Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1913 — Page 1

ilume XI. Number 35.

Ilan for 9 BIG EVENT ' ~ —• Preliminary Meetin ; b, r t ;. ( . ■firemen’s Convex' I be Held in This City. Sh JSDAY, JUNE 2GTII •flbwd of 20.000 With Twe”-Mr-five Bands Exik<’< ; ■ Parade Will be L j.r<e. June 26, 191:'.. a pin in that dat ' ait} bast it in your hat. Do any • keep it in your mind -for W® 1 the blgßest dav I'" a' .:' .vyear the annua! Mfan' ’s association was held ar and a delegation o' !». --j ,r pjsapt vent over and landed Th.vention for this year. They told about our slogan And to <U it entertain the firemen from the district, enertained «M7 You bet your lit- a.- i: .. d - ,[ Met Here Sunday. Swjßpa:..'■ ry to fori:;!:.MW plans, officers >' met at the city hall in t ~ Among those present were G. F. Stogge, pn-sid.-nt, f.> ;! J. W. Guenthm r. Win. ■■, vfee president; L. Helm !>••■ u: secretary : Al P. Ent, Dunkirk, ass > |9|Mfc<' re tar y; F. G. Duryee, E>rt Wayne and O .B. Wemhoff. Ims-:’. lOMnbt of the executive board: \V. D.9pm , Hartford City; I'.. Wells, Montpelier; A. W 1'..-. -hl.-, . , . rettjbnd (’. A. Lehnmm Berne. Plans were discussed and Wiresen t told of the success of vention in other cities and the desirejthat this one, the eighth, be eMat b. .ter. HHnvnse Crowd is Expected Thefcrowd at Dunkirk I i • Mtimat at 15,000, and it is that here will l>e twenty tm R pie initios city on .June 26: h are forty two counties in C ■ ' eMitera district, including th. Ing cities and towns: . Monti • ier, Dunkirk, Park'•' ' Hartford City, Portland. W Butler, Berne, Bluffton. G.i ■ G. E. Lamp Works. Fort M 1' Wayne Electric Works, la-cat." lumbia City, Cicero, Wabash. City, Albany. Farmland, A 1 t V kle. North Manchester. Middb-’' Matthews, Union City, Woodbury Glass, Winchester, Fountain < ty. Besides these Invitations will be Bent to cities and towns in w.-st. i n Ohio, and it is to be hoped that D- 1 tur will prove equal to the oProgram Is of Interest. The program for the day will elude a monster parade, two mil's in length, in which will participate ■ firemen, with apparatus, bands and drum corps. It is believed that not tihgthan twenty-five bands will tul<. part in the day’s celebration 'I ' Will be various prizes offer' d I there will be plenty doing all tin 1 ”W Must Raise $1,200 in Cash. UMer to take care of >'■ event, which will do more to tise ®ecntor than anything ev.-r here ,i|will be necessary for H . les to raise Hie sum 1 $1,200. BThis will be used in advertising. paying prizes, and a complete report will be n 1:1 after the event is over that thos.- who subscribe may know that the money was used to the best advantage I • finance committee of the firemen includes L. C. Helm ,L. G. Hammond. Frank Aurand, C. O. Meibers, Peter Gaffer and O. B. Wemhoff, and at Sunday’s meeting a committee of busin -s ■ *••») tn work in conjunction with Hi - committee was named, consisting of MMl:' Eh in ger, chairman; Fred .lael ier, J. T. Myers, C. N. Christen, W. 1’ Schrock and C. C. Schafer. A press sj committee, consisting of J- H. Heller, Morton Stults, L. C. Helm, O. B. Wemhoff and C. O. Meibers, was also appointed and these committees will meet at the city hall to organize and Work out a plan that it is hoped will raise the money tand make every 'is Hoif to. Decatur on June 26th say De-

DECATUR DAIRY DEMOCRAT — “DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

catur is the best town on the map. Let’s do it right. There Will be Feature*. Among the companies coming will ‘ he one from Hicksville, Ohio, which will be accompanied by a boys’ band of torty-six pieces. Other bands comitig site the Packard, Muncie, Winchcster, Marion and a number of the best in the state. It is expected that at J h ast ten new companies will join here. W e are trying to convince you that this will be the one big event ever held here, and we are sure you wvlll agree with us after it is aver. Ask anybody who has ever attended one and they will tell you that there are [ wonderful crowds, mostly men. The feeding of the crowd is one that should not be overlooked and the eating houses will be crowded to the limit. Remember the date and watch for Hie dope as it appears from time to time. The press committee - will keep you posted. COURT HOUSE NEWS t — r Hearing of Evidence in Carr ter-Mills Partition Case Resumed Today 11 r BY SPECIAL JUDGE 1 1 ’ Archie Megann Defendant e j in Another Case—Pro0 i bate Matters. Kirsch. Sellemeyer & Company have j filed a suit against Archie D. Megann, r on account, demand $l5O, for lumber, t doors and other merchandise. An att tachment suit was filed against the . same defendant some time ago by . Hower & Hower for groceries furnish- . ed, and Kirsch, Sellemeyer & Comt pany ask this case be consolidated with that. Heller, Sutton & Heller and Fruchte & Litterer are the plaintiff s attorneys. Megann came here and conducted a boarding house in the f north part of the city for a wthile, many lof the beet workers boarding there. | f j In the case of Archie P. Hardison e against the Town of Geneva, venued here from Adams county, the defend-1 ants today filed a demurrer to the' s plaintiff's complaint.—Bluffton Ban1 ner. > 3 Real estate transfers: Ellen Nelson . to \nn E. Durkin, 20 acres, Monroe

. tp . $2871.14. The final report of Mary L. Baum- , partner, guardian of Herman F. Baurn- . gartner et al., was approved, and the t guardian discharged as to said ward. ■ " "■ s In the matter of the guardianship ■ of Cecil M. Andrews et al., the inven- , ton- was filed and approved, and the guardian discharged. s The current report of C. W. Baumi gartner, guardian of Ida Moser et al., • was allowed. The current report of Daniel N. Er- - win, guardian of Harland W. Heath, i et al., was allowed. ) 1 Frank T. Boesel vs. Wm. H. Fledt derjohann, suit on note. Judgment ? for plaintiff for $1,974 and costs. , ——— 1 Henry Knapp vs. Frank Lynch et . al., on note. Appearance by Lutz for defendant, Lynch. 11 • Further hearing of the evidence in i tii,. < -o of Lillie Carter et al. vs. NanI , MHN et al. for partition of real estate, was resumed today before Spec- . jai Judge C. J. Lutz. SATURDAY “BANNER DAY." > One Hundred Seventy Books Issued at Library. > The interest and attendance at the Decatur library is increasing by the , proverbial leaps and bounds. Some ■ time ago, When the circulation for one day reached 134 books, that was coni sidered the banner circulation day. s Later it reached 160 for one day, and last Saturday reached the highest in . its nearly six years of existence, when 170 books were taken out by patrons, i When it is considered that this is the , record for only one day of eight, av- ■ eraging more than twenty-one books ■ an hour or more than a book every ! three minutes, some idea of the busy time enjoyed by the librarian can be gotten. This is above the many who come to read the magazines at the tables or use reference books.

TELL THE TRUTH When a Newspaper Reporter Interviews You—An Evasion or Garbled ACCOUNT OF EVENT Will Only Bring Discredit Upon Yourself —Be “Above Board.” Contrary to the belief of many a newspaper does not deliberately falsify. It desires above all ptofessions to tell the truth about a thing. Not even the ministry has a more sincere desire to tell the truth. A newspaper, is however, dependent upon information given by others for an account. It goes straight to the source and interviews those in authority, or those who are supposed to know the truth of a thing and are supposed to be responsible therefor. It doesn’t try to pry into private affairs, but seeks that which is of general interest to the publicthings that the public has the right to know. Therefore, when an interview is given, the informers should make it a point to give the whole truth and nothing but the truth. A garbled account does not only give the newspaper a bad reputation; it reflects in a bad way upon the person and the business about which the article is written. So, when you are interviewed by a reporter tell a straight story and do not be sparing of facts. The more truly the story is told, the more truly the story will be written. If you cannot give a clear account of the thing yourself, how can you expect the paper to do so. If you do not do so, and willfully mislead, there is cause to ! suspect that everything is not as it should be. An attempt to mislead or deny, or refuse legitimate newspaper information, on of the one interviewed, only places the one interIviewed in a bad light; a person above 'board will not attempt to do so, and jan effort to evade will only bring susl picion upon yourself, and cause the interviewer to redouble his efforts to get at the bottom of tire matter. If there is something that you have jgood reason to supress, explain your attitude. A newspaper reporter is usI ually just as honorable, if not more so, than others; he usually does not betray the confidence given him. A simple statement of the truth, or a pre-

sentation of the matter, will always bring more creditable results to the one interviewed, than an evasion. TO CONSOLIDATE Patrons of Districts of Four Townships Want a Common School AT ST. JOHN’S The Trustees Will Meet Next Saturday to Consider the Matter. A petition by the patrons of certain school districts of Root and Preble townships, Adams county, and Madison and Marion townships, Allen county, will be heard Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock at St. John’s, by the trustees of the townships named before. The petition will ask that the trustees make the school at St. John's, one in common for the pupils of the districts of those townships. This will make no material change in the schools as they exist at present. As It is now, many of the pupils of those districts in these townships near the St. John's school, already attend the school there, as It Is located conveniently near the place where the four townships named meet. Many of the pupils, however, are obliged to get transfers from their trustees, or pay the tuition required. The consolidation of the districts would do away with the trouble occasioned by this securing of transfers. T. R. Merriman of near Monroe went to Fort Wayne this morning, where he will resume his work on the Pennsylvania railroad.

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, February 10, 1913.

motion to quash overruled. Hoover's Attorneys Given Till Tuesday to File Demurrer. Van Wert, Ohio, February 10— ■ Ralph Hoover, through his attorneys, Dailey & Hoke, and Blachly & Kerns, appeared in the court Saturday afternoon before Judge Matthias, and entered a motion to quash the indictment, asserting that for twelve different reasons the indictment returned by the grand jury was illegal and should be declared null and I void. Admittedly, the motions Saturday were formal, and made without any idea that the court woud sustain the contentions of the defense, as it is seldom that any court will sustain such a document, except when the facts in the case are evident, and can be proven without any question. After the motion had been made, the attorneys on both sides of the case made their arguments in support of their contentions, after hearing which, Judge Matthias promptly overruled the motion and gave the defense i until Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock at which timethey will either file a plea in abatement or a demurrer, although it would seem that they took in about ,all the ground possible Saturday afternoon, or appear in court with their client, to enter a plea to the indictment. The attorneys for the state feel confident that the indictment has been so carefully drawn that defense will be unable to find a flaw in it, and consequently will be forced to a trial of the case at an early date. — ■ o— — DOUBLE QUICK TIME. Mrs. Joseph Hower Convinced That It Pays to Advertise. Mrs. Joseph Hower is convinced that it pays to advertise. Friday evening she lost a fur collar-cape while enroute home from a moving picture show. The collar was highly prized as a gift, and the lost was much deplored. Mrs. Hower inserted an advertisement in the Democrat’s issue of .Saturday evening. The paper had been out only a few minutes—in fact the carrier boys had not all left the office when Mrs. Hower called up stating that she had found her cape collar, the party finding it having read her ad In the Democrat. ILLINOIS CLERK VISITS HERE. Adolph H. Schmidt of Joliet, 111., Calls on Clerk Bleeke. Adolph and Henry F. Schmidt of

Joliet, 111., stopped off here today for a visit with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. William Schamerloh, of | West Monroe street, the young men [being enroute home from Schiumm, [Ohio, where they attended the funeral of their grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bienz, which was held Sunday. Mr. Adolph Schmidt is deputy county clerk at Joliet, 111., and was interested in paying a visit to the Adams county clerk’s office and having a visit with County Clerk Bleeke and his deputy, L. L. Baumgartner, comparing notes on the differences between the work of the counties of the two states. -— —o RABBITS ALL RIGHT. Commission Men Deny Bunnies Are Unfit to Eat. Commission men are indignantly denying that there is anything wrong with rabbits as an article of food and assert that Captain Rodney Fleming, of the game warden's office, is all wrong when he alleges that the animals are grubby and cancerous. One of the dealers says he has several hundred rabbits on hand and will pay Captain Fleming for his time if he will find a single one of the bunnies that it not fit to eat.—Fort Wayne News. —— o NEW SIGNALS FOR TRAINS. The Clover Leaf has installed a new system of signals in connection with their semaphore block and train order system. The signals are red and yellow blocks of colored tin. A red signal indicates that the operator has a “31” order for the crew, which is an order establishing a positive meet with a superior train which must be signed by the crew. The yellow signal shows an “IS” order which is an order against a of an inferior class and may be taken without stopping, being passed to the engine by means of a large hoop which is held up for the firemen to snatch as the engine passes. The safe receipt of the order is acknowledged by a whistled signal.

FUNDS FOR SITE Appropriation Bill in Congress Includes SIO,OOO for Site in Decatur. FEDERAL BUILDING Rest of Appropriation Will be Taken Care of in the Senate in Short Time. Washington, D. C., Feb. 10—Indiana is well taken care of in the appropriation bill. Representative Adair has appropriation of $75,000 for a site and building at Bluffton and SIO,OOO for a site at Decatur. Dixon gets a building and site at North Vernon and a site at Greensburg. Moss lands $60,000 for a site and building at Clinton and Cline the same amount for a site and building at Kendallville. Boehne secured a liberal allowance to remodel the Evansville building. Cuppcl gets a site at Linton and the senate is expected to add an appropriation for a building at Washington, Ind. Cox secures money to build an addition to the New Albany building and $5,000 for a site at Salem. Gray gets a building at Shelbyville. Morrson is recognized with apropriations for sites at Lebanon and Noblesville. Rauch “comes across” with a nice large allowance for a building at Huntington. Crumpacker is allowed $90,000 to construct a building in his town, Valparaiso. As he is going out of public life March 4, this is his “consolation prize.” Nor is Mr. Barnhart himself forgotten. Included in his portion is an appropriation for a building at Rochester, where he lives. In explanation of the above it should be said that Mr. Adair in securing the appropriation for the Decatur site, did more that he promised. He did not expect to do more than secure the appropriation for Bluffton, but had arranged with Senator Kern to take care of this city when the bill gets to the senate. In an interview with Senator Kern last Thursday evening we were informed that the matter would receive his consideration as soon as he returns to Washington this week. It is presumed that we will receive an appropriation in that body for a $75,000 building. Fred Buechner passed through the city on his way to Fort Wayne from Schumm, Ohio, where he attended the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Bienz. — o ABOUT THE SICK E. S. Christen Improving— Little Son of D. E. Smith Still Very Low. IS NO IMPROVEMENT Harry Brown Recovering from Injuries—Virginia Steele Serious. James, the year-old son of Mr. and , Mrs. D. E. Smith, who has been dan- ( gerously ill several days with pneu-|i monia, is In a critical condition, and , I Is noticeably weaker today. The babe i had also suffered with the mumps. t t James Hurst went to South Bend, I where he was called by the Illness of i his son-in-law. Albert Katterhelnrieh, t who had been ill two weeks with the : i grip, later developing inflammatory i rheumatism. Mr. Katterhelnrieh for- 1 merly served as auditor of the Fort i Wayne & Springfield Railway com- It pany, this city, but is now bookkeep-! i er for a large wholesale house at i South Bend. Virginia, HtUe daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Steele, continues very ill and the outcome of her serious case I cannot be determined until tomorrow. Miss Mary Wagnor of the Morris five and ten cent store is off duty on account of illness. Miss Nell Brown of Willshire, Ohio, <<’onon Paict* 2)

ATTEND MILLINERY OPENINGS. Miss Mayme Deinlnger Goes to Cities to Get Spring Styles. Miss Mayne Deinlnger, trimmer at the Deinlnger millinery store, has gone to Cleveland, Ohio, and from there will go to Chicago, to attend the millinery openings and get the styles for the spring hats. She will be gone two weeks. The two weeks are very busy ones for Miss Deiningerfor there are scores and scores of hats to note, and from these pointers are gotten for copy in the shop here. In former years, it was the custom for visiting milliners to engage help there to make many of the hats in the wholesale stores. For the past few years, however, this has changed and the visiting milliners are allowed only to take notes, or to buy the pattern hats direct from the shops. EXPLORERS DEAD Captain Scott and Party of Four Men Have Been Frozen to Death. FOUND SOUTH POLE January 18, 1912—President Maderio Has Fled from Mexico. (United Press Service) London, Feb. 10—(Special to Daily, Democrat)—That Captain Scott and the four men who accompanied him

in quest of the south pole for nearly three years, are dead ,was the contents of a wireless received from the relief j schooner, “Perranovia.” The second wireless from the schooner said that 1 Captain Scott and his men did not die i until after they had accomplished the j object of their trip on January 18, 1912. On returning to the base of their supplies, the little was overtak-1 en by a-Severe blizzard and were frozen to death before they could secure proper shelter. The honor of the discovery went to' the Norwegian explorer, Amundson, I with whom Scott ran a thrilling race [ to gain the goal. The men who accom- ! panied Scott were Dr. Wilson, chief of the scientific department; Dr. Hoff, Lieutenant Bowers and Petty Officer Evans. Mexico City, Feb. 10—(Special to! Daily Democrat)—President Maderio ' has fled and General Blahque, with ' 3,000 federals has marched near the ' palace today, but would not attack I General Feliz Diaz. Two hundred and fifty persons, half of whom were curl-1 ous onlookers were killed as the re-1 suit of the intermitten battle which has been carried on since Saturday night. About 800 have been wounded,' several of them being Americans.' Mederio’s departure is said to be the' end of his administration. Washington, D. C., Feb. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat ) —Full confirma-1 tion of General Felix Diaz' release from prison, his revolution against Madiera, and the fighting, are contained in a dispatch sent by Ambassador Wilson from Mexico City. , o RETURN FROM RICHMOND. Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly, John Troutner and Mrs. .lull Colchin returned from Richmond Saturday afternoon, , where they accompanied Mrs. Martha Heidemann to the Easthaven asylum, where she will take treatment. Contrary to expectation, she gave them no trouble, at all, going along nicely, with the kind care given her, and the humoring of her whims. On arriving I there she shook hands with Dr. S. E. I Smith, superintendent of the asylum, remembered him well, and seemed to be pleased to get back to the asylum again, seeming to realize that the treatment would be instrumental In restoring her to her former normal condition. ■O UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. Hank Dooblg got t’ talkin’ t’ Ole ' Miss Parsons about how lonely he wuz since his wife died an' how disagreeble it wuz to sew on his buttons an' mop th’ floor an' set down t’ a sold snack. [ An' now Miss Parsons is suin’ him fer I breech uv promise. Beware, Man! J. W. Gentis made a business trip io Fort Wayne this morning.

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HAD BUSY TIME Did Police Court Saturday Evening and Sunday Morning. ——— ' FOUR WERE DRUNK — And Possibly Affidavits Will be Filed Against Two I Fighters. Saturday was an exceptionably busy day in the police circles, four drunks being caught in the net and probably affidavits will be filed against two more who managed to start a fight in one of the restarants. The first drunk to appear before the court was Thomas Kenney who was arrested by Marshall Peterson late in the afternoon on Second street. Kenney had not quite reached his capacity yet and had a quart flask in his pocket. He could’nt for the world see r why he should give the bottle to Peterson when he (Kenney) had bought it and it was only after a little necessary force was brought to bear upon him that he was induced to relinquish his hold upon the quart. Ha was given a fine of $5 and costs a mounting to ffteen dollars and will lay in the county bastile for the next fifteen days. The next one to follow Kenney’s footsteps was Andrew Bim- . her another drunk who was also picked up on Second street by Marshall Peterson shortly after incarcerating

[Kenney. Bimber was also taken beI fore Mayor Teeple and given a fine of jss and costs and will be a star board- [ er at the Hotel de Durkin for a period 'of fifteen days. During Kenney's trial [the court was interrupted every little bit by one of his friends who insisted [on appearing at the door of the office ;and endeavoring to bring himself in to Lthe “lime light." It was finally demon- | strated to him by several persuasive 'liftings of Marshall Peterson's right [foot in the near region of the man’s hip pocket that his presence was not 'desired. Later in the evening the man, [who registered as Jerry Connor made the acquaintance of a friend who was [in a like condition and the two then endeavored to lead other erring sin--1 ners from the paths of wickedness by ' preaching from one of the street corners. They tinally managed to become entangled in the arms of the law and were captured by Sheriff Durkins on 'Market street. The companions of Con'nors carried the “nom-de-plume” of |Wm. McGraw. They were given trial [before Mayor Teeple yesterday morning on a charge of public intoxication land each drew a fine of $1 and costs. They will also be guests of the county. I Saturday evening about 12 o'clock, two local men, Jo Bentz and Jim GinI ley, who had been indulging a little [too heavily in the “joy juice" had a | mis-understanding of some kind which i led to a fistic encounter in a room above the Martin restaurant. The fight was first noticed when the crash of falling glass was heard in the rear of the bakery and Marshall Peterson who was in the restaraunt at the time with one of the clerks rushed to the room. They found Bentz who was getting decidedly the worst of the fight, with a big gash cut in his right cheek and a large piece of glass protruding from it. No action was taken in the case at the 'time but it is thought that further steps will be taken in the matter later on. o— — CLEAN UP MACHINERY. Messrs. George and Frank Kern, the new proprietors of the steam laundry, were busily engaged yesterday with a [crew of five men in cleaning and getting into shape the old machinery and also in placing some new machinery which they have purchased. A complete renovation was given the build- ' ing and everything is as neat and ■ shiny today as if brand new. The new - proprietors are going to endeavor to give the very best of satisfaction and it is a sure thing that they will succeed in doing so. — — o 3 BANKS CLOSED WEDNESDAY. I I IM 3 Wednesday of this week, February J 12, is Lincoln’s birthday, a national - holiday, and the First National bank r and the Old Adams County bank will be closed on that day. If you have business to transact you are notified p hereby to look after it before Wednesday.