Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 204, Decatur, Adams County, 26 August 1912 — Page 1

-Volume X. Number 204.

WELCOME TO THE TEACHERS Prof. Opiiger Calls Annual Institute to Bl Order in Opening Session

PROGRAM IS GOOD The Day’s Work Proves In|eresting to Teachers in Attendance. lasts five days Practically Every Teacher in the County is Gathered Here This Week. H — Th. annual session of the Adams 'CO®Bty teachers’ institute, under the JMheciate direction of Lawrence E. Oplltjjer, county superintendent of schools, convened this morning at 9 o’dnck in the initial session of the V WOTS. With the following instructors pr>-.-,-ent, Dr A. J. Kinnaman, department of Sjl jcation. state normal school, 'BoWllne Green, Ky.; Prof. 0. H. Ven j ner. ‘department of English. Grand Isar,d Prof - B F - Swarthout. voice builder, Indianapolis. Ind , the Mb’s work gives great promise of becoming one of the most valuable ■and [interesting institutes ever held in this county. ■aw The teachers began arriving as car ly.M 1:30 and seen'edto evim-e lively Interest in the program as publish™,. By the time of the opening of the institute the church was comfortably -lied «nl late stragglers found con sriderable trouble in securing seats. The;first morning's session was opened with devotional exercises led by Rev. Rilling, who, being unable to attend the institute on Tuesday, ex- - changed with Rev. Owen, who was to havs been present today. Professor Swarthout led the institute! in singing, "Holy, Holv. Holy," after which the Rev. Rilling read the morn Ing lesson, followed by prayer. The first address of the opening session was given by Dr. Kinnaman. who used the subject, “Some Schools.' He sc'JWOug'.c ortt the fact that Kentucky was formerly very lax in schools. I'util four years ago, Dr. Kinnaman's home town, Bowling, Green, did not have a four-year high school . ourse. He dtew mind pictures of educational conditions, going into detail. Taking up the ‘‘negro problems, he brought -oat that a double school system was ntfCessa- > —double institutes -double . schools..etc. In illustration of the problems of school management he brought forward descriptive illustrations of schools he had visited, examined their deficiencies, suggested remedies to the teachers. A diagnosis of the systems of teaching followed by various pi teachers was gone into, humorously, but earnest, nevertheless. The desctiption of some Indiana schools proved interesting in the extreme, the deep earnestness of the speaker throwing high lights on the valuable 'deductions which, if incorporated, would mean much to the school's welfare. Following the address of Dr. Kinnaman there was to be a rest period of five minutes but-owing to the lateness of the commencing of the day's work the period was discarded and the first music period was entered into. ’’rot. Swartout. the instructor of music ' proved to be a man worthy of emulation, of a strong personality and pleasing address he soon interested the institute in the music in hand and in a short time all were interestingly following the able instruction given them. After a short intermission the institute again convened to hear Professor Venner. in his able address on the “Value of Biography in developing a boy’s character." The Professor prov- ‘ ed an able talker and presented his subject jn an able manner, interesting as well as instructing the many tea< .1 era. Note taking was prominent and probably the years work will be g.eat ly beaefitted thereby. Nooa adjournment came right on time and in the afternoon the institute agaia eoarened to bear “The School as

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an Institution hy Dr. Kinnaman who again pleased the institute with his able work. Music and another address by Prof. Venner on the subject leaching boys to appreciate good books, covered the days work and the institute adjourned the first session feeling greatly benefltted thereby. The CONTINUED UN FaGE THREE BUYS BARBER SHOP Lester Baughman Purchases Joe McFarland Shop on West Monroe Street. FIRST OF SEPTEMBER Will See New Proprietor— Mr. McFarland Not Decided on Future. Another change in the city's business circles took place, when Lester Baughman, a well known young man, purchased the Joe McFarland barber shop on West Monroe street. Mr. Baughman has been working some time for Barney Wertzberger, of whom he learned the ba. her trade, a”u has become an adept in the tonsorial line. He will take possession of the shop September Ist. Mr.' Baughman is a young man of excellent quality, and will prove successful in his new- undertaking. Mr. McFarland has built up an excellent trade during thirteen years or more that he has owned this shop and Mr. Baughman asks a continuation of the patronage, assuring the customers that they will be met with every courtesy. Mr. McFarland has not yet decided upon his future course. Harting. Ford and Russell, who have been conducting the G. R. I. restaurant on Monroe street will open up a branch store, consisting of a lunch counter and dairy line, similar to the one they are now conducting. They will occupy the stand rgcently vacated by Howard Burdg on Madison street and expect to have same ready for opening on Saturday of this week.

REAL ANGRY, THESE GIRLS. Some girls at Rushville are just too i mad for words. They work in a glove factory there and on the factory ! building is a big sign that reads. I "Rushville Glove Factory.” Some- ' body procured a ladder and sotns ' paint and painted out the “G” in the second word. The result, which can be seen by all the world, announces the institution as “The Rushville Love 1 Factory.” These girls who worn there are very much aroused. They ' may strike. —o MEETING POSTPONED. The board of directors of the fair asI sociation which held a meeting on ' Saturday for the purpose of deciding what was to be done relative to a new art hall, postponed the meet, on account of the fact that there was not a sufficient number of the members on hand for the meeting. The date was then set for Wednesday at which time it is believed complete arrangements will be made. TOURING CAR GIFT. ■ I One of the finest presents coming ; to notice was the gift of a fine Hupmobile touring car to Mrs. C. D. Kunkel from her father, S. Pillars. BAND CONCERT. The city band will hold its regular Tuesday evening concert on the street tomorrow evening and has a good program for presentation. Everybody should come out to hear the boys. o The Misses Georgia Meibers and Vera Ehinger spent the day in Fort Wavne as guests of Miss Vera Goeke.

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Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, August 26, 1912.

SCHOOLS TO OPEN Public Schools Will Open for Fall Term Monday Septenibr 2nd. ONLY SHORT SESSION Will be Held Opening Day— Lines May be Changed. The public schools of Decatur will open Monday, September 2nd. A short session will be held at 8:30, at which time assignments will be made for regular work. Children who have not yet attended 'school, but who will be six years old by January Ist, will be admitted to the primary grades at the different buildings. In accordance with the laws of the statu, tuition in the high school will be $4.00 per month, for the pupils in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades, $2.00 per month, and for the first, second, third and fourth grades, $1.50 per month. Supplies for all grades may be obtained at the drug stores. Owing to a large number of families moving to the city during the summer it may be necessary to change the boundary lines for the various schools; but these boundaries will remain the same for the beginning of school and if any change is necessary the board will then establish new boundary lines. The superintendent will be at his office Saturday, August 31, for the purpose of assigning pupils, who live outside of Decatur, to their respective grades. E. E. RICE, Supt. of Schools. Inquiries have been received from pupils who live outside of Decatur for places to stay during the school year. Persons who would like to have pupils stay with them during the year may be accommodated if they will report the matter to E. E. Rice, superintendent of schools. Some of these pupils wish to work for their room and board; others wish to pay. A o-

A COAL FAMINE For Next Winter is Predicted by Coal Men—Advise , Early Buying. STRIKE IN THE MINES Early in Summer is Cause of Shortage—Three Months Behind in Orders. \ Prediction of anunprecedentedcoal famine is made by fuel dealers as one of the results of the strike in the anthracite mines early in the summer. It is predicted that the available supply of hard coal will be gone before the winter is half gone and that the dealers will have no way in which to obtain more. Persons who will burn hard coal this winter are advised to buy as much as possible during the summer months or buy a soft coal stove. The price of hard coal has not been reduced this summer as is usually the case and it is expected that after a short interval of cold weather that the price will be raised from $8.25 to $8.50. The strike in the Pennsylvania field in March, April and May has placed the supply at the mines at least three months behind the orders. There is no way in which the dealers can meet the situation once their supply of coal on hand is exhausted. They will be at the mercy of the producers and the railroads with theft- congested tfaftc and shortage of cars. At the present time the bulk of the coal from the Pennsylvania fields is being shipped into the eastern states and into the northwest by means of the great lakes. The freight tolls are lower that way and there is a ready market for almost the entire output. It has been asserted by trade journals that the supply of coal is about one-fourth normal.

A DEATH AT WINCHESTER Winchester, Ind., Aug. 26—(Special to Daily Democrat) Judge Macy, one of the most prominent citizens of Randolph county, a lawyer and former judge of the Randolph circuit court, died at his home in this city early this afternoon. Judge Macy has been ill for the past two years or longer and for the past several months has been confined to his home. The funeral will occurs Thursday. Judge Macy was well known in this city and upon several occasions has presided in important cases in the Adams circuit court. He is known to all the members of the bar and many others, and was a man respected and will occur Thursday. ALL ARE COMING Decatur Folks at Capitol Building Will be Here for GREATEST TIME EVER Will be When All Former Friends Will Assemble for Big Gathering. Marion, Ohio. Aug. 23, 1912. Dear Friend French: —I jest got your word for Josiah and me to come to the “Old Home Week,” in Decatur. And jest the prospect ot a tower ahead is a great help to a woman in rulin' and keepin’ a pardner straight and right in his linements and acts. Somehow jest the thought of a tower sort o’ lifts him up in mind and happifys him.. Yes! from the very minute we got your word our two minds wuz made up to go to Decatur. And Josiah Allen is set on havin' sumthin’ new and uneek in the way of dress. I shall have a good black aipacky, and now havin’ everything settled about goin’ I am calm in my frame most al Ithe time and so is my pardner. Yours for a good t’me in October. SAMANTHA ALLEN. P S. —I enclose one dollar, jest a “drop In the bucket,” for expenses.

Plymouth, Ind., Aug. 24, 1912. Mr. Quinn: Kind Sir —My husband and I will be at the Home-coming, nothing preventing. Yours very respectfully, D. E. SCOTT AND WIFE. Mr. French Quinn: Dear Friend:—Your most gracious letter of invitation to the “Decatur Home-coming to hand, and I most sincerely thank your honorable committee for so ikndly including me on your livitation list. What can more keenly appeal to one or what create a more intense desire after receiving such an invitation to once more return to the old home. “Old Home Week'' — how this invitation brings to me old reminiscences of home, the old homestead and of dear friends of days agone. As one has said, “Two of the most beautiful words ever penned are Home and Mother.” Many of us could only return to the sweet memories of home and mother. Wishing you great success in your plans for October 14-19, I remain Y’ours sincerely, MRS. W. A. HUCHISON. Chautauqua, New York. 20 Palestine Ave,Ferguson Cottage. Chicago, 111., Aug. 23, 1912. Mr. French Quinn: Dear Sir —Your very kind invitation of August 22 received and in reply will say I surely wiuld be delighted to get back to God's country once more and meet so many of God's people. So you can count on my spending at least part of the week with you. I am a locomotive engineer qnd my run takes me out of Chicago into the western part of Indiana often. W’hen I cros sthe state line between Indiana and Illinois, I often say to my fireman, “Well now we are in God's country," and he often remarks. “Yes, I can feel the change." Truly yours, J. S. MOSES. Ft. Wayne, Ind., Aug. 23, 1912. Gentlemen: Dear Sir: —A little late in answering your kind invitation to come home at the Home-coming carnival. By being busy and a little careless on my part, but I am here to congTatulate

THE GRIM REAPER Gathers Its Toll of Lives from Prominent Adams County Residents. MARION KETCHUM Os Jefferson Township Succumbs to Apoplexy—John Gates Passes Away.. Marion Ketchum, one of the promtI nent men of Jefferson township, died i Saturday evening after a week's illness from apoplexy. Mr. Ketchum was about fifty-two years of age, and was born and reared in Jefferson I township. He was a son of William : Ketchum, and both were active in the politics and affairs of the township and county, the subject of this sketch i being one of the candidates for nom- , ination to the office of county commissioner a few years ago. He was 1 married and leaves a family. The funeral was held this afternoon at o’clock at the Mt. Carmel church. John Gates, aged about forty-five years, died Saturday at the home of 1 his father, George Gates, living three | miles east of Berne. Mr. Gates I sided in Michigan until five months ! ago, when he returned here to the i home of his father. Death was caus- ■ ed from abscess of the brain. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at ten o’clock from the church near the Gates' home. The deceased was a nephew of Mrs. Mollie Congletou and Mrs. M. Burns of this city. He is survived by his father, three bait' sisters and one half brother Ed Kinney, son of Pat Kinney of near Geneva, whose funeral was held Saturday, died in Detroit, Michigan, in the hospital, where he had been ill with typhoid fever. He left home about fifteen years ago and no word had been heard from him during*that time, until word came of his death. For the past few years he had been in Detroit, and when near death, he I told one of the Sisters at the hospital, of his home here and asked that his I relatives be notified in case of death.

TO RETIRE A YEAR Rev. E. A. Goodwin Decides to Take Year’s Rest from Minister LI Work. GOES TO FRANKFORT Until Health Improves— Confrence in Session in Two Weeks. The Rev. E. A. Goodwin, Mio has been pastor of the United Brethren church the past year, left this morning for Frankfort, where he goes to make arrangements for securing rooms for the coming year, as he expect to make that city his home during that time. The rather bad condition of his health has caused his decision to retire from active ministerial work for the coming year, as he has suffered two paralytic strokes in the past several years and he thinks it best for him to take a rest, to regain his strength. Rev. Goodwin will preach his last sermon as local pastor next Sunday, and will leave the following week for the annual conference to be held at Roanoke. During the time he has been here Rev. Goodwin has accomplished much for the advancement of the churches on his circuit, all the members of which as well as his many other friends in the city, wish that he might be retained for many years, but wish him a speedy upbuilding of his health. Rev. Goodwin Sunday afternoon conducted baptismal services by immersion sh the Steele’s park lagoon, when five candidates were immersed. They were Mrs. Ross, Hayes and daughter, Marie; Howard Wisehaupt, Miss Josephine Pennington and a yvung girl. Four additions to the church Sunday were also recorded on the clerk’s roll and all the services were inspiring. j

NO RACE SUICIDE IN INDIANA. State Health Report Will Show 4,653 Babies Born in July. The state board of health will show in its forthcoming bulletin that there were 4,653 births in Indiana in July. The boys born in the state numbered 2,378 and the girls 2,275. There were 2,326 white boys and 2,222 white girls. The state birth rate was 20.1 and the rate in Warren county was the biggest of any in the state, being 32.4. Benton county showed the lowest rate with 9.3. The total number of births in Marion county was 446, with a rate of 19.4. Fifty-two colored boys were born and fifty-three colored girls. The rate in the northern counties of the state wus 20.8, in the central counties it was 19.1, and in the southern counties, 20.8.

JIMP FROM CAR Leo Ehinger Had Exciting | Experience When He Thought a Collision IN ORDER Car Going Thirty Miles an Hour—Jumped Into Ditch Full of Water. Leo Ehinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. X. Ehinger of this city, had an exciting experience Friday evening, of which the Bluffton Banner says: “A Decatur young man who comes to Bluffton frequently to visit a lady friend, had the fright of his life last [ night when he jumped from the Wabash Valley car due here at 8:50 o’clock while it was traveling at a speed of about thirty miles an hour near the Toil Gate school house. The jump followed a break in the trolley pole, the noise from |.hich caused the ' young man to think the car had collided head-on with another ear. His injuries, though not serious, were very painful, and he does not care to repeat the trick. “The young man was riding on the rear platform of the car, when the trolley pole broke and not stopping an instant to determine the cause of the racket he leaped from the platform into a deep ditch, partly filled with water. The conductor witnessed the jump and he immediately returned to the scene and helped the stranger to his feet. He refused to have the services of a physician, and would not give his name, saying that he did not want his parents to know of the accident. “When the young man jumped from the car it was traveling at a speed of thirty miles an hour and his escape from serious injuries was probably due to his alighting in the ditch. Much of the skin was taken from his face and arms in the fall and his clothing was badly torn. He told passengers on the car that he had become badly frightened when the trolley pole broke and on the instant thought of the head-on collision with another car. “It was learned late this afternoon that the hoy was Leo Ehinger, a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. X. Ehinger, of Decatur, who is here for a visit with his brother-in-law. Will Berling. Ehinger lost his watch and a gold ring in his fall.”

FEWER ERIE PASSES. „ Superintendent Mackrcll of the Erie, by a ruling made public Thursday, puts a stop to the practice of employees obtaining passes for their families at any time, and the rule now is that only three passes will be issued to any member of an employee’s family, annually. The privilege was subject to much abuse, is the reason given for stopping the liberal issuance of free transportation. This, however, does not affect the annual passes issued to the engineers and conductors and will not inconvenience the employees to any extent. WEDDING BELLS. Announcement of a coming wedding was published for the first time at the St. Mary's church Sunday between John Weber, residing just west of the city, and Miss Dora Sannelbaugh of Delphos, Ohio. Both are well Known people and the affair will be a happy one. .

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W. J. SPEAR DROPS DEAD — s' Man Who Had Contract for Concrete and Brick Work for Sugar Plant DROPPED OVER DEAD On Street in Toledo Satur-day-Well Known Here Where He Visited. William J. Spear of Toledo, Ohio, w h ; was awarded the contract for the concrete and brick work in the construction of the beet sugar factory, dropped dead unexpectedly Saturday morning on the streets of Toledo, from an attack of heart trouble. Mr. Spear’s death was very unexpected and his demise comes as a great shock to his relatives and friends in that city where he made his home as well as here. Mr. Spear came here early last spring to superintend the beginning of the work for which he had the contract, and has made frequent trips since to confer with his foreman and those in charge of the work. During his visit here he made many friends, who are extremely sorry to hear of his death. He was about fifty-five or sixty years of age, and was married, his wife surviving. Mr. Spear was one of the best-liked men on the beet sugar grounds, and was always to be found in most pleasant spirits, and enjoyed the friendship of many of Decatur’s people. Dick Schafer, bookkeeper for Mr. Spear, will look after business as he has been doing, and as to whether or not other steps will have to be taken for the completion of the work is unknown at present. Contractor Spear’s last visit to this city was made just a week ago, and little did the people here think that the jovial, good-natured fellow’ they all liked so well was so near his last journey's end. o— — > ABOUT THE SICK. Mrs. Verna Reppert who has been suffering for some weeks with complications of diseases is still confined to her bed and six or eight weeks is still believed will be necessary befo”e she will be able to be around. She has been ailing for the last fifteen months and her improvement is somewhat discouraging. Alonzo Halberstadt the young man of Monroe who last Tuesday met with a very painful/accident while returning home in an automobile when he was struck in the abdoman by the steering rod is still unable *o be a round and some days will still be necessary 1 before he can be up and around. Nothing serious is believed will be the outcome. T. J. Morlan, of Toledo, Ohio, who was formerly engaged in work here for the sugar factory construction company, was injured on the head after returning to Toledo, Ohio, during a scrap with some of his workmen, but it is said has recovered suffieientlj to return to his work there. Mrs, Daniel Haley left this morning for Fort Wayne where she will be with her daughter, Mrs. Henry Guebard, who is suffering from tuberculosis. Mrs. Guebard is reported as being merely living. o NEW MONROE CHURCH. The committees in charge of looking after matters for the erection of a new Friends’ church at Monroe have purchased a lost 60x130 in the J. F. Hocker addition where the new edifice will be constructed and one of the first big steps toward their anticipated aim. The church will be built this fall and the committee is busy soliciting funds and all those who have subscribed are asked to turn it over as the first installment is past due. ——o ENGELKING BABY DEAD. The infant born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs Ed L. Engelking, at the home of her father, Peter Zeser, south of the city, was laid to rest this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Engelking have been gffests at the Zeser home several days.