Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 14 March 1912 — Page 1

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LOCAL men win U r\ Acquits Hower & Baker After Only Nine Minutes’ Deliberation. ■HE STATE OFFICIALS hen Leave and Call Off Similar Case Against Barkley & Company. • jt took the Jury Just nine minutes to La a verdict Tuesday night at 7:09 acquitting Dallas Hower and Baker of the firm ot Baker & CW er, of selling adulterated meat — -wit. a quarter of a pound of hamtrt. which John T. Willets, state gd and drug inspector, bought last auar 23rd on his rounds here and It to the state chemist, who said it luined 'sulphites.” a preservation iced under bat by the state chemist. Another meat firm, against whom a nilar affidavit was filed last Thursj, which also put up a fight, was pkley & Company, of the south side nt market, the members of the Ann tog Levi Barkley and Jacob Magley. «r also demanded trial and this was I lor Tuesday afternoon. As the first fP • the entire day, ft was left tr t.l this morning. Promptly at 9 jock they appeared at Justice ones court for the trial, but and Bishcpp. fiinding the p- »s!-y adverse to them, never I man appearance. Is; o'tor Wil’ets and Chemist Bishp went to Fort Wayne Tuesday jit, and were not on hand this morn--Ito prosecute the case. They telereed here that having no more eviBce to offer in this case, which was parallel of the one tried Tuesday, it pt as well be dismissed. This was tordfngly done. The case of Hower Balter, which was tried Tuesday be- » Squire Stone and a jury, consumthe entire day. Following the eviKe o Willetts and State Food Kn.y. iiishopp, that of the defense i uSen up. Messrs. Baker and Howltd their butcher, Ferd Nichols, abBely denying using any sulphite or W preservatives about their shop daughter house, or in the preparaiof the meats in any way. The fence was concluded at 4 o’clock, t arguments of the attorneys—R. hrrish, for the state, and J. C. MoI *nd C. J. Lutz, for the defense, ft? with that of the state, consulate remainder of the time till 5:30 lock, when court was dismissed for Her The jury, after partaking of 1 mpper, in which, no doubt, big t’ steaks were eaten with a gusto 1 never savored of fear of “suite then returned at 7 o’clock, de Bated nine minutes and acquitted local men. is the first time in the history Ike city, and probably of the state, t merchants charged with violating 1 Pure food law, have resisted and PWded trial. In the majority of the K the accused, fearing that public•ouid result in damage to their loess, or frightened at the of selling something with “frightful” and In 4 most cases them unknown name, slip to the justice and plead guilty as easiest and most quiet way of get- ■ ou t. “Why, everybody pleads said Inspector Willets. “But 1 ’Polls the whole thing." He citfas's in which sixty butchers of his •eeity, South Bend, pleaded guilty. '® an f In Fort Wayne, without deMin? a trial. ®e attorneys for the defense scored *tate heavily. The whodesale pleadfuilty of accused, it not resulting . r to ° Sood care or precaution In ‘ up the samples of food. ®’ 6 try is the most exacting of Just the tiniest atom of an st, slipping in may change the chemical process, turning the r ne way or the other. When board can prove that the . 68 reach their Jaboratory free ' wan ' and in the Same condition ” J1 they are taken from the shops Pud then only can they be able to a t the “adulterant” was “sold” iit Samp ' e8 ' The same precau[]jvat eXac,s the keeping of foods ‘ a,f d in glass cases or under adeijj. ' er should be taken in the M ‘ ? of the samples to the state , ; that there may be no dan- . 'ontamination dn the way. In- ! facing the samples in glass toaliag them with the state board - iu? one sample and leaving under seal for the pro- *

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I tectlon of the merchant, the Inspector' | gathers up a number of samples wrap . I>e<l In common paper, sealed with an ordinary “sticker,” bought of an ordin-1 ary druggist, marked only with a 1 r rial number,” the key to which, with the name of the merchant, is kept sep- i arately by him, are packed In n wood- j e£M box, “supposed to be dean,” closed with ordinary boards, and sent to the I chemist, who makes the teat. There ' , Is nothing to keep the juices from the > chopped meat wrapped in the paper ; from soaking through to the other I packages and fusing the Juices, or alf lowing the paper to wear away and ex-! pose the meats to the cracks in the box, through which foreign substances 1 or . drugs from boxes which might be shipped by the side of it. might be gartered tip and absorbed by the meat I or food samples. ’ The state food chemist, H. E. Bishrl opp, testified that in the test he found one-twenty-three-thousandths of E a gram of "sulphite.” He couldn't tell which one of the “sulphi’es” it was, or whether “sulphites' are injurious to * health. The most common "sulphite." E i.t is known, is made from a fusion of (Continued on Page 8.) t i TO GREAT BEYOND s Wm. H. Crawford Dies at 1 Home of Sister. Mrs. ConJ t gleton, on Third St. I SICK TWO WEEKS Spent Entire Lfe of Over Sixty Years in County— Funeral Thursday. • William H. Crawford, a life-long res- ’ idem of Adams county, having been ' born and reared in Wabash township. and commonly known to all as “Billy” Crawford, died at a quarter of six Tuesday evening at the home of his sister, Mrs. Mary Congleton, on South . Third street, after an illness of about two weeks from kidney trouble. He had been declining for some several years, his vitality ebbing away grad- , ually and death dawning chiefly in this manner. He was the son of John and Mary Crawford, prominent citizens, his tather having been associated as a partner in the Crawford & Nuttman dry goods stand, where the Niblick store now- operates. For many years he had been making his home with his sister, Mrs. Congleton, where the end came. He was born December 1,, 1846, being at the time of his death; sixty-five years, three months and 11 days old, and unmarried. He had no particular occupation, but was always ‘ willing to work and performed such labor as he could obtain, while In recent years he took things easy, and did odd jobs here and there. He leaves but two sisters, they being Mrs.' Millen Burns and Mrs. Congleton, both of this city. The funeral services will I be held Thursday afternoon at 2 I o clock from the house, with the Rev. j Semans of the Methodist church in■ charge. Interment at the Decatur cem- 1 etery. j DEIONSKE BROTHERS Wlwlesalers, of Fort Wayne, to Open Stand in Studabaker Building. Decatur is to have a new business firm in the way of a confectionary 1 stand and wholesale fruit house. Ihe , new proprietors will be Deionske Bros, of Fort Wayne, who are at present conducting a large stand cn Calhoun street, that place. They have secured the Studabaker rooms just north of i the Meyer, Scherer & Beavers furnl- ' ture dealers, and Arthur Suttles, who i is looking after same, had carpenters ■ on the scene today, putting the build- I ing in shape for the proper convenience of the new firm. The room will j i be repapered, the present partition re- : moved and otherwise rearranged. The ’ : Deionske Brothers are business bust-1 ’ lers and wifi make things much more' business-like along this row of busi-h ness rooms. ——— The Yeomen held a very interesting i meeting last evening, there being a larg number of the members on hand for the evening’s work. Arrangements will soon be considered for the fifth anniversary In the city, which will be duly celebrated. Following the business meeting all went to the American Insurance hall, which was opened last evening, where the remainder of the evening was spent.

FACTORY ITEMS Mr. Kremers of Holland, Here in Search of Place in Which to Live. THE WARD FENCE Using Big Force of Employees at Present—Will Build Addition. Mr. Will Kremers, superintendent of | the Decatur plant for the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company, is here today, his chief business being to find a modern house in which he can move his! family. He will move here about the] first of May and will be a permanent • resident of the city. He has been the superintendent of the Holland plant for some years. His family Includes Mrs. Kramer and two children. —■ ■ ■ , The Ward Fence company is one bf l the busy places in town just now. The ' severe winter and late spring has caused a delay in orders, but they are now ■making up for any decrease, arriving at the rate of about 1800 per day. Consequently the factory force is busy and besides the regular force at the office, | l sixteen girls are busy with circulars, I letters and catalogues. As soon as the frost is out of the ground the new o • flee building and warerooms at the sac-1 tory site will be hurried to completion. I Further improvements will come next fall and the Ward Fence will soon be one of the leading concerns of its kind in the middle west. — E. M. Wagner was at Honduras I Wednesday evening where he held one ’ of the best farmers' meetings of the i year. The store there was packed with farmers and it is safe to bet that the beet crop in that section will be a big one next Wl. During the day Mr. Wagner also looked after contracts in French township and Wells county. THE STORK’S INNING. The unusually large number of births reported this winter, gave rise to an interesting statement made hy the wife of one of the well known physicians of the city. She stated that from statistics it was shown that the birth rate was unusually high every third year, when a sort of “birth epidemic” broke out, and that this year was one of the three charmed years. A SPECIAL TRAIN — Invincible Colonel Fred Reppert Pays a Big Slice of Money Rather THAN TO DISAPPOINT His Patrons — Enroute to■ Cry Big Sale in the Western States. Springfield, Mo., Mar. 13, 1912 Old Adams Coi.ity Bank: Please wire Union National bank here quick, certifying by check for four hundred and fifty dollars. Special train. FRED REPPERT. Such was the telegram received here this afternoon. It explains itself, fo< Colonel Fred Reppert, the auctioneer, of national fame, has at times before done the same thing. It means that he is enroute to the western states where he is due to cry one of the big stock sales for which he in famous. That when he reached Springfield, Mo., he found the last trail! out to his destination gone, and that to make connections and get to the of his •sale on time, he must hire a special train for four hundred and fifty dollars | in order that he may not disappoint his patrons, even though he must do so at a loss of hundreds of dollars to himself. This is just one example of his invincible nature—to conquer difficulties at all times and make good for those he has promised. And he wins every time, and is thert with the goods whq# the clock strikes the hour. By the way, will somebody bring it up that the "thirteenth.” ®

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday March, 14 1912.

• "THS ROUND-UP” Coming to Majestic 'Theater, Fort Wayne, March 15th. The attraction at the Majestic then ter, Fort Wayne, for a limited engagement of two nights and Satrday matinee, beginning Friday evening, March 15th, will be Kiaw & Erlangqr's massive production, "The Round-Up." Theatrical history does 'not record such a towering success as “The Round-Up.’ ft is the great American play of the hour. Every feharacter and scene In the piece breathes the life of the great southwest. The enthusiastic interest displayed by every audience is the most flattering endorse ment this really great production can receive. The battle scene in the third act is a stupendous stage effect, the like of which has never been seen before. The appearance of twenty mounted Indians riding along a ledge of rock far above Ahe stage level is a j thrill, indeed, but it is surpassed in ’the great incident at the end of the third act when "Slim" Hoover, the sheriff, and a troop of cayilrymen are shown in an actual handle-hand fight with a band of Apache Indian maraud ers escaped from their reservation. There have been great thrills presented on the stage in years past, but nothing that touches this in point of realism has ever been seen in any theater in the world. In the last act a group of cow boys are shown riding bronchos -bucking bronchos. This, ; too, is a novelty never before seen in I what is termed an indoor attraction. ! The magnitude of this production 's ' such that it can only be played in a few cities in the largest theatres. Its ' performances here are the only opporItunities those living within a reason'able journey to Fort Wayne will have of seeing this tremendous dramatic sensation. So great is the demand for seats from those living at a distance • from Fort Wayne that a special bureau has been established for the ex- ' peditious handling of mail orders, which when sent with cash or money 1 order and accompanied by self-ad- ■ dressed stamped envelope, receive immediate attention. There will be no i advance in prices: 25c, 50c. 75, SI.OO and $1.50. Popular Saturday matinee, 25c, 50c. 75c and SI.OO. o — W. A. NICOLS DEAD: - Well Known Portland Man Died at Elks' Hospital at Richmond Today. WELL KNOWN HERE Represented A. & C. Stone Co.—Furnished Adams County Much Stone. ——— W. A. Nichols of Portland, representative of the A. & C. Stone company, which has furnished much of the stone i that has gone into the good macadam roads for which the county is famous, died this morning at 6:30 o'clock at the Elks’ hospital at Richmond, where he had been sixty days, taking treatment for what was stated to be nervous indigestion. Mr. Nichols had been in failing health since last September. He is widely Known over the county and many friends here will be sorry to learn of his death. Fort twentyeight years he was also agent, for the G. R. & I. railroad, serving at Portland, Winchester and Lynn, resigning about six years ago. Mr. Nichols was about fifty-nine years of age at death. His wife has been dead a number of years. He leaves a son, who member of the firm of Rinehart & Nichols, the Portland clothiers, and a brother of Fred Nichols of Muncie, who is manager of the Kitselman Wire Fence company. A brother, Oliver, also survives. The news of the death of Mr. Nichols was immediately sent to Commissioner James Hendricks of Monroe, who was a warm friend of the deceased for many years. RETURNED TO RICHMOND. Deputy Sheriff John Merica this morning accompanied John Kuhl to Easthaven asylum, who for the third time made his successful escape from that institution, and wended his way back home. Since his capture here by Sheriff Durkin he has bfeen confined ip the county jail and this morning safe-keeping.

iWAS INSTITUTED National Officials of American Insurance Union Here Tuesday, MANY INITIATIONS — 1 ' Big Meeting Held in Elks’ Hall—Meetings to be Held Each Week, —- Deca<ur Chapter, No. 457, of the American Insurance Union, was in- . stituted here Tuesday night, a large and enthusiastic meeting being a feature of the evening. The arrival of . Ja special car carrying eighty-two visit- . lors from Fort Wayne, was the begin- . | ning of the evening's entertainment, ■ the crowd including delegations from ! Wabash and Huntington, who came to ] swell the crowd. The meeting was called to order at ■ 8 o'clock and John Stewart was honored as temporary chairman. An address of welcome by Attorney C. L. Walters made all the visitors feel at home. Rev. T. Libern Jones of the , First Baptist church gave the invocation. Following this short address were , given by John Gates of Fort Wayne and J. V. Sees of Huntington. Dr. George W. Hoaglan, national secre-, tary of the order, of Columbus, Ohio, I gave a thirty-minute address on the I benefits of the order, and other points I which the organization is exceedingly desirous that the Decatur people should know. The address proved interesting and instructive and of value to all interested in fraternal insurance. There being twenty candidates in i waiting the Fort Wayne chapter initiated them in all respects, except giv-' i ing the secret work, which will be j done at a later date. This was follow-1 j ed by an exhibition drill by the young i ladies of the Fort Wayne chapteg and | I was military in its characteristics. . White uniforms were worn and the I drill proved interesting and acceptai ble. W. O. Rayburn, the organizer, who | has been in the city the past few weeks, will remain in this city about a month and assist in getting the lodge on its feet. Some trouble is being experienced in securing a hall in which to meet, but as soon as that feature is disposed of the meeting of the chapter will be held every week. MUST FINISH TUNE Harry Organ Must Stay in Indiana to Plav Pine in Adams County Court. ON FORGERY CHARGE Governor Marshall Savs He Must be Held on Warrant Issued Here. It seems that Governor Marshall has sustained the decision of Adams county in refusing to waive right to prosecute Harry Organ, who is wanted on a forgery charge here. February 4th Prosecutor Parrish received from the Nebraska Bankers’ association a letter asking Adams to do so, allowing them to take him up at once if released at Logansport, where he has long been held on the came charge. A Logansport dispatch to the Muncie Star says: “Whatever hopes Harry C. Organ, alleged forger, now in the Cass county jail, had of escaping conviction on the charge of passing a worthless check on the City National Bank ot Logansport and gaining his liberty, have been chattered by Governor Marshall. The governor has written Sheriff Warren J. Butler in the event Organ is not tried at Logansport, to hold him in the warrant for his arrest from Decatur, Ind. Organ is wanted there on a charge of passing a worthless check on the Old Adams County bank. Organ has been in the Cass county jail for a year and has never been brought to trial.”

M, W. DAY HERE. Big Time Planned to be Pulled Oft Thie Evening. Everything is in readiness for the carrying out of the well-arranged program of the Modern Woodmen this evening when they will have with them District Deputy Hofmeister of Fort Wayne to address the members on a subject that will be of great interest to all concerned and relative to the increase in rates of the general counsel of the order at their meeting held several weeks ago at Chicago. In additional to this there will be degree work conrerred upon two candidates by the Tocsin degree team. Invitations which have been extended to all the surrounding lodges, consisting of Mon roe, Berne, Pleasant Mills, Poe anil Tocsin, have responded with answers to the effect that they will be represented and are coming in large numbers. This evening there will be a parade of the various visiting lodges in their uniforms after which the day’s session will be closed with a banquet j land smoker. All forestdy member;;: ■ are requested to be present. COURT HOUSE NEWS Eady Damage Case Against City Venued to Allen Circuit Court. AMENDED AFFIDAVIT' lln Case Against John Mackey—Administrator Appointed. In the case of the State vs. John | Mackey, grand larceny, an amended ■ affidavit was filed: objections to filing' ■by defendant; overruled; exceptions I | by defendant. Upon motion of the defendant, the case, SIO,OOO damage suit of Rebecca Eady, administratrix, vs. City of Decatur, was sent to the Allen circuit court on change of venue. Ten days' : time given to perfect change. The divorce case of Mary Shaw vs. Harvey Shaw has been set for trial March 16th. Frank Heiman was appointed admin- i istrator, with the will annexed, of the | estate of Casper Heiman. Bond in ] sum of $1,200 was filed. — in the matter of the guardianship of | Emil Aschleman et al., appraisement was filed; also additional bond, which were approved. Real estate ordered 1 sold at private sale, without notice, terms, one-third cash, one-third in nine and one-third in eighteen months, or 1 al! cash, if desired, by purchaser. Walter Thornhill, guardian of Carl Ford et al., files current report. Jacob H. Baker, guardian of Adam j Schultz, filed inventory, which was approved. The additional bond of Nathan B. Shepherd, guardian of Alexander Bolds, was approved. Lulu B. Burris vs. Charles M. Burris, divorce. Rule to answer crosscomplaint made absolute in five days. __ —c ENDLESS CHAIN PRAYERS Postmasters over the country are holding up endless-chain prayers that are being placed in the United States mail. The prayers are identiciri with I others previously sent through the ] mails and resulting, in an order for their prohibition from the mails. The postoffice department says the endless chain pPayer epidemic breaks out occasinally and has to be watched closely and checked bf the authorities. One card on which the latest prayer was written was held up, and read as follows: “This prayer w’as sent to me and is to be sent all over the world. Copy it and see what happens. It was said in Jesus’ time that all who wrote this prayer would be delivered from all t calamity, but those who pass it by would meet with misfortune. Those I who copy it and send it to nine friends will on the ninth day receive some great joy. Don't break the chain' or sign your name; only the date, February 28, 1912.”

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A MAY WEDDING Wedding of Pansv Bell and Jesse Helm Announced for May First. COTERIE OF FRIENDS First Privileged to Hear Good News at Luncheon Given Tuesday. The approaching wedding of Miss Pansy Bell, only daughter of Mr. wid Mrs. A. R. Bell, one of die attractive young ladies of the city, to Mr. Jesse Helm, the well known clerk in the 10-1 1 cal postoffice department, a son of Mr. ' and Mrs. Charles Helm of this city, ; has been announced for May first, i Eleven of Miss Bell's nearest and dearest friends were privileged to hear the good news first of all, and were taken into the confidence of the bride-elect at a sewing party given Tuesday afternoon, in compliment to Mrs. Lucile Hale Wilson of Nappanee, a life-long friend of the bride-elect, who herself is a bride of a few months. Besides Mrs. Wilson guests were Mrs. Alma I Frisinger, Mrs. Florence Moses, Mrs. : Marie Seilemeyer, and the Misses Ma--1 rie Allison, Madge Hite, Edna Hoff--1 man, Fanny Frisinger, Frances Merry- ' man, Jean Lutz and Adda Donaldson, forming a little coterie of friends that i have long been associated. Not until 1 dainty tea-towels, unhemmed, were | passed about, with the request that ■they enter into a hemming contest, was i there the least bit of suspicion that I the party was other than one given for I the sole reunion with Mrs. Wilson. I They were hemmed merrily, and the work of Miss Frances Merryman was declared to be the finest and best and ■ she was rewarded with a bouquet of fragrant pink carnations. Vocal music by Miss Marie Allison and Mrs. Marie Seilemeyer, and instrumental music by Miss Frances Merryman added pleasure to the happy hours, but still the surprise chat was in a measure anticipated, was still deferred when o o’clock arrived and luncheon was announced. A beauteous sight greeted the guests there. Pink hoods on the chandeliers softened the light into a rosy glow, as it felt on the table beneath, charming in its pink and white beauty. At each corner of the table, pinkhooded candles in crystal sticks contributed to the rosy light, and the centerpiece of the table, covered in spou less white, was a crystal basket filled w’ith pink and white sweet peas nestling in maiden hair fern, a pink chiffon bow, tying the crystal handle. Surrounding the floral basket was a delicate tracery of smilax and ivy and for-get-me-nots, from the circle of which to each plate, lead tiny satin ribbons. Place cards were decorated with pink sweet peas and a teach plate also was a tiny gold basket, filled with nuts, which were given as favors. Tiny pink ribbons bound sprigs of for-get-me-nots ito the handles. The luncheon proi ceeded merrily, until the salad course, when the telephone bell rang and announcement was made that Miss Frances Merryman was wanted. She responded and was somewhat startled to hear that a special delivery letter was awditing her at the postoffice. She directed that it be delivered to her at the Bell home at once, and when it came, haste to learn its contents resulted in the announcement of the coming marriage in the reading of the simple words: “Jesse and Pansy, May First.” This was the occasion for the extending of felicitations and the exchange of interests bearing upon the approaching happy event was an animated one. This was brought home to each guest, however, with greater confidence, when suggestion was made and carried out that they pull the tiny pink ribbons extending from the plates to the centerpiece. To each was tied a bottle of perfume and a card, carefully hidden under the smilax, these being revealed when drawn forth. On the cards were written verses telling each guest what her part in the coming wedding was to be. The menu was nicely served in three courses and carried out the color scheme of pink and white. The ice cream was es- ! pecially pretty, being molded in the form of pink cupids and little candies were served in pink tissue-crimped cups. •There was no dearth of pretty greetings and sincere words of felicitation extended to the bride-elect who (Continued on Page 5.)