Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 101, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 101.

THE BONDS ARE RESOLD The Twelve Thousand Dollar Issue Bought by Chicago Bond House PREMIUM IS S2BO Three Bidders—Linn and Patten Will Get the Contract for Building The twelve thousand dollar issue of city of Decatur bonds, for the erection of a new city hall in this place, were sold to the Harris Trust company, of Chicago, who offered a premium of s2Bo,with accrued interest from date and will furnish the printed bonds. The session of council was short, being called for the express purpose of selling these bonds. The roll call showed all members present excepting Mr. Chronister. The bids were opened at once, there being three. Farson Son & Company of Chicago bid $245.50 premium and S. A. Kean & Company also of Chicago bid $252 premium, but neither firm enclosed the check as required in the advertisement to show their good faith. The Harris Trust company, however, complied with the proposal in every way and were awarded the issue, Clerk Wemhoff being authorized to telegraph them at once of the action of the council. The bonds were sold about a month ago for a premium of about $450, but the firm failed to make good, and as they had not enclosed a check there was nothing | (to do but readvertise. Mr. Christen moved that all the checks be returned to the men who had bid on the new city hall a week ago excepting that ; of Linn & Patten, and their bid and check be filed by the clerk to be i taken care of at the proper time. ; I The motion carried. A requisition for I stationery for the treasurer, mayor I and clerk was read and the purchas- | ing committee ordered to buy same. I The session then adjourned. I A NEW PRECEDENT I Must Seek Employment and Live in a Dry County I ISSUED A PAROLE I Governor Marshall Springs a New One in a Parole Indianapolis, April 28. —(Special to ■ the Daily Democrat) —Governor Mar- ■ shall, in granting a parole to Everett ■VanAuken today, set a new precedent, ■ and imposed a condition which w T as ■never before required. VanAuken ■ committed robbery while intoxicated, Band the particular condition of the parHole compels him to obtain employment ■and stay in a dry county. This was '■Arranged by the faithful wife of the ■prisoner, who secured employment Btor him at New Castle, Henry county, Mfchich recently voted dry. VanAuken sober was a good citizen, and a good reputation. The imposl■Bion of this restriction in the parole H»ould indicate that the governor does Mot fear the “blind tiger" as much he does the open saloon. ■Mrs. Jesse Huber of west Monroe ■Kreet. entertained a gathering of the ■■lends and relatives from Kokomo, MBeir old home, in honor of her husMKnds forty-second birthday. Music ■and games were the amusements.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

SENTENCED TO JEFFERSONVILLE Gus Brown, of Bluffton, Goes Up for Rape. Gus Brown will be taken to Jeffersonville tomorrow, where he will begin to start his sentence from two to twenty-one years on the charge of rape on Elma Merica, aged 13. When the case was called this morning F. C. Dailey entered a plea of nol conterdere to the indictment of the grand jury. Judge Sturgis Immediately sentenced the prisoner, who was In court, he getting an indeterminate sentence to Jeffersonville of from two to twenty-one years. In making the plea of nol contendere the prisoner does not admit his guilt, as he would in pleading guilty, but expresses a desire not to fight the charge of the state. This is the second plea of this kind that has been made in the local courts recently. The first plea was in the Nate Steffen case. —Bluffton Banner. WERE WITNESSES J Decatur Business Men Were Summoned to Appear at Columbia City AN INTERESTING CASE Manager of Tailoring Company Who Worked Here is on Trial at That Place W. P. Schrock Os the Holthouse, Schulte & Co., store and John T. Myers of the Myers & Dailey company were at Columbia City yesterday where they appeared as witnesses in a case entitled the State ex rel S. F. Ort vs. John Peterson, the defendant being charged with being |h nonlicensed transient merchant. The case is being heard in the circuit court there and will go to the jury this afternoon.- Peterson is the manager of a concern who have operated in this part of the state for some months past, calling themselves the Fort Wayne Tailoring company. They came here the first of the year and opened an office in the Miebers block. Peterson was in charge and had a number of assistants who drove over the county and took orders for clothing. Here they represented that they were a permanent business house and would remain here. They gave in their taxes to the assessor and thus avoided paying the ten dollars a day license as is required by law. After they had taken a large number of orders for clothes which they had made up in a Chicago sweat shop, they moved to another field, locating recently at Churubusco, where they worked the same scheme, or rather started to, when Mr. Ort, a general merchant there had them arrested and this trial at Columbia City is the result. The company is a fake in its way. That is to say, they sell cheap goods for good prices and then leave and the person who buys the goods and finally discovers that he has been caught has nothing to do but grin and bear it and this kind of work is a strict violation of the laws of Indiana. The result of the case will be awaited here “sth considerable interest. o— TO ENTERTAIN THE T. P. A. Evansville Will Show the Boys a Real Live Time. Evansville, Ind., April 28. —The finishing touches on the program for the entertainment of 300 delegates, wives and visitors to the T. P. A. state convention, have been made, and nothing has been overlooked. The delegates will begin to arrive Friday. They will be met at trains by a reception committee headed by A. R. Messick. They will be taken to E. B. A. Hall, which will be headquarters for the meet. An informal reception will be held there all morning and during the afternoon the wives and other women visitors will be received by members of the Ladies’ Auxilliary to Post J. Friday night all of the visitors will be the guests of Post J for a moonlight excursion on the big Paducah liner, the John S. Hopkins and barges. The first business session will be in the Grand opera house Saturday morning. It is intended to make the business session as short as possible.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, April 28, 1909.

BOOMS SHIVLEY Congressman Cullop Talks About Him for President FOUR MENTIONED Shively, Marshall, Johnson and Harmon Talked About Washington, April 23. —Representative W. A. Cullop of Indiana declared today that he finds among senators and representatives in Washington a considerable sentiment in favor of Senator Shively for the presidential nomination. “Four men,” said he, “are talked of for the nomination for president. Aside from these four I hear little, if any, mention of others. The four are Shively and Marshall of Indiana, Governor Harmon of Ohio, and Governor Johnson of Minnesota. There is almost a general agreement that it would be best to select the presidential candidate from Indiana, for the reason that Indiana is regarded as being in Letter shape to be carried for a Democratic candidate for president than either Ohio or Minnesota. It is conceded that the next presidential campaign will be fought out on the tariff issue and that the Democratic position of a tariff for revenue only will be very popular. There is no more able expounder and champion of the doctrine of tariff for revenue than Senator Shively, and if he makes a strong tariff speech in the senate his presidential stock will go soaring upward. Senator Shively expects to be able to attend the session of the senate tomorrow. For about a week he has remained in his apartments at the National Hotel on the advice of his physician. He has not recovered from the strain of the campaign and of his race for the senate. o HOLY COMMUNION Will Be Received Next Sunday by a Class of Thirtyfour Boys and Girls AT ST. MARYS CHURCH Retreat Begun for Class this Morning and Continues Until Sunday On next Sunday at St. Marys church a class of thirty-four children will receive their First Holy Communion in a body. For the last eight weeks 'they have been thoroughly instructed under the careful and guiding hand of Rev. Fr. Wilkens. A retreat was begun this morning and will last un--1 til Sunday in order to prepare themI selves more worthily for the reception of this most holy sacrament. The class consists of twenty boys and fourteen girls, who are Stewart Niblick, Edgar Schneider, Bernard Parent, Raymond Kohne, William Mougey, Elmo Smith, Raymond Gass, Bernard Smith, George Baker, Leon Crawfbrd, Hubert Smith, Laurence Bogner, Nicholas Brawn, Ralph Bentz, Leo Losche, Anthony Nesswald, William Dodane, Omer Niblick, Anthony Meyer, Henry Farouth, Francis Deiniinger, Catherine Holthouse, Laurine ’Keller, Leona Bosse, Gertrude Ullman, Eva Stein, Elnore, Omlor, Mary Starost, Agnes Metzger, Estella Brawn, Frances Miller, Dorothy Carrier, Edith Bentz and Genevieve Spuller. On this day the masses will be one hour earlier than usual, commencing at 7 and 9 a. m. sun time. In the afternoon at 3 o’clock vespers and i benediction of the blessed sacrament. Afterward they will all be enrolled in the brown scapuler. o Aria M. Brown, of Winchester, Ind., grand vice chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, of Indiana, and secretary of the National Swine Breeders’ association, is seriously ill at the Deaj coness hospital in that city. He was ! taken to the hospital from hie home about a week ago.—Bluffton News.

.A FIGHT ON FOR FRANCHISE Bluffton Council May Not Grant Artificial Gas Franchise. Bluffton, Ind., April 28. —A fight on a gas franchise which is wanted in this city by the Indiana Lighting company is promised before the city council next Friday night. The district manager, S, E Mulholland, of Fort Wayne, was in the city last night and stated that the company would ask for an amendment to its old franchise rather than ask for an entire new franchise. The old franchise grants the company the privilege of piping into the city artifiefiial gas, but it provides a maximum rate of 40 cents, it having been issued about twenty-five years ago when it was intended for use as a natural gas franchise only. It is said also that there will be a fight in the council against granting a franchise for dollar gas, which is the rate the company has secured in Decatur. The Indiana Lighting company proposes to furnish both Bluffton and Decatur by piping gas from their big plant at .Fort Wayne. A clause in the local franchise will require a surety bond as protection against damage to city streets, most of which are well paved. o AN OPTION RULING I The Local Option Law Did Not Go Into Effect Until November 20 ITS EFFECT HERE Two Saloons in Decatur Will Run Until the Last of October

Wabash, Ind., April 28. —Judge A. H. Plummer, who was the first judge I in Indiana to hold the county option | law constitutional, permitting Waibash county to be the first to vote under that law, has made a second ruling under this law which is imj portant in every county which has ; voted or will vote on the option isjsue. Judge Plummer holds that all i saloons which procured licenses between September 26, 1908, and Nov. j 20, 1908, can continue to sell intoxicants until their licenses expire, alI though Attorney General Bingham has given it as his opinion that these saloons are closed under the ninetyday clause of the county option law. Judge Plummer, in his ruling of to--1 day, holds that the law was not actually “passed” until it had received the signature of Governor Hanly, had been published, distributed and proclaimed. He holds that “passage" does not mean passage by vote in the state legislature. The law finally passed by vote September 26, 11908, but it did not become a law I until Nov. 20, 1908. Attorney Bingham held that all saloons receiving a license between these two dates must close ninety days after that county voted in which the license was issued. The above decision will be appreciated by four of those engaged in the saloon business in this city. The licenses of Charles Zeser expires October 3, William Badders October 5, Joseph Knapke October 31, and J. J. Tonnelier October 29. Had the attorney generars ruling prevailed these four in this city would have had to abide by the ninety days ruling and gone out of business the twentythird of next month, but this decision, and it is unquestionably the law, will permit them to run their places until the expiration of their licenses. Joseph Knapke and J. J. Tonnellier will be the last to close their doors, John Harmon quits on next Tuesday, as does John Pitts of Geneva, their licenses being dated May 4. Others affected are L. B. Brokaw and Charles I T. Omlor July 1, Albert Lehrman August 3. Those who will have to abide ; by the restrictions of the ninety days ■are C. Radamacher, C. W. Boknecht, 1 Lafayette Ellis, John Schafer, C. D. Murray of this city, Jeff Klopfenstein of Preble and John Hey of Bingen. o Conrad Gillig and wife of Decatur transferred here Monday enroute to their home from a visit in Fort Recovery with their son, Robert Gillig and family. ’While in this city they visited Mr. and Mrs. James Wells of east Main street. —Portland Commer-cial-Review.

IT’S A BUSY PLACE The Van Camp Foundry and Machine Works Doing a Great Business A FEED GRINDER Another Invention of Mr. Van Camp Promises to Be a Winner “The Van Camp" is the name of i another Decatur invention which will soon find its way to all parts of the globe. It is a feed grinder, designed by Mr. A. Van Camp, and constructed by his workmen at the Van Camp Foufidry and Machine Works. The machine is made in four sizes, 9x14, 9xlß, 9x24 and 9x30, and is so constructed that it is several times better than anything oh the market for the grinding of all kinds of feed, and is made for the eSpecial use of the flouring mills operating all over the country. The first one installed was in the new mill at Monroe, and since then another has been sold to a miller at Uniondale. The four sizes are now being manufactured and soon the trade will be flooded with printed matter relative to the merits of “The Van Camp.” Quite a market has been made for the freight and passenger elevator, another invention of Mr. Van Camp. In the last two weeks these elevators have been sold in Markle, North Manchester, Uniondale and Portland. Orders are coming in daily for them, and it promises to be in demand all over the country. The Van Camp Foundry and Machine Works is a mighty busy place and the amount and character of their work is such that all Decatur is proud i that it is located in this city.

o DRYS WIN AGAIN Delaware County Furnishes Banner Majority for the Drys EVEN TOOK MUNCIE — The County Majority is 2,952, Muncie is Dry by 209 Muncie, Ind., April 27.—Muncie and Delaware county went high and dry on the prohibition side of the local . option issue. The unofficial figures ' give a majority of 2,952 for the “drys” in the county. Muncie, the largest city thus far voting on the saloon question, went “dry" by a majority of 209, and Center township, claimed by the “wet” organization until the very lust, bade farewell to the saloon by 784 votes. “Dry” leaders in the intense and bitter fight which has been waged here during the last two weeks are wild with enthusiasm. Delaware county temepranee leaders believe they have set a mark for the optionists of the state to strive to reach. The previous high mark was made by Montgomery county, which gave 2,803 “dry.” The day was featured by the strenuous efforts of both “wet” and “dry” organizations to get out voters. It rained early in the morning and the temperance forces viewed the lowering clouds with fear. But toward noon the sun broke i through the clouds, and with redoubled vigor believing in the good omen, the “dry” workers renewed efforts to bring out every vote in the county. The greatest surprise of the day was in the great inroads made in “wet” i territory by the Prohibitionists. Ralph Ross, chairman of the “wet” organization, asserted the “wet” would win I every Muncie and Center township. . precinct until the returns began to come in. But in the Seveltth and Ninth precincts, in the south side factory districts, the “dry” majorities were respectively 77 and 71. In Mun- i cle’s terderloin district the “wet” j; leaders asserted the vote would show i three to one against prohibition. The 1 figures, however, returned a ma- b

jority of 92 “wet” out of 416 votes. In the suburbs of Whiteley, where there is a large colored population and where the “wets” expected a large majority, the returns show a lead of 85 for the “drys." This defeat came with crushing effect, for the returns were known early. The outlying townships, depended upon from the first by the "dry" organization, remained true to their colors. They . have been “dry’’ by remonstrance for several months and gave the optionists majorities averaging throughout the county more than two to one. The best residence section of Muncie declared against the saloon by small majorities, and the precinct includ- , ing the business section gave the wets” a majority of 43 votes only. There was no public demonstration by the victorious organization follow- | ing the compilation of the returns. Tired out with the hard day’s work the majority of the leaders went home and to sleep, well content. The (Continued on Page Two) A FEW SOFT PLANS The President to be Given Free Rein in Appointing Tariff Commission CHANGE THE PLANS The South Will Hail the . I New Order With Considerable Delight Washington, April 28. —Senator Al- , . drich, chairman of the finance com- i i mittee, has taken a new tack with ref- ! erence to tariff commission legisla--1 tion. He has changed his views comi pletely during the last forty-eight • hours and the plan which he will I introduce in the senate in the shape of an amendment to the tariff bill

will not embrace any of the features of the -program which be originally proposed and which he advocated until yesterday. Mr. Aldrich had a and thorough discussion of the tariff commission proposition with President Taft yesterday. Today the officers of the National Manufacturers’ association, headed by President Vancleave, who represents the Indianapolis conference, waited on Senator Aldrich and he outlined his new plan, w-hich, he said, had been agreed to by President Taft. There will be another conference tomorrow, when Mr. Aldrich will submit to President Vancleave and the latter’s associates a draft of the legislation which he ■will offer. Mr. Aldrich’s former plan was to create a mixed body of tariff advisers to consist of three experts of the treasury department and four outsiders, to be appointed by the president, the members to draw a salary of SIO,OOO each. This commission bureau and commission, it was to be specifically provided in the statute, should collect information in regard to the tariff, and should have the dual function or advising congress with reference to revising the tariff and the president with reference to enforcement of the maximum and minimum provisions. Mr. Aldrich’s latest plan, which he seems to have settled definitely upon in his mind, gives President Taft carte blanche to appoint a tariff commission and define the scope of its duties. In effect it will delegate the whole matter to the president. The legislation in its verbiage will be a simple provision, merely giving the president authority to appoint a tariff commission or “board of experts" to assist him In enforcing the tariff laws. c TO SELL THEIR HOUSE FRIDAY Chance for Some One to Buy a Very Cheap Property from the K. of P. At ten o’clock on Friday of this week, the building committee of the j Knights of Pythias lodge will offer at public sale the house located on i their lot on Third street, first door north of the Murray hotel. The high bidder will get the house and some one is going to get a bargain. The . sale will positively take place at the i hour mentioned as the committee are j arranging to build the new home. If i you are interested be sure to be on hands. Some of you people who own lots can realize on the investment by a buying this house and moving it. x

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NEW LAW IMPORTANT Affects Many People Doing Business in this City and County MUST RECORD NAMES If You Are Operating Under Other Than Your Own True Surname A law enacted by the recent legislature and one that affects many people doing business in Adams county, is that found on page 358 of the acts published. It relates to the recording of names and residences of persons engaged in business under names other than their own. The law is short and for the benefit of those who may be interested we quote it: Section 1, Be it enacted, that any person or persons conducting or transacting business under any name designation or title other than the real name of person conducting such business whether individually or as a firm, shall file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the place of business or office is located, a certificate stating the full name and residence of each person engaged in such business. The clerk shall keep a record of such certificates and an index of the names of such persons, firms and partnerships, entering in such index in alphabetical order, the names of every person and the title under he does business, and of every firm or partnership and the names of the members thereof. Exceptions—Section 2, This act shall not apply to any corporation doing business under its true corporate name, nor to any firm or co-partnership doing business under any name, designation or title which includes the true surname of (the co-partners or firm nor to any church, lodge or association the business of which is conducted by trus(Continued on Page Two)

WAS OVERRULED Supreme Court Rules on Petition for a Re-hearing of Important Case JOHNSON DITCH CASE The Trouble is Not Ended However, as Another Suit Will Be Heard Soon Attorneys have been officially notified by Ed Fitzpatrick, clerk of the supreme court of Indiana that the petition for a re-hearing in case number 21347, Johnson vs. Amacher, appealed from this county, has been overruled. This, however, does not end the famous ditch case which has been in court for a number of years. The original case in the lower court was Amacher vs. Johnson, and was a case to establish a ditch across said Johnson’s land, and the locating of which Johnson claimed would damage his farm to quite an extent. It was a hard fought battle, resulting finally in a victory for Amacher in the court here. Mj. Johnson then decided to appeal, but when his attorneys began to prepare the brief they discovered that the court reporters record was not .complete, and they could not go up on the evidence. The case was then appealed on a law question and lin the meantime another action was

• ’brought in the circuit court asking for a new trial. This cause has been taken to Fort Wayne, where it will be heard in the near future. It has been set for trial several times, but something has always occurred to prevent it. There is much interest in this suit. o Miss Mary Rex went to Berne this afternoon to visit for a short time with friends.