Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1911 — Page 4

THE >KMO«MAT ♦ IVUrtIIsCMT BY A«w jfc ffLUNOHAM, BwßltaMr. BJOPBB TBAB IM Entered at the poatolßce at Decatffr, did., aa second class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF AOAM9 CODecatur will vote the twenty-eighth. —————ir-— — Hancock county of the Eighth district would sound odd. At that it must be a pretty good locality where they can raise such democrats as Stokes Jackson and Harry Strickland. The option law will be cussed and discussed during the next three weeks in this section. Decatur will be one of the first cities in the state to vote under the new Proctor law. The result will be watched with much interest over the state. While one saloon for every one thousand people may mean a few where there are none now, did you ever stop to figure how many less it means within a short time for cities like Fort Wayne, where they now have nearly three hundred with a population of 65.000 and Indianapolis with these things should be considered in a population of about 265,000? All judging a law. Governor Marshall is keeping his eye on the legislature and will see that they pass a real regulation and restricting law. He said recently that he owned no breweries and none owned him. and that he is interested only in giving to the of Indiana real temperance Itws that will stand the test of the coming years. While it may be impossible to take the question out of politica, good laws, enforced. will assist materially to de so. If the restricting law bow under consideration in the legislature becomes a law it will mean the return of saloons to many of the cities of Indiana, but it will by no means mean the return of the old-fashioned saloon. The bill, as it passed the senate contained a string or amendments as long as the original bill. According to it, J a man wilt have to prove his '‘good moral character," and will otherwise have to show the commissioners when he applies for a license. He will have to conduct a saloon in a manner heretofore unknown in Indiana, and will have the entire population watching him to see that he does it according to law. The mid-winter session of the Democratic Editorial association was held at Indianapolis last Thursday and Friday. It was perhaps one of the best meetings of this old arganization, and we meet thoroughly enjoyed our glimpse thereof. The reception at the Ellingham home was a delightful evening, and an occasion when every one met every one and was glad to do so, not only fashionably speaking but really and truly. The banquet was a feast, and the flow of oratory such aa to inspire any democrat. How could one listen to such men aa Marshall, Kern, Stotaeaburg, Kistler, Proctor, Veneman, Hall and tha others and not be electrified with the feeling that our turn has oome at last? And then, as a close for all this was a talk by Dean Williams of the Missouri School of Journalism, a man who stands alone in his work, whose humor and wit and wisdom and good common sense is unsurpassed, who gave advice, who scolded and coaxed and argued, and made one laugh while he did so. It was a dandy, happy time. Every one present felt the democratic spirit, and heard the prophecies of further approaching victories, with a knowledge that they rang with the truth. According to the latest dope the Eighth district will be a sort of a shoe string affair reaching from the state line down to Greenfield, but at that John Adair can get over it if he <*) wants to, and the fellow from Hancock or Blackford who tries to overtake him can make up his mind that he will have to go some. saeßßßßßßeaDnew So far the local option election has not caused any riots, in fact up to

now, -tt would be impossible to teU that such a battle la on. It la to be hoped that the question will be dls- ’ posed of in>a sane manner. An tth--1 portant question is-beat decided after sober thought and much of it, has been devoted to it . The outlook for Decatur for the ap--8 proaching season was never brighter than right now. At this time a half dozen buildings of considerable proportions are being considered and will probably be erected, Including a new 1 school building, a model factory build- ’ ing, a business block and some other ’ improvements that will aid every one ‘ here. Then there is the proposed Elks' I home, and another lodge or two are considering various propositions for new quartets. A little pull together in Decatur will put us on top so quickly that we won’t be able to tell how It happened. Let's have it. The business men are to have a meeting this evening and there are many very im- , portant matters that could be discussr ed with profit to all of us. Let's be 1 friendly and help each other. t ( By a vote of ninety to twenty-two the democratic members of the house of representatives decided Monday t night to support the president’s agreet ment with Canada. The action of the I caucus was then made unanimous Doubtless this is good politics, but it is much more than that. For the aci tion of the caucus is wholly in the in- : terest of the country. If by support- ■ ing (hat interest wins a party advan- : tage that is as it should be. Nor is it a question solely of party politics. For the reciprocity policy is not wholly democratic or republican. As far as it means freer trade it points in the direction of the democratic faith. But it should not be forgotten that the republicans Save also declared for lower duties and freer trade. What we have, therefore, is an arrangement which can. with good conscience, be supper* ed by men of all parties without any surrender of party principle. That the democrats take this view is mad® clear In the caucus resolution.—lndianapolis News.

D. I. Weikel, who recently of the city news stand, has taken tbfij agency for the Singer Sewing ma-! chine and will begin his new duties at once. The agency has not been handled here for some time, and this will give Mr. Weikel a good chance to make good. Besides handling the Singer he will also hold the agency for the Wheeler k Wilson, two of the best machines on the market. He will sell, loan or exchange with any one who would care to make a change of this kind. He will do all kinds of repairing and has the entire county, excepting Berne, to work in. He has his headquarters at the Brock tin shop and in a short time will have a complete line of machines, and will be ready to sell you any kind of a machine you wish. L. E. Opliger, county superintendent of schools, went to Fort Wayne thia morning to act as one of the three judges tn the Allen county spelling contest, which was held at that place today, and which position he was asked to fill by tne school officials of that county. At the contest held there last year Mr. Opliger wa® appointed to act as proaouacer and the efficient manner in which he succee®fully carried out his duties brought for him a promotion thia time and he will act as judge. He i® widely known as a many of many sterling qualities in the school life, and he hae assisted in many of these successful affairs. The contest was held at the high school building and sixty-three contestant® took part in the event The three winner® of today’s battle will be represented at the district contest to be held on the eighteenth of this month, the place having not yet been learned. o The Reiter Encampment, affiliated with the local subordinate Odd Fellows’ lodge, held a most important meeting Friday night and Installed the officers who will control the lodge for the coming year. It w&® the intention to give all the degrees to a class of canaiuates, nut the lodges who were to come for the meeting wired that they would be unable to come and the work was postponed. Those installed were chief patriarch, Norman Lenhart; high priest, Adam Wise; senior warden, W. W. Stewart; junior warden, A. B. Callow; scribe, L. C. Helm; treasurer. Dr. J. M. Miller. LC. Helm was the installing officer Two weeks from today the degree teams of th® Bluffton and Geneve

lodges aMil arrivdßmd will be conduct-i ed to the spacious hall where a social i session will be held during the after-' noon and In the evening the visiting teamdeWlll confer the gegrees. three in number, on eighteen candidates. The local lodge of rebekahs ’ will serve a supper to the visitors and preparations are actively on foot to make it one of the largest banquets held in the history of the order. ——o Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 4 —ln the last four years county assessors in Indiana have discovered property ; worth 110.785,000 and placed it on the tax duplicate, according to a report made by Sam Montgomery, deputy assessor of Marlon county, and secretary of the State Association of County Assessors. The report is for the four years ending December 31, 1910. It is shown that property worth 82,759,280 in Marion county was placed on the tax duplicate. The largest amount of property put on for taxation during this time was in Cass county, the total being 84.649,870. The assessor of Allen county was also very busy, finding property valued at 14.110,389. Adams county ranks high in the list the assessor finding property valued at 1417,775. Some of the other counties where large amounts of property have been placed on the tax duplicate follow: Lagrange. 82,511,839; Delaware, 81,435.530; Lake. 81.245,000; Vanderburg, 81,052,970; Putnam, 8693,690; Johnson. 8569.665; Tippecanoe. 8560,815; Elkhart. 8507,084; Clark. 8461.290; Shelby, 8460,610; Wabash, 8416,860; Vigo. 8412,302; Fayette. 8412.225; Jackson. 8393,355; Montgomery, 8377,200; Hendricks, 8356.495; Bartholomew, 8355.640; Clay, 8338.010; Steuben, 8260,815; Randolph, 81SS.7OO; Warrick, 8168,540; Porter, 8168,100. The amounts recovered in other counties were about 8100,000 or less the least amount reported being from Pulaski county, where the value was 819,430.

Monroe, Ind., Feb. 4 —(Special to « D»!ly Democrat i—Lewi® Andrews, one t of the best known men of this town i and th® county, a well known hog •nd cattle buyer, and for many years • member of the Mcnroe Live Stock t company, wa® etricken with a severe b stroke of paralysis between 4 and » a o’clock Friday afternoon, and today t his condition was reported as being d very critical. He had been about as c usual, transacting business througt- g out the day, bpt in the morning corn-! e plained to a number of those with' e whom he associated, with haring s severe pain in the head. But think- o ing It would pass away in time, kept 1; on with his stock buying, until late n in the afternoon. About 4 o’clock he d started for home and had scarcely got- d ten there until he collapsed. Upon in- r vestigation it was found that he had t been stricken with paralysis, affect- n ing the left side of his body. He has e been semi-conscious since stricken, p and his condition Is regarded as very critical. This morning there were no signs of Improvement and no hope is a being held for his recovery. That he t reached his home when he did Is con- 0 sidered quite fortunate, and had It g been a few minutes later he woul g have fallen on the way. Monroe peo- , pie regret very much the affliction j, that has befallen Mr. Andrews, and r areanxiously awaiting the outcome. 0 LATER —Mr. Andrews, who suffered a stroke of paralysis late Friday, c passed away at his home this after- c noon at 2 o'clock. As yet no funeral f arrangement® have been made. B ® s The following program has been ar- v ranged for the Adams County Farm- t era' Institute to be held in th® Evan- t gelical church at Boras, Wednesday, a and Thursday February 16th and 16th: c Firs® Bay—®:oo am, t Opening—Rev. C, P. Maas, pastor t Evangelical church t Silos and Silage—Maurice Douglas, t Shelby county. t Discussion by Institute. Chickens on the Farm—Mrs. E 8. t Christen. j Discussion by Institute. i Adjournment. t Afternoon Session—l:oo. j Plano Solo—Miss Rose Lehman t Success With Alfalfa —Maurice t Douglas. ( Discussion by Institute. i The Economy of the Family—Mrs. t E. S. Christen. ( Discussion by Institute. } Miscellaneous Business. | Adjournment j Evening Session—7:oo. « Instrumental Solo —Wilbur Lehman. 1 Music—Senior Class. High School. Education of the Family—Mrs. E. < S. Christen. s Duet—Swiss Dialect « , Address —“Advantages of Co-opera- < tion" —Jesse Rupp. j Song—Mennonite Male Choir. < Second Day—9:oo a. m. ? Music —Mennonite Male Choir. i Opening—Rev. J. W. Kllewer, pas- i tor Mennonite Church. j The How and Why of Spraying— t J. W. Wellington ®f Purdue. • < Leaks on the Farm—C. 8. Mnmma. a

Afternoon Beoolon- 1:e0 ' * 4lc _ E vangeliesl Orchestra Prenißg Fruit Trs^-J-% lingtoi. Miscellaneous business. D. C. SPRVNGER, Sec’y. WENT TO FREMONT, MICH. H* e iarruff left Friday night tor Premont. Mich., where he » H »ook after business interests, pertaining - S fartn. A sa.e wil! be hMd in days and Mr. Harruff wishes • - present at that ( “ B peard of things go all right. - - Salamonie, Ind. a son-in-law of Mr Harruff. will move there in a, shor time and occupy the f.r»- Mrruff also expects to move his famii there during the coming summer and his going now is to get thing, in. readiness for the arrival of the fam . later. During his absence from he citv Orval Harruff will see to all the business of his father, and those having business transactions with him. can complete them with Orval. NO MORE ENVELOPES. Good news to the printshops is the announcement from Postmaster General Hitchcock that from now on the government will not print stamped envelopes and it is recommended that the same be done by the local newspapers in every town where there is a newspaper, having a special permit I for the town, or the nearest newspaper where a town has no newspaper of its own. No large town will be permitted to have a monopoly on the printing to the detriment of small newspapers. A uniform scale of printing will be prepared by the postoffice department and insisted upon or the newspapers will not be sold stamped envelopes for printing. The department has also made a ruling that no firs’ class mail will be allowed transmission through the mails unless it has a return card written or printed thereon. The above means that the envelope business will take on a magnlfieeet boom the first of the year which is sure to continue.

Indianapolis. Ind., Feb. 4—(Special > to Daily Democrat)— County option is j no longer in Indiana. Late yesterday < afternoon Governor Marshal! signed the Proctor bill, which lubatltutea the democratic platform measure for the county option law, enacted at the t special session of the legislature call- > ed by Governor Hanly just before the a election of 1908, y The next step toward the wiping out E of the Hanly legislation will b« the ( introduction of a bill amending the u measure which became a law yester- t day by providing that wnere it is j desired to hold an election in the ter- s ritory of a township outside a city s the commiseioner shall determine the j number of legal voters in case the r city lies in two townships by taking a t poll. t The saloon Ecense will be 8700 in t all cities and 8500 in all incorporated i towns if the measure passed to sec- 8 ond reading by the senate yesterday 1 goes through both houses of the as- ; sembly. The Proctor regulation bill t was before the senate until 6 o’clock < last night, when it was passed to third t reading and it will probably be put t on its final passage early next week. Opponents of a straight 81.000 li- 1 cense had a narrow escape yesterday < morning, when after an amendment i providing that the city license fee 1 should in all cases be 8800. This in 1 addition to the 8206 state license pro- 1 vided for in the bill would make the 1 total 81,600. An amendment was 1 made to table Proctor’s 81,000 llcaase i amendment, but it failed and for a few minutes it ssetned that the senate was ] in a temper to pass an amendment At i the critical moment however, just as i the vote was about to be taken, Sens- i tor Fleming moved adjournment and the senate adjourned until afternoon. When the senators reassembled. 1 they sensed to have changed their i minds about the 81,000 license and it i wag voted down. Senator Fleming ! made a strong argument against the proposal saying that the purpose of the bill was to take the liquor ques- . tion out of polities. To place such an enormous increase upon the license, he argued, would force the saloon man to go back into politica stronger than ever. It was Senator Higgins' amendment for a 8560 city license and a 8300 town license fee that finally carried. This In addition to the 8200 state fee makes the licenses 8700 and 8500. At attempt to strike out the section of the regulation bill which provided a penalty for signing a remonstrance when the signer was not a legal voter of the territory affected, failed. The penalty provided in the bill 1 8 a fine of 825 to 8100, to which may be added six Months’ imprisonment. This wai modified to make the fine 85 to 825 and to strike out the jk# sentence. A provision was inserted stating that the act should in no way affect drugdtsts doing business under the Beardk’- ■

»et at 10 o'clock tht. T ® but the bouse adjourned unrUl’ rariy Un- wer * for « ollpn > ' « d ivs A charitable spirit brought [J the 'introduction of the senate bill ’ nine for the acceptance and maintenance of Dr. Robert to the medical department of the I nl versity of Indiana, which will materialize in a big charity hospital to be operated m connection with the state medical school, was responsible for the peace and harmony of the day. On motion of representative Cravens constitutional rule, were and the bill was given immediate consideration and advanced to final nassage. The vote was unanimous Ld by general consent of the house the votes of the absent members were recorded as favoring the bill which carries with it an appropriation of *25 000 for the support of the hospital. Several speeches, praising Dr. Long for his unselfiisbness in making the gift, were delivered by members of the house. The Democratic Editorial association was present in a body at the meeting of the house and a recess was declared in their honor. Represents tive Cravens and Speaker Veneman welcomed the editors and C. W. Metzger. editor of the Plymouth Democrat, delivered a brief address. Two bills of appropriation were introduced in the house by Representative Cravens. One of these bills makes allowance for the regular expenses of the state government; the other for the specific expenses. The former bill will be made a special order of business Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock, at which time the house will resolve itself into a committee of the whole for the consideration of th® bill. The afternoon session of the house was very short. Several bills received second reading and just before adjournment bills were Introduced without the usual roll call.

(United Press Service.) ' Ind., Feb. 4— (Special The option bill to Daiiy Democ._ • UarsbglJ has been signed by Governor . and is now a law, the Proctor saloon regulation bill has passed to engrossment in the senate; the Grube referendum bill has a chance of being resurrected and the Keegan child labor measure is still struggling along. Th® Askren bill, abolishing the high school qualifications for common school teachers is staggering, but still in the ring, and Governor Marshall's recommended measure for the erection of armories by individual counties is dead. This today represents in a measure the fruits and casualties of the past week's session of the past week's session of the legislature. It does not, however, represent the smoke and powder that was used up, for winding up Friday, in one of the hottest fights of the session on the regulation bill the entire week was given over to tiffs, both in the house and senate. And the fight is not yet over in so far as the saloon regulation bill is concerned. As passed to third reading by the senate it is not satisfactory to the ilquor interests. A compromise license was reached and agreed upon, but Senator Fleming hung on for a low license to a finish, and declared that “the liquor interests would remain politics until they got justice.” As passed to engrossment the bin provides that, iacludaig the state fee a license ia all title®, and within a radio® of four miles of all cities of first and ®econd class shall coat 8700. The 8700 fee shall prevail for district® within two miles of all other cities. For incorporated towns the license Is set at 8500. This takes the saloon out as local politics, as the license fee is fixed by the state. The bill prevents any foreigner from engaging in the saloon business and the sweeping effect of this provision was evident, when Lake county representatives declared 100 saloonkeepers would be put out of business in Gary alone. An amendment was passed to revoke a license after two violations of the law, instead of three as originally proposed and once a license is revoked the person guilty of the two violations shall not hold another license in the state. If the brewery interests do not like the bill because of the high license the anti-saloon interests and “drys” care a lot less for it for other reasons and further amendments by the house are not unexpected. The provision restricting the number of saloons in territory now “dry” for the first 500 population and one for each additional 1,000 i 8 being attacked. This provision applys to “dry” territory alone and discrimination is charged la that the ”weU" may keep all th® aaioow tker

unless some of the license. .TT' B ed for cause. r,,(i b K Th® bill give® a saloon U Cen- , ■ real value. It ia transferable J* ‘ ■ be bought <nd sold. provide ■ parties to the salN prove thet* n 7 (i ■ worth to run a saloon to the 7* I faction of tne county com' lnllgl( **‘ l *‘ B In almost every "wet' city the n J7 ■ of saloons is now far in excess of f B number allowed by this law, S() B no new licenses may be ia 8Ue d B person wishes to open a saloon"? I must, therefore, buy his 1( *B through some present holder, an j .** I this reason, it is pointed out, shouts B the regulation bill be passed i n uJB present form the value of a saloon « fl cense would more than double, g, fl tor Beal, on the floor of the senzt!" fl declared that If this provision Wag I lowed to go through, it would only fl be a matter of time until saloon li. fl censes would be quoted on the board fl of trade and handled as speculate fl possibilities. I Ju«t what is going to happen to Sen- I ator Grube's bill for a referendum ot I franchises is a question at this tim e I It was the result of the vote on thl» I measure that first brought the alleged bi-partlsan combination to light atf whether they will give way or fight it through remains to be seen, it considered significant today that when Senator Grube attempted t» have the bill advanced to third readfng. without debate, Senator Sto« eß . berg, democrat, and Wood, republican, jumped to their feet as one man to object. The bill will not c OIW up again until after the saloon regulation measure is out of the way. bill may bring on just such a fight as was waged in the senate Friday whet the body was fairly in an up-rw, when by a clever bit of parliamentary ! procedure. Senator Fleming ] through a motion to adjourn. The bill for the erection of arrorlae was killed in the house by a vote of 36 to 37. The argument against this was that a county should not he taxed for state purposes. On the Askren bill the plea Is made that it® passage would lower the state's educational standards, and it is believed to have but slight show «f becoming a law. Th® Keegan child labor bill will undoubtedly result in a warm battlein the house, and if it gets through that body, even in amended form, it is sure to strike trouble in the senats.

Another mock trial will be given toon by the commercial department of the high school, which Is In charge of J L The trial last •vesaful and the one proved very six 3, ... , , '“v Ifitereatinjt. this year will be dou,.. • This will no doubt arise from . • J that a mock political campaign will precede the trial. During this campaign officers will be nominated and after a realistic campaign season, th< election will take place. The commercial department hu been divided into two parties—tha conservatives and the liberals. The conservatives will meet tonight for organization, while that of the liberals was held Wednesday evening. The liberals organized with Clem Steifmeyer chairman. The following nominations for the liberal ticket for the coming campaign were made: Jjdga Louis Adler; prosecutor, Martin Hoffman; clerk, Ruth Gay; sheriff. Sherman Beery. The conservatives will nominate at excellent ticket also and about ten days wiU be given over to the campaign, after which a joint meeting will be held, the officers elected to serve in the mock trial, for which arrangements will be made soon. .— ■ « AT THE STAR THEATER. Tonight and Friday will be special feature eights at the Star theater. Xr. Stoneburner has secured a cowboy film off over four thousand feet, an exhibition which occurred tn Wyoming and which is attracting a. cton everywhere. He has been sue cessful in obtaining this film. an being one of rare occurrence shot be well patronized. Price ten cents to all. ABBOTT FUNERAL TODAYThe funeral of Arthur Abbott, young Bluffton grocer, who d.<-d denly Tuesday afternoon afte. 8 ‘‘ c ness of only one day. were held « the First M. E. church at 2 o* this afternoon, the services in c-a of the pastor, the Rev. W. " ' a Mrs. Abbott, who was formerly Lena Steele of Peterson. Is a c 0 of George C. Steele of this cit ;’ has many other relatives in county. a . -O— ' PLAYS HERE TONIGHT. “The Man on the Box ' co ™ p plays here tonight at the ' ’ and from indications the. pl-'> ’ " none other than the be- " shown in ths city for some timecompany is coming well reco - ed as strong, and one that • s pleasing large crt**ds where' ■- are showing. Don't fail to p thia evening or you will mi* B - of your life. —**