Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII. Number 141.

NEWS ITEMS AT GENEVA Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon Mother of Mrs. Jacob Butcher . Died Today A FIRE DOES DAMAGE Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Drew Are the Parents of Fiftenth Child Geneva, Ind., June 14.—(Special to Daily Demcorat)—Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon, wife of R. L. Dixon, and the mother of Mrs. Jacob Butcher, died here this morning at 2:30 o’clock. She came here about a week ago to visit her daughter and soon after her arrival suffered an attack of muscular rheumatism, which affected the heart and proved fatal. For some time she suffered from cancer of the breast and had been operated on several times, this it is believed causing the rheumatic complication. She was aged 71 years, six months and nine days. Her home was at Union City. The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at ten o'clock from the Butcher residence on High street, the Rev. G. M. Myers of the United Brethren church officiating, and at her request will be laid to rest in the cemetery at this place. Childrens’ Day was appropriately observed at the United Brethren church here Sunday evening, and that ediface was crowded with those who wished to hear the program. It was good, one of the best ever rendered here, and much praise is due the Mrs, F. E. Lindsey and Miss Julia Wegmiller, who drilled the young folks. Special mention is due Miss Carie Lindsey, who rendered “The Old Oaken Bucket,’’ a- piano selection, with variations, and Jt was certainly splendid. The entire service was beautiful and was appreciated by all. Rev. C. U. Wade, district superintendent of the M. E. church delivered an eloquent sermon here last evening, (Continued on page 3.) ESCAPED Prisoner at Jail Locked Deputy Sheriff in the Jail AND THEN HE HIKED For the State Line at Breakneck Speed—After Him Albert Presdorf, the new deputy sheriff yesterday morning at about eight o’clock became a prisoner in the Adams county jail, but not charged with a law violation. He was locked in jail by Sam Bailor, who made good his escape, while the officer was secure behind the prison bars. Mr. Presdorf opened the jail door and went in to administer aid to Isaac Hilty, who is confined there and Bailor was standing behind the hig door. The deputy sheriff supposing Bailor to be in one of the other compartments, went to an adjoining cell to see Hilty. He expected to remain there but a minute, but changed his mind when he saw that Bailor had locked the iron door, making him a prisoner. Presdorf was compelled to stay behind the bars for about half an hour, thus giving the fugitive plenty of time to make his getaway. The alarm was soon spread and the officers began pursuit for the escaped Prisoner. Bailor had been seen near Davis Daily farm and he was making for the Ohio state line with breakneck speed. Officers in all surrounding towns have been notified and without doubt the man who is wanted here to answer to the charge of larceny w'l be returned for trial.

NEW PARSONAGE IS UNDER WAY Wil! Be Completed Before the Conference Meeting in August. Work on the new United Brethren parsonage, on Ninth street, just south of the church, is progressing nicely. Linn & Patton have the contract and they are pushing the work along, even more rapdily than was expected. The cellar, foundation and enough of the frame work to show the beauties of the structure when completed an done already, and it is now believed that the new home will be ready for the minister who is sent here by the next conference which meets in August. For these reasons, those in charge of the work would appreciate it very much if those who subscribed funds for this purpose <ill kindly hand them to the treasurer, J. S. Lower as soon as convenient. They need money now each day and desire that nothing will prevent them from pushing the work. o BIG WEEK BEGINS The Progressives Will Fight the Increase in the Tariff Bill TO THE LAST DITCH A Hard Fight on the Paper Schedule Will Now Be • Heard • Washington, June 14. —Progressive senators held a conference at Senator Beveridge's house last night when the campaign which they will wage this week was partially determined. It is expected that this will be one of the most important weeks of tariff revision in the senate, as the consideration of the bill is drawing to a close and experience has shown that special interests usually are very alert at this stage of the proceedings. It is anticipated that the discussion will be very spirited until the bill gets through the senate. At last night’s conference it was decided that the progressives shall make a “last ditch” fight on behalf of the newspaper publishers of the country. The finance committee is about to report an amendment to the tariff bill putting a duty of $4 per ton on I print paper. The house fixed this duty at $2 per ton. The progressives are opposed to this increase, which they consider very unjust, and will exhaust their strategy and energy in trying to have the house rate restored. At Senator Beveridge’s suggestion, Senator Brown of Nebraska was designated as the progressive who will prepare and introduce an amendment to restore the house schedule. On the question of an income tax the progressives did not find themselves agreed and it is probable that on this matter, which will come up Friday, there will be no attempt to bind the progressives, but each will be lett free to vote as he sees fit. As the situation stands some of the progressives are in favor of an Income tax law and others are opposed to it. Senator Beveridge 'is one who will vote to refer the question to the senate committee on judiciary, with instructions to investigate and report at a subsequent session of congress There is a growing feeling among the progressives that th ejudiciary committee, which is the great judicial body of the senate, and made up of its brightest legal minds, should give the subject the depest study and most careful consideration before congress restores to the statute a law which the United States supreme court has declared unconstitutional, particularly since there is no reason to suppose that the court has changed its mind on the legality of the proposition. MR. TAFT AGAIN A WINNER President Adds Another Golf Victory to His Credit. Washington, June 14.—President Taft added another notable golf game to his credit today wtien, playing as a partner in a foursome with C. Allan Lard, of the Chevy Chase club of this city, he helped to defeat VicePresident Sherman and Walter J. Travis, the international champion, by a score of 6 up and 5 to play.

MARRIEDFOR GOOD A Double Enoch Arden Affair Right Here in Old Adams County HAS MARRIED THRICE Mrs. Amanda Reisen Has Had a Unique Experience in Matrimony Line Judge Merryman late Saturday evening united in marriage Mr. John F. Richards and Mrs. Amanda E. Reisen, and in connection with this weeding is linked a sort of double Enoch Arden affair. This marriage occurred at the clerk’s office and the records show that Richards is fifty-two years old, has been married and divorced twice and that Mrs. Reisen is thirtysix and has had a similar matrimonial experience. Ten years ago, Amanda Evans was married to a man named Samuel Reisen, of Berne. They live;] together for some time and Reisen then disappeared. About two years later he wrote to friends here from Utah that he had been divorced from Amanda. Some time later, that lady, tiring of the lonliness of a single life, and believing herself free, was married to John Richards, and to them were born two little children. Several years passed and then one day, Reisen appeared on the scene and explained that the story that he had been divorced was untrue. This made Amanda’s marriage to Richards illegal, and she left him and again began living with her former husband. However, this union again proved unsatisfactory and last January Amanda was granted a real for sure divorce in the court here and the wedding Saturday evening, united her again with husband number two, and they say, this time for keeps. May they live long and be happy. 0 BODY RECOVERED Roanoke Factory Man,Richard McCormick, Died in Cow Creek SEARCH FOUR DAYS Believed He Accidentally Fell Into the Creek While Intoxicated Huntington, Ind., June 14. —The badly decomposed body of Richard McCormick, the Roanoke stave manufac‘ rer, who was last seen on the streets of Roanoke' last Wednesdaynight after he had spent the day in Fort Wayne, was pulled out of the muddy waters of Cow- creek, just west of Roanoke at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, after the entire neighborhood had turned out in a two days’ discouraging search for the missing man. The Huntington coroner viewed the body, Which was then prepared for burial and was sent through Fort Wayne last night over the Nickel Plate for the unfortunate man's former home at Payne, 0., where the funeral and burial will take place. Comparatively little was thought of it when McCormick did not at first appear after he was left at Main stret in Roanoke Wednesday night. By Friday morning the anxiety of She family became most pronounced and fears were expressed that the missing man had met jieath in the swollen waters of the creek near his home. Searching parties began dragging the waters without result either Friday or Saturday, but early Sunday the body was found some distance from where Mr. McCormick must have fallen into the creek. Richard McCormick was about forty-five years of age and was a partner and manager of the Roanoke stave factory. He went to Roanoke a year ago from Payne, 0., and until recently devoted himself very closely to his business, which thrived under his direction. It is claimed, however, that recently he ■was in the habit of disappearing sud-

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denly for short intervals. He spent Wednesday in Fort Wayne and on the return trip home met Earl Buckles, a young man employed in his stave factory. The latter saw him off the car at Roanoke and wanted to walk home with his employer, as it was storming, but Mr. McCormick would allow him to accompany him only to Second and Main streets, where young Buckles saw him last. To reach his home Mr. McCormick , would be required to go north on Main street to Fourth street and west on Fourth street until he had crossed another bridge across Cow creek. It it supposed that it was here that he met his death by accidentally falling into the swollen creek waters. The dead man is survived by a widow and several children, the youngest, a ten-year-old daughter, being the only one at home. EDITORS PLEASED A Delightful Session of the Boys Was Held at Bloomington - ' ABOUT THE TOWN University of Indiana and the Stone Quarries the Principal Industries The Indiana Democratic Editorial Association enjoyed one of the most pleasant times of their association life at Bloomington, June 10 and 11. The hospitality and entertainment afforded them by the good people of Bloomington and especially by the Indiana University, was of the sort that would tickle the vanity and please any visitor —especially an editor. There was not an idle,minute from the time the ball opened until the curtain was rung down, on the last act. The association sessions were also splendid, and proved profitable to those engaged in the newspaper business. Bloomington is a city of 8,000 or 10,000 people, located in the hills of Monroe county. They show considerable progress, but perhaps not as much as do the cities of northern Indiana of like size and population. The newspaper stories about the “hitchrack war” have not been overdone. Every one is mad through about it, and at present writing those wanting the hitchracks have won out. The courts have dissolved a restraining order and injunction, and the county commissioners! are going ahead with the erection of these racks. Their court house is a beautiful structure, and is built of Monroe county stone. The ground floor is used entirely by the city, and ail their offices are located there, including the mayor's office and council room. The county officers occupy the second floor and on the third floor is the court room, library, jury room and offices for court officials. The Indiana University is magnificent, and is located upon as beau- ( tiful a spot as one might wish to see. Their buildings are good, and In all the institution is a credit to Indiana. More than 2,400 students compose the student body of this great educational institution, and its growth in late years is but a tribute to the faculty and management of the Indiana University. Most of these students come from Indiana, but many of them also come from a dozen other states located both east and west, north and south. Adams county farmers would not be much impressed with the agricultural possibilities here. In fact for any one to distinguish himself as a tiller of the soil. There is nothing but hills, and the most of them are barren and unprofitable to farm. Their greatest and in fact only industry here is in the quarrying of stone, and they claim to be a strong competitor of Bedford in the production of fine building stone. They have in Monroe county twenty-nine quarries, employing from seventy-five to one hundred men each. While in Bloun(iugton the Ellingham's were .entertained to dinner by Miss Fanny ' Frisinger, a student in the I. U.

COURT HOUSE NEWS The Defense Called First Witness in the Big Land Suit in Court THIS AFTERNOON A Bunch of Real Estate Transfers—A Marriage License—Other Items ■■ ■ % The plaintiffs in the case of Faylor vs. Studabaker rested at noon today and immediately after dinner, the defense began, the first witness called being Abe Hesher, who was on the stand for two hours. * * * Real estate transfers: Mary Schaupp et al to Harry Meshberger, tract in Hartford township, $1,000; Auris Dykeman to Henry Meyer et al, tract in Union township, $2,900; John A. Peoples to John D. Bowers, 19 acres in Root township, $700; Henry Myers et al to Freeman Walters et al, 40 acres Union township, $3,300; E. B. Lenhart to Freeman Walters, same tract, guardian’s deed, SB9O. -< ’. -■ ’ * * * The Faylor vs. Studabaker case was resumed this morning and will continue until the case goes to the jury some time next week. Mr. Lower was able to be in court and the case began promptly at nine o’clock. The week promises to be a hard one for those interested in the trial, and the evidence will be about concluded by Saturday. The vacation began today, and no other business in the way ol hearing cases will be on until September. ,* * * A marriage license was issued to John F. Richards, plasterer, aged 52, to Amanda E. Reisen, 36, both of this city. Each has been married and divorced twice. O' ■ - • OBSERVED EVENT Union Decoration Services Observed by Lodges of the City 7 < ) SACRED OCCASION Many Participated in the Parade—Graves Are Decorated A commendable precedent has been established in the annals of Decatur history that of joint celebration of annual Decoration services by the lodges of the city, and the people’s loyalty to the principles incorporporated in the sacred occasion were indeed devout An invitation from the I. O. O. F. order to the other societies brought out large delegations of representative members yesterday afternoon, and at two-thirty o’clock a line of march was formed on Second street. Headed by a brass band they marched west on Monroe street to the Decatur cemetery, where the graves of departed loved ones were decorated. After ritualistic work the large crowd gathered to hear an address w-hich was delivered by Attorney D. E. Smith. Fraterna\ism; was the Subject and the speaker spoke eloquently on the advantages of union. He inspired his every hearer by a discourse replete wita beautiful thoughts. At the close of the address the participants in the exercises returned to the city. o GETS DIPLOMA; THEN DIES Tipton' Girl Would Have Received Highest Honors; Illness Prevented. Tipton, Ind., June 14.—Miss Gladys Patton, 19 years old, died Saturday morning of consumption at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary Patton of this city. Although unable to attend the commencement everctses at the i high school, May 26, she received a diploma. She received unusually high grades in her classes, and would have received the highest honors of her, class had it not been for her iiiness.

IN CHEWING GUM MERGER Six Large Factories Combined With $6,700,000 Capital. New York, June 14. —Organization of the Sen Sen Chicle company, with a capital of $6,700,000, which will take over the business of six of the largest factories of chewing gum in the United States and Canada, was complete ed in New York tonight. The companies and interests merged are: The T. B. Dunn company, of Rochester, N. Y.; the Frank H. Fleer company, of Philadelphia; C. R. Somerville, of London, Ont.; the After-Dinner Gum company, of Salem, O.; and the George B. Curtis company, of Portland, Me. T. B. Dunn, of Rochester, N. Y., was elected president. Whether the new company, is to be affiliated with the American Chicle company, sometimes called the chewing gum trust, was not announced. 0 CHILDREN’S DAY Was Observed in a Happy Way m this City Yesterday—Good Program EVERYONE HAPPY Splendid Services by Young Folks at Presbyterian and M. E. Church The Childrens’ Day servjces at the Presbyterian church were beautiful and impressive beyond description Rarely is a sendee so brief, filled brimful of choice, spiritual power and > uplift. The church was beautifully decorated with a profusion of the sea- , son’s flowers, filling the beautiful house with their fragrance and send- ■ ing their silent message of love and ; good cheer to every heart. Loving , hands had made all ready for the en- , joyment and encouragement of our i little people. At the hour appointed s the classes assembled in their places. ; Then for a brief hour and a quarter < they rendered a program which was t intensely, interesting from beginning j to end. The large audience filling the entire first floor of the church < awaited breathlessly each number, t At the close of the program in a few’ s chosen words the pastor spoke of the value of our young people, thus closing one of the most beautiful and sublime services ever given by the children of opr church. The same interest was manifest at the evening service, when a large audience again greeted the C. E. society. The entire evening hour was given over to them. A number of very practical talks were given, interspersed with suggestive readings and sweetest music. The men’s chorus delighted the audience by the clever way in which they took care of the musical program. A boys’ J quartet sang “Let the Lower Lights be Burning.” The program was brought to a happy culmination when , Miss Marie Patterson sang a beautiful solo. Thus ended a day long to be remembered, because of the spiritual uplift which It gave. The Methodist church observed Childrens’ day with a most appropriate service last evening, and the ■ big house of worship was filled with the friends of the little folks, who had entire charge of the occasion. It was delightfully uplifting, good to hear, and pleased everyone who was there, both old and young. Such occasions tend to draw’ everyone closed together, an dit is most wonderful how the little folk can inspire us. The church was nicely decorated, the music was good and the children who took part each did splendidly. The children of the Church of Christ will give their Children's Day exercises "The Centennial Cali’’ next Sunday evening, June 20. The children are now practicing and the entertainment is promised to be one of the best. The two main features are “The Clock Drill” and “The Rose Drill.” Everybody is cordially invited to attend. ■ o— One of the little daughters of Charles Dunn was taken to Fort Wayne today to have her tonsils removed. The little girl had been suffering for some time from tonsilitis < 'and it was thought that their removal 1 will cure her. «

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DEATH HAS COME Late Mrs. Amanda Schirmeyer Passes Into Eternal World SHE LIVED LONG And Enjoyed the Fellowship of a Multitude of Friends Her one greatest wish, that of spending the closing days of her life in Decatur, fulfilled, and completely resigned to a fate which chronic and incurable affliction had months ago foretokened, Mrs. Amanda Schirmeyer, eighty years of age, and one of the best known and most widely beloved Adams count}’ pioneers passed peacefully into the eternal world at 2:15 o'clock at the home of her stepdaughter, Mrs. Joseph Rice. Sorrow in its utmost poignancy has thus ben signaled on every hand and the. many loving friends of the departed estimable woman will mourn as only can they who knew of the realls’ true womanhood which manifested itself in the being of the late Mrs. Schirmeyer. Humanity has suffered a loss for the busy, useful life of the de-’ ceased has been an inspiration to the many who knew her. With ideals as lofty as human mind can reach, mindful of her every obligation worldly and spiritually, the value of the companionship l>f 'Mrs. Sehirmeyer could not be reckoned nor can her many kind deeds of charity be counted by even those who best knew her. The cold hand of death has torn asunder the loving ties of friendship and motherhood, leaving naught but the sweet memory of her noble life to assuage the anguish of the bereavement of innumerable devout friends and grief stricken children and other relatives. However well can words descriptive of this woman’s truly great character be spoken, they will fail far short in estimating her value to a community, to humanity. Uncomplainingly she sank into the sleep of the just leaving at her bedside those w’ho had been dear to her during the -walk of a long life. Mrs. Sehirmeyer was born at Redding, Pa., eighty years ago last October tenth and in the early fifties she, with her father, came to Adams (Continued on page 3.)

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RECOVERS WALLET John Fruchte Proves His Ability as a Detective and Locates Purse SOME MONEY SPENT Young Man Had a Good Time for a Few Days— Says He’ll Make Good The mystery concerning the loss of John Fruchte's pocketbook has been cleared away, and a part of the money recovered. Mr. Fruchte drove to town Thursday morniing to attend the county commencement. When he got out of his buggy, he dropped the , wallet which contained over ninety I dollars in cash and some notes. A young man found the pocketbook, and , though he knew to whom it belonged, as it contained Mr. Fruchte’s name, the temptation was too strong and the young man immediately resigned t his ■ job and taking a comrade with him went to Fort Wayne, where they had a good time. He also bought a t new $28.00 suit and paid some debts - and when he was taken in charge -by Policeman Fisher Saturday aftere noon, he had left just twenty-eight s dollars. This and a gold watch and e chain he turned over, and on prom--1 ise to make the Loss good, he was let go. He is guilty under the laws ot Indiana of grand larceny and unless he keeps his word and pays the money back, he will be arrested on that charge. He still has a chance to make good, and if he does it will receive no further publicity. To help him do it his name is not made public at this time.