Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1910 — Page 1

iVolume VIII. Number 35.

COMMITTEE NAMED B. B. Fordyce, Matt Kirsch and J. A Hendricks to Investigate THE ORPHANS’ HOME rhey Will Later Report Upon Such a Home fqr p Adams County. S. B. Fordyce will represent the J Board of Children’s Guardians, Mat ' Kirsch, the county council, and J. A. Hendricks, the county commissioners, as an investigating committee upon the advisability of erecting and maintaining an orphans’ home in Adams county. They will visit several institutions of this kind located near here, they will go into the cost of constructing suitable buildings, the cost of maintaining them, and other matters that the public and the people will ■want to know regarding such an institution for Adams county. Upon ! their report will depend largely the Httion that will later be taken, for if B is found that a necessity exists for ISurh care of the orphans of the count, you may rest assured that the cittnship of the county will lend every sistance to the movement. The ard of children’s guardians have us far, even under a great handicap, ■ gone a great work and a great serv■Htee to the poor and defenseless youths who but for their care would know ||||othing of a good home and the bles-j Bed teachings that go with such a home. There is one thing upon which we are a little lax in our dis-! cipline to some parents who eitherj tai! or neglect to support their chil-j jgljrei!. even though they are able to j 4c, it. The penitentiary is too good aj place for such a man, but the law frill place him there if evidence will ■on' neglect on the part of the parents and no time should be lost in

AUTOMOBILE WILL BE HERE TODAY

I Grand Prize in Democrat’s Contest Will Arrive From Factory. IA $505.00 BRUSH CAR I She’s a Beauty and the Best Hustler Among Contestants Will Get it. The grand prize in the Daily and I Weekly Democrat's great automobile I voting contest will arrive from the K factory today and will be on exhibi- | tion, and will be taken to the contestI ant's various homes and showed to I their friends and let them see what I they are helping their contestant to I get free, by paying up their subscrip- | tion to the Daily or Weekly Democrat, I and on March sth the contestant that | has the greatest number of votes at | a car that any man can afford to have I will be the proud possessor of the

car, and will have something to do for the little hustling he has done to get same. There remains less than four weeks of the contest and the candidate that gets a glimpse at the coveted prize will surely feel that t (ir time and that of their friends will be well spent in an effort to secure it. If any of you are acquainted with the Brush automobile you will all readily agree with us that it is the cheapest car to keep up that is made today, and a car that any ma ncan afford to have

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placing him behind the bat's or corti- ' pelling him to support his own children. ■-o - — ' FUNERAL WILL BE FRIDAY. I Body of James McElhany Arrives from the Dalles, Oregon. The remains of the late James McElhany, whose death occurred at The , Dalles, Oregon last Tuesday night at 1 9:46, arrived over the Erie railroad and was taken at once to the home of a sister, Mrs. Asa Engle, on Rugg ; street. The body will lie in state until Friday morning at 9 o’clock, when the funeral cortege will leave the Engle home for Steele. The funeral services will be held at the Methodist church at Steele. Interment will take . place in the Steele cemetery, beside his parents. MOTHER’S FUNERAL Joseph Helm Called to Burkett by Death of Mother. Mrs. John Warren. EIGHTY-FOUR YEARS Os Age—Was Known to Many Here Where She Often Visited. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Helm left this morning for Burkett, Ind., where they were summoned on account of the 'death of Mr. Heim’s mother. Mrs. : John Warren, whose death occurred !at 8:30 o’clock Wednesday morning. ■' She had reached the ripe old age of j four score and four years and had , | been sick but a little over a week, with the infirmities that accompany old age and which atone were the cause of her death. Early in the sis- • ties she and her husband moved to t Continued uu page 2.)

around his home, and at the same time not break him up to keep it in gasoline, oil and repairs. The Brush car has been one of the big sensations of the Chicago automobile show this week and has been recognized as knowing no class, recognizes no competition, and is the only logical successor to the horse and buggy, ft is a business man’s car, a doctor’s car, a farmer’s car, a traveling man’s car, and has enough speed to be serviceable, business and a pleasure car all combined in one car. Candidates should not overlook the fact that the time is short in which to win this car or any of the [ other valuable prizes and that you , should not lose a minute’s time. The time will go before you know it, and in order to be a grand prize winner you should never overlook a bonus ■ vote offer of any kind, for it may take i a little more work just at the time : to get enough subscriptions to make i the bonus, but it always pays in the • end w T hen you come to having the , votes counted the last night. This : car is giong to be easily won if the ; candidates just keep their eye on the : bonus vote offers and never fail to : make one of them at least, at aL

times. But think where it puts you if you fail on one of the bonus vote offers. It makes it hard to make up what you have lost by not making the required amount to get the extra votes. Don’t forget that the fifty-dol-lar vote offer closes nexi Wednesday evening at 10 p. m„ which gives you six long days in order to make your bonus. If there is any assistance that the office can give you at any time in any way don’t be afraid to ask fyr it.

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, February 10, 1910,

STILL THEY COME New Warrants Being Filed Against Boys Who Frequented Diller Place. THE END IS NOT YET Diller May Come in For Another Slice or Two Before Affair Closes. So far this week, just twenty have paid or arranged to pay fines in Mayor Judson W. Teeple's court. Most of these are boys who nave admitted gambling in Diner’s joint. Two of the cases are for plain drunk, while all the rest are gambling charges and it is whispered that the end is not yet. Two or three warrants have not been served yet, as the boys are out of town. It seems that when Night Policeman Cephus Melchi walked into that poker room the other morning he started about the biggest pull against such a place that was ever made in Decatur. It is said that the boys when they settled have made it their business to see that none of their- friends escaped and the officers have a large number of names of boys and men who will be given a chance to settle. Once in a while among the faces who have appeared before the mayor comes a man, full grown, who has a family, and who deserves no sympathy, but the greater number are mere boys, some of them not more than sixteen years old. Mayor Teepie spent today making up his record, on which he is several pages behind, and it was said that the rest of the warrants will not be served until this work is done. As Mr. Teepie has a case in the circuit court Friday it is likely that there will be nothing doing until Saturday, although a case or two might be sandwiched in, if necessary. It is said now that the parents of many of the boys are planning to further punish John Diller, the keeper of the room, who permitted boys of tender years to squander their earnings in his dive, and that several more affidavits will be filed against him before he has completed his ten days’ sentence.

DEATH OF BABE Os Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam H. Johnson at Oblong Illinois—Notice WAS RECEIVED TODAY By Relatives Here —Body Will Probably be Brought Here For Burial. E. Burt Lenhart this morning received a telegram from his brother-in-law, William H. Johnson, of Oblong, 111., announcing the death of Paul, their two-months-old son, the death occurring Wednesday. The announcefnent comes wholly unexpected to the many relatives here, as it was thought the child had wholly recovered from a recent illness. Mr. Johnson formerly lived here, being a son of R. R. Johnson of Peterson. The family' is certainly having its share of grief, for it was only about a year Sgo that Zera, the four-year-old son, met death by burning, the body being brought here for burial. The funeral arrangements are not yet known, but Mr. Lenhart will probably go to Oblong this evening, and it is quite likely the remains will be brought here for burial beside the body of the brother. — o BOTH BANKS CLOSE SATURDAY. • Saturday, February 12th, is Lincoln’s birthday, and the event will be observed here, as are all national holidays, by the closing of the Old Adams County bank and the First National bank. Persons desirous of transacting business at the banks are requested to take notice of this fact and govern themselves accordingly.

DISTRICT MEETING AT PORTLAND Pythian Sister* Will Meet This Year on April 23rd. The Pythian Sisters Eighth District convention wi" be held in Portland on April 23ru and arrangements are now being made for the entertainment of the two or three hundred delegates who will be in that city for I the occasion. The district includes Decatur, Hartford City, Montpelier,, Redkey, Dunkirk, Albany, Pennville, Geneva, Ossian. Bluffton and other surrounding places. An all day session will be held, followed with the evening's work, which will close with a banquet. Several candidates will be received and the Decatur team has been asked to confer the degree. Portland entertained the convention six years ago. FUNERAL FRIDAY Remains of James McElhany Arrived Last Night From Oregon. TAKEN TO THE HOME Os Sister, Mrs. Asa Engle— Will be Taken to Steele For Burial. The remains of the late James McElhany, whose death occurred at The Dalles, Oregon, arrived In this city at 9:46 Wednesday evening over j the Erie railroad, being met at the depot by a large number of relatives j and the members of the Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias lodges, of which the deceased was a member. The body was escorted to the home of his sister, Mrs. Asa Engle, on Rugg street, where it will lie in state until Friday morning. At 9 o’clock Friday morning the funerai procession will leave the Engle home for Steele, j where the funeral services will be held at the Methodist church. The interment will take place in the Steele j cemetery, where the parents are now lying. James McAlhany, son of Hamilton and Sarah McElhany, was horn in Guernsey county, Ohio, October 29, 1836, and died at The Dalles, Oregon, February 2, 1910, aged 72 years, 3 months and 3 days. He, with his father and mother, moved to Adams county, Indiana, in 1847, when he was about eleven years of age. He resided in this county until he was about twenty-one years of age, and before leaving here he taught school for several terms in this county. In 1857 he went back to his old home in Ohio where he resided for three or four years, when he went west. For two or three years he traveled over different part of Illinos, lowa, Dakota and Nebraska and finally settled in Ottoe county, Nebraska, where he entered land and where he resided until April, 1908, when he moved to The Dalles, Dregon, in search of health. During his two or three years of travel in the west before settling in Nebraska he was at one time with a party of white people of about twenty-five in number who were attacked by the Indians, and one-half of the party were killed. He, with a few otners, escaped. While in Nebraska he was successful In a financial way, and left an estate amounting to several thousand dollars. He never married. He held the office of assessor of his township for a good many years, although opposed in politics to a majority of the people of the township in which he resided. He was also a member of the legislature of Nebraska at one time and served with credit to himself and his constituents. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows lodges at Syracuse, and at one time furnished the money with which to build an Odd Fellows hall at Syracuse, permitting the lodge to repay it as it pleased. There are four sisters and one brother living: Winnie A. Mann, Elizabeth Crandall, Maria Engle, Lydia Young and Hollowell McAlheny. There are also several nephews and nieces living, who are children of his sister, Nancy Foreman, deceased, and Robert J. McAlhaney, deceased. —o — Mrs. Jane Butler, a patient at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, is much improved and there are now stronger hopes for her recovery, which is indeed goods news to all her J friends.

ASK REHEARING -- The Local Option Case is Again to be Threshed Out. ■ i REPLY TO PETITION 1 The Case Will Again be : Heard in the Supreme Court. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 10—Attorney General James Bingham and Hanly, Artman & McAdams are preparing to I file their reply soon to the application | for a rehearing in the case of George McPherson of Noblesville, versus the [State of Indiana, in which the supreme court several weeks ago held the county local option law to be constitutional. The application for a rehearing was filed February sth by Ferdinand Winter of Indianapolis and Shirts & Fertig of Noblesville, attorneys of McPherson. The supreme court in holding the local option law constitutional, decided against McPherson, who is a saloonkeeper. Two judges of the supreme court filed a minority dissenting opinion holding the law unconstitutional. In their application the attorneys for McPherson give four reasons why they think the supreme court should grant another hearing. The first is that the court erred in deciding that the county local option act was not in 'conflict with Sec. 14, Art. 4 of the Indiana constitution and that the subject of the act is fairly expressed in ! the title. The second is that the court | erred in deciding that the act is not in violation of Sec. 25, Art. 1, of the | constitution, which declares in substance that no law shall be passed to take effect upon any other authority than that provided in the constitution, j The third reason is advanced that !the court erred in deciding that the statute is not in conflict with Sec. 26, Art. 1, of the constitution, which provides that “the operation of the laws shall never be suspended by the authority of the general assembly.” The fourth reason is that the court erred in deciding that the statute did not violate Sec. 1, Art. 4, of the constitution, which provides that ‘the legislative authority of the state shall be vested in the general assembly.” TRIAL SERMONS At Christian Church Will be Given Next Sunday by Rev. J. W. B. Smith. OF VEVAY, INDIANA May Take Charge of Local Church —Comes Hghly Recommended. i The‘public is given a cordial invitation to hear the Rev. J. W. B. Smith of Vevay, Indiana, who will preach trial sermons at the Christian church ■ in this city next Sunday morning and evening. The Rev. Smith is said to be 1 a minister of unusual consecration and eloquence and comes highly recommended by the state evangelistic association. Rev. Legg, who is president of the state evangelistic association, has held revival services in the church here and is well qualified 1 to know the needs of this particular church and to select and recommend i one particularly adapted thereto. All the members of the church are urged ■ to be present and a welcome is as- ; sured the public in general. Since i the removal of the pastor, the Rev. . Vernor, to Roodhouse, 111., a few weeks ago, the local church has been ■ without a minister. - . ■ 0 i -- • STORK VISITS MINISTER’S HOME. Catherine is the name of a bright baby girl that arrived at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Wehmeyer of Eleventh ■ street. The Rev. Wehmeyer is the i pastor of the Zion’s German Lutheran church of West Monroe street, recenti ly coming here from Alberta, Pinchei • Creek, Canada, to assume charge of the Decatur pastorate.

BOUGHT THE BOWLING ALLEYS. Mail Carrier Fred Vaughn Now Owner of the Palace Alleys H«re. Fred Vaughn, the well known mail carrier, has purchased the Palace bowling alleys and will hereafter have charge of the same. He will continue to serve as mail carrier but will take care of the alleys in the evenings. As : this is the most important time for the alleys, Fred will see that patrons of the alleys are well treated. The alleys were established five years ago and are as fine as can be found anywhere in the state, being the famous continuous Brunswick make. The deal was closed today. BRAKEMANMAYDIE C. J. Rear Slipped Under the Wheels of G. R. & I. Train in This City. RIGHT LEG CUT OFF Horrible Accident Witnessed by the Trainmen and Many Decatur Citizens. C. J. Rear of Fort Wayne, aged about twenty-two years, a brakeman on the local southbound freight on the G. R. & I. railroad, met with a horrible accident near the freight house in i this city about 10 o’clock this morning, slipping under the wheels of his train, his right leg being ground and crushed just above the knee, and suffering other injuries that may cost him his life. / The accident happened just as the freight was leaving the switch at the freight house. Rear was walking between two of the slowly moving cars working with the coupling. In some way he slipped and was dragged about five or six feet along the track in an upright position, one foot being inside the rails, when the bottom of his trousers caught on a guard rail of the track and he was Jerked and twisted in such a manner that his right leg was thrown under the wheels of the car. The train was immediately stopped, the one wheel stopping directly on his leg. It was soon passed off, however, but not until he had been horribly mangled and cut. Trainmen and others who witnessed the accident immediately carried the unfortunate man on a cot to the waiting room of the depot, where Drs. Beavers and Thomas were called. He was placed in the caboose of the train and dispatched to the hospital at Fort Wayne, Dr. Beavers accompanying him there. Those who witnessed the affair say it was one of the most horrible they ever witnessed here. ThJ young man was conscious the entire time, and displayed great fortitude, viewing the crushed and mangled member as the cut clothing was pulled away and fhr.wing the mangled skin and the muscles tom and bleeding. The snow about the place of the accident was dyed a deep red with the young man’s 1 life-blood, and it is feared that from 1 the weakening caused by the great 1 loss of blood and the shock of the aci ciaent that he cannot survive. In fact ! he stated to those who attended that he hoped he might die, rather than ■ life a life .maimed as he will be. He : begged also, that something be given • him to deaden his consciousness of • the awful pain, which was done as soon as possible. The accident happened near the offices of the Decatur ' Filler plant, not more than twentyfive feet from the Jefferson street crossing. The young man had been in the employ of the railroad only about a month. Dr. Beavers returned from Fort Wayne as soon as he saw his charge safe in tile hospital. He stated that the young man was still living when he left to return to Decatur. o — JIMMY BURK IS MANAGER. (United Press Service.) t Indianapolis, Feb. 10 —(Special tc f Daily Democrat) —Jimmy Burke, for i meriy manager of the St. Louis anc e Kansas City American League teams n and the St. Louis National League i- will manage the Fort Wayne team it r the Central League this year, accord if ing to information received here to day. He will play third base.

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READY FOR FRAY Winners in Township Spelling Contests Eagerly Anticipate County Contest. LIST OF SUCCESSFUL I Ones Who Will Represent Their Townships at the Great County Meet. A complete report has been made to L. E. Opliger, county superintendent of schools, of the winners in the town- , ship spelling contests, held recently, and who will represent the townships in the great county spelling match to . be held February 19th at Berne. Two delegates from each township who stood the longest in the township spelling contests, are the honor students, or delegates to the county contest, while the third and fourth from the last ones standing are their alternates. The alternates will spell at the county contest in case the delegates are absent. The following are the delegates and alternate to the county bee: UNION TOWNSHIP. Dql.—Wildas Shifferly, District No. 5; Lucile Fleming, No. 3. Alt.—Florence French, No. 1; Mabel Moses, No. 6. ROOT TOWNSHIP. Del. —Hattie Wilder, No. 6; Clara Heckman, No. 6. Alt. —Grace Hoenizer, No. 4; Bertha Spangler, No. 2. PREBLE TOWNSHIP. Del—John Conrad ,No. 6; Tmney Hey, No. 1. Alt—Otto Dilling, No. 5: Roy Goldner, No. 5. KIRKLAND TOWNSHIP. Del. —Mabel Byerley, No. 3; Ruth Leyse, No. 3. Alt.—Clark Jahn, No. 5; Habel Shoaf, No. 4. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. Del. —Esther Zerkle, No. 9; Ruth Zerkle, No. 9. Alt. —Martha Railing, No. 6; Peter ‘ Spangler, No. 2. ST. MARYS TOWNSHIP. Del.—Lucile White, No. 5; Nellie Helm, No. 1. ■ Alt. —Forest Everett, No. 7; Hazel i Hobbs, No. 4, i BLUE CREEK TOWNSHIP. Del.—Lenore Mercer, No. 2; Minnie '■ Tricker, No. 7. E Alt. —Earl Ripiey, No. 2; Wildus 1 Dailey, No. 5. 1 MONROE TOWNSHIP. Del.—Dessie Kerr, No. 7; Zella , Wagner, No. 3. Alt. —Martha Lehman, No, 8; Irene t Stuckley, No. 9. r FRENCH TOWNSHIP, i Del. —Pearl Atz, No. 2; Lucinda - Baumgartner, No. 3. » Alt.—Zella Gilliom, No. 4; Dinius 5 Lantz, No. 6. 1 HARTFORD TOWNSHIP. ) Dei. —Iva Ensley, No. 7; Fred Reer fey, No. 4. > Alt. —Ruth Ensley, No. 7; Ruth i Shoemaker, No. 6. i WABASH TOWNSHIP. Del. —Augustus Ford, No. 11; Les- ■ lie Augburn, No. 11. Ait. —Clarence Hirschy, No. 2; Dona Thompson, No. 10. JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP. Del. —Mary Laughlin, No. 2; Nellie Kerr, No. 2. Alt.—Noah Miller, No. 1; Alph Booker, No. 5. The St. Marys and Blue Creek township trustees gave as a prize to each representative in the township ■ contest a red letter Bible, which will i be higfily appreciated by them. t The following is a summary of the contestsamts In) each township and t the number of visitors present at s the contests: t Contestants Visitors a Union 11 52 Root 12 55 Preble 8 52 Kirkland 10 45 Washington 15 100 ;o St. Marys 12 175 r- Blue Creek 13 140 d Monroe 20 200 is French 12. 40 e, Hartford 12 40 n Wabtsh 18 54 d- Jefferson 12 76 Total 156 1043