Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 137

ANNUAL EXERCISES Seven Students of St. Joseph Schools Will Graduate June 25th A GREAT PROGRAM Will Be Rendered in Commemoration of the Occasion The annual comencement exercises of the Decatur St. Jiseph school will be held at Bosse’s opera house the evening of the twenty-fifth of this month at which tim e six girls and one boy will receive their graduation diplomas. The 1908 class consists of Misses Irene Gerard, Esther Corbett, Agnes Coffee, Venena Niblick, Cecelia Gillig and Estella Smith and Mr. Chas Webber. These young people have studied diligently to prepare themselves for graduation and they leave the school with flying honors. The program to be rendered in commemoration of the occasion is as follows: Welcome song Chorus "Salutatory and the Power and Influence of an Orator” ; Miss Irene Gerard "Preparation is the Key that Un-

locks Opportunities Gate” Miss Esther Corbett "The Orators Helps” Miss Estella Smith ‘‘Beautiful Moonlight”—vocal duet Miss Verena Niblick and Esther Corbett. "Blessing of Education Miss Agnes Coffee “The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language” Miss Verena Niblick Joy Chorus by class “The Death of th e Wicked by Massillon” Charles Webber “Leaving Home and Valedictory” Miss Cecelia Gillig Awarding of the Diplomas Rev. T. H. Wilken Graduation song Class This program promises to be very interesting and without a doubt the opera house will be crowded. The St. Joseph schools will close June 24th for the summer.

HE GOT THE MONEY Ed Green Sold S2O Worth of Tickets at the Girls in Red Show THEN CAME HOME The Closs Board Bill Was Thus Satisfied and Accrued Costs

Deputy Sheriff Ed Green returned early yesterday morning frdm Kendallville, where he recovered the amount due Mrs. Closs for the board of the girls in red, who left here without paying for same. Mr. Green, upon arriving at the carnival grounds at Kendallville was informed that the girls nor the manager had the money with which to pay the >21.85 in question. The officer had in his possession a warrant for Mr. Reid, but rather than to incarcerate him, he proceeded to take in the money at the door of the girls in red tent until he secured twenty dollars, and then he hurried to the station in time to catch his train home. A peculiar incident in connection with the affair was, while Green was taking in the money at the door, a Kendallville constable was taking up the tickets in order to get payment for the girls board at a hotel there. However when Green left, the constable had the tickets and he had the money. We are informed that Mr. Green posed gracefully as a ticket seller at the carnival, although he did not do any of the spieling.

c. E. BUSINESS MEETING. A business meeting of great importance will be held'this evening at 7:30 o’clock i n the Sabbath school room of the Presbyterian church. Let evC. E. be out.

heard an old controversy Judge Merryman Has Case Under Advisement. J. T, Merryman, of Decatur, sitting as special judge, Thursday afternoon heard the evidence in the case of Brown vs. Murphy involving title to land near Warren, and took the matter under advisement. Three years ago Ira C. Brown, undertaker at Warren, secured a judgment in the Wells circuit court against John H. Kratz, of Bluffton, for $312. An execution was issued on the judgment in favor of Brown, but no property was found. Brown then brought suit to set aside the conveyance which Kratz had made to Asa B. and Nellie Murphy, alleging that he transferred the real estate for the purpose of defrauding his creditors.—Montpelier Herald.

NEW BANKING HOME First National Lets Contract for Up-to-the-Minute Improvements TO DAYTON FIRM Will Transact Business in Brock Block While Work is Going On

The First National bank of this city are soon to have a home suitable to their extensive and growing business, the contract for remodeling the Dorwin block, where they have always been located, having been let and wmrk will begin in a few' days. When completed everything will be up to the minute and the banking house will be one of the most attractive in Indiana. The letting of the contract has been carefully considered, there being many bidders and finally went to M. Ohmer & Son, of Dayton, Ohio. While the work is being done, the banking business will be transferred to the front part of the Brock block, just two doors away, thus allowing the work and the banking can do without inconvenience to employes or public.

The changes at the bank will be very extensive and we assure you that you will not know the place when th e contract Is completed about September Ist. A new stone front will be put in, with an entrance at the center. The furniture will be of marble, handsomely finished in latest patterns and divided in three sections, the president’s office in front, cashier’s office next and then the general workroom and bookkeeper's office, with a large director’s room at the rear. The lobby will be nicely'arranged, with marble block floor and the ceilings and side walls will b e decorated in style and manner suitable to lhe up-to-the-minutjß fixtures. The lighting of the room and the ventilation will also be a feature, arranged by prism glasses and done in accordance with plans and specifications of the contractor. One of the big jobs connected with the change is the moving of the massive steel vault, which to make room for the new furniture must go east in the building about ten or fifteen feet. This work comes first and will be done by July Ist, when the contractors, Ohmer & Son, take charge. Two months will be required by them and it will be as stated about September Ist when the work is complete. Cashier Dugan has been very busy selecting and re-arranging the plans, has visited a number of the big banking houses in Ohio and Indiana and has certainly shown good taste and judgment in every particula-. Th e new establishment will be attractive, convenient and will prove a commodious and suitable home for the First National for many years to come.

WILL OBSERVE CHILDREN'S DAY M. E. Sunday School Has Arranged Program. Children’s day exercises will be observed at the M. E. church next Sunday morning and a fine program will be rendered. The exercises will consist of songs, drills and recitations to be executed by the members of the Sunday school. In the evening an unusually interesting Epworth league meeting will be held after which the Adams county Sunday school comvention will be held iu the auditorium. This promises to be most interesting.

WILL BE BEST EVER “In the Village by the Sea” is an Interesting Play Throughout TO BE MONDAY NIGHT The Christian Church Ladies Have Started the Ticket Canvass

The Ladies’ Aid society of the Christian church began today in real earnest to canvass the tickets for “In the Village by the Sea” a local talent benefit being arranged by them to 'be given June the 15th at Bosse opera house, the object being to raise the necessary funds to pay the brick street assessment on their church property and as it is a worthy cause the public will no doubt help them make it a financial success. “In the Village by the Sea” is the strongest heme talent ever put on in our city, the story being a new one to the stage, the scenes are laid on the coast of Maine, the characters are rustic and seafaring, the scenery picturesque and the fortunes of Tom Manly and Rose Prescott will command the warmest sympathy. While Uncle Davie and the stage struck Si Kidder will evoke uproarious laughter and little Nellie, the ocean waif, completely wins any au-' dience. “In th e Village by the Sea” is a most original unhackneyed and diverting play, and has received unstinted praise from critics everywhere it has been presented and is especially plasing to ladies and children. The admission will be twenty-five cents to any part of the house. Seats reserved without extra charge at usual place. Board opens at 8 a. m. day of show. The number of seats that can be reserved by an individual at one time will be limited to six and the ladies feel that the show' cannot fail to please their audience and as they guarantee satisfaction they earnestly solicit your patronage. Remember the Christian church benefit Bosse opera house Monday evening June 15th.

BIG CELEBRATION Planned by Monroe Business Men for Fourth of July EAGLE WILL SCREAM Plenty of Music, Ball Game, Balloon Ascension and Fireworks

Monroe is to be the only live town in Adams county on July 4th, at least they are the first to reserve the date for a big celebration. It will be remembered that the business men of that hustling town pulled off an appropriate event of the kind last year but the outburst of enthusiasm for this year is to excell that event several hundredfold. A meeting will be held, Tuesday evening, June 9th to complete the arrangements, appoint committees, etc., and as much interest is being manifested it is believed every one will do his part. Among the attractions will be two brass bands, a real balloon ascension, races of all kinds, base ball, a grand military drill, vaudeville show and other amusements to suit everybody closing with a grand display of fireworks in the evening. The eagle will scream all day long and the streets of the hustling little city will- scarcely hold the throngs. Those patriotically inclined will have an opportunity to celebrate within the confines of Adams county.

The Ladies’ Aid society of the Beulah Chapel M. E. church will give an Ice cream social at Steele’s Grove near there one wek from tomorrow evening. Everybody is Invited to attend. Mr. A. J. Delhi and family and Wm. Deihl and family of Elkhart, attended the Floyd-Crist wedding Sunday. They returned home this morning.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, June 8, 1908.

SOME NEW METHODIST LAWS. Probation Not Necessary—Time Limit is Removed. The new rules laid down by the general conference of the Methodist church in Baltimore, Md., at its recent session, became effective for the first time in the M. E. church yesterday. The customary probation period of six months which has heretofore stood between prospective members and full church relationship, has been abolished. and in the future suitable persons will be admitted to church membership on confession of faith and subscription to the doctrinal principles of the church. The new regulations also abolished the time limit which heretofore existed on pastorates, so that in the future a pastor may be returned to the same charge as long as, in the judgment of his conference, he can do effective work there. The elimination of the old office of presiding c-lder and the substitution intis stead, is another superintendent in is stead, is aroth?r radical change made by the general conference and one in which a gojd deal oF interest is taken.

ON TO UNION CITY Adams County Will Be There With the Goods MANY WILL GO Congressman Adair Will Make a Carefully Prepared Speech

Interest in the Union City convention Wednesday continues unabated. Notwithstanding the fact that the-con-vention comes in the midst of a very busy season for the farmer, there will be many from Adams county in attendance. From Berne and Geneva comes the word that respectable delegations will go, and it but now remains for Decatur to show her metal and loyalty to an important occasion in the life of Congressman Adair. A large and enthusiastic convention will put Mr. Adair in the race as a winner .and for that reason Adams county will send such an advance guard to the Union City convention. Fifty from Decatur and one hundred from Adams county is the least number that will satisfy Chairman Gallogy. Get in the band wagon for a gala day»at Union City.

It is said that Congressman Adair will make a carefully prepared speech outlining and defining the reasons why he should be elected again. While there are at least a thousand reasons, it is not likely he can cover the whole ground in one day,but the voters will get next to the entire list before election day.

Anotherl etar attraction Tor this event will be the presence of Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic candidate for governor. Mr. Marshall has been cutting some ice already, and at present is a much talked of candidate. It is said that Jim Watson is already troubled with stage fright. At any rate go to Union City.

ESCAPED FROM INFIRMARY. William Lee Was Found in the Barn of Perry Sells. Marshal Bohnke was notified yesterday by Mr. Graber of the county infirmary that William Lee, who has been aninmate at that place for •some time, had made his escape. The officer made a diligent search, finding his man asleep in th e haymow at the home of Perry Sells. He secured a rig and returned Lee to the infirmary, where he will be more closely watched in the future.

ATENDED STATE MEETING. Dr. Fred Patterson is Visiting His j Parents. Dr. Fred Patterson, a practitioner of dentistry at Terre Haute, is in the city the guest of his parents, Mr and Mrs, J. C. Patterson. Dr. Patterson just eturned from Indianapolis,where he attended a meeting of the dental association of Indiana and he states that The meeting was the greatest ever known to dentistry. Mr. Patterson will return to Terre Haute tomorrow.

PLATFORM BUILT Republican National Platform Ready for Adoption PRAISE THEMSELVES The President and His Policies the Leading Issues Washington, June B.—That the platform which will be adopted at the Chicago convention and on which the Republican party will stand during the next campaign has been completed with the exception of a few details, which will be left for the committee

on resolutions to insert, is the opinion of many who are in the confidence of the Republican leaders. The work has been done by Wade Ellis, attorney general of Ohio and draftsman of the recent Ohio state platform; Senator Hopkins, who will be chairman of the committee on resolutions; Senator Long of Kansas and a few others including the president and Secretary Taft, who have been freely consulted. The *policies of President Roosevelt will be indorsed unequivocally, and this indorsement will be the central idea of the document. The policies will be set forth as the embodiment of th e principles of the Republican party, the achievements of which will be lauded as being at all times wise and beneficent and ever in the interest of all the people. These principles, it will be declared, are greatly in contrast with the policies of the Democratic party, which, as embodied in the public utterances of its leaders, it will be said, promise nothing good that can be assured of accomplishment. The Republican party's record as the party of protection and sound money, as the party of progress and good principles, as the party that, gave freedom to Cuba and lifted the yoke from the necks of the people of the Philippines and from Porto Rico, will be upheld or admiration and made the subject of much praise.

INTERURBAN RULES As Adopted at Conference Between U. B. Hunt and Officials ARE VERY STRICT Insure Good Treatment of Traveling Public and Will Be Enforced

At a conference between Union B. Hunt, chairman of the Indiana Railroad Commission and officials of the various traction lines of the state, uniform rules, as recommended by a special committee, were adopted almost without change. The report of the rules committee was submitted to the commission and the set of rules that had been drafted was discussed. The traction officials seemed to be well satisfied with the report of the committee. Rules laid down governing employes violations of which mean discharge are as follows: Employes addicted to use of intoxicants will be discharged. Uses of tobacco in any form while men are on duty is prohibited. Motormen and conductors must keep a neat appearance. Trainmen are prohibited from carrying packages, letters or newspapers for any one while on duty. Employes shall not read while on duty nor occupy seats to the exclusion of passengers. Assignment or attachment by garnishment proceedings of any employe’s wages is cause for instant dismissal. Passengers are required to keeif off the rear platform when there is room inside the car. o Silas Masteller, of New Waverly, Ind., was in the city enroute to Portland, on a business trip.

SALOON DOORS CLOSED. Portland Defyer of Authorities Will Not Be Prosecuted. Portland, Ind., June B.—Bernard McKenna, the saloonist in south Meridian street who kept his saloon open on Friday, despite the fact that he was denied a new license, was closed Saturday morning and will remain so. An investigation of the facts in his case made it doubtful w'hether there was a violation of the law, and there will, it is stated, be no attempt at prosecution. The license of McKenna gave him the right to run for one year “from” June 5. His license for the previous year entitled him to operate until June 30. McKenna’s contention was that on June 5, 1907, he ran under his previous year’s license, and that consequently he was entitled to that day this year.

S7O WAS STOLEN West End Meat Market Was Entered by Thieves and Money Taken WAS A BOLD ACT

They Made Their Entrance Through Transom of Rear Door Some time after eleven o'clock Saturday night and before five-thirty this morning the west end meat market which is owned by the Decatur Packing company was entered by thieves who secured more than seventy dollars for their trouble. The party or parties gained entrance by climbing through a hole in the woodshed aft the rear of the building and then farcing. their way through the transom. It was some one who was familiar with circumstances about the shop, as the safe was opened without the use of any forcible means whatever, as when the shop was opened this morning the door of the big safe was noticed standing ajar without being damaged in the least. An examination disclosed the fact that about seventy dollars was taken while more than forty dollars in silver, beside a number of checks was not molested. To some it appears to be home talent work, while others assert themselves as believing it the maneuvers of a skilled safe opener. At any rate the job was smothly done the unwelcome guest made bis exist from the building by unlocking the back door.

MERRY WIDOW WAS DESTROYED And a Bluffton Miss is Happy to Escape so Easily. Miss Maud Morrow, a daughter of Ernest Morrow, had a rather thrilling experience and one out of the ordinary with fire one night recently, and she certainly escaped fortunately in suffering no worse injuries or loss than the trimmings on a Merry Widow hat. Miss Morrow indirectly brought on the mishap with fire by stooping over an oil lamp while she was wearing the Merry Widow. The heat from the lamp was such that the flimsy trimmings caught fire and in a second Miss Morrow had a flaming bonfire on top of her head, the flames quickly spreading to all the trimmings. She probably was saved burns and the possible loss of her hair If not worse injuries, by the prompt action of Oliver Craven, who was with her at the time. Quickly grabbing the hat he found it fastened with hat pins and then running his hands into the but. ing trimmings he found and extracted the pins and jerked then out and pulling off the flaming hat threw it into the yard. Although badly unnerved for a short time from the experience, Miss Morrow suffered no real in jut y and Mr. Craven had his hands only slightly burned. The little accident occurred at the home of Miss Morrow on south Johnson stret, when she stooped over a stand to place some flowers in a vase. —Bluffton News.

Irene Hey, the four months old babv baby of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hey. died yesterday morning and was buried today at the Brown cemetery near Monroeville. Mrs. Ella Brown whose home is at Bluffton, visited Geo. Kones and family at Berne for a few days. She returned by the way of this city this morning.

Price Two Cents

A REAL SURPRISE Was the Wedding of Mr. Ora Elzey to Miss Blanch Rice SATURDAY EVENING Happy Young Couple Left Immeditely for Oklahoma to Live

Ora Elzey. w*ho for several years has served as the genial clerk at the DeWitt cigar store, completely “fooled” his friends Saturday evening by joining the benedict ranks and with his fair young bride boarding the evening train on the Clover Leaf for St. Louis. From there they will go to Kingfisher, Okla., where plans have been made for Mr. Elzey to start in business with a cousin. We learn today that the surprise had been contemplated several months, though but few were aware. A story of the wedding was sent to this office as follows: Ora E. Elzey and Miss Blanche E. Rice were married at the U. B. manse at 8:30 p. m. on last Saturday by Rev. L. A. Stangle. This is one of the great surprises of the season. Only a very select few know anything about the consummation of this happy wedding. Just as soon as the two were made one they hied away to the Clover Leaf depct weher they started for Oklahoma to make their future home. Mr. Elzey w'as one of Decatur’s most popular young men and his departure is a great surprise to his host of friends. Miss Rice was one of the popular “hello” girls in the telephone exchange, her voice was known to all and she was dearly beloved by all. A more amiable, jolly, agreeable and friend-making lady Decatur never knew’. In their new home in the junior state of the faraway west follow a myriad of well wishes and happy omens. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rice.

WILL FIGHT IT OUT Allied Forces to Give Taft Run for His Money FIGHT CONTESTS Fight Them in the National and Credentials Committee and on Floor Chicago. June B.— Representatives of the allies last night recalled their statement that they will bolt the Republican national committee so far as the presentation of evidence to support the claims of anti-Taft delegations from southern states is concerned. There is evidence the announcement made last night upon the authority of Representative James Francis Burke, manager for Senator Knox, after he had been in conference with Senator Hemenway of Indiana. Joseph B. Kealing of Indiana and other identified with the campaign being made by the “Allies.” created dissension. Some of the other spokesmen for the allies declared the announcement to be ill advised and they busied themselves today to counteract its effect. After numerous conferences the following, which vas headed “Statement from the Allies.” wass issued: “Upon the authority of the representatives of all of the presidential candidates other than Secretary of War Taft, it was announced today that they would continue to present their side of the contested delegates eases to the national committee. The decision of the national committee will not be taken as final by the candidates known as the allies, but an appeal will be taken in cases where it is believed injustice has been done, first to the committee on credentials and later to the convention, itself.”