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

Volume IX. Number 7.

TWO MINISTERS RESIGNED Methodist and Presbyterian Ministers Surprise Congregations Sunday

THE REV. POWELL To Enter Depauw University Endowment Campaign For This Year. AN UNTIRING WORKER Methodist Pastors Ability Recognized—Will Leave January 15th. The of the Methodist church was given a great surprise Sunday at the morning service, when the Rev. Sherman Powell, who next! April would have completed his second year's service here as pastor, read his resignation, the same to take effest January 15th. The resignation was made that Rev. Powell might enter the Depauw university endowment campaign work, having received an urgent call, and not an inkling of the , intended resignation was given any j person in the city, until it was read ! by Rev. Powell Sunday morning, the resignation in full reading as follows: Beloved Brethren: Indiana Methodism is in a great crisis. Our Depauw university, after j having been thoroughly investigated, has been highly commended and conditionally greatly enriched by the General Educational Board which administered Mr. Rockefeller's great gift of 153.000,000 to education. This board has made offers to our own Depauw university and to certain approved schools in the surrounding states. The offer to Depauw was a gift of 1100,000, provided the university would raise $400,000 in cash or good subscriptions by January 1, 1912, all the $500,000 to be perpetual endowment. It was a great gift. There was only | one thing to do—accept it. The next j question which confronted the trus- 1 tees was, "How shall we raise the j money? After much planning and praying; the president and the board of trustees ! honored our conference by calling on ! Dr. C. IT. Wade, our former district superintendent, then pastor of Broad-, way, Logansport. to leave his church j and become Endowment Secretary to j Depauw university, and assume management of the campaign to raise the *400,000 necessary to secure the SIOO,000 ofTered. After a great struggle and much protesting. Brother Wade yielded to the arguments and entreaties of Dr. McConnell, the president, and consented, though much against his own feelings. His church also yielded to Dr. McConnell's pleadings 1 and released him. Brother Wade had not been long in I the work until it became evident that. ! to raise the $400,000 in time to claim the SIOO,OOO gift would require the i services of at least two more minis- « ters from each of the three annual conferences. The board fully approv-, 1 ed and endorsed his plan and appoint- j ed a strong committee with full Pow-ji er to make the selections and secure , the ministers which were imperative-. ly needed. . | Our conference and the Decatur church were honored by the call of one ! of her sons, the Rev. George Hunter Mvers, pastor of the Montpelier i church, as the first minister called. The momentous issue involved in stepping aside from the regular work fop even a little while caused Brother i Mve-s to pray and counsel much in order to find God's will. The call of 1 the university was so urgent, and pathetic that it was really commanding aad Brother Myers consented to take up the great work and his church reirinsed him, feeling that the greater and broader interest of our state-wide Methodism required the sacrifice on the part of the local church. The Revs. D. D. Hoagland of Attica and L. S. Smith of Montrose, Terre Haute have also been secured and are at work. Negotiations are in progress CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.

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TO A NEW FIELD Rev, Spetnagel Resigns Pastorate of Decatur Presbyterian Church. EFFECTIVE JAN. 22ND Will Become Superintendent of South Bend AntiSaloon League Field. Another ministerial resignation that came as a great surprise to the members of his congregation, Sunday, was that of Rev. Richard Spetnagel pastor of the Presbyterian church, that minister giving his resignation at the Sunday morning service, the same to take effect January 22. The resignation was made that he might accept the work of the superintendency of the anti-saloon league in the South Bend district. Rev. Spetnagel and ! family will leave in a very short time j to take up his new work there, and j the family will make South Bend their \ home. The exact time of their removal frahi the city, however, has not yet been arranged. The Rev. Spetnage! has served nearly three years as pastor of the Decatur church, beginning duty here the first of February, three years ago. During his ministery here the church has prospered greatly, and he is highly esteemed, not only by the members of his own congregation, but by all those who have become acquainted with him. He has qualities that make him highly capable for his new work, and has had several other calls to the field, prior to this, which he refused at those times to accept. \ COMMITTEE HEADS I Speaker Veneman Uses His Own Judgment and Selects Good Men. CRAVENS IS CHOSEN For Ways and Means—Mer- 1 riman Given a Good Place —Fees and Salaries. Indianapolis, Ind„ Jan. 9 (Special to Daily Democrat)— Speaker Veneman has made his own appointments for heads of committees, though he lias paid attention to the advice of all the leaders and has made his selections according to the qualifications of the men. They are as follows: Ways and Mean^— Joe Cravens, Madison. Judiciary—Edwin Corr, Bloomington. Banks—Cassius McMullen, Aurora. Reformatory—M. C. Thornton, New Albany. State Prison—J. B. Faulknor, Michigan City. Fees and Salary—James B. Merriman, Bluffton. Agriculture — Leonard B. (lore, Franklin. / Benevolent and Scientific Institutions —Samuel A. Gifford, Laurel. Cities and Towns— George B. Sunkel, Dana. Insurance —S. E. Voris, Crawfordsville. Public Health and Vital Statistics— J. Delbert Foor, Blackhawk. Public Morals —Adolph Seidensticker, Indianapolis. Legislative Apportionment —Charles Leib, Rockport. * Victor, six-months-old babe of David Valenti of South Third street, who has been seriously sick with a cold and grip, is in a very low condition.

Decatur, Ind. Monday Evening, January 9, 1911.

IN YOUTH S PRIME Two Young Lives of City Go Out With Passing of the Sabbath Day. SICK SHORT TIME Lee Burk and Freddie Kiess Passed Away—Funerals Wednesday. With the closing of the Sabbath day two young lives of the city finished their earthly career and passed to that newer and better world, the two who were gathered into the heavenly fold being Lee Burke, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Burk, of Ninth street, and Freddie, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kiess of South Eleventh street. The death of Lee Archie Burke occurred Sunday night at 10 o’clock. The lad, wno was but fifteen years, five months and eight days of age, had been ailing about four months. The illness first took the form of typhoid fever and quickly developed into consumption. The lad was a member of the freshman class of the Decatur high school, entering with the others at the beginning of the fail term. He was able to be in school but two weeks, however, this year, when the il’ness overtook him and he was forced to relinquish his studies. He was a very bright lad, of excellent qualities, and his death cuts short what gave promise of being a very bright career. He was born in this city August 30, 1895, and spent his entire life here. Besides his parents, he leaves one brother, Don, and one sister. Cora Burk. The young man was a faithful member of the Methodist church, being consecrated to the church in infancy in baptism, and being closely identified with its interests during his entire life. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home, the lad’s pastor, the Rev. Powell officating. The funeral will be attended in a body by the Holy Grail of which Lee was a member. Freddie, aged seven years, ten months and twenty days, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kiess, who has been at the point of death for several days, passed away Sunday night at 9:15 after but a two weeks’ illness. The little lad became sick on Christmas Eve with typhoid fever, and his decline was a most rapid one. The little one was born in February, 1903, and grew rapidly into a bright and promising youth, a favorite with all who knew him. He leaves to mourn their great loss his parents and four brothers —John, Arthur, Walter and Robert. The deceased was the second child of the family. I The funeral will be held Wednesday morning. There will be services at 9 o'clock at the home, and at 9:30 at the German Reformed church, in charge of the Rev. L. C. Hessert. o MOVES TO MICHIGAN. Green Boyd, who about a year ago purchased an eighty-acre farm in Michigan, just five miles west of Grand Rapids, is at present making arrangements for the moving of his family to that place, where they will reside. Their household goods will be shipped Tuesday and Mrs. Boyd and children will leave in a few days, to bo there when the goods arrive. PROF. E. E. RICE SPOKE. Professor E. E. Rice, superintendent . of the city public schools, gave an ex-, cellent talk Sunday afternoon at the meeting of the Sunday school board of the Methodist church. Plans were discussed for the organization of a teachers' training class, and the matter is in the hands of a committee for the completion of the organization. WILL APPEAL CASE. The case of Pennington vs. Baker was heard by 'Squire Stone Saturday, judgment in favor of Baker being rendered late in the afternoon. Pennington demanded S3O for tending and feeding a horse. The case will be appealed to the circuit court. Y. P. C. E. G. THIS EVENING. The Young People’s Christian Endeavor Union of the United Brethren church will hold a special business meeting this evening at the church. Everybody is urged to attend.

. SIX CONVERSIONS AT MISSION. Revival Services Meeting With Success—Home Men Conduct Them. The Mission being conducted In the 1 Breraerkamp building on Madison street by J. M. Gibson, Chauncey Stetson and George Dixon, is meeting with much success. There were six conversions Saturday evening, making a total of twenty-two. The meetings have been In progress three weeks and will continue a while longer, though it is not known just how long, perhaps not Over a day or two. The parties conducting the meetings are all home people and genuine earnestness is displayed. GENEVA WON OUT Saturday Evening’s Game t. Proved a Loosing One by Close Score, 1 ' LOCALS PLAYED HARD Are Deserving of Much Praise —Bluffton the Next Team Slated Here. The local basket ball team, which with the manager, Martin Worthman, in charge, and accompanied by several 1 rooters from the school, went to Geneva Saturday afternoon and in the i evening contested for supremacy with 1 the Geneva high school team, went down in defeat at the hands of their ; opponents, by tiie close score of eighteen to nineteen. With the vie--1 tory over Warren on Friday evening they went with much confidence ot' ; taking Geneva into camp, but their 1 skilfullness in the game prevented ! them from stopping their victory, it , was fast through the entire struggle, '! and at the close of the first half the score was ten to eight in favor of Dei catur. The same line-up as on Friday | evening was used on Saturday, and all played well from the beginning to ■ : the end. This week there are no games scheduled and the most of the 'time will be devoted to practice and 1 to remedy the weak spots, wherein 1 they have failed in the past. On Fri- ! day, the 20th, one week from next Friday night, Bluffton will appear~m the city and the game promisee to be one of more interest than has been manifested at any game heretofore. The boys ask your patronage on this occasion. butcherlsnamed ’ I As a Member of Five Committees in the House of Representatives. I IS CHAIRMAN OF ONE i • v i — The Committee on Public Morals —House in Session j This Afternoon. Indianapolis, Ind., ,Jan. 9 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —With the ap- 1 pointment of the various committees in the house today by Speaker Veneman the Indiana general assembly j was ready for the introduction of bills, i The house did not convene until 2 , The senate held a short session, hear- J i ing a resolution on tiie death of the j late Senator McCullough of Anderson. J who died since the last session. The senate then adjourned out of respect to the dead senator. Among the appointments of interest were the fol lowing: Committee on public morals, to whom will be referred the local option bill—Seidensticker, chairman, and Prissc, Rentchler, McKennan, Benz, Keeney, Creiger, Wieder and Ross. Ways and Means —Cravens, chairman, and Merriraan and Beery. Mr. Butcher of Adams county was made chairman of the committee on federal relations and a member of the committee on criminal code, legislative apportionment, soldier monuments, claims. Mr. Cook of Indianapolis was named as chairman of the committee on education. The committee on roads are Keeney, Biddle, McGinnis, Rentschler, Young, McCabe, Mendenhall, Plummer and Ogleday.

COURT HOUSE NEWS j Friendly Suit Against Motor Car Company to Settle Affairs. ACCOUNTANTS HERE Will Go Over Books For 1910 — Mrs. Fouehtv Wants New Stove. Attorney C. J. Lutz has filed a new case, the title of which Is Arthur D. Suttles, receiver of Coppoek Motor Car Company vs Decatur Motor Car Company, on contract and account, demand $20,000. The suit is a friendly one and was brought on the request of the j new company to ascertain by judgment of the court the exact indebtedness of the old company It will not affect the company in any manner as they are meeting all debts when due and are in good condition. This suit also protects Mr. Suttles and his bondsmen. Messers. Wilson and Pressnal, of the state board of accountants, arrived this morning and are now checking I up the business of 1910 for the officials jof Adams county. The work will re- , quire but a few weeks and is done at i this time because of the time that can be gained. | ’ i Laura A. Foughty vs Charles K. • Foughty, divorce, motion by plaintiff ; for order on defendant to contribute ’ money to purchase a stove. ’I [! Isadore A. Kalver vs Decatur Furn- [ ace Co., petition for order to give no- , i tice to creditors to file claims, sus- ■ ■ tained and ordered to publish notice - in Decatur Daily Democrat. [ L. C. DeVoss has entered his api pearance for the city in the matter > of the petition filed by the C. & E. > railroad company for re-appraisement 1 of assessment on Mercer avenue. i J .] A marriage license was isued to .; Melvin Diehl. 19, farmer, Kirkland i township to Lavina Beitler, 19. i — « , RECORDER MAKES REPORT. Gives Total of Papers Filed at Office — Bettor Showing Than 1309. County Recorder H. S. Steele has ' i completed his report for the year 1910 i and will forward same to Thomas ! Brolley, chief of the Indiana bureau of statistics. The report shows that 810 warranty and quit claim deeds were i filed, the total consideration being sl,j 913,454. There were two sheriffs ■ j deeds, one auditor’s deed and fifty-two j J other papers, the total consideration ; | being over two million dollars. There , were 338 farm mortgages for a total j ! of $536,425 and 165 mortgages on city j ! and town property for a total of $129.- j 1347. There were twenty-five school j | fund mortgages, 122 chattel mortgages, j !39 liens. Satisfactions of farm mort- ! gages. $429,708, city and town prop- ' erty, $114,517. —o — — ELECTED OFFICERS. The St. Aloysius society of the St. j Mary’s church held a meeting and election of officers Sunday afternoon upon the closing of the afternoon services, who will serve for the pres- ! ent year. Those elected were Charles | Miller, president; Tony Conter, secj retary and John Overman, treasurer. ! A number of new members have been (added during the past month and an J effort to include all the young men of the parrish will be made. CHAS. COVERDALE’S GAS WELL. (United Press Service.) Bluffton, Ind., Jan. 9—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A telegram received here this 'afternoon from Charles Covcrdale at Wheeling, W. Va., conveyed the news that the company composed of Mr. Coverdale and nine other men from this section have just drilled in a gas well containing five million feet, one of the best in that section. o U. B. OFFICIAL BOARD. The official board of the United Brethren church will hold a meeting Wednesday evenii j after prayer meeting, and ail are requested to be in attendance.

SPELLING CONTESTS BRISK. The spelling contests held In every township In the county Saturday to determine who the contestants for the county contest shall be were spirited ones. The returns are not yet all made to Prof. L. E. Opllger, but a complete report will be forthcoming in a few days. e ’ ——— HOLY GRAIL NOTICE The Holy Grail will meet this evening at 7:30 o’clock at the A. P. Beatty law office to make arrangements for attending the funeral of Lee Burke. LUMBERMEN MEET Jesse Sellemeyer to Attend Lumbermen’s State Convention AT INDIANAPOLIS Firrr Has Eeen Represented at These Gatherings For Many Years, Jesse Sellemeyer. one of the junior members of the lumber firm of Kirscb, Sellemeyer & Sons, will leave in the morning -for Indianapolis, where he will attend the Lumbermen’s State j convention, which will be held at that i place on Wednesday and Thursday of j this week. These gatherings, which! are held annually, have always been attended by one or the other members of the firm, and have always proven of much benefit to the company. A number of business propositions will, as usual, come up at this meeting, and many pointers for the interested parties will be gleaned. Nearly every city in the state of a reasonable population will be represented at this meeting and the present one will be among the banner ones ever held. At this time an effort will be made to join Indiana. Ohio and Michigan as one and instead of holding these conventions in a city of each of these states to combine the three together as one. It would prove to a great advantage in many ways and those in charge of affairs are working hard towards this end. . i ■■ —-—r>—- — THE ADAIR CIGAR Will be Manufactured by Lose & Thomas of This City, Who Own It. SELL ENTIRE OUTPUT ! — ! To W. li. Hood Company, Who Agree to Use 50,- | 000 Per Month. — i Lose & Thomas, the cigar men, who; , have won fame and incidentally made ; some money me past year, by manu- | facturing the White Stag cigar, seem destined to secure a state reputation in the cigar line. For many months j they have been at work on a new I brand of cigars, to be known as the! J. A. M. Adair. They have cured one of the most handsome labnc ever manufactured and the package is a very neat one. For a month past the managers have been considering a ’ proposition to put same on the market j and they have had a half dozen propositions. They have just closed a contract with the W. H. Hood wholesale | house at Portland, whereby that, firmj agrees to take the entire output of j the factory on this brand, the same j calling for 50,000. The contract is on the level, and the boys feel justly proud of it, as this means the doubling of their capacity. It will not interfere with the White Stag or their other lines, as they will continue them just the same, while the Hood company will have sole charge of the Adair, looking after the sale and the i advertising. The first Adairs will be : on the market in a few days, as the ] first 50,000 must be furnished this month. Lose &> Thomas are now busy securing help that they may double their output and the contract means that the boys will have a big cigar factory some day. It, certainly pays CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.

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DEAD BY WAYSIDE Ferdinand Fox, Prominent Farmer of Near Berne, Found Dead EARLY THIS MORNING Lay All Night in Helpless Condition —Body Still Warm This Morning. Ferdinand Fox, aged about thirtysix years, one of the prominent farmers living about four miles northwest of Berne, was found dead this morning along the Solomon Neuenschwander farm north of Berne. Mr. and Mrs. Fox had spent Sunday at the Neuenschwander home and started to drive home Sunday evening, when Mr. Fox remembered that he had left his overshoes at that place. He told his wife to drive on slowly and he would walk back for the overshoes. This he did and nothing was seen again of him until he was found dead this morni ing. He had attempted to climb over i a fence and in doing so must have suf- | sered some sort of an attack which ! rendered him helpless and uncon- ! scions. It is thought that he lay thus helpless and unconscious the entire night and that death did not occur until this morning, as rigor mortis, | or stiffening of the body had not yet ! set in when found, and the body was 1 : still warm. Coroner J. C. Grandstaff of Preble was summoned to hold an inquest but was at Fort Wayne at the time of the | call and did not return until this afternoon, going at once to the scene of j, the death. Dr. Ernst Franz of Berne was called to the scene as soon as the man i had been found, but as life was al- » i ready extinct, nothing could be done for the man. B”. Franz would give no statement until the coroner had visited the scene, further than to say that he thinks the death was due to ' natural causes No marks of violence were found on the body. I — - I MEETING TONIGHT At some time Tuesday afternoon between the hours of 1 and 4, a complete canvass of the city will be made by various workers .or the securing of a religious census. The city has been divided into thir-ty-eight districts each of which will lie visited by two workers tomorrow afternoon if possible. The committee | will hope to reach every home in the j city. Much depends on the faithful ! prosecution of this work. A brief meeting for workers in the religious i canvass will be held at the M. E. j church this evening at 7 o'clock. Sevj oral new names have been added to the list of visitors, and it is earnestly j desired that every one be present to- | night. Let us unite our forces for a I great victory. j Various circumstances combined to make the attendance at Sunday’s meeting much smaller than was anticipated. Full instructions regarding i the work will be given at, tonight’s : meeting. Come and help a good work along. BABIES CHRISTENED. Two infants were Sunday christened at the St. Mary’s church, one being 1 the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j Harry Fritzinger and the other the ! little son of Mr. and Mrs. George i Wemhoff. The former was named aftI |er her two grandmothers, and was | named Catherine Rachael. Mr. Anjthony Arnold of Fort Wayne and Miss Rose Conter of Fort Wayne acted as sponsors. Bernard Joseph was the name given unto the little Wemhoff baby, it being named after its grandfathers. Mr. and Mrs Peter Gaffer were the sponsors. i ' o —- BRYANT LADY DIED IN CHURCH. (Untied press Service.l Hartford City, Ind., Jan. 9 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Mrs. Nancy Lough of Bryant, Jay county, fell dead last evening while attending services Ip at the western M. E. church v Ber body was sent to Bry&w* \ i