Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

I'olume VI. Number 133.

■elected trustee ■a H. Sellemeyer Again I Chosen as Member of I the School Board IjjEW ORDINANCES ■pure Food and Milk Laws I Adopted —New Electric I Machine Purchased

■ The council met in regular session 1 |]a;t evening, Mayor Fiance presiding , Lid every councilman being present Lad answering to roll call. The minL es of the last meeting were read 1 Lr Clerk Ehinger after which the ‘ ■council got down to business, the 1 Looting being the most interesting , land busiest held by the council for ■acme time. l T pon motion the matter 1 Ls building the sidewalks heretofore , ■ ordered on Oak. Mercer, Madison and ■ line streets were referred to the city 1 ■ attorney, he to prepare a resolution i I giving notice that the city will build , ■ said walks at the property owners’ I expense. These are the walks that I I lave been repeatedly ordered con- , I strutted by the council and some lone will now be compelled to pay a ( ■ little additional expenses. A resoluItion of the John Christen sewer in I the north part of the city and fixing I the 23rd day of June as a time when I bids would be received on the same , I was read and adopted. The contract I and bond of Julius Haugk for the reI raining wall to be erected at the I mouth of the Monroe street sewer I wre read and approved as was his I contract and bond for the construction I of Sixth street. The finance commitI tee to whom had been referred the I reports for the months of April and I May filed their report finding said I I reports correct in every respect and I ordering the same spread of record. The report was adopted. Upon motion the city clerk was ordered and directed to give notice for the receiving of bids for the purchase of a three phase electric machine and the council set the 23rd day of June as a time when they will receive said bids and buy said machine. This being the night to elect a school trustee the council proceeded io ballot, the vote ; resulting five ballos for A. H. Selletneyer, and he was duly elected. Mr. ; Sellemeyer has been a member of the i board for some time past and has ; proven himself an excellent trustee and the council proceeded to reelect him. although he was no candidate for reflection. A pure food ordinance drafted by Dr. Keller was then presented for passage and covers several points that are interesting to the average citizen. The ordinace makes it unlawful to expose for sale or exchange or sell any fresh meat unless the same is properly protected from insects, dust or other foreign material by being kept in a suitable glass case, and also recites that bread, pastry and confectioneries shall be protected by cases made of either wood, glass or metal, and that fruits, vegetables or any food upon sidewalks or in huckstering wagons or outside of business rooms shall be properly kept in cases of wood, glass or metal and that any one found guilty shall be r subject to a fine or not less than SIO.OO or more than SIOO.OO to which may be added a jail sentence not to exceed 30 days. The new ordinance is a dandy and fully covers the situation in Decatur. A milk ordinance was also presented by Dr. Keller, it being a very lengthy affair and corresponding to the ordinance adopted at New Albany, Indiana, was read and adopted and after two weeks publication will become a law. The ordinance is one of the best law’s passed by the council. The following bills were then read and allowed: Thatcher & Co $ 45.15 M. J. Mylott 236.53 0. U. Dorwin 234.90 Thos. Ehinger 2.90 Niblick & Co 6 25 Carlock Packing Co 7.59 D. F. Teeple 71-80 G. R. & 1 225.93 Clovler Leaf 23 - 4 '° Sunday Creek Coal Co 70.07 Fred Spuller 22 41 J . D. Stults 45 ' 83 w m. Kitson 1209 Laman & Lee 6 6 “ John Sprague 109-35 Win. Geary 10 00 Amos Fisher 50.00 Times Publishing Co 4 50 (Continued on page 2.)

files a SIO,OOO Divorce suit. Mrs. Frank Roop Plaintiff in Sensation Complaint. A suit for divorce was filed this afternoon by Nettie Roop against her husband, Frank Roop i n which she demands SIO,OOO as alimony and recovery for her money used by her husband, Dore B. Erwin appearing as Mrs. Rcop’s attorney. The parties were married April 4, 1895, and lived together until today. Mrs. Roop says her husband has cursed and abused her. driven her three children by a former marriage away (from home and threatened to kill them if they return, and herein she brings any proceeding against him. She says he has used $3,475 which she inherited and also $267.95 which she had as guardian of her children. She also accuses him of being an habitual drunkard, says he has real estate valued at $15,000 and demands SIO,OOO alimony and a sufficient sum to support the children. Both parties are well known here.

THE SESSION ENDS A Busy Session of the Board of County Commissioners BOARD OF REVIEW Three Hundred Pages of Record Will Result from Business Done J. A. Fleming was appointed superintendent of construction of the Ahr macadam road, which was ordered constructed in Union township. His bond w r as approved and contract entered into. Concrete floors were ordered in the coal room in the basement of the court house, and also a similar floor at the jail. An issue of bonds was ordered for the West Pleasant Mills extension one, the same to be in twenty semiannual payments. The contractor of the Monroe Township extension two road, is ordered to proceed with construction of the road, or the contract would be forfeited. A corrected report by the school board of Decatur was approved. Before adjourning the board signed bonds for the Ahr. Elzey, Bloomberg, and East Jefferson macadam roads. Bonds were also ordered issued for the West Pleasant Mills and J. F. Lachot roads.

The board of review began their thirty days’ session in earnest this morning, and have turned the commissioners’ room into a place where the taxpayers of the county may appear and discuss the great subject of taxation. THE 1.-O. MAY GET WELL. Effort to Make it an Eight Club League. The surrender of the Muncie franchise by Manager Baird gave signs and pronounced indications of proving a crisis in the life of the Indiana-Ohio league, but the clouds are rolling away and the movement on the part o Baird, unexpected as it was, coming with a suddenness that shook the foundation, promises to prove the very making of the league. . Pr , es ’ den ‘ Gamble, upon receipt of Baird® wit drawal. communicated with both Rich mond and Huntington and the promoters there hurried to the scene o the disruption, with the result that mans are' now on foot to organize a stock company to take over the Muncie franchise and to add four more towns to the league, making it one of the strongest organizations of the kind in I the country.—Van Wert Bulletin.

IT DIDN’T WORK E. Greeg Davis, Foxy Fort Wayne Real Estate Agent is Pinched ON SERIOUS CHARGE Huntington County Farmer Accuses Him of Grand Larceny and False Pretense E. Gregg Davis, a real estate agent of Ft. Wayne, doing an extensive real estate listing business in Allen, Adams and adjoining counties, was arrested in Ft. Wayne Monday morning and taken to Huntington by Deputy Sheriff Hughes. He is wanted in Huntington to answer to an affidavit filed by Isaiah Rupert, of Jackson township, charging both false pretense and grand larceny. He gave bond in the Huntington circuit court in the sum of SSOO, John G. Price going on rhe bond. Davis travels all around the country and lists properties for sale, charging so much commission for sales made, the terms generally being drawn up in the form of a contract. Isiah Rupert, of Jackson township, is a man whose acquaintance he made Dec. 17, 1906. Rupert had a farm to sell and it was listed with Davis, the contract calling for a commission of S2OO and S2O attorney fees if Davis succeeded in finding a buyer for him who would pay him $4,299 cash for the farm.

According to Rupert’s complaint filed in circuit court it seems that Davis was unable to find a buyer until the time of the contract was about run out, when as the complaint sets forth, he connived with his help to fleece Rupert out of the commission. They represented to Rupert that they had a buyer for his farm in the person of one John Brown, who Rupert sets forth in his claim was an employe of Davis, and finally succeeded in securing from Rupert two notes of SIIO.OO each, payable in six months and one year. Rupert in the meantime claims to have found out that the whole scheme was a fraud and he filed charges against Davis, charging him,with false pretense and petit lar-

MRS. BRICKLY DIED Tuberculosis Claims Well Known Berne Lady as a Victim DIED THIS MORNING Funeral Services Friday at Her Old Church in Wells County Berne, Ijnd., June 3.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Mrs. Mary Brickley, of this place, died at four o’clock this morning, after along illness with consumption. She was a native of Nottingham township, Wells county, wher e she was born forty years ago. Her husband died in January, 1907, and in March of the same year she removed to Berne, where she has since resided. She was well known and her death is mourned by many relatives and dear friends. She leaves one daughter, qiella May 1 , \aged twelve years, a son, Forest Dwight, aged two; also three sisters, Mrs. E. T. Haecker, Berne, and Mrs. Walser and Mrs. Gentis. of Domestic. She was a member of the Evangelical church and the funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock from the Old Salem church in Wells county, the Rev. Frank Hartman, of Berne, and Rev, J. L. Buyer, of Linn Grove, conducting same.

The Rev. Father John F. Noll, of Hartford City, one of the best known clergymen of the diocese, will celebrate the tenth anniversary of his ordination to rhe priesthood on Friday of this week. Father Noll will sing a high mass at the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Friday morning at 8:30 o’clock. He was born here, received his early education in the local parochial schools, and was ordained in the cathedral by the late Bishop Rademacher.—Fort Wayne J ournal-Gazette.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, June 3, 1908.

PRONOUNCES THEM LIBELS. Theodore P. Shouts Takes a Shot at the Social Critics. New York, June 3.—On his return from Paris today Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough Metropolitan company, declared that the reports that the death of his son-in-law, the Duke de Chaulnes, was due to indulgence in opiates were infamous libels. Mr. Shonts said that the duke’s death was caused by heart disease, and that he was not adliced to the use of drugs. “The duke and my daughter were kneeling at their bedside in prayer,” said Mr. Shonts, “when the stroke came upon him that carried him oft before medical aid could be summoned. The memory of the duke has been grossly maligned, and outrageous reports were printed about the manner and cause of his death

NEW GRAND STAND Great Northern Fair Will Add 150 Feet to Big Ampitheater BOARD MET TODAY Art Hall Will Be Sealed— Other Business Was Attended to An enthusiastic meeting of the board of directors of the Great Northern Indiana fair association was held at Secretary A. A. Butler’s office this morning and plans for a bigger and better fair than ever in history were made. Nearly all of the sixteen members of the board were present and each took an active interest in the affairs. One of the principal things decided upon was an additional grandstand and George Brewster was appointed to secure plans for such an improvement and import when the stand will be ordered constructed. This will join the present big grandstand on the north and will probably be 150 feet long. It was also decided to seal the Art Hall thus assuring protection for the merchants who exhibit their stock there. Several bills were allowed, and a general discussion as to just how to improve the entire fair program, including the races, free attractions and every other department and various committees were appointed. Secretary Butler left at noon for Fort Wayne, where he will attend a meeting of the secretaries from Paulding, Van Wert, Mercer and Adams county fairs to decide upon matters pertaining to the race circuit and of which the Great Northern are nowmembers. This years fair is to be a hummer all right.

ENORMOUS TUMOR Was Removed from Mrs. William Beiberick this Morning WEIGHED 20 POUNDS The Woman Has Been Ailing for Years and Fibroid Tumor Removed Mrs. Wililam Beiberick, of Preble township, submitted to an operation this morning for the removal of a fibroid tumor, performed by Drs. D. D. and C. S. Clark and J. M. Miller of this city and Dr. J. C. Grandstaff. The physicians made a complete hysterectomy and the afflicted woman will recover unless something unforseen set in. The tumor weighed at leasttwenty pounds and was very hard. Mrs. Beiberick has been ailing for years, although it was not definitely known what the nature of her illness was until diagnosed by Drs. D. D. Clark and J. C. Grandstaff a few days ago. It was then decided to have the operation performed and the physicians accompanied by Miss Lizzie Haines went to the home this morning and relieved the woman of the superfluous growth. The operation was very successful.

HAVE BETTER FOOD Pure Food Law Will Make Us Healthier and Better HE WAS PROMINENT Former Senator Jones Died in Washington After Short Illness Washington, June 3. —Have you noticed during the last few months an unusual feeling of vigor, a desire to do things, an absence of lassitude and general unhappiness of the kind usually traced to a disordered stomach and all the evils that follow such an affliction? If so, it is all due to the new food and drug act, which is having a marvelous effect on the national digestion. At least the foregoing is the explanation offered by Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief government chemist, who knows more about the dark secrets of the food factories of the country than any other man. Dr. Wiley says we shall soon be a nation of better looking, happier and wealthier people, because we are getting better and purer foods and drugs than ever before. Dr. Wiley cites himself as an example of the new and improved order of things. He used to be a constant sufferer from heartburn, due to the ciashings in his digestive apparatus of unwholesome mixtures of acids and coloring matter used to preserve and doctor up foods. Dr. Wiley has had only rare recurrences of this trouble during the last eighteen months, and says he feels better than ever before.

Washington, June 3—James K. Jones, former United States senator from Arkansas, died at his residence after an illness of a few hours. He was sixty-nine years old. He was one of the leading Democrats in the senate from 1885 to 1903, and was one of the strongest supporters of William Jennings Bryan, having, as chairman of the Democratic national committee conducted the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. Since leaving the senate in 1903 he had practiced law in this city, and had not actively engaged in politics. Q COMING STRONG Muncie Ball Club Will Play the Locals Next Sunday ON LOCAL DIAMOND Locals Expect to Get Revenge for Their Defeat a Few Weeks Ago The Decatur base ball fans will be treated with an excellent exhibition of the national sport next Sunday when the fast Muncie team and the locals engage in a diamond battle. It will be rememberd that the local lads were defeated at Muncie this season in a well played game by the score of 2to 0. Here Is where we get even and the lineup for Decatur will be the strongest they have presented this year. Muncie has greatly strenghened during the past few weeks as has the local club.and a battle royal can be expected. Cal Robison is scheduled to hand up the benders for Decatur and should he pitch another three hit game against the heavy hitting Muncie club, the locals expect to administer a bitter defeat to the Muncie boys. The game will be called promply at z: 30 o'clock and a large crowd should attend. The city club has won four out of six games and they expect to continue their winning streak. o J. H. Stone desires to inform the public that during the month of June he will be at his office from 8 to 9 in the morning, and from 6 to 7 in the evening. The rest of the day he will b e with the board of review at the commissioners’ room at the court house.

HE IS AFTER GOLD. L. V. Ulrey of Fort Wayne, is After Gold in Mexico. When former state senator L. V. Ulrey read the recent press dispatches from Mexico that the 120 years of warfare between the Yaqui Indians and the constituted governments that have held sway over Mexico in that time had at last come to an end he felt about $1,000,000 better. It may not amount to so much as that —or a great deal more. He is largely interested in mining properties in the Yaqui country, which is known to be rich in deposits of gold, silver and copper. For a century or so there has been no doubt that the gold was there, but the Yaqui also have been there and the result is that while the state of Sonora has for several years been producing about three times the ore that Nevada has been producing, still the top soil of old workings has hardly been scraped. With the Yaquis quieted at last after a continual bloodletting and state of warfare lasting over 120 years, the properties that Americans have been acquiring in anticipation of these days will now be opened and Ulrey is firm]}’ of the opinion that the Yaqui country will become as great a gold mining country as the Rand, and that it may soon overtake that African reef from which a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of gold is annually flowing. Ulrey leaves Indiana Saturday for the Yaqui country; he returned to Indiana from that region only two months ago.

HOLDING WET SALE L. L. Sheline is Disposing of Goods in the Abandoned Lackey Saloon SATISFY MORTGAGE Os $l5O Which He Holds Against the Place—Mrs. Lackey After Furniture L. L. Sheline who holds a mortgage against the saloon which was abandoned by Charles Lackey last Monday ir. the sum of $l5O is disposing of the goods that are on hand to satisfy the mortgage. Lackey bought the place of Mr, Sheline some time ago promising to pay for same as he made the money. He failed to make the payments and even worse, he left unexpectedly without making any arrangements to satisfy his creditors. Mrs. Lackey accompanied her husband but returned this morning to make arrangements to remove the household goods to Illinois, where they expect tc locate. Not only Mr. Sheline, but several other Decatur men would like to lay their hands on Lackey, as he is indebted to several firms in this city. When Lackey left he placed the saloon in the care of Frank Tezer, not ever telling him of his intentions of leaving, and the affairs of the Eagle saloon are very much complicated. It is hoped that Lackey will not pull off any such stunts at his new home. —A REV. LITTLE’S NARROW ESCAPE Enroute to Europe Aboard a Steamer Which Sank in Mid-Ocean. Wabash, Ind., June 2.—A thrilling escape from death was experienced by Robert Little of this city, who, upon completing his middle year at McCormick Theological Seminary at Chicago and securing a license to preach from the Muncie Presbytery, left for a tour of Europe. In company with several other theological /students he made the trip on the cattle seamer Latona. Yeserday word was received by his father, the Rev. Dr. Charles Little, that the Latona was struck in a collision by the steamer Japanic and sank within twenty minutes, the accident occurring within fifty miles of Plymouth, England. The sixty-seven passengers and members of the crew were saved, but 300 cattle and all the cargo were lost. Mr. Little escaped with his money, which he had secured to his body. All of , his luggage was lost. The collision was due to the fog. Only by quick work were those aboard saved. The Latona was cut almost in two. o — O. P. Mills and Wid Dorwin have returned home from a several days' fishing trip to Clear Lake.

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GOES TO REWARD Rev. W. R. Peters, Formerly of this City, Died at His Home in Missouri IT IS SAD NEWS Was a Brother of Isaac Peter of this City and Son-in-law of C. C. Cloud News which will carry with it sadness to the hearts of many Adams county people was contained in a telegram received by C. C. Cloud this morning from his daughter, Mrs. W. R. Peters, of Springfield, Mo., announcing the death of her husband. Rev. Peters, who is known by many people of this county. While the telegram does not present details in regard to the untimely demise of the estimable minister it is evident that his death was sudden, as not a relative or friend here even knew of his sickness. The message was sent from Springfield. Mo., the late home of the deceased, and it stated that the funeral will be held Friday. It is indeed sad that such an influential Christian man should be called by the angel of death so early in life. The deceased has lived a remarkable and useful life. He was born in Jay county near New Corydon in 1867 where he lived with his mother on the farm until young manhood, his father having been killed in the war soon after his birth. When but a young man he was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Dellavan of this city and he lived here until thre death of his wife and infant babe From here he went to Nebraska, where after attending college at Lincoln, he entered the ministry, his first charge being at Omaha. Early in his ministry Rev. Peters showed a remarkable ability for composing religious poetry and during his ministerial career, he has composed and published a large number of poems which won for him fame, his latest composition being a book of promiscuous poems. Not only did he publish poems but he has placed on the market several songs of his own composition After remaining at Omaha for some time, Rev. Peters went to the Black Hills, of South Dakota, where for five consecutive years he did missionary work in the partially uncivilized portions of that country undergoing experiences .which only befall one who is sacrificing his own welfare for the Christian cause, It was while he was preaching on the frontier that Rev. Peters was again united in the holy bonds of wedlock, his second wife being Miss Myra Clipper, of Monroeville, Ind. To this happy union wer born three children all of whom survive to mourn the de-, parture of a loving father. After gerving for five years in South Dakota, the deceased was transferred to Wyoming, where he held several important charges, going from there to Nebraska. While at his charge in Nebraska, Rev. Peters published a paper named the Christian Advocate and the paper enjoyed a wide circulation among Christiona people and its influence was recognized. From this charge he was transferred to McCool Junction. Neb., and in January 1907. while preaching at this charge he was married to Miss Letta Cloud of thi scity, a beautiful home wedding occurring at the home of the bride’s father. The happy couple returned to McCool and remained there but a year when Rev. Peters was assigned to the First M. E. church at Springfield. Mo. Three weeks before they left for this place a child was born to bless this union, but it died while enroute to Springfield and was shipped here for burial. That sorrow does not come singly is nowevidenced by the fact that the father has been taken to the great beyond. He has lived a consistent religious life and his works have accomplished much in furthering the Christian cause. Surviving are three brothers. Isaac Peters of this city. Napoleon of Crete, Neb., and Ephraim of Bloomington, Indiana, and one half sister, Mrs. Nettie Long of Nebraska, beside a multitude of friends. Rev. Peters has preached in the M. E. and U. B. churches in this city and a few years ago he delivered a lecture oa the experiences of a missionary in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He was a speaker of ability and had preached in the Methodist ministry for fourteen years. The remains will arrive this evening or tomorrow and the funeral will be held at the M. E. church Friday.