Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 83.

MORE OF TERROR! Ki _ — i Os Our Flooded Neighbors — The Charles Coles’ Narrow Escape. AT HAMILTON, OHIO Rolla Calderwood’s Daughters Suffer in the Dayton Floods. y Charles Cole, formerly employed by the Schaub, Gottemoller Hardware company here, now in the hardware business with his father at Hamilton, Ohio, was nearly lost in the floods at that place. His wife, formerly Ida Irene Kohne, writes her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Kohne, of. their loss aud terror. The letter, in part, I says: z o. April 2, 1913. , Dear Mamma and All: I will now try and give you a de-1 aeription of the flood. However, I know I will never be able to tell it so you will realize what a terrible calamity we had. I never want to see or go through with what I did last week. Monday they got a warning that there was a flood coming. Nobody paid any attention to it. But Charley and his father thought they would get up the goods from the basement. So they worked till 12:30. When they went back to the store the next morning, the basement didn’t even have any water in it, but it kept on raining, and about 10 o’clock the river began to rise. At 11 o'clock they said that anyone who lived across the bridge should go then, because if they waited much longer they couldn’t cross. So they sent Truman across. At 12:30 the bridge went down. I could hear the rumbling where I live. When it went the lights went out, gas and water. Well, Charley and his father remained in the store, thinking the water would soon go down. But instead it got higher and higher all the time, until they couldn’t get out. They Went upon the second floor. All this time I was waiting for Charley to come home. He hadn't been home since morning. I waited in the dark until 11 o’clock, then went to bed. If I had known then how high the water was, I would have been about crazy. The next morning, Wednesday (a week ago today), I went to see what the river looked like. Os course I could only get within four squares of the store. I couldn't even tell where the £tore was, and just think, they were up there. Charley said they prayed and cried all night long, and they said they didn’t give five cents for their lives and more, because that big building just kept moving backward and forward all night long. Some men told me, just as the Reef building, where the Cole store is, stood, they would be safe, because the water couldn’t get any higher. But Charley said it was seeping through the second floor. The next morning they both crawled over t he roofs a square bbove a saloon which had three stories, and they felt, safer there. That was Wednesday morning. There was some more people there, so they felt better. That night they all went up In the garret and locked themselves ' In, or shut the door, because they said the roaring of the river was terrible. I said to Charley, ‘‘Wasn’t, you scared when you heard the big buildings falling?’' He said they couldn’t hear anything but the river, but they could see houses floating down the river, with people on the roofs, and some of the houses had lights in them ' Wednesday night I stayed with the people next door. There were sixteen of us there, children and all. and when it rsme time to go to bed, I didn’t feel a bit like going. I just felt like something was going to happen. Well, about 12 o'clock we got a warning: “Everybody out of your homes; river is rising thirty feet; for God's sake, hurry, or all will be drowned!" Just imagine how awful that sounded, at that time of the night. Well, I just gave up then. I thought 1 would never see Charley again, because I was sure ho was already drowned. We went to the Lincoln school, which is on a hill about six squares away. Women came there with just their nightgowns on; and little babies with scarcely any clothes on. One woman had four children, and they all had measles. There were 600 there. About 4 o'clock a policeman came in and said it was a false report; that it was

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[dorib to rob the homes. I heard-again ! I that it was a telegram thirty-six I I hours late. That If we had gotten it '■ . two days before many lives would ! jhave been saved. Well, Thursday’ .morning the river began to fall, and they took Charley and his father and some more out with ropes. I didn’t know Charley when i saw him. He looked like he was about forty. One woman asked me which of the two was my father-in-law, his beard was so 1 heavy. Well, I ten you that was a terrible experience. The store is in ruins. However, they are getting , some stuff out; but the don’t know what they will do yet. No one is complaining about their loss. Everybody is thankful they are living. Only last night Charley said he wished he had a good job. Now, I tried to tell you how things were on this side of I the river as well as I could, but of ' ‘ course, you can't imagine. No one • can unless they see it, and they don’t allow sightseers in the town. This place is under martial law. We have two troops of soldiers for each side of the river. No men allowed on the street after 6 o’clock, and you can’t 'strike a match or smoke a cigar on 'the street. They have already killed four men on this side who were caught looting. i Well, the other side of the river is ten times worse. There isn’t a store on that side that is not ruined. Two reservoirs broke on that side, and flooded that part, also the river. My poor father-in-law; I feel so sorry for him. Everything in their house but their bedclothes was spoiled. The water was up to the ceiling on the second floor. They didn’t try to save anything but some of their bed clothing. Their side didn’t have any attic. , It is a double house and the people on the other side had to knock a hole in the wall and get her and Foster (Charley’s brother) out. They all went up in their attic. The water was up to the second story. Truman (Charley’s brother) had it just as bad; but they put all their goods upstairs in the attic. Os course all the furniture on the first floor is spoiled. Charles and I escaped more lucky than any. We didn't have anything but our furniture, and we still got that. My father-in-law has a little money in the bank at Richmond, and just last week he was talking of drawing it out and increasing his stock. He is glad he didn't now. They have a phontoon bridge across now, so any one that has business on this side or the other can go across. But they don't allow any one to go over that has no business over there. Oh, I guess there were so many people drowned. Last Friday I went up to see the river. Some people couldn’t wait till the bridge was built. They had a motor boat which was taking them, across, two at a time. I saw the motor boat hit a pier and upset. The fellow who was running the boat got out on the pier some way. I saw the other two drown —a man and i a woman. They tried to get them : with ropes, bue were not successful. ■ They found the woman, but she was ■ dead. The man has not yet been , found. They are finding bodies all the time. My father-in-law helped to • get five out of a building right there by the store Saturday. He said they were awful stiff and were bloated so. ■ It is lots worse on the other side i tbaif it is over here. Yes, ten times ■ worse. Every street in town is torn up, and you can’t buy .They i have relief stations, and the rich., as well as the poor go there and get > their loaf of bread, and can of beans, i On this side of course they have re- ■ lief stations where they are feeding the • poor, but you can t>uy canned goods i and bread; so we are not starving, • and don’t need any help yet. Don’t : Tend our things, because we would ■ never get them anyway. There are so ■ many people homeless right across I the street from us. There is a school house that they say is just crowded ■ with people who have no homes. They i also have made a temporaryTiospital i out of it. There is so much sickness I here. All of the school houses and ■ churches are filled with people. It is , raining again this morning. i Charley, Truman and their father • are gathering up goods out of the , store, and they also have eight men : working for them. Hhey are trying to save as much as they can, but every- : thing is rusted and full of mud. My ■ basement is full of things. They may ; be able to realize a little on it, but i they can’t find anything like nails, i screw’s, etc., Charley says; besides it wouldn’t pay them to pick up that ■ stuff. I didn’t know until last night that i they were having it so bad at Dayton and Cincinnati. But the paper said it didn't destroy the towns as badly las it did Hamilton. Mamma, you i (Continues on rage J) X

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f Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening/ April 7, 1913.

today is will day Two Presented for Probate —David Habegger Gives Life Estate | TO HIS WIFE Then to Children—Ulrich Lehman Gives Property to Family. Two wills were presented for probate with the county clerk during vacation of court. One is the will of Ulrich Lehman of Monroe township, which was executed December 14, ■1912, and witnessed by J. F. Lehman and J. D. Winteregg. To this wife, Judith Lehman, is given use of all his estate as long as she remains his widow. She is to have full control of the estate and with the aid of her sons, Levi and Omer Lehman, is given power to sell or dispose of any part, or change the investment thereof, and to use any portion to maintain herself or children during such widowhood. They may also at any time distribute among the children in equal shares any portion of the estate they may deem best for the children. In case the widow marries the estate is to be divided among her and the children. The widow is to get one-third and the children the remaining two-thirds. If i the children have received any adi vance payments, the same are to be deducted, so as to give each one an equal share. In case of the wife’s death before remarriage, the children are to get the estate in equal shares. The other is the will of David J. Habegger, late of Berne. All the estate is given to the wife, Mary Habegger, for life. At her death it is to be divided equally among their children. The will was executed December 23, 1912, and was witnessed by William Speicher and Amos Hirgchy. MEATS TAKE JUMP :! ■ — Local Dealers Raise Retail Price to Keep Pace With Buying Price. — A CLOSE MARGIN For Several Months Has Finally Forced Them to i ’ Raise Prices. I _________ > Decatur housewives who have fjbne 1 , to market have noticed in the phut few days a decided increase in the ’ retail price of some of the meats. , I For the past many months the price of cattle and hogs as paid to the farmer has been on the increase. Never- ’ theless the Decatur butchers kept the price of their meat down until the . margin came so close that they were l barely able to hang on by the ‘‘skin of their teeth.” They then decided that they must advance their selling price to keep pace with the buying price, hence the changes noted. The i prices are no higher than in other i cities—in fact, Fort Wayne advanced I its prices long ago. II Pork shoulder steak at 18c, sirloin ■ and round beef at 20c, Porter house I beef at 22c, sausage at 15c remain the i same for the but may Irnve to be raised in the near future. i i Other meats which were raised are the following: Round pork steak and ’ pork chops hav eadvanced from 18c to ■ 20c; frankforters, or weinerwurst . have arisen from 12 %c to 15c; check > beef steak has advanced from 15c to • 18c, the choice beef roasts have ad- ■ vanced to 18c, while tba ordinary cuts ’.remain at the former price, 15c; botl- : ed ham has risen from 85c to 40c. , Veal has also taken a jump, the round t steaks selling now at 30c instead of '■ 25c, while veal which formerly sold at 15c, now ranges from 18c to 20c. : Lard remains the same—l2*£c in the i can bulk, and 15c retail.. I . The prices paid the farmers for ■ their stock has soared to vast heights, i hogs now bringing 9c, calves from 9 to 914 c, and beef 5 to Bc.

WALLACE SHOWS HEAVY LOS 3. Will Not Prevent Starting Out on the 26th of April, Says Dispatch. A special dispatch from Peru says: "So many reports in regard to the Hagenbeck and Wallace shows here have been current that Benjamin E. Wallace made a statement yesterday. He reports a flood loss of $150,000. Eight elephants, twenty-one Hons, tigers, panthers, cougars and leopards, all the hay-eating animals and eight horses are dead in the winter quarters of the circus in South Peru. The bodies of two elephants are reported near Logansport and one is lodged against a bridge east of Peru. Three other elephants died around the house where they had followed the keeper, John Worden. Mr. Wallace again announced that tho shows will open April 26 at Peru. He has cabled to Berlin, Germany to Hagenbeck for many more animals." o NO CHANGE HERE Rev. J. H. Rilling Returned to Decatur Evangelical Pastorate. IS THE GOOD NEWS Rev. D. A. Kaley to Berne and Rev D. R. Heil to Linn Grove. Indianapolis, Ind., April 7, 3:00 p. m. (Special to Daily Democrat) —The Indiana Evangelical conference closed its business here this morning with the reading of the pastoral appointments. Adams county had no change. The Rev. J. H. Rilling, who has served efficiently as pastor of the Decatur Evangelical church a year, was returned. Rev. D. A. Kaley is returned to the Berne charge and Rev. D. R. Heil to Linn Grove. Rev. J. H. Rilling will arrive home I this afternoon from Indianapolis, ■ where he has been attending the Evangelical conference which closed Sunday gening. The following Sun- ■ day school board was elected: Elkhaut district, the Rev. C. P. Maas, Peru, and George Long, South Bend; Indianapolis district, the Rev. M. W. I Sunderman, Evansville, and William Herman, Louisville, Ky.; Ft. Wayne i district, the Rev. Carl Hirschman, Ft. ; Wayne, and E. M. Ray, Bertie. Rev. Clyde E. Boyer, pastor of the Bethel church, Fort Wayne, resigned, and will go to a Presbyterian church in Chicago. o CHURCH DEDICATED. Handsome New Church of Father George at Auburn Dedicated. The new Catholic church at Auburn, the Church of the Immaculate Conception, of which Father George Anger--1 maier, formerly of this city, is pastor, was dedicated Sunday with very im- . pressive ceremony. The services , were presided over by Bishop Alerdlng of Fort Wayhe, and friends from all the surrounding cities attended. 1 Among the Decatur people who ati tended th£ dedication at Auburn were I the Misses Rose Colchln, Tena Schur- : ger, Celia Nesswald, Lena Appleman; ; and Messrs. Fred Schurger, Michael > Miller and William Harting. — < NEW SUPERINTENDENT. 1 J. F. Winter of Toledo, who has • been elected superintendent of the > German Reformed Orphans’ home 'at ' Fort Wayue, will accept the duties of his office a week from Tuesday, April • 15. The Rev. B. Ruf, who has served I in this capacity for fourteen years, re--1 signs much against the will of tho - members, to take charge of a congre- : gation at Bay City. A number of peo- > pie from this city will go to Fort ■ Wayne on that date to see the instal- ' lation. . — ... LITTLE HOPE FOR RECOVERY. I Mrs. Dale Spahr, who visited with I her sister, Mrs. Philip Meihls, in the . Fort Wayne hospital, reports that > there is no change for the worst in her condition is very serious and lit- ‘ tie hope fry her recovery is extended. , 0 5 I Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ehlerding made a business trip to Fort Wayne. ,*■*■ -

THE APRIL JURIES Drawn Today for the April Term of 'Court Which Opens Next Monday. A WEEK’S VACATION Is First One in Spring for Many Years—Grand Jury May Not Meet. For the first time in several years it happens that a vacation of a week falls between the February term of court which closed Saturday and the April term which opens next Monday, April 14. According to the prescribed rule the April term begins the second Monday in April. This usually happens so that the April term opens on the Monday after the February term closes ou Saturday. There was much scratching of perplexed heads, and figuring with pencils, on the part of the officials who found that a happy April fool surprise of a week’s vacation was given this year. The week’s vacation is very welcome to the clerk, who found in other spring terms that the week-end period was scarcely long enough for the making of the new dockets and the closing of court. Jury Commissioners J. W. Craig of Berne and Henry Hite, with County Clerk Bleeke, selected the grand and petiti juries for the April term today. The grand jury will not convene unless a now unforeseen need arises for it, while the petit jury will report the third Monday of the term. Grand Jurors. D. C .Neuenschwander —Wabash. . John Christen—Decatur. James Foreman—Bluecreek. A. B. Daugherty— Win. C. Kreig—Kirklan > Frank Fisher—Decatur. (Conunvet on rage 2) o > WILL RAISE BEETS I Farmers of Two Townships in Whitley County Investigated Business Here. —~ — REPORT FAVORABLY ) ■ Meeting Will be Held There . Friday Evening When Contracts Will be Made. I It is now practically an assured fact that fihners of Washington 1 and Columbia townships in the vicinity of Peabody will grow from 100 to 200 acres of sugar beets this season ■ and ship them to the Decatur beet 1 sugar factory from a station to be es- - tablished at Peabody. l ) Charles Jones, Homer Crawford, Reo Johnson, Dan Johnson and Levi j ■ J. Keiser of that locality st-ent Thurs-' * day and Friday of last week at Deca-' - tur investigating sugar beet growing and in finding out just how profitable I the crop is. They found several, knockers on the crop, but for the most part the growers they talked to who raised beets last year for the Decatur factory, and the season last year was i a very poor one, showed by the recs ords they produced that they made an t elegant profit on the crop of beets I raised. I A meeting has been called at Maple 1 Grove school house for Friday night, ■ April 11, when men from the Decatur > factory will be present, and all farm- ■ era interested are urged to attend. ■ Sugar beet growing will be presented t in all its phases and it is expected at - that time that the matter of securing acreage will be taken up and a shipping station decided upon. Some of the best sugar beet land in the state lies in the Peabody locality.— i Columbia City Mail. > INCREASES CAPITAL STOCK. i Indianapolis, Ind., April 7—ln arti- . cles filed with the secretary of state the Rapid Remedy company of Berne i has increased its capital from $25,000 to $300,000.

MAY SUE STATE OF OHIO. Wabash Rising at New Corydon Inundates Many Farms. Geneva, Ind., April 7—The G. R. & I. railroad company has a large force of Italian laborers at work here replacing the track which was washed out in the recent flood. The w’ater is slowly receding. Conditions along the Wabash east of here. Instead of improving, are growing worse. At New Corydin the river rose eight inches. A number of farmers in Adams and Jay counties, whose lands have been inunlated, are going to unite in a suit for damages against the state of Ohio, as It is claimed that the custodians of the reservoir let water from the reservoir to save themselves. WOOL ONFREE LIST New Tariff Bill Presented Before the House by Ways and Means Committee ♦ REVISES OTHER LISTS Women Renew Effort to Impress Administration With Equal Suffrage. Washington, Aprif 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Radical sweeping ! cuts are contained in the Democratic 1 I tariff bill, prepared by the house ways ■ and means committee and introduced I before the house today. Its framers said that the time had come when the American manufacture must meet honest competition. The bill has met with the approval of President Wilson. Its 1 backers predict that it will pass the house and will be hard to balk in the senate. It gives free raw wool, cuts duties on yarn, blankets, flannels, | dress goods, clothing and carpets. Cuts the price on sugar and provides | that it goes on the free list in three years. Revolutionizes the cotton : schedule, puts steel rails on the free | list and slashes all existing duties on I iron and steel articles. It also revises the duties on the necessities of life such as meats, flour, etc., and re- ; duces duties on numerous other I things. To make up the deficit lost in revenue, the long-promised income tax is included in the bill. No wageearners receiving less than $4,000 a! year will be subject to this tax. Chicago, 111. April 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A rope made of . sheets about his wife’s waist and by | which William Davis lowered her through smoke and flames from the third story of a blazing apartment building, burned and parted at the second story. The women fell to the 'sidewalk with her night clothes on fire, one arm broken, and one side badly burned, and with probably fatal . injuries? Firemen shouted that they , were coming with a ladder, but not heeding them, Davis wound another sheet around the six-months-old babe and while women cried aloud on the street and the flames leaped up as if endeavoring to devour the little bun- , die at the end of the rope, Davis j dangled the child out of the window. A man leanel out of the sccond-story ' window of the building next door and I shouted to Davis to swing the child to him. Davis started the rope to swinging like a pendulum, and after four ' unsuccessful attempts, the man below' was able to sleze the baby. Firemen' were ableto run an extension ladder 1 up and save Davis. Washington, D. C., April 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Women renewed their efforts today to Impress the administration with the justice of equal suffrage. Five hundred thirty-one enthusiastic suffragettes, headed by two bands, marched up Pennsylvania street to the capitol. They were protected by plenty of police today, the mistake of March 1 being guarded against. The women wore great sashes of the suffrage colors. o TEACHERS’ REPORTS ARE HERE. County Superintendent L. E. Opllger has received copies of the proceedings of the state teachers' association meeting for 1912, sent out by Superin- ■ tendent Pearcy and any teacher of ) Adams county who was a member of s the association last year, may receive ) a copy by calling at Mr. Opliger'e office.

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THE CONTEST IS DECIDED Finding That Majority Voted “No” at Recent Local Option Election. THE REMONSTRANCE To be Heard in Court Room Wednesday Morning— Cornmissoners Meet. The docket was completed this afternoon in the Simon Brandyberry et al. petition for a local option election, thus disposing of the contest over the vote in the Third ward. This was practically t>y agreement, as both sides agreed that the contest should not go any further. The record reads that the board's finding is that 585 votes were cast "yes” and 616 “no,” and that a majority of the votes cast voted "no.” This disposes of the contest w’hich was filed because the members of the board left the polls to eat their meals. The John P. Davis et al. petition for a local option election was also i shown on the docket to have resulted in an election in which 153 voted . “yes" and 150 “no,” a majority having voted to keep the saloons out of Washington township. There was no contest. The remonstrance against the applii cants for saloon licenses, in the second ward of Decatur, will be heard by the board of commissioners, in the circuit court room at nine o’clock, Wednesday morning. The question was put 'up to the board this morning and the saloon men gave notice that they wished to contest the remonstrance. As the board had a large amount of other business of importance to transact and 'as it seems that the liquor contest may take considerable time, it was decided to hear same in the court room at nine o’clock Wednesday morning. The saloons had closed this morning, hut when this decision was made they reopened, the law allowing them that right, until the commissioners hear the remonstrance. The cause is docketed, John D. Andrews, et al, remonstrance. Licenses were granted to Jeff Klonfenstine, of Preble and John Hey of |Bingen and to Isadore Kalver, wholesaler of this city. The monthly report of the county treasurer was filed and approved by the board. The petitions of George Heller, Samuel Darr and C. W. Yager to refund taxes was remerred to the county assessor. .... J EXCELLENT SERVICES. Conducted by Methodist Brotherhood —To Meet Friday. The Sunday evening services in charge of the Methodist Brotherhood i were excellent. Besides music by the male chorus, excellent addresses were given by Messrs. John Parrish, W. J. Archbold, Attorney C. L. Walters and . Dr. J. S. Boyers. The Brotherhood I will meet again Friday evening, when Dr. Roy Archbold will give an illustrated lecture on the care of the teeth. WILL BEGIN APRIL 10. Omer Butler, for the south part of the city, and L. C. Helm, for the north part, appointed to take the enumeration of the school children, will begin April 10, having twenty days to com- ■ plete the work. They will also take I the enumeration of the soldiers, ac- : cording to a new law. The township trustees held their regular monthly meeting here today. • They received their enumeration blanks, and will ,be ready for work • April 10. s '■ —o— — ■■• 1 K. OF C .MEETING. f An important meeting of our connt ell will be held tonight. There should > be a good attendance to help in the - discussion of several important questions. G. K.