Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAIRY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 157

WASHINGTON ITEMS Messages of Interest From Nation’s Capital AN EFFORT TO CONQUER THE AIR Thousands Work at It—Future Supply of Tin—Chicago Wants Republican National Convention. Washington, June 27. —“The world Is upon the very brink of wonderful discoveries,” said a high official of the patent office the other day. He was discussing the trend of the latest inventions and the tendency of mind in the best American Inventors. There are cycles of invention, it appears, as well as cycles of everything else. Men's minds run in similar channels and one invention seems to suggest another on the same general lines at the same time, even if there is no possibility of one inventor knowing what another is doing. The air seems to be full of suggestions at times. Men reach out and bring in rich fruit from the tree of knowledge, following impulses which they do not understand and cannot describe. Just now the trend of inventive genius is toward conquering the air. Thousands of Americans are at work on the problem of flight. Some of them are counted among the best qualified men in the country to attack such a subject. There is Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, for example, whose long residence in Washington has made him familiar to every citizen Not content with having his name connected forever with an invention that has worked marvelously for the benefit of mankind. Dr. Beil, in his green old age, is hard at work on the puzzle of flying. He is just as enthuI siastic as any boy and far more energetic. Where is the world to obtain its [ future supply of tin? This question i assumes considerable importance in i the light of the failure of the supply j to mqet the demand and the resultant (Continued on page 2.) - A NEW FRATERNITY Organized in This City Last Evening FOR BOYS OF M. E. CHURCH A Branch of the "Holy Grail" Established Here by Dr. C. B. Wilcox to Meet Weekly. Last night in the lecture room of the Mehodist church, a secret order was instituted by Dr. C. B. Wilcox. This organization while a new one, has local orders in thirty-three states and also in the Philippine Islands. “The Holy Grail” is the name of this new lodge and boys between the ages of twelve and twenty years are eligible to join, regardless of what oenomination they are a member of. There are two degrees; the first is the Esquire degree for boys between twelve and fifteen years of age and the second is the Knighthood degree for the boys between fifteen and twenty years of age. The work is based upon King Arthur in the Knight of the Round table and it is said to be fine. Meetings will be held each week in the lecture roo mos the church and no doubt much interest will be manifested by the boys of Decatur. The charter members are: Dorsie Burkhead. John Hay, Clyde Baumgartner, Howard Wisehaupt, Frank Mills, Marion Watkins, Earl Hendricks, Barton Shroleker, Lawrence Archbold. John Burk and Herald Wilcox. Nt w members will be taken in as fast as they apply and a large membership will be enrolled within a short time. The following officers were elected: Esquire commander, Clyde Baumgartner; vice commander, Howard Weishaupt; esquire of scroll, Frank Mills, esquire of purse, Herald Wilcox; herald, Don Burke; page, John Hay; esquire, Barton Schrolekger.

BERNE’S NEW SUPERINTENDENT; Frank Huff, of Argos, to Have Charge ' of Schools. The school board have, after due I deliberation, selected a superintendent for the schools for the coming year, the successful applicant being Frank D. Huff, of Argos, who will move to this place with his family in the near future so as to make complete arrangements for the beginning of school before the opening day. The course of study will be arranged so as to give a four-year course in the High school department Two teachers will give their entire time to this work and Berne will soon be in line for a commission from the state if the present plans are carried out. Mr. Huff comes to his new position highly recommended by the people of his own town where he has taught in the township and town schools for the past nine years as principal and superintendent. He is a man of strong personality, an able instructor and a man with a clean character. The school board have spared no effort on their part in securing an able superintendent and are surely to be congratulated upon their selection. Now as soon as a principal has been selected the corps of teachers will be complete.—Berne Witness. oISSUES A WARNING Board of Health Fears July Fourth Results HOW TO PREVENT LOCK JAW If Antitetain Serum is Used All Danger is at Once Arrested —SixtyFour Deaths Last Year From it. age is done to the brain cells, warn the people against lockjaw, and especially against fourth of July lockjaw. In 1906 there were sixty-four deaths from lockjaw; 16 deaths, or 25 per cent occurred during July. The disease is caused by a specific germ, which is usually introduced into the body through slight wounds. Wounds from toy pistols and fireworks frequently cause lockjaw, and we The state board of health wishes to wound as likely to be followed by lockjaw, and treat it according^.. Wounds from splinters and rusty nails especially if gotten in a barn yard or stable, are very likely to be followed by lockjaw. Lockjaw germs abound in barnyards and stables, and are upon percussion caps, blank cartridges and fireworks. A person who is wounded under the conditions described, even if the wound is ever so slight, should immediately have a surgeon attend to it. If no surgeon is near, open the wound freely with a sharp knife blade which has been passed through a flame, remove dirt, splinters, pieces of metal and all foreign matter, and let it bleed freely for a little while, and then pour peroxide of hydrogen into the cutOr lacking the peroxide, the wound may be cauterized with carbolic acid or nitrate silver. Now, to make perfectly certain that lockjaw will not appear, inject antitetanie serum near the point of injury. There would be no deaths from tetanus or lockjaw would look upon every such lowed out. All druggists should have at least two bottles of antitetanie serum on hand all the time, the same being kept in a cool dark place. The injection of the serum should not be omitted nor delayed. It should be given immediately if possible. Tetanus or lockjaw is a disease of the cells of the brain and spinal cord. It takes about eight days for the lockjaw microbe to grow, produce their poison, and for the nerves to transfer the poison to the brain and cord cells. It takes an equal time for the nerves to carry the antidote to the same cells, hence the necessity for its early administration. Antitetanie serum is of little or no value if it is given after fatal damif these directions were always folThe method of prevention here detailed is of the greatest value, but after all, the best prevention for fourth-of-July tetanus is to abolish toy pistols, and this the police and health authrities of all towns and cities should do. ■ o Edward Bosse went to Ft. Wayne this morning to visit for a few days with Mrs. Egan. He made the trip over the interurban railway and all by himself.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, June 28, 1907.

ALFALFA RESULTS Purdue Station’s Report of Experiments ADAMS COUNTY REPRESENTED Fred Bell, one of Fifty-Seven Farmers Who Made the T e st and Sent in a Report. The agricultural experiment station of Purdue university have been trying for some time to induce the farmers of Indiana to raise alfalfa hay, arguing that it can be used to feed all kinds of live stock, will yield more than timothy,is better food than clover is an excellent soil renovater and has many other good qualities. Last year they had fifty-seven farmers in various parts of the state make a test of this hay, among them being Fred Bell, of this county. A bulletin recently issued from he station gives a report of these tests. Mr. Bell reports that he planted alfai'a in sandy clay soil on August 11th and secured a good stand, the fall growth being eight inches, with considerable loss by winter killing, but with some presence of root nomdules. He adds a note that the water and ice damaged the stand considerably. Out of fifty-one who answered the question concerning the presence of root nodules, twenty-one, 41 per cent, reported that none could be found, twenty-four, 47 per cent, reported some, and six, 12 per cent, reported nodules present in considerable numbers. Special inoculation was tried by four of the experimenters. In one case there were no nodules found. In two cases nodules were found on both inoculatd and uninoculated areas. In the fourth case all the seed was inoculated and plenty of nodules were found. These observations indicate that some special form of inoculation is probably necessary in practically one-half of the cases where alfalfa is first introduced. The experiments of the station will be continued this year, with some additions ankj variations. Full particulars concerning cooperative experiments will be furnished upon application. o THE BURNING OIL Causes Loss of SSOO for the Standard AND CAUSED SOME EXCITEMENT Leak in Main Pipe Line Necessitated the Burning of About 500 or 600 Barrels. Something like five hundred barrels of oil were burned today by the Standard Oil company on the Nuttman land in the northwest part of the city, the result of a leak in their main line between Preble and Lipa, O. The leak was noticed yesterday and with the assistance of a number of laborers the 1 oil was gathered in one pool after the leak was plugged and this morning was set on fire. The huge clouds of black smoke that arose from the fire caused considerable excitement and attracted much attention and a number of our citizens went to the scene and witnessed the scandalous extravagance of the Standard Oil company. The damage to the line has been remedied and as soon as the oil burns up the excitement will cease. Many who first beheld the one dense cloud rolling slowly toward the heart of the city supposed a terrible cyclone, cloudburst or some other calamity was about to break loose and were agreeably relieved to learn that the only inconvenience likely to result was that caused by the dense smoke. The loss of SSOO may not call for a receiver for the Standard, but a reduction in the price of the crude article, and an advance on the refined may be expected. — -o A number of Decatur people accompanied the local team to Bluffton today to see the second game of the series between that city and the locals and will do all in their power by good hard consistent rooting.

A MAN OF THE SOUTHOpening Bill of the Guy Stock Company Monday Night. The comedy drama, “A Man of the South,” is the opening play announced by the Guy Stock Co., for Monday evening, and from the present indications this well selected company will be greeted with a crowded house which they well deserve. Manager Mercer claims he will bring to Decatur the largest and best repertoire company that has ever been here and the company is composed of 30 people and carry all their own scenery and effects which requires two special cars. The vaudeville is said to be the strongest ever carried by a repertoire company Including the famous five-dollar, monarch of vaudeville, and Eddie Clemens, ■ late of Al G. Field's minstrels, the Gayascbyce, the St. Clair sisters. The prlcis are 10 and 20 cents. Show lot on corner Fourth and Monroe. o Raleigh Shaw, of Alliance, Ohio, is in the city meeting friends and relatives for several days. He is employed as brakeman on the P. F. railroad and will return to Alliance in a few days. WENTTO BLUFFTON Local Ball Team Met the Enemy Today TWO GAMES ON JULY FOURTH Morning at Bluffton and Afte r noon at Decatur —Big Crowds are Anticipated. Decatur's ball team, in charge of Captain Behringer, left at 10:30 this morning for Bluffton, where the second game of the series is being played this afternoon. Geyer and Sealts are the battery for Decatur, while Bluffton, always “crying” about others using “ringers,” have secured three “extras” from South Bend to assist them. However, our boys were nothing daunted and expect to bring home an easy scalp, if anything like a fair deal is given them. About a hundred “boosters” accompanied the team and will tell us all about it this evening, no doubt. The next game between the two teams will occur next Thursday morning, July 4th, at Bluffton, with a return game here the same afternoon at three o'clock. The associations are expecting a big crowd at each game. Bluffton has promised to send over a delegation of several hundred, and no doubt the crowd will be the largest ever seen on the local grounds. Besides those who went on the train this morning, many drove and several automobile parties went over this afternoon. The score by innings was received at this office and many “fans” showed their interest by awaiting the messages eagerly. —oMAY HAVE EFFECT ON CASE. Attorneys Claim Wrong Corporation is Being Sued. Declaring that the wrong corporation is being sued by Andrew Miller, of Adams county, who is seeking to’ recover in the superior court judgment for damages alleged to have been caused by fire, which resulted from sparks from a Grand Rapids and Indiana locomotive, Judge Allen Zollars yesterday filed a motion asking Judge Heaton to instruct the jury to return a veridet for the defendant. The moton was overruled, but the point may have an important bearing upon the case which has been on trial for several days. Mr. Miller’s action is against the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad company, and after the plaintiff had been allowed to develop his case attorneys for the defense offered a showing to the effect that the railroad property was in fact owned by the Grand Rapids Railway company, to which corporation it had been sold in 1896 by the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad company, the original owner of the property. The single words “railroad" and "railway” constitute the only difference in the corporate names of the two organizations. —Ft. Wayne Sentinel.

FIRE PREVENTION Crusade is Being Made Against Demon URGING STRICT BUILDING LAWS In Every City—Compel an Observance of the Essentials for Fireproof Construction. Since the great conflagration at San Francisco a number of engineers and construction experts have become engaged in a movement that approaches a crusade against lax building methods. Investigations and tests have shown that really fireproof buildings are very rare, and that many which are labeled fireproof in large letters, are not so at all. The consensus of expert opinion seems to be that the remedy lies in strict and strictly enforced building laws. In other words, do not trust to putting out fire, but remove the possibility. The United States Keological Survey has received reports from three eminent engineers who made an exhaustive study of the condition of buildings after the fire in San Francisco. These engineers are Prof. Frank Soule, dean of the College of Civil Engineering in the university of California; Captain John Stephen Sewell, of the corps of engineers, United States army; and Mr. Richard L. Humphrey, expert in charge of the structural materials division of the technical branch of the geological survey and secretary of the national advisory board on fuels and structural materials. “They reach the conclusion,” remarks the Engineering Record, “that the lessons from the Chicago and Baltimore fires have not yet been learned, and that a great conflagration, with its attendant loss of life and millions of dollars in property, is possible in every big city in the country.” Mr. Humphrey says in his report that the defects of construction so strongly condemned in San Francisco “are no worse than those generally practiced throughout the United COURT HOUSE NEWS Three Hunters’ Licenses Were Issued LAW GOES INTO EFFECT JULY 1 For Hunting Squirrels—Board of Review Inspected Real Estate Today. The hunting season for squirrels goes into effect July Ist and you may shoot them from that date until October Ist, provided you have a license. To do this you must first secure an application from the state game warden, fill It out, giving your age, height, weight, complexion, color of hair, color of eyes and distinctive marks, present this to the county clerk with one dollar and secure the license. Deputy Clerk Baumgartner this morning issued licenses of this kind to L. G. Botkin and Roy Young, of Wabash township and Everett Woodruff, of Jefferson. The board of review are still open for complaints on oil properties, this privilege being given the monopolies until tomorrow. William Wilson, of Hartford township representing four oil companies, appeared before- the board, but was satisfied with the assessments after same was explained to him by the board. At 9:30 o'clock this morning the board, with the exception of Mr. Lachot, who kept house at both the auditor’s and treasurer’s office, proceeded to Inspect various pieces of real estate in the city. o Julius Haugk is hustling things on Madison street and is at present hauling sand for the cushion on which the brick will be laid. The brick layer who was expected this week informed Mr. Haugk that he could not arrive until next Monday, and in consequence thereof the work in this line will necessarily be delayed a few days.

States.” The cause of this, according to the reports, is the short-sightedness of builders, who, seeking a large immediate return on investment, refuse to pay for good construction. Fire statistics in this country, it is pointed out, show the false economy in cheap construction. If individuals will not cease to put up unburnable buildings say the experts, it is the duty of communities to do so by law. In his report Captain John Stephen Sewell says: “A conflagration never yields comparative results, but from such results as are available I think that there is no question that the best fire resisting material at the present time is the right kind of burned clay.” This view is shared, apparently, by the foremost building experts. The steel frames of the largest and highest structures under way in New York and other cities are being protected by hollow terracotta blocks, burned clay products which keep the heat away from the steel columns and girders which they surround, The general conclusions of the three experts may be summed up in Mr. Humphrey’s words: “The only sure way to remedy grave defects of this character is to enact strict building laws which will compel an observance of the essentials for fireproof construction.” FRIENDLY SCUFFLE Results in Injuries to Mart Elzey LAID UP FOR SEVERAL WEEKS A Dislocated Ankle and a Broken Bone Will Prevent Mart from Work for Several WeeksMart Elzey, clerk at the Scherry saloon in the west end of town, while scuffling with Curley Elzey in a jovial manner yesterday afternoon, had the misfortune to have his right ankle dislocated and also received a broken bone just above the ankle. The two men were casting jokes at each other in a friendly way and to make it more interesting began scuffling, when Curley threw him in a manner that caused him to sustain the injuries. A physician was summoned and he was conveyed to his home by a nearby rig, after which medical aid was administered. It will be several weeks before Mr. Elzey can resume his duties. These friendly scuffles oftimes result in serious and painful consequences and both participants are usually sorry after all is over and only carqful nursing and several weeks and months of time will repair the injury.

o INTERURBANS WON THEIR CASE Supreme Court Decided in Their Favor Yesterday. Indianapolis, June 27. —The interurban railroads won in the supreme court today on the main proposition that the use of the streets by their cars is no more an “additional servitude” than their use by city street cars, as long as they are operated within the city like street cars. . But the court holds that whatever special damages they inflict on adjoining property by running so fast as to shake down Louses, or by the improper operation of their cars in other respects must be paid. All of the judges express the opinion that interurban cars cannot be excluded from the streets by abutting owners, the cwners having a right, at most, to recover damages. The decision was a majority only of the five judges, two of them contending that the mere use of the streets by interurban cars gives adjoining owners a right to damages as in the case of steam railroads. The fact that "freight” or express cars are run by the interurban railroads is discussed at length, but is held to make no difference in their right to use the streets. The court reversed the judgment sustains the demurrer of the Union Traction company to the complaint of Lottie Kinsey asking damages for the operating of interurban cars on College avenue in Indianapolis. 0 The city delivered to the Old Adams County Bank this morning bonds amounting to sixty-five hundred dollars, these being the bonds refunded and sold some time ago. The bonds I are of the straight issue and bear four per cent from date.

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A PICNIC PARTY By Misses Frances Dugan and Bessie Boyers SHOWER GIVEN FOR MISS ERNST Whose Wedding Will Occur Soon— Missionary Society to Hold an Exchange—Other Society News. By Perle Burdg. The Misses Francis Dugan and Bessie Boyers are giving a picnic pary today to a large company of sixteen young girls in compliment of the Misses Katherine Calvert, of Covington, Ky., and Charlotte Dorwin, of Lafayette, Ind. The party includes the girls of the A. H. C. club. They met at the home of Miss Dugan and then left on the twelve o'clock car for Dorwin’s farm, near Monmouth, whereon there is a splendid shady grove where they will hold the picnic. The hostesses sent a large wagon filled with every article that is necessary for such an occasion and also the Inucheon which it is impossible to describe, and to which ample justice will be done. They will return some time during the evening. <• The Young Ladles’ Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. church will hold an exchange at Stonebu mer's Pictorium on Saturday morning at nine o'clock. They will have pies, bread, cake, cookies, lemonade and home-made candies. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. The social given by the young boys’ class of the Presbyterian church at the home of their teacher, Miss Kittie Christen, was a success in a financial way. The boys did the serving and not one who attended the social went away without complimenting the boys and teacher on the excellent way they handled such a large crowd. The amount cleared was ten dollars and fifty cents. Mrs. D. M. Hone was a pleasant hostess at a miscellaneous shower for Miss Letta Ernst at her home on Ninth street yesterday afternoon from two until four o’clock. The home was prettily decorated with roses and ferns. The bride-to-be received many beautiful and useful presents. The party consisted of twelve ladies, who enjoyed the afternoon to its fullest extent. Miss Ernst will become the bride of Mr. Lee Annen within a fewdays. After July Ist the couple will be at home In this city to their many friends.

A very pleasant surprise was given at the home of Charles Standiford, 6% miles southeast of Decatur, Wednesday evening June 26th, in honor of their daughter Olive, it being her 18th birthday. Those present were. Misses Verda Bigham. Gertrude Shifferly, Grace Gauze, Maggie Bell, Maude Wood, lona Shifferly, Gertrude Pomeroy, Myrtle Springer, Olive Standiford, Lula Dull, Ethyl Myers; Messrs. Landy Jackson, Otis Shifferly, Rolla Jackson, Burley Swygart, Merle Cowan, Lawrence Johnson, Willie Johnson, Vernon Shifferly, George Peters. Russel Stewart, Love Woods, Sherman Carter, Russel Pomeroy, Harry Pomeroy, Curtis Springer, Carl Dudley. The evening was spent in games and social chat until a late hour, when all departed wishing Miss Standiford many more happy birthdays. OSSIAN TO HAVE NEW BANK. Articles of Incorporation Filed— Capital $25,000. Indianapolis, June 27. —Articles have been filed with the secretary of state for the incorporation of the following companies: Bank of Ossian: capital, $25,000; directors, William H. Rupright, William R. Beaty, John C. Dean, Miles N. Newman, William S. Smith. James W. Sale and Henry C. Arnold. Rolf-Martin company, Fort Wayne; capital, $25,000; directors, Herman L. Rolf, Emmett Martin, Albert Rolf, D. A. Newcomer and Charles V. Jacobs. The name of the old McConaha & Taylor company, Richmond, has been changed to the McConaha company. Mrs. Lizzie DeVilbiss has become become settled in her new r home on Madison street and now has one of the prettiest little residences in the city.