Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 27.

COURT HOUSE NEWS i Two Children Taken to the Feeble Minded Home at Fort Wayne Today. THREE NEW CASES Attorney Moran Went to Indianapolis Today With Brief in Case. Nora Amstutz and Elmira Garwood, aged nine and eleven years, and who have ben at the county infirmary ail their lives, have been granted admission to the home for feeble minded .youth at Fort Wayne and were taken there this afternoon. Attorney L. C. DeVoss has filed a new case entitled Frank McConnell «nd John Mackey vs. Bate Ray, John Durr and Elizabeth Durr, suit on note, ! -demand SIOO. — Attorneys Lutz and Peterson * Mor- | an have filed two new cases each en- | titled the A. C. Stone Company vs. I Fred Hoffman, et al. In each case | suit is brought and S2OOO demanded | from Mr. Hoffman and his bondsmen. I One case is to collect for stone used I in constructing the Monroe Township I 'Central, extension No. 2, and the other I for the material on the Reiter and | Buhlman road. Attorney J. C. Moran of the firm of • 1 eterson and Moran, attorneys, went I to Indianapolis today. He took with I him the briefs in the case of Peter | Holthouse vs. John W. Poling appealed | from the Jay circuit court, and which [ he will file in the supreme court of | Indiana. Real estate transfers: Z. O. Lewellen to Lydia M. Watkins, lot 10 t Moni roe. $135; James Stump to J. E. Rich, ■ lot 1, Monroe, $200; J. M. Miller, adI ministrator, to Peter Wagoner, lot 17, Decatur, $733.67; Jacob R. Klopfenstine to Joe R. Isch et ai t 40 acres, French tp„ $4960; John A. Isch to Joe R. Isch, 40 acres, French tp., S3OOO. SOME FiNE SITES In View—Committee on Prospective New Home For Elks. — IS LOOKING AROUND e Has Several Good Sites to Report to Lodge Friday Evening. ! Some very good things regarding appropriate sites for the prospective new home to be built by the Elks will be reported to the lodge Friday evenI ing by the committee, including Chas. Niblick, D. M. Hensley and C. C. Ernst, which had been appointed to attend to this matter. The committee has been keeping its eyes and ears wide open and has about fifteen sites to recommend as most appropriate for this purpose. Among them are the Madison hotel, the Gregory property, or "the city ball," opposite the Murray house, the Bremerkamp building on Madison street, and the old Niblick homestead. The lodge has several good propositions for assistance In the building of the new home, which makes it an assured thing. These propositions are not yet ready, however, to be made public. Among the best is one for the building of the home in the business district of the city. While the Elks have very admirable quarters at present, it is their desire to own their own home, hence the action in the matter. ' —o REV. BEATTY TO SPEAK. The Rev. J. A. Beatty of Fort Wayne, superintendent of the district, will speak at the Methodist church tonight. His lecture will be of much interest and it will be to your advantageto be present. Everybody invited.

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i . IS NOISED ABOUT. Men of Other Cities Interested In Proposed New School House. The fact that Decatur is thinking of having a new high school building Ts bein noised about over the country, attracting the attention of prominent architects and builders of other cities. Mr. Weatherhogg, a prominent architect of Fort Wayne, called on the Decatur school board relative to the matter of the much desired new building. Mr. Weatherhogg was the architect for Anthony hotel. NEW PROCTOR BILL One Saloon For Each One Thousand People—License May be $750. THE APPORTIONMENT Will be Up in a Few Days and Will Cause Much Interest Over State. ' 4 Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. I—The1 —The amended Proctor regulation bill nowin the senate limits the number of sa- | loons in wet territory to one for every thousand population, fixes a license fee that may range as high as seven hundred and fifty dollars and otherwise restricts and regulates the . business. The license fee is two hundren dollars to the state, fifty to the ' county 1 , and then the city council may 1 charge any sum up to five hundred. ' The license is granted by the county 1 commissioners, and among the restric--1 tions it makes a heavy fine for the first violation, fine and imprisonment for the second and an annulment of the license for the third and the hold- ■ er cannot engage in the business for ■ two years. Druggists are not included . In the bill and they are permitted to • act under the present laws governing i this part of their business. The • Moore and Nicholson laws are held in- . tact, and the general provisions of the 1 bill are along the lines of real regula- > tion and the belief is general that the legislature will do their work well and that the interest of the people will be protected. A wail came from Marion | with George B. Lockwood as the author, asserting that the local option bill contained a joker. Marion has an unusual situation in that the city of Marion is in the corner of three townships. Their kick was that the city of Marion might go dry, and then a saloon be started in the townships outside of the corporation and there would be no way to hinder them because they could not exclude Marion and hold a local option election or any other kind of an election that would be legal. Mr. Lockwood forgets that the Moore remonstrance law would put every one of those doggerals out of business, so Marion need not suffer from this joker that will fail to joke when put up to the good people of Marion and these townships in Grant county. The senate gave the referendum a try-out Monday. Senator Grubbe of Marshall county bad a bill which stipulated that any time within thirty days after a city council granted a franchise, that a petition or remonstrance signed by twenty per cent of the voting population could rescind said franchise. Amendments were offered by the wholesale, all of which were defeated, and the original bill failed in passage for the want of a constitutional majority. The intent of the bill is to cut out the high financiering by some city councils when it comes to giving away valuable franchises that belong to the people, and there has been many such franchises given away during the past few years, especially to interurban railway companies. Some of the amendments offered were really good, among them bein one that fifty-one per cent of the voters on such a remonstrance would be good, and another of twenty per cent of the owners of property, including women. Legislative apportionment is beginning to agitate the legislative mind, and within the next few days there will be something doing in this line. When the bill comes up the rural districts and the small towns will suffer, while counties like Marion, Lake and the large cities, which has shown CONTINUED ON iAGB FOUR

Decatur, Ind. Wednesday Evening, February 1, 1911.

OPTION MEETING Local Option Committee Met Tuesday to Arrange For Canvass. PETITIONS OUT TODAY Stated That an Election Will be Certainty--To Report Thursday at Library. At 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon the “dry” element held a committee meeting in the library hall to attend to the final details necessary before canvassing the city for signatures for the petition for an election in Decatur. The members of the committee, with few exceptions, were all present when called to order by Chairman Imler. Twenty-five copies of the petition were given to the chairman who referred same to .Attorney Waiters, counsel for the "drys,” for an opinion as to the legal status. The general committee, consisting of Rev. Charles E. Ehle, Rev. W. H. Meyers, and Mr. Daniel Sprang, reported that the city was divided into twenty-one districts and one district apportioned to each worker. Early this morning the workers were busily engaged in approaching the voters for ■their signature and it is the intention of the leaders to complete the canvass today. It is necessary to have at least 199 signatures in order to make the petition hold, but workers will endeavor to get.as many more as possible in ojder to further strengthen their appeal. The report of the various members of the committee will be made in a public meeting to be held in the library hall at 4 p. m. Thursday. Today the general committee was busily engaged in covering the city, seeing that all the districts were properly canvassed and supplying substitutes to assist in the larger districts. As we go to press a canvass of the workers shows that the signatures are coming but slowly. However, the workers are hopeful and in case of their failure to secure sufficient signers they will continue their efforts until 4 o’clock tomorrow. HAD GREAT TIME Was Enjoyed by the American Yeomen Tuesday Evening—A Large FORT WAYNE CROWD Fort Wayne Team Conferred Initiatory Degree on Six Candidates. Tuesday evening was a great one in the history of the local order of American Yeomen. A delegation of forty-two of the Fort Wayne order arrived at 7 o’clock on a special interurban car and joined with the local members in the initiation of a class of six canddates, ncludng Mrs. Minnie Danels, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hower, Elas Mitch, C. J. Weaver and Mr. Shoemaker. The Fort Wayne team conferred the degree and was highly complimented for its excellent work. A number of speeches were given by John Cook, drill-master of Ft. Wayne; State manager Carter, and others of the Fort Wayne and local lodge. A social period followed, during which refreshments, consisting of minced chicken sandwiches, baked beans, pickles and coffee, were provided. The Fort Wayne special car returned at 11 o'clock. A great many other candidates are in line for initiation soon, and the lodge is rapdly growng. o — The fire department was called to the residence of L. L. Syphers, 313 West Main street, at 7:30 o’clock yesterday morning. Mr. Syphers had attempted to clean a chimney of soot by burning oil soaked waste at the base of the flue, and the flames got beyond control and threatened to spread. The lost is small and due mostly to smoke. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Mrs. Syphers is a daughter of Thomas Fisher of this city.

NEW READING CIRCLE BOOKS. Twenty new reading circle books have arrived at the library. These were purchased jointly by the school and library, and until the close of the school year will be used only by the pupils, after which they will become the property of the library for general circulation. The list Includes the following: Why the Chimes Ring, Alden; Little Girl and Philip, Smith; Hans, the Eskimo, Scandlin; Little Bear, Smith; Tales of Old England, Lansing; Stories of Famous Pictures, Powers; The Life of Abraham Lincoln. for Girls and Boys, Moores; Thirty Mbre Famous Stories Retold; New Friends In Storyland, Spaulding and Bryan; Home Life in All Lands; The Later Cave Men, Dopp; Historic Indiana, Levering; Mary Ware the Little Colonel's Chum, Johnston; The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling; Six Girls and the Tea Room, Taggart; A Daughter of the Rich, Waller; The Young Consul, Dry dale; The Belt of Seven Totems, Munroe; Boy Life qn the Prairie, Garland; Wulnolh, the Wanderer, Inman. a shorFlllness Os Only Twenty-four Hours Terminates in Death of Arthur Abbott. LIVED 11$ BLUFFTON Wife Was Formerly Miss Lena Steele of Near Peterson —Known Here. n * Arthur Abbott, proprietor of the Abbott grocery on North Main street, died at his home on Miller street this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock after an illness of only a little more than twentyfour hours. He was taken ill about 10 o’clock Monday morning while at work at his grocery and went home, apparently suffering from a severe attack of grip. He suffered from a high fever, which went up to 104, but this morning his temperature had returned to normal and the only affliction seemed to be severe rheumatic or neuralgic pains. The neuralgia centered in his stomach, and this afternoon affected his heart, causing his death after a very short Interval. Mr. Abbott was the son of Rev. and Mrs. D. W. Abbott of Cralgville and was born in Mercer county, Ohio, some thirty-six years ago. He came to this county with his parents and after he grew old enough to leave home he went to Fort Wayne where he was employed as an insurance agent. Ltter he worked at Ossian. He was married about ten years ago to Miss Lena Steele of Peterson. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott came to this city some four years ago. Surviving him are his parents, Rev. and Mrs. D. W. Abbott, of Craigville; his wife, Mrs. Lena Abbott; three children, Eva, nine; Louis, seven, and Florence, five, and the following brothers and sisters; Alfred of Craigville, Merritt of this city; Elmer, Lancaster township; Nelson, near Craigville; Mrs. Rosa Hetrick, Craigville, and Edgar of Craigville, who assisted his brother in his grocery until last fall. One sister, Mrs. Emma Warthman, died a short time ago and another brother died in infancy. Mr. Abbott’s parents were summoned from Craigville this afternoon but did not arrive until after he had breathed his last. His own family and three brothers, Alfred, Merritt and Edgar, were at his bedside at the end. —Bluffton News. o THE FRONTIER CELEBRATION Will be Shown at the Star Theater Thursday and Friday Evenings. John Stoneburner of the Star theater, has secured what he believes to be the strongest attraction in the way of a picture show ever given in Decatur. It is the reels showing the Cowboy and Frontier celebration held at Cheyenne, Wyoming, last fall, the same which ex-President Roosevelt Roosevelt traveled 3,000 miles to witness. It shows 3,000 feet of broncho riding, pony, Indian, squaw, buffalo races, etc., and will be a great show for young and old to witness. The admission is ten cents, and the dates Thursday and Friday.

TO START MONDAY New Delivery System For Decatur Will Soon be in Operation. WILL BE A SUCCESS Wagons Will Arrive Latter Part of Week—Drivers Secured. August Schlickman, who is to be in charge of the new delivery system, this morning have out the official time when all deliveries will be made each day and which he expects to open up and have everything in good running order by next Monday, February 6th. The wagons, which have been ordered for three or four weeks, are to arrive here on Saturday, and as soon as they arrive will be put in shape for immediate use. He has his drivers selected and are the best for this work to be obtained in the city. Mr. Schlickman has been at Portland and other surrounding cities, where this same system is in vogue, and has learned all the necessary pointers needed for the giving of the best servieg. Four deliveries will be made each day and goods from all groceries will be delivered over the entire city at the same time. Each man will have his own district to cover and will know just where to go, requiring but very little time for the deliveries to be made. The lime of each delivery to be made will be found in another place in this issue, and in order to find out the quickest way to obtain your goods, you would do well to read the notice given.

EVERYONE INVITED To the W. R. C. Chicken Dinner on Saturday. While the chicken dinner and supper to be given Saturday by the W. R. C. at the G. A .R. hall, will be an occasion of reunion for all the old soldiers on pension day, February 4th, this is not for the soldiers only. The public is cordially invited to come. Dinner, twenty-five cents; supper fifteen cents. C.B.L. OF L INSTALL Officers at Their Lodge Rooms Tuesday Evening —Serve This Year. HAD A GOOD TIME Modern Woodmen Have a Special Call Tonight—All Be Present. Not for some time was such an interesting evening spent by the members of the C. B. L. of I„ when the installation of officers who will serve this year was held last night. The work was in charge of T. McLaughlin, supreme president of the state lodge, and his assistant, George Christen, supreme secretary, members of the Fort Wayne lodge. An address was given by Mr. McLaughlin, which was of interest to all present and much enjoyed by all. A large crowd of the members were in attendance and a social good time enjoyed by all. The new officers assuming their duties Tuesday evening were: President, William Harting; vice president, Vena Parent; secretary, Rose Colchin; collector, Ben Knapke; treasurer, Anna Parent; chancellor John Starost; orator, Edith Ervin; guard, Julius Bright; marshal, Frances Hess; trustees, Blanche Ervin, Joe Knapke and Peter Losche; representative, Mrs. Amelia Niblick. Tonight there will be a special meeting of the Modern Woodmen at their hall and plans for a big gathering have been made. Degree work will be conferred upon a number of candidates and all that can are urged to be on hand. a' ■William Sheler returned home from Fort Wayne, where he was on business this morning between trains.

IT WAS NOT PARALYSIS. Mrs. Caroline Smith of Pleasant Mills Recovering. Mrs. Caroline Smith, wife of William Smith, of Pleasant Mills, who suffered a severe nervous attack Monday, is recovering and is now able to converse with those about her. It was at first thought to be a paralytic stroke, and as she suffered a stroke of paralysis about a year ago, there was much apprehension concerning this one. She is, however, getting along well now. Mrs. Smith Is a sister of Simeon Fordyce, who was at her bedside Tuesday. TRIPLE ALLIANCE Three of String of Five Teams Hitched to Wagons in a Runaway. AT NOON TODAY Near G. R. & I. Railroad— Hauling Hogs For F. Krueckenberg. What seemed to be one of the worst runaways in the history of the city, yet one which resulted miraculously small in the way of injury or damage to property, occurred at 12:30 o’clock this afternoon near the Monroe street crossing of the G. R. & I. railroad, In which three of a string of five teams hitched to stock wagons figured prominently. Owing to the triple mix-up and the great excitement prevailing at the time, with the large crowd that thronged to the scene, a clear account of the affair was difficult to obtain. The five teams and wagons were used in hauling hogs to market, being employed by Fred Krueckenberg of Union township. The hogs had been unloaded at the stock yard and the teams were proceeding north on Seventh street to the Monroe street crossing. When just east of the G. R. & I. depot, a freight train on the track whistled and the last team of the five, belonging to Ernest Krueckenberg and driven by Edwin Krueckenberg, frightenend and started to run. In 1 running it ran into the wagon jtlst ahead of it, driven by the father, Fred, Krueckenberg, and that team also started to run. The last team contin-

ued its sad havoc by running into the third team, this being driven by Edwin Steele of near the state line, and a sad collision ensued. The fourth team driven by Anton Thieme hastened on and reaching the corner, turned east on Monroe street and got out of the way, uninjured, but the fifth team, driven by Gustav Krueceknberg, stopped, that the boy might go back and help his father manage his horses, and he also was mixed up in the affair. In the meantime the third team driven by Steele, started to run and turned west on Monroe street, and then swerved across the sidewalk, over the hedge boxing the depot park plot, with the last team still in the rear of the wagon. As the wagon crossed the sidewalk the wagon box was pulled off and completely overturned, with Steele, the driver, under the box. The fact that the box had been raised, with its slat sideboards, as is the custom with stock hauling arrangements, thus raising the overturned box to a considerable height, was what probably saved Mr. Steele from injury or death. As it was, he crawled from under the overturned wagon, uninjured, much to the wonder of the many spectators, who had rushed to the scene, expecting to find his mangled body crushed under the load. Steele’s horses broke loose from the wagon, with the driver under the box and unable to hold them, and ran across the lot, but were soon caught. Anton Thieme was the only one who escaped with no damage to his wagons, all of the others suffering broken end-gates, neck-yokes, harness and minor injuries, but which it was necessary to repair before they could proceed on their way home this afternoon. o SPECIAL PROGRAM The Christian Endeavor society of the Christian church will give a special program Sunday evening at the Endeavor hour, beginning at 6:15 after which an offering will be taken for the Damoh orphanage. A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend.

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GOVERNOR HAS IT The Option Bill Now in the Hands of Mr. MarshallMay Sign Today. LEGISLATIVE NEWS New Corporation Organized to Take Over the Studabaker Interests. fUnlted Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. I—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Charges that a bi-partisan combination is at work in the senate were made here today, with the assertion that Governor Marshall will have to look to the house for support of his measures. The governor may sign the Proctor option bill this afternoon, providing it is found to have been properly enrolled. It was reported this morning from the enrolling room and examined by the joint house and senate committee. The senate today killed the bill providing for state board licenses and the Shively bill relating to the selection of physicians by state boards. The child labor measure and the Proctor saloon regulating bill will come up this afternoon on special order. .—

New York, N. Y„ Feb. I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A new Studabaker corporation to take over the immense wagon plant at South Bend and the automobile works at Detroit owned by the Studabakers was announced here today. Kleinworth Sons. Goldman, Haas & Co., and Lyman Bros, are perfecting the issuance of $13,500,000 worth of seven per cent stock. The control will remain with the Studabaker interests, it is said. - 4 Washington, D. C„ Feb. I—(Special to Dally Democrat) —The credentials of John Kern, senator-elect from Indiana, were presented to the senate by Senator Shively today. —• THE POLICE COURT NEWS. t In the ease of the State of Indiana Clarence Bremerkamp, continued from Tuesday’s session of the mayor’s court, a conviction was had on the 'charge of furnishing liquor to minors and a fine of S2O and costs was assessed. Attorneys Peterson & Moran appeared for the defendant and Prosecutor Parrish for the state. Extended argement was had and the attorneys for the defendant filed bond and appealed the case to the circuit court. No other cases were slated for trial at this time, except the case continued until Friday morning at 9 o'clock. One affidavit remains to be served, and will probably be heard from this week. Tuesday Marshal Peterson served a year-old warrant, issued February sth last, for the arrest of Carl Ernst on the charge of frequenting a gaming house. Ernst has been in the west, but has recently returned, hence the delay in serving the warrant. The case was tried in mayor's court, a plea of guilty being entered, and a gne of five dollars and costs was assessed, making a total of fifteen dollars. Ernst stayed the docket. HERE FOR FUNERAL. Mrs. Samuel Haley, West Race street, and her sister, Mrs. J. L. Gross, North Meridian street, went to Decatur Tuesday morning, where they were called by the death of their aunt, Mrs. George Brown, whose funeral was held Tuesday morning at the Evangelical church In Decatur. Enroute home Mrs. Haley will stop at Monroe for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, who are both seriously 111. —Portland Commercial-Review. ■ o BLUFFTON VS. DECATUR. The Bluffton Phi Delta Kappas’ basket ball team with a crowd of rooters are expected to arrive this evening on the 7:03 Clover Leaf train to play the Decatur Phi Delta Kappas. This is the first schedule game of the Decatur team, which was only recently organized, and the members have been practicing for “all that is out” and expect to carry off a big share of the honors tonight. The game will be played in the high school athletic halL