Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT,

Volume V. Number 61

THE LOT SALE IS BOOMING The Pledge Committee is Already Doing a Great Business

THEY ORGANIZED A Rousing Pledge Meeting Last Night OVER EIGHTY LOTS PLEDGED Decatur’s Loyal Boosters Can Easily Be Matched Against Any World Beaters on the Track. *«***«••*•**** * I * » WILL * * BUY * » A * * LOT. * * I » * HAVE * » THOUGHT * * IT * * OVER. » **•*•«•**«•••* That was a corker little informal meeting last night of those appointed upon the pledge committee. After a preliminary explanation and a discussion. of methods of procedure, the committee settled right down to the knotty problem of planning for Greater Decatur and the auction lot sale for March 26. The committee decided that they would work one day as individuals and then at another meeting to be held this evening they would compare notes and organize a systematic canvass for pledges. The work will advance rapidly as the committee are determined to push right out, and they will allow no grass to grow under their feet. The loyal hearted stand by Decatur, both individually and collectively people, should now come boldly to the front and make this canvass both a pleasure and a revelation. Let s not honest effort to make Decatur grow, we will escape our duty, but instead let’s jump into the front ranks and be the first to pen our names to a pledge. Let’s be the first to pin on a badge of honor, and lets 'wear it. Do not wear it as a purchaser of a lot, but as an emblem of duty, in an honet effort to make Decatur grow. Do not forget the badge. The purchase of these lots will be on the popular five dollars a month plan, no matter what the purchase price of the lots may be. This gives the laborer the same opportunity as the banker or the bondholder, to buy a lot, and to buy precisely the lot he desires. This protection accords the same treatment to all, no matter what his or her station in life may be. It gives every one an opportunity to buy a lot without paying any more per month than any one else or anymore than they can afford to pay. The meeting at the Commercial Club last evening will be followed by another one this evening, and ev ® rJ other evening this week, at which this committee will confer. You are in vited. The committee not only want the pledges, but they want the aid advice and assistance of in Decatur. Come and help them, and help yourself by making Decatu. the greatest little manufacturing cit. in the country. , . As a side issue, a call for P‘ e 5 signing was made last evening It was not intended to make this pait o a brass band affair, but simply a. starter in the work at hand, about ten minutes this list was grou. \out: F. M. Schirmeyer, ) W. P. Schrock, V- T. Meyers, J. D. Dailey, Dr. D. D. Clark, C. A. Dugan. L. G. Elllngham. -- F. V. Mills, Frank Mills, D. Schmidt, Dr. Roy Archbold, E. X. Ehinger, B. Kai ver,

H. F. Callow, J. T. Merryman, T. M. Reid. Kuebler, Moltz Co., Alarcell a Kuebler, E. F. Gass, W. H. Fledderjohann, Mann & Christen, J. H. Yager, James M. Rice, Charles Rinehart, C. S. Niblick, B. J. Smith, W. H. Ward. D. W. Beery, Frank Stone, R. R. Ashbaucher, J. B. Meibers, W. C. Kauffman, Schafer Hardware Co., A. D. Artman, Charles Patton, E. H. Leßrun, Martin Weiland, Lawrence Voglewede, H. F. Linn, Arthur Hall, John Spuller, Cal Peterson, J. F. Lachot, Herbert S. Lachot, Charles B. Yobst, C. D. Lewton, H. A. Fuhrman, L. L. Baumgartner, Eli Meyer, Dr. Burt Mangold, D. E. Studabaker. Jeff Bryson, P. J. Hyland, P. L. Macklin, W. J. Archbold, Isadore Kalver, G. W. Roop, Earl G. Coverdale, Marcus Mayer, S. E. Shamp, Elzey & Vance, John Staker, E. Fritzinger, Chas. F. Smith, Dan Niblick, The above list represents eighty odd lots, and that clearly shows the spirit that is manifest. It will be increased at k rapid rate, and the duty of every Decatur citizen is manifest. Take off your coat and go to work. Sign a pledge, see that your neighbor signs a pledge, and above all wear a ribbon. ♦ H. A. Fuhrman, a farmer of ♦ * Root township, was the first far- * * mer to purchase a lot. He did it ♦ * as an investment and in this he * • displayed his good business judg- ’ » ment. Other farmers can do like- * ♦ wise with profit to themselves. ♦ o— PAPER WAS LATE LAST EVENING An explanation is due our city subscribers and others because of the fact that we were several hours late last evening, the delivery boys not leaving this office until eight o’clock. It was not their fault, nor ours, and you may feel certain we did our best. The delay was due to the fact that a new press was used for the first time and a gas engine had to be moved and rigged up and regulated to new conditions. We believe that from now on we will be able to be prompt and reliable. o — MOB STOPS LOUISVILLE CAR Louisville, Ky., March 12.—One of the Eighth street cars was held up at Seventh street this morning by a mob of two hundred. After a fight with the police on board, three arrests were made and the car proceeded down town, where several windows were shattered. The suburban service was not resumed. o A murderer to go to asylum Indianapolis, March 12. This city s Thaw case in which Frank Long shot Ephraim Chessman because of the latter’s attitude to his wife. Long being tried for murder, resulted in an •acquittal on the grounds of insanity. Long was sent to jail to await the lunacy commission.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening March 12, 1907.

COUNTY DIPLOMA EXAMINATION Will be Held Here and at Berne on Next Saturday. Next Saturday at the Central school building in this city and also at the Berne school building will occur the examination of eighth grade pupils for county diplomas which admit those securing them to any high school in Indiana. Any pupil in the county may compete at these examinations and it is expected that perhaps 150 | will make the effort. A second examination will be held May 18th for those who are not satisfied with the first effort or who may waitt to put off the trial until that time, thus allowing them two months more for study. County Superintendent Opliger will be in charge. COURT HOUSE NEWS < The Gentis Horse Case on > ( Trial Today NEW PARTITION SUIT IS FILED < Appraisers Appointed on the McLaughlin Sewer —The Foutz Case is Decided. , The case of Peter Hoffman vs. Henry Gentis, recovery of money damages, is on trial today in circuit court. D. E. Smith appears for ’be defendant and Merryman & Dailey of Bluffton, are defending. The case is one to recover money paid for a balky horse. Merryman & Sutton filed a new case today entitled Peter et al., vs. John Braun, partition of real estate. Order returned March 25th. Alexander Foutz vs. Geneva Oil company, suit on account and for receiver, plaintiff by agreement allowed $365 to be first claim, receiver allowed S2OO for tax and expenses and services. J. C. Hammell allowed $3,000 which is third lien, finding that National Supply Co. is owner of lease and same ordered turned over to them. In the cases of Mary Terveer, Barney J. Terveer and Wilhelmina Holthouse, appeals from assessment on the McLaughlin sewer, Godfrey Christen, James Haefilng and Soloman Linn appointed commissioners to re-ap-praise property. George A. Bohrer Brewing company ] vs. Harry Cordua et al., suit on bond, demand $650, demurrer filed to separate answer of Roop. Sixby & Grumme company et al., vs. Hirschey Bros, et al., conversion suit, demand S3OO, reset for trial March 25th. The case of the Old Adams County Bank vs. William E. Smith et al., suit on note, concluded, but court has not yet given his decision. Chris Hoffstetter vs. National Supply company, its officers and agents, set for trial March 26. Emanuel Woods vs. John S. Bowers et al., suit on account, demand $5,000, separate demurrer filed by Bowers to cross complaint of Derheimer. A junk dealers license has been issued to George Spillers and R- G. Martin to purchase from house to house in Adams county.

THE CONTRACTS ARE LET FOR THE NEW MURRAY HOTEL

Charles D. Murray last evening closed the contracts for the building of the new Murray hotel, work on which will be begun by April first, and all complete by July Ist. The entire structure is to be rebuilt with brick, a third story added and a large veranda built extending over the sidewalk to the curb the entire distance along the east side and thirty feet on the south side. The new hotel will be 130x44 feet in dimension, three stories high and will contain seventyrooms, including ten rooms with bath, and making it one of the most commodious and attractive hotels in this part of the country. The interior will be entirely re-arranged for the

ANOTHER VICTORY Anti-Cromerites Get all the Postoffices MUNCIE, ANDERSON AND ELWOOD Appointments Came as a Surprise— New Men all Strongly Opposed to George W. Washington, March 12—A surprise was sprung today in Indiana political circles when the following appointments for postmasters in the Eighth district were announced at the White House folowing a call on the president by Senators Beveridge and Hemenway: Robert Carl White at Muncie, H. L. DeHority at Anderson, and E. E. Fornshell at Elwood. This is a complete victory for the anti-Crom-erites. DeHority was county chairman of Madison and fought Cromer. Fornshell shot blood into his newspaper continually against Cromer and White made stump speeches against his fellow townsman. It was supposed that Drlcoll would get the Muncie appointment, but he lost out apparently at the last moment. o SELLING EGGS BY THE POUND Chicago Will Have an Ordinance for This Purpose. In Chicago they are selling eggs by the pound, and an ordinance is before the council to • compel potatoes and other vegetables to be sold by weight instead of measure. Instead of ordering a dozen eggs the customer now orders three pounds of eggs, which is what an average dozen of eggs should weigh. It Is proposed that bushel measures, half bushel measures and pack measures shall be thrown on the scrap heap. Even bread is to be sold by the pountj. The sale of eggs by the pound has long been advocated. In Chicago at least the hen has come into her own. No longer will the result of her labors big eggs and little eggs, be gathered together and sold as a common dozen, but a big egg will count, and when it is weighed alongside of the little eggs of her competitors the books will show her credit. Only peddlers and unscrupulous dealers will object to the change. A local grocer to whom the Chicago scheme was described expressed himself as heartily in favor of it “At present,” he said, “a peck of potatoes is supposed to weigh fifteen pounds. We buy them by the pound and sell them by measure. An unscrupulous dealer can make a peck measure appear to be heaping over, when in reality there are scarcely twelve pounds of potatoes in it. It is the same way with other vegetables. Let the pound weight be legally adopted as the universal measure and fraud on the part of marketmen will cease.”

; convenience of the traveling public. . The office will be enlarged and rebuilt t in a modern way, a tile floor added and the entire house is to be refur- ' nished in a most home-like and at- ’ tractive way. The contracts were , awarded as follows: Carpenter work, ■ Linn & Patten; brick work, John • Bollinger; concrete work. Samuel • Butler. The material for the new : structure was ordered today and the I real work is to begin April Ist as s stated. A veneer wall is to be built ’ about the frame now standing, while , the third story will be brick. Modern ■ toilet rooms will be built on each ; floor, in fact everything necessary to ■ make the hotel a modern one will > be found in the New Murray. During

ANOTHER BIG HORSE SALE The Regular Semi-Monthly Auction Next Friday. Another big horse sale is scheduled for Friday apd this one is expected to excell all previous ones. About two hundred head of fine horses, including drivers, coach and draft horses and brood mares, will be offered and sold to the high bidders. If you wish see an exciting hour or two visit this sale at Boch & Rice's stable on First street. Each sale brings a large num- • her of buyers from a distance and this sale barn is one of the best institutions in Decatur from a business point of view. A chance to buy or sell a horse. o IT’S REV. BERGMAN Called as Pastor of the Baptist Church WILL MAKE EARNEST BATTLE Report of His Sunday Meetings— Organizing an Easter Chorus for Special Services. Baptist services were enjoyed by everyone present Sundav. The Sun day school was very active and de spite the fact that weather conditions • were against us, the school was well attended. Teachers and officers are anxious that the school grow in num- ■ ber as well as in spirit, hence it becomes every mother to use her influence in persuading her sons and daughters to attend Sunday school regularly. May the good mothers of , our city join hands in Christian love, with the teachers of the Baptist Sunday school, and do all that can be done to maintain a high standard Christian boyhood and girlhood. The pastor is desirous of organizing an Easter chorus which will take part in the Easter services. Uurge upon your • daughters to join this chorus, mothers, we need your help. At the close of the morning service a call meeting 1 took place and Edward Bergman act cepted a call from the church to act* - as pastor for an indefinite period. Mr. . Bergman stands in need of the sympathy and earnest prayers of the Christian people of the city and will 1 appreciate any assistance offered him in attempt to revive the Decatur ’ church. The general public is very cordially invited to attend any and all of the services of the church. Remember prayer meeting, Baptists, Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Miller, 603 Adams street. o FRENCH WARSHIP DESTROYED I ■ Two Hundred Men Were Killed Outs right. I I > Paris, March 12.—A dispatch from London says: French battleship Lena > has been blown up. No details are giv- • en but it is known the big fighting : machine carried a crew of 700 offii cers and men. A later dispatch says . 400 were killed and hundreds Injured. I The explosion of the magazines causi ed the terrible catastrophe. o . EX-PRESIDENT OF FRANCE DEAD l • I PARIS, March 12.—M. Casuner • Perier, ex-Preeident of France, died : today. The announcement has caused great sorrow.

. the next few months, new brick pave- : ments will be built on Madison and I Third streets and Mr. Murray will - Illuminate his section of the city with • a dazzling display of electric lights. • both inside and out of the building. , The Murraj’ corner will undoubtedly i be the most attractive looking place in the city and shows the proprietors' enterprise. The Murray is well lo- • cated and with the big increase in the i business of Decatur this year should . enjoy a splendid patronage. The new hotel will open for business July Ist, though Mr. Murray will continue to . care for the trade in the meantime, i the Improvements not interfering In I any way. Rates at the New Murray ; will be $2.00 and $2.50.

LEGISLATURE IS AT AN END The Farber Insurance and Metropolitan Police Bills are Dead

A NEWSPAPER MAN’S ORDEAL Had to Write the Story of His Brother's Crime. To sit beside the clicking instrument with trembling hands, take the sheets of “flimsy,” which bore the message of his brother’s fall from social grace was the tragic experience of Don Hoopes, newspaperman, employed in the office of the St. Paul Dispatch. He was detailed to handle the “telegraph copy” concerning his nearest relative, in order that he might correct any errors as to the boy's family and history and his school career. I. C. Hoopes, father of the young man, has returned to Kokomo from Chicago. His mission at this time is to arrange to give a cash bond for the young man’s appearance on the day set for the trial, he having waived the preliminary hearing. Mr. Hoopes will return to Chicago cash bond of $2,000, for the appearance of his son when he is wanted to answer to the charge. The Chicago authorities still incline to the theory that Hoopes was only a tool In the hands of an older person, or at least a more experienced one. The boy, himself, maintains that he was alone in all that he did. THE DIVORCEIviL Assumes Large Proportions in Indiana VARIOUS CAUSES WERE GIVEN New Figures Given Out By Miss Stubbs Show Some Very Startling Facts. Figures just ' compiled by Miss Mary Stubbs, state statistician, show that the number of divorces granted in Indiana during the year 1906

equaled about 11 per cent of the total number of marriages. During the year there were 28,788 marriages in Indiana and 3,673 divorces. Marion county, as usual, had the largest number of both marriages and divorces, 2,794 marriage licenses and 587 divorces being granted in the county during the year. While Lake county was next with the number of marriages the county fell short of the usual ratio of divorces. Lake county had 1,986 marriages, but only 44 divorces. Vigo county had 986 marriages and 187 divorces. Vanderburg county had 1,005 marriages and 122 divorces. Adams county had 213 marriages and seventeen divorces. Wells had 240 and 23, Jay 26 and 35. The statistician’s figures show that in the divorce cases a large majority of the defendants were the husbands. About three times as many divorces were granted to the wives as were granted to the husbands. The total number granted to the wives was 2,772 and the total number granted to the husbands was 899. Most of the wives obtained their divorces on the grounds of cruel treatment, with abandonment a close second. Most of the husbands secured divorces on the grounds of abandonment. The number of divorces granted to husbands on various pleas were given as follows: Abandonment 332, infidelity 185, criminal convictions 2, cruel treatment 316, drunkenness 18, failure to provide 12, miscellaneous causes 36. The number of divorces granted to wives were: Abandonment 825, infidelity 182, criminal convictions 32, cruel treatment 936, drunkenness 254, failure to provide 465, miscellaneous causes 78. A remarkable fact in connection with the divorce business in Indiana in 1906 is that twelve men secured divorces on the plea that their wives failed to support them.

Price Two Cent s

ADJOURNED QUICK The Friends of the Governor Carry the Day HOUSE ADJOURNS AT 5 O’CLOCK The Senate Follows Suit LaterMany Bills Signed and Vetoed by the Governor. i Indianapolis, March 12. —The session of the sixty-fifth Indiana general Assembly came to an end last evening, the house adjourning sine die at 5 o’clock, and the senate at 6:35 p. m. It has been the custom in the past for the session to continue until midnight of the final day, but after the changes in the appropriation bill were agreed upon in the house a motion carried to adjourn sine die. The adjournment put an end to all doubt as to the fate of the Farber insurance bill and the Metropolitan police measure, which continue dead from the veto of Governor Hanly. The hasty adjournment of the house it is said, was for the purpose of forestalling a movement to reconsider the vote by which the McCullough Metropolitan police bill failed to pass over the governor's veto, and a companion effort to have similar action taken on the failure to pass the Farber insurance bill over the executive disapproval. It is understood that Representative Bowlus was prepared to offer a motion to reconsider the Farber bill, but he did no obtain the floor in time. Speaker Branch at 5 o'clock, recognized Representative Kelly, who offered a motion to adjourn sine die. “I move, Mr. Speaker, that this house do now adjourn sine die,” Kelly shouted. Before the Democrats could recover from their amazement Representative Grieger broke in with “I second the motion.”

“All in favor” —instantly there was a chorus of "ayes” that was like the roar of a mob. They did not wait for the speaker to finish putting the question. A few feeble “noes” were uttered, and the speaker declared the session at an end. Then a scene of disorder ensued. The members threw books and papers at each other and the air was filled with all sorts of missiles. One man grabbed a paper basket and thrust it down over the head of Representative Green. With difficulty he got himself clear. The pages took a hand and threw books at the heads of the members. In half an hour the chamber vas in a state of disorder. Finally the members grew tired of “playing” and cleared the chamber. In consideration of the fact that the senate could not alone transact joint business, that body proceeded in an orderly way to close up its own affairs —the odds and ends. In accordance with custom a committee was appointed by the president to wait upon the governor and to ask him whether he desired the senate to continue in session for further communications. Following ths report of this committee. Senator Slack was recognized and with appropriate remarks he moved that the senate adjourn without delay. Other members, by unanimous consent, also made brief speeches eulogizing he lieutenant governor for his fairness as a presiding officer and paying tribute to their colleagues. When all who desired had spoken, the members, led by Senators Slack and Springer, arose and joined in the singing of the first stanza of the national hymn. Then, with a deliberate drop of the president’s gavel, the upper branch of the assembly was declared to be adjourned.

Indianapolis, March 12. —Governor Hanly yesterday vetoed three more (Continue don page 4.) X