Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1913 — Page 1

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WAS LITERAL "CLOWBLAZE" Dedication of Part of Sol. diets’ Monument to the Women of the War. WAS VERY BEAUTIFUI Figures Shown With Lights —lmpressive Program Was Rendered. The dedication exprci« M for lb(1 Al , I 5?” tounty sol,li, ‘ r< monument dosed evening in a l itr . ral - bla2(l , Os glory" when the east side of the I fc monument was dedicated to the "wo | men Os the wars.” The scene was ■teHliantly lighted for the se rvi( . M Hfroper. At a striking point In the pro Ryan the general lights were turned g off and the beautiful red, white and l"blue lights, opposite the alto rdiet fig. B. « r, ‘ of tile nurse and wounded soldier |> ri ' played up. and their reflection Korotich the cascade of the fountain on K. the monument was niore beautiful I than any tableau ever produced here : Mhch color in turn was thrown upon | th' figures and then in unison, this be- 1 < tog repeated many times during the' B tourse of the program. I The exercises were . ondm ‘<-fl by tl,<-! I ‘Women s Relief Corps, this being ani Rlprganized body of a number of woB men of the war. though not all the ■ Boldiors’ wives and hildren are iden'i Rifled with this order. During the exerReises the color bearers guarded the' ■‘monument, holding their silken flags. f A band concert preceded the openB tog of the exercises by Colonel S. B. ■Fordyce. chairman 01 i e tm niinirnt.il ■’committer, who praised the works ot ■ til-' men who made possible tiie menuRjnent and expressed the desire that a K part be dedicated to the women. He was followed by Clark J I.utz. ■county attorney, who presented the ■ Snoirutueiil to tile nomen. Os tile war. K whose part ill liie. lie said. v as a (.real g factor, and this was evid'-med. lie said, R in the fact that the figure of "Peace" ■ was represented by a woman, and that | of “mercy'' by tie- rurse. in tne mono- ■ ment. He introduced Dr. Elizabeth g Burns, who presided durii.,- the re- • ■ mainder ot the netting. Dr I urns gave I a good address and then introduced | Mrs. Vinnie Lyon, who accepted the g monument in behalf of the W. R. <’. I and patriotic women. Mrs. Lyon is I a daughter of a veteran and has been I active in patriotic work, being past | department jui-.r vice president of th- | W. IL C. Her speech wa« a very | graceful one. At this point Dr Bums t nnounced I that the acene would lie changed to the | court room for (he remainder of the I program on account of the told weath-

K • The court room vas completely till I ed by the throng, and while the assent- ■ blv was being made the Berne band gave a concert. This »'»<■ followed/ by a prayer by Mr*. W. J Myer*. A P Flag drill by twelve little girl* waal very good, and following this. Mrs. Margaret Uuthan gave a history ot the W. R. <’■ »f this city. Mrs. bouthvj being one of five charter members. Music was by a quartet b Maaara J. Q- Neptune. D - J- *** > jamaoTrlt. hand Henry Dell “ger. and , iT wm very appropriate. :«•> “Where Duty Call*. ' | Mm. All- Waugh of Tin-on. ‘ F . department prudent, gave on unu* 1 ually good address. She .ated very few monuments in the *or < ■ but oae in America, are.hownjlm* been erect.-d to the women and the women •>< ,hl * “ ,unl ' ’ na very proud to he the fir. tlon. and perhaps In th- world to C was disappoint'd In the fact that the S- wag schools did not respond wlh The late F,lll^ r "" ""'a* W *•«*’’ *’ r ’"X <>f the Stated, one of th f him Relief corps, and In mem rj of the student* had heen ' on the program. the Mr.. » »>■<«"' , «* progm'n and gave a” , m< , n n are to keep the »»" Thlt flowers in tribute t" K | O renee trust was » ccepte JX.',.o rtr «y. At Myers In behalf <• the <** 0( <'f "o*-" Ity brought great A and laid them on the tab* •

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

tonight,• Was given by Mrs. "fey fr'-' hrlnßlns t, ' arfl ’° Mr n : ' nr ° f n "' bonded m the'" f nenpva ' rp of thee h P'h’ontation in behalf Geneva w.R.c , anrtMr , John hehalf 1 VPTJ gl * Ml ! ’ l, ‘ lr ‘ >qs on ent ant' r pulr,o,i< ‘ ' v,, men. past, prosby tn,' ■ UlUr, ‘' nr I,uni ‘”hcn closed to the"""' mw " ,rapnt »>3' k attain « he ( .o untv rep r e R( . h , a , ivi . i f , f Mrs ? ln a tow words. ' ' 1 • T. Stephenson dosed the Im exen- ls0 s with an earnest P’aypf, ■Hicsen| P(>Ma , one of the best over Md in the City. Il D .aid tn ho the first drmonstrn--7 In the state, not of a political n- " that has ever been attended by niany prominent officials. Their t icre, therefore, was purely for n 'c of the cause and county, and not for selfish reasons. ' -4 Q—... . TO BE JEDICATED Beautiful Rivarre School to be Dedicated Next Friday Evening. A FINE BUILDING Deputy State Superintendent John I. Hoffman Has Charge of Services. Invitations have been issued for the ’ dedication of the new graded school! building at Rivarre. Friday evening.; November 7, at 7:30 o’clock. The in-1 vitations were issued by Benjamin S. i Colter, principal, and 0. .1. Suman. i trustee of St. Mary's township. The ( services will he in charge ot Deputy; . State Superintendent Joint 1. Hoff , man and a good program is promised. ■ The new school house is a three ! room brick, with basement, built at , a cost of about $16,000. it was planned I by Architect Oscar Hoffman of this ; t city, and built by Contractor Will; Christen of Rockford, Ohio. It has all; • conveniences of a city building, ex-1 t cept electric light*. The basement ( has play rooms, its own water system. I ! toilet, etc., and the building Is one of the finest in the county. Miss Lucy Bunner is also a teacher j at thto plaie. p I ” HIT BY MACHINE n | t * ’ James Touhey, Well Known Blind Man. Suffers And e other Misfortune. it I _ - —

right arm broken Also Bruised About the Hips— Vaughn Murray Was Backing Car Up. joa.es Touhey, well known citiaen of Decatur, who nt. been >'»"'* ,or 1 aM W of year*. .»d has suffered (lftpn from various mWonunes. was in the victim of an accident thH ”, h . t wg s most painful, afternoon, that »» rhmieh It I. believed not very serf ««-!<■ J"'"' l '' X. . the Holthcuse automobtl "hied the tuachlne up to turn about, ** k nMien’er. to convey to l,a '‘ nl f Z salons. The cor struck T iking him down and rolling i rie. of th * r, ‘ Br l 1 ’ 1 "’ .Jcover his body. He wo. . whe el* running nd h/ badly bruised .bout t ' u -4»hi arm bn * n I lb e right arm h(p „ |n anrt he w.s ‘“‘"JhacouKl not '* h, wXw H 1‘ ,f ** -geranv *eriou* eonue- ,* 1 " “* o h.nd was <iuif b«*ly bruised in a do.en eu< » nd h ' *, bodv. Hr *u* I ’“ r 1 pUfW ""the hotel and a nhy.l< ''»“ i bo®** i driver. — . j r remiah 'I '•’'•XX-''’"'

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, October 31, 1913.

NOTEO VISITORS Were Present at Dedication Exercises of the Soldiers’ Monument. JOHN T. M’CUTCHFON i Os Chicago and Other Prominent Artists and Associates Were Expected. - Among the prominent and i.nlod visitors hero yesterday, and who were greatly interested in the unveiling of tile statue, not only from the main point of view, that of dedicating the memorial to lite miTnory of tin- veterans, both living and dead, lint al- o from the artistic point of view, were several associates <7 Mr. Mulligan in the Art Institute of Chicago. Mis Mar garet McMasters, the model who posed for the figure, and several person al friends of both Mr. Mulligan and I Mr. Dodd. Another of the visitors who was expected l - arrive, was I’olm T. McCutcheon, world famous cartoonist. known in almost every home by his books, works in the leading magazines, and his association a’ present with the Chicago Tribune. These people are all greatly interest-i ed in the memorial Inasmuch as it em-; bodies the highest conception of artis-j tic thought and depicts the wonderful imagination developed by st.idinus application of the principles of the oil! masters. The memorial not only embodies the implied principles of the past but also has In it the more advanced principles of the present and future in statuary sculpture. DRAIN PETITION Is Filed in Court Asking for the Dredging of the Wabash. BULKY IN VOLUME Is Petition—Many Owners' of Ohio and Indiana Lands Affected. The long-promised petition for the, dredging of the Wajmsh riwr In Ohio) and Indiana was tiled this morning in 1 the Adams circuit court, in triplicate form. The petition ia one of the bulk jest ever tiled here, and forms a book ? of typewritten pages, more than half, an inch thick, bound in tablet form. There arc forty-reven petitioners, but land owners who will be affected by the dredging, and whose lands are described In the petition, number many' hundred*. These lands lie in Mercer county. Ohio, and In Jay and Adams counties. Indiana, the greater numlver being In Adams county. The desire was expressed to widen, and deepen the river to pr< vent the I flooding of the land*. It advised that i thia be done by the use of dredge mai < hinory. It asks that this bo done at | a p>dnt near the river's crossing the| i state Hue and thence alone Its north-. i westerly direction to a point two and j one-half mil'* from Linn Grove, where L public bridge crosses the stream.; where there la an Island in the river. 1 1 This <nurse takes II throug' Walawh and Hear t’reek townships In Jay county and Wabash. Jefferson nnd Hart- 1 (ord townships in Ihis county. The highways of the townships, as well as the streets and alleys of Geneva, and other towns along ’he couru», It states would be boneflttod by the dredging. November 20 Is the date set for the . docketing of the petitionrt, A. I). Whipple A Hons. John N. Smith, Frank Armentrout and Frank | V Short are attorney* for the pet I-; tlonera. County p l*rk Blcckc nnd deputy j will have a big task, an the copying of I the petition In the order book of the; court is required, j r "O« ■ ‘ The Mis Mary and Helen Hahreturned to their homes this morning i at Geneva after attending the dcdlca-i tlon ceremonies yesterday, Ml** Mary having had fho honor of unveiling the monument. |

I M’CULLOM MAYf BF PARDONFB. Portland, Ind . Oct. 31—Jenae Me t Cullom, the bold horse thief now serving ah indeterminate sentence of from two to fourteen years in tb“ Jeffersonville reformatory,,, where he was sent j in Sept ember. 1911, from till city, will attempt to bring about his release through the State prison hoard. Parole Officer Clark of the r< iormntory i was in thia city today to inquire into the condition of MeCullom's mother, who resides in Geneva, und who Is 1 now in need of Io r son’s assistance. McCullom stoli® u number of horses and buggies in this section of, the state and was finnlly captured near Fort Wayne-, where he was at work on ; a farm with one of the stolen rikts still : th his itossc-ssion. I — o THE COHRT NEWS Fann ot Late Charles Kurber Sold to Sylvester Staub of Bascom, O. THE FINAL REPORT Approved in Colchin Estate —Hessler Partition Case Settled. <r Martin Weiland, through his attorney, I). B. Erwin, hate filed in tlgf* cir- ' cult court a complaint for divorce from Celia Weiland. He alleges cruel and inhuman treatment for more titan a year prior to their separation. He alleges that they were married October 22, 1911. and lived together until August 27. 1913; that she then returned to him again until September 8, when she returned to her parents botiie. iowvuut hint without ,lu»t cause Soon after their marriage they mov i ed to hffi father's farm in Union town i ship. He states That she was cross and ‘ scolded him, xnu again at times re fused to speak to him; that she left home on various occasion: without telling itini where she was going, and without preparing him any food, and that she talked and sang after they went to IM-d until lute at night to keep him awake and annoy him. He alleges that since their separation she h bought good* in excess.'and had th bills sent to him, one amounting t< more than 384. Because of her ac j lions he alleges he is unable to prop erly care for his farm work and can not live with her, nnd asks for ad! varve. By her attorney, <’. L. Walters, Mr* i Wetland Immediately filed a crossI complaint, alleging her husband treat l ed her cruelly und inhumanly. Sa alleges ho nagged at her in the pres enee of his parent*, and he stood b; and heard hl* parents crltlsfze her Ir 1 the presence of others; that he found fault with her cooking, linking and work, and made humiliating cpmparl sons hetwi-en the amount a»d quality she and his mother did. She allege* when they were married he averred ' that aicre would be no trouljle be twaen them becuuae of difference In religious belief, but that Immediately hl* mother and minister upbraided ' her in his presence, und that ills par ents did so at subsequent times, ami that he would assist them and laugh while so doini. all ot which disturbed j her and shattered her nerves, and she was obliged to leave him. Hhe nskr the divorce, Sl.ouo alimony and the restoration of tier r. aiden name, Celia Mayor. In the partition case of Elisabeth Meyers et al. vs. John Hessler, the dl vision was settled by agreement of ' Hie parties, John Hessler I* adjudged the owner of one half the land in suit und a llfeestutu In one-sixth; Ellzabotl. Meyers and An na Coffee are each found the owner of one-sixth and nlso one-twelfth sub Ject to the life estate of John Hessler. The final report of Julia ft. Colchin ; administratrix of the estate of I'oter I Colchin. was atrproved und the admin | istratrlx discharged. Th” final report of Abri>ha»|i Hn i beggar, guardian, a* to Noah Stauffer, was filed nnd the ruardlan dlschurg i ed Attorney D. B. Hrwin. ar- comm aI sinner, this afternoon at J o’clock sold j the seventy-acre farm of the late Charles Kurlier In Union township t« (Continued ou I’ngo 3)

LEAVE Governor Ralston and Other ' State Offiers Went to Rluffton Last Night. MAKING QUICK TRIP Eleven Visitors Dined at the J. H. Heller Home Before Departure. The governor nnd state officers. Con 1 I grossman Adnir and others of the dis I tinguished visitors who wore here for the dedication, came Io the office of 1 the Daily Democrat immediately after the exercises, nnd an impromptu r *-| ception followed for a few minutes tills office being crowded with people anxious to meet tlum. A. -1:20 the party went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heller, where they were served with supper. At th.- dining table were the following visitors: Governor Ralston; W. H. O'Brien, auditor of state; L. G. Ellingham, secretary of state; William Vollmer, stat- treasurer; Charles Greathouse, superintendent of public instru -tlon; Thomas Honan, attorney genera); J. Fred France, clerk of the supreme court: John A. M. I Adair, congressman, Eighth district:! Dale Crittenberger, editor of the An I derson Bulletin: J. Frank Mann, attorney, of Muncie: Mr. Ixiwery of the! state employment bureau. Fort Wayne. At exactly S o’clock the party was! placed in automobiles and Conveyed to 1 Bluffton, where they arrived just in ; time to board the laike Erie trail- ■ leaving there at 6:02, and arriving in Indianapolis at 9 o’clock. BROKE BOTH ARR!S Mrs. Jacob Railing, Aged Lady, Trips Over Wire Stretched Across Walk. IS BADLY INJURED Xccident Occurring While Coming to Attend Dedication Exercises. | Mr*. Jacob Railing, of Line street > tged »ixty nine years, was badly th'ured last evening at 6:45. when she ' tripped on a wire stretched across I the sidewalk on Third street, east of the Central school building. Is-th ot her arms being broken. The wire i was evidently stretched p.-ross by > <ome prank players with the Intention ' of tripping passers-by. Mrs. Railing and her aged husband , who is a civil war veteran, aged sev ! ■nty-slx were both coming to town to dtend the dedication of Utt’ soldiers’' -nonument. Three feet ahead of them were Mr.' tnd Mra. Robert Poling and daughter Mary. When they reached this point , the little girl tripped but her parent- ( lid not and It wa < supposed she mere-1 ly stumbled. In u very short while, however, the hearts the fall ot Mr. and Mra. Railing and returned to help them. They then found that a wlrhad been stretched from a tree to th>- , fence alrnut four inches above the sidewalk. It seemed that the breath was 1 knocked from l>otb Mr. and Mrs. Rail ' Ing by the force of the fall. Mr. Rail | < Ing was stunned for a minute but «oun ', recovered. Mrs. Railing, however, was ( badly Injured and I' was ten minutes , before »ho could l»- brought to. She waa then taken to the office of a doctor. It was then learned that her In Juries were more serious anil she wa> take home In an automobll-- and the bone* set. The hon<- of the upper right arm was found to Ih* broken just below the socket bone, being known as a Colles , fracture. The radius of the left arm was lirok-n just above the left " rist | Mrs. Railing passed • very restless | night. ------ o.— . The Thimblu club Is preparing to i give a masquerade Hallowe'en party - > this evening at the r '. C. Kvhafer home, j the husband* Is-lng Invited.

• 1 TONIGHT IS HALLOWE’FN ' Tonight ir. Hallowe’en when the spirit of fun—and often of disastrous mlchlef —walks abroad. Mayor Teeple has Issued an order that nothing except innocent fun will bo tolerated, and ti-pf. will be taken to see that t'is Is enforced. Already wiiat seems to he an advance celebration of Hal lowe’en was in evidence, in the I stretching of wires across the sidewalk east of tilt- Central school build lug. This resulted in the tripping of Mrs. Jacog Railing, the nged lady i who had both arms broken thereby 0 RECEICES INSURANCE CHECK. Fn Green, local agent for the Wisconsin National Life Insure neo company of Wisconsin, received a check today from the company payable to C. C. Boose, settlement for the recent 1 sickness of Mr. Boose. A FINEJOGRAM Is Arranged for Missionary Meeting at the Pleasant Grove U. B. Church. ON SUNDAY EV.ENINGI , Rev. Thos. Weyer to Speak Recitations and Music Also on Program. The missionary society of the Plear ant Grove United Brethren church will have a splendid meeting Sunday ! evening, November 2, at 6.30 o'clock < at the church. Everybody Is Invited to come and hear the following good > program: Opening Song- Congregation. Scripture Lesson. Prayer. Roll Call. jRecitation —Leia Chapman. R<-citntion- l.ilah Mumma. Quartet. Essa) Mrs. Emma Weyer. Duet Golda Nldlinger. Edna Welty Recitation- Marie Lebrun. j ; Address- Rev. Thomas Weyer. i Distribution of Thanksgiving En-|i velopes. i Quartet. Report of Officers. ; i Collection. , , - ' - O- - ! , GALLED BY DEATH 1 Jesse Hurst Goes to St. i Louis, Mich.—Brother- i, in-law is Dead. < MR. RUDOLPH NOAK Passed Away—Wife Wasp Forerly Leona Walker of This City. i Jesse Hural and son. Arthur, left today noon for St. Loui*, Mich. They | go In geaponae to a meanage that Mr. I < Hurat’* brother-ln law, Rudolph Noak. ' was dead. Itetail* were not given. j ( but as lie knew nothing of nny Illness j Mr. Hurat is inclined to believe hep met n sudden death. He a young tarrm-r als>ut twe.v. ty-elght year* nld. His wife, who aur- ( vives. wu» formerly Mias Leona Walk ( er, daughter of John Walker, of this , city. He ia also survived by two children. on<> aged two and the younge-1 only a over lx months of age. AT POINT OF DEATH. Mra. Ell Ramsey er of Toss-do, Ohio. *i»ter-in law of Mra. Tom GaHogly, of thia city, I* critically 111 and at the i point of death. Mr. and Mra Gallogly j called on her recently and are planning to go again noon, having received word that she Is growing weaker- ———- „ <>■""■ Mr. and Mra. Ira Andrewn of near i Plcaaant Mill* wet-t to Fort Wayne thia morning to call on their slateri in-law, Rusaall Barker, who is al the ( i point of death at the Lutheran hospital I I where she was operated upon.

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HOTEL SJAiDr One Thoc nd Bottles o Beer, Kc. Ji Wine, Little Whisk Confiscated. THURSDAY EVENINC Search. Warrant Sworn Out by John Kiracofe When Evidence Developed. Armed with the authority of a search warrant sworn out by John Kiracufe. and in company with nine de putlzed men. Marshal Peterson rondo a raid on tiie .Murray Hotel yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock which lead to the discovery of one thousand bottles of beer, one keg of wine, and a small amount of whiskey, sufficient evidence to cause the arrest of Mr. Murray, proprietor of the Hotel, on the <harg« of operating a "blind tiger." When Mr. Kiracofe was coming to his work yesterday morning, his route led past : the hotel alley where he noticed fresh ! traces of an apparently heavy loaded I dray, and thinking that probably ;. large shipment of liquor had been placed i’t the hotel he immediately went in conference with several othei parties with the result that the search warrant was secured in the afternoon Marshal Peterson together with Mt Kiracofe. Clarence Baught. ->n. R. - Hayes, John Hill, William Wisner Charles Brown, James Ros*. Simon Brandy berry and Henry Johnson wl • had been deputized went to the hot and began a search They stationed several of the inen atomthe building and then l-egnn systematic hunt. beginning nt' the top story. They discov, • nothing that would be of widentil they reached the kitchen. Thunder tables and covered up wl: - clothes they found seven ba. r ' tainfng 120 bottles of beer en< h. the search was going on, tl stationed In the look yard rear door of the addition whe saloon whs formerly Imaled, op another barrel of 12(J bottle thrown out. A keg ot wine w found In the stairway leadir the kitchen and a -mall im-’ . whlckey was found in t' together with gla ■ I- i- .. . funn etc. In the be< y r-l was found t< or twelve ban »f empty bottles The liquor wn M-atml and haulm’ to the cellar u . -.he office of Gr hum <■ Walter It took tiie par three hours t rch the bulldin they flnhhinr it 6 o’clock. Aft-:-the search a: ding of liquor, Mr Kiracofe wen- ,’or<- Squire Ston and swore out a- irrant for the arre»t of Mr. Murray. This makes the nee ond offence aga’B •• Murray , the fir- • taking place three veara ar > when he was tln-'d ISO and given 39 day*, th jnil sentence being suspended how ever. Mr. Murray’s hearing was set for this afternoon before ’Squire Stone but owing to the faulty diction of the warrant the hearing was postponed until later date .. i 1 — — (>■ — MONROE'b ,vtw BUSINESS FIRMS Fred A. I a-vesey of Bethany. 111. Is one of the late additions to the Its: ot Monroe's hustling business me:, Mr. Loveauy will at once start up a jewelry repair shoo in the west part of the Perry G<a»d harness shop, nnd Is prepared to do all kinds of repair work on watches, clocks and jewelry t—» Will Baddera. a former Monroe bc-y but lately of Fort Wayne, and wel known to everybody in this comma nity. will within u tew days open up a first class restaurant In the Joht Baddera buslnea* room, where lie wll serve meals und lunch nt all h-'*ir:; In connection with the restaurant Mr Baddera contemplates putting In n’ up-todntc moving picture shew, which he expects to operate three times earl week, and will Install n tine player p ano. This will be something t\at ott* people will appreciate and n libera i patronage I* as*ured. - Monroe R> I porter. Z” , DR. RAINItR PAST COMMAND! ' The name of Dr. C. T. Rainier wa - i unintentionally omitted from the I ps«t commanders of the fl. A post, a* published last evening frn | the fl»t placed In the monument cr ncr stone. Dr. Rainier was leu i faithful soldier and poet mt mh r w : officer,