Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

BADLY FROZEN. errible Condition of an Infirmary Inmate. an's Feet so badly Frozen that Amputation is Necessary. Old and helpless, penniless and ithout friends, Isaac Hippshire lies the county infirmary a total physil wreck. He came to the county rm some time ago and continued to ve there until during the summer hen he went away without saying a ord to anyone. His whereabouts uring his absence is unknown but a w days ago he returned to the inrmary sick and begged admittance which was of course granted. He has anaged to live during the warm onths but with the advent of winter me cold, hunger and suffering. stinctively he turned for shelter to e home he had previously known nd being without money he walked ere. When he arrived his feet were adly frozen and his condition has nce been serious. As a last resort it as been decided that amputation of e left foot and possibly the right is ecessary to save his life and the opertion will be performed by Dr. D. D. lark tomorrow. Hippshire is beween fifty and fifty-five years of age nd the result of the painful yet necssary operation cannot be foretold nough it is believed he will stand the rdeal. His condition is certainly delorable. COUNCIL ADJOURNS. he County Council Complete their Labors. It took the county council but a few inutes this morning to complete heir labors. They met at nine o'clock nd took the shortest route to ratifyg the record of yesterday, thus conorming to the spirit and letter of the county reform law. under which they re acting and which created their ofce. The estimates that were preentted them were ratified without hange, excepting the amount asked y Calvin Miller for the completion f the county infirmary building, $508, nd the $800 asked for making a fill t the Wabash river at Linn Grove. These two items were stricken out, making the total amount of their estinates allowed $5,340.57. If either ne of the above items are now favorbly reported by them, it will be after egal proceedings in the circuit court ave so decreed. NOT ALLOWED. Canada Thisties Prohibited in this Country. Even in a free country such as this here are things that one may not own or have in his or her possession, however innocent may be the intent. Possession frequently may mean legal entanglement and state or national government must be reckoned with. For instance, a garden full of Canada thistles is calculated to make a deal of trouble for the owner of the ground even though he may not know a Canada thistle from a currant bush. flfese thistle are persona non grata in ;he United States generally, and a Mbstantial fine awaits the person who dlows the weed to grow upon ground under his control. The hopelessness of ever growing figs off them has put them beyond the pale of toleration. LUCKY BOYS. Mb. France’s Flowers go to Popular Young Men. At seven o’clock last evening, at Al Fristoe’s Smoke House, the plants heretofore the property of Mrs. Belle France were raffled off. Of course as usual there were many disappointed ticket holders, and we join you in bowing submissively to fate. We're not all lucky, don't you know. The winner of the ern was Louis Holthouse who held number sixty-five, while the palm went to Oscar Lankenan with number 132. The plants are beautiful ones and worth many times the amount invested by the boys.

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT.

DAMAGE CASE. A More Complete Story of the Fletcher Sult. At a late hour yesterday a damage suit was filed in circuit court as announced in last evening's issue of the Democrat, and a few words of explanation may not be amiss. The case is entitled Charles S. Fletcher vs Decatur Egg Case Company, demand $5,000, and is the out come of an accident which occurred at their South Whitley factory on January 25, 1901. The complaint alleges that on that date Fletcher was working in said plant operating a planning machine and while so doing it became necesssary for him to go behind his machine to remove a board which had became clogged in the machine. In doing this Fletcher's sleeve became caught in a cog wheel and his left arm thrown under the knives, drawn into same and torn off near the elbow. He says that the accident is the fault of the company ou account of their not having in use the latest improved machinery. He of course suffered great bodily pain and claims that he is still unable to obtain employment and for these reasons wants the sum of $5,000. Whether or not his allegations are grounds on which he can recover remains to be decided in court. NO DATE NAMED. K. P. District Meeting Place not yet Settled. E. Burt Lenhart, who is district deputy grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias for Blackford, Jay and Wells counties, has not yet definitely settled the place for holding the district meeting. As the matter now stands Bluffton or Geneva may get the plum. The matter will likely be settled in a few days. February 20 is the date arranged by the grand lodge for this meeting, but the late arrangement in this district may postpone the meeting a week or two. The matter will be determined in a few days, at which time Mr. Lenhart will make official announcement. RAILROAD STATISTICS. Earning of the Railroads in 1901 and 1902. State Statistician Johnson has gathered considerable information concerning the railroads of Indiana, which he will embody in his biennial report. The total earnings of the Indiana roads were as follows: 1901, $160,491,266; 1902, 174,005,132. The expenditures were: 1901, $117,519,772; 1902, $129,053,499. In 1902 the passenger department $49,599,895, and the freight department $124,304,941. In 1901 the roads carried 42,508,198 passengers and in 1902 they carried 47,421,586. The freight tonnage reported for 1902 was about 300,000 tons less than in 1901, but the revenue was about $7,000,000 greater. A NEW COMPANY. Stave and Hoop Company is Capitalized at$10,000. The Elliston Stave and Hoop company is capitalized at $10,000 and will manufacture staves and hoops and other barrel parts in Fort Wayne. The incorporators are John W. Vail, Aaron T. Vail, William H. Niblick, of this city, and William G. and Henry T. Pennypacker, of Fort Wayne. While separate in its management, yet this manufacturing institution is another branch of the large holdings of the Decatur Egg Case company, who own factories and lands in several states, the value of which runs up into five or six figures. UNCLAIMED LETTERS. Postmaster Brittson Hands Out a Grist of Letters. The following unclaimed letters are in the hands of Postmaster Brittson: Miss Bess Merryman, W. P. Meyers, Mrs. Mary A. Roudubush, Mrs. Alina Walters, Miss Sarah A. Cole, Roll Hastings, John Erhman, Mrs. May Hobbs, Mrs Jane Baileit.

DECATUR. INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1903.

CAUGHT IN ACT. Burglar Detected Crawling Through a Window. An attempt to burglarize the home of J. N. Parrish last night was frustrated just in time. Mr. and Mrs. Parrish reside in the old Schrock property near the target, and for sev eral weeks a little daughter has been quite ill, neccessitating some care at all hours. Last night Mrs. Parrish started into the kitchen to get some medicine for the child, and as she opened the door and stepped into the room she saw a man who was half way through the window. Womanlike she screamed and the intruder at once took to his heels. Mrs. Parrish had a good look at the fellow, but did not know him and he was very probably either a tramp or professional burglar. Mr. Parrish is employed as transfer manager at the G. R. & I. depot and as it is near pay day it may be that the intruder expected to find a good share of Newton's salary about the premises. Hewever the theory that the would-be burglar was only a passing tramp seems more probable. GOOD LOGS. Some Excellent Timber Still being Found Near Here. L. W. Frank recently bought some timber for the Decatur Egg Case company which contains some sticks that are certainly record breakers, considering the scarcity of such stock. Among that purchased from the McKean estate near Hoagland there were three elm logs, one sixteen feet long and forty-one inches in diameter at the top containing 1,369 square feet, and two twenty-one feet long and twenty-nine inches in diameter at the top, containing 839 board feet each. A bunch of walnut was also secured about seven miles northwest of here in which there was one tree that measured twenty-four inches at the butt and fifty-six feet in length of clear timber. Fifty teams are wanted and when enough are secured the logs will be hauled to this city. REPORT APPROVED. The Commissioners Append their Signature to the Annual Report. Yesterday the board of commissioners put their John Hancock to the annual report just completed in the auditor's office. The gist of the report has previously been given in these columns, and no changes were made thereto. The signature of the board makes the document genuine. There was no other business transacted by the board other than that mentioned yesterday, the selling of the Brushwood maccadam bonds, and the contracting for the wood and smokehouse at the county infirmary. COMPLETE SERVICE. Congressman Steele Covers the Eleventh District with Rural Routes. Congressman Steele is making a hot finish of his congressional career. When he quits office March 4, every county in his district will have complete county rural mail service except Huntington, where the service will be nearly completed. He received notice yesterday that complete service has been ordered for Blackford and Wabash counties, and an additional carrier for Harford City. LAW DECIDES. Brothers go to Court to Settle a Dispute. The case of Mathias Schafer vs. John Schafer is on trial today, L. C. DeVoss appearing for plaintiff and Heller & Son for defendant. The contestants are brothers, and as the suit is one on account may seem a little queer. John rents a building of Mathias in the south part of town, in which he runs a saloon. John claims he has a lease on said room and is to pay twenty-five dollars a month for same. Mathias wants thirty for the room and says his brother owes him five dollars a month since July. A decision was rendered for defendant.

LADIES ARRIVE. Guests are Here From Surrounding Cities. Society Functions in full Blast in Decatur this Afternoon. This is society dav for the ladies and promises to be the most delightful of the season. Not only are the events to be enjoyed by Decatur ladies but likewise by a number of guests from Bluffton, Huntington and Fort Wayne. The ladies arrived in town at noon today, those from a distance being Mesdames Ed Rosenbaugh, Hal Rosenbaugh, Sidney Holl and Milton Saylor, Huntington, Mrs. J. W. Vestey, Fort Wayne, and Mesdames D. E. Studabaker, Harry Deam, Edward Daily, Ella Daily, Ernest Weicking, Ferd Mosiman, Dell Locke, N. K. Todd, Albert Oppenheim. Amos Cole, Albert Forest, Harry Studabaker and Will Powers, Bluffton. They were met at the trains by committees of Decatur ladies and the reception proved to the onlooker that their friendship was sincere. They were escorted to the W. H. Nachtrieb home and there entertained by Mrs. W. H. Nachtrieb and Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer until three o'clock. At that hour they were conducted to the W. H. Niblick home, where until nine this evening they will be in the hands of their friends, Mesdames David Studabaker, John Niblick R. K. Allison and W. H. Niblick. Thls home has been appropriately decorated with palms and flowers suitably arranged for the occasion and a delightful time is assured. Among the amusemdnt features is a large imitation fish pond over which hangs the sign "right this way for the animal show." A five o'clock dinner will be served and luncheon before departure, the hostesses being assisted in the latter by Misses May Niblick, Hattie Niblick and Mary Heffner. Besides the out of town guests the following Decatur ladies will attend the Niblick dinner: Mesdames Morrison, Kuebler, Mougey, Dugan, Dan, John and James K. Niblick, Hooper, McMillen, Nachtrieb, Schirmeyer, Bailey, Patterson, Dibble. Ehinger, Radamacher, Studabaker, Myers, France, Crabbs, Champer, Thomas, Tyndall, Neptune, Ellingham, Quinn, Callow, Erwin Murray, and Miss Hattie Studabaker. The day has been a delightful one for all concerned and no doubt will be a long remembered one. TO OKLAHOMA. A Party from this County will Leave Shortly for the West. C. F. Walters, the real estate man, will leave February 3rd with a number of Adams county citizens to look over Oklahoma farming lands. They will go direct to Perry, a thriving little town on the Santa Fe, and from there they will be shown over many thousand acres of land with a view of selling same of course. The trip is the first of a number of regular excursions to be run by Mr. Walters, the second one of which will be run February 17th. Oklahoma lands are said to be rich and fertile and the Adams county farmers may conclude to purchase and move there. DEATH CALLS. Young Citizen of the County Dies After Short Illness. Ashley Young of Jefferson townshlp, died at his name yesterday morning of quick consumption. He was sick only a short time and his friends have had no idea of the seriousness of his affliction. He was twenty-four years old and a very popular man in his neighborhood. He formerly resided in this city and his brother died at the home of W. H. Sheeler five years ago. The funeral service will in all probability be held tomorrow morning. He will be remembered by many Decatur citizens. WILL NEVER PASS. W. H. Eichhorn is home from Indianapolis. He says that the bill which is intended to rip the reformatory management up the back will never pass the house of representatives. There are too many good politicians who want the job as warden should Byers be ousted and they will each work against the bill when they learn shat the governor has another man tlated for the place. ---Bluffton News

MAKE IT PAY. A few Hints on Advertising for the Year. How much should the store do in the way of advertising during 1903? That is a question which the business man ought to settle. Some business men fail to settle it at any time. Others settle it with too narrow a view of the proposition. There are many points that have to be considered. In the first place the total amount of business done last year must be made the basis for the business proposition for this year. The advertising appropriation ought to be made with a careful estimate of what the business of the past year has been If a firm has done $10,000 worth of business that firm ought to spend for advertising not less than $200 during the next year. The firm doing $25,000 ought to spend about $500. Probably two per cent of the total business could be spent in advertising to the advantage of any firm. Whether it's advisable to have someone to help in the advertising depends entirely on the business man himself and on the amount of other work he will have to do. Keep the work all well in hand so that the unexpected good things may not find you unable to grasp them. Keep the commercial necessity well to the fore, so that in buying goods or using spaee or in employing help the whole organization may help the advertising or the sales department. Without doubt the advertising must be right to show how right the stock and store have been made. Without doubt the excellence of the advertising cannot be made without care that the stock is right and without sufficient appropriation to keep the advertising up to the right standard. It takes money to make the advertising go and it takes intelligence as well. ONE MORE DEATH. Fremont Garrett Dies at His Home in Winchester. The Winchester smallpox epidemic, while not spreading is plenty serious enough. One death was reported yesterday, that of Fremont Garrett, one of the able lawyers of the Randolph bar, and an old practitioner well known throughout the state, Luther Shetterley was very low, and many times during the day it was feared he could not live.Toward evening and during last night he rallied, and at eleven o'clock today it was given out that he had a chance to live. Mr. Shetterley is known to a number of Decatur people, all of whom have been making anxious inquiry as to his condition, and the fact that he may live will be good news to them. Business in Winchester has been sadly racked during the last two weeks, but it is hoped that the disease is under control. WORK CONTINUES. Dr. George is Still Laboring on the Traction Line. A representative of the Cincinnati, Dayton & Fort Wayne traction com panv is in the city, and gives the information that everything possible is being done towards building the line and that within a few months work on the actual building of the line through this district will be going on in full blast. This is certainly cheering news, and Dr. George and his associates may rest assured that the Adams county people generally are willing to assist them in any reasonable way possible. The road has been launched financially and arrangements for laying the road are now being made. THEY PUMPED. County Councilmen Work for Their Lodging. Two well-known citizens and members of the county council Samuel Soldner and John O. Kranor were guests of Sheriff Butler last evening, and in some way or other they were inveigled into pumping water 5" fill the big tank at the jail. It mu have been quite a job, for the gentlemen in question seem to think tho>’ earned their board several fold. Both are good fellows and took the affair in a good-natured manner and informed us that when they left this morning they turned the job over to two other prisoners.

NUMBER 8

APPLY SOON. Five Years Old County Orders to be Canceled. The county auditor has completed a list of unclaimed orders which have been under his protecting eye for five years past. The law provides for a proper advertisement ot these orders before the March term of the commissioners court, and if by that time they are not called for by their rightful owners, the same will be canceled. In the list are the names of Joseph Pfiefer, Levi Barrone, George Trippie, Mark McCune, John Miller, Thomas Martin, Eli Smith. E. Long. T. P. Thomas, James Riley, Brent Riley, G. M. Tyndall, Henry Tyndall, William Porter, Jack Brent, George Hudson, James Rich and J. Ulmer. Scan the list carefully and if your name is written here, get your fingers on the instrument of value before the first Monday in March, which is not far off. The orders are all for small amounts, the largest being $2.60, while the remainder range from seventy-five cents to $1.50 and all of them total but $25 20. By a scrutiny of the names there are scarcelv any familiar to us and we presume that but few if any of them now reside here. ANXIOUS CLERKS. Some of Them Fear Thev Have Been Legislated Out. A quiet conference was held yesterday at the English hotel by about twenty-seven county clerks elect of this state who fear that under the terms of a law passed in 1901 they are to be deprived of their right to take their offices. The statute is one which was intended to extend the terms of county officers to the first of the calendar year. But it is said that in twenty-seven counties of the state it will have the effect of keeping the clerks out of office until Januory 1, 1905, while they would probable have to be re-elected in 1904 before they could get at it at all. A new law will in ; -jked for to fix the situation up. As we understand the complication, these twenty-seven clerks-elect would take office some time after January 1, 1904, but the extending of time keeps them out until January I, 1905. As there is a general election in November, 1904, the question of their election in 1904 arises. It will not effect Clerk-elect David Gerber as he takes his office the first day of next January. FILL 'ER UP. The Jury Commissioners Making Jurymen. Jury Commissioners Harry R. Moltz. of the Boston Store, and David Mauller, of Union township, have a good job on their hands They are busy taking a bird’s-eye view of the tax duplicates and from them selecting names which are written on slips of paper and placed in a box, from which will later be drawn the names of the petit and grand jurors for the coming year. This is the yearly mission of the jury commissioners, and is done to get every man in the county selected as a juryman some time during the year. The work involves considerable time, and when they complete it there will be two men in Adams county that will draw a full breath of relief. One day next week they will pull the first names from the little red box, the lueky ones to comprise the petit jury for the February term of the Adams circuit court. CRUSHED FOOT. Charley Locke Received Serious Injury and Didn’t Know it. Charley Loch, populaar young man of the city, is suffering with a badly crushed heel and the peculiar part of it is that he is not real certain where he was hurt. Last week he was one of a party that enjoyed a bob-sled ride to Berne and while tliere he slipped and fell heavily. He believes his foot was hurt there but it seems more probable that it was crushed in some other manner, though Charley says he doesn’t know of any other accident occuring. The foot pained him a little but was not thought to be seriously injured and Charley went to school Monday. During the day the pain increased and he could scarcely get home. An examination by a physician showed that the bone had either been split or mashed.