Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 121.

INSPIRING SUBJECT “The Key to Human Possibilities” Theme of Baccalaureate Sermon. BY THE REV. WISE At Presbyterian Church— Vast Assembly Attends Impressive Service. An inspiring and impressive scene that at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening, when the sixteen graduates from the Decatur high school, appropriately attired in regulation caps and gowns; the junior class, the high school faculty, the school board, the parents of the graduates and an innumerable host of friends, assembled at the Presbyterian church, taxing the seating capacity of the large auditorium, the Sunday school room and the gallery to the utmost, the occasion being the baccalaureate services opening the week's program that will be of so great moment to the young people who have finished the course prescribed by the city schools. The church had been appropriately decorated for the occasion with the high school colors —purple and gold—and the senior class colors —crimson and gold. These were arranged in a beautiful way. streamers of the colors being wound about the columns, and draped about the pulpit, pennants and knots of the blended colors, fastened here and there, while the colors were carried out in the floral decorations as much as possible. The pulpit was banked with ferns and potted plants, while here and there in great profusion were vases of carnattons, crimson peonies, snowballs and other spring Sowers, which seemed to have opened their petals in anticipation of the happy occasion. The services were prefaced with a musical program that added much to the beauty and impressiveness of the evening, opening with the organ prelude by Miss Edna Hoffman, and the congregational rendition of the Doxology. The noble song, “Holy, Holy, Holy,” was sung by the choir and the congregation, after which the Scripture lesson, abounding in words of wisdom, was read by the Rev. I. Imler of the United Brethren church. An anthem, ‘ The Springtime Hours.” one most appropriate to the occasion, was rendered by the choir of the Presbyterian church, with a solo by Miss Marie Patterson, and the chous by the other members of the choir, including the Misses Bess Schrock. Florence Sprunger, Messrs. Will Schrock, Fred Patterson, Wilson Lee and C. J. Lutz. A prayer by the Rev. Powell, pastor of the Methodist church, a solo by Dr. Fred Patterson, and another anthem, "Hope Thou in God," by the choir, preceded the sermon of the evening, which was given by the Rev. D. O. Wise, pastor of the Evangelical church. The Rev. Wise began by complimenting the class which had arrived at the first pinnacle of success in completing the course prescribed by the schools; rejoicing with the superintendent, Prof. E. E. Rice, in his success, and with the faithful staff of teachers, and with the school board on their splendid executive management; ail of whom are responsible for the high standard of the schools of Decatur. This sermon was a most masterly, eloquent and forceful one, rich in thoughts and suggestions, which, if carried out, will bring to a noble standard the lives of the young people who have spent a season in ouiet preparation and study, and are thus leaving the quiet, guarded school doors to enter upon the world's life, wherein that which they have learned must be applied with wisdom and strength if they will win. The Rev. Wise chose as his subject, “The Key to Human Possibilities,” and word by word, step by step, brought out. the Sreat thought that the great key of human possibilities is the divine spark of life, breathed in the clay of man by the great Creator which 13 capable of being fanned into a flame of unlimited possibilities. “What is man that thou shouldst magnify him'.’ • • • For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels. * * * Cov-

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ered him with glory and honor." Man has tried In vain to define man. Only God, the Creator, knows our being. "Man is one world and has another to attend him." While our bodies are different and subject to changes, "like the waters that change but the rivers that remain the same," so are our bodies changing ever, but our personality remains the same. The personality is the divine spark breathed into us, God s image, by God, himself, and taken by us and fanned into the great flame of Possibilities. Our development is dependent upon our ability to grasp—or in some cases to make —opportunities. Here, the speaker brought into use the motto of the class, “Climb though the way be rugged.” He said that attainment was the most prized, or the greater, because of the difficulty. Those who have a rugged way to climb, those who stumble often, appreciate the attainment the more. All great achievements are brought about by skill, by climbing over rocks, or thorny ways, and named as examples (Continued on page 2.) NEARLY DROWNED Joe Coffee Dragged From Water After He Had Gone Under For THE THIRD TIME Was Stiff and Unconscious When Rescued — Still Had Tobacco Though. Joe Coffee, seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Coffee, proprietors of the south end restaurant, met a narrow escape from drowning about 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, while in swimming with a party of other boys at Borum’s Run, south of the city. While walking in the stream, he in some manner stepped into a hole, in which the water was greatly beyond his depth, and before he could think “Jack Robinson” he had gotten beyond power to swim or save himself. His companions, noticing his danger, tried to get him out and one boy in doing so was pulled under the water by the grasp of the drowning lad. Fred Jackson. Claude and Jerome Coffee then hastened to him and as Joe went under the third time the boys were able to grasp him and drag him to the land. He was unconscious and stiff and it was only after repeated efforts of the crowd, in using all the known means of resuscitating the drowned that he finally opened his eyes and regained his normal faculties. The boy had a chew of tobacco in his mouth when overcome, and one of the first things when he opened his eyes was to roll the cud around, as he exclaimed with his characteristic jovialty, “Well, we saved the tobacco, all right.” He had soon completely recovered and entered into a ball game soon afterward with all his usual vigor, but all are agreed that his escape was a very narrow one. o — "THE TRINITY OF POWER." Is Subject of Lecture For Commencement Evening. “The Trinity of Power” is the subject of the lecture by Dr. L. G. Herbert of McComb, Ohio, at the commencement of the Decatur high school Friday evening at Bosse’s opera house. The lecture is a noted one and should be heard by all. — ' ATTEND NEPHEW’S FUNERAL. The funeral of George Albert, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Koehl, of Ft. Wayne was held this morning. The mother was formerly Miss Verona Middleton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Middleton, at one time residents of this city. Mrs. D M. Hower and Miss Leona Stalter of this city, aunts of Mrs. Koehl, attended the funeral. .— o — MEMORIAL SERMON. The annual memorial sermon will be delivered next Sunday morning at the Methodist church by the Rev. L. C Hessert of the German Reformed church. This will be in the nature of a union service. - Fred Bailey of Pennville spent Sunday here with friends.

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, May 23, 1910.

GETTING READY The Board of Review Will Meet on Monday the 6th Day of June. THE MACADAM ROADS Three or Four Will be Sold at the June Session of the Board. The bound assessment sheets have not yet arrived from the bindery, but County Assessor Gentis is expecting them by the last of the week and then everything will be in readiness for the work of the board of review-, which this year is composed, of the assessor, auditor, treasurer, James H. Stone of this city and Joseph Winteregg of Berne, the latter two appointed by the judge of the circuit court. They will begin their sessions on Monday, the sixth day of June, and will be in session for thirty days, and during that time they will review and adjust all the assessments made by the township assessors. At the June session of commissioners’ court three or four macadam roads will be sold, those advertised for sale at that time being the W. Raudubush, the G. C. McAlhaney. the A. J. Sipe and the John J. Soldner roads. Part of them at least will doubtless be built this summer.

The auditor s office is busy with their settlement for the spring tax collection. It will soon be completed and then a settlement with the state will be made. This is one of the big jobs around the auditor’s office, and no doubt a breath of relief will be noted when the job is completed. HAVE THE NERVE Trustees of the Decatur Cemetery Association Are Indignant. T ■ NO TRESPASSING Prosecutions Will be Handed Out to Those Who Violate the Law. to/-’ The trustees of the Decatur Cemetery association are righteously indignant. Some people have the nerve to take the plants and flowers planted there and replant tnem on the graves of sorae member of their family. They have the proof of this sort of work, and while they intend to make it good and warm for these trespassers, yet they thought the public ought to know it. It would be well for til those who harbor such a notion of propriety to read these two sections of the by-laws: Section 4. —All persons are prohibited from gathering flowers, wild or cultivated, or breaking plants or shrubs on the premises of the Decatur cemetery grounds. Section 11.—Trespassers are liable to criminal prosecution and liable to a heavy fine. The provisions and penalties of the law will be strictly enforced in all cases of wanton injury. The board of trustees wants the public to know that affidavits will be filed in court for all cases of trespassing that comes to their notice. In this the public will back up the trustees, for every one is Interested in the beautifying of the home of the sacred dead. Much good work has been done there of late and in but a few year? more the grounds of the Decatur Cemetery association will abound in scenic beauty. - Mrs. John Grund and daughter, Marcellaine. of Fort Wayne were guests at the John Hessler home Sunday. Miss Mary Hale of Geneva, who spent Sunday here the guest of Miss Leah Hensley, went to Fort Wayne for a few days’ visit before returning home.

HE SUSTAINED A DEMURRER. Sult* to Annul Charter of Brewing Companies Lott Out. Indianapolis, Ind., May 23 —Sults brought by Attorney General Bingham to annul the charters of brewing companies of this and other states that are selling their products in .Indiana were set back by Judge Weir of the superior court of this county, when he sustained a demurrer filed by one of the defendants on the ground that the attorney general was not a prosecutor under the state constitution and could not properly Institute a proceeding of the kind. The attorney general holds in his complaints that the brewing companies exceed and violate their charter rights by leasing and sub-leasing rooms and fixtures and renting buildings for various Immoral purposes. What further action he will now take will not be decided until other judges of the superior court rule on similar suits before them. o THEY ARE KICKING State Board of Charities Do Not Want Any County Orphans’ Home. ONE CENTRAL HOME The Project in Adams County Now Up to the County Council. The state board of charities have undertaken to tell Adams county that she cannot build an orphans’ home unless they issue a permit, giving the county the privilege of spending her own money for the care and comfort of her own poor. This is about the size of it. The board of children’s guardians of this county have asked the commissioners for such a home and a petition signed by several hundred Adams county citizens and taxpayers has been filed with the board, and many of those interested in the project have appeared in commis- 1 sioners’ court and plead with them for | such a home. The board were im-1 pressed to the extent that they placed the matter up to the county council, and they will wrestle with the proposition when they meet in annual session in September. The board of children’s guardians are anxious for such a home and advance the idea that it can care for its own poor and care for them better and with little or no more expense than at present. The state board wants all these county homes abandoned and the homeless given to one central home, where they will be under state control, and from there farmed out as they see fit. Some see in this deal expensive buildings by the state and more places and more boards for the people to keep up. What the county council will do in their meeting in September is not known. PASTOR’S SALARY RAISED. Congregation of Rev. Roop Show Appreciation in Material Way. ■ Ine quarterly meeting services at Calvary Evangelical church closed Sunday evening with an excellent sermon by the presiding elder, the Rev. Jacob Wise, of Fort Wayne. Among the business matters attended to at the quarterly meeting conference was the raising of the salary of the pastor, the Rev. E. R. Roop, in the sum oj fifty more dollars a year. This is a very substantial recognition of the merits of the minister, who is surely doing a good and noble work in the cause. o ART EXHIBIT THIS WEEK. Work of the Students Will be Shown at Central Building. The public is cordially invited to attend the art exhibit at the central school building Thursday and Friday afternoons from 2 to 5 o'clock. The work of all the students will be reprepresented in this exhibit and the displays are said to be unusually good this year. Everybody is invited to attend.

MEMORIAL DAY Mayor Judson W. Teeple Issues Proclamation Setting Aside May 30th AS GENERAL DAY For Memory of Our Soldier Dead—The Decoration Services. Death is ever among us and has been the lot of us all since the days of Adam. In 1776 our Revolutionary fathers brough forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, wbich proposition das denied by a large number of our people and resulted tn the great Civil war, from 1861 to 1865, to decide whether our nation or any nation so dedicated can long endure. It is altogether fitting and proper that on the annual return of this memorial day all patriotic people of this nation should join with the boys in blue and reverently lay aside their usual vocations, to bring their flowers and garlands to place upon the graves of their fallen comrades who are now gathered in the bivouac of the dead, there to await the call of the last trumpet. I would most earnestly request that all our people give heed to the proclamation of Governor Marshall, and that you close your usual places of business from 1 to 5 o’clock p. m., on Memorial Day. May 30, 1910. Let us from these honored dead take increased devotion to that cause for which the old soldiers gave the last full measure of devotion. JUDSON W. TEEPLE, Mayor, City of Decatur, Ind.

HORSES FRIGHTEN Frank Drake Figures in Exciting Runaway Sunday While Returning — I FROM A FUNERAL Horses Ran Mile and Half Before Stopped—No One Injured. A very exciting runaway occurred Sunday afternoon at about 4 o’clock. A number or cabs were secured at the Fashion stables to be used at the funeral of Durbin Harb and when on the way home from the cemetery the team driven by Frank Drake took fright just east of the G. R. & I. railroad. As soon as the cab reached the brick street the wheels, which were of steel tires, made a noice which frightened both horses and they started to run at breakneck speed east on Monroe street, and before they could be stopped had gone as far as the Studabaker farm, one-half mile east of the city. No one happened to be in the cab at the time, which was fortunate. The driver did all in his power to stop the frightened horses, but without avail. He managed to keep them in the center of the street ana prevented them from turning, as they tried to do on several occasions, thus saving the rig from a smash-up and the driver from injury. It attracted the attention of all the people along the street and everybody expected a serious accident to happen. A number of rigs in the path of the infuriated horses managed to get out of the way and no accident occurred whatever. The only injury suffered was by the horses, the hard pavement being very severe on their unshod feet. o THIRTY-FIRST ENCAMPMENT. Annual Event of G. A. R. at Terre Haute This Week. The thirty-first annual encampment of the G. A. R. will be held at Terre Haute this week, May 25th, 26th and 27th, and elaborate preparations for entertaining a large delegation are being made by that city. Many from here will doubtless attend.

f CONN’S FACTORY BURNED. Loss is Estimated at From Five Hundred Thousand to a Million. ■ Elkhart, Ind., May 23 —Fire early yesterday destroyed the largest band Instrument factory in the world, the plant of the C. G, Conn company, one ot Elkhart's principal Industries. The total loss is variously estimated at from 1500,000 to >1,000,000. In the blaze, the origin of which Is not known, Roy Edgerly, 68. one of the factory watchmen, lost his life. His • charred body was recovered from the ruins. C. G. Conn, owner of the factory, was advised by telegraph at Avalon, Cal., whre he has been for several months. His reply was: "Start immediately for home; keep the men together.” This instruction is taken 1 to mean that the factory will be re--1 built. Three hundred employees find themselves thrown out of work. The ’ whole city feels the loss of one of its ’ chief manufacturing enterprises. The 1 total loss of the factory is attributed 1 to poor water pressure. — — ■ "O' - '■ ATTACK THE TARIFF The Beveridge Campaign to Attack the Payne-Aldrich Tariff. SPLIT IN THE PARTY Only Hope of Success Lies in Defense of Insurgent Statesmanship. Indianapolis, May 23—There no longer is any doubt that the republicans, under the leadership of Senator Beveridge, are going in for a radical attack on the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the genral order of things at Washington that the administration has stood for. There is no pretense on the part of the republican papers to play up President Taft as the head of the party in Indiana or to take seriously his endorsement of the tariff bill. There seems to be a disposition only to eulogize him because he is president and not for any of his administrative acts. It is said that Sen--1 ator Beveridge and his faithful lieutenants have concluded that the republican party is licked to a standstill on the issues for which it has stood, ‘ and that the only hope of victory lies' in the square-toed attack on the socalled Aldrich-Cannon system and in a vigorous defense of the attitude of Beveridge and other insurgent senators. Watson is writing letters to prominent republicans for the purpose of finding how the state platform and Senator Beveridge’s convention speech were received. Watson has a very large personal following that is bitter over his defeat for governor two years ago. Many of them attribute his failure to disloyalty on the part of Senator Beveridge and his contingent, and it is the belief generally that they will knife the ticket. It is charged that Watson. Hemenway and others prominent in the old Fairbanks machine are using the tariff agitation merely for the purpose of embarassing Senator Beverigde. The latter’s managers admit privately that there is a split within the party along the lines on which it has been divided for several years, and they have concluded that, in spite of anything they can do, leaders like Watson, Hemenway and other members of the stand-pat congressional delegation defeated in 1908 cannot be induced to work for the legislative tickets. — o FUNERAL. SERVICES. The funeral of Mrs. Philbert Gase was conducted this morning from the St. Marys church by Father Wilkens, and the body was laid to rest in St. Joseph cemetery. Funeral services for Durbin Harb, whose death occurred Wednesday evening in St. Louis, were conducted Sunday afternoon from the home of his mother, Mrs. George Chronister, by Rev. Powell and Rev. Imler. Burial fn the Decatur cemetery. □— Mr. and Mrs. G. W." Hurless, who spent Sunday at Willshire, Ohio, with relatives, transferred here this morning on their way to their home at Antwerp, Ohio.

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TLMEROISGROWHH Mrs. S. H .Teeple Underwent the Scond Opration on Sunday. THE GENEVA NEWS Eli Burde is Aaent for the B. G. & C.—Other Items of Interest. Geneva, Ind., May 23 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —Mrs. S. H. Teeple, wife of Postmaster Teeple, who was operated on last January for a tumorous growth, was on Sunday again subjected to tbe surgeon’s life, with the hope of getting relief from tbe malignant affection with wbich she has been affected for many months. Mrs. Teeple is in a dangerous and precarious condition, but still the best is being hoped for by her manyfriends here. Dr. Dickes of Portland performed the operation. • I ■ Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Atwood. Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Rathbun. Mr. and Mrs. Art Fensler, Mr. C. N. Brown and daughter comprised a merry party of Bluffton visitors Sunday over the B. G. & C. Ell Burdg is agent for the B. G. & C., he having moved his short order restaurant from the Cross building, where he will be pleased to sell you a ticket or care for your freight, and while you wait will serve you a hot hamberger and a cup of coffee like mother used to make. Ell is all right and he works like an old man at the business. Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Juday and Mr. A. J. Juday were at Bluffton Sunday vit the B. G. & C. * Bert Wilson, who is employed at the Parrish restaurant in Decatur, is moving his household goods to that city and he will reside at the corner of Decatur and Marshall streets. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Cross and Mrs. Grant Weeks were at Bluffton Sunday via automobile. Mr. A. G. Briggs was at Bluffton arid Pennville Sunday visiting friends, Mr. Charles Barr, James Kelley and i Dr. Brayton were Fort Wayne visitors (Sunday. .-r’l Mrs. Mary Burkett of Balbec, Indiana, was an over Sunday guest of Mrs. Joseph Brown. The serenading Sunday evening was fine and the warbling of the boys could not be discounted any place at any time. Geneva has some very fine voices for midnight serenading. Come again boys, we do not care. o—— AN ELOPEMENT AT LAFAYETTE. A Society Couple at Lafayette Put One Over a Sour Mother. Lafayette, May 23—Lafayette society is all agog over the elopement of Marshall Haywood, secretary and treasurer of the Burt-Haywood company, publishers of the Lafayette Morning Journal, and Miss'Edith L. Carothers. The bride had been engaged to E. S. Walker, who holds the title of lord in England. A few days ago Haywood learned that the English lord had arrived in this country and was on a mission here to wed Miss Carothers. Last night he secured a marriage license and a girl friend of Miss Carothers helped her in securing her clothes from her home. The two then met on a downtown street and went to the home of Dr. D. Tillotson, pastor of the Trinity church, where the w'edding ceremony was performed. Mr. Haywood had his automobile waiting and the trunks belonging to himself and his wife were strapped on the rear of his machine. They left in a hurry, and so quiet was the wedding kept that it was not generally known until early today. BODY REMOVED. The remains of Mrs. Mary Laisure. whose death occurred at the county infirmary on last Thursday a week, were this morning removed from the cemetery at the county infirmary to the family graveyard south of Monroe. Meyer & Scherer had charge of the removal.