Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1913 — Page 1

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f TYPHOID IS J BLACK MACK p ■L the Sanitary Condi|\tions of the Community. — COSTS MORE MONEY E^T han Fire or Flood—The e State is Alarmed—Help Prevent Spread. '•f t'l'lioid fever present In more ' ia ' t , ' ie s di -catur. Oiutbrcak threatened, the state board health has addressed a commnnitO ° Vf ' l V l 0"- <itV 11,1,1 'Ollld; Mwai th commissioner, urging that they | jjtte every precaution to prevent a - |?re.ent a further spiesd of the di -Physicians are asked to notify th' health authorities at once alter ding I? .Rosing a case or typhoid fever, h -altl; K' commissioners are urged to investi gate the origin of every case, the usof anti-typhoid vaccine is recommended and physicians are invited to make It Use of tlie state laboratories in tnak ing a fight against the disease. Tin health commissioners are espeeiall.i urged to investigate the water and ? j milk supplies. 397 Cases in July. Three hundred and nin'ty-sever cases of typhoid fever in fifty-one counties were reported to the stat' ■Wf* itban. in .inly and reports receiver Murin'.- tl. last i da> ■ indicate that th', situation is grewin,, more serious Ferty-seu'n deaths resulted in July fven: typhoid. There were SiM mor . of typhoid during -Inly than AWSHSfo 3I '* II " t!, e preceding month, and 15 more cases than during July last y• p "Ti:e fait that typhoid has ben tin nr..'-' most prevalent of communi-abb' di / < sras-s during Inly and in the presen month means that a record numl er o .cases will iie developing dining Se> tember unless ev> ry possible effort i made to rid communities of the d sease," said Dr- W. F. King, assistan fete health ccmmisioneY. “Typhon l.aeilla in milk caused the epidem: in the three cities in which represeu tatives of th. state ' oard iuvestigat ed." ’ Hundreds of people, alarmed by th< epidemic, are being vaccinated agains H i hoid, ac< i riiii g to reports receiv cd by the state board. Instructions to Towns. The state hoard's fnstnii tions issu cd to the town, city ahd county I’.ealti commissioners are as follows: • “Notify every physician in you' Jurisdiction to inform you at one when he diagnoses a care of tyi lioh ' fever. Investigate the origin of every < as, also wat«r and milk supply and possi !le contact with persons sufferin; from typhoid and don't lie satisfiei ' until you have all the facts. “Notify eve y milkman not to tain up milk bottles trern a house when there is a tpiioid case and you your : If see that after,tile patient is wel' tiie bottles are st'-rilizd. “Investigate the water and mill' sun lies before the fever breaks out not. after a case has developed and r l.h-cs: of infection establish'd in the community. M'lk is Dangerous. “Ti ll year people that typhoid fever cap only l-.e transmitted by eating or- ' drinking the tpyhoid bacilli present, in the '.xcrement of a typhoid patient: I tint it Is no, due to bad drains swamrs. stagnant pools or bad food , fcut that it is spread by Hies, water milk, typhoid cirrlers and patients. (j*■ “The lust three epidemics the state C'benrd of I.- altb has investigated have Ilk: air’l lcn spr-ad through the milk sup | ply and originate in a case of typhoid B at the dairy. , I “Urge use cl' typhoid vaccine as a ©simple, safe, complete preventative. ■kp,'. "Notify th" state board of health I the moment you fear the spread o 1 typhoid beyond a -ingle family and ■U- make use of the labelatories to pre He vent and coiitrol epidemics. "Let your new.-ur.pers, officials and B; citizens know that every case of ty |„ dd Is a ’ mark against the I sanitary of the community and costs more money than fit''’ °i flood."

DEUATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

• EGG CANDLING LAW. Seems to Defy Hot Weather—Many ? Bad Eggs. The egg candling law of the state which designates that no bad eggs are to be sold, and that eggs are to be candled" to catch any bad ones that might exist before sale, seems to le meeting with opposition In the l:a|.e of tlie hot weather. One family of the city yesterday bought a liezen eggs of a local grocer. One egg alter the other was tried until ■ ven had been broken. AU were i d mi oil.- contained a little chicki■ n in embryo form. Whether the re- ■ maining five wire good is not knownThey were not broken. The chicken put a damper on the ardor of the would-be egg eater. WOMAN SUICIDES Mrs. Albert Moyer. Wife of a Former Decatur Man, Drinks Carbolic Acid AT FT. WAYNE HOME Yesterday Afternoon—Left Here April 18—Married Less Than Year. Mrs. Alb rt Moyer, wife of a former Decatur man, committed suicide last evening at 4:30 o'clock at their home In Fort Wayne, by taking carbolic acid. Her husband has many relatives I.ere and sp nt nearly his entire life In this city. Mr Moyer bad charge of the lunch counter at the Rademacker saloon mtil a few months ago. He was martied last fall to the Fort Wayne lady and Decern iier 3 they came here and nt to the Isaac Peterson home on ' list street, where they leased rooms old did light housekeeping. April 1' they went to Fort Wayne to make their home. A part of their goods was left at the Peterson house, win : it still remains. Mrs. Moyer’s health had been poor, and while here -he often spoke to Mrs- Peterson and rs about committing suicide, so hat tlie news of her rasli deed does rot come as a great surprise to her friends here. She was a little, fair woman, quite pretty, and well liked 1 y her frit nds. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette says: "'Get a doctor, quick; I've taken a lose of poison, but I guess I don't want to die now,' screamed Mrs. A) bort Moyer to her husband as he en " el their residence, 1707 Webster tr t, at 4:30 yesterday afternoon Running onto the front porch, the woman fell unconscious and a half hour after being carried into the house by her husband, she was dead ill efforts of a physician, who was summoned, proving to no avail"A four-ounce bottle, half-filled with carbolic acid, and bearing the 'al 'I of a nearby drug store, was ound in the woman's bed room, am’ urns on her lips and in her mouth '.ml throat showed that she had drunk the missing contents. “Several weeks ago Mrs. Moyer told her mother, Mrs Eliza Eckart, 1721 th Calhoun street, that unless her health improved she would kill her ii'lf. She had been suffering for more than a year from ulcers and had becom" despondent because medical 'leatment failed to relieve her. Two weeks ago she suffered a slight strok' of paralysis. “Mrs. Moyer was 32 years of age iml was childless. Her first husband, 'lino Jamison, died about a year and a half ago and a few months later ■ lie was married to Mr. Moyer, Besides her mother she is survived by iwo sisters and three brothers Mrs. John Neumann and Mrs. Curl Borken <tein, 31G West William street; Harry I'cknrt, 505 East Washington street; William Eckart, 1721 South Calhoun ts ct, and Albert Eckart, 2431 Lafayette street." — burned in explosion. I C. C. Shepherd of Lima, Ohio, a for mor Decatur resid'Tit, son of John Shepherd, and sister of Mrs. Felix I Summers of this city, was badly burn-' cd about the face In an explosion of ’ wood alcohol, recently. The explosion / occurred while a gas fitter war. at r work, and Mr. Shepherd was watching him.

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— — -- - --.-. V A'DED BY AUTO, HARRY THAW ESCAPES FROM INSANE ASYLUM. (Copyright bv International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) As Long as He Keeps Outside the State of New York and in Touch With a Lawyer He Need Have no Fear of Officers of the Law. .-M "<* ——.A-yii.i , Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, and the most spectacular prisioner in the world, who has escaped from the Matteawan hispital for tiie criminal insane. At 7 o'clock Sunday morning Thaw was strolling in tlie exercise court —a privilege allowed to trusted prisoners. A milk cart rumbled up and the driver hailed Howard H. Barnum, the guard in charge of the gate. As tlie gate was opened to allow the milk cart to enter. Thaw, as suddenly as a panther, leaped past the startled guard, past the cart and leaped into a waiting automobile- The driver threw on power and the man who lias fought for five years by legal means io gain his freedom had attained it by plot. Thaw is now being held a prisoner at Coaticock. Quebec, by the authorities there and a great legal fight is expected to be the result of their attempt to dtport him to he United States as an undesirable alien.

PICNIC SEASON Churches and Families Have Reunions at This Time of Year. SPANGLER REUNION Baptist S. S. Has Picnic— Evangelical Picnic to be Held Friday. The picnic season continues. The third Sunday school picnic of the week was held today in ?. pleasant gt.-ive near Monmouth by th" Bnp’tst Sunday school The B’3C interurban ear was crowded and still others went out in automobiles and carriages cud some went on the 11:30 car- It was planned to have the picnic a we- k or so ago. tut the day set proved rainy and gloomy and it was |iostponed. To day dawned bright and fair and ideal weather prevailed. The Spangler reunion was also held today In the grove at St. John’s. Among the Decatur families attending were those of Jacob and Sylvester Spangler, A. II Sellemeyer, Mat Kirsch, Charles, Joe and Jacob Kless. Henscben and Bracht. The (Robert Evans family reunion was held yesterday at the Boyd Daugherty home near Monroe, and proved a delightful reunion and picnil for scores. The Evangelical church Sunday school lawn picnic will be held at the South Ward school house Friday from 2:30 to 9:00 p. tn. There will be contests, games and refreshments. Supper about 6 o'clock A cordial invitation to every teacher, Sunday school scholar, member and friends, of the church to be present and enjoy the occasion is extended. A special invitation to the members of the cradle roll and their parents to coni''. I.ay your work aside for a few hours it will do you good. Chairs will be on tlie grounds. COM. o Mrs. I). J. Dilling of Preble has returned from the Fort Wayne hospital where she underw- nt an operation five weeks ago for gall stones. She 1.-t doing nicely

Decatur, Indiana,Thursday Evening, August 21, 1913.

- ROME CITY LIKES “LADDIE.” Home City, Ind., Auk 21—J. P. Chapman, who is always interested in promoting anything that win be a benefit to Rome City or any of its citizens, lias taken quite an interest in the coming here of .Jean Stratton Porter, the noted Indiana authoress. Her latest book, “Laddie,” was placed on sale, according to custom, on the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Porter, August 17. The seventeenth, however, came on Sunday this time and Mr Chapman placed thirty copies of “Laddie” on his counter for sale, August 16. Before night he had sold seventeen copies and now has only three left. 1913 SENIORSAll memtiers of the 191:! graduating class of the I)-. H. S. are requested to be present at 7:30 at the home of Miss Lulu Atz, Friday evening, August 22, 191:!. Important. CHARITY RECITAL Will be Given at the Opera House Next Thursday Evening By J THE TRI KAPPAS Misses Marie Allison and J Bess Conn Will Sing— Anne Conn Will ReadThe Trl-Kappas announce a recital i , to be given at the Bosse opera house ,-j next Thursday evening, August 28, lithe proceeds of which will be given ■ ito charity■j The recital will be a high class one ’’ and tile numbers will be given by > musicians ami a reader, of the best • talent and training. Miss Marie Al- ■ lison, a member of the Tri Kappas, ’ will sing ami Miss Boss Conn, a singer, and Miss Anna Conn, a reader, who were class mates at the National ' l ark Seminary, Washington, D. c. will also assist. The Tri-Kappa is a society whose - charitable deeds have been many, and I ■ the proceeds from the recital will I I enable them to carry out more plans -In 1 i this line. Tickets will sell for b"> | cents.

MUST VACATE THE BULL-PEN” Such Were the Orders Received from the State Board of Health AND ACTED UPON — By Local Board of Health Last Evening— Must Hold : “Partiers” Elsewhere The death knell of Decatur s "bull | pen" has been sounded. Acting upon orders from the slate board of heaitn. the city board oi health last evening served notice on the owner of the property on which the notorious "bull pen" is located’ that it must be done away with and vacated for such purposes. For several months this property has served . :.s a gathering place for men to meet and drink to their hearts' content and the vagaries and indecent actions oi those who became intoxicated and under the influence of liquor has made the place one of the most filthy and unhealthful spots in the city, and a detriment to tlie business houses in < lose proximity to it. True, the place will be missed to a great extent by a large number of the "traveling" public, who delight to lie around . such places tn the hopes of securing I a hand out. but the majority of the citizens of Decatur are only too glad to get rid of the nuisance. It was thought that since this place has teen closed that the alley would now be taken advantage of to hold "beer parties," but an order from Mayor Teeple this morning to the officers not (Continued on Page 2) A NEW WARRANT 1 I ’ Has Been Issued by Cant i adian Government for De1 tention of Harry Thaw MAY SEND ’ TROOPS r To Mexico to Protect the i American Citizens and Their Property. ; (United Press Service.) > Sherbrooke, Que., Aug 21 —(Special f to Daily Democrat) —A supplement - ary warrant was issued today for tharrest of Harry Thaw under the ini migration law of Canada and is intended that he be freed on the charges he is now being held on. The ■ new warrant sharges him with having not entered Canada at a regular entering point. A postponement was i taken until this afternoon in the habeas corpus proceedings. The delay was made by agreement but more so at the request of Thaw's strong ar ray of council. District Attorney Conter of Duchess county, X. Y.. made an appeal to Judge Clobensky > in favor to take action to expedite the case. | Washington, D ('., Air. 21-—(Spec-ial to Dally D niocrat) Senator Pen rose today Introduced a resolution to place in Mexico such troops to act ns constabulary as would bo necces sary to protect American citizens and their pi-oi rty. This act was declar--1 co in the resolution not to ho an net p of war against Mexico. Albany, X. V., Aug. 21 -(Sp clal t< 1 Daily Deifiocrntl X’ew York is tin only state in the union witli two gov 1 ernors. Practical guides are point f ing this out to visitors nt the state * i executive chambers of Glynn and Sul ■ zer. Sulzer still continues to receive > the government mall. Matters s“em ■ to be in a deadlock. 1 Washington, D. (', Aug. 21 iSpe- • nil to Dally Democrat)- Deadlock over tlie recognition of th- Huerta ' government described the situation 1 today between tlie Unit' d States and >! Mexico. President Wilson still stands 1 ‘ pat ott his refusal to recognize Huerta ’ The diflllenities with Mexico are off! | (Continued on Page 2)

GARY IN THE LEADIn Divorce Statistics—Leads Lake County Cities. Gary, Ind., Auj-,. 21 — Sixty per cent of the couples recently married in Gary have wound up in th ■ divorce lourts. This city leads nil Lake County hi the number of divorces. High cost of living, irregular employment, irregular working hours, i lack of recreation places, all these I are supposed to figure in marital uni happiness here. The applications lot I divorces were based on variott ! charges: abandonment, desertion, inI compatibility and cruel and iultutimu I treatment. Noil-support and desertion were the commonest reasons at i s’gned In few of the eases were tie I parties of tlie same nationality. BECOMES CHECK Note That Becomes Due Is Practicallv a Check on The Account OF THE MAKER At His Bank—Bank Pays It From Makers’ Funds If He Has Any. Many depositors in this city and I Adams county banks have been stirI prised lately to learn that a note which was due had be. n paid by tin bank and charged to tlieir account Formerly when a note was presented, it was not imperative that the bank pay it. Hankers have receiv d tlie following explanatory notice frdtn the Indianapolis Clearing House a-soiia tion: "At its last session, the Indiana It-. .' islatnrc enacted what is known n thXegotialde Instruments Lav. wni'li is a codification o r tlie law r l-iti’i-; to checks, drafts and notes 1 his a t makes some iniiiortant changes in thlaw as ii previously existed in Indi • ana. Your espei ial attention is cal : cd to one such change effected by Article VI, S-< tion s7, which follow : When the instrntm it (promlfsor? note or acceptance) is made payal.l at a bank, it is equivalent to an ordei to the bank to pay tie- same for the recount of the p.rinr b al debtor there on." The attorney-general gives It as his opinion as have other lawyers, who have been consult'd, that undei tills law, when a note or i:weptance is made payable at a bank and the bank has sufficient funds of the mnk er or acceptor on deposit, it must pay the obligation or d' mand at ~ I'iiity unless it lias specific in-true tions from the maker or acceptor to withhold payment. Thus, in its le gal effect, a not- or acceptance pnv able at a bank becomes a maturit' practically a check on the bank when it is payable, and in the abs nee ol positive instructions to tlie eontrarj las in the case of a check on which payment lias been stopped) tlie hank must pay it on proper demand if the maker or acceptor has funds on deposit sufficient for the purpose. This law became effective on its promulgation April 3i), 1911. and therefore controls all notes or accept ances executed on that or a subse quent. date. The question arose over the right of tli' bank to pay all of the money on deposit to tlie credit o' the maket ■if file note whore the sum on deposit <toes not aggregate enough to make up the entire note and makers were anxious to know if tiie note under siicli circiunstani es was to ii- held until such a. time as the deposit Is sufficient to cover tli- fui o of the note and Interest thereonThe new negotiable Instrument law is looked on as a marked advance In Indiana bunking. In the past several weeks concerns have evaded the pay inent of notes by not making th'n> payable nt n hank and then going intitlie hands of a receiver and closing their places of business I' nvlni- tlie place designated for payment n: the note closed when tic note lecatne due. Under tlie now law a note is good no matter wlicr- it i- payable ICE CREAM SOCIAL. Tlie Epworth League of tlie Pleas ant Mills Methodist church announces an ice cream social for Friday evenI ing. August 22. on the church lawn. I Everybody is invited.

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'IN CARING FOR THE TUBERCULAR I Surrounding Counties Pioneers in Movement for Establishment of OPEN AIR CAMPS And Tuberculosis Cottages —Adams a Laggard In The Cause. I • Uotinties, both north and outh of I Adams, are takln,; precautions I against the spreading of. and provid- ’ ing for the tr»atment of, tuberculosis. | Ailaniz count.-, seems to be a sie-axd I in this though she undoubtedly lias j.ist ns many 'consumptives." it j seems that her people have not even i taken advantage of the ri ;ht and tirlvliege of theirs, of accepting free i treatment in tlie state hospital for tlie ! tubercular at Rockville. Adams county Is entitbd to a certain number of j free "beds" in the hospital. Why does some one adiiit-d, lake this opportunity tor a cure. Then there the ■ tuberculosis .und derived from Adams county's share of the sale of Red ■ Cross Christmas reals. Other count- . les are activity devoting th‘ir money jto the treatment of tliberealoals. Whj does not Adams’ Allen county is a pioneer mover in ’ this- Her first open air camp forth • treatment of tuberculosis consisted of I one tent, had one inhabitant and fosteied Ty the city, the county, th • township and antl-tubsrcnlosis so . | ciety. , With Secietar' Crull, oi the city board of health, and Trustee Henry Branning, Miss Byron, visiting nurse 1 low the sm-iety. want to the county , (arm and selected the site for the | tent, the county commitioners having given permission to use any spot I desired. The tent, which is one of ! five or six lieloncing (o th-» society I tnat are in use. was erect d and the I patient, who Is in the last stages of the disease took up his residence there lie will bo visited regularly by the nun and ills treatment auperlnt nded I - l int. HI food and othe - si'pjdi's will be-, furnished by the township. Jay County is also agressivo in the movement- The Portland Sun says: “Dr. W. D. Schwartz, secretary of the city board of health, has received from the state a io< latlon, blue prints with plans nnd si ■ cifications for tlie < rectlon of the mod -1 tuberculosis cottage, with a large number of bulletins and pnmphieta, caluclated to eduento the gen' .il pnbli.' on ho\ to prevent and cure the dreaded white plague. '.A cottage will be erected In this city at one-, through -tarted Friday and it is expected to have a noise in charge to tjtplnin the general uses oi the <ottag > and its equipment to a 1 who are interested. The present plans und-r conside'-a-tfon are to have the cottage erected it the fair grounds that ft can bo on display during fair wo k. September I to 5. The cottage is moveable nnd although the one to be built bore will bo r. -ri’l: r In size, nt th-- close of the fai". it will he brought to the city and established either ir- the court house grounds or at the County Hospital. “Little difficulty was - xp< riou -. d in getting local firms to donate to the erection of the building. The firm of Clin & Wilt has agreed to furnish nil lumber neeessarv; the Cartwright A Ih'ndlngton Co-Operation store will supply the rugs, blind: mid ‘ nrtains, needed: Hutchins A Arbaugh will omiip It with all iu . - ar. furnl’i're und A. A Adair will supply th nnint. “Those in char;- ' nr- now anxious that local (arpontc.s contribute tlieir servi -i in tlm ib- 1 ottn ■ which is built after the order of an open air alecpini room. \ number ol < o'punters could er"< ♦ the stnieturo in t no: i tillThis scientific treatment of the di- ' .case will assist in the p-.oveiatton of Ilie spreading of Hie disease. In , olden days, death after death oe. 0r- ,.,) especially in the country InfirmarI-,-'. Where the patients were, leit nt the men of tin s, din and ehamattendants The di- a.sc spread, thpatientH died, others tool: their bedts and rooms, without disint’ectin;', the clothing or furnishings, nnd in a diort time followed in the footsteps (Con'lnucd on Pago 2)