Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1905 — Page 1

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the conference White Returned to Decatur—Evan gelical Appointments. ortland. Ind- April 10,-Sun-was the greatest day in the • o rv of Methodism in Portland, every Protestant pulpit in the I was occupied by some minister ttendanoe at the no-th Indiana ference. It was a grand rebg- ! rally, so to speak, and the jrch-going people gave themL up to the innovation fully, licipating to the full in the kt of the day. Throngs came in L Bluffton, Pennville, Deoatur, eva, and other places and |y church in the city was Lded. All denominations threw L their doors to the visiting asters. Bishop Spellmeyer Lching at the Methodist church the leading ministers of the ference occupying the pulpits be other churches. For the I time in the history of the |h Indiana conference the Lchers' wives met in joint meetI with the conferences at 10 Lk Saturday morning. A comlee was appointed to meet the Is of the association a”d escort h to the reserved seats in the Ich auditorium. There were L seventy members of the asition present. The bishop ■ded at this joint meeting, and Lluoed Dr. W. D. Parr, who lea few well chosen words of ■ing. Mrs. W. H. Daniel made Ipropriate response on behalf Jeacheis’ wives. Itland, Ind., April 11.—The k Indiana conference of the Icdist church adjourned at k today after one of the most |t sting sessions ever held. The krenee will meet next year at Smdria. that city having won ■ over Wabash and Logan- | The appointment of minis ■or the ensuing year were read .1 30 o’clock this morning and ■diately afterward the confer■adjourned. Rev. C- U. Wade ■euppointed as presiding elder |( Fort Wayne district. The ■ntments for Adams county ■as follows: Decatur, John C ■ Geneva, Rev. Weils; Genofrcuit, C. G. Nelson; Monroe, ■ Sprague; Bobo, Charles D. ■ley; Hoagland circuit, Charles ■ugherty. The return of Rev. ife to this city will meet the ■al of the congregation and ■citizens at large. Rev. ■uh’s reappointment at Mon■here he has done such splen■ork, will also be a popular ■Amon ' the events of yesterI session was the report of nmittee on morals condemneet fairs as immoral and danci g the use and sale of tobac■H its forms. Methodists who ■ Raged in business are urged ■ handle tobacco. Plans were ■ to make this the banner conno I of the world next year. Bester, Ind., April 10.—The ■eiical conference has ad ■d to meet at West Salem, 111., B first Thursday of April, ■ The appointments were as • sot the Fort Wayne district: ■v David Martz, presiding ’tlFort Wayne, D. E. Zaichiel; B iV iUe, J. \v. Metzner; WolBe, W. H. Freshley; Scott, S. Decatur, A. B. Haist; D. Kahley; Hicksville; C. Bngenberg; Webster, E. B. B r l Huntington, J. Wise; F. L Snyder; Berne, D. B. M; Linn Grove, Edward GreinWert, J. E. Stoops; Celina, B ®-er; Portland, W. H. MyRecovery, J. Rees. B — °hn Burkhead, a well known ln ß man, has branched into busstarted a dray line. ■ ’•hiered a new wagon to be a few days. He will do a draymg business and will •ecial attention to moving. a share of your patronwill appreciate it if you

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Mrs. C. D. Lewton gave a very pretty family dinner to her people Sunday, at twelve o’clock, at her home, on North Second street. Mr. and Mrs. Magley, Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Peoples, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Magley, Mr. and Mrs. John Magley and little daughter Dora Maiie, all being present.

The Grand Rapids section men are busily engaged today in setting out young maple trees around the depot lot, this being the first step by the company in making the vacant place there into a park The plans are all completed and when the work is finsihed will present a most decided improvement. Eugene Christen has opened up an architect’s office over Curley Radamacher’s saloon and is at present getting the room into shape for business purposes. Eugene is a good architect, and has had a number of years’ experience, and would be pleased to receive a call from you should you be contemplating building a home. R. K. Allison and son, Bob and Larry Waring of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Deam of Bhiffton, returned Tuesday morning fromTarpuin, Texas, where they have been for the past four weeks fishing and otherwise enjoying themselves under the warm sun of the south. The entire party claim to have had an enjoyable trip and that the fish ing was fine, and some of the stories they tell are whoppers, but the earnest way in which they tell them forces one to believe them. The only thing the entire party regiet ted was the fact that they were forced to return too soon, as they were just commencing to enjoy the trip. It is said by people of the first dis. trict who are in a position to understand the situation,that George Cunningham will carry away the nomination for congress, as successor to Hemenway, in a walk. It is also said that if primaries were held, John W. Brady, of Princeton, would carry away the honors in an easy fashion. It is averred however, that the Hemenway forces are lined up for Cunningham and that nobody else has any more show than the proverbial rabbit, unless Hemenway should direct otherwise. It isn’t at all likely that this will be done, for Heinenay has always prided himself on “keeping hands off” the minor affairs of the district. Next Saturday the base ball season for the Decatur high school will be opened, the opposing team being Van Wert, and Captain-Trout is looking forward to a close and exciting game. The team has been in training for several weeks and the boys are now in the pink of condition, and ready for a fast contest. Van Wert comes heralded as world beaters and will no doubt put up an excellent exhibition ard should our boys win they will have to play fast bull. As a preliminary workout Friday evening the teachers of the high school have taken it upon themselves to organize a team and will endeavor to defeat the boys in their first real contest. The game Saturday will be played at Steele’s Park and will be called at two o’clock Sidney H Bradford and Jacob F. Miller, two travelling salesmen, representing a Dayton, Ohio, grocery firm, were arrested Tuesday by Night Poliiceman Frank, for selling without a license. The men were making a house to house canvass taking orders, then ■would have the goods shipped in by the car load, thus avoiding paying any taxes or revenue to the citv or township and claiming protection under the inter state commerce law. Affidavits were filed by Promseoutor Moran before ‘Squire James H. Smith and from what the two gentlemen stated they will fight the case. Mr. Moran will no doubt withdraw the affidavits before ’Squire [Smith and file the cases direct in the Adams circuit court, as there are several close law questions connected with the same. If found guilty under the law each one is subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1905.

Noah Mangold received a letter from his son, Burt, who is attending the dental school at Indianap olis, stating that he had been sick for several days, and had all the symptoms of typhoid fever. He, , however,when writing was feeling better, and it was thought by the doctors that they had the disease broken up, and that he was out of danger and would sooi be up and around again. The school teachers who were a t tending the annual state convention at Chicago, arrived home Sunday | morning. Thev report the meeting ’ the most successful ever held in every respect. The attendance was i large and the and the program throughout was most interesting. Officers were chosen as follows: Prof. J. W.Carr, of Anderson, who presided over the session just closed, will be succeeded by Prof. O. P. Kinsey, of Valparaiso Normal college. Superintendent J. J. Early, of the Warsaw schools, was elected vice president; Miss Anna Fulton, of the Hartford City high school, secretary; Superintendent E. L. Hendricks, of the Delphi schools, railroad secretary, and Superintendent W. A. Mills of Crawfordsville, will succeed himself as treasurer. The police departments of the state are connecting the recent rapid development of the electric railway systems of the'state, with the abnormal amount of safe-blow-ing that has been going on in the smaller towns that are pretty closely connected with the larger ones by interurban lines. They figure that it is an easy matter for the crooks of Indianapolis to make a run out of the city on one of the many lines, crack a safe and Ibe back to their haunts in the city ; without having been missed. This I would also prove true of all of the I larger towns, it is thought. It is always the custom of officers and detectives te keep well acquainted with the criminal element of their locality, and when a bad man is missed for a time, his absence is invariably connected with trouble. Thus, it is a great point in the crook’s tavor if he oar. avoid being missed.

A mist enjoyable event took plaoe Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Scherer, one and one-half miles south of Monroe, in honor of their son, Revillo M. Scherer, who will leave next Friday for Colon, South America, where he has an appointment as bookkeeper with the engineering corps of the Panama Canal Com I mission. Mr. Severer is one of Monroe township’s brightest young men, and has just returned from Denver, Colorado, where he has had onarge of a professorship in a leading college for the past year. Thirty relatives sat down to one of the most elaborate spreads that was ever set before a hungry man, to which ample justice was done. After dinner the afternoon was spent in social conversation and music. At a late hour in the evening all departed, wishing Revillo a safe and happy journey to his new field of labor across the briny deep. The Pathfinders held a very enthusiastic meeting in the K. of P. hall Tuesday evening and initiated three n«w members, and had four new applications for membership. The new charter for the lodge was received and the membership now reaches forty-six with prospects bright for more. Harry M. Ham, the district manager, will be in this city until the menibersihp reaches one hundred. Elaborate luncheon was served after the initiatoin in honor of Mrs. Harry M. Ham, of Marion, Ind. The Pathfinders have for their future meetings secured the Entre Nous club rooms, where the first meeting will be held next Tuesday evening, when a class of s even will be taken in. The members of this lodge also desire to extend their sincere thanks to the Knights of Pythias, who so generously extended to them the courtesy of using their lodge room. The Pathfinders’ lodge seems to be here to stay, and will soon be one of the leading organizations in our city. ■>

Fred Reppert has announed another horse sale for this city to be held at Scheiman & Mutohler’s livery barn on April 20th. His sale of Thursday was the most successful ever held in this locality. Many buyers being present who were unable to secure a horse, Any farmer or citizen so desiring may enter a horse in the sale and the animal will be disposed of at a good price. Col. Reppart has a reputation as an auctioneer, and his big horse sales here will soon became famous. I It has been announced that the State Health School, in charge of the Sta e Health board, and conducted for the edification of city and county health officers with regard to contagious diseases, etc., will be conducted here the last week in May. The purpose of the school is to inform the officers on the latest and best methods of combating the various infectious dis eases which are responsible for so much loss of life and sickness, when they breas out in epidemic form. Two renowned specialists, Drs. Joseph McFarland and Seneca Eglert, of Philadelphia, will have charge of the sessions and the school. They are said to be leaders in the art of treating and preventing contagion. A number of invitations were received Monday from Cardwell, Missouri, announcing the wedding of Miss Laura Marker to Hon. P. L. Andrews, both formerly of this city, but now located at the above named plane. This event will occur Wednesday evening, April 12, at seven o’clock, at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Mendenhall. This announcement will no doubt prove quite a surprise to their many friends here. Mr. Andrews is at present busily engaged in interesting, moneyed men in timber interests in that locality and expects to make the South his future home. Miss Marker while here was .engaged in the dressmaking business and has a host of acquaintainces. The Democrat joins their many friends in wishing them much joy and happiness. While excavating in the rear of Chris Boknecht’s saloon Wednesday for the erection of new two-story building, the men dug too close to his old building and undermined the old foundation, causing the entire back part of the building to cave in. The part of the building that was ruined was a one-story brick building, which had recently been erected by Mr. Boknecht, and which the workmen had intended to tear down this morning The oave-in saved them this trouble, but making them considerable more as the new cellar was completely filled with debris from the wrecked building, and it will take several days to clean the same out. Fortunately no one was in the cellar when the collapse of the building occurred, and the damage done will only be slight. Bain, the meat man, sustained some slight damage, as his chicken coop in the rear of his building was completely demolished by the wreck. Cal Kunkle received quite a unique letter Thursday from a man in Grant county, whose name he refuses to divulge, which had enclosed a dollar and a half of conscience money, made payable to the Great Northern Indiana Fair association. The writer claimed to have stole a shovel and several pine boards while attending the fair last fall, the money being for the pine boards and notifying Mr. Kunkle to be on the lookout for the shovel, which he had sent by epxress. The writer claimed to have recently joined church and had been converted and as the Bible taught him to make all his wrongs right in so far as he could, he was endeavoring to do so. He further apologized to the fair association for his actions and hoped trey would forgive him for the offense he had committed. The letter was a surprise to Mr. Kunkle who was una ware that anything of this nature had been taken. The money however, has been credited to the fair association.

Charles F. Taylor, former editor of the Fort Wayne News, was here Tuerdny, interesting Decatur capitalists in a stock company that will build and operate a new amusement feature for parks, to be kno-vn as the “airship boat.” It is a sail boat suspended on a cable and propelled by electricity or wind. The course is built in a triangular shape and experts say it will be a winner that will beat the roller ooaster and “shoot the sohutes. ” The fit st one is now being constructed at Robinson park, Fort Wayne, and if successful they will be built in every park in the country. Twenty-five dollar shares now sell for three dollars. Quite a number of Decatur people invested. The company has over two hundred stockholders at Fort Wayne The fact that Tom Clifton, of Covington, the man slated for clerk of the State Board of Printing, has joined the Printers’ Union, at the behest of Secretary of State Dan Storms, adds a unique phase to the question of who shall be the lucky man. It has long been bruited about ever the state that Governor Hanly is a “non-union”man, and it is understood that Clifton's independence in this matter had much to do with his being favored for the place by the governor. The question now is: “Will Governor Hanly endorse him for the place?” The queston of who should get this position has aroused a great deal of interest lo cally. Recently, a number of women unionists called on the governor and endorsed a union man. The movement on the part of Clifton places Governor Hanly in a decidedly ak ward position; as he cannot now turn the applicant down without seemingly taking a direct slap at unionists. S. G. Sheller, the grain man, informed us this morning that at present he was busily engaged in packing up his household furniture and effects and making all preparations to move his family toDiyton Ohio, where he expects to make his future home. This move is made on the part of Mr. Sheller owing to the sac tthat he recently disposed of all of bis grain elevators and is unable to engage in any business to his liking in this city, as the same is now well provided for. He was unable at this time to say just what business he would engage in, as he had several propositions to consider, but would undoubtedly continue in the grain business unless something more profitable showed up. Mr. Sheller has been a resident of this city for the past four years and during that time has proved a model citizen, and has formed many lasting acquaintances. The Democrat joins his jb friends in wishing him success in his new home and in whatever business he ■nay decide to follow. The Carnegie Library committee met Tuesdag eve’ng at the First National bank. All members of the committee being present. The regular routine of business was gone over, a report being heard from the financial committee, which showed that this committee was doing fine work in the line of securing donations. The plans of Architect Oscar Hoffman were then taken up and discussed and finally adopted without any further changes. The plans complying with the approval of the entire committee. The building will be of colonial style, the first floor being composed of a council room for the city 14x30 a lecture room 35x47 •with a seating capacity of 275, a ladies’ club room 12x36, a book pack ing store room 12x21. The second floor will have two reading rooms 25x30 each, a study room 16x21, a librarian’s room 21x12, book room 17x18 and a delivery room 16x18. It was decided by the committee to receive sealed bids up and until Thursday, May the fourth, when the contract will be let for the constriction of the building. The bidmust specifically set out the prices for both brick and cement block, as ' the committee have not as yet fully decided from what material they will construct the same. No other business of importance on hand to transact, the committee adjourned.

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CLOVER LEAF SHOPS Officials Here—lmprovements to Beg’a Soon. “Every obstacle is out of the road and the Clover Leaf improvements will begin in Decatur in the near future,” said Mr. Shane at the Commercial Club rooms Friday, during an informal meeting at which were present a number of Decatur business men. Our citizens have never realized how near to losing the prop ised division we have been and only for one reason —a sufficient supply of acceptable water. When you stop to think that the enormous amount 0f200,000 gallons of water will be necessary to operate the plant each day, you will begin to realize the seriousness of this part of the proposition. Mr. Shane, who is superintendent of roadway, came here yesterday morning very much in doubt as to whether or not the question could be solved. He went away last night with the matter fully adjusted and in a manner which he says will be perfectly satisfactory to the company. His success was due to the public-spiritness of Fred Scheiman, who proved him self a genuine and patriotic citizen of Decatur, who deserves the highest praise for his actions. Mr. Shane complimented him highly. Mr. Shane and Mr. Sroupe who is engineer of naainlainance of way, tested thejcity water yesterday and found two objectionable features: First, the water is too hard for engine use and second the supply could not be depended upon if an additional 200,000 gallons would have to be pumped each day. The men then tested the river water, which they found first-class for their purpose, and the next thing was to decide upon the most direct and cheapest route for a pipe line. Assisted by John W. Tyndall they went over the various routes, finally deciding to lay the pipe from the shop site east to the Carroll elevator, thence down Oik street, across the Erie tracks to the river near the Scheiman packing house. Toe only serious question was to obtain land on which to locate a pumping station and coal sheds. Mr. Scheiman was consulted, told wha u was wanted and at once contracted to deed the company a plot of ground 30x60 feet and ‘o open the street entirely to the river for the sum of SSO. The matter was ouiokly adjusted. Later Mr. Shane stated his reasons for coming here, saying: “I was sent here by the second vice president and general manager of the road with orders to remove every physical obstruction and arrange all preliminaries at once, also to report to him what amount of money will be necessary to construct the round house, coal docks, build tracks, etc., and to remove the division here, also how much addtional money will be necessary to[oomplete the division according to plans including ice plant and storage elevator. Through the kindness of your citizens, especially Mr. Scheiman every obstacle is now out of the way my report shows that $55,000 will be necessary for the first allowance, this including SIO,OOO for the water plant and pipe lines, which was not figured on before. This will only put in the necessary 'biddings for the division. The report also shows that the icing plant will coast $26,000 with $4,000 for machinery. The elevator will cost $45,000 complete. Other necessary improvements to finish the yards here will make a total cost of nearly $200,000 or twice what was promised. The work will begin soon and the division must be in operation here by fall. The other improvements will be started, but not completed at once, as it will require a year or two to finish all and the work actually necessary to make Decatur a division will be done first. The details are all planned, materia bought and in my opinion nothing can stop the improvements.” Those who heard Mr. Shane’s remarks are delighted and are en thusiastic over the prospects.

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