Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 125.

SUCCESSFUL PLAY Class of 1912 Pleases Large Audience at Bosse Opera House Last Everting. OF MUCH MERIT Was Production of “The Fifteenth of January’’—A Pleasing Little Comedy. It was a large audience that greeted the class of 1912 at the Bosse op era house Thursday when they presented their class play, “The Fifteenth of January.” a pleasing little comedy, depicting the pleasures, romance and life in general of a western college town. Every one of the twenty-three graduates was given'a place in the play and every one acquitted himself to perfection. Indeed the compliments heard today express the opinion that It was the best homo talent play that lias yet been given in the city, each one of the actors, many of whom have never appeared on the stage before even in amateur productions, doing his part so well that it would be a credit to a professional player. The play was in three acts, with the college students and professors as principals. Through the play run the threads of several romances anu love stories, and, how-I ever tangled they may have become, 1 they are all straightened out in the last act and woven each into its own' separate beautiful pattern. Professor Henry E. Burton, the dig-' nified gray haired professor of philos-' ophy in the college, with a string of degrees a yard long appended to his ' name, was depicted by Edgar Vancil. | His daughter Barbara, or "Bobbie." a true and loyal friend of her brother, Billy; was played by Miss Zelda Schnitz, and Billy, the quarter-back on the varsity team, an honest, freehearted, wholesome lad. with a true love for his sister, by Sherman Beery. Little eight-year-old Frances Burton, with a fondness for fairy tales, portrayed by Rose Green, and Eva Burton, a high school senior, was represented by Ruth Baltzeil, and completed the Burton household. Professor Ebenezer James, M. A., Ph. D., of the department of economics, was another elderly man, a part cleverly played by Ben Teeple. Doris Meredith, the heiress, was enacted by Naomi Dugan; her lover, Lieutenant Jack Wilson, an army officer on a furlough, by Gregg Neptune; Doris’ ambitious mother, who wants her to marry the count, by Orpha Sheets; the Count Andreas Cassovelll, an Italian adventurer, with the usual big, black mustache -of the villian, who is hunting a rich wife, and has to make trouble for several lovers, to get her, was unusually well played by Milton Yager. Neva Brandyberry very cleverly played the part of Ruth Thurston, a maiden with a love for art and Peter. Peter, who was in love with Ruth, and had to scheme to meet her over the opposition of her father, a professor who objected to suitors, was represented by Paul Myers. Paul overcame the difficulties and made more, by pretending to be deaf and dumb in order to become Miss Ruth's attendant. Then there were Ted Allen, an assistant professor, a part played by Charing Brodbeck: “Chuck. Clinton, a freshn *n with no rights, by Dallas Elzey; Tom Harrison, a sophomore, by Karl Dattenberg; Don Hampton, a shy scientific student, by Will Bowers; Elsie Smythe, a breezy western girl from Butte, Montana, a rich maid who attracts the attention of the count, by Margaret Mills: Tabitha Tattler, the maiden boarding house landlady, and the college gossip. Frances Cole; breezy, chummy little Sally Sue Stevens, the Burtons next door girl, and Billy's good friend, Helen Fonner; Dolly Dinsmore, Polly Preston and Mabie Johnson, happy little freshmen girls, by Jennie Long, Velma Lenhart and Blanch McCrory, respectively; and Maggie Mahoney, a little servant girl, by Glad} s Kern. The teachers assisted in the drilling of the students, and to them is due much of the credit, also, for the excellent production. The affair was strictly a high school production, as the music was rendered by the high school orchestra, which is to be highly commended. . o Dr. D. D. Clark is home from a business trip to Fort Wayne.

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FINLEY DRAKE FUbJERAL. Red Men Attend in a Body and Give Burial Service. A large concourse of relatives and friends of the late Finley Drake gathered at the Salem church east of the city at 10 o'clock this morning, when the last sad rites were conducted for him, the Rev. Rilling of the Evangelical church of this city officiating. The Red Men of this city, of which he was a member, attended in a body, and gave the burial sei vice, which Is so beautiful in its symbolic significance. Mr. Drake was the unfortunate young man who met death by electrocution Tuesday morning at the interurban power bouse, where he had been employed for the past five years. 0 COURT HOUSE NEWS R. H. Hartford of Portland Will Also Serve as Special Judge for WILL WARD TRIAL Set for Next Monday—A New Suit Filedc—Court is Rather Quiet. R. H. Hartford of Portland has ' been named special judge also to hear the case of Will Ward, charged with , conspiracy to steal from Ralph Spade, j the case to be heard next Monday, I May 27th. McClish, who was taken I Thursday to Michigan City, to enter upon his sentence of imprisonment in I I the pen’tentiary there, is named as a defendant in this ease also. The motion for a change of judge was filed by Ard Thursday and acted upon today by the court. True & Runyon vs. Clifford Death et. al. to foreclose mortgage, demand S3OO, is a new- case filed by Hooper & Lenhart. It is for a mortgage on real estate, given to secure a ninety-day note executed February 2, 1912, to Paul G. Hooper, he transferring the note and mortgage to the plaintiff later. John Scheumann, who claims an interest in the real estate,, is also made a party defendant. D. B. Erwin enters appearance for Joseph Martz in the replevin case brought against him by Sarah Hakes, and Martz is ruled to answer. Articles of the incorporation of the “Sprunger. Lehman & Co. of Berne,” were filed with the county recorder today. The capital stock is $25,000, and they will do a general mercantile business. The members of the incorporation are Levi A. Sprunger, Jeff F. Sprunger, Noah Luginbill, Enos W. Lehman, Berne. Owing to a typographical error in the article Thursday on the tax collections of the treasurer, it read. “The next cash receipts.” It should have been “The net cash receipts.” Real estate transfers: Emily Moses to Robert E. Smith, lots 578, 580, Decatur, $2,800; Dallas Butler to Serena A Johnson, lot in Decatur, $2250; Maria Robison to Edgar lewton, quit claim deed to lots 23, 24, 25, 26, Monmouth, $250" Minnie Aschliman to Joseph D. Winteregg, 3 acres, Wabash tp., $600; Minnie Aschliman to Joseph D. Winteregg, guardian, deed to 3 acres, Wabash tp., $290; John Briner to Henry Kirchner, lot 11, Preble, SI6OO. o evangelical church. Owing to the union memorial services of the G. A. R. there will he no preaching Sunday morning at the Evangelical church. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Sunday evening’s subject will be “Howe.” J. H. RILLING, Pastor. GOES TO FORT WAYNE. Charles Burdg has resigned his position as barber at the Al Burdg shop, and will quit work there Saturday evening. He will be succeeded by Charles Kitson. Mr. Burdg will go to Fort Wayne, where he has bought a business, and will probably make his home there. Mrs. Burdg will probably go to Fort Wayne Tuesday.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, May 24, 1912.

FORCED TO BUILD i Hope Hospital, Fort Wayne, to Erect New Building ‘ on Present Site. ’ WILL COST $200,000.00 i ) Number of Decatur People ! are Now Patients in the Institution. , \\ Ith the various extensive im- , provements being made by the St. ’ Joseph and Lutheran hospitals, Fort ! Wayne, Hope hospital, one of the three overcrowded institutions, has [ just completed arrangements for the erection of a complete and modern new' hospital at a cost of $200,000. The present builfling is overcrowded with patients and the committee in charge is unable to care for the heavy cry for admission recently, and r other steps had to be provided. Many Decatur people have been patients there during tlj£ past few months, and Miss Irene Nidlinger, daughter of ■ Mr. and Mrs. John Nidlinger, of east of the city, is stil taking treatment there. The Fort Wayne Journal-Ga-zette of this morning contained the following relative to the new build ing; ( “Two hundred thousand dollars will be raised in Fort Wayne by the women's Hope hospital committee and 1 the general soliciting committee re- , cently appointed by President Gedrge , W. Beers to erect a new and thorough- . Iv modern building to replace the structure now located at the corner of Washington and Barr. At a joint I meeting of the committee held last i night this action was settled upon. . The $200,000 to be raised will be for II the erection of a new building alone and the floating debt will be cared fffr in addition." o THE ANNUAL MEET Zion Classis of German Re- ; formed Church Will Coni vene Next Thursday. I . LASTS OVER SUNDAY J Number of Outside Ministers Will be in Attendance for Gathering. i The annual meeting of the Zion German classis of the German Reformed church of the northwest will be held at the German Reformed church of this city, commencing with next Thursday 1 evening and continuing over Sunday. A number of ministers from throughout the district will be in attendance and the Rev. Schneider, pastor of the Magley church, and president of the ' Classis, will open the session with a short sermon. Following the brief address will be the election of a president to succeed Rev. Schneider, whose time will then expire. On Friday the meeting will continue In the morning, afternoon and evening. In the afternoon the Rev. Frank Ruf, superintendent of the orphans’ home, Ft. Wayne, will speak on the important needs of the institution and the excellent work being carried out. The meetings for Saturday will be like the day previous, with other ministers carrying out the various services. On Sunday, the principal day of the meeting, the services will be interesting with addresses made by able speakers. Rev. Hessert is the clerk of the classis, he having held this office for a number of years, and which he can hold until he wishes to resign. o . ADAM WEIS RECEIVES DEGREE. At I. O. O. F. Grand Encampment at Indianapolis. Adam Weis has returned from Indianapolis. where he attended the I. O. O. F. grand encampment as delegate from .the local encampment. Mr. Weis reports an excellent meeting, and while there, w'as given the grand encampment degree.

ILL ON FURLOUGH. Now Earl Marschand Must Explain to the Court Martial. The Fort Wa? ne Journal Gazette says of Earl Marschand, a former Ad- j ams county boy: “Dr. A. L. Schneider of Lewis street, was subitoenaed yesterday to appear at the local United States army recruiting station today to give evidence in regard to the alleged illness of Earl E. Marschand, of this city, who is to be tried at Fort Mott, N. J., in a few days by the garrison court martial on the charge of having violated the terms of his furlough. The young man enlisted at the local station last January for service in the army and was assigned to the duly of a private in the 113th company of the coast artillery. A month ago he whs granted a furlough of ten days and came to Fort Wayne to visit his people. He failed to return for duty within the allotted time, and gave as his reason that he was ill. It is to determine whether or not Illness prevented his return to the fort that Dr. Schneider is called to testify. If young Marschand is found guilty by the court martial his punishment may ue three months’ confinement and ? fine of S3O. Captain Edward Calvert of Toledo, district commander of the United States army, who will hear the evidence here today, will pass on lecruits on hand before lie departs.” —o | COONSKINS INITIATE. I The Coonskin club had a pleasant social time Thursday evenii* at the Herman and Henry Franz home northeast of the city, when they were entertained at supper, and also took the occasion to initiate three new members. They drove out at 7 o’clock in a five-seated rig, and although the unlucky number of thirteen members was present, it was anything but an unlucky bunch. In the first place there was awaiting them a table loaded down with good things prepared by Miss Pauline Franz, and they heartily voted her their most sincere thanks. There was chicken and dressing, ice cream, tapioca pudding and all the usual dainties that go with a good dinner, and then some, too, that one cannot get everywhere—in fact nowhere but oti a good farm—rich, cool, buttermilk. The scene shifted to the grassy yard after supper, where the “boys" “skinned the cat” on the grape arbor ' and stood an their heads. D. M. Hensley claims the head-standing honors, ; as he stoo dseven minutes and thirty ’ seconds, timed by his most accurate watch. Theodore Gralliker and Frank Bremerkamp were given the 'possum degree, w'hile Will Hammell took the skunk degree, and climbed the pine tree like an expert. J. H. Hardy of Huntington was an out-of-town mem-. ber present. A committee comprising Gralliker, Hammell, Bremerkamp and j Jeffrey w'as appointed to arrange for : the next meeting. Several invitations to meet at country homes have been ' extended them and they will probably accept. On the way home they stop-' ped at the Chas. Bohnke home, where a dance was in pregress, and it was necesasry to stop Mr. Hensley, who ' loves to dance so well, as it was feared “his light fantastic toe” wiuld tear the house down. They certainly had a good time, although they returned promptly at the hour of eleven. o —— — THE LIBRARY NOTES. Monday Will See the Summer Hour Schedule—New Books by Lawyers. Beginning with Monday, the library hours will be placed on the summer , schedule, and this institution will be ( open from 1 to 5 and from 6:30 to 9 o’clock. Four new books have been ' received in addition to the large list mentioned earlier in the week. Two : will be of special interest to the at-' torneys of the city, being written by two well know’n lawyers. They are, j “A Knight of the Golden Circle,” writ-; ten by U. S. Lesh, the Huntington attorney, and “Arthur St. Clair of Old Fort Recovery,” by S. A. D. Whipple, of Portland. Both lawyers have practiced in the Adams circuit court and , are well known here. Two other new fiction books are “The Heart of Us" and “The Street Called Straight.”ANNUAL MEET. The annual meeting of the German ' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Preble township, Adams county, will j be held on Saturday. June Ist. commencing at 1 o’clock, and will be held at the Fi eidheim school. All mem-' bers make arrangements to be on ' hand at this time. WM. GALLMEYER, Pres. I HERMAN RrtES, Sec’y

THE GREAT EVENT In Commencement Calendar | is Lecture of Dr. Nathaniel Butler of CHICAGO UNIVERSITY This Evening—A Class of Twenty-three Will Receive Diplomas. | The annual commencement of the ' Decatur high school will be held this evening at the Bosse opera house, ; when Dr. Nathaniel Butler of Chicago university, will deliver the class lecture. Dr. Butler is one of the greatest educators of the country, and will have a message of w’eight to tell this evening in his own inimitable way, as he is also an orator of note. The following is the order of the exercises; I Music. i Invocation—Rev. E. A. Goodwin. Music. Address —Dr. Nathaniel Butler, Chii cago university. Presentation of Diplomas—E. E. Rice. I Benediction —Rev. R. L. Semans. The graduates, who this evening will receive diplomas are: Frances Marcella Cole, Charles Alger Brodbeck. Helen May Fonner, Margaret Bell Mills, Jacob Milton Yager, Naomi Porter Dngan. Dallas Marion Elzey, Gladys Eugenia Kern, Benjamin Wilson Teeple, Sadie Blanche MeCrory. Edgar Donald Vancil, Ruth Belle Baltzeil, Paul Vernon Myers, Rose Mabel Green. -Herbert Sherman Beery, Velma Oneida Lenhart, William Sigman Bowers, Hester Jane Long, Gregg Countermann Neptune, Zelda Edna Schnitz, Karl Kenneth Battenberg. Orpha Ellen Sheets, Neva Imogene Brandyberry. o . INFANT MORTALITY i Two Hundred Eight Infants Under One Year of Age Died in April in STATE OF INDIANA i Tuberculosis Caused 376 Deaths — Rheumatism One of the Leaders. i —— Indianapolis, Ind., May 23. —The monthly bulletin of the State Board of health issued for April says: The 1 death rate for April 1912 W’as 13.9, 1 which was'exactly the rate far the ' same month last year. Scarlet fever was very prevalent, but fortunately existed in mild form. Only 12 deaths were reported by this cause. Rheumatism exised extensively. The order of the disease prevalence was as follow’s: Scarlet fever, rheumatism, tonsilitis, bronchitis, measles, pulmonary tuberculosis, influenza, lobor pneumonia, diphtheria and membranous croup. Smnllpox caused 2 deaths, one | an infant 13 days old in Bartholomew ' county, one male 56 years old, St. Joseph county. Poliomyelitis caused ' one death, an infant 3 years old, La- ! porte county. Total number of deaths ; 3,117. As usual death was very ac- ’ tive among infants and the aged. * Two hundred and eight infants died ' under one year of age and 1,028 persons over 65 years of age. Tuberculosis Claims 376. Tuberculosis caused 376 deaths, typhoid 31, diphtheria 14; scarlet fever 12; measles 17; whooping caugh 26; , pneumonia 359; diarrhoea 45; influen--1 za 65; puerperal fever 28: cancer 174; small pox 2; accidental causes 200. The city death rate was 16.1; the country rate 12.2. The Northern sanitary section shows a death rate of 14.1; the Central section 16.1; and the Southern section 12.3. ■ o GERANIUMS AND FERNS. • i The Christian ladies have still a supply of geraniums and ferns at the 1 old city hall building, which they will I close out at five cents each. Call and j get them.

l! HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER. Seniors Edit Paper This Month—ls Illustrated. The commencement number of the ; high school booster, edited by the senior class alone, was distributed today i and is certainly a beauty. The covI ers are in scarlet and gold, the seniors’ colors, and the booklet is illus- ■ trated. Among the pictures are those , of the high school building, the high school faculty, the senior class, and I the basket ball team. This will be the last number edited under the supervision of Paul Myers, editor in chief, and Miss Orpha Sheets, assistant editor, as they are among the seniors, who are thus closing the career in the local high school. o .„. FIRST INSPECTION — Field Men Wagner and Thomas Made Trip Over County Thursday. MANY ACRES SOWED Some Will Have to be Resowed, But General Sowing is Splendid. Messrs. Wagner and Thomas, field men for the Holland-St. Louis Sugar I company, made their first inspection i trip over the entire field in this com- ' munity Thursday. They report that ■ 2,500 acres of beets have been sowed, and at least that hany acres are being . prepared. Os this number about fifty I acres will have to be resowed, beI cause of the fact that the farmers did ! not pay attention to the advice offered and sowed too deep. In these fields the seeds were planted six inches deep, when a half-inch is the proper depth. The field men showed the farmers how impossible it is for the seed to get to the surface by digging down to the seed, where they had sprouted and died. Mr. Wagner advises that the farmers fit their soil as soon as it is plowed as the hot sun will harden the soil quickly and make it impossible to put in condition. When you plow in the morning, fit the ground the same afternoon, so it w'ill hold the moisture as a dry spell is probable now. Mr. Wagner says they observed a number of fields where the corn stubble had been plowed under; but not deep enough and the harrows had pulled the stubble up. This will make proper cultivation text to impossible unles you remove this stubble in some way. He says he finds the Adams county farmers are good cultivators but poor plowers, because it has not been necessary in other crops. He is more than pleased with the outlook for a big beet crop here, however, and says the showing is a w’onderful one for new territory. The beets are in fine condition, where the farmers followed the advice of the field men. The hand workers will start in next Monday and by Saturday • it is expected that 1,500 acres will be thinned and blocked, There is plenty of time yet as you can get a good crop by sowing beets as late as June 15th. If the corn looks had, fiiit it in beets. Manager F. H. Hubbard has gone to St. Louis, Mich., to take treatment at a sanitarium. He has been ill for ten days, and believes he was poisoned by eating something on a train while returning from Cleveland. His absence places a heavy load on Mr. Wagner, who asks the farmers to aid him all they can by following the advice given them. It is imposible for him to answer all the calls, but will gladly help wherever and whenever he can. o SCHOOLS CLOSED TODAY. The city public schools closed this afternoon after a most successful nine months’ term under the direction of City School Superintendent. E. E. Rice. No sessions have been held since the close of the examinations Wednesday, the pupils returning at 1 o’clock this afternoon for their grade cards, which were eagerly examined to see if they contained the good news “promoted.” The school will reopen the first Monday in September, the 2nd.

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THE OLD HOME WEEK Enthusiasts Joining Ranks and an Organization May Soon be Formed. WILL TAKE WORK Rut it Will Result in Great Good to Community and Much Enjoyment. An Old Home Week, combined with an After-harvest Jubilee, and the opening of the finest sugar plant in the world, during the last week of September, is now being considered, and from the enthusiasm already displayed seems assured, unless some one can find some good reason for not having such a celebration. If we have it, let’s do it right. Let’s have the biggest, the best,, the most complete and delightful ever given anywhere. Let’s invite home all those who have wandered from our fair city, green fields and prosperous land, that we may show them how we have advanced. It will take work, lots of it, and a little money, but it will be worth it to have accomplished something. It can be made a glorious old week, when we will meet people whom we have not seen in years, and when everyone will feel the holiday spirit and impart it to others. As yet no details have been w'orked out, hut it is now' time to do it. A committee, self-appointed, and without jurisdiction of any kind, composed of French Quinn, E. X. Ehinger, Frank Schirmeyer and John Heller, were taken to St. Mary’s, 0., Thursday by C. D. Murray in his Jackson car, and there the plans, features, successes and failures of two successful Home-comings were learned, through the courtesy of Editor Hunter of the Leader, an excellent gentleman, who serves as president of the Home-com-ing association of that Ohio eity, where they give these events each ten years The idea at this time is that some plans be devised and a meeting called when the whole affair can be talked of and threshed over, committees appointed and an “Old Home Week organization, formed that will deliver the goods. If you w’ant it, we can have it. If you don’t, now is the time to say so. It should be an affair in which everyone is willing to do Ills share, without grumbling and without fault-finding. It should be open and above board, a happy organization for a week of good cheer that will bring us all together, with nothing but love for our fellow being, no politics, no anything that will bring discord. If w r e do this we will bring done a thing that will bring returns for years to come. Will you help at “The Old Home Week?" o LAST CALL FOR SUPPER Was a Wild Cat Scream—But Brought Husband. Also Neighbors. A woman in the south part of the city, who has often had considerable trouble in bringing her husband to the supper table, especially when he is busy and desires to get his work along to an advantageous stage before leaving it. has learned an effective way of getting him in—but it also brought the neighbors. One day quite recently while her husband was working in the yard, she spent much breath in calling him to supper; and he still delayed. Becoming impatient she gave a loud wild-cat scream. Tbe husband, working in the yard, was terrified, and thinking that something awful had befallen her, ran in breathless. The scream had also been heard by many of the neighbors who feared an explosion, or some terrible accident had befallen her, and they also rushed in. Explanations soon followed and it is safe to say, there were several chagrined people. POLICE COURT NEWS. Special Constable John Andrews was appointed to patrol the city last night in the absence of the regular po,liceman, Ceph Melchi, who was away assisting in conducting Ode McClish to the penitentiary at Michigan City.