Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1911 — Page 1

I Volume IX. Number 40.

CHANGE DISTRICTS — ‘ — IS, Legislature is Framing Up the New Congressonal Districts For the State. TWO SOLID ONES For the Republicans—Governor Marshall’s New Constitution Discussed. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 16—Congressional apportionment is now agitating the legislative mind. One informal meeting has been held and a committee appointed that will make a congressional map that will pass muster at a democratic caucus. The boys talked good and they talked business, and should their present plans cany there will be two republican districts about which there never will be any doubt as to the ability of the republican party in carrying. Those d'stricts will be the Tenth, and the other will be the Sixth. Marion county will be divided and a voting population amounting to forty thousand will be presented to the Sixth district. This forty thousand voting population is good for five or six thousand republican majority, and with this, if it is possible, they will also include Hamilton county, good for fifteen hundred to two thousand republican. With this county out of the Ninth that district can be made reliably democratic. It is not likely that the Eighth will be molested unless it is found possible to dump Randolph county and that does not seem feasible. A committee will get their heads together and in a few days there will be something to give the public that will show the public the frame of mind that this committee holds on the matter of a congressional apportionment for the state of Indiana.

Governor Marshall's new constitution is the subject of discussion in this city. The new idea is being well received and the general concensus of opinion prevailed that the governor is in a class all by himself —which he is. The great mass of the people have not as yet got to the real matter that will receive the burden of discussion, and that is the manner in which wo are to take on or reject a new constitution. The usual way of course is to have a constitutional convention at which great and learned constitutional lawyers will spend days in a discussion of the questions that make up these documents. Instead of that you have one presented you and all you have to do is to vote for or against it. Newspaper discussions will take the place of convention discussions, and then comes the only vital question, is the method of making this constitution a legal way to make one. At best it makes Governor Marshall the most talked ol man in the country, and if it holds good and the new constitution is adopted it will give the state a constitution that is right up to the minute and all right in every particular. The public morals committee of the house gave the restrictive and regulative liquor measure a work-out Tuesday evening. There was a crowded house and the discussion waxed furious. There is more downright argument to the square inch going on here over the two points, amount of the license and the limitation, than has occurred in the capital city for many a day. They are threshing it out and it is expected that the committee will hand down the measure Thursday morning, and should the caucus agree on it. the bill will be hastened through the house. It is a fast pace the legislative solons are going at this time, and it is a little faseter pace that the paid lobbyists are also trotting. They are getting to be the busiest Indianas on the trail, and they get really busier on legislation they do not want than they do about legislation they do want. They are saying many things about the governor and many of them are not very complimentary. The governor has a thick hide and cares but little what people say—especially some people. G ' E ' E ’Squirs J. H. Stone returned today boon from Fort. Wayne, where he visited with his daughter, Miss Victoria, at the Lutheran hospital.

DEC ATTJfI ID ALLY DEMOCRAT.

REMOVES ANOTHER CANCER. Or. C. S. Clark Becoming Well Known For Hie Work. That Dr. C. 8. Clark is becoming well known as a specialist for the removing of cancers is evidenced from the fact that he has received a case from Fort Wayne, with which he has been very successful. The person afflicted with the cancer of the face, located just below the eye on the left cheek, is Jacob Petzold, residing at 1916 Alliger street, and having heard of the great success of the local doctor, gave him a call. The cancer was about the size of a dollar, and fell from the face, perfectly clean, bringing ail the roots with it. He was here today to have it dressed and is Improving nicely, and It will heal all right from now on.

PONY FELL IN WELL A Pony Had Unusual Experience When it Fell Into Ten-foot Well. DESPERATE STRUGGLE To Free Itself But Had to be Hoisted to Top by Block and Tackle. Just before dinner today an accident happened in this city, which has perhaps never before been duplicated in this part of the county. A riding pony, owned by a Mr. Gunder, was hitched to a telephone pole.at the corner of Jefferson and First street, near the Berling plant, and in its travels around the pole the pony fell in a well. The well is one of the manholes that are made along the course of a sewer to allow of inspection, and it had a wooden cover, which had rotted away sufficiently to break, besides having a thin layer of sod over the top. The w’ell is about four feet in diameter, and about ten feet deep, and is walled with brick. In the bottom was about three feet of black mud. Spectators saw the horse disapepar and at once ran to its assistance and found it hanging by the halter and floundering in the mud. The animal was loosened and allowed to stay in the well until a block and tackle was rigged to the pole and the men hoisted it to the top. Beyond a coating of black mud the pony was not injured by its unusual experience. Had not some of the men attending the sale been outside of the stable the pony would have probably strangled in its efforts to free itself. —, — 9 - INHERITS A FORTUNE. Mrs. Emma Spellman Jones, daughter of the late Bev. R. D. Spellman, known in his lifetime to many Decatur and Adams county people, has sailed for Holland, where she will look after her interests in an estate there, which has been settled after many years’ litigation? The trip of Mrs. Jones is said to be financed by John D. Rockefeller, whose wife is an aunt of Mrs. Jones. The estate is said to be valued at half a million dollars. Dr. Spellman, father of Mrs. Jones, often preached in Decatur in the earlier days, and will be remembered by many of the older residents.

HERMAN BITTNER FARM SOLD. The forty acre farm of the late Herman Bittner, in Union township, was sold Wednesday afternoon by Commissioner D. B. Erwin at his law office, to George Ohler. The farm brought the sum of |4,320, or the very good price of SIOB per acre. Frank Pontius of Geneva was in Bluffton today with his son, Irvin, to have the young man examined for eye trouble, which is the result of grip and which will pass away with treatment. —Bluffton News. BASKET BALL TONIGHT. This evening lovers of the game of basket ball will have a chance to witness another round of this sport when the girls' basket ball team will meet the girls of the Bluffton high school in a game wnich promises to be very interesting. Another will be played between the eighth grade and the freshtween these two teams. The initial game will commence promptly at 7:15. I

ERECTS CHURCH Cellar is Being Excavated For New Church Building at Pleasant View. WILL BE MODERN Ready For Dedication June Ist—Work to be Pushed to Completion. A new church will be erected shortly by the congregation of Pleasant View church which is located about two miles west of Wren, Ohio. For tnany years past the people have labored with this improvement in view and this spring the possibility will become a fact. The cellar is now being dug and it will be walled with concrete to support the superstructure, which will be a veneered brick building. The old Pleasant View Baptist church, so many years a land mark has been moved to make room for the more modern building. The church will be large and commodious, having a church auditorium. Sunday school room, also small individual Sundayschool rooms for the primary classes. It will be well lighted by huge artglass windows of modern design. A hot water heating plant has been purchased and will be installed as soon as the building is far enough along to accomodate it. The cost of the structure will be between seven and eight thousand dollars which assures the congregation a modern building in all respects. The mason work will be done by Bert Hawkins, while the carpentering will be performed by Clayton Hoover, the material being furnished by the Decatur Lumber company, of this city. The other contracts pertaining to the erection have not been let at this time. When the new church is completed it will be the most modern as well as the prettiest church in the surrounding country, and the members of this fast growing church is to be complimented on their foresight and initiative in erecting so expensive a building. The church will be ready for occupancy about the first of June and the dedication will in all probability be attended by many of the citizens of Decatur. A PATRIOTIC DAY Decatur High School Will Observe Washington and Lincoln’s BIRTH ANNIVERSARIES With a Good Program—G. A. R. and W. R. C. Specially Invited.

The natal days of Washington and Lincoln will be celebrated Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock by the literary society’s of the Decatur high school with a patriotic program, as follows, to which tre public, and especially the G. A. R. and W. R. C. are invited. “Star Spangled Banner” —School. “Washington”—Zona Suman. “Lincoln” —Edwina Van Camp. Music —“The Moon Man"—Frank DeVoss. “Soldier Parlance” —Dwight Lachot. Reading—“ The Battle Above the Clouds”—Blanche McCrory. Double Quartet —"Italia.” Play—“ The Mysterious Coat" —Students of D. H. S. “Dixie" —High School. Reading—“An Overworked Elocutionist” —Rosa Green. Reading—" The Harvard Pennant” —Naomi Dugan. Vocal Solo —Nellie Daniels. Oration —“Patriotism"—Otto Rice. Piano Duet —Germaine Coffee and Ethel Smith. “The Runaway Boy”—Mary Patton. “The Soldier Life”—High School. Music —“The Soldiers’ Farewell”— Frank DeVoss. “Tenting Tonight”—High School. __o George Van Camp of Jackson, Mich., who was a business visitor here yesterday, dined with Mrs. Laura VanCamp and family.

Decatur, Ind. Thursday Evening, February 16, 1911.

REITER ENCAMPMENT. ' ' Gives an Elaborate Reveptlon to Visiting Members. Friday afternoon and night the local order of Odd Fellows will hold their annual district meeting at which time the encampment degree will be given by the Geneva, Bluffton and Portland lodges. At least a hundred visitors will be present from the nearby towns, which, added to those of this lodge, will make about two hundred people for the banquet. The supper and banquet will be served in the K. of P. home it being necessary to have al) the floor room in the Odd Fellow building in which to give the work. The Rebekahs have charge of the arrangements for the banquet and are intending to serve a five-course affair. Only the visiting members will be served supper, but all the members are invited to attend the banquet. The committee requests that we ask all the encampment members to be at the hall at 3:00 prompt.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Adam Deihl Trial For Arson is Still in Progress in Circuit Court. CONCLUDE FRIDAY A Marriage License Issued —A $5,000 Damage Case Settled by Agreement. The case 'of the State vs. Adam Deihl, arson, is still in progress and will not go to the jury before Friday evening. It is being hard fought by the state and the defense. The court room is well filled with spectators. Louis Waldschmidt vs. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. Co., damages. $5,000, dismissed, after written agreement was filed and the costs pjjid. A marriage license was issued to Thomas Johnson, 24. farmer, and Orel Marie Kitson, 21, daughter of William Kitson. Messrs. Wilson and Pressnail, state accountants, wil conclude their investigation today for the year 1910, and leave for new fields.

State ex rel. A. & C. Stone and Lime Co. vs. Fred Hoffman et al., appearance by D. E. Smith for all defendants; rule to answer. o KITSON-JOHNSON NUPTIALS. At Preble last evening at six o’clock occurred one of the prettiest weddings it has been our fortune to hear of for many days, when Miss Orel Kitson and Thomas Johnson were united in the bonds of holy matrimony, by Rev. Valentine who was ably assisted by the Rev. Bills of Redkey. The wedding was solemnized at the parsonage, after which the party went to the home of Mr. Harve Kitson where the wedding supper was served. Both the young people are well known in this community and the well wishes of all their friends are extended to them. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Kitson living west of this city, they being former residents of Decatur. A NEW EDITRESS. The Herald (E. G. Spade, editor) is handicapped for lack of room and time this week. In its rounds of this community last week, the Stork droped an eight-pound girl in at the Herald home, without saying as much as if you please. The finding of household help is an utter impossibility, and the old man has been pressed into service as a nurse, much to the detriment of the Herald this week. Little Miss Margaret Elizabeth will soon be able to render some assistance, however, then we’ll make up for the present failure. —Willshire Herald. o ~ UPHOLDS QUALIFICATIONS. One of the bills recently killed in the legislature was one presented by Smith Askren, providing that the law fixing the qualifications for teachers, be so amended that it be unnecessary for a person to have taken a high school course to secure a license. The matter of lessening the qualifications of teacheis, however proved a verp unpopular one and the bill was killed, | when it appeared in the house.

HORSE SALE HELD Sale Opened With Two Hundred Fifty Head at 10 O’clock This Morning. THE PRICES ARE FAIR About Five Hundred Spectators Witness Sale and Buying is Brisk. The First street stables exhibited a very busy throng this morning in making the final preparations for the sale which started at 10 o'clock with Mr. McNabb of Ashland, Ohio, as the auctioneer. Over two hundred and fifty horses are listed for sale and in walking through the barn one wonders where so many good horses can be picked up in the short time of two weeks. The horses are of all kinds, but the heavy draft predominates. The out-of-town buyers were there early looking over the bunch and listing those which they needed for their market. About three hundred spectators were at the barn when the sale opened but in the afternoon the number was materially increased by the addition of a great many farmers from the surrounding country who could not be here for the morning session of the sale. Despite the fact that the dispatches from the eastern markets showed a downward tendency, the management believes the sale will net the best results. With th large lot of the best horses in the county on the block no reason can be offered why the sales should not be the best in the state. Decatur is noted as one of the largest horse markets in the middle west and with only the best grade of stock being offered at every sale we will also be known as the best market in this territory. The sale is still holding forth as we go to press and will probably continue until late tonight, or until all the horses are sold. The stock is bringing fair prices and buying is brisk. o — Mrs. John Thomas went to Monmouth yesterday afternoon to visit with her brother, Wilson Reed.

THE LAST NUMBER Os the High School Entertainment Series—Given Next Wednesday. BY SIDNEY LANDON Character Sketches —Gives Speaking Likenesses of Great Men. _ The fifth and last number of the lyceum course given this fall and winter under the auspices of the Decatur high school seniors will be given next Wednesday, February 22nd, at Bosse’s opera house by Sidney Landon, the character delineator. Mr. Landon has achieved a national reputation in his character delineation. With the use of wigs and paints, an art of which he is master, he presents speaking likenesses of Mark Twain. Edgar Allen Poe, Longfellow, James Whitcomb Riley and other great men, or cleverly delineates characters we meet in our daily life. A press notice says: “Mr. Landon's work is peculiarly adapted to the needs of the presentday lyceum platform. While it. supplies in the fullest measure the constantly increasing demand for novelty, it posseses in addition to the universally conceded artistic excellence, an innate dignity, grace, and refinement, and has all the fun and variety with the necessary merit to make it worth while.” —o— . ■ GEESE FLYING NORTH. The slumbering' residents of the city were awakened Wednesday night about 10 o’clock by the, loud honk of a flock of wild geese that flew over the city in their northward flight. If the groundhog did go back on us, we have this sign of the geese that spring is not far distant.

LAST QUARTERLY MEETING. The last quarterly meeting of the Chattanooga mission for the conference year will be held in the Salem Evangelical church two and one-half miles east of Decatur, beginning next Friday night, February 17th, when the pastor will preach, and on Saturday night the presiding elder, Rev. J. J. Wise, of Fort Wayne district, will preach at 7:00 p. m., after which he will have charge of the quarterly conference. On Sunday morning the elder will again preach and administer the Lord's supper. You are all urged to be present at all of these services, and let us endeavor to make our last meeting for the conference year a great spiritual feast to all. Yours tor the meeting. REV. E. R. ROOP, Pastor.

WANTS STATE WIDE The Proposed Constitution Amended For Vote on State Wide Prohibition. NEW OPTION LAW Passed Senate—The Registration Bill Passed the Senate Yesterday. (United Press Service.) Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Results of the recent democratic caucus, when it was agreed the legislature must rush through the platform measures are apparent today, following a busy session of the senate yesterday afternoon on the weekly wage bill, and the Clark-Harlan registration meausre. were passed and the bill to submit a new constitution for the voters’ approval at the 1912 election was introduced. The weekly wage law was not strictly a platform measure, but had the backing of the party and Governor Marshall. In connection with the introduction of the bill for a vote on Governor Marshall’s constitution Senator White, republican, introduced a joint resolution, calling for an amendment to the constitution, providing for state-wide prohibition. The resolution follows: “Be it resolved by the general assembly of the state of Indiana that there be added to the state constitution Section 27, to read as follows: That manufacture, sale or keeping for sale in this state, of spirituous, vinous or other intoxicating liquors except for medical, scientific, mechanical and sacramental purposes, be hereby prohibited. ’ “Sec. 2. That this amendment is hereby agreed to and referred to the general assembly elected at the next legislature.” T ( he resolution was referred to the committee on constitutional revision.

The Proctor substitute option bill was passed by the senate by a vote of 38 to 17. This bill re-enacts all the provisions of the present law, and strengthens the clause relating to the enumeration of voters in townships. As to option elections which have been called as a result of the enacting of the first Proctor bill, the measure passed today contains a clause saving these elections. In effect the calling of the elections is legalized as the bill provides that it shall not interfere with any action taken under the law repealed. The republicans jumped on the Clark-Harlan registration bill as unconstitutional, but on a party line-up the measure passed by a vote of 29 to 15. The bill provides for a board of registration to sit in each voting precinct. in three regular sessions in each year in which a general election will occur. The first session shall be held on Thursday, the one hundred eighteenth day preceding the election, and known as the May session. The second session shall be held sixty days and'the third twenty-nine days prior to the election. THE ANNUAL ROLL CALL. The annual roll call of the Knights of Pythias will be in order this evening. Every member is expected to respond to the call of his name either in person or by sending a letter. A banciet will follow the regular meeting. During the evening four candidates will be given the third degree.

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ABOUT THE SICK Mrs. Cyrus Hammell Undergoes Successful Operation This Morning at LUTHERAN HOSPITAL Martin Kiefer Also at Hospital—Mention of the -Sick People. Word from the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, received at noon today was to the effect that Mrs. Cyrus Hammell, wno was ratten to the Lutheran hospital Tuesday, was operated upon this morning by Dr. Duemling, assisted by Mrs. Hampiell’s Decatur physicians. The operation was for hernia of long standing, and was a very serious one. The operation itself was a complete success, though at the time of the message, Mrs. Hammell had not yet come out from under the influence of the anaesthetic. Several members of the family were at the hospital at the time of the operation O. L. Vance returned at noon today from Fort Wayne, where he called on Mrs. Vaace at the St. Joseph hospital. She is reported as being very much better today. Ferdinand Bleeke, who has been very low with pneumonia, and whose condition has been closely watched by his many friends, was not quite so well today. The attending physician stated that he was holding his own, though at times was delirious. He is receiving the best of care, a nurse from Hope hospital, Fort Wayne, being in attendance. Mrs. M. V. B. Archbold visited yesterday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Edge. Mrs. Edge has not been well the past week or two, suffering from rheumatism. Mrs. Mary Ely, who became suddenly seriously sick Wednesday afternoon, is reported as better today. Mrs. J. D. Wisehaupt is still improving each day and is able to sit up for a short time during the day. She is gaining much strength and improving nicely, and it is thought she will recover and regain her former good health. Mrs. C. S. Niblick is improving with tlie passing of each day and her condition is giving much encouragement ’to those in charge. Mrs. Julius Haugk went to Fort Wayne this morning to call on her brother, Martin Kiefer, of west of the city, who has been a patient at the Lutheran hospital since last Saturday, when he underwent an operation for the removal of a tumor from the side of his face. Mrs. Haugk reports that he is getting along well, although he is very weak. Gottlieb Pohler of Huntington was here today to have a limb dressed by the Doctors Clark. Mr. Pohler was over last Saturday and had a tumor successfully removed from the limb, the return visits being necessary to have it dressed. Mrs. Mary Ahr, who is critically ill, became worst last night, but this morning was resting somewhat easier. Her condition varies slightly from time to time, but she is very bad and there are no hopes for her recovery. < John Clancy, foreman of the G. R. & I. bridge carpenters, has been quite sick with a severe cold the past two weeks, but is somewhat better. This was contracted by sleeping in the car provided for the force and Mr. Glancy has been returning home in the evening the past two weeks. He left this morning again for Monroe. Mrs. Joseph P. Johnson of Monroe who has been suffering from gall stones, is recovering and is able to be up. Sam Shamp reported for duty at the postoffice this morning but his sprained ankle gave him so much pain that he was obliged to return at once to his homo. o— Mrs. Laura Van Camp went to Fort Wayne this noon on business relating to the Van Camp estate.