Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume V. Number 243

ADDITIONAL CHARGES FILED Ed Green Accuses Mayor Coffee of Immoral (Conduct

UNBECOMING HIM: Gives His Side of the Story to the Reading Public of Decatur. AN AFFIDAVIT FILED From Clerk of Allen County Superior Court —Administration Fight to Date. Events continue to occur in the administration affairs, and the subject has become the chief conversation. To-day additional charges were filed by Ed Green, accusing the executive of unbecoming conduct, and asking his removal. An affidavit from Allen county shows that a judgment has been duly entered on the records in favor of George McKean. All these facts make interesting reading, asid are given verbatim solely as a matter of news.

THE ADDITIONAL CHARGES. I, the undersigned, a resident and legal voter of the city of Decatur, Indiana, do hereby charge and present that David D. Coffee, mayor of the city of Decatur, has been guilty of gross misconduct on the streets of the city of Decatur, Indiana, within one year lasi past. Said misconduct was unbecoming him as the mayor of said city, for which misconduct I ask his discharge and removal from the office of mayor of said city, which said misconduct is as follows: First. November 3, 1906 .said David D. Coffee was intoxicated and under the influence of intoxicating liquors, and was on Second street in said city in the presence of ladies and children. Second. I charge David D. Coffee with being in a saloon in the month of August, 1907, on a Sunday. Third. I charge David D. Coffee with being unlawfully intoxicated and under the influence of intoxicating liquors on August 9th, 1907, on Second street, in the city of Decatur, Indiana, where there were others to be annoyed and offended thereby. Fourth. I charge David D. Coffee with being intoxicated and under the Influence of intoxicating liquors on the 28th day of August .1907, and appearing on Second street in the city of Decatur. Indiana, while thus intoxicated, and using profane language, also vile, and indecent and vulgar language in the presence of James H. Smith, hd Erwin, and Mrs. Ed Erwin and others thereat. For the above and foregoing reasons I ask that said David D. Coffee be removed from the office of mayor of said city, and that said office be declared vacant and for such other and proper relief. ED GREEN.

During the recent squabble had be- ' tween the members of the common council and the mayor over the tax levy and appropriation ordinances, which were vetoed by the mayor and then passed over bis head, it was argued by Mayor Coffee that the reason he vetoed the same was owing to the fact that the tax levy ordinance made a levy of two cents for the paymen of judgments, claiming at the time that there were no judgments pending against the city and it would therefore be unlawful to pass an ordinance embracing this feature. At the time City Attorney DeVoss informed the ■council that a judgment had been rendered in favor of George E. < * - 11 the Allen Superior Court forth sum of 1300 and that this judgment was now held by a Decatur partyUpon this information the two nances were adopted as originahy passed and became a law thus saving the citizens of Decatur the num o seventeen cents on the hundred dob Urs as the tax levy for 1907 was nineteen cents to pay judgments ever to show the public that they bad taken the right stand in the matter and

that a judgment was pending against the city in favor of McKean in the Allen Superior Court the members of the council that voted for the ordinances over the Mayor’s veto wrote the clerk of the Allen Superior Court for a certified copy of the record and in response received the following which speaks for itself: State of Indiana, County of Allen, ss: In the Allen Superior Court. George E. McKean vs. The City of Decatur. Clerk’s Certificate. The undersigned Clerk of the Allen Superior Court, hereby certifies that there was a judgment rendered in the above entitled case by agreement of parties on this 16th day of July ,1907, lin favor of the plaintiff against the defendant, City of Decatur, Indiana for Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00.. That thereafter Peterson and Moran and C. J. Lutz, attorneys for plaintiff filed and attorney’s Lien for Attorney’s fees on said judgment for Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00), and thereafter the said Attorneys assigned said Lien to B. W. Sholty for a valuable consideration, all of which is upon record 13, page 21 of the Allen Superior Court. Witness my hand and seal, this 16th day of July, 1907. JOSEPH N. MASON, Clerk of the Superior Court, Allen County, Indiana.

GREAT MELODRAMA COMING. “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall” to be Given Here. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall came to the Masonic last evening for a visit or a week and the audience which greeted this romantic melodrama of the days of Queen Elizabeth was both attentive and pleased. The dramatization by Paul Kester, of Charles Major’s romance, is not at all new to the theater-goers of Louisville for they have seen both Bertha Galland and Alberta Gallatin in the role of Dorothy and remember how Sir John Manners, a young son of a hated enemy of the Vernons, comes co Haddon Hall and is taken for Dorothy’s cousin, Sir Malcolm Vernon, who is expected to arrive. Dorothy falls in love with Manners against her father’s will, defying him and all the rest of the family, together with Queen Elizabeth, who has just arrived as a guest to the hall. Os how Dorothy makes her father’s life very miserable for him, scorns the love of her cousin Malcolm, who wishes to marry her, and succeeds in making her lover betray the hiding place of his Mary of Scotland, only so she might save the young man’s life as he is in danger of losing his head for stealing into her apartments. Like Mary Tudor in “When Knighthood Was in Flower,” the headstrong lady has most every one who comes within her range of •wrath dancing to the tune she plays and in the end wins her way to the satisfaction of every one. The present production is ideal in point of scenic beauty and costuming, and the cast capable. To the star, Blanca West, who plays Dorothy, only praise can be given for a very correct rendition of a difficult part. Miss West is young, bright and pretty and though she talks a little too fast, her voice is very pleasing to hear. The John Manners of Joseph Gellow is handsome, manly and graceful and a typical Elizabetthian lover. Joseph E. MacGregor is happily cast as Sir George Vernon and Alfred James as Perkins is especially deserving of mention. Miss West will be seen in “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall” for the rest of the week with the usual matinees. — Louisville Courier-Journal. o — Mrs. Frenkey of New> Bremen will arrive this evening to be the guest of her daughter, Mrs. C. Vogt. Miss Laura Durbin of Pleasant Mills is in the city and is assisting Mrs. Burge in the millinery store. Mrs. Ernest Shaefer returned t oher home at Indianapolis after visiting with Mrs. Henry Knapp and family of this city. Mrs S B. Merriss and Mrs. D. B. Reckard returned today from Pleasant Mills, where they spent the past week visiting with friends.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, October 8, 1907.

TRAVELED OVER THE TIE ROUTE Judge Erwin 'Walked Three Mile# to Attend Fair. When Judge Erwin, of Decatur, sets his heart upon a good thing there is nothing that is going to turn him from his purpose. He adjourned court to come to North Manchester for the fair, and Thursday after reaching Bolivar on the noon train he found no way of getting from there to this city, except by foot power. While the judge is bigger than he used to be, and while there is enough gray in his hair to testify that he is not as young as he once was. yet he is all grit, and without a moment’s hesitation he set out up the railroad track, and he set the pace for a number of much younger fellows who walked across with him. In the evening after he had enjoyed the fair, John Isenbarger took him back to Bolivar in his automobile a little bit quicker than he had walked over earlier in the day.—North Manchester Journal.

PATCHING THE PARLOR CITY. Instead of selling ashes and cinders from the city waterworks and electric light plants for ten cents per load the council has decided to have the cinders hauled onto some of the mud streets. When put on the streets three or four inches deep, they lay the mud and make a good foundation. —Bluffton News. small Salaries Driving Ministers from the Pulpit to Other Fields of Labor. MANY DESERTING. Thirty-Seven in One Conference Seek Other Employment. Chicago, October 8. —Ministers have suffered more than anyone else from the increased cost of living, because their salaries have not increased even as much as the salaries of laborers in proportion to the boosts in the price of foodstuffs. Reports compiled by the Tribune from MethodistEpiscopal conferences in ten states show that the question of higher salary for the average minister has reached a crisis. Salaries of ministers

have been increased on an average less than SIOO during the last four years, and this has caused such an exodus of preachers from the ministerial to private life that it is predicted religious work will suffer for lack of pulpit workers unless there is a change. At the recent Des Moines conference it was found that thirty-seven of the 217 pulpits in the conference are vacant, because no ministers can be employed at the salaries offered. Ten years ago there were two applicants for each position. Five withdrawals because of insufficient pay were reported at the recent lowa conference. In each case the pastor giving up his church declared he preferred the ministerial life, but that he had to feed and clothe his family. In the Wisconsin conference it was revealed that salaries have not been increased at all in a decade. Twenty pastors in this conference receive less than S4OO a year. In some cases salaries have decreased 20 per cent, in twenty years, while the cost of living has increased 45 per cent, in this conference. One Wisconsin pastor urged his colleagues to “break stones if necessary, but do not let your family suffer.” WILL SERVE ANOTHER TERM. Dr. Clark Again Selected for the County Infirmary Practice. The board of commissioners have contracted with Dr. D. D. Clark for the practice at the County Infirmary for the coming year, the price being $l5O. Dr. Clark has long been the physician at the public institutions, and the inmates there speak in glowing terms of his treatment and kindness. The board dismissed a petition to change the boundary line of Monroe township.

ADVISES PEERLESS Another Letter Written to the Greatest Roman of Them All. UP TO CONGRESS. The Mississippi River Project Will Give Congress Something To Do. Washington, October B.—lt is asserted on good authority that ex-Sena-tor James K. Jones, of Arkansas, who was chairman of the Democratic national committee during the Bryan campaigns, has written a letter to the “Peerless Leader,” advising him to keep out of the next presidential race. Mr. Jones declines to discuss the matter, pleading that he is now practicing law in Washington, and no longer in politics. There is good authority, however, for the statement that ’ he has written the letter. The exSenator and ex-national chairman is a very close friend of Mr. Bryan, and the latter has much confidence in his political acumen. It is said that Mr. Jones urged Bryan to keep out of the | fight on the ground that he was foredoomed to defeat if he became a candidate.

Washington, October B.—-The lakes to the gulf waterway project is to be pushed. About the time Congress meets representatives of business interests throughout the Mississippi valley will come here to do missionary work among the members of Congress. A permanent organization will be established here by the commercial bodies that are desirous of having Congress commit itself to the project at the coming session. It is not the plan of the commercial bodies to ask for a large appropriation at the coming session. They will be satisfied if the action committing the Government to the undertaking is taken. Washington, October 8. —For the last two weeks a report has been going about diplomatic and naval circles in Washington to the effect that Germany will send a fleet of warships on a friendly mission to the port of New ork during the absence of the Atlantic battleship fleet on its cruise to the Pacific. The persistency with which this story is repeated has created a conviction in the minds of many that such a visitation has been arranged, although formal confirmation of it from official sources can not be obtained.

FORANOTHERWEEK Chief White Eagle Will Entertain the People of Decatur. A LIVELY CONTEST To Determine Most Popular Young Lady—Five Contestants Are Close. Chief White Eagle, the Indian lecturer and missionary, who has been conducting an open-air entertainment on the streets for a week past, has concluded to remain another week. He carries two splendid comedians, and his shows seem to please the big crowds who attend. A contest to select the most popular young lady in the city is being conducted and is attracting considerable attention. This event closes Saturday evening, when the popular lady will receive a sls French beveled mirror. The ladies mentioned for the honor are the Misses Pearl Burdg. May Holthouse, Francis Bryson, Agnes Rademacker and Stella Ellis, and each seems to have a nearly equal number of frieds. The chiefs exhibit in the Holthouse Drug Store window has been rather seriously affected from the fact that the bottle of the big eight-foot rattle-snakes died’ yesterday from some peculiar cause.

LITTLE MISS DIBBLE DEAD. Eight-year-old Girl is a Victim of Diabetes. Miss Mary A. Dibble, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Dibble, who reside four miles northeast of this city, died this morning after an illness dating back several months, the immediate cause of her death being diabetes. Miss Dibble was a bright little girl, and had just reached the age when she had become a household necessity, and was a great help to her mother. She was of a sunny disposition, and had always been in excellent health until this dread disease seized her, the ravages of which she was unable to battle against. Her parents are grief-stricken over the sudden turn of affairs and are unconsolable. The funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at the home, and interment wil be made in the Ohio City cemetery. o One feature that has been noticeable during the last few days is the number of farmers that drive to the city and go home with a load of coal. It formerly was the custom for the farmer to come to town with a load of wood, but the wood supply is getting scarcer and caused the change. Many farmers who have wood are selling ’ their wood and buying coal, saying it it to their advantage to do so.

SOCIETY’S COLUMN Ladies’ Historical Club to Meet This Evening With Mrs. C. D. Lewton. MANY OTHER ITEMS. Mrs. Niblick Hostess at a Dinner Party — Medical Society to Meet. Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Murray entertained at dinner yesterday the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. Spies, of Cleveland, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler, and Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Hyland.

This evening at the home of Mrs. C. D. Lewton, the Historical Club will be in session, and Miss Mary Coughton will have an interesting paper on the Later Prophets of Judah, which will prove entertaining for the members. Mrs. Robert Blackbum is committee on entertainment, and a good social time is looked for. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Christian Church will have a meeting at the home of Mrs. Arthur Fisher next Friday afternoon at two o’clock. A good attendance is expected. Business of importance will be looked after. All members are urged to be present.

The Ladies’ Shakespeare Club will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Jennie Studebaker. An interesting and instructive paper on a character sketch of Titania will be given by the hostess. A good social time is anticipated. The Adams County Medical Society will meet at the office of Drs. D. D. and C. S. Clark next Friday evening. Dr. C. S. Clark will have a paper on Carcinoma Cutis, and many things that will prove instructive to the physicians of the county will be discussed. All physicians of the county are urgently requested to be present at this, the first meeting of the year. Mrs. C. S. Niblick was the charming hostess at a six o'clock dinner party given at the Murray Hotel last night in honor of Mrs. Julius Spies, of Cleveland, Ohio. The merry party was royally entertained at the popular hostlery, after which they repaired to the home of Mrs. Niblick and enjoyed a social session that greatly pleased all present. Mrs. Spies the guest, having been a member of this social circle for many years, the occasion will be long remembered by her, as well as all who were in attendance. Mesdames E. X. Elinger. W. A. Kuebler, F. Crawford, C. A. Dungan, Herman Conter and J. K. Niblick constituted the party. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer entertalnM at six o'clock dinner Sunday ' (Coatlnued onfaga” 3.)

A HAPPY AFFAIR Surprise Upon Mrs. John Hessler at Her Home South of Town. FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY. The Event Was Complete in Every Respect and Thoroughly Enjoyed.

One of the most complete surprises of the season was the one last evening, in which Mrs. John Hessler was the delighted victim. It was one wherein the plans were carefully laid and executed, and the many who enjoyed the happy occasion were more than pleased. Mrs. Hessler had been the guest of relatives at Fort Wayne for a week, returning home on the six o'clock car last evening. She had said good-bye to her brothers and sisters at noon, stopped an hour or two with friends in the city, and left Fort Wayne at 4:30. In the meantime her brothers, sisters and other relatives had taken the three o’clock car and arrived here before she did. When Mrs. Hessler opened the door at her home the first to greet her were these same relatives whom she had left only a few hours before. She could sarcely believe her eyes, and took considerable argument to convince her she was not dreaming. Mr. Hessler met his wife at the car, and delayed her in town while the guests gathered. There were nearly a hundred in all and everyone had a most pleasant time. At about nine o’clock a bountiful supper was served and everyone did full credit to the occasion. For several hours the guests were entertained at games, conversation and in other ways. The event was given in honor of Mrs. Hessler’s fiftieth birthday, and she was presented with a beautiful gold watch by her admiring friends and relatives.

Israel Bender/of Rural Route 10 exhibits some fine specimens of corn, radish and cucumber in the Democrat's show window. V. Linker has some mighty fine looking potatoes, and in' all, the crops of Adams county seem to measure up to about the average.

The buildings occupied by F. V. Mills and the City Bakery are undergoing considerable improvement, which will add materially to the appearance of the same.

ASKS FOR RECEIVER Journal Company Again in Financial Distress—Owes One Thousand Dollars. J. D. DAILY NAMED

To Take Charge of Plant— Editor Schwartz Filed the Complaint. William E. Schwartz, who recently purchased stock in the Decatur Journal, a weekly newspaper, to-day filed a complaint in the Adams Circuit Court through his attorneys. Hooper & Lenhart and J. W. Teeple, alleging

that the printing establishment was indebted to various and numerous persons in the sum of one thousand dollars. and that at this time there were no funds on hand with which to meet the same and the court was asked to name a receiver to take up the management of the plant and pay the outstanding indebtedness. The court at once appointed Jesse D. Daily receiver, and from this time on he will assume control until a satisfactory disposition can be made of the property.

TO OPERA HOHSE PATRONS. Commencing Thursday evening the house will be open promptly at 7:30, and the curtain will raise promptly at 8:15. so please come a little earlier. Yours to please, at J. w. BOSSE, Mgr.

Price Two Cents

SENATOR ULREV AT IT AGAIN. Booming Marshall, With Erwin As Second Choice. Indianapolis. October 7. —Thomas R. Marshall, of Columbia City, will be the Democratic nominee for governor if Lew V. Ulrey, of Fort Wayne, former state senator from Allen county, can bring about that result. “I do not know much about politics up our way," said Mr. Ulrey, who was at the Denison Hotel to-day. “but we are all for Tom Marshall for governor. Marshall is not making an active canvass for the nomination, but his friends all over the Twelfth district are doing it for him. He is a receptive candidate, however, and if the nomination comes to him he will take it. If Marshall cannot be nominated, then I think the Twelfth district will go to Judge Erwin, of Decatur.” Marshall’s candidacy brings the number of “talkedoffs” up to an even half dozen. L. Ert Slack, of Franklin; Samuel Ralston, of Lebanon; Thomas R. Marshall, of Columbia City; Richard K. Erwin, of Decatur; Dan Sims, of Lafayette, and the Rev. T. H. Kuhn, of Richmond, are the names on the list. Although Ralston was understood some time ago to have withdrawn from the race, there is a general feling that he is still in it. Slack and Erwin are the two candidates who are really in earnest and making a bid for the nomination.

COURT HOUSENEWS Butler-Mayer Line Fence Suit Begun in Court This Morning. PROBATE BUSINESS. Guardian Removed for Failure to Report as Ordered by Judge. *■' ' * S, The case of Delilate J. Butler Vs. Margaret and Henry Mayer, a suit for trespass and damages, and demanding SIOO, is being tried before Judge Erwin to-day. The case is one to establish a line between the properties of the parties on North Second street. Peterson & Moran are attorneys for the plaintiff and Lutz & Teeple for the defendants. A report of sale was filed and approved in the partition suit of Fanny Kocher vs. Josephine Moser et al., and the deed reported and approved. Enoch Z. Stalter has been removed as guardian for Raymond Z. Stalter, because of his failure to make his report as ordered by the court. In the matter of Francis M. Andrews. guardian for Harry C. Andrews, et al., an application for an allowance to the mother was filed, and S2OO per year granted her until further order of the court. A new bond was ordered filed within twenty days.

O. N. Tyndall, guardian for Carrie M. Hueston et al filed a petition to sell real estate, which was granted, and L. C. DeVoss and John Schurger appointed appraisers. Sale ordered. Additional bond of S2OO filed and ap- ’ proved. 0 WILLIAM BUTLER SELLS STORE. Clem Keller Now Proprietor of Monroe Street Meat Market. A deal was consummated Saturday afternoon whereby Clem Keller became the owner and proprietor of the Monroe Street Meat Market, formerly owned by William Butler. The deal had been hanging fire for several days, and was finally closed Saturday evening and Mr. Keller took possession of his new business this morning. Mr. Butler, the retiring merchant expects to devote his time and energy from this time on to buying and shipping stock, and at his leisure time will assist at the meat market, where he will undoubtedly make his headquarters. Mr. Keller is well versed in the business, having until the time he purchased this market been in the employ of Fred Scheiman, and he is thus competent and fully able to care for your wants In a proficient manner. He solicits a share of your patronage.