Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 134

INQUEST WAS HELD I Mrs. Lucy B. Fry Recommended as Patient for the 1 Hospital at Richmond. i 1 WAS BROUGHT HERE i For Safe keeping- Has Delusion That White-capping Mob is After Her.

The inquest to inquire into the mental condition of Mrs. Lucy B. Fry was held Wednesday afternoon at the home of her mother and sister, Mrs. Brandyberry, and Miss Mattie Young, in Blue Creek township. Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly, Justice of the Peace J. H. Stone, Dr. J. M. Miller of this city and Drs. Parrish and Rayl of Monroe were present and the Inquest has held at the home. Mrs. Fry was adjudged insane and recommended as a patient for the Easthaven hospital at Richmond. She was brought to this city last evening at 4 o’clock and placed in a room at the jail for safekeeping, as she has been violent and it was deemed unsafe to give her her liberty longer. She has been suffering from a nervous breakdown, having taught school for thirty years fn Chicago sh e was brought here in March and relatives have teen caring for her in the hopes that she would improve. She became worse, however, and having a suicidal tendency ft was thought best to apply for admission to the hospital. She has the delusion that a mob is coming to white-cap her. and that all her friends have turned against her. She is fiftytwo years of age It is thought that financial and family worry have contributed to her breakdown.

BLACK PRINCESS Lead Her Father’s Armies Into War on Island of Haiti Recently. A VISITOR HERE Was W. A. Placer Who Returns to Decatur on Business for Company. W. A. Placer of the Buckeye Engine company, Salem. Ohio, is in the city, being employed tn doing the repair work at the power house of the Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway company. Mr. Placer was in the city about four years ago, for several weeks, on a similar mission and will he remembered my many, Since his stay here four years ago. Mr. Placer had been tn the tropics, having recently returned from Cuba and Haiti of the West Indies, where

he spent sixteen, months. While there he had many Interesting experiences in that Interesting country. The island of Haiti is in a continual turmoil from revolution, of which th e outside world hears little. Ono insurrection after the other follows. The inhabitants are chiefly neSroes. in a very large city of some I >,ooo inhabitants. There were not mor e than fifty white people, of whom not more than seven were Americans. The ruler, a large negro, fighting for •upremacy, had as an able assistant, his daughter, a large negro princess—a regular Amazon, or Joan or Arc on a black scale. She rode on a coal black charger at the head of the army with her father, and In fact was the ruler berself, as the father did just about *hat she directed him to do. The loss of life was apalling, many thousands of negroes being killed from time to time in the insurrections. The outside world hears very little, he said, of the true state of affairs. It B eems that the "new woman" idea has penetrated even the savage tribes a nd there is not that subjection of the woman that we once read of among the black tribes. The climate in the islands Is very agreeable. The air is warm and pleasaat, and the thermometer does not re ßister more than 93 degrees, and at bight it is very cool and pleasant, comforts being required for bedding

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT — “DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

WILLIAM MORRIS WEDS. Manager of Morris Store at Greens burg Takes a Bride. William Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morris of Bluffton was married Monday evening to Miss Racfiel Hardwich, of Martinsville, at the Presbyterian parsonage. The marriage of the young people came as a complete surprise to their friends, as well as to the parents of both the bride and groom. From Martinsville they went to Indianapolis, then to Bluffton, and returned last evening to Martinsville, and from there to Greensburg, where they will make their home. He is manager of the Morris five and ten cent store at Greensburg, where he went a few months ago.

dates are fixed For the Hearing of Assessment Matters by Board of Review. ODER OF HEARING Os Various Townships and Corporations Announced by Assessor Gentis. County Assessor George W. Gentis, president of the board of review, announces the dates when the county board of equalization will hear those having assessment matters they wish to bring before said board. In order to expedite! the work and have a systematic arrangement for the caring for complaints, they have set certain dates for the hearing of complaints from certain townships in the following order: I’nion and Root Townships—June * 2. Preble and Kirkland Townships— June 13. Washington and St. Mary’s Townships—June 16. Blue Creek and Jefferson Townships —June 17. Monroe Township and Monroe Corporation and Berne Corporation— June 18. Wabash Township and Geneva Corporation—June 19. \ French and Hartford Townships— June 20. Decatur Corporation—June 23. The banks located in Adams county, Ind.—June 24. The Oil Companies doing business in Adams County, Ind. —June 25. It Is expected that the township assessors and their deputies of the said townships be in attendance on the aforesaid dates and meet with the said county board of review to make necessary explanations and such corrections as may be necessary in the assessors’ sheets and books of their said townships.

FUNERAL TO BE FRIDAY. Services for George Wertzberger Will be Conducted Tomorrow. The funeral of George Wertzberger, sr . whose death occurred suddenly yesterday afternoon, at the hom.e of his son, George, jr., on South Ninth str-et, between Adams and Jefferson streets, will be held Friday afternoon. The procession will leave the house at 2 o'clock for the German Reformed church, where the services will be conducted by the Rev. L. C. Hessert. Burial will take place in the Maplewood cemetery. The children are now all here, the sons, Alva and Lawrence, who reside in Hammond, having arrived. ■'» BUILDING modern house. Among the many new buildings going up this season, none Is more handsome than the eight-room modern house being erected by John Schug on South Third street. This will be completed and ready for occupancy by July first. It is being built for rent memorial service. Tbe Ben Hur memorial service will be held next Sunday afternoon at 2:30. They have secured the Rev. Hessert ( of the German Reformed church to deliver the memorial sermon. The services will be held in the Ben Ijir lodge room and every one ,s mOSt cordla^ ly invited to be present

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, June 5, 1913.

REV. WISE TO WED Former Decatur Pastor Will be Married This Evening to Young Lady AT LOUISVILLE. KY. Bride Will be Miss Emma Rosella Alpers— Is Pastor at Louisville. This evening at Louisville, Ky., will be solemnized the marriage of the Rev. David O. Wise, formerly pastor of the Decatur Evangelical church, and Miss Emma Rosella Alpers, a young lady of that city. The announcement of the marriage was received here today by the friends of the minister, and was issued by the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Alpers, of Louisville. At home cards sent with the announcement designate that the newly married couple will be at home after July the first, at 410 South Twentyfourth street, Louisville. Rev. Wise served several years as ! pastor of the Decatur church, being transferred by the conference to the church at Louisville, little more than a year ago. He made many friends among all the residents of the city, as well as among those of his denomination, all of whom will hasten to extend their best wishes. o - . WILL HOLD ELECTION. The Junior Epworth League will meet at the Methodist church tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock for the election of officers. The superintendent, Miss Etta Mallonee, requests that all be present.

ANNUAL REUNION t,‘. c L — — Os the Waters and Bowser Families Will be Held Here Saturday. AT L. T. BROKAW HOME Fort Wayne Relatives Will Charter Special Car to Make Trip. ■ ?• ; Saturday will be a big day tor the Waters and Bowser families. Their 'annual reunion will be held in this city on that day, the L. T. Brokaw home in Decatur street being the place selected for this happy event. The Waters family is that of Mrs. Brokaw’s mother, and the Bowser, that of her father’s family. The two have united in the reunions which have been held annually for the last five or six years. Last year the reunion was held at the home of Allen Waters seven miles north of Fort Wayne. About a hundred or more are expected here Saturday. Th P greater number of the members of the family reside in Fort Wayne and the vicinity and they will charter a special interurban car, leaving Fort Wayne at nine o’clock that morning. If the weather is nice, the dinner will be spread on tables in the yard. A program will be given also reports of the various officials, and a good day will be in order. Several Decatur friends of the family have also been invited.

C. K. BELL AT FORT WAYNE. Making Change Today, Becomes Route Agent for New Division. C. K. Bell, who has been with the Wells-Fargo Express company for a number of years and for some time has had headquarters at Lima, Ohio, has been transferred to Fort Wayne, his territory extending from Detroit to Chicago and Toledo to Danville, 111. He was here today enroute to that place, where he will at once establish his office. Mrs. Bell will visit with friends at Chicago and Oden, Mich., for several weeks and the family will begin housekeeping at Fort Wayne about. September 1. They are delighted with the change.

MUST PAY PROSECUTOR. This Is Ths law in Certain Kinds of Divorce Proceedings. Under the new law It is provided that on return day, should the defendant in a divorce case be defaulted, the plaintiff is to pay within thirty days the fee of $5 for the prosecutor to the county clerk. Formerly this fee was paid to the prosecutor directly. If the fee is not then paid within thirty days the case is dismissed. It it provided also in a new divorce legislation that no divorce case can be heard until on file sixty days. The law did not except pending litigations and because it did not some cases set for trial may not be heard the present term of court.

COURT HOUSE NEWS County Clerk Receives New Inheritance Tax Books and Papers. PETITION TO SELL Inter;.-’-ban Will Now be Heard June 14—The Time Was Extended. The Wells circuit court was finally selected as the one to which to venue the Adams-Hearson quiet title case. The change was requested by the plaintiff. »«e. A decree of quiet title was entered for Henry Magley against David Eury et al. All defendants defaulted.

There is one more week of court after this. There is one more jury trial scheduled for this term, that being next Monday. The case of Brown vs. Bowman is set down for that date. , An intervening petition was filed by the City of Decatur in the interurban receivership case. Th e hearing of the petition to sell was set down today but the court of its own motion postponed this until June 14, and the time in which creditors may file claims is extended until that date. The blanks, books and all necessary supplies for the collection of inheritance tax in accordance with the law passed by the recent legislature wer§ received by County Clerk Ferdinand Bleeke, It will be his duty to collect CONTINUED ON »-aOE THREE DEATH OF NIECE — Sam Doak Receives Word of Death of Mary Duncan Randolph • OF KIRKWOOD, OHIO

News Was Unexpected— Although She Had Been Aijing for Some Time, Samuel Doak today received the unexpected news of the death of his niece, Mrs. Mary Duncan Randolph, aged fifty-seven, which occurred this morning at her home at Kirkwood, Ohio. Mrs. Randolph had visited here often and was known to many Decatur people. A little more than a year ago she nursed her mother, who was ill off blood poisoning, her death resulting therefrom. It is thought the daughter became affected from that and that it was the cause of her death, as she had been in failing health since. Her life has been a sad one. Her husband died about twenty-throe years ago, only ten months- after their marriage, from blood poisoning, from stepping on a rusty nail. Her daughter, Carrie Randolph, now a young lady, living at Kirkwood, was born on the evening of the day of her father’s funeral. The funeral arrangements are not yet made but Mr. Doak will probably attend. Although it was known here that Mrs. Randolph was not in good health, it was not known that her condition was considered serious.

GIVEN A BANQUET County Officials Banquet the Field Examiners at the Murray House. THEY LEFT TODAY For Indianapolis — Made Many Acquaintances Here During Stay. Field Examiners E. T. Carson of Shelbyville, and Charles E. Weybright of Indianapolis, concluded a seven months’ work her© Wednesday evening for the state accounting board, and left’ this morning for Indianapolis. Their stay was conducive to a very pleasant acquaintance with the county officials, and they were given a farewell dinner Wednesday evening at the Murray house, the officials being the hosts. The entertainers were County Auditor T. H. Baltzell, County Treasurer C. W. Yager and his deputy, Bernard Terveer; Sheriff T. J. Durkin, Clerk Ferdinand Bleeke and County Recorder Andrew Welfley. During the time the accountants were here they went over the auditor’s and treasurer's books.

ANOTHER "MARY” Manager Parent of the Crystal has succeeded in securing another reel of "What Happened to Mary" for this evenings performance. This makes the seventh reel of the story, each one being a story in its self. The subject of tonight’s reel will be "False to their tust" and is a dandy. Two other films will be shown in connection.

giANCE FOR LIFE Miss Emily Davison, English Suffragette, May Recover From Accident. . • • JOHNSON HAS HOPES That His Attorney May Yet Find Some Loop-hole To Escape Setitence. i t (United Press Service.) London, June s.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Miss Emily Davison, the militant suffragette who almost lost her life yesterday by attempting to stop th e King's horse in the derby race at Epsom, England, with the result that both horse and jockey fell upon her and badly injuring her, is said by the physicians today to have a slight chance of recovery. The woman is now a prisoner in the hospital and if she recovers, will be vigoursly prosecuted.

Chicago, 111., June s.—Special to Daily Democrat) —Jack Johnson, negro pugilist, sentenced to one year and one day in the Joliet pententiary and fined SI,OOO for white slavery, s\ld today that he believed that his atUrney would yet find some free him. "I'm not there yet," he said, "anyway a year's not so bad, and if it comes to the point of have to, I'll be as good a sport as any of them and take what's handed to me.”. Pittsburg, Pa., June 5. —Special to Daily Democrat) —That Superintendent Heeter will be asked to resign by the school board today, is the confidential prediction of persons closely related to the conditions. The board will not say whether he is guilty or innocent, but will say that he has violated the school provisions. CLEM KNOFF SICK. Clem Knoff, the barber, better known as "Rea," arrived in the city Wednesday afternoon from Lima, 0., I where he has been for some time, and ; about 2 o'clock suffered a severe attack of acute appendicitis. His condition was very serious and the aid of a local physician had to be summoned to administer to him. He is resting some better today.

RETURN BY AUTOMOBILE. Trip Made from Alliance, Ohio, in One Day. Miss Minnie Orvis returned Wednesday evening from Massillon and Cleveland, Ohio, where she visited the graves of her parents and an uncle. She also visited in Alliance, 0., with Mrs. Belle France and son, Dick. The return trip here was made with them in their automobile. The party left Alliance Wednesday morning and made the trip of some two hundred and fifty miles here by sun-down. The roads wer© fine and the weather ideal and the trip was made in an unusually short time. Mrs. France and son are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bart France and other relatives and friends.

SUSPEND WEEKLY I I Oldest Publication in County Has Been Absorbed by Daily Democrat. ■ WAS STARTED IN 1857 Improved Mail Conditions Demand Daily — Invite You to Join Family.

With the publication of today’s issue of The Weekly Democrat that paper passed out of existence. It is ■ with a peculiar feeling of mingled regret and pride that the announcement is made, regret as in the parting of an old friend and companion, and pride that the little daily paper which we have fathered but for ten years, ! should have so completely absorbed i the weekly. Fifty-six years ago on February 13, 1857, to be exact, the Decatur Eagle wa» first given to the i reading public of Adams county, the i j editor being a Mr. Phillips, who came here from Winchester. Six months , later the late W. G. Spencer, one of the best known citizens of the community, became actively interested tn the paper apd continued for a number ‘of years. From that date until this the paper has been regularly published each week, the name changing to the Decatur Democrat in 1881. In 1896 Mr. Ellingham purchased The Democrat, and on January 12, 1903 the first issue of The Daily Democrat appeared. At that time the weekly , paper had a circulation of nearly 3,000. Within a month the daily pamper had secured nearly 1,500 subscribers, proving its field and within ( two years this number had exceeded , 2,000. It has grown continually, until at this time the daily issue exceeds that of the old weekly, almost a marvelous statement. As the daily grew the weekly lost j its strength until the once large circu-1 i lation, envied by every country pub- i Usher In the state, had dwindled to less than 500. When the recent legislature passed a law, providing for the publication of all legals In the daily paper, it was decided to suspend th e weekly. After this week, as nearly as possible, all legals will appear in the Thursday daily, that paper being known as the weekly or legal edition of The Daily Democrat, covering

- any technical provision of the law. > This change will give to our daily I readers all the legal news, which has I been printed heretofore in the weekly , to a large extent. It will also give us • the opportunity to devote all our time - and attention to one paper. Improved , equipment is now being installed, and we will soon be ready to give you a beter daily than heretofore, though we are proud of every issue that we have ever put out, feeling that the field has been covered to the satisfaction of almost every reader. To the old weekly subscribers we have sent notices giving them various options, hoping of course that those who are not nowtaking The Daily Democrat will join the large list of readers of that publication. In our anniversary letter sent out last January we stated that our ambition was to double our list in the next ten years. We believe it can be done and shall do our part toward that end. Tell your friends to read The Dally Democrat. Help us make it 6,000, «, I ATTENTION, POCAHONTAS! All members of the Pocahontas lodge are requested to be present nt the business meeting this evening as matters of importance will be taken care of. Every member come. By order of POCAHONTAS.

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BLUFFTON COMING Committee Here Arranging for Firemen’s Meet—To Send Big Crowd. WANT NEXT MEETING And \Vill Bring Five Hundred People to Boost— Contest is Arranged. Chief Herd and Secretary Erman Mentzer of the Bluffton fire department were here yesterday arranging plans for Bluffton’s share of the big convention to be held here three weeks from today, at which tim e that city will make the effort to land the meeting for 1914. The Bluffton firemen are trying to secure a special train for that day, and If they do so, are promising th e Clover Leaf to bring a crowd of 500 to this city. It’s going to be some real big day all right, and if you don't think so, you are fooled.

At the meeting of the firemen last night, it was decided to change the exhibition run scheduled for the morning at 11 o’clock and put in its place a hose-laying contest between the Decatur and Bluffton fire auto trucks. The teams will start from the department and run west on Monroe street to Sixth, where they will attach to hydrants and throw water, the winner receiving the first prize. It will be a good contest and will prove of more in--1 terest than the exhibition run The De’ catur team for this part of the program was selected last night, being Ed Hurst, Charles Fisher, Amos Fisher, James Smith and the two regular men, Kortenbrer and Dellinger.

A NEW COMPANY 'I .1 , i _ The Studabaker Heirs Form New Company To Take Over Grain Business OF . LATE OWNER John Studakaber and Son— Elevators at Linn Grove and Vera Cruz Included. ' ■’r , I W Arrangements are practically completed for the taking over of the grain j business of John Studabaker & Son on I July Ist. by a new corporation which I will be known as The Studabaker Grain & Seed Company. The organization will be started with $100,000.00 cash capital, and will Include all of the elevator properties now being operated by John Studabaker & Son at Bluffton, Liberty, Van Buren, Roseburg, Vera Cruz and IJnn Grove. The General office will remain in Bluffton. The heirs of John Studabaker will jointly take stock in the new corporation to the amount of the appraised value of the elevators, which Is $42,000. The remainder of the stock, $58,000, will be sold at par to provide working capital. It is intended that farmers and business men in the vicinity of each of the elevators will be given opportunity to Invest in the stock of the hew company.

James W Hale and H. 11. Behm will have charge of the stock subscriptions. Both of these gentlemen will be active in the management of the new business. Mr. D. E. Studabaker who has been in the business with his father for over forty years will retire from active work, but will retain a considerable interest as a stockholder. For many years, this business has been among the largest in its line in Northern Indiana, and it will without doubt continue to hold its high position In the grain trade under the new management.—Bluffton News. o — THE STORK'S STOP. The baby girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Johnson residing near Steele's park, has been named Margaret Evaline. The mother was formerly Mary Houston. This is the sixth babe born in the family, four of whom are living.