Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 240.

WEIGHING | STATIONS Will be Built at Ten Different Points by the Beet Sugar Company. WITH 300 ACRES Jig Meeting in Preble Last Night—Monroe and Pleasant Mills Next. Mr. F. H. Hubbard, of St. Louis, Mich., who is to be the manager of jtk« beet sugar plant, and who has been here for several days looking after the securing of acreage and giving such information to the farmers a? they may desire, announced this morning that he had decided to establish receiving stations for beets at different points in this locality, where the beets will be taken in. weighed, hared, and where the farmers will receive pay for same. This means much l - the people of these communities and means, of course, that more farm . ers will raise beets since they will not 1 have to haul them so tar. The pries so- Leets a' stations will be five dollars per 4on, the company paying the freight, while those who haul t< the factory win be paid on the test This gives the farmer the chance to secure more for his product if they lest higher. The stations are to be established at the following points: Ge Leva. Berne. Monroe, Pleasant Mills, Willshire. Wren. Tocsin, Preble. Craig rille and Gravel Pit, provided they secure 300 acres under contract to haul Io those places. These stations will ■eceive the fall crop. The meeting in Preble township, Thursday evening was a wonderful me. showing the interest in this new ndustry. Mr. Teeple, the Magley K< boo! teacher, presided and introduced Mr. Hubbard, who made the prinKipal address of the evening, short Balks being made also by Messrs. WagKer and Smith. The lectures were Klong the line of that at the Kohr Kchool. giving the farmers all possiBle information concerning the raising of beets and what could be exBected from the company. Tonight meetings will be Jield at MonMt>e and Pleasant Mills. While it is expected that many contracts will He signed at these meetings, they are ■durational and beneficial. ■ The acreage continues to come in the workers believe that the reamount will be secured. If the ■tnrers want to raise beets they make up their minds for the must be closed as soon as pos- ] '■The company recommends that Miose who expect to haul their beets Decatur should sign a per cent con-! which also guarantees them dollars per ton, but those who Mkd to receiving stations should sign flat contract. However, Mr. Hubauthorizes us to state that any signing a contract may have ■e privilege of changing to either any time between this and Louis company are well with the manner in which the are taking hold of the matter, and the beet sugar plant seems , at this time, jf I at THE CRYSTAL TONIGHT. ■.. ■ week has been a busy one for ■>nager Will Parent of the Crystal, having something special the first days of the week to give to his patrons their full money's worth now he has again secured the IHvices of Miss Helen Earner of Fort [Kayne, who appeared/here only a few ago. She will render her latsong, “In the City so Grand,” and . ■ r ' popular everywhere. Come out | ■bight and get the habit by spending lK nic!l for an evening’s entertain- | WILL BE HERE SOON. I. Hyland, who has the contract court house heating plant boil<|B--'- s received word that it has been | BPPed and will be here in a very |M >rt while. After its arrival the |H rk of installation will be the matI B °f only a few days.

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VISIT IN MICHIGAN. j| Geo. W. Brown and T. K. Rotebuck Return—Latter Will Move There. George W. Brown and his ton-in-law, T. K. Roebuck, have returned from a visit at Sanford, Mich., and vicinity, Mr. Roebuck going to view the land and its prospects before going there with his family to make his home. He has decided to locate there and will leave either this fall or in the spring and will live on the David Flanders farm. Mr. Brown stated that he is very much pleased with the country and thinks that it is a great place for a young man to get a start, and the prospects are exceedingly great. While there Mr. Brown had the privilege cf visiting a great many former Adami, county people, being royally entertained, among them being the families of Elisha Schock, Homer King and Martin Miller. They are all well and prospering and are very glad to greet friends from home. TALK ON TURKEY - And Her Religious Conditions Will be Given by Dr. M. K. Dyer Sunday CHRISTIAN CHURCH' Is Native of Armenia and is Preparing to be a Medical Missionary. Dr. M. K. Dyer of Armenia, Turkey, who was compelled to flee at the time of the revolution, about two and a half years ago, and who is here a student in the medical department of Wisconsin university, preparing himself to return to his country as a medical missionary in about two years will deliver an address at the Christian church next Sunday morning, October 15th. His subject will be "The Turkish Empire and Her Religious Conditions,’’ and will prove of great interest to all. As' Dr. Dyer will speak in his native costume the talk will be rendered the more effective. Besides speaking of the conditions and hardships endured by his countrymen, and taken from his own experience, he will speak on the war which is now on between Turkey and Italy, he having been over the very grounds where the war is now being raged. Prior to coming here he was also a medical student in the Robert college at Constantinople. He was also in the great Turkish massacre, and talks with great interest on his terrible experiences. At the time of the great Turkish massacres nine years ago, when Ab- ( dul Hamid, now dethroned and prisoner, will go down into history as the "Great Assassin,” still governed the ' empire, Mr. Dyer was in the heart of Turkey. With seven other Armen’ tn i boys he determined to make his es--1 cape, and the party started for the i frontier. They got as far as Tarsus on the Euphrates, when they were arrested by the Turkish authorities and being without passports were taken to Constantinople. With halters about their necks, barefooted and only half clad they were driven like beasts of burden the entire distance of 200 ’ miles and arriving exhausted and nearly dead, were cast into dungeons where they were treated with such unparalleled brutality that two of their number died within a month. At their trial which came off be iore the Turkish supreme court nothing whatever could be proved against them, save that they were Armenians and Christians, but it would probably have gone hard with them had it not been for the British consul, who intervened in their behalf, and through whose efforts they were sent to Liverpool, from whence they emigrated to the United States. When Mr. Dyer returns as a missionary. he says it will be an an American citizen, and under the protection of the American flag, else otherwise he would be subject to imprisonment and punishment for leaving the country without a permit of the authorities. All are invited to hear him Sunday morning at the Christian church. | GIRLS’ CHOIR NOTICE. The girls' choir will meet at the M. E. church for practice this evening at 7 o’clock.

IS NAMED DEPUTY I C. O. France Appointed Deputy Prosecuting Attorney For Columbia City. AND THE VICINITY w If I Will Still Keep Position With the Paper, the Com- 1 mercial-Mail. C. O. France, a former Decatur, newspaper man, who has been in Co- , lumbia City the past year, working for the Commercial-Mall, has been appointed deputy prosecuting attorney for that district. The Commercial- . Mail says: "After Tolling logs’ for many weeks I in the democratic tall timber and unI derbrush of Whitley county, the den - i ocratic 'timber-cutting gang’ fell I down, not being able to produce even | a knotty, doaty—or even an ‘old log wind-shaken and holler in the butt.’ that looked like a prosecuting attor ney. “But the Commercial-Mail," al- • though a republican paper, came to ; the rescue and has furnished the demI ocrats a prospector in their dire extremity, simply in the interests of seeing that law violators are brought to the bar of justice and that our fair city may not retrograde into the rut of moral obliquity, anarch and chaos. “C. O. France of the CommercialMail staff was on Thursday appointed deputy prosecuting attorney for Columbia City and vicinity, with jurisdiction in the city and justice courts, and his commission will arrive next week when he will begin his duties at once. Mr. France for a number of years practiced law with his father, the late J. T. France, at Decatur, and is well qualified to take care of the duties of the office. He will retain his position on the paper as formerly. No comment at this time regarding what the democrats did to themselves when they had Rev. John F. Porterfield appointed to the job from which he suddenly ‘dropped,’ would be appreciated. But “Old Porter’’ was hot stuff, to say the least. ■-- - o Charles W. Neiser of Fort Wayne was in the city last evening, being also a speaker on the K. of C. program rendered last night. STRICKEN SUNDAY Mrs. Armintha Eicher of Willshire is Lyii< at Death’s Door. —“ b WAS POSTMISTRESS At Pleasant Mills During the Civil War—Sister of Simeon Fordyce. Mrs. Armintha Eicher of just east of Willshire, a sister of Simeon Fordyce, this county, one of the best known pioneer ladies of that place, is lying at death’s door, suffering from paralysis, with which she has been afflicted since last Saturday. She was sitting in a chair at the home of her son, Don Eicher, where she is spending her last years of her life, when she was suddenly stricken in the left side, rendering her helpless and leaving her in a serious condition. From Sunday on she grew worse, finally losing control of speech, making it still more sad, not dnly for herself, but for those caring lor her, as she is unable to ask or explain her wishes. She is an elderly lady, and perhaps numbered ( among the oldest in the neighborhood,; she having served as postmistress ot Pleasant Mills during the civil war,; and was perhaps the only one to be found in the vicinity. All who know • her are shocked over the sad fate which has befallen her, and hope that j a change for the better may soon be ! noticed. PASTRY SALE. The Ladies’ Aid society of the Chris- ( tian church will hold a pastry sale to-, morrow, beginning at 11 o’clock, at the Hower & Baker meat market. The patronage of the public is asked.

Decatur, Ind. Friday Evening, October 13, 1911.

HIRSCH INSTEAD OF STROUSS. There is a report going the rounds that the Emil W. StroMSS, millionaire ’ clothing manufacturer of Chicago, 1 who Is mixed up In the George Pat- ' terson murder ease of Denver. Colo., ' was the man who had an Interest In i the "big store." formerly conducted I I here by Kern, Brittson &< Beeler. This. I however. Is untrue, the "big store man's name being Hirsch, the confusion resulting no doubt, in a slight ’ similarity of the names. Patterson was murdered by his wife, the police declare, after a 135.000 suit alleging alienation of Patterson’s wife's afterI tlons had been filed against Strouss. APPLES FOR FOOD . i No Better Fruit Can be Eaten, it is Considered, For Body, Brain and Soul. II EAT ONE EVERY DAY 1 1 I t If Eaten Regularly Will Prevent Terror of Many Dreaded Diseases. I , i Do you know what you are eating ' when you eat an apple? No, not the sorts and varieties of worms, for there will be no worms if you have bought your fruit from an orchardist ■; who sprays his trees, but the food ’ qualities, the tissue builders, the brain i makers? You are eating malic acid, the prop-. • erty that makes buttermilk healthful, ■ i' You are eating galic acid, one of the ! f most necessary elements in human ■' economy. You are eating sugar in its I most assimuaoie torm. combined car- j ! ! bon, hydrogen and oxygen, caught and imprisoned from the sunshine. You , are eating albumen in its most avail-' . able state. You are eating a gum alI lied to the fragment medical gums of , Arabia. And you arc eating phosphorous in the only form in which it is available as the source of all brain and nerve energy. i In addition to all these you are ’ , drinking the purest of water and eat- ; ing the most healthful and desirable . fibre for the required “roughness’ in food elements. The acids of the apple diminish the ! acidity of the stomach and prevent and cure dyspepsia. They drive out I the noxious matters that cause skin ! eruptions, and thus are nature’s most I glorious complexion makers. They j neutralize in the blood the deleter- , ious elements that poison the brain I and make it sluggish. i The contained phosphorous is not only greater than in any other form ‘ of food, but it is presented in a shape i for immediate use by the brain and 1 nerves, where it may flash into great j thoughts and great deeds. The ancients assigned the apple as the food for the gods, and its juices I and ambrosial nectar to which they I resorted to renew their youth. Men ’ are the gods of today, and the apple ; is their royal food, the magic renewer of youth. Eat a rich, ripe apple every day and you have disarmed all diseases of half their terror. :| • | By reason of having been of coun- . sei in the matter of the trusteeship of Japthet Beer, Judge Merryman was , disqualified to act and D. E. Smith was appointed special judge. Declination ’ to serve by Robert Schwartz and Isaac Beer as trustees of ,laphet Beer, tiled and accepted. Upon petition Eli Beer was appointed trustee, who filed ap- ■ proved bond. Dennis Striker vs. Albert Meyer et al., note and foreclosure, S7OO. SepI arate answer in one paragraph and • cross-complaint in one paragraph filed by David Rich; also Christian C. Beer, > David Rich and Chris Mertz. Rule to ’ , answer cross-complaint. Answer in ' one paragraph by Joseph Rich, also , Chris Rich. Real estate transfers: Mary E. Steele to Eli W. Steele, lot 32, Decatur, quit claim, $2500; Ernest Schlickman to Henry Schlickman, part lot 212 i Decatur, $2500; Ernest Schlickman to , William T. Bieneke, pt. lot 212, Decatur, $2500; Henry F. Schlickman to Ernst Schlickman, pt. lot 108, Decatur, SISOO.

LEAGURES TO MEET I Sub-district Convention of 1 [ ’ pworth League to be ( Held at M. E. Church. ( ON NEXT SUNDAY ' i i Several of the District Offi- ' It i cers Will be Present to Take Part. I The sub-district convention of the Epworth League which will be held at the Methodist church in this city next Sunday afternoon and evening, will draw many leaguers from the stir- ; rounding churches of the city, and as a very good program has been arranged lor the affair, it promises to be an interesting convention. The conventions hre held annually and much good I is deilved from them. Several of the district officers will be in attendanee. The : rblic is ipvited to attend. The program follows: Afternoon—2:3o O’clock. i Fifteen-minute Song Service. I "Junior Work’’—Miss Mallonce, District Secretary. Reading—“ The Other Wise Men” — Miss Faye Smith, Emerson School of Expression, Boston. "Elements of a Successful League Service” —Prof. Rufus East, Monroe. Music —Vocal Solo —Dwight Peterson. "The Greatest Problem" —The Rev. Clark Lantis, Decatur Circuit. | Piano Solo —Neva Brandyberry. The Round Table. Evening—6:oo O'clock. i (Miss lonia Easeley, Fort Wayne, Leader.) Song Service. j Lesson Explanation. Piano Trio —Misses Houk, Fonner i and Kern. "Practical Christianity"—Miss Easeley. Fort Wayne. | Song. Devotional. 6:00 p. m. Organ Prelude —Miss Merryman. Hymn No. 420. Psalter. Anthem —Decatur Girls' Chorus. Announcements and Collection. Hymn. Address —"Social Ideals" —Supt. E. E. Rice, Decatur Public Schools. i I Hymn. I n ENJOYED VISIT! — ■ —* "• Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lengerich and Mrs. Theodore Smith Return | i< -. .- fl - FROM TRIP ABROAD Renew Their Acquaintanceship With Relatives After Years of Separation. — Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lengerich ' and Mrs. Theodore Smith, who left on j ■ the seventeenth of August for New ! York City, and on the nineteenth set ! sail on the steamship George Washing- i ton for Germany, nave returned home' after an absence of seven weeks, having paid a visit to their old birth-; place, Muenster, and also renewed their acquaintance with other relatives after separation of so many years. Their main visit was at Muenster, Germany, where they have a number of relatives and where most ( of their time was spent. It is twentyfour years since Mrs. Smith paid a , visit there and forty-three years since i the leaving of Mrs. Lengerich from i her native land, while Mr. Lengerich ■ has made several trips in that time. ' Mrs. Lengerich was unknown to her i folks there and jipon the renewal of ■ 1 acquaintance cried with pleasure, i They also stopped at Ankun, Germany, ' birthplace of the late Gehrod Berling, and other relatives known to them. ? Their trip was one of great pelasure, s having visited many places of inter < est and becoming acquainted with the r ways and doings of their friends so t far away. Their return trip was also t made on the George Washington but the sea was somewhat rougher CONTTNtfBB OR PAGE TWO. i

A SANE HALLOWE’EN It Being Advocated by Reformers and i j Advocates of Sane Fourth. * —— A sane Hallowe’en is now being talked by reformers and advocates cf the sane Fourth throughout the country. The purpose is to Interest mayors of cities in the movement that orders may be given the police to . discourage vandalism. Success of all the reformers in bringing about a safe Fourth of July in every community where it has been attempted Is encouraging tn the srno Hallowe'en advocates. They point out that it is just as desirable ’ < to have a sane Hallowe'en as a san Fourth and that the custom of de- j stroying property and making tl night hideous should be frowned upon • everywhere. A campaign of education to creat'sentiment against the wild orgies o: ! Hallowe’en may be conducted in man of the larger cities of the state during the present month. PROGRAM PLEASED K. of C, Hall Packed Last Evening to Take Part in Columbus Day Program. — EXCELLENT TALKS — Were Given by Judge Moran and Chas. Neiser—Father Wilken Also Responded. A more interesUng program than I the one of Thursday evening, given by I the Knights of Columbus, in honor of I Columbus or Discovery Day, would have been hard to find, and the vast' throng that well filled the large hall [ to its doors spoke in high terms of the excellent numbers rendered. The ■ audience was called to order at 8:301 by Grand Knight Dr. H. F. Costello, who in a few words and in the name of his fellow knights expressed his appreciation for the many who had i come to take part in the evening's I program, and then opened the even-1 ing numbers by calling upon Mr. John Wemhoff to render his piano selection, which was received with great ap-' plause. Following this was the pantomime by the eight and ninth grade I girls of the St. Joseph schools, which I was numbered among the best of the 'evening's program. The Hon. Judge 1 James Moran of Portland, speaker of i the evening, was then introduced to | the audience, who in his usual and pleasing manner, ran back to the time of the great discoverer and telling of the many hardships and difficulties which he and his men had to encounter until, the long-sought-for country J had been found, and no one, until ; j his time had not the courage to ven- ; tore out into that ocean of deep and ! unconquerable waves for the new i land. His talk was interesting, and j 1 with the witty sayings which accompanied his talk of history, well pleased the many present. A song by the junior class also won applause which i was again followed with an address I by Charles Neiser. district deputy, of ’ Fort Wayne. Mr. Neiser, who has ! been here on many previous occasions expressed his appreciation of having the opportunity of being again per-1 mitted to renew his acquaintanceship : ! and the honor of addressing so large ! a crowd as was present. His talk, al- 1 though consuming perhaps thirty min- [ utes, was listened to with intense ear-1 nestness, he being possessed with a | very free and distinct delivery, and 11 one who never fails to please his au- ' dience. Following this Father Wilken : responded in a few well chosen words, giving several remarks pertaining to I ’ the earnest faith held by the great 1 discoverer, and which, perhaps had it none been for Columbus, none of us ! i would ever have been here. His talk i was brief, but well received by all. ■ The program was closed by the sing | ing of America by the entire audience. ,—— — o BOX SOCIAL. Don’t forget the box social to be given on the evening of October 20th at the Calvary school, five miles east of the city. Arrangements are being made for an evening of pleasure and a good crowd is being looked for. Everybody Invited. — ■■■■ o Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Bowen left this morning for Fort Wayne on business.

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HOOSIER LIMITED L-".’. ';e Increase in the Capital .Lock of Decatur Motor Cai Company. W. A. UNDERWOOD CO. New York Brokers, Have Charge of Sale of Unsold Portion of Stock. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Decatur Motor Car company last week it was decided to increas its capital stock to $600,000, s2s‘',>oJ ot which is 7 per cent preferred and $350,000 common. Arrangements have been made by the management with Walter A. Underwood Co. of New York to sell its unsold portion of its preferred stock, announcement of which plan you will find in another column of this paper. Mr. Underwood is now in our city with a view of giving investors In Decatur and its surrounding cities an opportunity of investing in this stock before offering it in the east, where it will be readily sold. This is done at the suggestion of Mr. Bracektt, president of the company, as he is anxious to keep the control of the company in Indiana, know- ' ing from the experience of the past several months that the Decatur Moi tor Car company is destined to be- ! come a very large manufactory. To have the control go east might mean, some day in the future, that | tie plant might go there, too. The Decatur is better known in i Philadelphia, New York and Boston than it is in our own city, and the management of the company predicts that its eastern output for the next twelve months will practically be taken up by the cities named. If the unsold portion of the preferred stock does not meet with a ready sale in this section within a few days it will be taken east as suggested above. We advise our readers to investigate this matter fully. We know of the trials and tribulations which this company has had in the past and now that it has a product which can be sold at a large profit faster than it can be made, and a perfected factory and sales organization it should have, it within your means, your hearty support. From an investment standpoint this issue of preferred stock will stand ' close inspection, as it promises large ■ returns and a conservative and safe investment. • - -o — CLOVER LEAF BRAKEMAN '’ • -- **■" ’ . '-L Y Had Narrow Escape From Death at Bluffton. A brakeman otl local freight number 22, eastbound, on the Clover Leaf, had a narrow escape from death beneath his train Wednesday evening while at work in the local yards, switching. The fellow’s home is in ; Delphos, but his name was unknown I to any of the local employees, as he bad been on the road only a short time. The train was switching cars into what is known as the ’‘butte.tul switch, running from the Frank Stafford mill, along West Lancaster street, to the Ditzler sawmill. Several cars had been left standing on the main track, and as the track lowers in that spot, the cars standing on the main track had run several feet forward. As the cars for the switch were being backed up, the corner of one of them struck one of the cars on the main track, badly damaging it. The brakeman, at the moment they struck, was just stepping around the corner of the car on the switch, preparing to set the brakes. The clothing on the side of bis body was torn, from his shoulder to his shoe top, and he received a very bad scratch on the hip, when he was knocked from his train. Luckily he did not fall under the wheels. If he had been an instant sooner, he would undoubtedly have been killed, as the damage done to the cars showed with how great a force they came together.—Bluffton Banner.