Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1903 — Page 1

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A CHANGE IN BANK The Studabaker at Bluffton Now a State Bank.

announced today Slock Increased to $200,009. Change Goes Into Effect October First. Special tn the Dully Democrat. Bluffton. Ind.. Sept. 29—The Stud a baker bank was today changed [ from a private to u state bunk and the capital stock increased from OFFICE HERE. Rooms in the Studabaker Block Leased. Springfield & Fort Wayne Traction Company Locate in Decatur. The first signs of the subsidy given the Springfield and Fort Wayne electric railway are now going into full effect. They have leased rooms thirteen, fourteen and fifteen in the Studabaker block and will soon occupy them with their offices. The furniture and fixtures being placed in them now. and tn a short time the profiles and pafsrs of the company, with a sten "grapher and other office employees will be established in this new office, fr >m this place the future of the company will be planned and all Osne>s for them negotiated. C. '“ight the company is enigneer is "* 'ring here and will occupy the e 'ry house on First street, re eentiy occupied by Charles Carpen,l ‘ r Several of the company ortic •• >*** uviv uud .nV looking after the work on the grade, which is r »pidly progressing. Six different gangs of men and teams are now *'"rking and as a matter of fact are nil 'kjng great progress. When comI’i'te the grade is perfect and 'baight as the eye of a civil engin*”r can make it. Work upon the power station buildings will also *°°n begin and it will not be long >mti] there will be lively things ‘"'ng with the Springfield & Fort 'ayne Company the center attraction. COURT NEWS. of Business Transacted Today. *'> circuit court today the followbtwinew cwam transacted. The Milwaukee Ave. State Bink vs An un C'ump submitted. Julius ■‘ugh vs Adam Brown et al MoJ" n to strike out parts [of answer “'••iTuled. reply tikul and ruse ,r trial (Xitobor 27. Sarah A. deniourer by minor heirs °t imrties.

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$50,000 to $200,000. Os this anio.mt $50,000 is taken by Dougherty, $50,000 by John Studabaker and the balance SIOO,OOO by Bluffton and professional men The change will go into effect Thursday,October Ist, the officers being the same as heretofore, President Hugh Dougherty, vice president, D. E. Studabaker, Cashier, J. S .Gilliland. The change created quite a stir in business circles here this morning and came as a surprise to many people. The bank is the oldest in Wells county and one of the strongest in the state, having sl,ooo,ooo,deposits. A MAGIC OUTFIT. Prof. Laßelle Would Sell His Apparatus. Fred C. LaDelle, the well known artist has a magician outfit including side tables and magic apparature. with which any young man could entertain his friends in a most charming manner and make himself poular. The outfit cost fifty dollars and is for sale at a bargain and Mr. LaDelle will instruct the buyer, teaching him to do the tricks as nicely as anyone. The material is all as good as new and is discarded by bred simply because he has advanced to that stage where he needs no apparatus, using only a cane bottom chair. This is an op portunity for some club which desires to give entertainments this winter. See Mr. LaDelle if you are interested. STREET WORK. An Army of Men Grading on Monroe Street. A dozen teams and fifty men are making things fly on Monroe street this week getting the grade ready for the brick ]<avement. The macadamized street was plowed up by the assistance of the big steam roller engine and this will find the street ready for the brick. This material is expected to arrive anjday as bills for a number of cars are already at hand. While a little bad luck has been experienced and good employes have been hard to find, still the contractor is making every jaissiblc effort to finish the streets within the turn* limit which expires November 15. PUSHING ALONG. Work Progresses on Postoffice Building. Work has been resumed again on E. Frirzinger's new building on Monroe street to be occupied by the post office. A delay of several weeks was caused by a car load of lumber being lost enroute from Texas. The lumber finally arrived however ami the work will lie pushed along as rapidly as possible and completed within a few weeks. The postotllce will lie moved as soon as possible and something definite done then in establishing free city delivery. Mr. (Tomer stated while in the city that the free delivery would very probably tiegin March I next.

DECATUR, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1903.

IN A SLIT CASE. Marion Beall Carried a Sum of $3,000,000. Beall Formerly Lived in This County, Now Holds Government Position. Marion Peall. formerly a resident |of Geneva and well known here is at present chief of one of the divisions in th * bureau of insular affairs at Washington, and a few days ago did an act that is being told all over tin' country. He carried the enormous sum of $3,000,000 from Washington to New York City in a suit case. Tne money belonged to the government and was f<>r use in the Phillipines and the duty shipping it devolved on Mr. Beall- Express Companies wanted sboo to car ry it and the price seemed s) high that Col. Edwards, ordered Mr. Beall to convey the goods himself. The arrangement was made. When [ the treasury department opened in 1 the morning Beall was on hand with his suit case and an order for the money. He receipted for it. and with the suit case in one hand and umbrella in the other left for NewYork on the 10 o'clock train. The train did not reach New York until after flanking house hours, but a telegram was sent from the bureau of insular affairs asking the liank to keep open and be on the lookout for the messenger. A little after five o'clock Beal passed the treasury suit case over the counter of the bank. The three thousand SI,OOO bills were counted and a receipt for $3,000,000 passed out to Beall. The following morning he was back at his desk in the insular department. HAD A MIXUP. Race Horse Men Hurt at Portland. John (hr, of Redkey, driving Al Crissler’s pretty pact r. Rescind gigged up on the race track Monday forenoon with William Pilcher of Marion riding Snowden, the noted running bores. Pichrei is suffering from u severe injury, his wrist being badly sprained and wrenoed. Orr was not hurt but Bosebud the pacer which he was driving is cut on the inside on the right leg and it is feared is also hurt internally. I'he shaft on Urr s sulky broke and snagged Pilcher's horse. Snow den deep in the neck. The large arteries of the neck were entirely severed and but for the timely arrival of Harry Meister,a Mont]x>lii r horseman, the wounded horse would no doubt have bled to death. — Portland Commercial-Ke view. LOSS ADJUSTED. Mr. Gerke Will Receive 51565,75 Fire Damages. He iry Wafel and Dan Hoffman, officers of the Preble township mutual fire insurance company, drove to the scene of William Gerke's fire yesterday and adjust'd the loss which was total on everything covered by the policy including S9OO on the burn, S2OO on grain, SIOO on hay and other items amounting to $1565.75. The loss must lx* settled accord ing to the rules of the company within thirty days. Mr. Wafel stated that the insurance was not half the actual loss of Mr. Gerke.

ABLE TO LEAVE. Member of Howard-Dorset Co. Was Quite Sick. Mr. and Mrs. Bessie, members of the Howard-Dorset company left here last eveinng to join the troupe at Portland. They were detained here on account of the illness of Mrs. Bessie who has been sick since Friday, with symptoms of typhoid fever. She was some better last evening but by no means well and her physician warned her that only the very best of care will prevent a long and serious sick spell. IN SQUIRE S COURT Justice Smith Was Busy This Morning. Three Railway Cases Were Tried and Verdicts Returned for Plaintiffs. 'Squre Smith's court was kept quite busy this morning in trying three damage suits aganist the Grand Rapidsand Indiana Railwaycompany, the first case being.called at nine o'clock and was entitled. Henry Koeneman vs G.R . & I. Co. in which the complaint avered that a delay in shipment of stock from Decatur to Pittsburg. Penn., was made thereby resulting in the death of part of tiie stock after all the evidence was introduced the [court found in form of the plaintiff the sum of $96.60. The second case was entitled John Scheiman against the G. R. & I. Company and complaint averred the same state of facts find the court found in favor lof the plaintiff the sum of slll.OO. ; The third cast* called was the cast* Jof Henry C. Scheiman vs the G. R. & I. Co. and complaint averred the facts as set out aboveund after hearing all the evidence the court found in favor of the plaintiff in the sum lof $96.00 Shafer Peterson appeared for the plaintiff's and A. P. Beatty for the defendai t. LECTURE TICKETS. Miss Hershey Meeting With Success. Miss Hershey, who became a favorite here last spring by staging “The Deestrict Skewl,' the funniest home talent play ever given in the city is soliciting for the Christum Endeavor lecture course ami if she calls on you be ready to purchase tickets. The lecture course for this season is the best ever offered to Decatur lovers of this kind of entertainment, including A. A. Willits Col. L. T. CojM’land, Ross Crane cartoonist, Dunbar bell ringers and Wiillacx* Bruce Ambrey. Miss Hershey reports splendid success so far and beloives she can sell the necessary two hundnxl tickets to insure the course. WERE WEDDED. ’Squire Baughman Performs a Ceremony. 'Squire William Baughman per formed the ritualistic ceremony at 3:30 this astern ><m which united in holy marriage Miss Dana Hart and Mr. Wilson Yearing, of Union town ship. The affair was witnessed by Charles Elzey and attorney Dore B. Erwin who say the 'Squire did his official part neatly.

BUCKEYES CAME TODAY The Annual Excursion of Old Settlers.

IN THREE SECTIONS Big Picnic at Ossian Thursday. Inter-State Visit of Indiana and .Ohio Relatives and Friends is Due Again. Today is an eventful one for many of the families in Adams Wells and Huntington counties as it is the date for the arrival of their friends and relatives from Ohio. For twenty years these people have alternated, one year the Eastern Ohio people coming here and the next Indiana folks going to the Buckeye state. These excursions owe their origin to the fact that this part of Indiana is largly settled by people who emigrated from (thio in the early days. This means that there is a close relationship between Ohio and Indiana people and they take every opportunity of visiting

WHO IS HE? Young Man Named Butler Badly Hurt. Run Over by Train in lowa, Claimed His Mother, Mrs. Meyer, Lives Here. J. C. Patterson, Western Union telegraph agent, is in receipt of a message from Boone,lowa, addressed to Mrs. Maggio Meyers of tins city and whom he is unable to locate. The message means that George Butler, twenty five years old, of slight build with brown hair, was badly hurt near there this morning, lx*ing run over by a train. It is believed it will be necessary to amputate his right leg and arm. Anyone knowing Mrs Meyers should tell her at once of the message. Filed Their Report. Henry Eiting, David Dilling and Joseph T. Johnson as viewers, filed their final report on the J. N. Kerr number five ditch petition. No ob jectioue were registered by any of those assessed. J. I). Bollinger, Jonas McNulty, Cony White, William Beard, Al Shaw, Fred Rathert and B. W. Breen all left for Linn Grove this morning to commence work on the new (kid Fellows building.

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each other. The train from the east is billed to arrive in three sections the first being due at three o’clock and the other two as soon thereafter as they can arrive probably a haff' hour apart. However as if usual with excursions the train was some lab* and failed to arrive precisely on schedule. While a number of the excursionists will land here the majority will go on to Kingsland where they are met by their various friends and conveyed to their homes for a ten days visit, some even remaining during the life of their tickets which is good for thirty days. On Thursday, as is the usual custom,a monster reunion will lx* held. This reunion will be given in the John I. Metts grove at (tssiun. The last reunion held in this state was given in the Studabaker grove of Bluffton. Three thousand jieople are expected at this gathering. Speeches songs and talks by the older settlers are on the program and a most enjoyable day has been planned for. Nothing will lx* omitted to mar the pleasure of the daj’ and considerable expense has been gone to to make everything go off smoothly. W. W. Weisell has been largely in charge of affairs, but he has been assisted by a num ber of others who have done good work in planning for the event. These inter state excursions and picnics were institued by Uncle John Rupright and he is still one of the leading spirits of the events. fl

THEIR WEAPON. Effect of a Woman's Yell on a Burglar. Is the scream of a woman as effective in driving away midnight [ prowlers as a firearm? Policemen j say a woman's scream would cause I a burglar to "loose bis nerve” I quicker th-in the explosion of a large keg of gun powder. Whether the gentler sex knows this or not they scream just the same in times of danger or fright, and it is probable that they will depend on their lungs until the end of time even if shown that there are otner ways of protecItion. To wake up in the dead of night and find a burglar in your • room isenough to make the heart of 'the strongest man quake, much less la woman. Th< re have always been burglars and then always will be, I but only thus, ale* llux. I*.al actual experience with them cun testify their feelings. That the burglar I would prefer to enter a house in | which there is no -nun is evident from th. numb, r of homes occupied only by women r ibbed recently. The burglar seems to know when the master of the house is i 1 .•tveling man, rairoud man or in some business that calls him from his own fireside Real Estate Transfers. J. N. Stnitley to \Vm. S|x*opman pt sec 333 tp 26 rgls, 20 acres SIOOO. Mary E. Smitley to Wm. L. Fore man pt sec 33 tp 26 rg 15, SIOOO. Keziah ('ary et al to Alonzo Shanks pt see 15 tp 2.5 rg 13, KO acres S4OOO. Mathias Colchin to Lucy E. Rout lot 54K Decatur SI.OO Henry Hite to M Colchin pt lot 39 Decaturs 750. Marriage Licenses. Mohlow Hutchinson to Ellie Mutter.