Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 284.

GIVEN SENTENCE ■'' ' 1 ' ■ ■■■» Judge Bordwell Today Im posed Life Sentence Upon James B. McNamara. MURDERER AT HEART John J. His Brother, Was Then Sentenced to Serve Fifteen-year Term. (United Press Service.) Lon Angeles, Cal., Dec s—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Denouncing James B. McNamara as a murdere at heart and declaring there was no extenuating circumstances at all in the case, Judge Bordwell today sent the man who confessed that he blew up the Los Angeles Times building and sent twenty-one lives into eternity, to life imprisonment. Immediately thereafter the court called John B. McNamara, brother of James, and secretary of the Iron Workers’ union, before the bar, and sentenced him to serve a fifteen-year sentence. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —James B. McNamara's brief confession penned by his own hand and bearing many evidences of a man little skilled in letters was made public today. It is as follows: “I, James B. McNamara, defendant in the case of the people having heretofore plead guilty to the crime of murder desire to make this statement as facts, and this is the proof. On the night of September 30, 1910, at 5:45 p. m., I placed in Ink alley, a portion of the Times building, a suit case, containing sixteen sticks of 80 per cent dynamite, and set to explode at 1 o'clock the next morning. It was my intention to injure the building and scare the owners. I did not Intend to take the life of any one. I sincerely regret that these unfortunate men lost their lives. If the giving of my life would bring them back, I would gladly give it. In fact, the pleading guilty of murder in the first degree, I have placed my life in the hands of the state.” —James B. McXamara. SESSION IS OVER Commisioners Conclude the Work—Will Meet Dec. 30 to Clean Up Bills. DITCHES ORDERED Time Extended Viewers on Juday Road—Moser Petion for Highway Heard. All persons having claims agains* Adams county should file them at the auditor’s office by the 23rd. The board of commissioners will meet on the 30th to dispose of all bills and clean up for the year. It is necessary that the claims be filed five days before that time. The board adjourned this afternoon after listening to a committee of business men concerning plans for the new bridge. The contract for supplies for the county infirmary were let as follows: drf goods, Niblick & Co.; hardware, Schaub, Gottemoller & Co.; drugs. La chot & Rice; tobacco, Model Cigar Store. Sheriff Durkin filed his report for the quarter ending December Ist and the same was approved. The viewers and engineer on the A. J. Juday macadam road asked that time time for their report be extended to December 21st and it was so ordered. Petitions for the ditches asked by . J. M. Andrews et al., and Pearl Kins et al., were approved, ordered established and C. C. Ernst appointed superintendent of construction. The Peter M. Moser et al. highway petition was heard, road ordered opened, to be forty feet in width.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

TRUSTEES meet. A meeting of the township trustees was held this morning at Berne, it being their regular monthly meeting, al which time matters relating to school work is taken up and discussed. •I. A. Fleming of Union township. John Hoffman of Preble and Sam Butler of Washington township were in attendance and left on the morning train for that place. The meeting was held in -be People's State bank buildi Ing. COURT HOUSE NEWS Frank Wright Brings Ejectment Proceedngs Against Frank Small. ALSO ASKS DAMAGES Reynolds Case Reset for Trial—Hunters Still Get Licenses. 1 . Frank Wright, through his attorney, : C. L. Walters, has begun ejectment | proceedings against Franklin Small, i asking also the sum of S2OO damages. Wright claims that he is the owner of a property in the south part of the . city, being a part of lot 83, in the J. I D. Nuttman addition to the city, having complied with the terms of a contract. By the contract he was to buy the property and pay to the owner of the"property, Martha Barnett, now living at Ashley, Mich., $25 cash and the remainder of the purchase price, $425, as soon as a complete and good abstract of title to the land was given him. The abstract was given him November 15th. and he paid to the Barnett agent, C. L. Walters, the money and secured therefor, the deed. He claims that Frank Small, without Wright’s consent, as owner, or that of the agent, and Ly a trick or false representation. secured the key to the premises from a former tenant, and moved into the’property and refuses to give him possession. Wright claims that he sent workmen there to improve the property, and that Small filed an affidavit against him and the workmen for criminal trespass. Wright says that by reason of the loss 1 of rentals since November 15th, the damage done by the breaking of doors, windows and plastering, and the costs of the criminal actions, etc., he has been damaged in the sum of S2OO, which, together with an order of ejectment, he asks. — The case of the State vs. Gert Reynolds et al, charged with conspiracy to steal, was reset for January 2, 1912. Kalamazoo National Bank vs. Cop--1 pock Motor Car Co., on note, $450. Ro ply in one paragraph to answer of defendant Motor Car Co.; reply in one paragraph to answer of Suttles, re- ' ceiver. Otty Bolds vs. S. W. Hale et al., joint and several answer filed by defendants in two paragraphs. Rule to reply to second paragraph. Real estate transfers: Lydia Butler to Adam Biberstine, 5 acres, Root tp., $800: Lawrence Smith to Amelia Christen, quit claim deed to pt. lots 527 328, 324, pt. lot 225 and pt. lot 85, Decatur, $400: Nettie Hindman to Amelia Christen, pt lot 85, pt. lot 327 and pt. lot 328, Decatur, SBO and $266; Lawrence Smith to Amelia Christen, undivided interest in lot 40, Decatur. $100; Dr. M. F Parrish to Rosa Hoffer, lot 6, Monroe. $2500; Katharine Krehbiel to Hermann 11. Kattman, lot 376, Berne, $365. Hunters’ licenses issued since November 23 are as follows: John .1. i Liechty, Berne; Albert Runyon, Linn I Grove; Fred Isenhart, Rolla Bair, Geneva W. P. Schrock, Joe McFarland, 1 Edward Stevens, James Hudson, William Darwechter, Melvin Gallogly, H. S Steele. Guy R Dorwin, Decatur; C. C. Eley, Berne. Joseph l> Krick vs. E. Burt Lenhart et al., leave asked by plaintiff to amend complaint; objections by de fendants. Miss Naomi Baxter returned to Ft. Wayne yesterday afternoon. She visited with her grandparents. Mr. and 1 Mrs. Ward Cline.

DIVORCE QUESTION ’ Startling is the Statistics, Showing Increased Evil of This State. :IS GROWING WORSE , One Divorce Shown for Every Seven Marriages to Have Been Recorded. One couple out of every seven mar ried in Indiana last year was divorced and figures show the divorce rate is growing much faster than the population. , The state of Washington where the divorce rate of 184 for 100,000 population in 1900, exceeded Indiana in 1910 by 13. Here the divorce rate grew from 70 to 142 from 1880 to 1900, and to 171 in 1910 for each 100,000 of the population. The divorce mill is grinding twenty per cent faster than the increase in population in Indiana. While the population increased 7 per cent between 1900 and 1910 the divorce rate increased nearly 30 per , cent. Indiana is given eighth rank among ■ the states where the divorce evil has become a social menace, but the rank . is based upon statistics compiled several years ago. It is practically certain that current statistics on marriage and divorce would give the state a place much nearer Washington, the best refuge for wounded hearts. Fifteen per cent of all the mar riages in 1910 not’ only were failures, ~ but they were such extreme failures ! that one or the other of the contract- ’ ■ ing parties obtained a divorce. Add *o this number the applications which i : actually w’ere filed In The divorce ■ f courts, but which were withdrawn,; ■ the parties having both agreed to endure the clash of temperament, or to ‘ live apart, or in legal separation: then I add a liberal measure of “unhappy” marriage, which never get into the divorce courts at all because of at- ' tendant humiliation and the feeling I of parental obligation to children, and i there is apparent the greatest problem, perhaps, of modern social con--1 ditions. o | WAS RE-ELECTED 1 ' Miss Margaret Daniels Reelected County Secretary at Convention. AT CHURUBUSCO I By the Christian Endeavorers of the Fort Wayne District. Besides the officers mentioned in ■ Monday’s Ls'.m the following county 1 secretaries were elected at the Fort Wayne district Christian Endeavor, convention closed Saturday at C huir übusco; Adams, Miss Margaret Dani iels; Allen, Miss Ida Maxwell; Hunt--5 ington, Miss Bessie I. Jones: Wells,' ’ Miss Ida Chalfant; Whitley, Miss j > . Ruby Bair. Decatur is honored again by the election of Miss Daniels of this city ’ to this office. Miss Daniels, who is president of the C. E. society of the j local Christian church, also held the t position of county secretary last year, and her re-election is an acknowledgment of the ability with which - she has served ■ , A NEWSBOY’S CONTRIBUTION. “Here's a penny for the Anti-Tuber- . eulosis League,” said a little newsboy, stepping up to the visiting nurse of a western league, who was selling the Red Cross Christmas seals in one of the moving picture theaters. t “Here, take one of the seals,” said , the nurse, as the boy dropped the penny in front of her. “Aw, 1 ain’t got uo use for de seal, but I wants to give youse de penny J ’cause youse did so much good for me " mudder,” replied the lad, running I away before he could be questioned further.

Decatur, Ind. Tuesday Evening, December 5, 1911.

WILL BE “CLINIC NIGHT.” For the Doctors—Will Also Hold Annual Election. The Adams County Medical society will meet Friday evening, December 8, 1911, at Dr. W. E. Smith's office. This will be “clinical night,” and each member shall report one case of unusual interest. Also the election of officers for next year will be held. Members are urged to enroll for 1912 before January Ist, in order to secure the advantages of medical defense. 1 DR. C. C. RAYL. Sec’y. INAUGURATE SALE) _ I I Red Cross Christmas Seals Placed on Sale in This City by THE TRI-KAPPAS I | J 1 As Agents—Committees Appointed to Place in Various Departments. The sale of the Red Cross Christmas seals was inaugurated in this city i Monday through the Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority. Miss Pansy Bell is chairman of the Red Cross committee. On this first day, about 2,500 , seals were placed and the results are indeed most encouraging. The Tri-, Kappa girls have organized them- ■ selves in various committees for the placing of the seals on sale in varb ous departments, the chairmen of which are as follows: Edna Hoffman—School Committee. Fanny Frisinger -Professional I Frances Merryman—Church. ' Jean Lutz —Clubs and Lodges. Madge Hite—Special Sales. Pansy Bell —Factory. All these departments will be visit-! ed by the committees, who will ask their co-operation in the sales of these seals, the proceeds of which will be used in Indiana in fighting the ravages of tuberculosis. The seals are already being distributed to the clubs for sale j —to the Young Matrons this afternoon, the Historical this evening, the Shakespeare tomorrow, and the Euterpean, together with others. The. . school, also, will push the sales, in I i the hope of winning one of the prizes offered the six schools who sell the greatest number. Every one whoi ■ sends a Christmas package, should let; ! it carry one of these Red Cross greet-1 ; ings, and cheer the recipient, as well j | as help swell the'great benefit fund' Remember, however, that mail pack- 1 ’ ages should not bear the seals on the address side. “Red Cross seals will ' : not carry any kind of mail, but any I ; kind of mail will carry them." The Red Cross seals are one cent! j each. The slogan of the state organ!- i • zatlon is: “Last year 683,000 Red ■ i Cross Christinas seals were sold in ■ i Indiana. This year 2,000,000 seals . must be sold.” ■ Monday the business district was' visited and advertisements placed, also seals, though it is the desire of the committee to not so heavily burden the business men this year. THE PRICE HAS DROPPED. Farmers Pay More for “Shipped in Oil” Than on Home Market. — ; Some fifty or sixty farmers’ wagons and teams drove to the Erie railroad Monday afternoon to get oil shipped in from Illinois by a firm there, and as high as a hundred teams were on hand today. It is said that last summer, the firm sent its representative hero to take orders from the farmers for oil, to be delivered now, at BV4 cents a gallon, over the ten cents which the farmers were at that time paying, locally. The farmers contracted in great numbers. Now, however, the oil for which they pay the Illinois firm 8% cents, is sold locally for eight cents, a half-cent cheaper. The farmers who come to town for the large supply, were required to get large oil tanks, making that matter a great expense also. The oil tank sent in by the firm at the Erie is said to be one of the largest ever seen in this vicinity. OYSTER SUPPER TONlui-iF. The Dent school will give an oyster supper tonight to which everybody is invited.

REj.GNS POSITION -— < John Wemhoff Severs His , Connection With the In- j diana Lighting Co. GOES TO FT. WAYNE I I Miss Agnes Costello Will From Now on Serve as I the Bookkeepei. Jojin Wemhoff, who for the past year and a half has been acting in the ' capacity of bookeeper and aiding in j the many business matters pertaining , to the office of the Indiana Lighting ! Company, has resigned his position and accepted one at Fort Wayne, made vacant by his sister, Stella, with 1 the Perrine-Armstrong Lumber Comi pany, Miss Stella leaving in a short ! while for California with her mother on an extended visit. Mr. Wemhoff ■ during his stay at this office has won , the confidence of all his employers, 1 as well as the officials connected with i the company, and it is with regret that be leaves their employment. The company offered him a better proposi tion, but as he had already completed arrangements for the desired change, did not accept. Miss Agnes Costello, who succeeds him in the office, has already taken up her work and will from now on be connected with the office here. Mrs. Mary Wemhoff and daughter, Miss Stella, who go to California, will leave the first of the year for Los Angeles on an extended visit, and will spend the remainder of the winter there and perhaps longer. They will visit the McLains and other friends 1 , i who are at present living there, and j ; their stay will be a most pleasant one | throughout. IS RECOVERING. Mrs. Julia Moses, who suffered an I attack of the heart Sunday morning, j is recovering and was able to take j her place on the cot in the living j room today. c — OPEN OFFICE HERE ’ i — 1 B. C. Fry of Huntington Will Open Headquarters < Here Last of Week. IS WELL QUALIFIED . < J 1 .Has Leased Two Rooms Over Peoples & Gerke i, Shoe Store. 1 , I B. C. Fry of Huntington, a chiro-! , practic of considerable experience, arrived in tlie city Monday evening to seek for a location and later leased the Mrs. R. J. Holthouse rooms over the Peoples & Gerke shoe store, for- I I merly occupied by Ned Hobo. The 1 rooms will be put in shape for his practice and will be in readiness the latter part of the week, when he expects to open to the public. Mr. Fry is a graduate of the Michigan Schooi '; of Chiropractics. of Grand Rapids, Mich., and has been located at Hunt- , ington for some time, where he enjoy- , ed an extensive business, but believing that there was a. better field in this city, desired to move. He was a graduate in the same class with Mr. Finkhousen, who operated here some months ago and enjoyed one of the best businesses in the city. Mr. Fry is coming with the reputation of possessing thorough knowledge in this i line and will, without doubt, enjoy an extensive business In a short while. He will be ready to open his apart inents in a few days, and his ad, which ; "appears on another page of this issue, will tell you all. He expects to move here as soon as he can arrange things | and will make this city his home. A CORRECTION. A correction is made in the announcement of W. R. C. officers. Assistant conductor 1s Miss Pearl Purdy and department delegate is Mrs. Sarah Wertzberger.

PREBLE NEWS. Frank Tenary was out one night coon hunting and trespassing on the Hilgeman farm heard a coon. He spied him up in the tree and shot at him, and then sat down under the tree; when al! at once, down came Mr. Coon from a height of forty feet, landing on his head. The weight of the coon was a severe jolt and the hunter had to be assisted home by his partner. Look out, boys, if the law don’t catch you. the coons will. ELECT OFFICERS Knights of Columbus Last Evening Selected Officers for Ensuing Year. H. F. COSTELLO G . K. Yeomen Elect Officers Tonight—Modern Woodmen Wednesday. The annual meeting and election of officers of the Knights of Columbus council took place Monday evening and was attended by a large number of the members, who took part in the election of those who will serve for the ensuing year. Dr. H. F. Costello, who served as grand knight for the present year, was re-elected, and all officers. excepting deputy grand knight and outer guard, were re-elect-ed to fill the same office again this year. The present year has been a most successful one for the oj'der and everything being in a flourishing condition, and the number of members being a most gratifying one. The officers chosen Monday evening will resume their office the first day of Jani uary, and following the installation I exercises to be announced later. The following are the officers: Grand knight, Dr. H. F. Costello; deputy grand knigbt, Frank Kerber; chancellor, Julius Heidemann; financial secretary, Dan M. Niblick; recording secretary, Joseph Lose; treasurer; Dyonis Schmitt: advocate, Thomas Dowling; warden, Lines Meyer; inner guard, Jacob Heimann; outer guard, Herbert Ehinger; trustee, Ben Eiting; ' lecturer, Anthony Schurger; chaplain, Father Flaherty; delegates to the na tional convention. Dr. H. F. Costello ' and Charles S. Niblick; alternates, Dr. I D, D. Clark and Anthony Schurger. The Yeomen will hold their regular election of officers this evening, and the members are looking forward to a | good time in addition to the prescribed I work to be carried out. Arrange- j ments for the evening have beer, planned for some time and a large | crowd is expected to be on hand at the ’ appointed time. Tomorrow evening the Modern | Woodmen will select their officers for next year and they, too, have made special arrangements for this time, when officers who will carry on the continued work of the lodge will be chosen. A good attendance is asked. TEAM RAN AWAY. A team belonging to Martin Bleeke, a farmer, living in Union township, became frightened this noon at a train passing on the Erie and started to run from the car where Mr. Bleeke was getting a supply of oil. They turned north along Winchester street and ran quite a distance before the.’ were stopped. Aside from throwing off the wagon bed and spilling some oil there was no damage done. Things looked exciting for a while, however. WITH THE SICK. The condition of Mrs. Paul Miller is very’ encouraging and is improving each day, and is considered by those caring for her that she will from now on enjoy a speedy recovery. The condition of Mrs. Tanvas. who underwent an operation some weeks remains about the same and is resting as well as could be expected. Her condition being very serious, she remains about the same from day to day. RIVER FROZEN OVER. The placid bosom of the St. Mary’s river Is ice-bound, a very unusual oc currence thus early in the season, and the lovers of the sport of skating will very likely make this place a Mecca.

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A GREAT MEETING t ’’ ”” 1 «■ ■■ ■ Will be Convention of the Teachers of State at Indianapolis During THE CHRISTMAS WEEK ■ Attendance Will be a Rec-ord-breaker — List of Speakers Brilliant. One of the greatest conventions ever held by Indiana teachers will be the coming meeting at Indianapolis on December 27, 28 and 29, 1911 The indications are that all the attendance i records will be broken. The list of speakers is one of the most brilliant that has ever been engaged for such an occasion in Indiana. Dr. Robert J. Aley, president of the University of Maine, and formerly state superintendent of Indiana; Dr. Elmer B. Bryan, president of Colgate University, and formerly president of Franklin f college, and previous to that general 3 superintendent of instruction in the r I Philippines: Dr. William E. Watt of p Chicago, the great fresh air expert; 5 Dr. Woods Hutchinson of New York i- City, the brilliant author and lectur- ; er on health topics; Dr. Henry Suz--3 zallo, of Columbia University, one of I the most entertaining speakers on the I educational platform in America; . j Mederith Nicholson of Indianapolis, 3 1 one of the foremost of American novi j elists, and Alfred Tennyson Dickens, 1! the oldest surviving son of the immor- ! tai English novelist, Charles Dickens. 51 Mr. Dickens will speak on the life and . I works of his father, giving intimate . I glimpses of the personal side of the . j great genius. The address of Mr. i I Dickens will be one of the events of ~ years in Indiana educational circles. I I County Superintendent Samuel L. Scott, of Jeffersonville, president of the Indiana State Teachers’ association, will speak at the opening session of the general association on Wednesday evening, December 27th. ; { The sectional meetings will be held 1 on the forenoon and afternoon of Wednesday, December 27th. The general ! meetings will begin on that evening and will end on Friday morning, December 29th. Mr. Dickens will speak on Friday morning. Teachers may be paid for attending the association this year. This lis according to a law passed by the \ last legislature which permits school i authoritie to allow three days’ pay I each year for attending teachers’ : meetings and for visiting other j schools. State Superintendent Great’ house, the attorney aeneral of Indiana and the chief examiner of the - state board of accounts have all rulI ed that paying teachers for attending i the association is legal. Hundreds of I school corporations arc planning to j pay their teachers for going to this meeting. ELECTS OFFICERS. | The Adams County Teachers’ asso- ■ ciation signalized its beginning and I gave indication of its future progresi sive spirit and wisdom by the selec- ; tion of tlie following efficient officers: President, Professor Worthmann; vice president. B. F. Colter. St Mary's i township: secretary, Miss Goldie Fink, of the Geneva schools: treasurer, I Jesse Kelley, Hartford township. Pro : fessor Worthmann is a teacher of | great ability and power in the Decatur schools a eraduate of the Indiana State Normal at Terre Haute, and an Instructor of great power and clearness. He is a man of high intellect i and independence of character, who will be an efficient spokesman for the teachers and a strong leader in whatever they attempt to do. He will be ably assisted by the other officers named, who are looked upon as educators who do things with spirit and effect. Mr. Worthmann has appointed j the following executive committee: Martin Jaberg, Root township; Prof. W. F. Beery, St. Mary's township; Prof. Rufus East, Monroe: Miss Eliz- | ateth Beitler, Superintendent Huff, ' Berne, and Mrs. M. A. Bailey, Deca ' tur. The president of the association ' will also appoint a committee on organization to be announced later, | which will frame a constitution and i by-law’s for the teachers’ association. s ! o- — Miss Ruth Guy returned yesterday 1 afternoon to her work at the Angola 1 I college after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gay.