Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1908 — Page 6

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OTHER SOCIETY NEWS Dr. and Mrs. Keller Entertain a Crowd of Friends —Church Societies Decatur Court No. 156 Tribe of Ben Hur held memorial services Sunday afternoon and decorated the graves with the beautiful floral offrings contributed by the members of the deceased. These services are an annual tribute given in honor of the dead, and ar always impressive and appropriate. A large audience was present at the hall and listened to the following pregram: Song, ‘ What is Life” —by Audience. Names of deceased members r ‘ll he read by Scribe of Court. Chief’s Address —L. L. Baumgartner. Prayer by Teacher —Mrs. A. Weis. Song, "Rock of Ages”—Quartet. Past Chief's Address —H. Harruff. Judge’s Address—Mrs. Lydia Shamp. Song "Let us gather up the Sunshine'* —Audience. Floral offerings. Address, Speaker of the Day, Rev. Stangle. Officers meet at altar and join in repeating the Lord's Prayer. Song, "God B* With You”—By Audience, Dr. and Mrs. Keller entertained a number of friends at their home oa Fourth street Sunday night The evening was,spent in a most pleasant so cial way and all present report an enjoyable evening. Delicious refreshments wer e served by th® host and hostess. Those present were: Metdames Coffee, Elizabeth Hart, Fullenkamp, Mrs Lizzie Weaver, of Indianapolis; Messrs. Tommy Moran, Conrad Brake, Jacob Martin, Nick Omlor, Hannon Tettman and wife, Jacob Omlor and family, Chas. Omlor and fam-

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ily, Fathers George and Mike, Clem Colchin and Miss Gertrude Omlor. A crowd of young people drove V> the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gerke. five miles north of the city Sunday, and were royally entertained for dinner and supper. They all report a fine time. Those whT went were the Misses Frances Hess Anna and Vena Parent, Tena Schurge*, Leona Harting and Rose Colchin, Messrs. Adolph and Herbert Lankena.i, Ed. Frank, and Roman Parent and Joe Colchin. o MEETING THURSDAY To Complete Financial Organization—Cars to Operate Within Year There is now no doubt at all in the minds of th® promoters of the Bluffton, Berne and Celina traction line,th® farmers' interurban company, but that the road will be built and in full operation by the middle of the summer of 1909. The right of way has been secured without a single break from this city to Berne and next week the men at the head of the project will start east from Berne toward Celina, ex plaining their plan to the farmers and soliciting the desired strip of land from each one to be effeected. The farmers of eastern Wells and Western Adams counties are entering enthusiastically into th e movement and there has not been a single wherein a land owner refused to donate passage for the road across his farm in return for a block of the stock in the new company. The several German farmers, who inculated the theory and took the first steps toward putting it in practice, are not working alone now as they did during the first few days, but are being assisted in agitating the scheme by all the men to whom they have mad* their proposition. A mass meeting of the interested farmers of the two counties will be held at the town hall at Berne next Thursday evening, and the Hon.W. H. Eichhorn of this city, will thoroughly explain the situation and the method that will be carried out in securing finance for construction and other points bearing upon the proposed line. —Bluffton Banner. , o o JOHN A STUDABAKER DEAD. Well Known Bluffton Man Succumbs to Dropsy. Bluffton. Ind., June 14. —John Asbury Studabaker, 48, a son of John Studabaker Sr., and wife, pioneer residents who are still living in this city, each past 90 years of age, died at 1:40 o’clock this morning at his home in this city after a sickness with dropsy, dating from last October. He was at one time associated with his father in the grain business ; and later embarked in business for ■ himself in this city in mercantile lines I Last March his condition of health became such that he had to retire from active business. He is survived by a wife and one son, Charles, aged 26. Th e latter is living in Ohio and failed io reach his father’s bedside before he passed away. The funeral will be held from the residence Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with burial in Fairview cemetery, 0 —..... Mrs DeVilbiss is superintending a family picnic to occur at Maple Grove Park tomorrow evening. There are forty-five in the family list, including the Petersons, Bells, Kunkies, etc.

IT WAS INTERESTING George W. Bumie. of Indianapolis, Gave Fine Addresses The Adams county Sunday school association held a very interesting iconvention in th® city Sunday aftemocn and evening and the respective sessions while not largely zttended, went of unusual interest. At two o'clock p. m. the initial session ensued at th® Presbyterian church. A song by the congregation marked the opening of the program after which Rev. Spetnagei officiate 1 in the invocation. The choir rendered beautiful anthems after which George W. Burnie, of Indianapolis, recognized as one of the most enthusiastic an! successful Sunday school workers in the state, delivered an excellent address upon "How to Make a Sunday school live and grow. “ Dwelling upon the line of thought that good illustration from the older ones creates an ambition in the Sunday school scholars to live nobl® lives, the able speaker spoke facts to his hearers that were indeed convincing. Special music by the choir followed the excellent discourse, after which Rev D. A. Wise pronouncd the benediction. Sunday evening at seven-thirty o’clock the convection was re-convened at the M. E. church and a song by the congre gallon opened the services. Rev. C B. Wilcox offered a prayer in behalf of the ever aggresiv® Sunday schod workers after which the M E. choir rendered “The Heavens are Telling” from the creation which was beautiful indeed. Georg e W. Burnie then found way to the hearts of his every hearer in an address on "How to Train a. Child.” This talk was replete with thought provoking assertions, with Illustrations which verified his every statement, and n fact t was the best practical talk ever delivered to a Decatur audience. Mr. Burnie is t> man of renown. Although but a young man, h® is possessed of a remarkable knowledge upon the lives along which he lectures and Decatur will be glti to hear of his return here in the nev future for another of his able al dresses. The ladies’ quartet composed of Mesdames J. W. Vail. C. I Walters, C. B. Wilcox and B. J. Rice then rendered a beautiful selection i much to the delight of the audience I The bendiction was then pronounced by Rev. Richard Spetnagel and thus closed one of the most successful events of its nature ever held in Adams county. The next convention will be held at Pleasant Mills next Sunday. Th® first session will be he'd in the Baptist church in the afternoon and M E. church in the evening. W H. Merryman, of Bluffton, the district field man, will deliver an address.

DR.WILCOX PREACHED And Mixed Quartet Rendered Sacred Hymns—ls a Great Institution It is indeed gratifying to know that even the most unfortunate of Adams county people have opportunities co participate in sacred services, such as was a lot of a representative of this paper to observe Sunday ifternoon at the county infirmary. Dr. C. B. Wilcox, pastor of the M. E. church, accompanied by a mixed quartet composed of Mesdames J. W. Vail and C. B. Wilcox and Messrs. Dr. J. Q. Neptune and R. E. Peters went to the county institution early yesterday afternoon and after the inmates had assembled in the chapel, the services ensued. Several sacred hymns wer e rendered and Dr. Wilcox delivered an excellent address, widen touched the hearts of his hearers. Scarcely was ther e a dry eye in the chapel when h e administered woris of comfort to the unfortunate ones. We have certainly reached a high and coveted state of civilization when pal-'g are taken to preach the gospel to the unfortunate as well as the fortunate. Each two weeks, services are held at the infirmary, the various miniate.-s officiating in turn. The county infirmary is a great deal more inviting place to the visitor than the name would Indicate, during the administration of Mr. Graber. The eighty-tw> rooms contained tn tt* building ar? kept perfectly clean and neat and th* entire place is conducted in a perfectly sanitary and business-like manner. At the present time, thirty-four inmates are confined in the institution, eighteen of whom are women, including epileptics, feeble-minded and poo.people. Os the sixteen men seve-al are stepping into th e grave having lived to be very old. One among the number is ninety-four years old. The Adams county infirmary is an elegaut home for the unfortunate.

AND MAKE A HIT Crowd of Decatur Boys Present and Will Organize a Club The ' Boys" meeting at the Fir.t Presbyterian church Sunday morning was certainly a success and not a lad was present but became enthused with a desire to become a part of the boys’ city, held each year at Winnona Lak?. The meetings were chuck full of “boy.” Nearly an entire section of the church was filled with youths of from ten to sixteen years of age. each of whom paid strictest attention to every word spoken. Joe Clw-k. of Portland, who is a candidate for maw lof the boys' city, was the first to ! speak, idling hew and why Judge I Brown, of Salt Lake City organized •his unique association. He was fol lowed by Fred Hoover, another Portland lad. who served as president of the boys’ bank last year. He told how they handled over SS,O<W last year. Another boy, Fred Becbdolt, who could just see over the pulpit, told in own , interesting way how the Portland I boys organized. The lads, all in their j ! teens, showed by their ability to al-j dress an audience of several hundred ' what the boys’ city had done for them, and many parents were convinced of the fact that such an organization was a good thing for any community. One boy said: “If your boy is associating with some bad boy, instead of forbidding him to do so, why don’t you take the bad boy and make him good, and then let them associate all they want to, 'cans® they will anyhow” The Decatur boys will meet some time this week to complete their organization. o CENSURED BY PRESS Hot Contest for Liquor Licenses at Montpelier Causes Friction The red-hot fight between the Montpelier remonstrators and saloonkeepers of the town before the board of county commissioners at Hartford City, after a four days’ fight, has been decided in favor of the saloonists by a twothirds vote of the board and three applicants were granted licenses in the second ward of the town unless the cas e is appealed to the circuit court and reversed. The fight was one of the stiffest on record in Indiana and was led by Rev. G. Hunter Myers, a former Decatur citizen and son of Rev. W. J. Myers, he being the Methodist pastor at Montpelier. After the saloonists had won. Rev. Myers created a sensation by openly accusing Albert Hart, one of the county commissioners of accepting a SI,OOO bribe from the three saloon men.

For this bold statement. Rev. Myers is censured by the Hanford City Times Gazette in some very strong language, saying in part: , Following the decision of the commissioners in the Montpelier remonstrance case, Preacher Myers was one of th© first to attack the two members of the board who voted in opposition to his views. It is claimed that Preacher Myers openly declared that th e board had been "fixed” and that at least two of th e members had made up their mind how to vote before the case was completed. He is al=o credited with having made a statement that Commissioner Albert Hart was paid for his vote SI,OOO by the three applicants. Preacher Myers’ state'rnent is not only indiscreet but it is foolish. It is not given any credence even by his colleagues and reflects upon the character of the author. It it not at all likely that the three app’icants would offer >I,OOO and lay themselves liable to prosecution for bribery or that they would want to put up that amount to obtain a decision in their favor if they knew they were in the wrong and there was any possibility of the decision being reversed by a higher court. nELEVATOR AT GRAND ISLAND. The Lnion Stock Yards company at Grand Island has let the contract for an elevator of 20,000 bushels capacity and will equip it modernly and establish a grain market in the vicinity of its yards two miles east of that city, o — WILL BE A BENEDICT. Charles Niblick Will Wed Miss Fanrenbach. Yesterday morning at the St Marys church during high mass -the engagement of Charles Niblick Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. James K. Niblick, to ML=s Fahrenbach, of Fort Recovery, was announced, and this most estimable young couple will be wedded in the near future, after which they will reside in the city, the groom to be having a position at the Niblick elevator in this city

A Woman’s Back Has many aches and pains caused by Presses and falling, or other displaceBent, of the pelvic organs. Other toms of female weakness are frequent beadache, dizziness. imaginary specks or dark spots floating before the eyes. gnawtag sensation in stomach, dragging cr down in lower abdominal or pe v c region, disagreeable drains from pelvic organs, faint spells with general weakness. If any considerable number of the above symptoms are present there is no remedy that whiglve quicker relief or a more permalent&re than Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Ti ft l has a record of over forty years of Jt Is tbe. most, potetg invigorating tonic and strengthenir,g ny VneVnown k> Wjegcg. Tt is made of glyceric extracts of native medicinal roots found in our forests and contains not a drop of alcohol or harmful, or habit-forming drugs. Its ingredients are all printed on the bottle-wrapper and attested under oath as correct. Every ingredient entering into •Favorite PrewripUoa ’ has the written endorsement of the most eminent medical writers of all the several schools of prac-tice-more valuable than any amount of nvn-professional testimonials—though the latter are not lacking, having been contributed voluntarily by grateful patients in numbers to exceed the endorsements given to any other medicine extant for the cure of woman’s ills. You cannot afford to accept any medicine of unknown composition as a substitute for this well proven remedy or known composition, even though the dealer may make a little more profit thereby. Four interest in regaining health is paramount to any selfish interest of hit and it is an Insult to your intelligence for him to try to palm off upon you a substitute. You know what you want and it is his business to supply the article called for. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the original ’Little Liver Pills’ first put up by old Dr. Pierce over forty years ago, much imitated but never equaled. Little sugar-coated granules—e»y to take M candy.

A UNIFORM SYSTEM Os Doing Work and for Fees Charged is the Purpose of Association County Clerk James P. Haefling of this city recently attended a meeting of the county clerks of Indiana, held at Fort Wayne for the purpose of perfecting an organization that will protect themselves and give their patrons a uniform and better service. It is a fact, generally known, that there is a greater variance in the systems, fees and general mode of service in the clerk’s offices in Indiana than ia any other and that in no two places are the same customs used. The clerks hav e determined and rightfully too, to ascertain just what fees be long to them and what do not Recently a case was brought at Noblesville to require the clerk to return to the board of commissioners fees for making a transcript. It was taken to the appellate court, where a deci sion was rendered against the clerks. This case will now be taken to the supreni® court and the clerks will employ able counsel to look after the'r rights. It is the general belief that the clerks are entitled to this fee as the making of transcript usually in volves extra expense and labor. Mr. Haefling was appointed one of the seven members of the executive committee. who will look after affairs for the association, and another meeting will b e held at Indianapolis soon. The organization will make a great improvement in the conduct of this important office, 'We believe, and it is hoped the clerks will win out in their contention. o John Brineman, a son of ex-County Auditor C. 8. Brineman and wife, was injured in a base ball game between two fraternity teams at Indiana university a month ago. one of his knees being bruised in sliding to a base. At first he thought the injury was of but little consequence, but now the knee is very sore and is covered with numerous small white blisters. White swelling is feared and John is under care of a physician. He will arrive home for th e summer vacation one week from Sunday.—Bluffton Banner. Another way of teaching histo-v which the schools might adopt has apparently not yet appealed to them. A good newspaper, if the teacher knows how to interpret its daily record, may stimulate an interest in his tory itself. If th e pupil can be taught the continuiy and relation of even’3 an awakened interest in daily happ» ■’ mgs will arouse a desire to trans them back through preceding stages B is the break in continuity between the past and the immediae preset that deadens enthusiasm. By studvpng history backward from the immediate present this chasm would be .bridged and the passion for tracing effect to cause stimulatedl-Bostom * Transcript. I James H. Keefer ha s bought a lot at Ossian which was the site of th e Hat- | field music store previous to the big fire. He purchased it from V. M field and M. N. Newman and will erect a one-story building 20x50 in dimeusions as a new home for th e Ossian rarU> ’ he 18 Publishing -e paper at hi s hfime.-Bluffton News

WANT A NEW HOME Possibilites Will be Investigated Within a Week or Two jft & meeting of the Knights of Pythias lodge in uus city Thursday the building proposition was thorough!ly discussed and it was decided to take immediate action on same. \ ! committee was appointed, including I Messrs. D. M. Hensley, as chairman, and Clyde Rice, C. L. Walters, Chas Patton and Samuel Shamp who are t_> confer with the trustees, James Hurst E. Burt Lenhart and O. L. Vane?. They will secure plans at once an] if the proper financial arrangements can be made, it is probable a handsome new block will adorn the vacant lot between the Hensley and Everett and Hite stores. It is proposed to build a three or four story building 44x132 feet in dimension and at a cost of from SIB,OOO to $20,000. The two business rooms on the first flochave already been spoken for. There will be office rooms on th e second floor, with a lodge room at the rear and lodge roms on the third and fourth floors if the latter is added. The committee began their work this morning and will determine within a few days whether or not it will be possible to build this year. Such a block would certainly be an Improv?ment to south Second street, and it is hoped the boys will meet with success.

W. H. Eichhorn arrived home Wednesday night from Louisville, Ky„ where he went with Attorney Fred France ,of Huntington, to take depositions in the damage suit of J. L. Priddy and others for damages sufferei by stock in shipment. The case will come to trial later. —Bluffton News. Rev. B. Ruff and wife. Rev. Ruhl’, Rev. Kilsmeyer and Eld. Hill, of Fort Wayne, arrived yesterday to attend the meeting of the Zion Classis of the Reformed Church held here todpy, tomorrow and Sunday. Elders Teller, and Schnell, of Garrette, and Auburn, respectively, are also her e to attend said meetings.—Berne Witness. Mrs. Annis Merica. of Decatur, who has been visiting her son, F. H Merica. and family, of this city for the past few days, returned to her home this afternoon. She was accompanied by her son. who will attend to business matters there today. Mr. Merica formerly owned property ther?. but disposed of it yesterday, going there today to close the deal. He will probably buy property here.—Bluffton Banner. Dennis Baker the boy accused of striking Vernie Wormcastle, called this morning accompanied by the lady with whom he makes his home, He admitted striking the lad, but said it was at his own home and that he used only his fist, the cuts m the head being caused by striking against a partition. Wormcastle is not badly hurt, has a slightly discolored ey® and claims to have been cut on top of the head, but was down street today. Prof. J. J. Montgomery, of San Francisco, has patented an invention which he expects to do away to a large e xtent with code telegraphy and the necessity for experienced telegraphers. His device transmits ani rceives messages by relay system with typewriter keyboards, the receiving instrument automatically printing th e message as it is sent. Thirty-Six financial institutions of the state were presented at the first meeting of group eight of the Indiana Bankers’ association, which was held jin this city yesterday afternoon. Most of the representatives came from the territory of the group, including the counties of Delaware. Madison, Randolph, Jay, 'Wells and Adams, although there were several invited visitors from other counties some of whom were officers of the state association. —Muncie Star. Jefferson township, Huntington county, is believed to be the only township in northern Indiana that has an endowment school fund which bears interest and which assists In raising school revjenue every year. This fund was given the township many years ago by an aged resident *»’o always kept at heart the interest of th’ church and schools. David Little, a iloneer resident of Jefferson township, Red In 1874 and willed the township school fund $1,500 on which interest is drawn annually and applied to the expenses of running ( ha schools. The interest amounts to about S9O a year and Jefferson township draws just this much more in tha county distribution than any other township. Th e cast which presented the home talent "In the Village by the S ed last night at the Boss e opera house, will, be royally entertained at tha home of C. J. Weaver tonight by the ladies of the Christian church.