Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1904 — Page 1

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BUSINESS DEAL CLOSED Two Big Business Stock Combined

CLOSE DEAL YESTERDAY Sew Firm Takes Possession April Ist ;.och, Difkson & Zwick Bay the Brittton Meyers & Co. Store-Will Occupy the Terveer Blcuk

One of the largest business deal* ever made in this city was consummated yesterday afternoon when Noah Loch. Edward Dirkson and Charles H. Zwick purchased the mammoth hardware «tere ot Britt son, Meyers A* Co., on Second street This deal had been harming fire for several days, but was nt closed antil yesterday atfernoon all necessary pipers being signed up by both parties at that time By the terms of the contract entered into this new firm of Loch, hirkson AZwick will not take poss. *sion until April 1. 1905, the old firm ot Brittson, Meyers <Jt Co., to dispose of ar much of the stuck now on hand, as possible, at which time the n< w firm will take charge, taking it off of Britson Meyer* & Co ’s hands at invoice price

It is the intention ot the new ma t agers after April I ‘ mo.<- the big stock now owned by Loch V Lhrkson in the new Stndibaker b'ook to the business room now icoupied by Brittson Meyers A tec., and to consolidate the two sto res thus making one of the heaviest hardware stocks cained in the Oity By the terms of the con era lithe members o the firm of Brittson Meyers A Co., are not permitted to engage in the hardware business in thia city for three year* at least The members of this new firm hardly need any introduction to the public, all being wi ll known u*iden’ iof this city ard county Messrs. Loch & Dirks m ire »t pr» nt engaged in the hardware bustnes.' and are well qualified to handle any and all kind* of trade. Mr Loch, especially, having had vast experience in this line having been in this business for fifteen years or m re. Mr. Zwick is the youngest son of Charles Zwick. Sr.. who reside n >rth, of this oity and is a brother ot Wil] Zwick, of the firm of Gay & Zwick, with whom Charles has been associated with for the past two years. He is a bright young boniness man rnd a hard earnest worker. This new firm exjiect to handle a complete line of hardware and farming un plements, and will solicit a share of your |>atronage COMPLETES WORK <ural Route Inspector Hntchet Finishes In Wells County. F K Hutches, the rural route agent, has completed his inspection of the proposed ’complete rural ser vice for Wells county and forward ed his report, this week. It will doubtless tie acted upon favorably and the rural service put in opear tion by January 15th. There will be a total of only twenty two routes, it is said, starting from points within Wells county and of this num tier ten will start from the Bluffton office.—Bluffton News.

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trade at home — *■—«. - Decatar Merchants Deserves Your Holiday Easiness A representative from Toledo 1 was in our city yesterday arranging ' for an excursion to be run to that place for the benefits of the merchants offering special inducements |to excursionists. These excursions are ill right in away, but when ■ - t o. mes to inducing people to leave their own city to do their puroharng, it is wrong. The object is

merely a swindle, getting jieople to ■ go to Toledo and the goods they purchase nesting them as much as i they would here, and doping them i on the quality of the article. It is > the wisest and best plan to stav at home and leave your money with people whom yon know are bound • to be honest and deal fairly with • you. (ACCEPT CONTRACT New Engine Dynamo Assured

Finjr.ct Committee ArranStns Details i- 1 and New Machinery will be Here Soon ’I i,. t i The oontraot with Henry Johnson, of Buffalo, tor a 120. horse , power engine and dynamo now at n Lorain. Ohio, was accepted by the •- council last night by the adopi tion of a resolution to that effect > Th« finance committee are arrang t inn he matter today, and will meet , it six o'clock this evening to sign f I the "I' lh'it Th. machinery will A I s *h. 1 I at nee and ruff be set , immediately giving tne <>ity ~>iffi ■ cient power for all purposes in . eluding > he ng talked about day . service- Thi contract calls for i j $1,450 cash and gl.-teO payable; 5 within sixty days, the city thus so i cur in machiner- worth , : 1O .no for I $2.91*0 At last night's council . meeting a resolution accepting the, i Harting sewer report w»* adopted [ and a bond ordinance passed. Every member attended the meet i ing. and Mayor Coffee presided THEY DISAGREED j Jurv In the Case Were Out Twenty ♦ive Hours. i Warsaw, Ind., Deo 9.—The jury 'in the case of I »antel Tuigg, who was tried tor shooting three men ton a Pennsylvaninjtrair, reported at 5 o’clock this evening a disagree- J ment. The jury had het n out twenty five hours. It was learned tonight that the disagreement hinged upon the question of Tuigg's sanity, eight of the juror’s believing Tuigg insane and therefore irresponsible, while four hold out for a conviction. The jury was discharged and preparations will bo made for another trial.

ATOK, INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 10, 1004.

held reunion Levi Mock of Bluffton Entertained Mr Barber of This City. — The Bluffton News said last jevening: "Hon. Levi Mock today l-soorted about the city a gentleman whom he had to “look v.p to" literally speaking for the gentleman was taller than Levi by three inchf He was Dr. G. W. Barber, of Adams county, who has been visiting with friends here several •Tay s . Ife is six nine and one half inohes tall while Mr Mock is only

I six feet and six and one-hslf inohes |in height, ft j g seldom that Mr. Mock meets e man who is taller than himself, and as the two walked down the street everybody was “ rubber-nocking ’ to see the novel sight Mr. Barber is an elderly gentleman, hut stands erect I and bears his years well, lie i-sixty-eight years of age and weigh- 1 | 230 po inds, while Mr. Mock who s i sixty four years of age weighs 260 pounds. The two were boys tft gether in Randolph county where I their fathers were pioneers of the ■ same neighborhood, but Levi and i Mr. Barber had not seen each other | for forty years, until the latter came here a few days ago to visit with John Genet and family on Rast Market street. Mr. Barber ! says that his father was a man of j fine physique, six feet five inohes tall and had the reputation of ! being able to cut six cords of wood .in one day. Mr Mock told a humorous story at the expense of Mr. Barber. He stated that when the I tatter was a young man he attended church services, and an usher name around during prayer and told him ho would have to get down off the seat. He insisted in his demand until he happened to look down uud saw that Mr Barber's ■ feet ran clear down t.< the floor. Mr. Rirher expects to return to his home in Decatur this evening." j MORE TALK The Erie and C. If. & 9. Has Them All Guessing. Cincinnati, Dec to After dying I down for nearly a week, rumors concerning the Erie-C. H. & D. Ideal, were revived yesterday in I force from a mysterious source, and with a strong undercurrent of belief. One man who is responsible for the management or a large system of railroads, on Tuesday offered to make a wag>-r that on r before I April 1 the Erie w mid take full 'control of the entire ( H. .fe D. isystei i I'hc official in question, it

is needless to say, was not Mr. Zimmerman, but he is as closely in Much with New York financial circles as that gentleman There ' are many hings which can not he explained on any theory excepting I that some large deal is on. First, there is the heavy buying of Erie , ’took u iv, ok ago and the sudden i boom in prices, whicii have not 1 since declined. No ordinary cause would so deeply affect un otherwise stagnant stock. C. A Parke., late j vice president of the C., H. A- D. himself said s week or so before his death, “I am convinced there is something in this Erie talk lex pect something to transpire.’ Ail j these things seem to point to the consummation of a great plan. ASSAULT CASE Sam Durbin on Trial This Afternoon Before 'Squire Smith. The case of the State of Indiana against Samuel Durbin for assault and battery on the person of Joseph D. Martz, is being tried this afternoon at Squire Smith’s court. The assault is alleged to have occurred yesterday, the two parties getting into a quarrel, and a genuine old fashioned fight resulting. The case is being bitterly fought, and as we go to press no verdict had as yet been rendered by the court.

SUIT FILED Miss Beeler Demands $5,000 Damage

Sensationnl Case Filed at Bluffton by Adams County Young Lady. Btnfiton, Ind., Doc. 10.—-A sensa- , tional Lw suit was filed here this morning, when Hamilton & Brown, as attorneys for the plaintiff, filed a case entitled Francis Beeler vs D-. C L. Landfair, damages, demanding 15,000. The Complaint is in Iwo paragraphs, the first alleging that some ten months ago Dr. Land fair performed a crimint ] operat ion upon the plaintiff ; that she ! was young and innocent and did not understand what she was doing, ' that the doctor misrepresented the • facts to her and that her health has 1 been damaged to a very great exi tent. The second paragraph charges criminal neglect and alleges that after the operation Miss Beeler was sent to Decatur and I although Dr. Landfair promised to go there to attend her and care for her, ht failed to do so. She has been greatly damaged and asks i judgment for #5,000. The matter was considered by the recent grand jury, but as Miss Beeler refused to give the doctor's name, no indictment was returned Criminal aoj tion may be taken now. Miss Boelter's parents live in Adan - county. AN EARLY START 1 Ifsrtfnrd City Has Organized Base Ball Association. A base ball association has been formed in this city and will incor pmate under the name of the Hartford City Baseball association, with a capital of 11,1.00. to be sold lat #ls per share. A pa|ier was 'tarted Friday morning, and it the money can be raised a good grand • stand will be built and a fence put | up. The location has not ye t been |decided on. but will most likely he at- the o’d Walnut street park All I the shares most be sold and tiie money collected by Feb t, lit '5. iThe company will have five direct |ors who will attend to the business l of the company An attempt was I made to form an association last year without sweess. but it is I thought they will L sucresstii rids time. A good basebar and oothall team will be scoured MANY NEW ROUTES I - About 2,000 Will be Placed in Operation by Middle of January There are now in operation 38,073 routes throughout the country. It. is estimated that approximately 2,000 additional routes can be es tablished out of the appropriation now available, making 30,073 which ! will be in ojieration or ordered es I tablished by January I, 1005. To maintain service on these routes during the fiscal year from July 1, 1905, to June 30, 1906, will require 121,360,000.

TO RE-ORGANIZE Gigantic Improvements Planned for Popular Rome City The Island Park Assembly association, which controls the annual assemblies and summer schools at Rome City, is organizing a new society to be known as tl e Western Chautauqua Island Park assembly, to be under the control of the National Local Preachers’ association of the M. E. ohuroh. It will be one of the largest organizations of its kind in the country, and the organization embodies a readjustment of the affairs of .the famous assembly. The articles of association have already been forwarded to the secretary of state, with the names 1 of the following as charter members: Dr. Stemen, Fort Wayne: J. F. Snyder, Lagrange; Wm. McCarty, Brimfield; W. H. Brimfield; Buoy, Wolcottville; M. F. Owen,: W. A. Williams, George Brothweil, George Northham, H. G Cobs, all of Rome City. The capital stuck wi 11 be #IOO,OOO, divided into 4.00 J shares of #25 each Dr Stemen - and Mr. Snyder will have a meeting today with Mr J. W. Hunter, superintendent of the G. R & I i railroad, and the details of the organization will be worked out and officers elected at a meeting to be | held next week The institiutb n | will be an educational adjunct of the Methodist Episcopal church, as Taylor university is The now organiaztion will, it is predicted, make the Island Park asset) bly meeting!, th, equal of any ehai tar. qua assembly in the United St ites - Thu project was first suggest d by Dr St< mon, president <vi th< National Local Preachers' assoe tticn in his annual report last ye r, and I through his influence the society appointed Dr Bosworth, of Phi la jdelphia, and Dr William Wright, of Washington, D. C . to meet tha : Island Park officers. Out of this I meeting grew the western lhautau qua assembly just organized. ! While the plans are not yet com I plete it is announced there wi l ! be improvements made on i gigantic scale it Rome City. SELL INTEREST

Mrs. Vesey Disposes of Decatur Property Bie Allison Stiioabaktr Kiosk Now the Vole Property of Robert B Alllsoi : Robert B Allison s now solei jownerof t;. big Allison Studabaker bh-k on Second street the deal I lining closed last evening. Mr I Alli'-m bought the half interest .'wned by Mrs Maggie Stniabaker Vesey, of Fort Wayne The consideration. while not rnnde public, is known to place a value on the block, ne ."-r heretofore reached in the transfer r» cords or Decatnr r. al ■ slate. The lilock is tht most val1 liable in the •ity, inoludtni' the Biv Store building now occupied by r’ver <Sr Son ‘ F. True and Fred 1 | Sono .. an and also the roo-ns oocu- • pied by S. Colohin and F. V Mills ! ,It has a frontage of 132 feft on Madison street and 106 feet on Second street. The Big Store block i was completed last .Inly and s n handsome and mod°rn bnsin ‘s~ home for the various np to-date business men who occupy them Allison A' Stud baker owned the property for forty years, a half! interest going to Mrs. Vesey on the death of her father. The block represents a snug fortune, and the income front same is a Comfortable one. Mr Allison proved wise business judgment by making the purchase. ,

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COURT NEWS Collins Case Comes Up Monday New Trial Asked in Belkins Case—Considerable Civil and Probate Business Tc Day. The -enaational Collins' case is set for trial Monday lhe docket this morning contained the entry, i The term of office of John M Smith as judge or the 58th judicial circuit having expired, this cause is assigned to John M. Smith, a regular and competent attorney of Jay county. —o— A motion for a new trial was fl ed this morning in the case of the j State vs L. G. Botkins. ) -°~ , Margaret Koenig vs John Sohei- , | man, demurrer overruled Reply to answer filed, answer to cross ; complaint filed —o— Hooper & Lenhart entered their ? I appearance for the defendants in , i the use of Joel Liddy vs Berne , * among company, also in similar B oas< s in which Lee Doughitt, Peter Schneidegger. Charles and Julius Sohug Berne Artificial Stone no mpany, Berne Brick -onipinv. Ahn Hock, r and Louis Ha beg ger are plaintiff's The firm named repro -■nt ill defendants except Welty. —o—

C. N. Spenoer vs William Moon et al summons ordered for John A. Christen, returnable 21. —o— George B. Schott ha,- been granted letters as administrator >f the estate of Wijljarn Snyder and fil 'd bond. —o—f- Boerstler, ruardian for I). F B .orst’er a peison of unsound mind tiled final report which was approved and case ordered *ft off docket -oCurrent reports were filed in probate court by guardians C W. Baumgartner. Elma Tremp, Simon j Neuenschwander. - isan -lonos, I and Henry Miler and and a final report by Jacob C. Mill.-r, guardian 'for Anna E. Miller et al Ail rn- ' norfs were allowed WANTS A MAN Chief Green is Afte: Otto Daniels oi Serious Ciiarae < iitef ot Popi (ire-.;, <>t Decatur, |ln has notified oe polio teparbi ment of this city to apprehend Ono I Otto Daniels. >vho i- wanted in the : Hoosier town on a serous harge. Daniels is described a- t>. i-ig twenty years of age, smooth of tar - and five feet, ten im has tall. He is a painter by trad, and tne Decatur chief is under the impression that, Daniels formerly worked at, his trade in Van Wert and vicinity .-- Von Wert Tinies SUNDAY SERVICES. Evangelical. Services on Sunday a* follows; Stnday school at 9:15. A Van t'limp, superintendent. Sermon at 10:30, conducted by Rev. T. th Meckel, of Cleveland, Ohio, corresponding secretary of the Missionary Socletv Young Peoples’ meeting at ti. A. B Waist, Pastor i' Unclaimed letters are at the post ; office for A. J Crabbitt, Chas. • Archer, Fred (To Id mire, EH Ober ■ goon, A, E. Herrick, Mr. Drusilla > Summers, A. B. Scholsman, T. P i Olean. Rebecca Meyers, Ray F. Stevenson