Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 254, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 254.

WILL BE BIG DOINGS An Old-Fashioned Torch Light Procession on Tuesday Night- % WHEN KERN COMES Other Speakers—Then Marshall on Wednesday Afternoon Preparations are going, on for Marshall day and for the big rally nex> Tuesday evening. The Marshall meeting will be held Wednesday afternoon, when delegations are to be here, from all over the county to listen to addresses from the next governor of Indiana. It will be a most interesting meeting. The arrival here on Tuesday evening of the Hon. John W. Kern, accompanied by about eight nr ten of the biggest Democrats of the country, will mark the occasion for the only big night affair of the campaign. Committees are at work -,to make it a success. A monster parade will occur, when an effort will be made to have 1,000 marchers in the big torch light precession. A monster parade will occur, when an effort will be made to have 1,000 marchers in the big torch light procession. A marching club from Fort "Wayne will join In the line and red fire will burn along the entire route. If you feel like giving vent to your feelings by a few old-fashioned yells this will be your chance. The parade will start at seven o'clock and the distinguished speakers will arrive on a special over the interurban at 8:05. Speeches will be mede by Mr. Kern and by various others of the noted visitors. o JOHN ADAIR WELCOMED. Addressed Splendid Meeting at Elwood Wednesday. Congressman John A. M. Adair addressed another splendid audiene'e at Elwood Wednesday night when he spoke in the Wigwam. This is the largest hall in the city and about 2.500 people gained admittance while a thousand or so more were turned away, being unable to gain entrance. All over the district where Mr. Adair has spoken during this campaign—and he has spoken several times in each county—the halls have invariably been too small to accommodate the people , who turn out to hear him. And atl each place he has spoken he has been enthusiastically received and has been given many promises of substantial support on November 3rd by republicans who did not vote for him two years ago, due to the excellent record . in congress in behalf of the people, i coupled with the despicable methods being pursued by his opponent in this campaign. The nearer election day bolls around the brighter grows Mr. , Adair’s prospects. It is altogether I probable that Senator Hawkins will carry but one county in the district and that one by a small majority. —Portland Sun. — e—- — IS A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT. ■ People Arise Early to See the Bright ■ Stars. ■ One of the most beautiful sights ‘o I be witnessed in the heavens just now I is between three and five o’clock each ■ morning when the planets Venus and I appear in all their radial beau- ■ ty While the planets now appear H to be very close together they are ■ rp ally about 500,000,000 miles apart. S Venus is now moving rapidly toward ■ the* su Di | s waning and will soon dis- ■ Appear altogether. In December of B Beit year she will blaze forth in the ■ Western evening sky. A large number ■ 01 people of this city are getting up ■ har!y every morning just to take in I the beauty of the “Star of Bethlehem" ■ whic b. it is said, appears only at inM wvals of from three to seven hundred ■ fears. Little credit is given these B st Wles by the astronomers, however. B Vbe star seen is without a doubt ■ ’anus.

DR. WILCOX AT PORTLAND Is There to Attend the Theological Meeting. The members of the Epworth League will give a reception to the visiting ministers who are attending the Northern Indiana Theological Institute in session this week at the Methodist church. Immediately following the lecture given by Dr. C. B. Wilcox, of Decatur, the following program will be given: Piano duet —Misses Maude Spade and Carlulu Bruner. Vocal solo—-Mrs. J. A. Hood. Piano solo —Miss Idora Helmstetter. Select reading—Miss Edna ByrdPiano solo —Homer Antrim, Violin solo —Miss Grace Forrey. Vocal solo—Whitney Smith. Following the pregram refreshments will be served in the church parlors. —Portland Sun. SOMETHING DOING The Democrats Are to Make a Red Hot Finish Next Week THE SPECIAL TRAINS Every Part of the State Will Be Visited by Noted Speakers The Demccatic state committee will send two if not three special trains over the state next week in the interest of the state and national tlckes. W. J. Bryan will again cross the state on a special train Saturday of next week, and John W, Kern, nominee for vice president, will tour the state on a special, beginning Monday and continuing until Saturday night. These two trains will be financed by the state and national committees. There is ’ some talk of sending Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic candidate for governor, over the state on a special train, but Gilbert Hendren, chairman of the Democratic state speakers’ bureau, stated that the matter would net be fully determined until today. Frank E Hering, of South Bend, it is said, has offered to finance the train. Many rallies, to be addressed by speakers of prominence, will be held along the routes of the special trains. Speakers are being assigned for these meetings. The itinerary for the Kern special ig as followsMonday, Oct. 26. —Leave Indianapolis [7:50 a. m. Greenwood. 8:30, thirty minutes: Franklin. 9:30, one hour; Edinburg, 11, forty minutes; Columbus, 12:10. one-hour; Seymour, 2, one hour; Scottsburg, 3:30. one hour; Jeffersonville, 5:40, one hour and fifteen minutes. | Tuesday. Oct. 27—Leave Indianapolis 7:30 a. m. Noblesville, 8:15, one hour: Tipton, 9:45, one hour; Kokomo 11:20, one hour; Logansprt, 1:10, one hour; Wabash, 3:30, one hour; Huntington, 5:05, one hour; Decatur, 8:05, for night meeting. i Wednesday, Oct. 28—Leave Fort "Wayne 6:30 a. m. Hartford City, 8:10, fifty minutes; Bluffton, 9:40, one hour; Warsaw, 2:00. fifty minutes; Goshen, 3:05, forty minutes; Elkhart, 4:20; • one hour and forty minutes. The 1 party will go from Elkhart to Chicago at night and return to Indianapolis over the Monon. Thursday, Oct. 29—Leave Indianapolis 7:30 a. m. Rickville, 10:00, one hour and thirty minutes; Clinton, 1:00 one hour; Sullivan, 3:30, one hour; Brazil, 7:00, one hour; Terre Haute, 8:45, for night meeting. Friday, Oct. 30.—Leave Terre Haute 7:50 a. m. Greencastle, 8:55, one hour and thirty minutes; Shelbyville, 1:30, one hour; Rushville, 5:00, one hour and thirty minutes; Indianapolis 8:15, for night meeting. Saturday, Oct. 31.—Arrive at Princeton at 5:26 and speak from 8 to 9 a. m. Rockport, 12:00, forty minutes; Boonville, 3:00, forty minutes: Mt. Vernon, 5:40. forty minutes; Evansville, 7:20, for night meeting. ' The following speakers will be on • the train in addition to Mr. Kern: ■ Gen. James B. Weaver, Henry D. CLavi ton, Charles D. Carter, Fred L. Feick. Senator T. P. Gore, H. D Flood, C. J. ' Smith, Claud McCrory, Morris Shep- ■ pard. Joe T. Robinson and Edward I* I Masters. Assignments of speakers > for the rallies to be held along 'he . route of the Kern special were an nounced by Chairman Hendren Yesterday.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Three New Cases Have Been Filed in the Circuit Court 1 WILL CLOSE ISSUES I In the Gallmeyer Case by November 2nd—Real Estate Trahsfers -■. . I • — * J. W. Teeple is attorney for Joseph Bremerkamp in a new case filed against Mary Bremerkamp, asking for the removal of guardian. Louisa and Henry Magley are plaintiffs in a cause filed against Jackson Barton et al, suit to quiet title. Hoper & Lenhart are attorneys for the plaintiffs. Anoher new case filed is Martin W. Walbert vs. Levi and William Kohler, suit on ncte, demand S2OO. James W. Drummond et al vs. William and John Drummond, partition, bond filed and approved, cause left off trial calendar. • Conrad D. Gallmeyer, trustee, vs. Edward Gallmeyer et al, ordered by the court that any party to cause, deserving to make and file any further issue m this cause shall make and file same on or before Monday, November 2. Bert Newcomer vs. Lizzie Champion et al. partition, proof of publication and posting of notices filed. ■ Levi A. Sprunger has given Jacob P. Leiehty a deed for lot 154, M. R. E. cemetery for $15.00; William A. Wetter to Letta Wetter let 818 Decatur, $1,000; John C. Moran et al to Bar(Continued on page 4.) TICKETS ARE HERE County Clerk Brings Them in From Indianapolis • - OVER NINE THOUSAND % County and Township Ballots Will Be Printed Next Week I IM County Clerk James P. Haefiing arrived home this morning from Indianapolis. where he yesterday receipted for the state and national ballots to be used in the election on November 3rd. The tickets arrived this morning over the National express lines, and were duly Inspected by the election D. E. Smith and R. S. Peterson (find pronounced O. K. the packages being all in goed condition and the seals unbroken. There are in all 9,043 ballots, Incpiding two I thousand reserve ballots. These are' held at the clerk’s office and not given out unless absolutely necessary, from case of accident or some other reason. The others are in packages for each precinct and the ballots measure twenty-one by eighteen inches. The county and township tickets will be printed at this office next week, beginning bright and early Monday L morning. Os these there will be 12.- ’ 082 county tickets and about 15,000 J < township tickets. These will be in I. charge of the commissioners and will! ; be held at the county clerk’s office until Saturday of next week, when they ; will be turned over to the various inspectors of the precincts over the ; county. i o ( ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH. j German divine service at our church i Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The I Rev. J. C. Jaus will preach. A cor- i dial invitation extended to ail. J J. H. Klausing, Pastor. < o £ J. W. Heaston, of Geneva, was in S the city today transacting business j and paying his taxes. Mr. Heaston t is ?n old soldier and says all the boys i down there are going to vote for.! J. A. M. Adair. Ii

Decatur. Indiana, Friday Evening, October 23, 1908.

SERVICES ARE WELL ATTENDED Revival at the Church of Christ Awakens Interest. Services at Church of Christ were again well attended last night. Beautiful songs were sung. Scripture lesson touching upon Infidelity was read by Rev. Cooper, after which he led the service in prayer. His plainly spoken and earnest words conveyed with them the assurance of his complete faith in God's word. A short social service followed and a duet entitled “Row me Over the Tide" was sung by Mrs. Crabb and Miss Schroll by request. Evangelist Crabb then discussed the subject of “infidelity. It’s Causes. It’s Consequences and It's Cures.” This discourse was well prepared and forcibly and earnestly delivered and proved one of Rev. Crabb’s best efforts. He labored under a severe test owing to a severe cold, but was listened to by an attentive audience. “Almost Persuaded” was sung fcr invitation and another man came out for Christ. Mrs. Crabb then sang the beautiful song “Where Will You I Spend Eternity’’ in her touching way. | Baptismal service will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30, to which all are invited. Subject fcr Friday night is “Dadesh-Barnea.” This is a discourse which will be cf much interest. Everybody invited to come. Service 7:15. BY CLOSE MARGIN Brunswick Bowling Team of Fort Wayne Defeated Decatur Club f LAST EVENING Three Decatur Men Scored More Than 200—Their First Game The Decatur bowling team composed of Frisinger, Vaughn, Schafer, Berling and Petersen went to Fort Wayne last evening, where, in a well played game, they were defeated by the close margin of 274 pins by the Brunewicks. Fred Vaughn of the locals secured the highest average of his teammates with the creditable showing of 583 pins in three games. The local team was after the summit city club at all stages and in view of the fact that it was their first game they are entitled to the commendation of al] lovers of the sport: The scores were as follows : s FORT WAYNE. Hamilton 190 208 163 Schmelker 126 242 154 Paradise 169 179 179 Williamson 154 203 Harkenrider 198 204 242 Totals 828 1.049 941 DECATUR. Frisinger 186 212 144 Vaughn 208 179 196 Schafer 134 149 129 Berling 160 203 163 Petersen 179 144 148 Totals 867 887 790 It is not unlikely that the Brunswick team will be given a date here ■in the near future at which time De- ! catur will seek revenge. NEW CLOVER LEAF SCHEDULE Agent T. L. Miller, of the Clover Leaf, this morning received official announcement that the read would have a new’ time table, effective on one week from next Sunday. He has [not received his official time card as ■yet and could not state the exact i changes. He said, however, the change of time will net be radical in i any case. Train No. 2, due now at i 12:05. will arrive an hour earlier at • about 11:00 and west bound train No.' i 1 due at 12:55 will now arrive here i at about noon. The time of the Com- i merci al Travelers and trains 3 and 4 due at 7:51 a- m. and 7:37 p. m., res- 1 pectively, will not be changed, but 1 instead of running on week days only ; these last two trains. 3 and 4, will . run every day in the week and trains 9 and 10 (the Sunday trains) will be ’ discontinued. It is also probable that : all trains will run clear through from 1 St. Louis to Toledo, instead of stop- i ping at Frankfort or Delphos, as 1 been the case before. Trains No. 1 ; and 2 run west only as far as Frank- < fort, while 3 and 4 run east to Del- : phos. —Bluffton Banner. ' ;

SUNDAY SESSIONS Sunday School Convention Will Be Held in St. Marys Township ON NEXT SUNDAY Afternoon and Evening— Several from Decatur Scheduled for Addresses A program which will appeal favorably to all who attend has been prepared for the Sunday School convention which is to be held at Calvary school, St. Marys township, Sunday afternoon and evening, October 25. i The initial session will ensue at 2:30 I p. m. and as the fondl ing program [ indicates, Rev. L. C. Hessert, Rev. Wise, A. Van Camp and Hon. Clark J. Lutz of Decatur are scheduled for addresses: Song Calvary school Prayer R ev . C. L. Marsh 2:30 p. m. Music Calvary School Sunday School Mission Rev. L. C. Hessert Music Bobo U. B. School Addressßev. Wise. C. L. Marsh Musicßobo M. E. School Offering. Benediction. 7:00 p. m. Music ....7 Calvary School Prayer a. Van Camp Music St. Paul School A Temperance TalkA. Van Camp Music. .Baptist Schcol. Pleasant Mills Address Hon. Clark Lutz Subject: Duty of Parent to Sunday Sdhoqj. Song . ,M. E. School, Pleasant Mills Election of Officers Benediction The officers urge that all w|jo can attend and enjoy the excellent program. PHI CtF HONORS I For Mr. Otto Peters, a Decatur Boy, Now at Willshire GOES TO COLUMBUS Will Conduct Initiation Exercises and Deliver Address Otto Peters, manager of the Holthouse Drug Co.'s store at this place, will leave Friday morning for Columbus, where he will conduct the initiation exercises of the Phi Chi fraternity that evening, at which meeting ' twelve new members will be initiated into that society. The Phi Chi is a ' fraternity to which only students of the pharmaceutical and chemidal classes of the colleges and universities are eligible, and numbers fourteen chapters in different parts of the United States. President Roosevelt is a past member of the fraternity. This is the national gathering of this fraternity of which Mr. Peters held the office of Grand Worthy Keeper of Records and Seals, last year. He will also take in the football game between Michigan and Ohio State universify Saturday, On Monday evening he wdll give the welcoming address to the Ohio State university Pharmaceutical asociatinn of which he was secretary last year, and attend the annual banquet given to the exmembers of this association. While in Columbus Mr. Peters will also buy the holiday goods for the store. During his absence L. H. Klinhenz, of Decatur, vice-president of the Holthouse Drug Co., will be in charge of the store here. Mr. Peters will be gone about a week.—Willshire Herald. A letter was received from Frank who is at Memphis, Tenn., stating that things are pretty lively there at present, as the night riders are at it again about sixty miles from there. He says it has been very hot there the last few days. The cotton crop was very heavy there this year and the niggers will be kept busy for about six weeks yet picking it.

WILL BUILD NEW ELEVATOR W. A. Dull, of Willshire, Lets the Contract, W. A. Dull has let the contract for his new elevator and the grist mill building to the Burrell Engineering and Construction Co., of Chicago, wh j contract to have it up and the ele vator running by the first of January. The building will be 43x50 and 55 feet high, making a larger mill than the old one. The building will be of the cribbed construction and covered with galvanized steel both on the sides and roof. The building will have a capacity of seventeen thousand bushels, and the engine will be seventy-five horse power. All the people will be pleased to see the new elevator going up, and when completed will be one es the most up-to-date around here. —Willshire Herald. CHRONIC THIEVERY Contemptible Work of Robbers is Arousing Indignity of Decatur People ANOTHER ATTEMPT Simeon J. Haines Meat Market Again Subject for Thieves’ Work « Thieving in Decatur has assumed a chronic nature and the boldness of the culprits is obvious. Relentlessly either home talent or an organized gang is getting in its work in Decatur and although the burglaries of this week have not resulted seriously, the prevalent crookedness has assumed dangerous dimensions to an extent which solicits a vigirous campaign for the abolition of the disgraceful practice. The pillaging of four Decatur busness , houses Wednesday night, as it now . appears, was but a pretext of the plundering which is scheduled for this I winter when strenuosity in times will even surpass that of the present time, not perhaps in Decatur,’but in contiguous manufacturing cities, where it is believed bands of outlaws will organize. Again last night a bold attempt was made to enter the meat market of Simeon J. Haines on Monroe street and with the absence M a water pipe extending from the rear of the meat Shop to the living apartment, the , crooks would have accomplished their purpose. It was but a few moments past midnight that Mrs. Stoneburner heard rattling of the water pipe Wn their home, which connects with the pipe connecting the meat market and which is laid a few feet above the ground at the rear of the shop. She was aroused by the noise and awakened her busband, the two instituted a search of their household. Finding no evidence of intruders they retired only to hear a repetition of the noise of the pipe and it was then that [ Mr. Stoneburner realized the source of the disturbance. Securing his re- ' volver he proceeded to exit from the rear door and in doing so he upset a chair which gave the robbers a cue [ to make their get away, but Mr. Stoneburner reached the outside in time to see one of the fleeing crooks. He stood there fifteen minutes, while Mrs. Stoneburner called the police, but no further trace of the men could be found. Warren Wilkinson, a young man residing in the west part of the city, caused considerable excitement last night when, at ten o’clock, he said he saw a robber in the Laman & Lee hardware store. Police were called and with Mr ILee made an investigation with no evidences of visits from intruders. Mr. Lee remained at the store for two hours. It is high time that stringent measures be resorted to in preventing the dastardly practice, that life and property will not be in jeopady. CLUB MEETING. The members of the Root Tp. 30c. ' Club are requested to meet at Wil- ; Hams Saturday, Oct. 24th, also at the 1 Abers school house Oct. 26th to make ■ arrangements for Marshall Day. i Chas. Getting, Pres. i Chas. Magley, Sec. j o < Mrs. Joseph Hocker returned to Mon- i roe this afternoon, after a pleasant ( visit w-ith her nephew, Chas. Hocker t and family. j

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REAL ENGINEERING Bert Segur is Getting Great Experiences as Civil Engineer in Philippines HAVE CHINESE COOK Another Interesting Letter from the Former Adams County Boy Lobok, Bohole. P. 1., Sept, 6. Dear Father—This is Sunday again and here I am. W e have been running preliminary lines for four days trying to get out of town and ain't out yet. The hills around here don't seem to Tfave enough saddles to get over on a top grade, and not have a long stretch of useless road. That is our business, though, and I guess we can solve it. I am trying to get the foreman to use a zigzag but they don't like to let the effort to get up the hill become so apparent. I think though, that that is what will be used. This is civil engineering right. Go out and start in a line. Don't know where you are or where you are going. Much of the ground never been trodden under the foot of man, little of it ever seen the foot of a white man and finally land where you wish to go. The people around here are anxious for the road. We are staying in the Padre's (Catholic priest’s) house. Our capataz (foreman‘of native labor) is the son of the treasurer, and one of the most helpful men we have found is the town presidente (mayor). The only other white man in the town is the school superintendent. I don’t begrudge these school teachers their job. This man has been here for two years, with nothing to associate with except a lot of discharged soldiers (who have missed too many boats). The engineers have it much better than the teachers. We have a Chinese cook with us and a native boy to wait on the cook. This is certainly solid comfort compared w-ith the camp. I don't know what it will be when we get out in tents oht of town here. In our work we get to travel al', over the islands. Perhaps you would like to know something of our trip over here and the preparations. Last Sunday evening we packed our grips and trunks. Each man was allowed two pieces of baggage, one suit case with our clothes and a pack containing our soldier cot and blankets. The next a. m. we loaded the grips, supplies on the wagons and started them for Cebu. The Philippine members of the party rode in on the wagon. The Americans went in on the automibel. At Cebu we got into a steam launch. We had no more than gotten into bed (on cots stretched out on the deck for first class passengers) when it started cne of the . rains that are only found in the tropics and the canvass started to leak. T moved my cot to a better place and put my rain cape over me, and slept. The next a, .m, everything had cleared up and we were well on our way. We landed in Loay about noon. After having the natives unload our grips, we went over to the house of an American foreman, had dinner, and got ready to go inland. The next morning we loaded the goods and natives onto a banca (canoe with bamboo outriggers) and started them rowing up the river and we walked to Lobok. There wo found the schoolmaster and presidente and got ready for our work here. We will be up in cool country before long 1,200 feet. One of our lines was so steep that we had to travel by means of sticks and hold onto trees to keep from falling into the river. So long. BERT. o IS RAPIDLY IMPROVING. Orville Wright. Great Aeronaut is Recovering. • Washington. Oct. 22. —Orville Wright the aeronaut, who has been in the hospital at Fort Meyer ever since the accident to his aeroplane on September 17, when Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge met his death, is rapidly improving. He is expected to be able to move about with the aid of crutches in • a few days and his sister. Miss Catherine Wright, plans to take her brother to their Dayton home by the end of next week. It will probably be a long time before he is able to make any flights in his aeroplane.