Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1913 — Page 1

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FIX THE DATE ■ FOR PRIMARY Committee Agrees on Tuesday, Sept. 30, for Democratic Election. ♦ — DURKIN IS CHAIRMAN ' Organization Completed a;; ’ |-Rules Adopted for the f; - - Contest of Ballots. democratic <h\ primary wiii i a ’**r* l l l Tu, sil,.; S, ' 1' tewbor at vn-.ldi , iln ,. th,.' , ;U1 .,. %‘antes or mayor, clerk. treat..,i-..,- | pHtte eouncflmen will i>.. < t .!e, t,.<i jjjfc”' 1 ' 5 * iirf lie. i<lv<i upon hl the ( ill 1 Mf’®"’- wli!<l a, heaihmar i fur H"' I' ll ’l one ”1 organization | Efr* 1 " 115 "' ,nin K. T. .1. Dinkin presi.l---•d »«W after asking \|,., pftsent. the new eommitLo got ||MM)wn to Jmsiness. r. ,|. Harkin wa. - chairman; .1, o Sellemey.rl Bftdleretai 1. and Joe M. Fariaml. tn-a opinion as to die <Lit« op the | rimari i ■Ry it was decided to fix it i<„ the £ thhtiet 1 thus allow nt the . anilal;,. 1 & ittple time to make a . ampaign t.. | K tore election day. The democrats ar.-1 E proud of the record of the ailminisira I lion of the past eight .• r-. .i."ng| > Which time the if. s indebt dues*' Am* DFcfi rciiiici'U s I ou.mio, bringing ■ <« OR <I>WI below the (WO |.er ai h*i-e,| by law. and they are willing t< ‘ (Continued on Page I) PREVENT “FIRES .State Department Sends Om i Advice in Advanse of Fire Prevention Day. GIVE GOQD ADVICE Which if Followed Would! no Doubt be Means of Great Saving in State. Indianapolis. Ind.. Sept. 'J —iSpccia I to Daily . Democrat.) If von don't •, ant tour house to burn: Don't go into closets looking fo' c < thing with a lighted mat'll Don't kiudl- fires In stoves wit! • loi c«<*ne Iton’t thaw out frozen w»|ei i>i|»"j with a torch or Inntp. Don't use gasoline for cleaning in a dosed room. 1 I. wlilt Dtmt I<m»k For Ktiß lenkH witn | match or lamp Don t allow lace curtains near ga> 1 rack. i». Don't thron cigarette* or .tar. • nwuy if lighten. D&n t forget that matHirs Han’t hans: ywr clothing n«»:»r op< «> Ur** orrtm* I tfrm i bum leave* nn<l tkad K ra * on win*' |jg< hunt '•»rr* Ito hnt<» the <hhnn< Mw SSBLi. , itvmrd <dh*<* a the Ltruetlons to «•’ Dil* • • ” *' ’’’ Kirn* i ht • • Kwri.i'ni: W I! ' I F ■»w Samuel Ralato” 1,1 w’BHB fir*’ rlll*'!'* all ’ SKRt t him rd In uuh tn* i» • I That 6i> I• r • nt <» 1 SW* Blrai. and that therefore ‘ n n* (i, uartniont like, fcr the Hr* u*ftt ‘" 4 ,| nJ tn consider Hurl. p(|) , n higher atabdur.l Im 'i”'"- - .ntti •<!. tC'C ••’HI’ H Iftlo it* roniHP

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the pnhli. about Fires and their catiß\lonthly bulletins are sent broad , ‘ i ' omr the state giving the inter- • sting tacts about state fires. From • one to time, pointed advice iibout preventing conflagrations have been ■'"lit out by the department. Investi- . gations of fire, in most cases, lias been prompt. Al .in as a cause of tiros Is being ; hivestigntod by the tire marshall's "il ■ e and it is hinted that sensational 1 . latioim may be uncovered in the 1 mar future, (langs of fire-bugs have ecn broken up by recent arrests in a ago. South Head and New York '' 1 the individual operator who fires property to collect insurance is ■ till a menace, it is said. ORINKINC PLACES : Decatur Man Reports Drink- | ing Fountains on Downtown Corners Popular I IN OTHER CITIES May Present Petition to the Council for Similar Fountains in This City. \ well known citizen of Decatur ho io ntly returned from tv tour ■ over the north part of the state, re--1 ports that in a number of those cities ‘ it'd, he noticed that on various intown corners were stationed san- | miry drinking fountains. They are , i.iexpensne and most convenient es 1 pmiallv for strangers and for the 1 ormers and others who come here to He aul he particularly notie ! u that in one or two towns they did | not have these places and it was al | tin • im;c,-“ib!e to secure a drink o. | ’eV - with,>ct going into a restaurant. In ti;is city <>t course we have the i town pump and the fountain, nrithei . which are ranitary and the mat. w ho si oK" to us is considering pre I c.iriiic 1 < tition to the eoucil that I ; ■ bl'< sanitary drinking places be es I tahlished h ie. Some months ago flu I 'lri-K ,|.| 1 girls set apart a fund foihe placing of a drinking fountair 1 : ear the inounument and it Is verv itkeh that il this matter were caller I ;c their attention they would placr j ■ : fountain on any corner in th. it.i Other so< leties might do like ; wise and this would take care of tht I . Ituation nicely Its worth the trod ; uh of thinking about it any way so 1 ill these little inconveniences put to I either are what makes a conitnunit; I worth while. • EVE OFCAMPATgN 1 Rev. Benj. Borton to Begin ; a Nine Weeks' Campaign to — ~ (DOUBLE ATTENDANCI 1 "Fpens Sunday With Home coming Week—The Calendar Given. i;.>v, 1 ictijamln Horton, tmstor of tin 1 irlsiton 1 hurt'll Is distributing liter 1 <ure among the inetuhors of hi l , liitnlt relative to u special nfn> ~, : uttendanc e campaign whirl v id 1..' launched next Suudxy, B*p I, .. , It, with the Home-cotnlllV' ~ The help °F ea< h one Is nskec ' iiiglii to completion the follow (l |,, me and definite calendar for ■i .. nine weeks’ double-nttendnm * ,s,.i tember 11 Home coming day hen uicutlon la ovet nnd nil return t th»* I'm the TH September 2H- Rally day In the Hi • October l- 1 Young Peoples imy— I p.nv for Christian Endeavor. Junior 1 | |.| ll |...tvor and Men's Brotherhood. ■ I October 19 Prayer meeting rallyiJ v \V. it. M. rally day and Aid society „ November 2 Bogins ei.ingallath week There will be short sermon* « ay the pastor In preparntlon for the > ~.t lt < losing day. Noiemb. i b Derision day A greet rinon and » great plea tor decision , | „r Christ and the church. j

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SI 1 r bKklw’W k J ■ <i»W W “*** **”* M '*** *” - - — 4 Ift-DCAN PRINCESS MARRIED IN LONDON. (Copyright bv International News Service; supplied by the New Process Electro-Corporation, N. Y.) , Had First To Be Admitted Into The Brahmo Religion—The Faith Os Her Husband. Princess Indira, the beautiful daughter of the Gaekwar of Baroda, was married in Loudon recently to .Maharajah Kumar Jitendra Narayan, ot t'ooch Behar. The bride, who is twenty years of age. had to take past in ; three ceremonies. After she hud been admitted into the Brahmo religion the faith of her husband —at hei hotel, a move was mdde to the Pad dington register office, where the civil ceremony was d • This over, the wedding party returned to-the hotel where the third ceremony took place. No photographs were allowed' to be taken, while tills, the Indian rite — was in progress, but the couple courteously re-emu ted ft. The photograph shows them re-enacting the'lndiana rite of sitting with their hands entwined beneath a < hair of ever-la | ing Howers.

REUNION NOTES Meyer-Klopfenstein Families Have Splendid Reunion Last Sunday. WILL MEET HERE Next Year—French-Runyon Families Met South of Linn Grove. Sunday, September *,• the annual Meyer-Klopfenateln reunion was held it the home of Jonathan Baumgart ver, near Vera Crur. I hone pre*-nt aereMr. anil Mrs. Emanuel Klopfen stein. Mis. tier. Marth and daughter Homer A each 11 man and lady friend. Miss Ethel Kennedy, of Kort Waytie; I'll Meyer and family, Charles Meyer and lamily and l.ouva Btoneburnei of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Reulten Meyer. Paul Graham and lady friend, o» Monroe: Mrs. i<<Na Wegmlller and daughter. Julia, and son. Harold. Clyde Kramer, wife and babe of Gene va; Mr*. Elnter Raymond. Wolcot vllle, Jeff Klopfenstein and family. Mrs. Wefel and children of Preble, t.ieob Klopfenstein and family, Mrs. l'dial|Mh Baumgartner ami daughter of Bluffton: Robert Meyer. Arnold .'♦sehllman and family, Sam N»u»laum and family of I.lnti Grove and vicinity; H»nry Meyer, wife and daughter. laivlnii, l*oter Blberateln and wife, Katie Hlbersteln and son. Ed; Mrs Chris Hllty anti three children. Mrs. John Gerber. Mrs. Fanny Trout and sou of Berne; Mr and Mrs Fred tlroli, Jacob Rolli, onus NeucnHthwander. Lee Bovine, Amy Schalter, Mm. David Kline ami daughter. Mary, of Vara Crni and vicinity: Fred Matthys and family, Fred Hannl ami lady frlvnd. Aldula Matthya; Peter Klopfenstein and family, Dnvld Klopstein anti family. G<M»rge e Klopfenateln i nd family, Frank Meyer and family, Harve Meyer and family, onus Meyer ami family. Henry Presdorf ami fam |ty. Charley. Levi. Emma and Marie th-yer; Netti* Neuenschwander. Wai. .{pen her, Lola Klopfenstein, Adam. Jake. Amelia, Ida, Sylvia. Elisabeth. Sophia Strnhrn. Rolla Roundcbuah ami family. Mary Fiat her, John Franhlgor and family. Dell Fraublger and family, John Rich ami family. Nick Rich and wife. J J, Rich nail wife, Noah Kith and wife John X M<>-or and family. I>an Voder and wife, Dnvld Kotler and wife, Jncoh and Noah Stucky, Frank Stucky and family of

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, September 9, 1913.

Allen county. Jonathan Baumgartner J and sons. Oral mid Dewey; Mr. and Mrs. Oswald O. Sprunger ami son, Nolde Quite a few were present who* ■ names were not registered. The next reunion will be held on the first Sunray, in September, I!H4. at Steele's ;ark. Decatur. The gath*-ring of the French and Kunyan families was held Sunday at the Wijliam Hall grove, south of Linn Grove. There was a brief program, ineluding an address of welcome by L. U Dunbar and a response by Rev i Baker, before the dinner, which was spread at the noon hour. In a business sesaeaion at 1.30 tile following officer were elected: Hub-rt French, president; E. i>. French, vice president, and Andrew French, secretary mid treasurer. An interesting pro1 gram of declamations and songs comI pleted the day's festivities. The n- xt gathering will be held at the sarmplace on the first .Sunday in Septem her. ISU Messrs. Eugene Runyon i nd Levi Miller attended. BECAME VIOLENT William Baumgartner De dared Insane This Morning and Confined IN COUNTY JAIL i. Will Be Sent To Easthaven ] For Treatment As Soon As Possible. William Baumgartner, n voung man , ol Preach township, who wii>. have ar J rived at his twenty-first year In Octo- . ber, was declared insane this mom I ing. and wna brought to Ini! here tin I til he can be taken to the Insane Mv r lum at Richmond, which will he <lom ► at soon ns there la room and he can i he accepted. Home time ago the . i young man became unbalanced, hut r, vvas glv.n gixMl cam nt home and re covered. Igiat Sunday the tnannlt' •I recurred anil when he became violent . i hist nlaht and It »»• n>«-e*»ary to tl" • i him to hla bed to keep him under con . I trol, it wan decided lust to take him I tn the Instilutlon for treatment The r, imtiiest board comprised. Dra. I» D •i ami H. (Hark ami J. M. Millet, and, i .iiirthe of the f*ca< r A. K Stoneburn i, nr of Kirkland townwhlp. I. «~.i - '■ —, ». ■ <—■ - i—l" —-»• il K. E Shamp, the real-estate man I ‘ left last night for Springfield. 11l , to f ‘ look after business matters.

A SHORT SESSION —— Os the City Council Held Monday Evening— Resolution Passed ■ACCEPTING NINTH ST. Final Assessment Roll on , Monroe Street Adopted —Allowed Estimate. The special session of th 1 citv lOUUcil held Monday evening at tip. public library to adopt the final a. s( ssmeHt roll oh .Monroe stre. t’aud to i ass a resolution acieptlng th Ninth street improvement was attended by every member. Councilman Hale e- - he being at Home City. The official business opened with the reading of a certificate ol comp). - tfon of Ninth street, commencing at Monroe, ami then running north to the Nuttman road. The certificate u'so included that an esthiffit.- should fie allowed to Contractor Woods This i was passed ami adopted. A resobtI ticu accepting the street an I ordering the city engineer to prepare the preliminary assessment roll vias read amla motion made <o adopt it. This was seconded and carried. The street and sewer cominitt I made its final report on the Monroe ' street improvement and filed a motion ‘io place it on record. The prelimin ary assessment roll for Monroe street '.as adjudged as final am<l the city’ clerk ordered to notice to the property owners to pay in their as i (Continued on Page 2) ATTACK RUBBISH And Give Premises a Gener al "Cleaning Up” on Fire Prevention Day. Isay the officials | Rubbish is Primary Cause o! ! Many Fires—Solution is Given. The suggestion by the state fir ; marshal's department that Friday. «< toiler y, be observed us Fire Proven I Hon Day has met with puhllc approval' I and definite Steps toward the ffiiv's oh I ►•■rvance are being planned .uni taken Between now and the first of Octo ■ I er. probably, the pro, laimition o' I Governor Balaton will l>e ishiiml, call 1 ing attention to tht day and r.'com I I lending Its obst i van. e. one Os the s|,e. (lie puriUMU-s of Fire I Prevention Day is that of indm Im | i Itlzens to el-an up their premises. Fire prevention will gum nitvli from I the general educational effect m th> I day's observance, but direct and s| e I < ilu benifita arc being sought Ont- of these has to do with ‘ clean I ing up." Cleanliness is on*, of tic I i renest and most effit lout ot tire pre | ventativta. Waste material and run | bhh that is permitted to accumniaft lEHeya—as well as yard* Is a eon I tanl in mu e to the safety ot any <om ; munlty. Since .May 15 the fin marahal d<> | parttnent has reeoiled reports of »f | j fires taused dlrertly In rubbish Tlu i k»Hfrom t'l-se ftie* was »11.N.11 Thlr h.M la not la,when the chances sot 1 wholosnlc destruction »re considered Ereh and every one of the fires mlgli* I have develop'd into a blast that would * Itnto swept sway the entire propert I lof a < mnmuhlty. Each of tlicae Ct. I I Pie* might easily have been pr taut In some communities business tiicb I pre uniting In building small brlvk I furincer nt a point ccnvanfwni to »l’ I in those furnaces the refuse nnd nib. •Osh from oat h merchant's store h< I luirtimt oat h day. Tima the refiis... I* I not left In the store rooms nt night. where H may heroine Ignited, nnd tie’ I . rti'ideaa nti'l dangoriais burning of I Hash In th« n|>«n air is molded. Fire rhloin and <ltv oAcUdn hue I rhnwn a disposition to <m< ourngc «It i tarns to clean up on Fire Prevention I (Continual on Page 21

I WILL PREVENT FLOOD DAMAGi I Kokomo, Im!., Sepi !i (Special i.> j Dully Democrat) This city is about! , ready to start work on plans lor pt.- ’ ; venting a repetition of the Hood dian: ■ 1 , ter of last spring. The committee of , twelve have brum told by eiiglncr" that straightening of Wildcat Creek I is the first neeissaiy tep it i piobalde tile committee Mill act o.i , 1 this report The exp use of the woi I. j could easily be taken rare of by th j p'ty treasury. The dirt Iron, tb ex | nil nt ion is to ,■ iiea, cd alini,.: .1 in side of the Ji'rock to afford th • Hi st i foundation lor the proposed lioulevar! system. FO CONFERENCE >lßev. L. W. Love of United Brethren Church Left Today for Waterloo pTO ANNUAL MEET I I Question of Merging Met! .- ! i odist and U. B. Churches Will be Considered. ' Rev. L. W. Love, for the past yea, , I pastor of the Decatur I'nitvd Breth leu circuit hit today for Waterloi , to attend the annual meeting of th" | .' St. Joseph conference of the Libera! I i Unit d Brethren ehmv-’., beginning < ’I September In and continuing for one ; w eek. From 500 to Guo visitors are exjiect • Ci and Waterloo' hospitably .nd a< ■ cemmodntions will be gtently taxed. 'I he -■ on v. ilil. •. 1 ■!, i j nominations church built at, a cost 1 jot »i::,(b •>. The Liberal C It churches ’ I of Indiana are divided into three dis-1 ■ tin* t group*, an<l art* < alb*d ih**. | Southern Indiana coni>r**iH e th • ■ Jcseph fonfereiN r. The total <hin h ' bershii> ct tin* «!■<t«* is !’»■" *lH*. ! | The gw.;ia| hk al limit* iu the : u ' Ohio state line to lit it i• »hI an far xnith a* Kok«>nio and is htuit-1 | ed on th* north by Mi< hitfan. *1 i K . I the largest conference, having a men* J . tiershlp of 25.000. Ther<’ nr* - • ightv ’ ' Ministers and a number of others who i preach, but ar* not a< th <• | :Mtor> 'l ids will b«* the si .'tb th ; ;in \ a>on of the St Joseph rt-nb r u • s nr<. j I Ltehon H. H. Font of Dayton. Ohio ; I will preside over the conferenc ( drees next Wednesday morning (Continued <m Page 2) ft PRACTICE CAME Os Base Ball Will he Played Thursday With Township Teachers by HIGH SCHOOL BOYS » Will Follow Teachers’ Pre ‘ ' liminary Institute to be Held Here. < vh»« Ini. 1 acting in trim for it |n.. I „. p« ol the rmilitv. Tills Will b . | h nil miry Inwillnte to l*r h* Id h<’t** tor I I th* IfarherK nf thor* toaiiahlp*’ Ml*. St<‘ph» , li. then** Gentian trne’.i-1 I *•} oi th* Dr atur hl*h arbool and! : Mt. <*ul|g th* nr* < <llhliH*tcb« I't«’M*h er. ate alr»»»dt In the ath’rtlr a* in*; I ; Io rr mid gm <oa< hlhg tit** hoya They . «xpret to inak*’ llilttas fm the I i liarh«rs and n gtatd same is nnth lpat l i* d The uthlrth' araaon for the high ! rprnltig o nrly b* •b” ‘ I i stlafm tlun ot aii ronrrtned. . —— j. SEES EXHIBIT IN TORONTO '| VJ. Smith haa irttirnrd from Hr' fI ft io. N Y.» and Toronto* Panada ti | Toronto me ah»ndM the natiottat e« * I htblt* which Im oft i tt* ot dt*f of alste fairs, onh on a mm h larger! n|»calc At H/lffnlu h* attended th I I’crry rnntcuninl c.dpbt»llnn. j 1

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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION Will Soon’be Established Tn Decatur Schools—City Supt. Spaulding s. r ELD A CONrERENC’J With the State Officials — H«is Leai ned Defii ■ e Requirements. t'on in the schocls. on arroiiDt o, th t . inability of o. 1.. Van* <*, te with m is i< | i ■. J tin, ~ . ( jt port o hi» ( onferon - finitely what* Is »'Xfw*rted • ’ i ■ as tberc Wus Moult dtuibl abont thir. (ContUiUSfc on Pa.;e 2) BELIE THEIAME Hell Family Near Sharon Engaged in Selling Ice Cream—Are Resolved TO KEEP COOL And Indulge in Some Nove! and Startling Advertising; • * nut her Flgn, which rtannts In *»no*a • Still another boars th** |n« VOII to 1 if*’- *i'<* "Raise ’ Two L-ttlt Hsds ..ml (‘nth»rlne t|r>U, th ’ father nnd hiutlvr, nnd two children, Anna \V, H< 11, a «Irrk. and Martin He ), an lb II fui asteral y« arr. although do* int a large in the PMt.idu - ■ ■■ hl* name in 4*l * r* ■ »««*••. ! o» the umlm. <omnmut It* mW I Hain** wan Muro to cause. Mr. Holl, w*r. ha#* thrown • ill restraint and i** pletdNirhftlt tl«** tn«u with 11. H" in *ll • <il»r» ' wiitn • xtmtu: • flv-i »«>’•*» Malß ffrrT'b )• by • bill i.i ,cil * , u rcudilp. "Hell W ’'cr- don’t miM th* kU.c ‘ A blm k tunucthe Mr Hit* elgn •> «m. in|'m d '‘ten will find ewvWhb' Ikctu U.liiH da... Hell' il«.'»MWi ' The •»*« *l* n *hi'h, ho” vrf. *(• trail' tb.‘ •"I attention l» In front M Hell'# place oi btieiti «« It •ent. n voting couple v«i>ng fie t > cut :<mt tke xounc wumau tu iu-i nr'>d "Hell for mine ftlwffV*." 'lb <. 1