Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1912 — Page 1

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j TO ATTEND ' BIG SHOW Decatur Hoosier Trucks Will Attract Attention in New York. TO SHIP TOMORROW I- Four Representatives from Here Leave First of Week for the Show. —■- The Decatur Hoosier truck, all Idiessed up in her best gown, is going to the New York automobile show, . greatest of its kind in tne world, ■ which begins next Wednesday night ■ at the new Grand General Palace, in that city. The exhibit will be shipped I from here Thursday. Early next week S Mr. Brackett, .Mr. Coppock, Mr. Bernard and Earl Bracket, jr„ will leave H to attend the show. The Decatur ■ company will also be represented at ■ the show by their agents from Boston, ! New York, Pittsburg and Philadelphia, and Indianapolis, and the boy's expect | to do business next week. The Decatur display includes several parts of Os tlle now famous car, a chassis, well ' ® finished and showing every detail, and < a completed car, the latter job to be ■ | delivered to G. W. Sammett & Sons’ ’ I company, of Boston, manufacturers of I

tithe Silk Floss mattress. It Is a car HBRlat will attract attention anywhere, finished like a piano under the skillful | direction of Med Miller, and we ven- | ture as handsome and well built a I truck as will be shown this year. The j Hoosier display will occupy a space | 22x26 feet and the truck will be much talked about. There are three auto I shows in New York next week, the National, under which the Decatur shows at the Grand Palace; the foreign show at the Astor, and another at Madison Square Garden, making it the world’s greatest auto show. During the week the Hoosier will be given the greatest test ever tried on any Truck, running an entire week, h loaded, over (he streets of the city, f under the direction of the National association, and with a representative of the association aboard all the time. The Decatur display will be shipped irom New York to Boston, where they A enter the show there, second only to : withe New York show. 1 : i BUYS BIG FARM. t

Warner F. Crosley pf Pendleton , Ind., a prominent farmer of that place was in the city today with Dr. Thorn » ton of Montpelier, who, together witl him, filed the deed for the purchas* . of a large tract, which tile former pur a chased from Mr. Thornton and Mr g Spalding, known as the Rudolph Schug farm in French township. The deal consisted of 160 acres, and the tract is considered one of the best in that township. It is the intention o£ K Mr. Crosley to move his family here eS some time in the near future and j make his home on the new place he Ij has just purchased.

WILL PLAY BRYANT. I. Il*'— —II— The high school basket ball team g; has made arrangements with the high ® school team of Bryant for a game to 4.' ke played here on tomorrow evening, ■ as the locals have no game scheduled J until .January 12th, and the one which 3they have just billed for, will keep '|them in practice for the game of next cweek Th e g amo W jji h 0 played on ‘ 'Thursday evening instead of Friday eveni ugi as t h e hlgh SCIJOOI n ag the!r lecture course number that evening, and which would interfere with it, to a certain extent. REVIVAL services, " 4-arge Attendances Are at Services of Washington C! urch. ■ i With the beginning of the revival a *- *-be Washington church, ,’Bouthwest of the city on last Eriday *arge croW(^s have been in attendance ; for every service conducted. The pastor, the Rev. Landis, who is in charge 01 the revival, is being assisted by the able Rev. Briggs, of Huntington, and the untiring energy of the two ministers will reap good in abun- . dance.

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FIRST'EAR’S BUSIN , W as^'n Stt>fldlspatches st the United States postal j [banks during U year 1911. / .'ear they w'eApe.rated. re] I I posits of overk 14,000,001) 1 of the 4,185 sa\lg a banks. J I some were ppLted mill months. More tLn 25,000| g 1 deposits are repAd, 27 fl them foreigners. Übout II [batiks will be estfclished.l the cityja® r - 1 I Mayor Files His J r II the Quarter Erjil December 31 I OTHERS FILE F S 1 | Former Action soF 61 " Leaf Watchrrr s I Rescind! The regular meetin« mninn 1 council was neta Jening, and with the members to the rollf e city clerk, and the mayf g ’ tlle usual routine of cif s was cared for. Nothing | ordinary, which required jtontion, "as up before the mr d Tuesday evening’s meetw’ ed one of those with most Jdts. The mayor's report, ends’ Jel Slot, was filed and left il ia °t the finance committee f lce - An i

L vvuiiiinitje r : • other report of the I 1 ' 0 * 1 dealt , with the filing of ts * n ’ a - vor ’ 3 I docket, No. 4, was! 6 with an itemized stateme| ing the j amount of fees wl be€n P aif > ■ over during the tin| >r France’ 3 • jurisdiction and nf d for - This the mayor asked tF d over and examined ,and it j rred to the judiciary committj respond to his request. T|commissioner also filed his rr’ ng Septem ber 31st, which/- referred to the finance comr he I the Merriman sff° r some weeks has beef use of mii c h consideration, route asked ( for, differing tr<f^ one was read, apprJ ordered to be placed on reccl m °t' on of the city council J at a previous meeting, relaif e Pl ac ti n S of a watchman by I & Clover Leaf railways at Fl and Thirteenth streets, whicl|^ el road asked the council tol action so fai taken, as'thej d the bells which they had alreJ se vel e sufficient

protection fJ traveling public, i, J and that the] waslan extra burden unneces/ be r n|,an - This - was again b| u P : F a,ter some i discussion r] in F rescinding ?of the form] 011 ' a T the Clover -, Leaf to plaP’ an a | Thirteenth . street. whic| aPProfed and to be i placed on n s CouncilnJ' oniste 4 ben raade a s motion thj Erie 1| notified to i remove thj° n Elevith street as ’ the servicqP nowives is greatly annoyi to P e fact that it an eng! switehij on the siding the gjunds, ar often people are force<I ait and i out of their rigs, thinfbdr® ‘ ' aiu about to

IB lying th< to their deswas alsc Jproved. The Iso insti ed to notify place irth Second ;of his perty, in the m; also K. Allison to ow on j ms street in •s. R. B. Ison property such f i the tearing l some le ago. The also as that the city th the i .or a cei titled iey wo furnish elec>e gratii >r the lighting irt houi uare and also petltloi for, whose reire met h. tig bills re then allowunoller $ .25 1. 8ank1049.50 1 Bank srger 500.00 ace Co 21.75 lance 102.32 Supply 7.12 Supply 30.10 EltfCoal Co 13.81 M. 1. Mylott Pay I 45.30 Jo ti Sprague 9 00 JONTINCSIi w AGE TWO.

AVAS GOOD MEETING 1 ■ jMethodist Brotherhood En- ] joys an Evening of Pleasr ure Together. ON TUESDAY EVENING A Number of Good Talks Given — Refreshments Closed the Program. A very interesting and profitable meeting was that of the Methodist Brotherhood held at the Methodist church Tuesday evening The meeting was opened with song, prayer by tin? Rev. ScmanX with a vocal solo by Gregg Neptune, and a piano solo by Elgin King. Although unable to secure Rev. Earl Parker, another very able man was secured in the person of the Rev. J. O. Hochstedler of Pleasant Mills, who was the principal speaker of the evening. Other splendid addresses were made by D. N. Erwin, Horace Callow, Henry Krick, Rev. Seman and Mr. Wagner, who has been president of a similar organization in St. Louis, but living here now. Ten nerv members were taken in and a committee was appointed to view the possibilities of a Y. M. C. A. or a like meeting place for boys. After refreshments were served the meeting voted to adjourn, to meet again in one month. - • SIDEWALK RIDING George Stultz Was Run Over i I Yesterday by Young Man With Bicycle. RECEIVING INJURIES Face Was Cut and Knee Badly Bruised—Violations Should Cease at Once. Another notice of violation of the law by yonugsters has again come to our notice, when Russel FYughty, a young chap, run down George Stultz' with a bicycle, while riding on the side walk, just south of the Clover Leaf railroad. The accident occurred when ; young Stultz was on his way to the South Ward school early Tuesday morning, and Russell coming from the opposite direction.’ From reports the lad was, in addition to violating the law of riding on the walk, was cutiifig up, and when he came to where 'he pedestrian was passing, ran into him, knocking him down, cutting several gashes on his face and bruising h < knee. This morning his face wa-i somewhat discolored from the knocks received, although he was able to report at school It seems that the practice of sidewalk riding will not cease until some serious accident occurs, if not some one killed, and unless it is stopped at once there will something of this kind result. The officers are on their guard for violators of this kind and should you bo caught in the act, don’t be surprised if you are taken into custody. A word to the wise is sufficient. o ■ RETURN TO SCHOOL. Otto Schneider, Albert Schcrry, John Conrad, Carl Snyder and Rudolph Worthmann, all young men of the Magley Reformed church, at present studying for the ministry, who have been here spending their holiday vacation, left this morning for Sheboygan, Wis., where the seminary is located. These five young men are all doing rapid work in the work for which they are called, and several of them are well advanced in the course of studies which they are following. Tuesday they spent the day with Rev. and Mrs. Hessert, Mr. Hessert being the pastor of the German Reformed church here. They were accompanied by a few of their friends: Elmer Jaberg, Jake and Fred Bloemker, who will make a visit there and also at Kaukana, Wis., where an uncle of Rudolph Worthmann, the Rev. Erward Worthmann, now resides.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, January 3, 1912.

THE CITY HALL. I A visit to the city hall shows that ■ all the heavy erection is now finished and that the steam fitters are busily at ■ work putting in the steam heating plant. As soon as this is in and in operation the building will be dried out thoroughly and then the work of finishing the interior will be begun. This will take probably a month and it is , hardly possible that the building will r be ready for occupancy much before March Ist. When completed, however, and the auto truck installed, it > will be one of the best equipped fire departments in the north part of the .state for a city this size. LAFOLLETTE QUIET t' ■ 1 Wisconsin Leader Refuses to Give Statement Concernt ing Gov. Osborn. 1 > MADE YESTERDAY Sixty-second Congress Resumed Work at Washington Today. ! (United Press Service.) , Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 3—(Spec- . ial to Daily Democrat! —Senator LaFollette refused to make any com- ' ment on the assertion of Governor Osborn, of Michigan, that both he and ; Taft should withdraw as candidates for the republican presidential nomi- | nation and leave a clear field for former President Roosevelt in the interest of republican success. New York N. Y., Jan. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Ten thousand more laundry workers are scheduled to go i on strike here before tonight. By to-, | morrow night it is probable that 45,000 workers will have obeyed tbe general strike order. Six hundred steam laundries and 15,000 hand laan- [ dries in greater New York are affect- • ed by the strike, in which shorter hours and higher wages are demanded . by the laundry workers. Washington, D. C., Jan. 3 (Special; I to Daily Democrat) —The sixty-second congress resumed its session here to-1 day with the prophesies from Major-' ity Leader Underwood and Minority Leader Mann that the session will ' last until well into the fall. Tariff legislation took the first place on the house program. Grand Rapids, Ind., Jan. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Senator LaFol- ! lette, candidate for the republican presidential nomination, entered upon his final day’s tour of Michigan today. He went from here to Kalamazoo, and from tne latter place will go to Chicago, where he will speak tonight. He will campaign in Illinois until Saturday, when he will speak at Indianapolis and Richmond. | New York, N. Y., Jan. 3 (Special to Daily Democrat) —Members of the . firm of John ZanKeuren & Thornton, | >, commercial dealers in white goods, to- ’ day complained to District Attorney V.'hitinan that T. C. Canßeroeff, treas- . urer of the concern, and a director, is . i short $140,000 in his accounts. The accused is alleged to have used the . fun Is in speculation. ——-n ABOUT THE SICK. Mrs George Deiner, who was on the sick list for nearly a week with gener-1 al bre.ikdown, which left her very weak, ts the result of her illness of I ! great length, Is somewhat bettor, and it is believed she will get along all I right from no.v on. The condition of Mrs. Sommers, ahe , aged lady, who has been suffering from I the effects < La paralytic stroke for several weeks, is also showing improve- ! ment from th# forepart of the week, and giving more encouragement to those who ar< caring for her. Miss Margar >t Clark, wso was yes- ' terday operated upon for appendicitis, is doing nicely and hopes for a speedy recovery are now expressed by those ■ in care of her. I —.—— Glen, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Em- ■ erson Beavers of Adams street, Is quite sick with lagrippe, requiring close atI tention for his recovery. .

AWARDCONTRACT I Larrowe Company of Detroit Sub-let Buildings to W. J. Spear of Toledo. TO BEGIN AT ONCE Will Not Stop for Winter— - Big Force Will be Put to W ork on the Site. I The following telegram received at I this afternoon tells its own story and 1 will be good news for all our people: 'Detroit, Mich., Jan. 3. ."J. H. Heller, Decatur, Ind.: “W. J. Spear of Toledo, seceured the contract for the buildings, HollandSt. Louis Sugar Company's plant, in Decatur. He will begin work there at once. “LARROWE CONSTRUCTION CO.’' Mr. Spear will likely arrive in this ' city within a day or two and arrange ' for a big force of men to go to work *on the site just north of the city. The work will be pushed along right through the winter and should make us start off the spring with the proper speed. Mr. Hubbard of the sugar beet company will be here Friday to speak at the farmers’ institute. He will give you some valuable information if you propose to raise beets and every farmer should attend these sessions. BUILDING RUSH The Rush in the Erection of Blouses Will be Spectacular This Summer. MANY PROJECTED — Sam E. Hite Will Build Residence—Many More Are Contemplated. I Building operations the coming summer will be rushing indeed. Many of I the local contractors are even now fig-' uring on work and the advent of the [ first nice days of spring will see a | host of carpenters and allied trades in [ the field so getting a good start on I the work. S. E. Hite, the popular south end j grocer, has plans under way for the [ erection of a new and modern residence which will '■"ont on Erie street, i He wil build it on the rehr part of the | lot now occupied by the grocery build- j ing and intends making it about seven [or eight rooms, including all the mod-, ern conveniences. The residence will 1 ! be promptly taken by some one, for ■ the demand the coming summer will ’ be heavy. With two hundred skilled | I workmen here for the erection of the ! sugar plant a proportion of them it ■ least will move here and with present | facilities we can house about a half I a dozen, as that is the number of ' houses empty that are fit for habitation. With the building of more residences and business blocks that are i projected the city cannot help but i take on a metropolitan air and its consequent busy endeavor during the coming season. . o _ LAID TO REST. ' Joint Funeral of Two Ladies Killed at Palestine. The joint funeral services of Mrs. , Price Rupe and Mrs. W. H. Eiler , were held at Palestine, Kosciusko ' county, conducted by Rev». J. O. Rose 1 and B. F. Thomas. There was a large attendance. The ladies were instantly killed by the Pennsylvania Flyer, eastbound Friday evening at. Warsaw at 4:45 o’clock while crossing the tracks in a closed buggy, which was struck by the Flyer and the two bodies mangled and carried several blocks and thrown to the side of the track when the train was stopped. Both ladies were about seventy years of age and well known. They had been spending the day in the country and were on their way to their Warsaw homes when killed.

SMALL BLAZE. The fire department, was called at 9 o’clock this morning to the home of Jacob Buhler, where a Christmas tree had caught on fire. The boys respond ed gallantly and arrived at the scene lof the fire in about two minutes. Howiover the fire had been quenched by neighbors and the services of the de I partment were not needed. No damage was done, excepting the small damage done to the tree decorations. CHRISTIAN? REVIVAL At the Christian Church Progresses from Night to Night. EVANGELIST LEAVES And Services of Song and Music Will Probably Follow This Week. The Christian church was again filled to its capacity Tuesday night to hear the Fife company. In the owning service the Fife brothers’ orchestra furnished some special music and Mr. Earl Fife sang a solo entitled “When I Get to tne mu ui My Way,' and the Fife quartet, consisting of the father and three grown sons, all preachers, sang “The Sweet Bye and 1 Bye^ 1 to the great pleasure of the peo- [ pie who were present. This noted j quartet which has been heard in national gatherings of the Christian > church for some years yast, and has i made a national reputation, will sing j | together perhaps for the last time for ; many months tonight, as the father, the Rev. Roger H. Fife, leaves tomorrow night after the concert and lecture to begin his new pastorate with the First Christian church of Bartlesville, j Oklahoma, where he goes to make a I home for his widowed daughter, Mrs. I j A. K. Brooks, and her two little boys,! j Bill Bob and Artie. The Fife brotheis i will miss and Artie, especially ais they have been lots of company for their bachelor uncles in the long days ,of evangelism. Mrs. Brooks is an expert trap drummer and a superior bell player, and will be greatly missed in i the Fife brothers’ orchestra. But she has become so tired of having to be , constanly away from home that it is ! thought best for her to take this step. ' . However, the work of the revival goes | right on, as the father and Mrs. Brooks [ [ would not have been here at all but I I for waiting for time for their pastoral | engagement to begin at Bartlesville. I The churci - here has certainly been deI lighted with the strong preaching 1 dune by Evangelist Fife and especially with the teaching element in it. They I have also been delighted with Mi s. i Brooks’ singing and orchestra work ion the drums. Tonight and tomorrow i night W'ill end their work in the meeting. Evangelist Clyde Lee File asked ■ his father to preach once more for him lin the meeting and his sermon toi night will be "Does it Pay to be a ! Christian?" The quartet will sing "It i Pays to Serve Jesus." The duet by Mrs. Brooks and Mr. Clyde Lee File, ! which was omitted Tuesday night, will 'be given tonight. Special preparations are being made to seat every possibl, space in the buildmg_>o that all ma.', be accommodated who want to heat this noted company. - - — ANOTHER PROBLEM. Today Added to Taft’s Puzzle by Secon Term Boomers. (Unite* Press Service.) Washington, I). C., Jan. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) President Taft's second term boomers today found another maze added to the puzzle of presidential politics. The situation revolved today about a report that former President Roosevelt’s silence was annumed, while the colonel waited to see if popular demand was not strong enough for his acceptance of a call to be the republican presidential candidate. Friends of the president said nothing would force him to withdraw from the presidential race. <>_ K. O. K. A. POSTPONED. I i The Knights of King Arthur will not I meet this evening as announced. The ; meeting has been postponed until Thursday evening, at which time the i members will meet at the Presbyterian church.

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LAW NOW HOLDS New Indiana Weights and Measure Law Became Effective Monday Last. PROTECTS PEOPLE I The ?ollowing is a Synopsis of the New Law Being ' Carried Out. The new Indiana law pertaining to , weights and measures went into effect on Monday of this week, with the . : beginning of the new year, and which ! will secure a more honest dealing for the people in general. Not in the : least reflecting upon any of the local j business men, that they nave not been dealing justly in this line, but only to j let the common people know of the piotecion which is now in their favor, Iwe print, the following: I Indiana’s new weights and measure I I law became effective Monday and in > | stead of trick jugglers hornswaggling .' the people who have dealings with them, the honest and faithful weighmaster comes into his own. A complete working arrangement 1 in regard to the campaign that is to be waged in Indiana against the ‘ tricky grafters who deal out short 1 weights and stiil shorter measures has been arranged. Under the new law the board of county commissioners may appoint an inspector of weights and measures, who shall have super- ’ vision over the entire county. The sweeping character of the new llaw may be judged from the fact that ; under it inspectors will have the powers of special policemen and when they see a vendor giving false weight or have information that he has done so, they may arrest him on the spot } and sieze his goods. Heretofore it has | been necessary to swear out a warrant ■ and go through a lot of red tape and ■ convictions have been almost impossible in many instances where tlurpublic has been flagrantly outraged. The bureau of standards asserts that the Indiana public has been imposed upon unmercifully through incorrect measures and false weights—--1 more so, in fact, than almost any other state in the union. Inspectors have reported many glaring impositions. Out of twelve computing scales tested in Indianapolis seven were found to be correct and five out or order. A characteristic scheme to "skin" 1 the Indiana public has been the sale of beans and other garden products ; in liquid measures, instead of in dry I measures. A liquid quart of beans, for instance, is fifteen per cent shorter than a dry quart and the honest ’ way of selling beans is by the dry i quart measure. Another '.. ninon way of imposing ; upon the Indiana public has been in } the sale of butter in water-soaked trays. The tray and contents are put jon the scales to be weighed and whenever the purchaser buys a pound I of butter’ he pays at the rate of thir- ! ty-five cents a pound, of whatever | may be the market price of butter, ■ for the weight of the wooden tray, . which, being soaked in water, is esI pecially heavy. Short baskets are common. A basket supposed to contain a bushel or ' half bushel will have raised bottoms so that the actual capacity of the measure is much below that reprei sented. The vendors of spool cotton are ' among those who are to be reached in this Indiana crusade. There is no | uniformity as to the thickness of > spools and a spool which looks of 1 regulation size and which is supposed 1 to contain a certain number of yards of thread is found tn be composed almost entirely of wood, with a little thread wrapped around It. This is declared to be a rank imposition on ’ seamstresses who are obliged to work 5 for a living. The other methods of de ’ frauding the public in Indiana are de- ’ dared to be about as numerous as hu- ' man ingenuity could devise. I C, ' SELLS ANOTHER. Ed Carrier, who recently moved to this county from Van Wert county, purchasing the Clem farm in Union town--1 ship, has bought another percheron, ‘ three-year-old from the Frisinger & I Sprunger company of this city. The • horse is a grey and is one of the finest • specimens brought over by that enterprising firm.