Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1909 — Page 3

conditions Sght^ndTopTor-[: phange was concluded at Elyria, Ohio,' i last evening, and all that the court could do was to release the children, >; for whom the action was brought. This he did and wished he could do 1 more. From the evidence offered, and, admitted by the conductors of the place, it Is not a fit home for any child. There are a number of Adams county children there and some action should be taken at once to remove them. || I Elyria, Sept. B.—Judge Hinman late' < Wednesday granted the application | of B. G. Glatz to remove his grand-, children from the Light and Hope or-1 phanage on the ground that it was not a fit place for them. Judge Hinman scored the institution from the bench, and said he regretted that the present action and the law governing it did j not enable him to take further steps. He said especially that the inCident' where a teacher at the home strangled to death a litter of rabbits found by a little girt showed a' strain of inhumanity that demonstrated the inability of the teachers" properly to govern the children. Investigation , into the condition at the orphanage was resumed before Judge Hinman Wednesday, resulting in showing more of the conditions in the hbme. Mrs* Sprunger, the first to take the stand, 1 was self-possessed and smiling. Lawrence asked Mrs. Sprunger about feeding the children eggs which had been several days in an incubator. "We all ate them,” said she. "When did you have eggs last?’ "I don’t remember.” "I have too much to do to remember such things,” she replied. Mary Smith, a sister who has done the cooking for the boys three and a’ half years, testified that they had eggs twice in the last eight months. I Mrs. Sprunger also testified that lungs had been cooked and; fed to the children. i She also admitted that corn was, boiled in the laundry boiler, where; the soiled clothes of the 90 children! were boiled, and acknowledged that there were vermin in the children's! rooms, but explained that the chll- • dren had them when they came. "Have you no detention plaice to put children In when they come or when they show signs of disease?” asked Lawrence. t “We have not,” said Mrs. Sprunger. (Lawrence then asked about the qualifications teachers at the orphanage had to have. Mrs. Sprunger said one teacher some time ago had had. a certificate, but that no others had. When asked about sanitary eondl-j tlons in the girls’ house she testified that four or five girls bathed In the same water. It Is in this house that t Dorothy Farnum, 18, is nearing blind-, ness from four years suffering from' trachoma, the disease that bars chllfiren from the "United States. Mary Smith testified the bread got from Cleveland for use In the' home dry, and that the orphans had jm>een fed the meat of a cow that died from eating damp clover. Several children testified that they had been whipped with sticks. "When' were you whipped last?” i Lawrence asked Ruby Sutilif, 12, formerly from Adams county, Ind. “Three or four months ago,” answered the child. ""I can’t remember now what it was tor. It was with a stick about three feet long and thick as my finger. i "Miss Keene did the whipping. She hit me over the back and shoulders < about six times.” The little girl ssM she had seen < other children whipped. Louis Israel, 18, said she had been « whipped herself with a stick, but had « never seen others punished that way, i but as -the cross-examination proceeded she said she remembered she ' had seen others whipped. i Francis Lambert, 17, and Augusta Stanley, 12, testified to the school - conditions. i — ■■■‘o - ■■ -1 GENEVA MAN BADLY CRUSHED ’ In Gateway by Big Traction 1 Engine. P V .1 On last Monday morning occurre l 1 a very serious accident to Charley it Simons a young married man, who Is t a tenant on the S. H. Teeple farm. 1 1 Mr. Simons with his brother were ' hauling a traction engine, intending to i take it to Berne, and were pulling it i with horses. Charley was walking t alongside the engine while passing 5 through a gate. His coat caught and f he was held fast, and was badly 1 crushed, the post being knocked en- t tirely off. There were four ribs broken and he was severely bruised. It' was at first thought that the engine J wheel had passed over him, from tho J position they found him lying, but that i is not at all probable for the engine I weighed seven tons and his life would t have been crushed but The family t and friends were greatly alarmed. A 1 New Corydon physician was summon-,y

I Monroeville, Ind., Sept. 9.—Lester i Lothamer, trustee of Jackson town- i ship, was killed and Miss Mamie Sei- < del, of Detroit, Mich., seriously in- i jured near the little town of Zulu, 1 two and a half miles west of here, at 1 7 o’clock last evening when an auto 1 driven by Charles J. Smith, a local 1 lumberman, turned turtle while speeding along the country rOad at < the rate of forty miles an hour. Mr. 1 Smith, his wife and two daughters, Laura and Erma and Miss Victoria Biesieda, a neighbor girl, were also ' in the machine at the time, but es- < [caped without injury other than a ' I few bruises. The aiito was badly : damaged. When the accident occur- l [red Mr. Smith was showing Lothamer 1 the speed possibilities of his car. In ' some unknown manner he lost control of the steering gear and the machine, a big Buick, plunged into 1 the and turned upside down, ' i Lothamer, Miss Seidel and Miss Bel- • sada being pinioned under the car. 1 Trustee Lothamer met death almost ' instantaneously. Miss Seidel, who has been here from Detroit visiting 1 the Smith family, was internally in- 1 jured, badly bruised about the shoul- i der and had a finger broken. While her injuries are serious, It is believed 1 she will recover. Miss Biesada,while 1 caught under the machine, was 1 unhurt. Both girls were extricated from ; j their perilous positions arid Lothgamer’s body was taken from under the overturned car as soon as possible. Miss Seidel was removed to Monroeville, where Dr. Kauffman attended her injuries. Coroner A. Kesler was summoned from Fort Wayne to hold an inquest over the body of Lothamer. Coroner Kesler found that Lothamer met death as a result of a dislocation of the neck, i Mr. Smith told the coroner that an exploding tire was responsible for the accident. When the explosion came .he turned to look backward, and the machine plunged into the ditch. He himself extricated the two living [members of the party caught under 'the automobile from their positions ;and also removed the body of Mr. ; Lothamer. The dead man Was removed to his home. He was thlrty,four years of age and left a wife and 'four children. — O' — Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, November 16, 17 and 18 have been selected by the Fort Wayne Grand lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rite Masons, as the dates for the dedication* of the new Scottish Rite cathedral, construction pt which should be completed by November 1. The remainder of the details of this, big event, which will eclipse anything ever attempted by the Masons of the state of Indiana in the past, have been left to a committee and which will be chosen later by William” Geake, commander-in-chief of the consistory. On the dates mentioned the supreme council will pay a visit |to Fort Wayne and will dedicate the new cathedral with fitting service and ceremony. Second only to the dedication and possibly of even greater moment will be the giving of “the work 'in the higher degrees for the first time in Fort Wayne. Between 300 and 500 candidates will be Initiated iin from the fourth to the thirty-sec-ond degrees. Beyond the eighteenth degree work, the initiations will be seen there for the first time and are only possible in the new cathedral. At this week’s meeting of the Grand Lodge of Perfection, twenty-five new I petitions were received from candidates for the work on September 28, when a special class win be taken in by the organization. This makes eighty-five candidates in the class already and will bring the membership Pf the Grand Lodge of Perfection to ever 1,100. j .— ■ , o —- ‘ T. M. Gallogly, chairman of the Democratic city committee has called a meeting of the committee at his office on Saturday evening, and at this mating the time of the Democratic city primary election Will be , named. It is thought that the primary < vrtlj be Md on one of the last days of this month, thus giving nearly three weirs for the primary campaign. , Much Interest is being centered in ( this election and it is expected that -j before the time limit expires that there will be several candidates in the race for the various offices to , be filled at the elty election this fall The election comes on Tuesday, November 2, thus a month will be de- j voted to the campaign, and that M , thought to be long enough. Several s vacancies on the committee will be ( filled at he meeting Saturday even- t ing, and several other matters will 5 be attended to when they meet f — "O' ■**'»—. ij We are glad to announce that John t J. Mayer and wife are coming back to j Adams county, their, first love, after E an absence of two years spent in c Kendallville, where for most of that time Fred Mayer was connected with the Kendallville Daily Sun. They r will take up their residence In Mon- t , roe, moving there the first of the a SSSST.X.WS i

store in the Joe Hocker business room. Monroe has been coming tp she front in great strides for the past ( 1 several years, but never*more so than 1 in the last year. A five and ten centji store there will complete the mer-'i cantile affairs of that: hustling little 1 town. They should do well, and doubtless will. For twqpty years they were residents of this city, and 1 for. practically all of that time John I Maye! was a fixture in'the office of the Democrat, and where he still holds the friendship of every one, 1 and right now the fraternity are pull- : ing hard for the new enterprise at < Monroe. Their friends here Will be < glad to have them back and will wish them well in their new business and home in Monroe. . I —. 0 1 Before adjournment last week 1 the commissioners took up the matter of insurance for the court house and jail, the five years pc’icles expiring 1 on the fifteenth of this month. The f board agreed that insurance should be : written in the sums of $25,000 on the court house, and $12,000 on the jail, 1 distributing it amorqr the following l insurance agents: Hjrschey & W*n- 1 teregg $3,000 on court house and $3,000 on the jail; Gallogly & Lower $3,000 on the court hous ? and $3,000 on , the jail; Andrew W-lfley $2,000 on . jail; J. F. Fruchte $2,000 on jail; L. . A. Graham $2,000 on court house; . E. D. Kintz $2,000 on jail; the bal- , ance on the court h rase E. B. Lenhart $2,000, J. D. Stults $2,000, H. Harrutt $2,000, W. W Driggs $2,000, W. B. Hale $2,000, Schug & Bentz $2,000, L. C. Helm $2,000. W. J. Myers $1,500, E. B. Adams $1,500. /The board went to Pleasant Mills Thursday where they inspected dam across the St. Marys river, which has been giving evidence of washing away and this inspection is for the purp se of taking time by the forelock and stopping any damage to the highway which traverses the bank of the rl/er for quite a distance. The board granted a petition filed by the citizens of Monroe township asking for a levy upon thfe taxable property of that township to pay the expenses of the election held there some time ago for the voting of a subsidy to the Bluffton, Berne & Celina Traction company. The viewers and engineers reports on the William Adler macadam read, was approved, and the cause continued. Dr. D. D. Clark wap reappointed county physician for the county infirmary and jail, the salary being "$l5O a year. Dr. Clark has held this place for. a long number of years, and as a matter of fact has filled the place just right. Samuel Jaber* has been appointed as superintendent for the completion of the Henry Wafel macadam road. O.l " , . N.'. Judge J. F. LaFollette of "Portland, wks here Thursday to consider action on the cases of F. M. Sdhtnneyer vs. John W. TyndalL Decatur Abstract & Loan Co., Henry Krick, John Schafer and Samuel Butler, suits cn contract Defendants moved for order against plaintiff to make complaint more specific, overruled. Demurer filed and overruled. Judge LaFollette will be here again on Saturday, September 25, by which time answers will be filed and the cases »et for trial. Judge Merryman was notified by phone late last night that it had'been decided by lattorneys in the FaylorStudabaker controversy to allow the temporary injunction to stand until the civil action is disposed of in court and the judge therefore did not go to Bluffton today as planned. L. C. | DeVoss filed a new case entitled Ell W. Steele vs. Isaac Robison, to foreclose chattel mortgage, demand S2OO. A final report was filed and the commissioners discharged in the matter of John F. Lawson vs. Catherine Miller et al, partition. William Pauch vs. George H. Gor- 1 man, atachment, continued. 1 Criminal cases have ben set for trial as follows: State vs. John Jlar- < mon, keeping gaming room, Tuesday, 1 Sept 21; State vs. Warren Reed, re- 1 celving stolen property; State vs. Luther Lehman, forgery; State vs. Chas. Wolfe, assault ahd battery with intent to kill, for Monday, Sept 20. State • vs. Bert Webb, being a pimp, dismissed; State vs. Ray Booher and Mary Fravel, adultery, dismissed; State vs. Joseph Tonelller, selling 11- I quor without license, left off docket 1 { Kit C. Cowan, newly appointed a postmaster at Bobo, has filed his bond 3 In the sum of SBOO. He has also been i appointed a notary public. ii —— , t Attorney Bttitnger A Houck, of Fort t

Wayne, Jlled a new case entitled I Aaron K?Mumma vs. Clem J. Keller, suit for cancellation of a note of $135, given for a horse. The complaint says the horse was represented as sound, but proved otherwise, and the plaintiff wants his note rescinded. | M. F. Rice has been appointed guardian for Newell B. Rice and filed bond for $2,500. > James M. Arcnbold, administrator' of the Mary J, Beglin estate, filed proof of notice to sell real estate. Consent to sell property filed by part of heirs. James W. Watkins, administrator of the estate of Jesse I. Watkins estate, final report filed , and administrator discharged. D. E Smith filed a new case entitled Samuel Beeler vs. Mina Beeler, 1 for divorce. The parties were married May 10, 1907, and lived together until June 24, 1907. Abandonment is! the iause. The same parties engaged in four or five law suits over their household furniture. Real estate transfers: J. V7. Teple com., to Henry J. Teeple, tract in Washington tp., $650; jacob Spangler to J. E. Spangler, 55 acres in Preble tp., $2,880; B. W. Sholty et al to John Thomas, inlot 689 Decatur, $100; A. M. Fisher et al to Eli Meyer, 80 acres Blue Creek tp., $4,000; U. S. to Richard Hathaway, 80 acres Blue Creek tp, patent; P. G .Hooper, com., to Agenettie Aspy, 80 acres Wabash s►, $1.00; D. E. Smith com., to J. H. Mumma, 140 acres Union tp., $1.00; J. C. Moran, com., to Jacob Drake et al, 80 acres Wabash tp., $5,000. o— CURED HAY FEVER AND SUMMER COLD A. S. Nusbaum, Batesville, Indiana, writes: “Last year I suffered tor three months with a summer cold so distressing that it interferred with my business. I had many of the symptoms of hay fever, and a doctors prescription did not reach my case, and I took several medicines which seemed only to aggravate it Fortunately I insisted upon having Foley's Honey and Tar. It quickly cured me. My wife has since used Foley’s Honey and Tar with the samb success.” THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. 0 —— Announcements have been received here of the wedding of Miss Marion Etelka Lewis, to Dr. Wave Wilbur Blackman, the event having occurred at the home of the bride’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Lewis at Englewood, N. J., last Tuesday. They will be at home after November first at 171 Capitol avenue, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Blackman formerly practiced here and has many friends in this city. He is now conducting a large sanitarium at Atlanta. 'T" O ' ■■■■■■—■ No matter how long you have suffered, Foley’s Kidney Remedy will help you. Mrs. S. L. Bowen, ofWayne, W. Va., writes: “I was a sufferer from kidney disease, so that at times I could not get out of bed. and when I did I could not stand straight I took Foley’s Kidney Remedy. One dollar bottle and part of the second cured me entirely.” It will cure you. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO., — — — Mrs. Jennie Rynearson has returned to her home in Geneva after visiting in Redkey since Friday with her uncle, Henry Smith. While enroute home she was the guest of her cousin, Geo. E. Meyers, of west Votaw street—Portland Commercial-Review. When David Russell, residing north of Hartford City, \ yawned in church Sunday morning he dislocated his jaw, and the services of a physician were necessary before he could close his mouth. Mr. Russell vows that he will never yawn in church again—or elsewhere. Columbia City has acquired new fame. A writer has writen a story entitled “Life in Columbia City” te which the life of some well known citizens of that place are depicted. The piece has been dramtixed and is now being played at the Majestic theater in Chicago. The county tax levy for 1910 will be thirty-six cents, (plus the difference between what the state tax may be and a cent This is the tax levy ordinance which was passed today at the meeting of the county council. This is a reduction of four cents,under the county levy for this year, which was 48 cents and a fraction.—Bluffton Banner, o_ -2— THEY ANSWERED THE CALL The First National Bank Makes a Statement of Their Condition. The report of the First National Bank appears in our, columns today, and the report is one that ought to gratify all those connected with it in any way. The deposits are $526,956.36, and the total resources and liabilities $685,889.88. The First National is one of the strong financial institutions and is growing bigger and better every day.

f William Sutilif arrived home Monday morning from Vermilion, Ohio, where he visited the Light and Hope or- < phanage. ,He brought him with him his fourteen year old brother, Bennie Sutilif, who had been an inmate of | the home for seven years, and whop ran away last Thanksgiving day. Ruby ’ the twelve year old sister, is still at ’ the home, and though clad in ragged ( 1 | clothes and old worn out shoes, andp ' apparently having been as much mis-1' treated as any of the children, said ' the home was her home and did ' want to come with her brother. After 1 some argument it was decided that 1 j she should accompany Rev. and Mrs. 1 I Sprunger to Berne, one week from*' next Saturday, when they are coming 1 to this county for a rest, and to this t both the girl and Rev. Sprunger ' agreed. Bennie tells of severe pun- 1 ishment received while at the home.,' He says that one time he threw a ( < 1 stone into an apple tree and the mis- 1 sile fell upon a chicken and killed the fowl. Bennie was whipped with ! a strap until the blood ran down his back. He ran away from the home , and walked about tw’’ r ‘ miles ( through the woods until he came to j ( Vermilion, where he was given a|i home by Peter Hahn and his good, J wife. There he has been clothed and I fed since last fall, was sent to school | and treated nicely and when he left , last night, Mr. Hahn gave him a five | dollar bill. William Sutilif says that Mr. Sprunger admitted many of the charges made against him and said he did wrong, but that some of the 1 stories were untrue. Mrs. Sprunger laughed and said, “Well, it didn’t hurt us; we are all alive yet” Ben will make his home with his brother, five miles west of Monroe, and Ruby will join him in two weeks. The boy has his school report with him from [ last winter, and it shows very good} grades. Though nearly fifteen years old he was, however, only in the > fourth grade, showing that his educa- ’ tion had been somewhat neglected. r ; .Tames Touhey vs. City of Decatur, ‘ damages SIO,OOO, demurer to complaint ! filed by Attorney DeVoss for the der fendant. r - *■' " r Martha Trim was granted a divorce from her husband, John Trim. The evidence showed that John had treated .his wife in a cruel manner, threatened to kill her and failed to support 1 her. D. E. Smith represented the f plaintiff. The defendant did not ap-' I pear. Mrs. Trim was also given judgment for S3OO alimony. ■ ■ . • I Peterson & Moran filed a new case 1 entitled The A. & C. Stone and Lime t company vs. Calvin Miller et al, suit on bond and contract, demand $12,000. > Isadore A. Kalver vs. Decatur Fur- . nace Co., petition to Sell property sustained, sale ordered at public sale after three Weeks’ notice by publication . and posting of notice. | I Floyd A. Shaw, a laborer, aged J twenty-five from Leeport, Ohio, and I Miss Blanch Hubbard, aged eighteen, t from the same place, applied at the r clerk’s office here today for a mar-! * riage license, but as both lived in Ohio the 'papers were refused them. 1 Dan Runyan was in town today and ; paid the costs in his recent divorce ( - case, amounting to about $40.00. | , . .1 - Real estate transfers: Winifred J. / Russell to Nade C. Haley et al, part . outlot 84, Decatur, $l5O. Eli W. j Steele to Martha Johnson, inlot 18, t Decatur, $l5O. F. M. Schirmeyer, trustee to Ell W.' Steele, lot 18, Deca- ’ tar, sl?s- ! A 'marriage license was issued to C. L. Denman aged 35, a laborer from Bluffton, to Dessie A. Crook, aged sixteen, who lives on the Wells county line. 1 James M. Archbold, administrator 1 te the estate of Mary J. ( Meitz Beg- ‘ lin, an appraisement of real estate ’ was filed, also bond of administrator ' which were approved. An order of sale was made for the sale of real 1 estate, the terms being one-third * cash, one-third in nine months and 1 one-third in eighteen months. 0 - MUSKOGEE ICE CREAM CO. „ Have Bought Ground and. Will Erect a New and Modern Factory. The Muskogee Ice Cream company, located at Muskogee, Okla., have reached that size, that they will soon own their own home. F. E. France, of this city, who is half owner in the concern, has sent a marked paper to < his friend, H. L. Center here, showing that a deal was recently consummated i whereby the company has purchased 1 a ninety-two foot front lot on South 1 Cherokee street, for which they paid 1 the sum of $3,500. The lot is 210 feet I deep and the company will at once 1 erect a modern two-story building, 1 built especially for the ice cream 1 business. Mr. France has prospered I since going to the southwest and his 1 friends here are glad to hear that he 1 is still going. , I ■ II) t I 11l —I h ■■■■■■

SUSTAINED THE DEMURRER Judge O’Rourke Ruled With the Democratic Committee. In the circuit court today Judge Edward O’Rourke announced that he would sustain the demurrer filed by the democratic councilmanic nominees in the suit Instituted by Peter Scheid asking for the opening of the voting machines and a recount of the votes cast at the primaries in July. He said that by some oversight there had been no provision made for an appeal on the part of a councilmanic candidate, although the right is given to a committeeman and to nominees for other offices. He said also that although he went no further than this point In the case, that he felt that the notice of contest had not been filed within the specified time and this will probably settle the matter, as there is apparently nothing to appeal from.— Fort Wayne Sentinel. — o HAB EIGHTY TURKEYS. Mrs. Ellora Sonnemaker, Glasford 111., says: “My neighbors have lost all their young turkeys. I have eighty head of Bourbon turkeys and I give them Bourbon Poultry Cure in the drinking water twice a week and have not lost any.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. o JEWISH NEW YEAR TOMORROW Event Will Be Celebrated All Over the World. “Lshoa tohwa teksawe!” Jews throughout the world will meet tomorrow evening to celebrate the Jewish new year, 5670, and on meeting will greet each other with the ancient salutation, “May thou be inscribed for a good year.” The year properly I begins at sunset and the twenty-four hours following is the greatest feast period of the race, and one celebrated with many church services and much joy. Although coming at the close of the harvest season-r-the hot months of the summer, it brings as much gladness into Jewish homes as the Christian new year, and more perhaps for it has a deep religious significance to the Jewish people. \ o — TWAS A GLORIOUS VICTORY. There’s rejoicing in Fedora, Tenn. A man’s life has been saved, and now Dr. King’s New Discovery is the talk of the town for curing C. V. Pepper of 'deadly hemorrhages. “I could not Iwork nor get about” be writes, “and the doctors did me no good, but, .after using Dr. King’s New Discovery three weeks, I feel like a new man, ’and can do good work again.” For weak, sore or diseased lungs, Coughs and Colds, Hemorrhages, Hay Fever LaGrippe, Asthma or any Bronchial affection it stands unrivaled. Price 50c. and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Sold and guaranteed by all druggists. — , o MAY BE PROMOTEDI Washington, Sept 14.—A. L. Lawshe I of Converse, Ind., third assistant post- | master general, is under consideration for assistant secretary of the treasury to succeed James B. Reynolds,who has been named as a member of the new tariff commission. Mr. Lawshe is desirous, it is understood, of mak- ‘ ing a change from his present position. President Taft knew Mr. Lawshe in the Philippines when the president was at the head of affairs and has been in New Mexico for his health [since July and probably will remain during September. — ■ ■ oThis Is An Easy Test Sprinkls Allen’s Foot-Base In one shoe and not tn the other, and notice the difference. Just the thing to use when rubbers become necessary, and your shoes seem to pinch. Sold everywhere, 25c. Don’t accept any substitute. o ———— ■- — o - - ESTATE VARIOUSLY ESTIMATED New York, Sept. 14.—Although it is confidently believed that the will of Edward H. Harriman was read to members of the family last night by ex-Judge Lovett and Charles A. Peabody, no intimation of its contents will be made public until it is filed for actual probate in a week or more. There is much speculation as to what the will contains and whether it intimates the amount of the Harriman estate, which has been variously estimated at from $50,000,000 to $200,000,000. It was noted that J. P. Morgan did not attend the Harriman funeral yesterday, although it is known he went secretly to Arden house a week ago last Thursday and had a long conference with the dying man. At this conference it is said that Harriman urged Morgan to take over the management of his great system, believing that Morgan was the only financier in America capable of grasping the situation. Morgan is said to have agreed. Morgan was never a close personal friend of Harriman, and there is no significance in the fact that he did not go to the funeral. They were business foes or business friends as the occasion demanded, but their persona! relations were never doee.