Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1907 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■▼BBYTBUBSDAYMOXI'II'G BY 1W G ELLINGHAM, PUBM«MC» (LMJB* TBAB IM ADTAMOB. B*t«r*d M th* »mm«c* at DaeatnrJatlaM m a**Mi*-«l*M mail matter I. : FICUL FAKI V MASS MUTY SMASH THE MARKET TRUST The Democrat is being both roundly praised and criticised for its boldness and daring in tackling the market trust of Decatur. This was expect&tl The praise will not tickle to the extent that we will ride a hobby to death, nor will the criticism deter us from doing that which we know to be right. And who will deny that it is but fair and right that Decatur markets should be just as good if not better, than the markets at any surrounding place? Who will deny that it is wrong for merchants to combine on a buying and selling price, and make that buying pride a few cents lower and the selling price a few cents higher than surrounding towns? There may be a select few that will benefit by this Standard Oil process, but the general business public suffers. The thing now to do is to smash the market trust. It is to the interest of every live-merchant in town to smash this trust. You can not smash it by looking wise and uninterested, but you will have to get into the game and take your share of the responsibility. There has never been a campaign waged in this city for a better cause than the one to break up the nefarious practice of combining on low prices for country produce. What the merchants want tn this town is buyers, and what brings more or better buyefs than high prices for country produce? They bring in that produce and take home with them the 'merchant’s dry goods, linen, clothing and groceries. Every business naan profits in some way by that transaction. In addition Decatur is boomed as a town with good markets —hnd that is the best kind of a boom. Smash the Market Trust. without any effort to break it op, does a wrong to his customer, his neighbor and himself. The Business Men’s association has done some good things for themselves and the community. They can do more, and this is one important one they can and should do at once—help smash the market trust. The first contract pertaining to the erection of the new motor car factory was secured b/Kirsch and Sellemeyer, it being for two cars of cement. Preliminary work is to be started next week and before snow falls the Coppock factory will be operating in Decatur. Its future is bright, and it’s only one of the many things that is going to make Decatur the best town on earth. Several business men who are members of the Business Men’s Association have complained to us that the campaign being waged against the market trust in Decatur affects them also, as they say it leads the farmer to believe that they also belong to a combination which fixes buying and selling prices. This is not the case, and our remarks should only affect directly those who deal in farm products. However, every business man in Decatur who allows such conditions to exist, One day last week the papers announced that Hon. Samuel M. Ralston, of Lebanon, could not or would not accept a nomination for gcAernor on accunt of his steadily increasing law business, which he could not afford to neglect That statement did not represent Mr. Ralston’s true position in the premises. What he intended to say and what he authorized to <be said for him is that he could not afford to seek the nomination for that high of-, flee. There js a. marked difference between these two statements.—South Bend Times. As a matter of justice to every member of thfc present elty council, and especially to Messrs. Van Camp and Burns, we desire to emphasize the statement given elsewhere, that the attempt to resurrect .the ordinance against hitching to telephone poles' was through no orders from them or even their knowledge of such order. We make this statement so that these two gentlemen will hot be made offensive to those who want this privilege. The Democrat does not mind adding, however, that in our judgment the ordinance is right, and that the telephone poles along the business street is not the proper place for the hitching of horses. In addition, there is not a town, including Portland, Bluffton, Ft Wayne dr Van Wert that does permit it.

The French Lick editorial meeting demonstrated beyond peradventure, that the Democrats of Indiana are united. Regardless of any tangling alliances among the leaders, the rank and file propose to stand or fall together. This will prove encouraging to those who place party success above personal advancement, and will greatly aid in organizing the Democrats for, a victory in Indiana. The merchants of any town are its' prime homers as well as the direct beneficiaries at such a boom. By paying high prices for country produce they attract buyers for their merchandise. If business men are mare interested in the produce bustmess than they are in selling their merchandise, then, es course, it profits them more to hammer down the buying price and push up the selling price. But if you are a merchant more than a dealer in produce, it is to your interest to bring buyers to your store and to increase your sales for merchandise. There is no better card for any merchant than to be known as a high price buyer of country produce. There is no better advertisement for any town than to be known as a good market town. Decatur should have good markets. Local grain dealers insist that they handle wheat on a margin of two cents after the freight is paid, but t the fact remains that they only pay eighty five cents, while Ossian, Ft Wayne and other places in this neigh borhood pay eighty-eight cents or more. Do these men lose a cent or more on every bushel they handle? One would think that if this were true they would soon be ready to quit for many thousand bushels are handled each year. What’s the cause? Where is the difference? That’s what the Decatur business man wants answered and answered quick. We admit we dom’t know, but we do know these conditions exist. We also know that the only way to correct it is for the business man to show some interest In the question. It’s for you we are fighting, as well as every other citizen of the county. Our grain dealers say they belong to the same association as does all. the surrounding towns. It must be a loose affair that quotes prices whereby one city can pay five cents more per bushel than another. The local dealer has an argument to produce and we are willing to give him due credit, but this don’t help any. What Decatur wants to make it a prosperous city is higher market prices and what we want to know now is how to get them, not only on wheat, but likewise on all other kinds of grain, stock and country produce. Let’s talk it over sanely, and do something. AT THE MISSION HALL SUNDAY Police Were Called But Man Disappeared—Several Women Fainted During the Excitement. .Several Strenuous hours were passed Sunday afternoon at the Mission Hall, and for a time it looked as if trouble was brewing for the leaders of this place of worship, and they were at last forced to the last resort of calling for the police to restore order. The Mission services opened up as has been the usual custom for a year pdst and it wasn’t long before the members got warmed up to the work, and several persons were induced to go to the mourners bench. It was during this service that a man, a perfect stranger to every one, and who had on an overload of booze, made his appearance in the hall and immediately got happy'in a religious form and became so noisy, that the leaders tried to induce him to leave peaceably but this he refused to do, as he was determined to take part in the services. As a. last resort the police were telephoned for and by the time they arrived on the the disturber had and quiet reigned. During the excitement several women fainted and it was some tiine before they were in a condition to continue in the services. This is the first time the meetings have ever been disturbed, and the leaders will use every precaution to see that it does not occur again. , o — • WARREN MAN IN EXPLOSION. ■■ - Young Eich on Board the 111-Fated Georgia. » ________ i Not many Warren people when i they read in the metropolitan dailies > of the terribly powder explosion on J the battleship Georgia at Cape Cod 3 Bay Monday afternoon imagined t that among the suffering seamen r was the grandson oi a Warren wo--1 man. But such was the case, says 3 the Warren Tribune. Charles L. r Eich, one of the three men who i saw the danger first and was lucky 5 enough to drop to the floor immei' diately and thus escape the awful catastrophe.

MRS. BTUDABAKER WRITES NEWS Mr*. Dorwin i* a Good Sailor—The Ladies Vtaß Place* of Intereet, tociadlag Napoteon** Grave. V. Paris, France, Hotel DTeaa, July «. Effltor Democrat — We left London on the afternoon of July lth. Yea would not have known it was the grand and glorious Fourth, for not a 1 firecracker did we hear. We were about one hour and a hhlf in crossing the English channel. It was very rough, and a great number of our party were sick. Mrs. Dorwin slept through it all and proved heraetf a fine sailor. We landed at Bologna France, where we boarded our train for “Gay Paree.” The cars here are divided into compartments, each compartment holding about eight persons. There are three different classes, Ist, 2nd and 3rd. Second class being About like our first. The doors are locked of your compartment, and you can’t possibly get out until you get to the right stopping place. We are very pleasantly situated in -the Hotel D’lena. We have our breakfast at 8 a. m., which consists of coffee, rolls, and tiutter, and breakfast is the only meal at which butter is served. The tram cars here are double decked, and are either run by gasoline engines or compressed air and some are pulled by horses, and by the way, 1 think Paris ought to have a Humane Society, as so many of the ’drivers abuse their horses so. As you pass along the streets, you will notice so many places where there are tables and chairs op. the sidewalk in front of restaurants, where they are serving something to eat and drink. I understand a lady cannot go to one of these without fa, gentleman escort From what I have seen of the French gentlemen I think I would prefer to have an American Imported for my escort. The French madams are handsome, but I can’t say so much for the gentlemen. We have been in Paris four days and have seen so many strange and beautiful works of art. I hardly know what to begin to write ebout first, but believe I will tell you of the things we saw today. ■This morning we visited some of the large stores, and did a little shopping and got along very nicely, as in all these large stores there are some of the clerks that speak English. This afternoon we were taken to the tomb of*Napoleon, on the banks Os the Seine. It is something on the order of Grant’s tomb in New York. At one side of the building is a large window with yellow colored glass, and the light passing through this, casts a mellow glow over the whole - of the inside. We then went to the Triumphal Arch, which is situated at the union of twelve stately avenues, and from this radiates like the points of a star. The Place de la Concorde at one extremity, the Gate of Triumph at the other, and the Champs Elysees between them form a trio that defies comparison. It is the grandest triumphal arch ever constructed. Built in the style of the old Roman arches, it was erected in memory of Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz; was commenced by Napoleon and finished by Louis Philipi. The corner si6ne was laid upon the anniversary of the emperor’s birthday. There are 278 steps to the top, and we climbed to the top to get a birdseye view of Paris. No difference where you go, you will find persons selling souvenir postals, even on top of this arch. They all know Americans are “easy, marks,” and can’t withstand the temptation. To finish up the afternoon we were taken a drive through the Bois de Bologne park, which covers twenty-two hundred acres, and is said to be the most beautiful park in the world. The long drives and walks are lined on each side with beautiful trees. The bodies of the trees are a light green, due to the lack of sunshine, but which only add to the beauty of the scenery. In the afternoons this is the place to see fashionably dressed ladies and gentlemen out for a drive. Our ’ party can’t cut much of a swell' when we are' living in a suit case for three mouths. But we Are' enjoying the best of health, nevertheless, and taking in all the sights and hope to be able to tell you more about It when we get home, than -I could possibly write. Hope to be able to write at least one more letter, Jennie Studabaker. » o— —‘. Prover Brothers, the new proprietors of the city bakery and restaurant, are sporting a new sign, which is suspended from an electric light pole. The sign is a neat one, there being nothing In th ecity like it and shows progressiveness upon the part of these men. Dunkirk barbers have put on the Hd. Patrons who owe bills and refuse to settle will have their names written in a book that stops further credit. The tonsorial artists are tired of working for nothing, and hereafter will'iefuse to scrape a man. on the black | list. The hardware men are stocking I up on safety razors.

THINKS HE HOLDS TRUMP CARD Believe* Teddy Will Control the G. < O. P. Convention—Too Early for R«al Business. ' - . • Washington, July 22.—Before Secretary Cortelyou left Washington a few days ago for his summer home on lAug island, he let it be known that he was not particularly rejoicing over the boom that was recently started tor him as the Republican presidential nominee next year by Representative Jesse Overstreet, of Indianapolis. While pleased that strong friends had named him as the proper man for the nomination, he does not consider it wise that there should be any agitation at this time. He has a number of good reasons. The first Is that he Is loyal to Roosevelt, and does not care to be considered in the race so long as there is more or less of a clamor for the president The second is that he does not want to antagonize the Hughes people in New York at this time. His third reason is that he prefers to remain in the background for a number of months yet He does not think there is anything to be gained by making a fight for delegates from now on for a while, and he prefers to remain just now as sort of a dark horse candidate. He is said to be figuring it out that this is a better policy for him than if he were to draw the fire of the other candidates. He wants to keep from making enemies just as long as possible. Important in this attitude of Mr. CoFtelyou is the fact that he does not wish to in any way antagonize his chief, and that he does not accept the elimination of Mr. Roosevelt with the same faith that many others are doing. He believes that the president will control the next convention of the Republicans, and it will be at his bidding. Mr. Cortelyou feels he cannot afford to get into the fight at this time without the consent of his chief. New Yorkers say "that there are two elements in New York favorable to Cortelyou. The stronger is the Woodruff-Parsons-Roosevelt people, who control the state organization. They don’t want the state delegation to be for him next year. Rather than permit this they will push Cortelyou to the front The president would probably not object to this. Despite all assertions to the contrary, Roosevelt and Hughes work together only in theory. With Mr. Cortelyou in the race, subject to circumstances and conditions, and with doubt as to whether the Hughes people will permit the Estate machine to £efeat them in their aspirations to present the name of their governor, there are bound to be some political doings in New York state in the next ten or eleven months. — 4-o— y ■ >-■ : MONTH ENTERS LIKE A LION And Goes Out the Same Way—He Predicts Great Tropical Storms . ibr Last of Month. • . /■ - ■ » ' Parson Hicks, in his August forecasts sayfe: A regular storm period will be at its crisis on August the Ist and 2nd. A mercury period is near its center at this time and will prolong and intensify storm conditions at this period. Thunder storms, with many stiff local gusts Os wind and rain will center on and about the Ist and 2nd. A reactionary storm period is central on the sth, 6th on and about which days may be expected a return of storm conditions, The warmth will increase, the barometer will fall, and cloudiness will grow into decided acreas of storminess and precipitation. . A regular storm period extends from the 10th to the 14th. It is central on the 12th and wtll come to a crisis, centrally between east and west extremes of the country, on Tuesday (and Wednesday, the 13th and 14th. A reactionary storm period is central on the 17th, 18th and 19th. As this period begins it will grow much warmer, first in the west, the barometer will fall and thunder will pass eastwardly across the country,'reaching their culminating stages on and touching the 18th and 19th. A regular storm period covers in perturbing power the 21st to the 26th. During this period the storms will be severe. A reactionary storm period is central on the 29th, 30th and 31st. It is a well knowfi fact that great tropical storms are due about this time so watch out —o Modern Woodmen of this section will hold y a picnic in a grove near Huntertown August 17, and is is expected that camps from Kendallville, Auburn, Laotto, Columbia City, Albion, Garrett and Ft. Wayne will participate. l ' J *■ r ■ ' -He-- ' : I; '

VAN WERT FIRST ATTRACTION Play* Her* Sunday and Monday—Six Teams Join—Two More are Coming In. -Muncie, Ind., July 23.—TJie organization of th* new Indiana-Ohio base ball league was effected at a meeting of several prominent independent team managers at the Hotel Delaware in this city last night The cities represented were: Portland, Richmond, Van Wert, 0., Kokomo, Bluffton, Decatur and Marion. These, together with another city, probably Anderson or Muncie, will compose the league. However, there are several applications for the one vacant berth and it is not likely that neither of the two last mentioned cities will be given the membership. In case Muncie gets the league it is probable that she will be represented by the Shamrock base ball club, now playing independent ball and managed by the Shamrock atheletic club. The local team owns its own ball park and it is said to be a money-making enterprise. With the Shamrock club backing the Muncie team it will probably “be in the game” as long as any of the other teams. In case the Shamrpcks enter the league Muncie will be given the opportunity of seeing some fast base ball, as it is the intention of each manager to get the very best players he can within a salary limit of |BOO a month. It would also mean that Muncie would have weekday games. Manager Hugh Cunningham, of the Shamrock team, was unable to say last night whether his team would join the new league or not. A meeting of the directorate of the Shamrock Athletic club will be held today, at which time it will be decided whether or not the club’s team will join the league and post A forfeit of |loo> guaranteeing to finish the season;' which will last for about two months longer. A. R. Kling, of Indianapolis, was elected president /secretary aid treasurer of the league. Those who met last night were: Frank Riinyan, W. W. Kunkel; and Ben Solllnger, of Bluffton; Harry Hall, of Marion and Kokomo; Louie Holthouse, of Decatur; Louis Hunt, of Portland; Clarence Jessup, of Richmond; J. A. Stiggers, of Van Wert and A. R. Kling, of Indianapolis. The league teams will play twogame series and the season will begin next Sunday. On Sunday and Monday the following games will be played: Bluffton at Richmond; Van Wert at Decatur; Portland at Kokomo; Muncie at Marion. o_2 t vPHIL HUSER’S HOUSE SHATTERED Berne Family Had a Narrow Escape. A terrific electrical storm swept Berne Tuesday night and in almost eyery house drove some members of the family out of bed. Lightning fell in continuous streaks Illuminating: the heavens with zig-zag lines from the sky to the earth. A stroke fell into Philip Huser’s house on west Water street, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sprunger, and damaged the roof and knocked the plastering off the walls in the room in which they had slept. The storm came shortly before midnight and was so prolonged, getting fiercer all the time that Mr. and Mrs. Sprunger also became frightenedjmdkleft their; house and went over to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Liddy, on Main street It was after they had left the bedroom and gone down stairs thstfc. their house was struck, and when they returned in the morning and saw what had they could not help but feel -that their escape was providential, for, had they remained in their room, the two parents and their little son might have all been killed.—Berne Witness. •■■ ■ i —c CARD OF THANKS. We desire in this manner to thank our many kind friends and neighbors Tor their kindness and assistance during the Illness and death of our beloved wife and mother. Wm. Pillars and daughter. - -■ — ■ The following letters remain uncalled for at the postoffice: Mrs. F. Meyer, J. C. Kazee, Edward Kelfer, Mrs. Fred Hane, Mrs. M. M. Deishe, C. M. Winters, G. W. Cole, John Butler. -— * : l—Ji —I 1—

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WHILE LATTER WA< IN BATHING Rifled th* Clothe* of Abe W hit right— Tried Before Mayor Coffee and Cause Sent to Circuit Court. Charles Straub, a young local character, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Marshal Green to answer to a charge of stealing a dollar and ninety five cents from Abe Wbitright the later having filed the affidavit. The alleged transaction was supposed to have taken place last Saturday afternoon, when Whitright and Straub, together with a number of other boys, proceeded to the. sandpit to take a bath. All the boys went in swimming but Straub, who said he could not swim, but would sit on the bank and. watch the others. The boys, suspicioning something, proceeded to watch him, and in a few moments Straub was seen to take up Whitright’s trousers and take some money out of the pockets. The lads who saw this being Ramsey and McIntosh. They did not say anything until Whitright missed his money, and the boys then informed him what they had seen. Whitright Immediately went before the Mayor, told his story, and a warrant was issued and Straub was apprehended Monday afternon. He was given a preliminary hearing Monday night before the mayor, he being represented by Attorney Judson W. Teeple and he denied the entire proceedings. However, the court held that the state had made a good case and bound young Straub over to the Adams circuit court in the sum of fifty dollars, where be given an opportunity to declare his innocence before a jury. ■ 1- ——o Child fell fourteen feet. Little Fred Kinzle Fell From Second Story Window. Fred, the little son of Mr. and Mrs, George Kinzle, while playing upstairs at their home, had the misfortune to fall from a window to the ground below I *, fourteen feet, and sustained some very severe body bruises. The little chap; together with his sister, were sitting in the window, which was protected by a screen. In some mysterious manner the screen s slipped out just far enough tp permit the body of the little fellow to fall through and he struck the brick sidewalk below. The fall was at/least fourteen feet and that the child was not instantly killed is a miracle. The babe" other than being severely bruised, Is feeling as well as usual and it is thought nothing seriously will result from the fallo Quick relief for Asthma Sufferers During the summer kidney irregularities are often caused by excessive tend to the kidneys at once by using Foley’s Kidney Cure. .• , - i THE HOLTHOUSE DRU& CO. —o : OBITUARY. Jennie Mechllng was born in Wells county, Indiana, November 2, 1861. Here she spent the days of her childhood and youth. While still young she became a teacher and taught six or seven terms in Wells and Elkhart counties. A number of years she devoted to the care of her invalid sister. She joined the Methodist church when she was still young, at Bluffton and lived a beautiful Christian life, being very devoted to her Lord and the work of the church. She was especially interested in the W. H. M. S. pf her church, and gave it many years of her consecrated thought and service. On May 24, 1896, stib was married to William Pillars. She had been in feeble health for some time, but her friends did not expect her death, and were shocked to hear that she passed away Friday morning, July 19, 1907, aged 45 years, 8 months, 17' days. She leaves to mourn their loss three sisters and one brother, Mrs. Harriet Bowers, of Adams county; Mrs. Cal Kump, of Bluffton; Mrs. Tillie Deal, of Adams county and Mr. Daniel Mechlin, of Wells county. Also her husband, Mr, Wm. Pillars, on? - rpdaughter, Ethel Pillars and two stepsons, Miles Pillars and Ben ril’xrs. One sister, Emma Mechline,-p. ?c led her in death. Her funeral services were conducted at her late ho tie- by j her pastor, Dr. C. B. Wilcox, ai .1 her burial was at Maplewood cmiet'.ry on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.