Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 91.

LIFE IN ALASKA Night Now Turning Into Day, When the Sun Never Goes Clear Down. WHAT THEY EAT An Interesting Letter From Frank Barthel to His Sister, Mrs. Kuebler. Mrs. W. A. Kuebler has received the following leter from her brother, Frank Barthel, at Fairbanks, Alaska: Dear Sister: Well, 1 received both of your letters some time ago. 1 received the first one you wrote last and the last one first. Well, you can tell Mrs. Sholty that there are no 5c and 10c stores in Alaska. They don t have anything cheap up here. Thev get good prices and they only handle the best of everything. I could not find a plate with anything on of Alaska, and the cheapest plate with any kind of decoration on cost $5.00 up to $50.00. A tin pie pan costs twentyfive cents. Well, don't tell me what good stuff you have to eat any more, because it makes me hungry. All we get to eat now is canned stuff and awful stale at that, except moose, caribou and mountain sheep, grouse and pthyconians. I have had one glass of milk since I have been here. The rest is all evaporated milk. I eat stuff here I wouldn’t look at at home, but you have to eat it or go hungry. Saturday it rained all day. We got the Johnson and Ketchell fight pictures and we showed them at the auditorium last Saturday night. They cost Bill and Fred almost S6OO for one month. They charged $1.50 and $2.00 a ticket, and had a pretty good house. Monday I have to go out to Chataiuka, one of the mining creeks, and do a lot of wiring, so we will have electricity. We are going to show the pictures out there. I have been showing them all week in the saloon free, and you ought to see the crowds come in to see them. Well, we are having pretty nice weather and if it don’t change the people think the ice will go out in about two months from no*. The trails are getting awful uatl and the stages hard to travel at night when it gets cold and freezes again. All the malls are coming in from one to three days late, but it can’t be helped in Alaska. Any old thng goes here. Well, in a month or so we will have midnight sunset. It will set, or go down, and in about twenty minutes it will rise again about ten feet from where it went down. That is, it looks about that far, and it don’t go clear down. On one side you can see the sun set and on the other see it hise at the same time. And then about that time we will have mdnight base ball games. It will be daylight all day and all night for about six months. Well, it is almost 4 o’clock in the morning and I have got the steam turned on and the back door open. The mines on the creeks are commencing to open up now and maybe business will get better. The Mai mutes dogs are howling now like they do every night. They don’t bark. They cry or howl like a wolf. They are half wolf and when you h< at about four of them howling you would think there were thirty or forty of them. When a dog howls like that in Decatur they say some one is going to die. If that was the ’ aa *' up here everybody in Alaska wou have been dead long ago. About one half of the men up here have irom two to twelve dogs. They take the place of horses here. I have lots o time on my hands now. I only wort five hours a night, from 8 until 1, and then I have all day to my sei . 11 maybe this summer I can g< t some wiring to do from the N. 1 company, the people. I worked for last summer Then I can make a little money, u if business don’t pick up 1 g'“ bS ® won’t be busy and then the i 8 ea • men can do all the work, but I may , able to make a few dollars on the side. I can’t save much at. wages lam getting now. 1 ■" " a ® are good enough, but the hours too short —one dollar an hour, only five hours. Old Herman Barthel was in tonight and se 1 about a dozen times, and sa , don't you come down and see • You are welcome any time, an side door is always open, so some and make yourself at home. I guess I will go up to his brewe y

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home of these days when it gets i warm and see him. His family is outside this winter. He used to get nil of my mail, but for the last three months the postmaster woke up and 1 now he puts It in the California's box. When the ice goes out it takes the bridge along with it and then the people that live across the slough have to pay twenty-five cents to get ferried across. The slough is about > fifty feet in front of the California and all the boats stop there. I had some new onions last week. They were raised in the greenhouse. They can only raise stuff in the greenhouses in the summer time, because in winter time it Is dark and the stuff won't grow in the dark. Bill Scheymer told me they had 100-candle power electric light put in their green house, but the stuff would not run from electric light. This is a funny country. It is thought to have been a warm country at one time years and years ago, but the Lord knows it is a cold one now. We have had winter for six months now, and we will have it for (Continued from cage 1.) s. s. Convention Members of Washington Association Hold Session Sunday. AT ST. PAUL CHURCH Will Arrange to Attend the State Convention at Indianapolis Next Week. The Washington township Sunday school convention neld at the St. Paul church south of this city Sunday afternoon and evening was largely attended and proved to be a most interesting one. The theme for the afternoon was the “Adult Bible Class,'' which was most ably brought out in an address by C. E. Biery of Berne. ’ Statistics, showing the work of the Billie Class association of Indiana and Adams county, and giving some very good things regarding this great power for good were given, and the ’ subject was further discussed in a most able way by Attorney C. J. Lutz. Jesse Rupp of Berne, superintendent 1 of the Adams county Sunday School ' association, was present and brought to mind the State Sunday School convention to be held at Indianapolis next week, and urged the attendance of as many as possible from this county. If fifty or more can go, special rates will be given, the party going byway of Portland. All desir- ’ ing to go in this way should notify 1 Mr. Rupp. The evening’s work took up “The Teachers' Training Class" and the “Stranger's Friends' ” socie- ‘ ty, which were discussed by J. W. Meyers, superintendent of the St. Paul Sunday school, and by Thomas Perkins, bringing out many good features. Attorney C. L. Walters was to have given the address of the evening ■ but as he could not be present this was turned over to Howard Wisehaupt. Mr. Wlsehaupt is secretary of the teachers’ training department of the Washington Township association, and his address abounded in ’ much of practical use gained from 1 his experience. The Dons were to have furnished music for the occa- ’ sion, but as their number was broken ' by the absence of Don Burke, who ’ took charge of his pastorate at WoodI burn over Sunday, they could not fill ’ their part of the program. i o FIRST BALL GAME. The first ball game of the season I was played at Steele's park Sunday when the Knights of Columbus team ’ crossed bats with the Shamrocks. . The game was interesting throughout • and neither side was confident of winning until the nine innings were over. ’ The K. of C. team was in the lead un- ' til the ninth, when a few costly er- ’ rors were made and their opponents 1 were allowed to cross the plate, losing ■ the game to the Shamrocks. Another I game will be played fn the near fu- » ture and some interesting matches t can be looked for before the season ■ closes. ) .— o r Grandma Buhler of Magley is vis- ■ itlng with her daughter, Mrs. John s Bucher, of Root township. Mrs. Buhi ler is one of the pioneer residents of the county, being eightyflve years old. f She formerly lived in this city.

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, April 18, 1910.

A CALL IS GIVEN 1 1 1 To Rev. Ehle of Bronson, • Mich., by Baptist Church X I of This City. t t ; HAS CHARGE THERE r ■■ r . And May Not Change— Preached Here a Week Ago—-Is Well Liked. i ■ — 1 Evangelist D. B. Rickard, of the Baptist State Evangelistic association, conducted the usual excellent Sunday services at the church in this city Sunday, which were largely attended. The interest shown is due largely to Evangelist Rickard, who has labored for many weeks for the charge here. The evening services, which were held here for so long, were discontinued a week ago, and Evangelist Rickard transferred his attention during the week to the Baptist church at Pleasant Mills, where he conducted services every*evening, coming to this city to hold the regular Sunday services. The local congregation Sunday unanimously voted to extend a call to the Rev. Ehle of Bronson, Mich., to serve as pastor here and will await with much interest- his answer. Rev. Ehle preached in this city a week ago, and so favorable impressed the congregation, not only with his eloquent sermons, but as a pastor and minister in general, that they have decided to extend him a call. Rev. Ehle has charge of an excellent church at Bronson, and it is not known whether he will decide to leave that field. It is the intention of the local church to have a pastor here permanently and there was great rejoicing when the salary of SI,OOO for the pastor was raised, or nearly so, with the exception of only S4O. o STATE OFFICERS Os Pocahontas Will be Entertained in City Several Days. GOING TO FT. WAYNE To Attend District Convention—Local Council Will Give Reception. The Decatur Pocahontas council will have the honor of entertaining a large number of the state officers April 30th, the officials stopping off in the city for a several days’ visit I . while enroute to Fort Wayne to attend the distrist Pocahontas conven- ■ tion, which will be held there May 3rd. Among the party will be Great ' Pocahontas Lulu Beach of Elwood; Great Wenonah Nanna Diggs of Muncie, Great Minnehaha Stella Bird of i Anderson, Past Great Pocahontas ■ Lida Roser of Richmond. They will be guests in the city several days and ' on the evening of their sojourn here, the local council will give a reception for them at the hall, and quite an elaborate program of entertainment will be arranged i ntheir honor. —o— —— WILL ATTEND FUNERAL. I 1 Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Moore left this . afternoon for Lykens, Ohio, where • they were called by the death of his . sister-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Moore, ’ whose death occurred Sunday from paralysis. The deceased was the wid- ’ ow of Mr. Moore’s eldest brother, • John, whose death occurred about ■ three years ago. 'She was about 1 eighty-six years of age and leaves 1 one daughter. The funeral will be held Tuesday. While there they will also visit with Mr. Moore’s sister, i Mrs. Elizabeth Kemp, at New Wash- - ington, Ohio. Mrs. Kemp, who will I be eighty-five years of age next . month, is lying at the point of death, being also afflicted with paralysis.

WILL MAKE AN EXTENDED TRIP Howard Shackley Will Leave Soon for Long Trip Through West. Howard Shackley, who for a num ber of years never came down into the business section of town, but who recently has been looking up old acquaintances, has planned a several months' trip which he expects to make soon. He will leave here in about ten days for Chicago, where he will undergo an operation for the removal of a cataract from his eyes, if this is successful, as he is assured it will be, he will leave there for a visit with friends in Wisconsin, then proceed to North and South Dakota, then visit relatives in Nebraska, and from there go to Wichita. Kans., and then to Little Rock, Arkansas, and then back home, arriving next fall. A GENEVA BUDGET Perry Burk, Oldest Rural Carrier of County, Died This Morning. M. L. RUPLE DEAD Alex Michaels Injured and Was Unconscious For Over an Hour. Geneva, Ind., April 18 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Perry L. Burk, first and oldest rural carrier in Adams county, died at 5 o’clock this morning, aged about sixtyfour years. He traveled his route until about six weeks ago, when he became 111 and sank gradually into the long sleep which knows no awakening. He was an ex-soldier, a member of the G. A. R., and well known in this part of the county. He is survived by the wife and two daughters. The funeral services will be held from the house at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon, Rev. King, a former pastor here, officiating by request of the diseased. Interment at Studabaker cemetery. Martin L. Ruple, formerly of this county, died Sunday morning at 11 o’clock near Portland. He was eighty years old and death was due to infirmities. The funeral will be held Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock from the Union U. B. church at West Liberty in Jay county. Rev. Waldo, pastor of the United Brethren church, gave a graphic description Sunday evening of the laymen’s convention held at Tomlinson hall, the past week when the matter of evangelizing the entire world in twenty-five years was the sole topic. Rev. Waldo's report was stirring, interesting and eloquent, when he gave to us the speech made by Governor Marshall in welcoming the laymen, and the observations of ex-Vice President Fairbanks, of his memorable trip around the world, and the expressions of missionaries from Corea, India, China, Japan and Africa. The movement is world-wide and is undenominational and the sole purpose is to spread the gospel to all parts of the world by sending missionaries to teach and educate the people. In order to do this Rev. Waldo Insisted that it is the duty of every one to aid by contributing freely to the cause. Forty-six pupils took the examination for county graduation from the common schools held here Saturday. Os this number Jefferson township sent nine, Wabash eleven, Hartford ten, Monroe six and Geneva ten. The base ball game here Saturday between Pennville and Geneva high school teams resulted in favor of the Geneva boys, 18 to 9. Roy Etlgar, the new left-handed pitcher for Geneva, pitched a fine game, while the Pennville twirler was a little wild. The Pennville boys played Montpelier a week before and lost a thirteen inning game by a score of 15 to 14. Nevt Saturday Geneva plays Decatur, and our boys are going after the Decatur lads with lard in their hair. Lovers of the sport will see a good game if they attend at Decatur. Our boys are kids, but they are there with the goods. M. E. Hutton will open his new picture show on Wednesday of this week (Continued on page 3.)

P BUSINESS GmS r , Burdg Brothers Are Turn- ■’ ing Out B. B. Ointment in Quantities. i • 3 USING PRINTER’S INK 1 a Pushing the Business and Reaping Returns as a 1 Result Thereof. i 1 One of the business enterprises of 1 Decatur, which is booming at this time, and which gives every encouragement of growing into a big industry is that of the Burdg Brothers, manufacturers of B. B. Ointment. From the making of this medicine on [ a small scale for use in his barber shop, Al Burdg finally turned the business over to his sons, w’ho are building up a wonderful trade. Mrs. Burdg and daughter, Miss Merle, travel almost constantly, demonstratI ing and each day the firm receives a large number of orders. They are advertising extensively and the conI cern will soon spring Into a large one of its kind. They are hustlers and Charles Burdg, who is taking care of the business end of the factory at home, knows his business and is paying that attention necessary to make it win. The factory is located on ' Monroe street in the Burdg block. The cash sales of Saturday alone ’ were $125 and this was not an unus- ' ual occurrence. From this it may be ! seen that they are in line for a big business and one that we predict 1 will one day employ a large number ’ of people. They are at present using 1 as much or .more printed matter as any one in this section of the coun- ■ try. CHIEF IS INJURED Chief at Budapast Received I Broken Leg When the Crowd Rushed. i TO SEE ROOSEVELT , Famous American Continues to be Enthusiastically 1 Received in Europe. i ‘ (United Press Service.) > Budapast, April 18 —(Special to ’ Daily Democrat)—Colonel Theodore X Roosevelt's visit in Budapast has cost ■ the chief of police a broken leg and i fatalities in the immense crowd of 1 Hungarian people gathered here are i not unexpected as a result of the enthusiasm over the great American, i which has already resulted in hysteria. When the crowd saw Roos--1 velt it made a mad rush and the col- - onel was literally lifted off his feet • in the rush and carried forty feet be ) fore he toucher terra firma. He emerged unscratched from the jam > made by the joyous crowd, but the chief of police was caught and when the crowd gave way slightly it was • found the officer had received a frac- ‘ tured leg, which will confine him for . some weeks. The colonel today gave ) a startling revelation of his democl racy. After visiting with the nobility he called at the home of Francis Kos suth, the leader of the opposition parr ty. Kossuth is ill and unable to leave i the house, and he was overjoyed at > the visit of the famous ROosevelt. 3 , ABOUT THE SICK. > J. H. Voglewede, who nas been sei riously sick since his injuries receiv- ; ed in a runaway, from which erysipt elas developed, is said to be much I stronger today. i Abner S. Parrish is said to be dant gerously sick from cancer, which has i permeated his entire system, and his > recovery is said to be impossible. Mrs. J. D. Wlsehaupt, who hai - been in ill health for some time, ii t worst again, and is confined to he: bed again.

j A VIGOROUS BOOK FOR BOYS. Among the spring publications of Doubleday, Page & Co. is Cyrus Townsend Brady’s latest volume of ■ the “American Fights and Fighters Series.’’ It is called “South American Fights and Fighters," and is divided into two parts. The first takes up the stirring story of conquest in that continent and Mexico, narrating the deeds and fortunes of the Pizarros, of Pedrak rias, of Balboa and Cortez—names cherished by every American boy today: of Ojeda and Nicuesa, and of the J gentle but glorious Las Casas, apparently the only Spaniard friend the Indians had. Part II contains a series of sea pictures of the Pacific, such as the cruise of the Tonquin, and the loss of the Essex, Whaler. The book con- ’• tains numerous illustrations, original s drawings by several American artists, .. maps, plans, portraits and reproducs tions of old prints. It is fully up to the standard of its predecessors in a ’’ series which threatens to equal the celebrated Henty books in popularii ity. r o KILLED IN WRECK 5. .... X t- Four Mail Clerks Meet s Death Near Jackson — e ~ Train Went in Ditch. e _ d ■f THE HYDE TRIAL ,t r- 1 e Was Resumed This Mornn ing—Earl Hill Died in e !- Electric Chair, e _____ 5 t (United Press Service.) r Jackson, Miss., April 18 —(Special ’ to Daily Democrat) —Four mail clerks ° were killed and three other trainmn seriously injured this morning when the Chicago-New Orleans Flyer on the Illinois Central railroad plunged down Ia forty-foot embankment. The wreck was caused by a wash-out follow-ing Saturday’ sstorm. The wreck took fire and the bodies of the four men | were cremated. None of the passengers were hurt. The dead are W. R. Lott, G. E. Howe, J. Trelloar, mail clerks, all of Memphis, and W. Woods, colored, a mail clerk from New Orleans. ’ (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C., April 18 —(Special to Daiily Democrat)—An insurgent movement against Mrs. Matthew Scott, president-general of the Daughters of the Revolution, was revealed here today when the national convention opened. Mrs. Scott Is accused of having appointed members of all the important committees from among her personal friends. o '• e (United Press Service.) Vincennes, Ind., April 18 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —William Green, d oldest resident of this county, began if his ninty-ninth year today. He walke ed five miles yesterday to attend i- church services. He reads without i, glasses and works every day. He hauls mail from the railroad to the 3- postofflce. In his early days he drove 1- a stage in Indiana, st 3- (United Press Service.) e Kansas City, Mo., April 18—(Specn ial to Daily Democrat)—To prove e that Dr. B. Clark Hyde, accused of n the murder of Colonel Swope, did the s ant as the result of inordinate greed !• for money position and power, was r attempted today. In the opening e statement the prosecution said they :- would show that Hyde determined to y put out of the road all the members i- of the household who stood between ’- him and the Swope millions. e ——— t Auburn, N. Y„ April 18—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Earl Hill, nineteen, of Onondaga, convicted of the murder of Andrew David, a farmer, died in the electric chair here today. His - defiant manner changed to a pitiful - collapse today and he had to be cari- ried to the chair, where he died 1 moaning. o GOOD TIME IN STORE. i- A good time is assured for the s members of the Phi Delta Kappa s lodge this evening, when a couple of new candidates will be taken into the order. Some initiatory work has is been given each week for several is weeks and in a short time the lodge 3T will have a goodly number of members. . . I .

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RULES ARE RIGID r , Each Indiana Congressman Will Get Appropriations For One Building. WILL AID ELWOOD But it Cuts Out Portland For a Government Postoffice Building. Washington, D. C., April 18—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The house committee on public buildings, and grounds has established rules of such rigidity in dealing with building projects that the indications are Indiana will receive but small recognition in the omnibus building bill. For example, one of the rules which . it is said will be adhered to without deviation provides that no congressman shall be granted more than one : appropriation for his district. This would affect Representative Cullop, who has introduced bills for Linton, Bloomington and Washington; Representative Adair, who has introduced bills for Elwood and Port land, and Representative Crumpacker, who has introduced bills for Gary and Valparaiso. None of these Indiana members will be allowed more than one appropriation. Another limitation is that where both sites and buildings are asked the congressmen, as a rule, will have to be contented with sites. Os the Indiana projects those most certain to be Included in the bill are appropriations to enlarge the building at New Albany, to increase tne limit of cost at Elwood and Bloomington and to provide for sites at Mishawaka and Gary. Both Mishawaka and Gary have made a fine showing of postal receipts, and are likely to be recognized in the bill. The total list of Indiana bills pending before the committee is as follows; Mr. Crumpacker, Valparaiso, site and building, $125,000. Mr. Cullop, Linton, site and building, SIOO,OOO. Mr. Cullop, Bloomington, increase of limit, SIOO,OOO. Mr. Cullop, Washington, site and building, SIOO,OOO. Mr. Rauch, Huntington, site and building, SBO,OOO. Mr. Dixon, Seymour, site and building, SIOO,OOO. Mr. Morrison, Frankfort, building. SIOO,OOO. Mr. Barnhart, Mishawaka, site and building, SIOO,OOO. Mr. Crumpacker, Gary, site and I building, $250,000. Mr. Adair, Portland, site and building, $50,000. Mr. Adair, Elwood, increase limit of I cost, $25,000. • Mr. Barnard, Newcastle, site and i building, SIOO,OOO. Mir. Barnard, Mt.-jjSdda SIIRDLU I Mr. Boehnem, Mt. Vernon, site and building, $75,000. > Mr. Cox, New Albany, enlargement, ■ $30,000. ' Mr. Moss, Brazil increase of limit, $17,600. o FRANK GAST IS SUCCEEDING. Has Purchased Handsome New Home at Tacoma Where They Live. Henry Thomas has received a letter from Frank Gast, who was io;- many years a resident and business man here he moved to Tacoma, Wash., some months ago and he writes that he and his family are delighted with the climate and the country there. Mr. Gast represented a large cigar jobbing house. He has just moved into a handsome new home which he purchased from Judge Parker, who has just begun a term as supreme judge of that state. Their many i friends here will be glad to learn I that they are well, happy and pros- - perous. 1 -o EIGHTY MORE WANT DIPLOMAS. Eighty more applicants took the e second county diploma examination a of the year conducted Saturday in if this city in charge of Mrs. L. E. Ope liger, and at Geneva, by Prof. L. E. s Opliger. Thirty-four were in the Dell catur class and forty-six in the Genee va class. The third and last exami- ination will be held in this city May 21st.