Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 28 January 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 24.

MORE LIQUOR LAWS Are to be Passed bv the Lee- ' islature—-The Saloon Will , be Restricted. ' i 1 and REGULATED ALSO ; 1 The New Proctor Bill Will i be Rushed Through the ! Coming Week. i Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 28—(Special ( to Daily Democrat)—The Proctor op- i tion bill, the enactment of which will 1 In reality repeal the old county op-| ! tion law, throw a score or more of ' “dry” counties “wet,” and make city', or township the voting unit on the li- I quor question, will not become a law J * before Monday afternoon, when the 1 house and senate re-convene. Although ' passed in the house Thursday by a . vote of 60 to 39„ the legislature did not j deliver the bill to the governor before adjournment Friday. Before going to the governor the bill must be signed i by Speaekr Veneman and Lieutenantgovernor Hall, while their houses are in session, so there is no hope of it reaching the governor before Monday. ■ Senator Proctor today promised a ’ nember of the Indiana Democratic Ed itorial association he would present the pen with which Marshall signs the bill to the association when they hold their annual banquet here next month. 1 I Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)-The past week was taken up mostly with discussion ; and voting on the liquor question, and members of both houses were hopeful today that the big regulation bill, which is yet to be passed, would be rushed through next week, and the biggest part of the “option" legislation thus gotten out of the way to make room for other work. The prompt reporting of the Proctor regulating bill, which is identical with the Fleming-Brewer's bill, with the exception that it provides one saloon to every 1,000 persons, instead of 500. Considerable oratory will probably have to be used before the bill is finally put through. In the debates on the township option measure some of the democratic and republican speakers came very near rivaling their prohibition friends in their appeal, and numerous amendments are promised to the regulation bill. Although the passing of the Proctor option measure redeemed the big pledge of the democrats, it is not going to end the liquor legislation. Besides the regulating bill there are still four others for consideration. The Fleming regulating measure will probably be put in cold storage by the public morals committee, now that the Proctor measure is out, but remaining are the Wise regulating bill, the Royse license measure and the Foor bill. Representative Wise was not satisfied with the Fleming scheme of regulation, so drew up a bill of his own. Friends of Wise assert it is a better measure bill than either the Fleming or Proctor bills and intend to see that it is reported from the committee. It is similar to both of the regular bills, but drawn on closer lines. One of the main features requires that screens be taken out of all saloons, so that a clear view may be had of the entire place at all times. Senator Royse’s bill would give the state power to license, tax and regulate distilleries, depots and agencies of breweries, preventing evasion of the regular liquor tax. Representative Foor has introduced a bill which serves as a good example of what is generaly expected in the way of amendments to the regulating bill when it comes up. The title of Dr. Foor’s measure is “A Bill to Protect Molly and the Baby.” The bill provides for the appointment of guardians for all habitual drunkards through the circuit court and is designed to protect the property and families of victims of the liquor habit. Other measures, such as Wise pro- j poses will probably come up and talk is heard of an anti-treating provision' being introduced. Nebraska now has an anti-treating law. There is talk of a measure to be intrduced by the “drys” providing that the cost of trials for drunkenness shall be paid by the community in which the person on trial secured the intoxicant. The “drys” have another Proposed bill which would license drinkers. This would be a certificate

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issued on proof of good, sober character. The “drys” see some danger in the Curtiss bill passed by the senate and now pending before the house. The measure gives a saloon keeper the right of appeal to the circuit court if his license is revoked by the mayor in the city In which he is doing business. It also gives the saloon keeper the right to continue in business until the end of the first term of court, providing the appeal has not been taken up. The Keegan child labor bill will will brobably draw a great deal of attention during the coming week. Although the majority of the labor committee reported favorably on the bill Friday, two minority reports were filed, one recommending Indefinite postponement, and another recommending various amendments as to hours of employment. Free discussion of the measure will be made on the floor of the senate as great opposition has been shown the bill by various manufacturing industries. Some of the “plum" bills will cored up next week, being measures providing for increased salaries for various state and county officers In all twent-ty-nine of these bills have been introduced, asking for increases totalling between 1150,000 and $200,000. In all 354 bills have been introduced in the house and 263 in the senate. COURT HOUSE NEWS Returns Nearly All in From the Work of the Recent Grand Jury. TWO MADE TODAY Petitions to Admit Two Children to Fort Wayne Feeble Minded Home. Returns were made by Sheriff Durkins on grand jury indictments as follows : Sate vs. Dawson F. Suman, for transporting carcas of a dead hog, property of one Edward F. Hiller, which hog had died from cholera, to the fertilizer plant north of town. State vs. Edward F. Miller, for failure to cremate or dispose of the body of a how which died from cholera. Bond for S2OO was furnished in each case. Attorney Lutz for the county has filed petitions, entitled J. R. Graber, ex parte, to secure the admission of Nora Amstutz, aged 11, and Elmira Garwood, aged 9, inmates at the county infirmary, to the Indiana School for feeble minded youth at Fort Wayne. Each child has been at the infirmary all their lives. About a half dozen indictments of the twenty-eight returned are still held I up, the arrests having not been made. ■ In all probability all but three will be in by Monday, and those parties are out of the state. Quit claim deeds have been filed by Louis Schoppman, Mary Silvers, Conrad Kaiser, William Hartman, Henry Kaiser, Edward Auer, Caroline Dressier and August Roembke to John Selking, for 80 acres in Root ■ township. — MR. KOHLER RECEIVES WORD. From the American Steel Company at Denver. J. H. Kohler, who is to act as superintendent for the large steel struc tural building, which is to be erected by the American Steel Co. at Denver, Colo., has just received a telegram stating that something like fifteen or twenty car loads of structural material have arrived from Cleveland, Ohio and whioh will be used in the erection of this building. It is to be one of the largest buildings of its kind in the west, and Mr. Kohler is to be the superintendent for the entire structure. IS IMPROVING. I Miss Marguerite Case, who on last Wednesday underwent an °P eratlo “ | for the removal of a tumor, which had been growing under her left eye-lid for some time, and causing her much trouble, is improving. The operation was performed by Dr. Miller at h>s office, and was a very difficult one because of its location. It is heal ng nicely, and it is thought everything will come out all right.

Decatur, Ind. Saturday Evening, January 28, 1910.

THAT BASKET BALL Decatur Put Up Good Game But Met With Defeat at the Close. WITH COLUMBIA CITY Was One of the Best Games Pulled Off on Home Grounds. Fast and exciting was the basket ball game of Friday evening when the Columbia City team defeated the locals in a hard fought battle for supremacy on the home grounds, and it was only through a little bad luck that the boys went down in defeat. Before a crowd that comfortable filled the hall, all went well until the last half of the game when the locals failed to handle the ball as well as in the first half, while all the luck went to their opponents who won by the score of 30 to 11. The first half of the game was evenly matched and at the close of the half the score stood ten to eight in favor of Columbia City, who claimed no cinch on the game.. Columbia City is considered the fastest team in the northern part of the state and far have not lost a single game. They are all good players and their success is due to the fact that this is their third season and each one knows the best position for getting the ball into the basket. While the home team lost, they are to be complimented on the game they put up, and just recently have they acquainted themselves with signals, and with steady practice wil soon meet with better luck. They have but two more games to be played at home, one of them next Friday, when Fort Wayne will come here, and later Portland is scheduled for a date. The rest of the games, about six in number, will be played away from home before this season closes. The girls’ game, between the Purples and Golds, was also interesting, the former proving their strength in the game by defeating the Golds 18 to 13. The crowd was orderly throughout the evening and the decisions rendered by both referees were satisfactory to all. FRESH, COLD AIR CURES. And is Best Preventative of Colds and Pneumonia. “Fresh, cold wind never gave any one a ‘cold.’ Stagnant air, however pure, is unnatural air, and the still air of imperceptible ventilation, the ideal of the old school sanitarians, Is a delusion of a fraud,” says a health bulletin issued this week. “Wind to the skin, variations in heat and cold, are but natural stimuli to the constitution. We have nervous and vacular systems that require these stimuli. Too many shirts and double windows have been disastrous to many a man. Dr. Grenfell on the bleak coast of Labrador, hustles pneumonia victims out of five or six shirts, out of their tight, over-heated and overcrowded hovels, into a tent in the snow and cures them. “Can we hot-house plants of present city life endorse radical changes? Will we do it? We certainly can do it. Witness the open air schools in our city and elsewhere; witness the marvelous growth of the sleeping porch idea everywhere. “Also, we will do it, or we will become more and more pampered weaklings or puffballs that a touch will destroy. “Now for a starter. Sleep with the windows open twelve to eighteen inches, and hall door or transom open. An abundance of the lightest and finest bedding is cheaper than doctor and hospital bills. Don’t shut your carriage or limousine up so tight. Demand better air in street, elevated and steam cars. Blow out of house, office, factory or store several times a day. Blow yourselves out occasionally by deep breathing three to five minutes before an open window or on a rear porch. “So long as people will continue to poison themselves with bad air, just so long will pneumonia prevail and the pneumonia death rate will be high. Both February and March are bad months for pneumonia, March being worse than February," ..

“THE MAN ON THE BOX.” A superb company of players will be seen at the Bosse opera house on Thursday, February 2nd, in a revival of Harry McGrath’s classic story, “The Man on the Box,” dramatized by Grace Livingston Furniss. This play had a run of over 200 nights in New York and was an instantaneous and decided hit. It has in no degree lost any of its beautiful and pleasing powers to catch and hold in its entrancing and fascinating spell the hearts of its hearers and delight them with its strong heart interest; its delicious, high-class comedy, rich and sparkling with wit, fresih from the pen of a master hand, who has in one grand stroke, reached every position of the human soul. The piece will be correctly staged and costumed in every detail. The book has beep widely read, and as the play closely follows the book, it will be an evening of rare entertainment for all. o ELKS’ NEW HOME Was the Decision Rendered Friday Evening by All the Members. BEGIN WORK AT ONCE Will Either Select a Suitable Location or Erect a Modern Home. The meeting of the Elks, held at the hall Friday evening, was one of the most interesting and well attended that has been held for some time. The principal object of this meeting was for the selection of a home, which would be brought up and decided by the membership. The matter has been talked of for months, but no action was taken. No selection was made Friday evening, but all present were in favor of the movement to begin work at once. A committee of three was then appointed to look into the matter and see if they could not find a suitable place that would make good club rooms for the order, and be ready to report at the next regular meeting, which is next Friday night. If they are not satisfied with the report of the committee or that the committee cannot find a suitable location they will seek a location and erect a suitable building, and one that will ansper all the purposes of an up-to-date Elks’ home, and where the members can spend their leisure hours. This is something that the members have been wanting for some time, and when it is pronounced as completed by the Elks it will be a building that Decatur can w’ell feel proud of. PASSED DANGER PERIOD, Mrs. Fred Heuer returned Friday evening from Fort Wayne, where she spent the day with her sister, Mrs. 'o. L. Vance, at the St. Joseph hospital. Mrs. Vance, who was operated upon last Monday, has now passed the danger period, and every hope for a good recovery Is given, though she suffered much yesterday. BEGINS NEW WORK. Rev. Richard Spetnagel left this afternoon for South Bend, where he will take charge of his office as superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of the South Bend district. He will conduct field-day services tomorrow. His family will not go until the first of April.

PRESBYTERIAN C. E. SERVICE. The Christian Endeavor service at the Presbyterian church tomorrow evening will be read by Mrs. S. D. Beavers. There will also be a special musical program and the service made a very profitable and pleasing one. Everyone is given a cordial invitation. REVIVAL AT EVANGELICAL. A short evangelistic service will be held at the Evangelical church this evening at 7:30. We would be glad to see as many as possible in this service. Come and bring a friend with you. Drayton Hill today closed a deal for the lease of the Teeple farm, east of the city. The place contains about thirty-five acres arid will be farmed by Mr. Hill during the coming season.

WAY DOWN EAST Miss Margaret Daniels, Popular “Hello Girl,” Writes a JOLLY, GOOD LETTER To Telephone Girls Which Will be of General Interest to All. Miss Margaret Daniels, one of the "hello girls,” who has been visiting in Boston and vicinity for several weeks, going east to attend the wedding of Miss Harriet Hill, formerly of this city, and Mr. Will Hayward writes the following jolly, good letter to the telephone girls, who find it so full of general interest that they pass it along the line, and we are sure that all who read it will be sorry when the ‘‘ringoff” comes: Georgetown, Mass., Jan. 19, 1911. My Dear Hello Girls: No doubt you are thinking I am not keeping my promise to write to you very well, but If you could be a mouse in the corner and see me you wouldn’t wonder. I have written no letters but to the folks at home since I came but have sent several cards. I received yours and was very glad to know that you remembered me. I can scarcely realize the changes that will be noticeable in the office when I get back. I think from all appearances I had better hurry back or I will be missing some of those chances that are going by. Well, if I should begin at the beginning of my trip and give you a full account of my time it would fill a book, so I will just skip over it and when I get back home you may read my "diary.” I have kept note of the most Important events and places I have visited and I have some list. This has surely been the time of my life. I sincerely hope you may all have as great a time some time; if not here, some other part of the U. S. I never realized how much there is in a trip to learn. My trip, out here was something fine. The scenery cannot be described. Through Ohio there was not so much change, but when we came to Pennsylvania, the scenery began to change. And by the way, Ada, I passed through “Sharon, Pa.” Did you ever hear of that place? New York and Massachusetts was great. Thursday night it was so pretty and moonlight, and it had snowed hard all day, and the ommense high hills covered with pine trees, certainly made a picture witih the little towns and villages tucked in between them, as though they were trying to keep warm. The scenery was about the same, only more hilly the further east we got, until we passed through the Hoosac tunnel, about five miles in length. It rather made me shiver to know that for twenty minutes I was going through the earth anda big pile of it, too.

As I was thrown out of my way at Birmingham, N. Y., about three hours on account of a wreck ahead I didn’t get into Boston until 8:30 Friday night and as I only had five minutes to wait for a Salem train I saw nothing of that city until later. When I got into Salem I found Harriet was doing light housekeeping by herself in one of the oldest but very comfortable houses in the city, and as I was nearly dead I rolled into bed about as fast as I could get there. I didn't do very much but play lazy until Sunday, when the real estate man, through whose agency iihey were buying their home, came ever and took us up about eighteen miles to another town in his auto to see the future home. When we got almost there the car broke down and we had to wals the rest of the way. It wasn't very warm either the Sunday before Christmas, but when we got to the house we found a stove up and wood in the shed; so we soon had a warm fire to warm by. We also found a barrel of apples in t)he cellar. So we were not starved either. As we were going over the house and came to the dining room we foun dthe chauffeur was talking to the garage over the 'phone, which by chance had not been disconnected, and telling tlhem to send another car after us. By and by they came and we had a lovely ride home after all our adI venture.

As the wedding had to be postponed from Christmas day on account of so much red tape to be gone through with before they could get it settled about their home, the days during the week were rather busy ones. Harriet had more to do than she thought, and as she worked right along she needed what little help I could give ‘her badly. On Sunday, however, we made up for it. We went to church In the morning somewhere, and as soon as we had our dinner we would start out on a tramp. Christmas day we went over to the little old, old town of Marblehead —I guess the oldest town on the coast — and it surely looks it. It is the quaintest place you can imagine. It looks like the first settlers built their funny little houses just wherever they wanted to along the coast and then as they walked in and out among them, that made the streets. There are no sidewalks and the streets are just wide, sandy patitis, leading from one house to the other. You think you are going straight ahead on a street, and when you wake up you are in some one's back door. Th etown is right on the rockiest part of the coast along this part of the country. The entire coast is one long line of monstrous, high, ragged black and brown rocks, and on one CONTINUED ON i AGE FOUR

WEATHER FOR FEB. Weather Predictions For February as Given Out by Rev. Irl Hicks. HAVE MANY STORMS Will be Stormy and Blusterous Most of Month and Also in March. Speaking on February weather Rev. Hicks says: “A return of rain, sleet and snow may be expected on and touching the 2nd and 3rd, quickly followed by sleet freeze and blizzard. A cold wave will dominate most parts of the country from the 4th to the 7th. "A regular storm period covers the 6th to the 10th, these conditions will grow into active storms or rain, turning to sleet and snow, as they pass progressively from west to east. Change to fair and very cold weather will follow promptly in the rear of these storms. "A reactionary storm period recurs from the 13th to the 16th, bringing storms of tropical nature, after several days of threatening weather, all ending in violent change to colder weather. “A regular storm period is indicated from the 17th to the 21st. The reactionary period just preceding this regular period will leave little or no time between the two for fair, open weather, so that by the 18th the oncoming of rain and snow storms in the west will be in grogress. The weather will be rough and wintery, continuing after that manner well through the month of March. Behind general rain and snow storms, which will probably pass eastwardly over the country, about 19th, 20th, and 21st, look for rapid rise of the borometer, attended by a wicked cold wave. A reactionary storm period, central, on the 24th t 25th and 26th, will bring cloudiness. A seismic period, central on the 28th, covers the 26th to March the sth.

ATTRACTIVE OFFICE. C. L. Walters, attorney at law, now has one of the finest and best equipped offices in the city. Just recently he made several changes in the rearrangement of his fixtures and putting things into shape for the better carrying on of his business. To his library he has added an entire new section of law reports and which now makes it one of the most complete to be found anywhere near here. SORE TONSILS. Frank Schultz was down the street this morning to have his tonsils lanced by Dr. Coverdale. He has been suffering with tonsilitis for some time. Next week he will have the same removed. and not until then does he expect to find much relief.

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HIGH SCHOOL ROOM The Question Was Discussed Last Evening—No Definite Action Taken. WHAT DO YOU THINK? The Board Would be Glad to Hear Any Suggestion on the Matter. The school board held a meetng Friday evening at which time the business of allowing teachers' salaries and the paying of other bills was attended to regularly. For a few minutes also the board discussed the matter of a new high school building, a question of much interest, or rather one which should be of much interest to every citizen and tax payer of Decatur. No conclusion was reached and this important affair will be taken up some time in the near future. In the meantime if you have anything to say about the building or the not building of a new high school, now is your time of grace. Don’t wait until some action has been taken and then give your opinion. The condition is simply this: The city is in sad need of a high school building. They are crow r ded now, and when the class of nearly sixty common school graduates enter the high school next year, they cannot be taken care of. There are no suitable rooms in the city that can be secured. It means that unless some action is taken that we stand to lose our high school commission as the state board will not permit the grades to suffer. It has been suggested that small temporary buildings be erected at the Central, and a new one is that the old Niblick home on North Second street be rented and prepared for a grade building, giving the central school for the use of the high school. Others argue that this is a wast of money and that the only thing to do is to build the new buildings. What do you think about it? We will be glad to print your opinion, or the board will be glad to hear it. o ; MRS. CATHERINE SMITH DEAD. Passed Away at Bluffton—Mother of Jesse Smith. Mrs. Catherine Smith, formerly of Monroeville and this city, died Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of her son, at Bluffton, where she had been making her home the past six months. Several weeks ago she sustained an injury by falling and breaking a leg, and this, added to her extreme age, made her recovery impossible. Mrs. Smith Is the mother of Jesse Smith of this city. Funeral services will be held at Bluffton Sunday morning and the body will be taken from there to Monroeville, where burial will take place. O' 1 ' WILL NOT STOP AT PELLSTON. The G. R. & I. Office Receives Word to That Effect. The G. R. & I. ticket agent this morning received a message from the general passenger agent, C. L. Lockwood, at Grand Rapids, stating that owing to the fact that there is smallpox In the city of Pellston, Mich., no trains on this road would stop until further notice. No traveling passengers will then be allowed to enter there, thus preventing the spreading of this contagious disease, so far as the railroad is concerned. o SHIP MORE J. A. M. ADAIRS. Lose & Thomas this morning made another shipment of the John Adair cigars to the W. H. Hood company at Portland as per their agreement. At present the demand is so great that they are disposing of the cigars right along In Portland, and the demand will be still greater when things get into better working order. CHRISTENED TOMORROW. Sunday will be a happy day for Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kirsch, when their little daughter will be christened at their home. Rev. Hessert, pastor of the German Reformed church, will be in charge of the christening and It will be named Helen Adella, the services taking place at 4 p. m. James Lord of Fort Wayne was a business caller in the city today.