Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 22.

RETURNS COMING IN Several More Warrants Have Been served on the Indictments. more to follow Four Indictments Against Ex-Mayor France—Gave Bond This Afternoon. Several more returns have been made at the county clerk's office on the grand jury indictments. Jhe officials are still busy and within a day or two will have performed the duty, at least as regards most of these warrants. Those reported today are as follows: State vs. William Wells, assault, alleging that on April 10, 1910, in Blue Creek township, he attempted to commit a violent assault upon the person of one Emanuel Tricker. He was released under S2OO bond. State vs. George Tricker and Chas. Magley. The two defendants are officers, managers and directors of the fair association, and it is alleged they sold privileges to various persons for the purpose of carrying on a game of chance with dice. Bonds in the sum of S2OO were given. Ex-Mayor Carl O. France was given four indictments. One of these charges him in two counts, with taking away and secreting or destroying a certain docket, known as “Mayor’s Docekt No. 4." It is charged he did this on December 30, 1909. The book was never delivered to Mayor Teeple. The other indictments against him are for failure to enter on his docket, as city judge, certain causes, copy of affidavit, proceedings and costs. The specific actions named arethe case of Charles Grim, November 10, 1909; Bud Burrell, August 27, 1909, in which each man was fined $1 and costs for intoxication, and the case against John Jones, true name unknown, for fast driving of his auto, fined $5.00 and costs. The first case is a felony I and the other three misdemeanors. | France came over from Columbia City . this afternoon and gave bond, which was placed at S3OO in each case. C. D. Murray is charged with per-1 jury, it being alleged that when a case of beer was taken from him he swore that the property was his and that afterwards he testified that it, was not his propery. His bond was fixed at SSOO, which he furnished. FORT WAYNE IN 1912. That City Wants M. E. Conference Next Year. Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 26 —It is altogether probable that the sessions of i the North Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal church of 1912 will be held in this city and that the meeting place will be the new Simpson M. E. church, which before that time will have been fully completed. There will be two other candidates ; for the honor of entertaining the I North Indiana conference, Wabash and Elkhart, but 'Fort Wayne will be able to present superior claims and Inducements .and it is altogether provable that Rev. Mr Griest and his peo-| pie will win out and that the 1912 meeting will be held there. It will bring to Fort Wayne a large number of Methodist pastors and laymen, probably 500 in all. It has been over a third of a century since the city entertained the North Indiana conference. It met here the last time in 1874. This fact and the additional fact that the new Simpson church will be admirably fitted for the sessions will in all probability bring the 1912 conference to Fort Wayne. o— 1 NOTICE TO G. A. R. Every saember of the G. A. R- is re ‘ quest edtobe at the G. A. R. hall this erenitig at 7 o’clock. Special matters of .great importance are to come up

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

MILLER WILL PROBATED. In Van Wert County. Ohio—Will Alto Be Filed Here. D. B. Erwin, attorney for the estate of the late Harvey Miller of near Watt, Ohio, probated the will of the decedent at Van Wert, Ohio. By the terms of the will the home farm of seventy acres In Harrison township, Van Wert county, Is left to the sons, Joe and Arthur. All the personal property and the forty-acre farm in Union township, Adams County, Indiana, and twenty acres in Ohio are left to the other children. The will filed in Ohio will be given a hearing February 3rd. As a part of the real estate is in this county a copy of the will will also be filed hi the court of this county. o— — LOWEST BIDDERS Mann & Christen Also Land Contract For Building of the PENNVILLE SCHOOL The Structure Will Cost in the Neighborhood of Forty Thousand. Mann & Christen were the successful bidders on the new school house to be erected at Pennville. The Bluffton News says regarding the same: “The contract for the new school building at Pennville, to be known as the Penn township high school, was awarded Tuesday afternoon. “The successful bidders were Mann & Christen of Decatur, one of the best known firms of contractors in this part of the state, and a firm that has 1 a reputation for good work and fair ; dealing. They were the lowest of six bidders, but T. H. Koontz of this city was a close second, only $498 below the Decatur firm. After the opening of the bids there were some slight alterations in the specifications, with each firm having the privilege of submitting figures showing their allowances on the changes, but these made 'no material differences, and the board made the award to the Decatur firm. “The figures of the six bidders were as fallows: Mann & Chrosten. $36,702; I T. H. Koontz, $37,200; John Norris of | Muncie, $38,776; Glass & Humphreys, ■ Muncie, $43,261; Fred Hoffman of De- | catur, $43,450, and the Bluffton Build- . ing company, composed of J. B. Clark, J. O. Brown and Ernst Morrow, $19,087. | “The new- building is to be modern in every particular, and when completed will cost probably in the neighborhood of a round $40,000, and will afford Pennville and Penn township one ' of the handsomest and best equipped buildings in the state, and a building of which the town may well feel proud. “The plans for the new building were prepared by Architect Charles Houck of this city. The new building in general dimensions is to be 68x125 feet, and will be a two-story structure. I with a commodious basement, in which there is to be constructed a gymnasium, with a fifteen foot ceiling. In the school building proper there will be a large assembly room, two recitation rooms, and eight grade rooms. It is to be a red brick building, with pressed brick and cut stone 1 i ' entrances. I “The building will be completed ready for the opening of school in it next fall. The contracts for heating and other equipment will be awarded at a later letting. | “The advisory board Tuesday sold I the old school buildings and grounds i ito the highest bidders. Each contractor put in a bid for the old structures, and Mann & Christen bid $l,lOO, T. H. Koontz bid SBSO, and the Bluffton < 'Building company, SBOO. The ground < jof the old location was bought by a Pennville man for $1,300.’’ - o— ~~ newspaper talk. To the Readers of the Democrat: The news concerning Rev. William Flaherty, taken from the Anderson pa- < per, Is nothing but newspaper talk. REV. H. THEO. WILKEN. 1 PROVOKE CASE DISMISSED. The provoke case against Rosa Blaz- ; i er pending In ’Squire Smith's court ' I has'been dismissed by Prosecuting ■ [Attorney R- .C-

BOARD MEMBERS Os Northern Indiana Fair Association Revised the Premium List. BOARD NOW TO ACT Another Meeting to be Held 'in the Near Future— Success Assured. Members of the premium committee for the Great Northern Indiana Fair association, composed of George Tricker. Cal Kunkle, Phil Baker, C. E. Magley and Tom Baltzell, held a very interesting session Wednesday afternoon at the office of the secretary, where the Modern W’oodmen hall formerly was and the work of revising the premium list was gone through and put in shape for the advisory board to pass upon. This board will meet some time In the near future and much business pertaining to the giving of the next fair in September will then be made. After this work has been completed work will at once begun in getting out the premium lists and various advertising matter which will be used in making known to the public the great event. More definite arrangements will at that time be made and the correct dites set., and then the real business looked after. The dates first chosen were September 5,6, 7 and 8, but owing to the state fair interfering and taking this time, followed the next week by the Fort Wayne fair, the time was changed- to two weeks later, and will be given on the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd of September. With the officers at the head of the organization already working to the best advantage of the fair of 1911 will be none other than the best in the history of Adams county. AN APPLE PEEL Caused Fall of Mrs. J. M. Miller—Sustains Fracture of Leg. A BAD INJURY Will be Disabled For Some Time—’Notes of Other Illnesses. While Mrs. J. M. Miller was walking from the dining room to the kitchen at her home on Second street she slipped on a piece of apple peel and fell, sustaining a fracture of the right leg between the knee and ankle. She is getting along very well since the reducing of the fracture, but will be disabled for some time. Word from Fort Wayne is to the effect that Miss Lizzie Kortenbrer, who has been sick with diphtheria at the home of her sister, Mrs. F. M. Miller, at Fort Wayne, is recovering, though still confined to her bed. Miss Kortenbrer went to Fort Wayne several weeks ago to be with her sister at the time of the illness of her children, one of whom died. Miss Lizzie unfortunately became ill shortly afterward and had been very serious. Mrs. George Brown, who has been sick several weeks with asthma and heart trouble, is in a very low condition and slight hopes for her recovery are given by her physician. Louise, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Coppock, underwent an operation Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock for an abscess of the ear. - ■ AT EIGHT PROMPT. I ■ i Lecture at the Opera House Tonight 1 Will Begin at That Hour. The lecture this evening at the op- j era house to be given under the aus- < pices of the high school will begin 1 promptly at 8 o’clock, and all those I holding tickets should please note this 1 announcement. Booth Lowrey, the 1 speaker of the evening, is considered < one of the best lecturers on the road i and is doming with the best of recom- i mendations. u

Decatur, Ind. Thursday Evening, January 26, 1911.

> A LATE SETTLEMENT. Paternity Cate Diemissed After Two and a Half Years. ■ar ” The case of the State of Indiana ex rel. Osa Marschand vs. Martin Heckman, paternity case, filed in ’Squire Smith’s court June, 1908, was just dismidfced Wednesday, agreeable settlement having been effected. The warrant was issued at the time of filing the case, but Heckman had skipped out and could not be located. In the meantime the case remained on the [ books, and a settlement was yesterday entered on the records, showing that suitable provision had been made for the child, and that, no further prosecution should be made. Attorney T. J. Logan of Fort Wayne was here Wednesday representing the de- > fendant, while H. B. Heller and Pros- • ecutor Parrish represented the state. -1 o LITERARY PROGRAM Will be Given Friday by the Members of the High ' School. ■ WILL BE GOOD Are Becoming Popular in > the School and Should be I Encouraged. I Friday afternoon the pupils of the

l high school will give another of their literary programs and the event is ' , being looked forward to with much ’ interest by the scholars and teachers ■ , alike. The program is composed of 1 [ many interesting numbers ,and will ’ as on former occasions be of much benefit to all concerned. The program ’ will be opened with a chorus and followed with orations, readings and solos. The numbers will be rendered as follows: Chorus—School. , Essay—“ Friendship" — Miss Dessie Mann. Current Events —Dorus Stalter. Reading—“ Aunt Jemima’s Court--1 ship”—Lucy Mclntosh. Piano Solo—“Valse" (Weber) —Electa Baltzell. Story (Original)—Milton Yager. Reading—“Und Simon’s Wife’s Mudder Lay Sick Mit Ein Fever” —Hulda Bauer. — Report of Doings in Legislature— Dallas Elzey. Essay—Dwight Lachot. Piano Solo —“Norma" (Beilina — Zelda Sebnitz. Chorus —School. Discussion of Woman's Rights— Stella Perkins and Mary Erwin. Oration —“Living Waters” —Martin Hoffman.

o THE LIBRARIAN’S REPORT. Shows Patronage Very Heavy During Past Month. The month just closed has been a very heavy one for the public library, as the report of Miss Moses, the librarian, shows, the number of books issued being 1570, or 328 more than last month. Os this number, 683 were juvenile, 787 adult and 100 classed. The average daily issuance was 60, the highest, 96, and the lowest, 30. The attendance at the reading tables and the work in the reference department were also unusually heavy. The acknowledgement of several gifts was made to the library board, among them being twenty-five volumes of Mark Twain from the Euterpean club, a book “Fabiola," or “Church of the Catacombs,” from Thomas Malley; al palm from Mrs. Eugene Runyon, and I “The International Studio,” a high class magazine, from Charles Brock. Nine dollars from the rental shelves and $2.50 from fines were turned into the treasury. —» o COLUMBIA CITY NEXT. Friday evening another basket ball game is scheduled to come off on the local grounds, this time with Columbia City, who are coming to win. The locals played with them at that place some time ago and were defeated by a close score, and will work hard to turn the tables this time. Muck time is being put in at practice, and they are putting some very fine baskets across. Some of the weak spots of previous games have been mended and If you want to see a good fast game be sure and attend tomorrow’s contest.

SUPERINTENDENT Frank Pearce, Who Has Been Assistant Superintendent at WARD FENCE PLANT Will Become Superintendent February Ist—Succeeding Mr. Koller. Frank Pearce, who has been assistant superintendent at the factory of the Ward Fence company for a number of years, will assume charge February Ist. J. H. Koller, who has filled this position to the satisfaction of the company for the past year, leaves to assume charge of other work. Mr. Pearce is particularly well fitted to take charge of this responsible position, as he has had large experience in the fence business, having been formerly in the employ of the Kokomo Steel and Wire Co., at Kokomo, Ind. He took charge of the ornamental wire fence department and the farm fence department of the Ward Fence company one year before they moved to Decatur. Mr. Pearce is a man of pleasing personality, but of retiring disposition. He is well liked by his fellow workmen and the fact that he is now placed in complete charge of their factory is a guarantee that the management

of the fence company have implicit faith in his ability. The fence company during 1910 increased its sales ofer 1909 over thirtyfive per cent, which shows them to be progressive. Their capacity for producing ornamental wire fence and gates has been doubled during the past three months, which shows they are expecting a still further increase in 1911. STOLE P.O. ORDERS Decatur Business Men Are Warned to Look Out For This Grafter. BY THE GOVERNMENT Worked Smooth Game to Get the Blanks and May be Headed This Way. i Decatur business men are warned '

to look out for a smooth-faced individual, about thirty years old, who is ; liable to come into your place and try to cash a postofflce money order. Postmaster W. A. Lower has received i an official notice from Inspector C. B. , Speer of Lima, telling him that on last - Saturday a man appeared at the posti office at Edwards, Vigo county, Indii ana, and representing himself to be > an inspector of supplies for the gov- . ernment, induced the postmaster to . permit him to go through the supplies. While doing so he stole posti office money orders numbered from 11,968 to 12,000. He also took the > M. O. B. stamp, saying he would send another, as this was worn. He is a man about five feet, eleven in height, weighs 175 pounds, is smooth-faced, has black hair, reached on top, is a good talker and an incessant smoker. I if such a man appears at your place land tries to get one of.these orders cashed, detain him and notify the authorities. LOCATE IN MISSISSIPPI. Noah Loch and Grover Hoffman Will Reside There. Fred Hoffman 'has received word from his son, Grover, that he and his family, with Mr. and Mrs. Noah Loch, are now at Winona, Mississippi, where they will locate, and will soon be settled in their new home, and that they like the country very much. Mr. Hoffman is now working as traveling salesman, but will probably enter other business that will keep him at home more. Mr. Hoffman and family had been residing at Newcastle prior to going to Mississippi, and Mr. and Mrs. Loch left here a few weeks ago for a visit at along the way of their southern trip, » ' < • iL. <t>

i SERVICES THIS EVENING. , Other Speakers Will Address the Audience. 1 The revival meetings at the Methodist church are increasing in interest each day as the services are being held. At the meeting this evening Charles Brock and John Kiracofe will speak on the subject, "What Can the Young Men Do for the Promotion of a Revival of Religion in Decatur?" The meeting Wednesday evening was very interesting and those who spoke gave some very good points on thia subject, regarding the work which has been in progress for some time. Everybody is invited to attend these meetings, and especially the young men are urged to attend. Services will be over in plenty of time to allow those wishing to attend the lecture at the opera house. o BLOSSOM IS HOME Served Four Years With Uncle Sam in the Marine Corps. SAW MANY SIGHTS Was Much Pleased With This Life, But Will Not Return There. Richard Blossom a former young

man of this city and who for four years has been in the employ of Uncle Sam in the navy has completed his time and has returned to the city. He came direct from Pensacola, Fla., where he has been stationed for the past year and a half going first to Fort Wayne where his mother is living and where he has been since last Thursday. While in the city he is visiting with his sister Mrs. Ansel Bremerkamp. He enlisted at Fort Wayne, going from there to Washington where he remained six weeks preparing for the marine life in drilling and various other ways connected with that work. From there he went to Pensacola where for a year and a half he acted as Post Exchange Stewart. His duties being to oversee the running of the government grocery where supplies were kept and sold for the marine troops. After putting in the above stated time at this place he was appointed clerk in the commander’s office, where he attended to the duties of this officer making out the pay roll for the hundred men which were stationed at this place. Three years ago, he with other guards accompanied several prisoners to Portsmouth, New Hampshire where they placed them in the naval prison there. On their return they were granted a

furlough and took in the World's exposition which was going on at Jamestown, Va., they remaining there f(.r one day. One year ago last Christmas he accompanied a prisoner to Norfalk, Va., and acted as witness in the case before the general Court Marshall. While there he was also to look after many duties which required careful attention and he was looked up to as one of the best men in their profession. At Pensacola, which was his last place of appointment, is one of the most important stations, and where is located three army forces and a navy yard. It is a city of eighteen thousand people and is right on the gulf of Mexico, with the Pensacola bay near there, making it one of the most suitable places l.i that section of the country. While gone Mr. Blossom had many opportunities offered him with which to become acquainted during his stay at this place and which he will not soon forget. Although he enjoyed the life very much, he does not intend to return, but will remain with his mother at Fort Wayne, where he will seek employment. BOOTH LOWREY’S LECTURE. At the Bosse Opera House This Evening. Booth Lowrey, the famous lecturer, arrived today and this evening at 8 o'clock will give his lecture, “Tolerably Good People,” at Bosse's opera house. This is the fourth one of the lyceum course given under the auspices of the Decatur high school. The last number will be given February 22, by Sidney Landon, the character delineator. This evening a musical program r ill be given in connection with the letture. r *

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CUT THEM DOWN Governor Marshall Used His Axe on the Requests For Appropriations. SAVES TWO MILLION Printing Board Will Change Tactics on Supreme Court Reports. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 26 —Governor Marshall laid aside his pruning knife and took an axe to the figures furnished him by the boards and heads of nearly all the educational, penal and other institutions of the state. It is the custom to ask these institutions to make known theirwants and their needs that the legislature may take action and supply the cash. Governor Marshall has been preaching economy, and he believes, too, In practicing what he preaches. So when these boards took their nerve in their hands and asked for appropriations like a drunken sailor, he got down the axe, and with true precision he slashed those appropriations until their authors would actually fail to recognize them on the public highway at high noon. Here is the way some of them looked after the governors axe landed some place near the vital regions. Indiana University asked

• for $244,712 and received the govern- , or’s and the visiting committee's recommendation for $69,700; Purdue University, $275,000, and received $132,5 ftOO; State Normal asked for thirty- ’ three and one-third per cent increase 5 and received $24,375; State School for L the Blind asked for $56,058 and re- ‘ ceived $55,500; state school for the deaf, $121,950 and received $89,500; r ’ Central Hospital for the Insane, $466,000, and received $450,000; Eastern Hospital for the Insane, $235,000, and ’ received $171,000; Northern Hospital r for the Insane, $458,836, and received ’ $221,000; Southwestern Hospital for ’ the Insane, $272,850, and received 1 $166,400; Southern Hospital for the I Insane, $275,605, and received $163,- ‘ 605; Village of Epileptics, $327,280, f and received, $79,850; School for Feeble Minded Youth, $295,790, and received $185,790; Soldiers' and Sailors' ' Orphans' Home, $121,463. and received ’ $102,530; State Soldiers' Home, sllO,- ' 550, and received $22,800; Tuberculosis Hospital, $115,505, and received j $77,712; Indiana Boys’ School, $192,1 900, and received $139,800; Indiana Girls’ School $154,150, and received $81,100; Indiana Reformatory $348,318, and received $191,273; Indiana State Prison, $270,531, and received $173,070. When the governor laid away the axe two million dollars had

been chopped out of these appropriation demands and should the recommendations run the gauntlet of the legislature this amount will be saved ’ to the taxpayers of the state. The 1 Hanly administration was a moneyspending one, but it was a time when ' these institutions were in clover. He helped them inaugurate an era of institutional extravagance that if permitted to continue would make Indiana’s exchequer lean and lank for ail time to come. It is well that a Tom Marshall appeared on the scene and set an example of economy in public life. It has come none too soon. As it is, the state will have to do a good job of financiering during the next few years if the business of the state is placed upon a buisness basis, a day when it is unnecessary to anticipate in order to get the money to meet current obligations. At the present time the state printing board is trying to unload an unprofitable feature of their business. Under a law of long standing the supreme and appellate court reports are printed by them under the state printing contract, and sold to the lawyers of the state at one dollar and fifty cents per volume, and the law under which they are working, this is all they dare charge. Just to show how the state is holding the sack, the forty-fourth appellate report, which has just recently been published, twelve hundred of them cost $2,267. Now, if the entire issue of twelve hundred is sold, the state will receive SI,BOO, and besides the expense of handling will lose $467. That is not a profitable business and if we can raise the limit and at least make the state come out even on the transaction we are going to do it. CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE