Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 140.

KENTUCKY’S FOUR Delegates at Large Went in the Taft Column Today by Vote of 38 to 11. THEY WANT QUIET Says Taft Leaders, in Convention —Roller Still Moving. (United Press Service.) Chicago, 111., June 11—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The republican natiom.l convention voted 38 to 11 to seat the four Taft delegates at large from Kentucky. The First and Second district Kentucky Taft delegates also were seated Chicago. 111., June 11—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Rioting and wild west tactics will not be permitted in the republican national convention according to Victor Rosewater, chairman of the republican national committee here today. He asserted that any delegate starting any such methods would be put out of the convention hall, and that arrangements for a sufficient force to control the situation would be made. The statement was generally considered as a warning tc the supporters of Colon-! Roosevelt who have threatened to make trouble if they thought their presidential candidate was being treated unfairly by the supporters of President Taft. Chicago, 111., June 11 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Delegate contests for Kentucky today were considered by the republican national committee. Supporters of Colonel Roosevelt claimed that intimidation and fraud were practiced by the Taft forces in securing delegates pledged to support the president for renomination. The real 'ight however, centered directly on the redistricting of the state by the Kentucky legislature. The delegates to the state convention were elected under the changed district lines. STRICTER THAN EVER Will be Law Regarding Sale of Eggs This Summer. Local packers and skippers of eggs and grocery keepers dealing in eggs have been notified by H. C. Barnard, state food inspector, that the lawgoverning the sale of rotten, stale, putrid—and all eggs unfit for food purposes, 'will be enforced more strict this summer than ever before. The law forbids anyone to sell rotten or decomposed eggs, and a violation makes the person liable to fine and imprisonment, according to the offense and number of time it has been committed. The notice states that since the law went into effect the first of January. 1911, eggs are higher on the market, and the farmers are getting more by about three cents per dozen than thev did last year at the same time. It is due to the fact that the farmers have ’ taken better care of their eggs and marketed them oftener, giving the shippej a better quality of goods. A few valuable pointers were given as follows: Market your eggs often, and sell none but the good ones. Keep the male bird away from the stock during the summer months, is a fertile egg will deteroirate more rar idly, and show signs of hatching sooner than an unfertile egg Take exceptionally good care of poultry during summer, market only the good, lean fresh eggs. — o — BEET WORKER MEETS DEATH. According to Word Received This Afternoon from Ft. Wayne. Manager Hubbard of the new sugar facory, was notified at noon today that a man named George Pit, one of the beet workers frem this county, had met death on one of the railroads at Fort Wayne this morning. Details were not given and the company dispatched John Egas, the interpreter, to Fort Wayne, to look after the body. It is said that the man was a very intelligent fellow. His identity was discovered by a postoffice order found in his pocket and the postmaster at Ft. Wayne remembered who the fellow was. However, the man’s name does not appear on the register at the connany’s office and there may be some doubt about the man belonging here. .

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DO YOU KNOW THIS? Explanation Given Why Ring Finger is on Left Hand. Professor Polliard, lecturing recently at University college, London, said he thought a woman's wedding ring had a common origin with the Put on the nose of a wild bull; it implied control, captivity, obedience,” do which Filoment, writing in the illustrated News exclaims. ‘‘Such nonsense! The ring can never have implied anything of the sort; for, as a fact, it often used to be given in this country by the bride to the bridegroom, as well as vice-versa, as it 's still in Germany. Ihe Seal reason the wedding ring is worn on the left? hand is that this is less actively employed than the right, and therefore a ring on that hand is less exposed to injury. In the ancient Sarum ritual of England, ■ the ring was placed upon the bride's i right hand. It is a relic of the custom which dales back to the darkness of antiquity, of the bridegroom giving the bride ornaments of gold and silver as Isaac did when he wedded Sarah. 0 ; JUNE WEDDING Nuptials of Miss Bertha Steigmeyer and Charles Miller Solemnized AT ST. MARY’S CHURCH One Hundred Fifty Guests at Dinner, Supper and Big Dance Today. One of the pretty June weddings took place this morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary's Catholic church, when Miss Bertha Steigmeyer, daughter of Mr. Pid Mrs. Fred Steigmeyer, of Union township, and Mr. Charles Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Miller, of south of the city plighted their vows. The wedding party made ■ a very beautiful appearance as they ■ entered the church to the strains of I the wedding march, and took their ' places at the altar, where Father Wilken officiated. The bride and j groom were attended by their brothers and sisters the Misses Dorothy Steigmeyer and Theresa Miller as ! bridesmaids, and Messrs. Roman Steigmeyer and Peter Miller as groomsmen. Both bride and her attendants wore pure white. The bride’s dfess was a lovely combination of white embroidered net made over a white satin slip, made in a one-piece dress. She wore white rosebuds in her hair, and carried a bouquet of rosebuds. Both bridesmaids wore gowns of white embroidered veil. Miss Steigmeyer carrying white carnations and Miss Miller, pink. The party posed for their pictures at the Moser studio following the church ceremony, and were then taken to the home of the bride’s parents, where one hundred fifty guests waited to greet them, and where a wedding dinner and supper were served to this large number of guests. The Steigmeyer home was pretty in its decorations of spring flowers, lor which happy event June stave a rare profusion of roses. The brides table was unusually pretty with its centerpiece, the bridal cake, surrounded with a tracery of green, and decorated with vases of beautiful briday roses. This evening about one hundred seventy-five will attend the barn dance at the Steigmeyer home and the festivities will continue late. The newly married couple will reside on a farm three miles south of the city. Both are well known and among the best young people of the community, beginning their new life together with good wishes of all. Among the guests from a distance who are attending the wedding are Mr. and Mrs. Jared Reed, Ft. Wayne: Mrs. Elizabeth Staub, Bascom, Ohio; Mrs. Fanny Bender, Avilla: Andrew Steigmeyer, Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs Francis Miller and family, Fort Wayne: Mrs. L. G. Feltz and daughter, Delphina, Lima, Ohio. Music for the dance this evening will be rendered by Elgin King, Bernard Wertzberger, Elmo Smith and Ed Tolan. _____ —o Miss Geraldine Brandyberry spent the day with her uncle, S. B. Fordyce, and family at Monmouth.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, June 11, 1912.

FOUNT OF YOUTH Brush of Lew Corbin Adds Rejuvenating Touches to Fountain Boy ON PUBLIC SQUARE Washed Out Colors Appear Once More and Lad is on Duty Again. “Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight, Make me a boy again, just for tonight” is what the very able brush of the artist, Lew Corbin, is doing to the little iron boy in the center of the fountain on the public square. The little iron figure has stood the brunt of so many years' exposure in all kinds of weather, to say nothing of the corroding effects of the lime from the water which spouts over his bare feet, that he had degenerated into a plain, black mass, without color, feature or form, until Mr. Corbin with the results of a Ponce de Leon, applied his brush dipped in the fountain of youth. Under his skilled painting, the face, bare foot and hands of the boy have taken on the healthful rosy glow, characteristic ofthe barefoot lad; his trousers have assumed the clean gray of the goods before it takes on the washed-out effect; his shirt, open at the collar, has taken on the blue of indigo; his boot the blask of the haw; and his eyes, the eager, bright, mischievous look of the wholesome, strong lad, as he watches the water squirt forth from one leaking boot, which he holds in his right hand. The pedestal on which ne stands has the bright green of the water-refreshed earth, and it will be a rejuvenated lad that will go on duty once more for tbe summer season, on the public square. o FLOODS SUBSIDE And Dove of Good Cheer Bearing Green Leaf Appears n Arkansas. LAND BEING TILLED Clark Coverdale Had Forty Acres of Cotton Out— Conditions Encourage. The Mississippi floods have subsided in the Arkansas regions, where Clark Coverdale and family reside, and the green is again beginning to appear, according to the good news received here by Dr. J. S. Coverdale, who when he left there several weeks ago, saw nothing hut high waters covering his farm. The entire plantation has been above water for the past two weeks and w hen the doctor heard last from his son, forty acres of cotton had been put out. The land is, however, hard, and tilling is rather difficult at this time. While not so great an acreage can probably be cultivated this year, tiie crops it is thought will be all right and things are not now so discouraging as they were. oJ. C. BELL WILL BUILD. J. C. Bell of Craigville w’as a business visitor in this city Saturday and prepared to haul out cement blocks for the foundation for a new house and addition to his barn on his farm. He w’ill build a new house on his property in Craigville, and will make an addition to the barn, so that it will be 36x40 feet. The first floor of the barn will be composed of nothing but stalls, and he will use this for stock entirely, and all feed will be kept in the upper part of the barn. Dr. E. P. Davenport is also preparing to build a house on his property in Craigville. I. D. Bright is another Craigville citizen, who is building a new home in the way of improvement on his property. Mr. Bright has had the old house torn down and is living in the J C. Bell property while his new home is being built.—Bluffton Banner.

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Os Fifteen Volumes New Addition to Decatur Library Shelves. A new set of books that will be very valuable for reference work, were placed on the public library shelves today, being a fifteen-volume set of the Catholic Encyclopedia, costing 981. This is the international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic church, and will be highly prized by reference workers. The library also acknowledges with pleasure the addition of nine gift books from Mrs. Victoria Hill. These include four valuable books on ancient history and five of Cooper's works. These are from the library of the late A. J. Hill. WILL EXCHANGE PULPITS In the Evening of the Last Sunday in June—A Surprise. At a recent ministerial meeting, it was decided and agreed upon by the various ministers of the city, that in the evening of tbe last Sunday in June —June 30th —they would have a general exchange of pulpits. No congregation will known who will preach in its church on that evening, until they arrive there. —————o GETS SAD MESSAGE J. R. Porter Family Receives Word That Son, Frank, of Parker City Was RUN OVER AT NOON Lived But Few Minutes— Parents Left Before Word of Death Came. A telephone message came at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon from Parker City to O. L, Vance, a cousin, stating that Frank Porter, who was injured there at noon today, had lived but a few moments. His death proßhbly occurred before his parents left this city, but will not be known by them until they arrive at Parker. The later word was that he ran from his drug store to stop a runaway team, and was thrown down, receiving fatal injury. He was thirty-two years of age, married and has three children. Just at the noon nour a telephone message was -ecelved by the John R. Porter family from Parker City stating their son, Frank, was in a dying condition and to come at once. The message stated that a team of horses drawing a load of lumber started to run away and that be was run over and sf .tously injured. The accident happened at about 11:30 and without any delay Mr. and Mrs. Porter and son, Chalmer, made preparations to leave on the 1 o’clock train over the G. R. 1., south, to reach his bedside as soon as possible. He is well known here, having visited here onlv recently, with his parents, and enjoys the acquaintance of many. He is conducting a drug store, with his brother, Thurman, and the news came as a sad message to all, who hold him in the highest regard, and who wish for him a speedy recovery. o SYLVESTER KING FUNERAL. The body of Sylvester King accompanied by a large number of relatives and friends, arrived this afternoon over the G. R. & I. from Fort Wayne, where his death occurred Sunday, and was taken at once to Map' *wood cemetery', where burial took place. The casket was opened at the cemetery, to allow those who could not attend the funeral service at Fort Wayne this morning, to seet him. Mr. King was a former Decatur man, being born and reared here, where he spent his earlier years. Rev. Gleiser conducted the services at the tomb. o MISS KNOFF WILL GRADUATE. Miss June Knoff, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clem Knossos this city, will graduate next Friday evening from the White Business college in Chicago, She has completed the work and is well prepared to take care of any position as a stenographer. She will return to this city and hopes to be able to find a place in Decatur that she may remain with her family and friends.

INVITATIONS OUT St. Joseph’s Commencement Exercises to be Held at Bosse Opera House THURSDAY, JUNE 20TH Class of Eight Will Receive Diplomas—Father Travers, Portland, Speaker. ' • ' '1 Invitations are being issued this week by the graduates of the St. Joseph’s Catholic high school for commencement, which will be held at the Bosse opera house on Thursday evening June 20th. The class this year is composed of eight—six boys and two gihls—who have striven with earnestness and zeal to reach the honors to be bestowed upon them by the St. Joseph school at the close of this coming term. The class address this year will be given by Father Travers of Portland, a well known priest in the city, and whose excellent and previous talks here will cause a most cordial welcome to be extended to him on this occasion. The time of the graduates is being mostly devoted to the preparation for the event and they are daily practicing to make the close of St. Joseph’s schools for 1912 one of joy and lasting memory. The class this year is made up of the following: ing: Frances Deininger, Vera Clark. Leon Crawford. Daniel Costello, Elmo Smith, William Meyer, Hubert Smith and Raymond Gass. The class has chosen the following motto: “Labor, Vincit Omnia;” class colors, maroon and cream; flower, sweetpea. Program. Music. Welcome Song—Class. Salutatory—Daniel Costello. Address —Rev. T. C. Travers. Valedictory—Leon Crawford. Distribution of Diplomas—Rev. H. T. Wilken. Music. ELECT ANGOLA MAN Assistant Postmasters in Convention at Indianapolis Select as Head GUY J. SHAUGHNISS Believe Postoffice Appointments to Soon Come Under Civil Service. Indianapolis, Ind. June 11—Predicting that all postoffice appointments will be under civil service within a short time, G. F. H. Birdseye, postoffice inspector of Cincinnati, Ohio, in an address yesterday before the Indiana State Association of Assistant Postmasters, urged .taking the postoffice out of politics. “With the postoffice department entirely under civil service, efficiency would be the keynote,” declared Mr. Birdseye. Positions in the department would be attainable to those showing the highest proficiency and instead of the appointment through political influence of men who know nothing of the postoffice workings, experienced men would be elevated to these places. “In my opinion it will not be long until the postoffice department will be placed under civil service.” The officers elected follow: President, Guy J. Shaughniss, Angola: first vice president, Frank A moss, Logansport; second vice president, Charles M. Brown. Rushville; third vice president, William M. Reynolds, Jeffersonville, secretarytreasurer, William F. McNaughton, Connersville. Charles Hocker, local assistant, is attending the meeting, o SENATORIAL CONVENTION. Delegates and others that want to attend the senatorial convention at Fort Wayne tomorrow will leave on the 11:30 car via the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway.

STEPPED ON NAIL. Jim Hurst Had to Return from Celina and Give Attention to Injury. James Hurst, the well known mason, is hopping about mostly on one toot these days, he having stepped on a nail while working at Celina, Ohio, last Saturday and was forced to return home and care for the injury received. He dropped his trowel and going to the basement to pick it up, stepped on an unnoticed nail, which deeply penetrated his right foot. He at onoe came home and attended to same, and although quite sore, it is doing nicely. Mr. Hurst and John Bolinger secured the contract for erection of a large, 50x80, three-story w*are house, being erected by the J. A. fx>ng produce company of Portland. At the present time one story of the building is completed. When this job is completed they will go to Winchester to put up one similar to the one at Celina, only much larger, it being 50x100, and three stories in height. o WORK IN PROGRESS Contractors Are Busy Remodeling House for Mrs. Emma Daniel. NIBLICK HOMESTEAD Architect Chas. Weatherhogg Confers With Contractors Today. Architect Charles Weatherhogg of Fort Wayne arrived this afternoon to meet with Contractors Linn & Patten and Mrs. Emma Daniel, relative to the remodeling of the old Niblick homestead on Second street, which was purchased last autumn by Mrs. Daniel and which is the course of remodeling for the occupancy of Mrs. Daniel and the Chalmer Schafer family. The work will probably be completed by October Ist, and the residence and grounds will be among the finest in this section of the state. While the plans for the general remodeling are complete, and the work has been under way for the past week, there are many minor details to be discussed and to be decided upon as the work progresses, and these were given attention today. The mason and carpenter work has ben let to Linn & Patten, the well known contractors; the plumbing to Mann & Christen; and the heating to P. J. Hyland. The fine old lines and colonial style of the present solid and handsome structure will be preserved, but there will be several additions, the installation of modern conveniences, and the handsome finishing in detail that characterizes a mansion of the present. day. The excavation for the basement which extends under half of the house is completed and the cement and brick workers will soon be in order. The addition to the house will include porches and a conservatory. The little colonial stoop at the front will be a feature, and at the south and west the piazzas will spread away in the spacious style, with the large conservatory at the south, connecting therewith. The porches will be of fine cut stone, and will be tile-floored, with handsome marble laid in cement, and polished. When complete, the house will have twelve rooms. Dormer windows will also be a feature of the front of the house. The interior of the rooms will be finely finished in detail, and harmonious to the uses of the room. Some will be finished in mahogany and oak, others in white and gold, and the walls and ceiling of the music room, in plaster of paris. The detail of each will be worked Out completely, as the work progresses. The floors of the entire house will be of hardwood, and the contractors will find it necessary to get an electric or hand-power machine especially adapted for the smoothing and polishing of the timbers for the floors. A garage, plans for which have not yet been completed, will also probably be built on the grounds. This will contain the steam heating plant, as well as room for the automobile, and may also contain bedrooms for the use of the employees.

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WILL BE AT BERNE I County Sunday School Picnic Will be Held There July Fourth. THE NEW BRIDGE Now in Course of Construction Renders Steele’s Park Here Unavailable. When the officials of the Adams County Sunday School association met at Decatur last week with the various pastors and Sunday school superintendents of the county, a committee was appointed to investigate and find out if a suitable location can be secured to hold the picnic rear the city of Decatur. If the committee was unable to secure suitable grounds then the picnic is to be held at Berne. The following is a report of this committee: “To the Executive Commitee of tbe Adams County Sunday School Association: “The undersigned committee to whom was referred the question of holding the union Sunday school pienib on July 4th next, begs leave to report that on account of the fact that Steele’s park is the only available place that such picnic can be held, and on account of the fact that the Monroe street bridge is impassable, thus making access to said park impracticable at this time, we recommend that said picnic be not held at Decatur this year, with the hope that next year Decatur will be in line for the union picnic. “Respect’ve'y submitted, “Singned THE COMMITTEE.” The following will be the executive committee that will have charge of the picnic: Jesse Rupp, chairman; C. J. Lutz, A. A. Yordy. C. S. Mumma, G. W. Ray, J. F. Lehman. W. F. Johnson, S. W. Hale, W. P. Merriman, E. M. Ray and Edward Fruchti. The executive committee will meet in a few days to make the necessary preliminary arrangements and appoint the sub-committees. This will be a county affair and arrangements will be made to accommodate the thousands of people who are expected to be present on the occasion. All Sunday school people and especially superintendents and pastors should begin to talk it now. Every good citizen who is in favor of a safe and sane Fourth should arrange to come and urge others. SIMPLE COMMENCEMENT GARB. The board of education of Washington City has prohibited silks and satins, low necks and short sleeves, “rats,” puffs, false curls and jewels at the commencement exercises this year. It is decreed that the girls must wear simple frocks of white, such as they can all afford, and only their own hair. All this is in harmony with the higher educational ideas. It goes on the theory that there are grace and beauty in culture and refinement, and that a person truly educated does not need false curls, low necks or “rats" to make her beautiful and attractive. The mind and heart express themselves best in simple garb and natural grace. • The education that encourages extravagance and display and makes one depend for her excellence as a pupil upon puffs, short sleeves and jewels is a false education. Let a sweet girl graduate's appearance lie a reflection of her innocence and she needs no other attraction. —Ohio State Journal CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank the neighbors, friends and representatives of orders who were so kind and helpful during the sickness and death of our wife and mother. We appreciate and will always remember what was done for her and us. L. CHERRYHOLMES & FAMILY. — o ■ A FINE GARAGE The work on the building of the fine garage being erected by Henry Krick at the rear of his Mercer avenue home, is rapidly progressing. The garage Is of brick, finished on the outside with stucco, and will be slateroofed.