Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1907 — Page 6

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AND WAS BADLY FRIGHTENED « Finally Scrambled Out —Had Wadded in to Recover his Hat Which Some ( One Had Trown From Bridge. Ralph Deem, a little chap, probably nine years of age, had a narrow escape from drowning Wednesday afternoon and was only saved through the presence of mind of one of his playmates, who sat on the bank and urged him to keep on trying, and through his own efforts he finally pulled himself to the bank, utterly exhausted. The accident happened just below the field in which the carnival grounds are located at which point the river is quite deep. Ralph and several playmates had been taking in the carnival and were returning. While crossing the bridge one of the boys threw Ralph’s hat into the river. Ralph and a comrade ran down the river, undressed and waded in after the hat. Dean stepped off into a deep hole and went down over his head and then commenced to call for help. One of his comrades called to him and kept telling him what to do until he finally scrambled out onto the bank safe and sound, but badly frightened. Several men saw the accident from the river bridge and |qt£rted across the fields to assist: the boy, but by the time they had reached the scene the lad was sitting on the river bank crying. His escape was a narrow one and the little chap who sat on the bank and encouraged him is entitled to due credit. _____ o THE RESULT WAS LUCKY ONE Fred Nichols’ Buggy Overturned and He Was Thrown out But Escaped Uninjured. Fred Nichols, the veteran butcher, while driving homeward past the interurban station Wednesday, was in quite a mixup when his horse became frightened at the six o’clock mL<.rurban car and made a short turn, completely overturning the buggy,

and throwing him to the ground. After upsetting the rig the animal started down south Second street on a dead run, but it was stopped at the corner of Second and Adams streets, where an examination disclosed the fact that the buggy was badly demolished and the horse severely skinned up. Mr. Nichols, however, considers himself fortunate in escaping as luckily as he did, he escaping without a bruise. The horse becomes frightened very easily, but the occupant of the buggy did not realize that the car so closely upon him and not enough precaution -was taken to avoid what might have been a more serious accident. ——-—o —* The Keller Incubator company, as will be noticed by an advertisement in another column of this paper, are having a special fifteen day clearance sale at which time they are offering special inducements on their machines, the sale commencing today. They are forced to do this, owing to the fact that they expect to improve their business room in the near future and also expect to add some new machinery £or the manufacture of their famous incubators. With the inducements offered, there is no cause why every person interested in the raising of chickens should be without one of these machines and it is an Opportunity a lifetime. Do not think the season for raising chickens is over for you have three months of nice weather yet, and during the winter is when young chickens always bring fancy prices, and if you are in the chicken business you are in it for the money not pleasure. The members of this company would be pleased to show you their stock of goods and if you cannot come to Decatur, call them up by phone, and they will quote you prices. Remember, the sale lasts but fifteen days.

ACCORDING TO PROF. J. TROUP Too Much Rain Has Been Conducive to Bacteria and Has Caused a Disease Germ. J. Troup, former state entomologist, now at the head of the agricultural experimenting station at Purdue university, has answered numerous inquiries from all over the state concerning the infection that is damaging the oat crop in Indiana to such a great extent this year. To H. E. Young, associate editor of the Farmers’ Guide, Mr. Troup states that he has been able to give the same answer for conditions reported from all over the state, in that the trouble to the oat crop is not caused so much by plant lice, or the little green bug, but weather conditions that have been so unfavorable to crop growth. Conditions are reported the same over Indiana. At first the annoyance was laid to the little green bug or plant louse. Climatic conditions have been such that the parasite animal life which kept in check the lice, were killed and the green bug prospered. Conditions were also conducive to bacteria spread, a germ trouble known as fungus disease resulting in a general blight condition. In some portions of the state later climatic conditions were more favorable to plant growth and where the stock of the oat plant had not been reached the crop has continued to develop and is now fast maturing. Oats is heading out in portions of the state and the fill is beyond the expectations of the farmers in their calculations three weeks ago. Oat cutting will be on inside of three weeks and not later than the first week in August, according to information coming in from the farming districts.—Huntington Herald. —o BY THE BOARD OF REVIEW I . Over Seventy-Seven Thousand Dollars Added by the Board Against That Corporation Alone.

The Adams county board of review have increased the assessment of the Standard Oil company and the Indiana Pipe Line company practically one and the same corporation, the sum of $77,164. As stated last week, Mr. T. M. Towl, chief of affairs in the tax and real estate department of this greatest of all the great corporations, made a personal call before the board and spent nearly all of Wednesday with them. He was treated with due courtesy and suceeded in securing a correction of the assessment on the Preble plant, where an error was made. However, the board made the increase over the county as they believed right. In Hartford township, the assessment was increased from $28,410 to $57,228; in Wabash, from $1,670 to $2,425; in Jefferson, from $1,370 to $3,118; in Blue Creek, from $8,885 to $9,888; in Geneva, $340 was added and in Kirkland and Preble there was a net increase of $44,500. In Kirkland township seven new tanks have been constructed, they being a portion of the Preble plant and these added considerably to the increase in the tax assessment. o WANTED TO SPEND HIS MONEY Decatur Young Man Made a Fool of Himself. A young man from Decatur, whose name could not be learned, was making a lavish display of his wealth at the transfer corner last evening, offering a bandsman five dollars to “play a tune.” His niece requested Patrolman Johnson to see that he didn’t lost any of his roll, and also 1 to put him on the 11 o’clock car for ’ Decatur. When the time came for ■ the car to leave the officer had a lively tussle before he finally landed the I young man on the car, being forced • to ride with him as far as Pontiac street. —Ft. Wayne Journal- Gazette.

GOVERNOR HANLEY RETURNS After an Absence of Four Weeks— Patents Issued to a Number of Indiana People. Indianapolis, Ind., July 10.—Governor Hanly returned to his desk today after a four weeks’ vacation in Illinois and other states. He set to work at once on the accumulation of business that has piled up in his absence. Articles have been filed with the secretary of state for the incorporation of the following companies: Monroe Grain, Hay and Milling company, capital $10,000; directors, John Rich, William H. Graham, Marion L. Oliver, William T. Waggoner, William Adler, Peter Rult and John P. Nussbahm. These Indiana patents have been issued from the Washington office: William H. Albert, Burrows, check row seeder and planter; Christian Arduser, Cicero, machine for cracking of glass articles; Charles A. Blum, Michigan City, trolley, also third rail; William H. Davis, Eaton, lampblack machine; Herbert H. Ice, Montpelier, pump power; Henry E. Kline, Terre Haute, curtain and shade support; Henry J. Otto, Princeton, operating mechanism for typewriting machines; Robert Silver, Knightstown, closed vehicle body. o IN A VERY PECULIAR ACCIDENT Car Ran Away, Margaret Jumped and Katherine Was Thrown Twenty-Five Feet When Machine Hit a Bridge. As a result of a horse becoming frightened at the automobile owned by Allen J. Vesey, of this city, the car is a wreck and two little children are suffering from slight bruises received in a peculiar accident. Mr. and Mrs. Vesey were returning from a picnic at Rome City and had the Misses Katherine and Margaret Vesey, two young daughters of Judge W. J. Vesey, in their automobile. When the horse became frightened Mr. and Mrs. Vesey got out of their machine, leaving the two children. In some manner the power was turned on and the automobile started down the road at a terrific speed. Miss Margaret jumped, as she was instructed by the frantic cries of Mr. and Mrs. Vesey. Miss Katherine, however, remained in the car, until it struck a bridge and dropted into the stream below. When the car struck the bridge, the little girl was hurled into the air and fell in the soft mud on the other side of the stream, about twenty-five feet away. In spite of her harrowing experience, her only injuries are a few minor bruises. The front of the automobile was totally wrecked, however, and it is estimated that the damages will be about SSOO. —Ft. Wayne Journal-Ga-zette. ———— —o BUT ARRIVED THERE TOO LATE To See His Mother Alive—She Died L Sunday Morning from Infirmities of Old Age. # L. C. Waring of this city was at Columbus, Mississippi, last week to attend the funeral services of his mother, who died on the old Waring plantation near there Sunday morning at 9:30. Mr. Waring received a message Saturday afternoon stating that his mother was very low and he left at once for home. At Cairo Sunday enroute, he received another message announcing the sad news that his mother’s spirit had already flown. He arrived at Columbus on Monday morning, and the news here was received by Dr. Boyers, to whom Mr. Waring simply forwarded the message he had received at Cairo and which read: “Mother died at 9:30 a. m.” Mrs. Waring was eighty years old and her death was due to infirmities. She resided with a daughter, Mrs. Lee, at the old southern home, and there are several other children beside L. C. Waring of this city. o The Western Union Telegraph company is likely to file a supplemental bill for an injunction against the tax commissioners since they refuse to reduce the assessment against that corporation. The Western Union was assessed at $59 a mile, and, according , to the decision of the board, this assessment must stand. All the electric wiring at the Murray hotel has been completed and ! contractors Haefling and Ernst are 1 through with their work. The hotel is well wired and will be lighted from top to bottom with electricity. The plumbers are next in line and after 1 they have completed their contract, t the work of putting on the finishing s touches will be carried out by the carpenters. ,

ICE CREAM SOCIAL TONIGHT Mrs. Mayer Given Farewell Surprise —Mrs. Magley Entertained—Other Society Events. Mr. and Mrs. John Mayer and daughter, Hattie, left Thursday for Kendallville, where they will make their future home, their son Fred being interested in the newspaper business there, Wednesday night the neighbors gave a farewell surprise for Mrs. Mayer at the home of Mrs. J. L. Gay, and it proved a very delightful occasion. The guests were Mesdames Peter Goffer, E. B. Macey, John Parr, D. M. Houser, John Sintz, Joseph Metzger, Abraham Beery, Fred Nichols,- Lee Amren, Sam Dook, Charles Cusick, John Bollinger, John Bright, Fred Sellemeyer, Fred Heuer, Joe Harris, George Roop, W. J. Archbold, Grandma Eady and Mrs. Snyder. The ladies presented Mrs. Mayer with a pretty gift as a token of their friendship . for her. On Wednesday evening Mrs. John T. Myers delightfully entertained a small crowd of her old school mates at her home on north Sixth street in honor of Mrs. Frank W. Downs and Mrs. Raina Hubacheck. The evening was spent in singing the songs that were sang in the school room, reciting declamations and talking over tjhe many reminiscences of early school days. It has been eighteen years since this class of ladies finished their schooling and this recalling of girlhood days was a happy event. The refreshments were ice cream, cake and lemonade. Those present were Mrs. Grace McConnehey Walters, Mrs. Mattie Albers Bell, Mrs. Adel Spangler Neptune, Mrs. Cora Shackley Downs, Mrs. Roma Holmes Hubacheck and Mrs. Drusilla Hower Myers. It was late at night when the guests departed for their homes voting Mrs. Myers compliments. o DR.MULLINS ELECTED PRESIDENT Os B. Y. P. U. of America—Vice-Pres-idents and Other Officers. Spokane, Wash., July 11.—John H. Chapman, of Chicago, who served as president of the Baptist Young People’s Union of America, since its founding, retired at the 16th international convention, just closed in Spokane, and was succeeded by Rev. Dr. E. Y. Mullins, of Louisville, Ky., the other officers nominated by a committee headed by Rev. Dr. Curtis Lee Laws, of Baltimore, Md., and elected by unanimous vote being: Vice-Presidents: Rev. Dr. W. H. Main, Hartford, Conn.; Archibald T. McNeill, Woodstock, Ont; Corwin W. Shanks, Seattle. General Secretary: Rev. George T. Webb, Chicago, re-elected. Recording secretary: Rev. W. H. Weed, Ph.D., Rock Island, Ill.; re elected. Secretary, executive committee: H. G. Baldwin, Cleveland. • Treasurer: H. B. Osgood, Chicago; re-elected. Board of managers: B. F. Yourison, Pennsylvania, representing the north; Rev. J. W. Conley, D. D., Nebraska, representing the west; Rev. George B. Macon, Georgia, representing the south, and Rev. L. L. Houghson, Ontario, representing Canada; for one year. J. W. Lowe, Fred A. Willis, John Nuveen and John H. Chapman, Chicago; George Miller, Baltimore; Rev. J. M. Johnston, St. Louis, and H. G. Baldwin, Cleveland. q The'-funeral of Mrs. Frank Edington was held Sunday morning at ten thirty o’clock at the Evangelical church, Rev. A. B. Haist officiating and a large crowd was present to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased. Six members of her class acted in the capacity of pall bearers. Interment was made in the Decatur cemetery. The floral offering was beautiful and profuse. Jerked Trom the top of a caboose Wednesday evening at 7:45 in the Clover Leaf yards, by the sudden stopping of the locomotive, Charles McGeath escaped with only slight injuries. His face was badly scratched his • right hip bruised and his left thumb was dislocated. He says that the air brake was suddenly turned on and the train brought to a sudden standstill, causing him to loose his balance and topple to the ground below. His injuries were attended to by the company’s physicians.—Delphos Herald. After returning from a visit at Uniondale Mrs. Jonathan Brickley discovered that some one had been in the house and ransacked it during their absence. Lighting a lamp and going into another room, there coni tentedly snoozing was “Weary Willie.” In her fright she dropped the lamp and ran from the house. One • of the small sons ran toward Unlon- ■ dale for help. When the re-enforced , party returned, the "Knight of the ; Road” had taken his leave. The > Brickleys reside a mile west of Union- , dale.—Markle Journal.

A BOARD OF HEALTH BULLETIN Give* Directions on How to Avoid a Sunstroke. The state board of health has sent out the following warning bulletin relating to sunstroke: .Two deaths from sunstroke occurred in Indiana in the week beginning June 15. If people would exercise intelligent care, sunstroke would be avoided. We should be careful not to expose ourselves unnecessarily in hot weather. When it is very hot we should be extra careful. Being careful is to keep cool as to temper, preserve a placid mind, don’t worry, and the body will not get so hot. Avoid all alcoholic drinks. Beer is not so refreshing as cool water, and a reaction follows beer drinking. We should remember it is a natural law, that —what goes up must come down, arid if we push up our nerves and heart with beer or other alcoholic drinks, the heart and nerse will come down with a thump. We should practice extreme temperance in hot weather in all things. We should eat less, avoid meats especially, and hold ourselves down to fruits, cereals and milk. Butter milk is an extra wholesome summer drink. Weak iced tea in moderation is not a bad summer drink. Strong hot coffee and teas are bad. They contain a drug (caffein) which is a heart and nerve stimulant, and it is with this drug as with alchohol—heart and nerve pushed up by it, are sure to come down again. Hot weather is sufficiently stimulating of itself, therefore avoid stimulants when it is hot. He is a foolish man who eats stimulating food and drinks alcoholic liquors in hot weather. Autopsies show that nearly all persons dead of sunstroke have full stomachs. Workmen exposed to the direct rays of the sun sheud have their heads well protected and should wear woolen next to the skin. A very good precaution is a pad of cotton batting or flannel sewed along the back of the undergarment so as to protect the spine. Walk in the shady side of the street; avoid over exertion; let the air circulate freely about the head, either by frequent removal of the hat or by perforating the hat. Heat exhaustion is mild sunstroke. In case either happens, call a reliable physician. Don’t trust your own treatment unless a physician cannot be secured. But, while waiting for a physician, remove, the patient into the shade, dash the head and chest with cold water, give two or three drops of aqua ammonia in cool water and also apply a few drops of ammonia to the nose on a handkerchief. o POSTMASTER HAS THE POWER Can Make You Present Proper Change if He Wants To. It is not generally known that postmasters and their clerks are not compelled to make change for you when you make a purchase at Uncle Sam’s office. This is a queer rule that not one in a thousand persons know. Buyers of stamps or any other purchases at a postoffice must furnish their own change, i. e., the postmaster could insist on the buyer furnishing his own change if he saw fit to do it, but usually the postmaster is glad enough to get rid of his “chicken feed” and he is always ready and willing to accommodate the public by making the change. If a man or woman wishes to buy fifty cents worth of stamps and has but a silver dollar he or she would be compelled to buy a dollar’s worth of stamps or go and get the dollar changed or do without the stamps if the postmaster was stubborn and refused to make change. This is the law and a queer one. And postmasters are not compelled to take more than twenty-five pennies at a time, if they don’t want them. , . o William Zimmerman is the name of the pharmacist in charge of the store of the Holthouse Drug Co. in this village. He has had a strenuous time in arranging the stere equipment and goods, as he has been lone handed, but he will soon be ready for the “opening.” His home is in Xenia.—Willshire Herald. . C. P. Ferry, a well known actor, who for some time past has been with the Holy City company, is in our city visiting with his cousin, Miss Minnie Orviss. Mr. Ferry expects to leave ina short time for Keokuk, lowa, where he will assume the management of a company for the remainder of the season. He may return to this city in the winter and put on several home talent shows. Everything is quiet in police circles, and whenever you approach one of the men clothed in his official garb, and ask if there is anything on you get the same old result, “Nothing doing.” One of the justice of the peace informed us this morning that if something did not occur in the next few days he would in all probability starve to death, or become a charge on the county. In fact, patient reader, a good old-fashioned dog fight would come in mighty handy these warm days. j - -t

— BOYS HAVE SETTLED DOWN Play e d Pretty Game Yesterday and t h e Fans Were More than Pleaded —Score Three to Two. In one of the prettiest ball games seen on the local diamond this year, Captain Behringer’s men Wednesday defeated the Portland bunch by a score of three to two. It was an exciting battle, one of those kind that holds the audience in their seats until the last man is out, and the 300 fans present were more than pleased with the results. The Jay Birds scored in the first Inning on an error by Pierce and a hit, and in the second they got their second run, when Parker put one over the right field fence. They prevented the locals from scoring until the fifth, when Way got a two base hit and was brought in on a safe one by Geyer, who stung one scross the third bag. In the sixth the locals tied the score, Behringer hitting a clean two bagger, and crossing the rubber on hits by Burns and Weber. In the last half of the eighth Nash got a nice single over second base, Behringer bunted and was safe on an error by the second baseman; Burns flew out and Weber was hit by a pitched ball filling the bases, with one man down, when the old reliable hit a fielders’ choice to the shortstop and Nash, who was up on his toes, crossed the rubber with the winning rqn. There were a number of exciting moments and several brilliant plays, which kept the audience interested. Hunt pitched for Portland and Way for Decatur, each allowing eight hits. The score: Decatur. AB R H PO A E Nash, cf 4 11 0 0 0 Behringer, 2b.. 3 11 3 2 0 Bums, If 4 0 2 2 0 0 Weber, lb .... 3 0 1 10 0 1 Pierce, ss ... 4 0 0 4 4 1 Way, p 4 11 0 5 0 Witham, 3b .. 3 0 0 1 2 0 Winger, c .... 3 0 1 6 1 0 Geyer, If 3 0 11 1 o Totals 31 3 8 27 15 2 Portland. AB R H PO A E Parker, ss .... 5 2 1 2 2 0 J. Bramb’gh, 3b 2 0 1 0 0 0 Durham, cf ... 4 0 1 4 0 0 Gray, If 3 0 11 0 0 H. Baumb’gh,2b 4 0 1 4 3 1 J’s Br’b’gh, rs. 4 0 0 2 1 0 Carmony, lb .. 4 0 17 0 0 Harmes, c ... 3 0 2 3 1 0 Hunt, p 2 0 0 It 11 ♦Wagnerl 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 2 8 24 8 2 ♦Wagner batted for Hunt in ninth. Score by innings— Decatur 000 0 11 0 1 x—3 Portland 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 o—20 —2 Sacrifice hits —Behringer, John Brambough, Gray, Harmes, Hunt. Two base hits —Way, Behringer. Home run —Parker. Base on balls —Off Way 1; Struck out—By Way 4; by Hunt 3. Left on bases —Decatur 6; Portland 6. Double play—Jonas Brambough to Carmony. Passed balls —Harmes 2. Hit by pitcher—Weber. Time of game—l:3s. Umpire—Thomas. IT DON’T PAY TO GET NOISY If You Haven’t Given in Real Valu e of Personal Property. Under the present laws the concealment of personal property from assessors, is no joke, and when suit is started against a man who has been caught in the act, trouble galore can be made for him if he gets “noisy” about it. For instance, if the man who gets caught and is made to put up a large sum of money by the tax ferret takes a notion to get even by having the contract of the ferrets annulled, the latter can more than return the complement by having the tax dodger fined to the possible extent of $2,000, and can also see that the tax dodger is prosecuted for perjury. At Winamac last week the big first action of the kind was commenced. E. Beveridge Dill, being one of the attorneys in an action entitled “The State of Indiana ex rel, William J. Reed prosecuting attorney, vs. Louis Dut.toe.” The complaint is in nine paragraphs, arid it alleges that property was not placed on the assessor’s list varying from $73,750 the first year to $109,950 during the period. The action is brought by the prosecutor as the law provides and he is allowed fO per cent of the amount of the penalty recovering the same being from SSO to $5,000, which at $5,000 for each year, would, in this case, amount to $45,000. A feature of the suit is that it is brought as a civil action and that it in no way releases the defendant from criminal action if there is sufficient evidence on which one can be based. ■ o Harry Mote was chained to the bars until his cell could be fitted out to meet the rough treatment that he accords his surroundings. His cell is* now minus everything, even a bed. He is resting earler and ate a hearty meal Friday nlght.—HartXord City Gazette. .