Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1903 — Page 1

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A NARROW ESCAPE « Clayson Carroll Gets Electric Shock. He Took Hold of the Main Switch at the Light Station. Ulayson Carrol the [son of E. L. t'trrol, the grain man certainly bud a very narrow escape from d-ath last Saturday evening at 8:30 o'clock. He and another young man were taking in the sights at the water works plant and while in the electric department there became curious and began to handle the main switch board and was cautioned two or three times by the employees but he finally succeeded in getting a firm hold on the main switch, pulled it down and got a terrible shock at [least 1000 volts running through his hand fearfully burning the flesh from the back of his hand. He at once went to Dr. Clark who dressed his hand but same will be sore fore time to come. The accident was no fault of the employees at the plant, but resulted wholly from curosity. Had the whole voltage gone through his Jody he would never known what had struck him as there is generally about 2000 volts passing through the switch. COURT IN SESSION Berne Saloon Case is on Trial. Stale vs Ehrsam Before a Jury.— Other Business. L. H. Corbin Court Bailiff. Business was resumed in the Adams circuit court today and an old fashioned hustling appearance was noticeable about the lawyers and officials. Judge Erw in overruled the motion to quash the indictments in the cases of the State vs Martz Ehrsam and John Reineke charged with obstructing view in their saloons. A jury was impannelled and the cast* against Ehrsam is now being heard. Much interest is manifested in the outcome as several other cast's depend upon the result of this one. In the ease, of Amos W. Gulick vs W. B. Wagers et al sale of land was reported and approved. The Fort Wayne and Spring field railway Co., vs Adam J. Smith et al, .fill of exceptions sign'd, filtsl and made j>art of record. Edmond U. Evans vs William Glendenning et al, seperate demurrer Holed by each defendant. State ex r(, i C. & E. railway vs David Werl >ng et al set for trial January 4th. Thomas Taylor et si vs David D. Studabaker set for trial January •‘'th. Several criminal suits and one or two civil oast's arc set for trial during this week. L. H. Corbin has been app link'd bailiff for the court room to serve during the winter.. FARMERS INSTITUTE. C, D, Kunkle was in town today completing arrangements for the Farmers' Institute to bo h<4u in this city Wednesday of this wock and which promises to be the best meeting of the kind over held in the county.

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GO TO MEXICO. Ralph Knoff and Paul Wooten Are Enroute. A letter was received yesterday by Hugh Hite from Paul Wooten stating that Ralph Knoff and himself had left Lakporte City, lowa, and were on their way to Mexico. The letter was written from Kansas I City and the boys will soon be in ! the sunny south and among the greasers. They are young men who will without doubt be admitted to see President Diaz himself and will undoubtedly take in all the sights of this ancient country. It is their intention to make Mexico their future abode and will start in some kind of business. The Democrat joins with their friends in wishing them success. A SOCIETY EVENT Decatur People at Fort Wayne Function. Supper and Reception in Honor of Mrs. Abe Marks, Who is Known Here. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Epstein was the scene of a delightful little supper and reception last evening in honor of the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Abt' Marks, who returned Saturday night from Phialdelphia. The house ! was decorated with palms and I chrysanthemums, yellow and ■white being the colors used. The table in the dining room was trim- , med with yellow 'mums and yellow hooded candles. There were twenty five guests at the supper. Music was furnished by Prof. Sterling, piano and violin. The bride wore a handsome gown of biscuit colored crepe trimmed with applied lace medallions and puffings of violet and light blue chiffon. The bride's sister, Mrs. Epsesein, wore a pink mulle with lace garniture, and Miss Teresa Friedman wore a beautiful white voile. Mrs. Nathan Popkins, of Decatur, wore a beautiful gown of biscuit - colored voile elaborately made with lace sleeves and yoke. There were a number of out-of town guests, Mr. and Mrs. N. Popkins, Mr. Charles Ross,, Mr. Harry Friedman. Mr. D. Kalver and son, all of Decatur. Ind., Mr. Sam Magid, Berne. Ind., and Mr. and Mrs. Marks will leave today for Huntington where they will reside.—fort Wayne Journal Gazette. Mrs. Marks was formerly Miss Tereas Freidman and is a sister of Mr. Harry Freidman the well known clothier of this city. SHOWS TALENT. The Display Window at the Moser Studio. Perhaps the most beautiful show window in the city is that at the Moser studio, where are displayed the most elaborate and well finished designs in b|rned wood—the work of Mrs. Moser. She certainly has especial talent in this particular line, which has attracted notice among the traveling public, all of whom highly praise her work of art. The window mentioned is a beauty and attracts the eye of every one who passes that way. As usual the Moser studio will abound with everything beautiful for the Christmas holiday trade, that to be food now being only a taste of the good things to follow, it will W to keep your eye on the window.

DECATUR, INDIANA, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1903.

HE LOST HIS CASH Jacob Mitch is Short Forty Dollars. Roll of Bills Lost While He Was in Decatur Last Saturday. Jacob Mitch, well known farmer, was in town Saturday and went home conisderable poorer. He lost his pocket book containing forty dollars and a due bill on the VanCamp mill for about ton dollars worth of flour. He stopped at one of the feed yards where he last saw his pocket book and went from there to the mill and a few moments after reached for his wallet and found it was missing. He returned hastily to the feed yard and made diligent inquiry but with no results. He feels the loss very keenly as the roll of cash represented many hard licks as he expressed it and he will pay a liberal reward for the return of the money to this 1 office. The denomination of the bills were a twenty and two ten dollar bills. If the finder is honest he will certainly return the money as requesetd to this office, do unto others as you would have others do unto you. HE WAS BAD. Geneva Man’s Lone Foot Ball Game. Got Cute on a Train and Now the Railway Detectives Are After Him. On last Monday night there were several came down from Geneva to witness the production of the ‘Little j Outeats” at the Auditorium. I Among them was J. Ed Biteman, j a young man of Geneva. It seems that several of the crowd had imbibed rather freely of the ‘‘liquid vile” and were somewhat boisterous on the train returning-' home. An impromptu game of foot ball was started the ticket satchel of the conductor being used for the pig skin. From all accounts Bite man was right guard, center rush, left tackle, quarter back, and full back —most full back—of the entire game. The gripsack was kicked from one end of the car to the other and the contents scattered all all over the floor. This, of course, was great sport for Biteman and the rest. Tuesday afternoon a stranger arrived in the little town of Geneva and begun making inquiries for a fellow whose name was J. Biteman. It was later learned that the stranger was a railroad detective and that he whs looking for Biteman fox' his part in the foot ball incident. Some of Biteman's friends evidently ‘‘piped im off” and Wednesday he was not to lie found. It is beloived that ho went to Bluffton to remain in hiding until the affair blows ovei a little, ■ as he has relatives living there. A brother of Biteman was seen driving west late Tuesday nigh* with a mysterious looking bundle in his buggy and it is thought that the ‘‘bundle” was J. Ed.—Portland Review.

VISITS HER PARENTS. Sister Isadore, Formerly Miss Rosa Schurger. Sister Isidore, of Fon du .Lae, Wisconsin formerly of this city his been the guest of her parents Mr. and Mrs. John Schurger for several days. This is her first visit home in nine years and since she entered the St. Agnes Convent. She is a trained nurse and for several weeks has been caring for a patent in Kansas City. The strain being a little hard for her the Sister superior advised her to rest at home for a week. She will return to Fon du Lac tomorrow. THE GAS PRESSURE Inspector Says it Will Last This Winter. Falling Off Rapidly in Indiana, and the Convenient Fuel Will Soon Be Gone. Gas pressure in" Adams county, according to a representative of the census bureau, is stronger than in most places in Indiana. Pennsylvania is more fortunate than Indiana in volume ol gas supply, but 1 the pressure is rapidly failing even in that state. Charles Leßoy a special agent sent out by the bureau, visited this county this week ■and gathered statistics which will Ibe used as a basis for a report on j the fuel question. Mr. Leßoy ! tells us that the decrease in pressure '’ of gas this year is about 25 to 65 per cent over that of last year. He is of the beleif that consumers in this county will have sufficient fuel to tide them over until spring. Tiie average income of a gas company, he says, is about 112,000 a !annually for 12 good wells. After the first few years profits are small ion account of improvements that i must be made—Berne News. WAS FOUND GUILTY — McClure, the Murderer, Gets Life Sentence. Escapes the Gallows After Killing His Two Little Boys in Cold Blood. Jesse McClure who murdered his two little sons alxmt a month ago will spend the rest of his life in the penitentiary, the jury having returner the following verdict : ‘ We, the jury, find the defendant Jesse Thomas McClure, guilty of murder in the> first degree and fix his punishment at a sentance of ninetynine years in the penitentiary.” Nine of the jury were in favor of inflicting the death penalty while three actually voted for acquittal of the brutal father who could find delight in the murder of his own babies. Finally after many hours a compromise was agreed upon, and the verdict of life imprisonment agreed upon. The murderer wanted to die having mud<' the state ment many times during the trial and was greatly diasppointed in the verdict. The defense was made on a plea of insanity. McClure's attorney will not ask for a new trial and he will be taken to Michigan City at once.

I THE INSTITUTE. Close of the Teachers’ Meeting. Adams County Teachers Association Annual Session Saturday. The session of the Adams county Teachers institute held here Saturday was a grand success, every teacher in the county being present with the exception of seven and four of that number are sick. The . I program was interesting and the 1 | day a pleasant and profitable one. : The following is a report of the afernoon meetting: Music by pupils No. 1., Preble, township. The recitiation, S. Ward, Superintendent of Geneva schools. First the teacher should have a plan, it must I be determained by the grade taught. It can not be suited to all grades. The teacher's assignment should be definite and the pupil should know what is to be done. A [subject should be well organized. The assignment should grow out of what the child knows and proceed to what ho does not know. Every teacher should snow his subject from years in advance of the class. Pupils should known the different steps in the different processes. The pupil should lx 1 impressed with the subject and be made to see that the subject will be a good thing for him when interest is established the battle is won. Inductive method |is strongly indorsed in all subject, especally so in grammar. Tell pupils very little. Teaching should be done in a natural wav all speakI ing should be done in a natural I tone. Subject discussed by W. J. | Miller, Superintendent of Pleasant Mills schools. Recitations should be of a variety of plans. Recita-

tions should be often reviewed. ' Stories told to amuse is worse than time wrongly used. Teachers must watch for the results of their work. All that we can hope for a pupil is to leave schools with a knowledge of discipline and cultivated mental faculties questions arc I essential. It is an art and should | receive the careful attention of the teacher. Subject with u general discussion. Tno teacher and the child by [Bessie Congleton. primary teacher in Decatur schools Miss Congleton furnished a modern ■ and progressive paper on the sub- 1 jeot of the“Teaeher and the Child. " How Raise the Average Scholar ship of the average pupil. In the. country schools many parents are i responsible for the average sholarship of the child since they are

caused to absent themselves from schools for various reason®. Some favor time study and others favor ' shortening ho course and arranging > the course in order to raise the average scholarship. Consolidating country or rural schools tends to raise the average scholarship of the [schools. Discussion by W. P. Merriman. Not anyone great, large thing will raise the average sholarship but it is the little things I taken together. Inspiration is a great factory in bettering the schools. Mr. Merriman backed this argument by the illustration of the 1 birds inspiration given at McDonangh s Victory or Lake Cham < plain, borne reasons why teacher ' leave the profession. Mr. Fred Bentz. Dissatisfaction exists among schools teachers us well as among those found in the other profession and trades. Some have not followed their endowed talents. < The average professional life of a school teacher is four years 25 per cent pass in and out each year. The really successfully teacher is born not made. Compensation is too ! small too effect sufficient encourage- •

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ment for to make teaching a profession. The teaching profession is used largely as a stepping of some other profession. Discussion by Leo Faurot. We should bring about such conditions as will per- , I mit the teacher making teaching a life work. Adress by Hon. S. W. Hale of the Geneva school board. Remarks by Mr. Charles M_ Simcoke. Closing song by pupils of Dist. No. 1, Preble town—sihp. Attendance of trustees, S.W. Hale, Pres. G. S. B. P. A. Mackin trustee Wabash, township, Freil Koldewey, Root township, Davidson Mattox, Blue Creek; William D. Buffer, Kirkland W. G. Rupright, Preble; Rudolph Schug, French; W. J. Myers, Decatur School board. A LARGE EXHIBIT The Woman’s Work an Important Feature. The St. Louis Fair to be a Big Show. C. C. Shirley of Kokomo, chairman of the Committee on Woman’s Works of the St. Louis World’s Fair commission was at the World's Fair headquarters here today to | confer with Assistant Seen tary ; Alexander and Mrs. Berryman, ' who is the superintendent of the woman's department in regard to the booths which are tn be used [in i displaying the exhibits of neeale J work, hand painting and pottery I which the ladies of the state are preparing. The proper care of , such articles to insure their safety | during the time they will be on exhibition, will require a great deal lof attention and Mr. Shirley is alI ready giving a good deal of thought ito the subject. The plan which will probably be adopted will be to arrange the exhibits which will go

into the Liberal Arts building in booths in seperate classes. Glass covered cases will be provided where the articles will be in plain view of all sight seers, but where they can not lie handled. Plans for the booths are now being preI pared by Wing and Mahurin, the I Fort Wayne architects who prepared the drawings for the Indiana building at the exposition. Special cases will be prepared for installing the exhibits in the booths. Mrs. Berryman has planned a glass case for the china and pottery exhibits which much resembles the old fashioned flower stands wheh were used several years ago. The stands will have several circular shelves placed one above the other several inches apart. The shelves will be of different widths, the widths

being with the bottom and this will allow every articles on each shelf to be plainly seen. For the exhibit of fancy goo Is lo.v c;s‘s with glass tops will probably be supplied HUNTING PARTY. Decatur Crowd to Leave for Arkansas. A party of Decatur men will leave tomorrow for Arkansas where they will remain daring the winter ac. cording to presents arrangements. The crowd includes Jacob Yager, 11. S. Porter, Peter Frank, Perry Andrews. Link Hill and Doritrs Robinson. The two lust named will stop at Cardwell, where they will go to work for the Egg Case Company. The rest of the party will go on to Craighead county Arkansas, where their first can p will tie located They will move Ix’fore long likely ami <sx|x’ct to hunt deer from now on until spring,., if the weather will permit.