Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 133.

VERY LARGE CLASS Q n e Hundred Forty-four Will Receive Common School Diplomas ON JUNE EIGHTEENTH Eighteen Pass Third and Last Examination Successfully—The List. Os the thirty-three who took the third and last examination for county diplomas, eighteen were successful, according to the announcement made. this morning. With the one hundred ) twenty-six successful at the first two I examinations, this makes a total of I one hundred and forty-four who will receive diplomas at the county common school commencement to be held at Berne June 18th. Os the class, | Loma Ray, whose average was 85 per cent, and Stella Sprunger, 84 per cent, received the highest grades. The successful ones were: Frank Henchen, Kirkland township: J. R- Gates, teacher. Milton Brown, Kirkland: A. Selle i meyer, teacher. Pearl Hawkins, Washington; Lillie; Teeple. teacher E-cie Butler, Washington: E. S. J Christen, teacher. Clarence Davis, Washington; Melvin Mallonee, teacher. Hattie Hoffman, Washington; Ray Smith, teacher. Fern Davis. St. Mary’s; Ben S. Col- j ter. teacher. Don Teeple, St. Mary’s; William Noll, teacher. Ruth Hahnert, Blue Creek; Bertha Ferguson, teacher. Marion Inez Murphy; Monroe; D. 0. Roop, teacher Laurel F. Reynolds, Monroe; Gilbert Lehman, teacher; Clyde Ray, Monroe; Charles G. Pepe, teacher. Marlon Ulrick, Monroe; Charles G. Pepe, teacher. Loma Ray, Monroe; Charles G Pepe, teacher. Hazel Shepherd. Hartford: A L. Brentlinger, teacher. Flossie Meshberger. Hartford; A. L. Brentlinger. teacher. Stella Sprunger, Wabash; Katie Miller, teacher. Dorothy Larue, Wabash; Ada Hall, teacher. o THF FIRST GAME Decatur Shamrocks Met the Fort Wayne Wallen Browns Sunday. SCORE TEN TO FIVE — Badgers to Play Here Next Sunday — Attendance Near Two Hundred.

In a. fairly fast game Sunday, the Decatur Shamrocss met and defeated the Fort Wayne Wallen Browns on the home diamond here Owing to conflicting dates it was found that the Badgers as advertised could not be here and a date was made tor the Browns, who have a fairly fast team put up a courageous game. The Badgers will play here Sunday, the Sth, and the game will probably be ot a more spectacular nature than the oue yesterday. The score at the finish of the first half of the ninth inning was ten to five in favor of the Shamrocks. In the course of the game Ellis made the only home run scored, and three-base hits were mad° by Ellis, Engle and Baxter. Twobase hits were secured by Smith, Ellis two, Engle, Stevens, Buffenbarger and Baxter. The home team got seventeen hits, and four errors, leaving only seven bits and one error for the Browns. • The ground proved too wet for fast Playing and nothing spectacular was ’’"lied off. The attendance was about 200. This week the grounds will be Riven another overhauling and it is thought that it will have sufficient rolling by Sunday to insure a fas’ game

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

SMALL CAVE-IN. Visitors to the site of the New Mon >oe street bridge Sunday were much concerned at a cave-in which is making itself noticeable on the west bank where earth has been removed to make room for the abutment. About twenty yards of dirt broke away from the bank and is sliding into the excacation slowly, as the men dig away the base. Providing no other slides occur there will be no difficulty experienced other than a day’s delay in getting this out of the way. ..... , Q PIGEONS MADE GOOD TIME. The twenty-seven carrier pigeons sent to J. C. Patterson by Fred Scott of Toledo, asking them to be released here Saturday, May 25th, at 6:40 o’clock, made the return trip to Toledo in just five minutes less than three hours. They arrived at Toledo, however, in three or four bunches. TO MEET TONIGHT Session of Business Men and Citizens Called to Discuss Subsidy AT NEW CITY HALL Every Live Citizen Should be There at Eight O'clock

This Evening. A meeting of great importance is to | be held this evening at the new city hall on Monroe street and every man in Decatur who has the welfare of | the city as well as his own at heart should be the r . At that time the I contract with he interurban company and the cor factor who wishes to extend the .me will be read and explained. The proposition will then be thoroughly discussed. If you, are in favor of it, now is the time to enlist. If you are not, now is the time to say so. This is no “play proposition. If you want to build the road south and favor a subsidy with which ' to do that, it means work, and lots of it. If you intend to oppose it and there is sufficient opposition to defeat it, the company should not be asked to pay for an election in which there is no chance to win. It’s simple and ■ every live citizen owes a duty to himself and his community at this time, one way or the other. We are not attempting to tell you which. In matters of taxation it is important that everyone has his “say’’ and now is the time to get it. Arrangements to take care of those who attend are be- ■ ing made and you should be there. The time is eight o'clock. The place I is the new city hall. ! o YOUNG BUETER BOY KILLED. Hermingfield Bueter, ajed sixteen, I son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bueter of near New Haven, and nephew of Allen County Treasurer Herman Bueter of Fort Wayne, was i run over Sunday afternoon at 2:40 i o'clock by an interurban car four ' miles east of Fort Wayne and receiv[ed fatal injuries. He was taken to i the 3t. Joseph hospital, where he died [ at 4:l n o’clock. He stepped off one ■ interurban car and was run over by I another which backed onto the track. With him were his four sisters, and they were making the trip from their home to the Herman Bueter home on the New Haven road, where a family reunion was to have been held. Misfortune has followed the Bueter family for the past six years. The father, Frank Bueter, was a candidate for nomination for county treasurer six vears ago by the democratic primary, and as he had no opposition it was generally conceded that he would be the next treasurer of the county. Just one month before the primaries he was taken seriously ill and was taken to St. Joseph’s hospital, where an operation was performed, from which he suddenly died. A year later, the mother, after returning from church, lay down on a couch to rest an d suddenly the children were startled bv hearing a dull thud in the room in which they had left their mother. Running to the room they saw their mother lying on the floor and when they reached her side she was dead. Mrs E M. Wagner and daughter, Miss Nina, went to Fort Wayne this morning.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, June 3, 1912

**4:**sjc**s******s****** * * * * * 'k* 6: * * * * * * * * * * * Z LETS BUILD A SOLDIERS MONUMENT * »:« DEAR EDITOR: « * Decoration Day has been observed once more and our patriotism and loyalty to country again stir- * red. Would it be voicing the patriotic sentiments of our local G. A. R.and W. R. C., and all of our citizens « * in general, If the suggestion was made that it would be a happy work indeed, to erect and dedicate a fit- * * ting monument to ouc brave heroes of 1861 and 1865? The honored members of our Grand Army of the * * Republic will soon be mustered out. The doors of the Post that have been loved so dearly will soon be * * closed rorever. The last taps will have been sounded. Men and Post will soon be but a memory. Should # * not Sam Henry Post have a shaft erected in our Court House yard? A memorial that would honor the * * Post in the years to come, honor the nation’s defenders, and honor this community in the honoring? * *We so honor our individual dead, by erecting shafts as costly as our purses allow. Is it unreasonable sk * to say that as a community we should so honor our heroes in the aggregate? Adams county’s quota in $ * the civil war was large and the part her soldiers acted was conssidenable. It seems to me that an * * effort upon the part of the G. A. R. to provide such a monument, would be a labor of love indeed for them * * and that their friends and fellow citizens of this community would willingly and gladly assist them. * SON OF A VETERAN.

IS NOW COMPLETE Emanuel Lutheran Church Completes Remodeling— Dedication June 9th. THE REV. SMITH Former Pastor, to be Present —Rev. Wambsganss of Fort Wayne Also. The newly remodeled Emanuel Lutheran church in Union township, together with its new pipe organ, will be rededicated with impressive ceremony next Sunday, June 9th, the entire day to be given over to this. The first service will be Sunday morning at 10 o’clock, sun time, when the Rev. Smith of Buffalo, N. Y„ will preach in German. The Rev. Smith was pastor of the congregation for nineteen years, and it was during his pastorate that, the church which has now been remodeled, was built twen-ty-one years ago. The second service will be in the afternoon at 2:30, and will also be in German, the Rev. Wehmeyer of Decatur in charge of this. The evening service, at 8 o'clock, will be English, by Rev. Fred Wambsganss of Fort Wayne. Special music will be rendered by male and mixed choirs, and also by the children which number eighty. Everybody is cordially invited to attend and join with the congregation in its great day of happiness. A collection for the benefit of the church will be taken at the door at the conclusion of the dedication exercises. The church was remodeled at a cost of $3,500 and is a model house of worship. The high tower which was too heavy for its under support, was cut down forty feet; the interior of the building was refinished, a furnace heating plant and a new pipe organ installed, making a modern and up-to-date church building. The present pastor, who succeeded the Rev. Smith, is Rev. Bauer, who has served here seven years. The congregation, which also owns its own parochial school house, recently built a house tor the occupancy of its teacher, Professor Walter Gotsch, who is a musician of much talent and training, who is also organist. —o — — AUTO TRIP TO EAST.

Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick spent Sunday at Leipsic, Ohio, and todaynoon left there with Mr. and Mrs. O. P Edwards in the Edwards new touring car, for an eastern trip. Their destination is South Hadley, Mass., where their doughter and sister, Miss Helen Niblick, is a junior in Mt. Holyoke College. They expect to take six days for their trip there and will arrive in time for the commencement, week festivities, although the commencement proper will not be until June 12. Before returning home they also expect to visit in Boston and other cities of the east and will be gone about three weeks’ Mr. Niblick returning by rail. —o JOE HARRIS BREAKS LEG Joe Harris in the employ of the Schafer Company’s tinning department, suffered a grave injury at Rockford, Ohio, this morning. He was on the roof of a house engaged in placing some gutter when he fell and broke one of his legs. The Schafer automobile was sent over and he was brought to his home in this city this afternoon.

AND NOW IT’S BEANS. What Will the Poor Folks do Now? — The Price' Goes Up. The high cost of living has attacked the tap root of the poor man's diet — beans. Never in the history of the world, perhaps, nas the man of small means or no means at all felt the distressing sense that he might not fall back upon beans if the worst should come to the worst. But he feels that sense now. “Beans are getting too expensive to eat,” said a Decatur householder who likes bean soup, baked beans and just beans. “Whenever they get down where a fellow can afford to have them I’m going to have another mess.” Beans are a good food which even the aesthetic Doe Wiley would not dare to turn up his nose at, and their wholesomeness, together with their price, have standarized them as a diet for the proletariat. But now, under the blight of the high cost, they may be transferred to the tables of the aristocracy where they will likely remain until new beans come on later in the season.

SHOW TROUBLES Snedeker Troupe Had Mixup Saturday Evening at Opera House AND WOULDN’T ACT A Remark from One Started the Ball Rolling and a Scuffle Ensued. A regular scramble or “free-for-ail” fight took place between the members of the Snedeker show troupe, made up j of several local people, giving an oxhi bition at the Bosse opera house previous to the rising of the curtain on Saturday evening, which prevented the carrying out of the evening's per- ! formance and was disappointing to , the well represented crowd which had ' gathered for the play. One of the actors made a remark to another which didn’t just sound right to him, and without further warning the two became mixed up f.nd a fight ensued. ; After a scuffie, and from which nn I one seemed to be very much hurt, others of the party became engaged and another round was given One of .the party is said to have drawn a knife. Finally, the women folk be- | came interested and the only chance they thought would do any good was to start a hair-pulling match, which o.uieted one or so for the time oeing. Ali took place before the rising of the curtain to give the initial act of the play, and the manager of the troupe appeared before the crowd and stated that owing to some misunderstanding between members, the performance outside of the moving picture show wo’.bd 'ti’e to b? called off for the night. No one seemed to have been hurt and only a frightened and unruly “bunch” was the outcome. o ADJOURNED UNTIL JULY 31. On account of the small number of stockholders present at the annual meeting of the Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway company Saturday aft- ' ernoon, the election of officers will ' not be held until the special meeting to be held July 31st. I . The congregation of the Baptist church Sunday extended the hand of fellowship to the four who were baptized on the preceding Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. C. Shepherd and son, Robert, and Benjamin Van Hart.

GOES TO ILLINOIS Rev. B. B. Uhl for Six Years Pastor at Mansfield, Ohio ACCEPTS A CALL To Lutheran Church at Nokomis, Ill.—Gies Latter Part of June. ■! 1 The Rev. B. B. Uhl of Mansfield, 0., well known here, being the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. John Christen, will leave the latter part of the month for his new charge at Nokomis, 111. Before going there the family will come here for a visit. A Mansfield newspaper says regarding the change: “At a recent meeting of the council of St. Mark’s Lutheran church of this city the pastor, the Rev. B. B. Uhl, tendered his resignation in order to 1 accept a call from the First Lutheran I church of Nokomis, 111. The Rev. Mr. Uhl came to Mansfield from PennsylI vanaia about six years ago. “He is the first and only pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran ehurch located on Spring Mill street of this city. On the eleventh of November, after a residence of about three months the church was organized with a membership of thirty-eight. Under his able leadership within a period of little more than five years the membership has increased to about two hundred. A like number of scholars are also enrolled in the Sunday school. Soon after his coming a lot was purchased at a cost of $2,300, on which the beautiful chapel was erected, costing $lO, 000, which was dedicated on May 23, 1909. Few churches within so brief a period have had so large a growth. For this the credit is largely due to the efforts of Rev. Uhl. It is understood that his resignation is to take effect the latter part of June, when he will turn his face to the west to which two of Mansfield's Lutheran pastors have preceded him. A fine parsonage awaits the new pastor and a substantial increase in salary. Rev. Uhl is a graduate of Wittenberg college and of Hamma Divinity school.” — oPROFESS FAITH.

Twelve Young Ladies Received Into r.'esbyterian Church Sunday. A beautiful and inspiring ceremony was witnessed Sunday at the Presbyterian church when twelve young ladies were received into the church after undergoing careful Instruction from the hands of the pastor, the Rev. Gleiser. All in the innocence of youth and happy that they had arrived at that point tong desired of making entrance into the fold of the church, they were most welcomingly received by the pastor at the 10 o’clock service. A large congregation was present for the ceremony and it was one of the most solemn moments of the church in some time. The young ladies were: Ruth Frisinger, Fannie Hudson, Rowena Shoaf, Mary Moser, Fannie Heller, Grace Garard, Anna Garard, Cora Peck, Isabel Edwards, Naomi Peterson, Helen Everett, and Blanch Biggs. o —■ LAID TO REST. The funeral of Mrs. John E. Higley was held at the Tocsin U. B. church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The family resided with Mr. Higley's mother, southwest of Tocsin. The deceased leaves a husband, a daughter, one and one-half years old, a father, sister and four brothers. She { had membership in the M. E. church at Grand Rapids. Mich. Death was due to tuberculosis, with complications of heart and other diseases.

MRS. NETTIE MILLER DEAD. Mrs. Nettie Miller, wife of John A. Miller, died Sunday morning at the family home, 1308 East Wayne ■tree-., at the age of thirty-five years, 5 months and one day. Death was due to tuberculosis, and followed an illness of several months’ duration. Surviving, besides the husband, are the following children: Ethel, Esther, Hazel and Clarence. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Siegrist, of Berne, Ind., and two brothers and a sister, Albert, Frank and Esther Siegris:, also survive.—Fort Wayne JournalGazette. o ABOUT THE SICK. Lemuel Fisher of Huntington, son of Mrs. Sarah Fisher of this city, is a patient at the St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, where he was operated upon for afflictions received in a wreck in Chicago several years ago. SUFFERINGS OVER Mrs. Alexander Tanvas, Afflicted With Cancerous Growths Several Years DIED LATE SATURDAY j ■ -• i - ’ - • — Funeral from St. Mary’s Church—Ship Remains to Saginaw, Mich. After an illness of more than a year and a half’s duration fro cancerous growths, and for which all medical skill proved of no lasting avail, Mrs. Anna Block Tanvas, wife of Alexander Tanvas, and a highly esteemel lady of this city, passed | away at the family home on South . Market street at 9:45 o’clock Satur-

day evening, death coming to her as a most consoling relief from her long and patient suffering. Ou November 9th last she underwent an operation, at which time but little hope was extended by the attending physicians ond others caring for her, outside of prolonging her life, which it did. During her short residence of two and one-half years in this city, Mrs. Tanvis became one of the best known ladies of the community and was respected by all with whom she became largely acquainted. For some time it was seen that life could linger for only a brief while, and for the past week the end xvas momentarily expected. She was born in Germany thirty-six years and two days ago and with her parents came to this country at the age of three years, residing with her parents until her marriage to Mr. Tanvas. They resided in South Bend a short time, and then came tr this city, wl.ere they have since lived. Eleven years ago she was united in marriage to Mr. Tanvas. and to them were born three children: Loretta, dying in infancj at South Bend. She leaves to survive her a heart-broken husband and two children; Gladys, aged ten and Bernetus, eight years of age. She also leaves two brothers, Charles and John Block, and a sister, Mrs. F. H. Mertz, all residing at Saginaw. The funeral services will be held Tuesday morning from the St. Mary’s church at 8:30 o’clock, with Father Wilken officiating. In the afternoon the remains will be shipped over the G. R. & I. to her former home at Saginaw, where they will lie in state until Wednesday afternoon, when burial will take place. Mr. Tanvas and two children and Mrs. John Block, her sister-in-law, who has been caring for her during the past week, will accompany the remains. o NICHOLS BABE DEAD. Harriet Isabelle one week old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nichols was buried from the home at ten o'clock with a short service by the Rev. Se mans of the Methodist church. The child had not been perfectly well since birth. Interment was made in the Decatur cemetery. —, —r — RETURNS TO PEORIA, ILL. Mrs. Andrew Welfley left this morning for Peoria, 111., taking with her Virgil Oller, the young lad who has been with the Welfleys for about four months. He will be returned to the care of the orphanage at that place.

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SLIPPED ONE OVER News Just Leaks Out of Frank McConnell Wedding With Mrs. Yahne. OF TWO WEEKS AGO Went to Hillsdale, Michigan, Obtained License and Were Married. Frank McConnell, the well known business man and proprietor of the Model cigar store, today stated that although on many previous occasions his friends tried to make him believe that he slipped away from them, got married and returned home without, letting the cat out of the bag, and as though nothing had happened, made is stick this time, and turning the slip on them, when he with his bride-to-be, Mrs. Anna Yahne, left on the 10 o’clock car. Thursday, May 17th, for Fort Wayne, thence to Hillsdale. Mich., secured their license and the same day wedded by the Rev. ■Thomas, pastor of the Presbyterian church, that city, They arrived home late tb i same day and carried out their ’ isiness occupations the same as al' iys and none of their friends suspe ed anything had happened until t<* .y, when word reached the city of th .r license appearing in the Waldron, Michigan Recorder, a copy, cf which we chanced to secure Even today, when Frank was cornered on the subject, wished to withhold it, but when questions began pouring in too fast he finally gave in and said he “didn’t care." Mrs. McConnell is numbered among the best known ladies of the city and for several years has been conducting the north end grocery with excellent success. The news will come somewhat as a surprise as their friends failed so often pn their guess, but who will be this time forced to believe it was a sure o '■* WEDDING BANS. Announcement of the wedding of Fred Wagner and Miss Maggie Faurot of south of the city was made Sunday from the St. Mary’s church. BotK are well known people and the event will be a. happy one. o IN JUNE SESSION County Commissioners Began Their Regular Grind This Morning. REPORTS ARE FILED Petitions for Appointment to Purdue—Four Young Men Want to Attend. The county commissioners convened this morning for the regular June session and quite a little business was disposed of. The first matter taken up was the reports of the county treasurer, auditor, sheriff, clerk, recorder and the receipts of the county asylum, all of which were approved. The petition of Joseph A. Eckrote and others for the location of a drain was presented, approved and ordered docketed according to the rules of the board. Claude Coffee and Edgar Vancil filed petitions that they be appointed as students from Adams county to Purdue university. Earl Schafer and Lawrence Archbold, who were appointed last year, filed petitions for reappointment. Under the rule only two can be appointed, and the school recommends that those who have been previously named, have the preference untjil they have completed their work The board, however, has not acted upon the petition. Joseph J. Tonneiier was granted his application as a wholesale liquor dealer, their being no remonstrance.