Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1903 — Page 1

VOLUME 1

LOOKS GOOD Traction Power Mouse May Locate. likewise the piano player FACTORY. Important Club Meeting Tonight to Consider the Projects. An important meeting will be held at the Commercial Club tonight and it is believed that two deals | which will help Decatur wonderfully in a business way will be made. < )ne matter to be considered is the building of the power house, main offices and the stables for the Fort Wayne and Springfield traction line. A proposition from the manager of the road asking for $ 14,0°0 bonus . was submitted to the club a month ■ ago. It was found impossible to j raise this amount but it is now believed that other arrangements which include a site for the buildings can be made and the managers of the road talk very favorably. It s jiossible that the deal will be ready for consideration of th- club by tonight. The other offer is the location here of the piano player factory, an intsitution with a pay roll .of $5,000 a month to start with. Mr. McDonald, representative of this plant has been here all week conferring with the business men and members of the Club and it is said that they have practically i agreed upon terms which it believed can be arranged. Mr. Me-; Donald has ordered one of his instruments sent here and if it arrives in time will be exhibited at the club tonight. Every member interested in the welfare of Decatur should be present, as the 1 xiation of this factory means the employment of a hundred skilled mechanics. Both these propositions are of the uunost importance to all of us and it is to be hoped the deals will be consummated,. A Fine Building. The new West Baden hotel is an architectural marvel. There are 60,000 square feet in the dome, 237,720 square feet floor sjiace in the building proper, and 662,832 square feet in the atrium. The dimensions of the dining room ami bull room are each 84x94 fret, and the building is absolutely fireproof. The hotel contains 788 rooms with bath, steam heat, electric lights, hot and cold water, telephone and has 3,oooclosets. The only wood in the structure is contained in door and window casings and ball room floor. The building was designed by its owner Lee Sinclair and was constructed by Caldwell & Drake of Columbus, Ind. An Auto Trip. A party of Fort Wayne business men consisting of Will Peltier, Dr. R. D. Vilierg, Hugh Bond and L. H. Ivins came down this morning and registered at the Burt House for dinner. This afternoon they enjoyed life at the Commercial Ciub rooms for a few hours. They made the trip here in a Winton automobile, one of the best cars made and which cost $2,600.

The ball game for next Sunday has been scheduled and a gotal game in assured. The Rosenthals wlil meet the Warren team one of the best in the gas belt. The local team has been rearranging and it la bebeved will b> stronger than ever. A battle royal is looked for.

The Daily Democrat.

GOOD HAY CROP. One of the Bluest in History This Year. Taking the country all over there never was a better hay crop than this year. While the weather was unfavorable for the growth and development of wheat and corn it seemed to be just right for bay and so nearly evrybody’s barn is groaning under the heavy weight of a tremendous crop. Another feature of the season is that the hay is remarkably free from weeds and for quality is much better than usual. This insures plenty of roughness for stock and will help the feeder out considerably, even though the corn crop does prove short. BIG SALE ON. Nidlinger Duroc Hogs Draw a Crowd. Auction Began at Noon at Steele's Park, and is Still Going On. Several hundred people from all over the country are here today attending the big John D. Nidilnger sale of the thoroughbred Duroc Jersey hogs. The sale began at 12:30at Steele's park with Col. J. F. Moffett and Fred Reppert as auctioneers The sale is on of the biggest in the country, and Mr. Nidlinger has spent alwut SSOO advertising same. Mr. Nidilnger's Durocs took several first prizes at the world's stock show at Chicago last fall, and this fact made him well known to stock raisers everywhere. Every pig offered for sale today was a good one, fit to go in any show ring, each one has the j right color and the right breeding, proving them good blooded animals. The bidding was spirit' d and the sale will undoubtedly be the largest and best stock sale ever in this section of Indiana. Later. The sale closed at four o’clock every hog being sold. The fifty brought better than $2,000, averaging forty dollars each. Several sold for SIOO. CLEARED $56.38. Mount Pleasant to Build a New Church. The picnic which was held in the Mann's grove last Saturday was certainlyy a grand success . The affair was given by the Mt. Plea sunt Sunday school and they’ cleared the very handsome sum of $56.38 after paying the various expenses, proceeds will go toward building a new M. E. church in the near future. Aside from the financial benefits everyone who attended reports a happy and enjoyable day. Was Run Over. The six year old son of Peter Helmerick fell from a wagon this morning and rolled beneath the wheel. His was another of those inexplicable escajxjs, where death seems almost certain. The wheel passed entirely over the little fellow's head and shoulders. Both wore badly bruised and it was feared his shoulder blade was broken. Dr. Boyers dressed his wounds and said he feared no serious results.

DECATUR, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1903.

SOCIETY WEDDING Miss Amelia Smith Weds Mr. C. N. Christen. BRILLIANT EVENT AT ST. MARYS CHURCH. Ceremony Followed by a Wedding Dinner for Sixty Guests. One of the most brilliant society weddings of the season occurred at eight o’clock this morning at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, when Rev. H. Theo. Wilkens united in marriage Miss Amelia Smith and Mr. Charles N. Christen. Two hundred invitations had been issued for the affair and the large church was well filled with the many friends of the couple, who have been among the most popular people of Decatur society for several years. Miss Nettie Smith, sister of the bride was maid of honor and Miss Maud Christen, sister of groom and Misses Edith Wemhoff and Katherine Rehnen. of Fort Wayne, were bride's maids. The bride wore a beautiful gown of white silk dotted muslin soie made over with taffeta silk, with feather pompom and tulle veil and canned orange blossoms. Miss Nettie Smith wore ; a dress of pink crepe de chieu and carried yellow roses. Miss Katherine Rehnen wore green silk crepe ■ with cream aplica and chiffon and Miss Wemhoff champaign silk sublime and carried American beauty roses. Miss Christen wore blue crepe over silk, with butterfly faggoting. Each maid wore a large picture hat with ostrich plumes. The flower girls were Virgine Smith ' and Margret Smith, and wore French pawn dresses, trimmed in Meeklin I lace. They carried the brides roses and smilax. The bride carried a rosary brought from Germany by her mother twenty-one years ago. The groomsmen were Eugene Christen, Albine Smith and Wai Wemhoff, and the ushers Frank Wemhoff and Joe Mason. The ring ceremony was used and conducted in a most impressive manner. Miss Tena Rademacher played the wedding march and the church choir sang. It was a pretty and • happy wedding, and immediately I after the affair the bridal party I drove to the home of the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith on Mercer street, where at 11:30 a three-course dinner was served to sixty guests. The bride served the wedding cuke, which was wrapped with smilax and white ribbons. The table was decorated with flowers, and the home with ferns and pal ns. Both the bride and groom are well known in this city and county, and IL. large number of handsome and valuable gifts but partially show the high esteem in which they are held. They left at noon for Indianapolis and Milwaukee for a week’s trip, and will be at home in their pretty cottage on west Monroe street after September 14. Among the out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Will Christen Rockford, Ohio, and Mrs. Maud Maloney, Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Elizabeth Amends, Dayton Ohio, Miss Katherine Rehnen. Fort Wayne, Miss Stella Wemhoff, Fort Wayne. A Car Famine. The coal carrying railroads of this country cannot begin to move the product from the mines as fast as operators would like to have them. The shortage of cars is the chief cause and all car building companies are being overrun with orders for the gondola and hopper cars.

PAINTED ’EM RED. Anti-Saloon Houses at Bryant Are Marked. As a result of the bitter feeling growing out of the Bryant saloon fight a gang of toughs of that village made the rounds Saturday night and smeared a liberal quantity of paint on the home of each person who has signed the anti-saloon remonstrance. Whether this piece of depredation was done at the instigation of the head of the saloon faction or not, is not definitely known, although it is alleged that the one of the recent applicants for liquor licenses there is known to have been one of them. GOES TO JAIL Woman Stole Money to Buy Cocaine. Was Foster-Sister of Hu£h Daugherty and Known all Over the World. Anna Oakly, the woman who pleased thousands of spectators at the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in this country- and in Europe, is now an inmate of the work house

at Chicago where she is serving out a tine of $45 for stealing a pair of trousers from a negro to get money to buy cocaine. Anna Oakley was reared from a child by Crawford Eddington and wife, who now live in Montpelier, and they also reared to manhood their nephew Hugh Dougherty of this city. Mr Dougherty and Miss Oakley did not live at the Eddington home at the same time but Miss Oakley was in their care at Greenville, Ohio, after Mr. Dougherty had come here. She married a brother of William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, and traveled with the show for several years as the champion woman shot of the world, a title which none could dispute. When the show visited Bluffton she was a visitor at the Dougherty home where her foster parents visited her. —Bluffton News. ( RESOLUTIONS. Hall St. Marys lodge No. 167 1. O. 1 (). F Whereas the supreme Ruler I' of the universe has in his infinite wis- ’ dom removed from earth our beloved ! brother, George W. Archbold, an endeared and honored member of ! this lodge, and Whereas, in his 1 death we keenly feel our loss. Therefore be it Resolved, That we sincerely con- ! dole with the bereaved family and extend to them our heartfelt sym- * pathy and prayer that the loving ' father of all may comfort them in 1 their lonliness and dark hours of 1 affliction. Resolved, That a copy of these I' resolutions be spread on our minutes, a copy be sent to the bereaved friends and also one to each of our county papers for publication. Fraternally submitted, Harvey Harruff, U. S. Cress, 1 Harvey D. Rice, Committee. THEY FEEL PROUD. The Bluffton Banner takes a shot at Decatur on account of her defeat Sunday, and swells up because an (issian pitcher won a game from a gang of colored boys who came down in a coal car from Muncie. If the Ossian battery, which works all afternoon for Bluffton at a laboring man’s wages, should ever i face the Nationals, they would never again venture outside of that i forsaken village which hires them, i We are now waiting for another I thrilling aceunt of Bluffton’s defeat of Tocsin Grammar school or I Curryville Bloomer girls. 1 - ■#> ®

RELEASED HIM — “Red” Fisher’s Time Up Last Night. No Further Word From Sheriff Reese, and the Suspect Was Turned Free. "Red” Fisher who has been in ; jail here for ton days past was re- 1 leased last night and lost no time ’ in making himself scarce in this’ community-. As stated before, he was given a jail sentence for intoxication though nobody but himself knew he had drunk anything. He was found early one morning i in the carpenters shop of Fred Linn. I where he had sought shelter from the storm. His actions were verysuspicious and a few days afterwards Sheriff Reese of Wood county Ohio came here and after interviewing the prisoner said he believed he was the man Scoffield, wanted in his county for the murder of an old man July 8. He had his picture taken and left, saying he would return in a few days for the prisoner. Since then not a word has been heard from him and as Fisher’s

I time was up here last night Sheriff Butler could do nothing but release him. Fisher claimed to live at Wapakonetta. GRAND BALL Aeolian and Columbian Clubs to Give an Event. A committee composed of Aeolian Club members met with a delegation from the Columbian Club last evening and completed arangements for a big liall which will lie given next Saturday eve iii g at the Columbian Club rooms. The event promises to be a fitting opening for the dancing season and an extraordinary large assemblage will no doubt be there, electric fans are to be installed and every convenience for their guests will be arranged for. There will be no charge for admission and every’ one is invited to come and spend the evening and thoroughly enjoy them self. A full line of refreshments will be in store and through their sales the boys expect to lx 1 remunerated for their trouble. The Aeolian Club which has a mandolin and guitar club, vocal quartette and sextette, and a grand orchestra will furnish the music. Work toward decorating the rooms will begin at once and form now on the whole affair will be materailizing in a flower which will burst into bloom Saturday night. Don't forget the date. AN INVENTION. C. K. Ross of Elwood, is Busy Interesting Capital in His Invention. C. K. Ross a former resident of [ Adams county’ but for many, years has lived at Elwood, has turned inventor. He has interested Chicago capital in the manufacture i of an autonmatic cider vending! machine for which patents have already been granted. The new I device is higly spoken of and if half about it is true, it is sure of success. The many friends of Mr. Ross hero will l>e pleased to learn of the bright prospects that are staring him square in the face. We hope the proper capital will bo interested and that success will follow the invention clear down the line.

NUMBER 183

A NEW AUTO. C. C. Schafer Brings Home Another Cadillac. Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Schafer arrived from Indianapolis Tuesday evening with another Cadillac automobile. They left the capital at six o’clock in the morning and arrived here about four in the afternoon after taking their time. The new machine belongs to the Schafer Hardware company who have the agency for this car in Adams county and other nearby counties. Chalmer tried to buy several of the machines but the house could only furnish him one at present but promised to send another within a few days. M. Miller state agent for the Cadillac accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Schafer home and attended to business here today. He says that they simply cannot buy machines fast enough to supply their trade. An agent at South Bend has sold fifteen within ten days. OIL INTERESTS. Many Capitalists Interested in This County.

Messrs. Paul Kraus, Keller and Kuhn of Indianapolis, Visit the Field. Henry Keller, August M. Kuhn and Paul Kraus, well known citizens of Indianapolis, passed through Muncie last night on their way back to Indianapolis. They’ had been to Berne where the company in which they are interested, yesterday’ shot a big well. —Muncie Star. The gentlemen mentioned are members of the Globe Oil company’ and have large interests in the county. Capitalists from all over Indiana are anxious to get this money invested in Adams county oil companies as may’ be seen from the following dispatch sent out form Indianapolis: “Indianapolis and Tipton capitalists at the grand hotel last night arranged to develope oil lands in Adams county. State Senator L. W. Ulrey , of Fort Wayne, who ho ds a lease on a tract of 420 acres, is promoting the new enterprise” It is certainly a question of but a year or two until every section cf the county will be fairly’ tested. A Large Sewer. Perhaps the largest tubular contract in the world has just lxeii completed in Chicago. The tunnel which is twenty feet in diameter is almost two and one half miles long and drains almost u tenth section of the city of Chicago. It was in process of construction for five years and cost nearly 000. It was built of common build ing brick there being five consecutive rings of the same laid in cement The sewer is so arranged that fresh water from the lako is constantly flowing through and the foul sewage is thus diluted to a great extent. When this tunnel will be in full operation not any full sewage from Chicago will reach the lake and contamination of drinking water with typhoid fever germs and the like will absolutely’ prevented . ,1. L. Harrod and mother, Misses Blanche Hart and Edna Bremer kamp will leave tomorrow for Toledo where they will visit several days with Mr. Harrod's relatives They' will make a tour of the lakes and s]x*nd a week at Niagara Falls. The party expects to be gone fifteen days.