Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 59.

THE DEAL IS CLOSED John I. Taylor, President of Boston Americans, is Behind Auto Factory. WILL FINANCE IT Means Much For Decatur’s Future—Will Turn Out Four Cars a Week. — There is no longer any doubt about ' the success of the Decatur Motor Car company. After a varied career of ; ups and downs, mostly “downs,” it is on its feet and will without doubt, within a few years, be one of the biggest concerns of its iknd in the country. It means more for Decatur than our people will realize at this time, a really big manufacturing industry, ’that will employ a large number of men at gov u wages ana will advertise -Decatur from one end of the land to the other. They will manufacture only a one-ton truck and it’s a dandy—so pronounced by experts everywhere. For two months a deal has been on I to finance the company in the east and we are glad to announce that the ‘ very last detail of arrangement was concluded today. The “man behind the gun," so to speak, is no less a person than John I. Taylor, owner of the ‘ Boston American League base ball club, owner of the Boston Globe, millionarie and all-around business man. 1 Mr. Brackett, president of the Deca-’ tur Automobile company, and Mr. J Bernard, sales manager, have been in the east all this week and a telegram from Mr. Brackett today announced the fact that Mr. Taylor had agreed to all the terms and is now behind the ' company. Recently the capitalization was increased to $325,000 and the sac-, tory here will soon be a mighty busy | institution, as arrangements are now being made to work day and night shifts and turn out four cars a week.' Next year the factory will be rebuilt with a capacity equal to the demands. The new Decatur truck is a model of perfection and at the Boston show, | now on. three car loads had been sold up to Thursday evening. In fact it is not a question of selling it, but making it, and the fact that the company is now financed in the right way takes that “if" away and puts the company on its feet in great shape. , We congratulate Mr. Brackett and the x-other men who have made possible for Decatur a greater factory. j — ISSUE BIG CATALOG. Business Men of Willshire Attempt to Counteract Mail Order Influence. The business men of Willshire are arranging to pull off a little advertis-, Ing stunt which will make all the towns sit up and take notice that they are on the map. There are about twenty business men in the town and they will collectively issue a catalog whiich will be distributed to the vari- ( ous patrons of the stores. Bach business man will have his allotted amount of space and the object of the catalog is to give an itemized list of everything carried in stock by any merchant in the town. The catalog will be about the size of the usual mail order book and will contain at least 500 pages. They will probably be priced, thus making a complete mail order catalog, which can be used , bv any one who happens to secure ( one. This Is the only way to counteract the influence of the mail order houses,• so the promoters say. The success, of the venture will be closely watched by the merchants everywhere and if It proves successful it will be generally used. j ANDREW APPLEMAN FUNERAL. > Funeral services for Andrew Appleman were conducted this morning at 9 o’clock from the St. Mary’s Catholic church. The death of this prominent farmer, who for many years lived west of this city; occurred I Tuesday noon after a long illness of Iseveral years from a complication of diseases. Burial took place In the St. Joseph cemetery.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

IS FIXING IT UP. — ( Peter Forbing is Arranging His Store For Occupancy. « Workmen are engaged in remodeling the Peter Forbing building, one I door north of the Schafer Hardware store, for occupancy In the near future. They are removing the old plasI ter and will give the room a thorough overhauling, putting on new paper and painting all the woodwork, including the front, whiich will also be painted. This will remove all traces of the fire which recenly occurred there, burning the stock of Al Garard, who conducted a five and ten cent store there. The building has not I been remodedel since that time, and I will require some improvements before being ready for an occupant. MISTAKES BOTTLE Miss Dora Schultz Rubs Carbolic Acid on Head For Ache in PLACE OF CAMPHOR Head Badly Burned Though Not Seriously So—Other Items of Ills. Miss Dora Schultz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schultz of the south ! part of tne city, is suffering from a badly blistered and burned forehead, the result of getting hold of the wrong bottle of medicine. Miss Schultz had been suffering a headache and this ; morning thought she would get the ! camphor bottle and apply what has ’ been deemed a good remedy for 1 headache. She got a bottle that she ’ supposed was the camphor vial and ' pouring a quantity of the liquid on her hand applied it to her forehead, rubbing it the entire length and i breadth thereof. In a very short time ’ she felt excruciating pain, stinging and burning and was horrified to read by the label that she had applied cari bolic acid instead of the soothing i camphor. She hastily applied lard and then called a physician, who advised soothing lotions, and though the 1 forehead was badly swollen, burned ' and blistered this afternoon and caus- ' ed much pain, the injury is not conslered serious. E. Woods, who was so badly injured by being thrown backwards from a wagon in which he was standing, is showing continued improvement, and is able to sit up a short while occasionally. Rev. and Mrs. I. Imler went to Monmouth this morning to call on Mrs. I Henry Bauman, who has been ill for several weeks and whom, it is feared, j will be obliged to undergo an operatlon within a week or so. Mrs. Rev' Ehlij and several of the children are among the measles victims. I ”* Kathleen, eldest daughter of County Clerk and Mrs. J. P. Haefling, is sick with what it is thought will develop into measles. Painters are adorning the front of the Deininger millinery store with a new coat of paint, that will brighten up the place for the spring opening of millinery goods which will be held soon. The Hon. R. S. Peterson, who has been dangerously sick several days, show’s no improvement, being slightly worse today. o— — A NEW AGENT. in Freight and Passenger Departments of Decatur Interurban. I Clayton Schafer of Bluffton, who has served for some time as freight and passenger agent for the Marlon, i Bluffton & Eastern traction company, ' has taken a similar position with the i Fort Wayne & Springfield railway ! company, with headquarters in this city. Mr. Schafer, who will enter upon his new duties here April Ist, will make this city his home and will move his family here dueling May., Painters are at work on the shelving, display windows and other inter- ' ior improvements to the Studabakbr building, which will be occupied by the I. Bernstein clothing house.

“SOCIAL EVENING” Feature to be Instituted by the Local Knights of Pythias. WILL SET APART One Evening Each Month— [ Boosters’ Meeting Next Thursday. The members of the Knights of Pythias lodge in this city are forming plans and arranging matters to institute what they term the "Social Evening” feature. It is the intention to set apart one evening of each month to be devoted solely to social features, at which time the attendance of every member of the lodge will be urged with the request that he bring, as a guest, some man not belonging to the order. In doing this it is possible that many men will become interested in the order and on their own initiative make application for membership. Dr. Fred Patterson has been appointed chairman of the Social Evening committee as a whole, and as his assistants has John Parrish, Fred Fruchte, Orval Harruff and James Hurst, who are chairmen of the invitation, refreshment, entertainment and finance committees respectively, other members of the committees being D. B. Erwin and Jonas Tritch, F. V. Mills and Harry Helm, E. E. Rice and Albert Sellemeyer, D. N. Erwin and E. Burt Lenhart. Plans to date are for what may be known as a “Boosters’ Meeting” to be held next Thursday night at whiich time interest will be aroused and plans formulated to open an active campaign for new members for the lodge. With the ideal lodge home which the order has, where all the pleasures desired by any man are afforded, a campaign for increased membership should prove very successful. COURT HOUSE NEWS Albert Kauffman Files Divorce Suit, Making Some Startling Allegations. SAYS SHE DRNIKS John T. Kelley Appointed Guardian For Louisa J. Ketcham —Other News. A new case entitled Albert Kauffman vs. Florence Kauffman, for divorce, was filed by Attorney F. M. Cottrell. The couple were married September 11, 1909, and lived together until February 19th, this year. Mr. Kauffman alleges that his wife is an habitual drunkard, that she buys whiskey from foreign houses and threatened to feed him on Paris green and to kill his mother. A plain decree is asked. David P. Kenworthy et al. vs. William H. Reichard, to foreclose lien and damages, SSOO. Appearance by F. M. Cottrell for defendant; rule to answer. i Albert F. Adams vs. Louisa Jane 1 Ketcham, cause heard. Finding j that defendant is person of unsound ' mind. John T. Kelley appointed guar- ’ dlan. A. D. Suttles, receiver, vs. Decatur Motor Co., on contract, reply filed by plaintiff to answer. A marriage license was granted to Nellie Kern, 22, carpenter, Geneva. Frank M. Cottrell was appointed administrator of the estate of his nephew, Albert F. Cottrell, who died in Michigan a shart time ago. The bond was for $l5O. .— - -o— — Miss Midge Smith entertained the Thimble club Thursday afternoon in a pleasant way. Mrs. L. E. Steele will take upon herself the duties of hostess at the meeting next Thursday.

Decatur, Ind. Friday Evening, March 10, 1911.

THE RED MEN Will Reorganize Haymaker Degree and Give Work to Large Class. Members of the local Red Men lodge are formulating plans by which the Haymaker degree of that order may be reorganized. Several candidates are ready to take the work and the order will take the matter up officially next Wednesday evening at the regular meeting and will probably decide to reorganize. All the boys interested in the Haymaker work or wanting to be one of the bunch should be there without fail. — . -o ARE GOING SOME ’1 <■ ■ R Lose & Thomas Factory is Forced to Add to Already Large Plant. WORK NIGHT AND DAY To Supply Orders For Popular Brands of Cigars— Want More Help. The improvement at the Lose & Thomas cigar factory have now been completed and the plant is a model all respects. The most marked improvement is the addition of a fifty foot factory room, well lighted and ventilated, and commodious. The retail department has also been cut down considerably to make, room for the drying and steaming department. Over one thousand feet of drying racks have been built, giving them a capacity of over three hundred pounds of tobacco a day. A steaming process has been installed which extracts the petroleum ether from the leaf, thus insuring a sweet smoke without that biting sensation afterwards. The leaf is purchased in ton lots and when received is at once put in the steaming arrangement, their exclusive process of tobacco culture. It is then removed to the strippiing room, where the stems are removed, and returned to the drying room again, from whence it goes to the rollers, who i work the filler dry and the binders ' and wrappers moist. The cleanliness of the plant is ap- | parent, the floors being without the [ usual litter of waste and the little paste jars are spotless white. The stems as fast as they gather are removed to the cellar, where they are i baled and shipped, being utilized in other factories for the manufacture of various commodities. The present output of the factory is three thousand per day. From the revenue reports to the government we found that White Stag cigars to the extent of 40.200 were made in January and 45,700 in February of this year. The J. A. M. Adair cigar is fast becoming a leader and in a few months the factory will be flooded with orders for this popular brand. Besides the White Stag and the J. A. M. Adair this firm makes the Havana Midget, Atlantic King, Cubatonia, M. W. A. and Red Feather in five cent grades. The Thomas Blend is the leading ten cent brand. Two cheaper grades, the N. & A. and the Bouquet 76, are manufactured for those w’ho wan them. No artificial flavoring is used in any of these brands, the flavor depending only on the grade of the leaf used. There are now twenty people engaged in this factory and Mr. Thomas stated this morning that he would employ more if he could get them, also take on an apprentice or two. When visited this morning the factory exhibited a busy aspect, all the rollers and strippers working merrily away. One man is necessary to keep the leaf on the drying racks and supplied to the rollers. The John Adair cigar is being made under a contract held by the Hood company of Portland, and the factory is now rushed, being forced to work each night to get the orders out. This, in addition to keeping up with orders for the other brands, keeps the factory workiing night and day which state of affairs will prevail until tlie management can secure more help. The factory is now one of the largest in this section of the state and if present indications hold up will soon be forced to take larger quarters and manufacture on a scale that will give employment to a hundred or so employees.

MANY APPLICANTS Fifteen Ask For License to Sell Liquor—Even Dozen in Decatur. WHO AND WHERE Edward Johnson Wants to Operate Wholesale House —Others All Retail. —_. i For the first time in over two years, notices of applications ior liquor licenses appear in the current issue of the Weekly Democrat, and from the number printed it looks as though there would be a real contest for the five licenses to be granted for the city of Decatur. The applications require an entire page, and number fifteen for the county. This Includes Jeff Klopfenstein at Preble, Louis Keller at Monroe and John Hey at Williams. The list for Decatur is: Curley Radamaker, corner Second and Madison streets, Niblick building; Lafayette Ellis, in his own building; Roman Barthel in the Joseph & Lang room; William Hartings, in the Model cigar store room; Ben Knapke, In Curley’s old place; John Keller, in the room formerly occupied by John Meyer; Morton Andrews in the old Boknecht place; Joseph Tonnelier in the Forbing buiUding; Andrew Zeser in the frame next to the Elzey & Carroll barber shop; C. D. Murray, at his hotel; Clem W. Voglewede. at the “Home” stand; and Edward Johnson, for a wholesale license. It is likely that another application or two will be filed for the wholesale business, the license on which Is S2OO, half the amount to go to the state and half to the city, and on which the limit does not apply. x e ■■ — Mrs. John Thomas was called to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon by a message that her aunt, from near Dixon, Ohio, was to undergo an operation at the Lutheran hospital. JOURNEY ENDED Miss Laura Callow Closes Life’s Journey and Passes Into A FULLER LIFE Was Sister of Horace Callow and Mrs. J. A. Smith of This City. Miss Laura Callow of near Wren, Ohio, who has been gradually declining in the past several months, and who for several weeks has been at the point of death, passed away at an early hour this morning at her home at Wren. Miss Callow was the daughter of the late William and Alice Callow, whose deaths occurred within the past year and a half, the father passing away a year ago last January and the mother a year ago this month. The daughter lovingly cared for them during their illness and the strain and sorrow accompanying their illness and death contributed no doubt in no small way in undermining the strength of the daughter and hastened her decline. The deceased was about forty years of age, and the j greater part of her life has been spent l in the vicinity of Wren, where her parents have resided. She is survived j by one sister, Mrs. J. A. Smith, of this i city, and four brothers —Horace, formerly of this city, now of West Plains, Mo.; Allen, at home, John and Sherman of north of Wren. — o STORK LINGERS HERE. The stork which has been making its home in this vicinity for several months, seems to like the place, and is inclined to linger longer. Among the recent gifts which it brought was a baby boy, left at the Gert Reynolds home, and this morning a bright baby girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Chronister. o Dr. D. D. Clark and daughter, Miss Margaret, were Fort Wayne visitors last evening.

LIKES THE WEST. William Elmer Rohr Writes Democrat That All is Well There For Him. Elmer Rohr, a former resident of this place, and very well known here, writes from Pine River, Minn., where he is now located, that the winters there are not what they are advertised, they not having ten feet of snow or a rigorous winter. Pine River is a little town lost away up in the pines, but it is equipped with electric lights, waterworks and all the other modern improvements. Mr. Rohr states that there is a fine opportunity there for men with a little capital, also that thtere Is plenty of work. Mr. Rohr’s friends are glad to hear of his success and hope that it may continue. SLASHED THROAT Charles Sweet, Veteran of Middletown Known Here, Attempted Suicide. TAKEN TO INFIRMARY On Decatur Interurban Car on Which Many Decatur People Rode. Decatur people who went to Fort Wayne on the 4 o'clock car Thursday afternoon were much alarmed when the car stopped at Middletown and a cot, bearing Charles Sweet, an old soldier, from near that place, who had attempted suicide by cutting his throat, was put on the car. the man being taken to Fort Wayne, where transfer was made to the county infirmary. The man was Charles Sweet of Allen county, well known to many here. The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette says: “Demented from excessive use of intoxicants, Charles Sweet, aged 69, a veteran of the c&vil war and a former resident of Marion township, now on a furlough from the Marion soldiers' home, attempted suicide at 8 o’clock Thursday morning by slashing himself across the throat with a dull pocekt knife in a barn on the Henry Nelreiter farm, near Middletown, and lay insensible and bleeding until found five hours later. His wounds are not of a serious nature and he will be able to return to the institution within a few days. “After parting from his wife. Sweet went to Marion last September, where he entered the home. He came back on a furlough a month ago and had been visiting with former neighbors. He came to the Neireiter home Wednesday night and asked to be allowed to stay, but, owing to his intoxicated condition and the illness of Mr. Neireiter, he was refused admittance, but was given two blankets and allowed to go to the barn for the niight. "When the man was found in the haymow Thursday afternoon. Dr. Mercer of Poe was Immediately summoned, and it was soon found that the cuts were not dangerous, the jugular vein and the principal blood vessels and organs of the neck being unimpaired. R. E. Chapman of Poe brought Sweet to the county infirmary to remain until able to return to Marion.” It is said that after cutting his throat, the blood poured forth Un such profusion that his coat and clothing became so matted that it was necessary to burn them. LETTIE KINTZ ENJOYS STAY. — In Southwest —Cashier For Anderson Lumber and Mercantile Firm. Miss Lettie Kintz, who left several months ago for Gideon, Mo., for an 1 extended stay with her sister, Mrs. J Newton Anderson, writes friends here that she is having a fine time on her! visit in the southwest. It is not all play, though, she writes, as she has taken a position as cashier for the Anderson Lumber & Mercantile company, one of the many departments of commerce established there by the former Decatur boys. She likes the position very much. The weather there at present ite delightful, the trees being In bloom. The Misses Margaret Clifford and Eva Gaynell of Fort Wayne, who spent the night here, returned to Fort Wayne this morning and from there will go to Detroit.

Price, Two Cents

HAVE GONE HOME Legislators Are by This Time Explaining Why They Voted So and So. GOVERNOR WILL REST Corporation Business Coming in at Secretary of State’s Office Now. V' Indianapolis, Ind., March 10 —Ail members of the late, but not lamented legislature, has shaken the dust from his feet, and probably by this time is busy explaining to his constituents why he voted the wrong way on some important bill, and “what’s the matter with 105.” The members all seemed glad of the opportunity to quit, and the same is true of those who have been constantly watching the game during the session, and we presume that even greater cheer is eminating from the lips of the dear people, who now know to a certainty that the appropriation bills are all In, and that innocent looking jokers are a thing of the past. And in talking of jokers and lobbyists and the interests, it is really a wonder that the people fare as well as they do, and the reason for it lies in the fact that the average man, be he a member of the Indiana legislature or what not, is honest under any and all circumstances. Were it not so, there would not be enough left to tell the tale. But they are all gone now. Among the last to say farewell was Speaker Veneman. who returns to his home at Evansville, and he goes with the good will of every acquaintance made since beginning and completing his duties as speaker of the Indiana house of representatives. Senator Wood was another of those to linger in saying farewell. Governor Marshall has left the city on a week’s vacation and rest. He needed the rest. It has been a merry clip that the chief executive paced, beginning last September, when he began his speaking tour of the campaign. It took all the months of November and December to catch up with his official duties and then came the legislature, and since then he did not permit any one to sleep at the switch. But through it all, the governor came out on top, witnessing the legislative enactment of every party platform pledge, and getting much personal consideration from the members of the law-making body of the state government. It is a fact worth recording that even those democrats in the legislature who w’ere the most ferocious in their indictment of him, were his warmest supporters in the end. As a gampie, one who came prejudiced and with personal feelings of malice, paid his respects in leaving by saying that he did not know why but that he was won to him completely. and left with the most kindly feeling, and that he was with him and for him, in any capacity and at any time of the year, day or night, Sunday included. It is the governor’s thorough honesty and independence that wins these friends. No soft soap goes with him. He iS what he is, and that is the end of it. Corporation business at the office of secretary of state has been fast and furious for several weeks, and old employees there say they never saw anything to equal it in the history of this feature of the business. Apparently everything and everybody is incorporating and receiving the protection given by this method of doing business, and it is the best way—we are advertising our business. Some fancy fees, the largest ever received by the state, is also a feature worth mentioning. The Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction company that recently bought up the Wabash Valley lines at Fort Wayne, paid $8,013.00 for their reincorporation, while over $13,000 w r as paid for the reincorporation of the Studabaker concern at South Bend. This is the easiest and most profitable business that the state does. Adams county remains a legislative district and all by her lonesome. Some fancy hemstitching was done during the dying moments of the Indiana legislature, and some of it was 1 devoted to saving a new’ apportion- ' ment from being signed by a demo- ' cratic governor, after having been 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR