Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1909 — Page 6

Spencer. Indiana, Nov. lai to Daily Democrat)-The private bank of Behm, Peden & Company, banking tasUtutlons In this part of the state, was closed today by the state auditor. The closing came as a complete surprise and without any warning to the people of this community who supposed It was a gilt edged Institution. An Inventory of the banks affairs disclosed the fare that the assets are approximately 1175,000 while the liabilities reach $200,000. The reason for closing the bank Is that the money is tied up in private concerns owned by the partners. Captains Beem’s father was the first settler In this county, Owen, and the family are prominent here avd In republican polities in the state. T. A. Peden Is one of the largest land owners in the county, and one of the best known farmers in this part of the state.

Princeton, Ind., Nov. 27. —'After de liberating twenty minutes, a jury in the circuit court here found Henry E. Agar, once a wealthy capitalist, guilty of embezzlement The penalty I is two to fourteen years in the state penitentiary. Three years ago Henry E. Agar at the head of the Princeton Elevator Company and a big mercantile establishment here was considered one of the shrewdest financiers in the state. He bought and sold grain by the train load and ran a corn barge on the Wabash rlyer. The - news reached this city the night of Jan. 23, 1907, that Agar had fallen from his barge and was drowned. A week later it was rumored that Agar had left the elevator company with a shortage of more than SIOO,OOO, involving forgery and embezzlement of bank notes and funds. These rumors were not believed at first Detectives sent out by insurance companies ii which Agar held policies amounting to $30,000 searched the continent. They followed Capt T. C. Harrington of Agar’s corn barge, the last man seen with Agar the night he disappeared, but the only answer they received was that Agar was dead. Finally from Brownsville, Tex., came the report, Dec. 15, last year, that a man answering Agar’s description was under arrest there. Then followed the some-coming, the meeting of husband and wife and children after an absence as complete as death Itself. Bond was easily furnished and Agar was again free. An investigation in the meantime had revealed some starring things and charges came thick and fast. The grand jury returned sixteen indictments for forgery at one time and others for criminal conspiracy to defraud insurance companies. Only one forgery case was tried, which ended in an acquittal, and the remainder are still pending. ——o——

A number of Decatur and Adams county people will go to Chicago during the next week or ten days to attend the big international Stock show which opened in that city this morning. Mr. Eli Sprunger, will go tomorrow and Monday morning win begin his services as judge of the Belgian ; i horses, in this class 103 entries have been made and the work of, judging |B . same will be a big task. However Mr. Sprunger Is fully competent, being one of the best men on Otis line In America, and being so recognised. The fact that he is a judge thjs year prevents Frisinger & Company from exhibiting. For years they have al- \ ways been in on the money and their horses have made a great showing. This year they are better prepared than ever, having a bunch of the best Belgiums ever brought to this country, and. there is no question but that they would share in the honors if allowed to show. However all the people who attend this monster stock , show are not interested in the horse business, for sotck of all kinds are shown, including cattle, sheep and hogs. Each year a number from here < witness the show, and this year will v be no exception.

■ o 1 • —" — In the Sophia Conrad petition for drain, the report and assessments were filed. Orval Harruff appointed B superintendent of construction, and 1 ordered to file bond for $4,000. —— fe’ Hunters’ licenses were issued to r?. John Fox and Isaac Beer. L A a Real estate transfers: Maggie S. Vesey to Mary Ellen Rickard, lot 18 g Monroe, $125; Mary E. Rickard to Claude C. (Rayl, lots 16 and 17 Monp’ roe, $2,610; Albert Newcomer to F. ?• S. Armantrout, lot 358 Geneva $500; H F. S. Armantrout to Elizabeth T. Opn, i 60 acres Jefferson township, $4,800. fc. . Amo n g the new cases filed recently. *ly 18 that of Lola P. Jones vs. Frank P. Jones, complaint for divorce. An K affidavit* of non-residence was filed. Hooper & Lenhart are attorneys for plaintiff. - v ’ ■ ■ -- K In the David J. hartley petition for 1 drain, on motion of drainage commissioners, they were granted until Defew® *4/ III.'

, cember 7th to complete and file their* , . ■■ - 118 t William F. Pyle, admr. of Jemima b A. Bair, filed , proof of non-residence: a real estate ordered sold at public auc y tion. t Mary E. Tester, executrix of the t Jacob Tester, was ordered to make a c report 1 A new complaint hat Deen hied ? by Attorney Dore B. Erwin and e~1 titled C. 8. and D. D. Clark vs. Cltt- ' ford A. Death, suit on account demand S6O. '> .I— I .11 I. Q I 1,...,. — 3 Quite a number of Decatur people 3 who have Deen attending the sessions ! of the Fort Wayne district Christian ’ Endeavor convention at Fort Wayne 3 have returned home, and they report the meeting a very pleasant and successful one. At the closing session last evening at Plymouth Congrega1 tional church, Mr. Irvin E. Bitner, r of Fort Wayne, was elected district , secretary of the organization. The r other district officers elected are: Missionary superintendent, Mrs. C. 5 J. Mize; intermediate and junior sur perintendent, Miss May Lansdown. i The county secretaries were chosen . as follows: Adams, Mr. C. A. Lehman, Berne; Allen, Mr. Rollo Ulrey, Hbagiaffd; Huntington, Msss Edith 1 Livingston, Huntington; Wells, Mt. I Alfred Sauer, Bluffton; Whitley, Miss i Anna Rich, Churubusco. The session ? last evening closed one of the most ’ successful annual conventions ever i held in the district Forty-two dele- < gates wdre in attendance and each ‘ took active part in the various qos- - ferences. Following the supper which was served at 6 o’clock at the Grace ■ Reformed church Mr. John B. Archer i gave a short organ program. MT. i A. G. Burry, treasurer Indiana C. E. union, conducted the devotionals of the evening. Other business of the evening was the appointment of two committees follows: BusinessMiss Mayme Dickson, Fort Wayne; . Miss Swayne, Fort Wayne; Mr. I. E. Bitner, Fort Wayne; Miss Atz, Decatur; Nettle HubleT, Hdagland. j Nominating committee—Cora Altman, . Huntington, chairman; Miss Anna Chalfant, Bluffton; Mr. <H. B. Perkins, Decatur; Miss Maxwell, Fort Wayne, and Mr. Carmany, Huntington.: '

?■ ® < Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 27.—" When j Senators Cummins, La Follette, Bris- ] tow and their so-called ‘progressive’ following join hands with kfr. Bryan j in making war upon the Republican members of congress who passed the ( tariff bill and upon the president,who signed it, in that contest I know of < but one way to beat them, and that , is to fight them just as we fight Mr. i Bryan and his following.” Such was . the declaration of Speaker Cannon, ■ who delivered the principal address ; before the Knife and Fork Club here < last night Mr. Cannon. Said Senator ( Cummins alpne had read himself out . of the Republican party. He defended the rules of the house, saying they will remain substantially as they , Jwve been and are so long as there is a congress. “Ever since history , began,” said the speaker, “the man in the minority has been seeking some device by which he could overcome the will of the majority.” Mr. Cannon asserted that while’ the Payne tariff bill is not perfect, it is the test one ever passed under Republican leadership; that since the enactment of the new law production in this country and imports from foreign countries have greatly increased, and day by day conditions are improving. The “insurgents” and their followers he said, are seeking to hinder the progress of prosperity by criticism and denunciation, and this,too,-within, three months of the enactment of the tariff law? Only such agitation can halt the prospective era of prosperity, said the speaker. Continuing, Mr. Cannon said: “The demagogue we Have always with us, and, as ours is a government of the people, the only way to dispose of him is to move on. I am perfectly willing to trust the verdict of a prosperous and happy people in the elections in November, 1910, after the new tariff law has been in operation for more than a year.” ■ -o—— At the regular meeting of the trustees of city schools held Friday evening, about the most interesting question discussed was that concerning the Christmas vacation. After discussing the proposition it was decided to allow the students a vacation of one week and two days. The schools will therefore adjourn on Wednesday evening, December 22nd and will reconvene on Monday, Jan : uary 3rd. This It is believed wi'.l meet the general approval of both teachers and students. All members of the board were present last evening. The minutes oif the previous meeting were read and approved. Superintendent Rice {presented the pay poll for the teachers and janitors, ' ■Which was duly allowed, as were bills presented by various business houses for goods. The schools are getting .<•, ..v-. , “ r '' '

jroar promises to be one of muon benefit to all. The children aud teachers will go back to work Monday after the Thanksgiving holidays, which have continued since Wedne* day' evening. ■< z' ■ Q -- i T. R. MOORS 18 HONORED Appointed Aid on Staff of Comman-der-In-Chief. Indianapolis, Nov. 26. —O. A. Somers, department commander of the Indiana G. A. R-, has made recommendations for appointment as aids on the staff of the commander-in-chief, Samuel H. Van Sant, of Minneapolis. The list includes J. H. Henby, Greenfield; T. R- Moore. Decatur; J. H. Wagner, Elwood; Lewis Reeves, Hartford City, and L H. Heaston, Huntington. Because these names were not submitted in time they do not appear in general order No. 3, which has just been issued by Mr. Van Sant. Assurance hhs been had that the persons recommended will be named. 1 ■ fl Washington, D. C.» Nov. 27.—Census Director Durand has received from Assistant Director William F. Willoughby the general schedule for thq census of agriculture, April 15tb next, which Mr. Willoughby, in conjunction with Prof. LeGrand Powers, chief statistician for agriculture, and the advisory board of farm economists and other agricultural experts, has been formulating during the summer. Director Durand has approved the form and subdivision of the inquiries and has ordered nine million copies of the schedule to be printed by the government printing office in readiness before January Ist, although thAy will not be placed in the hands of the 45,000 farm enumerators until the usual time before the enumeration date. It is believed there are nearly seven million separate farms in the United States, each requiring a- separate schedule. The schedule is printed on both sides of a single sheet, 13 inches long and 16 Inches wide, of white writing paper, 26 by 32 inches. There is a three-inch wide column of instru c-1 tions to enumerators on left sides of the sheet so that it can be cut off after the fllled-in schedule has been returned to the census bureau, This makes the schedule smaller in size and better adapted for handling in tabulation than previous schedules. A separate book of instructions to enumerators supplements the schedule information. The nine million copies will consume 4,500 reams of paper, which, counting 52 pounds to the ream, will make a weight of 234,000 pounds. The charge for printing, including the cost at paper, will be $13,660. The schedule is so standardized that it will feed on the perfecting press used at the government printing office, which makes 9,000 revolutions per how and prints four schedules each revolution or a product of 36,000 per hour; as against the old fiat-bed presses used on the 1900 schedules with a speed of from 1,200 to 1,500 revolutions per how. It will take about three weeks to print them with the press running sixteen hours a day. Martha Heideman vs. Henry Heideman, complaint for a divorce, |L--000 alimony and for a restralng atder, was filed by attorneys Hooper t Lenhart. The couple was married June 14, 1894, and lived toother until Thanksgiving day. Mrs.' Heide-, iU|h.:*a39 t&Mum at all times during said marriage been a good and dutiful wife, but that her husband an ungovernable temper and would frequently curse, abuse, strike and beat her. At one time he hurled flat iron at her with Intent to kill her, at another he threw a pan of dirty dish water upon her, again last August he struck her in the face and twisted her nose. The complaint says that for three years defendant has failed to support his wife and children. Mrs. Heideman says her husband has a house and lot worth $1,500 and household goods worth $l5O, that during their married life five children were born to plaintiff! ranging in ages now from five to fourteen ‘years. She asks for the custody of these children, for a monthly allowance to keep them and for SI,OOO alimony. The court Issued a restraining order to prevent defendant from disposing of any of the property. ’ ' * HARTFORD CITY IN TROUBLE Will Take Action to Stop the Drunk- ’• enneei. Hartford City, Ind., Nov. quite probable that unless there & a decided decrease in the number of drunken men on the streets Soted? in a short time the officers will be compelled by public sentiment, if ] nothing else, to make an lnveetlga«. tion to learn which saloon or saloon® ..... -j. ..

» by their families more than by the I which took the'side of aunng e en an -sa oo i ng i • as being preferable to the “bootleg- ’ gers” and “blind tigers,” which are claimed to follow the closing of the drimrlnff dlhcps nrtntod & I scathing editorial yesterday in which i (he saloon men responsible for the • present state of affairs are reminded of their duty in no uncertain man-] ner. The anti-saloon people claim the only remedy is to oust the saloons bodily and, unless conditions • become more bearable in a short time no doubt many voters who have favored the saloons will vote against them when the time comes. Not a day PM... without two or three drunks being thrown into jail or ordered out of town, While the number of men in lesser degree of drunkenness who escape the officers is almost uncountable. It is no uncommon sight to s«e an intoxicated man staggering through the main streets of the city and it is a source of much wonderment how so many escape arrest. ■ H Q in— * hum HE WAS AN OLD TIMER Jeremiah C. Lotz Died at His Home In Washington. Washington, November 27.—Jeremiah C. Lotz, formerly of Muncie, Ind., died at his home here after an illness of only three days, age eightyfive years. He was an employe of the Internal revenue bureau of the treasury and remained in active service despite his age up until a few days ago, when he contracted a heavy cold, which developed into pneumonia. Mr. Lotz was appointed to a clerkship in the treasury October 20, 1862, and was one of the first men detailed in the internal revenue bureau when that service was established in that year. He had been constantly on duty ever since and rarely took air the annual leaves to which he was entitled. When Lyman J. Gage was secretary of the treasury he placed Mr. Lotz on the honorary roll jvlth all other employes over seventy years of age. - TO LEARN LINOTYPE BUSINESS Willshire Young Man Will Attend a New Schoo*. Glenn Weimer left last Thursday for Indianapolis, where he will enter the Winona Technical school and the linotype. That he will make good In the school is a foregone conclusion,. because he has the right material in him to get down to the real! facts and bottom of the business and learn it It is no small matter to learn the parts and actions of this machine and only about one out of every hundred who start in to study it become very proficient because it taxes their brain power too much and as long as they can run a bluff on their employer this works all right, but it is this classes of people in this business as In all other llneiwho are responsible for the low prices received by the majority. The day has not comer when it is necessary ! to wait for some one to die to get a Qad job as is often said, but the time is here noff for all men if they show they are made of the right material.—Willshire Herald. ... - o ... - ■ Bluffton, Ind., Nov. 26.—An alarm clock was the agency which last night was Instrumental in saving the lives of Ms. and Mrs. Irvin Ulmer, living on south Main street. He Is employed at the Unicm Traction subpower plant at the south edge of the city. He goes to work at midnight and the alarm dock was set to call him and his wife at 11:80. His wife was the first to get out of bed, and she was seized With dizziness, and fell to the floor. Mr. Ulmer arose to go to her assistance and succeeded in placing her on a bed and partially reviving her. He started with a lamp to another room when he was suddenly stricken himself and would have fallen with the lamp, but his wife, who had grown stronger, managed to get the lamp just as he started to fall, preventing the firing at the house. She summoned neighbors and a physician was called. It was found that the couple had I>reathW— y; STOVE BLACKING EXPLODES -■ ■' 1 Mrs. Ben Chrisman While Blacking Stove Receives Serious Bums. — While blacking a stove this morning, Mrs. Ben Chrisman, who lives at the corner if Richmond and Wood streets,^sustained ‘serlods burns from the explosion of the stove blacking. The stove was hot, and the blacking used contained alcohol, the result being an explosion that set fire to Mrs. ICrisman’s waist and burned her face, ■ I arm and shoulder. She ran to neighI Haw OtoWCOCa S ftDCI zjriOWCOCK |

I yet It will pay you to go and see I treatment and see the best show vou have ever seen in the city. The price on *y 5 cents. PAY O.ARMONO Butler, Mo., Nov. 27.—Hundreds Os prominent public men of Missouri apd many from outside the state Joined the citizens of Butler yesterday in paying respect to the memory of the late Representative David A. DeArmond, who met a tragic death here last Tuesday in a vain effort to save the life of bis favorite grandson. All Butler was in mourning. The bodies of both victims were buried in the local cemetery In one casket One of the most pleasant events of the season was a Thanksgiving dinner served at the Bovine farm In South Kirkland township, by Mr. and Mrs. Larwell Griswold to the immediate family and a few, invited guests. Early in the morning the guests began to arrive Inc’uding the father and mother, who have retired from farm life. At noon a good old Thanksgiving dinner was served consisting roast turkey and all the other good things which constitute a good dinner. The afternoon was spent in a good social way with music and some songs and speaking by the? grandchildren. The following formed the merry party: Mr. and Mrs. John apvine, Mr. and Mrs. James Wyre and son Lewis of Craigville; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shady and children Dorothy, Mabel, Walter, Jan well and Flossy of Magley; Mr. and Mrs. William Melching and son Edward of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Bovine and children Esther, Joseph and Laura of Washington township; Amos, David and Joseph Bovine of Craigville; and Mr. and Mrs. Larwell Griswold at the farm, all the family the others being Mr. and Mrs. Pat McKinnie and daughter Estella of Bluffton, and the Misses Holds, Nettie and Annie Mlnger. This most beautiful, artistic, pleasing voices will be heard in the Old] Southland Sextette, they never fail to please the most cultured audiences. They stand on their merit, and to prove this you must hear them in their choruses, quartettes, trios, duos, solos, their plantation (songs lullabies, songs of slavery days given in their own charming style. The reader is spoken of as being unexcelled in her rendition pf character sketches etc. Reserved seats will be at the usual place and .wQI open at seven-forty-flve Tuesday morning. Only four seats can be . reserved by one person, thus giving every one equal chance. Admission 25c. Mr. a d Mrs? Geo. I. Davis entertained at a Thanksgiving dinner, Mr. Si'Mrs. F. O. Davis and son and daughter Lloyd and Estella, Mp Grace and Leona Berllng of Geneva, Indiana. ocgßed at the Presbyterian Thanljdgiving. evmsttE' tfben Spetnagle united in marriage Mr. Harvey J. Sells of Monroe townshin and Miss Josephine L Marts Berne.’'/.A V 4; ‘ Mrs. Margaret Reckard entertained very pleasantly at a Thanksgiving dinner at her home Thursday, to a few invited guests, including Mr and Mrs. Wm. Hill of Pleasant Mills. o-— ——— A meeting of the members of the Adams County Poultry Association was held Saturday at the office of Fruchte & Litter..*!-, in this city. Plans for the annual poultry show wart completed. The big event, so, much Interest to farmer® and others who delight in raising poultry, will be held in this city January sth, 6th, 7th and BTth. The committee will look after the securing of a room and the other details. Berne made a strong bld for the show again this year, but it was finally decided that> it should be held here. It was also decided to unite this exhibit with an association to be known as the County Corn Growers, who will give an exhibit of the same kird. making It the biggest show of the kind ever held in the county. In this department prizes will be offered in three classes, two dollars for the best, 11.50 tat the second and one dollar for the third, for white corn, yellow corn and for all other classes mixed. It is believed that more Interest than ever wiU.be shown in the exhibition this year. ■ ■ O-- ■■ -- > 1 sit Fort, way no today*

n ra!TW*';-, fterarge City, I resident pastor of the Church of Christ in this city. The surviving family are sorrow stricken and the ‘ vacancy in their home circle will be ’ keenly While for many years yet with it all her gracious character . x—•“ - - o »III',-. All the officers of the county are getting ready for the new accounting System whicn will be Inaugurated tn every county in the state on the first of the year. They are getting their boks in shape so that the changes npcpssarv can ba marta withnnt trouble, and the adoption of the uniiorm system as Being inaugurated by the state board of accountants will make but little difference to the offorms to be put in operation will not 4 be much of a change as the officers here kept a complete system of books and it is no hard job to trace the business of each of the county officers. .' > ] ; The auditor’s office is busy with with their duplicates which they expect to have ready for the next tax collection which begins on the first day of the coming year. It requires a great deal of time and hard wore to make up duplicates from the ass-. essment sheets, which are made each year by the assessors of the different ; townships. Aside from this work there is nlentv of other things to do arOUnd vuv aUUlvOr B Udlvv, AUU pecially at this time of year. tbelr delinquent.. the, win mate u extraordloary effort to make a Olean elate at the end ot the year. X Succeed Mn'uoho!".Meurer . j^*" 8 C °“° t,r ,« Brown * Summer, ar. at the head will worth® Md no P mlstake. Stopovers will give nfor the inspection of the country in the states of Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado.. On ths trip you will have the chance of seeing and inspecting all the good and cheap farming lands in < the states mentioned and when you get around there will be no doubt in your mind where you will want to invest yOur money. The entire trip can be made for $36 for car fare, and this in itself is a great bargain in railroad transportation. The trip la certainly worth the cost, and those who care to see the country, and see things as they exist in other parts of the United States. They have some excellent land values and these you can inspect if you care to. Any information regarding the trip, what there is to see and the cost thereof, can he had by seeing Brown & Summers, the bustliug real estate dealers et Madroe- -Y.'; -—■—-te- — L C. Helm was looking after some mrnhrn.. .1 Pr.W ttteir- _ /T _ nt. ’ ' <4<■Ym* ■ ■ " it.:ii Maay Chndren are BlcWy Moths OrW. rowffm. - CWdmm »««1 » Mothm- Orw. • nurse in Children's Home, New York, break up Colds in 24 hours, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all druggists, 25c. ’ Sampie mailed FREE. 'Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y. in a Finch,use ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE ; 1 A powder to shake Into your shoes. It cures hqt, tired, aching, swollen, ’ sweating feet and makes walking 1 easy. Takes the sting out of corns 1 and bunions. AH druggists 26 eta. Don't accept any substitute. ■ o - I W ’ W * Ral, * on ’ Ky„ says: ”1 hare been "gg*