Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII. Number 81.

REV. POWELL COMES HERE M. E. Conference Appointments Read Late this Afternoon DELAY WAS CAUSED Complete List Unobtainable —Rev. Powell is a Talented Minister Greenfield, Ind., April 5. —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —4 o’clock p. m.—The annual session of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference adjourned here this afternoon, after the reading of the assignment of the ministers for the ensuing year. It was expected that this would be done by noon, but several delays occurred, and It was after three o’clock when_ Bishop Anderson began the last and most important event of the session. Rev. Sherman Powell, late of the Warsaw church, and one of the strongest ministers of the entire conference, was sent to the Decatur charge, and Rev. W. W. Mainin goes to Bluffton. Owing to the late hour it was impossible to send out a complete list of appointments. . ■- * I Greenfield, Ind., April 4. —With ceremonies deeply impressive, witnessed by an immense audience at the Bradley M. E. church, a class of nine, elected as deacons and fifteen as elders was ordained this evening by Bishop Anderson, presiding at the North Indiana conference. The bishop was assisted in the ordination services by the six presiding elders of the conference and various ministers chosen by the candidates themselves. The following were ordained as deacons: James S. Newcombe, Eli C. . Fisher, Bert E. Jones and S. Burt Stookey. The following were ordained as local deacons: Chester L. March Warren W. Wyant, and Francis P. Myers. J. Ira Jones was ordained a deacon under the missionary rule. George W. Imel was ordained as deacon under the seminary rule. The following were ordained as elders: Charles B. Dougherty, John W. Zerbe, Franklin P. Johnson, Chester G. Nelson, Freeland Hall, Herbert Boase, Charles B. Sweeney, Benjamin E. Kendall, Conde A. Hile, H. L. Overdeer, Erastus R. Wood, Rufus W. Morrison and Morrison B. Graham. Erastus R. Wood was ordained as local elder, and J. Ira Jones was ordained as elder under the missionary rule. He will go to Japan. The ordination services followed the annual memorial addresses. The Rev. D. V. Williams? secretary of the conference, presided at the memorial meeting. The memorial sermon was preached by the Rev. Somerville Light of Marion.

HERE'S A CHANCE FOR DECATUR New Base Ball League is to Be Organized. Peru, Ind., April 4.-A meeting of prospective managers of teams for the Northern Indiana baseball league was held here this afternoon. The representatives were R. C. James, of Huntington; S. D. Sewall, of Marion; A. C. Parn, of Peru: C. A. Klunk, of Wabash: E. D. Hill, of Kokomo, and Bluffton was represented by proxy. Hill was elected president; Earl Steele, of Huntington, vice prseident; and Kiurik secretary and treasurer. There will be another meeting next Sunday at Kokomo, when three other cities will be admitted to the league. The season's schedule will open May 15th. A. H. Beery, of Fort Wayne, returned to his home. He was in the city on business.

INCREASED THE VIOLATIONS. The Temperance Movement Responsible for More Trouble. Washington, April 5. —Officials of the internal revenue bureau of the treasury department are of the opinion that the temperance movement which has taken such strong hold of certain sections of the country, particularly in the south, has resulted in increasing the number of violations of the internal revenue laws in the distillation of illicit whisky. The records up to the first of last year did not show any very marked increase in the number of illicit distilleries destroyed or in the number of arrests made, but recent reports clearly indicate that in many of the southern states, especially in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina there has been greater activity displayed on the part of the lawless countain element, which always has been troublesome to the revenue agents, than in many years. This is accounted for by the fact that the legislatures of these three states have enacted laws prohibiting distilleries from operating within their borders.

A RIPE OLD AGE Was That Attained by Mrs. Angeline Kover Schlegel DIED LAST NIGHT Was Past Eighty Years Old and Lived Here Half a Century Mrs. Angeline Kover Schlegel, wife of the late Daniel Schlegel, died at. her home in the southwest part of the city, Sunday evening. She was one of the pioneer women of this section and well Known. Her death was due to old age and the complications usual to one who has passed the four-score mark. She was a native of Pennsylvania, bom in Kutztown, Works county, October 28th, ’1827. In 1852 she was married to Mr. Daniel Schlegel and seven years later they imigrated to this city. Here they have since lived, watching the country grow from a wilderness into one of the greatest communities of the entire country. When but a young girl, Mrs. Schlegel united with the Reformed church, but about fifteen years ago she transferred her membership to the Baptist church in this city. She is survived by one son, Henry, of this city and one brother, John Kover of Fort Wayne. Her husband preceded her in death a few years ago. The funeral services will be held tomorrow- afternoo nat two o’clock from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. HenryKrick, Rev. Imler officiating, and the music furnished by the United Brethren choir. Interment at the Decatur cemetery.

A GREAT BASE BALL WEEK World's Best Players at Fort Wayne Soon. An opportunity will be given to see the greatest ball teams on earth at Fort Wayne within the next week, beginning wih the world’s champion Chicago Cubs Thursday, the American champion Detroit Tigers on Friday, John Ganzel’s Eastern League Rochester team on Sunday and the great White Sox on Monday and Tues'day. All of the clubs that are booked are first division teams and the most noted players in the United States will be seen in each of the games. The clubs are all on their way from the training camps in the south, and the league park at Fort Wayne is in most excellent shape for the games. —o PORTSMOUTH BUYS ROBINSON C. O. France, northern scout for J. W. Gardner, president of the Texas league, received a letter from that gentleman this morning, saying that he had sold Cal Robinson, of this city whom he had signed as a pitcher, to Portsmouth, Ohio, of the OhioPennsylvania league, and that his mileage would be forthcoming from there in a few days. The 0.-P. is one of the fastest leagues in tl a country and if “Brownie” makes good there he is sure of a high place in 'base ball circles. He will probably Igo to Portsmouth within a few days.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, April 5, 1909.

THE APRIL JURY Commissioners Select the Men Who Will Serve as Petit Jurors FOR NEXT TERM Will Report April 19th— Real Estate Transfers —Other Court Items Jury commissioners H. A. Fristoe, of Geneva, and S. B. Fordyce of this city, and County pierk James P. Haefling, met this morning and selected the petit jury for the April term. They are Charles T. Payne, Washington township; Louis Kleine, Preble; Arthur Stove, Blue Creek; Charles Duer, Jefferson; John Evans, Root; William Wilson, Hartford; Daniel Donovan, Decatur; Daniel Huser, French; Marion Connor, Geneva; Joseph Chronister, St. Marys; Robert E. Smith, Monroe; George Fravel, Wabash. They will report on Monday, April 19th. Real estate transfers: Joseph Heavilin to Mathias Miller, tract in Monroe township, $500; M. R. |E. cemetery association to Peter D. Stener, cemetery lot $25; George T. Burk et al to Daniel M. Byerly, tract in Preble township, SSO; F. M. Schirmeyer to Will R. Dorwin, et al, lot 79 Decatur, $215 and lot 1 Decatur, S7OO. Judge Merryman returned to Portland this morning where he will finish hearing the big will case which has been in progress there for a week. It will probably go to the jury tomorrow.

PARENTS ARE DEAD Miss Anna Smythe, of Pittsburg, Sends Sad Message TO RELATIVES HERE Mrs. Smythe Died Thursday and Her Husband this Morning Attorney David E. Smith received a telegram this morning from his cousin, Mss Anna Smythe, of Pittsburg, which said: “Mother died Thursday; father died this morning.” The father is a brother of Mrs. James H. Smith of this city, and he and his daughter have visited here and are quite well known. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith have been in rather poor health for a year past, but it was not known they were seriously 111 until Thursday. when a message announced the death of the mother. It is supposed the shock caused by her death was so severe that it hastened the death of Mr. Smythe. Mr. Smythe was a veteran of the civil war and fought in a number of the hardest battles of that greatest of all wars. The case is a very sad one, and the relatives have the sincere sympathy of all their friends here and they are many. TEACHERS HAVE ARRIVED HOME Report Good Session—School Convened Today. The Adams county teachers who attended the state meeting at Indianapolis last week arrived home Saturday night tired but happy, and all report a splendid session in every way. Although the papers of that city gave long accounts of the large hats bought by the teachers, we failed to' notice any special display of headgear here, and believe the Decatur ladies at least will continue to patronize the home milliners. The schools opened this morning and the pupils and teachers are busy on the last eight weeks of the school year. It will soon be over, and the year has been the best in the history of the schools.

BLUFFTON TO GET A TILE MILL Portland Financiers to Boom Bluffton Some. Another good industry appears to be practically assured for Bluffton and the deal is expected to be fully consummated during the next week by which the new concern, one of the largest tile factories in this section, will be put in operation. The parties figuring on the new industry are from Portland and they are all well and favorably kpown here. They have taken an option of a week on a tract of thirty acres of land belonging to James P. Hale, lying betw-een the Clover Leaf and the Lake Erie railroad south of the piano factory, formerly occupied by the old “Y.” The option price is said to be $5,000 and it is thought the deal will be closed. Included in the company to install the new industry, as now proposed, will be the firm of North, Frazier & Company and J. A. Bird & Son, of Portland. —Bluffton News.

MADE GOOD HAUL Police Gather in Seven for Plain Drunk Saturday Night ALL PLEAD GUILTY Ackerman and Kibler Will “Lay It Out”—The Others Arrange to Pay The police had their nets out Saturday evening and when they dragged it in they had caught just even seven who had been taking advantage of the opportunity to buy drinks while they could. In the crowd were some familiar faces, including the veteran Charles Ackerman, also Uncle Jimmie Swift, John Kibler, Thompson Stetler, David Kohler and two farmers who gave their names as John Brown and Charles Roe, both of which are fictitious, but as the men still have pride enough to wish their real names withheld, the courtesy is granted on the police docket. The men were conveyed to jail in a rig, several of them being unable to walk that distance. Brown and Roe put up cash bonds Sunday morning and w-ere released, appearing this morning and pleading guilty, each paying his fine of five and costs, amounting to fifteen dollars. The other gentlemen w-ere brought dowm at nine o’clock this morning and all plead guilty. Ackerman “wished to lay his fifteen days out, if you please” and the favor was granted. Kibler took a similar dose calmly. Stetler got fifteen dollars worth, but will likey be able to stay the docket though he was taken back to jail until the matter could be arranged. David Kohler who works for Jonas Neuenschwander in French township had eight dollars left. It was his first offense and he got off with a dollar and costs, amounting to eleven dollars. He paid the eight and arranged to send the rest soon. Uncle James Swift explained that his downfall was an accident, and being really penitent and not in the habit of acting thus he was released w-ith the promise of thirty days the next time up. The arrests were made by Marshal Butler and Nightman Fisher and there were a half dozen other men who were subject to arrest, but before the officers could handle them in the rush they had been taken care of by friends and escaped punishment.

PARTY LEAVES FOR CUBA J. E. Moser of this City Will Visit the Island. J. E. Moser of this city left this afternoon for Fort Wayne. He will leave there at four o’clock for Cuba, 1 where he, with a party of Fort Wayne capitaliists, will investigate some valuable property which is for sale and on whch they hold an option. The party was to have left a week ago,, but was delayed unavoidably. Others in the party are A. J. Vesey, Ralph Jones and Dr. Barnett. They will be, absent about a month.

THE APRIL TERM ( The Board of Commissioners in Midst of April Session * I I BIDS WERE OPENED Eli Engle Gets a Road Contract—Other News of 1 1 t the Session Five bids were filed and I opened for the construction of the August , Walters macadam road. in Root 'township, the bids being as follows: Michael Miller , $3,398.00 1 August Walters 3,245.00 Eli Engle ' 3,119.00 E. H. Faust 3,137.35 Merryman & Fugate 3.194.00 Eli Engle was the lowest bidder and will get the contract which will not : be officially signed up for a month yet,j A remonstrance signed by more than two-thirds of those interested in the Frederick Schuler et al, ditch petition, was acted upon by the board. The cause was dismissed at the costs of the petitioners, Trusee Moser of French tow-nship. asked that aid be extended to Albert i McDermott, a poor person. The petition was granted. Application was asked for the ad- . mission of Glen Gllpen to the Home foi Feeble Minded and the proper credentials were given her as a resident of this county. The C. C. Sprunger macadam road was continued. WILL RETURN HERE Rev. D. O. Wise is Returned to the Decatur Church IS A GOOD WORKER The Evangelical Conference Closed at Elkhart Last Evening Elkhart, Ind., April 4. —Assignments of ministers for the ensuing year in ! the Indiana Evanegelcal assocation j were announced this evening by Bis.hop S. C. Breyfogel of Reading, Ba., presiding officer of the fifty-seventh I annual conference which closed toI night with a general service at the ( First Evangelical church. Bishop I Breyfogel preached the confirmation sermon this morning and the ordinajtion services were held this afternoon. Fort Wayne district —J. J. 'Wise, presiding elder; Fort Wayne, C. D. Rarey; Kendallville, P. L. Browns; Huntington, J. W. Metzner: Berne, ‘C. P. Maas; Decatur, D. O. Wise; Sa- [ lina, J. M. Lantz; Hicksville, C. H. ißurgoer; Walcottville, to be supplied; Edgerton, W. 11. Freshley; Webster, D. R. Heil; Lima, Grove J. Rees; Marj kle, E. E. Miller; Van Wert, W. 11. Mygrant; Ohio City, E. R. Roop; Fort Recovery, C. D. Overmeyer; Defiance circuit, J. E. Joung; Defiance Mission. E. Hauser; Bippus, E. F. McClure; Scott, A. D. Kroft; Waterloo, G. F. ■ Zube. As will be noticed by reading the 'above, Rev. D. O. Wise will return to ■ Decatur for another year and this is good news to his many acquaintance and friends. During the past year he has been an earnest and faithful worker for the good of every one in this locality and he is a young man whose each year will be productive of more good than the year I before, therefore we are all glad .that he will work among us longer. o ACTING AS TEMPORARY AGENT It was announced today that it would probably be the fifteenth of the month before it is known to a certainty who will serve as permanent agent at the G. R. & I. railroad station in this city to succeed Mr. Bryson, but in the meantime the business , here is bein glooked after by Mr. G. McFarland, of Kalamazoo. Michigan.

ARE BOMBARDING CONGRESS Crude Oil Producers Want Countervailing Duty on Oil. Washington, April 5. —Indiana producers of crude oil are keeping up a steady bombardment on congress. They are opposed to the removal of the countervailing duty on oil. While it is freely contended by Democratic congressmen that the countervailing provision is intended for the benefit of the Standard O1 company, the Indiana independents denounce that assertion as unqualifiedly untrue. They say that the ndependent producers are the men who need the countervailing duty and that the Standard would be as well off without it as with it. It is their opinion, in fact, that the Standard is wholly indifferent as to whether or not the countervailing duty remains because the oil trust is well prepared to take care of itself. That is the sort of argument that is being put up to congress by the Indiana independents. They are not trusting the slow and somewhat uncertain method of communication by mail, but are overwhelming the Indiana members with telegrams.

IS STILL POPULAR Macadam Road Building in Adams County is Still in Demand WANT THE ROADS Five Petitions Presented at this Term of Commissioner’s Court The building of macadam roads in Adams county is still popular with the people. As an evidence of this fact it is but necessary’ for one to spend a Ittle time around the commissioners’ room during their monthly sessions. This morning was no exception to the rule and when the board got ready for business the auditor’s office was crowded, and nine out of every ten there were interested in the construction of some road. This is certainly a healthy sign, and it means that there will be no let up in hostilities until practically every road in the county is improved. At this term of commissioner's court action will be asked on four viewer’s reports, five petitions, one sale, three transcripts for the sale of bonds, and one set of bonds will be taken up after being signed by the board. Old petitions that have been laying dormant for some time will be revived, and the board will be pressed for action at an early date. Tt is a genuine fight for roads, a reversal of the order of things of a ew years ago, when apparently everyone was fighting to block the game.

Contractors were not so numerous at the macadam road letting today, but the .reason is assigned that there was but one road to be contracted. The August Walters road in Root township w r as sold. o HE BUYS A HANDSOME CAR Dr. D. D. Clark is the Owner of a Ford Automobile. Dr. D. D .Clark is th© owner of a handsome Ford automobile, the purchase being made late Saturday, the car being sent here yesterday and placed in commission, and the doctor can now spin with the best of them. It is one of the best on the market and cannot be beaten for speed and comfort, and during the summer will be used to the limit The fever for such facilities for transportation is breaking out and it is likely that several cars wll te purchased by Decatur people.

SECOND CITY IN STATE 1 Fort Wyane, Ind., April 4.—The financial report for the last quarter shows that the Fort Wayne postoffice 3 is doing business at the rate of $260,- - 000 a year, thus maintaining its posit tion as second city in the state in j - point of postoffice receipts. March [ ■ was the biggest month in the history 1 I of the office, the receipts exceeding any other month by SIOO. The re-.: celpts during March were $24,411. ,'

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SPOKE SATURDAY Congressman Adair Heard Upon the Payne Tariff Bill TARIFF FOR REVENUE And Also Incidental Protection is Belief of Eigthh District Congressman Congressman Adair was heard in congress Saturday, he paying his respects to the Payne tariff bill. In part he said: “I have the honor of representing on the floor of this house the second largest congressional district in the United States, a district whose reputation for both agriculture and manufacturing is known throughout the .length and breadth of this broad universe. I never was so proud of that district as I am today. During the preparation and consideration of this bll not a single manufacturer from the great industries of my district has lobbied the ways and means committee or the membership of this house for a prohobitive duty on the products they produce. The manufacturers of the Eighth district of Indiana, as well as their employes, are honest, enterprising and progressive, and ask nothing at Our hands in the way of tariff duties except absolute justice, and that I am determined they must have. I believe in a tariff for revenue, but I also believe it should be so levied as to give incidental protection where it s needed. In other words, I believe a duty upon manufactured products should be levied sufficiently high to cover the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad, plus the cost of transportation. A duty in excess of this is unnecessary and should not be levied upon any manufactured product. There are many provisions in the Payne bill with which I heartily agree, while there are others with which I do not agree. The duties fixed on the luxuries are entirely too low, while others on the necessities of life are too high. I am certain the people will not indorse the bill as a whole by reason of the fact that the average duty of the Payne bill is I higher than the average duty of the Dingley bill. The people of the country have been demanding with great earnestness the revision of the tariff and in making that demand they were insisting upon a revision downward and not upward. I believe practically everybody knows when this special session was called for a revision of the tariff that the schedules were to be lowered and not raised. Inasmuch as a revision downward is expected I cannot support the Payne bill in its present form. If the bill is taken up under the five-minute rule and is thrown open for amendment I shall support such items in the bill as I believe to be in keeping with the demands of the people and shall make a vigorous effort to amend those schedules which I am sure are entirely too high and have been placed in the bill at the request of the special interests to the detriment of the consuming public.” The sugar schedule Mr. Adair denounced as “robbery pure and simple.” He also attacked the coffee and tea schedules which had been eliminated by the ways and means committee before his speech was delivered.

IT WAS AN UNUSUAL METHOD An Estate Worth Thirty-Six Thousand Dollars Was Divided. Bluffton. Ind.. April s.—An unusual method of dividing an estate was ’ adopted by the widow and the eight children of the late William Gilbert, a wealthy landowner who died recently in Chester'township, this county. Instead 'of going into court with expensive litigation the nine heirs agreed upon three commissioners agreeable . ' to all of them and left the equitable adjustment and division to them. They named B. A. Batson, city engineer of this city; I. G. Burris, a montpelier business man; and B. F. j Wampler, a farmer of Chester township. They have filed their report. ' all the heirs have accepted it as satisfactory. and the deeds are now oeing made that will give Hear title to each for his individual share.