Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1912 — Page 1

‘ ■ ’ ■' ' | Volume IX. Number 39.

A GRAND REVEILLE II Awaits Veteran A. J. Teeple I in Great Beyond—Last Taps Sounded TUESDAY AFTERNOON I Well Known Man—Had Been Seriously 11l Only Since Friday. < — Another good earthly light was fin Sphed when Tuesday afternoon at 3:5,' the last taps were sounded for Jackson Teeple, a civil war jfl»eteran, marking his passing into that j. MMa> long steep, whose only awakening ■will be the triumphant reveille soundIMfed at the order of the Great General ’ his death occurring at the home ■Bdi his son, Charles Teeple, on North Second street. Mr. Teeple’s many I can scarcely realize that he ■■has passed away. While he had been I'./, ailing for five or six years with a ■complication of ailments, his condition such that he was able to be about a bud nearly every day found him out . mingling with his many friends. Last ; {Friday morning he was suddenly and unexpectedly stricken with a paralytic Stroke, trom ■Which he never rallied, 1 HBnml his decline since then was most rapid. | Mr.Teeple was seventy-five years and nine months of age at death. He was born May 13, 1836, in Morrow county, Ohio. When but twelve years old, he came with his parents, Samuel and E. Esther Teeple, to this county and BH state in 1848, settling on a farm in St. ■."'Ma 1 ' s township, where the greater ■part of Mr. Teeple’s life was spent, and |pie can well be called a pioneer of Ad■BEpms county. HM; Mr. Teeple was married in young ■manhood to Miss Achsah M. ThornpBson. with whom he lived most happily : ■Until her death, November 3, 1900. * ■They lived during their marriage on > Kjiheir farm in St. Mary's township, and hen the home was broken by death. i ■yr Teeple came to this city and has ■since made his home with his son, ■Charles Teeple, the well known mem■bet oi the clothing firm of Teeple, < ■Brandyberry & Peterson. I Five sons were born to Mr. Teeple, ME'the only one surviving being Charles,! was a great comfort to him, and i R with whom he made his home during I bis latest years. Two brothers —Thom-; ■ ? as and George Teeple—of this city, ( and two sisters —Maggie, wife of Eli-| j jah Walters of this city, and Emily, < wife of Samuel Zimmerman, of Cedar < ville— survive. A brother, John Tee < pie, and a sister, Jane, wife of John 1 Hildebrand, preceded him in death i jk Mr. Teeple had been a member of i ■ the Masonic order since 1861 and also 1 ■ of the G. A. R. of this city. He was a: t ■nan highly esteemed and one of the i gHuumost substantial citizens ot the comBranuniiy. The funeral will be held Fri- s morning at 10 o'clock from the . I church, with the Rev. Se-'• t ■plans officiating. Burial will take place | s >Sn Mt. Tabor cemetery near Rivarre. 1 c jSb.jside the grave of his wife. The t will not be opened at the t ■church, but the body will lie in state r Kir the homo Thursday afternoon from s ■gl to 5 o’clock. Both the Masons and i ■the G.’A. R will attend the services t ■Bhn a body. The Pall Bearers. ii I Honorary pall bearers are members < ||Lf the G. A. R., and are: Ezra Cutting. \ S 1 intel Shackley, Henry Fuhrman, Wil- s Wetter, W. 11. Myers, F. F. Freeh. 1 active pall bearers will be metnSffters of the Masonic order and will be < this evening. His War Record. < ■ the toilowing recotd of the service ■of Comrade Teeple in the civil war has , furnished by’ Robert Blackburn, t The death of Andrew J. Teeple re- ' moves the last commissioned officer of K. 89th Indiana infantry, en■listing August 14, 1862, i.nd serving ; his final discharge, August 8, 1865. < |E During his service he was a duty serMgeant, orderly sergeant, and second He was always with his and at the battles of Yellow ■ Bayou, La., and Fort Blakely, Ala., |hß commanded the company. At the bat- ■ tie of Yellow Bayou his captain was U disabled and Lieutenant Hart wound- i ® e<1 > leav, ng hlm the ranking officer t 0 ; |B command during the six hours solid 9 fighting. At Fort Blakely, Ala., his captain being sick and Lieutenant Mell Lean ou brigade staff, Lieutenant TeeU pie had command of his company. Dttr--9 ing his service he participated in the 1

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following battles: Munfordsville, Ky.; Fort De Russey. Pleasant Hill and Yellow Bayou, La.; Tupelo, Miss.: Nashville, Tenn, and Siege and Cap ture of Fort Blakely, La., besides several skirmisaes and raids, and march , ed on foot 2,263 miles and traveled over 11,000 miles by boat and railroad. His service stands out as one without a blemish, being one amongst several in the regiment that our gallant Colonel Cravens held in the highest es- . teem. A LIVING CUPID Or Just the Reverse—Was the Mail Carrier Today— A Big Load of LOYAL LOVE LORE In Form of Valentines Was Delivered to Many Here —Origin of the Day. The mail carrier was a living, breathing and very active Cupid—or just the reverse —today, as he staggered beneath the load of valentines he carried —some pretty, some sentimental or just silly, some comic, some mean and biting, and some “otherwise'’ —but ail coming under the grand name of valentine. While the greatest rush at the postoffke occasioned by this holiday was Tuesday, when the volume of mail was swelled to more | than twice its usual bulk, there were 1 a few straggling gems sent out today,i and the carriers were busy making the deliveries. Origin of the Day. The origin of the peculiar observ-1 ance of St. Valentine’s day is a matter j of some obscurity. Mr. Donee, in his I "Illustrations of Shakespeare” enlight-1 ens us a little on the subject as fol- ■ lows: “It was a practice in ancient Rome during a great part of the month ci February to celebrate the feast of | the Lupercai.a, which was held in hon-' or of the great, god Pan. On this occasion, amidst a variety of ceremonies, the names of the young women w’ere put in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed. Each young man was then bound to of-I fer a gift to the maiden who fell to I his lot and to make.Jier his partner during the time of the feast. The pastors of the early Christian church. |. who by every possible means endeavored to eradicate the vestiges of the pagan superstition and chiefly by some commutation of their forms substituted, in the present instance, the names of particular sains instead of those of the women, and as the feast of the Lupercalia had commenced about the middle of February, they appeared to have chosen St. Valentine’s day for the new feast, because it occurred nearly at the same time.” Then the etymologist also gives a suggestion in regard to the subject. Lie points out that V and G were frequently interchangeable in popular speech, and as a notable instance produces the words gallant and valiant, which both come from the Latin valens. He then explains that the Nor- , man word galantin, a lover of the fair sex, or what in these slangy days might be called a masher, was frequently written and pronounced valan- ' tan or valentin. And from these prom- 1 ises he concludes that by a natural ! confusion of names Bishop Valentine was established as the patron saint of ‘ sweethearts and lovers, although he 1 has no real connection. ' One of the first of the great English 1 dictionaries has 4hc following : Vai-! 1 entines (in England). About this i i time of the year—month of February j * the Birds choose their Mates, and ;'• probably thence came the Custom of' ■ the Young Men and Maidens choosing | 1 Valentines, or special Friends, on that! 1 Day.” This, of course, is pretty and ' poetical, but not quite as satisfactory 1 as the incident concerning the feast 1 of the Lupercalla. I i BABY GIRL ARRIVES. < _ f Word received from Indianapolis by ; 1 relatives here is that a big baby girl 1 was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alli- 1 son. jr. All are doing well and great 1 is their happiness. 1 MASONS TO MEET TONIGHT. t A special meeting of F. & A. M. t lodge, No. 571. will be held this even- t ing at 7:30 to make arrangements for I the funeral of Brother Andrew Teeple. 1

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, February 14, 1912.

THIS SOUNDS GOOD Report from Washington is Severe Winter Weather Will Soon Leave. I NEW COLD RECORDS I Have Been Set from One End of Country to Other —Lakes Frozen Over. I i Washington, Feb. 14—The most se- i vere and protracted cold spell of many years probably will be broken this week and the unusual winter, which has partially paralyzed transportation on land and sea, taken many lives and ' caused untold suffering in all parts of the country, will give way to more i seasonable temperatures. Observers of the weather bureau do i not promise there will be no more cold i waves this winter, but they predict ■ that the next week or ten days will be i the forerunner of a spell of moderate weather. | Since the last week in December,' save for short periods, iu all the country east of the Rocky mountains, new records for extreme low temperatures have been set. ! Lake Superior, greatest of the great I lakes, is reported frozen over from, shore to shore, something never heretofore recorded. In the present month the mercury at Saulte Ste. Marie has 1 | touched 32 below; at Norfield, Vt., ■26 below, while in San Francisco it [ has never been colder than 46 degrees j above. I There are no indications at the , present time of a general storm to i cross the country. The precipitation i for the week probably will be gen- ’ erallj' light, except in the north PaI cific states, where more than the nor--1 mal rainfall will occur. Q HE’S A PRINTER I Postmaster Must Also Have That Trick Among His Accomplishments. W’EATHER REPORT — Telegraphed to Him—He 1 Gets Busy, Prints it and |. Sends it Out. — I Have you ever wondered how the j government weather department at Washington got out these daily cards ' showing the weather report for the l day on such short notice, mailing them ' to representative business men of the j city. If you think they are printed ' at Washington, D. C,, and then sent ; out from there through the inaiV on 1 double quick time, you are very much 1 mistaken. They are printed in eacii I city at tne postoffice. Each morning < about 9:30 o’clock, Postmaster Lower ] gets a "telegraph message through the ; Western Union Telegraph company ( from the government weather bu- t reau, giving the weather fore- j cast. The postmaster or his clerk is j a versatile man, and must have the art or printing as one of his accotii- | plisbments, for he at once gets busy, | sets up the weather forecast in type, f and prints therefrom the cards which ■ are sent out to the various business 1 men of the city. These cards are r furnished by the government and jiave j ready printed on the reverse side the j name of persons to whom they are to ( be sent, so that all the postmaster has j to do, is to pick up bis daily bunch of a addresgod cards furnished by’ the gov- j ernment, print thereon the weather j forecast, and send them out from the . local office. About forty-five business f men of the city receive these dally t forewflsts. As soon as the weather r forecast Is received a copy is to ? the telephone office and many of the ■ farmers who wish to know just what! the weather man has dished up, and who would not get the message in time If delivered through tho mail l make It a point to call up the tele- t phone office here and have the report f read to them. 6

C. B. L. OF I. INSTALLATION. The Supreme Officers Assist in Installation Exercises. The installation of the officers of the C. B. L. of 1., as heretofore published, took place Tuesday evening with impressive ceremony. T. .1. McLaughlin, of Fort Wayne, supreme organizer of the order, and George Christen, also o? that city, supreme secretary, were at the meeting and assisted in the installation service. The meeting was a most enthusiastic one. COURT HOUSE NEWS • I Cupid, Shedding Tears, Does Not Show Face in Court Room Today. THE HARMON TRIAL For Divorce in Progress— Grand Larceny Arrests Will Soon be Made. The court loom was filled today with interested auditors and a large number of witnesses, who reside chiefly in the vicinity of Bobo, to hear and take part in the divorce suit of Janies Harmon vs. Alice Harmon, which was tried today—St. Valentines Day. Cupid shedding tears at the misdirection taken by one of his pointed darts, dared nut show his face, but there were plenty of comic valentine spirits hovering in the air to witness the tearing away, piece oy piece ot the marital bonds and to hear the final snapping of the erstwhile soul-ties. Mrs. Harmon also told of the snapping of the rope with which Mr. Harmon tried to hang himself on several occasions, of her cutting him down and of his abuse, all of which have been published heretofore, with the other plaints made, both by Mr. Harmon in his plea for 1 divorce, and Mrs. Harmon in her ! cross-complaint, on which she claims she is entitled to the divorce. Prominent among the figures in the court room, were Mr. Harmon, in dignified repose, who sat with his attorney, Mayor J. W. Teeple, and Mrs. Harmon, equally dignified and calm, at the side of her Counsel, Prosecutor R. C. Parrish. A grand jury indictment case was entered in blank on the criminal docket, and warrants were ordered returnable forthwith. There arc two re spondents an dthe charge is grand larceny. Bond for each was fixed at The arrests have not yer been made. Winifred A. Mann, executrix of tho Harlo Mann estate, filed final report. The report of sale of personal property, at private sale, in the Ferdinand Fox estate, was made by Peter Soldtier, administrator, and approved. The final report of Eliza Davenport, guardian of Josie I. Yager, was approved and the guardian discharged. — George W. Nichols vs. Clara D. Sheets .administratrix, claim, SI6OO. - Dismissed at cost of estate of William , Sheets, and the same is ordered paid out. of the assets of the estate. Permission granted plaintiff to withdraw > notes and mortgage from the files. William J. Barrone vs. Henry Knapp, foreclosure of mechanic’s lien, S3OO. Separate and several demurrer ■ to each paragraph of complaint filed. A marriage license was issued this morning to Pearl Frances Peel, born January 1, 1888, daughter of Joseph Peel, to wed David J. Liechty, bcm October 3, 1884, farmer, son of Jacob J. Liechty. Tne couple were married > about 11 o’clock at the M. E. parson-j age. Real estate transfers: Arthur F. Shoaf to George Colchin, 80 acres, Wabash tp., $11,200; Anna Baumgartner to John Lang, 40 acres, Monroe tp., $llOO. AT BROTHER’S BEDSIDE. Emanuel Buhler of Marion is here, i being called here by the illness of his brother, Al Buhler, who has been ill for many mouths with tuberculosis, and who is now at the point of death.

VALUABLE VIOLIN J. N. Fristoe Discovers That He Owns a Fiddle That 11 is 186 Years Old. >• | OF ITALIAN MAKE I ... , Italian Friend o£ True’s DisI i covers That it Was Made by Stradivarius. i - | Twenty-five years ago J. N. Fristoe ; purchased from the Jacob Closs jewi elry store a %-size violin, presenting it as a present to Mrs. Fristoe, who . took lessons and played it for several ■ years, when it was laid away until , True, who became quite a musician, i became old enough to play, and he ' also learned to use the bow. When purchased the violin was supposed to be new, and Mr. Fristoe never knew I any different until this morning, when he learned that the instrument was an old and very valuable one. About two I weeks ago, True, who is playing the 1 piano in a vaudeville house at Fairi mount, W. \ a., wrote home that he . was hungry to play the old violin and asked that it be sent. His parents did as requested and this morning received a letter from True, stating that one 1 of his friends who boards at the same 1 place, is an Italian, a violinist, who, I when he saw the violin, had a spasm t of joy, recognizing it as one of the famous Stradivarius makes, the real ’ merit of which is known to all musi-1 J clans. The Italian showed True the ■ s mark on the violin, the makers' name | . and she date, 1726, being engraved on I I the inside. The man wanted to buy it , immediately, but of course True re-1 fused to part with the old friend, now i 1 .86 years old, and will keep it. The > , original cost was about twenty-five f dollars, but the instrument is now worth many times that amount. SCAFFOLD BROKE J This Morning at New City) Hall Building and Al Gar- i ard Was Badly Hurt. TWO RIBS BROKEN . I . I Some Internal Injury Feared , to Have Been Received in the Fall. II Al Garard, the well known carpenter, met with a very painful accident' i while engaged in his daily line of work I this morning, when a scaffolding upon which he and two partner workmen i i were working at the new city hall cjl-1 j lapsed and dropped the men to the i ' floor. Mr Garard seemed to be the | ; unlucky one of the three, he falling iu I such away that two ribs were broken and perhaps some internal injuries i were received in the fall. Sam Whitright and Jacob J. Myers, the other two men who ceil, received no injuries and at once lent their aid to the unfortunate man, who had to be at once cared for. He was later removed to his home on Mercer avenue aud today suffered considerable pain from' . his injuries. The mishap occurred | early this morning and before all the L hands were on duty for the day’s l , work. It will perhaps be some days | until the extent of the internal injur-: les are ascertained, and if this proves ' to be the case, he will have to be off ■ duty for some time, but it is hoped by ! his friends that no other injury will ; be reported ouside of that already at- j, tended to. ABOUT THE SICK I The Bosto nstore is somewhat crip- , pled this week m the way of clerks,' ; there being several of them on the I ■ sick list. Mr. Kuebler is unable to be ; at. the store on account of a hard siege • of the grip, which requires close attention. Miss Lettie Lang is suffer I ing with the mumps, which makes her absence necessary. Mathias Kirsch, who, since last Sat-;< urday, has been suffering with quinsy, t is reported as being somewhat better, | f but still unable to be at his work. , (

ATTENTION, G. A. R.! All members ot the Grand Army Republic and Relief Corps are extended a cordial invitation to attend the 10:30 o'clock services at the Methodist church on next Sunday, when an appropriate address on Lincoln will be delivered by the pastor, the Rev. Semans. All members are requested to meet at the hall at 10 o’clock, so as to attend in a body. A MARKET BREAK Big Slump in the Wheat Market Was Noted Today in Daily Quotations. OTHER GRAIN FELL Stop Loss Orders and Some Heavy Shipments Re- I sponsible for Tumble. One of the heaviest and most severely felt declines in wheat, quoted so« ( several months, was that of this morn-; ing, when a net loss of 1% cents was I felt. Stop loss orders, made the break in ' wheat much worse tnan might other-' wise have ben the case. Also heavy I shipments, which did reach their des-! tination, all combined to make the de-, cline a severe one, and one which ; | caused a turmoil in the leading head- ! quarters. Corn and cats also suffered | a decline, as well as most of the other I markets, which generally is the resuit i when a break in the leading pit is I quoted. The local markets took a decline also from their quotation of yesterday, which was due to come from the fall at shipping points. A drop to 92 cents was felt on red wheat and ■ white wheat is down to 89 cents. The . quotation on oats is 49 cents, while 35 I : cents was paid for yellow corn, and 82 I j cents for white and mixed corn. Othqr | | quotations can be found in our regu- i i lar market quotation on page four. o PAID WITH PENNIES. ——— j Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 14 —David 1 Delotch and Ecton Davis, colored, ap-1 peared at the marriage license windpw I yesterday and Delotch was asked for | the usual $2.50 that is the usual fee for | i licenses. He reached down into a I weighty overcoat pocket and began 1 bringing out pennies by the fistfull. Piling them on the counter he bogan painstakingly to count them over to Marriage Clerk Koehner. lie explained to the clerk that he and Miss Davis had been engaged for two years and that the pennies had all been put into j a penny bank in that time to be used | later in buying the license and paying ; | the preacher. “See,” said Daniel, as he finished j counting the 250 pennies and shook his I pocket. There was a jingle that tes- , tilled there were many copper pieces I remaining. “Ah’vo got 150 of ’em left I an’ they’ve got to pay de colored i ! preacher.” The bride is 16 and can cook, she j said. Dsvid is 23. TONIGHT AT THE BOSSE, “The Village Gossips" Will be Presented by Shannon Stock Co. You can't afford to miss this play; 'as it will equal and surpass many a production charging from 50c to $1.50,! land each and every member of the! company is well fitted foiNthe pails! ! assigned them. There are four com ■ edy parts running all through the play. , The story is lard around the little vil-; large ot Barre, Vt., and concerns the village preacher and his flock. Mr. [ Harry Shannon will send a company out next season presenting this play lin large cities at high prices. Tomorrow night, “The Banker’s Child," a play that has stood ten years of sir cess, in one night stands and weeks in cities, will be the bill. A grand dime matinee will be given Saturday at 2:30 when “Old Farmer Allen." a dramatization of Tennyson’s poem, “uora,”' will be presented. TOWN WITHOUT SMITHS. r Columbus, Ind., Feb. 14—It was re I cently disclosed that St. Paul, Shelby 1 county, a town of 1,000 persons, doer I not contain a resident by the name o i Smith. A telegram received for Mrs 1 George Smith remains undelivered. i

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LIVES IN MARION Mrs. Mary Whipple is Sister of Cornelius Bowen, Who Died IN TORONTO, CANADA Leaving Her His Estate— She Lived Here Until Thirteen Years Ago, Mrs. Mary Whipple, who is the sought-for sister of Cornelius Bowen, whose death occurred a few w’eeks ago in a hospital in Toronto, Canada, and to whom he left his estate, by the terms of his will, was a resident of this city, until thirteen or fourteen [years ago, when she removed to Mari ion, and when last heard of by friends ; here, resided there. She was well ' known during her residence here, and I is well remembered by Mrs. Joel Reynolds and others with whom she was acquainted at that time, Mrs. Reynolds frequently hearing of her since her removal there, through an aunt ! who resides in Marion and was acquainted there. The first notice of I Mr. Bowen’s dying condition was sent ! by hospital authorities through a tele--1 gram to this city to Mrs. Whipple, but > she could not be located here. Later !J. C. Patterson, through a soldier i friend, received word that Mr. Bowen, who was a civil war veteran, had left his estate to his sister, who was supposed to live here, and that unless claimed, would be confiscated by the Canadian government. Tuesday ! word was again received, this time, as stated in Tuesday evening’s paper, by M. J. Butler, secretary of the I. O. O. F. lodge. It is quite probably that Mrs. Whipple can be located at MarI ion. ADVICE CONCERNING GAS LEAKS AND FROZEN PIPES. I The long-continued and extraordinj ary spell of extreme cold weather, ! general all over the country, has i been, if not quite unprecedented, with J the natural result that the companies ■ supplying gas and water, together 1 with the railroads, have been encoun- . tering conditions that are both unusi ual and extremely trying. Pipe lines | laid in the streets and alleys by gas i and water companies were, when laid, sufficiently deep to afford every rea- | sonable protection from the frost, but I the continuance of such extreme cold since the first of the year has carried the frost into the ground to a depth of that is not finally reaching, in our section of the country, gas and water mains; in many instances for the first | time since the pipes w ere laid. j Decatur has been especially fortui nate in compa. ison with the gas and water companies throughout the northern section of the country, in that up to the present time there has been little trouble of this kind. Some of the gas pipes in the city, however, ' have been broken by the frost, with ; the result that the gas has escaped. |lt is, therefore, very important that i any one detecting the odor of gas, ! either day or night, should immediately notify the gas company, thereby perhaps preventing an accident. If the odor of gas is noticed in the cellar or rooms of a house, whether the house is piped for gas or not, there should be no light of any kind taken 'near, and plenty of ventilation provided by opening windows or any other (manner possible, and the gas company I notified by telephone. The told weather alao in some in- ; stances has affected the gas service ■ pipes, with the result that pines have become frozen to a certain extent thus making it impossible to secure good service. The gas company can iu most instances remedy this by cleaning or blowing the pipes, thereby restoring the service to its proper condition. Where an insufficient supply of gas Is being secured at this time it is very likely due to this cause, which the gas company, upon notification, stands ready and desires at all times, to remedy free of charge. G. A. R. NOTICE. At the regular meeting of the G. A. Thursday evening, arrangements will be made to attend the funeral of their late comrade, A. J. Teeple. All members are requested to attend this meeting. Conveyances will be furnished for those who wish to attend the funeral. Ad*