Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1909 — Page 2

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■I II Ml? Bl- JIMILLTSU-XJ - - ■ 1 The senior class of the high school has undertaken a lecture course for the coming winter, the first number being Dr. L. G. Herbert, a lecturer who will appear on the evening of December 22nd. On January Bth the Parland Newball company and on February Bth the SkoVgaard Concert company. The last of the number is an open date for May and It goes without saying that the entertainment to be furnished by this course is all first class and will be well worth the price of admission. Besides all this it will give the seniors a needed workout and if they succeed the profits will help them In paying many necessary expenses that always hang heavily about the time of graduation. The public can well afford to be generous in this instance a"d help the seniors with making a rip roaring success of this most excellent lecture and musical course. Every one will be well repaid for the price of the tickets as the various numbers are all good, and the entertainment to be afforded upon the nights of their engagements is well worth the cost Help the seniors in this preliminary skirmish in active life. The Modern Woodmen held an important session last week when they elected the officers who will serve during tne ensuing year. A large number were present and the lodge is in a very prosperous condition. The new officers are: Counsel, James O. Hoagland ; advisor, W. B. Johnson; banker. Ell Meyer; clerk, C. M. Rice; escort Will Engle, physician W. E. Smith; watchman Thomas E. Miller; secretary, Walter Noack; manager, Horace E. Butler. It was’ also decided to invite tlie Monroe and Berne camps to Join the local lodge on the trip to Fort Wayne on December 20th. A flat rate has been secured over the interurban for sixty cents and an effort will be made to take a large delegation to that place where about twenty-five candidates from this county will receive the Infation work. The Woodmen lodge is growing rapidly and all things point to a continuation of this growth. e - ■ . As established and agreed upon by the Adams county Democratic central committed, . the Democratic primary election to be held Friday, December 17, 1909, the following named .places, have been selected as voting precincts: Union townshin, two precincts, one at Broadbeck school house and the other at West Union, Koher school house.. West Root '■ in Monmouth; Preble, two, North

ports,Wttrd-robes,Stedßanges, Sen i uorVi tUttenesJlinner*seis, V - W V'' - Sideboards, Dressers, Ball • .. Racks. Couches.Kikhen Cab ■'*•*— »h. .. ;/■ '■< mets,Chiffoniers, bles, Art Squares,lron Beds' ttlirrors,Rockers,Lace Cur tains, and other use jul household articles. Write us for our illustrated cciy oa bj the above and mar ’, Aer items Given free b fee tadtes far selling our groceriesAddress, . Lima Tea Co, Lima.O.

I Preble at Friedham, South Preble r at school house north of town ' ot Preble; Kirtland two, North Kirkland at school house in Peterson and E South Kirkland at Honduras; Wash. ’ ington township, one precinct at dwell- ’ ing house east side of railroad; St, ' Marys, two, North St. Marys in the 1 town of Bobo; South St Marys, nt 1 Pleasant Mills; Blue Creek two, North • B&e Creek at Steele, South Blue 1 Creek in the Prairie school house; ’ Jmroe township, three. North Monroe 1 in town of Monroe, Berne “A" east of Grand Rapids railroad to corporation line Oast of Jefferson street thence south to lind vote at Cottage hotel, Berne “B” west of Grand Rapids railroad to corporation line and west to Jefferson street to township line. vote at tbwn hall; French school house; Hartford, two, North Hartford, Linn Grove,- South Hartford, Brushwood school house; Wabash three, North Wabash at school house in Dist No. 2, Geneva “A” town calaboose, Geneva “B” in Hutton building; Jefferson, two, West at Buckmaster school house, East at Booher school house; City of Decatur, three, in First Ward in Linn and Patton’s shop, Second Ward, north room of court house basement, Third Ward, Holthouse livery barn. Such election shall be held In compliance with the rules and regulations of the Adams county Democratic central committee. ELECTION NOTICE. All democrats ot Adams county, Indiana are hereby notified that on Friday, the 17th day of December, 1909, there Fill be a primary election held under the Austrialian Election laws of said state for the purpose of nominating democratic candidates to be ’ voted for at the November election ofl9lo. That candidates will be nominated for the following named offices: One State Representative. One Prosecuting Attorney. One County .Clerk. ' One County Treasurer. ' 1 One County Recorder. ’ One County Surveyor. One County Assessor. ' One Commissioner, Third District . One Commissioner, First District r Also one county central committeeI man for each voting precinct In the 1 county. Such committee to tll the next Democratic Primary Elec- • tlon. ' T. M. GALLOGLY. ’ Chairman. L—- ’ SCOTT-GRAHAM CASE DECIDED. • Plaintiff Won the Sult and is Given ’ Judgment for Nearly a Thousand. b Bluffton, Ind., Dec. 2.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Judge Sturgis gave ! his decision today in the case of D. E. Scott vs. L. A. Graham, tried here several weeks ago. The case was an accounting. The defendant Offered ’ to confess Judgment for $350. Judge “ Sturgis’ decision was for the plaintiff and he gave Judgment in the sum of I $984.16. After an Illness of more than a year, the past four months of which she was continually bedfast, Mrs. Catherine Bosse Confer died .at her home on First street at 8:15 Wednesday evening. More than a year ago she suffered from an attack of strangulated hernia to which later were added complications. She was taken to the St. Joseph’s hospital where she was operated on and for a time seemed to improve but on July 13th last she began to grow worse and since that time has declined gradually. On Tuesday of last week she suffered a sinking spell and has been very low since until the hour stated last night when she passed away. Mrs. Conter was born in Cincinnati July 23, 1846, and was aged at the time of death sixtythree years, four months and eight days. When but three years of age she came with her parent, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bosse, and has been a resident of Decatur for sixty years. Her husband Lewis Conter, died a number of years ago. Mrs. Conter is survived 'by seven children, Herman L., Mrs. A. A. Arnold, Fort Wayne; Mayme, John of Detroit; Frank, Rose and Margueritetjvo brothers Frank and W- J- Bosse and one sisterTMrs. Mary Smith. The funeral services were held on Saturday morning 'at 8:30 o’clock, standard time, from the St : Mary’s church of which the

ip xvuuiiv aim I I Noma Nihlick in th n f z: X7 ss." interest taken by both the teacher and. pupil. Several beautiful selections were rendered, Miss Niblick playing •‘Galop Di Mrarula La Cascade De Roses,” which was very beautiful ana she received many compliments from those present. Miss Kohne followed! with “East Ideas of Weber Bells of reach the point which she has. After this several selections of composition were given which is the most diffl-| cult music there is. Miss Niblick again playing "Martha,” and Miss Kohn J “Grande Polka De Concert” On December 3rd the- sisters will give a recital in which Hie Misses Niblick I and Kohne will receive gold medals,! they being perfect in the finger movement Since the sisters have established music here they have turned! out a large number of scholars, all e/[ Cellent players. Those Who atendedl l„t events the Mnu williaml Parent Mrs. Dr. Connell, Mrs. P. K. I Kinney, Mrs. Frank Gass, Mrs. John] Walters, Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. KellerJ Mrs. Peter Stein, Mrs. R. J. Holthouse, I Mrs. Dan Niblick, Mrs. H. L. Merry, Mrs. William Kuebler and Mrs. Jacob Eady. This evening a recital similar to the one last evening wHI be given in which the students will play fori their parents. I o LINN GROVE MAY GET IT. | A Sub-Station .for Power House on Traction Line. ; The directors of thg B. G. &C. traction line have at last come to the con-1 elusion that the overhead system is I the one which they wish to use and! today the contracts for the materili for die system were let. The Westing-1 house company got the contract for! the work, while the other! contracts were scattered around. The! material will arrive as fact at the local.l company wishes it I R. F. Cummins, of the as yet had not decided where the sub-1 station which will be used will be I located. Owing the fact that the men have not decided as yet where they win get their power this eould not be decided upon. Linn Grove has been ahe most favored place sot far.—Bluffton Banner. I VALUABLE STONE FOUND IN A CHICKEN.I Mr. Walter Noach, living in the west part of the city, on last Saturday! killed a chicken for his Sunday dinner and when Mrs. Noach was cleaning I it discovered that it had swallowed al stone but not thinking that it was of I much value struck it with a hammer! and broke It in several pieces. Last! evening Mr. Noach took the pieces to Hensley’s Jewelry store and upon be-1 Ing examined was found to be a real 1 garnet stone, and if it had not been! would have been worth fifty! dollars. It was still the rough uncut stone and weighed something like al one karet I — O 11 Washington, Dec. 2.-The Indiana county option law and the increasing wave of temperance throughout the country have made a despot in] Uncle Sam’s pocketbook, according to! the commissioner of internal revenue,! R. E. Cabell, who presents some startling figures Ip regard to the decrease of liquor consumption in his annual! report Issued today. The total collections of the internal revenue service for the fiscal year of 1909 show a decrease as compared with 1908 of $5,453,230, and nearly one-fourth Os this entire decrease is reported from the state of Indiana. In 1908 the total revenue collections in Indiana werJ $26,546,753.39 and in 1909 the Indiana collections were $25,224,‘8164L This! i is a falling off es $1,321,936.58 in Indiana alone during the year. One es- ■ fest of the growth temperance Sentiment is to cause Indiana to- lose the ! position it has occupied as having within its borders the second internal • revenue districts in the U Ited States from the revenue-producing stand- ■ point. For years the Seventh, or Terre i Haute district has been next to the i Fifth Illinois (Peoria) district in rev-? enues collected;-but on the showing > made by the report Just Issued the : Trre Haute district surrenders second place to the Fifth Kentucky] (Louisville) district and drops to third place. In 1908 the collections of the. three districts were as follows: Fifth *28,481.340.69; Se.mth Iu«l-

T I |«« . ill 4t « #ll • I dXirtX’coZ Hons show a decrease from 810,577,953.42 In 1908 to 810,053,789.43 in 1909. revenue reseipts for the United States as a whole have shown a constant decline. In 1907 the figures for the entire country were 1269,664,022.85; in 1908 8251,665,950.04; in 1909 8246,212,719.22. If other states had shown the same proportionate reduction as Indiana during the last year the total cu tin receipts would have been enormous. The report shows that in 1908 there were thirty-one registered distilleries In Indiana, of which twerT-ty-one were operated. In 1909 there were thirty registered distilleries in th state, of which twenty-one were operated. * ,r —-—: ' Frances Ji. Cottrell ts. Amos D. Buckmhster et al., note 875. Case dismissed and costs paid. . Sheriff Meyer left tor Richmond this afternoon, having in charge Mrs. Sarah Hendricks of Berne, who will be placed in the East Haven asylum. ey E. Cully, filed the written consent of Russell B. Bartram, husband of the guardian, to fief continuing to act as such guardian. 4 j Smith Stevens, guardian of George Brown, filed his current report, which wasollowed. Judge J. F. La Fbllette, of Portland. ! was looking after business in the cir- j cult court room this morning. — —o • — ' i Attorney DeVoss has filed a case, J Joseph W. Hakes vs. Sarah Hakes, suit for divorce. Mr. Hakes is- one of ( the best known men in the county. ( The says the parties were , married Novmber 28, 1906, and lived together until the following October j when they separated and have not ( spoken to each other since. Each had , been married before and had children , and did not get along well. Mr. j Hakes says his wife scolded him con- . tlnually and refused to cook for him and did other deeds which made ft ] impossible for them to get along. The last will and testament of Mrtr. Catherine Confer was probated last Saturday. After providing for her property, real and pe’rsonal, to the children. The will was written April 22, last , ■ »i - Attorney D. B. Erwin filed a new case entitled Samuel J. Laman et al vs. Nicholas Wagner, suit on note; demand, 475. ‘ . 'A'-!-:-/ ; / - Attorney J. C. Sutton filed a new case entitled Abigail and George Painter, Dora and John ■ Merica vs; George Scholl et al. Suit tor partition Charles H««wr w. Jacob HnulelHr. damages, 8600; demurrers filed to answer and set off. A marriage license was issued to Harvey T. Kitson, aged 22, a farmer, to Mary F. Elzey, aged 18, daughter at William Elzey. Caroline . Sprunger has been appointed guardian for Carl H. and Edna F. Sprunger and filed her bond for BLSOO. ; John Lee, guardian for Russell and Rhea Lee, filed his current report which was allowed. William S. Weldy, guardian for Harriet A. Richards and eleven Others, filed his currenUTeport which was allowed. The estate of William J. Craig, < which Sarah H. Craig was the administrator, was ordered left off the docket. Real estate transfers: Ephraim Baumgartner to Oscar Steiner, lot 440, Berne, 8175; John Huffman to B. G. & C. Traction Co., -tract In Hartford tp., 836; D. B. Smith, com., to Hariet A Hunslcker, 40 acres In St. Marys tp., 81.00. L- T-J -S. -- ■■ a. The teachers of the north half of met at the library In this city Saturday, It being the occasion of the mld-wlnter Institute. The interest was splendid, but four teachers being absent. The session was called to order by County Superintendent Oplinger, and the teacher Joined in singing, “Holy, Holy.” Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. Spetnagle, of the First Presbyterian ohurob. a,..r wbieb th, Berne W. Quartet rendered a selection. Mrs. M. Bailey of this city opened the pro-

1111 J! nOI, T “How to Secure Better English for the Graduate,•' a splendid paper. The subject was ably discussed by Mr. A. Sellemey&r. The next subject was "What Gan the Schools do for Citizenship?’’ by D. W. Horton, with the discussion by 6. F. Gilliom, and each showed that he had studied the question thoroughly. After a five-minute rest G. A. Lehman rendered a beautiful solo. Mr. Jesse Kelley then gave a gdod paper on "Moral Character vs. Knowledge." Each paper was interesting and the session was productive of much god to those in attendance. The Institute was resumed at 1:80 this afternoon and program was continued. —————o ’ Twenty thousand dollars Is asked by Catherine Ault, widow of the late William Ault, as the result of his death by being crushed beneath a train on a trestle of the Nickle Plate railroad; at Fort Wayne a few months ago. As the law will only permit the payment of ten thousand dollars In case of a death Mrs. Ault brought two different suits, one as the widow and one as the administrator of the estate. In the allegations it was claimed that the deceased was killed as a result of pure carelessness and wanton neglect on the part of an engineer tunning a switch engine. There la a trestle of the road, which the woman claims has been used for twenty years by employes of the road and other people as a public . walk. This trestle is doubletracked, she claims. The railroad company never did anything to Interfere with this public traffic over the company’s right of way in all this time. At one end of the track she alleges there is a switch, by which the engine will go on one track and the cars on another. The widow alleges that when her husband started across the track no engine was if view, but when he was halwya across an engine and a car came toward the switch, the ear going one way and the engine the other. She alleges that there was no way for the deceased to escape by one or the other ends $1 the trestle. She alleges that he had no time to do this and that the engineer speeded -up his engine, realising the predicament of the deceased and that he made no attempt to bring the engine to a stop. The complaint alleges Ault got the side of the track the engine was on and was run down and mangled. The engineer, the complaint avers, backed the engine off from the man who was under it in* stead of getting "him out from underneath, causing his death.—Bluffton Nows. < VLT/' Indianapolis, Dec; 4.—Governor Mar'shall, It is said, is considering the Idea of recommending in his next message to the legislature the abolishment of office of state statistician, on the ground that the Office is useless in the administration of the state’s business. The suggestion, It is sald.Was made to tito 5 governor by one of the republican state official a short time ago, who declared that under the law the bureau of statistics could easily be dispensed with without injury to the state. It Is a fact that the bureau of statistics has never attracted much attention from other state officials. They have not rellbd on It for information, but oftimes when they want anything la the way of statistics they gather them themselves. But each year the bureau Issues thousands of copies of all kinds of reports and send them out through the state at a high cost to the state. The bureau of statistics was organised in 1879. at first only a small affair, but it grew in else until it now occupies three large rooms in the state house, all on the first floor, and employs a force of several clerks and deputies. The salaries paid are as follows: Chief of the bureau, better known- as the state statictition, g3,00Q; deputy chief, *l,800; stenographer, >720; tabulator, >900; clerk hire, >2,500; field agentfl >3,070. These are the smallest salaries fixed by law, and >l,soo'ls allowed for office expanses. J. L. Peeta is the present chief of the bureau, and his wife Is the deputy chief.* The total cost of the office per year is >15,000, and the governor has about tpade up his mind that this >15,000 could be saved. Os course, if the legislature should decide to abolish the office at its next session it could not take effect for two years thereafter, because a state statistion will be elected next year. o ? The Lancaster township blanket remonstrance was filed about noon Friday by Attorney Frank W. Gordon, attorney for the anti-saloon forces of the township, and on the face of it there appears not the least doubt but that the remonstrance is fully effective and will serve to defeat Adam Richey, who gave notice of an intention to apply for a license at Cralgville, or any others who may apply during the next two years, the life of the remonstrance, says the Banner. The remonstrance, circulated by several different persons, contains a total of 360 names, or a majority of seventy of the legal voters of the township as based upon the election

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returns which formed the working ba- ■ the last day sor U fning withdrawal, I and none were placed on file, with the I county auditor. Adam Richey was in Bluffton this I the News that he had not yet given I ,p » k "from MlbblutT and b» I to be “shown.” He said that he bad-* been told that there were some Hie-I gal or rather some void signatures to I . the remonstrance, persons who are not H legal voters in the township. He sai<f | that he had Instructed his attorneys I to prepare him a copy of the list of ■ signers to the remonstrance and he *J|g will he in himself Monday to go over I the entire list. He is said to also I want to keep the list for his - J personal satisfaction and perusal in gl the future. - o Ralsles White Wyandottes. ■ W. E. Johnson & Son, LexlngtoA, | Ky., say: “Last year we lost one ©- | tire hatch of fine White Wyandotte ] chickens from white diarrhoea. This ■ year we have given our I Bourbon Poultry Cure in their drink- I ing water and have not lost any.” I Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. ■ FUN R LARGELY The last sad rites of Mrs. Catherine‘s A, ■■ ■ • * J. * ' M<Mhor® In this Town. Children who are delicate, feverish, 1 wt r Aug hmi Why A- <wrt sin mm WLii-img- ftnUl hv all dm**M euro Tor Wi/i ms. oora oy an gists, We. Sample Fi~>. Ad?- 88 Al-| ho 8. Olmstead, Leßwr. N. Y. ■ • O “ ■ Emil Schumm, of Schumm, Ohio* nassed through the city this morningM on his way to Fort Wayne, where he|M||||||| win make a visit I Ths Ladle.’ Aid society 01 th. Vn-H Mr”. m»k Mar "oa dav afternoon on Ninth street. A good! attendance is asked. I ■ H. W. David of near BaKemeia, uai.»™||ggig _ lu< with hiR mntherß at Bluffton, Ohio, for a few days, whoH has been very ill, was in the city morning for a short time and left fori his home this morning. , Mr. and Mrs. George Steele andi for Union City where they will remain! for several days. While there Steele will attend to his Racket storeß CURES CHICKEN says: I certany -*jß| Cure.* 1 ! 01 gaVthem this medicine 1J both drinking water and f©ed. I li Bremerkamp. notice poultry raisers I Alonzo Thropp, ML Carmel, lILB Bays: “I was losing on an of fifteen fowls a day with cholera* After giving the first dose of bon Poultry Cure all around to flock I never lost another fowl.” Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp.

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