Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 139,

WILL BUILD NEW BLOCK Finance Committee Appointed by Masonic Lodge to Arrange for Money. WILL MAKE PLANS Raise Necessary Cash—Location on Their Lot on South Second Street. The Masonic lodge of this city has ! determined to build a beautiful new business block on their lot on South 1 Second street, and It is likely that the dirt will be Jlying within a very short time. While no plans have been adopted and will not b e until the money has been provided for, it is probable that it will be a threestory building, modern in every way, with lodge room on third floor, club room and auditorium on second floor and business rooms on the first floor At the regular meeting of the lodge Tuesday night a finance committee i was named whose business it will be to work out plans, raise the money and report in due time, when action will Immediately be taken. Tbe committee as appointed includes tbe following well known and active business men: C. C. Bcbafer, chairman; W. P. Schrock, French Quinn, L. C. Waring. Dick Myers, J. T. Burk, D. E. Smith, O. L. Vance. H. R. Molts, (Continued on Page 5)

TICKET IS NAMED — Democrats of Bluff ton Select Standard Bearers for City Ticket. MOCK FOR MAYOR Defeated Smith in Hot Fight —Staver for Treasurer —McDowell, Clerk. niuftton, Ind., June 11— (Special to Daily Democrat) —John Mock is the democratic nominee for mayor of itluffton, having defeated Frank Smith the present mayor, by fifty-five, and George F. JUnear by considerably more than that number in the primary held in this city Tuesday. The campaign was a spirited one and much interest was manifested. For treasurer, Ralph W. Staver defeated H. It McCleary. Hugh L. Stout, Charles Ra<lifT and C. E. Kain, his plurality betea 203. For clerk. T. J. McDowell won over Oscar Craig and Earl Sawyer, by a plurality of 70. For councilman at-large Uriah Rahrer won by 14 and Fred Plessinger by 34, defeating M I Stogdill and H. B. Sark. Ward councilman nominated were: First ward, Thomas M. Bulger: Second ward, D W, Redding ft'Third ward, Frank Waugh.

PETER SCHNEiDER FUNERAL. The funeral services for the late Peter Schneider of this city were held this morning at 8:30 In the St. Mary . Catholic church and were attended I*> a very large crowd which came to P :lk iast respects to their friend and rel:« five while here on earth. Mr. Schneider’s death occurred last Sunday, due from dropsy and complications. H" la survived by a wife and nine fh:ldren. The pall bearers were: Henry Voglewede, H. H. Bremerfcamp, H. J Terveer, Jacob Martin, Dan Donovan and U. Deinlnger. Burial was made In the St. Joseph's cemetery. NEW CIGAR CASE. A dandy new dust and air-proof 1 i Rar case has been added to the fix tures of the Holthouse Drug Co., and adds greatly to tho appearance and convenience of the store. The case , is built in tiers of compartments, with beveled glass doors, lined with zhu nnd fitted with wire shelves so that a unique display of the tobaccos may ,M tnade.

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WEDDING OF THE ROSES. The public is asked to bear in mind ,| * mldfet mock wedding, known as The Wedding of the Hoses," to he "iven Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Noah Mangold, on South First street, under the auspices of the Ruth r< !e ol the Christian church. Tho invitations are being sent out to the , omes, but If you get none directly, ''* ease con sider this an invitation to Come - A B ‘ lver offering will be taken lor the bride. There will be games, music and refreshments. The affair will be a lawn social. o— .■ .—_ STORE CLOSED THIS AFTERNOON The Schafer hardware and harness stores were closed this afternoon from 1 to 4 o'clock, on account of the funeral of Mrs. Ferdinand bitterer. TO BE AT MONROE Rev. Ira Johnson, Superintendent of the Indiana Yearly Meetng of FRIENDS’ CHURCH Will be at the Monroe Church Sunday With the Rev. F. H. Tormohlen. Rev. Ira Johnson, general superintendent of the Indiana yearly meeting of the Friends' church, together with 1 Rev. F. H. Tormohlen of Portland. ' will be in Monroe this coming Sunday, one preaching in the morning and the other at night in the new Fiends church recently dedicated. Rev. Tormolen was at Amboy last Sunday attending Wabash quarterly < meeting and received S7O on the indebtedness of the church at Mcnroe. The work of raising the balance ot the indebtedness Is progressing nicely and the Friends at Monroe are to he congratulated upon their beautiful little house of worship. A special : invitation is given to attend the serv-j ices Sunday and hear these ministeis' who stand very high in the church, j

WILL HAVE SEWERS Plans of John Gillig Were Approved by the Board of Trustees of the TOWN OF GENEVA The Estimated Cost of the Sewerage is $20,564.00 — All Favor It. The hoard of trustees of the town of Geneva, composed of Nathan Shepard, J. A. Coolman and Clem Green, ! held a meeting Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of deciding upon the proposed sewer improvements, which it needed very badly, and which improvement would benefit the town very much. Nearly every property owner was In favor of building the sewers through the entire town, so the board of trustees decided upon the improvement, and that bids would be received and the contract let for the construction of same on Wednesday, July 9. The plans of Engineer John Gillig of this city were accepted and the sewer system will be built accordingly. The estimated cost of the sewerage according to Mr. Gillig’s figures will he *20,864.00. This will be paid by tha property owners in proportion to the benefits derived from the improvement. With these sewers the town of Geneva will be much Improved, and will make it one of the most up-to-date towns in the state. Another meeting of the trustees will be held next week to discuss the bricking of flv„ streets. This question will meet with more remonstrances than the ge wer question did. Henry Heller of this city is attorney for the town of Geneva.

“DECATUR CAM AMD WILL”

Decatur, Indiana. Wednesday Evening, June 11, 1913

A BIG WEDDING Will Take Place Tonight on the Stage at the Bosse Opera House. MAYOR J. W. TEEPLE Will Perform CeremonyWill Take Place After the Last Act. The Purple Players at th e Bosse I opera house presented •Brother Against Brother" Tuesday evening to a well filled house, and the audience seemed more than pleased with the production. Tonight that great western drama, "Texas,” in three acts, will b e produced and after, the last act another scene will take place on the Bosse stage that is not, and never has been connected with any play ever before produced. Miss Leah Pryce will become the bride of Mr. ( . W illiam Ashworth, better known as Si I.aprl, his stage name. This will be no fake marriage, as you have seen here before, but genuine marriage, the license having been taken out at the clerk’s office Monday evening. The ceremony will be performed by Mayor Teeple. This is a real novelty, depicting stage scenes tn reality, and you may never have the opportunity to witness a ceremony of this kind again on the stage. Secure your seats early at the Holthouse drug store, in order to get your first choice, the prices remaining the same, ten and twenty cents.

VERY SICK BOY Is Benjamin, Son of Rev. and Mrs. Dofnseif, In the Hospital of CONCORDIA COLLEGE Was Unconscious Since Last Friday — Other Notes About the Sick. ,Riev. and Mrs. Dornseif of Root township are at Fort Wayne at the bedside of their son, Henjamin, a student at Concordia college. He has been unconscious since last Friday from meningitis and is a very sick boy indeed. The crisis it is thought will be reached today or tomorrow. His parents were called to his bedside by telephone and have been with hint since Friday, but he has been unable to recognize them, lie is in the college hospital and a special nurse is attending him. The boy Is but fifteen years of age, this being his first year in j the college. While he is suffering from meningitis, spinal meningitis has not yet developed. All his friends .here trust that he will soon recover. Rev. Dornseif, the father, is pastor of the I.utheran church in Root township.

Miss Cora Markley, a daughter of W. D. Markley, living oast of Vera Cruz, received severe injuries when she fell front the rear stairway at the W. A. Kunkel home at Hluffton. Miss Markley was assisting at the Kunkel home while their regular housekeeper is away on a visit, and l.y mistake opened the stair door instead of the door leading to her room and received the fall. When found she was semi-conscious and her right wrist was found to lie broken. She was also painfully bruised and sprained. Mrs. Albert Graber called on her sister, Mrs. Wilson Miller, in Fort Wayne yesterday. Elva, elder daughter of the Miller family, who had been very ill from typhoid fever, is over typhoid, but is suffering from complications • that make hope for her recovery doubtful. —— -— PICNIC AT ST. JOHN'S. The annual picnic will be held bv the St. John's church in the usual place 'he Wischmeyer grove, along the interurban, next Sunday. The usual good time will be in orcer.

READY FOR BUSINESS. William Ruckman Has Opened New Barber Shop on Rugg Street. Tho furniture for the new barber shop of Will Ruckman ott Rugg street has arrived and been put In imsitiou and Mr. Ruckman is now ready to serve all old anil new patrons. A new building has been erected by him at the rear of the Hite grbeery and Mr. Ruckman now has one of the neatest and most up-to-date shops in the city. He has, furnished it throughout with new. furniture and fixtures and is ready to serve the public to everything needed in the tonsoriai line, WEDS IN DETROIT Miss Cora Neaderhouser of Linn Grove Becomes the Bride of H. P. Davis. SURPRISE FRIENDS Will Reside in Detroit—Her Husband is a Traveling Salesman. The news of the marriage of Miss Cora Neaderhouser of Linn Grove will com P as a complete surprise to her friends in this city and vicinity. The Bluffton News says: “The marriage of Miss Neaderhouser and Mr. H. P. Davis of Detroit, Mich., took place on Saturday, May 31, and they are now at home to friends in the city of Detroit, which city will be their permanent residence. Mr. Davis, the is a traveling salesman with {territory In' Ohio and Michigan, and iis a young man of high character an<j ability. He ■ won for a bride a young lady who is j held in highest esteem for her many i excellent qualities and accomplishments. Her homo was at. Linn Grove for years and she was a member of the Neiderhouser firm which runs a general store at that place. Th e congratulations of a wide circle of friends await the couple. Miss Neiderhou: - j er was employed for a number of years as a clerk in the Leader department store in this city."

GRAFTER WAS HERE ■ Man Who Worked Delphos Lodge Men Came Here and Tried Game. SOON DISAPPEARED Is Wanted at Delphos Where Warrant Has Been Issued on Larcny Charge. Tlie young man who worked the Masons at Delphos, mention of which was made in the Daily Democrat Tuesday evening, arrived on schedule time. He answered the description exactly, being about thirty-five “years old, of short stature, but weighing about 180, rather light eomplexioned, wore a blue serge suit, a checkered cap, canvas shoes, and the Shriners' badge. He called on J. S. Falk, who sent him to this office, where he was interviewed for fifteen minutes. He ga vethe name of Gustave Stine, said he was a native of Germany, and had been robbed on the ship enroute to this country. He spoke fairly good English at times, but had a faculty of not understanding th e questions he preferred not to or could not answer. About 8 o’clock last night Sheri IT Durkin received word from the Delphos marshal that a warrant had been Issued there charging the fellow with larceny and ordering his arrest. The sherifT with Deputy Kelly and Policeman Melchl made a careful search of the city but Stine had disappeared and could not be located. It seems he got a very chilly recep tlon here, syspicloned that the warning had been sent ahead aqd decided to make himself scarce. The United Brethren Ladles' Aid sooety will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Mel Welker.

NEW TIME TABLE Service on the Traction Line Excellent—The New Cars Prove Very Popular. EIGHT CARS A DAY Going and Coming from This City to Ft. Wayne—Double Freight Service. The present service on the traction line from this city to Fort Wayne is proving most satisfactory to the public and reasonably so to the company. All the cars ar e well patronized with the exception of the northbound car at 7 a. m., and the northbound car at 4 p. m., which being new hours makes it rather difficult for the public to become aocustoned thereto. It is with the idea in mind that the patrons of the line may become acquainted with the hours that the schedule is again published. Please note the time of cars and profit thereby: Northbound cars leave Decatur at 5:50 a. m., 7:00, 8:30, 11:30 a. m.; 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 9:30 p. m. South- 1 bound cars leave Fort Wayne at 7:00 a. m., 8:30, 10:00; 1:00 p. m, 4:00 5:30, 7:00, and 11:00, This makes eight passenger cars each way a service not to be excelled. The cars are in excellent shape and the equipment good, making ar rival at your destination punctual and assured. Besides this the freight service is at present high class, being run double practically every day.

BACK FROM LAKE Dr. Neptune and Famiiy Return from Ten Days’ Outing. AT FISH LAKE Made Trip by Auto Without Accident Until Five Miles from Home. Dr. J. Q. Neptune and family and Miss Letta Kintz returned Tuesdayevening from a very delightful ten days' outing at Fish Lake, near Marcellus, Mich. There they enjoyed camp life, bathing, boating and fishing. Fishing was fine and their catches kept them supplied with this delectable item of food during their stay there. Decatur people might think it too cold to bathe, but not bo there. Only day before yesterday they enjoyed a delightful plunge into the waters. The made the round trip of 300 miles in their automobile and not an accident occurred during that time until last evening when they had a "blowout" of a tire five miles from this city. At Fish Lake, they ,werp joined by Gregg Neptune, who is returning from his college In Chicago, to spend the summer vacation. O v DUNBAR GOES TO PETROLEUM. Professor M. M. Dunbar of Lina I Grove passed through Bluffton this ! morning and in an interview here gave out a statement that will come as ex \ ceedingly good news to the patrons nl j | the Petroleum public schools, in Not ; | tinghatn township, this county. He I stated that although he had been tendered a good position as principal of i | the Hurtt'ord City high school at a salary of $1,200, lie had decided that | he would remain with the Petroleum schools the coming year and will decline th e offer at Hartford City. Professor Dunbar still calls Adams county his home and expects to embark in the practice of law in that county, and by remaining at Petroleum he 1-j able much better to keep in touch with affairs in his home county. There are other reasons why he prefers to remain with the Petroleum high school. He was very successful there, and It will be very pleasant to Trustee A. F. Baker, school patrons, i and the students to have him remain. —Bluffton News.

CLOVER LEAF MAKES CAIN. The Railroad Age Gazette, giving an account of the earnings of the Clover Leaf for the montli of April, shows that under the present officials, the road has made Its record in earnlncs, the report being as follows: In April, 1913, the Clover Leaf’s operating revenue showed a gain of 177.091.G3, compared with the corresponding month of 1912. This is one of the largest gains ever made by the company in any one month. The total operating revenue for April, 1913, was $371,964.66, against $294,873.03 in tho month of April, 1912. In the ten months ending April 30, 1913, the operating revenue of the company Bhows a gain of $8,138,705.32, and the net operating revenue a gain of $221.356.43. OVERCOMEBYHEAT Man Giving Decatur as His Home is 11l in a Hospital at Clevland. CLIPPING SENT HERE Man Believed to be Cal Hammell, Well Known Young Man—Home Here. A friend writing to Mrs. Murray, of the Hotel Murray, from Cleveland, Ohio, enclosed a clipping from a Cleveland paper of recent date, which said:

“On the steps of Old Stone church, I public square. Cal Hammel, 45, Dec.i-: tur ,Ind., was overcome by the lient' yesterday morning and fell to the stone walk injuring his head. He wr.s taken to Huron Road hospital in Hogan & Company’s ambulance. He sustained a severe scalp wound and possibly a fractured skull.' Doctors say he may recover." While no one by the exact name is known here, it. is quite likely that the man mentioned is Cal Hammed of this city, though the age is con- j siderably less than that mentioned The letter was received yesterday by Mrs. Murray. TO STATE’S PRISON Clem Knoff Failed to Comply With Conditions of Suspended Sentence AND WILL BE TAKEN To Michigan City Tomorrow Morning for Failure to Provide for Children.

The suspended sentence of from one ' to seven years in state's prison against | Clem Knoff, for failure to support his children, was revoked this morning by the court, and Mr. Knoff will be 1 taken tomorrow morning to Michigan < City to enter upon the service of his sentence. It will be remembered that Knoff was given the sentence March 8. Judge . Merryman, however, suspended the sentence upon condition that Kno!t pay the snm of seven dollars a week to the probation officer of the juvenile court for the support of the Knoff children. Knoff did not live up to the terms of the suspension of the sentence, and May 14, an order was lasued that he appear In court and show cause why lie did not live up to the j terms, although able to do so. Sheriff' Durkin held the order in his hands for some time but Knoff's whereabouts could not be learned. A few days ago he turned up coming from ! | Lima, Ohio, lie was critically ill of i appendicitis and no action was taken J until he grew better. He became bet- : ter and yesterday went to work in it I local barber shop, when he was arrested and brought up this morning. —— o Mr. and Mrs. Marion Stults and son, Francis, went to Fort Wayti" this morning to spend the day.

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MAN KILLED BY FREIGHT Was Sitting on G. R. and I, Track at Rear of CarTrain Backed Up. HAD BEEN DRINKING And Was Probably Unable to Help Himself—Partner Saved by Jumping. While sitting on the G. R. & r. railroad tracks near the automobile factory at 12:30 this noon, Charles Mullen, of Winchester, a tramp, was run over and instantly killed by a freight train backing onto him. in company with a partner, one Overbower, the couple was waiting ior a freight going south to Portland. Becoming overheated they sat on the track in some shade, about ten feet from th e end ot a string'of stationary box cars. Net seeing any engine in sight, the danger of the situation did not become apparent to them until too lat e to avoid it. The engine coupled up with the box cars to remove them and in so doing struck them harder than usual. Overbower, who was tutting fartlmr away from th e car than Mullen, sa.v tte danger first and attempted to pull his companion out of the way, making two grabs at him and missing both times, and being struck by the car. Ho,, was badly scratched and bruised when (Continued on Page 5)

AGAINST BUILDING One Hundred Forty-one Remonstritors May File Injunction Suit AGAINST BUILDING Os Linn Grove School House —Will Mean Abandoning of Two in Township. School centralization in Adams county does not seem to be taking well, especially among those who live farthest from the proposed central building. About one hundred fortyone school patrons in Hartford township are preparing to file an injunction suit in the near future against tlie building of the new Linn Grove, school house. Among the prime mov- - ers are William Glendenning, William Anderson and Nathan Stahl. The building of the new school house will mean the abandoning of two others in the township, and those who dislike to have the greater distance to send their children to the new school

house, are the movers in the proposed action against it. The date for tho letting the nontract for the new school house Is set for June 21. It will be remembered that there is an injunction suit pending against the building of another union school, that in Root township. Some of the proposed rn* Joiners were in the city today consulting attorneys relative to action, . ■ "■ 1 ■ o —■ Y. P. A. LECTS OFFICERS. At the meeting of the Voting People'* Alliance last evening at the Evangelical church, the following officers for the new year were elected: President, Altle Harrell; vice president, Ethel Fuhrnmn; recording secj retary, Grace Hoencisen; correspondj ing secretary, Hilly Unit; organist, Vernla Smith: assistant organist., elda Schultz; treasurer, Mr. Bdington; missionary treasurer and build- ! ing fund treasurer, S. C. Cramer. LEFT OR FORT WAYNE. With sad farewells, but with the good Wishes of all their friends, tho p. K. Kinney family left today for their new homo n Fort. Wayne, where they will reside on Williams street. A large number of their friends accompanied them to the station to see j them off.