Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 308, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 308.

IIN CIRCUIT COURT i ■ Mrs. Savine Allowed $l5O i to Conduct Suit Against ' Husband ■ * ■ € ■the page case I I t I ■ rig Claim Was Before Court r ■ Today—Other Items of IT. . ‘ Interest t ■ ■ 9 In the Elizabeth A. Savine vs. John 1 ■Savine divorce case, a motion for a ( ■s2oo allowance with which plaintiff is < Mio conduct her case was filed and susMtained for $l5O, same ordered paid s ■■within ten days. Peterson & Moran ■ ■)u.ve appeared for the defendant and c Bit promises to be a law suit. 1 I S Wisconsin Lumber Co. vs. Cardwell < Mitox Co., suit on drafts, demand $l,lOO, t ■assigned to Judge John LaFollette for I tMirial, who assumed jurisdiction. i ■ E. P. Reed & Co. vs. Fred B. Tague s on account, demurrer overruled. 'SI Charles Page vs - Christine R. Nib- j ■lick, admx., claim $8,500. Defendant T. Vail appears specially and ■files motion to quash service as to him. appearance by John W. Vail ' Mend motion to set aside service and ■quash summons. Special appearance Fort Wayne Cooperage Co. and to quash summons. The moM.b ns to quash service were sustained. ;!■ Judge LaFollette, of Portland, At- . ■ciiiey Lesh of Huntington and Judge Ml'esey, of Fort Wayne, were looking business in the Adams circuit ■court today. M marr >age license was issued to a Amish couple, their names beMng Joseph J. Swartz, 23, a carpenter, Lizzie E. Graber, 18, both of MonMfoe township. M Heal estate transfers: Decatur Egg ■ci.se Co. to Jacob Isch, 40 acres in township, $3,000. o — ■rev.myersanduhl i ■Well Known Ministers DeI livered Sermons in the City Swell received ■<ev. Myers Preached at M. E. Church—Rev. Un! at j Presbyterian | B Rev. Uhl, son-in-law of John Chrisi of Decatur, who now holds an I uortant charge, at Mansfield, Ohio, his every auditor in an adi at the local Presbyterian church evening. Selecting as his theme I Mcod chooses the little things of the I ■arth with which to accomplish the I r<?at ” the able minister P resented t which found lodgment in the | and minds of all. His clever I and logical statements found I to every member of the audiRev. Uhl was enthusiastically | and would be welcomed again j speak from a Decatur pulpit. I I Rev. Hunter Myers, son of Mr. and | Sirs. W. J. Myers, of Decatur, who I ■ulds a charge at Montpelier, dellvI excellent sermons at the M. E. I yesterday morning and even I Mng. His discourses were of the real I nature, and were well reI ■lived by the vast audiences which him. I | ——° " ' I I A. C. Leach, of Mansfield. Ohio, who 5 been visiting his daughter, Mrs. I ■ E. Suttles here for several days. ■ Me r > Saturday fori Chicago. From there g Me will go to Hampton, 111., and from ■ ■here to Wisconsin making extensive 8 Mbits at each place, and returning ■ in a month or six weeks for S visit with his daughter be « returning to his home in the UMluckeye state.

COST $12,000 TO COLLECT $2 Two Fines of $1 Each Net Result of Sunday Theater Crusade. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 27—Two dollars in fines is the only offset the county has to show for an expenditure of more than $12,000 in prosecuting Kansas City theatrical managers for keeping their places of amusement open on Sunday. These cases, it is believed. will end the the crusade inaugurated by Judge Wallace against the theaters, as the judge retires before Jan. 1, when, it Is believed, the 2,500 remaining cases will be dismissed. The fines paid were $1 each in the case of Thomas L. Taafe and L. A. Keller, ticket sellers respectively at the Century and Orpheum theaters. Motions for new trials were pending In each case, but as neither of the men wished his name to appear in the records of the supreme court as party to a criminal case the fines were paid. Judge Wallace started his Sunday crusade nearly fourteen months ago. During that time approximately 4.500 indictments have been returned for violations of the Sunday closing laws as interpreted by Judge Wallace. Twenty cases have been tried, resulting in two convictions, with fines of $1 each. More than 2,000 cases have been dismissed by Prosecuting Attorney Kimbrell, who declared the evidence insufficient to convict.

PROF. LUCKY HERE Former County Superintendent of Adams Co. Schools Now College Instructor HE WAS ABROAD Last Year in the Interest of American Colleges—Visiting Here Professor George Lucky, wife and children, of Lincoln, Neb., arrived in the city Saturday evening for a week’s visit with their many friends and relatives in Adams county. That this estimable family is being entrtained in fills county diverts the minds of the people to a time years ago when Mr. Lucky was professor of the Decatur public schools and his wife principal, simultaneously. It will also be remembered that Mr. Lucky served as county- superintendent here for some time. Since then he has. step by step, gained imperishable' renown as a college professor and at the present time is recognized as one of the oldest instructors in the University of Nebraska. At the annual meeting of the Amrican Instructors' association held at Boston, Mass., Mr. Lucky was chosen to tour Europe in the interest of American colleges, to glean facts in regard to systems of education which may be emploved to an advantage in the United States. He made an extensive tom in the foreign land, visiting England, Paris and many other places. The Adams county friends of Mr. Lucky, and they are innumerable, are pleased to learn that he has won a well earned fame as an educational man.

FT. WAYNE BUILDERS ACTIVE Permits Show Property Valued at sl,500,000 Has Been Erested in Year. Ft. Wayne. Ind.. Dec. 27.—That the closing year was a good one for building in Fort Wayne is shown by the fact that the aggregate value of new buildings, according to the permits issued at the city hall, will be close to $1,500,000. The full value of a building is never given In a permit. Clerk Henry W. Becker of the department says the t<£l cost of new buildings, as shown by the permits up to date this year, is $1,406,060, as compared to $1,195,630 last year. o — MAN FACES MANY ARRESTS. Affidavits Claiming He Beat Board Bill Wait for His Release. Shelbyville, Ind., Dec. 27—When Frank Hanly is released from jail next Wednesday after boarding ten days off the county h e will be re-arrested on an affidavit filed by Mrs. Ella Sullivan, charging him with heating her out of a board bill, and if that fine and costs are laid out he will be arrested for alleged defrauding Mrs. Kate Howe out of a board bill. Hanly is in jail serving ten days for defrauding Mrs. William Wright - out of a board bill. |

NOT IN THE WAY Senate Republicans Will Not Block County Option Repeal THEY HAVE ENOUGH Each Member Will Be Permitted to Vote as He Pleases Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 28. —That the Republican members of the Indiana senate will not stand in the way of the repeal of the county local option law is the belief of a great many especially since the meeting Saturday of the Republican committee of the senate. While the purpose of the meeting was the appointment of the different senate committees, yet it is understood a legislative program was informally gone ove:’. It is said this committee, which is composed of Senators Bland, Wood and Springer, had been in communication with their colleagues from over the state regarding prospective legislation and there is a sentiment, it was said, that if the Democrats in the legislature wanted to repeal the county local option law the Republicans should not stand in the way. “The party whip will be thrown under the table,” was the way one senator reported to ,have expressed himself when asked what the Republicans would do about repealing the law. Many Republicans in the senate believe the enactment of the coupty local option law at the special session of the legislature was a mistake, and some have expressed themselves In favor of Its repeal. It is said. Senator Mattingly, who Is strongly in favor of temperance, will likely be chairman of the committee on public morals, and it is understood he is in favor of making changes in the law. Nothing definite was given out by the committee regarding the appt Intments that were under consideration, but is believed that Senator Bland will be made chairman of the finance committee and Senator Hanna chairman of the committee on benevolent institutions. Senator Bland will likely be a member of the finance committee, but his experience especially fits him for the benevolent institution committee.

THE FINAL STRAW Joe Eley Drove His Wife Away From Home on Christmas Eve AND SHE RETALIATES By Filing a Divorce Suit— Wants Alimony and the Children The fanfily troubles of Joe and Bertha Eley will now be aired in circuit court. For several years they have figured more or less in police court, but this is the first time they have broken into the higher hall of justice. This morning Peterson & Moran as attorneys for Mrs. Eley filed a suit for divorce from her husband, Joseph. The complaint shows that they were married March 20, 1889, nearly twenty years ago, and lived together until the day before Christmas, They seem to have lived happily enough until three years ago, when Joe went to drinking heavily. He is accused of being an habitual drunkard, of beating his wife, cursing her, driving her away from home at night under threat of violence, failure to support and of even accusing his wife of infidelity. Mrs. Eley says that for six years she has made the living by taking in washings and going out to work. On December 24th Joe drove his wife from home and she has retaliated by filing this suit. They have three children, Elsie aged eighteen and married. Jennie aged fourteen and Robert aged eleven. Mrs. Eley asks for the custody of the two younger children, fop a divorce and for S2OO alimony, also for $l2O per year for the maintenance of the two children.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, December 28, 1908.

WANTS THE LAW REPEALED. Hotel Keepers Association Do Not Like Local Option Law. Indianapolis, Dec. 28.—The repeal of the county local option law will be one of the principal topics of discussior among the members of the Indiana Hotel Keepers - association,which convenes in the Claypool Hotel today. Practically without exception the members of the association are in favor of seeing the law stricken from the statute books. The hotel keepers were active at the special session of the legislature, working to defeat the passage of the bill. Undaunted by their failure to accomplish the desired ends at the special session, the association will select another lobby to go into the regular session next mctifh if there is a possibility of securing the repeal of the measure. If, however, there appears to be no chance to accomplish the ends desired, the hotel keepers will probably give up the fight and make the best or it. It is known that in the event of a town voting “dry” under the county unit law the revenues of the hotel are materially reduced, and examples are cited by members of the association where hotels have passed Into the hands of receive k as the result of the elimination of the sales from the bar.

IS A NEW FEATURE J. R. Fink, of Fort Wayne, Has Assumed Position of Traveling Freight Agent FOR THE INTERURBAN Results Have Been Obtained From His Efforts Already ? new feature added to the business interests of the Fort Wayne and Springfield interurban copany, which has been the source of a noticeable increase in the freight business, is the employing of a traveling freight agent in the person of J. R. Fink, of Fort Wayne. Mr. Fink, who is a young man of energy and thoroughly versed in the freight business, assumed his new position two vfeeks ago, and results have already been obtained from his efforts. The duties ho discharges a-o those which pertain to soliciting freight from Decatur merchants and Fort Wayne wholesalers as well as business men from other cities who ship goods to Decatur. The Fort Wayne and Springfield people are featuring the carrying of freight and are not only competing in price with steam roads, but are striving to give good service between Decatur and the summit city. Although Auditor Kataheinrich as yet, has not compiled the monthly report for December, a safe estimate shows an increase in business over the preceding months, of at least six per cent. Decatur welcomes Mr. Fink to her midst.

Nothing in regard to the extension of the local traction line has been done of late, and facts regarding the intentions of the promoters are not obtainable at this time. met with the board today Commissioner Laughlin Able to Be Present at Board Meeting. Commsisioner Martin Laughlin was in his place at the session of the county commissioners today and while he is not in his old time form, yet his recovery Is assured, although it will be some time before he will be entirely free from the effects of the illness. It was the first time that Mr. Laughlin had ever been under the care of a physician and that fact made the attack seem all the more severe. Recovery from such an attack is slow and it is hard one day to notice any improvement over the day before, but care and a lot of patience will do the work. The many friends of Mr. Laughlin are keeping that gentleman busy responding to sympathy expressed with the added hope that he will soon be right side up and as good as ever. o Several social events for the girls from college are being planned for this week, at all of which a very delightful time will be had no doubt.

BE PASSED OVER Neither Party Can Gain the Advantage of a Gerrymander V7OULD LIKE TO Both Parties Would Like to Draw New Legislative i Lines Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 28.—Whether or not an attempt will be made to reapportion the state for legislative purposes will be determined within the next month. It is possible that the entire matter may be passed over un--I*l the next session, inasmuch as the Democrats are in the saddle in the house,while the Republicans have control of the senate. If the Democrats had elected three more members of the senate they could have put into effect a gerrymander that would have given them control of the legislature for an indefinite period. It is understood that the Republican leaders had tentative plans for a re-apportionment that would have made it even more difficult for the Democrats to gain control of the legislature than it is now. Under the present circumstances if there is to be a re-apportionment it wih be along lines that will not give either side a decided advantage. No re-apportionment bill that is unfair can be adopted with the Democrats able to block It in the house and the Republicans ready to retaliate in the senate. There has been a suggestion during the l a »t two or three weeks of a joint meeting of Republican and Democratic leaders for the purpose of submitting a re-aportpionment bill that will more evenly distribute the voting population than it is at present. That is believed now to be the only hope of reaching an agreement. The law provides for a legislative re-apportion-ment every six years. If, however, It is not made at the coming session it can be passed over to the next one, which, it is thought, will be the scheme of the Republicans, who are in hopes of being in control of both branches then.

: IT WAS SAD NEWS s / — - Fred Smith, Motorman on ? Traction Line Hears of Father’s Death r■ . - k , RECEIVED TELEGRAM • His Aged Parent Passed 5 Into Eternity Last Even- , ing—7o Years Old Fred Smith, motorman on the Fort Wayne and Springfield interurban, rei ceivefi a telegram this morning con- . veying the sad news of the death of his aged father at Churubusco, which occurred last evening. The decedant, 70 years of age, was taken ill last Msrch from a complication of diseases which baffled the physicians, and his condition assumed a seriousness which human effort could not relieve and he has slowly but surely declined until death came as relief from the Intense suffering. Senility played its part in the demise of the most highly respected man, but the Infirmities of a ripe old age came only as a secondary cause, after the inception of excruciating ailments. Mr. Smith left today for Churubusco, where he will remain to attend the funeral of his parent. His Decatur friends extend their sympathies to him in his hour of profound sorrow and bereavement. o Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Headricks, Monroe, Ind., entertained Christmas for dinner Mis. Herb Majors, Cleora and Geraldine, Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kopp, Preble; Mr. Omer Banta. ' A fine dinner was served with an ■ eighteen pound turkey. An enjoyable time was had in the evening by Misses Mabel Hocker, Florence and Fern Hendricks, Messrs. Archie Bailey, Leo Scherer and Chester Hendricks.

AGAINST POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS Congressman-elect Korbly Talks to Democratic Club. Indianapolis, Dec. 28. —Holding it is not the province of the national government to go into the banking business, Congress-elect Korbly, In a talk before the members of the Indiana Democratic Club last night, said he wculd not vote for any measure that may be offered in congress looking to the establishment of postal savings barks. He declared that the passage of a law authorizing the guarantee of bank deposits is a much more needed measure. “The proposed postal savings banks is merely an effort to meet the proposition of guaranteeing bank deposits,” said Mr. Korbly. “Personally, I am opposed to the postal savings bank. I am a Democrat and Ido not believe that the government ought to be asked to do for the people what they are able to do for themselves. Py the establishment of the postal banks the government will be placed 'n the banking business, and God knows the government ought not to be in that business. As your member of congress I will say now that I am against the postal savings bank.”

BIGGEST IN WORLD Is the Power House in Which Charles Knapp Will Work AFTER JANUARY IST At Gary, Ind.—He is Climbing Ladder of Success Very Rapidly Charles Knapp, a graduate from Purdue, and one of Decatur's foremost .young is enjoying ain abundance of prosperity at the new city of Gary in the capacity of an electrical engineer and his Decatur friends are bestowing congratulations upon him for his ability in ascending the ladder of success so rapidly. After graduating jfrom the Decatur high school with flying honors, Charles entered Purdue university, and by diligent work acquired a remarkable knowledge 'of electrical enginering. After his graduation from this institution he accepted a position in an electrical supply house at Gary, w - here bp has been employed until this time. His knowledge of engineering soon became known and as a consequence he will begin January 1, 1909, working in the Gary power house, which is the largest concern of its nature in the world. He will assume his new position with an enviable salary and h’s many friends predict his rapid advancement during the course of the next year. Decatur is certainly maintaining her reputation of producing young men of intellect and Mr. Knapp adds a link to the chain which is making our city talked of.

o WEALTHY HEIR IS VAGRANT Sentenced to Serve 180 Days in Lob Angeles Workhouse. Los Angeles, Cal.. Dec. 27. —Heir to $500,000 and entitled to a position In Baltimore society, William Jefferson Powell has been sentenced to 180 days in the workhouse on a vagrance charge. Powell is refined and well educated and says he will come into possession of his fortune at the age of 25 years. He will reach that age three months after he is released from the werkhouse. Powell's parents are dead and he ran away from his guardian in 1903, enlisting in the Eighteenth Battery, Field Artillery, and was sent to the Philippines. Later he was sent to Vancouver Barracks, Washington. o Mr. and Mrs. M. V. B. Archbold and two sons Harry and Rella and Miss Leona Clark, of Fort Wayne, and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Murphy of this city were the guests today at a big dinner given at the home of Mr. James L. Edge, of north Fifth street, the occasion being that gentleman’s seventyfifth birthday. Os course the affair was a thoroughly enjoyable one. Mr. Edge is the father of Mrs. Archbold.

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NEWS BOYS FEAST Was Given by Dick Townsend at His Peoria Hotel HAD A GREAT TIME Two Hundred Newsies Filled the Dining Room and Themselves Dick Townsend, a native of this city and for years owner and manager of the Burt House, now conducts the National, at Peoria, Illinois. As in former years, one does not have to be a millionaire patron to secure Dicks good will. Recently he gave a big Christmas dinner to the newsboys of his city, which was describea as follows in the Peoria Star:

’ Twenty-five tables groaning beneath the weight of the delicacies of the . season, and each surrounded by eight ravenous newsboys ang newspaper carriers to the number of 200 in all, > was the unusual sight presented in I the dining room at the National hotel last night when the genial Dick Townsend gave his Christmas dinner to the newsies. Just before 8 o’clock a p:n1 cession of seventy-five boys who had been lind up in front of The Star office marched along Jefferson avenue to Hamilton street, where they were joined by fifty of the boys who deliver and sell the Journal. They marched , around the court house square and in reaching the corner of Main and Jefferson the line was swelled by fifty boys from the Herald-T-anscript. In . front of the Y. M. C. A. building the boys entertained the idea that the first to reach the hotel would get the best seats and in a moment the ranks were broken and with yells that could be heard foil blocks they stampeded for the hotel entrance. There they were halted by the circulation mana- - gers of each newspaper who had charge of the squad and were marched up stairs and into the dining room (Contis o«4 on Page Two) 1 —o I ILL BUT TWO DAYS --- - I Raymond Stalter, of Peterson, a Victim of Pneumonia WAS BURIED TODAY Was Picture of Health But Disease Soon Proved Fatal The funeral services for Raymond Stalter, a well known lad of Peterson, were conducted this afternoon at two o’clock at the Antioch church and the remains laid to rest at the cemetery near by. The boy who was thirteen years old. died Saturday morning at eleven o'clock after an Illness of but two days, death resulting from pneumonia.. He was the very picture of health, weighing 160 pounds, a remarkable size for one of hts years, but the dread disease soon caused death. He was a Son of Enos Stalter. who lives at Elkhart. Indiana, the boy having since the death of his mother several years ago lived with his aunts, the Brown sisters at Peterson. He was loved by the many who knew him and his death after so short an Illness caused much sorrow. Besides his father he is survived by several stepsisters and brothers. —o - —— CHINESE NATIVES IN RIOT. They Disregard Orders to Cease Planting Opium Poppies. Amoy. Dec. 27.—Orders were I ssued Saturday to a number of natives at Tvngan, twenty miles north of Amoy, to cease planting opium popies ey declined to acquiesce a a ,0 0 lowed, in which one officer and en civilians were killed. The POP U a’’ of Tungan is up in arms and • troops hav e been sent there to re ® order. The authorities announce determination to enforce (he opium edict