Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 13 November 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 266.

CONTRACT AWARDED The Larrowe Construction Co. of Detroit to Build the Big Sugar Plant. BEST IN THE WORLD Railroad Side Tracks to be Built at Once—Letter From the President. The big contract has been let, the railroad is now getting busy, the tracks will be in within two weeks aud material Tor the big sugar beet plant most modern In the world, will soon be arriving, The following letter from the president of the company will explain the exact, situation: Holland, Mich.. Nov. 11, ’ll. Mr. J. E. Heller, Decatur, Ind.: Dear Mr. Heller:—You will be interested to know that we have closed the Contract with the Larrowe Construction company of Detroit for the erection of a complete sugar factory, to be finished by September 1, 1912. This factory’ we believe will be the best and most modern factory operating in the United States, and that of course, means in the world. We have spared no expense, but sought only for the best factory that we could get. We have arranged for every appliance that we could learn of that would tend toward increasing the quality of sugar, and ease in extracting the sugar from the beet juices. While we call the factory from 700 to 800 tens of beets per twenty-four hours, we have during the letting of the contract strengthened and increased the plant so much at its various stations, that we shall be much disappointed if it does not do much better than its name would indicate. y We expect representatives of the railro'u here this morning to make final arrangements for construction of side tracks, which construction is to begin immediately, and it is our hope to have a track on the ground in the next ten days or two weeks, and that material for construction will begin arriving very soon after that. This of course'is all with the understanding and condition that our arrangements with you good Decatur people are completed entirely satisfactory, and we consider they are virtually completed now. d <■ hope to send you today for your aignatures the supplement agreement as to the supply of water. And hope to have somebody in Decatur soon to cheek over beet contracts, etc.; and the writer hopes also to be there within a few days, with the construction company's engineer, to decide upon locations of buildings, and find whether or not there is room on the proposed site to place the buildings We have your wire of yesterday replying to ours that you can rent a brick building without floor along track for $5.00 per month, or that you can get a "good building January Ist. Me think, therefore, we will take the chance of giving directions this morning to have the Decatur seed shipped to Decatur for storage, hoping that there wiii be sufficient time for us to investigate personally these buildings, and change directions if necessarv. T he building needs to be. of course, "ater tight, and should not be a nest for rats and mice; and should be lo located that it is insurable, and more than that, it should not be especially dangerous as to fire, as it will fro’’ably be impossible to replace the beet “eed should we lose it. It is costing us $30.00—100 f. o. b. Hamburg this J car, although we are selling it to the tanners at 10c per pound this year, and waiting nearly a year for the pay. do not mean to indicate that this i R usually the way we do business, but she seed situation this year is some,h, t>g terrific. Mish to thank you for your teleCTa ® and for the pains you took to secure this information for us. and also f°r the information concerting the barest port of entry. Yours very truly, C.zM. McI.EAN, President. hatch Blackburn, son of Robert ftiackburn, who spent Sunday here his father, left this trorning on tlle train south to resume his work.

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— - SUNDAY RUNAWAY. Considerable commotion was had Sunday when early in the day the horse used by Elgin King, owner of | the city news stand, ran away from the young lad, Donald Patterson, who’ 1 is in charge of the Sunday delivery, i In the scrimmage he lost the Sunday I route book, and some papers. The I horse ran a distance of several blocks, but was finally stopped without any I damage occurring to the rig. Aside I from tho loss of the book, which is i valuable, nothing further was missed. Owing to the loss of the book the papers could not be delivered on time, the delivery being several hours late, ! not being finished until 4 o'clock. RODGERS TUMBLES Coast to Coast Fiver Falls From Height of Over * T T Hundred Feet. t 1 MACHINE WRECKED r r He Himself Was Scratched and Bruised—Was Picked Up Unconscious. i| ? Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 13—In an at- > ■ tempted flight yesterday from Pasadena to Long Beach, officially to end his _ I Atlantic-Pacific journey, Aviator C. P. f Rodgers met with the worst mishap of j j his career, falling with his machine r 125 feet into a ploughed field, half-way 3 between the two cities and within 3 sight of his destination. 1 Although no bones were broken Rx>d- . gers was rendered unconscious. He i was badly shaken, his face scratched - and torn, his hands were burned by r his motor and he complains of a set 3 vere pain in his side. His machine I was completely wrecked. Rodgers left s Pasadena at 3:34, expecting to fly the > twenty-three miles to the beach in as > many minutes. He became confused - after taking the air and after circling aimlessly for half an hour, came down j at Vovina Junction, a mile further ? from Long Beach than the point from f which he started. He took the air j again after getting his bearings and 3 was following the tracks of the Pacific j railway when the accident occurred, t This was in an isolated section and i the first learned ot the accident by s those interested was when an automobilist, who had seen Rodgers fall and ~ had dragged him out from under the 3 wings of the wrecked biplane, carried , him into the office of a physician at r Compton, two miles away. Rodgers was still unconscious when •»Mr< Hedgers and her mother, Mrs. R. t S. Sweitzer, who had been waiting his ■ arrival at Long Beach, reached Compj ton. Later he partly regained his 1 getisys, blit was still too dazed to talk -of the accident. He was put aboard i the special train which his wife and - mother had chartered for the run up r from Long Beach, and taken to his 1 hotel at Pasadena. After an examination last night his physicians announc- , ed that he would suffer no permanent i injury. , While the cause of the accident will i not be known until Mr. Rodgers explains it, it is believed that a control 3 was snapped, inverting the runner o f - his machine and heading It nose down I wed at an angle of more than 43 det grees. Rodgers complained of his en- > gine trouble when he alighted at Covina Junction, but according to the automobolist who saw him fall, was Ilying smoothly at the time of the act cident. COMING SOON. “The Squaw Man,” which will be see n here soon, played in New York , for two years to record-breaking busi- ■ ness. The record of the royal play Is . no less remarkable than the play it- ' S elf, which has been pronounced by the must eminent reviewers of dramatic subjects to be by all odds the best play of the season. Bosse opera house .: Friday, November 17th. — forty hours’ devotion. One week from next Sunday the beautiful services of forty hours’ devotion will open at the St. Mary s church and will continue until Tuesday evening, when a solemn closing will take place. A missionary father will be in attendance and have charge . of the speaking, while other nearbypriests will also be present to lend their assistance during the three days.

, PLEASANT MEETING } ■ »' I ■ » ! Is Mr. Rice’s Report of the ’ Superintendents’ Sessions Last Week. k r DOMESTIC SCIENCE h —k. — 'Proves to be Useful Department in High School at Crawfordsville. ’ Superintendent E. E. Rice of the city schools arrived home Sunday after a several days’ absence, during which ’ time he attended the meeting of the North Central Indiana Superintendents' club, held at Crawfordsville, and the meeting of the city superintendents held at Indianapolis. It was a I delightful and profitable week for Mr. Rice, who enjoyed it thoroughly. The Crawfordsville meeting was particu- | Inrly interesting, the club being com■'osed of twenty-five members. The session began Wednesday and contin ued two days. Wednesday morning the school board furnished automobiles and the crowd was taken to Water Babble, the country home of the - late General Lew Wallace. Wednes- . day afternoon the club visited the city schools and again on Thursday morning. Dinner was served the club in ' the new high school building, prepared f and served by the girls of the junior e class and the superintendents claim f the meal was the finest they ever eni joyed. The work shows the result of a domestic science class. The girls of - the senior class will make their grads uating dresses and the boys are to 1 earn sufficient money to buy their f clothes. The school men left Craw- * fordsville at 4 o’clock Thursday attere noon for Indianapolis, where the meett ings were also most interesting. e -o- ■ - . — * APPEALED IN VAIN 1 „ r a Supreme Court Today Rer d fused an Appeal to Clay Beattie, Jr. d y h jGOMPERS’ SPEECH d e * Government Today Took Active Steps in Suit n Against Beef Packers. S - >- s (United Press Service.) It Richmond, Va„ Nov. 13—(Special to - Daily Democrat)— Only Governor ' Mann now stands between Clayton p 9 Beattie. jr„ and the electric chair. The i- supreme court, having oeen appealed •- to, today refused to grant an appeal t to the wife slayer. 1 Shanghi, Nov. 13—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Chinese rebels took ,1 formal possession of CheSoo today r without and ftirttifer resistence from i the imperial troops. i- Chicago, 111., Nov. 13— (Special to >- Daily Democrat)—Active worjt of i- preparation for the trial of the govern- - ment suit under the Sherman anti- ■- trust law against the beef packers, was begun hero today, when subpoeneas were issued for' railroad men, and by noon the government expected to show the interstate character of e trust-bustfng. The -ease was set for < trial next Monday. 8 Atlanta, Ga„ Nov. 13—(Special tn - Daily Democrat)— Demanding of the s “foes” of labor in the subservient :• court, justice in the prosecution of the t McNamara dynamiting case, Samuel a Gompers here this afternoon delivered his annual address before the American Federation of Labor. S QUITS AS AGiLN I. a George Flanders, who has served ( 3 well for several weeks as driver for - the Adams Express company, has re-j , signed, and a new order went into es-. r feet today. The deliveries will be, 8 made by the bus line, and the office . work will be attended to by Miss i Anna Winnes. the office being located in the Winnes shoe store.

Decatur, Ind. Monday Evening. November 13, J9ll

WILL GIVE WORK. Modern Woodmen Will Take in Good Class on Wednesday Evening. The Modern Woodmen again wish to call the attention of its members to the meeting of Wednesday (evening, when a number of candidates will be taken into the lodge its full-fledged members. The local forestry team will confer the work and have been put- ' ! ting in some practice recently. . i The committee in charge experts to '■ |>ee a large number on hand to take part in the program prepared and the affair will be brought to a close with a big smoker. COURTHOUSE NEWS ■ I 11 , Names for Grand and Petit Juries Were Drawn To- [ day by Commissioners. 1 A NEW SUIT FILED X ————— By Attorneys Hooper & Len- ' i hart—Grand Jury Will U Report Next Monday. — ‘ 1 Jury Commissioners John W. Craig ■ of Berne, Henry Hite and County ■', Clerk James P. Haefling met this ' morning and drew the names of the 1 jurors for the grand jury, which will i 1 convene next Monday morning, and r also the petit jurors for the Novem- i 1 ber term of court which opens next I ’ Monday, the petit jury net to report, i ; however, until the third Monday of ' | the term, December 4th. The juries ■ comprise the following: Grand jurors 5 1 —Albert Duer, Monroe township; John Wechter, Blue Creek; Henry Reiter, 1 Root; Thomas E. Mann, Wabash; Pe-1 ■ ter Amspaugh, Decatur; William, ■ Schug. Monroe. Petit jurors—George Brown, St. Mary’s township; Levi A. Springer, Monroe; John Briggs, Gene-1 [ va; Solomon Sheets, Root; Fred [■ Thieme, Union: Wilson Dunbar, Hartford, Wesley Stultz, Decatur: James Hurst. Decatur; Sloan Meyers, Washing ton; Samuel Fogle, Jefferson; ’ Ralph Gates, Blue Creek; John Tenner, French; Edward Gallmeyer, Preble; David Crum, Kirkland; Ambrose Durbin, jr., Monroe. F. G. AVricht & Company of Chicago. . '■ 111., have filed suit against Alfred L. and Charles A. French, partners, on note, demanfl, $3,000. Hooper & Lenj hart are the plaintiff's attorneys. Cost I ; bond was filed by the plaintiff. Real estate transfers: Ulysses S. Drummond to Emma A. Butler, lot 22, Pleasant Mills, $400; Priscilla Wyer to David A. Wyer, lot 11, Curryville, $10; Decatur Cemetery Assn, to Charles T. Payne, lot 352, Decatur ’ I cemetery, S4O; Rosannah Dailey to ’ Anna M. Moltz, pt. lot 98, Decatur,! i SI6OO. ; DEATH OF MRS. DAGUE. ' Occurred in Kansas While There on a Visit —Known Here. Miss Kate Flickinger returned today ' , i from Lima, Ohio, where she attended I the funeral of her aunt, Mrs. KatharI ine Dague, which was held there Sun- : day. Her death occurred at Sabetha, I Kansas, where she had gone for a visit , | and was caused by cancer of the liver. I j Mrs. Dague formerly resided at Mon-1 ' roeville and was well known here, ‘ | where she often visited, the. last visit < ’ here being lasfr spring, when she re- ! new cd her '’"q’mtntanceship with ' i manv. Mrs. Dague was seventy-throe 1 i ’ ['years of age. The body was brought’ back to the home at Lima, Ohio, for • burial, several of her children also residing there. —. o . - - HAVE FINISHED CHURCH. John Bolinger and force of masons ' have just returned from Linn Grove, I I where they have been building an Evangelical church at that place. It, is one of the most modem churches In~ this part of the country and would do credit to many cities much larger than this little town. Oscar Hoffman was the architect. The last brick on the ( structure was that near the finale and ] the privilege of laying it was sought i by many, Lee Baumgartner being the lucky party. With infinite trouble he was hauled up the high scaffolding, and when the brick was laid it dawned upon Mr. Baumgartner that the result would cost him a box of cigars, which he soon secured for the boys.

THE MONROE NEWS Merle Laisure Wedded to Mrs. Etta Smith of Dunkirk Last Friday. LECTURE COURSE i i Dr. Gray Not?d Orator of Brooklyn, N. Y. Will be Here on the 14th. ! ( Merle Laisure, 25, of Monroe, anti i Mrs. Etta Smith, 22, of Dunkirk, were married here Friday evening, the cere- [ mony being performed by Rev. W. H. [Shepherd, pastor of the Portland Lulled Brethren church at tho par sonage on North, Ship street at 5 o'clock. The bride is the daughter of j Mrs. Nancy Critton of Dunkirk, and has made her home in that city for [ some time. The bridegroom is a son [ of Mr. and Mrs. J, Laisure, of Mon- ! roe, and is employed as a brakeman | on the Grand Rapids & Indiana rail- | road. 1 hey will probably make their | home in Fort Wayne.—Portland Comj mercial-Review. The grom was granted a divorce in the Adams circuit court a week ago Saturday. Remember the second number of the Monroe high school lecture course by Dr. Gray of Brooklyn, N. Y., on Tues--1 day evening, November 14th, at the i assembly room of the new high school | building. Be sure to attend. It will [ be a rare treat. Murray Scherer of the Meyer, Scher- : er & Beavers furniture store, at De- , catur, was a business caller here today. — : Will Chronister of Decatur was busy i today doing some carpenter work, | which he has been working at for some weeks. GETS BIG GAME Samuel L. Kuntz, Lumberman of Berne, Shoots First Moose in Party. IN THE MAINE WILDS Picture With Others of the Party in Boston Globe— A Grand Hunt. Attorney John C. Moran of this city is in receipt of a copy of the Boston ! Globe ot tho date Os November 7th, 1 which contains a picture of the hunt-1 ing party of which Samuel Kuntz, the Berne lumberman, is a member, togeth er with a write-up of the great hunt in- : dulged in by the -sportsmen, in which . three moose were killed in one day, ! the first being killed by Mr. Kuntz. The members of the party include , Kuntz, four Fort Wayne men and some j well known Boston men, who went in October to the wilds of Maine for a ' hunt in the Lake Mattaivamkeag re- ' gion. They crossed by boat from island Falls to Bryan's camp, which is two miles above Sewell’s camp, where ' President Roosevelt hunted deer two ■ years ago. On the second day the i moose tracks wore sighted, and though j the start was made early, the game was not sighted until 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Mr. Kuntz got the first shot, but it took three bullets to kill I his moose, and the animal died hard, running about one hundred yards after the last shot struck him. Its antlers i spread about three feel and had eleven l en points. The other two killed by 1 other members of the party were fine specimens and there was much rejoicing when the hunters returned to camp , that evening. Mr. Kuntz is a lumber 1 buyer for the P. W. Smith saw mill at Berne, and is well known over the county, o TO WED WEDNESDAY. The wedding of Miss Osie Cowan and Fred Deininger will take place Wednesday morning at 6 o'clock from the St. Mary’s church. The bans were announced for the third time Sunday and the coming event will he a pleasant one.

MEET AT BISHOPS HOME. The semi-annual conferences of the priests of the six districts of the diocese of Fort Wayne, N>r the discussion of dogmatical, lithurgical and moral questions and parish affairs of import, will be held on Wednesday afternoon I of next week, the priests meeting with -the deans of their respective deaneries. The members of the Fort Wayne j deanery, numbering tlyrty-nine, will meet at the episcopal residence ih this I city, Rt Rev. Bishop Herman J. I Alerding and the moderator, Rt. Rev. Mrg. John H. Oechtering, presiding.— ] Fort Wayne Sentinel. Father Wilken and Father Flaherty will be among the attending priests. HOTEL DESTROYED ■ ----- I National Hotel at Peoria, 111. , Owned by Dick Townsend, This Morning GUTTED BY FIRE Loss Estimated Over SIOO,000—Origin of Disaster Unknown to All. 1 (United Press Service.) Peoria, 111., Nov. 13 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Two firemen were killed, one injured and seventy guests were forced to flee into the ice-cov-ered streets when fire early this morning destroyed the National hotel. The ■ loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. The flames were discovered about midnight by the chambermaia on cue fourth floor, who called other employees, and an effort was at first made to extinguish the flames before the fire department was called. The fire had its origin from causes unknown. After a half hour the department was called and the entire force of fire fighters of the city battled for six hours before the flames were under control. The firemen were in constant danger from failing floors and walls, the building being a sixstory structure. Dick Townsend, formerly proprietor of the Burt hotel, this city, was the loser, aud had been in charge of the National five years l&st April. Mrs. A. C. Gregory, w’ho was unaware of the disaster this morning, received a mesI sage from her son-in-law, Mr. Town-1 send, reading as follows: “Burned ( out last night. We are all right.” OVERHEATED FURNACE ! Caused Small Fire at Jacob Tester! Home Sunday. The alarm of fire sounded Sunday morning at *0:30 o’clock for fire at the Jacob Tester home in the south part df jtho city, where a small damage only i was done to the partition between the dining room and sitting room, the fire originating from the over-heated furnace. which sent the flames forth int; the room through the register in the side wall. Mr. and M'’s. Tester were both in the kitchen at the time the ,fire caught, and the flames were first noticed by Mrs. Tester when she went Into the other rooms, and saiv them bursting forth from the register. The fire was soon extinguished by beating with rugs and carpets. (, CEMENT CONTEST WINNERS. J. P. Hilyard of Pleasant Mills was declared w’inner of the second prize, and Miss Pansy Bell, winner or the third gift offered by the Universal Portland Cement company at the county fair. It will be rememmered that Ray D. Christen guessed the nearest and got first prize—six barrels of the cement. Two tied for the second prize, which was four barrels of cement, and six for the third prize, two barrels. Those who tied met Saturday afternoon at the office of the company’s local agent—Kirsch & Belie; meyer—where the matter was determined. TELEPHONE BLOCK SYSTEM. Reliable information has come to the effect that officials of the Clover Leaf Railway company are making definite arrangements for the Immediate Installation of the telephonic block system on its line. It is understood that it is their desire to have the new system in operation the first of this week. —Marion Tribune.

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IN CYCLONE BELT Waterloo, DeKalb County, Swept by Disastrous Cyclone Saturday Night. NO LIFE LOST But Property Damage is Estimated at sloo,ooo—- — Winds General. The cyclone which made a general sweep through the middle western states Sa.urday night, the whip breeze of which was felt here, played havoc with the property of Waterloo, the little DeKalb county town, Just two counties north of here, the damage being placed at SIOO,OOO. There was no loss of lite, out many narrow escapes are reported. People went to bed with windows open, the-air being balmy and spring-like, but were awakened at midnight when the tempest with a velocity of seventy miles an hour dipped down near the Lake Shore depot, unroofing a restaurant and then sweeping through the business and residence district, cutting a swath 400 feet wide through the town. The greatest loss was the destruction of the opera house in which were located the fire department, the city hall, and two public school rooms, which collapsed, and people who were in the building saved themselves only by running. Another important building destroyed, was a large cement building used for storage purposes. Twenty five houses were unroofed, and one in which six people were sleeping was carried fifty feet and badly damaged but none of the family was injured. In four over-turn-ed barns there were horses, but none injured. In one place, three barns were overturned and lie in a tangled mass of splinters in a pile. After leaving Waterloo, the storm traveled at a terrific rate, unchecked by its destruction in the town. Fences, corn shocks and trees were scattered everywhere. Telegraph and telephone lines for a distance of three miles along the Air Line are down, poles and- wires lying in a tangled mass. Communication by wire is demoralized. The destruction of property took place within a period of a few minutes, and as the wind subsided it was followed by rain and sleet, and many scores rendered homeless, were forced to seek shelter elsewhere. Fatalities and several million dollars’ worth of damage from Saturday night’s cyclone are reported from I Janesville, Wis., and vicinity; Chicago and central Illinois, lowa, North Dakota, Omaha, the whole state of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky. Alabama and (be Sulf coast. Other Indiana Damages. At Bedford, Ind., aud vicinity, the property damage is estimated at half a million dollars. Many of tho stone mill sheds were blown down, and if the storm had occurred In the daytime many persons probably would have been lulled. The wind raged all day and the mercury went to 9 above zero last night. Shelbyville reported the third storm since April, in which heavy damages have been incurred. Trees were uprooted, barns were blown to pieces and buildings were overturned. The damage will run into the thousands. In the southern part of the state the storm was also severe and practically all communication was cut off for a time At Shoals, the high school and Methodist church, both brick structures, were practically destroyed. Farmers report that the cold is causing intense suffering to live stock. Telegraphic dispatches over the Western Union through the local office today were small, said J. C. Patterson, the local agent, as but one of his four wires were working—and that but a part of the time—being the Cincinnati wire. The damage to the local telephone lines was small, but a few farm lines being reported out of commission this morning. Wl)ile the winds raged high here, no damage worth mentioning is reported. Mrs. G. T. Burk, who last Wednesday submitted to an operation, is still improving and chances for recovery are becoming more encouraging each day. Mr. Burk is still at her bedside. Her many ft lends here will be glad to learn of continued improvement.