Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1909 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ; • »■- mamrOMMT MOMIK* W . J i l«W O. CLLINOHAM, ruHtalwr. I • •■•' ■- 1 , <: V - - 1 ' ■ E33EZZ * . AA> F»B Y»AB IM aDVAMOT. ;.•; ’ ' Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Ind., as second daw mair matW. OFFICIAL RARER OF ADAMt <?» • • <,' ~~~~ <i THE DEMOCRACY CHOOBE THEIR LEADERS. -5 -t» No better evidence exists that the democracy of Adams county are already chuck to the brim with enthusiasm, than the registering of twentynine hundred and twelve votes for the candidates on the county primary ticket In the contest of Friday. They did this in the face of the bitter cold and distressing weather, and apparently they did it cheerfully, judging from the good feeling existing today over the success of the winners. Without a word of disparagement to those who fought for a personal victory and lost, the fact remains that the ticket nominated has all the elements of strength. They are all men of good personal character, have always been faithful to the cause of democracy; stand In the front row as men and democrats, and should receive the vote of every democrat in the county. They will make splendid standardbearers of their party and will do much to make the green spot greener and the cup\ of Democratic joy sweeter. In the battle of political supremacy there Is much for the democracy of Indiana to fight for. The election of a democratic legislature means another United States senator for the .party of the people. It means also a redistricting of the state for congressional and legislative purposes. It means supremacy for the democratic party in many ways, and it is nnnnnraeins' that the democracy of

Adams county enter the contest thus ( early and with so much genuine en- ] thusiasm. • . i i— Muncie democrats will give -a banquet in that city on the evening ot December 31st, to which many prominent democrats in the state have been invited. The event will be one of state importance and prominence, and many democrats in the district and state are already looking forward to the pleasures of a delightful occasion. The various causes suggested as producing the present high prices of food products make the finding of a remedy more difficult. "Who shall ! Cide when doctors disagree?” Perhaps the old practice of medicine which mixed up from ten to twenty! varieties in the hope that some one would hit the case, may be necessary now. At any rate, there would be no harm come from curtailing extrAva-. gance, increasing both the products of , _ the farms and the number of agricul- . turists, and destroying the combine- . . . ' ' • ’5 . , tidu of dealers and . the gambling in futures which advance prices arbitrarily.—South Bend Times.

j In New York City a woman recently! returning to her apartments found her i pet bull dog covered with blood. Itt| another room she found her brother, dead and terribly bitten about thehead and face. The theory is that the young man, who was an epileptic, fell to the floor in a fit and was at-J tacked and killed by the dangerous! and worthless cur. Yet women, and * sometimes men will keep bull dogs as pets and occasionally allow them upon the streets, endangering the ife of the innocent. —South Bend Times. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan and his associates, having monopolized steel, life insurance, railroads, telegraph, most of the money and a few othet things, have now reached out and taken possession of the independent telephone* service of Indiana and neighboring states. There are not now many kinds of business that can be carried on without the consent of the patriotic itr. Morgan and the benevolent Mr. / Rockefeller, but when the central bank is established Individual efiort Wi be. Children Cry CASTCRIA

at an end outside of the wage and salary classes. As for the farmer, the price of his products will be fixed for bid? in some nice, cosy back office In New Work and Chicago, and he can ! take it or leave it. t The ship subsidy graft is again before congress and several ax-members, b temporarily out of a job, are camped ,in Washington working for Jt.. Among these ex-members, it Is said, are Chas. B. Landis and James E. Watson of Indfi|k|i|. No 1 member of congress who has any regard for his constituents or 'for his own future will vote for this .'the Indianapolis News says, “It Is going to be a pretty difficult thing for ’any congressman from this part of the or farther west to justify his 'vote for foe graft to the satisfaction 'of his constituents.” z ARRIVESATURDAY - '■ Remains of Lee Porter Will Probably Reach Decatur Saturday Morning. LEFT EARLY TUESDAY Telegram Received This Afternoon From Undertaker at Seattle. ( The latest word received by foe H. S. Porter family regarding foe son, Lee, whose death occurred Saturday night at Seattle, Wash., following injuries received by falling from a building, was a telegram from Undertaker Noice, received this afternoon. Mr. Nolce, in whose care the body had been, stated that foe remains had been shinned Tuesday morning about 1:30 ,

o’clock and would probably arrive i here Saturday, though the exact time t cannot be definitely known. Funeral jS 8 arrangements will be made later. ' . ; HERMAN BOSSE DOING WELL. j , Herman Bosse, who suffered the am- < putatlon of one of his legs at the St * Joseph hospital at Fort Wayne Monday, is said to be getting along as g well as can be expected. He will ndt f be allowed to come home until the g wound is healed, which will not be for several weeks yet. The operation ’ was for a tubercular condition of the bone. ( H. H. Allen, the young man who ’ forged the note on the Markle bank, j will be arraigned in Huntington in a ] day or two on the charge of forgery |< and from the statement from the 1 [Markle bank hewill not fare as eas- j ily as did Frank Cotton. The bank 5 officials are intent upon prosecuting s him, and it is quite probable that they > will go after him as hard as possible. In the meantime his former wife isr also after him, there being back ali- I mony due her. —Bluffton Banner. DETECVivE<’to The quarterly meeting of the Adams County Detective association wll convene in session Friday, Decern-

her 24th, at 10 o’ctocka. m., in the Grand ArmyhaH, Decaturi Ind. Every membet should be present to reiceive the Journals ! have from the jstate secretary; containing the forty- - ninth annual report of our association. I shall here give a few items of 'this annual repart. We have 207 I companies organized 'in our state f with a membership of of oyer ten I thousand. There were over six hunjdred delegates and members in attendance at this annual meeting at Crawfordsville, Ind., October sth, and I suggested it would be a grand meet' for Decatur some future day. Num-] ber of horses stolen during the year,! 8; number of horses recovered during the year, 11; number of thieves convicted during the year, 17; stolen I last year, 32; recovered, 35; conviction, 29. A good preventative. Two of these companies spent over two thousand dollars to capture a noted horse thief, who was sent to j prison at Michigan City. There is no let-up by this association when on tracked athief. *», ... -> ~ JOH ND. BTULTB, See’y. o Joseph Didot, so* of John Dldot, Is confined to his home on Madison wtteet with a severe attack of* scarlet fever. Dr. Keller is attending Aim and- disinfected the place of business of Mr. Didot and in a day or so he efflAe able to open Ms store again to the public. ‘ .-

■ , City Council Wd Meeting Tuesday Evening—New Officers Filed Bonds. . -A • > - ■ U .. .A-,. 4.. WATCHMAN ORDERED L. C. DeVoss Re-Elected as City Attorney-—Special Meeting Tfilrsday. When foe council convened’Tuesday evening for the last regular meeting, of the present administration, all foe members were present excepting Mr. Christen. Present also were Judson W. Teeple, mayor-elect, Huber M. DeVoss, clerk-elect and Jacob Atz, a councilman-at-large to be, evidently paying attention to the routine work which will soon become their duties. The new men and the old ones, including all the present councilmen but Mr. Burns, filed their certificates of election. Mr. Teeple filed his bond in the sum of $3,000, signed by P. L. Andrews, S. B. Fordyce and John Everett Mr. DeVoss filed his bond for $5,000, signed by D. E. Smith and ,L. A. Graham. Mr. Archbold, treasurer, win file his bond at the special meeting to be held Thursday evening of sols week, In the sum of $20,000. Complaints were made that the -Indiana Lighting company had tapped into the Gaffer" sewer, causing it to back up in the cellars in that territory and the matter was referred to the city attorney, who will look up a remedy. The street and sewer committee reported that they believe ft necessary that a ‘ watchman be installed at the. Jefferson street crossing of the G. B. & L. and the report being approved, the city attorney was notified to inform the railway company of this action. zUtv nttnmev filed a renort. show- .

me city attorney umu <* icyvii, ouu..Ing that about $40.00 worth Os the poll < tax had been collected and be was * ordered to proceed by suits { against those where g sary. A resolution for hearing,pbjpctions to the Brown sewer on January ' 18th was adopted. A fCßoluti<firT>'r(> viding for the payment of the Salaries of city officers and to' i Mrs. y*^Campfor the salary due the late Mr. Van* ] Camp was adopted. The matter ot settlement with the Keirer company for the new boilers will be tafcsn -up J at the Thursday flight meeting. Re* { quisitions for a new ledger fbr 'the ‘ city treasurer and a record for the mayor, as requried under the hfew pc-j counting law was referred to’the- fi*[ nance committee with power to act.l Several warrants issued to John Mil-, ler, $4.50; Tropical Oil Co., 18T.W >H. i L. Ayers Co., $105.26, and Copper A Brass Co., $7.50, were rater-f J red to the finance committee. As the term of office of City Attorney De- ' Voss will expire January 31st; upon motion of lifr. Burns he was unanimously re-elected for a term of four years. Mr. DeVoss has Wrad the city faithfully. The following.! bills were allowed: Schafer Hardware -M Decatur Publishing Co . I.oft Fort Wayne Electric Works.. ,22.48 General Specialty Co. ........ 15.00 Indiana Refining Co ? ' IfW George Kizer k Co 68.60 Sunday Creek OIL Co. ........ 34-44 National Mills Supply Co: ‘i.';|:W6 D. F. Teeple C. U; Dorwin, pay roll ........ 255.55 Pink -Ball ..............' 8-00 H. Harruff .30-001 Julius Haugk 8.40 j C. & E. Ry. Co 80.40 j Linn & Patton 77.25 James Swift 2.751 William Burford ....... 45.00 William Crozier 7 2.50 1 Milt Leavell .' 8.00 ( W. J. Archbold .11.51, Frank Heckman. ............’i > 2.00, (William Burford * 12.50 j (Clarence Bremmerkamp 2.00 1 (Waterworks pay roll 64.501 O. B. Wemhoff, stamps 125 o — 1 Lame back comes on suddenly and ‘ Is extremely painful. It is caused by rhelmatlsm of the muscles. Quick relief is afforded by applying *Cham* , berlaln’s Liniment Sold by all dealers. I .. o —. ... g!»;’ ’ The pleasant purgative effer* exi perienced by an who use Cbarr.bert Inin’s Stomach and Liver Tablets, and the healthy condition ot the body and mind which they create, makes one feel joyful. Sold by all dealers. - • I ' NOTICE r Rapid Cholera. Remedy, sad A Bg» t Producer MliM! i Rapid Roup Remedy I Rapid Louse KEler s Rapid Gall Remedy " > are strictly guaranteed. , - Smith * Yager drug store.

(United Press Service) XT V - XT h,i T QO It to Deiiiy^Democrat)— The jury this afternoon returned an Indictment Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Snead and Miss Wardlaw, mother and aunts of Mis* X sLad,X “as foe-rictim If the East Orange bathtub mastery, j ■ ■ • j: SWEAR ALLEGIANCE. (United Press Service.) New Orleans, La., Dec. 22.— (Special to Daily Democrat)—A cablegram from Bluefield says that the 1900 Zelayla troops captured In Tuesday’s’battie have sworn allegiance to Estrada and will march to Managua with him. SOCIETY COMN Jerry Archbold Family Will Hold Reunion oh Christmas at . ■ DARWECHTER HOME Fullenkamp Home Will Also be Scene of Cheer—Other Dinner Parties. j i A merry Christmas reunion of foe Jerry Archbold family will be held sols year at the home at Mr. and Mrs. William Darwechter in foe north part of foe city. Those who will share foe day’s pleasures at sols time will be Jerry Archbold and wife, Mrs. Etta Rinehart and daughter, Mary; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Amspaugh and children, Urcile and Doyle; Jason Archbold, wife and daughter, Rufo, of Wells county; Mr. and Mrs. Will Archbold and children, Lawrence, Esther, Earl and Marlon. > The Fullenkamp family will have a happy reunion at Christmas time at foe home of their mother, Mrs. M. Fui-

lenkamp. There will be a Christmas tree and all things that delight the " hearts of both young and old. The company, which includes the children ’ and grandchildren of Mrs. Fullenkamp, numbers thirty. and.includes the fpllowing: Frank Gass pud family, .0. M. Meyers and family, M. J. Mylott and family, D. M. Reed, wife and daughter of Fort Wayne; Ode, Letta, Fred and Herbert Fullenkamp. ■ t and Mrs. Lemuel Fisher and family of Huntington win be guests 1 at a Christmas dinner to be given by Mr. and Mrs. Coat Cook of Root 1 Bhip - ' { .The Heller family will gather at the old homestead, Judge D. D. Heller’s residence, on Fifth street as has been the custom for many years, to celebrate Christmas day. The guests will ? incu&b the fanrtliea °t J - w - Ty®* dall, wife and chßdrep. jIMBMOer and 1 family, and Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Heller. , Dr. Herbert’s lecture to be given 1 this evening at the Presbyterian church will be one of the best of the ( year, and; is eagerly anticipated the public, as. ijie iarge nwnbdr ,ofi tickets sold indicate. The lecture ft Jimi for the benefit of the Bailor class of the high school. , = ' Mrs, 8. Eddington and daughter, i Ella, will give a Christmas guests being A, D. Eddington and family of Fort Wayne. ;J. L. Edge win celebrate his seven-ly-Bixth birthday anniversary next I Tuesday with a pinner party. Among • those'who will attend will be .his. •-daughter, Mrs, M, V. ,B. Archbold and family from Fort Wayne. I A pleasant reunion at the 0. >T - Weaver home will take ~ place on * Christmas day. Those attending will ’be his brother, Nate Weaver, wife and | daughter, May, of Ossian; Mrs. Sadie Cowley and daughter, Maud, Mr. and ! Mrs. George Steele and daughter, Jeannette. The J. S. Lower home east of .the - city will be an unusually happy place at Christmas time, when the children with their families and a few other intimate friends ot the family will gather there. The party will include Fred Limn and family, Homer Lover and family, Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Lower, Rev. and Mrs. I. Imler and son, Chester, Rev; E CounseUer of Lima, Ohio. Tuesday evening home of the Rev. J. Lower, pastor of the Monroevffle United Brethren church, occurred the wedding t! Miss Josie Mumma, daughter ot Mr. aM Mrs, John A. Mumma, to Mr. James Stuart, a young man of near Monroeville. The couple heft this morning for two weeks’ visit nL

I’.■. — • X , ; Members of the' Literary L 11 xerograms* ■ i . Sr ■ ■ . ■’ ..fW THIS AFTERNOON. J ■.~ ' ] i'' ' < Many Visitors Present and 1 Pleased With Efforts of j Students. < - J The Christmas tide was appriately } observed by foe high school sols after- ( noon, prior to foe dismissal for foe holiday vacation. At 1 o’clock a gen- 1 eral musical program was rendered in < the assembly room, after which foe 1 members of foe three literary ties gave the following programs in i grooms assigned to each: ; y 1 Delphian Society. ? - J OraMon—“Bir William Wallace”— ’ Dallas Elzey. Reading—“ Was Marriage a Fail- J ure?”—Mamie Ball. 1 Etesay—"Chriatmas Tree Market”- 1 Rosie Green. Reading—“ Uncle Skinflint’s Christ- < mas Gift”—Neva Brandyberry. , ( Debate—“ Resolved, That foe gov-, ernment of foe United States' W bet-, ter suited to her needs than Switzerland’s ‘would-be’ ”—Affirmative, Clem Steigmeyer and Lawrence Archbold; negative, Fred Meyers and Effie Patton- ‘'-Ui Duet—Neva Brandyberry and Lllllhh. Rice. ' Reading—“ Christmas Around the World”—Francis .Ward. Essay—" Attitude of Normans and Saxons In Twelfth Century”—Edgar ' Vancll. Oration—" True Christmas Spirit”— Rufo Hammel. ■ ; lonian Society. Christmas Story—Dessle Mann. Beading—Alice Brahdyberry. Essay—Opal Harruff. > > * Readlnr—"Little Boy Blue’—Bessie

IWUUIUB utvue Teeple. Scene—Carl Smith, Margaret MiHs, Virgil Kline. I Reading—Ruth Baltzell. p Essay—Helen Walters. Reading—Hazel Sovtera. - ’ ; > Essay—‘Tug of War*—Frank Mills. * „ Crescent Society. v . Quartet—Sherman Beery; Bruce Patterson, Howard Wisehaupt, Don Burk. Recitation—“ Der Drummer”—Paul Myers. Original Story—“ The Diary of a Fly”—Earl Colter. "Description on - Wheat”—Perry Smith. -sV Reading—“Und Simon’s Wife’s Miother Lay Sick Mit Ein Fever”— Hulda Bane. Essay—“History of a Muff”-4luth w. • ' ■ -"‘'W ■- Hcehes from the Merchant of Ven* Joe— Lily Teeple, Perth Crays. "Current Events”—Free Frislnger. Essay—" The Parson’s Prayer”— Helen Fonner. An especially good program was also given In Miss Sellemeyer’s room by her pupils and those of Miss Bailey’s. The room was beautifully decorated with holly, bells, red and green paper and oyer each light, a shade of rtA paper which made a very pleasing effect. A large number of were present to hear the pW ’"’“j — NOT ALL GLORY. M litlid Job of Rdlfti Poultry Association Secretary Says Onfc ; • tn* The fclbry Os being secretary is hardly Sufficient pay tbr the Work that: Is to be done. And then it is not all glory. Tuc secretary gets the 'bfame for many things that are not his fault Disappointed exhibitors often, say harsh things about the secretary. He gets the blame for delayed shipments of the express companies. If there Is no money to pay expenses the secretary catches it, though he has been doing his best to make ends meet. He is criticised if he spends too much money or not enough. Any one who has held the office for several years dees not care to continue the performance. You can aid in making your show a success by being ready to help the secretary at all times. Often he is obliged ,to leave more work go undone because he has not the time to do it. Bo let everybody lend jk helping, hand and make the coming poultry grand success. * By -one who “has been.!’ —O...W J,.'-'- j W, and - Mrs. Jay Elzey, returned , this morning to Fort Waype.After yte iting here with their parent*, .*»<* Mrs. Alfred Elzey, and Mr, apd Mrs. , George Bausennan. Mra sis fed them lmm fcc a visit. , ■ ■ . ■ '■ .1 z -kt i

Daily Democrat)—The investigating I ploret’s records do' not carry cdntlcvatlons are wholly insufficient to war- ■ north pole. ■ j X ft n vn re wlvlndng from a scientific stand- I point than was his newspaper ac- M counts of his explorations. Walter ■ Lonsdale, Dr. Cook’s private secre- ■ tary, who brought the data to Copen- ■ hagen is greatly disappointed over the report The consistory’s finding to- ■ day is foe final judgment so far as ■ they are concerned. One of the mem- I bers of the committee, after the findings had been approved by foe con- ■ slstory, said: I "It took fob committee but a few JU’: moments to see that his observations and records were worthless. We could haYe made a report at once but our surprise was so great that It took us |g several days to recover. The so-call- ■ ed records of the doctote are only the ■ result of his observations rather than I the observations themselves and were thrown aside without a moment’s con- > ' ■ sideration. I cannot understand how ■ a man of Dr. Cook’s reputed scientific . ■ Standing could have consented to I prove such a claim on such flimsy evl- ■ dence.” / ■ ■—l.— ,Q» ■ > Il H RABBITSPLENTIFUL I •• - I But Other Kinds of Game I is Scarce —Boy in South : w Adams. | *" *■ » l - '■ .*T.CAUGHT FOURTEEN S . ■' ”'.* u In Two Hours —And Others ’ Sixty-Five in a Half I Day. I

Though other kinds of wild game iu scarce ip Adams county, rabbits are *■ reported quite plentiful this year. One ■ of the jurors from the south part of E the county who was in town this morn- ■ ing stated that his son one day this »■ week caught fourteen in two hours, - ■ which is quite the banner "bag” of the J season, and from another source -■ comes the report of the catch of sixty- / H five made by two persons in a half I day. Aside from the sport furnished from this the material value of the ■ catch is pot to be despised, especially at this time when pork seems to have - I taken wings. And those who have ■ partaken of rabbit stews, or rabbit ■ cooked in quite the seasonable ways known tb good cooks, know that It I forms a very tempting repast. The ■ snow which-has come today will no ■ doubt prove to be the winding-sheet ■ for many a poor bunny, as hunters at ■ this season, when they have mcye ■ leisure during the hdidays, will be numerous. ■ ~ ~ «- I ON NEW YEAR’S DAY I I I ! Winness Family Will En joy 1 : Reunion of Childrefi Md -|| Grandchildren. I • - »■■■ . .. ■ AT PARENTAL HOME j . - '--by, ; - . .'.U« Mr. and Mrs. Harry Winnes < « From Califomia Will be . 5 3 I IAW in Attendance. I ' I - The home of Mrs. Henry Winness I r on the comer of .Jefferson and Fifth 1 streets promises to be the scene of ■ i a happy affair on New Year’s day, I when a family reunion of the children j t and grandchildren will take place. All ■ , could not arrange to be here on Christ- *■ i mas, so will arrive shortly after and 'H the reunion is to be held on New r Years. Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Winnes 1 . of Rudley, Cal., who have not been 1 here for almost six years, have assur- ■ .ed their presence, which alone will ■ 1 cause great rejoicing. A large num- ■ 9 ber of others will arrive and the event * 3 will'be a happy and long remembered g . one. Some from out of the city to b arrive are Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Miller s- pad children. Hsrdld, Mildren, Gretfeh- f en and Barbara, of Muncie, Ind. j Mr. 1 and Mrs! Harry T. Winness of Rudley/ | 1 Cal. I L . O' > »•■——— ’ > || i f and Mrs. 0. P. Edwards -will ari. rite Thursday, from Leipsic, Ohio, to | /*"■* /”**'*. 4 '■■‘a? .