Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 8.

EVERY ONE A STAR Second Performance of the Elks Minstrel Last Evening A CROWDED HOUSE The Show this Year Was the Best That Ever Happened Every one was a finished star again. The second and last appearance for the season of 1909 of the best, players for the best people held the audience spell bound at the Bosse opera house last night. It was home talent in every sense of the term, except that it was so splendid. Every turn was clever, the makup was good, the jokes were new and all in all the second annual Elks minstrel show' takes its place in history as a rip snapping corker. Especial mention is deserving and we take pleasure in recommending Dr. Coverdale as really the starest of the stairs. He had some mighty close seconds but the Dr. really has much genius as a really clever actor. If he ever forgets how to administer in apothecary doses, or duils the surgeon’s saw, he can make money on the stage. All the others, however, either in black, tan or the common white, were good and the audience that packed the favorite playhouse, for two hours or longer forgot their troubles and lived for the joy of it. Mr. Frank E. France is right at home as interlocutor, and he played it with that dignity—some one has to have dignity—that made him prominent and good to look at. The ends, both ends and the bitter end was all worthy of a place and extended flowery eulogy. The stage settings, the decorations and the arrangements from George Maddy up—or down— were perfect and in accord. Not even . ot.ce were there any evidence of misplaced confidence. The scenes shift(Continued on page 4.) SUFFERINGS OVER Jesse W. Stoneburner Died this Morning After Long Illness WAS SICK A YEAR Was Well Known—Funeral Services Monday Morning Jesse W. Stoneburner, one of the best known citizens of the county, died at 7:15 o’clock this morning, at his home in Kirkland township, after suffering for a year from a complication of dropsy and cancer of the liver. Mr. Stoneburner was a leader in the Dunkard church and was one of the most popular men of his comn.unity. He was born in Fairfield, county, Ohio, February 9, 1850, and in just one month would have reached •his fifty-ninth birthday. He came to Adams county with his parents for-ty-seven years ago, and has since made his home in this locality. He is survived by the widow and seven children, all of whom live in this county and who are Amos, Floyd and Miles and Mrs. Viola Peterstein, Mrs. Mary Dilling, and the Misses Victoria and Alice Stoneburner. Three children have preceded the father to the great beyond. o<her (relatives are three brothers, John, Joseph and Abraham and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Woodward and Mrs. William Kitson r-f this city. The funeral services will be held Monday, leaving the home at ten o’clock. The services will be held at the Pleasant Dale church and interment will be made at the cemetery nearby. o ■ Revival meetings are being held at the Salem church two miles east of Decatur. Good interest and attendance is shown. These meetings will continue through the week. Everybody invited. D. O. Wise, Pastor. |

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| URGES A BANK DEPOSIT LAW Nebraska Now Has a Democratic Governor. • Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 9. —At the joint session of the house and senate Ashton C. Shallenbarger, democrat, was inaugurated governor of Nebraska. In his message Governor Shallenbarger urged the passage of a bank deposit guaranty act, advised strict I economy and asked for several amendments to the primary law. Governor Shallenbarger - declares that , he believes no new or radical legislation is needed at the present time, but that energy should be directed toward amending, improving or correcting the existing laws. He admits that the banking laws of Nebraska might be improved and asserts that . it is a reflection upon our American ■ civilization and business methods to longer fail to provide insurance guar- . anty fund and banking law in a Nebraska bank absolutely sure of be- , Ing returned to its ’lawful owner when it shall be demanded. THEY Will CAUCUS The First 'Senatorial Caucus Comes Next Wednesday A MERRY FIGHT Each and Every Candidate Making a Game Fight Indianapolis, January 9. —Great interest in the legislature yesterday centered in the decision of the Democrats to hold a joint senatorial caucus next Wednesday evening. Shortly after the assembly convened at 10 o’clock yesterday the house met in joint session to receive the message of Governor Hanly. Its reading,which was oy tne executive himself, occupied ninety minutes. Probably the most interesting portion was the extended section relating to county local option, which was warmly championed. Another recommendation that attracted much attention was that for another penal institution. Upon the conclusion of the reading of the message, both houses adjourned until 10 o’clock Monday. That the senatorial candidacy of John W. Kern has gained strength within the last fortyeight hours is the belief of most of the Democratic leaders congregated about the Denison Hotel. Chief among the causes for the rise in the hopes of the Kern men, who are now predicting that Kern will have thirtyfive votes on the first ballot, and will be able to land the nomination on the second ballot, is the decision for the caucus next Wednesday evening. The early caucus, it is believed, will greatly facilitate the nomination of Kern, for the reason that it will afford the other candidates in the field less time to pull strength away from him, and will afford those who -would like to turn the race into a Taggart and an anti-Taggart fight less time in which to bring about such a condition. The caucus will be a joint caucus of the house and the senate Democrats. The call of the house was issued yesterday afternoon and was signed by Speaker Honan, Senator Evan B. iStotsenberg, joint caucus chairman of the Democrats. Senator Carroll K. McCullough, Democratic caucus chairman of the senate; Representative. John Sweeney, chairman of the special session house caucus; Senator Frank Kistler, Democratic floor leader in the senate, and Representative Harry G. Strickland, who (presided |at the Democratic house caucus Wednesday evening. ■ o MISS GLADYS MANN VERY ILL Her Recovery Impossible—WellKnown Here. Miss Anna Winnes has received a letter from her sister, Mrs. Hugh Miller, of (stating ttjiat Miss Gladys Mann is lying at the point of death. Her recovery is impossible and the end may occur at any moment. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mann, formerly of this p’ace, and has been an invalid for many years, ever since she was six years old, when she received an injury Itc the spine. She is quite well known in this city.

AS A FILE CLERK t John H. Heller Receives an Appointment IS MAKING GOOD t Representative Gottschalk is Mixing , Well i _____ i Mr. John H. Heller of the Democrat > staff, will be the file clerk for the house of representatives in the Indiana general assembly. His appointment has been made, and he is today receiving the congratulations of his friends. . The place is a responsible 1 one, pays well and every one that ’ knows him, are certain of the fact that no better man could have been found if the state had been raked clean, and that with a fine tooth comb. He assumes charge of the place at the convening of the legislative session on Monday morning, and will be in constant attendance during the entire sessions of the asb sembly which lasts sixty-one days, beginning last Thursday. The place is appointive and again shows that Adams county usually gets what she , goes after. Representative Gottschalk is taking well with the members of the legislature, and will occupy a prominent place before the time of adjournment comes. He is agreeable and already showing many points that • go to make a good and fearless legislator. Chief Clerk Vizard came home to spend Sunday with his family and he 1 will return Monday to assume the duties incumbent with his responsi- , bio place in the working of the lower branch of the general assembly. Adams county will have a good working force during this session. o THEY MAY TAKE IT Wheat and Sisk May Yet Build the Roads ANOTHER ELECTION Subsidy Election Commissioners Are Appointed The commissioners were in session this morning, and the Wheat & Sisk macadam road contracts were again threshed over. Roscoe Wheat an attorney from Portland, was present and represented the contractors. He went home this afternoon and immediately thereafter will call the auditor by telephone and then either accept or reject their own contract. It is thought however, that they will accept and that the contracts will be signed and the work done as originally agreed. The matter has been hanging fire since the December session of the commissioners court and the board is anxious to bring the matter to a fccus. Clerk Haefling has named R. S. Pet- ' erson and David E. Smith as the election commissioners who >will have in charge the election for the Bluffton, Berne & Celina Traction company subsidy. The two commissioners are the same as acted at the general election last fall, in fact they have begun to be known as these officers, and are gcod ones, too. The subsidy election will be carried on the same as the real thing, everything being in accordance with the general election laws. The date is Monday, February 8, and effects the townships of French. Monroe and Jefferson. Harrison township, Bluffton, will vote on the same day. o——————— The poultry show closes at Berne today after registering a marked success in # the excellent exhibition. It was the most successful event of its nature ever held in old Adam.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, January 9, 1909.

®TSSoLJS PEOPLE]® BY FANNIE M LOTHROP / ■ ; ’ A \ / \ '■ ' - \ /w A I ‘ - > \ / \ / 1 X« - - Photo by Johnston & Hoffmann, India. SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN A Canadian Author now in India. In Simla, that famous India town, perched on a ridge connecting two peaks 1 ,of the Himalayas and half-hidden by its wealth of tall dark firs—a town that Rudyard Kipling advertised as no other town has ever been—lives Mrs. Everard Charles Cotes, the popular Canadian writer, better known by her maiden name, Sara Jeanette Duncan. Mrs. Cotes was born in Brantford, Ont., in 1862, the eldest daughter of Charles Duncan, Esq., and received her education in the public schools and the Collegiate Institute of her native town. She tried teaching for a time, but soon discovered that she had talent for writing which was clamoring for development, so she bade ■ the children good-bye with pathos in her voice but a feeling of joyous relief in 1 her heart and started into literature. Some win literary success in a single bold, brilliant charge; to others the publishers and public surrender only after a long, hard siege—as Mrs. Cotes found it. Her verse and prose seemed to have the unerring instinct of the homing pigeon, for wherever she sent them th jy always came back. Then she determined to enter literature by its back door—journalism. She wrote a series of syndicate letters about the New Orleans Cotton Centennial which she actually sold. Then, after a period of editorial training on the “Washington Post” she returned to Toronto and contributed to Canadian papers. Her work as parliamentary correspondent of the “Montreal Star” attracted attention and some delightful essays for “The Week” showed her in a new vein. In 1888, with Miss Lily Lewis she made a trip around the world, writing syndicate articles along the way and in 1890 -irst hit the target of literary success with her unconventional book of travels “A Social Departure; How Orthodosia and I Went Round the World,” the first of het ten or more books, all breezy, chatty stories that reflect her personality as naturally as a rose-jar suggests roses. While girdling the earth she found what determined her life.- She met in Calcutta, Mr. Cotes, a professor who had a scientific connection with the Indian i Museum and had won reputation in his special field of research, Indian entomology. She returned to Canada, but in 1891 they were married and Mrs. Cotes wen* back to India. Her writing has vivacity, wit, humor, brilliancy and the charm of frank naturalness, with the happy knack of hitting off a character or a scene in a few vivid strokes, the same characteristic that makes Kipling’s sketches so real, graphic and seemingly spontaneous. In India Mrs. Cotes has been.engaged in editorial and general literary work, and this transplanted Canadian has lost none of her sparkle, energy and charm in the new life and romantic setting of old India. Copyright, 1906, by Wm. C. Mack.

i AN EMPLOYERS .LIABILITY BILL Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 9. —Senator Oscar E. Bland, of Linton, will introduce an employers liability bill which is expected to prove one of the most important pieces of legislation to come before the sixty-sixth session. The supreme court ruled that the last Indiana employers’ liability law was unconstitutional. The law was drawn to refer only to railroads and municipalities. Senator Bland believes he has removed all the features to which the court objected—and z give a fair deal. ■ o HIS HAND CRUSHED Gus Miller, Employe at Ward Fence Factory, Was Injured THIS MORNING His Hand Was Badly Mangled—He Will Go Home Gus Miller, of Marion, employed as weaves on the farm loom at the Ward Fence factory, received injuries this morning which has caused him much pain. He was operating the loom when in some manner his hand was caught in the crimp roller. The bones in the hand were badly crushed nad had he not the presence of mind to reach around the machine with his disengaged hand and pulled a lever which stopped the machinery, his arm would have been torn from him in shreds. As it is the young man is congratulating himself that hi* arm was saved by his own timely work. He was taken to the office of a physician where the injury was cared for and it is thought that within a few weeks he will be able to resume duties. In the meantime he will go to his home and visit with his parents. Miller is an expert weaver and his services will be missed by the Ward Fence people during the time he is compelled to remain off duty.

CASE WILL LEAVE Robert Case and Family Will Go to Indianapolis Soon GOES INTO BUSINESS He Will Purchase a Drug Store in the Capital City —Lived Here Long Robert Case, of Magley, whose store building and surrounding structures were completely devastated by the destructive work of flames a few weeks ago, is arranging to dispose cf a portion of his property in Adams county with the view of removing his family to Indianapolis in the spring, where he will engage, conjunctively with his son in the drug business. As is generally known, his son George owns an interest in a drug store in the capital city at the present time and prior to the moving of Mr. Case and family, he will purchase another store in that city and the two will be operated under the same management. Ralph Case will graduate in pharmacy in the spring and he will at once assume duties in one of the stores and Almond the younger son will also have a position therein. As much as Adams county people regret to see this most estimable family leave their midst every citizen will join in wishing them all the success the future can hold. It will be remembered by the older people at least that Mr. Case came to this county in 1883. He at once engaged in the mercantile business and by dealing honestly with the people, he scon established a lucrative patronage, which netted him a neat fortune. In keeping with the old adage that the bitter comes with sweet, a conflagration of a few weeks ago entirely consumed the Magley buildings, together with their contents, entailing a loss of several thousand dollars. $2,500 insurance was carried i (Continued on page 2.) ’

REBUKED THE PRESIDENT Congress Got Their Dandruff Up at President Roosevelt Washington, Jan. 9. —After having made him the target all day for criticism, with here and there words of commendation, the house of representatives yesterday, by a vote of 212 to 35, rebuked the president by tabling so much of his message as reflected on members of congress in connection with his recommendations regarding the secret service detectives and also declaring to be the sense of the house that they shall decline to consider any communications from any source which is not in its own judgment respectful. With feelings of outraged dignity and pride on the part of its members, the house today gave itself up entirely to a discussion of one of the most momentous questions that ever came before it —its functions as a legislative body in contradistinction to those of the executive branch of the government. spoils won out Census Clerks to Be Appointed by the Members of Congress OUR GAS LAWS Good Enough to Pattern After—Rebuke the President Washington, Jan. 9.—Spoils and merit had the second round of their great congressional battle, and spoils won, hands down. It was a contest upon which the eyes of civil service reformers all over the country were turned, the question at issue being whether or n otlfhe dlefrks tn be employed in taking the thirteenth census next year should be chosen through competitive examinations or in conformity with the time- honored plan of the longest pole knocking the persimmons. The senate decided, as the house already had done, that these clerks, of whom there will be between 3 500 and 4,000 shall be appointed through the influence of senators and representatives —in other words, that they shall be treated as political spoils. Washington, Jan. 9.—The state of Indiana is likely to figure In an interesting way in the nation's conservation program. The Indiana law for the conservation of natural gas is pronounced by experts to be the most nearly perfect of all the statutes on that subject. Although it was passed after the Indiana supply of natural gas. or a good portion of it, had been wasted ruthlessly, it may . serve a useful purpose in being used as a model for similar statutes in other states where natural gas still exists in large quantities. Washington, Jan. 9. —Two members of the Indiana delegation—Congressman Crumpacker and Landis —voted against the adoption of the Perkins resolution which -carried with it an implied rebuke of the president. Neither made a speech although Judge Crumpacker had contemplated doing so. o ANOTHER GOOD REPORT MADE Monroe Township Comes up Smiling With a Good Report. Jacob Huser is another trustee that retires from office with a clean slate and the affairs of his township in a good condition. Monroe township beasts of not owing a dollar to any source and this, too, with a reign of improvement that denotes the right sort of progress. They have built school houses and good ones, too, they have improved their roads and kept right up to the times in every way. They have done this and yet the report that the outgoing trustee leaves, is one that can always give him pride. Trustee Beer is now in charge, and the affairs of the township is moving along without a hitch. a The bowling league will open its season here on next Tuesday evening and the present outlook is that it will be a successful season.

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PLUMS ARE DIVIDED J. H. Heller to Be File Clerk During Legislative Session THE INAUGURAL • Plans Being Made for the Inauguration of Governor Marshall Indianapolis, January 9—The plunder committee of the house yesterday announced the appointment of J. Fred France, of Huntington, defeated candidate for assistant clerk of the house, to the position of postmaster of the house. Miss Esther Mahoney formerly telephone operator at the Grand Hofei, was appointed assistant to Mfr. France. J. H. Heller, city editor of the Decatur Democrat, will be file clerk. Edward Mullen of Aydeville, who was recommended by Representative John Sweeney of Crawford and Perry counties, will be chief engrossing clerk. George A. Carr of Greenfield, who was recommended by Representative Harry Strickland, will be the chief enrolling clerk. Joseph F. Patton, who was recommended by Representative D. E. Douglass of Switzerland and Ohio counties, will be the register clerk. Ex-Representative C. O. Fleming of Hartford City has been chosen as the reading clerk. The chief journal clerk will be W. E. Peterson of Allen county, who was recommended by Representr.tive Adolph Roggen of Fort Wayne. Ray Deal of Goshen was chosen as one of the assistant journal clerks. He was recommended by Representative D. D. Rodibaugh of Elkhart county. W. H. Meyer of Indianapolis, recommended by Representative Charles (Continued oa page 3.) ■ 0 — CALL OF DEATH Is Answered by Mrs. Robert Andrews, of St. Marys Township WAS WELL KNOWN Survived by Many Relatives » and Friends—Funeral Tuesday Mrs. Mercy Ann Andrews, wife of Robert Andrews, died at nine o’clock i this morning at their home on the Andrew Teeple farm in St. Marys township. She had been ill for some time, but the announcement of her death came as a sad surprise to her many acquaintances in this city. The deceased was aged forty-eight years, three months and seventeen days and had lived in this county tor many years. She was loved by the many who knew her and they will most sincerely mourn her untimely death. The busband and several children survive her, besides a number of other relatives and many friends. The funeral services will be held Tuesday morninlg at ten o’clcok from the Methodist church at Monroe, the Rev. Jones officiating, and interment at the Ray cemetery. — -o—---1 MOVE INTO NEW BUILDING — . Hower & Hower Complete Their New Store Building. The building which has been under course of construction for some time 1 on the comer of Seventh and Monroe streets, is now completed and ready for occupancy by its owners, Hower & Hower. This firm which is now conducting a grocery on the opposite corner, will remove a portion of the their stock to the new building will add to it and handle a full line of groceries. The delivery wagon and telephone will be moved to the new - building. However they will duct a grocery in the old — — time.