Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

liuiue VI. Number 118

Conference ends IKi Enthusiastic Session I s Ends at the White i ; White A GREAT MEETING I Bany Things of Vital ImI I portance Will Be Taken I Up Later I May 16—The gover- | conference of natural resourc-s ■Htl>- white house ended shortly be- | 1 o'clock yesterday, after an enI session which resulted in adoption of a set of declarations in scope, but effecting no per- | mt form of organization nor niak- | -w specific recommendations lor leu by either the states or the I Milon. Immediately after adjournthe governors met and appointa committee, consisting of g- vI W^ 0! s " il,snn 1 Ken: iick> t. Folk > Mi--and Sheldon (Nebraska), to a resolution in calling tl .■ con and expressing the pleasure the delegates that it had been of IRli a useful character. An agree|Ki.* also was reached at this meeting an executive committee of will make arrangements for a of governors, to be h-ld next I la: at some time and place yet to J ■ determined. Governor Swans- n. of offered this suggestion and I Willson, of Kentucky, was a member of the executive com. i ■ttee. the other members to be api later. At the next conferI it will be determined whether I »rt' shall be a permanent organizaIBn Governor Swanson said that, I long other matters that would come at the next conference, would be standardization of laws I marriage and divorce, taxation. power and other matters.

IjCHOOL SERVICES Sermon. Class I BDay and Commencement I Exercises [■HE - SEAT SALE Other Newsy Items ! Concerning the Impor- | tant Occasions H * [■Next week is an all important one the class of ’OB. the teachers, trusIMcs and others interested in school IHork in Decatur, for it marks the Ew ~e of the year. Beside the various events, are the class day exerand commencement. The class program will be given at library Tuesday evening, and will prove ■■drawing card for the many friends the class. For this occasion two tickets will be issued. It the aim of the class to accommothe schools first. After they are the remaining tickets will sold to whomsoever applies, then being in the hands of the if the hall will accommomore than this number, two hunan admission fee of ten cents IHill be taken at the door until 'he [l is filled. •■The reserved seat sale will begin noon at the Holthouse drug IBore. The P ublic will have an equal Rylance to secure good seats, as the !H[aduates are only allowed to reserve tickets each, for their parents. H BThe baccalaureate sermon will be ■■ v en by Rev. Spetnagel. at the Preschurch, Sunday evening at and as usual this will be one the important events of the week. the church should be packed. K-BThe man who sold the first railway in this country died the other ln Rochester. N. H. This forcibly the fact that a scanty seventy •^• a rs covers the whole history of railin the United States.

WILL PLAY HERE TOMORROW. Fort Wayne Greys and Locals to Clash Again. The Decatur base ball fans are promised a rare treat tomorrow afternoon, when the locals and the Fort Wayne Greys clash in a nine inning battle for honors. The Greys were here two weeks ago and defeated the local boys in a well played game, resulting 3 to 0 in favor cf the visitors. However, Pennington has greatly strengthened his bunch and expects to win back the last laurels. Robison, the veteran slab artist will grace the center mound and much is expected of him in tomorrow's game. Two strong faces will be seen in the Decatur lineup and a last game is assured.

THREE NATIONS Were Represented at Juniors Reception for Seniors— Beautiful Costumes AT NIBLICK HOME One of the Season’s Most Delightful Events—Other Society News Commencement week for the senior class of,the D. H. S. was auspiciously opened last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick when the initial event, the junior reception was cleverly conducted by the members of the junior class. The members of the senior and junior classes of the D. H. S. arrived at the Niblick home promptly at 6:00 o’clock after which they had their picture taken. Their costumes were very beautiful and represented the different ways of dress in the foreign countries. At the door of the reception room they were received by Hugh Perkins and Miss Helen Niblick, costumed as Americans. The ladies were then ushered to an upstairs room decorated in black and yellow and the gentleman's dressing room was decorated in scarlet and gray. And upon coming down Into the reception room again. Hugh Perkins, who had charge of the program, gave the announcement that they would start on a journey through the old country. The party was then shown inijo the room representing Germany, where they were received by Bennie Beavers and Esther Sellemeyer, who were dressed as are the typical German gentleman and lady. The Misses Bessie Boyers and Theresa Baltzell in German costumes presided at the luncheon table and served hot weinerwurst sandwiches, English walnuts and cider. Miss Josephine Krick was seated in an easy rocker and portrayed the part of a German grandmother, she busied herself by knitting, directing the younger German folks about serving, receiving, etc., and if they blundered she proceeded to give them a scolding. All conversation in this room was carried on in German and proved very interesting. They entered into a contest of drawing a typical German and the Misses McGregor and Johnson came out with honors even and drew cuts to determine the prize winner, who was Miss McGregor. She was awarded a small pair of wooden shoes which carried out the German part very nicely. Above the door of the German room, there hung a most beautiful German motto in German lettering which meant “Welcome” in the American language. The second country represented and visited was that of Ireland and proved to be a perfect representation. There were several varieties of reptiles, frogs, pink and green colored decorations, a Blarney stone and an Irish harp hung in the archway between the rooms: also silk shamrocks. At the door of this country they were received by Tracy Nelson and Miss Fannie Hammil. In this room the guests were served with potato salad, olives lettuce sandwiches and oatmeal wafers bv the Misses Leota Bailey, Marie Jackson and Vernia Smith. The first game was that of finding the Blarney stone. Each guest was blindfolded turned round and round and started out to find the blarney stone and after finding the same they were to stoop and kiss the stone. This (Continued. on page 2.)

THESTATEMEETING Prohibitionists of Indiana Will Hold Convention Next Week CROWD IS EXPECTED A Big Parade a Feature— Will Nominate an Entire Ticket Indianapolis, May 16.—The next political event of Importance in Indiana is the state convention of the Prohibition party, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday of next week at Tomlinson Hall. The party leaders express confidence in arecord-break-ing attendance. A unique feature of this gathering is to be a street parade Tuesday noon. The delegates, alternates and visitors will march from Tomlinson Hall through the principal business street, led by the Greenwood Band. Each county delegation has been asked to bring a banner to carry In the procession, and the result will be some striking and Interesting mottos and party slogans. The saloons, the, two old parties and compromise measures will doubtless be given some vigorous knocks. The place of honor at the head of the parade has been given to “the veterans.” those who voted for John P. St. John for president, in 1884. Word comes from over the state that the old guard will be here in good numbers to take the place appointed for them. It is expected that a thousand or more voters will march in the parade. The 'state officers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and other temperance women will ride in carriages. State Chairman F. W. Lough said yesterday: “Our convention will be a record-breaker and a history-maker. We will adopt a platform „ for no compromise, on which all enemies of the liquor traffic will be invited to stand. We will nominate a ticket of clean and capable men, and our candidates will receive the largest vote ever polled in the history of this reform in Indiana. Our slogan is ‘lndiana Dry in 1909.* ” o ——— NEW EVIDENCE ABOUT THAW.

Given by Dr. Charles E. Lane, of New York City. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., May 15. — That Harry K. Thaw had told him he killed Stanford White on the impulse of the moment and had expressed regret for his hasty act was the startling statement made by Dr. Charles E. Lane, one of the young millionaire's alienists, In the habeas corpus proceedings to secure Thaw's release, now being heard here. Dr. Lane declared Thaw gave the relations of White with Evelyn Nesbit as the reason for his hatred of White and as the compelling motive for the killing. Dr. Lane denied that Thaw ever said he killed White as the result of a “divine command.” This evidence was brought out. on Jerome's cross examination of the doctor, who visited Thaw four times since his committment to Matteawan. =—- -——o ■ ■ ——■ " 1 — AFTER THE OHIO PHYSICIANS. They Have Been Violating the Postal Laws. The postal authorities at Washington are after Ohio physicians who have been violating/the postal laws by sending diphtheria and tuberculosis sputum to State Health Officer Probst for analysis through the mails in containers, which it appears are of a character that were easily broken, letting the contents out in the mail sacks. Dr. Probst has received a letter from the division superintendent of the railway mail service at Washington, asking him to send in the name of any physician who violates the postal laws in this respect and who does not use the containers adopted long ago by the state board of health and approved by the postal authorities.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening May 16. Ivoß.

PEOPLE"® by FANNIE M LOTHROP WIJF I jgg||||a * t. ® 1 Copy righty Photo.. Now, York Edison Co. ' * THOMAS A. EDISON The World’s Greatest Inventor The eight hundred or more patents credited to Thomas A. Edison means one for every three weeks of his fifty-eight years, and even this calculation is unjust to his mechanical genius, for it does not include his many inventions which never ventured into the publicity that patents demand. This wizard of invention was a model of precocity. Born at Alva, Ohio, he had only one tbacher—his mother; at seven he became a wage-earner; at eleven he was reading Newton’s “Princlpia”; at twelve he was a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway, and in an improvised laboratory in the baggage car he began to dabble in chemistry. A broken bottle of sulphuric acid filled the air with an odor that was unspeakable, and the cruel hands of the conductor registered his disapproval by a brutal blow on the ear of the young disciple of science, which made him deaf for life. He soon learned telegraphy and became so expert that the most rapid operators on the line could not rattle him by their fiercest speed, and all taken down in his small, clear, copper-plate writing. He showed then the remarkable ability to meet any situation Instantly and perfectly. When he was in Canada, and the terrible storms cut off all telegraphic communication, and it was necessary to get word from Sarnia to Port Huron across St. Clair River he mounted a locomotive and “tooted” a telegraphic message again and again until the answer came. His first patent was for a machine for recording votes for the State Legislature. It worked perfectly, but it was the very thing the Legislature most cordially did not want. In the same year he went to New York friendless, penniless, in debt, hungry, footsore and heart-weary at times, but with eyes wide open for chances. The Laws Gold Reporting Co., that reported stock transactions, had an accident that put all its machinery out of commission. Wall Street patrons fretted, chafed, grew frenzied at the delay. Young Edison diagnosed the difficulty, treated it instantly, and was at once known and recognized. A short time later he had a $40,000 check in his pocket for a stock ticker he invented. Then real life began for him. • To tell of his inventions in a few lines is like seeking to condense a library into an epigram; but mention must be made of multiplex telegraphy, incandescent electric lighting, the phonograph, moving pictures, the microphone, the tasimeter, the odoroscope, electric pen, his storage battery, the megaphone, which list faintly suggests a host of others. Copyright. 1906, by Wm. C. Mack.

IT WAS GOOD AGAIN Musicale Furnished Another Delightful Evening for Many AT OPERA HOUSE Successful Performance Was Repeated—Praise for Those in Charge The musicale was repeated at the fipena house last evening and another Igjxtd sized audience .greeted those who took part. It was again a delightful evening of music and the Sisters of St. Agnes under whose direction the event was given, are deserving of the praise they were given. Everything said about them last evening could be repeated and more for every one who participated won favor. Among the numbers especially pleasing were the trio in part one, “Chinese Dance,” by G. Baker, N. Holthouse, O. Niblick. H. Schmitt, R. Ehinger, R. Keller; in part two, “Life is a Dream” piano A. Sellemeyer E Ehinger, G. Melbers, J. Lange; violins, J. Geary, Fr. Braun, J. Haimann, R. Geary, A. Radamaker and L. Kintz; mandolins: L. Sprunger and L. Lange. Mrs. Lenhart who had, a part in this number was unable to attend. A quartet composed of J. Didot, J. Sprague, G. Tague and R. Coffee delighted the audience with “A Sleigh Ride” in the middle of May; the vocal quartet C. Terveer, Mrs. J. Q. Neptune, Dr. J. Q. Neptune and Herman Yager, with N. Niblick, pianist, gave a delightful rendition of “Come where the Lilies Bloom.” In part three the quartet G. Meibers, B. Deininger. Mrs. Neptime and M. Boknecht, “Galop de Concert” w r as most pleasing as also was the trio “Flower Festival Two Step,” by L. Keller, N. Hull, L. Bosse, Fr. Gaffer, E. Stein and S. Braun; also the piano solo “Ripples of the Alabama,” by M. Deininger and A.

Kohne, and the duet “Last rose of Summer,” by M. Boknecht and Mrs. Neptune." In part four the following are deserving of special mention piano solos by G. Coffee and A. Kohne, J. Didot and L. Bosse, N. Niblick and M. Boknecht, E. Miiler and G. Berling. o BERNE MAN FILES A SUIT. To Replevin Road Wagon from Portland Man. The replevin suit filed by Alexander Berger, of Berne, against Gus. Rickner, cf South Portland, for the recovery of a road wagon, gravel bed a set of work harness and a horse, of the total value of $137, was heard Friday before Justice of the Peace Albert G. Lewis. Rickner is a nephew of Berger's wife, and the latter claimed that the property was given into the possession of Rickner, under a contract by the terms of which Berger was to receive a share of their earnings He claims he secured less than their agreement called for and that Rickner refused to return them on demand. Rickner claims that the deal was an outright sale and that he has paid all that is due Berger at the present time. The court, after hearing the evidence, and argument, took the case under advisement until Monday morning.—Portland Commer-cial-Review. ■ - — —o “HUMPTY” PIERCE AT RICHMOND Joins the “Quakers;” All They Say of Him is True. “Sunny Jim” Pierce reported to Manager Jessup today and this afternoon he will be seen in right field. Pierce last year was with the Decaturs which club won the I. O. league championship. Pierce will lend batting strength to the club and he will be able to take care of right field to a queen's taste. Last year Pierce was one of the best outfielders In the league and Manager Jessup is highly pleased at securing the services of this clever player. —Richmond Paladium.

CARL FULK WAS LUCKY LAD. Fell Eighteen Feet But Escaped Uninjured. Carl Fulk, little three-year-old son of Ex-surveyor W. E. Fulk, had a miraculous escape from serious injury a day or two ago. He had gone to the home of Mrs. Watkins, who lives upstairs in the Buhler building on Eighth street and while playing about, fell to the ground. The building was originally a store building and the lad must have fallen about eighteen feet or perhaps more. Mrs. Watkins rushed down to pick him up, supposing he would be badly hurt, but was most agreeably surprised to find him uninjured, save a slight cut on the tongue. It was a lucky affair. IT’S A MYSTERY Congressman Adair Was the Victim of Political • Hocus-Pocus CURRENCY BILL Aldrich Bill Substituted for the Vreeland Bill in Senate Washington, May 16. —Speculation as to what happened to the appropriation for Elwood, which was in the bill when it was drafted by the subcommittee, but which dropped out in a mysterious fashion before the bill was reported to the house, gave rise to several theories today. Color was given the theory that Congressman Adair is the victim of a political ho-cus-pocus by the fact that two appropriations for Democratic representatives —Ashbrook and Denver —in Republican districts in Ohio also vanished mysteriously. In their speeches to the house explaining the bill Chairman Bartholdt and Congressman Brantley, ranking Democratic member of the committee, said the omission of Elwood was a clerical mistake. The two other omissions were also clerical mistakes, J.hey said, but this statement was taken with a grain of salt. Washington, May 16. —The Aldrich currency bill was substituted for the Vreeland bill in the senate and the transfer took but little longer than was required in the calling of the roll. The effect is to throw both the senate and the house bills into conference. The managers on the part of the senate, who were appointed, are Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Hale, Daniel and Teller. A meeting of the senate committee on finance was held in the forenoon and a decision to amend the house bill by substituting the measure passed by the senate several weeks ago was reached without difficulty. Chairman Aldrich was authorized to make the report which he did as soon as the bill passed by the house on yesterday had been “messaged over." Washington, May 16.—The work of putting the finishing senatorial touches on the omnibus building bill began yesterday as soon as that, famous “pork” measure passed the house. Senator Hemenway introduced the following amendment: For a building at Greencastle on a site already purchased. $60,000; for a site for a building at Elwood, $20,000; for a site and building at Frankfort, $20,000; for an increase of the appropriation for Jeffersonville from $50,000 to $65,000. WILL HAVE NEW CAR SIGNS. A New Patent in Car Signs for the Fort Wayne and Springfield. J. F. Schmitz, of Indianapolis, was here and contracted with the officials of the Fort Wayne and Springfield railway for the placing of his patent car sign in the cars of this company. The new sign is the latest as well as the best thing ever introduced to the public, and while new already is in use by all of the leading electric railways of the country. Its adoption by the Fort Wayne and Springfield is but another indication of their determination to always have the best that travels.

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THE DOPE HABIT Caused Downfall of John S. Branyan a Brilliant Young Lawyer LOCATED IN CANADA Will Never Return Home— His Wife Will Return to the South Attorney John S. Branyan, who has been absent from Huntington about three weeks, is now at Edmunton, Alberta, Canada, and declares positively he wjll not return to this home in this city. Correspondence has been established with him through the exalted ruler of the Elks of that place. Several letters of a melancholy nature have been received in this city from him, all declaring he will not return. That Mr. Branyan is not entirely responsible for his actions was intimated in the Herald of Thursday. It has since developed that while he was a sufferer a year or two ago with a severe pain in his side, he became addicted to the use or morphine and the habit, one hard to break up, was so much his master that he went to St. Louis several months ago for treatment. Returning home he seemed beuefitted for a time. But he again resumed the use of the drug. This, along with discouraging conditions and sickness of himself and family, finally got the better of him and he departed for Canada. Melancholy letters tell the tale of his present condition. Information is that Mrs. Branyan, who has been appraised of true conditions, expects on her recovery from her present illness to make a sale of her property and go to the home of relatives in the south. —Huntington Herald. ■■■ o — ASSESSOR’S REPORT A General Falling Off in Practically Every Township CAUSES ARE GIVEN Failure of Crops, Cessation of Oil Business, Low Price of Stock At noon today the assessors from the varous townships had all reported. excepting Kirkland. While County Assessor Gentis has not yet had an opportunity to compare all the returns, a glance is sufficient to give the foundation for the statement that there will be a falling off on personal property in practically every township. The same is true all over the state, in fact all over the country. The cause is easily figured. The hay and corn crops were lighter last year than for some time; the prices on grain and on hogs, horses and other stock has forced a lower valuation. Then, too. a falling off In the south part of the county has caused a decided decline in the valuation. Another cause given is the fact that quite a number of farmers have invested in southern and western lands. However, old Adams county will be right along at the head when compared with other Indiana counties. . — • ■■ — Before the Prohibition convention which meets at Indianapolis next week, will be placed the name of Sumner W. Haynes, of Portland, for the office of governor. There will be two other candidates, but it is expected Mr. Haynes has the inside track. Mr. Haynes is well known in Bluffton, having made speeches in this city at numerous times. He is a son of the late Judge Jacob M. Haynes, who, at one time, was judge of the Wells circuit courr. —Bluffton News.