Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1910 — Page 3

for thirty years naa served as pastor I of the St. Alphonsus church at New Orleans. Hie death occurred there Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, the L result of the infirmities of old age, I he being seventy-four years old He | was born In Antwerp, Germany, and! when ten years of age came to this I country with his parents, settling in r New York, his parents later coming I to this county, where they made their I home on tne Gerhardt Kohne farm. The one wish of Bernard, however, £ Was to become a priest, and his parents being very poor, he remained In New York, where he was a’ded by his good sister, Mrs. Gertrude Wuller, to enter college. Five years later he entered the order of the Most Holy (Redeemer and when ordained, labored as a missionary In New York. His health failing him he was sent to Memphis, Tenn., where he remained five years. From there he went to New Orleans. Four years ago he celebrated his golden jubilee as a priest, which was one of the grandest celebrations of its kind ever held there. While celebrating pontiflclal high mass on that day he received a message from Pope Pius X of Rome, congratulating trim on that happy event While Bernard Meyers of this county was at i New Orleans some time ago, he was K told by his uncle, Father Klaphake, that in two years he would come to i Decatur to celebrate his golden jubi- | lees as a member of the order of the I 'Most Moly Redeemer, wishing this H celebration to take place among his H relatives, but death has overtaken L'hlm within a short time of the fulr Aliment of his ardent desire. He has I many relatives and friends here who I will be grieved to hear of his death. I The' funeral was held Tuesday I morning at 10 o'clock from the I church where he served so long in I New Orleans. Owing to the great I distance none of the relatives from | here attended. I RESOLUTIONS. I The committee who were appointed I by the president of the Great NorthI ern Indiana Fair association beg I leave to submit the following: I In Memoriam. I Whereas, The leaker of us all has I seen fit to remove from our midst I our fellow member and co-worker, I Sylvester Pontius, and I . Whereas, By his death the Great I Northern Indiana Fair association has I lost a faithful worker and true friend, I therefore, be it I Resolved, That while we bow In revI erence and submission to the will of I the Maker, we cannot allow this solI emn occasion to pass without placing I ourselves on record as cheerful wit- |‘ nesses to the many noble qualities so I constantly displayed by him, and be I if further I (Resolved, That as a token of our I feeling and of our respect for the I memory of our deceased member a I copy of these resolutions be spread I of record on the minutes of the as- | sociation and that a copy of the same I be furnished the family of the deceasI ed and to the press of the county I and that it be further I Resolved, That we extend to the ■ family of our'departed member our ■ ‘heartfelt sympathy in their bereaveI ment COMMITTEE. I ■ . i . ■■■■■o — - ■ I Misses Margaret Kelley and Bertha B Cunningham returned this morning I to Anderson after a visit here with I Ode and Letta Fullenkamp. I Mrs. Harvey Lee of White Cloud, I Mich., who was visiting here with I Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lee and Mrs. Otto Reppert spent Sunday with I friends In Willshire. I Mr. and Mrs. Will Kunkel, sons I William and Kenneth, and daughter, i I Jjhrjorle, of Bluffton were visitors I here a few hours yesterday afternoon, I making the trip in their 1910 Cadilac I Car ’ Miss Agnes Melbers, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Melbers, at stull dent at the Fort Wayne business colI lege, will not be, able to attend school il this week on account of trouble with I her eyes caused by eye-strain In I study. I E. X. Ehinger and Henry Hite if have returned from Cardwell and ■ Paragould, Mo. They enjoyed the ■ trip very much and Mr. Hite was ■ pleased to greet many former DeeaI tur people, among them being Charles I Merryman, Bob Allison, Mr, and Mrs. ■ M. Gilson, John Cook and others. 1 James Bain or t»e Schmitt meat ■ market is a master hand at decora- ■ tlon as a glance at the window will ■ * show. The background Is of royal ■ purple crepe paper, against which are ■ set a platter of tempting cuts of the ■ choicest meats, garnished with crips I of green lettuce and rows of colored I eggs. A window similar to this also I (greets the public at the Mutchler I meat market. I H

XyTtJe^d^Zcult 1 J They are brought by Roy Jones and 1 lotto Bremerkamp, respectively, < I against the Chicago & Erie railroad 1 and James O. Richey. They are in 1 two paragraphs each, charging false i imprisonment and malicious prosecu- 1 tlon, and demanding $2,000 damages 1 therefor. It will be remembered that 1 the arrest of the boys followed the i burglarizing of the Erie depot in this , city on the night of January 16th, i when the sum of about twenty dollars < was secured therefrom. Richey, a de- 1 tectlve, authorized by the railroad i company to arrest persons stealing 1 from the road, or otherwise molesting 1 it, on January 17th, had the marshal ' here telephone to the Bluffton mar- 1 shal to arrest the two boys, who it i was learned, were there. The boys : were arrested on the verbal charge of burglary, and according to their : complaint were held from three to ] seven o’clock of the afternoon of Jan- i uary 17th, at Bluffton. In the mean- < time, they state, their attorneys here, I Peterson & Moran, procured a bond for their appearance In court, and the i Bluffton officials let them come to De- ! catur on the evening train, of their i owp free will, on the strength of this < point They allege that they were met at the train here by the marshal and Mr. Richey and were escorted : from the train by them to the office : of their attorneys, where the bond was given. A charge was then filed against them in ’Squire Smith’s court, charging larceny, and when the case came up for the trial, it is said the -warrant was returned marked "not served,” and the case prosecuted no further, it having been leafned by them that the two boys were in Montpelier at the time of the crime and therefore innocent of the charge. The complaint claims that in so returning the warrant unserved, they were guilty of a criminal violation of the law, as set out under official negligence in section 2414 of Burns, 1908, annotated statutes of Indiana, providing punishment In case a warrant is not served when not unnecessarily delayed. The negligence is punishable by a, fine of from $lO to SSOO and a jail sentence of from ten days to six months. The boys claim that by reason of their false detention they were caused much discomfiture and expense occasioned by the hiring of attorneys, etc. f z . I — , O—GETTING READY TO SELL BONDS On the Welle-Adams County Line Ma- / cadam Road. R. W. Stine was in Decatur this forenoon for the purpose of having entered on record in the commissioners’ court in that county the full proceedings of the joint sessions of the Wells and Adams county boards in the matter of the Bergare nine-mlle county line road. The contract was awarded last summer, and was bid in for $22,000 in round figures, and the total cost will be close to $24,000; The road could not be built when the contract was first awarded because part of the townships that would be taxed were above the limit of indebtedness. But the indebtedness has been reduced so that the bonds can be sold in June and the road will be built the lat- , ter part of this summer.—Bluffton ' News. - . Washington, March 23—The repubk lican caucus xonight elected the six . members of the rules committee api pointed to the republican majority of the house. The following, all members of the "regular” wing of the party were cnosen: Walter I. Smith, lowa, 168 votes. ’ John Dalzell, Pennsylvania, 146 votes. George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1 126 votes. 1 J. Slqat Fassett, New York, 113 1 votes. • Sylvester C. Smith, California, 136 1 votes. Henry S. Boutell, Illinois, 108 ' vote®. Two ballots were taken, the four . first named receiving a majority of the [ votes cast on the first ballot, and the i last two named being chosen on the i 'second ballot. . o The six members named represent a slate prepared by Representative i Tawney of Minnesota, during the day, after numerous conferences with both ’ "regulars” and “Insurgents.” The vote in the caucus was taken by written ballot, each member writ--1 ing the names of six men for whonj ' they desired to vote. There were nineteen men placed in nomination, t and a large number besides these re- ■ ceived complimentary votes. Repre1 sentatlve Gardner of Massachusetts I received thirty-three votes, the hlghJ est number cast for any “insurgent.” »■, —— , , ■ o - . s Mrs. Frank Spanglet. and daughter, 1 Josie, returned this morning to their > home at Fort Wayne after a visit ■ with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Case, near Pleasant Mills.

cheerful missionary in the ttoef sense has ever visited Decatur than Miss Susie Falk. M delightful little lady from West Mecca, Trumbull county, Ohio. Though this brave little Woman has been an invalid all her life, and has not walked for fiftyeight years without crutches, her hands have been busied with work for the poor and hundreds have come to know and bless her in all the largest cities of this country, in Africa, India and Norway. She has also scattered abroad the priceless rays of cheerfulness, in her life, and she is known to the hundreds who love her as “Cheerful Susie.” Miss Falk is here on a sad visit, being called by the death of her brother, Joel Falk, which leaves her the last one living—the youngest—of the eight Falk children. The woman has had a really remarkable life, and hearing of her visit here with nieces, Mrs. Dan Erwin and Mrs. Horace Callow, a reporter of this paper deemed it a great privilege to call on her yesterday afternoon and the half hour spent with her was one of great inspiration. Though the attack of typhoid fever in her infancy has left her lower limbs deformed and paralyzed, and she appears little taller than a child of ten, time rests lightly upon her, and while her hair is silvered, the spirit that looks forth from bright, sparkling eyes is a young one. Indeed it is the spiri* jof <±reerfulness, of happiness, of that looks forth and keeps l»M young. She was converted at the Ago of ten years and her life since has been one for her Master. She is a delightful woman td talk to and one cannot but be helped by a word with her, but in all, she says that her cheerfulness is from the Lord and gives all the credit to His power. She has been engaged in the special missionary work for some twenty years. At that time her sister, with whom she lived, died in Greenville, Ohio. Miss Susie states with all sincere assertion that it was a direct answer to prayer for guidance that l|er life work was revealed to her, and she felt divinely called to the missionary work in which she has been engaged. She had but little means with which to make a home for herdelf, and in a providential way she found the place in West Mecca. She lives alolie in her home in the little town, which is about as large as Bobo, and does all her own housework and caring for herself, except for help with housecleaning. She is never without employment and supports herself as well as helping countless numbers of others with her needle. Her missionary work lies in making over garments for the poor, and piecing quilts and comforters. The material for these is furnished her by hundreds who have heard of her work. Clothing, pieces of gingham, calico, worsteds, etc., find their way to her, where with skill, she works them up and they go to clothe and protect the poor. Many hundreds of poor little chaps in the largest cities—Cleveland, Chicago, and many others —have had cause to bless her as they nestle snugly in the chill winter under the warm garments and comforts —each one a mosaic stone that goes to make up the great pattern of the work of love. The needy at home are given first attention and then the others away from home. Miss Falk said: “Oh, the poor; there are so many of them! Oh, that I might help more!” Her work has been written of in many of the church papers and other organs and friends have distributed tracts telling of her life; so that with these and the fruits of her manifold good works she has become known al lover the world; and countless aid her in her work. Her quilts are made of pieces from all over the world, 'and the pattern of a quilt, which she has herd and showed to the reporter, she appropriately calls “Around the World.” The design is unique and artistic, and each piece is set with dainty, careful stitches, carrying with them a world of love and good cheer. Thus she gleans from the way, and that which would probably be lost, is taken by her and woven into adtides of countless value. She insists that her bread cast upon the waters, returns a hundredfold every time, and that there is more and more to be-dis-tributed at every return. She looks upon all entrusted to her as a sacred charge, and it is her pleasure in helping others that makes her “Cheerful Susie” and makes the spiritual overshadow the physical. The Bible is her constant companion, and her quiet life away from the world, no doubt, draws her nearer to the great Master and his teachings. She will remain here for two or three weeks and will then return to her home. No doubt many mesages from her new friends will follow her there, her address, since the postoffice has been changed, being Rural Route 4, from Cortland, Trumbull county, Ohio. - Russ Harruff of Fort Wayne was a visitor , with his relatives and friends here oyer Sunday;

, The Arbuckle-Ryan Co. vs. David L. Marschand et al., note and forecOk *1 urb of mortgage, demand, $2,060, demurer and fifth paragraph of answei sustained and leave granted defend ant to answer. Demurrer to first, second and third paragraph overruled. I Citizens Telephone Co. vs. Fort Wayne & Springfield Ry. Co., damages!, ( SB,OOO. Judges Sturgis of Bluffton as- ( Burned jurisdiction. ( L. C- DeVss filed a new case entitled George C. Baker vs. Catherine | Place, suit on contract, demand. The ; litigation is over a lot in Willshire. The divorce cas§ of William Lehman vs. Charlotte A. Lehman was heard this morning and the court took the case under advisement. Hooper , & Lenhart appeared for the plaintiff i and Cottrell and Beatty for the defendant. < Leonard Schnepp, administrator of the Hannah Schnepp estate, filed a petition for the sale of real estate. Inventory and appraisement of land filed. Waiver of notice filed by Abraham, Benjamin, Frank, William and Lenoard Schnepp and Mary Murphy. , ——— o——— Architect Oscar Hoffman of this city has nearly completed the plans for a handsome new church building to be erected by the United Brethren congregation at Wren, Ohio, on the site of the present frame church which has served them well for many years. The new building will be a most modern structure, costing $12,000, equipped with all the latest conveniences, and would do credit to a much larger town. It will be built of red pressed brick, and will contain an auditorium, seating 350 persons, a Sunday school room with a seating capacity of 175 or 200 and a basement with kitchen and dining room. The church will be heated by a steam plant Work on the building will begin as soon as i the weather will permit and it is ■ hoped to have it finished by the first ■ of October. o— SHIPPED CATTLE. , One of the finest herds of steers that . has ever been shipped from this city : was that of Saturday when twenty > head belonging to Fred Scheimah i were shipped to the market as Bosi ton. Mass. The average weight was ■ thirteen hundred pounds, and the animals sold for seven and three-fourths t cents per pound. They were raised . and cared for on Mr. Scheiman’s i farm, one mile west of the city, by s Elias Sudduth, who lives on the place, , and who is spoken of as being a fine , raiser oi cattle. * I o f Geneva, Ind., .March 26 —(Special . to Daily Democrat) —A fire at'Geneva r this morning ended disastrously > for Louis Wible, the ice man. His 3 barn and contents, including a valu- . able horse, worth at least $l5O, was > burned to death. The total loss was 1 at least S6OO, and there is not a cent s of insurance to help pay the loss. A 1 purse has been started and it is ex--1 pected that the business men and s others of Geneva will help Mr. Wible > to buy another horse. f 1 George Hartman, who has been ill B for a long time with cancer, is now e confined in an Indianapolis sanitart ium, where he is taking treatment, :. and the word comes that he is not getb ting any better. Some of his close i- relatives and friends are with him, a and it is feared that Mr. Hartman r will not recover. 8 ./: ““ > John Britts is now moving his fams ily to Fort 'Recovery, Ohio, where he e has been in business for the last sevt, eral months. e s Donbena Whiteman, the four years s old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orlan--8 do Whiteman; is dangerously sick with membraneous croup. d Several members of the Geneva g. d o. p. were in Decatur today, where t, they attended a convention for the I- purpose of selecting delegates to the s state convention. Among those attending were F. J. Macwhinney and d Charles Haviland. b ——o q A beautiful Easter day it was and from the appearance the people of Decatur thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it The exercises at the various churches were very interesting. s ,t The front of the Crystal theater is t, sporting a brand new coat of paint, r which adds much to the attractiven ness of that popular place of amuse[l ment. ' ■ * Miss Stella Wemhoff of Fort 8 Wayne spent Easter with her mother, ’• Mrs. Mary Wemnoff. They also had '• as their guests, Margaret and Paul Foohey of Fort Wayne. Lew Corbin, the prognosticator, says it is his belief that there will be s no rain between this and November, d if this is true, it will sure be a rec-ord-breaking dry spell.

EMIGRANT WEDDING. c By GWENDOLEN ADAMS. (Copyright, 1909, by Amerlaaa Press Amo- s elation.] , At the port of New York there is what is called the barge office. It is s connected with the transit of goods , and people from abroad into the Unit- ( ed States. It is a place apparently as . bare of romance as an ash heap. But ( wherever the human heart beats there is romance. Painters and poets like to picture it as far as they can frond the 8 business world, especially eschewing < localities where people are hurrying i 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 1 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. I But the man’s English was not intelligible. so he received no reply till after his nationality was learned and an in- , terpreter had been called. The inter- ( prefer told him that be had struck the . place he was looking for. He at once beckoned in the direction of the door, 1 and several dark complexioned fellows advanced. i “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 gov- 1 ernment will have to take care of her.” “What sort of nonsense are you giving me?’ said the interpreter. “I am an Armenian. Toshkowhi is . an Armenian too. Why do you keep me waiting? Didn’t 1 tell you that 1 am ready to marry her?’ “See here, you crack brained luna- I tic, 1 am employed to Interpret what j you say from Armenian into English! ( Talk in your native tongue and stop j the long roll in Fa.” ( “Huh! I not speak English. I been in this country three years.” Then he commenced again in his adopted 1 tongue and rattled his Ys and bounced ’ his b's. An officer cried, “Call the I milflam n j The'“mother of immigrants” made { her appearance, and to her the young , man told his story. Women are more keenly sensitive to romance than men, and it was not long before the matron 1 scented a love affair under the rat- ' fling r*s and bouncing b’s. It was this: r Three years before the young aspirant for honors in the English tongue had come to America from Armenia. His name was Vabi Krihorian. He had left at home a pretty sweetheart. then seventeen years old, named Toshkowhi 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 Toshkowhi 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. t 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 behind in ■mall 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 did not keep his promise.” “And he would deserve it Come this way.” He led her to where her lover was with his witnesses and the priest As ■oon 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, Toshkowhi?’ asked the lover, terrified. “Have you changed'? Don’t you want me after tiie 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. I 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 sure 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 have vainly tried to escape. Little Toshkowhi found herself free to go “out into America.” So 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 repeatedQr “Dearest Toshkowhi, do you love me?” and hear to reply, “Tee, X love you, Vahi Krihortaa.”

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