Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 173.

I TITLES | AFFECTED I To a Large Number of Lots and Farms in Adams County—Easily Fixed I PAPERS UNRECORDED | Recorder Steele Discovers Old Papers Never Placed on Records I While going through the records of Hhis office a few days ago, County Re■corder H. S. Steele, came across a gbox containing about a hundred paBs>ers of various kinds, and referring E.to the old’records, he soon discovered ■that they had never been recorded. ®*The bunch included ten patents, sev,i entecn warranty deeds, five quit claim BBeeds, five guardians deeds, one mortthree releases of mortgages, Mhree chattel mortgages, two liens and Bather papers, many of which seriously MLffected the title of the lands. He at Bnnce notified by mail all those whom B ke could locate but there are a num- * "ber he could not find. However, from Jthe work he has done about a dozen j have already reported and are very ®»lad to spend the dollar necessary to have them recorded thus clearing th< title to their property. In earlier •da} - It was necessary to pay for the Hncording before the work was done, ®\and it is supposed that these are afyaP*?rs which were sent in without ■knowing this rule and were never Si-called for. Some of the patents go g hack as far as 1837 and others of the ■reapers are very old. For the bene- ■ fit of those who may be affected and ■ who have not been notified, we publish ■ the list of property affected: K’Lots 19 and 20, Pleasant Mills. | Lots 130, 14 and 25, Geneva. K Lots 81 and 82, Ceylon. (Continued on page 2.)

WAS SEVENTY-ONE ■ John Steele Celebrated His Birthday Yesterday— Relatives Present ALL BUT ONE THERE All Have Reached Ripe Old I Ages—Gathering Proved a Happy Event A birthday party given yesterday in honor of Mr. John Steele’s seven-tf-first milestone was tendered him ■ by fais brothers and sisters on north Ninth street. A large gathering of friends and relatives were present to h»lp make the day a happy and long remembered one. At midnoon a Btmptuous dinner was served to all ' . Wseiii and all enjoyed a hearty good The day was spent in a good Wciai way and music was furnished Wiich helped to make it more so. Alllbis brothers and sisters were Megent except one, who was unable fcj come. All have advanced to good ages and it will perhaps be the last gathering that all will be together. I His brothers and sisters present Were Caroline of near Peterson, SI years old, Henry and Barbara, 77 and 64 years old. Mr. John Steele of Dea citur, 71, and one sister, Rebecca, 80 years old. The other relatives preset were Mr. and Mrs. James Ernst « Peterson, Mrs. Rachel Steele of tjirryville and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Vfeldy of this city. The guests dephrted for their homes last evening wishing Mr. Steele several more such happy events. L —— . jtrrank Stone of Fort Wayne, was in the city on business today. He says that the Democratic primaries in Fort Wayne are so warm that they sizzle, and that the mayoralty race is an tSicertain bet. The primary will be wßSk>°rrow in all its glcry.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

BOOST OLD SETTLER'S MEETING It Will Be Held in the Long Grove on Next Sunday. The boys are still boosting the old settler's meeting whicn will be held in the Long grove, midway between Berne and Geneva, on next Sunday. The program includes many attractions, there being speeches by good talent from this city, Portland and Fort Wayne, a picnic dinner and a day of enjoyment for both the old and young of southern Adams and northern Jay counties Hon Jacob Butcher of Geneva, will preside at the meeting, and it Is the intention to make it a good social time among the many who will enjoy meeting and talking over the enjoyable times of the past. RECORD BREAKER A Thousand People Join the Methodist Sunday School Excursion TO ROBISON PARK Five Specials Were Necessary to Convey the Big Crowd Today "(This was the joyful picnic day for the Methodist Sunday schol. For days and weeks the folks, young and old, have been looking forward to this occasion with fond anticipations of a day spent among the pretty scenes of Robison park, near Fort Wayne, a day of yellow chicken legs, pop, red lemonade, games and frolic to the hearts content. The morning dawned bright and warm and pleasant and the people turned out in flocks. Long before the hour for departure, 7:15, a vast army of people arrayed in their picnic clothes, were crowded about the interurban station waiting for a chance to board a car. The crowd exceeded any previous excursion in the history of the city, and was estimated by conservative people to be near 1,000. Over five hundred tickets had been given to the children alone, and the fares for the adults numbered nearly as many more. The traction line ran five special cars out at 7:15 and each was jammed and crowded to the platforms. The 8:30 car also carried a full load and each car since did a good business carrying those who could not or preferred not to join the throng. One nice arrangement was the fact that after the lunches reached the station, the people were done with the worry concerning them for the baskets were all left there in charge of John Burke, who saw that they were conveyed to the park in ample time for dinner, going in the express car at ten o’clock. It was a happy crowd and if the weather man don't interfere too strongly the day will be one of those which comes but a few times in the life of any child. The park is an ideal place, furnishing all the joys, and entertainment to be found anywhere, the ponies, merry-go-round, shoot-the-chutes, vaudeville, swings, roller-coaster, and all the attractions that one could desire. It’s a big day. While the crowd was, of course, made up principally of children, there were enough adults to insure the good care of the children, and they will return late this evening, a tired and happy band.

WILL BE NO SPECIAL SESSION The Income Tax Not Bothering State Officials. Indianapolis, July 22.—According to a statement made by Governor Marshall, the general assembly of Indiana will not be called in a special session to ratify the action of congress in providing for an amendment to the federal constitution on which to base the enactment of an income tax measure. An effort is now being made to have the states call special sessions of their legislatures for immediate action on the question. W. J. Bryan being one of the chief agitators in favor of such early action. In saying that he would not summon the general assembly, the governor explained that his decision did not mean that he was opposed to an income tax as such, but that the constitution of the state did not provide that he could call the assembly for a specific purpose, and that he did not wish to get the lawmakers together and subject the state to the industrial dangers which inevitably follow’ calling special sessions.

HAS EASY SAILING Chauncey Lautzenhizer May Be the Clerk of the Town of Berne A HOT PRIMARY Quite a Contest There for Councilmanic Nominations ■ . ■ .1 • Berne, Indiana, July 22—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Deputy Prosecutor Lautzenhiser who formerly lived in Decatur, but for a year has been practicing law here and acting as deputy prosecutor, is standing a good show to be an officer of the town of Berne. He filed his intention of being a candidate for town clerk, the same to be settled at the Democratic primary next Monday, and no other candidate appeared to contest the honor, and the time is now expired for any one to break into the game. This gives Mr. Lautzenhiser a clear field, and as the Democrats are in the majority there, his election this fall is among the possibilities that is bordering on a certainty. The Democrats of Berne are in the midst of a primary campaign, and it is just at the point of being comfortably warm. There are two candidates for councilmen in each of the three wards and each one of them is making a contest that is good to see. The primary election will be held on next Monday and between this time and Monday evening there will be some tall scrambling for the band wagon seat. Chauncey Lautzenhiser for de*, Frend Bentz for treasurer, and William Tucker for marshal, have no opposition. Sam Egly has sold his five and ten cent store to Meno Burkhalter and the matter of invoicing has been going on yesterday and today, Mr. Burghalter is the owner of the Fair store and will combine the two stores in one. < MANISTIQUE LAND Judge O’Rourke and Family and L. C. Waring Will Go There Monday FIND ALLURING SPOT Will Spend the Next Six Weeks in Northern Peninsula of Michigan L. C. Waring, proprietor of the glove factory here, will leave next Monday on his regular summer trip to the wilds of northern Michigan. He will go from here to Fort Wayne, where he will join a party including Judge and Mrs. Edward O’Rourke and son. They will leave Monday evening over the G. R. & I. for Mackinaw City, where they arrive Tuesday morning. From there they take the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic railroad to Seney, thence to Curtis by rail and from there to the South Manistique country by boat. The point where they expect to locate for a six weeks’ life close to nature, is far from any habitation, there being only a hotel for the comfort of those who journey to that land. There they will revel in the pleasures of an jdeal outing, and with good fishing, a comfbrtable lodge, plenty of game and air that seems almost good enough to eat, they should certainly have it. They will be absent until September Ist, returning just in time for the judge to assume his duties on the bench. The party spent their vacation at this spot last summer and were so delighted that they will return this year, in fact they will. probably be found there each summer for many years to come. — o Little Fay Foreman of Berne, Is here spending the day with her old ehum and playmate, Florine Michaud. They had a gay time at the former’s home on Winchester street.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, July 22, 1909.

DIAMOND REMAINS A MYSTERY As a substance, the diamond is one of the mysteries of nature, one of the despairs of science. Nobody knows whence it came, nor how — whether It is a spark from a comet’s tail, or a crystallized drop squeezed in some horrible intensity of fiery convulsion from the white-hot insurgent heart of the earth. Nobody knows much about it at ail, except that it doesn’t “belong” to this world. Some known black diamonds literally were from the skies. They came imbedded in meteorites cast upon Arizona and Chili by an unidentified star. One does not prospect for chips of stars. As well search for the end of the rainbow. Neither is it practical to hammer all sorts of eruptive rock and conglomerate wherever come upon. Earthquake or volcanic upheaval district, are not, necessarily, the most promising, for often diamonds that seem to have had volcanic origin occur thousands of miles from the probable place of extrusion —carried thence, it is assumed, by glacial drift in some far back geological time. Franklin Clarkin's "The Trail of the Diamond" August Everybody’s.

PRISON CONTRACTS After October Prisoners Will Be “Rented Out” to Contractors NEW COMMISSION To Solve the Problem of How to Employ Convict Labor I Indianapolis, July 22. —On Oct. 1 the state will make new contracts involving prison work in the factories at the ' state prison at Michigan City. Os the 1,200 men incarcerated there about , 800 will be “rented out” to contrac- ; tors. The convicts at the prison who ! work for contractors are never at lib- ' erty, as the factories are maintaini ed at the prison. The men while at work in these factories are always under guard. The pay that the state receives for their services is turned into the state treasury. Governor Marshall spent the most of yesterdaydiscussing the question of contract ( labor with Warden J. W. Reid of the state prison and M. E. Foley < f Crawfordsville, member of the prison board of trustees. A form of advertisement was agreed upon which will notify contractors that negotiations will be entered into on Oct. 1. “This is a vexatious problem,” said Governor Marshall, “this thing of contract labor. It is necessary to keep the men in the prison at work, otherwise ‘ they would go mad. What we want to do is to let out men to those manufacturers who make articles that come into the least competition with tne outside labor of the state. We want to deal as fairly as we can with outside labor. But we have to keep the , men in the prison at work.” Governor Marshall said that between now ; and the time of hiring out these convicts he hoped to get all the informa- ' tion possible from outside labor regarding this problem. Under a law enacted by the last legislature a com- 1 mission of five is to be appointed by < the governor to devise a plan by j which the convict labor of Indiana ( can be employed without interferring and competing with outside labor and industries. The warden of the state 1 prison and the superintendent of the ; Indiana reformatory are to be mem- , hers of this commission. Governor j Marshall said yesterday he would appoint the other members of this com- | mission within a few weeks. He said he would name for the three remaining places a representative of the labor organizations of the state. Another will represent the manufacturers and the third member will be a lawyer. ..-~ — 0 ■ INDIANA SOCIETY ENTERTAINED Washington, July 22. —Senator Beveridge, Senator Shively and the thirteen Indiana representatives have accepted invitations to be present at a roof garden party to be given by the Indiana Society of Washington on the Y. M. C. A. roof this evening. The Rebew orchestra of twenty pieces under the direction of H. W. Weber of Indiana, will furnish music for the occasion.

WAR ON THE “RAT” Eastern Preachers Have Taken It up Says Logansport Journal IT CAUSES BALDNESS And is a Disease Carrier—the Women Will Learn When It’s Too Late “When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late her rat’s a slow destroyer of her crowning glory, will she sit in the baldhead row?” Rather than that she’ll wear,a wig, of course, says the Logansport Journal, but just the same the scientific sharks declare the “rat’ 1 is carrying disease to the scalps of women which will soon leave them bald as a billiard ball. And the doctors have asked the pulpit to warn the women, and the pulpit all over the country is doing it. The ram’s horn hasn't sounded against the Jericho walls of Logansport coiffures yet, but last Sunday over a dozen of the most prominent divines in the east made the wadding in the women’s wigs the test of a scathing sermon. The “rat” is a diseasebreeding, unsightly, false and vulgar fashion, they declare, and so the women will learn when it’s too late. Here in Logansport the rat prevails universally, and consists of everything from a sausage-shaped sack of excelsior to a piece off the family bed springs. The standing marvel about the "rat” is persistency with which a girl with blonde hair will pick a dark “rat’’ and a girl with dark hair will don a mud-colored phoney. The “rat” in ingenous to either the front or rear of the hair. Sometimes it forms the hirsute veranda in front while others use it for the sills in the back porch, making a hairy eaves lopping down over the back of the neck. By some fate the few strands of real hair always split apart, leaving a crack through which the rat slips to publicity.

COURTHOUSE NEWS: ( Clerk Haefling Receives His ‘ First Letter from Ac- « ( counting Board i ASK FOR SUGGESTIONS < A Marriage License Was Is- ' sued—Several Real Es- J tate Transfers ’ i i A marriage license has been issued i to Fred Kolter, aged thirty-four, a 1 plasterer of Magley, to Miss Hulda ‘ Fruchte, aged twenty-nine, daughter ( of Henry Fruchte of Magley. County Clerk Haefling has received ' his first communication from the ac- . counting board of Indiana. The letter ; is a form sent out to all clerks and other officials of the various counties over the state by Mr. Dehority, asking the co-operation of each and all and asking also for such suggestions as they feel may be of value in establishing a uniform system. The work done so far is only preliminary, the board being engaged in getting a line on their duties. Within a short time they will select the field accountants and then will begin the work of lining up the officials. From the tone of this first leter, the officials wish to get close to the county officers, and thus do something really worth while toward establishing a uniform system of bookkeeping. Real estate transfers: Elizabeth Oswalt to J. C. Oswalt, tract in Wabash township, quit claim, $600; Hugh Gilliland to Anthony McQueen, lots 19 and 20, Pleasant Mills, quit claim, S3O. Frank Foreman and William Sha- ' man, appraisers for the estate of i Jacob Rumple, filed an inventory of (Continue don page 4.)

THEY HELD A CONSULTATION Mrs. Breiner is Suffering from Catarrh of the Stomach. Drs. Thomas of this city, and Morgan of Dixon, Ohio, held a consultation at . the William Breiner home this morning and they now say that Mrs. Breiner is suffering from catarrh of the stomach, but that her condition indicates that she will recover from it and be well again. The process of recovery will be slow, however, and it will be a long time before she will have attained that good health which we all desire. She has been afflicted for a long time and everything that memcal science could do for her, has been done. Her many friends will be glad to learn that she has such a good chance for recovery. THE TARIFF FIGHT 1 ~~ 1 President Taft Having 1 Troubles With Confer- < ence Committee ' i 1 A CRITICAL STAGE < ( The Insurgents Want More ( than Free Raw Ma- 1 f terials s t i Washington, July 22.—1 t may turn t out that nothing short of a threat to veto the tariff bill will bring the con- . ferees to the support of President ( Taft’s downward revision program. < Persons who are in close touch with ' the president believe he will not hes- ’ itate to warn the committee that a veto may be expected in case of failure to grant the concessions asked, i Senator Aldrich and his associates who 1 dominate the conference committee ' were willing to concede most of Mr. Taft’s raw material program, but they , balked when they were told by him , that reductions on many manufac- , tured articles must accompany the , concessions on raw material. The ne- < gotiations have reached the critical stage. Lined up with the president are Representatives Payne and McCall of the conferees. Senator Aldrich, on ' any test vote in the committee, can depend on the members from the senate and on four of the members from ’ the house. But does he dare use the strength he has in the committee to override the wishes of the president? Most persons here think not. They point out that he could not carry out such a high handed proceeding without splitting the Republican party 1 wide open. It Is a foregone conclusion that any report from the conference committee which) does not, in ] the main, recognize the demands of the president, will meet the opposition of forty or fifty Republicans in the house of representatives, will not have the support of the ten progressive Republican senators and might, if adopted, invite a veto from the president. So it would seem reason- c able to believe that the conferees, j under the guidance of Senator Al- ; drich, are not likely to fly in the fact of the opposition program that £ confronts them. The progressive < Republicans in the senate and house are in fine fettle; they were never f in better fighting trim than they ] were today. They feel, at last, that the president is backing them up. Several canvasses of the Republican membership of the house convinces the insurgent leaders that there are net fewer than forty-five Republicans who will vote with the Democrats to I reject any conference report which has not received the approval of the president. o MADE MONEY ON SWINE Is swine raising a paying proposition in Wells county? This is a question that has bothered many heads of , the county and by a deal completed ( this morning could be easily solved. Frank Markley, an extensive raiser in hogs, this morning sold a carload containing seventy-one head for $1,300, a l price that is rarely received in this county. The porkers averaged two hundred pounds in weight comfort- ’ ably filling the car. Although the ■ price of swine at the present time is I unusually hfgA the farmers of the f ’ county have seen higher prices, but I ' not for one load of hogs. Mr. Markley i claims the belt on the prize load.— i Bluffton Banner. 1

Price Two Cents

CITY’S INDUSTRY Cornerstone for New Filler Factory Has Been Laid GROCERY OPENS Henry Vian Will Start Restaurant in West End

Thomas Ehinger, one of the promoters of the Decatur Filler company, this morning laid the cornerstone for the magnificent new building which is peing erected by that company and following this ceremony J. D. Bollinger and force of men began the work of laying cement blocks for the building proper. The construction will be expedited with all possible haste, and in all probability the building will be ready for occupancy within ninety days. The new structure will be modern in every particular. Brushwiller and Yoder will open their new grocery store to the public next Saturday, and they invite their friends to call and see them. The store is located on the corner of Seventh and Monroe streets. The building has been completely overhauled and presents a very neat appearance. The new residence belonging to Jacob Magley which has been erected on west Monroe street, is practically completed and Mr. Magley will move into it in the near future. The residence is handsome and has the modern improvements. There is some talk of a new meat shop being opened in the west part of the city, although nothing definite to that end has yet been i done. The license of Albert Lehrman, the west end saloon keeper, expires one week from next Wednesday, and after the stock is disposed of, Henry Vian will start an up-to-date restaurant in the building to be vacated.

SETTLED THE LOSS The Dixon Fire Loss Was Adjusted Yesterday and Will Be Paid REBUILD ELEVATOR Firebugs Have Played Sad Havoc at Dixon in the Last Few Years The insurance adjuster visited Dixon yesterday and settled the claims for insurance on account of the fire there last week, the settlement being full and for the total amount of insurance carried. This settlement gives to M. A- Clem $2,300 for the building destroyed, and $6,500 to Deitrich Bros, for their stock of hardware, upon which there also was a total loss. It took the adjuster but one hour to settle these claims, as there was but little else to do but pay the amounts lin full. It was hardly thought that a settlement could be accomplished in so short a time, owing to the many ugly rumors that have been flying around since the night of the conflagration, aided and abetted by tne . many other fires that have destroyed - so much valuable property there in f the last four or five years. Decatur J people who have been there since the 1 ’ iik fire last week hear all kinds of 1 strange and compromising tales, and j at the best there must be some bad ? blood floating around among the peo- , pie of Dixon. The elevator will be rebuilt at once, but the future of the hardware business there is still an (uncertain quantity. Deitrich Bros, have done an excellent business since they purchased this store, but they are not at this time certain as to what they will do as to continuing the business there.