Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

JUNE SOCIETY EVENTS.

Brilliant Weddings Solemnized Today. VOGLEWEDE-HAEFLING AND MERRY-MAN-QUINN NUPTIALS. Other Society Events That Help Make the Month of Roses the Gavest of the Year. — A more beautiful wedding!day < ..d scarcely lie imagined and with ha glorious outburst of nature. • ' little wonder that |the minds of men and maids are wont to turn t-wards thoughts of love. Two bri'.’.iant weddings were solemnized today and the realm of society has been busy. This morning at eight < ' «'k at the St. Mary's Catholic chv.erh, Rev. H. Theo. Wilkens performed the sacred ceremony . which united in matrimony. Miss Clara Voglewede and Mr. James P. '■ Haefling. It was an impressive and beautiful ceremony, attended by , several hundred of the friends of , the bride and groom. The bridal party arrived promptly at the apt> ranted hour and marched to the alter where the marriage was performed and Father Wilkens read High Mass. The maid of honor was Miss Bert Voglewede, the bridesmaids Miss Marine Confer and Mis' Mayme Deininger and the gr< tnsmen, Mr Tom Haefling and Mr Frank Wemhoff. The bride I w a beautiful gown of white silk ti«« e, made en train, with skirt dr, yoke. The maid of honor and br. smaid wore similar gowns of - ■ n and pink, the gentlemen the <•■4l ‘iitional black.’ As the wed- , ding party marched from the church, Mr. and Mrs. Haefling received a shower of conrgatulations and rice, their cab was decorated with various appropriate mottoes < and articles of a significant nature, and the seats were coven d with rice. The party were escorted to the Voglewede home, where a wedding dinner was served to a number of invited guests, and the day spent in festivities until three o’clock this afternoon, when Mr. and Mrs. Haefling left for a few days trip , through Michigan. They will arrive home Monday and will immediately be at home in a cozy cottage ' n Fifth street. The bride is the' daughter of County Treasurer J. H. •' 1 Voglewede and wife. She is a , Clever and popular lady whose ( friends are numerous. The groom is one of the best known young < men in the county, having served ( during the past three years as ( deputy clerk and held other offices of trust. The many beautiful and costly presents but partially shows the high esteem in which Mr. and Mrs. Haefling are held, and we join their army of staunch friends in ex tending heartiest, congratulations. MERRYMAN-QVINN. Among the elaborate society I oevnts of Decatur, there has been none in its history, more pleasing or more beautiful than the wedding at four o’clock this afternoon, of Miss M. June Merryman to Mr. Don L. Quinn. The affair ocurred at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Merryman and was attended by eighty invited guests. Precisely at four o'clock Miss Margaret Hanna played the wedding march and the bridal party app ared in the reception hall in the order named, Mr. Quinn, Miss Frances Merryman, the bride's attendant, Miss Merryman and her father. Rev. J. White of the Methodist church, met them at ■ the hall and with the groom walked to the library; the bride with maid and father going in the opposite direction, circled and met theji

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groom and minister at the library, where Rev. White in his polished and refined manner proclaimed the words which united Miss Merryman and Mr. Quinn. The ring ceremony was used and the scene was impressive and beautiful. The bride wore a gown of white silk mull over white taff'eto, trimmed in heavy silk medallions. The maid of honor. Miss Francis was gowned in white silk, over pink. The bride i carried a white shower of bride's I roses, apron bouquet, tied with white ribbons and the maid of honcr carried pink sweet peas tied with white baby ribbon. Mrs. MerryI man, mother of the bride wore I silver gray silk trimmed in point ! lace and green. The bay window where the wedding occurred was a bower of beauty, decorated profusely with roses, smilax, ferns and palms. The entire home was also beautifully and appropriately decorated, and presented an attractive apix-aranee. At five o’clock a three course dinner will lx 1 served. Fourteen unmarried guests will sit with the bride and groom at the bridal table, while the most intimate married friends will be seated at small tables near the bridal table. The color scheme will be pink and white carnations, and the table decorated with candelabrum and candle sticks. The bride will pass the wedding cake in basket of roses. Out of town guests who are here to attend the event are F. M. Tillberry, wife and son. Lima. Ohio; Clarence Swaim, Misses Edith Albers and Margaret Hanna. Harry Quinn, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Holman, Rochester, Indiana; Mrs Claude Cole. Mrs. Florence DeVilbiss, Lancaster, Ohio; Dr. Lawrence Hughes, Geneva ; Miss Mina Case. Magley. Miss Merryman, the bride, is the fair and charming daughter of the well known attorney, J T. Merryman and wife. She is accomplished and educated, having attained honor in a collegiate course at the Ohio Wesleyan college. Mr. Quinn is a young business man of innumerable good qualities, being a member of the Decatur Egg Case company. Both are popular and have been prominent in society for several years. The presents to the bride were many and costly, beautiful and useful. Mr. and Mrs. Quinn leave this evening over the Erie on a trip to the east, returning after ten days to make their home in this city. The Democrat congratulates. One of the most delightful events of the social season was the point euchre party given yesterday after n<x>n by Mrs. George Flanders. The guests of honor were Mrs. Claude Cole of Lancaster. Ohio, and Miss Anna Carsyle of Cincinnati. High prizes were awarded to Mrs. Cole and Mrs. Frank Christen and the consolation to Mrs. (’. O. France. Delicious refreshments were served and the happy event closed with an old-fashioned Virginia reel. The guests lx*sides those of honor were MesilumesT .M Ried, J. W. Tyndall. W. A. Lower, C. E. Neptune, 11 L.Confer, F. G. Christen, Chicago; W. F. Brittson, C. O. France. A. E. Rose. L. G. Ellingham, J. H. ' Heller and Misses Hattie Studalxiker, Rose < 'hristen. Grace and Lizzie Peterson, Jennie Congleton. Carrie I Cogswel and Minnie Or via. ST. JOSEPH EXERCISES. On Friday evening. June 19, at eight o’clock, standard time, sharp, will Is- held the commencement exercises at Bosse’s ojx'ra house by the Ht. Joseph high school of this city. In connection with the comm mce ment exercises ’will be given an entertainment by the pupils of the St. Joseph’s schools, which, no doubt, will please the audience. The chidren have been well prepared for it. All are cordially invited. Admission 25c. Tickets at Holthouse A- Callow’s drug store, where they can lie resrved on Thursday ami Friday.

DECATUR, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE 17, 1903.

BIDS OPENED. City Council Holds a Busy Session Contracts for Fourth and Monroe Streets will be Let to Local Contractors. Bids for the improving of Monroe and Fourth streets were opened last evening before the city council and it was found that home contr ictors were the lowest. E. Woods Company bid the lowest on the Fourth street improvement and Calvin successfully under bid his competitors on the improvement of Monroe street. The contract was not awarded however but the city council will meet in extra session this evening and take decisive action. There were four bidders on each job and the prices varied but very little. On the • Fourth street job, Woods & Company, Calvin Miller, F. M. Kemp & Sons, and Neil Paving Co., of Montjx'lier, offered respectively to build the street with the Metropolitan paving block for f 1.885, ♦ 1.94. |1,98, and ♦2.00. With the Logan block for 11.93, fl .97, 11.98 and ♦2.00. On retaining stone their resjxwtive bids were ♦ 44, ♦ 46, ♦ 49 and ♦ .39. Prices per lineal foot on Bedford curbing stone ♦.63, |64, ♦.66 and ♦.70. On Berea curbing, ♦.56.5, ♦.65, and the Neil Company did not quote prices on Berea stone. Their respective prices via catch basins were as follows: $29, ♦•10, ♦3O, and ♦2O. On inlets, ♦27.50, S2B, ♦2s and ♦lO. On the Monroe street job, Calvin Miller, E. Woods'# Co., F. M. Kemp & Sons and Neil Paving Co., made the following prices, respectively, on the different paving blocks and their bids on retaining and curbing stone, catch basins and outlets were the same as offered on the Fourth street job. On Metropolitan block ♦1.865, ♦1.91, |1.98 and ♦23.05. On Logan block, ♦l.ss, ♦ 1.94. ♦ 1.9 s and $2.09. After the bids had been layed aside the question of advertising for bids on Sixth street was brought up and it was decided to delay action until more thorough understanding of the law in regard to the improving of streets had been obtained. Eugene McKean filed his report of the survey of south Tenth and Elm streets which are to lx* macadamized, but it was referred back to him for correction -and action on the improving of those streetsis still forthcoming. The sewer committee in a report stated that they had investigated the condition of that part of the Monroe street sewer, west of Tenth street, and found it to be of insufficient size to carry off all water from abutting projx'rty and in view of that fact asked the council to have it enlarged. Accordingly it was resolved that the street commissioner reconstruct the sewer from Tenth to Twelfth streets, laying on half that district with twenty four inch pipe and remaining with eighteen. Bills were as follows; Kern, Beider & Co., rubber coats, ♦60.00, ,1. D. Hale, hauling hoae cart, ♦1.50, Kueman Electric (Jo., supplies, ♦102.00, F. Bissell Company, supplies, $28.31, Garlonck Packing Co., supplies, ♦19.07, Ingersoll Drill Co., supplies, ♦35.00, Wayne Oil & Supply Co.. ♦4.50, Standard Oil Co., oil, ♦10.13, Ixtrkin Co., for nozil, 115.00, Water works pay roll, 1(0.82, Jno. Thomas, hauling coal, ♦15.20, W. G. Nagle, sup plies, |6.25, Wayne Oil Co., ♦2.92, Kueuman Supply Co., ♦90.75, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, ♦7.75, Electric Appliance Co., $68.88, Street Commissioner’s ]my roll, ♦46.08, John Trim, lalxir, $2.50, Erie railroad, freight, ♦26.01, Union Pump Co., supplies, $6.00, George Kern, hauling hoae cart ♦1.50, R. Brenfmrekamp, hauling hose cart, ♦ 1.50, Jno. Thomas hauling Coal, ♦ 1.20, J. Meyers, hauling hose cart, ♦ 1.00, W. G. Nagle, supplies, $62.

CHANGE OF TIME. The Schedule for G. R. & I. Trains Has Been Published. The Grand Rapids railway company have issued an improvised time table to their employees which announces the change of time that is to go into effect next Sunday. According to the folder,all passenger trains will depart from this city as follows: North bound—No. 5, daily, ll:08p. m, No. 3, daily except Sunday, 5:22 p. m., No. 7, daily, 8:00 a. m. South bound—No. 2, daily, except Sunday, 1:19 p. in., No. 12, daily except Sunday. 7:17 a. m., No. 6, daily, 2:32 a. m. and No. 14, Sunday only, 8:46 a. m. A Sunday train has thus been provided for which meets the general dej mand, long ago made manifest. The north bound service also gives people south of Fort Wayne the opportunity to visit Rome City on Sundays. ROAD EXTENSION. Kirkland Township Wants a Little More Macadam Road. More than eighty landowners of Kirkland township, have presented a petition and filed the same at the auditor’s office, which asks for an extension of the Peterson macadam road. The voice of said petition is that said road extended from section two, range thirteen, north to the Kirkland township line, a distance of one mile. This proceeding was made possible by an act of the last leigslature forextension of macadam roads. Friday, July 10. at the auditor’s office has been set for the hearing of said jx»tition, said session being heard before the board of commissioners, who will then take action thereon. The building of this short connection will lx* of great benefit to the jx'ople of Kirkland township, and would give them a good road in every direction and at the present time but little or no opixisition is registered against the projxjsed improvement. FLOOD SUFFERERS. The Graft Will Soon be Worked to a Fare-you-well. Now that the western waters are subsiding the people in the towns of this state can look for the professional beggars, both male and female, who will come through working the flood graft, says the Tipton Tribune. They will tell how they were drowned out of East St. Louis or some other place, Ixtrely escaping with their lives and losing every tiling they txissesaed in the way of projx-rty. Usually they represent that they arc trying to get to the home of relatives in the east, north or some other section of the country and in that manner they will num age to pick up a great many dollars in cash and clothing. There never was a time when the country was not flooded with this class of people. They manage somehow to get a horse and wagon and start on a tour of collecting the traditional living which the world owes them. SPEAKS WELL. First National Bank Makes a Good Report. A statement of the First National liank after eleven months business shows the following: Deposits June 9, 1003. ♦174,044.40. Ihqxisits July 16, 1902. ♦392,514.14. Increase for the eleven months, $><1,530.26. The gain is certainly a creditable one for this banking institution, and Kjx'aks well not only for Cashier Dugan and the Ixmrd of directors, hut likewise for the city and county. The same report shows that the sur plus and undivided profits for the term on the ♦IOO,OOO capital is ♦2O, 191.6’’.

TRIP TO OREGON. Adams County Men in the Far West. Description of Scenes and Incidents Enroute By Peter Hoffman. Salem, Oregon. June 10, 1903. Editor of Democrat: —Your reporter desires to submit a few items of interest as to our trip to the Rockies. On the morning of June the 4th, Edwin Heller and myself boarded the train at Berne for Salem, Oregon, arriving at Chicago at four o’clock p. m. and departed the same evening on the Northwestern, cross ing file Mississippi at Clinton, lowa. Nothing worthy of mention other than passing over a district of devastation caused by the recent floods. The losses to the crops and property was very great. On reach ing Denver, Colorado, in the language of the motto of a former moth of the Linn Grove graded school we found that we had reached the hills and the mountains were in view and soon our train was contending with their elevation. We made a stop off at Colorado Springs, but owing to incessant rains during our stay we were unable to take in the celebrated sights that this resort has in store for the visitors. Leaving this place as we did in the night, the scenic views were shut from our vision by the sable curtains of the night. The morning dawn (Sunday) gave us a view of the snow capped mountains in the distance which our trusty engine was destined to climb; this was accomplished by winding its sides, when the traveler is in a manner susjx-n---ed in mid air, Ix'ing many humlrcd feet from the mountaintop as well as a like distance from the canyon below, but higher and higher we rise until we find ourselves in easy reach of crystal flakes that so strenuously endeavor to protect the apex of the mountains from the rays of old Sol; however this did not suffice as later the tourist is enabhxl to cast his eyes on the crystal flakes some hundred feet below. To give scenic description of these natural freaks as they ap]x-ar in their variaguted colors of matchless beauty and health invigorating propensi ties would [lx 1 futile for the pi>n. the Palisades of which there are not a few, a grandeur to look upon, and the beholder would at once con elude that it was the product of mallet and chisel in the hands of an artisan, thereby robbing nature of its own. then come the numerous water falls, so pleasing to the eye. The most sightly of these is the Multnomah that falls from the top of the mountain several hundred feet high at an angle of alxiut 90degrees jiouring down over the rock with tremendous force until at the mountain foot it helps to form a stream that enlarges as it goes along slashing in anger as does the water that comes down at Ixxlore until calmed by commingling with the water of the grout Pacfic. The principal rivers on our route are the Columbia and the Willamette the former just now is higher than its record in the past nine years, by the reason of the ineltixl snow on the mountain. Our train followed the meandering of this river some two hundrisl miles, white capped breakers coming from the far distant shore are the scenes on one side while mountain cascades ravines and drifts of white sand higher than our car’s deck. This sand is much unlike the white sund of other parts of the country, in texture it Ix-ing a fine dust, however very uncomfortable to the ]iassengers, as theeouches hud to be tightly closixl, and the prevailing warm weather made it in a manner suffocating. While the scenery enroute was faultless vet the countrv has many draw-

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backs. For 1,000 miles or more wax almost void of vegetation save that of wild sage, which is of no utility for man or beast. Some buffalo grass grows here and there that, affords substance for what little stock is raised. The tiller of soil who would desire to better his financial condition will lx? sadly disappointed should he make the endeavor among the Rockies, but the infidel must no longer proclaim that there be no nature’s God, should he witness the glories of His handiwork as he finds it everywhere, and the more when beholding the wonders of this clime. We arrived at Salem at eleven o’clock a. m., June 10, each in good spirit, and health. We are taking in the sights of the capital state of which we will speak in our next. Yours, P. Huffman. RAN AWAY. Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Leaves tier Home. Ivy Babcock is Traced to Lima, Ohio, • Where All Clews Are Lost. A dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer from Lima. Ohio, yesterday i said: ’' Heart-broken relatives of sixj teen year old Ivy Babcock of Decatur, Indiana, have been here two | days searching for her. She ran away from home a week ago and i was traced this far east, when all j clews were lost. " The story is true at least in part. The girl is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac L. Babcock of near Honduras. She came here late Wednesday evening and has not been seen since. The parents have made diligent inquiry and learm-d that she went from here to Lima. She told some of *:er iriends that she was going to leave home Ix-eause her parents would not allow her to keep company with boys. It was at first supposed that she had elopi-d with a well known young man of Monroe, with whom she had been going, but as he has not been away this theory is certainly wrong. Her parents are greatly worried. GAY PARTY. Friends of L. H. Boknecht Surprise Him. One of the most complete sur- , prises that was ever execufixl on ' anylxxly was carried out at the home of Mr. and Mr- L. H. Bok- : necht Monday evening when about seventy five of their neighbors and I friends gathered nt their home to remind Landis that he had passed his 36th mile stone of his life and to say that he was surprised is putting ft mildly. He had been re I quested by his brother to accompany him to this city and ujxin their return found that everything wax taken ixissession of. Those present include Mr. and Mrs. E. Franz and family. Messrs, and Mesdames H, Franz. F. Busick, Henry Luttman, Wm. Wietfieldt, J. F. Boknecht. F. Hoile, F. Sherrer, A. Walters, Fred Lehrmann, Chas. Boknecht, A. Busick, B. H. Ostermeyer, F. Wietfieldt. J. II Gerkey, and Mrs. Christian Buher, Wm, Knapp, and C. W. Boknecht and family, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schulte and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heuer of Decatur. At six o’clock a delighftul supper was Hervcnl which was heartily enjoyed by seventy-two. At eight o’clock the young folks appeared on the scene of action accompanied by the Hoffman & Luenlierger string band of Monroevill<“ and a big Ixirn dance I wound up the evening’s pleasure, latter which the guests wishing Mr. Boknecht that his birthday may come oftener returned to their homes