Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1912 — Page 1

September 21, 1912.

effect burglary Safe at Brushwiller & Baker’s Broken and Ten Dollars in Cash Taken. THE TOOLS ARE LEFT Burglars Evidently Frightened Away by Mr. and Mrs. Amos Yoder. A burglary was effected Friday nighi, presumably at 1 o'clock this morning, at the Brushwiller & Bakery grocery, corner of Monroe and Seventh streets, the yeggmen getting away with about ten dollars in small change, but leaving a number of tools which might be well worth that much to any one who would have occasion to use such. The burglary was first noticed by Waldo Brushwiller, a member of the firm when he went to the store at 5:30 o’clock this morning to open for the day. The yeggmen had gone to the side door at the east, and cut out one of the smaller lower panels, in a very neat and smooth manner. This made a neat hole through which to slip the hand, withdraw the bolt securing the duor on the inside and slip out the lock key which had been left on the inside, an dtransfer it to the ousit° of the lock, and with one turn —presto!—had the pleasure of seeing the door fly open. Once inside the burglar or burglars made directly for the safe in the south vest corner of the room, and apparently with a blow of the heavy sledge had knocked off the knob on the safe, and then with other tools had pried off th© lock. Two drawers in the safe,' containing papers and books and other such things were taken out and left in the grocery, but the money box in the safe, which contained about ten dollars in small change, such as nickels, dimes and pennies, was taken. A book belonging to Mr. Baker, in which was a ten dollar bill and some papers, bound witha rubber band, had apparently not been leafed through and was thrown aside as worthless. The men must have been frightened away before finishing the job, as , the tools were left on the scene. The ; heavy sledge was left in the coal shed' at the east side of the grocery, while the other tools were left within the grocery. These were a monkey wrench which lay under the safe, a brace and bit and chisel, and three punches, which were found this morning on the safe. That the burglars were frightened away by the Amos Yoder family which lives just south of the grocery, became very evident this morning, when the burglary’ became known. Mr. and Mrs. Yoder had been attending a club meeting and had returned home about 1 o’clock. Mr. Yoder had gone on ahead to unlock the door of their home, when Mrs. Yoder, looking toward the grocery, saw a man standing at the corner. Thinking it was Mr. Yoder, and being surprised that he had gone back, she called to him, “Why, what are you doing there’’” She got no response, of course, friom the man who proved to be a stranger, but he presently made way across the Yoder yard and joining another man who had been stationed at the rear, both made tracks for the railroad. The Yoder family thought of course, that they had been prowling about their premises, but had no thought of burglary at the grocery, until this morning. The panel in the grocery had been replaced in a loose way, but the door was left unlocked, with the key still sticking in the inside. o THE. DAY OF ATONEMENT. When the first stars appeared in the heavens last evening, September, 20, they ushered in the day holiest to the Jew in his entire religions calendar. From that hour until this evening, September 21, the devout Israelite is giving himself entirely to God, find to the purifying of his soul and repentance. It will be a day spent by hitn in meditation and praying, with no thought of the world, its profit! or pleasures. It is the great White Fast, when, abstaining from all food, from, sundown to sundown, the People of Israel 'afflict their souls' for the sins of the past year. - Mrs T. R. Noll went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit with her sister.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

BEVERIDGE HERE SATURDAY. I According to announcement officially made today, Ex-senator Albeit J: Beveridge, progressive nominee for governor will deliver and address in this city, next Saturday afternoon. I The exact hour has not been named or at least we have not been so in- 1 formed. He is to speak at Ft. Wayne on Friday evening and will come here 1 it is said late Saturday afternoon, pro- 1 ceeding to Muiicie where he will speak at an evening meeting. OUR NEW FACTORY Something About the First Sugar Factory in State of Indiana. WHAT IT MEANS Expenditure of Large Sum of Money for Material, Labor and Expense. At Decatur, Indiana, in Adams county, ohe of the garden sputs of the nation, the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company, has built a large and one of the most modern beet sugar factories in the world. The evolution of this successful company, which has introduced this great industry into our state is an interesting bit of history. In 1899 a few frugal Holland small business men and working men joined in building a beet sugar plant at Holland, Mich., of 350 tons daily capacity, and selected C. M. McLean, superintendent of public schools, as their manager. So successful was the enterprise that the plant was socn increased to 500 tons daily capacity. In 1903 the Holland company, assisted the local people of St. Louis, Gratiot county, Michigan, to build a larger plant, which, with C. M. McLean, as first manager, and F. H. Hubbard as secretary and assistant manager, was a success from the start. In 1908 F. 11. Hubbard became general manager of the St. Louis plant and B. C. Hubbard, secretary and treasurer. By the use of conservative and careful methods j the two factories were soon recognizi ed as the most successful plants in j Michigan. i F. H. Hubbard, being a former citizen of Indiana, recognized the sugar j beet resources of thia state, and with the assistance of B. C. Hubbard, plan- ■ ned the consolidation of the Holland i and St. Louis companies for the purpose of building a third plant in Indi- j ana. Decatur was selected as the place to start this great industry In j the state, and here has been erected! one of the largest, most complete and modern plants in the world at a cost ( of nearly a million dollars, of which ( F. H. Hubbard is manager. This plant has a capacity of 1,000 tons of beets a day, or 100,000 tons of beets for the year's run. It can take chre of the crop from eight to ten thousand acres of beet land. Some idea of its size and importance as an industry, in our state can be obtained from the ' following items. The Decatur plant' will consume during their run of about 100 days of 24 hours: 4000 car loads of sugar beets. 600 car loads of coal 12 car loads of coke. 125 car coads of limestone. 15 car loads of cooperage. 4 car loads of empty bags. 4 car loads of heavy chemicals. For which they will pay $550,000 to farmers for beets. $125,000 to railroads for freight. $ 75,000 for labor and salaries, and ( several hundred thousand dollars for' various other supplies purchased in' the United States, and mostly in Indiana. The Decatur plant will produce annually ten thousand tons of sugar: four to five thousand tons of dried ( beet pulp, which will be used for ( stock feed, and three thousand tons, of molasses, which will be used for, cattle feed and for the manufacture j of chemicals. The one hundred thousand tons of beets required to produce this annual output, if hauled on ( wagons in a string, with two tons on ( - load would make a line of teams * two hundred and thirty-seven miles. long extending from Decatur to Chi-, cago and fifty miles beyond. The sug- J ar pulp and molasses annually produced by this Plant will load 975 ( freight cars, which if shipped in one (CenttnneS on Ffige 2)

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

Decatur, Indiana. Saturday Evening, Volume X. Number 227.

COUNCIL DOINGS I f Monroe, Rugg and Ninth Streets Will be Re-arver-I I tised, i , i BIDS NOT UNIFORM And Council Could Not Determine the Low Bidder Bids Not Legal. The council meeting Friday evening was somewhat longer than anticipated, lasting an hour and threequarters, before the business was completed. At 7 o'clock the council went into session and considered for a sbtjrt time the plans for the beautification of the waterworks park and the matter was referred to the public improvement committee. It was reported to the council that a dumping ground had been secured back of the old Catholic cemetery on Mercer avenue and the street commissioner was ordered to use this dump It was also reported that Russell and Chestnut streets were in bad shape and the street and sewer committee was instructed to confer with the interurban officials and have same repaired at once. The purchasing committee was empowered to buy a lamp post like the others now up for placing in front oi cue city build.„g. As the letting of the three advertised streets, Monroe, Ninth and Rugg, were the principal business items of the session, the bidders, some with attorneys, were present to hear the decision. The council went into executive session in the matter and after threshing out the problems were unable to come to a satisfactory conclusion and Councilman Hale made a motion to reject all bids, readvertise the letting for October Ist, and require bidders to make uniform bids, so that a reasonable comparison may be had. This motion carried. The street commissioner reported that following the order of the council he was filling in the ditch on Monroe street that Meyers failed to fill. I An itemized account will be kept of all expense connected with the work ] and deducted. Mr. Schneider, who lives on Adams street, applied to the council for an nutlet and was ordered to draw up his petition.

THEY NOMINATE The Regular Republicans Met in County Convention This Morning. IN THE COURT ROOM About 100 Were Present— Speaker from Indianapolis Failed to Appear. The county republican convention of the regular forces convened this morning in the court room commencing at 10:30 o’clock. County Chairman C. G. Egly of Berne called the convention to order, which numbered a hundred strong, and by consent appointed Shafer Peterson as permanent chairman. C. L. Johnson was elected secretary. The resolution committee, composed of Thad Butler, P. G. Hooper and A. M. Bowen, reported, and th© report as read was adopted. It favored high tariff, county local option, majority rule. The nominations for county offices were next in order, and the following ticket was nominated: Judge, Paul G. Hooper; prosecuting attorney, C. L. Walter; representative, Dr. Jonas S. Coverdale; auditor, Menno Burkhalter of Berne; treasurer, W. S. Smith of Monroe; sheriff, Cnarles Reicheldeffer of Wabash township; surveyor, Frank Brewster of Jefferson township; commissioner, second district, Philip Carper, Washington township; commissioner, third dis-

triet, I). C. Sprunger, Wabash township. Following the nominations, Attorney Sutton gave an address which was well received by the regulars. J A speaker who was due to arrive from Indianapolis failed to put in an appearance and Chairman Egly received a telegram troin him this morning, saying that he could not arrive before this afternoon.

FOOT WAS PIERCED Anselm Hackman Makes Novel Target of His Foot but Without Intention. A UNIQUE INJURY After Penetrating Foot, Bullet Went Into Floor— Getting Along Well. Anselm Hackman, fourteen-year-old son of Mrs. Mary Hackman, of east of the city, and brother of Tony Hackman, the new shoe dealer, is suffering from a unique Injury, having made a target of his right foot, with good effect, but without Intention. Hackman had gotten out his gun Friday evening at 7 o’clock, while sitting at home in his stocking feet, and was busily engaged in taking out some of the shells. Suddenly the gun went off, and the bullet went directly through his foot, just back of the big toe. The bullet after penetrating the bone and flesh, went into the floor wuero !. .'V?s-he’d. The hole left by the bullet was clean and round and smooth, and it is thought will heal rapidly. Dr. C. S. Clark was called to attend the boy.

DIED IN THE WEST William Adelsperger, Jr., Former Decatur Resident, Passed Away. WAS ILL . LONG Death Occurred in California—Lived in St. Louis —Body Taken There. John Niblick received a telegram this morning from a cousin, Mrs. Kit-' tie McElfatrick, of St. Louis, Mo., an- ' nouncing the death of her father, William Adelsperger, jr., a former Deca- j z tur resident, having been born and reared here. Mr. Adelsperger's death occurred in Calilornia, where he had gone for his health, he having besn a sufferer from Bright’s disease for some time. His wife was with him there, and she left California today with the body for the horn© at St.! Louis, Mo. The deceased was about, seventy years of age, and was a son of William J. Adelsperger, a pioneer business man of this city. He was also a step-son of Mrs. Ellen Adelsperger, who now resides here. His wife was Miss Jennie Niblick of this city, and she was a half-sister of the late Jesse Niblick, and a sister of Mrs. James Bell, of west of Decatur. Besides the daughter, Mrs. McElfatrick, he leaves another, Miss Sadie. of St. Ix3uis. Charles Adelsperger is a half-brother of. the deceased, and he leaves the following full brothers and sisters: Tom, of South. Bend; John Adelsperger, a priest liv-j Ing in Kentucky; George and Joe Adelsperger; Mrs. John Houck, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Ellen Durbin of Peru; and Ju|ia Adelsperger, now Sister Waltrude. After leaving Decatur tbe deceased went to Toledo and later to St. Louis. THE VOTE IS ESTIMATED Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The vote in Indiana at the fall election will be 738,353, according to an estimate made by the state board of election commissioners In 1908 the estimate vote was 782,781 while the real vote that year was 721,126. Tbe board will send out 1,170,016 ballots, to be used in the 3,172 precincts in the state. I

A TIMELY DROP I J Os the Ring He Had Filched from Tray at Lehne Jewelry Store SAVED A GRIP Os the Policeman’s Hand on Foreign Worker-Tried the Trick.

A timely drop of the ring he had filched from a tray at the Lehne jewelry store, where he had gone to select what was probably to adorn the finger of his fiance was all that saved a foreigner, true name unknown, and probably as unspellable in English, from feeling the strong grip of a Decatur policeman on his neck. Tlie foreigner, accompanied by a friend, an interpreter who however, could speak only German, went to the Lehne store last evening at 7:30 o’clock and asked to see some diamond rings. Mr. Lehne took out one tray, and showed them, and then returned them to the case, bringing out another tray of ordinary rings which th© man saw and desired to look at. Mr. Lehne always keeps the tray of rings full, so that any empty places that might result while they are being looked over, could easily result in a detection of a loss, should any occur. The man selected the ring he desired, and then when Mr. Lehne went to w r rap it up, he noticed that there were two empty places in the tray, instead of the one left by the ng which he was wrapping for the man. Just then he noticed the hand of the foreigner go down toward his pocket, and caught a glint of the bright ring between his fingers. He spoke sharply in English to the man, pointing his finger accusingly at him the while, and though the foreign ?r could not speak English, he evidently understood, and shrugged his shoulders in denial. The German was appealed to, but he denied all knowledge of the theft, and Mr. Lehne called to Dr. Fred Patterson, who happened to be in the room, to loc kthe door and call the police, which he did. But in the meantime, a sound of a falling ring was heard, and Mrs. Lehne, who was also in the room, called that she had just seen the man let the ring fall. The Lehne dog, with ears pricked up, noticed the fall and running to the shining ring, grabbed it and took it to its mistress. With the recovery of the ring the man was let go without prosecution.

A BUSINESS DEAL 1 Tony Hackman Buys Out Glen Falk’s Interest in the Shoe Store. POSSESSION TODAY ! New Firm Will be Elzey & Hackman—Tony Well Known Here. Last evening a business deal was closed in which Glen Falk for some years past connected with Mr. Chas. Elzey in tbe shoe business in the old Clem Voglewede stand, sold his interest to Tony Hackman, late from Canada. The deal had been pending i for some time and only last night was i the final details agreed upon and the deal closed. Mr. Hackman was for some time in Saskatchewan, Canada, where he has been farming. Lately returning to this city to take up his future residence he began looking around for some business with the result of this purchase. The invoicing is being done and possession of the interest was handed over to Mr. Hackman, by Mr. Falk this morning. The firm name will be Elzey & Hackman, and all the friends of the store are asked to further continue their patronage and may be sure of a hearty welcome. Mr. Hackman returned home to stay and while he likes Canada he likes Decatur best of all. AU the friends of both parties join in «ishing them a successful career.

BASE BALL Yes, there will be a base ball game in this city tomorrow. The local Shamrock team are going to beat the Fort Wayne White Sox so badly that they will think seriously of going back into the grade school class. The home boys have trained up to a tight pitch and will be amply able to hand the visitors a bunch of hot ones that will require a telescope to see. Yes, the game will be a hummer. Do not miss it, be there at three o’clock, two bits. --- o CAMPAIGN OPENS Congressman John Adair Speaks to Good People of Pleasant Mills. AT GENEVA TONIGHT Defends Record—Asks Continued Support and Explains Registration. Hon. J. A. M. Adair, congressman from this district, and nominee of the democratic party for re-election, opened his Adams county campaign at Pleasant Mills Friday evening. Though it was an out-door meeting, j held in front of the Ed France store, j was well attended and every voter listened attentively to the distinguished representative. Dr. J. W. Vizzard called the meeting or order and introduced Mr. Adah, who spoke for more than an hour. He thanked the voters of that section fpr their support in the past, and told why he believed he and his democratic colleagues are entitled to thencontinued support—because they have kept faith with th&n and have made good on every promise. He renewed his promises of the past to represent the people fairly and honestly and do that which he believed to the best interest of the greater number of people. He stated that he hoped he would be elected by an increas--1 ed majority for that fact would mean the endorsement of his work. He spoke at length also on the registration law and insisted that everybody who has not done so or has since moved, register on October 7th. Everybody should take an interest in elections. He told of the fact that the vote changing the constitution so that Indiana could have a registration law was taken in 1881 and carried by 70,000. In 1889 a registration law was passed but was declared unconstituI tional because it did not apply to all the people of the state. He declared the present law a good one and asked the people to support it. D. E. Smith, candidate for judge, was then introduced and spoke a few minutes as to the registration. It was a dandy good meeting and Mr. Adair was delighted with his treatment. He will speak at Geneva tonight. — o C IRONISTER-BROWN. This afternoon at 1 oclock at the parsonage of the Rev. T. J. Jones, of the Baptist church, that minister officiating, occurred the wedding of Miss Myrtle Chronister, to Mr. Elliott Brown. The couple left immediately for Elgin, Ohio, where they will visit with the groom’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. Frances Brown. They will reside in this city, the groom being employed on the force in construction of the new St. Mary’s bridge. For some time he was employed at the Frank McConnell store, and is well known here. The bride is also popular and prominent in church work. She is a daughter of John Chronister, sexton at Maplewood cemetery. G. O. P. SMOKER LAST NIGHT. The republicans held a smoker Friday evening in the Krick building, preparatory to the county convention which was held today. The room was well filled with voters and the boys seemed to be enjoying the affair Immensely. Shafer Peterson presided as the chairman and kept the crowd in good humor with his jokes and well-said introductions of the speakers. Among those who delivered short talks were Mr. Butler of Huntington, and Messrs. Andrews, Walters, Hubbard, Wagner of this city, and others.

Price, Two Cents.

SUGGESTS A PARK Miss Orvis Writes in Favor of Beautifying the Old Decatur Cemteery. GIVES THE HISTORY And Points Out How Improvement Could be Made to Advantage. Seventy or more years ago a tract of some two acres of land was donated by Samuel Rugg to the then village of Decatur as a burial place for their dead. About twenty years ago this burial place was practically filled and had become too small to accommodate the needs of the growing population. A tract of land west of the city was purchased, a new cemetery was laid out and christened "The Decatur cemetery,” commonly known as Maplewood. The old cemetery became neglected, is now overgrown with weeds and branches, graves are sunken, many of the stones are toppling over, giving the place a desolate and desecrated appearance. A well worn path is made through the cemetery to the base ball park adjoining it. Every Sunday during the summer base ball season Jhis sacred ground hallowed to the memory of the early settlers of Decatur and vicinity has been desecrated by the thoughtless throng trampling over graves. We have invited the old settlers of Decatur back to the Home-coming week, and are looking forward with much pride in showing them our charming little city, with its beautiful, well paved streets, handsome homes and well kept lawns —but these visitors will look for the old landj marks endeared to them by association. This old cemetery will be one of the objective points for some of them to visit. Many of them have laid a loved one away, with tearblinded eyes and hearts torn with grief, ia this now sadly-neglected ground. Numbers will doubtless come to the Home*coKilßg via the Clover Leaf railroad, and the first familiar spot to greet their eyes after "len eljtj , the train will be this old cemetery, with paper strewn over it, the remains of an old wagon wheel resting on one grave—remnants from a lunch of some way-farer on another, tin cans and other debris on others. What a sight! As the spot will never again he used as a burial place, why not do as the city of Fort Wayne did many years ago with their old burial grounds, remove the remains which are resting there to other burial places, as far as possible, and of those graves not to be disturbed, why not bury the stones within their graves and make a beautiful (Rugg) Park of it? Lay it out in gravel walks and have the grounds beautified with flower beds and shrubbery for the pleasure and recreation of the present generation? Surely, any one will bear me out in this in saying, I would much rather have my loved ones lying in a beautiful park than in this sadly neglected place. The time has gone by when places the size or Decatur can overlook civic improvement. Within a half mile of our city, one man, Willard Steele, to his honor be it said, single handed and alone, under many difficulties, planned and laid out a beautiful private nark, with but little natural scenery to help him. He has made it one of the finest private parks in Indiana. The old cemetery has every facility for making a charming little park at small expense. This, and beautifying the waterworks park, would be a beginning of the city beautiful. Decatur has the reputation, by the traveling public, of being the most beautiful little city of its size in the state, and instead of this old cemetery being a public eyesore, let us push our slogan, "Decatur can and will!” MINNESOTA PEYRE DE FERRY y ORVIS. o — MORE LETTERS RECEIVED. The Old Home Week committee is still receiving letters from all portions of the globe. Among those today were acknowledgements from W. Besser, Hammond; Miss Edith Grove, Pledger, Texas: Frank Mills, Minneapolis; Mi. and Mrs. Adam Kirsch. Dexter, Mo., and Amos Foreman, Puyallup, Wash.