Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1908 — Page 7

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IN UNIQUE WAY At a Called Meeting of the Menu-Ates at Her Home Last Night With her home beautifully decorated in prevailing colors of red,white and pink. Miss Emma Hoffman as hostess. delightfully entertained the mem-1 bers of the Menu-Ates last night and in a unique manner she announced her engagement to Walter L. Flew, a banker at Gary, Indiana. The menu Ate girls gathered at the beautiful home promptly at six o'clock, where an elaborate four course dinner was served much to the delight of all. Ribbons to the number of six were extended from the overhanging chandelier to each plate, arranged for the six girls, connoted with which were hand painted bridal wreath cards containing the names of the bride and groom to be and thus the news of the coming marriage of this most estimable couple was announced to the most intimate friends of the bride to be. As planned, the marriage will occur some time during next September, immediately after which the happy couple will repair to Gary, where a furnished home will await their arrival. Miss Hoffman, is one of Decatur’s most popular girls. Her kind disposition and sterling worth has made for her a multitude of staunch friends who wish for her a most prosperous matrimonial career. Mr. Plow is a prosperous young business man who went to Gary when but a few hotises had been constructed. He engaged in the banking business and has met with- an abundance of success. The Menu-Ate girls who enjoyed the hospitality of the Intend ed bride were Misses Lucile Hale, Frances Merryman, Marie Beery, Pansy Bell and Miss Edna Hoffman. Misses Fannie Frlsinger and Winifred Johnson, the other members of the organization who are attending I. U. at Bloomington, were sent announcements of the future marriage. o A GREAT DEMAND Keeps Them Humping to Keep Pace With Telephone Requests

F. M. Schirmeyer, secretary and manager of the affairs of the Citizens’ Telephone Company, came home Friday night from Chicago. While there he purchased 10,000 feet of cable ■which will be used In extensions for their service in this city. The new cable will be placed on north Fifth street, west Monroe street and north and south Eleventh street. The cable in the alley between First and Second streets will be replaced with one hundred pair cable, that in use at present being insufficient to the excessive service demanded. This, however, is the cry from all quarters of the city. The Citizens’ company has ever and always been progressive, but at that it is difficult for them to keep pace with the demand for additional service. The new cable will enable them to furnish telephones to every one in the city. They are experiencing the same trouble in keeping up their country telephones. New subscribers are daily after them and they now completely cover the northern part of the county. The bulk of the additions lately have come from Preble and that vicinity. Stock in the Citizens' Telephone company still keeps soaring, and it is almost impossible to pick, up even a few measly shares. Dr. D. D. Clark has been the lucky one lately, but at that it is difficult to find any for sale. ■ • THEY HELP THE FARMER. Fort Wayne and Springfield a Great Advantage to Farmers. The Ft. Wayne & Springfield Ry. Co. carries into Ft. Wayne every morning 400 gallons of milk which nets to the farmers along the road $48.00 per day. They also carry butter, eggs, chickens, hay, grain and in fact ev- j erything that is grown on .the farm, j and deliver to the farmer anything that he may order from the cities or towns. There are 15 or 20 children and young men and women who go to school at Ft. Wayne, that take advantage of the interurban and board at home, thus saving a large board bill. It increases rhe value of their farms from fifteen to twenty-five dollars per acre. The increased price of butter, eggs and other products for the past year In Decatur Is claimed to bo due to the farmers sending it to Ft. Wayne where better prices could be obtained.

A FINAL REPORT) Shepherd Estate to Be Settled as Insolvent— Damage Case Dore B. Erwin was appointed by the Adams circuit court as a commissioner to sell eighty acres of realty In Monroe township, and as such i commissioner will give bond in the 1 I sum of 115,000. This commissionship arose from the parttiion suit of Rebecca Stauffer et al, vs. John B. Duer, et al, calling for a division and sale of real estate. The cause was submitted and a finding made in favor of the plaintiffs. In the partioin suit of Eady vs. Fisher, a filial report and account was filed by the commissioner, E. Burt Lenhart, which was allowed by the court, and the commissioner discharged. Andrew Gottschalk as executor of the W. H. Shepherd estate, filed a petition to settle the estate as insolvent. he submitting evidence in proof of this contention. The executor was ordered to so settle said estate and the clerk of the Adams circuit court to give notice of same. ——- — SHOWS A GREAT INCREASE. Church Membership in Indiana is Rapidly Growing. The church membership of Indiana In 1907 increased 70,490 as shown by a report which has just been completed by the Indiana bureau of statistics. The total membership in 1906 was 932,655, in 1907 it was 1,003,145. The report compiled this year by the bureau of statistics is thought to be the most complete ever produced in the state. It is said to be far more nearly accurate than the report which was issued last year, and for this reason comparisons with last year’s report are likely to be misleading. However, it is believed the increase in church membership has been fully as great, if not greater, than that shown by the comparison of the 1906 figures and the 1907 figures. Last year's report was based largely on estimates. This year the different denominations pf tjie state, knowing that a report was to be issued, have kept tab on increase In membership value of church property, money raised, etc.

FORMERLY LIVED IN ADAMS CO. Mrs. Kirchner, of Fort Wayne, Died Friday Morning. Mrs, Rosine Kirchner, a venerable resident of this city, and for many years prior to 1881 a resident of AdI ams county, died on Friday morning at the advanced age of eighty-nine years at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Krauskopf, 1224 Oak street. Mrs. Kirchner was born in Elsfeld, Theringen, Germany, in 1819, and came to Adams county in 1854, making the trip to Fort Wayne byway of the old Wabash and Erie canal. In 1881 she came to this city to reside and had been living with her daughter ever since. She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran church and is survived by her two children, F. Kirchner and Mrs. Krauskopf. The funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon at 1:45 o'clock from the residence and 2:15 o'clock from St. Paul’s Lutheran church. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. o CAME HOME FROM THE WEST. George L. Maddy Spent the Winteat Phoenix, Arizona. George L. Maddy came in this morning from Chicago, he having stopped there a few days on his way home from Phoenix, Arizona, which he declares is the greatest climate in this i country. There was not a day during the entire winter when It was necessary to stay indoors, It being warm and pleasant. Mr. Maddy will take up his work in the Indiana and Ohio territory for Pick & Co., the Chicago jobbers In fixtures and supplies for hotels and restaurants.

M. MILLER DITCH SOLD. Surveyor Baumgartner Sells Ditch in Sections. County Surveyor Baumgartner sold the Matthias Miller ditch located in Blue Creek and Monroe townships Saturday at 10:30 o'clock. It was sold in four sections as follows: First section,, Ora Andrews. $349.95; second and fourth sections, A. A. Roebuck, $275 and $220; third section, C. J Jones, $443. The funeral of Milford Davison, who died of old age, was held at Tocsin yesterday. He was an unde to Mm. Davison and Mrs. Dave Summers of this city.

Returning - from work at Thursday, William Ellinger, a farmer southwest of Goshen, found his wife in a dying condition from carbolic acid which she had taken with suicidal Intent. Mrs. Ellinger lived but five minutes. She left a note addressed to her husband, bidding him an affectionate farewell and praying his forgiveness. The woman stated simply that she was tired of life. ELWOOD THE FAVORED ONE. Washington, April 18. —Congressman Adair got one public building tacked onto the omnibus building bill, and that one goes to Elwood. Fifty thousand dollars Is the amouat appropriated. GENTIS TO PREBLE Assessing Standard Property —County Board of Review The assessors who have been working in Decatur, have about concluded the labors of personally collecting the schedules of assessments as filled out by those assessable for taxes. This same condition prevails throughout, the county. Within a few days the township assessors will begin listing each assessment list Into an assessor’ book, and this will be completed and returned to the county assessor by May 15. County Assessor Gentls was at Preble Friday to assist the Preble township assessor in listing the property of the Standard Oil company there. The Standard has a great pumping station and will be listed at from $60,000 to $70,000. Besides being a great industry for Preble and furnishing employment to a large force of men, the Standard also helps pay the taxes of Preble township, and enables them to keep their tax Ivey below the high water mark. The county board of review will meet the first Monday in June, and it will be their duty to equalize the tax<n of every individual in the county. They will be in session thirty days, completing their work along the first few days in July. The board is composed of County Assessor Gentis, ■ Auditor Lewton, Treasurer Lachot and ■ 'wo others yet to be appointed by the : | judge of the Adams circuit court.

From information given by those engaged in as..--cCns the property of the county, there will be’a Very noticeable increase in the total valuation fiver that of one year ago. The Increase in values is one of the best criterions of growth and stability. A PATHETIC STORY Governor Pattison Never Realized the Victory He Won The widow of the late Governor John M. Pattison is reported critically ill in a hospital in the city of Mexico, whither she has gone on a southern tour for the benefit of her falling health. Mrs. Pattison has never recovered from the shock of her distinguished husband's death and the nervous strain due to her long attendance upon him during his illness. The pathos of the personal story grew out of the last gubernatorial campaign in this state appeals to every sympathetic heart. Governor Pattison had just realized the greatest ambition of his life and his devoted family circle had just prepared to share with him the responsibilities of great future usefulness, when an Inexplicable Providence decreed the abandonment of all his plans and the sundering of tics that bound him to those lie loved. Here was a candidate who never realized the victory he won; here was a governor who never performed an executive act; here was a man who bowed to the inexorable decree on a bed of long suffering, when every indication of his career led to the belief that he had long years of public duty and honors before him.

Clarence Hull, of Tocsin, went to Ohio City this morning. He was accompanied by Miss Mary Wlnnas wh j is returning to her home at Rockford after visiting with Oliver Hull and family at Tocsin. A contract was written today by which David Gottschalk trades his south Main street residence to William Chandler for -a 60-acre farm near Elkhart, valued at SBO an acre. It lies within a half mile of the farm of Morris Feeser.—Bluffton News. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nash and son Garald returned ; ita their home at Amboy. Ind., after visiting relatives hero. They were accompanied by Miss Merle Coppock for a few days’ visit at Amboy.

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