Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 11.

COUNTY ASSESSORS Have Closed a Session at Indianapolis—Mr. Gentis Was in Attendance. AT THE CAPITAL Mr. Ellingham Tells Us About the Happenings at i State Capital. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan 11 —The c ounty assessors for the state of Indiana were in session for two or three days this week and succeeded in disposing of some of the weighty questions in regard to the fair and equita i>le assessment of the real and personal property of the state. There is more room for discussion upon this important subject than there is upon any other that is now agitating the | public !>• nd. The time thus spent i Jt y the county assessors of the state. I wo hope, will prove profitable to them in their work for the coming year. Among those here for the meeting was George Gentis, lhe county assessor of Adams county, and the attend ance is known to have been the best of any meeting of this kind. Colonel Matson, D. M. Link and Fred A. Sims, the appointive members of the state tax board, had charge of the meeting, and gave some excellent addresses upon the subject of taxation. Following this meeting, county meetings will be held, and on the first day of March the township assessor will begin the assessing of property for 1912. George Wemhoff was on the program at the state meeting of monumental dealers which was held in this city this week. We heard some very flattering comments upon the address ’ of Mr. Wemhoff, who spoke about the expense of a monument from quarry to erection. It is a subject about w-hich he is most thoroughly conversant, and it is said that he made a favorable impression on the audience and gave them some excellent points in the conduct of their business. _____ The two big cards at the mid-win-ter meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial association will be Governor Marshall and Hon. C. A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction. They will be the speakers at the banquet which takes place at the Denison hotel on the evening o! February Ist. Arrangements are being made lor one of the best meetings of the association, and it is expected that one hundred editors and their wives will be here at the banquet, and that most of them will remain fur “shop” discussions which take place on the day following. I After a week's visit at the homes of J Fred France and 11. L. Confer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. France returned to Decatur, where they will prolong their visit before departing for their home a! Muskogee, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Sellemeyer of Decatur were in the city this week, M' Sellemeyer being an attendant of the lumbermen’s convention, and who b> the way, paint the old town red and have about the best times of any of the many conventions that greet each other once every year in this city. L. G. E. OLD SITTING BULL IS COMING. J. B. Stoneburner has arranged for p feature film at the Star theater next Monday night, when he will show Sitting Bull, the famous Indian of the northwest bad lands. There are three films, Ilium feet, wonderfully realistic. Among the characters who take a real 1 art in these pictures are the son and daughter of the old chief. The prices are ten cents for adults and five cents for children. Be sure to see this one. HOME FROM THE NORTHWEST. Fred H. Bloemker, Jacob Bloemker and Albert Jaberg arrived here last evening on their way home to Magley after a nine days’ trip to Wisconsin. They visited Milwaukee, Sheboy•gan, Franklin and Appleton, and during the most of the time the thermometer registered thirty degrees below zero. 1 hey say, "It's Indiana for us.”

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RECEIVES INSURANCE CHECK. Two Thousand Dollar Policy Paid to Mrs. Kleinhenz. John Starost, treasurer of the local council of the Catholic Benevolent Legion, this morning received from John A. Dunn, treasurer of the supreme council, a check for $2,000. being made payable to Mary Kleinhenz, ; widow of the late John W. Kleinhenz, in full payment of the insurance polj icy carried by Mr. Kleinhenz. Mr. ; Kleinhenz was one of the oldest members of the local order, having been | a member 'since 1887. TIE FACTORY DOPE Superintendent Wm. Kremers of Holland Was in Decatur Today. i* WORK IS DELAYED Because of the Cold Weather—Local Committee to Let Well Contract. Mr. William Kremers, superintend-' ent ot the sugar factorj at Holland i Mich., and who will probably assume ; that position in the new factory here,j arrived this morning to look after some matters of importance, repre senting that company. He is well sat-j isfied with the way things are moving; and expressed himself as being well i I leased with our city, He left this atternoou lor iiis home. The continued cold weather is making work at the sugar site almost im- ; possible. However, quite a number ol ; the men braved the chilly blasts and ■ reported for duty this morning. Warm'er weather is promised by the first of the week, when it is expected to • put a large force on. Mr. Gilman, the superintendent of construction, assisted by Jacob Buhler, has completed staking oiit the first big building, and the work on that will start immediately. W. J. Spears, the contractor, has gone to Portland and Pennville, where 1 he will contract for a large amount of gravel to be used in the work here. The purchase of material for these •buildings is one of the big parts of | the job. The local committee will let the contract fr>r the drilling of two or more we'.is, on the site, the evening of January 22nd, at this office. Wells furnishing 400,000 gallons of water, each twenty-four hours must be pro ' vided by the Decatur citizens. They j will be eight-inch wells and will be' drilled from 300 to 100 feet deep. ’ I ' Lem Thomas of Monroe is assist I ing Mr. Wagner in locating the farmers as to section and township It’s a big job, but the boys are equal to it and know just what they are doing George Steele has taken a contract ' to drill an ordinary well for Contrac- ' tor Spears, on the factory site, in order that he may have plenty of water convenient to their work. He began work today. THE UNION MEETS. The laborers' union has act another day for holding the meeting which will culminate in their being admitted i to the American Federation of Labor. I Several dates have been set in the ■ past, but on some pretext or other the, ■ organizer from Fort Wayne failed to . appear. However, he has promised to ; ■ be present next Sunday afternoon at ■ 3:30, and with him promises to bring • the charter. About fifty will be mem- . bers of lhe union under the Federa--1 tion rule, while over a hundred sigl nified their intentions of becoming s members under the clnsr- union that 1 was first coulumplatcd. The meeting i > Sunday will be held in the harnessl makers' hall and all these interested will be expected to be there. SALEM AND CALVARY. ■ '■ t The Rev. E. D. Jones announces - preaching at the Salem Evangelical - church Sunday morning. The revival - service still continues at Calvary all • this week and the coming week. The - 1 attendance is fair and good services r are held. The public is cordially in- ” vited to attend.

OLD MUNCHAUSEN i Never Told Such Strange Tales as This—lcicles Formed on MR. HARMON’S NOSE ; While He Pleaded With Wife for Reconciliation f —Strange Case. Mrs. Alice Harmon, who in the past month has been twice sued for divorce byt James Harmon, upon his vain attempt for reconciliation, called at this Office this morning and gave a few notes on his attempt to make up. She says Harmon us residing at Bobo, and she in this city on First street. Sli stated that Thursday he called at her home, as on var.ous other occasions, and begged her to return to him. She i stated that he shed so many tea's tnat icicles, half as large as her fingers formed ani uung from hi» nose as he stood and pleaded, and that water from his eyes fell and dropped to the walk in front of her door ami ! froze there until it became necessary ' ! to use a pick in loosening it enough jto open and close the door Mrs. Hari mon stated that she did not want to j live with him, and get her nose bitten off, as he is in the custom of doI ing, and this was not said figurative- | ly speaking either, as the old proverb ; of “biting off one’s nose to spite one s ; own face” might suggest. She brought to mind the fact that Harmon had ! once, about three years ago, bitten off i the nose of her son-in-law, Asa Blount, Portland, in a fight here while Blount was here on a visit. She seems to : fear some such repetition in her case. I She stated that all attempts at reconciliation were in vain, and that it was quite likely that the divorce case would go through, this time. IS INSTALLED The Laundry is Now Fully Installed in the New Building. MODERN MACHINERY Equips the Business for Turning Out Perfect Work and Lots of it. I I | The establishment of the laundry in I new quarters has just been completed and now’ Decatur can boast of having one of the most up to date places of the kind in the state. In a building built especially for the business, arranged to give the most economical distribution and to effect the mini- ■ mum of work to be done the new I laundry now in operation nothing more to be desired. The washer and Kindred equipment are in a room by themselves, where the steam ma) not prove obnoxious to the other workers in the different departments, the ironing room is separate and still another separation is j had between the receiving room and I the office. Heretofore the customers ■ patronizing the laundry had to en- . due hot gases and steam consequent ;to having tho laundry in one room I and no particular happy results occerred. Seeing the cause Manager Will Winnes arranged to have the new buliding built to order. Nov. that he is fully installed in the place he has possession of a perfectly up-to-date place, Weil able to handle twice the work that he formerly could . handle. The improvement is appreciated by 1 those who have labor there and the public, which has to call at the laun,dry. With the additions made in the way of new machinery the laundry lias considerably Increased the capacity and now efforts will be made to build up a mammoth business. This should be easy as the place is enabled to turn out perfect work. D. B. Erwin was a business caller at Berne this afternoon.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, January 12, 1912.

ENGLISH AS SHE’S SPOKE. .Barney Breaks Out in Print AfterPipes Break. ‘‘English as she’s spoke and writ,” in some of the smaller “country” papers is the occasion of much pleasantry to the city editor, and the Chicago Tribune has a column under the head of ' A Line-o-t > pe or Two,” devoted especially to this. The latest “hit” struck pretty near home, when they reproduced the following yesterday: Bluffton (Ind.) News: “Barney Kalver, the junk buyer, suffered from the cold along with the rest, and some of his water lines were frozen and one pipe was bursted.” REMODEL CHURCH! Bleeke Lutheran Congregation Plans $3,500 Remodeling of Church IN UNION TOWNSHIP Will Lower Steeple, Fresco Walls and Install New Pipe Organ. At a recent meeting of the congregation of the Bieeke Lutheran church in Union township, steps were taken for an extensive remoleding of the church, which will make it one of the best in this section of the country. The church edifice will be remodeled, among, the new features being the lowering of the steeple. At present it is 115 feet high, and too heavy for the support beneath, resulting in the cracking and damaging of the plas tering. The steeple will be lowered forty feet at least. The walls will be replastered and handsomely frescoed. A new furnace heating plant will be installed and a new pipe organ purchased. The total cost of the remodeling is estimated at $3,500. The congregation numbers 326 members in all, and has sixty voting male members over the age of twenty-one : years. The Rev. G. Bauer is the pas- j tor and the teacher of the parochial schools is Walter Gotsch. The con-, gregation is a most flourishing one, | and progressive, in both spiritual and j material ways. The remodeling will . not be done before spring. MR. OPLIGER ILL i County Superintendent Sufi fers from Cold Trying to Walk to Linn Grove. IS BETTER TODAY Under Care of Physician at the Horne of His Father, Samuel Opliger. i ' County Superintendent Lawrence E. Opliger is lying at the home of his father. Samuel Opliger, in a serious condition. For some days he had been feeling badly and Monday night late started to walk to Linn Grove, wht.e his family has been visiting for several days. He reached there about 4 o’clock Tuesday morning, almost frozen to death. His ears and cheeks, hands and feet, were badly frozen and his condition, of course, was as a result, very serious. Dr. McKean was Immediately called and has been taking care of him, everything possible being’ done to give him relief. His father camo here today to look after some business matters for his son. The cond’tion of Mr. Opliger, reported today, is that he is doing as well as could be expected, though it will be some days perhaps before he will be able to be out. His many friends hope his recovery will be speedy. HOOSIER TRUCK IS STILL GOING. New York. N. Y., Jan. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat) The Hoosier truck, manufactured at Decatur, Indiana, is still going on its seven-day, non-stop run, one of the marvelous features of the show on here. Up tc ■ Thursday night, it had covered 127 miles.

ASKS HIS RETURN Hartford City Methodist Congregation Commends Efforts of Pastor THE REV. PARKER And Pass Resolutions Asking Conference That He be Returned. i The Hartford City Journal tells ot the esteem in which the Rev. B. i- ■ Parker, pastor of the Methodist church at that place, son-inlaw of J. 1 D. Hale, of this city, is held, the congregation passing a resolution which .will be presented to conference, asking for his return to the charge there: “At the fourth quarterly conference of the fiscal year, at the Grace M. E. church Wednesday night, a resolution, presented by Prof. W. A. Myers, commending the work of the popular | pastor, Rev. B E. Parker, and asking the presiding bishop of the North Indiana Methodist conference to re turn Mr. Parker here for the third year, was adopted by a unanimous vote of those present. “Dr. C. E. Line of Muncie, district superintendent, was the presiding officer anck his address was given close attention. Reports made by the heads of the various departments of the church showed every department to be in a flourishing condition, even better than that of last year. ‘‘The resolution asking lor lhe re turn of Rev. Parker was a just recognition of the earnest, painstaking efforts of the eloquent young pastor, whose pastoral work in this city during the past two years has been eminently satisfactory. The North Indiana conference meets March 27, at Wabash, and there is litle doubt but that Mr. Parker will be returned to Hartford City for another year. royal Deception ; I Will be Given Decatur CounI cil When they Visit Columbia City — FIRST OF WEEK Go to See the Columbia City Lighting Plant in Operation to Get Pointers. Columbia City, Ind., Jan. 12 —Frank Schultz, superintendent of the local electric light plant, has received word from M. J. Myiott of the Decatur plant advising him of the fact that the members of the city council of that city would visit Columbia City tho i forepart of next week for the purpose l of inspecting the local arc lighting system. The system of this city is known as the closed arc light system and is one of the best plants in , the northern part of the state ’l he i city of Decatur is at the present time figuring on changing its lighting system and it is desirous of seeing the local plant In operation. Mr. Schultz ■ is making arrangements to entertain the visitors in a royal manner for the treatment afforded tho local council when it paid Decatur a visit some I time ago. — — - — ---.111 — . ! is RECOVERING. . Mrs. William Bossecker Doing Nicely s from Monday's Operation. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Reinking of ] Union township were shoppers here 3 yesterday and stated that their daughs ter, Mrs. William Bossecker, who on a last Monday was operated upon for b gall stones, at the Lutheran hospital, was doing nicely and it is believed her recovery will be a rapid one. She i. had been ailing for some weeks from the affliction, but at the start it was .1 believed that the illness would not r have to result in an operation. HowI- ever, such was the case and there was r, no other recourse but to submit to s the operation, which she underwent o with good results. Her many friends 7 here will be pleased to receive the word of her improvement.

ADAMS COUNTY WINNERS. Partial Awards on Portland Poultry I Exhibits Have Been A partial award of the prizes to exhibitors in the Portland poultry show has been made, and among lhe win ners are several Adams county men. Jesse Rupp of Berne won second on cock, first and second on pullets in the Barred Rock class; John Smelser of Berne, won first on cock, third on pullett, third and fourth on cockerels. On Wyandottes, James Wagoner won first on cock and first on hen. the Bounty jail — Is Minutely Reviewed in the Coming Yearly Report of Charity Beard. INTERESTING DATA Gives us Much Information: I ■ ! as to the Actual Condition of the Jails. The figures just made public by the ; Board of State Charities concerning j the county jails of the state give some interesting information. During the year ending September 30, 1911, there were 36,380 admissions ; to the jails on various charges. Os this total 33,349 were men, 771 were boys under sixteen years of age, 2,106; were women, and 156 were girls un-f der sixteen years of age. Another ] classification shows that 15,068 served sentence, 771 were insane, 4,709 were in for vagrancy and the balance j 15,832 were held for runaways and, witnesses. For drunkenness there were jailed in the year 13,400, of which 12,903 were men and 497 were women. On vagrancy there were 4,455 jailed, of whom 4,370 were men I and . 85 were women. The total jail expenses amounted' ]to $212,455.19, ot which $131,990.94 . was for boarding prisoners and the' I balance, $80,465.15, was for all other I items of expense. ; The report says that every jail in ; i the state has been inspected within the year by a member of the board I and the report shows improvement in ; the physical condition only. The re , I port recommends the use of jail for j detention purposes only and main- ‘ I tains that the convicted prisoner:: should be taken care of by the state. [ This would rempve to a great extent ' the odium of going to jail and place ; j the real punishment where it belongs, I ■ on the guilty. The worst jails in the state are located in Jeffersonville, Greensburg. ' Princeton and Vernon. Other counties have jails that do not conform | to the standards and in all probably j twenty-five per cent of the jails fail j i below the standard set by the board. | PATENT MEDICINE Weakening Heart, is Supposed to Have Caused Pelham’s Death. I Coroner J. C. Grandstaff was at Ge neva Thursday afternoon Between 2 i and 3 o’clock, and held an inquest I over the body of Robert Pelham, who i was found dead in his room there! Wednesday night. Coroner Gran ’ staff has not all the evidence yet, and j has therefore not reached a verdict. ( ' but it is his opinion that death wm ! due to an attack of the heart, brought ! '; on by some narcotic in a patent medicine that Pelham had been taking foi the grip. There was no evidqpce o foul play, nor does the doctor thini ' that he reached death by freezing, a' ' j though the body of course, by its lon ; - I stay of twenty-four hours before dis covery in the unheated room, and ’ 1 with the door open, was found frozen. ' Dr. Grandstafl will reach a verdict to- - morrow t _ ; o — r HESS FUNERAL SATURDAY. 1 The funeral of Miss Frances Hess, e whose death took place on Wednes a day evening at. 10 o’clock, from tubers culosis, following an illness of many t months, will be held Saturday morn '• ing at 8:30 o'clock, from the St s Mary's church. Interment at the St o Joseph's cemetery. t ; s Miss Stella Kuntz was here this e morning taking her music instruction, returning later to her home at Berne.

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THE REVIVAL NOTES Fife Brothers Will Give Fine Concert and Lecture This Evening. CHRISTIAN CHURCH The Methodist and Baptist Churches Preparing for Revival Campaigns. The snow storm did not seem to interfere with the Fife brothers revival meeting at the Christian church iav. night for the house was again filled and the people heard a very logic:: 1 i sermon on “The Holy Spirit, ’ that gave to most people in the vud: n-e a new and clear understanding o' th , subject that they had never had be- ’ fore. Evangel’st Clyde Lee Fife, who ! preached the sermon, spoke of the I subject under four divisions—The I baptism, gifts, gift and operation. On ' each of these points he read from the ! Bible and showed the circumstances | and purpose for which each was evi--1 dently given. The sermon was so pointedly illustrated by common I events and by vivid comparisons of | various teachings of the Scriptures ! that the subject in hand, which is us- ; ually considered to be very hard to understand and become interested in, at once became interesting and so plain that all the audience seemed to understand it as never before and to j respond readily In helping to read the teaching of the scripture on the sub ject. Three more people, a young man and two young ladies, responded to the invitation to profess faith in Christ and unite with the church. This makes a total of thirty conversions and additions to the church, which is already one of the largest ingatherings ever experienced by the Chrisi tian church here. Many others are i expected before the close. | Tonight the Fife brothers will give i their final and best concert and Bible i lecture. In the concert they will play and sing some of the finest new selections for orchestra and voice now ; published and on the market. Mr. Robert S. Fife, who with his brothers made such a hit before the student body of the schools as a reader, will be heard also in the concert. In his work he has taken rank among the very foremost in that line of art and is a graduate of the Dillenbeck School | of Oratory and Dramatic Art in Kansas City, Mo. “The Trials and Cruci- ; fixion of Christ” is the lecturtp and ; will be illustrated by one hui\dred ‘ fine views taken from masterpieces by i Rembrandt, Munkaczy, Tissot ana' Millet. The closing number will be '“Were You There When they Crucified My Lord?” as sung by the Fife quar- ■ tet before thirty thousand people at j the international convention at Pittsburg. Pa., in October, 1910. The admission will be 25c and 15c. AH who have made pledges for the support of the revivals are requested ' to pay them by Saturday, if possible. ' as the Fife brothers will have to leave after services Sunday night for their next engagement which begins imme- ' dfately. Tomorrow’ night and Sunday will close the revival and the evangel ' ists are preparing for a great victory ■ yet for the church. — Methodist. The Methodist church will begin a i series of evangelistic meetings next Sunday. January 14th. The Bcrvivs will be conducted entirely by the pastor and the men'lers of the church The first service will be held Sunday morning, when the Rev G. if. M - will preach. Mr. Myers has been engaged in raising the half million dollar endowment for Depauw university and has been out of the pulpit most ot the time for the past year. His many friends will be glad to hear him preach. The pastor will preach at the 7 o'clock service on the subject, “Evolution and the Fall of Man." ' The music will be led by a large chorI us and new soug books have been purchased for the meeting. The various organizations and societies of the church will take an active part in the meetings. The subjects discussed by the pastor will be answered from time to time. An opportunity will be 1 given for any one to ask questions I upon religious subjects. The church extends a cordial Invitation to the people of Decatur and to strangers to attend these meetings. CONTINTTBD PAGE TWO