Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1910 — Page 1

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NEARING A CLOSE Appointsments of M ,E. Pastors Will be Read at 7 O’clock Tonight. ROUTINE BUSINESS Os M. E. Conference—R. S. Todd Elected Trustee of Depauw. Bluffton, Ind., April 11—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The conference session was resumed this morning at 8:30 o'clock alter a most inspiring day Sunday, and the regular routine work was gone through with. Several new preachers were admitted on trial and the Rev. J. of Preble, pastor of the Decatur circuit, was recognized as an elder, and put on the last two years of study. The name of C. B. Wilcox was withdrawn from the ministerial list and Bishop Cranston complimented the passage of a resolution calling attention to the discipline prohibiting the marriage of divorced persons, except in the case of the innocent party to a divorce granted for adultery, which is made the only exception. Too often, he said, is the marriage performed by the minister without investigation or taking into consideration these things. R. S. Todd, cashier of the Studabaker bank, was elected trustee of Depauw University, succeeding Mr. Elliott, of Kokomo, deceased. The committee reported the recommendation of the re-election of ex-Governor W. T. Durbin as trustee of Depauw, but the report was returned to the committee for further consideration and left open. Congressman J. A. M. Adair is also in line for the election. The appointments of the pastors to the various charges will be read this evening at 7 o’clock. A number of rumors are abroad regarding the appointments. It is thought that Rev. Ray Wade of Richmond will be sent to Elkhart as pastor, and Rev. J. A. Beatty of Elkhart is slated for the Fort Wayne district superintendency, succeeding C. U. Wade, and that L. N. Carter of Alexandria or C. E. Line of Greenfield will succeed District Superintendent Naftzger. FROM LOAD OF HAY Charles Poling, Prominent Farmer, Falls From Load of Hay on HEAD AND SHOULDER Rendered Unconscious But Injuries Not so Serious as at First Feared. Charles Poling, a prominent farmer living southwest of the city, near the Washington church, was thrown from a load of hay and injured about 9 ■o’clock this morning, though no bones were broken, and his escape from more serious injury is considered miraculous. He was drh ing from the barn-yard on a load of hay and just as he turned to drive out on the pike, a wheel came off the wagon. Mr. Poling attempted to jump, but his feet caught in the boon pole at the end of the load and he fell on his head and shoulders on the pike. He was rendered unconscious, and members of the family who hastened to him, at first feared that life was extinct. Neighbors were called and he was carried into the home. Doctor Thomas was called from this city and an examination revealed no broken bones, though he is quite badlj bruised, and it is thought he will get along all right. Mr. Poling is a son-in-law of Joshua Parrish of this city. —-o THE SWOPE CASE BEGUN TODAY. Kansas City, Mo., April 11 UrBennett Clark Hyde was placed on trial here today for the murder of ■Col. Thomas H. Swope, millionaire,

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and benefactor of Kansas City, who presented to the city before his death one of the most beautiful parks In the middle west. The charge of murdering Colonel Swope is but one of many indictments found against Dr. i Hyde following the deaths of Colonel Swope, his nephew, Christian Swope, and cousin, James Moss Hunton, as well as the malady of typhoid fever that swept the Swope household and for a time threatened to exterminate the family. It is alleged that Colonel Swope came to his death directly as the result of a strychnine capsule prescribed by Dr. Hyde. At the same time it is alleged by the state that he placed typhoid fever germs in the food prepared for the family with the intention of killing them. As a motive for these deeds the state claims that Dr. Hyde desired to kill off the heirs to tne Swope estate, as each death increased the share which his wife, Mrs. Frances Swope Hyde, niece of Colonel Swope, would inherit. —© — CHECKS ARE “BUM” Clarence Stevens Has Been Busy Writing Worthless Paper AND GETTING MONEY Has Worked a Number of the Business Men—Mother’s Vain Effort. Clarence Stevens, aged about efghteen, has a penchant for cashing checks on an imaginary fund in the banks, and which prove worthless when presented for payment. For a week or two the lad has been doing this and his kind mother, desirous of keeping her boy out of the toils of the law, has been following him around trying to keep the matter straightened up. So long as there was a chance of her saving him the merchants have not said anything about it, but the affair has become common and it is necessary to uncover the boy’s work, as a warning to the Decatur merchants who have not been caught. The young man has heretofore borne a good reputation, but discovering how easily his plan worked he has been working overtime at it. He is an electrician and his plan is simply to walk into a store, buy something, or pay a little account, and then give a check for several dollars and get the difference in change. He cashed a check at Fullenkamp's early last week for five dollars and the next day, before the worthlessness of iue check was discovered, went right back and did it over for six dollars with another clerk. This came so easy that he cashed a nine-dollar check at C. J. Voglewede’s, took a pair of four-dollar shoes and got the change. He hired a rig at Schlickman’s and worked off a nine-dollar check and was a real millionaire all last week. His parents heard of the work and the mother hastened around and did her best to clean up the wrongs. It was thought Clarence would listen to advice and cease his efforts, but Saturday night he cashed a similar check at the Schaub, Gotte,moller & Co. store for eleven dollars. While we have due regard for tne ' feelings of the parents of this way- ' ward young man, we believe he has ' had chances enough and we publish this story for the good of him and his ' respectable parents, as well as for 1 the business men of Decatur, who are hereby warned not to cash any of 1 his checks without investigation. —— O' FOR REMOVAL OF CANCER. ' Mrs. Mary Christen spent Sunday I with her sister, Mrs. Marta Dutcher, I at Monmouth, their sister, Mrs. Mina ) Nickey arriving from Buffalo Satur--1 day evening to be here at the time of ' an operation which Mrs. Dutcher will probably undergo next Thursday for f cancer. The cancer has been coming t on her neck just below the left ear - and has grown to be quite targe and painful. It was decided best to remove this by operation which will be performed, according to present arrangements, Thursday at the home i of Mrs. Mary Christen in this city by f Dr. McOscar of Fort Wayne and Dr. , I P. B. Thomas.

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WINS THE HONOR Harold Wilcox Successful in Sub-District Contest at Durand, Mich. OVER SEVEN OTHERS » ■ His Subject Was “The Man and the Dollar”—St. Louis Took All. Harold Wilcox, son of C. B. Wilcox, the former M. E. pastor, has won fresh laurels in the oratorical line, having last week captured the prize in that work in a district contest at Durand, Mich. While here Harold showed unmistakable ability in oratory jn his originality in writing and his friends will be glad to hear of his continued success in the Wolverine state. The following dispatch from Saturday’s Grand Rapids Herald tells the story: Durand, Mich., April B—St.8 —St. Louis high school won two firsts in the subdistrict contests in oratory and declamation held at the Durand M. E. churcn tonight. Harold Wilcox of St. Louis was first in the oratorical contest, his subject being "The Man and the Dollar.” The other contestants and their subjects were: “Conflict of Ideas in America,” Charles Myers, Saginaw; “Athenian State,” Harry Stavers, Saginaw; “Liberty or Death,” Claude Cope, Owosso; “The American Negro,” John H. Knapp, Flint; “The Misguided South," Cora Wagner, Chesaning; “Industrial Education,” Floyd Fillingham, Fenton; “Guarding American Portals,” Blanch Pratt, Saginaw. The subject of declamations and order of standing was: “Spartacus to the Gladiators,” Fred Thorbold, St. Louis; “Spartacus to the Gladiators,” Josephine Fuller, Fenton; “Spartacus to the Gladiators,” George Clemens, Durand; “Speech of John Adams,” Charles Stevens, Chenang. HE SEES VICTORY Governor Marshall Sees Victory in Indiana This Fall. GIVES HIS VIEWS The Republicans Are Divided Against Themselves and Will Lose Out. Indianapolis, Ind., April 11 —Governor Marshall cannot see anything but victory in store for the Indiana democracy this year. He does not believe that the insurgent movement under the leadership of Senator Beveridge will win. He has not changed his opinion because of the ovations Senator Beveridge received last Tuesday. "There are three political clans in Indiana to my way of thinking,” said the governor. There is one in the republican party that believes in President Taft and the Payne-Aldrich tariff, which is standing pat for his protective tariff. There is another element in the republican party led by Senator Beveridge that is for protection, but which wishes to put a limit on that larceny. The third clan is the democratic party, which is against protection for old-fashioned democratic principles of ‘tariff for revenue only.’ ” The governor is convinced that the democratic clan will win because he believes the two republican ' clans will not harmonize. He believes that the standpatters will not • support Senator Beveridge on his in- - surgent platform. The governor takes I this view? “The democrats would not care to elect some one to the senate who would be admitted to their cauI cuses, and who, after getting their se- • crets, would turn around and use the I Information against the party. They • would hather have a republican sena- ■ |tor under such circumstances. In ■ my opinion, there are many republis cans in Indiana to do this year but to ' way about senator Beveridge. They . would rather see a democrat in the senate from Indiana than Senator

. Beveridge as long as the latter is opposed to the present party leadership. There is nothing for the Taft republicans in Inditna to do this year but io take to the timber until after the . campaign Is ended. This insurgent movement reminds me of the man who makes a fight in his own church because he doesn’t like its doctrines. He wants the church to come to him, whereas he ought to go into the church or quit. It is a good time for the man to leave the church when I he no longer believes in it. Senator Beveridge can’t expect the Taft republicans to vote for him when he is fighting them all the time." Governor Marshall said that Senator Beveridge's criticism of the democratic members congress for voting with the “interests” in framing the PayneAldrich law will not apply to the Indiana delegation. He says the Indian i members in congress and Senator Shively voted right and that Senator Beveridge can have no room for charges aginst them when he and (Continue don page 4.) ON NEXT FRIDAY Census Enumerators Will Start Out on the Work of Countin’ Noses. ALL OVER COUNTRY Advance Schedules Will be Forwarded in Fed Days to Heads of Families. Washington, D. C., April 11 — Each head of a family in a number of large cities will receive, a few days prior to April 15th, when the United States census begins, an "advance population schedule,” containing all the questions which appear in the official population schedule to be carried by the census takers. In a communication to the “head of the family.” printed on tne back of each schedule, Census Director Durand states: “In accordance with the act of congress approved July 2, 1909, the enumeration of the population of the United States will begin on April 15th. An enumerator will call at your house or apartment for the purpose of obtaining the required information concerning all persons belonging to your household. It is necessary that you should prepare the information in advance of the enumerator’s visit. Please, therefore, answer all the questions contained on the advanced schedule for each member of your household and preserve it so tnat it can readily be given to the enumerator when he calls. By doing this you will not only aid greatly In the work of securing an accurate enumeration of the population but will probably save yourself much trouble, since if you do not do so, a great deal of you l- time will unavoidably be taken by the enumerator in securing the ir.fonmtion he must obtain, and he may have to call on you several times. “This schedule, as filled In by you should be given to the enumerator when he calls. As he has been given detailed instructions, which it has not been possible to put -. n this schedule, concerning the exact manner in which each question should be answered, it will be necessary for him to go over the answers with you or with some member of your family for the purpose of making such additions or changes as are called ror by his instructions. All such additions and changes should be made ny the enumerator on this schedule or on his official schedule before he leaves the house. The advance schedule, whether filled in by you or not, should then, in all cases, be given to the enumerator to be forwarded to Washington with his official schedule upon which the corrected Information for all families in his district has been written. These advance schedules are to be i filled in by the heads of families, or, : in their absence by other members i of their families, and the schedules • will be taken up by the enumerators ■ during the progress of the actual > enumeration. ■—• BANK CLOSED FOR FUNERAL. i■ " * The Old Adams County bank will > be closed all day Tuesday on account r of the funeral of Mrs. W. J. Vesey, » which will be held at 1:30 o’clock • Tuesday afternoon. *

: REV. WISE RETURNS 10 * e t Appointments Made at the ‘ Evangelical Conference at Wabash—Closed » J ~ ; ON SUNDAY EVENING r i Other Adams County Evanr gelical Ministers Also Re-Appointed. The Rev. D. O. Wise, who has served most earnestly and ably for the past two years as pastor of the Evan- , gelical church in this city, has been I re-appointed for another year, much to the satisfaction and happiness of all connected therewith. During his service here the church has enjoyed the fullest spiritual and material uplift and his return will be the further fulfillment of the work begun. The congregations of the Rev. E. R. Roop of the Salem and Calvary churches, of the Rev. C. P. Maas of Berne, and of the Rev. John Rees of Linn Grove will also be pleased to hear of their return. The conference closed Sunday evening, after a week's session at Wabash. The following were the appointments in which Adams county folk are especially interested: Fort Wayne District—J. J. Wise, presiding elder; Berne, C. P. Maas; Bippus, F. F. McClure; Celina, Ohio, A. D. Kroeft; Chattanooga, E. R. Roop; Decatur, D. O. Wise; Defiance, Ohio, circuit, W. H. Grant; Defiance, Ohio, mission, E. H. Baumgartner; Edgerton, Ohio, J. M. Lantz; Fort ■ Wayne, Bethel, C. D. Rarey; Fort ■ Wayne Crescent Avenue, Carl Hidschman; Hicksville, Ohio, J. F. Stedke; Huntington, J. W. Mentzer; Kendallville, W. W. Freshle; Linn Grove, John Rees; Markle, E. E. Miller; Portland circuit, S. E. Young; Scott, G. F. Zuber; St. Peter, Charles Schlemmer; Van Wert, Ohio, C. H. Brageman; Waterloo, P. L. Brown; Webster, D. R. Neil; Wolcottville, D. A. Kaley. THE GENEVA NEWS Invoice of Hartman Store Begins Tuesday—May Open Saturday. MR. WILSON MOVES Began His Duties at the Parrish Restaurant Here This Morning. I Geneva, Ind., April 11 —(Special to ! Daily Democrat) —Mrs. W. W. Tripolett, who has been in failing health for a number of years, underwent a delicate operation at the Lutheran . hospital at Fort Wayne last wees. , She is improving nicely and unless something unforseen sets in she will be able to be brought home within a j week or ten days. , Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Kirk arriv’d . Sunday from Orville, Ohio, to take . charge of the George Hartman store, i Mrs. Kirk being the administratrix. . The inventory of the stock will begin I Tuesday morning by Willis Glender.ing and F. J. McWhinney and in all . probability the store will open next i Saturday. , Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Shiveley ar- - rived Sunday morning on the G. B. i & C. from Bluffton for a visit with i Mrs. Shiveley’s father, Jerry Swank. ■ They were the first people to buy tick- - ets over the road from Bluffton to Geneva. , There were no services at the M. s E. church here Sunday on account of s the pastor, Rev. Graves, being at the i conference at Bluffton. Services will 1 be held next Sunday at the usual hours, 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. J. M. Smith of Route 5 attended the second quarterly conference of the 1 United Brethren church at Pleasanl t Mills Saturday and Sunday. t Bert Wilson, who has been baklni (Continued <m page four.f

j ATTENDED JEFFERSON BANQUET Fort Wayne Club Had Great Democratic Meeting Saturday Night. 5 The Jeffersonian banquet at Fort Wayne Saturday evening was the most enthusiastic political event >n the history of that club's organization, and that is saying much. The , club contracted for 400 plates, but 1 twice that number had to be accommodated and they were well taken care of. The speakers included Governor Marshall, Ed Shields, democratic state chairman of Michigan; Judge Felts, candidate for appellate judge; Senator Proctor of Elkhart, J. Fred France, A. A. Adams and Toastmaster Neizer. Among those from here who ' attended were Daniel Erwin, L. G. ■' Ellingbam, Dr. Roy Archbold and J. ’ H. Heller. 1 'PAINT BOXES WHITE 1 r With Letters in Black Says 3 Uncle Sam Regarding i Rural Mail Boxes. r ■ CIRCULARS RECEIVED 1 3 By Postmaster Frisinger— Also Again Urges Good Roads Matter. * i, Uncle Sam now sayk “paint rural ■ mail boxes white" and within a very 1 short time it is expected that every where over the United States this great white line of the government will be running in all directions. This is the import of a circular letter recently received from the postoffice department at Washington by Post- ’ master Frisinger. The department asks that all partons of rural delivery paint their mail boxes and the posts to which they are attached white. This not only protects them from weather damage, but gives all a uniform color and serves to fix their ' identity in all parts of the country as I U. S. mail boxes, and gives them a much neater and sightlier appearance. The patrons are also asked to im- . print their names and box numbers on them in black letters about two inches high. At the same time they ask that road officials be induced to paint upon the posts of boxes located at cross-roads (but not attach signs thereto) the name of the towns or ( villages to which the cross-roads lead, with an indicator showing the direction. Posts to which boxes are attached shall be set in an easily accessible position at the side of the road and boxes securely fastened to a projecting arm of wood, or to a bracket of band-iron about three-six-teenths of an inch thick, or if preferred, an automatic extension arm maj j be used. ' The matter of good roads and 1 bridges is again brought up. In order 1 that the best service to the largest 1 number of patrons may be maintained, the government insists upon roads 3 being kept in good repair. This lack 1 is usually due to improper drainage, * unsuitable grading and surface work, and the postmaster is asked to investigate these conditions, and ask the 1 road officials to remedy the defects. B If this is not done after a reasonable ’> time the office will take action looking to tjje discontinuance of service over n those roads. — o */ ROOSEVELTS LOOK AT PICTURES t Genoa, Italy, April 11—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by United '- States Consul James A. Smith, made I. a round of the Genoa galleries today, i This was the only diversion of the day :. as at 2 o'chick they left by train for Porto Maurizo. Consul Smith gave 3 a luncheon for the Roosevelts at noon at which several prominent persons were present. f DEPUTY INSPECTOR. e Mrs. Grace Knight of Montpelier, 1 Ind., and the deputy inspector of the .1 Pythian Sisters of this district, arrived in the city this noon, where she wil Imake an inspection of the local e lodge this evening. Other arrangee ments have been made for a social afit fair and a real good time will be had by those who attend. A class of candidates will be given the degree work ig which alone promises to be of much Interest. 4

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THE COURT NEWS ———■ i 114 The April Term Opened This Morning—Two New Cases Filed Today. REALTY TRANSFERS Quite a Bunch Recorded Today—The Marshand Case Set For Trial. The April term of the Adams circuit court opened this morning. It will close Saturday, June 11th, when the summer vacation begins. Attorney D. E. Smith filed a petition signed by David Werling, asking that lots 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 in the David Werling second addition to the town of Preble be vacated and added to the northwest quarter of section one in Kirkland township. Mr. Werling owns all the property affected Another new case filed by D. E. Smith was entitled Minnie Pranger vs. Ferdinand Pranger, petition to 31 acres in Root township and eignt lots in town of Williams. The defendant is plaintiff's husband and has been insane for sixteen years. Eliza J. Sturgeon et al vs. William G. Young, suit on contract, from Allen county, rule to reply to crosscomplaint and answer made absolute within ten days. George W. Brewster vs. Phillip Wendell, foreclosuse of mechanic's lien, demurrer filed by defendant to complaint. The Arbuckle-Ryan Co. vs. David Marshand et al., foreclosure of mortgage, issues completed and cause set for trial Thursday, April 21st. A marriage license was issued to William T. Rupert, 21 a farmer, from near Monroe, to Verna Raudenbush, 16, daughter of Dayton Randenbush, of Washington township. Real estate transfers: Arminda M. Hand to Jesse V. Essex, 80 acres, Monroe tp., $100; George W. Bauserman to D. B. Erwin, 80 acres, Union tp., $6600; D. B. Erwin, com., to S. M. Beavers, 100 acres, Kirkland tp., $1.00; Bertha Moschbarger to Silas Sprunger, 80 acres, Monroe tp., $2000; A. Aspy et al. to Clara Wheat, 80 acres, Wabash tp., $1500; Rose Shumaker to John Snyder, lot 350„ Geneva, S4O; James S. Newcomer to John Snyder, lot 349, Geneva, $225. TO GREAT BEYOND The Spirit of Miss Blanche Shackley Answered the Summons. EARLY THIS MORNING Had Been Ailing Several Months With Tuberculosis—Burial Wednesday Blanche Shackley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shackley, of Adams street, died this morning at 6:45 o’clock at the family home after a long illness from tuberculosis. Miss Shackley had been ailing the greater part of the winter, but has been seriously sick only for the past five weeks, during the greater part of which time she was bedfast. She was twenty-four years of age and was born May 25, 1885, on the Shackley farm northeast of the city.- She had spent her entire life in the county, where she is widely and favorable known. About seven years ago the family came to this city to make their , home. She leaves father, mother and 3 the following brothers and sisters' - Samuel Shackley of near Monroe, e Mrs. Effie Bowers of near Peterson, 1 Mrs. Nettie Spangler of Preble townt- ship, Mrs. Bertha Baxter of Lima, f- Ohio, and Miss Jennie Shackley at d home. The funeral will be held Wedt- nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from k the M. E. church, by the Rev. Powh ell. Interment in the Decatur cemetery.