Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 82.

BEDS AND BREAKFAST Is All the Entertainment to Be Provided Future Conferences. BLUFFTON SESSIONS Rev. Parr Assails Republican Platform and Senator Beveridge. Bluffton, Ind., April 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The M. E. conference in session in this city this morning did what they have been trying to do for five years past, when they changed the plan of entertainment for that body, so that the hosts of future conference will furnish only lodging and breakfast, instead of all the entertainment, the ministers to provide for themselves further than this. At former meetings committees were appointed with this end in view but they never accomplished the end. Rev. Hollopeter this morning made the motion, and while there ■’ere some efforts to sidestep, and several motions were made, the original question went through with cheers. Dr. Parr suggested that at the next meeting the superanuated ministers be taken care of as usual, but this was not made a part of the motion. Bluffton, sixteen years ago, was the first to invite the wives of ministers and now has the distinction of being the last to provide complete entertainment. The session Wednesday evening was greatly interfered with by a breakdown at the electric light station, forcing out the lights. Candles,, lamps and lanterns were substituted and the program carried out, The crowd Wednesday night was the first real big one of the session and there were several splendid addresses on home missions, church extension and the freeman's aid. Bishop Cranston opened the morning session promptly at 8:30 and the hours were spent in receiving the district reports, each of the six being satisfactory. Tomorrow at 11:30 is the hour set for receiving invitations for the next conference meeting. So far Kokomo and Elkhart are the only candidates for the honor. Bishop McDowell of Chicago arrived this morning and accompanied the crowd to Warren, where he is on the program at the dedication of the Chopson home, which occurs this afternoon. There is nothing doing here this afternoon, the program to be resumed this evening. In an address at the temperance meeting Wednesday afternoon late, Rev. W. D. Parr of Kokomo arraigned the republican party in warm ■words because of their failure to Include a local option plank In the platform. He said that party made the law and now leave it to carry itself, when it needs some ready relief if it ever did. He criticized Beveridge, saying he could have had the planK In if he hadn’t been afraid of the results to himself. GEO. L. SAUNDERS. ——o — BANK ROBBERS ROUNDED UP. (United Press Service.) Joliest, Illi. April 7—(Special to Dally Democrat)—Three men were shot, on fatally, in a fight at Mazon, 111., early today, following the robbing "of the bank at Coal City, 111-, Dy fire masked men, who fled with SI2OO. The three wounded men were taken at Zerona, 111. The five yeggmen entered Coal City shortly after midnight, bound and gagged the watchman and then dynamited the safe. They boat ■ed a train and the authorities at Mazon were notified. A posse stopped the train and five men alighh d an opened fire. In the fight " ,li( 1 n lowed two of the men received sligh wounds and a third was s^‘’l thtmig the head. The train started again and the robbers all got aboard. Toe posses started in purspit in autos an. caught the train near Zerona, an opened fire on the dim figures a oar . The train was stopped again an a search resulted in finding irfc ‘ wounded men. It is believed 11< o er two leaped from the train neat Zerona and escaped and the posse after them.

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VAN WERT GETS KING FACTORY Gives SIO,OOO For a Branch of the Piano Factory. It is probable that the new factory of the King Piano company will be located at Van Wert, Ohio., This announcement will be made in a few days, it Is thought,, as the city in Ohio i has given the local company an Offer, which will be almost impossible for this or any other city to equal and which the company cannot well afford to turn down. The business men of Van Wert have offered the company SIO,OOO and the factory building if the factory is still maintained there. While Mr. Kink would like to have brought the extra factor here, at the same time he could not turn down the proposition from Van Wert. —Bluffton Banner. BANK SUSPENDED State Bank in Brooklyn is in Hands of the State Banking Officers. I WESTON AT GOSHEN Was There Over Forty Years Ago—Rev. Long of Mansfield Acquitted. (United Press Service.) Mansfield, Ohio, April 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Rev. Simon C. Long, president of the Widdenburg synod and pastor of the First Lutheran church here, was today found not guilty of the charges of conduct not becoming to a minister by a committee of five ministers, who heard the evidence. (United Press Service.) Goshen, Ind., April 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Weston, the aged pedestrian, arrived here from south Bend at 10:30 this morning. Many old timers who saw him when he came through here on his trans-con-tinental hike in 1867 greeted him. One old lady who bought a picture from him then stopped him this morning and showed him the photo, now yellow from age. (United Press Service.) Columbus, Ohio, April 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Members of the street car employyes’ union, which has threatened to strike for six days past, effected a compromise today. The men get an increase of fifteen cents per day and the discharged me i are taken back. They would have walked out today. (United Press Service.) New York, N. Y„ April 7—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Boroughs ■ Bank of Brooklyn, a state institution, is closed today and officials of the i state bank department are in charge. , The bank has a paid-up capital of $200,000 and its deposits are estimat- , ed at $1,500,000. The bank will probably pay all depositors and stockholders In full. The first suspension of the bank during the panic of 1907 so weakened the institution that it could not stand the run. The present management is not responsible for the suspension in any way. o ■ • DANGEROUS OPERATION. Mrs. Ben Wagner of Root Township Operated Upon. » — * Mrs. Ben Wagner, wife of a promii nent farmer of Root township, underwent an operation for umbilical her- , nia Wednesday morning at her home, I three miles northeast of this city. - The operation was performed at 9 ■ o'clock in the morning by Doctors D. I D. and C. S. Clark of this city and I Dr. McOscar of Fort Wayne. An op- - eration of this sort is always cont sidered very dangerous at the best i but Mrs. Wagner rallied well from the i effects and this morning was resting s very easy. 1 —— I G. A. R. RE INSTATEMENTS. i The G. A. R. will have some spec- . ial work of re-instatement of com- - rades this evening, and Commander :• Parrish asks that all the members be j at the meeting this evening to assist in this work.

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, April 7 1910.

STATE MESSAGES The Methodist Home at Warren Was Dedicated There Today. BIG CROWD THERE New State Bank Examiner Named by Auditor Billheimer. (United Press Service.) Warren, Ind., April 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat.) —“The Methodist Memorial Home for the aged—a homo for the worthly homeless,” was formally dedicated to the cause of charity today, the services beginning at 2 o’clock under the auspices of the North Indiana M. E. conference now in session at Bluffton. The principal addresses were made by Bishop Cranston of Washington, D. C., and Bishop McDowell of Chicago. The largest crowd ever here attended the ceremony. Special trains were run over the interurban and Clover Leaf. (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind., April 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Auditor of State Billhelmer today announced tue appointment of Lawrence A. Wiles of Indianapolis, formerly of Newton county, to be state bank examiner to fill the vacancy of one or those who recently resigned from that department. (United Press Service.) Terre Haute, Ind., April 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Through a telephone call for a doctor passing through her switchboard, Miss Stella Bradley, a telephone operator for the Citizen’s company here, today learned of the death of her father, Thomas Bradley, who had been struck and instantly killed by a fast passenger train on the Vandalia. Bradley was a crossing watchman. SUCCESSFUL YEAR Presbyterian Congregation Holds Annual .Meeting Last Evening For REVIEW OF WORK The Church Has Prospered Spiritually, Materially and in All Ways. The congregation of the Presbyterian church was largely represented at the annual meeting at the church Wednesday evening, when the work of the year was reviewed. Reports were heard from the session, the pastor, the trustees, the deacons, the social and missionary societies, tue Sunday school and all departments of the church, showing a great increase in accessions and in spiritual and material ways. The past year has been most successful in all ways and there is a cause for much rejoicing. The greater number of the officers are elected for three years. The threeyear term of F. B. Tague, who lately moved to Greenville, has expired, and Dr. S. D. Beavers was elected to succeed him. Amos Biggs, who has served for some time as clerk, or secretary, by annual election, was re-elect-ed to this office last evening. —o OPEN OFFICE FOR PRACTICE. Dr. Will Kortenbrer went to Monroeville today, where he will visit with Dr. C. L. Meyers. Dr. Kortenbrer has but recently returned from Grand Rapids, Mich., where on last Wednesday he graduated from the veterinary college at that place, finishing the three years’ course with much credit. He will open an office for practice in the near future, but has not yet decided upon the location. He is a son of Mrs. Mary Kortenbrer and is one of the young men of whom Decatur as well as his family may feel proud.

• LOCAL OPTION ELECTIONS. Chicago, April 6—incomplete returns on the local option issue, voted on In 240 cities and towns throughout t lllonios today, indicated gains for the ‘Wets.” These figures showed that thirty-two towns changed from “dry” to “wet” and that thirteen changed from "wet” to “dry.” Os ninety-three towns forty-eight voted "wet.” , Among the cities which had been ' “dry" but which returned to "wet” were Decatur, Pana, and Riverton. Springfield went "wet,” the “drys,” ■ however gaining 600 votes over two years ago. Rockford, Danville, Bloomington, Clinton, Mattoon, Elgin, Joliet and Lockport, also went "wet.” Monmouth, Geneva. St. Charles, Champaign and Batavia went “dry.” The Issue was not put before the voters in Chicago, the plans for doi ing so having fallen through because • of Insufficient signatures to the peti- ( tion. PUSHING CIGARS I — 1 i Geary Brothers Are Alive— Contract for a Year’s Advertising. THEY HAVE THE GRIT Makers of the Royal Ribbon and the Geary-O Decatur Made Cigars. _______ I We wish to call your attention today to the card of Geary Brothers, advertising their makes of cigars. They are home lads, John and Will, sons of William Geary, the veteran merchant policeman. They were born and reared here and are trying to build up a business. More than that . they are doing it. The cigars they make, the Geary-O, which sells for ten cents, and the Royal Ribon, for ’ five cents, are the equal of anything on the market, and the boys being hustlers and the builders of their own goods, are bound to make good. Just now they are arranging for another brand to be known as the Semi-Geary-I O, a five cent cigar, and which will prove a winner. That they are hustlers is manifested from the fact that they have contracted for space in the Daily Democrat, every other day for one year. They are alive and we hope to see them prosper as they deserve and as they will if they continue in the same gritty manner as at the present. Folks in Decatur owe it to the local manufacturers of cigars to smoke the cigars made in Decatur. Try them and you will find that they are as good as any of the "high-fa-lutin’ ’’ named cigars made elsewhere. ■ o— ONE OF DECATUR’S NEWSBOYS. Carl Russell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Russell, is one of the hustling little newsboys who gives promise or becoming one of the future business men of the city if he keeps on developing the qualities brought Into play by his young endeavor. The lad works for the City News Stand and the way he catches the business 1 is interesting to note. He has worked ■ after school hours only since the first ' of the year and seems to have learned all the ins and outs of the work. He meets the various trains and interur- ' ban cars and the way he calls out his papers, and quickly passing them over .making the right change or 1 scampering away for change if he ’ doesn't happen to have it in his pock- ! et, it worthy the effort of a news- ■ boy of the city of many years’ experience. The many regular travelers have learned to know the little lad ■ and always have a word of cheer for • him. The little lad has a brother ■ younger than himself and one day ■ this week, to his utmost delight, the young lad was allowed to accompany him. The younger hoy, however, finds these excursions rare, for he cannot run and hop like other boys, • because his spine is weak from many ■ year’s sickness with spinal trouble. ■ The glimpse into the outdoor me i was a great pleasure to him and showed plainly In his happy little > face, as he climbed to the platform and watched while his "big” brother i passed through the car, calling his > papers. The lad proudly displayed his new overalls and his pair of new . shoes that he bought with his money. • “But I don’t know just what I will i buy next, when I save enough," the • little boy said and passed on calling his papers.

FINDS OLD DEED 1 t Which Has Lain Hidden From Public Sight For Sixty-Four Years. ! THREE-WEEK SEARCH I John Schurger Who is Making Abstract is Rewarded With Success. John Schurger of the firm of Schurger & Smith, has traced down a deed that for sixty-four years has lain hidden away from public sight. But for the fact that the land is about to be sold and an abstract showing a clear title, demanded, the deed might have lain that many more years. The deeu is for land In St. Marys township and was made by John Dirkson to John Ross and executed In Darke county, Ohio, July 25, 1846. An Inscription on the back shows that it was entered here for transferrence May 3, 1847, when William Trout, father of Dr. D. G. M. Trout, was auditor. The parties having the deed transferred, however, took It away again without having it recorded, so no public trace was left, 'the land is now owned by the widow of James Ross, a son of John Ross, to whom this deed was made, and it has been in her possesion lately. She now desires to sell the land and secured Mr. Schurger to make the abstract. When this point in it was reached, no record could bo found of the deed, and it was only after a three weeks’ search that he has secured It. It came to him in Wednesday afternoon’s mail and Mr Schurger is much pleased with the bit of tracing. Had it not been found it would have been necessary to bring a quiet title suit, involving much expense and loss of time. The deed is excellently preserved and the writing is of the fine penmanship so much more common in the olden times than in the present day of the typewriter. Mr. Schurger has taken it to the recorder’s office, where it will be duly recorded for better safe-keeping. JUDGE ADAIR DEAD Well Known Columbia City Jurist Died at Ft. Wayne Wednesday Night. WAS OPERATED UPON But Was Beyond Ail Aid— Was Known Over State as Leading Democrat. Judge J. W. Adair of Columbia City, one of the best known jurists of northern Indiana, and well known, especially among the members of the bar here, died at the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne at 10:15 o’clock Wednesday evening, following an operation performed Tuesday for a cancerous growth of the bowels. He had been in failing health for a year past and the operation was performed only as a last resort. He was a native of Noble county, where he w-as born November 29, 1843. He began the practice of law at Columbia City in 1870 and for years was considered one of the best lawyers of that section. He served as judge of the thirty-second judicial district for a number of years, was a candidate for congress and for the supreme court of Indiana, was a democratic national delegate, was the first mayor of Columbia City and held many other offices of trust. He was a member of the Scottish Rite and a Knight Templar Mason and a Shriner. He was very religjous, and a member and worker in the English Lutheran church. He is survived by the widow and two daughters, Mrs. E. K. Strong of Columbia City and Mrs. Clyde Keirn of Ohio City. ■ - —» ■ ■■■ —— ANDREW TEEPLE MUCH BETTER. Andrew Teeple, who has been quite sick for several days with Bright's disease, is much better today—better than he has been since his illness. A trained nurse, Miss Brewster, from the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, arrived yesterday to attend him.

j JOE VOLMER RELEASED. Brother Received Message to That Effect This Morning. 1 Al Volmer received a message this morning from his brother, Joe, say ing that he had been released. He, with a man named Otto Reynolds, of Aurora, 111., had been held ten days at South Bend on a charge of having *• been connected with a robbery of mail sacks at Fort Wayne on February 20th. Joe’s friends here were confi- . dent of his innocence because he was here at the time stated. Further than this he has never been In any trouble and all believed he would be able to prove his innocence. He was to have had a hearing last Tuesday, but this was postponed until next Tuesday and it Is not known how the mat1 ter was adjusted. * SOME OLD HISTORY I? — 1 1 Os Interest to Present Day i Residents is Recalled by i Postals. ■ THE OLD LOG JAIL ’ And Adams County’s First 1 Court House—Made from Old Pictures. i 3 t Among the most interesting postals 5 gotten out by Holthouse Drug company are those just received of the ( old log jail and the first court house . of this city long ago. These postals , were made from pictures of the origI inals which have long hung in frames - in the court house and which were . dug out recently by T. H. Ernst, the . custodian. The first court house was : ordered built at the May session, L 1839, of the county commissioners, i which, according to the records, was a “framed house built of good material, 30x40 feet, two stories high; the , lower story or room to be left whole without any partitions, and the upper story divided into rooms to accommodate the petit and grand juries. | The weather boarding on the two sides next to the streets shall be planed." John Reynolds and Samuel L. Rugg were authorized to build the ■ court nouse, which stood on the corner where the A. R. Bell home now stands. It was later moved to First street, where it was used to store goods for the woolen mills, and later used by Schlegel for a tin shop. Willard Steele now owns the property and lately moved this building to make room for a new structure. The present courthouse was built in 1873. In 1849 two small brick buildings, one story in height, were erected in the northeast and southwest corners of the square. In the former were the clerk’s and recorder’s offices and in the latter the treasurer's and auditor’s. i The old log jail was, if possible, f a more primitive style of building than the court house. It was built of logs, three thicknesses in the walls, and laid in alternating directions. A ' ladder ran from the outside up to the c loft. In this loft was a trap door and ► the prisoners were taken up and - thrust down through this door into 1 the room below, where they were t kept with no chance of escape. In r 1879, history gives it that the old f jail was "accidentally destroyed by - fire,” but we learn by “word of - mouth” from those who remember, ) that it was set fire by a prisoner, f who stuffed some fire down between • the logs of the walls, where it caught I and soon destroyed the building. The , prisoner, no doubt did this to render ■ his escape. After the destruction of i this it was necessary to take the ■ prisoners to the Allen county jail for I safe-keeping, and in 1886 the present fine jail was built. The log jail stood on the court house square, on the southeast corner, and in the picture, the side of the new court house appears as a background. o ——»—— ODD FELLOWS’ CALL. A real good time is in store for the local Odd Fellows who attend the . meeting at the local hall on Monday 5 evening next. Either three or four a candidates will be given the degree :- work and this alone assures an eveni. ing's entertainment. Other business n will also be attended to and the members are requested to be on hand to take part

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FIRST EXCURRION Conducted Over the B. G. & C. Traction Line This Morning. THE GENEVA ITEMS Edward Winans of Bellefountaine, Ohio, Dying at Sister’s Home. Geneva, Ind., April 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The first excursion over the B. G. & C. traction line left here at 8:30 o’clock this morning with Conductor Lew Justice in charge and fifty passengers on board. The excursion was run on account of the M. E. conference now In session at Bluffton. The second excursion will be run Sunday morning, when many Geneva people will take advantage of the opportunity to hear Bishop Cranston, who is presiding over the conference. The Geneva Merchants’ Band gav« its first open air concert of the season Monday night. Hereafter they will appear on Wednesday evening cf each week, beginning April 20th. The boys are much better than last year, due to the continuous practice during the winter months, and they look fine and dandy in their brand new uniforms. Mrs. Sarah Burdg. who has been visiting at Messa, Arizona, for eighteen months, came home Tuesday. Grandma says that while the west has many pretty sights, Geneva and old Adams county look the best to her. o Mrs. H. A. Fristoe came home Wednesday from a visit to Winona Lake, Indiana. Rev. C. J. Graves left Tuesday for Bluffton to attend the North Indiana M. E. conference. Sheriff Eli Meyer of Decatur was here Wednesday summoning the jurors for the April term. W. D. Cross has sold his property, corner Harrison and Main streets, to Bert Ramsey, an employee of the Ohio Oil company. We welcome Mr. Ramsey and his family as residents cf Geneva, the best little town on earth. John Dickerson, one of our tonsorial artists, is making an extensive visit with some friends at Richmond. John is quite a sprinter and we think he will make good. Mrs. Amanda Schenck of Pleasant Mills came Wednesday for a visit with J. L. Judy and other friends. Her husband was many years ago pastor of the U. B. church here. Edward Winans of Bellefountaine, Ohio, and a son of the late Rev. J. H. Winans, is lying at the point of death at the home of his sister, Mrs. Frances Kizer, here, suffering from tuberculosis. He came here several weeks ago for a visit with his sisters, Mrs. Kizer, Mrs. E. K. Haughton and Mrs. E. A. Haughton, was taken sick and lias been sinking rapidly. His wife and children and other relatives have been summoned to his bedside. He is about thirty-two years of age and well known. A. P. Shoemaker was the first man to pay a fare in and out of Geneva on the B. G. & C. traction line and the Misses Osa and Alverda Pontius were the first ladies. They paid fares ear.y on the morning of April 7, 1910. Ray Winans of Pleasant Mills arrived Wednesday to be at the bedside of his cousin, Edward Winans, who is very sick. o PLOW DEMONSTRATION. John Bryant of Macy, Ind., connected with the J. I. Case Plow company, arrived in the city this morning, ■ where he was attending to some bus- ■ iness during the day. This afternoon ■ at 2 o’clock on the Nuttman addition • ho demonstrated that the plow could s be drawn by one person and do the • same work that requires a horse for > another plow. A large number of peo- - pie were on the ground to witness the > stunt and were convinced that it could be done as advertised.