Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1904 — Page 1

VOLUME II

DAY CURRENT IS ASSURED

City Buys a New Engine and Dynamo

acceptance FORWARDED Machinery to Be Installed in Thirty Days Decatur Electric Plant Will Be ModernDay Service Promised Before Christmas Week. The day current of 'electricity is assured and within a very short time says Mayor Coffee. Within the next month the electric plant in Decatur will be one of the best in the state and will be in such condition that excellent service can be rendered to the patrons for ten years to come, practically without further investments in machinery. The plant at present and for more than a year past has been doing more than <I,OOO business each month and another year will double that amo ant if the business can be handled. The mayor and council have seen this for some time and have been arranging for it as rapidly as possible. Two immense new boilers have been installed. After this was done came the question of more power. The engine in use is a good one, but it was feared if a day current was added the load would be heavy and a breakdown would result, leaving us entirely without lights. The same was faared of the dynamo. While the council were bothering their nrains over this proposition, to remedy which meant the expenditure of many thousand dollars, a proposition was received from Elyria, Ohio, where an engine and dynamo, which a year ago cost <II,OOO were for sale at a bargain, the owner, Mr Johnson, desiring to put in a still larger plant. A committee, consisting of Councilmen Kirsch anil Buhler and Electrician Mylott were sent to Elyria to ex imine the outfit They found it first-class, as good as new, and, so reported to the council. Mr. Johnson offered the outfit for <2,900, guarantees it and will keep it in repair for sixty days. The financial arrangements to handled the deal have been completed and yesterday Mr. Johnson was notified that the deal was closed. The machinery will be here within fifteen days and within thirty days will be in running order. The day current will then be turned on and we can boast of a modern and complete electric plant. Mavor Coffee says the plant must be running hy Christmas week. The new service will be greatly appreciated by Decatur business men and will pay beyond any question.

HOME FROM ENCAMPMENT. L. C. Helm is at home from Indiunap dis, where he attended the ethte encampment of the I. O. 0. F. He is proud of the hon >r conferred upon him by his election as grand junior warden, and we don’t blame him. Within three years ho will hold the highest oflloe in the state order.

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A SURE SIGN Goose Bone Prophet Says Things That Make Us Shiver. A special from Reading, Penn., i says: Elias Hartz, the veteran | “Goose B ine Prophet,” has made I his annual prediction. His anI nounoement was awaited with in--1 terest by scores of porsons who have more faith in his predictions I than the weather bureau at Washi ington or the time honored almanacs. ‘‘Fill your coal bins and do it quickly, for we are going to have a severe winter,” is his latest warning. Just before predicting Mr. Hartz received a breast bone from a young goose hatched last spring. The bone is greatly discolored, dark lines covering both sides. Few light spots are shown. The heavy dark lines indicate a severe winter beginning early in November and lasting until late in the spring. The few light spots indicate a short duration of mild weather. Mr. Hartz said: “I have been making predictions from the goose bone sixty-five years [and never once have I missed. I have great faith in the goose bone. I was taught to read it when a young man and have followed its lines ever since. The bone I secured this fall is dark in color and we will have a severe winter. Those who have not yet done so had better lav in a good supply of coal and wood, for they will need it. My prediction that last winter would be a severe one was correct, and the bone of this year is still ■ darker than that of last fall. There will be numerous heavy snowstorms and an immense ice crop.” WILL CONTINUE World's Fair Will Not Hose While Weather is Good. It is believed the world’s fair will not close November 30, the date fixed by congress. The officials hope it will be allowed to run as long as the weather will permit. This became evident when it was announced that the time of the airship contests had been extended to December 5, and when Secretary Stevens said it was hoped the government would not object to open the gates as long as possible. The admission for the added period probably will be twenty-five cents. VOUCHERS ALLOWED United States War Department Remits Money Dae Indiana. Governor Durbin has just received notice from the war department that vouchers to the amount of <9,191.51 had been allowed the state of Indiana for money expended in the mobilization of the state troop for the Spanish-American war. This money was expended by the state after the {troops wore mustered into the government service. The claims had formerly been disallowed, but were granted under an act of April 27, 1904.

DECATUR, INDIANA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18. 1904.

RETURN HOME Boys Who Leave For South Soon Tire and Come Back. Huber Vanoamp and Willie Braun, the two little chaps who ran away from home Monday night stating that they were going south to spend the winter, and leaving this city on the cow catcher of the fast train on the Clover Leaf, returned by the same route last evening and are once more under the protection of their parents. Both boys are repentant and state that in the future they will be good. The boys say that after they left here they went as far west as St. Louis, where they stayed a day, being tired and hungry and wishing they were home, they by mutual consent again started on the long journey home. Both boys state that they have had enough of this kind of traveling and in the future expect to stay home where they can enjoy a goods bed and always have a full stomach. This will no dcubt prove to be a good lesson to the boys and one that they will always remember, and in the future when they are tempted with similar thoughts, the old version “that there is no place like home” will keep them in the right. THE BEAU NOTS Yount; Ladies Indulge in Their Weekly Pedro Battle. The Beau Not club met last evening in regular social session with Miss May Radamacher on North Second street, where a most enjoyable evening was spent. Pedro was the pastime. Misses Lettie Fullenkamp and Mayme Smith won the first prizes and Misses Viola Yager and Agnes Mylott the consolation prizes. Daring the evening a three course lunch was served, and at a late hour the club adjourned to meet next Thursday evening with Miss Viola Yager.

FOUR NEW CASES Lawyers Getting Busy — Two More Against Berne Canning Company. Four new cases were filed w ith the clerk of the Adams circuit court this morning. They were entitled Della F. Fetzer vs B. SV. Sholty, administrator, de bonis non, of the Walter A. Fetzer estate. Abe Hocker vs A. 8. Bowman, Berne Canning company and others, mechanics' Hen, demand <3O. Louis Habegger vs Berne Canning eompinyand others, mechanics’ lien, demand <2OO. Phillip B. Thomas vs Leander Johnson, suit on ac count, demand, <175. NEW STABLE James Rice Bulking Large Barn For Boarding Stable. James Rice the horseman, was today busily engaged in raising the frame for a ne.v big barn, which he Is o< instructing on the rear of his premises on First street and which when completed will be most modern and up to date. A large force of men are at work upon this structure, which will be completed by the first of January, 1905, and ready for use. Mi. Rice is building this barn to lie used as a boarding barn for horses owned by citizens, who have no place to keep them. When oompleed the barn will be thirty two feet long by twentyeight feet wide and will he made to stable twenty head of horses, which will lie the largest private stable in the city. Mr. Rice was forced to build this barn owing t > the fact that the stable he now has is insufficient to handle his business.

GET A HUMP Railroad Meeting Held Last Night It is Time For Everyone to Hustle For the Clover Leaf Railroad Subsidy. The Commercial club meeting last night was perhaps all that could be expected. It was well attended, although there was a notable absence of many of those who would Jbe greatly benefitted by the new addition to the business interests of our city. This absence was no particular defect in,the way of putting the campaign on its feet, but it is true that now is the time for every one who is interested in the future greatness of our city, to come out into the lime light, assume his share of the responsibilities and do his part toward making a reality, the 1 hopes that flutter in the breasts of every ' patriot. The meeting developed a discussion of the merits and issues to be presented. Every farmer in the township owes loyal support, if for no other reason, than that of reciprocity. a farmer assessed on ten thousand dollars valuation would have to pay ninety dollars toward the shops, it is true that every resident of the city who pays on one thousand dollars valuation, will have to pay one hundred dollars to the many macadam roads constructed and being constructed throughout the township. It is about a ten to one shot, and the farmer can afford to be generous even were there no other elements in favor of voting this subsidy. But the building up of Decatur means many things for the farmers and owners of farms near here. It adds value to realty, opens a new and better market for produce and everything raised on a farm. In addition to this the increase in taxable valuation that will be added by the railroad company will repay to the township in taxes the amount of the subsidy in less than five years. It is a real good business proposition. Good for the farmer, the business man, the banker, the laborer, the renter, in fact it is the liegiuning of future greatness and better things. It should be appreciated and indorsed by a majority that will note to the world at large, that we are alive to our ad van tages and interests.

ATHLETIC SHOW Prof. Pitts and His Class to Give an Exhibition. Prof. P. J. Pitts who is giving physical culture instructions to a class of twenty-five young men of this city informed us last evening that about the first of December it was his intention to give at the Bosse opera house an entertainment in which his class and himself would take part, giving a program consisting of bag punching, dumb l>ell exercise, club swinging ami boxing. He will be assisted in this entertanment by his wife, who lives as Indianapolis, and who is a great fencing artist. This performance will be a strictly moral one and an entertainment tha* the ladies as well as gentlemen can enjoy. The boxing bouts will bo conducted between men of his class who will bo evenly matched so as to insure a good exhibition. Mr. Pitts himself is a very clever artist and may import a scientific boxer from Chicago to give an exhibition against him. Prof. Pitts claims that his class is making great progress and all seem deeply interested in the work, and are now able to go on the stage and put up a creditable performance.

HE GOT AWAY Douglas Dudgeon Gave Berne Marshall a Merry Chase. In a recent issue we told of Mrs. Douglas Dudgeon telephoning to Sheriff Butler to secure help, saying her husband was breaking up the furniture. She was {referred to the Berne authorities and according to the following from the Willshire Herald, Douglas led th” Berne marshal a merry chase: On Thursday the marshal of Berne drove out to the Dudgeon farm and arrested the proprietor and took him to Berne for trial, and he was bound over to the next term of court. He came to the home of his brother, Frank, in Blackoreek township, Mercer county, Ohio, accompanied by the marshal of Berne, to secure bail. Failing to secure it there, they left the place. The marshal got out to open the gate and when Dudgeon drove through he forgot to stop, but continued on up the road at a very lively pace, and left the officer looking bewildered. Dudgeon drove to the home ’of his brother-in-law, R. H. Ainsworth, three miles north, and without telling his sister that there would probably be a man along looking for him, he went in and went to bed. The marshal went to the home of Mrs. Tiokel, a sister of Dudgeon, and not finding him there he followed on until he came to the farm of Mr. Ainsworth. Seeing Dudgeon's horse and buggy standing in the yard, he was sure that he had his prisoner located at last. He went to the house in ereat haste, and meeting Mrs. Ainsworth in the door he grabbed her very roughly and pushed her to one side and started on in the house. He next encountered Mrs. Ainsworth's sister, Mrs. Springer, who had been attracted bv the commotion outside. She was subjected to the same treatment as the first lady, and was handled even more roughly. The ladies not knowing his business, refused to let him enter the house. Seeing that he had made a blunder, he began to scrape and apologize but this had no effect on the ladies, and he was forced to remain outside until Mr. Ainsworth arrived home. Mr. Ainsworth was at one of the neighbors and was telephoned for. When he arrived home and heard what the gentleman from Indiana hal to say for himself. Mr. Ainsworth informed him that he was out of his jurisdiction and told him that Mr Dudgeon could go with him if he wished, but*that he could not enter the house or in any way disturb him, and more, that he would have to wait there until the marshal from Willshire Could come out and take charge of him. All this time Dudgeon was in the house asleep, md had no idea the excitement his escapade was causing. The marshal from Brine was brought to Willshire, but nothing was done about the mutter, and he was turned loose, and returned home sadder, but wiser. When last heard from Dudgeon was still at the home of his brother-in-law in Ohio. CHANGE MADE Judge Smith Retires and JudiJe LaFollette Assumes the Bench. John F. LaFollette became judge of the fifty-eighth judicial circuit of Indiana Thursday morning, John M . Smith vacating the bench after six years of very able service. The change in the judges was attended with very little ceremony. Only a few members of the bar were present, they seemingly having overlooked the fact that sometiling was to happen which comes only once in every six years, if that often. After taking the bench Judge LaFollette announced that there will be no more court until the December term.—Pi rtland Cum tneroia I - R e v le w.

NUMBER 26<i

AGENTS’ TRAIN Clover Leaf Carried Visiting Agents Ticket Men From Other Roads Enjoyed Hospitality of the T. St. L. & W. Ctmpany. A special train carrying nothing but ticket agents of other connecting lines, passed through this city at 12:30 o’clock last night over the Clover Leaf railroad enroute to St. Louis, where they will spend a week taking in the sights. The Clover Leaf gave this opportunity to the ticket agents to advertise the line, so that they might know what kind of a line they were ticketing their passengers over and to encourage the business of other roads over the Clover Leaf line. Tne train was known as the “Ticket Agents’ Special,” and made no long stops until Charleston, 111., was reached, here breakfast was served. They arrived in St. Louis today at noon. The train was well filled and was under the sjiecial supervision of one of the big officials of the road, and every want of their guests was'attended to promptly, and every one made to enjoy the trip to the utmost. The .train was one of the best equipped on the road. Tnis event was something out of the ordinary and the Clover Leaf is being congratulated for so successfully car-ying out such a task. A NEW RUMOR Indianapolis Star Says Clover Leaf Stock is Being Pooled.

An interesting story oomes from Toledo in connection with the ' Clover Leaf railroad. The report is that the stock is now being pooled. It is understood that the terms of 1 the pooling arrangement are that the present holders of stock will get 35 for the common and 55 for the preferred. These prices are of ! course, above the present market value. It is hardly possible that . the whole stock will be sold at any I such price, since it is known that i the railroad was offered for sale several months ago to some of the larger railroad interests at 12‘. 2 . The present holders, therefore, i while they bought the road for | perhaps a little higher figure than I that, are not likely to be able to | dump it upon the Morgan interests lor anyone else for anything like 50 lor 55 for the preferred.—lndianapolis Star. TO UNITE Indiana Traction Companies to Perfect Organization. A movement has been started looking to closer relations among the various electric traction lines of the state. Nothing in the na ture of a trust or merger is contemplated, however. The proposed agreement will have nothing to do with fares, but will be for the common benefit of the companies along mechanioa* lines and probably will regulate the manner of freight from one traction line to another and the sale of interchangeable mileage books. There is a great demand for an agreement in these two matters. The arrangements are not perfected. It is thought that if worked out as planned the freight business of the electric roads will bo increased cjnsiderably.