Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 94

A FINE PROGRAM Decatur High School Pupils Rendered a Delightful Program Yesterday HAD MANY VISITORS Program Was Given in Sections and it Was Well Appreciated by All A very interesting literary program ■was rendered at the Decatur high school yesterday atternou. It was rendered in sections and to say the least it was excellent. The program as it was rendered is as follows: FRESHMAN. So Did I Ruth Baltzell My First Foot Ball Game.. Glen Falk The Frose Writers of Indiana Sim Burk Concerning the Class of ’ll • Ruth Hammell The Story of an Operator. Cleo Henry My First Automobile Ride Samuel Faurot My First Hunting Adventure Francis Gast The Farm Harry Hoffman Advantages of City Life.. Ethel Butler Resolved —The World Owes More to the Farmer than to the Inventor. Affirmative: Elmyra Van Camp. ■Marie Ball; negative. Lewis Adler, Lawrence Biggs. America's Foremost Woman Emma Shultz The Miracle of Self Confidence.... Manie Kitson The Value of an Education to a Woman Vera Hammond Class Phophecy . .Alice Brandyberry The Trappers Trapped. .Earl Colter Should the Young People Read Novels Anna Amspaugh Wanted—A Minister's Wife Jessie Phillips Historical Trees iDessie Mann Resolved —War has brought more suffering upon humanity than intemperate use of intoxicating drink. Affirmative: Martin Hoffman. Roy Jahn, Clem Steigmeyer. Negative: Ruth Gay, Matie Chronister. Hulda Bauer. SOPHOMORE PROGRAM. Debate: Resolved, “That Lee was a greater general than Grant.” Affirmative speaker, Fred Meyers; Negative speaker, Lawrence Archbold. The judges decided in favor of the negtive. Abraham Lincoln. Howard Wisehaupt College Life Elevates Ideals Perth Crays Emperor Nero Don Burk Wives in a Social Game. .Anna Winans Manual Training. .Clyde Baumgartner Not Yet But 500 n... .Harold Wilcox Debate: Resolved, “That the Drama has done more for the world than the novel.” Affirmative, Ruby Parrish and Loes Meyers; negative, Lucile Cusac and Edna Huffman. The judges decided in favor of the negative. The Practical Side of American Art Alma Kooken Psalm of Marriage, ■ Homer Raudenbush The Golden Rule in Business .... E Irene Edwards [A Romance in the Air Bruce Patterson [Arbor Day Effie Patton (Governor Johnson Lulu Beachler PROGRAM FOR SECOND SECTION JUNIORS. ■Secretary's Report Tracy Nelson ■’he Race is not always to the Swift ■ Bennie Beavers ■re the Public School What They ■ Should Be Vernia Smith ■ebate: Resolved: “That we owe more ■to the farmer than the inventor.” ■Affirmative. Beatrice Van Camp ■and Bessie Boyers; negative, Nelson and Josephine ■Krick. Judges decided in favor ■of affirmative. ■ Visit to the Man in the Moon,. ■ Leota Bailey Siege Athletics Otis Dibble Be Girl of Today. .Fannie Hammell ■•pose Push to Patience S. Theresa Baltzell Kitchen of the Future .■| Inland Waterways. .Hugh Perkins Bate—Resolved. “That Slavery has a Greater Curse to Mankind ’■han Intemperance." Affirmative Sellemeyer and Marie ■ackson; negative, Helen Niblick ■fed Fancheon Daugherty. Judges in favor of affirmative. (Continued on page (.

FORMERLY LIVED IN ADAMS CO. Mrs. Kirchner, of Fort Wayne, Died Friday Morning. Mrs. Rosine Kirchner, a venerable resident of this city, and for many years prior to 1881 a resident of Adams county, died on Friday morning at the advanced age of eighty-nine ' years at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Krauskopf, 1234 Oak street. Mrs. Kirchner was born in Elsfeld. Theringen, Germany, in 1819, and came to Adams county in 1854, making the trip to Fort Wayne byway of the old Wabash and Erie canal. In 1881 she came to this city to reside and had been living with her daughter ever since. She was a member of St. Paul’s ; Lutheran church and is survived by . her two children, F. Kirchner and Mrs. Krauskopf. The funeral will take place on Sunday afternoon at 1:45 o’clock from the residence and 2:15 I o’clock from St. Paul’s Lutheran ; church. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. o t Mrs. J. L. Robison returned to her home at Hoagland after transacting 1 business in the city yesterday. o COURT HOUSE NEWS l Dore B. Erwin Appointed Commissioner to Sell Real Estate A FINAL REPORT Shepherd Estate to Be Settled as Insolvent— Damage Case i Dore B. Erwin was appointed by , the Adams circuit court as a commissioner to sell eighty acres of realty in Monroe township, and as such commissioner will give bond in the sum of $15,000. This commissionship arose from the parttjion suit of Rebecca Stauffer et al, vs. John B. Duer, et al, calling for a division and sale of real estate. The cause was submitted and a finding made in favor of the plaintiffs. In the partioin' suit of Eady vs. Fisher, a final report and account was filed by the commissioner. E. Burt Lenhart, which was allowed by the court, and the commissioner discharged. Andrew Gottschalk as executor of the W. H. Shepherd estate, filed a petition to settle the estate as insolvent, he submitting evidence in proof of this contention. The executor was ordered to so settle said estate and the clerk of the Adams circuit court to give notice of same. While at Huntington yesterday the issues were made up in the case of Kiracofe vs. Erie Railroad. Judge Merryman set the case down for trial on May 5. The case is one wherein the plaintiff seeks SSOO damages for injuries sustained while in the employ of the railroad. r> THEY HELP THE FARMER. Fort Wayne and Springfield a Great Advantage to Farmers. The Ft. Wayne & Springfield Ry. Co. carries into Ft. Wayne every morning 400 gallons of milk which nets to the farmers along the road $48.00 per day. They also carry butter, eggs, chickens, hay, grain and in fact everything that is grown on the farm. I and deliver to the farmer anything that he may order from the cities or towns. There are 15 or 20 children : and young men and women who go to 1 school at Ft. Wayne, that take advan- < tage of the interurban and board at 1 home, thus saving a large board bill. ’ It increases the value of their farms > from fifteen to twenty-five dollars per i acre. The increased price of butter, i eggs and other products for the past year in Decatur is claimed to be due to the farmers sending it to Ft. Wayne where better prices could be obtained, t — —-o — Roy Dolby, a young man in Liberty I township. Wells county, is defendant < in two paternity suits and has given 1 a SSOO bond in each case. The com- < plainants are Miss Nora K. Kingren i and Miss Nettie Huffman, the latter I but 15 years of age.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening April 18, 1908,

WOOL IS LOWER I Responsible Wool Merchants Say the Wool Business Looks Gloomy - TEXTILE MILLS CLOSE Only Fifty Per Cent Being in Operation—Do Not Use Binder Twine J. D. Hale is in receipt of a letter from a responsible Wool merchant in which many facts concerning the market for same are presented. He states that not since the eventful year of 1900 has the wool outlook been so gloomy. The present financial conditions have so affected the textile mills, as much if not more than any other business and nor over fifty per cent of the mills are in operation, and these are only working on positive orders. The above stated conditions coupled with the facts of the national election confronting the wool dealers and tariff legislation advocated by both parties and the recent decline of 15 to 25 per cent in the last London auction sales just closed on cross breed wools, such as are raised principally in Indiana, it behooves the wool buyers to be cautious in the purchase of new clip. We are also informed that had it not been for domestic fleece being relatively cheaper than foreign wool during the season of 1907, prices would have been at least four cents lower. It is also an assured fact that t,he farmers must eradicate the use of binder twine as there is a concerted action and an agreement among all the manufactures not to buy any wool tied with binder twine or twine of its character. Wool twine must be used or the fleece will not be accepted, hence the growers should take heed and lay in a supply of wool twine. THAT NEWSTATION Clover Leaf Traveling Freight Agent Gives Hunch About Depot HE OUGHT TO KNOW He States That Work on Same Will Begin Some Time in June While in the city Thursday evening, Harry Webber, traveling freight agent for the Toledo, St, Louis & Western railroad, gave Decatur people the assurance that the new depot will positively be constructed this summer, work to begin on same in the month of June. Mr. Webber also emphasized the fact that the new station would be modern in every respect, built of brick, and equipped with the very latest conveniences. As has been stated the old structure will be moved about fifty feet westward and converted into a freight house, while the new depot will be . built on the ground that has been used for a lawn. According to these plans the new station will be situated near the sidewalk where the railroad and sidewalk meet and much convenience will thus be added. The appropriation for the construction has already been made and Mr. Pletcher, the agent has been instructed to ascertain whether or not a water line is near the site. Many people from ■ this city patronize the Clover Leaf railroad and it is to meet the demands of our people that the new station will be built. ■ Returning from work at noon Thursday, William Ellinger, a farmer southwest of Goshen, found his wife ■ in a dying condition from carbolic acid which she had taken with suicidal intent. Mrs. Ellinger lived but ■ five minutes. She left a note addressed to her husband, bidding him an ’ affectionate farewell and praying his ' forgiveness. The woman stated sim- . ply that she was tired of life.

SHOWS A GREAT INCREASE. Church Membership in Indiana is Rapidly Growing. The church membership of Indiana in 1907 increased 70,490 as shown by a report which has just been completed by the Indiana bureau of statistics. The total membership in 1906 was 932,655, in 1907 it was 1,003,145. The report compiled this year by the bureau of statistics is thought to be the most complete ever produced in the state. It is said to be far more nearly accurate than the report which was issued last year, and for this reason comparisons with last year's report are likely to be misleading. However, it is believed the increase in church membership has been fully as great, if not greater, than that shown by the comparison of the 1906 figures and the 1907 figures. Last year's report was based largely on estimates. This year the different denominations pt ij>e state, knowing that a report was to be issued, have kept tab on increase in membership, value of church property, money raised, etc. WILL BE A BRIDE Miss Emma Hoffman Announced Her Engagement to Gary Banker IN UNIQUE WAY At a Called Meeting of the Menu-Ates at Her Home Last Night With her home beautifully decorated in prevailing colors of red,white and pink, Miss Emma Hoffman as hostess, delightfully entertained the members of the Menu-Ates last night and in a unique manner she announced her engagement to Walter L. Plew, a banker at Gary, Indiana. The menu Ate girls gathered at the beautiful home promptly at six o’clock, where an elaborate four course dinner was served much to the delight of all. Ribbons to the number of six were extended from the overhanging chandelier to each plate, arranged for the six girls, conndted with which were hand painted bridal wreath cards containing the names of the bride and groom to be and thus the news of the coming marriage of this most estimable couple was announced to the most intimate friends of the bride to be. As planned, the marriage will occur some time during next September, immediately after which the happy couple Jwill repair to Gary, where a furnished home will await their arrival. Miss Hoffman, is one of Decatur’s most popular girls. Her kind disposition and sterling worth has made for her a multitude of staunch friends who wish for her a most prosperous matrimonial career. Mr. Plew is a prosperous young business man who went to Gary when but a few houses had been constructed. He engaged in the banking business and has met with an abundance of success. The Menu-Ate girls who enjoyed the hospitality of the intended bride were Misses Lucile Hale, Frances Merryman, Marie Beery, Pansy Bell and Miss Edna Hoffman. Misses Fannie Frjsinger and Winifred Johnson, the other members of the organization who are attending I. U. at Bloomington, were sent announcements of the future marriage. — —o CAME HOME FROM THE WEST. George L. Maddy Spent the Winter at Phoenix, Arizona. George L. Maddy came in this morning from Chicago, he having stopped there a few days on his way home from. Phoenix, Arizona, which he declares is the greatest climate in this country. There was not a day during the entire winter when it was necessary to stay indoors, it being warm and pleasant. Mr. Maddy will take up his work In the Indiana and Ohio territory for Pick & Co., the Chicago jobbers in. fixtures and supplies for hotels and restaurants.

BUYS NEW CABLE Citizens’ Telephone Company to Make Extensions A GREAT DEMAND Keeps Them Humping to Keep Pace With Telephone Requests F. M. Schirmeyer, secretary and manager of the affairs of the Citizens’ Telephone Company, came home last evening from Chicago. While there fee purchased 10,000 feet of cable which wi,lfl be used in extensions for their service in this city. The new cable will be placed on north Fifth street, west Monroe street and , north and south Eleventh street. The cable in the alley between First and Second streets will be replaced with one hundred pair cable, that in use at present being insufficient to the excessive service demanded. This, how- ■ ever, is the cry from all quarters of ' the city. The Citizens’ company has ever and always) been progressive, but at that it is difficult for them to keep pace wi h the demand for additional service. The new cable will enable them to furnish telephones to every one in the city. They are experiencing the same trouble in keeping up their country telephones. New subscribers are daily after them and they now completely cover the northern part of the county. The bulk of the additions : lately have come from Preble and that vicinity. Stock in the Citizens’ Telephone company still keeps soaring, and it is almost impossible to pick up even , a few measly shares. Dr. D. D. Clark has been the lucky one lately, but at that it is difficult to find any for sale. THE GOAT IS GAY I The Masons to Cut Their Belt on May Fifth A POSTPONEMENT The Elks’ Social Event Has Been Postponed for the Present A feast for the Masonic goat is billed for occurrence in this city on Tuesday, May 5. At that time three candidates are dated up and will come forth from the ordeal with all the feigfets and privileges of a Master Mason. The victims are Jesse C. ’ Sutton, Huber DeVoss and D. L. Kocher. The work will begin at three o'clock in the afternoon and will be . concluded some time during the wee . small hours. The Willshire and Ge- , neva oldges will be present and as- , sist in the work and at its conclusion . a banquet will be given, in which the visitors, the candidates and the members of the local lodge will participate. The event will be highly enjoyable to , those who wear the credentials of a Master Mason. The big social event that was scheduled to come off at the Elks’ hall the twenty-first of this month, and which had been left to a committee to decide upon, has been indefinitely post- ■ poned for several reasons. The exact date will be announced when the plans for same are perfected. The character . of the entertainment has not as yet j been decided although the committee may arrange for a big dance. Whatever its nature, the people who ' attend will be royally entertained as i the Decatur Elks are the best ever. Q ELWOOD THE FAVORED ONE. i Washington, April 18. —Congressman s Adair got one public building tack- > ed onto tha omnibus building bill, and i that to Elwood. Fifty thou- ■ sand dollars is the anwuit appropriated.

PORTLAND HAS REPENTED. They Will Work for Extension of Electric Railway. President W. H. Fledderjohann, of- - Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction company and T. W. Shelton, of Decatur and Cash Beal, of Richmond, a member of the committee to raise SIO,OOO to procure the right-of-way between Portland and Richmond, were in this city Monday, conferring with Portland business men relative to the extension of the traction line from Dei catur to Richmond. They were met ] at the Hotel Adair by a number of Portland’s progressive citizens who have repented the cold turn-down they gave the road a couple of years ago and expressed a willingness to get into the harness and join the other ■ towns and cities along the line in the movement to extend the road. Next year, if the present plans are success- ‘ ful, the line will be extended on to ’ this city from the north. The south division will be looked after and financed by citizens of Richmond and 1 intervening cities and will also build ' the stretch front Richmond to Portland ’ next year where the two lines will 1 be connected and through traffic open--1 ed between Fort Wayne and Rich- ■ mond. —Portland Sun. O FROM MANSFIELD Amount of Government 1 Ownership in Switzerland k r • THE VIRGINIA G. O. P. _r Another Contesting Delegation—Adair Seeks Renomination I ’ ‘ Washington, April 18. —Robert E. Mansfield, of Marion, Ind., consul at Lucerne, Switzerland, has supplied the department of commerce and lar bor with an interesting account of Swiss government ownership of telegraph and telephone lines. After stating that the government owns all such lines, he says the telegraph and teleservice extends to nearly every town and village in the country, and every railway station is supplied with both systems. The service Is good and the rates are low. They are operated in connection with the postal service, evI ery postoffice being provided with telegraphic facilities, and practically all of them with public telephones. Distances in Switzerland being short, 1 the service prompt and the rates low, the telegraph and telephones are liberally patronized. Long-distance connections are made with all the local or urban telephone lines, enabling patrons to communicate with all cities and towns in the country. There are also international connections with all the countries bordering on Swiss ‘ territory. > Washington, April 18. —Warren S. . Lurty, of Harrisonburg, for a long time district attorney for the western district of Virginia, is actively engag- • ed in the movement to organize a con- ! testing Republican delegation from > that state to go to the Republican na- > tional convention to oppose the Taft . endorsement and to demand on behalf . of the bulk of the party recognition ' i at the hands of the national conven- » tion. Lurtv attended the recent state i . convention in Lynchburg; saw the ofliciousness of the Republican office- > holders, who were there in large num ' t bers; witnessed the elimination of ' the negro from politics and the in- 1 duction of the lily-white party, re- ' - turned to his home and at once set ; » about to reorganize the party. t Washington, April 18. —Represents- ' . five Adair denies the report that he t will not seek another nomination for ’ 5 congress in the Eighth Indiana dist- trict. He states positively that he ' t will be a candidate for renomination. s . He realizes that the presidential elec- , . tion will favor the candidacy of his > opponent, N. B. Hawkins, of Port3 land, but he says he is going to make ‘ th race with the same vigor and earnestness that he did before. £ - ————-o i Rev. H. A. Clausing, of Findlay. 0., - has accepted a call to the pastorate [ of the Reformed church at Auburn, • succeeding Rev. D. A. Kielsmeier. who ' • resigned to become pastor of Salem ] Reformed church in Fort Wayne.

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MEXICO TO CUBA An Interesting Letter Written from Havana, Cuba MUCH OF INTEREST Mrs. Morrison Continues Her Pleasure Trip from Mexico Havana. Cuba. Mar. 20, 1908. Dear Folks: —I will try and finish telling you about out winter in Mexico in this letter, and something about Cuba. It was with much regret we left Mexico, and Oaxaca especially. The climate is the finest in the world. The Oaxacan claims jt was the original Garden of Eden, and tradition says that one of the buildings out at Mitla was the tower of Babel. It is very singular, however, that, there is no record or tradition of the people who built these old cities of Mitla, etc. These great ruins are found in southern Mexico, Guatemala. Yucatan, and on down into Central America. They are the wonder and puzzle of archaologists and others of less knowledge. There are a few patches of cement left on some of the stones out at Mitla. that have a red glaze and some picture writing, in Egyptian style, in fine workmanship. The ruins are not all excavated. We went in some underground passages. These ancient people at Mitla had no arches as their square top doors show, over which are immense cut. stones 12 to 18 feet long. 4 to 6 feet in width. 3 to 5 feet in thickness, the wonder being Uiow they raised these. Some of the columns are very large, long rows of them. The mosaics are fine and the patterns exact. The stone work true, the cement firm. For hundreds of years these buildings were drawn from, by the villagers around, for buildings, and even the church has some of these stones in her walls. But the government has stopped this vandalism now and set a guard over these ruins. But we can guess what it once was. Every day, people from all parts of the world come to see it, I do not think there was a day wo wore at the Francia (two weeks) that parties did not arrive and start next morning for Mitla. It takes two days for the trip. Some take three days. For any one interested in such things one is repaid for the trip, but I must not say more about Mitla or I will not have time to speak of other things, and there are so many of them. The merchants! All over Mexico, every place big and little, if you buy anything, often before wrapping the article a record of the sale is made in a book. Each month a government official examines the books, and takes a tax according to the sales. Even the railroad offices are the same. A heavy fine and imprisonment is the penalty of fraud in this mattefl. Another thing. Every where you are besieged with men, boys and old women, usually hideously ugly, old women to buy lottery tickets. They are licensed by the government and put out by the city to raise money for municipal purposes —streets, sewers, etc. T hey say the people will not stand the tax for it. but this way the money comes easy and cheerfully. Yet it is very bad for the people themselves as every cent they can get they use for buying lottery tickets, hoping to draw the grand prize. They sell from ten cents to five dollars each. Indeed, I cannot say how high, but I believe five is as high as they go, but may go to $25.00. I never inquired, although solicited to buy ten thousand times. The stores in Mexico all have a name. A drug store may be called the Door of Heaven, and a saloon (Cantina or a pulque shop) “Our Lady of Angels or “Jesus and Mary" or The Blessed Virgin.” I have read so many queer names, hut just at this moment they slip from my mind. I write every letter in such haste I forget what I have already told you. Hugh Hite is delighted with Oaxaca and his cheeks are filling out and he is getting brown as a berry. The Decatur boys seem to be prosperous and are well respected and liked. I am proud of them in every way. and down here they seem very near to me -like relatives. They have all been very kind to me. to both of us. You will laugh when you see the collection (Continued oa page 4.)