Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1912 — Page 1

| Volume X. Number 41.

PLANS FOR MOVING Are Being Consumated by the Decatur Motor Co.— Will Leave Soon. FOR GRAND RAPIDS President Brackett Issues a I Statement for Benefit of Creditors. 1 E It seems likely at this time that the SBjecatur Motor Car company will be «noved to Grand Rapids, Mich., within Rthe next month. From the information at hand, a meeting of the board of directors of the company will be held within a few days when the propSbsition will be put to them squarely, viand when deflnite action will probably Abe taken. The following appeared in rt'the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette this L, morning and seems to be authorized < b\ President Brackett, since he ’s quoted: > ‘‘According to a statement made by H M. E. Brackett, president of the Decat,4tur Motor Car company today, the ■ (plant will be moved to Grand Rapids. | Mich., within three weeks, inasmuch »• as the SIOO,OOO raised by that city will bff available at that time, and the company will then be able to liquidate the indebtedness against it. The statement issued by Mr. Brackett is as follows . “ ‘Grand Rapids has raised their SIOO,-000 as agreed. This will be available as soon as our plant has moved to that city. We have sold SBO,OOO of our preferred stock, part of which money will be available March Ist. An option on a suitable factory site has been obtained at Grand Rapids and it will be prepared for our company at once. K “ ‘Payment of all accounts will be ■ made as follows: Twenty per cent between the first and fifth of March: •J thirty per cent between the tenth and ftf'eenth of March, and the balance before the tenth of May. ® ‘“There is no doubt in my mind but what the last payment can be made 1 sometime before the date promised as we should be able to move in about I three weeks from this date. When this is done the entire amount will be avail- j able and all indebtedness be wiped out.' ” Mr. Brackett concludes with the statement that it will be necessary for ail creditors to still further extend their accounts to the dates named in order to let the company pull the deal through successfully. REV. D. A. J. BROWN TO PREACH. Former Pastor Will Preach Again Next Sunday. Rev. .1. O. Hockstebler. pastor of the Methodist churches at Salem and Pleasant Mills, who has been conducting a series of revival meetings there, announces that the churches will have the pleasure of hearing their former pastor, the Rev. D. A. J. Brown, preach next Sunday. He will preach Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Salem church and in the afternoon at 3 o’clock at Pleasant Mills. Mr. Brown wm- formerly pastor there, and obliged on account of ill health to resign his work, and is now living at Upland. | The Rev. Brown is much improved in health, with his good rest and specialj fte, and is now feeling better than, he has for a year or more. Rev. Hockfcteider, who succeeded the Rev. Brown ha. been serving since last September. POLICE COURT NEWS. ■ .Joe Hunter, who was arrested yesterday afternoon on a plain drunk Ch: irge by Policeman John Andrews, Was arraigned in the mayor's court ( Thursday evening and entered a plea iOf guilty and immediately drew SI.OO dhd costs, or $ll.OO, sum total. Joe is T a minor and he testified that he had had beer, besides a pint of whiskey. fKhe mother of the boy, Mrs. Frank M[artz. is determined to find the party I io gave the boy liquor, uud if Btt»ssful she will certainly prosecute e offender. B. F. KISER DEPUTY. B. F. Kizer of Linn Groye, a former hool teacher, and also formerly ed>r of the Decatur News, is serving as deputy county school superintendent in the absence of Prof. L. E. Opliger, Ikhile he is in a sanitarium at Cincinnati, Ohio.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

NO CLINGING VINE “BOSH.” For Mrs. Twigg—Wants to Loosen Tendrils from “Twig”—Divorce. Mrs. Ella F. Twigg, formerly of Geneva, has decided that the ' tender clinging vine needing the support of the great oak, about which we read in poetry, is all ‘bosh,'' and has decided to break her tendrils loose from the "Twigg” at once. The Portland Sun says: - ‘ Suit for divorce was brought in the circuit court by Ella F. Twigg against her husband, Samuel E. Twigg. The defendant, whose present whereabouts are unknown, according to the allegations made in the complaint, was formerly editor of a newspaper at Pennville. where his wife now resides. The couple were married on August 19, 1889, at Geneva, and separated June 21, 1911. The defendant alleges as grounds for divorce that the defendant has failed to support the plaintiff for more than two years. The complaint was filed through Jacob F. Denney, attorney for Mrs. Twigg.”

YOU CAN’T SELL IT As Butter Says H. A. Barnard, Regarding the Product of A PATENT CHURN Whereby You Make “More j Butter” by Mixing it With Milk., To those who want to make some--1 thing out of nothing, and especially to those Adams county people who, ' with this intent in view, purchased j patent churns whereby you can make I two pounds of butter out of one by I churning it up agar with milk, the I decree of H. E. Barnard, stating that i the sale of such as butter ts illegal, will be of interest. A dispatch says: “H. E. Barnard, chieg chemist for 1 the state board of health, has his 1 weather eye out for so-called butter 1 made by placing a pound pf real but--1 ter and a pound of milk together in 1 a patented machine and mixing them thoroughly, if any one is found trying 'to sell the stuff for butter, Barnard 1 avers, he will find the state food law tapping him on the shoulder and in--1 viting him to police court. “Various parts of the state have been flooded recently with circulars fium the concerns manufacturing the machines. The manufacturers say the action of the milk to the butter makes it go further, and provides a butter at about half the cost of ordinary butter. “ ‘The only object in “working” butter,’ said Barnard, ‘is to “work” the milk out of it, and the standard by which the butter is gauged is the lack of water and milk contained. The objection to ordinary country butter is that the makers ido not “work’ it enough to take out all of the milk. Now we find a group of manufacturers advertising a machine to undo the work of the butter manufacturer, and claiming it will better the food product. When we find a dealer selling butter from which the original milk has not been removed we prosecute him, and we will certainly prosecute any person selling butter the kind of stuff the patented machines must certainly produce. “The machines are advertised for household use on the plea that the housewife can make a pound of butter go twice as far. However, the housewife who uses it will merely find she has reduced a pound of good, solid, wholesome butter, capable of keeping sweet for several days, to a milky, mushy mass that will spoil in a short time.”

“Barnard has not found any of the stuff on the market In any part of I the state, but has instructed his field ' inspectors to watch for it,” p — ■ — ■ COURT OF INQUIRY. Growing out of the arrest of Joe Hunter, a minor for drunkenness, a court of inquiry was held this afternoon in the mayor’s court, in the filling of several affidavits against saloonkeepers. One was against Charles i Murray, on the charge of selling liquor ito Joe Hunter, a minor; the second against Chil Omlor, charging him with selling liquor to Joe Hunter, a minor, land the third was against Charles ► Murray, charging him with allowing i Joe Hunter and Tracy Nelson, minors, '4O loiter in the saloon.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, February 16, 1912.

IN DEN OF VICE I Beatrice Wiley. Geneva Girl Found at Indanapolis by Rev. Bennett, Was Not HELD AGAINST WILL Girl Claims She is Old Enough to Choose Own Way Through World. Suspecting that Beatrice Wiley, a young Geneva (Ind.) girl, was being held prisoner in a resort on East Wabash street, Rev. George W. Bennett caused the arrest of Grace Childers, proprietress of the house, and the detention of the girl. Walter Carns, a stock company actor, furnished the information on which the arrest was made. Carns told Rev. Bennett the Wiley girl was under age and that immediately upon her arrival in Indianapolis two days ago she was induced to enter the house and had been kept a prisoner. In police court Saturday the AViley girl told Judge Collins that she was 21 last September, that she had entered the house of her own accord, and that she was not being held against her will. She came to Indianapolis two days ago, she said. Rev. Bennett was in court but Carns j failed to appear. The girl told Judge I Collins that Carns had tried to get her to go to Richmond with him, promising to see that she got a part in a show that he was preparing to put x>n. Indianapolis Sun. Judge Collins continued the case until later in the week for further investigation. The girl was sent to the Milbourne home at Portland on order of the court and will be cared for at the institution until her case is again called.

AGAIN THE BOYS Give Them a Good Common School Education, Then Some Useful Trade. % A GREAT DEMAND For the Young Man Who is Diligent- and Willing to Work Ahead. Every young man, regardless of how much money his father has to leave him, should become efficient in some trade and obtain at least a good common school education. There is a great demand for men in all lines of trade while there is a big surplus in the professions with thousands only eking out a living. Let the boy take up any trade he desires; some may want to be printers, blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinet-makers, shoemakers, etc. All are good for an honorable living if mastered in the right way, while the clerk, traveling salesman, physician, lawyer and many of the other professions are crowded to their utmost capacity. Insist on your boy doing something in the mechanic al line and insist on him being able to do anything possible in his line With a good common school education and special training in his line he will succeed while his companions who have no special line will have a hard time to get along before they die. Think bf his parents, and look well to your boy before it is too late.

LENT BEGINS NEXT WEDNESDAY. The Lenten season throughout the Christian world begins Wednesday, February 21st This dav is designated Ash AVednesday by the Catholic' church, when ashes in all churches will be blessed and distributed. In Decatur, as elsewhere, the ashes will be blessed preceding the celebration of mass Wednesday morning and will be distributed by the priest, who will mark the design of a cross on the forehead of all who go to receive it. The Lenten season will end Easter Sunday, which comes this year on April 7th.

THE BANNER NIGHT At the Boese Opera House Last Night —“The Price He Paid” This Eve. The Shannon Stock company played to capacity business Thursday night, which was the banner night of the week. The bill presented, “The Banker’s Child,” was wel Itaken by the large audience and the costumes and stage settings most beautiful. The people are just beginning to realize .that Manager Bosse has a real live show at his house this week—one of the best ever inthis city. Tonight's bill, “The Price He Baid,” is one of the ' company's best plays, and you will miss a great treat if you stay at home i tonight. This company carries all its j own special scenery for their productions and you will see a new show and new settings tonight The seats for tonight are going fast and if you want to get in line you will have to hurry. Seat sale at the Holthouse drug store. The prices, the same — 10, 20, 30c. WILL BE REMOVED I ! I Petition of John Townsend for Removal of His Guardian Was Granted. SOME MIS-CHARGES In Current Report, Shortage i Involving s2l2 —Second Time Occurred. Peterson & Moran of this city, attorneys for John Townsend, nineteen-year-old son of Mrs. Harvey Clark, of ■ Monmouth, in ms suit filed in the Tip- ; ton county court, against his guardian, I William Pratt, of Tipton county, in which he asks that the guardian be removed, and takes exceptions to the guardian's current report, this morn- | ing received word that Judge Combs of Frankfort had granted the petition. The guardian is given thirty days to make his final report as guardian, leading to his final removal as such. Judge Combs also found that in vouchers 6, 8 and 12, filed with Pratt's current report, the proper charges had not oeen ■ made, the shortage involving seme J $212. Young Townsend is the owner :of a ninety-four acre farm in Tipton county, and the income therefrom is i considerable. About two years ago, I the same trouble with Pratt’s current | report was found, the shortage at that time being some SSOO. With this second mischarging came the determination to have the guardian removed, j which, it seems, has been successfully i done. It is said, however, that Pratt will ask for another hearing. J. M. Purvis of Tipton was associated with Peterson & Moran in the case.

TO COLUMBIA CITY. Ossian Pastor to Take Place of Rev. Alexander. Ossian, Ind., Feb. 16 —At a congregational meeting of the Presbyterian i church of Columbia City a call whs extended to Rev. W. E. Hunter, who has be-wi pastor of the Presbyterian church at Ossian for the past four years. The : church at Columbia City has been without a pastor since Rev. Alexander resigned in November to accept a call at Atchinson, Kans. Superintendent J. ' C. Sanders telephoned the news of the 'call to Rev. Hunter at Ossian Monday ■ 1 and he accepted the offer of the Columbia City pastorate and will remove ; his family to that city and begin his work Sunday, March 3rd. Q. — PLAY BLUFFTON TONIGHT. One of the best basket ball games of the season is promised for this evening, when the fast Bluffton team will strive earnestly to stop the winning streak of the fast locals, wiio ' have almost taken away everything their way for the season. Two games will be played, the first to be between the two freshmen teams, which will start promptly at 7:30. The second game, between the high school team of Bluffton and the high school team of this city, will no doubt draw a large attendance and lovers of the game should not fail to be present. 1 ■■ o 1 ■ ■ George Sheler Is still on the sick .! list, suffering from the grip, which ■ has confined him to his home for sev- .' eral days, but he was able to be out ' for the first time today.

A GRAND SUCCESS Elks’ Charity Ball Was Most Brilliant Social Affair Ever Given Here. ANTHONY ORCHESTRA Os Ft. Wayne Furnished Music— Hundred Couples in Grand March. Without doubt, the Elks’ charity ball at the Knights of Columbus hall Thursday evening was the. most brilliant sosial affair ever given in this city. The hall, always beautiful, needed very little special decoration to make it a worthy setting for the assembly, to I which one hundred ladies, in beautiful evening gowns of many soft and dainty colors, contrbibuted a beauty ' or rich keleidscopic effect.as with their escorts, in immaculate and correst evening dress, they wound in and out ■ in the intricate mazes of the dances. I The music furnished by the Anthony jorchestife. of Ft. Wayne was, voicing ' the sentiments of all, “sublime,” ■ The ball opened at 9 o’clock with the ; grand march of the one hundred couples present, lead by Dr. and Mrs. E. IG. Coverdale, and the programs con- , tained fifteen dances, with three ex- ’ tras. Many guests from Bluffton and I Fort Wayne were present. During-the I evening, fruit punch was served in the ' reception room, the punch bowl presided over by the Misses Winifred • Burke and Reba Quinn. Not only was I the ball one grand social success, but 'it was a success financially and the 1 charitable order of Elks finds its charity fund greatly increased. The enteri tainment committee comprised Herb Fred Schaub and Jesse Helm, who carried out the affair most i successfully with the assistance of oth- : ers, and are to be highly commended.

BUY EIGHTH STORE Morris Company of Bluffton Folloavs Purchase of Decatur Store WITH A NEW ONE At Hartford City—ls First of Three Netv Ones to be Acquired by Them. Upon the completion of the invoice if the stock of the Fulton Bargain store next week, it will become one of the string of Morris stores. The founder of this string of five and ten cent stores is George B. Morris of er’s Child,” was well taken by the success of this business. Morris stores are now being operated at Bluffton, New Castle, Portland, Elwood, Decatur, Columbia City and Hillsdale, Mien. The Hartford City store will make the eighth of the string. C. P. Larimer, who comes here from Kokomo to take charge of the store, is an experienced man, having been in charge of a similar store at Koko mo for some time. It is said that the stock was bought for sixty-five cents on the dollar. The dry goods department will be discontinued. —Hartford City Journal. The Baughman five and ten cent store of this city was the seventh purchased by the Morris company. Mr. Morris was Lere the first of the week and stated that the company was about to add three more stores to their chain, which, when complete, will include ten, and the Hartford City store is the first one of the three new ones to be added. A INJURIES WERE FATAL. (United Press Service.) Huntington, Pa., Feb. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Alexander Servant. of New York died in a hospital here as the result of injuries received in the wreck of the fast Pennsylvania passenger train No. 2, at AVarrior Bridge, on Thursday. The death list of the wreck is now four.

NABBED AT HUNTINGTON. Was Linn Grove Man, Who Was in Drunken Stupor. Joseph McCarty, arraigned before Mayor Milo Feightner Thursday morning for the third time on an intoxication charge, was fined $1 and costs and being unable to pay the amount was sentenced to eleven days in the county jail. McCarty says he is art employee of the Erie, but it is thought that most likely he is a “soldier.” When a man under the influence of liquor, and without a doubt not quite right mentally, went to the police station Wednesday evening to inquire the location of the interurban station he probably had no idea he was going to be locked up. Night Sergeant Reilly thought the man should be given an opportunity to get rid of his “jag,” and consequently “jugged” him. The man left Thursday morning over the traction line for his home in Linn Grove, Adams county.—Huntington Herald. THEWHIPPLEHEIRS Children of Mrs. Mary Whipple Arrived at Noon to Trace the Estate LEFT BY UNCLE C. C. Bowen Who Died in . Toronto, Canada—Mother Died Ten Years Ago. Con Whipple and his’sister, Blanche, now known as manch Kimble (having been adopted by Dr. Kimble of Marion) arrived here today noon from Marion and entered at once upon the work of tracing the estate left to their mother, the late Mrs. Mary Whipple, by her brother, Cornelius C. Bowen, a civil war veteran, who died the first of I the year at Toronto, Canada. Mrs. Whipple left here about thirteen years ago for Marion, but has been dead about ten years, hence, no doubt, the difficulty in tracing her and her heirs. :it will be remembered that several weeks ago a message from the hospital in Toronto, came here, addressed to Mrs. Mary Whipple, stating that C. C. Bowen was dying there. Mrs. Whipple could not be located, and later, word was received by J. C. Pat terson, through a soldier friend, that Mr. Bowen, who was a veteran, had died in Toronto, leaving his estate to his sister. This week, another letter was received by M. J. Butler, I. O. O. F. secretary, asking for information as to Mrs. Whipple, relative to the estate Her two children, who are her only heirs, and reside in Marion, learned of this, and came today noon to trace up the matter further. They have engaged an attorney in Marion to represent them, and will lay claim at. once to the estate. Immediately x>n arriving here today noon they called on Mrs. Joel Reynolds, an old friend of the family, and the reunion was a happy one. The children stated that their mother’s maiden name was Bowen, and that they remembered hearing of an uncle “Con” Bowen, for whom in all probability, Con Whipple was named. While here they also called on Robert Blackburn, the pension agent, who se cured for their mother a pension, and who also has records of her marriage, and others which will be necesary to them in claiming the estate. From here they went to Howe, Ind., w-here the sercetary of the regiment in which their uncle, Mr. Bowen, served, now- resides, and through whom, Mr. Pattereon secured information regarding the leaving of the estate. STRONG STEEL CARS. Prevented Death List from Reaching Large Number in Pennsy Wreck. (United Press Service.) Altoona, Pa., Feb, 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Marshal John T. Mahoey, investigating the wreck of the famous Pennsylvania limited passenger train, No. 2, at Warriors Bridge, for the state railroad commission, today said that the steel cars were responsible for the small death list. Complete reports today show that sixty-seven others were injured in addition to the four killed. Jim Hendricks of Monroe returned to his home at noon, he being a business caller here this morning.

Price, Two Cents.

MILITARY BURIAL Given Comrade Andrew J. Teeple This Morning— Veteran Laid Awav. FOR LAST LONG REST With Fitting Honor—Masons and G. A. R. Attend Services in Body. As befits a good soldier, not only of the cross, but of his country-, as befits a good citizen and friend, and fraternal member, all that is mortal of the late Andrew J. Teeple, civil war veteran, and for many years a prominent resident of this city and county, w-hose death occurred late Tuesday afternoon after a short illness from a paralytic stroke, with complications of many years' standing, w-as laid away for its last long rest, in the family lot in the Mt. Tabor cemetery, east of this city, beside the grave of the wife, this morning. The funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church in this city, this morning at 10 o’clock, the sermon being delivered by the Rev. R. L. semans. The church was thronged with the many friends and relatives Vd jif — B . Z* I Z : .ZL....Z ;of the deceased, and attending in a body were the G. A. R. and Masonic ori ders, with which the deceased was I identified during life for many years. The Masons conducted their ritualistic ' service at the church, and the G. A. R. which accompanied the body to the cemetery, gave its ritualistic service at the tomb, giving the comrade the true military burial of which he surely was worthy. The honorary pall bearers were selected from the G. A. R. and w-ere Ezra Cuffing, Daniel Shackley, Henry Fuhrman, William Wetter, AV. H. Myers, F. F. Freeh. The active pall bearers were chosen from the ranks of the Masons and were W. P. Schrock, John T. Myers, O. L. Vance, P. L. Andrews, Charles H-?lm and T R. Moore. BUYS AUBURN MILLINERY STORE. Mrs. Daisy Ballenger Buys Established Store at That Place. J. W. Edwards accompanied his daughter, Mrs. Daisy Ballenger, to Auburn this afternoon, where they go on business relating to the millinery store which Mrs. Ballenger purchased there from Mrs. Plumb. Mrs. Ballenger goes to take charge of the store at once. She has been engaged in the millinery business here for many years, and until making the purchase of this store, had been employed by Mrs. M. P. Burdg. She is thoroughly experienced in her line of work, and will assuredly make a success of the business in which she is about to engage for herself. PAY THE PENALTY. (United rress service.) Chicago, 111., Feb. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Four murderers, Edward and Frank Shiblawski, brothers and Philip Sonerling and Thomas Schultz, the other members of the Shiblawski gang, were hanged here today for the murder of Fred W. Guelzow. The hanging followed the last desperate efforts of the convicted men to obtain a write of supersedaes, and stays of conviction in the Illinois supreme court at Springfield. The court today denied the petition.