Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1908 — Page 2

Washington, December 29. —Generally speaking, Indiana has remained silent during the tariff hearings by the ways and means committee. A few manufacturing concerns and one or two individuals only have communicated with the committee. Prof. W. H. Kruse, of Concordia college. Ft. Mayne. has sent on a plea for duty free scientific works. He says in part, in his letter to the committee: ‘No doubt thousands of men engaged in intellectual pursuits feel exactly ?s I do in this matter, but they are likely to let this thing go by default and to come with their protests when it is

too late. Whether we like it or not, the most minutely specialized work and research is still done in Europe, and it is the sheerest folly to try to change this by a duty on such books. Whenever, in our reading and study, we teach a point that puzzles us we glance over the catalogues of European publishers, and usually find a few pamphlets and monographs restricted absolutely to this one point. This places at our disposal the very latest and best information that the world possesses. No encyclopedia can go so

pvsov w- - ■ - *• - thoroughly into details and treat a subject so fully in all its bearings, to say nothing of the fact that they | are, necessarily, from five to fifteen and more years behind the advance guard of the scientists. Just to give yon an illustration: A physician of I nry acquaintance wished to get the very latest information on bleeding of the lungs (pulmonary hemorrhages) in four weeks he had a pamphlet of about two hundred pages that absolutely covered the subject and gave ' him all that the foremost men of Europe kndw. This same condition obtains in all branches of knowledge, particularly natural science and mathematics. It seems to me a very shortsighted policy to obstruct even to the smallest extent the importation of ideas.” Rev. C. U. Wade. Fort Wayne, superintendent of this M. E. district, is in the city today and will conduct the fc urth quarterly meeting at the Methodist church here tonight. The matter of choosing a new pastor will not come up tonight. Generally this question comes up at the fourth quarterly meeting, but this year the members of the congregation thought best to wait until the first quarterly meeting next year, which will be in March. This will be before the meeting of the Northern Indiana M. E. conference.—Bluffton Banner.

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The commissioners completed the business of the special session and have adjourned. The affairs of the county for the year of 1908 are now adjusted so far as the board is concerned. All that is necessary is for the proper executive officers to carry out and execute the orders of the board. There is nrny things to do in closing the business of a county lib .'.dams but by the time the old vter ends this will all be attended to in the proper way. The commissioners will meet again

Friday the first d’y of the new year. Their first business will be the organization which is made by electing a president of the board who serves during the year. Following the organization the first duty involving upon them is the taking cf ~n invoice of the personal property at the county farm, and this will be done as usuo.l this year. This is no small matter rd means the listing of several thousand dollars worth of prnptry. This alrc moans a New Year s dinner with > Sr.pt. and Mrs. Graber ard this is a

privilege all like to enjoy. Those dinners have become famous and we kt ow of several thousand other Adams county people with a good appetite that wish they were a county commissioner for this one day at least. — Auditor-elect Michaud who has been I diligent in his application at the auditors office for the last month will assume charge on Friday the first day of the year. Mg. Michaud already . gives evidence of properly filling the ; place. It will not be long until he is onto all the curves and will serve the people of Adams county fiithfully and well as auditor of Adams county. Forest Elzey, Frank Carroll and ’ James Beery had an experience at the DeWitt cigar sto _ e that they will never forget unless the writer, who witnessed their episode, gives up his presi tige as a Arriving at tne ■ popular place of business, they endeavored to build a fire, but their •jefort'- were fruitless, as a little smoke : I was the best they could get. Taking > : down the pipe they discovered a ! bucket and a half of coal therein and ■ how it got there no one know’s. At : any rate the building was soon permeated with smoke and all doors were . opened and the electric fan was set E ii motion. A breezy time followed ■ ard but few warmth seekers were seen in that vicinity.

Indianapolis. December 28.—There i has been considerable discussion re- , centiy as to how long after the legisla:ure convenes Governor Hanly will . serve as governor and Hugh T Millet ; as lieutenant-governor. It has been ■ announced that the legislature will : convene January 7, and that Thomas ’ R. Marshall will be inaugurated as | governor ?nd Frank J. Hall as lieuten- i ant-governor on January 11. Thus, ■ during four days of the session Hugh T Miller will preside in the senate a--, lieutenant-governor. Some have keked on this as an innovation and have characterized it as a trick of the Republicans to allow Mr. Miller to apjoint the committees in th e senate. As a matter of fact, the constitution of the state specifically provides when the legislature shall convene and when th< official terms of the governor and tie lieutenant-governor shall begin. The constitution provides that the It gislature shall convene on the first Thu sday after the first Monday in Jrnu ry every two years, and that the offic’al terms of the governor and lieutenant-governor shall begin on the second Monday in January every four years. This rule has been followed ever since the present constitution was adopted. Four yeat-s ago Goverrcr Durbin was the executive of the state for four days after the session of the legislature was convened. It has never been customary, though, for the legislature to take up any work o’ consequence until after the governor and lieutenant-governor had been inaugurated. Usually the committees are not appointed in either b.anch until after the inauguration, and, as a rule, no bills or resolutions are introduced before the inauguration. B ■ 1 — U. B. CHURCH SPECIAL SERVICES

Preaching each evening this week. Children's service each day at 3:00 p m. Each member of the church is expected to be present at the services. This is your opportunity to help do something for the bettering of the moral condition in the city. Can we count on you? All the services in charge of the pastor. Everybody cordially invited. Members of the other churches of the city will come and feel perfectly at home and help all they can. ■ ■ . ■ — County Clerk James P. Haefling has figured It out that all the people of the world could be crowded into Adams county, if necessary. Is he correct?

s Bluffton, Ind.. Dec. 28 —Judge C. E .Sturgis, of the Wells circuit court has ■appointed Judge Joseph G. Leffler, of. the Delaware circuit court, to assume . 'jurisdiction as special judge in the, ■celebrated John W. Terrell murder lease. In naming the new judge in the ■case Judge Sturgis did not name any ‘'time for a new trial In the case and ■ all future action in the case is left j entirely to Judge Leffler. The case ' cannot come to trial here now how'ever, before the February term of court at the earliest, and it is a question whether a new trial will even then be the course pursued, as one special judge in the past, Judge R. K' Erwin, refused to call the case for ’ trial because he held that Terrell was undoubtedly insane and that a trial under the circumstances was unnecessary. At that time, however, Terrell ’was in the Easthaven asylum at Rlchimond, while at present he is in the Wells county jail, having been returned here several weeks ago. Judge Leffler makes the fifth judge who has had a part in the Terrell case. It first came before Judge Vaughn, who in turn appointed Judge John H. Smith, of Portland, who presided at the first 'trial, which resulted in conviction and | a life sentence but met with reversal in the supreme court. When the case | came back again for re-trial Judge Smith was no longer judge of the Jay circuit court and Judge R. K. Erwin, of Decatur, was appointed. An ■ effort was made to get the case to trial before him, but after he visited Terrell at Richmond he gave It as his opinion that Terrell was undoubtedly insane and he refused to take up the case for a new trial. When Terrell was finally released from Easthaven asylum and sent back here , Judge Er*in had retired from the bench as judge of Adams circuit court, and he declined to act further i in the Terrell case, and this led to i the appointment of Judge Leffler. Judge Sturgis was disqualified to sit as trial judge because he was an ; attorney for Terrell in the first trial . of the case. _— —o— A new refrigerator company with a E capital stock of $50,000 has been orl ganized by Kendallville men, who I have taken over the business of the Euieka Refrigerator company, of Indianapolis. The new company will bej 1 known as the Opal Refrigerator comJ E pany, and the incorporators are Joserfl > T. Stahl, Albert W. Sherer, GeorU > W. Hartsuck. Hoy M. Stewart Jy Cbarls O. Ullin.

Wabash, Ind., Dec. 28.—The electio to be held in this county under th county local option law is the all at sorbing topic of conversation at thl time. Before the special session < the legislature was called this count would have gone ‘ dry’’ by a safe jority. Now it is conceded doubtfl by both sides. In every church 1 Wabash county yesterday were delivered by officers of the U diana Anti-Saloon league and by nJ inters of Wabash county against® loons. Tomorrow the county votjyr tin preposition of “wet” or "dry.f sterday at North Manchester school children, with few exefons, marched through all the busiwsections of the city and to evefUmß place. They carried flags-y banners with the motto. “Votf s for Us.” They also wore bjf witll ' the same words upon theiy‘' e P ar ’ 1 ade was arranged by thf peraiiCe 1 forces of that town. Ttw le W. t C. T. U. promises ew' 1 work p throughout the day. r f :am P a ' i sn c< has been a hatd-foughw lD(1 both d sides expect a big voty ' <|

°~M. ALFRED ELZEY HZ» PERIENC| Fellow Traveler f| <! cn th< Train Alfred Elzey, < no J n fanner ftom south of I®, W /’ is 'isfting his dad ‘ Col., writes us that J a " unasual «‘l perience whll® 6 °' at Pf ac, 1 . , i E. M. r v J last week. .W “ n -j tber, of Salt >\ Ltah - who wa l traveling oif ” tra and whom he if qUl,e qt.ainted. f R ' ng , I ’ ast hfm f . , * reeled and fe»-

th,. aisle M.... ~ , ■ " M- F’zef ' d ; ” y coufERS TO opfn e, ’fl ' h m> ,>Ver d EN ELK S HOMt within a few miflDocafnr jtii, b„ enjoyfFort ;^ k /^ 4 Christjf , Wi ' h his dau Shf they win open“h‘ r ° W eV ‘' DlJ it "j af,er ’«’'b went! Elks home ' nWes'. a spot 600 ft th e Fort h 3 con ‘«4t i ’ city. They are 1 10 be Wayne Elks M, k b-t’Wishers Peak . 6>oofl 1 Thp Cha ®P'°b» of tfce 1 th. He states land are goto, , a fll ;#ided just when he f secured handsome nZw < o-.. f Wcasio ". bearing th( . flX e S on" f Chafer l)lock at th f deludes M a y or hP n ° CCa ’ !on - the < fl and Madison stree’faster Dyke r , ’ ’’ ’? ■ "ill he rushed to c >|overdale v a r, B,nger - Dr Earl I" as possible. Thp |he Palace Zr T ° m Pete « three story one atAhn and David E & T?’ B fo « a wareroom and f s this bunch " ,ab afr Jn h for machinery £)Vayne bowlers hon -, make j the W f

on be a few | ago. business of « V. »J... f :■ ,x" Fx::' Eul st.66f d janitc- ■ SSTe * atlr >g 1 mouf |I7O . were J arderfc for samp ' Jti>eflbUl SWere allo we,J- . sch f at ce "S| ' M d rav | JerJ.any of Indi , an <i| ete lwest Ward, and! framing picture , 2 . J mt C °" misce,, aneous repairing at \. fl " f The treasurer was o J to ■from <h e old ah ' dere< l t free a Adams Conn « t-p 0 until Januarv ’J T'B appropriated by a _1 lie property for school Pll ° r > ts pant to the board by th M ■f - -e January 20, W f ’be remainder n?

jrm. However, the first thiM ,e r jumbal - next money from tIS r La .'■ Il " aM tO ,h * board i< V |■ ' renslderatfon O s tfl t n" Wh '>htheval F”~ their duties -r> ’ ’ "■«' -e ™,v.