Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 167

COUNTRY IN NEED Os Men Who Will Display Colors- -Other Emphatic Statements MADE BY SPEAKER Ex-Governor Joseph Folk' of Missouri at Chautauqua Yesterday. “The day of public consciousness is dawning when tlie people of the nation an- beginning to think for them selves and ure not ready to accept the ready made opinions as they did ten yearn ago." declared ex-Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, at the I session of the ehautauqua Tuesdav i afternoon. Kx-Governor Folk has many mascu-i line admirers in Decatur, hence the! male attendance at the Chautauqua was much larget Tuesday afternoon than ever before. The address is < encoded to cave been one of the best ever hen», in the city, being replete with suggestions and ideas' worked out by Governor Folk during lift term of office. “Furthermore, when an official takes oath of office he does not say that he will support public opinion, hut that he will support the laws of 1 the nation and when certain parties' ceme before a man and tell hint that public opinion is against such and such a measure he must be sure that public opinion comes from the right side, rather than from the lawless forces," he continued. Awakening to New Patriotism. ■ “We are awakening to a new patriotism. that does not have for its standards war or battlefield heroes, but the plain, every-day man that does some service to the country by ids living. It was such services ns tuat r«ud«r«d -by President Ipucoin,; Thomas Jefferson and a score of other public men that is the fundamen-) tai of the new patriotism. ‘ We do not need more honest mon. We do need more men who will show their colors In time of need. I believe that an honest man who will show his colors for good government fs a friend' of such, but the honest nan who has not enough patriotism to show his colors is not a friend of good govenment. The greatest impediment .to progression is the man , who is indifferent on the matter. Two Classes of People. “There are two kinds of people in this country, those who lift and those who lean. Os which class are you? It is a matter of individual responsibility as to which class you belong. Our later day progression has come about because the lifters of the nation have been more active in the last d«cade than before. “It used to be thought a decade ago that bribing and accepting bribes were only conventional offenses am' that public opinion would never decry against the grafters, but the grafters were outguessed, for public opinion did mo|l against them and their work and results that 4still are evidt ut have terminated. We are thinking, Is America a nation of crooks and robbers or has it become so gen oral that we do not think so much I about it. Mark of Regeneration. “The solution is that only a few years ago it became uncovered, exposed rather than covered, as had been the rule before that time. I think it is a mark of regeneration when these exposures are made rather than a mark of degeneration “Like with everything else, the kings and emperor- would not grant r dorms until the common masses demanded them and the great proposition Is the same, it was never uncovered until the people demanded it. "We desire good government and we cry for more self-government, but we might have good government and vet all be slaves. So it is not a matter wherein we may sit down and have self-government dished up to us because no laws, however perfect they may be, will make good government automatically. It is the individual touch and interest that brings self government. How Graft Germs Grew“Embezlement of public power by some officials in the interests of special corporations and privileges will, tn a few y<|irs, be as much a violation of law as is embezlement of public 'Honey.

Decatur daily democrat _______ “DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

RPr , n of graft grew when the I b’-'t saloon law was violated It ‘bread to police departments, 'ho Jigher-ups, legislatures and into 'lie 'cihest councils. It was not the work ' llay - il or a year, It had " existing for a quarter of a " ntury, but It never had been uncovered to the public. l p b years I think the white lev.- traffic will be abolished. I don't say that every one will become moral, "or will morality bo forced on them "y law, but wore it not for the liquor and other interests which get their Hie from the misfortunes of the weaker sex, there would have been no white slavery. If it were not for i poverty many of the women would (Continued on Page 2) HOUSE IS STRUCK Lightning Demolishes Chimney in D. F. Leonard Home in Boch House AT AN EARLY HOUR Debris Fell on Bed in Room Vacated Only a Few Minutes Before. While lightning has been working havoc in various out-districts of the county, during the electrical storms ot tlie past few days, it “struck nearer home" today. About 4:314 o'clock this morning lightning struck the east chimney of' tile Hoell residence on West Monroe' -t. eet, occupied by D. F. Leonard, the i real estate man, and his family. The chimney was demoslished to| the first floor, and the debris was I shot into the bedroom on the second, floor, a part falling on the bed. For-! tunatcly Mrs. Leonard and the gins! clip occupied the rooms nearest the! ’ enhnney had gone downstairs only a| short time before, when the storm | . rose, and were lying on the cot in j the dining room, else the result might I have been more serious. Mr. Leonard, in another part of the house, was badly frightened through fear for his family, when theterrible crash came, but was pleased to find that all escaped injury, the only damage being done to the house GOT NEW EVIDENCE C S. Clark et al. 'fherefore Ask That Case Against Them be GIVEN A REHEARING Claim Hutton Wouldn’t Let Property be Removed-— Then Charged Rent. The defendants in the case of Mar- ' < ellus E. Hutton vs. Charles S. Clark et al. have filed a motion for a new trial. The suit was tried here and judgi merit given Hutton, who brought the suit on contract and asked for rental lor the time that the defendants' glove factory equipment was stored In his business building in Geneva, after September 11, 1912- Prior to that time the glove factory hfd been located In the building under a regular leaseSix reasons for the new trial are asked, the chief one being that new evidence has been discovered that would be favorable to the defendants. They claim that the property located in the Hutton building had been sold to The None Setter Manufacturing company, and that a short time after September 11, 1912, Oliver Schug went to the building to remove the newly purchased property. It is al leged that Hutton refused to allow Schug to remove it and ordered him off the premises. The same was therefore left in the buildjig and ren , tai was charged therefor, after Sep • tember, 1912. It Is alleged that at the prior trial t Schug and others refused to give ev ' idence to this effect. Schug now rb (Continued on Page 2)

-- s- _ I ttaii Jw," •7'.*** .. • . 7 ..aw ST .■» . . -Z3M r - ~Lsi OHBf -1 1 • ■ . rdf ’■■■■’ ■ ». jk ■ I ■I i L ■ - /J WOULD-BE ASSASSIN OF KING SOON TO BE SENTENCED. (Copyright by International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) The Attempt to Kill King Alfonso Marked the Third Time in His Reign He Has Escaped Assassination. Sanches Allegra, who attempted to assassinate King Alfonso of Spain last April while the monarch was riding through the streets of Madrid. Fortunately the attempt failed. Allegra was caught. The photograph was taken shortly before he was placed on trial, while he was taking exercise in the prison yard at Madrid Allegra was convicted, but has not yet been sentenced. His fate will probably be decided within a brief time.

CLOSING NIGHT • I 1 Os Week’s Chautauqua Will be “Joy Night" Program ’ by Ralph Bingham. '• THE GREAT HUMORIST ! — Laurant, the Magician, ’ Pleased Adults as Well ; as the Children. ■■ ■■ I “Children's night," nt chautauqua I Tuesday evening, was a happy one ■ for hundreds of little folks—not to' mention the hundreds and hundreds 1 of grown people who found it Just as I much enjoyable. or Laurant, the world-famous magician, was there, and performed most wonderful and unheard-of stunts- He possesses a wonderful variety of new tricks, poses and ‘'mys-tery-doings" that held his audience spell-bound The Mozart trio includes pianist and reader, violinist and a vocalist, and the numbers they gave were very fine. The boy scouts in charge of th<f boy scout master have been getting in good drill practice, an exhibition of which was given today on the stage. Today marks the ending of a most successful week’s chautauqua for Decatur —one which has made its people l all eager for the event of next year. This afternoon Lincoln McConnell gave his lecture, "Dead Lions,” and there was a concert by the Barnard • orchestra. Another concert will be ' given this evening and Ralph Bing--1 ham, the humorist, will have charge of “The Joy Night" program of fun. 1 This will close the chautauqua- > RODE THE COW. I —- — But Was Thrown Off And His Arm Broken—Heimann Lad Injured. ■» I r Herman, «ine year old son of .Toe t Heimann of south of the city, did not - prove to be a good "rough rider,” cow 1 rustler or wild west cow-boy. He I tried riding one of the farm "bossies” g and was thrown off the animal and r trampled upon. Both bones of the lowg er left arm, just above the wrist were e broken. I- — — v REV. DUNBAR TO SPEAKn - s Rev. Dunbar of Geneva will arrive i- Thursday, July 17 and will speak In r>- the evening at 7:30 o’clock at the courthouse. At that time matters of il importance will be submitted to the v- civic, league. The W. C, T. IT- is alb- so given a special invitation to attend. . ' . . . - t u.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, July 16, 1913.

POLICE COURT. Charges were filed late Saturday afternoon before Mayor Teeple by Mrs- Amanda Hess against Mrs. Jim Woods tor provoke. The two families reside m the same house on Line street, and the trouble arose over a household utensil which they had been using in partnership. Th" affair became so heated after progressing for a short time that words which are to l»e found in Webster’s dictionary became entirely too miid to express the thoughts of Mrs. Woods, therefore she resorted to language that is quite frequently classed as "vile." To this Mrs. Hess took offense and immediately went before the mayor where the charges were preferred. The case was set for next Saturday morning at 9 o’clock. It is thought that in the meantime MrsWoods will also file a reverse charge FIGH~ THE PE TS Kansas County Makes a Concerted Fight in One Day Against THE GRASSHOPPERS Last Monday Set Aside— Wm. Blackburn Gets Interesting Paper. An interesting copy of The Dodge City Globe, published at Dodge City, Kansas, was received this morning by William Blackburn from his daughter, Cdrrie, who lives there. The grasshopper situation is becoming alarming in Kansas and the paper sets forth in bulletin type, a “Grasshopper Fight" notice, in which ail townships In Ford county were urged to unite last Monday in destroying the pests in one day. The township trustees were to purchase at county expense the supplier to poison the grasshoppers according to a formula which the state agricultural college deemed the most effective. The damp mash or bait was to be spread over the land in the infested areas early in the morning or just ;>* the grasshoppers were beginning to move from their night's rest. A formula to make enough bait for five acres was published as follows: Bran, 20 pounds; Paris green or white arsenic, 1-pound; syrup, two qrarts; oranges or lemons, 3; water, 3% gallons Each farmer wag urged to go to bio trustee and get the- supplies and then be in the field for work last Monday. ■ The grasshopper situation there has been a serious one for several T r8 ’ x. sUi

HAVE YOU BADEGGS If so. Keep Them—They May Get You in Bad With the Law. NO USE FOR THEM In Groceries—Butter is Also a “Strong” Point With the Law. Merchants are having some trouble in taking in eggs. Several have reported that some farmers are still taking the chances of selling incubator and old eggs. One firm stated that they had eggs that were about ready to hatch and the loss from a < rate would be a large per cent. This bad egg and bad butter kiwi is not for the merchants alone, but! anyone who sells or offers for sale) bad eggs or butter. Following is an ! < xtract of the law: “You must not offer for sale butter that will not test at least 72>i per cent butter fat- Curdled or wa-) , tery butter is stric/y prohibited to | lie offered for sale under penalty of j sll4 to s.’O for the first offense, SSO to) SIOO for second offense, SIOO to S2OOI and thirty days in jail for the third) offense, under the pure food laws oi Indiana. Same penalty for rotten or) incubator eggs offered for sale." "By order of the state board in-, spector." ENTERS NEW FIELD Miss Nora Del Smith Will I Leave in a Week for New York City. A COPY WRITER For Large Advertising Firm Will be Her Employment There. Miss Nora Del Smith, a former teacher in the Decatur high school, who has taken up a new vocation, that of ad writing, will leave after a week’s visit with her mother. Mrs. ; Adeline Smith, In Mt. Pleasant, Mich. ■ lor New Yorn city, wnere she will I pursue her work. | Miss Smith, who has a talent for: writing, and has carefully educated the same, is the author of several, books- She has decided, however, to 1 enter the field of advertisement wi itI ing ami lias been in special training | for the same for some time Quite recently she was awarded a prize far a clever little ad she wrote for the firm for which she is now to work, the same being the opening for her present position. She will be employed by the Franklin P. Shumway Advertising agency of Boston, which s also has a brancli in New York City. , Miss Smith will be connected with '■ I the New York City agency, as copy ) writer. The agency solicits advertising • from all the large firms, then placing 1 it out among the magazines and otlir er periodicals. They employ a large a! number of copy writers to prepare ei the ads, and Miss Smitli will be ono s of these. Advertisement writing has grown to be a profession, requiring cleverness and skill, and is quite remunera- ? tive, as well as pleasant work for I- those whose talents lie in that line. '• Miss Smith expects to try the work, and then if to her liking, will contine tie. If not, she will return to teachil tag. » She left this morning for Mt. Pleasa ant, Mich., for a visit, and in a week will go to Brooklyn, N. Y„ where she r has a college friend who will assist c her in getting located in New York, r o o CIVIC LEAGUE MEETING. On July 17, 1913, at 7:30 p. m., yon a nre expected to be present at the 1 court house and listen to the address* e <M' Rev. Dunbar of Geneva, Ind. Mat--6 ters of importance to be submitted to il j'ou.' Don't fail to be present. Special ,invitation to W. C. T U . COM.

A BLIND PET PIGGrabs Year Old Babe-Was Badly) Bruised. Late Saturday afternoon while Amos Burkhalter was passing the home of John Topp on his mail route lie noticed a pig having hold of a child about 1 or 2 years old and bruising it. The child was unable to walk and had been left in the yard by the other children. While the pig is said V> be a blind i>et there is no telling «hat would have become of the infant! had it not been for the timely discovery by the mail carrier. The Top? family lives on the former Strahin farm in Wabash township—Berne Witness. ASK A NEW TRIAL Remonstrators Against Blue Creek Ditch Decision File Motion. IN CIRCUIT COURT Want Famous Case Retried—Name Ten Reasons Why it Should be If the court so grants, a new trial of that famous suit known -as the Bine Creek ditch case, or the petition! of George W Gates et al-, for a drain, will be held. A motion asking for a| new trial has been filed by Heller.) Sutton £ Heller for the remonstra- 1 tors. It will bo remembered that Special I Judge Hartford of Portland gave his special findings of facts and conclusions of law thereon recently, finding! for the petitioners and ordering tin drain established. The remonstrators object to that decision and want a new trial. Ten reasons why it should be, nre' ' given, namely: That the decision j and findings of court are not sustained by sufficient evidence; that the det *.on and findings of the court are contrary to law; that the decision, findings and judgment are not fairly supported by evidence; that the judg--1 ment. decision and findings are clear i ly against the weight of the evident e- - hundred people are interested in tills case. MV PAVF BRIDGF Chairman Chronister of the Street Committee Looking After Improvement. THE COUNTY COUNCIL Will be Asked to Make Special Appropriation at September Meeting. Isaac Chronister, chairman of the street committee, is devoting some attention at this time to the repairing of the streets and sidewalks in the vicinity of tlie Monroe street liridge. This would have been done sooner, but there lias ben some delay in tlie the hopes that the county would dn-

t ide to brick the street over the I bridge. This matter was discussed at the recent meeting of the countv council, but no appropriation was made therefor and the work would not I be done this summer. The board will j meet again six weeks from next Monday, the first Monday in September, and at that time another effort will be made to secure a special appropriation, so the work can be done this year. Mr. (Chronister, as well ns the others of the council and the citlZl ns in general believe the appropriation should be made. It will not cost a great deal and will tend to preserve the levy road, the Monroe street pavement, as well and add greatly to the appearance- Mr. Chronister is i nn active worker for the welfare of 1 the city and his efforts are deserving ’ of success. —— ■ ... o , > Miss Faye Smith left this morning ’• for Freeport, 111, where she will visit with a college friend for a week.

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A SHORT SESSION Business Matters of the City Up Before the Council Tuesday Evening. > WERE NOT HEAVY — And Early Adjournment is Called—Not in Favor of Giving Up Room. Tlie regular session of the city couficil held Tuesday evening at the | council room was a short one as | nothing special was up before the body to act upon. The routine oi business opened with tlie report or the city engineer as to tlie completion of Hie Mat-let sewer, .-did that the • ontractors. Mvor Myor, wert* PiitL tied to payment Motion to have report spread on record was carried. A petition signed by Hie property owners asking for a water hydrant at tlie corner of Johns and Third street was referred to tlie waterworks committee. Tills hydrant is asked as a greater protection against fire. The waterworks committee filed report as to having entered into contract with Myer A? Richard for tlie construction of the new reservoir, and a motion was made to accept the contract as well as the bond. The purchasing committee's report | was also filed, in which they allowed : that hey had bought six Pyrene fire j extinguishers. Motion for the adoplion of the report to he spread on record was seconded and carried. A resolution was then prepared : by the city clerk ordering the city onglneer to make an assessment roll, : showing the amount each property | owner would ba taxed on the Magley j sewer. The judiciary committee, to which ; the question of giving up the citv’s I council rooms in the public library i was referred, reported as not. being ' in favor of the idea of moving into new quarters, as the expense of moving tlie large safe, building a foundation for it in some other place mid other extras would be too great. Besides, tlie room in the city hall would pot be large enough for both ! the mayor's court and council. An- ) other draw-back to the question was that the council thought that the matter might to have been presented to them by the library board, as they have charge of the room, the city having the use of it by an agreement made between them and the council. The finance committee was then called upon and the following bill ■ were j "I’cwed: | G. R & I- R. R $307.49 i John Coffee Cl 07 W. J. Archbold 1,00 Phoenix Oil Co 30.00 M. .1. Mylott pay roll 150.00 Democrat Co 15.0.3 F. C. Summers 2J.0 Michael Miller 24 75 i L. Hammond 12.00 j L. Hammond 12.00 Waterworks pay roll 70 20 ' Schaub-Dowling Co 819 G. F. Kintz 44.00 .1. B. Buhler 70.80 i’emly-Darst Coal Co 30.97 Sunday creek Coal Co 44.53

Protective Elec. Supply o 29.5 t 11. Dellinger 82-50 Natl Mill Supply Co 27.78 Edmunds Elec Const. Co 15.fi!) A. C. Foos pay roll 128,50 Pyrene Co. . 51,00 A motion to improve the drive way to the coal bin at the waterworks v.'as seconded and carried with in- < tractions to go ahead and make the much-needed improvement. Council then adjourned. WANTS NEWS FROM MEXICO. Washington, I). C. .Inly 10. -(Specie* to Daily Democrat)—President Wilson today instructed Secretary of State Bryan to wire Ambassador Wilson, at Mexico City, notifying him to come to Washington at once lor a conference on the Mexican situation. The president, desires exact information nt cnce. The message was sent after a iong conference with the Mexican representative whom it Is said “Jive nn alarming account of the conditions in Mexico It Is snl<l also that another great power has asked the United States to interfere. Mr Bryan would (.either affirm or deny the report. o George Mount, manager for the Indiana Lighting company, made a business trip to Fort Wayne today,