Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1906 — Page 1

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TO BE GIVEN NEXT MONDAY The Ladies of the Christian Church are Soliciting the Sale of ' Tickets. On Monday, Oct. 22nd at Bosse’s Opera House, the Christian church ■will present “Hick’ry Farm,” with the same complete cast that made it the comedy success of last season. ■“Hick’ry Farm” is a quaint tale of old New England, a beautifully simple love story, full of relinking fun and mirthful music, with not a dull moment from the first to the last curtain. The Farm Hind Quartette will be there in all their glory, to say nothing of the Hardscrabble Cor-, net Band. The admission is 25 cents and the board will be open at the Holthouse drug store Friday at 8. a. m„ so as to give everyone an opportunity to reserve their seats. The specialties and musical program will appear in tomorrow night’s issue. The cast follows: Zeke Fortune Dick Neptune Uriah Skinner .;...’. Deacon White Lee Vance Jack Nelson Frank Wemhoff Gilbert Darkwood.... Henry Thomas Larry McKeegan.... Fred Patterson Detective Rankin... Hugh Hite Peggy.7.Miss Minnie Orvis Mrs. Priscilla Dodge Eva Acker Jessie' Fortune.... . KATE MYLOTT Josh Sprueeby, Si Stebbins, Cy Perkins and Sir Plunkard make , up, the Farm Hand Quartette, and as for the Hardscrabble. G.orjiet Band, you will have to guess who. The jaidies of the Christian Aid Society ■will’spare no expense to make “Hick’ry Farm” an artistic success and respectfully solicit your patronage. SELLING LIQUOR TO MINORS Admitted That He Gave Whiskey to the David and Bogner Boys Last Sunday. '» — Frank Zeser, bartender for Charles Zeser, who runs and operates the saloon on Monroe street, was arraigned last evening before .Mayor Coffee' on a charge-of selling'liquor to minors,, this being the place that the young Bogner and David boys purchased their whiskey and became so drunk, that they were- ftfund in a stupor near the Christian church Sunday night. ..The David boy was placed in jail over, night, while the Bogner lad escaped more luckily and was taken home.. Mr. Zeser stated-that the boys claimed that they wanted’the whiskey to take home and .with this explanation, he let them have it. The story, however, did not suit the mayor and he assessed against Zeser a fine of twenty dollars and costs, which he paid and was dismissed. Marshal Green is> very indignant over the state of affairs and informed us that in the future he will prosecute every saloon keeper that in any manner violates the laws of the city or the State of Indiana. The appearance of a minor’ intoxicated, on our streets, will lead to an immediate investigation.’ ’ , Q ~.. . LOCATED ON MADISON STREET -I ’ In the Schafer Carriage RoomNew Floor Being Built—Will be Up to Date. Decatur is to have a real skating rink this season, and it is probable that- this popular amusement will be as well received here as it is in our neighboring cities. The rink will be located in the Schafer building on East Madison street, and will be a modern and-up to date place. An expert skatirig master has been secured to teach those who have not learned the art and he will manage the rink. The contract for a new hardwood floor, especially adapted for skating, has been let to Linn & Pat-, ton, who Will begin Work in a few days. An order for 150 pairs of the fundus Winslow six dollar, ball bearing steel skates has been .sent in and it is probable lhe rink will open about November first. The place is to be a strictly moral one and the management will cater to the best trade. The room will prove an ideal place for a rink, being 100 feet long and fifty feet wide, and young and old lovers of amusement are looking for many happy hours this winter.

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MERCHANTS ARE COMPLAINING Several Small Thefts Have Been Re - ported During the iPast Few Days. . , A number of the merchants about bur city are complaining of the fact that Decatur is infested with a gang of .shoplifters, and that they daily miss some article, for which no sale can be accounted. This work of shoplifting is especially being done at the Racket stores and drug stores, where the business man is forced to display his wares, and, although the articles taken are small, they rim into money in a very short time. A certain business man informs us that not over a week ago, he caught a young lady dropping a ring into a bag of pop corp which she was eating from, and .when questioned concerning the matter, denied that she had the ring. A search, however, through the sack of cor A disclosed the property, The business man gave the young lady a lecture on honesty and let her go, and she has not been in the store since. Similar experiences can be told by each of these business men and if the names of some of the guilty parties were disclosed they would prove to be a sensation. ■ The business ' meh informed its that they expect to make an example of the next onq caught lifting - goods and would see what the law would do in the matter. — o " * .. IS MAKING IMPROVEMENTS . i— - i. Dick Townsend is Doing Things at Peoria, 111. & 1 / 1 ’ » Extensive improvements, •entailing an expenditure of nearly $30,000 have been completed or are under wqy at the National.hotel and Dick Townsend ’jqstly boasts of one of the finest hostelries in the state. The dining room and kitchen have been made over and twenty-nine new bath rooms are in the course of construction. The color scheme in the big dining room has been changed to a light and bright color, newly frescoed and new curtains have been fitted over the windows. Eight new bath room have been completed, seven are in the course of construction, arid fifteen more will be built, giving the hotel sixty-four tubs and accessible from ninety-three rooms. —Peoria (111., 0 LITTLE LEAH ANDREWS DEAD .--VTA —ec'Mt’ -• '•***» Two Year Old Daughter of Arden Andrews. Leah Marie Andrews; the two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arden Andrews, who reside on Tenth street, died Sunday even, at 5 o’clock, after an illness of several weeks. The child was a bright little babe and had just reached the age when it became a household necessity and when the<fond parents could not do without it, and it was taken from them when they least expected it. The funeral services will be held Wednesday at Salem, the funeral, cortege leaving the house’•atipweho’clock, and interment will be made in the Salem cemetery. ■ 8" PALACE BOWLING ALLEYS OPEN Have Been Improved and a Third —Alley Added. The Palace bowling alleys opened last evening and proved as.popular ds ever. The appearance of the room, has been greatly improved by the ad-, dition of another, alley, the change of the -returns and the installation of up to date pin spotters. These'-spots* ters put the pins in exact position and’ save one-third time over the old way. It is likely that a bowling league will be started with eight or tin teams. Bowling is a clean, healthy and harmless sport and is growing in popularity each year. Mr. Guy Dorwin will manage the alleys again this season, and he invites you to call. — —o . M. J. Krohn made a business trip to Bellefountaine, 0., this morning.

DECATUB, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1906.

I WAS RELEASED THIS MORNING s- After His Mother Had Plead for Him —Roy Was in Deadly Stupor . When Found. ——• • t Charley David, a fifteen year old t boy was found Sunday night nearly g daed from intoxication and was taken p to jail where he spent the night. He is e .the youngest prisoner w ? ho has been - confined there during Sheriff Butler’s e four years in office. The boy’s mothe er appeared this morning and plead Y for her wayward son so earnestly that s he was released without a fine. Young Y i David and another boy named Bogner were found in a drunken uneonsciouss ness near the Christian church by the t police last night. The Bogner boy’s i father w r as notified and took him - home, saving him the disgrace of a - night in jail. The boys claim they e got their whiskey from a Fort Wayne ■, man. 1 We publish this story not because i we wish to further disgrace these - boys, but that this may serve as an t example to other boys, and that par- - ents may be induced to keep a closer e watch. Saturday night, several boys, f scarcely old enough to be out after - dark, were intoxicated and enacted - disgraceful scenes on the street. Such affairs as these are what cause comi munities to rise in might against the - saloons and against men so degarded > as to sell liquor to children, ruining v their young lives, physically and morally, for a paltry few pennies. The men who do these things should not j only be punislied'by fines, but should be put out of the saloon business so emphaticaly that they can never secure another license to sell the spirituous and vinous. o THE NINETY-SECOND BIRTHDAY e Os Dennison Tinkham was Celebrated r Wednesday. 1 . -» ‘ I 1 The third annual reunion of the 1 Dennison Tinkham family was held r at his home in south Blue Creek s township, Wednesday, Get. 10, in t honor of his 92nd birthday, he being - the oldest man in the county. 40 - guests were present, consisting of his i children, grandchildren and greats grandchildren, his nephew i Rufus, Carpenter of Athens, 0., and s his" niece, Mrs. Olive Hulbert and i Mrs. Mornida Gross -of Worthington, O. A large dinner was served which all enjoyed. The afternoon was spent I in playing the organ and singing. Mr. .Shalley of Berne, was. present and took the picture of the group, also the j picture of the four generations. All left feeling that they had enjoyed the day, -—— o SHORTER TERMS; MORE PAY i ,Is What Superintendent Cotton ' ——' • Demands. -• ~ 1 [ In a bulletin just issued to the . teachers of the State, Fassett A. Cot- ( ton, .superintendent of public instruej tion.' takes-, up the question of •* ‘ Twentieth Century and Teachers,” , in which it is shown that the problem of I|ying and of . getting anywhere will become more difficult in years to eome than ’in the.past. According to Mr. Cotton the schools of today are • not ready to meet this problem. In his bulletin the situation is thus stat: ed: “The term is short, the pay is poor and more .often than not lhe school officials agd the people themselves have very, meager notions of; education and wflat it should do for the children.” The bulletin demands first a seven < and then an eight months’ minimum 1 term. The minimum salary is placed h at S6OO. •_ t “There are in this state at present ■ 16,495 teachers,” it is stated, “and ; 550,121 pupils, an average of thirty- * three pupils to each teacher. Count- :■ ing forty pupils ter the teacher a force . of 13,000 would be sufficient in the state. The salaries now paid these . 3,500 extra teachers, amounting to sl,- ■ 500,000, could be divided among the ■ number of teachers necessary, thus inl creasing the annual salary of each , teacher $105.” o— ' Mrs. Fred Schafer returned today > from Fort Wayne, where 'she spent the day with friends.

J HIS DEATH WAS VERY SAD i M. E. Church Undergoing Improvements—l. O. Q, V F. Room Nearing Completion. * * ** 'W 1 (Special to the Democrat). r Geneva, Ind., Oct. 16.—The memi bera of the Odd Fellows lodge are 5 hoping to be able to occupy their i new podge room by the first or second » week in November Nearly al! the - worii as b een finished up to the I stage where the finishers ma,v g.*t in t their hands. The lodge will use the ; entire second story of their new " bhilding and besides having a com- ■ mOdjous lodge room, they have a ban- ) quet hall, reception room, kitchen s and paraphernalia room. The lower i floor has not been rented as yet, but i there are prospective tenants for it. r ■ ! The funeral of Clyde Messner, who died at the home in Keridalville Sat- ■ urday, was held here Monday after- ' noon at two o’clock. Until a short 1 time ago, Mr. Messner lived here with - his parents. He was an exenjplary you|)g man and everyone who knew > himj was his * staunch friend. When ■ the family to Kendalville he I wept with them. A short time after 1 they settled in their new home he ■ became afflicted with rheumatism, 1 which disease became so -bad that one I of his limbs had to be amputated J just below the knee. The operation - was delayed too long, as blood poisonJ ing set in, resulting in his death. He 1 was about 22 years old. The funeral 1 was a very large one. > The interior of the Methodist ■ church is undergoing some very inafked changes and when the imprc|vements are completed the mem- ’ bers of this congregation will have one of the prettiest churches imaginable. The greatest improvements [ will Ue the frescoing of the walls. This work was started this morning anti is being done by a Fort Wayne fir|k Four men are working at, the job.' Besides this the church will be s recarpeted and several other mark- [ ed chahges will be made. It will be several days before the work will be completed. L o ; [ THE LOSS TWO THOUSAND J I- w Guffigan Brothers are Heavy Losers — I Horses, Grain and Implements are Burned. - — — -'A' " The big bank,.barn r together, with three valuable horses, farming im- , plements, hay and grain, owned by the Guffigan brothers,in Jefferson ■ township,' was totally destroyed by fire Sunday night and as a result, the three- boys stand to dose something like two thousand dollars. The fire was discovered at nine o’clock, just as the family wa»s about to retire j and at that time the barn was a mass of flames, and all efforts to effect an entrance to the same proved fruitless, and the men were forebd 1 to stand idty by'and see the fruits of their years of toil go up in smoke, without, being able to offer any resistance. What started the fire or how it started, no one is able to state, as the entire affair is surrounded by a mystery and the owners of the property are forced to admit it was the worg of incendiaries, as several mysterious fires have been discovered in that neighborhood in the past several months. The bam was filled with hay, grain and farming implements which had been stored away for the winter and which were all consumed in the fire. Three horses also perished which were valued at two hundred dollars each, they being of the draft horse blood and were valuable as work animals. • The bam was covered by a small policy, but aside from this, the boys’ loss will reach twp thousand dollars. o Paul, the six months old son of Mr. and- Mrs. Henry Gallmeyer, who reside one mile west of Echo, died yesterday —morning. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at the Freidhiem church and interment will be made in the Freidhiem cemetery. The Board of State Charities is calling the attention of the ministers throughout the state to the fact that prison Sunday somes this year on October 28, the last Sunday in October.

0 WILL REDUCE THE RATE i- Clover Leaf Will Make it Two and a Half Centr l • I Beginning November 1, there will be an appreciative cut in passenger rates on the Clover Leaf and skimming over the country on that scenic e short line will cost, after that date, only cents per mile instead of * three cents. The fare from Marion to Van Buren will then be fifty cents, e instead of sixty cents; to Marion, 75 B 1 instead of 60; to Decatur 40 instead of 45, etc. The reduction may be even greater but it is certain to be two and a half cents per mile and ’ may be two cents per mile, r The big lines, such a,s the New * York Central and Pennsylvania lines announced that they intended to sell mileage books at $25 per or cents I per mile good on their own roads | only. To meet this the smaller roads threatened to make the rate cents * “flat,” that is on tickets for one trip only without the necessity of pur--1 chasing mileage books and further ’ threatened to issue mileage books for S2O or 2 cents per mile. All this rate reduction that is going on voluntarily on the part of the r roads i,s looked upon as an attempt to ' head off a two cent fare law by the ’ next legislature. The change of time on the Clover Leaf of which mention was made 1 some ime ago is not yet rea4y to be put in effect, although the officials ® are still figuring on ’it, Traveling Passenger Agent Webber says. While the change will help .the through traffic of the road it will almost- inr jure the local business in this part of the state, as all the trains that stop at the small stations are Nos. 1 and 2.—Bluffton News. • * ' o ' DECATUR LADIES INTERESTED r g Former Decision to Consolidate Fed--3 eration and Union May Be j .■- ~ . r? Rescinded. 1

i The Historical Literary Club met with Mrs. O. L. Vance Tuesday even. )4 ' ' The event of principal interest was the report of Mrs. Marie Holloway, . who represented the club as delegate to the Indiana State Federation of Clubs, which met at Munice recently. As is generally ;;.-.own, a movement is on foot to combine the Federation and the Indiana Union of Literary K Clubs. The state , meetings of these . two clubs were held the same week, the Union meeting at Winona, and each favored the consolidation and L the matter was referred to the proper committees. Since then, however, a 1 fight as to the name of the association ’ has arisen and the Federation ;will again meet soon, when it is expected 1 that the president, Mrs. Mummert of ' Goshen, will be charged with duplicity 1 and will be asked to resign. The mat- ' ter is causing rio end of discussion ! among club women over the state. A ' meeting of the Shakespeare club was held this afternoon to hear the report of their delegates. The Historical club are members of the Federation and the Shakespeare club of the Union. Only the Federation are Eligible under the National Association. Mrs. Holloway’s report was jthat the Federation favors the consolidation. CQBTELYOU WILL BE CHANGED J 4.. —l—■'■'■■ .-,-5-—

* Will Succeed Secretary Shaw in the Treasury. Washington, D. C., Oct. 17.—The Post today says it is able to state without qualification that Postmaster General Cortelyou will be transferred to the treasury department to succeed Secretary Shaw and that in due time an official announcement to this effect will be made. The article goes on to state that George L. Van Meyer, now ambassador at St. Petersburg, will probably be made Postmaster General. o NO COURT BUSINESS TODAY The court session this morning was very short, the roll call disclosing the f act i.ljut. no business of importance was on and an immediate adjournment taken. 4 license was isued to Anthony XtCngerich, aged thirty, and Gertrude M. Kintz, aged twenty-three, both of this township.

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: CALL PORTLAND DEPARTMENT* Explosion Occurred Next Door to the Joseph Mienerding Hardware > Store. FORT RECOVERY, Oct. 17.-3:15 p. m.—A gasoline tank in a drug store exploded, causing 200 pounds of dynamite in the Mienerding hardware store to explode. Two blocks were wrecked. Six are dead and several nussing. The dead include two telephone operators, the bookkeeper and two clerks from the Mienerding hardware store and a man named Wagner. The fire is still raging. The wildest scenes prevail. (Special to the Democrat.) A gasoline explosion in the hardware I store of Joseph Mienerding at Fort I Recovery, Ohio, occurred at It yesterday morning. It “is impossible to secure details as the telephone station was located oyer the store and the operator was killed. It is reported that five people were killed including three clerks in the Mienerding store, the operator and one other. An entire block was destroyed, it is said, and the entire town was more or less damaged. Mr. Mienediing is well known in this city, his wife being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Forking. At 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon a telegraph message aas received at Portland, asking for every physician and requesting that the fire department he.sqnVns the entire town is on, fire. Many of the injured are buried beneath the ruins. Th6ir cries for help and the screams of the dying can be plainly heard by the rescuers. Ahbther report says the explosion was caused by dynamite. A message received last evening from 8,-. J. Smith, states that members of tho Forking family are safe and sound. o SHOULD CLEAN THEM OUT I A Dirty Hole on Winchester Street

Needs Official Attention. L ■, / 4 ' ''j V*': j. We wish to direct the attention of , the peace officers to a dirty hole near > the Chicago & Erie crossing on Win- - cheser street. The place is public • and school children are compelled tp t pass it several times every'day* The r place is located on the second floor , over the barber shop, and it is saitl that men are entertained .there at all J. hours of the day and night, by women of questionable character. The people of .that immediate vicinity are , t righteously indignant at the . things they see and hear. They are more indignant, however, that their.' chil- ■ dren and other people’s children are i compelled to witness such flagrajjt violations of the moral code. That hole must be cleaned out. Decatur will not stand for such an iriipure and unwholesome atmosphere is eb prominent and respectable. quarters, and we do not believe opr officers will stand for it, either. The residents in that vicinity are donning all kinds of war paint, and nothing short of extermination, at least from such a place of prominence, will fill the bill. o A GREAT SHOW FOR TONIGHT “The Warning Bell’’ is Story of

Interest and Fun. A story full of heart interest and .. bubbling with fun and humor. It deals with the home life of the “long shore” folks of Nw England, bringing out all their quaint and amusing characteristics and telling a tale of love, intrigue, hate and cunning that stands without a parallel 1 on the . stage. No play has ever come put in this country thab had so pew ' and original ideas in it. No play eyer;.,,’ drew a more yivid life pic tune, of a / peculiar and. interesting people. It is interesting And amusing from thA'istart to the finbth, and At the SAlhfr ; ; time in surprises; and startling climaxes that raise the audience almost to their feet many times dur- , ing the evening. There are six ... splendid comedy characters, any one of which is worthy the best efforts of a star; so one may see, at a glance, that.-the comedy element is the brightest and most amusing. ,

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