Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1907 — Page 4

JHE DEMOCRAT BY .W G ELLINGHAM, PMM.ISHCD ■■ ■ -r't •— U.ObPBB YBAB IN ADVANCE. , ; 1 Eat mW at th* poatofflca at Decatur, ladlaaa m moona-cISM mail matur. o.‘ , ■ * OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY AN IMPORTANT DAY. Come to the smoker tonight Let’s smoke up. Let’s get together and plan for a successful lot sale next Tuesday. Let’s discuss plans for making Decatur numerically and commercially greater. * Let's lay the ground work for a population of ten thousand in 1910. This is great work and means much for the present and still more for the future generations. Decatur possesses all the essentials. She is unequaled in shipping facilities and lias all the other qualifications for the’ best that is Vi manufacturing, in. •business as well as social life. All that is needed# to expand tftese various agencies is more factories' and

wit* them will come more business, and more values. We have parted well. PublM sentiment is with us. Our universally benefits to be derived frqm expanding, and a»e bending every energy to Decatur •greater and better. - This lot sails'must he a winner. Every lot must be sold. Every person pledged must see to it, tffht Tuesday, March 26, shall live' is the one day when Decatur took the- mpßt*pron. an. .» gtpssive stop in her life’s history. There is“ okh Sray ttf -do tt; tttid’Jdhlyi i’t.n'rroß QJ .. yi.one. Make public sentiment so strong ' * ■ ' *>?' i 'G.’ " - every lot MlK*be sold and paid , i, . • ..... for as agreed. : i This isttmoneessential thing necessary, to the suc.cess of this undertaking. It means a much to every merchant, property owner and individual. Plan now to make it a success. MR. BRYAN SAYS. “The most interesting phase of the situation just now is the refusal of the peopel to lend money freely to the railroads. This, railroad managers say, is due to the hostile legislation, but this is a mistake. There has been no hostile legislation of sufficient severity to impair the real value of railroad securities, where the railroads have been honestly conducted upon an honest capitalization. “If the investing public is alarmed, it is because the railroad managers, in vain effort to terrorize the legislatures, have carried matters too far. If any other answer is needed for the anxiety on the part of investors, the investigations furnish it, for the inquiries show to what extent railroad stocks have been watered. But what is the alternative? Must .the government refuse to investigate rotten management for fear the mismanaged railroads no, longer will be able to fool the public into buying inflated securities? The sooner the railroads are put on an honest basis the more secure will-' the Investing public feel.” Or, perhaps, Secretary Cortelyou is leaving that $30,000,000 of government money in the national banks tc demonstrate to the financial interests of the country that he is just at good a fellow in an emergency as Mr Shaw.—lndianapolis News.

A Boston woman has created a local sensation by asking to be divorced from her husband on the ground that he was afflicted with tuberculosis when she married him and concealed that fact from her. She would have no trouble in getting a decree on that plea in Indiana where the marriage license law requires that the applicant for matrimony shall give a clean bill of heal th.—MUncie Star.

. “Only one man in a million,’* says the Frankfort Crescent, “makes a success, finally, by using money procured in a dishonest way. The man who is contented to work and earn sufficient money to live; decently, marry, if he chooses, and lay by a competency for old age, has chosen the happiest lot for his life.”

The agitation of town booming that is shaking Decatur from center to circumference is coming south. Monroe is getting the fever badly. Just lately they decided to start a bank and now they talk of starting a lumber yard and grist mill. Next thing we know the boom will come still farther south and annex us all to the county,seat.—Berne Witness. The Decatur Daily Democrat has been enlarged to a seven column folio, and is now being printed on a new Whitlock preps, the same kind of a machine as was installed in the Witness office three years ago. This •puts the Democrat office almost on a par with us, as far as equipment is concerned. Well, the Democrat deserves it. May it continue to prosper and be the leading paper in the county with the Witness as a close second. —Berne Witness.

BOOST YOUR TOWN. There is no mistaking the calibre of the bqpm,that has taken hold of at Jpast four-fifths of ouf citizenship, and which has the other fifth entranced to a degree that they are about reddy to enough.” There Is no use to trjr to buck a steam engine, and there is little or nb use Crying to change the?’ tide after' public sentimeat has set in. A legitimate public enterprise that deserves tp win A .usually does. win, and if there ever was a legitltnate enterprise it is this one, and .-I ;?iTi. • ’ .ltria> one, too, that is entitled to the packing of every resident of Decatur. 'lt is entitled not only to the good

will, but the .influence of every resident. It should be boosted from early morning until late at night, and if ; / 1 you can get up during the Wee sma’ flours, and boost a little, so much the better Those who are bringing other questions as a discussion now, should forget it. You can make but one acomplishment at a time. Let’s raise a fifty thousand dollar factory fund; let’s secure a good manufacturing institution and then we can take up these other questions and carry them to a successful conclusion. That is the business, sensible and rational way of succeeding at anything. Do not permityourself to be classed on the wrong side at this critical time. Do not do something you will always regret. The citizens and business men who are spending their time and' energy are doing it solely for the gpod and • ii expansion of Decatur. There is, no especial benefit thejTcan receive that will not come to 1 every other Decatur citizen. Everydi|e l -.wili’Tbe:grtenthe , right hand of. fellowship in this boost’OV!? - • er club. Be a booster. .j ~ -<T ■ * Be a genuine booster too.‘ ?H A. city j ' ■ ’’■■J' &■< that expects to get up and dost must

id*" ■ be people strictly by a class that; talks for his town. Talks earnestly‘for’ It, and. permits nothing to deter any movement that seeks to bring more people and more business to it. Boost long and loud. The Mission 'is still attracting considerable attention and the hall is crowded every night, soine going out ZL" U y! OSlty ' wh,,e others go for the good they may derive from the servecs. a great number of people have so far connected themselves with s sect and they are growing daily.

THE BOOSTERS ARE BOOSTING. ' the Smoker last night was the best ever." The crowd was large, the enthusiasm great, and the lot sale assured. What more could one want The sale was assured in the fact that the people will make it sure. The tone expressed by the assemblage of Decatur’s pushers and business people, Is of such calibre that it is reliable. When thqy agree that something shall go, it will either go or a well developed hame strap will break in two in the middle. The appraisement sheet was displayed there for the first time. It was gone over carefully and discussed thoroughly. Not a complaint emitted from any one, and the unanimous verdict was passed that it was a most equitable adjustment of values, and showed thorough work by those upon whose shoulders this responsibility fell. Many of the values are less

than anticipated by the people: This fact should greatly boom the sale on. Tuesday. Farmers shouldfcsit up and take notice of this lot sale. There are many reasons w|iy they should. First, the lots ate a good real estate and will make sin investment that Will bring handsome return. Any one with a little cash/will be standing in, their own light, in passing,.jip this " 1 *, ' 'ii'' ' ‘ sale. In the Tseconfi.pl ace, any farmer living within a reasonable distance ,ot this city, will be benefitted by mak? Ing Decatur a good factory town. It will Increase farm values and better; .- v. yet it will make' a'Y&fdy -marketeer ! I’V-.-.-uood’barf 1 everything they have >to >jsell ir - Itfts-, .• . ■ ' ’ ..i-» : z* ' ** •'• ‘ ‘ sures them a sale at a good price ... . anytime of the day on’’ night, ; three

hundred and silty-five * difyS <in the year. The farmers should get in on 1 i. . j ,■ • this lot sale. • -r /J .'<i ■ . ..mi i.,wn—g= I Somebody in the next Republican < national convention, is going to arise ; at the “psychological moment” and Shout “’Rah so Teddy!” and when the excitment dies down it will be found ( that Mr. Roosevelt is the nominee. The drift of sentiment and events I all seems to indicate that in spite qf his protests, the president will literally be forced into the acceptance of another nomination at the hands of the people. Unwillingly, the Republican leaders are coming to admit this. Mr. Roosevelt is of a different school of politics from most of the Republican leaders and neither his popularity nor the strong probability that he must be made the next nominee of the party appeals to them; but rather than have the party go out of power it is more than likely that within the next year they will have succumbed to the inevitable and will be taking their Roosevelt medicine with much show of enjoyment, u gyen thQughl they make faces after they’ve turned M 4 i ’ . 4 -.- their backs.—Muncie Press. • "■A! — FWilliam J. Brytm and Janies M. GusW? theDfem6cratt'c ; bbs»’'of TeniteyP ; Pittsburg the latter part o( last wpek f The papers say Jt , lasted o’clock in the 'morping,> That sounds a trifle fishy. Mr. Bryan is hot in the habit of staying’ out of bed that time •’ * ■ •’'"‘‘•l’-'. of night. Strange to relate; none pjt the papers have- po far undertaken to tell what. Messrs, Bryan and Guffey' discussed during this, conference.— South Bend 7 Times.

Perhaps the good example set by the Decatur Dally Democrat haiMnduced the, citizens of, that place .to wake up and get busy with their factory fund. Editor Elllngham, .of the Democrat,’has increased his paper to a sfeven column size, Installed a new and fast press and the Democrat in its new dress i» certainly a credit to the city and county it represents.—Bluffton Banner. . i • » . ' ’ J

1 BEGINS APRIL TWENTY-BECQNC And -of Coot and Benefits to be Dorived TherefromThe regular meeting of the County ; Superintendents’ assoteciation of In- ’ diaha last July, a resolution was 1 adopted requesting the Purdue Uni- , verslty to establish a training school • for teachers of rural science. In aci cordance with this request such a course has been announced extending from April 22 to June 1,1907, the purpose being to instruct teachers of rural schools in methods of presenting to their pupils the subjects of agriculture, domestic science and nature study. That the specific subjects in which . instruction is to be offered should be as follows: Dairying, Farm Animals, ; Farm Crops, Horticulture, Soil Studies, School Gardens, Nature Study and ■ Plant Life, Animal Life, .Hygiene and Sanitation of the Home an*d School, i Domestic Science. 1 | The main purpose of the instruction will not be to impart knowledge about a given subject, but rather, assuming tfiat the teacher has already had some training in the natural sci- | ences, to point out how to make use of the operations, the materials, and *dke environment of country life in cultivating fa the. pupil an interest in and a knowledge of these things. The facilities of the University for fumishfcig such are excellent. A dorps of teachers who are specialists in' thq. "subjects to be considered,’ahd the excessive laboratories and collections available, insure to the students of this course unusual opportunities for .inspiration and hblp ; ful instruction. V ’ ■ 1 Every advantage possible will be given. The expense the course Complete is HHmated forty-one dollars as follows; Registration fee, $1; board for sii? weeks, >18; room, >l2; incidentals, sio; ' .' ’ . ' The announcement for this school' was sent to Superintendent' 'Opliger with the request the attentionqf every eacher whom he knows. tw jbe ; interested in the subject. ' t.. V '.- ■;. r. > * O'-- ■' NEWBFROM New Case Ftlett. Today—Larceny Cart "i ' thj Tomorrow. . ■ Co rd I "W Attorneys Hobper & Lenhart have filed a hW‘ case, entitled Grv'iii Fink Reuben St. Bradford and wife,' complaint to quiet title* and dor reet The land id question is located in Wabash township.' r —4m .• The case of the state vs. Robert Branam, charged with stealing the team of horses of Jacob Weidler here ten days ago, will be concluded tomorrow morning before Judge Erwin.

The divorce cases of Peter Smith vs. Odessa M. Smith, and Effie Johnson vs. Robert M- Johnson, are set for trial tomorrow morning. HIS VIEWS ON REGULATION The Political Situation in» Ohio is Acute Owing to Appointment by the President.Washington, March 20—The president’s traveling ambassador, William H. Taft, is packing his trunk for another excursion to Uncle Sam’s noncontigious territory. Next Saturday he will sail from Charleston, S. C., for the canal zone, Cuba, and perhaps Porto Rico. It will hardly be necessary for him to; unpack his trunk on his return from that trip, for he is under instructions to be in the Philippines by the first of September, which' means that he will have to leave this country the last of July pr the first t pf Ajigust, , _ , ■■■■,. , t ( . ...- (; ■ •od £■• '. >■ !.-.k Washington, March IK).-—The ptesi-’ dent has prepared a.statement setting . forth his views on governmental regulation <©f railroads, which he may or may not n make : public after he ’hah’ talked With President Mellen,-of the' New Haven, railroad, and auoh other headpof railroads choose'to come to see him within the next few days. The .stateinent, callers on 4he president shy/ddl simply a reiteration, of a compilation bf he haa- sald on> the subject in. his messages’' to congress and 1 , in various putajlc addresses. .. -pA’-pi' ’ ' —. i' j '-’Vo',! ei Washington, March 2d;—The political situation lii Ohio Its farther complicated by the president’s action In Hp& pointing John G. Sater of Columbus, judge of the new United States District Court for Southern .Ohio. The friends of Foraker say it is an open defiance of the patronage* fights of the Ohio senators, of the state organizations and of the state’s 'rdprcjßehta'tives In' Congress.' ic-; SECURING EVELYN’S 01GNAWRE L- ■ She Will Dfcrty- the Statements That Beat Her and Expert y/11l Say Paper la a Forgery. New York, March Alton

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McLain Hamilton waß |he firßt Witness called by Delmas' fri'We Thaw .trial today? 'inhere Wtf 'Jt'rug&i# tAday that DaVid N. Carvalel,’ the handwriting expert, who has been In qourt for Hhrry Thaw ever since the trial opened, will take the stand to prove that the Evelyn Thaw-Abe Hummel affidavit is a forgery. It will be shown, so it is said, that through clever juggling by Hummel, the tricky Jew lawyer, that Evelyn’s signature got on to the photographic plate. It Is also reported that Evelyn will swear that it is not her signature as signed to the alleged affidavit.

Jerome interrupted the trial today withal request that the court execute inquiry into Thaw’s mental condition for the court’s own guidance. The jury was excused until Friday morning. Hartridge, one of Thaw’s attor-neys-said: “This means a victory for the defense, the case is over.” Dan Reilly, another attorney for the defense, grinned broadly and said: “You can read the answer in my face.” SOLD AT COMMISSIONER’S SALE Clark J. Lutz Had a Land Sale at Portland. In the south corriddr Os the court house Monday morning, Clark J. Lutz of Decatur, as commissioner in the John C. Bailey estate, offered for sale the realty belonging thereto, consisting of 221 acres in Bearcreek, and Jackson townships. Eighty acres in section threb, 'known as the “home”, farm, ws« purchased by Sheridan Bailey and Laura V, Kimble, -son and daughter of the -deceased; '• 30 .acres adjoining this on the east, was bought by Seyi&ohr F6fd '' of “; Bryant, • for A. fi. J aqua' bidih* a fdrty-acre tract ih section 18, west of Bryant for $2150. A'7o-acre tract in section 20, •Jhcksbn township, tailed to sell, not brihgltag two-thirds' of the appraised value,; ad required-hy law. It was appraised at $3,850, arid would have to be bought for' ati Tbast* $2,-867? It will be re-appraised and offered again.— Portland CSommferCial-Revtew. ’ •:—’••■l-- , o . - ‘' ' ' -v " _ I _— — 1111 ■ LITTLE HELEN MEYERS IS DEAD

Remains Arrive From .Columbus at . , Nqon Tuesday. , i Idttlp, Helen Meyers, the eighteen? months-old daughter of Mr. tmd Mrs., .Robert Meyers, died at their home at ncilumbus, at 6 o’clock Su idav, evening, after an .illness of., three weeks from a stomach ailment The remains arrived in this city over the C. & E. at,’ 12:'8 Monda- and tuen c> tKp home nf Mr. and Mrs, Paul Baumgartner, 260 First street The fun-

Mrzand Mrs. Meyers, and Mrs. W. ly Miss Eruttfe Jackson. Baby Hel was a bright and beautiful child a era! party ccmeisted of the pares he# death has -caused sadnessi a sorrow. The funeral arrangements will: announced later. — LAST WEEK’S STOCK PANIC. That last week’s stock panto Wall street aws started by raiirc speculators to “give the country scare” must have been clear to who gave attention to the dccurreni Harriman and Morgan had been Washington to see the presided They wore long faces and predi® disaster if the states did not eas« on railroad legislation. Two or thl days later the “scare” was put uni way. They broke the market. 1 the market got away from them a broke some of the fellows “J j buy , what they don’t want and -1 ■ what they don’t own.” i Before things settled down ago ' many persons were “scared” but J i was not the great American putil I The railroads were not built to I I operated by Wa’l street speculate] : and the people have been gettf ■ mighty tired of the piratical inethl of Harriman and, his kind. If tl| ! men have it in ’.heir po?er uJ /present conditions to precipitate panic at w|ll, then the sooner them ditons are changed and the powdt | the speculators limited, the bettfj will be for the country. M | Honest investors, not only in w i- road. stocks* but in other thfl| should not-be daft, da/* Titian j their', interest? asm- wonotanGy-sw ' arded by the operations of Mr gamblers* as is the case now. ®| 1.,. . ——■ -r- —~0-y.- —«| | The plans and specifications for® improvement of the'St. Joseph schS ' and she Sister llome, have been pl! ' edi Im the hands of the committee 1 I charge, who 'ire . perfectly satis with the satoe and wiil no doubt ra ommend the improvemens as askl The cost according to plal will reach in the neighborhood of a . thousand dollars, which means sol thing very elaborate. The young recruits that are brel ing into big league company for * first time, .seem to be creating a va favorable impression and the chanl that, a number of them will ml good, seem to be ,a foregone . coni sion. The games as played Sunl by the big leagues in training ql ters, shows that some rs. the mil league timber is able to delivefej goods and in large sized packaged that li