Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1909 — Page 1

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RFC A N Hlk Til ncuAN no uuho m 8... ——* — -• ; •W . ■ [ John D. Hale Attended His First Session as a City Councilman fe>/ / , . ' A REGULAR SESSION North Second Street Must Be Repaired or Suits on Bonds Will Wow John D. Hale, appointed to fill out the unexplred time of the late Anson V* C *d al the ilman am omoui work In that line when He attended the regular meeting of . the city “dads '- He filed hto certipresent and Mayor France presided. A resolution carried providing that the clerk be ordered to give notice to "bidders for two weeks that on December 7th, bids will be received for raeEthe construction of, a sidewalk where needed from Mrs. M. Burdg corner of Mercer avenue to High street, at the expense of the property owners. As. sistant fire chief, W. H. Ward, was present and asked that 500 feet of new |hose (be |hnd the* 1 matter was referred to the purchaa* Ing committee with power to adt.' I The mayor appointed Mr. Hale, the new councilman, as chairman of the I* purchasing committee, also of the water works committee and a member of the judiciary. Lewis Bracht, ? a resident of west Monroe street, asked to be allowed the use of city ferred to the water works committee. An offer from the Kalver junk company to buy the stack iron and scrap city plant, accumulated during the installation there of new machilnejy and boilers, was accepted at |8.50 per ton, this not including any of the old boilers or machinery. J. f' Bowers asked for a water plug wf near his property on north First k -street, also one. at the packing house, •also complaining that- some action would have to\ be taken to prevent the water backing up in the Bowers alley sewer whidh empties on his land and overflowing. Complaints were filed by citizens living along north Second dftteet that the street ta m bad shipe repairs. The city attorney wai accordingly Üb, orlzed to notify Ad interurban company and Woods and tractors to repair earne st once and If not done to begin action ofa the . bods. The following bffls wpre alO. wjtonce, 1n5p..... !( >.-'.i..| 3T.W John. Lose, insp SamUM’MHteL Insp Clover Leaf Ry ...» Lord Elec Co. 17.25 Natural Carbon CO. ’47.75 A dt C. Stone Co. 17JNJ Tittals Coal Jrip Bollinger . 178.29 Jufius Haugk;■.>* 28.93 Frank Krick, insp 37.90 L.M EUlngham 38.60 Ft Wayne/ Elec Works. dO.fi D. F. Teeple 6 d W. R?Burkhead , 975 Water works pay roll 35.25 Sunday Creek Coal Co. 25 82 Indiana Refining Co. 8.35 D. F. Teeple i?. 4765 R. S. Peterson, elec. c0m.... 10.00 D. N. Erwin, elec c0m..19.00 H. S. Steele, election 1n5p..... 400*1 C. U. Dorwtn, pay roll 28 50 Reuben Brelner I*oo C. & E. Ry. C 0.... 246.31 Peter Kirsch 22.85 Henry Shults 900 John Coots 'O'J C. J. Voglewede 32-90 'L. C. Helm, fire chief pay roll 87.50 . o i* ~~ —*■ Clark Spahr went to Fort Wayne yesterday, where he will make a visit with his mother, Mrs. Margaret ( Spahr, who on Tuesday morning underwent an operation at the Hope hospital for the removal of gall B stopes. Th? operation seems to have been a successful one In all respects and unless something unfdrseen sets In She will soon be restored to her former gCod health. She has been suffer- . Ingifro mthl< qause for the past two months and an operation was the ( only way tojJbtaln

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ifejPprt Wayne, Ind., Nov. 17.-—At the | end of a chase of twenty-six and ,a jhalf miles over the pttblic lof the city a fellow giving the name of C. H. Hughey gnd bls address as 1 501 west Main street, was captured two and a half miles south of Poe by Arthur Hyser and John Prince along with five of Hyser’s turkeys and a horse and buggy he had stolen from George G. Schoep, who lives , a short distance south of the county Infirmary. Deputy Sheriffs Courdevey and Schoenefeld went out yesterday and brought the entire- outfit to the city and lodged Hughey In the county jail; The chase Was a» exciting one and at no .time we«f tty. selfeOMUtuted ■ ;mile behind j^r*jyau 3 la 16 w ' I ■ ■< ’ ' ■’ |mßd6 a lAvai nustaK© wnou üßwuuuJy i pMAR*ty » JfresMibti4 About one o’ctoC Jftg : ''wis'-.bdtng driven awejHwttsJa : number of- iris choicest fowtt; stowed * in the buggy. He dressed, got his ' shotgun, wakened up Prince gnd In a abort time they were in hot pursuit. * Hughey kept dogdtng about and ttirn- ' Ing and twisting about all over the southwestern comer of the county ’ and went over the Wells line. He was in Sheldon, at the road Ijouse ’ south of Fort Wayne and then made another break to get away through Wells county but his horse was fagJ ged and at last he jumped out of his buggy and took to the fields. Hyser leveled bls gun at Hughey and he threw up his Hands and said he had. no weapon of any kind-mot even a pocket knife. He was taken to Poe ' and the sheriff was called. In the meantime Rchoeph had notified the officers that a sorrel mare and a huggy had been stolen some time during the night from his farrfi and cards were prepared and were being sheriffs had heen told to ’be’on the lookout and When they Jaw th? horse and buggy they knew that they had rounded up the horse thief along with Hyser’s turkeys. | Q ' •- ■ - ' - Is a chimpanzee man’s .Superior? 1 He is in some respects at least, cording to Prof. W. T. Shepherd, of ( George Washington university, who ( has been conducting, minute aclen-1 title investigations herd with a troop j Sh<ft)herd asserts that the monkey is endowed with greater faculties ,6* perception, sensation and memory than man. The beast is fat from •■attaining the level of mdn when • It, comes to reason, judgment and imagination. “While, my experiments of the past levy months have conclu£iyely demonstrated that ; the monkey 14«uperior to is the lower knlmal faculties are concerned," said Prof. Shepherd,., "i hesitate to bClievp that the lf|tie animal e*dr. be abia>, approach the high standard of mentality of man. By this t mean that the gms* key never can attain the 'highest mental faculties, such as exercising judgment and reaao®- ' mature* ..and nature jik)he,‘ W I© able to Improve the brain, whether It be the brain of man of- monkey. I believe, like Darwin, that the human race sprang from the monkey, or & higher developed animal of this species. That Is, the physical form' Os min undoubtedly' can be traced. Ito (the monkely. Experiments with I the dog and cat have shown to my satisfaction that th? monkey Is superior In many way* to either of these animals. For instance, I ar* ranged a test .that I might observe the amount of intelligence displayed by the three animals, and the monkey carried off honors. I placed stick in a piece of meat and put it > within a few inches of a cage in | which a monkey reposed. The animal could not reach the meat, but he could touch the stick. Without a moment’s hesitation the little fellow grasped the stick and hauled the meat Into his cage. The same experiment was worked on a cat and dog, but each of these animals fati«d to see the usefulness of the stick. They reached and clawed for the meat, but the fact that ’t might te obiained by moving the stick no v er occurred to them.” Prof. Shepherd Is now busily engaged writing a treatise c on his experiments. Meanwhile assistants are stjll further studying the animals, Inventing new tests to determine their relative plane, and trying to 'Civilize’’ them.

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’ P6 ‘ DEANS in districts I The Ttt. Rev. Bishop Alerdlng Makes i j Appointments.. i ! , The Rt. Rev. Bishop Alerdlng, D.D., the diocese of Fort Wayne, has! i Issued to the clergy of the diocese * a letter announcing the appointment i of deans for the South Bend and Logansport district?. The Rev. Louis A Moensch, rector of St. Joseph’s church at Mishawaka, has been appointed dean of the South Bend dls- . trict, which comprises the counties , 1 of Elkhart, Kosciusko, Lapofta, ‘Marshall, St. Joseph and Starke. He . succeeds the Rev. John Bleckmanu« ' who died in September. The Rev. /John H. Gunedling, tact® of St „ Charles* churilh kt be the* Mgw dean of the Logansport district, comprising the counties of Carroll, ’ CtaMsf Fulton, Miami, M-ewtom Puladki, ‘He success the late ;Grpeger—Fort Wayne Journal-Ge-y.f ~ W :-4<» ?' -- °" ffi,-'' rS’- dßMfll'l A ; ■ J J J fl: S • I I r v “ Decatur Foundry, Furnace and Machine Company Will Furnish Machinery FOR NEW ELEVATOR '. »'i | *" | - | »" i Also Have Contracts and die Future Looks Very Bright The Decatur Foundry, Furnace & Machine company have landed the contract to furnish all the materia] necessary for fitting up the W modern NitmcK company eieww Including In the contract are three Fairbanks-Morse motors, which will operate the machinery, also the cleaners, the belting, shafting, piil(lej}S and all the machinery for the big elevator and ' the automatic fe scales, which will have a capacity of ilsoo bushels per hour. The work ’on the elevatpr M progressing. The foundation will be completed . this . week and the work on the building | will begin at bdee and will be comjpleted in sixty days. The foundry ’and furnace company are also pro- ‘ greasing and are starting off rush of business far beyond pectatlons of those; in charge/. have secured orders for four hand and power elevators so be Installed at 1 various places, ajno the contract for ' the castlngs fpr tiie Hanna-Brecken- J bridge company .at Fort Wayne, and a'la>ge J abntra<»t’f&r Umnbtte eovew and"; sewer cashes tor a Toledo firm. < ■fl# ‘iathes and phnersi? radial drill, J wbiijOctaper'TMid other mdehinery I bay© Arrived : a«fi ’ haTe been dnataltad < aro’how turning out goods 1 {h a ? business mu®«r. They have * secured the services of Jacob 1 Tested a first! Class machinist and Installer of motors, elevators, etc., 1 ’also of the Schnltz brothers, expert 1 machinists and, a good foundry fore- i man, who with an able and large < corps of assistants are able to turn < out any kind of castings or take care 1 of any work of any kind. • They ,ex- < pect to do ali lines of foundry work ’ and (will turn out structural steel < I beams, bridge iron and will meet i lany concern hi the country in com- i petition. They will secure the ser- i vices of hn expert boiler maker and ' will be able to serve threshermen in 1 the repair of boilers, engines, ete. They will erect a building of ample capacity to take care of this branch i of the work and will buy and sell sec- i ond hand machinery of every deserip- < ition and carry a supply of belting, < shafting, couplings, cables and all < special machinery. They will use < only good mechanics and thus will 1 secure a large patronage through I honest and square dealings. 1 •' o—- —1 IMPORTANT MEETING OF G. A. R. i ] .There will be an Important meeting < of the Sam Henry Post, G. A. R. at 1 the post hall tomorrow, Thursday < evening at which time will occur the i nomination of officers to serve during i .the ensuing year. It is very impor- < tant that all members who can- pos- < slbly do so be present at this meet- < Ing. R. D. Patterson, Commander, i .... rril.m.QM Bn —1 Miss Irene Kohne Went to Fort < Wayne this afternoon. *

Re|L RAID IN ILLINOIS TOWN — SbVpnteen Men Fined an Aggregate ' ? 1 of 111,425. — BelrMere, 111., Nov. 16. —Seventeen keepers of soft drink places were fined an aggregate of 811,425 and each received a jail sentence of frOm thirty t > ninety days, for selling intoxicatt g. drinks,, here today. This is said to be the largest total of fines e -er imposed for similar offensgs n, a single sitting of a court. The .jail sentences are to be suspended f the fines are paid, but only six too) advantage of this and eleven are nor confined in the county jail. The cit voted “dry” eighteen months ago, t)U this te said to be the first day that it has been absolutely “dry.” The lota of the money formerly paid for saioOn licenses has placed the city . jn such a financial position that part of thd fctreet lighting system will be eliminated. br4yeothestorm Many Faced Blizzard Last Evening to Hear Evangelist Thompson I DAMNATIOfHhr TAITH f - - - Tonight “Religion, What is i It? How Do You Keep ? *x' I it?*’ the Subject —— l I Those by whom the blizzard was i braved enjoyed a great spiritual 1 blessing Tuesday night at the Church of Christ A few of the chorus were ' iiMnt^t 'the‘titherS andsome new ones,’ made grand music. Miss Maud Cawley tamg A solo which was very appropriate to the occasion. “Dam- ' nation by Faith”,, was Evangelist ] Thompson's theme and you must study the text n Thes. 4:11-12, to properly understand the subject. The speaker said: There are many- strong ■■ delusions in the world today/ For- ( tune telling is one of them. He told bis experience in the city of Pine ■ Bluff, AriL, when an old negress had predicted ita ftastruetion. He related ( an amusing story of the fellow who J kbll©ved himself to be transformed into a mouse, which ludicrously 11iustrated how tar imagination can carry us. It Is a fatal mistake or delusion to think there ls any means w way of salvation exeeiri through ; the authOTitativedootortae of the church: of th© Most High God and ( wheats-Wta trustska lodge . .or any other Institution eternity. he wUL . be: lodge? declared the evangelist. I ate ' a Judge man and* believe I . know itsr pnrptae on earth. The lodge is ba- j man; the church is divine. The lodge is exclusive, none but good* moral, ' honest men can escape the black balfethe chwelL te universal, the ’ burnt, the thugs, the riff, raff, the reprobate arid the prostitute are -welcomed, loved and assisted. The lodge cares only for the body and its tem- ‘ poraJ needs; the church nurtures the i soul and prepares it for eternity. < There was one more convert, a splen. 1 did young man. Evangelist Thomp- I son has fully recovered from a brief 1 illness and announces his subject to- i night will be “Religion: What is ft, 1 How do you get it? How do you 1 keep it?” - J ... i—o— ] Washington, November 17.—Repre- i sentative Herbert Parsons will make 1 no particular effort to have his j charge that Speaker Cannon was in < collusion with certain Tammany De- 1 ocrats and upstate Republican leaders i during the rules fight, investigated ] by congress. He said so today, and 1 he added that he saw no reason why i his determination should be changed 1 between now and the opening of the < session. This does not mean that Mr. t Parsons is at all perturbed at the idea 1 of an investigation. In fact, he said i he would welcome a thorough airing i of the numerous rumors that per- i vaded the capital after Speaker Cannon and his organization were successful last spring. He said he was < confident that he had enough evl---] deuce to convince congress that the i speaker saved his rules by a deal : with Tammany and certain Republi- i can leaders from New York state, i “I made the charge as emphatic as 1

possible,*’ said Mr. Parsons today; “and I am more than ever convinced of its truth. I heard from various; Sources before congress adjourned last summer that such a deal had been made, but I had no absolute confirmation of it until the recent mfi-' niclpal campaign began. Washington, November 17. —William. J. Wood, of the Indiana railroad commission who is attending the ail-, nual convention of the National Association of Railway Commissioners in this city, says he will make an effort to get the national association to memoriallde the legislatures of the tadfe lous states to enace such legislation on the subject of grade crossings and trespassing on railroads as will greatly decrease. the number cd accidents throughout the., country and prevent loss of life. Mr. Wood, as chairman of. the committea on crossings and trespassing. has 'ifir*. corporated iM fiJJ report copies of the' bills he had. introduced in the Initiana legislMttmtga j both subjects. These bills failed to pass, but the In- < ia commissioner will press them again nexti year. J c - * ‘ ?'!' '' ' AN INTERESTING MEETING The Man’s Club of the Preabyteriah. Church Enjoy . Pleasant Evening. The Men’s Club of the Presbyterian church met Tuesday night at church parlors and a very Interesting program was rendered which made the evening a very pleasant one. Prof. Rice and C. L Walters were the speakers of the evening and delivered very interesting talks which were appreciated by those in attendance. After a few remarks were given »> social good time was enjoyed, by all. The next meeting was set for December the twenty-third and not only members of the club are invitpd but an invitation to the men outside of the congregation is extended. ‘ -©'wj'it;* ; ■ '*'* ■ . . ' The county teftchertf Association will have their meeting in this city on December 4. Heretofore the meetings haVe been held on the last Saturday in this month, but on account of Thanksgiving the date was changed this year until one/ week later. A program is now being prepared and the meeting promises to be one of the best ever held. The place Os meeting has not been decided upon but later announcements will be: made, so that every teacher in the county will know where, and when the meeting will be held; The scarlet fever is now thought Ao .he ia thing of the past in this city Wd precaution taken by the school board and other school officials perhaps saved the day and prevented an epidemic which might have Closed the schools lor some time. Superintendent Opliger M busy visiting the schools of the he reports as showing muck The attendance is greater than ever before in the history of th© Schools, and the corps of teachers cannot be equalled any-i where. It wlh. soon be time for I winter institutes and other events gs ' interest to schopl irork. ■ T '- ;i : ' An insanity iqquest was held Tries, day morning op John H. Elston, an exsoldier and one of. the best known citizens of St. Marys township. The board consisted of Squire James H., Stone and Drs. S. D. Beavers and J.. Miller. After hearing the including that by the physician who has attended the unfortunate man, Dr. S. K. Christy of Willshire, they recommended that Mr. Elston be placed in the asylum for the insane’ at Richmond. The patient has been in poor health for some time and ( aside from the mind trouble is afflicted with epilepsy. For several months ( he has been violent and it has been. necessary to guard him constantly to prevent him from doing Injury to himself dr others. He imagines he is in battle and has many other queeer hallucinations. He is sixty-six years old and has lived in St. Marys township for a long term of years. His friends and those of the family deeply regret the unfortunate condition which has come upon him in the clos. Ing years of his life. ■ ' ■— ■ a . — — J. C. Hursch, of Ossian, has purchased a grocery at Aubnrn of W. C. Hursch is well experienced tn business place of business on Monday. Mr. Munch is well experienced in business, having been engaged in various merchantile enterprises for the past twenty-six yean.—Bluffton News.

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HELD AN ELECTION Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows Now in Session THE ' MEMBERSHIP — Two Hundred and EightyFive Encampments in the State Indianapolis, Nov. amual session of the grand encampmet of the Indiana Odd Fellows opened yesterday in the assembly room of the Odd Fellows buMing with, represfntatives from tall parts the State in attendances The encampment ended its work with the election of officen shortly before 5:30 o’clock last evening and today the grand lodge will begin a two days’ session. J. A. Andrews of River Vale, Ind., who was elected grand junior warden for the coming year, won his office after three ballots had been taken. He had a dozen of his brethren in the encampment opposing him for the place and the voting was spirited. The office of grand junior warden leads to the post of grand representative in the sovereign grand lodge, an dit is a much sought place at each recurring session of the Odd Fellows. The other officers elected were: . 4 ' Grand representative, H. J. McSheeny, Logansport. Frand Patriarch, W. H. Tabor, Terre Houte. Grand High Priest, H. W. Hodson, Martinsville. I . Grand Senior Warden, W. J. Hughes, Alexandria. - . < Grand Junior Warden, J. A. Andrews, River Vale. Grand Scribe, W. H. Leedy, Indianapolis. Grand Treasurer, J. M. Lang, Sullivan. Grand Trustee, S. P. Stroup, Shelbyville. Immediately after the election the new officers were Installed by. John B. Cocknm of this city and at the conclusion of the installation the officers to be voted upon at the. election next year were nominated. All of the officers chosen yesterday will advance to the place next above them at the session next November, beginning with the lowest office, grand junior warden, so that the candidates for the election next year were named,, for the office of .grand junior warden. They are Will Johnson, Fort Wayne; J. B. Merriman, Bluffton; J. S. James, Linton; . T. Arbuckle, Rushville; G. W. Scott, Sheridan; 8. p. Sharp, Indianapolis.; Perry Hlgman, Lafayette; W. A. Breining, Rockfield; J. F. Ore, Bourbon; George W. Long, • Nashville; William Thompson, Dun- | ktafc; John Springman, Crawfords- ■ ville; A. Stoops, Elizabethtown; G. T. Pattison, Danville, and R. H. Meyers, Cory. Some of those Who were nominated (Qr she office of grand junior warden, for the election next year were candidates for the place yesterday. u The report of W. H. Leedy, grand scribe, shows the total ,number of encampments to be 285. .The report also shows that there has been a decrease in the number of members in Indiana, making the total membership on June 30 of the present year 17,970, against 18,174 for the same time last year. The first ’session of the grand lodge will begin at 9 o’clock this morning, and will continue all day. This evening at 7 'o’clock the first degree work will be : given by Shelby lodge No. 39 at i Tomlinson Hall. The grand lodge session will close tomorrow afternoon. —— O' " ' - SETTLED OUT OF COURT The case of wife desertion against Dr. J. B. Evans wHI be dismissed, according to the attorneys Interested. By the compromise which was reached between the doctor and his wife they will divide the pension of the veteran, whereby the wife will get half of It and the husband the other half. Evans was brought back to this city from Lebanon a few weeks ago after a charge of wife desertion had been filed against him by his J wife. She alleged in the charge that he had deserted her and had left her no means of support.—'Bluffton Ban’ner.

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