Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 303.

OR. COOK LOCATED passed Through Paris Today Enroute to Astend a City of Belgium. WAS AT MARSEILLES Prince Albert Became King of Belgium Today—Has Taken the Oath, (United Press Service.) Paris, France, Dec. 23.—(Special to Dally Democrat) —Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the famed explorer and grafter, according to the opinion of many, passed through this city today, en route to Astend, Belgium, according to a generally accepted report. It is said that Dr. Cook is accompanied by his wife and by a yduth of perhaps eight•een years. They arrived here from Nice. A dispatch from Marseilles says that Cook registered at a hotel there under the name of Richard Cook and gave his address as Naples. It is said he was recognized by American tourists. He departed for Nice. Prince Albert became King Alphonse of Belgium today. The oath of office was administered in Parliament Hall. Many foreign representatives including United States Minister Lane, witnessed the ceremony. (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C., Dec. 23. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Due honor was accorded the memory of the late Ging Leopld of Belgium today by President Taft, several members of the cabinent and the entire diplomatic corps at a solemn high mass of reqium at St. Mathews church. Secretary Knox represented the state department. FOURTH ANNUAL Musical Will be Given by the Sisters of St. Agnes Next Wednesday. AT THE OPERA HOUSE Splendid Program Will be Rendered to Which Public is Invited.

The fourth annual musical of the Sisters of St. Agnes will be given at the Bosse opera house on Wednesday evening, December 29th. On this evening a number of pupils will take part and some very interesting pieces will be rendered. The Misses Naomi Niblick atfd Agnes Kohne will graduate from the seventh to the eighth grade and receive a gold.,medal for their very excellent work. Pupils from the lower grade will also take part and show the progress they have made in so short a There will also b< something new- in the Hue of music, known as the, Humane Phone, put on by a class of boys and which piomises to be of great interest. There w ill also be general recitations and quai tet pieces, during the meantime, which will make the evening «n interesting One throughout. The awarding of di plomas to the smaller grades will be done by Fr. Wilken. The pi ' f < 0 mission will be twenty-five cents an the proceeds will go towards the Marys church. On previous occa ® large crowds have always I>< ‘ n ent and no doubt a large num «' again favor them with their 1 to the New York, Dec. 23.—(9P ec , Daily Democrat) —Although a . appraisement of th? estate of t Edward Harriman placed its va m $149,000,000, it was reported Wall street, on reliable -- 1 y. , „ iransferred to just before his dec securities his wife and ' 0 0. Mrs. worth more than $■ • vieW of Harriman^ total at this is V

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

THE ice harvest continues. Dealers Are Getting a Splendid Grade of the Frozen Crystal Thl. Year. U looks at this time as though the price for ice for next summer would not be so high as in the season just past. The dealers here are storing away a large amount of the frozen crystal, as there is no apparentdtreak in the weather, it is likely they will Ret the houses well filled. The ice is ainost perfect, both from Steele’s park lake and from the quarries north of town. It is about nine inches thick and as clear as can be. Mersman & Kleinhenz are cutting on the pond while Confer is taking ice from the Bowers quarry. He Is also preparing to cut Ice from the Interurban quarry Pond on the west side of the road and will haul this ice to his factory in the south part of town. While this makes it a little expensive, it does not compare In cost with the shipping in of ice, as was necessary last summer, and H. L. is well pleased.

CASE MAY GO OVER The Ross-Raudebush Breach of Promise Creates Considerable Interest. DEFENSE HAS BEGUN Unless Evidence Concludes Today the Jury May be Allowed to Go Home. The Ross-Raudebush breach of promise suit may go over Christmas. I Unless the evidence Is completed so I that the jury can retire early Friday i morning, Judge Merryman will allow the jury to go home this evening and not report until next Monday, when the evidence will be completed. The court does not wish to tie up the jury in the room over Christmas and if there is a likelihood of this he will allow the suit to go over until Monday. The plaintiff rested at 9:30 this morning and the defense began immediately. Today the court room was filled with people, apparently very much interested in the outcome of the case or anxious to hear the testimony. Every inch of the case Is being fought by the attorneys. Miss Ross was on the stand for several hours Wednesday and made a fairly good witness. Mr. Raudebush was on the stand a short time this mdftlng and will probably be used again before the case is over. REORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL.

The Evangelical Sunday school held its annual election of officers Tuesday evening and the following persons to Pilot the school through the year 1910: I- F Lachot, superintendent; first assistant, S. Cramer- second assistant, H- A. Fuh - secretary, Kladys Kern; treasr ’ Levi Barkley; organist. Crystal S assistant organist, Verna Smith; chorister, Lilah Lachot; assistant, Mrs. Eugene Runyon: libra «“!>««'■« lh * B ” aw ~or ir ,n9 has bppn most s,lcceß ' ! • i, and In interest. More monraenCS ? ra iqed by the regular colfiyhaS ver before. Besides * eC Tv f regular expenses it has d in o a building fund $63.37. P d Lous re-election of Mr. Lasuperintendency the third 5 n succession speaks of his merl‘ S hilitv as a Sunday school ! tS der Se entire school joins hands l thJr newly elected officers in ' them the year 1910 the most i wishing them tne > successful yet. d 77ernity proceedings. Jtnnie Leonard has begun paVISS Minnie c)ark nib . tn-nity Pro Mr 9 Bert nibble, ble , gon of MJ , gqulre gmith , 3 the young man is said to be COU vnnta Ohio, and Night PoliceI SrwaHan222^______—S^m L a A n M^' S ha" E bJen R slck s X S p r. -r ». WotkS ’ davs has been able to be up .SST*** time.

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, December 23, 1909.

MADE ASSIGNMENT Lee Kapp of the Bluffton Manufacturing Company Assigns. IT’S A BIG SURPRISE There is Sufficient Assets to Pay All of the Creditors. A surprise was sprang in the business world when ft was learned this morning that Lee Kapp, sole stockholder in the Bluffton Manufacturing company, had made an assignment of his property in this city to Adolph Tribolet, in order that his creditors could be taken care of In as fair away ds possible. According to A. L. Sharpe, attorney for Mr. Kapp, his assets, as Invoiced last November, amount to $23,769, while his liabilities will be between $12,000 and $13,000. There has been nothing done in the plant, to any extent, for over a year, the washing machine business being dead all over the United States. As a result the company has a large amount of material, part of it partially finished, on hands, and is unable to complete it and realize on It. The property in the assignment consists of the factory and two lots in the Merchants & Manufacturer’s addition. The plant and its contents were invoiced in November, the value of the plant without the stock and material, accounts and other paper, being $12,500, while notes due him, accounts, unfinished material, finished machines and other stock, with the real estate make his assets valued at over $23,000. If business was good and there was a ready market for his machines Mr. Kapp would have been ab)e to have continued business and have paid out, continuing his factory, but without a market for his machines, the partially finished material and lhe machines are dead property on his hands. He concluded that the best thing to do in order that all of his creditors would stand a fair show was to make an assignment.—Bluffton Banner.

TO HELP OFFICIALS Irregularities to be Corrected by State Board of Accountants. NO PROSECUTIONS Only Where Dishonesty is Disclosed in Transacting of Business. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 22. —A meeting of the State Board of Accounts In the office of Governor Marshall, on Wednesday, December 22nd, the following entry, on motion of the governor, was ordered spread upon the, records of the board by unanimous vote: “It is the sense of the state board of accounts, in the event that mere irregularities are found in the accounts of township trustees and other public officials in the state of Indiana, which irregularities have consisted in failure to follow the strict letter of the law but where the public has had value received for the expenditures which have been made by public officials and where expenditures could have been lawfully authorized by proper action of public officials, that field examine* shall assist such officials In making all necessary nunc pro tunc entries as to validate public expenditures of money. It is further the sense of the board of accounts that no prosecution shall be instituted except as against dishonest officials and actions Mall not be brought against public officials unless the record fairly discloses that such officials have been using their offices for private gain. — . —o . — Charles Brock Is spending the afternoon in Fort Wayne.

NO PAPER ON CHRISTMAS DAY. Saturday of this week is Christmas, the one holiday we all celebrate. In Decatur the occasion will be observed as usual, with the church entertainments and services, with the gathering about the firesides, with the many famfy reunions, the giving of presents, the remembering of the worthy poor, etc., ect., etc. Nearly all the business houses will be closed, and along with them the Daily Democrat office. Consequenty there will be no Issue of the paper on that date and it will be necessary to collect for the week on Friday evening instead of Saturday as usual. Please have your dime ready for the boy on Friday evening. Remember please, that it is Christmas eve and he wants th get through as early as possible. Os course the Daily Democrat wishes every one of its large family of readers the merriest kind of a merry Christmas.

ANTI TRUST LAW Non Changes Are Asked in the Law at This Time. THEY GET PETITIONS Grand Army Posts All Over the Country Favor Pension Bill. Washington, Dec. 23—At the request of the president, Attorney-Gen-eral Wickersham has prepared a long review of the prosecutions and decisions under the Sherman anti-trust law. Takin gthis review as a basis for what he will say about the antitrust law in a message to congress the president will recommend that the law not be amended at this time. The attorney-general points out in his review that the supreme court has invariably construed the law in its broadest sense. The whole subject has been receiving very careful attention from the lawyers in the president’s cabinet as well as from the president himself, and the decision is that the anti-trust law is all right in its present form. At least the administration is content to await the decisions of the supreme court in the tobacco and Standard Oil trust cases. Washington, Dec. 23. —Representative Adair expects to be able to lay before congress, within thirty days, resolutions from 2,000 Grand Army posts scattered over the country asking the law-making body to pass his dollar-a-day pension bill. He has sent copies of the bill to all of the posts and has invited expressions from them. The replies are coming from every section of the United States. Among Civil war soldiers it is proving a very popular suggestion. Tn connection of his advocacy of this measure, Adair ininsists that the pension agencies and pension examining boards, with their retinues of officials and clerks, should be abolished, and that the sating effected in that way should be devoted to making up the increase of the pension allowance. Washington, Dec. 23. —Representative Cullop of Indiana, has made arrangements for six or seven Indiana congressmen to join with a number from Ohio and Illinois in a hearing before the house committee on invalid pensions soon after congress re-con-venes to urge that the committee report a $1 a day pension bill. Mr, Cullop believes that, such a bill will easily pass the house on a roll call vote.

MRS. MICHAEL BOGNER DEAD Mary, wife of Michael Bogner of Eleventh street, passed away at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon, after a several months’ illness with consumption. For several days her death has been momentarily expected, nevertheless the announcement comes as a great shock. She was forty-two years of age. Surviving are husband and nine children. The funeral will be conducted Monday morning at the St. Marys Catholic church. —-y— —— -o- —; , „ . IS RAPIDLY RECOVERING. Mrs. Fred Colter of Tocsin, who was recently* operated upon for appendicitis, is rapidly Improving, and It is thought she will be able to-be brought home in a short time.

WANT A GOOD SHOW Working; for a Successful Poultry and Corn Show. ■■l '■■■■ % GREAT ON PREMIUMS Indiana is Uusually There When a Contest is On.

Wanted, one hundred farmers, farmers’ wives, boys and girls, and others Interested in poultry and corn to join the Adams County Poultry and Corn Growers’ association. The bulk of the prizes offered by the national corn show, recently held at Omaha, were won by Indiana farmers. Did any of them come to Adams county? Why? How many members of the National Corn Growers’ association have we in Adams county? None, to my knowledge. Have we any in the state association? A very gooff place to begin is at home. We often hear people say with reference to associations of this kind, "Oh, well, they don’t amount to anything.” Well, it’s a sure thing they are not as profitable as they might be for the very good reason that there is not the interest taken that ought to he. No association can be all that it might be without support. So come along, friends, and help make the Adams County Poultry and Corn Growers’ association what you think it ought to be. The poultry association has had a struggle to keep above the waves, simply from lack of support, and we hoped by combining the. two to put the movement on a self-supporting footing. We have no salaried officers and nobody gets a rake-off. But we need one hundred members to make the association profitable. The poultry and corn show will be held January sth, 6th, 7th and Bth, in Decatur, but we expect to keep the corn growers’ department alive all year, and hold as many meetings as there is a demand for. Send or ’prone for catalogs to either the president or secretary, and watch the papers for further announcements. C. S. MUMMA. Pres. C. E. MAGLEY, Sec’y.

A GREAT INCREASE Shown in Patronage of the Decatur Library During the Past Month. REPORT COMPLETED Regular Patrons Now Number 1734 —Books Loaned Last Month, 2095. Four hundred forty-five books more were issued by the Decatur library in (he month ending December 20th than in the one preceding, according to the monthly report just completed by Miss Annette Moser, the librarian, for presentation to the library board. The total number of books taken out during the past month was 2095, over 1650 of the month before. The total number of borrowers to date is 1734, and the total number of books nowbelonging to this institution is 4130. The amount of money taken in for rentals, fines assessed for the holding of books longer than the two weeks alotted, etc., amounts to eighteen dollars. During the month just ended belongs the honor of the day of highest circulation, November 20th, on which 122 were issued, this being the greatest number taken out in anj one day since the opening of the De catur library. The lowest number Is sued was on December 16th, the num ber taken out being fifty-seven. Th average circulation) wa® a little mon than eighty. The January number 0 the ifiagazinhs ate beginning to ai rive and the reading tables present a Inviting appearance. The library wi be. closen on.. Christmas day. „ — ; The Misses Elizabeth and Sophi. ■ Farhenbach, who are working at For 1 Wayne, will arrive in the city and w t spend Christmas with their parents Mr.' and Mrs. Charles Fahrenbach..

A BATTLE NEAR CHAILE. The Capture of Zalayia'a Forces is Expected. By William A. Deverall, Correspondent of United Press. uldifkld, by wfre!e?s Ooion, Dec. ZE,—(Special to Daily Democrat) — General Zhamorio, General Diaz, General Macuty and General Pagheo. the revolutionary army are pursuing the remnants of the government army and expect to engage l in a battle today near Chafle, according to dispatches received from the front tA day. While Zelayla’s defeat was de clsive, the tact of today's engagement shows that Che number of men claimed to have been captured was overestimated. ft Is shown that a large part of Zelayla's forces are st!3 in the field, but their early capture is< expected. DECATURCOLONY Regular Colony of Decatur Citizens is Formed at Flint, Mich. ARE WORKING THERE Many Returning to Spend the Holidays With Families Here. Decatur residents who have returned from Flint, Mich., to spend the holi-. days with their families here report that quite a colony of Decaturies is now formed at Flint. That town is one of the busiest on the map and Is enjoying the biggest boom of any town in recent years. Quite a number of those who went from here to secure work are employed at the Buick automobile factory. Among these there are Charles Good, Percy Nelson, “Red” Stevens, Warren Buckmaster and George Kern, the latter making from ninety to one hundred a month, and the others equally as good in proportion. William Teeple, Tom Buckmaster and Lon Ball have been there working at the carpenter trade, work in this line being particularly heavy, as houses cannot he built rapidly enough to accommodate those who are coming into the town. In fact many of them are rented long before the foundations have been begun. Messrs. Teeple and Ball are now here to spend the holiday season with their families, while Mr. Buckmaster has moved to that place. Clem Knoff, who has been a barber here for a good many years, Is now engaged In that work there, and meeting with success. Tom Haefllng and Frank Bell of this city are also located there, being engaged in the electrical supply business. Quite a number of others are forking there also, and others are preparing to go, among them being Frank Hurst, who leaves Tuesday.

(United Press Service.) i Chicago, 111., Dec. 23.—Special to ( Daily Democrat)—A note of warning 1 to the republicans of the house of representatives was sounded by Congress- . man Conners of Minnesota, one of ( Speaker Cannon’s right hand men, , who stopped here enroute to his home , at'Winona, Minn. He said that it was i imperative that the republicans elect] a substantial majority of the next house and predicts disaster unless this is done. o Christmas is a day of double significanse to the John Christen family, that being also the birth anniversary of Mrs. Christen. At that time

all the children endeavor to attend the family reunion, which Is usually ■ at the "parental hpme. This year, ■ however, the entertainment will be ‘I given aj. the home of the oldest son, Mffl. S. Christen, living on the old

f Christen homestead in Root itown- '• ship, and with the deception. of .the 1 Rev. B. B. Chi and family of Mnns--1 field, Ohio, all will P r( ’ bab ' y i b s e ‘ n the tendance- The. other members of the Sv are Harry Christen and faminv Bert and James of Fort Wayne; Ray of this city; and Gus and wife, who have recently ‘returned to Indianapolis after a honeymoon trip spent' |in Frorida.

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WED WITHIN YEAR I Engagment of Miss Harriet Morrison to Mr. William Wallace Announced. ( SURPRISE TO MANY Event Will Occur After Miss Graduation in June Next, Informal announcement of the en*’ gagement of Miss Harriet Morison, o ily daughter cf M r s. Elizabeth Studabaker Morrison, of this city, to Mr. William Wallace of Mexico, have been received by the relatives here, and the news will surprise many ot the friends of this popular young lady. The exact date for the event has not been arranged, but it will probably not occur before the middle of next summer, as Miss Harriet, who is a student in the college at OSsinfng on the Hudson, near New York City, will graduate in June next. It had been arranged that Miss Harriet should spend the holidays in Decatur, when and where an announcement party was to have been given, but as Mrs. Morrison is spending the winter in Florida, the plans were changed and Miss Harriet is now there, the family being located at “Kooter • Kave Cottage,” Rock Lake route, Orlando, where she arrived last Saturday. Miss Morrison is a charming young lady, whose every acquaintance is an admirer, every one of whom wish her all the joy and happiness than can be stored in a life time. Mr. Wallace is ! a prosperous young business man, an | American, who is winning his way in old Mexico, and of whom the Decatur people who have met him, speak in the very highest terms. COURTHOUSE NEWS New Quiet Title Suit Filed by Attorneys Sutton and Schirmeyer. HOLLDER IS CITED Must Show Why He Hasn’t Complied With Court’s Order —Other Items. O. N. Tyndal, administrator of the i James W. Jones estate, filed a peti- [ tfon to borrow money to pay school ; fund mortgage. [ Rolla Calderwood vs. Wesley Scales ■ et al., suit to quiet title, is the title ' of a new suit filed by Attorneys J. C. 1 Sutton and F. M. Schirmeyer. i ■ .1 1 Anna Holider vs. Edwin C. Hollder, suit for support; citation ordered for

defendant to show cause why he does not comply with order of court in respect to payment of allowance to plaintiff; returnable January sth. A marriage license was issued to Josie Leichty, 22, a Monroe township farmer, and Barbara Moser. 23. also of Monroe township, a daughter of John 9. Moser. Real estate transfers: Paul Koehler to George M. Gump, tract in Union tp., $10,800; Anna Burning et al. to Frederick Bueimahn, 109 acres, Root tp., $200; Sophia Selklng et al. to William Bulmahn, 121 acres, Root l tp., S2OO. --- - Q~ - ■-» CLOSES SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL.

I The Rev. I Imler Wednesday evening closed a very successful four weeks’ revival at Union Chapel, hie other charge, several miles east of the city There were several additions to the church, and all in all, the services were greatly helpful. The revival at

>,'fhe local United Brethren ehurjch will -1 open next Sunday morning, the Rev. ■ | Imler being assisted by the Rev. E. Counsellor of Lima. Qhlo. — o LIBRARY CLOSED CHRISTMAS The Decatur library will be / . all day next Saturday on ac/ ' the Christmas day. /