Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 287.

gave an address p r of. E. E. Rice Talks on Sugar Beets to the Farmers AT THE INSTITUTE Held at Williamsport by Marion Township (Allen County) Faimers. D. N. Sprang, A. R. Hell and Professor E. E. Rice, superintendent of the city schools, attended the farm-' «rs' institute held by the association of Marion township, Allen county, at' Williamsport, or Poe, Thursday. Professor Rice was one of the speakers on the program, giving a most excel-1 lent address on the education of the boy and girl on the farm, and ending with a talk on sugar beets, which was a most timely subject, in view of the proposed location here of the great sugar beet factory, the first in Indiana. and in which the farmers of the surrounding counties, as well as those of this county, will be interested. His talk abounded in good practical points and was highly appreciated by the many auditors. The institute was held in the Methodist church at Williamsport and the attendance was quite large. At noon, the ladies of the church served a dinner that for excellence cannot be beaten, and the gathering was one of great social pleasure and importance, as well as being highly educational. The Decatur attendants returned Thursday afternoon on the 4 o’clock CONGRESSMAN ADAIR SPEAKS. I (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C., Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Representative Adair, democrat, of Indiana, spcke in favor of the Sherwood "dollar a-day” pension bill now pending in the house of representatives A PITIABLE CASE Orley Meyers, Tubercular Victim, Pleads Guilty to Petit Larceny. IN POOR HEALTH Judge Merryman Suspends Jail Sentence on Advice of Physician. A most pitiable case came up in the i Adams circuit court at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon, when Orley Meyers, the young man from van Wert, Ohio, w ho was arrested last Saturday by Sheriff Durkin on a charge of petit larceny, appeared before Judge Mei ■ ryrnan and withdrew his plea of ‘ not I guilty” made heretofore, pleading fuilty instead. The charge against him was made by Henry Sturbaum, an old soldier from the Marion soldiers’ home, who had been rooming at the same place with Meyers, who had been an employee for the past six ’•ells or so at the Holthousc livery •table. Sturbaum charged Meyers w ith stealing sls in cash, a flfiy-cent Mir of gloves, and a gold finger ring, November 29th. Meyers, who i - h Joung man about thirty years of ago. !• suffering from tuberculosis of the longs In a bad form, and upon the focommendation of Dr. Costello, who •PPeared In court, stating that Meyers was tubercular, and that confinement rn jail would be detrimental to him, the sixty-day jail sen ’once given him, was suspended by Ju dge Merryman, during his good be-; hsvior. The sentence also included fine. Meyers has been a sufferer from tuberculosis for some time, and has undergone an operation affecting 'he ribs, the wound turning into a tootling sore, which is very much agS avated at the present time. The foung man is contemplating going to a free sanitarium in Lima. Ohio, "here another operation will be performed, hoping to obtain relief. He ls nld to be without a cent, and ap--I’M.red in court this afternoon without CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR

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BRIDGE COLLAPSED. ( And More Than One Hundred Work-j" men Lost Their Lives. 11 (United Press Service.) St. Petersburg, Russia, Dec. 8 - (Special to Daily Democrat)—lt is believed that between IfiO and 200 persons lost their lives by the collapse of a railroad bridge over the Bolga j liver near Kazan. The bridge was just in course of construction and was filled with workmen, when, without 5 warning, tho supports gave away, allowing the men to fall into the icy walers. Only a half-dozen bodies have been recovered today. Troops were dispatched from both sides of the rlvI er to search for bodies and to rescue j any of the men who still may have e ! yet been alive. ( ■ o c THE WORK BEGINS; ~ I ■ Force of Twenty-five Men r Are Laying Temporary i Tracks on Factory Site. ( t NORTH OF TOWN ‘ 1 - ■ 1 Will Rush the Work, After s Which Will Begin Erec- , tion of Buildings. ♦ < In charge of Chief Engineer Barnaby of the Grand Rapids and Indiana ; railway, a force of engineers began , this morning the laying off of the , temporary tracks for the sugar plant. At the same time a gang of workmen under Mr. Doty began the actual work l of laying the new track. About twen--1 ty-five men are now as busy as they , can be getting ready the preliminary work on the site for this new big in- , dustry. They will complete the work within a week or so and by that time the sub-contracts for the various i buildings will have been let and the work on these will immediately start. The materials will arrive about the first of the year and as was stated previously the big thirty-acre plat will be covered with machinery and building material within a short time. The first building to be erected will be the boiler and engine house. From ' now on until the plant starts the grounds north of the city will be ah very busy place. The G. R. & I. are it this time building two temporary tracks, one between the main building and boiler house and one between the main building and car sheds. Later, about four car tracks will be built for permanent use. SAYS IT’S A DOG. Pups Let Loose Grow Up Like Wild Wolves. Not ridding the country east of the city of its wolfish terrorizer. in the killing of the “dog" or “cuyole,” a I short time ago, the farmers of that vicinity again got busy and killed another animal, very similar in look?, to the other. The beast was brought to this city, where it caused considerable comment. It was taken to D. M. Hensley, the expert, for an opinion as to what It was, and he pronounced it nothing more than a dog, which had roamed about wild, so long that it ■aine to partake of the wolfish qualities of that animal It is said that some time ago, a pasenger on a train through the country east o fhere. let some pups out of a basket, and these pups grew to dog-hood, running wild about the country, subsisting on owls, and other game, which it could kill, and that these two beasts killed lately are these dogs which have ■ roamed about wild. hog cholera in wells county Cholera is causing the death of (many hogs in Jefferson township and , many farmers living in that section l of the county have suffered heavy losses in the past week. Everything ' possible is being done to check the disease, but according to latest reports it is spreading rapidly In Lancaster township, east of Bluffton, the faimers have also been fighting the dreaded cholera for some time and ■ they now think that it has been check- ; ed. Many of the Jefferson township farmers disposed of their fat hogs i before the cholera broke out and con- < sider themselves very lucky.—Bluff-’ I ton News.

SOLD THE NORMAL — c Marion Normal School to be t Consolidate! With Two f Others. ‘ t —— ( EFFECTIVE MARCH 1 , ( Will Locate at Muncie— ' Mr. and Mrs. Boucher to Teach There. ' — I Marion, Ind., Dec. B—C. W. Boucher, president of the Marion Normal college, announced at chapel exec- : cises Wednesday that his college had ‘ been consolidated with the Beardsley ' institute of Chicago and the Eastern Indiana Normal school of Muncie, all to be located at Muncie under the name of the Muncie Normal institute. The change is to be effective March1 11, 1 1912, and at that time Mr. Boucher desires to transfer the students here i to Muncie, where the large building I of the former Eastern Indiana Normal ' will be occupied. M. M. Kelly of Mil-1 w-aukee is president of the new : school, and Mr. Boucher and wife each signed a contract to teach in ; the school for three years. Mrs. 1 Boucher will be an instructor in elocution: Mr. Boucher said it was a 1 cash transaction. The college last summer had an attendance of 2,200, but the winter at- • tendance is only about half that num her. The Marion residents, with the | aid of some members of the Marion Normal college, will attempt to build up a new normal school here.. I I Many Decatur and Adams county students have attended the Marion Normal school, and are graduates of that Institution. NOT ABLE TO COME Mrs. Horace Callow Makes Hundred-mile Trip to Jonesboro. Ark. — OBLIGED TO WAIT Probably a Week Before Proceeding to Ft. Wayne Hospital. . Mrs. Horace Callow of West Plains, j Mo., who accompanied by her hus-: band and children, and her sister, j Mrs. D. N. Erwin, of this city, was ex ' pected to arrive in Fort Wayne Thurs- | day evening, where she was to enter | the hospital, was not able to make the , complete trip at this time, and her arrival there will probably be delayed a. week or so. The journey from West ! Plains to Jonesboro. Ark, a distance 1 of one hundred miles, was made, but I there Mrs. Callow, who is in very poor health, was not able to proceed, and . she was taken to the hospital until she should gain strength for the re- < mainder of the long journey. A broth- i er, Fred Falk, formerly of this city, 1 resides at Jonesboro, so she is not i wholly in a strange place. Mr. Callow remained there, but the children, I Mary and Stanley, accompanied their i nunt, Mrs D. N. Erwin, to her home 1 here, arriving Thursday night. The Callows lived in West Plains, Mo., 1 nearly a year, going there last Jaiiu-, i ary, hoping the change of climate i would benefit Mrs. Callow’s health, : which it failed to do, as she has grad- I ually failed. Mrs. Erwin went to < West Plains a few weeks ago. | 1 — ' 1 SUNDAY SCHOOL ELECTION. < Sunday morning at the Salem Evan- i gelical church east of the city a Sun-' < day school election of officers will' take place, which time will be a most Interesting one for the members of < the church as well as the congrega- < tion. The meetings, which have been < conducted for some days past, are i growing in interest each day and large numbers are always noted pres- j ent at each gathering. They will also t continue for the time being, as the i good results are becoming better with I each sei vice. All are invited.

Decatur, Ind. Friday Evening, Decembers, 1911.

ENJOY FINE BUSINESS. The Bluffton Cement Products company is one of the leading industries of Bluffton, although it has been located here but. a few years. ' The plant is one of the best for its size in the state and work turned out here is not excelled by any factory of its size. Since locating here, the plant has given employment to various numbers of men and has also aided materially in putting Bluffton on the map from the number of shipents, and to the many points where they have customers. The company is composed of J. B. Holthouse of Decatur and W. A. Markley of this city, Mr. Markley having active management of the plant. At present the plant is only running a little over half the regular force.Bluffton Banner. Both owners of the plant are Decatur peoplp. Mr. Markley, for a number of years having been employed in this i city before going to Bluffton from l here, while Mr. Holthouse is also a resident of this city. SERIES 0? MEETS — Arranged for Saturday and Sunday for Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley. TO GIVE ADDRESSES; In Interest of W. C. T. U. —; i First Will be Held Saturday Afternoon. I A series of meetings have been ar-' ranged for Saturday and Sunday al ■ I which Mrs. Elizabeth Stanley of Lib ' erty, vice president of the state W. ; C. T. U. association will speak in the interests of the W. C. T. U. A cordial ; invitation is extended to all interested , in the work, to attend the meetings. , An effort to reorganize the local W C7T. U. auxiliary will be made. The' meetings are scheduled as follows: i Saturday, 3p. m.—Baptist church. ; Saturday, 7:30 p. m. —Evangelical' church. Sunday, 10:30 a. m. —Christian church. Sunday Afternoon—Mass meeting.' at Presbyterian church. p. m.—M. E. church. A general Invitation is extended to ; all. A silver offering will be taken 1 Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon. MAJORITY ESCAPE -Only One Murderer Out of Every Four is Caught and Convicted n I STATE OF INDIANA According to Figures Compiled from Reports to State Health Board. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. B—OnlyB—Only one out of every four murderers In Indi-j ana is Caught and convicted, accord- - ing to figures compiled from reports l made to the state board of health Thus, it looks like murder is not sur-, rounded with such danger after all. These figures in the hands of the board cover the years 1907-8-9-10. They show that in 1907 there were 122 homicide cases in Indiana and that seventy nine arrests were made and forty-six persons were convicted. In 1908 there were 122 cases, with ninetytwo persons arrested and forty-six convicted. In 1909 there were 109 j homicides. There were sixty seven • persons arrested and forty-three were convicted. In 1910, 121 homicides were reported, with sixty-three arrest-’ ed and thirty-one convicted. In Indianapolis, since January 1, 1909, there have been fifty-three murders. Thirty-one persons were arrested and fifteen escaped. The other seven either killed themselves or were shot in evading arrest. Mrs Margaret Thole of Cincinnati and Mrs. Helen Burns of Covington, sisters of Father Wilken, who have been visiting here several weeks, left today for their homes.

POCAHONTUS MEET Officers Named Last Evening and Arrangements Made for Meet. EAGLES ALSO ELECT Meeting Was Intersting One —lnstallation to Take Place in January, Pocahontas Mrs. Henry Stevens, number assemnled at the hall for the . election of officers Thursday evening ! and a good time was enjoyed by the many present. It was also decided at this time that the district meeting of i the Pocahontas lodge will be held in this city, the exact time not as yet being set, but to take place some - time in the spring. The officers electied Thursday evening are as follows: j Prophetess—Mrs. Alice Whitcomb, i Pohahontas —Mrs. Henry Stevens. Wenona—Mrs. Anna Hencher. Keeper of Wampum—Mrs. Flora Patton. Keeper of Records —Mrs. Al Burdg. Pawhattan—Mr. Al Garard. { The Eagles, at an enthusiastic ■ meeting held Thursday evening, i elected the following officers for the i coming term: * Past Worthy President —Leonard | Merriman. . Worthy President —G. S. Burkhead. I Worthy Vice President- —Doy Leh- . man. ! Worthy Secretary—Joel B. Knappe. Worthy Treasurer —Frang Gass. Worthy Chaplain—Frank Keller. Inside Guard —J. H. Meyers. i Outside Guard—Frank Foughty. I Trustees —Pink Ball, Charles Omlor, Frank McConnell. The installation of officers will be the first meeting night in January, 1912. THE NEW OFFICERS I Annual Election Held by Soldiers at Meeting I Last Evening. THE NEW COMMANDER Is Thomas W. Mallonee— A Good Staff Elected to Serve. Al the meeting of the G. A. R. Thursday evening the new officers for | the term were elected. These will be installed in January. The following' excellent staff was elected: Commander—Thomas W. Mallonee. i Senior Vice Commander —John E. ■ Jones. I Junior Vice Commander —Daniel i Kitson. Quartermaster —F. F. Freeh. Sergeant—C. T. Rainier. Chaplain—J. R. Parrish. I Officer of the Day—D. K. Shackley. I Patriotic Instructor —J. D. Hale. Officer of the Guard—William Wet ! ter. Delegates—A. J. Teeple and Wil-1 Ham Wetter. j Alternates—F. F. Freeh and Daniel Kitson. Trustees—B. W. Sholty, J. D. Hale,' S. B. Fordyce. FUNERAL HELD. The funeral services over the rei mains of Mrs. Joseph E. Andrews ! took place Thursday afternoon at 1 'o’clock from the late residence, West ■ High street, Henry H. Webb of the First Church of Christ officiating. Interment was made in Green Park cemetery. The death of Mrs. Andrews occurred Tuesday evening, following a lingering illness. The following were among the relatives in attendance at the funeral services, her I parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Flckel. and two sons, John and Charles, of Continental, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. George Bailey of Geneva, Mrs. Kate Harter and Miss Sulalia Bailey of Salamonia, Mr. and Mrs. David Owens of Continental. Ohio.—Portland Sun.

YOUR’E AN ANIMAL. Don’t Forget it, Says Dr. J. N. Hurty, State Health Secretary. Muncie, Ind., Dec. B—“ You8 —“You can neither be happy nor successful unless you are a good animal,” said Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, addressing 500 high school students here as a part of “health week” observance. "No man or woman can amount to much who forgets that he is an animal and that his vital wants are animal wants. You never heard of a deer or bear shutting himself up in a highly heated and poorly ventilated house, and neither have you ever heard of a bear uor a deer dying of tuberculosis. But you have heard of monkeys dying of consumption after they have been placed In captivity and made to breathe the ! foul air that human beings breathe almost every cold day.” ENDS lIfwEDDING Marriage of Asa Smith and Anna Passwaters Will Doubtless !END PROCEEDINGS Begun Against Smith on Paternity Charge—Wed 11 Last Night. The wedding of Asa Smith ail’'! j Miss Anna Passwaters of Blue Creek ' j township, which took place Thursday j evening at 4:30 o’clock in the county I clerk’s office, ’Squire Stone officiating, ! will doubtless end the paternity pro- ; eeedings brought against the young ’ - man by the bride, thus ending in a | satisfactory way, a strange case. It ‘ | will be remembered that the young ’ [ lady had been missing eight weeks or Iso from the home of relatives with I whom she lived in Blue Creek towu- ' ship, and when no clew to her strange i, disappearance could be gleaned, her j father, George Passwaters, of New i York, was notified. He came at once, 'and arriving here November 13th, no(tilled the officers, who immediately i began search. As she was known to ; have been driven to the railway station in company with Smith, he wa.; j immediately connected with her disi appearance. An item in a Ft. Wayne paper, announcing the birth of a son , to Mr. and Mrs. Asa Smith at the Lu- : theran hospital, gave the officers here a clew, and going there with the girl’s father, found that the mother of the i babe, which was then about a week or so old, which had been christened ' Earl, was the missing Anna Passwaters, who, according to the statement of the hospital attendants, had been entered there in September under the name of “Mrs. Asa Smith.” The paternity proceedings against Smith were thereupon brought upon the re- ' turn of the officials here, Smith being released upon giving bail, until the ■ time of the trial, which was deferred j until Miss Passwaters would be able i to leave the hospital and attend the trial. The wedding Thursday will end ! further action on that charge. The i babe, which is the innocent cause of j the trouble, was with the couple at i the ceremony, and is now about a i month old, and is a very fine babe. The exceeding youth of the bride, : who was but sixteen years of age last i >larch 7lh, makes the case a rather sad one. The groom is twenty-seve.. j years of age. o ATTENDS CONGRESS. George Wemhoff returned home j Thursday night from Chicago, where ihe was looking after some business pertaining to his monumental establishment here, and being allowed a short time of leisure, he in company wilh Will Gillig of that city, a forme r Decatur man, attended the nineteenth annual water ways convention, being held there from the sth to the 9th. People of all standings in the business world are in attendance from all parts of the U. S. and the present gatherings will surpass all others in past years. Speakers of the best ability and acquainted with the irrigation necessities of the great west art scheduled to speak on each day an< inestimable knowledge in this line li being derived at all hours of the grea meeting Thursday the governor o Arizona was the principal speak ed of the day and this afternoon Gif ford Pinchot, numbered among th most learned men on forestry in th, country, was the speaker.

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CHANGE OF STAMPS To be Issued by Postoffice Department Early Part of Year 1912. HEAD OF WASHINGTON To Replace Franklin's on the One-cent Stamp—Others Will be Made. Early in 1912 tfio postoffice department will issue some new stamps. Among the changes announced is that the head of Benjamin Franklin will be removed from the one-cent stamp i to be replaced with the likeness of ■ George Washington. The portrait of j President Washington will appear on I the one-cent, two-cent, three-cent, I four-cent, five-cent and six-cent stamps. Hereafter the eight-cent, 10cent, 15-cent, 50-cent and $1 stamps, which now bear the portrait of Washington, will display that of Franklin. The government issues a $2 stamp, i dark blue in color, with the portrait of James Madison, and a 85 stamp, dark green, with the portrait of John Marshall These two stamps are to be discontinued and the new issue will contain no denomination higher than a dollar. A few changes in stamp colors will be made, although not in the issues which are widely used. The twp-cent. will remain The one-cent will remain greed, V ut 'here will lx? a change in design, because Os the removal of the Franklin head. Washington portrait will be displayed In the same manner on the on-cent as it is at present on the two-cent stamps. On both the one and twocent issues, however, there will be this important change: The denomination of the present stamps is expressed in words. On the new ones numerals will be used in each of the lower corners, except in the highest issues. CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT. TO SANTA CLAUS Letters Addressed to Him This Year May Bear Some Fruit. MAY BE GIVEN To Charitable Institutions, Says the Postmaster's Instructions. There are many letters in the Christmas mails addressed to Santa Claus and many, no doubt, wonder how these are delivered. Heretofore these have been sent without question to the “dead letter” office, and are, ir all probability, in the course of time, destroyed, together with the hopes of i the little senders, if they but knew ) of the fate that befell their pleas for I Christmas cheer. The posloffice iu- ; struetions this year, as received by Postmaster Lower, state that all letters deposited in the postoffice, between the dates of December 16th and January Ist, and unmistakably addressed to Santa Claus, may be handed over to some charitable organization for philanthropic purposes only. In case more than one charitable organization asks for letters they may ;he equally distributed among them, jln this case It will plainly be seen ' that Christmas will be provided for the senders, just as much as though they had gone to the "for sure" Santa Claus that lives somewhere in Utopia, far beyond the reach of the mail carrier. The local office receives very few letters addressd for Santa Claus, but in large cities, thousands of these missives from poor little folk flood the mails. The malls of the local office are increasing day by day with ■ the holiday approach and it is ni,t I known yet whether extra helpers will t be necessary to help in the holit day rush. I a—- — Presbyterian ladies are still - conducting their bazaar and pastry ? sale in the Morrison building opposite j the Hensley store, and ask the patronage of the public.