Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 279.

OFFICIAL FAMILY L. G. Ellingham Announces Appointment of H. L. Conter as Assistant. MISS CRAIG NAMED New Secretary of State Preparing to Begin His Duties Wednesday. Lew G. Eilingfiam, secretary of state-elect, who takes his position next Wednesday noon, has formally announced the appointment of his official family. As is known to many of this community, Herman L. Conter of this city, is to be the assistant secretary of state and Miss Carrie Craig of this city will be one of the stenographers of the office. They were selected immediately after the election of Mr. Ellingham was assured and are now busy preparing to move to Indianapolis. Mr. Conter will serve as assistant secretary in the office. Frank I. Grubb, the present assistant secretary, will remain in the office four months, or until the close of the session of the legislature. A. C. Hinsley, editor of the Winchester Democrat, will probably accept the place of corporation clerk as soon as he can arrange his affairs, and in the meantime the present clerk, Richard Burrell, will look after the duties. Miss Leslie, a stenographer, who has served for many years in the office, will be retained and Miss Craig will take the other desk. Herman Conter, who assumes the very high position of assistant secretary of state, is peculiarly fitted for the place. His experience of ten years in the banking business, his general knowledge of affairs, his ability to meet the people graciously, and his general good manners will make him one of the most popular men in the state house, we predict. He is a native of this city, known to every one, and his hundreds of friends rejoice with him over this recognition. He is shipping his goods today, and with Mrs. Conter and son. France, will leave Tuesday for the capital city where they will make their home. Miss Carrie Craig, the clever young lady who received a merited appointment in the office, is very popular here. She is the daughter of the late Captain W. J. Craig, at one time one of the most prominent democrats of Indiana, owner of the Bluffton Banner. Fort Wayne Sentinel and Indianapolis Sentinel. Miss Carrie has resided here for a number of years and is well qualified for the duties to which she will be assigned. She also begins her service for the state next Wednesday. Everybody in Decatur seems pleased over the selection of this excellent lady. Mr. and Mrs. Ellingham and family will leave Winchester for Indianapolis Monday morning and will reside at 1620 North Pennsylvania street. . -o— MEETINGS THAT MAY INTEREST YOU. U. S. Land and Irrigation Congress, Chicago, November 19th to December 4th. International Livestock Association, Chicago, Nov. 26th to Dec. 3rd. U. S. Livestock Sanitary Association, Chicago, Dec. sth and 6th. Horticultural Society of Northern Illinois, Princeton, Dec. Bth and 9th. Farmers’ National Congress at the state house, Indianapolis, Dec. -Oth and 21st. South Bend Poultry Show, South Bend, Dec. 26th to 31st. Wisconsin Horticultural Society, Madison, Jan. 10th to 12th. Central Assn. Lumber, Sash & Door Salesmen, Claypool hotel, Indianapolis, Jan. 11th. Illinois State Dairy Convention, Elgin, Jan. 17th to 20th. Ohio Retail Lumber Dealers’ Assn., Columbus, Jan. 17th to 19th. National Corn Exposition. Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 30th to Feb. 11th. Hardwood Manufacturers’ Assn., of United States, Sinton hotel, Cincinnati, Jan. 31st to Feb. Ist. Tri-State Retail Lumber Dealers Assn., Evanston, Ind., Feb. Ist an 2nd.

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AARON SPULLER A BENEDICT. Aaron Spuller, formerly of Decatur, but now of Van Wert, Ohio, arrived at Pleasant Mills with a charming young bride, formerly Miss Leota Brown of Lewisburg, to pay a short visit with his mother and sister, Mrs. C. L. Spuller and Miss Clara Spuller, who reside a mile west of Pleasant Mills. They are on their wedding tour and expect to visit at Decatur, Ft. Wayne, Van Wert and Celina, after which they will return to Lewisburg, where they will make their future home, as Mr. Spuller is an employee of the Cincinnati Northern Railway. NEAR WAR SCENES Ratch Blackburn is Traveling Along the Mexican Border Line. WRITES FROM LAREDO Tried to Cross the Border Line to See Bull Fight— Nothing Doing. Ratch Blackburn, an old Decatur boy, writes us from Laredo, Texas, a town on the Mexican border, from where has come a large part of the news of the revolution. The letter is dated the twenty-third, and Ratch says he expected to go to Mexico that day to witness a bull fight, but when they reached the bridge they were informed that there would be no fight as President Diaz had ordered that all amusements cease. The party he was with was also asked to stay on the American side as there was an antiAmerican feeling in Mexico, so they took the advice of the guards and returned to their hotel. The Mexicans have a great regard for the American soldier and this fact keeps them pretty much in check. It is a hard matter to do any business in that section just now because of the fact that every one is talking about the revolution and about the time a man is interested in your business proposition some Mexican begins talking Spanish and the deal is off. Ratch visited San Antonia, where the military post is located, and at Houston spent several days with Arlie DeVoss. He left Laredo Thanksgiving for Corroza Springs by train and from there aqross Del Rio and Eagle Pass, a sixty-mile stage drive. The old boy is sure of seeing some of the country. SURPRISE FRIENDS Tom Peterson and Margaret Bremerkamp Married at Goshen November Bth. WRITES HIS PARENTS I — Os Event—Will Reside in Gary, Where He Has Been Employed. Tom Peterson and Miss Margaret Bremerkamp of Goshen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bremerkamp, were married November Bth, at the home of the bride’s mother, at Goshen, was the agreeable message received by the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. S- Peterson, and family of this city, and which will no doubt also come as very much of a surprise to the many other friends of the young couple in this city, as both are well known to all here. Until going a year or two ago to Goshen with her mother and sisters to reside, Miss Bremerkamp was a resident of this city, having been born and reared here. For the past six months Mr. Peterson has been employed in the electric department of one of Gary’s great plants, and it was a very easy matter for him to run down to Goshen to the home of his fiancee where the wedding toop place, unbeknown to their many Decatur friends No other details of the wedding were given, but the young couple iill probably be at home at Gary, where the groom is employed.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, November 26, 1910.

DOUBLE WEDDING Home of Nolan Schnepp Near Van Wert Scene of Much Pleasure. THANKSGIVING DAY Rev. D .0. Wise Officiates at V/edding—Reside at That Place. One of the many happy occasions of Thanksgiving Day was the double wedding which occurred at high noon when Miss Gertrude Schnepp became the bride of Mr. Arthur Lytle and Bessie Schnepp plighted her vows to Harlie Lytle, both sisters and brothers, the wedding services taking place at the home of Nolan Murphy, an uncle of the Misses Schnepp, between Convoy and Van Wert, Ohio. The services were very beautiful, and were officiated at by Rev. D. O. Wise of this city, he being a close friend of the contracting parties, and was asked to perform the ceremony. A beautiful wedding march was played during the ceremony, which added very much to the solemnity of the services. The home was attractively decorated with streamers, extending from the ceiling and which made a very pretty sight. The brides were both gowned in yellow silk/ while the grooms wore the conventional black. Immediately after the services a wedding dinner was served, seventy guests partaking. The contracting parties are well known and held in high esteem by their many acquaintances. They will reside on a farm near Van Wert, Ohio. THE LIFE HEROIC Is Subject of Rally Day Program to be Given Sunday Morning. AT THE M. E. CHURCH A Good Program of Story and Music Has Been Prepared For Occasion. The following is the program for the Sunday school rally day service to be given at the Methodist church, Sunday morning at 10:30 o’clock, the subject being “The Life Heroic:” Organ Voluntary—Miss Frances Merryman. Processional —Entire School. The Call to Praise —Responsive Reading 3. (a) Hymn of Praise. Primary Department Exercises: Concert Exercise, with Refrain; recitation by Margaret Mills’ class —Five Girls with Class Unison. Song—“ God's Beautiful World.” The Call to Prayer —Responsive Reading. Prayer—Rev. W. J. Myers, closing with “The Lord’s Prayer.” Responsive Reading—“ Heroes of Faith.” ’— Recitation—“To Victis”-£Mrs. Forest Kauffman. Recitation—“ The Sheep of the Fold” —Herman Myers. Hymn of Faitfl —All. Recitation —“The Hero of a Midnight Charge”—Kenyon Walters. Recitation —“The Need of the Hour” Carlyle Flanders. Hymn—All. Reading—“A Canibal Island Hero” —Mrs. Charles R. Dunn. „ Recitation—“Unwasted Days”— Jos> •gph Marlon Hymh. Story—“A Hero Who Won His Fight”—Dwight Peterson. Recitation—“ Give Us Men”—David Orcutt. Hymn For the Nation. Story—“ The Hero of Heroes”— ■John Kiracofe, Recitation—" The Crystal Christ”— Miss Ethel Smith. The Hymn of Victory. The Work of the Board of Sunday Schools —Superintendent C. L. Walters. Offering For the Board of Sunday Schools. Responsive Psalm and Gloria. Closing Prayer by the Pastor— Sherman Powell.

| MEXICAN REVOLUTION 18 OVER Attempt to Snatch Reigns of Govern.ment From Diaz Lasted Two Weeks. Eagle Pass, Texas, Nov. 26 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —With the whereabouts of Francisco Madero, rebel leader, still a mystery, Mexico’s most recent revolution, has ended after a two weeks’ attempt to unseat Diaz according to dispatches received here today and believed to be authentic. Quiet reigns throughout the republic. The military troops are being ordered to barracks and the war is likely over. The future plans of Madero are unknown. AS THE MANAGER Vernon L. McGonagle Assumes Place at the Head of Ice Cream Plant. IS CAPABLE MAN Served Seventeen Year Apprenticeship and is Right Man For Place. When Herman Conter goes to Indianapolis next Tuesday to assume the place as assistant secretary of state, he will turn over his big ice cream plant here to Vernon L. McGonagle, who will continue to .operate same, care for the business and general trade. Vern can do it, in fact if it were not for the fact that Mr. Conter has so thorough a man in his employ, it would have been impossible for him to have accepted the honor of serving at the head of a state office. Mr. McGonagle has been a fixture al, the factory seventeen years and has learned the business from the ice house to the front office. He is one of the most reliable men in Decatur and the business of the Conter Ice Cream plant will grow and prosper under his management. Just now the most important part of the business is the collecting of the accounts for the past season, a most important one by the way, and those w’ho are indebted will confer a favor on both Mr. Conter and Mr. McGonagle if they will call and settle or arrange same in some manner. In the meantime if you have any orders for cream they will be attended to promptly if you 'phone the office, and next spring after the ice harvest has been attended to, Vern will be after your ice and ice cream business. o FUNERAL SUNDAY For Aged Frederick Gallmeier. a Pioneer of Adams County. PROSPEROUS FARMER Resided Near Adams-Allen County Line—Aged Sev-enty-two Years. Funeral services for Frederick Gallmeier, one of the pioneer residents of Adams county, living near the AllenAdams county line, will be held Sunday at 11:30 o’clock at the home and at 12 o’clock from the Lutheran church nearby. Mr. Gallmeier was seventy-two years of age and was one of the most prosperous farmers of the county, being very widely known. His death occurred Thursday from complications of diseases incident to old age. Surviving members of the family are the widow and the following children: Fred Gallmeier, Mrs. William Weitfelt, Mrs. H. C. Hockemeyer, Mrs. William Fuelling, Mrs. Lewis Weltfeldt, Mrs. August Hartman, Miss Sophie Gallmeier, Miss Christena Gallmeier, all of whom reside in Allen county. o — August Schlickman this morning received a card from his father, Ernest Schlickman and family announcing their safe arrival Wednesday afternoon In Denver, Colo. The trip was made in safety and dispatch, the family having left here Tuesday morning. Little more was given in the message except that they were well and reached there safely.

FRIDAY EVENING The Salisbury Entertainment Company Will Give Program Here. UNDER AUSPICES OF The Epworth League of the Methodist Church—Best on the Road. One of the next interesting features in the entertainment line to appear in this city will be the Salisbury Concert company which will appear at the Methodist church December 2nd, under the auspices of the Epworth League. This company has been on the road for the last nine years and has met with the best of success everywhere they have rendered their program. The troupe is made up of ten members and every one of them is the best than can be secured. The singing is excellent and as instrumentalists they are unsurpassed. Their program is made up of songs, readings, duets, sketches and trios, and never fails to please and satisfy their audience. The Epworth League has the reputation of securing, the best obtainable and something that will hold their audience from the start to the finish. They will be here on Friday evening of next week, and those who are in charge are hard at work to let the public know that they have been successful in securing this excellent company. An admission of twentyfive cents for adults and fifteen cents for children will be charged at the door. SELECTED AGAIN Eli Sprunger Accepts Place as Judge of the Chicago Stock Show. GOES THERE SUNDAY Will Also Serve as President of Belgium Horse Association. Eli Sprunger, who has just returned from Mt. Clemens, where he was restored to health after a course of baths which did as guaranteed, removed all traces of rheumatism. Mr. Eli Sprunger, the will known local horseman, will leave Sunday for Chicago, where he has been appointed to act as judge of the draft horse department at the International Stock show, which opened there today and will continue until next Saturday. Mr. Sprunger occupied the same position last year, and his services were so satisfactory that he was again selected this year. This fact in itself, is certainly a compliment that should be appreciated by Mr. Sprunger. The Chicago show is the biggest of its kind in the world and the men who serve as judges of the various departments must be men of standing and experience. Eli is the right man. Mr. Sprunger is also the president of the Belgium Horse association of the United States, which holds its annual meeting next week also at Chicago, so that he will be a rather busy and important personage during the next half dozen days. o FUNERAL OF MRS. PORTER. A large attendance characterized the funeral of Mrs. Horace S. Porter, which was held this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the home of her sister, Mrs. Henry Hite, on Winchester street, to which place the body was taken upon arrival here from Chanute, Kan., where her death occurred. Interment was made in the family lot at Maplewood cemetery. o ■ — . —. SEASON OF ADVENT. Beginning with Sunday the St. Mary’s church enters upon the season of advent, or a time of four weeks in preparation for the feast of Christmas. This time is especially set aside by the church as a time of refraining from worldly amusements and to prepare for the glorious feast which is fast approaching.

HOME FROM EAST John Coffee who has been absent from the city since last May has returned to his home and is at present shaking hands with his friends and says that he is still as much a democrat today as he always was. While gone he represented an eastern horse firm and has traveled considerably. He will remain in the city over winter and beginning the first of the year will commence buying horses and cattle throughout Adams county and will pay the highest price as he has always been doing in the past. COURT HOUSE NEWS Case of Joel Reynolds vs. the City of Decatur Has Been Dismissed. HUNTERS ARE BUSY Many Licenses Taken Out— Sale of Personal Property in Smith Estate. The case of Joel Reynolds vs. City of Decatur, on account, demand, |125, has been dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff, and judgment rendered accordingly for costs. John F. McArdle et al. vs. Patrick Gorman et al., case venued here from Huntington county for contest of will, demurrer to complaint overruled; exceptions by defendant, who filed answer. Charles N. Christen, administrator of the Albine Smith estate, filed report of sale of personal property, which was approved. In the matter of the estate of Robert B. Allison, a petition was filed by several bondsmen to be released from the executor’s bond. A marriage license was issued to Jesse S. Engle, 25, school teacher of Lima, Ohio, son of George W. and Arvilla Engie, to wed Armintha Jackson, 25, daughter of Henry and Rebecca Jackson. Hunters’ licenses have been issued to Martin Fruchte of Magley, George H. Gerber of Monroe, A. P. Hardison and Roy Barnes of Geneva, J. J. CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE ENDED OWN LIFE Mrs. Maud Fuller Cuts Her Throat and Submerged Head Under Water. LIVED IN CHICAGO Her Lifeless Body Found by Miss Victoria Stone of This City. Despondent over long continued illness, for which she thought there was no cure, Mrs. Maud F. Fuller, 38 years old, wife of Alpheus Fuller, 918 Edgecomb place, yesterday afternoon cut her throat with a razor and then submerged her head in a half-filled bath tub. For the past year Mrs. Fuller had been under the care of a physician, because of nervousness and insomnia. She feared she could never be cured, wrote a note asking the forgiveness of her husband and then ended her life. The body was found late in the afternoon by Miss Victoria Stone of Decatur, Ind., who had been staying with Mrs. Fuller while her husband was on a business trip to Canton, Ill..buying coal and other supplies for the Burlington railroad.—Chicago Record-Herald. Both Mr. and Mrs. Fuller are quite well known here having visited at the Stone home a number of times. They were here a month this fall and met many people, who will regret this terrible occurance. Miss Stone went to Chicago a short time ago for a visit with the family.

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JOHN JUDY HERO Gave his Life While Trying to Save Men He Thought in Danger. IN CHICAGO FIRE George Ineichen & Sons Enter Cattle in International Show. Geneva, Ind., Nov. 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —John Judy, son of the late Daniel Judy, and a cousin of O. O. Judy of this place, was suffocated in the Swift & Company lard rendering plant at Chicago on Thanksgiving afternoon. The news was received here that night by O. O. Juday, who left on an early Friday train for Chicago. John gave bls life in an heroic manner, a last effort to save some of the men employed under him. He held the position of marshal in the department and when the fire broke out he saw that his men first got out of the building. He then ordered them to remain outside while he returned to see whether any of his men had been overcome by the dense smoke. The trip was fatal and he suffered death from suffocation. When found he was lying on his back, with one hand holding his nose, showing that he had made a desperate effort to reach outside air. He was twenty-eight years old, unmarried, and leaves a mother and one sister. No word had been received from Mr. Judy an the arrangements are not known. John visited here often and was well known. George Ineichen & Sons, proprietors of Apple Grove farm, located three miles east of Geneva, breeders of Red Polled cattle, shipped eleven head' of their cattle to Chicago, where they have been entered in the International Stock show, which opened today for one week. Mr. Ineichen informed your reported that there are eightythree head entered for the big show, but he is of the opinion that some of the prizes will come to Adams county. His herd has won seventy first premiums at the state fairs of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, New York and Illinois, also thirty seconds, twenty championships and ten grand championships. His three sons, H. S., F. J. and A. H. accompanied the herd while the senior member of the firm will go Monday. The herd is entered in the breeding class. Adams county should be proud of the fact thatshe has a breeder of fine cattle who is known from coast to coast. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lackey of Robinson, JU., are making an extended visit with James Hamilton here. Miss Mary Brayton of Newcastle, Ind., came Thursday to eat Thankgiving turkey with her sisters, Misses Ada and Nina Brayton, returning home Saturday. Emanuel Woods of Decatur was here Saturday, looking up friends and attending to business. Mr. Melvin Wilson of Fort Wayne, an insurance man, and a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Porter, of Limberlost Cabin, came Thursday for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Ada Wilson, of Wabash, who is also a guest at the Porter home. JOIN IN CHICAGO VISIT. Mrs. Mary Eley Will Meet Nephews in Chicago Tomorrow. Mrs. Mary Eley will go to Chicago Sunday to join her nephew, Harry Quinn, of Kansas City tea visit with, their nephew and brother, Don Quinn, and family at that place. Harry Quinn, who is with a large clothing firm at Kansas City, is in New York City at present on his regular trip to buy goods for his firm. He had expected to stop off here on his way back for a visit with his aunt, but finding his time more limited than he thought, sent a message asking his aunt to join him in Chicago tomorrow, when they can have a reunion with Don and family also. Jessie Winnes, who has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. Hugh Miller, returned home this afternoon. She was accompanied here by her niece, Miss Gretchen, who will visit here a few days.