Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 292.

I programs soon I All is in Readiness for Hold--1 ing of aFrmers’ Institute I Jan. 4 and 5. He ii —« I MEIBERS’ HALL I Five Different Sessions Will 1 be Held During the Two j Days’ Meet. ■ c. S. Mumma, president of the S Farmers’ Institute, which will be held ■ in the Meibers' hall, this city, on .ian2 vary 4 and 5, 1912, has completed all K arrangement* and the latest step to B be reached was the framing up of the ■ program, which will be rendered in 9 five different sessions during the two B days. The following is the program 9 in full, which contains many speakers 9 well acquainted with this line of work, 9 who will give to the farmers many 9 useful pointers during the two days' 9 meet: I First Day—9:3o a. m. 9 Music —Piano Solo —Irma Houk. ■ Opening—-Rev. Goodwin, pastor U. ■ B. church. ■ Barnyard and Green Manures —J. P. I Prigg, Daleville, Ind. S Discussion by Institute. I Insects Injurious to Farm Crops and I their Remedies —Prof. .lames Troop, ■ Purdue, Lafayette, Ind. I Discussion by Institute. ■ Miscellaneous business, announce- ■ menus, etc. I Afternoon Session—l:oo. ■ Vocal Solo —Marie Patterson. I Corn Improvement—J. P. Prigg I Discussion by Institute. I Alfalfa in Adams County—A. W Gulick. Discussion —J. C. Cowan. Vocal Solo —John C. Houk. Orchard Fruits and How to Have Them —Prof. Troop. Q»o«.‘inns by Institute. Adjourn. Second Day—9:3o a. m. Vocal Solo —Miss Helen Fonner. Opening Exercises —Rev. L. C. liessert. pastor German Reformed Church. Horse Breeding on the Farm —J. P. Prigg. General Discussion. Woman’s Part on the Farm —Mrs. Leonard. Organization of the six north townships. Adjournment. Afternoon Session —1:00. Piano Solo—Miss Frances Merryman. Hogs—J. P. Prigg. Sugar Beets —Mr. Eli Wagner, of the Holland St. Louis Sugar Co. Vocal Solo—-Mrs. J. O. Sellemeyer. The Boy and Girl Problem —Mrs. Leouafd. Adjournment. Evening Session —7:30. Instrumental Music. Address —Co-operation—Hon. C. L. Walters, Decatur, Ind. Vocal Solo —John R. Evans. Lecture —Household Leaks — Mrs. Laura B. Leonard, Indianapolis, Ind. Vocal Solo—Miss Hallie Leonard. Announcements. Adjournment. Officers. C. S. Mumma, president, Farmers Institute. E. W. Dailey, secretary. Woman’s Auxiliary. Mrs. Charles Schenck, president. Mrs. Jeanette Harden, secretary. - n DR. DILLON TO SPHAK. At the Pleasant Grove church Sunday n’orning, December 17th, immediately following the regular Sunda) school, will be the reorganization of the Sunday school, Dr. Dillin Huntington, editor of the Christian Conservator, will preach at the morning service following the Sunday school, and in the evening he will preach at the Bobo U. B. church. o M “THE GIRL AND THE TRAMP." “The Girl and the Tramp” played to a medium-sized house Wednesday night and gave a performance that wag highly appreciated by those pres ent. Many of the song numbers were decided hits and the beauty chon<. drew their share of praise. Manage, Bosse exercised good judgment in get ting the show. Recorder H. S. Steele went to Fort Wayne this afternoon to get some typewriter repairs for his office, and while there will call on his sister, Mrs. Wilson Miller, who is ill.

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CRASHED INTO WHEEL. The wagon belonging to Henry Heckman of near St. John's, which he bad left standing near the interurban crossing at the Heckman mill in the north part of the city, suffered Wednesday when the southbound freight at 4:05 o clock Wednesday afternoon, passed along and sliced off a rear wheel, breaking it to pieces and also breaking the axle. The wagon was left standing at a place near a curve in the railway, and the movement of the horses was such that one wheel of the wagon was pushed onto the track in the way of the car. The wagon was unoccupied at the time of the accident. MINE NOW ON FIRE - ive Fires Now Said to be Raging in 111-fated Cross Mountain Mine. AUTHORESS IS DEAD Juror Who Escaped from I His Room Now Returned to Trial. (United Press Service.) Briceville, Tenn., Dec. 14—(Special ] to Daily Democrat)- —With fires raging in ill-fated Cross-mountain mine, i and the finding or the bodies of Col. I Thomas Miller and his associates ! shortly after midnight, all hope of rescuing any more living miners was abandoned here today. The number of dead so far taken from the mine toi tals sixty-one, and it is said that the ] final count will exceed one hundred. London, Eng., Dec. 14 —(Special to I Daily Democrat) —Mrs. Arthur Stani uaid, the novelist Known by the pen of ‘John Stange Winters,” died here today as a result of a five months' sickness, caused by an elevator accident. ■ Boonesville, Ind., Dec. 15 —(Special |to Daily Democrat)—The trial of Wm. Lee, accused of the murder of his father, mother and brother, scheduled to be heard here on December 18th, I was today postponed until the next ' January term. Kansas City, Dec. 14—(Special to I Daily Democrat)-— Eigiity-four hours ; after he had climbed through a transom over the door and escaped from | the custody of the deputy marshal, Charles Waldron, missing juror in the case of Dr. C. Walhide, accused of the murder of Col Thomas H. Swope, . was brought into court today after I dodging the police of three different I cities. Physicians declared that he :is undoubtedly insane Waldron says i business worries drove him to run away. A new jury will have to ba selected. — —o— ABOUT THE SICK. Alexander Tanvas, an employee of the Schafer Hardware company, is confined to his home, suffering with inflammatory rheumatism. Wednesday evening his condition was quite , serious, he being up the greater por- ■ tion of his time to obtain relief. Mrs. Tanvas, who for a number of ! weeks has been suffering from canieers and for whom little hope has b-en extended since an operation a ■few weeks ago, remains about the same and her condition is still very serious. SALEM AND CALVARY. Preaching service, Sunday evening at Salem at 7:30 o’clock, at which time new members will be received into the church. At Calvary Evangelical church, east of the city, preaching services Sunday morning at 10:30 a. m. December 17th, at which time there will be held the annual Sunday school e e< I tion. All members of the church ought to be present. E. B. JONES, Pastor. DeLloyd Pomeroy and Willis Rauch I of Wren, Ohio, changed cars heie th . ' afternoon on their way to Ft. Wayne I to call on the latter’s brother, Lester, 1 tt the Lutheran hospital. He s >' ! ported as getting along well.

DtltlllVt BURNS I Selected by Denver Bar to Look Into Patterson Trial Conferences. SHOW GIRLS’ TRIAL An Effort Being Made to Relieve Sinking Delhi if Its Many Treasures. (United Press Service.) Denver, Colo., Dec. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Detective Burns will be engaged by the Denver Bar association to investigate the conference of the entire trial of Mrs. Gertrude Dickerson Patterson, acquitted of murdering her husband, it is announced here today. New York, N. Y., Dec. 14 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Arguments in the case of Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, show girls, who shot W. E. Stokes, the millionaire hotel proprie tor, were scheduled to begin here this afternoon with prospects that the case will go to the jury tomorrow. Stokes is reported as being in a serious condition today. Gibraltar, Dec. 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Tugs today began an attempt to approach the red steamer Delhi for the purpose of rescuing the mails and the $1,500,000 in bullion still on board the sinking ship. The gale, after dying somewhat during the night, increased in violence today and it. was feared that tae Delhi would break in two. London, Eng., Dec. 14 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Special dispatches today from St. Petersburg announce that Persia has decided to dismiss Major General W. Morgan Schuster. Effort to confirm these dispatches of I’aperon tailed. Doubt is expressed tTrat Persia has decided on such a | course. A STIFF SCHEDULE Prof. Worthman Arranges Decatur High School Basket Ball Schedule. A BRISK SEASON Is Promised—The High School Girls Are Also Booked for Two. Th Decatur high school basket ball schedule has been prepared by Professor Worthman for the Decatur has- ’ ket ball season, the schedule being stiff one. A few games with Fort Wayne and Huntington are still un-' der consideration, but th? list this far is as follows: December 15—Pennville at Decatm.. December 22—Decatur at Portland. January 12-Van Buren at Decatur.’ January 19-Decatur at Van Buren. January 26—Warren at Decatur. February 9-Decatur at Liberty Center. i February 16—Bluffton at Decatur. I February 23- Portland at Decatur. March B—Decatur at Petroleum. March 15—Petroleum at Decatur. The Decatur high school girls play Bluffton high school K lrls at D^’» tur January 19th, and al Bluffton February 9th. Liberty Center second basket hall team plays the Decatur econd basket ball team at Decatur Thursday, December 21st. A schedule for the second team is now under consideration. TO VISIT SONS. Mrs . Elizabeth Myers this morning left for Tulsa, Okla., where she w ’1 spend the winter months with her sons, Dorse and Charles, who are now making their home at that place. She went to Fort Wayne from here, thence byway of the Wabash to St. louis Mo., and fiom there took the Frisco lines to the place of her destination.

Decatur, Ind. Thursday Evening, December 14, 1911.

wnunwtu vv I I Wirt UtStHTION Alonzo Wagner, Former Decatur Man, in Toils of Law. | I In securing the return of Alonzo - Wagner from Moline, lil., the prosecutor is trying out a new law under which the sheriff can obtain mileage from the county for going outside of the state for men charged with crime. Wagner formerly lived at Poe and was for a time located at Decatur. He is an embalmer and secured a position at Moline. Later he told his wife he had taken a place on the road, but she ascertained that that was a ruse to keep from supporting her and their children, the oldest of which is five years of age, and she filed an affidavit charging him with wife de i sertion. He had not sent home any I money for three months, —Ft. Wayne ’ Sentinel. ’ i Mr. Wagner was formerly an em- . ployee of the Meyer, Scherer & Beav- ‘ | ers undertaking establishment of this city. < I , _____ COURT HOUSE NEWS 1 1 1 Suit on Note is Filed, Demanding $2,000—-An Old Case Was Dismissed. -MR—AT PLAINTIFF’S COST ) ! Separate Answers Filed m Hamrick vs. Brandt Case —Realty Transfers. Charles H. Lammiman, of Decatur, whom a jury in the circuit court at the September term awarded damages of $3,300 in a suit over the trade of stock of the Lecatur Packing company, has filed a remittur of S3OO of the judgment.—Portland Commercial Review. A. P. Beatty is attorney for Marie Kruel in a new case filed Wednesday evening in the Adams circuit court against John H. Koenig, Herman and Martin Gerke. The suit is for a note given April 28, 1911, payable in six months. The demand is $2,000. German Fire Insurance Co. vs. Graham & Lower, damages, S4OO. Judgment for defendants, costs against the plaintiff; exceptions by plaintiff. Miles W. Hamrick vs. Maria Brandt et al. Separate answer by each defendant to each paragraph of complaint. Cause set for January 17th. I. D. Landis et al. vs. Adams Conn-] ty Pub. Co. et al., appointment of re-1 | ceiver. Report of sale by receiver filed. Real estate transfers: Frederick I Scheiman to Harvey M. Daniels, pt. f lot 12, Decatur, $3000; John N. Spring-[ cd to Clyde Rice, pt. lot 72, Decatur, .$800; Elizabeth Topp to Lewis E. ' Schaadt, 00 acres, Jefferson tp.. 1 $9000; Ruby F. Baker to Harvey T. Kitson, pt. lot 751, Decatur, sL>'’: i Elva Ritter to Emerson Zerkel, quit claim deed to 40 acres, Wabash tp., $1; Emma Zerkel to Elva Ritter, same SI.OO. 0 — — ’ SOME RED CROSS SEAL FIGURES. Few people have any conception of the magnitude of the Red Cross Christmas' seal campaign. The following figures will show what a gigantic movement this is. Already 85.000,000 seals have been printed, and practically that entire number distributed to agents. Probably 15,000, 000 more will be needed. Advertising circulars, posters, cards, etc., to the number of several million have also been distributed. It is estimated that the army of paid and volunteer workers engaged in selling the seals will number over 100,000. The advertising and publicity donated to the campaign will amount to several million dollars. I Every effort is being put forth to sell 100.000,000 seals, or about one for evi ery man, woman and child in the United States. TO FILE REMITTUR. • ' In the Lammiman vs. Scheiman suit ; for damages in which a motion for a new trial is now pending, leave has . been asked and granted the plaintiff >to file a merittus for 300. Ihe - case was venued here from Adams county.—Portland Sun.

NOVEL INVENTION I That Will Revolutionize the Methods Used by Undertakers Invented by JAMES O. BALL Combined Head Rest and Facial Mack—Arranges to Manufacture. James O. Ball, who for many years was engaged in the undertaking business in this city, and therefore versed in its every department, returned this morning from Dayton, Ohio, where he called on a novelty manufacturing firm, arranging with them for the early manufacture of a novel invention of his, which will revolutionize the primitive methods used for years by undertakers, and for which Mr. Ball has applied for a patent. The invention is a head rest to be used for corpses, and is combined with an arrangement which closes the mouth of the dead body, and preserves the natural set of the features until rigormortis has set in and accomplishes this. The head rest and appliance is made of aluminum and is strictly sanitary, allowable of thorough disinfection, which could not probably be done so well or easily, as in the place of a cloth head-rest. The appliance used also in the closing of the mouth will be a great innovation over the old method of tying a cloth or kerchief about the chin and head. The article seems to be a good one and Mr. Ball is to be highly complimented for his work. The article will be manufactured and placed on the market at an early date. A BABY GIRL. Ed Burkhead is the proud father of an eight-pound baby girl which came to gladden the home yesterday. Mother and baby are doing well. FUNERAL SERVICES For Charles E. Cloud Will be Held Tomorrow Afternoon at Home OF HIS PARENTS Body Brought Here Today from Lynn Where Death Occurred Tuesday. The funeral services for Charles E. Cloud, youngest son of ex-Countv Re-1 corder and Mrs. C. C. Cloud, whose] death occurred late Tuesday after-' noon at Lynn, when the wagon in i which he was driving was struck by a railroad engine, will be held tomor-! row afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home ! of his parents in this city, to which | place the body was taken on its arrival here from Lynn this afternoon at 3:10 o’clock over the G. R. & 1railroad. Tho service will be co ducted by the Rev. Semans, pastor ci the Methodist church. The Christian church was thronged : with the many friends and relatives j of the late Mrs. Margaret Ruby, tl • service being conducted this after-1 noon at 2 o’clock by the Rev. J. M. Dawson, assisted by the Rev. A. I Kohue of Willshire, Ohio. The body | was laid to rest in Maplewood cemetery. Mrs. Ruby’s death occurred Tuesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Barnett, resulting from a complication of diseases, incident to old age. VISIT NEBRASKA. Theodore Thieme and son, Anthony, left for Hebron, Neb., where they will make a visit with hia half-brother and sister. They will be absent for some time and their trip promises to be o»ie of much interest, that part of the corntry being such as take up the attention of Mr. Thieme.

LAST RITES HELD. A large number of friends and relatives of the late George Jacobs gathered for the last time this morning » to phy their respects to the deceased man, when the funeral services were conducted from the Monroe M. F church. The funeral cortege left the home for the church at 10 o’clock, the services being held immediately following the arrival of the remains. A t high tribute was paid the life of the deceased by the officiating minister, who all his life had been a popular and exemplary young man. T. W. * Best and Mrs. John Lachot were In attendance, the latter being a cousin o: the deceased. Interment took place south of Monroe. SALESAREHEAVY 1'Report to Headquarters is ’ That Nearly Half Million e Fed Cross Seals e HAVE BEEN SOLD e I ‘ln Indiana Already—Advance Hope That Million 3 and Half Will be Sold. 5 Between 450,000 and 500,000 Red ' Cross Christmas seals have already , been sold in Indiana. i This report w r as wired to the officers ‘ of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis at New York City last night by the 1 Indiana sales managers. It is based on estimates received at the state headquarters in Indianapolis yesterday from agents throughout Indiana. The report was sent to the National association in compliance with a request sent by it to all state sales managers in the United States. This association is directing the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals this year for the American Red Cross society. According to the Indiana managers the report is but a conservative estimate | of the number of seals sold througiij out the state, inasmuch as it is im-

possible for the agents to make accurate reports at this time of the sale, because hundreds of workers in each community have supplies of the seals. Members of the Red Cross Seals commission of Indiana are gratified with the reports and have advanced the hope that 1,590,000 seals will be sold before January Ist. Next week when the spirit of the Christmas season is rife in all localities many hundreds of thousands of seals will be sold. More seals are expected to be sold this year than in former years because of the awakening of Indiana to the enormous annual loss of life and money caused by tuberculosis. The “home rule’’ policy of the state commission in expending all the money realized by the sale in Indiana to | check, prevent and cure tuberculosis ] is also making a strong appeal to the I people in the state and they are sup- ! porting the campaign stronger than ever. The people are becoming interested in the fight against this disease in Indiana this year, because statistics I compiled by the state board of health show that the “white plague” is on the i increase and they are realizing that i a strong fight, must be made now to . check tuberculosis. I>ast year Indi ana alone lost 4,710 inhabitants nd $10,000,090 by the ravages of the disease. The state health department also reports that one death out o' every tea in this community is cause ! by the-disease. NOTICE TO ALL CANDIDATES. All the candidates, in the recent primary election, whether successlul ]or not, are requested to call at the I office of the county clerk and get expense blanks, which must be filled out and filed with the clerk and the secretary of state within twenty days. Don’t overlook this very important duty, as the penalty is severe. __ — WESLEYAN GLEE CLUB CONCERT. . The Wesleyan Glee club is booked I for a concert at the Methodist church, 1 this city, December 26th The glee s club has given an entertainment here ' once before, and those who heard 3 them at that time will welcome theii ■ return. Announcement more fully will be made soon.

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CREATES A STIR Farmers Secretly Engaged in Tracing Yellow Metal Swallowed by Goose. ON MONROE FARM Experienced Gold Miner Will Give His Opinion as to Whether it is Gold. A great stir in the county, and especially in the vicinity of Monroe, has been created by the finding of what are believed to bo gold particles in the gizzard of the goose purchased by Murray Scherer from a farmer near Monroe, and prepared for the taI ble by the Scherers for last Sunday’s ‘ dinner. O. H. Miller, an uncle of ! the Scherers, residing near Monroe, has taken the matter up with the farmers living near Monroe, from whom the goose was purchased, and an investigation as to the source of ■ the metal swallowed by the goose is being made, but on the quiet, as they do not want to Jet. others in the secret, should the affair lead to a valuable discovery on the farm. It is said tho farmer who raised the geese, kept them in an orchard, through which a ' stream flowed. The stream flowed from a sand pit, and it is thought the yellow metal was washed from its ; place in the sand bank. The particles, j in the opinion of D. M. Hensley, the j jeweler, are gold. A gentleman, who ! ; has bad thirty years’ experience in ' I gold mining, who is stopping for a 1 j week or so at the Madison house, call- ' ]ed at the Hensley store Wednesday, ’ ■ after reading the account in Monday’s ’ j issue of the Democrat, and asked to 1 see the metal. The particles had been ! taken by Mr. Miller, however, to his home near Monroe, but they will be brought here for the inspection of the 1 miner, for his opinion. It is thought that if the particles were copper, or others of the baser metals, they would ‘, have tarnished with the action of the digestive secretion, whereas they preI sented a very bright yellow color. That some others are desirous oi

making investigation of the matter, I was evident to the owner of the goose, when one was stolen from the yard, since the discovery of the nuggets. o BREAKS COLLAR-BONE. I Frederick, the little three-years-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Foos, met with a very painful accident this morning while engaged in play, when he fell from a barrel, breaking his right collar-bone. He had been playing about the house, and it was while 1 engaged in this innocent pastime that 1 the painful mishap befell him The ' attendance of a physician was neces- ’ sary for the setting of the fracture, ' and it is believed that he will get 1 along all right, although requiring ’ I some weeks. AWARDED $1,375 DAMAGES. 1 After having been out for four hours I thp jury returned a verdict awarding I I the plaintiff damages in the extent of $1,375 in the case of Clark , Foreman vs. the Souers Horse company ‘ of Huntington. tried in the local Unit--1 ed States court before Judge Ander- ’! son. The court adjourned its session ' yesterday. Foreman asked for $2 >,- ' 0000. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Many people from this vicinity were ! witnesses in the case and were watch ing the outcome with interest. OBSERVED HIS BIRTHDAY. V. F. Freeh, eno of the best known citizens of this community, today celebrated his seventy fifth birthday. He passed out a box of White Stag cigars In honor of the occasion, hunting up the old soldiers and including the newspaper boys. Mr. Freeh was a member of the 47th Ohio during the civil war, and fifty-seven years ago today was in a severe engagement. — o A. E. WIGGAM TO LECTURE. The fourth number of the lecture 1 course will be given Friday evening, t, January sth, at the Bosse opera house e by Albert Edward Wfggam, the noted e lecturer. (j , Miss Augustine of Glenmore. Ohio, . transferred here today enroute to Ft. Wayne.