Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 86

COURT HOUSE NEWS The April Term Closed Today ADAM DIEHL REFUSED DIVORCE Court Holds the Marriage Contract Good—Appeal Asked in Loch Receivership Case. A marriage license has been issued to Albert Henry Katterheinrich and Frances E. Hurst. The groom is a bookkeeper at the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway office, and the bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Hurst. Adam Diehl, who filed suit against Emma Diehl to annul a marriage contract alleging that she had misrepresented certain facts concerning her conditon will have to continue to support his wife. Judge Erwin refused to grant the divorce and found against the plaintiff for costs. The April term of court and the semi-annual session of the grand jury will convene Monday morning. Attorney Manning of Kokomo, Ind., was looking after legal affairs in circuit court here this morning. Bernard J. Stump vs. Rosa Stump et al., suit to foreclose mortgage, demand |SOO, defendants reuled to answer within five days. Noah Loch vs. Edward Dirkson and Charles H. Zwlck, complaint for receiver, motion for new trial filed, overruled and appeal prayed to appellate court. However, under the law, no appeal Is permissible. Q. INDIANA WILL BE DRY IN 1912 This Prediction is Made by the AntiSaloon League. So much greater has been the success of the workers against intemperance than was anticipated at the time of the reorganization of the Anti-Sa-loon league in this state three years ago, that at a recent meeting of the executive committee of the state at Indianapolis the slogan that Indiana should be dry by the year 1912 was adopted. Less aggressive measures heretofore have satisfied the most belligerent among the workers, who were fearful that they might have misapprehended public sentiment, until the exchange of views at the state meeting showed the movement was receiving the strong approbation of the public, and the time was ripe for a great effort. Heretofore the leaders have been handcapped by the lack of insufficient funds, but the people realizing the magnitude of the work, and the expense it necessarily entails, have become more generous in their gifts to the organization and have entered intermination of what they think is an trmiation of what they think is an evil. — —o THE PROSPECTS FOR FRUIT Not Believed Recent Frosts Have Hurt It. Much speculation is being heard among retired farmers, active farmers and others interested in fruit growing as to the prospects of a crop in this section for this year. The recent frosts and the cold will haxe a great deal of effect upon the fruit is the opinion of many of these while there are others who state that this will not be the case and that despite the fact that the weather of the latter part of last week and the first of this has been very cold they think there is little danger of a loss of the fruit crop. Looking over the fruit trees there is little that can be seen to indicate the chances of a loss of the crop but by examining the bloom of Lees that were almost open at the time the co wave struck this section, it is fotin that many of the buds have been frozen and will not produce anj fru t. Fruit men find by opening the more advanced buds there is the tiny fru of a brownish color that Indicates t . fruit has been killed and that there is not a chance of its developing an growing. » Ilan As soon as the flowers ha’.e a. from the trees these damaged fruits will fall to the ground. Even whi e much of the fruit is damaged there

is still a great deal that was on the same trees that will be saved because not so far advanced. There is little danger of any of the small fruits being damaged by the frosts as this class of plants was not so far along and the buds of the strawberry, which usually heads the list had not appeared. Where the peach trees were sheltered from the cold north breeze by the angle of a house there is a chance for even the most forward buds to be safe. It is the opinion of many that the fruit was almost uninjured because it had not shot out many of the forerunners of foliage. Many are afraid that the fruit in the unsheltered places has met too much cold for its good. IS SERIOUSLY HURT Mrs. Mary Barrington a Victim of Accident INJURIES PROBABLY FATAL Run Down by Runaway Horse—ls Sister of Ed Phillips of This City. Mrs. Charles Conner left this morning, over the Wabash, for ■ Los Angeles, Cal., where she was called by the serious injuries of her mother, Mrs. Mary Barrington, formerly of this city. Mrs. Barrington vent to California ,:ou>c time ago with Mr. and Mrs. Rob's.' Barrington, in lv.-pe* of benefiting Mr. Bari ington’s health. The trip was in vain for him. She has been making her home with Mrs. Robert Barrington but the latter has been sick and is in a hospital. Mrs. Mary Barrington had gone to the hospital to visit her daughter-in-law and was returning home when she was run down by a runaway horse and hurled into a ditch. In her fall she was seriously, if not fatally hurt. She was taken to the same hospital which she had left as a guest but a few minute before. A message was hastily dispatched for Mrs. Conor and he left at once for Los Angele to care for her mother. Mrs. Barrington, it is feared, is in a grave condition for she is now sixty years of age and her injuries will go harder with her than they would otherwie. Mrs. Barrington has a host of friends in this city who will regret to learn of her condition. It is expected that word will be received in this city of the developments of the injuries.—Wabash Plain Dealer. Mrs. Barrington is a sister of Ed Phillips and is quite well known here.

NO ASSEMBLY AT ROME CITY G. R. & I. Refuses to Give Rates and Chautauqua is Off. Rev. J. Frank Snyder of Lagrange, who, for years, has been the moving spirit in the Rome City assembly, is authority for the statement that there will probably be no chatuaqua this year at this famous resort, oldest in the country, excepting the one at Chautauqua, N. Y. The G. R. & I. railroad has refused to make any special rates on account of the two-cent fare law and consequently no big days are possible The dates were set for July 1 to August 9, and splendid talent had been secured, but these have all been cancelled. It will seem a queer Rome City without the assembly and just w-hat effect it will have on the place will be watched with interest by many who for years have spent their vacation there. GETTING CONGRESSIONAL BEE Editor Toner of Anderson, is Being Boosted for Congress Indianapolis, April 6.—Word has reached Indianapolis to the effect that Ed Toner, editor of the Anderson Herald, is being boosted by his friends for the Republican nomination for congress in the Eighth district. A few evenings age a number ot gentlemen who are interested in political matters, were discussing the situation in the Eighth and Eleventh districts, when one cf those present gave the above inf or ma'ion. He said he knew positively that Mr. Toner has been urged by his friends to seriously consider his own candidacy for several months past and that later Mr. Toner had appeared rather agreeable to the proposition. The writer has been unable to verify the statement, but the source of information is so reliable that It seems unnecessary to do so. Mr. Toner is a very pleasant and affable gentleman and has much energy and tact, and would, no doubt, make a very aggressive candidate.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, April 6, 1907.

REGARDED A JOKE White House Conspiracy Not Taken Seriously REGULARS AT INDIANAPOLIS Coming as Compliment to the President —Indiana School Teachers in Philippines. Washington, April 6.—ls the White House revelations about the alleged conspiracy to capture the next Republican national convention had come on April 1 instead of on April 4 everybody would have regarded them as a joke. In spite of the serious view of the “conspiracy” taken at the White House the average man is disposed to regard the story with some levity. That staid old paper, the Washington Star, headlines its story of the revelations, “The President Seeing Things,” and that other conservative paper, the Washington Herald, uses over its story the headline, “Politics Full of Brain Storms.” Some of the newspaper correspondents who could not resist the temptation to be lighthearted and gay in the face of “conspiracies” were making inquiries today to ascertain if the United States secret service force had been assigned to run down the “conspirators” who are engaged in this nefarious work of attempting to control the next Republican national convention. But it is unjust to the White House to indulge in any levity, for over there the situation is looked upon with great seriousness. Washington, April 6. —It was announced at the war department that an effort will be made to send regular army troops to Indianapolis to participate in the dedication of the Henry W. Lawton monument, May 30. The troops, if sent, will go as a compliment to the president, who is to deliver the principal address at the unveiling. The regulars are badly scattered at this time, and the department is not certain that it can find any considerable number that will be available for the trip. A letter has been sent to the commander of the department of the lakes, at Chicago, asking for information as to how many troops he can send to the unveiling. Washington, April 6. —The Insular department announces the appointment of the following Indianians as teachers in the Philippines: Herbert L. Wheaton, Crownpoint; Anson F. Cox, 1704 North New Jersey street, Indianapolis; Joe E. Colborn, Churubusco; Thomas F. Jackson, Calvertville; Thomas J. Casserly, Lebanon; Ella T. Dwyer, Tell City; Arthur S. Ritchey, Bloomington, and Sharon R. Mote, Earlham College. o— CORRECT ATTIRE FOR WOMEN Miss Smith Sounds Death Knell of the Shirt Waist. Women who take a reasonable pride in the correctness of their attire will this season scorn the short sleeve and the bare arm, which has been pronounced by Miss Elizabeth White, of the Dressmakers’ association, as wholly passe. At the meeting of the association recently held at the Hoffman house in New York, Miss White sounded the death knell of the shirt wait. Short sleeves and bare arms which she declared to be wholly passe. Another sad blow to femininity comes in the substitution of soft silk and satins for linings and drop skirts. "Everything was stripes at Monte Carlo,” announced Miss White, so presumably stripes will reign this season. It is in the latest styles of hairdressing that Miss White was most enthusiastic. "To be real smart,” said Miss White, “you should buy your coiflure as you do your gown—by the piece. That’s the way the French women do. Do you suppost they iron their own hair? Not a bit of it. They wear transformations to cover the entire head. That is marceled and taken off at night, so that is the reason that the French women have beautiful hair. That I call smart.” o— AN ELEVATOR CABLE BROKE Cincinnati, April 6.—A freight elevator fell from the sixth floor in the wholesale grocery of Baterbury & Mur- ( phy today when a cable broke. Three men were killed.

ATTACK REMONSTRANCE LAW The Claim is Made That New Law Is Not Legal Joseph E. Bell, a well known attorney of Indianapolis, is preparing to attack the new remonstrance law enacted by the last legislature shifting the burden of proof as to the validity of names from the remonstrators to the applicant for liquor license. He says the bill was not read a second time in the house and is therefore not legal. The effect of the agitation will be felt all over the state in every remonstrance case because the at. torneys for the liquor interests will declare that the law was never properly passed. This, it is said, will give the liquor dealers In many cases two years more of the operation of the original Moore bill, which put the burden upon the remonstrators. o GOING BACK HOME Jim Gillespie Undergoes Interview SORRY FOR HIS COMRADES Thinks Michigan City Prisoners Are Not Treated Fairly by the Farmers. Indianapolis, April 6. —Jim Gillespie, discharged from prison through a technicality, started from here, for his home at Rising Sun. He said he felt sorry for the poor devils he left at Michigan City and he took a whack at the pardon board by saying: “Six-ty-five of the boys up there asked for a parole not long ago and only nine of them got it . That ain’t right. Os course, I don’t come under the head of those asking for a parole, but I feel sorry for the poor devils who got left, anyway. There will be a lot of ’em get out, though, I guess, when the farmers need hands. That's the way it goes, the farmers get the boys paroled, work them all summer for practically nothing, hold over them the club that they will return ’em to prison if they don’t accept any terms he wants to impose, then when the hard summer’s work is done and the farmers have used all they can of them and it comes time to settle, he igoes before the parole board and swears that the paroled man got drunk or stole something and has him sent back to prison. I know one fellow who got $2.50 for working like a slave all summer and then got fired back in the fall.’ o “UNCLE RUBE” ON NEXT FRIDAY A Four Act Comedy Drama at the Bosse Opera House. “Uncle Rube” a four act comedy drama, with a chorus will be at the Bosse Opera House Friday, April 12. The price of admission will be 25 cents, seats reserved at usual place without extra charge. The proceeds will be used by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Christian church —under whose auspices the play is being given—to pay the brick street assessment of their church. The cast and chorus have been selected from the best dramatic and musical talent of our city and will under the stage direction of Henry Thomas, with True Fristoe as his musical director, and they will spare no pains to make it an artistic success. There will be twelve big song hits and while the musical part of the program predominates, the plot of “Uncle Rube” has not been neglected. The Aid society is going to considerable expense in the way of costuming and electrical effects, calcium lights, etc., to bring this production right Up to the minute and make it thoroughly enjoyable to their friends and will no doubt give their patrons their quarters’ worth. Don’t forget the date. oPRISONERS NARROW ESCAPE Nearly Suffocated by Smoke in Lebanon Jail. Lebanon, Ind., April 6. —Two prloners In the county jail came near being suffocated early today when a fire of unknown origin broke out beneath their cells. The sheriff was asleep in his quarters at the rear of the jail and could not hear their scream. However, the smell of smoke aroused him in time to save the men just as they were losing consciouness. But little damage was done to the jail.

AT INDIANAPOLIS Teachers’s Association to Meet Next Year NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS Great Session of Indiana Teachers Closes Today in City of South Bend. South Bend, Jnd., April s.—lndianapolis gets the 1908 convention of tho Northern Indiana Teachers’ association. The meeting place was selected by the executive committee. The committee was elected by the teachers from the various congressional districts comprising the territory of the association. J. O. Batchelor of Fort Wayne, the Twelfth district member of the executive committee, championed the cause of Winona Lake, but when he discovered the capitol city strength he got into line and helped to make it unanimous. The friends of Indianapolis gave positive assurance that they would not ask for the convention again in 1909. George Benton, principal of the Shortridge high school, today was elected charman of the executive committee. His duties will involve the active management of the 1908 convention. Lawrence McTurman, assistant state superintendent of public institutions, was elected to represent the Seventh congressional district of the executive committee. The rest of the committee is as follows: W. A. Fiske, Richmond, Sixth distict; S. E. Meek. Elwood, Eighth district; Edward S. Monroe, Frankfort, Ninth district; Foster Hight, Lafayette, Tenth district; Linneaus Hines, Hartford City, Eleventh district; J. O. Batchelor, Fort Wayne, Twelfth district; J. E. Nuner, Mishawaka, Thirteenth district. The executive committee elected I. F. Haines of Noblesville, superintendent of the Hamilton county schools, a director of the association, to take the place of D. W. Thomas of Elkhart, who has retired from school work. The board of directors is now composed as follows: J. N. Study, Fort Wayne; R. A. Ogg, Kokomo; W. A. Millis, Crawfordsville; W. A. Wirt, Bluffton; George Benton, Indianapolis, and S. B. McCracken, Elkhart. The new president of the association becomes a director by virtue of his office. Today’s program of the association offered the teachers a feast In the way of lectures and discussions by noted educators. During the morning more than 2,000 teachers crowded in the auditorium to hear Superintendent J. M. Greenwood of Kansas City, and Prof. W. H. Mace of Syracuse University. The former spoke on “National Ideas,” and the latter on “Lincoln and Douglas.” o AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Mr. Grinnell of Berne, Has a Lucky Escape. B. B. Grinnell, field superintendent for the Superior Oil company, and his two little children, Gertrude and Henry, had a narrow escape from death in an automobile accident, Thursday evening, at about 9 o’clock. Mr. Grinnell had just returned from the oil fields in Jay county, and was taking his children out on a spin in his auto, when In some manner Brice lost control of the machine and in the effort to stop the same turned it completely up side down in front of F. K. Shaefer’s residence. Gertrude was thrown under the machine while Henry fell face down on the solid brick pavement. Help soon arrived and the little girl was extricated from beneath the 1400 pound machine, severly bruised about her face and head and her left arm scalded. Henry was picked up unconscious and carried into the office of Dr. C. H. Schenk, where he soon revived and it was found that he sustained several bruises on his face and forehead. Mr. Grinnell escaped with only a small bruise on his left arm. It is almost a miracle that none of the occupants of the machine were killed, considering the speed that was being made when the accident happened. The automobile is badly wrecked and the damage will amount to more than SIOO. Mr. Grinnell stated that the cause of the accident was his trying to run the machine at too great a speed, before being able to handle the same properly, he having owned the auto only a little over a week. —Berne News.

MEETINGS AT THE MISSION Mrs. Matthews of Lima, will be Here Sunday. The meetings at the Mission Hall are progressing nicely. On last Thursday evening, Rev. Ulmer from Upland, Ind., preached a powerful sermon, after which a prayer service was held, all Christians taking a part, and the power of God being wonderfully manifest. The sinners were greatly moved. There will be preaching on Saturday evening at 7:30. A prayer and prayer service Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Preaching Sunday evening at 7:30 ,by Mrs. Matthews of Lima, O. All are cordially invited to attend these services. Chauncey Stetson, Leader. o THE LAST SUNDAY Rev. White Closes a Four Years Pastorate METHODISHM HAS GROWN Four Successful Years as Pastor of the Methodist Church in This City. Sunday will close a four years pastorate at the Methodist church for Rev. John C. White. They have been four years of success as a minister, and the report he will carry with him to conference will reveal the fact that the past year is really the best of the last four. During this time Methodism has grown and flourished in Decatur as never before. The congregations at each and every service denotes a satisfying condition and that all is well here. Rev. White will leave Tuesday for the annual conference at Logansport. The official board of his church here made a unanimous call for his return, and it is quite probable shat this request will be granted. This call meets with the approval of his church and unless some unusual conditions confront the Bishop and his cabinet, it will be Rev. John C. White, pastor of the Methodist church, Decatur, Indiana, for another year. Mr. White is a successful minister, a genial, companionable man and his earnest friends in this city are numerous indeed. His return for another year is not only expected, but desired. o THE EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE The Assignments Will be Made This Evening. Fort Wayne, April 6.—-At the session of the Indiana conference of the Evangelical association yesterday aftefnon delegates to th? general conference of the church, which will be held in Milwaukee next October, were chosen. The Indiana conference will be represented by seven ministerial delegates and those selected as the Revs. L. S. Fisher, S. H. Baumgartner, J. O. Mosier, D. E. Martz, D. D. Speicher, J. H. Evans and J. H. Bresh. The present session of the Indiana , conference, the business of which will come to a close today, is proving one of the most enthusiastic and most productive of good held in many years. The reports submitted show not only the congregations of the Indiana conference but of the entire church to be in excellent shape and every department of the church work being carried successfully forward. A notable expression during the work of the day was that the Evangelical church has raised more money, per member, for missionary purposes than any other church in America. It is highly probable, in view of the prevailing sentiment of the conference, that before the close of the meeting today the time limit of four years in which a pastor may remain in one charge will be extended to at least five or six years. The assignment of pastors to < charges will likely not be reached before this evening. Acting upon the invitation of different churches in the city a number of the clergymen attending the conference will be assigned to loca Ipulpits for Sunday evening. Special music was furnished at the sessions by the conference octette, composed of the Revs. M. W. Sunder-; man, Olney, Ill.; E. Q. Laudeman of' Rochester; J. H. Bresh of Indianapolis; G. B. Kimmell of Dayton; D. E. • Zechiel of Fort Wayne; B. Schuer- j meier of Bremen; J. W. Metzner of I Kendallville, and A. B. Haist of De-i I catur.

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THE BEN HURS Seventh Anniversary Celebrated Last Night THE YOUNG MATRONS’ CLUB The Elks Install Officers and Have a Social Session —Other Pleasant Events. The members of the Ben Hur held their regular weekly meeting at their hall, last evening, and the attendance was quite large, while the meeting was of unusual Interest to all, as it was the seventh anniversary of the order. This year was a most prosperous one and the order is one of the best in our city. It stands first in the excellent work the members have done, also in the point of membership. The Roll of Honor shows the Decatur Court number 156 has a membership of 240, who were in good standing on the fifteenth of January, 1907. The first portion of the evening was spent in having the regular lodge work and taking one candidate through the mysteries of the order. After the initiation, Mr. C. L. Waite and his committee had charge of a special literary program, which the members with their friends were invited to hear. The program consisted of fine readings, recitations and music. A few that are worth speaking of were the solo rendered by the male quartette consisting of Messrs. Lee Walters, Harvey Lee, L. L. Baumgartner and Fred Avery. After this the Supreme Deputy Mrs. Mary Clark of Fort Wayne, gave a talk to the guests who were not members of the Ben Hur order. Mrs. Clark also gave a reading which told why every one should be a Ben Hur. This caused great merriment among all present. Mrs. Artman showed her ability in reciting by giving “How Jenkins Goes to a Picnic,” and then another number of the program which was exceedingly fine was the vocal duet rendered by Miss Wyatt and Miss Annoti Dailey. As soon as the program was finished U. S. Cress and his committee entertained the guests at an elaborate banquet, assisted in serving by a few of the ladies. As each guest and member entered they registered, this showing over eightyfive present during the evening. At the home of Mrs. C. E. Neptune, the members of the Young Matrons’ Club were delightfuly entertained at a thimble party, yesterday afternoon. The ladies were invited to bring their babies, and the best behaved baby was to receive a gift, Little Dean Dorwin proving to be the best. At five o’clock the hostess served a delicious two course luncheon. Nearly ail of the members of the club were present and also several guests who were: Mesdames Dan Erwin, H. F. Callow, Isadora Kalver, Clem Voglewede, Wid Dorwin and James Rica. A very pleasant meeting of the Elks was held last evening at their hall. [ During the evening the following offi- ( cers were installed by the Past Exalted Ruler, Mr. H. L. Cooter: Exalted Leading Knight, Judge R. K. Erwin; Esteemed Loyal Knight, C. C. Ernst; secretary, James P. Haefling. On next Friday evening, the following offi cers will be installed- Exalted Ruler, ‘A. P. Beatty; Tiler. Fred Vaughn; treasurer, C. S. Niblick. W. P. Schrock ■ as trustee for three years. After the ; close of the meeting last evening, a smoker was held and the men enjoyed a social hour. A short time ago a woman belonging to a well known family in a town not far distant was seized with an attack of the heart and sank to the ground, dying almost instantly there in the public thoroughfare, surrounded by numbers of her fellow beings, not one of whom went to her assistance. They thought she was intoxicated. What lies before us as a people when we have strayed so far from the golden rule that we hesitate to offer assistance to those who need us? Have we become so full of logic that we cannot give way to kindly impulses, but must weigh every action? Things may not be so black as they appear and this may have been an exceptional case, but if we find in our hearts a tendency to be careless and cold to others’ welfare let us trample this weed out of being before it rises up to threaten our destinies. —Fort Wayne Journal- | (Continued on page 3.)