Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1909 — Page 7

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I The Decatur public schools opened ■Monday morning, a short session being field to make all assignments, for Books and supplies. The teachers met lhe superintendent at central building on Saturday afternoon, at which lime contracts were signed and other patters talked oyer. They adopted lhe “Mind in Its Making* as the book lo be used at teachers’ meetings, and Inany other things important to the teachers were discussed and agreed to. The enrollment this morning was Especially gratifying, and it will be necessary to make some additions to he high) school in order to accommodate the pupils. As reported the first yean has 103, second year 35, l

1 61, sixth year 56, seventh year 62, i eighth year 68, making a total of 602 in tiie grades.. The enrollment in the ; high school is 58 in the freshmen, 37 in the sopohmore, 21 in the junior, and 16 in the senior, a total of 182 in the ’ / L-J? f high school, and a total enrollment in both the grades and high school of 734. The showing is an excellent one and denotes a healthful condition in the public schools. Superintendent Rice is pleased With the outlook and is looking forward to a pleasant and profitable year in school work. Active work wIU begin tomorrow morning and from that time until next May it will be all work and nd play.

PROftPERITY IR ON TFME ■ A 010 Increase Is Reported In Cus- . tom House Receipts. Washington, Sept. 3,—The 'customs receipts yesterday were nearly twice t as great as for the same day a year i ago, according to figures given out 1 at the treasury department) This Is 1 taken as a fair Indication of the es- < feet of the new Payne tariff law, al- < though a part of the receipts must i necessarily be credited to the Ding- i ley law, as Importations which have i been held In bond since being brought i in prior to the enactment of the new ] law, are being Withdrawn every day. i It Is also said that the Increase Is i to some extent due to the better < business conditions existing now, i compared with a year ago. The cus- < toms receipts at all ports were 01,- i 409,987, compared with 0758,454 for i September 1, 1908. i | A controversy arising over the In- i sufficiency of the supply of water on < Fred Stauffer’s farm for the watering 1 of stock belonging to both he and his < tenant, brother-in-law, James Duer, resulting in the exchange of blows, has been amicably settled and an agreement has been entered into by i botn barties defining their rights. Affidavits charging assault and battery had been filed against both Duer and Stauffer and each engaged attorneys < to represent them Im the matter. It i was Thursday that attorneys j pr both sides confer In an effort bring j about a settlement satisfactory to all ] concerned. C. J. Lutz and Jesse Sut- j ton representing Stauffer and A. B. ; Bailey and C. Lautzenhelser representing Duer assembled at the office ; of Squire Liddy at Berne Thursday where the matter was fully settled. A written agreement was signed by the parties and further trouble will be averted. Duer has been living on Stauffer’s farm In Monroe township for some time. ——— o • ’ THEY BtJY A LINOTYPE The Berne Witness Will Soon Set Their Type in the Latest Style. The Berne Witness Is looking up some. They have placed an order for the latest model Mergenthaller linotype, the same kind that is used to supply the type for the Daily Democrat. The new addition will be ready for delivery within the next sixty days and the latter part of this month Fred Rohrer goes to Brooklyn, New York, where he will spend some time at the factory and while there will learn how to skillfully manipulate them. The Merganthaller Is a great printing office within itself, and when the Witness Installs theirs they will be able to set eight different styles and four different sizes of type on it z — August Fischbach, aged twentynine, and one of the best known young farmers of north Preble towpship, died at nine o’clock Friday morning from typhoid fever. His wife and six-year-old son have been suffering from the fever and Mr. Fischbach had been waiting upon them. When he became Hl he tried to Wear the disease out and refused to go to bed. For a week he stood the ravages of the disease, but last Saturday became so ill that he had to give up. He had been very sick and Thursday morning Buffered from hemor- : rhages of the bowels, which resulted in his death next morning. He lived near the Freidheim church. He is survived by the wife, three children and one brother, the latter residing lat South Bend.

r ..—o — I MANY DEATHS BY DROWNING Month of June Albne Showed Total I ■ of Over Six Hundred. I In May, 621 persons were drowned In the United States; in June, 1,176. The figures for July will show a larger total. Atagust, I . the height of the vacation season, will set the record of wasted lives. Every I Saturday afternoon and Siinday in evr ery city and considerable rural region a long roll is written of the names of the drowned. Some of these ' deaths are due to faulty supervision ' or management of excursion boats, but ■ neglect is the one great cause. Every child should swim. The number of skilled swimmers drowned 1» proportionately small, and perhaps the most frequent cause of the drowning of a swimmer is the terror of some nonswimmer whom he is trying to save, and who pulls him down. Men are sometimes drowned by diving in too shallow water or being thrown against piers or posts, but with sea room a good swimmer is safe even in rough surf qr waves. - -O' Some wag posted a sign on Tim Corbett’s cigar sign this morning which read “Ail Os Tim Corbett‘r laborers are requested to meet here at one o’clock to join in the Labor Bay parade.” It was duly sighed and attested by the officials of the organisation, but was called off because of the crowd which jammed the street and stopped traffic. ■'

WILL SOON BE THROUGH | Jack Moynihan Will Boon Complete Hit Work Her*. Jack Mpynihan, who has charge of I the gang which is connecting the consumers of Decatur with the lines of the Indiana Lighting company will qet through with hte work within a few days. After this job is completed the question of whether Bluffton is to have artificial gas this winter will be finally settled. It is stated that another visit I will be paid to this city within the next ten days by the magnates of the Indiana Lighting company so that arrangements can be made for the question to be settled one way or the other. The cold weather is getting near at hand and the officers of the company wish to finally dispose of the matter so that they will know what to do and be able to put the mains Into this city by winter if they are put in here at all. There has been no expression of sentiment from the councilmen recently and consequently It Is not known what action the council will take.—Bluffton Banner. ■ — o— FACTS FROM PENSION OFFICE ‘ Dozen Widows of 1812 Veterans Are Still on the List Os the 58,000 pension checks sent out from Indiana headquarters in the , federal building for the quarterly j payment of pensions, thirteen go to j the widows of veterans of the war of 1812. The seemingly Impossible fact is due |o the old men marrying young Women, according to Indiana | Pension Agent A. O. Marsh. Checks are also made out for 111 survivors of the Mexican war in 146-47, and to 306 widows of Mexican war soldiers. The average pension of Indiana veterans is about 036, and the highest 0300 for the quarter. The total sum paid out in pensions in the state this quarter is approximately 02,500,000, amounting to more than 011,000,000 for the entire year. To handle this great business a force of more than forty employes is necessary, fifteen or twenty of this number being extra clerks employed during the time for receiving the quarterly pension vouchers and issuing the checks. o—- * A CORN STORY FROM KANSAS How the Crop Appeared to an Eastern Tourist. ; ■ -4 ■ ■ • ‘ 1 . This is the tallest corn story of the season and is being told among the traveling men over the state. It is said to have been In a letter written home by an eastern visitor: “Most of the Kansas streets are paved, grains of com being used for cobblestones, while the cobs are hollowed out for sewer pipe. The husk, when taken . off whole and stood on end, makes ( a nice tent for the children to play in. It sounds queer to hear the feed man tell the driver to take a dozen grains of horse feed over to Jackson’s livery Stable. If it were not for soft, deep ' soil here I don’t see how they would ever harvest the com, as the stalks would grow up as high in the air 1 as a Methodist church steeple. How- ] ever, when the ears get too heavy j their weight presses the stalk down i in the ground on an average of nine- < ty-two feet; and this brings'the ear i near enough to the ground to-be chonped off with an ax.”—Kansas City Journal. ’ o ( TYPHOID CLAIMS YOUNG MAN William Fuhrman, aged twenty- < three, and son of Mrs. Christian Fuhr- 1 man, residing in Ahe north part of < Preble township, died at eight o’clock Thursday night after an illness of two weeks with typhoid fever. His moth- | er, two brothers, Charles and Martin, < survive. The funeral services were t held Monday ffiomlng at eleven j o’clock at the Freidheim church, Rev. i Preuss officiating. „ -o

The September term of the Adams circuit court opened at precisely nine o’clock Monday a. m. Everything was in excellent condition and all officials and attorneys were present. Considerable business was transacted. — In the case of James Touhey v.s. the city of Decatur damages |lo,oofl, L. C. Deyoss appeared for the city and was ruled to answer. The case of Peter Smith vs. The Onandago Oil Co., to foreclose a labor lien of |2OO was dismissed. Edna V. Huff vs. Frank D. Huff, divorce and alimony, appearance by C. J. Luts for defendant. - < Henry Knapp Vs. W. J. H. Hahnert note S3OO, dismissed and costs paid. Geneva Supply Co. vs. M. T. Sumption et al, suit on account, 8200, appearance by C. J. Luts tor defendants. proof of service of notice and bond were fifed in the typhia Conrad et al petition for drain. '■ v - ' . * ■' J? ■ ■ • o

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Cribben & Sexton Co. vs. Decatur Hardware Co. et al, appearance by Hooper & Lenhhrt for defendants. ■ * John E. Taylor vs. W. H. Taylor et al, partition, deed ordered, reported and approved. F. M. Schirmeyer vs. John Schaffer, suit on contract, appearance for defendant, by Beatty, withdrawn. Appearance by Hooper & Lenhart. John T. Lawson vs. Catherine Miller et al, partition, deed reported and approved and final report filed. Judson A. Jaqua vs. Grant Jordan, suit on note, 0175, dismissed and costs paid. W. F. Rice et al vs. Bertha M. Rice et al, partition, deed reported and approved; commissioners allowed 035. Frank M. Johnston vs. Philmont Oil Co. et al, foreclosure 015,000, final report filed and receiver discharged. Conrad D. Gallmeyer, trustee, vs. Edward Gallmeyer’ et al, finding for plaintiff as against Wilhelm and Dora Gallmeyer. E. P. Reed & Co., vs. Fred B. Tague account 0250, set for trial on Monday October 11. Curtis Johnson charged with burglary, asked for an attorney as a poor person. The appropriation for this purpose being exhausted the court recommended that an appropriation of 075 be made for immediate use for this purpose. William A. Carter was appointed administrator of the estate of Urven Carter and filed bond for 01,000. Letters issued in the various estates during vacation time were reported by the clerk and confirmed by the court. Attorney W. Eichhorn and D. D. Studabaker of Bluffton, were here to- 1 day looking up matters pertaining to the Faylor-Studabaker case. The ih- 1 junction suit will be heard Thursday 1 at Bluffton before Judge Merryman. 1 _i

A marriage license was issued to Jonas Springer, aged 27, a tinner from Berne, to Zella Gilliom, aged 22, e* Wabash township. Real estate transfers: Orma Mersman to Cora Falk, part inlot 75, Deca tur, 8900. William Roberts et al tc J. W. Smith, 80 acres Jefferson township, 87,000. A motion was filed Monday afternoon by Attorney W. H. Eichhorn for defendants in the case of Studabaker vs. Faylor for a new trial. The motion was in writing and was a very lengthy one. It will be argued later and if refused an appeal will probably be taken. Redkey, Ind., Sept s.—The White River conference of the United Brethren church closed here this evening after almost a week of unparalled interest The meetings have been largely attended. At this morning’s session a love feast was conducted by the Rev. H. T. Walker, of lapel, in which several hundred people participated. The Rev. M. Beall and the Rev. G.

H. Baker wree ordained to the office of elder. Bishop G. M. Mathews preached an able and eloquent sermon on “The Coming of Universal Brotherhood,” from Luke 9:11. About 0700 was raised on the conference floor for home missions. This afternoon a large Sunday school rally was held, presided over by the Rev. L. O. Blake. The evening sermon was delivered by the Rev. S. E. Long, D. D., of Terre Hsiute. The other pulpits of the town were filled by United Brethren ministers today and tonight Rev. E. H. Pontius, who formerly held charges at Decatur and other cities of Indiana, was appointed an evangelist-at-large. In the assignment of ministers, Rev. C. M. Myers, who has been at'Geneva, was sent to Columbus, Indiana, one of the best charges in the state. W. H. Shepherd goes to Dunkirk, L. A. Huddleston to Portland, W. L. Waldo to Geneva, and Rev. M. F. Dawson was made presiding elder of the Marion district. * — It was an important meeting held at Won Lutheran church Sunday afternoon. At two o’clock Rev. Jaus preached in German, and the sermon contained many excellent thoughts and was eloquent Following the regular services a congregational-meet-ing was held which ended in a call being extended to Rev. Wehmeyer now doing missionarywork in Alberta province, Canada. The new candidate is a young man with five years’ active work in the ministry, and is credited with being a fine speaker, and a man with unusual attainments in this work. The call was unanimous, and now all that awaits the closing of the agreement is the acceptance of Rev. Behmeyer, and this is expected. It will not be known whether he is coming until the congregation meets again one week from next Sunday afternoon, and then the announcement will be made and the matter settled. The Zion Lutheran congregation here are anxious to have the matter settled and to again get down to active work in their church. They have made such an excellent showing since their organization and even a few without a pastor retards activities and makes it more difficult for them to again forge ahead. —o —

HE COMMITTED SUICIDE Lewis C. Hough of Jay County, Killed Himself. Knowing himself to be mentally deranged and unwilling to submit to being taken to an Insane asylum, Lewis C. Hough, a prominent and prosperous farmer, of Bearcreek township, attempted suicide by shooting himself. The ball took effect just above the right temple, penetrated the brain and skull, emerging over the left ear and flattening itself against the opposite wall of the room. The insanity, it is thought, was brought on by religious excitement A week ago his family and neighbors noticed that he acted queerly and each day, it has been seen, his mental condition steadily grew worse and more apparent.—Portland Sun. - Joe Colchin and Miss Bertha Dodane went to Coldwater, Ohio, this morning, where they will attend the twenty-seventh anniversary of the tncorgoration of Coldwater, which is being held today.