Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1909 — Page 1

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VOLUME VII. NUMBER 297.

TEN ARE KILLED * When a Michigan Southern Passinger Went a Trestle This Morning NORTH OFGREENBORO z George Gould, son and Secretary Were Passengers and Were Injured Charlotte, Mich., Dec. 15.—(Special to Dally Democrat)—A terrible wreck occurred near here today, when a fast passenger train on the Michigan Southern railroad jumped the track on a trestle just north of Greensboro. As a result ten are dead and forty are badly Injured. The train had just left Greensboro and was going at a rate of thirty-five miles an hour, when it went over the high trestle. The dead and wounded were buried beneath the muddy waters of a creek and the rescues were very difficult.. Among the passengers were George J. Gould, the famous mlllionarie, his son, Jay Gould and his private secretary, R. H. Russell, of New York. Russell was badly injured, perhaps fatally, and the son, Jay Gould, was badly bruised. BRINGS A BRIDE f Mr. Oliver Schug and Miss Gladys Holmes Married Yesterday 3 OCCURRED AT ALBION Bride a Niece of Mrs. Henry Groom Clerk at Interurban Office When the popular clery at the interurban office left Tuesday on a trip for Gary and Chicago, it was “Mr. Oliver Schug” and when “they” returned on the 2:30 car this afternoon the greeting was “Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Schug, this young man' surprising his many friends here by bringing with him a bride. The bride is well known to many here as Miss Gladys Holmes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Holmes, of LaOtto. When Oliver left Tuesday his friends thought he was going on a business trip, but instead he met his bride and going to Albion, they were married Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Methodist parsonage at 'that place by the Rev. Newcombe, former pastor of the Methodist churches of Adams county. The bride and groom then went on to Chicago, where they made a short visit and returned this afternoon on the 2 ■>" 111 The employees of the interurban o flee, who anticipated some su< h ar rival, met the bride and groom at the interurban power house and the quan tity of rice that lay on the car floor upon its - arrival here, was mute «»> dence of the reception given The groom is a son of Mr. ano AU’S. Rudolp Schug of Berne, and lor som< time has- been employed as ag< n the Fort WaVne & Springfield >■” w‘loffice in this city, where his courtesy and efficiewZ.- have won hos s friends for him. The bride for some time has been making her home w her sister, Mrs. Ed Rice, at I .tine, . is known to many here, naung "■ with her aunt. Mrs. Mose Henry of this city. She is a very cha young lady, and the many w io her here will be pleased to lea Mr. and Mrs. Schug will live city, their home to be at the of Market and Cross str<>< sneedless to say that all goo are extended to them.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

RETURNER FROM THE SOUTH. | Rev. Pleasant W. Barker, of near < harleston, W. Va, is now in Indiana. He is a brother of Rev. G. H. Baker, who was pastor on the Berne circuit of the U. B. church. He says he left all of West Virginia there that he. could. He don’t like the country very well and it is supposed that he will not leave old Indiana again unless he ac- < epts a position open for him now at Hanley. He is as well and pleasant as j ever. He is a member of the M. E. church and has helped much in some of the Indiana churches. He was superintendent of a Sunday school also while at his parents’ home in West Virginia. ADVANCEAGENTS For Santa Claus Have Been Working in the Windows of DECATUR MERCHANTS Turning Them Into FairyLand Bowers—For Children’s Delight. Not least among the pleasures that n ark the approach of the Yule-tide is that of attractive displays of the merchants, many of whom have gon':. ’o much expense and labor in arranging a bright and appropria.e setting for the r goods —and really they are not I all children who stop and gaze with delight at the santas in the windows, | or the displays that are really w’orks of art, and equal to any in the larger cities. Red and green, the Christmas colors play the principal part in the decorations. The large window place at the Boston store, with its ceiling and walls of pure white, draperies of red satin streamers, caught here and there with large red flowers, the whole framed with southern smilax, forms a pretty setting for the life size doll that lies sleeping in a crib, on which hang her stockings. As she sleeps, Santa enters with his pack of toys, and around the room, as though arranged by good St! Nick, lie innumerable pretty gifts. At the Tague shoe store many large mirrors reflect their crossed draperies of green vines with bright red berries, the draperies caught by large red Christmas bells. Here and there bright colored slippers show attractively against this background. A winter scene appears in the Voglewede & Son’s display. Many cords, stretched close together, from top and bottom of the window, and flecked here and there with bits of cotton, give an appearance of a snow storm which come glimpses of winter scenes, and shoes for winter wear. A life-like Santa Claus, crawling Into a chimney, with only a sample of the many toys which he is forced to leave behind, showing plainly In the Baughman store window, brings; vWons of delight to the younger chHdrem A Santa also appears in the El . Vance & Hite window, but here he is shown riding In his sleigh, and strange to say. he is drawn not by reindeer, but by a bull dog on which are advertised the Bull Dog suspenders Another beautiful Christmas window In the citv is that of the Burdg milllX si - Not 18 the S u most beautiful, with its draperies and twinings of southern smilax and herHes from Alabama, but the display of " h millinery, beautiful China plates Zn/make the whole a very attractlVSouthern smilax, draped with red nd ” a ’ of’evergreen’and a Christmas z. Xa «»i> ' a prominent part. An ar..h tOy8 ' P rf bright red drapery, on Way ' displayed Santa’s wonders which are d splayed atracts the 3 quota's agents, .. o nite bazaar, sama » . EV ‘ r & Steele, have their emporlWeaver & ’ qrra nged, and 'T wede, inn Teeple, Brandy: and Meyers & Daily, berry & p « er t 0 the grown-ups.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, December 15, 1909.

HAS APPENDICITIS • W. I. Crozier Receives Injury While Shoeing r Horses. FORCED TO RETIRE From Business—Will Enter Hospital for Operation— Sells Shop. George Dixon, a well known resident of the north part of the city, has become proprietor of the W. I. Crozier blacksmith shop on Seventh street, taking possession this morning. Mr. Crozier, who came to this city last May 3rd and has been conducting the blacksmith shop ever since, building up a large and profitable custom, is forced to retire one account of ill health, and in a short time will probably enter the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne where he will undergo an operation for appendicitis, which is thought to be the only recourse to the re-establishment of his good health. About five weeks ago while shoeing a horse, Mr. Crozier was injured by being jerked about irt a violent manner by the horse, and for three days at that time was very bad indeed. At times since he has suffered much and he has been advised by five of the best, doctors that his trouI ble is appendicitis, and that, the only possible permanent relief would be by an operation. Mr. Crozier has spent his entire life, with the excepi tion of a few months in Union township, where he owns a farm, and next week he will move his family to the old home, and later, though the time has not been decided upon, he will enter the hospital. He is well known over the county and all his friends join in wishing him |he restoration of his good health. EXPERTS ARRIVE Purdue Experimental Station Began Tour of Spec ial Train Toddy. A THREE DAYS’ TRIP Lectures by Men Well Versed in the Production of Milk —Crowd Smlal. The Purdue Experimental Station and the Chicago & Erie railroad are conducting a special dairy train over the Erie, beginning at this place at 8:15 Ihis morning. The fact that the party was to be in Decatur today- was not generally known and consequently there was not a very large number present to hear the lectures. The train left here at 8:45 for Preble, and stops will be made at Tocsin, Kingsland, Uniondale, Markle, Simpson, Bolivar, reaching. Huntington this evening. Tomorrow they spend between Huntington and Rochester and the next day proceed to Hammond. There is a demand for special information on the production of milk and this is furnished 'by experts, Including O. F. Hunslcker, head of dairy department at Purdue; H. C. Mills, field man at Purdue; O. H. Reed, assistant in milk prodt., ion at Purdue; B. B. Johnson, president Indiana Dairy association, Moresville, Indiana, and C. B. Benjamin, member of the state board of agriculture, Crown Point, Indiana. A stock car is attached to the train and two dairy cows are carried for inspection and demonstration purposes. PLAY BY ASSOCIATION. High School Students Will Put One on About New Years. The high school students are practicing for a play which they will be ready to give about New Years, though they are rather quiet about the affair and will not say anything definite 'about the matter. The proceeds will go to the Athletic association.

FRANK WANTS OUT OF JAIL. Would Hang His Stockings Up Outside the Bastile. In hopes that he will geC out of jail before Christmas and may eat on that holiday, not at the table of the jail of Huntington county, but some place where he will be free once more from his rash deeds and be able to once more take up his thread of life, which has so often been broken by sentences in jail in various part of the state, Frank Cotton is appealing to his friends to help him get the fees in the forgery case in which he was convisted at Huntington thrown off. With the time for the celebration of Christmas festivities almost here, that time when forgiveness is in the hearts of all men only a few days away now, the prisoner has chosen well and believes that the spirit of forgiveness prevails throughout the land at that time will assist him to step from the Huntington county jail once more a free man. POLITICAL TALK / Boom Started at Indianapolis for Ellingham for Secretary of State. JACKSON WILL WIN In the Fight for State Chairmanship—Ton Honan for Attorney General. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 15. —U. S. Jackson of Greenfield, according to present indications, will be re-elected chairman of the democratic state committee when it meets in this city January Bth. Mr. Jackson likely will not have any opposition, although Peter Foley, to be re-elected chairman of the Fifth district, and others would like to be the state chairman. The indications are that Mr. Jackson, for harmony’s sake, will be the unanimous choice of the committee. He will have at least nine out of the thirteen votes to start with, if not ten. As usual the committee decided that the basis of representation in the district conventions shall be one delegate for every 200 votes and one for every fraction of over 100 votes cast for the democratic candidate for governor. Thomas R. Marshall polled more votes than any democratic candidate in previous years and this means that there will be larger delegations to the district conventions. It means also that there will be more than 500 more deegates to the state convention next year than before, making 1,700 In all. A large sized boom was launched for Lew Ellingham, present chairman of the Eighth district, for secretary of state. Ellingham will not be a candidate for district chairman again, and the fight will be between George Bebee of Anderson and Henry Eichhorn of Bluffton, according to the latest gossip from the Eighth. Ellingham is not ready to say that he will be a candidate. Thomas M. Honan of Seymour was fn the city and announced that he will be a candidate for attorney-general. Mr. Honan is speaker of the Indiana house of representatives. He has been studying the situation for some time and he believes that the democrats have a good chance of electing their state ticket next year, so after canvassing the situation thoroughly he has determined to seek the nomination. Representative A. J. Behymer of Elwood will be a candidate for clerk of the supreme court. Representative Harry Strickland of Greenfield came to town with his boom for the same office and received considerable encouragement. Former Representative David E. Poor of Shelby county came to the city with the rest of the politicians to talk over the situation with a view to becoming a candidate for state treasurer. He felt encouraged with the outlook. There is another possible candidate in William Scheiman of Fort Wayne, present treasurer of Allen county.

ELECTRIC SHOCK 5 1 Superintendent Mylott Got a Severe Jolt While Testing c Electric Light. { •—- - c AT THE CITY OFFICES , r Was Hurled Fifteen Feet and £ c His Hands Badly Burned , —2200 Volts. I Martin Mylott, superintendent of the city electric plant, received a severe shock last night from an electric current, and while his hands are badly blistered and two fingers bursted open by the force of the current, he Is considering himself mighty lucky that he escaped with his life. About 7 o'clock Tuesday evening, Mr. Mylott and Ed ■ Parent, an assistant, were working at the office in the city hall on Madison street, testing the street lamps, which ’ had recently been giving much trouble. In some way Martin got hold of a live wire and instantly received a shock from the direct current, 2,200 volts whirling through his body. The shock threw him about six or eight, feet across the room. The nature of the ] current, direct, with which he came in contact, was such that he was thrown | away from the point of danger; andi ! had it been an alternating current he < would probably have been drawn into j ( its death-like grasp and held w until', dead. As it was, his injuries are very ; ( painful, and the services of a physi-; j cian were required. The fingers of' ( both hands are blistered and on two of the fingers of the right hanik the flesh is bursted open, and they bled profusely at the time of the accident. The ( general shaking up and shock he re- l ceived also told heavily on him. 1 THE NEW OFFICERS: ( Masonic Lodge Held an Im- ( portant Session Last Night and Choose Officers. i i D. E. SMITH, MASTER ' Installation Will Occur on Tuesday Evening, January 11—Good Year. The annual meeting of the Masonic lodge of Decatur was held Tuesday . evening and there were present quite 1 a number of the members. The most important part of the program was the election of officers which resulted in the selection of the following: D. E. Smith, master; Charles Dunn, senior warden; Will Winnes, junior warden; Earl B. Adams, secretary; G. T. Burk, treasurer; L. C. Helm, trustee. The master will appoint the other officers, including the deacons, tyler and stewards. Ohly one of these has been announced so far, that being the appointment of Ned Steele as senior deacon. The new officers will be installed on the evening of Tuesday, January 11th. The lodge has prospered during the last year, seventeen having been taken in, while there are a half dozen on the road and several applications on hands. The outlook for another successful year with a steady growth is bright. The boys are talking new arid better quarters which may materialize, during the coming year. o— DECATUR DE WIT IS DEAD. Decatur DeWitt, aged eighty-three, long known familiarly as the “Hermit of the Wabash,” because of his long residence by himself in a small shanty op his forty-acre farm along the Wabash, four miles east of this city, passed away at 8 o’clock last night at the home of his nephew, James M. DeWitt, the well known carpenter and contractor, at 123 East South street. He had been cared for during his last sickness by his nephew’ and the latter’s sister. Miss Victoria DeWitt, and had been at his nephew’s home in this < ity sin September Bth last, a little more than three months. His death was due to lung trouble.—Bluffton News.

STATE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION. Will Convene in Indianapolis December 28-30 —Many Will Attend. One week from this evening, Wedday, December 22nd, the city schools will close for the holiday vacation, opening again January 3rd, after a ten days’ vacation. During the vacation, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, December 28th to 30th, the State Teachers’ association will hold its convention in the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis and many of the local teacher*, on account of the vacation at tnts time, will be given an opportunity to attend. COURT HOUSE NEWS Not Much Doing in Judge Merryman’s Court This Week —Waiting. FEW ENTRIES MADE D. E. Smith Appars in Two Cases—Two or Three R e al Estate Transfers. The Adams circuit court room is a mighty quiet place these days. The morning session usually requires [about fifteen minutes and this was no ' exception. The attention of a number : of the attorneys is just now confined Ito the democratic primary which ocI curs Friday, and next week the busiI ness should pick up and become rather brisk for a while at least. Bank of Geneva vs. George W. and Anna Bolds, foreclosure of mortgage, demand, $850; apepaiance by D. E. Smith for defendants. Rule to answer. Attorney Smith also entered his appearance for the defendants in the case of the Bank of Geneva vs. George and Alexander Bolds, suit on note, demand, $2,000.

James Hurst vs. Peter Wetsel, foreclosure of mortgage lien, demand, $100; demurred filed by defendant. Real estate transfers: Perry Workington to Clifford Death, pt. lot 11, Rivarre, $320; John F. Hocker et al. to William U. Newton et al., lot 51, Monroe, $1,335. — —o — THE JANUARY OUTING. I Again the big feature in the Outing Magazine for January is Harry Whitney's "Hunting in the Arctic.” The issue Is also a special automobile number containing bright, breezy ari tides which get right home to the 'owner of a car; “Automobiles for Av- I erage Incomes,” “Equipping Your Au- i tomobile,’- “Hazards of the Vaifderbilt ( Cup Race,” and two interesting j stories, “How I Made My Car Pay j for Itself.” Walter Camp gets away < from the hackneyed All-America team t and gives us an honor listSHRDLUU j and gives us an “Honor List of 1909 < Football.’’ 1 Other articles of importance are < “Conquest of the Northern Heron,” il- < lustrated with rare photographs of ( bird life by the author, Herbert K. i Job; "A Port of Missing Dreams,” by , Albert Bigelow Paine; "The Anti Cli- | max,’ 1 by Frank Tooker; "Game and Game Fish in Winter,” by Samuel G. Camp. Taking it all in all, the New Year Greeting to our readers Is just chockfull of interest from cover to cover. — o ELI WAGNER ARRIVES HOME. Eli Wagner, who recently visited his relatives in ths county, writes us from his far western home at Cascade, Montana, saying tnat he arrived safe and sound, after a short visit with his son at Grafton, North Dakota, who he says he Mund in greatly im- ' proved health. He left here November 27th and arrived home December ■ 2nd, traveling almost continually. He ■ savs there is a great difference of cli- ’ mate between Indiana and Montana , but he likes the northwes: immensely. - He says he will gladly give any inI to any one who writes o i him Hd also states that there is j still some good land there that can , be bought for from $12.00 to $25.00 . per acre. The time of cheap land , there Is passing, however, 2,400 home- ; steads being filed on last month. He ] thinks it a good investment. I

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AN OPEN MEETING Will be Held by the Modern Woodmen, Royal Neighbors and Friends. AT HALL TONIGHT State Deputy Volz Present —Speeches, Music and Banquet. This evening will be a memorable one In the history of the Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors, as quite an interesting program has been prepared for the enjoyment of the members of these orders and all prospective candidates who are given a cordial welcome to attend. One of the important speakers on the program u John D. Volz of Indianapolis, who will arrive this evening. Mr. Volz is state deputy of the Modem Woodmen. He is personally acquainted with the many of this city, having been here last fall at the time of the great log rolling. The many who heard him at that time will be interested in his appearance here this evening again. Several of the members of the local order are also In line for talks this evening and music will be provided by the Dons’ quartet. A social time is assured and after the program refreshments will be served by the Parrish case. Prior to this entertainment the Woodmen will hold their regular meeting opening at 7 o’clock. The social session is open to all prospective candi- | dates, who will be given a cordial greeting. YOUNG PEOPLE

Evangelical Alliance Elected Officers for the New Year. ON TUESDAY EVENING Mrs. Runyon is Re-Elected President —Strong Corp of Officers. " The Young People’s Alliance of the Evangelical church held Its regular monthly business session Tuesday evening at the church and quite an interesting time was in evidence. The principal feature was the election of officers for the new year, and this resulted as follows: Mrs. Eugene Runyon, who has served so well as president, was re-elected; Mrs. E. D. Kern, vice president; Miss Lilah Lachot, recording secretary; Miss Allie Burrell, corresponding secretary; missionary, secretary and treasurer. Rev. D. O. Wise: treasurer, Eugene Runyon; organist, Vernia Smith; assistant organist, Crystal Kern; choristers, Lilah Lachot and Rev. D. O. Wise; librarians Hope Hoffman and Joe Linn. The regular devotional services of the society are held Sunday evening at the church and on every second Tuesday of the month the business meeting is held, usually in turn at the homes of the members. No place of meeting for the Inext month has been announced, as It 1 Is quite probable that revival services 3 will be In progress at that time and that the meeting will be postponed. d — o~ ■ t NOT DOING SO WELL. i- Harmon Bosse, the eldest son of I- Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bosse, who has r been in the ik Joseph’s hospital, at e Fora Wayne, for about ten - account of tuberculosis in hisl left i leg, is In ,a very poorly condition. ■ Since he has been in the hospital ho • has undergone several operations and was thought to be improving nicely by his parents and friends. On last Monday ho underwent another, as the wound was not healing as it properly should and since that time he has been in a very bad condition. His many friends are anxiously awaiting the outcome.