Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 170.

STATEACCOUNTANT County Clerk James P. Haefling Will Enter Upon State Work at FIRST OF YEAR A Good Position—Deputy Clerk D. O. Roop Will Engage in Teaching. County Clerk James P. Haefling, who will retire January Ist from a four years' term of service, will at that time enter work for the state as state accountant. Mr. Haefling has just returned from a few days' stay in Indianapolis and while there conferred with Mr. Dehority, chief of the state accounting department, regarding the opening for him at the time of the expiration of his service here, and Mr. Dehority stated that he could use him the next day after his office term expired it he wished to begin work so soon as that. Mr. Haefling passed the state accountant’s examination .'.lay 31, 1919. He will spend a week in the office in Indianapolis familiarizing himself with the work and will then be assigned to a field, probably in the examination of clerk's records. His four years as clerk, and five years as deputy, have made him very familiar with the work and he will be a valuable member of the board. The j fosition is an excellent one, paying IS per day, or about 12,500 per year. Deputy Clerk Daniel O. Roop, who has served four years as deputy for Mr. Haefling, will resign in October to enter again upon the profession of school teaching, in which he was en- j gaged before entering the clerk's of- I fice. He will probably teach in Monroe township. County Clerk-elect Ferdinand Bleeke has not yet announced his selection of a deputy. NEW CIDER MILL May be Erected in This City Soon—Henry C Neeley of Lima, Ohio TO BUILD TEN MILLS Throughout Northern Indi-1 ana—Now Buying the Machinery. Henry C. Neeley, a buyer of oil and toil production, was in the city Wed-1 nesday hunting a location for the es- ■ tablishment of an up-to-date cider mill. Mr. Neeley has been In the oil business for many years and is well known throughout the Ohio field, and is just now branching out into other lines of endeavor. While here Wednesday he stated that he intended to erect mills throughout the northern part of the state and would probably , start with ten, one in each county. IJe , may operate some other kind of sac-. tory in conjunction, so as to keep the [ plant in operation all the year. He Is now purchasing the mills and traveling throoughout this section hunting for locations, and in the near future we may have another good factory to add to our already long list. Mr. Neeley is the owner of several good producing leases in the Wood county field and other fields as well, and his engaging In other lines of manufacture to employ his spare cap-; ital. A SLIGHT WRECK. The Erie had a slight wreck last night about 9 o'clock, which necessitated the cajling of the section crew. The local hgd been pushing a car loaded with anthracite coal on the scales and while in motion the draw-bar fell out and lying on the rails derailed the heavy car Over an hour’s work was required to resume traffic.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

I — - — ' A FREIGHT CUT. Washington, 1). (’,, July 20—A material reduction in the freight rates on sash, doors, blinds and other house trimming products from Wisconsin mills to points in Central Freight association territory, particularly in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky, was ordered today by the interstate commerce commission, effective September Ist. next. In some ■ Instances the rates are in excess of ordinary rough lumber rates from 5 to 7 cents a hundred pounds. The commission's order directs that they shall not exceed the rough lumber rates by more than 2 cents a hundred SHOWING PROGRESS Decatur Motor Car Co. Increasing Output to Meet the Demand. I THEIR OWN AGENCY Has Been Established in Boston—Will Work in West in Few Weeks. The Decatur Motor Car company is now preparing to increase their output of the now tamotis '•Decatur Hoosier Limited” truck. The factory and sales organization is being perfected day by day and it will not be long before we may be ' justly proud of this industry. Mr. Coppock, factory manager, has i succeeded in securing the services of Mr. Mart Snook as superintendent. Mr. Snook has taken charge of the producing end, and Mr. Coppock is ' thereby relieved of many details and he will be given more time to devote to further development and -still furI ther improve the “Decatur," if posj sible. *■ i The “Decatur Hoosier Limited" ; has now been on the market long i enough to cause users of commercial wagons and other manufacturers to sit up and take notice. Its success as an engineering problem is assured and Mr. Coppock can feel justly proud of his achievement and feel well repaid for the years I spent in developing the "Hoosier Limi ited.” Experts and critics and large users have passed upon the truck's construction and the fact that the company is now receiving its second and third orders from present users fully demonstrates its reliability and that it has come to stay. Mr. Snook, the new superintendent, is a man of high class, personally, and also as a technical man and producer. The management feels that they have ■ been fortunate indeed in securing a j man of his class. Mr. Barnard, sales manager of the company, now temporarily residing in Boston, is placing agencies in all of she larger eastern cities and with the I “Decatur,” we are told he is able to ' interest the best dealers in the line. The middle west and west will be i covered by him soon and before fall I the city will be represented from 1 coast to coast. The company now owns and controls their own agency at Boston, Mass., the same being In charge of ; Mr. Stanley A. Martin, a man of large experience in the automobile truck line. As Boston uses at the present time more motor commercial vehicles than ' any other city in the United States, the company feels justly proud of the success there. The financial affairs of the company are assured and Decatur may some day be the possessor of a motor truck industry of considerable size. ■ "O SUNDAY SCHOOL EXCURSION. The Bluffton-Craigville Sunday school excursion passed through the city this morning in two sections over i the Clover Leaf on their way to Wal- : dridge park, Toledo, where the day was spent as one of pleasure. A number of people were taken on here, as well as on the Adams county line, where a family reunion crowd joined the party on their journey of pleasure. The Misses Rose Kleinhenz and i Vera Hammond are clerking at the Steele & Weaver racket store today ■ In the absence of Messrs. Steele & i Weaver, who are at Robinson park, attending the picnic.

DECATUR M EN OF AFFAIRS. . - — - ■ -- '' ■ " ’■'■ ' - I ll—.l I I * I Or __ r. r\ OM J. D. HALE. The subject of this sketch was horn in Bluffton in 1842. At eighteen he enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and First Indiana Infantry. For three years he participated in all the battles of the Army of the Cum- * berland. until at Mission Ridge, he was shot through the left lung, and barely escaped death. After his wound was sufficiently healed, he ’•efused to accept a discharge, which was offered him, but rejoined his regiment at Marietta, Georgia, and participated with it in the battles of Peach Tree Creek, the siege of Atlanta and the battle of Jonesboro. He was with Sherman on his march to the sea and through the Carolinas. He aiso participated in the battle of Bentonville, the last battle of the Civil War; was in the grand review at Washington at the close of the war. and was honorably discharged with his regiment at Indianapolis. Mr. Hale was for several years station agent for the G. R. 4 I. railroad at Geneva, previous to his election to the office of county clerk in 1882. He started the grain trade at that point in 1871, and was one of the pioneers of the place. Geneva has now a population of about 1400, and is sixteen miles south of Decatur. It owes hruch of its early growth to Mr. Hale and his business relations with the farming community of that section. As clerk of Adams county. Mr. Hale was a very efficient officer, attentive to his duties, courteous to the public and unusually accommodating. His soldier and farmer friends offered him the clerkship in the first place in recognition of merit and capacity, and he accepted. He was honored again by the second term without opposition in his party. He is an unflinching democrat, who wore the blue without changing his politics. Two years ago Mr. Hale was chosen by the city council to fill the unexpired term of Councilman Van Camp. He was elected by a popular vote of the people for councilman at the expiration of the unexpired term and is new a member of the city council. His membership has been characterized by his firm stand for the people’s rights. Mr. Hale is an active G. A. R.man, a Mason of high degree and a member of the Red Men. In matters of religion he is a Methodist. He has been identified with the interests of the county and of the city for, lo: these many years, and his business of selling seeds, coal and feed still keeps him in close touch with the people of both country and town. : . - - ~ ~ - --.- ZZZ, ——— ~ . 1 , . " .. - .

TAKE FINE TRIP — Attorney J. C. Sutton and Family Will Go to Niagara Falls, Thence to EATON, NEW YORK I To Visit With H. T. Pennypacker and W. S. Sutton Families. I I Attorney J. C. Sutton, wife and sons, Alex, Murray and Harry, will , leave Saturday evening for a ten days - outing, that will prove a most , pleasant one. They will go from here to Niagara Falls, and thence to Buffalo, and from there to Eaton, N. Y., to the country home of his sister, Mrs. H. T. Penny packer, formerly ' Miss Grace Sutton, of this city The Pennypackers have a residence in Buffalo, and also a coutry home of twenty-six acres a mile from Eaton, N. Y., where they are now spending the summer. Mr. Sutton’s father, XX ( S. Sutton, formerly the Geneva rural mail carrier, and wife, with their two ( children, Ethel and Billy, are residing ■ on the Pennypacker farm, Mr. Sutton being the manager. The country home j is given over to the culture of chickens. etc., and will be a fine place for I the happy reunion of the Sutton fam-1 iiy ABOUT THE SICK. i ( Mrs. L. W. Frank of West Monroe ’ street has been confined to her bed I for some time with the sciatic rheumatism. • i Howard Shackley is said to be very I ill at the home of his son near Peter- 1 son, suffering from stomach trouble and hemorrhages of the bowels. Tom Buckmaster is recovering i nicely from his injuries sustained by i being struck by a bicycle In Flint, Mich., several weeks ago. Seventy-two babes of the Presby- : tcrlan Sunday school cradle roll department, with their mothers, are at- i tending the party at the Presbyterian , cljurch this afternoon, given by Miss Jean Lutz, the superintendent. A merry picnic party of last evening included the Misses Ireta Erwin, Irene Smith, Lulu Atz, Alice Dailey and the Messrs. Earl Bremerkamp, Don Smith, Don Vancil and Will Bowers, who had a splendid picnic supper in the Kunkel grove near Monmouth, after which they repaired to the home

Decatur, Ind. Thursday Evening, July 20, 1911.

I of Miss Irene Smith until taking the ’ ten o’clock car back to this city. Although there is still much preI vailing sickness throughout the county, the doctors state that there is not so much at present as there has been for some weeks. Thej?hysicians have had all that they could attend to. day and night, for weeks past, but a let-up is soon expected. The condition of Ansel Heckman, living east of the city, is still very serious with typhoid, but from the latest repart, it was stated that he was holding his own. The condition of Mrs. Frank Mann was said to be a trifle better today, but still serious. The danger point of her illness will soon be passed, and a more rapid change is then looked for. VISIBLY EXCITED Was Some Unknown Party in West End Wednesday Evening. i CLAIMED CRAZY MAN Was Flourishing a Revolver and Club—Officers Make a Record Run. Late Wednesday evening Marshal! Peterson received a call from some of the residents of the west end of the city that a man believed to be crazy was there brandishing a he#vy cane and flourishing a revolver. He went to the scene of the trouble and found | that the man had gone west on the Clover Leaf tracks, so he informed the sheriff and deputy sheriff, who made an automobile trip to the railroad crossing south of the Beery church, where they arrested the man, who gave his name as Frank Johnson, aged sixty-nine years, lately from a poor house in Virginia, and on his way to Kansas. He was a rational, harmless old man, plodding on his way, and in all probability his craziness grew .out of demonstratibns from the youngsters in that locality, which seems to have met with the approval of the elders. He was given lodging at the jail Wednesday night and this morning was let go. So far as flourishing a revolver is concerned, in the search of the old man’s belongings, there was not even a penknife found. The heavy cane was a light switch cut from some sapling somewhere. And as to the two hold-ups he was charged with consumating, nothing has been heard from the victims yet.

COURT HOUSE NEWS John J. Augsburger Will Leaves Estate to Wife, Fanny Augsburger. — PRAECIPE WAS FILED For Mulligan Transcript— Bluffton Girl Refused a Marriage License. By the terms of his will written \ June 29, 1904, and probated today. John J. Augsburger, whose death occurred July Bth, bequeaths to his I wife, Fanny augsourger, to be hers, j as long as she lives, all his estate, after the payment of debts, funeral expenses and doctor bills. The wife was named executrix. Andrew’ Gottschalk | and David Augsburger were witnesses i of the will. The acceptance of Mattie Buffeni barger for admission to the Indiana I School for Feeble Minded, has been received by County Clerk J. P. Haefling from A. E. Connolly, superintendent. The bond and the praecipe for the I transcript of the proceedings and papers in the case of Thomas Mulligan vs. Anna Mulligan, which has been appealed to the supreme court, have I been filed with the county clerk, who | will begin at once on the making of I the transcript. This case was venued ' here from Allen county. , Charles Johnson and Miss Myrtle Conrad applied Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the county clerk’s office for a marriage license, which was refused, as the’ bride stated that her residence was Bluffton. The groom is a son of Christopher Johnson and was born February 12, 1887, while the bride was born November 26, 1891. Inventory of the personal estate of the late Nicholas Wagner was filed in the county clerk's office by the executors, Ira and John Wagner. Real estate transfers: John T. Lose to Joseph Gerard Lose et al., lot 89, Decatur, SBOO. —' The Allen and Adams county commissioners will hold a joint meeting in this city tomorrow at which time the Allen-Adams county line road will be sold.

ARE LOOKING FOR THEM. Several men, who It seems, care little for the public at large, appropriated a bench, which had been forgotten, and placing it in front of the Vance, Hite & Macklin store, proceeded to paint the sidewalks roundabout a dark brown. It is said that one or two of the culprits are known and that prosecutions under the statute will be instituted at once, as no excuse can be offered by the men. Other ' complaints have been made concern- | ing parties spitting on the sidewalks . at other places, and unless the par- ' ties confine themselves to less public • places they may expect prosecution. annual Reunion ... ... u Huntington Will Entertain 160th Regiment August the Sixteenth. LOCALS HAVE NOTICE Company B Will be Represented and Take Part in the Day’s Exercises. The annual reunion of the 169th regiment, Company B of which was' organized in this city, will be held at Huntington. August 16th. The invitation to tne meeting which has been received by Decatur members of the regiment says: “This year we ought to have every . surviving member of this splendid regiment in line, and we hope to al- j most literally realize this desire. If this should be realized, what a joyous meeting this would be, even had we no program whatever. But in addition' to the hearty handshake and the greeting of once famiilar faces, we expect to have something doing •very minute the boys remain in our city. “Our city is not metropolitan in size ' but we are built upon solid rock, and we are proud of our fine streets, our ' splendid homes, and our public build- 1 , 1 Ings. “Here you will again see ’Camp Mount’ in its primeval beauty with- 1 out its guard mount and the company • drill; ‘Chickamauga' without its hor-1 < rors; 'Newport News’ without its sand j and pup tents: ‘Lexington’ without the Twelfth New York; ‘Columbus j minus Lovers’ Leap; ‘Mantanza without its rocks and brush: ‘Homesick Knoll’ in all her old-time beauty; ‘Yamimi Valley,' the fariest of them all; J ‘Transport Thomas’ with better rations; ‘The Little Dauntless' the bravest of the brave; ‘Savannah - with her heroic monuments as we go marching homeward; the ‘Final Exam,’ with visions of pensions never realized; j ‘The raise of rank' and many persons, places and events associated therewith. . ‘‘Yes, the day will be full of enter- ( tainment and enjoyment. Reveille will be sounded at 6 a. m., and companies and squads will assemble and call the roll, etc., until 12 m., when that most welcome of all calls to the soldier boy—the mess call —will be I sounded. (The only limit at the mess tent will be the individual capacity.) The afternoon will be crowded full of < activities that will not fatigue or en- < i danger your health, and by 6 o clock a you will again welcome the tpess call. t Then the camp fire from 7 to 9. We expect to make this one of the most c enjoyable features of the whole as- « fair. We do not propose that this i « feature will be a bore, but that it t will be of such a nature that every c comrade present will take a lively in- c terest therein and go home with pleas- c Ing and lasting memories indelibly im- f pressed upon his mind/' t „ O' 5 AT THE CRYSTAL. t - I A shoe-lacing contest will be anoth- | er interesting feature of the Crystal s , program Friday evening, and some- > thing that has not been seen in the j city before. A number of boys have been secured who will put their shoes in a sack and after a good shake, will all try and pic kout their shoes and lace them. The one who succeeds first in this contest will be considered the winner and champion. The same old price will be charged. Mr. ahd Mrs. Fred Rockstroh and ; son, Roy, and Miss Marie Rockstroh, s returned to Fort Wayne after a visit I with Mrs. Rockstroh’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Stoneburner.

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WILL MAKE RACE Candidacy of Judge R. K. Erwin For Supreme Court Judgeship. WAS ANNOUNCED In Indianapolis Yesterday— Adams County Man Seeks High Office. Uf The candidacy of Judge R. K. Erwin, formerly Adams circuit court judge, a brother of D. B. and D. N. Erwin of this city, now residing in Fort Wayne, for the supreme court bench has been announced at Indianapolis, a dispatch giving the following: Indianapolis, Ind., July 29—Edward G. Hoffman of Fort Wayne, member of the state democratic committee from the Twelfth district, was here yesterday and made the announcement that Judge Richard K. Erwin would be a candidate for the supreme bench next year. Judge Erwin made the race in 1908 but was defeated by Judge Leander Monks. Hoffman said the Twelfth district would be solid for Judge Erwin for the nomination. Judge Richard K. Erwin of Fort Wayne, whose candidacy for the democratic nomination for the state supreme bench was announced last night in Indianapolis was elected to the state legislature in 1880 from Adams and Jay counties, and was reelected two years later. He was appointed county attorney of Adams ' county in 1891, serving in that capacity for six years, and in 1900 was elected judge of the Adams circuit court, making an unusually good record in the six years he was on the bench. But twice in that time were his; decisions reversed in the higher courts. Judge Erwin occupies a high position as a lawyer and judge. He was born In Union township, Adams county, seven miles south of Monroeville. He was admitted to the bar in this county in 1887, and formed a law partnership with J. Fred France, present clerk of the supreme court. ' Edward G. Hoffman was at Indianapolis Wednesday to represent Allen county before the board of state tax commissioners. attend Funeral Henry and S. E. Hite Families Leave Today For New Haven. DEATH OF BROTHER George Hite—Funeral Held This Afternoon at Two O’clock. Henry Hite and S. E. Hite, with their families, left on the 10 o’clock car for New Haven to attend the funeral of their brother, George Hite, aged fifty-three years, which was held this afternoon at 2 o’clock. His death occurred Tuesday evening at 6 o’clock at the J. W. Dakins home, five miles east of new Haven. Mr. Hite had been sick several months with tuberculosis, and the brothers from this city had been with him on several occasions during the more serious phase of the illness. Mr. Hite was a prominent farmer of Adams township and was a skilled veterinarian. He leaves three brothers —Henry and Sam of this city; John, of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. J. R. Parker of Monroeville and Mrs. S. Frye, of Maples. The deceased was nover married CHANGES ONCE MORE. The controlling interest of the Huntington Herald has again changed hands, says that paper. George B. Lockwod of the Marion Chronicle, and other buyers from that place, being the new owners since Saturday. <£. H. Kiracofe, jr„ who has been if newspaper work in Huntington sot twelve years, will still remain editor of that paper. Mr. Kiracofe, the present editor, is a cousin of John Kiracofe of this city.