Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 63

THE GOOD WORK CONTINUES Twenty-Five or More Pledges are Signed Today

INTEREST GROWING The Pledge Committee is Working Hard TWO FARMERS SIGN PLEDGES Abraham Boegley of Berne, Joins the Boosters—A Factory Fund is Assured. m **•*••*•****« j* Abraham Boegley, practical en- * [• glneer and a hustling resident of * j* Berne, is business man enough * J* to see the future of a lot in the * f Factory Fund addition. He pur- * p chased a lot, because as an in- * I* vestment, it is well worth the * *• price. Mr. Boegley is a hustler * r and all right. » b«***««««*»*»« I The warmest meeting of the Pledge fcommittes was held last evening, ■very member present being right up--01: his toes. They proposed to work ■oday with renewed energy, and in Kct, never draw a real long breath Bintil every man and woman in DecaKir has purchased a lot. The list is ■rowing with remarkable rapidity, ■nd if the present head of steam Keeps up, this factory fund transacKon will be nothing more than a little || However, the committee have in ■ieir possession a list of names as ■ng as the moral law, every one of ■horn ought now to be on the list. It is safe to say that before this comKittee finishes their work, no one in ■ecatur will be permitted to rest until have signed their name to the of honor. The object to be atis sufficient in itself to warrant payment asked. The manufacturing additions is for the benefit of the for the benefit of every business man, real estate owner and labYou can throw your lot in the ■ver and still make one hundred per on your Investment. ■But we must congratulate the loyal ■d pushing populace of Decatur, have demonstrated their pro■essive spirit in this undertaking, as have never demonstrated it be■re. Decatur can not help but grow prosper. With the push that is there is nothing on earth can head us off. The addition ■ the list today numbers twenty-five more, and with this daily grind, the will soon be over. But you can escape this committee, so you better buy now. Roll of Honor. ■N. C. Anderson, ■R R. Ashbaucher, ■W. J. Archbold, ■Dr. Roy Archbold, ■A D. Artman, W. Beery, ■Jeff Bryson, ■L. L. Baumgartner, ■Dr. D. D. Clark, ■H. F. Callow, ■Earl G. Coverdale, C. Corbett, ■J. R. Coffee. ■J. D. Dailey, ' Kc. A. Dugan, ■L. G. Ellingham, .. ■E. X. Ehinger, ■Thomas F. Ehinger, ■R. K. Erwin, ! Kbaniel N. Erwin. ■W. H. Fledderjohann, ■H. A. Fuhrman, ; HE. Fritzinger, J BE F. Gass, j ■John H. Graber, | Mpavid Gerber, i KE- N. Grandstaff. ■Holthouse, Schulte & Co. j yVesley E. Hoffman. B. Holthouse, j J- Hyland, ■Kirthur Hall, ■Bp E. Kirsch, S Kirsch, Kalver, ’■ C. Kauffman,

Marcella Kuebler, B. Kalver, Kuebler, Moltz Co., Kirsch & Sellemeyer, E. H. Leßrun, H. F. Linn, J. F. Lachot, Herbert S. Lachot, C. D. Lewton, Clark J. Lutz, Thomas Leonard, J. T. Meyers, F. V. Mills. Frank Mills, J. T. Merryman, J. B. Meibers, Dr. Burt Mangold, Eli Meyer, P. L. Macklin, Marcus Mayer, Nick Miller. C. D. Murray. John Moser, Mann & Christen, C. S. Niblick, Dan Niblick, John Niblick, Dick Neptune, Charles Patton, Cal Peterson, T. M. Reid, James M. Rice, Charles Rinehart, G. W. Roop, C. Radamacher, Eugene Runyon. F. M. Schirmeyer, W. P. Schrock, D. Schmidt, B. J. Smith, Frank Stone, Schafer Hardware Co., John Spuller, D. E. Studabaker. S. E. Shamp, John Staker, Chas. F. Smith, Smith Bros., . Jesse C. Sutton, Charles F. True. Lawrence Voglewede, Charlie Voglewede, Elzey & Vance, Dan R. Vail. W. H. Ward, Martin Weiland, J. H. Yager, Charles B. Yobst, Names Added Today. H. J. Yager. M. A. Frisinger. John M. Frisinger. L. C. Helm. Dr. J. Q. Neptune. John Baker. Frank Snellen. J. S. Falk. L. C. Waring. Abraham Boegley. John Bogner. Huber M. DeVoss. Thomas W. Watts. C. E. Suttles. Adam Schafer. S. J. Laman. U. E. Cramer. Faye Smith. W. R. Dorwin. Oliver P. Mills. C. J. Heldeman. Warren A. Hamrick. ' Roy Wolford. J. Earl Butler. Raymond Christen. Eli Sprunger. Rev. H. Theo. Wilken. Rev. George Augmeier. J. L. Gay. *♦••*♦•*•♦•**♦ • John Bogner and L. N. Grand- * • staff, two farmers of Root town- ♦ • ship, have signed the purchase • » pledge. They see a good invest- ♦ • ment, and they are right. Other * • farmers could not spend a little • » money more advantageously. • .— »-o PRESBYTERIAN MEN TO MEET A Special Meeting at the Church on Friday Evening. The men of the Presbyterian church will meet in the parlors of the church at 7:15 Friday evening, for the purpose of organizing a men's society in the church and all are requested to be present. Cards have been sent out but if you have been overlooked come anyway. Rev. Masters and Mr. Yarnelle of Fort Wayne, will be present and the meeting will be a very interesting one.

beuatwr, IntflMi, Thursday ttvenfns March 14, 1907.

M’KEAN HAD THE VERDICTS Won His Law Suit Each Time It Was Tried. In our article yesterday concerning the settlement of the McKean vs. the City of Decatur case, the settlement was made that when the case was tried at Fort Wayne, the decision was against McKean. This was an error as McKean has had the best of the case at all times. He won the first suit and in the second trial in which a disagreement resulted the jury stood eleven to one in favor of McKean, according to a skatement by the foreman. The case, when appealed to the Supreme court, was reversed only because of a technicality. COURTHOUSENEWS Action Taken in a Number of Cases

PROBATE BUSINESS TRANSACTED Judge Erwin Will Go to Bluffton Tomorrow to Hear Motions in Terrell Case. Emil Juillerat vs. Joseph Robbins et al., quiet title suit, summons ordered to the sheriff of Jay county for part of defendants, returnable April ’ 18th. Frank H. Barthel vs. Henry E. Keller, damages $5,000, appearance by Petrson & Moran and Heller & Son for defendant, rule to answer. George A. Bohrer Brewing Co. vs. Harry Cordua et al., suit on bond for $650, demurrer filed by plaintiff to separate answer of Sheline. State vs. Robert Hammond, grand larceny, evidence heard in part, continued awaiting summoning of further witnesses. Judge Erwin will go to Bluffton tomorrow to hear argument sin the famous Terrell case. It is likely this wilt be the last of this long litigation, one of the most peculiar murder trials in the history of Indiana. The case of Kern vs. the C. & E. railway company, will be tried in circuit court next Monday. The surviving partnership of John B. Weber & company was placed on the probate docket this morning, and a petition filed to sell property which was ordered. E. Burt Lenhart, administrator for Sydna Reed, reported the sale of real estate which was approved. Daniel N. Erwin, guardian for Benjamin and Clarence Hoagland, filed his final report and was discharged by the court. Oscar Burry, guardian for Elva and Alton Burry, filed his current report, hich was approved. -0 THE CITY MISSION SERVICES The revival meetings are in rapid progress at the City Mission| Sunday afternoon one young man fell in a trance at the beginning of the meeting and laid till 5:30 o'clock. Sunday evening the girl preacher took for her text, “No room in the inn.” Two souls came to the altar crying for mercy. Monday night she preached on "Enter ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.” A very interesting discourse was delivered in which the people were entreated to flee from the wrath to come. Three souls came to altar to be saved from sin. Owing to extreme illness, Mrs. Roberts was absent from the pulpit Tuesday evening and Mr. Roberts preached in her stead, taking for his text, Malachi 4. Two souls were saved and many were shouting and leaping for joy and praising God. We are expecting wonderful times. All are welcome, all are invited to come. Meeting every night at 7:30. Sunday at 2:30 p. m. -o NOTICE. There will be a meeting of the members of Olive lodge No. 86 D. of R., I. O. O. F„ this evening, March 14, at 7 o’clock. Business of special importance to be taken up. NELLIE BLACKBUBN, N. G.

DENIES HIS GUILT Bob Branam Tells Story in Court CHARGED WITH HORSE STEALING Sticks to His Original Statement That a Stranger Hired Him to Take the Team. Robert Branam, who was arrested a few days ago, under the name of Hammond for stealing a team of horses from a hitch rack near the Mittn factory on First street appeared for trial before Judge Erwin yesterday afternoon. Prosecutor Heller appeared for the state and S. A. M. Butcher, attorney for the poor, defended. Sheriff Meyer and Deputy Butler told of the arrest of Branam, and Mrs. Ira Thomas who lives just north of the Mitten factory told of the man’s mysterious actions in taking the team. The defendant then told his story. He came here with the pipe line gang, was paid off on Friday and came to this city. He says that about three o’clock while standing at the comer of Monroe and Second street, a man came up and offered him $2.50 to drive a team to Bluffton for him. He accepted and got as far as Craigville, when he was arrested. He is thirty-eight years old and formerly lived in Virginia. He claims to have hired to the Decatur Furnace company and was to go to work as cupalo tender as soon as they began operation. He is rather a large man, looks ignorant, but told a smooth story, giving the impression that he is either a clever swindler or was telling the truth. Some further evidence will be heard before the court gives his decision. o WAS FATALLY SHOT J. W. Roop is Dying in Chicago Hospital BROTHER CALLED TO BEDSIDE Young Man Formerly Lived Here, Murdered by Chicago BarTender. Chauncey Roop of this city, received a telegram from Chicago yesterday, conveying the sad news that his brother ,J. W. Roop, was shot there in a saloon by the bar tender, and was lying in a critical condition. Chauncey could scarcely believe the report and at once sent a telephone call to Chicago to Inquire into the matter, the result of which was the verification of the statement in the message, and also requests him to leave for there at once if he wished to see his brother alive. No particulars except the above were given and we have been unable to get further knowledge of the affair up to the present time. The unfortunate naan is a barber by trade and was here only a few weeks ago trying to purchase a barber shop, and after being unsuccessful in this he went to Chicago, where he has worked at his trade until the shooting. Mr. Roop is quite well known in this vicinity, he having lived in this county during the early part of his life and his acquaintances will anxiously await the outcome of the affair. o CAME HOME TODAY The Father of E. L. Carroll Died at Huntsville, O. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Carroll returned today from Huntsville, 0., where they were attending the funeral of Thomas Carroll, the father of E. L. Carroll. He was eighty-three years of age and died very suddenly of heart trouble. Fred Eichenberger returned last evening from Warren, Ohio, where he was attending the funeral of his mother. — oMAC WINS OUT AT LAGRANGE Washington, March 4'—The president today appointed E. D. McDonald postmaster at LaGrange, Indiana.

MRS. LOUISA DUER IS DEAD Consumption Claims Well Known Lady as Victim. Mrs. Louisa A. Duer, wife of Albert P. Duer, who resides one mile south of Monroe, died this morning at four o’clock after an Illness of several months duration, death resulting from that dread disease consumption. Mrs. Duer was forty-three years of age and was held in high esteem by all who knew her and her death is mourned by a host of friends. The funeral services will be held Saturday at the M. E. church at Monroe and interment will be made in the Chappel cemetery. She leaves a husband and two children to mourn their loss. FiLETHEiRREPORT Appraisers Complete their Duties as Set Out REDUCE FRITZINGER'S AMOUNT Nearly Seven Hundred Dollars—No Change in Assessments on McLaughlin Sewer. Godfrey Christen, James P. Haefling and Soloman Linn, appraisers in the McLaughlin sewer case, in which B. J. Terveer, Mrs. Terveer and Mrs. Wilhelmina Holthouse appealed, filed their report today, finding that the original assessments be not disturbed and the same left as heretofore reported. The appraisers’ fees were SIB.OO. Godfrey Christen, S. B. Fordyce and C. D. Teeple, appraisers appointed in the matter of the appeal of E. Fritzinger from his assessment on the North Second street improvement, have filed their report. After describing the property they say: “That after having taken an oath to faithfully, honestly and impartially discharge their duties, they proceeded forthwith to view the proposed improvement and the real estate described in the petition and after viewing said improvement and premises respectfuly report that said assessment complained of exceeds the special benefits to said property and that said real estate will be specially benefited by said improvement only in the sum of $962.60.” The original assessment was $1,651.31, thus reducing it about S7OO. There seems to be some question as to whether the city will have to pay this or not. 0 . .... STATE BOARD MEETS luMORPOW To Draft Rules to Enforce New Pure Food Laws. Pursuant to the enactment of the new Indiana pure food law the state board of health, which will meet tomorrow afternoon at Indianapolis to draft a set of rules for the enforcement of the law, will, upon their adoption, notify butchers and meat dealers throughout the state that the pure food Inspectors appointed by the board will regularly inspect their shops and slaughter houses. Similar notices will be sent to dairymen, grocers and druggists, who will also be told that the sanitary condition of their places of business will be noted as well as the purity of the goods they sell. The new law absolntely forbids the sale of meat from unsanitary slaughter houses and meat markets. It give-: the inspectors power to seize upon the stock of goods sold in such places and take it before a justice of the peace or a judge and demand an immediate trial. The law defines unsanitary houses and makes it unlawful to feed hogs on scraps picked up about the slaughter houses. The inspectors will be required to report daily to the state food and drug commissioner, Dr. H. E. Barnard. At its meeting tomorrow afternoon the state board of health will draft some sixty rules for the observance of the law, by the grocers, druggists, meat dealers and dairymen and will draft another set for regulating the work of the inspecting force. The rules for the enforcement of the law will be somewhat similar to those adopted by the department of agriculture for the enforcement of the federal pure food law. A set of rules has already been drafted and will be placed in the hands of the members.

HIGH SCHOOL NEWS Quarterly Examinations are Over THIRD TERM 13 IN PROGRESS Teachers Will Attend Convention at South Bend—Diploma Examination Saturday. Our City schools, the past week, have gone through the ordeal of an examination. Considerable interest was manifested. The students showed a determination which means success in the end. Quite a number were exempt from the examination. They were all such as had a mark of excellence in their deportment and in their daily recitations. The third term of school began last Monday with renewed effort and interest. Opening exercises were conducted Tuesday morning by Principal C. E Hocker and Superintendent Beachler. The school was shown the importance of young people leading a pure and upright lives. The need of a high school education was also touched upon. No one will be allowed to teach in the public schools, after 1908, who is not a graduate from a commissioned high school. Next Saturday, March 16, a county diploma examination will be held at the Central school building of this city. It is to be hoped this will interest many pupils, since this is the only road now that leads to teaching, to college entrance, to the professions, and, in fact, to nearly every calling of life where responsibility and trust are a consideration. The teachers of our public schools are planning to attend the teachers’ association meeting at South Bend, Ind., April 4, 5 and 6. o ROUTE INSPECTION Interurban Committee go South for a Day GO OVER BOTH THE LINES As Proposed—Survey of Each Route Will be Made and Reported to the Committee. A committee composed of A. W. Fishbaugh, Dyonis Schmidt, Charles Dirktson and W. H. Fledderjohann, representing the Ft. Wayne & Springfield Interurban railway, left this city early yesterday morning and drove to Pleasant Mills, Willshire, Rockford and Celina, and then returned by the way of Chattanooga, this trip being made over the two proposed routes that the interurban people have in view aa to the extension of their line. The trip was made through the rain and mud, and the committee seemed to be working under considerable hardship. The trip was made without accident of any kind and at each town and place the committee visited they were greeted by fair sized crowds who urged upon them the ad visability of coming their way. However, the committee as yet are not ready to report and have directed their engineer to make a survey of the two proposed routes and submit them for the benefit of the committee. The two routes are as follows: From Decatur through Pleasant Mills, Willshire, Rockford and Celina, or, from Decatur through Steele's Crossing, Chattanooga and thence to Celina. Either route would be a good one for Decatur and the report of the committee is being anxiously awaited. - PRESBYTERIAN SOCIETY MEETS The thirty-first annual meeting of the Fort Wayne Prebyterial society will be held at Auburn, Ind., Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9 and 10. A most cordial invitation is extended to the Decatur society. The Christian Endeavor Society is also asked to be represented.

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808 BARR WAS BURIED TODAY Well Known Young Man of Kendallville is Dead, Robert L. Barr, aged twenty-three, one of the most popular young men of Kendallville, died early Tuesday morning, after a several weeks illness with pernicious anaemia, a blood ailment. He was a graduate of high school, the University of Michigan and the law department of the University of Virginia. He had brilliant prospects and his death is deeply mourned. He was known by many Decatur people, as is his father, R. P. Barr. The funeral services were conducted this afternoon. it isjustTrumor Talk of Governor Calling an Extra Session ANOTHER VETO IS TALKED OF He Does Not Like the Appropriation Bill and if Vetoed State Business Would Suffer. There was a well defined rumor around the state house that the governor was considering placing his executive disapproval on the appropri-

ation bill, house bill 713. If this shall

be done, an extra session of the legislature would have to be called on or before September 30, 1907, in order to make appropriations for the next two fiscal years. The story is that the governor strongly disapproves of several items in the appropriation bill, including the $25,000 appropriation for the Jamestown Exposition commission; the provision for three new Employes in the insurance department of the auditor’s office, and the increase in the sdtery of Miss Mary A. Stubbs, present chief of the bureau of statistics, from $2,000 to $3,000 a year. It is stated that other items are not in line with the governor’s sense of the fitness of things, too. Asked about the story yesterday the governor would neither affirm nor deny it. He refused to discuss it one way or another, other than to say that in all probability no action would be taken immediately. The expenses of the state government from now until the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 1907, are provided for in the appropriation act of the 1905 general assembly. The 1907 appropriation bill carries the $6,000,000 appropriatin for the two years starting October 1, 1907, and running until October 1, 1909, when the appropriation bill of 1909 will take effect. Unless an extra session should be called to pass an appropriation bill, all of the officers and employes of the state, either would have to work on faith or quit. HE WINS A VICTORY Delmas Scores Once More Over Jerome IN THE FAMOUS THAW CASE Court Refuses to Admit the Evidence of Hummell Showing Conversation With Evelyn. New York, March 14. —Harry Thaw's counsel, Attorney Delmas, won the biggest and hottest contest point in the trial today, when Justice Fitzgerald sustained him in objection to admitting a conversation between Hummell and Evelyn, immediately preceding the dictation of the famous Hummel! affidavit Upon the introduction of this conversation Jerome had hoped to get the affidavit itself as made by Evelyn before the jury. In this affidavit Evelyn is alleged to have denied ever telling Thaw that White wronged her and to have asserted that Thaw beat her because she refused to s.gn the document prepared by him setting forth the statement that White betrayed her. Thig was an exciting day, a hot controversy occuring between De’ma and Jerome when Hum mell hurriedly answered a question (before Delmas could abject.