Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1910 — Page 2

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The home talent play, “The District Convention,” at the Bosse opera house Friday evening, under the auspices of the High. School Athletic association, was a complete success, and more than pleased the large audience which was present. The opening scene was very beautiful, when the high school class appeared, all seated on the stage, with a large American flag for a background. A chorus by the class was the first on the program and was well received by the audience. Gregg Neptune then favored those present with a, song entitled, ‘'Then We’ll All Go Home,” followed with one by Carl France, which received much praise. Free Frisinger as “Zeke, the Original,’ kept the crowd going from start to finish with his funny sayings and clever stunts, and showed that he was made up of the real stuff. Bruce Patterson then favored those present with a song, “If I Could Win the - World by Whistling,” followed by Lawrence Biggs in “What’s the Use?” Lynn Shoemaker was next on the program, being dressed as a tramp, and rendered a song, “Take Plenty of Shoes,” which was well received and he was called back several times. Frank Mills and Earle Colter rendered solos, which were very good. The first act was then brought to a close with a song by the class. Act two, was of a comic political nature, made up by the class, whose object was to elect a mayor for the town. The play was brought to a close by another song by the entire class. Between acts the audience was favored by a - quartet, made up of Rev. Sherman Powell, Professor Rice, Jonas Trltch and Dan Baumgartner, whose numbers were among the best on the program. They were called back a number of times by the audience. Howard Wisehaupt, who was manager of the cast, should receive special praise for his work and the manner in which he had his men trained for the occasion. The proceeds will go lor the benefit of the association and they wish to thank the people very cordially for their liberal patronage. RETURNED TO biTY. Paul Harrod, ticket agent at the G. R. & I. depot, who has been detained from his duties on account of an operation for appendicitis, for a number of weeks, returned to this city Friday afternoon and Will in a short time resume his former work. He is feeling much improved and it is thought that he will fully recover from his sickness.

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Don Bunt, son of Mr. and Mrs. • John Burk, who was recently ap- > pointed supply pastor of the M. E. : church at Woodbum at the recent , conference held at Bluffton, left this • p morning to take charge of his pas- • 1 torate, and will conduct his first serv- . ices there Sunday morning and eveni ing. Don is one of Decatur’s bright- > est and best young men. He is a member of the senior class of the Decatur high school and will graduate in May. For many years he has felt himself called to the ministry and all theqe years fully knowing what hi? life mission was, has made all his study and plans tend to the fulfillment thereof. He will continue as pastor of the Woodburn charge until September, when he will resign' to enter Dapauw university as a student. He is contemplating taking the four years’ course there in three years, and after securing a firm educational foundation there, and graduating from that university, will enter Drew Seminary in New Jersey for the three years’ course that will further educate him in his chosen work of the ministry. Though still in his teens he shows a wisdom and knowledge far beyond his years and is said to be one of the brlghest young men that has passed through the Decatur high school. He has been an active member of the local M. E. church in all of its departments, and has delivered sermons and addresses in many of the churches of the surrounding country, in all of which he is known aa an eloquent and powerful worker for the cause. Among his many natural abilities that will prove of great aid to him in his work is his musical talent, being both a vocalist and violinist Os much talent, and has gained considerable fame as a composer. He is a young man of the most exemplary qualities and his many friends wish for him the highest success in his life. . , , , ; c , O ' ■ Muncie, Ind., April 16—In severe terms of arraignment, Charles E. Lambert, former Center township trustee, is held to be $12,368.53 short in his accounts in ’toe Official copy of the report of Examiners E. C. Morris and C. T. Main, which was given out at Indianapolis yesterday, and which was filed with the state board of accounts last Saturday following an extended investigation into Mr. Lambert’s books for the full four years he held office. Although no direct charges of graft are made in the report, Lambert is held responsible of having juggled the contract price on the construction of school houses, misusing funds, making illegal and erroneous disbursements, and for having given himself credit for money with which he had not charged himself, all of which are set out in detailed manner in the report of the two examiners, which is contained in sixteen pages of typewritten matter. In short, Mr. Lambert is charged in the report as follows: To credits taken for unauthorized, erroneous and illegal disbursements and for money received and not charged in reports to county auditor, $5,562.58; school building, District No. 14, to unauthorized contracts, $286; to payments made in excess of contracts, $1,381.30; to payments made to excess of contract price for heating and ventilating, $54.26; to unauthorized contract with Wing & Mahurin, architects, $83.36; school building, District No. 15, to unauthorized contracts, building, $606; dry closets, $482; teletherm, $475; amount paid Lambert as overseer of poor in excess of $222.48. ■ u ■ — HOME FROM HOSPITAL. Homr Lower, who was taken to Ft. Wayne a few weeks ago and later underwent an operation for appendicitis, returned home Friday noon and is feeling very good, although somewhat weak. It is now believed he will fully recover from the Illness with which he has been troubled some time and his many friends are glad to hear of his improvement. Mrs. Glen Glancy was in the city vltsiting with friends and left for her home at Monroe on the noon train.

The following interesting, article was written by S. J. Kelley; son of S. ■ W/Keiley of Blue Creek township, ? 'Wo formerly conducted the bld Miesse house in this city. The young man 16ft here some years ago and for three years worked as A dining car conductor on Pennsylvania and Wabash roads. Then he went to the "new north,’’ where with two of his brothers they own a large ranch southeast of Edmonton, near the Saskatchewan river. His postofflee address is Capeville P. 0., Canada. His story is interesting: • ' ' In that Vast and fertile region lying between the Lake of the woods on the east and the Rocky Moutalns on the west and extending northward from the international boundary, for from two to three hundred miles lies that part of the three prairie provinces of Canada, lined with a network of railways, and each year sees larger additions to the lines already in operation in this new hation which has sprung up in a night, peopled with well-to-do farmers and business men of the states and eastern Canada, with a sprinkling of the congress of nations of the old world, has often been termed the last great west, and as the advancing, settlement and decreasing number of free homesteads continue, the eyes of the land-hungry are beholding that last retreat on this continent for free land. The new north, containing the valleys of McKenzie, Peace and Athabasca rivers with a host of tributaries, a veritable empire within itself, with a climate in summer comparable to the states of North and South Dakota and where the sun rises at 3:12 a. m. and sets at 9 p. m., in latitude 56 degrees, the Center of the rich agricultural Peace river district and a crop of grain or vegetables will mature in two-thirds the time it takes in the above named states several hundred miles to the south, en account of the long summer days 'at this period of the season. It is estimated that this. district contains over thirty thousand* square miles of rich virgin soil, capable of producing immense quantities of grata and veg etables, while wild fruits and berries are found in abundance, scattered over this fertile region. The native grasses are the most luxuriant found in the whole dominion, and for several years past there <has been a large influx of ranchers into the grand prairie country and other favorable localities of the Peace Rver valleys, to take advantage of the free pasturage for cattle and horse raising. ' ~ For several years the Hudson Bay company have maintained grist mills all over this district for several hundred miles north of Edmundton and has an electric flour mill in operation at Vermillion, several hundred miles north of Lesser lake, and last year consumed twenty-five thousand bushels of native grown wheat ip their operations at this point alone. But the agricultural wealth of this hew north la only one of the many and important diversions to be found there. The country Is dotted with a parkdike growth of trees, while the banks of nearly all the streams are lined with giant spruce fir and hemlock, and lumbering will be a source of great wealth as soon as the railroads that are projected north from Ed uinn ton I are completed to the navigable waters of the Peace and Athabasca rivers. In the numerous lakes scattered over this region are found great quantities of white fiish and other valuable food species, while ducks and geese and other waterfowl make tills a sportsman’s paradise. Large herds of caribou and moose abound, and bear, wolves, foxes, deer and smaller furbearing animals are numerous. Immense quantities of raw furs are brought down to Edmundton early 1 each year by dog trains and has made Edmundton the largest raw fur market in the world. Valuable deposits of gold-bearing quartz have in the last few years been found along the western branches it the Peace river, most notable being the Ingenika coun try along the Finlay river itt northern British Columbia, and Immense quantities of coal have been located along the Peace river near the Alberta and British Columbian boundary. Valuable deposits of asphalt and petroleum have been discovered in the vicinity of Fort McMurray, nearly four hundred miles north of Edmundton. A stock company composed of wealthy promoters and business men of the states and Canada has recently been Incorporated at Wlnnepeg with a capitalization of five million dollars to develop these valuable resources. Last winter the provincial legislature guaranteed the bonds for the construction of the Alberta Great Waterways railway, which is to be built from Edmunton to Fort McMurray, four hundred miles north of the Alberta capital, at the junction of the navigable waters of the Peace and Athabasca rivers, which will give an outlet to this great waterway system i of the north, extending to the Arctic] ocian, via the McKenzie river and «P the Peace river to Fort St, John, the head of navigation in British Colum-

j bia, on which for several years the Hudson Bay company been plying. The survey for this line ’ was completed during toe summer of 5 1909 and the present winter. An 1 army of men are at work clearing the ' right of way and mating ties to be used in. the construction of this line ; and the outlook is that this road will be rushed to an early completion to give access to this valuable territory. A million dollar packing plant has just been completed at Edmonton by SWift & Company. Each year lafge herds of cattle are driven on foot down to this gateway of the northern empire and in the future this north country must supply most of the 11 ve1 stock for the markets of the Canadian northwest until the country is given transportation by the numerous lines ; of bteel projected northward, whqn it will ultimately be given over to farming as in the already settled portions of the provinces to the south. —■" . C — . • Dr. S. D. Beavara returned last Saturday from a trip through the southwest, and though it was in the nature of a business trip, he found a great deal of pleasure combined with it, inasmuch as he met many Adams coimty friends who are now living or visiting in the southwest. He went byway of St. Louis, then going to Memphis, Tenn., and then across the Mississippi to Marion, Arkansas. There he met Dr. and Mrs. J.S. Coverdale and their son, Clark, and family, with whom they ?are visiting, and spent a day with them. He found them vyell and prospering greatly. Dr. Beavers was privileged to visit the large plantation of Dr. J. 8. Coverdale, which consists of 400 or 500 acres of very fine land, adapted to the growing of cotton and corn. The cOttorf planting season is just now on and it was an Interesting sight to see the fifteen or more negroes at this work, there being a great number employed by Dr. Coverdale on his plantation. He also saw the 160 acres of Dr. Earl Coverdale, which is also near that plaie, and which is very fine land, with an abundance of timber. Dr. Beavers said that the land in that country is certainly a money-making proposition, and while land owners here are content with making a very small per cent, land owners there are working for a return of twenty-five per cent profit From there he went tpzDeWitt and Stuttgart, Arkansas, the region of the great rice fields. There he called on his brother-in-law, Hazel Andrews, who owns a very good 160 acre farm, with fine house and bam, and called on Andrew's sons-in-law, Valentine and Leasure, all of whom went from Adams county several years ago. Valentine has a nice farm of forty-flie acres and Leasure a nice residence property In DeWitt All are prospering, making money and contented. DeWitt is a thriving little place, and to boom it still more a new railroad will be built through the town this summer. The Tice field is the great characteristic of that country, and is booming as much as the greatest oil field. The rice field,is about 180 miles long and seventy-five or eighty miles wide, and several Adams county men are working there. After a happy stay with relatives there, Dr. Beavers went to Texarkana, in the Red river valley, a.; thriving town on the Texas-Arkansas line, but was there only six or seven hours. The land there is also rich and good and timber is abundant Corsicana, a booming oil town, surrounded by rich farming lands and oil fields, with its inhabitants very prosperous, commanded his attention and admiration next, after which he proceeded to Houston. He is very much pleased with Houston and its surroundings, Com and cotton and general truck growing is fine in that vicinity and he said that ten acres of land there will make for a man a good living. Dr. Beavers fs much pleased with his trip, and with the promising qualities of the land through which he passed. He met many men from Indiana, and indeed Indiana men seem to make up the greater number of those who are Investing in land in the southwest. Illinois ranks next and then Missouri. He emphasizes especially the prosperity of the land and residents of the country through which he passed. . ‘ Jack London, in a recent sermon by a San Jose clergyman, was described as “an atheist, a scientist, a philosopher, a thinker, questing the universe In a mad search for God.” Then the preacher praised In the highest terms, the sincerity of the man whom he had been criticising; and concluded his remarks by asserting that the author is "essentially spiritual." . ■ „■/ ,» . •-» <■ - D. V. Steele left yesterday for AtI ties, where he will visit his daughter, Mrs Charles fiamfiart. . The BarnIthey opened a Racket store today. Mr. will then go to Cayuga for a I vrialt with Al* I

S case in court. George W. Zimmerf man vs. Mallnda Fronfteld. It is i a petition whereby the’plaintiff seeks » to have his mother declared of un- > sound mind and Incapable of managi ing her own estate. 1 • B. D. Brown et al. vs. David D. Ha- , beggar et al., on contract: Demurrer ; filed by defendants. George C. Bakec vs. Catherine Plhce, contract, demurrer filed to; complaint. < “ .. ■' Isaac Teeple vs. Joseph Elienbargar et al., on account, $139.87. Joint answer filed. Cross-complaint filed by defendants. Gottlieb Brandt vs. Thomas E. Mann et al., note, SSOO, finding for defendants. Judgment against plain- . tiffs for costs. , A marriage license was issued to Bernard Wall, 28, a college student at Los Angeles, Cal., to Ada Neuenschwander, 25, a student at Berne. James M. Archbold, administrator of the Mary J. Meltz Bejlin estate, filed final report. Approved and distribution ordered. ——o — - . A PROMISING CAREER. It That of Herbert A. Lucky—Grandson of 'Squire Stone. The Indianapolis papers contain a likeness and “booster" article on Herbert A. Luckey, and a grandson of ’Squire J. H. Stone of this city, who is making the face for the nomination for state representative from Marion county on the republican ticket. The young man is but twenty-six years of age, is a graduate from the high schooF. the University cf New' York and from the Indiana Law School in the class of 1902, and is now a practicing attorney in Indianapolis, having offices in the Law building. His career has been a remarkable one for one so young, and his friends have strong hope for his nomination and ultimate election. He fs a member of the Marion club, past commander of Ben Harrison company Sons of Veterans, and is state Attorney for Indiana Division of Sons of Veterans. His parents were formerly residents of this county and are well known here, Ms mother having been Miss Lucy E. Stone. , d n O ■ The democrats and republicans of Allen county held their primary elections Friday for the selection of candidates for next fall’s election. The vote was the lightest in years, only about one-third of the democrats being out and the republican vote was so small it could hardly be estimated. It is said the reason for this is the fact that everyone concedes that whoever was nominated by the democrats would be elected. There were several battles on the democratic side. Homer Underwood was defeated for judge. William Wells, for auditor, made a poor showing and the democrats named were as follows: For Senator—Frank Greenwell, Huntertown. ; For Representatives—Clifford J. Moran, Adolph Roggen, W. H. F. Moellering. For Superior Court Judge—Carl Yaple. For Prosecuting Attorney—Harry H. Hilgemann. ' ' For County Clerk—W. E. Gerding. For County Auditor—Calvin H. Brown. Fbr County Treasurer—J. Herman Bueter ■ . „ For Sheriff—A. M. Relchelderfer. For Coroner—Dr. Edward Kruse. For Surveyor—Ralph W. Guenther. For Assessor—William Eggeman. For County Commissioner (First District)—F. William Franke. ——■ ■" ——O— —> “BILLY” JOHNS SPRAINS ANKLE. “Billy" Johns, the very • popular clerk In the grocery department of the Fullenkamp store, who has been on duty nearly every day during the past nine years, will be forced to take a vacation of a week or more, and all because he sprained one of his ankles. Fate seemed against him, as day before yesterday he gave the right ankle a slight twist, which made him slightly lame, and then to complete the job, while coming out of the warehouse at the rear of the store Friday, his foot caught in something that gave it a hard Wrench, and the sprain was complete, putting him entirely out of commission. He was taken homerin a carriage and it will be some time before he can be at work again. .. . Miss Elizabeth Bell, who visited relatives here for several weeks, Will go to her home at ■ im. * - is al

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.Uli," II! IMIWV fianlnMiss F ** t *'*i** J l * IfllfilllS seVftuteea J®*” * Mttle cost. Seat fIV free booklet. Milo B. Btevoas A CM. L4th Washington, D. 0. BranA (fttaagn, Clevtflaag, Betroit. IM. ifM. Mrs. G. A. Beazley, Trenton, Ky., says: M I certainly had fine success In treating my fowls for llipberneck and cholera with Bourbon Poultry Cure. I gave them this medicine in both drinking water and feed. I like this remedy fine." Sold by H. H. Bremerkamp. . ITCHING ECZEMA WABHED AWAY —— . • . ■ Is it worth cents to you to stop that awful, agonizing itch? Surely you will spent 25 cents on your drukgist’s recommendation, to cool and heal and soothe that terrible itching eruption? By arrangement with the D. D. IX Laboratories of Chicago, we are able to make a special offer of a 25-ceat bottle of their oil of wintergreen compound, known as D. D. *D. Prescription, Call, or write, or telephone to Smith, Yager & Falk. We absolutely know that the itch is stopped at once by D. D. D. Prescription, and the cures all seem to be permament. To Indianapolis April 27th and 28th. It's the time for holding the Indiana democratic convention, at which time L. G. Ellingham of this city will be a candidate for the office of secretary of state. It is a worthy ambition. In all her long years of history Adams county has never had a citizen who was honored by holding a state office. Mr. Ellingham is in the race, and his friends here will want him to make as good a showing as possible. No better boost is possible than to send a big delegation of “rooters" to to the convention. As explained a few days ago fifty can secure a rate of $2.85 from Bluffton for the round trip over the Lake Erie & .Western and if one hundred will go that road will run a special train for the party. The convention is but ten days off and it’s important that we conclude arrangements. If you want to go with the crowd, give your name to County Chairman D. N. Erwin. If these arrangements are not concluded any of the various routes, either by steam or interurban, can be selected at a rate of two cents a mile. in mi- .iiim wm ii l iWi...iiii.. l O iij^i mA Curt’ Brown, a well known young man of this city, has returned from Indianapolis, where during the past week he has been taking the state board examination in pharmacy. For the past year he has been attending college at Angola, where he graduated with honors on March 31st, receiving a diploma, showing that he had successfully completed his course. He also took a year’s course at Valparaiso to better fit hlnipelf for this profession and he is now able to fill any position in this line that he may receive in the state. He has secured a position with the Meyers Bros.’ drug store at Fort Wayne and will be on duty there in a short time. He has already had much practical experience in pharmacy, having clerked In the Smith, Yager & Falk drug store in this city before entering College. His courtesy and efficiency have won for him a large number of friend* who wish him abundant success in his new place of business. j jj ■ * —— o Jacob Miller, who has peep visitlag with relatives in the city for several weeks, left this morning for Columbus, Ohio, where he will be the guest of his son over Sunday and then leave for Detroit, Mich., where he iq making his home. * ■ ■ i-.Q - i NQTICE POULTRY RAIBERB . Alonso Thropp, Mt Carmel, IllJ “I was losing oh an average] of fifteen fowls a day with cholera.] After giving the first dose of Bour-] bon Poultry Cure all around to myl flock I never lost another fowL” Bold by H. H. Bremerkamp.

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