scene of the trou- ■ ble was near the gravel pit. The car • left Ft. Wayne on time and was heav- ' ily loaded with seventy-seven mem- • bers of the Ft Wayne lodge of Ben Hurs, who were coming to this city - to take part in a banquet given by t the local lodge. Upon leaving Ft. i Wayne the conductor received orders j to meet the freight car at the nine t mile house, where they would pass. > This connection was made all right, i and everything was running smooth- - ly until the gravel pit was reached, when the motorman beheld the gravel : train on the main track not fifty feet t ahead. He immediately reversed the . power and then only succeeded in ; stopping the car when it was right | on the gravel train engine and a head , on collision was thus averted. In i applying the emergency brake the ’ stop was made so suddenly that the passengers were thrown from their seats and the trolley pole was thrown , from the wire and for a moment a panic nearly prevailed. The escape was a narrow one and it was lucky for all concerned that the motorman had presence of mind enough to act as he did. All censure and blame for the same is attached to one of the Ft. Wayne officials, whom it is claimed ordered the car out without any authrity, and who had failed to ascertain first if the line was clear. Had the car collided with the gravel train there is no question but that a number would have been badly injured if not killed outright. o— — . VARIOUS CAUSES ARE ALLEGED Hunters’ Licenses—Board of Review News—Studabaker-Faylor Case May Be Transferred to Supreme Court. Attorney A. P. Beatty filed a divorce case entitled Linnie Welhelm vs. Leo Wilhelm, the latter being a well known young painter and paper hang, er of this city. The couple were married May 30, 1903, and lived together until October 31st. The defendant is accused of committing adultery, that he failed to provide food for his family, also with being an habitual drunkard and that when on a spree he often remained away from home for days at a time. They have two children, Reba, aged three and Helen, aged two and Mrs. Wilhelm asks for their custody, also for SSOO alimony and for all further and proper relief. Hunters’ licenses were issued to Samuel D. Hill, Lewis Sprunger and William Schenbeck, all of Berne. The board of review today went over the mortgage notes held in Decatur, also concluded this branch of work in the county. The board next week will sum up their work and conclude their duties by Friday. The appelate court handed down two rulings Saturday of interest to Bluffton people. In the celebrated Studabaker-Faylor case a re-hearing in the appelate court was denied D. D. Studabaker, and his attorneys Eichhorn and Vaughn, said Monday that they will now petition for the transfer of the case from the appelate to the supreme court, which will be the last, court? of appeal in the state. The Faylor heirs have won“out step by step in the case thus far in the suit.—Bluffton News. ’ o IT PAYS BIG DIVIDENDS. Lancing Motor Works Making Lots of Money. Lansing, Mich., June 30.—July dividends of several Lansing concerns are large, but the most notable instance ' of success is afforded by the Reo Mo, ‘ tor works, which has declared a dividend of 40 per cent in addition to one of 20 per cent three months ago, mak- ’ ing 60 per cent for the year. Another ’ dividend of 40 per cent will probably be declared before the beginning of • the new year. The success of this i company probably does not have its equal in the state. The company was ■ organized two years ago, with $150,l 000 paid-in capital, out of $500,000. f The company borrowed SIOO,OOO on preferred stock. The first year the 1 preferred stock was retired and dividends of 100 per cent paid. A stock ■ dividend of 50 per . cent was also de- ■ dared. R. E. Olds received $260,000 > of the original stock in returns for his c experience in the automobile business, i and his holdings are now worth more ■than sl,ooo,ooo.

► HUMPTY PIERCE TELLB ABOUT IT i Local* Lose Six to Five In Most Exalting Game Seen at Richmond this Season. Richmond, Ind., July 5, 1907—(Spec, i lai) —After two awful victories on the ; Fourth of July and a few glides over i the dancing floor in the evening, we * went to bed and awoke .to find the clouds heaving down their tears, but nevertheless we ducked them until we reached the G. R. & I. We rode the Cannon Ball Flyer and arrived in the Quaker City at 9 :40. We went to our apartments and rested until 12 o’clock luncheon. Immediately after dinner the cloud began to cry again and kept it up until 3 o’clock. I think they were crying for the umpire, Mr. Cheatem. We started to play at 3:30 .without any practice and the umps had a box of lemons and handed them to us from start to finish. The game lasted, fourteen long innings under the fire of lemons. In the fourteenth he ran out of fruit and gave them the game. It would have only took three innings to beat those fellows with a square deal. He had the maneater from Ft. Wayne heaten a block. We called him everything from fudge to doughnuts and he never said a word. The game started with them scoring two in the second; we tied them in the fourth and they scored two more in the sixth. We tied them in the seventh. We made one in the twelfth and he gave them one in the same inning, and in the fourteenth inning there was a man forced to. second and he called him safe, and then a sacrifice let him to third and a mush hit scored hini. Os all the deals ever handed out this was the “liniment.” If it is the same thing tomorrow do not look for us home. For we are bound to start a bug. It was an awful battle and the silent battery lost their reputation today by arguing for their rights. P.. S. —We are still the champs or else the fall guys. There were not enough people at the game to play a game of checkers. Score: R.H.E. Decatur 0002002000010 o—s 10 2 Richm’d 02020 000 0 0 0101—6 82 Batteries —Geyer and Winger; Moore and Jessup. o __ Harry Mote is detained at the coun. ty jail in charge of Sheriff Hudson, whom the Montpelier K. of P. and Red Men lodges are paying $3 daily for taking care of him. The sheriff went after Mote, who came to the jail willingly. He will be kept until arrangements can be made for his admission to East Haven asylum at Richmond. —Hartford City News. Manson Reiff and Tim Hartman went to Decatur and Ft. Wayne yesterday afternoon in Reiff’s automobile but returned home by interurban as the machine was disabled one mile south of Ft. Wayne. A large nail punctured both tubes of one tire. Reiff could not secure an inner tube there so he had to leave the machine in Ft. Wayne.—Bluffton News. A perfect town is that in which you she the farmer patronizing the home merchants, the laborers spending the money they earn with their own tradesmen, and all animated by a spirit that will not purchase articles abroad if they can be bought at home. The spirit of reciprocity between man and the mechanic, tradesman and laborer, farmer and manu-_ fcturer, results every time in making the town a perfect one to do business in.—Ex. George Huffman, foreman of the Clover Leaf yards, found an incipient strike on hands yesterday which occupied his attention for a couple of hours before he could have the dove of peace to roost in the yards. The trouble was caused by two colored men who a're employed in the yards to take care of the passengers coaches and other duties. It is said that a half dozen employes refused to work with the colored men and threatened to stop work. —Charleston Courier. Alice, who was five years old, was often asked to run errands for her mother. 'She went very willingly if she could pronounce the name of the article which was wanted, but dreaded the laughter which greeted |ier attempts to pronounce certain words. “Vinegar” was one of thq hardest for her. She never would go for it if she could help it, but one morning her mother found it necessary to send her. On entering the store she handed the jug to the clerk and said: "Smell the jug and give me a quart.”

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rAT THE ST. JOHN GROVE / :- Immense Throng of P e ople Enjoyed the Day—All Refreshment* on the Grounds Were Sold. i- The annual picnic given by the St. 3 Johns’ church for the school children r was held Sunday in the grove just 3 north of the pretty church grounds, 3 seven miles north, and the event was t a most successful one. The crowd it 1 is claimed was the largest which ever 3 attended a church picnic in Adams I county and the refreshment stands sold t out completely long before evening. 1 Every part of the occasion was carried - out as planned and the big crowd ’ enjoyed every moment. Various . games and amusements were furnish- ■ ed to entertain old and young. A > splendid program was rendered, for I the complete success of which Prof. I Schund, who had charge, deserves the • congratulations he received. A MisI souri festival will be given at the 1 same grove during August and at that I time it is expected the crowd will > even, exceed that of Sunday. Further [ announcements of this event will be 1 made in the near future. CASE GOES TO SUPREME COURT Question of Who is County Superintendent in Blackford. 1 „ Judge. Sturgis’ decision in the county superintendent case Friday is considered vto have been the tjeginning of the end for M. Geiger says the Hertford City News. Good lawyers are of the opinion that the court correctly interpreted the law in the case and the legislators who made the law, Mr. Geiger has given notice of an appeal, but it is believed that a higher court will uphold Judge Sturgis and W. P. Modlln will become the county superintendent. According to a dispatch from Indianapolis, state superintendent of public instruction Fasset A. Cotton, disagrees with the decision of Judge Sturgis. He said that he was backed up by a verbal opinion of the Attor-ney-general’s office, that no person was eligible to the office of county superintendent unless he had a thirtysix or sixty month’s, or a life state license, granted by the board of education. He takes his stand on the ground that those county superintendents who are graduated from the state normal school at Terre Haute, as in Modlin’s case, would not, under Judge , Sturgis’ ruling, be amenable to the state board of education, not having granted the license, the state board, could not take it away, and would therefore have no jurisdiction over the county superintendent who had no state board license. ‘ o , POOR MAN LOST HIS HOME- ] •_ 1 J. G. Miller, of Blue Creek, Suffers , Loss by Fire. The dwelling house of J. G. Miller < and family, in bluecreek township, ; was totally destroyed by fire, Thurs- , day evening. The loss is estimated j to be about S3OO, including all the .j household goods and clothing of Mr. < Miller and family. At the .time of the disaster the family was at Monroe at the Fourth-of-July celebration and j did not know anything of the de- ; structlon of their home, until notified j by telephone. The flames were first ( discovered by Wes Miller, a half ] brother, but it was too late to save anything. The contents Included $65 | in cash which was destroyed. j It is thought that the fire origi- j nated through an incubator, which j was in he house. Mr. Miller and j family are nearly in destitute clrcum- < stances, as nearly everything they , possessed was destroyed. Mrs. Miller’s j father, W. W. Clymer, passed a sub- j scription paper in town Saturday, to take donations for the unfortunate t family.—Berne Witness i

■ o The Madison street Improvement is being quit)e solidity constructed, as Henry Scheiman drove across it last night with a heavy wagon without making a dent in anything, but Julius Haugk’s conscience. Mr. Scheiman started to drive across the brick that had just i been when Haugk called to 'him to stop. As Scheiman was a good friend of Julius’ he thought that he wab joking, and continued on his way. Julius hurriedly went down the alley and made known to Scheiman that he was not joking and Scheiman explained that he was Innocent of intentionally causing any damage and although contractor Haugk threatened to arrest him, no action has yet been taken.

HOMES AT WINONA LAKE. Summer Resort Being Turned Into I Place of Winter Residence. - * Home-building at Winona Lake is making this retreat one of the unusual communities in Indiana. The present season is being marked by the erection of a number of dwellings, some of them on a pretentious order. During its earlier years, Winona Lake was looked upon as a summer resort and the cottages were built only for warm weather use. But of late years it has become a popular place for families with children to educate, the children being placed in the Winona schools, and the homes are being made more enduring that they may withstand wintry weather. Last winter nearly 100 families spent the cold season at this place and the number would have been larger had more cottages been available. There is a graded school available so a child may begin in the primary grade and in period of years go through the Winona schools to a point where the pupil is ready for college. There is an academy for boys and a school for girls and special instruction is given in farming in an agricultural institute. Not all of the permanent inhabitants at Winona Lake go there for the schooling. Some are people of means who have sought the seclusion of the place that they may live in peace and comfort. The year-around population have an interdenominational church, with a permanent pastor. Winona Assembly has spent nearly $300,000 in drainage and water systems, and other permanent improvements since it began its work thirteen years ago. The newer homes are heated by steam and lighted by electricity, both of which are obtained from the power house of the Winona interurban lines. The demand for cottages for summer use has this year been equal to the supply. The hotel facilities at this summer resort have been increased by the completion of the Presbyterian building, which opens its doors in July. It is a handsome stone and brick structure, with over 100 guest rooms., It is on high ground and commands a beautiful view of the lake. It was built entirely by Presbyterian money, the stock being owned by a large number of people over the United States. Winona Lake now has a hotel capacity equal to a city of many people and thousands of visitors can be taken care of during the summer season. tl CALEB TOWNSED WAS KILLED Lived Near Monroeville and Was Known Here. , \ ■ 1 ■ Caleb Townsend, a farmer of near Monroeville, was instantly killed Monday morning at Convoy, when he was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train, his body being dragged 300 feet, his head tom to pieces and his body ground into small pieces. Mr. Townsend was a well-to-do farmer who owned 140 acres near the little town mentioned. He had visited Convoy in the morning in search of hired help to aid in the putting up of his hay crop and in harvesting his wheat. He had talked to a number of men, among whom was Samuel Calvert. While talking to Mr. Calvert he noticed that the west bound interurban car had arrived and was starting from the station. This was the car he had intended taking for his home. i Determined to make the car so as to be at home at the appointed time, he started to cross the Pennsylvania track directly in front of the coming fast line. He noticed the train coming, but must have figured that he could make the crossing in safety. A large crowd of people were standing near and called to him not to make the attempt, but before (he words of caution had died upon their lips, Townsend was struck and was being ground to death and atoms beneath the wheels of the locomo-

tlve. — -O- ■' }/, : The plumbers are busily engaged at this time, in fact they are working over time in putting in water meters, so as to supply the demand of those who desire to comply with the water meter ordinance passed some time ago. Every plumber has from at least twenty-five to seventy-five or-ders-and it will take them some time to catch up. Superintendent Fulk reports a large number of shut offs, and the ordinance is being complied with in every respect. —' — •— —r- 1 ' £ t ™ fob PH.BS. J»na« nß '’r>Tnic^Hni«> Bleed,ne ’ Protruding Pile.. Druggist, are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINTMENT falls to c«-* in d to 14 days io”