Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 165

GREET PLAYERS Are Greeted With Applause —Please Large Chautauqua Audience. COMEDY OF ERRORS ■ * Governor J. W .Folk Will Lecture Tuesday Afternoon—Kryl Band. Tuesday. Morning—Roy Scouts. Literary trier prelat ion, "Tlie Debt O s Literature to the Rible.” Admission 25 rents. Afternoon—Concert- The Mozart Concert Co. Lecture, ‘ The Fir,lit for a State’ 'lion Jos. W. Foil, of Mi. ; ottri. Admission 50 cents. Evening—Children’s Night. The Mo Ziirt Concert Co., and Laurant the Ma- ; k lan. Admission Art cents. The famous Kryl hand of thirty pieces arrived early and this afternoon and evening give concerts. Never has a Shakespeare play caused so much genuine pleasure to a Dee-; atur audience, as the production of Shakespeare's “Comedy of Errors" by the lien Greet players for the Cluo:tauqua goers, Saturday evening. It wes ! a laugh for all from the time the play began, taking one back to the street sec nos of Greece, until the closing of the final antics of Percival Vivian and Charles Rogers, the Drotnio twins. As far ns the stage settings and costumes were concerned, the scene of the play might have been laid in New York. Decatur or any other city in the I world with equal success. It is not the scenery nor costumes that makes the comedy of the affair, but it is tile underlying plot—tko sets of twins both sets look alike, dress alike, but are opposite in jiurpose and talk. The, notion of the play takes the fwo“setsi of twins into tlie same town and each knows nothing of the other's pro--sence. One set of the twins are call-, ed Antipliolus of Ephesus and Antibolus of Syracuse, and the other set, Dromio of Ephesus and Drontio of Sy raeuse. Unfortunate Antipholus of Ephesus has a wife and his twin brother lias | none From the start to the finish the boys are confused and tlie servants, are confused and every one in the, play in befuddled and consequently; thinks the other person insane. This, suspense lasts until one of the Antipholus brothers is arrested, when the unraveling of the play begins. The plot finally unravels andj wrongs are set right and the play ends! with a step dance between the two Drotuios, who meet again after being separated for a number of years. The Florentine trio. Italian ntusi clans, proved good entertainers, and gave preludes of both vocal and instrumental music, for both afternoon and evening's programsJudge George D. Alden spoke to an appreciative audience Saturday nooii on ' Tlie Needs of the Hour. ' Judge Alden arrived from Indianapol's and finding trains and connections "out of joint." barely arrived in time, lie drew applause when he prefaced his speech by stating "that the needs ol the hour" here, were better railroad facilities for the city. Hi; address was a most excellent one, and he brought out many points, tlie practical fulfillment of which would reform tlie nation. •Tlie sacred concerts Sunday bv the Marx trio were fine, as was the afternoon lecture, "The Dawning Consciousness of Woman's Sex Loyalty, by Dean W. T. Sumner, D. D„ and the evening lecture, Among the Forces,'' I y O D- McKeever The Chautauqua closes Wednesday. Gov- J. W. Folk. ' Hon Joseph W. Folk is too well known to really need any mention here ami his coining to this city will be a notable event in the history cf this community. Tlie recital of all the reforms lie inaugurated while he held office In Missouri', would of themselves more than fill this page. Governor Folk is regarded as the pioneer in the great modern fight against graft which is now going on everywhere both in the state and nation. As governor he pul an end to boodling in legislative ai lairs. He abolished the practice o legislatures and officials riding on fret j asses. He procured - tlie passage o a law after a hard legislative fight re pealing the race track whereby garni;

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l and put tl t mo t ) powerful and insolent race-track <iynin world out of business. He lamped out grafters in the pq- , Ine departments am] appointed men -'"I the highest character to all post"f|ns of public trust, closed the gamh""k’ 'lives in st. Louis and enforced il1 " law closing saloons on Sunday In ! !| ie taco of intense opposition and dei bunciation. > Children’s Night. "n children' , night. Laurent, "the '"an oi mysteries," and his two assistwil present a program of magic I : "'<l illusions which will delight not <’tily the young, but the old and mid-die-aged as well. l anrant stands today ns one of 'merh-as greatest magicians. Within the last year he was presented with - modal by the Society of American ’iafiicians at their meeting in New 5 ork ami also one by the organization (Continued on Pago 2) WERE OUTCLASSED Shamrocks Lost to Wayne Printers Sunday by the Score of 10 to 6. WERE IN BAD FORM Next Sunday’s Game Will be Against Fast Monroeville Grey Team, Sunday, July 13, proved to he a| imodoo to the Shamrock team wheu j they lost the game yesterday afternoon to the Fort Wayne printers by 1 a store of 10 to 6. The local boys were in a very bad condition .yesterday: even Shady, who was batted all' over the field. Good fielding, however, was played on both sides, and I some fast plays broke the monotony l q.' £he game. Eaton pitched for the printers and was tlie real article, holding the Shamrocks down to one three-j hast* hit. which was secured by Bax- . ter. On tlie other side, Hogg, catcher. tapped tlie sphere out for a homo run. Next Sunday the Monroeville Greys are scheduled to meet the Shamrocks. The Greys are a f.u.t bunch of players, having defeated tlie Edgetown, Ohio, team yesterday by a shut-out scoie of 30 to 0, and will put up a stiff fight for the honors I next Sunday. JOHNSON NAMED Rosswell O. Johnson Is Citizens’ Party’s Choice For Mayor of Gary. NAMED SATURDAY Election Will Be Held November 4th—Enthusiastic Convention. 'I 1■ I Rosswell O. Johnson, former Adams county boy, is the choice of the fitL izens' party of (’.ary, for mayor of ■ that tliiivlng City. He was nominated, as such on the second ballot at an ■ ' enthusiastic convention of the Citi-i • sens’ party in the Orpheum theatre, j • at Gary, Saturday. His brothers, ’ Chester and Walter E. Johnson of this > city, were attendants of the conven- ' tion and rejoiced with their brother In his victory. Tlie election will be held November 4th, and as the Citizens' party is a I strong one, it has hrjxht hopes of-car-i rylng tlie election witli their strong I candidate, Mr- Johnson, " Seventy-throe votes were required for the nomination. On the first bal • lot, Mr. Johnson secured 70'/i and on i- ■ the second, 75ii The Citizens' party is a new one, ■ growing out of a needed reform tnovet ment against alleged corrupt condis Hons. The new party is made up of e Republicans. Progressives and Indeit pendent Democrats. f- Mr. Johnson who was engaged in >f the practice of law at Kendallville, ■e moved to Gary about three or four yf years ago, where he lias been engaged e- in the real estate business He iat a b- son of Joe Johnson of Monroe. •

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H ER j* tfiJt J m Will HI , "^'"w r 7X'" s PRINCIPALS IN FAMOUS MURPER MYStERY, (Copyright by International News Service; supplied by the Now Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) Miss Alice Crispeß, and her suitor, Herbert Johns, who was first ar rested suspected of her murder an I later exonorated by a coroner s jury. The murder of pretty Miss Crispell, whose body was found in Harvey's l lake near \\ ilkesbarre, Pa., is attracting nation wide attention, as one of Hie startling mysteries of tlie day. Now that Johns has been liberated efforts are being made to find a man whom Miss Cris|>ell jilted for Johns.

A EUROPEAN TRIP „. ' Miss .rraynke . Ihonipsonl One of Party of Ten—Set Sail Saturday FROM MONTREAL, CAN. For Two Months’ European Trip—Won Prize In Popularity Contest. Miss Fraynke Thompson, an Adams c county Kiri, sister of Mrs. W. R. Dor-j win, and daughter of Mrs. Catherine! Thompson, set sail from Montreal, Canada, Saturday on the “Scandanai xian," for a tour of Europe. Miss Thompson was one of ten lucky winners in a popularity contest inaugural-1 <d by the News-Telegram, a newspa- i i per of Calgary, Canada, where she has I been located. The party Is chaperon-' ed by Mrs. McCarthy of Calgary, and j will bo gone until September 4. i A letter informing Decatur relatives I of her good fortune and delightful trip was received today, and was written by Miss Thompson, while on the train enroute to Montreal. A stop was made enroute, at Winnipeg. They will arrive in Glasgow, July | 20, from which place they will take a i rail, steamer and coach tour byway I ol the lakes and Trossachs to Stirling and Edinburgh, Scotland. They will also visit in Melrose, and then go to London for a two days’ stay. They will leave there Monday evening, July 28, for Holland, (where they will visit nt "The Hague," and Amsterdam, then Antwerp, and next day to ’ Brussels. Cologne will see them Au- j gust 2 and 3, and then will come a Rhine trip to Bierbrieh, thence to , Wiesbaden. August 5 they will be in | Frankfort, and the next day in Heidel berg. The scene will then shift to Switzerland and its mountains. Au- | gust 7 they will go to Lucerne, and the following day have an excursion to Nitsnau and summit of Rigi. In- ' tcrlaken will have two days and then follows an excursion to Grindelwald, the nto Montreux, and thence by ;; steamer to Geneva. After a day | there, August 13, the party goes to I, Paris for four days, with a side trip to Versailles. By Dieppe and New- > haven the party will return to London, them e go to Warwick, Stratford- , on-Avon and Chester August 23, the - party will go to Liverpool and set sail ■ on the steamship Canada, arriving fl at Montreal August 31, and return to i-. Calgary September 4, Miss Thompson is certainly fortua nate in securing such a pleasurable >, trip, and will be followed day by day, r in mind, by her Decatur friends. She j d formerly resided in this city, where) a she was one of its most popular young ladies.

Decatur, Indiana,Monday Evening, July 14, 1913

COURT HOUSE NEWS. , A marriage license was issued today to 'Rudolph August Rook, minis ter, of Springhill, Hl Itorn March 14, 1889, son of August Rook, to wed Christena Caroline Anna Gallineyer, seamstress, horn September 29, 1884. daughter of rod W. Gallmeyer. Two field examiners of the state board of accounts arrived in the city this morning and took up their headquarters in the sheriff’s and county assessor’s offices tor the time they will be engaged here in examining the books of the township trustees and the justice of the peace of the county. o— BOY IS CAUGHT Youth Seen in Adams County Last Friday With Stolen Horse Caught NEAR DELPHOS, OHIO — Horse Returned to Owner— Boy Claims Name is Frank Hampstead. The young man, undoubtedly the ' cne who camped near the Fuhrman bridge in Hoot township, Friday night, and whom, but for a wrong description given of the Huntington horse stolen, would have been locked in the Adams county jail, was captur<<l Saturday afternoon at Delphos, Ohio, by Sheriff Wilson of Van Wert,! Ohio. The young num claims to he] Frank C. Hampshire and was locked ; in the Van Wert jail, pending action I against him for horse stealing. About 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon Sheriff Morehead of Ohio City tele-' phoned to the Van Wert sheriff that a rig tallying with the description ot i the stolen property had passed through that city. The sheriff immediately sent out and caught the young man and his outfit as he was going over the canal bridge into DelI hos, Ohio. * The lad told a story of having obtained the horse a few days ago from his father, whom he said was a travcling horse dealer and he did not j know where it came from. During his conversation the young man] stated that he had intended meeting his father at or near Delphos, where , they would camp for the night. A. Mr. Samuel Carolus, who resides! three miles east of Delphos, reported i the theft from him of wearing appar-.) el- This was found later in the wagon driven by the youth; The Huntington sheriff, W. E. Scott, and Deputy Sheriff Kelly- from j this city, who had also been scouring i the country, and > were- dose on the ■ trail, arrived at Delphos only a short] [ while after the arrest, |

RIBS WERE BROKENI C D. Murray Shaken Up When Steering Wheel Failed to Work. MACHINE SKIDDED Into Pillar in Fort Wayne and Three of Driver's Ribs Were Broken. Charles D, Murray, propritor of the Murray House, this city, had three ribs broken, and lie was badly shaken up and bruised otherwise, all! because the steering wliecd of his an : tomobile refused to work properly Mr. Murray had taken a Decatur party to the Fort Wayne show Saturday evening and tlie accident happened as they were returning home. Just ns they neared tlie Calhoun street elevation the steering wheel, which Iris boon out of order at times, began to lail him again, and the machine skidded into one of the pillars supporting the road elevation. The post was not hurt but Mr. Murray was thrownagainst the steering post with thoj aforesaid injuries- He was urged to go to the hospital, but persisted in returning home. He still feels tlie of-, feels of tlie shake-up and fracture. TWO RUNAWAYS Horse of Henry and Edward Kohne Took Fright as Buggy Wheel Came off SUNDAY MORNING While on Way to Church— Ora Baker, Driver of Delivery Wagon .Spilled. The horse which Henry and Edward Kohne were driving to church, Sunday morning at about C:45 o'clock took fright and started to run in a dead gallop down V, est Madison street as the fro.it wheel of the single seated buggy came off, striking him on the leg and frightening the animal very much. The runaway horse started at the crossing of Second and Madison streets between the court house and Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson’s clothing store. The turn from Second to Madison street had just been made when the wheel of the buggy: came off The frightened horse then started at a racer's break-neck, speed with the three-wheeled buggy and its occupants. As the runaway party came in front of the Murray hotel Edward Koime made a jump and alight >d on Hie street. Onlookers ran to him at once, think- ■ ing his killed or severely injured, cud took him into the hotel. Here he fainted and medical attention had to lie given him. Henry Kohne 1--niained in the buggy until the galloping animal came in front of the 'Hoffman residence when he vvis ! thrown out into the street, hut not i hurt- The horse kept on running mi- ; til it got in front of tlie Al Steele ■ home at the corner of Fifth and Madi ison streets, when it tried to make I tlie turn and caught the buggy on a tree, breaking the harness from him. Henry Kohne started after the horse and caught him without any further rccidents occurring. Both of the Kohne boys were greatly shaken up over the accident, hut are thanking their lucky stars that neither one of them was injured more than receivi ing u few bruises on tlie hands mid I kneesOra linker, driver of one of (he general delivery wagons, had an exciting runaway Saturday evening, that stirred the west part of the city in ian unusual way. He had left his I team on West Monroe street in front i of the James Hoagland home while lie went in to deliver some groceries. A passing motorcyclist blew his I whistle at an inopportune time and : the team started and ran east. It turned north on Thirteenth street, ’ and in making tlie turn the I (Continued on Page 2)

THE FOOLISH VIRGINS, Os Oil less Fame Had Nothing Over Dr. Reusser. Doctor Amos Reusser was found guilty Friday morning and fined one dollar and costs by 'Squire Joel Liddv for running an automobile at night without a tail light The doctor had his light turned on and it Had gone! out without his knowledge. Prose-! fitting Attorney Parrish of Decatur was here to conduct the prosecution. J and F. M. Cottrell defended tlie doctor. The latter has asked for time tc consider an appeal to the circuit. court. Clinton ix’hman’s case was | also to have come up for trial th!I morning but his attorney, Dore B. . E r wln, of Decatur became sick on I arriving here and tlie court was wait- ‘ ing till noon for his recovery. Mr. Lehman is charged with having vio i lated the speed laws.—Berne Wltnes ; F9R NON-SIPPORT Foster Wagers Pleads For A Divorce From Earl Wagers ON THOSE GROUNDS . i Said He Went to Oklahoma to Work and Has Sent No Money For 2 Years. Foster Wagers says her husband. ’ Earl Wagers, deserted her and since ( he wont to Oklahoma, January 1910. ( to seek work and a location forth" family, has sent her only about thirty -1 dollars for the support of herself and ' daughter. The last sum of money [ . was sent .July 11, 1911. She asks for I a divorce, the care of their two <hil- | dren, Gladys, aged four, and Iva c., aged two. who was born since the abandonment by her husband, and for alimony for their support. She alleges she and her husband were married .Tidy 11, 190 S, and lived together until January 27, 1910, when he went to Hooker, Oklahoma, to g' t : work and to look for a location for ; tlie family. At the time of his •— sertion, they were living at Salem. Indiana. Peterson & Moran are her atI torneys. BROKEN WIRES I I Charged With Electricity Fell on James P. Haefling Home During Storm. A TERRIBLE AFFAIR — Flames in Sheets Leaped from House—Neighbors Awakened by Crash. The James i’. Haefling home on - Fourth street hart quite tin experience during tlie electrical storm last evening- First a glass door was shatter-1, od. The family had not yet recovered front tlie fright occasioned by this, when another more dreadful one occurred. Some time after midnight the electric wires broke, the ends falling onto the roof of tlie house. This caused a terrible crash, awakening not only the inmates of the house, but the neighbors. The electricity shot forth, in sheets of flame from the house, making a terrible hissing sound as they did so. Had the roof not been soaked with tlie two heavy rains of the earlier part of the evening, a fire would certainly have ensued. Fortunately, before long the wires dropped off tlie house on tlie alley side, and were out of the way for the time being. 1 The power of the city plant was shut off and the work of repair en- • tered upon. It was quite lucky that ■; the wires fell on an inanimate ob- ’ ject, as it would have meant certain I death of a person had he been struck, t b Eugene Bromerkamp attended tlie t Ringling Bros, circus at Fort Wayne Saturday.

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A NEW A'GLE Is Reached by Dean Sumner. Chicago Reformer, in Vice Question THE YOUNG MEN Should be Held Responsible for Their Share in the Evil. Denn Sumner, the Chicago Episcopalian minister, and Chicago reformer, reached a new angle of the groat vice question, when he lectured Sunday afternoon on "The imwning Consciousness of Woman's Sex Loyalty.' 1 Ho said in part "The vice problem will never bo answered until yon are able to instill in the iiearts of the boys and young men a new chivalry and a different conception of true womanhood. “We hear it decided against the young working girl who goes wrong and she is lost in tlie mire of a despondency while tlie young man who may have been tlie cause oi' her down fall runs aloof under the guise that lie is only sowing his wild oats. "It is not a matter of education to tlie girls and young women, it rests witli the youths of tlie nation We have been placing the responsibility upon the women and now is tlie time to place it where it belongs, it is not a woman's problem, but it is time that we are making one law to ap'-ly to both sexes. "Tlie question of marriage brines forth another phase of tlie subje -t Owing to tlie sentiment among tlie civic and religious, the question es health certificates to contracting parties is being more widely discussed. Already four states have passed such laws, and legislation in sixteen more fS pending. Ceieago councils and bodies of reform have advocated its widespread publicity and hope to see a time when all states alike will adopt such measures. “A new light has been flashed among the juvenile court reformers • that of placing tlie responsibility of delinquency onto the parents am) not the offenders. What would resulr if the parents of the children were placed before the court and made to testify as to their instructions and cooperations for right to that child? Indeed, it is a new attitude, but nevertheless it would tend to correct some of tlie evils which now predominate. “The morals and vice of a city should not be placed under the jurisdiction of tlie police department or any other department of the city administration for the reason that these are usually operated by politi s. Take it out of their hands and appoint a commission of tlie most respectable persons in tlie city and let them take tare of tlie morals and if I am not. mistaken the conditions will be improved and stay improved. ■ Are tlie marriage vows of today becoming a mere joke? It seems ro for sixty per cent of the profit matio by exploiting women conies from the married man "You often hear thia reply when asking tlie younger people to refrain from dancing those animal dances which tend to immorality. Why, 'lie society people dance them and they are considered better than we of tlie lower classes.' To tills 1 say that whenever the society of a nation becomes so degenerated that its influences of vice sweep downward rather than tlie influences of the lower classes sweeping upward.then degeneration stares tlie nation in the face"Tlie licensed saloon is an agency to break down tlie vice fighters. It seems a pity that any community should embrace an institution oi tint nature within its borders which causes the destruction that it does. I think, ar President Wilson when he said, i it is not the knave that is to bo feared but it is the good man with a rep- ' j utatioii who things wrong.' "Segregation and regulations will ' not correct the evil. Nothing short of complete annihlliutlon will remedy i tlie vice question." TRUSTEES MEET. i The regular monthly meeting cf • tlie township trustees was hold In the office of Samuel Butler, trustee of Washington township, this morning. Only routine business was attended to.