Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 68.

FORTY-TWO ARE DEAD And Twice That Many Injured in a Wreck on the Rock Island Road. OCCURRED AT NOON Double Header Passenger Train Went Into Ditch —Awful Results. (United Press Service.) Des Moines, lowa, March 21 —(Bulletin) —A double header Rock Island passenger train, running at the rate ■of forty miles an hour, went into the <ditch near here today. Reports from there at 2 o'clock this afternoon say that forty-two are dead and twice that number injured have been taken from the wreck. Both engines were wrecked and three passenger coaches filled with people were piled on top of them. The entire wreck is burning and the scenes are indescribable. The relief trains have been loaded with the injured who are being brought to this city. More wreck trains carrying physicians have been sent to the scene. — —o BANKER HORSE THIEF ESCAPES. Clubbed His Jailer at Elyria and Escaped With Another Prisoner. (United Press Service.) Elyria, Ohio, March 21—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Robert Green, former banker and leading citizen of Waynetown, Ind., charged with being a horse thief and George AVolf, a youth, lodged on the same charge, escaped from the county prison here today. A posse is now in pursuit of the fugitives. The turnkey was found with his skull crushed. Green had beaten him with an iron bar from his bed. Green, who several years ago lived in Waynetown, Ind., played the grain market and his capital was wiped out. Soon afterword he was arrested for horse stealing and sent to the Michigan City prison for thirteen vears. He escaped and a few months ago was arrested in Cleveland charged with stealing a horse at Oberlin. LATER—WoIf was surrounded and captured by a posse, several miles from the city. He had parted from Green, taking a horse and ridden across fields. After his capture several hundred men joined in the pursuit of Green. They are armed and a battle is expected, as Wolfe says that Green has a revolver. _ o WILL HOLD “WHITE SALE.” The Ladies' Aid society of the Christian church will hold a “White Sale,” corner Jefferson and Second streets, in the room formerly occupied by Myers' tailor shop, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and evenings of this week. Articles both fancy and useful will be for sale; also home-colored eggs for the children. The ladies will also serve ice cream and cake during the sale for those who wish it. All cordially invited to attend. o~ — — GRADUATES AT CRAIGVILLE. Programs have been issued for the sixth annual commencement of the Craigville high school, which will take place Friday evening, March 25th at the U. B. Church at Craigville. The baccalaureate sermon was delivered last evening at the U. B. church by the Rev. Walter Gray of Uniondale, and was a masterly address. There are three graduates to receive P°-mas—-Orel Meyers, Goldie Clouser and .James Hartman. The class address ■will be delivered by Prof. W. W. Black •of Indiana university.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

THAT CORPORATION TAX. Washington, March 21 —Estimates made by treasury officials now are that the revenue this year from the corporation tax will far exceed the amount Secretary MacVeagh originally thought would be derived from that source, some of them putting it as high as $40,000,000. This estimate is based upon the returns at this time. They Indicate a larger amount of net income over the $5,000 exemption than was at first expected. Returns have been received from about 300,000 corporations and when the delinquents are all in it is believed the total number will approximate 325,000. The assessments must be paid before June 30th. Secretary McVeagh estimated in December last year that the revenue from the corporation tax this year would be $25,000,000. o — — LAST TAPS SOUND For Eugene Wilson Bunner, Prominent Veteran of the Civil War, AT HOME IN 8080 Had Lived Almost Entire Life in Adams County— Funeral Wednesday. The last taps sounded Sunday night at 11 o’clock for Engene Wilson Bunner, a veteran of the Civil war, long a resident of this county, and he passed into that sleep that will have no awakening save at the roll call on the day of the great awakening. Mr. Bunner was also a resident of Bobo, and his death followed closely that of Joel Falk, who is a very near neighbor. Though Mr. Bunner had been suffering for many years from a complication of diseases, his death was caused directly by gastritis. He had been sick only about a week, and during the first part of last week he had been able to come to Decatur. Mr. Bunner was a native of Pennsylvania, though he had lived here since boyhood and may well be called one of the pioneers. He was at his death sdventy-two years, five months and twenty days of age, having been born September 30, 1837. In early manhood he was married to Miss Rebecca Carpenter, who, with five daughters, survive. Mr. Bunner was a veteran of the Civil war and was an exceptionally good soldier. He enlisted with Company I of the Eighty-ninth Indiana Volunteers as a corporal, August 14, 1862, and was mustered out July 16, 1865, as first sargeant. The promotion to the office as sargeant was made Decermer 11, 1864. During the three years’ term of service of his regiment he never missed a day’s duty, nor failed to be with his company in time of battle. During the siege and capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama, he commanded his company a part of the time, owing to the illness of Captain Chubb, and Lieutenant Blood, being on detached duty. He served in the following battles: Munsfordsville, Ky., September 14 to 17, 1862; Ft. Deßussey, La., March 14, 1864; Pleasant Mills La., April 9, 1864; Governor Moore's Plantation, La., May 8, 1864; Yellow Bayou, La., May 18, 1864; Yellow Bauoy, La., 1864; Nashville, Tenn., December 15 and 16, 1864; siege and capture of Ft. Blakely, Ala., April 1-9, 1865. During the three years of his regiment’s service it marched 2,363 miles on foot and 7,560 miles by transportation. The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock from the U. B. church at Bobo, with interment in the church cemetery. o ■ — . - ■■ MR. PROTHERO AND HIS MASCOT. A son was born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Prothero. The first thing the youngster did was to say he’d like to enter The Press’ automobile contest. He was told he was barred out by the rules, his father being one of the paper's force of men in charge of the contest. “All right, Dad,” he replied, “I’ll get you up nights if at any time you fail to keep busy enough during the day. That contest’s got to be a hummer, and I’ll be its mascot.”—Muncie Press (Thursday).

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, March 21, 1910.

STRUCK BY HORSE Jay Cline Receives Fracture of Skull and Other Injuries. WAS HOLDING HORSE While it Was Being Shod When Accident Happened—Will Reedver. Jay Cline, one of the most prominent farmers of Root township, who was badly injured late Saturday afternoon by being struck on the head by a hoof of one of his horses, is much better today, and it is thought that he will recover with no permanently ill effects. The accident happened at the Milt Lea veil blacksmith shop in this city while Mr. Cline was having his horses shod. One of them was of high mettle and it was necessary to keep him subdued by a twitch in his nose, which Mr. Cline held while smith was shoeing the horse. The horse began to paw and its hoof struck Mr. Cline on the right side of the face and the head. A long, deep gash was cut in his head just above the right ear and the skull fractured; his right cheek was bruised and almost beaten to a jelly, and gashes were also cut above and below the right eye, the upper gash exposing the eye-ball. He was rendered unconscious but within a half hour regained sensibility. In the meantime Drs. Clark had been hastily summoned and the injured man was later taken to their office and then to his home, where he is getting along very well inded, with good treatment. DEATH aFgENEVA Mrs. Martin L. Kiser Called to Her Reward —Death Was Unexpected. KNOWN OVER COUNTY Capt. Alberti Pleased the Geneva People in His Lectures Last Week. Geneva, Ind., March 21- r ‘(Special to Daily Democrat) —Mrs. Lizzie Kizer, nee Bender, died Sunday night at 11 o’clock from a complication of diseases. She had been in poor health for several months,. but her illness was not considered serious until the last few days, and the announcement of her death caused much surprise. Mrs. Kizer was born in St. Marys township, southeast of Decatur, April 5, 1860, and at the time of death was aged forty-nine years, eleven months and fifteen days. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bender and she was reared in St. Marys township. She was married to Martin L. Kizer October 31, 1880, and they resided on a farm near Linn Grove until about a mouth ago, when they moved to a home on Harrison street in this town. She is survived by the husband, two daughters, Mrs. Henry Bertram of Elkhart, Ind., and Miss Myrtle, at home, one child having died in infancy; also by three brothers, Israel and Fred of St. Marys township, and William of Spencerville, Ohio. The funeral services will be held W ednesday morning at 10:30 oclock from the Mission church, three miles west of Berne, the Rev. Schrock of McEuen, Tenn., officiating. The lectures given here Friday and Saturday evening by Captain Alberti, the Russian, were the most entertaining ever heard in this place. His health, however, was bad and he canceled future engagements, and left today for Chicago, where he will rest for a while. The interurban grade for the B. G. & C. is now being made through this town and cars will be running before long. They are moving up Butcher street to Short, thence to Main street.

MAY BUILD AN ADDITION. King Piano Company of Bluffton is Enlarging. The A. J. King Piano company of this city, which recently bought out the Anderson Piano company of Van Wert, Ohio, with a view of adding that line of instruments to their list of pianos, is figuring on still further increasing their output, and that either a great addition to the Bluffton factory or an entirely new factory will be erected in this or some other city is practically assured. It behooves Bluffton to secure the benefit of the additional factory which Mr. King is fig uring on establishing, for it will mean probably double the number of workmen which this big factory here, now the largest industry in the city, employs at this time. Mr. King has received flattering offers from other cities for the second factory, in the way of locations and houses, but Bluffton should not permit the additional factory to go elsewhere and should submit Inducements which will give the city the proposed addition. If built here the new plant along with the present factory would employ 300 to 400 men.—Bluffton News.

THE COURT NEWS John Joseph Discharged, the Court Sustainng Motion to Quash. A NEW CASE FILED Two Marriage Licenses — Real Estate Transfers— Other Doings. A new case filed was entitled Oliver W. Starer vs. George Epstein, note and foreclosure of chattel mortgage, demand, $275. - » In the matter of H. L. Linn et al., to have Market street vacated, L. C. DeVoss entered his appearance for the city of Decatur. James McCullough vs. Bessie McCullough, divorce, motion for change of venue from judge sustained. Gilliom Lumber Co. ys. Fred A. Kohler, suit on note, dismissed and costs paid. Martha Codling vs. William Codling, divorce, default of defendant. Appearance by prosecuting attorney. William Lehman vs. Charlotte A. Lehman, divorce, demurrer overruled. John Joseph, arrested ten days ago on a charge of sodomy, was discharged, the court sustaining the motion to quash the affidavit. Real estate transfers: G. M. T. Houck to Mathias Kaehr, 20 acres, Kirkland tp., $1800; Fred Ehlerding to Lawrence Schlegel, tract in Prable tp., $325; Aaron Moser to Jacob Barger, 84 acres, French tp., $6736.80; .1. D. Booher to Frank D. Brewster, 2 acres, Jefferson tp., $1,250; Thomas F. Scott to Emma O. Nieller, 1 acre, Wabash top., S4OO. Miss Margaret Clark, daughter of Dr. D. D. Clark, this morning began her duties as a deputy in the county recorder’s office, succeeding Miss Bess Wherry, who resigned Saturday. Susan Shanks, 43, of this county and John R. Anderson, 44, a storekeeper from Jay county, were granted a marriage license and were married at the clerk’s office by ’Squire Smith at 8:330 this morning. Neither party has been married before. Ben Leichty, 24, farmer, and Lizzie Kelley, 25, of Geneva were granted a marriage license. G. A. R. WILL MEET TONIGHT. Comrade Eugene Bunner has answered the final roll call. The funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock and he has requested that we attend the services. A meeting to arrange for this will be held at the G. A. R. hall at 7:30 o’clock this evening and every member who can be there should do so. JOSHUA PARRISH, Com.

BOXES FOR CRIBS For Storing Corn Are What the Farmers of Eastern Ohio Use. SAY THE BEERYS Who Return Disgusted from Trip in Which They Meant to Buy Land. There is no place like “fair Indiana." think Mr. and Mrs. Martin Beery of this city and their son, Wilson Beery of Pleasant Mills, who left last Friday for Kingman, Trumbull county, Ohio, to look over the country with the intention of buying land there, but took the next train for home, convinced that there is no place like old Indiana. They had been given the fairest and best descriptions of land in eastern Ohio by a well posted real estate man of that region, but when they got as far as Youngstown, Ohio, they didn’t like the looks of the country and the nearer they got to their destination the less they liked it. “Where are your corn cribs?" they asked, and the farmers replied, “O, store boxes are good enough for corn cribs.' “And how much corn do you raise an acre ” was the next query. “Well,” answered a son of the Ohio soil, “We thing a crop of ten bushels to the acre is a good one here.” Mr. and Mrs. Martin Beery went at once to a boarding house, while the son looked about a little, and they all took the next train Saturday for home without any further Investigation. “You may tell the people we are mighty glad to get back to Adams county,” said Mr. Beery, and make it just as strong as you like." SADNESS CAUSED By the Untimely Death of Hugh Golden, Fifteen-Year-Old Boy. HAD RELATIVES HERE Nephew of Attorney Moran and Grandson of Thomas Moran—Well Known. The death of Hugh Patrick Golden, fifteen-year-old son of Mrs. Timothy Golden, at the home at Fort Wayne at 5:45 Sunday morning has caused much sadness here, where the boy was well known. He was a nephew of Attorney John C. Moran, Mrs. Golden being his sister, and a daughter of Thomas Moran. Death was due to valvular disease of the heart, from which he had suffered for some time, though he had been seriously ill but two weeks. Hugh was a particularly bright boy, being the eldest child in the family and was a great help to the widowed mother. When the father died four years ago Mrs. Golden started a grocery store near her home and Hugh had recently had almost entire charge of the store. He was a student at the St. Patrick’s parochial school, a member of the holy communion class of 1908 and of the children’s sodiality of St. Patricks church.

Since the death of Mr. Golden four years ago the family has had many troubles and this affliction seems almost more than they can bear. Last fall Mrs. Golden was quite badly burned in a gasoline explosion. During the winter one of the daughters suffered from appendicitis, and there has been other illness besides that of Hugh. The boy is survived by the mother, two sisters, Margaret and Gertrude, and one brother, Thomas. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday morning at 9:15 from the house, 3220 Piqua avenue, Fort Wayne, and at 10 o’clock from St. Patricks church. The remains will be taken to Geneva on the afternoon train Tuesday and from there to Jefferson township, where Hugh was born and where interment will occur.

THE EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE. Wabash, Ind., March 21—The Indiana Conference of the Evangelical association, comprising all the charges in Indiana and many charges in Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky, will be held in this city from April 4 to April 10, inclusive. There are ninety charges in the conferences and about 30,000 member. On Sunday, April 10th, the sessions will be held in the Eagles' theater in this city and it is expected that many delegations of members will be here to reinforce the ministerial and lay delegates. Bishop S. P. Spreg of Cleveland, Ohio, will preside. The assignment of ministers for this conference will be made. The limits of the conference are greater than of any other Indiana conference of any church and the membership is large. Lectures will be an important feature.

PIONEER IS DEAD Joel Falk, Aged Resident of St. Marys Township, Passed Away SATURDAY EVENING Victim of Heart Disease — Funeral Will be Held Tuesday Afternoon. Joel Falk, a pioneer resident of the county, and one of the most prominent men of St. Marys township, passed away Saturday evening at 6 o’clock from heart trouble at his home in Bobo. Mr. Falk suffered the attack W’ednesday afternoon and was sick but a few days. Saturday morning he had recovered sufficiently to be up again, but became worse and his death occurred that evening. The deceased was the son of Joseph Falk, was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1838, and at death had reached the age of seventy-one years, three months and four days. He was reared to manhood in his native state, and when about twenty years of age went to Ohio. There he was married in 1862 to Miss Mary Swartz, and a year later came to Indiana, later settling in this county, living the greater part of his life in St. Marys township, though one year of that time he lived in Van Wert county, Ohio. To them were born the following children: Will E„ living near Bobo; John,, Mrs. Dan Erwin, Mrs. Horace Callow, of this city, and Fred of Jonesboro, Ark. Two children, Rosa and Freeman, have preceded him in death. The first wife died in 1893, and he was later married to Mary Cowans, who still survives. Mr. Falk was a man of many excellent qualities and his death will be a loss keenly felt by all who were acquainted with him. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, sun time, from the Methodist church at Bobo, and burial will take place in the Mt. Tabor cemetery. — o RECEIVED PRESENTS. The hardware store of the firm of Schaub, Gottemoller & Co. was crowded again on Saturday to the doors when a number of valuable presents were given away absolutely free. J. D. Miller of near Monroe received a handsome fifty-dollar range. A. DeBolt of Route 12 got a J. I. Case plow; Frank Parrish of this city, a harrow, and William Sutbine received the washing machine. These presents were given away absolutely free and those who obtained them are just that much ahead. The firm thanked the people for the liberal trade which they received in the past several weeks and that they would appreciate their patronage in the future.

One of the early spring weddings in Bluffton will be that of Miss Jennie Clark to John Tudor, both popular young people of the city. The announcement of the marriage leaked out today through Miss Clark resigning her position as singer at the Star theater. Sunday morning Miss Clark will go to Indianapolis, where she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. William Tudor, parents of the groom, and after her return the exact date of the wedding will be announced. —Bluffton Banner.

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STORY OF SALEM How the Blue Creek Township Village Sprang Up and How it Grew. BY AN OLD PIONEER And One of the Men Who Helped to Build the First Church There. As there are but few people now living that know just how and when the village of Salem or South Salem in Blue Creek township came Into existence it may be somewhat interesting to the present young and middleaged of that vicinity to have a short sketch of its birth, etc. To get at

the origin ,its locality and some things and people that preceded it, I may have to mention some early names that were first visitors and patrons to help blaze the way for its founding. Beginning with the writer I will say that when I came to Blue Creek township, perhaps nine-tenths of the land was a dense forest, in the fall of 1853. I was then nineteen years old and the site of Salem was a big elm swamp. Not a stick of timber was cut amiss, only the crossroads cut out and one of the crossroads run southwest for some distance to find dry ground to go on west. The village is situated on the north one-half of the northeast one-fourth of the northwest one-fourth of section fourteen. That same fall of 1853, Thomas Alman bought this northwest one-fourth of John Shook, a very zealous pioneer, medium of spiritualism, and I may relate a joke on him later on, if I can find space. At that time the Methodists held their meetings at Bryan’s school house in the woods, some one-half or three-fourths of a mile southwest from Salem. These early members are now most all gone. In 1854 Mr. Alman donated a plat of ground at the cross-roads for a log church and L helped get out the logs (hewed logs). This house and class was called Salem. Soon after the Civil war a parsonage was built, and I was one of about four who did the building work for our share. Others furnished the matinal. About this time or perhaps a little sooner G. W. Syphers started a grocery in partnership with his brother, Adam, now in Berne, while G. W. is in Albany. Prior to this Jackson McAlhaney had bought ten acres or thereabouts on the southeast corner of the cross-roads and carried on a furniture shop and undertaking establishment, and his widow still lives there, a daughter of Henry Clawson. Salem began to be quite a country business corner. My brother and I procured a small piece of ground in the rear of the then grocery and started a blacksmith shop, and I did some wagon repairing at odd times, and now we come to the first begetting of the idea of a village. I said to Wash Syphers one day, "Why not lay off some of your ground in lots for sale?” seeing there was a demand. He said to me, “draw up a plat in about one-half acres.” I did so and in a few days a surveyor, a Mr. Stauffer, came along on some business and Mr. Syphers got him to survey it off. Soon after a John Baker got the blacksmith and repair shop and turned it into a dwelling. Soon after Josh Gilpin started a shoe shop and John Tindall started another grocery. A new frame church was built on a more commodious lot and the groceries outgrew their accommodations and Syphers had put up a more substantial business room and others followed. A postoffice came into demand. The first one I think was called Galem. , It was later abandoned, and soon after Congressman Steele got It renewed, and it still holds its name, “Steele.” Emanuel Fisher and Vess Campbell are the only two men that were old enough to marry in 1853, but Vess did not marry until he got back from California, where he went in 1854. All others have died or moved, or got married since 1853, except these ■ two; so they are the oldest married ’ pioneers of the vicinity of Salem, : "Steele” P. O. I This is the origin and brief account i of Salem, as I know it, but will allow - the present generation tell their own s story of what it is now. Yours, etc., i for what it is worth to the Decatur (Continued on page four.)