Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1910 — Page 1

Volufe VIII. Number 89.

THE GENEVA NEWS Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Graves Leave For New Home at Converse, Ind. BEST WISHES FOLLOW Pythian Sisters Lodge Inspected—Selling Stock For Chautauqua. Geneva, Ind., April 15—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Graves of the M. E. church left Geneva Thursday for their new station at Converse, Ind. They have been untiring workers in the Master's labors while here and they leave with the best wishes of all. Miss Alma Garlinger, who was tak«en to the hospital at Portland last week for an operation for appendicisis, is still in a serious condition and physicians have not yet deemed it wise to undertake thQ operation. Mrs. Grace Knight of Montpelier, Ind.,, inspector of the Pythian lodge for this district, inspected the Geneva Fythian Sisters’ lodge Thursday night, when a class of eleven were initiated.,; Afterwards a two-course luncheon was served. Mrs. Knight was well pleased with the lodge here and spoke most highly of the efficiency in the initiatory work. Master Paul Callihan is quite sick, his oopdition being such that his father is detained from his store this week. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Mcßarnes of Pleasant Mills spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Fristoe on Line street. This was Mr. Mcßarnes’ first -visit here for a number of years and the says the town looks good to him. Miss Goldie Fink and Miss Ethel Sutton will leave Monday for Marion, to enter Normal school. W. D. Cross, our fellow' townsman, is having a great sale of Ford automobiles this spring. He also has some second hand cars at the right price. Geneva has more automobiles for the side of the town than any other place In Indiana. If you don’t believe it, come over and we will check u* with you. Frank P. Gregg, our census enumerator, began his work this morning. The questions he will ask each person remind one of the proberbial Phi la delphia lawyer.” The Geneva Merchants’ band will give their first open air concert next Wednesday evening. The band nownumbers twenty-two pieces and without boasting is the best kid band In the state. Miss Leia Connor of the Economj store, and sister, Miss Fay, and cousin Cecil Connor, were taking in the sights at Portland Thursday, returning on the afternoon train. Mervin Day of Antwerp, Ohio, a representative of the Tri-State t .tail, tauqua Alliance of Toledo, Ohio, has been here this week trying to int< res the business men in having a chau an qua here. He wants to sell SSOO wort of stock at |lO a share. He has succeeded in disposing of quite a bloc of the stock. Miss Lulu Addington, sister of Mrs. Will Wells, who spent the win e Florida, arrived in Geneva W < nes day. Fred Callihan, aged eighteen, is quite sick with inflammatorj i '• "'na tism at the home of his sister, • Theodore Snyder. It ty hoped ni sease will soon, be checked. LADIES WILL SERVE SUPPERThe ladies of the Christian church ■who served a chicken pot-pie n at noon in the Niblick building, south of this office, have decided to sen o supper also, beginning at 5 o c Supper will be served for fifteen ce ■ The ladies were most success u the dinner patronage, which was uiusually heavy on account o e ■number in the City attending ihorse sale.

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• OPERATION SUCCESSFUL. Latest reports from the St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, are that Mrs. Martha Dutcher of Monmouth, who ’ was operated upon yesterday noon for cancer, is getting along well in spite of her advanced age and the delicacy of the operation. The operation was performed by Dr. Rosenthal and assistants, and Dr. P. B. Thotiias r of this city, and lasted an hour and ten minutes. A cancer, eytending from the left temple down the side of the face and neck was removed. Mrs. . Dutcher rallied from the effects of the anaesthtlc at 7 o’clock last evening and since has been getting along remarkably well. Her sister, Mrs. Mary Christen, who was with her at the hospital, returned today' noon. Mrs. Dutcher is nearly eighty years of ’ age. Mrs. Ben Wagoner, who was operi ated upon, and whose condition has ( been dangerous, is making rapid recovery. ’ o TEDDY DENIES IT Brands as “Fake” the Story That He Has Consented to be Candidate. COMMITTEE FORGOT > To Arrange for Quarters — Base Ball Season Opened With a Rush. — (United Press Service.) Vienna, April 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The visit of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt here today caused such intense confusion that the matter of reserving hotel accommodations for the city’s guests entirety escaped the entertainment committee. The former president’s reception was therefore necessarily prolonged outside the hotel Kranz and in temporary quarters until a more luxurious suite could be placed in readiness. Roosevelt, immediately, upon his arrival here, branded as a fake a report published in the Paris Herald that he had consented to again become a candidate for president. The colonel spent an hour with the aged emperor, Franz Josef. New York, N. Y., April 15—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Fgures compiled today show that the opening of the base ball season for 1910 attracted the total paid attention to the National and American leagues games of 144,224 people, the largest crowd witnessing the American league games at Chicago and New York, at each of which places tho crowd was 26,000. PLACED DYNAMITE UNDER BEDS (United Press Service.) Negaunee, Mich., April 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Despondent over the drudgery of his life, Frank Haariman, thirty-one, a miner, early today sought to kill his entire family by exploding dynamite in the house. The explosion blew to atoms the bodies of his wife, a five-year-old son and himself. A three-year-old daughter, sleep ing with her mother, miraculously escaped death. Dynamite was placed under the beds. o -— J. H. VOGLEWEDE NOT SO WELL. J. H. Voglewede, who was injured by being thrown from a carriage Sunday, receiving a Ipng, deep gash at the side of his head, and injuries to his pack, is not recovering as rapidly as he should. Symptoms of erysipelas are developing on the side of his head opposite to that which was injured, and his condition in general is much worse. —o—• — SUNDAY AT THE EVANGELICAL Rev. D. O. Wise of the Evangelical church, who has gone to Ridgeville, to visit with his parents over Sunday, has arranged for the regular survives. The Rev. S. C. Cranfer will preach in the morning and the evening service will be given over to the Rev. M. L. Merschon, a Methodist ■ minister who has lately moved to this i city from Michigan. , oUNION CHAPEL U. B. CHURCH. Sabbath services as follows: Sunday School, 9:30 a. m., Newton ■ Lenhart, superintendent. . Preaching, 10:30 a. m. ■ Everybody welcome. I. IMLER, Pastor.

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, April 15, 1910.

THOMPSON WINNER 11 * ° Gas City Man Nominated for Congress in the Eleventh District. i S J ON THE 122ND BALLOT f f Cass County Broke and the , Grant County Man Was Named by One Vote. F Marion, Ind., April 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —John L. Thompson -of Gas City, Grant county, is tho i choice of the republicans of the Eleventh district for congress. He was nominated shortly before 6 o'clock last night on the 122nd ballot. After wavering for three hours Cass county finally came in strong and gave Thompson twenty of its twenty-three votes, this number combined with the , solid votes of Grant and Blackford counties, making possible his nomination. On the deciding ballot Thompson received sixty-five votes, being one more than was necessary for his nomination. W’hen it was seen that Thompson’s nomination was cinched John Milton Sayler, who had the solid support of Huntington county from start to finish, pressed forward upon the platform and, gaining the attention of the chairman, he made a rousing speech, expressing his appreciation for the consideration he had received in the convention and especially from the republicans of his home county, pledging the loyal support and that of his friends to the nominee and moved that Mr. Thompson’s nomination be made by acclamation. He was followed by Judge George Funk of Cass county, Edgar Poe King of Miami county and Fred I. King of Wabash county, each one of who expressed his good feeling for the nominee, and declared his intention of entering in to the campaign to help bring about Mr. Thompson’ election in November. They closed their speeches, all of which were received with cheers, by seconding Mr. Sayler’s motion. FINE LOT OF IJOOKS Just Received by Decatur Library—Twenty Volumes in List. REFERENCE TO DATE Among Them Last Works of Late Edward Everett Hale. The Decatur library has received twenty fine new books which will be of infinite value in reference work. The list Includes the following: Men and Women of America (compiled complete to 1910). Mabie —Backgrounds of Literature. Hale—Modern Achievements (ten volumes). I Lanier —Journal of Recluse. London—War of Classes. , s Adney—Klondike Stampede. 1 Willson—Mosaics of Grecian Hisi tory. Stedman—Story of Hereward. I Embark—Life in Brazil. , Gauss —American Government, i Benjamin—Atlantic Islands. The ten volumes of ‘‘Modern Achievements” are the latest works of . the late Edward Everett Hale ,and ! treat of the following: “Science of , Business," “Reading and Home • Study,” “Modern Home Life," “Busi- ■ ness and Professional Life,” “Health I and Recreation,” “Leaders of Men,” “Inventors and Scientists, “Patriot- ! ism and Citizenship,” “Heroes and : Heroism,” "Travelers and Explo’--i ers.” — . HANNELE’. The presentation in New York again i of "Hannele” by Gerhart Hauptmann after a period of sixteen years, revives Interest in a reading edition, in English, of the play by Charles Henry Meltzer, whose poetical English ren-

I dering of "The Sunken Bell" Is in ev- . ery public library. Doubleday, Page & Company published Mr. Meltzer's “Hannele." Before the . year 1894 Hauptmann was comparatively unknown in America. The people of this country were introduced to him in May of that year, when Mr. Meltzer’s version of his dream-play “Hannele" was put upon the stage of the Fifth Avenue theater by Carl and Theodore Rosenfeld, with Hauptmann's approval and in his presence. Mr. Meltzer’s version was the first English translation ever made. The initial dramatic presentation in America was marked by great excitement and its announcement caused a sensational uproar. From all sides came denunciations of the play on account of its pretended blasphemous character, and the author, tho translator, the actress who was to play the part of Hannele, and the management of the theater were threatened with imprisonment. This hostility was due wholly to ignorance, for the theme which is suggested by the Savior’s words: "Suffer little children to come unto Me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven, and forbid them not,” is most reverently and tenderly treated, and those who came to condemn departed, pronouncing the work a complete artistic success. Extravagant eulogisms appeared in the (Continued on page 2.) o — , INSPECTING LINE Magnates of the Bluffton, Geneva and Celina Road Made a Trip, OVER THE ROUTE Three Towns Want Road After it Leaves Geneva For the East. The magnates of the Bluffton, Geneva & Celina Traction company, which made a trip of inspection between this city and Celina, Ohio, on Wednesday, made a trip between Geneva and Celina with a view to gaining an idea of three proposed routes between those two points, with a little town on each of the three routes under investigation anxious to have the new traction line come their way. The towns lying between Geneva and Celina which are competitors for the new division are New Corydon, Chattanooga and Wabash, Ohio. The road after striking out to the east might strike any one of the three point, but only one of them will be able to get the line, and New Corydon already has come forward with a proposition to take $25,000 in stock if they get the road through that town. Celina is anxious for the line, but has not yet offered any special inducement and the B. G. and C. has not yet asked for anything.—Bluffton News. HIGHLY ESTEEMED Rev. J. A. Beatty, New District Superintendent, as Earnest Minister. HAS LONG KNOWN By Rev. Powell —Will Make His First Official Visit Here in May. Much interest in Methodism in this district centers in the Rev. J. A. Beattly, late pastor of the M. E. church at Elkhart, who was recently appinted district superintendent, succeeding Dr. C. U. Wade of the Fort Wayne district, in which jurisdiction the Decatur church lies, and who has already entered upon his duties. The Rev. Powell, pastor of the Decatur church, has known Rev. Beatty for twenty-three years and speaks in the highest terms of that brother in the ministry, both as a man and a minister. Rev. Beatty's rise has been a most rapid and successful one. After his graduation from Depauw in 1885, he became pastor of the church at Leesburg, and in turn served in the following places: Coesse, Harlan, (Continued on page four.)

THE COURT NEWS 1 f Court Adopts a New Rulq Regarding Appointment of Guardians, Etc. 1 A NEW CASE FILED i The Van Camp Partition Case Set For Trial For Next Tuesday. I Hooper & Lenhart tiled a new case entitled Decatur Lumber Company vs. Lawrence Smith, account and attachment, demand, $75. Writ of attachment ordered. Notice of non-resident ordered. The court has adopted a new rule that from and after the first day of the next term of court he will not appoint as guardian, administrator or commissioner any person who has neglected or refused to report when ordered to do so. The cases of Roy Jones and Otto Bremerkamp vs. the Chicago & Erie railroad, for $2,090 damages each, for false imprisonment, leave was asked and granted plaintiffs to amend return to summons. Albert Taylor vs. Aaron Irian, account, rule to answer made absolute in five days. Laura A. Van Camp vs. Charles 'VanCamp et al:, partition, answer filed by Old Adams County Bank and by Mrs. Van Camp. Set for Tuesday, April 19th. Frank Imboden et al. vs. Sarah R. Imboden et al., partition, application filed by Elwood Trust Co. for order on court to pay it for use of estate of Anna J. Gross in sum of S6O. Real estate transfers: John A. Baumgartner to Warren J. Case et al., 40 acres, St. Marys tp., $5000; P. G. Hooper, com., to Clifford Death, lot 8, Rivarre, $1.00; James S. Johnson to George A. Hahnert, lot 7, Monroe, $lO5. ■ - o WILL MATCH SKILL Decatur Bowlers Will Enter Handicap Tournament at Fort Wayne. DURING NEXT WEEK List of Decatur Players, Games They Played and Averages of Each. The Decatur bowlers will take part in the handicap tournament at the Metropolitan alleys at Fort Wayne next week, in which the best players from all the surrounding towns will take part. The two learns from the Decatur players will be selected to match their skill against some of the best in northern Indiana and they expect to bring back many laurel wreaths on their brows. Decatur has some good bowlers, too. as may be seen from the list below, giving the number of games they played, and the average of each player in the league contest since February Ist. These players are from the Postofflce, Klondyke, Pirate and Tiger teams, whch played in league during the past winter. They are: Player No. Played Av. D. Frisinger 9 183 Vaughn 15 169 J. Peterson 9 177 T. Peterson 9 173 C. Schafer 15 176 A. Schaferls 165 F. Frisinger 14 156 C. France 15 169 Beery 8 157 Beatty 8 163 Smith 9 169 D. Peterson 12 163 B. Peterson 12 154 Bohnke 15 171 Bart Schrolecke 12 166 Nelson 15 140 Mutchler 15 151

’ EXAMINATION HERE SATURDAY. Pupils Will Try Again for County Diploma. * The pupils of the north part of the county who may desire to take the examination for county diploma will be pleased to learn that L. E. Opliger, county superintendent of schools, has arranged to conduct an examination ’ at the Central school building in this city Saturday, April 16th, at the same time that the one is to ne held at I Geneva. This has been done by special arrangement and will accommodate many. ————— - o ■—- METHODIST CHOIR PLEASE NOTE The choir of the Methodist church will meet at 7 o’clock sharp this even ing for one hour of work. A full at- ' tendance is desired, as the study of the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah will begin this evening. SHERMAN POWELL, Pastor. o ■. — — MANY QUESTIONS Tending Toward Your Perigree Will be Asked by Enumerators. WHO BEGAN TODAY Ballenger Ordered to Produce Papers Wantd by “Proscution.” (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C., April 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —“How many times have you been divorced?” is one of the numerous questions put by the seventy thousand enumerators throughout the country today, when the thirteenth United States census will be undertaken. Inquiries as to history and pedigree will be more searching than in any former census. About 125 days will be required to complete the census. (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C., April 15 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —Continued delay by the interior department in producing correspondence and official documents, requested by the “prosecution” in the Ballenger-Plnchot controversy again today brought a sharp criticism of Secretary Bellenger by Attorney Branders, who declared that he had called for the documents to be introduced as a denial of the charge by Attorney-General Wickersham that L. R. Glavis made no effort to prosecute the Alaska coal claimants. The order has been ignored he said. The commission ended the debate by directing that the secretary produce the papers at once. 0 WILL LIVE IN CLEVELAND. Mrs. Emery Wilson and daughter, Jane, of Boston, are expected to arrive , this afternoon from Bellefontaine, Ohio, where they had visited Mr. 1 Wilson’s parents, and will make a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Meyers. The Wilsons, who i have resided since their marriage at i Boston, aro moving to Cleveland, Ohio, , where Mr. Wilson, who is an expert . draughtsman, has secured a very excellent position with the Brown Hoisting company. That they will be located much nearer home Is a source of much pleasure to their relatives in Indiana and Ohio. Mrs. Wilson was formerly Miss Mary Meyers of this city. REGULAR HORSE SALE ON TODAY The regular semi-monthly horse sale under the direction of the Decatur company, was in progress all of today, and was attended by a large number of buyers from all over the land. The bunch of horses was as large as usual, nearly three hundred having been disposed of, but the prices dragged again. It seems to be the same as heretofore, the local men have to pay more for the animals than the foreign buyer can afford to give. Many people were in town for I the sale. i o i The case of Mulcahey vs. Clark and I Marshal Peterson, which was venued I from 'Squire Stane's to 'Squire 5 Smith’s court, has been set for trial 9 for April 21st, at 9 o’clock) In tho 1 morning.

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NEW GREAT NORTH ■ As Described by S. J. Kelley, a Former Resident of This City. LIVES IN CANADA With His Brothers Owns a Large Ranch Southeast of Edmonton. The following interesting article was written by S. J. Kelley, son of S. F. Kelley of Blue Creek township, who formerly conducted the old Miesse house in this city. The young man left here some years ago and for three years worked as a dining car conductor on Pennsylvania and Wabash roads. Then he went to the “new north," where with two of his brothers they own a large ranch southeast of Edmonton, near the Saskatchewan river. His postofflce address is Capeville P. 0., Alberta, Canada. His story is interesting: In that vast and fertile region lying between the Lake of the w’oods on the east and the Rocky Moutains on the west and extending northward from the international boundary, for from two to three hundred miles lies that part of the three prairie provinces of Canada, lined w’ith a network of railways, and each year sees larger additions to the lines already in operation in this new nation which Jias sprung up in a night, peopled with well-to-do farmers and business men of the states and eastern Canada, with a sprinkling of the congress of nations of the old world, has often been | termed the last great west, and as the advancing settlement and decreasing number of free homesteads continue, the eyes of the land-hungry are beholding that last retreat on this continent for free land. The new north, containing the valleys of McKenzie, Peace and Athabasea rivers with a host of tributaries, a veritable empire within itself, with a climate in summer comparable to the states of North and South Dakota and where the sun rises at 3:12 a. m. and sets at 9 p. m., in latitude 56 degrees, the center of the rich agricultural Peace river district and a crop of grain or vegetables will mature in two-thirds the time it takes in the above named states several hundred miles to the south, on account of the long summer days at this period of the season. It is estimated that this district contains over thirty thousand square miles of rich virgin soil, capable of producing immense quantities of grain and vegetables, while wild fruits and berries are found in abundance, scattered over this fertile region. The native grasses are the most luxuriant found in the whole dominion, and tor several years past there has been a large influx of ranchers into the grand prairie country and other favorable localities of the Peace Rver valleys, to take advantage of the free pasturage for cattle and horse raising. For several years the Hudson Bay company have maintained grist mills all over this district for several hundred miles north of Edmundton and has an electric flour mill in operation at Vermillion, several hundred miles north of Lesser lake, and last year consumed twenty-five thousand bushels of native grown wheat in their operations at this point alone. But the agricultural wealth of this new north is only one of the many and important diversions to be found there. The country is dotted with a park-like growth of trees, while the banks of nearly all tho streams are lined with giant spruce fir and hemlock, and lumbering will be a source of great wealth as soon as the railroads that are projected north from Edmonton are completed to the navigable waters of the Peace and Athabasca rivers. In the numerous lakes scattered over this region are found great quantities of white fiish and other valuable food species, while ducks and geese and other waterfowl make this a -1 sportsman’s paradise. Mrge herds of > caribou and moose abound, and bear, > wolve?, foxes, deer and smaller fur- ’ bearing animals are numerous. Immense quantities of raw furs are brought down to Edmundton early 1 each year by dog trains and has made 1 Edmundton the largest raw fur mar--8 ket in the world. Valuable deposits 1 of gold-bearing quartz have in the 8 last few years been found along the I (Continued on page 2.)