Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 21.

■ ASK FOR A RAISE Indiana University Students Will Petition for Larger Appropriation. S FROM THE STATE 1■ Students Organize According to Counties—Adams U. Has Ten Students. ISHjf Indiana University, 10.-aw.l »t Bloomington, is going to ;1 *||M| ,o ,he s,a,e legislature to jts annual appropriation. Ii is iming jMM| about this in a ,-j sternat ■MH organizing the students t:.-.. SM each body comprising the ImMM it' l ’tn each county. These I , | boost ail they can fort!.. ;s: t:.ibill, by advertising th. m;>"." respective counties. 'p OBH will do by publishing art:- - MM coi.ntv papers, writing to Igjßß townspeople and others. ■UM Tho Adams countv s' ■ ,|||H tor, members, ot which i. : ■MSB is chairman. Through < :.• e MHrM number, Fred I. Myers, the. « BPnl t!, ° fol,owir ‘S letter !>■ 'WM matter will bo brought I-. -:<.r. ot the county: ; :|M| Bloomington, Ind , Jan 1 Democrat, Decatur, Ind ■IH Gentlemen:- I :u| po>. ■MBin fid around Di<a(i • MHMithere is an appropriation bill jMMfore the state legislature W that bill will be an appr i • ffithe two state institution-. I .■ . B&jrersity and Indiana I' tti v.-t -i-> l.Suia University has asked :<.r ■ ‘ Mio build a new administr./ Bh■> earn - on correspond! n ■ ■ equip labor.tot: ■try, geology, zoolog.u to furnish better ' work and rosea r. h. Ktdr <•<!’,T the n'.-b. : . al <le' a: ' and a' Hid: ■Stour ... this wo. it ■ • the annual appropriation Mhree hundred th > i d -Iasked by Hfodiana and Purdue, is ul-sr and fifty tliousr.nd »' ’’■it may be that sone ('<<■:•■ this a’: some < at university tMllars annually: W's. millions anil a halt', ami five less pro rata wealth am! quite one-fifth as much gives the most, ami - as much as the om the least. Nebraska. with population, Kansas sjfen" wealth, lowa, Minnosc :.i. H 1 Hypo Michigan, Wisconsin < thio all give a much large" .#for higher education than do.Itidlatia legislature. |LI would like to give you so:m S(fcns why you'should Impress d the iteople of tile state that n > HBlut.i,- necessary to keep up SnrUn of universities. If «■ ftot get this appropriation "■ University's niedi-:-! ■Bit will have to drop many o lifter of work. The standard of doctors that are aont out over the state EMM poorer. There will be a deBms-' in civic and general health: an in depth rates. Tim kip rittes are the places where ba-'■ WftTe first discovered; where was first used: where cure and prevention the free hospital that university owns at Indianapolis m hawk to fie discontinued. XW*' do not get this appro'!>« MMBfeorres (tendance stud'. makes ft possible for any person , thftltale of Indiana or <.|se.vlu'i. sent out by Um tiniv them, will have to b. droi i" Wlnctoi-m Who got their approptr. tlon, have over nine thousand stud-1 I who are taking correspondence study. The ftWmin; ask'-d for this work ft mu the Mat- is trivial. Wisconsin gl*- < her tMrenity one hundred and tilt.' thousand dollars for corresponded' asks for about twenty five hundred! Adams county has ten students in this university. What 1s Adams going to do tor it? Docs the state of Indi ana want the stigma placed on h«r of being the only state In the union who does not. support the education of «•“..Ipfeplv" Why, Indiana pays out. annually over two hundred and fifty •' »-«- ! a,k

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million dollars for common school education! And her legislature balks i at spending a paltry eight hundred thousand for her universities! G. W. WARNER. FRED I. MYEKS. MISS CAROLINE HIRSCHY. CLEM J. STEIGMEYER. MERLE FULK. FREE FRI SINGER. ROY JAHNS. CARL BATTENBURG. PAUL V. MYERS. o SISTER HYCIANTHIA DEAD. Sister M. Hycianthia, aged seventvfour, of the St. Joseph’s hospital. Fort Wayne, passed away suddenly at an early hour this morning, from an attack of heart trouble. TALKS ON HYGIENE Are Being Taken up by Our High School Faculty and Physicians. OF THIS CITY Series of Lectures Becan This Morning With Talk bv Dr. I. S. Bovers. I The faculty of the city high school and the local doctors have organized a series of talks or lectures on hygiene. to be given before the students of the Decatur high school. This action has been fully approved by the city school hoard, and will do doubt have the hearty approval of the public in general. The talks will be of twenty minutes duration each, and will be given every Friday morning at 8:30 o’clock before the high school. Dr. J. S. Boyers of this city, a member of the state board of health, gave t'.o first talk of the series this morning, when he gave a most excellent and instructive address on "Tuberculosis." The series will include fourteen lectures. The subjects for discussion, and the dates on which they will be given are as follows: "Eye"—January 31. "Ear" —February 7. "Mouth"’ —February 14. "Note and Throat”—February 21. ■ Lungs”—February 28. Alimentary Tract”—March 7. "The Skin and Its Appendagea"— March 14. "Brain’ March 21. • First Aid: Medical and Surgical” —March 28. ■' “The Home and Environments”— ■ April 4. "Communicable Diseases”—Aurll 11 I "Eugenics"—April 18. For some evening during the last ■ week of April, Dr. Boyers has secured Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, to give a stereoptlcan lecture, the place to be decided upon later This lecture will be for the genera) public, and the subject will , -e for the genera) public, and the sub- , feet will be: "The Five Pillars of the Temple of Hygiene—Air, Light, Waiter. Food and Exercise.” A large ner cent of the health schools of the wtate are taking up the health problems In this and various ways, and Decatur is doing well In ):<. --Ing trhreast. The amount of good that will result from this dissemination among the growing boys and girls of the knowledge relating to the health cannot he estimated, and the work Is an cm dlngly good one. Wayne' for a'short visit. A CARD OF THANKS. The undersigned wishes io thus publicly express her thanks to those uho supported her In the doll contest nt the C. B. Ia of I. fair, f nm especially thankful to the young men who generously assisted me at the eleventh hour, thus permitting me to secure the beautiful doll, which T shall keep always and prize ns one of my dearest possessions. MARY RCHNEIDER. BIRTH OF A BOY. Cards were received here this morning announcing the birth of a big baby boy, born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frlestoffer of FMrt Wayne. Mrs. Frlestoffer wag formerly Miss May Frieburger of Fort Wayne, and la well known here.

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THE FAIR Ci OSES| More Than Five Hundred People Attend Closing of C. B. L. of I. Fair. . PRIZES ARE AWARDED —.1,.., I I, Fair a Social as Well as a Financial Success—The Doll Contest. I | One of the most successful fairs of I its kind ever held in the city, closed last evening at the C. B. L. of 1. hall, in the new Bowers building. The closing evening of the three days’ series had the largest attendance of all more than five I undred people being present to enjoy the splendid entertainment series. This evening marked the closing of several contests and the awarding of the prizes. This was in charge of Fred Schaub, who delegated the honor of conferring the prizes, to Mr. Savage, a well known traveling man. The little girls’ vote contest, showed Miss Mary Schneider to be the winner of the large doll, she having the 1 greatest number of votes. Three other girls, including Helen Gass, Margaret Holthouse and Margaret Mylott, who worked exceedingly hard also were rewarded wRh dolls. The other great contest awards were as follows: Mrs. Minta Meyers—Universal Range. Charles Ervin —Hat. Ben Smith—Men’s umbrella. Ed Keller—Woman’s umbrella. Frank Stone, Ft. Wayne.—Rug. P. L. Miller—Rope Machine. Mrs. J. K. Niblick—Child’s coat. Elmer Miller—ss rocker. Julius Heidemann—l3.so rocker. I While the amount of the money the C. B. L. of I. cleared during the fair, is not yet known, it is assured that the amount was a very large one, and I the fair’s financial success was just as great as its social success. A large number of out-of-town people were in attendance as well as local people. Besides the committees heretofore named, in charge of the various attractions, the following assisted in making the fair a success: Door Keeper—Joe Knapke. . Floor Managers—Julius Brlte and ] Julius Schultz. Music—Mrs. A. Kohne, Mrs. C. L. Mefbers, Miss Anna Parent. BROTHER’S DEATH Called John Conrad to Stoutsville, Ohio, This j Afternoon. •HE VISITED HERE Last Spring—Was Operated Upon in Cincinnati Hospital Recently. 1 John Conrad left this afternoon for Stoutsville, Ohio, where be was called by the death of his brother, Dick Conrad, which occurred Thursday morn(lng at 10 o'clock. The funeral will be 1 held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. The brother had been ailing since last, October, with what was thought to i bo rancor, and about ntno days ago was operated upon in the hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his death oc-' curred. Tho deceased was known to mnny here, with whom he became acquainted on his visit hare last, spring. He was flfty-flvo years old, and loaves a wife and four children. POLICE COURT. A drunk by the name of Thomas Corbett was picked up this morning on F'atet street by Officer Melchi and was taken before Squire Stone and handed a bill of *1 and costs, in all 19.80, on the charge of public intoxication. Corbett was broke, therefore It was neeesu&ry to Issue a mittimus and send him to jail for ten days. Mlns Gertrude Geels Is Improving and able to be up and about after some weeks of severe IltoeM.

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, January 24, 1913.

OTHERS FIND ’EM, TOO. Custodian Stults Has "Got Nothing Over” Kosciusko County Man. James Stults, custodian of the Adams county court house, who found a pair of men’s false teeth lying in the courthouse, reposing in "an upheaval” occasioned apparently by an attack of nausea on the part of the owner of the teeth, has "got nothing over” the custodian of the Kosciusko county court house. After the fanners’ institute adjourned there this week, Custidian Charles Balsey, who was sweeping, found on the floor of the auditorium a pair of "store teeth.” He says Ihe is accustomed to finding most everything else—hairpins, handkeri chiefs,, pins, and even an envelope, containing a check for |BO2, but this is the first time he has found teeth. SITUATION SERIOUS I In Turkey and Balkan States • —The Ambassadors Must Take Vigorous and CONCERTED ACTION Within Forty-eight Hours if the Situation is to be Handled. (United Press Service) London, Jan. 24 —(Special to Daily i Democrat) —The London ambassadors .of the great powers were summoned l to appear in the office of Sir Edward .Grey, secretary or state of foreign af- | fairs today. He told them that immei diate vigorous and concerted action :by the powers was imperative if ae- > tive hostilities between the Turks, ' Balkan states and possible other nations were to be avoided. The ambassadors were convinced that the revolution now prevailing in Turkey wts the gravest situation since the Balkan war began, and that which had been heretofore scoffed at had J become positive, and that the peace iof Europe and the present situation i depended upon their action within the inext forty-eight hours.

[ Constantinople, Jan. 24—(Special to (Daily Democrat)—The Turkish cabinet has decided to recall the ultimatum peace envoys from London. This i precluding redemption of peace negotiations can be construed to mean only one thing, and that is that the i young Turks are determined to carry ,on the war. The first official action lof the cabinet after recalling the {.ondon potentiates was to recall the Turkish ambassadors at Vienna and St. Petersburg for court martial and accusing them of failing to maintain strong policies in connection of home government against foreign allies. ( Anarchy following close behind the (revolution threatens to run throughlout the Ottoman empire, Heavy fight- ■ Ing prevailed over the city today following a night of continuous rioting and the hospitals are fast filling up with the wounded. HEARING POSTPONED. The. preliminary hearing for Mrs. John Ix>e, which was to have been held this afternoon at 2 o’clock, before Justice J. K. Rinehart, was continued, by agreement of attorneys in the case, , for one week, and will not be called for a hearing until next Thursday, January 39th, at 1 o’clock. The continuance was asked by the | state’s attorneys for the reason that 1 IToarcuting Attorney Lee F. Sprague Is tied up In a case at Hartford City (today, nnd was unable to come to this city. He is desirous of being present when the henring Is held The principal evidence nkainst Mrs. Lee, as fnr ns Is known, Is that furnished in the confession ot John Lee, implicating his wife, but. there promises to boa fight against the admission of evidence by John Ix>e. The attorney tor both Lee and his wife will object to this line of evidence, on the ground that for Leo to go on the witness stsnd to testify against his wife, along the line of the confession, would be equivalent to placing Lw on the stand to testify against himself, since he Is himself charged with first degree murder, and a defendant in a criminal case cannot be compelled to testify. Whether the state has additional evidence probably will not develop until the preliminary is held.—Bluffton News.

ANOTHER BOOM i —* ' »w»»— Was Sounded Thursday Evening at the Local K. of P. Lodge. THE FIRST RANK Work Was Given—R. M. Collins Was Received Into the Order. That there will be something doing in Pythian circles in Decatur during I the next few months is no question. With the installation of the officers for this term a new Interest has been awakened. The first rank work was given (Thursday evening, the candidate be- | Ing R. M. Collins, manager of tho I Morris five and ten cent store. Mr. (Collins will proceed directly through the various degrees. Next Thursday evening, January 30th, he will be proven in the rank of esquire. If there were nothing else to direct the attention of the members of the lodge | toward the lodge room his would be sufficient. I Besides the degree work, the sessions will be followed by features that !will be interesting and worth while. Chancellor Commander R. D. Myers started the ball rolling Thursday ! night by announcing a smoker to take place immediately following the lodge session. Another matter of importance to the lodge was brought up by one of the members directly interested and the matter carried over one week for completion in detail. It is desired that all the members, who can, come out next week to assist in the rank work and to discuss the matter above referred to. If this plan works out, which will be done only on condition that all assist, the lodge will be as greatly benefited as by anything that they have undertaekn o do. o. MILLS GETS THE JERSEY, Dr. Zeigler of Monmouth, who took the decision of the case of John Fryback vs. Louis Mills, for the replevin of a Jersey cow, under advisement, has rendered a decision in favor of the defendant, giving Mills the Jersey. causedlome stir Rumor That the Basket Ball I Hall Had Been Condemned Made “Fans” Inquire. A STATE INSPECTOR Was Here Thursday and Ordered Some Changes Made to Insure Safety. Considerable excitement was caused . this morning among students and fans, when ft became rumored that the state fire inspector, who was hero Thursday, had condemned the old I ! Porter hall, making It impossible that any more games of basket bail be) played there. An invcs'igutlon, how-1 I ever, proved this a mistake. The In-j i spector eimply called on Mr. Je««e Niblick and suggested several changes for the protection of the building, and those who patronize tho games and that gentleinan consented, agreeing to see that same are made at once. One of tho things necessary Is that the rear stairway, which has boon closed, be opened so that Is may bo used If necessary. The doors must also swing out Instead of In. The games will proceed, there being one scheduled for tonight between tho second team and a Fort Wayne five. Tho first high school team goes to Bluffton tonight to meet the fast bunch from Llbery Center. The basket ball game in this city has done much toward creating a sentiment for a gymnasium. — ■ o-- ■ ' • Clarence Miller, who has been off duty from work for the last six weeks on account of illness, started to work this afternoon.

A LOCAL EVENT. I ’ The great big theatrical event of the season here will bike place when "The Third Degree” will be presented in iliis city. Its representation will enlist a company of players of reputation and of undoubted talent, and staged with the same great care that is to be given to the exclusive city production. The company plays there soon. FIREMEN MEET TONIGHT. All members of the Decatur fire company are requested to meet at the station this evening at which time plans for the show to be given next | week will be discussed. THE LAST INNING I - —— lln Higher Courts Gives the i Faylor Heirs Possession, of Land I i IN FAMOUS SUIT ,i Tried Here Twice—D. D. Studebaker Held PossesI sion Long. The famous Faylor-Studebaker case I was "put to sleep’ as far as the high!er courts are concerned late Wedi , j nesday afternoon when the state suI preme court denied the appellant’s pe|tition for a transfer of the case from the appellate court. ■ According to this decision the heirs of the late Catherine Faylor are given possession of the J famous "Katy” Faylor farm, north- ] west of the city, which, according to .the will of the woman was the prop- • I erty of D. D. Studabaker. By the last • decision of the appellate court the heirs were also awarded $2,000 ' ages for rents and profits from the ( land while it was in the hands of-Mr. Studabaker. Mr. Studabaker has had •possession of the farm since the last jdecision of the appellate court was .against him. A writ of assistance will now probably be asked for, in order for the heirs to get possession of the property and they will also prob- ’ ably file a suit for damages against Mr. Studabaker. according to the statements of the attorneys today. The case was started In the courts It l I . k heirs of C rb.erlue Faylor, deceased, filed suit against D. D. Studabaker. t asking the court to quiet the title to j the farm, claiming it bad been willed to tho defendant, when the deceased j Catherine Fnvlor was of unsound mind. The case was tried by a jury ’and a verdict was returned for the (plaintiff. Mr. Studabaker was granted a new trial and the case was sent to i J the Adams circuit court on a change ’i of venue. The jury in this trial d’s,agreed and during the following term. . it was tried again, the jury returning •■a verdict for the Faylor heirs. Mr. Studabaker appealed the case to the ap|M>llnte court and the decision of the Adams circuit court was afj firmed. A motion for a rehearing was (overruled and Mr. Studabaker then 'transferred It to the state supreme 'court. Tho supremo court reversed the decision and another trial in Adams county followed. The verdict for the heirs with damages In the ■ sum of 12.900 was returned. This was appi’i'od on a question of law, j but tho appellate court affirmed the I decision \eril 25, 1912. Mr. Studabaker's attorneys petition"d the nnnollnte court for a rehearing, which was denied and a motion for a transfer to the supreme court was made. The final action on this motion was taken Wednesday, when the supreme court denied it. This prnctlcnllv puts an end »o all litigation in the higher courts, but nttor-1 noya for »he Faylor heirs stated today ' that a suit for damages against Mr. Studnhnkor will probably bo filed and 1 also a suit for possession in order for: tho heirs to got their farm. The esse has been In the sourts so many years that it has attracted much attention over the state.—Bluffon Banner. Atornevg for the Falyor heirs were Simmons & Dailey, Sturgis ft Stine, and Mock & Mock of Bluffton, and Judge Holler of Decatur. Attorneys for Studabaker were Eichhorn ft > Vaughn, of Bluffton; John Burns. Hartford City; U. S. Lenh, Hunting-' ton, and D. E Smith, Decatur.

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THE LLGISL JURE Bills on Third Reading Considered in Both Houses--City Government Bill. A GOVERNOR’S MANSE Again Being Talked About —lndiana Will be Represented at World’s Fair. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 24—Members of the Indiana legislature paid more attention to committee hearings than to the regular routine of receiving and acting on bills. Neither house held a session in the afternoon, but committee transacted a volume ot business. Bills on third reading were considered in both houses, the senate passing three and voting down one, while the lower branch passed seven. Twenty-one bills were introduced In the senate and twenty-six in the house. ‘ The sight of an innocent little girl drinking at a fountain from the same cup used by a man whose lip was nearly eaten off, caused Senator White of Crawfordsville, he said, to introduce a bill against the common drinking cup in all public places. Governor Ralston said yesterday that he was in favor of the state’s providing a residence for future governors, but that he did not believe the legislature should take action effective during his term. A joint commission has been appointed by the legislature to study the feasibility of the states taking over property for a governor s home. The ways and means committee of the house yesterday afternoon agreed to report favorably on Jhe Cravens bill, appropriating $75,000 for the representation of Indiana at the San Francisco exposition, and favorably on the Kellam bill, appropriating 11,500 for the maintenance and care of the plot where Nancy Hanks is buried. Two bills by Bedwell, both relating to the taxing of minerals under the surface in addition to the value of the ground as real estate. A public hearing on these bills was set for next . Wednesday. Also the bill, regarding the taxation of certain /properties such as bonds, which "tax . dodgers” might endeavor to conceal from taxation was included in the list ,on bills to be taken up thp Jlpar)nt i The committee also held a joint meet- | Ing with the finance committee of Tie senate, and organized for the work of taking up the appropriation bills. Senator Fleming was named as the chairman of the joint committee. It was decided to send out letters to the heads of the various state institutions, asking them when they desired to be heard regarding the appropriations to I be made for the institutions. I The “business form of city government," as embodied in the Koenig bill, was discussed before the house committee on cities and towns, yesterday afternoon, by T. F. Thieme, manufacturer, of Fort Wayne; E. G. Hoffman, attorney, of Ft. Wayne, and W. K. Stewart, of lndlana|>olls. Indianapolis and Fort. Wayne under present forms of government, were pointed to by the speakers as types of "just" what city government ought not to be.” The hearing lasted an hour nnd a half. Then the committee decided not to make any report on the hill until another hearing wns given. The date for tills was not fixed. Mr. Stewart declared that ns an Illustration of what tho present laws afford was tho case of the last election in Indianapolis, when the people of this city hnd "been given tin opportunity to choose between an auctioneer and la tinner for the job of Tuning a cor'poration that, spends $5,000,000 ayear. ' " 1 'O-—- ——— FIREMEN WILL GIVE SHOW. Home Talent Play of Merit for Good Cause at Opera House Jan. 31. The Decatur fire laddies will give an Interesting home talent show st the Bosse opera house on Friday evening. January 31st. Tickets can be purchased of the firemen or at the . Holthouse drug store. Admission. 25 'cents for any part of the house. Re (served sent sale at Holthouse drug 'ntoro, beginning Thursday, January i 30th at 8 o’clock a. m.