Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1907 — Page 2

RECOGNITION OF HIS SERVICES Popular Young Priest Who Left Her* Three Years Ago is Transferred From PortlandFather L. A. Eberle, who for the past three years has had charge of the pastorate of the St. Mary’s Catholic church in this city, has been transferred to the pastorate of the St. Johns parish at Goshen and will leave Wednesday morning to begin his labors in his new field. Father Eberle came here from Decatur three years ago when the church in this city was only a mission. Before coming to Portland he was assistant to Father Wilkins, at Decatur, but after one year’s earnest work in this city the church was made a regular charge and through his efforts has greatly increased in membership. The building has also been remodeled and many improvements have been made about the grounds and church property under his direction. Father Thomas Travers, of Fairmount, has been selected as pastor of the church here and is expected to arrive the latter part of this week. —Portland Sun. Rev. Eberle is one of the most popular young priests who ever served in this city, and his many Decatur friends will rejoice over his promotion- He is an able, clever and earnest man, who will succeed wherever duties call him. o Spurred to action by the formation of a trust company, the banks at Huntington have announced that after August 1 interest at the rate of 3 per cent per annum will be paid on deposits. Heretofore the banks have paid no interest. Mr- and Mrs. Davis J. Baxter arrived in the city from their home at Bertrand, Col., to visit Davis Daily and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer Peterson for a time. Thirty years ago this couple left for the west to seek their fortune, and this is the first return trip to Decatur that they have had since that time. They are well and healthy, and doing fine in every respect. J. W- Stanley, of Delphos, a trainman on the Clover Leaf, was injured at Peterson,, Ind., Sunday, by a car door falling upon him while the train was standing at the station there. A large bundle of belting weighing 800 pounds rolled out of the car on top of the door, while Mr. Stanley was under it. A fellow workman came to his assistance and took him from his perilous position. His left side, hip and ■ knee were bjftlly bruised. —Delphos HeraldWhile plowing on his farm at Dollar Lake, just across the Grant county line, Isaiah Michael turned up three monster teeth the nipple-like grinding ! surface of which would indicate they were those of the extinct mastodon. < One of these teeth is on exhibition at the Bank saloon. It weighs three : pounds and ten ounces and the ivory is so hard that a file makes but little ] impression on it. The teeth were found on two sides of the lake, where they had lain since some prehistoric time when the mastodon were mired ] in the morass which antedated the lake or were overtaken by some cataclysm attending the geological changes J in the earth’s surface-—Hartford City < News. Postmaster R. B. Hanna has been ' exercising his persuasive qualities to : good effect on Uncle Sam. and the government building in Ft. Wayne is showing the effects of it. In the first place Mr. Hanna has secured consent ■ to make alterations and improvements < in the building costing many thou- < sands of dollars. Next he went after allowances for screens for the win- ' dows and doors, an improvement few 1 postmasters ip the country have ever i —been able to secure as the postoffice . department evidently doesn’t regard j flies as a nuisance. However, Mr. , Hanna has succeeded in securing consent to the installation of screens, and the postoffice is taking on a real summery appearance.—Journal-Gazette.

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SCORE WAS FIVE TO THREE An Interesting Contest Won by Hard Hitting of Pierce, Way and Witham in the Eighth Inning. The locals turned the tables on the Hartford City bunch yesterday afternoon in a well played game, winning by a score of five to three. The contest of the day before attracted a fair sized crowd and those who attended were well repaid for their time and trouble, as the game was close and exciting and was full of pretty plays. Geyer Started in to pitch for the locals, but was not very effective, and in the fourth inning he was relieved by Railing, who pitched one inning, during which time he showed his old time form and skill and he then gave way to outfielder Otto Burns, who pitched the remainder of the game’ in excellent style, allowing the visitors but two hits in the time he officiated. Bales, a former Decaturite, was on the slab for the visitors, and did fairly well in the early stages of the game, but in the eighth inning he let down and permitted a single and two doubles, which practically won the game for the locals, as it scored two men and broke up the tie. The game was filled with pretty plays both sides contributing in this respect, and this feature alone kept the audience on the anxious seat The locals scored one run in the first and one in the second, which was tied up in the third by the visitors’ timely hitting. The locals came back in the fifth with another which again put them in the lead. In the seventh the visitors scored again on Bales two base hit and a single, and it was again a tie. In the last half of the eighth, however, the locals got busy and after one man was 'down, they hit for a single and two doubles, scoring two runs and putting the game safely to our credit, as the visitors were unable to do anything with Burns’ pitching. The Hartford City bunch is a fast fielding team, but in the hitting department are very weak, and it is no doubt due to this fact that they have been losing the majority of their games. The team returned to their homes last evening and will disband today. The following score tells the tale: Decatur. AB R H PO A E Nash, rs 4 1 I’l 11 Behringer, 2b.. 3 11 2 1 0 Burns, If-p .... 4 0 1 11 0 Wallace, ss ... 4 0 2 1 5 1 Weber, c 4 0 0 10 2 0 Pierce, lb .... 3 11 10 0 0 Way, cf 3 2 11 0 0 Witham, 3b ... 4 0 2 11 1 Geyer, p 1 0 1 0 0 0 Railing, p-ls ... 2 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 5 10 27 11 3 Hartford City. AB R H PO A E Gorman, 2b ... 3 0 11 3 0 Thomas, 3b ... 4 1 0 0 5 0 Hardin, c .... 4 0 1 5 1 0 Gillis, lb 4 0 0 12 0 0 DeVoze, cf .... 4 0 1 0 0 0 Kelley, ss .... 4 0 1 2 2 0 Lacey, If 4 0 1 b 0 1 Bales, p 4 11 0 4 0 McKee, rs .... 3 11 0 0 0 Totals ......34 3 7 24 15 1 Hartford City ...0 0200010 o—30 —3 Decatur .11 001 0 0 2 x—s Summary— Two base hits —Geyer, Bales, Way, Witham. Struck out —By Geyer 1; by Burns 4; by Bales 5. Base on balls— Os Geyer 1; off Bales 2. Left on bases —Decatur 6; Hartford City 4. Passed ball—Hardin. Double plays—Kelley to Gorman to Gillis- Time of game—--1:35. Umpire—France. Scorer— Vaughn „ o— A hard fight is being waged at Winamac for temperance. The ministers are working day and night securing signatures to a remonstrance against the saloons, and the temperance workers claim to have passed the majority mark. Whether this claim will hold good when the remcnstrators’ petition is filed and presented before the county board of commissioners on Monday, August 5, remains to be seen. The temperance people are denouncing prominent citizens for remaining neutral. The saloon men offer a reward of SIOO for proof that liquor has been sold to youths. o - On the tenth day of next month there will be a passenger train of twelve cars run through this city over the Clover Leaf railroad every hour for twelve hours. This will probably be the busiest day in the way of passenger business from one end of the line to the other that the company has ever seen and all the available engine crews and trainmen of the company will be pressed into service and given a hard workout. The railroad company has gone after and landed the St. Louis annual excursion to Niagara Falls and on that day they expect to handle between 8,000 and 10,000 excursionists. Mr. Colter is making a business trip to Warren today.

• THE TRIP FROM SALT LAKE CITY I A Delightful Story of the Journey Through a Desert, Over the Mountains and Into Beautiful California. > Los Angeles, Cal., July 19, 1907. ■* Friend Lew —Here we are again We ; had an uneventful trip from Salt Lake City here- We crossed great Salt lake over the new "cut off” You can get some idea of the length of 1 the trestle or bridge I say to 1 you that it took two and a half hours 1 to cross it going at a rate of about ■ twenty miles per h-aur. We could see land to the north of us all the timq, but unless we leaned out of the window, we could not see anything under us. The sea gulls flew around 1 us as they do about boats on the ocean or lakes. Nobody got sea sick. Salt Lake City is a wonderful city, but has been in. the control of the Mormons so long that they are away behind the times. Their streets are all 132 feet wide, and each square of the city is 720 feet, containing 10 acres each. We visited the Tabernacle, and being there on Friday, heard the famous organ recital which is given every Tuesday and Friday evenings at 5:00 o’clock. We left Salt Lake City at 1:00 p. m. Saturday and Ogden at 5:00 o’clock. We struck the plains or desert before dark, which is nothing but sand cactus- No living thing is seen upon it except sage brush and cactus. We rode all night through this plain and until Sunday at 3:30 p. m. when we took on another locomotive and began the accent of the Sierra Nevada mountains, where we rode for 8 miles through snow sheds, rocks, caverns, canons, over trestles and mountain streams until we wished there were no more mountains or tunnels. We finally, at 6:00 o’clock, began the descent of the mormtains on the California side. The scene was changed at once- There was vegetation of all kinds. Trees and flowers in profusion. On this road we passed the famous Lake Tahoe, in the heart of the mountains, also the mill of Col. Sutter, where the first gold was mined in California, and was accidentally discovered by Col. Sutter’s men while building a mill raee. The original owner having sold the land to Mr. Sutter for S3OO, and went to Lower California, where he had heard that gold had been discovered. Millions were taken out of the mine and others nearby, and the poor man who sold it never found an ounce of gold where he went. The finest orchards grow along the west slope of the mountains from the summit, almost, to Sacramento. Our train was six hours late and we got into Oakland, Cal., at 5:00 o’clock in the morning. We there took a ferry boat to San Francisco. This is a horrible place, but I suppose it looks better than it did some three or four months ago. We took train out of “Frisco” at 8:30 a. m. for Los Angeles- Stopped off at Santa Barbara over night so as to see the country in daylight. Then took train at 9:00 o’clock for this place. Santa Barbara is an old mission town, has a fine wharf and some very fine hotels, where they seem to put in the time banking the money the tourists bring to California. All along from fifty miles south of Frisco for t vo hundred miles they raise wheat in abundance. They were cutting with machines which cuts and thrashes at the same time and throws the wheat off in bags ready for the market. We saw wheat? * fields until we were tired of seeing ' them. The country between here and Santa Barbara is devoted to more diversified farming—beans and sugar beets and orchards interspersed, and the scene was wonderfully beautiful. We saw a great many oil wells in that part of the trip Tn fact, oil is so plentiful and cheap that the railrods use it for fuel, and it is a wonderful Improvement, especially wh=- r e there are a great many tunnels, as it does not make so much smoke as coal. We have been here three dsys,and leave this evening for Portland, Oregon, 1,250 miles, where we expect to arrive Monday sometime. It is slow going over the mountains- We met here and in this vicinity a great many people from Adams county. We called on Lew Wagoner and wife at Sawtelle, between here and the ocean. We were glad to see them and they were exceedingly glad to see us. We met Milo Harris here in the city. He is in the employ of Marsh & Co., real estate dealers, and is doing well- We met John (or Jack) Miller. He has a cigar stand on the corner of Seventh and Grand avenues, and is making money. Fred Miller or Sammy, as we called him, is in a barber shop on Spring, just north of First. Charley ■ Carpenter is at Huntington Beach, on the shore of the ocean, where he has a $60,000 plant and is manufacturing his patent fuel. He is 2% miles from depot and comes up to the town In his automobile, when I telephoned him. He Is doing well and looks prosperous- He has an additional improvement on his fuel, which makes it a succes. Jim Waldron Is here.

’ We met b lm yesterday. He was In the Frisco earthquake and got hurt. He is just recovering from an operar tion for appendicitis, but is looking well, and Is working- We were unable to locate Lane McConnell, who I understand lives here. Our trip is now a little more than half over, but we are through visiting, and will make the journey home in about two weeks. In the mountains we got homesick. We 1 could only think of Owen Meredith In Lucile. "If ever your feet like my own Oh, reader, have traversed these mountains alone, Did you feel your identity shrink and contract In the presence of natures immensities?” On the whole we have enjoyed the trip immensely, for "By night and by day , We linger in pleasures that never are gone Like the waves of the summer, as one dies away, Another as sweet and as pleasant * comes on.” It has not rained here since April and they do not look for rain until October, hence where there is no water things look dry and dusty. Take it as a whole, this is a grand city, with grand surroundings. Property is high and still soaring, but it 'Certainly is an ideal place to live. Everything that nature produces for the use of man is produced in abundance except corn, and that was made I suppose for the. hog and no other beasts. Here is wine to gladden the heart of man and oil to make him shine, fruit and vegetables to sustain life and gold and jewels to decorate his person and an ocean of 10,000 miles wide to furnish water to bathe and furnish fish for foodTom Moore when he went to visit the temples pf the Moguls in India thought it as paradise as it was possible to be on earth, and describes it in Lulla Rookh, which I think would apply to this part of California. Here It Is: An the love that is ours, in expressing birth To a new one as warm, as unequalled ’in bliss And oh! if there be an elyslum on earth It is this; it is this. CHANGE IN ANTI-BALOON LEAGUE U. G. Humphreys Goes to Wisconsin in September. U. G. Humphreys, of Indinapolis, has resigned as superlntedent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, to ace :pt a position as State superintendent cf the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon League, with headquarter* at Milwaukee- lhe Rev. E. S. Shumaker, of South Bend, has been elected to succeed Mr. Humphrey as state superintendent for Indiana. The change will take effect September 1. Mr Humphrey, who succeeds the Rev. Tnoiaas Hare in Wisconsin, has been state superintendent for Indiana for about three years and six months. Prior to thar. he was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Middletown, O. The Rev. Mr. Shumaker is about forty two years old, *and has been connected with the work of the Anti-Saloon Leigne for about four years. For the laut three years he has been superintendent of the South Bend district, and prior to that for one year was a field secretary. —o AS AN ASSISTANT AT CORNELL Will Teach in the Famous Old University and' Will Also Take the Medical Course* I j Robert Schrock, of this city, has ac-; cepted a position as assistant instructor of physiology at Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y,, and will begin his duties in September. At the same time he will take the medical course at this famous old college and after four years more of study expects to locate in some city as a practicing physician. He had expected to go to Harvard, but the offer of this professorship changed his plans. Robert is : a graduate of Wabash college, at Crawfordsville, and tor two years past , has served as instructor in the science ami Latin departments. His offer from Cornell came to him upon the; recommendation of the dean of Wabash and Robert’s friends are more I: than delighted with his future pros- ; pects. He was offered several splen-I 5 did positions in college work for this i season, but decided upon Cornell, because of the opportunity thus afforded for him to the medical course- Mr. Shreck is clever, capable and industrious and will succeed without any ■ j question doubt.

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i IN THE OHIO CITY CAMPAIGN ' The “Wets” Said the Farmers Want Saloons and Stirred Up a Hor- , net’s Nest > > The local option fight in Ohio City , is growing in interest as well as in bitterness. Te wet element is determined to stay every effort on the part of the antis to vote the town i free of the saloons. The business men are taking up the issue and are ■ evenly divided. Those in favor of local option are persistent*in the endeavor to overcome the wet sentii ment The wets got busy and circulated freely the announcement that trade 1 would be destroyed and that neighboring towns would be the gainers. To meet this, and, to go one better, the local option people held a meeting to wait upon the farmers with a paper. This paper was headed by a caption stating that the undersigned would not boycott a town because it had voted out the saloons. This paper has been signed by more than ninety per cent, of the farmers who have been seen in Liberty and York townships. Farmers busy in the harvest field during the day would take the petition at the coming of evening and with it would go to the'homes of neighbors and ask them to sign it The whole matter has stirred up such a resentment on the part of the farmers that those next to the situation express themselves as believing that the wets have done their cause no good by the statement that the farmer was the man who demanded that the saloon must exist in a town before he would go there to do his trading.—Van Wert Times. o— j . A STRANGER WAS TAKEN TO JAIL Carried a Load of Booze and a Buff Cochin Chicken. Sheriff Eli Meyer at nine o’clock this morning picked up a young fellow who carried a huge jag in one arm and a big Buff Cochin spring chicken in the other, and who wobbled most perceptibly on the one side, while he squeezed the poor chickens head off with his other arm. He had evidently stolen the chicken and expected to enjoy a good fry when he got. hungry. He had it hidden carefully under his coat, only the head protruding. Man and bird were taken to jail, one placed in the cell, the other in the coop to await future developments. The man refused to talk, but papers in his pockets disclosed the facts that his name is Ben Wilson, and that his home at at Olympia, ‘Washington, where his brother Jim is serving as city treasurer. He will be given a hearing before Mayor Coffee this evening. . —o G. W. Millikan’s fast string of horses were shipped this week from Titusville, Pa., to Oil City, where Jay County Boy will race tomorrow and Elmwood Friday. The horses are under the care and being driven by Harry Snyder, and it now looks as though they have a very’ prosperous season before them.—Montpelier Herald. —o Do you want a country where corn is king, and wheat and oats a close second? Do you want a country where cattle and hogs make a fat bank account for their owners? Do you want a country where every settler who has lived there for any length of time Insists there is no better? Do you want a country where land can be bought tor one-half what it is worth? If you ’ want such a country we have found it. Let us take you to it. See Ira ’ Steele, Decatur, Ind. 178-4 t ' With the lovely colors of pink and ’ white of the Indiana university and cut flowers prettily arranged on var- : ions stands and mantels formed the j extremely pretty background tor the evening party last evening given by ' Miss Bertha Heller in compliment to her guest, Miss Helm, of Richmond, to acompany of twenty-five young la- { dies. Miss Mabel Erwin proved to be ( leader while playing, progressive pedro ( and then the following ladies furnish- j ed the fine piano selections which were { rendered: Misses Grace Miller, Ger- , trude Moses and Carrie Thomas. ( Miss Faye Smith gave a reading,which ( was also highly appreciated, and at a ( late hour elegant refreshments were j served, with the pink and white color scheme prevailing throughout the refreshments. “ ♦ - o 1 Stimulation Without Irritation f That is the watchword. That is I what Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup i ddes. Cleanses and stimulates the 1 bowels without irritation in any form, r THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. a

■ggWW!-. K I OBITUARY. Another young life has gone out. 1 Again the unexpected has happened, the unlooked for has come to pass We feel a new the force of the words, “As for man his days are as.grass; as a flower of the fields so he fiourr isheth. For the wind passeth over ft, i and it is gone, and the place thereof . knoweth it no more.” j Dottie May Cramer, d'.tighter of i Uriah and Mary Cramer, was bom [ August 15, 1890, at Connersville. Ind., i and bid adieu to the scenes of this 1 life on July 18, 1907, at Decatur, Ind- . Between these two dates Is the history of a young Iffe written not in words, but in the hear ts of her parL ents, family and friends by deeds and , loving ways. Dottie grew up in her parental home Into a beautiful Christian young girl, the pride of her father, the joy and comfort of her mother. By the wealth of her pure affection as a daughter, she enriched her home as nothing else could have done. By her willing obedience she made light hard lots, cheered in a right path and often made weary feet forgt roughness of the road. She was taught the way of life from her mother’s knee- She gave her heart and life to the Lord Jesus in her tenth year, united with the Friends’ church at Anderson, Ind., and upon the removal of her family to Decatur she united with the Evangelical church and proved a faithful and honored member to her end. She was a regular attendant at all the church services. She was a member of the choir and for the past six months was president of the Young People’s Alliance. In all these duties she was a willing worker, rendering services according to her abilityHer sickness continued over a brief period of six weeks —weeks of special preparation shall we say, for her better habitation. Through her continued suffering and pain she was patient and without fear of death. On Thursday afternoon, July 18, her soul took its flight to a purer land to be with the Lord and those who have gone on before. Parents, grandparente, two brothers, two sisters and two halt brothers, remain to mourn her early decease. The funeral was conducted from the Evangelical church on Saturday afternoon and was in charge of R-ev. A, B. Haist, who preached from the words, “He being dead, yet speaketh,” and paid a fitting tribute to the memory of the departed. The funeral was largely attended and the many floral tributes betoken the esteem in which the departed was held. The body was laid to rest in beautiful Decatur cemetery to await the resurrection call. o SELECTING A FINANCIAL AGENT Rev. Johnson Will Probably Be the Man Chosen. A meeting of the board of directors of Taylor university,' of Muncie, is to be held in Commercial club hall this afternoon if a quorum of the board is present. A 3 o’clock not enough of the directors were in the room to constitute a working majority. The board is convened to ratify the action which has already been taken by the executive committee in connection with the opening of the university in September. It is probable that the Rev. T. J. Johnson will be made financial agent for the school, succeeding the Rev. C. J. Everson, of the Normal City M. E. church, whose regular duties are so heavy that he has found little time to devote to the work of the school- The Rev. Mr. Johnson is secretary of the Preachers’ Aid society. A telegram from President C. A. Winchester today told of the gift of SI,OOO to the university.—Muncie Press. — —O— -—, The property owners along Grant street who have been waiting upon the action of the council to determine the width of the street so that they might proceed with the construction of their cement sidewalks, may go right ahead now and build them and could have done so before the council acted as the width of that particular street has been estab'i bed for a number of years. —— o—“TO KEEP WELL The whole year through,” v. rites L. A. Bartlett, of Rural Route 1. Guilford, Me., I and my family J King’s New Life Pills. They proven most satisfactory to al! of us. * They tone the system and cure biliousness, malaria and constipation. Guaranteed at Blackburn drug store. 25c.