Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1913 — Page 1

Volume XL Number 125.

DECORATION DAY PROGRAM -— - Committee Completes Out- ' line of Arrangements for Observance of Day. — I THE REV. GOODWIN To Deliver Address-Order of Events as Announced by Committee.

The committees for the observance of Decoration Day, Friday, May 30, have completed the arrangements for the day, the order of events being as follows: The G. A. R. and W. R. C. will meet at the -G. A. R. hall at 9 o’clock a. m. and march to the old Catholic and old Protestant cemeteries and decorate the graves of the soldier dead. The committee will then go by automobile to the St. Joseph and Maplewood cemeteries and perform their mission of decorating there, after which they will return to the G. A. R. hall for refreshments. The regular observance of the afternoon will begin at 1:30 o'clock. At this hour, the line yill form at the G. A. R. hall and march to the court hous e lawn, where the cenotaph and miniature grave, representive of the unknown dead, will be decorated. The line of march will then be formed again and proceed to the court room, where further services will be held. First will be the ritual service by the G. A. R. Then a song will be given-by th e quartet, the reading of CONTINUED f aGE ONE

IMPORTANT JOB Is That Held by Fred Miller, Formerly of This City, Now in Chicago. WITH SCHOOL BO4RD Gives Some Idea of Expenditures for School Purposes in That City. Fred Miller, son of ex-Commissioner William Miller, who has been a resident of Chicago for eighteen years, attended the golden wedding anniversary of his parents here Sunday. Mr. Miller has for thirteen years served as an assistant in the office of the secretary of the board of education in Chicago, his particular work being the taking care of the pay roll. The work of the board of education in Chicago is a big work as may be imagined and a few facts gained in a conversation with Mr. Miller this morning may surprise many. The board occupies three floors of the Tribune building, the ground on which that building stands being the property of the city and for which they receive annual rent of $700,000. The pay roll last month was $857,000. There are in the city of Chicago 286 schools, with 7,000 teachers, the salaries being from $650 per year each to SIO,OOO, the latter sum being the amount paid the superintendent.

■ Each principal receives $4,000. The ■ schools of Chicago spend each year a I total og $15,000,000, of which amount B $2,500,000 is'spent in new buildings and ■ equipment. It’s a wonderful story of Ea school system in a city that does I things. While Decatur might have | some trouble in keeping up with ChlB cago, they should go forward in the ■ same manner pro rata, as compared in B population. GERANIUM SALE. Section No. 1 of the Ladies' Aid so■Lciety of the Christian church opened ■ up their geranium sale this afternoon | in the MotTison building on South Second street and will continue until Fri M day, the purpose of which is to sell g flowers for Decoration day. They have Ea fine assortment of flowers at reasBonable prices. I .

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

STATE TEACHERS’ LIFE LICENSE. M. M. Dunbar Is One of Twelve Successful Applicants. T!. M. Dunbarr, a Linn Grove boy, is one of twelve successful applicants out of twenty-one who applied for a [State teachers’ life license, the hearing being before tue state board of education last week. Mr. Dunbar has received both degrees of bachelor of arts and bachelor of law from the state untv ersity, and has been a successful , teacher in this and other counties. He served as principal and superintendent of th© Warren high school; was superintendent two years of the schools: also of the Petroleum high school, and at present Is serving out the unexpired term of the principal of the Hartford City schools. Mr. Dunbar is contemplating taking up the practice of law and may locate in Decatur. He is one of the successful young men of whom Adams county may feel proud. / —o ■ — -1.

DIPLOMA AFFAIR Members of School Board . r Explain Proposition — No Blame Attached. ERROR IN PRINTING Paper Diplomas Secured and Soiled Ones Returned— Caused Some Talk. A little difficulty in securing diploi mas for the graduating class of 1913 has caused various reports tot become I ' circulated and the public is entitled to > an exact statement of what occurred. Members of the board were interview-

ed this morning and made a direct and i plain explanation which we believe will I satisfy any fair minded person. The diplomas were ordered some weeks ago to b© exactly like those of last year and to cost two dollars each, including a leather cover. When they came it I was found that a mistake had been made by the Welch Company of Chicago, who had the order. There was no place on the diplomas for the signature of the faculty and the parchiment used was old and shopworn. The board decided to reject th© diplomas and immediately wrote the Welch Company to that effect, asking that new diplomas as per original order be sent. It was then suggested that blank diplomas be given the class until these arrived, but to this members lof the class objected and the board ■ at once agreed to do anything they , could to relieve the situation until the new’ diplomas should arrive. It was decided that printed diplomas should be secured and these were printed at this office and duly awarded. These are the original diplomas and are just as efficient and valuable as the parchment would have been. The board will secure the diplomas as ordered and send them to the graduates in due time. In the meantim© they have diplomas if needed, and the whole affair seems to have been taken care of in th© best way possible. The local board were not responsible for an eror made by the Welch company and each member states plainly that there was no disposition to prevent any one froth receiving a diploma and that such a statement is too silly even to deserve much contradiction. “The class members did their work and did it well and the board was as proud of them as any one in the city,” said the board members.

J 1 — o —— — J POLLOCK IS INSANE. - 1 x I A Pollock young man, aged twenty--1 seven, a member of the Erie double- ! tracking force, of near Magley, was , brought to this city and placed in the - jail for safe keeping by his boss, Patty > Durkins. The young man, while not i violent, is demented, and one of his delusions is ihat he is about .to be kill'ed. He has been here six and a half (years from Poland. He is unmarried, but has a mother and other relatives • in Poland. Ho has some two hundred I dollars and Mr Durkins directed that i medical care be provided and all efforts • will be made to have him restored to • sanity. It is thought that he could I not ibe admited to a state institution i for the insane as he is not considered . a legal resident of this country and 'state. 4

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, May 26, 1913

IN THE HOSPITAL Mrs. Nancy Sheets Receives Word of Illness of Her Daughter, Ruby AT COLORADO SPRINGS Saturday Evening — Telegram This Morning Announced Improvement

The members of the fomily of Mrs. Nancy Sheets, residing on North Third street, this city, were much alarmed Saturday evening to receive a telegram of the illness of their daughter and sister, Miss Ruby Sheets, who has been in Colorado Springs, since April 5. The telegram was very brief and stated that Miss Ruby was in the hospital there, following a hemorrhage of the lungs, but that she was being given the best cf care. Mrs. Sheets answered by telegram asking whether she should come, and asking that she be kept informed daily-of the condition of her daughter until the daughter Is able to write. A message received this morning brought the good news that Miss Ruby was better. Mrs. Sheets will, however, prepare to be ready to go west at any time should her daughter’s condition require her to come. Miss Sheets spent several years in Colorado, but returned here last autumn to spend the winter at her home here. She decided to return west this spring again, and,left here April 5. During her several years’ stay there she has made many warm friends, who are seeing that she is being given the best of care. Her many Decatur friends hope that she may speedily recover.

J. MALLONEE DEAD Former Adams County Man Succumbed Saturday at Van Wert, Ohio. WAS SICK LONG Has Many Relatives Here— Funeral Held This Afternoon at His Home. Several Adams county and Decatur relatives were at Van Wert today, where they attended th e funeral of John J. Mallonee, a former Adams county man, who had been ill long. The funeral was held at the home this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in charge of th© Rev. Jesse Swank. The Van Wert Daily Times of Spnday morning says: “John J. Mallonee, a well known resident of this city, passed away at his home on George street Saturday afternoon as the result of a complication of diseases. He was known and respected by almost every resident of Van Wert, having made his home here i for the past forty years. He was born in Adams county, Ind., November 25, .1846, and came to this city about 1870. In 1874 he married Miss Louise Jolly of Lima, Ohio, who with five children survive him as follows: Mrs. Fred Greenewald of Van Wert; Misses Sadie, Grace and Leo Mallonee and Walter Mallonee, all living at home. A sister, Mrs. W. A. Dickensheets, of Piqua, is the only other surviving relative. Mr. Mallonee was an esteemed member of Van Wert Lodge, No. 251, I. O. O. F., of the Home Guards and the Masons.”

Among those who left to attend the funeral of their uncle, Mr. Mallonee, were Dr. and Mrs. .1. M. Miller, Mrs. Homer Lower, Mr. and Mrs. Alph Gentis. Mr. Mallonee was a civil war veteran. He was a member of Company H, of the 89th Indiana volunteer infantry. He was sent as a recruit Januifry 1, 1864, and arrived just in time to get into all the battles in which this company fought during the entire war. At the close of the war h© contracted small pox and was discharged, while some of the others were obliged to remain longer.

ACTED PART WELL. So cleverly was she costumed and so cleverly did she play her part, as director of the choruses in the mock commencement, that very few knew the leader was Miss Monema Fleming, instead of Miss Bess Schrock. In fact the Democrat erred in the writeup. But this i4y be considered a compliment by/Miss Fleming, inasmuch as she played the part with so much skill that even Miss Schrock’s most intimate friends themselves did not know the difference. Miss Fleming had in some way unknown to Miss Schrock, secured her gowns and hat, and Miss Schrock herself was as much surprised at the appearance of her double on the stage, as were others. WILL MOVE HERE. H. F. Metcalf of Fort Wayne is learning the duties of conductor on the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway. He will move his family to this city.

AN ELOPEMENT Is Thought to Account for Mysterious Disappearance Saturday Night of MRS. WILLIAM BROWN And John Sites—No Clues Have Been Discovered as to Their Location. k Upon returning from a shopping trip in the business district of the city | Saturday evening between 6:30 and 7:00 o’clock, Mrs. William Brown, residing in the south part of the city, informed Mr. Brown’s ten year old sister who is making her home with Mr. Brown that she was tired of staying at home and was going away. At about the same time, John Sites, an employee of the Krick & Tyndall factory and who was rooming at the John Merryman home, next door to the Brown’s, disappeared. Mr. Sites and Mrs. Brown had been on very intimate terms since he has been making his home in the city, they being seen together frequently and although no concrete facts have been discovered that would prove an elopement, the suspicious circumstance surrounding the case would indicate such. Mrs. Brown's father, Mr. Morgan, living south-west of Bluffton, was visiting her at the time, and she made the trip to town to get supplies for Sunday. When Mr. Brown was informed of the act, he took no immediate steps, thinking that the wife had merely gone out to take a walk as she is of a very nervous and excitable ternperment, and another thing that allayed his suspicions at the time was the fact that she had taken none of her clothes. He thought nothing more of the matter until Mrs. Brown failed to return In the evening and when also informed that Sites had departed for regions unknown. With the assistance of the officers, he made a thorough search of the city yesterday but no traces could be found of either of the parties. Sites claims his home in Mercer county and came here several months ago to work at the Tile factory. He was a man of perhaps forty years of age. When he left the Merryman home he took with him all of his possessions with the exception of a bicycle. No clue of the couple has been discovered. In an interview this morning with Mr. Brown, he stated that he would make no attempt to locate them and If he knew where they were that he would send her $lO to go on further. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have been married twelve years and he states that never have they had a cross word with each other.

TAKEN TO INFIRMARY. Anna Eliza Stauffer was placed under restriction when she was taken to the county infirmary by Dr. A. Reusser and C. C. Sprutyser. She had been keeping house for the aged John Wyman and at times beat him quite violently until neighbors feared for his life.—Berne Witness. o TO GIVE ENTERTAINMENT. The Mt. Pleasant Epworth League will give a free entertainment Wednesday evening, May 28, at the Ma.llonee school house, in Dist. No. 7, Root township. All are cordially invited to attend.

NEW HAUGK BLOCK A Three-story Building on' Madison Street Being Planned at This Time I FOR NEW THEATER On First Floor, Offices on Second and Lodge Room on Third Floor. Julius Haugk is planning to build a handsome three-story building on his 1 business lots on Madison street and at this time, it seems must probable that such an improvement will be made during the summer. If plans for the renting of th e building now un- 1 der way culminate, Decatur will have 1 a new and attractive new block that will add much to the appearance of the down-town district. The lower 1 floor according to plans under way at this time will be used for a ten-cent theater, a company being organized to take that proposition over, with Fred LaDelie, the well known magician, as the manager. The theater building will be forty-four feet wide and 132 j feet long, will seat 600 people comfortably and will have a large stage 1 and an entrance that would do credit 1 to such an Institution. The ten-cent vaudeville Is the popular theater at* this time and would no doubt prove profitable here. The second floor of the building will be used as offices and the third floor as a lodge room. The Masonic lodge will meet tonight to discuss the proposition of renting that part of the building. If the leases are closed, Mr. Haugk will undoubtedly ‘ )build his new’ block. It will be steam heated and strictly modern in every respect.

AN EASY VICTORY For Shamrocks Was Result of Yesterday’s Game With Fort Wayne Blues. SCORE WAS 11 TO 5 Fast Game Scheduled for Next Sunday With the Huntington Specials. The same old story of "Shamrocks I won” was the result of Sunday’s base ball game at the Shamrock park when th e local boys crossed bats with the Fort Wayne Blues. In a game fast and furious, and full of sensational plays that would do credit to the big leagures the locals won with the big score. Smith made the first sensational play of the game by tearing down a hot liner in left field with two men on bases. Then came Ault with his big stick and lined out the only home run of the game. This started the ball rolling and Coffee, Baxter and Ault each got a two-base hit, while Buffenbarger got credit for two of them. The team work of the locals was perfect as was shown in a double I play made by Coffee to Linn and to I Ault. The Bines were a classy little bunch of players, too, and Catcher Sutton kept the crowd in an uproar throughout the game. Johns for the locals, struck out six men, while Druber for the Blues struck out seven. The game for next Sunday will bo between the Shamrocks and the Hunt- 1 ington Specials. This is Huntington’s best team and they have been playing fast bail this season, so a great game' is expected. -- - ■ —-o— — LEFT FOR COLLEGE. The Misses Mary Erwin and Lulu Atz, members of the graduating class 1 of 1913 of the Decatur high school, left this morning for Valparaiso, Ind.,' where they will enter the university at that place and take up a twelve weeks' J preparatory course in the teachers' department, as both young ladles intend to follow teaching in the future. They were accompanied iby Miss Erwin’s father, D. B. Erwin. o —> E. Fritzinger made his regular business trip to Fort Wayne this morning.

SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION, i Held at Honduras German Reformed Church Sunday. The annual Sunday school convention of Preble-Kirkland townships was held Sunday afternoon at the German Reformed church, a half mile north of Honduras, ana largely attended. J. F. Lehman, of Berne, county secretary, ■ spoke, as did Jess© Rupp, of Berne, county president, and Miss Jean Lutz, of this city, who is superintendent of J the elementary department, while others of the county officers also gave reI ports. Music was furnished by the i German Reformed Sunday school, the Magley quartet, the Zion school, the Beulah Chapel school and the Pleasant Dale school. Rev. Schrorer conducted the devotionals. The annual election of officers was also held. A convention was held in the evening at Linn Grove and attended by th© county officers. The Washington township convention will be held in this city next Sunday. MEMORIAL SERMON Fine Tribute Paid Departed Soldiers by Rev D. T. Stephenson 'ON SUNDAY MORNING ( At the Methodist Church— He Spoke on ‘‘is a Nation Born at Once?” In loving memory’ of th© soldiers who gave the best years of their life and strength for the preservation of their country’s principles, was the annual memorial sermon delivered (.Sunday morning at the Methodist church by the Rev. D. T. Stephenson. The members of the Grand Army post, their staunch helpers, the Women's Relief Corps, with soldiers and assistants, who may not be members of these bodies, but whose hearts are in sympathy with them, attended the services in a body and were given places of honor in seats reserved for them. The church was beautiful in its decorations of flowers and flags, and the G. A. R. carried a large silken

flag, tied with crepe, which was placed in the pulpit, as a background for the I minister during his sermon. During the service, patriotic music was ren--1 dered By the choir. (Re/. Stephenson's sermon was a fine tribute to the brave boys who fought and died-for their country, and he stated that he was proud to have the honor of belng'the son of one of I these soldiers. His subject was “Is a Nation Born at Once?” He stated that the present generation, or even 'the generation to come, may not fully appreciate the great sacrifice made by the soldiers who fought in the civil war, nor the results of the priceless victory they won. He stated that such was ever the case. But the generations several years hence with an eye, grown clear by a long viewing of the connecting links will be the more able to do so. A nation is not born in a day. All the nations contribute to its growth. From Greece we get culture and strength, both physical and mental; from Home, power; from the Anglo-Saxons, liberty; and so on, each nation contributing to the ideal I as W'ell as the material growth of oth-j er nations. The brave boys who fought In the civil war. did so to perpetuate the liberty of this country, and that will be one of the things for 'which the United States will be known as long as the world endures. 1 At Reformed Church. At the evening service at the Reformed church th 0 pastor spoke in part as follows: “The civilized man has an Impulse to accumulate treasures. He plans for the future and subordinates everything he can control to the achievement of his plans. Now’ Jesus does not discourage this impulse, ‘Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth.’ but he directs it into proper channels. The struggle for fortune too often under--1 mines a man’s religion and his ethics. ! Wealth creates the feeling of independence toward God, ‘eat and drink and make merry my soul,’ and makes I hard-heartedness toward man. Jesus .therefore forbids the accumulating of wealth for its own sake. He does not condemn money but the love of money. ‘Where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.’ Jesus fought (Oontlnwed on Page 2)

Price, Two Cente.

WERE WEDDED FIFTY YEARS Ex - County Commissioner and Mrs. Wm.' Miller Celebrate Event. OF TRIPLE NATURE Their Sons’ Wedding Anniversaries Also Included— Was a Surprise. Ex-County Commissioner and Mrs. William Miller, now residing in this city on Tenth street, are two of the very favored few who have been privileged to spend fifty years together. The fiftieth or golden anniversary of their wedding rolled around Sunday, and was celebrated in a very happy way. The aged couple had planned to spend the day very quietly. In the morning they went as usual to the Zion’s Lutheran church on West Monro© street, of which they are members, and when they returned home at noon, found that their relatives had remembered the day and were there to cele brate with them. The day was in fact a triple celebration. Os their six children, only two ore living.. They are Louis, who resides on the old homt> place, four miles south of the city, and whose | wedding anniversary was Saturday; I and Fred, of Chicago, whom they had not seen for four years, whose fonr'teenth wedding anniversary was Sunday. The sons, with their families, (were among those present,, and as the . CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR

DEAL ON TO BUY Willard Steele Makes Offer to Fair Association to Buy Them Out. ASSUMING THE DEBT Will Give Fair This Year With the Same Officials— Deal Seems Assured. — • The board of directors of the Great Northern Indiana Fair association is in session in this city today, considering a proposition from E. W. Steele, owner of the fair grounds, for the purchase of the rights and holdings of the association. It is said, unofficially, that Mr. Steele has offered to buy the company out, assuming all the indebtedness of the association, provided that it does not total more than S7OO. Mr. Steele and the board are busy checking up the indebtedness and it seems probable that the deal will be consummated. Mr. Steele proposes to go ahead with the affair, it being understood that he has associated with him several well known men who will join in backing the proposition and they will give the fair this year on the dates announced and with the same officers. The association has some three years yet. under the lease and nr e demanding that the three buildings recently destroyed by fire be replaced. This brought about th e offer to buy from Mr. Steele. The outcome will bo known within a few days, the feeling among the directors at this time being to sell out if terms can be agreed upon. o GOING TO LANSING, MICH. M. and Mrs. C. J. Weaver will leave ■Wednesday for Lansing, Mich., where they will make an extended stay, hoping the climate will benefit their health. They will close their home here, until they decide definitely upon their future plans. TO CONSOLIDATE SCHOOLS. Trustees Daniel Hoffman and Chas. Magley were here today arranging for the consolidation of Dist. No. 1 In Preble township and Dist. No. C in Root township, making St. John’s school the center.