Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII,

Number 109.

WILL WED IN JUNE Thomas Haefling and Miss Mary E. Voglewede to Plight Vows WILL RESIDE HERE A Newly Furnished Home Will Await Occupancy by These People On the morning of June ninth an impressive wedding ceremony will be performed by the Rev. Theo Wilken which will unite the lives of Thomas Haefling and Miss Mary E. Vogelwede, two of Decatur’s most prominent young people. After the ceremony a delicious wedding dinner will be served, after which the happy couple wil Heave for a week's tour, visiting several of the large cities before their return. A newly furnished home on Seventh street will await their return. The contracting parties are well and favorably known in the city. The bride, a daughter of exTreasurer J. H. Voglewede Is a young lady of many accomplishments. She is held in the high esteem of those with whom she has been affiliated and a host of friends will extend to her their sincere congratulations. The groom is a clever young business man, having been engaged in electrical work for several years. He is possessed of business qualifications which mean for him signal success in the future. The many acquaintances of both parties concerned will extend congratulations in advance to them. JAMES BOYLE CONVICTED. He Will Get a Sentence of from One Year to Life Imprisonment. Mercer, Pa., May 7. —James Boyle, charged with kidnaping Willie Whitla, was convicted yesterday after a trial lasting but a few hours. No defense was made and the jury was out but a few minutes. Mrs. Boyle, indicted under the name of Mary Doe, with half a dozen aliases, was immediately placed on trial charged with aiding and abetting the kidnaping. Hardly had the jury been sworn in the woman's case when the lawyers became engaged in a legal argument regarding the admission of certain testimony and the case was adjourned till this morn- ' ing. The first witness called by the state in Mrs. Boyle’s case was Miss Ella Boyle, a sister of James Boyle. Apparently from the line of questioning the prosecution wanted to prove by her that the kidnaping conspiracy . was formed while Mrs. Boyle was vis- | iting in Sharon with her husband and that she was implicated in it. It is surmised the object of this is to over-; come her contention that she could not have violated a law in this state while she was living in Ohio. Mrs. Boyle took a prominent part in the ’ selection of her jury prompting her attorneys in numerous cases and evidencing a preference for young, unmarried jurors. The penalty for Boyle’s crime is from one year to a life sentence in the penitentiary. Sentence has not yet been pronounced.

WILL OPEN THEATER SUNDAY Logansport Showman to Make Test of Closing Law. Logansport, Ind., May 7.—Fred Smythe, manager of the Nelson theater will throw the theater open Sunday evening for a moving picture performance, and if the police do not interfere afternoon and evening performances will be given on Sundays in the future. There are three other theaters in the city which have moving pictures as a part of the whole of their entertainment and will follow Smythe’s lead if the police do not stop his show. Former attempts to do so were stopped by the police. COMING TO NEXT HORSE SALE Jim Rice Buys a Pair of Prize Winners. Jonathan Hosier of Union township has sold his big grey team which has for three years won sweepstakes and firsts and seconds at county fairs at Huntington, Warren, Fort Wayne and Wabash The team was perfectly matched, one being a six and the other a seven-year-old. They weighed 4,260 pounds. The buyer was James Rice of Decatur, and the consideration being |750. —Huntington Herald.

LONG SERVICE IN THE MINISTRY Rev. Stovenour, of Portland, Has Long Been in the Harness, In his forty-four years of active service as a minister of the gospel, the Rev. Fred Stovenour, Portland’s patriarch preacher, has officiated at between 3,200 and 3,300 funerals,more undoubtedly, than has been held by any other pastor in Indiana. On his birthday last October, Rev. Stovenour made an effort to ascertain from newspaper clippings and records, just how many times he had been called upon to perform the painful duty, and as near as he could approximate, the total was something over 3,200, an average of seventy-four services a year. Since January 1, last, he has conducted fifty-eight funerals, several times having two appointments in one day.—Portland Sun.

FULTON GOES DRY It Endorses Local Option by 1,627 Majority and Remains Dry POSEY COUNTY TODAY A Hard Battle for the Drys —Pleads Guilty to Law Violation Rochester, Ind., May 7. —Fulton county expressed at the polls its desire to continue in the “dry" column for two years more. The majority ’against the saloons in the eight townships Is unofficially given as 1,627, ' based on the full reports received last night. The total vote cast was 4,221, as against a total poll of about 4,800 shown by the figures in the last presidential election poll books. Every ’township gave a big “dry” majority, i Rochester township, in which this city is situated, showed the largest ”wet” •vote. The “dry” workers were active in the one-sided contest. Many “drys" were out all day hustling the doubtful ones to the polls. The “wets" were not very conspicuous. Taking the day as a whole the town has been the quietest it has ever been known to .be when an election was going on. The farmers drove quietly in, voted and went back to their work as quietily as they came, in fact a stranger ’would have hardly known that an election was going on. Mt. Vernon, Ind., May 7. —If Black township (Mt. Vernon) casts a majority of 500 votes in favor of the 11I censed saloon Friday Posey county will doubtless add its voice against ithe prohibition movement in Indiana, i But it is hardly probable that the “wets" -will be able to carry the county seat by such a majority. The “drys" predict the county will vote “dry” by 800, an estimate given out by the Rev. Frank Werking, one of the leaders. There is not a doubt that seven out of the ten township in the county are “dry" but the remaining three will cast overwhelming “wet" majorities. The overwhelming “wet” faction is led by the best politicians in the county. Jacob Harlem Democratic boss of the county, and Postmaster L. B. Holleman, Republican boss, are the principals Both are considered good politicians, and they are making no secret of the fact that they are leading the “wets."

Fort Wayne, Ind., May 7.—A police court jury fined Tom Baker, a saloon keeper, $lO and costs on a plea of guilty to keeping his saloon open after 11 o’clock. Baker asked for a jury trial to escape a probable jail sentence from Police Judge Skelton, and as soon as his case came up before the jury for trial he pleaded guilty. o— — MAY HAVE TO GO TO JAIL New York, May 7.—Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will have to go to the Ludlow Street Jail unless she pays a $250 fine imposed several days ago by Justice McAvoy for contempt of court. The fine resulted from her failure to appear in supplementary proceedings on a judgment of $250 secured against her by Elsie Hartwig, a milliner. The ruling of Justice McAvoy was appealed but the justices of the appellate division today refused a stay of proceedings in the city court to enforce the payment of the penalty.

LIKE A CYCLONE Severe Storm Invaded this Section Last Evening WAS DESTRUCTIVE Heavy Wind Accompanies Torrents of Rain and Hail Sweeping and roaring and with a velocity which fairly rocked mammoth structures to and fro, a storm which

very much resembled a cyclone passed over this section last evening carrying with it destruction to much property in this vicinity. Dense clouds which threatened a severe thunder storm asembled in the far above last evening at about five o’clock, but no alarm was signaled until like a flash a westerly wind with great velocity swept over the city bringing w-ith it torrents of rain and hail. So heavy was the rainfall that one could see but a few feet distant from where he stood. Residents were much alarmed and many people hurriedly repaired to the cellar of their home where they sought safety from the awful storm. Fortunately no personal injury was inflicted by the sweeping storm, but property was badly damaged in every part of the city. The telephone and telegraph lines were again greatly impaired, and shade trees were utterly destroyed on every hand. The absence of forests in this section of the country is not only responsible for the heavy winds but also (in the opinions of many people) is tending to materially change the seasons pf the year. That is, spring will come later and winter later. The top of a box car was blown off by the storm last evening at the G. R. & I. tracks. GET YOURTICKETS The Decatur Juvenile Band Earnestly Request Your Patronage Now GIVE HOME TALENT The Big Event Will Occur on Monday Evening, May 17 th at the Bosse The juvenile band boys earnestly solicit the patronage of their friends for the local talent entertainment at

the Bosse opera house Monday evening, May 17th, when they will present the beautiful romantic comedy drama “In the Village by the Sea," with an entirely capable cast. The plot of the play tells a beautiful story of life in the most picturesque section of the country, the rock-ribbed coast of Maine, and portrays the life of one of our quaintest classes of people, whose homely good humor and cheerful views of everyday life make a glowing picture of contentment. The play is the strongest ever attempted by local talent here, and an immense amount of work will be expended in order that a smooth and finished production may be rendered. The band boys are canvassing their tickets. The price of admission will be a quarter, and the proceeds will be used to purchase uniforms. So get in the band wagon and help the boys out. STILL AT NEW MEXICO RANCH Trinidad, Col., May 7. —Jas. A. Patten is still on the Bartlett ranch in northern New Mexico and not in Chicago, as was reported. Apparently Mr. Patten has no present intention of leaving the “happy hunting grounds’’ he has found in the forests and mountains of northern New Mexico, and according to the reluctantly given information over a long-distance telephone he is having a fine vacation, spending nearly all his time fishing, hunting and riding.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, May 7, 1909.

ELECTED TWO NEW DIRECTORS The Berne Hay & Grain Company do a Great Business. The directors of the Berne Grain & Hay Co. held a regular meeting at the company’s Geneva elevator Tuesday night and transacted considerable business, among which was the election of two new directors to fill the vacancies occasioned by the resignation of E. F. Lantz, who leaves for the west, and by the disqualification of W. T. Palmer, of Celina, Ohio, who sold all his interests in the company to farmers in the immediate community of Berne. The new directors are D. C. Sprunger and Eli A. Luginbill. There are at present thirty-four stockholders in the company. The following farmers and business men of Berne are new stockholders that purchased stock within the past several weeks: David Lehman, D. C. Sprunger, E. A. Luginbill, . F. Sprunger, Emanuel Sprunger, Daniel Stuckey, C. C. Neuenschwander, C. C. Sprunger and Noah Luginbill.—Berne Witness.

CUMMINS SPEAKS He Gives the Standpatters a Lecture Upon Worn Out Schedules MAKES A PROTEST Do Not Want to Lose the Tenth Infantry Even for Practice Washington, May 7. —Predicting that a failure to pass a tariff bill providing lower duties on imports would provoke a political contest for another revision of the tariff, Senator Cummins, of lowa, delivered a notable speech in the senate yesterday. Commending the course of his colleague, Mr. Dolliver, in his attacks on the pending tariff bill. Senator Cummins, of lowa, today in opening his speech, turned to Mr. Aldrich and said the man who challenged the Republicanism of senators because they seek to revise the schedules of duties forty years old, was taking a most remarkable course. “Have we arrived at that slavish state of public opinion,” he asked, “in which it becomes a question of political fealty to insist upon the correctness of schedules made forty years ago when we consider them in relation to conditions existing today? The bill now before us, which, it may be assumed, presents the views of the finance committee respecting the revision of the tariff," said Mr. Cummins, “will not be accepted by those who have favored a revision of tne tariff as either a fulfillment of the party pledge or as a settlement of the controversy. If this bill, or anything substantially like it, becomes a law, I predict that a campaign for lower duties will begin the moment the extraordinary session of congress adjourns, and will continue with increasing zeal until the judgment entered in the court of public conscience is also entered in the journals of congress."

Washington, May 7.—The Merchants Association and Commercial Club of Indianapolis have sent in vigorous protests against the plan of the war department to order the Tenth infantry away from Ft. Benjamin Harrison, for practice during the summer months at Camp Perry, Ohio. Adjt. Gen. Ainsworth has referred these and other similar protests from Indianapolis to Gen. Frederick D. Grant, commanding officer of the department of the lakes, for a report and recommendation. In the absence of a very positive recommendation of the department commander to the contrary the war department will not be disposed to cancel the engagement already made. Washington, May 7. —Advocates of international peace through arbitration met at the New Willard last night as guests of President James B. McCreary of Kentucky and the directors of the American Peace and Arbitration League. Secretary of State Knox was the guest of honor, being the fifty-sixth anniversary of his birth. O ■ Sunady, May 9th, will be deidcation day of the Washington church, and a cordial invitation is extended to all to be present. The dedication will take place at 10 a. m.

BIG FIGHT IS ON Proceedings in the Johnson Amacher Case Are Unusual in this State SUE FOR NEW TRIAL Case Began this Morning in Superior Court at Fort Wayne—the Attorneys

The Johnson-Amacher ditch fight is on again. A crowd of interested parties— lawyers and county officials—went to Fort Wayne this morning, where the next step in this case which has ben fought for several years is to be taken. The proceedings today are unusual, in fact there is no record of similar proceedings on the Indiana records and this cause will be watched with great interest. Several years ago Mr. Johnson brought suit against R. O. Johnson to force a ditch through the latter's farm near Monroe. Johnson fought it, claiming that it would damage, rather than increase the value of his farm. The case w-as taken to the circuit court here after several long battles before the board of county commissioners, and the cause in court was a long and hard fought one, the jury returning a verdict for Amacher. Mr. Johnson then prayed an appeal, but when his attorneys got ready for the court reporter’s evidence, they found that some very important parts were not obtainable. They took the case up on legal points, but the court refused to grant a new trial. In the meantime Johnson's attorney filed a suit in which they demand a new trial of the old case, and this is the case now being heard at Fort Wayne, and which will form a precedent in Indiana. Similar causes have been reported in New York and other eastern states. The attorneys in the case are C. J. Lutz and L. C. DeVoss for Amacher, and D. D. Heller, Hooper & Lenhart and Peterson & Moran for Johnson.

BLOWN MANY FEET Roof of Box Car Finds Lodgment in Amspaugh Yard FELL WITH CRASH And Residents of the Neighborhood Were Frightened During the progress of the severe wind storm of last night the roof of a box car standing on the G. R. & I. railroad track was blown several hundred feet, alighting in the yard of Peter Amspaugh, The roof was heavy and that the wind was so terrific as to force it so far is certainly mysterious. The G. R. & I. section gang were busy all morning unearthing a large piece of the roof which was burled deep in the ground in a commons adjoining the track. The people in the vicinity of the Amspaugh home heard the crash when the roof fell to the ground, and many were f-.arful that lightning had struck nearby. The occurrence is without precedent in this section of the country, and it is considered fortunate that no one was in the path of the wind tossed timber. A train stood on the G. R. & I. track near the Ward Fence factory while the storm raged and several trainmen fled to surrounding buildings in search of shelter. The storm was certainly the fiercest that has visited Decatur for many years. o HAS OPENED NEW NOTION STORE Mr. C. E. Hitesman, who formerly conducted the newstand has opened a notion and music house at 214 Monroe street, In the room just north of the gas office, and is carrying a line of notions, musical instruments and supplies. His prices are said to be the lowest in the city and he will treat you courteously if you call tn him. His store is known as The Fair, and he invites you to make it your i headquarters. When you want some-! thing in his line call and inspect his I goods.

MAY FORCE SEWAGE SYSTEM Investigation of State Officer May Cause Princeton to Act. Princeton, Ind., May 7.—For three years atempts have been made to get a $70,000 sanitary sewerage system here under the area assessment law, but the vehement protests of propertyowners have always knocked it out. It now appears that the city or citizens will be forced to act. J. Herbert Brew-ster, state water chemist, was here a few days ago, and it is said he found conditions such that the city and county officials probably will be summoned before an inquiry of the state board of health to show cause why they have permitted the unsanitary drainage that now exists. An attempt may be made to install the sewer system here under the new- law permitting the bonding of towns and cities for such purpose. NEW CASES FILED A Number of Complaints Were Docketed in Circuit Court Today BOARD OF EPILEPSY Send Young Man to New Castle—Passwater Divorce Suit Filed A board of epilepsy, composed of Drs. P. B. Thomas and J. M. Miller and Squire Alfred Johnson of Hartford township, went over the application of William Glaus, aged 19. of Hartford township, and recommended that he be sent to the Indiana Village for Epilpetics at New Castle, Indiana, for treatment. Real estate transfers: Mary E. McGath to John Mackey, tract in St. Mary township, $900; C. L. Walter, commissioner, to Elizabeth S. Kern, lot 679, Decatur, $250; John McCune et al to William W. Ely, tract in Monroe township, $3,000. County Clerk Haefling, Recorder Steele and Auditor Michaud are at Fort Wayne today as witnesses in the Johnson vs. Amacher case. A number of the Decatur attorneys are also taking part in the case. Peter N. Mosser, guardian for Joseph Snyder, a person of unsound mind, filed his account curent which was approved.

Attorney L. C. DeVoss has filed a case entitled Rosie Passw-ater vs. Charles Passwater, suit for divorce. The couple were married two years ago and Mrs. Passwater says she can no longer endure the passionate abuses of her husband, who told her if she couldn't, she would have to leave and she did, this suit following. Judge Macy, of Winchester, has sent word to attorneys here that he will come to Decatur within a few days to decide the Gallmeyer case, w-hich he heard some days ago. - At five o’clock last evening Attorneys C. J. Lutz and Peterson & Moran, representing F. M. Schirmeyer, trustee, filed suits against Orval Harruff, John Schafer, Henry Krick, J. W. Tyndall and the Decatur Abstract & Loan company, demanding the payment of sums of from $l2O to S2OO due on the lots sold by the boosters at the auction sale of lots March 26, 1907. The money was payable in monthly installments of five dollars each and the association needs the money to pay the sums contracted for by them. The suits will be watched with interest. Mrs. Sarah M. Cowan has been appointed administratrix of the estate of her husband, Ezra Cowan, and filed her bond as required by law. D. B Erwin is her attorney. Fred T.iechty, aged 32| born at Berne, Switzerland, now a carpenter in Monroe township, this county, and Mary E. Roth, 25, of French township, were granted a license to marry. Dr. J. S. Boyers will leave for . Chicago tomorrow, where he will visit . several days with his son, Luther, and t transact business. The doctor will re- s sume his practice here In a few days. I,

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, NEWS OF GENEVA J A Series of Meetings Being , Held at the U. B. ; Church 5 t MRS. BUHLER DEAD i Geneva Has a Band of * ! Thirty-Two Pieces and b They Play Well i . - , Geneva, Indiana, May 7. —Rev. C. G. I Shannon, who has been conducting a seriest of meetings at the U. B. church, is having great crowds and, | being a speaker of unusual merit, he is more than pleasing the people. Every evening the church is crowded and the meetings may continue for I some time. Mrs. Elizabeth Buhler, the wife of Christopher Buhler, and living six miles northeast of this place, died on Thursday morning, after a prolonged illness. The deceased was sixty-five years, four months and twenty-two days old, and was one of the most re- • spected women of this part of the county. The funeral will occur on Saturday morning, the services to be held from the New Corydon church. A husband, son and daughter survive and are mourning the death of a devoted companion and mother. Mrs. H. A. Fristoe and daughter. Marguerite, have gone to Lexington, Ky„ where they will visit for three or four weeks with Mrs. Fristoe's brother, who lives in Lexington. Quite a number of friends and acquaintances were in Portland on Wednesday, where they attended the funeral services of Otto Blocher, who , died there on Monday. Mr. Blocher , was for a long time a clerk in the Anderson & Knepper drug store, be- , sides he at one time lived at Ceylon, and was known by nearly every one here. The deceased is a brother of Mrs. Mattox, wife of Dr. Mattox, of . this place. t ? Rev. David Wells, now the pastor of a church in Marion, but a former } minister of the Methodist church here, was greeting friends and acquaintances here for several days. I The third quarterly meeting of the 1 U. B. church will be held at the>r church on next Saturday and Sunday. These services will be under the dia rection of Rev. F. M. Dawson, the pre- , siding elder of this conference dis- , trict. Preparations are made for an 3 enjoyable meeting. 3 g A band concert is the program for j every Wednesday evening during the > summer months, and just to show that Geneva is anything but slow, these concerts will be given by the Geneva Merchants- band, an aggrega- - tion of musicians thirty-two in num- ' her. They are being trained by Prof. - Allen Bliss, a musician of great merit and who has trained the band into one of the best in this neck of the woods. The band is supported by the - business men of Geneva, and they take a great amount of pride in them. »-- ■ ■ Misses Helen and Isabella Weeks ■ have gone to Delavan, New York, where they will spend the summer ■ with their grandparents. Their moth--5 er, Mrs. Matie Weeks, will leave in • a few days for Bartlesville, Okla., 1 where she will spend some time with 3 her sister, returning by the way of ? New York, when they will all return r to Geneva in time for school in Sep--1 tember. — o DEDICATION IS NEXT SUNDAY e The Congregation of Washington A Church to Have a Big Time. I, The congregation of Washington church, are especially anxious that the public know that on next Sunday r they will dedicate theft- handsome new 1 church, and they invite the attendance of every one who cares to go. They have worked hard to realize upon such a church home, as they w-ill have after Sunday, and they wish to make that a great day in the life and history of their church. A good time is assured for all who attend the dedicajtion on Sunday.