Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1908 — Page 6

An even one hundred macadam roads are on or will be on tne tax duplicate for next year. While this is an item of expense, it Is also an emblem of that sort of public progress, that is worth many times its cost. Adams county now has more macadam roads than any county in the United States, and government reports have so published. The tax levies for the payment of macadam road bends and interest follows: Union Township. Stegmeyer 20c Bleeke 20c Ahr 20c Moses 0c Total 69c Root Township. Reiter and Buhlman 12c Winchester 8c Root and Preble No. 1 3c Root and Preble No. 2 3c J. A. Cline 12c Hockemeyer 5c Decatur and Preble 4c J F. T.achot 4c Bucher V Elzey 5c Total 61c Preble Township. Root and Preble No. 1 3c Root and Pmble No. 2 3c Magley and Preble 4c North Preble 25c Louis Worthman 10c Chas Ewell 10c Blomberg 10c Total 65c Kirkland Township. A. C. Butcher 8c Magley and Preble 4c Otto Repport 10te Kirkland Tp. Central 10c Peterson and Prairie 10c Peterson and Prairie No. 1 6c Decatur and Bluffton No. 1 7c Decatur and Bluffton No. 3 4c Washington-Kirkland 6c Total 65c Washington Township. Whshington-Kirkland 6c Cook 2c C. W. Buscbo 2c Decatur and Preble 4c West Washington No. 1 2c West Washington No. 2 2c West Washington No. 3 ....2c West Washington No. 4 2c West Wa c b’ngton No. 5 5c Washington and Monroe k 7c East Washington 4c East Washington No. 1 2c East Washington No. 2 2c East Washington No. 3 3c Decatur and Bluffton No. 2 3c Decatur and Monroe No. 1 3c Decatur and Monroe No. 2 3c Decatur and Monroe No. 3 2c North St. Marys No. 1 2c West Pleasant .Mills 1c West Pleasant Mills No. 1 1c ' J. F. Lachot 4c ' Raudubnsh and Hain 2c J. A. Hendricks 2c Total 68c St. Marys Township. Moses . .4. .Sfc North St. Marys 30c South St. Marys 30c West Pleasant Mills No. 1 1c E W. Dailey 40c Carter 25c Total $1.35 Blue Creek Township. Woods 31c North Blue Creek 31c Total 62c Monroe Township. John Berning 8c Monroe Tp. Central 8c Monroe Tp. Central No. 110 c Monroe Tp. Central No. 2 3c Pleasant Valley and Oak Grove....Bc Pleasant Vai. and Oak Grove No. 1.5 c Pleasant Vai. and Oak Grove No. 2.5 c Pleasant Vai and Oak Grove No. 3.3 c C. E. Bollinger 8c C. E. Bollinger No. 4 5c Huser and Waggoner 5c J. A. Hendricks 2c J. P. Nusbaum 5c E. W. Busche 2c Cook 2c Total 79c French Townehip. French Tp. Central 28c French Tp. Central No. 119 c French Tp. Central No. 2 19c French Tp. Central No. 4 23c Reynolds No. 1 4c Total 98c Hartford Township. Reynolds No. 1 4c Jlmtown 12c L. O. Bears No. 2. 12c Eckrote No. 2 12c Brushwood College No. 112 c Brushwood College No. 2 12c Reynolds No. 3 11c L. O. Bears No. 1 5c Total BWc Wabash Township. G C. and Wabash Tp 12c G. C. and Wabash Tp. No. 111 c G. C. and Wabash Tp. No. 2 12c G. C. and Wabash Tp. No. 3 12c Joel Hirschy 5c

L. O. Bears No. 1 5c G- C. and Wabash Tp. No. 4 13c Total < 76c Jefferson Township. West Jefferson 15c South Jefferson 12c East Jefferson Total 47c Bids were opened for supplies at the county infirmary and the following were successful bidders: Niblick & Co., groceries; W. H. Nachtrieb, drugs; J. D. Hale, salt and seed; j Schafer Hardware Co., hardware; T. E. Moore, oil. J. F. Snow was given the contract for preparing and having bound the i newspaper files at the Recorder’s office, an appropriation of S3O having been made for this purpose. o ■ - - About eighty or ninety men and women, gathered at the court house Wednesday afternoon to hear Sumner W. Haynes, of Portland, the Prohibition candidate for governor of Indi- j ana. Mr. Haynes is a pleasant faced looking gentleman of perhaps fifty, ■ and seems dreadfully in earnest. He made a forceful and logical speech and for about an hour poured shot” and , shell into the democratic and republi- J can camp, principally the latter. His voice showed the wear and tear of the 140 speeches he has made this year, in open air, but he said he thought he cculd stand it forty or fifty days yet. He seemed to have a special grudge at Mr. Watson, the republican nominee for governor, whom he imitated in a manner which proved some stage ability, and he likewise took occasion to hand Governor Hanly some lemons. He stated that the Prohibition party is against any kind of option, because they believe that no county, ward, township or community has the right to wote whether or not they shall commit a crime.” and by the way he gave a line of thought there that many a voter has not thought ebout. and it contains some logic. He roasted the church papers and preachers who favor local option, and said "local option on things evil is rot, end a sure way to undermine the fcundation of our government.” He said Watson and Hanly and their friends were simply trying to fool the people of Indiana. Mr. Haynes is accompanied by the Clarion quartet of Indianapolis, who rendered several splendid selections during the afternoon. At the close a collection was taken up to assist in the expenses. One of the company sold Judge Artman’s book, “A Legalized Crime” or tried to rather, another took subscriptions for the Phalanx, while a third sold pictures of the Prohibition candidates for president and vice-president at five cents per. The party left at 4:30 for Berne, where they were scheduled for a meeting last night. o A rather unusual case came from the superior court at Fort Wayne to ■ the circuit court here, today, on change of venue. The caption of the case is Drusilla Mentzer vs. Clarence Hicks and Arlin Miller, damages S2OO. Hicks & Miller operate a drag or truck line at Fort Wayne and solicited business with a public statement that they were careful and knew all the “ins and outs” of the "biz.” Drusilla Mentzer conducts a boarding house in the same city and had household goods sufficient to take care of fifteen boarders. On June 26, 1907, she employed Hicks & Miller to remove her goods from Fairfield avenue »o Clinton street. We have often heard of careless draymen in the moving line in the cities, but some of those moving pictures which we supposed were jokes, must have been taken from this incident. The complaint sayg that the drayman broke six chairs, five beds, three stoves, an easel, three rockers, a fancy screen, $65.00 range, two tables, an enlarged picture of Mrs. Mentzer’s daughter, a stand, three bed springs, two lounges, sewing machine, stove pipe, dishes and destroyed books and bedding and other articles almost without number, to the actual amount of S2OO. T. W. Wilson is attorney for the plaintiff and Belting & Houk appear for the defendants. o SQUIRE SMITH RECOVERING Has Been Quite Sick for a Week Past. Squire James H. Smith was at his office,a few minutes Monday afternoon the first time for a week, and he certainly looks as though he had been through the mill. He took sick very suddenly last Tuesday morning and for several days had a high fever which left him quite weak. He will probably be ready for work within a day or two. The squire has not lost many days on account of illness since we have known him. He has more than furnished his share of news, and we miss him, when he’s off duty.

Mrs. Mary Amspaugh was united in marriage to Mr. Leroy H. Jones September 8 at four o ciocx at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. Scott of Aboite township, by Rev. E. A. Bunner, of Huntertown, assisted by Rev. E B. Brown, of Fort Wayne. The bride was beautifully attired in a gown cf white Persian lawn and carried white asters and was attended by Miss Clara ScottThe groom was attired In the conventional black and was attended by the Rev, J. M. Barnes, of Murraysville. West Virginia. The wedding march was played by Miss Mildred Jones, the sister of the groom. The bride is the accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gallier Mallonee, of Decatur, Ind. The groom was the well known son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Jones, of Aboite township. The parlar was artistically decorated with white and pink asters, fems and green cypress vine. The bride and groom stood beneath a beautiful arch. After the ceremony a bountiful dinner was served to the following wedding guests: Mr. and Mrs, Edgar B, Jones, Mrs. Jacob Maring, Mr. Frank Jones, Miss Mildred Jones, Miss Jessie Kranichfeld. Miss Mattie Elzey, of Decatur, Ind.; Mr. George Dunlop, of Superior, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Scott, Messrs. Edmund, Warren and Eugene Scott. The bride and groom departed for the home of the bride's parents at Decatur, where they will spend a few days. They will be at home after September 15 at Upland, where they will be students of Taylor university. o —*- — The county council fixed the tax rate for county purposes at 29% cents turnpike 10 cents, sinking fund 7.4 cents. These figures are the same as last year with the exception of the sinking fund which IBst year was 6.4 cents. With this rate for the sinking fund every bonded county obligation will be paid in full with the end of next year, and Adams county will be one of the few counties of the state that will be free from debt. Nearly every county around here report a raise in their tax levies, owing to a striking decrease in the assessed valuation, and this same decrease struck Adams county to the tune of over $500,000. In the face of it, a judicious county administration will meet the expenses of their government and its many necessary improvements, without au increase in their tax levy. Such a levy speaks in better commendation to the business ability of the board of commissioners than could any words of praise that we might offer. They have been economical without losing sight of the progress of the times.

Mrs. Sarah Burdge returned Monday afternoon to her home in Geneva after a wek’s visit with her son, Nata Burdge and family at their home on west Walnut street. Burdge and his family moved Monday evening from their home on west Walnut street to Berne where they will live in the future, Mr. Burdge having employment In a barber shop in that place.—Portland Review. o — Theodore A. Hendricks vs. Solofrnon Sturgis et al, deed reported and approved arid commissioner allowed 12.00 and discharged. Newton C. Anderson et al vs. Charity C. Hetrick et al, deed reported and approved and commissioners discharged. Martha J. Summers et al vs. Charles W. Davidson et al, partition ordered as petitioned for, that Martha Summers and W. E. and Charles and Franklin Davidson are each the owner of one-fourth of land. Sale ordered. D. B. Erwin, appointed commissioner to make sale, bond $2,000. A marriage license was issued to Ira C. M. Elzey, nineteen a laborer, and May Todd, twenty, both of Decatur. Real estate transfers: Robert D. Patterson et al to Wade M. Barnes, inlot 697, Decatur, $200; W. H. Parker et al, to Charles Hamlin, fnlot 966, and part of outlot 81, Decatur, $725; Emma McQue«n et al to Harry J Teeple, inlot 174, Decatur, $1,050. William Hart, guardian for Wilson E, Hart, was ordered to file a report. Gidean Riesen, guardian for Ira G. Bodie, was also ordered to report and a similar request issued to Sarah J. Steele, guardian for Marse E. Steele and others; Nettie Roop, guardian for William J. Smith et al; William H. Hart guardian for Zara White; Charles Ewell, guardian for Olga Huffman; Rebecca J. Edwards, guardian for John Edwards. In the guardianship of Josie I. Yager, a petition to purchase real estate to the value of $2,350 was filed and allowed. Mary L. Baumgartner, guardian for Herman and Lestia Baumgartner, filed current report; C. A. Neuenschwander, guardian for Charles Loganpence, filed current report which was allowed.

The West End restauaraat uu Monroe street, conducted by Dr. E. H.

Leßron was totally destroyed by fire, whic hbroke out at 3:50 Thursday The blaze started tinder the lunch counter on the west side of the front room and was discovered by Night Policeman Fisher, after it h»d burned through the west wall. He sent in an alarm at once and the fire companies were soon on bands. The building was completely gutted ar.l for awhile the surrounding buildings were in danger. Dr. Leßrun owned the contents, which were insured for S4OO in the Home of New York, Char. Helm agent. The doctor is at Van Wert attending the fair and we were unable to ascertain his exact loss. The building was owned by Hower & Hower, whose loss is about $1,200 with SBOO insurance in the Continental company, the Graham agency. The building will certainly be rebuilt said the Hower Brothers as the lot is too valuable to be allowed to remain idle. The origin of the fire is unknown and the stories told were as varied as usual in such affairs.

Cebu. Cebu, P. 1., Aug. 7, 1908. Dear Father —I will start this letter to you in this room and dear knows where I will finish it. I got to Manila last Tuesday on the Rubii as seasick as you make ’em. I had my first touch of it on the way over from Hong Kong for one day. A typhoon caught us and played that the ship was a chip and tipped it up until the waves poured up past the port holes and at the same time the boat moved like a cork screw and made all kinds of fun. I registered in Manila and then went to the bureau of public works. I asked to see the head of the bureau, but was informed that he was not in, but that if I would wait a while he would return. I waited and pretty soon a Mr. West of the roads department came in and was introduced to me, and he gave a rapid fire description of his work, and asked me how I would like it I told him that it would suit me, and so he went in to the inner office an dfound Beardsley, the head man and the deal was made, and so today I go up into the mountains, where I w-on’t see a white man for six months end where I have no expenses except my washing. We are putting in a road across the Island of Cebu, going from the sea level at the city of Cebu and raising 2,800 feet and then going to the sea again at Toledo. 50 miles away. The work Is in solid rock and there are all kinds of things to overcome in the way of landslides, etc. Os course when I went into the office the first time, Beardsley was in, but the chief clerk was a special friend of West’s and kept me out until West could see me. West had looked over my papers and knew about Purdue, he himself being a Cornell man, and wanted a man who had studied railway standards and made the mistake of taking me. Last night when I got here I met a man who asked me where I came from and when I told him another man stepped up and asked me whether he hadn’t seen me at Purdue, and it turned out that he and I had fought together in the tank scrap three or four years ago. I went over to the house with him and remained with him all night, and am here this morning. He is one of the head engineers for the Philippine railway systems. I could have quit the government last night for this company at $125 per month, but I simply said “No, not now.”

I haven't seen any letters from home or you, although I got one from Hawaii. I saw Kershner just before I started for here. I went over to the mission and got him to come over with me to the hotel where two of the hotel flunkies were packing my trunks. I just had a rapid fire talk with him. He is not nearly so tall as I expected to see him and his hair is as curly as you make them. His mission is a fine looking place, and he is looking well What little I have seen of the islands is not half so bad as I expected to see. The land is nearly all under cultivation and well under cultivation, too. Manila is an American city almost. The drainage is kept up and everything is commencing to take on a healthy appearance. It still has a great many of the earmarks of the old Spanish regime hanging to it, and I expect always will have as the buildings have been built that way now, and you can’t move the buildings very well. I have started a letter to Aunt Sarah in which I describe Hong Kong and the China coast, and I expect you will read that, of course, and so I will not undertake to repeat that here. Mr. Pointer has just informed me that he will be ready to go in about ten minutes and I guess I will chop this off and write some more to you when we get up in the mountains. So long, BERT SEGUE. Tim Sprague, Tom Bogner, Roy Steele, Tommy O’Neal and Milford Deam went to Berne this morning, where they will work for Contractor Frefi Hoffman, who is building a stone road.

MiSs Gertrude Moses, who for several years has been an Instructor in the conservatory of music at Yankton, N D „ a nd who has been spending the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moses of this city, returned to her school work Monday morning. Mrs. Chas. Grimm, of Bluffton, who was onerated upon at the Lutheran , hospital -at Fort Wayne, severs. : weeks ago for the removal cf a tumor, and who ha s been convalescing at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs- Lord, of Monmouth, is much better, and Sunday evening she was able to return to her home at Blufften. She was accompanied by her husband. * Word has been received here that Miss Grace Miller of this city will sing in grand opera this season, having been secured by cne of. the largest companies of the country. Miss Miller is a daughter of the late L. C. Miller, and is well known. She has a delightfully sweet voice and has won a reputation during the past few years, while doing lyceum work. She appeared here last season in “An Evening With Tennyson.” E. Woods and Son, contractors, last Saturday finished tie construction of the J A. Cline macadam road in Root township. This road is three miles long and beginning at the Abner school runs two miles to the Knapp school, thence west a mile to the Fuelling church. The read was made in a remarkably short time. Marie R, the fast pacing mare owned by Mack McClelan. of Bluffton, and one of the participants in the races at the Jay county fair in this city last week, has been sold to parties in Pittsburg, Pa. The mare has a record of 2:17%. Since the fair she has been in this city in charge of Doc her driver and trainer. Arrangements were perfected Friday to ship the mare to her new owners in the eastern city—Portland Sun.

Dessie Anderson, sixteen, and Amos Householder, eighteen, ran away from their homes a mile north of Bluffton, and are supposed to be in Grand Rapids, whefe they expect to be married. The girl’s father has opposed the match because of her extreme age. In the afternoon the girl and a younger sister packed a grip with clothes and Householder hired a rig and came after the girl. About the time he drove to the house Anderson returned fro ma business trip to Bluffton and the couple could not get hold of the suit case, which stood on the porch. Meanwhile one of the children Informed their father of the impending departure and he seized the satchel of clothing. The couple drove rapidly away, seeing that they were detected, and although Mr. Anderson hitched up at once, they safely boarded a car and evaded him. They have told neighbors that they expect to return to Elkhart, where House holder has friends, and will live there. — Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

Harvest home day was appropriately celebrated at the Concord Lutheran church near Monmouth Sunday aternoon, the pastor, the Rev. Poot, delivering an excellent sermon on thankfulness for the rich outpouring of nature. The church was decorated with an abundance of nature’s products. Appropriate music was also rendered. RESOLUTIONS OF SORROW. The power so much dreaded among men, deatn. mas visited our Aid Society of Mt. Pleasant M. E. church, removing from our circle, Sister Ida Hoagland last Friday morning, Sept. 4th, 1908. She was in her thirty-sixth year of her age. Sister Hoagland leaves a husband, three dear little children and numerous other relatives to mourn their loss. The sisterhood is brought to a timely warning that death is abroad in the land. They deeply sympathize with the mourning ones and look forward to that time when they shall be gathered in the home on high where sorrow and sighing shall flee away forever. At this a regular society meeting, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, In view of the loss we have sustained by the decease of our friend and sister, Mrs. Ida Hoagland, and of the still heavier loss sustained by those who were nearest and dearest to her, therefore be it resolved, That it is but a just tribute to the memory of the departed to say that, in regnetting her removal from our midst we imourn for one who was in every way worthy of our respect and regard. Resolved, That we sincerely condole with the family of the deceased of the dispensation with which it has pleased Divine Providence to afflict them, and commend them for consolation to Him who orders all things for the best, and whose chastisements are meant in mercy. Resolved, That this heartfelt testimony of our sympathy and sorrow be forwarded to the husband of the departed sister by the secretary of this society. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent for publication. MRS. PHILIP BAKER, MRS. S. P. SHEETS, MRS. WM. KING, Committee.

THE LIMIT OF ALL LIAR S Is a Kentucky Correspondent-N Fish Story. ** The champion newspaper liar co spondent evidently lives i n Franks Kv. As uncontrovertible pv m ’ read this: When Greenbauer's dj ßti . levy which for some reason or o-he, situated near the creek, was destro ’ ed by fire, 50.000 barrels of were emptied into Elkhorn creek aw the next day every fish that into,: ted the creek, below Midway had ■ hangover.” The whisky floated dot* stream at the rate o' two miles an hour. Fishermen along the banka noticed that the wster suddenly »» assuming the color of their OWJ bait. They were astonished to see staid old members «-f the fl®, family that had behaved themself decorously for years, suddenly out on the bank and attempt > t , a tree. Turtles came staggering the slopes, pursued by crawfishes bent on a fight. Everything below the wa . ter seemed to have been drinking like a fish. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. Even the Churches Have Found this Out. In many large cities even the churches are coming to recognize the value cf newspaper advertising, and the Saturday issues of the dnily papers carry regular displr/ announcements of the church services for the Sabbath day. And why not? There ar e hn S . dreds of people in every city who are identified with no particular church or faith, and if they read | u tho'r paper an invitation to attend a certaia church and are the least inclined toward church going, the natural inclination is to accept the invitation. The proof that such advertising has brought god results is found in the fact that the dhurches so doing have not only increased the size of their congregations, but their membership roll as well. Newspaper advertising well applied can accomplish much in this twentieth century. HAS ESCAPED FROM ASYLUM Clarence Gilpen Got Away from East Haven Sunday. Sheriff Meyer took Clarence Gilpen. a sixteen-year-old boy from St Marys township to East Haven asylum Saturday. Monday he received a telephone message to be on the lockout for the lad as he escaped on Sunday an dcould not be located. The boy is helplessly Insane, almost idiotic, and it is feared that some harm might have befallen him. On September 13. 18S3, just twen-ty-five years ago Sunday, the Rev. H, Theo Wilkens united in marriage Mr. and Mrs. Edward X. Ehinger. The span of years since that day. has passed along rapidly; they have been hap py, busy useful years and now though ' surrounded by an interesting and help--1 ful family, Mfl. and ptfns. Ehinger ' scarcely seemed to realize that they had reached the date in life when it ’ is in order to celebrate their silveS wedding anniversary. Howev-r. their 1 friends did not forget it. and the cele- ■ bation planned and executed Sunday • night was one of the delightful affairs in Decatur’s social life. Mr. Ehinger > is cashier of the Old Adams county - bank and he and Mrs. Ehinger have , innumerable friends who hope their i golden wedding may be just as happy . as was the silver. The crowd, about i sixty in number, met at the home of 1 U Deininger last evening and at about t eight o’clock went to the Ehinger home i in a body, completely surprising the 5 bride and groom, whom they presented i with a number cf beautiful pieces ol r silver ware, in fact Mr. Ehinger had 3 not entirely recovered from the efi sects this morning. The evening 1 spent in a delightful program of g’.nies 1 music and delicious refreshments.

Out-of-town guests who attended were Messrs and Mesdames G. H. Grimme, Henry Kramer, Frank Ebit ger and Roman Zollars, of Fort Wayne, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cleaber. rs Plymouth. The Decatur guests were Messrs, and Mesdames Charles Vogl* wede, Clem Voglewede. J. P- Haeflintt P. J. Hyland. H. H. Bremerkamp, C S. Niblick, J. H. Bremerkamp. J- ® Niblick, Dan Niblick, Charles Miebers, J. B. Miebers, Frank Crawford. A Kuebler, C. 8. Christen. C. V- Co# nell, Ben Knapke, John Gerard. J- b Colchin, C. Radamacher, O. Snellen Henry Schulte, U. Deininger, Henrf Meyers, Mrs. Tena Niblick, Mrs. Carrie Ehinger and Mr. Nick Miller Grover Llby. of Adams county, Miss Lizzie Hilge, of the same county were wedded in Decatur last Friday, Mr. Liby is the son of Mrs. Jonas Ltby and Miss Hilge the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hilge residing near Honduras. Both are well known in this city, Liby working here f°r several months in a cement b,oc factory. The bride was employed a the home of Charles' Baumgartner and wife for some time. They wr reside on a farm in their countyBluffton Banner.