Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 83, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1913 — Page 2

DAILYDEMOCRAT Published Every Evening, Except Sunday by TIE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW Q. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 P*i Mouth, by mail ..16 centa Per year, by mail 12.50 Single Copies I centa Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the poatottice tn Decatur, lndl«-«. as sc-ond cl*-* mail. A. J. SMITH HONORED. Elected Layman Vice President of Ft. Wayne M. E. District. The appointments of the ministers j to tbeir charges in the North Indiana ' Methodist conference will probably be ' read this evening at the conference at i Tipton, the conference closing to- ’ night. A. J. Smith of this city was elected a layman vice president for the Fort Wayne district. The following were elected as laymen officers in the conference: A. B. Cline, Bluffton, president; D. O. Skillen, Yorktown, vice president; Mrs. A. P. Conklin, Greenfield, secretary. The following were elected vice presidents in the different districts: Fort Wayne district, A. J. Smith, Decatur; Goshen, district, E. Starbuck, Goshen; Logans-; port district, Z. U. Lopp, Logansport; Muncie district, B. F. Moore, Muncie: Richmond district, L. C. Bunyan, Richmond; Wabash district, Charles Heddle, Wabash. More than 2,000 visitors attended the Sunday session of conference. SCHOOLS REOPEN. The city schools reopened this morning after a week s spring vacation. Many of the pupils are ill of the mumps and there are many vacancies noted in the student ranks. One primary room had only fourteen pupils present today. Many of the pupils were quite sorry to have their vacation spoiled by getting the mumps last, week. One boy who became ill yesterday, exclaimed: "O lucky day for me. Tommy Blank had the mumps last week.” MOTOR BURNED OUT. The damage done by the recent flood is still causing trouble for the interurban. The cars ran on schedule time Sunday, until 10:30 o’clock last night, when a motor burned out as the car was entering Fort Wayne. The baggage car went out and brought the belated car back to this city, arriving here at 2:30 o’clock. No cars were run this morning, but it was hoped to have them in operation again this afternoon. & — BAPTIST BAZAAR. The Baptist Ladies’ Aid society Is getting ready to open its bazaar in the Morrison building, south of the interurban station Wednesday, April 9, for the remainder of the week. A varied assortment of stock will be placed on , sale. The public’s patronage is invit- “ ' r ’ n COURT HOUSE QUIET. Real estate transfers: Homer Faust, guardian, to Corless Faust, pt. lot, 39, $3,.03; David Archer et al. heirs to James H. Woods, pt. lot 39, $902.97; Eli W Steele to Gradle H. Light et al., 10 acres, Washington tp., $1000; Joel'Baumgartner et al. to Benjamin N. Baumgartner, 40 acres, French tp., $4000; Samantha R. Nich» ols et al. to Clark Spahr, lot 229, Decatur, SIOO, —o- — , Democrat Want Ads Pav. ■

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DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday. W. C. T. U.—Mrs. Henry Krick. Young Matrons—Mrs. Geo. Flanders Historical—Mrs. C. D. Lewton. Wednesday. Orient —Mrs. Hugh Hite. Thursday. Bachelor Maids—Emma Terveer. Methodist Missionary—Mrs. P. G. Hooper. Shakespeare—Mrs. E. E. Rice. Several Decatur people attended the wedding of Anna Berning and William Hagefeld at the St. John's Lutheran church Sunday afternoon, Rev. Jans officiating. The bride was pretty in I a gown of cream satin with lace over-’ | dress, and she wore a long veil, and carried bride's roses. Her bridemaids, I Pauline Berning, in tan messaline and Clara Bulmahn In light blue messa- . line were pretty, both carrying carnations. The groom was attended by (Charles Berning and Fred Hegefeld. Immediate relatives were guests at the wedding supper at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Sophia Berning. The couple will live on Force street, Fort Wayne. The groom is a carpenter. ■ Miss Emma Terveer will entertain the Bachelor Maids on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night. — — The Woman’s Home Missionary society of the Methodist church which postponed its meeting from last week, will meet Thursday with Mrs. P. G. Hooper. Mrs. A. R. Bell will be assistant. The study of "Mormonism as a Religion" will be taken up with Mrs. ; T. W. Holsapple leader. • Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bleeke of Union township went to Fort Wayne yester- < day. where they attended the christening of their granddaughter, the three weeks' old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Waldea. The christening took place at the St. Paul’s Lutheran church, the babe being named Florence Amelia Matilda. The child’s mother was formerly Miss Amelia Bleeke. < The Decatur friends of Glen Holsapple of Indianapolis, son of Mr. and : Mrs. T. W. Holsapple, Decatur, will be pleased to hear of his marriage which , will take place the latter part of June. The bride-elect is one of Indianapolis’ fair young ladies —Miss Myrtle Moffett, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Lee Moffett. The groom is a business man of ability and is employed in the offices of the American Motor factory. Mrs. John W. Merriman entertained at a 12 o’clock dinner Sunday in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Welsheimer, who left this morning for Michigan, where they will make their future home. A bountiful three-course dinner was served and every one present enjoyed themselvies to the utmost. Those j present were: Mrs. Molly Gilson, ' Paragould, Ark.; Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Welscheimer, son, Lud, and daughter, Ruby, of Marion; Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Krugh and daughters, Opal, Fay and 1 Sein, of Salem; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde I Hower and Miss IRoiby Hower, of this city. 1 The Orient club is looking forward I with pleasure to its meeting Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Hugh Hite. O. P. Edwards returned to Leipsic, Ohio, .oday after a week-end visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick. Mrs. Edwards will remain until Wednesday. Miss Helen Niblick will return this week to the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, Ohio, after a special vacation on account of the floods there. A very pretty and pleasing six o’clock dinner party was given Sun- I day evening by Miss Ruth Bowers, ; "■ 1

the floral decorations of the table being carried out with pink and white carnations. Music was enjoyed during the evening. Covers were laid for the following little guests: Ruth Hubbard, Angelina Firks, Josephine Meyers, Doris Erwin, Helen Dugan, Veronica Anker, Bertha Fledderjohann, Helen Walters, Ruth Frisinger, Lola Dunn, Dorothy Dunn. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union will meet on Tuesday at 2 p. m., with Mrs. Henry Krick. Mrs. Fred Linn will assist her in entertaining. Topic for the day - will be "Subbath Observance.” Mrs. Holsapple, who is superintendent of that department, will have charge of the program. A welcome for all. Mr. and Mrs. Roll Ellis, whose marriage took place last week, were guests of honor ata dinner party given Sunday at the home of the bride s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Weimer, at Willshire, Ohio. Jesse Beam presided as toastmaster and many good wishes fora long and happy life for the newly married couple, were in order. Mrs. Myrtle Fisher furnished m>’ sic and the occasion was one of thorough pleasure. Mrs. Ellis was formerly Miss Lulu Weimer, on eof Willshire’s fair young ladies. - EVIDENCE IS DAMAGING. To Ralph Hoover, Charged With WifeMurder. The jurors in the Ralph Hoover wife-murder trial at Van Wert were not allowed to go home over Sunday, but were allowed to go to church in squads in company with an officer, and this morning resumed the hearing. The Van Wert Times says: The half day the court was in session Saturday was given over to the i i hearing of testimony of physicians J who had been connected with the j case, and one of whom had made an analysis of material said to have come from the stomach of Helen Hoover immediately after she was shot I some time afternoon of i January 10 last. The evidence in the I main, which was exceedingly damag- I Ing to the accused, was to the effect that the bullet wounds in Mrs. Hoo- • ver’s head were the direct cause of I her death .that the shock of the injury caused immediate unconsciousness, and that it was possible after a time for a patient in her condition to I recover consciousness, or rather to! “yes” and "no" and indicate replies j in a semi-conscious condition long enough to answer questions with i the nod of the head. The physician ! who had made an examination of the ' substance purporting to be from Mrs. I Hoover’s stomach, stated that in his opinion it had been there less than 1 an hour, which being the case the state will contend that the shooting occurred shortly after 1 o’clock, and that the defendant was unconscious at 2:30, when Hoover is supposed to have visited the house at which time the defendant has stated that she was engaged in reading a magazine.” THE APRIL JURIE CON”’’N I > reo "kOM T-aGE ONE Petit Jurors. John A. Wheeler—Wabash. Daniel Kitson—Decatur. Charles Baker—Decatur. Thomas Burley—Jefferson. Wm. Waggoner—Monroe. I E. T. Haecker—Berne. Raleigh Bradford— Joseph L. Graber—French. Jesse Eckrote—Hartford. Samuel Helm—St. Mary’s. Henry Borne—Kirkland. John Hendricks—Monroe. o- — FOR SALE OR TRADE—For auto: 4 pool tables, 1 cigar case, wall ease, and National cash register. See F. P. I Smith, at Smith & Co's restaurant. ' 83t3 FOUND—Pair nose glasses; were left | at Mill's grocery Saturday evehing. I Owner can have same by calling at I this office and paying for this do- 1 tlce. 83t3 WORE Or TERROR j t Continued from Page 1) wouldn't know this was the same place. It’s very discouraging, but it j might have been a hundred per cent worse, if they would have been drown- ' ed. Charley says he never thinks of ' it, and he hates to hear people talk about their narrow escape. IDA IRENE, i Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Colder .ood of Blue Creek township had four daughters in Dayton, Ohio, who narrowly escaped with their lives from the floods, several losing nearly all their worldly possessions. The daughters were Susie Porter, who graduated from the Decatur high school in 1897; Pearl Perrine, Myrtle Bimley and Miss Susie Calderwood. Myrtle writes that she and Pearl lost everything except their dishes' and the clothing thev wore, as it was

ore burry for tueir lives. Their husbands made a raft of the bedroom doors, and they went to the attic of the next-door house until afternoon, when they were taken out over the roof with a strap around their waists and lowered into a boat. They were taken to an attic in a big building, as the other one was sinking. There were sixty-two in the cold, damp attic, and the sight of the water and fire was terrible. ' The water came up over the top of their own houses, and they state the mud is now four inches deep there. In Pearl's home the mud is six inches deep. They will not go back. Sadie, who worked in an office that later was burned, was caught in the floods, and was hip deep in the water when pulled out by a man with a horse and wagon. Before they got to safety the horse was swimming. The fire was across the street from the place where she worked, and had she gotten to the office she would have been burned. Her brothers-in-law hunted for her all day and on Friday, their anxiety was relieved by some people who had seen her. Besides the terror of the disaster, shfe also suffered loss, losing her pocketbook and all her money, as well as her watch. Myrtle and Pearl got out of their attic safely at 2 o’clock Thursday, frozen and hungry. Their husbands then stole a boat, they state, from a traction company and went and rescued Susie and her family. Susie Porter writes graphically, as follows: Dayton, 0., March 31, ’l3. Dear Parents: We have sent three telegrams to you and letters, but learn from the Wilson, or some other girls from Berne that you have not received any of them. We are safe and are now at ■Newton Bryan's, 21 Hartford street, i Sadie is out at the National Cash Register plant sending telegrams. We saw her yesterday. She may come here, too. We have lost all but the few things that were higher than the | beds on the second floor, and our i house being so high you know what ! the girls are like. Everything gone, j Our horse was drowned, after being taken up town and put in a livery stal ble, on the second floor. j Monday, the 24th, after a hard rain, the sewer backed up, and water remained from curb to curb all day and night and when we awoke Tuesday morning at 5 o’clock, we found only a I little more water, or to the fence. But i before an hour our cellar was full, and in a few minutes came onto the ! floors. We managed to take a basketfull of eatables and Bill a tub full of water in the bath room, so we could I live; got 2 druggets up and a few other things, to the second floor. Withiin half an hour the water was half way up to the celing of the first floor. The piano and everything had turned over and little Gwendolyn had fallen to the bottom, but by quick wo*t she was brought up and worked with until she came to. By thetime I had her dressed and my own wet clothes changed, they were taking the little children out of houses by tying sheets and blankets together, and letting them hang, and hand-over-hand across. This was too knucb for me, and the water was fast crawling up to the second floor, and we got in the attic, where we remained until taken out by j boat at 5 o’clock. Then the water was | twenty-five feet deep and a roaring I current. The rain never seased for two or more days and nights. We webe only taken across the street to a higher house, into a cold attic. Fiftythree of us remained in this house until Thursday at 5 o'clock. We suffered from cold and dampness, and as we already had the grip you can imagine how we felt after wading out of the attic to our homes, and remaining wet. But Wednesday night at 12 o’clock the water had gone down one , inch and we were rejoicing. Slowly preceding from that time on. Wednesday afternoon fire broke out up town and with a high wind and eighteen feet of water around us, with no possible help from firemen, looked dis- ■ couraging. I do not know whether | the fire is out yet or not, but from ; Third and Main streets, east and i south, there is not much left. All the ! stores were flooded to their second j floors and everything is a mass of ruin. Dead horses are piled high. About 300 bodies, I think, are all that have been found so far, but the houses have not been searched yet. j The water is all off today. We were taken out of the attic Thursday, there still being ten feet of water, at 5 ; o’clock, and over into Riverdale by automobile, and today brought *by automobile to Meda's. We have plenty ito eat and have been well supplied J with clothing. The relief is fine, train loads being shipped here for Daj’ton's homeless. Myrtle and Pearl were taken out on door, and from Mean’s attic by boat to the big flat on the i boulevard. The railroad bridge was filled with engines to hold it, but it floated away; also the Fifth street bridge and all others, but the cement ones. Susie reached her house by the horse swimming; then by jumping . box cars got out of the fire to a Catholic church on East Third street. SUSIE. ♦

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WORK NEARLY OVER. (United Press Service) Tipton, Ind., April 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) —With work practically over the North Indiana M. E. conference today awaited the announcements of appointments for the coming year. Bishop McDowell and his “cabinet" had hoped to give out the appointments late today, but owing to the many changes to be made the bishop was unable to state exactly when the appointments would be ' made. C. H. Hayslip left this afternoon for Martinsville to make a few days’ stay with friends. ■ HOUSE WANTED—Must have barn on lot. Call ’phone 513 at once. 83-3 STAR GROCERY Marco Coffee a most delicious cup the most pleasing combination ot strength and flavor it is possible to produce. Blended from the very choiciest varieties. 30 and 35c lb. Will Johns. P p fi —l., i ,

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