Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 148.

ST. JOSEPH GRADUATES Eight Young Men and Women Receive Their Diplomas' Thursday Night. PROGRAM WAS GOOD Father Noll Delivered Splendid Lecture—The Music a Feature. Thursday evening marked the closing exercises for the school year of St. Joseph's school when the annual commencement exercises were held and a class of eight young men and women were awarded diplomas for their successful work in this school. In spite of the extreme hot weather which prevailed the attendance was large and all were highly entertained throughout the evening by the inter esting program which h«<l been prepared for the occasion. The stage was beautifully decorated with large vases of carnations and ferns in various places, making a very attractive appearance. The class year nineteen hundred ten was hung in long streamers from the curtain and was the first token of what would take place that evening. The program was opened with a song by the class entitled, “Welcome. Kind Friends," accompanied on the piano by Miss Agnes Kohne, which was very’ beautiful. The class of graduates was seated on the left of the stage with the diplomas they were to receive In the different studies to the right. A piano duet. “Poet and Peasant," by the Misses Dale Payne and Germaine Coffee, was very beautiful, and received much applause from the audience. The salutatorian. Miss Genevieve Berling. then greeted the audience with a few well chosen words of their pleasure to be present on this occasion. She delivered a short oration in a very pleasaing way. Father Noll, who made the principal address of the occasion, was the next to appear and for a half hour entertained his hear-, ers with a very interesing discourse on the lines of education. He opened his address by telling his pleasure to be present, and spoke very highly of the educational training received in St. Joseph's school. He also spoke of the great interest Catholics were taking, not only to educate their children in the secular way, but was trying as hard to give them a religious training which was the stepping stone for the becoming of honest and conscientious men and women. He also mentioned the large amount of money Catholics saved the government by defraying the expenses for their own parochial schools and the large number of boys and girls they are turning out at this time of the year. He closed his address with several points of advice to the members of the class, and thanked them for the earnest labor they had given to reach graduation. Fred Miller then delivered the valedictory and on behalf of his class thanked the teachers and pastor for the pains taken to instruct them while under their care and then bade farewell as far as their every-day studies were concerned. Two very difficult pieces in music on the piano by Miss Dale Payne and Germaine Coffee, were much apprei elated by the audience. The awarding l of the diplomas by Father Wilken I then took place, those receiving them being Fred Miller, Genevieve Berling. Agnes Weber, Margaret Gerard, Vivian Closs, Clarence Gase, Francis Schmitt and Germaine Coffee. A few words were then spoked by father ; Wilken to the graduates who hoped that they would make good use of the ■education they received, and they were now starting out into another school, namely that of the school of life. Gold medals were then awarded to the Misses Dale Payne and Germaine Coffee for having successfully , completed their course in music. Diplomas were also awarded to those who were successful in the Palmer method of penmanship to Fred Miller. Margaret Gerard, Germaine Cof,fee and Vivian Closs. A song. "Graduate's Farewell,” by the class closed the first part of the program. A very good program which had been prepared by the smaller mem-

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bers of the school was then rendered. A recitation and doll drill by twenty I little girls was very good, and showed that much practice and training were required for the drill. "Cavalry.” an instrumental piece by Miss Esther Evans, was next, and was very beautiful. "Five O’clock Tea Party,” by a number of little girls, w»a very interesting to the audience. The program was then closed for the evening with a pantomime by the class and a solo, "Sweetly and Softly Music Shall Flow," by Miss Clara Terveer. which was also well received. An especially good part of the prograr., was the delightful music, every number of which showed the care taken in the training of those who took part. The exercises were Indeed a pleasure for everyone connected therewith as well as to those of the audience. 0 TO MAKE DEFENSE Porter Charlton Will Plead Insanity Instead of Pleading Guilty. TO MURDER CHARGE Jeffries is Becoming Acclimated and He and Johnson Will be Ready. (United Press Service.) Hoboken. New Jersey, June 24 — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Porter Charlton, who confessed that he had murdered his wife in their Italian villa, will not be allowed to plead guilty as he declared he would when arrested at the docks of the liner | Princess Irene. A law firm has arranged his defense to show irresponsibility due to insanity. The youth will be examined by experts and his confession will be regarded as evi dence of mental unbalance. It is believed by excluding the confession Charlton could only have been convict cd of manslaughter and under circumstantial evidence in Italy this means but six years in prison. However, he has tuberculosis, and his family says that even this means a death sentence. (United Press Service.) Moana Springs, Nev., June 24 (Special to Daily Democrat)—Jeff today declared that he feels only slightly the change of altitude. He has increased the proportion of sprinting in his training to overcome this effect and his breathing. Jeff is confident the change will not injure Johnson and that both will become acclimated in a few days. r-- —O' STEVE CAUSES A STIR. • — When He Visits the Capital—He Was Arrested. A telegram from Indianapolis last night brought information that Senator Fleming was stopped and arrested by a policeman for driving his car on the wrong side of the street. When Senator Fleming appears at the capital the republican newspapers detail reporters on his trail, then when the senator stops to* shake hands with his friends, or dines with one or two of them the fact is heralded in black headlines, in fact the senator stirs Indianapolis from end to end when he steps out of an automobile or steps off a traction car. although no one could do so with greater modesty and less intention of inviting newspaper or political gossip than the joint senator from Allen and Adams counties. —Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette. o— — WILL LIVE IN MONROEVILLE. Mrs. Annetta Miller Joining Her Daughter There. Mrs. Annetta Miller will leave tomorrow for Monroeville, where she will join her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Clem, formerly Miss Mary Miller, in making that place their home. The Millers have been residents of this city for several years and the fact that they are leaving is one of much regret to all their Decatur friends. The household goods were shipped Thursday from their home on Winchester street by Interurban freight. Mr. and Mrs. Clem left yesterday, but Mrs. Miller will remain until tomorrow.

DIED IN A WELL A Tragedy Occurred Near Ohio City—George King Lost His Life. OF GASEOUS VAPORS Tried to Climb Out When He Realized Conditon But Fell Backwards. A fearful tragedy occurred on the Oliver Koogle farm, one mile north of Ohio City, Wednesday morning at about 9 o’clock, when George King, aged thirty-six years, was suddenly killed. As a result another home is saddened, another woman is made a widow and a number of children are fatherless. George King, who has followed the occupation of a welldigger for several years, was called to the Koogle farm to clean an open well. A number of men were present to assist him, and upon his entering the well they urged that he place a rope about his body to assist in drawing him out in case it become necessary. It seems that he laughed at the idea and descended into the well by holding to a rope fastened to the platform. After getting to the bottom he started to climb out and when about half way up lost his hold on the rope and fell backward into the well. It was with difficulty that a ladder was obtained and a man lowered into the well that he might be drawn to the surface. When finally brought out Mr. King was dead. Coroner R. R. Richison was notified and upon making an examination gave it as his opinion that the man's death was due to gaseous vapors and not to drowning, as no water was found in the lungs. # The unfortunate man was the father of a large family of children who are left in poor circumstances, it is said—Van Wert Times.

SUM IS SECURED The Band Boys Will Give a Big Celebration in Decatur July 4th. PROGRAM IS GOOD Includes Balloon Ascension and a S4OO Display of Fireworks. An old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration is assured for Decatur. After a week's work the band boys and others who have been boosting for this, announce today that they have been successful. The program for the day will begin with the firing of anvils at 7 o’clock and from that time on there will be a constant means of entertaining those who visit Decatur. This means that many who have planned to leave town on that day will remain here and be well entertained. At 9 o’clock the- City band will give a concert at the court house square. At 10 o’clock a big industrial and automobile parade will be given. At 11 o’clock there will be a bicycle race for boys under twenty years, the prizes being announced later. At 1 o’clock there will be wheel-barrow, sack, foot, potato races, and etc., greased pole climbing, and other contests. with a prize for every winner. At -2:30 a speech at the court house and the reading of the Declaration of Independence will be given. At 1 o’clock there will be a grand balloon ascension with a parachute drop. From 7 to 8 in the evening there will be a band concert and the evening will close with a S4OO display of fire works. There will be other amusements and the day promises to be a splendid one. -o ———— —— ATTENTION, COMRADES! And everybody else in Decatur, who is on the Lord’s side, or wants to be, and do not attend church elsewhere. You are cordially invited to come over to the M. E. church on Sunday morning at 10:30 and hear the “old solidier. J. L. MERSHON.

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, June 24, 1910.

WAS WELL RECEIVED. Llgh’hawk Trio Made a Hit at the Crystal L#st Night. The crowd which greeted the IJghthawk Comedy Trio last night at the Crystal Airdome was one of the largest of the season. An immense crowd gathered in front to see the free per-, formance and were well pleased with same. The show in the airdome was ail that could be desired, and the company was roundly applauded during each act. There will be an entire change of program tonight, both in pictures and vaudeville. Madam Lighthawk will appear In the elocu tlon. while the closing act will be a classy little "skit” entitled "Dugan, the Fireman." Two new reels of pictures and an illustrated song will also be given. This will be one of the best programs ever given in a picture show in this or any other city. You will enjoy every minute of the time spent at the Crystal Airdome tonight Same old price, 5 cents.

BUYS AN INTEREST John S. Peterson Takes W. A. Lower’s Place in Insurance Firm. THE DEAL CLOSED Change Will be Made When Mr. Lower Assumes Place as Postmaster. W. A. Lower, postmaster-elect and member of the firm of Gallogly & Lower, whose insurance business is known all over this county and others nearby, has disposed of his interest in that firm to John S. Peterson, the deputy postmaster, who retires from office about July Ist, at which time Mr. Lower will become postmaster. The deal has been under consideration for several days and was finally closed today. The transfer of the companies will be made within a few days and Mr. Peterson will begin his work as soon as he is relieved from his present office. He has been engaged in the insurance business for many years and understands it thoroughly. In addition to the large business of Gallogly & Lower, he will add his business, which is quite large, making one of the best agencies in this section, the cash value of which is based at about $2,500. Mr. Lower will likely receive his commission within a few days, and it is expected he will begin to serve the people of Decatur as postmaster at the beginning of the next quarter. A LITTLE RANGLE ON THE GIRLS. Editor of Exchange Hands Out Some Advice to His Readers. The editor of an exchange gives the following homely advice to the people of his locality, which, while a little rough perhaps, maye have more or less truth: "The mother who allows a sixteen-year-old daughter to float around with a counterfeit sport of weak jaw and weaker morals, merely opens the front door to grief and disgrace. If you don't know what company your girl keeps or what time of night she turns in, your roar when the gossips get busy will sound about as pathetic as the wheeze from a Jews harp. The girl who insists on spooning «with everybody in the corporate limits ought to be relieved of her overflow of affection with a N. 10 slipper laid carelessly acros the biplets. We had sooner see a girl kiss a blind shoat through a barbed wire fence than have her change partners six nights a week in the front parlors with the lights turned low. it is harder to marry off a girl who has been pawed over by every yap in the community than it is to fatten a sheep on pineapple ice. You can't goldbrick a sharp-eyed suitor with secondhand goeds, any more than you can fit a bathrobe on a goat. There are lots of weak-minded parents who are going up against the judgment day with about as much show as a crosseyed girl in a beauty show, and their children will rise up and call them blessed with the enthusiasm of a onelegged man at a club.”

A SPEAKING TOUR Speaker Cannon. Vice President Sherman, Watson and Longworth. WILL TOUR COUNTRY Cannon Not Booked For Indiana But the Others Will be Here. Washington, June 24 —It Is announced that the republican congressional committee will send out Vice President Sherman, Speaker Cannon, Representative Nicholas Longworth and former Representative James E. Watson to make a tour of the country in this year’s campaign. A special train will be provided, but the details of the tour, such as the fixing of dates and places, have not yet been arranged. Vico President Sherman and Representative Longworth will speak in Indiana, but the arrangements do not provide for any Indiana speeches by Speaker Cannon. An agreement was reached today between former Representative Watson and the congressional committee by which Watson will devote his entire time during the months of September and October to speaking under the auspices of the congressional committee, and the plan provides that he shall be sent into all of the doubtful districts. The decision to make Nicholas Longworth a "star” in the congressional campaign is considered by the congressional committee managers as a clever stroke. As the son-in-law of former President Roosevelt he is supposed to reflect in a large measure the views of his distinguished relative.

SPECIAL SERVICES Children’s Day Observed at Evangelical Church Sunday Morning. A SPECIAL PROGRAM Another Program in Evening by Older Folks——The Y. P. A. Both Sunday morning and evening services at the Evangelical church will be of special endeavor. The morning service has been given over to the Children s Day exercises and a special program of class songs and other exercises by the children, with solos and excellent musical features will be given. The evening will be given to the older ones, the Young People's Alliance hour and the evening worship hour being amalgamated. Another program has been arranged for the evening hour, beginning at 7 o’clock, consisting of duets, solos, quartets, addresses, etc. A special effort will be made to make this day one of unusual beauty and influence and everybody will be welcome to both services. o AIR TORPEDO. Something new has arrived in the city for the young boys and girls that they may enjoy themselves in a sane Fourth of July, which, by the way is as harmless as anything that can be bought in this line of sport. It is called the “air torpedo,” and makes more noise than a good-sized firecracker, and no harm can come from its use. They are for sale at the Holthouse drug store and at Menlg’s pool room. — —o — JUDGE HEATON WAS NOMINATED (United Press Service.) Kendallville, Ind., June 24—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Former Judge Owen N. Heatcm of Fort Wayne was nominated by acclamation for congress by the Twelfth district republicans in convention here today. Taft and Beveridge were both endorsed.

A WARM WEATHER PLAN. Screens Put In Interurban Building In Place of Wood Panel. Oliver Schug of the interurban office Wells-Fargo Agent Ben Elzey, whose office is adjacent thereto, find these warm days uncomfortable, especially since the large plate glass windows are not made to open. Today a little improvement was inaugurated. The panel below the windows was removed and a screen put in in its place. The panel was arranged so that it can be easily adjusted, thus closing the aperture when desired. M. E. Noll was the master hand in the ar rangement. HAVE FINEOFFICE Heller, Sutton & Heller Complete Detail of Office Arrangement. A FINE LIBRARY More Than Two Hundred Feet of Books —Comfort and Convenience. The law office of Heller. .Sutton & Heller is now one of the most comfortable and convenient in the city, the wont of repairing and rearranging having been completed. For some time after the forming of the partner ship of Judge Heller and son with Mr. Sutton the firm has occupied the offices of Merryman & Sutton. Last week, however, the Heliers arranged to move their office fixtures into the rooms and everything is now in order. The fireplace and mantel were removed from the east wall to make room for the additional book shelves. The library is one of the largest private law libraries in the city, there being about 200 feet of books arranged in an attractive way, and convene ent for reference. The suite consists of general office and work room and one ft r private consultation, furnished in an attractive way, each having his own desk and typewriter stands.

'REFUSE ADMISSION TO ASYLUM. Boren Not Admissable There—Watson Will be Taken at Once. Word has been received at the county clerk’s office here that Charles P. Watson, the Geneva man, who has been held here for two weeks, on account of insanity, will be accepted at Easthaven, and he will be taken there at once. Alfred Boren, also of Geneva, has been refused admission to Easthaven because has has been feeble minded since infancy. Boren has lived at Geneva and was taken into custody some days ago, both men being in jail here. o PICTURE OF RACKET STORE Os Steele & Weaver in Five and Ten Cent Magazine. The June number of the Five and Ten Cent Magazine, published by the Associated Trades Press, is out. It .is of especial interest to Decatur people because of the fine cut of the exterior of the Steele & Weaver five and ten cent store of this city, which makes a handsome illustration for this magazine. Accompanying the picture is a neat little compliment for the store. A fall number will contain a picture of the interior. HAD TONCILS REMOVED. Marie, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Bosse, underwent an operation for the removal of her tonsils by Dr. S. D. Beavers yesterday. The operation was most successful and painless and the little girl is getting along very well. She had been a sufferer from tonsllltis for several weeks — o SUNDAY SERVICES. Rev. C. E. Atkinson of Fairmount, Ind., will deliver the sermon on next Sunday at Mount Pleasant church at 10:30 o’clock, and in the evening at Buelah chapel. Rev. Valentine will ■ speak Sunday at the Salem church. All are most cordially invited to attend these services.

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GOLDEN JUBILEE German Reformed Church of This City Will Celebrate Next Sunday. PROGRAM COMPLETE A Brief History of Church Here For the Past Half Century. The German Reformed church of this city is planning for a splendid spiritual day next Sunday, it being the golden or fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the class here and the silver or twenty-fifth anniversary of the date they became self-sustain-ing. The program as arranged for the day is as follows: 9:3o—Sunday school. Short addresses by the visiting pastors. 10:30— Invocation. Song—Congregation. Scripture Reading and prayer. Song—"Hallelujah"—Choir. German Sermon —Rev. Henry Vitz, Indianapolis. Duet —"Come Holy Spirit”—Della and Esther Sellemeyer. English sermon —Rev. William Kruse, Spencervile. Ohio. Song—Congregation; offertory. Benediction. Afternoon Service —2:30. invocation. Song—Congregation. Scripture Reading and Prayer— Rev. C. H. Schneider. “Jerusalem” —Choir. English Sermon—Rev. William Kruse. Duet—“ Gently Lead Us" —Della Sellemeyer and Mat Kirsch. English Sermon —Rev. Henry Vitz. Song—Congregation; offertory. Benediction. Evening Services in English, 7:30. 6:45 —C. E. Meeting; address by Rev. Edward A. Kielsmeir. 7:30. Song—Congregation. Scripture Reading and Prayer— Rev. Edward A. Kielsmeir. Song—“ Praise the Lord" —Choir. Sermon —Rev. H. H. Kattmann, Berne. Ind. Song—“ What Shall It Profit a Man? ’ —Choir. Sermon —Rev. O. P. Vitz. Vera Cruz. Song—Congregation. Benediction and Doxology. Brief History. The early history of the congregation is somewhat obscure. Reverend Peter Vitz came to Adams county sometime during the year 1857. He worked faithfully among the German settlers in and about Monmouth. During the year 18.59 or 1860 he gathered and organized the Reformed congregations at Magley and Decatur. Ind. The prospects for a large congregation at Decatur were very good, for the church was organized with nearly thirty families. Rev. Peter Vitz left this county and took up'work at Newville. Wells county, Ind., and Rev. Carl Jackel succeeded him to the Adams county charge. It was under Rev. Jacket’s pastorate that a lot was secured and preparations made to build a church. The members, consisting mostly of farmers, themselves hauled the building material. One member donated a poplar tree, the lumber of which furnished all the siding and window frames for the building. Before the church was completed a number of members enlisted in the army to fight for the welfare of their country. In the face of some discourag--ments the buildings was completed and dedicated August 30, 1863. the Rev. Dr. Klein of Fort Wayne, Ind., being the principal speaker. Upon the resignation of the Rev. Carl Jaekel, in 1865, Rev. Peter Greding, D. D„ followed to take up the work. He. however, remained only one year, whereupon Rev. William Speiss re ceived a call from the charge. For ten years Rev. Speiss worked faithfully in this vicinity, paying, however, . greater attention to the prospering church at Magley. Poor roads, highwaters in spring and fall, and boisterous weather during the winter often kept the ministers from fulfilling their duty toward the Decatur congregation ,and as a natural conse(Contlnued on page 2.)