Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1909 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Excep’ Sunday, by LEW G. EL L l*N GHA M. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 ceats Per year, by carrier $5.00 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail .'...52.50 Single copies . 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. The question has been raised whether the national government should pass an inheritance tax law or leave that source of revenue to the states. Indiana would now have one if the Republican senate had passed the inheritance tax bill passed by the Democratic house at the late session of the legislature. Representative Barnhart another Indiana congressman, held the boards yesterday and suceeded in telling congress and those members who are < sc selfishly eager to serve their own ' district with little or no thought of the country a large, that they only j represent hydrophobic sentiment and ; in doing so disgrace the fundamental i laws upon which this country rests. 1 Representative Barnhart is right, and we congratulate him upon having the { courage to declare his convictions c upon the floor of the house. Governor Marshall Is seeing to it 1 c that the bonds given by architects and contractors for state work amount £ to something. In the recent past the r state has lost a lot of money through loopholes which were either inten- 1 tionally or negligently permitted to * exist by Republican officials. The t present governor is determined that j this sort of thing shall not occur dur- I ing his administration if he can pre- 1 vent it. The last legsilature found f o it necessary to appropriate money to ~ repair buildings that had only recent- $

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«Tly been accepted as “finished.” Hereafter when a state building is finished it will have to be done according to ♦ contract in every detail. In a signed statement the Logansport Business Men s Association, that s fought so vigorously against prohibi--0 tion in Cass county, announces that s that organization “has already brought ® about the cancellation of two saloon g leases and others will be cncelled as j they expire. The county commissioners can be relied upon to heed ’ the recommendations of the associa- • tion which will do just what it has .’ pledged to accomplish. The Logansport Business Men’s Association does ! not stand for saloons, but it does ' more emphatically stand for a bigger ■ and better Logansport, commercial prosperity and an unfailing observance of the law.’’—South Bend Times. ALL NEXT WEEK. McNavin-Cash stock company comes to the opera house all next week in a repertoire of plays new to Decatur. Monday night “The Min from Nevada” will be presented, on which occasion ladies will be admitted free when accompanied by a paid 30- < cent ticket. Refined vaudeville feat- : ures will be introduced 'between the acts. Popular prices, 10c, 20c, 30c will be the rule during the engage- ( ment. The company is a large one, . and said to be one of the best playing at cheap prices. They closed a 1 week’s engagement at Marion, Ind.. s last Saturday night, turning people < away, which speaks well for the ' company, as Marion plays the best ’ companies on the road.

Mrs. Chauncey Roop and children, Harold. Herbert and Chester, of Chicago, went to Pleasant Mills to visit her mother, Mrs. David Troutner. She and husband are arranging to move back here. Wiliam North, Jr., was nere from Portland today and informed J. P. Hale that the company which he represented had reached a decision to take Mr. Hale's 30 acre farm lying between the Clover Leaf and Lake Erie tracks, south of the piano factory. as the location for their new tile factory and the papers are being made out this afternoon by land is transferred to them by Mr. Hale for $5,000. —Bluffton News.

THE SOCIAL NEWS A Chicken Dinner Was Given at Noon to Peterson School Children THE G. L. C. CLUB Decatur People to Attend Easter Entertainment at Willshire

5 Miss Gladys Meyers is entertaining r the G. L. C. Club this afternoon, at her home, with games and music. An excellent chicken dinner was given this noon at the Peterson school house for the pupils of the school. The teachers had charge of the affair, and the pupils of the advanced and primary grades observed the closing day together. Among those who will attend are the graduates, Muriel Fulk. Cleo Henry, Marie Daniels and Louie Dilling, and the Misses Frances Gault, Georgia Beery, Helen Baker and Frank Gault. A number of Decatur people will attend the Easter entertainment at the M. E. church at Willshire Sunday evening. With the excellent drills, songs and recitations by the members of the Sunday school, the program will be an interesting one to those in attendance. The class taught by Mrs. Willis Ross will sing, the accompaniment being played by Dove Culley. Dr. Wikersham will speak commencement night. After the address there will be several musical selections on the program. To attend to this part of the program a committee has been appointed, who will secure good music for the occasion. Misses Fanny Hammel, Josephine Krick and Leota Bailey are on the committee for the play “The Princess.”, which will be given just before commencement. The ladies of the Christian church are going to hold another of their pastry sales Saturday, April 10th, at the Mutchelr meat market on Second street The ladies -.rill be here the entire day to wait upon you and will have lots of good things to eat. The members are requested to bake all kinds of pastry and bring them to the meat market early Saturday morning.

AMERICAN YEOMEN MEETING f Was Held in Indianapolis During this 1 Week. | t Harmony Homestead. Brotherhood of American Yeomen of this city, was host to the delegates to the state conclave of the order last night. Candi- ] dates for admission Into the organization were initiated last night at the ] I. O. K. of P. hall, on south Capitol 1 avenue, the work being done by the ■ Boone Homestead team from Lebanon. ( The ritualistic work was followed by a banquet. A spirited contest marked 1 the election of the state officers yes- < terday afternoon. Each city of the , state represented at the meeting de- , sired to be represented on the state : ticket and a number of candidates 1 were placed in nomination for the different offices. The successful candidates were: State foreman. John Englehart. Elwood; state correspondent, Edna Pauley. Indianapolis; state treasurer, John L. Wade, Lebanon. Members of the executive committee. Blanch Melshimer, Ft. Wayne; R. W. Grim, Terre Haute and Jennie Bayliss Fort Wayne. The following delegates were elected to represent Indiana at the next national meeting which will be held at Minneapolis, beginning June 8: Geo. Culler, Fort Wayne, delegate at large; W. P. Bailey, Lebanon, and R. L. Goode, Indianapolis. Reports were submitted at yesterday s meeting showing that the order in Indiana is in a flourishing condition. An insurance department is operated in connection with the fraternal and social departments of the order. Figures were presented to show the order had grown from a national membership of 52,618 in 1905, to 103,677 on April 1 of this year. The reports read yesterday show that the order has insurance policies in force amounting to $138,803,000. S. E. Brown represented the Decatur Homestead No. 1608 at the State conclave. LAND FOR RENT —I have for rent forty acres of land, which I want put in corn and grass; will rent it either for cash or on the shares. Land is located just outside the Decatur corporation. Henry Krick. 79-6 t

RESIGNED IN DISGRACE Washington, Ind., April 9. —The Rev. Elmer E. Davidson, of the Christian church, yesterday tendered his resignation as a result of charges by Miss Laura Bunn Clark of this city, that the minister had tricked her into a fake marriage. According to the woman's story, she entered into a false marriage contract with the minister at the Metropolitan hotel in St. Louis last December. Shortly before the minister submitted his resignation today, love letters, purporting to be from him to Miss Clark, were made public. TWO NEW CASES

Were Filed in the Adams Circuit Court this Afternoon I — OTHER COURT ITEMS / A Guardian Appointed — Jury Disagrees in the Manor Will Case A marriage license was issued to Marion J. Tinkham. 24, a farmer, and Della Young, eighteen, both of Blue Creek township. Attorney D. E. Smith filed a new case entitled John F. Lawson vs. Catherine Miller et al, for partition of real estate. The Manor will case which Judge Merryman spent eight or nine days in hearing at Portland, will have to be retried. After being out nearly thirty hours the jury was discharged at 5:30 last evening, being unable to agree on a verdict. It is said that they stood nine to three for the defendant, and that one man really held the jury, refusing to agree on any sort of a compromise verdict. Attorney Dore B. Erwin filed a new case at the clerk’s office this afternoon entitled Mathias Kirsch and the other members of the Kirsch & Sellemeyer Lumber company against D. E. Studabaker, suit on note, the demand being $650.

Another new suit was that filed by Attorney A. P. Beatty in which the plaintiff is the National Bank of Commerce of Toledo, Ohio and the defendants the Cardwell Box company and the members of that concern, suit on note, demand $5,000. I Charles W. Yager was appointed guardian for his son Jacob Milton Yager, who recently inherited property valued at SBOO. from his grandfather, Samuel Steele. o RESOLUTIONS. Hall of Linn Grove lodge No. 683, I. O. O. F.: Whereas, the merciful and beneficial Ruler and Father of all has called our brother, Fred Neaderhouser, from the scenes and activities of this into the eternal world, and Whereas, He in His boundless mercy doeth all things well, though ofttimes his dispensations be shrouded in mystery to us, and lead us into deep mourning because our finite minds are unable to fathom them. Therefore be it Resolved, That we, as brothers, bow in humble submission to his will, and while we so deeply mourn our loss we most sincerely join in extending our sympathy to the grfefstricken family and pray that the Holy One may administer to them the oil of joy for mourning and beauty for ashes. Resolved, That we cherish and emulate the noble traits that characterizes the life of our beloved departed brother, in living among us not for self only, but in the exemplification of the true teachings of our brother in that of bettering all by kindness and good deeds with w-hom he associated and came in contact; Resolved, That our lodge hall be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days and that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon our rec--1 ords and a copy be sent to the grief I stricken family and request it to be 1 published in the leading papers of 1 the county. Fraternally submitted, J. D. AUGSBURGER, t P. D. KIZER, 1 JAMES KOHN, Committee.

BUGGIES FOR SALE. An assortment of second hand buggies and carriages for sale at bargain prices. Atz & Steele, north Second street, Decatur. Indiana. 85-6 t —o If you need a buggy or carriage look at the assortment of second hand ones at Atz & Steeles. 1

AN ANNIVERSARY Surrender of Lee to Grant Occurred Forty-Four Years Ago Today AT FOUR O’CLOCK P. M. Marked Close ofWar —Date is Recalled by Old Soldier This is the anniversary of one of the most memorable events in the history of this great nation. Fortyfour years ago at four o'clock this afternoon. at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ocourred the surrender of the Confederates to the Union army, General Robert E. Lee delivering his sword to General U. S. Grant. This occurred April 9, 1865, the day falling on Sunday. An hour later and before the news of the surrender which ended the war had reached the other camps, the battle and capture of Fort Blakely occurred. In that battle three Indiana regiments participated, they being the eighteenth, fortys-eventh infantries and the thirteenth cavalry. In all these regiments were men from this county many of whom will no doubt recall the last day of the long and hard fought war without* being reminded of it, but there are many who will not. In the thirteenth cavalry, the Hon. R. S. Peterson of this city served as a lieutenant. The anniversary was discussed by the veterans here today and brought forth many incidents of the days which now seem scarcely more than a dream.

MRS. TRITCH IS VERY SICK Mrs. Catherine Tritch, the mother of Prof. Jonas Tritch, is very seriously ill at her home in the southwest part of town. She suffered a stroke of paralysis early Monday morning and has since been gradually declining. But slight hopes are entertained for her recovery and a report was circulated at noon that death had occurred. While this is not true, it Is feared the end is but a few hours away. Announcements have been received in this city of the approaching marriage of Miss Dessie Mosure, of Vera Cruz to Raymond Reynolds, of Nottingham township. Miss Mosure is the daughter of Frank Mosure, of Vera Cruz, the well known notary public and the groom, Mr. Reynolds, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reynolds. The ceremony will take place Saturday afternoon and the young couple will go immediately to a home near Vera Cruz given them as a bridal present of the bride’s father. —Bluffton News. Billy Hardin, of Celina, a well know-n base ball player, who was with the Van Wert team, died at his home suddenly yesterday morning. He had planned to get up at four o'clock and go duck hunting, but before that hour arrived he was dead. He complained of a pain in the back of the head, soon became unconscious and died in an hour. He was twenty-nine years old and was quite well known in Decatur, having frequently played ball here. He leaves a wife and a little daughter, besides numerous other relatives.

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SOCIAL AT MONROE SATURDAY The Easter supper, announced by the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church at iionroe, will be given as previously advertised on Saturday evening. Some One sent in a notice yes* terday that the affair had been postponed, but we were Informed this morning by a special telephone call that this was an error and that the supper will be given as advertised This means a good time in store for all who attend and it is safe to say that there will be a good crowd present, notwithstanding this misunderstanding. Remember the date, netSaturday, April 10th, o WANTED—Boarders, board or roon and board. Mrs. Noah Mangold, 222 S. First St