Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 41, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 December 1908 — Page 1

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FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT YOUNG MAN CRUSHED BETWEEN HEAVY TRACTION ENGINE. ■ -• " DIED FROM HIS INJURIES Nephew of Mrs. N. A. Lehman, Jacob Garber, and Mrs. Aaron Smeltzer, of Nappanee. Oscar Schrock was crushed and fatally Injured between two heavy traction engines east of Goshen Thursday morning about nine o’clock. The young man is 23 years of age and single, and was a nephew of Mrs. N. A. Lehman, Mrs. Aaron Smeltzer, and Jacob Garber, of Nappanee. He makes his home with his father, D. G. Schrock, who resides on the James Matthews farm, three miles east of Goshen on the Fish Lake road. Oscar Schrock was working with a hay baling outfit in the employ of Joseph Kerlln, and the men were engaged in work on the farm of Christian Troyer in Clinton township, nearly nine miles eastof Goshen. The engine in use broke down and had to be abandoned. Another engine was being used to push the crippled one away. The young man was engaged in making a coupling, and was caught between the two powerful machines. He was frightfully crushed. His entire right side was crushed in, the ribs being torn loose from the spine. His right hip was also crushed, and serious internal injuries were inflicted. He suffered terrible agony, and died Friday morning about 5 o’clock. The families of Jacob Garber, N. A. Lehman, and Aaron Smeltzer alj attended the funeral Sunday forenoon. BOSTON CAPITALISTS May Build Electric Line From Kendallville to Goshen. Harry L. Weber, of Bucyrus, Ohio, consulting engineer for the 7 Ohio & Indiana Traction Cos., is in Kendallville awaiting the arrival of a corps of surveyors for the purpose of beginning the survey for another proposed road between Goshen and Kendallville with Brimtield and Lig#nier as intermediate points. Boston capitalists with plenty of money are to construct and maintain the road the only question now confronting them being the feasibility. “I know very little about it myself,” said Mr. Weber, “only that I am sent here as consulting engineer to take a survey of the route and to obtain the sentiment of the people along the proposed route. I expect my assistants in today an<L-we propose to go over the route at/onckand it is my purpose to start Kendallville directly from where the T. & C. I. leaves off.” Later, it is stated the surveyors are already at work on the proposed line. Editors Plan Winona Meet. Editors from all over Indiana, members of the’ lndiana Associated Weeklies, will meet at Winona Lake Friday, Dec. 11. President 11. P. Harris, of Pierceton, has sent out 300 invitations. The editors will be the guests of the Winona Interurban and the Northern Indiana Railway companies and the South Kltore-Traction- -compaHy-<Ht a trip from Winona Lake to Michigan City and will be shown through the state penitentiary at Michigan City. Celebrated Sixty-second Birthday. Mrs. Frederick" Butt and husband were here from Syracuse last Friday to celebrate her 62d birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. O. Yarian on West Market street. Mrs. Pebble, of Syracuse, was also present, the occasion being merely a family function. Recruiting Office Opened. Sergt. August Blume has opened a recruiting office in the Merchants hotel in Elkhart. Recruits for the coast and field artillery, infantry, cavalry, engineering department, signal corps and hospital corps are enlisted. Sergt. Blume was in- fiphart three years ago and enlisted 22 men. Must Appear irt G*urt.' Judge Tuthill, who is trying a saloon case from Bremen in the Laporte circuit court, lias ruled that all remonstrators must.appear in court to identify their own signatures oh the remonstrance. Asa result of this ruling Bremen people have chartered a special train which will take several hundred over to Laporte to testify in the case. > _ t „ —Birthday cards. News Bookstore

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G. F. Brown’s New* House on North Main Street Just Being Completed. Contractor M. J. Weaver is completing the ' interior finish on Frank Brown's new residence on Nortli Main street. This house, though not the largest, takes its place among the fine residence properties in Nappanee. Ll. is not only nicely proportioned and finished in symmetrical architectural beauty on the exterior but the interior finish is going to be in keeping with its general neatness. The house was designed by Mr. Weaver, the contractor; though few people, perhaps, have known that he is giving considerable time and attention to architectural work as well as building. The residence for Mr. Brown discloses that Mr, Weaver has been working to some purpose on the new line which he has taken up. The Art Exhibit For School. The Turner Art exhibit at the Nappanee school building Friday night, Saturday, and Saturday night in point of interest to lovers of art and students of the old masters was very interesting and attractive. But the exhibit did not attract a sufficient number of people to make it much of a success financially. The only cost to the school was the transportation on the exhibit, this left the net proceeds at $15.00. Though the pictures were but reproductions, the patronage given the scheme to buy pictures to decorate the school rooms was hardly sufficient to cover the price of one good picture. Yeomen Elect Officers. The local Homestead of American Yeomen elected officers Monday evening for the ensuing*year as follows: W. E. Smith, Foreman; Dora Yarian, M. of C.; E. G. Miller, Correspondent; W. O. Yarian, M. of A.; Marie Yarian, Physician. The following offices will be tilled by appointment by the foreman at the next meeting: Overseer, Lady Roenna, Lady Rebecca, Sentinel, Watchman, and Guard. The Homestead will have a public installation on the first Monday night in January. MEETING OF THE TOWN BOARD GETTING ESTIMATES FOR DEEP WELL PUMP. Will be Larger Than Present One — No Reduction on License For Tables —Claims Allowed. The town board of trustees held their regular session Monday night. There was a full attendance of the trustees and in the absence of Clerk Brown the journal was read by Chas. Burbach. The important business under discussion by the board is the preliminary work toward putting down another deep well at the city plant. While the one 8-inch well and Downie pump has been doing yeoman service, assisted occasionally by the two old wells, there is a day of preparedness that wilt count for mucii—against which day the trustees are now making ready. The matter of allowing Housemoyer Burns to cut electric and telephone wires in moving a house through town was deferred for consultation with the electrician and to investigate the necessity of tiie use of Main street for the purpose mentioned.. The board was petitioned orally by •the Weygand Bros, to reduce the li--eense of SSO per-table ft a-bar against undesirable places, and one to operate a proper place could afford to pay the license, if at all. The following claims were allowed: Kulilmnu Electric Cos , 95 66 Nappanee News.. 10 12 G. M. Weyburn„. 3 20 C.oppes, Zook & Mutschler Cos 2 43 Dan Evans .. 57 04 Town of Nappanee ... 79 34Central Paving Cos 324 71 B.& O.Kv.Co 49 60 Keystone Driller Go 1 20 Irvin Housouer ... - 288 Employees’ wages.. —B2 56 Brown Bros. Mfg. Cos 2 50 Ed Himes . 3 50 Public Sales. r Benj. Yarian will have a public sale at his residence on East Market street in Nappanee, on Saturday, Dec. 12th, beginning at 1:30 o’clock p. m. Julia Roose wilf have a public sale at her residence three miles south of Nappanee, on Tuesday, Dec. 15th, beginning at 10 o’clock a. in. Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. Y.,. a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says: “The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent mucii money doctoring for a bad case of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me.- I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.” 50 c. at J. S. Walters drug store.

NAPPANEE, ELKHART COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1908.

A FINE NEW RESIDENCE.

NAPPANEE IS THE BANKER ONION PORT ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN IN NAPPANEE STORAGES Three ’ Hundred Thousand Bushels Grown in Kosciusko and Elkhart Counties—33o Cars Shipped From Nappanee. Nappanee is the banner onion port in this State. Now, that seems a very positive statement, but it. must be reckoned with as a truth. Right now, Nappanee has 115,000 bushels of onions in her cold storages. This mind you, Is after 330 cars have been shipped out from this station — or on a low estimate 165,000 bushels, counting 500 bushels to the car. Os the amount in storage here, Laughlin Bros. Cos. have 70,000 bushels in their storages, 60,000 of which belong to the company. Which by the way, is an excellent stock, well cured—and it looms up like a big pile of onions, too, when one looks through the storages. By the time this company will have finished the shipping of last, season’s crop they expect to total 300 cars. The total number of cars from this' station will run close to 600. Few people, even in Nappanee, realize what a large business'the onion industry has grown into. The output here from the fields and storages will reach the enormous sum of $125,000 annually, at a moderate estimate. Os course, this season it has grown considerable over last year, which was about SBO,OOO only. It would require quite a large manufacturing industry to represent that amount of money in prodilbt. The Lxughliu Bros. Cos., Hartman Bros., W. O. Yarian and Ralph Moore are those who have storage houses. The last three storages represent about 45,000 bushels, Hartman Bros, having the big end of the sum total, perhaps. Anent the statement going the rounds of the press that Noble and Whitley counties raised about 200,000 bushels of onions, and therefore are tiie greatest onion producing counties in the State is farfetched. Kosciusko and Elkhart counties have this record beaten one-third, anyhow. Tiie growers estimate that Kosciusko county alone raised’2oo,ooo bushels to which Elkhart county added at least 100,000 bushels. While the total crop does not go through Nappanee, yet an equal amount of the crop going elsewhere is made up by our home buyers who ship into this point from other counties, a large amount of the Laughlin Bros. Cos. storage product being brought in this way. In the same item referred to Columbia City is credited with receiving 100,000 bushels of the* last crop from Noble and Whitley coirfities, about one-third of the total handled by Nappanee growers and shippers. For these reasons, Nappanee is entitled to an onion day celebration, if any town in the Growers, shippers, and seed men are already becoming Interested in. the project Dr. Ihrig’s Report. Dr, F. M. lhrig, county health officer, makes the following report for •the month ending Nov. 30, 1908: Births, 37; deaths, 18; number of cases of infectious diseases, 42; scarlet fever, 17; typhoid fever, 17; smallpox, 4; diphtheria, 2; chickenpox, 2; number of marriages, 35. Marriage Licenses. John P. Newell, Bristol, 62; Alice Jeanette Shultz, New Paris, 52, John Scheiber, Nappanee, 29.; Ma Shulmier, Southwest, 26. Henry Reichanadter, Elkhart, 26, and Gladys Jackette, Elkhart, 20. Jesse Pippenger, Nappanee, 24; Ida Clouse, Nappanee, 21.

CHRISTMAS POST CARDS A big stock of beautiful post cards for the Sea-. son’s Greetings to send to friends. 2 for 5 cents Uhe News Bookstore

PIANO RECITAL At the Auditorium Tuesday Night of Last Week. The piano recital at the Auditorium Tuesday evening was a very enjoyable entertainment:, notwithstanding that there was some disappointment at the failure of Mrs. Kellogg, the reader, to appear—having missed train connections at South Bend. Incidentally it. was no fauft of Mrs. Kellogg as the cabman failed to call for her as ordered. She drove through to Nappanee that night in an automobile arriving though about 10 minutes after the close of the program.— Mrs. Cora Stuckman who conducted the recital, was greatly disappointed, more so than the audience as the program was worth the price as rendered, anyhow. Besides the large chorus class, those taking part in the program were the following named pupils of Mrs. Stuckman: Marie Burbach, Cora Berger, Hilda Price, Gertrude Conrad, Harvey Becknell. On the program Daisy Wyman and Ruth Kilian, two little girls in a child’s song, illustrated, met with unbounded applause for their excellent work. Every number on the program, in fact, was encored. • . . ' Nearly One Thousand Hunters. Elkhart county has nearly one thousand hunters. Already Geo. W. Fleming, county clerk, and Ills deputy, Miss Hah Davis,havesold 600hunters’ licenses. Last year local nirarods took out nearly one thousand licenses. This number may not be duplicated this year. For every license one dollar is collected. This goes to the state game warden and with the fines and fees levied on violators of the game laws, assists in maintaining deputy wardens and stocking game preserves. Child Fell Into Cistern. Howard Breyfogle, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Breyfogle at Elkhart, fell into a cistern in which the water came to the child’s armpits. The little fellow succeeded in gaining his feet and calling lustily for help. Response on tiie part of a neighbor saved the little fellow who was no worse-for his experience. COTTAGERS OPPOSE DREDGE. MACHINE GETTING READY TO ENTER LAKE WAWASEE. Will Try For Injunctions Against Destroying Fishing Grounds —Damage to Property. Tiie Portland Cement Cos. at Syracuse is making preparations for putting the marl dredge into Lake Wawasee. Work on the preliminaries has already commenced. .To this the cottagers, hundreds of them who own property on the shores of this beautiful summer resort, are strenuously objecting. In fact, steps will be taken at once in the courts to prevent the 'company going into the Take. Such a process of work by the marl dredge will destroy the lake for fishing grounds for a great many years after the dredge is taken from tiie lake, it is claimed. The small lake has been used for obtaining marl and during the past summer there was not a single bed of bluegills to be found in the entire waters and tiie fishing lias been nearly destroyed. The dredge destroys the spawn and the feeding grounds of the fish. The Wawasee Protective Association has gone to considerable'trouble and expense to enhance the place as - a summer resort and to .protect-the'lake'. As a.dishing' ground. The lake has been stocked from time tef time witli several carloads of fish and those-who own summer homes about the lake are not ready to stand by and see the place and its purposes interfered with for merely commercial enterprises. The effort to get a law on tiie statute books of the State to protect sucli lakes will be again renewed at the coming session of the legislature, v ■ ._ . J* , Eight Postoffices Affected. —r The recent ruling 6f the president placing fourth-class postmasters under the civil service rules affects eight of the eleven*posteffices in this county. They are those at Middlebury, Millersburg, Bristol, Vistula, Foraker, New, Paris, Benton, Wakarusa. Those at Goshen, Elkhart, and Nappanee are secondrclass offices and are not affected. Society Notes. The Nappanee High School Alumni Association has issued invitations for the first annual banquet at the Auditorium Dec. 29th*-; It is to be tiie important social function of the season. Mrs. L. H. Murray, of, sie Coppes Hotel, will cater for the event. ~ Mrs. J. F. Freese entertained the ladies of the Foreign Missionary society, of the M. E. church at her home on East Market street - last Friday afternoon.

ELKHART COUNTY FAIR SEPT. 14-17 *' v . —— DIRECTORS AND STOCKHOLD- “ EffS irTannual meetingT™ SEVENTEEN DIRECTORS. Elect Officers and Appoint Committees and Superintendent for Fair Next Fall. Stockholders and directors of the Elkhart County Fair & Agricultural Association met Saturday afternoon at Goshen. According to the News-Times it was decided to hold the next fair, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, Sept. 14, 15, 16, and 17, 1909. Sears Gardner was chosen a delegate to the meeting of representatives of fair associations on the Northern Indiana circuit, to protect the date. The directors were increased from 11 to 17. Nine are a quorum. The directors are: Louis McClure, Frank Yoder, Chas. F. Neidig, Joe 11. Lesh, Ed M. Elsea, Jos. Mather, B. G. Schaefer, Wilson Ott, Valentine Berkey, John Scrannage, Benj. Gardner, Geo. A Fisher, Frank J. Irwin, Samuel Ulery, Benj. Blue, W. W. Showalter and Sears Gardner. The officers were re-elected. ■ They are: Frank j. Irwin, president; Valentine Berkey, vice-president; Frank Yoder, secretary; John Scrannage, assistant secretary; Joe FI. Lesh, treasurer. The following appointments' were made: Superintendent of privileges, Chas. Neidig. General superintendent, W. W. Showalter. Committees on premiums—Speed department—Jos. H. Lesh, John Snobarger, Sears Gardner. Agriculture —W. W. Showalter, W. H. Rood, John Scrannage. Woman’s, department— Mrs. Seth Manning, Mrs. J. B. Andrews, Mrs. Harry Whitmer. Committee on transportation—Benj. G. Schaefer, James A. Arthur. Committee on shade trees—John Scrannage, Joseph Yoder, Valentine Berkey. Revision of by-laws—B. G. Schaefer, Geo. Farrell, Chas. E. Miller. Auditing committee—James A. Arthur, Chas. Croop, Isaac Miller. It was voted that the secretary receive compensation for labor during the fair. The president was authorized to appoint two scholars to tiie state agricultural college. NIGHT POLICEMAN A WALKER. Jonathan Hummel travels 1,820 Miles a Year on Duty. The merchants’ policeman, Jonathan Hummel, makes his rounds of keys seven times each night between 10 p. m. and 4 o’clock a. m. Few people think that during that time the night man travels 4| miles. Adding to tills the walk up to 10 o’clock and the night man paces a good 5 miles every night in the week. It requires some shoe leather to travel 1,820 miles a year through all kinds of weather. FULL SETTLEMENT SHEET Is Prepared by Deputy Auditor C. A. Deputy Auditor Cook lias prepared’ his full settlement sheet, apportioning tiie collection of the second installment of county and state taxes. County Treasurer Croop will soon go to Indianapolis to make his settlement with the state authorities, says the Democrat. Tiie sheet shows the total tax collections to be $196,614.75 and of this sum $8,065.77 was collected as delinquent tax. The amount going to the county from the collections is $59,381.66. The state taxis divided as follows: State .... 815 050 69 Benevolent.... ... ■ 5 873 68 State school— 17 010 68 Educational------ 3 230 05 Total s4l 165 10 The school tax apportionment is divided into the following funds: Tuition-V- - - $34 510 53 Special school'..—46 211 46 Bonds . —l7lß 92 Total 882 440 91 The township tax is 813,627.08. For Eczema, Tetter and Sait Rh'eum. | The intense itching characteristic Os these ailments is almost instantly allayed fey Chamberlain’s’Salve. Many severe cases have been cured by it. For sale by J. S, Walters. —Tablets at the News Bookstore.

POLL-TAX DELINQUENTS. Judgments Against Fbur” in Justice Klaus’ Court Saturday. The town of Nappanee by it attorney, Perry A. Early, began action some time ago against a large list of persons delinquent on their poll-tax. Originally, Street Commissioner Weyburn had a Ust.of forty-four, however, all but five refused to be sued and finally paid up. Saturday five were called in Justice Klaus’ court at 10 o’clock a. m.—Geo. Hepjer, David Gile, Albert Zentz, and Edward Kantz. The first four named defaulted and judgment was taken in each instance for $2.50. There is no law exemption from these judgments. In the case of the last named, Attorney Kantz appeared, and filed a motion to quasli the writ of service for the reason that it was not a certified copy. The motion was sustained and the service quashed. The matter has sine been settled out of court. Benj. Lutz Dies Suddenly at Wakarusa. Benj. Lutz died suddenly Thursday, Dec. 3d, at Wakarusa of heart trouble. He became ill at about 3 o’clock and died at 5:30. His age was 63 years. Surviving him are a son and a daughter, Cloyd Lutz who is a student in the Winona academy, and Mrs. Grant Searer of Harrison township. He also has one brother, Elias Lutz, of Alanson, Mich. The funeral was held Sunday forenoon in the Methodist church at Wakarusa. Move Dredge Onto New Job. Yoder & Swartz, Nappanee dredge men, have completed their big contract in Laporte county. Saturday they pulled down the machine and shipped it in preparation for beginning on the new job recently secured in St. Josepli county. This is the Stude-baker-Holler private job spoken of in these columns last week. Expects to Pass 20,000 Mark. When tiie 1910 census is taken Elkhart expects to cross the 20,000 population line and enter the list of cities of the third class. It will mean an increase of official salaries, and perhaps, some advantages. RIFLED POIIiESIRE FOUND. WAKARUSA MAN STUMBLES ON THEFT WHILE HUNTING. John Huber Finds Two Bushels of First Class Matter Thrown About— Work of Organized Gang. John Huber, of Wakarusa, made a sensational discovery when he found about two bushels of mutilated first class mail matter on the David Homes’ farm north of Wakarusa, while out hunting, says the News-Times of Fri- * day. The discovery was at once reported to Postmaster Nusbaum of Wakarusa, who reported it to the department and inspectors are investigating the mysterious affair. A majority of the mail matter was from Michigan points and directed to parties at eastern points in the United States. It is. surmised that thieves had stolen the pouches either off some train or had taken them at a transfer depot. The amountof the loss will never be known, but practically the entire contents of two large first class mail pouches had been opened. No drafts, checks or money^.orders were taken, and evidently tiie thieves or thief had no use ‘for anything other than the cash. - In connection with tiie recent steal--ing of- pouches- -Kund&llville and Other points in.northern Indiana, it is the supposition of the postoffice inspectors that an organized gang is making the thefts. Nappanee Man Says He Took Everything in Sight. William Miller went over to Wakarusa last Saturday to attend a shooting match for live birds. Miller was armed witli anew automatic shotgun and he took everything in sight he says at 100 paces. He shot a total of 18 chickens, 2 ducks, and 1 turkey. The Nappanetfman was tha only winner in the buncli of shooters, and the. management finally barred him from further participating unless under handicap because he had a long range gun, This was done in spite of the fact that no gun was prohibited by the rules of the shoot. ; Not Coming on Time. Tiie work of construction of the Bjfet Jackson street car line at Elkhart by the St. Joseph Valley Traction Cos. is not on time, according to Elkhart newspapers. Bucklen was ‘jfrknted a franchise on an agreement to be at work in 30 days. The time was up last Thursday. While the company has two car loads of steel rails and some ties on the ground, the city is not willing that this*be ip the meaning of the agreement as that of i actual construction.

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