Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

lunie VII. Number 179.

DEATH CAMETODAY John Herman Dierkes Died at an Early Hour this Morning at Home ILL FOR TEN DAYS But Had Been in Failing Health for Several Months —Funeral Monday John Herman Dierkes died at his home just west of the city a few moments after two o'clock this morning. For several months he has been suffering from stomach and bowel trouble which culminated in the disease taking an acute form about ten days ago. Even then it was not believed that his illness would result fatally, but he continued to decline notwithstanding the fact that everything that medical science could do toward saving his life was done. On Monday of this week he became much worse .and both he and his friends realized that the end was not afar off. He made his will on that day and otherwise prepared himself for the end of his earthly career. His death came peacefully, the suffering ceasing during yesterday and from nine o’clock last evening until the moment of his death he slept peacefully into the unknown world. Mr. Dierkes was horn in Gehrde, Hanover county, Germany, January 22, 1857, and was aged fifty-two years, six months and seven days at the time of his death. He came to this country about sixteen years ago, shortly after the death of "his uncle, Herman Dierkes, who left him considerable property in this section. After a few years here, he made a business trip to his old country in the interest of J. M. Frislnger, and while there met Miss Wilhelmina Winner, who returned with him, and to whom he was married November 17, 1896 at Metropolitan, Long Island. After their arrival here they erected a home on the farm which joins the corporation just west of town and have since made their home there. To them have been born four sons and one daughter, all of whom with the wife, remain to mourn their loss. Mr. Derkes was well known here, and was well to do. He was a careful business man and had many friends. He was down town only a day before his illness became serious. The funeral services will be held next Monday afternoon, Rev. J. H. Klausing officiating, at the house at 1:30 and at the Zion Lutheran church corner of Eleventh and Monroe streets at two o’clock. O SHE STOOD OPERATION WELL Mrs. Miller of Middlebury, Has Suffered Long with Tumor. Drs. Kirt of Middlebury and C. 8. and D. D Clark of this city, performed rather a difficult and dangerous operation this morning it being the removal of a tumor from the breast of Mrs. John Miller, living one mile east of Middlebury. She has suffered for a long time and until now has held out against the surgeon’s knife. The operation was a success in every way, and the probabilities are that Mrs. Miller will entirely recover. 8 _ -o WILL APPRECIATE MISTAKE J. B. Stoneburner reports that an accident befell him this morning, but contrary to most accidents this one means the pleasure of many’ Decatur people His firm from whom he secures his moving picture reels got his shipment mixed with some one else? and sent him four big reels and three ■songs and of course John don t want to return them without first seeing what they look like, so he will give the whole business at his airdome tonight, four reels and three songs, the biggest show ever given anywhere for a nickel. | — o HEAT DEATHS AT CHICAGO Temperature Rose to 90 Degrees Wednesday—Several Prostrations. Chicago, July 28— The warmest weather of the present season was experienced today, when the thermometer rose to 90 degrees. Two deaths were reported, but several persons

LARGEST THRESHING OF SEASON The fsch's Have 280 Acres of Early Oats to Thresh. ■ • What will be the largest threshing in this and Adams counties this year will be started Friday, when the Isch brothers will start to thresh their early oats. It will all day Friday and Saturday to get through with the threshing if everything runs along smoothly. The brothers have 280 acres of early oats which they will thresh this week Farmers claim that there Is no one in Adams or Wells county who has that amount of grain to be threshed. Besides the early oats the men have a large number of acres of late oats which will be threshed later. The threshing which the men have now would almost have meant 3 week’s job a few years ago, before the advent of the self feeder and the cyclone stacker. With these two attachments the machines handle the grain as fast as it comes to them. —Bluffton Banner. NEW DEVELOPMENT Judge Shea and L. Ert Slack in Washington SOME COMMENT The Politicians Figure that There is Something Doing Washington, July 29.—Among those who keep track of Indiana politics the fact that Judge Joseph H. Shea, of ■Seymour, and L. Ert Slack of Franklin, came to Washington about the same time and that both attended the conference Monday night in the rooms of Congressman Lincoln Dixon, of the Fourth Indiana district, has caused some comment. The talk is all the more interesting from the fact that Judge Shea came east in an automobile with Crawford Fairbanks, the Terre Haute brewer and politician The automobile trip from Indianapolis to New York was made a few weeks ago, and Fairbanks and Judge Shea have been in the east ever since. When they arrived in New York Senator Shively joined them and together they went to Manhattan beach where they remained about a week. Last week Shea and Shively came to Washington. Whether Fairbanks came with them has not been learned. But his hand is seen in the turn which Indiana political affairs have taken here. Judge Shea was the campaign manager for Shively when he was making the race for senatorship last winter before the Indiana legislature. He devoted days and weeks to the cause of Shively, and the fact that he knows the political game and the further fact that Shively was the candidate of the brewers for the senatorship enabled Shea to put up a fight of the kind that is not common anywhere. He took Shively’s campaign in hand when It looked as though it would surely flatten out in a short time. He injected ginger into it and brought Shively under the wire an easy winner. thanks to the able asistance of Crawford Fairbanks and the other Indiana brewers. That senatorial race was a memorable one in Indiana. John W. Kern, who had just been defeated for vice-president, was the popular candidate of the rank and file of the Indiana Democrats for senator. AH over the state Democratic organizations and committees held meetings and adopted resolutions favoring Kern for senator and urging the Democrats in the legislature to vote for him. It seemed certain that Kern would win. The next strongest candidate, supposedly, was L. Ert Slack, at that time counted as an arch enemy of the brewery interests. o fair directors are busy The fair association are working every day now, getting ready for the annual show to be held in just a month. There are many things to be looked after before an event of the size the Great Northern fair is can be given and while it may not seem like much of a job those who I have had charge of the various departments, especially those who have 'assisted in the premliminary work are (ready to swear that it is.

THEIR NEW STORE Weiler’s New Store in Portland the Finest in Indiana Save One IT IS A BEAUTY It is Now Opened to the Public and Doing Great . Business In its new home in the Bimel building, completely equipped with new and beautiful furniture, supplied with every possible modern time and labor saving device, every need and comfort of its patrons foreseen and provided, the Weiler store opened this morning, the finest and most complete departmental establishment in Indiana, excepting but one and that in Indianapolis, a city more than fifty times the size of Portland. The “five stores in one,” the splendid emporium of pioneer days, from which this magnificent institution grew, deserved its name, but not a single one of the many departments of its mammoth outgrowth would make, in floor space and stock, more than the “five stores” combined. The store was born on this site in a building called “The Trade Palace” and now for the first time the spot bears an enterprise that makes the appellation not a misnomer. Two cash systems are in use on the main floor. From the various departments run the bundle carriers, with cash boxes attached, and on the main and second floors and from the basement are the rapid transit air-line boxes. Bundles on the second floor and in the basement are wrapped by the clerks at regularly placed wrapping stations. By the throng that visited the store yesterday the question was often asked “How will the rooms be heated?” Not a heating device is visible, yet a steam plant is all ready for operation. The radiators are neatly tucked beneath the counters out of the way and sight. Each day the floors of the store will be cleaned by the vacuum process with machines owned by the firm. So thoroughly do these cleaning contrivances do their work that dust will be almost alien. Every piece of furniture in the store is fumed quarter-sawed oak, all exactly the same in color and finish. —Portland Sun.

LEFT FOR THE WEST Councilman Christen and Fred Vaughn Go to Seattle FOR THE EXPOSITION Miss Nora Ahr Will Leave Soon for Atlantic City Councilman Charles Christen and Fred Vaughn left this morning for Seattle, Washington, where they will enjoy the great Yukon,Pacific exposition in progress in that city. Enroute to Seattle they will stop at Denver a short time, going direct from there to the coast city. The gentlemen will be gone about two weeks and during that time they expect the time of their life. A number of Decatur people have gone to Seattle this summer and they all report a splendid time. Miss Nora Ahr, of Tenth street, will leave next Thursday for an extended trip through the east. The principal stop to be made will be at Atlantic City. She will, however, visit at Pittsburg, New York City, Philadelphia and a number of other eastern cities before returning. Miss Ahr will be gone about ten days. She will probably be accompanied by friends. o Miss I. C. Winteregg returned to her home at Berne this afternoon after a visit in the city with Miss Florence Sprungor.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, July 29, 1909.

SUBMITS TO SECOND OPERATION Judge Allen Zollers of Fort Wayne, is Some Better. Again seeking relief through the knife of the surgeon, Hon. Allen Zollars this morning for the second time submitted to a surgical operation at Hope hospital. Judge Zollars is in better physicial condition than when his first operation was performed some months ago, and his case is regarded hopefully. Three stones of considerable size and a number of smaller ones were removed in the operation today from the region of the kidneys, and it is believed that the eminent jurist will now make more rapid progress toward recovery. This afternoon the patient was said to be recovering nicely from the effects of the anaesthetic. The second operation was determined upon when Judge Zollars did not gain as rapidly as was expected after his operation early in the spring.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. o — . TICKLED TO DEATH That is the Feeling of a Standpatter These Days LINING THEM UP President Wants Progressives to Support Conference Report Washington, July 29.—“0h, if that man Taft would quit giving encouragement to the progressives we could have this tariff out of the way by the middle of next week,’’ said one of , Senator Aldrich’s lieutenants in the senate today. The incensed senator I was moved to make the remark when he learned that the advocates of low duty on lumber had received encouragement at the white house to fight. On the other hand there are a good many senators and representatives who feel that the president could well afford to go a good deal further than he has gone. As long as Chairman Payne, of the ways and means committee, follows him he has the situation In his control. It is becoming more apparent day by day that Mr. I Payne has the house behind him, has | the support of the body because the ' Republican membership dare not oppose the wishes of the president. Progressives are saying that at this late day the president could lay out a long list of new demands and succeed in getting most of them provided Payne would stand with him by refusing to sign the. conference report until the demands were acceded to. But, of course, the time has passed for any enlargement of the president’s program. Mr. Payne has assented to practically all the compromises that have been effected in conference, and he cannot afford to break faith with his colleagues on the committee. So the “half-loaf” compromise has got to go through if there is to be tariff legislation at all at this session. The more the progressives study the compromise the more inclined they are to ask: “What do we get out of it?” That pleasant smile which Senator Aldrich is bold enough to wear worries them. Why should not it The old standpatters are ail chuckling. They have got about all they wanted out of the bill; they have got as much as they ever expected to get; they have displayed to the public a fine brand of indignation over having to put hides on the free list and accompanying that action with a reduction of the duty on boots and shoes and the products of leather; they have made faces over having to assent to the other concessions the president demanded but privately they are mighty well pleased with the compromise. The progressives are in an embarrassing situation. Mr. Taft wants them to support the compromise after he has gone as far as he thinks hq ought to go. He will feel hurt if they do not do it. His ambition all along has been to bring from the conference committee a report which would receive practically the entire Republican strength in each legislative branch. o G. W. Gentis and Auditor Michaud are looking after business at Berne this afternoon.

AN OLD PIONEER Mrs. Rebecca A. Ernst Died Yesterday Afternoon After Short Illness FUNERAL TOMORROW Services Will Be Conducted from the Dunkard Church South of Peterson Rebecca A. Ernst, one of Adams county’s well known and noble women, died at her home in Peterson a few minutes after four o’clock yesterday afternoon, after a brief illness of one week or less. While she has not been in rugged health for several years, yet she has always been active for one of her advanced age. Her death was caused solely by the infirmities attendant with old age, Rebecca A. Steele was born in Pennsylvania May 30, 1824, and at the time of death was eighty-five years, one month and twenty-eight days old. When a child she moved with her parents to Ashland county, Ohio, and there grew to womanhood and in 1844 married John Ernst. It was a happy marriage,especially so until the time of the civil war, when the husband volunteered and marched away with his regiment to defend the honor and glory of his country. In the fall of 1863 John Ernst died in battle, and a year later Mrs. Ernst moved her family to this county, settling on a farm near Peterson, and where she has lived ever since. The family consists of T. H. Ernst of this city, James M. Ernst of Peterson, George Ernst of Peterson, Elizabeth Drum of Craigville, and Mrs. Dora Kidd of Wash- ' ington township. Besides these, one , son died hrere, and two daughter died in Ashland county, Ohio. Mrs. Ernst is a sister of John Steele of this city, Henry Steele of Pleasant Mills, Caro- ' line Hartman and Cena Hower of ' Peterson. Mrs. Ernst was a strong 1 woman, and even in late years kept in touch with the affairs of the day. ' The funeral will be held tomorrow I afternoon, the funeral cortege leav- 1 ing the house at one o'clock, the services being held in the Dunkard church a few miles south of Peterson i conducted by Rev. Edgar Jones of 1 Tocsin. Interment will be made at 1 the cemetery at this church. The < services will be held at the church < at two o’clock. 1 o I DRAGGED BY COW■ - -- - - ( 1 W. W. McQueen of Near Monmouth Narrowly Averted Death SUNDAY EVENING I Fred Eikhoff of Preble Township, is Seriously 11l W. W. McQueen, residing a short distance south of Monmouth, had a startling experience Sunday night while loading a cow to pasture in which he narrowly averted death. Mr. McQueen while leading his cow, got tangled in the rope in some'manner and the animal started on a run, hurling him to the ground and dragging hi mabout fifty feet, inflicting injuries on his breast and stomach. Had not Charles Johnson been present to stop the wild rampage of the cow, it is not improbable that McQueen would have met death. As it is he is suffering much. Fred Eikhoff, of Preble township, who last week was operated upon for relief from appendicitis, was very low yesterday and his condition is still critical. While the operation was successful from a surgical viewpoint, the condition of the patient has no weakened that bis case has assumed a grave seriousness. It is hoped that this most estimable man will soon recover. o Mann Woods left for Cincinnati this afternoon and will spend a few days at his farm there.

STOPPED THEM WITH A GUN Wells County Woman Wanted Settlement with Gas Men. Bluffton, Ind., July 28. —A force of men employed by the Indiana Lighting company in excavating old pipe between this city and the Blackford county gas field were brought to an abrupt halt yesterday afternoon when they reached the farm of Mrs. Icy Penrod, two miles south of Bluffton. She met the thirty-one men in the pipe line gang at her line fence and armed with a gun, issued the ominous warning that she would shoot the first man who ventured upon her farm. The foreman in charge and the men in the crew did not care to test the woman as to the threat and the foreman ordered the men back to Bluffton until he could effect a compromise. Mrs. Penrod did not object to the pipe being removed, but insisted that she should first be reimbursed for damages that would result in crossing a corn field. THE LEGAL DOINGS Transcript Reaches County Clerk’s Office—Real Estate Transfers IN POLICE COURT t Charles Kohler Gets a Five Dollar Fine—Four DaI goes Were Pinched Real estate transfers: William F. Reinking to Gustave Reinking, 80 acres in Union township, $8,000; Adaline Smith, tract in Washington township, SSO. The transcript in the case against John Harmon for conducting a gaming room, and which was tried before Squire J. H. Smith a few days ago, with a finding against the defendant, who was assessed a fine of ten dol- I lars and costs was filed in circuit I court, the case having been appealed. 1 Charles Kohler, who has appeared 1 in police court several times during the past few months, was up again i before Mayor France, on the same old ’ charge of “plain drunk.” Fearing the i consequence of another trial before 1 his honor, he took a change of venue 1 and the cause was sent to Squire 1 Smith, who heard the evidence and found the man guilty' as charged, as sessing a fine of five dollars and 1 costs, amounting to $13.80, and Char- 1 les went to jail. i I Four dagoes, the real thing, who I looked like they had fallen off an < emigrant train, were pinched this as- i ternoon for hopping freight trains. 1 They were brought down town and 1 arraigned before Mayor France, who l gave them ten minutes to get started I on their road to Bluffton or some 1 other port and the way they made : tracks down Third street, they have arrived there by this time. They I were badly frightened and won’t hop any more trains here for a while. i ■ ■ o MEETING OF THE MERRIMANS Bluffton, Ind , July 28, —The annual reunion of the Merriman family will be held Thursday, August 26, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Mounsey, two miles south and one-half mile j west of Liberty Center, in Liberty i township, this county. This is one of. the oldest family organizations in existence in this section and the annual reunions have been in vogue for the past thirty years. Members of the family are largely* scattered through Wells, Huntington and Whitley counties. O. W. Whitelock, of Huntington county, is president, and John V. Merriman, of this county, is secretary.

NO GAS FOR SOME TIME I It was rumored today that the Indiana Lighting company would turn the gas on within a day or two, but inquiries at the office proves that this is slightly rushing the real state of affairs. However, the necessary work Is progressing and the gas will likely be turned on in two I or three weeks. The people here are I anxious for this convenience and while they would like to have had the use of gas during this spell of hot weath■er they will be thankful to get it i later.

Price Two Cents

TELLING ABOUT IT i Tipton Banker Gets Away With Over One Hundred Thousand A BAD LOAN E. D. Beeler Had TwentyFive Thousand Dollars Borrowed

Tipton, Ind., July 29—The methods of Noah R. Marker, absconding assistant cashier of the First National bank, became apparent today when it was found that forged papers which he had manpulated to cover the sums of money he had taken from the bank ran back for more than a year. His method of procedure was to make a matter of record a note in the sum of SSOO or SI,OOO, bearing the name of some prominent farmer as surety, and then to draw the money and use it for his personal investments. These forged notes, it was said today,would aggregate $50,000, instead of half that sum as previously stated, and may even go higher when the work of examination Os the books is completed. National Bank Examiner Miller Weir began his work this morning, assisted by John Shirk and the bank employes, except William H. Marker, the cashier. The work of going over the books will require several days and the examiner this morning said that his report would be made to the controller of the currency and that he would have to decline to give information as to disclosures until he had finished his work. A statement that was made today and which has been partially confirmed is that the bank made a number of bad loans, one of them being to E. D. Beeler, a business man who committeed suicide in a hotel in Chicago on New Year’s day of this year. This loan, it was said,was in the sum of $25,000. Beeler's name has been associated with the bank trouble since the start, although he was not connected with the institution in any way. He left two letters for his wife. One inclosed money and the other a statement which his widow would never make public. She is said to have explained that she had had trouble enough and that she would not give the contents of the letter to make trouble for others. Crawfordsville, Ind., July 29. —The Ramsey Hotel here, which was owned by Noah R. Marker, the absconding assistant cashier of the First National bank of Tipton, was transferred today on the books of the county recorder to Edward T. Teter, an attorney of Tipton. The instrument filed for record named Teter as the trustee and bears the date of May 4 of this year. The hotel is valued at $50,000 and the transfer is made subject to a lien of $13,500 held by F. P. Mount, an attorney of this city. o MANY REQUESTS FOR SPEECHES Congressman Adair Busy Mailing Out His Income Tax Speech, Representative Adair of Indiana, is receiving many calls from over the country for his income tax speech. Whitfield Tuck, of Massachusetts, a member of the finance committee of | the democratic national committee, .has written to him asking for copies of his speech. Mr. Adair’s office has j been an exceptionally busy place during the last week. He has had i , three persons employed, sending out i speeches and assisting him with his - congressional work. —Louis Ludlow in i the Muncie Star.

. THE RACES HAVE BEEN GREAT The Red Ribbon Racing Has Been the Best Ever Given. n The horse races of the Red Ribbon t meeting at Fort Wayne will close tot morrow, Friday, with a fine program I of events and Saturday will be de--1 voted to automobile races. Tomor- ■ I row’s program opens with the 2.-4 , | trot, purse f4M>. The 2:17 pace, the • Wayne Hotel stake, for SI,OOO, will be the second event and the closing feature will be the 2:15 pace, purse S4OO. Igome great starters will b» in all three events and fast time is looked for.