Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 142, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

ilume V. Number 142

BOARD OF REVIEW lorty Days' Session is in I Progress Kme corrections by board Kble Showing Recommendations by ■Assessors and also the Review Board I —the Value of Land in Union. KThe county board of review Is in fission and busy regulating the tax appraisements on property for the various townships and corporations. The board is composed of Godfrey Christen of this city, William Hoile, of Union township, county assessor Gentis, auditor Lewton and treasurer Lachot. They will continue in session forty days and as per their official notice will hear complaints from the various townships. The following table shows the report of the assessors on land and improvements and the probable corrections by the board, though the latter, of course, is subject to change: Assessors Probable Report. Corrections. Land. Imps. Land. Imps, bpion 26.42 6.04 27.21 6.04 Kot 26.84 3.77 28.18 5.25 Keble 27.52 6.93 28.06 6.24 JCirkland .... 26.84 5.70 28.18 5.70 Washington . 28.52 5.08 32.80 5.58 St. Marys ... 26.83 5.53 28.93 5.97 Blue Creek .. 27.55 4.69 27.55 4.69 Conroe 27.51 6.64 30.26 5.97 trench 27.40 6.64 27.40 6.64 Hartford .... 27.26 5.64 27.80 5.64 ■Vabash 26.79 5.58 28.13 5.58 efterson .... 26.99 5.24 26.99 5.24 Lverage per acre as corrected .. .28.46 Average for improve, as corrected 5.68 Monday was the day set for hearing lomplaints from Union township and teveral represetative citizens appeared. However, the board voted to conirm the correction as made and the raluation of $27.21 per acre and $6.04 >n improvements will stand. Today was Root’s day, but up to noon no complaint was filed and the valuation there will likely be $28.18 and $5.25. The board s report will further show that Decatur has 437 acres of land, 12,04$ lots, the latter averaged at $282.14 with average improvements of $274.71. The average on improvements was greatly lowered from the fact that hundreds of lots were recently platted and upon which there are yet no improvements. Berne has 647 lots, 314 acres, with an average per lot of $103.48 and average improvements of $301.14. Geneva has 209 acres, 514 lots average at $292 and improvements of $89.37. Monroe has 15 acres and 118 lots averaged at $41.44 and improvements at $158.40. FRATERNAL EVENT A Spectacular Production of Ben Hur AT FORT WAYNE LAST NIGHT Attracted Many Members of the Order Twenty-Five Candidates From Decatur. Twenty-five candidates for the Ben Hur lodge and a hundred members of that order from this city were at Ft. Wayne last night where they attended a spectacular initiatory given at the Majestic theater, under the auspices of the Ft. Wayne courts No. 15 and 96, and under the direction of Bro. Owen, supreme judge, of Crawfordsville, Indiana. In all there were 300 candidates and the event was a most notable one in the history of fraternal orders in this section of the country. Hundreds of members were present to witness the ceremony and the big opera house was packed with Bei Hurs from all over the country. After an address of welcome and the response, the following spectacular acts from Wallace s great book were given. Meeting of the Wise Men, Ramon Court. Arrest of Ben Hur, Mai ch to the gallery, Ramon Galley, Ben Hur asleep on the doorstep. Mount Olivet, healing of the lepers, finalewreck of the galley. Lecture ."Mother of Hur and Past Chief." Reinike s orchestra and a chorus furnished the music. No one but members of the lodge were admitted to the theater.

.SUPERINTENDENT NOT ELIGIBLE But Both Will be Given a Chance to Qualify. Fassatt A. Cotton, state superintendent of public instruction, has discovered that two of the county superintendents elected last week are not eligible to office and a third continues in office by reason of the refusal of the board of trustes In his county to elect a successor. The two new men are J. S. Benham, who was chosen superintendent of the Ripley county schools, and Brainard Hooker, who was elected superintendent of the Tippecanoe county schools. The third is Harmon Moseby, who continues as superintendent of the Perry county schools In spite of the fact that the state board of education recently revoked his license. The law requires that men elected to the county superintendency must have a state teacher’s license. It develops that neither Hooker nor Benham has this license and neither has gone through the formality of examination. However, they will be given a chance to qualify by taking the examination. Both men are graduates of the state normal at Terre Haute. ladTeseligible Can Hold the Office of County Superintendent AS WELL AS THE GENTLEMEN This Fact not Generally Known and There Was But One Female Candidate in the State. Perhaps many superintendents would not have had such smooth sailing in their candidacy for the superintendency of the county schools if it had been generally known over the state that women are eligible to the office. There are a few in this county who are not adverse to getting into politics and perhaps if they had onlyrealized it, here was their opportunity to show their prowess before the men. It is not generally known that young women, or older ones, too, for that matter, are eligible for the office and in the elections held recently only one woman candidate is reported. That one was Miss Carrie LeVaugh of Macy, who was a non-partisan candidate in Miami county and so effectually did she run that the trustees of the county now face a hopeless deadlock in the election. From the common sense point of view, it is argued, why not have a pretty young school ma’am advanced to the position? Legally a woman is just as much entitled to it as a man according to a decision from the powers that be, Here is something from headquarters:

A woman may hold the office of county superintendent in Indiana, according to an opinion which Attorney General Miller sent to Fassett A. Cotton, superintendent of public instruction. Etta H. Delay, of Lagrange, some time ago wrote a letter to Superintendent Cotton in which she asked whether a woman would be eligible to the office of county superintendent if she possessed the required license and could get the required number of votes of the trustees. Superintendent Cotton turned the query over to the attorney general, who found in section 6031, Burns’ statutes of 1901, the following: "Any woman married or single, of the age of 21 years and upwards, and possessing the qualifications prescribed for men, shall be eligible to any office under the general or specific laws of this state.” "My opinion is that a county superintendent falls within the purview of this section,” says the attorney general. "While the state constitution in section 154 requires that no person shall be elected or appointed as a county officer who shall not be an elector of the county, yet I do not construe the term county officer as including a county superintendent.” With the killing of Marvin Kuhns there has come no relief to the horse stealing along the state line between Ohio and Indiana. Reports of thefts of horses are as frequent as previously. There is supposed to be a gang of organized thieves that is at work. Delphos Herald. Messrs and Mesdames Ed Luttman and Erving Brandyberry have gone to Linn Grove to spend several days with J- Augsburger and family.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, June 11, 1907.

FEAR AN EPIDEMIC Fort Wayne Health Officers Get Busy. OVER THE J. B. MILLER CASE Sammy Worked All Day Saturday While Broken Out —Customers to Be Vaccinated. Dr. Bruggeman, secretary of the board of health, fears an epidemic of smallpox in the southern part of the city. All day Saturday and Saturday evening John B. Miller, proprietor of the barber shop at 1612 Calhoun street, was busy shaving customers who patronized the shop. He was busy from early morning till late at night and shaved not less than one hundred customers. He also officiated at several shampoos and haircuts. All this time that he was at work Saturday he was broken out with smallpox. He became worse on Sunday and this morning the health physicians pronounced his case a typical welldeveloped case of the smallpox. He was at his home in a suite of rooms above 2520 Calhoun street when the health officers were summoned. There can be no question about the diagnosis. This noon the doctors began a systematic search for all persons whom Miller shaved Saturday and will vaccinate, them without delay. The first man seen this afternoon stated that he noticed that Miller was broken out while he was shaving him. Up to 2 o’clock this aftrenon four of Miller’s custowrs had been found and vaccinated, but many of them are not known and for this reason Dr. Bruggeman wants the incident given publicity so that all persons who were customers of Miller on Saturday or even Friday can be warned and be vaccinated. The shop for several hours was ■crowded and Miller shook hands with several customers who he did not shave. —Ft. Wayne News. WILL VISIT DECATUR. Committee of Investigation from Columbia City. The executive committee of the Business Men’s Association will go to Huntington and Decatur tomorrow to investigate the methods employed in those cities to secure factories. Those who expect to go are C. J. Evanston, Robert Hudson, E. L. McLallen, O. S. Torbet, Wm. B. Johnson, H. B. Hildebrand. —Columbia City Post HISANNUAL TRIP

John Frisinger Leaves To-morrow for Europe TO BUY MORE BIG HORSES Shipment of Twenty-Two Made a Year Ago Practically Exhausted—Will Return in September. John M. Frisinger, a member of the firm of Frisinger and company, expects to leave tomorrow for the old country, where he will purchase several carload of the famous Belgium stallions which will be shipped direct to this city and housed in their big stables at Steele’s park. Mr. Frisinger makes this trip annually, and secures the cream of the famous horses for his company. The last trip abroad he purchased twenty-two head and during the winter and spring they have disposed of twenty of these animals to various firms in the United States. Mr. Frisinger takes no chances in securing other people to make his purchase as he wants to see himself just what he is buying and in this manner he is able to guarantee every horse to be sound in every respect. It will take him several months to make the trip, buy his horses and return home and it will be late in September before he reaches home with his purchases. The fact, however, that he does his own purchasing, is no doubt the secret of the success of his firm, which within a few years has grown to be one of the largest of its kind in the United States.

STORM CAUSED HOURS’ DELAY.

Burned Out a Traction Car Causing Some Inconvenience. An old fashioned thunder storm occurred in this section last night and the rain fell in tubsful again. The lightning was vivid and for an hour or two the storm raged in a most threatening way. The traction car due here at six o'clock was burned out when four miles from Ft. Wayne and failed to arrive here until nine o’clock. In the meantime the north-bound car, which left here at 4:30 was held up at the nine-mile house. Much to the disappointment of many aboard enroute to the Ben Hur doings and Barnum's show at Ft. Wayne. A third car was sent out from here to bring in the dead car and thus clearing the track. The accident was unavoidable and the prompt and courteous actions of President Fledderjohann and his assistants met the approval of all the passengers. o — The price of wool with the local merchants is now quoted at from 24 to 27% cents. Wool has just at present commenced to come into the market proper and the local merchants are making every effort to handle the big crop that is bound to come. o A PIONEER DEAD Joseph Shroll, of Berne, Summoned

AFTER ILLNESS MANY MONTHS Was Seventy-Seven Years .Old and Had Lived in this County Nearly All His Life. Joseph Shroll, father of George Shroll of this city and who, for the past eleven years has resided in Berne, died this morning at 8 o’clock from old age. The deceased has been ill for the past 9 months but his condition hac not been considered dangerous until during the last few days, when he has suffered several relapses, his death finally resulting from his weakened condition and inability to take nourishment. Mr. Shroll was 77 years of age, and during his whole lifetime with the exception of a few years in his boyhood, has been a resident of this county. He was well known in this community, especially among the farmers, as he was engaged in farming until he removed to Berne. A wife, three sons and three daughters beside a multitude of friends are left to share in this hour of bereavement. Silas shroll, of Wren, accompanied by George Shroll of this city went to Berne this afternoon to assist in making funeral arrangements and consoling the bereaved widow. o THE MISSIONARY TEA THURSDAY Methodist Society to Serve Supper at the Church. The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist church will give their annual missionary tea Thursday, June 13, 1907, in the lecture room. The proceeds are to be used for missionary work in the city. The following menu will be served from five to six-thirty o’clock for 25 cents: Pressed Meat Veal Loaf Escalloped Corn Deviled Eggs Potato Salad Lettuce Sandwiches Bread Butter Pickles Jam Jelly Peaches Cream Cake Tea Coffee NECESSARY TO REPLANT CORN Cut Worms Pfay Havoc in Adams County. Some farmers of Adams county will have to replant their corn entirely, as the cut-worms have played havoc with it. The late spring is given as the cause, as during the cold weather the cut-worm remains dead, while in the warm weather they develop into moths and do harm to crops. There has been some corn destroyed by cut worms, which means a loss to the farmers. ■ o All members of the Masonic lodge are requested to be present this evening at the regular meeting. Mrs. Margaret Rumschlag returned to her home at Newenegel, Ohio. While here she attended the funeral of Nick Rumschlag.

A DOLLAR SOCIAL To be Given at Vogt Home Thursday A SOCIETY EVENT AT WILLSHIRE Was Attended by Decatur Young People—Other Church and Society News. By Perle Burdg. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the German Reformed church will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer on Wednesday afternoon. All ladies are requested to be present. The young people of the Christian Endeavor of the Presbyterian church will hold an ice cream social on the church lawn Friday evening. Ice cream and cake for 10 cents. The public is cordially invited to attend. A crowd of girls Sunday drove to the home of Miss Bess Shaffner, at Willshire, where a delicious six o’clock dinner was awaiting them. A party during the evening was also enjoyed. dancing and music being the amusement They arrived in Decatur at a late hour, and a good time was reported. Those present were Misses Josephine Lange, Lena Miller, Bertha Kinney, Agnes Rademaker, Agnes Vogelwede and Idella Buethell, of Berne. Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. C. Vogt will occur a delightful social given by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the German Reformed church, it is called a Dollar Social, where each member will tell her experience how they have earned their dollar. There will be an excellent program rendered, and refreshments. The public is cordially invited to attend, especially all of the ladies for a good time is participated by-the ladies.

The Christian Endeavor of the German church will hold a business meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mutschler this evening. The Berne Orchestra returned home yesterday after so kindly assisting the young people of the Evangelical church with their children's day program, which was rendered Sunday evening in an excellent manner. The music of the Berne orchestra was especially fine and deserves high praise in their rare ability along the musical line. Last Sunday, June 9th, the members of the Fortuna Club, of Ft. Wayne, (Continue don page 4.) o TO MEET FIANCE Miss Beery Left for St. Louis Last Evening WAS WEDDED THIS MORNING Mr. Harry Fowler, Formerly of this City the Groom—Will Live at Granite City, Mo. Miss DeLota Berry left last evening for Wayne where she was the guest of her brother, Paris Berry, until nine o'clock, when she started on a trip to St. Louis where she met Harry M. Fowler and was this morning united in marriage. The bride is the charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Berry, of Chestnut street, and has a large list of friends in Decatur, who will be surprised but nevertheless will join us in wishing her a bright and happy future. Mr. Fowler was formerly of this city, while here being in partnership with Mr John Stoneburner at the Pictorium. During his short stay here he made numeroos friends and was one of our leading young men. About one year ago he left for Granite City, a suburb of St. Louis, where he is at present engaged in the picture business. The happy couple will take possession of their new home, which has been furnished by the groom, immediately. The bride was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. John Berry as far as Ft. Wayne. The Democrat extends congratulations.

BERNE MENS SPECTACULAR FALL Ladder Broke and Workmen Fell Twenty-Five Feet. Yesterday afternoon while Daniel Winteregg and his nephew Albert Winteregg were painting the Mennonite church a ladder broke supporting the scaffold, and both fell to the ground, a distance of about twentyfive feet. Albert turned somersault | twice before landing, fell on his back, and was badly shaken up, but in a little while afterwards was down town again smoking his pipe. Daniel was less fortunate. He fell heavily on his left arm and broke it close to the shoulder, and was otherwise hurt internally. He had several fainting spells after the arm was set. —Berne Witness. o Messrs, and Mesdames John and Henry Rumschlag, of Ft. Jennings, 0., who have been here attending the Rumschlag funeral, returned to their homes this morning. The following letters remain uncalled for at the postoffice: John Shank, Geo. Rouvler, A. L. Collins, Mrs. Ross Hanna, Lewis Lemon and Miss Alice Mason. PRESIDENTSDAY At the Jamestown Exposition Yesterday

MANY DISTINGUISHED VISITORS It Was One of the Gala Days of the Big Show and Thousands Heard the Address to the Editors. Exposition Grounds, Norfolk, Va., June 10. —Brought back to the Jamestown exposition by the formal opening of Bulloch Hall, the ancestral home of his mother, at Roswell, Ga., and reproduced here as the Georgia state building. President Roosevelt today was for the second time the central figure of an exposition program. Outside of the features arranged in connection with the celebration of Georgia day, the military and naval spectacle was not greatly dissimilar to that which marked the visit of the president when the exposition was thrown open on April 26. The program provided that the president should be the guest of the exposition for about nine hours, arriving with a special party, including Mrs. Roosevelt, on the yacht Mayflower at 8:20 a. m. After receiving the Georgia officials on board, and, with them as his guests, reviewing the foreign and American fleets assembled in Hampton roads, he was landed at the exposition grounds at 11 o’clock. He made a speech as a part of the Georgia day exercises in the forenoon, and delivered another address at the convention of the National Editorial Association, in the auditorium this afternoon. He reviewed the parade of the military and navy forces, visited the negro exhibit, participated in the presentation of a silver service by the state of Georgia to the battleship named for her, attended a reception given at the Georgia building by Georgians alone in honor of himself and Mrs. Roosevelt, and visited informally the New York state building. On the reviewing stand with the president and his party were Cardinal Gibbons, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Com-mander-in-Chief of the United States Confederate Veterans; Governor Swanson, of Virginia: Governor Terrell, of Georgia, and a number of officials from that state; the Jamestown exposition state commissioners, distinguished United States army and naval officers, with a number of the foreign representatives and prominent members of the National Editorial association. Following a patriotic selection by the exposition band, the program incident to the Georgia day celebration was opened by Governor Terrell, who introduced President Mitchell of the Georgia commission, the master of ceremonies. Mr. Mitchell presented Cardinal Gibbons, who prayed. The band played “Star Spangled Banner.” after which Mr. Mitchell in an address introduced President Roosevelt, who delivered his first address. He was cheered throughout his entire speech. The president spoke for about an hour and at the conclusion he reviewed the military parade in which were foreign and United States sailors and blue jackets, marines, United States cavalry and artillery.

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THE WAR CLOUD Uncle Sam Will Use Some Plain Talk WILL BE NO MORE COAXING Relations With Japan not Satisfactory —Some Rural Route Data and Other Capita! News. Washington, June 10- —Indications are not lacking that the state department has resolved to pursue a firmer policy in dealing with Japan. It is regarded as highly significant that the department should have put out yesterday through a press association a statement designed to show that there is a conspiracy in Japan to provoke trouble with the United tSates as the result of a street brawl in San Francisco and attempt to make an international Incident out of it. The undertow talk here is that for the last six months this country has gone beyond all reasonable bounds in attempting to satisfy or pacify Japan. From now on there is not to be so much cringing. If the Japanese continue to show a disposition to ferment trouble, some plain talk ’will be indulged in by the United States. It has been the policy of this government right along to back up the central government in Japan, bellveing it was sincere in its desire to maintain friendly relations with the United States, and yet it is said in official circles that there would be no objection raised if Baron Keneko should be sent here to succeed Ooki as ambassador. Keneko is associated with the opposition to the central government in Japan, and cables of the last few days have indicated that it is not improbable that the opposition to the central government will be strong enough to force his appointment as ambassador to this country. On the whole the relations with Japan are not satisfactory by any means. Whether the strain will continue is a question which the state department officials are unable to answer at this time. The refusal of this country to accept the offer of France to use her good offices to continue the friendly relations between this country and Japan, it is pointed otit, is the> naturla action to take for the reason that an acceptance of the offer would have been acknowledgement that relations between the United States and Japan are not agreeable. The Thirteenth Indiana congressional district is making the largest gains in getting rural routes established this fiscal year of any district in Indiana. Taking the period from June 20, 1906, down to June 1, 1907, the Thirteenth district made a gain n rural routes of 18. Representative Shaney’s district, the Second, is second, with a gain of 14 routes. The Third. Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh and Twelfth districts have had neither gains nor losses, the number remaining the same. The Fourth district has a loss of three routes, the Eighth district a loss of two routes, and the Tenth district a loss of three routes over the report of one year ago. The First district has gained one route, the Fifth district has a gain of one route, and the Sixth district shows up with a gain of two routes. The quartermaster-general has decided to reject all the bids received at Indianapolis last week for additional improvements at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. The bids were for electric light equipment, etc. The department holds that the bids were excessively high, and also makes the point that there must have been some misunderstanding of the specifications. For instance, no bid was submitted for a sub-station station, which the department says is one of the most important things called for in the specifications. New bids will be asked for. The rejection of the bids will cause another delay in the completion of the post, as it seems doubtful if the work that yet remains to be done can be undertaken July 1, when the new appropriation becomes available.

The people that took the civil service examination that was given here some time ago. have received their grades and all of them did fairly well. The secretary of the board has not been notified about the grades as yet, and we are unable to state which of the applicants had the highest average.