Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

| Volume V. Number 69

SALE DAY DRAWING NEAR Only Three Days Left in Which to Boost the Lot Sale on Tuesday

■ DO YOUR PART | Every One Has the Spirit I and Success is Assured I NOW FOR THE GRAND FINISH P Pledges Still Coming in and Committees Completing Arrangements For Big Holiday. L j Only three more day for you to ■ Knk it over. Are you doing your I part towards this eventful and irntransaction'’ This is tre fljflortant transaction? This is the most important time in Decatur's his■CTnrv. A factory fund of $50,000 is to fejje raised and at present success Ryeems within our reach. 'The pledges Is ha .. not come in as rapidly as posBsitile this week, but a few have- got Hbn the wagon each day. Large bills ■Mto',-ainins-' plats and prices ami giving ■»U.: information of the Mg sale are flpbet:;” circulated and are read with inHferest. Many have selected the lot want, with many next choices, three or four divisions are all ? Kocd and you will make no mistake in K*n> lot. You are your own judge as fe to price and location of your lot, any of them and your money Bis safe. Os course, some lots will K grow fnto value quicker than others, K ut we can offer no advice as to this. ■From the list published and from fl Cards displayed in the windows it B can readily be seen that every busfl iness house in Decatur will be closed on the big day and it certainly looks now as though it would be a £ genuine holiday. g The appraisers of the lots certainly ' did good work, for no complaints are Kheard and they have been carefuly Ktudied by real estate dealers as well &’ as by many others. This project is fl-well under way and promises to be & a ten-time winner if the spirit now ■ manifested on every hand continues ■until after Tuesday. Help push, fl Don't be a knocker. It never pays in ■ the long run. This is to be a great ■ year in old Decatur and no visible fl power can stop it, if you and each of fl you, do your duty. Will you do it? ■ The answer will be given Tuesday fl next. Name* Added Today. William Mersman. Paul Baumgartner. T. H. Ernst. That it will be a holiday is now fl assured for every store in town will fl be closed from twelve to five o'clock, fl Everyone has caught the spirit and fl this big auction will be the most exfl citing event ever witnessed here. The fl list of firms who have agreed to close I their places of business is as folfl low: Schafer Hardware Co. Elzey & Vance. fl| J. H. Voglewede & Son. S. Melchl. E. E. DeWitt. Everett, Hite & Son. fl D. M. Hensley. F. E. Smith. B" J. H. Smith. ■ A. J. Russell. B Thos. A. Leonard. B JD. Hale. ■ J. E. Moser & Co Burt Mangold. ■*■. J- E - Moser. B Cress & Beavers. I Kate Burdg. | Ball, Meyer & Presdorf. .. Della Fetzer. I The Daily Democrat. Coffee & Rinehart. Leo Miller. fl Sullivan & Haley. First National Bank. John Brock. Charlie Voglewede. fl The Myers & Dailey Co. ■ W. H. Nachtireb. Anderson & Baker. Holthouse, Schulte & Co. Journal Publishing Co. Old Adams County Bank fl Niblick & Co. Winnes Shoe Store.

J. D. Rieter. J. W. Place Co. Kuebler & Moltz Co. The Holthouse Drug Co. Decatur Hardware Co. Palace Bowling Alleys. Dyonis Schmitt. M. Burns & Son. W. L. Lehne. Smith, Yager & Falk. U. Deinlnger. M. Fullerikamp. T. C. Corbett. Fred B. Tague. Leo Auth. F. G. Eichenberger. B. Kalver Clothing Co. Page Blackburn. Steele & Weaver. Lose & Schrank. True & RunyonMrs. A. Boese. . Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas Company. Laman & Lee. Klondyke Bowling Alleys. Wm. Butler. J. Joseph. A. L. Burdg. * F. V. Mills. C. E. Baughman. Decatur Packing Co. Simon J. Hain. Kalver & Co. W. G. Spencer. Gay & Zwick. COURTHOUSENEWS Two More Divorce Cases are Filed EACH ALLEGES DESERTION Effie Johnson Granted a DivorceOther Affairs in Circuit Court Today. Hooper & Lenhart are attorneys for Lola, P. Jones, who wants a divorce from her husband, Frank P. Jones. The Joneses were married January 30, 1902, and lived together until March 14 of the same year, about two months, when Frank became weary of the life and deserted. He is described as an habitual drunkard and Mrs. Jones asks for a plain decree of divorce. Another divorce case was filed today, Jacob Butcher being attorney for Henrietta W r aters, who wants a legal separation from Wilson L. Waters. They were married March 30, 1882, and separated December 28, 1904. Non-support is the cause on which the case is based. Mrs. Walters asks for a divorce, the custody of five of her nine children and a monthly allowance for their support. George A. Bohrer Brewing Company vs. Harry Cordua et al., demurrer of plaintiff to answer of Roop overruled, demurrer to answer of Sheline overruled. A. P. Beatty has appeared for the defendants in the cases of Wilson P. Clymer, David Bailey and A. O. Smith vs' W. H. Gardner et al., suits on note and attachment. Effie V. Johnson vs. Robert M. Johnson, divorce granted, plaintiff to pay costs. Custody of child, Truman Johnson, granted to plaintiff. Samuel Stahl et al., vs. Illinois Oil Company, complaint for oil rental, set for issues Thursday, April 4th. Emanuel Woods vs. John S. Bowers et al., suit on $5,000 account, set for the closing of issues, April 4th. Theodore Beerbower, guardian for Theodore Beerbower et al., filed a petition for an order to settle a bastardy suit for Theodore Beerbower, jr., for S3OO and said order was granted. Lee Yager arrived today from his I regular trip and will spend Sunday with his sister.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, March 22, 1907.

DESERTED HIS WIFE AND BABIE6 Chauncey Debolt’a Wife Tells Her Sad Story of Misfortune. Mrs. Chauncey Debolt and her three bright-faced little children called at this office this morning and told a story of family troubles. Mrs. Debolt said they moved to Fort Wayne about a year ago, where she soon afterwards became sick and had to undergo a serious operation. While she was a patient at the hospital her husband borrowed all the money he could and leaving only the message that he was tired of married life, left the city, coming to Decatur. His family is practically destitute, but Mrs. Debolt will return to Fort Wayne and make a brave effort to care for her family. WILL MEET SOON Evangelical Conference to Convene at Wayne THE ORDER OF THE SERVICES Session Will Continue One Week— Sixty-seven Ministers Will Attend Meetings. The fifty-fifth annual session of the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical Association will be held at Fort Wayne the first week in April. The examination of the junior preachers will begin on Tuesday morning. The Missionary Society will holds .its annual meeting on Wednesday afternoon. The church in which the services will be held, is located on the corner of Clinton and De Wald streets, and' is a most modern and well equipped building. Bishop S.’C. Breyfogel, D. D., of Reading, Paly will preside. His opening address will be given on Thursday morning at 9:00, and will be worth the while for our Decatur friends to make an effort to hear. The conference is composed of four districts, with sixty-seven ministers in active service. The property valuation has attained unto the half million mark. The following is the full program as announced for the conference week, aside from the business session. The order of services will be as follows: Monday, 7:30 p. m—Sermon Rev. C. D. Rarey. Tuesday, 7:30 p. m.—Lecture, “The Incarnation of the Son of God.” Prof. S. J. Gamertsfelter, D. D., Ph. D. Wednesday, 7:30 p. m—Sermon, Rev. E. Q. Laudeman. Opening of Conference.

Thursday, 9:00 a. m.—Annual address, Bishop S. C. Breyfogel, D. B. Thursday, 7:30 p. m.—Sermon, Rev. J. W. Metzner. Friday, 7:30 p. m.—Sermon, Rev. G. B. Kimmel. Saturday, 7:30 p. m.—Sermon, Rev. S. P. Sprng, D. D. Sunday, 9:00 a. m—Sunday school. Addresses by M. W. Sunderman, F. S. Erne and J. O. Mosier; 10:00 a. m. —Ordination Sermon, Bishop S. C. Breyfogel, D. D.; 2:00 p. m.—Ordination services and annual Missionary meeting, conducted by Bishop S. C. Breyfogel, D. D.; 7:30 p. m.—Sermon, Bishop S. C. Breyfogel, D. D. Board of Examiners meet Tuesday, 9:00 a. m. Opening service. Lecture, “The Kingdom of God and the Forward Movement,” Rev. D. E. Martz, President of the Board. Tuesday, 2:00 p. m.—Lecture, "Progressive Revelation.” Prof. S. J. Gamertsfelter, D. D., Ph. D. Wednesday, 2:00 p. m—Annual meeting of the Conference Missionary Society; 3:30 p. m.—Annual meeting of the Sunday School and Tract Union Society. SAM SHAMP'S FATHER IS DEAD Had Lived at Akron, Indiana, a Life Time. Jesse Shamp, father of Sam Shmap, of the local postoffice, died at his home at Akron, Ind., last night. He was seventy-two years old and came to Indiana many years ago, being one of the very first settlers in- the town of Akron. He was a native of Galion, Ohio, where he was born in 1835. He was a veteran of the Civil war and a very prominent citizen in his community. He has been in poor health for six months past, suffering from a complication of diseases. He leaves a wife, four sons and three daughters to grieve. Mr. Samuel Shamp left here today to attend the funeral services, which will be held Saturday afternoon at two o’clock.

ARTMAN REVERSED Supreme Court Upsets a Recent Decision MADE BY LEBANON JUDGE Who Held That State Had no Right to License or Recognize the Liquor Traffic—lnterests Many. Indianapolis, Ind., March 21. The supreme court today held that the ordinance of the city of Indianapolis Imposing a license fee of SI,OOO a year on every depot or agency of any brewery or distillery in the city is valid as a police measure. In the same decision the court completely upset the position taken recently by Judge Samuel S. Artman, of Lebanon, who said that the state had no right to license, regulate or even recognize the liquor traffic for the reason that the traffic is inherently illegal and wrong. The state, he held, has no power to encourage, even by recognition, an act that is inherently wrong. Judge Artman's decision was given in an Indianapolis liquor license case that had been taken to Lebanon on a change of venue. The opinion handed down today bj Judge Montgomery of the Supreme court, is in plain, terms, axid fir-reach-ing in its effect, as it clearly defines the status of the. liquor traffic and the right of the state or municipalities to regulate it. It was objected against, tjhe ordinance that it was merely a revenue measure in disguise and interfered with interstate commerce, the appellant, Gustav G. Schmidt, being the lo cal agent of the Milwaukee Brewing company. But the.court declared that a statute or ordinance must be so construed. if It will reasonably bear such construction, as lo conform to the provisions of the constitution, and that this act, properly const? ued, merely imposes a license for purposes of regulation. “Where a municipal regulation is adopted,” said Judge Montgomery, speaking for the court, “which would be lawful if intended for one purpose and unlawful if intended for another, the resumption is that the purpose was lawful, unless the contrary clearly appeared.” —.o HE IS OUT OF JAIL Senator Burton was Released Today WILL START A NEWSPAPER Expects to Re-enter Political Arena and Win Back the Confidence He Once Held. Ironton, Mo., March 22.—When former Senator Burton was released from jail this morning, he said: "I am going back home, back to Abilene, where I was reared, and prove to the world that there was no truth in the charges which have kept me in jail. I was persecuted not prosecuted and tha man who more than any other was responsible for .my downfall was Theodore Roosevelt. Next Saturday night I will deliver a speech which will open the eyes of those who misjudged me. I am not going to resume the practice of law for the present at least. I am going back into politics and stay there until I win back that confidence which I had before these false persecutions against me began. I am going to start a weekly newspaper.” No doubt Senator Burton’s paper will be much in demand for a year or two at least. ENGINE HITS A STREET CAR Fatally Injuring Three Children —A Detroit Accident. Detroit, March 22.—Through the breaking of a trolley an electric street car, became stalled on the Fourteenth street crossing of the Michigan Central railroad today. The car was filled with workmen and children, the latter on their way to schocfi. An engine struck the car, cutting it in two, and fatally injuring three people.

A COUNTRY WEDDING John A. L. Book and Lula Raver Were Married. Mr. John A. L. Book of Rockford, 0., and Miss Lula Raver of Decatur, were quietly married Wednesday. The wedding was a very quiet affair. Immediately after the ceremony they drove to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Raver, where an elaborate luncheon was served, which was followed by an old-time taffy pulling. Those present besides the immediate friends were William Welty and daughter Bertha, Mr. Claud Scott and Miss Tena May. After spending a few days with friends they will return to Rockford, where they will make their futur.e home. 0 WILL MEET HERE District M. E. Conference Next Year SESSION AT FORT WAYNE Closed Last Evening—Meetings Were Successful —Methodi s ts May Buy Hope Hospital. The Fort Wayne district conference !of the Methodist Episcopal church, I closed their three days’ session at i Fort Wayne last evening. Among the important things decided was the place of meeting for next year, the committee to whom this was referred I having arranged to have the 1908 ! meeting held' in Decatur next March, j Oven five hundred ministers and dele- ! gates may attend these sessions and ■ an effort will be made to make the i nekt year's meeting the best in point i of attendance ever known in the dis- ; triCt. A noted bishop will probably ■ preside at the sessions here next spring. Many important subjects were I discussed at the yesterday sessions of the conference, among them being the quetion of building a Methodist hosI pital. A proposition to transfer the , Hope hospital property to the Metho- ! dist church, the latter assuming the ‘ present indebtedness of about $29,000, I is under consideration by the directors I of the institution, and will be reported to the chairman of the church commute, the Rev. C. U. Wade, within a short time. Revs. J. C. White of this city, C. B. Sweeney of Bobo, David Wells and C. G. Nelson of Geneva, attended the sessions. o WILL BUILD NEW PAVILION Hundred Thousand Dollar Building at State Fair Grounds. The state board of agriculture will meet soon to authorize the issuance of SIOO,OOO in bonds for the erection of the new live stock pavilion at the state fair grounds. The bonds will bear interest at 4 per cent. They will be non-taxable and the interest will be payabel semi-annually. AU bonds are to be paid by November 1, 1910, by the state treasurer. The board will also accept the plans for the pavilion prepared by Rubush & Hunter, architects, and authorize publication for bids on the contract for the erection of the building. The building will be oval in shape, 350 feet long and 200 feet wide, fifty feet high at the eaves and ninety feet high at the top of the cone. The show arena will be oval In shape, 270 feet long by 120 wide wide. Eight tiers of seats will rise from the arena on all sides. The seating capacity of the building will be 8,000. — -—o — FATHER LABONTE 13 DEAD Was at One Time in Charge of the Monroeville Church. Bishop Alerding yesterday received a telegram announcing the death at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, Lafayette, of the Rev. F. X. Labonte, a well known priest of the Fort Wayne diocese. He had been ill for several months, suffering from an abscess on the brain. Father Labonte is well known all over the diocese, in which he had served for about ten years. He was at one time pastor at Besancon, later for a short period filled the Monroeville charge and also assisted the clergy in this city. A few years ago he went to Connecticut, but later returned to this diocese and was pastor at Oxford when his fatal illness seized him. he body will probably be sent to Connecticut for interment. — ' Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

MORE LEGISLATION President has Another Dose Fixed Up CONSUL GRIFFITHS 18 GOOD The President to Speak in Indianapolis a* Unveiling o' Monument to General Lawton. Washington, March 22.—1 t is now evident’that the president intends to put in most of his time during the coming six months perfecting his program for additional railroad legislation. He continues to tell his callers that his program is still in the rough, but he has two things uppermost in his mind. First, additional authority from congress for the Interstate Commerce Commission which will enable the commission to vise all stock and bond issues by railroad corporations, and second, an authorization for the commission to ascertain the actual value of railroad property in the United States. Washington, March 22. —Indianians in the consular service are sending a large amount of interesting industrial information to the bureau of manufactures. John L. Griffiths, who is stationed at Liverpool, keeps this government thoroughly posted on the commercial situation in England. This government looks to him, rather than to the consul general at London, for commercial facts. Mr. Griffiths is looked upon as one of the newcomers in the service, but he is filling the office so acceptably that the state department is already planning to give him a promotion at the earliest possible date. Washington, March 22. —It is somewhat embarrassing to the president to read in the newspapers that some of the representatives of the G. A. R. in Indianapolis are objecting to him speaking in that city on Memorial day. Many cities extended him invitations to speak on this day ,and the Indianapolis invitation was accepted because the chief executive felt that the occasion of the unveiling of the monument to General Lawton, a G. A. R. man, made it specially fitting for him to speak there. WILUJTIGATE

Pennsylvania Railroad to Fight New Act. PROVIDING ELEVATED TRACKS In Fort Wayne, Thus Delaying the Improvement for Several Years at the Least. Ft. Wayne, Ind., March 21.—Indications are that it will be several years at least before Fort Wayne gets its much cherished track elevation. The law enacted by the last legislature provided for track elevation in this city had an emergency clause attached to It and this fact created a general impression here that the work would be started very soon, but the Pennsylvania railroad is now showing its teeth and will block the work until the highest courts of the country have passed on the constitutionality of the act. It is certain that a long drawn out legal fight is pending and that the city will have no track elevation until it is settled. Railroad officials who were Interviewed today were united in declaring that the new law will place the railroad's share of the actual cost of elevation at more than 85 per cent, or about 20 per cent more than the appointment fixed in the law of 1905. They compute It at 85 per cent by reason of the fact that they must bear the entire cost of the elevation work between street crossings. It is therefore certain that the Pensylvania and Wabash railroads will refuse to proceed with the work when they are ordered to do so. To carry out the entire track elevation scheme in the city would cost at least $750,000 and possibly $1,000,000, say some of the city's engineers.

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TOM JOHNSON IS IN WRECK Hi» Injuries Not Serlou»—-A Very Lucky Affair. Pittsburg, Pa., March 22.—Officials of the Pennsylvania railroad say the tracks east of Pittsburg were tampered with by train wreckers, near Stuart Station and a most rigid investigation Is in progress. At four o’clock this morning, when the New York and Chicago limited was speeding westward at a rate of sixty-five miles an hour, the engine left the rails, dragging with it the mail, baggage and three sleepers. The other three Pullman cars remained on the track. Tom Johnson, mayor of Cleveland, and the engineer were badly bruised, but not seriously hurt. Many others were slightly injured, but all together it was a lucky result. A HAPPY WEDDING Peters-Leas Nuptuals Celebrated AT WATERLOO WEDNESDAY EVE The Bride Received a Check For SSOO and Many Other Handsome Wedding Gifts. Waterloo, Ind., March 21. —Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leas occurred the marriage of their daughter, Miss Estella, to Earl 5, Peters, of Decatup, Ind. The bride was one of Waterloo's best grils, a young lady of fine education and numerous accomplishments and one whose genial disposition and sterling worth made her a general favorite with young and old, rich and poor. Since the Issuing of the invitations, therefore, much interest has centered upon the approaching wedding and fortunate were those who received them. By 6 o’clock of the evening many were seen wending their way to the Leas residence and before the hour set for the ceremony all were present. In every one of the spacious room Easter flowers and carnations were used and in the southwest corner of the sitting-room a beautiful bridal bower had been prepared. Promptly at 6:30 the first strains of Mendelssohn’s march were heard, with Miss Edna Dennison at the piano, and this was the signal for the bridal party. The ribbon bearers were Missels Fearne Least, Ethel Waterman, Verna Darby and Miss Nellie Ober of Auburn, all of whom except Miss Fearne were classmates of the bride and fellow members of the Delta Gamma, a secret society of Indiana University. Misses Darby and Leas advanced to the bower and down the aisle thus formed came the bridal party—Rev. Street, the officiating clergyman; the groom with his best man, John Jones of Muncie; Miss Vennie Baily, maid of honor —followed by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leas and lastly the bride on the arm of her father. After the ceremony the bridal party repaired to the din-ing-room and the other guests were served on small tables placed in the different rooms. The wedding dinner was an elegant affair in four courses, in charge of a caterer from Angola. The young couple left at once for Auburn and thence on the interurban to Fort Wayne and thence to Bluffton, where they will remain until next week, when they will go to ohusekeeplng at Decatur. A check for SSOO was the gift of her father and many other useful and valuable presents came from friends. The out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stone and Miss Vennie Bally, of Reading, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Jake Leas of Hudson; Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Taylor of Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Metzner and I. Peters, of Bluffton; Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Cox of Corunna; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leas of Angola; Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. L. Wise and Miss Nellie Ober of Auburn, and Mrs D. T. Teabe of Chicago. SECRET SERVICE MEN ON CASE Dover, Dela., March 22. —President Roosevelt’s secret service men started on the Marvin case today, trying to locate certain writers of letters who have been saying they would deliver the child for a ransom. Mrs. Majors returned to Berne today, after making a pleasant visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I Shaffer Peterson.