Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 65.

WINGATE WON IT Upset the Dope and Took the Final Game from South Bend Saturday Night. TEAM COMES HOME Had Delightful Time—Were Entertained by Fraternity Club. Principal Martin Worthman and his hand of basket ball players. Bob Peterson, Kenneth Vancil, Dan Tyndall, l Frank Lose, Dan Falk and Leland Frank, arrived home at midnight Sunday from a delightful three days’ trip 1 to Bloomington, where they particlpat- 1 ed slightly In the state tournament They lost the first game, which put them out of the scrap, and all they had to do was enjoy themselves and from what they say, they certainly did that in championship style. They say that South Bend undoubtedly had It on all the teams, but they were small of stature and lost the final game to Wingate by a score of 14 to 15, because of the fact that the big fellows from Wingate beat them in endurance. Undoubtedly Wingate was lucky. Had they met South Bend first as did Deca tur, it is likely they would not have been heard from afterward, but they were matched the first day against weak teams and learned the game on a regulation floor after arriving at Bloomington. Everything seemed to break in their favor and they could scarcely believe it themselves after they were awarded the medals and shield. Wingate is a town of less than 500 population and has no hall. The team drove seven miles once each week to practice on another floor. The concluding games of the tournament were as follows: Wingate, 23; Lafayette, 19. South Bend, Crawfordsville, 11. South Ben, 19; Crawfordsville, 11. Purdue defeated Indiana in the wind up, 32 to 21. —- _o . SADLY AFFLICTED HOME. — Miss Minnie Orvis paid a visit at the home of her cousin, Dr. Rhamev. and family at Fort Wayne Sunday afternoon, and found it a sadly afflicted home, indeed. She had received no encouraging news of the illness of sev-en-year-old Mary Louise Rramey, and decided to call there Sunday afternoon. The child had been ill with the measles, and this was followed with pneumonia. She is critically ill and had been unconscious until Sunday, but the outcome is still unknown. It is necessary to keep her in an ice pack. To add to the seriousness the child's mother, Mrs. 'Rhamey and her little two-year-old son Billy, are confined to their beds with the measules. Mrs. Rhamey’a mother, Mrs. Orvis, who was operated upon, has been at home only a few weeks from the hospital, and is still very weak. Two trained nurses and five doctors are in the home caring for the Hl. The family is very well known here. -o — POLICE COURT. At 3 o’clock Sunday morning a police call summoned Officer Melchl to the home of Joe Eley on Niblick street, where Joe, who had taken on an oversupply of "joy juice,” was endeavoring to turn th® house inside out. Upon Melchl’s arrival Joe wasn't In exactly presentable appearance, so with many threats and much hard work, Melchl finally influenced him to get into several of his necessary articles of clothing, but when it came to his shoes and socks Joe absolutely refused to have anything to do with them and it was therefore found necessary to escort him to the county jail in only the protection that nature had given him and the way Joo pranced around in the nice, soft snow on the way to the county bastile, would put a young colt to | shame. Ely was brought before ’Squire Stone this morning and given a fine of 35 and costs, which be paid. Marshall Peterson this afternoon at 2 o'clock made a run to the Eleventh street crossing of the Erie railroad and captured two “bo’s" who were making themselves merry about a fire | and celebrating the day by singing their patriotic songs. One got a little too hilarious, however, and fell against ( the stove, skinning himself considers-, My. They were taken to jail to sober up.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

MAKES no APPROPRIATION L he county council was asked about an appropriation for the defense of -irs. John Lee, charged with murder,' and said they would not make an ap- J l-ropriation for that purpose until it I was shown to be necessary. If! i thought necessary, later a special meet-! ,mg will be made for that purpose.— Hluftton Banner. EASTER MONDAY DANCE. i The local order of the Knights of Columbus has issued invitations to the ' i number of one hundred for their annual Easter dance to be given Monday . March 24 at their hall. These dances | are given every year by the K. of C. .and are largely attended, too, on account of their popularity and sociabllity. It does not require a full dress. I O— 1 COURT HOUSE NEWS j — I I James Woods Granted a Divorce—A New Suit Filed ! in Court. ! LETTERS GRANTED i i i To Mrs. Eliza Scheimann, ' Administratrix, of the Fred Scheimann Estate. ■ “St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning’’ was marked in court this morning by the hearing of the Woods divorce case . Hon. D. E. Smith assuming jurisdiction 1 as special judge for the hearing. When : i the case was called, Mrs. Effie Woods, t the plaintiff, withdrew her complaint, 1 and the case was heard alone on the ' defendant, James Woods’ cross-com- ■ plaint. He was granted the divorce and the costs adjudged against him. — j Adam Cully, upon petition of Wesley , J. Cully, was adjudged of unsound mind and incapable of managing his ’estate. The appointment of a guar[dian to care ror his business was recommended. Mr. Cully is the aged t Gevena man who was adjudged insane I . and who is now confined here awaiting ' • admission to the asylum. He draws a I pension and is also possessor of other > property. In the case the prosecutor ■ and the plaintiff's attorneys were each 1 allowed $lO to be taxed as costs in the . estate of the defendant. No one ever “wore the green” with 1 more right than Sheriff T. J. Durkin t and Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly, who ! are two “true Irish laddies.” Both ob- . served St. Patrick's day by wearing i Irish-green neckties. » —— !■■■ > In the Louisa Meyesrs et al. vs. Mary . Louise Miller et al. partition case, a i motion by the plaintiffs to strike out 1 r part of the second paragraph of ani swer and cross-complaint was over-' I ruled; exceptions by plaintiff. A mo- 1 - tion by the plaintiff to make second 1 paragraph of cross-complaint more specific was overruled; exceptions. Milton E. Mower et al. vs. Archie D. Magann, on account Demurrer to ■ complaint of Kirsch, Sellemeyer & > Sons, filed under this cause, was filed , by Hower & Hower. > 1 James M. Fristoe et al. to Elsworth i D. Merris, partition suit. Appearance ’ was entered for the defendants by ’ Heller, Sutton & Heller, who are ruled [ to answer. . 1 Lizzie Scheimann qualified as admin-' I ißtratrlx of the estate of her husband,' i the late Fred Scheimann. She gave : 311,000 bond. ■ - J a. P. Beatty, attorney for the Amerl- [ /can Standard Jewelry Co., has brought i suit against Fred W. Studler, of Linn Grove on note, demand, *250. — 1 A marriage license was issued Saturday afternoon to Otto Longenberg'er, born March 11, 1890, farmer, son I of’ Jacob J. longenberger, to wed Hat'tle Laisure, born March 30, 1891, 'daughter of David W. Laisure, of Monroe. 1 Real estate transfers: Chas. Brown et al. to Clinton Grim et al., lot 38, De'catur, $200; Martha A. Kentner et al. to James Hendricks, sr., lot 18, Mon'roe, $1250; Sarah Sellemeyer et al. to 'william Lammert, lot 26, Decatur, I $2300. , , . . , „ . . _

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, March 17, 1913.

SUNDAY WEDDING At Monroe Sees Union -of Otto Longenberger and Miss Hattie Laisure. AT THE BRIDE’S HOME Young Couple Will Live on Farm East of Monroe— Well Known. Forty of the nearest relatives and friends of the happy young couple 'witnessed the wedding of Miss Mattie Laisure and Mr. Otto Longenberger at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. David W. Laisure at Monroe Sunday noon. The Rev. William Allen of Portland, pastor of the Friends’ church, officiated, the ceremony being solemnized at high noon. The bride wore a very pretty dress of cream silk poplin, becomingly made, as suited her girlishness, while the groom wore the regulation suit. Immediately after receiving th® felicitations of their friends a wedding dinner was spread, the repast including all the good things the season affords. Mr. and Mrs. longenberger will be at home to their friends on a farm east of Monroe, and the good wishes of all go with them. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. i Longenberger and is a young man in whom many good qualities blend. His (bride is one of Monroe’s excellent' young women, and formerly resided In Decatur, where she also has many friends. BUSINESpGHANGE Deal for Purchase of Schlickman Restaurant by Will Smith and Son IS UNDER WAY Poolroom of Frank Smith at Hammond May be Taken as Part Consideration. As we go to press a deal is under way whereby Will Smith of this city and his son, Frank Smith, of Hammond, will become proprietors of the | Schlickman restaurant, conducted here the past three years by Henry Schlickman. It the deal goes through, as It ’ probably will, Mr. Schlickman will take as part consideration, the pool room In Hammohd, owned by Mr. Frank Smith. Mr. Smith will move to this city and th® firm 'will move ito this city and the firm will be known as Smith & Son. Mr. Schlickman will probably not move to Hammond. The Schlickman restaurant is one of the best in the clay and enjoys a good patronage. HOBOES TRAIL FUNERAL. And Eat the Feast from the Grave of a Rich Chinaman. Before the funeral cortege of Yung Chong, a wealthy Chinaman of Philadelphia, has passed out of the cemeJtery gates, where Chong had been ( buried, here was a wild scram- . ble of hoboes of all descriptions. They made a rush for the grave of the . Chinaman, where a great feast awaited I them. On the casket and on the grave [were left roast ducks and piga, Chinese ! wines and nuts and other delicaices .“to help Chong cross the Styx." When the crowd of twenty-five hungry hoboes finished there was little left for Chong. From tne many carriages on the way to the cemetery fluttered scrape of colored paper bearing prayers. The Chinese believe the devils who pursue the spirit of the dead have to stop and read all the prayers, and the mourners of Chong believe that they have scattered enough to keep the devils engaged until he was safely buried. For ten years Chong had been either president or treasurer of the On Leong Tong, and his word was law in that society. He was one of the richest Chinamen in Philadelphia.

FUNERAL OF MRS. MYERS. Following the private funeral services for Mrs, Elizabeth Myers at the home Sunday afternoon, public serv ices were conducted at the Methodist . church at 2:30 o’clock and were largely attended. The body was then laid to rest In the family lot in Maplewood cemetery. Pall bearers were members of the Masonic order and included John Tyndall, J. C. Tritch, Will Schrock, Will Winnes, Jesse O. Selle- * meyer and C. R. Dunn. A very large number of flowers were mule evidences of the love and regard in which Mrs. Myers was held, and these were cared for by a special bevy of flower girls. o SPECIAL SESSION Os Congress to be Called by President Wilson on April 7th. ST. PATRICK’S DAY Celebrated With More Fervor Than Ever Before by Irishmen. Washington, March 17—(Special to Daily Democrat) —President Wilson’s proclamation calling a special session of congress on April 7 was Issued today. It was a truly formal proclamajtlon and will probably be followed later by special messages. Because he did not instruct the extra session to the consideration of tariff it is thought that other more Important matters will be brought up. South Hampton, Mar. 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The inquest into the death of Miss Frances Leslie, the New York actress, who died mysteriously while on board the liner “Oceanic,” will be continued until April 24. The coroner announced that he had ordered the return because of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the case and it would require a thorough investigation before a verdict would be returned. London, Mar. 17—(Special to Daily Democrat)—With knowledge that the home rule law for Ireland will be put into operation in less than eighteen months, the Irishmen today celebrated St. Patrick’s day with more than usual fervor. In the larger cities were held parades and tonight will see many banquets and balls. Washington, D. C., Mar. 17 —(Spec- > ial to Daily Democrat) —William S. , McCoombs, national democratic chairman, accepted the ambassadorship which the senate offered him today. • I Nek York, N. Y., Mar. 17—(Special I to Daily Democrat) —A woman living . next door to the pawn shop which was > robbed of $300,000 worth of jewelry, > told the police she saw a young darki skinned man climb out of the cellar I with a bundle under his arm, a wagon i was then driven up by another older > man on the seat and the young man ■ climbed into the wagon and was driven away. Two pairs of gloves, some unmarked tools and the description of the man were the only clues the police had today. ! ~ EASTER FLOWER SALE. « I The Christian Ladies’ Aid society’s • section of which Mrs. Olen Baker is ■ chairman, will hold its annual Easter i flower sale this week. The flowers • will be put on sale Wednesday morn- ’ Ing at the Morrison building, south > of the interurban station. On Thurs--1 day a sale of aprons and other articles > will be added by the Ruth Circle, and i the three days’ sales will close Saturi day with a pastry sale. The blooming i potted flowers include hyacint'hs, tu- ' lips, jonquils, daffodils, and others, and ' will sell from twetfty cents up. i o 1 ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY. ’ Methodist Brotherhood Will Entertain 1 the Ladles. ) The Methodist Brotherhood is mak- > Ing elaborate plans for the St. Pat- ! rick’s entertainment to be accorded ; the ladies this evening in the church r parlors. All the ladles of the church 1 are invited. There will be vocal and 3 Instrumental music, readings and oth- • er entertainment features, and refresmenta.

ELOPING COUPLE Jesse Tricker and Miss Cora Daniels Married at Hillsdale, Mich. ON JANUARY 31ST Parents and Friends Learn of Marriage Only Last Evening. Jesse Tricker, son of George Tricker, of east of the city, and Miss Cora Daniels, daughter of Harvey Daniels, of Mercer avenue, this city, eloped to Hillsdale, Mich., on January 31, of this year and were married. They made the return trip In one day, and none of their relatives and friends were any the wiser, when they returned and each went his or her respective way in their avocation. Sunday evening, when they were assembled at the bride's home they brought forth the certificate of their marriage and proudly announced the event. They were promptly “forgiven” for the march they stole on their parents and relatices and everything passed off as merrily as the proverbial marriage bells, while the couple received the hearty good wishes of all. Mr. Tricker is a young farmer and has been in partnership with Willard Steele, east of the city. They will reside on his father’s farm east of town, and expect to be settled there by Friday of this week. Both are well known and highly esteemed. o DAN LINK COMING State Tax Commissioner Will Meet With County Assessor Gentis. AND THE OTHERS I In This City on Thursday, March 20—Good Meeting at Berne Saturday. County Assessor George Gentis is in receipt of a letter from Dan M.Link of Indianapolis, state tax commissioner, apprising him that he will be here at Mr. Gentis’ office Thursday morning at 10 o’clock, March 20. Mr. Link wishes at that time to meet as many of the assessors of the county as can conveniently attend. At this time matters relating to the assessments will be gone over, and attempt made to equalize the assessments as well as to attend to any other business relating to the work that may come up. Mr. Gentis reports that the meeting he held with the assessors at Berne Saturday was well attended, all being present. Each made his second report of assessment values, and these will be averaged and taken as a standard. It was first decided to have the third weekly meeting of assessors next Saturday, whsn the average assessment would again be taken. As Mr. Link is to come on Thursday of this week, each assessor is asked to bring his third average at this time. A general average of all three weeks’ averages will then be taken and this will be reported by Mr. Gentis to the district and state meetings, in order to arrive at a general average assessment for the state. ■o BIG FLOWER SALE. The annual flower sale conducted by section two of the Christian church will be held in the Morrison building near the Interurban station. The flowers will be placed on Sale Wednesday morning. Among the large assortment will be Easter LHJles, Tulips, Daffodllcs, Hyacinths and other easter plants. The public is most cordially Invited to attend. ■■■' 1 -- ®- — CENSUS REPORT. A boy was born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Amos Walters, east of the city, Mrs. Walters wan formerly Miss Inez Rook.

ENTERTAINMENT BY MAGICIANS. Lovsrs of the mystical, and refined entertainment, are looking forward with pleasure to the entertainment to be given by th® magicians, the Floyds, Tuesday evening at the opera house. The senior class of the high school announces a good seat sale, but still have a number of tickets left. Prices, 25, 35 and 50 cents. The company includes Professor Floyd, magician; Mrs. ( Floyd, telepathist; L. E. Allard, musical director. —®, STRAWBERRIES BLOOMING. George Moyer, the well known watchman at the Winchester street crossing of the Erie, reports that his strawberry vines were filled with • blooms as early as last week. o — A “CEREAL” STORY I _____ > : t Os W. A. Fonner’s Early < Garden Making—Found a Fairy Change. I ■ A KITCHEN GARDEN Turned Into Flower Garden : of “Snow-drops”—Ardor i r Not “Squashed.” i • — ; I W. A. Fonner, the well known and i ' enterprising Root township farmer, is , ■ bearing off the laurels of this springI tide as an early garden maker. i When the sun came out in splendor < last week, and the soft zephyrs blew, J and the air grew mellow and warm, | . Mr. Fonner immediately got the gar- 1 I den-making fever. He took his gar- [' den spade and immediately began to/ "turnip” the mellow ground, while to 1 . him there came bright visions of a, I table garnished in a few weeks with ■ < all kinds of delicious vegetables, such as lettuce, pease, beets, radishes, on- 1 ions, etc., while those of his neighbors ' would still be spread with the tin can : products. It is said he even contem- 1 i plated sowing egg-plant in the hopes that he could have the new “henfruit” for Easter Sunday. Be that as it may, he was the “early > bird.” Besides a timely sowing of his kitchen garden plot with lettuce and radish seeds, he carried the proverb out literally and found “worms” in abundance, which no doubt, with his usual foresight he slipped, wriggling j and shiny into a tin can for future use ( when the call of the creek and the fishing rod might prove too insistent • to be resisted. t Not (s)parsly, but liberally he scatt tered seeds in his kitchen garden and , g then lay down to pleasant dreams at I "pease” with the world and mankind. s But lo and behold! When he arose i- and looked from his window Sunday morning he found his kitchen garden e not as he dreamed, bright and green > with vegetables thrifty and growing so I •- rapidly that his neighbors might think I i- some of having them arrested for try- i t ing to exceed the speed limit—but a 1 t thrifty flower garden instead. And i s what seemed the strangest, the flow- < I, ers were all alike —“Snow-drops." < :• Who can “beet” this for gardens? I 1 "Lettuce” see. This Is the end of this t a chapter of a "cereal” story. But Mr. a Fonner’s ardor is not "squashed” and b there will probably be more to tell i- anon. S ■ - -O < f “BILLY'S BUNGALOW" 1 > 1 .la Name of Next Home Talent Play— i March 28. < 3 3 "Billy’s Bungalow," is the promising r name of the next home talent play to - be given Friday, March 28th. This will be another of those clever plays staged by Miss Mabel Weldy, and carried out by some of the best amateur players of the city. It will be given ’ under the auspices of the Ruth Circle i of the Christian church, which will > take the proceeds for their piano fund. r FINE, NEW COUNRTY HOME, t - Ramey & lord, the well known carr penter contractors, were awarded the f contract Saturday for the building of the fine new country residence of Will Ehrman, a mile west and a mile south of Peterson. The home will he built at a cost of $3,500 and will be modern d In all ways. It will have eleven rooms r. and basement, Including bath, furnace :z and lighting plants, and will be one of the finest country homes in the county.

Price, Two Cents,

VETERAN IS DEAD Thomas Adelsperger, Member of 89th Regiment, Died at South Bend ON SUNDAY MORNING Wife Was Formerly Miss Frances Hill, Sister of Captain A. J. Hill. Thomas Adelsperger, a former Decatur man, a civil war veteran, of the 89th Indiana volunteer regiment, ended this world’s warfare, when he passed away Sunday morning at his home In South Bend. Such was the word received by a niece, Mrs. F. V. Mills, Sunday. Mr. Adelsperger was stricken in this city about eight of nine years ago with paralysis. He recovered to such an extent that he was able to continue his work on the road as a traveling salesman for a Chicago wholesale drug house, from time to time. He then grew worse and for the past year, has been in poor health. He was married in this city In young manhood, to Miss Frances Hill, a sister of the late Captain A. J. Hill, who survives. He leaves a son, Rolland, an architect of South Bend; a daughter, Eva, a teacher in the South Bend schools, and another daughter, Lucy, who is married and lives in Chicago. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock at the Catholic church, of which he was a devout member. Mr. Adelsperger at one ti<pe was a partner with his brother-in-law, A. J. ■ Hili, in the publishing of the Decatur Eagle. Mr. Adelsperger then sold out land went to Fort Wayne to w r ork in a [printing office, being there when the I civil w*ar broke out. When the war broke out, Mr. Hill responded to the call for soldiers. He enlisted and took his whole office force with him, including the “printer’s devil,” young Robert Blackburn, who was then employed in the Hill print shop. He was too young to serve as a regular soldier, so he W'ent as a drummer boy. Mr. Blackburn gives this account of Mr. Adeisperger’s war record, as he was in the same company with him: “Thomas Adelsperger was working in a printing office in Fort Wayne, when the president made his call for 600,000 soldiers in July, 1862, leaving the case and enlisting in Company H, 89th Indiana, as a private. August 9, 1862. In the early spring of 1863 he was appointed sergeant-major of his regiment, holding that position until i July 4, 1864, when, he was commissioned adjutant of his regiment, remaining in said office until the close of the war, when he was mustered out with the regiment. The only comment I can make is, ‘namely:’ Comrade Adelsperger was with the regiment from enlistment until discharge, and at all times discharged his duty as sergeantmajor and regimental adjutant, and being in General A. J. Smith’s command during his entire service and the office of adjutant is the regimental commander’s private secretary, having to be at all times present in camp, on the march or in battle’.’ o HOL WEE KSERVICES. Special attention is desired to be called to the following Bible readings for holy week at the Methodist church, the services beginning Tuesday night and lasting the entire week with the exception of Saturday night.: Monday—Matt. 21:18-20; Mark 11:12-29; Luke 19:45-48. Tuesday—Luke 20:21; John 12:20-50. Wednesday—Matt. 26:1-5; 14:16; Mark 14:1, 2, 10, 11; Luke 22:1-6. Thursday—Mark 14:12-42; John 13 and 14. Friday—John 18 and 19. Saturday—Mark 15:39-47; Luke 23:50-56. Special notice Is also called to the communion services which will be held Thursday night RED MEN’S BANQUET. 1 Very elaborate preparations are bol ing made by the Red Men for their i banquet Wednesday evening for the L Pocahontas council. It is said that i the menu will include sixteen chicki ens, among other god things, and the > feast will rival those of the best Indian f hunstmen in the greatest time of . plenty.