Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1903 — Page 1

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j the best one yet i Farmers' Institute at Berne. Erwin Delivers the Principle Address Last Evening to a Crowd. H 'he special session of the Adams Ootnity Farmers’ Institute closed at Sue this afternoon and though weather has been on the meeti Ss which were held yesterday and are said to have been Minos) interesting and enthusiastic held in the county. Judge Er *■ delivered the principal address I|' even ng and as usual pleased the J lienee exceedingly, and besides sa in* some very pleasing sentences, re the listeners many useful hints on ir to "stay at home and farm i argued that the man wh tl led with his lot is the most happy al I usually successful. Yesterday's ision was opened by President of Monmouth, and M. L. W. A. Hart, C. S. Momma. J. D. B. Johnson, Bev. Alle and" others addressed the meet while nearly evervone present into the discussion on the subjects. Today's meetwere just as interesting as yester Jwv's and included addresses by J. L. J. F. Lehman, \V. A. Hart. D. with music and recitatans by Berne citizens. The meetikrs were held at the Democratic club ro ns and each session was well at especially the one of last The institute has certainly their share of bad luck this year if bumping up against the real cold At their meeting here in the thermometer registered weather and this is just as bad

J. F. BURDG DEAD. ■ Former Resident of This City Dies at Fostoria, Ohio. * I A telegram was received from Kos Ohio, last evening, stat■g that Joseph F. Burdg, a former of this city and a brother of and William Burdg. is dead dispatch did not state the time cause of death nor the day of the The deceased was well in this city by the early citi |Mens, who regret to learn of his predeath. He was about fifty six ol<l and spent the greater part his life in this city, engaging in kinds of business. After ■having Decatur he went to Fostoria. where he resided up to the time ■f his death. Al Burdg. a nephew, ■est this morning to attend the fu Hkeral. Later Won! was received this ■fternoon that the death of "> Burdg caused by an explosion in a chein factory where he was employed. I THE BEST POLICY. ■Honesty Gets Its Renard Even From Railroads. A farmer near Indianapolis had a ■cow killed by the cars a short time ■ago and wrote to the railroad com■pany asking right remunerative dam adding, “thirty dollars will be ■considered satisfactory, as the animal ■ killed was but a common cow and by ■no means the best in mv herd.” The ■ claim agent for the road promptly an ■ swered the letter and enclosed a check ■ for SIOO, saying: “It is the first in ■ stance since my connection with the ■ claim department of the road that any ■ other than a full blooded animal of a great value has been killed by our line, and enclosed SIOO as damages I and a reward for your honesty, and I I would humbly ask your photograph to I be framed and placed in my office." I DANCE TONIGHT! I Bachelor Maids will Entertain at C. Y. M. S. Club Rooms. The big club dance planned by the I Batchelor Maids will be given this I evening at the C. Y. M. S. rooms in I the Studabaker building. The affair I promises to be a very enjoyable one, I as the ladies have had the project in I view for some time and are determin I *d to make it a success. Quite a I numtier of invitations have been is I sued and a number of guests from ■ other cities will be present

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addition is ready. I Mr. Van Camp is Preparing to Move Into New Building. A \ anCamp, proprietor of the Deafimakhl?e faetor y, is arranging to Hw? buslu P ßß t,lis year in a wav beM« De n r hand ed this locality ini fin A’? m I J leted a new build g. fifty by thirty feet in dimensions, and joining the old factory on the ag<) - the widows to this building are now being put in and other minor details arranged to make same inhabitable and within a few davs the woodworking department of the factory will be re moved there, thus giving the entire mam portion of the building for the machine works. In each department several new employes will be necessary, and this industry promises to soon lie a leading one, and the pav roll equal to any of Decatur’s now numerous factories. Mr. Van Camp is an energetic citizen and his business is on a most prosperous footing at present. May it continue to grow.

THAT NEW FACTORY Machinery Purchased in Chicago Yesterday. The Big Store Pants Company to Begin Business March First. C. 0. Ehinger will return from Chicago today where final arrange ments were made for The Big Store Pants Company. .Machines were purchased and the power already doing duty at The Big Store will be sufficient for the new addition which will occupy the whole third floor of their store building. It seems that the demand for this manufactured product is so great that wholesale houses are unable to supply their trade, and one Chicago firm agrees to take all the product of this factory, so it makes it the same as putting your money on a sure thing. Cut cloth for 1000 pairs of pantaloons have already been con signed and received, living the initial order for the new Decatur industry. The machines purchased will arrive in a few days and it will be but short work to start the ball rolling. Those interested predict that within a short time fifty employees will lie doing the pants act on the' third floor of the Big Store. They are sanguine of the success of the undertaking and well they may lie, as the simple process of manufacture makes it both desirable and profitable. Among the employees girls will predominate, although a number of men will also be employed, the pressing of the garment being the work of men. Not later than the first of next month, it is expected that things will be running at full blast, and that the proposed fact ry will be , busy up to the cork.

A GOOD TIME. —— Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mills Entertain a Number of Friends. Several happy hours were enjoyed i by those who were guests last evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred I Mills, who have long been known as I entertainers of the real hospitable kind who make one enjoy life whether he wants to or not. The principal amusement last evening was progressive dominoe and after the hard fought games Mrs. J. S. Peterson was awarded the ladies’ first prize and Arthur E. Rose. George Flanders and L. G. Ellingham were a tie for first gentleman's prize, the latter winning in the deciding game. During the playing a most delicious luncheon was served and not a soul present failed to have a pleasant time. The guests were the members of the Young Matrons Club and their husbands.

0. D. 0. NOTICE. The O. D. O. club will meet with Mrs. H. L. Conter, Wednesday evening, instead of Thursday afternoon, as previously arranged This is the real meeting time, so don’t pay any attention to other notices you may have seen or heard of.

DECATUR, INDIANA, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1903.

ANOTHER CHANCE A Big Industry Wants to Locate Here. Decatur Enjoying a Substantial Boom in the Way of Getting Factories.

A well known gentleman from this county has been enjoying a visit with relatives and friends at Covington, Ohio, and while there was appoached by an owner of a large manufacturing industry, who stated that he has had Decatur in mind for some time and is desirous of locating here on account of the splendid shipping facilities. He manufactures springs, mattresses and patent furniture and employs from 100 to 800 men. He will very probably be here in a few days to ascertain the facilities and see if our citizens will offer him any encouragement. He really wants to locate here and will come if there is any way possible to arrange matters. His name is G. W. Swadner and his factory here would without doubt be a great addition to our manufactories as he employs a number of skilled mechanics at good wages. Here is another opportunity and a little investigation will certainly do no harm. What we need just now is several of these factories to double the population of our thriving city. Never in its history has Decatur advanced so rapidly as during the past two months and if our business men continue to stick to- , gether as they have our prosperity I and growth is assured. Come on Mr. | Sandner if you want to live in the I best community of hustlers on earth.

M. E. CONFERENCE. The Meeting at Noblesville in April Being Arranged For. The annual meeting of the North Indiana M. E. conference will be held at Noblesville the second week in April. It will be the sixtieth session of the conference and at least 300 ministers will attend. Noblesville people are preparing to take good care of the visitors and the sessions will be held at the local church. A souvenir program will be issued early next month. Among those who will take part in the work of theconference will be Bishop Waldren, of Cincinnati; the Rev. A. B. Leonard and the Rev. W. F. McDowell of New Y'ork; the Rev. J. M. King, of Philadelphia, the Rev. Levi Gilbert and the Rev. M. C. B. Mason of Cincinnati. There will be a lecture on one evening, when the conference quartette will sing. The Rev. M, S. Rees, of the New York Central conference, will hold evangelistic services at four o’clock each dav.

HOLDING THE FORT. The Statehood Bill Still Burdening the Time of Congress. The senate still finds itself burdened with the statehood bill. With only fourteen working days of the session left, the senators generally feel that the matter must be gotten out of the way. There are still numerous appropriation bills to be considered; Senator Cullom wants to call up various treaties; Senator Lodge is anxious over Jthe Philippine bills; Senator Fairbanks is clamoring for time for the immigration bill; Senator Aid rich wants his national bank bill considered; Senator McComas is urging the eight hour bill; and there is scarcely a senator who has not some measure which he desires io press.

RANK WORK TONIGHT. K. of P. Will Confer Degrees at Castle Hall. A meeting of the Knights of Pythias will be held this evening for the purpose of conferiug rank work and the presence of all memliers is urgen tly rtsinested. The notice last night should have been for tonights meet ing.

COSTS MABEL $l5O. Jury Finds Her Guilty and Assess a Fine of Forty Dollars. The case of the State vs Mabel Evans, for keeping an immoral house, went to the jury at six o’clock last evening. After debating the question all night a verdict was arrived at at about eight o’clock this morning which read as follows: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty and fix her fine at forty dollars.’’ This, together with the costs, amounts to about $l5O. Mabel says she positively will not pay the fine, which means that she will board with Sheriff Butler about six months unless she changes her mind, or unless she is granted a new trial, motion for which will be made when Judge Branvan returns to pronounce judgment.

THE EUTERPAENS Initial Meeting of the New Organization. Fifty Members Will Be in Attendance at the Session Thursday Evening.

The Euterpaen Fraternity now has fifty members, though but a few days old in this city, and the organization bids fair to become a most substantial one. Euterpaen is taken from the word euterpe, meaning music, and the object of the order is the promotion of happiness by acquiring knowledge of all subjects, not only music, but literature, art, science and general information. The Fraternity has l>een organized here by Wilber M, Derthick, supreme grand master, and Francis Eaton, deputy, both of Chicago, who have been at work about a week. Forty-five different characters are represented by as many different members and these are called leaders, this number being necessary to establish in a city. The other members are known as supplemeutaries. The first meeting of the club will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Brittson, Thursday evening, at which time the special subjects will be Grieg, Burns and Millet, thus covering music, poetry and painting. At this meeting each member may invite one friend to attend. The organizers will leave soon and the work will then be entirely in the hands of the members, who will, no doubt, keep up the interest already manifested. If this is done the fraternity is sure to be the success predicted by the many staunch members.

NOT THIS SESSION. Post Check Currency is Out of the Running. The post check currency is dead as far as this session of congress is concerned. The report that Senator Beveridge succeeded in getting his committee to report the bill favorably is a mistake, lie will keep on trying, but there is considerable opposition in the committee. Many members say this bill is such an innovation that, while they believe they will ap prove it when they understand it, they cannot vote for it at this session. The proposition will come before congress in more favorable form next winter.

FAVOR HARRISON Indiana Congressmen Not Stuck on a Clark Statute. Congressman Watson declared in favor of placing Benjamin Harrison’s statute in statuary hall. “I once investigated some private records pertaining to Clark’s history,” he said, “and I found that in his will her ailed himself a citizen of another state than Indiana. He was not born in Indiana, and since he said in his will that he was not an Indianian, 1 think that ought to settle it. I think we ought to take him at his word. Harrison, being Indiana’s foremost citizen, is en titled to the statue.”

THE MORGAN LINE Another Interurban Wants Through Here. A Line From Van Wert Through Here to the Gas Belt Cities. Mayor Coffee yesterday completed and forwarded to Toledo a map of Adame county showing the best route according to that officials idea for traversing this county from the northeast to the southwest. The proposed line is what is known as the Morgan road, being itstigated by a Mr. Morgan of Toledo, Ohio. The railway, if built according to present plans, will run from Van Wert to this city through Hines and the Blakey settlement; from here to Preble, thence to Peter son, Hines, Vera Cruz and Linn Grove; thence through the south part of Wells county to Marion, thus covering a great portion of country untouched by steam or traction lines. Mr. Morgan has already sent word that his engineer will be here soon to go over the ground and ascertain the merits and possibilities of the route. However, he says he can take no active movements in the matter until the Dr. George line, is either started or otherwise disposed of, and this will probably be within a few weeks as Dr. George claims he will have men at work through here as soon as possible.

TWENTY MILLIONS. The Department of Commerce Will Look Healthy. The new department of commerce, which is to lie presided over by George B. Cortelyou, now secretary to the president, will have the unique distinction of dealing with the largest commercial interests in the world. The treasury bureau of statistics which by the new law, becomes a part of the department of commerce, estimates the internal commerce of the country at twenty billions of dollars or equal to the entire international commerce of the world. The bureau of statistics finds that the total internal commerce has increased about 50 per cent in the decade from 1890 to 1900, and is 10 times as large in the vear 1902 as in the year 1850. During the same period from 1850 to 1902 the population has increased from 23,000,000 to 79.000,000 and is therefore only three and one-half times as great as in 1850. This relative gain of internal commerce over population is due in part to the greatly increased facilities for transportation, the cheapening of cost of articles utilized, and the increase earnings and increased wealth of the people.

KNOCKED OUT. The Election of County Superintendents by Popular Vote Will Not Prevail. The legislative house republicans have caucused and made a caucus measure of the Stansbury bill which places the purchasing of all school supplies in the state commission appointed by the governor to be com posed of state officers, a county and a city superintendent. There wasopjjosition but it was overcome. The election of county school superintendents by popular vote was the subject of discussion during yesterday and by a decisive majority the house receded from its former position and went on record as opposed to the election of those officers by popular vote.

CAPITOL EXTENSIONS. Six Million Dollars to be Expended on the Washington Capitol. More than $15,000,000 is to lie spent in extending the original design of the capitol building at Washington and in the erection of a building for the use of the house of representatives as offices. The appropriation for this work has liven made in the sundry civil bill and it is expected that the senate will agree to it. The new structures are to be low buildings of granite or marble.

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VERY SICK. Herman ALdeguss is Very Low With Typhoid Fever, Herman Aldeguss, who lives south west of the city, is very ill with typhoid fever and his friends have almost dlspaired of his recovery. He has been sick for several weeks and was thought to be on the road to re covery, in fact was, until yesterday when he suffered a relapse and his temperature last evening was up to 106. This morning he was just alive and the latest report is that he is no better. He is quite well known here and has a brother who works for C. Radamacher in this city. He is about thirty years old and has a wife and three children.

A GOOD OIL WELL Oil at a One Hundred Barrel Clip. The Parks Oil Company Having A Streak of Good Guck. News came from the oil field thia afternoon that the Brown salt water well owned by the Parks Oil company was redeeming itself. For several weeks a leaky casing and several other ills too numerous for minuta description has been delaying opera tions. About the middle of last week these deficiencies were overcoma and pumping began, with constant pumping the first showing of oil cams at eleven o’clock last night. Since that time it has thrown a constant stream of oil and this afternoon it was estimated that before tomorrow morning their one hundred-barrel tank would be filled to the brim. At thia rate the well can easily be classed aa good for fifty to one hundred barrels in twenty-four hours. Members of ths company were doing the hustling aet this afternoon with a view of I having the second tank on the ground !so that it would not necessitate th# stopping of the pumps. If the weM keeps up this clip for a day or two it will settle down to an exceptional good producer. This company has another well that is pumping six t# i eight barrels daily and a third on* l that has all the indications of a good well.

A NEW BUILDING Waring Glove Company in New Quarters. E. Fritzinger Will Erect New Block East of Burt House on Monroe Street. Mr. Waring, representing our glovs and mitten factory, this morning clos ed a contract with E. Fritzinger by which the latter agrees to erect a new brick block on Monroe street just east of the Burt House, to be used by ths former as a factory for the manufacturing of their goods. The new build ing will be three stories high, about forty feet wide and ninety eight feet long. The basement will tie used for the packing department and engine room and the other floors for their machinery and stock. The Waring company have leased the room for ten years. Work will begia as soon as the weather permits and Mr. Fritzinger was busy today pur chasing brick and other necessary material for its construction. It will be a beautiful block and will add materially to the appearance of the city. The mitten company will be is operation soon in the Noah’s Ark building and will move into their new quarters bv mid-summer. There will be 15,000 feet of floor space in the new building. BROKE TWO OF HIS RIBS. J. W. Peterson, who has been stay ing with Enos Peoples, east of thia city, fell last Saturday while in th* act of getting out a buggy and broke two of his ribs. At the time of ths accident ho did not know that he was hurt, and not until Dr. J. M. Miller examined him|this morning and re duced the fracture did he know ths i xtent of his injuries, whi -h annoyed him so that he was compelled to seek medical aid. He is now recovering very rapid and will soon be as well as ever.