Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 134.

THE ANNUAL BIG EVENT Os Common Schools of Adams County Will be Held at Berne. June 18 IN LEHMAN’S GROVE One Hundred Forty-four to Receive Diplomas—Hon. T. H. Kuhn Speaker. Programs for the sixth annual coini mencement of the common schools of Adams couin.y, e'o be held In Lehman's grvo at Berne, Tuesday, June 18th, beginning at 9:30 o'clock, as arranged by County School Superintendent L. E. Opliger, and assistant, R. T. Kizer, show an Interesting order of M-rvices. At this time one hundred forty-four graduates from the common schools of the county will receive diplomas. The following is the program: Music. Music —Selected —Male Quartet lii’.ocatin Rev. H. H. Kattman. Music —Selected —Male Quartet. Class Address —Hon. TV H. Kuhn. Music —Clarinet Quartet. Presentation of Diplomas—Hon S. C Ferrell. Music —Selected —Male Quartet. Renediction —Rev. D. A. Kaley. Music will also be furnished by the Berne Cornet hand, beginning at !) o'clock a. m. The Graduates. Union Township—Bernice Miller, Pearl Rrodbeck. Root—Wilson Lewton, Muriel Leonard, Celia Hoffman, Wallace A. Miller, Lewis Van Camp, William Luttman. Preble—Paul Schneider, Ella Jaberg. Kirkland —Lydia Bieneke, Edith Shady, Roy Byerlv, Clinton Byerly, Fred Kitson, Floyd Manley, Clark Jahn, Otto F. Miller, Carl F. Miller, Lena Dick, George Burket, Chester Olwin, Edith Yanev, Luzerne Rurket, Daniel Adler, Harvey Liniger, Mabel Byerly, Mabel Shoal*, Frank Henschon, Milton Brown, Walter Pease. Washington—Merle Poling, Vera Stoutenberry. John Baltzell, Harry Smith, Calvin Yost, Frances Miller, Burtell Smith, Pearl Hawkins. Hattie Hoffman, Clarence Davis. St. Mary’s—Bessie Davis, Charley McCulfough, Oval Fortney, Guy

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Steele, Mary Hav, Ethel Putts, Forest Sarff, Fern Davis, Don Teeple. Blue Creek —Arlie Foreman. Russell Dunifon, Fern Edwards. Reuben Halmer, Victoria Gage, Roy Miller, Ruth Hahnert. Monroe —David Sprunger, Irene Stuckey, Edward Steiner, Clinton D. Soldner, Clara Gilbert, Marion Michaels, Leslie Andrews, Walter Oliver, Jacob Haggard, Frances Tabler, Ora O, Hendricks, Sylvia Hendrick;. Claude Laisure, Naomi Duliu, Martha Depp, Harry Martz, Otto Wittwer, Clarence EL.ey, George Yeoman, . Clyde Noffsluger, Edrye Davis, Marion Inez Murphy, Laurel F. Reynolds, Clvde Rav, Marion TTlrick, Lorna Ray. French—Pearl M. Atz, Luster R. Erhart. Hartford—Dland Stahl, Mary Pontius, Richard Glendening, Ruth Shoemaker, Truman Shepherd, Cleo Hornada, Frank Bieberstein, Mildred Steiner, Bert Hermann, John Baumgartner, Earl North, John P. Leiehty. Arthur Zehr, Myria Anderson, Christian G. Egley, Oscar Stuckey, Milo Lindsey, John Etcher. Calen Lybarger, Flossie Eckrote, Hazel Shepherd. Flossie Meshberger. Wabash — Edna Neuenschwander, Daniel G. Graham, Ada V. Heare, Clarence Hirschey, Jacob Stuckey, Lester Smith, David Bixler, jr., Naomi Derickson, Eli C. Stuckey, Wilbert Matheys. Alta Fink, Daniel Teeter, Gertrude Kerr, Jennie Kerr, Celina Amstutz, Stella Sprunger, Dorothy Larue. Jefferson—Harold Bebout, Vernon S. Mosser, Marie Buckmaster. Berne—Cordelia Riesen, Lulu M. Allen, Alwin V, D. Smissen. Louise Kirchoffer, Sylvia M. Schwartz, Lylian B. Robrer, Mabel Hirschy, Martha Roegly, lima Baumgartner, Raymond Wulliman, Leona Sprunger, Leona Schug, Gladys Eley, Frances Reusser, Joel Habegger, Sybil!* G. Sprunger. Decatur —Ercie Butler.

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REV. E. E, NIEBEL DEAD. Rev. E. R. Niebel, an English Lutheran missionary to Africa, who last summer visited at the Concord Lutheran church In Root township, while here on a furlough, and who is welt known here, died March first, from black water'' fever, at his African post, according to word which has just reached the church magazines in general. Rev. Niebel is well known here and both he and his wife before their marriage were classmates of the Rev. and Mrs. B. B. Uhl, at Witenberg college, Springfield, Ohio, Mrs. Niebel being a roommate of Mrs. L hi. Roth Rev. and Mrs. Niebel had been in Africa four years on missionary wor'K. Mrs. Niebel will remain there as a teacher in the schools. NOTED EVANGELIST George R. Stenhens of Spokane, Wash.. Formerly With Billy Sunday STOPPED OFF HERE For Visit With Uncle, James Hurst—Enroute to Warsaw to be Married. George Stephens of Spokane, 'Wash., an evangelist of note, stopped , off here Monday afternoon for a visit i with his uncle, James Hurst, and 1 wife, before leaving Monday evening j for Warsaw, where on Wednesday Mr. i Stephens will be marrier to a Miss Moore, one of the young ladies of that city. Mr. Stephens was accompanied 1 by his sister, Miss Leonora Stephens, of Toronto, Canada, and the visit here , was a most pleasant surprise to the 1 Hursts, who had not had the pleasure 1 of seeing them since they were little , children. In fact, Mr. and Miss Stephens found it necessary to introduce themselves, hut when they did so, saying that they were the children 1 of Mr. Hurst's sister, in Canada, they were received with a royal welcome indeed. Mr. Stephens is an evangelist of many years’ experience, being formerly engaged in work with the famous Billy Sunday. For the past two years, however, he and his brother, ! Harold Stephens, have been doing evangelistic work, both as preachers and singers, and during one year l alone, more than five thousand were converted. The evangelistic services are conducted as a union meeting, I and converts to Christianity are then ; given the opportunity of uniting with I any church they may prefer. j

FOR PETITIONERS Prof. L. E. Ooliser Gives I Decision Granting Change of the Site for i NEW SCHOOL HOUSE Known as Tinkham School in Blue Creek Township ..-A Better Location. County Superintendent Opliger today rendere dhis decision in the matter of the petition for the change of the site of the proposed new Tinkham schoolhouse in Blue Creek township. in favor of the petitioners. This means that the new schoolhouse will be built eights rods from the old site, making the new structure nearer the center of the district. The new site is also considered better in many other ways for the schoolhouse. 'lt will be remembered that Trustee F. Wechter and the majority of the patrons asked for the change, but a number of the patrons remonstrated, thus necessitating a hearing before Mr. Opliger, in the nature of a court. o time at standstill u. M. Hensley and Harry Jeffrey this morning began work on the repairing and cleaning of the old court bouse clock, and consequently time will be at a standstill in the old tower until the work is completed.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, June 4, 1912,

VASSAR GRADUATE Miss Frances Dugan Will be Graduated June 12th from Vassar College. WILL BE ATTENDED By Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan Who Left Today Noon for the East. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan left today noon lor Fort Wayue, thence on their .eastern trip, finally arriving at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where they will attend the Vassar commencement June 12th, their eldest daughter, Miss Frances being a graduate. They will go first to Philadelphia, where they will be guests of Mr. Dugan's relatives, and from there will then go to New York, from which place they will take boat down the beautiful Hudson riVer to Poughkeepsie, the seat of Vassar college. While the commencement pijpper will be June 12th, the entire week will be replete with festivities. These will open Saturday evening with a splendid reception given by the wife of the president, Mrs. Taylor. The various class parties and festivals which characterize and make this particular coliege distinctive—-not forgetting the sophomore daisy chain festival, which will be Tuesday evening, and which this year will be the last one of these noted events given for many years—will be attended by-JVIr. and Mrs. Dugan, as guests of their daughter. The crowning event will be the commencement June 12th, when a class of two hundred sevent-eight will receive diplomas, from this, one of the foremost girls’ colleges in the United States. Miss Frances, who had a preparatory course at Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, 111., after graduating from the Decatur high school, completes the four years’ Vassar course in three years. Before returning home Mr. and Mrs. Dugan and Miss Dugan may take a trip through the Thousand Isles of the St. Lawrence river.

PLANS DISCUSSED For the Subsidy Election and Committees Named for Various Purposes. LOOKS LIKE A GO Another Meeting Will be Held at the City Hall on Thursday Evening. About fifty business men and citizens attended the meeting at the city hall Monday evening for the purpose of disclosing the proposed subsidy election for the r ort wayne & Springlield interurban railway. Fred Rep pert presided, and short talks were made by most of those present, all favorable to the proposition, A committee, consisting of Dyonis Schmitt, A. R. Bell, Dr. J. Q. Neptune, A. D. Suttles, Ferd Peoples, Isadore Kalver and Henry Kamp of the Schafer Saddlery company, was named to mingle with the business men and citizens in general and gather ideas as to the sentiment prevailing. A committee consisting of C. 11. Getting, James Smith ana Charles Dirkson w-as appointed to circulate the petition for an election which will be presented to the commissioners today or tomorrow. Another meeting of the citizens will be held at the city hall Thursday evening, when further plans for the campaign will be discussed. It is requested that all who can do so, attend this meeting. SCHOOL BOARD MEETS. The school board held a meeting Monday evening when bills were allowed and the year’s work closed. This will be one of the last meetings with the board, of its president, F. V. Mills, who closes a six years' term of service as a member of the school board. His successor will be elected this evening by the city council.

TWO WEEKS LONGER Will be Required for New Switchboard Installations. The telephone office is still in a state of chaos —if such a term can be applied to so mild a state as this—with the work of remodeling and the installation of the new switchboard S being still in progress. Messrs. Watson, Harris and Pemberton of Rochester, N. Y., from the house where the switchboard was ordered, have been here two weeks in the process of installing the new board, and it will probably require two weeks longer to complete the task. While excellent service is being given by the operators, they are under some difficulty, owing to the other work going on there, and they will no doubt be glad when the work is finally completed, and they can take their places at the new board. SUGAR BEET NOTES Directors of the Company Will Hold First Meeting Here July 3rd. CONTRACT IS LET For Construction of Water Mams to Give Factory Fire Protection. Official announcement has been made that the directors of the Hol-land-St. Louis Sugar Company, will hold a directors’ session in this city July 3rd. This will be the first meeting of the directors in Decatur and they will thoroughly inspect the new plant and the beet crop. Messrs. Hubbard and Wagner and the other employes of the company will leave nothing undone to make the Decatur proposition look good and it does without any fixing. The factory is progressing beyond expectations and the beets are in excellent condition.

The buildings at the factory site are nearing completion and another month w r ill find the big force of men beginning to put on the finishing touches. Today the heaviest piece of machinery on the job was hoisted into place in the main building. It is a twenty-one ton evaporator. There are two this size which weigh fourteen tons each. It is announced that w r hen the opening week of the sugar plant comes with its celebration and home coming, a jubilee for the first sugar factory, in Indiana, the foreigners, who now number several hundred are not to be left out. They have arranged for the use of the big pulp ware house, a mammoth building, irj ijvtlteh they will give a dance and old fashioned celebration. They will furnish their own music and expect to have a happy week along with the rest of the folk 3. The Citizens’ committee Monday evening opened bids for the construction df a water main which connects the city lines with the new factory,' giving fire protection. The contract was awmrded to Christen & Smith, whose bid was $1,387. Other bidders were Woods & Son, $1,495, and Myers & Myers, $1,499. The work will begin at once and will be completed by the time the factory is turned over by the contractors. Manager F. H. Hubbard who has been apatient in the sanitarium at St. Louis for two weeks will arrive home tomorrow-. Mrs. Hubbard joined him yesterday and will return w-ith him In a new Reo, the fifth automobile which has been sold to Will Parent. o ABOUT THE SICK \ Ed Hurst and uncle, Jonas Fisher, were at Fort Wayne Sunday, where they called on their uncle and brothe", Lemuel Fisher, at the St. Joseph hospital, who was operated upon Monday morning for gall stones and for injuries resulting from a wreck in Chicago several years ago. Mr. Fish- . er. who resides in Huntington, is a son of Mrs. Sarah Fisher of this city, and is well known here. The operation was of a double nature and was quite serious. One gall stone could not be removed by the operation and it will be necessary to remove that by absorption.

UPWARD COURSE When Will the Advance of Food Products Reach Top Notch is the Question. DIFFICULT TO SOLVE Costs Ten Per Cent More to Live Now Than it Did Twelve Months Ago. Have you ever stopped to think what it cost to live these days? This is no doubt a rather foolish question to ask when all but a very few of us have too dig and scrape and save all of the loose change so as to be able to live in the same manner we did five or ten years ago, owing to the rapid advance in food products and other articles necessary for oour state in life. According to figures of recent date given out it will cost more to live during this present mouth of June than ever before in the histoiy of the United States, except, perhaps, during the war period, when extravagance was known to none. Prices a year ago were high, but today they ace advanced ten per cent over the ration of twelve months previous. Food stuffs are the highest on recoid. Meat, eggs, butter, fish, potatoes, coffee, sugar, tea, salt, rice, molasses, beans and peas have taken an upward shoot of 22 per cent, while wheat, corn, oats, barley, fiour, and all (ther products which we nave to have have reached an advance of 33 per cent. Fruits are about the or.Jy thing that are cheaper than-a year ago, but stil higher than in 1910. The price of meat can hardly be talked of and millions of people cannot even think of enjoying a rich, and juicy piece of sirloin or chops. Although the problem of the high cost of living is trying to he solved by various economists, all seem to differ in their reasons, and the only thing we can do is to endure them just as they come.

IN A GREAT MESS Is Pension Department— Work More Than Extra Force of Clerks CAN WELL HANDLE * , ' — Applications for Increase of Pension Come by Thousand—Many from Here. •**':<! VT r XV'- ■ , , ■■ ■ — ■■■■» , „ „ _ The pension department just now is in one of the worst “messes" accord ing to newspaper accounts, that it has ever experienced. By “messes,’’ it doesn’t mean any kind of “grafting," or crooked work, as the term is so often used —but simply piled-up work —more than even its large number oi extra clerks can do. And this is because of the May iith act increasing the pension of soldiers. No sooner was the act in order, than the applications for the increase began to come in. On May 12th, the very next day, there were 283 applications for increase; on May 13 there were 1,508 received, and on May 24th, 27,014 were filed, with correspondingly large increases between those dates. The work is something terrific in volume and applicants will simply have to await their turn so applicants need not wonder If they do not hear at once. Nearly every old soldier in the union will benefit in some way by the increase, according to age and service. Robert Blackburn, local pension officer, is doing his share of work in this line, sixty-five applications having been made out by him thus far. o HARRY ERWIN BABE. Dainty cards announcing the birth of Margaret Alice Erwin. May 22nd, to Dr. and Mrs. Harry G. Erwin, at Edgerton, Ohio, w-ere received here today by relatives and friends. Dr. Erwin is the eldest son of Judge R. K. Erwin of Fort Wayne

SOMEWHAT BETTER. John Reiter, who on last Thursday met with an accident whjle at Gary and was forced to quit his work as traveling salesman and return to his home, is able to be about on the street with the aid of a cane. He was in the act of boarding a street car, and had placed his left foot on the first step, when it caught, and being unable to free himself, it was twisted in such away as to sprain the leaders and muscles of the limb, causing great pain. Until Monday he was confined to his bed, when he walked down the street, and even then was told by his physlciun to return home und allow the injury more time to heal. He is still experiencing much pain and some difficulty in getting about. WAS SAD MESSAGE James Bain Received Word This Morning of Death of Mother at Mt, Etna. DIED MONDAY NIGHT 11l Long Time With Heart and Dropsical Trouble— Leave for Funeral. A telephone message early this morning, received by James Bain, brought to him the sad news of the death of his mother, Mrs. Chas. Bain, of Mt. Etna, Ind., at 11:30 o’clock Monday night, after a lingering illness from heart and dropsical trouble. She had been 1 sick for some time past, but her condition was not regarded as siith that death would so soon over take her, and this morning Mr. Bain received a card by mail, written Monday, telling of her improved condition. She was a lady seventy-three years of age, well known here, having visited here with her son about six years ago, and enjoyed the friendship of many. Mr. and Mrs. Bain, who expected to leave today to pay her a visit before her death, left on the noon train to be in attendance for the funeral, arrangements not as yet having been made. She leaves a husband and six children to survive; James, this city; John and Eineli, of Montpelier; Fred, of Dunkirk; Mrs. Edna Rinken and Mrs. Dr. Wimmer of Mt, Etna. The many friends here who enjoyed the friendship of the deceased lady,' will he grieved to learn < f [her itemise, " j ' *

COURTHOUSE NEWS Two New Quiet Title Cases Filed Today by Attorney ~* ■ C. L. Walters. ~ .. A MARRIAGE LICENSE Judge Merryman at Fort Wayne Deciding Liquor Case—Notes. Judge J. T. Merryman of Decatur will today render a decision in the celebrated fair ground liquor case which has been pending in the local court since Septemoer it>, 1911. After the filing of an affidavit against Oliver Steward and others identified with the fair association, the case w r as taken out of the hands of Judge O’Rourke and given into the jurisdiction of the Adams county jurist. The cause was tried in January and attorneys representing both sides presented their arguments to the court two weeks ago. The difficulty arose when, subsequent to the filing of an affidavit charging Mr. Steward and other with operating a “blind tiger,’ ’the authorities seized seven wagonloads of beer, whiskey and bar paraphernalia. The defendants denied guilt of violating the liquor statute of the state. It is said that, regardless of the decision of Judge Merryman, there is a strong probCONTINTUED OTS facie two.

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EVE AGAIN BLAMED Anderson Minister Says “Silly Women” are Cause of the Downfall OF MANY MINISTERS Such as Rev. C. C. Cissell— Preached Sermon on it to Packed House. Anderson, Ind., June 4 —‘‘Silly women,” who torget that their pastor is merely human received the brunt of the blame for the downfall of preachers, in a sermon here Sunday night by the Rev. C. M. Dinsmore, of the First Baptist church. It was after the disclosure of the sensational episode which resulted in the resignation of Dr. C. C. Cissell as superintendent of the Logansport district cf the Indiana M, E. conference the Rev. Mr. Dinsmore announced that he would preach on “Why Preachers "O Wrong,” and the auditorium was packed. After commenting on “what appears to be almost an epidemic of preachers going wrong,’ ’the Rev. M’\ Dinsmore said that faithlessness of ministers was not a modern event and cited many instances from the Bible. Mr. Dinsmore gave seven reasons in answer to the question, “Why does n preacher fall?” and among them were: Because he is human. His temptations are most subtle. Silly women, who, because they are either losing hopes for future bliss or because they have been disappointed in marriage seem to want to make their pastor their confident, forgetting always that he is a man. Because some are mqrally weak. Because of neglecting his own spiritual life. High living. In discussing the final cause, Mr. Dinsmore said: “Society upholds men in other w-alks of life who do the same things that cause the fall of the pastor. Every one who knows anything about society today knows that many men have committed the same crime in kind that Richeson committed but they did not get caught. “Society today is fast copying the fashions of Sodom. Women walk our streets today, and many of them come from so-called Christian homes, who have not clothes enough on to be called decent. They do it because it is fashion, and fashion is more aqd more decorating the way to hell, “When Christian mothers let their j daughters go out on the street with j dresses cut so short at the bottom, as [ many wear them, can they wonder that hell is stirred up in the breast of every man who sees them? Many girls may do it in innocence, but I when they let th§ women who are n league with hell set for them the styles they cannot hope to escape > {he consequence.” - , | d “ CONTROLLED. Ohio State Convention Held Today Favors the President. (United Press Service) Columbus, Ohio, June 4 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— President Taft s friends controlled the republican state convention here this afternoon. The first test of his strength was on the attempt of the Roosevelt forces o substitue a resoluion endorsing Colonel Roosevelt for the republican nomination for president as the minority report, which endorsed President Taft. The president won in this by a vote of 393% to 359% for Roosevelt. o BEN HUR MEMORIAL. Service for Deceased Members Will be Held Sunday Afternoon. The Ben Hur court will bold its annual memorial service for its deceased members next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, at the Yeoman hall. Hon. C. L. Walters will deliver the memorial address. All members are requested to be present. Irvin Brandyberry was a Ft. Wayne business visitor today