Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1909 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VII. Number 185

OUT OF THE MINISTRY Dr. C. B. Wilcox No Longer a Minister or a Member of Methodist Church PASS RESOLUTION Praise for the Character and of Mrs. Elsie Wilcox Official information is given out that Dr. C. B. Wilcox has withdrawn from the ministry and from membership in the Methodist church. : This action was caused by his recent marriage, a violation of the Methodist discipline, which upon this par ticular subject says: “No divorce * * < • shall be regarded by the church as lawful, and no minister shall solemnize marriage in any case where there, is a divorced wife or husband living, except divorced parties seeking to be reunited in marriage.” In compliance with the above section of the Methodist discipline. Dr. Wilcox is no longer a minister or a member of the church in which for several years he was a shining light. Then, is much that could he printed about this disagreeable affair, but we have no desire to do other than make the simple and plain statement of facts. Dr. Wilcox was a brilliant speaker, was polished in many ways, and his friends here and elsewhere will regret that he quits the ministry in such an unfavorable way. The standing of the local church demanded that they take such action, and they did it without any hesitation or equivocation. The official board of the Methodist church at a meeting a few days ago, passed a resolution praising Mrs. Elsie Wilcox, now of Richmond, for her splendid character and good work while connected with the church in this city. A copy of the resolution was forwarded to her at her Richmond home. Mrs. Wilcox was a general favorite here and has many friends who will wish for her better and brighter days. OFF FOR DAKOTA Four Rivarre Men Seek Employment in Wheat State IN HARVEST FIELD Big Wages are Paid There for Labor—Have Big Crops That the Dakotas during harvest time furnish employment for thousands of men who reside in the east and northeast, is again evidenced on every hand. W. H. Bunner, Peter Heath, Milton Cronister and Bud Death of Rivarre, left yesterday afternoon for Devils Lake, North Dakota where for several months they will be engaged in assisting to take off the immense w’heat crops and the threshing of same. Mr. Bunner was 'n North Dakota last year and during the harvest he received for his services six dollars per day and all expenses. His work was that of caring for a separator. For ordinary labor in the Dakota harvest field four and five dollars per day is paid. The hat vest lasts , much longer than in this section of the country. In fact the Dakotas are said to be the green spot of the country for wheat and almost all of the land is .planted in that grain. The Rivarre men will not return for several months. \ -c Miss Iva Thompson went to Fort Wayne today, where she will join number of other friends and take a trip, visiting Cedar Point, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Cleveland and other Places.

WENT TO INSPECT CARS I Clark and Justus at Chicago in Interest of B. G. & C. I C. C. Clark and J. C. Justus, of the B. G. & C. interurban company, left , this afternoon for Chicago,where they will inspect a new model of cars with a view of purchasing the equipment for the new line. It is an established fact that the new road will be operated on a system which does away with the necessity of installing trolley wires and poles and the cars that are to be inspected are the latest models jof electrical installation put on the j market by the General Electric comipany. Upon their return, Messrs. Justus and Clark will make a detailed report to other members of the company and upon their report will depend whether or not the contract will be let to the General Electric company. Before leaving, Mr. Justus declared empahtically that the new cars would not be of the Strang motor car pattern, such as were given a try out |on the Clover Leaf early in the year.— Bluffton Banner. o COURTHOUSE NEWS A Partition Suit Filed for Action by the Adams Circuit Court MARRIAGE LICENSE Osia Christman and Bessie Wheeler to be Married This Evening J. H. C. Smith, of Bluffton, filed a new case in the Adams circuit court, .it being a suit in partition in which the plaintiffs seek to have real esstate, part of which is in this county, appraised and divided among \the heirs. The plaintiffs are George W. and Benjamin Fisher and Sarah A. Christman, and the defendants are Phoebe Fisher, Clara, Jennie and Ethel Beach, Osie Christman of Hartford township, and Bessie Wheeler of Geneva, appeared at the clerk’s office this I morning, answered the proper questions and were granted a marriage license. They will be married this evening at the home of Noah Fuser at [Linn Grove, the wedding ceremony to be accompanied by a good time to be enjoyed by the friends of the bridal couple. A petition for partition is being prepared today by J. H- C. Smith in the Alexander Fisher estate. It will be filed in Adams county as it affects the farm owned by the late Mr. Fisher in that county. Early in the I week a petition for the sale of the 'real estate to pay debts was made in the local courts, and as it is desired 'that the Adams county farm be included in the sale, a petition for it was necessary.—Bluffton Banner. REPEALED THE OLD BLUE LAWS Connecticut Gets Up to Date on Sunday Law. Hartford, Conn., Aug. s.—Both houses of the Connecticut legislature passed a bill repealing the so-called “blue laws” relating to Sunday ob'servance, which forbid almost every form of recreation and secular activity. The laws which have been seldom enforced are relics of enactments by the law-giving body of 1722. The new Sunday bill is short. It defines the Sunday and prohibits all sports and secular activities "except I such as are demanded by necessity and mercy and such as are for the ’generat welfare of the community." The penal section provides both fines 'and imprisonment for violation. Un ' der the words, “General welfare of 'the community,” Sunday base ball is ‘probably permitted and the advocates the bill admit that the courts must interpret the wording in several places. i — — Misses Eva Acker and Elizabeth Peterson will arrive home Saturday frO m Ypsilanti, where they have been attending school and w. 11 spend the remainder of their vacation in the 'city, before resuming the profession l o f teaching.

IS MUCH SICKNESS Dr. Grandstaff is Going Some These Hot Days in August HAVE A PICNIC The New Jaebker Store at Preble About Completed Preble, August 5. —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —There is much sick- ( ness prevailing in and around Preble at the present time, and <he services of Dr. Grandstaff are constantly in ' demand. Grandmother Bowers and Grandmother Hartman have both been i very feeble, their extreme age with it have caused their families to be, uneasy. Henry Scheery has had symptoms of typhoid, but it is believed that the disease has given way to treatment and that ail danger from a siege with typhoid ij now past. Quite a nupiber of the little ones are suffering with the diseases of the season and in all there is more sickness than has developed at one time before. All the little folks and most of the big ones are getting ready for the picnic which is due Saturday, and which will be held in the David Steele grove, a fine place for an event o* this kind. It is being given by the Beulah Chapel congregation, and it the day is right there will many be in attendance. The new general store of William Jaebker is about completed and it is a dandy and a handsome addition to' the business buildings of the town.' Mr. Jaebker carries a good stock and' does a flourishing business at this I hustling little place. Jeff Klopfenstein is making them' step some in the buggy and harness' business. He has done a great bus-1 iness selling more buggies, than were ever put out among the farmers here for a great many years. IS BUTTER FAMINE Decatur Folk Have Hard Time Getting Butter These Days MILK IS SOLD And There is Not Much Butter Made by the Farmers Now Every day the question is asked, “Why is it there is no butter for sale?” Many people cannot understand why there is such a scarcity of butter when pasture has been good throughout the summer. The question can easily be answ-ered. The |farmers’ wives are making enough butter for their own use and whatever cream they have left is sold. There are of course, exceptions to this rule, but they are very few, according to statements of those who know. Brown, the milk man, who does an extensive business in the city, informs us that he has paid as much as fifty dollars each day for milk and that expenditure will represent a large quantity of the liquid. Good prices are paid for cream and the buyers who scout the country, gobble up the cream that otherwise would have been converted into butter and sold to the dealers. There has been a. very noticeable famine in butter in Decatur for the past few weeks and it was really a difficult task to find a pound of the very necessary food last Saturday. The citizens are hoping that the famine will soon come to an end. o The Misses Cecelia and Anna Smith will leave tomorrow for Chicago," where they will spend a few days witu Mrs. W. H. Hollenbeck on Lasells .avenue. They will also visit several 'places in Michigan for a week or so.

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, August 5, 1909

.STOLE SEVENTY-FIVE CHICKENS' Silas Wisner, of Craigville, Suffers Loss. • Silas Wisner is mourning the loss of about seventy-five chickens as a result of a visit of thieves to his chicken coop Tuesday night at his home in Craigville. Today Mr. Wisner is paying visits to the different ! poultry markets of the city in hopes of finding his fowls. The visit was made some time Tuesday night and it must have been the work of experts. as neither Mr. Wisner nor any of the members of the family heard the chickens. The first that Mr. Wisner knew of the loss of the chickens was this morning, when he made a visit to the coop to feed them ana discovered that there were none to feed. He immediately proceeded to get busy and went to Decatur, where he instructed the police and chicken r dealers to be on the watch for any , I one who might bring in a quantity I of chickens for sale. There had been , no theft of chickens in the vicinity | of Craigville for some time, although i earlier in the season several were stolen near Ossian. —Bluffton Banner. ' HE HAS THE VOTES Tariff Bill to Pass the Senate at a Session Tonight WILL ADJOURN • The President Will Sign i the Bill and Let It Go at That Washington, August 5. —Senator (Aldrich is very confident that he has I votes enough to carry out his program for the tariff bill tonight. His lieutenants in the senate were busy get- , .ting pledges from Republican senators I that they will vote to table any amendments that may be offered to ‘the concurrent resolution correcting | the boot and shoe and leather sched-, ule. The Rhode Island senator real- ■ izes that he must keep his pledge made to the far western senators to pass the concurrent resolution, and he realizes, too, that it is highly im portant that in passing that resolution the tariff bill shall not be “opened up” generally. Senator Crane, who is making the canvass of the body for Mr. Aldrich will be able to report that there will be enough votes to table the cotton bagging amendment which the southern Democrats will offer, the tobacco coupon amendment which Senator Beveridge will offer and the cotton goods amend ment which Senator Dolliver proposes to submit. With everybody anxious to see the session brought to an end, there does not seem any liklihood of the concurrent resolution provoking prolonged debate. The Democrats ana the progressive Republicans will simply go on record as having made a “last ditch” fight to have some of the inequalities of the bill corrected. Over in the house Speaker Cannon is having a good deal of trouble in holding a quorum, but he assured Mr. Aldrich today that he would be able to put the concurrent resolutioa through that body. There was a good deal of speculation today as to whether President Taft would, in signing the bill, make a statement indorsing it. I His signature is, of course an indorsement, but some of the organization senators and representatives are anxious to have him put me progressives “in the hole,” as they say, by giving out a statement saying that the bill 'fulfills the promise of the Republican party to revise the tariff downward. o ARRIVED IN CHICAGO ALL RIGHT The Hartman Children Will Taku Their First Treatment Today. Word was received from Chicago today, which stated that Mrs. Hartman had arrived there with the two children mentioned yesterday, and that the first treatment would be administered to them this morning at nine o’clock. They arrived last evening, all tired from their long and hot tfP, but apparently no worse than ' when they left Boulder. This leads i to the hope that treatment at the i Pasteur Institute will cure the boy I and girl, and that there will be no . bad effects.

WILL WED THIS EVE Miss Adda Barnett Becomes the Bride of Illinois Man A POPULAR COUPLE Dr. Elmer Byrne of Granite City, Illinois, is the Groom An announcement which will signal surprise among many Adams county people, is that of the marriage of Miss I Adda Barnett to Dr. Elmer Bryne, the latter of Granite City, Illinois, which I - I will occur this evening at five o'clock at the home of the bride to be's sister, Mrs. Joseph Andrews, who resides near the Washington church. | The wedding comes as a culmination to pretty romance finding inception in eastern Illinois, where Miss Barnett whs engaged in pedagogy. After teaching school in this county for a number of years, during which time she was most successful. Miss Barnett was engaged to take charge of a school at Madison, Illinois. She has taught continuously there during the past six years, and her work has been highly commendable. It was while there that she met Dr. Byrne | and their engagement followed years 'of courtship. Miss Barnett came to Decatur several weeks ago to remain I for a visit and it was arranged for the ceremony to be performed at the home of her sister, Dr. Byrne arriving last evening. The ceremony which will be very impressive will be performed by the Rev. Sherman Powell in the presence of only the immediate relatives. J. B. Stoneburner and family being the Decatur people who ( will be in attendance. Following the ' wedding a sumptuous supper will be served and a delightful time will ensue. After remaining in old Adams for a few days, the happy couple will ' leave for the coast, where they honeymoon will be spent. They will at+eni the big exposition before returning I to Granite City for future abode. The ‘ bride-to-be is an accomplished lady. (Continued on page 2.) o IS 91 YEARS OF AGE Christian Meyer is Lying at Death’s Door IS AN AGED MAN And Has Liven in Adams County Many Years Christian Meyer, father of John Meyer of this city, and probably the oldest man in Adams county, is seriously ill as a consequence of infirmities of the ripe old age of ninetyone Mr. Meyer came to Adams coun|ty about fifty years ago from Germany. He settled here and became I one of Adams county’s most progressive citizens. For some time he has been making his home with John Meyer, Fourth street. The health of the aged man has been apparently good until about three weeks ago, when he was taken quite ill. He has gradually lost strength since then until his condition became alarming A slight change for the better has been noted during the past twentyfour hours, although there is no hope for his recovery. Mr. Meyer is the father of Mrs. Mary Gross, Jacob Meyer, Mrs.. Nick Colchin. His life I I has been an unusually long one, anc now as the sun goes down on his >, career he can say that he has livec his life well. c t Will Vancuren, who resides flv< - miles east of Warsaw, caught a mat 1 stealing a horse and buggy from hii i place about 12 o’clock on Sunday 3 night. Vancuren was just returninj 5- home when he discovered the man 7 hitching up. The thief got away and > whiles search was made for several , hours he could not be found.

WANT TO SEE THE GOVERNOR Elwood Strike Still Brewing in Tinplate Mill. Elwood, Ind., Aug. 4. —The lockout at the American Sheet and Tin Plate Hot Mills in this city has taken on a little fever, the trouble that occurred early Monday’ morning causing the officers at the plant to believe the strike breakers were not receiving the protection they should have. Attor ney Call, for_the company, met with some of the merchants. From good authority comes the information that the company’s attorney was in favor of having a committee appointed from , the union to go before Governor Mar- 1 shall and present their case. The union men agreed and said they were ready to go at any time. Later the i meeting decided it was an unwise thing to do, but proposed to appoint a committee of merchants to go before the governor and present the case, leaving the union men out. This the attorney for the union men objected to, and later there was a committee appointed by the meeting to get up a petition and get ahearing with him some time Thursday. STILL HAS A BEE Senator Slack is in the Next ■ Race for United States I Senator ANOTHER SESSION President Taft is Said to Want Some Monetary Legislation ' ■ It Washington, Aug. 5. —*Ts we Dem ■ ocrats are successful in carrying the 1 legislature next year, whoever is 1 ' elected to the United States senate I will know that he has been in a race, , unless I am very much mistaken, I said former State Senator L. Ert' Slack. “At least the winner, if his' na meisn’t Slack,will have to run fast-1 ;j er than I can,” added the Johnson ' ■ county leader. Mr. Slack, who has ' spent some time in Washington re-1 cently, said that the ambition of his I life is to be United States senator I , from Indiana, and that It overshadows | ' every other ambition that he ever I ' has had. Senator Slack, however, denies with the greatest possible emphasis that he came to Washington • to set up any senatorial pins and he brands as “the purest moonshine" published stories to that effect. “I came to Washington,” said Mr. Slack, "on a private professional matter, but since I am being charged with all sorts of political conspiracies the facts may as Well be known The facts are that I w’as chosen to settle the estate of Levin J. Woolen, who , w’as acaptain of a Potomac river boat and who had relatives living in my county. That is all there is to the alleged “political mission" which some folk see in my visit.” It so happened that when Senator Slack was here Joseph H. Shea of Seymour also was in the city, a guest of Senator Shive- , ly. In the last senatorial contest b Indiana Judge Shea, although hailing from the same congressional district ■ as Senator Slack, used his influence ’ to the utmost in behalf of Shively. ’ He was a tower of strength to Shively's cause in southern Indiana. Washington, Aug. 5. —President Taft is thinking of calling an extra sesi f sion of congress in November of next T year to reform the currency system i, of the United States. Such a special s 'session almost inevitably would come t -immediately after the November coni' gressional elections. If called' it will s be for the purpose of making it possible to the proposed monetary e legislation put through by the end of e the short session; in other words, by b the end of the existing congress 'e Should no special session be called d it will hardly be possible to dispose is of the report of the monetary corn'd mission in the life of this congress. o Sale was made this morning of the r* Rachel A. Baker property on north in Third street to John N. Springer. Mr. is Springer recently having sold his y Eleventh street property to Jesse O. ig Smith of north Second street, who n will soon move into his newly purd chased property. The Snow agency il was instrumental in closing up these transactions.

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HAS PASSED THE SENATE The Tariff Bill Passed the Senate by a Vote of 47 to 31 SEVEN PROGRESSIVES Senator Beveridge of Indiana, Voted Against the Bill Washington, August 5. —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —the tariff bill passed the senate this afternoon, the vote being 47 to 31. The following progressives voted against the bill: Beveridge, LaFollette, Cummins, Dolliver, Nelson, Bristow and Clapp, sev en in all. Not a single Democrat voted in favor of the bill. Intense interest centered in the vote, and the senate galleries were crowded with visitors, many of them being interested in the various schedules. The bill now goes to the president for his signature. It is thought that congress will adjourn this evening. O' GOING BACK TO WARSAW Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 5. —Austin (Miller, who shot and seriously wound|ed Lon Howe, night watchman at Winona after charging the policeman with having gossiped maliciously about his mother, and who made his , escape, arrived in Terre Haute this morning and went at once to his family’s attorney, M. C. Hamill. The two (returned to Warsaw, where the boy . intended to give himself up. He Is the grandson of A. G. Austin, of this city. COMPLETE COURSE Three Adams County Young Men Graduate from Angola College WITH HIGH HONORS Commencement Exercises Will Be Held August T wenty-Seventh Adams county will be well represented in the commencement exercises to be rendered at Angola August twenty-seventh by the seniors of the Tri-State Normal. Those of the B. Sj degree who will complete their course are 0. F. Gilliom, Berne; Otis Hocker, Monroe, and J. H. Welty, Decatur. (These young men will graduate from |the institution with flying honors, ” I Their work has been very efficient. A i(big home coming will be observed in Ijthe twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth at » I w hich time many who have graduatea - from the college will gather at Angola 1 to meet both old and new friends. - The exercises to be given on the y twenty-seventh will be very interest>f ing and it is understood that a numy her of the friends of the Adams couns. ty young men will be in attendance, d At this time there are about tw’entye five students from this county en- -- rolled at the Angola college. They are doing very well, and this is good news to their friends and relatives. e ti Miss Ruby Miller will complete her •. course of normal training at Winona , in a few days, after which she will . arrive in the city. , The kitchen at the jail is undergoing somewhat of a change. The plastering is being torn down and will be replaced with a st gel ceiling and several other improvements will be made.