Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 7 January 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 6.

BIG BANK FAILURE Carnegie Trust Company of New York City Closed This Morning. $8,000,000.00 INVOLVED A Quiet Run Has Been on for Over a Week—Shaw Was Former President. (United Press Service.) New York, N. Y.. Jan. 7—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Carnegie Trust Company was closed today by State Superintendent of Banks O. H. Cheney. The bank was chartered in 1907, had an undivided profit of 1737.000, gross receipts of 18.900,000. J. T. Howell, formerly president of the Fourth National Bank of Memphis, is the president of the concern. In a statement made by Superintendent Cheney he said that after an examination of the affairs of the company it had been concluded that the company was in an unsound condition to transact business and the institution had accordingly been ordered closed. The examination has not been completed. Officials of the trust company stated that there had been a quiet run on the bank for more than a week. This has used up the available, ready resources, so the banking department was called on to protect the depositors. The late Harold B. Dickinson, whose mysterious death last year, following blood poisoning, caused by witnessing a chemical demonstration at Scranton. Pa., has never been thoroughly solved, was a prime mover in the trust company. Dickinson resigned as president and was succeeded by Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the United States treasury. After a few months Shaw resigned and Dickinson was re-elected. The company grew under Dickinson’s management, but drew some criticism because of certain unsecured loans made to Geo. B. Sheldon, president of the Phoenix Insurance company, who died under indictment. These loana, however, it was stated authoritatively, were insignificant and the company lost nothing.

TO JOIN BOOSTERS Adams County Party Will Join Stokes Jackson Booster Train For WASHINGTON TRIP <■ Will Leave Sunday Evening, January 15th —Will be Delightful Trip.

A party of several Decatur men are Planning to join the Stokes Jackson boosters' special train which leaves Indianapolis Sunday evening, January 15th, for Washington, D. C., where they will help boost that politician, who is an aspirant for the position of sergeant-at-arms in the house of representatives in congress. Among the Adams county men who are planning to go are Charles Yager, Charles Ernst, Ferdinand Bleeke, Dr. GrandStaff of Preble and County Clerk J. P. Haefling. The Indianapolis train will take about two hundred boosters with it, and all the expenses of the trip will be paid by the "backer.’’ The train will go byway of Cincinnati, Ohio, Richmond, Va., thence to Washington, and the trip in itself will be a delightful one. The boosters would have a four or five days’ stay in Washington and have the opportunity to ru against some of the national politicians. Harry Stow of Root township was a business visitor here today. John Koenig of St. Mary’s, Ohio, was & business visitor here today. _

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

IS SORELY AFFLICTED. Former Bobo Minister Loses Three Children by Death Within Week. From the Christian Conservator, published at Huntington. we learn that the family of Rev. F. H, Cremcan has been sorely afflicted, having lost their three children by death from scarlet fever within a week. No funeral could be held and the bodies were shipped to Elida, Ohio, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cremean’s parents. The family is well known in this community and have many friends who will be grieved to learn of their sad bereavement. Mr. Cremean was pastor of the Rlvartv circuit of the U. B. church a few years ago and resided at Bobo. At the present time he is professor of history at Central college in College Park, a suburb of Huntington.

WONTHEIR FIRST Local Basket Ball Team Victorious in Last Evening’s Game. OVER WARREN TEAM Greatly Strengthened—Go to Geneva Tonight—Ever Readys Win Also. The basket ball team of the local high school turned the tables Friday evening in the game with the high school team of Warren, defeating them by the score of twenty-four to twenty. The game was interesting throughout and was the fastest game that has been played on the local grounds. The locals were somewhat strengthened .a the contest of Friday evening, they having changed their line-up to a great advantage, which proved for them a victory over their opponents. The attendance was better than on previous occasions, and credit is given them for the manner in which they encouraged the visitors as well as the home team, when a good and wellearned play was made. The referee, Mr. Worthman who was in charge of the first half, and Mr. French, from Warren, were fair in all their decisions and are also deserving of merit ifor the way in which they rendered . them. The visitors were well prepared for j the contest and at several times during the game neither side was confi- * dent of winning. The line-up for the locals was: Peterson, center; Burk and McConnell, guards; Beery and i Beatty, forwards. The same line-up j will go’ to Geneva this afternoon where they will meet that fast aggregation of the high school there this evening. 1 They are going with the confidence of ' winning and are somewhat jubilant ! over their victory of Friday night. I Warren recently defeated Geneva, i The game which was played between the Ever Readys and Invincibles, the two girls’ teams of the local I high school, was also interesting and I the Ever Readys won out by the score of 14 to 4. I — I father objected to marriage Was Cause Assigned by Mrs. Starr for Michigan Wedding.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Starr, the newly married couple, arrived this morning from Berne, where they had been visiting since Friday with her grandmother, Mrs. Barbara Reisen, and are visiting with the brde’s mother, Mrs. Eli Sprunger, on First street, until this evening, when they will go to their home at Bluffton. The bride was Miss Florence Sprunger before her marriage the wedding occurring Wednesed“ today that the objection of her .a- --' ther to the marriage was the cause o 'their going away in this way for the marriage. The mother, however, gav ' no objection. many masons in the house. : Representative Adolph Seidenstlck- • er who is worshipful master of Pen e ’ r w and A. M., of Indian- ' ta!P ns has invited all Masonic memos the house to attend degree t nf the lodge January 26th and a ’ W ° r It 6 o’clock. It is said that banqUe than two-thirds of the house m °mbe?s are Masons and the ban- ■| me ? «ll partake of the nature of a I anapolis Star-

Decatur, Ind. Saturday Evening, January 7, 1911.

BABY BARGAINS Dispatch From Cleveland Tells of Record of Remarkable Family. THREE TRIPLET SETS With Four Sets of Twins in Meantime —And Which Reminds Us. Adams county boasts of some rather large families, but we have nothing that compares with other records over the country. A recent dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, tells of Mrs. William G. Clark of that city, who has just presented her husband with the third set of triplets. Between times, the story says Mrs. Clark has become the mother of four sets of twins, which is certainly going fast enough for even the strenuous Teddy. She is but thir-ty-three years old and is the mother of seventeen living children. She was married when she was twelve years old and at fourteen was the mother of five children, a pair of twins and a set of triplets having been the result of two visits of the stork. She herself claims to have twenty-six brothers and has not committed herself as to the number of sisters. The Rural Weekly of recent date, in using this story, comments further by telling of the visit of the stork to a German family at Dayton, Ohio, some years ago, leaving six babies in one evening. Think of the poor dad trying to carry six crying infants about 12:30 one of these zero mornings. Os course, mamma, too, might be pertty busy most of the time. The Rural Weekly adds But the champion "papa” of them all was Feodor Wassiliev, a Russian peasant. His first wife presented him with sixteen successive pairs of twins, then triplets seven times in as many years, and finally capped the climax with four sets of quadruplets, making a grand total of sixty-nine children. When she died Feodor felt the need of a stepmother for his motherless brood, and took unto himself another wife. The second Mrs. Wassiliev, added to the big regiment of “sons and daughter of Feodor” two sets of triplets and six sets of twins, making eighteen in all; which, added to the original sixty-nine, made a grand chorus of 87 children, which could in unison or otherwise call Feodor popa.

EDITORS T 9 MEET State Democratic Association Will Crow Over the Last Election FEBRUARY 2 AND 3 Program of Much Interest, Including Reception at Ellingham’s. (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The State Democratic Editorial association has picked February 2nd as the official date to "crow” over the last election. On that date the democratic editors of the state will gather here to look over the first democratic legislature in nineteen years and congratulate each other. Starting with a banquet on the night of the second the editors will mix politics and social engagements to a queen’s staste. Governor Marshall, Senator Shively and John W. Kern will be the principle speakers at the banquet, and as the senatorial election in the assembly will probably be held January 17th, Mr. Kern will parade in his new title of United States senator. On the morning of February 3rd a business meeting of the association will be held In the afternoon, the entire body will call on Governor Marshall. From the governor’s office the editors will go to the house and senate, just to see tow « democratic majority looks. In the evening Lew Ellingham, secretary of state, will take the editors in hand and with Mrs. Ellingham, will hold a reception in their honor at the Ellingham home.

MOVES TO VAN WERT. Jeff Manley Hae Sold Hie Farm in Union Township. Jeff Manley, who has resided in Union township for a number of years, has closed a deal whereby he disposed of his eighty-acre farm to Fred Thieme, and who at once will take charge of same. Mr. Manley will move to Van Wert, Ohio, where he has already purchased a forty-acre farm and will also take possession as soon as he can arrange his affairs. During the last few years he has realized a neat sum of money through his labors and his manner of carrying on his business, and will no doubt be as successful in his new country home. SUNDAY CLOSING Movement on Arnone Local Postoffice Clerks to Secure This. POPULAR CONSENT Is All That is Needed as the Postmaster General Gives His.

The Decatur postoffice clerks are heartily in favor of the growing senti- ' ment in favor of the Sunday closing ' of the postofflee, and are eagerly looking forward to the time when that measure will be adopted in Decatur. The postmaster general has consented to the closing on condition that the ■ people locally give their consent, and I this is the only thing that now "bars'’ the Sunday "barring” of the local delivery window. Detroit, Mich., and Evanston, 111., are two of the larger cities that have lately gained the endorsement of the citizens for the closing, and henceforth the clerks will be given their first of the week rest along with the other citizens. While the Decatur general delivery window is open only an hour on Sunday morning—from 8 to 9 o’clock —it means many more hours’ work for the clerks, as they must be on hand early to distribute the twelve or more mail sacks full of mail and must have it in the boxes ready for distribution at 8 o'clock. This means nearly the whole forenoon used by the clerks in Sun- | day work. "The matter of having Sunday mail, anyhow, is largely ’habit,’ ” said one of the clerks of the Decatur j postoffice, "and getting the mail on i Sunday is of very little benefit to anybody. We would like to find out what the people think regarding closing on Sunday.” TOUR OF SOUTHERN INDIANA. Miss Faye Smith, who has been at home for a two weeks' holiday visit, leaves Tuesday for a tour of the high schools in the south part es the state. , where she will give her dramatization of Scott’s "Kenilworth.” Miss Smith has been giving this reading in many of the high schools of the state, and is being received with words of the i highest praise wherever she is heard. ; She expects to read in the Shortridge (High school, Indianapolis, January i 18th, among the many .others of the southern part of the state. She will be gone on this trip about eight or ten weeks.

CHIEF ENGINEER HERE. N. J. Battin of Lafayette, chief engoneer for the Indiana Lighting company, with headquarters at that place, was tn the city Friday, looking after some interests pertaining to the local plant here. It is the intention of the company to make some extensive improvements in the near future regarding the holder and other buildings connected with the plant in the west part of the city, and It was at this place that the inspection was made. Nothing will be done until better weather prevails and then the plant will be put into much better condition. — o STEWART AYRES BROUGHT HERE Sheriff Durkin and Deputy Green returned from Lina about, midnight having in charge Stewart Ayers, the young man against whom Miss Hazel Weimer has filed paternity proceedings. He accompanied them here without giving any trouble. He was given a hearing before ’Squire Stone and bound over to court under |7OO bond, which he gave, and returned home.

PYTHIAN KNIGHTS Invited to New Haven Dedication—Clyde Graham Writes Local Lodge. FROM CANAL ZONE Sends Souvenir From Lodge in Panama—lnstallation of Officers. The K. of P. lodge installed the following officers, with appropriate services, the installation being in charge of John R. Parrish, installing officer: Chancellor Commander —Martin F. Worthman. Vice Chancellor —Fred Ashbaucher. Prelate —Fred Fruchte. Master at Arms —Albert M. Sellemeyer. Keeper of Records and Seals—J. C. Trltch. Master of Finance —Fred V. Mills. Master of Work —Ed Ashbaucher. Inner Guard —John Moser. Outer Guard —Martin Girod. Trustee —James Hurst. D. N. Erwin, who was elected master of exchequer, was confined to his home on account of sickness and was not installed. An invitation tc atten dthe dedication of a new home at New Haven. Indiana. was read and the invitation accepted. A number from Kekionga lodge will attend this dedication servi ice. The grand chancellor, John F. Petri, of Lafayette will be present and assist in the service. Another communication of interest was a letter from Clyde Graham, who ,is now in Culebra Canal zone. Mr. i Graham sent to the lodge a neat soui venir of the Canal Zone lodges, which is much appreciated by the members i here. Mr. Graham stated that he was well pleased with his new location and that Pythianism was strong in his territory. The services closed with a number of short talks from the officers and others. Not less appreciated than other features of the occasion was a basket of fine red apples brought over by Fred Mills. The condition of Mrs. John Wisehaupt continues to improve slowly, and her condition requires the closeet attention by those at her bedside.

MANY PEOPLE SICK More Than Known For Some Time—Greater Part Caused bv Laerippe. SOME SERIOUS CASES — Physicians Are Kept Busy Answering Calls Day and Night. Reports from local physicians are to the effect that there is more sickness throughout the city and county than has been know nfor some time It does not seem to be of such a se-, rious nature, most of the victims being | sufferers of the grip, although there are several cases of typhoid fever, and other cases which require careful attention. The doctors all have their hands full and are making many . calls day and night. From Preble ‘ comes the report that there are many ! sick and doctors from this city are making several calls each day. It is ' just the time of the year when the j weather makes a change from a cold to a warmer atmosphere, or from a warmer, to a fall in temperature, and it Is then when people are not careful enough and expose themselves to the changing periods and before they realize It have contracted a cold or other Illness, which, unless Immediately taken care of leads to a much more serious Illness. The advise of the doctor is not to expose yourself and to be always protected against any kind of weather that may prevail. Mrs. L. A. Gwinn has returned to Marion after a visit here with her daughter, Mrs. E. H. Shoemaker.

FORMERLY LIVED IN WELLS. Late Senator Elkins - Resided There During War Times. United States Senator Steven B. Elkins of West Virginia, who died early Thursday morning at his Washington, D. C. ( home, was at one time a resident of Jackson township, Wells county ,and a full cousin of Mrs. R. L. McFadden, now living at Dillman. The noted statesman was here at the time of the war and is well remembered by many of the older citizens of the county. During his residence in Wells county, Mr. Elkins made his home with an uncle, Burket M. Elkins, deceased, who prior to that time lived In Jackson township for many years. Mrs. R. L. McFadden is a daughter of Burkett M. Elkins, making her a cousin of the dead senator. —Bluffton Banner. A HAPPY EVENING Was That Spent by Twenty Business Men as Guests of the Grabers. GRABER’S BIRTHDAY A Big Supper and an Evening of Pleasure—A Watch For Mr. Graber.

“I believe this has been the very happiest evening of my life,” were the words with which Jacob R. Graber, superintendent of the Adams county infirmary, said good-bye to his twenty guests, when they left his place late Friday evening, after spending several delightful hours as his guests, and the same thought was predominant in the minds of every one of the men who were there. The occasion was in honor of Mr. Graber’s sixty-second birthday and was also a farewell saying to Mr. Graber, who, after sixteen years of excellent service as the superintendent, will retire during the next few weeks, his resignation having been accepted a few weeks ago. Mr. Graber and family will retire to his farm in French township, having earned the rest he will be able to secure there, away from the trials and tribulations of looking after a public institution. The score of business men drove to the Graber home about 5:30 o’clock. They were warmly welcomed and soon afterward were ushered into the dining room, where they sat down to a table, which fairly groaned beneath the load of good things to eat. including everything that could be imagined, and how the boys did “go to it.” For an hour or more they ate and ate and ate—chicken, sausage, sweet corn, baked beans, pie, cake, pickles —oh. well, just everything. At the close of the dinner, Mr. D. E. Smith gave a short talk, telling of the high esteem in which Mr. Graber is held, and concluded by presenting the host with a beautiful gold watch, the gift of the guests. Mr. Graber responded in a few words, in which his feelings were plainly noticeable. The crowd then went to the assembly room, where for several hours they enjoyed themselves in varied ways, and at intervals, lunch was served. It was late when the boys said good-bye, and every one of them was glad he had been there, was glad that he was included as a friend of the Grabers and the good wishes expressed were indeed sincere. There are no better people on i earth than Jacob Graber and h:«- fam-. ily. During the evening the host, assisted by Mrs. Graber, Miss Lizzie and Master John, were busy serving the guests and seeing that every one was well entertained and well provided for. The list of guests included; Auditor H. S. Michaud, Judge J. T. Merryman, Recorder H. S. Steele, County Attorney C. J. Lutz, Custodian Titus Ernst, Commissioners Henry Zwick and Jim A. Hendricks, W. A. Kuebler,i J. B. Meibers, M. Burns, Henry Hite,, Will P. Schrock, D. M. Hensley. Na-j than Ehrman, Hugh Hite, D. E. Smith, j C. A. Dugan, Thomas Dowling, Dick ( Myers, Will Zwick. Albert Graber and . John H. Heller. SHIPPED CAR LOAD OF HORSES. Oliver Schug and Fred Smith of the traction force, left Friday evening for Findlay, Ohio, to deliver a car load of horses to the Adams horse company at that place, the same being purchased from the Decatur Horse Sale company. The horses went byway of the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway to Fort Wayne, thence to Lima. Ohio, and thence to Findlay.

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THE TOUHEY CASE Was Decided in the Supreme Court Yesterday in Favor of the City. NOTICE IS NECESSARY Fact of Inability of Injured Person is Not an Excuse Under Law. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 7 —The supreme court held yesterday that the statute providing that a person Injured by reason of a defect in a street or alley shall give notice to the mayor within sixty days, is mandatory, and that the giving of a notice as requested by statute, is a condition precedent to suit for damages, which is not excused by the fact that the injured person may be physically and metnally incapable of giving the notice. The case of James Touhey against the City of Decatur was affirmed. James Touhey was a blind man, who had lived in Decatur a number of years, and being acquainted with the town, went about the streets unattended. In February, 1909, while, walking on the sidewalk on Madison street, in front of a saloon, he fell into an opening from which the grating covering had been removed, landing him in the cellar, breaking a leg and otherwise injuring him. Afterward he brought action against the city for damages, alleging that he was physically and mentally incapaciated from giving the city proper notice within the time prescribed by the statute, but that all the officers of the city did have full notice of the fact, because a full account of the accident was published in both the papers published in the city. But the supreme court holds that his inability to give notice would not excuse the lack of notice. The management and control of streets Is a duty of the state, which duty has been assigned to municipalities within their boundaries. A state cannot be sued for negligence. It is only under the duty which the state has thrown on the city that the city is responsible for the care of the street. The statute requiring notice is a part of the law which places the duty on the city, and the law requiring notice must be I strictly complied with in order to j place the responsibility on the city, and to make the city liable to the person injured. THE SHOW CLOSES Seventh Annual Corn and Poultry Show of Adams County Closed AT BERNE TODAY Attendance Was Good — Nearly Four Hundred Birds on Exhibition. This was the last day for the Corn and Poultry show which has been in progress at Berne since Tuesday of this week. So far it has been pronounced a great success and those in charge of affairs are to be given much credit, for the manner in which everything has been carried out. The attendance so far has been very good although the association is not so well pleased with the number that has been attending from the north part of the county and the manner in which they have been taking part. Only a few entries have been made from this ' section showing that but very little ' interest is being manifested. The 1 ribbons were awarded on Wednes- | day and were of a very pretty design. They were of Red, White, Blue and Green for the four premiums offered by the asociation. Tom Baltzell who had a fine display of corn on exhibition took nearly everything offered and was pronounced the champion corn grower. The decisions rendered by the judges met with the satisfaction of all, S. B. Johnson acting as poultry Judge and Fred Kell, corn judge, and the committee mad® mistake in their selection. I