Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1909 — Page 4

3 ! THEDEMOCRAT fl I!!.!" 1 .'"!! -'I H I ■VWTTffOMDAT NOftNING BY LBW 0. ELUNGHAM, Publisher. ' ( .. UXnPBB YNAB IN ADVANOB. . - aared at the post office at class mall matter •FFICIAL PAPffR OF* ADAMS CO. Kilin , " "■ i....-—r The Decatur city council denote their enterprise in giving the Indiana ; Lighting company a franchise for the furnishing of artificial gas to this city. I Decatur is always enterprising and gets the best of everything before 1 the style wears out. Macadam road building in Adams i county will go on unabated during the | coming summer months, all of which. denotes that had the three-mile law been repealed, a great injustice would have been done to at least a large percentage of the citizenship of this county. , |vi _ . .; i Senator Beveridge is just out of the , hospital. His return to health is wel-' corned by ft horde of the boys who are after a government snap with little or nothing to do, and big pay. Unlike Governor Marshall, the senator ! will listen to their tale of woe andj see to it that part of them are made hap ?y, while the other half will have their axes ground good and sharp. This is bum prosperity. Every day comes the announcement of a cut in wages at some of the large manufacturing plants of the country, and to add to the gloom the railroads are reducing their forces and cutting wages. At Huntington many of the employees of the styops have been laid off. Come on now, President Taft, and give us something more substantial. > ; : Congress and the special interests ; are still fighting it out, both wanting the best of the argument, and what is more important, the interests want something that counts more than Bru' L ’ gument—they want the tariff schedules to be high, that combination may be the more easily manipulated for the common good of the few engaged in that particular industry. In other words, the infants have grown to the point that they themselves can figure out what they want, and hades to every one who tries to keep them from getting it Mighty husky individuals are those tender Infants we have nursed for so long. Rev. Powell, against whose return to the Warsaw Methodist church a protest was filed and signed by a number of tne members of the church, for the reason that he voted for Tom Marshall for governor, has been sent to Decatur, Ind. The committee on appointments is to be commended for the sagacity displayed in placing this preacher. It was right not to return him to Warsaw, where dissatisfaction existed, and it was wise to send him to Decatur, where democracy predominates so' largely among the people. It was «malt*bu»iness for Warsaw Methodists to butt in on the political rights of Rev. Powell, but after the blunder had been committed there was nothing for the conference to do but to send him to another charge.—Columbia -City *•* 5- ■ Over at Warsaw; the good old Methodist deacons whose only thought is fOr the salvation of souls, are making a vigorous protest against the return of Rev. Sherman Powell, for two years the local pastor there. He has been I guilty of conduct unbecoming a preacher. The charge has been made and we guess It can be proven, that Rev. Powell actually had the brazen effrontery to openly and maliciously champion the election of Governor Marshall last fall. Think what those pious deacons must have suffered while their pastor groveled at the foot of Democracy. While Rev. Powell may have committed an unpardonable offense agafhst the dignitaries of the North Indiana conference, for not working for a Republican instead of a Democrat, yet we would not give

- much for the chances of those protesting deacons in ever wearing a crown any larger than a dried up peanut Pour Indiana congressmen were heard upon the floor of congress and all four of them riddled the Payne tariff bill and the whole system of protection jfore and (aft. The four speakers were Democrats, and it almost oorders on the sensational to hear four Indiana Democrats all in one day, and to think, too, that they I are real congressmen from the hoosier state. It is a safe bet that they ' will come nearer representing the people that the echoes that have rattled around there for the last several years. - An unfortunate qircumptance attending the tariff discussion is the resort to unfair criticism on the part of both friends and opponents of the Payne bill. There is too much tendency,/to exaggeration and misrepresentation. What is wtntcd by the public—what is needed or the country, Is a candid statement of facts and a fair comment of inferences. The • subject Is too Important or petty caviling, <w partisan disputation. It concerns the living of millions and affepts the prosperity of the nation. Let the truth be told and idle speculation cease. —South Bend Times. When onecontemplates the national burlesque now showing in Washington under the direction of Cannon and Aldrich, legislative dramatists, in their presentation of the work of Playwright Payne, it is not easy to criticize the alarming lack of interest displayed by certain republican editors who recently saw fit to criticise Champ Clark for his opposition to the final production of the grand spectacular melodrama, •‘Revision.” Republican papers, perhaps, feel that their silence is the only sort of endorsement they can give to the conduct of their sort of patriots.—Columbia City Post. ; ®—®®®ti®——® Mkyor McClellan, in a recent address, criticises the expressions of President Taft indicating that he regarded hmself as responsible for carrying out party pledges—a sort of head of the party. But is not this practically the view which has been taken by every president? Even Washingotn, though unanimously elected, forwarded the policies of the Federalists, because he believed them best for the country. President Cleveland gave a Democratic administration, as Taft is giving a Republican one; yet both appointed cabinet officers from the opposite party and both sought to promote the good of the whole country, each according to his “lights."—South Bend Times. Plans and specifications for the Mary J. Niblick bridge in Jefferson township, have been adopted by the board, and have ordered blds for the construction of the same at the May term of commissioners court David E. Smith as guardian, was granted a refund in taxes to the amount of $5.72. Blds for an arch in Root township was ordered, and a contract for it will be made at the May term. The C. C. Sprunger, Fred Fox, C. E. Stuckey, Magley and Beer macadam roads were continued. Surveyor Ernst and H. Fred Scheiman and William Breiner were named to make a viewer’s report on the Caleb Andrews macadam road petition. The seme viewers and engineer were named to make a similar report on the Joseph Heiman road. - The commssioners took time today to take a look through the factory of the Ward Fence company. Like I many other people they were agree- ‘ ably suprrised at the gigantic proportions of this factory. The plant is running in Ifull blast and turning out fence in large orders. A message to this office received late this afternoon said that President Taft had offered ex-Congressman Charles B. Landis of Indiana, the position as .governor of Porto Rico, but the position was turned down. The president has also offered the place as minister to China to ex-Senator Fulton of Oregon. The Historical Club was entertained by Mrs. C. D. Lewton at her home on north Second street last evening. Several members did not attend on acl count of the weather.

WILL MOVE TO OKLAHOMA I ■ I ’, Charles DeLoe of Bluffton, Will Go Into Business "Ift TjUs. ’ Charles DeLoe arrived home Satur--1 day night from a trip to Oklahoma and > is making all preparations to dose out t all of his affairs in this county and also , his oil holdings In Illinois and states his purpose of locating permanently in Oklahoma. He expects to get away ’ about May first and will move to i Tulsa, with his family. He has decided r to embark in the mercantile business in Tulsa. He thinks that Oklahoma is bound to be a great business place ' and of the numerous places he visited he likes Tulsa the best, both as a • place of business and residence. He 1 possibly will take some interests in oil properties also, although he will give his main attention to the mer- v cantile business.—Bluffton News. ( — HONORS FOR HAGGARD j > Lafayette, Indiana, April 6.—W. S. Haggard, former lieutenant governor, and at present state representative, was today elected commandant of the State Soldiers’ Home, succeeding R. ■ S. Smock. v ‘ L ELECTED RAILROAD PRESIDENT New York, April 6—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—Richard Johnson* of Richmond, Indiana* was today elected president of the Rock Island railroad. He was a student at Earlham college. | O "■ - MRB. SCHMITT’S WILL PROBATED Gives Her Property to Danphter, Mrs. Schwarz. The last testament of Mrs. Henriette Schmitt was probated. It was, written July 20, 1905, and besides be- j Inga will was also a contract whereby j her daughter. Mrs. Sophia Schwarz ; was to provide for her while she | lived and was to use the greater part of the farm. After the death of Mrs. Schmitt, the personal and real property was all to go to Mrs. Schwarz who must within a year pay to each of the following the sum of 1100: Engel Leimkuler, Christian Bauer, Heinrich Vonßehren,Wilhelmina Busselman, EUsie Rodenbeck and Carl Vonßehren. The will was witnessed by Gust M. Flsshbach and C. C. D. Sch’eimann. - . .. . , / TO CONSTRUE WILL Heirs of Daniel Rumple Take Their Affairs to Court OTHER COURT NEWS • 'i / . ‘ The Gallmeyer Case Concluded, But no De- ' cision Given Morton J. Martin, administrator of the Elizabeth C. Martin estate, has .filed the Inventory as made by the apprarisers 'William. Anderson and Noah Yoder. The personal property and notes amounted to $2,891.12. Attorney J- W. Teeple filed a new case entitled Mary Davis, Emma J. Burley? Margaret E. Woodruff, Edna i J. Kranor vs. Mrs. Adeline, John and Sarah E. Rumple. The complaint alleges that Daniel Rumple died in 1902, leaving an estate worth $15,000- and willing same to the wife Adeline so 1 long as she lived or remained his / Widow. No administrator was appointed and the plaintiffs now ask that the court construe this wilt ? ' Mrs. Minnie Holthouse, as guardian ’ for her minor children, filed her annual report this afternoon. It was after 5 o’clock Tuesday event Ing when Judge D. D. Heller, oonclud- [ ed the final argument in the famous Gallmeyer land case and it is now ’in the hands of Judge Macy. That gentleman did not say just when he would give a decision, but announced 1 that he would let the attorneys know within a few days. There seems to be a great amount.of feeling in the matter, and it is quite probable that ; the case will be carried to the supreme court A marriage license was Issued to David Neutenschwander, 'aged 27, a general merchant at Berne, and Marie Elizabeth Soldner, aged 25. a clerk at Berne. . _____ Real estate transfers: Emma Kizer to David Runyon, tract in Hartford township, $235; John B. Badders to John Richards, lot 19, Monroe, sllO.

there will be about forty, and perhaps more. The candidates will be given the four degrees. The Rebekahs, immediately after this work is done, will serve a banquet to the Odd Fellows of whom there will be a large company, the Geneva, Berne and Linn Grove encampments toeing present. ( The following proclamation w«a issued by the general commander: “To I all officers aid chevaliers, department and subordinate bodies of the patriarch’s militant, and to all * whom it may concern: In accordance with usage of the order and the proclamation of the commander-in-chlef, enjoining appropriate action tor due commemoration on the twenty-sixth ! day of April, 1909, by suitable exercises in observance of the day and by public thanksgiving to Almighty God for His manifold to us as individuals, and as en order, on <he ninetieth Sfiniversary you are hereby without special authorisation in detail, therefore, as, provided, | to have or to, participate in such obI servance and all (tne exercises in , connections therewith, as may tor each command be possible. Chivalrous knighthood and patriarchal courtesy, with 'subordinate loyalty, warrants every effort that the public .manifestation of remembrance shell I be such in keeping with the true spirit ’of Fraternity, as to merit approval •of the nonafflHate and the admiration i of our order, in conformity with which your action is to be commended. Done at the city of Baltimore, state of Maryland, this the twenty-sixth of March, anno domini, nineteen hundred and nine, and of the militant of the twenty-fourth year. “MANLEY A. RANEY, “Genera! Commanding. "Attest: John BL Goodwin, Adjt. Genl.” ' ■ . ' O/ , ' —- John A. LaFsvour, drainage conn gnissioner, and Steven B, Whipple, lawyer, and a good one, were here today figuring out a final settlement in the Lob ditch construction and Payment, and which was done to the complete satisfaction of all concerned. The lob ditch was one of the biggest pieces of ditch construction that has beeip pulled off in this part of the state for a long period of time. It drained land in the three bounties of Adams, Jay and Wells, and made several hundred acres of land more’ useful and valuable. Jt cost Adams county $12,986.50, Jay' comity 38 and Welle county SBIO.OI. Frank P. W«de was the contractor and he worked on the job for two and a'half years, completing same during last February, and now comes the Ing touches in settling for the same. It is practically all paid in, some few discrepancies in the assessment of a few of those affected remain to be adjusted. The delinquencies in this county are few and far between for Such public work as this is. The contractor is said to have done satisfactory work, and the drainage commissioner has likewise been proficient in mastering the long array of figures sufih as this enterprise meant, and more successful still in getting the money on the assessments, ft' has meant much for the extreme southern part of this county, and even more for the northern pert of Jay county. Vlt Is said the Thirteenth district got nearly 20.000 packages of garden seeds through x Congressman Barnhart,who originated the newspaper office method of distribution. jeompany, one of the few dramatic companies louring the middle states, that has weathered the panic of the last two years, te taking a vacation here in Decatur. * This company has. hath ft run Os two years without the loss of a singly week and they take this week for ; recreation. Part of the company away visiting relatives in different parts of the country. About nine of the company being here in the city, having arrived yesterday on the Clover Leaf from Marion. Ind., wheje they played last week. They open a week’s engagement at Bosse’s opera house Monday, April 12th.

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and dear to the many, those whose activities and unceasing efforts for the right have won for them recognition in busness and social circles alike. It is so with the departed Mr. Steele. His acquaintanceship extended over the county, and was not confined therein, but he was known for many miles around. His abode in A dams lavxw Ivan VsAAn I to the county in 1848, when he was but thirteen years of. age. They came from his birthplace in Bedford, Pa. He has since lived in St Marys township, and has done much to promote the interests of the township and the county, always observing the ancient golden rule, laboring for humanity that her rights may become perpetuated. The deceased was devoted to his family and his good qualities were innumerable. The decedent wal taken ill about two weeks ago and gradually declined until he relapsed into unconsciousness as \a consequence of the severity of the pain attending his illness. His spirit was ushered into eternity before he regained rationality. Mr. Steele was born June 1, 1885, and was 78 years, 10 months and four days of age. Surviving to share in the hour of sad bereavement, besides a multitude of friends are his wido*. and three sons as follows: Decatur Steele, Kansas; Ira Steele, Pleasant Mills, and George Steele, Pleasant Mills. Four daughters preceded him to the eternal world, they being Mallssa, Victoria, Cannie and a child which died in infancy. The funeral services were held from the Pleasant Mills United Brethren church yesterday morning at 10:30 o’clock, the Rev. Freeman officiating, interment was made in the church cemetery. ■" ,O R-' " Rev. C. B. Wilcox, who has jubt closed a very successful two years’ pastorate at the Methodist church in this city, has filed suit for divorce from his wife, Elsie D. Wilcox, C. L. Walters appearing for the plaintiff. The complaint is A very simple one, alleging that the parties were married at Richmond, Indiana, September 1, 1890 and lived together until November 28rd last, when Mrs. Wilcox went to the home of ft brother at Richmond, informing her husband that she would not live with him longer. According to heir husband’s complaint, Mrs. Wilcox has been very jealous of him and has made unfounded complaints, much to the distress of his mini Attorney Waiters went to Richmond yesterday where the papers were, served. At this time it Is not known whether or not Mrs. Wilcox wttl fight the case, but probably not as it is understood that ft satisfactory arrangement has been made between the parties concerning the cash settlment Both parties are very popular here and this occurrence has caused many regrets. Real estate transfers: Catherine Mundhenk to Sarah C. Mundhenk, 20 acres Hartford tp., $500; Sarah C. Mundhenk to Catherine Mundhenk. 20 acres Hartford tp., $5,000; Franklin Myers et al to Bioyd Myers et «1, tract in St. Marys tp., $8,000; G. F. Myers et al to Franklin Myers, tract urn The Masonic meeting last evening wag certainly a suOeeiSful one from the report of the boys who were there. Mr. John Kurtner, or Preble, was given the third or master degree and there Were ft large number in attendance. The hew regalia, the stereopticon machine and the new choir add features to the- work that makes a member who has not-attended recently think he is taking the work over again. The lodge seems to have a renewed interest and there ire about a dozen candidates on the way. The owner of a 13-acre tract of land in South Bend has hit upon ft unique idea. He announces through . the Times that he will give over the use of the ground to people who want to experiment dn raising vegetables. The scheme seems to “be to get varied results in truck farming. « ' O''- * — , Democrat Want Ads. Pay

man to the asylum,.but there was no II he has gone to Chattanooga, and if this Is true and he stays there || money affairs. When a victim of the ■ strange hallucination ne is a wealthy H man. He is then worfh $40,000, but.® in the absence of a true bill or some ® other convincing evidence the large® sum is not accessible. A man of his® condition is to be pitied. j| ... o Conter always leads while others® follow. The ice cream season this® year blds fair to eclipse any former® year, and that is saying something® when we remember the last season.® and the new record established in® the manufacture and sale of Decatur® cream. A Millen brine freezer is now® being placed in position at the Deca-® tpr plant, and by this time tomorrow® the season will have opened in earn-® est and ice cream, the best and most® highly flavored in the market, will be®, sent every which way from this city.® The new freezer is the latest in the® manufacture of ice cream, its sanitary® provisions being the strongest point® in Its favor. It Is said to be the most® sanitary freezer now in use, and com-® plies in every way with every pro-® vision of the pure food law. It was® purchased from the Miller izing company, of Canton, Olho, and® is a beauty. With anything like fav-® orable weather this season will be the® best ever known by this Industry. Ice® is the serious obstacle facing the man-Jj ufacturers of ice cream in this part® of the state, and with this freezei® less of this cooling fluid is necessary® so there again Conter has one on® them. He has contracted for his sup® ply of ice and will not permit anythin®! from interfering with the businesi® end of this Industry. S ———— o 1 ill The Ladies’ Aid Society of the M. E®| church will give an Easter luncheoi® and sale at Monroe church on Sat® urday evening of the 10th of April® Everyone cordially invited. * Coffee Fried eggs Sandwlche® Cake ■ ' Pickled eggs g| Baked Beans Potato Salat® Price, 15 cents. ® The Elks lodge in Decatur are plan® ning to give a big Easter ball whic® will take place on Wednesday evenin® of next week. The affair is in charg® of the entertainment committee com® • posed of Messrs. J. S. Peterson, Tru®| Frlstoe and Jesse Helm, who wilß issue the Invitations within a day o® two. It is needless to say that thK event will be quite the serial affai®| of the season for the Elks ftrti th® boys who do things just right. I The Aid Society of the Unite® J Brethren church will meet Thursda® afternoon with Mrs. D. O. Steele o®| west Monroe street. The afternoo®'; will be spent socially and refresh® menta wffl be served. I Mrs. Jesse Sellemeyer Will ente® tain the Thimble Club at her hom® on north Fourth street Thursday a®>! ternoon. The guests will sew s®< usual. < I Fred Mills is entertaining th®| Young Matrons Club this afternooMj at her home on Mercer avenue. ■ Monday night while Mrs. M. J. Bu®| ler, of south Tenth street, was quie®| ly sitting in her home looking ovt®| the evening paper, torty-slx of he® Rebekah lodge sisters rushed in upo® / her to remind hper that she had passe® another mllestipne in life. The su® prise was complete, and will long b®. Remembered by Mrs. Butler. a most enjoyable evening spent in ■gl social way, during which time crea® J and cake were served, the guests d® parted for their homes, wishing Mr® Butler many more returns of the da®,' o— Democrat Want Ady. P*®|