Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

A Glume VII. Number 68.

DIED AT DENVER Mrs. John A. Barkley of Union Township Succumbs to Disease SUFFERINGS OVER Had Been in Poor Health Several Years—Remains to Arrive Sunday Mrs? Laura Barkley, wife of John A. Barkley, former trustee of Union ’ township, died yesterday at Denver, Colorado, where she had been for i six months past, in vain hopes of re- : gaining her’ shattered health. For five or six years this good lady had j been suffering from a disease, finally diagnosed as tuberculosis of the bowels, and though everything possible has been done to stop the ravages ’ of the malady, she gradually weakened. Last fall she was sent to Denver, and when Mr. Barkley’s term of office expired he joined her there. The news of her death came Inst evening to relatives who were great'y grieved to hear the sad message, which was, however, not unlooked for. Mrs. Barkley was well known In this l city and county. She was a sister of Mrs. R. K. Erwin of Fort Wayne, and had numerous other relatives in I this section. She was the daughter | of Wesley I. B. Wass, one of the oldest and best known fanners of Union township. She was mairied to Mr. Barkley March 18, 1885, and their entire married life has been spent on the farm, where they began housekeeping. She is survived by the husband, one son and four daughters. , The remains will arrive at Monroeville on Sunday and be conveyed from there to the home. The funeral services have not been arranged.

MRS.MAILANDDEAD Well Known Lady of this City Died this Morning \ SUFFERINGS OVER Had Been Sick for Several Years With Tuberculosis Mrs. Louis Mailand died at eleven I o’clock this morning at her home kon north Second street in this city ■ after an illness of five or six years s with tuberculosis. Though her health has been poor all these years she has borne up bravely and had been bedfast for only two weeks and up up- in her bed. The deceased had many friends here, and her death caused many hearts to be sad. She was born in Leipsic, Saxon, Germany, October 28, 1877, was educated there and camo to this country seven years ago this spring. September 27, 1904, she was married to Mr. Louis Mailand of this city, who survives her, being the only close relative in this country. Her parents, one sister and one brother reside in Germany. Her I maiden name was Marie Geathner. I She was a splendid woman, and made I friends with all whom she met. She was kind and lovable and it is sad indeed that she was called from life > just at the noontide. The funeral services will be held Tuesday, in German, from the house at 11:30 standard time, at 12:00 at the Zion Lutheran church, west Mon- • Toe street in English, and at 3:00 ; o'clock sun time at the St. church at Bingen. Rev. J. H. Klausing will officiate at all the Interment will take place at the St. John cemetery. « o ° Miss Fannie Frisinger, of Bloomington, will arrive home Friday for the spring vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Heckman will spend Sunday in Fort Wayne, the guests of Mi. and Mrs. Henry Seivers.

I. ENTERTAIN NEWSPAPER MEN Chief Ankenbruck Instigator of Grand Time. The police reporters of the Fort Wayne newspapers were guests last night of Chief of Police Ankenbruck and with the assistance of Bailiff George Strodel as chef a most elaborate supper was served. Aside from the newspaper men there were City Comptroller A. M. Schmidt, Dr. John Schilling, Louis Ankenbruck, Louis Gccke and a number of others. For several months the feast had been promised by the chief, who said he was going to show the crowd a good time, and he certainly did. The meal was a most tempting one and the manner in which it was disposed of indicated very clearly that the chief , knew just what to provide and the baliff knew just how to serve it up. The entertainment was given between 4 and 6 o'clock and it took about al! of that time to do full justice to the bill of fare. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. o TO PAY IN NOTES Teachers of Some Townships May Have to Accept Promissory Notes FOR THEIR LABORS Fund is Exhausted and Officials Are in a Quandary for Next Year Indianapolis, Majrch 19c —Attorney General Bingham has delivered to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Robert J. Aley a blank form to be used as a kind of promissory note to be delivered to public school teachers who cannot receive pay for all or part of the school terms just closing because the deficiency fund to provide for payment of public school expenses, where the local levy is not sufficient to provide a 120-day or 140day term, has been exhausted. Mr. Aley has received requisitions from township trustees to the amount of $36,449.67 which cannot be honored. There is no means of determining how many teachers will not be able to collect their money,nor of telling what sums they will lose temporarily. The purpose of the blank forms to be issued is to enable the trustees to issue certificates of security to the teachers which shall draw 6 per cent interest until paid by the state. Mr. Aley said he believed the certificates could be used as collateral by the teachers. The certificates were made necessary because in the case of townships where the trustees sent in their requisitions too late to get a part of the deficiency fund there is no money anywhere to pay the teachers. Mr. Aley has held a conference with Governor Marshall on the subject and has obtained the governor’s assurance that he will seek to have passed by the general assembly of 1911, a special appropriation ordinance to redeem the certificates. All the remaining state officers whom Mr. Al.y has consulted have promised their support in the movement, it is estimated that a special appropriation of $40,000 will redeem all the certlficlates it will be necessary to issue. What to do concerning the question for the school year beginning next September is a problem the state board of education will be compelled to solve in the meanwhile. The tax levies for the 1909-1910 school year have been made, and next year will likely afford a situation like the present unless provision is made in time. It is probable that school terms next year will be cut to 120 days. By limiting the terms to that length Mr. Aley believes the present law will be sufficient. ' o GOVERNOR’S APPOINTMENTS Dr. Wilmer Christian Succeeds Hon. S. W. Hale on the Board. 'Among the governor’s appointments made yesterday was that of Dr. Wilmer Christian of Indianapolis, who was made a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana Village of Epileptics, to succeed S ,W. Hale. The latter has been a member of this commission since it has been in existence, was perhaps more interested in its success than any other citizen in the state, and It is hardly necessary to state that his friends are disappointed that he was not continued In this important place.

IN CIRCUIT COURT The Gallmeyer Case Goes Over Until Monday— Reporter Sick MARRIAGE LICENSE Judge Macy Withdraws from Telephone-Traction Suit The Gallmeyer case has gone over until Monday. Judge Macy insisted that the testimony be concluded today, and this would have been done, had not Court Reporter DeVoss again suffered an attack of illness about two o'clock this afternoon, forcing an adjournment until Monday morning at nine o’clock. A marriage license was granted to Ora Andrews, aged nineteen, a contractor of Washington township, to Ethel Woj.Ce, of French township. On account of business reasons, Judge Macy has declined to serve further in the suit of the Citizens’ Telephone company vs. Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction company. Real estate transfers: Bertha Moeschberger to Jacob Baker et al, 46 acres in Monroe township $6,000. County Clerk Haefling has prepared a copy of the complaint and proceedings in the case of the State vs. Chauncey Steele, who was convicted of forging a bank check June 3, 1905, which he cashed at the Holthouse clothing store. These papers will accompany the petition for Steele's release. Attorney A. P. Beatty has appeared for thb plaintiff in the case of Anna Sheline vs. Ludlow L. Sheline and filed a motion suported by affidavit to set aside the dismissal of the case and re-instate same, which was granted. Attorney Beatty then filed an Amended complaint, alleging that Sheline is living in adultery in Arkansas. The defendant was ruled to answer the complaint. thechildissick Sorrow Comes Doubly to Survivors of E. Leßrun BEREAVED WIDOW Suffers from Heart Trouble —The Funeral Tomorrow As a consequence of the illness of the bereaved widow and a child the funeral services of the late Ezra Leßrun will be held briefly at the house tomorrow afternoon after which the remains will be conveyed to the United Brethren church, where friends of the departed man will pay last 'respects to his memory, Ithe latter service to be held at two o’clock. Sorrow in its utmost poignancy has befallen the grief stricken family of the decedent. Since his untimely demise the widow has suffered intensely from an attack of the heart which at times threatened to take he? life, and this morning Marie, ji seven year-old daughter became dangerously ill. The surviving members of the family, six in number, five of whom are children with ages ranging from three weeks to thirteen years, have the sympathy of the citizenship of Decatur, many of whom are willing and ready to extend to • the .unfortunate family substantial , aid in their hour of sad bereavement. 1 A peculiar coincidence relative to. the death was the fact that the decedent passed away thirty-four years to the hour from the time of his birth. A number of organizations in the city have begun soliciting funds With which the trying circumstances characterizing the household will be disposed of, and it is a cause worthy of the support of the people.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, March 20, 1909.

WERE MARRIED AT OSSIAN. Miss Sibyl May Lindsey of Craigville Married Harry H. Hartman. The announcement of the marriage of Miss Sibyl May Lindsay, a popular young (teacher in the Craigvyjle schools, and Mr. Harry H. Hartman, a young fireman employed on the Chicoga & Erie railroad with headquarters at Huntington, will come as a pleasant surprise to a host of friends. The parents of the bride are dead and she has made her home with relatives near Craigville. She is a sister of William Lindsay, also a school teacher. Harry Hartman, the groom, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Hartman. He was in Bluffton Tuesday and secured the marriage license, but prevailed on the reporters to not use the story until today in order that Miss Lindsay might finish her term of school today before the wedding became public. —Bluffton News. -o KICKED BY HORSE Ollie Chronister Was Victim of Accident at Horse Sale INJURY NOT SERIOUS Saved by Note Book Which He Carried in Vest Pocket • Ollie Chronister, son of Councilman Isaac Chronister, was kicked by a horse while attending the sale last evening, and for a time it was feared he was quite badly hurt, but later it developed that his injuries would perhaps not prove at all serious. It is believed that two or thre memorandum books in the young man’s vest pocket saved him from being dangerously hurt. Ollie was bidding on a horse which he wanted to buy for the Decatur Filler company. The animal was led up on a trot and as he turned around he let go in regular mule fashion. The boy was hurled back into the crowd and friends placed him in a rig and took him to the office of Drs. Clark where he was taken care of and afterward conveyed to his home. The blow from the horses hoof landed on Ollie’s right top vest pocket, wherein most luckily were two or three account books, and these stopped the force of the kick considerably. o ENJOYS VISIT TO OLD HOME Mrs. Right, of Chicago, Renews Acquaintanceship Here. Mrs. Marie Right of Chicago, formerly Marie Gratner of this city, is in this section visiting with friends here and at Bluffton, Fort. Wayne, Redkey, Geneva and Berne. Mrs. Right left Decatur sixteen years ago, during which time she has not been back to her childhood home. She notes great changes in this place. Miss Gratner graduated from the high school here in 1891, having attended the Decatur schools from a child til! the work was completed. She was left an orphan when quite young and made her home with her guardian, Thomas Archbold and wife of Monroe street. After her graduation, during the worlds fair she had a great desire to take in the exhibition, and Rev. J. B. Work, then pastor of the Methodist church, secured her a position as waitress at the Epworth League Hotel at Chicago. Miss Gratner went to that place and every day saw the sights at the fair. After the great fair was over she served as cashier in several of the big stores. Later she learned the art of photography, and became very efficient in her work. Recently she was married to Mr. Right. Mrs. Right has visited almost all of her classmates in Decatur, most of whom are married. They were (ilesdames John Peterson, Lee Walters, French Quinn, Nellie Oaks, Hugh Miller of Muncie, L. A. Graham. Dick Townsend of Peoria, HI., Misses Nellie Schrock of Indianapolis and Stella Voler of Richmond. At the time of her graduation Banker C. A. Dugan was the superintendent and Miss Segur the principal. Mrs. Right’s visit has been a most delightful one for heraelf and her friends. Mrs. Right is a sister of John Gratner of this place.

STUDY THE TARIFF Trouble With France and Germany With Tariff War CHEATS PRINTERS Government Has No Right to Print Stamped Envelopes Washington, March 20.—Tariff experts. now that they have had an opportunity to give forty-eight hours’ study to the Payne tariff bill, assert that a tariff war with France and Germany would be the first result of the enactment of the maximum and minimum provisions of the bill. Trouble with other European countries might or might not follow, accordingly as those countries were willing to continue their tradition policy of extending most favored nation treatment to the United States. The bill automatically abrogates the trade agreements now existing between the United States and France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Switzerland whereby all but France and Germany grant to this country their minimum tariff rates. Germany grants 96 per cent of her minimum rates to the United States and France only a small portion. The question at issue would be whether Europe would regard the stiff minimum of the Payne bill as sufficiently attractive to warrant her making former concessions, or to put it differently, whether the penalties of the American maximum would portend such injury to European exports as to force the continental countries to what the advocates of the Payne plan call “terms.” Washington, March 20. —Representative Barnhart says there is no more sense in the government dealing in printed and stamped envelopes than there is in selling sugar at cost. The government, he asserts, every year cheats the printers of the country out of thousands ofdoll ars. He will introduce a bill at this session to stop the printing of stamped envelopes by the government SURVEYED TODAY Fort Wayne and Springfield Engineer Gets Busy SURVEYING STREETS Line Will Be Extended With All Possible Haste The interurban employes are working at a merry clip in preparing Second street for the putting of cement under the track and from appearances not much time will be required in completing this work. The company engineer made surveys today preparatory to the establishment of a grade on the streets over which their line will pass and ere many weeks pass the work of laying steel will ensue within the city limits. The promoters of the Fort Wayne and Springfield will fulfill their every obligation to the city, they will meet the requirements set out without a murmur, and for this they deserve the co-operation of the people who are interested in the southward extension of the line. A commendable feature of the construction of the line to Berne this summer is no other than the fact that many wage earners will have employment at a good salary, thus the interests of the people will be served as well as the interests of those who are financially interested in the project. The line will unquestionably be extended this summer. o. . Mrs. Jesse Buhler and son John of Marion, returned to her home at Marion after visiting relaUvea In the city. I<

JAMES ELI IS LUCKY Offered Any One of Four Good Government Berths. Washington, March 20. —President Taft has given former Representative Watson the refusal of four places in the government service. He can have the office of minister to Mexico, the office of minister to Cuba, or the governship of Porto Rico, or he can bide his time and take the first Republican vacancy on the interstate commerce commission. Os these the highest salaried position is the first mentioned, which carries a salary of $17,500 a year, but the necessary expenses of the office are very great and generally amount to more than the salary. It is a pretty good guess that if Watson accepts any one of the four offices it will be the governorship of Porto Rico. The salary of the governor of that island is $8,500, and he is furnished a magnificent home,which is maintained by the government. START NEW STORE J. S. Falk and Curtis Brown Will Buy New Fixtures AT INDIANAPOLIS Failure to Consummate Deal Prompts Their Action The failure of the invoicers to reach a satisfactory agreement has prompted the calling off of the deal entered into by W. H. Nachtrieb and Messrs. J. S. Falk and Curtis Brown a few days ago and consequently the former retains possession of the place of business. Mr. Falk is now entirely out of business, but he and Mr. Brown left today for Indianapolis, where they will purchase a consignment of furniture and other fixtures -with the view of establishing a drug store in the city, hence they will soon be the possessors of a new and up to date place of business. We are informed by Mr. Falk that the new store will be in operation within ninety days when the proprietors will greet their many friends. They did not disclose facts relative to which building they will occupy, but unquestionably they will lease one of the buildings which will be vacated soon, and they will probably have options on several good locations. The friends of the two men wish in advance that they will be given a liberal patronage and succeed as they deserve. NO LIGHT TOMORROW NIGHT Repairs at the City Plant Tomorrow and the Lights WiH Be Out. There will be no light in the residence districts tomorrow night owing to the employes of the city being busy on repairs to the boilers. These repairs are necessary in order to place them in position to be safe and strong enough to carry the large load dally necessary for this great enterprise. It may’ be a little inconvenient for many to be without this light, but at the same time the city has been more than faithful in keeping the light service in operation. There have been but few times when the service has been temporarily suspended, and these times were of short duration and inconsequential to every one who used the service. Remember that no lights will be in use on Sunday evening. 0 THEY FILE PETITIONS Ladies Clubs Want Room in Fort Wayne Court House. County Superintendent of Schools H. G. Felger daily receives calls from Fort Wayne club women and others asking him to give up his room in the southeast corner on the first floor of the court house for a woman’s rest room and yesterday the W. C. T. U. ladies in convention at Monroeville formulated a petition which will be presented to him. The room was orig- i Inally intended for the county school i superintendent’s uses and was so adapted.—Fort Wayne Sentinel.

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NEW CITY BUILDING Clerk Wemhoff Advertising for Bids for Its Construction APRIL 20th THE DATE The Council Will Open Bids on the Above Date City Clerk Wemhoff is advertising for bids for the construction of the new city building, and according to the notice given the contract will be let at a meeting of the council on the evening of Tuesday, April 20. At that time sealed bids will be received, and now the plans and specifications may be seen at the office of the city clerk. The notice to contractors contains the usual reservations, in which a check of five hundred dollars must accompany each bid, and the council reserves the right to reject any or all bids. According to the plans the building will be complete in every detail, containing an equipment and a place for a modern and up to date fire department, with a tow’er for the proper care of the fire hose. Offices are provided for each of the city officers, with a council chamber that will be the pride of the city. In all, the building will be a great addition to the public buildings of the city, and a needed convenience as well. Besides this it will always stand as an emblem of credit to the progressive members of the city council, who have ever devoted themselves to making Decatur both greater and better. They have also brought it out of the kinks and made its credit stand up in “G" among those who are interested in financial goods.

PRICES WERE OFF Horses Did Not Bring the Prices Expected $40,000 CHANGE HANDS Buyers Were Present From All Parts of the Country Another of the auctions which are making Decatur famous was pulled off at the sale stables yesterday, and three hundred head of high class horses were disposed of. Notwithstanding ythe fact that more than $40,000 changed hands, the promoters of the enterprize did well to pull even on yesterday’s sale for the reason that they are compelled to pay prices in the country for horses that are not in keeping with the eastern market. Almost every animal offered for sale yesterday brought about twenty-five dollars less than their value, hence quite a loss was sustained in the total receipts. When the Decatur Horse company offers a horse for sale they sell it even if it loses money. Pretty match teams which ordinarily would bring S6OO, sold esterday as low as $450, and an equal depreciation was noted on the consignment in its entirety. The eastern market is by far lower at present this year than was the case one year ago, and the buyers find it necessary to buy the horses cheaper in order to justify them in continuing the sales. Buyers were here from Pittsburg, Buffalo, Cincinnati and many other of the large cities of the country. —o —— RUN INFOR CHICKEN STEALING At three o’clock this afternoen the police arrested Joseph Baker, a well known character for stealing chickens from the coop back of the Schmitt meat shop. The fowls were found n Baker’s room, two of them in a sack behind an old desk. Marshal Butler and Policeman Fisher made the arrest