Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 26.

A BENEFIT ORDER Erie Employees Form Association for Payment of Pensions to RETIRED EMPLOYEES Man Reaching Sixty-five Years of Age May Retire on Pension on Request. Huntington, Ind., Jan. 30—The »m---ployppp of the Erie Railroad company ' have adopted a plan whereby pensions will be paid those w’tio are retired from the service for old age or other good and sufficient reasons. The pensions will be paid by an organization of employees to be known as the Erie Employees’ Relief association, and any person now an employee of the company may join the organization by complying with the requirements within six months. Unless the application for membership is received within six months the employee will not be admitted to the benefits of the association. The business affairs of the organization will be conducted by a board of six directors, three of whom are to be appointed from the eastern division and three from the western. Buffalo is the dividing point between the divisions. The fee system will be reckoned by the monthly wages, and the membership entrance fees will be reckoned from the age of the applicant, those less than fifty years 4>ld, paying 50 cents for entrance, and those above that age, sl. The monthly fees will range from 50 cents to $2. The treasurer of the company will act as treasurer of the organization and will collect the fees at tile time of payment of wages. Should a member leave the service of the Erie he may continue to pay his fees and retain membership in the organization until he reaches the age when he would be placed on the pension roll, and in case he dies before that time his widow may keep up the payments until she is sixty years old, w’hen she will be paid onehalf of what her husband's pension would have been. Members who have been in the service of the Erie for five years or mors and who have become permanently disabled may, on request, be placed on the pension lists, and members reaching the age of seventy years, who have been with the company ten years and who have been dropped from the pay roll, will receive pensions. Members employed as firemen, locomotive engineers, switchmen, yard masters, bridge foremen, section foremen, baggage men or supervisors, who have reached the age of sixty-five years, may be retored on pension on request. The pensions will range from sls to SIOO a month in accordance with length of service and the amount of assessments paid. Any allowance of pension may be withdrawn in case of gross misconduct or conviction of felony. The following men have been named as directors of the association: C. W. Everts, Cleveland: W. R. Martin. Hornell, N. Y.; J. J. McNeil, Cleveland; ( T. Walsh, Port Jervis, N. Y.; M. H. Hardy, Huntington, Ind.; M. Gorman, Salamanca, N. Y. MANY SURROUND TOMB. Upon the arrival of the Orson Smith funeral procession from this city, at the Woodlawn cemetery, Ossian, at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon, many of the friends and boyhood companions of this young man who were unable to attend the services here, were waiting at the grave* to pay their last respects to him. The Rev. Goodwin of this city could not accompany the body to Ossian and the Rev. Lower, pastor of the United Brethren church at that place, was present and conducted the services at the tomb. ATTENDED FUNERAL. The funeral of William Walters, who died suddenly Friday morning at his home at Decatur, was conducted from the Methodist church in that city Sunday afternoon at 2:30, Rev. R. L. Semans officiating. Sam Yontz and family motored there Sunday forenoon to be in attendance, as the deceased was a nephew by marriage to Mrs. Y T ontz. — Columbia City Commercial-Mail.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

GETTING READY TO MOVE. Peoples & Gerke Will Move to Meibers Building Next Week. The special closing out sale conducted by the Peoples & Gerke shoe store is a rusher and the stock will be much reduced to facilitate the moving into their new quarters next Tuesday, February sth. The firm has leased the Meibers building just across the street from its present quarters, which is now being fitted up by the carpenters with shelving and the other things necessary to the conducting of the store. Charles Voglewede, who has been occupying the Meibers building, will move to that vacated by Peoples & Gerke. ABOUT THE SICK Will Biggs Able to be About the House Following Sprained Back. RECEIVED LAST WEEK Mrs. Sudduth Remains' About the Same—Mrs. Drake Improving. L. D. Brown of Pleasant Mills and his daughter, Mrs. O. .1. Sutnan, went I to Fort Wayne this morning to call on their son and brother, Walter j Brown, at the Lutheran hospital, 1 where he was operated upon Friday i evening. He is getting along as well I as is consistent with the seriousness of his case. William Biggs, who last week re-1 ceived a severely sprained back and was otherwise injured, affecting his entile system in the lifting, was able to be about the house Monday, but still quite sore. Frank Gass of the Fullenkamp store, who has been ill two weeks, i was not able to take up his work again this week as hoped for. He suffered a relapse, which has confined him to his bed again. He is suffering from the grip, combined with a severe cough. The condition of Mrs. William Drake, which last week was regarded as very serious, as a result of a j concerous growth in the stomach, fol-1 lowing an operation of some months ago, is again doing well, and her recovery is now seen. It was at first thought tho growth had been entirely remov-1 ed, but it later developed that a small ■ portion of it was still eating its way, I and it was not long until her condi- j tion was as serious as at first stage. The remainder of the trouble is now thought to have been checked and a great improvement is noted over last week, when she was not expected to live. Mis. William Sudduth, who was taken sick a week ago with tonsilitis, is reported no better. Mrs Clarence Winters went to Fort Wayne this morning for medical treatment. Miss Minnie Orvis has been a sufferer from tl.e grip since Saturday. Dr. W. U. Roller of Willshire, Ohio, and J. Riley, accompanied Ad Riley to Fort Wayne this morning, where the last named will take treatment of Dr. Dreyer. ~ L. H. Purdy, the well known civil ( war veteran, is confined to his bed! today, the result of injuriy received yesterday afternoon when he slipped i on the icy porch and fell. No bones were broken but he was very badlyshaken up and sprained. _— o ■ ■ GROWTH ON FACE. Ben Eiting was in the city today to have the right side of his face ■ dressed, there being a coming growth | noticed for several weeks, and attention was necessary for its removal. Applications have been applied for several days past, and it is believed that within a few more days the en- ' t ; re growth will have lost its eating process and a recovery noted. Although very sore at the present time. Mr. Eiting feels greatly relieved that ' the medicine will do tne work hoped ifof.

NOW MAKING CAKE The High School Domestic Science Class Finish Lower Forms of Bread. THEY LEARN RAPIDLY First Section Made Ginger Bread Monday Afternoon —Learn to Save. The "girls are learning to be much more careful in their measurements and mixing," said Mrs. Stella Phillips of Fort Wayne, teacher of domestic science, who gives weekly instructions Monday afternoon at the Indiana Lighting company’s office, to the sixtygirls of the high school, “and this is telling in the very excellent results of their baking and cooking." The girls have worked up from the lower forms of bread, such as muffins, fritters, waffles, etc., and are now ready for the real bread making, but this will be deferred until the school can give two hours instead of the one bou; period, as the process of bread making takes u much longer time. Section two finished the forms of bread Monday in biscuit making, while section one was ready to take up cake .making, which follows that of bread, making. Mrs. Phillips explained that there were two classes of cakes — those with butter and those without. Those with butter are much easier to make than those without, such as angel food, sunshine cake, etc., and therefore butter cakes are taken up first, section one beginning with the crudest form, which is ginger bread. Cakes with butter require less careful mixing, and the success in making ginger bread, does not depend upon the mixing, she stated, but upon the measurements of the ingredients, care being taken to get just the right amount of soda. Enough batter was made by each one to fill a gem pan, with just a little over. Mrs. Phillips stated that she found the girls right willing to throw away the portions left over, but it is teaching them economy, by saving this, mixing it all together and making little cakes, which are distributed to the office force. The cakes each one makes are taken by themselves. WON ALL FIRSTS Except One—Root Township Exhibitors at Muncie Poultry Show. ARE VERY JUBILANT Rose Comb Leghorns Won Valuable Silver Cup— Other Prizes. Root township farmers and breeders of fancy poultry are jubilant over the prizes they carried off in the Muncie poultry show- last week. They claim to have taken all firsts but one. R. K. Fleming exhibited his Embden geese and won the following prizes: First cock, first nen D. M. Rice won the following on Toulouse geese: First cock, second ben. C. E. Magley won a silver cup, valued at twenty-eight dollars, on histßose Comb Leghorns, besides the following prizes: First and second on cockerel, first hen, first pullet, third pullet, third hen, first on pen. In a class of twenty-two, W. A. Fonner w’on the following on Mammoth Bronze; turkeys: First on cock, first yearling cock, first, second and third cockerel; first and second pullet. o ■ LEFT BABY BOY. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spangler of east of the city are the proud parents of a baby boy, left at their home Monday by the stork. All concerned are doing well. ■■II - U ——— Schug & Mettler, the automobile men from Berne, were here today looking after business. They are the agents for the Overland this year and expect to sell a number of the cars in this county.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, January 30, 1911.

WILL MOVE STAND. Joseph & Lang to Move in Ehinger, Building North of Blackburn’s. Joseph & Lang, proprietors of the 1 candy kitchen, just opposite the court ! house will in the near future move I into new headquarters, the build- ' ing recently made vacant by John Hay. i At present a new front is being placed suitable for their trade, as well as other arrangements, and when completed will be one of the most attractive places of business in the city. . Their move will not be effective until some time in Fberuary, perhaps the latter part of the month, when all will be in readiness for the change. APPLY PERSONALLY i I To Rural Mail Carrier for Money Order or Obtain it Personally AT THE OFFICE I Do Not Leave-Money in the Mail Box— New Postal i Ruling. / It has been brought to tho attention of the department mat were is a growing habit on the part of the patrons of rural routes of depositing money in their mail boxes for the purchase of money orders instead of applying personally to the carrier and obtaining them from him at the Same time the receipt provided for in the instructions to postmaster and carriers, says a circular from the post office department. Postmasters are requested to discourage the practice on the part of the patrons, the same being conducive t<? theft, with resulting loss to patrons and extra expenditure by the department. in making investigations that would otherwise be needless Hereafter in every case of this kind both l the postmaster and the carrier will call the patron’s attention to the risk incurred through this objectionable prac- ■ tice and request him to desist therefrom. The carrier will leave a receipt for the money in the box. Later in sending the receipt detached from the money order the postmaster will call patrons’ attention to the fact that in the future he must apply personally to the carrier for the money order or obtain same in person at the office. i . The attention has also been directed ■ ■ to the new instructions relative to deductions to bo made in salaries of rural carriers for failure to serve their I entire routes. SISTER AT BERNE. Mrs. Wilhelmina Geller, aged eightyone years, widow of George Geller, died Sunday night at 11 o’clock at the : home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank j Rodewald, 1304 Union street, from' pneumonia, following an illness of one week. Tile deceased was born in Koenigsberg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Ger- ’ many, and came to the United States : fifty-eight years ago. For two years she made her home in New York and ■ fifty-six years ago with her husband ! removed to Fort Wayne, which had been her home since that time. Sho was a charter member of st. Johns Lutheran chut ch and had always taken an active interest in church affairs. She Is survived by the following children: Gottlieb and < harles Geller, Mrs. William Kaade and Mrs. Conrad Schwelm of T! ’ort Wayne, and three sisters, Mrs Rnmbo of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Brueck of Adams township. Allen county, and Mrs. Braun of Berne. The busband preceded her in death six years ago. Funeral services Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the residence, hence to St. John’s Lutheran church at 2 o’clock. BUYS HALF INTEREST IN STUDIO. Ralph Moser is Now a Partner With Father in Photograph Business. J. E. Moser, the well known photographer, has announced the sale of a half interest in his studio to his son, Ralph Moser, the latter having already | begun his duties. Ralph has been prac- ' tically reared in the photograph business and knows it from A to Z. He has the artistic nature necessary to succeed in the business and guided. by his father, one of the best photog-1 raphers in Indiana, he is bound to make good.

BOBS UP AGAIN ' — 1 i Case of Henry Beaver, ExTreasurer of Huntington 1 ♦ County Again Appears. < I ( WAS TRIED HERE < L At One Time—Reappeared Many Times at Intervals i in Eighteen Years. ■ A Huntington case that has bobbed I iup at intervals during the past eight- 1 ! nen veais, and which was tried three I | times in Huntington county, as well as in Decatur and Columbia City, has i reappeared again in Huntington. It ■ was a petition filed late Monday aft- | ernoon in Huntington by Attorney Wilbur Branyan, for Henry Beaver, who was treasurer of Huntington county from 1882 to 1886, seeking for the payment of $12,000 to Beavers, and will be presented to the county council at its February session. The petition states that Daniel ' Christian, treasurer preceding Mr. Beaver, was a defaulter, and that a shortage of $12,000 was wrongfully charged to Mr. Beaver. The council is asked to make an appropriation for that amount without interest, as directed by an act of the last leglsla- , ture. In an appeal once taken to the I state supreme court Mr. Beaver was !, given a favorable decision, but upon . the return of the case for trial in a . circuit court, another decision against , him resulted. , Action was taken on the Beaver , claim at the last session of the legis- . lature, but this was not binding upon the county council. It was not man-, . datory and the special act was only directory. The purpose was not to enforce payment, but to prevent lapsing of the claim under the two-year statute of limitations. Thus revived, the . , claim remained to come to the attention of the members of the county council Monday. | Mr. Beaver is now seventy-six years of age, and is one of the most highly respected citizens of Huntington. The trouble over his county office is said | to be only one of a series of finan-1 cial misfortunes and losses. I o— • —• , BECOMES PARTNER I — Deal Under Consideration i Whereby Edward Engeler May Purchase ] ( A HALF INTEREST — I ’ In True & Runyon Store— Invoice is Nearing Completion. i A deal which has been under way for the past week or two is nearing 1 consummation, and it is thought with- ' in two days will have been closed, i whereby Edward Engeler, for ten | years one of the enterprising general ' merchants of Berne, will become a: ! partner in the True & Runyon depart ■ ment store of this city, Mr. Engeler I to purchase a half-interest. Mr. Engel er, with his brother, F. F Engeler. of Bluffton, have been here for the past' ' two weeks, assisting in the invoice j of the stock, and it is thought two days will see the completion of this,; at which time Mr. Engeler will take ; formal possession of his interest. ; While there will be a number of re-| adjustments, the store will be operated practically without change. Prior to entering his own business in Berne ten years ago, Mr. Engeler was employed four years as a clerk in the store of Engeler & Walmer, at Bluffton, of which his brother, F. F. Engeler is a partner. He has thus had many years’ valuable experience in the business, and will be a valuable add!- ' tion to the firm here. Mr. Engeler will move his family to this city as soon as a house can be secured and other arrangements be satisfactorily made. E. T. Haecker of Berne was here today on business, and remained to at'tend the omnl-partlsan meeting. i

DECATUR MEN IN FORT WAYNE. Forming Quite a Business Colony on South Calhoun Street. Decatur men are forming quite a business colony in Fort Wayne, on South Calhoun street, near the Cathedral. The latest addition to that section will be Charles N. Case of this city, who has purchased the fish and oyster stand at 1210 Calhoun street, to take possession Wednesday. Mr. Case will probably move his family to Fort Wayne later. It is near this place that John Elick, the tile man of this city, has opened a restaurant, and also near this place is the pharmacy of Christen Brothers. 0 IT’S AN ALLOY Cincinnati Gold Expert Says “Gold Nugget’’ Found in Chicken BY THE M’QUEENS Is an Alloy—Composition of Metals, But That it Contains No Gold. The Dorst Jewelry company of Cincinnati, Ohio, to which D. M. Hensleysent the “gold” nugget, found by Willis McQueen of north of this city, in a chicken’s crow last week, for examination and opinion, this morning sent the following reply: "Regarding enclosed nugget, will say this this is some kind of a composition of metal, as it does not contain any gold. We are unable to state, however, of just what it is composed, but it is more of an alloy than anything else." For further information as to the nature of the metal, which might prove to be valuable, even though it not be gold, Mr. Hensley is preparing to send the nugget to the government officials at Washington, D. C. BOOSTER EDITORS FIRST SCRAP. High School Students Engage in Short Battle —Better Friends Than Ever. Paul Meyer, editor of the High School Booster, a publication issued once a month by the high school students, has no doubt realized the dangers which accompany the very high ■ calling of editing a paper. Over the I publication of a joke in th elast issue i a battle between Meyer and Gregg I Neptune occurred Monday evening, in ! which the boys showed they were i made of the real stuff. The icy walks made the scrap a lively one. This I morning the boys got together of their own accord, patched up the differences and will no doubt be better friends than ever from this time on. In the | meantime the Booster will be issued regularly and no doubt more proficiently on account of this new experience of the editor. PARTY AND COUNTRY. To Decide Whether Roosevelt Will Again be Presidential Candidate. (United Press Service.) Trenton, N J., Jan. 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— “It is for his party and his country and not tor Colonel Roosevelt to decide the question of I whether he is again to be a candidate J for the presidency. If they decide i to nominate him, 1 am sure he will accent. He will no more decline their i r call than he would to enlist if needed l in time of war*.” The above quotation ■ is a part of a formal written state : ment over the signature of Lawrence ’S. Abbott, president of the Outlook ; company, of which Colonel Roosevelt is the contributing editor. This is I the most authoritative announcement of Colonel Roosevelt's attitude. A. R. HUYETTE TO COME. The program committee appointed by the Knights of Pythias to arrange the program for the district convention to be held here February 21st. will not meet until A. R. Huyette of Bluffton, the district deputy, can convene with them. Messrs. Hood and Wright of the Hood company of Portland were here today, boosting the John Adair cigar, for which they are the sales agents. The cigar Is made by Lose & Thomas, i of this city, and is a popular one.

Price, Two Cents.

COURTHOUSE NEWS Five Sets of Plans for Proposed New Monroe Street Bridge Filed. WITH THE AUDITOR —- —— Bids to be Received Tuesday —Judge Merryman to go to Fort Wayne. One of the chief things to come before the county commissioners, Tuesday, February Gth, will be the receiving of the bids and the awarding of the contract for the building of thi’i proposed new Monroe street river bridge. The bridge will be a two span concrete and steel structure, atv if built according to the plans on fib will be one of the finest in this part of the country. Five different sets of plans have been filed with Auditor Michaud, thus far —four besides those filed by County Surveyor C. C. Ernst, who, by virtue of his office as surveyor, will be the engineer. According to the law, any of the bidders has the privilege of filing their own plans and specifications ten days before the time of the receiving of bids. Besides the plans filed by the surveyor, C. C. Ernst, plans have been filed by the following: Julius Haugk, Decatur; A. W. Grosvenor, Fort Wayne; Burke Construction Co., Newcastle; National Bridge Company, Indianapolis. Judge Merryman will go to Fort Wayne tomorrow to continue hearing the case of the state against Steward, growing out of the controversy between the fair officials and the W. C. T. U. of that city. Judge Merryman is special judge and was .obliged to adjourn court last Saturday on account of the death of a child of one of the parties. It will require about two more days to complete the case. Sol Carter of Marion, a steel bridge construction man, was in the city today on business relating to the proposed new Monroe street bridge. Commissioner Henry Zwick of Williams was here this afternoon on business relating to the filing of some bills. Realty transfers: Hattie Studabaker to Estella Thomas, lot 103, Decatur, quit claim deed, $1; Robert N. Lichty to Calvin P. Lichty, 40, 15 and 31 acres, Monroe tp„ $1: Fred V. Mills et al. to E. Estella Thomas, lot 103, Decatur, school trustees' deed, $3,000. OMNI-PARTISAN CONVENTION. E. E. Ballard Speaks This Afternoon and Ex-Governor Hanly Tonight. The omni-partisan convention is to be held in the Bosse opera house, here this afternoon and evening. Quite a crowd of men from over the county are in the city for the sessions, the first of which is scheduled for three o’clock this afternoon. A delegation of about 150 was expected on Ihe G. R. & I. train, due here at 3:09 ,and it was stated that ex-Governor Hanly and E. E. Ballard, who are to be the principal speakers, would anlve on that train. Mr. Ballard will speak this afternoon and Mr. Hanly this evening. Rev. Shirey of the Anti-Sa-loon League arrived on the 2:30 car and opened the meeting. It is expecti ed that the opera house will be crowded this evening when Mr. Hanly speaks. _> TRUSTEE ELECTION. On Wednesday evening, February 7th, there will be hel da trustees' election at Salem Evangelical church, east of the city, for the purjtose of electing one or two trustees, whose office is vacant. At the same time there will be held an eleettion for class leader. All members requested to be present. E. B. JONES, Pastor. POLICE COURT NEWS. Harry Pierce appeared this afternoon in "Squire Stone's court and entered a plea of guilty to giving liquor to minors, being assessed a fine of S2O and costs. Pierce was the fellow who bought beer for the club of young boys who had club rooms over the Burdg barber shop, and which was raided by Policeman Melchl some time ago.