Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1912 — Page 2

DAILYDE M O C R A I Published Every Evening, Except f uiidny by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.0( Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.5( Single Copies 2 cenu Advertising rates made known or application. Entered at the paatoffice in Decatur Indiana, as sceond class mail. National Chairman Hilles of ths Taft party, has issued a 144-page vol ume, designed to prove that the presi dent didn't, steal the nomination al Chicago.. The book is entitled "State ment relating to contests over seats in the republican national convention.” Mr. Hilles, without a doubt, has the most difficult job ever given any man, politically. When an advance agent has to start out by explaining and apologizing, it s a cinch the show is going to be punk, and that it will be poorly patronized, hut then somebody just had to do it. Confident that he cannot be elected and refusing to serve as the goat for the g. o. p„ Judge E. B. Dillon, of Columbus, Ohio, has announced that he will resign as the nominee of the republican party, for governor of the Buckeye state. Dillon was nominated at the state convention held recently, but on account of the turmoil going on in the party ranks and the solid front of the democrats, he recognizes how impossible success will be and has decided to "duck." The situation in Ohio is about as trying as it is in Indiana, where they have been making fruitless efforts for months to Sd’ cure candidates. It's funny, but a fellow hates to lose, and when he knows he Is going to, he sometimes refuses to sacrifice his future career. The Bull Moose party today held its first meeting in Adams county, when about forty republicans gathered and selected delegates to the Progressive state convention. It was not one ol those wild scenes which one's mind usually conjures when a political meeting is mentioned, but the mor who were there seemed determiner that their purpose should be carrier out. What effect they will have or the future is hard to figure out. W( cannot see anything but the furthei hopeless division of the g. o. p., bui Chairman Graham, who is so serene ly confident, may be right. W< grant him and progressives the righi to think as they please and to vote as they think. In the meantime we in sist that there is no good reason whj a democrat should not support Wil son and Marshall ihis year. They an square and honest and upright men running on a platform, progressivi enough to please any one, honest 1: written by W. J. Brj an, the father c progressivism in this country, and hi associates, on the resolution commit tee at Baltimore. THE SULL MOGSERS CONTI’.Di e. CH.OM P.AGF ONE fected, but Mr. Graham said that thi would be done soon after the stat convention, when a committeema from each township w ill be chosen an the real campaign started. Mr. Grt ham said also that while it had no been definitely decided, it is his opii ion that district and county ticket will be put in the field. JAPAN EMPEROR DEAD. Tokio. Japan, July 29 —Special fi Daily Democrat) —The Mikado diei early today. He had suffered fron kidney trouble eight or nine years am of late it had grown much worse Crown Prince Youhihito now comes t< the throne. Ten thousand people stood outside the palace when the news flashed that the Mikado had died

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£ DOINGS IN SOCIETY Y Thomas Dowlmg Family Royally Entertains Decatur Young People. ;s " J AT COUNTRY HOME :s 4 Woman’s Home Missionary u Society to Meet Friday—- “ Several Picnics Planned, e WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR. 1- Tuesday. j. Needlecraft Picnic —Vernia Smith. Thursday. Juniors' social —Mrs. Jesse Van Hart 8 ’ Social —Evangelical Lawn. s Missionary Society—Mrs. J. Rex. f- Friday. t. Presbyterian Ladies —At Church. n i I i Fifteen Requisites for Young Ladies. 13. A becoming headdress. EnII circle the forehead neatly with a d band of Politeness, thus commandt ing the admiration and respect of all. —Gloria Hunnex in Shining Light. 1 The Needlecraft club is looking for- ’’ ward with pleasure to the annual pic- >- nic to be given Tuesday evening on 8 the lawn of the home of Miss Vernia Smith £>n First street. Mrs. John and Alva Rice will ’ entertin the Woman’s Home Mission- ’ ary society at the home of Mrs. Rex ’; Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Co i--1 ' gleton will have charge of the pro5 gram. The subject is “The Frontier; 1 the Treasury.” The meeting begins n promptly at 2 o’clock. i Mrs. C. D. Lewton had as her guests I at supper Saturday evening Mrs. .B. B. Uhl and children, Albert and Jessie j I- May, and Miss Jessie Magley. Mrs. s l.’hl and children ( who are visiting 8 * here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Christen, are enroute from their former home at Mansfield, Ohio, to | Nokomis, 11)., where the Rev. Uhl has S/ accepted a call as pastor of the Lun theran church. They leave tomorrow d morning for their new home. e .. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Krill of Root >f , township were roval entertainers at d i their country home Sunday. Those I n enjoying the hospitality of their home ' , were the Misses Rose Kleinhenz and -d | , Josephine Lang of this citv and Mr. ! ■u and Mrs. Dwight Wilder and son. | : n i — e , Mrs. Eugene Runyon’s section of the !r Evangelical Ladies' Aid society will , it give a social Thursday evening on the; e . church lawn. The ladies are trying to make this section the banner one of l 'e tlie society and will make all efforts tend to that effect . They cordially 18 invite all to attend the social. n- j iv i We clip the following from the Mt. il_ Clemens Daily Leader: , 5 I W. I). Hoffman, of Decatur, Ind., a - retired farmer, is a guest at the Wiley Cottage. ,e l — ly I Four Juniors of the Baptist church B £ will give an ice cream social Thurs]gl day evening on the lawn and piazza of the Jesse Van Hart home on South Fifth street. The proceeds will be contributed by the juniors to the piano fund and they ask everybody to attend the social. Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Pond of New Hoven, who have been at Celina and Willshire. Ohio, for a week's vacation, mot's oring through in their auto, stopped te off here last evening enroute home in aid were the guests of County Re'd corder and Mrs. Andrew Welfly, of ■a- "horn they are old friends, Mesdames ot Welfley and Pond having been n- schoolmates in their girlhood days, ts A party of young people from this city, including the Misses Lydia Miller, Esther Corbett, Ode and Letta to Fullenkamp; Mr. Walter Deitsch of id Celina. O.; Fred Fullenkamp, Tony in Hackman, Ed Weisley and John Rainid sey, were entertained yesterday aftere. noon at the home of Thomas Dowling ol south of the city. The hospitality of le j this most hospitable home was at its el best and the guests declare their en--I.' tertainers the best ever. Not least

| enjoyable was the delicious dinner I served in which spring chicken occu-' pied a prominent place on the bill of | tare. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer of Ander-! son, who were guests over Sunday of ■ Rev. and Mrs. Wehmeyer, left this morning. Mr. Meyers is a prominent tailor of Anderson. ADE HERE TONIGHT. The biggest entertainment proposition for ten cents that Union City has had in some time is one at the Union Grand theater, namely, ’The LeVard Colored Company,” which opened last night to a good business for a three night's engagement. The show opened last night with a regular mi 'strel first part, as good, bright, breezy and musical as one has paid fifty cents for. W. S. LeVard, as bones, and Al Perrin, as the tambo, were the funny’ end men, and each was A-l in his work. Others in the company were Charles Gray, Kid Carl, Charles Burgess, and last but most important of all Miss Beatrice LeVard the dusky beauty, who, as the charming interlocutor, lends grace and . refinement to the entertainment. The great Dixie Quartette furnishes ( a fine finish to the program and alto- j gather it is a most satisfying produc- , tion, especially for the small admis- ( sion of ten cents. Tonight there will be an entire change of program and a first class vaudevile bill will be given ( in which the entire company will take . part. Nothing need be said about the ( pictures, for it is well known they j are always the very best.—Union City ( Times. < This company plays at the Star j theatre Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- s day of this week. I 0 i PRESBYTERIAN LADIES. ( All the ladies of the Presbyterian j chrch are requested to meet at the j church parlors Friday afternoon at 2 f o'clock. By reqest of presiden. 180t4 , c — | s A Live Alligator < (Continued llom Page 1) i I some park or zoo near Fort Wayne! others are of the opinion that it , 1 came from Toledo, down the Maumee ■ and into the St. Mary’s river; still ; others say that the recent heavy rains , and floods washed the reptile to this part of the country, and others sav . that is escaped from Barnum & Bail- j I ey’s circus while ft was showing in this city last Tuesday. | “Another theory was advanced Sun- j lay night by some of the older resii dents of the city, who declared that ! j in 189fi an alligator was seen by sev-1 | eral people in the little Wabash river ‘ a few miles west of Hnutington. Many! . shots were taken at the reptile, but j ! it was never killed. . The newspapers j in this section of the country were > i full of stries about the alligator, and ; tor a time northern Indiana was in a ‘ turmoil. That this is the same alii- * gator is believed by many. | “Perhaps the most feasible story is the one told by a member of Battery B, who said Sunday night: i "Tn 1»98 Cain Baker,, now living I ;at Woodburn, brought home three small alligators from Tampa, Fla., on ! I his return from service in the Span- ■ ish-American war. He was a member [ . of the 157th Indiana volunteers. In 1899 one of the reptiles died, and Mr. Baker, becoming disgusted, threw the ! other two into the river. This is j probably one of the two he threw into ; the river, althoughg, of course, they too, might have died.' I "Dr. W. W, Barnett, who goes to Tampa, Fla., quite often and who has brought home the skins of alligators and several small ones,, is of the opinion that the alligator is more than one . hundred years old.” The Geneva Bank CONTINm V aOM sage one i sicians. One case of wine, partially • used at the time of her death, is yet i lying in Hale’s cellar. Hale did not f drink habitually. I doubt if he ever ■ touched anything at all; neither did - he smoke. In a second attempt at ■ destruction, Mrs. Hale used a gun ; and lodged a bullet in her head. Hale : was told that if she would undergo s an operation and spend several months in the hospital, she might re- : cover and return to her children and

I to him a sound woman. At that time every one kne .<■ that his earnings In I I the bank would not really cover the I several operations that followed, ' eight tor nine months in the hospital, and the heavy expenses in the home I during her absence; but it was supposed that the money being spent was | Mrs. Hale’s share of her mother’s es- | tate. ! "The stress of those times was the I beginning Having learned how easily it coiiid be done, Hale followed it I up, but to no such extent as current I reports would lead one to believe. I The much-discussed race horses were | bred from stock on his father’s fatm I and a friend trained them for a share I of their earnings. The Tiffany bills I were for two sets of spoons of two I each; one was ordered through Billy I for a prominent woman of the Eas- I tern Star lodge, who made a speech in | Geneva. He gave his check for the I spoons, the lodge repaid him. The 1 other was a wedding present he gave to our daughter. Tt is untrue that his house was filled with expensive furnishings. I was in it only a few days ago. It was neat, clean, in excellent taste. The floors are inch oak stripping, the walla plain paper, the most valuable pictures on them the origin- | als of some of my book illustrations, I that cost Hale nothing: not an inch I of’tapestry,’ and the most ’expensive’ I rug, a thirty-five dollar Mohave blan- I ket, ordered at the same time I got I one from Dr. Cole, government arch- | apologist, of Arizona. “And in the interests of common decency, I wish to state that anything in any way attributing this tragedy to the extravagance of the presept Mrs. Hale is heartless and wholly unfounded. Everyone in Geneva knows that | Hale’s expenses were materially re- I duced on her advent into the Hale I home. She took his children from the : street, carefully trained them, dressed them simply and tastefully in clothing made for the most part with her own hands and performed all of the work of the house with their help. She was so much of a mother to them that today they are clinging to her in pathetic despair, knowing that they will be scattered and homeless unless she provides a home and keeps them together. To me she offered to turn over $5,000, her share of her husband’s life insurance, to pay the bond of his father, who will lose his home if he must meet it. ‘Tt is true that Hale did many things his salary in the bank did not warrant, and every one in Geneva knew it; but there was always doubt as to the size of the legacy left by his first wife's mother, the income from the insurance business, his office in the lodge and his other sources of income to account for it. “Personally, I vras Hale's friend. His death was the horrible sacrifice of a good man gone wrong under fearful stress. If he had come to me and told me of his trouble I would have helped I him. It is true that for several years ! T questioned the source of his inI rome and urged an investigation, nut | I did not really believe anything j against him strong enough to take any action in the matter, so I must stand for my ehare of censure with others who trusted him. So far as 1 i am concerned, I can truthfully say . that I foreive him God knows his anxiety and suffering must have been ! beyond depiction. For myself, I have j cconmitlated enough and have youth and strength enough to replace any ! thing I hf..'e lost. For my husbandlarge in iny mind’s eye, there looms a i picture of his face behind his wicket, ! all these years standing a silent fig- ; , ure, planning, working, bending ail his energy to make his business a i success, and the proceeds he turned into the bank taken out again by jug-1 glery—when I think of him, forgiveness does not come so easily. “So I strenuously object to the picture of him that my friends and the friends of my work, who read your issues of July 18 and 19 must form inevitably. They are not true and they are not right. I grant he was wrong in not checking tip Mr. Hale's work, and making frequent and thorough examination of the books, even though they were semi-annually passed upon by the bank examiners. He was wrong to trust even his friend after he had been warned that he might be tampering with the accounts. But I am so constituted that some way, in that quiet figure waging a daily battle to make things pay and win, refusing utterly to believe that the man he trusted could betray him, I see a bigger character and something infinitely finer and better to me than if it had been he who suspected ami hunted Billy down to a suicide's grave. “To my many personal friends and the friends of my work, in Indianap olis and ail over the state, who are sending me letters of sympathy and offers of aid, I am happy to say that I often earn more in a month than I have lost all told. The bank is sound and safe, every precaution will be taken in the future, and I am glad to say that I am jtrtt enough of a sport to take my share as the boys took theirs, standing facy front, and with a laugh. “Limberks; Cabin, Geneva, Ind."

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