Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII. Number 105.

THEIR MAY TERM The Commissioners in Midst of a Busy Session MACADAM CONTRACTS Wheat and Sisk and W. V. Buckmaster Bag Two Road Contracts The May term of commissioners’ court opened before a crowded house. The first business transacted was the appointment of True W. Daugherty to Purdue university, such a scholarship being given to Adams county. A. G. Briggs appeared for the Bluffton, Geneva and Celina Traction company, and a franchise through Adams county was granted. The C. C. Sprunger macadam road •was ordered constructed, and the auditor will advertise the same for bids at the June session of the board. Two macadam roads were sold, the following bids and bidders trying out for the contracts: Teeple Road. L. O. Bears & C 054,076.73 E. H. Faust 4,419.00 W. V. Buckhaster 4,044.00 John H. Smith 4,580.00 Geo. Brewster 4,462.23 Wheat & Sisk 4,000.00 Teeple & Aspy 4,788.14 Wheat & Sisk low bidder. Mt. Zion Road. E. H. Faust $3,342.00 L. O. Bears & C 03,159.60 Teeple & Aspy 3,768.23 M. V. Buckmaster 3,082.00 John H. Smith 3,580.00 Wheat & Sisk 3,200.00 G. W. Brewster 3,515.20 M. V. Buckmaster low bidder.

Trustee Thornhill, of Wabash township, asked permission to help Anderson King, a poor person, and this permission was granted. A remonstrance was filed to the Fred Thieme ditch petition, and the remonstrance was set for hearing at nine o’clock tomorrow morning. The proposed drain will effect a part of Union township. q HOME FROM A TRIP TO OHIO Uncle John McKean Visits Relatives and an Old Neighbor, J. B. Corson. Uncle John McKean, of Linn Grove, was here today, on his way home from a ten days’ visit with relatives and friends in Ohio. He stopped at Dayton and other cities, and spent several days with his son Homer, at Germantown. He also enjoyed a dandy visit with our old friend, J. B. Corson, who lives at a settlement near there called Mud Lick. He says Baldwin is as fat and saucy and happy as usual, and is enjoying life to the very fullest extent. Now Mr. Corson owns a splendid farm in this county, and we never could just understand why he don’t occupy it until Unele John told na that right across the road from where he now lives is located one of the biggest distilleries in the country, where right at this moment can be found 17,000 barrels of as good whiskey as ever was made. At that we are not worrying about his environment spoiling Uncle Baldwin to any noticeable extent. — o— — PETITION FILED ON SATURDAY

Madison County to Vote on the Question of Local Option. The “dry” petition was, at 3:30 o'clock Saturday afternodn, filed asking the county commissioners to name a date for holding the county local option election. County Auditor Richards has the petition ’and is the legal custodian for it. County Chairman Cochran was well satisfied when he Presented Auditor Richards the petition. He was delighted with the number of names, 5,122 and with the fact that part of the work was done. He is now ready for the active canvass and other detailed work, which he has W ®U laid out. —Anderson Bulletin.

BOONE CO. PROSECUTOR DROWNS Boat Swept Over a Dam and His Life Lost. Lebanon, Ind., May 3.—Fred Graves, prosecuting attorney of Boone county, was drowned in Sugar creek just before noon Saturday. Ivan C. Toile, coroner of the county, came near perishing and was rescued in an unconscious condition, but was revived by his rescuers. His condition is still critical. Mr. Graves and Mr. Tolle were in a boat on their way to Terre Haute. The creek was swollen by the recent rains and the water was very swift. When the boat reached a dam it was swept over and capsized and both men were thrown into the swirling water. The body of Mr. Graves has not yet been recovered. The two left Thorntown Sunday morning. They were among the best known men in the county.

CLOSED A BIG DEAL * Will Kunkle, of Bluffton, Handles an Oklahoma Oil i Trade Successfully i A HANDSOME FEE Will Be his Share of the Profits, Has Worked on , I i It Some Weeks i i ; Will Kunkle, of Bluffton, who is well i known here, and has many relatives in • this city and county, has just closed the biggest individual oil deal ever ! made in the United States. The News tells of it as follows: Details of a big oil deal which has ( just been completed in Oklahoma, : through the agency of W. A. Kunkle | as broker, were given out today by • Robert K. Souder, of the Kunkle & Brown offices in this city. The deal which was made by Mr. Kunkel was the largest individual sale of oil leases that has been made in the Oklahoma oil field and his commission as broker lin engineering the deal would be looked upon as an independent fortune by the ordinary Bluffton citizen. The deal which was made by Mr. , Kunkel, who has been in Oklahoma most of the time during the past month,, included the sale of the oil properties of the Oriental Oil and Gas company to the Prairie Oil and Gas company, which is the name of the Standard Oil company in Oklahoma, and the price paid was $750,000. The i' property sold by Mr. Kunkel for the Oriental company include 640 acres lof leases in the vicinity of Bartles- , ville and on the land are 32 producing wells with a daily production of about 6,000 barrels. The leases were originally secured by Dr. Webber, an Oil City, Pa., man who went west when i the new field was newly opened with hardly a dollar to his name. He owned 40 per cent of the stock of the Oriental company his share of the •purchase price will be $300,000. Mr. ; Kunkel is still in Oklahoma but is • j expected home again in a few days. . Besides engineering the big oil deal , Mr. Kunkel also has some oil leases of his own in Oklahoma which he is giving some attention. The commission of Mr. Kunkel in making the big | deal is not given out of course, but ‘ usually the agent’s commission in such transactions runs some place between 5 and 10 per cent of the purchase price. O' ——= DELIVER TWO MILLION BUSHELS James A. Patten Will Make Money on May Delivery. Chicago, May 3. —Saturday was delivery day on the board of trade, and the May option, which was the medium of the recent bull campaign led by James A. Patten, became cash wheat, sellers having the right to •deliver cash wheat to those that had bought the May option. On May contracts today 2,100,000 bushels were delivered, practically al! of it to Bart- ■ lett, Patton & Co. Brokers have haz- • arded a guess that Patten paid an av- ■ crage of SI.OB for his May wheat. Assuming this to be approximately cor.rect, he might have sold the wheat delivered him today at $1.12 for delivery in July, which would show a profit of 4c a bushel. May wheat, however, opened today at $1.24% @ $1.24%, and a good demand for actual wheat would enable the bull leader 'to sell at a much greater profit.

———— —J __ TO RESTING PLACE Special Interurban Car Carries Party to New Knoxville FUNERAL SERVICES Os the Late B. Schroelucke Were Held There Today This morning at five o’clock a special Fort Wayne & Springfield car left the city carrying the remains of the late Benjamin Schroelucke and a number of sorrowing friends to Boulton, Ohjo, from where they will be conveyed to New Knoxville, where friends and relatives will pay last respects to the memory of the departed estimable man. The party left the car at 12:30 o’clock at Boulton, and vehicles transferred them to the German M. E. church at New Knoxville, in time for services to ensue at 1:30 o’clock. The Rev. Buckstahler conducted the services. At a special meeting of the local camp, Modern Woodmen lodge held Saturday night a committee of ten members, six of whom were chosen as pallbearers to accompany the remains to Ohio. Among those who constituted the party on board the special car were Messrs, and Mesdames W. H. Fledderjohann, Albert Katterheinreich and Messrs. Fred Smith, C. L. Walters, Orval Harruff, C. O. France, W. B. Johnson, John Sprunger, Eli Meyer and several others, beside the bereaved widow and children. The sympathies of the people go out to this heart broken woman from whom the loving ties of a devoted husband have been torn asunder. Mrs. Schroelucke will probably remove from the city in the near future.

There is still a great interest in macadam road building, as was evidenced in commissioner’s court this morning. The crowds which Billed that room were nearly all interested in the building of some road. ■ — - - ■ o FOUR WEEKS YET Jim Touhey Walked on Crutches Yesterday Afternoon HE IS IMPROVING And Will Probably Leave Hospital Within Four Weeks Mrs. P. J. Hyland returned last evening from Fort Wayne, where she paid a visit to her brother. James Touhey, who for several weeks lias been confined to the hospital at that place. Mr. Touhey, who was so unfortunately injured some time ago, is improving nicely, and In all probability will be able to walk again after remaining in the Fort Wayne institution four weeks yet. Jim is hopeful as are his relatives and to the utmost satisfaction of those who were in his presence yesterday the man of many misfortunes walked on crutches for the first time and went along nicely in consideration of the fact that he is totally blind. The attending physician gives the opinion that Jim will soon ha able to walk, although his injured leg will be shorter than the other. The many Decatur friends of Mr. Touhey, will receive the glad tidings with much satisfaction. MAKE A GREAT STATEMENT The statement of the Old Adams County bank appears today and it sets forth the same glowing statement of the financial condition of the affairs of this financial institution. The deposits amount to $863,984.58, and the total resources and liabilities oversteps the million mark, being $1,016, 713.78. The Old Adams have had a great business and show the growth and stability that is good to see in a baukiug institution.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, May 3, 1909.

THE WALSH MINES SOLD Brought Million and a Half at Sale Saturday. Sullivan, Ind., May 3.—ln a formal sale of the John R. Walsh and J. K. Seibert mining properties of Sullivan and Greene counties, the bondholders represented by the Equitable Trust Savings Company, of Chicago, purchased the property for $1,500,000. The bid made by the bondholders was the only one, the only other competitor the tjnited Steel corporation, having been blocked from the deal. Edward Daniels, Master of Chancery, at the order of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, of the United States district court of Chicago, had charge of the sales, and the officials of the Equitable bank represented the bondholders. The sale was made this morning at 10 o’clock on the court house steps, and the deal was consummated soon afterward. The sale includes more than fifteen of the best mines in the county, and the name will be changed from the Indiana Southern & Southern Coal companies, to the Alliance Coal company. This new company will have complete control of more than twenty thousand acres of valuable coal lands in Sullivan and Green counties.

ARE AFTER HALE May Defeat the Senator from Maine Next Time TAFT NOT PLEASED Does Not Agree With the Senate Tariff Bill as Now Arranged Washington, May 3. —The senate :s in danger of losing one of Its landmarks—Senator Hale of Maine. Already a powerful movement to defeat him is being organized. The defeat of Senator Hale would strike a hard blow to the senate Republican organization. It would take from the senate its oldest member in point of service and one of its oldest in years. It would deprive the appropriations committee of its head, would necessitate the election of a new head of the senate Republican caucus and of the Republican steering committee, and would eliminate one of the staunchest members of the senate "faculty,” that coterie of potent leaders who are on the inside of everything that goes on in the senate and constitute a sort of holding company for the majority side of that body. Senator Hale is the titular leader of the senate, and while the real leadership belongs to Senator Aldrich, Senator Hale stands next to him as a force in the affairs of the upper house. It appears the movement against Senator Hale in Maine has long been gathering force. The test of strength will come in 1910. It will then be necessary to nominate the Republican candidates for the house and senate of the Maine legislature, which will select a senator to succeed Hale, whose present term will end Sept 3, 1911. The anti-Hale men will try to nominate for the legislature candidates who are pledged to vote against the re-election of Senator Hale.

Washington, May 3. —President Taft places his hope of securing a satisfactory tariff bill in the conference committee, which will consider the measure after the senate gets through with it. “The tariff bill must be made in conference,” he is telling his close friends. “It must be changed there so that it will be acceptable.” The president does not disguise the fact that he is thoroughly displeased with the tariff bill as it is now pending in the senate. He likes the administrative features of it. They appeal to him as being very strong and very necessary, and he has only warm words of commendation for those features, such as the tariff commission and customs court provisions, but he does not for an instant indorse schedules of the Aldrich bill which, taken as a whole, are an increase over the Dingley rates. o The weather moderated somewhat today, but it is still far from being real summer. A little taste of warmth would be good just now.

A TRUANT OFFICER A. C. Augsburger Elected to That Place for Another Year A GOOD MEETING The County Board cf Education Held a Splendid Meeting The Adams County Board of Ed- • ucation met this morning there being • but one absentee and that being thel representative of the school board of Geneva. Among the first things taken up was the election of a truant officer, there being two candidates A. C. Augsburger of Berne, and James Knavel of Root township. Mr Augsburger was the successful contestant and was easily elected. He has filled the place for the past year and discharged the duties in a creditable way. Another important matter which (was definitely settled was the date for the county commencement, the date being fixed at June 10, in this city. This will be quite an event in the life of the county schools, and will be attended by scholars and friends of the school from every township in the county. The number of graduates will be exceedingly large and a happy time is in anticipation for the many who will take part. A resolution was adopted at the meeting, forbidding any teacher from teaching school on Saturday, It seems that several teachers have endeavored In this way to make up a little lost time, and the board wisely put a quietus upon this practice. An entire new set of rules were adopted, they being similar in most instances to the rules and regulations that are now in force for the guidance of officers, teachers, pupils and parents of the public schools of the county. The returns of the enumeration was made an account of which will be found elsewhere. The meeting was a pleasant one, and found all the various (Continued on page 2.)

CORNICE LET GO Fell from the Allison Building to the Sidewalk Below BETWEEN TWO MEN Struck Both of Them. But Their Injuries Were Slight —Narrow Escapes Samuel and Nathan Beckman, two well known men of this locality, were very near to serious injury Saturday afternoon, and it required some minutes before they fully realized the narrow escape. They were walking south on Second street, and when in front of the Teeple, Brandyberry and Peterson clothing store, a piece of tue cornice, ten feet long, aiiu Weighing about a hundred pounds, let go from the roof and fell the three stories, gathering speed each inch. It feel just between the two men, grazing Samuel on the forehead and Mathew on the arm. Both men were pushed over, but were not hurt to amount to anything. A crowd gathered. The accident was witnessed by many who marveled at the wonderful escape. An inch either way would have meant serious injury, perhaps death to one of the men. No one had noticed that the cornice was loose, it probably being due to the heavy winds of the preceding several days.

The Fullenkamp store are making a special effort to please their old patrons, and secure new ones this season. They are this week conducting a special suit and skirt sale, and are likewise showing a big Hne of rugs curtains and carpets and they would like to have you call and see them. The genial manager is a hustler and will do anything within reason to I please you. Aside from this the I prices are right. •

JASPER COUNTY WENT DRY

Local Option Election Held There Saturday.

' Rensselaer, Ind., May 3. —Jasper county voted ‘'dry’’ by a majority exceeding 550. Two townships will not be heard from until today. A small per cent, of the vote was cast. In some townships less than 50 per cent, of the vote cast at the November election appeared. Indications are that the total vote will not exceed 2,000 as against 3,504 cast at the November election. The “dry" majority in eighteen out of twenty precincts is 550. This will probably be increased with the returns from Gillam and Milroy townships. No incidents occurred in any of the precincts to mar the friendly feeling that seems to exist betwen the “drys” and those who would prefer to see the saloons l retained.

DEATH WAS SUDDEN Ezra Cowan Was Sick Only a Few Hours, and Was Supposed to be Better PIONEER OF COUNTY Funeral Services Tuesday—Mr. Cowan Was a Civil War Veteran The remains of Ezra Cowan, will be laid to rest Tuesday morning, the services being conducted by Rev. Marsh, at the Rivarre M. E. church at 9:30 o'clock sun time. The news of Mr. Cowan’s sudden death caused a shock here, where he was so well known. He was in the city on Thursday greet-

ing his acquaintances and attending to business, and seemed in robust health. Friday night at about eleven o’clock he suffered from an attcak of indigestion and Dr. Vizard was summoned from Pleasant Mills. He seemed to improve, and Saturday morning felt much better, and was about the house, though it was the first time in twelve years he failed to open his store and postoffice. At about 1:30 Saturday afternoon he was lying on the lounge, fully dressed, when suddenly he seemed to feel a pain at his heart, and raised up on his elbow’, as quickly he fell forward, rolling from the couch and died instantly. He was born in Wayne county, Ohio, January 11, 1840, and at the time of his death was aged sixty-nine years, three months and twenty days. When two years old he came to this county with his parents and has since desided here, being one of the pioneers of the county. He was married in 1866 to Miss Sarah Death, who survives, with tw’o children, Mrs. Jesse Steele and Mr. Kit C. Cowan, two sons and one daughter having died. Mr. Cowan served three years as a soldier during the civil war, and was one of the bravest men who marched from this county. He enlisted in Company I of the 89th infantry. August 14, 1862, and was discharged August Bth, 1865. During the entire his regiment he was always present for duty and being a sergeant was frequently called on to perform hazardous and dangerous duty. His regiment participated in a number nf battles, including Fort Deßussey, Pleasant Hills and Yellow Bayou, La., Tupello, Miss., Nashville, Tenn., Spanish Fort, Fort Blakley and the capture of Mobile. His regiment traveled 10,700 miles during his term of service of which distance they marched 2,063 on foot.

DECATUR WON THE BALL GAME First Contest of the Season Was an Exciting One, Ten Innings. The first game of the season at Stele’s park, was played Sunday, re- ’ suiting In a victory for the locals, by a score of six to five, but it required ten Innings to settle the ron- . test. The crowd was small, owing to the almost winter weather that prevailed. but the game was interesting, j : The Fort Wayne Dodgers were good but the Shamrocks can also go some I and they outplayed the visitors at I every stage. The score: RHE Fort Wayne ..00 02 01 001 I—s 5 4 h (Decatur 0020 001 0 1 2—6 7 3 < j Batteries —Fort Fort Wayne, Vol-L finer and Dimner; for Decatur, Buf-’ ( •fenbarger and Ault.

Price Two Cents

MARRIED TODAY Mr. George Maddy and Miss Anna Martin United in the Holy Bonds LEAVE FOR SOUTH Will Make Their Home at Jonesboro, Ark., Where the Groom is in Business The wedding of Miss Anna Martin of this city to Mr. George L. Maddy, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, were united * in marriage at nine o’clock this morning, the Rev. Father Wilken performing the ceremony at his parsonage. The affair was a quiet one, the couple calling at the parsonage at the hour named, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Johnston, of Lewistown, Ohio, and there they plighted the vows which made them man and wife. They left this city at 10:10 over the Erie, going to Huntington, ■where they will visit a few hours with an aunt of Mr. Maddy’s, and leaving there this evening over the Wabash for Jonesboro, where they will make their future home. Mr. Maddy is engaged in the manufacture of ice cream at that place, being a partner of Mr. Conter of this city. The bride is a daughter of Mr. Jacob Martin and has a large circle of friends here. For a number of years she was employed as an operator at the telephone exchange. We offer our congratulations and best wishes for a happy future.

THEY WERE A BEAUTIFUL PAIR Harry Beavers is the Gamest Buyer That Makes the Horse Sales. The pair of beautiful dapple greys put up at the horse sale Fridav went •to the gamest bidder ‘bat makes the sales of the Decatur Ho.tt Sale company, and who by the way can read a horse on sight a little bit sooner than the best of them. They were bid in by Harry Beavers, of .Prospect, Ohio who is one of the largest shippers that invade the eastern markets. The team brought $640, and they were about the prettiest picture that one ever looked at. Harry Beavers the purchaser, is always a heavy buyer at the sales here, and he is a good bidder and seldom goes wrong. He always i knows when he wants something, and jis not afraid to go the limit when he sees a good thing. COOKING WITHOUT FIRE Doubleday, Page & Company have just published a book of wide practical value entitled “Fireless Cooking,” by Margaret J. Mitchell. The book contains clear and complete- instructions how to cook food in the inexpensive fireless cooker, together with a large number of recipes that have been tested. The tireless cooker, of course, saves much in time and labor and does away with many inconveniences and discomforts. Miss Mitchell has aimed to make her book a complete and working guide. The principle of fireless cooking is that of the hay-box. Food brought to the boiling point can be put in the box and left to cook itself. When you take it out it’s “done.” “Fireless Cooking” tells you, too, how long different things are to be le'ft in the box.

1 CONGREGATIONAL MEETING t _ _ 1 Was Held at the German Reformed Church in this City Yesterday. The German Reformed church held their annual congregational meeting ’ at the church Sunday, and the usual business was transacted. The re--1 ports of officers were all approved, each showing a steady growth in the church. During the past year thir- *■ ty-seven members were taken into ” the church. The officers elected were, :, Elders, William Wetter, M. Kirsch; deacons, Louis Frucute, Herman Sellemeyer; trustees, Fred Reppert, Fred Mutchler, Alfred Ashbaucher: ’ treasurer, Peter Kirsch; secretary, - M. Kirsch. I A SERIOUS FIRE AT DIXON I Meager word comes of a serious conI flagration kt Dixon in which the Methodist church there burned to the ground Sunday morning. The cause lof the fire is unknown, but the damage will be heavy upon the congregation there, who are burned out slick and clean.