Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1911 — Page 1

ime IX. Number 106.

■RY LOOKS GOOD her Census Will Show 2® the Largest City in In■R diana, Easily (■reports are true n Inside Glance at the Fu|.Kire —Indianapolis Prepares For Races. are not looking bright and Adams county's fertile soil too limited a field for wour amMnn, go to Gary. W. K. Allen, who before the state tax board ot some railroad interests o: he is the directing genius, was contidential mood, but nevertheearnest in his declaration, when ■said that be was firm in the belief ■t two years hence one hundred and thousand workmen will be ■ployed in that place. Make the ■toman computation by multiply- ■ this one hundred and thirty-five ■usand by four and a half, and you ■> figure Gary with a population in ■ess of six hundred thousand. None ■ the most vivid imagination can such possibilities. Gary, ■ich less than ten years ago was ■king but a barren waste, even now ■ailed to the brim with life and in■try, and still there is more to Kr According to the declaration RTMr. Allen, buildings are already ■der construction or contracted for Ke American Bridge company. IndiKa Steel company, Gary Bolt & Krew company, American LocomoKe company, American Sheet & Tin Kite company and the American Car Kpndry Each of these industries are Kpected to employ twenty thousand Workmen. Think, if you can, what all Bls means for the commercial interests of Indiana's steel city, think of the great opportunities of those who have their wealth in good old Gary real estate, think of the fortunes that will be made and that can be made in this, wonderful city in every line of trade or business. There is no mushroom growth, such as has been experienc'd in many of the western cities in the good old days of the boom and boomer Many is the man who has gone to bed at night a millionaire and when he awakened in the morning was a pauper. All this is out of the question in Gary. Here ail of these industries are assured and they are being financed by the greatest bulls and bears in the financial world. They will? begin operation complete in every way and will produce the limit of their capacity on the first day of their operation. There is no waiting for them to grow. The men who own and control these industries are the same men wbo control the markets In other lines and will always have a buyer for their output. It is a sure game they are playing, and it will be about as sure a game the average business man will play that can prove ownership to a slice of realty there or an interest in a good business enterprise, it matters not whether it is banking or selling peanuts The newspaper business is the only one that might fail to look inviting, and this is occasioned by the fact that much if not the greater part of the population is made up of raw foreigners, who could not if they would and would not if they could, read an American newspaper—or any other. Entry lists for the five hundred mile speedway race on Memorial Day are closed, with forty-three entries, and exery box seat sold at the poor man’s price of four dollars per. This is in addition to the regular admission of one dollar and a half. The management in order not to overlook a bet is now busy building more boxes, and it bids fair to be the greatest cleaning ever witnessed in an Indiana city. The races, however, are the best ever given in this country, and it expected that one hundred thousand spectators will be on hand at the start at 10 o'clock and remain for the finish at about 6 o’clock that evening. E. E. McGriff of Portland was among the many others who appeared before the tax board, he representing the Home Telephone company of his native city. Several steam railroads were heard, and others are on the waiting list. L ' °’ B '

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INFIRMARY INMATE. Mrs. Louisa Berron, wife of Fred Herron of Jefferson township, a prominent farmer of this county, and who for many years has been an epileptic, and for ten years an inmate of the county infirmary, died at 2:30 o'clock this morning while afflicted with this dreaded disease. She was forty years of age and had been suffering with affliction ever since fifteen years old. She was never allowed to be alone, and at times had to be kept in a cell, owing to her wild disposition and becoming unmanageable. She was born in Ohio near Chattanooga, the daughter of Jacob Ballenbaugher, who still resides just across the county line. She leaves a husband and four children, one of whom is cared for by Mrs. Amos Zehr of Berne and another at the home of Mrs. J. N. Bollenbaugher, also of Jefferson township, while two younger ones are at home with their father. The remains will be taken to the family home to lay in state until the funeral which it is thought, will be held Sunday. RADICAL CHANGES Proposed at Northern Fraternal Congress of Ben Hur at Logansport. THREE TO BE NAMED To Draft Amendments to Constitution of Supreme Tribe. Logansport, Ind., May s—After twenty-five unsuccessful attempts to adjourn the convention had been made in an effort to defeat it a resolution was passed at the Northern Fraternal Congress of the Tribe of Ben Hur here last night which will ultimately revolutionize the official machinery of that order. The resolution was introduced by Fred L. Feick, delegate from the Garrett (Ind.) court, and was supported by W. W. Sharpless of Garrett and J. E. Shrilrist and W. E. Davis of Wabash. The resolution provides that a committee of three draft amendments to the constitution of the Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur and that such amendments be submitted to each court for its approval. Should the majority approve of the amendments, the supreme tribe congress, which meets next year, shall either adopt or reject the amendments. The committee named to sugges’t the amendments is composed of W. W. Sharpless of Garrett, Loyis Shatzer of Wabash and Attorney Ray McAdams of Fort Wayne. The passage of the resolution means that the committee will recommend that each court of the Tribe of Ben Hur elect a delegate to the supreme congress and participate in the election of the Supreme Tribe officers. Under the present constitution of the lodge these Supreme Tribe officials compose the executive members and the courts are allowed but one delegate for every 3,000 members. In event the supreme congress refused to accept the amendments which will be offered, the leaders of the fight for constitutional reform will seek the passage of a bill in the legislature to accomplish it. At the morning session officers were elected as follows: Past chief, C. F. Lahare of Garrett; chief, John A. Orr of Fort Wayne; judge, S. C. Tipton of South Bend; scribe, 8. M. Hunt of Kokomo, koft, A. L, Miller, South Bend; captain. P. L. G. Axel of Kendallville; guide, O. Y. Johnson of Fort Wayni; keeper of Inner gate Joe Davis of Wabash; keeper of outer gate, Mr. Brown of Huntington; pianists, Bell Roos of Avilla and Mrs. Elizabeth Wicke, Logansport. Among the district supreme officers who presided at the sessions was U. S. Cress of Decatur, keeper of the inner gate. Among those elected delegates to ; the convention from the local lodge were Oscar Merriman, Adam Weis. Mrs. Mel Butler, Mrs. James Bain, i Mrs. John Burke. Mrs. A. D. Artman. I “ ; The decision of the Foughty divorce i case, in which evidence was complet- ) ed several days ago, will be rendered > Saturday morning by Judge Merryman.

Decatur, Ind. Friday Evening,

DIED AT REDKEY Mrs. Forest Kauffman, Former Decatur Young Lady, Died Last Night. I WELL KNOWN HERE Leaves Infant Daughter— Husband is Nephew of Walter Kauffman. Edith, wife of Forest Kaufman, for- , mer Decatur residents, died Thursday night at 5 o'clock at their home at Redkey. A baby girl, born Thursday morning, and for whom the mother gave her life, survives. Such was the news received here today by Walter Kauffman, an uncle of the bereaved husband. The news of the death comes with the utmost sorrow to the hundreds of Decatur friends of Mr. . and Mrs. Forest Kauffman, who, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Laban Kauffman, came from Redkey to this * city last June to make their home, Mr. Kauffman being a salesman for the Schafer company. They resided here until last December, when they returned to Redkey to live. While here they were identified with the Methodist church, being active work- ( ers in all its departments, and no one made more friends than did the young couple, Mrs. Kauffman being especially beloved for her many endearing ways. The couple, who were very youth- ■ ful, were married a year ago last , March, and the wife at death had not , yet reached her twentieth year. The arrangements for the funeral were not conveyed in the message received here 1 but Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kauffman 1 will leave tomorrow noon to be with ( the bereaved ones. ( o — i COURT MOUSE NEWS Application Made For Admission of Charles Bruce Niblick to ■ - EASTHAVEN ASYLUM Judge Merryman at Fort Wayne—Bar Committee Reports Resolutions. The insanity inquest board, including Doctors D. C. Hoffman of Wells county and W. E. Smith and J. M. Miller of this city, with 'Squire J. H. Stone, returned to the county clerk's office their finding of the insanity of ' Charles Bruce Niblick of Kirkland township, and application has been 1 made for his admission to Easthaven insane asylum at Richmond. Mr. Niblick is fifty-six years of age, has been married thirty years and has twelve children, the youngest six years of age. Dr. Hoffman has been the family physician for the past twelve years and he stated that Mr. Niblick h.ad never been rugged as long as he knew him, and he is of a very nervous temperament, and since an attack of the measles several years ago, he has rapidly declined in health. At present he weighs but one hundred pounds. Added to his nervousness was a disappointment in a real estate deal, and a suit pending now in court against him and his wife for ejectment and SI,OOO damages, brought by Isaac Rose and Simon Ackerman of Ft. Wayne, no doubt contributed to his insanity. Signs of the insanity have been noted for the past two years. He is silent, sleepless for several days at a time, walks at night, breaks off suddenly ord made in cases heretofore heard to his bed-room, hides in the gairet, where he has imaginary fights with persons, whom he thinks are seeking to kill him, and at times it is said he is violent, and carries razors. His condition is a pitiable one. The committee of the bar reported the resolutions touching the death oi Jacob Butcher, late member of the bar, and the same were ordered spread at length in the regular order CONTINUED ON .’AGE TWO.

TWO EXAMINATIONS. Scott and James Ellis, who went to Fort Wayne this morning to pay a visit to their father, Lase Ellis, who on Wednesday was taken to the St. Joseph hospital, there to undergo an examination for an illness with which he has been suffering for months, and to determine whether or not an operation would be necessary, returned at noon. Two examinations have been made, one Wednesday evening and the other Thursday, but as yet the physicians are at a loss to understand his condition and two more doctors were called Into consultation who will give him another thorough examination sometime today or Friday. Members of his family and his friends here are anxious to learn the outcome. o — THE BILK OF MAIL Handled at Decatur Postoffice is Enormous— Account is Kept. DURING THIS MONTH Os Each Piece Received and Sent Out—What It Was For Four Days. If any one thinks the postmaster’s duty, especially in a city the size of Decatur, is all a bed of roses, let him take on inside peep. Every day brings its arduous duties, but they are a little more heavy during this month when an account of the number of pieces and the weight of all incoming and outgoing mail must be kept, for the period of the whole thirty-one; days in the month of May, and a report of the same sent to the headquarters at Washington. Every piece received is classified by the three clerks, the deputy postmaster and the postmaster assisting, and then a separate report is made also by the city and rural carriers, of all mail received and sent out through them. The usual handling of the mails alone, without the keeping of the report, is a heavy one, each piece of first-class mail being handled about five times by employees. First the mail sack is unlocked and the contents dumped on the tables for assortment; then the cards and letters are separated; then each piece run through the stamping machine; then assorted to the carriers, or to the general delivery or boxes. The daily number of pieces handled runs up into the tens of thousands, and the following report of both outgoing and incoming mail handled here during the past four days will give some interesting figures. OUTGOING MAIL. First Class. This includes letters and cards: Monday 6878 Tuesday 6313 Wednesday 7564 Thursday 6798 SECOND CLASS. This includes newspapers, but these are not reckoned separately, but in bunches. The papers are done in packages, each carrier, or each town receiving all its papers in one package, each often containing several hundreds of separate papers. The packages of newspapers or mazazines sent out: Monday 622 Tuesday 633 Wednesday 600 Thursday 808 THIRD CLASS. Including circulars and photos, number of pieces for four days, 6956, FOURTH CLASS. Merchandise comes under this head, and the total number of pieces sent out for four days was 837. INCOMING MAIL. First Class. Monday 3878 Tuesday 6184 Wednesday 6099 Thursday 6564 Second Class. Monday 764 Tuesday 1662 Wednesday 3789 Thursday -2807 Third Class. Monday 1153 Tuesday Wednesday 1677 Thursday .7.1269 FOURTH CLASS. Total number received 396

May 5, 1911.

ARE ON RETREAT Sunday Will be a Happy Day For the St. Mary’s Congregation. A LARGE CLASS Children to Receive Their First Holy Communion at Late Mass. Sunday will be first communion, when a class of thirty-nine children will receive their first holy communion at the St. Mary’s church, and only a few days remain, which will be spent in quietude until that day. On Wednesday they entered upon a three days’ retreat in charge of Father Wilken, during which time they j are dispensed of all other work to bet I ter prepare themselves for the first I reception of this august sacrament For several months they have been under the guiding hand of Father Wilken, who saw that nothing was left undone that would make them more worthy for the dawning of this happy day. It is one of the largest classes to receive for several years, and it will not only be a joyful day for the class only, but for the parents and members of the parish as well. Masses on this day will be held one hour earlier than usual, at 7 and 9 o’clock, sun time. The late mass will be when the solemn and impressive ceremony will take place, and it will be celebrated by Father Wilken, who will deliver a short and appropriate address to the class on what they are about to do. The class will march in procession from the school to the church, as will also the last year’s class, as is the usual custom. Solemn vespers and benediction in the afternoon at 3 p. m. will bring the services of the day to a close. ATE POKE ROOT For Horse Radish—Clinton Grim Family Badly Poisoned Thursday. FOUR VERY SICK Young Girl Had Gathered What She Supposed Was Horse Radish. Four members of the Clinton Grim family, living north of Monmouth, became very sick Thursday afternoon about 2 o’clock after partaking of “horse radish’’ which was afterward learned to be poke-root, a very poisonous plant. The sick ones were the grandfather, Joseph Grim, his son, Clinton Grim, and the latter's two step-children, Beatrice Coffelt, aged sixteen, and Ernst, aged nine. The garden had been plowed Thursday morning and some very fine horse radish roots were turned up. Beatrice gathered what she supposed was the horse radish, picking out some of the finer, larger roots, and grated it and prepared it for use, this being eaten at noon on meat. The mother, Mrs. Grim, was ill in bed and did not partake of It. About an hour and a half after dinner she heard other members of the family vomiting and hastening to them, found them very sick. A doctor was satily summoned from the city and he remtined at the house working with them for an hour and a half or longer. They were all very sick, but It is thought they will recover with no ill effects.. The grandfather, Joseph Grim, had been to Decatur in the morning and had eaten dinner here, returning home soon afterward. He noticed the horse radish on the table, however, and being very fond of it, put a little on a piece of sausage and ate it. r As he was the last to partake of it he did not become ill until long after the others, until after the doctor arrived. The preparation eaten was a mixture of horse radish and poke root. , ■« Herman Reiter returned Thursday to Bingen after attending to business matters here today.

POLICE COURT NEWS. Today the jail exhibits a quiet attitude, there being only one man confined there, and he probably is having a very ousy time entertaining him self. The case of the State vs. Elnora Allen, alleging that she willfully kept Howard Foughty, a boy under the legal school age, from school, was called for trial this morning and It became evident that the boy had been to blame, as he has beeen making a practice of playing truant. The case was indefinitely continued ind a bond of $25.00 was required oi the mother of the boy as a guarantee of the boy's attendance at school. A report was made public this morning of the proceedings of the insanity inquest on Charles Bruce Niblick and the examining board adjudged him of unsound mind and recommended that he be taken to Easthaven and examined there with a view of being admitted to the asylum. THE TENTH ANNUAL Elks’ Convention to be Held at Fort Wayne 24th, 25th and 26th of May. ELKS MEET TONIGHT And Arrangements Made For Attending by Local Lodge. There will be a regular meeting of the Elks’ lodge this evening at their headquarters, and as much business of importance is scheduled to take place all memoers are earnestly requested to be present and take part in the discussions. One of the principal questions which will come up before the lodge at this time will be to make arrangements to attend the tenth annual state convention of Elks to be held at f ort yvayne on the 24th, 25th and 26th of this month. Elaborate and extensive are the preparations being made At present for the occasion "and no expense will be lacking to make the tenth annual convention surpass any of the preceding ones. The opening day will consist mostly in the reception of the visitors and in the registration of the brothers and sisters. in the evening at 7:30 a band con cert will be rendered at the Elks Tempie, and at 8:30 the address of welcome will be given by Mayor Grice of Fort Wayne, and will be responded to by the exalted ruler, August Herrman, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Thursday, at 10:30 a. m„ a business session will be held, while the remainder of the day will be devoted to band concerts, an automobile parade at 3 p. m., and in the evening a prize session will be held for the exemplification of ritualistic work by contesting lodges. On Friday, the closing day, the Fort Wayne lodge expects to entertain one of the largest visiting crowds in the history of the city. On this day the Elks’ parade will take place. In the evening at 7:30 a grand Mardi Gras parade will be held, and at 9 o’clock the grand ball will be given. and only those having membership cards will be admitted. A large number from here will attend during these three days, and it will be at the meeting this evening that arrangements will be made to do so. e HUNTING STOLEN HORSE. About midnight Thursday night the officers were summoned to search for a horse and buggy which was thought to have been stolen. The horse and rig of Lewis Miller, a farmer living south of town, was hitched in the business part of the city, and in some manner became unhitched and wandered away. When, at midnight, Mr. Miller started to get his rig, and could not find it, he called the night policeman and a futile search was made. Additional officers were summoned and further search was made, until word was ’phoned in that the rig had been found near the automobile factory by the night watchman, and the buggy wedged between the rail and crossing timbers. The horse was extracted and turned over to Mr. Miller.

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SURPRISE WEDDING Friends Attending Church Social at Adam Deam Home WITNESSED WEDDING Bride Was Miss Ruth Deam and the Groom Jesse Williams. r Fully a hundred members ot the Christian Endeavor society of the United Brethren ehurch, with a number of friends, who had assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Deam on South First street Thursday evening to attend a social given by the Endeavor society, • were most agreeably and pleasantly surprised during the course of the evening to witness the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Deam’s eldest daughter, Miss Ruth, to Mr. Jesse Williams, a well known young Decatur man, now of Fort Wayne. This happy part of the pro gram came totally unannounced. The first part of the evening was given over to conversation and then came a program, with Howard Wisehaupt master of ceremonies. Readings by Miss Zelna Stevens and Mrs. Lucy Fisher, IRuth and Bertha Deam, a violin solo by Lester Baughman, piano solos by Ruth Deam, Mrs. C. E. Baughman and others, a vocal duet by Leia Dibble and Hope Hoopengarner, and music by the mixed quartet of the United Brethren church, provided a delightful time. During the evening, the Misses Deam, gowned in ordinary attire, mingled with the company, but just at the point in the program, where Rev. Imler was to make a “short talk,” the space under the arch-way was cleared, and as the minister stepped forward to his place there, Miss Ruth Deam, accompanied by her sister, Miss Bertha Deam, clad in dainty briday garments; and the groom, Jesse Williams, with a friend, Orson Smith, stepped under the archway, where they were met by the minister, who in a very Impressive nuptial ceremony, pronounced Miss Ruth and Mr. Williams husband and wife, closing with a very beautiful and impressive prayer. The bride was charming in a gown of cream, made with a cream satin guimpe, with lace trimmings, and her maid was very pretty in a princess frock of white embroidery, with sash and hair garnitures of blue ribbon. Following the ceremony felicitations were in order. A luncheon, consisting of sandwiches, pickles, cake and fruit was served by the young ladies of the society and after this came a treat provided by the wedding party, consisting of ice cream, cake and punch. The home was very attractively decorated with crepe paper streamers in pale blue and white, the colors of the Endeavor society, and with vases of white narcissus and other spring flowers. An orchestra comprising Alfred Deam, Orson Smith and Omar Butler, furnished music at intervals during the evening. The bride and groom left at midnight for Fort Wayne, where their home, nicely furnished on East Btoadway, was waiting them. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Williams of this city and has a good position as a liveryman in Ft. Wayne. The bride is prominent in church circles, and both young people are well liked in their large circle of friends, who wish them all that is good in life Out of town guests were Mrs. John King, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Wasson and children, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mills and children of Ossian, Mrs. John Deam of Bluffton, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Deam of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Mankey and babe of Preble, Clyde and John Richard of Lima, Ohio. o GOOD FILM AT THE STAR. Manager Stoneburner Has Special Entertainment This Evening. Something new in the motion picture line and a film that has not yet been seen in thffi vicinity is scheduled to appear at the Star theater this evening. It is entitled “The Old Man and Jim,” in which the life of President Abraham Lincoln is portrayed from real happenings in life. It is an elegant and very instructing film, and one that would be worth your time, and one that you will never regret seeing. At the Star theater, one night only. Price, 5 cents.