Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1913 — Page 1

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ALMOST BLIND g. ANO HELPLESS Suffering With Rheumaueiinan Lyon Finds Poverty Staring IN THE FACE _____ Mfescited After Nearly Ah Erl is Money Had Been 1 E Prodigally Used. S;- :!n Adams <-oui.ty p?;.<■)',. .onm! ■MU , cm!. 1: I-, ..n.l. r ti„- head-i "S.-.1-'m .tottoigs. J,. :,, appeared il •• folio-. ;tm 10-ils. in I < rsed With HHBBi-t l * Wells ami he: 'aids moled io lie is going to Michigan." ■■K fcerman I.von v.ani last Sunday to' "' to live at the ind'.olt House." the casual reader th-re max apno cimnectioa between the two.! Hniiit behind the cold type there is a pa|pji. lie story, the like of which has ; jferhaps never been equaled in the if ijciinty. HHBEBlind.il! and crippled with rheuma-: BK-’tism, scarcely a ie to ; ,-t about, ev-i; ernteher. (iermtni Lyon . a.m-d eight. ba. lieloi . of mar Sa- :. born ami rented in this count.'. hitu on a <<>t ai tie- It Holt ltoi.se ■Mat'th omv nity ihrie dollars and a«sit the county infirmary. I'ntil cent ■Kgr-.- to line eitv Saturday, Mr. I.yen HMfccileved him.-elf to lie worth about MKsl,2tni Jn nt--tier, lie alleged that lie HMp.Mt.ns defraud d of that much by his ■Bhntidladv, Mrs. Lib Weils, wife of! Bp William Weils, whose family lived | ' -It' hint in his house, and who. when ‘ "ItfF rtroney becadie reduced; hns gone E■» ■ leaving him with poverty star-' k ft>g hint in his blinded face. E Mr. Lyon presented a most pat hetK pi< appearance this morning when in-; H [terviewed at the DeHolt house. He: was able to sit up on his cot. during B in’civiev., and with his emaciated ■ 1 figure, relieved only by the swollen knees and joints, made by his painE I. <ul affliction, and with wide-open, B f tigiitlces eyes, lie showed plaintly the B miffleting ll “ ,las experiom id during, r the past several yearsB “Perhaps lam tiring or worrying, you," the reporter said, during the interview. ■ “O, no," he responded somewhat ■ l cheerfully. "I am so used to being B worried that I don't mind it any K more." B He then gave a full account of his w rongs. | He is a son of David Lynn and was Lorn in Blue Creek township- He is I, forty-eight years of age, unmarried, nnd has several brothers, whom lie docs not like to bother. When his lather died he left his boys some property, German getting forty acres of land- This he sold and when everything had been settled up he bought a S4OO house and lot in Salem and had about $2,000 left which lie put in the bank about six years ago. For the past eleven years he Ims JOSHUA R. PARRISH Ifc. ■ gffir, B In the act’of taking the first shove ,<.f dirt for the excavation for the tm' soldiers’ monument In the court jan .Tilly 10, 1913. Rnc* l ttCt b> llic " comrades in tt labor of love.

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been unable to do a day’s work, on account of his affliction, which he >ays tlie doctor says is a breaking down ot the nerves, Inducing the i rheumatism-like suffering. This bi ought on the blindness eight years ■ co. The proceeds he expected would 1 table him to subsist during his life. l ive years ago he got the Wells i.nnlly to move into his house, for 1 which he was to be allowed $3 a month rent, this to be applied on Ills voard bill. For his board he was to I I’ay them a certain amount above the house rent. For the past four I years the board bill was to be $3 a ; v eek. He had his money on deposit in a local bank. As he was blind and uni ableto get around he made arrange- | meats with the bank, giving Mrs. Wells, the landlady, the power of attsrney to draw the money as he need- ’ d it and to apply it- This was done. 1 J although the bank did not like to ■make the arrangement, »and had him sign the agreement in the presence of (Continued on Page 3) THE LAST TOUCH I . On Ninth Street Brick Paving Was Done Today by Mr. Woods’ Workmen. THE SCENE CHANGED Then to Rugg Street Where Work Was Begun Today on Paving. E Woods achieved his second tri-i umph today w hen he put the finishing | w ith the finishing of Ninth street the I paving. Tliis is 848 feet of Ninth! street, north of Monroe street, and! will be one of the handsomest resitertce streets in the city. Only a short i while ago, Mr. Woods completed the! brick paving of Monroe street, west of the G. R. & | railroad, and work; was then begun on Ninth street. Mr. Woods stated this morning that ; with tile finishing of Ninth street the; workmen would be moved to Rugg street and the setting of the curb and laying of brick on that street would be begun today. The grade and preliminary work, relating thereto, has already been done. There is a block of Rugg street to pave- - - DIPHTHERIA TABOOS MILKWhen Dr. G. W Gillie, inspector for health department, went to Poe yes-1 terday morning to inform Charles I "wick, a dairy farmer, in whose home' a daughter is il! fromfdiphtherla, that be must suspend shipping milk to this city, the official found that Dr. Mer- < er, who is attending the case, had already issued such an order. The largest epidemics of diptheria and typhoid fever that the city of Chicago ever knew were traced directly to the milk supply and the lesson was heedid by no place in the country more than in Fort Wayne.—Gt. Wayne Journal Gazette. _ 0 REMODELING SALEA sale is now in progress at the ■ I,einstein store that will undoubtedly prove to be the most successful sale of the season. Mr. Bernstein has com-1 pleted arrangements for remodeling' the building, tearing out the old front I and putting in one of the latest and most up-to-date display fronts, and otherwise remodel the interior of the store which will make it one of the most attract ice places of business in I the city. He finds it necessary to reI dm e his large stock of merchandise, I and in order to do this has put on a j I big reduction sale, some of the pricesl I ei which will be found In his ad on ' I another page of this paper. .. - —c— —■ — ■ 1 at ANTIOCH CHURCH. I The Rev. John M. Gibson has been I \ . med to preach at the Antioch or I Br. rv church west of the city, next I Sunday morning at 10:30 o’clock. Rev. I Gibson has filled a number of puplits I G ver the county and is an earnest and I laithful worker Zi the ministry. o • death at geneva. ■ Gencvt. Ind, Aug 7-The funeral of eL Mrs. Caroline Stanley, seventy-one, w wav. held at her home about three d miles from here this morning at 9:30 Id' o'clock. Four children nnd a husband are left,

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Decatur, Indiana,Thursday Evening, August 7, 1913.

GIVE PROTECTION And Squrrels Will Frisk About Decatur Trees In Great Numbers. • I j SEVERAL ARE SEEN Toledo Has Millions of the Little Animals—Protect Them. “With just a little protei tion of tie- ' ' bright-eyed animals that frisk and I | play about our trees, we would soon have innumerable numbers of the little squirrels that are so cunning and make such desirable pets," said E. 1 Burt Lenhart, the well known lawyer and abstrator | "A little red squirrel has been seen | frequently in the tree in front of our ! house, and others have been seen reI 1 eently in the neighborhood. The other ■day one was killed there by a boy v. ith a stone who found his hand quite true in following the aim. Sunday, n Toledo party of friends visited at our home, and remark was made about 1 the squirrels seen here " “ Why that is nothing," one of the ladies said, “We have millions of squirrels in our I shade trees in Toledo. They become so tame that they eat out of our hands ! and become great pets.” Mr. Lenhart advocates protection of I the squirrel that they may increase in thr city and become a source of : enjoyment. Make them your play--1 mates and see what you can learn j from the title animals and their way I ol living. acteFTueerly Two Men Strangers Driving Into Geneva Regarded With Suspicion. — SHERIFF IS NOTIFIED Had a Horse Nearly Like Stolen Troy Horse— Proves Not the One. — Tdo strange mendriving into Gene- ' va night before last with a jaded horse, which they seemed to be trying to “shake," aroused the suspicion of j 1 Geneva residents and they telephoned Wednesday to Sheriff Durkin, as they ' suspieioned that the horse might be a : stolen one. It seems that one of the men tried to buy a ticket to get out of town on ' a train and the other skulked up an alley trying thus to get away and leave the horse to its fate. The men J were prevented from leaving, how-1 ever, and Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly . went down to Geneva yesterday to look the horse over They had received notice of a stolen horse from Troy, Ohio, and while the description ■ of this horse tallied in some respects 1 ' with the Troy horse description, it i was not near enough to prove that it; was the same. The officials at Troy, Ohio, were no-: tified, however, and this morning the j Troy chief of police arrived by auto-, mobile and at 1:30 o'clock went to Ge-; neva to look at the horse. He found ' : that it was not the one wanted. It is believed by Geneva people that; ; the horse the strangers had was a 'stolen one. Seeing that they were! I kept under surveillance by the st» u-! picious Geneva people the two men | drove away with the outfit this morn- ! ing after the examination by the Troy' official. ,rt- - . ■!! — THE CENSUS REPORT. I The son born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo ] I Krick has been named Herman Willard. Mr. Krick is a son of Joshua i Krick. The mother was formerly Miss I Malinda Gauze. t BOY SCOUTS HIKE. 3 Boy Scouts will take a hike to the' ) country tomorrow. All scouts and • those that desire to join will meet nt headquarters at 1:00 p. m.

A LOVER’S LANE. Cupid's Bow Broke in Several Sounding Smacks on Third Street. "Well majr our street be called The j Lover’s Lane,’ said a resident of I South Third street this morning My wife was sitting on the porch last ev- ■ ening and saw and heard an occur- ! rence that justifies the name. A eon- ; pie was strolling leisurely along, j lust as they reached the shadows of I the maple near our house, the boy j gave the girl three or four kisses. It is presumed that she “kissed buck" i lor the smacks could be plainly heard I irom the porch. And then they stroll ■ e<| on. UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES i Funny howa person alius thinks another persun hed more sens till they git into an argnmunt with uni. UNKNOWNCOUSIN Mrs. T. C. Corbett Receives Letter from Unheard-of Cousin in Ireland. — MR JOHN FALLON Is a Son of Her Mother's Sister—Resides in County of Latrin. To receive.a letter from an un-heard-of cousin in far-away Ireland was the fortune of Mrs T. C. Corbett of this city. It developed that the v, riter was the son of her mother's ] sister, and what promises to be an interesting acquaintance may develop. The writer was John Fallon, and his lengthy address is “Derriens, Drumkeeren. County luitrin. Ireland." The letter was brief but in it Mr Fallon extended an Invitation to the family to visit him. Until the letter was received a few days ago by Mrs Cor-1 bett she had not known of the existence of the cousin, although she knew I she had many relatives in Ireland ! Her mother, Mrs. Durkin, was a native of Ireland, where several of til" i members of her parental family still; reside. An answer has been sent to the I letter, and a new and interesting acquaintanceship will no doubt be opened up. Mr. Fallon is also ol Sheriff T. J. Durkin, Mrs. John Smith and others of the cityTAKES A' CHANGE Rev. R . N Spetnagle, Former Pastor Decatur Presbyterian Church ACCEPTS A CALL To the First Presbyterian Church at Lansing, Mich. Was at South Bend. ■ Rev. Richard N. Spetnagle. former i pastor of the Decatur Presbyterian j i church, has accepted a Call to th?' j First Presbyterian church at Lansing, ! Mich., according to a Goshen newspa- : per. Rev. Spetnagel has been residing at . South Bend the past two years, since i he resigned the Decatur charge to I become superintendent of tlie South ■ Bend district of the anti-saloon league. He lias been serving faithI felly in this capacity and made a ■ good record. Rev. Spetnagel served here several I years, resigning here two years ago, l I nnd was succeeded by the Rev. VV H. j Gleiser, the present pastor He is a | minister of ability. LOTS FOP A STORE Noah Frauhiger lias traded a house and two lots in Stringtown for a grocery nnd hardware store at Green--1 town. He will dispose of the stock by auction next Saturday in Greentown Bluffton BannerI

IT IS CONFIRMED State Auditor Affirms Assessment of Adams County as Made. ALLEN MUST RAISE Her Assessment Ten Per Cent—Not Quite so Fortunate as Adams. - County Auditor T. 11. Baltzell has received notice from State Auditor O'Brien that the assessment of the; I personal property of Adams county I was confirmed. The assessment as 1 j made was $4,844,516. This confirma I tion is quite good news for Adams . county, as Allen county was not quite! ■so fortunate She must raise hers. ' I The Fort Wayne Journal-Gaeztte says ■ : mlative to Allen's necessary increase: “County Auditor Calvin H Brown : yesterday received notice from State j Auditor O’Brien stating that Allen I county must increase its valuaution of I i personal property ten per cent. In j ' orher words, personal assessed for: SI,OOO in March will be taxed on a ba-1 ris ol $l,lOO valuation. Tile personal property assessed in Allen county in March amounted to about $7,000,000. of which approximately three and a half million represents the personal : property of corporations which will be assessed by the state board itself. The increase wljich Auditor Brown and his force will make on the duplicate will I bring the county in the neighborhood I of $350,000." TO HOLO RAHY Adams County Christian Endeavorers Will Have Special Services. ON NEXT SUNDAY I At Decatur Church in Afternoon—At Berne Church in the Evening. Attention of the public is again call- ■ <d to the Adams County Christian' Endeavor rally to be held in the De- 1 catur Reformed church Sunday after ' noon at 2 o’clock and in the Mention•; He church at Berne Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. The program in full follows: Afternoon at the German Reformed Church Decatur—2:oo p- m. (Standard Time) S uig Service- Jesse Sutton. Devotional-- Rev. W. H. Gleiser. Music—Mennonite Male Choir Roll Call--(One member of each so j < iety responding by briefy telling of a C. E. program held in their own society tills year that they enjoyed ' most ) Special Music —Presbyterian Soil ty. Address—"l'm in Business’ —R. A. Music —Mennonite Male Choir. Offering. Closing Song. i Benediction—Rev. I. C. Hessert. ' Evening Service, Mennonite Church at Berne—7:oo O’clock. Song Service —Ernst Dro. Scripture Reading -Walter Stuckey ' Meditation and Prayer. Music Evangelical Society Address "Christian Endeavor Essentials" R. A. Walker, Indiana Field Secretary Music - Mennonite Ladles’ Chorus. Questions and Discussions. Creation's Hymn Song by Seven tv five Male Voices. 1 Offering. Closing Song "The King's Business." Benediction Rev. G. R Schroeder. — —-x>- —■ ■ —— DRAWING NEW MAPS Mr. Davis is here at the local gas office, engaged in drawing new maps of the Indiana Lighting company's high pressure gas lines, including those In Decatur and through Preble and Tocsin.

| WITH JUST ONE LOOK. i 'Chicago, Aug. i; Hatpins, clubs or i whistles, like Hie Boston women use. I ut'e not necessary to squelch mashers j a look will do it. This is the oplni ion expressed by police" unu n at twoj ' Chicago beaches. One substantial i wide-eyed look, witli a touch of scorn 1 : in it, will send the boldest flirt about ' his business, they say. , “All you have to do when a man st eaks to you Insultingly is to look nt j him; lie turns and runs." said Police 1 woman Mary Boyd. I sometiim . j carry a little hilly; but it’s lor dogs; I men are scared to death of me." “Look a man over from hat to shoes : and from shoes to hat and lie will j vanquish," is tile advice of Police-! j woman Emma Nuekom. "I've been : al! over the world and I never need-! id any weapons but my eyes. There I are other methods, too. I sometimes ' start talking in French or Greek to a ! ! masher, and they always run away.' I But. a look's tlie best." AND sf IT GOES — Stories Get Much Garbled in Transmission—Decatur Merchant Rumored to HAVE FOUND BABE In Basket-Turned Out That It Happened in a Chicago Store It's tlie queerest tiling how a story spreads and is twisted and turned into !an incomprehensible shape- Many : tale we hear, and it's usually an un ; canny or bad one--is garbled beyond ‘ all semblance to tlie truth. As Geor e Elliott says: "A cruel story runs on ; wheels and every hand oils the as they run." Probably no one is a ! better authority on exaggerated reports than a newspaper reporter. He gets a hint of something ami by tlie time he lias run it down to tlie rock-bot-tom facts, asking this one, and then that one of whom tlie other heard it. ; and so on, back to the beginning,! . there is usually very little left. Yesterday there was spread over tin city like wildfire, a report that a certain well known Decatur business man bad found an infant wrapped in i paper, in a waste basket in the store. I ' The rumor named the definite pro-' prietor who had found tlie l abe. E. : erywhere the rumor ran, ami when ! tlie business man was interviewed, lie ■ knew nothing of the matter, and was r.t a loss how- the report spread Fin-’ : ally a reporter traced it back. It was ; known that parties had heard it in another business house, the clerk - | there had heard it of a certain girl, i nnd she had heard it of another party. ' Tlie original party was then intc. | viewed, and questioned about the mat I ! ter as it was finally hoard He j ' scratched his head very much puzzled. | “Why no, I never heard anything o the kind. In fact. I don't know what i I you mean." Then a light .dawned on i him and Ills faced brightened as In j said: “O yes. I must know what yo'i ! mean. About a week ago. a lot of us I _ : read in a Chicago paper about the | finding of an infant there in a basket I I tn a certain store Some of uh talk j i eo it over here, I suppose that is how \ . ! the report grew that it was found in , I ! a Decatur store.'' Thus the mystery was cleared up. 11 and no one was more relieved pro-, ! bably. than the Decatur merchant who was alleged to have found it. . o— - ATTENDED THE FUNERAL. Os Late William Tucker at Berne This Afternoon. E. D. Ward. Mrs. Mary Purdy nnd daughter, Esther, of Bluffton and the 1 Misses Grace nnd Pearl Purdy drove to Berne this morning to attend the I funeral this afternoon of ex Marshal William Tucker, formerly of Borne ■His death occurred Tuesday at his home near laigrange, where he hud , moved from Berne last spring Tic: funeral party passed through thlsciti this afternoon on the 1:11 southboiind G. R. & 1. train. Mesdame- P trdy ami ; Ward, his sisters, who were at his [ home when ho passed away, wore »i members of the funeral party. H I ■f j The Misses Effie Miller amt Huldah e ' Mutschlor have gone to Rockford, O. :to visit with Irvin Miller and wife. I

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TAKES REVENGE BT DYNAMITE irate Husband Sued for Divorce Attempts to Get Even by Killing Family. COL. CODY KILLED When Monoplane With Passenger Turns Turtle at Height of 200 Feet. H'nited Press Service) | Sullivan, |nd , Aug. 7 --(Special to I Dally Democrat) Tlie authorities of uiis and surrounding counties are [ •-< arching today for ( ha les A. Naslt. aged 25, wanted o nsiisutcion of dynamiting *he home of Willard Plew, Nash's father-in-law, today. The back of tlie Blew home was wrecked, but Mr. and Mrs. Plew, their daughter and her two children were unhurt. Nash was sued for divorce by Blew's daughter yesterday. Aldershot, Eng., Nug 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) Colonel S F. Cody, well known aviator and an American by birth, with a passenger, was instantly killed, today when Cody's uonoplane turned turtle at :i height c," 200 feet and was burl’ d to th ■ giound. His two sons wetc :::no::g tlie spectators who witnessed tlie accident. Washington, D. C.. Aug. 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) Reports from Mexico today that John Lind would not be heard by the Huerta gov rnment puzzled the Wilson administration Lind does not bear any credentials to the Mexican government. They cun have nothing to say was explained today because Lind goes there as an advf«fir‘to um Vnorfcnn rmibassv."’ Secretary Brian today wired Charge de Nff.’.iis O Shaghn>'-:sy to Impress the Mexicans and i.ind's mission was one of peace and that they should payno attention to sensational newspaper stories. Steubenville, Ohio, \ug. 7 -(Special to Daily Democrat) A party of yeggmen today blew the postoffice safe at Richmond, Ohio, fired several shots at residents, and escaped In a stolen horse and buggy. They were later overtaken on the outskirts of this place by a posse, engaged in n •warm battle with revolvers, but successfully escaped again. A second posse was formed here and is scouring the country with bloodhounds. The robbers got SIU and, a small quantity of stampsAsbury Park. N. .1.. Aug 7—(Special •o Daily Democrat) "Throw out the life line." and similar other old hymns will vanish from the church hymntiis if the movement started by tlie Nat'onal Convention of Organists is sueeessful. The old songs were branded as “rag-time,' and pieces fit for a "German Band" by the delegates. T.ondon Aug. 7 (Special to Daily (Continued on Page 3) DANIEL SHACKLEY WILLIAM H- MYERS ■I ■ • I Two'.veil known comrade in the act i cf laying the first brick lor the mniiu- ' ment foundation, July 2'J, 1913. Mr. | Sliackley is placing the mortar ami I Mr. Myers ready to lay the brick.