Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1912 — Page 1

| Volume X. Number 88.

■DISTRICT MEETING ■.Fully Two Hundred Fifty Delegates from Councils of Pocahontas ■of this district ■Being Entertained by Local Council —Many State Officers are Present. The Majella Council, No. 72. degr.e Pocahontas, 1. O of 11. M . of I bundled fitty delegates tram tli ■ councils of the district their annual convention in this wAcity this afternoon and evening Many *fl<’ : tlie sta>e officials are present and ■the da;. one of great in ■< ' Mo: Sli. A 1 --Mew- kL Ssggila.;> Ueraru, W!-v fjjtat, Wf Anna H inciter. Ken. " Kami Messrs. J. N. Fristoe, ('. ,1. Weav-Ei-er and James Rain. They were escortRed to the Red Men's hall, where the ■■essions were held, the Elks' hall adBp joinfng also being secured for f. the entertaining and reception of the visitors. There they were Received during the afternoon and ev--1 nlng by a committee comprising Mary | Nora Parrish, May Moyer, ■Alice Brokaw, Nannie Hildebrand, lYiay Walters, Flo Kinzle, Mrs. A. P. fl|Beatty, A. P. Beatty, J. N. Fristoe, EgWames Bain, Flora Patten, Mrs. Schttg, Burdg. Hila Murray. Carrie ■j&sSmherland. Stella Crist, Anna Yahne, S' Mary Beavers. | : By noon forty from Bluffton had arBived and many more were expected automobile*. Three were here from a large delegation from Ft. ■Wayne, and many from Wabash. Mo". Bgroeville, Hartford City, Kingsland, ■fWinchesif-r and Montpelier—and oth- :■ cities of the counties of Allen, AdnEams Blackford, Grant, Huntington. EEjav, Lagrange. Randolph, Wells and ppVabasb. | Among the visitors also are many -of the state officers. They are Great Bfrocahontas Stella Bird of Cambridge E City; Great Wenonah Lizzie Arbuckle, of Kokomo: Great Keeper of Records I Pearl Thornburg, Daleville; Great Prophetess Nana Diggs, Muncie. Mrs. Jesie Burdg of this city, who is Great Keeper of Wampum, as well as the dis trict Great Pocahontas, opened the afternoon session. The Great Pocahontas, however, presided at the meefflig, and prior to the i- opening called a special meeting at 1 L o’clock for balloting on applications K for the initiation this evening. The E first council fire was kindled at 1:30; ■L at 3:30 a special council of the great ■ council was kindled for the purpose of ■ conferring the great council degree 'Mfonon all who are eligible. At 7 HtiO’clock this evening a council will be RK held for the purpose of adoption, and to attend to any other business that jgjßKtnay come before the convention. A of candidates including Dr. Eliz- ’ H|abeth Burns. Mrs. Todd Linn, Mrs. : ■ John Potter and ethers will be initialed by the degree staff o' Neoma counNo. 20, of Bluffton. K : This evening after (lie closing sesMBsion. refreshments will lie served. The ::committee in charge include Rosa- ■ Lord. Kate Christen. Mol tta Worst, Martha Stevens. Laura S uith. Lydia H» I Penrington, Alice Whitcomb. May Letta Ei.os, Julia Amspangii. BK' Music was in charge of Anna and KB-Jean Lutz: the press.and dermatitis. Hfiß Flo Baln au ‘‘ Kannip Eristoe and badges, Al Gerard. flf Local officers .vho will have charge ■p of the opening of tlie lodgo this <■•< uK ing are: Pocahontas. Mrs. Mart'm &fl. Stevens, Prophetess. Mrs. Mme \\h:treEcomb, Wenonah, Anna Hencher; PoaJl ■ hata.i. A. W. Gerard; Keeper of Rec- ■ ords, Jessie Burdg; Keeper ot Wain pum, Flo Patten. MRS. FRAZIER RECOVERING Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Lyon were at Fl. MB Wayne Monday evening ami called upon Mrs. Beulah Frazier, department 4, | president of the Womans Relief Hr Corps of the state Mrs. Fraziei a ■ E w, ‘ e * c a<r ° underwent an operation for cancer of the breast. She is doing ■ nicely and getting along well and K hopes to be able to preside at the convention to be held at South Bend in B May. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons also saw ■ the great T Roosevelt while in Fort | Wayne.

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“THE ORIGINAL IDIOT.” ,i Was Subject of Rev. R. L. Semans at j Kendallville. The Kendallville News-Sun says in part: ‘The Men's Brotherhood of the Methodist church entertained the Boy Scouts at supper Tuesday evening in the parlors or me church. About , ninety were present, im luding fiftyBoy Scouts. One of the features of the meeting was the address to the Boy Scouts on the subject, ‘The Orig- . nal Idiot,' by Rev. R.. L. Semans of i Decatur, formerly pastor of the church of this city. The address was excellent and one of great interest ta the young boys as well as the members of tiie Brotherhood. The meeting opened with a Luncheon after which the address of welcome was made by Professor E. E. Kling.” a COURT DOUSE NEWS Court jOay Calls Civil Se’jfljown V ■ st s rial. - s’' 5 ’' / F DLL 1 “ . Filed in Baker-Rupp Damage Case—Real Estate Transfers Recorded. » > Warren Hamrick qualified as guar- ' dian of Chalmer and Albert Hamrick, ’ giving SSOO bond. ! Emmet V. Einrick vs. William R. Hainer, damages, $250; set for May 9th. James H. Brewster et al. vs. Sophia Brewster, partition and accounting, . $2,000. Rule to answer absolute in five days. . 1 Charles Nassor vs. Wabash^Railroad . Co., damages, $350; set for May 7th. [I Robert S. Campbell vs. George and Sarah Tricker. set for May 14th. • The intervening petition of Austel . in tlie Landis-Adams County Pub Co. 1 receivership case, has been set for ■ May 6th. William J. Barrone vs. Henry Knapp, foreclosure of mechanic’s lien, set for May 15th. A. H. Perfect Co. vs. Riverside Milk Condensory, set for April 30th. State ex rel. Jennie Biberstine vs. Fred Hirschy, bastardy, set for Monday, April 29th. Isaac Williamson et al. vs. Andrew Gottschalk et al., to resist probate of ' Schwartz will, set for May 2nd. The Reber habeas corpus case is set for Monday, May 20th. F. J. Shepherd vs. Oscar Berry, set for April 30th. George Baker vs. Jesse Rupp, damages, SI,OOO. Motion by defendant to strike out part of complaint, overruled. Demurrer to complaint filed; overruled: exceptions by defendant. Answer filed. Case set for Thursday, May 9th. In the Elej'-Kizer quiet title case, as- 1 . fidavit of non-residence was filed. PubI lication ordered for all defendants, rei turnable June 7th. > C. S. Niblick, administrator of the i esiitte ot Minnie D. Niblick, filed final report. Notice ordered returnable i - Saturday, May 18th. George Baker vs. Jesse Rupp, leave granted plaintiff to file amended com plaint. Amended complaint filed. Isaac Gehrig vs. Elizabeth Gehrig, 1 cause set for May 17th. i —- f Realty transfers: William Richard a to Charles H. Kerridge, 50 acres, Wa- j n bash tp., $3500; David Eckrote to' g Charles D. Porter, 20 Hartford J tp.. $1,570; Charles E. Hocker to Mar-j i- tha A. Denton, lot 18, Monroe, 1115; ( n Emanuel Neuenschwander to Cyrus v Lehman, lot 424, Berne, >300; John •t Winteregg to David S. Buckmaster, 10l 132, Berne, SSOO.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, April 11, 1912.

TWELVE SECTIONS In One Farm In Canada Adjoining the Farm Owned by Moses & Hackman. THE WHOLESALE WAY Saskatchewan Paper Gives Some Idea of How Farming is Done There. Sone idea of the wholesale manner in which farming is done in the Saskatchewan district of Canada is shown in the following account taken from the Watson Witness and the land is located in an adjoining township to that tn which Carl Moses and Tony Hackman own a large farm: “The McLeod Farming company will up this spring one of the farms in central SasakfelieA' force of men working at Wai--Idings on trucks and sfiids lliest i-1, of sleeping cars, cook eg’ reading 'tar, and office car on trucks and blacksmith shops and barns on skids. These will be hauled with engines and kept near to where the men are working. “Three thousand acres will be seeded to flax this spring and 4,000 additional acres will be broken during the summer, so that in 1913, seven thousand acres will be under cultivation. This, with the amount of flax already grown in this district, will make the town of Watson a desirable location for a flax mill. “Engines and farm machinery are now unloaded at Watson. Five tracttion engines, thirty horse power, will work day and night on the land. Each engine will pull an eight-bottom gang plow, pulverizer ,and acme harrow on the breaking. When seeding each engine will pull forty-eight feet acme harrows, drills and pulverizers. In cutting each engine will pull five binders. “The company will have its own threshing machines and the grain will be hauled by engines direct to the cars and elevators.” FORTUNE STOLEN Prince William Stanley, the, Gypsy, Well Known Here, Loses Fortune. OF GYPSY KING I His Late Father —$6,000 in S2O Gold Pieces Stolen from Canvas Bag. Prince William Stanley of the Gypsy band, well known here, who in their travels have passed through this city, and who last year held a great reunion in Driving park, Fort Wayne, before going out on their tour of the world, has lost his patrimony and police are helping in the search for it. A dispatch from Providence, R. 1., says: “Six thousand dollars in S2O gold pieces, representing the fortune ot the late gypsy king.' was stolen from his son, William Stanley, a horse trader. The police over New England and in New York City have been wired deI scriptions of a German > s’ wn only as I ‘Oscar.’ whore disappearance, it is alI leged, was simultaneous with that of the gold. “Stanley told the police that prior to the money being missed he sent Oscar, who had been employed by him for several mouths, into the cellar, where it was stored in a large canvas bag.” ELKS’ INSTALLATION There will he an installation of Elks . Friday evening end the attention of ■ all members Is called o” this fact for , good attendance. Following the work a socialsession will be in order and several good talks have been arranged for the evening. A smoker has also been arranged for thia set time.

CUT GASH IN HEAD. William Mersman, known to nearly every person in the city, met with quite p. painful accident down street at noon, although receiving three ugly cuts over ie left side of his face when he fell into an open stairway, his injury may have been much more serious. He had gone to the Fred Schaub hardware store to secure some few articles about 10 o'clock, and upon entering the store found all of the clerks busy. He then started to help himself,, going back of the counter to secure his articles. A stairway leading to the cellar just at the entrance where Mr. Mersman happened to go behind the counter, had been left standing open, >xhile Charles Miller, a clerk, had gone below for some article. Mr. Mersman, somewhat blinded the briyb. sun, did net uoiict-! the open stairway and fell the entire distance to the ground floor cutting an ugly gash on his head. A doctor was at once sent f or and in the meantime a towel was tied about the injury to the great flow of blood until the arrival of a physician. Soon afterward a cab was secured and the injured man was conveyed to his home on North Second street. H'i condition was later stated to be quite bad and unless erysipelas spts in he would get along all right. Th wound was such that the stitches would not 1 "<”je than otherwise. 1 — DECATUP. BEET GROWERS. All arrangements for obtaining beet workers from the sugar company will have to be completed before April 18th. At that time Mr. Wagner is going to Chicago to get a special train load of beet laborers and everything must be ready to receive them when they arrive. If you have not made arrangements for the help, we will take it for granted that you are going to do your own work, or secure your own help, which is the proper thing to do if you possibly can. We are pleased to say that tha farmers, with a few exceptions, are taikng hold of the beet business in a way that is very pteasing to us and means success to themselves. To the few exceptions, we wish to say '.hat we are investing $700,000 in a sugar plant here, the success of which is dependent on these contracts, and we expect you to produce the beets that you have agreed to do. We mean business, and hope that you do. Please get your seed early. g F. H. HUBBARD, Manager Decatur Sugar Plant. REAL EASTER RABBITS. While relatives here were worrying over the danger that threatened the Coverdales in the region of the great Arkansas floods, the members of that family were having a real picnic, and on Easter real rabbits made their appearance. The Clark Coverdale home is on very high land, and while the floods from the Mississippi and St. Francis rivers came up into the yard, the house remained high and dry. Dr. J. S. Coverdales home which is situated on lower ground across the road, ! was flooded, however. The great floods drove the many rabbits from the woods to the higher ground and on Easter day there were many around the Coverdale homestead, where Easter was accordingly celebrated in real style. There were even rabits for dinner. Dr. Covernaio stated that Clarks wife was a master hand at preparing for flood danger, and gathered up everything to keep . it safe and from floating away—even to the bricks. MRS. ELLA KRAUHS DEAD. I Mrs Ella Kiauhs of Fort Wayne, well known here, where she often visI ited with her brother, Oscar Jones, • formerly of this city, and with her i mother, the late Mrs Jones Nelson, • died ednesday noon. The Fl. Wayne ’ Journal-Gazette says: “Mi's. Ella Krauhs, wife of John • Krauhs, a well known barber, died t yesterday noon at the family resi- ' dence, 525 High street, at the age of - 47 years 9 months and 25 days Death s resulted from diabetes, f.or' which she hud suffered for two months. Mrs. Krauhs was born June 16, 1864, at Churubusco. During her residence s here she won u host of friends She f was a member of Ben Hur court. No. r 15. Surviving she leaves the husband t and one daughter, Mrs Ann Snyder, 1 of this city; one sister, Mrs. Andrew '■ Fisher, of Fort Wayne, and two broth ■ ers—William Jones of Columbia City, and Oscar Jones, of Fort Wayne.

ORDERS COMING I The Ward Fence Factory is Thirty Days Behind on 1 Its Shipments. < 1 NEW BUILDINGS ARE ! i ~ ' - i Now Being Erected—Move 1 1 Offices in Two Months — I ; Business Rushing. The Ward Fence company is doing I an immense business at this time, or- ; ders coming in at the rate of 15 per day with a total in figures of $2,000-h per day, and the factory is thirty days behind in shipments. Manager Runcleil is pushing the affairs of he company along, and to provide against a future lay-down of orders has employed Mr. O. B. Smith of Upper Sanwho is now on the job, | and serve as salesman in I ; N v. . ..<<o i) ur j ™ Mann & Christen and work has begun on an iron store room at the factory. They will begin the erection of a new shop office, these two buildings to be of concrete, frame and corrugated iron. When these improvements are concluded, the new brick office building will be started and it is hoped the company can occupy the new quarters by June 15th. E. H. Schumaker has returned from a business trip to the west for the company. He landed a number o f good jobs, totaling about $2,500. and practically all on iron fence. He secured contracts at Gary, Chicago, PaoHa and Winston, 111., and at Wolcott, Ind. The Ward Fence is booming, and promises a continued growth. — o W. Q. T. U. MEETS SATURDAY. • The Women s Christian Temperance Union will meet Saturday afternoon at 2:30 sharp at the home of Mrs. C. J. Weaver, on Fifth street. Mrs. Geo. Glass of the Baptist church will have charge of the program. All ladies are urged to attend. DEATH MESSAGE Os Cousin, Mrs. Martha Biesner, New Regal, 0., Received Today by MR. JOHN SCHURGER No Particulars Given as to Cause of Death—Funeral i Saturday. John Schurger, the abstract writer, this morning received a message from New R Oi'io, staling that his cousin. ?■ . .iattr.u k.-Ter, had passel awiy. The ex..vt ‘urc of her death was not stated, Put is believed to have occurred seme nrae Wednesday, the message being received early this morning, it was sent by her son, George, and contained nothing further, than that the funeral would be held Saturday. The deceased lady was seventy-two years of age. ami had been In failing health for a year or so. The deceased was also an aunt of Mrs. James Murphy of this city. She leaves six children, three Buns and three daughters, to mourn their loss, her husband having passed to the great beyond fifteen years ago. She was known to several people, but visited here only once, about twenty years ago, while the Schurger family paid visits later. Mr. Schurger seeing her eight ago. Some of Mr. Schurger’s folks will attend the , funeral, but no arrangements have ' been made as to who will attend. The 1 services will be held at the Catholic church at New Regal. I , Dr. Starkweather has opened a branch office in Portland, Ind., In the Brlnel Block for the practice of Os , teopathy with Dr. Davis, his associate in ‘■barge.

WAS NEARLY SUFFOCATED. Fred Wade, Son of Harry Wade, Has ! Narrow Escape. — Among the twenty-four young men who narrowly escaped suffeation early Wednesday morning when Lafayette’s SIOO,OOO Y r . M. C. A. building was badly damaged by fire, was Fred Wade, son of Harry Wade, of Indianapolis, grand keeper of records and seals of the Knights of Pythias. He was found half unconconsious in his smoke-filled ' room, when firemen, their faces cover ! ed with wet towels, who rushed through the halls awakening the occupants, broke down his door. The boy’s father visited in this city in February, when he attended the district K. of P. convention here, and is well acquainted with many here. WOMEN PROPOSE — I Many Colorado Women j Take Advantage of Leap fl Year—Many Licenses. ■ KIAVE BEEN ISSUED > - -- J By Clerk Sheldon, Formerly of Adams County, to Women Who Proposed. Mr. Sheldon, an old Adams county, boy, formerly residing at Linn Grove,! now marriage license clerk at Colo-1 rado Springs, Colo., has gained con- ! sid.erable notoriety from the many j unusual cases that have come up before him. Colorado bids fair io become known as the state of “women's rights.' Quite recently Mr. Sheldon issued a statement that he would give a free license to th© couple married in ease the bride did the proposing during this leap year. One couple 1 took advantage of it and were also | married free by the ’squire, who de-; elded to encourage the leap year cus- i tom, which is so well known in “the-1 ory” but so little in real life A Colo-1 rado Springs dispatch now gives anoth-' er case where he issued a marriage license to a woman who did the proposing: “Birdie May Smith, an attractive' Colorado Springs young woman and Charles O’Niell, a Pueblo railroad man. are on the main line again and Birdie’s hand is at the thro'tle. Miss Smith and O’Niell first boarded Cu-1 pid's fast mail at Great Ben, Kans., - September 6, 1909, hut mischief-mak-ing friends left a switch open and the | couple crashed int.» Divorce siding at ' Denver, Februaiy 22, 1911. “Although O’Niell is a railroad man i he made a failure of his first venture j as an engineer on Cupid’s limited, and i on their next run his bride is going to j demonstrate her ability to run the. train and watch out for broken rails , and open switches. So confident is! I’iriiie of her ability that she propos-1 ed to O’Niell that they be remarried | and after being accepted escorted him to the court house, secured a marriage license and paid for it herself. “ ‘I didn’t think she had the nerve to do it,' said O'Neill, as he stood by i and watched his former wife and bride-to-be get the license. “ ‘I found that I liked Charlie best of all and leap year gave me a good chance to get him back again,’ exclaimed the blushing bride. ’We didn't have any real trouble in the first place.’ “The bride is twenty-four years old and the bride-groom thirty-three. o TONIGHT ONLY. The world-famous, two-reel subject, •'Nicholas Nickleby,” based on Dicken's masterpiece, will be shown at the Star theater tonight, only. Coming as it does by the leading people in the mot’on picture business it cannot fail to please the most exacting. Anyway the person who has had the pleasure ■ of reading the book under the same title will need no urging to attend. > The price is five cents, two reels of > this masterpiece, and one other. A • new velvet curtain has been Installed. Will not hurt the eyes. ELKS TO INSTALL OFFICERS. The meeting of the Elks on Friday evening will be a big one. Following the Installation of officers will be a banquet and smoker

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LARGEST CLASS Os Decatur High School Since 1897 Will Receive Diplomas May 24th. THE CLASS ROLL Shows Twenty-three Preparing for Class Play, “Fifteenth of January.” Twenty-three seniors—thirteen girls and ten boys—of the Decatur high school are already engaged in the | final preparation for their graduation, I May 24th. This is the largest gradu- | ating class since 1897, when a class lof thirty-two was graduated. The - present junior class, however, coni tains thirty-three students, and should . all i’etiii'li next year and complete the > course, that class will be the banner I one. i The commencement proper will- be i held May 24th, at the Bosse opera I house, when a class lecture will be of Chicago unit entty. 'w. The part in which the en._ ‘ :.<oo will take part, is the class day exeicises, Mr” 23rd, at Bosse's epera ho-’se This will u.» a class play again this year, "Fifteenth of January,’’ being the play selected. The students are already al w- ’k on this, under the direction of the l-’isses Clara Wil- | Hams and Rose Duuathan, assisted by ! others of the faculty. The play will i be given in tlie Bosse opera house. ! The baccalaureate sermon will be I delivered May 19th by the Rev. Gleis- ’ er of the Presbyterian church, the place to be announced later. The graduating class includes the following members: Sherman Beery, Ruth Baltzell, William Bowers, Neva Brandyberry, Charles Brodbeck, Frances Cole, Na- ( omi Dugan, Dallas Elzey, Helen Fon- : ner, Rosa Groen, Gladys Kern, Jennie I Long, Velma Lenhart, Blanche MeI Crory, Paul Meyers, Margaret Mills, i Orpha Sheets, Zelda Schnitz, Gregg j Neptune, Ben Teeple, Milton Yager, I Edgar Vancil and Carl Battenberg. Virgil Krick in Preparation. Virgil Krick made the twenty-fourth : senior, and had he not decided, upon receiving appointment to the Annap- [ olis naval academy to at once take advantage of this rare opportunity by entering a preparatory school, to prei pare for the naval academy entrance examination, he would have completi ed the course with the remainder of his class mates here. He has been in j a preparatory school at Washington, ID. C.» since February. A letter re- ! ceived this week from him by City | School Superintendent E. E. Rice anj nounces progress in his work there, in ! which he is getting along well. Many |of the students will take the naval j academy entrance examination in ' April, but Virgil will wait until June, j He writes that John Gillig is working [ at the capitol. He was recently pleas- ' ed to receive a call from John, and is looking forward with pleasure to many canoe rides this summer on the Potomac. MOVING to MICHIGAN. Mrs. John L. Reitz left this morning for Merril, Mich., where she will join ' her husband who left Tuesday. They I have purchased a farm near that place . I and exjifcct to make their future home J there. Mrs. Reitz recently underwent ! an operation, and her health, which i! has not been of the best, it is thought, will benefit by the change. Mr. Reitz' parents, .Mr. and Mrs. .1. Reitz, formerly of Bryant, have lived there two years, so they do not go totally among , 1 strangers. Mrs. Reitz wishes to bid . farewell in this way through the Democrat to all those whom she could not ; see personally before leaving. Mrs. > Reitz was Miss Lena Eiting and is a 1 daughter of Mrs. C. Eiting, of south ■ of the city. , . “CASEY JONES” IS COMING. “Casey Jones, now Isn’t It rich, ■ Ran his engine through an open switch, He blew the whistle and rang the bell. And .went throvgb t n wv> like a bat out of humor.” “Casey Jones’ is coming to town. He will be at the Bosse opera house Saturday with a live-wire comedy company and a line of ‘ daffydills’’ that will make Zeigfeld’s Follies look like a bunch of amateurs.