Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1907 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Volume V. Number 281

TO MARRY A DIKE Daughter of Pres. Shouts of the Clover Leaf to Wed a French Title. OBJECTED TO BY PAPA But the Foreigner and the Pretty American Lady Will Have Their Way. Washington, Nov. 20. —Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts announce rhe engagement of their daughter, Theodora, to Due de Chaulnes et De Picquiny of France, the wedding to take place at their New York home in January. The due is now in New York, where he has been since the arrival of Mrs. Shonts and her daughters from Europe several weeks ago, but will sail for France on Thursday. The due comes from the oldest of French nobility and is possessed of vast estates, though they are said to be embarrassed with debts. The sister of Due de Chaulnes, Duchess d'Uzes, is a close friend of Mrs. Shonts and was to have accompanied her brother here upon his visit last winter, but illness prevented. She and Duke d’Uzes will come to the wedding in January, as will several other relatives of the family. Miss Shonts is now in New York, but will come to Washington during the last of this week to attend the reunion of Mrs. Somers school, where for several years she was a student. After leaving the school here she was taken abroad and was under special teachers for some time. She is a splendid linquist, pretty. Her maternal grandfather was the late Governor Drake, of lowa.

New York, Nov. 20.-The engagement of Miss Theodora Shouts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Shonts, to the Due de Chaulnes, announced in several newspapers today, apparently on authority, has long been expected. It has been prematurely announced on several occasions, but in each instance it was denied by members of the family, and w ith special emphasis by Mr. Shonts, when he was chairman of the Panama canal commission. He asserted that he wanted his daughters to marry Americans, and it has been stated that for a long time he strenuously opposed the union to which he has now agreed. Miss Shonts. who was eighteen in March, met the due in London about a year ago. Since then he has assiduously courted her, having made several trips to this country for the purpose. The due is thirty years old. He has a home in Paris and a hereditary castle in one of the French provinces. Unquestionably his family is one of the noblest, not only in France, but in all Europe. It was originally a patrician family in Italy, but settled in France, and is also one of the most Ancient families of Spain.

JOHN SUTTON HAS THRESHEDLast Farmer in this Section Each Season. John Sutton, who holds the distinction each year of being the last farmer in Wells county to thresh his grain took up his task yesterday noon and completed by -evening, two months after the most of the farmers. Las year he threshed in December, but It was on the crop of 1905 that he made the record that won him prom ’inence.

intjuvc. At the time he was building gran- j aries and being deterred in theirr con- , struction by bad weather e get them completed until the latter ( part of February. He waited untrl , everything was completed and everytmuß j j S threshed February 27. » not negligence that causes Mi• Sut ; ton to defer his threshing but because he believes it to be the P I method. , , q lt fAnother thing for which Mr. Sut ton is known is a team of ' oxen .which he harnesses drives and o f his farm as if they ‘ . horses. To see the team f a field takes the mind o ' residents back to the days when the driving of oxen was common in this country. Now this is e ’ In the county used for the p and are a curiosity wherever seen. Bluffton Banner.

WILLIAM A. HOOVER DEAD. Brother of Mrs. Foughty, of this City, and Well Known. Suffering for five years from one of the most horrible afflictions known to mankind, William A. Hoover passed away last evening at his home one and a half miles west of Tocsin. The funeral services will be conducted from the Emmaus church at 11 o'clock Friday forenoon. The Tocsin lodge of Knights of Pythias of which he was a member, will have charge of the services. William A. Hoover was one of the best known farmers of Wells county. He was the son of Martin Hoover and wife and was born on what is known as the Hoover farm near Tocsin on November 19, 1865, the exact date upon which he died, and had lived in the county all his life. Five years ago he was attacked by a cancerous growth on the left side of his face and everything possible was done toward treating the disease. The growth gradually enlarged, consuming the flesh and bone until at his death almost the entire side of his face had been eaten away. He is survived by his wife and one child, a son, Ralph, aged three years. His step-mother, Mrs. Jane Hoover, resides at Ossian, and there is left also three sisters, three brothers and a half-brother. The sisters are Mrs. David Hall, of Ossian; Mrs. Mel Kleinknight, of Tocsin, and Mrs. John Foughty, of Decatur. The brothers, Martin, Mino and Frank Hoover, live north of Tocsin, and the step-brother John Hoover, lives at Ossian. —Bluffton Banner.

SESSIONS BEGIN Missionary Women of the North Indiana M. E. Conference. MEET AT BLUFFTON f Small Crowd at First Meetbut Interest Was Good— Program Rendered. Bluffton, Ind., November 21.—The first session of the annual convention of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the North Indiana conference was held yesterday afternoon at two o'clock with the president, Mrs. J. C. Murray, of Ligonier, presiding. The program was carried out as announced with a few’ exceptions and while the attendance w’as not as large as anticipated, on account of the inclement weather, the meeting was a good one and greatly enjoyed by the local and visiting members. After it had been decided to change the annual meeting for Elwood to Bluffton on account of the sickness of Rev. E. E. Neal, the local auxiliary went to work with a vim to entertain the ladies of the various societies of the conference. Preparations were made to serve all delegates with dinner and supper each day at the church until the session closes which will be Friday afternoon, Mrs. J. R. Bishop, president of the local organization and Mrs. A. B. Cline, corresponding secretary, have been untiring in their efforts to leave nothing undone. Everybody is carefully looked after by the assignment committee. A silver offering rally will take place

this afternoon at which time a handsome silken flag will be given to each of the ninety auxiliaries of the conference that have paid or pledged to pay their full apportionment for the year. The conference officers are: President Mrs. J. C. Murray, Ligonier; vice president, Mrs. L. H. Bunyan, Richmond; corresponding secretary. Mrs x B. Cline. Bluffton; recording secretary, Miss Olla Davis, Middletown. and Mrs. J. W. Vail. Decatur; Also the department secretaries. Mrs. C B Wilcox, of Decatur; Mrs. J. H. Jackson. Kokomo; and Mrs Florence Swain, of Muncie, are present. „ ue for making Indiana a prohibition ■ state by 1912. are rapidly taking form. . At the league's headquarters it was , learned that the next legislature will Le aked to enact a county local opb i « "And we will obtain the en- ! x:.. i ... o. officers declared.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, November 21, 1907.

LAWYERS BANQUET Arrangements Completed for a Brilliant Event Saturday Evening. BE MANY VISITORS The Program as Arranged Should Furnish an Interesting Evening.

Arrangements are complete for the banquet to be given by the Adams county bar for Judge Richard K. Erwin and Judge James T. Merryman, retiring and incoming jurists for the twenty-sixth Indiana judicial district. The event will occur at the Murray hotel at 8:30 o’clock Saturday evening and promises to be a brilliant and very pleasant event. Judge Heaton, of Fort Wayne, has sent word that twenty members oi that bar will be present, Judge LaFollette, of Portland has reserved plates for ten, and Judge Sturgis, of Bluffton will lead a delegation from that city, insuring a crowd of outside guests to partake in the delights of the occasion. Judge Erwin announced from the bench this morning that while no formal invitations had been issued, the entire membership of the Adams county bar, whether in the active practice or not, should consider themselves invited. Judge D. D. Heller will preside as toastmaster and the following responses are on the program: “The Just Judge,” Hon. Henry Colerick, Fort Wayne; “The Letter and Spirit of the Law,” Judge John F. LaFollette, Portland; “The Bench and Bar,” Judge Edward O’Rourke, Fort Wayne; “The Front of the Fight,” Frank S. Roby, Judge of the Appellate Court of Indiana, Indianapolis; “Enforcement of the Law,” Judge Charles E. Sturgis, Bluffton; “The Citizenship of the Lawyer,” Hon. D. E. Smith, Decatur. —

Kurt Johnson, who a few weeks ago enlisted in the United States navy to serve a term of three years for Uncle Sam, has returned to the city. After enlisting he was ordered to report at Washington. D. C., where each of the new recruits were given a trial in the parade drill and on account of Mr. Johnson’s injured foot, he was not accepted. He has not been discharged, however, and may be called into the service at any time. Kurt is very much disappointed in his non-accept-ance in the navy as he was in hopes that he would have the chance to see some of the w’orld while in the service. He arrived in Decatur last night direct from Washington and will remain here until he receives further orders from headquarters.

WANTS DAUGHTER Mrs. Blazer is Searching Fort Wayne Thoroughly. TO BRING HER HOME Her Consent at First Given on Recommendation of Others.

Mrs. Elwood Blazer left on the noon interurban car for Fort Wayne, where she is in hot pursuit of her daughter, Miss Anna, who left here a few days ago to accept a position in that city. Mrs. Blazer states that her daughter had a good position in this city, but was lured away by an acquaintance she made recently. Miss Anna, whom Mrs. Blazer states caused her to leave the city, left here last Monday for Fort Wayne, the former stating that she had a good position waiting for her acceptance and with this understanding the mother consented to her going. It became known today, however, that the girl, instead of working where she said she was going to, is at an entirely different place, and her mother went to that city this afternoon determined to bring her back. Before leaving Mrs. Blazer ascertained by telephone the street and house number, and she will not experience I any trouble in locating her daughter.

CARNEGIE PLAYED SANTA CLAUS Went for a Week Afterward With His Hand Bandaged. “The Carnegie s always come home from their castle in Scotland in time to celebrate Christmas in New York,” says Mabel Potter Dfaggett in the December Delineator. “When Santa Claus arrives, he knows a little girl lives here by the red swing that hangs in one corner of the Italian garden among the marbles and rare shrubbery. Margaret is what seems along Fifth avenue very intimate with her father and mother. On Christmas eve the ‘laird of Skibo’ and his wife hang their stockings along with her’s in the nursery. And I can imagine his little daughter hustling Andrew Carnegie out in the early morning in bathrobe and slippers to see what Santa has left. Once he brought the most beautiful brush and comb you ever saw, In a toilet set of gold that cost two thousand dollars. On the afternoon of Christmas day there is a tree in the great drawing room. The family enter, preceded by a Scotch musician playing Scotch airs on real Scotch bagpipes. Santa Claus himself presently is there. But is a curipus fact that just before he arrives, Andrew Carnegie has an engagement outside. Two years ago Santa Claus with his red coat sprinkled with cotton to look like snow, caught fire from some of the decorations. The nurses and the governesses hurried Margaret away so that she should not see the catastrophe. There was quite a time putting out the fire. And it was a strange coincidence, but for a week or more afterward, Mr. Carnegie went around with his hand done up in a bandage.”

SCHOOL IS FREE Purdue Opens Doors to Sons and Daughters of Indiana Farmers. A GOOD OPPORTUNITY Each Farmers’ Institute and Agrcultural Society May Send Two Persons. Lafayette. Ind., Nov. 21.—The Purdue university school of agriculture has opened its doors wide to the sons and daughters of Indiana farmers, by offering free scholarships. In explanation, Prof. J. H. Skinner, dean of the school, says: "The farmer boys of Indiana have an exceptional opportunity to acquire a thorough scientific and practical education for the intelligent and successful pursuit of agriculture. Purdue university offers several excellent courses in agriculture, including the regular course in agriculture and horticulture, animal husbandry and dairying. “To encourage the young people of Indiana to take these courses the authorities of Purdue university have authorized each county farmers’ organization. including the agricultural and horticultural society, the fair association and the farmers’ Institute, also each farmers' club and each grange, to elect two persons —young men or young women —to free annual scholarships in the school of agriculture. The woman’s auxiliary of each county farmers’ institute association is also authorized to elect young women to these same courses in agriculture and also to the winter course in household economics.” The winter courses will begin January 20th and continue eight weeks. CHRISTIAN CHURCH NOTICE. The united services of the Baptist and Christian churches having been discontinued, each congregation will return to its regular services. The Christian church people have engaged as pastor. Rev. John Encell, of Fort Wayne, who will in the near future make Decatur his home for the winter and will therefore be present at all of the services ot the church. Brother Encell is a fine Bible teacher and a forceful speaker, and the church feels that it is fortunate to secure his services. There will be but one service next Sunday that of the morning. It is urged that every member be present at that meeting to greet the pastor and also to attend to some necessary business matters. Ali others very cordially invited.

MRS. MILLER DEAD Well Known Lady from Near Ohio Line Called by Grim Reaper. SUFFERED GREATLY Was Operated on but to No Avail—Post Mortem Revealed Complications. Mrs. Harvey Miller, aged fifty-eight years, died yesterday afternoon at her home near Watt, on the state line at two-thirty o’clock, alter an illness of nine weeks’ duration death resulting from a complication of diseases. When taken ill for the first time an operation was advised by her family physician, to which she readily consented and she was taken to the Hope hospital at Fort Wayne, where several gall stones were removed. She was brought back to her home several weeks ago and from that time on she grew worse and her decline was rapid, death relieving her yesterday. Owing to the fact that the physicians were somewhat at a loss to understand just what her complaint was, the family consented to a post-mortem and the same w r as held last evening by Dr. Morgan, of Dixon, Dr. Kirk, of Middlebury and Dr. Calhoun, of Wren, and disclosed that the unfortunate woman suffered a cancer, gall stones, enlargement of the liver and a floating kidney and from the expression of the physicians no power on earth could have saved her. Mrs. Miller was a highly respected woman in that community and her presence and influence will be sadly missed by those who came in closet contact with her. The funeral services will be held Sunday morning at ten o’clock at the Mount Victor church and interment will be made in the chapel cemetery. She leaves a husband, seven sons and one daughter to mourn their loss.

DIED AT COUNTY INFIRMARY. Abraham HenseyDied from Infirmities of Old Age. Abraham Hensey, aged sixty-nine years, and one of the oldest initiates of the county infirmary, died last evening at nine o’clock, after an illness dating back several months, death resulting from old age and a complication of diseases. The old gentleman had been an inmate of this home for a number of years, and during that time has always been practically helpless. and unable to do anything. The funeral arrangements have not as yet been completed. Interment, however, will be made in the infirmary cemetery.

A SURPRISE PARTY Given For Mrs, Johnson Last Night Was a Glorious Event. SOCIETIES TO MEET The Ladies of the Reformed Church Enjoy an Afternoon at Monmouth. The Art Section of the Euterpean club will entertain the club and their husbands, at a social meeting Friday evening at the home of Mr, and Mrs. John Peterson. The club members are expecting a good time. Mrs. Elmer Johnson was the victim of a surprise last evening when twenty of her neighbors came to bid her a farewell before she leaves for her new home in the country. Music and various games were played and a genuine taffy pulling after which a three course luncheon was served by the hostess. Those present were Mesdames Miller, Everett, Hain, Gass. Krick, Fullenkamp. Purdy, Fleddenjohann, Mylott, Robison, Colchin, C. Kuhn, J. Kuhn, Gunsett, Gillig. Parent. Kleinhenz, Motz, Hammond and Ross. The ladles presented Mrs. Johnson with a beautiful piece of china as a remembrance and wishing her pros(ODn«Bued <m P* *3

NEW LEAGUE IS RUMORED. Sporting Life Says There Will be a New 1.-O. this Year. , According to the last issue of The Sporting Life, a paper devoted to the interests of base ball and other out door games, a movement is afloat to organize a new ball league to be known as the Eastern Association, to consist of cities of Ohio and Indiana. The promoters of the proposed association. A. J. Watts and John W. Botto, of Toledo. Ohio, have arranged to hold a meeting in their home city on Thursday, November 28, and announce that Marion, Lima and Sandusky, Ohio, will be represented, as well as Anderson, Fort ’Wayne, Muncie, Logansport and Richmond, Indiana. Local fans are inclined to think that the above movement by the Toledo sports is an effort by them to disrupt the Indiana-Ohioi league and reorganize by allowing only the three largest cities who represented the latter organization last season, membership in the new league thereby squeezing out the cities like Portland, Decatur and Bluffton. Without a doubt a league circuit composed of cities as large as those of the proposed new league would be a winner from a financial standpoint but the question which is uppermost in the minds of the majority of the fans of this city is will there be enough, cities in this neck of the woods that can afford a team to justify the organization of a league to take the place of the Indiana-Ohio providing the Eastern Association succeeds in landing the larger class of cities.

ITS A GREAT DAY I I For the I. O. O. F. of Indiana—Cornerstone for New i Building Was Laid. » _________ t LOT OLD DOCUMENTS i Placed in Building of FiftyThree Years Ago Were Replaced in New One. Indianapolis, Nov. 21.—Documents which fifty-three years ago were placed in the box of the cornerstone of the then new and modern Odd Fellows’

building at Pennsylvania and Washington streets, will be placed in the cornerstone of the new building. The ceremonies accompanying the laying of the stone of the new building began at 1 o’clock this afternoon and were marked by simple exercises. Worn and discolored from the years of confinement in the receptacle of the old stone, the documents were removed when the old Odd Fellows structure was torn down last summer. They have all been preserved in the offices of the Board of Trade building. Among the documents are copies of the Indianapolis papers for July 19 and 20, 1854. These were placed in the stone when the ceremonies took place, and were accompanied by copies of the Journal of the Grand Lodge and the Grand Encampment for November, 1852 and 1853, and one copy of the Indiana Gazette, dated July 22, 1823. In addition to these there are copies of the names of the original stockholders of the Grand Lodge and the Grand Encampment. These papers were placed in the cornerstone of the new’ building today, and will be accompanied by papers pertaining to the Grand Lodge of more recent date. The session yesterday was taken up with the reading of reports of officers and the appointment of committees. The reports of the various officers cites flourishing conditions existing in the order, and highly commends the members for the showing they have made.

Elwood has awakened to the necessity of fighting smallpox in a systematic manner and a pest house has been established. There are at this time about one hundred cases said to exist in that city. All of them are of a mild form and there have been no fatalities, but there is no telling when this disease may assume a serious form and the authorities have decided to resort to heroic action to Wipe out the contagion. Some one is responsible for allowing so many cases to get a toothold.

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GETTING MODEST The President Must be Fishing for a Third Term. MEXICO WANTS IN Statehood Will be Asked of Congress—More Officers. Washington, November 21. —The information that the president has issued instructions that no federal officeholder shall go to the republican national convention as a delegate instructed to vote for him for a third term, is very generally printed in the eastern newspapers. Various interpretations are placed on the instructions. What may be called the administration newspapers’ view is that the declaration Is not to be regarded as an announcement that the president has ceased to think of accepting a third term nomination, but rather as an indication that he does not want it to appear that he is seeking the nomination even indirectly. It is known that the president, in his long conference with First Assistant Post-master-General Hitchcock, made it plain that he could not afford to have his appointees to federal offices accepting places on state delegations that are instructed to support a third term nomination. Washington, November 21, —“A bill will be introduced in congress this winter to permit the territory of New Mexico to come into the Union as a separate state, and we hope to have it passed before congress adjourns,” said Governor Curtis, of the territory, today. “This bill will probably be introduced in the bouse by Delegate Andrews, and in the senate by Senator Foraker. There was a time when the president would probably have vetoed any bill permitting either New Mexico or Arizona to enter the Union, and largely for that reason the two territories were combined as one commonwealth in the statehood measure two

years ago. But I think the president would not object to New Mexico entering the Union in the near future as a separate state.” Washington, November 21. —The outlook is that congress at the coming session will strengthen the postoffice department at its weakest places. The postal commission, created at the last session and instructed to suggest reforms, will recommend the creation of the office of director of posts and will advise that there be installed in this office a man who shall hold office during good behavior, or so long as his services are satisfactory. The direction of posts is to be the business head of the postal establismhent. In the buiness language of the day he would be called a general manager. Postmasters generally may come and go, but he will stay.

ON THANKSGIVING NIGHT. "Mrs. Wiggs of Cabbage Patch” Fame Will Appear in the City. On Thanksgiving night “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” will be presented at the Bosse opera house under the auspices of the Shakespeare and Historical clubs. Every one who has read the book highly praise it and will want to see the dramatization of it. Mrs. Wiggs with her homely philosophy and sunny good humor becomes instantly endeared to her audience and her homeiy wit and trite sayings keep her hearers constantly convulsed with laughter. In fact "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” is a comedy pure and simply and while the fun is fast and furious, there is a heart story so simply and sweetly told that it appeals to every audience. The show will be staged by local talent and the proceeds are for the benefit of the library. The admission will be twen-ty-five cents. Tickets can be secured from any of the club ladies and at the library. The board will open next Wednesday morning at the Holthouse drug store, where seats will be reserved without extra charge. Remember the library benefit at the opera house Thanksgiving night, November 28th. i