Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 28, Number 48, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 29 January 1908 — Page 1

YOL. XXVIII.

NUNtON REVIVAL CLOSED MONDAY OVER TWO HUNDRED CONVERSIONS DURING MEETINGS. GO TO ALL CHURCHES. Closing Night a Love Feast Fop The Evangelist Party And Their Followers. The union revival closed in Nappanee Monday night' with a great meeting aji the Auditorium—a love feast ji for the evangelistic party and their ! Christian followers. Over two hundred men, women, and children were brought to the Christ through this union effort inaugurated by the four churches, the Methodist, Evangelical, United Brethren, and Presbyterian. However, everybody, , Christian and non-Christian, almost, assisted in the work by contributing to the expense fund or to the poor fund, or with their presence, and voice during the three weeks the meetings continued.

It was the first organized campaign for the Christian cause ever inaugurated in Nappanee, and the results show that, nothing went amiss in its conduct from the beginning to the close of the effort. The results far exceed anything ever known in this part of the State among churches. \ The closing meeting of Monday night added two more converts to the list, and thirteen persons stood up when the evangelist sought to know how many were converted away from .. the meetings. Dr. Hobson talked about twenty minutes Monday evening, thereat of the time was taken up with song and ..the Y. M. C. A. farewell circle, and finding church homes- for the new followers. The Y. M. C. A. farewell Circle was made by the new converts and others taking hold of hands and completely encircling the Auditorium floor, singing a number of songs. Cards gpon which each new convert could designate the preference for a church home were handed out. These were filled out and.the cards given to each minister present by Rev. Rand. The preferences represented all of the, ~ ten churches of Nappanee,,and one ib the country." In fact, a large number went to churches 1 t in the union meetings'. v_Tfais is also tiplcalof the dlstribution-of the benefits to the community at large. The Hobson party left Tuesday morning for Richmond, Ind., where they Will fill an engagement. The blessings and the best wishes of Nap panee Christian people generally will j. attend these remarkably successful workers for the Master In the field to which they have gone. Arrangements and announcements were made that there will he a union prayer-meetibg at the Evangelical church tomorrow, Thursday night, and union church services Sunday evening at the Methodist church. It is the purpose of the four pastors engaged in these union services to con-" tinue the Sunday night union services in the various churches represented for a number of weeks, also the prayer meetings Announcement of these, however, will be made later on when the pastors have their next business meeting on The n6w converts whb have designated where they prefer to find a church home Will be received next Sunday morning by the various churches to which they have, by card, already made their desires know.

FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. . ur - To be Held in Elkhart Next Month in G. A. R. Hall. The third farmers’ institute for the present winter in this county will be held at Elkhart to the Gr. A. R. hall Thursday and Friday, Feb. 13-14. The program for the meeting Is now being arranged. E. C. Martindale will be the state speaker and among the local workers are Mrs. Foster Berkey, Mrs. Seth Mannihg and Mrs. LeTl Burkett. The boys who participated in the corn contest will also have a part in the program, a review of their work and of the corn school at Purdue university being a feature of the institute. —“Doan’s Ointment cured me of eczema that had annoyed me a long time. The cure was permanent/*— Hon. S. W. Matthews, Commissioner Labor Statistics, Augusta, Me.

THE NAPPANEE NEWS.

A WOMAN’S CLUB. ’•■ , . Nappanee Ladies Have Formed a Literary Club. About a dozen ladies met at the home of Mrs. Prank Coppes Monday afternoon and organized a woman’s literary club. The club will be known as the Current Club. The meetings of the Current Club will be held every two weeks on Monday afternoon at 2:30. The first meeting will be next Monday at the home of Mrs. H. E. Zook on North Madison street. Jailed For Wife Desertion. On complaint of his wife, Mrs. Ida llostetter-Anderson, who resides with her parents near Middlebury, Grover C Anderson was arrested on a charge of wife desertion and is now in the county jail in default of a bail bond of SSOO. • Auto Damaged. From a fire which had a mysterious origin, indicating that it may have been incendiary, an Apperson automobile owned by A. E. Arisman and which stood in the private garage at his residence in Elkhart, was damaged to the extent of S4OO. elkhartrobberieTcontinue SEVERAL STORES BURGLARIZED AND THIEVES CAUGHT. Helfrick & Son and Shafer & Schult Victims of Show Case Thieves —Billiard Hall Robbed. The Elkhart police continue to have plenty of business in apprehending thieves who are either numerous, or experts in covering a big territory in a short time. An outside show case in front of H. Helfrick & Son’s store on South Main street was broken into Friday night and ten woolen shirts stolen, valued at sls. ■ The dental office of Dr. Frank Adams was entered and filling gold valued at S7O taken. The time lock on the safe Wa's tampered with, bub it could not be opened. . Upon further investigation Saturday forenoon Shafer & Schult found that the case in front of their south end store had been burglarized- before the police discovered it, and think the thieves had opened it. Four or five pairs of cuff buttons worth from fifty cents to a dollar a pair and a few neckties had been taken, About one week ago Dr. C. M. Dowell’s office was entered and filling gold to the, value of SSO was secured. F. 1. Gerden, whose business card showed that he had been in thfi'upholstering business at Tnd., and Edward Anglemeyer are locked up in the city jail, the self-confessed plunderers of both gliow cases,

FARM BARN BURNED. Thirteen Head of Cattle Perish in The Flames—Horses Rescued. Sunday night the farm barn of jSluier Hahn northwest of Wakarusa was destroyed by fire. The horses were rescued but lit head of cattle were cremated, and the other contents of the barn, such as hay, grain, and tools were a total loss. The News did not learn the origin of the lire or whether there was any insurance on thebuiiding or contents. Verdict for Defendant in Truancy Case. At Elkhart Bert Fuller was charged with allowing Leslie, eleven years old, to remain out of school. Complaint was made by Truant Officer Heefner and Fuller was summoned to appear in Justice Brumbaugh’s court. Fuller demanded a jury trial. .After school hours Friday the trial was started and the. truant officer and two teachers of the school were the chief witnesses for the State. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Darling and C. E. Frank were the lawyers. At 8 o’clock Friday night the jury brought in a verdict of acquittal. The jury in this case was a trying portion. Conviction of Fuller would have meant the imposition of a fine of at least $5 and the payment of the costs—s3,s or S4O at best. He had lately secured a position and an earnest plea was made to give him a chance. Jt is now believed that the verdict in this case will be used as an excuse by poor people for not sending their children to school. ■ \ _ Bad Stomach Trouble Cured. Having been sick for the past two’ years with a bad stomach trouble, a friend gave me a dose of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They did me So much good that I bought a bottle of them and have used twelve bottles in all. To-day lam well of a bad stomach trouble.—Mrs. Lowe Cooper, Maine. These tablets are-for sale by J. S. Walters.

NAPPANEE, ELKHART COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, J

COBB SETTLEMENT MADE FOB $l,lOO THIS AMOUNT WITH OVER $4,500 PAID BEFORE. CRIMINAL CASE STILL ON f: , Civil Suit For Accounting Reaches Judgment in Circuit Court First Day. Judgment for sl,l-60 as the total amouotdue the township in all funds by ex-Trustee Geo. Cobb was rendered by Judge James S. Dodge Saturday afternoon. This is over and above the amounts paid in by Mr. Cobb *nd bis bondsmen in the past without demand or litigation. The judgment of the court embraced such items as $650 for buggy hire, $375 for office rent, S6O for care of office, and similar items for small amounts. Tbe Goshen Democrat says that the ruling of the court was that when a township advisory board passes on and approves of the reports of a trustee, such action is final, unless it is established that fraud exists, iQ the Cjjbb case the plaintiff was unable to prove that fraud existed between the extrustee and the members of the advisory board. The advisory board would meet and go over the additions made by tbe trustee, then marking the reports approved. No Inquiry was made into the genuineness of the various items of the reports. The advisory board had audited and approved Cobb’s reports from 1903 to and Including 1906, which, under the ruling, made it impossible to recover anything covering that period. The judgment rendered is on the 1907 transactions. Prior to the judgment given, Cobb and his bondsmen bad pai<hoYerss,7l4.26. Since the inquiry into Cobb’s affairs he Has. reimbursed the township to the extent of $6,864/26,' • '

The defense stated they were ready to admit that Mr. Cobb may not have been a9 competent as some inen or possessed of as high business judgment, but contended that all his acts were ftf good faith and that the township received value for every cent in vested, although the funds may have become entangled and tbe accounts of each fund mixed. An offer to Confess a shortage of SI,OOO was made by tbedefense before the case went to trial. Since Cobb’s final reckoning with the advisory board commenced,’ Cobb has paid to the township’s account, $5,714.2§. Thisamount was recovered through tbe efforts of the advisory board, Mr. Learning and Davis & Schaefer, attorneys for the township. The following statements show tbe money recovered: By cash paid the advisory board after auditing the books, Sept. 25, 1907, $2,660.25. By cash to county auditor following Cobb’s resignation December 6, 1907, $643.26. ' , - By cash paid Trustee F. B. Learning, Dec. 16, 1907, upon demand upon errors found, $1,253.75. By cash Dec, 7, 1907, on an error, $7. By judgment on bond, Jan. 25,1908, $1,150. * At thistjme the embezzlement case, is still pending in tbe superior court.

Suicided at Warsaw. Guy Bash, aged 18 years, committed suicide at Warsaw Saturday night. He saturated the bed sheet with chloroform, wrapped it about his head, then turned on the gas. The suicide left no explanation. Saturday - night he was in company with Miss Myrtle Winebrenner, aged 16 years, to whom it was supposed by Intimate friends that he was engaged. He once lived in Goshen, To Whom It Concerns. All those having accounts with me will please call and settle same this week,at millinery store. 48wl Miss Lena Heplkr. — . __ , ... How is Your Digestion. Mrs. Mary Dowling of No. 228 Bth Ave., San Francisco, recommends a remedy for stomach trouble. She says: “Gratitude for the wonderful effect of Electric Bitters In a case of acute indigestion, prompts this testimonial. I am fully convinced that for stomach and liver troubles Electric Bitters is the best remedy on the market today.” This great tonic and alterative medicine invigorates the system, purifies theffjlood and is especially helpful in all forms of female weakness. 50c. at J. S. Walters’ drug store.

ELKHART COUNTY MEN. Appointed Delegates to National Rivers and Harbor Congress. At the waterways convention held in Indianapolis Tuesday and Wednesday, of last week, the following delegates were appointed to the National Kivers and Harbors Congress to be held in Washington, D. C.: Mayor Charles Rutller, F. E. C. Hawks and E. E. Mummert, of Goshen; E. L. Arnold, C. M. Lounsberry and J. A. Bell, Elkhart; C. W. Scott, Warsaw. Anthony Deahl of Goshen was made vice-chairman for the Thirteenth district- of the Indiana branch of the waterways commission. Fight Results in Murder. In a fight between A1 Teeples and Joseph Ballinger, two farmers residing near Teegarden, Teeples was killed. The latest reports from there say Teeples was not killed from Injuries received during the fight 6ut died of heart trouble during the affray. He was a man about 45 years of age and leaves a family. Ballinger is adout 30 years old and is also married. The-trouble started over some corn that Teeples had purchased of Ballinger.

CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOLS THE SCHEME TO IMPROVE THE TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS. The Law Had Its Origin in Indiana— Schools of Twelve or Less Pupils Must Close. When Ward J. Miller of Kalamazoo, Midh., was here on business, he alluded with pride to the fact that he is a chairman of the board of trustees of the first important consolidated rural school in Michigan and he was somewhat surprised to learn that Indiana originated the idea and worked at it long before other states took it up, says the Elkhart Truth. The extent to which solidation of country schools has gone Is astonishing, even to Indiana people. Elkhart’s neighbor, LaGrange, probably has more and better consolidated schools than any county in the United States, and in various parts of the state the system is working beautifully. It is a practical outcome of the growth of combinations in everything and few are they who say that the change is not a good manifestation. The school to which' Mr. Miller alluded to is indeed an object of pride. The Comstock school, just out of Kalamazoo, was organized a year and a half ago. The board has spent $5,000 on the buildingp-has' several rigs and the is prospering. There are six teachers and the pupils heretofore subjected to poor teaching aTe now getting as good -high school courses as the city children are. It is the pioneer in that state. Indiana has the most advanced laws on the subject. The idea worked out all right years ago. and the.. Legislature has followed it up. TXji ThA latest law on the subject requires the trustees to close up any school which has twelve pupils or any less number and to send such pupils to an adjacent school, providing transportation for. those at a distance of over two miles. In cases where there are no more than fifteen pupils the trustees have the option of closing. - Some of the consolidated schools have eight teachers and are as complete as City schools. The children are gathered for five or six miles and carried back to their homes In the evening. In Lima township, LaGrange county, there is ho school except the one drrthe village, and it has an attendance of over 400. ’

ERNEST IS INSANE. Expert Accountant Afflicted With a Cancer. , • 4 William H. Ernest of Blufftou, Ind., the expert accountant, who in 1898 was in Goshen to audit the books of Win. H. Holdeman and Frank G. Romaine, has lost his mind and become a mental wreck. His condition Is due to a cancer on his face. Mr. Ernest knows people but seems to have no understanding of current events, his mind going into the past whenever he engages in conversation. „ He is able to be up and around the house, but is very weak physically. The cancer is steadily eating its way over his face the lips and forehead now being slowly consumed. Physicians say,the man may live for many months and may die at any time. He Is not aware of his awful affliction and in his demented mind he is living In the'past when he enjoyed his health. He is now at Marietta, Ohio. —lmpure blood runs you downmakes you an easy victim for organic diseases. Burdock Blood Bitters purifies the blood—cures the cause —builds you up.

TWO REPUBLICAN CALLS ARE MADE NOMINATE SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE FEBRUARY 3. %• - , * -• uconvention and meeting Precinct Meetings Will be Held on January 31. Three Different Delegates to Name. Tbe Republicans of Elkbart and St. Joseph counties are hereby called to meet in delegate convention in the city of Elkbart, Monday, Feb. 3rd, 1908. at 2 p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for judge of the Elkbart and St. Joseph superior court district, The. basis of representation in said convention will be the same as that designated by the Republican state committee. FIiANK M. CIMIIEKMAN, Chairman of St. Joseph Cos. Wilson Roose, Chairman of Elkhart Cos. REPUBLICAN MEETING. The RepubliCaus of Elkhart county are hereby requested to meet in mass conventibns by districts at the places hereinafter designated on Friday, Jan. 31st, 1908, at 7;30 p. m. for the purpose of transacting the following business, to-wit: Ist, for the election of one delegate and alternate from each of said districts to the convention to be held at Plymouth, lnd., on Tuesday, Feb. 4th, 1908, for the purpose of Dominating a representative in congress for the thirteenth congressional district. Also for the election of two delegates and two alternates to the national Republican convention and for the nomination of one presidential elector. ' | 2nd, for the election of one delegate , and one alternate from each of said districts to the state convention lobe held at Indianapolis, Wednesday and Thursday, April Ist and 2nd, 1908. 3rd, for the election of one delegate and one alternate from each of said districts to the judicial convention to be held at Elkhart on Monday, Feb. 3rcL JJIOB, at 1:30 p. m. to nominate a ‘candidate for superior judge for the Elkbart-St. Joseph superior court. Said district meetings are to be held as follows.

1 delegate, Benton towDship, Benton school house. 1 delegate, Concord township, Ist precinct, Kimbark factory. 1 delegate, Concord township, 2, 3 and 5, Braden’s shop, West Jackson street. 1 delegate, Concord township, 4 and 7, City Hall. * 1 delegate, Concord township, 6 and 20, cemetery, sexton’s office. 1-delegate, Concord township, 8 and 9, Dr. Miles’ barn. 1 delegate, Concord township, 10 and 11, Thomas’ shop, Fremont street. . 1 delegate, Concord township, 12 and 13, Ci£y Hall. 1 delegate, Concord township, 14 and 19, Mann’S lumber yard office. 1 delegate, Concord township, 15, 16 and 17, Wambaugh’s milk depot, South BixthstfeM. 1 delegate, Concord township, 18, 21 and 22, Kelly’s Foundry. 1 delegate, Elkhart township, 1 and 5, Council chamber. 1 delegate, Elkhart township, 2 and 3, Charles Butts’ barber shop. 1 delegate, Elkhart township, 4 and 6, Noble’s hose house. 1 delegate, Elkhart township, 7 and 12, Thomas-Albright company. 1 delegate, Elkhart township, 8 and 10, Kelly’s Foundry. 1 delegate, Elkhart township, 9 and 11, Chas. Cline’s pl*mbingshop. - - 1 delegate, Harrison township, Harrison Center school bouse. - 1 delegate, Locke township, Wahl’s marble shop. 1 delegate, Union township, Ulery’s Implement store. 1 delegate, Middlebury and York townships, Tow Middlebury. 1 delegate, Olive and Baugo town* ships, Town Hall, Wakarusa. 1 delegate, Osolo and Cleveland townships; Lien’s livery barn, Elkhart. 1 delegate, Jackson and Clinton townships, New Paris school bouse. 1 delegate, Washington and Jefferson* townships, opera house, Bristol. Wilson Roose, Chairman, Georoe E. Shaw, Secretary.

NEW JEFFERSON ATTRACTIONS. Number of Offering That Appeal to Nappanee Theatergoers. Theatergoers of Nappanee and vicinity will be intercsted’in a number of announcements made by the management of the New Jefferson theater in Goshen relative to coming attractions. Friday night, February 7th, a ripping musical comedy called “The Black Politician” will be given by,Gus Hill’s The Smart Set, the finest organization of colored entertainers now traveling. This show abounds in fun and song and is one of the best of its kind in the country.' Monday night February 10th, Nixon & Zimmerman’s big production of “The Gingerbread Man,” a musical comedy, will be given Its third and last presentation in Goshen. It is remembered as one of the most satisfactory musical attractions the theater has ever had. Other.attractions booked, the dates for which will be announced later are Frank Deshon in “Miss Bob White,” • George M. Cohan’s “The Honeymooners,” the original Charles Froliman production of “Peter Pan,” the great city triumph; Blanche Walsh in “Kreutzer Sonata,” one of the most powerful plays of the period: and A1 G. Field’s ever famous minstrels.

SUPERIOR COURT JURORS '' ' .'•''•—V • r fl —— GRAND JURY AND PETIT JURY FOR PRESENT TERM. v ' 4 * ■ Grand Jury Held Subject to Call, Petit Jury to Be Called for February 10. Jurors for the Elkhart superior court were drawn Monday. The grand jury will be held subject to call. The petit jury will be called for the second Monday of the term, February 10. GRAND JURY, Perry Replogle, Washington township. A. H. Anglemeyer, Union. Henry Garber, Olive. Samuel Holtz, Osolo. Ernest J. Kantz, Cleveland. Moses E. Hostetler, Olive. PETIT JURY. J. W. Rodabaugb, Jackson. Eli Garber, Harrison. John Ummel, Harrison. * Leo Fisher, Washington. Geo. B. Caine, York. Chas. J. Ulery, Elkhart. Samuel Hoover, Clinton. Moses Culp, Olive. John Jarvis, Jefferson. Chas. Moore, Olive. Bert Carraien, Washington. D. G. Martin, Concord. Business Houses toG lose?i7o’oloc k , We, the undersigned, agree to close our places of business at 7 p. m. every evening except Saturday, until March 15th, 1908. Hartman Bros., H. C. Fid T ler, Young & Widmoyer, A. H. Kaufman, D. Rickert & Son, Craige & Son, Best’s Sons, E. Blosser, W. B. Rensberger & Cos., N. A. Lehman, P. D. Burgeuer. BELATED ICE HARVEST. Ice Cutting Has Begun on Syracuse Lake—Large Force at Work. On Syracuse lake Rentfrow& Waltz are harvesting their annual crop of ice and they have a large force t>f men at work. It is their Intention to take time by the forelock and store more ice than ever before as the demand for the natural ice from neighboring cities and towns is constantly increasing. Considerable ice has been shipped; from Warsaw to Goslieu during the past few weeks. According to a Warsaw dealer three weeks of zero weather would mean between SIO,OOO and $15,000 for Warsaw merchants and business men. It is figured that the ice houses about Warsaw can be filled in eighteen days in view of the fact that there are a large number of men who are desirous of going to work at anything. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a Safe Medicine For Children. In buying a cough medicine for children, never be afraid to buy Cham* berlain’s Cough Remedy. There is no danger from it, and relief is always sure to follow. It is Intended especially for coughs, colds, croup and" whooping cough, and there is no better medicine in the world for these diseases. It is not only a certain cure * for croup, but, when given as soon as the croupy cough appefts, will prevent the attack. Whooping cough is not dangerous when this remedy is given as directed. It contains no opium or other harmful drugs, and maybe given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. For salp by J. S, Walters. —Fine stationery at the News Bookstore. —f

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