Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 160

INFORMAL PARTY Given at Brookside Farm Last Evening birthday party LAST EVENING i I For the Garard Twins—Missionary Society to Meet—Other Social and Church Affairs. ——— By Perle Burdg. Exceptionally beautiful was BrookI side Farm, as it appeared to the guests on (heir arrival last night, in response to invitations to an informal I evening party given by Miss Jean Lutz in compliment of Misses Greta and Harrit Atheson and Charlotte Dorwin. of Lafayette, Miss Katherine I Calvert, of Covington, Ky., who have I been the guests of honor for the past i week at a house party given by Miss Lutz, and last night was the closing event. Japanese lanterns were artisI tcally arranged on the spacious veranda. and in each room, instead of ; the regular lights, there were the | danty candles placed in every nook and corner which gave oft a softer effect throughout the home. There were several amusements of the evening, especially one worth mentioning was the animal contest,. Each guest was the recipient of a small I card with a pretty little pencil attached, and a stick of gum, with this gum they were to make the animal on the card which it called for. Miss Inez Snellen proved to be the champion in making a small mouse, and I was awarded a hand.painted plate, i Immediately following this the hostess I served a two-course luncheon and the remaining portion of the evening was pleasantly spent: in dancing and music. The guests of the evening numbered twenty-six young girls, who ; were: Misses Bessie Boyers, Leota Bailey. Frances Merryman, Frances I Dugan, Pansy Bell, Lucile Cusac, Mar- | garet Hughes, Alice Daiey, Marie Bok. I neckt, Marie Berry, Winifred Johnson, Florence Spring!#. Perle Burdg, Irene Schirmeyer, Fanny Frysinger, Harriett Morrison, Greta Ttheson, Marrit I Atheson, Charlotte Dorwin, Emma i Hoffman, Edna Hoffman, Inez Snellen, Ada Murray. With large and small tables, prettily decorated with flowers and candles and the Japanese lanterns lightI ed, formed the pretty scene on the lawn of the home o fMr. and Mrs. I Al Gerard last evening, when the smiling faced girls and boys gathered at the home th celebrate the birthday i anniversaries of the two little girls, Anna and Grace, the former being seven years old and the latter ten years of age. Various games were played and the little hostesses were j more than surprised for as it was intended to be a complete surprise and there was no doubt that the surprise was a success. After the amusements j Mrs. Garard served a dainty and de- ' licious birthday luncheon. The girls each one, received many pretty and | useful gifts and now they are planI ning for the same kind of an event for next year. The boys and girls I who enjoyed tlhe occasion as much I as the hostesses were: Joe Burdg. : Harry Murray, Ralph Rainey, Wermuh Ramey, Beulah Russell, Reba Ramey, Romain Murray, Grace and Anna ■Garard, Mildred Strebe. Geraldine Strebe, Geraldine Major, Winnie Beoger, Ruth Guda. Helen Chapman, Grace Schorll, Forest Murray, Lawrence Murray, George Schug, Effie ■ Miller, Genevieve Smith. Mr. and Mrs. I C. J. Lutz and little Bertha Hiltpold. Mrs. Heller and sonnf Toledo, were the guests of honor at a twelve o clock appointed dinner this noon given by Mrs. Dora Erwin at her home on north Second street The St. Vincent de Paul Society of the St. Marys church will meet tomor. row afternoon with Mrs. Newton An derson. The Woman's Home Missionary So- ; ciety of the M. E. church will hold their regular meeting Wednesday p. m. July 3rd at the home of Mrs. • C. Schafer. ‘Mrs. Daniels will give an address and a report will be gi'en of the district convention that was held at Ft. Wayne. A good musica program will be given. 1 !} ese mee ings are growing in interest an wi urge all members and friends to e present. Mrs. C. C. Schafer, hostess, Mrs. W. J. Meyers, assistant hostess The Menu-Ates will be charmingly entertained by Miss Frances Merry

man on Friday afternoon in honor of Misses Charlotte Dorwin and Miss Katherine Calvert, Mesdames Dan Veil, Charles Locke and Harry Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rice will be host and hostess this evening at an evening party given at their home on north Second street in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rice of Marion, Ind., and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rice of Canton, Ohio, to all the cousins of the city. Mrs. Charles Murray delightfully entertained a small company of ladies at a six o’clock dinner last evening at the Murray hotel. The guests were Mrs. Noonen, of Ft. Wayne, Mrs. Carrie Sutherland, Mrs. Charles Elezy. Al the home of her grandfather, John Peoples, situated four miles north of the city, little Miss Esther, celebrated her eighth birthday anniversary yesterday afternoon by inviting twenty-six of her little playmates to spend the time. The dining room was extremely pretty with the decora, tions of national colors. Ice cream and cake was served the guests. The hostess was the recipient! of a number of lovely gifts, and it will be a day long to be remembered. Miss Frances Bryson, of Decatur, went home Monday after being here one week as a guest of Miss Hui la Tudor west Portland, the latter recently moving here from Decatur. — Portland Review.

THE SECOND DAY The Commissioners are Still In Session CONTRACTS FOR ROAD REPAIRS Macadam Road Superintendents Appointed—Other Business Before the Board. The commissioners are still in session, considerable of their time being taken in figuring over bids for some bridge and concrete work. P. A. Macklin was appointed superintendent of construction on the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash township Macadam Road Extension three. David Merhberger, Decatur Lumber Co., Levi Augsburger, A. & C. Stone Co., Julius Haugk, E. M. Ray and Erie Stone Co., were all given contrace for furnishing crushed stone for road repairs. The French township extension four. Tanner extension four, Decatur and Monroe extension five and Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash township were continued. The petition Decatur and Monroe five and six macadam roads was approved and William Anderson and Chris Eicher were appointed viewers and L. L. Baumgartner engineer. The National Concrete Co. was low bidder on Linn Grove bridge, and the Attica Bridge Co. secured three little bridges. James M. Foreman and Charles Morrison were appointed viewers for the C. E. Bollinger extension four. P. J. Bryan, Henry Eiting and Michael Miller were appointed reviewers on a highway location. Chancey E. Young et al remonstrated against a former viewers report. Elwood H. Faust was refunded $3.13 cents in taxes. LANDED THE SCHOOL CONTRACT Two Decatur Furnaces for the North Ward Building. The city school board today contracted with the Schafer Hardware company for two Decatur furnaces to be installed at once in the north ward school building. The contract was secured by the Decatur company against a number of the biggest factories in the country, and speaks well for .he merits and price of this greatest furnace manufactured in the world. One representative of a Cincinnati firm made rather a “donkey" of himself by his abusive and throating language, but to no avail. Beyond doubt the Decatur furnace has them all backed off the track. We know for we have used one for a year. The company are securing numerous orders each day and the capacity of the plant is already taxed.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, July 2, 1907.

HUNDREDS COMING Bluffton to Send Five Hundred Here the 4th TO ROOT FOR THEIR FAVORITES Clover Leaf Will Have Extra Cars to Accommodate Them —It Will be a Big Fourth After All. Going from the gay to grave, Bluffton will be the deadest town in the universe the Fourth. All the grocery stores will be closed all day, the druggists will do the same, while many of the other business houses will either shut up shop all day or the greater part of it. The base ball game will take place in the morning, and then all the fans will follow the team to Decatur for the afternoon game. Just to be in style and to follow out a custom of long standing, the Banner will not issue on the glorious Independence day, and, of course, that fact alone makes the town dead. But we can’t help it. Everybody seems glad of a chance to get out of town for one holiday, and the interurban cars, if the management is up to snuff, will put on lots of cars to carry the people out of town, and then for a nice wind-up to a day of pleasure it is hoped they will furnish plenty of cars to bring the tired multitude back home. The Clover Leaf will have extra cars on the noon train to carry the crowd to Decatur to see the ball game and they, no doubt, will carry four or five hundred people. We serve notice now on Decatur to enlarge that ball park to accommodate the crowd from Bluffton alone. Nobody but the aged and infirm will stay in Bluffton the Fourth. So get ready to leave and pick your spot to land. —Bluffton Banner.

TELLS HIS STORY Slayer of “Scotty” Cameron on the Stand SAYS HE WAS AFRAID OF HIM The Story Was Without Dramatic Detail Except One Time—Schulte on Witness Stand. Detroit, July 1, 1907.—Without any apparent nervousness, but with considerable fatigue toward the close, Joseph Schulte told on the stand in Judge Hosmer*: court Saturday afternoon how he happened to shoot Alton Cameron. The story was without dramatic detail, except in some places, and was essentially a plain and apparently a straightforward narration. The one highly dramatic moment came when Attorney Frank Simons asked the accused man if his father and mother were in the court room. “No, they are not.” “Why not?” “Because they know nothing of this trouble.” The two representatives of the prosecuting attorney’s office, James A. Robison and Louis W. McClear, rose to their feet with a loud protest that the information was immaterial, but Judge Hosmer only responded dryly: “Well, the mischief has already been done.” The narrative of the actual killing was given quietly, without a tremor of the voice, although Schulte held his handkerchief near his face most of the time. His already emaciated cheks took on a slightly paler hue as he told of the tragedy. “He came in intoxicated that night,” said Schulte. “He took off his hat, coat and muffler, putting them on the table. Then he shuffled over to the stove and tried to break off the top urn. After he left the stove he came over to the bar and sized up the crowd and sized up me. He next walked over to Schneider, a stranger in the place, and hit him over the head with his hand, smashing his hat. “I said: ‘Scotty, cut It out; we can’t have trouble here every Sunday.’ At this he walked a few steps away and came back again. As I saw him come back to the stranger, I went to

the drawer and got the revolver, placing it In the work-box of the bar. I told him he had to stop making trouble or I’d try to stop it for him. As I said this he walked around to the opening of the bar and was within two feet of it when I stopped him." “What did you stop him with." “With the revolver. I rested my hand on the bar and said: ‘Now, Scotty, get out of here.’ I repeated it two or three times, but he only looked at the barrel find said: ‘l’m not afraid of that.’ I stepped back, intending to put it away when he threw his left hand on the bar and flung his right hand to his pistol pocket. Then he rose up on his 1 feet and said: ‘You he stepped forward, I fired.’’ A tense silence followed this climax and it was several moments before it was cut by the query of Attorney Simons: “What did Cameron do?” “He turned around and hurried out.” “What did you do?” “I stood there for a while, dazed. Then Gus Wells came in and asked what was the matter. I don't know what I said to him. By and by, Joe Peck said: ‘You’d better get out of here’ and Wells told me that if I need, ed any money I could go to the cash drawer. He went upstairs and got my coat. I took a little money and made for the downtown car.” “Did you take the revolver with you?” "Yes, I kept it until I gave myself up at police headquarters.” FORGRAVELROADS Wells County Commissioners Have Decided SUSTAIN JUDGE ERWIN DECISION Board Voted Favorable on Thirty-One New Petitions —Total Expenditure Will Be $200,000. Bluffton, Ind., July 1. —The county commissioners in regular session here today voted favorably for the construction of 31 gravel roads, granting all of the petitions on file, which have been hanging fire for several weeks. There has been a big fight on the proposition to build new gravel and macadam roads in this county under the new law, which provides for the construction of roads and the cost being taxed against the ent'-e township. The fights against improvement are waged as a rule in townships in which there is a city, as it pays at the same ratio on its assessed valuation as farm property. In Harrison Township, this county, for instance, the city of Bluffton will pay about 75 per cent of the entire cost. When the petitions were first presented here the commissioners, acting upon the advice of the county attorney, refused to order viewers or engineers for the roads, and an appeal was then taken to circuit court, and the next step was a change of venue to Adams county. Judge Erwin rendered a decision in favor of the petitioners and instructed the commissioners to appoint viewers and engineers. The fight has not yet been dropped, it is said, but a test case will be carried to the supreme court. There are many more petitions in circulation in this county, and they have simply been held off awaiting the action of the commissioners on the first bunch of petitions. Some sections which have already built roads under the old law are also fighting against helping to build new roads, as they say they had to pay for their roads themselves when they were built. The entire cost of the 31 roads will be $200,000. Q According to the Mansfield News the Erie railroad is experimenting with another new labor saving machine on a section of road in Ohio. The new ditching machine has shown that it can easily do the work required by hundreds of men and the Erie is now experimenting with a spreading machine. This machine follows up the ditcher and levels the sides of the track where fills have been made. The first trial of the machine was made Friday. It left Galion early in the morning and by five o’clock-had cleaned up all the places along the road as far as the reformatory. It would have required over a thousand men to do the same amount of work in a week. The machine is run by compressed air. which is supplied by the engine which pulls it

COURT HOUSE NEWS Junk and Hunters’ Licenses Issued ADMINISTRATOR WAS APPOINTED George Shroll to Close up Estate of Joseph Shroll —a Druggists Permit Was Issued. A junk dealer’s license has been Issued to Lehon Magidmaa, of Ossian, to deal from house to house in this county. Mr. Magidman is a Russian Jew who came to this country seven months ago. Hunter's licenses were issued to Gideon Riesen and L. D. Jacobs, of Berne and Gus and Jonathan Rian, of Jefferson township. George Shroll has been granted letters as administrator of the estate of Joseph Shroll and filed bond for SIOO signed by Anson Van Camp. Joseph Shroll died June 9th. The Holthouse Drug company, incorporated, have been granted a permit as required by law to conduct a drug store, at Willshire, Ohio. The board of review- are still looking over the mortgages as assessed. Yesterday they finished this work for Union, Root Preble and Kirkland townships and today had Washington, St. Marys and Blue Creek. The board must complete their work by July 12th and are hustling to do so. o Charles Erwin returned this morning from a business trip to Bluffton in the interest of the Clover Leaf rail, road company. BROKEHERLEG Blind Girl Stepped From Porch GRACE HURST THE VICTIM Has Been 111 for Several Years, Recently Lost Her Eyesight and Now Suffers this Injury. — Miss Grace Hurst, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Janies Hurst, who has been an invalid for years and who some time ago,, lost her eyesight, was painfully injured last evening by falling from the porch and as a result both bones in her left limb were broken. The girl had been on the porch and was attempting to get into the house and after getting up started in the wrong direction and stepped off the porch, a distance of about three feet, causing the'bones in the left limb to break. Dr. J. S. Boyers was summoned and the injuries dressed and as a result she will be confined to her bed for some time to come. The accident is a sad one in this case as the child had always been weakly and for several years has been unable to distinguish any object, certainly enduring more than her share of pain and suffering. The many friends hope for her a speedy recovery from this re cent injury. o After the non-success of the first lot of brought into this city by the Wabash, and who were persuaded to leave, it was thought that the railroad would not take further measures to bring in another lot for some time. Eleven men, however, arrived at an early hour this morning and were put to work in the local shops. They are all expert pipe, fitters and it was stated by an official of the company that all of them were “stickers.” If this be a fact it will be interesting to note just what steps the local union of he striking pipefitters will take. Up to a late hour last night they had made no further demonstration than to send men after the strike-breakers in the endeavor to make them leave. —Journal-Gazette. Mrs. P. J. Hyland and mother, Mrs. Touhey, went to Ft. Wayne this morning to be the guests of friends for some time.

BLUFFTON KICKS ON CONNELL ; Want a Fair Umpire at Ft. Wayne or May Cut Them Out. Who needs the money the worst, I Bluffton or Ft. Wayne, or, for that matter, Decatur. There is no doubt but that a week ago yesterday the Ft. Wayne umpire robbed our old-time ri. vals, the Decatur team, in the ninth inning and the Ft. Wayne papers referred to the feat as a great ninthinning finish. A Ft. Wayne traveling man in Bluffton next morning admitted it was the worst case of holdup he ever saw in a ball game. Yesterday the Shamrocks’ umpire started to do the same thing and would have accomplished his purpose had the Ft. Wayne batters stood stock still and not struck at the balls that were dished up. The question is, shall our boys be sent up to Ft. Wayne to fill the coffers of the Shamrock team and be robbed or shall they cut the Shamrocks off their visiting list unless accorded a square umpire? Bluff, ton can support her own team and the money gotten from Ft. Wayne is not absolutely necessary to the life of the game in Bluffton. Decatur has the same kick and should agree with Bluffton that no more games go in Ft. Wayne with the conditions that now prevail. A Bluffton audience would not stand for a robber home umpire. But Ft. Wayne seems to think It a part of the game. Os course they are only amateurs. —Bluffton Banner. THE SHOW PLEASES The Guy Stock Company Open Week’s Show THEIR BIG COMFORTABLE TENT “Man of the South” Delighted .the Crowd —Every Member of th e Company is a Star. Last night in their spacious tent located on the corner of Monroe and Fourth streets, the Guy Stock company presented to a large audience that interesting play, "Man of the South.” The tent was taxed to its capacity, and the audience was more than pleased with the work of every member of the cast. The company is exceptionally strong this year and they stage nothing but the best of plays. Enough humor is intermingled with the melodramic scenes to make the play ideal in every respect. The black-face comedian and the specialty introduced by the two sisters deserve special mention, while Mr. Mercer, the clever heavy man captivated the audience not only by his work as the villain, but also by his clever specialty between the third and fourth acts. Tonight the play, “Dr. Jeykle and Mr. Hyde” will be given and without a doubt will be greeted by another packed house. o BIG PATRONAGE IS EXPECTED Clover Leaf Hope to Sell 5,000 Tickets to Niagara Falls. If present estimates are backed up by results, at least 5,000 St. Louis people will pass through Decatur and land in Toledo all in a bunch the morning of August 11. The occasion for the presence of so many tourists from one locality will be the annual Niagara Falls excursion to be given by the Clover Leaf. The excursion will start from St. Louis August 10, and the route to Niagara Falls will be via Clover Leaf and Lake Shore. Last, year the Clover Leaf had competition, the Wabash and Big Four selecting the same date for the Niagara excursion. The three roads carried in round numbers 5,000 people, those taking the Wabash going via Detroit and those taking the Big Four going via Indianapolis and Cleveland. Thus only the Clover Leaf's quota passed through Toledo. General Passenger Agent Ross thinks the excursion should be as large as last year’s, if not larger, and the road will make preparations to run from eight to ten special trains. • The fact that the Clover Leaf is to have the field all to itself this summer is an indication of a more neighborly spirit among these competing roads. In times gone by it has been a fight to the finish. —o„ Clarance Reynolds made: a business trip to Monroe this morning.

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LIMESTONE ONLY No Other Material for the Bedford Building CRUMPACKER WOULD ACCEPT The Nomination for Governor —Value of Log Stumpage is Increasing Owing to Scarcity . Washington, July 1. —Representa. in writing to a friend in Washington concerning the Bedford situation, expressed nimselt very tor. cibly as follows: “Any other material for the public building at Bedford than Indiana limestone is not to be thought of. Bedford is the original home of the oolitic stone, and this stone is recognized throughout the country as a superior building stone. To put up a building at Bedford of any other material would be to disgrace this stone in the eyes of the building world and humiliate every citizen of that good city. “Moreover, there is no material for such a building that will beat this stone for durability, architecture or cheapness. The stone for this proposed building will not exceed a cost of $9,000, and it is right here on the ground. “Why, to send off from home for building material when you have the best kind of material at home is a crazy performance, and especially so at Bedford. I would rather postpone the proposed building altogether than to have it built of foreign materials.” ,The property owners of a site in Bloomington who have been on a dick, er with treasury officials have withdrawn their proposition and the gov- | ernment has not a single piece of Bloomington property in sight, on which to erect a federal building. It is not known here just what action will be taken in the matter to get a suitable site, as there seems to be no dispisition in Bloomington to hurry the matter along. Representative Crumpacker, of Indiana. while in Washington last week, said that if an Indiana convention should do an almost unheard of thing, by offering him the nomination for governor, he would feel so highly honored and under such obligations that he could not refuse such a nomination. “But Indiana people don't do things that way, so I am perfectly safe in making such a statement,” said the congressman from the Tenth district. Throughout the country the value of log stumpage is increasing. The average value per thousand feet, board measure, for the United States increased from $2.18 in 1900 to $2.59 in 1905, a rise of 41 cents, or 18.8 per cent. This advance in the cost of stumpage added $11,472,115 to the total cost of sawmill material and increased the value of lumber proportionately. The increase is due not so much to a present shortage in the supply of lumber material in the country as a whole as to the fact that the available supply of log stumpage is rapidly being bought up and withdrawn from the market. In Indiana the rise in stumpage values is due directly to the growing scarcity of sawmill material for immediate use. First Assistant Postmaster-General Hitchcock has added one adJitional postoffice clerk in the Martinsville office at S6OO a year. Treasury officials have let a contract to Fred Samonial. of Vincennes, to supply the Vincennes federal building with coal for this fiscal year for the sum of $297.50. ELECTRIC THEATER IS SOLD Kemp & Jones Sell Out to Schmuck & Miller. The new electric theater, owned and operated by Messrs. Kemp and Jones, of Winchester, was sold this morning to Mr. Schmuck, of Portland, and Mr. Miller, of Greenville. Ohio. The new proprietors assumed control of the business at once and they will, as far as they know at present, remain here permanently. These gentlemen come to our midst highly recommended. and they will conduct the showin the same clean and reputable manner as it has been in the past, and they will no doubt get their share of the patronage. The retiring firm members will return to Winchester, where Mr. James will resume his duties as a school teacher.