Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 104.

I FIRE DESTROYS I LARGE BARN Occupied by Adams Heading Co. and Decatur Hoop Co.—Loss Heavy. TWENTY-ONE HORSES And Mules Burned—Estimated Loss SB,OOO, Partially Insured. One of the most disastrous and cost- ® ly fires experienced in the history of 1 the city since 1903 when the Big store 9 on the corner of Madison and Second 1 Street was destroyed, occurred Wed- ■ nesday night at 11:50 o’clock when I the large 100x30 foot barn owned by ■ J. W. Vail, located at the corner of i ■ Jefferson and Seventh streets, was toI tally destroyed, entailing a loss of apI proximately SB,OOO. The fire was first I discovered by Charles Ault, night $ watchman at the Adams heading sac- | tory, -who immediately sounded the alarm on the factory whistle. The I origin of the fire is thought to have f been in the hay mow, which at the | time was nearly full of hay, and in a I very few seconds after being discovered the entire roof of the large build- | ing was a mass of flames. Several men were in the street at the time and an automobile party was also passing the building. However, the flames had gained such headway and large proportions that it was UnposiblS to get into the building to rescue any of the live stock or contents and the men were forced to busy themselves saving the adjoining buildings. It seems that no one thought of turning in the fire alarm until about fifteen minutes after the Are had been discovered and the fire department was then on its way to the scene. Horae* and Mules Burned. The building was occupied jointly by the S. H. Adams Heading company and the Decatur Hoop company, and used for the purpose of keeping their horses and mules stabled there, the Adams Heading company having twelve bead of mules and four horses, while the Decatur Hoop company was the owner of five head of horses, the entire stock of each company being burned to death. The most pitiable and horrible scenes were enacted the animals, crazed by the fire and smoke, broke loose from their stalls and rushed madly from one end of the long building to the other, kicking; biting and jumping over each oth®r, no assistance of any nature being able to be given to them on account of the fierce heat and because it would have meant death to any man to have forced himself into the midse of the frantic, struggling animals. All the windows and doors had been opened, and they would thrust their heads out, get a breath of air and rush back into the smoke and flames with the hair on their bodies scorched and in flames, making the most pitiable noise with their groans and moans of fright and P«.in. Only one horse of the twentvtwo animals confined there was rescued. This horse belonged to William Foreman and was stabled in a shed used in connection with the barn. Buildings Saved. f A small barn belonging to Harve Rice and across the alley from the large barn, was also destroyed, and it was alone due to the praiseworthy and heroic action of the city firemen and volunteers that the flames were confined to these buildings. Fortunately no wind was .blowing, which added greatly in the work of keeping the flames confined. Otherwise the Decatur Filler company, located twenty feet south of the barn, and the large bam of the Schafer Hardware company, located directly opposite on the east side of the alley, would have been destroyed despite the strenuous efforts of the firemen. The heat from the burning building was so great that shingles on the residences within 1001 feet of the building were warped and the paint scorched, and volunteers. were barely able to maintain a bucket brigade. Sparks were thrown high in the air and carried for blocks over ♦he city. Had the flames secured a hold on the large factory buildings, in which is stored excelsior and paper, and which is a veritable “match bax, * (Continued on Page 2)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

OUR CHAUTAUQUA Is One of 110 to be Conduced by Redpath Bureau In Eight State*. z The chautauqua, with its great seven" day program, three sessions a day, which is scheduled for this city this summer, is one of a 110 chautauquas in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Michigan, conducted under Redpath management out of Chicago. The season opens Tn the south in May and closes the last of August in Michigan and Ohio. As many as sev-n of these chautauquas will be in operation at one time. ADJUSTS LOSSES Adjuster Stoner for Aetna Visits Two Scenes of Fires Here. THE SECOND HOUSE Burned for Mrs. Lucy Gregory—The Frank Carrier Loss. Adjuster Stoner of the Aetna Fire Insurance company, for which Gallogley and Johnson are the local agents, was here today adjusting losses occasioned by the burning of two houses insured in this company. One was on tne second house of Mrs. Lucy Gregory in Blue Creek township. It will be remembered that a few weeks ago. the house on her farm occupied by Wesley Lawson was burned to the ground. Nearby was another house, usually tenanted by the poor, ! which happened to be vacant then, and the Lawson family driven from the j regular farm house on Mrs. Gregory's ' place took shelter there until the old I farm house could be restored. Tues- ' day of last week, this house also caught fire and was burned to the ground. The fire originated from some corn fodder which a man was burning across th/ road. The Lawsons escaped, but/Mrs. Lawson, over--come with the shock and excitement ■over their double loss, fainted. Their household goods was gotten out, but 'some meat and other things in the ‘second story of the house were lost. ' 'nsurance on the house was carried in the sum of $450, but this will not ! cover the loss. Workmen are already 1 on the scene of the regular farmhouse, 'rebuilding it. The other loss to be adjusted by Mr. Stoner will be that of Frank Carrier, whose house was totally consumed a few weeks ago. He carried S2OO on the house and S3OO on the contents.

FIRST RED MAIL WAGON. Martin Jaberg First to Comply With New Regulation. Martin Jaberg is the first one of the Decatur rural carriers to comply with the new regulation, that of painting the mail wagons red. That is, he gpts jail the benefits of the painting, but | was spared the disagreeable duty of so doing. Mr. Jaberg has a two-wheel-ed cart—or sulky—which he drives when the roads are bad. This was left standing in front of his house in the north part of the. city. night, some faithful creature, and very obliging, appeared on the scene with his red paint bucket and gave the cart a plentiful coat. The job was not a very artistic one, however, and the same can be said of it aS of many a picture it is a mere daub. The perpetrator Is unknown. Rural Mail Carrier Clyde Rice is conversant with the details and may be able to help run down the miscreants. — — 'O ■ WILL HAVE CANE MILL. Fanners of this vicinity will doubtless plan to raise much cane this season, since Messrs. Fleming and Wletfildt announce that they will operate a cane press. They have purchased the William Gallmeyer mill and will place it on the R. K. Fleming place four miles north of the city. The delicious molasses made from the cane juice is in demand, and the mill will doubtless be In operation long during the cane season. o One of the notable events of the high school commencement calendar, will he the junior reception for the seniors, Friday evening, May 16.

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

FIRST FISH STORY Told About Roy Wolford by His Next Friend, Clyde Rice. HAD IT HOOKED But it Got Away—Jumped in After It and He Got in Deep. Roy Wolford, rural mail carrier out of this city, is telling a “big one” —alleged to be the first fish story of the season, say his fellow carriers. Roy says he went fishing in the St. Mary’s river near the old "Gray Gables” summer resort at Monmouth. He hooked a four-foot fish, weighing some twenty pounds, more or less. Os course the fish ran Mr. Wolford a merry chase, and he (Mr. Wolford) had him (the fish) —and we might say vice versa — worn out. Just as the fish was ready to give in and Roy had it about landed, it got away. Roy jumped in the river after the fish, and as it was about worn out had no difficulty in getting it into his arms. He finally got into such deep water that, his strength being exhausted, he had to let the fish go in order to save himself. This story is vouched for by Clyde Rice, who heard it directly from Mr. Wolford. CLOSING FIGHT Battle in First and Third Wards Will Close, by Tomorrow Night. THE FIRST IS “DRY” Scrap in Third is Too Close to Guess on—Must File Withdrawals Today. • The remonstrance campaign in the First and Third wards is drawing to a close and much interest is being shown as to the results. A month ago the saloons were remonstrated out of the Second ward and applications were then filed for the First and Third wards. Immediately the anti-saloon forces got busy on the two wards and for weeks the work of securing signers to power of attorney cards has been going on steadily. While it has been a quiet campaign it has been an insistent one and today no one seems real certain of the result. The antis feel certain that they have a safe majority which assures the prevention of saloons in the First ward and the “wets” do not dispute that statement. In the Third ward, however, there is no certainty as to the final outcome from what can be gleaned. To begin with that ward at the recent election gave a “wet” majority of about sixty. However, there were cast at that time 197 “dry” votes, which is exactly the number needed to carry the remonstrance which action Is based on the vote at the city election of four years ago. When the fight was on in the Second ward the “wets” did not believe it possible that enough remonstrators could be secured and not a single withdrawal was filed, but in the Third ward it is said they have been busy and have obtained quite a number of withdrawals, which will be filed some time before midnight tonight. The remonstrance must be filed before midnight tomorrow night. After the withdrawals are filed today the antis will of course know just where they stand or whether or not it would do any good to file the remonstrance. R. C. Minton, the state attorney for the anti-sallon forces, arrived this morning and is assisting in the closing of the fight. Attorney Minton went to Hoagland this afternoon to help straighten out some “wet” and "dry” matters there. When Mrs. Stanley, state vice president of the W. C. T. U., was here last week, she gave a little hint of the sitniatlon in Hoagland, when she stated in her lecture /Chat the temperance forces therq were concerned over the (Gontnrueo on Page 2|

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, May 1, 1913.

************** * ACTS NOW IN EFFECT. * * ■ ■- ■ ♦ * The laws passed by the last * * legislature are now in full force * * and effect and if any of them par- * * ticularly interest you, you should * * be stepping softly. According to * * the proclamation of Governor * * Ralston the last official filing of * * receipt by the county clerks was * * made at 2:25 yesterday afternoon * * and the governor at once Issued * * his proclamation declaring the * * new acts to be in effect. The * * work of preparing and tupervis- * * ing the new acts was again taken * * care of by Secretary of State Lew * * Elllngham and his force and con- * * sidering the fact that the acts of * * 1913 contain over 1100 pages and * * is one of the largest ever issued. * * the fact that May Ist finds the * * same distributed and in effect is * * deserving of notice. * ************* MADE A BIG GAIN Official Report of the City School Enumerators Show Gain of 36. OVER LAST YEAR Total of Children of School Age is 1284—Boys in the Lead. The city this year has thirty-six more children of school age than it had last year. This is the result shown by the official report of the school enumerators checked up carefully last evening by the city school board, O. L. Vance, Fred FTuchte and Irvin Brandyberry, when they met at the Fruchte office. This means that the city school funds will be enriched so much the more from the coffers of the state school funds, which are distributed per capita among the townships and school corporations. The total number of children in the city of school age this year is 1284. Os this number 665 are boys and 619 girls. The total enumeration of last year was 1248. But two school enumerators took the school census this year. The city was divided as nearly into two equal parts as possible, with Madison street as the dividing line. Omer Butler took the census south of Madison street and L. C. Helm, north. Their (report as set out by divisions is as follows: Butler (South). Males 326 Females 345 ! Total 711 Helm (North). Males 299 Females 274 Total 673 Soldier*’ Census. A new duty this year of the enumerators was the taking of the census oi the soldiers. The report shows the total of 118 soldiers in the city. This includes Civil and Spanish war veterans and the National Guards. . Butler found eighty soldiers in the south part and Helm, thirty-eight in the north part. HARRY HUNTER OSSIAN P. M. Congressman J. A. M. Adair recommended Harry Hunter Tuesday for the appointment as postmaster at Ossian, and Mr. Hunter will take charge of the office as soon as tho necessary bond is filed and other details arranged. He succeeds Charles H. Bell, whose commission for his last term of four years expired April 26th. Mr. Hunter recently disposed of his drug store at Ossian to get ready to take the postofflee. Mr. Bell has filled the Ossian postmastership in a highly satisfactory manner for twelve years, and the change at this time is due to i the change in administrations. The i Ossian office pays a salary of $1,200 i per year. < | UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. 1 ■ < My son Bud whut wurks un a kuntry < nusepapur sez whun th’ wimmum hold ' a social meetin’ they go hum an’ read 1 th’ nuspaper t’ see es the fcdltur knows < ez much nuse ez they du; th’ editur ■ gen’rlly dusen’t, on such akashuns. I

WILL GIVE PLAY Monroe Hierh School Announces Event for Saturday Evening. AT MONROE SCHOOL Cast of Characters Presages an Entertainent of Good Merit. A play will -be given by the Monroe high school at the Monroe school house Saturday evening, May 3, 1913. The cast: Col. Geoffery (a stern parent)—William Adler. Jediah Western (known as Uncle Jed)—Laurence Spuller. James Sheldon (Poet Jimmy, a jolly cowboy)—Paul Graham. Robert Sheldon (in love with Isabel) —Ray Peterson. Donald Reeves (a snake in the grass)—Harry Kessler. Peregrine Splatter (a man with bright ideas) —Cliffton Duer. Jasper (colored servant) —Carl Shirk. Officer—Martin Busche. Isabel Western (Col. Western’s daughter—Naomi Dulin. Charity (the woman in black) — Loma Ray. Polly (in sympathy with Jimmy)--Mae Halberstadt. SEAT SALE OPENS Friday Morning for Rebekah Home Talent Play to be Given ON FRIDAY EVENING Strong Cast Will Support Interesting Characters of Clever Play. The seat sale for the home talent play to be given under the auspices of the Rebekah lodge at the opera house Friday evening, will open promptly at 8 o’clock Friday morning at the usual place. “A Little Savage” is the name of this clever military play, in three acts, and a delightful evening is in store for those who attend. Miss Osee Armstrong is staging the play and has a clever cast to support the various parts, as follows: Capt. Donald Churchill (officer in command) —Clayson Carroll. Lieutenant Arthur Lawton (Captain Churchill’s brother-in-law) —Howard Wisehaupt. John Woodruff (West Point cadet) — Vaughn Murray. Lord Cecil Staunton Southerland (an English nobleman) — Frank Bremerkamp. Lady Agnes Southerland (Cecil’s Mother) —Ruby Baker. Georgie Sherwood (Lady Agnes’ niece) —Nina Wagner. May Churchill (the captain's wife) — Mabel Weldy. Ruth Churchill (Doriifild's sister, a little savage)—Genevieve Bremerkamp Time —The present. IxKality—Fortress Monroe. Scene —Captain Churchill’s study. Music will be furnished by the or- j chestra. The proceeds will be used for the Rebekah lodge new r<}>e fund. 1 Tickets are twenty-five cents. Get one. — I TAKEN TODAY TO BRISTOL. Mrs. Mary Jaques Garrison Laid to Last Resting Place. A very impressive funeral service was held last evening for Mrs. Mary ( Jaques Garrison at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Belle Johnson, on First' street. The Rev. D. T. Stephenson, i pastor of the Methodist church, was in charge, and his talk Is said to have } been an exceedingly fine one, and of ■ much consolation to the bereaved' ones. Music was furi\shjd by the la-' dies’ quartet of the Methodist church. ‘ The body, accompanied by the relatives, was taken this morning at 7:54 over the G. R. & I. to Bristol, where it was laid to rest in the family lot In the cemetery there.

I | THE BAIHLE TRIO CONCERT l Will be Big Musical Event of the Season. I • A Logansport newspaper says: "One of the most artistic concerts that has been given here in years was the one (contributed by the Baihle Trio, which ( discoursed a classical program that ! was teeming with harmony, and the strains and counter melodies as execut- , ' ed by the artists enthused the audience.” The Baihle Trio will give a concert in Decatur at the K. of P. > Home May 6, under the auspices of the Euterpean club. Get your ticket of the ladies. THE COUNTY BOARD :| I Educational Board Held AnI i nual Meeting Here Today s as Provided by Law. — r' THE COMMENCEMENT 'j J I Will be Held at Geneva in 1 June —Rev. Kuhn Speaker 1 —Action of Board. 1 The commencement of the Adams county schools will be held at Geneva 'some time during the month of June, ' and the class address will be delivered !by Hon. Thomas Kuhn, of Richmond, ' former candidate for governor, and/ ’well known speaker, preacher and poll- ’ ' tician. This was decided upon this I morning at the annual meeting of the county board of education held at the 1 offices of County Superintendent Op- ’ ( liger. Those present were Trustees 1 Fleming, Houck, butler, Suman, Wech- ’ ter, Mosure, Cowan, Thornhill, Kelly, ' Sprunger of Berne and Reicheldeffer ' of Geneva all being present except Mr. ' ‘Beers of Monroe, who is 111; O. L. 1 ' Vance of this city and Mr. Hoffman of ‘ Preble. The members have each filed their report of the enumeration of 'school children, but it will not be an- ' nounced until totaled up the first of ‘' the week. However, Mr. Opliger says j he feels sure that the report will show *a healthy and general increase. | ] The board further resolved that the i county institute fee shall be $1.25, a reduction of 25 cents, made because t they do not have to furnish funds for the teachers’ association. It was also ‘ resolved that agriculture be taught in ’ the eighth grade and first year high ’ school, as has been the practice for several years and that applicants for 5 graduation be required to pass a cred- * 1 itable examination on this subject, the 1 ’ same as any other. Resolved, that 1 ’, teachers be required to take an exam- 1 r ination on the subjects of music and 1 9 agriculture and that the county super- ’ Intendent shall count the grades made * 1 In these subjects if said grades will I increase the average scholarship of 1 teacher. Resolved, that Morris' pri-

’ mary history of the United States, and Bourne and Benton’s introductory ’ j American history be adopted for use 'in the fifth and sixth grades respect--1 ively to replace Moyry’s first steps in the history of our country,” for the ' reason that the latter is considered too ’ difficult. The history course as now planned will gradually lead the child from the beginning up to the present I time. ’I The auditing committee, J. A. Fleming, O. J. Suman and J. W. Cowan, au-, • dited the report of the county superin- ' tendent to the the county institute fund reported as follows: Total received during 1912, $397.50; disbursed, | $311.10; balance on hands, $86.40. | The board will meet next. Monday to elect an attendance officer, who will [take the place of the truant and probation officers after August 1, as pro-> vided under the acts of 1913. o— NEW CHARM FOR MUMPS. A now charm for mumps seems to have been discovered. Peeping forth above the collars of several well I known young gentlemen and nestling snugly under their swollen chops, was (seen a several strand necklace of I bright and vari-colored woolen yarns, something like an abbreviated knit .scarf the fine gentlemen of old used to ■wear. Upon inquiry, the Information (was volunteered that the same was there by a Decatur barber, who stated that the yam necklace would [serve as a sort of fence or barrier : across whicn the mumps would not . i dare go. Up to date no ill effects from i the wearing or the yard have been re--1 ported.

Price, Two Cents,

CLERKS ON STRIKE , Demand Minimum Wage of $8 in Department Stores of Buffalo—Stores Close. TO GET AFTER BOSSES President Wilson Begins j “Appeal to People” Tonight—Bill to Pass. Buffalo, N. T, May I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Demanding a minimum wage of eight dollars a week for women and girls, 2500 employees of the department stores of Buffalo went on a strike today. Instead of going to work the strikers formed picket lines and distributed phamplets to the customers. Two of the largest depart ment stores closed their doors. — I Washington, D. C„ May I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —President Wilson’s first “Appeal to the people” (which he says will not be his last begins tonight. In his home state he plans to defy the non-partisans which he alleges have combined to thwart the people’s will by preventing the enacting by the New Jersey legislature of a law reforming the jury system. His speeches will be fierce and will be full of personal attack on the ’bosses. , ■ Indianapolis, Ind., May I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Elliott R. Hooton, chief of the state bureau of inspecUon, resigned today and Governor Ralston appointed Edward Perkins, President of the state federation of labor to fill out his unexpired term which ends July 1, 1915. Hootons reason for resigning was announced on account of his increasing law practise but rumors have it that Governor Ralston asked for his resignation on account of political reasons. | Chicago, 111., Mayl—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Mrs. Grace Smith, aged 135, shot and killed Clarence Murphy .aged 22, at his father’s road house near Gary, Ind., last night In a quarrel which resulted from finding him with an actress. Mrs. Smith and the boy's father have been lovers for months and Mrs. Smith stated that she had meant to kill the father. I Sacremento, Cal., May I—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Unless delayed by some uniooked for occurance, the senate will pass the Webb bill restricting land owning by aliens. Legislatures say that the bill will pass the house shortly and will be signed by the Governor. WOMAN BELIEVED INSANE.

Funeral of Mrs. Turnpaugh to be Held Near Scene of Tragedy. It is the general belief that Mrs. Nellie Turnpaugh of near Bluffton, who threw her two children into a creek near Logansport Monday, she and one son being drowned, was demented. Neighbors who knew the family state that her family life seemed to be hap(py. The funeral will be held at Lin’coin near Logansport. Mr. and Mrs. iTurnpagh moved to Wells county in March, 1912, and settled on the old Sei Baker farm on the Decatur road, northeast of Bluffton, one and one-half miles i east of the Toll Gate school house. iThey had been married only a short time beforethey went there. Mr. Turnpaugh was a widower when he married his late wife and he has four boys. (The boys all say their foster mother was kind to them and they were very happy. —- ■ ■ c— WILL BE HOME SUNDAY. Frank Schultz was able to leave the St. Joseph hospital, yesterday to go to the home of his sister, Mrs. Carl Hanna 1 in Fort Wayne, having been allowed to walk about the corridors of the hos- . pital, the day before. He will be al- • lowed to come home Sunday. He was i operated upon for hernia about two i weeks ago and has made rapid recovi ery. FUNERAL SATURDAY. ;j The funeral of Mrs. Ella Troutncr i will be held Saturday morning at 10 • o'clock at the Baptist church at Willshire, Ohio.