Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 24 July 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 174.

TO DREDGE WABASH Big Case Ready to File in Adams Circuit Court for September Term. PETITION IS READY May Pay $200,000 to Dredge River—Biggest Drainage Proposition. Attorney F. S. Armantrout of iwva was in the city today on business relating to the petition tor the tire!-.: ing ol the Wabash river, which hns now been completed and which wd! be filed in tlie near future, for the Si p. temlxir term of the Adams circuit court. County Clerk Bleeke is promised ■.> big job in the making of court record tor this pots ion, it is said, is bigger titan the big Blue Creek ditch <a. .■ Nearly half of the land owners in Jay c ounty, it is said, are affected by the' proposed dredging, as it will include those who live on the Ixib. the I.i .1berlost, and Bear Creek, all of whi h empty into the Wabash river. Many , In Adams county, and in Ohio, will he affected. The petition asks for the dredging of the Wabash from a point near tie Indiana-Ohio state line in a northwesterly direction to the vicinity of Buena Vista, in Adams county The proce> dings will be instituted under the m w interstate drainage laws passed by the last session of the Indiana le- : lature. Attorneys interested in the dredging of the stream in behalf c' the p■tittoners are Whirtile X- Son. John M Smith, Portland: Trank Armantrout. Geneva, and Frank V. Short, Celina. Ohio. In speaking of the affair the Po t land Sun says: "The r'Ojiosition is one of the largest drainage matters ever institut'd in eastern Indiana and the cost as estimated will be aproximately $200,000. The dredging of the stream is being suited for by forty-seven interested landowners, six of whom reside in Mercer county. Ohio Those who signI the petition own in the neighbor hood of 6,000 acres of land, all of which, it is claimed, will be directly henefitted by the widening, straight ening and deepening of tl’.e river chan pel. This is in addition to the town lots at New Corydon and Geneva .-. well as the Ohio property. "Under the new drainage law remonstrances can be filed only for cause and not for numbers, as has heretofore been permitted. About thr> years ago a petition filed in the lay circuit court under the name ol foiling et al. was knocked out by the remonstrance route, when a majority o> the landowners felt that he cost of constructing the dredge would be 'OO great for them to bear at that time end that it would not obviate the amount of damage that it was claimed would be overcome. The river has been dredged w< t to the state line through proceedings started in Ohio and completed about two years ago. At this time anothei river or creek which empties in th” Wabash in Ohio, is being dredged and it Is said that when completed th" waterfall of each heavy rain will D brought down onto the Indiana peor bring about the course ot the stream much more quickly and do even greater damage than has heretofore !>■" .1 experienced. “The state of Ohio proper, if the lirai.tage to ordered established, will he on the 17, on" actes >’ land covered by the Grand reservoir at Celina. This body of water is th" principal feeder of the Wabash through which the reservoir drains It is claimed that if it was not thp reservoir, the Wabash rivei in h present form would be amply able .c take care of the water without dam age to the farms through whiili it passes,” — —-0 — THE POOR MAN’S "MEAT ' In the August Woman’s Home Companion, Zona Gale writing an artt-• ’ entitled "Ethics and. Cooks, says: ‘■The family of the legumes, ’the po.’j’ man’s meat,* —the peas, beans, lentil and peanuts,—are found next in Inti" lance to meat and eggs, with peann *- one of the best balanced foodt- aval • able, and a peanut butter sandwkh 1 unite as nourishing as a hunt sat 'I wich.”

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

TOOK SIX-MILE “HIKE." •'its. John B. Stoneburner, Mrs. ll" l Merry, Miss Louva Stoneburna »'l Miss Naomi Meyer caught the i'Hi ol the times this morning and nii “le a slx-mile "hike." walking to home of Joe Andrews, six miles llis ’ant, 01, romp five. They left the Stoneburner house promptly al six o'imk and were cheered by the I '' ighbors ami friends as they deelar,l"’y "°"M shatter Weston’s rec SO badly that gentleman would ashamed to boast when he reaches' Minneapolis. The last heard of them, “o«ever, they had changed their imnds somewhat and were a little in- ' ‘ 'n d to allow him to keep his old record. no dinner Tails ■ ■ However Full Would Suit 1 hreshers Down in Blue • Creek Township. AND WARM DINNERS Are Wanted—Dinner Pail Proposition Presented and Turned Down. No dinner palls, however "full." '.■ckle the fancy, much less the palate ot Blue Creek township threshers. A 1 proposition to substitute the dinner! pail, like the Madison county women , did last week, was suggested by a : woman in Blue Creek township. The proposition was turned down "Hatter. Il an a pancake" run over by the Blue I (reek steam road-roller. A good woman of that township who I j ho doubt fancied the Madison county i 'armwives were very progressive | when they substituted the lunch has i ket system for the good, old-fashionrd I threshing dinner, immediately got busy. She even went farther, though, and wanted the threshers to bring their own dinner pails. The lady ■ started out on the round of the vari-1 mis farmhouses of her district, it is | said, and asked the farmers to join i.< an agreement whereby the threshers were to bring their own dinners. The high price of meat and other edibles, as well as the difficult work that devolves upon the housekeeper in the feeding of a large horde of . thrillers. was given as the reas’on ' lor the desirability of the individual I dinner system. It is said that the proposition was met with a "cold shoulder" and the majority of the farmers and their wives were against the movement. So good, warm dinners, furnished by the one for whom the threshing is 1 , being done will no doubt still be the 1 order. It is said that many of th" farmers stated that If they had to take their own t old dinners to the place wheie they threshed, they would not do the threshing. The farmer has reached the point where he can be independ- ' ent, and be can say in a full round ■ voice—"No dinner, no threshing: ’ I and ca r ry out' his purpose. O — —< NEW PEST. nr 1 The Kalamazoo celery crop is en- ■ dangered by the appearance of a new 1 pest. Growers have just discovered that there is a small worm working in the plant and that \nloss «’">» Im1 niediate remedy can bo found the ’ plants will all bo killed. The Michl- ■ gan Agricultural college has been ask- ’ ed to assist In finding a remedy. ■■ OFFICES TO BE CLOSED. Because of the funeral services fcr ’ the late Ainos !’. Beatty, this afternoon tlm offices of the county auditor, t treasurer and recorder were closed from two o’clock to 3:30- Under tlm law, other offices must bo kept open, but every county offlciil attended the services. __ - geneva principal. Geneva, Ind.. July 24-Wllllam Egly 1, who was recently graduated from the ’• University of Michigan, has been u|>s pointed principal of the local school '• for the ensuing year. Mr. Egly Is a s resident of Geneva, his father being I- one of the owners of the Geneva Milling company.

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

1 ~ W —' I I .. IjVn y ' : ' ’■ A 1 f ”2 -T " _ 1 / —— J | “CAT AND MOUSE" POLICY HAS NOT DETERRED THE "WILD WOMEN." | (Copyright bv International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) It Is Thought Th e Destruction Will Continue Just So Long As The Hunger Strike Regains Freedom For The Militants. Despite the assertion that the "Cat and Mouse" policy of the British Home Office has caused militancy to abate, the fact remains that the "wild women" are as active as ever in their campaign for the destruction of property Those who oppose the policy of releasing, who are on the hunger strike and rearresting the mfollowing their restoration to health declare that this latest scheme of the British authorities is working more harm than good 1 The photograph shows the ruins of a $150,000 mansion in Horwich Lane. London, burned by militant suffragettes. No clew has been obtained as to just who was responsible for this outrage. It is declared that the campaign , I ot destruction will continue just so long as the Home Minister is willing to order the release of suffragettes who starve themselves in jail.

TO ETERNAL HOME Gertel Reynolds Passed Away Last Evening at High Street Home, 'SUFFERED 16 WEEKS From Complications of Liv er and Bowel Trouble— Death Was a Relief. After having suffered for sixteen weeks from a complication of liver and bowel trouble, Gertel Reynolds passed away at the home on High street at 5:10 Wednesday evening. While employed in the Ed Augenbaugh barber shop, Mr. Reynolds was 1 taken very ill with the trouble. Not seeming to Improve, it was deemed best to rejnove him to the hospital at Fort Wayne, where an operation was performed upon h’ra May 23 for gull stones This operation proved a failure, however, as nothing of this character was found. After remaining, for three weeks in the hospital lie was ’ removed to his home here, where he j steadily declined in health until death I relieved him Wednesday evening. John Gertel Reynolds was born in Kansas June 15, 1872, being at the time of his deatli, 41 years. I month and 9 days of age When he was a lad I ot three years, the family moved to 1 this city, where they have resided, • t ince. In 1901 he was married to I > ?*liss t'larn Kuh tn. This union prored. however, to he a short one. as the wife - tiled fourteen months alter the marriage, leaving a daughter, Pauline. In 1906 Mr. Reynolds was again united in wedlock to Miss Dora It. McClish. To this union were born two daughters. Charlotte and Corine, and one • son, Noble. Besides the bereaved . wife and children left to mourn the i I loss of the father are two brothers, I ‘ Lewis and Joe Reynolds, both rest- . dents of this city, and two sisters, 1 Mrs. Dillle Raudenbttsh of Monroe and Mrs. Dora Burger of this city. The funeral will be held Friday morning at 10 o’clock from the house, Rev. Stephenson of the Methodist f church officiating, and interment will • be made In the Reynolds cemetery *■ The deceased is a son of Mr. and '1 Mrs. Elisha Reynolds of this city, » o K O. M. Ramsey of Van Wert county, I- vns In the city toda looking after business,

Decatur, Indiana,Thursday Evening, July 24, 1913.

BIRTH OF SON. Mrs. John Magly of north of Fort. I Wayne arrived tills morning to be ! with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Nye. i and the little son. born to the Nycs • Wednesday at their home in Root I township. Mrs Nye was formerly I Miss Emma Magley. who was a teach-i cr in the county schools for several I years. NOTICE. Martin Beery of West Monroe | i street desires that the man. name tin-1 known, who stored his household goods in their barn before going t< | Michigan several months ago, remove' the same, as room is needed. 174*3' STREET IS OPENED West Monroe Street Paved With Brick, Opened to the Public Today. GREAT IMPROVEMENT Committee to Meet at This) Office Tomorrow to Make Inspection Trip. Monroe street was opened to the I public today and will from no-.v on be' i used largely by the users of vehicles The work was done by E Woods Ai i Son and their claim that it is the best ' street in the city, has been substant-j iated by several who have examined it carefully and watched the building i thereof. The new street now reaches from the Monroe street bride to Thirteenth street. The extension built by Woods & Son begins at the G. R A I. railroad and runs west to Thirteenth. Work was begun on this part early In the summer and has been rushed to completion. When the co ment walks are in it will be a beautiful street and one on which the residence property will be very valuable The official inspection of the street will be made Friday morning. It having been arranged that the street committee of the council, as well as the ether members of the body, the citv officials and representatives of the press meet nt the offices of the Daily Democrat at nine, o'clock tomorrow morning, at which time they will be conveyed over the street on an Inspection tour. The committee will report to the council, and the necessat v steps for the acceptance of same will then bo made.

VISITS QUARRIES George Wemhoff Returns From Bedford—Soldiers’ Monument Model. HAS ARRIVED THERE Sculptor Now at Work Carving Image From Bedford Oolitic Limestone. — George Wemhoff, of the Wetnhofi Monumental Works has returned from Bedford, where he visited the quarries and attended to business relating to tin Adams County soldiers' memorial for which the Wemhoff Monumental I Works has the contract. The large model as made bv Charles ' Mulligan, the Chicago sculptor, has ar- ; rived at Bedford, and work on cutting | the same from the stone lias begin ■ The monument is to be made of blue " Bedford Oolitic limestone. Mr. Wemhoff has secured Charles ’ M Dodd, a noted sculptor to execut- ■ the work from the Mulligan model, ' and Mr Dodd is already at work on | this- Mr. Dodd is famed in this line, ■ and has done government work, a'most exclusively. A part of the monument, the lower structural part is ready to ship, and it is thought the monument complete, will be ready within a month. This is remarkabl | quick work for the erection of a soldiers’ memorial, as it often takes from two to three years. After the memi orial has arrived here, Mr. Mulligan will come and touch it up. (Continued on Page 3t CLAIMED BY DEATH Peter S Steffen. Aged Farmer Living Near Wells County Line. DIED WEDNESDAY Surviving Children Reside in Adams and Wells Counties—Funeral Friday. Peter Steffen, one of the highly rei spected residents of the German com- ■ inanity In west Adams county passed I away about til o'clock Wednesdai | morning at his home near the WellsAdams county line. He was able to attend church four weeks ago Sun- ; oay and until within recent months i had enjoyed good health. Dentil was i due to dropsy, coupled with other In lirmities of age. He hail been sinkii g i rapidly for several days and his children were called to In last Week. Mr. Steffen was born in Berne, Switzerland, on August 11, 1830. He <ame to America in 1850 and settled ‘in tills vicinity He was married in ; 1855 to Miss Barbara Strohm, w ho ha I preceded him In death. Mr. and M".I Steffen lived for years on his old home farm, where he died, but sin'" bls wife's death he has disposed of the place to Aaron Mosure, retaining. J however, a life estate In the farmi house and homestead as a place of i ■, idem e during his last years. His I; daughter. Miss Lizzie Steffen, kept : house for him since his wife’s death II The surviving children, all residing ' in Wells and Adams counties, are .is . j follows: Peter S. Steffen, Tobias Steflen, Nathan Steffen. ICnoch Steffen. •| Mrs. John Klpfer, Mrs. John Mallei •‘end Miss Lizle Steffen. Ho also hns i two brothers residing In Mlchlg.in. and one sister who makes her home at Lafayette. ■I M. Steffen had been a life-long I member of the Christian Apostolic church and the Interment and fumiral • service will probably be held at that ■i church on Friday morning, Bluffton ' News. ‘ BEN HURS. ’ Ail members of the Ben Hur lodg" ‘ are requested to be present Friday levelling to attend the installation of ■ ■ ofilcers 1 Louis Johnson of Washington town i ship was In tie city today on bualnei c

TIPS FOR TENNIS PLAYERSOne of the faults of the Inexp- '■ lanced double player which is most persistent is standing still. This is ; one of those necessities in double' i that is often overlooked. But no partI aer can do justice to his team unle.i he moves after every shot to the center of the angle of the return. I i i other words, both men must constan'ly change their position, moving ba< 1 and forth toward urn- side or the otli according to where tliev have sent the ball. If the net man has volley.d . deep into the right hand corner, both players move across to the right The right-hand player thereby protects t ii shot down his own side line and the ■ , iett-iiand player protects the crus, court shot down the central diagonal of the court. August Outing. SEARCH FOR SHIP I I' Schooner Which Ran Into Freight Steamer in Fog Is Still Missing. A MEXICAN POLICY Is Almost Completed and Will be Given to the Public in Near Future. Fl’nited Press Service.) Boston, Mass., July 24 (Special to the Daily Democrat) -No word ol ■ the unknown tour-masted schooner which tore a gapping hole in the side ol a Holland-American freight steamer in a fog Tuesday night, lias been I received and this morning a revenue i ( litter left to search for it. Th" I tn ighter's crew believes, however, that the schooner must have sunk. Indianapolis, Ind., July 24. (Spe • i ial to Daily Democrat)- Sergeant EJ- , win Ba!) was today turned over by the city authorities to the milita.v ; court martial at Fort Beniamin Har riron. Ball is charged with the shooting of Walter Duawl w ho attempted to ! escape after being arrested for the smuggling of liquor into the camp. Tire court mgrtial will aLy investlgati w ;v I Balls gun was made charged w'tli loaded cartridges. An operation on Duawl was made and the lead taken from his abdomen. The chances for liis recovery are now said to be about , even. Washington. D. July 24 (Spe< to Daily Democrat) \ definite Mex’ can imlley which will be made pubU in due tii*e is being completed by , Pi--sideiit W’laon. All that to requir< ’ at the present time is the information Ambassador Wilson is bringing from ’ Mexico. He will meet with the Pre. ' blent ami Secretary Bryan Saturd.-, • , As soon as Ambassador Wilsi.n b:> * elven the information on the conili■) tlons In Mexico, the senate and lion: " j ; leaders will be sent for The plan of 1 the administration will then be ex 1 plained and the leaders asked to suii-i i port it. President Wilson has also asked the congressional leaders to cease public debates or Mexico until ' ! ready to announce his plan t. RETURNS TO MARION HOME. 1 Mrs. Clark Urich, Piqua Flood Victim, Visits Here. I , •j Mrs Clark Urich returned to Marion I this morning after spending the night with iiei sister in law, Mrs William Richards. Mrs Urich had been it 1 Monroe with her father, James John- : son who was injured in a fall. ! l , Mrs. Urich Is the wife of a minister, the family formerly living at Piqua. (Milo. They were In tin 1 Piqua Hoods ■ last March and lost all they had ex- . cept what they wore. One of th dr ‘ daughters was forced to wado wal r ■ up to her chin in making her escap" When the family awoke on the morn ing after the flood, they found then - ( house across the street from its former location. The family moved to 1 Marion from Piqua. ■ WILL RESIDE AT MEMPHIS. nr l * * Mr and Mrs David Studabaker, who have been visiting in the city tin 1 past I two weeks with Mr Studabal cr's "i- --’’ '.her and other relatives, left this ait ’ i i moon over the Grand Tlapldn A- Indi ,r | atiu railroad for Cincinnati, Ohio, nnd thence to Memphis. 'IX un.. where they i will make their future home. David d-: having accepted a position in a !ar-".» £- ■ cotton mtinufiidtiiring estnblishtiietil

Price, Two Cents,

FOR SAKE OF POOR Ten Counties in Eastern Indiana Expend $46,417.51 —Adams is One. WERE 350 AIDED In This County at Total Cost of $2,031.56—0n1y One Negro. Ten counties in eastern Indiana namely, Adams, Blackford, Delawa a, Grant, Henry. ‘Jay Madison, Randolph Wayne and Wells spent an aggregate sum of |4G,417.51 for the ' maintenance ol their B,O'IG receivers ot public charity from the funds o: I the townships during the year of 1912. : Such is the results gleaned from the i lecently issued bulletin of the Board i oi State Charities of which Governor Samuel M. Ralston is th" president. 'I he report deals with many interest- ' ing facts regarding the distribution of charity and some facts surrounding ; the causes for charity. From the compiled statistics it is ascertained that the majority of be i applications for charity are from per- ■ sons who have sickness or death in their homes and apply for temporary relief from the township officials. Adams County’s Pool. Adams county’s poor to the numb, r of 350 were given aid from the state treasury through recommendations of the trustees of tile townships. of that number 77 families received aid\id to the poor in the county was extended Jilt times. Some ai<! was >x. tended or periods ranging from a day ■ to three mouths. Os the former class ->t persons received the tempoiivry provisions while 69 received aid for a Icngerlperiod than ninety days. Just j," single colored .person was . given aid while the remaining :)l > i were white. As to the ehissifieatiofi i ot the males and females receivtny aid 171 of the entire number wete , men and 179 women. * There are many reasons for the granting of aid and according to the l ft port they have been classified in the . following older: Sickness, 55; widow--1 hood and non-support, 21; tack of "mI I loyment, 6; old age. 7: transputta- ■ tion, 1. As for nationalities the I Americans lead with a total of the remainder being scattered as t<:'I lows: Irish, 4; German, 11, ami nn- ' classified. 6. During the year aid to the amount of $2,031.56 was given in ■ .'dams county. Grant county leads lor the large-t , number of persons receiving assisti anee aMd also leads for the largest ■ sum spent in the charity departments 1 An nggreuate sum of $7 5o | > r head •or the entire tear is the average. ' Well countt with only 198 appli- ! < ants silent $2,1?!'30 for their main- : tennnce which is an average of about i $15.6(1 per head. Jay county comes seventh in the | list of counties. The officials there distributed wants to 512 persons. There were 116 families seived. I here were 121 females and 263 ma' < cared for. The county expended $3,114.59 during the year. UNION EPWORTH LEAGUE. Societies of Three Decatur Circuit Churches Will Join in Service. The three Ey,worth l.eaguas of tins Decatur Methodist circuit will have a union meeting next Sunday. July 2“, it 7:30 in the evening at the Mt. Pleasant church. Th" other two ■ 'l' ")'" the ' ol the W., . n : -u tint! Betilnlt t'hapel elinivh. < Tho regular Epwottli League meeting v ill be held and there will also he an Ittertalnment. ' —o — FISHING NOT VERY GOOD. "Boys” caught "Only” 75 Fish Tceeday - Gathered Dewberries. Ford and Alva Nichols. Herman and John Siults who are spending a week at Rom° City wiite " friends here that fishing is not vert' ; t good. Titov caught "only’ 75 fi-lt 1 ; Tuesday. Messrs. Alta Nfrhols and I Herman TettmMß vent b<riylnc am! I- each sent home a Irntc of dev befrloi |! to can. j ———.— — -o , I Mr and Mra. Dan Roop nt BP e • Creek township visited aniotic, friend; here today.