Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1913 — Page 1

Swolume XI. Number 32.

tARMERS I INSTITUTE jpf Root, Union and Wash--o'l ington Townships Opens in Court Room Today. SOME GOOD LECTURES I Biven by Noted Workers— I Program for This Evenng an Excellent One. | j ■On account of the zero weather, the Bio i-th eastern Adams County Farmers' Mrtitute, scheduled f or today and towas a little alow In getting Mtn rt i-d. 1 However, by 9:46. a goodly number farmers and business men assemMwl at the court room aad the meeting was called to order by President C. 8. Mumma. ■ After a song by the Doeotur Mai. ■Bartet and the invocation by Rev. | Billing the institute got down to jusinees. Mr. James Kline of Howe, Bad , one of the practical farmers of the north part o( the state, delivered an able address on “Alfalfa in Indiana." K Mr. Kline does not pose as an ora-

tor. but is a plain, practical farmer. He emphasized the necessity of thordrainage inoculation and liming of the soil. Alfalfa bacteria dies in water-soaked and acid soil. Plow early and cultivate frequently till August to clear the soil of weeds. Inoculate trith soil from an alfalfa field or sweet elOver patch. Inoculation should be done on a cloudy day or in the early morning, as the hot sun destroys the bacteria. The culture furnished by the department at Washington is not always satisfactory. Sow twenty pounds per acre and avoid cheap see--! having weed seeds or other for•ign substances. Cultivate frequently. ! Analysis and dairy tests show alfalfa hay to have a higher feeding value per pound than bran. Following Mr. Kline was Mr. L. W. Orlati of Bay City, Mich. The instij Mgr meat has been ex:e di:!'.ly fortunate in securing his services. He is regarded as one of the most .able men in Michigan. For an hour he entertained the institute in a most happy manner on the subject of clov> r Mid crop .rotation. The farmer gets out of his soil just in proportion to What he puts into It. Feed the soil and it will feed you. No other crop grown so perfectly accomplishes the result, as clover. ■ After announcements and explanaMons of the institute law and appolntjat iii of committees, the institute ad■nrned to meet at 1 o'clock, instead Os 1:30 as announced on the program. ■.Th' committee on organization for the ensuing year, which has until tomorrow to report, is: John Evans, MfcKti E. M. Wagner, Washington, and Rose Hardin, Union township. Afternoon Session. ■lnstitute convened at 1:20 o’clock, BIT h a larger attendance than in the BKorning. The song wne omitted and the first subject, "Importance of Live . »t<>' k on tbe Farm,” by Mr. Kline, was Hfaken up. The speaker explained the of the various fertilizers and the methods of making tests, limestone is more valuable J th; burned lime, as the latter is caustic and kills seed germs. Con-. tijviul cropping exhausts the soil. A . HBst<*m of live-stock farming improves th< soil. Flow under clover and other leguminous crops. Red clover is meat valuable of all legumes. Al- . ..|llk" clover is not as valuable as a fer■pilzor. Mr. Kline grows cattle as bethe most profitable line, consider- > Ing the work connected therewith. ■He thinks the beef cattle business is £>Suiid to be paying in the future. The allo makes it possible to keep more ' UVe stock on tbe same acreage of land HHhn dry method. An interesting disBBssion followed In which several of ths institute participated. SsAt the time of going to press, U WOfeatt was speaking on “Sugar Be-ts. Mr. OViatt is an enthusiastic grow- r SHE beets and com and one of his cmSph.'tJc statements was: “Sugar beets h*ve paid off more mortgages and J**”" rnnrA Ifoefl In Michigan than any slitter product." A. D. Butles, Presiding. Tonight’s Session —7:30. I (Cmukus aa Wage 2)

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exceptionally fine SHOW. . I Was “Third Degree" Presented Last Evening at trie Opera House. A fair sized and enthusiactic and- - ience witnessed the production of the "Third Degree" last evening at the Bosse Opera House and to say that the theatre goers were given the treat of their lives is putting it exceedingly mild. Each member of the cast had a • hard and difficult role which they carried through to perfection and the vividness with which the plot was work- . ed out gave an interest to every sec- ■ ond of the play. Although the weather was not conducive to a large audience, the house was filled to fully two-thirds of its capacity and those who braved the wintry gusts declared themselves more than repaid by witnessing the finest production ever put on in the city. A FORGED CHECK I For $3.10 on J. E. Moser’s Account at Old Adams Cashed by Hunsickers. ' ARRESTS ARE MADE i. And Clarence Holthouse and Fred J. Gordon (Miller) Are Charged.

w- 1 Clarence Holthouse and Fred J. Gordon, whose real name is said to be Fred J. Miller, are in jail on the I charge of making and passing a forg| ed check. Each was unable to give j the SSOO bond required. M filer was first taken into custody , by Marshal Peterson, Wednesday aft- i ernoon, on information given to him, i and lodged in jah. About 7 o’clock Wednesday night, Marshal Peterson got Holthouse, also on information, and the charge having been made against the men, and the wirrant is- { sued from the circuit court, Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly served the same on the two men. The bad check was made on the Old Adams County bank, purporting to have been executed by J. E. Moser for $3.10, payable to Fred J. Gordon. Gorden (or Miller) and appeared at the Hunsicker Bros, store Satur- { day evening, where Miller had the j check: cashed .having endorsed it by i v.riting Fred J. Gordon’s name there-' on. Dallas Hunslckqr did not doubt the. check and paid «it without ques- { lion. It was turned in with their oth-1 er deposits to the First National bank ' the first of the week, and by the First { National to the Old Adams County { Wednesday. Here the signature was challenged and Mr. Moser, the photographer, denied having executed the cheek. It was then turned over to Dallas Hunsicker, who, after Investigating, made the affidavit charging Holtbouse and Gordon (Miller) with the forgery and passing of the check. Miller is a young man about thirty years of age. He came here last Thanksgiving day from Chicago, having become acquainted with Holthouse in lowa, where It is said they cooked together. He came here with the expectation of working in the Holty Case, but found this closed and then went to work at the sugar plant, working in the cooper shop. He boarded while here at the John Starost home. Mr. Starost and all his acquaintances speak in the highest terms of the . young man, and express freely their i belief in his innocence. Miller, it is said, spent a very bad afternoon and night at the jail, being much worried over his plight. He protested strongly his innocence. He was arrested first and when later joined by Holtbousd, broke out In words against. Holthouse, asking him why he got him into trouble of this kind. He 1 stated to those at the jail that he had met Holthouse, who had the check and that Holthouse told him to write the 1 name Fred J. Gordon on the back and then to get It cashed at the Hunsicker store. Miller said he did so, thlnk- > ing everything was all right, and not . knowing otherwise until the arrest . was made. When he met Holthouse in the jail ■ he began to upbraid him for getting - him into trouble. Holthouse Is said i to have told him to hush, that he would I get him out all right. Holthouse al- ■ leges his innocence also, stating that Moser had g’ven him the check. The penalty for conviction Is from two to fourteen years in state's prison.

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WAS A MARVEL Late Mr. Schlegel Probably First Bicycle Manufacturer in City. EARLY AS 1868 Made One from Wagon Wheels—Envy and Wonder of All. The late Augustus Schlegel, the pioneer blacksmith, was a very skilled man, possessed of great ability as a mechanic. One of his early achievements is brought to memory in an interesting letter from J. Frank Mann, the Muncie attorney, formerly of this city, as follows: Muscle, Ind., Feb. 5, 1913. Editor Democrat: I noticed in the Daily Democrat of February 3, an account of the death of Augustus Schlegel, one of the pioneers of Adams county. It recalled to me that once upon a time, when I was a small boy, 1 aaw Gus Schiecel do sometbiag that was then a marvel. In probably 18M or ISM, I was standing upon the board sidewalk on Second street just north of Monroe, and Gus came down the street at a very rapid pace, riding the first bicycle that I ever saw. He had taken two buggy wheels and connected them together .with an iron framework, placed the pedals on the front wheel, and had learend to ride it. My reeojlecition of the speed which he traveled over the old loose board walk, and , the rattle and noise of the then unnamable machine, is very vivid. I I presume Gus was the pioneer bicycle { rider of this country. Years afterward bicycles came into common use, and what was a very great curiosity then, has of recent years become a necessity. The memory of Gus Schlegel is entitled to be cherished because of I being the pioneer bicycle manufactur■er, if for no other reason. Respectfully yours, J. FRANK MANN. MANY PATIENTS (From This City at the Lutheran Hospital—Rev. Hessert Makes |A PASTORAL CALL Finds Decatur Colony There Recovering—A Very Busy Month. Rev. L. Ci Hessert, pastor of the German Reformed church, paid a pastoral call on the ill from this city, who are patients in Fort Wayne hospitals, sorno of whom are members of his congregation. At present there are fl>ur Decatur, or former Decatur ladles, who are patients at the Lutheran hospital. Another former Decatur lady, Mrs. Rosa Weis Spade, of Fort Wayne, a member of Rev. Hessert's congregation, while she lived here, is a patient at the St. Joseph hospital. As Rev. Hessert carried with him messages of good cheer, spiritual, as well as the more material good wishes from the friends of the patients here, Just so does he brliig an exchange of encouraging messages from the patients, regarding their rapid recovery. MrS. Spade is now able to sit up and expects to join her family in their Fort Wayne home soon. She Is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Weis, sr., of this city. Miss Agnes Sellemeyer, the high school senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sellemeyer, it was thought would be able to sit up today, and will probably be able to come home next week. She was operated upon for appendicitis, and In perfectly good health, otherwise, is recovering rapidly. Mrs. John Jeffrey is getting along remarkably well, and is In a very cheerful state, which is always conducive to rapid recovery', Mrs. Oliver Schug, operated upon for appendicitis, is getting along well, but Is not in a very cheeful state of

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, February 6, 1913.

mind, seeming to suffer much from depression. She is doing well, however, considering all. Not only has Decatur a large number of patients at the Fort Wayne hospital, but others have contributed to making the pa’st January the busiest in the history of that institution. During the thirty-one days, 134 patients were treated, and twelve children were born In the institution. Os the total number of cases, 78 west; operations. During the month 10* patients were discharged, and ,at the opening of February there were 94 patients in the hospital. — FUNERAL HELD THIS MORNING. The funeral services for the late Michael Touhey of Lima, whose remains were brought to this city for burial, were held this morning from tbe St. Mary’s Catholic church at 8:30 o’clock. Burial was made in the St. Joseph’s cemetery. MAKING IT HUM Sale of Parcels Post Stamps for First Month Amounts to Nearly sloor AN EXTRA CARRIER May be Needed in a Few Months—Fence Post Latest Oddity by Mail. The first month of parcels post service at the local office shows the system to have been a very successful one, the sale of stamps in this department having reached nearly SIOO. Bluffton reports the sale there to have been $134.48 for the month of January. The sales show a marked increase during the last half of the month. While no account was kept Jfor the last half, as was required for the first, it is thought the business was a third heavier during the last half of January. No data is kept as to the number of parcels handled or their weight, as this information was required by the department only for the first fifteen days. The office has had to call for theassistance of Milt Leave!!, the substitute carrier, on several occassions to help get the parcels out of the way, and it is thought if the business shows the steady increase begun, it will be only four or five months until an extra carrier wiy be kept busy all the time and some sort of a conveyance required. The public is getting used to the sight of the mail carrier with his strange burdens, but every now and then an odity pops up. The latest was an iron fence post sent through the mails. Hat boxes, sausage, smoked meats, dress goods, merchandise of all and apple butter, are frequently sent, and now and then a doll. The parcels post rules out the sending of live animals by mail, and the stories current about babies being sent by parcels post in some cities are believed to be fabricated from cloth that wouldn’t stand much strain, upon investigation. AT PETERSON SCHOOLHOUSE. All Day Session of Kirkland Township Farmers’ Saturday. Valentine Linker, president, and James D. Drown, secretary of th» Kirkland township farmers' association, announce a good program for Saturday Feb. 8, when the first annual Institute will be held in the Peterson schoolhouse The session will open at 9:3Q. with a prayer by Rev. Daniel Barley, James Kline of Howe, will speak on “Farm Crops, Prinsiples of Cropping’’ and Mrs. Laura Leonard of Indianapolis, will give an adress on “Floods, Material and Their Preparation.” In the afternoon, beginning at 1:30 o’clock. Mr. Kline will speak on "Orchard Fruits and Mrs. Leonard on "Household Efficiency.” Excellent music will be rendered by talented ones, and the sessions will be both pleasing and instructive. A boys’ corn contest will be held. There will be three premiums offered —$.75, $.50 and $.25, for corn grown by the boys. o Mrs. S. E. Brown entertained at dinner Wednesday for Mrs. Homer Weaver of Davenport, lowa, and Mrs. Samantha Brown of this city.

DEATH IS NIGH In Evanston for Telephone Salutation “Hello”—lt’s “Vulgar.” SO THEY SAY (And Now “Good Morning” and so on, are all the Rage Instead. Not to “deah old Boston,” with its high lights of "cultah,” has been given the honor of placing a ban upon the usual saluatation “hello” as "vulgar;’’ to dear Evanston, 111., our very near neighbor, is the credit given. (When anything is called “vulgar” in i Evanston, Ijts death is nigh. How soon will It reach Decatur? “Good morning,” "Good afternoon,” or “Good evening,” have taken the place of the shorter and more convenient word. In some cases, where an undesirable has called, the “Good night” is used with peculiar and equal emphasis on each word. The substitutes for “hello” have become so common that they have atattracted the attention of telephone girls, no to insinuate that the girls ever listen to conversation over the wire. It is necessary, however, for tbe girls to make sure that the connection is all right The operator in the office of H. B. Gates, manager of the Evanston exchange of the Chicago Telephone comi pany, said recently that the women .have abandoned the “hello” for the 'more polite and formal substitute. “It 1 is seldom that I ever hear ‘hello,’ ’’ she ■ said. “I have occasion to call the : homes of several society women in I the course of a day, and in nearly ev--1 ery instance the woman at the other {end of the wire greets me with ‘good , afternoon,’ or 'how do you do ’ But a new complication presented I itself when the reform began to reach ito the ranks of the domestics. The {servants fresh from the lands of the (ContTnoev on Page 2) POPULAR PLACE

Is Hotel de Durkin—County i Had Twenty-one Guests Wednesday Night. ONLY TWELVE BEDS Sixteen Prisoners Pipe-liners and Railroad Men Arrested as Drunks. Th? Hotel de Durkin seems to be the most popular hostelry in the county. The register for Wednesday night showed twenty-one guests—this in spite of the inadequate accommodations in the bed line, for there were only twelve beds. The very cold weather, however, made huddling together more conducive to warmth and the close quarters were not so uncomfortable as they might have been had the thermometer been higher. Tfie 1 congestion was relieved somewhat this morning, when six of the prisoners! were released. It is said that sixteen ■of the twenty-one prisoners were pipeline and railroad employees, who were' committed for public intoxication. I Only a small number of those commit- 1 ted to jail in the past several months are permanent residents of the county. INTER STATE DRAIN. Calls Surveyors to Chattanooga, Ohio, Today. Surveyor Phil Macklin and hfs deputy, John T. Glllig, with Dillon R. Smalley, surveyor of Mercer county, Ohio, are at Chatanooga, Ohio, today on business. They go to survey land for a drain affecting land In Mercer county, Ohio, and Adams county. Indiana. NOTICE TO BEN HURS. AU members of the Ben Hur lodge are requested to be at their hail next Friday evening. Business pertaining to Class A members will be discussed

RETURNS FROM FLORIDA. Gpy Majors Will Remain In North Until Next Fall. — Guy Majors, who went to Tyler, Fla., a few weeks ago and opened a barber i shop there, and got his land and town property in shape preparatory to moving there, has returned and will remain in Fort Wayne until the busy season in the new and growing little town opens up more fully next fall. He will resume his barbering in Fort Wayne, and he and his wife left sor 1 ' there today noon. o FINE PAID BY UNKNOWN. London, Feb. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat.) —Some unknown party paid Miss Sylva Pankhursts’ $lO fine i and she was released from prison al- ■ though she dearly wanted to go on a i hunger strike for 19 days. WRECK AT MONROE Local Northbound Freight > on G. R. & I. Ploughs Up I i Track for Hundred i ■ FEET OR MORE ’ North of Monroe—Wreck Train Called from Fort Wayne—None Hurt. Monroe, Ind., Feb. 6—(Special to 1 I Daily Democrat) —The track on the G IR. &I. railroad was torn up for a disj tance of about 100 feet, three-quarters .I of a mile north of this town at 1 ’ i o’clock this afternoon, w’hen a car of northbound local freight No. 30, in charge of Conductor Rowan left tbe ( track. The cause of the wreck was the breaking of one of the journals of I the wheel, letting that part, of the car down and ploughing up the track for a short distance. No one was hurt. _ ‘ The wreck train was called out from Fort Wayne and it was thought the j work of an hour or a little more would clear the way. The southbound ! passenger train, which was a little i late, was held at Decatur until the way was cleared. | -O J

\ RADIATOR VALVE BROKE And School at Central Dismissed for Second Time. For the second time this week it ' was necessary to dismiss the students ;' at the central school building. A ! valve in one of the steam radiators ion the second floor broke and It was ! necessary to let the fire go out and 1 let the water run out to make the repair. The building was nicely heated before the valve broke, and as the heat was retained in the rooms until about 10:30, it was not necessary to I dismiss the students until that time,! , : when the temperature of the second ! floor began to get too cool. The re- | pair was made and the rooms heated ■■'again by time to open tbe afternoon 1 session. POLICE COURT. I i It loked for a while today as if the j police court was going to pass a day of , rest and peacefulness, but alas, there ' was at least one man in the city who { i could not see it that way, and that, . man was Joseph Reilly, who started in | early this morning to absorb all the, loose “booze” he could find and was arrested by Marshal Peterson on Win-; Chester street. Reilly was taken be[t’ore ’Squire Stone and drew the usual "soak” of $1 and costs. He will be a guest of the county for the next ten , days. CARD OF THANKS, Mr. and Mrs. Iwtwrence Sbhlegel wish to thank the neighbors and friends. Rev. Hessert, the Christian church and others for their kindness to them in their late bereavement, ocx’asioned by the death of their father, Augustus Schlegel. o— ■— MR. CHRISTEN IMPROVING. Word from the bedside of Ed S. Christen Is that he Is resting much better than ho did Wednesday and his Improvement is gradual. The first s three or four days following the opt eration are always Uy Ing, but he Is 5 getting along as well as can be expected.

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THE INCOME TAX Amendment Will Become Part of Constitution When Three-fourths of States HAVE ACCEPTED IT I — Leaders in Indiana Legislature Planning to Complete W’ork Early. (United Press Sendee) Washington, D. C„ Feb. 6—(Special {to Dally Democrat)—President Taft | will issue a proclamation declaring .the income tax amendment a part of the constitution as soon as the state department has noti- . Station from thee-fourths of the states ' that their legislatures have accepted the amendment Secretary of State I Knox will prepare the proclamation {probably late this week, but Its issuance will await receipt of certificates from the state governments officially showing the ratification. These are not exjiected for a week or two. II The president’s proclamation will i automatically put up to congress the 'question of laws regarding the amount , and method of taxation. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Having contributed a vice president to the iauguraition festivities in Washington, March 4, Indiana, represented by iu legisla- , ture of 150 members, wants to shine at those Washington doings. For several days there has been stirred a rumor that Thomas Taggart, would cheerfully foot the bill for the special train or trains, to carry the legislature and Its satellites to the coital, but no one has been able to prove that the genial hotel-keeper of French Lick ' and Indianapolis would willingly underwrite the excursion for SIO,OOO, which the trip would easily cost. The latest dope about the inauguration special came today when It-was reported that the leaders of both houses had agreed to rush matters to enable adi journment on March 2nd, in time for the special to land in Washington on March 4. Not one has dared hint at a k reAss for the trip and the sixty-one days fixed by the constitution for a legislative session would be up March

9th. The early adjournment tale was boosted by a report that the leaders had agreed to pass some of the big bills this week. Two days had passed when the houses go down to work this morning, and nothing along this line of “big accomplishments” showed. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A system of vocational education to train children for work in the shop and on the farm would be established in the schools of Indiana by the Varling bill pending today In the legislature. ■ The bill embodies the recommendations of the commission on industrial and agricultural education created by the 1911 legislature, of which Senator Will A. Yarling was chairman, and John A. Ijapp, legislative librarian, secretary. Under the bill local school boards would be given authority to establish vocational schools or departments at once and levy a special tax not to exceed 10 cents on each SIOO of taxable 'property in the corporation to support such work. Beginning with 1914-1915 jlocal school boards shall be reimbursjed by the state for two-thirds of the sum expended for such instruction apiproved by the state board.. An additional tax levy of one cent on each SIOO in the state shall be levied by the state to make up a fund with .which to reimburse the local boards i for vocational work. Evening classes are provided for in the measure; also part-time vocational for classes engaged in similar lines of work. Attendance on day and part- . time classes would be the limit to persons from 15 to 25 years of age and i'evening classes to persons over 17. Two or more cities, town or town- ■ ship might co-operate in establishing vocational schools and departments. Elementary agriculture would be required in the grades in all towns and township schools; elementary indus- ■ 1 trial work would be required In the i J grades of all city and town schools; > I elementary domestic science would bo J taught to all girls in such schools. ■ j Th© bill would add three new memi hers to the state board of education, ■ 1 persons actively interested in vocaItional education.