Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 10

HE CLEANS THEM Cromer is the Same Sly Fox in Delaware County. HOLDS ORGANIZATION Only Three Committeemen Get Away in Delaware County. S The Muncie Star this morning says: ® Republicans of Delaware county met in their respective precincts yesterday afternoon and evening and elected committeemen for the county organixation and delegates to the district convention at Winchester on next Only one contest of any moment occurred in Center township, that being between Leonard Paris and E. G. Hayler, candidate for comitteeman in the fifth precinct. Several IStiff fights, however, were waged in several of the precincts outside of Center township. g Center township and Muncie went solidly for the followers of former Congressman George W. Cromer. Friends of the ex-congressman declare that the returns show they almost swept the platter clean against other candidates who were in the field. It was generally known among the voters who attended their meetings that the men who ran as “Independents” ■were against Cromer, while those opposing the “Independents” were openly for him. k» According to Cromer’s friends their candidates were victorious in every one of the thirty precincts except three, the latter being the west precinct of Union township, the DeSoto precinct in Delaware and the Perry township. In these three precincts the voting was close. Cromer’s friends also claim at least twenty-eight out of the thirty-one delegates chosen for the district convention, and possibly thirty. The returns on the delegates, however, in the three precincts in which the “Independents" were victorious in the contests for committeemen could not be verified.

DEATH RELIEVED The Sufferings of A. C. Gregory at Noon Today— Well Known Citizen. ILL SEVERAL WEEKS Was Civil War Veteran, a Thirty-Second Degree Mason and Knight Templar. Augustus C. Gregory, one of the best known men in Decatur, died at 12:45 today noon at his home on Madison street, after an illness of several weeks with kidney trouble. He was a member of thirty-second degree Masons, a Knight Templar, Shriner, a member of the Eagle lodge and a veteran of the civil war. He leaves a •wife, a son, Robert Gregory, of this city, and a daughter, Mrs. Dick Townsend, of Peoria, Illinois. The funeral arrangements have not been completed, but will probably be in charge of his lodges, and the G. A. R. A more complete account of his life will be published Monday. 0 _ Daniel Swartz, a farmer living near the Wells-Adams county line, was jailed for a few hours last night by officers Stout and Deam, who found him in an intoxicated condition. They took him to his horses and wagon but he declared that he would not go home, and although he resisted considerably they escorted him to the jail, where he remained until he became sober enough to change his mind about going home. Sheriff Lipkey then release! him and he was started home. —Bluffton News.

HAS JOINED SHOW TROUPE. "Jinks” France Again Seeks the Footlights. Word has reached the management of the Huntington theater that Charles France, brother of J. Fred France, who was formerly in the theatrical profession, but has recently been employed as a traveling salesman, is with the “Whirlwind” company booked for Huntington Friday evening. Mr. France went from this city to Chicago a week ago Sunday and th e announcement that he has joined the company comes as a surprise.—Huntington Herald. o —— ARE WORKING HARD To Prevent Hughes from Being Endorsed in New York. WILL BE NOMINATED Taft Given Boost from White House—Dover is Guest of Harry New. Washington, January 11. —Herbert Parsons, the administration’s political lieutenant in New York, left for hom e today to make another canvass of the republican committee of New York county. The president wants to be assured that the committee will not indorse Governor Hughes for the presidency at the meeting to be held next Thursday night. All the political resources of the administration are being exerted in the effort to keep the Hughes boom smothered in the governor’s home state. Close friends of the president say he is convinced that if he can keep the New York republicans from backing th e Hughes candidacy for thirty days more he will have the national political situation just where he wants it

Washington, January 11. —The Taft press bureau gave out a statement saying it is the judgment of President Roosevelt that William H. Taft will be nominated for president on the first ballot. The president is quoted Indirectly as saying that he has made a careful investigation and is confident his candidate will have at least 600 votes on the first ballot. The convention, the press bureau story says, will have nothing to do except to make the nomination unanimously. There is no doubt but what the story was inspired at the white house. About the time it was given out the president asked the political referees in Alabama to meet him here next Monday. He wants to find out why one of them is not out for Taft. The Taft press bureau story caused much amusement among public men ■who saw it. Washington, January 11. —Elmer Dover, secretary of the republican national committee, will spend Sunday in Indianapolis as the guest of Harry S. New, chairman of the committee. On Monday the two will go to Chicago to meet with the sub-committee on arrangement for the national convention. The first thing before them is to see that the convention hall is put in proper shape.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. School has opened and good interest is shown since the vacation. Mr. Ed Jones of Indianapolis, was at the high school Thursday, looking after the interests of the Silver Burdett Book Co., of Chicago. Next week will be held the re S" ular mid-year examinations. These examinations will begin Wednesday at noon and close Friday. Every student should make a special effort to be in at that time. Mr. Baumgartner returned to duty Wednesday morning after a few days illness, at his home. There is some sickness in school among students and teachers. 0 WRITES US FROM FT. RILEY. Alpheus M. Roop, a former Decatur boy, and son of George W. Roop, of this city, writes us from Fort Riley, Kansas. He is a member of the Sixth regiment battery and Is enjoying life. He Is desirous of landing a job In the post printing office, at that place. He sends regards to his many frienda.

ANNUAL REPORT Forwarded to State Statistician Today by County Clerk Haefling. FOR THE YEAR 1907 Shows Number of Cases Filed and Disposed of During the Year. Clerk of the county, James P. Haefling has completed his annual report for the year 1907 and same was forwarded today to Mary O. Stubbs, chief state statistician. The report shows that during he year 203 civil cases were filed and 20C cases were disposed of, seven juvenile cases were filed, thirty-five letters of administration issued, nineteen guardianships, twelve decrees of foreclosure, four sheriff sales, four people were adjudged insane and 210 marriage licenses issued. Three people declared intentions of becoming naturalized and five were granted final papers. Twenty-three divorces were granted, eighteen to the wife and five to the husband. Thirtythree criminal cases were filed, seventeen dismissed, fourteen disposed of. There were two convictions for felonies and eleven for misdemeanors, two of the latter being released on probation. Twelve cases for violation of the liquor laws were filed and there were eleven convictions. There was one arrest for burglary, one for perjury’, ten for gambling. Os these the defendants were sixteen Americans and eight foreigners. The report also gives the names and address of the justices of the county as follows: Decatur —James H. Knavel, Simeon Bowers, James H. Stone, James H. Smith, Wash Kern. Monroe—John W. Merryman. Berne—Joel Liddy, John T. Ault. Linn Grove —Alfred Johnson. Geneva —Otis O. Juday, I. N. Veley, F. S. Armantrout, Jess C. Mann and George W. Reynolds.

CHANGE IN TIME ll' l G. R. & I. Will Cut Off the Evening Passenger Trains. AFTER NEXT TUESDAY The Schedule Will Revert Back to Former Winter System. On next Tuesday morning, January 14, the Grand Rapids and Indiana railway company will make a very decided change in their time table, that may cause some people a little inconvenience unless they study the same for a short time. The two evening trains which have been running both north and south, leaving Decatur at 7:52 and 7:55 respectively, have been completely abolished and will run no more after the above date, while the morning train that has been due here at 9:22 a. m. will change its time back to 8:00 a. m„ which was its former running schedule, and will run every day except Sunday. The two late trains will arrive in Decatur after Tuesday at about midnight and from all present indications will pass in Decatur. The remainder of the schedule will remain as it now stands. Those contemplating a trip over this line in the near future should acquaint themselves with the new time table. —oON HOUR AND A HALF SCHEDULE A breakdown on one of the interurban cars caused a slight change in the schedule today, cars leaving and arriving today on the hour and a half schedule. Cars leave this evening at 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 9:30 and leave Fort Wayne 4:00 5:30, 7:00, 8:30 and 11:00 o’clock, last car waiting for the theater patrons.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening January, 11 1908.

PEOPLEiII BY FANNIE M LOTHROP \ ' s ‘ ' ' < , i •Jr Me lan Studio, New York MRS. CYNTHIA W. ALDEN’S LIFE OF USEFULNESS IF Individual greatness be measured by the degree of one’s unselfish helpfulness to the world, Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, President-General ol the International Sunshine Society, and one of the best known club women in America, deserves high place on the roll of contemporary fame. As a motherless child of four she was taken by her father, Oliver S. Westover, an expert mineralogist, from their home in lowa to the wild pioneer life of Colorado. There, as she grew up, she rode and hunted with her father, studied under his loving tutorship, geology and history and the broader teachings of Nature, in the great wild open-air-school, where she handled a rifle, a lariat, and the bow and arrow at about the age when girls have hardly put aside their dolls. Those were dangerous days when she and her father seven times made the trip over the Rockies, where savage Indians hiding in the tall grass or behind rocks in the passes, made life a terror to the whites. She had heroic courage and a hunger to help humanity, which she now reveals in simpler and more conventional ways. She crawled through the grass to bathe and bind the wounds of their driver who had been scalped by the Indians; saved a miner from lynching by stepping bravely between the victim and an angry mob; was lowered over a precipice to bring up the dead body of a child; threw herself on a lighted lamp that had been dropped near gunpowder; killed a black bear that attacked her; kept a pack of fierce coyotes at bay with a stick in her hand and rescued a number of snow-bound miners. At seventeen she was managing a district school at Boulder, Colorado, and shortly afterward graduated from the State University, She sang for some years as a church soprano in New York and later acted as inspector of customs where her fluency in German, Italian, French and Spanish proved of great value as they also did in her splendid work in journalism and many other lines of activity. Her Sunshine Society with more than 200.000 members all over the world, is devoted to spreading sweetness and sunshine, to making the world day by day happier and brighter by acts of kindness and love. It makes Christianity practical, not an occasional impulse, but a continuous, pervading atmosphere of the radiation of good. She is the wife of John Alden, a lineal descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower. Copyright transferred to Wm. C. Mack, tgo&

BIG MUSICAL COMEDY COMING Ben Cramer’s Concoction “The Merry Widow McCarty.” Ben Cramer’s goregous musical concoction “The Widow McCarty” is the offering at the opera house Tuesday January 14. “The Widow McCarty” has been termed a musical “gin fizz” which seems a befitting description. The entertainment is bright, snappy, lively and kaleidoscopic, and is calculated to despel the blues. The story of “The Widow 7 McCarty” concerns) herself who cannot touch two millions left her by her deceased husband should she marry before her four daughters have found husbands. As the gay widow cruises along the sands of Coney Island for a husband she meets Barney Muldoon, whom she considers her affinity. Immediately they begin laying plans to marry off the four McCarty girls. This situation leads up to a number of other amusing situations and excruciating funny complications. Ben Cramer is responsible for the book, and the lyrics and music have been interpolated. There are more than twenty song successes, the most prominent being “Why Can’t a Girl be a Soldier?” “Won’t You be My Honey,” “School Days,” “Morning Cy,” “Honeysuckle Time,” "Honey Moon,” “Yankee Doodle Girl,” “You’ll Have to Get Off and Walk,” “Molly Malone,” “Manhattan Isle,” “Big Chief Battle Ax.” “Pinkee Pankee Poo,” “Barney Carney,” “Man in the Moon,” “The Irish Wake” and “Bessie and Her Little Brown Bear.” The production is handsomely staged, well mounted and magnificent ly gowned, the scenic and electrical and costuming embellishmens being fresh and new, and an excellent performance is assured. o— — ■ Elmer Johnson returned from Pittsburg this morning, where he disposed of a car load of horses.that he purchased at Goshen last week. Mr. Johnson states that horses can be bought very reasonable in the neighborhood of Goshen. He expects to remain here for some time and in the meantime buy a car load of horses If he can get them at a price that will warrant him to ship them to the eastern market

COURT HOUSE NEWS Gertrude Burkhead Granted a Divorce and Custody of Children. EATON CASE DATED Grant Haviland Pays Cash into Court—Marriage License Issued. The Elmer Eaton vs. Cora Hooker Eaton divorce case has been set for trial on Thursday, January 16. Grant Haviland has paid $35 into court to be used by his wife, Harriet E. Haviland, who has applied for a divorce. Gertrude Burkhead was granted a divorce from her husband, John Burkhead, the evidence showing that John gambled and drank, and failed to support his family and finally deserted them. The plaintiff was given the custody of the two children. Judgment again plaintiff for costs. Calvin Miller vs. George E. McKean et al, suit on note and to set aside conveyance. D. D. Heller appointed special judge to hear cause, Judge Merryman being disqualified. A marriage license was issued to Philip P. Huser, aged twenty-seven, a carpenter from French township, and Oldina Sprunger, aged twenty-seven, of Berne. A junk dealers’ license was issued to Ormon Pointius, of Geneva. E. Burt Lenhart has been appointed a notary public and filed bond for SI,OOO as required by law. J. Franklin Mock, guardian for Mae Mock) filed hi® final --report yhich was approved and be was discharged.

MRS. FETZER SELLS HER STORE Will Be Operated by Mrs. Robinson and Miss Bowers. A business deal made last Tuesday but not mad e public because of the request of the purchaser, was that of the sale by Mrs. Della Fetzer, of her millinery store to Mrs. John S. Bowers. The latter’s daughter, Mrs. Vida Robinson and Miss Gladys Bowers will have charge of the store. Mrs. Fetzer has purchased one of the popular millinery stores at Frankfort, Ind., and will after Jan. 1, when the transfer here is also to be made. All parties concerned are well known. o EVENING PARTY In Honor of Miss Mary Stults’ Nineteenth Birthday —A Pleasant Event. THE SOCIETY ITEMS Ben Hur Installation—A Party at the Charles Rumschag Home. One of th e merriest birthday parties held this week was the evening party given by Miss Mary Stults of south Sixth street in honor of her sixteenth birthday anniversary Friday evening. Games and music proved to be the main features of the evening, during which time hostess served a delicious three course luncheon to the guests, who were; Misses Hilda Loser, Dessie Mann, Flora Fledderjohann, Pearl Baumgartner, Kate Bremerkamp, Lulu Atz, Flossie Bollinger, Messrs Frank Shelton. Alvina Buffenbarger, Scott Ellis, Charley Cloud, Homer and Vern Smith, of Bluffton; Charley Stults. Dainty invitations were issued this afternoon by Mesdames Kate Place and Charles True for a miscellaneous shower for Miss Kittie Christen to be given at the home of the former on Tuesday afternoon. The invitation list includes thirty-five ladies. The Q. Q. Sea Foamers spent a jolly evening at the home of Miss Marie Jackson, Friday. Games and an animal contest occupied a few hours of pleasure, after which they were entertained at the Crystal theater. After returning to the hostess’ home a two course luncheon was served. The members who were present were: Misses Lucile Gillig, Fanny Hammell, Ruth Ernst, Beatrice Van Camp, Esther Sellemeyer. The Ben Hur lodge met and installed their newly elected officers last evening. There wa snothing special during the meeting but next Friday evening they will have a literary program prepared and music. The installed officers were: Past chief, Enos Peoples; chief, L. L. Baumgartner; judge, Mrs. Lydia Shamp; teacher, Mrs. Adam Wise; scribe, Mrs. Mary V. Dailey; mother of Hur, Mrs. Artman; Ben Hur, Carl B. Moses; keeper of tribute, Mrs. Lew Walters; inner gate keeper, Mrs. O. Springer; outer gate keeper, John Springer; master of ceremonies, Wm. Teeple. Large number of ladies attended the Ladies’ Mite society meeting of the Methodist church yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. L. Gay, on Ninth stret Mrs. J. Rice presided throughout the meeting. At the close, dainty refreshments were served by Mrs. Gay, and a general good time enjoyed. A party of young people gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Rumschlag on R. R. 5, in response to invitations issued for a leap year dance, given in honor of Ed Rumsschlag’s twenty-fourth birthday anniversary. The musics which was above the ordinary, was rendered by Miss Myrle Rumschlag. At a late hour elegant refreshments were served in the dining room. The out-of-town guests were; Misses Elda Ulman, of Fostoria. Ohio; Elmore Renee, of Bascom, Ohio. The other guests were: Misses Elize Korterbrier, Ella Rumsclag, Rosie Rumschlag, Gertrude Omlor, Agnes Omlor. Tresa Miller, Agnes Miller, Messrs Clem Heid'erman. Chas. Meyer, Joseph and Albert Rumschlag, Glen and George Colchin. Tom Colchin, Ed Colchin, Otto Colchin Edward Rumschlag, Frank Parent, Lewis Rumschlag.

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THE SHOW CLOSED With the Awarding of the Many Special Premiums Offered. WAS A BIG SUCCESS Judge Gault Completed the Grades on the Various Pens. After a most successful run of four days, the Adams county poultry and pet stock show closed its doors last evening and bid adieu to the public until next year. Never before in the history of Adams county has there ever been a poultry show carried on with so much success and the members of the Adams County Association may feel proud of their achievement, and may feel assured that their efforts have been highly appreciated by every citizen in Decatur. The association is made up of mostly farmers, who have devoted their time in not only bringing their poultry to the show, but by staying here and materially assisting in making the show the success it was. That they have made a grand record for themselves in their 1908 show goes without argument, and we trust that their success this year will only make them I strive harder for a bigger and better show next year. Every exhibitor present was paid their premium in full, if they had anything coming, and al! left with nothing but the kindest of feeling toward the association, and each and every one expressed themselves as fully expecting to return next season. Not a thing occurred during the entire four days of the show to mar any of the proceedings, and as stated before, everything passed along smoothly and with success. The officers on Friday afternoon completed their task of figuring out the winners in the special events and accordingly awarded the prizes offered. The following is a complete list of all winners: (Continued on page 2.) SHIPPED FIRST CAR Coppock Factory Sent First Auto to Cincinnati, Ohio, Today. ORDERS ARE COMING Seattle, Washington, Man Here Today to Order Machines. The first car, complete and ready for use, manufactured by the Coppock Motor Car company, of Decatur, was shipped to Cincinnati today, it having been ordered two weeks ago by Merkle Brothers, wholesale dealers in plumbers supplies of that city. Before shipment was made Mr. Coppock sent the car around town for an hour or so and it attracted some attention. It's a beauty in the commercial car line, built for business and will stand any test under its guarantee. Several more cars have been ordered by Cincinnati concerns and orders and inquiries are coming from all over the country. A representative of a big wholesale house in Seattle, Washington, was here today looking over the car. He was very favorably impressed and will no doubt order before leaving the city. The Coppock is a winner and makes friends whereever shown. . —— — Frank Runyan talked by telephone this afternoon with Harry Hall, prospective manager of the Marlon club of the I. 0. league, who stated that he would be in attendance at the meeting at Richmond January 20, and that he would have with h!.n the forfeit money for both Marion and Kokomo. With these two te- ms to enter for a certainty and Anderson seriously considering coming in five Indiana cities will be In the league at hast. Now for two other good Ohio towns In addition to Van Wert and the circuit is complete. —Bluffton Banner.