Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1913 — Page 1

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Volume XI. Number 287

THE PRIM NEARING CLOSE Big Battle for Place, on the Democratic Ticket Will Soon be Over, LARGE VOTE CAST Returns Will be Received at This Office TonightOpen Telephone Lines. The primary is on. and a very few hours will till the story of victory for I some and defeat for others. What ever the result, the losers are hull ! of that stuff which permits them to I r smile and congratulate their luckier! ‘ opponent amt to heartily support him 1 when next November comes. That is] the secret of continued success of the democratic party in Adams county in i the past and that is why they will ( win again next November and hy an I increased majority. Today's election was quiet .and or- . derly, there being no excitement, ] though the vote, it is believed, will be [ as large as was ever east in the conn I ty. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the ! indications were that all previous ( records for tlie number of votes east ■ • would b< broken. The retflrns will lie received at this ! office this evening and arrangements K have been made to open the telephone t lines all over the county from six] E O’clock on until tiie returns are in. ■ Usually the returns begin coming ini I hy 7 o'clock and hy midnight the I E greater part have been sent to this B office, deciding the outcome, except in] I very close races. Considerable money I has been posted at the betting boards] ■ op the result, indicating a difference! E or uphiion. SF — o— — CARD OF THANKS. E We in this way and manner desire I ; I to express our heartfelt thanks to the] S • many friends and neighbors who so | m kindly showed their love and symI: I. daring our sad bereaveI mi nt in the death of our dear has-j • bat'd and rather: also for the many] Klnral offerings received front many [ friends and neighbors, and the R. I'. B. ■ Habbatlt school, the choir and pas , ■ tors for their services. MltS. M. F. TOPE AND CHILDREN’.' o— —— | ANNUAL MEETING . — — I Bowers-Niblick Grain Company Declared Dividend and Elected Officers for the year; r i I Jesse Niblick Succeeds C. G. > Egley as Vice President of Company. ? I — ■ — I ti > itowers-Niblbk Grain eomp»»f I hf ld their annual hu<ln- n ' ; Lhow.-d a most bU ;X" I .ttsfnctorv in all *«'*• T I V TZsLdmlari«<’'» l,#ndh ° n ’ , ‘ null d (hf comdividend. A " KAI-y I pnny P ,|„i fol ‘ god in th- on „ rhaxe. ' lowed, there Mr . Hgley «' jeeso Ntbllrk stt< e<*< llM ' vh e president. . p I n, *i ur<*r * I i B P 0. S- MEMORIALI m * n ’ be <’H n,HTKN ' ! —" mn ,|. pr of W Mian Ago*’ Clln ' h . iivfti n or,h 01 1! , with *l |onl " jan . rdtv, and - rrt , h gra * , ”'i improving. l

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCR AT

luther an ministers meet. R ‘*' W»hm*y er Has E «. l( . w PjpHs 'or Assembly. tl uionhold ltsmmlhK , n Hr-t National bank parlor this f JlO have With ItaguMt in th. * of the Rev. George Meyers of Ohio, who Is not 0ft..,. pj to come. The Rev. H . . 77 7 l "‘« city had an exci-llont Mw. thp same being an exegesis J the fourth chapter of Colottsiuns. ha " a par,, ' r n " “l-'fant hap FIHENJESICN Sixteen Bluffton Firemen Places Account Appointment of Fire Chief. BUT THE CONVENTION Os District Will go on Just Resign Account AppointSecretary Resigns. The Bluffton Bauncr says: "Dissatisfaction resulting from the' appointment of Lemuel Stout as chief’ of the fire department by Mayor-elec l ! John Mock, caused sixteen members of tlie company to tender their res ignations at a meeting held last even- ' inc. The resignations take effect at j I.' o'clock noon. January 5. or at tin* j : time the new administration goes into; ; office. All hut three of the members of the department resigned and Council-1 i manelect Frank Waugh today tender I i td his resignation as assistant secre | I tary of the Northeastern Indiana Vol ; : unteer Firemen’s association, towlilch . I position he was dot ted last June. | The members of the company wlio I will leave the department January 5 1 are as follows: Chief Arthur D. Hurd. ] 1 10. W. Clark. Fred H. Barr, A. C. i I I Cutiemay. M. C. Bulger. L. Lovell. ' ] William Kerfoot, Tony Hoffer. W. B , I Grove, F. C. Waugh. L S. Mclxmd. I Arch L Cook. Erniau Meatier. D. A. i Wilmer. Howard Green and Jacob ! Masterson. This leaves, three mem ] | hers in the company as follows: Foster Harbaugh, George Patterson ami Howard Stout. “The day Mayor Mock takes bls of | fx-e, new firemen will be ready for, I duty to fill all the places made I vac ant hy the resignation of tlie six l wn men and until that time the de , partment will 1“' conducted as it I. at - L present time. The city will suff.-r iiinn way and the greatest effort will , put forth to keep the department ap to the high standard it has always, the resignation of the men] ! as members of the ''■d'artm.-.n they wl ll abo resign as members of h. X’crtheastem Indiana \olunteer Fir. | A, association. Bluffton hud plan ‘d'o entertain the annua! eonvet, . ’“,2 P X Win the treasury and It I hW meed this morning that this L 1 J' held until ghe Lett ""** t 1 organised and If Hw Xlih the convention care to g ( turned over i ptaßH I U no! held her. the mon I ' OO ’‘n Cobaldv be kleen for some *’’’ * ' probably to charity, other »tir|ioa.. i“ d)(1 not , come a» J wml | ( | tender theb | Xa< a«" ■**’■*' r'T resWnatioa thf i again been ‘ ''"'"^tween here nnd C no» leave for Pluffio« B |tt irt , ’ n It M rtp * " . nV'way between lwr< tint the rig 1 „„. ur ,-d liefnr. “ nd rr,i,l a ffi". construction of the will V 75m*e^ nceRT . . »hnrug of nprn '’ Wlll Thf Jancert at th. Method r i«e a s» , ' r, ' d ‘ ... u un day evening. I,t church at |adi« «>* Iw .o»b«f 7 ' T L known for ‘he"’

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL*

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, December 5, 1913.

ON SONS TRAIL Nate Stelfen Goes to Indianapolis—Son Writes Letter from There That HE WAS PENNILESS' And Without Shelter—Room • ■ mate Skipped With Clothing and Valuables. Jonathan Steffen, son of Nate Steffen, of \\ ells county, who dlsaitpenred front his homo southwest >t this city, it week or tot. uaya ago. and for whom the parents have boon nmirt hlng since, anil who it was Itolleved was working scut It of this city, ha-, turned up at Indianapolis. Mr Steffen cln*m.-i tn have received a letter from his son | and he wa al Indtunapoli* at the! time tlie letter was written. Mr. and .Mrs. Steffen loft Pluffton yesterday for Indianapolis, where they will enlist the aid of tlie police in searching for the boy. The letter, which was eleven pages long, was written Sunday and received Tuesday. It wont into detail to toll how he had lost all his money, watch and other valuables b> sheltering another wanderer whom he happened to meet and i whom he took into his room for the I night. During the night his friend I made an unceremonious departure and i took .Mr. Steffen's best clothes and I other valuables. Mr. Steffen says hist | son had s‘.o when he loft home and ac-j cording to the letter he received the son had joined another boy for a trip.t purchasing new clothing, a revolver ’ and other articles, and then gone to I Indianapolis, where the the other Itoy I skidooed with the goods. The other Steffen boy who loft home at the nametime Is reported to be working for Jacob : raulilger, east of , Bluffton and the fatiiur ha* been inI formed that he is there. Jonatltan has Is-en offered a bicycle, spending mon ey and a few other things by the parents if he will only return and continue to make his home with them. IS KNOWN HERE Mrs. Elmore Numbers of Portland. Formerly of Adams County DIED ON THURSDAY Was 11l Long—Daughter of Joel and Nancy Coverdale Vaughn The nows of the death <-f Mra Elmore I. Number*, a former Atlants county Indy, which occurred Thursday montlng at S o'. Imat her home on West Knee street. Portland, following a long Illness of a complication of dlseuxes. will be received with regret hy Iter many friends here. The Portland Sun say*: "Mary 8- Number* was a daughter nf Joel and Nancy Coverdale Vaughn, and wns born in Allen county. Indi Lua. May 24. ISf’*- celebrating her fifty fifth birthday hist May. She' leaves the husband and the following children: Hoy Numlter*. of Muncie; Nanny J-. * lf e of Fenton Harris, of I Selma: Union V. Numbaw. of Hb*t. and John Numhera. of ihte city. The icgrcl mother resides seven miles ea*t lot Berne, two sister* and one broth ~r are also left. Mrs. Elio Tindall and Mrs. Julia Sackett of Horne, nnd i ernitel <*. Vaughn, of Union t'fty. ’ - Funeral services will be. held Halurday afternoon at 2 o'< lock from th* Fvang.-lhal church, in charge of the pastor Ito*- UcfW * lx,Ml, ’ r ln,w ” ncent In Orren Park c emetery.'' UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES Have you over noticed that a man will forget to close every door except (tint of the telephone booth (after he .»ts done talking!. Os course you .tint that left open so you can hear the bell riM for nw “ C,U ’ m an nature I* rcry fuany. ___ . . -- Mr and Mr». H- M- Mathewuon of Willshire. Ohio, changed earn Item today enroute to Fort Wayne,

101 RANCH COMING TO LYRIC 1 Next Tuo’chcy Miller ftr.itln r' ; It’ll Rii.neh will hold tin- Isiarcls al the* yrie ihc-nic r. This is a threo-roel ICiilUre Inal I fiir alcove file average of th!:, type of western life l . The pictures hnvo lu'eti taken from the Miller llanch nnd are not the- films tlmt I were' made of the traveling orgnnl- | ration, (luring thc> action of tie- three I reel- ove r ninety thrilling scenes are I'-r- i tit< <l. This wonderful p/oductlon I will Ice presented for one day only, ] matinee' and night. The> bill for leeduy will be a two reel feature "The 1 Soul of sib-nee" and a aidesplitting comedy ent It h'd n Love and Rubbish*'. A splendid bill will be* the offering at the Lyric for tomorrow inntinee and night. THE COURT NEWS Will of David Lehman Probated—Two Sons Named the Executors. JUDGMENT IS GIVEN In Frankfort Bank Case— Emma Bauman Dismisess Divorce Case. The' will of the late David ix'hman. | erf ih-rne, written Novemlcer lit. nnd . I witnessed hy Elmer Luginhlil and I Amos Htrschy, was probated here toI day. H« provides for the euatomary | payment of funeral expenses, etc., and ! Iceeiueaths the rest of there.il and per sonal estate to his wife, Elixale-th Ix-hman. she to have the u-e and in ] eome thereof ns long as she lives. At her death it is to be cstually divided among the ir children. The sc ns, Oswin and Edward, are named as exes liters. The final report of W. S. Welty as to Bertha A. Welty and current as to Edna and tjoldie, were approved. The' guardiau was discharged as to Her tha and continued as to the others. — —- Jesse ('. Sutton assumed iurisdir'tlon as apeclal judge in the Evans will contest case. In the case erf the Hoavlaud State* Bank vs. Edwin Plodder Johann, the petition of William Fuelling that bo ls> substituted as plaintiff was sns tuined. EH Meyer vs. George Gunsett. Demurrer overruled; exceptions. Rulo to answer cross-com plaint. Emma Bauman dismissed her com plaint for divorce uud alimony agalti-i Fred Bauman. The* costs are adjudg | ed against the plaintiff. First National Bank of Frankfort vs. Frank Summers et al. Judgment against defendant for 42ff9.br>. A* John J. Summers is surety for Frank, the latter'* property is to be exhausted before proeoedtng agant«t tin- prop erty of John J. Summer*. Coats ud I judged against defendant. Oliver J. Harmon vs. John Trim et al. Defendant Meyers ruled to an swer absolute’ in five days. Real estate transfers: Minerva E Kelley et al. to Charles U. Kelley, <.t acres. Blue Creek tp.. |f»OM. Gilbert Thompson to Margaret V. Heckarcl. lot 24. 1*100*011) Mill*. *r>oo. — — O- —— - LIBRARY IS CLOSED. For Furrnoatino—Car* for Prevention of Scarlet Fever Spread The Decatur public library will beclosed from .1:20 tills aftcrm d until Monday, to allow of the futnlgatlne of the building according to the order of the iMoird of health. The fumlgat Ing of the varlou* school building* la being done nt thl* time, tn do a* much a* possible '|> prevent the spread of scarlet fever or olhcv eotitagious diseases and a« two of the grade* ar--i located In the library, thl* building I* being fumigated also. On account of 1 the great number of children who vl* i ited the library room*, also, it wns de • ] c-lclc-d to disinfec t the entire library | building. Mr*. Daniel Rpruuu and Mrs. Druce ! I'attcraon went to Fort Wtyne thi> ’ mnrnfng. where they spent the day visiting with friend* nnd relative*.

GIVE PENNANTS School in Each Township Having Best Attendance Have Proof to Show. MR. OPLIGER’S PLAN To Stimulate Attendance--’ Also Give Pennant for Best Showing in County. County Superintendent Opliger lin* | worked out a plant that he* hope* and j believes will stimulate tho attendance | of children in the various schools of; the township. Tlie plans provide for 1 tho giving of a pennant to the school In each township having tlie heat attendance and to tho school In the! county having tho best altondr.ncc. n ' county pennant Speaking of tho plan] Mr. Opliger said: "For tho purpose of assisting, on eottraging and stimulating the school attendance in tlie respective town ships of Adams county, wo shall offer one pennant to each township and ■ one county pennant for the best . school attendance as sho.wn hy the reports for this school year. Tito pen-1 nauts are to Im> displayed in the] school rooms of thc> distric t whic h had [ tlie beet attendance for one' school | year or so long as the school holds j the honor of attendance. Tlie best • ' attendance’ shall bo determined by tlie following plan: For punctuality a credit of 100 per •■ent will !*> given, for average- daily | attendance 100 per cent, and for perl cent of attendance, fdo per cent, niak ; lug a total of". 00 per cent for perfe- t | attendance. Tho school receiving the| | largest per cent will !*• awarded tlie, pennant* accordingly on or before th- I first day <rf September." - ■ ■ ■—O — - • BEN HUR NOTICE The chief request* all members of. the* dc-gtec* staff to l>e pre-sent this evening for practice. ANOTHER~RIOT Two Are Shot When Stivers and Sympathizers Attack Non-union Wagon. I IA TERRIFIC STORM | Holds Colorado in Its Grip —Traffic Blocked—No Relief in Sight. Indianapolis. Dec. 6,—(Special to' I Daily Democrat,)- Two Cincinnati] I strike breakers were* snot. ot.c> per haps fatally, in an attack by striker* J I and synpatiiiter* cm a nonunion wag • on. Many shots were tired from both , side*. The outbreak cume at llrej time that the employer* and city nd 1 ministration believed that the buc k , bone of the strike had Icoen broken , Fearing more bloodshep a eltlxen c' | conciliatory committed and Solicitor ; D<*n*man. the loueral rtopartmont of tabor Agent. incrca*cd their ac-tlvl ' tie* In bringing about a settlement of > thc« trouble. Denver. Colorado. Dec. 5, —(Special} to Daily Democrat) The most terrlt ic *now storm of Ccdorado's history In raging here today witli no signs of a let up, Traffic of all kinds I* standing still and thousand* of per | son* wore forced to flglit their way ’ through snow drift* und to walk I mile* to their work. Ixmdon. Dec. B,— <Hpectal to th" Dally Democrat.) - Mr*. I’ankhurat Inauguarted a hunger ntrlko I tutudlately u|*m her arrival In Jail yer terday a* tlie result of her being a.’ rest Ml. In cetaiiatton of tho areecc’.] militants burned a 21 25.0<m> mansion In Scotland today. Rholby vllle, Dec-. D. - (Ppcclal to the Dally Democrat.)—Annis Moore, one of the state's principal wttnesoea to ' day failed to Identify Dr. Craig, who t la chnrgdd with tho murder of Dt. > Helen Knatw, as tho man Moore Mid (Continued on Face 2)

FINE SALE. Union Chapel Ladies wai Also Have Chickens and Rabbits. Tho Union Chapel I. idle >’ Aid <■ doty Ims completed all arrangements for Its pastry sale and market to 1*» 1 hold tomorrow, beginning at It)o'clock] at Um Hower a. Baker moat market. The ladic-c will have home-made broad, dressed vhie-kc tm and dressed rabbits, pumpkin pie, cake, cookies, etc, full ami hoo them. The |>roeocds will tax used for buyiim now chairs for tlie church. —O" " 11 DEAD HUNTERS In Northern Woods Arc Numerous This Year— Stringent Laws. 'GOVERNING THE USE Os Firearms in Forest Ma? be Result—Frightful Toll of Human Lives. i Very few h.tntlng accident! ' I have been reported in Adam* county ‘ this year, and no fatalities. The , northern wood*, however, have not ■ Iteen so fortunate, u* u dispatch front Milwaukee. Wi*. set* forth, as fol ; low*. • The frightful casnaily list of the I i northern wood* during th deer senson now closing bids fair to result ■ i in stringent laws governing the use 'of tire-arms In the forests. So far leg ] j Islation lias find little affect. Tile terrible toll of the' high power rifle. In measurement of human life. ] for tlie *e>ason, which closed Bunday | night, a* follows: Upper Michigan- Nine d'nd and 12 ’ wounded. * Wisconsin Twenty one dead uudI 23 wounded. Thre'o more deaths were added to I 'day. when a lower Michigan man was killed in the upper pmlnwula l>y mi*- ' take for a deor, and when two Wl- I ] cousin hunter* were Kill* «i by the I 'carelessness of others. In most of I I tho fatalities reported, death has lu’eti. ] due to earolesHnoM with firearms, hu' ] there has been a terrifying total of | hunters shot by mistake for deer. Os j tho total of thirty killed In tho two! ] siati>M. ton hare been hunters shot hv , mistake hy other hunter*. One nf the fatalities in northern I ! Michigan a few week* ago. however,! ; i-amo very < lose homo, when a Mtchl I i "an man, who wa* u member of Mr. I i Jesse Gllbert'*|Mirty wa* *hot, Mr*.] I Gilbert being here at tlie home of, ' tier parents, Mr. nnd Mr* E. II Wa- j ' ner at tho time. Many Decatur men spent a part of (the hunting season In the northern! [ w<**d*. but few have gone thu* fur, I this season. ( BOV SCOUTS AT BASKET BALL. Backed by Crowd of Loyal Rootsrs Dscatur Team Takas Came. (By Dick Heller) The Iteeatur Boy Scout* of A mor I I i-a playo4l the Fort Wayne Itoy Scouts i u fast game of tai*ket twill at th" Jes ; ferson school gymnasium last even- ! ing. A numbor of the faithful from , here accompanied the team and cheer ! i-d them on to victory It wa» a fast : game, even though tho Fort Wayu« ] boy* outweighed the locals. Flander* started the game by making a field goal and a foul goal soon after the, start. The scorn ut tho end of the j fir»t half wa* 5 tn 0 tn favor of De I | catur; second half, 4 to fl tn favor of I I Fort Wayne, making the total score 9to fl In favor nt Decatur Tlie crowd ; c amo home on tho last car. tired, but i happy. IS QUITE PATRIOTIC. John Seiiurger. the veteran ah«trai ter. is quite a patriotic man Mr. I Sehurgor live* northwest of the city I and after making his regutar long | morning walk to this city, ho loft on ] tho 2:30 rar for Monmouth, where ho cu«t lit* vote, Mr. Hchurger live* - In Root town*hlp and the voting place' of his precinct iu at Monmouth Th<- >; trip would be only a tulle and a half. llf ho could go aerre* country •* a II bird flies, but several times as far lr> ] I (ho necwisary roundabout way.

Koarhofl Evpry Nook Os County

Price, Two Cent*

FIELD WORKERS HELD SESSION Officers and Agriculturists of Sugar Company Discuss Plans for the Year. WITH GOOD RESULTS Meet at Offices Here—Banqueted at Hotel Murray Last Evening, I Fifteen men who looked n» llioue'i they could apcompliah ultoui unythini; I they started out to do. gathered around tho banquet table nt (!•«• Hotel Murray nt fl: 10 n« lock Inst evening and from I appearances when wo ptanced in at thorn a halt hour later they wore thoroughly enjoying tlie oecnsleh. They w-ero officers and employe* of the Holland St. ixuiis Sugar company, twelve of th«« tiuinltor being field men, who will tills year look after securing enough acreage and enough beets to make the big sugar ptant run evernl ] months next fall tytd winter. Tho president of tho company. Mr. Arend | Visschor, of Holland. Ml< li.. ithd Mr. A. ll.a I litis, a director front that city. | were iiqr*' yesterday and met with the field men nt tho offices, tho *e«sion | • ontinuing front three in tho afternoon t until midnight, with only tho hour out. 'for tlio dinner at tlie Murray, where .they were served with chicken and I many other things which would lisik I good to a hungry man. Tlie Held inon have already startra on tho cttnipnign I for beet acreage and hope to hoi-uro j eontrai t* for 10.000 acre* wKhin tho I next two month*. If they do. it ii><<an<t i mucli for the Decatur plant ami for ] tlie farmer* who assist in making this | season a winner. Those who attend* j ed tlie dinner last evening and assist* ' ed In making the plan* for the sea* j tin's -work, dtring Gut' day's cession • | were President Vi«»cher and A. l«a* Huis of Holland. Manager Hultliard of j the Decatur plant, and the following | field men: E. M Wagner and F M, j Ne*en. Decatur: In A. Thoma*. Mon* | roe. F. M. Wilson, Huntington: Frank Baker, Delphos, O.; B O. t’hiliote. I ittiio City; 11. <>. White. MonriM-vlllo; C. 11. latmmiman. Monroe; 8. V. John* I so*, Mo-troe; Jay Stuektnan. t'nlumbL-l ]t'lty; 11. !.. Itarlacher, Bradfon). ().| E. in llaery. Spartansburg. Ind. A CLEAN SWEEP • Ineichen & Sons of Geneva Make Nearly Clean Sweep of Awards in —— IRED POLLED CLASS At World's Live Stock Show —Another Victory by Adarm County Men. Ad.tfli- county covered tho world's map on Red I'olled cattle at tlie world** live st<* k show th t'iilcago. Following closely on tho victory ot the Smith A Wilson lletefords. come* tho victory of tho Inelchons at Geneva: A dispatch to thi* morn* Ing's Indianapolis Star, any*: Intaroat of the Indiana visitors at the Idternatloiml Live Stock Exhibit | today centered in the announcement Inf the Judge*' award* In the Hereford ] Hhorthorn and R«d I'olled cattle di* I vision. Entries front the Hoo*lt>r state curried off their share of the award* in which they wore entered — the Hereford nnd Red Poßad tluane*. in the latter dlvtalon, George loti* clten A Ron* of Geneva. Ind.. almo«t mad* a clean sweep. The Genera i fnti took four first, two second, throo ■i third, one fourth and two fifth prlaes In thl* da**, a* well as furntablng tlie senior champion bull and the sen* t lor champion eotF, J . o- * NOTICE TO FAOLEB. i ' >1 A meeting of ths Eugitrt h called -for tonight at ( o'clock and evary I member la requeated to be present. ' Tho election of officers will take place. 1 By order of PART WORTHY PRKfiIDKNT.