Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 114.

ACCEPT NEW CITY HALL | Citizen’s Improvement Committee Turns Over Keys to City Last Evening. I COST OVER $16,000.00 I Is a Handsome Building and the City is Justly Proud of It. K ! The new city hall, which has been blunder construction for the past six ■months, erected by the ■provement committee, comprising the ■leading and most, influential business ■monos the city, and at a cost of more Ba special session of the city council ■called for Friday evening, by Mayor the keys for sanie were turned ■over to the city, with a sworn itemized ■statement of the expenditure used in Kite construction. i I Will Schrock, C. A. Dugan and F. ■sTit zinger, representing the Citizens' Improvement committee, were on 11ia:.4 and Mr. Schrock, secretary of , /the committee, made a public report ■to the council of the expense incurred, Hkm! later presented them with the statement to go over and examine, if ■they wished. This was done, and aftKer a declared recess of ten minutes, ■the council was ready to report back of their acceptance. With the action of Friday evening the new city hall is ■tow in the hands of the city, and It ®tsill at once begin to add their necesf." 8a: y equipment and furnishings for fethe better and safer carrying out of f the city’s duties. The contract enterBped into by the Citizens’ Improvement with the city wah that they E erect the building and equip it with an auto fire apparatus, chemicals and necessary equipment to go with it, acfc .to’ding to the approval and plans cf * the city council. The building was to be erected at a cost of not exceeding 518,000, which the committee has carefully stood by, and although they have not expended the entire amount, they left nothing undone that would better the building and equipment in any way. The city, up to the present time, has not spent a cent, according to the contract that the improvement commitee bear the cost of erection and upon the completion and the building turned over, the city to pay the improvement committee the sum of $2,490.25 each year, payment being due every six months and the first to be made on July 1, 1912, and to continue k until the entire sum be paid over to « the committee. The three men who i were appointed by the city to care for ; the fire apparatus and handle the t. chemicals during a fire will go on duty k next Wednesday, May 15th. They will L make exercisetrips about the city each I. day or so to keep the apparatus in Ei proper and them-, E: Selves in readiness for a fire at any , moment. A motion was made that the city s'e- ■ fc cure the services of some expert for a ! ■ period of two weeks to instruct the new firemen concerning the running and operating of the truck, which was seconded and approved. A man from the Kanawha company will be sent Bforr in the near future to explain the proper handling of the chemicals at a fire and their attention required while in the building. The purchasing committee was also authorized to purchase the necessary furniture and supplies for the mayor, clerk and treasurer's offices, the same to be obtained and put in shape as soon as possible. Other necessaries and fur"Ttishings will have to be provided for, FMEartmcnts for the firemen, furnishlags for the building in general, and the vaults will have to be shelved oft Imd arranged for the caring of the city’s books. | The building is one of the finest an 1 most complete of any city the size o: Decatur .and the city is justly proud of the new building. The rental, which became due on the building it its completion was allowed with another bill as follows: Rental of buildings up till July 'L 1, 1912 $336.80 Ft. Wayne Electric Wks 251.25 The following is the itemized statement filed with the city by the Citi-

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zens' Improvement committee for the jerection of the new city hall: Linn & Patten, for building. .511215.00 ■ Kanawha Fire Apparatus Co., for auto truck 4035.00 First National bank, interest 134.87 l<)ld Adams Co. Bank, interest 137.54 C. J. Lutz, attorney fees for incorporation and contract 25.00 Jesse Sutton, same / 10.00 L. A. Holthouse, rental for truck storage 9.00 iE. B. Adams, attorney fees.. 5.00 State incorporation fee .... 21.50 E. B. Adams, Ins. policy for . $2,000 for five years on the ! building 82.80 Orvul IlatTuff. same 82.80 L. A. Graham, $5,000 Ins. pol- | icy, 5 years oq_building... 207.00 John 8. Peterson, Ins. policy $2,000 on truck, 1 year.... 32.00 H. B Heller, same 32.00 E. Fritzinger, inspector ahd | service for building 25.00 , Holthouse Drug Co., secretary book 1.00 Total $16,055.51 Less Linn fr Patten building I insurance '. 31.05 ‘ - $16024.16

COURT DOUSE NEWS i Effie Woods Dismisses Tier Divorce Suit Against James Woods. DIVORCE IS GRANTED — To Charles Burris on His Cross-complaint—Wife Failed to Appear. When the divorce case of Lulu B. Burris against Charles M. Burris was called in court this morning the plaintiff defaulted and the cause was dismissed. The cause was submitted on the defendant's cross-complaint, however, and a decree of divorce given Charles M. Burris. He is to pay the costs and the plaintiff's attorneys’ fees of S2O as costs in the cause. The divorce case brought two weeks ago by Effie M. Woods against James j Woods has been dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff. . Fritz Koenig and Lewis A. Graham, administrators of the Margaret Koenig estate, were granted their petition to sell personal proptry at pri- ; vate sale without notice for cash for not less than appraisement. William H. F*ogle, administrator of the Henry Fogle estate, filed inventory number one, which was approved; also petition to sell personal property. ■Sale for cash ordered, after posting five notices in the townhip for ten days. Articles of agreement betewen Jesse O. Tricker and Eli W. Steele were recorded today with the county recorder. I Mr. Steele leases to Mr. Tricker 20 acres of land to raise small fruits and garden truck, Mr. Steele to furnish the horses for cultivation of the grouffd and the vegetable seed, and each to furnish equal amount of labor and fruit plants. Mr. Tricker is to market the products, furnish his own horse and wagon to do marketing, collect the money and at the end of each day divide it share and share alike. The lease is for a year from April 10th.

Realty transfers' Otto Kirsch et al. to Mathias Kirsch et al., lot 4, Decatur, quit claim deed, $1,000; Mathias Kirsch to Kirsch, Sellemeyer & Sons’ Company, lots 16, 17, Decatur, $5000; Fred Scheiman to Bert Haley, realty in Washington tp., S4OO. oFLOYD ALLEN ON STAND. (United Press Service.) Wytheville, Va., May 11 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Floyd Allen, patriarch of the Alien gang, today took the witness stand in his own defense against being sent to the death chair for bis part in the Hillsville court room murder. He talked In an almost inaudible voice and was very nervous. Under questioning by the attorney he told his lawyer at the Hillsville trial that he intended to “take his medicine” from Judge Staples.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, May 11, 1912.

J. BATES ON BEETS Former Adams County Man Visiting Here is Enthusiastic Beet Grower. COLORADO THE FIRST Sugar State in Union—Has Grown Successfully for Many Years. i. John Bates, a former Adams county man, moved to Hotschkiff, Colo., thirty-five years ago and is now here on his first visit since then, is an enthusiastic beet man. He states that beets have done much to bring Colorado to the first rank and declares that the new beet sugar factory which is being constructed here, will do wonders for old Adams county. He is very enthusiastic over the great possibilities opening here in beet cul ture. Colorado was one of the first sugar states in the union and is doing a wonderful business in this line. Mr. Bates is an enterprising farmer of a (rich and fertile valley west of the Rocky mountains, where he owns twenty acres of good land. He has been in the beet raising business for ■the past eight years and put out from eight to ten acres each year. He raises from twenty-five to thirty tons of beets per acre, and figuring the expense of the growing at about fifty dolars per acre, the great profit can easily be determined, the beets bringing five dollars per ton. The beets are shipped by him a hundred miles to the nearest factory, the culture of beets being very extensive. Mr. Bates was born and reared in this county, where he was married in young manhood to Miss Martha Garver, a sister of Mrs. Godfrey Christen, whose death occurred a year ago, He and his wife are well remembered by many of the older residents of the county, and Mr. Bates is having a pleasant visit meeting his old acquaintances.

THE MAY MEETING Os Medical Association Held at Dr. Miller’s Office on Friday Evening. DIST. COUNCELLOR Dr. Van Swerengen of Fort Wayne Present—Out-of-Town Members Here. The May meeting of the medical society of the county was held in the Dr. J. M. Miller office Friday evening, this being a continued session of the April meeting which Was prevented by the unusually severe rain storm at that time. Friday night’s meet was well attended, out-of-town doctors present being District Counsellor Dr. Van Swerengen and a doctor friend from Fort Wayne, Drs. Parrish and Rayl of Monroe, and Dr. Schenk and Dr. Reusser of Berne. Local physicians present were Drs. Boyers, Beavers. Costello, Smith, Miller and Thomas. Dr. Beavers read a good paper, treating of “The Practice of Medicine from a Business Standpoint,” in the discussion of which all took part. The*June meeting will be held June 14th at the office of Dr. Schenk at Berne. THE COST OF REGISTRATION. Te following bills for registration boards, filed at the auditor’s office today, give an idea of the cost of same: Geneva B, $28.45; Ceylon, Wabash township, $25.50; North Monroe, $25.80; Middle Monroe, $21.00; Berne B, $21.50; Berne A, $24.50; North Preble, $26.10; East Union, $21.50; South St. Mary’s, x 526.25; South Hartford. $26.10; South Kirkland, $30.50; South Blue Creek, $25.50; North Washington, $35.50; North Wabash, $26.50; West Jefferson, $25.50; South Jefferson, $25.50; Decatur A, Second Ward, $26.10; Decatur A, First ward. $30.35; Decatur B, First ward, $30.80; Decatur A, Third ward, $26.10.

ON GRAIN OF WHEAT E. Stauffer, Monroe Penman, Does Fancy Pen Printing. E. Stauffer of Monroe is a penman of quality, being aule to do some especially line miniature printing. D. M. Hensley is the possessor of some of his work, being printing done with a pen on a grain of wheat. The grain of wheat contains the words “D. M. Hensley, Decatur, India.ia." and is plainly legible to the naked eye. Mr. Stauffer has printed by pen the entire twenty-third psalm on a match, and lias also printed “In God We Trust” on p. clover seed.

DEATH CAME TODAY <- Mrs. S. E. Edington of This City Passed Away at 1 O’clock Today. ’ • AT THE ST. JOSEPH'S Hospital, Ft. Wayne—Was Operated Upon Friday— Became 11l This Week. A telegraph message received at 2 o'clock today by Dan Sprang from the St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, brought word of the death of Airs. S. E. Edington of this city, which occurred there at 1 o’clock this afternoon. A message received by him at 11:30 o’clock stated that she could not live through the day and the news of her death was not unexpected. Mrs. Edington had been here with her sons and had left only last week for Fort Wayne to visit with her •son, Dee. On Monday and Thursday of this week she suffered paralytic strokes, and was taken to the hospital, It was thought that an operation was her only slight chance for recovery, and this was performed Friday afternoon, but without avail. She had also suffered for some time from astnma, but when she left here last week, she was in apparently good health.. She was sixty-one years of age Friday, and was the widow of James Edington. She leaves the following children: Dec, nt Fort Wayne; James, Clark and Frank J. of this city; Harve, of Logansport, and Mrs. Ella Hall of Ossian. The telegram stated that before death she requested that Mr. Sprang go to assist in the funeral arrangements, and he accordingly left this afternoon on the 3 o’clock train over the G. R. & I. The body will undoubtedly be brought here for burial. GAUZE REMAINED Second Operation on Miss Genevieve Mylott Found Two Pieces of Gauze LEFT IN THE WOUND At Time of First Operation More Than Year Ago— Failed to Heal. Thomas Mylott will leave this evening for Chicago, where he will join his wife, who has been with their daughter, Miss Genevieve, who underwent an operation on Tuesday of this week at the Mercy hospital, Chicago. Miss Genevieve was injured in a trolley wreck in Chicago some time ago, and a year ago last November underwent an operation for relief from injuries sustained in the wreck. The wound from the operation never fully healed and it was decided that another was necessary. During the operation this week it w as found that two pieces of gauze, each four inches long, had never been removed from the incision at the time of the first operation, these being overgrown with a cyst, this preventing the healing of the wound. Adhesious of the bowels were also found. Mrs. Mylott was with her daughter at the time of the operation. While she is not yet fully out of danger, she is getting along as well as can be expected. Miss Genevieve, who is a singer in a theater in Chicago, has been making her home there with other members of the family for sometime, and visited here last during the holiday week.

MASONS TO MEET Will Have Afternoon and Evening Session Tuesday —Two Candidates. SIX O’CLOCK DINNER Will be Served by Eastern Star at Grand Army Hall, Madison Street, Two membe'rs of the Masonic lodge will be given an opportunity to enjoy themselves next Tuesday afternoon and evening, l - and while there are to be no visitors from nearby cities, as is usual on such occasions, nil mem bers of the lodge and all Masons who are in the city are invited to participate. There are two candidates for the Master's degree on that day and the master of the lodge, D. E. Smith, has arranged to give the first initiation in Hie afternoon, beginning at 3 o’clock. At 6 o’clock the lodge will be given supper by the Eastern Star, the feast to be served in the G. A. R. hall on ’Madison street. Any further mention that the dinner will be one worth eating is unnecessary. If you are a Mason, and want any further proof, be there. The candidates are Calvin Peterson and Oscar Hoffman. It is the desire that every member of the lodge who can possibly attend, do so. Many lodge men neglect attending the regular meetings and it is the desire that they gather this time, in a get-ac-quainted session, at which you are sure to enjoy yourself. You are especially invited to partiepiate in the 6 o'clock dinner. <i REV. OWEN TO PREACH. Rev. and Mrs. George Owen of Burnettsville, who have been at Markle, arrived this afternoon and will remain over Sunday. The Rev. Owen will conduct services tomorrow at the Christian church. FELL TWENTY FEET Mike Macola Fell off Warehouse on Head and Shoulders at Sugar Plant. | _ « FRIDAY AFTERNOON Received Painful Injuries— Was Rushed to City for Medical Aid. Mike Macola, one of the laborers on the beet sugar plant, met with a painful accident at 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon, when working on top of the warehouse, losing his foothold and falling, a distance of twenty feet, to the ground, and alighting an his head and shoulders. He was at once picked up by his fellow-workmen and, securing the Julius Haugk automobile, he was rushed to the city, and medical treatment at once given. Upon examination a partial dislocation of the left shoulder was found, as well as a number of the ligaments torn loose. An ugly gash was also cut on the left side of his head and another on the left hand. After his injuries were treated he was taken to the commissary house, where he is receiving proper care. This morning he was somewhat better, but still unable to be up, being quite sore as a result of the fall. It is thought there might be some internal injury, but at the present time cannot be determined by the attending physician. HOLLAND GLOBE TROTTER Herbert P. Nordall, “The Globe Trotter from Quaint Old Holland.” from Amsterdam, Holland, who is touring the world on foot, will come to this city Sunday night on his way to Lima, Ohio. He was in Bluffton Friday and left today for Ft. Wayne, and is enroute to the northeast, along Erie and Lake Ontario, and thence to New York. He hastraveled about in various parts of the world and expects to return home this fall—the first time in six years.

FOUR PRECINCTS ARE OUT. The following show the returns from the first registration, as reported up to 2 o'clock this afternoon, with comparisons to the vote of 1910: French .. .* 32 109 W. Union 37 88 N. Preble 49 102 8. Preble » 7 110 E. Jefferson 47 108 N. Hartford 79 159 N. Wabash 53 92 W. Jefferson 57 124 N. St. Mary’s 62 104 East Union 91 86 iN. Washington 70* S. Kirkland 31 70 S. Washington 98* S. Blue Creek 36 82 N. Monroe ,113 155 Middle Monroe 45 92 Derno “A” 108 155 Berne “B” .126 196 8. Hartford 44 92 Geneva “A” 94 132 Geneva “B” 117 184 Decatur, First “A".... 162 170 Decatur, First “B” 98 135 Decatur, Second “A”... 187 190 Decatur, Second “8”... 97 111 Decatur, Third “A”.... 163 187 Decatur, Third “8”....148 199 Ceylon 39 69 S. St. Mary's 75 115 * Precinct changed. G.A.R. STATE MEET South Bend Making Elaborate Preparations for Entertainment of G. A. R. STATE ENCAMPMENT Will Draw Large Numbers' to South Bend May 21 to 24—Decatur There. South Bend, Ind., May 11 (Special to Daily Democrat) —Delegates to the ■ thirty-third annual encampment of the Indiana G. A. R., to be held here May 21 to 24, will be presented with a badge bearing the likeness of John Auten, probably the first Hoosier to lose his life in the Civil war. He en listed from St. Jdseph county in Coinpang 1, Ninth regiment, three month ' men, April 17, 1861, two days afterLincoln’s fast call for volunteers. He j (fought at Philippi, Va., June 3, ami was killed while on a scouting expedition at Laurel Hill July 10 of the same year. Auten Post, No. 8, of South Bend, and for years—lß7l to 1879 — the only Grand Army post in the state, is named after this hero. Mayor Charles L. Goetz, chairman Os the finance committee, and J. B. Weber, chairman of the committee on entertainment, announce ample funds and that nothing will be spared to afford the old veterans and their friends a comfortable three days of outing. Captain Edwin Nicar, chairman of the program and campfires commjttee, and a past commander of the state department, says the full announcement of the program will be ready the first of next week. Regimental reunions will be a feature of the encampment, plans for these being left with a committee of which Capt. E. P. Stanfield is chairman. Regiments will be supplied with meeting places and all veterans are invited to meet with their regiments, whether members of the G. A. R. or not. Marvin Campbell, chairman of the committee on invitations and receptions, is making an earnest effort to reach every soldier in Indiana with an invitation to join his regiment here in South Bend during the encampment, though complete lists are found difficult to obtain. Interest in the encampment has been introduced in the schools and ’the pupils are being drilled to take a prominent part in the entertainment. Many of the local G. A. R. and W. R. C. will go. EYES VERY BAD. Jerry Coffee, who for a number of years has been greatly afflicted with eye trouble, and been treating same both here and at Fort Wayne, is again treating with a Fort Wayne specialist, his vision at present being bad. He has been off duty from work for nearly two months, resting and treating them continually. Miss Clara Bultemeier was at work at the Peoples & Gerke shoe store today after a week’s vacation.

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GIVE RECEPTION High School Girls’ Cooking Class Will Give Luncheon for Their Mothers. PREPARE THE LUNCH And Serve it—Will Give a Test of Their Skill Acquired During Year, r 1 - _ _ The high school girls’ cooking class at the office of the Indiana Lighting company will give a reception Monday afternoon to the mothers, the class preparing the luncheon under the direction of their teacher, Mrs. Stella Phillips of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Phillips arrived this afternoon from Fort Wayne to make preliminary arrangement fur the affair. All of the fifty-one girls of the high school classes are requested to be at the gas office at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, and the mothers at 3 o'clock. Each class of the cooking school will prepare one item of the luncheon. A similar reception was given by the cooking class at Bluffton of which the News says: “The reception given at the local store of the Indiana Lighting company Thursday afternoon by the company's local manager, Mr. John Moy nihan, and the forty-two girls of the domestic science class, to the faculty iof the high school, members of the ( school board, and to tho mothers of • the girls of the class, was a most pronounced success, and every one iuperested in any way in the affair wag highly pleased. W I “Besides the membert of the class j there were plates laid for sixty guests who were entertained at the luncheon that was served, and the mothers, who were the judges of the culinary tendered, were loud in their praise of the splendid progress that the domestic science class has made, and the instructor, Mrs. Phillips, and the gas company, were sincerely complimented. That- the eatables were really palatable was demonstrated by the fact that everything cooked or baked was entirely consumed, and i this included twenty cakes, four bak--1 ed by Mrs. Phillips, and the remainder Iby the girls of the cooking class. The strawberry short-cake was pronounced extra fine. The complete menu for the luncheon included potato salad on lettuce, nut bread sandwiches, sliced cold tongue, sponge cake, strawberries, and whipped cream and fruit punch. The girls of the class did all of the baking and cooking, under the general direction of Mrs. Phillips, and their mothers were delighted to learn the progress the girls have made, and doubtless the girls will receive home encouragement during the coming vacation. “The high school faculty also was highly pleased with the showing of the domestic science department and it is thought that there is little doubt but that a large basement room at the high school building will be furnished as a domesic science department before the next term of school opens. The report of the gas company shows that the cooking class it has conducted here the past school year has been at an expense of only about S2OO. It has furnished gas stoves and gas, and all materials and the instructor without charge of any kind . to the city schools, and the company is deserving of commendation. “Manager Moynihan took advantage of the opportunity Thursday to as- . sure his guests that while the in- . structions the girls have received have assisted them very materially ; in their efforts at learning to cook i that a large share of the credit also is due the gas stoves which they have used. “A handsome mission stand lamp was given away by the company Thursday afternoon, and Miss Marie Brown, a member of the cooking class, was the lucky winner of the lamp. It was a prize offered by the company, but instead of giving it as a competitive prize there was a drawing and Miss Brown was the lucky one. “Each member of the class received a photograph of the entire class, a present from the gas company.” The Misses Carrie Daniels and Vera Myers were extra clerks at the Runyon, Engelet & Company’s store today.