Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1908 — Page 6

HHE manufacturers of Clothcraft Clothes long ago foresaw that the easiest and best way to increase the demand for their garments —was to make them honestly and be honest with their customers—the wearers* To put the best possible value in their garments and sell them at a moderate cost to many, rather than at a greater profit to a few —was their endeavor. This is why Clothcraft Clothes are sucn big values at such moderate prices. SIO.OO to $25.00 Holthouse,Schulte <&=Co

THE NEW DIRECTORS Large Attendance Nearly a Hundred and Fifty at Dinner About a hundred and twenty-five stockholders of the Fort Wayne and Springfield railroad company, a number of them, accompanied by their wives, gathered Saturday to attend the second annual Banquet. From all appearances It was a most successful and happy event. The doings opened in the company’s assembly office in > the Morrison block, at 10:30, where a business session was held and a ■ board of directors chosen. At noon a big dinner was served by the Decatur Royal Neighbors camp, in the Elks lodge room, the menu being as follows: Noodle Soup Celery Radishes Spring Onions Jumbo Pickles Spring Chicken Prime Roast Beef Mashed Potatoes Potato Salad Brown Baked Beans Cold Slaw Brown Gravy Home Made Bread Fruit Lemon and Rhubarb Pie Brick Ice Cream and Cake Coffee Plenty of Water Cigars Following this feast came an Interesting program. W. H. Fledderjohann, acting as toastmaster. Rev. W. J. Myers offered the invocation and was followed by John H. Koenig, his subject being “What our stockholders have accomplished." T. W. Shelton’s toast was “How stockholders will be benefitted by extending the line.” A. G Kelly gave “Developments of transportation facilities.” Benj. F. Heaton was on the program for an address "How people can be benefitted by public improvements and especially by

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interurbans.” Hon. C. J. Lutz gave the closing toast, "In unison ther e is strength; our small stockholders will be protected.” During the banquet special music was furnished by the German Liederkranz of Nev Bremen, Ohio. Among those from Ohio who attended the meeting were: L. E. Kattman, H. Bielfeld, Herman Kruse, Wes ley Kruse, Louis Lammers and Dr. H. E. Fledderjohann, of New Knoxville Ohio; John Hirschfeld, William Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. J. Koenig, Mr, and Mrs. J. Howell, and Mrs. Anna Danaher, Mrs. Coffee and Mr. and Mrs. fleorge Ilgien of St. Marys; Louis Schmitmeyer, F. B. Steineman and H. Lienfng, of Minster, Ohio; C. F. I Limbach, H, A. Schrage, G A. Kumj ming, William Dierker, J. Fritz, Henry , Krull, E. G. Conradi, William Kuest and B. O. Fledderjohann, of New I Bremen; Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Whipp, of Beaverdam, Ohio, and J Pierce, of Jackson Center. The new board of directors as elected are John H. Koenig,W. H. Fledderjohann, Edwin Fledderjohann, B. A. Fledderjohann, Charles Dirkson, A. Katterheinrich, Edward Whipp, Lewis Lammers, Martin Gerke, Henry Dirk- • son and Henry Gallmeier. The new' hoard is the same as last year, excepting that Mr. Shelton and Mr. Kirker are replaced by Katterheinrich and Whipp. They will meet Monday evening to elect officers. o— —. THE SUM IS NET All Expenses Paid—Judgment Was for $2,000 — Case Was Appealed Attorney John C. Moran, of the well known firm of Peterson & Moran, went t o Portland Friday, having in his possession a check from County Clerk James P. Haefling for $1,411.43 and which sum he turned over to the heirs of the late Jesse King, being settlement in full on a judgment received ‘against the G. R. & I. railroad company for damages for false imprisonment after all costs and attorneys fees were paid. This judgment is one of the largest recovered in Indiana for many years for false imprisonment. The case followed Kings arrest by a G. R. & I. detective on a charge of robbing the depot at Portland. Afterwards it was found that no robbery had occurred. The case was tried her e on change of venue and was appealed to the supreme court, who sustained the verdict for $2,000 damages, holding the railroad company liable for the detective’s acts, who it was proven abused King shamefully. The I railroad company paid the money to the clerk here, who issued the check ,to the proper person. J. J. Moran of i Portland and Peterson & Moran of this | city were th e attorneys. Mr. King died shortly after the trial of the case, eLEAVES ON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Luther Boyers Will See the Kern River District, Word has been received from Luther Boyers, by his parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Boyers, that he was successful in passing his examination, advancing him from the sophomore to the junior year at Stanford university. With two geologists of note, Profs. Moss and Miller, he has left on a sixty day geological survey through the Kern river district and other parts of California. His friends here are certainly glad to | hear of his splendid success.

WERE HERE TODAY Husband Was Killed in Runaway Accident at Lynn • Thursday It was a party of grief-stricken people who transferred Saturday, accompanying the corpse of Francis Otto Leverton and his unconscious wife from Lynn to Huntington, where the unfortunate yoon man was buried The wife of the deceased had just returned from Huntington about one week ago, where she attended the funeral of her father, D. Davidson, a Huntington policeman, who committed suicide by taking carbolic acid, and she was still undergoing the course of grief which falls to a child when a loving parent is called by the angel of death, when news reached her announcing the fact that her husband had been fatally injured in a runaway. The prostrated woman was conveyed to the scene of the accident eight, miles from Lynn and upon her arrival, she immediately relapsed into unconsciousness, and although twgntyfour hours have passed she unconscious when passing through the city today, her motionless form being carried in a large chair, as she was taken from the G- R. & I- to the Chicago & Erie railroad. who was thirty-thre years of age left his home in a wagon starting for Williamsburg. While descending a hiil the neckyoke strap broke, letting the wagon tongue fall to the ground and the horses started on a rampage. Leverton jumped from the back end of the wagon and his head struck the ground with such force that his skull was badly fractured. He lived but twenty-four hours afterward. The remains were taken in charge by the Red Men’s lodge and taken to Huntington, where burial will take place, the parents of the deceased living there Beside the unconscious widow’, three children and a father and mother survive to mourn the loss. Leverton was known in Decatur.he having worked on the Erie railroad for many years o START A CREAMERY Company Organized Last Fall With $20,000 Capital Stock Articles of incorporation were filed at County Recorder's Steele's office for H. M. Zook & Co., of Berne, according to the papers the company was organized November 18th last for the purpose of conducting a creamery and milk condensory at that place and to buy and sell farm products. The capital stock is $20,000, the issue being 120 shares of stock, valued at SIOO, besides which there are eighty shares of SIOO preferred stock. The stockholders as designated in the incorporation blanks are H. M. Zook, S. B. Zook, A. B. Greunault, Edwin Neuhauser, and Simon Elzey, all of Berne, and the directors chosen to serve during the first year of the company’s existence were S. B. Zook, A. B. Greunault and Edwin Neuhausen It is the hope and expectation of the incorporators to make this new concern one of the many thriving institutions operated in Berne, one of the best towns lying in all out doors. o RAILROAD COMMISSION CHANGE Indianapolis, June 6. —The resignation of Charles V. McAdams, who has been a member of the Indiana Railroad Commission since it was organized in 1905 was accepted by the governor. The governor immediately appointed Henry M. Dowling, at present assistant attorney general, to take the place, and James Bingham, attorney general, appointed W. H. Thompson, of Muncie, to succeed Mr. Dowling. The resignation of Mr. McAdams and the two appointments become effective .next Monday. Mr. McAdams, it is * stated, resigns to practice law in Indianapolis. —o HAS CONTRACTS AT ROANOKE. Julius Haugk Wili Build Brick Streets Streets. The first carload of curbstones tor the paving of Main and Second street has been unloaded and Contractor Julius Haugk, of Decatur, will be at Roanoke in time to begin work next Monday morning. The work on Main will be done first in order that that : street may be ready to receive wagons of wheat coming to the Was,muth elevator about July 4. Cement contractors will again be busy within the next few days laying cement walks in the residence parts of town. —Huntington Herald. o — L. L. Baumgartner transacted business at Berne, Ind., today.

BOARD OF REVIEW A Day for Each Township, Corporation, Oil Companies and Banks The county board of review at their session Saturday agreed and fixed the dates when the complaints as to assessments will be heard from the various townships, corporations, oil companies and banks. As arranged and per the official legal notice given elsewhere in this issue, Union township will appear June 10, Root township objectors are scheduled for June 11, Preble June 12, Kirkland June 13, Washington June 15, St. Marys June 16, Blue Creek June 17, Monroe June 18, French Jun e 19, Hartford June 20, Wabash June 22, Jefferson June 23, town of Geneva June 24, Berne June 25, Monroe June 26, City of Decatur June 27, Oil companies June 29 and the banks of the county June 30th. If you are dissatisfied with your assessment and feel like you just had to register a “kick” pick out your date, fix It well in mind and be there “Johnny on the Spot.” The board will treat you in a just and fair manner. Don't sleep on your rights and then object, for it may be too late. A WILL PROBATED Two Marriage Licenses Issued—The Roop Divorce Case Dismissed Charles C. Schug et al vs. John R. Glancey, note $l5O. default of defendant, cause submitted, finding for plaintiff for $112.35. Continental Insurance Co. vs. William Shoemaker et al, note S2OO, motion to have complaint made more specific overruled. Demurrer filed to complaint. Fort Wayne and Springfield Ry. Co. vs. Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Ry. Co., injunction, demurrer filed by plaintiff to defendants answer. In probate court Fred F. Freeh, guardian for Etta E. Hawk, filed his account current which was allowed. He also filed an account as guardian for Chalmer and Bernice Miller,which was duly allowed. The sensational divorce suit filed by Nettie Roop vs. Frank Roop in which SIO,OOO alimony was demanded was dismissed, the costs being paid. The last will and testament of Anna Barbara Hofstejller svho died last Saturday was probated. Her debts and funeral expenses ar e to be paid out of the SI,OOO bequeathed to her by her stepfather, David Zurutt. All the rest of her property is bequeathed to her husband, Christian Hofstetter, The will was written September 7, 1885, and witnessed by G. W. McConnell and John Schurger. A marriage license was issued to Otto E. Eckrote, agod (twenty, of Fort Wayne, and Amelia Ryf, aged nineteen, Berne. o LATE WEATHER PREDICTIONS A New Version for the Summer Months. A traveling man recently here left a business card which contained the following predictions for 1908, good enough to think about: Weather—During the summer months the weather will be warmer than in the late fall or early winter, arid while fall rains ’Will have a tendency to make dirt thoroughfares more or less muddy, this unfavorable condition can be avoided by paving the streets. Snow may be expected whenever the thermometer reaches a certain point, and any amount of fool worrying a man does with reference to these conditions will not change matters a doggoned bit Business —As the country is simply the enlarged individual, business conditions may be materially improved if every business man will constitute himself a cmomittee of one and avail himself of every opportunity to inform his neighbor that business is “simply rotten,” that everybody Is dishonest and that the country is just naturally going to the devil. Neighbor, you and I don't believe this, so let’s smile and boost. o — Among those who attended the meeting at the traction office and the big dinner were: Mr. and Mrs. Kervey Kline, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gailmeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scheiman, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kline, Mr. and Msr. Herman Gerke, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dirkson, and Miss Ida Dirkson, all of whom live north of town along the traction Hnn

The Fanner’s Wife Is very careful about her chum. Sh« butwr that is made in it The;stomach to » churn. In the stomach and nutritive tracts are performed pro cesses which are almost exactly like the Ming of butter. Is it not appam>» then that if this stomach-ch urn is foul it makes foul all which is put into It? The evil of a foul stomach telnot alone the bad taste in the mouth and the foul breath caused by it, but the corruption of the pure current of blood and the dl *s*”*’ (nation of disease throughout the body. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery makes the sour and foul stomach sweet It does for the stomach what the washing and sun bath do for the churn-absolutely removes every tainting or corrupting element In this way it cures blotches, pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings, sores, er open eating ulcers and all humors or diseases arising from bad blood. If you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath are weak and easily tired, feel depressed and despondent, have frequent headaches, diz» v attacks, gnawing or distress in stomach." constipated or irregular bowels, sour or bitter risings after eating and poor appetite, these symptoms, or any considerable number of them, indicate that you are suffering from biliousness, torpid or xazy liver with the usual accompanying indi§estion, or dyspepsia and their attendant erangements. alTthe several mydKal nm-ikf. gavebeen skiWb. iw£ combined In JTr.TFrre « Golden AfediraT Discnv.-rv. That this is absolutely true will be readily proven to your satisfaction if you will but mail a postal card request to Dr. R. V. Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y for a free copy of his booklet of extracts from the standard medical authorities, giving the names of all the ingredients entering Into his world-famed medicines and showing what the most eminent medical men of the age say of them. Bluffton grocers have entered ufacturers to handle and sell nothing bu home cigars, the contract, in regular form, being signed by all concerned yesterday. Boosting home product, is a laudable movement, for on each five-cent cigar of foreign make bought here three cents goes out of the city. Fort Wayne is the best cigar manufacturing town in the country and kept so by Fort Wayne smokers. When a Fort Wayne man comes to Bluffton he buys nothing but cigars made in his city, knowing that the major portion of the money spent is returned home. —Bluffton Banner. If there has been any doubt existing in the minds of Portland people about the remonstrance being sufficient to remove the saloons the doubt was dispelled Thursday morning when the attorneys for Bernard McKenna and Charles Valentine, the two First ward applicants for license, virtually threw up their hands and admitted their defeat and the board of commfs= sioners rejected the licence holding that the remonstrators had a clear majority of twelve, says the Portland Sun. Charles Wagt, P. O. Arthur and Lester Hutson passed through the city enroute from Huntington to their home at Lynn, Ind. They acted as pallbearers from the Petoka No. 454 order of Red Men of Lynn for the late Otto Leverton of that place, whose funeral was held at Huntington Sunday. George Shoner, of Waterloo, has brought suit to enjoin the treasurer of DeKalk county from collecting S9BO alleged to be du e from him as delinquent taxes The alleged delinquency was “dug up” by a tax ferret who worked in DeKalb county some months ago. oBISHOP HUGHES GOES WEST. Has Been Assigned to San Francisco for Duties. Dr. Hughes, of DcPauw university, who was elected as a bishop of the Methodist church at th e recent general conference at Baltimore has been assigned to San Francisco for duty. Those Indianaians who had hoped that j his work would be confined to the central states where they might hear . him sometimes will probably be disappointed at this announcement, but . will watch his career with keen interest. o WILL OBSERVE CHILDREN’S DAY M, E. Sunday School Hag Arranged Program, Children’s day exercises will be ob- . served at the M, E. church next Sun- [ day morning and a fine program will i be rendered. The exercises will coni sist of songs, drills and recitations to , be executed by the members of the : Sunday school. In the evening an un- . usually interesting Epworth league , meeting will be held after which the Adams county Sunday school con. vention will be held in the auditorium. > This promises to be most interesting. 7 Judge Merryman arrived home from , St. Louis this morning, where he went 1 to meet Mrs. Merryman and accom--1 pany her home. The latter returned , from a two weeks’ visit with her son 1 Charles at Cardwell, Mo. The trip i was a very delightful one.

SCORE WAS 8 TcT~-E Fielding Was Poor for BothH Teams and Many 1 Misplays s In a game replete with mispl m H inexcusable errors on both sides tbs» Isl loca ball team was defeated Sunday fl afternoon by the score of eight t 0 ■■ seven. A fair sized crowd had ered when umps Chris Meyers called H the game, and in the very first i CB * fl ing three wild throws, coupled with M one hit. netted the visitors three ruts fl During the remainder of the game it fl was a see saw, with Decatur ahead at B on e stage and Muncie the next, the H latter finally winning. Loose fielding fl characterized both clubs. Cal Roti- B son was on the firing line for Decatur | and had be been given good by his team mates, we would have a M different story to relate. However fl all teams have their off day and Deca- H tur is no exception to the rule. The 11 home boys have been playing phenom- fl inal ball for several weeks, and yes- fl terday’s gam e therefore did not start fl any knockers working. 9 —o 9 HEARD AN OLD CONTROVERSY 1 Judge Merryman Has Case Under Ad- H visement. 1 J. T. Merryman, of Decatur, sitting jj as special judge, Thursday afternoon H heard the evidence in the case of I Brown vs. Murphy involving title to 3 land near Warren, and took the mat- | ter under advisement. Three years a ago Ira C. Brown, undertaker at War- 3 ren, secured a judgment in the Wells i circuit court against John H. Kratz, j of Bluffton, for $312. An execution was issued on the judgment in favor of Brown, but no property was found. Brown then brought suit to set aside 1 the conveyance which Kratz had made to Asa B. and Nellie Murphy, alleging that he transferred the real estate for the purpose of defrauding his creditors. —Montpelier Herald. o — SALOON DOORS CLOSED. Portland Defyer of Authorities Wilf Not Be Prosecuted. Portland, Ind.. June B—Bernard McKenna, the saloonist in south Meridian street who kept his saloon open on Friday, despite the fact that he was denied a new license, was closed Saturday morning and will remain so. An investigation of the facts in his case made it doubtful whether there was a violation of the law, and there will, it is stated, be no attempt at prosecution. The license of McKenna gave him the right to run for one year “from” June 5. His license for the previous year entitled him to operate until June 30. McKenna’s contention was that on June 5, 1907, he ran under his previous year’s license, and that consequently he was entitled to that day this year. o CORA ANIS JOHNSON. Cora Anls, daughter of James and Louisa Crozier, was bom Dec. 25, 1878, and departed this life June 1, 1908, aged 29 years, 5 months and 6 days. She was united in marriage with E. F. Johnson April 16, 1902. To this union were born two children, a son and daughter, Kenneth and Flo, the son preceding his mamma to the world of spirits. Cora was a model wife and mother, a kind friend and highly respected neighbor. She was a great sufferer, but like her Divine Master, a silent one. she did not murmur or complain because of her lot, during t|he Ifong and tedious d'ays and weeks and months of her affliction but evinced the noble traits of a de- | voted Christian character. She had a desire to get well, her husband and little girl were the magnets that drew her earthward. This was only wifely and motherly, but realizing that she had past all hope of recovery, she became perfectly resigned to the inevitable. Cora was converted when about 15 years of age, and joined the IT. B. church in which fellowship she lived a consistent Christian life until death conducted her to the church triumphant. On the list of mourners are a devoted husband, one little girl, father, two brothers, two sisters, with uncles and aunts and a large circle of relatives and friends who held her in highest esteem. One has left us whose absence from us will be keenly felt. o The weather prophets say that the summer of 1908 will be an unusually hot one, the heat at times being quite severe in all sections of the country, relieved temporarily at times by storms. Droughts will occur in many sections of the country, rainfalls will be scattered and at times quite heavy but of short duration, being more harmful than beneficial. The fall of 1908 will be early and there will bo damaging frosts.