Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 126.

LIST OF COUNTY GRADUATES Largest Class in History Make Necessary Passing Grade

PROGRAM IS READY Rev. Brown, of Lebanon, and Prof. Sniff, of Angola. to Attend SOME HIGH AVERAGES Miss Mabel Buckmaster, of Monroe, Makes the Best Percentage The second annual commencement of the common schools of Adams county will occur at Lehman’s grove Berne, Thursday, June 11th, beginning at 9:45 a. m. Invitations are now being printed at this office and will be issued within a few days. Among those who will take part are Rev, L. E. Brown, of Lebanon, Indiana, whose address here last year pleased so many, and Prof. L. M. Sniff, of Angola, president of the Tri-State Normal. The program as arranged by County Superintendent L. E. Opliger will be as follows: Music Temple Quartet Invocation Rev. Frank Hartman

Music Temple Quartet ■Class Address. .. .Rev. L. E. Brown Music Temple Quartet Presentation of Diplomas Prof. L. M. Sniff Music Temple Quartet Song "America”—By Audience .... Led by Temple Quartet The Berne orchestra will also furnish music for the occasion. The graduating class of 1908 contains 147 of Adams county’s youths as follows: Union Township—Orpha Sheets, Mabel Freck, Gladys Hart, Hazel Beatty, Eltie Hawk. Root Township—Helen M. Fonner, Alma Watts, Bertha Fuhrman, Verna Mann. Preble Township—Paul Myers. Almon A. Case, Blanche B. Bauer, Sarah Jaberg, Emma Schneider. Kirkland Township —Dallas M. Elzey, Jesse Klopfenstein, Oscar Dilling, James Hoffman, N. G. Kidd. Mary Beineke, Jennie B. Enfct, Grace M. Krieg. Washington Township—Anna Faurot Fred Davis, James Spuller, Leo F. Engle, Perry Smith. St. Marys Township —Laura Helm Nora Helm, Cora Daniels. Blue Creek Township—Helen Z. "Walters, Giles Porter. Veiiora Tinkham. Ednah Syphers, Frances Baker, Agnes Longenbarger, Carly! Baughman, Hazel Meyers, Lizzie Miller. Monroe Township—Franklin Wagoner, Leona Ezzex, Clifton E. Striker, "Susan Clark, Alfred Habeggcr, Meta Habegger, Metta Lehman, Rose Sprunger, Stella Stuckey. Elma Neunschwander, Amelia E. Lehman, Homer Stuckey, Clem Martz, Hattie Laisure, Grover Everhart. French Township—Daisy D. Roth. Reuben Meyers, Ervin Lantz.

Hartford Township—Walter G. Keller, Ezra Wanner, Oma Meshberger, Wilma Opliger, Cllsta Meshberger, Zoa French, Milo Heller, Charley Lindsey, Ralph Hart, Oscar Price. Wabash Township—Jesse M. Amstutz, Grover T. Soldner, Mabel Buckmaster, Noah Zuercher, Menno M. Amstutz, Jesse L. Habegger, Walter Pluess. Hope Craner, Goldie Totten, Eva Bergman, Mamie Clawson, Simon Roth. Jefferson Township —John F. Smelser. Berne Corp. —Gertrude Hirschy, Adinah Gllliom, Henry Schaefer. Mary M. Burkhalter, Ruth E. Allen, Hulda Stucky. Elizabeth Balsiger, Clifton H. Sprunger, Bertha Kuntz, Christina Habegger, Esther Bixler, Clarence O. Lehman, Gytress Eley, Ernest Sten-

gel, Lydia Sprunger, Arman Hirschy, Auleta C. Stengel, Barbara Hirschy, True Gottschalk, Martin Sprunger, Herman Baumgartner, Melvin Liddy, Franklin Franz, Gilbert Stucky, Victor Eichenberger, Edward Rawley, Austin Gilliom, Ruth C. Fisher, Helena pross, Archie Long, Frank Brown, Fanny Schindler, Edna F. Sprunger. Geneva —Jesse Burdg, Rachel R. Egly, Vernice Campbell, James Fraze, Mina Armantrout, Cecile Connor, Clarence Shepherd, Earl Connor, Ott Hoskinson, Ida Barnes, Forest Fike, Carres Lindsey, Harold Mattax, Roy Aspy, Charley Burke. Decatur—Zelda Schnitz, Lily Venis, Cleo Johnson, Jennie Long. Frank De Voss. Roy Bentz, Edgar Vancil, Virgil Krick, Velma Lenhart. Milton Yager, Neva Brandyberry, Mildred Leiter, Bessie Teeple, Ruby Artman, Veigh Chronister, Opal Harruff, Sherman Beery, Frances Cole, Alonzo Dutcher. Among the county graduates this year seventeen made an average of ninety per cent or more, a remarkably good grade. Miss Mabel Buckmaster, of Monroe, receiving the highest. The list of these pupils follows: Mabel Buckmaster, Monroe 92.7 Barbara Hirschy, Berne 92.3 Sarah Jaberg, Preble 92.2 Frances Baker, Blue Creek 91.5 Arman Hirschy, Berne 91.3 Harold Mattax, Geneva 90.8 Orpha Sheets, Union 90.8 Rachel Egley, Geneva 90.7 Cliffton Sprunger, Berne 90.7 Clarence Lehman, Berne 90.6 Walter Heller, Hartford 90.6 Vanora Tinkham, Blue Creek..9o.3 Carrie Lindsey, Geneva 90.2 Zelda Snltz, Decatur 90 Helen Z. Walters, Blue Creek....9o Gertrude Hirschy, Berne 90 The hour for holding the exercises was fixed during the morning and jshould prove satisfactory, allowing, those desiring to attend from either the north or south part of the county to return to their homes during the afternoon.

A DANDY CONTRACT Conter Company Will Furnish Cream for White’s Fruit House AT FORT WAYNE Won Out on Quality Over All Competitors—Season Outlook Bright The Conter Ice Cream comapny of this city has landed a contract to furnish all the cream used by the White Fruit House at Fort Wayne during this season. It is one of the best contracts in the summit city, as they use from twenty to fifty gallons per day, almost exclusively brick cream. The first trial shipment was made Saturday and word has been received that the cream is the best they ever used and that the contract is “clinched.” This order was secured on quality alone, as White's announced that they wished to handle the best cream they could find in Indiana and they have certainly got it. The Conter company has also secured several other nice orders from Fort Wayne and many new customers from all over this section of the country, this fact being due to the fact that they are marketing the finest cream ever turned out in northeastern Indiana. The coming season looks very Bright for this concern.

The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth JonesNelson were taken to Fort Wayne on the early morning car via Fort Wayne and Springfield traction line. The same were interred at the Eel River cemetery, Fort Wayne.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, May 26. 1908.

CONDEMN RICHMOND THEATER Indianapolis, May 25.—Actors and actresses, all crowds and assemblages of \people must avoid the Phillips theater at Richmond. This is the decree of ’William E. Blakely, state factory inspector, and the order will be forwarded to Richmond at |once. There will be no more performances in the Phillips theater until a great many changes have been made in the building. Mr. Blakely has read of the criticism offered by the coroner of Allen county on the inspector’s report of the New Aveline hotel, which was burned, causing great loss of life. The coroner ridiculed the report of the state department because it had been reported that persons on the sixth floor of the hotel could walk around the building on a wide cornice to the fire escapes, this being necessary because there were no fire escape landings above the fifth floor. A FITTING CLOSE Peterson School Closed Friday Afternoon ’Mid Cheering and Applause TEACHER WELL LIKED Glenn Warner, the Teacher, Has Successfully Conducted the Affair Amid cheering and clapping of hands, the 1908 school year at Peterson closed last Friday afternoon. The school in charge of Professor Glenn W. Warner, one of the most capable of instructors has prospered in every material thing beyond precedent. By his clever methods of training and ability to interest the pupils he has been accorded a good attendance during the entire year. A deep interest was manifested in the students which bound them together as one mighty family. At the close, the teacher gave an interesting talk, encouraging the pupils to continue In their school work and to work for higher ideals for a greater cause than has ever before presented itself to their minds. The talk was neplete wtih logical assertions and served to inspire his every pupil. A pretty souvenir was presented to each pupil. The program which was rendered in commemoration of the closing day of another important school year was as follows: Song of the Brooklet, school; reading, James Hoffman; male quartet, Louis Dilling, James Hoffman, Muri Falk and Lawrence Linnier; recitation,, Ralph Wortman; trio, Jaunita Henry, Bernice Andrews and Miss Hoffman; oration, “Uncle Sam,” Muri E. F*ulk; Latin quartet, Glenn Warner, Louis Dilling, Lawrence Linnemier and Muri Falk; recitation, Lawrence Linnemier; bass solo, Glen Warner; clsas prophecy, Oscar Dilling; song, “Indiana," school; The reading of James Hoffman was excellent and well selected for the occasion as was the oration by Muri Falk, starting from the time the people were persecuted in England. The discovery of America leading up to the birth of “Uncle Sam,” July 4, 1776. Illustrating the unparalled growth and prosperity of our free and independent land by mathematical figures. Mr. Warner executed a well appreciated solo, after which the class prophecy by Oscar Dilling was read which was Intensely Interesting to say the least. Last of all was a ball game between the “Henpeck White Sox” and the school team, the latter winning.

FLOODS WORST IN YEARS. Oklahoma City, Okla., May 25. — Five persons are known to have lost their lives in the floods in Oklahoma. Several others narrowly escaped drowning and three are known to have been seriously injured. The dead are: A. B. Hollas, wife and baby, near Lawton; William Lindlay, a farmer near Anadarko; Thompkins Cheeks, a farmer near Shawnee. Near Keeker all the members of a family were injured, more or less seriously. The natural gas supply of Oklahoma City was shut off today by the bursting of the huge gas main near this city. _ o The members of the city base ball team have decided to play a game of ball next Saturday, Decoration Day, and the fast Fort Wayne Blues will be their opponents. The Decatur bunch have been playing great ball and the belief that a large crowd will witness the game.

HE WAS CAPTURED Young Hahn, of Monroe, is Now in the Strong Arm of the Law NEW CHARGE FILED Mr. Otto Ray Filed Affidavit in the Circuit Court Adding Intent James Hahn, the Monroe young man who brutally assaulted his mother and brother-in-law, Otto Ray. yesterday morning, is languishing in the county jail where he will remain for seventeen days. Mr. Ray, one of the victims of the young man's brutality, filed an affidavit before Squire James H. Smith yesterday charging assault and battery. However, after considering the fact that Hahn threatened to kill him as he was administering the blows, Ray decided to dismiss the case in the justice of peace court and file an affidavit in the circuit court annexing the word intent thereto. This de tried to do this morning, but as no weapons were used there was not a good case. The imprisoned man served a lengthy sentence in the Adams county jail several years ago. He was affiliated with the gang that assaulted Adam Wise of this city, when he, in company with other Decatur men, were hunting in the vicinity of Monroe. Sheriff Meyer received a message from Monroe last evening stating that the wanted man was at the home of Alex Brnadyberry, which Is located southeast of Monroe. He and Deputy Green left here at once to make the arrest. As they approached the Brandyberry home they saw the young man leaving the house and without any trouble the capture was made. However, Hahn little thought that such a serious charge would result from his disgraceful actions, but as he stated after being incarcerated, he was of the opinion that a few days’ jail sentence would be meted out. Hahn was given a hearing before Squire Smith this morning, where he plead guilty to the charge, whereupon he was fined $5 and costs. He will visit with Sheriff Meyer for sixteen days.

MAY NOT CLOSE Decatur Stores May Not Close on Decoration Day OCCURS ON SATURDAY And This Feature is Objectionable to Business Men of the City The usual custom of closing the stores will, in all probability, not be observed next Saturday as on former Decoration days. The fact that this occasion happens on Saturday is a feature that the business men do not favor as the farmers, who would leave their fields to come to town to trade would be sadly disappointed if the stores would all be closed. There is scarcely a merchant, however, who would not close if the occasion would be observed on any other day than Saturday and no one has refused to close the doors of their business place for any other reason than the fact that their customers may be inconvenienced. However, it is probable that some of the stores will close between the hours of two and five o'clock, although nothing definite has as yet been decided upon. Should the stores not close, the proprietors and clerks will as best they can assist in the memorial services. o Bicycle riders should bear in mind the ordinance which forbids riding on the sidewalk and makes the use of lamps and bells necessary for night riding. If you do so, it may save you a dose of $9.30 for some one will probably be “pinched” before you believe the law is a real one. A stitch in I time saves nine.

STATE INSPECTOR IS HERE. State Inspector Cohen, of Indianapolis, was in the city today, looking after the various places of business under his jurisdiction. Among other places visited were the Conter Ice Cream plant and the Decatur packing house, both of which he praised very highly, stating they were the cleanest and best kept, of any he had visited. He will be in the city several days and will report on every meat shop, restaurant, etc., in Decatur. In other nearby cities he has caused the arrest of numerous proprietors for violation of the pure food laws, but up to date he has not been beard from seriously here. However, he may discover something before he leaves town as his eyes seldom miss anything worth while, it is said.

TWOEIGHTHGRADES School Board Held Important Business Meeting Last Night SELECT A TEACHER John R. Parrish Will Teach “8B” M. Worthman to Take His Place The school board held an important business session last night during which the contract to supply the schools with coal was let to J. D. Hale and a teacher selected to take charge of the Eighth grade “B" class for the next term. Eixty-eight tons of West Virginia one and one-half jinch screen was contracted for and i this amount will supply the four buildlings during the winter months. The final action was taken in regard to the division of the Eighth grade into “A” and “B” classes and John R. Parrish, who for several years has had the principalship of the south ward has been selected to have charge of the “B” class, a promotion well deserved by Mr. Parrish, who is an instructor of rare ability. While the “B” class will be given Eighth grade work only, the “A” class will be cared for by the high school teachers, who will prepare the students for high school work during the latter portion of the term. An Important matter in connection with the change, was to secure a teacher who can successfully supply the vacancy at the south ward made by transferring Mr. Parrish. However, the board was equal to the occasion and wisely selected Martin Worthman, son of Mr. and Mrs ■Worthman. of Preble township, who has been teaching in Kentucky during the past two years. He is a graduate from Terre Haute college with the exception of three months’ unfinished course, and he will finish his term this summer. Mr. Worthman is a worthy young man and the fact that he will have charge of the south ward building will meet the hearty approval of tlie public. Notwithstanding the fact that the Eighth grade division is now made and a special teacher for same, no one is able to state how many or what pupils will be in either of the grades. It is anew arrangement in the schools and the superintendent, high school faculty and eighth grade teacher will decide during the first week of school which pupils are eligible and which are not eligible to the “Eight A” grade. This movement is the most important one that has been made in years in our educational institutions and it is hoped the change will bring the results desided.

NORTH PLEASANT VALLEY. Special Services to Be Held There Next Sunday. Rev. Hollingsworth will be at the North Pleasant Valley church next Sunday also Miss Pontius. Supt. of Foreign Missions, of Portland quarterly meeting of Friends and a Miss Lydia Pike, of Fountain City, Ind., who has been a missionary in Mexico will be there and give a talk on missionary work, and the condition of people in that country. The latter two will be there at night on next Sunday at 7:30 p. m. Everybody invited. o Messrs. Ralph Ritzer and Albert Adams of Battle Creek. Mich., were in the city enroute to Texas. They were taking pictures for the National Art company.

TWO NEW BISHOPS Dr. Smith, of Pittsburg, and Rev. Quayle, of Chicago, Named HUGHES HAS CHANCE May Be One of the Next Four to Be Chosen During the Week Baltimore, May 25. —The Rev. Dr. Charles W. Smith, of Pittsburg, was elected bishop of the M. E. church on the twelfth ballot at the general conference today. The vote follows: Total, 774; necessary to choice, 496. Smith 511; Hughes 477; Lewis 465; Mclntyre 404; Stunz 390; Downey 328; Hingeley 168; Bristol 159; Mason 147; Jennings 137; Cooke 99; Dorchester 82; Godell 61. The Rev. William A. Quayle, of Chicago, was elected bishop on the tenth ballot. The ballot was taken Saturday afternoon and the result was announced when the conference convened today. Dr. Quayle was formerly pastor of Meridian church, at Indianapolis. Dr. Quayle is pastor of St. James church, Chicago. The tenth ballot follows: Total 734; necessary to a choice 488. The Rev. Dr. William A. Quayle, Chicago, 519; Wilson S. Lewis. Sioux City, la., 483; Homer C. Stuntz, Madison, N. J., 458; Charles W. (Smith, Pittsburg, 444; Robert Mclntyre, Los Angeles, 389; Edwin H. Hughes, Greencastle, Ind., 367; Joseph B. Hingeley, Minneapolis, 168; Daniel Dorchester, Jr., Pittsburg, 160; Richard J. Cooke, New York, 144; M. C. B. Mason (colored), Cincinnati, 138; Heniry C. Jennings, Cincinnati, 136; Charles L. Goddell, New York, 131; Frank M. Bristol, Washington, D. C. 107. The eleventh ballot was then taken for the remaining five bishops yet to be named but there was no election: The eleventh ballot follows: Total 752; necessary to election 502; Smith 479; Lewis 470; Hughes 449; Stuntz 409; Mclntyre 395; Downey 355; Hingeley 170; Mason 140; Jennings 139; Cooke 122; Bristol 117; Dorchester 115; Goodell 103. The name of Dr. Freeman Bovard, of San Francisco, who received 27 votes on this ballot, was withdrawn.

PLANFOR BIG EVENT Joint Meeting of Huntington and Decatur Knights of Columbus HERE NEXT SUNDAY Several Hundred Visitors Will Be Entertained in this City Next Sunday will be Knights of Columbus day in Decatur. On that date a big joint initiation meeting of the Huntington and Decatur lodges will be held in this city and twentysix candidates from Huntington and twenty-four from Decatur will receive the first degrees of the work. It is expected that from 600 to 800 visitors will be here on that date. Fort Wayne has promised a delegation of 350, Huntington say they will bring 200, Union City is coming with fifty, while smaller delegations will be here from Richmond, Lima, Logansport, Peru and other cities. The local order of which H. J. Yager is grand knight are busy this week arranging for the affair and every detail will be prepared before Sunday morning. It has been decided that the Decatur lodge will confer the first degree, Fort Wayne the second, while the Richmond team, under district deputy W. H. Kelley will give the third degree work. The affair will be under the supervision of the state deputy, H. O. Bruggeman, of Fort Wayne, whose ability is well known. The Decatur team is composed of H. J. Yager, grand knight; H. F. Costello, deputy grand knight: W. J. Bosse, chancellor; Nick Miller, warden and Thomas F. Ehinger, financial secretary. Grand Knight Yager has ap-

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pointed the various acmmiU(ees to look after the reception of the visitors arrange the program, secure badges and otherwise provide for entertainment and see that the day’s program is duly carried out. The visiting lodges will arrive early and the first degree win be conferred at 8:30 a. m. At 10:30 the knights will attend high mass at the St. Marys church in a body. At 1:30 the second degree will be given and at four o’clock the candidates will do the real goat riding act when they receive the third degree. During the evening a buffet lunch and smoker will entertain the boys at the hall, during which speeches and toasts will be given by the prominent men of the lodge from this and other cities represented. The occasion promises to be an important event in the history of the Decatur (order Na. 864.

BRYANS CHANCES Has Large Per Cent of Delegates Named—Johnson Still in Fight CONGRESS IS BUSY Rushing Business Towards Close of Session—Mrs. Adair Goes Visiting Washington, May 25. —Six hundred and seventy delegates to the Democratic national convention have now been chosen. Os these 410 are instructed for Bryan, while 260, it Is alleged, for anybody except Bryan. The conventions of this week and next will probably determine whether the Nebraskan will have two-thirds of the convention vote on the first ballot. He must have 672 votes to nominate. His supporters are confident he will have the required number of votes, but the managers of the Johnson campaign, who are exceedingly active, are just as confident that the Bryan opposition will not control more than one-third of the votes on the first ballot. They believe that if Mr. Bryan’s nomination can be prevented on the first ballot he can be defeated. States that are yet to elect delegates are New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, Louisiana, Colorado, Maine, Virginia. Utah. Texas. Tennessee, Oregon, North Carolina, Nevada, Montana. Mississippi, (Kentucky, Idahp, Georgia, Arkansas and the Territories of Arizona, New Mexico and Porto Rico. j , The postponement of the final adjournment of congress has had the effect of causing a renewal of the efforts to bring about an understanding between the two houses on the currency question. There were no formal conferences today, but there have been some exchanges in views among individual members of the senate committee on finance, and the house committee on banking and currency with the result that an informal agreement, which would include some of the provisions of both the Aldrich and the Vreland bills.

Representative Foster has introduced a bill in the house providing for the beginning of the canalization of the Ohio river, with a view to obtaining a depth of nine feet from Pittsburg to its mouth. Mr. Fosters bill makes provision for a lock and dam twenty-five miles below Green river and in the vicinity of Henderson, Ky„ to cost $1,840,080. Authority to construct this work is given to the secretary of war and chief engineer. Mr. Foster has no hope of getting this bill considered at this session. Mrs. Adair, wife of the congressman from the Eighth district, has gone to Waynesboro. Va.. to visit her son, who is in military school there. Fort Wayne breweries are now said to be experimenting with the manufacture of a “temperance beer,” in response to a demand from the trade for a non-alcoholic drink resembling the real article. The new beverage contains less than one-half of one per cent of alcohol and the government permits its sale without the necessity of paying a license. Stamp Agent Barton, of the Fort Wayne revenue office, says that the business of his office shows a larger sale of beer stamps but a smaller quantity of whiskey stamps than a year ago.