Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1913 — Page 1

Volume XI. Number 221.

DECATUR GAINED Assessment This Year is $111,345 in Excess of That of Last Year. THE COUNTY'S TOTAL With Addition of State Assessment is $16,249,945i How Divided. ar— With the slate assessments receive,! recently by the county auditor, added to those made by the township as•eseors, a rough estimate of the total assessment of the taxable propert yot Adams county is >16,249,945. The city of Decatur s assessment is >2J)2B,<9>, this being exclusive ot the sum ot 1104,115 deducted on account of mortgage exemption. The assessment tor the city last year was 11.917,450, this year showing a gain ot 1111,345. Other township and corporation assessments, as made by assessors and the state, are; Union | 729,5.'n Hoot 1.434.485 Preble 1.117,54(1 Kirkland 1,095,(1u0 Wahiugton 1,614,935 St. Mary s 1,075.955 Blue Creek , 764,775 Monroe 1,429,515 French 849.660 Hartford 970.000 Wabash 1,174.910 Jefferson 745,845 City of Decatur 2.028,795 Town of Monroe 151,464) Town ot Berne J 68.280 Town of Geneva 397,270 Bluffton's Total. The assessment of Bluffton is report td at >2.461.285 while the figures for 1912 were |2,431,00#- This shows a net increase in the city ot Bluffton round figures of >30,000 The total tax rate has not yet been figured, but it will be right around >4 on the >HW. SERIES’OF~MEETS I * Will be Held by Ministers of the Fort Wayne Methodist District. SEPTEMBER 29-OCT. 3 Following Ministers’ and Laymen's Convention at Fort Wayne. A series ot misalouary conventions for ail th* ministers and reneeaenta the laymen of the Fort Wsym* Meth! odist district will be held in the varl OUS Chur, firs of the district, Srptem ber 2M4h tober 3. A convention lor the ministers and hymen will be held in the Bimpsos church. Fort Wayne. Beinember 29, und then uiiuiet. rs will go in grout# ut tour to hold • <b*v convention in each of their r#W*rtl*« charges. The district is divided into sec turns D. T Htepiiehson ot the Deca ur church is .baitman of a*.Hon four and the meetings in bits dlvis lon will f* heM M •’ ,k * *“ r •ua charges' . Decatur. Sept 3#: (MIM. <« Hn.gland. O<t-2: Monroeville. Oct. I Emory Dunhsr Is chairman Os see UM three, meetings to he held as fol ‘Teneva. *♦!*• *: n. atur Ct.. Ort. 1: lush**. «*«• ’■ X rred l< Fisher, who will with the convention nt the HlM** ' h Lil al* »!>••* •“ *'*«**"• H ; P r lemt.ee M. In Geneva, and in Itec.tu in the avenins of that day. MR. yake sell his FARM. Ju . deal made Tuesday. Fenllnand t A., well known fanner. s.dd M ..hvacre farm locatnd cm Mud Pike. '* r miles Zn«h of necatur. to Georg. RtXePh. Ill.theeoMlder. Kk t <> l Mr vg|(fs Hon b«»n< Rl<* <* rm UM, k in exchange the «>«••** " tn Monroe townah Ip t' |tx)n h * prop . ns be c*“ P u,chM ’ * arty

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ADENOIDS REMOVED W6MSOMB 1 rands, seven year old son of James Hoagland, of West Monroe street, underwent a sucexaful operation yester ' day afternoon for the removal of adenoids. He is recovering nicely. The little boy has been a sufferer from asthma, also, and it la thought the operation will improve his general health much. —— ■ o- —— BERNE LADIES' CHORUS The public is asked to bear in mind the splendid sacred concert to he given Saturday evening at the Evangelical church by the Berne Mennonite ladies chorus of eighteen voices.. This will be given under the auspices of the Young Peoples Alliance and a free will offering for the local building fund will be received. EGLY--HARBOUR Well Known Geneva Business Man Weds Former Geneva Teacher. AT LAKETON, INDIANA I Bride is Miss Ethel Harbour, Daughter of Former Geneva Minister. "On Tuesday at high noon at the home of the bride in Laketon, Ind . occurred the marriage ceremony uniting .Mr. Adain Egly of this place and Miss Ethyl Harbour of Lak<-ton In the holy bonds of wedlock. The brine's father performed the ceremony," says the Geneva Herald. "Mr. Egly is a son of .Mr. and Mrs Samuel Egly oi this place and is a prominent stockholder in the Geneva Milling A Grain company Miss Har hour is a daughter of Rev. and Mm. O. V. 1.. Harbour, formerly pastor of the M. E. church of this place. She taught in the Geneva public schools tit that time and is well known to Geneva people. Both are very popular young people in social and church * irdes. and Mr Egly is known to be an honest and upright business man. "Mr. Egly and his sister, Rachel, •ent to Laketon in his motor car Tuesday morning and the ceremony was quietly performed at high noon after which Mr. and Mrs. Egly started on their honeymoon tour in bls ma chine, going to Detroit, Mich. Mr. and Mrs Egly will go to house keeping in their residence on West l ine street. • We heartily congratulate the hair py couple and wish them a happy married lite. ■ Adam knows what to exiiect when h<- gets back tor he very thoughtfully Poked on while Mr. Roop was getting his." A LUCKY ESCAPE I i Mis. Helga Laissen Corneil in Automobile Accident in Colorado. , SHE ESCAPED INJURY But One Member of Party of Thirteen Was Instantly Killed. Mrs. Helga Idirtaen Cornell, well i known here, was a member of a party i of thirteen, who figured In an aulomo r Mir accident m*r Lyons. Colorado, in r which one member of lhe portv. Anna Mary Johnaon. was killed. The part* ttM on a sight weeing ear descending a hili, whm th* brakes refused to work properly and the car was overd turned. Mrs. Cornell was thrown with a Iler head in » depression In the road, , and the car over her. but ah* waa in e jure# only slightly. Mias Jnhnaon'a cheat waa < rushed, under lhe back of e the car. Had lhe driver nnt hern skill ii ful. sod diverted lhe cmirae of the ma chine, all Would have been thrown n over sn embankment, with a tall of a , hundred fsrt (OMuaeH m> e*4« «) • I

“DECATUR CAN ANO WILL”

' — — q | ■ ■ I . XU _3Sgs i 1 JBMmEmHHi WATERS OF THE PACIFIC IN CANAL LOCKS FOR FIRST TIME. (Copyright by International News Service; Supplied by New Process Electro ('orporatiou. N. Y. Setms But Yesterday That the Canal Work Was Begun and That Tomorrow it Will be Finished. This photograph shows water entering the Mirnflores Lo< ks for the first time alter the blowing of the dyke which separated the canal I‘rism and the Pacific ocean. It was not intended, however, to allow the water in the locks so soon. After the water was let in the canal prism, the dyke blown up permitting the wa te t to get into the channel to o|H»rating level, the stoney gate valve which was supposed to keep water out oi the lock showiMt a bad leak which is permitting the water to enter the locks at the rate of three inches |>er hour. When lie picture was taken there was twelve feet in the west chamber lower locks, .Mirnflores. It seems but yesterday that congress was discussing whether the canal would be constructed as what is known as a ''water level" canal, or as a "lock and dam" canal, and now the above picture shows the waters of the Pacific in the canal for the first time The completion of this canal will mark the triumph of engineering skill over the claims that this canal could never lie h ullt.

WILD CATS SNIFF I — At Doors of Tent in Oklahoma Where Ted Battenberg Camped. i C A THRILLING TIME J — : Guide Becomes Lost En- r t route to Camp Across the Mountains—Retraces. Ted Rauenberg. a member of the | 1915 class of the Decatur high school. 1 v. ho has gone to Atoka. Oklahoma. t*>' teach school thia winter, is having 1 some thrilling experience* in the • wilds'* of Oklahoma. He stated that; l>r didn't know there were such wild stmts left In the United Stines His brother. James, superintendent' of the schools at Atoka, has a Sunday a hool class of boys, whom he took ’ on a camping expsdltimt recently, Ted being a member of the party. The boys' mothers accoasiatnied them and a wagon outfit was provided to take! the women by the road through the I valleys to the camp back of the moun-1 ’ tains. Hix of the noys, for whom there | w. not room. de< Ided to take a short, , <ut over the mountains, to the eaap < twelve miles fmm Atoka. Instead of the longer round-abount way through 1 the valleys. They hired a guide and started out When they reariiml the top of tin rionntain they walked about for a little while, and the guide becoming/ I .bewildered, started Ills party down ’ the same aide of the mountain again ■ which they had Just ascended. Instead i oi down the other side, They were i lost for n while, but finally reached ' camp. There they pitched their teut t in the brush-grown woods. and during > the still hours of the nights, wild cats' • clten prowler! about the doors of the i tents, trying to get nt the meats they . <srt'*d. Squirrels and wl’d turkeys - were gotten in abundance, laist year t the same party had n longer stay In fl camp. end shot sis fine deer. Ted apent lust year in Indiana university ■ and the scone this year has shifted to » quit* a different spot. Atoka la quite I s progressive little city, hut there are spots a few miles sway that are very wild, indeed

Decatur, Indiana,Friday Evening, Septembe 19, 1913.

TO BE “AT HOME." In Portland After a Month's Stay at Oden, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. .1. \V. Hendricks. now spending their honeymoon in their summer home at Oden. Mich., expect to be at home at 31fi East Main street, Portland, after a month's stay at Oden. Mrs. Hendricks was formerly .Vl«s Gertrude 1 DeVoss of tills city. Their wedding took place last Saturday evening at ♦’> o'clock, September 13, at the home of Charles . Wertman. rector of the Episcopal church In Petoskey tolellMerest Floyd Luttman Will Dissolve Partnership With Father and Move TO BLUFFTON. IND. Change Will Become Effective Nov. 10—Will Conduct Dairy There. Ed Luttman and son. Floyd. who have conducted a dairy In this city since the tenth of last November. will dissolve partnership on tits* same date this year, thus making their iHsalness connections with each other just one year in lengthElovS Luttman la the selling partner. His father will buy his share and conduct the same dairy and milk line in this city as was run by him and his son. The change will not take place, however, until November in and during the tuenntinue they ’will Still be partners. Hoyd dlsaaolved partnership with his father for the purpose of moving with Mrs. Luttman to Muffton and go Into business there for himself, The Uiuffton News *on tains the following article on the new dairy to be started there “Ed Luttman, who bought a tract of land east of Uiuffton. near the W. A. Lipkey place, from Dr. latndfalr, a few days ago. la preparing to engage In the dairy business nnd will deliver milk In Uiuffton. John Conrad. Ilvimr east of Hhiffton, will Im Interested In the project also, and will liny milk In the German settlement and will In turn deliver it to Mr. Luttman, who will retail mltk In ltliifft<m. They ex pact to have their equipment install ed and plana completed readv to embark in business within a tew weeks.''

THE COURT_NEWS Mrs. Foster Wagers Given a Divorce—Also Custody of Two Children. CASE IS DISMISSED Against Dr. Amos Reusser— Marriage License to Linn Grove Couple. Hoy Woodruff will undoubtedly soon lie back liehind Hie bars of the reformatory at Jeffersonville. A telegram from that institution to Sheriff Durkin gave the word that an officer was being sent here after the young man who lias violated his parole. The young man is now in jail here, accused, tnough not officially, charged, of forgery. It Is alleged that he endorsed a money order afid got the money on Hie same at Preble, the order having lien given cut to Billy O'Brien for ten dollars. The case against Dr. Reusser of Berne, charged with running bis automobile without a tail light, was <iisinissed today. Dr. Reusser alleged that he started out with a light, lint that it went out while- on the trip and he t’td not know he was running without a light. A divorce was granted Foster Wag <rs from Earl Wagers She was also given the custody <>f their "htldron. Gladys L. and Ira until further order of the court. The costs are adjudged against the plaintiff. The defendant did not aptiear to tight the (Continued on Page 2) A COOKING GLASS Will be Fitted Out With Utensils by the Morris Store of Decatur COMPLETE OUTFIT Per Student Will Cost $1.12 —Manual Training BenchOrdered Today. ■■ ■■ Th * seventh and eighth grade’ and high sc hcMtl freshmen girls will la-gin their cooking c lasses next week with •i bright and shining comtdete outfit of cooking uteiislls. m- furnished bj the Morris Store of this city. The contract for supplies was let to this cccmpunv, by the ac-hcail la*rd, their bld teeing >22 45 or about 11.12 for each one of the twenty complete outfits. Thu outfit for each student includes a tablespoon, a teaspoon, a knife, a fork, egg teenier, two chlnn bowls, measuring cup, bread jcuti. custard cup. ala<> for muffins and popovert, grater, spatula, sluice pun. frying pan, biiscult culler. I small tray. Th** list wan made by Mr. Kauffman of the Indiana Lightning company. a» an estimate of what would tcc- m-,-dc-<l. Mr. Kaiiffniaii having a wide expeiicnee in till* line He also furnished n rough estimate t»f the coat, ns |l.3’t per student, but did nd enter Into cccmpc-Htion wltli the Morris i-ccmimny The hidiicmi Lighting company la Imlay Installing the gas appliances in the clouientli- aclence rooms, and all • 111 In* ready f«r iceglnnlug study next week For Manual Training. The hoy’s department of the* vewa tlonnl edm nllmi Is nlao lining given nttnnticm The moving of the science eqitl|ime-nt from »!»«• mom In the leasem*nt hi the first floor of he t'entral we hunt building, la sho being done' today, The »< i'-nce* depnrtmrtit will lake the* room vacated by Mias Peter son's pupils, who were* mova<| to the library httlWlng. and tin* manual train Ing c Usses wilt hsve the Imsemetit room vm ntecl be th** seteme. The achnol bon rd will mnrt this aft<*rnooti with rtuieerlnteadent C. E. Hpsnldlng iiad an order will lw* placed for about twenty teem bus and also fur the loeiU These will be gotten h«re nnel Install rd as soon as possible, that the boya tnnv begin work at lhe earliest time I oMibla.

ANNUAL “HARVEST HOME." The annual "Harvest Home" servh res will he Sunday evening at the Concord Lutheran church. The Rev. A. K. Mamma will deliver the harvest home sermon, in thankful recognition of tlie bounteous harvest, ami tlie splendid fruits of tlie season will be used iii decorating. Everybody is invited to attend. —_... — ~... . SHOULDER DISLOCATED Ed Whitright of the Confer Ice Cream company, is off duty the result cf an injury. He was carrying a i>i<ci of ice when he slipped ami fell. His right shoulder was dislocated, tlie ligaments torn In tlie shoulder, ami Hie entire arm sprained from the shoulder to wrist. He will lie disabled for some time- , o HERE FOR BURIAL Body of Mrs. George S. Gault Will be Brought to Decatur This Evening. FUNERAL SUNDAY Rev. Griest of Simpson M. E. Church. Ft. Wayne Will Officiate. The body of Mrs. George Gault, o five miles south of Fort Wayne, will be brought to this city this evening about five o'clock and taken to the koine of her sister. Mrs C.C.Cloud, on West Monroe street. On Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock a private tun •ral service will lie held, tlie Rev. | Grb-st of tin- Simpson M. E. church Fort Wayne officiating. Burial will ; lake place In the Decatur cemetery Mrs. Gault's death, ag stated >e«Itt rday, occurred Thursday noon, as- ! ter a long and baffling illness. An I autoiisy was held in tlie afternoon by j Dre. Ensln ami Van Buskirk of Fort Wayne, and her ailment found to be liver trouble. Tin* deceased was formerly Miss Rose Steele and was a daughter of the late Joseph Steele, a pioneer resident of this toiitity. Mrs. Gault was born <)t toiler 29. 1958 and at death was IB'ty-seien years, ten months and nine ten days nf age June 12. 1882. she was married to George 8. Gault, the sorrow stricken husband surviving. Mrs. Elm-r SpragWß. Monroeville: Mrs. Al Straub of Peterson; Mrs. f’eul.eu Beery Kirkland township; and Mrs. C. < loud of this city are the only surviving sisters. ' Mrs. Gault was wldelv ami faior 1 ably known ami there is ntm h sorrow ’ j over her demise j - - FINDS A PEARL - - - Ft. Wayne Young Woman at Restaurant Here Bites on Oyster Pearl IN THE DRESSING » I While Eating Scallo|>c<l Oysters—Believes It's a Valuable Stone. amnse — — Mine Jeanette Lenover. Il Foil i Wayne young worn tin. who rotuintal - home on the II 30 ear after altemlln: to bii-lm-sn in thlw city uill ■ nrri I hack home with her |d<-usnnt rec«,| !«»• lions of het visit here; also a g.usi I ► licit pearl which she beltevea Is gtiltt . uluiible. '| Mias l.entiver went to a rowtauran .or tier illutier and nninna otli* r tiling i ! ordered m*all»|ie<l oysters Willie oat '• ng the oysters site bit Into some liar, ii substance In the drowsing will* h sli ; r.t first thought was oyster shell. Ex t nmlnntlon however, proved It was si ». < rater pcgrl of a gtaal else ami per I feet form Mias la*novor brtlvres tb«' ■ with a little poll'hlna preperatlm e toe pearl will prove to Imp quite a »*• liable one.

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'an insane man ’ BLOWS UP HUME I ____ I Bloomington Stone Mason Uses Arm Full of Dynamite to Wipe Out Family ONE CHILD DEAD t Another Badly Hurt and Man Blown to Atoms—r • • Gaynor’s Body Arrives. , (United Press Service,) Bloomington, Ind, Sept. 18—(Spec- • al to Daily Detnia-rat I Hoping to «i|>e out his entire family. Mack Hurst, an Insane stone mason aged • 49 years, loaded himself with dynamite ami crept into the room occul led by ills three children, Maud 16, Bessie 12. aud Elizabeth 8, blew himself to small bits, killed the eldest daughter. Maud ami seriously injured lhe other two. The youngest girl escaped with a badly mangled leg but may die. "We will all die together," he yelled as he entered the room. Hi* wife and another daughter were in another room and eseai>ed with slight injuries The house was iMtdly wrecked. Hurst's head was found In one corner of the tied room and other parts of his Ihhllv thirty feet away. The body of Miss Maud was fearfully i mangled Hurst had been declared insane three weeks ago but had shown mi signs of violence. Authorities were awaiting orders to take him to the it, i sane asylum. Windows in houses for -a block each way were shattered and the whole town turned out. New York. N. Y., Sept. 18 (Special 1 to Daily D<*ni<» rati The body ot Mav--1 or Gaynor arrived here early this morning alxsird the Lusitania and was . nnu-dtetely conveyed to a municipal boat on w hh-h were a number ot r-rtv officials. Escoited by a platoon of po--1 ii. e hhe hearse proceeded to the home In Brooklynwh“re the body will remain (Continued on Page 2) RECOGNIZES HIM I I Acting Governor Gwyn Says Sulzer Acknowledged He Has Jurisdiction. > > 1 ’ IMPEACHMENT TRIAL > - Now on—Sulzer Loses First Fight—Lawyers Ask Dismissal of Proceedings. I United Pre»H Sen he I Albany. N. Y.. Sept. 19 iHpeelal to *< Dully lieniiMrutt It wm announceii lute this sit.rtiooti at the offices of Acting Governor Gwyn that his claim* as governor had lu-.-ti re<ogiiDed by Governor Sulzer The question arose in <oiineit(on with the extradition nt a prisoner arrested iu t'hiii. Buhter la whl to have sent a biter to Gwvn ■ slating that he iGwyni had jurisdiction to set. Mlmny. N Y.. H*pt. IS trtpe, ial tn 1 Dally Demiarsti Governor •ulrar'w Ivwyero lost the first fight in the Im-|4-s< limcnt proceed Illgs trx|a< Wketl I' I loco- clmllenued by the d.teiire w»r* ulhiwed t<» retain »*■*(* on the tauird. The articles «»f im|u>a< lim. iit were read 1 and Attorney Mar-hall, iiii|>emlng tot *' Pulser, naked Hint the entire pr«M’ved‘ * lugs Im* dlwinlsie-d on the grounds that Y the court I# without jurisdiction and '• that the action ot the asseiuMv 10 relurtilug lhe cliurgrw ws# unroaMiftt* l*' tloiml be< suer I' was a »i>e. lai »es«inn mid the a. i(<*ii nst reeommrndrd by I't the ginertior. 4* _ . i - (, i * f d- ATTkNOffD FUNERAL. ii—s—- >*’ .Mrs Jehu Morgan and dnughttr. Elx va. ot Monroeville. r»turned home thia in sttermsm afi-r sltendlng the funeral r- of their aunt. Mrs, Drusilla Kummer*. »« field this morning at the home of her o daughter. Mrs. John f'onrM. Thsy I- were a< comysnlevl tr> Fort \Vtfn6 by Har Magner.