Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1907 — Page 6

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TEXT BOOKS FOR THE GRADES First Three Years Shoul be Devoted to Common Things —Agriculture in Public Schools. In the first of a series of bulletins to be issued during the school year by Fassett A. Cotton, state superintendent of public instruction, concerning agriculture in the public schools of the state, Mr. Cotton elaborates on the agricultural scheme of work laid out by the state board of education. In the first three years of school life Mr. Cotton suggests that the attempt should be made to familiarize the children with the common things about them —farm animals, crops, etc., and to require them to talk clearly and simply about them. In the fourth and fifth years Mr. Cotton thinks that geography and agriculture should be co-related. Soils common to a community should be noticed and the crops that grow on the different soils. Simple weather conditions should be noted —frosts, rain, etc. In the sixth year a textbook in agriculture is provided. Working with the text, Mr. Cotton suggests that con Crete examples of the text should be used —bugs, worms, bees, wasps, etc. It would be easy, for example, to show the life history of the different kinds of insects. The birds and the wild quadrupeds should be watched by the pupils also.' The early work of the seventh yeir dealing with the growth of plants, should be mastered very carefully, in Mr. Cotton's opinion. The increase, or at least the conservation, of the soil’s fertility comes as part of the work of this year also, and compirative studies may be made of soils ot different farms around the community. Rotation of crops and the reason for it comes in as part of this seventh year work, too. The eighth year work is simtlir to that of the seventh, except that it deals more particularly with the seed selection, seed scoring, etc. At this time all experimental work that can be crowded in should be carried on only by the school as a whole in the school gardens, but also by the individual pupils at their homes. The high school work in agriculture should be taken in connection with the physical geography and physics. A collection and a classification of the soils, the merits of spring* and fall treatment of soils, tillage implements and tillage operations, all of these should be taken up in the high schools those of the city as well as those of the country and small towns. This first bulletin urges the Cotton idea —correlation of school work with that of the community itself,the school life with the community life. Mr. Cotton contends that going to schools is a part of living, ordinary, everyday living, and that it is not a thing apart. CLEARING NIBLICK HOMESTEAD Trees Which Have Stood for Years are Being Removed. Among the Decatur properties now being improved is the old Niblick homestead on north Second street. For many years this old home has been known from the fact that it is located in the center of an entire half block, a beautiful place. The residence, a large and old fashioned one, is surrounded by pine and maple trees, which have stood for several decades, so shading the big house that it was almost hidden from view. Now these big kings of the forest are being removed, t}te yard is being converted into a pretty lawn and the passerby will scarcely recognize the old Nib; lick homestead. This improvement will considerably brighten the appearance of this already beautiful residence district of the city. Miss Molie Monahan, of Dunkirk, has returned to her home after being the guest of friends in the city for a short time.

> SIDEWALK CONTRACT DELAYED I Bids for Lenhart Sewer to Be Received October 15—Other Business. The council met in special session ’ jas aunt aq; Suiaq stqj Suinaaa Xupuj ' for the receiving of bids on the Elm • street sidewalk. Mayor Coffee pre- ■ sided over the meeting and every councilman was present. Upon motion, the bids filed for the construction of the sidewalk were opened, there being , but one bid, that of Butler and Butler, which was as follows: Forty cents per lineal foot for a four foot brick walk and fifty cents a lineal foot for a four foot cement sidewalk and ninety dollars for grading for either walk. Van Camp moved that the letting of the contract be delayed until the first meeting in October, so that any property owner desiring might have the opportunity of constructing their own walk. This motion carried. A resolution confirming the original resolution on the John Lenhart sewer was read, ordering the city clerk to give notice for- the reciving of bids and fixing the fifteenth day of October as the time when bids would be received. Upon motion by Van Camp, the water works committee was empowered to contract with some man to tear down the old smoke stack at the water works, clean and rank up the brick at a price not to exceed $2.50 per thousand. This being done owing to the fact that room must be made for the new boiler that will soon be established, Nothing further coming before the council they adjourned to meet next Tuesday evening, when they will hear objections to the assessment roll on Madison and Third streets and also to the construction of the C. D. Lewton sewer. o Governor Hanly has appointed four representatives of the state as delegates to the national confernce on state and local taxation, w-hich is to be held at Columbus, 0., November 12, under the auspices of the National Tax Association. They are Chas. R. Williams, editor of the Indianapolis News; Fred A. Sims, Secretary of State; W. A. Rowles, professor of economics, Indiana university, and Representative Horace Hanna, Plainfield. Beginning w-ith Oct. 1, the state board of health will require the physicians of Indiana to make out birth returns on new forms that have been adopted by the board. In anticipation of the change* Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the board, has sent out notices *o the health officers of the state, calling their attention to the new forms and giving notice that hereafter all failures to report births within twenty days will mean punishment by law. Dr. Hurty says that the law compelling birth returns is to be enforced throughout the state to the letter. , State banks of Indiana which desire to renew their charters and reincorporate under their old names are 1 confronted with an embarrassing situation. The question as to whether a state bank can reincorporate at the . expiration of its charter under its old . name, operating as tw-o banks of the . same name, one of them a new bank | handling new business, and the other I liquidating its affairs as the old bank, has been laid before Attorney Genertal James Bingham. The attorneygeneral is expecting to render an opinion following a conference with Fred Sims, secretary of state. Feeding working horses is a i science in which only a small number . excel. Some feeders feed according ; to the work that is being done, ■ which is a wise method unless it is . carried to an extreme. If a horse ; help him, but will instead throw him . off his feed and induce indigestion. . Some men do not give their teams any grain On days when they are not working. This is a mistake, for a . working horse always needs some ; grain, although it is advisable to rei dace the allowance when no work is being done.

FIGHT THEIR NEWCONSTITUTION Senator Beveridge and Wife Coming Home and Will Reside in Indianapolis. Washington, September 21. —The advance guard of the Republican politicians in Oklahoma who propose to urge the president to refuse to promulgate the new state constitution adopted by the people this week by an overwhelming majority, is here. The subject will be taken up with the president as soon as he gets back to Washington next week. J. R. Thomas, of Muskogee, who represented Oklahoma Territory in congress for ten years, gave out a statement today in which he takes it for granted that the chief executive will refuse to promulgate the constitution. “Oklahoma and Indian territorities are safely Republican,” said he, “in spite of the returns showing that the Democrats have carried the proposed state. There is no possibility of the admission of Oklahoma uner the present constitution. We are certain that the matter will go back to its old status. The explantion for the course the recent election took is to be found in the apathy on the part of Republicans in the contest over the adoption of the constitution. They felt a delicacy in voting against the constitution in the face of the fact that it meant that the Territories would be kept out of the Union for a year or two longer. They simply stayed away from the polls and let the matter drift. They failed - to become enthusiastic over the election of officers who, they felt would never be seated in the absence of a possibility of the national government approving the constiution.

Washington, Sept. 21.—Senator Albert J. Beveridge and Mrs. Beveridge, who sailed from Cherbourg for New York yesterday on board the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 11, will, upon their arrival in America, come to Washington to make arrangements for their home here during the congressional session, after which they will go to their residence in Indianapolis, to remain until about December 1. Mrs. Beveridges parents, Mr. and Mrs. August N. Eddy, sailed on the same ship with them for America, and will also come to Washington. They have retained their apartments at 1155 Sixteenth street. o TAKE POSSESSION AT ONCE Jacob Kalver Will Probably Locate in Chicago—New Firm Will Prove A Strong One. According to the terms of a deal consumated Saturday the Hub Clothing and Shoe store was sold to Messrs. Irvin Brandyberry, Charles D. Teeple and Calvin Peterson. The invoice began today and the new owners will take immediate possession. The Hub is located in the Allison block, one of the best corners in Decatur and has enjoyed a splendid patronage during the past four years. The owners, Barney Kalver and Sons, are well known over the county and during their time in the retail business have continued a reputation for honesty and square dealing. The manager, Jacob Kalver, one of the most progressive business men ever located in this city, and his ever lasting push and energy has been the cause of his success. The sale was made owing to his poor health during the past three months, he having recently been operated on. He expects to recuperate for two or three months, after which he will probably accept a position offered him in Chicago, as manager of sheet muslin departments in three of the largest stores of that city. Barney Kalver and son Isadore, will continue as residents of Decatur, in the junk and fertilizer business. The new firm is a bunch of hustlers and modern business men, who will secure their share of the trade. Mr. Brandyberry is one of the bept known men in the county, having served as county auditor and county superintendent. For a year past he has resided in Colorado, but deciding that old Adams county had all the rest of the country discounted, both as a living and business place he returned, determined to go into business. Mr. Teeple has been engaged in the clothing business for many years, working in the various stores. For two years he has served as head clerk at the Elzey and Vance store. Mr. Peterson, junior member of the firm, is a young man of many excellent attainments. He has had considerable experience in clothing, having been at the Myers-Daily store. All three of the gentlemen are popular and clever and we prediot a prosperous future for them. Watch for the? announcement In a few days.

IN NORTH PART OF TOWN Made Necessary by Various Industries Dispute as to Rights Had Been on Several Years. For two years or more there has been a controversy concerning the right of the G. R. ind I. railroad to operate over a switch which runs through the north part of town, over the land ownel by Henry Mayer and John Spuhler. The switch is necessary, or rather aids to the convenience of the Fort Wayne and Springfield railway company, the Jonn D. Meyer saw mill and the cement block factory -and they and the G. R. and 1. have been making an effort to settle the controversy. Friday afternoon the deal was consumated by the G. Rand I. buying the strip of land, twen-ty-four set wide across the Mayer property. The purchase price was $450 of which the railroad paid S3OO and the other parties $l5O, the deed being made out to the G. R. and I. Formerly the railroad held a ten-year lease. This expired about two years ago and shortly afterward Mr. Mayer had the trainmen arrested for trespass, but the court acquitted the men. Today’s sale will put an end to the controversy.

RESOLUTION OF CONDOLENCE. Whereas, The merciful and beneficent ruler and father of all has called our brother, Albert Marker, from the scenes and activities of this life into the eternal world, and Whereas, He in his boundless mercy doeth all things well, though oftentimes his dispensations be shrouded in mystery to us and leads us into deep mourning, because our finite minds are unable to fathom them, Therefore, Be it resolved, That we, as brothers, bow in humble submission to him, and while we so deeply mourn our loss we most, sincerely join in extending our sympathy to the grief stricken fa mily, and pray that the holy one may administer to them the oil of joy for mourning and beauty for ashes. Resolved, That we cherish and emulate the noble traits that characterized the life of our departed brother in living among us "not for self only, but in the exemplifications of the true teachings of our brother, in that of bettering all by kindness and good deeds with whom he associated and came in contact. Resolved, That we spread these resolutions upon our minutes, and forward a copy to the beraved family. HARVEY HARRUFF, SAMUEL BUTLER, L. C. HELM, Committee. St. Marys lodge No. 167, I. O. O. F. Decatur, Ind. Dated this 9th day of September, 1907. o — Indiana Prohibitionists are interested in a meeting of the Prohibition national committee which will be held at Chicago, Nov. 20, to decide upon the time and place for the next Prohibition national convention. The indications are that the convention will be awarded to Atlanta, Ga., as a recognition of the fact that beginning on Jan. 1, 1908, Atlanta will be the largest city in the world under prohibition. A boy at Rushville, Indiana, after witnessing a man at the state fair, eat fire, w’ent home and thought he would try the same scheme. He filled his mouth with gasoline and then touched a match to it. He is now in the hospital, but will live. The same boy broke his shoulder last fall by taking his umbrella to the top of the barn and afterwards jumping off. He thought to use the umbrella for a parachute.

While in the act of bleeding the air of a freight train in the Clover Leaf north yards at 5:40 this morning, C. McConahy, of Van Wert, a brakeman on the road, was struck by locomotive No. 40 and was badly injured. He was taken to the office of the com pany’s surgeon where an examination showed his hip and back had been badly bruised and he had sustained gashes on his head and chest His hands were also injured.—Frankfort Crescent. “Amanda C. Drake, of Milford, who sued her husband fdr divorce in the Kosciusko circuit court testified on the stand that her husband bought just one dress for her in twenty years. Os course that does not mean that she got along with one dress for twenty but she had to dig for her finery herself. Other shortcomings of hubby were enumerated and the decree was granted. Miss Bessie Hale accompanied Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Boyd home to Spencerville, Ohio, today for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd were here attending the wedding of Miss Nellie Hale. Miss Bessie fell down the_stairway off the back porch at the Hale home this morning and had a narrow escape from being hurt Fortunately, however, she escaped injury and was able to take the

DEATH AND BIRTH RECORDS Os Great Importance to Families and to the state—Co-Operation of Citizens is Asked. The vital statistics law pissed by the last legislature will be put into force October Ist by the state board of health. This law requires doctors and midwives to report all deaths, births and Infectious diseases they attend upon blanks supplied by the state board. When no doctor or midwife is in attendance, then reports shall be made by the parents or householders. These legal records are of the greatest importance to families and to the state. In hundreds of instances in the past, inheritances, insurance and pensions have been lost because no legal records existed of death or of birth. In one instance in Indiana an inheritance of $12,000 reverted to the national treasury of Switzerland, because the doctor had not reported the birth of the person. This record would have proved the required relationship. Any fl mily is likely at any time to need records of births and deaths, and all are therefore interested in having the same reported and properly recorded. Besides being of the utmost importance and value at unexpected times to families and individuals, these records are essential for the scientific control of sanitary affairs. Boards of health must know who is dying, where they are dying and what they are dying of in order to intelligently conduct disease prevention work. This information is given by vital statistics. The state board of health requests ail citizens to co-operate with physicians and health officers in this important work by seeing to it that correct records are made of the deaths, births and contagious diseases occurring in their families. -■ o --- TRANSFER SOF REAL ESTATE. Reported by the Decatur Abstract and Loan Co. Money to loan on farms and city property, on long time and at a low rate of interest. We write abstracts and insure titles. Office over Traction station, Decatur, Indiana. Charles Conrad to Edward Goldner, lot No. 4, Preble, S2OO. Thomas T. Lister, to Charles F. Kitson, lot No. 2, Decatur, Indiana, $650. John J. Meyer to Henry Meyer, SW% section 28. Union tp., SI,OOO. Benton J, Hough to Jacob P. Hawbegger, section 23, French tp., $2,500. " ' < Peter Frank to Sam Frank, part outlot No. 86. Decatur, Ind., Jacob D. Hawbegger to Benton J. Hough, section 25, French tp.. $2,500. John D. Neidlinger to Walton Noach part section 25. Union tp., SBOO. Catharine Rugg to Belus Van Camp, NW%SW% section 26, Root tp., $3,600. H. F. Smith, guardian, to Charles Steele, part outlot No. 72, Decatur, Ind, $725. John M. Deel to Lewis Fruchte, E. part NER4 section 22, Wabash tp., $6,000. C. F. Stuckey et a! to Wm. Stepler, part section 3, French tp., SI.OO. Orel Gillium to Wm. Stepler, part section 3, French tp., $2,350. S. N. Dorwin to Ora Roe, lot No. 1020, Decatur, Ind., SIOO. William E. Evert to S. O. Franks, SWHSW% section 35 in tp. 26, N. R. BABY IRENE ROE IS DEAD. Daughter of Charles Roe, of Pleasant Mills, Died Last Night. Vera Irene, the ten months’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Roe,of Pleasant Mills.died Friday evening after an illness of several weeks’ duration, death resulting from summer complaint. The babe had just reached the age where it had become a household necessity and the fond parents had commenced to think of its future happiness and now that the hand of death has stilled it forever, the grief of the parents knows no bounds. The guneral services was held Sunday afternoon at two o’clock at the Baptist church at Pleasant Mills, Rev. Payne officiating, and interment will be made in the Pleasant Mills cemetery. FOUND AT LAST. J. A. Harmon, of Lizemore, West Va says; “At last I have found the perfect pill that never disappoints me; and for the benefit of others afflicted with torpid liver and chronic constipaDr ’ 8 New oc e T!!! 8 ’ Guaranteed satisfactory. 25c at Blackburn Pharmacy. * “ —■o — Stimulation without Irritation tbc watchword. That if ri ln ° bMaUTe Ouit. Syrup does Cleanses and stimulates the boW m!™ Uhout lrrlt *tlon U any form. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO

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OUT twenty-four!-First Ballot Stood Eight) H Defendant, But the ally Won Out rS It required just twenty -ILg for the jury in the Beeler vs. Samuel E upon a verdict, which turned at 4 •- ■’ »ck The verdict favored the ing her the owner of the furniture for which she slj 0 £ plevin. Attorney Smith. a the defendant. immediately®# new trial ind says he such a verdict was not v.* 8 | the evidence. the first ballot stood the defendant, but the have convinced the eight ally won out. The Beelersfca ried last spring.but only two months. Now the twnx “Who owns the furniture’’’ was tried before i justice the same verdict as the ■■ fct’terday and returned. the furniture had already up In costs. I — Looking the picture of IxE expressing unfeigned the meeting with old Maurice Rosenthal, of returned from his protrac:-.fc u the west, undertaken t-. B a ago, when his own health Wf indications of breaking as of too assiduous devotion »■ mands of his profession.— Gazette. | Everybody thought when I Bl died, that would end the centricity, but he has a bnfl who seems to be pulling thesO He, like his brother Sam >:■ gelist, and a few days ago, M ducting a meeting at DecaJ and because his audience become enthusiastic ’ J --® to hell where they wouldbeq to get a move on. A “woman in black has discovered in Hartford lidterious person has been see? surrounding cities, but in 11(1 had she been captured- ®r| in this city was noticed night by residents of nortkj street. Al Mills, who Bank saloon, and several dents of Cherry street. f«H that they had a glimP M J acting person who wasatti . in black— Hartford City That is a most Chicago, where two « claiming a young woman. >. surprising that er ; fathers, sisters, husband. P» friends identify her abEo ' a verse persons, but that should each claim her as almost unprecendented. from both sides show a similarity, and it is of cOU mistaken identity on one other, with the changes favor of the side whic tt | woman herself takes. j The question is often long will these motion P‘ e ■ . last?” An answer that nJ correct as any is. that — J as long as they gi' e , entertainment for price of five cents, a show for people t , ; luxuries are denied, but 1 able fact, that all kinds ' tend and take an e in every show.