Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

SETTLED IN FULL Three Companies Adjust Loss on Building. PAY FACE OF THEIR POLICIES IN FULL Means That Allison & Studabaker Will Receive SBOOO Insurance. Messrs Butler and Wolf of Inilianhipolis, the former representing the British American and Aechen and Munich fire insurance companies and the latter the Royal were in the city last evening to adjust their loss . •> th'' Allison <S- Stndalmker block destroyed by fire Sunday morning. The building was insured for only s-.i t and as the loss was twice that amount there was but little chance for salvage. The adjusters and their assistants Messrs C. S. Niblick and D. F. Quinn meet the •wners. Messrs R. B. Allison and David Studabaker at the Burt House l ist night and in a very few minutes prepared proofs of loss for their share of the <B,OOO in full. The Aecten and Munch paid <SOO, the British American $2,000 and the R iyal SI,OOO. This means that the owners will receive their insurance in full as they certainly should. The other companies involved are the Agricultural $2,000, J. S. Peter- ' ai agent and North Western Nut mal $2,500, Lenhart Lenhart agents. The promptness of the companies in settling the loss, a total one. within four days speaks well for them and shows they are first class as represented. BEFORE THE BOARD. The Standard Oil Company want Their Assessment Reduced. 5 A representative of the Standard Oil Company was before the board of review this afternoon, registering a kick on the assessments as made at the Preble station. These representatives are experts in their business and from this way of reasoning, it is evident that a gross injustice has been done them. However, there is two sides to the question and it is quite probable that the board of review will do justice to them and the county. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Three Issued Today,- The June Business. Three marriage licenses were issued at county clerk's office this looming the happy recipients of the important pajiers being Otis B. Htns and Maude A. Merriss, Charles L. Oulahan and L<>la D. Heistend, Jesse H. Ingles and Chloa D. Heistand. During the montn ot June twenty-two licenses were issued several of them to very prominent parties and the month held up its recurd for marriages. However July starts off in away that may break the record. STORES TO CLOSE. Mouement on Foot to Have all Stores Close. A movement is on foot to have all Decatur business men close their stores from one to four o'clock tomorrow afternoon The work of the oomimttee is meeting with partial success and up to the time this pujM«r went to press all the clothing 'leulers of the city had agreed to tlie proposition.

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PATRIOTIC PARTY. A Novel Entertainment Given Yesterday Afternoon. The “Patriotic Party" at the ! home of Mrs. Victoria Hill yesterday was a complete success and a surprise to everyone in its novel and entertaining qualities. The program began with the singing of j the Star Spangli-d Banner, by four J ladies and chorus. Then followed j an address by Booker T. Washing-1 ton. The chorus sang “My Country after which progressive games were played. In these games Mrs. C. A. Dugan proved herself an expert and was given first prize. Then followed a contest in which the judges were evenly divided. The mungificent luncheon was demolished. and all previous records broken*. Mrs .Jeff’ Bryson, Mrs. John Vail, Mrs Emma Studabaker. MissMalite Numbers, and Hattie Studabaker were the only ones who mustered sufficient courage to enter the exciting potato race. In this Mrs John Vail landed the jienannt. Out of town guests were Mrs. C. G. Reynolds and children of Joliet, 111. who were the guests of honor; Mrs. Daniel Bolds of Peru. Mrs. Emma Studabaker and Mrs. Harry Deam of Bluffton and Miss Malite Numbers of Austin, Texas. TWO NEW CASES. Appeals From Ditch Allotments. Means a Test for the New Ditch Law Passed by the Last Legislature. The first appeals in the allottment for cleaning the Meyers ditch in Blue Creek township were filed at I the county clerk’s office this afternoon. The cases are entitled George McKean, surveyor vs Davidson Mattox and William Mattox resjiective- ' ly. A peculiar part of these case is j that while the ap[x?als are made by Davidson and William Mattox, they are really the defendants and the burden of proof is on them. The law gives every property owner along a ditchwhich is ordered cleaned out the right to appeal to circuit court if he thinks his allottment is more than should be and these gentlemen have taken that step. The case will be watched with great ini t crest by many farmers as it is a ■ test cast* on the new ditch law passed by the recent legislature. It is saidfmother property holder along the ditch has also signified his intention of filing objections. The suits were filed by D D Heller and Son. A GOOD FIELD. The New Well Between Berne and Mon roe Causes Stir. Robert Smith who lives south of Monroe was in the city today and says there is no doubt but that one of the greatest oil fields in Indiana will soon be booming in that section of the county. All the land is leased in that territory and the gusher on the Swartz, farm a few days] ago has started those who have held leases to talking. The re suit will betherdrilling of ti|number of wells soon. Several hundred acres of land isjeased by a Michigan firm and expire within a week or two. Mr. Smith says they will have to do something pretty quick .now or they will get some one else who will even if they have to form a company of their own. Robert saya he is as confident that he has an oil farm as if he a reiidy had the wells, and is only anxious toprove that fact to his doubting friends.

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1903.

WILL PETITION. Fourth Street Citizen Appeal to Council. Are Willing to Have Contractor Use Any Standard Brick for the Pavement. A petition is being circulated among property owners alortg Fourth street and which will be presented to the city council Tuesday evening with hopes that the question of paving that street may be decided. The petition has already been signed by about twen- 1 ty property holders and reads as fol-1 lows: “We. the undersigned property owners and taxpayers interiestedin the proposed brick street I improvement on Fourth street here- : by assert in reference to the selec- ; tion of the brick block to lie used thereon, we consent to the putting on of other than Metropolitan block, provided in the judgment of the council and city engineer, they are equal to the Metropolitan or such as are were used in constructing court and Winchester street, provided the selection comes up to the requirements laid down in the plans I and specifications now on file in the city clerk's office for said improvement. ’' The property owners seemed determined to have paved streets and if their efforts can secure such i a thing they will have them. AN ANTIDOTE. A Sure Cure For the Evil Effects From Smoking. Orange juice as an antidote for ; excessive smoking is something , new, but it is vouched for by a well i known doctor. “Did you ever notice,” asked this doctor the other day, “that men who eat oranges are not much injured by smoking? It is a fact. Orange juice has that faculty of neutralizing nicotine, and that is the reason. I have seen men weaken and even made ill by excessive smoking, and a few oranges were all that was ncessary to straighten them out. “All this bother about the injurious effects of cigarette smoking wearies me, "he continued. “I don't mean to say that they are not injurious to boys I —any kind of smoking is, for that matter. But those who put up a hue and cry against cigarettes say that it is the paper that is at fault That is nonsense. It is the inhalant on of the nicotine-laden smoke that causes trouble. You don’t inhale cigar smoke because it is too strong. But it you did, you would find that the injury inflicted by cigarettes is ridiculously light compared with it. I have smoked cigarettes for twenty years, and look at me. 1 eat oranges. INDEPENDENCE DAY SERVICES. The Anniversary of American Independence will be appropriately observed at the U. B church Sunday evening at 7:30. The young people will have the service in charge, and will render a progrm. The feature of the meeting will be an address by Attorney David E. Smith. Good music will be furnished. All are cordially invited. E. H. Pontius, Pastor. HAY RACK PARTY. Away from the city's heat, the many friends of Miss Bertha Fallenkump enjoyed themsleves at the home of John Omlor hist evening. The event was a hay rack party in honor of the Misses Jessie and Bertha Gast of Wauseon, Ohio, and it was certainly a treat to those present.

ANOTHER ROAD. Preble Township Wants Additional Macadam Roads. At the meeting of the commissioners next Monday they will be presented a petition signed by about seenty-flve Preble township voters and landowners. The petition will pray for the privilege of voting on a macadam road as proposed will traverse several miles and complete a system of roads in that township that is hard to beat. The commissioners will follow their usual custom in appointing viewers and an engineer who will view the proposed improvement and report the grade and estimated cost thereof. After it comes the miming of a day for an election when Preble township will vote on the proposition, and if favorable a contract tor the roads will be made. TO REMONSTRATE Anti-Saloon League at Work Again. Fred JRohrer, as Attorney-in-Fact, Filed Three Remonstrances Today. Fred Rohrer as attorney in fact, was again busy in the auditor's office today where he filed remonstrances against the granting of license to sell liquors to J. M. Ersham, William Sheets and Samuel L. Kuntz. The remonstrances are all in the handwritng of Mr. Rohrer and contain the names of 39 purported residents of Monroe township. The attorney in fact asks that a day be set to hear the remonstrators. The remonstrances are simply a duplicate of those filed in the previous cases. Mr. Rohrer claimed to have blood in his eye and intimated that the cases would be fought to a dark brown finish. PARDON BOARD. Report Made But Not Given to the Public Yet. The Indiana state pardon board, which has lieen in session for several days, has reported to the gov ernor, but the recommendations will not lie considered until he returns from his western trip. There were thirty-five applicants for pardons and each one of them received careful consideration by the board Although no names are given out bv the governor's secretary, he says there are very few’ recommendations for the release of prisoners. This board was created by the lust legislature to relieve the governor from listening from lengthy and of times tearful appeals for leniency. The work of the board has been eminently satisfactory to the attaches of the governor's office, as the clerks can tell those who come on this mission that these are referred to the pardon board. BALL GAME. The Lima, Ohio, base ball team which is struggling for the championship of western Ohio, will play against Decatur next Sunday at Steele’s jxirk. The management of the locals secured this date fortunately as it was the only opening in Lima's schedule. A goixl game is assured and it will afford the long wanted opixirtunity for Decatur fans to see the home team work when it is necessary. The home team will be strengthened up and prepared to put a royal liattle and really it would not surprise us if Decatur gained the victory.

HELP CELEBRATE . . Tomorrow is the Great American Holiday. Everything in Readiness fcr the Mont ster Celebraiion at Decatur. The big shipment of fireworks, S3OO worth arrived this morning and are being safely guarded for fear of too close proximity with the boy and a match. The display will consist of beautiful set pieces and will far out shine anything ever seen here or anywhere around here. While not positively decided | it is probable that the display will be given from a platform built on the Big Store ruins. All other arrangements are complete for the big event tomorrow and a big crowd \ of people is expected. The amusements at the park will be excellent; and no one will go away dissatisfied Many people are expected to arrive on the G. R.& I. excursion from the south, including the famous Geneva band. In connection with this great day don't forget to decorate your homes and place of business in ; honor of the day that every true American tries to out rival his neighbor in patriotism. Remember < also that the Daily Democrat will not I issue a paper tomorrow, this giving I the printers an opportunity to cele- ■ brute. Help make the Eagle Scream. WERE VISITING. Schrock Family Enjoy Berne Hospitality. Mrs. G. H. Meyers, formerly Miss Lila Schrock and her two daughters Ruth and Margaret, her mother Mrs. Nettie Schrock of Upland, and her sister, Miss Nellie Schrock, of ; Indianapolis visited with J. F. Leh- I | man and family and called on sev- ■ eral other acquaintances here Tues- j day. Mrs. Meyers is well remem bered by the Berne people, she having taught school here about thirteen years ago, She was one of the most successful and best teachers Berne ever had and taught several terms, making her home with families of J. F. Lehman and Samuel Simison. Mrs. Meyers met many of her old pupils on the street and at their homes and both enjoyed a friendly hand-shake and a short I pleasant conversation. All of the *st three years’ high-school graduates, except Miss Nora Smith, were in her classes during the three or four years of her work here as teacher. Miss Nellie Schrock is a teacher of high standing at the State Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at Indianapolis, and is spending tier I vacation at her home at Decatur.— Be..ne Witness. THE OPENING. I’ ♦ 4 Invitations Beins Mailed for Commercial Club Opening. Invitations are being mailed to- J day for the opening of the Decatur Commercial Club, which takes place at their handsome club house from seven to elevon next Tuesday evening. The ceremonies incident to this event will be simple, but nevertheless enjoyable. Considerable pride will be made manifest by all I those engaging in the festivities, 1 and certain it is, that, all Decatur < may we feel proud of the energies ; displayed. The house is beautifully I furnished and tastily arranged, and I in itself speaks with favor. It is i expected that many out of town 1 guests will be present on the open- ’ ing night and the committees in > •hnrge are arranging to entertain > them right royally. mg

NUMBER 150

A NEW METAL. Science Brings Forth a Valuab’e Disccvery. A French chemist and his wife hive recently made a discovery which seems not only incredible to the uneducated, but even startled scientists of widest repute, until their own investigations have but corroborated the fact, and now all are deeply’ interested, not excluding Lord Kelvin, who has hin self developed many’ surprising details The discovery’ is that of a new element radium, which in the infancy of its importance, bids fair to upset many established scientific theories of the past century. Nor is this improbable as chemical knowledge has alreadypassed through thne widely differing stages. Radium, the rarest of metals is found only in a mineral called, in mininig slanguage, "pitchblende.” This is of a phosphorescent appear, nee and is found only at a few places upon j the earth's surface. Even in pitchblende radium is but a minute element, for it would require 5,000 tons :of ore to obtain one pound of radium. Hence it is quoted at tin enormous price per pound. $3,720,000. In the ore it exists as radium chloride and is not known to combine in any other manner. But what are far more striking than the price are the wonderful phenomena that it exhibits, and great possibilities in view for it in practical way. Indeed the most observable quality it hits is that of giving off energy, light and heat, without perceptible exhaustion or chemical change. This is a flat contradiction of the law of conservation of energy, which modern I science has so clearly demonstrated. 1 It gives off light at the rate of 120,000 mile per second, thus radiating thousands of millions of molecules, and yet its volume and weight in no way’ diminish. Many months careful experimenting has shown I that from a gram of radium but one | grain would disappear in a billion ' years. Heat, too, is voided without the least increase or diminution of . temperature. R ulium will melt its I own volume of ice in an hour. Treated with liquid air. its activity lis lowered a half. With such a i power under control, men could : utilize it to do his work without frequent replenishing. Radium will destroy all germs placed near it. so may be useful as a disinfectant. Carried upon the person it creates sores very much resembling burns or scalds, as a scientist learned to his sorrow.' With the eyes closed and radium placed upon the forhead, the light it yeilds is visible. One man has been successfully operated upon with the metal for blindness. ; With no other light than that of radium comparatively’ good photographs have been taken, and it may j lie partially used to perform the function of an X-ray. Many claim to see relation lietween the question of perpetual motion and the inexhaustible energy of radium. Again | some regard it as a final proof of the 1 unity of matter, that nil the kn-wn elements are comp wed of primary substance, whose ions are of similar nature to the atom. Meanwhile the price is $3,7*20,000 a pound. HORSE SALE — Scheduled for Clover Leaf Yards July llth. » Beery "& Holthouse will conduct a big sale of horses at thcUlover Leaf yards (n this city on Saturday, July 11, one week from tomorrow. Forty head of western horses, the best ever brought here tire to be sold to the highest ad best bidders. The sale recently advertised was declared oft on account of it being impossible to get the horses through the floods of Kansas and Nebraska However this sale will positively take place, and the herd of horses will lx 1 exhibited at the old fair grounds July sth, and from that time until day of sale. The ftrni’will also conduct a sale a Bluffton next Thursday nnd at Paulding, Ohio, July 13th.