Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1906 — Page 3

WILL EMPLOY ABOUT 50 MEN To Begin With and More as the Plant Grows—New Buildings Will Cost $20,000. A new industry that will begin operations with fifty men is practical-ly-assured for this city and will be ready for business by the first of the year, and the beautiful part of the whole program is that after being once installed it will be a permanent fixture for Decatpr. This new industry will be known as the Decatur Packing and Produce Company, and frorp all present indications will be located on the land of Fred Scheiman on the north side of the Chicago and Erie tracks, taking in part of the ' property where his present slaughtering plant now stands. The company will incorporate at SIOO,OOO and practically all of that amount of stock is sold at present, at least the promoters of the concern are not in the least' worried over the amount that is still on their hands, as the least explanation of the matter makes monied men and farmers jump at the chance to buy stock. The work of selling this stock has fallen upon the shoulders ’ of Fred Scheiman, who was the originator of this idea for the betterment ! of Decatur in a commercial way and he has been ably by Dan N. Erwin, and by their untiring efforts they have realized their plans. The company expects to hold a meeting some time next week when all the : stockholders will be called together t and the matter of selecting officers to I run this concern will be taken up and disposed of and other matters of importance will be discussed and determined. The plant, when.completed, will be a two-story concern, abeia 150 feet long by 80 feet in width and will in all respects be modern in structuxe, it being the object of this concern to put in nothing but the best. New and up to date machinery will be installed, including their own icing machine, a cold storage and all . necessary machinery to make the killing of live stock an easy matter. It is expected that the capacity of the . plant will be 300 hogs a week and 50 head of cattle and sheep. The p'ant in this respect will compare favora- , bly with all the larger packing houses rof the country with the exception that it will be on a smaller .scale. It is also their intention to place a - traveling salesman on the road, who will take orders for fresh and smoked meats and the same will be filled with promptness and dispatch.. As stated before, they expect to employ 50 men at the- start and as the- blsiness increases the force of men willebe in- . creased, this feature alone making it far the best thing that has been promoted in Decatur for years. The men who are at the head of the concern represent our best business men and farmers and men who are thoroughly acquainted with this line of business, and the success of this movement is an assured fact as it now stands. The farmers who were approached and : offered stock in this concern snapped j at the chance and in the stock sheet | are the names of the leading farmers [ of this county. A plant of this kind when the farmer gives it a little consideration is one of the best things for him that has ever been broached, as it makes a ready market for his stock and he can always secure the top market price. Too much credit for this new venture cannot be given Fred Scheiman, as it was through his labor and efforts that the same was made a success and a new industry insured for Decatur. At present it seems that Decatur is on i the boom and that in the next few 1 years to come we may be able to point wjith pride to the numerous industries that will be using all the surplus labor that the city can afford. This new company will meet next Week sometime, when a complete orr ganization will be made and the pub- | lie will then be able to learn who some of the stockholdfers are and in whose hands the reins of government Will be placed. The new buildings will cost about $20,000. o ... AHE STORY IS DENIED. ? Friends of Mary Eddy Baker Cam* Forward. * ’ Boston, Mass., Oct. 29. —Roused to action by I’.e story printed in the New York Sunday World that Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy was no , longer at the head of the Christian Science church bu merely a cover for designing , schemers, the church friends of Mrs. Eddy today came forward with statements in rebuttal to those given circulate n yesterday. Mrs. Eddy’s friends denied that two World reporters had > hadany conversation with Mrs. Eddy. ■ They called, it was said, but Mrs. I Eddy told them that owing to the I duties of the church she could not reI ceive visitors. I i

REMEMBERING RAILROAD CARS Big Job cf the Pennsylvania Line Has Begun. Philadelphia, Oct. 25.—As one big facility in moving and taking care of its nearly a quarter of a million freight and passenger cars, the Pennsylvania Railroad is having them all renumbered. It is a gigantic task, one that will take fully a year to complete, but when the work is done there will be none of the confusion which has brought grief to the Pennsylvania’s car record office and car accountants of other roads. Troubles arose from the fact that every one of the individual companies which go to make up the Pennsylvania system had its own car numbers. In addition to that, the similarity of the legends, “Pennsylvania” and “Pennsylvania Company,” often caused one name to be reported when the other should have been. In the system there might be eight or ten cars with the same number, and if the small initials of individual ownership were left out of a report there was no way of telling what car was really meant. For example, take the number 2,015. It was a gondola car on the Northern Central, the Buffalo and Allegheny Valley, the West Jersey and Seashore; it was a box car on the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington, the P., C., C. & St. L., and the Erie and Pittsburg; and it was a coke car on the Pennsylvania railroad proper. If some agent sent in a report on “Pennsylvania, 2,015,” neglecting to mention the smaller initials, he might be reporting on any one of the -Seven. It is a very intricate and complex job to get the new numerals on the cars. The size of it can be- realized only when one considers that the cars of a big railroad system are scattered over the whole country, many of them staying away from “home” months, even years. Before such a one can be renumbered, of course, it has to return to the Pennsylvania system. To the passenger cars belonging to the lines east of Pittsburg are given the numbers 1 to. 7,000 and to those belonging to the lines west of Pittsburg the numbers 7,001 to 10,600. The freight cars are numbered.from 10,001 to 500,000 bn the eastern lines and from 500,001 to 999,999 on the western lines. To make the task as easy as possible, it was arranged that the largest ownership,, namely, the Pennsylvania railroad proper, should carry the lower numbers. This meant that in the new scheme many cars would fall into the proper class, without having to be renumbered. The cars are to be repainted, too, but that is, of necessity, much slower work than the renumbering. There are comparatively few places where it can be done, while new numbers can be put on at pretty nearly any station where there is a small paint shop. When the repainting is done every car on the eastern lines will have the word “Pennsylvania” on the side, above the number, and the letters “P. R. R. ” on the end. On the western lines “Pennsylvania Lines” will be the legend for the side of a car and “P. L.” for the end. o QUIET TITLE CASE HEARD Motion to Dismiss Damage Case for Want of Prosecution—Administrator Appointed. Judge Smith of Portland was here last evening and heard further arguments and demurrers in the case of John S. Bowers vs. City of Decatur, but according to his record gave no decision. Charles H. Lammiman vs. Jacob Blount et al., suit to quiet title, proof of publication filed, default of all defendants, cause submitted and finding for plaintiff. E. Burt Lenhart appointed commissioner to make deed. In the matter of the petition for a drain by Henry Scherry et al., the bond of ther construction commissioner was fixed at $5,000. In the case of Sarah J. Steele vs. Charles S. Clark, SIO,OOO damages, the attorneys for the defendant filed a motion to dismiss for want of prosecution. William Fuchs was granted letters as administrator of the estate of Charles Fuchs and filed bond for $2,400, which was approved. In the Iva Roebuck estate, George W. Brown, administrator, and in which exceptions -were filed to the final report and a petition for distribution by Israel Bender, an answer was filed today in two paragraphs.

THE SAME LEADER. He Spoke to 350,000 People in Indiana, and Is the Same Favorite Bryan. The Indiana tour of Hon. William J. Bryan ended with a monster meeting at Ft. Wayne last evening, where he addressed twenty thousand people. What can be said of the Ft. Wayne meeting can also be said of the receptions tendered the peerless leader in every section of the state. Large crowds greeted him everywhere. The last day he spoke first at Lebanon, where at 8 o’clock in the corning thousands of people, many of them coming miles, were gathered to see and hear him. At Logansport, Delhi, Logansport, Culver, Plymouth, Columbia City and Ft. Wayne ovations exceeded ovation, and numbers exceeded numbers. Each day Mr. Bryan spoke from eight to nine hours, and he ended as bright and energetic as he began. He is a wonderful man to endure the hardship of travel and public speaking, but the life is hard and is placing its imprint upon him. The greetings given the great commoner seemed to be more pronounced than those of 1896, when he was struggling with a party division to be elected to the presidency. This year as a private citizen, advocating the cause of Democracy, he is the same idol. There is no question but what the people believe him and in his honesty and integrity. He is a commoner in so far as being nea.r the people and having their rights nad their cause at heart. But when it comes to brains and oratory there is but one Bryan in the country. It is estimated that Mr. Bryan spoke to 350,000 people during his three days in Indiana. It is also believed that his influence upon the election so close at hand will be great. He summarized a little upon political conditions and said: “The feeling among the people is very -different from that which prevailed two years ago. The Democrats are now hopeful and enthusiastic. They believe that the party is going in in 1908, and they want to make a good showing this year. The Republicans, on the other hand, are in worse condition because of a division among themselves. There is a gulf between the reformers and the standpat Republicans, and both sides recognize that the differences must be fought out. o THE MILLER-McKEAN CASE. Dismissed by Appellate Court —No Grounds for Appeal. The case of Calvin Miller vs. George E. McKean et al., which was appealed to the appellate court from this county, was dismissed yesterday, Judge Black saying: “A judgment ‘that the plaintiff pay the costs herein laid out and expended’ is not a final judgment and the plaintiff can not maintain an appeal therefrom.” Miller sued McKean to recover $2,000 ' he claimed due him on a partnership deal. The court found for the defendant and against the plaintiff for costs, whereupon Miller appealed. o . ALL HOPE ABANDONED. Relapse After a Six Months’ Seige of Typhoid Fever at Midnight. •1.-— ..II ~l I ■ ■ Miss Agnes Schrock, who has been sick for six months with a complication of diseases which began with an attack of typhoid fey er, took a turn for the worse at midnight last night and has been sinking rapidly since, hopes for her recovery being abandoned. She is at jhe home of her sister, Mrs. Hunter Myers, at Butler, Indiana, where she went with her mother a week or two ago in the hopes that a change of scene would improve her condition. She gained steadily until last night when the sudden turn for the worse came. Her brother, Mr. Will Schrock, visited her yesterday and left her last evening feeling encouragd over her condition. At five o’clock this morning a message from Butler said Miss Agnes had suffered a severe sinking spell and another at eleven o’clock this morning said she . was being kept alive only by strong stimulants. Miss Bessie Schrock left for Butler this morning and Will i went this afternoon. Miss Agnes’ sickness has baffled the physicians, i and her trouble has been variously ; diagnosied. Her hundreds of friends i here are grieved over the sad news i and are hoping she may revive, even i though there seems but little chance, i At two o’clock this afternoon a < message was received stating that ! Miss Agnes had regained conscious- ( ness under the use of opiates, but her ■ condition was in no wise improved. t

WARRANT WASN’T SIGNED His Claim Was Voted, But This Technicality Caused Higher Court to Rule for Oity. The Supreme court of Indiana has reversed the decision of the Allen Circuit court, which a year or more age gave George McKean judgment for $429 against this city. In doing so, however, the court says the contract was good and should have been allowed, but the cause is reversed because the city warrant on which suit was brought was not signed by the mayor. The syllabus of the decision as noted in the Supreme court records si as follows: 20839. City of Decatur vs. McKean. Allen S. C. Reversed. Jordan, C. J. (1) Where the common council of a «ity in which the city engineer had died made a contract with a competent person to pay him a stated salary for one year for services in connection with making public improvements, and if the cost of such improvements exceeded $15,000, to pay him 1 per cent of the excess cost in addition to his salary, such contract is valid and the. agreed perentage can be collected by suit. (2) But a city warrant on the treasury, by the mayor, will not support an action thereon, and a complaint on such warrant is bad on demurrer. (3) Each paragraph of complain is separately tested by a demurrer separately and severally to the first, second and third paragraphs of complaint for the rbason that neither states facts sufficient, etc. Norman vs. Ball, 159, Ind., 329 and Southern Indiana Railroad Company vs. Harrell, 161 Ind., 689, have been overruled. . — —-o —' ... MEN DEMAND EIGHT HOURS Company Refuses and Both Sides Are Preparing for War on the Marion-Chicago Division. Conditions between the Erie and their employes in Chicago are fast approaching a crisis. Word was given out by the affiliated employes of the Erie yards in Chicago today that unless their demands were acceded to by the 30th of this month, they would go out on a strike. This is the final decision of the strike committee. Today was to have been the date on which the road and its men were to have come to some settlement of the difficulty, which has sprung up between the Erie and its yard men in Chicago, but it has been postponed until the last of the month, when the final action will be taken. Just what position the road will take in regard to the matter is yet a mystery. The head officers who have been in Chicago returned this week east today on No. 10, but not the least hint of their plans has been given out. The deihand-jsf the men is for an eight-hour day, without a decrease in the wage scale. They are determined in their action, and will not listen to propositions of concessions. On the other hand the road officials are preparing themselves to z fight the meh, and will hardly make the concession asked without a struggle. Already things are beginning to look black along this division of the line, and the crisis is but a few days distant. —-Huntington News-Democrat. o G. R. & I. RAN FAST SPECIAL. President and Other Officials on a Record Run. President McCray of the Grand Rapids railroad, in company with a ] number of other officials and clerks, passed through our city last evening enroute from Richmond to Grand Rapids on a special train. Prior to the coming of the train a special message was forwarded to each operator < along the line informing them to put 1 out watchmen at every crossing with- 1 in the city limits, as the party were i endeavoring to make a special speed < run. The train passed through this 1 city about 4 o’clock and at the time 1 was running at a furious rate, in all s probability about 70 miles an hour, 1 or at the rate of over a mile a min- t ute. The train had a clear track from 1 Richmond to Grand Rapids and made : stops only to take water, this being 1 credited against the train erev,’ and t taken in with the amount of time i consumed to make the trip. Owing to s the fact that Only a few were aware c of the record run being made the trip i through this city vas; witnesses by c only a few people. These, however, t stated that all they saw was a black i streak., c

EYEBALL WAS REMOVED. The Injury Leaves Mr. Touhey Totally Blind—Many Friends in This City. P. J. Hyland received a message this morning from Muncie stating that James Touhey, a brother of Mrs. Hyland, who now resides with his mother and sister at Muncie, had rah with an accident resulting in the tota destruction of his eye. The accident happened while James was entering his home by running into the door, the eyeball being so badly injurec that the removal of the same was necssary. With this accident, it now leaves Mr. Touhey totally blind, as he lost the sight of his other eye some years ago. Mr. Tuohey is well known in this city, having made this his home for a number of years, and he had a host of friends here that wil sympathize with him in his hour of affliction. Mrs. Hyland left for Muncie at noon today. o-■■ NOVEMBER’S COLD BLEAK DAYS As Told in Rev. Hick’s Monthly ' Bulletin. In his forecasts for November Rev. Hicks says that a ractionary storm period is central on the 2nd, 3rd anc 4th. The interval between the periods will be unsettled and threatening, making a “.spell of bad weather” during the closing of November. A regular storm period is centra on the 9th, extending from the 7th to the 12th. By the 9th the growing storm conditions will have increased, so that general cloudliness and rain will be in progress in western sections, and during the 10th, 11th and 12th, rain, turning to sleet and snow on the wtstern flanks of storm areas, wil progress to the east across the country. This is another period which promises to be prolonged into a spel of, unsettled, if not continued rainy, snowy, stormy weather. One of the most severe disturbances of the month* will culminate within forty-eight hours of noon on the 16th. The barometer will drop of its lowest readings for the month, thick cloudliness and great humidity will prevail, and general storms of autumnal rain, turning to destructive sleet, and later into blizzardous snow and northwest gales may be expeted, covering the northern and extending far into the central sections. A reguar storm period extends from the 19th to the 23rd, with thick, prolongued cloudliness, sleet and snow Falling barometer, higher temperature and greatly increased intensity in storminess will develop and pass rapidly to the eastward about Tuesday the 20th to Friday the 23d. Cold, high winds out of the northwest will rush in behind these storms as. the h’y’.i barometer niovs eastward and southward displacing the storm areas. Shaip cold with h..sr. and freezing toward the north, will visit most sections from about the 22nd to the 25th. ■ t A reactionary st6rm period is central on the 25th, 26th and 27th. This will insure more or less rise in temperature, with decided fall of the barometer, cloudliness and return of rain and snow. The disturbance of this period will culminate on the 26th and 27th, by which dates storms will have passed well to the east. A regular storm period begins on the 29th and runs at least four days into December, being central Decembtr the 2nd. o IT BEATS THEM ALL. Indiana Union Traction Company Gives the Service. Os all the modes and methods of campaigning that afforded Tuesday by the Indiana Union Traction Company excelled. The trip covered 300 miles and carried the Commoner Bryan and a host of Indiana Democrats through the most prosperous parts of Indiana ahead of schedule time. The ’ service was in charge of Charles ( Baldwin, superintendent of transpor- s tation, while Editor Dale J. Crittenberger took care of the great and only Bryan, and the party of £ Democrats accompanying them. The i train service was unexcelled and re- t vealed the fact that the electric car < service is the best, and that the In- I diana Union Traction Company lead t in this class of travel. The speed 1 attained many times was 60 to 70 I miles an hour, and at all times the i private palatial car Martha had a I clear right of way. v

ENJOYED DINNER AT MAGLEY. I Decatur Ladies Guests of Mrs. Robert Case. Five Decatur ladies went to Magley Friday and enjoyed themselves as guests of Mrs. Robert Case. A beautiful four course dinner was served ’ and was certainly enjoyed. Those who were prsent were Mesdams W. H. Naehtrieb, F. M. Schirmeyer, Jennie Studebaker, C. E. Neptune and W. J. ' Myers. o THE REPORT WAS FAVORABLE i Say the Street Was Built According, to the Plans and Specifica- > tions. The city council met in special session last evening, Mayor Coffee presiding, and every councilman answering to roll call. The purpose of this special session was to take up the matter of formally passing on the F TH* hirst street improvement, and the council at once got down to business. The report of City Civil Engineer, stating that the street had been put in according to the plans and specifications and giving the actual cost of the construction according to the bid submitted by Contractor Fry was read ; and upon motion referred to the pavi ing committee, who immediately reported back that they concurred in the report of the engineer in charge in all things. This report was also adopted. Upon motion by Martin the > engineer was instructed and directed » to prepart and file his assessment roll, which was carried. The assessment ’ roll was then filed and is now in the 1 hands of the city clerk, where any of r the property owners may examine the , same. A resolution showing that t the engineer had in all things complied with his duty in filing his estimate and assessments of benefits and damages to lots and parcels of land i abutting on First street, an<J the committee having accepted the report. The council then directed that the city clerk be instructed to give notice to the property owners whose property was assessed, by publication in the Daily Democrat for one week, seating that the assessment roll was on file in his office for said improvement and further announcing that the common concil would meet at the council chambers on the 7th day of November to hear and determine - any remonstrances thereto. This resolution was passed and ordered spread of record. No other business coming before the council they adjourned. o ■ —- IN THIS CITY LAST NIGHT Senator Tyndall Presided and a Splendid Address Was Made by Judge Smith. . Several hundred voters attended the smoker at Democratic headquarters last evening and enjoyed every minute of the occasion. The cigar smoke, was thick enough to slice, but that’s what everyone wanted and we heard but few objections thereto. Senator John W. Tyndall presided, and his opening and closing address were honest, sincere and effective. Hon. Walter J. Lotz was unable to be present owing to the fact that the state, committee had dated him for North Manchester first. Judge John- M. Smith of Portland was present and delivered an able addrss on the issues of the day. His arguments were forcible, direct and plain and his words carried weight and conviction to his audience. He answered Hanly’s plea for a legislature that his several pet bills to give the governor greater power might be enacted into laws in a straight from the shoulder manner, proving the danger of such laws. The meeting was in every way a success. — o BOY’S LEG WAS BROKEN. A Friendly Scuffle Results in Serious Accident. While wrestling in a playful manner, Clark Peoples threw Harvey Conrad, a small boy about his own size; down and broke his leg. The accident happened near the Bosse opera louse and the poor little chap lay for some time before his playmates realized that he was hurt. He was taken to his home and the injured leg dressed, which will no doubt cause him to remain in the house for some time. The blame for the accident can hardly be credited to any one, as the soys were merey playing. Tim t onrad lad, however, is to be pitied, as he is a cripple and the leg it 'tired was his crippled leg. ■