Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 69.

HE IS ALL RIGHT Rev. M. Gallmeier Writes an Interesting Letter WAS RAISED HERE He Now Holds an Important Charge at Cumberland, Maryland Rev. M. Gallmeier is a brother of the Gallmelers who have been parties to the big land case which has been in progress in the court here for a week past, and is bimself one of the defendants. He has, however, been absent from this county for fifteen years. — In 1894 he went to Springfield, Illinois, where he was educated for the ministry, spending six years in his preparatory work. In 1900 he received a call from a town in Missouri, where he remained until called to Cumberland. He visited here last year, and impressed all who met him by his reserved, yet cordial manner. The following letter received at this office this morning from him will be of interest to the many who have a high regard for his opinion and the Daily Democrat certainly appreciates every word of his message: Cumberland, Md., March 19. Editor “Decatur Daily Democrat," Decatur, Indiana: Dear Sir —In this morning’s mall I find several copies of the Democrat. I do not know to whom I am indebted for this courtesy. Nevertheless, permit me to state that I am very much gratified not only on account of the full report your paper contains on the case now pending in the court of your county in which I am naturally greatly Interested, but also on account of the great progress which I notice the Democrat has made in the years since I first read it. The perusal of your paper made me hark back. I recollect that the Democrat W'as th© first newspaper printed in the English language which in my boyhood days in the early eighties, at the time my father, the late F. W. Gallmeier Sij.. of Preble township, was one of its subscribers, I laboriously tried to spell out and read. Thus you see that thlsvenerable journal has in a measure also been in(Coattoeed oa Page Two) HOMEWASROBBED Mr. and Robert Harding of

Fort Wayne Lost Jewelry NO CLUE FOUND Trick Was Turned While the Family Were Attending Church A robbery was commited Friday evening before ten-thirty at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harding in Fort Wayne. The latter is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Meyers of this city. Mrs. Meyers received a letter from her daughter this morning gi' - ing an account of the affair. Mr. and Mrs. Harding had gone to the Wayne Street Methodist ehnrch, where they were attending a meeting of the St. Ceclia Circle of the Daughters of the King. They returned at 10:45 and noticed Immediatejy ,on entering their home that burglars had been In the house. The writing desk had been disturbed in the sitting room, and the papers were scattered about the room. Some loose change was taken from the desk. Upstairs in their sleeping apartments burnt matches were lying on the floor and the jewel case on the bureau was open and Mrs. Harding's watch, a gold chain, three valuable rings, two broaches and a valuable scarf pin belonging to Mr. Harding were stolen. The police were summoned and a detective worked all Saturday morning, but has not yet found any clue, and the Identity of the robbers ren Ain* * mystery.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

REPRESENTS N. DAKOTA FIRM C. E. Jaberg, of Fargo, North Dakota, is in the City. C. E. Jaberg, of Fargo, North Dakota, jg in the city being the traveling representative of the W. A. Scott real estate company. The mission of Mr. Jaberg at this time is to appoint local agents who will have great tracts of land for sale in that state and which is owned or controlled by this company. It is what is known as Red River land, the soil being rich and fertile and great in wheat producing qualities. This is the strong feature, they claiming that it is the greatest wheat producing land in the world. Agents will be appointed in all the cities in this section and an effort made to interest buyers in the good qualities of the soil there, together with the future possibilities of that part of this great country. Mr. Fargo has many relatives in this county and will visit them while here. CHICKENTHIEVES Caused the Police Officers to Get Busy Sunday Morning THEY LOCATE TWO But They Were Ready to Serve—Baker Will Be Tried this Evening The police officers here are determined to break up the wholesale chicken stealing which has been in progress for some weeks. For some weeks past, parties on Adams street have been missing fowls every night or so. Yesterday Abraham Meyers notified his son, Sheriff Meyer, that his coop had been robbed of two birds that would make an excellent Sunday dinner, and Deputy Sheriff Green and Marshal Butler at once got busy. They located the chickens all right in the pot at a home where it was suspected they were going, but of course, it was too late to identity them, so no arrest was made. It is quite probable, however, that this paritcular family will be mighty careful in the future.

Joe Baker, who was arrested Saturday afternoon late, charged with stealing two chickens from the pen at the rear of the Schmitt meat market, was given a hearing before Mayor France, and plead “not guilty.” His bond was fixed at $l5O and his case set for this evening. Baker furnished bond and was released Sunday morning.

FUNERAL OF MRS. BARKLEY , Union Township Lady, Who Died In , Denver, Laid to Rest. The remains of Mrs, John A. Barkley, arrived at Monroeville Sunday morning and wrere .conveyed (from there to the home in Union township. The sad hearted husband accompanied • . the remains of his loved companion i . home, where were assembled a num- , ber of relatives and friends, who ( seemed inconsolable in their grief. The funeral services were held this 1 afternoon, the party leaving the house at one o'clock and the services were < , conducted at the East Liberty church ] in Allen county. ■ o .... INFANT DIED SUNDAY MORNING * l i i Little Son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Doehrman of Wells County. 1 i Reinhard Doehrman, little son of j Mr. and Mrs. Fred Doehrman of near , : Echo, in Wells county, and the grandl son of Conrad Doehrman of this ' i county, died Sunday morning at 5:30 ' . after an illness of about one week i i with catarrhal pneumonia. The age , . of the babe wa.s two months and ( . twenty days. The funeral services i will be held Tuesday afternoon, at 1 • the house at one o'clock and at the 1 , Freldheim church at about two ■ o'clock. Interment at the Lutheran cemetery.

A BUILDING BOOM Two New Homes to be Built on North Fifth Street BEGAN THIS MORNING Work on the Sam E. Hite Residence Began this Morning The building boom has struck Decatur in earnest. Within the next ten days or two weeks Louis Wise and George Steel will begin the erection of two modrn homes on north Fifth street near the North Ward school house. Both houses will contain all the modern improvements, and when completed be quite an addition to the appearance of that part of the city. North Fifth street has been making great progress in the last few years, and it would appear that the progress already made will be but a drop in the bucket compared to the good things to come. The two houses mentioned will add materially to the growth and beauty already apparent there. Charles E. Suttles with a large force of workmen began this morning on the five thousand dollar home to be built by Sam E. Hite, the Winchester street grocer. The new structure will adorn north Third street and no expense will be spared to make it one of the handsomest on that popular thoroughfare. The work will be rushed to completion and it is the intention of the contractors to have the heme ready for occupancy within the next six weeks. The building on the west part of the lot owned by James Niblick of Second street and which has been a landmark there for many years, is being torn down. This building, formerly a carpenter shop, but recently used as a barn is still in a good state of preservation, though it has stood the summers suns and the winters blast for half acentury, and the timbers are good for many years to come. It is said that Mr. Niblick will remove his dwelling from Second street to Third street where the barn stood and will remodel it. making a modern and pretty home,. o WILL GO TO KANSAS

Mr. Harold Wilson Resigned as Wells-Fargo Express Agent TO LEAVE FRIDAY Will Become Member of Wholesale Hardware Firm at Topeka Mr. Harold Wilson, who for some time has served as the agent here for the Wells-Fargo Express company, has tendered his resignation, to take effect on Thursday of this week and the day following he will leave for Topeka, Kansas, where he will as-, same an interest in a large wholesale hardware house. He has contemplated the change for some time, but the details have just been arranged. He will be checked out here probably on Thursday and it is has not yet been announced who will succeed him. Harold is a clever young man and has become quite popular during his eighteen months’ stay here, made many friends by his strict attention to business and was recently offered the office at Michigan City, by his company. However, the possibility of going into business for himself In the west caused him to turn down the offer. The jobbing house with which he will be connected at Topeka, has been established about a year and has prospects of a great future, which Harold's Decatur friends hope he will share to the degree he deserves.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, March 22, 1909.

OFF FOR AFRICA TOMORROW Ex-President Roosevelt Leaves ftor Extended Absence. Oyster Bay, N. Y., March 22. —Happy in the prospect of his departure Tuesday morning for his long-planned African “safari" or hunting trip, former President Theodore Roosevelt was the soul of good humor today at his home in Sagamore Hill, where the members of his family gathered for a final reunion before the long journey to the jungle. The ex-presldent was in high spirits and took a lively interest in the final preparations for shipping his personal baggage tomorrow to the Hamburg-American steamship Hamburg. W. Emlen Roosevelt and his family, cousins of the expresident, called in the afternoon. Ex-Secretary of the Interior Garfield visited Mr. Roosevelt and extended bis wishes for a safe journey. They will leave tomorrow-. THE SPRING IS HERE First Month of Spring Has an Auspicious Opening NATURE’S BEAUTY Is Already Everywhere Evidenced—The Inspiration Spring was yesterday ushered in under most pleasant auspices notwithstanding the chill of the atmosphere and as one of the many evidences the streets of the city were invaded from morning till night by women arrayed in beautiful spring attire, the men in their loud and attractive suits. With the initial day of the ever welcomed spring months comes the thoughts of nature in her real beauty, the fragrance of flowers, the leafing and subsequent blossoming of trees, balmy breezes, vacation of school children, and in fact every requisite to the utmost happiness of the people. There is probably not a climatic change in all the year which so obviously injects Inspiration and enthusiasm into the beings of mortal man as does the coming of spring. The contrast of bitter cold to comfortably warm, of the depletion of the vegetable family to the thriving flowers and the manifestations of all other of natures provisions, throws about the springtime a weird fascination which does not allow of rejectment from the mind of any individual whose regard for the greatest of God’s gifts is up to the standard. No other than an abnormal mind would hope for annihilation of springtime and its attendant beauties and inasmuch as to one and all the various characteristics of spring appeal, let every individual lend his assistance to the cause of beautifying Decatur that her cleanliness and beauty will be in keeping with the pleasantness afforded by nature. -- - ■ ■—-o BOOMING THE SEATTLE EXPO School Children are Advertising the Affair in Great Shape. The Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc exposition which opens at Seattle, Washington on the first of June this year, is receiving some unique advertising We are in receipt of a letter from Ruth Davidson of the junior fifth grade n the Seattle public schools, and from that letter we get the information that a letter will be written to every fifth grade pupil in this city, as well as every other city in this country. If the scheme works out about every family in the universe will know that an exposition is on at Seattle, all right. ■ - ■■ o ENTERTAINS THE STATEMEN Washington, March 22. —H. M. Romberg, of Fort Wayne, who is connected with the Bell Telephone company, will give a dinner at the Willard Hotel tomorrow evening. His guests will be Senator Shively and the Democratic members of the house of representatives from Indiana.

MONTANA COMING One of the Best Shows on the Road Here Friday Night INTERESTING FACTS Concerning American Play and Its Political Dealing It may be interesting to the readers ] of the Democrat to know- that the first American play was written in 1714 by Robert Hunter and published by the governor of New York in the same year under the title of “Androborus.” It was a political and personal satyr dealing with Hunter’s own life and aimed at his politcal antagonists. The scenes were “The Senate," “The Oonsistory,? and “The Apotheosis." The play is given considerable space in Paul Leicester Ford’s essay on the “Beginning of American Dramatic Literature.” He says the piece is really dramatic despite its politics and lack of feminine parts. “Montana,” one of the great American plays, by Henry D. Carey, covers deficiencies, especially in the line of feminine roles. While “Jim Graham” foreman of the Buckhorn Ranch, a hardy son of the plains and a man, in a man’s country, is the central figure of the play, the feminine portion is well represented in “Flo Harper" a girl of the west, who can sit the “hurricane deck” of an outlaw bronc” as gracefully as a society belle can on a drawing room divan and who can ride, shoot and love with the true western spirit, without sacrificing those womanly qualities we all love so well. “Jim” and “Flo" are assisted by Melinda, one of those sturdy pioneer women that gives the west the sons that are making it God’s country. The author’s intimate knowledge of that portion of the west, where the scenes of the play are laid, is seen in his finely drawn characters. There is nothing false or counterfeit about “Montana,” it rings true from the first to the final curtain. The engagement is for one night only, Friday, March 26, at opera house. The full scenic production is carried by the company and a fine performance is assured. — o CAREER A SUCCESS Has Been That of L. W. Acker, a Former Adams County Man GETS NEW POSITION Is Now Division Superintendent of Vandalia Railroad L. W. Acker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Acker of this city, recently accepted a position in East St. Louis that of division freight superintendent of the Vandalia route with headquarters at that place. Mr. Acker was reared in this county on his father's farm near Rivarre, and. taught, school for several years. He has been connected with several of the largest railroad systems foir the last ten years. He left this city about twenty years ago for Kansas, where he taught school. He has made his home at Denver, Pueblo and other cities of the west, and during this time he worked at various important work on the railroads. Mil. Acker first served as private secretary to the president of the Vandalia railroad system, which paid him about one hundred and fifty dollars a month salary. Later he was traveling auditor of the Denver and Rio Grande road, and received a fine salary. He has been unusually successful and his Decatur friends are glad to hear of his success. Mr. Acker will ar-1 rive home in June to visit his par-1 ents and friends. '■

THE SENATE OFFICE BUILDING The Most Magnificent Office Building in the World. Washington. March 22. —What ,1s undoubtedly the most luxurious office building in the country, if not in the world, is just being completed for the use of the United States senate. It is so far finished that most of the senators have already moved their quarters from the old capitol building, or from the Maltby annex, into the new structure, and are settling down to the enjoyment of their modem environment. Every convenI ience known to the art of the builder and architect is included in the new building. It is electrically lighted throughout. All of the lighting fixtures as well as the furniture, the thirteen elevators, etc., were especially resigned so as to fit in with their sumptuous surroundings. IS SLATED RIGHT Senator Shively to Get Good Committee Appointments THE TARIFF France is Shaping Up a New Tariff in Which We Are Interested Washington, March 22. —Senator B. F. Shively is slated for first class committee assignments. Considering the fact that he is a new senator and a member of the minority party, his committee appointments will be exceptionally good. His major assignment will be a place on the committee on foreign relations. Uusually a senator is content to look upon a

berth in that committee as a reward for a long period of service, and Senator Shively has smashed precedents by landing on it in his first month of membership in the senate. Indiana will be the only state in the Union to have two members of that great committee, which has jurisdiction over legislation affecting the Unted States in its relations with all the nations of the earth. Senator Beveridge has been a member of the foreign relations committee for several years. Before him Charles W. Fairbanks,when a senator from Indiana, had a place on it. With both Indiana senators on the committee the Hoosier state will occupy a position of particular eminence in world councils. Washington, March 22. —It is expected that the senate committees will be announced today and that they will largely reveal he legisla- ' five program which the leaders expect to put through during the Sixtyfirst congress. The finance committee will have a very large voice in the final shaping of the Payne tariff bill, and it has been made up with great care. The appropriations committee will have the say as to the manner of expending about two billions of public money and appoint- . ments to It are being considered very judiciously. Washington, March 22.—The attention of American manufacturers will not for the next few months be entirely focused Upon the proposed tariff revision in this country. France proposes to revise its tariff and in the changes to be made the United States is vitally interested. If the proposed French tariff bill should be ■ enacted into law’ in its present shape, American trade would be injuriously affected. o MRS. CHRISTEN IS VERY LOW Mrs. Godfrey Christen is still very , ill, and hopes for her recovery have practically been abandoned. She suffered a severe sinking spell about three o’clock this afternoon, but a > half hour later was slightly better. Mrs. F. E. France, a daughter, from Muskogee, Oklahoma, arrived Saturday evening and Frank Christen of Chicago, is also at the bedside of his I [mother, as are the other children, 'all of whom reside here.

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MEETING TONIGHT The Decatur Furnace Company to Enlarge Their Plant ANOTHER GROWING The Krick and Tyndall Company Doing Great Business D. L. Gailfoyle, of South Bend, will be in the city this evening and preside at a meeting of the directors of the Decatur Furnace company, at which meeting a matter of great importance to the company will be considered. It is the enlargement of the facilities of the plant, which is fortunately suffering from its inability to meet the demands made upon its output. The meeting this evening is Intended to arrange for the extension of the buildings, quite an extension to their molding rooms being necessary, and it is believed that these additions will be made at once. Additional stock has been sold and it is the hope of the company to be able to meet this growth in their business. The new building will mean the employment of many additional men and of course all Decatur hopes to see them grow and prosper. The Krick & Tyndall company is another industry of great importance located in that part of the city. They have been growing amazingly in the past several years, and from reports they are still at it. Several important improvements are under way there and this year will see them doing the greatest business in their history. They ship their product all over the northern part of this state, southern Michigan and western Ohio, and have the name of making the best drain and sewerage tile of any similar institution in the country. -■ — o In a theater at Reading, Pa., the following sign was posted back of the stage: Remember, don’t smoke in this theater. All know the Chicago and Broklyn fires. Immediately under this an actor wrote: “Don’t spit on the floor; remember the Johnstown flood.

IN CIRCUIT COURT Evidence Will Be Concluded by This Evening in Gallmeier Case NEW CASE FILED Suit on Notes Given Continental Insurance Com- ‘ pany—Marriage License The evidence in the Gallmeier land case will be concluded by this evening. The plaintiffs continued their . evidence in rebuttal today, Attorney J. 0. Sutton, who drew the contracts, being on the witness stand for some time. The arguments will probably be heard the first of next week. Attorney L. C. DeVoss, representing the Continetal Insurance company have filed suit against Charlotte C Worden and William Worden, fa which $75 is demanded in payment , of notes given In 1903 for insurance. ’ In the case of Henry A. and Sarah A. Tindall vs. Jacob Fogle, for partition, all depositions on file were ordered published. An additional third paragraph of answer was filed by the defendant. A marriage license was issued to Ernest D. Lusk, a farmer, aged 21, from Clayton. Michigan, to Bertha Jane Wolfe, 17, of French township. /Real estate transfers: Davjid C. Myers et al to Lekay Place et al, tract in St. Marys tp., $1,275; R.E. Smith Jr„ to Margaret Hahn, lot 51, Smith Chapel cemetery, $10; Jacob Baker to Bertha Meshberger, (80 acres, Monroe tp., SB,OOO.