Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1912 — Page 1

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TO ATTEND BIG SHOW Decatur Hoosier Trucks Will Attract Attention in New York. TO SHIP TOMORROW Four Representatives from Here Leave First of Week for the Show. The Decatur Hoosier truck, all dressed up in her best gown, is going to the New York automobile show, | greatest of its Kind in tne world, 1 which begins next Wednesday night ’ at the new Grand General Palace, in that city. The exhibit will be shipped from here Thursday. Early next week Mr. Brackett, Mr. Coppock, Mr. Bernard and Earl Bracket, jr., will leave to attend the show. The Decatur company will also be represented at the show by their agents from Boston, New York. Pittsburg and Philadelphia, and Indianapolis, and the boys expect to do business next week. The Decatur display Includes several parts of the now famous car, a chassis, well finished and showing every detail, and a completed car, the latter job to be delivered to G. W. Sammett & Sons’ company, of Boston, manufacturers of the Silk Floss mattress. It is a car that will attract attention anywhere, finished like a piano under the skillful direction of Med Miller, and we venture as handsome and well built a truck as will be shown this year. The Hoosier display will occupy a space 22x26 feet and the truck will be much talked about. There are three auto shows in New York next week, the National, under which the Decatur shows at the Grand Palace; the foreign show at the Astor, and another at Madison Square Garden, making it the world’s greatest auto show. During the week the Hoosier will be given the greatest test ever tried on any truck, running an entire week, loaded, over the streets of the city, under, the direction of the National association, and with a representative of the association aboard all the time. The Decatur display will be shipped from New York to Boston, where they enter the show there, second only to the New York show. BUYS BIG FARM. Warner F. Crosley of Pendleton, Ind., a .prominent farmer of that place, was in the city today with Dr. Thornton of Montpelier, who, together with him, filed the deed for the purchase of a large tract, which the former purchased from Mr. Thornton and Mr. Spalding, known as the Rudolph Schug farm in French township. The deal consisted of 160 acres, and the tract is considered one of the best in that township. It is the intention of Mr. Crosley to move his family here some time in''the near future and make his home on the new place he , has just purchased. WILL PLAY BRYANT. The high school basket ball team has made arrangements with the high school Team .of Bryant for a game to be played here on Thursday evening, as the locals have no game scheduled until January 12th, and the one which they have just billed for, will keep them in practice for the game of next week. The game will be played on Thursday evening instead of Friday evening, as the high school has their lecture course number that evening, ’nd which would interfere with It, to a certain extent. REVIVAL SERVICES. barge Attendances Are Noted at Services of Washington Church. I With the beginning of the revival tervices at the Washington church, southwest of the city on last Friday large crowds have been in attendance for every service conducted. The pastor, the Rev. Landis, who is in charge Os the revival, is being assisted by the able Rev. Briggs, of Huntington, auM the untiring energy of the two ■platers will reap good in a bundice.

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FIRST YEAR'S BUSINESS. Washington dispatches state that the United States postal savings , banks during the year 1911, the first year they were operated, received deposits of over $14,000,000 and many of the 4,185 savings bpnks established some were operated only a few I months. More than 25,000 individual i deposits are reported, 27 per cent of ' | them foreigners. About 5,000 more banks will be established. THE CITY’S ACTIONS • Mayor Files His Report for the Quarter Ending With December 31st. - —. OTHERS FILE REPORTS Former Action for the Clover Leaf Watchman Was Rescinded. i The regular meeting of the common 1 council was nein Tuesuay evening, ' and with the responding of all the 1 members to the roll call by the city clerk, and the mayor presiding, the I usual routine of city business was ' cared for. Nothing out of the ordin- ' ary, which required special attention, was up before the members, and Tuesday evening's meeting resembled one of those with most general results. The mayor’s report, ending December 31st, was filed and left in the hands of the finance committee for reference. Another report of the mayor, which dealt 1 with the filing of the long-lost mayor's docket, No. 4, was filed, along with an ' itemized statement covering the ' amount of fees which had been paid over during the time of Mayor France's jurisdiction and not receipted for. This the mayor asked to be looked over and 1 examined ,and it was referred to the judiciary committee, who will respond ’to hie request. The street commissioner also filed his report, ending September 31st, which was also referred to 1 the finance committee. The report of I the Merriman sewer, which for some ! weeks has been the cause of much consideration, and a new route asked 1 for, differing from the initial one made, ' was read, approved, and ordered to be ' placed on record. The motion of the 1 city council as made at a previous meeting, relative to the placting of a 1 watchman by the Erie & Clover Leaf 1 railways at Eleventh and Thirteenth streets, which the latter road asked the council to rescind its action so far taken, as they believed the bells which they had already in use were sufficient protection for the traveling public, and that the request was an extra burI den unnecessary to the company. This 1 was again brought up and after some discussion resulted in the rescinding of the former action, and the Clover ■ Leaf to place a man at Thirteenth ' street, which stood approved and to be placed on record. Councilman Chronister then made a motion that the Erie be notified to remove the bell on Eleventh street as ' the service which it now gives is greatly annoying, owing to the fact that ■ if an engine is switching on the s»dI ing the gong sounds, and often people i are forced to wait and get out of their i rigs, thinking there is a train about to I cross, thus delaying them to their des- ■ tination. This was also approved. The marshal was also instructed to notify Ed Meyers to place North Second , street, in front of his property, in the proper condition; also R. K. Allison to mend the hollow on Adams street in i 1 front of the Mrs. R. B. Allison property i' which became such from the tearing ; up of a street some time ago. The I county council also asked that the city ■ council file with the auditor a certified ■ report that they would furnish elec- , trie power “free gratis’ 1 for the lighting i around the court house square and also at the jail, as petitioned for, whose requirements were met with. The following bills were then allowed: • Schaub, Gottemoller Cos -25 i Old Adams Co. 8ank1040.50 | First National Bank I Ellen Adlesberger 500.00 ,' L. Hammond 10 00 ’ L. Hammond 10.00 > Decatur Furnace Co 21.75 • | Electric Appliance Co 102.32 >, Nat. Mill & Supply Co 7.12 ’ Nat. Mill & Supply Co 30.10 , [Elk Coal Co 13.81 > M. J. Mylott Pay Roll 45.30 ■ John Sprague 900 CONTINUKU ON PAGE FOUR

WAS GOOD MEETING I Methodist Brotherhood Enjoys an Evening of Pleasure Together. ON TUESDAY EVENING i A Number of Good Talks Given — Refreshments Closed the Program. * -Z ■ ■ A very interesting and profitable> meeting was that of the Methodist Brotherhood held at the Methodist church Tuesday evening The meeting was opened with song, prayer by the Rev. Semans, with a- - solo by Gregg Neptune, and a piano solo by Elgin King. Although I unable to secure Rev. Earl Parker, an- 1 other very able man was secured in the person of the Rev. J. O. Hoch-, stedler of Pleasant Mills, who was the principal speaker of the evening. Other splendid addresses were made by D. N. Erwin, Horace Callow, Henry . Krick, Rev. Seman and Mr. Wagner, who has been president of a similar I organization in St. Louis, but living here now. Ten new members were taken in and a committee was appointed to view the possibilities of a Y. M. C. A. or a like meeting place for boys. After refreshments were served the meeting voted to adjourn, to meet again in one month. o j SIDEWALK RIDING ■! ' — I George Stultz Was Run Over Tuesday by Young Man With Bicycle. I I RECEIVING INJURIES : — I . Face Was Cut and Knee Badly Bruised—Violations Should Cease at Once. 1 Another notice of violation of the' i ■ law by yonugsters has again come to i our notice, when Russel Foughty, a I I young chap, run down George Stultz 1 with a bicycle, while riding on the side ' 1 walk, just south of the Clover Leaf railroad. The accident occurred when | . young Stultz was on bis way to the i South Ward school early Tuesday, ■ morning, and Russell coming from the ; opposite direction. From reports the ' lad was, in addition to violating the i law of riding on the walk, was cutting s up, and when he came to where the pedestrian was passing, ran into him, i knocking him down, cutting several • gashes on his face and bruising his l knee. This morning his face was! • somewhat discolored from the knocks : received, although he was able to re- • port at school. It seems that the prac- > tice of sidewalk riding will not cease ’ until some serious accident occurs, if • not some one killed, and unless it is • stopped at once there will something j ■ of this kind result. The officers are ' on their guard for violators of this j I kind and should you be caught in the s act, don’t be surprised if you are taki en into custody. A word to the wise is i sufficient. r —— .<> ———————— ; RETURN TO SCHOOL. > ■ ■- ' Otto Schneider, Albert Scherry, 1 John Conrad, Carl Snyder and Ru- - dolph Worthmann, all young men of, ; the Magley Reformed church, at pres- > ent studying for the ministry, who - have been hero spending their holiday vacation, left this morning for She-! - boygan, Wis., where the seminary is located. These five young men are all 5 doing rapid work in the work for ) which they are called, and several of them are well advanced in the course ' 0 of studies which they are following. I 8 Tuesday they spent the day with Rev. I 0 and Mrs. Hessert, Mr. Hessert being 5 the pastor of the German Reformed 2 church here. They were accompan--2 led by a few of their friends: Elmer I) Jaberg, Jake and Fred Bloemker, who 1 will make a visit there and also at 0 Kaukana, Wis., where an uncle of Ru- ( 0 dolph Worthmann, the Rev. Erward Worthmann, now resides.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Jan, 4 1912.

THE CITY HALL. A visit to the city hall shows that all the heavy erection is now finished . and that the steam fitters are busily at work putting In the steam heating plant. As soon as this is In and in operation the building will be dried out thoroughly and then the work of finish-1 ing the interior will be begun. This ' will take probably a month and it Is hardly posslfile that the building will be ready for occupancy much before March Ist. When completed, however, and the auto truck installed, it will be one of the best equipped fire departments in the north part of the . state for a city this size. LAFOLLETTE QUIET Wisconsin Leader Refuses to I i Give Statement Concerning Gov. Osborn. ■■■■ I I MADE YESTERDAY I Sixty-second Congress Resumed Work at Washington Today. — (United Press Service.) I Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Senator LaFollette refused to make any comment on the assertion of Governor Osborn, of Michigan, that both he and j Taft should withdraw as candidates for the republican presidential nomination and leave a clear field for former President Roosevelt in the inter-. ‘ est of republican success. New York N. Y., Jan. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Ten thousand more laundry workers are scheduled to go ' on strike here before tonight. By toi morrow night it is probable that 45,I i 000 workers will have obeyed the general strike order. Six hundred j steam laundries and 15,000 hand launI dries in greater New York are affect--led by the strike, in which shorter hours and higher wages are demanded by the laundry workers. Washington, D. C., Jan. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The sixty-second congress resumed its session here today with the prophesies from Majority Leader Underwood and Minority ( ! Leader Mann that the session will 1 last until well into the fall. Tariff I legislation took the first place on the house program. I Grand Rapids, Ind., Jan. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Senator LaFolI lette, candidate lor the republican 1 presidential nomination, entered upon 'his final day’s tour of Michigan today. He went from here to Kalamazoo, and from tne latter place will go 'to Chicago, where he will speak tonight. He will campaign in Illinois until Saturday, when he will speak at Indianapolis and Richmond. ——— ' New York, N. Y., Jan. 3—(Special to 1 Daily Democrat) —Members of the firm of John ZanKeuren & Thornton, 1 commercial dealers in white goods, to- 1 ! day complained to/District Attorney Whitman that T.'C. Canßeroeff, treasI urer of the concern, and a director, is I short $140,000 in his accounts. The ' I accused is alleged to have used the ! funds in speculation. ABOUT THE SICK. Mrs. George Deiner, who was on the sick list for nearly a week with general breakdown, which left hqr very weak, as the result of her illness of great length, is somewhat better, and it is believed she will get along all right from now on. The condition of Mrs. Sommers, ahe ! aged lady, who has been suffering from the effects of a paralytic stroke for sev-! eral weeks, is also showing improve- : ment from the forepart of the week, and giving more encouragement to 1 those who are caring for her. j .Miss Margaret Clark, wso was yesterday operated upon for appendicitis, is doing nicely and hopes for a speedy 1 recovery are now expressed by those in care of her. Glen, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Beavers of Adams street, is quite sick with lagrippe, requiring close at- | tention for his recovery.

AWARD CONTRACT Larrowe Company of Detroit Sub-let Buildings to W. J. Spear of Toledo. TO BEGIN AT ONCE — Will Not Stop for Winter—- , Big Force Will be Put to Work on the Site. | The following telegram received at this afternoon tells its own story and will be good news for all our people: ’Detroit, Mich., Jan. 3. . “J. H. Heller, Decatur, Ind.: “W. J. Spear of Toledo, seceured the 1 contract for the buildings, Holland--1 St. Louis Sugar Company's plant, in Decatur. He will begin work there at once. I “LARROWE CONSTRUCTION CO.’’ | Mr. Spear will likely arrive in this city within a day or two and arrange I for a big force of men to go to work l on the site just north of the city. ■ The work will be pushed along right through the winter and should make us start off the spring with the proper speed. Mr. Hubbard of the sugar beet company will be here Friday to speak at the farmers’ institute. He will give you some valuable information if you propose to raise beets and every farmer should attend these sessions. BUILDING RUSH The Rush in the Erection of Houses Will be Spectacular This Summer. MANY PROJECTED Sam E. Hite Will Build Residence —Many More Are Contemplated. Building operations the coming summer will be rushing indeed. Many of the local contractors are even now figuring on work and the advent of the first nice data of spring will see a host of carpenters and allied trades in the field for getting a good start on the work. S. E. Hite, the popular south end grocer, has plans under way for the erection of a new and modern residence which will front on Erie street. He wil build it on the rear part of the lot now occupied by the grocery building and intends making it about seven lor eight rooms, Including all the modern conveniences. The residence will Ibe promptly taken by Some one, for 1 the demand the coming summer will be heavy. With two hundred skilled ' workmen here for the erection of the ' sugar plant a proportion of them at least will move here and with present ' facilities we can house about a hall a dozen, as that is the number of houses empty that are fit for habitation. With the building of more resi- | dences and business blocks that are j projected the city cannot help but take on a metropolitan air and its consequent busy endeavor during the 1 coming season. LAID TO REST. Joint Funeral of Two Ladies Killed at Palestine. The joint funeral services of Mrs. Price Rupe and Mrs. W. H. Eiler ! were held at Palestine, Kosciusko | county, conducted by Revs. J. O. Rose j and B. F. Thomas. There was a large attendance. The ladies were instantly killed by the Pennsylvania Flyer, eastbound Friday evening at Warsaw at 4:45 o’clock while crossing the tracks in a closed buggy, which was struck by the Flyer and the two bodies mangled and carried several blocks and i thrown to the side of the track when the train was stopped. Both ladies were about ..seventy years of age and well known. iThey had been spending ■ the,.day in the country and were on their way to'-Shelr Warsaw homes when killed.

SMALL BLAZE. The fire department was called at 9 o’clock this morning to the home of Jacob Buhler, where a Christmas tree had caught on lire. The boys responded gallantly and arrived at the scene of the fire in about two minutes. However the fire had been quenched by neighbors and the services of the department were not needed. No damage was done, excepting the small dam- ! age done to the tree decorations. CHRISTIAN REVIVAL At the Christian Church Progresses from Night to Night. EVANGELIST LEAVES I And Services of Song and, Music Will Probably Follow This Week. The Christian church was again filled to its capacity Tuesday night to hear the Fife company. In the opening service the Fife brothers' orchestra furnished some special music and Mr. Earl Fife sang a solo entitled “When 1 Get to tne r.nu oi My Way," and the Fife quartet, consisting of the father and three grown sons, all preachers, sang “The Sweet Bye and Bye” to the great pleasure of the people who were present. This noted quartet which has been heard in national gatherings of the Christian church for some years yast, and has made a national reputation, will sing together perhaps for the last time for many months tonight, as the father, the Rev. Roger H. Fife, leaves tomorrow night after the concert and lecture to begin his new pastorate with the First Christian church of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where he goes to make a home for his widowed daughter, Mrs. A. K. Brooks, and her two little boys. Bill Bob and Artie. The Fife brothers will miss Bob and Artie, especially as they have been lots of company for their bachelor uncles in the long days of evangelism. Mrs. Brooks is an expert trap drummer and a superior bell player, and will be greatly missed in the Fife brothers’ orchestra. But she has become so tired of having to be constanly away from home that it is thought best for her to take this step. However, the work of the revival goes right on, as the father and Mrs. Brooks would not have been here at all but for waiting for time for their pastoral I engagement to begin at Bartlesville. ‘ I The church here has certainly been delighted with the strong preaching I done by Evangelist Fife and especially . with the teaching element in it. They . have also been delighted with Mrs. Brooks’ singing and orchestra work Jon the drums. Tonight and tomorrow ~ night will end their work in the meet i 1 ing. Evangelist Clyde Lee Fife asked . his father to preach once more for him [ in the meeting and his sermon tonight will be “Does it Pay to be a I Christian?" The quartet will sing “It I Pays to Serve Jesus.” The duet by . Mrs. Brooks and Mr. Clyde Lee Fife, which was omitted Tuesday night, will be given tonight. Special preparations ■ are being made to seat every possible space in the building so that all may . be accommodated who want to hea. this noted company. ANOTHER PROBLEM. . Today Added to Taft's Puzzle by Secon Term Boomers. (United Frees Service.) Washington, D. C., Jan. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —President Taft’s second term boomers today found am I other maze added to the puzzle of presidential politics. The situation re- . volved today about a report that for- , mer President Roosevelt's silence was . annumed, while the colonel waited to , see if popular demand was not strong , enough for his acceptance of a call to . be the republican presidential candiI date. Friends of the president said i nothing would force him to withdraw t from the presidential race. , K. O. K. A. POSTPONED. 1 » , The Knights of King Arthur will not 1 meet this evening as announced. The ; meeting has been postponed until 1 Thursday evening, at which time the s members will meet at the Presbyterian church.

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LAW NOW HOLDS New Indiana Weights and Measure Law Became Esfective Monday Last. PROTECTS PEOPLE The following is a Synopsis of the New Law Being Carried Out. The new Indiana law pertaining to weights and measures went into effect on Monday of this week, with the beginning of the new year, and whle.l will secure a more honest dealing for the people in general. Not in the least reflecting upon any of the local ; business men, that they nave not been dealing Justly in this line, but only to let the common people know of the pioteclon which is now In their favor, we print the following: Indiana's new weights and measure law became effective Monday and instead of trick jugglers hornswaggling the people who have dealings with them, the honest and faithful weighmaster comes into his own. A complete working arrangement in regard to the campaign that is to be waged in Indiana against the tricky grafters who deal out short weights and still shorter measures has been arranged. Under the new law the board of county commissioners may appoint an inspector of weights and measures, who shall have supervision over the entire county. The sweeping character of the new law may be judged from the fact that under it inspectors will have the powers of special policemen and when they see a vendor giving false weight or have informatien that he has done so, they may arrest him on the spot and sieze his goods. Heretofore it lias been necessary to swear out a warrant and go through a lot of red tape and convictions have been almost impossible in many instances where the public has been flagrantly outraged. The bureau of standards asserts that the Indiana public has been imposed upon unmercifully through incorrect measures and false weights—more so, in fact, than almost any other state in the union. Inspectors have reported many glaring impositions. Out of twelve computing scales tested in Indianapolis seven were found to be correct and five out or order. A characteristic scheme to ‘skin’’ the Indiana public has been the sale of beans and other garden products in liquid measures, instead of in dry measures. A liquid quart of beans, for Instance, is fifteen per cent shorter than a dry quart and the honest way of selling beans is by the dry quart measure. Another uimon way of imposing upon the Indiana public has been in the sale of butter in water-soaked trays. The tray and contents are put on the scales to be weighed and whenever the purchaser buys a pound of butter he pays at the rate of thir-ty-five cents a pound, of whatever may be the market price of butter, for the weight of the wooden tray, which, being soaked in water, is especially heavy. Short baskets are common. A basket supposed to contain a bushel or half bushel will have raised bottoms so that the actual capacity of the measure is much below that represented. The vendors of spool cotton are among those who are to be reached in this Indiana crusade. There is no uniformity as to the thickness of spools and a spool which looks of regulation size and which is supposed to contain a certain number of yards of thread is found to be composed almost entirely of wood, with a little thread wrapped around It. This is declared to be a rank imposition on seamstresses who are obliged to work for a living. The other methods of defrauding the public In Indiana arc declared to be about as numerous as human ingenuity could devise. SELLS ANOTHER. Ed Carrier, who recently moved to this county from Van Wert county, purchasing the Clem farm in Union township, has bought another percheron, three year-old from the tjjFrisinger & Sprunger company of this city. The horse is a. grey and Is one of the finest specimens brought over by that enterprising flrm.