Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1907 — Page 1

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A SOCIAL SESSION Commercial Club Entertains this Evening BE A BOOSTER FOR DECATUR Mr. C. H. Rittenhouse and Col Hal! to be Entertained at the Commercial Club. A social session will be held at the Commercial Club this evening, beginning at eight o’clock. The public and especially the business men are invited there to meet Mr. C. H. Rittenhouse of Jackson, Mich., and Col. Marin E. Hall of Detroit. These two capitalists want to locate a manufacturing industry—the kind that no enterprising city can afford to turn down. Come and spend a social hour and get interested in boosting for the best people in the best town on earth. 0 NEWS FROM THE COURT HOUSE A Marriage License—Application for Notary Commission. A marriage license has been issued to Mr. Albert Hnser. aged twenty-five and Miss Elvaline Liddy, aged twentytwo. Both are clerks at Berne. The groom is the son of Jacob Huser. Frank C. Foreman of Berne, has filed application for an appointment as a notary public.

Jury commissioners Molta and Dunbar are both out of the county this week and the selection of the petit jury for the February term of court has therefore been delayed. It will be chosen tomorrow. doingToFtoday In the Indiana Legislature A SPEECH BY JOHN MITCHELL Purdue Bill Was Tabled For Good —Sessions to Be Held Tomorrow Morning. (Scripps-Mcßae Special.) Indianapolis, Feb. 1. The senate heard John Mitchell at the opening of today's session. Mitchell talked on mines and mining, also on child lab or. Immediately afterwards the sen ate adjourned until Saturday morning at ten o'clock. Several important committee meetings were held this a ternoon. The house today indefinitely postponed the Purdue I niversit> nsolu tlon permitting that institution to conduct a medical college in .udianai olis. At least 300 doctors were present to lobby the bill through and ma showed anger at the failu!e ° house to put through their pe ure. To cap the climax the on.. moved to reconsider and this m was tabled, clinching the matt' i cannot be brought up again , . house members felt like t ey want to meddle in the Ifight. The house adopted the minor' . port favoring the passage o raising the amount of mon ' emption to SI2OO. The ' senate spent the morn ‘“ g discussing the high license will continue the discussion Monday afternoon. Both the house and senate ’‘.’*2? a short session tomorrow morning-

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JUDGE ERWIN AT INDIANAPOLIS Was Called There on Business From Bluffton Court. The Blauser divorce case is still on trial in circuit court and may last the remainder of the week. Every point is being bitterly contested and the feeling between the two sides seems to be very bitter. Witnesses for the plaintiff testified that Blauser mistreated his wife, by making her work, not only in the house, but in the fields and that he struck her. She is suing for $5,000 alimony which, if granted, must come from a farm of 118 acres not yet paid for and it is the alimony that is one of the causes of the hard fight. About forty witnesses from Jefferson township are in attendance. Judge Erwin, who is presiding in the case, went to Indianapolis on business this afternoon at 3:25 and had to adjourn court until tomorrow.— Bluffton News. THE FACTORY NEWS Krick 4 Tyndall Again Improving FURNACE COMPANY IS MOVING Nine Men Working at Whipstock Factory—Waring Glove Company Pushing—Van Camp Busy. The Krick & Tyndall Company are running on full time, thirty odd employees being busy making large sewer tile for shipment to various points in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. This plant is the second largest in the state and for equipment ranks first. They are now arranging for still greater improvements. An elevated side track for dumping coal will be put into operation. This little bit of railroad building will cost them $1,500, but when complete will save them an average cost of $4 a car for unloading coal Last year they consumed 160 cars of coal and this year the amount estimated will be 200 cars, so the actual saving will be great, besides the time. They are also going to install a 150-horse power corless engine. The Decatur Furnace Company are moving into their new buildings this week. Several cars of their stock has already arrived from Angola and by the end of the week it is thought that all machinery will be under roof in this city. It will take a month, perhaps, to install everything for running and after that time it is expected to make this industry one of the best in its line. Their furnace is a success, the one being operated in this office heats a room 22x132 feet and does it with less fuel than three stoves did any winter previous. It is the intention of the company to push the manufacturing of these furnaces to' the limit.

The Whipstock and Handle Factory, a new Decatur industry located in the Van Camp building, known to our people as the old Lynch factory, is busy making an exceptionally good whip stock and hatchet handle. Nine men besides Mr. York, the manager, is employed by this little factory and they are not idle a minute. The output of the Waring Glove Co. for the next eight months is already sold and now that institution with its 100 employees are trying to satisfy a hungry horde of wholesalers who bought, hoping for early shipments. Their Huntington factory is likewise pushed with orders. The Van Camp Machine Works is doing a rushing business, the lead being given the Van Camp cistern top. Mail orders come daily and in quantities for this special piece of iron. The general business of this concern is growing rapidly and additional room will soon be necessary to keep pace with their business. — o — The Bluffton school board has decided to abandon the summer grade schools which have been conducted in that city for several years and the cummer season will be given over entirely to vacation.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening February I, 1907.

METHODISTS READY FOR CONFERENCE The Northern Indiana Conference Will Meet at Logansport This Year

APRIL TENTH TO FIFTEENTH . I Bishop McDowell of Chicago, Will Pre- 1 side —Many Prominent People , on the Program. 1 ■ < Decatur Methodists are already taking a keen interest in the forthcoming ( North Indiana conference session at Logansport in April which will attract ] hundreds of members of the church. 1 Some of the greatest men of the de- ’ nomination will take part in the pro- ( ceedings. The conference will be held in the Market street M. E. church April 10 to 15. i Bishop McDowell of Chicago will i preside during the sessions of the conference. Prominent ministers and educators will also be on the program for from one to a half dozen lectures, addresses and sermons. All the leading church organizations, publications, etc., will be on hand with representatives. It is expected there will be 500 people from out of town in attendance. The principal speakers on the program thus far are: Rev. W. F. Anderson, New York, international secretary of the board of education, who will deliver the anniversary sermon of the educational society. Rev. J. H. Fitzwater, Delaware, 0., i district secretary in home missionary work, will deliver the address on “The

CARRIED BIG LOAD Now Fred Blazer is Dodging the Officers TRIED TO CLEAN MISSION HALL J. B. Stoneburner Took a Hand and Files Affidavit Against the Young Man. Fred Blazer a young man of local reputation is at present running at large endeavoring to avoid being arrested by the police on a charge of prvooke, that was filed last evening by John B. Stoneburner, before Squire Smith. During yesterday Blazer had managed in some way to get on board an overdose of rye and while doing so made many threats that he would clean out the revival services that were going on at the Mission Hall. About six o’clock he went to the church and started in to abuse Rev. I Hopkins, swearing and cursing in a frightful manner. To avoid Blazer, Rev. Hopkins stepped into the Pictorium and Blazer followed, still persisting in cursing the preacher. It was at this time that Stoneburner took a hand and put Blazer out of his place of business,rand ordered him to stay away. This so enraged the young man that he turned his curses upon Stoneburner. The police were summoned and started in pursuit of Blazer who made his escape and is still at large. When arrested he will have to answer to several charges, as Rev. Hopkins will also prefer charges against him. Such young men should be put some place where they will learn to behave themselves.

FEARS A WAR WITH JAPANESE President Says They Are Brave and Resourceful. Washington, Feb. I.—The gravity of the situation between Japan and this country has not been over-estimat-ed, according to a member of the delegation who saw the president Wednesday night. According to him the president spoke as follows: “Me must settle this squabble with Japan at once. You do not imagine what war with Japan would mean. We are bickering with a proud and brave people with untold resources. That mayor of yours may think war with Japan amounted to nothing, but war with item was not war with Japan."

Anniversary of the Home Missionary Society.” Rev. F. H. Sheets, Chicago, general missionary secretary, speaks on “The Anniversary of the Foreign Missionary Society.” Rev. Edward Thompson, San Antonio, Texas, general manager of the Sunday league of America, will speak of the work of the league. Rev. C. C. Cissell, Anderson, will deliver the annual temperance sermon. Rev. C. O. Merica, Warsaw, will present the work of the M. E. Hospital and Deaconess’ Home of Indiana. Rev. Steven J. Herben, Chicago, editor of the Epworth Herald, will speak on Epworth League work. President Hughes of DePauw is on the program for three lectures on evangelistic work. D. C. J. Little of Garrett Biblical institute, Evansville, will deliver the conference lecture on Friday evening, April 12. On Sunday during the conference, leading ministers will occupy various pulpits throughout the city. Bishop McDowell preaches at the Market street church in the morning. Sunday April 14, will be the big day of the session. After the bishop’s sermon in the morning there will be ordination of deacons. Sunday afternoon there will be memorial services followed by ordination of elders. This will be the second time in the history that the North Indiana conference has been held in Logansport, the conference having been entertained at the Broadway M. E. church eleven years ago.

SURPRISE VICTIMS Mr. and Mrs. Clark J. Lutz Were Taken in SEVERAL COUNTRY PARTIES Dinner Parties, Surprise Parties and Other Social Events of Last Evening. BY PEARL BURDG. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Lutz were the victims of a delightful surprise last evening, given by Miss Bessie Parker. The guests assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mills on Mercer avenue, and went from there to Brookside Farm. The special amusements of the evening were games and music. In the boot and shoe contest, Mrs. Dugan took the honors. Mrs. Lutz gave some of her fine piano selections, which everyone enjoyed, after which each guest brought forth his well-filled basket that they had prepared and seating themselves on the library floor in a picnic style, proceeded in giving an elaborate picnic supper, and then closing with the glorious old hymn, “Nearer, My God to Thee." Those present were: Messrs, and Mesdames C. A. Dugan, Ernsberger, W. H. Nachtrieb, J. C. Patterson, J. N. Fristoe, C. Colter, F. V .Mills, C. F. True, F. M. Schirmeyer, Ed Lyons. E. B. Adams, Wesley Hoffman, and Mastick, and Messrs. Rev. Fowler, Hugh Hite, Kelley, Oscar Hoffman, Will Schrock, W. L. Lehne, and Misses Marie Patterson, Nellie Schrock, Edna Hoffman, Rose Dunathan, Emma Byerly, Irene Schirmeyer, Bessie Parker, Frances Dugan and Pearl Lyons. A crowd of young people drove to the country home of Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Bowser, south of Peterson in response to invitations issued by Miss Anna Bowser, for an evening party, last evening. The luncheon which was served, was elegant and each guest did justice to it. The guests were the Misses Anna Amspaugh, Bessie Baumgartner, Dessie Beery, Pearl Purdy, Lucile Cusac, Velma Schroll, Lilah Lachot, and Nellie Simison of Berne, and Messrs. Harry Welty, Otis Dibble, Ben Beavers, Ed Bowsman, Frank Mills, Ed Coffee, Howard Wisehaupt and Ross Mills. A pleasant event of Tuesday evenContinued on Page 2.

ENJOY AN EVENING OF MUSIC Happy Event Occurs at the William Scherer Home. The hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. William Scherer, near Monroe, was he scene of a happy gathering last evening. The event included a six o’clock dinner, one of the Scherers’ famous feasts, followed by an evening of music, the principal actor being Prof. Withaus of Berne, one of the most famous pianists and violinists in the country. This noted musician has been a music student for years, studied abroad and appeared before nearly all the crowned heads of Eur-

ope. His health failed and he recently located at Berne, coming from Chicago. Others present were Mr. Wilbur Nussbaum of Berne, Jacob Kalver and Phil Macklin of this city, Miss Effie Reicheldeifer of Geneva, and Messrs. Murray Scherer and Leonard Smith and Miss Ethel Smith of Monroe. Another enjoyable feature of the evening was two pretty solos sang by little Miss Ona Davis. o THE STATE CAPITOL Legislative Gossip as Seen by Blodgett IN FAVOR OF THE LANDLORD Representative Vizard and Dr. Hurty Have a Round —Bingham Likely to Win Out. Levi Mock of Bluffton, the tallest man in Indiana, is in town and is visiting the members of the House and Senate just to prove his social qualities. “I have a little resolution here," said Senator Forkner of Madison and Henry, “that I will introduce when I get a chance. It is to have the Railroad commission investigate the kidnapping of George Rhodius. They have investigated everything else around here.” Harry Smith of Hartford City, banker and magnate, was in the Senate looking after some bills. "The only thing I am interested in,” said the genial Harry, “is a bill to pension exSenators and Representatives." The measure introduced by Senator Cavins and having to do with the appropriation of crops by a tenant was passed by a vote of 31 to 10. According to this measure the punishment for a tenant who appropriates any part of a landlord's crops shall be a prison sentece of from one to three years, or a maximum jail sentence of six months, to which may be added a fine not to exceed SIOO. From the best information obtainable, it appears that the senate committee on elections will decide the Bingham-Talcott contest case in favor of Senator E. Volney Bingham, the Democrat, whose seat is being contested by former Senator Thad M. Talcott. The feeling seems to be that the contestant has not made a case sufficiently strong to warrant the committee in recommending that Bingham be ousted. Representative Vizahl of Adams, is a physician with a large practice. Dr. Hurty is secretary of the state board of health and when Dr. Hurty’s bill was up for consideration Dr. Vizard said things. He charged that Dr. Hurty was a persistent and obnoxous lobbyist. Dr. Hurty said that he had saved Dr. Vizard's life when the latter was suffering from small-pox, and this was the return he was getting. Dr. Vizard declares that Dr. Hurty’s life-saving story is a vision of Dr. Hurty’s mind. And that is where the matter stands up to this time. The men do not speak as they pass. o HAVE A MILLION DOLLAR FIRE Scripps-Mcßae Special. Harrisburg, Feb. I.—The opera house was destroyed, two hotels wrecked, another theatre damaged and _ i—ukr r ’ rl’. dirt;- gutted in a $1,000,000 hie here today. At noon it was still burning, but was under control. It started in the basement of the opera house.

CAN’T LOSE THEM Need the Negros for Election Purposes WALL STREET FINANCIERS Many Indiana People Writing for Places—The President to Speak at Canton, Ohio.

Washington, Feb. I.—The administration is in a quandry over the canal contract. Two official notices have come from the White House within the last five days, one that W. J. Oliver, the lowest bidder and his associates would receive the contract, and one that no assurances had been given Oliver that he would get the contract. The fact seems to be that Oliver was in a fairway to get the contract until representations were made at the White House by prominent Republicans that there might be political dynamite in Oliver’s plan to take from 25,000 to 100,000 negroes from the United States to work on the canal. It was pointed out that once the contractors got colored help on the isthmus they would insist on the men staying there. Fear was expressed lest about next election time the cry should be raised that the party in power was holding a large number of negroes in peonage on the canal work. Washington, Feb. 1. —A number of Indiana people are writing to Washington in the hope of being appointed to positions as inspectors under the new pure food law, apparently not knowing that to obtain such a place it is necessary to first pass the civil service examination. The first examination for this work will be held on February 5. As all the places are thoroughly covered by civil service it is absolutely impossible to land such jobs by political influence. Washington, Feb. 1. —President Roosevelt will deliver the prinicpal address at the dedication of the McKinley memorial at Canton, 0., the latter part of next September. The in- ( vitation to him to speak was conveyed to him by Vice President Fairbanks and Justice Day of the Supreme court, today, both members of the commission that raised the money for the building of the memorial.

IN GOOD CONDITION Pres. Kelley of Earlham Praises Our Schools GAVE AN INTERESTING TALK Instructive to the Students and Praised the Condition of Our Schools. Robert L. Kelley, president of the Earlham College of Richmond, also state inspector of public schools, was in the city this morning for the purpose of inspecting the new addition to the Central school building and the work of the teachers in general. Mr. Kelly visited each room in the building and gave interesting and instructive talks to the pupils and teachers. Durnig his discourse he urged that young people should so take care of themselves that they will have strong physical constitutions, as wen who want helpers are looking for strong physical constitutions, as men emphasis of his speech, however, was directed to the esentiality of honest and perfect lives in attaining to the high positions that are awaiting the maturity of the students. “Young people must know something. There is a demand for men and women who know' one or two things well,” said the inspector in closing his speech, and in fact, many instructive thoughts were presented to the pupils and teachers that will certainly be a great benefit to them. Mr. Kelly stated that we have a good school and our corps of teachers are pursuing the right lines in giving the boys and girls of ' Decatur, a good education. He left for his home at Richmond this afternoon.

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