Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1908 — Page 6

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TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. Reported by the Decatur 'Abstract and Loan Company. Money to loan at lowest rate of interest on farms and city property. Privilege of partial payments. Abstracts of title carefullyand neatly prepared. Rooms 3 and 4 Traction Building. Decatur, Ind. State to B. W. Sholty, inlot 7, Geneva, 31.80. State to B. W. Sholty, section 3, Washington township. 33.25. State to B. W. Sholty, inlot 689, Decatur, 325.14. State to B. W. Sholty, Inlot No. 25, Geneva, Ind., 32.21. Ed S. Christen to Fannie Christen, Sec. 16, Root township, 33.000. Amos W. Snyder to Wm. Eicher, Sec. 13, Hartford township, 32,675., Sam S. Egly to Henry Schindler, lot 140, Berne, 31,000. H. M. Zook to H. M. Zook & Co , Sec. 33, Berne, 34,000. Anthon Simon to Christen E. Stauffer, part inlot 352, Berne, Ind., 3175. Catharine Causey to John Huser, Sec. 36, Monroe township, 39,000. Berne Grain & Hay Co., to Trustees Geneva lodge, lot 143, Geneva, 32,350. State to Robert Smith, Sec. 8, St. Marys township. Cassius M. Andrews to Mary L. Andrews Sec. 27 Union township, 36,000. G. W. Curran to Henry Bovine, Sec. 19. St. Marys township, 33.500. Isabell Young to Marcus Barto, Sec. 32 St. Marys township, 3500. Hester Ross to Henry Sovine, Inlot 533, Decatur, 31,500. Christina R. Niblick to Isabell Young, Sec. 32, St. Marys township, 31.00. o — A third class of Berne young people, 21 in number, has just recently completed a three years’ course in teachers’ training work as outlined by the State Sunday school association. A former class was composed of 22 students and completed the three years’ work in one year. One class of 4 of the Evangelical church, two classes of 21 and 22 of the Mennonite church, 47 in all from Berne, is our record to date—Berne Witness. Joe A. burton, an authority on fruit in southern Indiana, reports that the apple crop this year will be light, except Ben Davis, which will produce a full crop. There will be some peaches and cherries, with plenty of berries. The meadows never looked more promising, and the wheat is in excellent condition. There has been little corn planted yet on account of the excessive rains. Ed Wetzel, an employe at the Coppock Motor Car company was painfully injured yesterday afternoon, while working near an emery wheel. The young man was standing near tike emery wheel when in gome manner he became over-balanced, falling against the wheel, and before he cos’d regain his foothold, his hand badly cut. The injured meroioer «j.; cared for and after etuspejiding wwk for a few hours, he wm ,e vj }<■ same his duties. , Decatur readers of the and Indiandpolig Stars have noticed the absence of murder and scandal suorie, from the front pages of those publications. While neither paper lacks a ■ bit of sensationalism it is not to be found on the. front cover in the future. This is due to an order of George C. Hitt, of Indianapolis, who wag recently made receiver for the Star league. It is an original idea of the receiver that such news, always the most sought for, will enhance the ' value of advertising space on the inside.

THIS MORNING Origin a Mystery—Loss Will Aggregate sl,lO0 — Insurance S7OO The home of Dayton Steele in the vicinity of the Steele school house was completely destroyed by fire Saturday, the irigin of which is a puzzle to all. Mr. and Mrs. Steele had just completed eating dinner when they detected the smell of smoke. Upon opening the kitchen door, they were horrified to se the back portion of their home enveloped in sweeping flames. As best he could. Mr. Steele carried water to extinguish the conflagration, but in vain as ere the flames han oecome extinct the house, furnishings and about twenty fruit trees were completely destroyed. Samuel Helm, who resides near the Steele home, noticed flames escaping from the roof when he drove past this noon and the concensus of opinion is to the effect that a spark from the chimney is the cause of the conflagration. It is estimated that the loss of the house, furnishings and ' contiguous fruit trees will aggregate 31.100. while 3700 insurance was carried. It is probable that Mr. Steele , will build a new home. OTHER SOCIAL ITEMS Special Church Services Tomorrow—Leipsic Party Here for Dance The Senior dance given at the K. of C. hall Friday evening was a grand success. The hall was beautifully decorated in the D. H. S. colors and senior colors and pennants of this school and several universities. Promptly at 9:00 o'clock the grand march began and was a very pretty scene, when more than forty couples were upon the floor. Excellent music was furnished fry the Med Miller orchestra and a long program of dances were given. Every one enjoyed the evening. Some of the out-of-town guests were the Misses Helen McGee and Hunter, of Fort Wayne; Hilda Tudor and Mabel Lord, of Portland; Miss Georgia Long and Mr. and Mrs. Torrence, of Marion; Messrs. Harry Detamore and Clarence Nihcoig of Portland. —————o ————— Miss Bessie Hale has improved so nicely from the recent operation that she underwent that she is now pronounced out of danger and it is expected that she will soon be able to be about once more. Miss Gerard, the trained nurse from Fort Wayne who cared for Miss Hale, was discharged from the case Thursday, as she was no longer needed. She was secured last night to take care of Miss Hale’s uncle J. P. Hale, who was taken sick at his office this week. He is reported better today, and his condition is not considered dangerous, but ft was thought . his Improvement would be more rapid if he had a trained nurse. —Bluffton Banner. George Rodbaugh, of Milford, who had one hand badly injured by being hit by a passenger train on the Penn- ’ sylvania railroad at Bourbon last summer during the fair, has received 31.500 from the company. Tom Cloan, , of Warsaw, who received a broken arm and other injuries at the same time and who was probably permanently Injured, settled soon after the accident for less than 3500. Samuel H. Lewis, colored, who was arrested at Fort Wayne for raising jbills of the 31 denomination to 35, and who is suposed to have been the same party who raised bills in Marion and other gas belt cities, was yesterday, at Indianapolis, fined by Judge A. B. Anderson of the federal court 3100 and given five years in the Fort Leavenworth prison. Lewis entered a plea of guilty. The officers of the M. E. Sunday school had planned to hold their annual picnic at Winona this year. Plans , were au*o complete to conduct an ex- * ..'Mon from this place; tickets to be fvrxU-hed free of charge. However, K has been thought advisable to post"he same one year. The school v n probably enjoy another trip to j UfAAvjti park this year as they did , iaat. Charles King, of Elwood, 22 years of age, wagered his friends that he could drink a glass of beer with a i pool ball in big mouth. The ivory sphere went in all right, but when he went to drink the liquid he found tha be could not control his tongue or swallowing apparatus. It required the services of three physicians to get the ball out of his mouth. Now he is (threatened with lockjaw. ! Mrs. Rebecca Weaver, of Addison, Michigan, is visiting with her sister, Mrs. A. D. Artman,

HE STOLE A HORSE , Is Said to Have Made a Trade With Some One Here In arresting J. F. Crossman at i Middlepoim. Sheriff Hott made no mistake. Sheriff Ed Haas, of Kosciusko county, Indiana, the county seat of which is Warsaw, arrived I here yesterday noon, and after takllng a look at the prisoner in jail i identified him as the fellow who had • j stolen a strawberry roan mare and I buggy from the farm home of William Cook, four miles southwest of ; Warsaw, on Monday evening. Th? thief the next day went through • Luther. Ind. A short distance out ;of town he permitted a boy who I asked to ride to go with him a short distance. The lad discovered that , the driver was minus the first joint ■I of the index finger on the right ■ i hand. The man arrested by Sheriff Hott tallies with the description, jbut he has traded the mare presum- ■ I ably near Decatur. Ind., for the anil mal found in Oglesbee’s livery barn at Middlepoint. Wednesday night. ' Mr. Cooke has identified the buggy as his property. Sheriff Haas took the prisoner with him on the 5 , o’clock traction car yesterday afternoon to Fort Wayne. This makes the fifth horse thief, also one auto thief Sheriff Hott has captured within a year. That's a pretty good record for a county the size of Van Wert. Promptness of the livery people at Middlepoint in reporting their suspicion and promptness of sheriff in going to Middlepoint and arresting him on suspicion are to be commend ed.—Van Wert Times. o————— — WORKED POLITICS Campaign Publicity Bill— The Fort Wayne Ship Canal Washington, May 23.—The allied candidates for the Republican nomination for president have sent to every Republican member of congress and nearly all of the prominent party leaders a circular letter that is attracting much attention. This circular is the most outspoken utterance of the pre-convention campaign. “History will repeat itself at Chicago.” says the letter. “No pre-convention favorite ever won a nomination for president in a Republican convention since th* founding of the party except William McKinley, and back of him was a tidal wave of popular senti- ■ meat which is not surging for Secretary Taft, and Harrison in 1892, nominated by the officeholders and beaten by the people. Seward had twothirds of the delegates to the convention of 1860 pledged. Blaine was within twenty-six votes of a nomination on the first ballot in 1876, nearer ; than Secretary Taft will be. The fatal weakness of the Taft candidacy,” continues this remarkable letter, “is that it is an absolutely machine-made product.” In this case the hyphenated word, “machine-made,” is heavily underscored. Furthermore, say the allies, the Taft machine-made candidacy "is not vitalized by popular senfirn put.” Washington, May 23—The Fort Wayne ship canal project received a big boost when the house committee on railways and canals submitted a report to the house informing the country what a great blessing this improvement would be. The report points out the unmeasurable benefits to Indiana and says the construction of the canal would be a long step forward in the conservation of the nation’s natural resources. — ■ » TRYING TO FIND CANDIDATE. Allen County Republican Up Against It. Mr. E. Ralph Yarnelle stated to the Journal-Gazette yesterday that he would not accept the Republican nomination for joint senator for Allen and Adams counties in opposition to Mr. S. B. Fleming. The Republican Readers have been trying for two months to find a man to accept the nomination and had decided to confer the doubtful honor upon Mr. Yarnelle. That, gentleman, while he likes politics, says he will decline respectfully, basing his refusal to run for the office on the stress of private business which demands all his attention. —Ftort Wayne Journal-Gazette. o , . Miss Bertha Heller, who has taught at Alexandria for two years past, will complete the school year this week and will arrive Saturday to spend the Summer with her parents, Judge and Mrs. D. D. Heller.

TO THE WEMHOFF CO. Will Be Built of Berry and Westerley Granite —Stone Ordered Today A contract was closed Friday nigh, whereby the Wemhoff Monumental Works agree to erect a $3,000 monument on the Niblick lot at St. Joseph cemetery, to mark the resting place of the late William H. Niblick. The monument will be one of the most beautiful in the entire state, is to be sixteen feet high with a base eight feet wide and six feet in depth. It ' will represent a cross at the bottom ' right hand side of which stands a statute of the Goddess of Remembrance. bearing in her hand a stem of lilies, representing the members of ' I the family and showing that one, beloved. has been plucked therefrom. The stone proper is to be built from Berry, Vermont, rock and the statute | from Westerley, Rhode Island, granite. The sculpture work on the statute will be done by F. Barnicoat, of Quincy. Mass., whose reputation is world wide. Manager George Wemhoff has already ordered the stone for the monument, which he expects to have complete by October Ist. The photograph of the proposed monument, taken from a similar one erected at Dayton, Ohio, shows its beauty. o — WILL BE INTERESTING D. E. Smith Will Deliver Address at Court House —The Ritual A committee from the G. A. R. consisting of Messrs. J. H. Smith, S. B. Fordyce and Dr. Raineer and a W. R. C. committee met at the G. A. R. hall Friday nightofr the purpose of perfecting the program, which will be observed on Decoration Day by the veterans and their friends. Promptly at nine o’clock on the morning of May 30 the old soldiers will form in line at the hall and march to the different cemeteries to decorate the graves of their departed brothers, returning to the hall, where a delicious dinner will be served by the W". R. C. ladies free of charge to the veterans. They reassemble at one o’clock p .m., and march in a body to the court house, where the ritual services will be observed. beside an address by Attorney D. E. Smith and special vocal music which will be rendered. Invitations have been extended to all schools and orders to participate in the services. After the services at the court house the participants will form in line on Court street, march south on Third street to Adams, thence west to Fourth, thence north to Monroe and thence east to the St. Marys river where the Relief Corps will strew flowers on the water in memory of the navy. From here the line of march will continue back to the post room and disbandment will be in order. The following ;committee was appointed at last night’s meeting to make all necessary arrangements for the occasion: Finance, Daniel Kitson; flowers, George Cline > and Jacob Railing; vocal music, J. D. Hale and Dr. Raineer; marshal music, Henry Lankenau, S. B. Fordyce, Daniel Shackley, J. H. Smith. PARENTS TO ATTEND Mr. and Mrs. E. X. Ehinger Left for Louisville to Witness Ceremony Mr.and Mrs. E. X. Ehinger left Saturday for Louisville, Ky., where they attended the services which will advance their son, Lawrence, another step in the study for the priesthood. Lawrence left here two years and a half ago, going t 0 Dunkirk where he spent eighteen months in a preparatory school, going from there io Louisville, where he has studied a year. At this time he has advanced to the stage where he really enters the study for the priesthood, which requires ten years of further study, giving him an almost unequalled educltion. The taking of the vow at this time is a most impressive ceremony and a solemn occasion and it is most fitting ..hat his proud parents witness this epoch in their son’s life Lawrence’s further study will be continued at Cincinnati and other cities and his future career wilf be watched wUh interest. Carl Crawford, another Decatur boy, took the vow about six nths ago and is now at Cincinnati. at^orT^w^ 8 ' Sam Wllliams were oJ- - transactin E business ay leaTln « on ten o clock car.

A PARTITION SU The Sheets Land Divide< The Tinkham Drain Ordered Homer Pontius et al has sold eiz acres in Jefferson township t 0 n o] Pontius, transfered through Ver Pontius, for $6,000. Fr e( j { pert has sold to Dore B. Erwin, lot in Decatur for 31,400. The jury required but forty , utes to decide that F. H. Davidson, Bluffton wool merchant, didn’t ( Weil Brothers a cent. They reti shortly after three o’clock yester and came in about four o’clock i a verdict for the defendant. The t began Monday and every minute a fight. The plaintiffs asked for no, clalmiz-g that Davidson, who been their agent at Bluffton, had j more than the limit allowed him had shipped them western wool stead of Indiana wool, but the seems to have held otherwise. Issues in the partition case of Na Sheets vs, Christopher C. Sheets al were completed and the cause mitted. Finding that plaintiff is c er of 7-42, C. C. Sheets. 8. P. Sht Samantha Shackley and Minnie Sh own 1-42, and Ruby and M. T. Sh each own 15-42 and the other 1 each own 1-168 part of real estati question. Sale of real estate orde C. L. Walters appointed commissi! his bond being fixed at 315,000. The Sylvester C. Tinkham ei drain was ordered constructed an L. Baumgartner, Charles Morrison Robert Davis appointed commlssloi to view the lands affected and re according to law. W. E. Swartz ’ vs. Journal Pub ing Co., report of payment of ferred claims filed and receiver dered to distribute 8350 of bah on hands to the creditors proral Dhonis Schmitt, guardian, vs. J Brown, partition, motion by Br that petition be made more spe overruled, demurrer overruled; am aad interrogatories filed. Fort Wayne and Springfield Ry. vs. G. R. and 1., injunction, demu overruled, answer filed by defenc The jury was discharged for term this morning. There are t more weeks of court, but none of causes set are to be tried by jffi Elmer Eley has been appointed ministrator of the estate of S B. McDaniel and filed bond for $1 signed by J. M. Frisinger. George C. McCune was appoi guardian for Forest E. McCune filed his bond in the sum of $1.21 IN ADAMS COUN It is Probable That Cornu sioners Will Favor th Projects as Advanced As is generally known by A< county farmers, at the May ten the county commissioners, this was petitioned for the constr® of eight macadam roads in the < ty. Viewers were appointed ac ing to law, to view the condi of the roads in question and Satu the sixteen men appointed to do work, filed their final report at county surveyor’s office. When commissioners meet June Ist. il body approve the reports, the t will be constructed as proposedroads and viewers are as foil Arthur Fisher road, Henry Wafel William Hoile; Geneva, Ceylon Wabash township extension No. W. Scoles and J. N. Peel: Bt road, W. D. Conrad and Daniel man; Rroadstock road, A .J. and Aaron Bricker; J, A. Hend road, Fred Busick and Ed Luttl John P. Nussbaum road, Crist E and L. N. Grandstaff; Adolph £ road, J. T. Keller and Georgl Maurer; and John Beeler road, liam Zimmerman and David S All of the above named viewers their report today and In all ability all of the proposed imi ments will be made, in which ma the Adams county farmers are ested. — o Mr. F. R. Good left for Chicago morning. He is arepresentativ the Wisconsin Lumber companj while here he made a large s« lumber to the Decatur Egg Case! pany, to be used in the Miss o " 1 ! Arkansas factories. i