Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 21 May 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume YII. Number 121.

MOST CLOSE SATURDAY Saloon Men Must Surrender Their Licenses Before Eleven O’Clock THEY TAKE CHANCES Licenses Will Be Marked as to Time—Money Back in September

The five saloons in Decatur which close with tomorrow, will likely remain open until about 10:45. The law specifies that they shall surrender their licenses tomorrow. Ordinarily the county auditors office closes at 5:30-p. m. and there is some discussion as to whether or not the law will necessitate that they must be in before that time. The general belief is that they can be surrendered any time on Saturday when the auditor will receive them. Mr. Michaud as a matter of accommodation, has consented to keep his office open until eleven o'clock tomorrow evening, thus giving the men a chance to come in up to that time. He does this solely for accommodation and the saloon man takes the risk if there is any, that is the official will write upon the surrendered license the fact that t was returned at the exact hour and if any one raises the question they must take the chance of getting their money back. The license money to be returned to the saloon man must be paid out of the genera! fund and can only be paid after it has been appropriated by the county council. That body does not meet until September unless something comes up to necessitate their being called,which is not likely, so that the money cannot be seured for several months, even by those who comply with the law in returning the papers tomorrow. This order of things will cause Mr. Hey of Bingen, and Mr. Klopfenstein of Preble, to cease business in time to reach here before eleven o’clock Saturday night as at that time the auditor's office will positively be closed.

ANOTHER LATE COURT DECISION Inability to Conduct Saloon Does not Reduce the Rent. Premises, including a corridor, office, bar, barber shop, cigar stand, and billiard room, were leased for hotel purposes. Thereafter a law was passed forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors. The lessee claimed that he was entitled to a reduction of the rent, because of his inability to further conduct the bar in the hotel. In Lawrence vs. White, 63 Southeastern Reporter, 631, the Georgia supreme court held that the mere fact that, when the tenant rented the property, it was thought that he could continue to sell liquor there, would not entitled him to a proportionate abatement of the rent because the legislature subsequently prohibited its sale. The mere use of the word “bar” in the lease did not amount to a covenant or warranty that the law would continue to allow the tenant to sell liquor. It may be unfortunate for the lessee that he did not anticipate the possibility of the passage of a prohibition law and provide for such a contingency, but that he did not does not alter the contract as mads. o RECOVERED HIS POCKETBOOK Dallas Butler Found His Hanging on His Front Door Last Night. When Dallas Butler arrived home last night about eleven o’clock he noticed something queer looking hanging on the front door knob. He investigated and discovered it was his pocketbook, which he had lost Sunday evening. He lost the book while attempting to stop the runaway horse of Dr. Smiths, and which swung him around at a lively rate, the pockethook failing from his pocket. He inserted an advertisement and the book came back all right, but an examination showed that the two dollar bill had been taken as a reward for their honesty in returning the property. Dallas is well pleased to have secured the book as it contained some important papers, but he says he would like to know who the fellow was that needed the money worse than he did

GREAT SPEAKING CAMPAIGN Madison County Fairly Deluged With Orators. Anderson, Ind., May 21.—Never in the history of Madison county have the citizens been bombarded with such a flow of oratory as is now being poured into the ears of the voters throughout the county. There were twenty-five meetings held in various places in the county by the "drys" last night, but two or three speakers at each place, while the “wet'' held half as many at other places in the county. The battle will be waged nightly from the platform until the eve of the election. More than 100 meetings are scheduled, and yet the demands for speakers pour into headquarters of both organizations. Sunday night the “drys” will hold a meeting at the polo rink, to be addressed by Fred Holloway of Chicago, while the "wets’’ will hold a meeting at the Grand opera house, to be addressed by M. M. Mangkasarian of Chicago. Dual meetings will also be held Monday night in this city. IS STILL DRAGGING Senator Aldrich Not Making Very Fast Progress THE TARIFF BILL The Insurgents Are Proving to Be Stronger Than Ever Washington, May 21. —Senator Ali drich has abandoned all hope of obtaining a vote on the tariff bill by June 1. Apparently he is now convinced that the progressive Republican senators can neither be persuaded nor frightened Into an abandonment of their program to insist that the pledges of the party, as understood by the people, shall be kept. The last maneuver of the standpat organization —the plan to have constituents of the progressive senators write letters insisting that the bill Ibe passed at once, has failed. Those j senators who are insisting that the ■ work of the revision shall be thorjoughly done while congress is at it if it takes six months, have been sur- ■ prised at the few letters they have re- ; ceived as a result of the machinery put in operation by the standpat organization. These senators say that part of the program was to have well known men write letters to the newspapers of the states represented by the socalled insurgents demanding : that the legislation be enacted at once “in the interest of business.” Such j letters, it is asserted, have appeared in some of the newspapers of the mid- ' die west. The progressives are now saying that the way to expedite the .bill is for the standpat organization to hurry and make the concessions [ which must be made before the bill goes to the president. Senator Al- ! drich continues to make a few concessions, but, the progressives say, he will have to do better than he is now doing if he expects to get the bill out of the senate within the next month. There w’ere intimations today that the woolen schedule, which was so effectively attacked In a speech by Senator Dolliver, would have to be rewritten The cotton schedule Is totering and the sugar schedule is in danger. But the progressives do not expect Senator Aldrich to make concessions that will count until the bill goes to conference. They realize that he desires to continue to show that he is master of the senate. Unless the progressives are mistaken he will have to yield to the president when the bill reaches the final stages.

Washington, May 21. —The publication required by law,giving the total of appropriations made by congress each session, was Issued today, showing that the last regular session, appropriated a grand total of $1,044,401,867. — o — WILL RESUME MONDAY MORNING The Waring Glove company, which has been closed for a week on account of the lack of material, will resume operation next Monday morning and the employes are requested to take notice.

IS IT RACE SUICIDE? Complete Returns of School Enumeration Shows Loss of 16,240 MR, ALEY EXPLAINS Says it is Due -to the New System Used—Adams Shows Good Gain Race suicide seems to have at last reached Indiana, for the complete school enumeration, with the exception of the city of Evansville, and as made public by the state superintendent, Robert J. Aley, shows a decline over last year of 16,240. The great loss in enumeration is attributed by Mr. Aley to the fact that this year all the enumerators were employed by the day, according to an opinion by the attorney-general, and that consequently more care was used and there was less inclination to “pad” the returns. The agitation of the last five years toward a more accurate school enumeration, he said, is no doubt responsible primarily for the result. He estimates that the enumeration next year will show less difference between that year and this than between this year and last. There are 371,157 white boys of school age in the state and 346,644 white girls. The enumeration of colored pupils shows that there are 7,089 boys and 7,071 colored girls. Adams county shows a gain of eighty-one, and when you consider the fact that there are less than tw’enty-five counties in the state which shows any gain, it is certainly evidence that we have advanced. There were but eight counties in the state showing a better gain than Adams, and they were all larger counties. Some idea of how they run can be had from the fact that Wells county lost 232, Jay lost 105, Huntington 172, Grant 1,966, etc. PRdF.ALEYCOMING Will Deliver the Class Address to the County Commencement Class TO BE HELD JUNE 10 Takes Place on the Central School Lawn —Program Will Be Out Soon

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Robert J. Aley, of Indianapolis .will deliver the class address at the third annual commencement exercises to he held at the Central school lawn in this city on Thursday, June 10th. Superintendent L. E Opliger is busy now arranging the program which will be a delightful one, there being several other interesting features, including besides the principal address, a number of musical specialties and readings. The Temple quartet of Huntington, and the Decatur City orchestra will take part in the day’s exercises. The programs will be issued in about ten days, when the handsome invitations will be ready for the county graduates. The previous commencements have been very successful ones and from the present outlook the one of 1909 will provide a day just as happy as those of the past. Another large class has completed the common school work and will take their places in the world or will continue to advance in the educational work.

Are you going out to the hall game Sunday? If you don't you will miss one of the best games of the season. The Fort Wayne Dodgers are coming to cross bats with the Shamrocks. The Dodgers are one of the strongest teams in Fort Wayne, and you can't afford to miss seeing this game. The Shamrocks have a strong lineup for Sunday and they promise to make this the best game ever played on the dia--1 mond. It is remembered that these ; teams played here before and it took ten innings to settle the game. Come out and root for your home boys. ' Game called at 3:00 p. m. promptly.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, May 21, 1909.

I. 0. O. F. NOMINATE OFFICERS Who Will Be Elected at the Meeting Next Fail. Indianapolis, Ind., May 20.—At the closing session this morning in grand lodge hall of the semi-annual meeting of the grand lodge, I. O. O. F., of Indiana, the following nominations were made, to be voted on at the election at the meeting next fall: For grand master, A. L. Miller, Terre Houte; for deputy grand master, J. M. SHpp, Winamac; for grand warden, H. F. Schrader, Evansville, J. L. Harmon, Elkhart; H. C. Ray, Shelbyville; C. C. Morris, Rockville; C. W. Blackburn, Muncie; E. E. Hardin, New Albany; E. W. Wickey, Hammond; S. E. Grove, Terre Haute; J. H. Carroll, Indianapolis; Francis E. Cooper, Hammond; L. |H. Handley, Richmond; William Marsh, Jeffersonville; William D. Ewing, Mitchell, and J. O. Clarke, Noblesville; for grand secretary, W. H. Leedy, Indianapolis, and E. E. Pryor, Martinsville; for grand treasurer, W. A. Morris, Frankfort: Joseph A. DeHority, Elwood, and E. E. Heaton, Jeffersonville; for grand representative, H. M. Kean, Jasper; for grand trustee, M. A. Chipman, Anderson.

THE FAYLOR CASE Some Speculation as to Just When the Trial Will Begin Here SET FOR MONDAY But an Effort is Being Made to Continue It Until the Next Monday A question that is causing some comment at this time is whether or not the Studabaker vs. Faylor case will go to trial as scheduled next Monday. Opinion of the attorneys seems to be divided, but after figuring it up one side and down the other, we have come to the conclusion that it would be a safe guess to say that the big trial will not start before one week from Monday, June first. This means that it will extend into vacation if as much time,is required in the trial as has been necessary in former trials of the case. The Bluffton papers seem to be divided as to opinions on the time for trial. The News says: By agreement of attorneys the Faylor-Studabaker case first set down for trial at Decatur May 24th, has been continued one week and will go to trial instead on June Ist. An effort had been made by some of the attorneys to get it continued even later in the present term, but Judge Merryman informed them that it would have to go to trial not later than the date named or would have to go over until September. While the Banner says: There has been considerable discussion among the attorneys relative to the continuing of the Studabaker-Favlor case, which is set for trial Monday at Decatur. W. H. Eichhorn, one of the attorneys for Studabaker, asked for a continuance so that he could go to the meeting of the Grand Masonic lodge. Some of the attorneys were willing for the continuance,while oth- ; ers wished the case to proceed. It ! was announced by one of the firms to j day that the case would be continued a week, while another firm stated that it would start Monday. From pres- 1 ent appearances the case will start Monday, as the witnesses have been ordered. o BOOMING GARY REAL ESTATE Leonidas B. Boyd, of Gary, Was Here for a Time Today. Leonidas B. Boyd was here today booming the boomtng city of Gary, Indiana, which has bloomed until now it is a city of no mean proportions. Some of the largest manufacturing plants in the country are located there and the future of Gary is hard to guess at, Mr. Boyd represents a large real estate firm and was here for the purpose of interesting Decatur capital in real estate investments there. W. H. Myers of this city has been appointed agent for this city and will hereafter join the boosters for Gary.

SHE RETALIATES Sampson Woman Sees Victim of Her Broomstick Fined BEFORE SQUIRE SMITH A Charge of Provoke Proven Against Mrs. Blazer Mrs. Lew Sampson who Wednesday night was fined $9.80 by Squire Smith after entering a plea of guilty to the charge of assaulting Mrs. Blazer, has resorted to retaliatory measures and as a consequence the victim of her broomstick has paid a fine of $10.90 on a substantiated charge of provoke. The trial of Mrs. Blazer was held last night before Squire Smith. She plead not guilty and had gotten three witnesses who took the stand and swore that the Sampson woman' was not provoked, and even if she had been they thought that Mrs. Blazer had suffered a sufficient penalty as a result of coming into contact with the broom wielded by the prosecuting witness to atone for the act. Two witnesses, Mr. and Mrs. Sampson, testified that Mrs. Blazer called Mrs. Sampson a name not complimentary to the English language, and after hearing other minor details, the venerable squire removed the pencil ! from his ear and wrote something on the docket like $10.90, which after a littie difficulty the Blazer woman produced and was released from custody. Thus ends the first chapter of the neighborhood scrap and let us hope that it will be the last. Quarrels beginning and ending as this one has, reflect no credit upon a community, nor upon the individuals who participate therein and further toleration of such unpleasant occurrences will be an imposition on the dignity of the people which will be vigirously resented.

THE ART EXHIBIT Will Commence Wednesday in High School Rooms at Central SOME FINE DRAWINGS Primary as Well as Higher Grades Produce Good Work The work of the pupils of the schools of Decatur in art will be exhibited at the art exhibit in the high school rooms, beginning Wednesday, May 26, and continuing May 27 and 28. Last year during the last week of school the first exhibit was shown, and it was decided that it would be an annual occurrence. Every room of ail the buildings will be represented, for each room has produced some good work, and some of these are especially good. Considering that Decatur boys and girls have only had two years and a half instruction in drawing, they have certainly done well. With the wish to know exactly the number of visitors who call at the exhibit, those in charge 'will request each one to register. This was done last year. Some really excellent work has been done this year by the primary grades. Perhaps the best oi these are the monochrome drawings !in watercolor, charcoal and crayon The higher grade students will have splendid charcoal pictures on exhibition. Most of these were time ; sketches. (Before the pupils commenced these drawings they were timed and they were finished by th< j expiration of the set time. Pencil drawings of landscapes and from lif< of the people will be shown, althougl the latter has not gone farther thai the outline stage as the work here ha: not been advanced enough. In orde: to avoid outlines it is necessary t< use a background, and some of thest hard studies arc shewn in landscape The patrons of the school and every one interested in drawing are invited to attend the exhibit. ®

PREDICTS HIGH PRICES. James A. Patten Talks to Club at Chicago. Chicago, May 21. —James A. Patten of the board of trade firm of Bartletr, Patten & Co., whose operations in wheat have received national notice during the last few weeks, reviewed the wheat situation and gave his opinion of the market in an address before the Flour Men's Club nf Chicago, “I predict,” said he, “that high prices will prevail all over the world for a year to come in wheat and that red winter wheat (soft wheat) will sell as high in America a year from now as it is selling today. I cannot dwell too strongly on the law of supply and demand and the theory that the production of wheat In the United States has not kept pace with the increase in population, and I want to suggest that the trade each year will have to realize this condition in its future dealings and study from this standpoint. The wheat lands are being cropped to death. Changes must come or we will suffer the result.” THE TARIFF BILL Congressman Adair Gives His Observations While at Home WANT REDUCTIONS People Not Satisfied With Rates in the Payne Bill Before returning to Washington, Congressman Adair gave out the following statement; “If the members of congress think the work they have done so far in making a, new tariff law Is meeting with the approval of the people, they are mistaken. Since the house adjourned after passing the Payne hill, I spent a few days in Indiana, going over a large part of the Eighth district, talking with merchants, manufacturers, farmers and professional men, and I found almost to a man they denounce the Payne bill as it passed the house and are more than dissatisfied with the progress made in the senate under the leadership of Mr. Aldrich. “Having voted in the house to either lower the duties on the necessities of life or to put them on the free list and having voted against the Payne bill for the reason that it was a revision upward, instead of downward, I was anxious to know how my action had pleased the people I represent. I found, upon inquiry, that my position was approved by practically everybody. “So far as I know the manufacturers of my district are asking only absolute justice and in no case a tariff in excess of the difference in cost of manufacturing between this and other countries. The farmers are willing to have hides placed on the free list. The fact is there should be no duty on either hides or shoes and when the bill comes back to the house I am going to insist on placing both on the free list. I also find the peop’e generally are very much dissatisfied with the sugar schedule. If all of the $100,000,000 increase in the cost of sugar caused by the tariff went into the United States treasury it would not he so objectionable, but when fully half of this vast sum of money goes into the pockets of the sugar trust they have a right to object. In fact, the bill so passed, is a great disappointment to the people. They had been promised by both parties a i revision downward. Any man who would have gone on the stump during the last campaign and advocated £ ! revision upward would have (been hooted off the platform, j “I do not agree with Mr. Aldrich that party platforms are made to ge on and not to be carried out. I re gard a campaign promise just as sa 1 cred as the most binding obligatioi and any public officials who fails t< > put forth every effort to carry ou i his pledges to the people, is not 1 worthy of their confidence or respect 1 and surely not entitled to their sup- ' port. i “What congress needs to do, and what the people demand shall be done is to break away from the dictation o collossal trusts and special interests and revise the tariff downward to a I (Continued on page 2.) '

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0. SOMERS WINS OUT Kokomo Man Elected Department Commander of the G. A. R. Today THE STATE MEETING Big Session at' Crawfordsville Closes—Over 25,000 Were Present Crawfordsville, Indiana, May 21. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Orlando Somers, of Kokomo, was today elected department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for Indiana, defeating Col. C. G. Thomas of Lafayette. Crawfordsville, Ind., May 20. —Mrs. Alice S. Pike, of Danville, Ind., was elected department president by the delegates of the Woman's Relief Corps at their convention today. The ladies of the G. A. R. elected Mrs. Elvira Cassel, of West Point, as their department president. Mrs. Cassel was elected over Mrs. Amelia Collins, of New Albany, and Mrs. Pike was elected over Dr. Alta Boram, of South Bend. Terre Haute won the next encampment at this afternoon's session of the G. A. R. Terre Haute received 253 votes while South Bend received 122. The dates for the 1910 encampment have not been set, hut it is understood that it will be held about the middle of May, as is customary. The best feature of the encampment was the parade. It was a magnificent affair, in which several thousand civil war veterans, a few Mexican war veterans, several Confederate soldiers, 500 Spanish-Amer-ican war boys and eight companies of the Indiana national guard participated. In addition the department officials of the G. A. R., the W. R. C. and the Ladies of the G. A. R. took part. Capt. H. H. Talbot, of Crawfordsville, was chief marshal. More | than one hundred automobiles, carryj ing several hundred people, headed the line of march. Following the staff were the first division of the G. A. R. in command of Capt. M. V. Wert and Charles M. Crawford, and the second division of the G. A. R., in charge of Dr. T. J. Griffith and L. B. McClamroch. The Spanish-American war boys, with William T. Purdue as marshal, followed and then came the One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in command of Col. Harry B. Smith of Indianapolis. The provisional regiment of the Indiana national guard, second regiment, in charge of Major H. T. Conde, of Indianapolis, and composed of eight companies, came next, with the Rockville battery of artillery in command of Capt. H. M. Rice, following. Public camp fires were held this evening. o VANCE WHITE’S TOUGH LUCK Raffles a Ring That He May Reach Dying Mother. In order to get money to go to his • old home in Pennsylvania, where his i mother is seriously sick, Vance White 1 barber, who is hardly able to work himself, Is trying, with the assistance , of friends, to raffle off a diamond ring. ; {Last winter an operation was peri j formed on White and three ribs and one lung were taken out. Since that time he has been at the home of his ’ I father-in-law, Mont Hardin, unable to 4 1 work or do anything. A few days ago ' |he received a letter stating that his mother is seriously ill at her home in 1 Pensnylvania and the young man 0 wishes to go home to his mother, that he may be there when she expires. : The sick man has got a wife and • baby who he wishes to take with him. Friends are nobly assisting him in raising the money and it will not be long until he will have enough to make the trip.—Bluffton News. o | Buy a ticket for “The Princess” if .you have not yet done so. It will be ■ good.