Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 20.

TRANSFER INTERESTS W. A. Kuebler and Oscar Lankenau Assume Interest of H. R Moltz IN THE BOSTON STORE 'While Mr. Moltz Takes In-! terest of Mr. Kuebler in Dcatur Produce Co. K After more than nineteen years as a partner with W. A. Kuebler, H. R. Moltz has severed his connection -with the Boston Store, his interest in that ■establishment having been transferred to Mr. Kuebler, who in turn sold a fourth interest to Mr. Oscar Lankenau. ■ The deal went into effect last ThursB «!ay morning, since which time the de- ' tails have been arranged and the anOBouncement was made today. In turn IMtr. Kuebler has transferred his inter&?est in the Decatur Produce company • to Mr. Moltz, who will in the future B devote his entire attention to the pro|jMuce business, acting as a general Bphanager of the plants here and at The Boston stire is one of Uffthe old established and reliable busi- .. ness houses of the city, having been B[opened twenty-five years ago by Mr. V Hull. A year later the store was purchased by' Spencer & Kuebler, and five years later Mr. Moltz took over Mr. Spencer’s half interest. For nine--11 teen years these two men, Kuebler & Moltz, have worked together, making a strong firm, and one in which the | relations at all times were the most friendly. The parting of the ways today was a rather serious one for both and they unhesitatingly expressed ' themselves as sorry that the growth of business at the store and in the produce plants had grown to such proportions that the separation seemed better for each. The firm was incor- | porated Marcn 27, 1897, as the Kueb-ler-Moltz Company and this name will not be changed at present. Mr. Kuebler, who will continue in charge of the Boston Store, is an expert dry goods man, reared in the trade, almost, and he will continue the high | standard of the store. Mr. Lankenau, | the new member of the firm, is not I new at the store. He has been eon- ! nected with the place for fourteen | years and knows every department of the place, and his business to a small detail. He has many friends who are [ confident that his success is assured, i The new firm will announce a “change ■ of firm sale” within a few days, and ■will make an effort to reduce the mammouth stock, preparatory to offering the large spring stock which will be secured. Mr. Mo’tz, will, as stated above, devote his attention to the produce company's business, fn which he holds large interests. He believes the •work will be better for his health, ■which has hot been the best recently and also realizes the big future in this line. The Decatur Produce company was organized only four years ago and has grown rapidly within the past few months, a plant equally as large and as modern as the one here, having been established at Bluffton. We wish success to both concerns and to all -the firms, old and new. ■— — LIBEL SUIT ON IN NEW YORK. New York, Jan. 24-(Special to Daily Democrat) —The trial for criminal libel of the Press Publishing company, publishers of the New ’York World, for the publication of a certain newspaper article which is alleged to have reflected on the manner of purchase of the Panama canal began today before Judge Hogh. It is charged that ex-President Roosevelt, Douglass Robinson, Charles P. Taft and William Cromwell were libeled. SUICIDED IN A WATER TANK. (United Press Service.) Vincennes, Ind., Jan. 24-(Special to Daily Democrat)—James Schuz, aged fifty, a farmer from Monroe City, Ind , drowned himself in a big barn tank in his barn lot early today. His body was found by his son. HI Health is have been the cause. <

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MAYOR MEANS BUSINESS. (United Press Service.) Vincennes, Ind., Jan. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —At a conference between the saloon men of this city and Mayor McDonnell today, it was announced by "his honor” that all saloon men violating the law will be given jail sentences. The mayor also added tlMit if he does not enforce the liquor laws he will walk through the principal streets of the city wearing upon his back a placard reading “Liar” printed in large black letters. DAGOES IN FIGHT A Feirce Battle Occurred on Streets of Buffalo Early This Morning. THE MEAT BOYCOTT Has Reached the Pacific Coast—Trust Hearing Began Today. (United Press Service.) Buffalo, N. Y., Jap. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —two men are dying, a third is seriously wounded, following a fierce battle which occurred here early today. The men are all Italians. Gattanno Galenet is suffering from stelletto wounds and a bullet in the stomach. Thomas Galenet has knife wounds and had one ear cut off. Guisette Shanantia was shot and stabbed in the back and side. All of them refuse to make any statement as to the cause of the trouble. (United Press Service.) Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The meat boycott has reache Ahe Pacific coast and is making great headway here. Representatives of 3,000 laboring men have passed resolutions calling on workmen to join in a thirty-day boycott and the union men have readily acceded to the request.

(United Press Service.) Berlin, Germany, Jan. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —In the the United States and Germany when the present trade agreement expires between the two countries on February 7th, a conference took place today at the office of the interior department between the government officials and great secrecy surrounded the meeting. (United Press Service.) Chicago, 111., Jan. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat) — Deputy United States marshals were sent out this morning by District Attorney Sims to serve subponenas on witnesses who are expected to appear this afternoon before the federal grand jury when the government investigation of the meat trust will begin. Most of the summons were for employees of officials of the packing companies. — —, — STARS DEFEATED PALACE TEAM. Best Bowling Contest of the Season Was Pulled off Saturday Night. The second contest between the Stars and Palace bowling teams was played Saturday, resulting in a victory for the Stars, although the Palace boys won two out of the three games. The Stars did their work in the second game, which they won by 213 pins, making a total of 951, a wonderful score. The Palace team came back strong in the third game with a total of 938, and coming within eleven pins of victory. In that game after bowling two low scares, Dick Peterson put up a great game, making a score of 250. Coddle Schafer had the high average, 187. The total results were: Stars, 2520; Palace, 2511. —o COURT HOUSE NEWS. A marriage license was issued Saturday evening to Lloyd Collins, 22 of Monroe township, to Jessie Laisure, 18, also of Monroe. A peculiar coincident is that today, Monday, is the birthday for each. Real estate transfers: Robert Simison to D. E. Studebaker, 1% acres, Preble tp., $800; John Yant to James D. Hoffman, 20 acres, St. Marys tp., $2,300.

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, January 24, 1910.

ANSWERS THE CALL Mrs. Ida Whitriuht Succumbs to Long and Painfull Illness—Died ON SUNDAY MORNING At Age of Forty-Six Years— Spent Greater Part of Life in This City After a long and painful illness from a cancerous affection of a malignant nature, death came Sunday morping at 2 o’clock as a sweet release from pain to Mrs. Ida Whitright, wife of Abraham Whitright, of the south part of the city. Mrs. Whitright had been ailing for several years, and seriously so for the past several months. For the past few weeks it was evident that she could live but a short while, and her relatives were summoned to her bedside and were with her in her closing days. Mrs. Whitright was one of the well known ladies of the city, having spent the greater number of her years here. She was a daughter of Elias B. and Catharine Smith and was born in Allen 'county April 1, 1863, bringing her age at death to forty-six years, nine months and sixteen days. Her husband survives. Also the folfowing children: Ed, Sam, Peter, Abraham of this city; Mrs. Lilly Hammond of Bluffton; Mrs. Kate Johnson of Michigan. Her father is dead, but her mother survives, and at the present time is in very poor health, being eighty-three years of age. Mrs. Whitright leaves three brothers and one sister: Jesse Smith of this city, and Charles and John Smith, of Bluffton, and Mrs. Jennie Ellison of Granite City, 111., who has been here several weeks assisting in caring for her sister. Mrs. Whitright Is also survived by three grandchildren, Henen Whitright, Reba Hammond and Lawrence Johnson. The funeral will be held Tuesday

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To be Given Away by Management of the Decatur Daily Democrat. VALUED AT $,1000.00 Such an Opportunity May Never Knock at Your Door Again. The first grand prize is an automobile valued at $505.00, with rumble seat, making a three passenger car out of same. Here are some of the things that the Brush car has done: In the Glidden tour the Brush covered

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2,336 miles in fifteen days, and finished in good shape in Kansas City—a lot more than can be said of some of the big cars. In the “Little Glinued” at Minneapolis it finished with perfect

afternoon at 1 o’clock from the Christian church of which the deceased was a member, the Rev. Imler of the United Brethren church (-officiating. Interment in the Decatur cemetery. ——o MEN’S CLUB MEETING TUESDAY. The Men's club of the Presbyterian church will hold’lls regular monthly meeting in the cffurch parlors Tuesday evening. A miscellaneous program, consisting of music, short addresses by the members, will be given and refreshments served, making up a good program, in which all members and their friends are invited to share. A good attendance is desired. WED WEDNESDAY Beautiful Wedding at the St. Marys Catholic Church Wednesday Morning. WILL UNITE LIVES Os Miss Rebecca Meyer and Mr. Ben Kohne—Prominent Young People. A beautiful and impressive wedding will take place Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Marys Catholic church, when Miss Rebecca Meyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Meyer, will become the bride of Mr. Ben Kohne, Father Winkens performing the ceremony. The bride will be attended by her sister. Miss Anna Meyer, and the groom by his brother, Tony Kohne. The bride will be most beautiful in a gown of lavendar silk tissue and will carry a boquet of beautiful cream roses, while her maid will wear a frock of pale blue silk mull, and will carry white carnations. After the ceremony a dinner and supper will be served at the home of the bride’s parent's, three miles southeast of the city, to which the brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and other immediate relatives of the young couple, (Continued on page 2.)

technical scores and won the Gregg trophy over three four-cylinder cars. It climbed Pike’s peak in eight hours every inch of the way under its own power. It crossed the American continent. Last year it won the Algonquin hill climb in its class. Barred this year. In the Denver Motor club run, Denver to Pueblo and return, the Brush was the only car out of sixteen —most of them big ones —to finish with a perfect technical score. In the 1909 one-gallon fuel test, the Brush made 40.6 miles on one gallon of gasoline. In the Buffalo contest it made 41.2 miles on one gallon. This means less than three-eights of a cent a mile for fuel. The Brush car costs practically nothing to keep in running order compared with the larger make of cars and will take three people any place

that they may want to go and at a good rate of speed. The car that the ' Democrat Is. giving away is geared at thirty-five miles per hour, which is . about as fast as any one cares to ride.

FELL INTO RIVER Florence, the Nine Year Old Daughter of Mrs. R. J. Holthouse, Gets Fright. WENT THROUGH ICE Was Rescued bv Bovs Who Happened to be Near— A Narrow Escaoe. Florence, little daughter of Mrs. R. J. Holthouse, was given the greatest fright in all her nine years yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock when she slipped through the Ice and fell into the cold waters of the St. Marys river. And well she might be frightened, for but for the timely rescue of some boys who happened to be near she would in all probability have been drawn under the ice never to rise again. The little girl, with Lois Connell and Agnes Meyers, had gone down to look at the flooded stream and decided to go join the skaters on the ice that covered the fields east of the bridge. Just as she was coming in to join her companions on the steps that lead down to the fields, she stepped into a broken place in the ice near the banks and was soon into the icy water that surged up to her quivering little chin. Fortunately her dress, spreading like a balloon on the water, kept her afloat and it was but the matter of a second until Raymond Coffee, Charles Massonne anfi some other boys who happened to be near, reached in and grabbed her, drawing her to the bank in safety. She was immediately wrapped in blankets and taken home in a carriage, where, with good, care she has nearly recovered from all ill effects, though she passed a very feverish night. o Albert Winteregg og Bluffton, Ohio, was entertained over Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Schug.

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TRYING FOR A BOOS’. Local rural carriers are interested in the attempt of Elias Frey of Pendleton, president of the National Association of Rural Letter Carriers to secure an increase in the pay of rural carriers. The pay of carriers on a standard route is now SB4O a year. The association wants this increased to S9O a month, or SI,OBO a year. The carriers, it is proposed, shall furnish their own horses and rigs, as at present. Mr. Frey sajs the rural carriers are not paid as well as government employees in other lines of service. RED LETTER DAY At Evangelical Church Was Sunday—Rev. A. J. Voegelin, Superintendent CHICAGO INSTITUTE Gave Excellent Address— Evangelistic Services Progressing With Interest. Unusual interest was shown at the Evangelical church, this city, Sunday. In the morning Rev. A. J. Voegelin. superintendent of the Evangelical Deaconess Institution, located in Chicago, spoke to a large audience. He gave the most needed information concerning the work of a deacon in the Evangelical church. His address was inspiring as well as instructive. After the address a subscription was taken for the deaconess work to which the members of the church and friends responded with the handsome sum of $61.50. This, added to the the regular offering, made the amount of money raised for Christian work during the day, in round numbers, SBO. In the evening another crowded house greeted the pastor in the present evangelistic services. The power of the Lord came upon the people in an unusual (ConUnued on page 2.)

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MURDERED HIS BOSS Roy Barkul Crushes Skull of Lee Nelson, His Foreman, at Daleville. DELAWARE COUNTY Gave Himself up—The Live Stock Market Tumbled Today in Pittsburg. (United Press Service.) Muncie, Ind., Jan. 24—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Lee Nelson, fiftytwo, a foreman in the Boyer-Kendall glass factory at Daleville, in this county, is dying from a broken skull, the result of a quarrel with Roy Barkull, a young man, aged eighteen, employed under him. Nelson was criticising the work of Barkull, who became angry and after a few words struck Nelson over the head with an iron rod, which he used as a gatherer in his work. Nelson was taken home and cannot live more than a few hours. Barkul went home and parents, who advised him to give himself up to the officers. With his father he came to this place and surrendered to the sheriff. Nelson leaves a wife and two children. Barkul is unmarried. (United Press Service.) Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 24 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —Prices on the local live stock market as well as in the retail stores came down with a slump today, the first results of the meat boycott. The prices on cattle were from forty to fifty cents lower today and hogs dropped from $9.00 to $8.70. (United Press Service.) Cincinnati, Jan. 24.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Burglars who hid under the seats of the Robinsin operaTiouse after the performance Sunday night blew the safe in the office early today and secured $1,900. They escaped. ■ o— HE GOES TO ANNAPOLIS. Robert Haylor Receives Appointment From Congressman Adair. Muncie, Ind., Jan. 24 —Robert Haylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. ff. Haylor, No. 230 North Vine street, will leave next Friday for Annapolis, Md., where he will enter the preparatory school of the United States naval academy in order to go through the steps preliminary to be enrolled regularly in the instituion. The appointment was made by Congressman John A. M. Adair, who has known young Hayler personally for several years and who regard the young Muncieite as being one of the most promising young man in his list of acquainfances. —« PROMINENT MAN IS DEAD. Bluffton, Ind., Jan. 24 —Dr. Thomas Sturgis, dentist, for years a prominent professional man here, died at 10 o’clock Saturday night at his home on West Wiley avenue. Bright’s disease, with which he had been afflicted for some time, was the cause of death. Dr. Sturgis was a veteran of the Civil war and was a member of the G. A. R. Post of this city. He is survived by his wife ,who is in a critical condition from paralysis, and one son, Dr. Earl Sturgis, and two daughters, Mrs. Don Knowlton of Topeka, Kans., and Mrs. Gertrude Smith. ——o ■— ARE PUTTING UP ICE. Baker & Pennington this morning began their annual task of putting up Ice for the use of thier meat market. The ice Is being taken from the Krick & Tyndall pond, and about sixty tons will be put up, that being the capacity of their ice house. I o -*■■ Miss Agnes Voglewede, clerk at the .T H. Voglewede & Son’s shoe store, 1 was unable to be at work today on account of sickness.