Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1907 — Page 1

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IrOTECT DEPOSITORS rhe Banks are Well Supplied I With Currency and Collateral. n * ■ The officers of the various banks in ■dams county had a meeting Monday Evening and took similar action to ■at taken by all the clearance houses ■ the country. The action taken is ■ protect the currency now in cirKiation in Decatur and Adams counEr so that business can be done as Lual and no ill effects become ap■rent during the present money deKession and scarcity of currency. All Ke banks have large reserves on Knd and in their vaults, sufficient to Kansact and take care of all the genKal business. To protect this curKncy the banks adopted the following ■solutions, which will be strictly adhered to by them: | Whereas, The associated banks of ■Jew York, Chicago, St. Louis, Indian■polis, Fort Wayne and every town ■tactically in the United States, re■use to put into circulation its currency at present, and will not pay in Currency checks of depositing banks, ■nd ■ Whereas, The undersigned banks at ■resent, have their funds in some of Ehe above named cities and are utterjy unable to get the same, and | Whereas, Such a condition and the ■ction of the banks in these other ■laces renders it absolutely necessary for the undersigned banks to Stake similar measures, that their depositors may be protected, and feeling that this condition will be of ■hort duration I Therefore, Be it Resolved. That the fcnderslgned until further notice, ■becking on any day on any account ■r payment on any certificate of delosit shall not exceed $25 dollars. I Old Adams Co. bank. C. 8. Niblick, Pres. First National bank, by P. W. kmith. Pres. Bank of Berne, by C. [A Neuenschwander. Pres. Bank of ■Jenera, by Chs. D. Porter, Cashier, bank of Wren, J. L. Moser, Pres. ■Villshlre Bank Co., by Joseph Bowen, Pice Pres. The F. and M. State bank, fc. E. Hurless, Cashier. - People’s fctate bank. Rudolph Schug, Cashier. Monroe State bank, by W. S. Smith, Pres. I The above resolution need frighten no bank depositor. It means nothing more than it says. Every bank (whose signature is attached to that (resolution has large deposits with its (bankers in Chicago, Indianapolis, New [York and even Fort Wayne. Not a ■tent of these deposits can be withdrawn by any of the above banks, for [the simple reason that those banks lean get no currency on their own acIcounts in New York. The present [insufficiency of currency with which Ito transact business of the country, [arises largely by the great and numer[ous improvments being made, by the [increased price of products and the lover purchase and speculation of property, thereby taking out of the regular channels of trade, large sums [of money. This will soon be returnred and go through the banks as usulai and we believe with as much freedom as at any time within the last [two or three years. In the present condition of the business of the coun[try, w© see no occasion for any dis[turbance, other than the ordinary and temporary inconvenience of waiting |ten or fifteen days. We believe by that time the public confidence will [be restored and all the gold and paper [money withdrawn from circulation and [locked up by its owners in safety deposit valuts, will find its way back into the regular channels of trade, everybody will be happy and business will move on as usual. The Demcorat has many times [spoke in terms of praise and commendation of solidity and good business management that has char[acterized the banks of our county, [and especially the two banks of this city. It is a greater pleasure now to speak of them as such, and to reiterate again their entire solvency. It [is the duty of our people to deposit [their currency with them, and to insist that no depositor withdraw from the banks and circulation a single dollar. There is no sentiment in this request. It is simply good common [sense and business judgment. —— o - | The ladles Shakespeare Club will hneet with Mrs. D. D. Heller Wednesday Afternoon.

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OUR FOREIGN TRADE It Needs a Little Coaxing— Fairbanks Still Looks Good. Washington, October 29. —Controller of the Currency William B. Ridgely will urge more vigorously than ever upon the next session of congress the enactment of new currency legislation. That there will be legislation of this character is generally accepted in view of prevailing financial conditions. Mr. Rdgely’s scheme in brief is to authorize all national banks, which have been in operation for not less than two years, and which have an unimpaired surplus of not less than 20 per cent of their capital stock, to issue not to exceed 50 per cent of the amount of their bond-covered notes, in notes uncovered by bond deposits. The provision limiting the retirement of the present bond-secured notes to $3,000,000 a month is not to apply under Mr. Ridgely's scheme, to gold reserve notes, and this limit is to be repealed or greatly extended at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury, in its application to bond-secured notes. Washington, October 29. —The administration has finally awakened to the fact that the country's foreign trade needs encouragement. Large significance it attached to the announcement of Secretary Straus, of the department of commerce and labor, that he has invited tne boards of trade and the commercial clubs of the country to send representatives to a conference to be held here December 5 for the purpose of discussing ways and means for getting more foreign business for the manufacturers of the United States. It is assumed that the tariff will come up for discussion at this conference, and in view of the fact that the conference is to be held during the first week of congress, the assumption is that an effort will be made to get the legislators interested in the situation.

Washington,October 29. —The Washington Star says editorially: "Mr. Fairbanks denies the St. Louis interview, which was designed to take him out of the president’al race. He need not have noticed it. The evidences of a fake were too striking to escape notice. He stands as he has stood from the beginning, not a candidate by his own announcement, but by reason of his prominence in his party, the importance of his relations to existng policies, and the favor of people. He is, and will remain Indiana’s choice, with admirers in many other states. As to who is ahead in the race just now is useless speculation. There are no means of deciding. Next month's elections may have a small bearing on the situation, but not until some months later will an appraisemnet of public sentiment be of much value.” Washington, October 29.—President Roosevelt will issue the proclamation admitting the new state of Oklahoma on Saturday, November 16. The constitution was formally . placed in his hands by Governor Frantz. AFTER A LONG ILLNESS. Mrs. Joseph Rich, of French Township, Died Sunday. After an illness lasting just twentyfour weeks, Mrs. Joseph Rich, of French township, departed this life for the joys of eternity Sunday forenoon. Mrs. Rich was born in Wayne county, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1839, which brings her age to 68 years, 1 month and 16 days. During all these years she never had a spell of sickness until the last illness began to take hold of her, that of dropsy, which proved fatal although loving hands and medical aid did all in their power to abate the ravages of the diseases. Mrs. Rich was well and favorably known to a large acquaintance having resided at the old homestead farm for many years. She leaves to mourn her departure six sons and three daughters (one son preceding her to the spirit world), three brothers and six sisters, besides a host of friends. —Berne Witness. —<j————— A number of people from Huntington and North Manchester were in the city this morning attending the wedding of Miss Bertha Fullenkamp and Dallas Reed.

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LOCATED THERE NOW And Will Remain Through the Winter—Expect 3,000 in City Next Season. Winona Lake, Ind., Oct. 29.—Willis Brown, founder of the Juvenile Court at Salt Lake City, and of the boys’ city at Wniona Lake, is making his headquarters here, and will for the next six months spend his time in building up plans for the juvenile municipality which is to held in the Winona woods next summer and he will also fill a large number of engagements to lecture in the middle west. Clubs of boys are being formed in churches and public schools in a number of cities and towns, all of them for the purpose of teaching the little fellows to ‘play square,” and in these clubs plans are being perfected under which the members may get to the boys’ city for a vacation next season. From the rate at which these clubs are forming the Winona management at present thinks 3,000 boys will be in the Winona woods when the city opens next July. While the boys’ city is in progress a national conclave for workers among boys will be held. The conclave will be for the study, development and conduct of juyenlle betterment activities and institutions, giving emphasis to preventive meihods. Judge Brown is president of the conclave and the treasurer is 8. W. Haynes, of Portland, Ind., who is doing an advanced work among the boys of his city. The secretary is Charles B. Hahn, former probation officer at Salt Lake City, who makes his headquarters here. Judge Brown began his work oa the Winona boys’ city a year ago. The officers of Winona Assembly knew who Judge Brown was before he took up his work with us,” said Dr. C. 8. Dickey today. “He was the founder of the Salt Lake City juvenile court, and had charge of it for two years and a half. He was not put off the bench for incompetency,as has been stated in some newspapers. The fact is he was legislated out of office by the Utah legislature, and it came about through his court law. Judge Brown drafted this law himself and knew when he did it that it legislated him out of office. The development of his boys’ city idea at Winona Lake and the demand for his time in the lecture field, both of which gave him a much larger territory for work among boys than Utah offered, caused him to leave Salt Lake City. Judge Brown is doing a great work among boys, and the parents of many Indiana boys have already found that his influence among the youth is most wholesome. Judge Brown’s boys’ city idea is worthy of the man who created "it. It is the best idea for the advancement of the boy that Winona Assembly has been able to find.”

THANKSGIVING DAY Good Program Arranged and Delegates Will Be Present from Societies. The Christian Endeavor Societies of Bluffton voted last night to have the annual convention of the Christian Endeavor Societies of the Ft. Wayne district held here and the matter is now definitely settled that the big convention will be held here on the evening of Thanksgiving day and the day after, Friday, in the First Presbyterian church. The coming of the convention to Bluffton is no small matter as it brings representatives from fifty societies that are within the boundaries of the Ft. Wayne district. The district includes all the societies in Allen, Huntington. Whitley, Adams, and Wells counties. Arrangements will be made for the reception and entertainment of the guests who will assemble here during the convention. Programs for the various sessions will also be arranged. The dates for the meeting are November 28th and 29th. —Bluffton News. o The painters are busily engaged today putting the finishing touches on the inside of the Gay and Zwick furniture store, which is gong to add same. The paper hangers will take charge next and push the same to completion as rapidly as possible.

AT ST. MARYS CHURCH | Breakfast Was Served at Home of Bride’s Parents Young People Popular. Tuesday morning at 7:30 o’clock at the St. Marys Catholic church occurred the wedding of Miss Cahterine Gase to Clem Lengerich, two of Adams county’s most popular young people. A large crowd was present to witness the happy event. Father Wilken performed the ceremony which was simple but impressive, the ring ceremony being used. The wedding party arrived at the church promptly on time and to the strains of a wedding march proceeded to the altar, where the ceremony was performed. The bride was dressed in a beautiful gown of navy blue and carried a large boquet of white roses. She was attended by her sister, Miss Bertha Gase, who acted in the capacity of bridesmaid. The groom was dressed in the conventional black and was accompanied by his brother, Leo Lengerich, who acted as groomsman. Immediately after the ceremony the wedding party drove to the home of the bride’s parents, where a sumptuous wedding repast was served. The bride is a popular young lady, being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gase, and her friends are innumerable. The groom is a hustling young farmer, being a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lengerich, and is popular among his associates. The young couple will leave this evening for a few days on a honeymoon trip through the west and will then return and be at home to their many friends on a farm south of this city, where a furnished home awaits them. The Democrat extends congratulations.

INCREASED DEMAND FOR OLEO State Commissioner Says its as Good as Butter. Indianapolis, Oct. 27. —H. E. Barnard, state pure food and drug commissioner, says that the present high prices of butter, lard and other fats used in cooking are bound to produce an increased demand for oleomargine and similar articles. Mr. Barnard says that useful foods of this character are being condemned, although they are cheap, pala.table and wholesome, but they never come into use because of the prejudice against them. “One can buy an article as palatable as butter for half the price if he is but willing to ask for oleomargine,” said Mr. Barnard. “The high price demanded for butter is already increasing the demand for ‘oleo.’ The same is true of cotton seed oil. As a cooking oil instead of lard, this oil is just as cheap, nutritious and as palatable as olive oil anti as meritorious when sold under its real name.

A FAMINE IN ROLLED OATS. Indiana is experiencing a rolled-oats famine. Grocers are out of the prepared breakfast food and have been unable to get a new supply, the factories and millers turning a deaf ear to the petitions of the retailers. Local housewives are threatened with this notable shortage of a staple article of food for a long time to erne —possibly until next summer’s oats crop is harvested and on the market. The cause of £his shortage of rolled oats —and it is just as impossible to obtain oat meal —lies in the condition of the 1907 crop. All over the country the same trouble prevails —the oats grew and headed out but failed to fill out. Millers tell the grocers here that the oats are chaffy —consist principally of hulls with little of the nourishing kernel inside. As a result, millers are not preparing rolled oats for the market —they say it does not pay, and people must live on something else this winter. o The Erie rliilroad company has taken radical steps to keep a strict account of all who are killed or in any way injured on the road. Although such a plan has been in use in the past the officials are to inaugurate a system of accounting in the near future, which will be absolutely correct. The details of the plans are given in the October issue of the Erie magazine and in the same article the officials claim that they will be able to disprove the statements given frequently by sensationalists in rgeard to the number of those killed and Injured.

FOR NEXT NOVEMBER Closing of the Autumn Season to be a Mixture of Wind, Rain and Snow. There is to be something doing in the weather line most of the time in November if Rev. Hicks knows. He says that a regular storm period, which is central on October 31, will have its culminating stages on and touching the 2d and 3d of November. A reactionary storm period is central on the sth, 6th and 7th. We predict that storms will take on decided boreal conditions from about the sth to the 7th —that rains will turn to sleet and snow generally to the northward, with rising barometer, change to colder and very stiff to dangerous gales from the northwest. A regular storm period is central on the 12th, extending from the 10th to the 15th. This period wil pass its crisis from Tuesday, the 12th to Friday the 15th. Change to warmer, falling barometer and cloudiness will appear in western sections by the 10th and 11th, followed promptly by autumnal storms, but these storms will grow in extent and intensity as they pass over the country from west to east, reaching their climax in central to eastern sections from the 12th to the 15th. A reactionary storm period falls on the 18th, 19th and 20th. This period will bring falling barometer,with corresponding rise of temperature, followed promptly by cloudiness, rain and possibly snow. Change to much colder will rush down from the northwest about the 19th to 22d. A regular storm period extends from Friday, the 22nd, to Tuesday the 26th. Look for rain, turning to snow north and west, about the 23rd, 24th and 25th. This storm period, and in fact all the periods in November, are comparatively free from combinations of storm causes. Notwithstanding it will be the part of prudence to anticipate some disagreeable, if not forceful, autumnal storms between the 23rd and the 26th. High barometer and change to colder, frost and freezing will follow the disturbances of this period. A reactionary storm period is central on the last three days in the month. This period will reach its crisis on the 30th, the date upon which the moon crosses th© celestial equator, going southward.

JAMES BOWERS DEAD Formerly Lived at Fort Wayne and Well Known in this Locality. Mrs. O. N. Snellen is the recipient of a message from Kansas City, Mo., conveying the sad news that her brother-in-law, James R. Bowers, succumbed to the ravages of Bright’s disease Sunday. Mr. Bowers has been ailing for- some time, and for several months past his condition has been alarming and to those who were posted as to his condition, this news will be no surprise. The deceased was quite well known in this city, as he made frequent vists here when he resided in Fort Wayne, some nineteen years ago. After leaving Fort Wayne he with his family went to Kansas 'City, where he engaged in business. He was a sucessful and well to do business man and the news of his demise not only causes sorrow to his friends and relatives in this vicinity, but also to his acquaintances at the Missouri city. The remains were shipped from Kansas City Wednesday morning and arrive at Fort Wayne Thursday, where interment will be made. A number of people from this city will attend the funeral. For several hours Mrs. Herman Last, of Fremont, defied the employes of the Home Telephone company in their efforts to set a pole in front of her premises on White avenue. She stood in the hole and remained there until the arrival of her husband. He took charge of the case and Mrs. Last vacated the hole. While her husband went down town to consult an attorney to secure an injunction the men placed the pole and it still stands. The incident created considerable excitement and interest in the neighborhood. —Van Wert Bulletin.

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AT PREBLE ELEVATOR Found Two Hours Later in a Dying Condition—Funeral Tuesday Afternoon. Henry Buuck, owner and proprietor of the Preble grain elevator, and one of the best known men in that locality, met with a terrible accident Saturday, resulting in his death at about six o'clock Sunday morning. While ■working about the engine, he was caught in the belting, whirled entirely about the big fly wheel, and dashed to the floor with awful force, crushing the very life from his body. When he failed to come to dinner at the proper time, and after an hour or more had passed, his wife became anxious and began an inquiry, resulting in two neighbors shortly afterward finding Mr. Buuck unconscious in the engine room, his face covered with blood and life slowly ebbing away. How long he had been lying in that condition is not known, bui perhaps for an hour or two. He was carried home and physicians summoned. He had received a deep cut just above the left eye. His left ear was torn nearly off, the cheek bone was crushed in, his skull fractured and "the left shoulder fractured and dislocated at the joint. He showed great depression from the shock and recovery was at once declared impossible. Everything possible was done for him. but he sank gradually to his death, which occurred at the hour mentioned. The announcement of Mr. Buuck’s terrible accident and his subsequent death, caused much sadness here, where he was known as a clever, honorable and progressive business man. He was just in the prime of life, having been reared in Preble township, .where he was born thirty-five years ago. A hard worker, he soon developed into a successful business man and ’during his management of the Preble grain company, had proven his ability. He was married twelve years ago to Miss Susie Meyers, who with three daughters to mourn the loss of their loved one. Besides these there are the mother, three sisters, Mrs. William Jaebker, Mrs. Albert Huser and Mrs. C. Boese. Seven brothers: Frederick, August, Otto, Albert, Adolph, Karl and Paul Buuck. The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock sun time, at the Preble Lutheran church, Rev. Klausing officiating, and interment will be made at the Preble cemetery.

RESULTS WERE LUCKY Accident Happened at Hesselcastle at a Point Where the Grade is High. Henry Sorg, a farmer residing north of this city near the Hessecastle church, on Sunday afternoon had the misfortune to lose three valuable cows from his herd, the same being killed by the interurban. The cows had gotten out of the field, owing to a defective fence ana got on to the right of way of the interurban along a stretch of track that spans a hollow probably nine or ten feet "higher than the public road. The cows were struck by the car that leaves Fort Wayne at four-thirty o’clock and were instantly killed. The point at which the cattle met their death is a dangerous one, and it is a wonder that the car was not hurled from the track down the steep embankment. The car at the time was heavily loaded and that a more serious accident was averted was lucky. The car was delayed for several hours until the work train was run to the scene and cleared the track, so that the car could proceed. What the value of the cattle was we were unable to learn, but Mr. Fledderjohann thought a satisfactory settlement could be made. The company practically was not to blame for the accident as the cattle were running at large and had trespassed upon the company’s territory. o Henry Schultz, the young man who last week had his hand caught in a threshing machine, is getting along in nice shape. The doctors, however, in a few days will examine the injured member and it will then be determined whether or not the fingers will have to come off.

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