Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1903 — Page 1

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NOW SEEMS ASSURED The Trees Manufacturing Company to Locate Here.

Arrangements All Made. They Only Await Return of W. H. Niblick. Its Location Will Be in (he I Van Camp Building West Part of City. Word has been received here by tho> interested in the Trees ManuWAS ARRESTED?” Crazy Man Would See the President. BHijfiPaggr. —————— Was Armed and Said He Was Ito Marry Miss Alice Roosevelt. ft Special to Daily Democrat. ' Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 2—An armed lunatic named Weilburnner was arrested last night for insisting on seeing President Roosevelt. In examination in court this morning he said he had an engagement with the President to confer about his ■mrriaue to Miss Alice Roosevelt. Ho will be sent to the asylum. The affair was kept quiet until the prisoner was brought to trial. HUNTING SEASON. Water Fowls May Now be Slaughtered. Let all wild geese, wild ducks, brant and other fowls be wary from yesterday until April 15. By law their execution is jusitfied and except with the protection from pursuit in steam, electric or naphtha launches and from dusk of one day to dawn of the next, the game birds are without protection of the strong arm of the State of Indiana. Ducks may find some comfort in the fact that only twenty four of them can be slaughtered by any one hunter in a day, and they may rest assured that they will Tie eaten by native liorn Hoosiers as penalties are provided for any railroads which carry them outsidi the state. The wild water birds are protected between October 10 by the same section of the game law which requires a license for hunters, but from November 10 until April 15 they will have to keep on the wing.

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facturing Company, that they are ready to sign up all articles of agreement, and comply all along the line as formerly agreed to. This means their removal here from their present place of business at Greenfield. As soon as W. H. Niblick returns from the east they will meet here and settle definitely upon every phase of the situation. They will be located in the Van Camp building, formerly owned and known as the Lynch property in the western part of the city. They will manufacture the Trees Gas engine, the many merits of which h ive many times previous been recited in these columns. We hope this will all prove true and that nothing will step in to interfere as now arranged. This matter has long been on the boards and at times it seemed assured and at others anything else but assured. All the rough edges are now threshed out and the deal bids fair to culminate successfully. AT MAGLEL Several Decatur Ladies Were Yesterday Guests of Mrs. Case. An elaborate dinner at the country home of Mrs. Robert Case of Magley was yesterday enjoyed by Mesdumes J. S. Bowers, John Niblick. J. Q. Neptune. |D. W. Myers, Samuel Lehman, J. C. White, D. N. Erwin, and W. J. Myers of this city, Mrs. Laughner, of Preble. The guests of honor were Mrs. Marshman of Anderson, and Mrs. Gregg of Kokomo. An enjoyable day was the result, the Case home being an exceptionalplace for the enterainment of friends.

NO WIND AGAIN Race Signaled Off for Today. Interest in the Outcome Has Waned Considerably. Special to The Dally Democrat. New York, N. Y. Sept. 2—The fourth attempt jto sail the third race of the series for the America’s cup was a failure today again on account of too light a wind. But little interest is shown in the race it being the general belief that the Shamrock has practically no chance towin. The small fleet of excursion steamers were poorly patronized. Absolute calm has varied at intervals by faint drafts of wind, but there was never a chance for a race and the event was signaled off at one o’clock. NO VENETIAN NIGHT. Then' will be no Venetian night at Rome City this year. This statement is made in answer to many inquires made hero by parties who desire to attend.

DECATUR, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1903.

MAY BE ARRESTED Monroe Boys Charged With Theft. It is Claimed They Stole a Bicycle and Twenty-Five Dollars Worth of Brass. Allen county authorities, it is said are about to begin prosecution against two Monroe young men who are accused of larceny. The two young men in question whose names are withheld for the present were employed by the Portland Butter Tub Company and were engaged in cutting timber near Monroeville. While working at that place they stole a bicycle and about twenty five dollars worth of brass pipe couplings and valves which were used about traction engines. The stolen goods was secreted in the woods for some time and finally loaded on a wagon and carefully obscured. When the young fellows were about to leave for Adams county their horse ran away and upset the wagon scattering the stolen property over the ground. The owner of the farm saw the boys in their predicament and started out to assist them but he was ordered away. He did not know at the time what was wrong but afterwards when he missed his stolen property he grew suspicious and upon investigation found several pieces of brass where the wagon had been upset. After this he' threatened to prosecute and very soon received his bicycle which had been forwarded to him by express. Since then he has not pushed 4he case but the Allen county citizens say that the trouble is not yet at an end.

HE LEFT TOWN. Siler Has Left the Rosenthal Ball Team. Siler, the second baseman with a history, quit his job with the Rosenthal base ba 11 club Tuesday morning and has gone, nobody knows where. Siler came here last Saturday and manager Marty of the home team secured him for the Huntintgon game. His work so pleased the funs that they agreed to hold him over and a verbal contract was entered into. That was not binding enough however and the old boy <jvit without advising any fellow of his actions. Ho has been playing professional ball, played in almost every minor leaeue in existence. lie played around this city at several different times and was with Delphos at the time of Decatur’s famous “Places Creams". He has just finished the season with the Wausau, Wisconsin club and is now out looking for another job ACCEPTS POSITION. > Lou Yager a Toledo, Ohio, City Salesman. Lou Yager who has been employed as a salesman for the Fort Wayne Drug Company for several years has resigned and accepted a better position as city salesman for Welding, Kueneman & Marvin, the big gest wholesale drug house in Toledo. His contract tiegins October first but he is traveling for his new firm this month to allow the regular man an outing. Lou is considered one of the best drug salesmen on the road.

READY FOR WORK. Will Erwin Recovered From- His Awful Shock. Will Erwin of Fort Wayne is in the city the guest of his cousin Dore B Erwin. It will be remembered that Wil] had a very narrow escape from death some three months ago. He was at work on an oil derrick in the Montpelier field when a wind storm came up. He felt the derrick totter and immediately jumped, a a distance of sixty-two feet Not a bone was broken but the shock was such that he has been unable to work a day since. He is feeling greatly improved at present and will begin work again in the oil fields next Monday. He will not attempt rig building however for several months yet as he is still 1 a little weak. HIS BIRTHPLACE. Church Paper Tells of D. M. Hensley’s Home. A U. B. PARSONAGE IN WEST VIRGINIA. The Struggles of His Father as a Preacher in the Early Sixties. The Watchword, a young peoples paper of the United Brethren church in a recent issue contained a picture of an old time parsonage located at the foot of a hill in Lewis county, West Virginia. The picture was taken in 1865 and at that time the old log parsonage was occupied by Rev. J. L. Hensley. An article in the same issue by Rev. W. M.Weekley, D. D. describes the picture as follows: The subjoined cut exhibits the prasonage in which Dr. J. L. Hensley lived in 1865, and in which his son, David M., was born. It is located in Freemansburg, Lewis county, West Virginia, and was the liase from which a large circuit was served. These were his appointments: First week: Right Hand Fork, Saturday, p. m.; Freeman’s Creek, 10 a. m.; Polk Creek.

Sunday 3 p. m.; Weston, Sunday, 7p. m.; Big Fink, Monday, 10 a.m.; Walnut Fork, Monday, 7 p.m.; Williams (on Big Fink), Tuesday, 3p. m; Little Fink, Wednesday 7 p. in. Second week. Big Skin Creek, Sunday, 10 a. m.;Sandy Fork, Sunday, 3 p. ra.; Walkersville, Sunday, 7 p. m.; Litte Kanawha, Monday, 7 p. m.; Union Hill, Tuesday 3 p. m.; Spanish Grove, Tuesday 7 p. m. Third week. Stone Coal, Saturday, 7 p. m.; John Makan’s, Sunday, 10 <i. in., Cuzads (Hacker’s Creek) Sunday 3 p. in.; Buckhannon Mountain, Sunday, 7. p. m. Fourth week. Buckhannon .Friday 7 p. tn.; Shreeves Church, Saturday 7p. in.; Mt. Washington, Sunday, 10 a. m.; Sand Run (Saul Day’s) Sunday, 3 p. in.; Cutright's, Sunday, 7p. in.; Indian Camp Monday 10 a m. .Waterloo, Monday 3 p.m.; French Creek Monday 7 p. m.; Sago, Tuesday 7 p. m. Doctor Hensley received $l6O for the year, and supported thereon a wife and four children. The preacher who traveled under him, Rev. J. C. Morris, a single man, received SIOO cash. What the preacher in charge got was mainly produce. The “parsonage" stands on a bank, with a deep hollow buck of it, which is not shown in the picture. On the other side, the hill is much steeper than it appears. Barring the dilapidated appearance of the house it is much as it was when occupied by the preacher. The David M. Hensley spoken of is the well known jeweler of this city and he will have the picture enlarged and hung in his home.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING Fourth Street Business Not Yet Settled.

Choose Two OverI seers. ( I Solomon Linn and B. W. Sholty Chosen. City Commissioners Appointed, Bills Allowed and Other Affairs Transacted. I The threatened eruption over the ■ Fourth street sidewalk failed to ma- i te’-alize last evening and the conflab . > of the city dads was devoid of sen-' sational features, which many had i anticipated. The roll call showed ' all the senators to be present, and 11 on the motion of Peterson the Jmatter of an overseerer for Fourth and Monroe streets was first taken : up. For Fourth street the names of : Frank Farrel, George Patterson, L. C. Miller and Sol Linn were intro- : duced. Linn was elected on second ’ ballot. For Monroe street, T. Arch- 1 bold, John Tyndal, George Patterson, and B. W. Sholty were voted : on. Sholty was elected on fourth ; ballot. Peterson then moved that two city commissionecrs be elected 1 to act on the Marshal street sewer in the place of the regular commis- i isoners, Blackburn and Brokaw. I The latter are disqualified as they ' have an interest in the sewer. In I

THE STONE WORK ■ B. Wemhoff & Son Secure Part of Contract. Messrs. Allison i Studabaker Grad- « ually Succeeding (With .Their Building Project. i Messrs. Allison and Studabaker have let the contract fur the stone work for their new building to B. Wemhoff & Sons, and this means that this part of the proposed building will lie right up to the standard in workmanship and durability. As designed there will be but slight 1 change from the old Big Store building. The columns will be all entirely new stone except at the southwest corner, it is feared that some | damage to the west wall might result from the replacement of this i column. Contracts will likely lie given seperately throughout for i the different materials used in the building, this seeming to the own- < ers to be the best method to insure the early completion of the build- 1 ing. Shonld the Old Adams County I Bunk occupy the corner room it is . thought that the same can bo finish I ed ready for their occupancy by the first of the year. The remainpier of the building, however, will

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the place of Blackburn, B. W. Quinn and H. S. Porter received three each, the Mayor deciding for Porter. On Fourth ballot P. Kirsch was elected as the other commissioner over B. W. Quinn L. C. Miller, Abe Stoneburner, and George Patterson. Teeple tried to start the Fourth street business by moving that the city engineer be ordered to draw plans and specifications for five foot sidewalk on Fourth street this sidewalk to be next to the curb. The vote on this motion stood Fordyce, Teeple and Peterson, yea; Weaver, Stettler and Corbett, nay. The mayor then reminded the council that they had just passed an ordinance forbidding the construction of sidewalks, other than on petition, describing the same and signed by one property holder. The petition for the Fourth street walk was filed before this ordinance and consequently no action toward constructing it could be legally taken until another petition was filed. Without expressing himself as for or against the sidewalk, the mayor voted nay on the legal phase of it. The following tax levy for 1903 was then adopted, the rate being on each $100: general purposes $.Ol, water works bonds, $.50, street and sewer, $.lB sinking fund $.lO special school fund $.37 tuition fund $.30, library fund $.03, male dogs $2.00, female dogs, $5.00, Poll tax was fixed at $.50. The clerk was ordered to certify this to the county auditor. The following bills were allowed: Geo. McKean S4O, Amos Fisher $lO,, Jacob Mangold, $lO, John Coffee SBB Flovd LeBrun sl3, 11. Leßrun $.60, Electric light pay roll $2lO, E. Miller $5, Henry Mayer $45.08, Frank Teeple $9.82, Horace Botthoff S2O, E. Beery $2.20, J. C. Patterson $1.87, A. J. Teeple $1.50, Amos Gillig $7, Geo. Steele, water works pay roll, $194.35.

not be completed for some months later. When the entire structure is finished not much change in architectural designs will be noticed from the one destroyed. A GENERAL DECLINE. Mrs. Anna Reynolds Not Benefitted by Treatment at Richmond. ’Esq. Reynolds is in receipt of a letter from the superintendent of the Eastern Indiana Hospital al Richmond, in which no hopes are held out for the mental improvement of Mrs. Anna Reynolds, who has now been an inmate there for seven years. The letter disclosed a gradual failing in her general health, together with serious affections of the lungs. Her mind also remains dull and inactive. Thia news will l>e regretted by the many friends and acquaintance of Mrs. Reynolds, who hoped that treatment at this institution would prove beneficial. Missionary Meeting. The Ladies Missionary Society of the Baptist church will meet with Mrs. Bearsdley tomorrow afternoon at half past two o’clock. The program will consist of a dis cussion of the subject of foreigners in America, which will lie followed by Song, Devotional, Song, Paper, by Mrs. Beardsley. Select reading. Myrtle Watts;Solo, Myrtle Chronister; Select reading, Mrs. Shamp; Paper Mrs, Fristoe, song, prayer. A cordial invitation is extended to the public.