Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 4.

MR. SPEAR IS HERE 'Contractor Arranging to Begin Real Work the First of Next Week. I WANTS MANY MEN I They .Should .Register .at This Office—Work to be | Pushed Right Along. i William J. Spear of Toledo, who secured the contract for building the beet sugar plant here, arrived this morning to look over the site and arrange preliminaries, looking toward the commencement of work immediately. Mr. Spear is one of the best K known contractors of the country and has built a number of large buildings B He constructed the Findlay plant last |K season, beginning in May, and the sacI ■ tory cut beets October Bth. The work here will be pushed as rapidly as possible, beginning the first of the week. |Mr. Spear stated this morning that wtwo car loads of tools were being load- ■ ed today in Toledo and will be shipS . ped here at once. He will return Monday and about fifty men will be put to a work at that time, excavating, building shacks for the tools, and otherwise preparing for the real work. As Xsoon as ready Mr. Spear will bring here about fifty experienced men, ~ some of whom have been with him for tbout twenty-five years. Within a month a large force will be busy on the plant and Mr. Spear says they will | be able to complete the work easily within the allotted time. He asks us to state that any able- | bodied men, who want work, should B file their name with- J. H. Heller, at K the office of the Pally Democrat, and he will take the matter up with them Q on his return the first of next week. As to wages, he pays what a man can (P earn. Mr. Spear met a number of the * business men here today and will himself spend a large part of the time •during the next few months in this feity. The new buildings are all to ’be built of structural steel, with brick walls and concrete floors, as near fire proof as is possible to make them. As soon as the boiler house is completed the Larrowe Construction company will begin the installation of majfchinery, this also requiring a large force of experienced men, and as fast 3 as the other build’ngs are completed the machinery will bo installed. MANY POULTRY FANCIERS —— Will Send Exhibits to Show at Port-j land Next Week. ■ Next week, January 9-13, will occur | the annual show of the Eastern IndiI ana Poultry association at Portland, t Indiana. The show this year promises to be ' the biggest ever given in eastern InI diana. Eneries are coming in every, I day from many different points and I will continue to come until next Mon- | day. Several prominent poultry fan- ( i cters from this community are making entries and will, no doubt, be hot con testants for some of the kilver cups ijMj and coveted prizes. The association I has rented 250 coops for the occasion I to be rented in turn by exhibitors not owning coops and the show will be well cooped, as there will be coops for ■ all. There are six silver loving cups S offered for the best displays in the *different varieties and the largest lot ■•of special prizes by merchants and ' poultry supply manufacturers. The poultry fanciers in and about Portland, who are pushing the show for | their town this year have spared no pains to make the show a big success ! and it is certain now their efforts will be crowned with success. It is not tco I late yet to enter fowls for the show ?, and local fanciers should lose no time I in sending their entries in to the sec j I retary of the association. ENTERS ARTILLER'’ SERVICE. The name of Earl E. Marschand of I this city Is listed among the enlist-, | ments made at the recruiting office at; Fort Wayne, nis entrance being in the; artillery coast "ervice. ■

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PLAY BRYANT TONIGHT. The basket ball game scheduled for this evening between the Decatur high school team and the Bryant high school will be a fast one from start to finish, and a large crowd is being looked for. Bryant has a fast team and from the games they have been putting up this season the game for | this reason warrants the assertion that it will be a hotly contested one. Another game will be played previous to the regular game and if you want to get the worth of your money don’t fail to attend this evening as you will be permitted to see two games for the price of one. MORE THAN PAID [Adams County Will Get I More of the State School i Tax Fund THAN SHE PAID IN The Per Capita Apportionment is $l.B7 —Adams Gets $13,065.69. ■ I —- ; i County Auditor H. S. Michaud, together with other auditors of the county, received notice of the apportionment of state school funds, Adams 1 county’s share being $13,065.69, or $488.42 more than she paid to this fund. An Indianapolis dispatch says: Many of the richest counties of the state again will take from the state ' treasury for school purposes during the coming weeks more money than she placed therein for the same fund,[ according to figures compiled in the office of State Superintendent Greathouse. Among the counties which will draw heavily on other parts of the state for money to handle their quota of school (children are Adams,Allen, Clark, Clay, Floyd, Greene, Madison, St. Joseph, Vanderbjrg and Vigo. These counties from which the additional burden comes are Benton, Boone, Cass, Clinton, Decatur, Fountain, Hendricks, Johnson, Knox, Kosciusko, Marion, Wabash and Wayne. The total amounts of money to be appropriated for the semiannual division is |1,417,805.95. The amount of state school tax collected from the counties for that period was $1,207,158.59. From that amount was de-1 ducted $62,772.24, to comply with the I statute which calls for the setting aside of 5.2 per cent for the deficiency fund. The total /amount left on hand to be distributed to the counties was $1,418,802.77. Thus a balance of $99G,82 will be left in the state treasury. The per capita apportionment | amounted to $1.87, calculated on ai basis of an enumeration of school I children comprising 758,185 The total amounts collected from the various counties for the school fund and the total apportionment to each county follow: Total Amount County Collected. Apportioned (Adams $12,577.17 $13,065.69 Allen 48,779.68 49,209.0-5 I DeKalb ........ 13,011,31 12,661.77. ' Huntington .... 17,028.64 15,219.93 Kosciusko 18,339.18 14,088,58 ! Lagrange 9,836.30 7,880.18 Noble’.. ... 14,048.52 11,829.62 St. Joseph 32,633.84 45,261.48 1 Steuben 7,914.67 6,457.11 Vanderburg ... 38,633,84 44,506.00 Vigo 38,589.60 44,887.48 Wells 15,362.72 11,608.96 Whitley 10,497.47 8,820.79 f'JYS FEED YARD. William Hitchcock, who is making preparations for the holding of a public sale of his property, has by a deal just closed taken over the Breiner feed barn, near the Monroe street bridge and will from now on be in ’ | charge of same. Mr. Breiner, the retiring proprietor, wishes to thank his many friends for the courtesies shown him and the new proprietor asks a ( continuance of the patronage and as sures the public that he will render hte same good dealings heretofore ren- , dered. . a L REVIVAL BEGINS MONDAY. Rev. E. A. Goodwin, pastor of the [United Brethren church, will on next iMonday evening begin his series of ; revival services. Rev. Goodwin had . planned to begin two weeks ago, but . I was delayed on account of the new , furnace, which is being installed.

[OPENING SISSION Farmers of North Half of the County Open Two Days’ Meet in Meibers’ Hall. MR. KUNKEL PRESIDES In Absence of President— Speakers Famed Over the State on Program. On -1-r- Maw, X The two days’ session of the faimI ers' institute of the farmers of the north half of the county opened this morning at 9:30 o’clock in Meibers’; hall, most auspiciously. In the ab-1 sence of President C. S. Mumma, C. I D. Kunkel of Monmouth presided, E. I W. Daily serving as secretary. Miss ' lima Houk opened the session with 1 a piano solo, and was followed by the devotional by Rev. Goodwin of the United Brethren church. Mr. J. W. I Prigg of Daleville, Indiana, a noted institute worker, gave instructive ad-, diess on "Bai n>aid and Green Mannures,” which was discussed profitably by various members of the institute. “Insects Injurious to Farm Crops and Their Remedies,’’ was the subject of i Professor James Troop of Purdue University, Lafayette, and the excellent points given in his talk, were also discussed freely in the discussion that followed. The atention to miscellaneous business matters was given just before adjournment, and taken up again upon the opening of the institute at 1 o’clock. Music by Dr. and I Mrs. J. Q. Neptune, a vocal solo by , Miss Marie Patterson, vocal solo by j John C. Houk, were enjoyable features of the afternoon’s program. In addition to the talk on “Corn Improvement,” by J. P. Prigg. and “Orchard Fruits and How to Make Them,” by Professor Troop, the state workers, Mr. A. w. Gulick, of this county, gave a highly pleasing address on “Alfalfa in Adams County,” giving some good points on what is comparatively a new product here. The attendance at the morning session was not so large as was expected, the stormy weather having much to do in keeping away those who live at a distance. The attendance was larger this afternoon, and it is expected that many more' will be out this evening and tomorI row. Those who did venture forth through the storm were well repaid l and are eagerly anticipating the coming sessions. A slight change in this evening’s program was made, a tele- j CONTINUER ON PAGE FOUR [ SHEEP’S CLOTHING I / ; Worn by Guest Who Robbed Graber & Schwartz’ Meat Market at Monroe. i ON MONDAY NIGHT Got Sixty Dollars—Claimed Was Cousin of Schwartz and Got Room. i — Claiming he was a cousin of Mi. Schwartz, one of the absent proprietors of the Graber & Schwartz meat market at Monroe, Monday evening, a stranger routed Mr. Dibble, one of the butcher clerks out of his bed in Ills room over the meat market and asked for a bed io stay all night. Mr. Dibble, 1 thinking to accommodate the stranger and relative, gave him a good warm bed in the rooming house over the butcher shop. During the night the stranger got up, chloroformed Mr. ; Dibble and proceeded to ransack the place, getting away with about sixty ] dollars. Os this amount a part was the personal property of Mr. Dibble, who had placed it under his pillow for safe-keeping, and the rest belonged to the store. Mr. Dibble after being chloroformed, of course, took a good, long sleep, and It was not until 10 o'clock the next morning that he w as discovered still asleep in his room by Mr. Schwartz, who returned td town from his farm near Monroe. It was then discovered that the stranger was a wolf in sheep's clothing and had made the plea of relationship only to get in his ill work.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, January 4, 1912.

RUSHING BUSINESS. ! The Krick-Tyndall Tile company is . forced to take on extra men to handle : the rush of orders that flood the sac- ' tory about this time of the year. Every winter season the factory works ! every available minute to produce the necessary quantity to fill the orders which call ier immediate and spring delivery. A iorce of over fifty men are-now at work and they are all work-' ing each day. This factory is now one of the largest of its kind and is yearly turning out many miles of the largest ' sizes of tile. They are much in demand for large drains and many are used in railroad work. FIFE’S LECTURE — Will be Given Tonight at the Christian Church—Hundred Views Shown. I I FOLLOWING CONCERT Evangelist Clyde Lee Fife to Preach. Tomorrpw i Night—All Welcome. Two more people responded to the invitation of the gospel in the Fife revival Wednesday mgnt and will soon be baptized with others who have come forward to profess faith in Christ. The sermon by Evangelist Roger H. Fife on "Coes It Pay to be a Christian?” greatly pleased the people and was a strong argument in favor of the Christian life as against a life of unrighteousness. The house was crowded and the interest was perhaps the best so far in the revival. At 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, a number of the converts made so far in the meeting were baptized at the church, as was also another a’ the close of the service last night. Preceding the sermon, the Fife male quar-, tet sang, “It Pays to Serve Jesus,” and the Fife brothers with their sister, Miss Nellie, sang, “What More Can He Do?” with a part of the chorus, “Jesus Paid it All,” swung in on the last chorus. [ The lecture tonight will be illustrated by one hundred choice views on “The Miracles and Parables of Jesus.” Preceding this, the Fife company will give a first class concert with their orchestra, quartet, the Fife brothers’ J trio, that made such a hit last week. ! and their reader, Mr. Robert S. Fife. 1 : It is expected that this will be one of tie most entertaining programs of its kind ever heard here as the Fifes have a wide reputation as enI lerlainers. All grown people arc ask 1 I ed to bring twenty-five cents each and the children fifteen cents each. An 1 I opportunity will also be given for the people to show their appreciation of I the extra services of Evangelist Rog-; I er H. Fife and Mrs. Brooks, his daugh-1 ; ter, who have been in the work of the ‘ ’ revival up to this lime ami have prov,ed a great, factor in its success. The : proceeds of the evening will go to ' them for their splendid work in the meeting. They will leave about 10:30, i tonight for Bartlesville, Oklahoma, ■ ; where Mr. Fife takes charge of the : First. Christian church, one of the larg est in the state. ■ on and will be pushed to the close. Evangelist Clyde Lee Fife, the head of the Fife Brothers' Evangelistic , company, and oldest son of Evangelist Roger H. Fife, will preach the sermon tomorrow night and deliver a special address to men on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. The members of the church have expressed great pleasure at the success of the revival and . the work of the evangelists and it is expected that much more good will be accomplished before the close. — o ■— FIREMEN’S MEETING. The firemen held the regular monthly meeting Wednesday night at the ' city building and in the course of business the officers for the coming year were elected. The chief remains as now', the office being filled for four years, Lew Hammond being the pros ent incumbent. For assistant chief, ' Frank Aurand was elected, succeeding James A. Smith. The secretary re--1 mains unchanged, Wai Wemhoff being continued in the office. For treasurer, ' Peter Gaffer was elected. This coni eluded all the business of the month ’ and the next meeting will be held the beginning of the next month.

NEW FIRE TRUCK Has Arrived and Was Unloaded This Morning at Motor Car Works. — I A PRETTY MACHINE I It Was Run Up Town This i Afternoon Creating Considcrable Comment. | The d'-W fire truck designed for the ; use of the city or Decatur, arrived this morning over the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad and was taken to the • Motor Car factory, where it was unloaded. The new truck has a showy ; appearance, being painted a bright red and the gear? in brown, beautifully 1 striped in go u and colors. It possesses many striking and unique features, among the most valuable being the dual tire equipment, being a device that will allow of the change of 1 tires being made in so small a time 1 as thirteen seconds, this including the 1 blowing up of the tires, a feat which ' may be accomplished along the road 1 anywhere by using air from the storage tanks that operate the chemical. It carries all the usual fighting apparatus, all being in a handy place. It sets very low on the ground, allowing the firemen to get at any of the equipment from the ground. Two % extension ladders complete the equipment. The engine develops thirty-five horsepower and will easily carry the load which will be placed upon the truck. It has an electric headlight; also Presto-lights. Two hand chemicals are on the rear step, and the running boards are equipped with crowbars, axes and other tools. It will carry probably two thousand feet of hose and from seven to nine men. The truck was run up-town this afternoon and created considerable comment by its show appearance. o SCHOOL BONDS DELIVERED. The school board held a short session this morning when word was received of the acceptance of the bonds by E. W. Campbell & Sons of Indianapolis, who were the successful bid ders for the same recently. These are the bonds amounting to $11,500 for the payment of the debt on the South Ward school house, which the school board agreed to pay for the civil city The bonds were delivered today to the purchasers. ELECT CHAIRMAN Bernard Korbly of Indianapolis is Head of New Democratic Committee. STATE CONVENTION To be Held on Last Day of March—Committee Endorses Marshall. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 4 —(Special to Dally Democrat) Bernard Korbly. member of the state democratic committee from the Seventh Indiana congressional district, was unanimously selected as state chairman by the new democratic state committee here today. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 4 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —W. E. Longley of , Noblesville, member of the state committee from the Ninth district, was j unanimously elected vice chairman. The committee named Thursday, March 31st, as the date for the holding of the democratic state convention. Following the passage of resolutions endorsing the candidacy of Governor Marshall for the democratic presidential nominee, the rnemb rs of the state committee went to the state . house, where they presented the gov- : ernor with a copy of the resolutions. The secretary of the state committee ; will be appointed by the newly elected , state chairman. — —- '■■■ ■ 1 •» r The divorce case of James C. Har- ■ mon against Alice Harmon has been dismissed.

AT THE STAR TONIGHT. Tonight that wonderful film, “Twenty Years in Sing Sing,” will be on display at the Star theater, and from the praise which is heard relative to the same, the film is one of I the best in the moving picture line j today. Some of the people, still liv- | ing, who have been in prison life for 1 years, will be represented on this film I and all will appear as it really happen.ed at one time or another. If you are I looking for something different in the motion picture line, don't fail to asI tend this one of this evening, for you 1 will sure get your money’s worth. JANUARY STORMS Are Predicted by Professor Hicks, Will be Many During Present Month MANY COLD WAVES Will Also Traverse Continent, With Blizzards and Otherwise. Prophet Hicks says January will be a real winter month, with blizzards, snows and cold waves. He says: “A reactionary storm period will make itself felt during the first days , of the month. A regular storm period central on the 7th, covers the sth to the 9th. This period promises to take up the disturbances immediately preceding it, causing a prolonged spell of stormy, disagreeable weather. The period will culminate on and touching the 9th, in possible thunder and rain, with sudden change to freezing, blizzard and high north gales. From the 17th to the 21st rain will turn to destructive sieet, blizzards will rush down from the northwest, and a furl-i ous cold wave will wind up the storm turmoil. The same general character of storms and weather prevailing at this time will be characteristic of storms and weather through February and into March. A reactionary storm period falls ’ centrally on the 24th, 25th and 26th. High temperature, drop in barometre pressure and electrical disturbances will mark the passing of the moon into the celestial equator on the 24th. Thunder and lightning even in winter, as a rule result at the transits of the moon over the equator. Pnj n and [ snow will return on and touci ug the I 24th and 25th, followed by high barometer and reaction to very cold. A regular stopn period is central on the 30th, reaching from'the 28th of January to the 2d of February. January will go out with falling barom-, eter, rising temperature, growing cloudiness and rain storms in the western sections, moving eastward. | These storms will be over the central ' Mississippi valley about the «1 st with 1 rising barometer and much colder ad- | vancin - from the northwest. Eastern extremes will have storms and change to colder, one to three days later. —o s DICKENS IS DEAD. Many of the Adams county teachers who only last week had the pleasure of hearing the famous Alfred Tennyson Dickens, in an address before th. State Tteachers' association, will be : surprised to learn of his death at Nev j York City on Tuesday of this week. ■ 1 from acute indigestion. Mr. Dickens • was a popular lecturer, being the son j of the famous novelist. Charles Dickens, and had been lecturing in this I ; country since the twenty ninth of Sep f I tember, since his return from Austra - ' lia, where he spent the greater por- > tlon of his life. His address in Indiana was the last one delivered, and he , was on his way to attend a. theater at ■ New York on the evening of his death. MORE THAN ENOUGH. f 3 Subscriptions to the endowment f fund of Depauw university exceed the 11 1 $400,009 stipulated by John D. Rocke- - feller in his offer of SIOO,OOO, it was i. announced. Most of the money was e raised among the 700 Methodist 1 churches of Indiana, but the largest individual contributor was Jay H. Neff, former mayor of Kansas City, ■- born in Indiana. His gift was more 1 than SIO,OOO, but the exact amount is not made known.

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FINE SHOW IS ON Visitors at Poultry and Pet Stock and Corn Exhibit at Berne ARE WELL PLEASED Prizes Awarded on Corn— Judge Still at Work on the Poultry. The chattering gossip of chickens, punctuated now and then with a triumphant cut-cut-cut-ca da-cut," the cackle of geese, the quack of ducks, the billing am cooing of pigeons, the yelp of the puppies, the gobble of the turkeys—all of them kings aud queens of the highest degree—make the sound and scene at the eighth annual exhibition of the Adams county poultry association at Berne, from Tuesday to Saturday of this week, an in- , teresting one for breeders and lovers of fine poultry and pet stock. A Democrat reporter was among the large number in attendance at Wednesday and the exhibit was one of the best ever given by the association. There are 416 heads of poultry of all kinds, pure blooded stock, and as mag- , nificent speciments as ever walked about a yard. The pet stock department includes fine blooded puppies, among animals and adds an interesting variety to the poultry exhibit. Henry W. Atkins of Huntington, the judge, was busily engaged Wednesday in scoring the exhibits and will finish this afternoon, when the premiums will be awarded. Through the courtesy of Secretary Samuel Simison, the awards will be published in the Democrat as soon as made. Alfred Deßrot, superintendent, assisted by A. C. Augsburger, assistant, was in charge of this part of the exhibit. The Corn Show. Probably the reason why Adams county excels in her poultry products, 'is because of the fine corn that is grown for their use. In connection with the poultry show is a corn exhibit, in charge of the superintendent, J. F. Teeters, a large number of fine products, every one of them a gem in the crown that makes Indiana queen of the corn states. Fred Kell,' of Huntertown, was judge in this department, and made the following awards: White Corn. First —T. H. Baltzell, Decatur. Second —Orton F. Wheeler, Geneva. Third —J. F. Teeter, Berne. Fourth —J. F. Teeter. Yellow Corn. First and Second—-T. H. Baltzell. Third —-William Nussbaum, Berne. Fourth —Burkhardt Lehman, Berne. Speckled Corn. First —Burkhardt Lehman, Berne. , Single Ears. All prizes taken by T. H. Baltzell. • THE CANDY GIRL. That Big Musical Show at the Opera House. Saturday, January 6th. That great musical comedy success, “The Candy Girl," will again appear at the Bosse opera house, Saturday, January Gth. This company needs no recommendation to the citizens of Decatur, as this will be their third ap- ■ pearance in this city. This year they have that wonderful soprano, Miss i Leona Morble, with them, one of the finest soprano singers in the country; Miss Rose Miller, America's greatest . prima donna, and is known as England’s favorite singer. Sinde coming to America fho has been with the big New York productions, and thin is 11 her first tour through the smaller cities. Mr. Garfield guarantees his attraction, backed by Manager Bosse of the opera house. If you are not satisfied, your money back. Seat sale now > on at the drug store. t o TO RESIDE HERE. At the Reformed parsonage on Wabash street took place the marriage this forenoon at 10 o’clock of Miss ■ Marilla Elizabeth Eddington, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Enesta J. Edding- > ton, of East Wabash street, and Mr. 1 Victor Grosjean, of Berne Ind., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Grosjean, of Switzerland The ceremony was a quiet one, but was impressive in its . sweet simplicity. The groom is a car- ■ penter by trade, and he stated that he ; and his bride will establish a home in I Decatur. —Bluffton Banner.