Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1910 — Page 6

■ mi i mi BUSINESS CHANGE AT BERNE. E. M. Ray Sold HIS Stock In Berne Witness Company. E. M. Ray. who >as been connected with the Berne Witness company tor the past four years sold his stock to Fred Rohrer. Mr. Bay has purchased the stock of the Berne Supply Co., the affairs of which company he has very ably managed sines Its organization, and .will exchange a part erf said stock for- stock of A. J. Moser & Co. and will accept the position of secretary and treasure rof the company to succeed Elmer Neuenschwander, who has resigned in order that he may go to school preparatory to taking up Christian work. —Berne Witness. —— JOHN CONRAD WILL BUILD. Purchases an Acre of Cloud Farm Facing Monroe Street. John Conrad, the well known gardener, has'bought from the Clint Cloud farm, facing on Monroe street, a one-acre lot, and as soon as the, weather will permit will begin the erection of a < cottage, which he and his family will make their residence. The cottage will be twenty-four by thirty in dimensions and will make J a cozy and comfortable, as well as handsome appearing home. —■*" —e— ——— _ DEATH OF ELIZABETH DEWALD. Lady Known to Many Here Pa**®* Away at Bascom, Ohio. Miss Emma Qiilig has received a : 1 telegram from Bascom, Ohio, annonneing the death of Miss Elizabeth De Wald, which occurred at her home , Thursday morning after five years’ ill- ( ness from cancer. Miss DeWald | spent two years here some time ago > while taking treatment for the affile- ( tion and is quite well known to many < of the Decatur citizens, who will re- ] celve the announcement of her death ; with much sorrow. Miss DeWald i was a lady about forty years of age. j • , FUNERAL OF J. McELHANY. i —, — , Funeral services for James McEl- i hany were conducted this morning, j the procession leaving the home of the sister, Mrs. Asa Engle, at 9 o’clock for Steele, where the services < were held at the Methodist church, j The funeral was largely attended by i the relatives and friends, and by the i Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, : of which orders the deceased was a • member. _—_ * - Philip Fuhrman and family, Who have spent their entire life in this county, will leave the first of the week for Midland county, Mich., where they will make their home. Mr. Fuhrman resided many years in this city, but for the past six years has been living ■ on the 0. D. Lewton farm, about six i miles northeast of this city. A sale of their personal property was held 'this week, and about the first of the week they will leave for their new home. A son, Will Fuhrman, living a short distance east of the city, will also go. Mr. Fuhrman’s family consits otherwise of a daughter, Miss Addie, and two sons, Vera and Hubert, all of whom are well known here and many will regret this departure of life-long friends and associates. Wednesday evening a number of their immediate neighbors and associates gave them a surprise call, going to their home at 7 o’clock and spending the evening in a pleasant social way and speeding them o nthelr way with good wishes. Those who attended were David Flandfers and wife, J. C. Harkless and wife, Ross Hardin and wife, W. S. Welty and family, C. S. Mumma and family. All of those with whom they have been associated in the most friendly of relations sincerely regret their leaving. NEW AUTOMOBILE ARRHVEB. It’s a Little Beauty and Will Do Everything Claimed for IL The Brush automobile, to be given away by the Daily Democrat, arrived Thursday evening from Fort Wayne, the run to this city being made in fifty minutes, after dark. The little car is a beauty, has a speed capacity of thirty-five miles an hour, is simple and easy to care for and can be operated by any person. It is not a touring car, but one of these models made a splendid showing in the famous Glidden tour, running nearly three thousand miles in fifteen days. It will climb any hill with more ease than many of the higher priced cars and has all the necessary qualifications tc make it Everyman’s car, as it is known. Last year over 10,000 of these cars were sold in the city of Detroit alone and this year the factory cannot begin to meet the deffiand. This state has been allowed but three cars for each county. Os course the low price, $505, is the big

fact that it is really a serviceable car, that will last, and WHTnot < quire a large expenditure for repairs, makes it the most popular car in America today. ——• A young man whb has been employed as hostler at Brookside farm, the C. j; Luts home, disappeared suddenly Wednesday afternoon, taking with him several dollars which had been given him to buy some feed, also a gold watch, the property of Miss Jean Lutz, and a -Valuable ring, which ’belonged to Mrs. Lutz. The fellow was a stranger here and was employed by Mr. Lutz about six weeks ago. He was given a good home and seemed to like his work. Thursday afternoon the Presbyterian ladies held their social at the Lutz home. About 4 o’clock the young man went to his room upstairs, gathered his few clothes together and telling some children who were gathered there that he was going into another room to change clothes, stepped into Miss Jean’s doom, where he found the jewelry. He then drove up town, presumably to buy the feed and tying the horse in front of the Everett & Hite grocery skipped for parts unknown. When he did not return an investigation was started and it was soon found that he had gone and a ' search at the Lutz home revealed that *he had taken the jewelry. So far as known there is no clew to the direction taken by the young man. .... ■— o - . A new case filed in court is entitled Martha Codling vs. Milton Codling .complaint tor divorce. They were married February 7, 1891, and lived together until October 20, 1907. The defendant is accused ot being an habitual drunkard and when intoxicated would abuse his family. At one time he secured a revolver and at- ■ tempted to shoot his wife but she managed to wrench the gun from him. They are the parents of seven children, ranging in ages from two to sixteen years, the youngest of whom was born in the Randolph county infirmary, after Mr. and Mrs. Codling had separated. The seven children are now in orphans’ homes at Winchester and Spiceland, Indiana. Mrs. Codling asks for a decree, tor an allowance to support herself and children and that i her former name, Martha Risk, be restored. Real estate transfers P. G. Hooper, : commissioner, to Louis Bracht, 120 acres, Kirkland tp., $1.00; J. A. Wai- < ters to C. L. Walters, 80 acres, Blue Creek tp., $8,000; C. L. Walters to Ada D. Walters, 80 acres, Blue Creek tp., SB,OOO. TO DREDGE WABASH RIVER._ • - • • V' - R. B. Gordon of Celina Landed a Big, Contract ■■ ■■ R. B. Gordon of Celina, Ohio, has been awarded the contract at $33,000 for dredging the Wabash river from a point in Mercer county about four miles east of the state line to the bridge spanning the stream in Wabash township at New Corydon. The estimated cost of that part of the work on which Mr. Gordon bid was $35,000, while bids placed on the work by others reached $50,000. The petition asking that the river be dredged was filed in the Mercer county court at Celina. Gordon, the lowest bidder, is at present serving as secretary to Representative William E. TouVelle, in the United States congress st Washington. He Is not'a contractor by avocation, but placed the bid on the work during the holidays while at home on a vacation, little expecting that the contract would be awarded him.—Portland Sun. ’"O'- ■- ■' ? The latest word from the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, is to the effect that Mrs. Jane Butler shows a continued improvement and every hour finds her chances for recovery growing stronger. - Miss Vernla Harkless, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harkless, who has been suffering three weeks from the grip and a healing in the head, was able to be out 5 yesterday for the first time since her illness. Miss Florence Sprunger is numbered among the many grip sufferers. Miss Frank Radamacker was able i to be out yesterday for the first since ■ her week’s illness with the grip, i About a week ago she was badly i scalded by having hot water overturn- • ed on her arm, and this with the grip, made her illness one of double an- . noyance. I V ■ i Mrs. D. P. Reynolds, who was • brought home Wednesday afternoon i from the St. Joseph hospital, Fort > Wayne, where she underwent an op- ’ eratlon trouble, stood the trip ■ well, and is getting along remarkably - well, being able to sit up the greater I part of the time, and to stand, though t not able to walk much yet. r ——- > Marie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

51 Frank Gass is Quito sick with thp - arip. i-— . » The finishing touches were put upon the deed this morning that makes Auditor Hr S. Michaud the owner o - the beautiful home Os C. E. Suttles i on Mercer avenue. One of the most de sirable of the modem residences In l the city. Mr. Michaud and family i will take tossession of their home . about March 10th, at which time the t lease for thelf present home on Winchaster street will expire. Mr. Suttles makes the sale by reason of the fact that he has recently opened a nicker • store at Celina, Ohio, and has moved > his household goods to that city, where they expect to make their future home. Mr. SutAes was In the city this morning, making the final pen strokes to the deed and arranging and closing up other matters relating to his business here. <— WILL HOLD COURT TOMORROW. Owing to the death of a member of the family of one of the jurors in the case which Juoge Merryman has been trying at Fort Wayne, the court there has adjourned until next Monday and Judge Merryma nwill hold court here tomorrow, if there is anything to be brought up by the attorneys. OhiUreivOry m FLETCHER'S castoria The members of the Home Missionary society of tne Decatur Methodist church are busily working to contribute their share to the furnishing of the home that will provide so much comfort to the aged and helpless—the Old People’s Home, which- has been built at Warren and will be dedicated in April during the conference, which is to be held at Bluffton. The local society will furnish one room of the institution with bedding and for some time the members have been busily engaged in getting ready the box that will be sent about March 15th. There will be comforts, bedspreads, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows and cases, dresser scarfs, pictures—in fact anything that will add to the comfort or beauty of a sleeping room.. The society has been embroidering in the linen, the initials, “M. M. H.” standing for “Methodist Memorial Home.’ This noble society of the church has done much in missionary work in this country, providing for-the physical as well as the spiritual good of the people. Every year finds a box of good, substantial clothing ond other things sent to various orprans’ homes, or to the needy institutions of the country. The fact that this institution, which they are to help, is so near home, brings to the society a very near realization of the fact that their work is a real one, of real practical benefit j ——| The most important lodge event in the history of Decatur is to occur tomorrow, February, 17th, when] the beautiful,/spacious and elaborately furnished Knights of Pythias home is to be dedicated. The various members of (he lodge, and especially those who have made the completion of this handsome building a very important part of their duties, and who deserve the praise and congratulations of ev-. ery citizen of the town, are very mog lons to make the day a successful one, aud it is sure tojbe so. .A splendid program has been'arranged and vask ous committees named to look aXtrfq the many different corners necessary to complete a day of this kind. The reception committee for the day as named ta: ..-v . A. J. Smith, chairman; Dr. J. M. Mik, ler, E. A. Mann, E. Fritzinger, Noah As Loch, Fred Linn, James Hendricks, Alex Hoyer, D. H. Hunsicker, Samuel Hite, John W. Tyndall, Charles Meyers, L. D. Adams, F. W. Dibble, Charles W. Yager, C. O. France, L. G» Ellingham, N. C. Anderson, C. C, Cloud, Forest Elzey, M. E. Howen, James L. Kocher, Wilson H. Lee, George McAlkeny. The day’s program will be rendered as follows: 3 i Afternoon. J 2:oo—Parade, John T. Meyers, commanding. 3:30 —Open meeting in hall, Godfrey Christen presiding. ■ Song—Opening Ode—Audience. . ■_ ; Invocation-Rev. Richard Spetnagle. Quartet—Messrs. A. R. Bell, J. Q. Patterson, D. W. Beery, Fred Patterson. Welcome Address—A. D. Suttles, C. C., Kekionga Lodge, No. 65. Response—W. R. Armstrong, D. D. G. C., Portland, Ind. Solo—Mrs. J. O. Sellemeyer, Decatur, Ind. Presentation of Building by Build? Ing Committee—D. N. Erwin. Acceptance of Building by LodgesDavid E. Smith. - - Music —Orchestra. Address—Aria M. Brown, Grand Chancellor of Indiana, Ind. Solo—Mr. Leo Wood. Heaton. FOrt Wavna Tad ■■

6 Adjournment "’Evening. . a 7 O’clock—Opening of Kekionga s Lodge No 65 Conferring ’ T hlrd Rank by Red, Cross Lodge, No. 88; Portland, Ind. »- Smoker 1 , jr The Decatur High school athletic asb sociatlon held a meeting Friday evene ing and attended to some important i- business relating to the opening of s the spring'season, among them being t the making of by-laws. The assoclat tion has also arranged for holding 1 a district convention to be held March 28th. This will be a burlesque on i- modern political meetings. All the b thirteen best nations in the world will 1 be represented at this meeting in cosj tume and characterization and the 5 boys expect to make some money from the admission'fees charged for the befiefit of the athletic association. If a large enough attendance can be secured to warrant the expense, the f convention may be held in the opera j house. In the meantime tnO associa- > tion asks the Interest of the people, > and support at the time of launching I the event. The local association may s join the Indiana High School Athletj ic association, in event of which the local teams will play with some of the best high school teams of the Os course whether the local team-W comes a member of the state association depends upon the credits secured by the members In their studies, and if they come up to the standard in • their studies, they will be allowed to ; devote their extra time to the sport. ■ Base ball and basket ball are the too ’ most absorbing sports indulged In by i the association. o i The first definite and detailed word received by relatives here regarding the death of James McElhany, Which occurred at The Dalles. Oregon, last week, has been received by Ms sir ter, Mrs. Lydia Young of Blue Create township, in a letter from those with whom he was most closely associated. The letter stated that on Tuesday afternoon the aged man, who was in Ms seventy-third year, had been up and around the house where he had been rooming, and was last seen alive at 3 o’clock of that day. On Wednesday morning a man who had been assisting in the care of him, as a sort of valet, went to his rooms to help him as usual in dressing, and was much shocked to find him dead on the bed, but with a peaceful expression, as though asleep. It was thought there that his death had been caused from heart trouble instead of paralysis as at first thought by his relatives here. . ■■ -» Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 12—Judge Albert O. Marsh, United States pension agent for Indiana, when inters {viewed last night relative to the bill Ireported from the house committee lon appropriations abolishing the Indilanapolis pension office and recomI mending the abandonment of. the sevlenteen other offices, expressed the foplnion that the bill as reported would [not get through congress. “I believe (fit will pass some time,’’ said Judge! {Marsh, “but I can say positively from , I what I know of the administration of Ithe affaire of the pension department [the party that effects the passage ot Ithe bill, removing the whole admlnisTpense is concerned I do not believe :h; {There is a certain amount ci work to and it can l>e done cheaper Jin cities like Indianapolis than in .[Washington. The cause of the agl> [(tion to abolish the pension agendas • jis not the pursuit of a more ecomyagj-. , I cal means ot distributing government .[money, but an effort of men out Os .[jobs at Washington to increase, the .{demand for their services. Conduct? , ling the business from a general office II at Washington would necessitate the lemployment of practically the same [number of employees as are connect- . Jed with the several pension agendas •Icollectively, granted the same prompt? -I ness in executing the. business of the [department The inconvenience of [pensioners of directing this business . entirely from Washington woul£. be .{almost inconceivable. There are Jabout 59,663 served from the Indianapolis office. In the whole Icouiftry there are approximately one Jmilion. The average number of per- . I sons employed at each (rffiee, Judge [Marsh thought, Is about twenty. The Jagent receives a salary of $4,000 a [year, and the average salary paid to .[each of the other persons employed [in the pension agencies is approxi11000° I I The sixty-seventh session of the riitfnrth TndlAna. conference of the Methv. •,(odist Episcopal church will be held [this year at Bluffton. The session wIU I open on Wednesday, April otn, ana

cars of the various organizations of Illi BbllU. QL“VUIA3U. BUrVIvO Dy XWJv« w ‘'Ju■ 4 j ' '' % „.< I tendent In conformity to the rules Os the conference he will not continue, to serve In this capacity, but will likely be given a charge. The North Indiana conference embraces thirty counties, divided into the following districts; Fort Wayne, Logansport, Muncie, Richmond, Goshen and Wabash. The Fort Wayne Methodist Episcopal church pastors have been eminently successful in the conduct of their work during the conference year and it is the hope of the several local congregations that they will be reappointed. The ministers of the conference number about 225.— Fort Wayne Sentinel. The revival services at the Method--Ist church closed Friday evening, not because of any lack of Interest, but because the pastor, singers and workers are completely exhausted physically by the long and successful campaign for souls. The Interest was intense to the dose. The auditorium was filled and seven sods bowed at the altar and were happily saved. On Thursaay mgnt six came forward after ler, who most kindly supplied In place of Rev. L. C. Hessert, who was 111. The pastor cannot excess his gratiit was the most precious meeting of his earnest ministry. The lodges and clubs wgre most courteous, omitting Important functions out of regard for the meetings. Such unusual courtesy is especially commendable and speaks most eloquently of the high character of our citizenship. Our press maintained the high standard of helpfulness, always in evidence. In all eighty-six souls bowed at the altar of penitence and prayer and such scenes of Christian joy acid victory are rarely witnessed in these days. The entire absence of excitement was noticeable, but there was no lack of earnestness and enthusiasm. The shouts of victory enthused many] Weary workers like the battle hymns nerved the soldier boys. -The pastor has nauaht but blesslnes for all. To Father, Son and Holy Ghost be aU the glory.! . J The manslaughter case. State vb. I for Tuesday, February 22nd. The! case dgjaiiioL oowers, me vsxeopavu i • I day, February 24th. The case agrinst Albert Knavel for assault and battery will be heard February 22nd, and ajjauiSv ssam ior SvO** I I Slat VI ■ I Special Judge a®, Smith this morning rendered his decision in the big divorce case, Joseph W. Hakes vs. Sarah Hakes, finding that the .slain? tiff isxentitled to the divorce, but ab lowing the defendant $125 in alimony, ftKA AA within Aon I $75.00 Within one hundred and twenty days. Judgment against plaintiff for costs. ; Clinton Stone et al. vs. Samuel Tombleson, glOO, Ending for plaintiff in the sum of $76.60 and costs. - W.11.A A new case filed was entitled Benjamin F. Boward vs. 8. C. Mills, note auu avtacuxxißiiv} uduaiiu, - XuG case was AIM by Attorney J. H. Ci Smith. — .. Judge Smith of Portland, appointed to hear the SB,OOO damage case, Cit? izens Telephone Company vs. Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway Company, has written declination to serve in same. . . ■ A j Fred Gnepper et al. vs, Oliver Deen et al., partition, proof of posting notices sale was filed. ' ~ ——— j In probate court O. N. Tyndall, administrator of the John W. Jones estate, filed a report of the sale of real estate, which was approved. ■■ In the Grace Chrisman estate a petition was filed by Lulu Reed to set aside the allowance to R. B. Lewis and same was sustained. . Ed Heller, trustee of the Peter Parrott estate, filed a current report and it was duly allowed by the court. . ■ -'-" /I, Current reports were also filed agd allowed in the following guardian- * * ** I {rod.

’"CT 1 ””'* > I '4l* h hi hhn hA i sh pleted a massive brief in the case* Johnson as stenorranher —*— MRS. MEBCHBERGER IS DEAD. . Fort way ns Lady wen Known in This Countv la Called ; Mrs. Mallnda Meschberger, sixtythree years of age, wife of Fredreick West Third street band and eiirht rhildr n ' lit anTptolip Jouii ot Garrett, and are tweTi ty-one ficr&xid a b > idren fwtb '/e>nd & T4Vcind John Captain of Bluffton, and-Mrs. Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. **hOl*r , O"W 1I1H? Pa.ll f ** 1 9 aw" -• at. av. I - -. from Saturday, Lincoln’s birthday, that heavier of th* season. the carriers were so overbudrenS th.. man, ■««. n wa. nee«,. valentine rush was quite heavy, and the carriers at nearly every door, handed out missives that made the cairiers appear in tne eyes ot the recipients lige Cupid’s or the angel’s effibassadors, or like the his 8aI Ah 4 * 81 A I f y av maffiy, from congressman Adair, 1 ■■nll.S w h Sa < • Al I -1 al ■' V.A <1 I _ t aji mt sT* i ■ | ■ . \ , I Ash 1 toxh Feb. lci“ — “Trhe T_Tnited Stat n i at nev at Indi an li the senate shows that even if the I house should vote to wipe out tho I agency as recommended unanimousLhlve a ghost of ia show of passing I the upper branch of congress. The mended the abolishment of the age* cies and the payment of r a fiLnrri 1 fVOFa on t&e subject is interesting: “The «« « • or vwchera and checkiL pensione’r cTnts ZXnum. is estimated that after a consolidation XX’”<>Z ~1 TpXoner S ‘ ,e »“a t Pen " t W hl etffli with ■ saww ~ ’ t.J. 2A cents ner an» FxS'ESBS du erf at more.’’ —i —— ■ i O- ■" - '-i 1 ii A MIU-tON DOLLAR HOTEL. --.J Indianapolis, Feb. IMhomas Ts* fonn ftfnrv hntel nn th a alto of the old ftrf and will have a theater and roof jno oeiimie details or con** an Aftriv date - ■■ ’ v • i an pariy unw.