Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1911 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT* ifVEHYTHUHBDAY MOKNINW BY ufW G» ELL'NGHAM, PubH»h«r. .J.UOPEK YEAH IM ADVANCE, Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, ♦ißd., aa second class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. MARSHALL FOR PRESIDENT After referring to the strong points of Judson Harmon and Woodrow Wilson, the Washington Herald says: "A third democrat, not so well known as either Harmon or Wilson, but who has quietly made an impression beyond the borders of his state, is Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana. He is a broad-minded, progressive leader, of genuine ability, who has already taken rank with the great Hoosier governors of the past. He forced his party to nominate a candidate for senator, and let the people of the state know what a democratic victory at the polls would mean. • Thus the choice of John W. Kern, a clean and capable man, as the successor of Senator Beveridge, is now assured. Marshall stands for popular government. He has not yet been wholly converted to the iniative and referendum and the recall, but otherwise he is ardent champion of rule by the people. He is not a dreamer, nor a political fanatic, but a level-headed man of facts, in whom the modicum of common sense is always conspicuously in evidence. Marshall’s handling of the senatorship situation, like that of Woodrow Wilson, was in striking contrast with Judson Harmon’s seeming evasion of duty in similar premises.” The Herald then suggests that in the presidential speculation, necessarily tentative at this time, a combination of New Jersey and Indiana in 1912, with Wilson and Marshall as the standard bearers, comlmends itself strongly to the thinking deliberative democrats. Decatu merchants should awaken to the fact that a new year starts Sunday and to increase your business over last year you should begin a campaign of advertising that will get results. There is only one way. Contract for space in the Daily Democrat. It's a sure thing and the returns will make you happy. The annual appropriations for the expenses of conducting your business the coming year should be the most important matter with you this week and foremost among these should be the amount you will spend for advertising. Don’t squeeze those dollars too tight or the number you will have to put away a year from now may be fewer. Advertise this year. Do it right. And you will win. J.” beginning with next Monday the stores of Decatur will be closed during the evenings after 6 o'clock, excepting Saturday night. This custom has been in vogue here for many years and is one that has proven very satisfactory to every one concerned. The stores do practically the same amount of business and this gives them an opportunity during the quiet season to enjoy the family circle. The board of county commissioners today selected Mr. James Hendricks as, president of the board, succeeding Mr. Martin Laughlin, who has so well performed the acts of that office. Mr. Hendricks is well fitted for the place, and the duties are safe in his hands. The Washington Herald is of the opinion that there are other presidential possibilities than Woodrow Wilson and Judson Harmon, among them Governor Marshall. It says that “he is a oroad-minded, progressive deader, of genuine ability, who has already taken rank with the great Hoosier governors of the past.” The Herald is especially impressed with his handling of the senatorship question. Willshire people note with agreeable surprise that President Taft is thinking seriously of appointing Hon. U. G. Denman to the office made vacant by the death of Federal Judge Taylor. The position is a better one in every

way than that of attorney general for which Mr. Denman was defeated al(gh<' November election. The federal judge's salary is $6,500 a year, and his term of office Is for life. President Taft • so well pleased with Mr. Denman's record, and the votes ruMved by him at the lust election, that he has decided to appoint him, notwithstanding the fact that Judge Killits, who was his last appointment, was also from the northwestern part of the state.—Willshire Herald. Mr. Denman Is a brother-in-law of Dr. J. Q. Neptune. Two more men have paid with their lives for the desire to further the advancement in the field of aviation. Hoxey and Moisant were the last to die, meeting death the last day of the year 1910, which twelve months added thirty-five names to the list of heroes who gave their lives toward the mastery of the air. Certainly the year has shown marked progress in this achievement, but is it worth the sacrifice? Certainly we are paying dearly for this latest mode of navigation, and there are those who still doubt that it will ever be anything more than an attracter of crowds, a show. If this is true, we are paying too much. We greet the new officials of Adams county, Sheriff Thomas Durkin, Prosecutor R. C. Parrish, Commissioner Eicher —you all look good to us. They assumed their duties this morning, ready and eager for the work, and we feel that we can safely assure the public that they will so conduct themselves that they will merit the good will of every citizen. They are each competent for the place to which they were chosen and they will keep up the high standard set by their predecessors. The retiring officers—Eli Meyer, Henry B. Heller and Martin Laughlin —have done well their work. They retire from office with the knowledge in their own minds that they have fulfilled their oath as near as is possible by any man. We congratulate them and wish for them the success in future life to which they are entitled. To the men assuming the official p’aces we certainly wish every success, and we do so with the feeling that it will come to them. They are the kind of men who succeed. The first democratic legislature in Indiana since 1892 will at least inaugurate one splendid retorm and that is the reduction of the force of clerks and doorkeepers in the house and senate for the session which convenes one week from today. A committee appointed for the purpose has recommended that the doorkeepers of the house be reduced to a dozen, instead of the little army heretofore used; there will be only enough clerks to do the work, the crowd heretofore used in the engrossing room will be cut down and similar reductions of expenses will be made in the senate. They will also reduce the number of bills printed, a saving of no mean amount, and the buying of stationery in each house will be done by a man who will give his entire attention to that work. Without any question the expenses of conducting the legislature will be reduced several thousand dollars. If they use the same care throughout the session that they are in getting started, they will make a record that will mean much in the future. Goshen Times: For the past week, the newspapers of Indiana have been jumping upon the poor road supervisors, charging them with all the faults of an antiquated, inefficient and wasteful system of road maintenance. Isn't there somebody in Indiana big enough and broad enough, to avoid finding fault with the old worn-out system, and to suggest a new system and push it until it becomes a law in operation? This is not a critical age. This Is a constructive age. Colonel Newton, who superintended the staging of the mock court trial here, is a pleasant and affable gentleman, who knows and does well every part necessary to make his plays a success. He has traveled from coast to coast, has played in all the principal cities, has mingled with the great men of the country, knows how to treat the newspaper boys—in fact has the qualities to succeed —and ha does.

HAD GOOD MEETING. The Men's Social club held n very Interesting session at the hall Sunday afternoon, at which time much business was disposed of. Besides attending to the many business matters pertaining to the lodge the officers who will serve for the next six months, were named. They are as follows: Harry Imler, President; Bart Schraluka, vice president; Cal Robinson, secretary, and Henry Swartz, treasurer. A business meeting will be held at the hall this evening and it is the desire that all the members be on hand to take part. —a i ~ Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Wells of Pleasant Mills are here on a visit with Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Gerber and family for a few days. Miss Caroline Berber of Decatur is visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Gerber, over New Year’s. Mr. and Mrs. Christ Roth and daughter, Martha, were at Honduras Sunday. John Gerber of Magley is visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Gerber, since Wednesday. Mrs. Frank Loshe is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hill and family of Decatur visited with Mr. and Mrs. William Trim Sunday at a chicken dinner. Music was played by Leota Trim. Mr. Fred Roth has resigned his position as hired man for L. A. Thomas. Albert Roth left Saturday for Antwerp, Ohio, for a two weeks’ visit with his uncle and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. William Trim and family, living one mile north of Monroe, entertained a crowd at an oyster supper Sunday evening at 6 o’clock. Games were played and organ music was furnished by Leota Trim and Caroline Gerber. The French harp was ably handled by Fred Roth, Earnest Wells and John Gerber, and good music on the phonograph was furnished by W. M. Trim. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Wells of j Pleasant Mills, Caroline Gerber of Decatur, John Gerber of Magley, Alice Gerber. Fred Roth and Abe Gerber; : Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Gerber and son, i Paul; David Roth, Mr. and Mrs. William Trim, son, Virgil, and daughters, ■ Leota and Lucile. A good time was ' had by all, with the exception of Er- ; nest V. Wells, with whom the oysters ■ did not agree. o ! Joe Wetzel, aged about forty, who lives west of the city with his father and brother, fell about 4 o'clock Saturday evening at his home, and suffered a fracture of one of the hips. Dr. Smith was called to attend him and made htm as easy as possible. Owing to the difficulty in caring for him by the men folks who live alone at home, it was decided best to take him to a hospital. The ambulance was accordingly fitted up and the injured man taken on a cot therein to the St. Joseph hospital at Fort Wayne, arriving there about 530 o’clock Saturday evening. Dr. Duemling will attend him there. Owing to the nature of the injury, it is impossible to tell just what the nature of the fracture is, without an X-Ray examination. This will be done by Dr. Duemling, who will send a report to Dr. Smith here. The best of care in such a fracture must be given, as there is always danger of leaving the afflicted one a cripple. THAT BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. j The Mock Court trial to be given under the auspices of Decatur Lodge, 993, B. P. O. E., in Bosse’s opera house on Tuesday evening, January 3rd, promises to be an event of unus- [ ual interest. Judging from newspaper reports of similar entertainments conducted by the present management, it would seem to be one of the most amusing things now offered for public patronage. It will be, in the first place, an exact reproduction of a court scene in methods and procedure and on this account will be extremely interesting to ladies and others who have never attended a real trial. Best of all will be the refined fun of the whole affair. With Judge James T. Merryman presiding over the court. Miss Eva Acker appearing as the broken-hearted plaintiff, Jesse C. Helm as the defendant, Colonel Newton prosecuting the case and A. P. Beatty, Esq., defending the accused, to say nothing of the brilliant array of court officers, witnesses and jurors, it is pretty certain we shall have all the comedy and reality of a court scene and enough wholesome fun to last a whole year. The programs for the fifteenth annual session of the Adams county farmers’ institute to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, January 17th and 18tb, have been issued by C. 8. Mum- , ’’ r "‘ w ' **

ma, chairman, and a glance fit them shows that the Institute thia year will be the best ever. The Institute will be held in the Methodist Sunday school room, the program being as follows First Day Morning Session —8:30. Music—lnstrumental Duet —■ Misses Helen Fonner and Irma Houk. Invocation—Rev. Sherman Powell, pastor hirst M. E. church. Music—lnstrumental Solo—Miss Irene Evans. “Rearing and Feeding Hogs '—E. t ■ Martindale, Wilkinson, Ind. ••Maintenance of the Home”—Miss Grace Woodward, Lafayette, Ind. golo—Dr. Fred Patteraon. Address—“ The Decline of the Country Church”—Rev. Charles Payne, pastor St. Paul church. Miscellaneous business. Adjournment. Afternoon Session —1:00. Instrumental Music — Miss ( laia Berger. “Alfalfa in Indiana” —E. C. Martindale. “Selling Cream on a Butterfat Ba--B j s ” —c. S. Mumma. Quartet— Salem Male Choir. “Canning and Preserving Fruits and Vegetables” —Miss Woodward. Recitation —Hilda Kern. Miscellaneous business. Adjournment. Note—General discussion follows each subject. Evening Session. Music —Piano Duet —Anthony Holthouse and Irma Houk. “Entertaining in the Home"—Miss Woodward. Solo—Miss Clara Terveer. “Elementary Agriculture in the Public Schools”—C. E. Opliger, Supt. Cornet Solo—Albert Sellemeyer. Address—“ The Boy”—E. C. Martindale. Adjournment. Second Day—Morning Session —9:00. Song—Audience. Invocation—Rev. Payne. Instrumental Music —Miss Pearl Lyon. “Soil Fertility”—E. C. Martindale. Solo—C. D. Kunkel. , “Onion Growing”—C. S. Bash, Fort Wayne. Music—Miss Dale Payne. “Bread and Bread-making”—Miss Woodward. Report of Committees. Adjournment. Afternoon Session —1:00. Duet—Mesdames Runyon and Opliger. “Care of the Person —Miss Woodward. Volin Solo —Mr. Anthony Holthouse. I “Care of Fruit Trees” —Mr. W. H. ! DeVilbiss. Fort Wayne. Ind. I Instrumental Music —Mrs. C. J. I Lutz. “Preparation (Os the Soil, Planting land Tillage of Corn"—E. C. Martin- ■ dale, Song—“ America.” Reorganization of Woman's Auxiliary. i Adjournment. ■ Note —All addresses to be followed by questions and general discussion. I ° The board of county commissioners ] met Monday in the first regular ! meeting of the year. Christian Eicher the new member from the third district, was present with his certificate I and began his term. The board organized by electing James Hendricks as president. Albert Buhler, who was elected jus- ' tice of the peace for this township, ' filed his declination in writing with the board and petitions for the job were filed by F. E. Smith and, James H. Ward. The board selected Mr. Smith. The county treasurer filed his report of taxes collected during the month of December, which was duly approved. | ' Bonds were ordered for the C. C. Beers macadam road. A petition for a macadam road was filed by Joseph Chrisman and about fifty others, but no definite action was taken. The citizens of Monroe township will head off any action by the legislature which might change the liquor laws so as to give them a saloon, as a remonstrance was filed by H. P. Ray and others against the granting of a liquor license to any citizen of Monroe township. The remonstrance was filed December 30th. I David Berger and others filed a petition for a ditch along the state line. i One of the important matters before the board was the resignation of J. L. Graber as superintendent of the county infirmary, to take effect as soon as a new man can be secured, not late rthan March Ist. The reslg- ' nation was accepted an<* Martin ; Laughlin was selected to fill the place. He will assume the duties within the next two months. A handsome new motor track, the I*ll model, manufactured by the De-

catur Motor Car company, driven on the streets several days last week and attracted much favorable attention, was shipped Saturday evening to New York City in charge of A. H. Barnard, sales manager o the company, where practical demonstrations of the efficiency of the car will be made between New York City and Boston for the benefit of the agencies there. The car will be shipped from here to New York and will then be driven from points between that city and Boston. The car is a beauty, with every advantage for trucking, and there is not a finer cai of this kind made anywhere. The company is putting out cars of the highest grade and most up-to-date equipment, their quality being recognized by experts in all the largest cities from one extreme of the continent to the other where they are used. M. E. Brackett, of the Motor Car company, left Saturday evening also for the east and will be with Mr. Barnard during the demonstration. — — — PASSED DANGER PERIOD. Mrs. J. D. Wisehaupt, who has been critically 111 for two or three days, has passed the danger period and it Is thought will get along all right. She has been suffering from stomach trouble and grip. So severe was her case that she is unable to speak. Her son. Howard, who has beer spending the holidays at home, did not go to take up his teaching today remaining at home to await the outcome of her illness. If she is no worse tomorrow he will resume his teaching. —o — — “THE ROSARY.” In "The Rosary,” wiich comes to the Bosse opera housl on Thursday. January sth, Edward B Rose, the author of the play, has taken an average set of people, and ihows you first their outside; then eftly, subtly, with careful strokes all a firm hand, he takes you within he brain and mind of each charactr. You even see the result of their hinging. It is

like seeing first the ’suits of elec tricity —street cars Tuning, telephon ing working, all the wnderful effects of this mighty force—nd then being taken to the central peer house from whence all the energy ows. And you see the efcct of thought upon the different inividuals. One character is that of modern business man, a stock oker, happily married to a wife whcloves him. but his thought is wrong He harbors fear, doubt and unbelf in the good that lies all about hit He loses all —fortune, home, wifeeven his own self-respect. How does it all er? Ah, that is too long for me to tl you, but this I may say, that he brought to a knowledge of the sup-me law of life by a priest, a model priest, not of conventional stage taracter, but a real man, a big man < faith, strength, conviction, whose ey see clearly and whose spiritual pver is the moving force of the play. This beautiful pla has just completed a three month run in Chicago and is now the sens ion of the season in New York Cy, where it is playing at the Gardi theater. Man-

ager Bosse has arra;ed for the appearance of a specialompany in this play at the Bosse era house on Thursday evening, Jiuary sth. NEWS FROM CORT HOUSE. Samuel L. Tynd:, 28, farmer, Pleasant Mills, to Jud Everett, 23, daughter of Jaeobtailing. Bride was married once here and divorced in 1907. William Jobon, 18, farmer, to Eva Boch, 16, tighter of Abe boch; George Baumrtner, 28, plasterer, Berne, to Lyd! Burkhalter, 28, clerk, Berne. Irvin Brandyberry;. O. L. Vance, contribution, demuri filed by defendant to each par.-aph of complaint. o STOLE FALSE HR PUFFS. When a person’s sires are so great that they musteal in order to satisfy them, the nter is getting pretty bad, especially aen the desire is in a matter of penal adornment. The latest theft reped was that of , a set of false hairuffs from the Baughman store, s. Baughman stated that If, in heiaste, the per- , son taking it did n make a good match, she is at lihy to return it and get one that wilfco” better with the natural crop. Indianapolis, Ind Jan. 2 All aboard for Washlngi i 8 the cry. A number of the stateficers and oth- , er interested demots held an informal meeting thother morning, and they decided ,t Washington should know that t Hon. stokes Jackson stands acegh at home. 1 They propose that amdred Hoosier t democrats aha Uta that city b y , storm and show congressmen from all the other ass in the union ]

bow we do things in Indiana. If present, plans materialize that numher or more Hoosier democrats will leave this city on the evening of January 16th, reaching Washington on the afternoon of the 17th, and the following two days will be devoted in boosting Mr. Jackson for sergeant-at-arms of the lower house of congress. Should this booster game work out, it will serve a double purpose. It will ’and Stokes Jackson high and dry in a responsible place at fixty-five hundred per. and it will also show that W Indiana will go to this extreme for a place as sergeant-at-arnrs. what in hades wouldn’t they do to win a candidate for the presidency. 80 while Governor Harmon is paying good money and lots of it for press bureap publicity, the Indiana boys will do a turn that will get genuine publicity, the sort of publicity that Is worth one hundred cents on the dollar. A round trip ticket from Indianapolis will cost $25.80, with $4 added for Pullman accommodations. Come on, you old Adams county sports. Get in the game. Every one is welcome, and the more the merrier. Send on your name early so that accommodations can be arranged before the bell rings. Congressman Adair is the same old popular congressman Adair. At the Muncie banquet the other evening, those Delaware countyites gave him a glorious reception. They are stuck on John all right, and it is something more serious than a simple flirtation. They are in earnest, and according to election return dope, there are others. Every county in the Eighth distrist permits no other county to beat them in their admiration for John Adair. The banquet, or dinner rather, was a most pleasant and delightful event, and they occur about this season of every year. The writer has formed the habit, and now could not quit it, if he wanted to —and we do not want to. Some of the best fellows on earth live in Muncie, and a mighty good lot of them are prominent in the councils of the democratic party.

c ‘ The Muncie banquet paid Senator 1 Kern some ovation, too. They laid it s on good and thick, and after he gave a them a thirty-minute talk, every mother's son present was proud of their ( democracy and prouder still of their s junior senator-to-be. John Kern is one of the most lovable of men. He is . sincere, honest and courageous, and I t will take his place in the highest lawmaking body in the country, with no I man or set of men holding a mortI gage upon him. He is known to be clean and is trusted to the limit. He has nothing but the good will of every one in the state, it being unneces sary to enter him on probation. He will go to Washington on the fourth of March and there be sworn in, a: after that Indiana will have two democratic United tSates senators-, another innovation in the politics of the state. But cheer up, it might have been worse. ' Politics is gingering up. The con- I vening of the legislature this week I is already bringing in many of the I faithful. Some of them are coming for the purpose of being placed at five a day, others are just here en- e

, joying life, liberty and the pursuit of I happiness. The speakership race is • neither fast nor furious, and apparently there will be no weeping, wailing 'I and gnashing of teeth, no matter who fl wins. Not many of the eight candi- I dates claim to have a lead pipe cinch, I and to see them mingling together at B the Denison hotel one is inclined to J believe that each one of them is work- fl ing for the other fellow. (a A beautiful calendar of the 1911 va- fl riety and measuring about eight by 8 twelve feet, adorns a conspicuous place at the office of the secretary of state. The calendar was sent us by fl the Decatur Horse Sale Company of £ Decatur, Indiana, U. S. A., the great- x est horse market in the country. It ■ is a beauty and nearly every visitor M in the office notices and admires. Any K one wanting any of these calendars g can have one by addressing this en- E terprising firm. The calendars them- ■ selves cost about eighty-five cents H apiece, to which might be added an- at( other twenty-five for expressage. We Ft will gamble that they did not buy over ten thousand of these calendars. rs but they are beauties and beat any- , ( thing in the calendar line we have M seen this season. L. G. E. 1H

yeamen have new piano. 1 The Yeomen lodge is boasting a brand new piano for its lodge room, ftl the same being a beautiful Schiller, jar delivered by Gay. Zwick & Meyers of lth this city. m — ——« — me CATHOLIC SCHOOL OPENS. r’s —- ■■ e h The St. Joseph school will re-open on; in the morning after enjoying a vacation for over a week. It will reopen with the vim of former occasions. r S — — ■ mot DEMOCRAT WANT. ADS’ PAY BIG.