Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1907 — Page 2

THE CLUB AFFAIRS Invitations Received for Archbold Wedding Anniversary at Fort Wayne. IfiVftXZjCMM tAT* mXtT&i '-7 1 nzober of Decatur people from. Fort Wayze ann<-va<rizg that on tke 2T*_z of til* &>Kk Mr and Mrs. M V. P Arezicld of that efty wovld eeiebnt* their twtety-fifik weddzng anniversaro az their home m. 731 tt’ayze Kreze For*. Wayne Ind. Tie iaTixaxjoßS are very seat and those who received -hem wffl ao d'.zht make a great effort to attend. Mr. asd Mrs Areh'x.i formerly resided ia tins city and fr«z pre-ei: appearances zare -V. a* yet forgottea their many trissds in this city' Tze event w;J nt dossbt be celebrated in az elaborate Mr and Mrs. Fred Va-gfin and Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Mill* retpnzded ~c io-vitirjtx-t to take denser at the home of Mr. and Mrs. WJd Do-win on Fourth s*ree‘ Sunday Boon at twe.ve o’clock. which was given. ty Mrs. Ixi-rwin is honor of Mr. Dirwin s thirtieth birthday ant ; t-— -.ary. Tie 4-raer ns '.zi.m.zz'-7 served and the guest* more than enjoyed the erect. • Sunday evening Mr. Cooper. of the Rescue Mission at Fort Wayne, gave a very interesting talk cz misric® work at the Geraan Refonned chares. Although Mr. Cooper is uoc an ordated minister of the gospel yet he delivered an excellent talk. oee from which bis listener* reaped many z <d thought •> and which they will put in action in the near fntnre. The chnreh was crowded to its utmost capacity. Many ts the leading societies and clubs have discontinued their meeting* until after the holidays then the social ball will commence to roll faster than ever before. The young people of the various churches are preparing for their regular Christmas entertainments. Watch for the program.? and the evening which they will be rendered for they will be something worth hearing. Miss Minnie Orris will arrive home tomorrow from Fort Wayne, where she has been visiting friends. Mrs. Bubers and four children arrived in the city from Geneva to be entertained by Mrs. Med Wile until evening when they will leave for Satai ta?. I. T. to make their home. Miss Flossie Bollinger delightfully entertained four of her most intimate girl friend- Sunday at her home at a twelve o’clock dinner. Those peesent were: Misses Lain At*. Mary Stolts Pearl Baumgartner. Katherine Bremercamp. The latter will entertain the same company next Sunday at dinner. _» <rw \___ A small party of merry classmates gathered at the home of Miss Grace McKean and held a jolly old time surprise on her last Friday evening at her home on Fourth street. During the evening light refreshments were served. The Shakespeare club will meet with Mrs Morrison on Wednesday afternoon at her home. A company of ladies left Saturday for Fort Wayne to spend the day and to witness C. William Craae in “The Father and the Boys’’ at the Majestic in the evening. The ladies were: Mrs F M. Schirmeyer. Mrs J. C. Patterson. Mrs. Fred Mills, Mrs. C. D. Lewtoo. Mrs. W. H. Nachtrieb Miss Rose Donathan, Miss Marie Patterson, Margaret Mills and Miss Johnson. Another dinner party of yesterday worth note was the one given by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Holthouse at their home on north Third street. The guests of honor were Miss May Holthouse and Erm an Smith. Mrs Eli Crist pleasantly entertained a small party of lady friends last Friday evening in honor of her mother, Mrs. Daniel Hunter, of Bluffton, at a six o’clock dinner. The occasion was given to celebrate Mrs. Hunter’s eigh-ty-fourth birthday anniversary. Although up in years, Mrs. Hunter still is young and enjoyed the dinner as if sbe were still young in years. Many small but beaiftiful remem be rances were given her. Be a booster for your home town. By patronising other than local institutions you are using a boomerang that is likely to fly back and do you injury when you least expect it. No one can be an ideal citizen and talk and work against his home town. So inng as you are a resident of a community, do your part toward assisting to greater progreaa.

.PURE FOOD LAWS Have Made it Absolutely Safe for the Children to Eat Sweets. Little J-fizzle had a mickey on a pateed stick. .Se Seked tee paint tS of it. whi-rh made him very siek. Bat that was sexore the pzre food were jas.sed is IsdianA wcich was to ssppreaa pateed moslmy* mate of easty and ocher i forms of caady admierariaE. Little won’t have a part ted moo4key this year &or as- other painted eacdy, with fervely flower? on it with, msc—.t-taocti is red paint reading. To my t-eet girl ‘ *1 fcve yc-z act other surtit z'.zsemse wMek deezhts the et-mtry swain and hi* sashfm lassie. These wfsld-be lovers wth have to ind side other plan, cd expressing I* their love for each other. “Kte-me-quieks. Jove heartsF etc- w2l aoc be on the market in Indi aza candy szires any mere tcless it be old stock and the dealer wei be liah.e to a heavy jf oM€TS fX fO*T S4iJ®. Before the candy was brought to a sweet coccteion in the various ■sh&jesale bosses in the state. H. £. Barnard, state food and drug, eommlisicner visited manzfatinrer? and impressed npc-n them the necessity of not csiy lea-mg out adzlteratl ms but leave off makizz the highly colored candies. Ccnsequenxly the eir2drea wiT eat this year the purest candy they have ever tasted- Canty men throaghja* the state have delighted the pare food cc-mmissimer with the help they have given him in seeing the law is lived up to And they Sid this without the necessity of flrst cleaning their own ht-nses for the pure food c-immissiozer says that the ‘trest candy in the world is mmmfhetured in Indiana.

THE OTHER WINNERS In this Township—Several of the Elections Were Quite Exciting. The supervisor elections held in the various township? of Adams county Saturday afternoon, caused considerable interest and in many precincts the battles resembled a county election. In this township three guperrisors were selected- la the first district Will Reppert was elected without opposition; in number two Jacob Omlor won out over two opponents Messrs. Baker and Andrews la number three H. L. Smith, better known as Muskmelloz Harve made a garriso-z finish the result of the 12* ballots cast being Smith »* Kintz 49. The latter was probably the most exciting election in the county, both men having rigs out to carry voters to the polls and considerable m,t®ey was wagered or. the result in this city. Though the office is not a very remunerative one, it U a very in portant one, especially where the e are any mud roads. Another warm election was that at Hartford township where Courtney Runyon and James A. Pusey were the successful candidates.

Joe Bentz, a well knows character, was arrested Sunday by Marshal Bohnke charged with public intoxication. He was lodged tn jail until where he was arraigned before the mayor, where he plead guilty. He was assessed the usual old amount, a dollar and costs, and being unable to pay, was Bent to board It out with Sheriff Meyer. August Jackson, a convicted saloon keeper of Fort Wayne, out under bond awaiting a decision on a motion for a new trial to eave himself from a twenty day jail sentence, Thursday night, ajrer all employes had left the News building, assaulted Clarence F. Bicknell, publisher of the Daily News, knocking him from his chair. Jackson was accompanied by two alleged toughs. Julius Haugk, the contractor, expects to leave some time this week for Germany, where he will spend several months visiting with relatives and taking in the sights- Mr. Haugk feels that he is due for a rest and expects to leavs the country as this is the only way he can get it. J. L. Long, the Churubusco liveryman, who is charged with having assaulted Rev. H. W. Miller and John M. Smith, has been bound over to the (■Whitley circuit court on a charge of felonious assault with intent to kill. The case is the result of bad blood developed by the anti-saloon crusade at Churubusco and it is claimed that Long beat up the minister and Mr. Smith as they were leaving the Vandalia depot in Churubusco for home on the day the blanket remonstrance against Churubusco saloons were filed. , 4 life*

IA MONTH WASTED Prospects of Legislation of Interest to Indiana Not Pardcuiarly Bright. Washington. Dec. la.—Congress wdi ’ ad?: ass tht. week untS after the 1 Chri-‘tmas t-riidays witbost having ‘ anythmg in the way of ’ tegislatKSS. vh-th is simp-ty the arm _a . remmd er that the eotantry ecad he as well off if the date for the -:pes~g ts the Av-makrng branch were the flret ' Monday in Jan nary instead of the fret ' Monday in December. The Jadens however have had their bends together and hare mapped out m a bread ant ecmpretezst'e •a; whan ci-zgre-ss will da- wb® it gets down to hzsmees after the Christmas > festiTriie-s are over and firgtr.en. Th- . ccngressamal leaders have a ha: it of feeding in advance what the iegt.s’.a- --■ t;m program shall be and the firez fet:m.armn the c-rdm.ary ci-zzreesmaz has cf it is when be reais abottt it in the , newspapers. i Speaker Cannon, cf course, is the ' leader t f leaders in the house- tThaz he says z:»es. When Taele Joe, repre sezzizg the bouse, and Senators Aidrich. All-icz ani Hale, represeremz the senate agree as to wkax shall be fine or what shall not be done there is practically nf.hmg left for he everyday co-gressman to dt except to toe the markThe prospects of l-g.-li.t..z ts lteal interest to Indiana is not brighz Congress already is showing a disposition to choke the proposed spp-ro-priatlLZ of to increase the size of the Ind ian a p»: Its army pcs*, and it is not likely that the secretary of war's recommendation will even be acted upon favorably by the httree committee on approprletions. The Indiana delegation is a "hoose divided again st itself’ over federal court ‘.egislatitn. Even thos wfeo want Judge Anderson to hold a peripatetic court caznt-t agree upon details part of the delegation, supporting a hili introduced by Congressman Holliday and part the till of Judge Crum ptacker. Leeis’a tim of this character cannot he had. as a rule without the united support of the state’s delegaioz. and in the case of the pending proposition this seems absolutely impossible. LIVED AT WREN Was Three Score Years and Ten and Well Known in this Community. Shazzaa Johnson, aged sewmty years and one of the oldest and best known citizens of Wren. Ohio, died Monday morning at 6:30 o’clock after an illness of several months' duratioifl death resulting from old age and other complications. Mr. Johnson had made Ms home in and near Wrer Ohio, for the past forty years and. was one of that towns most popular citizens. He was an old soldier, having served his alloted time in the defense of his country and came oat of the war with high honors. Since the time of his dlsctsarge he has lived a retired life at Wren, Ohio. He was well known in this city, especially so among the older generation and old soldiers and has a best at friends here who will be grieved to learn of his demise.

Smith & Ullman who for years have made a specialty of breeding full blood Hereford cattle, have just received a fancy specimen from the Chicago live stock show, a lie’fer calf, which weighed when it arrived here 1,070 pounds. The calf took a high premium at the show and will be exhibited at the 100 S Great Northern fair. Correct returns of the field books of the enumerators who had charge of the recent count of school children in Terre Haute shows a list of 14 606 boys and girls of school age. County i Superintendent Hubbard certified the I list and forwarded a copy to State ' Superintendent F. A. Cotton today. The total number of school children’s names received by the enumerators in their work was 16,610. This is considerably less than Fort Wayne and would show the first reports wore fraudulent. They showed almost 18,000. The faculty of the Peruana high school has followed the lead of the other high schools In the state and have taken action against the high school fraternity. A decree ha? been issued to the effect that no fraternities shall exist among the students. Seven members of the Phi Dulta Kappa are pupils of the high school. They were called into the office of the superintendent Wednesday and requested to sign an agreement not to belong to the fraternity. After a consultation with attorneys the students signed the agreement.

NEWS IS PLEASING The Loss Estimated at §15,000 Will Not be Over $2,000 —Real Cause. With - »•? thonsard pounds of poultry at stake which meant a loss of tbzzsauds of d.llire to the pro-pr-e---t.*re of the Decatm- Produce company, sbrzld it perish carpenter Suttles and vc-rkmen proved them.selves e*jzal to the occasion by treeing the roof of the bm'dlzz so that the major par. of what was supposed to be a total loss. eould be rescued from the debris, caased by the earing in of the zc-rih wall of this cancer- las* Saturday sscrming. Immediate'.y after the accident Mr Sutz-s and workmen b-egan the wrrk which saved for the prem-t'.ers of the t redoes cotzp-any severe! thousand deßars and it is attributed to teir oceadng eftjrts and heroic work that s: much of the dressed poultry was recovered as it vis ~m safe to w:rk beneath the roof which apparently was ready to fall at any mtmenh AB day Saturday and Sunday the carpenters worked eonsisteztl htping tc. reduce the early estimated loss and their es- , forts were most successful as it is now estimated the entire loss win cot ! exceed I- Louis Hammond and ftree began this miming to repair the

epenizz in the - :r..h wail caused by the cement blocks earing in. suboe-gze-t to the great pressure from the second story Boor and within two or three days they will have completed "heir part of the work. Fbrtuuate it was that the machinery was not d.amaged in any way and with a cost of forty dollars the ammonia pipes win all be cotnseeted and in running condition as good as ever The mason and carpenter work will be entieriy completed within ten days and not a person will be thrown out of employment daring this time. Work is ziing on the same as herett-fire with a force of thirty-five people on their pay roll. Fif-.-er. thousand pounds of turkeys win arrive from a zeighbering town tonight and this supply will fully replace the depreciation of the stock they had ready for the market and the holiday demands will be met with ease. This is gratifying news indeed to Decatur people as the Decatur Produce company is classed among the f-re-.-ost institutions of our city and their pay roll runs into the huadreds of <l.l are each month. ■With this, many families are sep ported and without this work they would be left in an embarrassing condition. The real cause of the accident was the fact that the h?aw load of goods on the second floor caused the iron truss rods to break lose and the collapse followed. The construc-jor of the building was in no wise fsulty as might have been understood by some.

AT ST. JOHNS CHURCH Miss Ida Wischmeyer Becomes the Bride of Mr. Harmon Koenemann, Sunday afteronon at two o’clock at the St. Johns church north of this city occurred the wedding of Miss Ida Wischmeyer to Harmon Koesernaa Rev. Jaus officiated. The specious church wag packed to its capacity by the friends and relatives of the contracting parties who desired to witness the happy union. The bride locked beautiful Indeed in a white gown of silk and carried a large bouquet of white roses, while the groom was dressed tn the conventional black Miss Wischmeyer is the daughter of Henry Wischmeyer, of Bingen, and is beautiful and accomplished in many ways. She is popular among her associates anfi her friends are Innumer- ; able. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Koeneman, of Freidhelm. and is held in high esteem by all who . know him. He is at present engaged as an employe in the shops at Fort Wayne, and is a hustling young business man. Immediately after the eer- ‘ emony a sumptuous dinner was served at the bride’s home and last evening the young couple left for Fort Wayne where they will make their future home.

A remarkable remonstrance case was settle in the White circuit court which never had its parallel here and which may never be Jupli cated again, when Charles Coch el' of Monon township was granted a license to sell liquor on an application filed in 1899 and in face of a blanket remonstrance In Monon township at present, which is valid and which has been a bar against the granting of licenses to several men who have recently applied. Dick Sillick, of Portland, wae a business caller to our city today.

THE GREATEST Just a Word About the Parade and Other Arrangements for the Day. That the Elks minstrel show that given at the Bosse opera house on January first will be the best home talent prodneuen ever given in Decatur is eviuenced by the material that they have on hand and expect to use upea tri? occasion. They are using the best of local talent which in the way of ballad singers includes Misses Kate Mylott, Clara Terveer, Marie Beery and Florence Sprunger. and Hugh Hite, L. A. Holthouse and Jesse Sel’emeyer. Besides these talented singers will be the comic songs by the six end men which includes Bart France. H. L. Conte* Fred Belt W. P. Schrock M J. Mylott and C. O. v—-r.ee. Frank E. trance will act in the capaeity of interlocutor and being a person of some vast experience wiii v tis part of the performance in magnificent style. The opening chorus besides the end men and ballad singers will include thirty-five chorus girls whose r,a we have heretofore tueutioaed. Special scenery will be used for this production and the same is now in the hands of an artist who will have the same completed in plenty of lime for the big performance. The second part will consist of numerous specialties by local artists that will be mere fully mentioned later. A big street parade will be given on the afternoon of the first which you should not miss as several new and unique . features will be introduced that promises to make the same a hit. The ! ticket sale will commence next week : and in connection with this we desire to say thdt the Elks are putting a ’ restriction upon the number of seats that each and every person may have ■ plugged and have limited the number >to four. This part of the program will ■ be carried out to the letter as heretofore, for home talent shows it has been ' a case of the first come the first served, ' and we are aware of one case where ‘ one man had forty seats plugged at ■ one time. This will not be tolerated j by the Elks as they desire to give all a chance and will endeavor to protect , all their patrons. Every purchaser ; of seats should bear this in mind and : not attempt to have over four seats plugged at a time or they will be turned down. The proceeds from this show will go to the cause of sweet charity and the public should encour- • age the Elks by attending the performance. A complete program will be announced at a later date.

THE CONTEST WAS EXCITING. M>sb Hernia Mann Wins Diamond Ring Contest Professor Leon, the great, who for two weeks’ past has held forth at the Bosse opera house, giving first class vaudeville performances oii, each evening. beside adminlstrering massage treatments to the afflicted, has gone to Anderson, to fulfill an engagement. The diamond contest which he has conducted during hit stay became very exciting at the finish Saturday night. Miss Henna Mann winning by a small margin over Miss Bernice Daily. The professor, however, made the statement that he would send a ring of the same kind to Miss Daily by Thursday of this week. Professor Leon has a good troop of fun makers, and his company made a decided hit in our town.

FIRST ANNUAL FRUIT SHOW. V I! Be Held at Purdue During Farmer’s Course. Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 16. —Arrangements have been completed for the first annual fruit show to be held at Purdue university during the week of the farmer’s short course. Jan. 13-18, 1998. This move, which promises to be of great value to the fruit growers of the state, is the result of cooperation between the state horticultural society and the horticultural department of Purdue university. Cash premiums to the amount of about S3OO are being offered by the horticultural society for exhibits of fruit, and in addition to these, several special premiums have been secured. The contest is open and free to every fruit grower in Indiana. All fruit shown must be grown by the exhibitor. jFor premium list and further information write to C. C. Woodbury, Experiment Station, Lafayette, find.

Owing to the fact that so many of the members of she Elks minstrels have other engagements for this evening, there will be no reheersal until Wednesday evening and every member ot the company is expected to govern themselves accordingly. Remember, at the usual hour Wednesday.

A NEW Appeals from Little Folk, Reach the Place Intend, ed for Them. In past years mazy have been at the pcs-.:« Ce . delivery of socalled Sazu Clan ters’’ to phflanthrrpic others In various parts of the co® but the requess have always tried the aepartment taking tn e that letters of importance wotij classed with the Santa Clan* ]et6 through error; that i twonld „ lag to private parries confidential respondence; that the letters ® contain valuable inclosu.-es and such a practice wcxild nit bejak ing with the principle of the * sla , of the mails.

Now. however. Meyer has adopted a more liberal titude toward the children, a* m ed by his action of today in issuing order to Postmaster Hrisinger whom letters full of trust and p i ( Ings are coming in numbers fro® little ones) to let the people of Di tor know through the tewspap that mail addressed to Sant* cia will be delivered to any responsi] parties who will undertake to ad Santa Claus's agents in the matter. The order follows: “Ordered tl hereafter and until the dose of f first day of January ISIS postaiß are directed to den ter all letters riving at their respective offices dressed plainly and unmistataWj ‘Santa Claus,’ without any other t« or expressions identifying the pen for whom such letter; are intent to any regularly organized charit society in the city or town of dress, to be used exclusive y for j anthropic purposes. In the event t claim should be made by more t one such society for letters so dressed, such letters will be equ divided, according to number, betw or among the societies making si claims. A CHRISTMAS POE This Popular Pastor W Read a Poem Written as Result of a Dream. Dr. Charles Preston Foreman. D of Winona Lake, the minister win delivering a series of sermons at Presbyterian church, again plea j large audiences Sunday morning; : evening. The theme for the momii i sermon was. “The Church. Its 1 duct,” and the able minister s many things in this discourse t will leave an everlasting impress on his hearers. In the evening theme. “Christ, the Three Cross was taken up and handled in a man | that reflects much credit upon speaker. In beginning on this I ject he read the passage of script “And with him they crucified I thieves one on the right and the ot , on the left,’’ and proceeded to sll . the relationship Christ and the thie j had toward sin. “Christ," said i reverend, “had sin on him as he ’ ■ bearing the sin of the world, thief on the right had sin in but on him as while on the cross he 3 a confessio* to Christ; the tbitf the left hand had sin both in ani him as he made n« confession. ® interest is manifest among ail l hear Dr. Foreman and he is attract large audiences by his clever t* On next Bunday morning he will ’ a Christmas poem of his own con sition, one hundred verses in le® and this gives promise of being teresting. Some time ago Dr man had a dream of Christmas after awakening he arose and »■ several verses about his dream, then he has added to it until e one hundred verses of solid thot Without doubt the church will be 1 on this occasion, with people w 0 eager to hear Dr. Foreman in bis poem.

FELL HEIR TO SOME MONS’ Arthur Johns Shares in Grand'* 11 * Will. Arthur Johns, an employ Fashion stables wa sthe / eCiple telegram Saturday morning r ' Q “ . him to go to Fort Wayne a o.> receive some money which W len heir to. The young man *<■ was given a neat sum of mo--was left by his grandfa.her. Miner, late of Monroeville- ’■ about a year ago. Mr. M ‘ nef eighty acres of land near >- 1 In his will be provided for ’ ( distribution of his wealth to dren and grandchildren. e , istrator of the estate just ma , settlement hence the Johns called to Fort Wayne.