Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1908 — Page 1

Volume VI. Number 173.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Complaint in Federal Court Against Decatur Egg Case Company GOES TO PLAINFIELD Harold Crawford Taken There Tomorrow— Other News A bill of complaint has been filed In the federal court by the Weston Paper and Manufacturing Company, of Ohio, against the Decatur Egg Case Company, of this city, in which judgment of $4,388.30, with interest and costs, is asked. It is alleged that this amount is due the complainant because of a balance due on materials furnished the defendant. Sheriff Meyer goes to Plainfield tomorrow, taklag with him Harold Crawford. The necessary papers were made out admitting him to the Indiana School for Boys, and where he will have to remain until he is twenty-one years old. His age is now’ sixteen, . Forjaome tim e he has been under the • care of Henry Lankenau, as juvenile officer. The records at the clerk’s office di> c'cse the fact that not since July ’l, ten davs ago has that official issued a n.arrirg e license. The panic is serious. At the recorder’s office thre e warranty deeds were made today. Pearl j Beerbower gives to Theodore Beer- . bower one-fourth Interest in eighty acres, consideration $1,400. Jacob ( B, Buhler deeds to John E. Smith, part j of lots 155 and 156, consideration , $3,000. John E. Smith deeds to Jacob B. Buhler part of lots 155% and 153 , for $3,000. The word was received that the bonds for the construction of the J. F. Lachot macadam road were good. This settles all doubt about the road . being constructed. Th e Erie Stone , company have the contract. , —o STUDIO IS SOLD I I Roy Sautbine Disposes of His Business to Martin Jaberg of Preble Tp. DID GOOD BUSINESS New Proprietor is a Graduate From School of Photography of Illinois A deal was consummated yesterday whch conveys the sole ownership of the Sautbine studio to Martin Jaberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jaberg, of Preble township. For some time negotiations for the transaction have been under way, Mr. Sautbine desiring to retire on account of ill health. However, since being in business, Mr. Sautbine has been most successful. His photograph work has highly pleased his many patrons, who. while regretting to hear of his intentions of retiring, will welcome the new P ro " prietor, who is an honest and an energetic young man. Mr. Jaberg was born and raised in this county. For fiv e years he taught a country school, retiring from pedagogy to go to the school of photography at Effingham, 111., from which he is a graduate. The studio will be closed for about ten days, during which time, the rooms will undergo a complete overhauling. All of the unfinished photos will be completed by Mr, .Taberg. Decatur extends the hand of welcome to Mr. Jaberg and wishes for Mr. Sautbine a speedy recovery from his illness. ■ -o — Everything is in readiness for the ice cream social which the Loch city band will give at the Maple Grove park tomorrow evening and many ar® counting on attending. The band will furnish special music for the occasion. Should it happen to rain, the affair will be held on Friday evening.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

GIVEN UNCONDITIONAL PARDON Edison Barnhart, of Portland, is Now a Free Man. An unconditional pardon was Saturday granted by Governor Hanly, on recommendation of Judge LaFollette of this city, to Edison Barnhart of this county, who was paroled three years ago from the Jeffersonville reformatory where he was sent to serve a sentence for assault and bat- 1 tery with Intent to murder Noah Al- ( len, during an attack at the Ridgeville old settlers’ meet. At the time of his parole from the prison Barnhart was thought dying from tuberculosis and it was this that caused his release at the time. He has- since fully recovered and is leading an upright life and the governor thought it but right that , the stain upon his character should be as far as possible removed. —Port- 1 land Review. 1 o-—— A BRANCH HOUSE I I Will Be Established at Ohio City by Berlings and Kokomo Firm - I DO GOOD BUSINESS Berling People Have a Branch at Berne—Been Established 40 Years An important transaction in business circles developed yesterday, when the well known produce firm of H. Berling and Sons of this city and the produce firm of Steveson Tudor of Kokomo, Ind., closed a deal wherby they formed a joint partnership for th e operating of a branch house at Ohio City for their respective firms. The transaction has been hanging fire for some time past, but the necessary plans w-er e not brought to a close until yesterday The local firm of Berling and Sons is known over a great amount of territory in this and surrounding towns, they having their main plant located in this city,while they also own and operate a branch house at Berne, together with the plant which they have bought at Ohio City. This firm has been located in this city for the past forty years, during which time they have conducted a large and capable business. As has been stated, a short time since, they are now beginning the erection of a two story building which, when completed, will be modern in every respect, enabling them to handle their poultry in much less time than heretofore. They are building this addition on account of their increased amount of business. The outside member of the new firm, Mr. Steveson Tudor, of Kokomo, enjoys the distinction of being on e of the largest shippers of poultry, butter and eggs in the United States and has besides the plant at Kokomo, about eight branch houses located in different sections of the country. In getting this plant Ohio City is receiving a capable and industrious business firm, which will be a great credit to their already enterprising town. Permanent quarters hav e been established until the erection of a large and commodious building which will begin in the near future. The Democrat joins with their many friends in wishing them success in their new enterprise. Tbe plant will be managed by Mr. Will Berling, a member of rhe local firm here for several years, and as he has had much experience in hjs line, it is needless to say that the new firm will be well managed. —— CAME TO THEIR MILK Pan Handle Railroad Ready to Light Their Street Crossings. After a long contest In which the case was contested through the circuit and supreme courts, where the company lost, the Panhandle railroad company has agreed to pay for lights , at its various crossings at Hartford City. Several suits had been filed against the company by the city. , One only, however, was tried, it be- ■ ing agreed that the decision in it . should govern all. The company • after losing the fight, is begging the i city for leniency, in that if not be ( gompeHed to light, every c/rossjing. but there seems to be litti e disposiHon to yield any point that has been won.

INDIANA POLITICS I Col. Conn is Again Brought i Into the Limelight 1 I THE CHAUTAUQUA ‘ I t Organization Plans Will Be- < gin to Grow Next i Month , i i Indianapolis, July 21.—The Hearst ( leaders in Indiana, are spreading the < ink advertising that Col. C. G. Conn, • of Elkhart, will lead the Hearst forces ' as their candidate for governor. Col. Conn was a candidate before the last Democratic convention for this same office, is reputed to have spent SIOO,000 and received forty votes. He poses as most anything under the sun. He was the congressman from the thirteenth district in 1894, in 1896 was a gold democrat and with his newspaper the Elkhart Truth, supported the republican national ticket. He has the money and the Hearst leaders like the looks of the long green, no matter who furnishes it As Conn has a barrel he will prov e to be rich fruit for R. M. Iserwood and C. F. S. Neal, the Indiana paid agents of W. R. Hearst, This is Chautauqua week at Elwood. Wednesday is republican day and Saturday the democraits have an inning. Both parties are working with a view of out-eclipsing the other. Both candidates for governor as well as other state dignitaries will be on hand to help their respective parties carry off the laurels. The democrats of the state will begin in earnest their organization work in the various congressional districts the first of August. From that time on they will permit no grass to grow under their feet. THAT BERNE ROAD Right of Way Taken as Far as Chattanooga, Ohio MUCH INTEREST Peter Neuenschwander Still Building His Railway Visions of an electric railroad between Bluffton, Berne, Chattanooga and Celina are taking root with the promoters of the line in away that surely will bring success. Peter Neuenschwander and Joseph Gerber were in this city Saturday afternoon late and they report that all the right of way between Berne and Chattanooga. 0., was taken last week and that lots of stock is being taken by farmers and business men along the line who want the road and who believe their plan a good one for building it. It is their purpose to at once make a survey of the route and will begin taking deeds for the right of w’ay in the very near future. By reason of having stock subscribed which is to be paid for in work, it will be possible to have a survey taken for the expense of an engineer, as rodmen and linemen could be secured among those who want to work out their stock to do that part of the job. Th e P'an for building this road is well know-n to Banner readers. It being the intention of the promoters to get enough stock subscribed to include th e right of way and enough in labor to build the grade. As these two items figure largely in the first steps of constructing a road, it is thought capital can then be interested to lay the rails and equip the plant.—Bluffton Banner. o ■ Decatur wag visited by a good rain last evening and this morning which means much for the crons. ,

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, July 21, 1908.

STATISTICS ON INDIANA CATTLE Indiana Gaining as a Cattle Producing State. Figures compiled by the Indiana Bureau of Statistics from reports fil- ■ ed by township assessors, show that Indiana is gaining ground but slowly as a cattle-producing state. The reports show that there are now 501,495 head of beef cattle in the state, as against 445,010 head in 1907. , Th e ten highest beef selling counties this year are as follows: Montgomery 14,222 head; Clinton 11,344 head; Hendricks, 8.371; Boone 7,846; Putnam 7,- I 464; Fulton 7.301; Wabash 7,054; Parke 6.958; Delaware 6,829 and Fountain 6.686. The figures on the beef cattle now being fed by the farmers of the state show that Fulton county has the greatest number. The ten highest counties range as follows: Fulton county 16,267 head; Jasper 10,899; 1 Montgomery 10,812; Wabash 10,022; ; Hendricks 9,466; Putnam 9,399; Greene 9,086; Clinton 8,917; Boone 8,654. o— A GOOD SPENDER It Costs Lots of Money to Keep Up the White House THOUSAND A WEEK More Repairs Wanted on the Home of the President Washington, July 21.—1 t is the official view of Col. C. S. Bromwell, the army engineer in charge of the White House, that it will be necessary for the American people to spend SI,OOO a week during the next fiscal year to keep the home of the president in a habitabl e condition. The upkeep of the house during the current fiscal year is only $673 and a few pennies over each week. But things are getting shabby. The children have been using the chairs to build choo-choo trains, they have placed their hands on the paper in the red, blue and green parlors, and in some mysterious way a large piece of the stucco was broken off one of the columns in the reception hall. Colonel , Bromwell thinks the chairs should be sent to the upholsterers, new paper put on the walls and the whole interior done over with fresh paint and enamel. The paper on the wall, of course, is not paper at all, but the finest brocaded silk. The upholstering on the Sevres designed chairs is also of tl.e finest. The colonel figures it will cost. $15,000 to do tlie absolutely necessary work. In submitting his estimate to the secretary of the treasury, he remarked that the annual appropriation of $35,000 is barely large enough to keep th e (house from going to rack and ruin. The $15,000 asked for is put under the head of “extraordinary repairs." It has become an unwritten law among congressmen to give the president whatever he asks for in the way of money for the maintenance of the White House. President Roosevelt has always lived expensively, so during his occupancy of the White House the bills have been large. When he rebuilt the house a few years ago and added an office to it at a cost of approximately $600,000, Speaker Cannon and other watchdogs of the treasury gasped, jthen wihispered softly, but said nothing at least, nothing publicly. But more than one thrifty congressman expressed the hope that he could get a few’ contracts to build a White House every % year and furnish it complete for what the president paid out for reconstructing it. It is to keep tih e house in that “artistic” style that Colonel Bromwell asks for the privilege of spending SI,OOO a week. That sum is exclusive of lighting the grounds and similar expenses. — o — MAKES A GOOD SHOWING The First National Bank Shows Up Well. The First National Bank produces additional evidence that Decatur and Adams county Is the best place on the map, and also that the First National is prosperous and substantial. Their statement elsewher e shows their deposits to exceed $465,000, and their resources and liabilities to be $582,1909.52. The statement is a good one.

NEW DYNAMO HERE It Will Be Placed in Position Without Delay THEY HAD THE CASH One-Half Purchase Price Was Paid in Cash The dynamo for the use of the city electric light plant has arrived and will immediately be placed In position. The need of this purchase is forth purpose of giving constant service to those who have contracted for either light or power. For Instance the Decatur Produce Co., with many thousand dollars tied up in cold storage products, must ke§p an exact temperature. A break at the city plant might mean loss and damage and the amount would not be small. The same condition arises with every one w’ho uses the power, and this element of revenue to the city is getting to be th e best that ever happened. This new dynamo assures service always and the city council but again demonstrate their business methods In purchasing it. The better part of the transaction comes in the fact that one-half th e purchase price $1,200 is already paid, they having the ihoney in their sock. The remainder will be due and payable January first next, and at that time they will have the remainder of the amount due. The new dynamo will be placed in position at once, and in a few days more the electric light plant In Decatur will be one of the best and most complete in the country, and one of the best dividend payers as well. Right here also, we feel like saying that Martin Mylott, superintendent of this plant, has proven his efficiency as well as his ability to manage such an institution. He is thorough as an electrician, and what is better, he has proven that he has the capacity of a good business manager. o RECEIVED INJURY Mrs. Charles Dunn Fell Forcibly to Walk and Sustains Broken Bones IN HER RIGHT LIMB Ankle Was Also Dislocated —She is Resting Easy— Will Soon Recover As a result of falling forcibly to the walk while stepping off the porch of her home. Mrs. Charles Dunn is confined to her bed, suffering from two broken bones in her right limb, the fracture resulting subsequent to a dislocation of her ankle. The injured woman had started to descend from th e porch, when, as a consequent of the slippery walks, her feet slipped from beneath her and she was hurled to the walk with great force. The aid of a physician was hastily engaged, and an examination disclosed the fact that both bones were broken a few inches below the knee. Medical aid was administered, and the patient is resting easy, although it will be several weeks befor e she will be able to ■ resume her household duties. For- . tunately Mr. Dunn was in the city and ’ he hastened home to assist in caring for his injured wife. Nothing un forseen setting jn Mrs. Dunn will recover rapidly, which news will be gladly welcomed by her innumerable friends in this city and vicinity. i o Many new homes ar e going up in Decatur, while a large number are ; also being remodeled. The Dr. Boyl er’s .home, corner Monroe and > Third' streets is almost (completed. L The workmen put up this home in a • short time an> l are to he commended -for their fast work. Work on the • DanNiblick home on Fifth street is rap- ■ Idly nearing completion and in a Short J time will be ready for occupancy.

DALLAS ADOPTED NEW EMBLEM The Elks Will Henceforth Decorate Themselves with New Badge. A. G. Lupton, who went to Dallas as a delegate to the national convention of Elks from the Hartford City lodge No. 625, rturned Saturday. The next convention will be held at Los Angeles, Cal., beginning July 11. A new emblem was adopted at Dallas. The emblem as described 'consisted of “a combination of the dial, showing the hour of 11, with a white fac e and red Roman numerals (circumscribed by a blue circle containing the initials B. P. O .E. on which dial and circle shall rest an elk’s head and antlers which shall be surmounted by a red five point star. The ellffs head and antlers are to be in gold, the dial, star and border in enamel.” —Hartford City News. NO PEEKABOOS GO A Georgia Legislator Has the Women on His Neck INTRODUCED A BILL To Prevent Women from Wearing Rainbow Stockings Atlanta, July 21. —Representative Glenn, who introduced a bill in the Georgia legislature to prevent women from wearing rainbow stockings, peekaboo waists and other alluring apparel alleging that by such devices men frequently were trapped into matrimony, is being overwhelmed with threatening letters from women in various parts of the country. Some of the letters are violent in tone. Three from Atlanta go so far as to say Glenn ought to be killed. Glenn seems to take the matter seriously and has asked the protection of the legislature. He says he also has got into trouble with his own wife by reason of the numrous letters he is receiving itrom other women. “On account of the numerous newspaper articles about me and the letters and telegrams to me from irate female oiganizations of the country,” Glenn said, “I find myself in the midst of domestic woe. My wife Is a peculiar woman and strenuously objects to my receiving letters of any kind or character from other ladies, whether the latter be angry or whether toey be members of any organization. I am compelled to seek the protection of :Qie legislature. My life lias .been threatened and I don’t know what moment some vengeful woman may attempt to kill me. I had no idea that women had so much venom in them until I introduced the bill. I take it that the allegations regarding pads, corsets, etc., are true or the women would not be so angry.” o ROMAINE IN CENTRAL LEAGUE Former 1.-O. Pitcher Now With the Fort Wayne Club. Romaine, a former Indiana Ohio leaguer, w’as this -afternoon signed to pitch for the Fort Wayne Central league team. Jack Hendricks, manager of the local team, has been dickering with! Romain,, for some time, but did not secure the pitcher’s signature to a contract until this afternoon. Romaine’s home is at Dunkirk, where he started his base ball career. He left for the latter place after signing his contract today and accompanied by his wife will return to Fort Wayne to report to the team tomorrow. Man- ; ager Hendricks is confined to '.his ■ room as the result of eating some- ■ thing which did not agree with him. ■ —Fort Wayne News. o HE GOES TO GERMANY i Bluffton, I»L, July 20—Frederick > Wlecking, 17, a son of Ernest Wieck- - ing. a local cigar manufacturer, is arranging tn leave August Jll for . Bramsche, Germany, where be will i make his home wit hhis uncle, August I Wiecking. and will attend a German » college at Osnabruck for the purpose of securing an advanced education. He is a graduate of the Bluffton high school.

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OLD SOLDIER WEDS “Mon” Blossom, Life Long Resident of Decatur, Takes Unto Himself a Bride IS 66 YEARS OF AGE And as Spry as a Spring Chicken—Will Set It Up When He Comes A latter reached this city last evening conveying the surprising news that J. M. Blossom, who was born and raised in this county, has become a benedict. Mr. Blossom who was more • commonly known as “Mon” was born in Root township sixty-six years ago and when the call for volnteers was issued at the beginning of the civil war, he enlisted in Company C, 147 Indiana. During th e siege of war he was found to be tried and true and his comrades who still reside in Deqatur have nothing but praise for this most estimable man. He had the misfortune to lose his first wife by death and some years ago was divorced from his second wife, after which he took up his abod e at the soldiers’ home at Marion. The news which announces this mprriage Jis / from the pen of Mr. Blossom himself and In part reads as follows: “It is my treat; I am married, and it is all over and I am well of it. Tell all the boys and have a good time until I come back<*to Decatur, then I will set it up all right.” These are consoling words to his many friends, but there are several old soldiers in Decatur who would very much desire to give him a good old fashioned belling. Here's hoping that the bride and groom enjoy happiness and prosperity during their matrimonial career. The new’ly wedded couple will make their home at Elwood, Ind. o Emmet Littleton, representing the famous Guy Stock Co., was in the city today looking up a location for the show, which will be here next week, in all probability. o THE BRINEY DEEP A Wireless Message from Schaffer and Ward DELIGHTFUL TRIP Decatur Has Several Citizens Doing Foreign Countries A wireless message came to C. C. Schaffer this morning from his father, Fred Schaffer and Harry Ward, who are now cn the briny deep. The message read: “Twelve hundred miles out, all well and a delightful trip.” This pleasing news was highly relished, as it indicated that thus far th e two travelers were stamped 0. K. The steamship Ryndham is a slow hoar, bu 1 it is a good one with all the accommodations and luxuries found on any of the fast lines. One can live in luxury on one of these boats and while the two Decatur travelers will not wade too deep into the fashions, yet they will live well and get their money’s worth. Other Decatur citizens abroad are reported as being well. J. M. Frisinger is in Belgium buying horses for his sales stables here, and is making progress and succeeding in buying the best horses ever imported to this country. He will return some time about the first of September. Fred Jaebker who is doing Germany, is having the time of his life, and letters received from him indicate that the several weeks there will be full of life. o The crops are coming along fine and this year’s will be a record breaker. Some of the best wheat In years has been grown, while corn gives promise of being the best ever.