Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1908 — Page 1

I DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 136.

annual banquet Stockholders of Fort Wayne & Springfield Met Here Today the NEW DIRECTORS Large Attendance Nearly a Hundred and Fifty at Dinner About a hundred and twenty-five stockholders of the Fort Wayne and Springfield railroad company, a number of them, accompanied by their Trives. gathered here today to attend second annual banquet. From all ippearances it was a most successful and happy event. The doings opened in the company's assembly office in the Morrison block, at 10:30, where a business session was held and i board of directors chosen. At noon a big dinner was served by the Decatur Royal Neighbors camp, In the Elks lodge room, the menu being as follows: Noodle Soup Celery Radishes Spring Onions Jumbo Pickles Spring Chicken Prime Roast Beef Mashed Potatoes Potato Salad Brown Baked Beans Cold Slaw Brown Gravy Home Made Bread Fruit Lemon and Rhubarb Pie Brick Ice Cream and Cake Coffee Plenty of Water Cigars Following this feast came an interesting program. W. H. Fledderjohann, acting as toastmaster. Rev. W. J. Myers offered the invocation and was followed by John H. Koenig, his subject being "What our stockholders have accomplished.” T. W. Shelton’s toast was “How stockholders will be benefitted by extending the line." A. G Kelly gave “Developments of transportation facilities.” BenJ. F. Heaton was on the program for an address “How people can be benefitted by (Continued on page 2.) BEAT BOARD BILL Troubles of the Reid Carnival Company Are Mui- . tiplying THE GIRLS IN RED Left Decatur Without Paying Their Bills and Officer is After Them Deputy Sheriff Ed Green went to Kendallville this morning where he will interview Andrew Reid, proprietor of the Reid Balloon and Amusement company, against whom an affiJlvit has been filed in Squire James | H. Stone's court here, charging him ■with, beating a board bill. The company pulled off a supposed carnival here last week. When they’ landed here Reid went to the Closs home on Third street and arranged for the board of several of the company including two women who performed the “Girls in Red” act. When they Kot ready to leave these women took their grips, while one of the men * er e settling and left. Afterwards they telephoned Mrs. Closs from Kendallville not to be uneasy as they would send the nine dollars due her this week. The money failed to artive and as the company goes to Michigan next week it seemd the Proper thing to act today. Mrs. Closs b*ed the necessary papers before | ®Quire Stone. The $9.00 board bi'l *lll now cost about tw’ice that or , B °toe one will go to jail and it is , Possible that Mr. Reid and his girls in tod will feel a little biue before the is over — o — The Muncie ball team are advertised Play here tomorrow and an excit“K contest is anticipated by the fans. y l ® Decatur team has been putting up the real article lately and making a Bo °d showing.

IT IS MAKING THEM NERVOUS. ( Marshall's Aggressiveness is Not En- ' joyed by the G. O. P. Indianapolis, June 6.—Thomas R. < Marshall s aggressiveness is making the managers of the Republican state campaign a little bit nervous. They say that if Marshall keeps on pouring hot shot into the Republican ranks the state campaign will be opened at 1 full blast almost before anybody knows it. The plan of the Republican leaders had been to defer the opening of ] the state campaign for a month or six weeks after the Chicago convention, but they say that, of course, If Mr. Marshall keeps firing his oratorical batteries his statements must necessarily be challenged. Democratic State Chairman Jackson is enjoying the discomfiture of the Republican ] managers. “The state campaign is on ( right now, and it’s on hot and heavy,” j he said last night. “Our Republican friends may as well recognize that 1 fact and trot out their best speakers.” ’ • o ’ SUMMER SCHOOL’ ] 1 State University is Busy i Turning Out Teachers Just Now i 1 SPECIAL INSTRUCTORS I < 1 Have Been Secured in Antic- ' i ipation of a Large AtI tendance > Bloomington, Ind., June 6. —(Special to the Democrat)—The making of school teachers will occupy the time of a dozen instructors in the University of Indiana this summer. The recent law requires every person who wants to teach school to be a high school graduate and to have had twelve weeks work in professional training. As a consequence hundreds of young people will be compelled to attend some institution where they can get work in pedagogy. The University of Indiana has engaged a number of skillful teachers and supervisors to teach in the summer school and an observation school has been organized so that the work offered will be of the most practical and helpful nature. Students who take this work at the university this summer will be given regular credit that will count towards graduation if they choose to return later and take up more work. The work in pedagogy will begin Monday, June 8, or the Monday following June 15, and the term will conclude Friday, August 28, or Sept. 4. Dr. J. A. Bergstrom, head of the department of education, will have general charge of the work. He will be assisted by the following: Miss Georgia Alexander, Miss Lydia Blaich and Miss Charity Dye, of the Indianapolis schools; E. W. Boshart, Fort Wayne; O ,F. Fidlar, Vincennes; Miss Mary S. Mulligan, Anderson; Miss Alice E. Hall, Fort Wayne; Superintendent W. H. Sanders of the Bloomington schools will have charge of the observation school; Prof. Triplett of the Kansas State Normal will offer advanced woik with Dr. Bergstrom and Superintendent C. N. Kendall of the Indianapolis schools will give a series of lectures during the week of July 6. These same specialists will offer advanced work for teachers of experience and the observation school will be open to them also. The tuition fee will be merely a nominal one of five dollars. — — — REMAINS ARRIVE AT GENEVA. The Sad Home Coming of Ray Burke —Funeral Sunday. Geneva, Ind., June 6— (Special to Daily Democrat)—The body of Ray Burke, the young man from here drowned in Oklahoma, arrived here (yesterday in charge of Mr. Ben Rape. I His death was caused while he and (two other men were attempting to 'ford a stream, when they were caught in. the current. Ray was fastened between two horses and drowned, while his two companions managed to get butt. One of the horses was also drowned. The funeral services will be held at the residence on Sunday. — “ Mrs. Charles Case left for Findlay, Ohio, to be at the bedside of her sisjter, Mrs. Currey, who is very ill.

SAD RETURN HOME Otto Leverton Dead, His Wife Unconscious—En- ■ route to Huntington WERE HERE TODAY Husband Was Killed in Runaway Accident at Lynn Thursday It was a party of grief-stricken people who transferred her today, accompanying the corpse of Francis Otto Leverton and his unconscious wife from Lynn to Huntington, where the unfortunate young man will be buried. The wife of rhe deceased had just returned from Huntington about one week ago, where she attended the funeral of her father, D. Davidson, a Huntington policeman, who committed suicide by taking carbolic acid, and she was still undergoing the course of grief which falls to a child when a loving parent Is called by the angel of death, when news reached her announcing the fact that her husband had been fatally injured in a runaway. The prostrated woman was conveyed to the scene of the accident eight miles from Lynn and upon her arrival, she immediately relapsed into unconsciousness, and although twentyfour hours have passed she was still unconscious when passing through the city today, her motionless form being carried in a large chair, as she was taken from the G. R. & I. to the Chicago & Erie railroad. Leverton who was thirty-thre years of age left his home in a wagon starting for Williamsburg. While descending a hill the neckyoke strap broke, letting the wagon tongue fall to the ground and the horses started on a rampage. Leverton jumped from the back end of the wagon and his head struck the ground with such force that his skull was badly fractured. He lived but twenty-four hours afterward. The remains were taken in charge by the Red Men’s lodge and taken to Huntington, where burial will take place, the parents of the deceased living there Beside the unconscious widow, three children and a father and mother survive to mourn the loss. Leverton was known in Decatur,he having worked on the Erie railroad for many years The funeral services will, in all probability be held tomorrow. — o THE TAFTS WITH PROXIES. The G. O. P. National Committee Fixed Up. Chicago, June G.—The determination of the Roosevelt administration to nominate its candidate, Taft, for the presidency of the United States and to force its choice on the Republican party regardless of consideration of good taste, was shown when the national committee met this noon to adopt rules prior to taking up the Alabama contest. Frank H. Hitchcock, Taft’s manager, formerly First Assistant Postmaster General of the United States, who has been President Roosevelt's right bower in lining up southern delegates for Taft, sat in the committee holding a proxy of a NewMexico delegation. The efrontery of this attempt to have genuine blown-in-the-bottle Taft workers sit on the national committee in deciding contests caused amazement In the ranks of the field candidates, which was heightened when it was learned that there were other Taft members also with proxies. MURDER TRIAL IS SLOW. Prosecutor in Ex-Deputy Sheriff’s Case Has Sixty Witnesses. Fort Wayne, Ind., June 5. —The trial of Herman Miller, formerly deputy sheriff for the murder of Marshal Croy, of Woodburn, this county, has been on trial since Monday, and so far the state has only succeeded in showing that Miller knew before other persons wer e similarly advised that certain tools stolen from a blacksmith shop had been used. The state has also shown that he had threatened the life of Croy. The state has sixty witnesses to be examined, and oniy a third of them have so far testified. —.——— o Harry Ehrman will leave this evening for Clear Lake, where he will torment the finny tribe for a few days.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, June 6, 1908

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Photograph by Sarony, New York THE GREAT SUCCESS OF MAUDE ADAMS *T‘HE charm of Maude Adams’ acting is her personality—as baffling to analysis as a perfume. Delicacy, grace, sweetness, sympathy and sensitiveness seem naturally to blend into the effect she desires to produce, and one surrenders to her acting as to a spell, without trying to spoil it by seeking to know the secret of her power. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1872, where h“r father, whose name was Kiskadden, was in business and her mother an actress in a local stock company. Her first appearance on the stage was an impromptu affair so hurriedly arranged that she did not study a line and did not even rehearse the part. It was when she was nine months old, when the baby who was to appear in “The Lost Child” grew rebellious and went on a strike at the last moment, so Maude was taken from her little cradle and carried on the stage, where in a few minutes she sweetly crowed her way into the hearts of the audience. Three years later she played “Little Schneider” to J. K. Emmet s “Fritz” and has tender memories of this large-hearted lover of children. . At San Francisco, where her girlhood was spent after the death of her father, she went to school till at fifteen she joined her mother’s company at the Alcazar theatre. A large repertoire and a small company forced her to rapid changes of roles, quick study and to sweep the circle of the emotions. She made fair success in "The Paymaster,” “Men and Women,” "All the Comforts of Home” and “A Midnight Bell”; but not until 1892, as John Drew s leading lady in “The Masked Ball,” did she make her great hit. Her tipsy scene in that play was a part perilously near the danger line, but one that her genius made delicate, dainty and deliciously funny, never crossing for an instant the Rubicon of vulgarity. As Babbie in “The Little Minister” Miss Adams’ charming madcap ways with her clever innocence, captivated her audiences; in, Juliet her gentle, sympathetic girl-like portrayal of the character, with its natural youthfulness and simplicity, followed none of the stage traditions, yet it was intensely real and human with a wondrous undercurrent of reserved strength. Miss Adams has quiet tastes, delighting in her home, her books, and her flowers. Her soft, sympathetic voice, her genius and her sterling character that expresses itself in all her work, have been the basis of her success. Copyright transferred to Wm. C. Mack. 1906.

THE DATES FIXED For Hearing Objections to Assessments in Adams County BOARD OF REVIEW A Day for Each Township, Corporation, Oil Companies and Banks The county board of review at their session this morning agreed and fixed the dates when the complaints as to assessments will be heard from the various townships, corporations, oil companies and banks. As arranged and per the official legal notice given elsewhere in this issue, Union township will appear June 10, Root township objectors are scheduled for June 11, Preble June 12, Kirkland June 13, Washington June 15, St. Marys June 16, Blue Creek June 17, Monroe June 18, French Jun e 19, Hartford June 20, Wabash June 22, Jefferson June 23, town of Geneva June 24, Berne June 25, Monroe June 26, City of Decatur June 27, Oil companies June 29 and the banks of the county June 30th. If you are dissatisfied with your assessment and feel like you just had to register a “kick” pick out your date, fix it well in mind and be there "Johnny on the Spot.” The board will treat you in a just and fair manner. Don't sleep on your rights and then object, for it may be too late. o —-—■ CRANK’S WORK, SAYS JUDGE. Act Covering Delinquency of Children Is Criticized. Richmond, Ind., June 5. —That the Indiana state law covering the point of delinquency in children was the work of a reform crank, was the opinion of Judge Henry C. Fox, handed down in the Wayne circuit co-urt today, when he quashed the indictment against Edward Stegall, accused of contributing to the delinquency of Ida Huffman, of Economy.

LATE WEATHER PREDICTIONS A New Version for the Summer Months. A traveling man recently here left a business card which contained the following predictions for 1908, good enough to think about: Weather —During the summer months the weather will be warmer than in the late fall or early winter, and while fall rains will have a tendency to make dirt thoroughfares more or less muddy, this unfavorable condition can be avoided by paving the streets. Snow may be expected whenever the thermometer reaches a certain point, and any amount of fool worrying a man does with reference to these conditions will net change matters a doggoned bit. Business—As the country is simply the enlarged individual, business conditions may be materially improved if every business man will constitute himself a cmomittee of one and avail himself of every opportunity to inform his neighbor that business is “simply rotten,” that everybody is dishonest and that the country is just naturallj- going to the devil. Neighbor, you and I don’t believe this, so let’s smile and boost. —— —0 HAS CONTRACTS AT ROANOKE. Julius Haugk Will Build Brick Streets Streets. The first carload of curbstones for the paving of Main and Second street has been unloaded and Contractor Julius Haugk, of Decatur, will be at Roanoke in time to begin work next Monday morning. The work on Main will be done first in order that that street may be ready to receive wagons of wheat coming to the Wasmuth elevator about July 4. Cement contractors will again be busy within the next few days laying cement walks in the residence parts of town. —Huntington Herald. - ■ o Mr. Ed Kirchner and daughter/Katie went to Fort Wayne on the 2:30 car, where they will spend Sunday the guests of friends and relatives. Mrs. Dick Burrell and daughter Frances spent the afternoon at Fort Wayne visiting friends.

THROWN FROM AN AUTOMOBILE Berne Man Received a Broken Leg in Accident. In an automobile accident Tuesday forenoon Charles Marks, employed in Michaud's barber shop, broke his left leg just above the ankle. He and Paul Gerber had gone to Geneva in an auto to return with a second machine which needed some repairing. On the return trip while making a curve a short distance south of the liver bridge, Mr. Marks, who was stee - ing the rear machine, on account of their high rate of speed failed to give the steerage wheel the proper amount of a turn, but turned too abruptly and as a consequence was thrown out as the machine shot away from him in the opposite direction. The fracture which resulted is a bad one and Mr. Marks will be laid up for quite a while. He has been making his home at D. L. Shalley's restaurant, but is nowstaying at the home of Miss Mary Geiger on Water street. —Berne Witness. A WAR ON TAFT His Opponents Say He Cannot Be Elected NO CONCEALMENT The Fight is Open and Above Board But Earnest Chicago, June 6. —Evidently the campaign against the nomination of William H. Taft is to be open and above board. There is to be nothing personal in it. It is to be waged on the broad ground that he cannot be elected if nominated. With the party only partly represented here, at this time, it is plain that even the most ardent admirers of the secretary of war are willing to admit that he will, if nominated, have to overcome many bbstacles. Those Republicans who are enlisted under some one of the field candidate banners hold to the view that there is no good reason why the party should take a certain man for its candidate simply because the present president of the United States has said that it shall. They insist that the party owes it to itself to do what it believes to be the wisest thing, regardless of the wishes of any particular man, no matter how high his official station may be. So the plan of campaign of the field candidates is to try to point out to the delegates, as they come in, the advisability of choosing a candidate who will be satisfactory to every element in the party—a candidate who can, without question', command! the support ozf the whole party. “But what are the details of the campaign?" ask incoming Republicans of the managers of the several field candidates. “What do you intend to do if Taft is not nominated?” The answer to these questions is that it is for the convention to say what shall be done if Mr. Taft is defeated. No attempt is made to conceal the fact that the plan of campaign of the anti-Tafr people —and this means the supporters of each and all of the field candidates—is first to prevent the nomination of Taft. If that shall be accomplished the field candidates and their friends will be willing to trust the convention to pick a candidate upon whom all factions of the party can unite. ■ 1 ■■ 1 ■ FACTORY IS UNDER ROOF. The Work Was Completed at Noon Today. The Ward Fence company’s main factory building is now under roof. ' Andy Baxter had the roofing contract k and began Tuesday morning, complet- - ing the big job today, laying 25,000 ■ square feet in the four and a half days t The rest of the building work is pro- - grossing rapidly and the removal of t the plant to Decatur will soon begin. . The company Is doing a wonderful business and are expected to grow rapidly, a wire mill and other addi--5 tions increasing the force of men to , several hundred before many years. • o J. R. Rolape who transacted impor- ■ tant business at Marion, Ind., return- : ed to Fort Wayne by the way of this city.

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ARE INCORPORATED H. M. Zook & Co., of Berne, File Papers at the Recorder’s Office START A CREAMERY Company Organized Last Fall With $20,000 Capital Stock Articles of incorporation were filed at County Recorder's Steele's office for H. M. Zook & Co., of Berne, according to the papers the company was organized November 18th last for the purpose of conducting a creamery and milk condensory at that place and to buy and sell farm products. The capital stock Is $20,000, the issue being 120 shares of stock, valued at SIOO, besides which there are eighty shares of SIOO preferred stock. The stockholders as designated in the incorporation blanks are H. M. Zook. S. B. Zook, A. B. Greunault, Edwin Neuhauser, and Simon Elzey, all of Berne, and the directors chosen to serve during the first year of the company's existence were S. B. Zook, A. B. Greunault and Edwin Neuhauser. It is the hope and expectation of the incorporators to make this new concern one of the many thriving institutions operated in Berne, one of the best towns lying in all out doors. o RAILROAD COMMISSION CHANGE Indianapolis, June 6.—The resignation of Charles V. McAdams, who has been a member of the Indiana Railroad Commission since it was organized in 1905 was accepted by the governor. The governor immediately appointed Henry M. Dowling, at present assistant attorney general, to take the place, and James Bingham, attorney general, appointed W. H. Thompson, of Muncie, to succeed Mr. Dowling. The resignation of Mr. McAdams and the two appointments become effective next Monday. Mr. McAdams, it is stated, resigns to practice law in Indianapolis. DAMAGESARE PAID Estate of Jesse King Receives $1,411.43 from the G. R. & I. THE SUM IS NET All Expenses Paid—Judgment Was for $2,000 — Case Was Appealed Attorney John C. Moran, of the well known firm of Peterson & Moran, went to Portland yesterday, having in his possession a check from County Clerk James P. Haefling for $1,411.43 and which sum he turned over to the heirs of the late Jesse King, being settlement in full on a judgment received against the G. R. & I. railroad company for damages for false imprisonment after all costs and attorneys fees were paid. This judgment is one of the largest recovered in Indiana for many years for false imprisonment. The case followed Kings arrest by a G. R. & I. detective on a charge of robbing the depot at Portland. Afterwards it was found that no robberyhad occurred. The case was tried her e on change of venue and was appealed to the supreme court, who sustained the verdict for $2,000 damages, holding the railroad company liable for the detective’s acts, who it was proven abused King shamefully. The railroad company paid the money’ to the clerk here, who issued the check to the proper person. J. J. Moran of Portland and Peterson & Moran of this city were the attorneys. Mr. King died shortly after the trial of the case. oMrs. A. C. Bowers and daughter Alice, of Robinson. 111., were in the city and went to Geneva, where they will visit relatives for a few days. Miss Mayme Bulenbaugh, of Bluffton, passed through this city enroute to Geneva, where she will spend Sunday the guest of friends and relatives.