Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 45.

NED ON SUNDAY Mrs. Barbara Baumgartner of French Township is Dead. • IS WELL KNOWN HERE The Funeral Will Occur on Wednesday at Apostolic Christian Church. Mrs. Barbara Baumgardner, aged eighty years, died at the home of her son, Joel Baumgardner, in French township Adams county,at 6:30 o’clock Sunday morning after suffering for several months from infirmities of age. She was taken to her bed last Wednesday and her condition grew gradually worse until her death. The funeral services will be held in the Apostolic Christian church in this county at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Interment wil be made in the cemetery there. * ♦ Mrs. Barbara Gerber Baumgardner was bom in Berne, Switzerland, on March 26, 1830, of a family of thirteen children. When nine years of age, she, with her parents and brothers and sisters, moved to this country, settling in Ohio. Later they moved to lowa, where the deceased was married to Nicholas Baumgardner. They moved to French township forty-four years ago and after that time resided within a mile of where they oth died. Seven children were born, five of whom are still living. They are: Benjamin, Joel, Mrs. John Swartz, Mrs. Jeff Garber and Samuel Baumgardner. Joseph, one of the deceased sons, is the father of Joel Baumgardner, formerly of this city, who left for the west several years ago for the benefit of his health. One sister, Mrs. Joel Herman, of Harper, Kans., also survives.—Bluffton Banner. A GOOD LOCATION F. B. Tague Purchases Established Shoe Store at Greentown, Ohio. MOVES NEXT WEEK Will Thoroughly Remodel Store Making Furnishings Up-to-Date. F. B. Tague, who recently sold his shoe store in this city to Peoples & Gerke, has purchased one of the established shoe stores at Greentown, Darke county, Ohio, and next Monday will move his family to that city and take possession of his newly acquired property. The store was purchased from M. E. Moore. The location is a very good one, as there is but one other store in Greentown that handles shoes exclusively, two others carrying them as a side line. Mr. Tague will thoroughly remodel the place and furnish it in the highest up-to-date way, with mission furniture and all else that goes to make a wellequipped mercantile house. The family is beginning to pack their goods this week and will leave Monday or the first of the week for their new home. Miss Ada Springer, who assisted in the store here, will prooably go with them to Greentown. The best wishes of all their friends here foi their success in their new home go with them. o— —— ZELAYA SHOOTS A YOUNG MAN. (United Press Service.) Port Limon, Costa Rico, Feb. 22— Special to Daily Democrat)—Former President Zelaya of Nicaragua, while enroute to Belgium, on the steamer Liverpool, shot and wounded a young Nicaraguan, who attempted to assassinate him. There were few witnesses to the attack, and the story was suppressed, but later made known by a young Nicaraguan, who is said to have been on the vessel.

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GARY MUST HAVE BEER. Jury Decides for Defendant in First "Blind Pig” Case in Lake County. (United Press Service.) Hammond, Ind., Feb. 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The trial of Charles Magrames for violating the liquor laws, the first of the forty-two “blind pig’’ cases from Gary, occurred today and although the evidence was overwhelmingly against the defendant, the jury returned a verdict in his factor. The place of business was a basement of a building owned by Mayor Knotts and his brother and Attorney Ballard, the first witness testifying that he had seen the mayor and the chief of police drinking beer there. o A TIN PLATE PLANT Is Interesting Place Where William Conrad is Working. GIVES SOME FACTS About the Work—Amalgamates One Acre of Tin a Week—Also Studying. William Conrad, a young man of this city, a graduate of the high school class of 1908, writes friends here of his interesting work in a tin plate plant at Elwood, where he is now earning seventy-five dollars per month, with the happy thought in view of entering college soon to complete his education. William was an earnest student in electricity in the high school and was constantly working on experiments and inventions along this line. His work in the tin plant is therefore rendered more agreeable from the scientific viewpoint which he takes, making his work a real pleasure. His work is the amalgamating of both sides of the tin plate, and in a week he is able to thus amalgamate about an acre of tin plate. The process is the same as that of the zinc element of a simple voltaic cell, to which the high school students were used. The pure tin is very expensive, and the pot he works with—4xsx1 —holding 7,000 pounds of tin, is worth about $5,000. He stated that when one takes a tin cup and notes how completely the iron is covered with the tin —in no place on the surface the tin being over one-twenty-five thousandths of an inch in thickness —some idea could be gained of the task of his in coating one acre of the plate in forty hours. It would take volumes, he says, to tell of the process the iron goes through from the time it leaves Gary until it leaves Elwood as tin plate—the shearing, heating, rolling, shearing again, pickling, tinning, etc., etc. While working there and increasing his practical knowledge, he is taking a home course in drafting and electrical engineering with the International Correspondence school, and is also making a wireless telegraph station, having a receiving and sending radius of three hundred miles. o ASKED TREASURER FOR CASH. Gallipolis Official Demanded to Produce SIO,OOO or Meet Death. (United Press Service.) Gallipolis, Ohio, Feb. 12 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —County Treasurer Harry Dennep today received a letter demanding that he place SIO,OOO in the right coat pocket of the sailor’s statute in the court house yard. Death was given as the penalty if he should fail to do so. Dennepp has placed the case in the hands of the postoffice inspectors. The county treasurer here was robbed of $20,000 a few years ago when the treasurer was locked in the vault. o—(United Press Service.) Vienna, ustralia, Feb. 22 —There are persistent rumors here today that Abdul Hamid, the ex-sultan of Turkey, is dead at his villa at Salonika, where he has been a prisoner since his abdication. The rumor is denied in dispatches from that place, but is credited nevertheless by the local papers.

Decatur, Indiana. Tuecday Evening, February 22, 1910.

FIFTEENTH MEET Knights of Pythias of Sixth District Will Hold Session at Dunkirk. ON THIRD OF MARCH Decatur Lodge Will Attend and Will Take a Part in the Program. The fifteenth annual meeting of the sixth Pythian district of Indiana will be held at Dunkirk March 3rd and quite a number of representatives from this city and county will attend. The sixth district is comprised of Adams, Blackford, Jay and Wells counties, with lodges at Berne, Hartford City, Bluffton, Decatur, Portland, Dunkirk, Geneva, Montpelier, Ossian, Redkey, Roll, Pennville, Tocsin and Uniondale. At the Dunkirk meeting a representative of the Decatur lodge will be on the program with an address on “Higher Ideals of Pythiaaism.” The meeting will open with the reception of the grand lodge officers and visiting Knights in the rooms of the Dunkirk lodge at 10 o’clock. At 1 o’clock the Knights will meet at the lodge room and form in parade at 1:30 o’clock. At 2 o’clock an open session of the lodge will be held, at which the general public will be admitted. The night session, at 7:30 o'clock, will be for the members of the order only. It will begin with the opening of Dunkirk Lodge, No. 338, in regular convention, by Casper Cunnigham, chancellor commander. This will be followed by music by the Knights of Pythias orchestra of Portland. Roll call of the lodges of the district will follow, by grand keeper of records and seal, Harry Wade, of Indianapolis. Then will follow an exemplification of the secret work of the order and the answering of inquiries by Grand Vice Chancellor William C. Converse of Richmond, After this there will be a piano solo by Prof. Ira McKinney of Muncie. An exemplification of the page rank work by Winchester Lodge, No. 91, of Winchester and matters for the good of the order will close the session, which will be followed by a smoker. It is expected that all the officers of the grand lodge will be present and several will make short addresses it is thought. The following general committee has had charge of the arrangements for the meeting: Thomas M. Rogers, chairman; Joe Carmon, chairman reception committee; Supt. A. A. Elabarger, chairman decoration committee; Charles E. Shellert, chairman publicity and advertising committee; Seamans, chairman lodging committee; George Coover, chairman of hall; (Continued on page 3.) PIONEER RESIDENT Os Wren Was Charles McGill Whose Funeral Was Held Today. DIED ON SATURDAY Was Father of GeorgeMcGill of This City—Blacksmith for Many Years. In the death of Charles McGill, which occurred Saturday at Wren, Ohio, that city lost one of its most venerable and pioneer residents. Mr. McGill was in fact identified with the interest of the town ever since the town's beginning and for years conducted a blacksmith shop there, becoming quite well known and as much revered by the populace as was the “village blacksmith” of Longfellow’s poem. His death is said to have occurred quite suddenly, he having been sick but three hours. He was quite aged and leaves seven children, among them being George McGill of this city, the operator at the Erie tower. The funeral was held today and was quite largely attended.

RACKET STORE CONTRACTS. Will Use Good Sized Chunk of Space In the Democrat This Year. Steele & Weaver, proprietors of the Racket store, the big five and ten cent business place in this city, have closed a contract with the Daily Democrat for 3,120 inches of space to be used during the ensuing year. This enterprising firm has come steadily and rapidly to the front in business circles during the past few years, due to the ever going, never ceasing energy that such success requires. This new show of bustle will give them the opportunity of telling everyone just what big bargains they have to offer you each week. Watch for their leader. It will save you money. Read the announcement today. ———————————— A “ROUND ROBIN” I Interesting Chain of Letters Adopted by High School Class of ’OB. TO KEEP IN TOUCH Each With the Other— I ' “Round Robin” Begins Its Second Circling Flight. Probably no more unique and effective way of keeping in touch with each other through the coming years has been adopted ever, than the plan of the fourteen members of the class of the Decatur high school, which graduated in the spring of 1908. This is done by means of a chain of letters called “The Round Robin,” which makes its circling flight once a year. Each one of the class writes his experience of the year and adds it to the envelope which is then sent on to the next member in order and all thus get to read the letters and experiences of the others. When the round has been made, each takes from the envelope his old letter and substitutes his new one and the chain is thus continued. The “Round Robin” is just now beginning its second year’s journey—and quite a wonderful one the journey is—migrating from the north to the south with all the persistency of the real “for sure” robin. Several of the members —Clara Boknecht, Florence Kunkel, Marguerite Walters, Helen Evans, Etta Brandyberry—are teaching and told some interesting things therof; William Conrad tells of his various lines of work on the large fruit farm with his father near Cincinnati, on the picturesque Ohio river, and of his work now in a tin plate factory at Elwood, where he is making good wages to enable him to attend college soon, and in his study at home in the meantime of the home courses in drafting and electrical engineering of the International Correspondence school; Lucile Gillig tells of her work in the First National bank; Miss Frances Dugan of her studies at Ferry Hall in preparation for this year’s work at Vassar; Will Hammell of his law study and of the trials and tribulations of his experience as a news dealer, but with the hope to buoy him up that at this time next year he will be at Ann Arbor in the study of law, of which he is now gaining a practical knowledge in the Smith & Schurger office. Fanny McConnell and Fanchon Magley tell of their experiences from the portals of the home, where they are good angels of the ones who need them with the opportunity for quiet study and thought there; Harry Weldy has been working as photographer through various parts of Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and is spending the winter at Wapakoneta, Ohio, at bis work; Miss Frances Bryson, who spent last year at Depauw university, is with her parents at Portland this year; and Miss Pansy Bell, also a student at Depauw last year, Is spending the winter in Florida with her mother, and writes interestingly therwf. The teachers also contribute to the letters, lending encouragement and good cheer thereto. The class is planning to hold a reunion in the near future and this no doubt will be one of the “homing flights” of the “Round Robin.” — -o— I —■ Mrs. T. Pugh left this morning for her home at Nort Manchester after a visit with her cousin, Mrs., D. N. Erwin.

WED AT HILLSDALE Harry Archbold and Miss Leona Clark of Ft. Wayne Eloped Monday. WILL BE FORGIVEN Youth of Couple Only Objection Offered by Either Side to Match. The elopement and marriage of three prominent young Fort Wayne couple in the past three days has caused the general belief that Dan Cupid is working overtime in that city. The list includes Miss Camilla Harrod, well known here, and Sidney Karn, Arthur Schreck and Clara Bash, Leona Clark and Harry Edgeworth Archbold, the latter formerly of this city. Speaking of the last event the Journal-Gazette said: “He next pierced the hearts of Miss Leoni Elizabeth Clark, daughter vt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Clark, ?2S East Wayne street, and Mr. H. Edgeworth Archbold of Lakeside. “Miss Clark, who is eighteen, and Mr. Archbold, who is twenty-one years of age, left yesterday noon over the Ijake Shlroe railroad for Hillsdale>, Mich., and yesterday evening Mr. and Mrs. Clark received the following telegram: “ ‘Married at St. Peter’s rectory by the Rev. Jerome Keefer. “ ’LEONA.’ ” “This was the first intimation that the parents of either of the young people had of an intention on their part to wed. Miss Clark had planned to leave yesterday morning for Detroit, where she was to visit relatives for a time, and she left her home ostensibly to take a train for that city. Instead she went to the Lake Sllore depot, where she was joined by Mr. Archbold and they purchased tickets for Hillsdale. “Mr. Archbold is a son of Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Archbold of Lakeside and is manager of the Chain Reference Bible company, with headquarters in the Shoaff building. While he has given no intimation as to his plans it is expected that he, with his bride, will return to this city shortly and they will be received with open arms by the parents of both. “The bride is an adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark and had made her home with them for the past sixteen years. During that time she has had every advantage her foster parents could devise and was a member of the senior class of the high school as well as an active member of Trinity Episcopal church, of which she is a communicant. Her parents had planned a college education for her and after leaving the local high school she was to have entered one of the large eastern universities for women.” o — ■ RURAL CARRIERS Os Adams County Held a Meeting Today in Decatur and Reorganized. THEIR ASSOCIATION As Branch 16 of Indiana R. R. Carriers’ Association —W. S. Sutton, Pres. Branch No. 16 of the Indiana Rural Mail Carriers’ association met this morning at 9 o’clock in the rooms over the postofflce and a very interesting sessions was held. Among other business matters was the annual reorganization of the branch, the following officers being elected: President —W. S. Sutton, Geneva. Vice President —Henry Fuhrman, Decatur. Secretary and Treasurer—Nelson E. Helmer, Geneva. A large number of the rural carriers from this city were in attendance and among those from other towns in the county were: W. S. Sutton, Nelson Helmer, of Geneva; Amos Burkholder, Simon Lehman, Louie Neaderhouser and William Tetters, of Berne; G. A. Hahnert of Monroe.

MONROEVILLE GIRL CONFESSED Says That Opium Dens Exist in South Bend and Arrests May Follow. (United Press Service.) South Bend, Ind., Feb. 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) —That opium dens exist in South Bend was borne out yesterday in the Elkhart juvenile court when Miss Cora Reynolds of Monroeville, a former waitress in a chop suey restaurant, testified that the Chinese have rooms where morphine is served and where cigarettes are sold containing "hop.” The police are today investigating the so-called opium joints in this city and arrests are expected within a few hours. BIG BONUS VOTE Here’s the One Big Chance for Candidates to Work Like Trojans. BUT FOUR DAYS MORE Contestants and Friends Need Get Busy Now—lt May Mean Automobile. The Daily Democrat's big automobile voting contest is on —and the race is a nearnest one. The contestants are running neck and neck and equal show of winning the grant prize. They are now nearing the last quarter post. At this point is the [ time and the place for a candidate to take advantage of the field and gain a lead. To enable the candidates to gain a lead, we are offering the last special bonus vote offer. Each candidate sending or bringing to the Dally Democrat office in new subscriptions will receive a voucher for 200,006 extra votes, besides the regular votes on the S2O worth of subscriptions. During this week and up until 10 o’clock p. m., Saturday February 26th, a voucher for two hudred thousand votes will be given, in addition to the regular votes given on the $25.00 worth of subscriptions. The full particulars of this bonus vote will be found elsewhere in this issue. Right now is the time for the hustling candidate to get busy and win the lead over the other candidates. This is an opportunity which you cannot afford to overlook. It is easier to get the “extra” bonus votes now, than it is to wait and get an extra number of subscriptions the last week, as the time is very short in which to win. You may win as many of these bonuses as you can. There is no rule binding you to a certain number, therefore, it will be the candidate that gets out and hustles that will gain a lead over the field. o STRIKE SITUATION SERIOUS. Militia Called Out This Afternoon and Charge Crowd With Bayonets. (United Press Service.) Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A company of state militia was called out to do police duty this afternoon and with fixed ayonets, charged a crowd of rioters gathered near here today. A score of shots were fired in the riot and two women were badly injured. Scores of persons were beaten by the police in their efforts to clear the streets of more than 25,000 persons who gathered and threw stones at every street car that passed. It is reported that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of President Murphy, but no arrest has been made. He appeared at strike headquarters this morning and said no strike had been called, but that he had written to every union in Philadelphia and asked them to take a vote on the question of a sympathetic strike. o Mrs. Robert Meyers arrived today ' from Columbus, Ohio, to visit with her • sister, Mrs. Paul Baumgartner, who ; was badly injured by falling from tho > hay loft last Thursday. Mrs. Baum- ' gartner Is reported to be somewhat better.

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COSTS LOTS MONEY 1 Senator Aldrich Said Three Hundred Million Could be Saved, HE WILL FIGHT Senator Beveridge Will Fight the Big Boss in Behalf of Statehood. Washington, Feb. 22 —Senator Aldrich suavely announced to his fellowstatesmen that he could run the gov--1 ernment for something like $300,000, 000 a year less than it now costs — that is, providing he be given the per- , mission. The senator was not presenting a formal proposition, however, but made the assertion while speaking on his bill to create a commission to reform the business methods of the government. He declared the present methods were obsolete and involved , the annual loss of at least $100,000,900, a year. Jiig pjea Was that a business direction would Btop any leakages. At his instance the bill was amended ' as to provide that the commission be composed entirely of members of congress—five senators and five representatives. ■ Washington, Feb. 22 —Senator Beveridge served notice on Senator Aldrich that statehood legislation will not be smothered if he can help It. He went further and served notice that he will make the hardest fight of which he is capable to put through legislation to admit Arizona and New Mexico into the Union, as recommended by President Taft and as promised in the Chicago platform. This notice, coming from the chairman of the committee on territories, was decidedly Interesting, and it had the effect to make the Rhode Island leader, who is usually calm and placid, show some signs of agitation. THE STONE PILE Music From That Source Sounded a Death Knell to the Weary Willie’s DESIRE FOR DECATUR Made a Break for Parts Unknown Without Waiting I to Jump Train. It was a very ordinary specimen of ’ the unmoneyed “Weary Willie” who tried to assuage his weariness some- . what by taking an unticketed ride on I the Erie train, who was marshalled into ’Squire Smith’s court early this morning by some Erie detectives to answer to the charge of jumping trains. The man was about thirty years of age, cognomen, “John Jones, true name unknown,” giving his home as “all the towns” along the way—in fact he was one of those unlucky specimens whose home is wherever he takes off his hat —if indeed he is so fortunate as to have a hat. 'Squire Smith gave him his choice of leaving the town at once or going to work on ’the stone pile,” the weariness of walking becoming naught to the weariness of work that might come from the stone pile, took a “hike down the pike." When once again the fame of Decatur’s stone pile becomes known abroad to the I traveling public, the city will probably be rid again of the unwelcome ho- ' boes which of late weeks, have been , coming into the city in great hordes. > 0 WILL GIVE REGULAR SOCIAL. The February section of the Ladies’ Aid society of the Presbyterian church will hold their regular social >’ In the church parlors Thursday afterr noon of this week. Let all the memp bers try and be present and bring a i. friend with them. An interesting prot gram will be given after the regular business has been dispensed with.