Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 290, Decatur, Adams County, 12 December 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 290.

the primary ISON Adams County Democrats Today Selecting Ticket For Next Fall. POUR HOT BATTLES Polls Close at 6 O’clock and Returns Will be Received at This Office. • The ballots are being cast by the democrats of Adams county today, seating the candidates lor the various office?. The polls opened in twentyseven precincts at 6:30 this morning and will close at 6 this evening, immediately after which the returns will beging arriving at this office. It Is believed the results will be known bv 10 o'clock. There are close contests on for representative, surveyor, auditor and treasurer and this morning esch candidate was claiming a victory. Much interest is being manifested in the outcome and the returns will be watched eagerly by the candidates and their friends. A slight error in printing the tickets was noticed too late to make the correction, both lien drieks and Eicher being shown on the ballot as candidates for commissioner from the second district, while Eicher should have been from the third. The correction was made in several of the precincts and as neither man has opposition. there will be no doubt as to the validity of the election. While the leather was rather bad, the indications are in the city and in the towns cf the county that a large vote will be polled, though it is likely that the country vote will be somewhat smaller than usual. The returns will be received at the Daily Democrat office. MISS EFFIE WAY DEAD. Death Removes Well Known Ossian Lady. Miss Effie Way passed away this mcming at 9.45 o’clock at her home in Ossian, after an illness of five weeks with typhoid fever. Her condition had been critical for several days, and last week she was forced to undergo an operation for a rupture of the bowels which was caused by *r serious illness. She was taken sick five weeks ago while woiKlng in a large department store in Indianapolis and was brought to her home a week later. For a fewdays after being brought home, her condition became serious but Sunday morning she showed considerable improvement. She suffered a relapse last evening and continued to grow worse until de»th relieved her this morning. The funeral will be held Wednesday at 2 o’clock ai the M. E. church and burial will be made in the Oak Lawn cemetery. Rev. Dougherty will officiate. Miss Effie Way, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Wjy, was born in Ossian, May 27, 1887. She was a resident of that place practically her entire life time and leaves many friends to mourn her death besides the immediate family. She is survived by her parents, one brother, Oscar Way, iad three sisters. They are Mrs. Charles Woodward of Fort Wayne, ' Bn d Misses Mary and Martha Way, at home. She was a member of the Pyth'*n Sisters lodge, and also an active Worker in the Ossian M. E. church. — Biuffton Hanner. TRAIN DELAYED. The southbound G. R. & I. passenSw train, No. 7. due here at 7:08, was ®ore than an hour late upon arriving h p re, a bolt having broken on the enSine when in the near vicinity of Boagland, and considerable time was teeded before the same could be remA new bolt had to be procured from here and the train did not arr' Ve until an hour and a half behind ths regular schedule. POLICE COURT NEWS. _ 44 This morning the plain drunk that ’M arrested by Marshal Peterson Monday afternoon, was arraigned and *t *as found that his name was Chas, 'angilder, and not Schieferstein, as !| ated, but that he works for a Mr. He pleaded guilty and the eventful dollar and costs. Bi® inability to talk plain Monday was cause of the mistake In names.

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w - c. T. u. SPEAKS. Mrs. Stanley Speaks—Mrs. Minnie Daniels Recording Secretary. At a meeting of the newly organized " C. T. U. auxiliary Monday afternoon at the library reference room, with tftie president, Mrs. G. H. Myers, presiding a very good program was rendered. Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley of Liberty, state vice president, was among the speakers, giving a view of the work of the W. C. T. U. from its origin. The local order now has about fifty members and they are making ar- | raagements to secure permanent headquarters, the place to be announced I later. A meeting will be held again next Saturday afternoon, and it Is the I desire that all be present at that time. Horn the list of newly elected officers, the name of Mrs. Minnie Daniels as recording secretary, was unintentionally omitted. — GET LITTLE MONEY Yeggmen Early This Morning Blew Postoffice Safe at Harland. ■MEN WERE ALIVE When Removed from the Cross Mountain Mine— More Believed Alive. (Uni'.ed Press Service.) Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 12 —(Special 1 to Daily Democrat) —Cracksmen blew the postoffice safe at Harland near I here early today, escaping with $26,36 in money and $40.00 in postage stamps. About $60.00 in money was overlooked by the cracksmen. Briceville, Tenn., Dec. 12 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Government res’cuers today estimated that there were I between twenty-five and thirty men ' 'mprisoned in the R ,a d Cross mine who are still alive. Briceville, Tenn., Dec. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Rappings heard in another portion of the mine from where five men have already been rescued today led the searchers to believe that more men may be rescued from the living tomb in the Red Cross mine of the Knoxville Coal & Iren 1 company. It is certain, however, that ! the death list will, as a result of the ' explosion’, remain large, and which impi'isonM 200 men. New York, N. Y„ Dec. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat)- Mrs Virginia Evers, whose husband, Frederick Ev- ! ers is rated in the commercial agency I to be worth far above a million dollars, was today sentenced to serve ! three months in the penitentiary on Blackwell Island on a charge of cruel ty, beating Miss Alice Ramboles, her Swede ward. TAKE IN NEW MEMBERS. The federation of paper bailers Is getting stronger each day and several new members have already been added to the popular organization. Isadore Kleinhenz, vice president of the new assembly, is kept Quite busy these days and has accepted the assistance of a brother member of the order to aid him in the heavy work of billing, which requires considerable of his time. The lodge is fast growing and a bright future is predicted. Editor Spade of the Willshire Herald was numbered among the business callers here yesterday and latei left for Fort Wayne to attend to some business mailers which required his attention between trains. CASE BEING TRIED. The trial of C. M. Foreman vs. Geo. W. Souers & Son of Huntington, in the United States court, in which the former asks damages to the amopnt of $25,000, for injuries received some months ago by a vicious stallion The case has been hanging fire for some time and much controversy has been the result. It is attracting quite a bi of attention and many witnesses are being called into court to give their side of the affair. Several people from this city are also witnessing the progress of the trial. _ Henry McLain of the soldiers’ home a i Marion is here lisiting with bld friends.

STOP AT EIGHTH I More Children Cease Attending at This Period Than , at Any Other. 1 i j DECREASE IS SHOWN Adams County Enrollment Placed at 4,867, With a Daily Average of 4,001. More children ceased attending Indiana public schools upon reaching the eighth grade during 1910-1911 than before, according to Enrollment figures compiled in the office of Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction. That grade is the turning point in the lives of the majority of children, the state official believes, and as in former years, it has been shown that the ! need of the Hoosier school system is some kind of elaboration of the school work at that period which will induce children to complete the eigh ill grade and enter high school. The total number of children attending the eighth grade in Indiana ’ school last year was 39,600, while during the year before 41,385 were regis-' tered. The total number of children I enrolled in the public schools of the 1 state last year was 530,267 and the av- 1 erage daily attendance was 471,726. I For the school year 1909-10 the to tai enrollment was 531,459, and the av 1 erage daily attendance was 420,789. The falling off in total registration is I' credited by officials of the state su-1 perintendent’s office to the fact that > many new county superintendents • took office during the year just passed | and being unfamiliar with the meth ods of compiling total enrollments.' probably caused this discrepancy. ' < For Marton county the total enroll- ,

ment in 1910-11 was 39,347, compared to 38,664 the yeah before. The average - dally attendance last year in the county was 31,423, and in 1909-10 it was 30,666. The total attendance in all township schools of the state last year was 284,516. In cities, 190,8'15 children were enrolled, and in towns the lists showed a total of 54,886. The total number of white boys attending school in 1910-11 was 261,8'1, and the total number of white girls was 255,915. The total number of colored boys attending was 4,932. and of colored girls was 7,569. ELECT OFFICERS Methodist Sunday School Re-elects Old Staff of Officers for THE NEW YEAR C. L. Walters, Superintendent With Able Assistants - in Departments. The Methodist Sunday school has,, with very little exception, re-elected i the old staff of officers to serve for the new year, upon which the school is about to enter. C. L. Walters, who; has Served so ably as superintendent, i will continue as such, and he will have the following officers to assist! him in the work: Assistant Superintendents—W. H. Fledderjohann, Mrs. Letta Peters. Secretary—Joe McFarland. ( Assistant Secretary—Stella Archbold. I Treasurer —Arthur Suttles. , Librarian— Harvey Smith. ( Assistant Librarlan-Harry Jeffrey. Pianist—Celia Andrews. j Chorister —Harvey Segur. j SUNDAY SCHOOL ELECTION. J Sunday school election* will take' place at the Winchester U. B. church on the 17th of December for the purpose of electing new members for the , coming year. It will be of interest to, all present. Some other business is also to be transacted. Everybody is invited to come. ,

Decatur, Ind.Tuesday Evening, December 12, 1911.

THEY MADE POP-OVERS. High School Girls Successful in Cooking Class. The first lesson, involving practical work on the part of the students, in the domestic science class tought by Miss Stella Philips of Fort Wayne, at the gas office, was given Monday afternoon, being the making of pop-overs. The first section of the high school girls received instruction, and then, protected by big aprons, stirred in the large yellow bowls provided them, the concoction, the first in the bread line, from which pop-overs are made. These were placed in the oven, and then it was seen that not enough time could be given the students for the baking, so Miss Philips agreed to bake them this time, while the next, section was assembling. The pop-overs were a grand success, as the Democrat reporter, who was given a peep into the oven just as they were baking, can testify. The next two sections were given the recipes, and directions, so that with the next lesson, they can begin at once on the making and will also have time for the baking. A lesson on candy making will also be given next Monday, as it comes jusfbe- . fore Christmas. TWO WITHIN WEEK Death of George Jacobs Last Night Closely Follows That of Child. i' - I | OF LAST WEEK I ! Had Seen Bedfast Only Since Saturday—Was a i Prominent Resident. I After having been bedfast only since ' Saturday and from what proved to be a baffling illness to the physicians,

* George Jacobs, a well known farmer, ! residing two and three-quarter miles 6 east of Monroe, passed away at 12r45 1 o'clock this morning, from symptoms 1 of typhoid fever and other ailments. [ He had been in failing health for some ' time, and only last week a one-year 3 old daughter also died suddenly, from 1 pneumonia. All medical skill proved to be of no benefit to him and Dr. Me- ’ Oscar of Fort Wayne, who was called, ’ was also unable to bring relief to the sick man, as well as other physicians ’ who had been caring for him during 1 the first dawn of his illness.. He was ' nearly twenty-eight years of age, the ‘ son of the late John Jaeobs, and was ' numbered among the best known res! I dents of the community. He was born but a half mile from where the family resided, and his entire life was . spent near Willshire, where he grew 'to manhood. He was married eight I years ago, and to this happy union I were born six children, three of whom have also passed to the great beyond. Mrs. Jaeobs, who was unable to with-' , stand the many trials of the present, that of the death of their little daugh- ' ter, and now - that of her husband, is . also suffering from a nervous break-' down, and medical attention is also, necessary. He leaves to mourn their loss, besides a loving wife, three chil- ; ! dren, Martha, Lawrence and Norman. • 'a mother, Mrs. Martha Jacobs, and j ' one sister, Mrs. G. H. McManama. The I ■ funeral will take place on Thursday j morning, the cortege leaving the 1 house at 10 o'clock for the Monroe ' M. E. church, where the services will be Held Interment will be made south of Monroe. | _. n | CHICAGO NAMED. (United Press Service.) I Washington, D. C.. Dec. 12 —(Special to Daily Democrat)- The national re-, I publican committee, meeting here toI day, selected Chicago as the place of 1 holding the next national republican 'convention on June 18, 1912. The, 'name of St. Louis was presented as, 1 a contender for the convention and ( ' was then withdrawn. Buffalo and Gin- ( Icinnati also named as candidates, did 'not appear in the vote. Chicago got 'forty-three of the votes against Den- ' ver, Colo., 7. St. Louis received one ' vote. The resignation of the post'master general, Hitchcock, as chairman was accepted and former Governor Hill of Maine was elected to fill out the unexpired term. Harry S. New, ' of Indiana, was appointed chairman of 'the committee on arrangements for the convention by the executive committee.

(LONGLIFE ENDED J Mrs. Margaret Ruby Died at Early Hour This Morning at Home OF HER DAUGHTER :i J — Mrs. John Barnett—Was ' Nearly 77 Years OldFuneral Thursday. I Mrs. Margaret Ruby, for forty years . a resident of the county, died this , morning at twenty minutes to 7 o’clock at the home of her daughter, . Mrs. John Barnett, on Mercer avenue, , with whom she made her home for the past seven years. Had Mrs. Ruby lived until next February 15th, she would . have been seventy-seven years of age, and her death was due to a complication of diseases superfinduced by old age. She had been gradually failing j for the past year, though she had been bedfast only since Monday morning. For the past two months, how’ever, her j weakness had been more apparent and so frail was she that it was neces- | sary to assist her by leading her from place to place. Mrs. Ruby’s maiden , name was Margaret Roop. She was , the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob I Roop and was born in Seneca county, , Ohio, February 15, 1835. When but j three years of age she came with her parents to Van Wert county, Ohio, , where she lived until forty years ago, , when she came to this county. She i was married first to Philip Thatcher, , and to them were born ten children, ! three of whom are living. They are: I Samantha, wife of John Barnett of I this city; Martha Jane, wife of George ■ Strickler of near Monroe, and Aman- ! da, wife of Richard Ross of Van Wertj ■ county, Ohio. Mr. Thatcher's death j ‘occurred February 1, 1870. The widow I was married to a second husband — | John Ruby—December 10, 1875, at i

. Pleasant Mills, his death occurring | s March 19, 1884. She is survived by I .-/one brother, Jacob L. Roop, of Will-. s 1 shire, Ohio, and two sisters, Mary | ; Troutner of Willshire and Susannah e Ritter of this city. Mrs. Ruby was a ■ . good Christian lady, highly beloved by j' all, and death came to her, happy in j the assurance of a long and useful life, well lived. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock 3 from the church, the servs ices to be held by the Rev. J. M. Daw , son, assisted by the Rev. A, Kohne of 3 Willshire, Ohio. Interment in Maple--3 wood cemetery. ' i IS SOLE OWNER ) I Otto Reppert Buys Interest I of His Partner, Charles II H. Walters I I w IN THE FOUNDRY And Machine Shop—Wai- < ters Will Return to Vicinity of Vera Cruz. I Purchasing the interest of his pari- j ner, Charles H. Walters. In the Wai- < ters & Reppert Foundry & Machine, I shops on Eighth street, Otto Reppert ■ i thus becomes the sole owner, and will ’ continue the work without a partner f !at present. Walters & Reppert have < ■ been the owners of this plant, which 1 was formerly the Van Camp foundry, t for some time, and have built up a j good patronage, through their excel- 1 ' lent work. Mr. Reppert will continue to serve the public in the same good i and piompt manner Mr. Walters, < ' who has lived in this city on North i ' Fifth street, since assuming an in- i 1 terest in the foundry, has purchased < 1 a ten acre tract of land near the in- i terurban station near Vera Cruz, and , will locate there some time in March. Mr. Walters prior to moving here, lived in that vicinity. Cletn Steigmeyer, who is attending ■ college at Indiana university, will ar- : rive home on Thursday of this week to spend the holidays with his parents. He is taking a complete course and so far is well pleased with his undertaking.

DAVID DICKERSON DEAD. Died Suddenly Monday Night at Monroeville. David Dickerson, sixty-four, lifelong resident of this city, died at 9 o’clock Monday night from heart failure a few minutes after returning to his home from attending a picture show. Mr. Dickerson had been in good health and spent the day at his usual work as a painter, going down town during the evening to attend a moving picture entertainment. Returning home he fell dead while preparing to retire for the night. The deceased is survived by a wife and one son, the latter residing at Sturgis, Mich., where he is employed as a machinist in a large factory. A brother, who operates a motion picture show’, lives at Convoy, Ohio.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Mr. Dickerson was well known here. about The sick Robert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Miller Operated on This Morning. ILL THREE WEEKS Ductor Required to Take Screw from Glennis Merica’s Nose.

Robert, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Miller vs North Fifth street, underwent an operation this morning at 10:30 o’clock by two physicians of the city, the operation rei moving about a quart and a half of pus from a cavity in the left lung, j Some time ago the boy suffered an j httack of influenza and this is thought !to be the result of that illness. He j has been ill about three weeks. William, year-old-son of Mr. and [ Mrs. Clarence Bell, had the misfortune to cut the end of one of one of his ; fingers by getting it caught in ;> I wringer. I Glennis, four-year-old daughter o. Deputy Sheriff and Mrs. J. D. Merica. had the misfortune to get a foreign particle, which’ was thought to be a button, up her nose this morning, and all efforts of the parents to extract it failed. She was taken this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock to a physician, who succeeded in getting it out, and it proved to be, instead of a button, a screw, with a head as large as a pc:: and about a quarter of an inch lons rhe doctor stated that it might easi " have been drown through the nasal opening into the wind-pipe, in whi.l: case the child would have choked to death in a very short while. Simeon Fordyce is improving day by day’, which news is very pleasing to his many friends. Mrs. M. F. Rausch and Mrs. J i Vuker of Wren, Ohio, went to Fort Wayne this morning to call on the for j mer’s son, Lester Rausch, a patient at the Lutheran hospital, where he wnr ! operated upon last Thursday for appendicitis. He is getting along well. I

BOSS BUYS MORE FACTORIES. I Frankfort, Ind., Dec. 12—The Boss Manufacturing company, with genei offices at Kewanna, 111., and with factories scattered throughout Indi- j ana. Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and Nev. York, all being engaged in the manii facture of cloth gloves, mittens and corn huskers, has closed a deal where by it takes over the three glove factories owned by the Gregg GloVe com pany, operating factories at Frankfort. Lebanon and Crawfordsville. The Boss company owns the Bluffton mitten factory and the acquisition of the three factories named above’ makes the company the owner of | about twenty factories. The Gregg j company, which sold out at Frankfort, ( was organized in 1903. —Bluffton News. FOR BENEFIT OF CHARITY. /’The W. R. C. has engaged the Star theater for Friday evening, when the proceeds of the show of that evening will be used by them for charity. They ask the patronage of the public on that evening. There will be special music by the chorus, and readings by talented speakers.

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STATE MEETING •I r Os Teachers to be Held at Indianapolis Dcember 27, 28 nd 29. DRAWS ATTENTION Os Educational Department of State to List of Brilliant Instructors. The state meeting of the teachers of Indiana to be held at Indianapolis, Dej cember 27, 28 and 29, is drawing the j attention of the educational department to the list of brilliant instructor? I and entertainers who will appear on the program arranged for those dates. Besides the general association to be held at Tomlinson hall, there are sectional meetings to be held at various other places, to be attended by teachers and educators interested in their various departments. The program for the general association is: Wednesday, Dec. 27—8:00 p. m. Call to Order —Linneaeus Neal Hines, chairman executive committee. Quartet —“Carmena”—H. Lane Wilson —The Fellows Singers. Invocation —Rev. Fred Whltlo Hixson, Crawfordsville. Duet —“Dews of the Summer Night” Buck —Miss Driver and Mr. Fellows, of the Fellows Singers. Inaugural Address —County Superintendent Samuel L. Scott, JeffersonI Ville. Address —“The Present Meaning and Purpose of Education” —Dr. Robert Judson Aley, president, University of Maine. | Appointment of committees and miscellaneous business. Thursday, Dec. 28—9:00 a. m. “The Gospel of Fresh Air.” j Piano Solo —(a) Arabesque, Nason: ' (b) Etude, Mac Dowel —Miss Nason, of the Fellows Singers. 1 Invocation —Rev. Arthur Cates, Richmond. Bass Solo —“The Armorer’s Song” —DeKoven—- Mr. Fisher, of the Fellows Singers. Address —“Making Children Resistant to Fatigue and Disease” —Dr. William E. Watt, Chicago.

| Address —“Fresh Air in the School Room and Elsewhere” —Dr. Woods Hutchinson, New York City. Miscellaneous business. Thursday, Dec. 29—2:00 p. m. 'Messages from the Universities.” Duet —“Parigio Caro" —Verdi —Miss Anderson and Mr. Fellows, of the Fel- ! lows Singers. Announcements. Friday, Dec. 39 —9:00 a. m. Tenor Solo —“Jesus Lover of My ' Soul” —Peticolas —Mr. Fellows, of the ' Fellow Singers. ' Announcements. Trio—(soprano, tenor and contralto i —“The Mariners” —Randegger—Miss I Anderson, Miss Driver and Mr. Felj lows, of the Fellow s Singers. Reports of committees and miscellaneous business. Introduction of the chairman of the forenoon —Supt. Samuel L. Scott. Address of the Chairman —Mr. Meredltli Nicholson. Address —“My Father’s Life and j Works” —Mr. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, of London. j Adjournment. RORY O’MORE. One of thebest and most interesting films that has been shown at the Crystal theater for some time will be the one of this evening, Mr. Parent having secured the Rory O’More, the story of an Irish patriot, and one that has won fame throughout the country. The story, which is one of those that 1 touches the heart, represents Mr. O’More fleeing from the English offi- ' cers, and on his way steals a few mo--1 ments to spend with his sweetheart, Kathleen, who has been followed by William Black, the informer. Later, hearing that he is to be imprisoned, he flees and is overtaken, arrested and I placed in captivity and placed on trial. So the story goes, and it is considered one of the best in motion pictures today. Another interesting film will ' be the “Square Love," an Indian poem, s which will also be well worth your ; time. ■ — o— ' i Assessor Jesse Steele and ex-Trus-I tee David Steele of Kirkland township -1 were business visitors at Fort Wayne this morning.