Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 65

THE GREATEST WEEK EVER After Five Days We are Trotting Down the Home Stretch

INTEREST GROWING Today’s List is Nothing but a Hummer ARRANGING FOR THE LOT SALE Pick Out Your Lot and Get Ready for the Sale on March 26— , Need More Pledges. It has been a great week for Decatur, one which will go down in our future history as the most important of all the past. Only Tuesday morning the first call was made and right nobly did our loyal, hustling, enterprising people respond. We are proud of every citizen who has helped to make such a showing, but the work is not over. Next week we hope for further enthusiasm, so intense that the lot sale on March 26th will be the liveliest and hottest thing that ever occurred in this or any other town. Keep on talking, keep on boosting, the spirit is contageous and properly exposed no tonic will prevent your friends from a real case of public spiritedness that means that coveted 10,000 people in Decatur in 1910. You couldn’t stop us if you wanted to—so what's the use to try. A large number of lots were pledged this week, even exceeding the fondest expectation of the most ardent members of the push committee. We want five hundred pledges and we want five hundred other people to want the lots on sale day. It will soon be here —March 26th—don't forget it. March 26th —one wek from Tuesday. The final arrangements for the event will be made the first of the week, and it is assured that it will be a half-holiday long to be remembered. Every store will close and a big crowd will attend. In this issue appear the plats of the three additions, 227 of the finest lots ever offered any where. Pick yours out now* and make up your mind you are going to get it, or the next one to it. The committee has done great work so far and will begin again Monday with renewed vigor. If your haven't pledged for a lot, you might as well do it at once if you expect to be au inhabitant of the New Great Decatur. You certainly have thought it over by this time, so get a ribbon and wear it. Names Added Today. S. E. Hite. John Schafer. H. H. Bremerkamp. F. G. Eichenberger. Charles Miller. Joe Knapke. A. N. Steele. A. J. Smith. C. H. Colter. F. W. Jaebker. W. J. Meyers. A. A. Acker. B. J. Rice. George W. Nachtrieb. C. G. Egley. Albert L. Colchin. Edward J. Miller. Dallas Butler. H. A. Colchin. Fred H. Heuer. William Hartings. J. H. Schug. Fred Hoffman & Sons. J. S. McCrory. John C. Moran. Will Winnes. Orval Harruff. Aug. Wietfeldt. - Roll of Honor. Rev. George Augermaier. N. C. Anderson. R. R. Ashbaucher. W. J. Archbold, Dr. Roy Archbold, A. D. Artman, Sam Butler. D. W. Beery, Jeff Bryson, John Bogner. Isaac Babcock. Will Berling.

J. Earl Butler. L, L. Baumgartner, John Baker. Abraham Boegley. Dr. D. D. Clark, H. F. Callow, J. F. Cramer. Earl G. Coverdale, T. C. Corbett, J. R. Coffee. Raymond Christen. U. E. Cramer. J. D. Dailey, Decatur Lumber Co. Decatur Abstract Co. Huber M. DeVoss. C. A. Dugan, W. R. Dorwln. Thomas J. Durkin. L. G. Ellingham, .. E. X. Ehinger, Thomas F. Ehinger, R. K. Erwin, Daniel N. Erwin. Dore B. Erwin. W. H. Fledderjohann, John M. Frisinger. M. A. Frisinger. J. S. Falk. H. A. Fuhrman, A. C. Foos. C. O. France. E. Fritzinger, E. F. Gass, John H. Graber, David Gerber, J. L. Gay. L. N. Grandstaff. William Geary. L. C. Helm. Warren A. Hamrick. ' J. P. Haefling. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Wesley E. Hoffman. John D. Hale. Simeon J. Hain. D. M. Hensley. C. J. Heideman. J. B. Holthouse, J. H. Heller. P. J. Hyland, Arthur Hall, O. L. Kirsch, M. Kirsch, Isadore Kalver, W. C. Kauffman, Marcella Kuebler, B. Kalver, Kuebler, Moltz Co., Kirsch & Sellemeyer, J. Kline. E. H. Leßrun, H. F. Linn, J. F. Lachot, S. J. Laman. , J. M. Lenhart. Herbert S. Lachot, C. D. Lewton, Clark J. Lutz, Thomas Leonard, J. Winfield Maddy. George Massona, J. T. Meyers, F. V. Mills. Frank Mills, J. D. Meyer. J. T. Merryman, J. B. Melbers, Dr. Burt Mangold, Eli Meyer, P. L. Macklin, Marcus Mayer, Nick Miller. Oliver P. Mills. C. D. Murray. John Moser, Mann & fhristen, C. S. Niblick, Dan Niblick, Northern Indiana Real Estate Co. John Niblick, Dick Neptune, Dr. J. Q. Neptune. Charles Pennington. Charles Patton, Cal Peterson, T. M. Reid. James M. Rice, Charles Rinehart, G. W. Roop, C. Radamacher, Warren Reed. Eugene Runyon. F. M. Schirmeyer, W. P. Schrock, D. Schmidt, Frank Snellen. B. J. Smith, Frank Stone, . Schafer Hardware Co., John Spuller, W. G. Spencer. John D. Stults. Fred Scheimann.

Decatur, Indiana. Saturday Evei

D. E. Studabaker. Ell Sprunger. C. E. Suttles. S. E. Shamp, John Staker, E. E. Snow. Chas. F. Smith, Adam Schafer. Smith Bros., . Jacob Schafer. Faye Smith. Jesse C. Sutton, Charles H. TyrrilL Charlee F. True. A. Van Camp. Lawrence Voglewede, Charlie Voglewede, Elzey & Vance, Dan R. Vail. W. H. Ward, Thomas W. Watts. Martin Weilind, Roy Wolford. Anna E. Winnes. Rev. H. Theo. Wilken L. C. Waring. J. H. Yager, H. J. Yager. Charles B. Yobst, A NEW SCHEDULE Announced by the Interurban Company FOR SUNDAY SERVICE ONLY Begins Tomorrow —Cars Running Each Way Every Hour and a Half. The Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway company in order to accommodate the heavy passenger traffic between this city and Fort Wayne on Sundays have concluded to put on an afternoon service for Sundays only and the cars will be run every hour and a half Instead of three hours. This will more readily handle the passenger traffic which in the past has proven very heavy, and which the company has not been able to give the accommodations the public deserves. Sundays have, so far, proven to be one of the company’s best days and they will in the future endeavor to accommodate the patrons of their line in better shape. The following schedule will go into effect tomorrow and remain that way, Sundays only, until other arrangements can be made: Leaving Decatur. Leaving Ft. Wayne 6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 m. 1:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m. Sundays only until further notice. o COURT HOUSE NEWS Township Assessors Met This Morning HEUY-DECKER CASE IS DECIDED In Favor of the Plaintiff, Sustaining the Mandate—Other Affairs of Today’s Session. The various assesors of the townships met at the oflice of Sheriff eyer today to talk over anu sum up their work so far done, and compare notes for the purpose of equalizing the assessments. County Assessor Gentis presided and every assessor was present, except the ones from Hartford and Blue Creek townships. The surviving partnership of Ray & Durbin, was the title of a new entry on the probate estate docket. An inventory and bond were filed and approved. Arguments were heard today in the case of the State on relation of TroyHuey vs. Henry Decker, trustee of Wabash township, writ of mandate. Peterson & Moran of this city and Smith & Moran of Portland, appeared for the plaintiff and Jacob Butcher and Merryman & Sutton for the defendant. The court found for the plaintiff and directed to proceed in accordance with prayer of petition.

INDIANA AT THE TOP Stands First in Good Road Building CONCEDED BY DEPARTMENT Wh» Praia* the State—Wabaeh Railroad Will Run a Drainage and Road Building Lecture Train. The department of agriculture concedes to the state of Indiana great credit in the matter of road building. The encomiums of the department in this regard ought to be a source of pleasure and satisfaction to every Hoosier. In road building Indiana stands at the head of all the states in the Union. At this time 35 per cent of the total mileage of roads in Indiana is surfaced either with stone or gravel. This is a record in which the national government takes great pride and which is cited by the officials of the department of agriculture for the emulation of less enterprising states. Ohio stand next to Indiana. At present 33.7 per cent of the total mileage of its roads is surfaced with stone or gravel. Why does Indiana lead in road building? This question, asked of officials of the good roads bureau, elicited a two-fold answer. It was conceded that Indianians seem a little more enterprising than the people of other states, but it is alo asserted that the Hoosier state is wonderfully blessed with road building material. Indiana probably is better supplied with gravel, the officials say, than any other state. The glacial drift brought down from Michigan and the Canadian country farther north vast quantities of gravel and deposited them in Indiana. Furthermore, what nature has done has been effectively supplemented bylegislation. The Indiana laws with reference to gravel road construction are very full and compile. During the last ten years Indiana has raised the enormous sum of $11,000,000 in bond issues to build roads, and during the same time Ohio, which is next to Indiana in road building advancement, has raised only about $6,000,000 by bond issues. In addition the total annual expenditure on roads including cash, labor and bond Issues, last year was $4,335,000. The Wabash railroad proposes to educate the farmers of Indiana on the subject of drainage and good roaftis. It is preparing to run a special train through the state, from the rear platform of which lecture on drainage and road building will be delivered by experts of the department of agriculture. At the solicitation of the railroad officials the department has promised to send with the train C. G. Elliott, who is one of the most competent drainage experts in the country. He will take with him a supply of charts and magic lantern slides and will make a plain talk that “he who runs” may understand.

AN INSCRIPTION IN THE SKY Wa« Written in Hebrew Proclaiming a War With Japan. The Bluffton News says: A story that sounds like a big myth or a bad dream comes from a neighborhood southeast of Bluffton near th j Wells-Adams county line. The story came to a Chronicle reporter through Charles Kapp, the paper hanger, wh > said he got the story from the foun-tain-head. The story is to the ffeect that a party of neighbors on their way a few nights ago to the John Bierie home to bid the b t’er and his family goodbye before their departure for Ohio, saw clearly outlined :, t eastern sky a large and bright hand pointing to an inscription also brightly illuminated. This quotation he said was in Hebrew and when inte~preted was found to refer in some manner to the Japanese troubles. How any of the party was able to decipher the Hebrew the story does not say and Mr. Kapp did not remember the exact words. He says the story has caused great excitement in the neighborhood where it started. It sounds like somebody's wild dream and the News simply gives it for whatever it may be worth.

— o A large number of the local Irish will go to Fort Wayne tomorrow to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in an appropriate manner. Special services wil be held in several of the churches.

ig March 16, 1907.

THE END IS NOT YET IN SIGHT Plea in Abatement Filed in the Terrell Case. The end of the long drawn-out Terrell murder case is not yet in sight. Judge Erwin was here from Deeatur today and heard motions in the case, but postponed further hearing until the first day of the April term. The defendant’s attorneys, Stine and Hindman, filed a plea in abatement and the court gave the state until April 15 to answer this plea. The plea sets out that the original *ndictment having been quashed it became the duty of the court to hold the defendant in custody and instruct the next grand jury to return an amended indictment on the same case, but that on the contrary the next grand jury without the court’s instructions brought in an entirely new indictment, which indictment they allege *.s not legal, if their contention is sustained there will be no indictment pending against Terrell as the old indictment is stricken off the docset. — Bluffton News. REVIVAC SERVICES Will Begin Monday at the Baptist Church REV. LANDIS IS COMING A Renowned State Evangeli s t Will Assist Rev. Bergman in the Crusade. Interest continues to run high among the Baptists. Surely the blessing that our good people have been praying for is coming, sincere have been the good Baptists in asking God to bless them, and because or this earnestness on the part of our people, our Master is going to bless us. A letter was received from Rev. Albert Ogle, stating that a state evangelist in the person of Rev. Landis, will be with us next week. A Baptist crusade will be in action for the next few days in Decatur. Revival meetings begin Monday evening. Come, good people, those of you who can, and come those who are not so good, come and be made better. Services for Sunday will be as follows: Sunday school at 9:30; preaching at 10:30; evening service at the usual hour; preaching at 7:30. E. ERNEST BERGMAN, Pastor.

SULTANA REUNION ANNOUNCED Will be Held at Xenia, 0., on April Thirtieth. I The twenty-fourth annual reunion of the survivors of the Sultana will be held in Xenia, 0., on April 30 and the members of the association who reside in this state have received invitations to attend. A number of the survivors live around in adjoining counties. The Sultana was a large Mississippi steamer that had been employed by the government to carry Union soldiers from Vicksburg to Cairo. Nearly all of these soldiers had been released from Confederate prisons at the close of the war and were on their way home. When the boat left Vicksburg, it carried 1,996 enlisted men, thirty-six officers and fifty-five Confederate soldiers. At 2 o'clock on the morning of April 27, 1865, when the boat was thirteen miles north of Memphis, Tenn., one of the three boilers that were used to propel the boat, exploded and set fire to the steamer. Quite a number of people were blown into the river and were drowned. Others were caught under the wreckage and burned to death. Many others were drowned by jumping into the river to escape from the burning boat. 1,479 of the enlisted men and officers on the boat were killed or drowned. It stands today as the most terrible river calamity that has ever happened in the history of the United States. , Dan Donnelly of Pittsburg, or the Smoky City, is the gentleman who forced the high bidding on the horse purchased at the sale yesterday by J. M. Frisinger, for $342.50. Donnelly wanted the hors ebadly as it was the best horse ever sold in Decatur. The animal was a beautiful dapple gray.

DID STRIKE SNAG Railroad Presidents not yet Seen President TO LOOK INTO LABOR EVILB The United State* Treasury to Circulate Seventy-One Million* Dolto Avert a Panic. Washington, March 16.—1 t may turn out after all that the presidents of the great railroad systems will not come here to see the president. That there is a hitch in the arrangements for their coming was admitted today by officials high in authority. It was said at the White House at noon that no word had been received from the railroad presidents. When J. Pierpont Morgan left here Monday night it was the understanding that within two or three days the railroad officials would communicate with Secretary Loeb suggesting a date for the conference. Yesterday afternoon Presidents Newman of the New York Central; Mellen of the New Haven; McCrea of the Pennsylvania, and Hughitt, of the Chicago & Nnorthwestern, conferred in New York city, and according to private information received here, they failed to reach any agreement with reference to the proposed pilgrimage to the president. Washington, March 16. —The president is determined that the forthcoming investigation of the conditions under which women and children are employed in the industries shall be thorough. He has instructed the bureau of labor that he would like to have the investigation completed within a year so that the reports may be available for the use of congress at the next session, provided the legislative body shows a disposition to apply a remedy for the evils which are known to exist. Washington, March 16. —The United States treasury will throw into circulation, if need be, $71,000,000 in order to avert a money stringency while the speculators are engaged in a “panic” of their own making. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou made this announcement yesterday afternoon. SUMPTUOUSDINNER MesdamesJ.T. Merryman and C. K. Bell Entertain PRESBYTERIAN MEN’S CLUB A Surprise on Mrs. McKean—Wedding Invitations—Ladies’ Aid Society Meets. BY PERLE BURDG. One of the most leading society events of the season was the sumptuous six o’clock turkey dinner given by the Mesdames J. T. Merryman and C. K. Bell yesterday at the beautiful home of the former in compliment to Mrs. DeVilbiss and Mrs. Fanny Cole of Lancaster, O. About twentyfour ladies responded to the dainty invitations which were issued requiring the presence of each at 4 o’clock. After the guests had assembled each took part in a name contest, Mrs. C. A. Dugan proving to be the champion. There were seven small tables arranged in the spacious rooms. At six o’clock the dinner was served in five courses in a very graceful manner by the Misses Pansy Bell, Lucile Hale and Marie Beery. Each guest found her place by pretty little Easter greetings on post cards with their address. After the dinner an advertisement contest prevailed during the rest of the evening, Mrs. W. A. Lower leading the ladies in having the greatest number of answers. The guests were: Mesdames J. H. Heller, DeVilbiss, Fanny Cole, R. S. Peterson, P. G. Hooper, R. K. Allison, W. A. Low rer, John C. White, J. T. Archbold, Roy Archbold, C. A. Dugan, John W. Tyndall, D. D. Heller, J. S. Peterson, Sarah Miller, F. M. Schirmeyer, W. W. P. McMillen, John Niblick, Frank Dibble, A. R. Bell, Ella Bell, Miss Margaret Bell. The men of the Presbyterian church < (Continued on page 3.)

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SALOONKEEPERS SPRING ONE Offer $20,000 if Huntington Will Keep Out Other Joints. Huntington is trying to raise a SSO - 000 boom fund and the saloonkeepers and breweries there propose a novel scheme to swell the fund. There are twenty-seven saloons at Huntington, all doing a fairly good business. The owners of these places held a meeting this week and agreed upon their plan to raise the remainder of the fund. The agreement is that if the Huntington county commissioners will agree to remonstrate against the opening of any more saloons in the city until the population reaches 25,000, the saloonkeepers and the brewery will subscribe the remaining $20,000 at once. Not only will they do this but they will do all in their power to promote home trade and will buy absolutely nothing outside of the city themselves. The liquor dealers are more anxious to boom Huntington or at least as much as any other class of merchants, but they say that if other saloons are allowed to swarm into that city they will make nothing by assisting in the boom. BURRIED IN STYLE Was John Karney, a Rich old Miser CASKET COST FIFTEEN HUNDRED And His Entire Funeral Two Hundred Dollars More—Worth SIOO,OO But Lived Like a Beggar. John Korney, a rich, old bachelor miser, who, for many year, lived just across the •Jtaft. in Jay county and who was found dead Monday morning, was given an elaborate funeral, the cost of which, if he knows it, must certainly be causing him grave concern. Though worth a cool SIOO,000, Korney lived like a pauper in a hovel and his costly funeral was a strange counterpart to his stingy life No doubt his heirs decided that once at least his body should travel in the style deserving of his wealth, which did him such little good in life. The Portland Sun says of his funeral: “The casket which was ordered by the relatives of the deceased through the undertaking firm of Scolez & Williamson of this city, was constructed entirely of pure bronze metal throughout, upholstered with the finest grade of white satin, with an inner lining of curled hair. It contained a full-length beveled plate glass cover and was highly burnished in a dark gun metal color, with handles to match. Instead of the ordinary thumbscrews being used to fasten the outer top, it was secured with cement, thus making the casket water, proof and air tight The resisting powers of this metal is well known, it being almost indestructible. The exact amount of money expended on the burial outfit of Mr. Karney is not known, but the casket alone cost $1,500 and it was incased in a steel vault when lowered into the grave. The cost of other necessities are said to be in the neighborhood of SIOO and at that rate the expense incurred by the heirs to his estate make a total of at least $1,700. The funeral was held at the Christian church at West Liberty, Thursday afternoon at two o'clock, conducted by the Rev. Aaron Worth, with interment in Gravel Hill cemetery one mile west of Bryan.” HE MAY GET SOMETHING GOOD George W. Cromer Still Mentioned for a Place. Washington, March 16. —Ex-Repre-sentative George W. Cromer of the Eighth congressional district of Indiana, is mentioned for a position under the direction of the postal commission, which was created at the recent session of congress to overhaul the postoffice department and put it on a modern business basis. The terms of law creating the commission gives it wide lattitude in choosing help to carry out its provisions. Cromer for several years was a member of the house committee on postoffice and J post roads and is considered an authority on postal matters.