Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

fcoiume VI Number 55

IfHE CONFERENCE REPORT Wethodist Ministers and Delegates En* I joy the Session

BISHOP LECTURES ■Delighted Hundreds Yesterday Afternoon and Evening ■CLOSES THIS EVENING ■Various Reports Filed— Notes of Ministers Well Known Here I ~ I Bishop John H. Vincent, of IndianJnpolis, one of the most noted church ■workers of the Methodist church, de. Ilivered a lecture yesterday afternoon lon “Church Membership,” that was ■indeed interesting. The aged minis■ter who has passed his seventy-sixth ■milestone, told many instructive facts ■about his theme that will be helpful Ito every person interested in the adIvancement of the Christian cause. ■lntermingled with his line of deep ■thought were numerous humorous expressions that were fitting to the oc■casion. He told of what it meant to ■join church and explained that it is ■a calm, deliberate decision of mind Ito do so. It was reiterated that tse ■act of joining church is most comImendable. and in his easy and clever ■manner Bishop Vincent delineated evlery essential thing relative to church ■membership. i| Last night’s session of the Fort Wayne district conference convened at 8:30 o’clock with the spacious auditorium lecture room and gallery taxed to their capacity with people who were eager to hear Bishop Vincent. The meeting opened by singing a familiar hymn, after which a prayer was offered followed by another hymn. The choi- then sang that beautiful sacred hymn, "Gloria.” after which the bishop addressed the vast, audience upon the theme “Two Great American Preachers.” He went into detail about the lives of Philips Parks and Dwight Lyman Moody, two of the most prominent ministers the country ever knew. The address was splendid and fully demonstrated the ability of the aged speaker. After the close of the address the ladies of the Mite society tendered a royal reception to the bishop in which an elegant luncheon was served. The reports from local preachers and exhorters were heard. These officers are unique,and are peculiar to •the Methodist church. They are laymen who are licensed to conduct religious services. Formerly when circuits -w’ere large the local preachers filled the appointments in the absence of the pastors. Some of them are very active in the revival meetings. Rev. M. S. Marble D.D. followed their reports with an address. Rev. Mr. Marble is pastor at Upland, and was formerly the presiding elder of Logansport district. Bishop Vincent then spoke to the large audience on the subject of “Church Membership. ’ The address was heard with interest by all present. The district stewards then made reports concerning the financial condition of the various churches in Fort Wayne district. At nearly every place the finances were reported in good condition, and the stewards expect to meet the salaries of the ministers in full. The presidents of the Ladies’ Aid societies were called and made reports of the money raised and the improvements made by the efforts of the ladies’ societies. The presidents t>f the Woman’s Foreign Missionary societies and of the Woman’s Home Missionary societies reported the receipts of the different chapters. The amount of money raised by the ladies la the various churches is very large in the aggregate. Rev. C. A. Rowand ®f First church, Fort Wayne, who was *to address the presidents of the worn®n s ocieties, was detained by the serious illness of his little daughter Mary, who is dangerously ill with diphtheria. In the evening the devotional services were conducted by Rev. V ■ B. Freeland, of Auburn. The choir of First church gave some excellent mus-

ic. Bishop Vincent gave his great lecture on “Two American Preachers.” He paid a great tribute to the manhood and ability of Phillips Brooks, the man of culture, and then expressed his appreciation of the great work of Dwight L. Moody, a man of great power and efficiency. After the ex- ■ ercises of the evening closed, a recep. tion was given by the church to Bishop Vincent, at-which the members of the church and visiting delegates spent a very delightful hour. WEDNESDAY MORNING. The morning devotional service conducted by Rev. R. L. Semans, of Ft. Wayne. Rev. M. A. Harlan, yho is the agent of the Methodist Memorial Home for the Aged at Warren, made an address in the interest of that enterprise. Wm. and Ruth Chopson, an aged childless couple at Warren, have agreed to duplicate a large sum raised by the conference for the building and maintainence of such a home for the worthy aged. A fine body of young people reported for the Epworth leagues. The various activities carried on by the young peoplee in the leagues and Sunday schools constitute a large part of the church work. There are 50~ Epworth leagues with about 2,500 members. There are also 24 Junior leagues with 1,600 members in the district. Within the same district are 93 Sunday schools with 1,500 officers and teachers, and 12,400 scholars. Dr. T. M. Guild, presiding elder of Richmond district, spoke of the two elements in production: material and skill, and showed how great is the opportunity of the presidents of the leagues and the superintendents of the Sunday schools. Class leaders reported the condition of class meetings in different places and the Rev. Sherman Powell, a well known figure In the conference, made an address to the leaders and visitors present. Rev. W. E. McCarty, a former pastor of the Decatur church feelingly spoke of the wot»^of ( the church. He is a veteran having begun the ministry in 1859. He was located here 1875-7. He is now on Portland circuit. Rev. A. E. Powell, of Portland, was recommended to the annual conference for a local elder, and J. M. Smith was recommended for recognition as a local preacher. He comes from the “Newlight” church. Rev. C. E. Line D.D., then made a stirring address on the subject of tithing. Rev. L. M. Edwards, the pastor at Simpson, Fort Wayne, reports a great revival at that place. For some time that congregation has been planning a new' building of large proportions and beautiful design. Rev. G. W. Martin, of Ossian, is in the midst of a great religious awakening. About one hundred and fifty have been converted and the services continue indefinitely. Rev. B. F. Hornaday, of Leo, gives a. unique report. Within the past year he has worked among the farmers in their fields, has driven the saloons from the township, been arrested on a false charge, and made himself felt generally. When he went to hold his revival meetings in two places he found deficiencies on a former preacher’s salary. Mr. Horpaday Insisted that these should be met before he held his meeting. The result was a good revival. He concluded his report yith this item “Been egged once." Rev. J. K. Cecil, of Bluffton, is after the annual conference for next year. .The church at that place entertained the conference of 1894 under the pastorate of Rev. C. U. Wade. Rev. Richard Jones, of Gas City, is a visitor at the various sessions. He is one of the able ministers of the conference. The visitors and delegates are enjoying the excellent music furnished by the organist Ella Bell, and the members of the choir of First church. Rev. James A Sprague, who is now at Markle, where he has built a beautiful 818,000 church, and had revival successes, is greeting former parishoners from Monroe and vicinity, who are here. In the session yesterday, whefi Rev. D. A. J. Brown, of Geneva circuit gave his report. Rev. C. U.Wade stated that the days of heroism were not past. Rev. Mr. Brown left a (Continued on page ■•)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening March, 4 1908.

MRS. STEELE OPERATED ON. j Believed She Will Recover From Ser- j i ious Illness. Drs. McOscar, of Fort Wayne, and D. D. and C. S. Clark and J. M. Miller, of this city, this morning performed an operation on Mrs. Hervey S. Steele, wife of County Recorder Steele and it is believed the outcome will prove entirely successful. For several months Mrs. Steele has suffered from what is known as a floating kidney and for two weeks her condition has been very serious and the pain almost unbearable. The operation today was to correct that afflicI tion. A WONDERFUL MAN Is Bishop John H. Vincent, Who Lectured to the M. E. Conference Here STORY OF CAREER Served Four Years in Europe—Was Pastor in Chicago and Other Cities Bishop JohA H. Vincent, of Indianapolis, that great and good man who has lived a life of usefulness, the major part of which has been devoted to effective work in the Methodist ministry, left early this morning for Cincinnati, Ohio, after delivering two interesting and forceful lectures to the Fort Wayne district conference in session at this place. Bishop Vin- j cent is possessed of a wonderful personality. For fifty-seven consecutive years he has labored in behalf of the Christian cause, beginning his ministerial career on a circuit charge in Pennsylvania in 1851. While his ed-! ucation did not include a college diploma, he displayed a remarkable speaking ability and it was said of him even in those days that his would be a fruitful career. In 1852 he was appointed to a charge in New Jersey, where he served for four years, going from there to Joliet, 111., in 1857. After several years of service at this place he accepted a charge at Mount Morris, Illinois. He went from there to Galena. 111., where the distinguished general, U. S. Grant, was a member of his congregation. In 1861 when General Grant and his men started to war, Bishop Vincent gave the address of farewell to them. From Galena he went to Rockford, 111., and from there to Chicago where he was pastor of the Trinity church. It was while at this charge that General Grant and men returned from war and Bishop Vincent was called upon by Grant to deliver a response to the address of w’elcome by Senator Washburn. For four years Mr. Vipcent was Bishop of the Methodist church in Europe, having charges under his derection in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Bulgaria. At that time he made his home at Zurich, Switzerland. His career has been replete with wonderful achievements. His consistent and ceaseless work have not only made him popular but also a favorite among all whe knew him in connection with his many other qualities have made him one of the greatest men ever known in the history of Methodism. Three years ago he was retired from active Episcopalicy at Los Angeles, Cal., since which time he has delivered many lectures to audiences at various places. He has gone to Cincinnati, where he will lecture at a Missionary convention. While here Bishop Vincent was entertained at the John Niblick home and many were the courtesies extended to the distinguished gentleman during his stay. The bishop is the prime founder of the Chautauqua movement and this great achievement in a liteary way has won far him much fame. 0 BLUFFTON WON’T HAVE TEAM. After four-flushing all winter, Bluffton has just announced that she will not support a base ball team this season. Decatur made no effort to and so informed Runyan and Jessup months ago. Three seasons consecutively is about all the base ball a town of 5,900 to 15,000 will stand and the only thing to do is rest for a year or two. The Northern Indiana League has "busted.”

ANOTHER IS FINED Louis Baumgartner, of French Township, Pleads Guilty to Charge OF CUTTING UP ROADS Hurley vs. Baker Cases Are Scheduled to Come Off Friday and Saturday The two cases that are pending against Albert Baker, ’ filed by Mrs. Charles Hurley, are scheduled to. come to trial Friday and Saturday. The case to be tried Friday is the replevin suit in which it will be decided who is entitled to the furniture that was taken from the Hurley home by Constable Smith a few days ago. The case that will be tried Saturday is one in which Mrs. Hurley charges Baker with jumping a board bill of forty dollars, which she claims he owes for his and his wife’s board. The Baker's, however, state that they had the house rented and allowed Hurleys to move in with them and that at no time did the plaintiff have possession of the house. The case is a complicated one and until threshed out in court, the real facts concerning same will not be known. The plaintiff is a daughter of Peter Russell. Baker furnished bond in both cases. Louis Baumgartner, one of the large number of French township men against whom affidavits were filed charging them with cutting up the roads, appeared before Squire Smith this morning, plead guilty to the charge and was assessed five dollars I and costs amounting to the neat sum of $13.30. This he paid and was discharged. The affidavit that was filed and the same day withdrawn, charging John i Meyer with selling liquor on Sunday, is not necessarily out of court. Otto Syphers, the man who filed the affidavit, after displaying a bunch of braggadocia talk in the squire’s office claimed that he was the only witness as an excuse to withdraw, but it is thought that he simply filed same to satisfy a grudge and in all probability it will be thrown out of court. o AN ANTI VICTORY Frankfort Joins the List of Dry Towns —Put Out Eighteen Saloons BY BIG MAJORITIES Temperance Workers Are Happy and Saloon Men Will Go to Law The eighteen saloons have been voted out of Frankfort, a city of 12,000, and a remonstrance filed there yesterday proved the sentiment to be against the saloons nearly two to one. Rev. J. W. Lower, well known here, was one of the leaders in the big campaign and feels greatly elated over the success. Four remonstrances were filed one for each ward and one for the township, the card system as used at Bluffton being uUlized. The remonstrances filed in the wards numbered 1,328 names, though only 916 were necessary, while in the township where 1,197 were necessary, there were 1,473 signers. The saloon men announce that they will fight the cases by every legal manner possible, but the antis are confident of their power. Three of the eighteen saloons go out this month, one in April, one in May, two in August, three in September, one in October, three in December, two in January and the two last, February 3rd next. o James E. Urich, of Pleasant Mills, passed through here today enroute to Fort Wayne, where ho will be the guest of relatives for some time.

GRAVES MAY BE DISBARRED. Proceedings Filed Against Him by Brother Lawyers, Warsaw, Ind., March 3. —Disbarment proceedings were filed today against Attorney Jack Graves, of Warsaw, formerly of Morocco, w’ho will soon be tried in the Kisciusko circuit court on a charge of embezzling funds of his client, the Arbuckle-Ryan company, of Toledo. Graves was recently convicted of this charge, a jury returning a verdict against him and fixing his punishment at thirty days in jail and a fine of SIOO. Subsequently he was granted a new trial. Graves was the head of the Graves Auditing company, which operated at Bluffton, in Wabash and Wells county and other parts of northern Indiana.

MAY BE A MONTH Before the Aldrich Bill is Passed by the Senate NEW PUBLIC PRINTER W. S. Rossiter May Be Appointed—Census Bill Side Tracked Washington, March 4. —Senators were saying that it would be a month before the Aldrich bill passed their body, if it ever passed. It is a significant fact that the Rhode Island senator has abandoned all efforts to get a vote this week or next. Mr. Aldrich is still confident that he has enough votes to pass the bill eventually. The hardest fight is yet to come over the La Follette proposal to authorize the interstate commerce commission to make a physical valuation of every railroad whose bonds are offered as security for circulation. Senator Aldrich will insist that, under Section 20 of the rate law. the commission already has ample authority to make such inquiry as may be deemed necessary by the secretary of the treasury before accepting the bonds of any railroad. It is now evident that the La Follette amendment has considerable strength with the Republican senators. Washington. March 4. —The president has decided to appoint W. S. Rossiter, of New York, to be public printer to succeed Charles S. Stillings, of Massachusetts. Mr. Rossiter has been for several years chief clerk of the census office and recently was detailed by the president to make an examination into the conduct of business at the government printing office. When Stillings was recently suspended as the result of discoveries made by the house investigating committee, of which Congressman Landis, of Indiana, is chairman, the president appointed Mr. Rossiter as Stilling's temporary successor. Washington. March 4. —The Crumpacker census bill may be sidetracked until next session of congress. Since the bill was laid aside temporarily by the house ten days ago sentiment in favor of putting it over until next fall has developed. Two reasons are, given for this movement. One is that the appropriations at this session must be kept down, and the other is that there is so much dissatisfaction with the method of making appointments under the bill that it will be well to take plenty of time to consider this phase of the subject. COUNTY INFIRMARY SUPPLIES. Bids for supplies at the county infirmary was the last piece of business by the commissioners. The lowbidders were W. H. Nachtrieb for drugs; J. D. Hale for seeds; Everett & Hite for groceries; Niblick & Co. for dry goods; T. R. More for oil; Wlnnes Shoe Store for shoes: Schafer Hardware Co. for hardware, and Myers-Dailey & Co., for clothing. o Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Mylott are rejoicing over the arrival of a new electrician. He made his arrival this morning. Mother and babe are doing well but Mart cannot get over his ticklish spell. It has been decided to perform an operatio upon William Rinehart Friday morning. Dr. McOscar, of Fort Wayne, will assist in the operation.

FAILED TO AGREE — Council Divided as to Appointment of a Board of Safety MR.FULKS DISCHARGE Effort to Re-Instate Him Failed—New Fire Alarm Rule—Sixth Street The council met last evening in' regular session, Mayor Coffee presid- ’ ing and every councilman answering j to roll call, and after the reading ofj the minutes the council got down to their regular routine of business. Walter Johnson, a member of the fire department addressed the council asking that they concur in a little change to be made in the regulation of the company in relation to the sounding of fire alarms and their meaning. Heretofore whenever a fire alarm was sounded it meant for the up town company, composed of the hose wagon and hook and ladder department to respond and the west end company were not supposed to report until the second alarm. According to the new change the hook and ladder will be the company now to remain in until the second signal, this being due to the fact that at many fires this company is never needed, while on several occasions the company has been short of hose with which to fight the fire and with the two company's, namely, central and west end responding, this feature will ever be contended with and in case the hook and ladder company is neded an alarm may be turned in. The council concurred in the matter and the new arrangements will go into effect at once. Mr. Wiley, manager of the Coppock Motor Car Works, then addressed the council in relation to electtic rates, stating that according to a former agreement his company was being assessed a much higher rate and he desired that some action be taken in the matter and the same adjusted. Mr. Wiley stated that his company was willing to stand by their agreement, and thought that this was fair. Upon motion by Christen this matter was referred to the electric light committee, they to report back at the next meeting. Mr. Haley, a represenative of the Debolt Safe company, of Canton, Ohio, next talked to the council in relation to the purchase of a new safe for the treasurer for the storage of his books. The matter was referred to the finance committee, they to secure prices and report back at the next meeting. Upon motion, by Christen the ordinance regulating the appointment of a board of safety to control and appoint police was read<a third time, but lost owing to the fact that Chronister and Martin voted against the same and it requires a two-thirds vote to carry an ordinance. Mr. Mar tin supported the measure up until the third reading then concluded it was not legal and cast his vote against the proposition and as a result the same was lost, and the city is still w’ithout police protection. Councilman Chronister, who opposed the measure throughout on the ground that it was the mayor's duty to appoint this committee, * and not the councils, then presented an ordinance which in substance gave the mayor the power to appoint the committee and fixed the salary of night police at forty-five dollars per month. The ordinance was not discussed and was immediately put to a vote, being de. seated as Burns, Christen and Van Camp voted against the same. As the matter now stands It looks as if no board of public safety would be appointed as the council is hopelessly divided upon the legality as to who has the power of appointing the committee. Councilman Van Camp then in a very neat speech informed the council that in the past the city had been guilty of selling her coal to her employees, officers and other citizens and that he had found that some bills for coal were still outstanding: those to whom the same had been delivered having failed to settle and the city stood in a fairway of loosing the same. He then moved that the city sell coal to no one in the future which motion carried' by a unanimous vote. Upon motion by Van Camp the electric superintendent was instructed to construct an electric line on and along . Grant street for commercial use. there I having been several parties asking

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for the same. Councilman Van Camp then informed the council that W F Fulk, vho was recently discharged by the city had ask d him to present his case again to the council and ask that body to reconsider their former motion and permit him to stay in the employ of the city until a later date. Mr. Van Camp formerly voted for ousting Mr. Fulk, but in a very neat manner presented Mr. Fulk's views and asked the council to consider the same. The council, however, refused to act on the matter and the former record made stands. Owing to the fact that several citizens along Mercer avenue and Sixth street demanded that their streets be bricked this year and that their former petitions be considered, the council ordered the city attorney to have his resolutions setting a date for hearing objections ready by the next meeting and they would thus permit the property owners to be heard on the question as to whether they wanted the improvement or not. The following bills were read and allowed: W. G. Nagel Co $229.69 L. C. Helm 7.00 ,J. D. Stults 45.83 Wells Fargo & Co 55 Geneva Machine Co 48.50 Sunday Creek Coal Co 178.26 C. Vogt 70.00 Danvers Lamp Co 25.00 Shoal Creek Coal Co 194.28 D. F. Teeple 172.0.’ Wm. Geary 10.00 jC. W. Dorwln 233.35 M J. Mylott 193.50 Clover Leaf R R. Co 209.08 ,G. R. & 1 336.81 Ft. Wayne Elect. Works 28.29 Bass Foundry 24.35 Holthouse Drug Co 25 W. E. Fulk 99.74 ( No further business coming before the council they adjourned until their next regular meeting. o — LEWIS WAGGONER FATALLY ILL ' Suffering from pneumonia—Unconscious Two Weeks. Lewis Waggoner, who for many years was one of the best known men of this city, is perhaps fatally ill at Sawteile, Cal., where he moved about three years ago. Mrs. Waggoner has written Miss Anna Winnes of this city that Mr. Waggoner was stricken with penumonla on February 17th and has been unconscious almost continually since. He is sevety-eight years old. was a veteran of the civil war and is a member of the Masonic lodge of this city. FENCE IS COMING Schafer Hardware Co. Receive First Car Load of Ward Fence EARLY THIS MORNING Consisting of Celebrated Designs—Buildings Must Be up by May Ist As the initial movement in a local business way. the first car load of Ward fence was received by the Schafer Hardware company this morning from the Marlon factory, including the celebrated extra heavy elastic diamond mesh fence which is by far the haviest of its kind manufactured by any concern in the country, and the extra heavy poultry and stock fence which has made a great reputation for the company. That there is a ready market for the most serviceable fence is evidenced by the fact that many of the farmers In this county are preparing to use It on their farms this year. The work of laying the water mains and construction of the buildings are well under way and will be completed within a very sbo time, after which the foundation will be immediately constructed. The (contractors for the buildings proper 1 are under bond to complete same on 'or before May first and they expert to do so. The Ward Fence people are ' at present making a thorough investigation as to what power will be the best to use and a contract will e e for same to the near future. are thinking seriously of instal ing large gas producers and engines although no definite action has been taken in the matter. It Is safe to say however, that they will have the most modern power plant in the state. ey will also fu.Tilsh their own lights.