Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

EXPEL MORMONS. Ordered to Leave Foreign Countries at Once. American Missionaries Driven Out of Prussia and Meeklenberg. to Dally Democrat. 3:30 P. M Berlin. April 24.—The government's of Prussia and the Grand Dutehy Os Meeklenberg have decided toexpell the Morman missionaries from that country. All them are Americans who have been trying to secure a footing with their religion in those countries. The u'livernments say the religion is one which would be the morals of their countries andjxjsitively refuse to permit further teachings. There are 145 Mormon nii-ionariesin Germany and ninety in Prussia They have been notified to leave at once. COURT NEWS. Judge Smith to Hear Reynolds Case. Other Business. Criminal, Civil an Probate Transacted This Morning. I Business about the court house this morning was again slow, nothing doin’ kind, with nothing more startling than] arguing motions of minor importance. It is expected that the drag will lx- over by Monday when the Reynolds kidnapping case will ijegin before Judge Smith. The docket today tells its story as folllows: State vs Oliver D. Reynolds motion for change of judge sustain'd and cause assigned to Judge John M. Smith of Portland. State vs. Curtis Johnson, finding that John-j son is a jxxir prisoner and L. C. De Voss appointed to defend, compensation as may be allowed by the court. In prohate court in the estate of Norval Blackburn, Nellie Blackburn, administratrix, jx’tition filed by Htxiper to withhold confirmation of final report, motion to strike out jietition filed. Mary Lyons, Murk A. Hilton, administrator, sot for hearing Saturday, May 2. Anna Buhler, guardian for Jesse Buhler, filed an inventory which was examined and approved. Benj. Shrank, guardian for Douglass Dudgeon, sale ordered for property as mentioned in petition. Maggie Stone filed application for letters of guardianship for Hannah Elzey, a pTson of unsound mind, lx>nd was filed at |4OO. WANT BRICK PAVED STREET. Some of lhe enthusiasts along Monroe street are buss today with a petition which asks the city council to brick that thoroughfare. They are meeting with unqualified success and will no doubt succeed in getting the required number of pro|»erty owners to favor the project. The improvement would lie everlasting benefit and credit to the city and especially so to those property owners who live on the street. According to the jx'tition the improvementbegins at the St. Marys river bridge and extends west of Eleventh street.

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NEW RULING. Advertising Matter Addressed to Mail Boxes will be Delivered. The postal department has given an interpretation of law tha will permit business men to reach rural route patrons with advertising matter simply by paying the postage and addressing it to the rural mail boxes. The law provides that postmasters shall deliver no mail that is not addressed to some person or ap oatoffice box. In the ease of rural route boxes there are no numbers and the persons receiving mail on the routes are changing continually. Even with the aid of the lists of the patrons posted in the postoffices business men have found it impossible to reach all the jx*ople on the routes with their communications because there were still many patrons whose mimes they were unable to secure. The instructions are to the effect that the law is good as it stands; all mail shall be addressed to a person or a box number. And while the rural mail boxes are not numbered actually, theoretically they are. The carrier, when he goes out over his route may consider the first box he comes to as No, one and the second No. two, and so on. If the business men will address their circulars to box numbers, therefore, the rural carriers will deliver them, as the boxes are numbered in their minds if nowhere else. BUILDINGIRIG. Globe Oil Co. Getting Ready to Drill. Will Put in Two Wells Near Chattanooga and Eight Near Here, The Chambers Oil company has consolidate! with the Globe Oil company under the name of the latter. Combined they own leases on 3000 acres of land in this county, half of which is within a radius of a few miles of this city. Jesse Robison has been apjxiinted county manager and is now actively engaged in arranging to put down wells. The first two holes will be drilled in the Chattanooga field where they own leases on 500 acres and the rig for well number one is now being constructed. Drilling will begin next week and good results are expected as several 200 barrel wells are already in that community. After these two wells are in they will at once begin operation north of the city and exjx’ct to put in eight test wells and more if the prospects are the least encouraging. The Globe conqiany is capitalized at #5(K).000 and of this amount Manager Robison has enough shares to make his trouble well worth while. They will push the work along rapidly from now and will test every ]>art of Adams county before fall. MACADAM FEVER. St. Mary’s Township Now Wrestling With the Question. The macadam road fever that culminated in Union township has spread to St. Marys and the prospects now are not Imd for an attempt there to vote the construction of a road or two. This shows the influence that prevails from the roads now built. There is no argument to the question, especially under the law now prevailing permitting a township to build her roads on the ten year jmyment plan St. Marys needs the roads and there is no better time than now to build thein.

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1903.

UNIFORM RANK. Lodge Organized Last Night. WILL BE KNOWN AS DECATUR UNIFORM RANK. Officers Elected Last Night and Members to be Mustered in Thursday Night. A meeting was held at Castle Hall last evening and the uniformed rank Knights of Pythias lodge was organized. The name of the new order will be the Decatur Uniform Rank and they start off with thirty five members. W. Wilson, grand vice chancellor and mustering in officer of the state was present and assisted in the organization. He will return next Thursday evening when the members will be mustered in. Officers were elected last night as follows: Captain, John T. Meyers; first lieutenant,^D.'* F. I Quinn; second lieu tenant. Wifi Hurst; secretary, H. M.’TDeVoss; treasurer, J. L. Gay. The - lodge will begin drilling soon and expect to make their company one of the first in the state and they certainly will do so for the list offmembers includes the best young menoftfie lodge. The thirty-five charter members are E. Burt Lenhart, John T. Myers, French Quinn, A. Brittson, L. D.' Ix* w ton. Alva Nichols, George'M. KricET’■l'*L""Gay"”C*H. Elzey. J. C. Tritch, Don L. Quinn. H. F. Callow, N. A. Loch, D. W. Beery, H.M. De Voss. A. Van Camp, Sam Shamp. Will Noll, Will Hurst, Dick Burrell. A. J. Smith. Orval Harruff, George Tester, Jacob Tester. Charles Patton. A. R. Belli’ E. A. Mann, JohnA. Smith, A. A. Butler, George Henneford, C. M. Houser, M. E. Hower, Joseph Martin, W. A. Lower and W. H. Ward. Uniforms will lx* ordered, at once. TRADE HOMES. John Frisinger and Eli Sprunger Make Trade. A deal was closed this morning whereby John Frisinger secures jx>ssession of the R. S. Peterson property in the south )>art of town, recently purchased by Eli Sprunger. The latter has lived in his new home just a month but prefers Ixnng nearer the buisness jwirt of town and will move next week into the house now occupied by Mr. Frisinger and which is included 4 in the trade. Mr. Frisinger and family will move into their new home at once and exjx*ct to make it their future home. It is ‘ono of the most beautiful places in or near Decatur and John is justly proud of his new purchase. IN EFFECT. New Legislative Laws in Full Force and Effect. The laws enacted by the last genera) assembly went into effect at nine o’clock yesterday. Governor Durbin issued a proclamation reciting that the last filing of the acts with county clerks was with the clerk of Marion county and he, therefore proclaimed she acts in force from that hour. The dab- is the earliest from the pnxdamation in several years. Usually the acts are declared in effect about the first of May. Many of the laws had already gone into effect because of emergency clauses.

FOUND DEAD. Theophulus W. Cring of Winchester, Suddenly Expires. A message from Winchester brought tidings of the unexjx?cted deah of Theopholus W. Cring, who was for many years and until just recently a resident of Portland. His death came unexpectedly, and in fact occurred in such away as to make it grieviously shocking. He was found on the table in the office of his son, Thornt, at about 7:30 Thursday morning. The story is that the unfortunate man had been indulging in strong drink to some extent the evening before and late at nightwent to the office of his son, presumably with the intention of spending the night, or at least staying there until the effects of his overindulgence would disappear. His dead body was discovered by his son, Thornt, on opening up the office Thursday morning. The son was almost speechless for the time being at the ghastly spectacle of his father's dead Ixxly lying there upon the table before him, a sight so little exjx'ctel. but he immediately announced the shocking news and tin* coroner was notified to come. BEGIN OPERATIONS. The Brick Yard of Krick, Tyndall 4 Co. will Start Monday. Krick, Tyndall & conqmny will | start work at their brick yard next Monday morning. This department iof their large clay working estabI lishment given employment for ! about twenty-five men' and is one of the imjxirtant industreis of this ■city. The capacity of their plant ■ is 30,000 brick per day and for about i six months operations are continued at their beat. There is a ready sale ' for all can be manufactured ■ and many car loads of brick are sent to other places from this city. The brick and tile making establishment of this concern is considered one of the largest in northeastern i Indiana and their products are sent I all over the state. Any sizes of . drain tile from two inch to thirty inch are turned out here by the most I improved presses and to see the machinery in motion and the many sizes of tile in the process of manufacture one is strongly impressed with the magnitude of the factory. A FAST HORSE. Willshire Man Sells a Horse Which is Making a Record. Willshire jx-ople were surprised yesterday when they heard that Lady Hornet, an old time horse of that place was one of the best and fastest jiacers in Toledo. The horse was owned by James Chilcoat, who has a gixxl stable, and though he knew it was bhxxled he thought best to sell the animal which was I almost twelve years old. He accordingly sold 240 dollars worth of tickets and the horse went by lottery to Charles Davis, a traveling sales-1 man. Mr. Davis took his prize to Toledo six weeks ago, where, under the care of experienced men she was develojxsl into a winner and has lately crossed the wire ata 2:lsclip. The owner was in Willshire yesterday getting facts which would prove that the animal had never lx>en classed as the Toldeo people thought that Lady Hornet was a “ringer.” SPECIAL TRAIN. K. of C. Members to Go to Fort Wayne Sunday. A sjx'cial train on the Grand Rapids Indiana railway will leave here at seven o'clock Sunday morning for Fort Wayne. The sjx’cial is for the accommixlation of Knights of Columbus who wish to attend the lodge services at Fort Wayne. Quite a number are arranging to take in the excursion.

IT LOOKS GOOD. Trees Manufacturing Co. All Right. Enthusiasm Being Manifested Over the Junketing Trip. The committee have returned from the junketing trip to Greenfield, carrying with them large chunks of genuine enthusiasm over the results of their investigation. They found the Trees Manufacturing company doing a comforable business with everything to the most minute detail, as represented by Mr. New, who visited this city two weeks ago. They were taken with the Hancock gas engine, the chief produce of their manufacture, and simply say it beats the record in the gas engine line. It’s accomplishments are many, chief among which are its igniting and starting qualities. The gentlemen who are connected with the l industry are of the right caliber, and in a few days more we may expect to hear of its location in this city. To bring this about a company will be organized with a capital of from ♦25,000 to 140,000, half of which will be taken by local capitalists and the remainder by those who now own the plant at Greenfield. The ■ committee will likely hold a meetI ing soon and report the results of their investigations. A NEW TOY. One That all the Boys will Want. A novelty which has Ijeen placed the market this season and which certainly interest buyers of toys, is an automobile for boys or young children, the hands and feet being used for steering purjx>ses. The automobile is handsomely gotten up with a W'xxl Ixxly, steel wheels with rubber tiresand l>all bearings, and painted and finished in a highly art istie manner. It is said that this machine is capable of a speed of nine miles an hour without using any extraordinary effort on the part of the operator. One of its advantages is that it can lie instantly stopp'd by means of an operationg lever without the necessity of using a brake. A similar principle is applied to a merry-go- j round machine which will carry four children. The carriage in this case runs on two wheels, having a long wcxxlen arm at one side, which is staked down to the lawn. The entire outfit works in a circle of twenty feet in diameter. A SURE THING. A Day Current will Certainty be Established. The prospects for a day current are favorable and it is to be implied from the statements of the electric light eommitt<*e that their report next Tuesday evening will be directed toward the establishment of such an advantage. It is thought by the engineer at the power station that the big Corliss engine is of such construction that running both day and night will be no greater strain than if run just during the day time and it can thus lx> used for the day current. It will be necessary to install an additionnal generator however, and that can not Ixi done conveiently util the power houseaddi t ion has been completed. It is estimated that ♦ 150 per month can be derived as revenues from a day current and the inauguration of the same will be financially successful ns well as a means of supplying the jx'ojile with a convenience which they have long Ix'en •lamvring for.

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NATIONAL AIR. A Song That it is Claimed will be Adopted. George Edwards, of the German department of the Northwestern Univeristy, declares “A Hot Time in tire Uld Town' ’ is bound to become the national air of the United States. Both the music and the words are in perfect harmony with the Yankee spirit. When the people want to express themselves and can’t think of anything else to sing they break out spontaneously wtih “Hot Time.” They've sung it all around the world. The charge up San Juan was made to its music, and the band played it when the United States soldiers entered Peking and today they are singing it in the Phillippines.” Marching Through Georgia” and “Dixie” are sectional songs of the north and the south, but “A Hot Time” cheered soldiers Ixjth north and south during the recent war, and it is a tune j loved by the south as well as the ; north. A MERGER. An Electric Line Merger of Considerable Importance. The Fort Wayne & Southwestern i is to be one link in a giant merger, it he stockholders of which shall control an electric line extending | from Lima, Ohio, to Lafayette, ’ Indiana. The Southwestern has not been sold to the Union Traction company, although that company will jiossibly own stock in the merger. Such is the information given out by Manager Law of the Wabash-Logansport line, who conducted a party of traction line magnates over the eleetire systems at Wabash Pern and onjto Logansport. Mr. Law in an interview at Logan- ' sport stated that the merger had not | yet been incorporated, and that the ; lines were thus far being conducted I under the old management, but that ]it was only the question of a few 'days. The inspection party issued several orders forthe improvement of the line. ON SMOKING. Different Opinions of Noted Men on the Subject. Dr. Parker ,the London preacher who died recently, once uttered this fierce balst against the soothing weed: "I hate smooking. From one end to the other it is a nuisance. It ends in cancer, apoplexy, bad temper, bankruptcy and almost hydrophobia. It is an invention of the devil. It is the pastime of perdition. No dog smokes. No bird pines for toliacco. No horse is a member of the pipe club. No intelligent jMTson ever puts a cigar in his mouth. The whole idea and practice of smoking must be condemned as atheistical, agnostical and infinitely detestable.” Mr. Spurgeno, another notixl London preacher, now dead also, said on hearing of this tribute: “I smoke to the glory of God.” PORTLAND IN THE SOUP Their Clfy Indebtedness Figures $120,000. The mayor of Portland t<x»k a day oft' and invoiced the financial condition of that town, and made a report to the council that their indebtedness summed up 1120,000. This amount is in excess of six ]xt cent, of the valuation and three times tho indebtedness jierniittcd by tho statutes of Indiana governing incorjioratcd cities and towns. To add to their discomfiture they need sewerage, streets and many other improvements which they cannot get unless they still further violate the law. The statement was something of a sensation and was placed on record for further reference.