Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 12.

YOUNGESTDANCERS Decatur Can Claim Youngest Clog Dancers Who Are Gaining Fame. IN CITY THEATERS Jacob and Ray Wheeler, Aged Four and Six, Go to Fort Wayne. Decatur can probably lay claim to the youngest clog dancers in the theatrical field —Jacob and Ray Wheeler, aged four and six years, sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Wheeler,' of this city. The little chaps have often appeard upon the stages of the local moving picture shows, and Decatur can claim to have truly “discovered” the the skill of these little Chaps who will be bound to become ulte famous. For their skill has extended to Fort Wayne and this evening, Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon they will give their cunning clog dances at the Lyric and Pearl theaters there. Those who whave seen the cunning little chaps execute the dances with a skill equal to.the best are /nightly pleased with them. The wonderful part of the thing is 'that the little fellows had no teachers —infact never even saw a clog dance or any other kind of dance for that matter. They learned the art. themselves from a graphophone which the family had at home, and which gave a reproduction of a darky’s clog dance song. They picked up the dance themselves and are trippingly winning their way into popular favor. The Fort Wayne theaters ( wish to engage them permanently, but their mothe| thinks they are much too young for such and will probably not consent for a while to i their continued appearance on the stage. brotheFiTdead Is the Sad Announcement Received by William Miller and Mrs. Linn. WAS AT OAK HARBOR Relatives From This County Leave Saturday to Attend Funeral. Samuel Miller, a brother of exCounty Commissioner William Miller of this county and Mrs. Solomon Linn of this city, died Thursday afternoon at his home in Oak Harbor, Ohio, near Toledo. The news came in a message to his nephew, Fred Linn, received Thursday evening and simply announced the death and said the funeral services will be conducted Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Todd Linn and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Linn will leave Saturday to attend the funeral. The deceased was sixty-eight years of age and had been fn excellent health. Less than ten days abo he wrote his brother here, telling him that all were well and the announcement of his death was quite a shock to them. He had visited here on numerous occasions and is known to quite a number besides the relatives. The annual reunion of the family have been held at the home of the deceased several times and he was a splendid host. He is survived by the wife and four children. SALEM AND CALVARY. z Sal c m. Sunday school, 9:30; preaching, 10:30 by the pastor. Owing to the revival service at Calvary there wjll be no Young People’s Alliance. We earnestly request all to co-operate with us. Calvary. Sunday school, 9:30; at 7:30 the regular evangelistic service. These meetings are growing in interest and we invite all. Yours for Christ. REV. E. R. ROOP.

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ARRANGE FOR INSTITUTES. Farmer*’ Association Will Meet Soon to Make Definite Plans. C. S. Mumma, president of the Adams County Farmers’ association, is creating an Interest In the farmers’ institutes to be held at Berne January 28th and in this city February 23rd and 24th, and a meeting of all those interested therein has been called for Saturday. At that time .definite plans and arrangements will be made for these sessions in an effort to make them beyond the compare of pny preceding institutes. Many of the renowned state institute workers ,will be given places on the program and noted Adams cor/ity farmers .and . their wives of much practical experi- ■ ence will take part in the work; THE COURT NEWS Mrs. Craig’s Will Probated Today—Gives Property to Her Daughter. OTHER NEWS ITEMS Jury Commissioners Ordered to Report Between Jan. 31 and Feb. 5. The last will and testament of the late Sarah Holmes Craig was probated this morning, her daughter, Carrie H. Craig, being named as executrix. Under the terms of the will Mrs. Craig gave all her property, real and personal to the daughter, to remain hers so long as she remains ■ single. Should she marry then the property left is to be divided equally with her brother, Homer Craig. The will was written July 15, 1908, and I was witnessed by D. E. Smith and Will Hammell. Linda Yoder has sued Peter Huffman et al. to replevin household goods which she says are worth S2OO. Butcher & Armantrout ai«d D. E. Smith are attorneys for the plaintiff. The Lesh divorce case from Bluffton was resumed this afternoon. The case was begun last Saturday but was longer than expected and was continued until today. The parties are prominent in Wells county. Attorney Dore B. Erwin has filed a new case at Fort Wayne, entitled The Bank of Berne vs. Peter Boegll and others, to collect a note, the demand being $1,200. The court has ordered that the jury commissioners meet before February sth and not prior to January 31st aid draw the names of the persons to serve on the February petit jury. Simeon B. Fordyce vs. Simeon B. Fordyce, administrator of Mercy Andrews estate, claim of $2,281.75 allowed. Mary J. Dudgeon et al. vs. Emma A. Bode et al., partition, C. L. Walters has filed bond for $2,500 as commissioner. Frederick E. Gneipper et al. vs. Oliver Deen et al., partition; answer filed by the various defendants. The case of S. A. M. Butcher vs. Homer J. Greene, suit on leases, demand, S4OO, in which a demurrer was sustained to the complaint, was today appealed to the appellate court and the bond fixed at SIOO. Sixty days’ time granted to file bill of exceptions. o JOHN O’DONNELL RETURNS. John O’Donnell, the Geneva man ( who disappeared one day last week after receiving a large sum of money for hay, and who was not heard of for seferal days, causing his family and friends much uneasiness, fearing that he may have met foul play, has reI j turned. He explained his absence by I I saying that he had gone to Portland on business, and thence to Fort I Wayne, where he spent several days I looking after business affairs.

DEATH WAS SUDDEN Link Hall, Former G. R. & I. Agent in Decatur Died at the Majestic. ILL FIFTEEN MINUTES His Death Supposed to Have Been Due to Heart Troubel —Known Here. Lincoln Hall, some years ago the agent for the G. R. & I. railroad at this place and who has since fre- I quently visited here on business, died very suddenly at about 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon in the Majestic ' theater at Fort Wayne, in which city Mr. Hall has lived for seven years past, having moved there from Hart-! for City. He has been engaged recently in the insurance business. Thursday afternoon he and Mrs. Hall went to the theater to witness the j production of the “Clansman,” and | shortly after they were seated Mr. 1 Hall gave an agonizing scream which almost started a panic in the house. | It required six men to hold him, so 1 great were his sufferings. He was carried to the rear of the theater and a physician summoned. Eager hands did all that was possible to restore him to health. His pulse gradually became weaker, and a few moments later he died while en route to Hope hospital in an ambulance. He is survived by the wife and one son, aged - twelve years, who was in school when ' the death of his father occurred. The remains were today taken to the Scottish Rite Cathedral, where the funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock in charge of that lodge. Link Hall, as he was familitrly known here, had many friends in Decatur and several of them will attend the funeral services Sunday. TAKEN IT BACK The President Will Not Interfere With the Patronage. FOR GOOD ROADS Representative Cox Thinks the Government Should Get Busy. Washington, Jan. 14.—President Tafts intends to hold a steady course through the storm that just now is enveloping his administration. He enveloping his administration. He to the conservatives at the expense of the progressives. Undoubtedly he now realizes that he made a mistake In listening U advice that patronage be denied the insurgent representatives unless they came to the su;wort of his legislative program. At any I rate it is now announced, with some emphasis, that the administration does not propose to discriminate against anybody. The president is saying to everybody of consequence who calls on him that the republican legislators must quit quarreling and get down to work. He is keenly alive to the criticisms directed against his admisistration in various ■ parts of the country, but he has an abiding confidence in the fair-mind-edness of the people and of their insistence on learning the truth. Washington, Jan. 14. —Representative Cox of the Third (Indiana) district, is an enthusiast on the building of good roads. He thins the government should take the same Interest in that sort of work as it’ does in the building of a navy. With this in view he introduced today a bill establishing a bureau of highways to be operated in connection with the department of agriculture. The bill provides that the bureau shall consist of three men, two to be appointed by the president, one of each political party, and the third member to be a detailed army engineer. The object of the bill is to procure federal aid for public highways throughout the country.

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, January 14, 1910.

WILL REMOVE TO LINN GROVE. L. L. Baumggartner After Five Yea f *’ Residence Return* to Old Home. While Decatur gains many new residents, she is continually losing the older ones, and some time in March, L. L. Baumgartner and fam. ily, who for the past five years—since his assuming his office as county surveyor for a four years’ term — will return to Linn Grove, their former home, where Mr. Baumgartner will re-enter mercantile business. Mr. Baumgartner has purchased the residence property with the store building adjoining at Linn Grove from Ed Heller of Berne, and the mercantile business from Mr. Bowen, who has been proprietor soy some time. The store is one of general merchandise, with grocery and dry goods combined j and as Mr. Baumgartner has had experience in this line, he will make an undoubted success in the undertaking. Mr. Baumgartner was born I j and reared in that vicinity and with ! his family have spent the greater ■ part of thier lives there, so the re-| .turn to the old home will be anticiIpated with pleasure to a great extent, much as they regret to leave Decatur. A BIG FAIR IN 1910 — Will be Held August 23, 24, 25, 26—Will be Greatest Ever Given Here. THE DIRECTORS MET And Appointed a Board of Managers and Departmental Superintendnts. 4 “The Best Fair Ever for 1910,” is the slogan of the directors of the Great Northern Indiana Fair assoc! - - tion, who met Thursday afternoon in the office of C. J. Lutz and set August 23, 24, 25, 26 as the days for the holding of the great fair this year. The meeting was a most enthusiastic one, and the boys intend to push ahead and make the fair this season one of the greatest ever held in the matter of displays, attendance and general interest. The directors who attended Thursday were President T. .H. Baltzell, C. E. Magley, George Brewster, John Brodbeck, George Tricker, Simeon Bowers, James Foreman and W A. Lower, the last named being the proxy of C. S. Niblick —all business men of the highest calibre and workers of untiring energy in pushing the enterprise on to success. The chief matter that came before them Thursday was the naming of the date and the appointment of the board of managers, comprising J. R. Graber, George Tricker and W. A. Lower, and superintendents of the various departments as follows: Speed—C. D. Kunkle. Horses —John Stiner. Cattle —William Miller. Sheep and Hogs—James Foreman. Poultry—Moses Augsberger. Art—John Brodbech; assistant, Mrs. C. D. Kunkle Agriculture and Fruit —Tom Perkins. Culinary and Canned Fruit —Mrs. John Lower. Privileges—George Tucker. Chief of Police—E. M. Bowman. Water —Phil Baker. It would be difficult to find appointments better made, as nearly all have had much experience in the I work, and are well capable of carry- ! ing the work on to greater success. The directors will hold a meeting again in the near future to arrange for the details of the fair, which they promise will be a record breaker and beat anything ever held here. » — ATTENDED FUNERAL. Mrs. L. L. Baumgarter, Mrs. George Roop, Mrs. H. Harruff, Miss Anna Winnes, James Fristoe and Mrs. Stare of Bluffton left this morning for Berne, where they attended the funeral of M/rs. Andrew Gottschalk, which was held today. The funeral services were held at 1 o’clock from the Evangelical church and the edifice was crowded with friends of Mrs. Gottschalk, who had come to pay.her theis respects for the last time. Interment was mfcde at the M. R. E. cemetery west of the city.

THE LUMBER POET Spoke at Lumberman’s Annual Convention at Indianapolis This Week, AT CLAYPOOL HOTEL M. Kirsch and Others of the Firm in Attendance— Banquet Wednesday. Matt Kirsch of the Old Adams County Bank and one of the senior , members of the lumber firm ofKirsch & Sellemeyer, together with i the junior members, Otto Kirsch and Jesse Sellemeyer, have returned from j Indianapolis, where they attended j the annual convention of the Indiana Lumber Dealers’ association, which convened Wednesday and Thursday In the Claypool hotel. The convention is held each year during the second week in January and Decatur firms are always represented amortg the attendants. The convention this year was of unusual interest and men of state-wide reputation in the lumber fields were present and lent their aid in the discussion and solving of seme of the vital problems in this line. Among the speakers, whost part in the convention was very pleasing, was Mr. Malley of Chicago, known as the “Lumber Poet.” Mr. Malley writes for the American Lumberman, a periodical devoted to the lumberman’s interests, in nearly every is- ' sue of which appears one of his poems. On Wednesday evening at the Claypool hotel, a banquet was given, plates being laid for seven hundred. Ed Koennemann of Hoagland, who is manager of the Kirsch & Sellemeyer branch lumber yards at that place, was also in attendance at the convention. JOHN GOT MIXED And the Judge at Ft. Wayne Sent Him Back to Jail While He Thought. ABOUT THE STORY The Twelve Dollars Made Good—Raliegh Parrish Appared for Coffee. Talk about mixed coffee! John Coffee, Decatur, Ind., certainly was It when he got on the witness stand in the city court this morning to make some explanations about a check for sl2 he had given Calvin Ditzler and which was all right with the exception that he had no money in the bank he drew it on and never had any there. He tried to explain that he thought he was giving one on a Decatur bank which would also have been all right but for the fact that he had, according to his own admissions, no money there to meet it. He also tried to explain that he was arrested at Decatur one time for selling his own chickens but when Deputy Prosecutor Harry Hilgemann got through with him he had forced the admission that although the chickens were his own he was unable to convince the judge of the fact and was convicted of petit larceny. Coffee paid back the money to Ditzler, or rather it was paid through Raliegh Parrish, a former Fort Wayne newspaper man, who is now engaged in the practice of law at Decatur. Judge Mungovan said he would send Coffee back to jail until tomorrow and In the meantime he would think the case over.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. o - “HER DARK MARRIAGE MORN.’ O. Hoffman of Fort Wayne, advance agtn for “Our Own Stock Company,” was in the city today arranging for the appearance of the company at the Bosse opera house, this <lt.y, next Tuesday evening. The play will be that of Bertha M. Clay’s novel, “Her Dark Marriage Morn.”

VANDALIA TRAIN JUMPS TRACK. Engine Stoped Within Twenty Feet of Muddy Creek, Ffty Feet Deep. (United Press Service.) Effingham, 111., Jan. 14. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —While running at terrlffic speed to make up lost time early today, eastbound fast passenger train No. 14 on the Vandalia, jumped the track at a switch near Woodbury, 111., and many pasengers received severe jolts as the coaches bounced over the ties. Despite the reports that many had been kiDed and injured, telegraph reports from the scene say that no one was seriously hurt. When the train was finally stopped the engine was within twenty feet of the bridge, where there is fifty feet of water in Muddy Creek. Three rear coaches and one in the middle of the train left the track, but none went into the ditch. HEAVY FIRE LOSS North Manshester Suffered a Bad Old Blaze Early This Morning. THE LOSS IS $50,000 Southern Indiana Rivers on Another Rampage—Due to the Thaw. (United Press Service.) North Manchester, Ind., Jan. 14.— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Fire which originated in the John Curtner building on Main street at 3:30 o’clock this morning caused a loss of $50,000. The blaze is supposed to' have been caused by an electric wire. I The Curtner building was burned to the ground, the loss being $7,500,| with insurance for $4,000. It was oc-; cupied by the Jewett & Nazer hardware store which suffered a loss of $12,000, with insurance for $6,000. The building next door occupied by the Lee Dry goods company suffered a loss of $15,000, fully insured. Several other stores were damaged and all the windows in the block were broken by the intense heat. (United Press Service.) Evansville, Ind., Jan. 12. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Alarm Is felt along the lower Ohio river valleys over the river conditions. Fear is felt that the large ice gorges that begin at Wolf Creek, seven miles from here, will do great damage when it breaks. The river is rising slowly and stands a trifle over the twenty foot mark. The Wolk Creek gorge is said to be at least thirty-five feet high at Alton, Indiana. At Kosmos- ' -feale, Indiana, twenty miles below Louisville, the river is forty-five feet , high and the gorge has so baced up , the water that it is within a few feet of the top of the embankment. (United Press Service.) Connersville, Ind., Jan. 14. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Whitewash . river is far out of its banks, and is still rising. It is doing much damage in the bottom lands. o MR. DRAKE AT THE CRYSTAL. Mr. Biggs has again added an Improvement to his show in the person of Wilbur Drake, crack trap drum player, and user of realistis effects. I This, added to the Improvements on the room, will make a place where you can enjoy yourself for any even-1 Ing and at the same time see the best | show ever given in the city. Mr. Drake has had the reputation of be|ng the best trap-drum player on the list. Tonight’s show will be excellent and will Include one of Tennyson'S “Idylls of the King.” Lancelot and Elaine. Same little old nickel admission, and if you're not satisfied, your money back. MRS. BOYERS WORSE. Dr. J. S. Boyers writes from Morgantown, West, Va„ that his aged . mothe’-, Mrs. Rebecca Boyers, who has been very sick with pneumonia, and who was much better the first of 5 the week, has beoome worse. He will , not be able to come home the lata ter part of this week as thought and s will prolong his stay there 'ndefinltely.

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FREIGHT DELAYED Along Nearly Every Railroad—Amount Unusually Heavy This Season. RETARDING FORCES In Way of Ice and Snow Are Working Disaster and Hindrance. The cry of the merchant now is over his belated freight, which in nearly every Instance is several days late Nearly every railroad finds its j freight department congested at this time, and all along the way may be seen car after car awaiting the engine that will take it nearer to its destination. It is said that the amount of freight is unusually heavy this season, a fact that would alone cause a delay when shipping facilities could be at their best; but at this time of the year, when snow and ice work their ill, and many engines and other vital forces are put out of commission, the burden is all the greater. At one time this week it is said that along the G. R. & I. railroad there were 1,300 cars of freight piled up atvaiting moving power. Among the many firms of the city who are inconvenienced by the delay in the freight departments is the firm of Steele & Weaver. Mr. Steele stated that he had torn down his displays in the windows Monday, getting them in readiness for the trimming from the new freight shipments scheduled to arrive Monday. They have not 1 yet come in, and his windows have been stripped and suffering during the whole week. SECOND DEGREE Conferred by Knights of Pythias on Five in the New Hall ON LAST EVENING Attendance at Lodge Last Evening Larger Than at Any Prior Sssion. r - > t The new home of the Knights of ■ Pythias on Third street was packed ' to the doors Thursday evening on 1 the occasion of their first meeting ’ in the new building. The increased attendance therefore made the session the best ever held by the local order, and was a forecast of the many good times to come. The exJ erqises IbJarmted i ’Cor last evening , were of much interest, a class of five receiving the third degree of the order. Those who were advanced a rank In the lodge standing were S. E. Brown, C. L. Johnson, Ed Beery, Henry Gentis >arfl Ed Beery. At Thursday evening’s meeting three new applications were also received | to be added to the large class for in- ' itiation in the near future. Degree work will also be conferred next ! Thursday evening, and a good attendance will probably be manifest at that time. — o INJURIES ARE SERIOUS. Noah Loch has received word from his wife, who was called Monday to I Swayzee on account of the Injury > received In a fall by their daughter, Arbye, wife of Grover Hoffman, stating that her injury was even more serious that at first thought. Instead of a dislocated hip, as thought at first ,the accident resulted in a 1 dislocation of a part of the spinal o column. Absolute quiet for four days i, and then confinement to her bed for f two weeks at the least, is a part of 1 the rigid treatment in store for Mrs. t- Hoffman. She is getting along well, d however, and while she has the best 1- of care the only thing to be done is to let nature take her course.