Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1910 — Page 3

I resident of this county, and he passed into that sleep that will have no | awakening save at the roll call on the | day of the great awakening. Mr. BunI ner was also a resident of Bobo, and. I his death followed closely that of Joel L Falk, who Is a very near neighbor. I Though Mr. Bunner had been suffer- ' Ing for many years from a compllcatlon of diseases, his death was caused directly by gastritis. He had been sick only about a week, and during the first part of last week he had been title to come to Decatur. Mr. Bunner was a native of Pennsylvania, though he had lived here since boyhood and may well be called one of the pioneers. He was at his death seventy-two years, five months and twenty days of age, having been born September 30, 1837. In early manhood he was married to Miss Rebecca Carpenter, who, with five daughters, survive. Mr. Bunner was a veteran ot the Civil war and was an exceptionally good soldier. He enlisted with Company I of the Eighty-ninth Indiana Volunteers as a corporal, August 14, 1862, and was mustered out July 16, 1865, as first sargeant. The promotion to the office as sargeant was made Decermer 11, 1864. During the three years* term of service of his reglfnent he never missed a day’s duty, nor failed to be with his /company in time of battle. During the siege and capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama, he commanded his company a part of the time, owing to the ill- , ness of Captain Chubby and Lieutenant Blood, being on detached duty. i He served in the following battles: ‘ Munsfordsvllle, Ky., September 14 to 17, 1862; Ft Deßussey, La., March 14, a1864; Pleasant Mills La., April 9, *1864; governor Moore’s Plantation, La., May 8, 1864; Yellow Bayou, La., Mhy 18, 1864; Yellow Bauoy, La., 1864;. Nashville, Tenn., December 15 and, 16, 1864; siege and capture of Ft Blakely, Ala., April 1-9, 1865. During the three years of his regiment’s service it marched 2,363 miles on foot and 7,500 miles by transportation. The funeral Was held Wednesday mornat 10 o’clock from the U. B. church Bobo, with interment in the church netery. Geneva, Ind., March 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Mrs. Lizzie Kizer, nee Bender, died Sunday night at 11 o’clock from a complication of di- . senses. She had been in poor health for several months, but her illness was not considered serious until the last few days, and the announcement of her death caused much surprise.’ Mrs. Kizer was born in St Marys township, southeast of Decatur, April w 5, 1860, and at the time of death was aged forty-nine years, eleven months and fifteen days. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bender and she was reared in St. Marys township. She was married to Martin L. Kizer October 31, 1880, and they resided on a farm near Linn Grove until about a month ago, when they moved to a • home on Harrison street in this town. She is survived by the husband, two daughters, Mrs. Henry Bertram of Elkhart, Ind., and Miss Myrtle, at home, one child haring died In infancy; also by three brothers, Israel arid Fred of St Marys township, and William of Spencerville, Ohio. The funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 oclock from the Mlssion ciMKch, three miles west of Berne, the Rev. Schrock of Mcßuen, Tenn., officiating. The lectures given here Friday and Saturday evening by Captain Alberti, the Russian, were the most entertaining ever heard in this place. His health, however.w&sbad and hecanceled future engagements, and left today for Chicago, where he will rest | for a while. The interurban grade for the B. G. & C. is now being made through this town and cars will be running before long. They are moving up Butcher street to Short, thence to Main street. , o— ————— RECEIVED PRESENTS. . 1 The hardware store of the firm of Schaub, Gottemoller & Co. was crowded again on Saturday to the doors when a number of valuable presents were given away absolutely free. J. D. Miller of near Monroe received a handsome flfty-dollar range. A. DeBolt of Route 12 got a J. I. Case plow; Frank Parrish of this city, a harrow, and William Sutbine received the washing machine. , These presents • were given away absolutely free and . those who obtained them are Just that much ahead. The firm thanked the people for the liberal trade which they received in the past several weeks and that they would appreciate their patronage in the future. ■■...-■■o - Henry Smith of Pleasant Mills pass- i ed through the city this morning enroute to Michigan, where he will make his home. His family will join him < therenextweek.

I A new case filed was entitled Oliver |W. Starer vs, George Epstein, note and foreclosure of chattel mortgage, demand, >275. jl v j . ... j‘. ■ f z In the matter of H. L. Linn et al., to have Market street vacated, L. C. DeVoss entered his appearance for the city of Decatur. , James McCullough vs. Bessie McCullough, divorce, motion for change of venue from judge sustained. Gllllom Lumber Co. vs. Fred A. Kohler, suit on note, dismissed and costs paid. Martha Codling vs. William Codling, divorce, default of defendant. Appearance by prosecuting attorney. William Lehman vs. Charlotte A. Lehman, divorce, demurrer overruled. John Joseph, arrested ten days ago on a charge of sodomy, was discharged, the court sustaining the motion to quash the affidavit. Real estate transfers: G. M. T. Houck to Mathias Kaehr, 20 acres, Kirkland tp., >1800; Fred Ehlerding to Lawrence Schlegel, tract in Prable tp., >325; Aaron Moser to Jacob Barger, 84 acres, French tp., >6736.80; J. D. Booher to Frank D. Brewster, 2 acres, Jefferson tp., >1,250; Thomas F. Scott to Emma O. Nleller, 1 acre, Wabash top., >4OO. Miss Margaret Clark, daughter of Dr. D. D. Clark, this morning began her duties as a deputy in the county recorder’s office, succeeding Miss Bess Wherry, who resigned Saturday. Susan Shanks, 43, of this county and John R. Anderson, 44, a storekeeper from Jay county, were granted a marriage license and were married at the clerk’s office by ’Squire Smith at 8:330 this morning. Neither party has been married before. Ben Leichty, 24, farmer, and Lizzie Kelley, 25, of Geneva were granted a marriage license. T"—''"' O — MAY BUILD AN ADDITION. King Piano Company of Bluffton is Enlarging. The A. J. King Plano company of this city, which recently bought out the Anderson Plano company of, Van Wert, Ohio, with a view of adding that line of instruments to their list of pianos, is figuring on still further increasing their output, and that either a great addition to the Bluffton factory Or an entirely new factory will be erected in this or some other city is practically assured. It behooves Bluffton to secure the benefit of the additional factory which Mr. King is figuring on establishing, for it will mean probably double the number of workmen which this big factory here, now the largest industry in the city, employs at this time. Mr. King has received flattering offers from other cities for the second factory, in the way of locations and houses, but Bluffton should not permit the additional factory to go elsewhere and should submit inducements which will give the city the proposed addition. If built here the new plant along with the present factory would employ ‘3OO to 400 men.—Bluffton News. There is noplacelike ’’fair Indiana,” think Mr. and Mrs. Martin Beery of this city and their son, Wilson Beery of Pleasant Mills, who left last Friday for Kingman, Trumbull county, Ohio, to look over the cpuntry with the Intention of buying land there, but took the next' train fqr home, convinced that there is noplace tike old Indiana. They had been given the fairest and best descriptions of land in eastern Ohio by a well posted real estate man of that region, but when they got as far as Youngstown, Ohio, they didn’t like the looks of the country and the dearer they got to their destination the less they liked it. “Where are your corn cribs?” they asked, and the farmers replied, “O, store boxes are good enough for corn cribs.’ “And how much corn do you raise an acre ” was the next query. “Well,” answered a son of the Ohio soil, “We. thing a crop of ten bushels to the acre is a good one here.” Mr. and Mrs. Martin Beerywent at once to a boarding house, while the son looked about a little, and they all took the next train Saturday for home without any further investigation. “You may tell the people we are mighty glad to get back to Adams county,” said Mr. Beery, and make it just as strong as you like.” ,n—- - - 1... MISS BESS WHERRY RESIGNS. Miss' Bess Wherry, who for the past two years has served most efficiently as aslstant for county recorder Harvey Steele, has tendered her resignation, the same taking effect Saturday evening. She has been succeeded by Miss Margaret Clark. ■ , -t'c '«V ■-■ •.it ■

r The death of Hugh Patrick Golden,] s fifteen-year-old son of. Mrs. Timothy I , Golden, at the home at Fort Wayne at 5:45 Sunday inpming has caused much sadness here, where the boy , was well known. He was a nephew of . Attorney John C. Moran, Mrs. Golden r being his sister, and a daughter of Thomas Moran. Death was due to valvular disease of the heart, from • , which he had suffered for some time, > though he had been seriously ill but two weeks. Hugh was a particularly • bright boy, being the eldest child In . the family and was a great help to I the widowed mother. When the father died four years ago Mrs. Golden started a grocery store near her home - and Hugh had recently had almost en- . tire charge of the store. He’was a student at the St. Patrick’s parochial school, a member of the holy com- . munion class of 1908 and of the chll- ■ dren’s sodiallty of St. Patricks church. Since the death of Mr. Golden four ► years ago the family has had many - troubles and this affliction seems al- • most more than they can bear. Last fall Mrs.-. Golden Was quite badly burned in joutajldine explosion. During the - . sered from appendicitis, and there ; has been other illness besides that of i Hugh. Thengmy fe survived by the • mother, tw<A Margaret and . Gertrude, brother, Thomas. I Funeral services .were conducted Tuesday morning at 9:15 from the ■ house, 3220 Piqua avenue, Fort Wayne, and at 10 o’clock from St. Patricks church. The remains were ' taken to Geneva on the afternoon train Tuesday and from there to Jefferson township, where Hugh was : born and where interment occurred. 0,.,i.... ■ v Joel Falk, a pioneer resident of the county, and one of the most promlnent/men of St Marys township, passed away Saturday evening at 6 o’clock from heart trouble at his home in Bobo. Mr. Falk suffered the attack Wednesday afternoon and was sick but a few days. Saturday morning he had recovered sufficiently to be up again, but became worse and his death occurred that evening. The deceased was the son of Joseph Falk, was born In Mercer county, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1838, and at death had reached the age of seventy-one i years, three months and four days. He was reared to manhood in his native state, and when about twenty years of age went to Ohio. There he was married in 1862 to Miss Mary Swartz, and a year later came to Indiana, Ja- ■ ter settling in this county, living the greater part of his life in St. Marys township, though one year of that time he. lived in Van Wert county, Ohio. To them were born the following children: Will E., living near Bobo; John,, Mrs. Dan Erwin, Mrs. Horace Callow, of this city, and Fred of Jonesboro, Ark. Two children, Rosa and Freeman, have preceded him in death. The first wife died in 1893, and he was later married to Mary Cowans, who still survives. Mr. Falk was a man of many excellent qualities and his death will be a loss keenly felt by all who were acquainted with him. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, sun time, from the Methodist church at Bobo, and burial took place in the ML Tabor cemetery. ( '■ 4 I? .'; k" 0 " As there are but few people now living that know just how and when the village of Salem or South Salem in Blue Creek township came into existence it may be somewhat intevesting to the present young and middleaged of that vicinity to have a short sketch ,of its birth, etc. To get at .the origin ,its locality and some tilings and people that preceded it, I may have to mention some early npmes that were first visitors and patrons to help blaze, the way for its founding. Beginning with the writer I will say that when I came to Blue Creek township, perhaps nine-tenths of the land was a dense forest; in the fall of 1853. I was then nineteen years old and the site of Salem was a big elm swamp. Not a stick of timber was cut amiss, only the crossroads cut out and one? of the crossroads run southwest for some distance to find dry ground to go on west. The village Is situated on the north one-half of the northeast one-fourth of the northwest one-fourth of section ; fourteen. That same fall of 1853, Thomas Alman bought this northwest one-fourth of John Shook, a very zealous pioneer, medium of spiritualism, and I may relate a joke on him later on, if I can find space. At that time ' the Methodists held their meetings at ; Bryan’s school house in the woods, j some one-half or three-fourths of a i mile southwest from Salem. These I early members are now most all gone, i In 1854 Mr. Alman donated a plat of • ground at the cross-roads for a log 1 church and L helped get out the logs ’ (hewed logs). This house and class < was called Salem. Soon after the Civil war a parson I age was builL and I was one of about four who did the building work so our share. Others furnished the mn I terial. About thia time or perhaps t ’ ’ '

] little sooner G. W. Syphers started a I grocery in partnership with his brother, Adam, now in Berne, while G. W. is In Albany. Prior to this Jackson McAlhaney had bdught ten acres or thereabouts on the southeast corner of the cross-roads and carried on a furniture shop and undertaking establishment, and his widow still lives there, a daughter of Henry Clawson. Salem began to be quite a country business corner. My brother and I procured a small piece of ground in the rear of the then grocery and started a blacksmith shop, and I did some .wagon repairing at odd times, and now we come to the first begetting of the idea of a village. I said to Wash Syphers one day, ‘‘Why not lay off some, of your ground in lots for sale?” seeing there was a demand. He said to me, “draw up a plat in about one-half acres.” I did so and in a few days a surveyor, a Mr. Stauffer, came along on some business and Mr. Syphers got him to survey it oft. Soon after a John Baker got the blacksmith and repair shop and turned it into a dwelling. Soon after Josh Gilpin started a shoe shop and John Tindall started another grocery. A new frame church was built on a more commodious lot and the groceries outgrew their accommodations and Syphers had put up a more substantial business room and others followed. A postoffice came into demand. The first one I think was called .Salem. , It was later abandoned, and soon after Congressman Steele got it renewed, and it still holds its name, “Steele.” Emanuel Fisher and Vess Campbell are the only two men that were old. enough to marry in 1853, but Vess did not marry until he got back from California, where be went in 1854. All others have died or moved, or got married since 1853, except these two; so they are the oldest married pioneers of the vicinity of Salem, “Steele" P. O. This is the origin and brief account of Salem, as I know it, but will allow the present generation tell their own story of what it is now. Yours, etc., for what it is worth to the Decatur Democrat. I am how past seventyfive years old. WILLIAM BROKAW. P. S. —Now for the lose on John Shook as it was related to me. He had three or tow men working for him, clearing, and he was very enthusiastic about his spiritualism, and how. he could make his table walk and dance. He invited at least three of these hands to stay or come some evening to the seance he would perform. These were Jerry Tricker, Wash Gilpin, Dr. C. L. Rainier’s fath-er-in-law, and Geo. Tricker, that is Dora’s son. These two, with Wash Loy, made it up to have some fun with Mr. Shook. He got them under the table to hold it down. He struggled and kicked and pawed and pushed, and Shook shouted like Balaam’s prophets, "Come up, Come up,” and soon the table began to creak and dance, and the big strong men were loyal to their job, and they tore the poor medium’s table all to binders, and he took it all in a good humor, and thought the spirit done it. But the boys enjoyed many a good laugh over it. But they are now all in the spirit world, if there is any such place, but I presume if Shook comes across them and finds out they put up the job on him he” break their necks. . w. b. ‘ Or— .y A THE EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE. Wabash, Ind., March 21—-The Indiana Conference of the Evangelical association, comprising all the charges in Indiana and many charges in Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, will be held in this city from April 4 to April 10, inclusive. . There are ninety charges in the conferences and about 30,000 member. On Sunday,’ April 10th, the sessions will be held in the Eagles’ theater in this city and it is expected that many delegations of members will be here to reinforce the ministerial and lay delegates. Bishop S. P. Spreg of Cleveland, Ohio, will preside. The assignment of ministers for this conference will be made. The limits of the conference are greater than of any other Indiana conference of any church and the membership is large. Lectures will be an important feature. , Oise of the early spring weddings in Bluffton will be that of Miss Jennie Clark to John Tudor, both popular young people of the city. The announcement of the marriage leaked out today through Miss Clark resign Ing het position as singer at the Stai theater. Sunday morning Miss Clark will go to Indianapolis, where she wil be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Willian Tudor, parents of the groom, and aft er her return the exact date of the wedding will be announced.—Blufftor Banner. '■ o — Philip Kable of Chattanooga, Ohio transferred here on his way to Fort Wayne. ■ ! HOi -

■■■■■ EMIGRANT WEDDING. By GWENDOLEN ADAMB. (Copyright, 1900, by American Press Association.] ; At the port of New York there is what is called the barge office. It la connected with the transit of goods and people from abroad into the United States. It is a place apparently as bare qf romance as an aafi heap. But wherever the human heart beats there is romance. Painten and poets like to picture it as far as they can from the business world, especially eschewing localities where people are hurrying with their strapped and roped chattels from the odoriferous steerage of a ship to the smoke and dust of a railway train. Nevertheless there are countless romances among immigrants entering the United States. “Is this the place where they keep the immigrant girls?” asked a black eyed young Armenian who came hurriedly into the New York barge office. But the man’s English was not intelligible. so he received no reply till after his nationality was learned and an interpreter had been called. The interpreter told him that he had struck the place he was looking for. He at once beckoned in the direction of the door, and several dark complexloned fellows advanced. “These are my witnesses,” said the young man. “This is the clerk, and this is the priest. Give me my girl, and I will marry her at once, so that you need not be afraid that the government will have to take care of her." “What sort of nonsense are you giving me?” said the interpreter. “I am an Armenian. Tosbkowhi is an Armenian too. Why do you keep me waiting? Didn’t 1 tell you that I am ready to marry her?” “See here, you crack brained lunatic, I am employed to interpret what you say from Armenian into English! Talk in your native tongue and stop the long roll in Vs.” “Huh! 1 not speak English. 1 been in this country three years.” Then he commenced again in his adopted tongue and rattled his Vs and bounced his b’s. An officer cried, “Cali the madam.” The “mother of immigrants” made her appearance, and td her the young man told his story. Women are more keenly sensitive to romance than men, and it was not long before the matron scented a love affair under the rattling Vs and bouncing b’s. It was tills: Three years before the young aspirant for honors in the English tongue had come to America from Armenia. His name was Vahi Krihorian. He had left at home a pretty sweetheart then seventeen years old, named Tosbkowhi Gobedian. It seemed singular to the investigators that a man with such a name able to speak endearingly to a girl with such a name should after three years in America have made so little headway in English. The upshot of the matter was that Tosbkowhi had come over to join Vahi, who was abundantly able to take care of her. and proposed to relieve the government from all responsibility concerning her by marrying her. Then the matron took the officer to the girl. She was a small, slender creature, with large black eyes and hair equally black plastered down over her temples and colled up Mehind in small braids. She was very bashful and ready to blush at the slightest provocation through her olive complexion. The clerk questioned her before she was brought forth to her lover. “Have you got any money?’ he asked. “No, sir. I have a sweetheart” “H’m!” said the clerk. “A bird in the hand is worth two In the bush. How do you know he’ll marry you?" “Because God would strike him dead if he dld not keep Us promise.” “And he would deserve it Come this way." He led her to where her lover was with his witnesses and the priest As soon as Vahi saw her standing demurely among the others he ran to her and, putting his arms around her, was about to kiss her when she drew back. Her cheeks flecked like two roses behind dark lace. “What do you mean, Tosbkowhi?” asked the lover, terrified. “Have you changed? Don’t you want me after the long voyage across the ocean?’ “Yes, Vahi, but there are so many princes looking at us. I am ashamed.” “Well, well! Then we will be married at once. 1 told these gentlemen that the president need not fear having to take care of you; that 1 am earning good wages and will do that myself. See. here are the witnesses, and there is the priest Come, let us be married." The custodian of the government’s Interests would not permit the marriage within the barge office, so the party adjourned just without the walls. The clerk, in order to make sun that the girl did not escape unmarried and call upon the president for a living, kept her in sight till the ceremony was performed. After it was over the “princes” went back to their daily avocations, consisting chiefly of terrifying immigrants with fear they will have to be turned back to endure another trip In the steerage to find themselves again at the end of the voyage in the despotic lands from which they baVe vainly tried to escape. Little Tosbkowhi found herself free to go “out into America." Bo the sentimental part of this romance ended. Perhaps it is well that It did. It must have been difficult even before marriage for the lover to keep whispering repeatedly “Dearest Toshkowhi, do you love me?" and bear In reply, “Yea, I love you, Vahi Krihorian."

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