Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 14.

SICK BUT FEW HOURS Little Geraldine McKissick of Geneva Became 11l Sunday, Buried Today. HEARD FROM TEDDY Geneva Lad Gets a Reply From Letter to the Colonel in Africa. Geneva, Ind., Jan. 17.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Her face wreathed in happy smiles, her childish prattle and mirthful laugh reverberating through the home, on Sunday afternoon, and twenty-four hours later sleeping in her grave at West Lawn j cemetery, is the sad and unusual case ■ concerning Geraldine McKissick, five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl McKissick, of this place. The child took sick between 3 and 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon and died at 4 o’clock th is morning. Death was due eith- ■ er diphtheria or membraneous croup. I The home is quarantined. Mr. McKis•ic is a butcher and works at Fort Wayne. He arrived home Sunday night, but his daughter was unconscious and never recognized him. Last fall a son suffered with scarlet fever which left him with’ a gathering in his head. He was operated upon three weeks ago at St. Joseph hospital but it left him totally deaf. The family have the sympathy of all in their hours of trouble. A private funeral was held at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Morris Wells was leading a team of horses and carrying an umbrella. He " slipped and fell under the horses, the umbrella frightening the horses so that they started to kick and Morris received a bad bruise on the arm. He was lucky to escape without worse injuries, according to those who "witnessed the accident. Last Octoer, Jesse, the son of 151 Burdg, hearing of Roosevelt’s trip to Africa, wrote him a letter just for fun. Today he received a reply from Tedlfy, written in Africa, in which he wished him much success in life. I Jesse is very proud of his card and wiiMteep it as a souvenir. CAPITOL IS BUSY Men Interested in Uniform State Laws Meeting at Washington. THEY ARE IN EARNEST Nine People Rescued From a Sinking Steamer After Hours of Suffering. (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C., Jan. 17. The capital glitters today with world’s politics, business and labor. Distinguished men from practically every state ; in the union are here to attend the meeting of the conference of uniform | laws, called by the National Civic Federation, the governors congress and , the National Association of Uniform State Law’s commission. The conference on uniform laws began today | and will continue until Wednesday. The governors’ congress opens tomorrow and will continue until Thursday and the state law commissioners will hold sessions in connection with both meetings. (United Press Service.) San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 17. (Spec- , ial to Dally Democrat)— Rescued from the sinking schooner, San Tunagentura, after being tossed for two days and three nights by the giant waves,’ without food and water, Captain Ratmcuntz, his wife and baby, his six-1 the crew were landed here and sent to the hospital. The vessel was laden wild lumber. . J

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WILL UNDERGO OPERATION. Sylvester Pontius Suffering From a Growth on Liver. Sylvester Pontius of Hartford townI ship," and one of the best known residents of the south part of the county, has written to E. B. Adams of the fair association, telling him that the reason be was unable to attend the recent session was that he has been quite ill. The physicians have diagnosed tne trouble as a growth on the liver, and he will go to Indianapolis the middle of this week to submit to an operation in hopes of relief. His many friends over the county earnestly and sincerely hope for his speery recovery. ERIEDEPOTROBBED Broken Into by Unknown Men—Got Away With About Twenty Dollars. LEFT THE TICKETS Thought to Have Boarded Train Going West—Detectives at Work. The Erie depot was broken into Sunday night, sometime between tyie hours of ten and eleven, the burglars getting away with about twenty dollars in cash. After attending to the business incident to the arrival of the early night train, Bruce Christen, the night operator, went to his home, and then returned later for the midnight train. He found that during his absence the ticket office had been broken [into and that the ticket box, in which were kept the tickets and the money drawer, had been taken away. The night policeman was summoned, and also the Erie detectives, one arirving from Huntington, and another from Lima, Ohio. In the meantime the search revealed the missing ticket I box hidden away on the grounds of the Smith & Bell lumber yards between the Clover Leaf and the Erie railroads. The tickets were left un- ’ disturbed, and also $1.35 in cash, which the robbers had evidently overlooked. The money box had contained from s2l to $22 in cash, and with the exception of the $1.35 this was all tak- | en. Ray Teeple, night man at the tower, stated that when the 10:17 westbound Crain on the Clover Leaf pulled in, a half hour* late Sunday night, the headlight streaming down the track, gave him a view of two men hastening across the ground between the two railroads, apparently making for the incoming train, and it is thought that the men he saw were the burglars and that they boarded the train and pulled out with it. The detectives and Marshal Peterson, who have been working on the matter since, have several clews, and arrests will follow in a short time, it is thought. Among the men who were searched at an early hour this morning by the detectives, who lost no 'time in getting to work, were a large number of tramps who had spent the night snoozing in the warm loft of the Krick & Tyndall tile factory. A CURIOUS WEAPON. Bert Segur, who is working in the Philippine Islands in the U. S. engineering department, has sent to his father, Harvey Segur, a curious weapon much used by the natives. It is | called a bolo, and is a sort of a cleaver like weapon, crudely made of iron, with handle of wood, carried in a wooden case, and ornamented with 1 woven grass, all the work of the natives. Though crude it is very effecj tive, and both weapon and case still bear the bloodstains of the victims. The weapon is on display in the Hensley window. 0 FREE ADMISSION TO CRYSTAL. Mr. Biggs of the Crystal theater offers you a chance to see his big show ’ tomorrow evening free. In this is--1 sue will be found a coupon. Cut this lout and this with one paid admission | will admit two people. Mr. Biggs believes that there are many people here who have hever seen his show and that if they attend once and see J what a clean, up-to<iate place he has, they will return often and that’s why he is making this offer through the | Democrat. . . ..(,4

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, January 17, 1910.

THE COURT NEWS I The Vacation is On and the Court Room is Quiet — Lasts Three Weeks. REAL ESTATE DOINGS J Many Transfers Filed—The Treasurer’s Office Begins to Get Busy Already. Vacation is on at the court house; that is there are no sessions of the circuit court, and this fact makes the hall of justice a little dry for the news hunter. The vacation continues for three weeks. County Treasurer Yager is beginning to get busy. Quite a number drop in each day now and dispose of the tax question. The spring installment does not have to be settled until the first Monday in May, but when it’s paid, it's paid, and the worry is ' over. The treasurer likes to see the money coming in just now, too, for it gives them plenty of time to look up any necessary matters and takes that much off of the spring rush. i Real estate transfers: J. C. Sutton, com., to Rolla Calderwood, 40 acres in : Blue Creek tp., $1.00; F. M. SchirI meyer, trustee, to A. B. Smith et al., I lot 40, Decatur, $135; J. C. Moran, i 1 com., to T. M. Gallogly, lot 462, DecaJtur, $120; John P. Schwartz to Jacob I Schwartz, 20 acres, Monroe tp., $1,800; Jeremiah Lichty to John J. \Hilty, pt. lot 2, Berne, $1,800; John Weiman to Abraham Beer, 20 acres, | Jacob Baumgartner, pts. lots 226 and 1227, Geneva, $1,500; A. Bohnke et al. Monroe tp., $2,200; Etta Heffner to to Henry Kukleman et al., 120 acres, Root tp., $1.00; Elisa Darst to Hugh Daniels, lot 16, Rivarre, $150; Iva , Aspy et al. to G. E. Shoemaker, lot 402, Geneva, SI.OO. HAVE MADE GOOD The Mason Brothers Now Hold Large Interests in the South. I ERECTING NEW MILL I Centralizing Factories by the' Construction of a $40,000 Factory. I The success of the Mason family, , who removed from here to Arkansas i 1 a few years ago, is told in the followi Ing from the Jonesboro Evening Sun 1 of last Wednesday: The Portia Lumber' company have the foundation laid for their new mill, , 1 which will be one of the most mod- ’ em and up-to-date saw mills in this part of Arkansas when completed. It will be three stories high and will be 40x132 feet, built of heavy timber, requiring more than 100,000 feet of lum- > ber in the construction of the mill. • j The Portia Lumber company, which i 1 has heretofore operated four mills in .'different parts of northeast Arkansas, ,' are planning to concentrate all their interests at Jonesboro. The mill ,' at Portia has been sold and the inter,l ests of the company at that place will Ibe brought to Jonesboro. The other .'mills at Bay and Clover Bend will be .'consolidated with the Jonesboro mill. I The new mill will be completed at ' a cost of $40,000. It will be a modern band-mill, of the Allis-Chalmers make, and wiFThave a capacity of 40,000 feet in ten hours’ run. It will be located near the present plant at the corner of Main street and Johnson avenue. The centralizing of the plants of the Portia company in Jonesboro will mean a grejt deal for the city. It will mean a large Increase of the pay | roll, as the new mill will employ about J forty men where they are now employing twenty-five. .The Portia Lumber company is composed of the three Mason brothers: , J. F. Mason, president; E. J. ■ secretary, and J. B. Mason, treasurer. . The company has a capital stock of' SBO,OOO. The Mason brothers came

to Arkansas seventeen j ears ago and engaged in the mill business. They bought land when cheap and are today among the largest lumber and timber dealers tn this part of the state. The business of the firm is in a 1 parts of the United States and foreign countries. All three members of the firm are now residents of Jonesboro, and have erected palatial homes. Besides their lumber interests they are connected with some of the best financial institutions of the city, J. F. Mason being president of the Jonesboro Ice 1 company, also a director in the Jonesboro Trust Company Bank. 3. B. Mason is president of the Home Telephone company and E. J. Mason'll a director in the telephone • company. They are progressive in evdfy respect and stand for Jonesboro all the time. J. F. Mason is at present president of the Business Men’s club, and has done a great deal to build up the city. The Portia Lumber company's new plant will be ready for business in about 120 days. Several employees ifrom the other mills will be employed in the Jonesboro mill and will move i their families to this city. to eternaFlife Spirit of Rev. Abraham Stalter Passed to Great Beyond—Died Sunday. • AT DAUGHTER’S HOME. At Ossian—Was Prominent Man of County-r—A Long Illness. After suffering for nearly a year from Bright’s disease and other complications of a serious nature, Rev. Abraham Stalter, one of the prominent men of the county, passed away Sunday morning at 9 o'clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Grant Russell, at Ossian, with whom he had been making his home for the past nine 'months. For several weeks his condition has been alarming and his death was not unexpected. Mr. StaJter was born in Allen county, Ohio, in 1840, and at his death was sixty-nine years, eight months and twenty-eight days of age. He was the son of Christian and Catharine Stalter, who have long since preceded him in death. In early youth Mr. Stalter came to this county and was here married to Miss Barbara Beery, with whom he lived happily until death claimed her two years ago. Mr. Stalter spent a great part of his life on a farm west of the city and while attending to his avocation as a farmer, devoted his life to the ministry, and for about half a century was a devoted woiker in tile church of the United Brethren in Chris:, ministering to the Beery or Antioch church west of the city, where he was a great power for good and beloved by all. His earnest Christian life, blossoming into many acts of Christian kindnesses and benevolence, will be ever for him a living memorial. He is survived by the following children: , I Mrs. Dal Hower, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jof this city; Mrs. George Middleton, Fort Wayne; Mrs. Grant Russell, Ossian; Mrs. George Abbott, Miss Lena Stalter, Bluffton; Frank Stalter and Miss Armeda Stalter, Lima, Ohio; Martin Stalter, Peterson; Andrew Stalter, Wasbingtoh. He also leaves several brothers and sisters: Mrs. Sarah Hilyard, Huntnigton; Mrs. Mary Allen, Markle; . Noah Stalter of near Monroe, and Christian Stalter of Lima, Ohio. The remains were taken today to tiie Home of the son, Martin Stalter, near Peterson, where the body will lie in state until the funeral, which will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the Antioch or Beery church, west of the city, where he served so earnestly during his life. The services will be conducted by the Rev. Edgar Jones of Ossian. Interment in the church cemetery. RECEIVED HARD FALL. - * Henry Knavel, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Knavel, while > skating Sunday, fell on the ice, striking his forehead, and for a-few moments was rendered unconscious. Shortly 'afterward he came to. and was taken home by ii 'number of his friends.

SUDDEN SICKNESS Roy Wolford,’ Rural Mail Carrier, Attacked Suddenly With PAINS IN THE HEAD - - Falls Unconscious at Work at Postoffice—ls Under Anaesthetic Influence. Roy Wolford is lying at his home in the southern part of the city in a very serious condition and it was necessary i to put him under the influence of an I anaesthetic to ease the intense sugerling from pains in the bead, which he otherwise would have to undergo. Mr. Wolford had gone to the postoffice as usual this morning and while not feeling in the best of health, had finished putting up his mail and was nearly ready to start out on his route. He suddenly fell over unconscious, and in , a little while revived, complaining of | intense pain in his head. In a very short time he again became unconscious and was taken to bis home, where the doctors administered an anaesthetic that he might be insensible to the excruciating pains. Mr. Wolford has been subject to attacks of this nature ever since returning from the Philippine Islands where he served two years in the U. S. army. It is thought that the attacks are brought on from malarial poisoning, which he contracted while there. He suffered the last attack about six months ago. o REVIVAL CONTINUES. The revival services which have been conducted for several weeks at. the Methodist church found a happy' climax yesterday, in the two xery excellent sermons by the Rev. Sherman Powell, and with the splendid music rendered by the men’s chorus. The revival will still continue with services this week. KICK FROM HORSE 'Resulted in a Broken Leg for Ralph Dettinger Sunday Afternoon. AT SCHLICKMAN BARN He is a High School Student. Son of Jacob Dettinger of Magley. Ralph Dettinger, aged about sixteen, a student of the Decatur high school, met with an unfortunate accident Sunday morning about 10 o'clock, in which the femur of the left leg was broken about four inches above the knee. The lad is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dettinger of Magley and during the week attends the Decatur high school, boarding at the Schlickman home and working at spare time at the Schlickman feed yards. Sunday morning the boy was attending to a horse at the Schlickman barn on Second street for a party that had driven in from the country. The horse was rather fractious and while the boy was attempting to put the blanket on Its back, it kicked at him, striking him on the left leg with the aforesaid results. He was taken to the Schlickman home, where his injuries were given medical attention, and later was taken to his home at Magley. He is getting along very well, but it will be some time before he can return to his school duties. o MAXWELL-NIBLOCK. At 8 o’clock Wednesday morning the St. Marys church will be the scene of a pretty wedding, when Miss Catherine Maxwell of Cleveland, Ohio, will be united in marriage to Mr. Andrew Niblick of Owasso, Mich. After the wedding services they will go to the home nf Mrs. James Place, where a wedding breakfast will be served. Both young people are well known and highly respected here, where they have a large host of friends and I whose best wishes . will always be I with them.

MAJESTIC STOCK COMPANY. At the BosSe Opera House Tu e sday Night, December 18th. The Majestic Stock Company of Fort Wayne will present ‘‘Her Dark Marriage Morn,” taken from Bertha M. Clay s famous novel, at the opera house Tuesday night. This company needs no introduction to the play-goers of Decatur, as they were here a short time agin "Charley’s Aunt.” This is one of the best companies ever seen in this city and Manager Bosse is to be congratulated in securing them and we bespeak for them a crowded bouse tomorrow night at the opera house. MONROE? BUDGET Jacob Heller Quite Painfully Hurt in Saturday Night Accident. NEWS FROM THE SICK Many Visitors in the Locality—Number of Property Deals Are On. Monroe, Ind., Jan. 17. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Miss Jennie Woods of Decatur, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Hocker of this place for the past week, returned home this morning. Sam Doak of Decatur was here Saturday and while" here sold twenty-one j fine hogs to Mills & Andrews, which netted him a neat little sum. Mrs. E. W. Johnson and son spent Sunday at Decatur with relatives. Mrs. J. Stultz of Decatur was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Glen Glancy, at this place last Friday, returning to 'her home Saturday. Several of the young men who left here some time ago for Flint, Mich., returned home Friday afternoon to stay, they having completed their work and are now getting ready tor their work here as soon as the weather is favorable. A large number of people were in town Saturday and business was on the boom. O. O. Hocker, the Monroe druggist, returned Friday night from Indianapolis, where for the past week he attended a school of pharmacy so as to better qualify himself in the handling of medicine. Quite at number of land deals are taking place in and around this place, and many tanners nave been in town looking after houses to buy with the intention of coming here to live. There 1 are some surprises in store in regard i to property deals which will take place > in the near future. I I An accident occurred last Saturday • evening when Jacob Heller, an old - citizen, residing about four miles west ; of this place,, was thrown from a bugr gy and sustained a dislocated shouli der. The horse they were driving was -a spirited one and in some manner one i side of the shafts became loosened, i striking the horse on the hind leg, i causing the buggy to slide over into i the ditch, throwing Mr. Heller out. i While the injury is not a serious one, . yet is it painful, especially to one of ! the advanced years of Mr. Heller. Medical aid from this place was summon- . ed. Frank Martz, who has been quite sick with pneumonia, is reported, as being slightly improved. The nine-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martz, who reside two and one-half miles from Monroe, and who was badly burned about (fie face by falling against the kitchen stove on last Friday, is slowly improving. i The condition of Miss Norris, of > whom mention was made in the items i last week, Is not changed and the . young lady is steadily growing weaker. 1 r All collection entrusted in my hands I will received prompt attention at the » J. J. Mayer collecting agency; office Un the variety store.

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GRAND LIST OF PRIZES Diamond Ring and Oth«r Beautiful Prizes to be Given Away. BY THE DEMOCRAT Opportunity for Some One to Get Fine Automobile and Other Valuable Prizes. The Daily Democrat has inaugurated a big voting contest in which it will give to the people of Decatur and vicinity a big list of valuable prizes free to those getting the most votes. Among them will be a Brush automobile for the grand prize, valued at $505.00. The second prize is a SIOO.OO diamond ring. Third prize, a $75.00 diamond ring. Several other prizes, such as watches, ladies’ suit, room size rug and many other articles, with a prize to each and every candidate that turns in five or more new subscribers during the contest. This will be a very easy thing for any person to do as any candidate could get that many in a day or two. If any of the valuable prizes named above would interest you or if you would like to be the proud possessor of the automobile or any of the other prizes, just turn to another page of I this paper and cut out the nomination blank, fill in your name and send it to the Daily Democrat office. Then get busy and get your friends to get together and help you. By reading the bid advertisement in this issue you will ge the full particulars of the contest as to how you get votes and how the prizes are awarded and how long the contest lasts and how you should stand the last night to win the auto, or any of the other valuable prizes. If after you have read the big ad carefully there is anything that you do not fully understand about the way the contest is to be conducted, call, write, or ’phone the Democrat office and they will send some one out to explain all to you. It costs you nothing to secure votes to win one of the valuable prizes, and it costs yous friends nothing extra to vote for you so you are not asking something for nothing from your friends. Remember to read the ad in this Issue and see If you cannot use some of the prizes. — o— • REVIVAL AT EVANGELICAL. The revival effort at the Evangelical church, this city, began with the Sunday services. There was a large at- , tendance at both the morning and the evening meetings. Good Interest was shown in all of the services and pros- , pects for a genuine revival were never better. However, the ultimate results , of these special meetings will depend largely upon personal work. The members of the church are cooperating splendidly with their pastor, and with such continued efforts for the Lord good results are sure to follow. (Ye invite all Christian people—and non-Christians, too —regardless of denominationalism, not otherwise engaged to join us in this great campaign for souls. There will be services every night during the week, beginning at 7:30. o - - TRUSTEES ELECTED. The election of trustees who will serve at St. Marys church for the ensuing year was held Sunday after the late mass. A large number of the men folks remained, and assisted by Father Wilken the following were put into office and will take up their work at once: Treasurer, Ed Ehinger, , there being no change as he has held . this office a number of years; seore- , tary, Herman Yager; collectors will s be the same as last year, and are i Henry H. Bremerkamp, John C. Mo- - ran and Nicholas Miller; uruerman, Will Colchln . f SCARLET FEVER CASE. s Mrs. Charles Dutcher is very sick j since Saturday, suffering from a very . bad case of scarlet fever, and the home has been quarantined. This is s the only.case dt this disease In the s city at present, the last one being in s the Dldot home, on which the quarantine was raised January 2nd.