Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 172.

FUNERAL THURSDAY Scottish Rite Will Have Charge of Service for the Late Amos P Beatty AT THE RESIDENCE — Rev Hessert Will Officiate —State Officials and Others Were Notified’ » the funeral services for the late! Amos p Beatty will be held fronTthoj house on North Second street at 21 <>.lo<k rhuisday afternoon. Her. L.! < Hessert of the Herman Reformed I church will have charge and the! Scottish Rite service will be given in charge of William Geake of Fort I V>syne. The .Masonic, Elks and Red! Mell lodees Will also attend in a body,! :-s will the bar associations of this' city ami others in this vicinity. The I Inneral will boa very lawge one, ow-; ing to the prominence of Mr. Reatty! and the high esteem in which he was! held, but on account of the health of| .Mis. Beatty the service will be held! at the home. The pall bearers as selected are old friends and lodge brothers of the! deceas ’d, they being Judge J. T. Mar-! ryman. c. .1. Lutz, French Quinn. I. G ERinpham, D B. Smith, Dr. Rov Archbold, O. L. Vance and .1. H. H< 1 ler. i Notice cf the hear of the funeral was this morning sent to Secretary of Slate Lew Eiliugiunu, S] < akei of th*> House Homer 1.. Cook and other state! officials at Indianapolis and to Hun.l Charles Smith of Anderson, who was Mr. Beatty's U-at mate in the last ses-[ i’>on of the legislature. and who Visited him over Sunday, just a week < prior to his death. Word was also! sent to J. Frank Mann at Muncie, .1 former partner, and it is probable that a number of these men will attend the services. The Adams County Bar association field a meeting at 3 o'clock this morning nt the court room, the venerable president. Judge D. D. Heller presiding, and with C J Lutz as secretary ! T he following committees were natn-l <d: Resolutions. P. (1. Hooper. .1. T.i Merryman and C. J. Lutz: flowers, Milton Miller. E. B. Adams find 11. B Heller. The secretary was ordered to noti* iy the bar associations of Jay, Hunt I ington, Wells, Allen and Van Wert I counties by telephone, telling them of the hour of the funeral. Hon. D- E■ Smith was appointed to represent the’ bar While the family has had some difficulty in securing definite word from the children, S. P. Beatty and Carl, at Des Moines, it is believed that they .are enroute here and will arrive some time this evening. Interment of Mr. Beatty's body will be made at the Decatur cemetery. —o IMAGE OF CHRIST. Phenomenon of Moon Now Visible to Some* A rarl* phenomenon of the moon, which occurs but once every fifty years, will be visible in Chicago for three nights With a pair of ordinary field glasses, or even good opera glasses, the image of the Christ child as held in the arms of the Sistine Madonna can bo seen. The likeness is so vivid that the features, hair and eyes are easily’ distinguishable and stand out with the clearness of a photograph. Colonel F. H. Buzzacott of R 22 East Seventy-fourth street, a member of the Astronomical socletv. took several photographs of the curiosity at the foot of Van Buren street. *The phenomenon now vif.ole has never been explained by astronomers,'* ho said last night. "It was first discovered by a member of the British Royal Astronomical society, and since that time has been seen only twice." - _ o— ———- - SOCIAL POSTPONED. The Y. P. A. of the Evangelical cl arch has recalled their social ler Illis evening. However, the Ladles Aid will have a social Thursday evening on the church lawn. A cordial in y Itation to the public.

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BUILDS NEW BREAKWATER. St. Mary's, Ohio, .Inly 22—The sur- ! 'ey is finished for the now concrete ’j breakwater lor the oagt bank of Lake St. Man's, bettor known as the Celina ; icsorvnir. Construction Engineer W. , H Wyrich expects to have the specifications ready this week for the contractors. The barrier will be twenty ’ inches higher than the maximum high water mark. The original bank rises five feet higher. - ARGUMENTS GIVEN TODAY. Attorneys in the divorce suit of Adeline Smith vs. Joseph Smith, in which $.!..,mm alimony is asked, went <<> Blufitoti. where at 1 o'clock the arguments were to lie taken up. The <?x Idenee was concluded last week. It ■ "ns thought the arguments would bo < onchidod today. SURPRISE WEDDING Mrs. Bertha Bieberich; Kirchner and Wm. Waldron Will Wed THURSDAY EVENING At Michigan City—Groom Employed on Erie Railway Force. The relatives and friends of Mrs Bertha Bieberich Kirchner of Twelfth street will be surprised to hear of! her coming wedding to Mr. William Waldon, a member of the Erie inte:- 1 locking force. The couple will leave ■ Intraday evening. July 24 for Michi-1 :.in City, where the wedding will take! place. They will then go on an east-! , tin trip, after which they will be at home in Decatur. For her wedding! : Hock, Mrs- Kirchner will wear a becoming costume of lavendar voile, ! over a yellow slip. Mr. Waldon is a resident of Muncie, I but has been employed in this city tor some time, and is well known to '• many. Mrs. Kirchner is a well known I young widow and resided on a farm near Preble before coming to Dec atur three or four years ago to reside. For some time she has been employed at the Smith restaurant. Friends of both will attend their good wishes in abundance. ASSIGN TEACHERS Vacancies in City Schools Filled and Places Are Assigned. A STRONG STAFF Robert Mann Appointed Assistant English and History Teacher. i • The school board. Irvin Brandybet'ry Fred Fruchte and O- L. Vance, met • Monday evening and made the assignment of teachers to their various ■' places in the city schools. There i were several vacancies in the list I made when the teachers were sele<-t- ■ ed several weeks ago, and those have < now all been tilled. 1 Among the new teachers are BevI oral fcr the high school, which staff - is deemed a very strong one. Robs ert Maun, son of Joseph Mann of i northeast of the city, has been given . the position of assistant English and History teacher. He was graduated from the state university this year. i Edwin A. Portz of near Columbus, 0., i- a graduate of the Ohio State univers sity, is the new science teacher, and ■ will teach Chemistry and Physice. Ellis A. Stephen of Huntington, who i Is a graduate of the Indiana university, will teach German and Botany. The entire staff of teachers for the schools, as it now stands complete, with the janitors at each building, 1 are as follows: r Superintendent—C. E Spaulding, i’ Winamac. i. Central Building. i- High School— Principal—Martin L. (Cont'nued on rage 2)

— - —y— - ■ I . * : ■ ! ! ‘ lAh I Jay •' ' ' EX-SULTAN VISITS FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN. (Copyright bv International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) Railroad Tunnel Proved Too Much for Him and He Sought Refuge in a' Corner Where He Was Found Huddled. Muttering Texts from Koran. Mulat Hafid, ex-sultan of Morrocco, having entertained and been entertained by France for a number of months and taken the cure -. t \ ichy, is now visiting Great Britain. The photograph shows the former sultan disembarking at Plymouth. So cordially has Mulia Hafid been received in France and in Eng land, it is safe to say that the atrocities committed in his name have been forgotten European lite was new to the ex-sultan when he first visited France. One of the most terrifying moments of the former tyrant's life is said to have been the passage through the railroad tunnel from Marseilles to Vichy. While in the tunnel the ex-sultan remained hud-dled in a corner of the coach muttering texts from the Koran. Not so on his visit to England He is now thoroughly European, excepting fir- hfg lostume.

HAD A Rl UNION Nine Students of College at Sheboygan, Wis . Had a Happy Reunion. ' AT THE HOME Os Henry Worthman—Other; Friends Joined With Them. — ; A happy crotfd gathered at the; home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Worthman, west of the city Sunday to par-’ take of a sumptuous dinner, prepared by Mrs. Worthman and her estimable daughters. The bounteous repast was spread in honor of a party of young men of New Knoxville, Ohio The day was i spent in music, conversation and numerous games that made the festive day pass only too quickly. The taking of several snapshots proved an interesting diversion. The affair took the form of a reunion, as nine of the gentlemen present are students at the same college, located at Sheltoygan. Wis. Late in the afternoon the gentlemen from New Knoxville motored back to their home. The following guests were present to enjoy the Worthman hospitality: The Misses Emma Reppert. Amanda Worthman, Emma Hilgeman, Lucy Worthman, Frances Hoffman, Emma Firkes, Amanda Fruechte, Sarah Jaberg, Minnie Worthman, and the Messrs. Henry Ilaberkamp, Silas Fledderjohann, Tot Ilaberkamp, Oelrich and "Ducky” Feldwlsch of New Knoxville, Ohio; Oscar Steffen, Edward Klumb of Knukana, Wis.; Albert Scherry, Ralph Worthman, .1. Calvin Hoffman, Elmer' 1 Jaberg, William Worthman, Car]! Schneider, Ernst Worthman, Jason > Hoffman, John Conrad, Otto Schlick- • man and Ixruis Worthman. I ■ o MAY SHOW AUTHORITY. i —. (United Press Service.) Washington, D. C., July 21—(Spec- > lai to Dally Democrat) —Intervention > in Mexico by this government within i thirty days if order is not restored and American citizens'protected was , proposed before the house today by Representative Murry of OklahomaHe Introduced a lengthy resolution, . violently denouncing the Huerta government.

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Decatur, Indiana,Tuesday Evening, July 22, 1913.

BITTEN BY HORSE. Mrs. George Taylor and baby of west of Geneva were tn Decatur Saturday. Mrs. Taylor was bitten by a horse a few days ajra and came to Decatur to have the wound treated. At the time of the accident, the horse was in its stall and she was holding the baby in her arms. When the horse tit her, the child slipped from its mother's arms and beneath the animal. but the horse made no attempt to hurt the child as the other had feared. SERIOUS BURNS Received by William Harbaugh of Bluffton — Drops a Light AND FIRE STARTS Was Badly Burned in Trying to Extinguish—Relatives of Wisehaupts. William Harbaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Harbaugh, West South I street, is confined to his bed by rea- ’ son of serious burns received last ev- , erdng at his home when he dropped a I lighted coal oil lamp. He was prepari ing to take a bath and interrupted his preparations long enough to feed some gold fish. While so engaged he let the big Rayo lamp which he was carrying, fall and it set fire to a table cloth and carpet- Mr. Harbaugh was in his stocking feet and in trying to stamp out the fire set his trouser legs aflame. He was able to slip out of the horning trousers very quickly and managed to extinguish the flames on the carpet and table and also’ in his j trousers and underwear, which was al■so smouldering. He did not realize how seriously he had been burned, and after the flames were out he took the batli for which he was preparing. His parents discovered his true condition when they arrived home from church about 9:30 and found him su* 1 - lering considerably. Physicians were called to dress the injuries and he is resting easier. His left foot and arm were badly burned and the left leg was painfully blistered from the knee down. The fact that he was in his stocking feet and could remove his blazing trousers quickly, prevented more serious injuries.—Bluffton News. The Harbaughs are relatives of the J. D. Wisehaupts.

TO LOS ANGELES Miss Gertrude Moses Seeks to Escape Present Great Heat of Arizona. IS MUCH IMPROVED ■ ' ■■■ Climate of A. izona Beneficial —-Will Remain There Until Cured. Miss Gertrude Mos«s, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E- S. Moses of this city, who has been at Tucson, Arizona, i since January ts, left last Wednesday - lor Los Angeles. <’a|„ where the! weather is not so warm as at Tucson i at present. The stay at Tucson had ' very satisfactory results for Miss Moses. who went there hoping for benefit from rheumatism. The rheumatism has left all parts of her body except tier bands, and she is feeling very well. At this time of the year, however, the weather becomes so very warm that the greater number are obliged to seek the cooler regions, 'fho stay at 1 ucson has been more beneficial to Miss Moses than any other climate or treatment of the many that she has taken and she will remain in that part of the country until cured. Her improvement is noted with pleasure by her friends. i — ' — PREBLE GIRL IN HOSPITAL. Huldah Kiefer, of Preble, was taken to the Lutheran hospital yesterday,' by Dr .1. Grandttaff and operated upon for fibroid tumor and appendit iti is, by Dr. E. .1. M cOscar. SCHEME DEFEA ED Don Roberts’ Plan to Build -Brick Pavements Outside Terre Haute Beaten. A REMONSTRANCE I Has Finally Been Sustained | —Good Roads Committee Wanted Pavement. Terre Haute, Ind., July 22.—Special to Daily Democrat) —By remonstrance 1 and with tue support of the Post, a leading afternoon paper, a group of. plain citizens organized as the Taxpayers' association, defeated a $25,000 paving scheme which they deem- | cd unjust. Under a new state law. the city ! council adopted a plan of Donn Rob- ’ erf, well known Democratic politiI tian, to add many miles of city streets i - to township roads by paving the roads , from the city to th,* township limits at the expense of township taxpayers,’ including those taxpayers in the city By a council ordinance, the citv l.oundry runs up one curb of a street, j i' crosses it somewhere in the heart ol I the city, and then follows the other i ■I curb out- Under the Roberts plan, i' bouses and sidewalks are in the city,: ■ hut streets, sewers, street car tracks, II arc outside the city limits 1 1 The taxpayers' Association and the i Post objected to the paving of these! i' streets as township roads. It was! >! pointed out that many streets wete i! in need of sewers and mains which i should be laid before paving but' ij which could not bo laid if they were 11 paved as roads. People on other I streets would have had to bear the i' burden of paving a highway whiclg i was really a city street though call- ■ e< a. township road for paving pur*! > poses. It was estimated that Demas , Doming, a rich banker, would have: i benefited to the extent of $45,000. . | A Good Roads committee petitioned , -I for the paving of the township roads i from the city to the township limits ■ lut after several weeks campaign the ) remonstrators got more names than ! 1 the petitioners had. The Taxpayers i Association conceded the improve-! ; mont of the' National Road, ond of 1 i ten streets objected to. i --o— ————— i Mr. and Mrs. J. S. McCrory and I family left this morning in the Me* . (Tory automobile for Sturgis, Mich., * where they will spend a week's vacation around the lakes,

GETS HIS REVENGE. Geneva. Ind., July 22 In Justice m j Place Dickerson's court this morning' Anderson D. Pence of Bryant lined s2l.ii.', for unlawful fishing. Thia conviction is an outcome of the re ; <<*nt sentence of laicej* Street of Briant on a "blind tiger'* charge. An-' derson Pence Is one of the councilmen of Bryant, and filed with th ■ ’ ’ I rosecutor of .lay comity an aflidavit ! for a searcli warrant for the premise.’.! of Lacey Street in which a lar.u*, I quantity of liquor and beer was found On trial before Judge Moran on a ! charge of "bootlegging” Street was! sentenced to serve a thirty-dny s : in the county jail and pay a fine iu ! $175. Ho was discharged from jnil i last week ami Saturday filed the aih-, davit and Pence pleaded guilty WILL HOLD PT IC Elks Are Planning for a Big Day at Harting Farm on Next Wednesday. TO BE BIG EVENT Program of Exciting Events is Being Planned With Prizes for Everybody. — The members of the Elks' lodge are planning a delightful mid-snm-mcr picnic, to be held in the Harting . grove three miles south of the eft.', ; al' day, next Wednesday, and the pro- ’ gram is positive assurance that it | will be an occasion worth while. There will be ball games, a slide for liie, triple-plays and doubles and .i ! feast that will fully satisfy, a coi.i- --! rnittee has been appointed to look ait- ' er all the details and it will be a bitI day in the country, with plenty of i amusements for each and every one , 1 Tfuj- your tickets early and avoid the insh. Members who have automo-* biles and who will permit them to be used on this occasion are request’ d to notify Guy Dorwin immediate!,'. Arrangements will be made in some vay to take care of all those who wish to attend. Get out your glad rags and get ready for a day away from the cares and the noise and the flurry and the worry of business, it wilt do you good to mingle among the boys o , HELD ON CHARGE Reuben May Taken on the Charge of Burglary and Grand Larceny—He WILL BE TAKEN - To St. Joseph County for Trial—Came Here on a Visit. Reuben Mav, a young man about i eighteeen or nineteen years of age, I son of Nathaniel May, is held on the j charge of burglary and grand larceny, i The deputy sheriff of St. Joseph county, Indiana, and the deputy sheriff of - Berrien county, Michigan, together I with the marslial of Gallon, Mich., ar- ! rived yesterday afternoon to look up i the boy, whom it seems had been | working around those places, and had come here fcr a visit. The boy ' had gone to Huntingion yesterday He returned tills morning and was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly : and held in jail until the officers, who ; had returned home last, evening, come to get him. He will probably ! be tried in St- Joseph county. It seems that the boy is charged with breaking Into a store In Michi- ! gan, and of stealing a gold watch I from a farmer of St. .Joseph count-. ! Indiana, where he afterward worked. ' It is said clothing, chewlm* gum and ether things, alleged to h.-i e been I stolen from the burglarized store. were found aino-i:’. ‘lie i n;. ' ; i h.f L i>. ■ ■ at tin- farniei 's lion* *\ In ; I • w ■ > edThe boy had not lived at his home here for about two years.

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FIRST STEPS ME TAKEN t By School Board Toward the Erection of New High School Building. TWO YEARS HENCE And Which Will Conform With Conditions to Secure Commission. The first steps were taken by tho school board Monday evening toward ; th" building of tile proposed new high ! s chool building, recommended and i urged by the state board of education, > when they passeda resolution for tin : raising of SIO,OOO by the selling of ! Ponds. These bonds are to b e pajable in lour equal installments, due jes; e..ively July 15, 1914, January 1, HH*, ; Ji’-ly 15, 1915, and January. 15 ipii;. ' \U these the school honrii will bn 1 able to take up and pay off within I two years. Another t°n thousand dollars will ■ e raised by the regu'J.r school lew, . thus giving the school board within I two years a sum of S2OOOO, with which to begin the construction of the building. The remainder which 1 will be necessary, can then lie raised 1 y the selling of bonds, the entire transaction dividing the indebtedness ever a long period of time, thus not making ten heavy a burden on th * tax’‘ayers at any one time. The present assessment valuation of city property, subject to taxation, is about two million dollars. It will be remember'd that when the present high'school building wain , Inspected by the state board a few ; months ago the board found housing , facilities greatly inadequate and Mated that the high school could not | be re-commissicned until more room ■ and better facilities had been arrangI ed lor. As there wore not enough funds on I hands for the building 01 mr school, | end as fho city school finances were I such that they wore strained to tho ! limit. n<> way was clear to build the I school within two years. The -fw | -chool beard than met with the state I board and devised a plan for the raising of funds, whereby the new school lice • < ulil be built within tv yt The above plan was devised and sanctioned by the state board The building proposed to be erected is to be of brick, cement and stene, approximately 70x11'* p eet in she- tt 13 to boos approved modern construction, with all heating anti ventilation, and strictly complying with the laws governing the construction of sanitary school buildings and according to the rules and directions of the state board of education and state board of health. The cost is unknown, hut similar schools in many cities are built it a cost of from $10,390 to sfio,oco. — o MANY BURNED TO DEATH. (United Press Service.) Jackson, Mich., July 21—(Special to Dally Democrat)-—Thirty-three negro convicts sleeping on the second •loor of ft shed on the penal farm were burned to death at midnight. The 'lre started on th-' first f’oor nt the ' ottom of the stair wav thus t utting nil avenues of escape off The anguish screams cl* the trapped prisoners could be heard for two ml!-' around but fanners who hastened to their ret sque wore unable to lend - any assistance. Grain stored on the first Hour of the shed rcpfdly spread the flames. I JOE MAULLER OPERATED UPON. ’! Joe Manlier, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mailer, prominent and wealthy II farmers living in Wells county , south--1 east of Bluffton, was operated upon 'j thia morning at. 10 o'clock by Dr. D. I D. and Dr. C* S (’lark of this city "or ■ I chronic appendicitis. The operation 1! waa a very serious one and Mr. Maul- • 1 lor had wufforod very severe at--1 tacks before he submitted to an oji:!ertition. From all Indications the ou- • oration was a success. A train* I nurse is in attendance and everything 1 possible is being done to make MrMauller comfortable