Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1913 — Page 1

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I OENIES REPORT 1 OF WAR SCARE |Pi esi<lut Huerta Also Denies fcHe Demanded Immediate Recognition. | ..legislature meet.; Wn New York Today and is to Take Steps to Recognize Glynn. j (United Press Service i W jWnshingioii, D c. Aug. it. .SpecDaily While official deny the t brought on by th report that diplomats to Mexico were to handed their passports, the sitStill rr “ lri:lil!l ‘<l titre today l.> of Hm-rta having rejected th,. Ittedfatioii plans of President Wilson : and presented by his special envov, Lind. Officials here have hop that the refusal is not final since has informed tin government that he is in personal touch with H . erta and amended plans might yet M be t aceepted. Huerta authorized the ffidenial of the report that Mexico demanded imnt adiao recognition by the .United States and proposed c t--Aftklg Off tile diploln di - i.-hitioiiship. g’.sftJinhn Lind was marking time todav while he waited tor instructions Hom Wilson and Bryan. 4 Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 19.—(Spec(Continued on Page 2) | THE NEWORDER Requires Mail Carriers to Go No Further Than the Front Door. NO SIDE TRIPS Will be Required—Will be Boon to the Weary Carriers of Mail. The Huntington Press reports tin order received by tiie postmaster then,; which it is judged will apply 1 here also, although the local office; lorce reported today that the order had not yet readied this office. Th attiele reads as follow*: Beginning Angus 18 carriers will no longer be permit ed to deliver mail to r. ar or side doots in the residence districts. Mail must be taken to the front door. The lav provides that tincarrier shall go to t le front door, ring or knock and wait a reasonable time loi the inmate to answer. If no on cc infs to tiie door in answer to his ting, ho must go oti, and in ease 1 this c . i ins several timer, the carrier must report th 1 matter to the postmaster, v ho in turn must report to the past must-1 gc neral. The result is that de i.ven to that perse i is discontinued. In case there is i mail receptacle Bh on the front of the house, or a letter slit in the door, the carrier is not required to make his omlng known. - Another gii.'vanet which the order ' Will overcome is the habit of the pro ■jirietors of business houses expecting the carrier to traverse the full length B' bf their stores, in some cases even to g-climb a .light o stairs in order to de l:\er the mail to th office desk- In future ea<h business man must ■provide some receptacle for his mail RV in the front part of the store and it Kua provision is mad 1 , the carrier it to leave his mail on the ■>£ front counter. — _ — o—has scarlet fever.

I Geraldine, Daughter of Irvin Brandyberry, a Victim. The Irvin Brand' lurry home was Hr placed under qu; r ntine Monday. | Mien Geraldine, the v< linger daughter, fe tring ill of scarlet lever. A telephone call to the home this morning brought j word that she was vry i". but that her condition remained about the HL same today as yesterday Her level jg not bo high but her throat is i parted ,<n being worse today, K

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I another delay. " — Csused In Trial of Joseph Tonnelier —Continued Until Friday. rhe trial o p Joseph Tonnelier, charged with the illegal sale of liquor, and being held before Judge . i'- G. Hooper, was discontinued until 1 riday at 9 o'c loc k. This came as a tm-uli of the attorneys for the de"'l ' 1 filing a c hallenge to array the I jury. 'I• mfr cause for this action is 1 '''at one of the members of the Jury •cd expressed an opinion regarding the- guilt or innocence of the defendant am! is therefore unqualified to sit a Juror. If the court holds the c Imlleng • good it will mean that an--1 th' • jury will have to be selected. Ihe attorneys for both the defense "id pros, c ution agreed to the post’luent until Friday in or/>r to permit Attorney De Voss to attend the fu"'al oi a relative l in Winchester. TO MAKE CIGARS John H. Lose Will Open Cigar Factory Above the Menig Pool Room. READY FOR BUSINESS In About Three Weeks— Brother, Will Lose, to Manage Factory. Decatur fs to have another cigar factory, the owner being John H Lose, one of the city's most popular and well respected young men. His factory will consist of the upper floor of the Peter Forbing building, tiie first floor b ing occupied by the Men i" pool and billiard parlor. Mr. Lose has ' een at the'T for six years, being formerly employed at the "White Stag" cigar factory, and is last and well experienced in this line of work His brother. Will Lose, former partner in the Ixise & Thomas company, will manage the factory. Hr is well versed in ail lines of tiie cigar business and will lie a valuable help to his brother. The factory rooms will be overhaul ed and improved in a most modern way, and by the first week in Sop tember they will be ready to put theii c igars on the market. Tiie name ol the brand which they will manufacture lias not yet b en decided upon. Every good wisli of the many friends Is extended to tile I.ose boye ior a successful career and it is with c ut a doubt that they will make good A good way to help tiie cigar manufacturers of Decatur fs by buying "home made ” cigars. - o AT MT. CLEMENS. Mr and Mrs. IL H. Bremerkamp an at Mt. Clemens, Mich., taking the min era! baths, and report that they are having a good time at this resort. Mt Clemens is situated near tiie shores o' l.i.kfe St Clair, and motor-boating and fishing are among the diversions sot the summer visitor, but Mr. Bremer kamp is giving hisjvliole time to tak ing the baths and resting. He statei that he made his first trip to Mt ; Clemens about twenty-five years ago and with a few exceptions lias been ' making a trip there every yearo POLICE COURT. Clifford Death. a well known charac tei of Hobo, managed to get on the outside of too much fire water last evening witli tiie result that when h< reached home he was in a flghtinimood and start'd to "clean house.' His sou informed Constable Irvin Schafer of tiie father's action and Mr Schafer immediately placed Deatli un der arrest and brought him to this city and placed him in jail on the charge- of public intoxication. His trial will probably lie held this after noon.

FUNERAL OF E. MITCH. The fun'Tnl of Elias Mitch was held tills afternoon from the Salem Evangelical church, east of town. HI? death occurred Sunday night at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, follow ing an operation for appendicitis, ..all ston s and tumor, last Friday. The Yeomen of this city attended in a body, he being a member of the order. The funeral was largely attended. |

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——-—— / MISS MARGARET ANDR EWS AND VINCENT ASTOR. (Copyright bv International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) Newport. R., 1., Aug. 19—Since the tragic death of John Jacob Astor, when lie died a martyr by going down with many of tiie other male passengers on the ill-fated Titanic, Vincent Astor, his son, having inherited the lather's vast estate, is one of America’s greatest landlords, am! is sought after by the young women in Ills social sphere. This picture shows young Astor standing beside Miss Margaret Andrews, one of the most popular of last season's debutantees. Last summer Hiss Andrews was reported engaged to Vincent Astor. >Hs picture 1 was taken while she was in company with the young millionaire at one of the summer racing meetsNow comes tiie report that tiie affections of Miss Andrews have been transferred to another wealthy young man, Morgan Belmont, son of August Belmont, and society is expecting the announcement of the engagement to be made by the end of this month.

SCHOOL BURNED - Ceylon School House Burned Saturday Night— Struck by Lightning. TO BE REBUILT —— At Once—Brick Walls Left Standing—Can be Used —Loss SI,OOO. The brick school house in Dist. No. 7. Wabash township, known as the Ceylon school, north of Ceylon, was burned Saturday night about 11 o’clock. Tiie building, it is thought, was struck liy lightning about 7 o'clock, but it must have struck in tiie belfry or some spot where the ignition was slow, as it was not until 11 o'clock tliat tiie fire which had i eaten into the main part of tiie build i ing, was diseoverey by a boy. The I discovery was mad" in time to got out tiie teaclier's desk, chairs, organ ami I the bookcase containing the school li brary'Trustee Thornhill, when Interview’d this morning by telephone, stated hat the walls of tiie school house are -.till standing and in good condition •tnd can be used in tiie rebuilding. There was so very little of timber ibout tiie building to burn that the Ire did not even make tiie brick walls hot to tiie touch of a hand on the outside. With the insurance on tiie building tiie loss will be only about 11,000, that Is tiie school can lie rebuilt and fitted up again for use for that much. Trustee Thornhill's advisory licard will meet tills evening to take steps for tiie Immediate rebuilding of tiie school house using Hie old brick walls. It is thought the school can be gotten ready for use within a week or two aft’-r the opening of the other schools. September 15. Miss Elizal.eth Houdesliell is to lie tiie teacher. Tiie school liad formerly two rooms, but tiie partition was removed throwing th” building Into one room for laler years’. METHODIST DAY TODAY. (United Press Service) Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 19--Method-ists of this dty and surrounding territory joined in celebrating the annmil “Methodist Day" at Robison park near here An athletic program, music and picnic were on tiie list of en- | tertalnmenls.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, August 19, 1913.

THAW IS CAPTURED. :'£ Coachicooke, Quebec. Aug. 19 — (Special to Daily Democrat) — -;e , Harry Thaw is under arrest here today. The Ottawa government has been asked to rule on the right of authority to hold him for :’• I New Ycrk. The prisoner was ar- s’: L- rested early today through the es- s': forts of E. H. Kelsey, Coldbrook, t-■-I: N. H„ who recognized Thaw on a i train. The prisoner first admitted. then denied his identity. Letters addresed to Harry Thaw, in m care of the Matteawan \ hoapital, were found on his person- The :|; police are sure he is the right :|: man. Thaws was inclined to re- s|: sist arrest and repeatedly assert- sy ed he could not be held legally. He said he was going to Europe :|: byway of Quebec. :|: s’: sp s|: :|: :|: sj: sfc s': s’: FURTHER_PROOF That Dead Man Was Not Samuel Stoner—Brother Learns That He * ATE HIS SUPPER At Farmhouse Before Death —Said He Came from Cincinnati, Ohio. Dunlal Stoner, of this city, stated last night that ilespit' l the positiveHess of statements to the contrary by others who claim to liave known Ills brother, Samuel Stoner, the body oi tiie man killed by lightning on August 8, near Hoagland, Is not ills brother Mi Stoner declared that Ills missinu , brother had no teeth on the upper Jaw . and that the dead man had good ones ■ He also stated that for fifteen years his brotner mid had a scar on hfs , cheek due to tiie barber's itch and ■ that tliedend man had no scar there Mr. Stoner also learned that tiie dead man ate liis evening meal on the night before he was killed at the home td' Henry SclilaudrolT. living In Madison townslilp. Mr. Stoner states that Mr. Schiaudroffff said the num who ■ ate ills meal there talk’d good Ger- ■ man, said he was from Cincinnati, but - hud been In Chicago recently. Mi • Stoner says ills brother. Samuel, spoke "Pennsylvania Dutch" hut not I good native German. Fort Wayne I Journal Gazette,

WED WEDNESDAY August Kuehn of Detroir, Mich., and Miss Emma Conrad Will Wed. WELL KNOWN COUPLE Will Make Home in Detroit—Groom Conductor on City Line. The mariage license of Mr. August buehn of Detroit, Mich., and Miss I'm ma Conrad of Magley was issued Monday and it is said the wedding will take place Wednesday evening I at tiie home of the bride's mother. Mrs. Catherine. Conrad, at Magley. It is understood that Rev. 1.. C. Hassert of the Decatur German Reformed church will officiate. Tiie groom is a n phew of Messrs. Weidler of this county, and as Miss Conrad's sister married one of tiie groom's uncles, a Mr. Weidler, Hie i new wedding will make several of the parties doubly related The groom is a city line conductor in Detroit, Mich., having supervision . of the instruction department. The | couple will make their home in De- i troit, tills having been furnished in; advance for several weeks. Tiie bride is popular and well liked t and a faithful member of the G rman .Reformed church. FATAL"TCCIDENT Timothy Guffigan. Well Known Jefferson Twp. Farmer Succumbs. HIP WAS BROKEN In Runaway Month Ago— t Was Relieved by Death Last Night. After lingering a month with a fracture of the hip sustained when he was thrown from a wagon in a runaway, i Timothy Guffigan, aged seventy years, a prominent resident of Jefferson j township for the past twenty-five I veins, was relieved by deatli last night ■ it was thought that h" was somewhat netter Hie past lew days and the news oi his death was unexpected to many ot his friends. With his brother and sisters, he cante from Delaware countv to Adams county twenty-five years ago, settling on a farm The Guff igan home was noted lor its hospitality, as many Decatur people win; have been their guests, can testify, and tiie news ol' the Mr. Guffigan's (bath causes sorrow to many. He leave sa brother, James, and two sisters. Dora and Eliza, the family living together. Among other near relatives are two nephews, Mlcliael and John Guffigan a* Muncie. John being' n member of tiie police force Mayor Tuhey of Muncie is a cousin, and tiie O'Maras of that city ar also related.. The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock at the St. Marys Catholic (liiirch in Jefferson township, Father Meyers In charge. oPICNIC—PICNIC Christian Bible school. At 8 n. m. tomorrow the Christian church Bible School will leave via special trolley car for Robison Park. Those missing ' tile special car will take the regular 1 car at 8:3(1. Tiie school invites any and nil to go with them Tiie lor ’ rate of slxty live cents will be th" 1 fare to tiie park and return. Tiie ' children of the school are delighted with n free trip to lie given th tn.

> CENSUS REPORT. Harold Edwin. Is the name of the baby boy born to Mr. and Mis Cephtts . Melchl at 1:30 Sunday afternoon. The I boy is a blue-ribbon winner accord- ' Ing to tiie father and is g- tting along In line shape.

ONLY LADY CASHIER. Os National Bank in Indiana is Nellie) Frank. (I’nited Press Service) Petersburg. Ind., Aug. 19- Th- numI'er of young male depositors in the' First National bank here has taken a decided jump since Miss Nellie E'rank.l 23, preUy, and social favorite, becaim-' I cushier nt the bank Fresh from lmii-i ana university Mbs Frank accepted clerkship in the bank Tile president recently died and in the new ele< tion of officers, Miss Frank's father, forme’ ' • ashler, was made president, it wn a simple thing to promote her to the position of cashier and the distinction ■Ji being tiie only lady cashier of a national bank in Indiana. While nt collagi Miss Frank was a lead- r 'ini m tin l Delta Gammas and the bank officers fear they will have a fight wit!) Dan Cupid to hold their cashier on I her Job. o NEW BOOK IS OUT Democrat Sees Copy of M: Rohrer’s Nev/ Book This Morning. INTERESTING STORY t : 4 Told by Leader in Campaign to do Away With Berne's Saloons. I The Decatur Democrat had the I pleasure of seeing a copy of the n- .v I book ’iiis morning written by Fred. I Rut ror, editor of the Berne Witness, I entitled, "Saloon Fight at lv»rre, tn-J | diana,” a fight that attracted state j | wide attention. Tiie book tells in a | most interesting v.*’ the real hist" - of th* fight to mak« Herne "dry-," in ! wn.'-ii campaign Mr. Rohrer was the i-ader. It ir published by th" Pun Witness (omiany of Herne, has IMi I pages, is handsomely bound, and well! illustrated. Its pages teem with live! words of a history, “the truth of which is more strange than fiction." Tiie hook is dedicated "To my win end daughter, Margaret, who “iifl'-re! more than anybody else in order tliat I.erne might be treed from the home and soul-destroying infiu nces of Hie liquor traffic.” Tiie work will doubtless be read witli great interest over tiie state, as veil as by Adams county citizens to whom every person mentioned in tiie book, is known. Mr Rohrer sp aks | enditorially in tiie Berne Witness of I the book: I "This book was written not because I Hie author had nothing els ■ to do i but under the strain of other pre; sing | work, because there was a demand i for it. For tiie lust five years story ■ writers have asked us for tiie data of | tills now famous anti-saloon war at Berne, but they wouldn't have written ; it up only in the form of a novel, such ns you find on every street comer. This war has cost too mm it to make ' merchandise of it, and was never ■ waged for such a purpose. So we have In en asked time and again to write ' down tiie history and give it to Hie public in order that tile nation mn.' profit by our experience, because, as a Methodist minister oni c put it "That saloon'war was not waged and did not terminate an it did, just for the benefits of tiie little town of Berne God had a greater purrose in view. "Writing his tore like tills is a very delicate matte) For Ulis reason we consulted a Judge; then submitted our manuscript b( ‘ore any of it was over turned into hot slugs, to an old newspaper man who Ims been in this business for nearly torty years. Finally two sots of the Inst proofs wore sent to Indianapolis, before any part of ' tin book was printed, to lie examined by two of tiie best lawyers in th" ; state Therefore we rest easy and iu.vo no cause for worrying over the outcome. Os course It lias never been our dfi positlon to won v much over ’ anything, anyway.

"The calamity howler will say that tile book was written for no btlic purpose than to stir up old strife in Berne. The hook was not written for the people of Berne: they should not read it; it is for the outside world and the calamity howler should not I care what the people in Sam. intevi. think ol him. “A few have already asked tin rath er timidly: ‘Aren't yon afrai.l you will (Continued on Page 2)

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OIL BOOM NOW THE REAL THING « Sullivan County Wild Over Richly Producing Oil Wells—Rich Field. — I- -111 ■ POOR FARMER AWOKE To Find Himself Growing Wealthy—Well Produces 250 Barrels a Day. (i’nited Press Service) Sullivan, Ind.. Aug. 1!» -P.oem s the word here today. Sullivan county lias had oil booms and oi! booms, but tiie piesent e\( itement is tiie real tiling. Scarcely two weeks hav- passed since Abe Hover, an im cnspic nous farmer and tiie poor on ne l of forty acres sterll land in the north part ■ ” Hamilton county, awoke one morning to find that h>- was destined to become wealthy. Oil is pouring from a Will on the Boyer farm nt the rate of 2.’u barrels a day A half dozen other wells in the vicinity are pumping from ti n to fi'to' n barrels a day. A second well on the Boyer fa r m, shot last Friday, flowed nearly 300 barrels in the first twenty-four hours Five hundred people saw the well shot. Eight wells are drilling. New locations are being made daily and tiie rush for leases is at white heat. Boyer's neighbors see wealth almost within their grasp. All of the wells are between firn) (Continued on Page 2) OFF FOR PICNIC I Five Special Cars, Besides the Basket Car Convey Methodists to THE ROBISON PARK Christian Sunday School Will go Tomorrow for a Day’s Outing. Five special interurban cars filled with four hundred or more happy Methodists left the Decatur station at .r.rious hours this morning bound for Robison park. Fort Wayne, where they will have tneir Sunday school I picnic and at the same time join witii tiie Methodists of the Fort Wayne disI trict in n reunion. Prior to tiie li uvI ing of the tie l pass nger cars, the liijght ear had pulled out carrying the baskets ol good things lor the feast at noon. Tiie cars left at 7:la, 7:30 ami 8:!!0 o'clock this morning. Tiie cars will return this ('vening at 5:30 o'clock, bringing the pienick' rs, ' tired and happy but full of chicken.” ar one of the party aptly expressed it. Tiie Christian Sunday school will have its excursion over the interurlan to Robison park tomorrow. The Audit' ws Sunday silioo! will have Its ] icnic there nt tiie same time. Rev. Dawson, former pastor of the Decatur church, is now at Andrews, and Hie Deentur 1 oopl > will have th' pleasure of meeting the Dawson fam iiy nt this time. ■ ■■ -Ilia > FOUisD LOST WATCH. Mrs. E’red Linn waa much p!oa«« Monday cvenim- v hen her gift «nt' i which had I, en lost last Thursd.iy ■ '■ I > Ling was returned to her last nichl ' by Mr. Todd, who found the sam: l . 1 He noticed the lost nd in Monday ‘ evening's paper and imm-'lieti'ly reI turtrii the watili He found it in n '' dump of grass along the stnd wLero il had been dropped t - —o —-— — REMAINS THE SAME. II i Cal Pcter»on receiv'd a curd tills t morning from Fred Bouse oi Grand Rapids. Midi . that his wife. Myrtle 't ■’Watts Boil'. " who is dan-teinii' Iv ill. -- lemnins about the same, and IhtF sh.* lias not y i passed the dan icr (>■ i iud. Mrs Bouse developed typhotfl I following tiie birth 'Hid deMil of tlv ir babe, a short whit l ago.