Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1907 — Page 2

The daily Democrat. 1 ■ ' c Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by 1 LEW G. ELLINGHAM. { Subscription Rates. g Per week, by carrier 10 cea! 3 Per year, by carrier $5.00 1 Per month, by mail 25 ce “_ rs J i Per year, by mail * 2 o ° Single copies 2 cenls 1 Advertising rates made known on : application. Entered at the postoffiee in Decatur Indiana, as second class mail matter. ■ J. H. HELL ER. Manager. AN IMPORTANT DAY. Come to the smoker tonight. Let's smoke up. Let s get together and plan for a successful lot sale next Tuesday. Let's discuss plans for making Decatur numerically and commercially greater. Let’s lay the ground work for a population of ten thousand in 1910. This is great work and means much for the present and still more for the future generations. Decatur possesses ail the essentials. She is unequaled in shipping facilities and has all the other qualifications for the best that is in manufacturing, in business as well as social life. All that is needed to expand these various agencies is more factories and with them will come more business, and more values. We have started well. Public sentiment is with us. Our people universally appreciate the benefits to be derived from expanding, and are bending every energy to make Decatur greater and better. This lot sale must be a winner. Evert- lot must be sold. Every person pledged must see to It, that Tuesday, March 26, shall live as the one day when Decatur took the most progressive step in her life’s history.

jits the truth And no mistake about the Line of |SPRING GOODS j that is coming in at | TRUE d RUNYON’S I , j Truly they have the prettiest j line of spring goods ever { shown in Decatur j Their line of ready made j waists can’t be outdone anyI where They are the very newest and best to be had. Prices $1 to $5 be sure and see them soon Where at? TRUE & RUNYON'S

There is one way to do it, and only one. Make public sentiment so strong that every lot will be sold and paid for as agreed. This is the one essential thing necessary to the success of this undertaking. It means j much to every merchant, property owner and individual. Plan now to make it a success. MR. BRYAN SAYS. “The most interesting phase of the situation just now is the refusal of the peopel to lend money freely to the railroads. This, railroad managers say, is due to the hostile legislation, but this is a mistake. There has been no hostile legislation of sufficient severity to impair the real value of railroad securities, where the railroads have been honestly conducted upon an honest capitalization. “If the investing public is alarmed, it is because the railroad managers, in vain effort to terrorize the legislatures, have carried matters too far. If any other answer is needed for the anxiety on the part of investors, the investigations furnish it, for the inquiries show to what extent railroad stocks have been watered. “But what is the alternative? Must the government refuse to investigate rotten management for fear the mismanaged railroads no longer will be able to fool the public into buying inflated securities? The sooner the railroads are put on an honest basis the more secure will the investing public feel.” The agitation of town booming that is shaking Decatur from center to circumference is coming south. Monroe is getting the fever badly. Just lately they decided to start a bank and now they talk of starting a lumber yard and grist mill. Next thing we know the boom will come sti'l farther south and annex us all to the county seat. —Berne Witness. - LOST —Scotch collie female dog. Yellow and white in color. Finder return to Daniel Campbell, 210 Fifth street and receive reward.

TWENTY FOURTH Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dibble Wedding Day DECATUR LADIES AT BLUFFTON Twelve O'clock Dinner Party by Mrs. Nachtrieb —The Pocahontas Ladies at Huntington. One of the most successful and enjoyable surprises of the season w-as the one on Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dibble at their beautiful country home, three miles east of the city, given in honor of their twenty-fourth wedding anniversary, by their son Otis and daughter Blanche, last evening. The ladies gathered at their home at two o'clock with large baskets filled and overflowing with everything that is necessary for a great event. The men arrived at four o’clock. During the afternoon the ladies prepared two large tables, one in the spacious dining room and one in the sitting room. The decorations were grand for the color scheme of red, yellow, green, white and blue, was very nicely carried out. The dining table was decorated in an artistic manner with crepe paper and the hooded candles were arranged around the room. At six o'clock a mock wedding was the main feature, the bride and groom being Mr. and Mrs. Dibble. They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Bell, while Otis Dibble and Miss Blanche Dibble carried the flowers, which consisted of a jardiniere of geraniums with red blossoms made from crepe paper. Rev. White performed the ceremony. The only hitch in the ceremony was the delay of the best man who had forgotten the ring, but they soon remedied that by going to the barn and getting the check ring from the harness, after which everything went off smoothly. During the ceremony the hellers were beard on the outside, and of course, they vere invited to partake of the dinner. The hellers were D. M. Hensley, P. G. Hooper and A, R. Bell. The ring bearer was Master Brice Thomas. Following this an elaborate dinner was served, the guests finding their places by dainty little cards with their addresses, as thus: Mesdames Montana Alice Hensley, Hattie Florence Lew- | ton. Luella Augusta Erwin, Marian Sarah White, Luella Viola Vanline Jeanetta Nachtrieb, Anna Eliza Erwin Patterson, Lucy Jeannette Sprang, Louisa Pauline Albers Merryman, • Carrie Louise Schirmeyer, Dora Marj garet Bell, Harriet Ameney Dibble, j Jane Ranier, Ella Delphine Sprang ■ Sprang Bell, Emma Estella Thomas, Bell. Emma Estella Thomas, 1 Master Phillip Brice Thomas. Blanche j Adeiia Dibble, Destina June Beery j Dailey, Mary Etta Beery; Messrs, j Herman Otis Dibble, David Marion i Hensley, Cary i >ee I cwton, • ic'iard ICennev Erwin, John Crum White, , William Henry Schafer Nachtrieb, j Daniel Sprang, James Thomas Meiry- | man, Alexander Rufus ilastus Be!!, Paul Grandville Hooper, Phillip Berry Thomas. Daniel Webster Beery, Frank William Dibble, Charles Towers fla- | nier. ' Mrs. Harry Deam will entertain a number of out of town guests tomorrow at dinner and supper. The ladies will attend the Wagner musicale as Mrs. Deam's guests. They are Mrs. I Florence DeVilbiss and Mrs. Fanny | Cole of Lancaster, Ohio; Mesdames \ William Nachtrieb, John Heller, John | Tyndall, Fred Mills, Frank Schirmev- \ er, Chal Schafer, R. K. Allison, P. G. | Hooper, L. G. Elllngham, Alex Bell, J. [ C. Patterson, Herman Conter, Charles | Dugan, William Kuebler, Roy ArcbI bold, John Niblick, Dan Beery and | Frank Crawford and Misses Hattie | Studabaker and Bess Scbrock, of De- | catur. —Bluffton Banner.

A twelve o'clock dinner will be given by Mrs W. H. ‘ Nacbtrieb at her home on Winchester street, on Wednesday. In the afternoon the ladle* of the Shakespeare Club will Meet at her home at their regular weekly meeting. The following ladle* of the Pocahontas lodge were at Huntington yesterday, Initiating a class of candidate*. They returned last eveaing. They were: Mesdamee Patton. Keller, Lord, Brokaw, Wearer, Cowley, Burrell, Murray, Mereness, Cross, Barrett, FYlstoe, Bain, Burdg, Parri6h, Laughrev, Mr. and Mrs. Garard and. Mr. and Mrs. Beatty. Mrs. James Hendricks of Monroe, entertained Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Smith at a Sunday dinner in honor of Mrs. Frank Crill and son Ralph of Decatur. Mrs. B. M. Smith of Monroe, en-l tertained at a six o'clock dinner on

Sunday evening, Mr. and Mrs. James | Hendricks and Mrs. Frank Crill and, son, Ralph of Decatur. Mrs. Crill returned home Monday morning. THE NEWSPAPERS (Continued from page 1.) editors. It is the organ of the Republicans of Adams county and has a circulation of 900. It is a fair sized eight paged paper, issued every Friday. The Daily Journal was run in connection with the weekly, about six or seven years, but was suspended in 1906. The -Adams County Union was founded iu 1878 with J. F. Snyder and Paul G. Hooper editors. This paper was “Greenback" in politics and run for about two years. The Adams County Times was another paper established in 1876 by W. W. Timmons. This paper was issued about six or seven months and then removed to another locality. In politics it was Democratic. The Free Press was founded in 1576 or 77, by W. S. Congleton. It was Republican in politics and run for over a year, or until the Journal was founded in 1879. In 1858 a paper with the flourishing title of Young America, was started by T. J. Tolan with the ever recurring James Smith as editor. The paper was an advocate of the new Republican party and discontinued after running a little over a year. The Decatur News was a paper stared by Mr. Norval Blackburn, who was for a long time proprietor of The Democrat. After selling The Democrat Mr. Blackburn founded the new paper which was somewhat independent in politics. At Mr. Blackburn's death, in 1898, the paper was sold to Mr. Klzer who ran it about a year and then suspended publication. , The Geneva Herald was established in 1881. In that year it made its first appearance as the Geneva News, with John Cully as editor. In 1883, it was sold to H. S. Thomas, the name being changed to The Geneva Herald. It is independent in politics, and has a good circulation. In 1885, Ed Phillips started The Geneva Enterprise, which ran about a year and then suspended. The enterprising little town of Berne has had a publishing house since 1884, which belonged to the General Conference of the Mennonite church. Early in the 90’s a book bindery was established in connection

with the Mennonite Book Concern, and was a very successful business enterprise, as book and magazines were sent to this bindery from all the surrounding towns to be bound or to be rebound. The Mennonite Book Concern publishes a German weekly paper, The Bundesbote; an English weekly, The Mennonite; a semimonthly children's paper, the Kinderbote. and a German Sunday school quarterly, all edited, * printed and mailed in Berne. In September, 1896, a new paper, The Berne Witness, was launched with an office force of two people. In 1897 the paper was enlarged and the force increased to three. In 1897 it was again enlarged and the force that year was five. In 1900 a German edition was added and continued until November, 1901, when the two were merged and issued semi-weekly, the paper printed in English with one page in German. In 1900 the prining of the Mennonite Book Concern was added, the force increased to eleven, about $3,000 worth of new machinery added and the plant moved into more commodious quarters. In the latter part of this year, the editor formed a partnership with three other parties, he retaining one-half interest in the concern which he had formerly owned. In 1906 two more partners were taken in and the company was incorporated with a capital stock of $12,000, the business managed by three directors, with Mr. Rohrer president and general manager. Another department waa added. The school supply business under the management of Mr. Ray. The gross earnings of

this newspaper plant has iacreased from 81,280 to $12,000 per year. New and up-to-date machinery is added annually and the office force now numbers eighteen. In the fall of 1803 The Berne News wss established with Hamilton Meroer as editor and 8. W. Miller manager. The paper was issued as a semi-week-ly. Democratic in politics. Mr. Mercer had charge of the paper only a few months when the present editor, Otto Ryf assumed the editorial chair and has been in charge ever since, and aow both editor and proprietor. The Mews is issued every Wednesday and Saturday. It has very flattering prospects and a circulation of 750. The Star News was a small paper issued every two weeks by the Snow brothers from July 14, 1894 to June 1905. This paper was started when the oldest of the brothers, Earl, was thirteen and the youngest, Horace, only nine. These boys did all the writing, composition and press work. They were very successful In soiicftin advertisements aed :heir paper had a circulation of f -ur hundred, with an exchnge in Bombay, India, and subscribers in eight or nine states.

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The little paper has been suspended for over a year, but their advertising and Job printing has grown so large that new machinery, new type and a new building for an office is now in possession of the younger brother, who carries on a very successful job printing business and is always busy. Some time In the early '7o's three boys at Monmouth, Jacob and Samuel Magley and Paul Hooper, the oldest about fourteen, formed a partnership, purchased a hand press and went into the newspaper business. The result was the issuing of The Cyndian, a small weekly, which soon obtained a circulation of over three hundred, and run for about two years, the boys doing all their own writing and composition. The two Magley boys soon grew tired and sold their interest to C. M. Hill, a boy still younger, but with editorial ambitions. Hooper & Hill was the new firm and when The Cyndian expired both went into larger printing offices and the knowledge acquired by editing and printing the little Cyndian was not thrown away. The Historical Club is indebted to ( Mr. John H. Heller, the present manager of the Daily Democrat, for the following account of the daily newspapers of Decatur: The existence of a daily paper as a permanent institution in Decatur dates back just fifteen years. Prior to that time there were several special editions when occasion demanded. Some thirty years ago Winfield 3. Congleton conducted a daily paper for a few weeks, but the community failed to support it and a validictory bv the editor, soon followed. In the fall of 1884, Edward Phillips edited a daily during the famous Charles Worst murder trial. In 1885 M. M. Stoops ran a daily paper during a county fair, continuing it about three weeks after the fair closed. In September 18*1, Will Ashcraft, then owner of the Journal, published a morning daily for ffteen days during the trial of Lige Holland, a negro, who was charged ‘ with the murder of Daisy Reynolds, a Blue Creek towaskip school teacher. The reel father of the daily business la Decatur, with any prospect of suooess, was Patrick J. Bobo, who in the spring of lift formed a partnership with B 4 Martin and launched the Dally Brewing News. The offices were on the seoond floor of the Niblick block, corner Monroe and Second streets, and the press work was done at the Democrat office. This was a six column folio with patent inside, and was a bright, newsy paper. Mr. Bobo edited the News for nearly two years when he put in a Job office and changed his paper to a five column quarto, printed from his own press, and known as the Evening World. Six months later ho changed it to a weekly which he conducted several years. About his time, 1895, N. Blackburn stared the Daily Democrat, a six column folio, which lived until October, 1896, when it was suspended. Early in 1897 C. M. Kenyon started

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the Daily Journal, which stood nobly the rough 1 tides common to dally papers In small towns, and existed until July 3rd, 1906. Mr. Kenyon sold to Mr. Harry Daniel In 1899, and he resold to Mr. Kenyon In 1903, who issued morning and evening editions until last July .when the paper was suspended. The Dally Democrat, at present the only dally In tte city, was born January 12, 1903, a six column folio. It was enlarged March 11th, 1.07, tc a seven column folio. About 3000 papers are printed each day and it compares favorably with dailies in any small city; in fact, the daily papers of Decatur have always been a credit to the city and community and have aided materially in the grow th and prosperity thereof. The daily paper of today in Decatur, is printed from a rapid Whitlock press and the type furnished by a modem double-deck linotype machine. ——————————-—O'" 1 " ■"■ 1 " ■ OBITUARY. Louis Evans was bora in Champaign county, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1848, died Sunday, March 10, 1907, age 59 (years, 27 days. He was united in 'marriage to Mrs. Catharine McAlexander April 16, 1868, to this union 7 children being bora, 5 sons and 2 daughters, 3 of whom have preceded him to the better land. He was unitled to the Christian Disciples church and baptized in 1888. Two weeks before his death he was gloriously converted and calling all his friends to his bedside he asked them to meet him In heaven. His sickness was very severe, he having suffered one year with cancer of the stomach. He bore it with great patience and in his last days he was happy in the Lord. He was a loving father and a kind husband. Those left to mourn are: A companion, Carrie. Proman, Lewis, Albert, 2 step sons, 1 step daughter! J brothers. 1 sister, 7 grand children and a host of friends. We mourn not as those who have no hope, for he was willing to die. whenever the Lord said It is enough, m the morning of the reeurrectlon the mysterj will be explained. Sweet be ffiy rem. ™fIUC fIALI .JV o*er at publie “ n * “*!• southwest of the city of Deeatur. on the (arm fenJh* m a. ft*.,, SSw!"* “• «"■ «» mm« wMrtt^uac***' 0 *^ b * r *•»<»■«. sound, ’,f\V 4W pound ». good worker 8ard bred dark baTmare thL, old, sired by sSCotoT single or double; sired by Electric Lion brok^to «"■£ milk; one £w wui be fresh about Anrti i ♦ w Wlll tng about 7» pounds each Ten tons of hay In the mow-

bushels of Big Four seed oats; 500 bushels of corn In the crib and fodder in shock. Two farm wagons, Deerlng binder, Deerlng mowing machine, disc harrow (new), breaking plows, cultivator, spike tooth harrow, two-horse corn planter, two single buggies, carriage, set of double work harness, two sets single harness, set of hay ladders, iron kettle, household and kitchen furnitnre and many other articles too numerous to mention. Free lunch to all at noon hour. TERMS. All sums of $5 and under cash in hand; on sums over th.t amount a credit of 9 months will be given, purchaser giving note with approved security to the satisfaction of the undersigned. No property to be removed until satisfactory settlement is made. Five per cent discount for cash. J. B. TUDOR Fred Reppert, Auctioneer. Dan Erwin, Clerk. o GREAT DISPERSION SALE 55 head of O. I. C. Swine. Entire herd must be sold at your own price. Having leased the farm l will sell at public sale at the Riverside burn at Decatur, Ind., on Friday, March 22, 1907. My entire herd consisting of my herd boar, Duke 12332. and the f< ing herd sows: Tootsie 12336, Beauty 11268. Perfect Girl 16455, Snow Ball 16485, Decatur Bell 16545, Wootsie 16519, Roxie 16499, Decatur Girl 16515, Snappy 16495, Midg 16581, Locust Pride 16505. These are all tried sows and are proved to be good breeders, good mothers and prolific. The above are bred to farrow in April and May. Will also sell twelve bred gilts to farrow in June. These are “A No 1,” and should weigh 250 to 300 pounds by sale day. Also twelve September gilts. These are large, growthy, good boned and will make an elegant bunch to breed for September farrow. Fifteen October and November farrowed pigs, one June boar lit for service, four September males In fine shape for spring service. TERMS— A credit of 8 months will be given on sums over |2O, purchaser giving bankable notes with 6 per cent interest from date. If not paid when doe 8 per cent interest will be charged from maturity. Parties unknown should bring references. Parties not able to attend please send their bids to Coi. Fred Reppert, auctioneer, Decatur, Ind., or to Chas. Niblick, clerk. Decatur. Ini, or to The Fanner's Quids, HuntingtonInd., sad receive fair and honest P. B. DTKKMAN. Manager DON'T DRIVE PAfIT ON DRIDOES. Notlee 1s hereby given that any person caught driving ever any bridges in Adams oounty faster than a walk, will be prosecuted to th« ful! extent of the law. This is the third and last notice and from now ou tils law will be rigidly enforced. If 7 0U don't want to be the example, cut it out By order of the the Adams County Commissioners. “ ■ ” * I will do paper hanging and patt ing this spring. Satisfaction guaran teed. Leave orders at Nachtrieb drug store, or at my house, " a!l 1 street. Tilden Lister. See True & Runyon's nice new h ’ of ready made waists. They a- -