Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

I IS DEAD. ■John Butler Expired at | Midnight. IL as reared in this county and IS WELL KNOWN. Buneral Services to Be Held Here Saturday Afternoon. I John Butler died at his home at M':.n Wert about twelve o’clock last after an illness of two He was stricken with ■yphoid fever and for a week past - condition was very serious, word ■eng received here Yesterday that ould not possibly live more than few hours. The direct cause of was hemorrhages of thee He was about thirty eight old and a son of Jesse Butler this city. He was a brother of Albert Butler. ’William ButMel Butler. Ben Butler and HarButler. Until about two years > he lived here, moving to Van rt. when* he became manager of Decatur Egg Case plant. ■Bi leaves a wife and one daughter . d thirteen. The remains will |M brought to the home of Sheriff M hitler tomorrow afternoon and the H pneral services will lx* held from ■ here Saturday afternoon at 2:30. M she remains may lie viewed by the H riends from seven to nine Friday M vening and from nine to ten Satur H lay morning. BAD MISFORTUNE. ■ Popular Minister SusI fers Mental Aberation. ■ei, t. E. Pianette. Formerly a Winchester Minister, Accused of Theft. M Rev. E. E. Pianette, well known •rhy some people in this city, has, 'ording to a special from Los jHktigeles, California, met with miI'- tine. The special says: "Rev. E. Pianette, pastor of the Grand church, was arrested for steali: iwtted plants from the doorways homes. He is Ixdicved to lie in ■ii'i*. His wife today swore toaj plaint alleging that he is men , unbalanced." Rev. I’laneettej S■ ■ some time was pastor of the; . 'byterian church at Winchester, HKnd was a young man of unusual jxilish. He went from to Rodlands, (' ilitorniii. ■ take up jmstonil work, and hud, been there long until lie suilered i ■ heavy loss by tire, which destroyed ■i' household goods and an exten jSivo library. It is believed that this might have affected his I WILL GO WEST. ’M A. Hamm May Accept Position There. |M. A. HamltK agent at the Eric. |Bvi!l leave in a day or so for Mon■uiv where lie has been offered a flattering position on the Great Myorthern railway. He has secun d ■ three weeks leave of absence and ■f the place is as represented he will |Kemii.n, otherwise lie will return and duties here. Mrs. Itiiinm notaceomjHtny him on the trip.

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CLUB CONVENTION Big State Meeting to be Held in May. Meets at Crawfordsville and will be Attended by Many. We are in receipt of an outline of the program of the fourteenth annual convention of the Indiana union of literary clubs to be held at (’rawfordsville May 19, 20 and 21. The event will be a most interesting one and thee largest attendance ever at any session is expected. Several representatives from the different clubs here are arranging to attend The occasion opens on the afternoon of the 19th, when the visitors are supposed to arrive register and becomeacquian ted. In the evening will occur the first actual session with an address of welcome by General Lew Wallace, the noted author and an address by the club president, Mrs. Morell J. Earl. The following morning will be devoted to business, report of committee on education and an address by Mrs. May Wright Sewell. In the afternoon Mrs. ('. B. Woodworth will give the report of the art committee, followed by various discussions. The meetings close Thursday morning May 21, with an interesting report of the committee on home economics by Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith. The meeting will certainly be interesting. NEW RULES. A Way That is Expected to Stop Car Famine. Beginning April 1, there will be several radical changes in tie* management of the freight car service of the state now inagurated. Mr. Mummert, the new manager of this district, with headquarters at Indianapolis, has issued several orders which will be of interest to the shippiTS For many years it has Ix-en the rule to collect one dollar for each day a car is held by a shipper after the first forty-eight hours it is the possession of the shipper. This rule has not been observed generally and in a measure the scarcity of freight cars is due to this failure of enforcement of this order. Mr. Mummert has declared i that every car held over forty-eight hours will be collected for at the rate I of one dollar a day. Big and little! shippers alike will lx* charged. I Another radical change in the service I will be the collection of the excess I regardless of the weather conditions. | It is now the custom to allow ship-1 jx*rs additional time without a charge should the tirst forty-eight they hold the ears be rainy. Mr. Mummert orders that no weather conditions lie considered and collections be made in every case. He says, however, that investigations will lx* made afterwards and if it is 1 shown that the weather did interfere with the loading or unloading of the ears the money will lx* returned. The scarcity of freight cars is alarming to railroad num. House curs and those for way freight can seldom lx* secured and there is no probability that the situation will lx* relieved soon. FALLS AND BREAKS HIS ARM. Harold Kirsch, the five year oid son of Mat Kirsch, had his right arm broken last evening while playing with his companions. The break occurred between the wrist and ellxiw and was a complete fracture. Dr. Boyers was called and set the broken bones. Muster Harold seems quite unfortunate in his resjiect as less than a year ago he had his left arm broken in a similar manner.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1903.

NEW BUILDING. Decatur to Have Finest Postoffice in State. POSTOFFICE INSPECTOR A. R. BURR, IS IN THE CITY. The Free Delivery of Mail No Longer a Simple Possibility. Mr. A. R. Burr, postoffice bisector with heeadquarters at Fort Wayne, was in the city today looking over the field for a site and building for a new postoffice. It is an assured fact that Decatur is in the free delivery class, but the postoffice department or this inspector in reality, has condemned the present building and room as inadequate and unfit for the trans- | action of the government’s postal business in its present quarters. They are then doing the next best act. They propose first that a suitable | building be furnished and then to I establish the promised free city delivery of all mail. They now have two projxjsitions under con- ! temptation. One is by E. Fritzinger | on the lot adjoining the Burt House j and the other is from the* Knights !of Pythias lodge on their reality opposite the court house. The government is so iron clad in their business dealings, and their demands are so great, that but few property I owners care to tie themselves up to ! a long string of reserves which I Uncle Sam throws in. For instance 'in a postoffice building, the owner puts in every scrap of furniture, stools, safes, desks and in fact every article used in the promulgation of the postal business. In addition he binds himself, his heirs and every body else in the universe to make all needed extensions and additions which become necessary to the convenience and betterment of the service. It is all this red tape that makes it difficult to find a landlord and at the same time place the ]x>stoftice where it belongs—near the business center. The proposition has reached a point where it is safe to say that one or the other of these locations will lx* finally decided upon and that Decatur will have free delivery and the finest postoffice building inn the state. This is enough glory for one day. BUILD CANAL. Navigation to be Made Possible. After a bitter fight Ix'twcen a number of great railroads and the capitalists, who desired to give Hammond, Indiana, the advantages of navigation, a decision has lx*en reached and the promised water ways to lx* built. A canal 300 feet wide, twentyone feet deep and over seven miles long will connect the city of Haniond with Indiana Harbor and the Wolfe river is to lx* dredged so as to make another route to that city. <>n these two waterways over seventy miles of dockage can he secured which makes it an ideal place for the location of immense manufactories. Actuated by that which tells them that this will inevitably liccome a great place for factories, a company has been organized to build a new railroad and connect the rising city with the Indianacoal fields. Thus it seems that all combines too make the Indiana city one of the wealthiest in the United States. If so, immense sums of tax money will lx* poured into the treasury of the Old Hoosier state which will make our state one of the richest in the entire common wealth.

VERY SWELL. Hite Home the Scene of Society Event. — I The Freshmen Bid the Sophomores Welcome on All Fools’ Day. I | Smiling happy faces, laughing, joyous voices, gay colors and sweet music, all mingled together at the Hite home on Winchester street last evening and made the occasion one never to be forgotten by the young people present. The event was given by the high school freshmen in honor of the sophomores class and was an April fool party. The home was beautifully decorated with the class colors, sophomore, red and blue; freshmen, green and old rose. The hours that fairly flew past were all that could be imagined ni the way of real enjoyment. One of the features of the evening was a mock wedding in which Miss Daily and Mr. Dick Blossom wen* the blushing bride and groom. A guessing contest was won by Miss Frances Merryman after a hard struggle ami she was awarded as a prize a big pasteboard fish on the side of which were inscribed the words “fish catch suckers.” Mrs. Craig won the booby, a beautiful golden harp. Through the entire evening one could easily tell the date of the occasion, the napkins were sexVed shut, the punch consisted of a tub of water in which was placed a lemon rind, forming a mixture unequaled by anything of the kind ever prepared, even circus lemonade being superior to tin* taste. Partners for the feast were chosen by matching dates on pennies. Besides the members of the two classes, the high school teachers were present . It was a great event unmarred even by the fact that the juniors tried to kidnap some of the boys. AT ISSUE. Haines Will Case Ready for Trial. Other Business Transacted in Circuit Court This Morning. Though this morning’s session of court was short, quite a little ) business was transacted. In tliccase I of George Hain vs. Louisa Hain et al, a suit to contest and set aside u i will, an answer was tiled by Louisa Hain and the case is now at issue ; and will be tried early next term. Frank B. Lord vs. Nellie Lord, di- , voree, ease dismissed, judgment against plaintiff for costs. Joel Welty vs. Shaffer Peterson, denimurrer overruled. Sch<x>l town of Geneva vs. Logansjxirt Walmsh Valley Gas company, demurrer to answer overruled. Benjain Emerine vs. Marin Emerine, motion to strike out ]xirt of answer overruled, reply filed. John Culler vs. Jennie Culler, summons ordered to sheriff of Wabash counnty. In probate court Paul G. H<x>]x*r, administrator of the estate of Elmira Hoo|x*r, made a motion to set aside allowam J. S. Covcrdale. Magige L. Richards, administrator of Johhn M. Richards estate was ordered to make final rejxirt. Willard B. Suttles, admr. of Elizn|Me< !onnehe.y estate, filed ]x*tition for sale of real estate. Samuel 11. Long, guardian lor Durr heirs, tiled his final report and was discharged.

WANT TO LOCATE Cordesman Machine Company Rubbering. FREE FACTORY LOCATION THEIR ONLY BONUS. They Claim an Investment of Sixty Thousand Dollars and Want to Locate In Smaller Town. Mayor Coffee is in receipt of a letter from the Cordesman Machine company at Cincinnati, which is significant and eoludmean much for the city of Decatur and a (great deal more to one or two monied men, who might want to invest some of their surplus in a substantial manufacturing concern. They wish to get away from the high taxes and other exorbitant expensees that naturaly follow being in business, especially on a large scale, in a city like Cincinnati. They want to get into a small town and claim to have an investment of SOO,OOO which they would bring with them, asking as a bonus only a free site for their factory. They would also prefer having two local business men who would take an active intrest in the business. The firm manufactures wood working machinery, and in addition would have a large machine shop and foundry, in all working not less than one hundred men. It might not be out of order to give the proposition some consideration. From the tone of their letter we imagine they are sending out no pipe stories but represent themselves simply as they are. There would be nothing difficult about an investigation and it might lie worth the price. APPOINTMENTS. Governor Durbin Gives Out Some Jobs. The governor has appoinnted the Rev. Z. T. Sweeney of Columbus, commissioner of fisheries and game for a term of four years. Mr. Sweeney was first appointed by Governor Mount, February 13, 1*99. He is a minister of the Christian church—n fisher of men us well as fish. He was consul to Constantinople under President Harrison. | The governor also apjiointed James . XV. Sale of Blutffon, u member of! the Ixiard of control of the Fort j Wayne school for b'eble-minded youth to succeed Thomas K. Mull of Manila. Mr. Mull was appointed to fiill th * vacancy caused by the j death of John M. Spann of Indian- i a|X)lis. The gov< rnor is still eon-! sidering the democratic memlx-r of I the cixlification commission It is reported that Ixith John R. Wilson of Indiana polls, and George Reinhard of Bl<x>mington. ha vc refused to serve. The latter teaches law in the State university. The former, it is said, prefers to stick to his law practice. Evans Woolen of Indianiqxilis. was suggested for the plan*. Some of his admirers will call upon the governor in his behalf. M. A. Chipman of Anderson, will lx* the republican memlx-r. The Who Whitt When minstrels jM'rsenting u really meritorious ]x*rformance, ojxmed at the Grand last night, to an audience that filled every available bit of sjiace long lx*fore the rising of the curtain. The rapid fire jokes of the eomedinns, the singing of the different vocalists were received with shouts of laugh ter and applause, while the olio pre sentixl an array of clever artists sei dom Ix-fore eipialed, and indieationspoint ton week of record break ing business.—Grund Rapids, Mich igun News. At Bosse’s opera house Tuesday, April 7,

NUMBER 71

TO THE WEST. The President Starts on His Flying Trip He Will Travel Fourteen Thousand Miles and Meet Many I People. I President Roosevelt started yesterday on what promises to be the longest, and one of the most important trips ever taken by a president. He travels lightly, his only guest, being John Burroughs, the poet naturalist. A small crowd was at tho Pennsylvania station when the, president and Mr. Burroughs and Secretary Loeb arrived in their carriage. Tire president raised his slouch hat to the people, jumped aboard his train and in a few minutes was on the first mile of the : 14,000 mile journey through twentytwo states. The journey will give the ]x*o]»le an opportunity to see the man who desires and expects to be the next president. He is candidly u candidate to succeed himself. His trip is, in a si*nse, an electioneering tour, however often it may be termed otherwise. He will sjwak with careful regard for the effect of | his words on the people in the 1 various states, and so far as con ! venient will s]x*an on topics in which they are directly interested. FAVORS TEACHERS Legislative Law to Stimulate Instructors. The Object is to Elevate and Stimulate the Profession of Teaching. The teachers in the public schools are studying tho provisions of the Hume law passed by the legislature. The law was passi'd with a view of creating an incentive to instructors to s]x*nd their lives at the work of teaching. In all the counties of the state it has Ix-come so that teachers who arrive at the point of efficiency will leave the work and take up some other branch, then* being no incentive to hold old. experienced teachers, the younger ones securing the same salary. The law prescrilx's that lx*ginners shall receive not less than two and one-quarter times then' general averages; two-year teachers shall receive not less than two and one-half times their average, and teachers who have taught three years or more shall receive two and three-quarters times their general average. The general average is arrived at by dividing the uvernge of grades in all the studies upon which they are examined, added to their grades as teachers which is furnished by the county superintendent. OPENINGS. Ladies Are Busy Buying Easter Hats. Several of the millinery stores arc busy just now with their spring o]x*nings and ladies are attending in crowds. Among those who have theiro]x*nings this wi*ek tire the Big Store, Mrs.A .XV Petersoh, Mrs. M. Burdg, and inger's opening was held last week. The styles [_t his year are vastly different. An old made over hat won't do for Easter if you want to lx* in style.