Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1904 — Page 1

VOLUME II

HR. SHORTS KEEPS HIS WORD

Chief Engineer Cleveland of Clover Leaf Arrives

AT WORK TODAY Will Furnish Estimate by This Evening Has Orders to Survey Grounds and Prepare Necessary Plans and Estimates. M. C. Cleveland, of Frankort, I Chief Civil Engineer of the Toledo, | St. Louis & Western railway, arrived at 11:25 from Toledo, having recieved orders from President Shontz to report here and prepare plans for a round house, shops, refrigerator plant, transfer house, and track yards for making Decatur an important Clover Leaf division. His arrival is in accordance with I the promise of President Shontz made to our citizens yesterday, and proves that the company means what they said and are will - ing and anxious to carry out their part of the trade. Engineer Cleveland started to work immediately after dinner and expects by this evening to have some idea of the I lay of the ground. He was interim viewed by a Democrat representa- : tive and said: “I have no idea yet K as to what arrangements can be | made but may be able to make an I estimate by this evening. I will t go over the ground thoroughly from the old fair ground to the target, see how the road is located and ascertain just where would be the best location for tracks and buildings and will make a statement as soon as pot S ble. This matter will be pushed along as rapidly as possible.” There is no longer any question but that the Clover Leaf wants ts help Decatur and will do it with just a little encouragement and from the opinion of many of our citizens with whom wo have talked Decatur is going to meet the companies' demands. The future of Decatur as a railroad town certainly looks bright. Citizens, don’t Joose your enthusiasm until this project is completed and the shops establishc 1.

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ARE SCARCE Alluring Call for Help by a Desperate Farmer. A dispatch from Williamsport to the Muncie Star says: ‘‘William Butler, after endeavoring to secure farm hands week after week without success, placed the following advertisement in a newspaper: “Farm help wanted. Wages will be <6 a day. Breakfast will be served in bed. Working hours from 10 a. tn. to 2p. m. All heavy work will be done by the boss. Cigars furnished free. Any hand working the entire season can have the farm. Apply at once.” STILL ANOTHER Fred Huffman Secures Contract for Third Wells County School House. Fred Hoffman the contractor captured another school house ves terday afternoon at Bluffton to be built in Jefferson township of Wells county. There were five bidders present and Fred's bid when opened proved to be the lowest one made and the necessary bond and contract was made out, thus properly awarding the same to Mr. Hoffman. The contract price was <3,300 and the building must be competed in a specified time. This is the third school house contract that Mr. Hoffman has received from that township in one week which speaks very highly for him.

DATES MIXED Lecturer Amsbury Fails to Arrive Disappointed Citizens Find Opera Hoose Dark.—Will be Here Next Week. Wallace Bruce Amsbary, the lecturer, failed to arrive last night and many Decatur people were disappointed when they arrived at the opera house to find the doors locked and the windows dark He was expected to come on the seven o'clock Jtrain and for that reason it was impossible to let the public know. Mr. Allen presents the following curd which explains the situation) I am exceedingly disappointed and chagrined that Waluce Bruce Amsbury failed to be at the opera house as advertised. Just how the failure nooared I am not able fully to explain. But it is evidently the result of a confusion of dates. Our contract with the Bureau rends March 18th, but this was certainly changed as the ticket read March 21. How or when this change oooured Ido not know, but it is almost certain that the Bureau is holding to the later date, which will be next Monday evening. The attraction is a very fine one and will be given >r money refunded. Again expressing my regret 1 am Most Respctfully, E. A. ALLEN.'

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1904.

WORDS OF PRAISE Warsaw Paper Speaks in High Terms of Mr. Breading. The Warsaw Daily Times in speaking of the death of Frank Breading, father of Mrs. Hugh Woods paid him the following glowing tribute: “There were many excellent traits in Frank Breading, as he was familiarly called. He had a wide circle of acquaintances, and among them a host of real and true friends. He was liberal and generous to a fault, and contributed of his means to almost every charitable object known to the people of the town. He was exceedingly kind to the poor and all who were in need, and there are many people in Warsaw—whole famiies, indeed —who will miss Frank Breading from their midst, and it may be that quite a number will actually suffer by» the “taking off” of so generous a citizen of the town. INSURANCE AGENCY Graham & Lower Consolidate Organize the Graham Agency With Many Good Insurance Companies in Their Office.

The Graham Insurance Agency Company is a new business firm in Decatur, though the members, L. A. Graham and W. A. Lower are well known in the city and county. Mr. Graham has been in the business for years and is well posted and a thoroughly competent insurance man. Mr. Lower recently purchased the C. K. Bell, D. B. Erwin and F M. Shirmeyer agencies. Thesea gencies have now been united making Graham & Lower proprietors of one of the biggest fire and|aocident agencies in the county. They are located over Tagues shoe store in the office rooms occupied by Mr. Graham for several years. Mr. Louis F.Doloh has been employed as solicitor and the firm will go after and no doubt obtain their share of the insurance business of Adams county. In their office may be found such, first class companies as the Continent!tai farm and city agency, Aetna. Phoenix, Niagara, Norwich Union, and many other fire companies and the New York Causualty Accident Insurance company. The boys are genial, careful and conservative business men and authorize us to say that they will appreciate and take the best pos sible care of any patronage given them. IS BETTER TODAY Mrs. Ed Moses Suffered Attack of Heart Trouble Yesterday. Mrs. Ed S. Moses who has been in poor health for some time suffered a very severe attack of heart trouble yesterday afternoon and her condition was very serious during all of last night. A telephone message from the house this morn ing said that she whs considerably better today and the family are hopeful that she will continue to improve. Dr. Beavers was called by telephone and his early arrival no doubt saved the patients life.

DEAL CLOSED Barney Kalver & Sons Buy “Hub” Harry Freidman Sells His Interest in Clothing Store. Deal Made Last Evening. The Hub Clothing store is now owned by Barney Kalver and sons. Isadore and Jacob, a deal having been closed last evening, when Harry Friedman sold his interest to these people. About three months ago Jacob Kalver purchased a half interest in the store and yesterday his father and brother secured the other half. The new firm name is the Barney Kalver & Sons Company, but the store will still be known as the Hub and will be under the management of Jacob | Kalver whose genial face and ' manner has already made him , many friends during his business life here. The stock will be increased and the store made one of the best in Northern Indiana. Everyone knows Barney and his sons and feel sure of fair and cour- | teous treatment. The new firin i took possession immediately. Mr. ' Freidman, who retires came here about two years ago. He is a clever young business man and has been popular. He leaves Decatur with many warm friends here who wish him the best success for the I future. He has purchased an interest with H. Epstein & C 0.,, proprietors of the Up to Date clothing store at Fort Wayne.

A NEW TURN Guardian Asked for Terrell More Complications Arise in Wells County’s Famous Murder Case. The Terrell matter took another new turn this morning, when Lucy Wolfe, the youngest daughter of John W. Terrell, and the most prominent figure outside the murderer hmself in the recent trial, tiled a petition with the court to have a guardian appointed for her father. The i>etition relates that John W. Terrel has for the ten years last past been a resident of Wells county and is at the present time a person of unsound mind and incapable entirely of managing his own affairs. For this reason the plaintiff asks that a guardian be appointed. To the complaint as filed the clerk of the court as required by law has entered a general denial of all the facts presented. The court has ordered the summons returnable on the first day of the April term of the Wells oirohit court. This action may place the matter in a new light. Should the judge who presided at the trial decide to sentence Terrel before that time, he woud then conflot with an order of the court which demands that Terrell lie present at the opening of court. In the meantime there is no legal way in which Tor- I roll cun transact any business.— ' Bluffton Bunner. I

BY CONVENTION The Democrats to Nominate a Treasurer

COMMITTEE MEETS The Date of Convention is April 8 Delegates to be Selected in Mass Precinct Meetings i April 7. I > 1 i At a meetng of the Democratic County Central Committee it was decreed that a delegate convention < be held at the court room in this city on Friday April bth. at ten o’clock at which time a candidate for treasurer of Adams county will be selected. A conventon is some thing new for the Adams county democracy, they stricty adhering to the primary system as a means of , making candidate elections. When the other nominations were made last January, it was then thought that no county treasurer would be elected this year. Since however, ’ the opinion has been handed down that the law extending the terms of county officers was unconstitutional. As yet there has been no decision by the supreme court but it is certain to come and in line with the opinons already given by learned members of the profession of law. There beng but the one office the committee thought best to give the convention a trial, it being cheaper, and perhaps as satisfactory to the masses of the party. The delegate representation will be one delegate for every twenty votes or fraction over ten votes cast for the presidential* electors in 1900. This will make a representation in con- ■ i vention as follows: Precincts No. delegates Union 8 E. Root 5 W. Root 6 N. Preble 5 8. Preble 6 Kirkland 7 W. Washngton 6 E. Washington 5 N. St. Marys 2 S. St. Marys 3 N. Blue Creek 4 S. Blue Creek 4 N. Monroe 7 Middle Monroe 5 French 7 N. Hartford 7 S. Hartford 5 N. Wabash 5 Ceylon 4 E. Jefferson 5 W. Jefferson 4 Decatur, Ist. A 4 Decatur. Ist. B 5 Decatur, 2nd. A 7 Decatur, 2nd. B 5 Decatur, 3rd. A B Decatur, 3rd. B 7 Berne A 6 Berne B 5 Geneva A 5 Geneva B 6 Total ifls Necessary to choice 83 The committee also decreed that the selection of delegates should bo by muss convention in the the proi oinots, the highest vote governing I and to bo the choice for delegates. 1 These mass meetings uro to be hold [ut any hour between one and nine'

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p. m. of Thursday April 7, the day previous to the county convention in this city. The precinct committeemen will no doubt report the precinct meetings, *and the time and place will be given extensive notice. The convention details were placed in the hands of the campaign committee, which is composed of Judge Erwin, D. E. Smith, Clark J. Lutz, J. T. Merryman, A. P. Beatty, Calvin Miller, H. S. Michaud and A. W. Carpenter, who will proceed to give us a convention that you read about. DIVORCE EVIL Becomes Alarming and New Laws Will be Enacted. Alive to the divorce evil, and anxious to have the opinion of churchmen, and lawyers on that important topic, Governor Durbin is sending communications to representatives citizens over Indiana for some expression regarding it. So great has the evil become that many are clamoring for the enactment of more stringent divorce laws It is said that the answers received by Governor Durbin may have great weight when his biennial message is formulated. The next legislature may be asked to take initiative steps in framing some kind of legislation, which may be used to fight the growing evil more successfully. It is common knowledge that divorces have increased 25 per oent in the past three years, and citizens everywhere, church going and others, are demand., ing some adequate regulation. Several thousand communications have been prepared by the governor to be sent over he state. Not only have private individuals over Indiana given expression to their condemnation of the evil, but associations, especially of ministers, have taken up cudgels in opposing it. The Indianapolis Ministers’ Association has had resolutions before it many times, calling for some action to combat divorces, but all have come to naught. If they do nothing more, Governor Durbin’s communications are expected to call the attention of the public again to the grave peril of home and state caused by the increasing number of divorces.

METHODIST TALK Number of Districts Will Very Probably be Increased. Concerning the plan to divide the Northern Indiana conference and give part of its territory to the Northwest Conference one of the officers of the Methodist church says: "The thing that probably will be done is tf> increase the number of districts in he North Indiana conference. At the present time there are six. If the new district is made Fort Wanye will lose the most territory. Kokomo and Warsaw will also tie lessened in size. Hunting, ton or Bluffton may be made the head of the new district. The Rev. L. J. Naftzger of Kokomo secretary of north Indiana oonferneoe.assisted by the Rev. 1). V. Williams of Kokomo and the Bev. L. A. Books of Bluffton his secretary is busy pro--1 paring the standing of forms of the I minutes of the conference which will be held in special attemjanoa I the first week tn April.