Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME I

TRACTION TALK. Springfield People Are I Here Again, GETTING READY TO LET THE CONTRACTS. L. J. Neadock of the Morgan Line Will Arrive Monday for Business. — ■1 Electric railway talk was current fl again on the streets this morning ■ caused by the arrival of President «| W H Fledderjohn and his attorney John H. K<x>nig, of the tort Wayne ■ Ar Springfield company. They an ■ nounee that they were very sue- ‘ fl , "tul at Fort Wayne and succeedr<l in having a sufficient numlier of fl feet on the Piqua road from the fl Adams countv line to the citv limits ® set aside for their tracks and they I are now busy taking up deeds of ■ fl right away where it is necessary. ■ j They wil have the contract for gradfl mg, furnishing ties and other nee i ■ essary improvements within a few B days according to present prosjieets I and then begin actual work, that ■ everyone, business man and farmer fl has been anxiously looking forward ■to for several months. The line ■ from Fort Wayne to this city will J ■lw built first, so we are informed ■ but the this is completed work on ■ the south anil east end of the road; ■ will be well under way. | W. E. Fulk, representive of the ■Morgan tracation line which will ■ r m from Toledo through Van Wert ■t" this city and on to Indianapolis ■ 1..1-reeeivisl information from PreBident Morgan of Toledo that his Bs-'retary. Mr. L. .1. Weadock will ■arrive here next Monday prepared B“ push along their plans. They . Bvill take up right of ways, and FWecided on the exact route and will . the county commissioners for same rights granted the Fort ’B'ayne & Springfield company ■They say they will push things as Bapidly as money and men can do it it need not surprise the naBives of Adams county if the first ■nUTiirban car run through its tornB"ty bears the name ‘ Morgan B»m»*.'' at any rate it looks now like • ■race between them and the Spring ]>eople, with the latter how ■ '•r a length to the good n t present Bu-t- hasleen enough traction talk what the jx'ople here want now actual evidence that the promotmeant at least part of what they Both lines say the main or power houses will be fault D eatur and if such is the case line will be doubly lienetieial to. ; flt Let 'em come, and come fast. ■ IS BUILDING. L Holthouse Will Have Modern Woodshed Built. J Holthouse is very busy just B" receiving bids for a wood shed he wishes erected on his lot Bd the construction of this addi is causing him a great deal B>re worry than the building of i Big Store bl<x‘k causes Allison 1 Studabaker. However their < I Bod shed is to he no ordinary I ■air, but strictly modern and en < I up to date affair, it will be I ■ stories high and from the plans I spx’ifications which he says I I B*e drawn by architect Eugene I Boston, at a cost of *lo*. We ' I ■uhl. unless otherwise informed. I i f an elevator One Ind was I Btived at four o'e’oek this morn I B >'Ut Rome refuses to let the eon . I until all the carjxmters in the I B have had ample opportunity to I figures. —*

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SCARCITY OF LABOR. Men Can Make Big Waives on the . Farm. Are you a farm hand ? If you are you need not be out of work. Farmers of Indiana are in need of you and will pay a premium for your labor. From all over Indiana, even here in Adams county, there is a farmhand famine. Particularly in the oil field is the famine disastrous to the prospects of the farmers In YA ells, Blackford, Deleware, Jay, and Adams counties there is a cry of distress for farm hands. The busy industries and the busy oil region have taken the labor that ordinarily is available for the farm ers into the cities and even there laborers who can perform unskilled work command premium. Ten years i ago when the industries were idle . skilled mechanics who were capable )of earning *1 to *5 per day were hired easily in the field for *1.25 to 1.50. Now the farm hand gets from *IS to *25 a month, his room and hoard, a horse and buggy whenever he wants it, days off at almost at will, short hours—in fact he is a privileged character. In Marion i county the famine has not been so noticeable on the account of the delay in harvesting, but there are many who are willing to pay a preI mi uni for a good man. BASE BALL GAME Fort Wayne Here Next Sunday. South Whitlev Game Cancelled—A Challenge Received From Bluffton. The Fort Wayne Stars will play here next Sunday, bills announcing same being ordered today. The game is sure and no doubt a big crowd will attend. The Decatur team have won the last seven games played this season and are acknowledged one of the best amateur teams in Indiana. The Stars is Fort Wayne's best independent team except prehaps the Shamrocks who are dated for a game here late in the season. Tne game with the | Shamrocks at South Whitely which was to have been played Saturday I has been cancelled owing to the ' inability of the Shamrock's.fplayers to get away from their work. A challenge was received today from Harry Cutting manager of the new I Bluffton team, for next Sunday, but it will he impossible to meet the old rivals on that day. Manager Marty says he will try and arrange dates with them for the near future. COMITTED SUICIDE. Mrs. Prentiss Formerly Delight Sweetser Kills Herself. Mrs'. Delight Sweetser Prentiss committed suicide at her home at Cleveland yesterday noon. No cause for her act is known as she was apjiarenty happy and had every comfort one could wish for. She was formerly Delight Sweetser of Marion and was quite well known 1 here. She traveled extensively and wrote a popular book entitled, “One Way Around the World.” She married four years ago to Mr. Prentiss, a wealthy citizen of Cleveland Her parents Mr. and Mrs. James Sweetser of Marion are trav- i eling in Europe and were to have i been joinixi this fall by Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss.

DECATUR, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1903.

MRS. BLAINE DEAD Wife of Famous StatesPasses Away. I J r i L i POPE LEO MAY LIVE SEVERAL ' DAYS. 1 ] No Noticeable Change in the Condition of Patient According to Late Bulletin. I j . I Special to Dally Democrat. , Augusta, Me., July 15. —Mrs. > James G. Blaine, wife of the fam1 ous statesman, is dead at the old homestead in this city, the end having came this morning. She was one of the best known ladies in the i United States, her huslxtnd having been a leader among men, so was she among women. Her death will be universally mourned. Special to The Dally Democrat. Rome, July 15.—This morning’s bulletin gives the condition of the po]x* as follows, “During the night the pope had several hours of rest. There has been no noticeable change in the general state of the patient. Dr. Lapponi states the patient may linger several days longer.” At 3:10 this afternoon a report from tlie Vatican says the pope enjoyed a calm sleep most of the time since noon. IN MILD FORM. — Smallpox in Amish Settlement Not Alarming. Smallpox has again broke out in Adams county but It is a very light form and a general infection of the disease is not expected. Dr. Miller had heard of a supposed case among the Amish of Berne and investigated in that localities and found four cases. A stirct quarantine was placed over twenty families and the curbing of the disease is well under way. Dr. Miller says there is no occasion for alarm bnt that the people cannot be overcautious. He made the following statement to the Democrat. With the recent outbreak of smallpox we are impressed more than ever of the necessity of vaccination and I advise those people particularity who live in or near the Amish settlements to take this precaution at once.” OBITUARY. Susie Oze Ila Winans, youngest daughter of Joseph I), and Isabelle Winans was born Di'cember 11, IHH«, departed this life July 1, 1903, aged 16 years, 6 months and 23 days. She leaves to morun her loss a father a mother, one sister, three brothers, one brother, Dee, having proceeded her to the world beyond. At the age of fourteen Susie was converted. She and her sister Ethel going hand in hand to the altar of prayer on the evening of their conversion. They were baptized and united with the M. E. church in Pleaseant Mills. Susie's life has been an example of piety and love. A very obedient daughter and loving sister. She was held in highest esteem by her aMociates as well as by her pastor and church. A life like this is always missed HAY RACK PARTY. A gay crowd of young jx'ople from here viewed the country last ’ evening from a hay rack. A jolly < gixxl time and many hair breadth i 'scapes tire reported. A feast was 1 spread at Steele's park. i

I HAVE TO PAY. Church Subscriptions Can be Collected. The promise to pay a sum of money toward the erection of a church on payment of a church debt is just as binding as any other debt that can be contracted, according to the judgement of the Madison • county circuit court, rendered Saturday. When the new East Main street Christian church at Anderson was dedicated, Mrs. Flora O’Brien, wife of P. T. O'Brien, a well known contractor and politician, subscribed *250 toward paying the remaining indebtedness. Later when an attempt was made by the officers of the church to collect the money, the doners set up the plea that the subscription was made only with the intention of inducing others to subscribe, and with the understanding that the sum was not to be collected. To make a test case, suit was I brought and the court gave the church people judgment for the amount in full. Other similar i pledges will now be collected by law , unless those promising gifts make j the amount good. 1 HER LIFE IS ENDED Mrs. Isaac Zimmerman Died This Morning. Had Been 111 Several Weeks, But Few Knew Her Condition Was Serious. Mrs. Cora Zimmerman died at the home of Augustus Schlegel, her, father, on Line street this morning ; about four o’clock after an extended illness with kidney trouble. She had been very low for several days past and was not expected to live although her condition yesterday showed some improvement and the end was not looked for so soon I The deceased would have been twenty eight years old the twentyfourth of this month and Jias lived in this city, the place of her birth, during her entire life time. She was married several months ago to Ike Zimmerman und their three weeks old child was buried just a short time ago. She had been married once previous and a four year old son survives her. The funeral services will be held from the Unit- 1 ed Brethren church Friday morning, Rev. Pontius officiating. Interment at Maplewood cemetery. Besides her son, her father und mother, one brother, Lawrence, survives her. i i The remains may he viewed Thurs day afternoon from four o’clock and Thursday evening from six to eight.

WILL MOVE. — Smith & Bell Sell Their Bluffton Stock. A deal was completed this week by which the F. L. Mercer lumber company bought from the firm of Smith & Bell all of the timber which they have on their mill yard in this city. The timber purchased consisted of rough logs on the yards and all the lumber which has been sawed. Roughly estimated there are HO,OOO to 100,000 feet of lumber included in the deal, and 200 or 300 logs which will measure 25,000 to 40,000 feet. The Mercer oonqiany is now engug<*d in hauling the logs to their own mill yard. The saw mill owned bySmith & Bell is retained and they will likely move it in the near future to another location. They probably will sell also to the Mercer company the timber which they have in the woodc near hero.—Bluffton News.

IS A NON-BELIEVER John Terrell, the Murderer, an Atheist. > Offered to Sell Chance of Heaven for a Nickel a Short Time Aso. John Terrell, the Wells county murderer is an atheist, believing there is no God and no hell, and this fact keeps many of his acquaintances from sympathizing with him. Recently he offered to sell his chances of Heaven for a nickel. Terrel’s reputation for morality and for peace and quietude are not .of the best. He is a man possessed ■ of a violent temper and is licentious. Some time ago he had troub'e with Mein Moore on his farm, and knocked Moore down with a board. | Standing over Moore he raised the I club again but Jim Widgeun prej vented another blow being struck, and probably saved Moore's life. Had other men taken the law into ! their hands to avenge family wrongs as Terrell did, he would very likely been treated to about the same death as he gave Wolfe, for it is pretty well known that he has > been guilty of interfering with doi mestic relations of at least one fam ily. Yet Terrell loved his daughter devotedly and one cannot help a j feeling of sympathy for a man who defends the happiness of his daughter even by giving his liberty. It is a sad case, in which the law will no doubt take its course. ADMIRE THE LADIES. Everyone Pleased With the Wallace People. Whether the spectator be a lass from the farm or a belle from the social set , she is sure to admire the I lady performers with the great Wallace Shows, which will exhibit in 'Decatur, Saturday August Ist. In the circus ring is one place where a woman is an equal with her mule companion. As a rule she draws higher salary, receives tile greater appluu.se and more commendations from the management, than does the male performer. Notwithstanding their high salaries and the scarcity of performers worthy of being featured with a show of the magnitude of the Great Wallace Show, probably more lady performers can be seen with that show than any’ other six shows. At the head of a large number stands beau tiful Blanche Reed, one of the half dozen acrobatic equestriennes who have attained eminence us bare buck riders. Her routine or rejx'rtoire of feats and evolutions is so varied that she cun completely

change her act at every performance for days at a time. In as she does is naught that is common place. She scorns the ordinary and abh<>rs the conventional. In the vernacular, she begins where the others leave off, and ends with an unapproachable achievement of acrobatic agility that is apparently unattainable and ]>ast belief unless seen with one's own eyes. MRS. 0. N. TYNDALL DEAD. Mrs.. O. N. Tyndall died Monday evening after a protracted illness at her home near Steele. Mrs. Tyndall has been an invalid years, but her cheerful disposition aided her in overcoming many trials. Monday, however the crisis came and her friend knew there were no hopes for her. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wecbter, and leaves a faithful hualiand. Her death was due to pulmonary tuberculosis, and the funeral will Is* held at Steele. She formerly resided in this city, where her husband taught school for several years.

NUMBER 159

A conservative citizen says: • Perhaps the most desirable change we could desire at present, is one in the method of electing our senators. You may talk all you wish, but the people will never be satis, fled until they have a direct vote inelecting their senator. This brings up u much mooted and oft discussed question, but one which is nevertheless foremost among the question of today. What we need in this as in other causes, are fearless agitators and exponents. It has been suggested by some that the election of senators by’ popular vote : would prevent the selection of the I best fitted und most conservative class of men, which it is necessary to have for such an important body, i This is certainly a reflection on the wisdom and judgment of the people. If the poeple can act wisely in the choice of a nations leader they certainly can select their senators and any argument to the contrary is untenable. Another objection is that the constiution provides for election is at present carried out. They seem to think that any amendment to the constitution is another blow at the pillar which supports our government. But under our i constantly changing condition we 1 Diay question even the wisdom of our forefathers in some of their measures. However there are good i and sufficient reasons for this change i which greatly overshadow any objections that may be offered. That bribery enters largely into our senatorial elections is a bold, but nev- . ertheless true and regretable statei ment. That a small legislature could be moreeasily influenced than i the whole state in the case of popu- ' lar elections is obvious. It is not necessary for the prosjxTtive senator to induce the majority of the whole legislature in his favor, but simply a majority of the caucus of his party. This we can see would be but a small number and comparatively easy for a shrewd aspirant. Another fact of which we have had recent ex]x’rience is the dead lock which so often occurs in our legislative assemblies. When we remember that this has and often does stop all other legislation, it is not inconsiderate in discussing this question. But the great objection to the present method of electing senators is the introduction of national politics not the state elec tions. We experience this in all our gubernatorial election. On electing a state legislator, the voter has to either sacrifice state or national politics. For if he elects his choice in the state legislature, his man favors an objectionable candidate for congress. One the other hand if he elects a man who will favor his favorite senator, the man chosen may act contrary to the voters opinion in the state politics. We see the present method is an undesirable and complex one, and the sooner a change, the better.

SOMETHING NEW. I Refrigerator Cars Will Soon be a Thin< of the Past. The first crate load of perishable fruit to cross the continent without, being iced has just reached the Atlantic coast. Instead of ice the car was filled with an atmospheric prepartaion known as germicide which prevents decomposition or decay of vegetabe matter. The discovery of this compound s destined to make a great change in the methods of fruit transportation. No more railway icc houses are required and several days time will be saved in the trip which is used in icing cars. The Inventor also claims that in the course of time it will be possible for the general adoption of his compound for use in the home. Such a possibility would be an advantage but the composition is lacking when it cannot, make ice cold water or keep the butter from melting