Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1908 — Page 1

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COUNCIL SESSION Was Held Last Evening— The McKean Judgment Finally Paid □WER ASSESSMENTS Filed for Ninth Street—Officers Allowed Salaries for Quarter The council met in regular session Tuesday night all being present but Councilman Christen, who was abeeat from the city. Mayor France presided as usual, and after the reading of the miuutes which were approved the regular routine of work »as carried cut. The first matter taken up was that of hearing objections to the assessment roll on the Christen sewer, and no objections being filed a resolution ordering the clerk to certify the same to the treasurer for collection was read and approved and those assessed may settle the same with Treasurer Archbold. City Engineer Vogt then filed his final report on the improvement of Ninth street showing that the same is completed in every respect in accordance to the plans and specifications and was constructed at * cost o! ,1.530.90. With this report was fled the assessment roll and the clerk was ordered by resolution to give netice to those assessed that the council would hear objections to the nine on January sth at seven o’clock. A resolution ordering the city clerk to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the balance of the unpaid judgment in the case of Geo. E. McKean against the city was read and passed ud the clerk so ordered. This settles an old score that has been hanging fire for a number of years. A resolution ordering the clerk to draw Ms warrant in favor of the various city officials was read, passed and approved and those benefitted are now able to see visions of Santa Claus in the same old style. At this time ns on former occasions, the council nllowed all labor bills. The following bills were then read and allowed: Lsman and Lee $ 30.45 Schafer Hdw. Co 20.49 Geo. Keiser & Co 16.50 Kirsch. Sellemeyer & Sons... 19.50 feward Miller 8.10 fees Coal Co 29.05 Peters 8.00 G F. Teeple 96.11 hnda v Creek Coal Co 165.91 Wayne Elect. Works.... 25.00 C & E 288.61 Rational Carbon Co 100.00 hderson Coupling Co 73.00 hreka Fire Hose Co 250.00 ’• Stevens /. 34.70 * W 75.35 K®hn Sprague 3.00 01 »> Bolinger 22.40 1 J. Mylott 186.00 '• W. Dorwin 227.25 Hel m 23.00 1 Wisher 50.00 Geary 10.00 Ro further business coming before council they adjourned to meet their next regular meeting.

|t. WANTS EDITOR B’ NAMES. ■ Washington, Dec. 15.—With a view F the public know what inr*oCe °Perates upon it through the Representative Cooper, of Textoday introduced a bill to exclude ■®* B Papers and magazines from the “ un lesß the names of the owner ■J? editor or officer, directors and be printed on its front KT’ There is no agency la the ■"foment so powerful as newspaK a ßect the politics and policies e Kov ernment and the morals of K, (explained RepresentlaK* ooper in discussing the bill. belng trUe ’ tlle P^P l6 have a 10 know who their teachers are influence may operate upon th t ' le peo P' e know the owners 6 paper and the influences and tbat ma y prompt the editorK‘tor K. Writings therein, they would K:.- , e a ’ 3 ’ e tp give proper value tp the published article. S,uda haker continues to im- ■■ it i s hoped and believed *n? as passe d the crises safely, from now on.

WILL CASE WA S POSTPONED Judfle Merrvman W|)| Try tant Suit. sor T wh ’<* was set Monday b"f or e ' T C °" rt here for o y f Si" i Merrytinned indefinitely this PonenX ™ J* lone th 7 t 0 the abß ence of ne of the attorneys who was unable th a p end t ° n account of illness - the t an<l Dail> ’ Sun - Thfs wa * the first tune that the regular pane! petit jurors for the present term 01 court had Been called in and the postponement of the case necesstfated their dismissal untn Wednesdays when they will hear the case filed by the Ossian Mutual Live Stock Insurance Association against C W Hunt of this city, in the Manor case a part of the heirs are seeking to set aside the will of the late Jane Manor, on the grounds of the alleged insanity of Mrs. Manor, due to her ad vanced years at the time the will was made. Another suit is also pending in the circuit court in which the Manor heirs are asking that the deed to certain real estate left by Mrs. Manor at the time of her death be annulled. In the last case the plaintiffs alleged that fraud was resorted to in the execution of the deed. o . PRESBYTERY MET Important Session of this District Being Held at Fort Wayne DISCUSS FINANCE Rev. Spetnagle in Attendance—Several Noted Visitors Present Rev. Richard Spetnagle, pastor of the First Presbyterian church here went to Fort Wayne this morning to attend a special meeting of the Fort Wayne presbytery which "ill be held today at the Westminster Presbyterian church for the consideration of

the question of church finances. There will be only a few addresses made during the sessions, which will last all day, and it is hoped to make the affair largely a laymen s event. Several noted visitors will be in attendance, among them being tne Rev. John Dixon. D. D., of New York, secretary of the board cf "home missions; the Rev. A. F. McGarrah of New York, representing the board as an expert on church finances, the Rev. George Knox, D. D., of Lafayette, Ind., synodlical superintendent of missions; the Rev. W. M. Elliot, of Auburn, Ind., who will deliver the devotional; the Rev. T. B. Terhune, of Huntington; the Rev. Mark G. Clayton, of Nappanee, the moderator of the presbyter}'. The following program occupy the sessions during the day: 10:30 a. m — Devotional. 11 a m.—Conference. Our Presbyterian Problems Stated. Map-Location of Self-Supporting and Home Missionary Churches in Our Presbytery Rev . Frank M. Fox 11:15”a.’”m.-Local Problems and Plans Used to Meet Them. Discussion. 11:45 a. m.-Address by the Rev. John Dixon, D. D.. of New York. 12:30 p. m.—Recess for luncheon. 00 p m.-Synod’s New Home W sion Plan... T. B. Terhune 2:30 p. m -Synodical Problems ... Rev George Knox. D. 3 oo’p. m.—Church Finance and Be3'nevolence....Rev. A. F. McGarr 3:30 p. m—Conference, conduced by Mr. McGarrah. an expert on church finance. _ tn be 73» p. m.-A poputo by Dr. Dlto >«« »' McGarrah. — —© " DiED in THE Jeffersonville, Tnd., D eC - 10 * to the reformatory to sen ° fourteen yeer. for to rob. a™ fever. His ha lhe epidemic that institution during now prevailing.

I)ecatur - Indiana. Thursday, December l 7 1908

VISITED HIS son I James Hendricks Called on His Son in a Chicago Hospital WAS BADLY HURT - 1 » Caught in Electric LiftWill Recover But Cannot Use Right Arm James Hendricks, of Monroe, was m the city last evening, on his wav home from Chicago, where he went last Saturday to visit his son, Homer, "ho was badly hurt in an accident which occurred at Wheaton, Illinois, about a month ago. He found Homer slightly better, but still suffering consirably, and while It is believed he wiTI ulUmatey recover, his physicians say he will never have any use of his right arm. He is now at the St. Anthony hospital in West Chicago and is receiving the very best care that can be given him. At the time of the accident Homer was working in a sugar refinery at Wheaton, and was assisting in operating an electric lift which was being used to raise some heavy timber to the top of the buildThe ropes had become worn and in some way caught his glove. In an instant he was hurled from his feet and before the machinery could be stopped, he had been whirled around and around on the spool. When he was finally rescued it was feared that life was extinct and for nine days he hovered on the brink of eternity, finally regaining consciousness and since has been gaining very slowly. His right arm was broken in several places, the muscles torn into shreds and a piece of the bone about two inches long broken off at the shoulder. The young man is well known here and his many friends hope he will soon be able to return here to rest up, while recovering.

Miss Lucile Hale was home from Fort Wayne for a visit with her parents. She is a student at the International Business college. 0 — SUIT TO RECOVER Will Be Filed Against Northern Insurance Company in Near Future ANDREW WELFLEY Also on Oral ContractWoodshed and Contents Burned to Ground

A suit will be filed in the Adams circuit court in the near future in which Dallas Butler as plaintiff demands judgment against the Northern Insurance company of New York in the sum of »500 on oral, contract which it will be alleged, was entered into by Butler and Andrew Welfley the company's agent. The complainant will aver that on the seventh day of December (this month) he notified Mr. Welfley to insure his wood and coal shed at a stipulated amount, that Welfley agreed to do so by neon the following day, He will further allege that he was of the impression that the policy had been written and was in force. On the night of the eleventh of Dcember the woodsned and contents burned, entailing a loss it till Ibe i avared of 1500, which amount is demanded. Mr. Butler through his attorney, C. L - Wal ‘ el J expects to push the case and compel the company to pay the claim. — ’ The school board will meet next Wednesday night for the purpose of allowing the salaries of the teachers and janitors prior to the holiday vacaX„ .■hid. «■> “T J”, M. .nd e«U»»« to t.o The first half of the school year has been most successful.

I DINNER AND SUPPER TOMORROW . Tomorrow is the occasion for the | big dinner at the Presbyterian church given by the ladies of that congregation and all who can do so should ] certainly take advantage of this opportunity to secure a regular feast for a quarter. While the dinner is the big event, the ladies have also decided to serve a fifteen cent supper. At this time they will not offer < the same bill of fare as at dinner k by any means, but an entirely new menu, including veal loaf, mashed potatoes, escalloped corn, cream toma- I toes, fruit, cake, tea and coffee. You can surely arrange to patronize the ladies at one meal if not both. THE POPULAR VOTE t * J Result of Recent Election 1 1 Has Just Been Officially I ! Announced t i MICHIGAN THE LAST I To File Her Vote—Bryan Gained a Million Over Parker New York, Dec. 15. —The total popular vote of the presidential nominees at the last national election was made known today in an -official form by the filing of the last of the official votes, that of Michigan. The total shows the following votes cast: Taft (Republican) 7,637,676 Bryan (Democrat) 6,393,182 Debs (Socialist) 447,651 Chafin (Prohibitionist) .... 241,252 Hlsgen (Independence) .... 83,186 Watson- (Populist) 33,871 Gilhaus (Socialist Labor) .. 15,421 Total 14,852,239 This total exceeds by 1,341,531 the total number of votes cast in the presidential election of 1904, when the grand total was 13,510,708.

Compared with that election the nominees of the Republican, Democi atic and Socialist parties increased their vote this year. The reverse is true of the nominees of the Prohibition, Populist and Socialist Labor parties. The Independence party did not figure in the presidential election of four years ago. The biggest difference in a party vote is shown in an increase for Bryan of 1,315,211 over the total vote cast in 1904 for Alton B. Parker, the Democratic nominee. Taft received 14,190 votes more than were polled for President Roosevelt in 1904 and Debs ran 45,368 ahead of his predecessor on the Socialist ticket. The heaviest loss is shown by the Populists, who, with the same nominee registered 83,312 votes less this year than in 1904, when their total was 117,135. The Prohibition nominee Chafin, ran 17,284 votes behind the 1904 mark of his party, and Gilhaus, the Socialist Labor candidate, received only about 50 per cent of the vote given to Corrigan, which was 31,249 in the previous presidential year. New York, 870,070; Pennsylvania 745,779, and Illinois 629,932, gave Taft the (greatest number of votes, while as to Bryan the order was New York. 777,468; Ohio, 502,721 and Illinois 450.810. The votes cast for Taft and Bryan were almost identical in number in two states, namely Maryland and Nevada. In the first mentioned Taft received 11,253 and Bryan 11.117 and in the other 10,214 and 10,655 respectively. Debs received his largest vote in Pennsylvania 39,913; Illinois 39,711; and New York 38,451. Vermont was the only state in which not a single vote was cast for the Socialist candidate. Delaware gave him only 75 votes. Hisgen’s vote in New York, 35,817, and in his own state of Massachusetts, 19.237, together fortmed nearly two-thirds of all the votes be received. In isx states not a vote was cast for him. Nine states registered not a single vote for the Prohibitionist nominee. The Socialist Labor nominee received votes in only thirteen states and in only nineteen states were votes cast for Watson of the Populist party.

CHRISTMAS CHEER Is Manifested If You Use the Pretty Red Cross Stamps SOLD IN DECATUR Mrs. Lower in Char ge— Proceeds Used to Fight Tuberculosis Mrs. W. A. Lower is in charge of the sale of Red Cross Christmas and

New Years day stamps for Decatur and will receive a shipment of same within a day or two. They make splendid peals for y)ur Christmas packages and are cheery messages to place on your letters or postals at this time. They will be sold in ' nearly all the stores in Decatur and you are requested to buy as many as you can use, the proceeds, without a cent of profit to any one to be used to fight the White Plague in Indiana. Perhaps many of our readers have not heard of the splendid effort of the Red Cross society: A Christmas stamp for use on letters and packages which has nothing to do with postal rates at all is the name of a plan by which funds of a penny at a time are being collected by the Red Cross society for use in helping rid the country of the disease of consumption. The American Red Cross is organized to aid in time o' war, famine and pestilence. No greater pestilence Is known than consumption, the white plague. As a ’ means of stamping out the disease the i Red Cross society has issued what is called the Christmas stamp. It is de- , signed for the purpose of being placed ’ upon the lower left hand corner of * letters, Christmas cards and Christ--1 mas packages. It costs the sender L one cent. It is in the colors of green and red and its words are “Merry ! Christmas," “Happy New Year” and "American National Red Cross,” each ! of which is a cheery message. The • mark of the red cross is also a part j of the design. Every stamp sold in Indiana goes toward the fund for maintaining tuberculosis camps and In taking precautions for keeping the ’ disease from being contracted by those who are well.

IN CIRCUIT COURT Prosecutor Heller Sworn Into Office for His Second Term AND FILES BOND S. B. Fordyce and H. A. Fristoe Re-Appointed Jury Commissioners Henry B. Hwiter, prosecuting attorney for the twenty-sixth district of Indiana, has received his commission from Governor J. Frank Hanly, for his second term, which begins January Ist and continues for two years. He was sworn in by Clerk Haefling and filed bond for 15,000, signed by J. S. Bowers, D. D. Heller, R. K. Allison, A. H. Seilemeyer and P K. Kinney, the bond being duly approved by the court. A marriage license has been issued to Dayton L. Barkley, 26, of Hoagland, and Christens B. May, 19, of this county. Real estate transfers: Kirsch, Sellemeyer & Sons to Medrick Miller et al, inlot 270, Decatur, $2,000; John A. Hendricks to John M. Andrews et al, a tract of land in Blue Creek township, $5,070. Judge Merryman has appointed Simeon B. Fordyce of this city and Henry A. Fristoe cf Geneva, to serve as jury commissioners for another year. (Continued from page 4.)

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"IK MARVEL" DEAD AT 84. Donald Grant Mitchell Passes Away at New Haven. New Haven. ("turn.. Dec. 15.—Donald Grant Mitchell, 84. the well known author who wrote under the nom de plume Ik Marvel," died at his home “Marvel Wood,” in Englewood, a suburb of this city tonight. His illness dates to August last when he suffered an attack of acute indigestion. At the bedside at the time of Mr. MitchelTs death were his sons, Harold, of New London, and Walter, of Newark, and his daughters, Mrs. Walter Hart, of Rye, N. Y., Mirs. Mason Hoppin, and Misses Elizabeth, Bessie and Harriett Mitchell, all of New Haven.

CHICAGO'S MURDER RECORD. One Hundred and Fifty-Six Persons Slain In the Year 1908. Chicago, Dec. 15.—The report of the bureau of records of the police department, issued today shows that 156 persons were murdered in Chicago in the year 1908. Os the murders twen-ty-four remain unsolved. In the years 1905, 175 murders were committeed, which is the highest number recorded. o— - WAS VERY UNIQUE Shakespeare Ladies Entertained by Mrs. Ellingham this Afternoon MEXICAN CHRISTMAS ■ [ Was Celebrated in Real Style and Mexican Lunch Was Served I 1 A very enjoyable meeting was that 1 of the Ladies’ Shakespeare Club at k . the home of Mrs. L. G. Ellingham, l yesterday. The study at this time is “Mexico,’’ a very interesting 1 and entertaining subject, especially

so since several of the club members

have visited the country and given attention to the history of that republic. The home was decorated in the Mexican colors, red, green and white. The paper, “Ancient Tribes,’’ was given by the hostess and shewed careful study and research and was thoroughly appreciated. In Mexico, the great holiday season of the year is Christmas tide, and there the celebration begins nine days before that day and continues until a week after, concluding with a big feast. The life of Christ from the time he was found in the manger to his death and resurrection are portrayed in public and also in the homes of many of the wealthy. A favorite custom in Mexico at this time and which takes the place of our Christmas tree is the gift jar, which can be found in many of the homes. This Is a large gilded jar, containing various presents, and around which the guests gather at the proper time. One of the guests is blindfolded, turned around three times and then given a large club and Is allowed three trials in which to break the jar. If this person fails another is chosen until the jar Is broken and the gifts roll out upon the floor, then comes a scramble for the good things contained therein. This custom was imitated at today’s meeting proved a happy form of entertainment, the ladies making a wild dash for the candy, nuts and souvenirs, and Mexican colors contained in the jar. Later the hostess served a Mexican lunch consisting of tomalles, beans, black coffee, etc. o - ASKS FOR INFORMATION. Washington, Dec. 15. —A sweeping resolution calling on the secretary of war for information concerning the detectives’ investigation of the Brownsville affair, referred to in the president’s message to congress of yesterday, was introduced today by Senator Foraker, with a request for immediate action. Objection being made by Senator Warren, chairman of the committee on military affairs, the resolution was laid aside. It will be placed before the senate again tomorrow.