Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 93.

LICENSE TO FISH t Will be Required by Adams ■County People Who Go to Rome City. THE NEW LAWS In Summary Below Give Chief Requirements of Fishers. There is much Interest locally among fishermen regarding the new laws which will soon go into effect. D. M. Hensley and other fishermen whose annual trips to Rome City are sources of great pleasure have taken especial pains to post themselves on the new laws and Mr. Hensley is probably the first one to take out a license to be used for fishing. The new law provides that no license is Aftcwaaar- to fish in your own county or adja< •nt counties. Hence those who go to Rome City must have license, while none would be required of local fishers who angle for the finny tribe in Allen, Wells or Jay counties, should they so desire to do. Unfortunately, however there is little to tempt them in those counties. Nonresidents of the state must have a license in aH cases.\ The wife of a holder of a license, ibnd all his children under eighteen years of age are not required to have a license, that of the husband and father being sufficient for all. The licenses are issued by the clerk of thei circuit court and cost one dollar .each being good for a year. The blanks will be provided by the commissioner of fisheries and game. None have yet been received, but all holding licenses to hunt .effective at the time, of the taking effect of this act, shall be entitled to hunt and fish, the same as in all licenses issued under tils (ection. As the new law is not yet effective, Mr. Hensley will get a ' hunter’s license, neither the Adams nor Wells county clerk having yet re- 1 ceived the new license blanks. A fommary of the fishing laws follows: It Is Unlawful To fish outside your own county or an adjacent one without a license. To aell or offer for sale any pike, pickerel, wall-eyed pike, perch, bluegills, black bass, green bass, roek bass or other species of bass. To take any pickerel or pike less than twelve inches long, any rock bass or crappie bass less than six inches long, or any black bass less than ten Inches long. > To take or have in your possession in any one day more than fifty blue- 1 gills, sunfish, or crappies, or more . than twelve bass. Two or more persons fishing from the same boat may j not take more than twenty bass in a day. To fish with any hook and line attached to any bottle or other floating device To fish with any trot line having any book on it smaller than a 6-0 Kirby To fish on Btate breeding grounds set apart by the commissioner of fisheries and game between the twentieth day of March and the first day of July. To’ ship any game fish out of the state, except that a person may take; with him not to exceed tWenty-four, caught by himself, if he carries them Kly. To kill or stuplfy fish with an elec-: trie current. To use Indian cockle, fish berries or other substances intended to stupefy or poison fish. To take fish with the hands, or. with a gaff hook or grappling hook that are not first fastened on a legal hook and line. To use dynamite or any other explosive in any water of the state, except for mining or mechanical purposes by special permission of the commissioner of fisheries and game. To place an obstruction in a stream to prevent fish from ascending and descending. To trespass on enclosed land for the purpose of setting a trot line. Jj|To shoot or shoot at any fish. T’ To have in your possession any part of, or to use at any time, any seine or net of any kind, or any spear or trap, except a minnow trap, or a minnow sWfhe not morethan twelve feet and four feet deep, with meshes not larger than one-four of an inch, unless BUch nets or traps are for use in Lake

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Michigan, the Ohio river or the Wabash river where It forms the boundary between Indiana and Illinois, in which case they must be kept within two miles of these waters. Owners of private ponds may have seins for use therein. To use a net or trap in the Ohio rivet, or the Wabash river where it forms the boundary between Indiana and Illinois within one hundred yards oi the mouth of the stream emptying into it from the Indiana side, — — o K. OF 0. NOTICE. Every member should make special effort to attend the meeting of Monday evening, April 21, at which time State Deputy and National Director M illiam Fox will be on his official visit to the local council. There will also be a question of importance to be~ acted upon at this meeting. A lunch and smoker will follow the business session. q. g. GIVE LIBERALLY People of Decatur Respond to the Call for Financial Aid for Sufferers. IN INDIANA CITIES Work Will Continue Over Sunday and Will Reach Good Sized Total. The people of Decatur are charitable and they are responding liberally to : the pleas for aid in the flood stricken cities. Money has been sent to Peru, Dayton and other places. The TriKappas recently sent $25 to Indianapolis for use among the stricken of bhat city. Several of the Sunday schools will give their offerings next Sunday morning to the fund to be 'sent to Lawrenceburg. The Presbyterian Sunday school made the announcement last Sunday and it is expected that the collection will be even larger than usual. Superintendent Rice, who has charge of the work, is 1 elated over the spirit shown. He reports the following contributions so far from all sources: John Kiracofe SI.OO Henry Mite 3.00 A. H. Sellemeyer 1.00 Mrs. A. H. Sellemeyer 1.00 Mr. Merry 1.00 Mrs. Chas. Colter 1.00 Don Teeple 25 Reuben Robison 50 Dyke Frisinger 1.00 Elmer Archer 1.00 Sim Burk 50 G. T. Burk 5.00 Eva Acker 50 Myers & Dailey 1.00 Burt Mangold 25 Graham & Walters 1.00 John Niblick 5.00 Friend 3.00

Mrs. Burdg j.. 1.00 Harry Jeffries .25 Vance, Hite & Macklin 1.00 Mrs. D. E. Hower 50 Mrs. Fred Mills 1.00 Earl Hoagland / 25 Mrs. C. E. Christen 50 Charles Brock 1.00 Mr. Schirmeyer 2.00 Kuebler & Co 1.00 j Mr. Heuer 1.00 .Girod & Baker 50 Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson 1.00 [Miss Lena Sutton 50 D. H. S. Senior Class 2.30 I Maud Magley 1.00 '.I. B. Holthouse 5.00 Al Burdg 1.00 I Albert Sellemeyer 1.00 Herald 5.00 C. E. Hocker 1.00 W. A. Lower 1.00 Decatur Lumber Co 10.00 W. H. Fledderjohann 1.00 o ARBOR DAY IN DENVER. Denver, April 18 —Tree-planting and building m shelters for birds throughout the state of .Colorado today were the principal ceremonies which marki er Arbor and Bird day, Aamed such by proclamation of Governor Elias M. Ammons. 1 8080 CIRCUIT. Regular services as follows: Clark’s , Chapel, 7:30 p. m., Saturday: Bobo, t 10:30 a. m., Sunday; Pleasant Mills, I 7:30 p. m., Sunday. > J. O. HOCHSTEDLBR, Pastor.

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THREE FROM HERE Were Inmates of Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield, Indiana. DURING HALF YEAR Ending March 31, Says Report —Total Number is Seven Hundred One. Os the 701 boys in the Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield during the last half year, ending March 31, three are from Adams county. This is according to the semi-annual report as filed by Superintendent Guy Hanna, with the treasurer of the state. The report shows the state paid $24,383.11 for the upkeep of the school, while the various counties of the state which had inmates in the institution, paid a similar amount. The counties pay one-half of the expense of the institution, pro rated on the number of inmates from each county. The total cost of maintaining the school was $48,766.22. Fifteen counties of the state had no boys in the school. These were Wells, Brown, Crawford, Jasper, Marshall, Newton, Ohio, Parke, Porter, Ripley, Starke Switzerland Union, Warren ani Whitley. Marion county leads with 123 inmates. The cost to Marion county was $4,284.72. Vanderburg county also was heavily represented, with fifty-eight inmates. Vigo had fortyseven, and Allen, thirty-three. In this part of the state counties with boys in the school areas folAdams 3, Blackford 2, Grant 6, Jay 2, Huntington 3, and Madison 17.

STILL A QUESTION As to What Will be Done for xMore High School Room. PROF. KELLEY HERE School Board Will Outline a New Plan—No New Building This Year. The delayed visit of Professor Kelley, president of Earlham college, at Richmond, and a member of the state moard of Education, was made to this city yesterday afternoon, ho arriving at 3:10 o’clock over the G. R. & I. railroad. He at once took up the matter of the Inspection of the high school, relative to the need of more room, and the bearing it has upon the standard of the high school according to the requirements of the state board. The one thing that the high school Is deficient in according to the state board standard, is the matter of room. A meeting was then held with the city school board, and the matter gone over with them. The board is unanimous in its decision that a new building cannot be built this year, on [account of lack of funds. The thing to do, therefore, is to provide for the deficiency in some other way. The school board will outline some other plan to tide over .tho difficulty and this plan will be presented to Mr. Kelly, who In turn will lay it before the state board of education when it meets in Indianapolis next Tuesday. o—POLICE COURT. Tho trial of Reuben Woodruff, charged with giving liquor to John Edwards, an habitual drunkard, was tried this morning before Mayor Teeple. Owing to lack of evidence the mayor did not consider the case strong enough to place a sentence againstT the defendant, therefore he was acquitted of the charge. In settlement of the paternity charge filed against Albert Ray, aged eighteen, by Charlotte Ford, aged nineteen, the case was compromised this morning by the parties agreeing to marriage. The ceremony was performed by ’Squire Stone at his office.

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, April 18, 1913.

PROTEGE OF SOCIETY. St. Vincent de Paul Adds Another Good Deed to Many. Mrs. Michael Rezek, wife of one of the foreign beet workers, mention of whose recovery from a dangerous illness of septic poisoning, was made Tuesday evening in this paper, Is a protege of the St. Vincent de Paul society, one of the charitable bodies of the St. Mary's Catholic church. Und»-r the direction of the ladies a nurse was hired and other care and attention given, except for which this lady would in all probability have died. This is but one of many such deeds done by this noble band, the greater number of which are unknown to the public, as they do as the scriptural Injunction advises—in such away that the right hand knoweth not what the left hand doeth. SWEETEST CELLAR In the City Today is That of the Smith & Son’s Restaurant. A MOLASSES FLOOD Was in Order When Ends of Barrel Gave Way—s2o Loss. The sweetest cellar In the city, today, is that of the Smith & Son’s restaurant and bakery. The state inspector, who has the sharpest set of instincts known to human being, would concede that Without a hint of investigation and pass on saying “All’s well.’’ The cellar is flooded with molasses —a whole 700 pound barrel of the liquid sweetness. What is a bad feature about it, it occasions a loss of about twenty dollars. The molasses is of the dark, baking variety, used extensively by the bakery in producing its delicious gingerbread and molasses cakes and cookies. The barrel came in this morning, and arrangements were made to roll it into the cellar on sloping boards fro mthe grate in front of the building. In some way the boards gave way and let the barrel down too soon. It fell with such force that both ends were broken out. Os course this let out the molasses in such a flood that the St. [Mary’s reservoir would have to “hump itself” some to equal. “Levees” of stones and boards were hastily built to shut off the flow as much as possible but not before the entire front floor of the cellar was covered. The cleaning up part will be a sticky one, and this is probably the worst feature of the case.

’ COURT HOUSE IS QUIET. Ex-Clerk James P. Haefling's smiling face was seen behind the counters at the clerk’s office today. He is serving not In an official capacity, how- ! ever, but is doing a little private busi- ’ ness. This is because the legislature > of 1913 has turned around and declar--1 ed that certain fees which the 1911 1 legislature declared did not belong to ’ the clerk, do really belong to him. Mr. r Haefling is going back over the rec--1 ords and making out claims for those to which he is entitled. Some of the 1 claims were filed by him during office ' but the money was turned over by 1 him to the county. This he will reI cover, and for those amounts to which 1 he is entitled, but for which he did 1 not make out prior claims, he Is mak- ’ now. The amount will be less Hthan S2OO, but Is well worth looking • | after. Some of the claims will be pre--1 sented to court and some to the county • commissioners. They Include fees in insanity cases, court feets, etc. The cause of Simeon J. Hain vs. Archie Magann was consolidated with ■ another cause against the defendant, i _____. 1 In the petition of Russell Long et al. ■ for drain, the bill of costs and ex--1 peases filed by superintendent of con--1 struction, was allowed and final report ' ordered. A marriage license . was issued to Lottie Ford, seamstress, born Septem- ’ her 7, 1893, daughter of Charlie Ford, I to wed Albert Ray, born September ■ 20, 1894, son of Andrew Jackson Ray. i • Real estate transfers: Ada Yosum • 3t al., to George Schlegel, lot 29, Decatur, SSOO.

LEFT A FORTINE Harold Wilcox Given Half Os $30,000 Estate By His Aunt MRS. VERNE STARK Whose Death Occurred at Hot Springs, Ark.—Son of C. B. Wilcox. A dispatch to metropolitan papers from Alma, Michigan, states that Harold Wilcox, a student at Alma College, a former Decatur boy, received word this week that an aunt, Mrs. Verne Stark, of Danville, 111., had died at Hot Springs, Ark., and that she had left him half of her estate, valued at $30,000. The news will be received with pleasure by Harold’s innumerable Decatur friends who will rejoice with him in his aunt's kind remembrance of him. Harold has been a student at Alma for three years and holds the college record in oratory, having won the local contest for three straight. Each year he has been placed in the state contest. Last summer he was editor of a daily paper in the upper peninsula of Michigan, and during the residence of his father, Dr. C. B. Wilcox, at St. Louis, Mich., was associate editor of a newspaper owned by his father there. Harold was a former student in the Decatur high school and identified with its various associations. He is a son of Dr. C. B.Wilcox local secretary of the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company. Dr. and Mrs. Wilcox attended the funeral of Mrs. Stark, she being his only sister.

CAPT. JONES DEAD Decatur Civil War Veterans Learn of Comrade’s Death at Fairmount. WAS IN THE 89TH Was Captain of Company C —Had Been 11l Since Sunday. Decatur civil war veterans will be grieved to hear of the death of a comrade, Captain John Frank Jones, which occurred Wednesday night at 11:25 o’clock at his home on West Washington street, at Fairmount. Death followed an acute illness which commenced last Sunday night. Captain Jones was seventythree years old, and was late of Company C, Eightyninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Captain Jones entered the service a lieutenant in Company C, 89th Indiana, and was later promoted to captain. Very many of the Decatur veterans remember him and will receive the news of his death with regret. He is survived by a widow, Veirlng W. and Thed Jones, sons, both of whom are employed in Ohio, and one daughter, Mrs. William Gardner, of Muncie. JOHN NIBLICK BUYS CAR. Five-passenger Mitchell Expected to Arrive from Indianapolis. John Niblick has purchased a fine new Mitchell, five-passenger touring car, through the Mitchell Automobile company, in Indianapolis. The car will be brought overland and was expected to arrive last night. Some unknown cause prevented and the car is expected hourly today. The car is made at Racine, Wis. — — DECATUR CIRCUIT. Preaching services at Washington. Saturday evening; Beulah, Sunday morning; Pleasant Valley, Sunday evening. A collection will be taken for flood victims. KARL THOMPSON. ■ —o 1 Tod Whipple of Portland was a business visitor in the city today.

WILL LEAVE WEDNESDAY. Charles Heckman Family to Move to Fort Wayne. The Charles Heckman family is packing its household goods preparatory to moving to Fort Wayne next Wednesday having leased a residence on Dawson street, of that city. Mr. Heckman and son, Ernest, having both secured good positions with the Broadway light works, and their new home which is near Fairfield avenue, will be a good location for them from a business standpoint. Miss Esther Heckman, for several years a capable operator for the Citizens’ Telephone Company, has resigned and will go with her parents. Miss Marie, a milliner in the employ of the Mrs. Boese will remain to finish the season here. The Heckmans have many friends and associations here to whom their leaving will be a matter of regret. GIVEN AN ESTATE Michael Englehart Heir to Small Fortune Left bv His Father OF NEAR TOLEDO Son Cannot be Located— Can Any One Help in the Cause? Where Is Michael Englehart? Anyone who knows will do him or his daughter a great favor by giving the nformation. The daughter, who resides in Fort Wayne, has received notice that her grandfather, George Englehart, residing near Toledo, Ohio, has died leaving his estate to his heirs. I The son, Michael, would come into a I part of the estate, his share being val- 1 ued at about a thousand dollars, if the I son is not living the daughter will be i next in line and she is very anxious ! to learn of her father’s whereabouts.! Mr. Englehart resided In Decatur a : number of years ago, conducting the I ashery while here. Later the family moved to Fort Wayne, and there the couple was divorced. Mrs. Englehart remarried and Mr. Englehart left and his whereabouts have been unknown by his family for some time. The 1 daughter, who Is making the search ! for him, is married and resides in Ft. Wayne, and has enlisted the aid of Daniel N. Erwin in the claim.

MONMOUTH SCHOOL CLOSES. J. S. Nelson, teacher of the advanced grades of the Monmouth school, 1 closed a successful term this after- 1 noon with appropriate exercises. Mr. I Nelson filled out the unexpired term ■ of Martin Jaberg, who resigned to accept a route as rural mail carrier. The primary grades taught by Miss Clara Boknecht, will have two weeks longer, to make up for that much vacation occasioned by illness and high water inconveniences. The patrons of the Monmouth school surprised the teachers today by bringing their dinner at noon and having a picnic feast. Although Miss Boknecht's school will not close until two weeks, they had the festivities today in union with the others. Miss Caroline Dowling, teacher at the Aber school, brought a very good term to a close yesterday. A program by the children was a feature of the special exercises of the day. Miss Dowling has taught two years at this school and is well liked. z a TO PASS ALIEN LAW. Washington, D. C., April 18—(Special to Daily Danocrat) —The administration realized that there will be ft law, enacted by California prohibiting aliens owning land and which will also break up the monopoly on the fishing industry now held by the Japanese. President Wilson told the Japanese ambassadore so. The President holds that California is privileged to enact any legislature they may desire. The President Is now endeavoring to get a new ambassadore to Tokio at once. Larz Anderson, the present ambassador is in this city instead of Tokio. News of the anti-American meetings now being held In Japan will probably make the endeavors more insistent

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ANDTHEN HE SLEPT , Ralph Hoover Shows Little Concern Upon Hearing Jury’s Verdict. HE SLEPT AGAIN Present Unusual Stoicism— Murdered Wife Buried Thursday. This mornlug’s Van Wert Times Bays: Ralph Hoover, nineteen years of age, now confined in the county jail, and convicted of murder in the second degree, which means that more than likely he will be sentenced to the state penitentiary for life within the next two weeks, continues to be a puzzle to the local authorities, giving an exhibition of stoicism, pure nerve, or whatever it may be called that is unparalleled In local criminal history. Wednesday evening shortly after 6 o’clock his fate was given into the hands of the jury, after a most powerful address made by Attorney H. L. Conn, asking that a verdict of murder in the first degree be returned against him, for which the penalty would be death in the electric chair; and the judge’s charge. Under such conditions an ordinary man would have been unableto sleep, but not so with young Hoover, for he went to bed at the usual time and slept so soundly that It was with difficulty that Sheriff Wilson awakened him at 5:30 o'clock Thursday morning to bring him into court to hear the verdict of the jury. Aside from the fact that his face was paler than usual, he did not appear to be as much concerned as those assembled in the court room. After hearing the verdict, and having a word with his coun'sel, he was taken to the jail, where be ,undressed and lay down unon his cot, and in a few monjents was sound ' asleep. j “Another scene, that it would seem I would move the most hardened, was connected with the removal of [the body of his wife, Helen Hoover, to Piqua for burial Thursday. The body was taken to the Pennsylvania station for transportation to Piqua, on the eastbound passenger, due ! here shortly before 1 o’clock, and I was loaded on a truck and taken to I the east end of the platform, to be jcarried into the baggage car. The box could be seen from the jail windows, where Hoover and one or two of the other inmates stood. Upon his attention being called to the rough box, and a statement made to the effect that the body so his wife was | in it, ail he had to say was: “Is it? jI didn't know whether it was or , not.”

| “Attorneys for the young man have indicated their intention to make a motion for a new trial, and as the law gives them three days in which to file a motion, it will be several days before sentence will be passed, as such a motion would have to be argued by counsel ror both the state and defense, and owing to the absence of H. L. Conn, who will probably be out of the city for a week or more, it is impossible to state when the next chapter in the case will be written. "The cost of the trial to the county will be very heavy, the jury's fees alone amounting to $718.30, of which $444.80 went to the jurors who sat in the case and $273.50 to those who were called, examined and excused.” 0525,000,000o — $25,000,000 SUPPLIED IN PARCEL POST STAMPS. Washington April 18—More than five million parcel postage stamps, the face value of which exceeds twentyfive million dollars, have been supplied to postoffices of the country since the establishment of the system. Parcel post business is increasing so rapidly that it has been found necessary to double the daily output of stamps. The largest single order filled this month was $360,000 for New York City. - - ■» ,1 -p.-.- ■ SUPERINTENDENT ACQUITED. i Pittsburg, Pa., April 18 —(Special to . Daily Democrat)-S. L. Heeter, super- . intendent of schools was acquited to- ■ day of charges made against him by . Ethel Fisher a housemaid in his home. i The jury deliberated an hour, sealed ’ the verdict, and presented it to the court this morning.