Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1910 — Page 1

■Volume VIII. Number 80.

■THE CONVENTION ■Republican Hosts Gather at Indianapolis—Fight on the Platform. ■ IT'S ALL BEVERIDGE • ■ I The Platform Will Neither Endorse Nor Denounce the Tariff Law. (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind., April 4—(Spee- ■ ial to Dally Democrat)—The republi- ■ can state committee, discussing on ■ the formulation of plans for the state ■convention, which convenes tomorIrow morning adjourned today after ■ hearing more than fifty resolutions ■ from which a party platform is ex- ■ pected to be formed. Heated discus- ■ sions were caused over the actions of ■ some of the committeemen who favorE ed the abolishment of the liquor quesBtion as a dead issue. Supporters of ■ Hemenway and Watson took a strong ■ stand against the followers of Bever■jidge, but the latter won out. This is ■ taken to indicate, if there has been ■ any question, that Beveridge will ab- ■ solutely control the convention. The ■ committee announced after the meetring that they would neither endorse ■or denounce the Payne-Aldrich tariff ■ law. A compromise will be submit■ted, avoiding the approval or disap- ■ proval of the tariff law by declaring ■in favor of a tariff commission, which ■ Senator Beveridge has advocated. ■ The resolution committee meets to■■night at 8 o’clock and will then form ft a platform, which is expected to meet ■ the approval of all the delegates. ft MASONIC MEETINGS IN DECATUR The Chapter will hold a very im- ■ portant meeting on Wednesday even■ing of this week and all members are ■ requested to be present. The F. & A. M., No. 571, will boll B a meeting Tuesday evening, at which ■ time the entered apprentice degree ■ •will be conferred upon three candi- •' dates. LEHNEWILL WED Wedding Occurs Tuesday Noon—His Bride to be Miss Bertha Heilman. I YOUNG OHIO LADY I Will be at Home After April 20th on South Winchester Street.

W. L. Lehne, the jeweler, who for ■ several years has been identified with I Decatur’s leading business firms, left Sunday for Tiffin, Ohio, where on B Tuesday noon he will be united in | marriage to Miss Bertha Heilman, S one of the best young ladies of that I city. The wedding will take place at | the home of her parents, and will be | solemnized by the Rev. Snyder, pass' tor of the English Lutheran church t of that city. The wedding will be a I very quiet one and only the members I of the families of the contracting par I ties will be in attednance. Mr. and I Mrs. Lehne will take a ten days' wed- [ ding trip, though they have not yet I arranged their itinary. They will be at home after April 20th in the i Charles F. True property on South { Winchester street. Mr. Lehne is ■known here as a man of the highest and best qualities and the hosts who know him will welcome himself and l>rlde to the city. a— — Earl Smitn nearly figured in a runaway Friday evening, in which hio rig ■ came out very much the worse, being ■ totally destroyed. He had hitched his | horse and rig In front of the home ■ -north of the city and while waiting > for the master to come, the horse be B came irightened and ran away. >t I was traced by portions of the broken u Tig which were found scattered along ■ the road lor some distance.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

L#O MILLER WILL WED. The bans of the approaching wedding of Leo Miller and Miss Lydia Nix of Huntington were announced Sunday for the first time at the St. Mary’s Catholic church. Leo is a son of Mrs. Verene Miller of this city, but for the past three years has wor '.- ed at the barber's trade at Huntington, where he became acquainted with Miss Nix. The wedding will occur April 20th at the Catholic church at that place, after which a wedding dinner will be served at the bride's home, the families of both the young people being in attendance. They will make their home in Huntington and Leo will come to this city next Monday to buy the household goods, which will be purchased from Gay & Zwick of this city. The newly wedded couple will take a wedding trip, going to Detroit and other cities of the northwest. NEW BOnF ISSUE Covering the Interurban Line From Fort Wayne to Portland. WILL FINANCE IT Cleveland Trust Company is Assisting and This is One of the Steps. One of the largest mortgages ever filed in this county was placed on record at the county recorder’s office at 9 o’clock this morning, it being given by the Fort Wayne & Sprigfield railway company to the Cleveland Trust company in the sum of one million dollars .and covering all the property, real and personal, and the right-of-ways of the traction line between Fort Wayne and Portland. Recorder Steele immediately telegraphed the Cleveland Trust company that the mortgage had been received and filed as per his instructions. This is one of the steps necessary in the financing of the road and means that an issue of bonds to the amount stated will be made. Arrangements are now on with a big financial institution to take up the bonds and furnish the money to continue the building of the road from here to Portland. Mr. Fledderjohann expects to have the financing of the road completed this week if possible and if this is done the work on the extension will be pushed rapidly. o— WHITNEY MUSICAL TONIGHT A fantastic drill and a real sureenough barbecue are two of the unique features Introduced in the second act finale of “The Whitney Musical Comedy C 0.,” a musical comedy completely fil'ed with other Ideas of equally refreshing character. It will be pleasantly recalled by those who keep a mental record of the biggest musical comedy successes, that the songs and singing which are the most prominent considerations, were especially impressive as a sort of adjunct to such novelties as were permitted, without disturbing the frienily relations of a plot, teeming with genuine, rollicking fun. The Whitney Musical Comedy Co. still rests securely upon the broad principles of its accommodating aims to give as much diversity of mirthful action as can be consistently tempered with melody of a higher order than is usually resorted to, in hopes of winning the good opinions of an audience who are inclined to favor the merry jingle of songs to be remembered. The Whitney Musical Comedy Co. visits at the Bosse opera house three nights, commencing tonight, April 4th, and will more fully explain this happy combination of fun and music. o - — - J. B. Bertell of Jamestown, North Dakota, formerly of this place, is in the city for a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Simeon Haines. Mr. Bertell resided here nearly twenty years ago and he and Dyonis Schmitt made a trip to Europe. After their return he soon left for Jamestown, where he has made his home since and where he has been engaged in business. He will no doubt be remembered by a number of the older residents of the city and will be glad to renew old acquaintances.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, April 4, 1910.

CLASSIFIED LIST Now Includes Deputy Post masters According to New Ruling by Taft. J. S. PETERSON IN And Can Hold Job Until Removed For Cause According to This. John S. Peterson can hold his position as deputy postmaster in this city during life and good behavior, according to a recent order from President Taft, which places all the deputies in first and second class postoffices in the classified service, that Is under the civil service. The result is not known but the order has been made and will likely stick for some time at least. A Washington dispatch says: “President Taft issued an order today putting assistant postmasters at first and second-class offices in the classified service. “Something like 21,000 offices are affected by the order. For several years there has been a demand that assistant postmasters in the larger postoffices be transferred to the classified service, the argument in favor of the step being that assistant postmasters have confidential relations with the postmasters and as a rule stay on from one administration to another. "This is the first blanket civil service order issued by President Taft. One of the last acts of President Roosevelt was to transfer fourth-class postmasters in the territory lying east of the Mississippi river to the classified service. A year’s experience with the new arrangement with reference to fourth-class postmasters has convinced the civil service commission that the transfer was a wise one. It is understood that the administration will soon put those fourth-class postmasters, who are now affected by the Roosevelt order under civil service.” • - ;<■ • ■! ■;

CLOSING SERVICE Churches of Geneva Unite in Bidding Farewell to Rev. Graves. < i i ! ON SUNDAY MORNING Other Affairs of Much Interest From the Busy Town of Geneva. Geneva, Ind., Aphil 4 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The congregations from the United Brethren and the M. E. churches garnered at the latter church Sunday morning at 10:30 to attend the farewell services In charge of Res. C. J. Graves, who leaves Tuesday to attend the conference at Bluffton. It was a beautiful and impressive service. A quartet, composed of S. W. Hale, Mrs. Dr. Mattox, Mr. Lull and Miss Ethel Sutton, sang, "My Lord Wil! be There I Know.” The scripture lesson and prayer were given by Rev. Waldo of the U. B. church, after which Miss Vivian Hale rendered a solo, “The Bird With a Broken Wing.” Rev. Graves' sermon was an able one, his text being from Romans 2:10. During Rev. Graves’ year here there have been fifteen accessions, the church membership now totalling 141. There has been one death. The pastor has delivered 137 sermons, made 1,350 pastoral calls, the money raised for benefits exceeded the previous year by SIOO, and the total amount raised was over $2,000. Rev. Graves has been in the ministry for thirteen years and has hundreds of friends here. Mrs. S. M. Kirk has been appointed executrix of the George Hartman estate and the inventory of the big stock began this morning, preparatory to opening the store. Mr. and (Continued on page 3.)

BYRON E. LA FOLLETTE TO WED. His Engagement to Indianapolis Lady Has Been Announced. Word has come to Portland of the engagement of Byron E. LaFollette to Miss Miss Hazel Osborn of Indianapolis. The young man is a son of the Hon. J. J. M. LaFollette, who moved from Portland to Indianapolis about eleven years ago and who is now living in Bloomington. Miss Osborn is a daughter of an Indianapo'.’s business man and is a well known and popular young woman. The marriage is expected to take place this month. The young people met In he Suer.ridge high school at Indianapolis and the friendship has been maintained. Mr. LaFollette graduated from Purdue in 1908 and is at present in business in Detroit. —Portland Commer-cial-Review. CONTRACTS MADE Bids Were Opened For Four Macadam Roads, Arches and Bridges. LOTS OF BUSINESS Everything Indicates a yery Busy Session of Board This Month.

The auditor’s office was crowded this morning and most of the day, the April session of the board of commissioners being on, and there will be much business during the sessio.i. The first thing up was the opening of blds for the construction of four macadam roads, the following being the bids: William Adler Road. Eli Engle $7000.00 Erie Stone Co 6732.00 L. O. Bears 6676.00 M. Miller 6600.00 E. H. Faust 6305.1 S Cris Musser 6449.75 Merryman & Fugate 6670.00 Magley Road. Eli Engle v. 59397.50 Erie Stone Co. 8580.00 E. Woods & Son 10690.00 E. H. Faust 8846.65 Julius Haugk 9159.50 Merryman & Fugate 8930.00 C. C. Beers Road. L. O. Beers $5673.00 Michael Miller 6144.00 William Reppert 5922.00 Cris Musser 5889.00 Merryman & Fugate 5636.00 C. W. R. Swartz & C 06374.75 Wheat, Sisk & Ruple 5900.00 George H. Martz Road. Eli Engle $5609.00 Erie Stone Co 5657.00 L. O. Bears 5726.00 M. Miller 5759.00 E. H. Faust 5536.84 William Reppert 5151.00 Cris Musser 5149.50 Merryman & Fugate 5349.00 Wheat, Sisk & Ruple 5220.00 H. S. Miller was the lowest bidder on the Cowan bridge, Shiffery bridge, Ayers bridge, Painter bridge, Luginbill bridge, Nusbaum arch. The Berne Supply Co. was the only bidder on the Linn Grove bridge. They also were the low bidder on Shoaf bridge and abutments. The viewers made a report on the John J, Schuh petition for road. The viewers were David Steele, C. D. F. Bieberick and E. L. Foreman. The report of the viewers being favorable, the board granted the petition for opening of a highway, petitioned for by John J. Schuh. C. C. Ernst, as engineer, and W. W. Buckmaster and Thomas Drew, as commissioners, were appointed to report on the Aschleman and Speicher macadam road. Frank Hisey and E. N. Busche were appointed as viewers on G. C. McElhany road. Michael Miller and John Lose, viewers for W. L. Raudenbush road, A. B. Bailey and Georger Maurer on A. J. Sipe road. The petitions for the J. W. Vizard and J. C. Cowan roads were approved. Mrs. F. A. Peoples, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lewton spent Saturday the guest of Amos Lewton and family, north of Monmouth.

HAPPY WEDDING Was that Which Took Place Sunday Afternoon at the Fuelling Church. IN ROOT TOWNSHIP When Miss Lydia Scherer Became the Bride of Martin Berger. One of the most beautiful and happy church weddings of the spring was that which took place yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Fuelling German Lutheran church northeast of the city, when Miss Lydia Scherer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scherer, became the bride of Martin Berger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Berger, both of the parties being well known residents of Allen county. The bride and groom had each three attendants —brothers and sisters and relatives —and the scene was a very pretty one, as the wedding party, to the strains of the organ march, proceeded to the altar, where the ceremony was pronounced by the Rev. Dornsief. The bride was lovely in white messaline satin, with pearl trimmings, and she wore a veil and carried white bride's roses. The bridesmaids were gowned, two in pink and one in white, wearing floral wreaths and carrying bouquets of pink and white carnations. After the ceremony at the church, which was witnessed by a large number of the relatives and friends, the wedding party came to this city, where their photographs were taken, and in the meantime guests to the number of one hundred and twenty-five gathered at the home of the bride’s parents, where at 6 o’clock a sumptuous dinner was served. The dining room and table were beautifully decorated with roses, carnations and smilax and all the appointments were pretty. Among those from this city who attended were Clara Lang, Kate Henneford, Joe Kortenbrer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schulte. Mr. and Mrs. Berger will make their home in the Berger farm, and the very best wishes of all will go with them through life.

LANKENAU-WHERRY ——— • Wedding Solemnized Sunday Evening at Zion Lutheran Parsonagt. ii ' B AT EIGHT O’CLOCK _-L U Prominent Young People of City Wed—Left For Short Trip. Sunday evening at 8 o’clock at the Zion German Lutheran parsonage in the west part of the city was solemnized the wedding of Mr. Oscar Lankenau and Miss Bess Wherry, two of the city's best known young people, the Rev. Wehmeyer officiating. The wedding was a very quiet one, the only witnesses being the bride's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wherry; her uncle, James Rabbitt of Des Moines, Iowa; her brother, Joe Wherry, of Monroeville; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lankenau, parents of the groom, and his sister. Miss Louise Lankenau. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Lankenau left for a short trip and they will be at home after a few days in the Gregory property on Marshall street. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Wherry of North Third street and is a young lady of many excellent and admirable traits. For two years she has served as assistant in the county recorder’s office, resigning only a few weeks ago. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lankenau and is one of the city’s most enterprising business men. being a member of the mercantile firm of Kuebler & Lankenau of the Boston Store. That their life may be one replete with happiness is the unanimous wish of all. e - Misses Marie and Clara Boknecht of Allen county were shopping here Saturday and visiting with friends.

GIRLS MEET DEATH IN FIRE. (United Press Service.) Chicago, 111., April 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Four girls were fatally hurt and many others seriously injured as the result of a fire which partly destroyed the six story building occupied by the Central Steam laundry here. The injured girls jumped from a second story window to the pavement. The laundry employs 175 girls. Nearly all were on the sixth floor when the explosion of steam pipes started the blaze. - -o WILLIAM BOOTH NEARS DEATH. London, April 4 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —William Booth .bead of the Salvation Army, is seriously ill at his home here today, following a nervous breakdown, which came Sunday. He is eighty-one eyars old and his recovery is doubtful. SOLD QUICKLY Half Ton of Slightly Damaged Hams Went n Two Hours Saturday. M. E. MITE SOCIETY Conducted Sale—Meat Donated to Them by Insurance Company. The sale of hams conducted by the Ladies’ Mite society of the M. E. church Saturday afternoon was a hummer, and in about two hours every bit of the meat—about two thousaid pounds, had been sold, the proceeds amounting to ssl. There was but a little expense to the society, the amount clear of expense being about $47.85. The meat was that which was slightly burned in the accident at the Packing house recently when the meat which was being smoked caught fire. It was in the main very good, and the parts slightly burned were easily cut away. The meat was donated to the society by the insurance company.

BILL KRAUSS WAS IN LINE. Believes He Was Being Slowly Poisoned by His Wife. W. R. Krauss of this city is now thoroughly convinced that had his wife, Rae, been able to kill his daughter without suspicion that he would have been her next victim, says the Hartford City Gazette. At the time of the death of his daughter, Crystal, Mr; Krauss weighed but 153 pounds, Mis frequently sick and his health Was miserable, After Rae took up her abode in the jail his health improved and by the time she was in the penitentiary a couple of months he weghed 204 pounds. It was then that he went to Martinsville to reduce his flesh. It was on this visit that he had his dog along of which so much was said in the letters. Belle Fountain, the woman from Wabash, Ind., who was a prisoner with Rae and who was hissed at the trial at Marion when it was shown she had tried to kill an entire family by chloroform in the cross-examina-tion, is a sister of Ed Fountain, the meat cutter, who was employed in the Carrell market in this city for a long time. Krauss states that she fixed it up with Rae while in prison to try and get to talk with him for the purpose of helping get her out of prison on a pardon. Siie was first brought to his attention by Rae’s father who brought her here and talked with him before she met Krauss. He did not meet her the first trip.

OFFICERS ELECTED. The Presbyterian Sunday school Sunday closed another year and held the annual election of officers, resulting as follows: Superintendent, Ed S. Moses; assistant, D. B. Erwinsecretary, Ed Lyons; assistant, Ben Gerard; treasurer, Jacob Atz; librarian, Lawrence Biggs; assistant, Grace Coffelt; pianist, Lulu Atz; assitsants, Golda Biggs and Ruth Buhler; chorister, C. J. Lutz. The past year is said to have been a most successful one and the attendance has been greatly increased during that time.

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MARRIED 58 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. John Barnett an Aged Couple of This City Reach That GREAT ANNIVERSARY Spent Greater Part of More Than Four Score Years in Adams County. The report of the fifty-seventh wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steele Thursday is succeeded by another, that of Mr. and Mrs. John Barnett, aged eighty-five and eightyfour years, respectively, a well known couple of this city, who last Friday reached the fifty-eighth anniversary of their marriage. The event was not so happily celebrated, however, as that of Mr. and Mrs. Steele, as both Mr. and Mrs. Barnett are in very poor health ,and for several weeks it was feared for both that death was imminent. John Barnett and Rachel T. Andrews were married April 1, 1852, at the home of his uncle, Green Sewell, on the farm near this city, on which Samuel Chronister now lives, the marriage being performed by the Rev. Humbert, a Methodist minister. The country at that time was still young and Mr. and Mrs. Barnett have taken an active part in the growth of the county. They came from Harrison county, Ohio, in their childhood and with the exception of five years spent in lllinios, have spent the remainder of their lives here. Mrs. Barnett’s parents both died from tuberculosis soon after moving to Adams county. Though Mr. Barnett’s father lived to be eighty years old, his mother died when he was only three weeks of age, and the age to which this couple has lived, is therefore the more remarkable. It is rare, indeed, that a couple live so many happy years together as have Mr. and Mrs. Barnett. They have but three children living—Mrs. Joshua Barnhart, Mrs. T. R. Moore and Miss Della. : wi

THE PETIT JURY . ■ -11. ■■■« Commissioners Select the Men Who Will Serve During April Term L . NO GRAND JURY H • This Expense Was Dispensed With—Marriage Licenses Were Issued. The jury commissioners met at the clerk’s office this morning and selected the petit jury for the April term of court which convenes next Monday. By order of the court no grand jury was selected as there have been no reports which made it necessary and the court thought it best to save this expense. The petit jury includes. Sampson Pillars —Root township. James Tumbleson —Kirkland. Fred Lindsey—Geneva. David Buckmaster —Decatur. John Topp—Jefferson. Eugene Runyon—Hartford. John W. Kraner —Wabash. Philip Schug—Berne. Solomon Schindler —French. Forest Andrews —Washington. Norman Jacobs —Berne. J. H. Holloway—Geneva. Wash Pyle—Decatur. John Elzey—Decatur. John Wechter —Blue Creek. A marriage license was issued to Thomas D. Drake, 25, a laborer, and Cora E. Sprunger, 19, both of Adams county. A marriage license was issued to Oscar F. Lankenau, 29, merchant, and Bess V. Wherry, 28, both of this city. Mr Etd Mrs. Frank Kern were guests of his sister, Mrs. Martin L. Smith, at Berne over Sunday.