Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 242, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX, Number 242.

ON WITH ■ THE WORK Business Men Started Bright and Early This Morning on the Campaign. SLOGAN IS 1,500 ACRES Banker Allen of Paulding is Here to Assist in Interesting Our People. "Contracts for 1,500 acres this j week" is the slogan. One man has promised to secure one-third of the amount, but he hasn't done it yet. ana even it he does it will require much effort to get the other thousand. Every man should get up on his toes. This week should decide whether or not we can meet tin- requirements of the Holland-St. Ixjuis Sugar company—the securing 01 the r.,000 acres. If we can do it. the company will no doubt get busy at once Don't lay down, or we will never get through. On the other hand, jf every one helps just a little, it will be an easy job. The more you Investigate 1 s I-eet business the more enthusiastic you will become. Many of those who are assisting in this work, are considered among the most conserva-j tive men of the county. It is no ordinary affair. It means the rejuvination of our community, city and country, it means better times for the farmer the merchant, the laborer, it means higher values for your land and property. Why hang back? Get into the jsme. At a meeting yesterday the territory assignee to lieutenants who will use every effort this week to get men over each township and it would be!' glorious if we could even exceed the 1,500 slogan and make it 2.000. When the sheets were tallied up Saturday I night, it was found that we were, short of the desired 2,500 by two or three hundred acres, but this fact did not discourage the workers. This ' morning five autos started out and several more went this afternoon. Oth- i err drove out in buggies and the field will be canvassed from one end to the | other. Everybody who can is invited to attend the meeting at Tocsin this , evening, also the one at Willshire to-1 morrow evening. A representative of the Bryant business men called here] vesrerday and asked for a weighing 1 station, promising three hundred acres , or more. It will no doubt be granted. Mr. Charles Allen, president of the ' ’’auk.ag bank, arrived today and will >'( mina here several days. He has , been a student of the beet sugar busi-, ness for several years and is the man | who secured the factory at Paulding Since that time he has devoted much I time to studying the business, has ' v. ritten many articles and lectured at 1 various places on the subject. He ‘ ] will speak at Tocsin tonight and at i 1 Willshire tomorrow night and a meet- 1 ing will probably be arranged here. 1 The Independent, published at. St. 1 Louis. Mich., gave the following item ■ on the location of the factory: "F. H. Hubbard, local manager of I the Holland-St. Louis Sugar com- |' Pany. has authorized us to announce I that of the three cities, Decatur, Ind., i 1 Bluffton, Ind., and St. Mary's, Ohio, I each of whom have been attempting 1 to land the new sugar factory, Deca- ' tur has been selected by the directors and if the acreage can be assumed and > the promises of the city fulfilled, a 1 hew- seven hundred ton factory with i the most modern equipment, will be built in that city before next fall, at a cost of $700,000. Mr. Hubbard and I other representatives of the company 1 are in Decatur meeting the farmers 1 and planning for the acreage. ‘‘Decatur, the site of the new factory. I ■s a prosperous city of 5,000 population, located twenty-' miles south of Fort Wayne, in one of Indiana's rich- I est farming sections. The city Is tnodern in every respect, has large wire fence and automobile factories, 1 and is unexcelled in railroad facilities, being the junction of the G. R- & L, 1 ®* r ie and Clover Leaf railroads, and the Fort Wayne & Springfield electric line. The factory will be modern in every respect, the equipment including a large dryer. Decatur is to be con- 1 kratulated on its selection as a site 1i bv the Holland-St. Louis Sugar com-| Pany." I

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PRICE TOO HIGH. For Kukelhan Cattle, Say Columbia City People. D. V. Whiteleather. Dorsey Jagger and Tom Dams returned Friday evening from Decatur, where they attended a Holstein cattle sale, but none of the trio made a purchase. Mr. Whiteleather stated that he never attended a sale where the cattle sold so high and as a natural consequence they did not care to buy. The registered cattle sold for |l5O to S3OO, and calves . went all the way from $75 to $l5O. Sixty-five head of cattle in all were . sold during the day—Columbia City Post. TURKISH WEDDING Will be Illustrated by Dr. Dyer at Christian Church This Evening. WILL GIVE LECTURE On Tui key—Native Armenians Will Give Lecture and Entertainment. Dr. M. K. Dyer of Armenia, who spoke at the Christian church Sunday morning to a big crowu, will 'this evening deliver a format lecture at the church, on the subject of Turkish empire under new administration. In connection with the lecture. Dr. Dyer will I be assisted by his cousin, Professor: Baxter, who will sing in four different' languages ano exhibit costumes of I oriental people, and illustrate the I Turkish weddings and Mohammedan; prayer, persons from the audience be-1 ing selected to illustrate the weddings.' Professor Baxter, who spoke Sunday at Bobo, is well posted on the political and social conditions throughout the oriental countries. Admission for the lecture will be fifteen and twenty cents. Everyone should hear the two gentlemen. They are native Armenitns, who escaped from Turkey under great difficulties and after imprisonments and cruelties, from which several of their companions did not survive. Dr. Dyer is a medical student here and expects Io return to his country as a medical missionary in two years. He spoke interestingly Sunday to a large audience on religious j conditions in the Turkish empire, and • told tales of the martyrdom of the Christians there that equal those of the early days and put us luxury, surfeited Christians to shame. The Armenian Christian church is one of the oldest apostolic churches in Chrisendom, he stated. An Armenian prince in the time of Christ was healed by Jesus of a terrible disease, and then asked Christ to send risciples into Armenia to preach His gos pel. This Christ did and within six months after his death, burial and resurrection three of His disciples, Thaddeus, Bartholomew and Matthew, went into Armenia and established Christian churches, the native keeping them during this time in the purity of their establishment. The great enemy of Christianity is Mohammedanism, and as Armenia is under Turkish rule, the religion of which is Mohammedanism, the religion spread by the sword, the Christians there are subjected to great persecution. Dr. Dyer tells of a massacre that occurred near his home just before he left. Six hundred Armenian Christians were worshiping in their church when twelve hundred Turkish soldiers surrounded it. The minister who had labored there twen-ty-five years was dragged forth with a rope around his neck and his parishioners also driven out. The minister was asked to renounce his faith and become a Mohammedan under pain of death. He refused. His arms and feet were cut off. and still he refused. Then his eyes were put out, and upon his refusal to still deny his God, he Was put to death. His six hundred people were threatened with a like fate if they did not become Mohammedans. They preferred to follow the way of their minister, and six hundred Christian voices joined in singing. “I Need Thee Every Hour,” as they were put to death like their minister. VIOLETS ARE BLOOMING. Parties who have gone hickory nutting this week report that violets have mistaken the mild October for spring and away down under the fallen leaves are sending forth their blooms.

TO LARGER FIELD Rev. C. E, Ehle Accepts Call to the South Side Baptist Church IN FORT WAYNE Kindly Released by Local Church—Has Done a Great Work Here. Rev. C. E. Ehle tdday sent his acceptance to the call to the pastorate of the South Side Baptist church in Fort Wayne, having been very kindly but reluctantly released Sunday by the local church fpr which he has very ’faithfully and successfully labored the past seventeen months, having assumed charge here as pastor a year ago June first. Rev. Ehle expects to | take charge of the Fort Wayne pastorate November Ist, taking this step in the belief that he is divinely called to the larger field of work. When Rev. Ehle received the call a few days ago to the Fort Wayne church, he reI fused to consider its acceptance until I some definite arrangement had been made for securing a successor here to carry on his work, and at Sunday's session of the church, a committee was named to correspond with several excellent ministers with a view of securing one as a pastor, and a successor will be chosen within a very short time, it is thought. The work of the Rev. Ehle. as pastor of the local I church, has been a great one, and he , stated that never in his eleven years' ' service in the ministry, has he labored : wtth a charge where there was so great harmony, not only between the pastor ■ and members, but abong the member- , ship also. It is with the greatest reI luctance on both sides that the change is made, but the Rev. Ehle is convinced that his work lies in the larger field. Quite recently he has received several calls to other places where his ability has been recognized, and at a greater salary than he is to receive in the Fort Wayne church, but his acceptance of that was based on his belief that his greatest power for good lay there. The local church has been greatly upbuilt during his service here and it is with the regret, not only of the congregation, but of all his acquaintances here, that he will leave. IS STILL FLYING Aviator C. P. Rodgers Now Crossing Texas in CrossCountry Trip. WEATHER DELAYS Now Twenty-five Days Since He Left New York—Covered 1,673 Miles. The many who have recently been watching the flight of Aviator C. P. Rodgers, the coast-to-coast air bird, will be interested to know that he is now out in the state of Texas, and making excellent time. Saturday he made a flight of 189 miles in six and one-half hours, and upon his arrival at various places along his route he is receiving great ovations from the many inhabitants. The morning papers have this to say concerning his flight: “Stinta, Oklo., Oct. 16—Trans-con-tinental Aviator C. P. Rodgers was detained here today by adverse weather conditions. He will leave early Mon-J day morning for Fort Worth, Texas,! where he expects to arrive about noon. “With 1,673 miles of the long overland flight behind him, Rodbers, 25 days out of New York, landed in the gathering dusk here Saturday evening. Rodgers had flown 189 miles from Kansas City in six and one-half hours. Ten thousand persons gave the aviator a welcome here. As he flew over the town of Kelso, five miles to the north, whistles were blown. Almost, before the welcoming din had ended Rodgers had alighted here."

Decatur, Ind. Monday Evening. October 16, 1911.

I ALL OUT OF TUNE. An unsigned communication, a part of which was able to be deciphered with great difficulty, reached this office for publication. It told of some one who had driven his children away and asked us to “rhyme it so he will be ashamed of himself.” As poety is a little “out of our line," we absolutely refuse to commit ourselves —In fact if we should attempt a rhyme, ' we think we would have more occasion to be ashamed of oursejves>than would the object of our “rhyming." i | o ATHLETICS WON American Champions Took J Second Game of World's Base Ball Series. r I > SCORE THREE TO ONE ■ I ) ; ’ The Mighty Marquard Stum- ) bled in Sixth, Allowing Two Long Hits. 'i — 1 ■ (Uni'.ed Press Service.) IShibe Park. Oct. 16 —(Special to ■ Daily Democrat) —With Marquard and ’ Meyers for New York, and Plank and ’ Thomas for Philadelphia, as batteries, the second of the world's series be- . tween the Giants and Athletics took t place here, favored with ideal weather. ; ' Rain during the night floated the in--1 field, but a warm, steady sun came out . this morning, putting the diamond in 1 first-class condition. The gate ent trance was opened at 9 o’clock this r morning and those having paid admission tickets at once began filing into the park. It was estimated this afternoon when the game was called at r 2:30 o'clock that fully 35,000 people I ' were watching the battle. Notwiths 'standing the first victory of the Giants i Manager McGraw gave out no opinion i as to the outcome of today’s battle. - ‘‘l anj doing my thinking on the ini' side,” said Manager Mack of the Ath- , letics. II First inning. New York started off t with the first man fanning; Doyle then f flew to Ward, and Snodgrass taking . first by being hit. Murray lined to Collins. No runs, no hits, no errors. i Philadelphia, last half of first. Maii quard appeared very cool; Ward sing- | ling to right and taking second on a "ball being muffed by Murray. Sacrifice and grounders composed the first i inning. I run credited to the Athletr lets. In the second inning the Giants came back at their opponents by scoring on a single to left by Meyers. In ‘the sixth inning the Giants had but ' very little time to do anything, the . Athletics being Johnny-on-the-spot and nabbed up everything that came in i sight. Here the Athletics thought it a good time to take a lead, when Collins doubled to left, and Baker, the next man up, booted a home run over the right field fence, scoring Collins ! ahead of him. The seventh, eighth and ninth innings ended with no runs made, alI though some fast and classy playing I took place during the last three in- ' nings. Crandall relieved Marquard for I the Giants in the eighth, but nothing i could be done but keep the Athletics ' i from scoring. The result: ' I •“ * . . . Phil 010002000 3 4 «9 , |'n. Y 0 1 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 3 R. H. E. A BOX SOCIAL. Miss Marie Daniels, teacher in the ■ Lucky school, four miles east of this city, and her band of pupils, are prei paring to give a box social Wednesday j night, October 18th, to which they coidially invite all, the proceeds going to : buy books for the school. There will i also be a pumpkin parade, a fishing '! pond, contests, and other entertainI nient features to provide a good time. Come, and let every girl bring a box of good things enough for two to eat. SIMON NEUENSCHWANDER DEAD Simon N'euenschwander, well known | man of Berne, passed away Sunday l morning, from typhoid fever. He leaves a wife and several children. Banker Charles Allen of Paulding, Ohio, will lecture at the court house, Decatur, Wednesday evening at 7:30.

TO BE BIG WEDDING Three Hundred Guests Bidden to Conrad-Fuhrman Wedding Wednesday. IN PREBLE TOWNSHIP! ;i Freidheim Band Will FurI nish Music—Will be a Most Happy Event. —— i Three hundred guests have been I bidden to the wedding of Miss Mary Conrad and Mr. Lewis Fuhrman, which will take place Wednesday afternoon j at 2:30 o’clock a*, the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Conrad, in Preble township. The hap py event will be solemnized by the ■ Rev. Preuss of tfie German Lutheran church. Attendants of the bridal cou- ' Jt: -.’ill be the Misses Freda Nahrwald 1 end Clara Bloomenberg and Messrs. ' Albert Ehlerding and Martin Bloomenberg. The bride will wear a hand- , some gown of white embroidery, be--1 comingly made, while her maids will ! wear pretty frocks of tan silk poplin. A wedding supper will be served and music will be rendered by the Freidheim band. The couple, who are rep- ’ resentatives of. two of the county’s . best families, will reside in the Chris • Greve farm in Wells county. t ° LOOK WHO’S COMING. >1 President Taft or our genial ex- ’ President Theodore Roosevelt may not visit our city on lueir coining tour of ’ the country, but Harry J. Webster, the ' well known theatrical firm, has arrangt ed with the management of the Bosse > opera house, Thursday, October 19th, . to bring their well known comedy s drama. “A Millionaire Tramp,” to our ! city. This time-tried production will be presented in its entirety, the best . cast of characters ever put together . to interpret a play, all new and special ' scenery, befitting the locality the [ 1 scenes are laid in, and a grand array ( of head-line vaudeville acts will be : presented during the action of thej i piece. TO REPLACE CROSS ‘1 ;j Crucifix at Catholic Cemetery Recently Blown Over Being Rebuilt. J DAMAGED BY STORM In Fall Some Months Ago— The Same Image Again to be Used. The large crucifix, which during the summer was blown over by a storm, at the St. Joseph’s Catholic cemetery, is about to be replaced with a new one, to take the place of the one which 1 stood for so many years, until it became decayed and fell from the exposure to all kind sos weather. The cross, which will be about the same ■ size of the old one, measuring 7x16 j feet, was constructed by the Decatur Lumber company, and is now in readi- i ness for the painting process, which is to be in stone color and .then sanded. The same image will again be used, it being still well preserved, and was but slightly damaged in the fall it received. It will rest on the mound of the former crucifix, and covered with a top or canopy, which from the street can be plainly seen, some distance off, j by all who pass. The crucifix is probably without doubt to be found in all Catholic cemeteries, and by this are always distinguished. TO WED WEDNESDAY. The bans of matrimony were published for the last time Sunday between Miss Mary Kohne and Peter j Hess, two poplar young people from south of the city. The wedding ceremeny will take place Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock from the St. Mary’s church, and the affair will be a popular one.

SERO FIBRINOUS PLEURISY. Was Subject of Paper at the Medical I Meeting Friday Night. Five doctors front this city, includ- I ing Drs. Beavers, Thomas, Costello, Miller and Smith, made an auto trip to Monroe, where they attended the regular meeting of the Adams County ■ Medical association at the office of : Drs. Parrish and Rayl. The paper, an - excellent one on "Sero Fibrinous Pleu- *" : rlsy," was given by Drs. Parrish and Rayl, and was freely discussed. The November meeting will be held in the 7 office of Dr. Thomas and Dr. Costellc ! will have the paper. COURT HOUSE NEWS! Mary E. Steele Wants Pos- « session of Eignteen-months-old Heifer With r -- 4- . I CRUMPLED HORNS < — t Order Made in Foughty Di-i t vorce Case Regarding Vis- 1 ‘ its of Children. ■ By her attorney L. C. DeVoss, Mary |' 1 I E. Steele has filed suit against John Scheimann, asking for the possession of an eighteen-months-old Jersey heif-1 ] ’ i er, with light colored nose and legs, i t with crumpled horns, of the value of; > fifty dollars, which she claims he is ■ i detaining without right. j I I 1 A change in the order of the court ; regarding the children was made in 1 , the Foughty divorce case. The son. 1 j , Russell, who lives with the father,, , . Charles Foughty, at Bluffton, was or ] . dered to be allowed to visit with his! ( mother here one day a month and to ■ remain over night, and the children. , ' Marvel and Kaipn, whose custody h:i. , 1 been given to the mother, Laur i j I Foughty, were ordered to be allowed i to visit with their father in Bluffton t one day a month and to remain over , night. This order is to hold until further order is made by the court. | < Mary E. Steele vs. Eli W. Steele, di , vorce. Rule to answer absolute i? ' j i five days. ‘ , I Addie F. Andrews, guardian for Cai 1 < and Lawrence W. Callow, filed appli- < ’ cation for authority to file additional bond in Van Wert county, Ohio. Submitted, bond ordered in sum of S9OO. t Bond filed and approved. e Real estate transfers: Decatur s Cemetery Assn, to David Fuhrman, lot j 520, Decatur cemetery, $72; Mary E. | Steele to John M. Springer, lot 32, De ; catur, $2500; John M. Springer to Eli < W. Steele, lot 32, Decatur, $2500; John , . Simison to Geo. A. Adler, lots 8,9, 10, j ! Buena Vista, $225; Roman A. Barthol to W. A. Kuebler, pt. lot 50, Decatur, quit claim deed. SIOOO. ] Marriage licenses: Marie Conrad. | born January 14, 1892, daughter of t August Conrad, to wed Louis Fuhr | man, born April 4, 1890, son of John I J. Fuhrman. 1 i c Judge Daniel D. Heller of Decatur, r one of the attorneys representing Fred Scheimann of Decatur in the suit brought against Scheimann by Charles H. Lammiman, and which ha r ' been in progress for three days in the j circuit court, was taken suddenly ill j Saturday morning during the trial and his associates did not feel that the. s wanted to go ahead without his assisi fi ance and pending his recovery Judg. h Moran dismissed the jury until Mon d day morning, and other matters we: v taken up for the day. Judge Helle u was considerably better during th a day, and in the afternoon was able tc v go to his home in Decatur for an ovei 5 ■ Sunday rest.—Portland Commercial t Review. 1 REV. DEGLOW GIVES SERMON. Rev. C. William Deglow of Wathena. Kans., accompanied William Sellemey i er of the Magley Reformed church. , here from Fort Wayne, Saturday aft- < ernoon, where they had been attending , the northwestern synod meeting, and ' 1 Sunday morning the Rev. Deglow I i preached a very good sermon at the 11 Magley church. On Tuesday evening ’ at 7 o’clock the Rev. Paul H. Land of i Ellis Island, N. Y., will preach at the t same church. t

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HAS THE FEVER Monroe is Also Enthusiastic on the Sugar Beet Proposition. SWEET POTATOES Also Grow There—D, B. Erwin Holds Court—Urick Improvng. Monroe, Ind.. Oct. 16—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Monroe J. P. court ground out its first grist Friday afternoon before 'Squire A. S. Keller, when Attorney D. B. Erwin of Decatur, representing Mary Fullenkamp, as plaintiff in a suit on account, against Samuel Cook of Monroe, was on trial. The case went by default, owing to the fact tliat the defendant did not appear for trial. Judgment was renderel for the full amount, with costs of the case added, in favor of the plaintiff. "Abe" makes a fine looking justice and has all the dignity and grace of a fullfledged official while on the the bench and is ready at all time to mete out justice in large or small chunks, as may be lequired. The beet meeting held at Monroe Friday mgnt was largely attended, and much enthusiasm was manifested in regard to the boosting of the proposed sugar beet factory to be built at Decatur. A large number of the leading business men of Decatur, together with F. H. Hubbard, manager of the plant, were here and several excellent addresses were made which were highly appreciated by our farmers present. Monroe township can raise sugar beets and our farmers should take this opportunity which is now offered them and do all they can to assist in making this enterprise a grand success in our midst, which will be a source of profit for them, to raise the beet. Act now and your help will mean much to the welfare of this county. John Recard was busy Friday digging his crop of sweet potatoes and owing to the size of some of them was compelled to use a patent devise in prying them out. We could not tell what the machine he used looked like, but we noticed John was using considerable power in extricating them from the ground. * The Monroe high school base bail team was trimmed up last Friday afternoon by the Linn Grove high school team by the score of 14 to 6. The same old song. Clarence Urick is not getting along as well as was expected, as the broken limb is slow in knitting, and physicians had to readjust the leg Friday morning. The funeral services for Miss Ada Fuhrman, held at the M. E. church Thursday, were largely attended by many from Decatur, where she formerly lived. Evangelist Clark Urick, a former Monroe township boy, was preaching on our streets Thursday and Friday night. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. Northern Indiana Teachers to meet in Chicago in April. The Northern Indiana Teachers' association will meet in Chicago the first week in April, Chicago University having kindly offered to throw open its doors for the gathering. The teachers will thus be permitted to visit the university in its various departments and to learn of the great educational work that is being carried on there. Many Adams county and Decatur teachers will attend the Chicago meeting. GOOD ALL AROUND. The box social given Friday evening at the ashington school house, where Ray Smith is the teacher, proved to be one of the most successful ever conducted by those In charge. A large number of people were present for the evening and getting rid of the boxes full of good things to eat wae an easy matter. The sum of sl7 was realized through their efforts, and they consider their time has been well spent.