Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1908 — Page 1

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m ay be reorganized Muncie Quit With Sunday’s Game and the Stuff Was Off A flash, a puff arid's bang! and Mun- ■ js again without league base ball, a at least insofar as J. R. Baird, manof the Muncie team of the Indi-jra-Obio league base ball Is conned The final gasp came yesterday morning when Baird paid off the divers of the local team, and they now looking for new jobs. The league led a short but sweet eiistence, starting May 5 and ending ’ in a blaze of glory, Sunday, May 31. js Manager Baird’s side of the jtory. The reason assigned Is that the other three members of the circuit—Richmond, Huntington and Van were loosing propositions anl were not making sufficient means with which to defray expenses. It is an -nflisputable fact that Muncie was a noney making end of the organization, snd has been occupying such an honor from the start. The death knell was received yesterday morning from Richmond. when I was informed for publicity that four members of the team—Bauman. Parker, Brown and Shinn—had signed contracts with the Virginia state league and would leave. Manager Baird has been ‘‘leery’’ of the end, and last week offered to turn over the Muncie team to the Shamrock Athletic olub, but the offer was turned down fiat. The same offer was made Sunday afternoon immediately preceding the Muncie-Van Wert game, but again was rejected. Mr. Baird is still in Muncie, and stated that if a new proposition which has leen offered is good, he will go in on it. He stated that the reason for the "balloon trip” was the failure of the other cities to pay expenses. Muncie fans who have just started to get the fever, now that the Muncie team has been playing good ball, still have consolation that there Is still hope. A meeting of the magnates of the organization will be held in Van Wen Wednesday afternoon and President Gamble states that there are eth»r cities wishing franchises, and that the league will continue. —Muncie Star.

SURPRISES MRS. BENTZ Eastern Stars Will Give Lawn Social at Home of Mrs. Charles Dunn Mrs. .Toe Bentz wag a victim of a surprise party on Sunday when a large crowd gathered at her home to remind her of her fifty-third birthday anniversary. Promptly at six o’clock Mrs. Bentz led her guests to the dining room, where the table was filled with dainty eatables. Supper was served to all the guests which numtiered forty-eight All departed wishing Mrs. Bentz many more such happy returns. A delightful social affair was given Monday afternoon in honor of the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Victoria Mill, by her daughter, Mrs. F. V. Mills. The hostess royally entertained twenty invited guests for a few hours, after which an elegant threecourse luncheon was served. All reported a fine time and hope to have many more such occasions In honor 01 Mrs. Hill’s anniversaries to come. — -o Decatur man gets work. Scutes $3,297 Contract to Construct Wells County Ditoh. Bluffton, Ind., June 1. —County Sur'('yor H. B. Sark has awarded to '•itmuel Butler, of Decatur, the con'‘racl for the construction of the LuCltt da Knott ditch, in Jackson town--6hi P> for $3,297.50. The ditch will be a ®ile in length and will drain the •toller of the Twin lakes. It will be * ‘Be drain, with 15-inch tile at the Sf ’ Ur ce, increasing in length to 16, 18 . d “ li inches in diameter at the out't' w here it empties into the Sala®°nia river. The land owners are to for the ditch in ten installments, ® rs *- of which falls due June 20. e ditch is to be completed by De'tober 1. Beorge Bowers went to Preble this

THE PUBLIC ANGRY In a Memorial Day Address He Alludes to Grant's Weakness Washington, June 2. —Secretary Tafts explanation of how he came to j attack the memory of General U. S. Grant in hig Memorial day address at I New York does not satisfy the veter-! ans of the civil war. The eastern! newspapers today in their columns j all reflect the wave of criticism aroused by remarks of the secretary of war. Grand Army men who hold dear the memory of General Grant say that granted the statements made by Mr. Taft are true, which they deny, there was no excuse for making the observations to which the secretary* of war gave voice In his Saturday’s address. In his explanation of how he came to use the language: “In 1854 he (Grant) resigned from the army because he had Ao; he yielded to the weakness of a taste for strong drink and rather than be court-martialed he left the army,” the secretary says he gathered from Mr. Garland’s life of Grant that such was the fact. In the opinion, of veterans here at the capital the explanation makes the case worse. They assert that Mr. Taft “should have known that this slander on the memory of General Grant” had been disproved years ago, and they Insist that if it had been true it was exceedingly bad taste for a member of the president’s cabinet to mention it in a Memorial day speech, even for the purpose of pointing to a moral lesson. The general talk here is that Grand Army posts throughout the country will resent Mr. Taft’s reflection on the memory of the greatest general of modern times. ———————o INCORPORATE SOON Will Place a Million Dollars Worth of Stock on the Market if Successful

Peter Neuenschwander and Joseph Gerber, two of the foremost farmers in the promotion of the Bluffton, Berne & Celina tracticn line, took the first active steps toward the ultimate construction of the line this morning when they started over the proposed route with a subscription paper, finding out just what the land owners will be willing to do in the project. The plan the gentlemen at the head of the movement have in view is to call personally upon each land owner between the two terminals and ask them to donate a right of wgy across their farms, taking the equivalent to cash in stock of the new company. If vhe farmer desires to take more stock than he would draw by the strip of land he can either furnish teams, do labor on the grading and construction himself, supply timber for ties or else subscribe money in the usual way. When $50,000 has been pledged the company will Incorporate and will place upon the market $1,000,000 worth of stock. With the million it will be possible to purchase all the material such as ties and rails, construct the line and equip it with cars, car barns, power plant and place it in running shape. Judging only from the interest that is being taken by the farmers of this and Adams counties there seems to be .little doubt but that success will attend the effort.—Bluffton Banner. o— Fred Scheiman purchased one of the finest farms in Adams county yesterday when he came into possession of the 126 acre farm owned by Charles Lammerman, which is located three miles east of Monroe The deal was closed at the office of Hooper and Lenhart by Brown and Summers of Monroe, the consideration being $12,500. The grocers of Bluffton have combined in an agreement to in the future handle nothing but home-made cigars. There was a time in Bluffton when twenty-five or thirty cigarmakers were kept busy the year round, but the inroads of foreign made goods has reduced the number to less than hal that amount and the grocers are going to see what they can do toward bringing back old conditions. Harry Ward went to Marion, Ind., this morning.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 4 HK)B.

What is q Democrat? BY THOMAS R. MARSHALL The man who believes inherently in his fellow man, who thinks with Abraham Lincoln, that God never made a man good enough to be another mans master without that man’s consent; who puts his trust not in the passionate opinion of the public, but rather In the cairn and deliberate judgment of his fellow citizens; who believes in local self-governmant, who thinks that as little should be ceded away from the individual citizen as is necessary for the public good; who thinks that what the township'can 00k after, it should look after; what the county can look after, it should 00k after, what the state can look after, it should look after; who believes that we are a people living under a written Constitution, that this Constitution has provided for three coordinate branches of government—the executive, the legislative and the judicial; who thinks that the business of the executive is to administer the laws and from time to time to give the legislative his views upon public question; who thinks that it is the business of the legislative to enact the laws for the people and who recognizes the duty of the court to construe those laws, although such construction may work injury, leaving to the injured person an appeal to the legislative for redress; who thinks that all men are to be treated alike in legislative matters; who does not admit that, either directly or by indirection, a legislative body has any right, power or authority at the instance of any man, or set of men, to enact any law which, working to the benefit of. one man or set of men, will work to the detriment of another man or set of men, such a man, regardless of the fact as to whether he votes the Republican or Democratic ticket, is, at *feeart, what I am pleased to denominate, a Democrat.

ON SERIOUS CHARGE Huntington County Farmer Accuses Him of Grand Larceny and False Pretense E. Gregg Davis, a real estate agent of Ft. Wayne, doing an extensive real estate listing business in Allen, Adams and adjoining counties, was arrested in Ft. Wayne Monday morning and taken to Huntington by Deputy Sheriff Hughes. He is wanted in Huntington to answer to an affidavit filed by Isaiah Rupert, of Jackson township, charging both false pretense and grand larceny. He gave bond in the Huntington circuit court in the sum of SSOO, John G. Price going on the bond. Davis travels all around th? country and lists properties for sale, charging so much commission for sales made, the terms generally being drawn up in the form of a contract. Isiah Rupert, of Jackson township, is a man whose acquaintance he made Dec. 17. 1906. Rupert had a farm to sell and it was listed with Davis, the contract calling for a commission of S2OO and S2O attorney fees if Davis succeeded in finding a buyer for him who would pay him $4,299 cash for the farm. According to Rupert’s complaint filed in circuit court it seems that Davis was unable to find a buyer until the time of the contract was about run out. when as the complaint sets forth, he connived with his help to fleece Rupert out of the commission. They represented to Rupert that they had a buyer for his farm in the person of one John Brown, who Rupert sets forth in his claim was an employe of Davis, and finally succeeded in securing from Rupert two notes of SIIO.OO each, payable in six months and one year. Rupert in the meantime claims to have found out that the whole scheme was a fraud and he filed charges against Davis, charging him with false pretense and petit lar-

DIED THIS MORNING Funeral Services Friday at Her Old Church in Wells County Berne, Ind., June 3. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Mrs. Mary Brickley, of this place, died at four o’clock this morning, after along illness with consumption. She was a native of Nottingham township, Wells county, wher e she was born forty years ago. Her husband died in January, 1907. and in March of the same year she removed to Berne, where she has since resided. She was well known and her death is mourned by many relatives and dear friends. She leaves one daughter, qiella May, ,aged twelve years, a son, Forest Dwight, aged two; also three sisters, Mrs. E. T. Haecker, Berne, and Mrs. Waiser and Mrs. Gentis, of Domestic. She was a member of the Evangelical church and the funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock from the Old Salem church in Wells county, the Rev. Frank Hartman, of Berne, and Rev. J. L. Buyer, of Linn Grove, conducting same.

HE WAS PROMINENT Former Senator Jones Died in Washington After Short Illness Washington, June 3.—Have you noticed during the last few months an unusual feeling of vigor, a desire to do things, an absence of lassitude and general unhappiness of the kind usually traced to a disordered stomach and all the evils that follow such an affliction? If so, it is all due to the new food and drug act, which is having a marvelous effect on the national digestion. At least the foregoing is the explanation offered by Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief government chemist, who knows more about the dark secrets of the food factories of the country than any other man. Dr. Wiley says we shall soon be a nation of better looking, happier and wealthier people, because we are getting better and purer foods and drugs than ever before. Dr. Wiley cites himself as an example of the new and improved order of things. He used to be a constant sufferer from heartburn, due to the ciashings in his digestive apparatus of unwholesome mixtures of acids and coloring matter used to preserve and doctor up foods. Dr. Wiley bas had only rare recurrences of this trouble during the last eighteen months, and says he feels better than ever before. Washington, June 3. —James K. Jones, former United States senator from Arkansas, died at his residence after an illness of a few hours. He was sixty-nine years old. He was one of the leading Democrats in the senate from 1885 to 1903, and was one of the strongest supporters of William Jennings Bryan, having, ak chairman of the Democratic national committee conducted the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. Since leaving tjie senate in 1903 he had practiced law in this city, and had not actively engaged in politics.

PRONOUNCES THEM LIBELS. Theodore P. Shonts Takes a Shot at the Cocial Critics. New York, June 3. —On his return from Paris today Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough Metropolitan company, declared that the reports that the death of his son-in-law, the Duke de Chaulnes, was due to indulgence in opiates were infamous libels. Mr. Shonts said that the duke’s death was caused by heart disease, and that he was not addiced to the use of drugs. “The duke and my daughter were kneeling at their bedside in prayer,” said Mr. Shonts, ■ when the stroke came upon him that carried him off before medical aid could be summoned. The memory of the duke has been grossly maligned, and outrageous reports were printed about the manner and cause of his death. o Herbert Adair, son of Congressman Adair, has returned to his home at Portland after a most successful year’s work at a school in Wayneboro, Va. During the term he won two gold medals, one for oratorical work and the other for high standing in his classes.

IT IS SAD NEWS Was a Brother of Isaac Peter of this City and Son-in-law of C. C. Cloud News which will carry with it sadness to the hearts of many Adams county people was contained in a telegram received by C. C. Cloud yes-

terday from his daughter, Mrs. W. R. Peters, of Springfield. Mo., announcing the death of her husband, Rev. 1 Peters, who is known by many people I of this county. While the telegram i dees not present details in regard to the untimely demise of the estimable minister it is evident that his death wasrsudden, as not a relative or friend here even knew of his sickness. The message was sent from Springfield, Mo., the late home of the deceased, and it stated that the funeral will be held Friday. It is indeed sad that such an influential Christian man should b e called by the angel of death so early in life. The deceased has lived a remarkable and useful life. He was born in Jay county near NewCorydon in 1867 where he lived with his mother on the farm until young manhood, his father having been killed in the war soon after his birth. When but a young man he was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Dellavan of this city and he lived here until thre death of his wife and infant babe From here he went to Nebraska, where after attending college at Lincoln, he entered the ministry, his first charge being at Omaha. Early in his ministry Rev. Peters showed a remarkable ability for composing religious poetry and during his ministerial career, he has composed and published a large number of poems which won for him fame, his latest composition being a book t of promiscuous poems. Not only did he publish poems but he has placed on the market several songs of his own composition After remaining at ’ Omaha for some time, Rev. Peters went to the Black Hills, of South Dakota, where for five consecutive years a ho did missionary work in the partially uncivilized portions cf that country undergoing experiences which only befall one who is sacrificing his own • welfare for the Christian cause. It ! was while he was preaching on the frontier that Rev. Peters was again united in the holy bonds of wedlock, bis second wife being Miss Myra Clipper, of Monroeville, Ind. To this happy union wer born three children i all of whom survive to mourn the departure of a loving father. After ! serving for five years in South Dakota, the deceased was transferred to Wyoming. where he held several important charges, going from there to Nebraska. While at his charge in Nebraska, Rev. Peters published a paper named the Christian Advocate and the paper enjoyed a wide circulation among Christiona people and its influence was recognized. From this charge he was transferred to McCool Junction. Neb., and in January 1907, while preaching at this charge he was married to Miss Letta Cloud of thi scity, a beautiful home wedding occurring at the home of the bride’s father. The happy couple returned to McCool and remained there but a year when Rev. Peters was assigned to the First M. E. church at Springfield, Mo. Three weeks before they left for this place a child was born to bless this union, but it died while enroute to Springfield and was shipped here for burial. That sorrow does not come singly is now evidenced by the fact that the father has been taken to the great beyond. He has lived a consistent religious life and his works have accomplished much in furthering the Christian ( cause. Surviving are three brothers, Isaac Peters of this city, Napoleon of 1 Crete, Neb., and Ephraim of Bloom- . ipgton, Indiana, and one half sister, Mrs. Nettie Long of Nebraska, beside ( a multitude of friends. Rev. Peters i has preached in the M. E. and U. B. churches in this city and a few years ago he delivered a lecture ou ‘ the experiences of a missionary in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He was a speaker of ability and had preached in the Methodist ministry for fourteen years. The remains will ar- I rive this evening or tomorrow and the 1 funeral will be held at the M. E. church Friday. 1 , o 1 Wid Dorwin, Altie Mills and Harry I Fritzinger arrived home last evening 1 from Clear Lake, where they have 1 been fishing for several days. Milt i Hower and Charles Elzey will remain 11 for several days. I s

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ARE TO CELEBRATE Their First Anniversary Some Time During this Month—Go to Winona The Knights and Esquires of the Holy Grail are to be royally entertained at a banquet to be given for them during the course of the next three weeks in celebration of their first anniversary. A castle of this noble organization was instituted in Decatur one year ago this month and the local order has experienced a prosperous year. In commemoration of same, Dr. Wilcox is making arrangements to give a banquet royal. Toasts music and general good time will be the order of the occasion, and two plates will be served for each knight and each esquire so that the members can invite a friends to partake of the festivities. The boys of the Grail are also planning for their annual camping expedition to Winona, beginning August 18, and ending ten days later. They are expecting a great time on this trip. The membership of both the Esquire and Knight degrees have increased rapidly in membership. The knights will meet tonight to initiate Grover Miller and Glen Dutcher into the mysteries of the order and the Esquires will meet next Monday night. It is a great organization for the boys and it is undenominational.

IN DIRECTORS’ ROOM W. H. Linnemier Secured Privilege to Conduct Dancing Hall i The stockholders of the Maple Grove Park association held an enthusiastic meeting Monday evening for the purpose of selling privileges for the park, which will positively open the fourteenth day of this month. About thirty of the stockholders were present and in the course of the session the privilege of operating the dancing pavilion was let to W. H. Linnemier, of Fort Wayne, and the park company will construct a waiting room at the pavilion this being a requirement of Mr. Linnemier who paid a neat sum of money for the privilege. No other privileges were let last night, although several people are negotiating for the refreshment and eatable privileges. A bowling alley, picture show and vaudeville will also be conducted on the grounds and the new park will furnish ample amusement for the visitors. Work is rapidly progressing in preparing the park to open to the public June 14th, and it will be a beautiful place of recration. Arc lights will be arranged artistically throughout the park and the amusement place will be maintained in an irreproachable manner.

TEMPERANCE WORK AT REDKEY An Interesting Fight Between Antis and Saloon Men. Twenty-six retraxit cards were filed with the county auditor at Portland late Thursday evening by those interested in behalf of the saloonists in Redkey. This makes a total of 202 retractions now on file. Up until a late hour Friday the anti-saloon people had not filed their remonstrance but it leaked out that their efforts in the past few days to induce sufficient voters of Richland township to sign their names to cards against the liquor traffic in Redkey had not been In vain. Whether they have succeeded in getting a majority of the voters to cast, their lots against the sal ms cannot be told until Wednesday of next week when the applications of F. R. Borroughs, J. A. Stephens, Michael Grady and Marion Haviland will be passed on by the board of commissioners.—Dunkirk News. o Many people who visited the Decatur cemetery on Decoration Day were impressed by the beauty thereof and Custodian Horace Botthoff has received many compliments for the way he has taken, care of that public place, at least we have heard many complimentary remarks concerning Mr. Botthoff’s ability. Everything was clean, the flowers and trees beautiful and the cemetery was certainly a pretty spot.