Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 176, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number. 176.

A HALF DECADE Finds the Decatur Public Library 'Among Leading Ones of the State. » THE ANNUAL REPORT Completed by Miss Annette Moses---15,446 Books Circulated in Year. Miss Annette Moses, librarian, is completing the report for the flfth year of the Decatur public library,' from July 20, 1910, to July 20, 1911, which will be forwarded to headquar ters of the Indiana library commission for file The Decatur library, which on July 21st, entered upon its sixth year of existence, may well bt> proud of her showing among those of the state, the .annual report showing a great growth in its past year, making the first half-decade of its life' a very substantial basis upon which' to build this institution which is of so great educational value.* There are I now enrolled as regular borrowers 2,085 persons Os this number 225 were added during the year, while but fifty were withdrawn, showing a great gain. Os the 4,700 books now on the shelves. 400 were added during the year. The vast number of 15,446 books was taken out by borrowers ia the last twelve months, of which 7,753 were of the juvenile class and 7,693 for adults, showing that the juvenile I leaders exceed the adults only a little I less than a hunched. The highest circulation for the month was in last January, when 1,692 books were circulated, while last August, when the I hot weather is supposed to draw many away from the city, came lowest with less than half the number —809. The circulation during the past year according to months was: July, 1910: Total. 943: adult, 496: j juvenile. 497. August: Total, 809; adult, 462; juvenile, 347. September: ' Total, 1186; adult, 422; juvenile, 689. J October —Total. 1312; adult, 624; juvenile. 688 November: Total. 1242; adult, 676; juvenile, 565. December: ' Total. 1570; adult, 787; juvenile, 783. January, 1911: Total, 1692; adult, 888; juvenile, 804. February: Total, 1596; adult, 771: juvenile, 825. March: Total. 1500; adult, 715; juvenile, 785. April: Total, 1319; adult, 600; juvenile, 719. May: Total, 1124; adult, 536; juvenile, 588. June: Total, 1048; adult, 536;-juvenile, 512. Not only has the patronage of bori rowers been heavy, but the amount of reference work and reading of the periodicals at the tables, has shown marked increase, and the number of visitors has been very large. The reading tables have now fortythree magazines and newspapers to delight the visitors, all but the Chicago Record-Herald having been given by private subscription. The 11I brary is very proud of her periodicals, which are said to be the most complete list of any library in the district. The list includes the following I magazines: International Studio, Camera Craft, Engineering Review, Building Age, ■ Success, Etude. Pacific Monthly, Pearson's, Metropolitan, McClure's, Woman Beautiful, Woman's Home Companion, Woman's World. Travel. Survey, Popular Mechanics. Popular Electricity, Bay View Mazagine, Everybody’s, Harper’s Bazaar, Outlook, Munsey, Scribner, American Home and Gardens, Rej view of Reviews, World Today, Cen[tury, Ladies’ Home journal. Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Technii cal World. Saturday Evening Post, Designer, Little Folks, Children’s Magazine, St. Nicholas, Youth's Companion, American Roy, Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, Prairie Farmer, I Monthly German Magazine. Newspapers—Chicago Record-Her-ald,, Muncie Star, Bluffton Banner, Ge'neva Herald, Berne Witness, Fort Wayne News, Decatur Daily Democrat, Decatur Daily Times-Herald. It is with great pleasure that the 11i brary announces the receipt of a number of gift books. Among them are twenty-five volumes of Mark Twain, given by the Euterpean club; Martin's “Awakening of China,’ Compton's Indiana Life in Town and Country,’’ Many Writers' “Oriental Life, by the Shakespeare club; Wisemans “Fabiola or Church of the Catacombs,” from Mr. Thomas Malley. A self-sustaining rental, shelf supplied new fiction for each month and was a great success. Several new

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books of especial value added to the reference department, were Nelson’s Encyclopedia and Webster's new International Dictionary and Reference Atlas. The reading circle books, numbering twenty, are purchased yearly by the school and library boards and are, placed in the library to be used by the teachers during the school year, at the clpse of which they are placed in general circulation. , The library has proved quite 'beneficial to the public In other ways also. During the past school year, owing to a crowded condition of the schools, a portion of the auditorium was arranged for one of the primary departments, yielding a rental ot $175. This room will be used for the same purpose during the coming year. Quite recently extensive improvements have been made in the basement and furnace room. With the removal of Mrs. L. G. Ellinghain to Indianapolis in November, and her resignation as vice president of the library board. Mrs. E. J. Bailey was named to succeed her. The present library board now includes the following members: President, Mrs. A. B. Morrison; vice president, Mrs. E. J. Bailey; treasurer, E. X. Ehinger; CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR OFF FOR BELGIUM John M. Frisinger Left Last Night to Purchase Stock For Local Firm. REGISTERED HORSES

Are Handled Exclusively— Unusual Demand Made Trip Necessary. J. M. Frisinger left Wednesday liight at 7:45 from Fort Wayne for Brussels, Belgium, on the semi-annual trip which is made by a member of the firm of Frisinger & Sprunger in order to purchase high-grade Belgian and Percheron stock for sale in this country. A trip had been made this spring by Mr. Sprunger, whe at that time brought over twenty-two head, which were thought sufficient for the season, but the unusual demand has completely exhausted the supply, and the present trip was necessary. Mr. Frisinger will purchase a large number of’horses, it depending upon how readily he can get them in the foreign markets, and will ship them to this country in the first three weeks of September, in time for the opening of the season. He will make the trip alone, contrary to the usual custom of the firm, and when the shipment is returned, will employ a man to accompany them. Mr. Sprunger will remain here looking after the local affairs of the arm. - —oK. OF P. MEETING TONIGHT Will Consider a Proposition For a Trip to Toledo Last of August. Members of the K. of P. lodge are urged to be present at a special meeting to be held at the home this evening, when a proposition from the Clover Leaf railway to join with Bluffton, Marion and other K. of P. lodges for a one-day excursion or more to Toledo, with side trips to Detroit, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls If desired, will be considered. The trip will probably be scheduled for the latter part of August. Every member of the lodge is asked to be present at the meeting tonight. >— -O PROFESSOR SHEPHERD. Pleased an audience of nearly four hundred people Wednesday night with the special featured hypnotic show at the Star airdome, at which time he placed Miss St. Claire under a trance for a period of twenty-four hours, she being displayed in the Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson show window all day. She will be awakened tonight at the beginning of the first show, and that, with the two reels of film and the stunts by the professor will complete the big bill. ICE CREAM SOCIAL. There will be an ice cream social at the Pleasant Valley church, three miles west of Peterson on Saturday evening. July 29, 1911. It will be in charge of the young folks of the church. Ice cream and cake will be i plentiful. Everybody invited.

DRAWING TO CLOSE Are Baptist Tent Meetings— Interest Increasing in Ratio as the TIME DRAWS NEAR I Evangelist Miller Gave An- 1 I other Inspiring Sermon ( to Large Audience. Another large and attentive audi 1 ence was at the service in the tent i Wednesday evening to listen to Evangelist A. W. Miller, who for the past three weeks has been waging a fearless war against sin and guilt. As the time for closing these meetings draws near the interest deepens. With’the more favorable weather that now seems a certainty, the Evangelist and his co-laborers are confidently expecting developments of a lasting nature. Several persons, a majority of them men, have already declared their deI sire of . entering the Christian life, j Doutbless many others will accept | Christ as their personal "Savior ere I the meetings close next Snuday night. "Sin” was the subject discussed by the evangelist Wednesday night, the text being found in Prov. 28:13, and Numbers 32:23: “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper,” "and be sure your sin will find you out.' Among other things the speaker declared. “Sin is the cause of the sori row, the unpleasantness, the disap--1 potatment, the heart-ache, the pain in | this old world. *Sin is the cause and ( all these things are but a part of the effect. Sorrow and sighing have been in the world ever since sin came and will be here till sin is banished. Oftentimes meh and women wh» sin are able to cover up their tracks for a time; seemingly they prosper in every way, but _ sooner or later their friends and afl/the world become startled at the revelation of the double life they have led. The Son of God declared, "there is nothing covered that shall not be rev’ealed; and hid, that shall not be known.” It is the height of folly for a human being to defy God, or seek to escape the punishment pronounced upon transgressors of his law. e God is no respector of persons, his laws hold good always and everywhere. Neither our wealth nor social position will shield us from the penalty if we transgress the law.—Contributed. MUSTGET A PASS If You Want to Go Through Decatur Motor Car Company’s Plant. BEGINS NEXT MONDAY Action Due to Crowded Condition of Factory and the Increased Output.

Beginning next Monday morning a new system will be installed at the -Decatur Motor Car company’s plant in this city, regarding visitors. It is the desire of the management that the public be assured that they are welcome at all times to call and go through the factory. The management welcomes them and will see that they are shown every department, but owing to the fact that crowds are passing through the plant all the time, and in some instances are interfering with the men, it will be necessary hereafter to call at the office and secure a pass. A tag will be pinned on your coat and you will be allowed to see every section of the plant. Recently men from other factories have spent some time about the factory without the consent of the managers and this and the fact that interference with the workmen means a loss to the men who have their money invested is the cause of this move. The plant is running full time, and being crowded for space, it is necessary that no time be lost if the company keeps up with the work outlined. Decatur people and others are as stated, always welcome. Please call at the office, however, and avoid any embarrassment for you or those in charge.

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CHANGES IN RESIDENCES. The James K. Niblick family is movinf from their residence on Second street to their farm near this city, where they will make their home. The Niblick residence here will ,be occupied by L. A. Holthouse and family until the Meyers residence has been remodeled, when they will move to that place to live. The house which is now occupied by Mr. Holthouse, on First street, and which is on the lot which he for the erection of a building for a garage, was purchased by Ed Meyers and moved .o the Meyers lot on Second street, just across from the old Jesse Niblick homestead. The house will be remodeled and converted into an up-to-date home, and will be occupied by I Mr. Holthouse and family. AUTO ACCIDENT Mrs. John F. Colchin. North Fifth Street, Injured in Fort Wayne. WEDNESDAY NIGHT Auto Collided With Street Car—Mrs. Colohin Taken to Hospital. Mary, wife of John F. Colchin. of , North Fifth street, is in the St. Joseph j hospital, Fort Wayne, from serious in--1 juries received when the automobile ' in which sne was riding, collided with

a street car. 't he bort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette gives the following account of the accident: "Mrs. Colchin of Decatur, Ind., was seriously injured last night when the automobile in which she was riding, was struck by a street car at the corner of Calhoun and Williams streets at about 9 o'clock, and is now a patient at the St. Joseph s hospital. The car was driven by Oliver Edwards, of 1923 Hoagland avenue, who, with -his wife and aunt, Mrs. Colchin, were the occupants. At the corner of Williams street the car was struck broadside by a South Wayne city .car in charge of Motorman Elzey and Conductor Flickinger. “The two latiies occupied the tonneau and were thrown to the pavement by the collision. Mrs. Edwards sustained only slight bruises to her face and the husband escaped practically without injuries, while Mrs. Colchin was seriously hurt. The parties were removed to the office of Dr. I. E. Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards being able to return to their borne, while Mrs. Colchin was removed to the St. Joseph's hospital and attended by Drs. Morris, Wallace and Dinnen. "Examination proved her to have sustained a double fracture of the right collar bone, a fractured rib on the right side, the lower jaw bone dislocated, an incised wound above the right eye, a punctured wound under the right ear and numerous contusions on the shoulders and arms. Although her condition is quite serious, late last night she was reported as resting easily and hopes are entertained for complete recovery. “The automobile was only slightly damaged by the collision, the fender and running board being torn from the body. The fender of the street car was damaged and the car removed to the car barns for repairs. Officials of the company will hold an investigation today to determine the responsibility of the accident,” Mrs. Edwards is a niece of Mrs. Colchin, being her sister’s daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards made the trip to this city last Sunday and were guests at the Colchin home, Mrs. Colchin returning with them to Fort Wayne. The news of the accident was learned by several Decatur people Wednesday evening, who were at Fort Wayne and returned on the 10 o’clock car. the Decatur car passing the scene of the accident at Williams street at 9 o’clock, just after It occurred. A large crowd was gathered there at the time and there was much consternation among the Decatur people on the interurban car when, it became known that the lady injured was from this city. STORK AT PREBLE. Born, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bieberich, of Preble township, a baby girl. Mother and babe are doing well and happiness is supreme in the home.

July 27, 1911.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Notice of Discharge of Fred Zurcher From Easthaven Asylum. A NEW SUIT — Filed in Circuit Court—The Gypsy Larceny Case Also Sent There. iU.ii A marriage license was issued today but as the wedding will not tnke place until tomorrow and the couple pleaded , that the license be not recorded today, it cannot Le given for publication. I ; Notice of the discharge from East- ( haven insane asylum at Richmond of I Fred Zurcher, son Os Anton Zurcher, ' of near Monroe was received from the asylum authorities today by County j Clerk J. P. Haefling, the patient being at home on a furlough. He is a young man twenty-two years of age. and was adjudged insane last Janulary 14th. j Attorney S. M. Sayler of Huntingi ton has filed a suit in the Adams cirI cult court entitled Elizabeth A. Nix I vs. Charles E. Pennington et al., suit on note and foreclosure of mortgage, J demand, $375. The papers and transcript in the ' case of the State vs. “Cornelia Jones, name unknown,” have been filed in the circuit court, the respondent having been bound over to the cir- ' cuit court after being given a preliminary hearing last Saturday evening in the mayor's court. This woman is the gypsy who was arrested on a charge of larceny, affidavit being made her by Joseph Johnson, who said she ran away with two dollars, ■ which he placed in her hand “for j luck,” when she was telling his fortune. She pleaded "not guilty” in mayor’s court, and was released under bond of $25, which was diminished from $l5O. Real estate transfers: Daniel Stuckey to Wilmer Dill Emery, quit 1 claim deed to 42 acres. Wabash tp„ $1; Barkley Smith to Wilmer Dill Emery, quit claim deed to 44 acres, Wabash tp., $1; John Leichty to Ira C. Lyberger, 80 acres, Hartford tp., sl.000. READY FOR PICNIC Methodist Sunday School Will Have Annual Excursion to THE ROBINSON PARK Will Go Over G. R. & I. Railroad This Year—Good Time Planned.

The annual picnic of the Methodist Sunday school will be held as usual this year in Robinson park. Fort Wayne, next Tuesday, August Ist, being the date selected for this event to which all the members look forward with longing during the intervening twelve months. Superintendent C. L. Walters and his assistants have completed all arrangements for transportation, the excursion to be run over the G. R. & I. railroad. The delegation will leave here at 7:54 in the morning, special coaches to be added 'to the regular morning train, but a special train will be provided to bring them back at 7:30 o’clock. All children of the Sunday school, who are in school grades below the high school I wll be taken free of charge, while a round trip fee of twenty-five cents will be charged all children not belonging to the Sunday school, and fifty cents, round trip, for adults. This does not include transportation to the park, which will be at the rate of two round trips for twenty-five cents. It is expected that about four hundred members of the Sunday school will go on the excursion, and everybody else who wishes to do so, is cordially invited to go with them. ' Everything ip being arranged to CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.

A MOBB GATHERER. Is a Story—Have You Ever Read Thia? “A rolling stone gathers no moss,” but that cannot be said of a story. It gathers enough in a few hours’ run to muffle it so that its own grandmother would never know it. The following is a Decatur dispatch to the Anderson Bulletin ot the accident that befell Leo Bogner, son of Frank Bogner, of this city, who was kicked in the face by the horse when he got under the rig to repair a spring, an account of ] which was published Monday: "Decatur, Ind., July 26—Frank Bogner is an automobi|ist. He also is absent minded. Today his auto was out of commission, and Bogner was forced to drive a horse. "Old Dobbins balked and emitted several grunts, which sounded like the dying exhaust of an engine. Bog- . ner climbed from the buggy and went beneath it on his back, as custom had taugbt him to do in the case of refractory automobiles. “The horse, never having been an automobile, and disliking the tinker ing of his hoofs, planted its hoof tn Bogner's face, but his countenance is badly broken.” DIVIDEDtTnTO lots The Old Niblick Homestead Will be Sold at Once in Single Lots. ARE WELL LOCATED Important Offering in Real Estate—Opportunity For Six Modern Homes. Heirs of the Niblick estate have decided definitely to place upon the market at once, the beautiful plat of ground on North Second and Third streets, where for a half century or longer stood the old Niblick homestead. The plan is to move the old home back on Third street, where It will occupy two lots on the south part of the plat, leaving four vacant lots.

66x132, ideal spots tor modern homes, in the very heart of the city. An effort to dispose of the property as it stands, to be used for a hospital or some other public building has failed, and as their heirs desire to settle the estate as quickly as possible, it has been decided to put the lots on the market. They will be sold at reasonable prices and should go quickly. If you just stop to think a moment you will realize that these are the only lots as desirable within a radius of many blocks from the center of town. The three Second street lots are splendid ones, with brick pavement and sidewalks and the Third street lots are almost as valuable. If you are looking for a site for a home, you should act and that quickly, as some one will do so. The sale of the property is in the hands of Mr. John Niblick, one of the executors, who will be glad to give you any information desired. BEAUTIFUL SERVICE SUNDAY EVENING "The Story of the Pink Rose” at the Presbyterian Church. “The Story of the Pink Rose” is the subject of the beautiful service for next Sunday evening, July 30th, at the Presbyterian church, as announced by ■the Rev. Gleiser. This beautiful story will be told and the music, which is a part of the story, will be rendered by the choir. The service will be a unique one and one which the audience will enjoy to the utmost. IN NEW YORK CITY. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Uhl, who are at present enjoying their wedding trip through the east, have written relatives here that at present they are in New York City, enjoying the many interesting sights of this famous metropolitan city. They have also stopped at Buffalo, Albany., Niagara Falls and other places of interest along the way. They will remain in New York until Sunday, when they will leave for Atlantic City, N. J., and then start on the trip homeward. This trip will include stops at Pittsburg, Scranton, and other large cities and will still take up several weeks yet.

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GOVERNOR TALKS Thomas R. Marshall Delivered Strong Speech at Auburn This Afternoon. CORNER STONE LAID For the New and Beautiful Court House —Special Interests Were Attacked. (United Press Service.) Auburn, Ind., July 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Attacking the recent decisions of the supreme court in the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust cases And the Harriman merger suit, and declaring that “as deadly a blow may be struck at our system of government by judiciary-made law as by the most corrupt and venal legislature,” Governor Marshall in a speech here today vigorously assailed "special privileges,” and declared the time had come when the individual voter must get out and see that “interests” were separated from politics. The governor, in dedicating the new court house here, dwelt at length on various court actions and cited instances of where the legislative departments had failed to obey court rulings, while the courts have written commands for the legislatures. v In this connection he attacked the national administration for its action on the report of the Remsen board In 1 the Saccharine case, naming Secretary of the Treasury McVeagh, Secrej tary Wilson and Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nagle. “The board reported to the department of agriculture,” declared Marshall, that saccharine, which is about six hundred times sweeter than sugar, was, under certain conditions, deleterious to public health. Notice was given that the department would regard as adulterated products containing saccharine, which were offered for sale after July 1.” Marshall pointed out that in “some mysterious manner,” this order was aet aside until January 1, 1912, by Nagle, Wilson and MacVeagh, and added: “I inake no aspersions upon the character of the secretary of the treasury, but I cannot refrain from calling attention to the fact that be is the larg-

est wholesale grocer in the city of Chicago, nor can I refrain from quoting Secretary Nagle upon the same question when he said: "When the question about these foods is a close one, every consideration should be shown the man who has invested his money in the business.' ” “I realize the encroachment of the money power, not only upon the rights and opportunities of the average man. but also upon political organizations,” said the governor. "May I ask, however, whether these rights have been wrenched away from us or whether our intelligence and our conscience have cared so little that we have voluntarily yielded them? "We take a day to hire a S4O clerk. We do not take two minutes to hire a mayor, but let practical politicians use our views as business assets. He shifts his followers from one party to another as his business interests demand. We must take an advance step along the line of suffrage to make our system of government succeed and to preserve political parties from the hands of men who use them for business purposes.” "Corporate evil is not in the formation of corporations, but in their assumption of individuality and their right to act as they please after their formation,” declared Marshall. "They have no rights save those granted them by the state through their charter. The rule of reason is a fine thing, but I would like to know whose reason it is.” "Disregard of law may be traced back to the action of each individual," the governor said. “libery is running mad in America. The churchman believes as much of religion as happens to coincide with his own views. The 1 citizen has a private law book which • contains his code, and anything outi side that code is not criminal unless - he is caught. A lawyer deliberately - sits down and writes a contract which 1 will enable one man to take undue 1 advantage over another. Except in a . degree how do these differ from the I great malefactors of wealth. :■ "In the county of Monroe a grand a jury refused to indict whitecappers, i- although identified by the man who i, was white-capped, because citizens of II the county believe in white-capping. CONTINUED ON PAGE FOV«