Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 296,

FIRST LITERARY Christmas Program to be Given Next Wednesday by High School. EVERYBODY INVITED Christmas Readings, Songs, Orations and Instrumental Music. The first literary program given by the new literary association of the Decatur high school will be a Christmas program, given Wednesday afternoon, December 21st. beginning at 1 o'clock. It has been arranged by the teachers and various officers and from every point of view, promises to be a good one. The program is as follows: Chorus—“ Nazareth,” Gounod — High School. Piano Solo —Grand March—lrwin Merry. Christmas in Italy—William Beavers. Christmas Morning in SwedenVelma Lenhart. Piano Duet —Hulda Mutchler and Ethel Fuhrman. Current Events —Dan Tyndall. Reading Eda Butler. Girls’ Chorus —Christmas Bells —H. S. Girls. Reading—The Light in the Window —Neva Brandyberry’. Oration —Being Not Seeming—Clem Steigmeyer. Piano Duet —Helen Fonner and Erma Houk. Debate —Resolved, That Immigration Should be Prohibited —Lewis Adler and Florence Meyers, affirmative: Cleo Roop and Paul Meyers, negative. Music —Sherman Beery. Everyone is Invited. Come and you will be entertained in such a manner that you can rightly say that it was time well spent. ■-■-o 1 " —■ - Mr. and Mrs. Henry Guckert, who have bee nattending the poultry show at Chicago for the past several days, have arrived in the city for a short visit with relatives before returning to their home at Pittsburg, Pa.

I TO SETTLE STRIKE fl Effort Being Made to Have fl Taft, Roosevelt or Mitch- * ell Mediate For I GARMENT WORKERS I 'United Mine Workers Are fl in Session and Are Framfl ing Up a Bill. fl (United Prees Service.) fl Chicago, 111., Dec. 16—(Special to fl Daily Democrat) —Over 45,000 strikfl ing garment workers, strike brt aki-rs, fl Police and union leaders are today H busily engaged in a plan of peace, fl through the mediation of President as Taft, Colonel 'Roosevelt or John fll Mitchell, secretary of the National ■ Civic Federation. While definite acE tion in the matter will not be taken fl until a mass meeting is held next fl week, which will be attended by Fresfl Went Gompers the sentiment is growfli ing among the workers and their leadfl ers that only the entrance of a nationfl *1 figure will end the war, and Col I °nel Roosevelt is generally favored K as the person who has the time and fl qualifications needed. 0 Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 15— (Specfl ini Daily Democrat) —The legislafl tive committee of the United Mme fl Workers of Indiana met today to cm ■ «ider matters that will be submitted ■ to the next legislature. The most 91 important measure will be a bill !l jfl fiuiring operators to pay the shot fl fii'ers. A year ago the Illinois minets fl secured such a law and this was the fl apple to pickle as a name. Miss Netfl A slight wreck occurred on the dofl Ter Leaf at rn early hour this mornfl ln 8 near Warren, which caused the fl derailment of several freight cars, S an d delaying of traffic for a while.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

GO TO GREEN COUNTY. Frank Gilpen and Family Will Leave Last of Week For New Home. Frank Gilpen, one of the prominent farmers living a little south of Monroe, will leave the latter part of the week for their future home in Green county, about eighty miles south of Indianapolis, Mr. Gilpen having purchased a farm of one hundred and for ty acres In that county. Mr. Gilpen and family have been nearly life-long residents of Adams county and everyone of their friends is loath to have them go. Mr. Gilpen called at the office today and asked that his Daily Democrat be sent to his address in Green county, beginning Monday, that he may keep in touch with his old home here. He recently sold his farm in this county. —— o APPLE OR PICKLE An Indianapolis Young Man Shows How to Convert One Into Another. LITTLE TOT BURNED When She Tried to Send Letter to Santa—Dying Lady Regains Speech. (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Preferring apple to Pickle as a name, Miss Nettie Pickle today was married to Amos Apple. Both young people were joked considerably by their friends who inquired of the bridegroom, where he secured his ability to make a pickle out of an apple. Apple demonstrated his ability to do so and then some of his male friends made so bold as to suggest that he get “pickled” in j honor of the occasion.

Evansville, Ind., Dec. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Creeping down i stairs from ner bed last night the : three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Mabie Johnson, tried to send a note to ! Santa Claus through the chimney of the kitchen stove. Her dress caught 'fire and the little tot was so badly burned that she is dying today. Her mother heard the screams and rushed to her side and extinguished the flames, but it was too late. Logansport, Ind., Dec. 16 (Special to Daily Democrat) —Knocked from a ' bale of hay in a freight car in which he stood, William Lincoln had his neck broken and died instantly. He was a prosperous farmer and was loading a car of hay. The engine hit the car and Lincoln was hurled headlong. Columbus, Ind., Dec. 16—(Special to Daily Democrat) —After being speechless for several months as a result of tuberculosis, Mrs. Nellie Hook, twenty-three, wife of Albert Hook, a farmer living south of here, last night regained her voice, called her relatives to the bedside, bade them good-bye in a firm strong voice and then died. She had been ill and the physicians said she would never be able to speak aloud again. RED MEN ELECTION. Os Officers Took Place on Thursday Evening. The election of officers for the Red Men took place Thursday evening, : the following being the official list. Prophet—Levi Poling. Sachem —Frank Briner. . Senior Sagamore-William He m. Junior Sagamore— George K - C. of R.—A- P- Beatty. J K. of W.—J- D. Hale. I C. of W.—Jacob Eady. Trustee —A. M. Henry. GAVE _ $40,000 TO DEPAUW. * . Tiec 16— (SpecTerre Haute, Ind., i <.l to Dally Democrat)— W. R- « a * A a retired Methodist minister 1 . Je forty thousand dollars’ Xi oTV/Haute real estate to i pepauw University. ' tf'vou give a Christmas donation . if you g forget to put in a to the poor cran berries. . sack of suga promp tlng the ‘ The h Xbe a sweet one. but it > donation m yJthe cran . won’t, even up iaattei» berries.

KORBLY BUCKING But the Rest of the Indiana Delegation Endorse Mr. Clark FOR HOUSE SPEAKER Hoosiers Also Stand For Committee Selections by the House. Washington, D. C., Dec. 16—The democratic members of the house of representatives from Indiana pulled : themse)ves together yesterday in a final effort to endorse Champ Clark for speaker. It was a "long pull, a strong pull and a pull together,” and the result was that something snapped. After the atmosphere, which had been made blue by the pointed remarks of several members of the delegation, had cleared somewhat it was found that at last the delegation had done something. Ten members had ' decided to endorse Champ Clark, one j member had declared with emphasis to go on record formally at this time , and one member-elect —Finley H. Gray I —is still to be heard from by the delegation here. i Th eten members who decided to go ' ahead and indorse Clark, regardless • of the fact, that the delegation is not united were Representatives Boehne, Cullop, Cox, Dixon. Moss. Adair. Morrison, Rauch, Cline and Barnhart. The one member who declined to do any indorsing at this time, asserting that such a step is premature, was representative Korbly. | The ten members who desired to go on record both as to the speakership and the manner of selecting the standing committee got together and drafted and appended their signatures to resolutions which declare as follows: 1. That they favor Champ Clark | for speaker. I 2. That they stand for the selection iof the standing committees by the house instead of by the speaker. I 3. That they stand for the right of the minority to name the republican members of the standing committees in the next congress.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Claim Allowed in the VanCamp Estate to the Executrix as Prayed. PERMISSION TO SUE Granted to Receiver of Filler Co.—Some Real Estate Transfers. Laura A. Van Camp vs. Laura A. Van Camp, executrix, claim, $1,473.30, sumbitted and claim allowed in the sum of $1,493.10 and costs to be paid out of assets o festate. Old Adams County Hank vs. Decatur Filler Co., petition by receiver for authority to sue claim against Paragon Cooperage Co. in Allen superior or circuit court. Authority granted to sue. Three cases are set for trial next week, Hyman Goldstine vs. Motor ’Transfer Co., SISOO damages, on Monday; Sarah L. Guyselman vs. Ft. Wayne Outfitter Co., tresspass and damages, SI,OOO, for Thursday, and Charles J. Schug et al. vs. Sarah J. Passon et al., to set aside final report, on Wednesday. Real estate transfers: Arnold Aschelman to Milo Sales, tract, in Hartford tp„ $100; Joseph Rich to Milo Sales, 63 acres, Hartford tr., $6000; Julius C. Schug to Berne , Hardware Co., pt. lots 93, 3. 22. Berne $20,500. __ ”— burial of bultemeier babe. The burial of a still-born babe of Mr and Mrs. Herman Bultemeier, living near Poe, took place this morning t he service being a very simple one. Roman Barthol of Fort Wayne was a business visitor here today.

Decatur, Ind. Friday Evening, December 16, 1910

DEMOCRAT GOING AFTER JOB, Wlllshiie Man Will Not Stop Because of Politics. Saturday the postoffice candidates go to Decatur to tel) what they know in regard to conducting an office should Uncle Sam see fit to trust them with the safe-keeping and conducting of the Willshire end of the government service. Since the Herald was issued last week, two more aspirants have jumped into the race, and if there is anything in being speedy, either of these two gentlemen should show a good gait, for they both stand well off the ground. They are G. D. Mercer and W. P. Miller. The latter is of democrat faith, but that politics doesn’t matter has been told and retold until people are beginning to believe it; and so Mr. Miller, who couldn't get rid of the itch any other way, scratched it. The result is now awaiten with much interest by the entire community.— Willshire Herald.

CHRISTMAS CHEER In the Form of Baskets of Good Christmas Dinners Will GE GIVEN OUT By the Elks to More Than Forty Worthy Families of Decatur, The comfort and happiness and cheer that a good Christmas dinner carries with it —and after all the highest and most sublime sentiments couldn’t exist long without a foundation of even the most prosaic meal — will be carried out by the Decatur Elks this year as usual, to more than forty homes of Decatur, where otherwise there would not be much of the cheer that is supposed to belong byright of inheritance to this glad time of the year. Each basket will contain a chicken, a peck of potatoes, a quart of cranberries, a loaf of bread, a pound of coffee, a ten-cent cake and celery. While the lodge has already the names of forty deserving families to whom the Christmas dinners will be acceptable, there may be mpre in need of their aid, and anyone knowing of a worthy, needy family will confer a favor upon the committee in charge of the distribution by giving their names before Monday evening to Milton Hower, Roy Archbold or D. E. Smith. The baskets will be pqt up by the groceries of Fred Mills and Hower & Hower and will be distributed on the Saturday preceding Christmas Sunday. o GAVE CHICKEN DINNER. Moser & Moltz Banquet Employees of Produce Plant. A very fine chicken dinner was served at the Decatur Produce plant today noon for the large number of employees. The dinner was furnished by Messrs. Moser and Moltz and consisted of chicken, noodles, cranberry sauce, pickles, pies and cakes of all sorts. A very happy time was had by everyone, and while the season for this year is nearly over, and their association will thus be broken for awhile, they all expressed the wish that they may be together again next year. NO SERMON SUNDAY MORNING At Union Chapel by Rev. Imler—Goes to Wren, Ohio. Rev. Imler will not conduct the regular morning preaching service at the Union Chapel church, Sunday, as he will at the time, be in attendance at the dedication 6f the new United. Brethren church at Wren, Ohio. Rev. Ballenger of Lima, Ohio, will have charge o’ the dedication service, and Rev. Imlfc of this city will have a part on the program. TO HEAR OBJECTIONS TONIGHT. Let all parties assessed or likely to be assessed on the improvement of Mercer avenue, remember that tonight is the time to make known your objections or grievances. After tonight, it will be too late. Don’t sleep on your rights and then complain when it is too late. G. F. KINTZ.

CHEERY MESSAGE Os Holiday Greetings Can Now be Sent by Telegraph on SPECIAL BLANKS Surrounded With Holly Wreath ’Stead of on the Yellow Blank. If you want to send your Christmas and New Year’s greetings this year by telegraph you can send it ! and deliver it on a special holiday I blank, surrounded with red and green | holly wreaths and headed by “A Hol- ' iday Greetings." instead of on the scary yellow telegraph blank that has come to be synonymous with bad tidings and which in spite of the good message they may contain, send a first thrill of anxiety through the recipient. At least such is the arrangement made this year by the Western Union Telegraph company, according to a letter received from the superintendent by J. C. Patterson., ' the local agent of the company. All 1 messages for the Christmas and New , Year's, whether day message or the . special night letters, can be sent and received on these holiday cards, and are being made a special feature of , the service. All you need to do is to | tell the sending operator that you want the special holiday card, and I he will head his message “Xmas,” and it will be given careful attention l at the other end of t>he line, too. This will be taken advantage of by many, many famlies, not only in this city, but in others connected with the Western Union, and Mr. Patterson •'’ill be a very busy man. He is also agent for the National Express company. and with the rush of the Christmas season, when business piles up twice or treble the usual amount, is kept bustling. He also echoes the cry of the express, postoffice and merchant —Get your packages off early.

Miss Celeste Wemhoff went to Fort Wayne to spend the day with her sister, Stella. CUDAHYS’TILED Mrs. Jack Cudahy Receives $5,000 Per Year While She’s Good AND REMAINS SINGLE New Indictments Will be Returned Against Chicago Meat Packers. (United Press Service.) Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Five thousand dollars a year, provided that she does not marry again Aid is not guilty of any crude misconduct, is the basis of the settlement, between the late Michael Cudahy and Mrs. Jack Cudahy after the episode at the Cudahy home in Kansas City, where Jere Lillis, a prominent banker, was knifed by Jhck and his chauffeur. These, according to a member of the family here today, were the terms of a settlement between Mrs. Jack Cudahy and Michael, the head of the family, who made the same after Jack secured his divorce and the custody of the children. Chicago, 111., Dec. 16—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Avoiding a net of legal technicalities, woven by attorneys for J. Ogden Armour and nine other Chictgo packers, Indicted for conspiracy in restraint of trade, government trust-buster lawyers will have new indictments returned today or tomorrow in federal court here. NOH WHOOPING COUGH. We wish to make a correction of the statement made a few’ days ago in which it was said that the child of William A. Meyers of Preble was suffering from the whooping cough. The ailment is said to be only a severe cold.

SANTA CLAUS LETTER. S. 2nd St., Decatur, Ind., Dec. 12. Dearest Santa Claus: —I want you to bring me so many things, I don’t know what I want first. And yet, when I see so many little girls that hasn't as many toys as I have, I think it is not just right for me to ask so much. And so, I think it will make my Christmas a happier one if I know some other children are getting toys and candy, so they, too, can be happy. So this year, old Santa, I think It will be much nicer for me not to ask for your Christmas gifts, so you will have more presents for some little girls and boys that, perhaps, have no papa or mamma, or aunties to give them nice Christmas cheer like I have. So, hoping you will not forget any one, I am Your loving friend, PORTIA THOMAS. THE COO? STORY Was Given to the Public in Today’s Publication of Hampton’s. HE GOT IN BAD And Was Carried Away on Wave of Enthusiasm He Was Greeted With. — (United Press Service.) New York, N. Y., Dec. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —“No one should discredit me until he knows what I endured the two add a half years of Arctic experience—until he hungers with me, freezes with me, shudders with me in the specter-ridden Arctic night and grows mad with me in the glaring, burning, long and cracking Arctic day. Not until then can he understand my mental condition at the time and appreciate just how I feel now and what I believe to be true.” In these words does Dr. Frederick A. Cook, in the first installment of "his own story" in the January number of Hampton’s Magazine, issued today, lay the groundwork for his defense, not of his north pole discovery claim, which he now admits to be without merit, but of his honesty in believing that he accvomplished this mervelous feat. All through the story Cook refers to the terrible physical and mental strain he underwent and to the possibility, if not probability, that the hardships he endured affected his mind so that he was in no condition to make scientifically correct observations as to his movements. He explains how he got In “bad" at the outset in these words: “Returning from a life, savage in its drain on body and mind, I was tossed to the zenith of worldly honor on a wave bf enthusiasm, a world-madness which startled me. In the ebb of that wave I was plunged into the depths of suspicion and discredit, a victim of my own folly and the sufferer from a storm of adverse circumstances.” After reciting a chapter of hardships and privations that will probably move to pity many an adverse critic, Cook says: “When I recall the many hairbreadth escapes from death, the hazards we took, and feel again that physical and mental suffering, I wonder whether any living man would do this were he premeditating a lie." "If I did not believe in myself, honestly and sincerely, if I felt convinced of my claim when I reached Copenhagen and later New York,” the explorer says, “is it just to call me the world's most Intrepid fakir, a common deliberate swindler? Unconsciously I may have made statements which I myself now question. This is inexcusable. But most emphatically and positively I am not a thief; most certainly there was no plan to hoax the world to my own financial profit. Dr. Cook says that he has been accused of being a colossal liar and yet that many lies have been told on him. He cites the gum drop story as a sample. He says he took no gum drops with him and never heard the story until he got to New York. Cook says that the trip was not undertaken for scientific attainment. “It was a personal conquest, in which I expected only the return due a pathfinder.” — o MOVED BOWLING ALLEY HERE. The Maple Grove Park association has leased the building recently vacated by the Baughman five and ten cent store and has moved the Maple Grove Park bowling alley into it.

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ABOUT THE SICK *' . - U Daughter of John Selking of Williams Has Adenoids Removed. ALSO HER TONSILS Drummond Recovered from Long Siege of Typhoid Fever. Doctors C. S. and D. D. Clark Thursday performed an operation upon the ten-year-old daughter of Mr.and Mrs. William Selking of near WilHamp for the removal of adenoids and her tonsils, the operation being a most successful one. Mrs. D. H. Fullerton, who was operated upon this week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Bauman at Monmouth, the operation being drainage of the gall gladder, is getting along very well, indeed, which is encouraging to her many friends. Ulysses Drummond, the Pleasant Mills merchant, who went through a six weeks' siege of typihoid fever, has recovered sufficiently to be about, and was in the city today on business. He is looking rather thin, but is getting along fine and will soon “pick up.” , Miss Sue Peoples of Root township was in the city today, shopping. This is the first time she has been out in three weeks, having been ill with neuralgia and rheumatism. Miss Ida Gilliom of Vera Cruz, w’ho on Monday was operated upon for femoral hernia, is getting along fine. She is at the home of Dr. D. D. Clark under the care of a trained nurse, the operation having been performed at that place. o Miss Elma Payne went to Fort Wayne this morning to call on her sister, Mrs. Louis Scherry, of Kirkland township, who is a patient at St. Joseph hospital, where she was operated upon for gall stones. She is getting along nicely. CLASS ORGANIZED Evangelical Men’s Class Organized With Twen-ty-two Members. CHARTER STILL OPEN r / Chose Name of“ Men's Aggressive Bible Class” — Elect Officers. The men’s class of the Evangelical Sunday school, taught by Levi Barkley, met at the Evangelical church Thursday evening and organized upon the world-wide Adult Bible Class movement. The men were enthusiastic over the new movement and so far ewenty-two men submitted their names as charter members. The charter will be left open for several days yet, until other men have had an opportunity to join as charter members. The name chosen for the class is “Men’s Aggressive Bible Class.” Its motto is “Every Man Up.” Any man not regularly attending any other Sunday school will be welcomed to Join this class. The following officers were elected: President —U. S. Cress. Vice President —S. A. Moore. Secretary—Orval Harruff. Treasurer —H. A. Fuhrman. o Mrs. Fred Fruchte and Miss Luch Fruchte went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to atten dthe Chapman-Alex-ander evangelistic services this evening. Bernldette Forbing, who ihas been attending school at the St. Joseph s academy at Tipton, Ind., will arrive home next week to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Forbing.