Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1913 — Page 1

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Volume XI. Number 297

LAST REGULAR I SESSION HELD BPresent Council Bids FarcI well to Their Duties and Mayor Teeple at rtUESDAY’S MEETING of All Business I Matters Before Leaving Their Official Roles. ■The regular ■ r held last evening at the council chambers wa tl • last one ; • Writ'll Mayor Jtidon W. Teeple will* l’ r ' side, and which t'ouncilmen I\ Blla <■. Isaac Citron; • -r. J ,:ke At ann‘ Mayor-elect C. N. Chri tor. will hold their official positions as city council Sfc«-' Jacob Martin will, however. another :-n> ~.,r term a th' he having In i rimed at the fill election. The next mirth; which will !>*• on tile sixth of .lanunr* will be tlte fir-t < .(* for the newly ele ted conucil. ■* wAt this o l '., •, . '.r.vi.r ■i ■ \ ; Christen will take his office and pri wsfd' over the c* ■ !■ c i iron: ter retiring s,. there, holding the office of street 101. jnitsioner. City Clerk Huh-r Delealso ■ at tin K on another fourvar ti ■ BKie last few meetings opened the -i-don.. EfTh* ■ were finished busit * »t.ik*'! • first th* reading ri " prop* try • r IU! JEttc*' Mioun' ne in Mfct t»Hr n *r. -•-pa.t .e ’* ten year- v.h int**t 1 ■' I”' Knt. nod t: it <!•'* »*• t ■fond for the ad*..th i *‘ l ■focoi an*l arrl**d. Ke pr* h ML* r in » .. alon. this "■ • ’ ,0 '‘i""' 11 Ot. ! ’ Jal &y for the adopt HaHE. EL* . v* J ' r ' KT . bold filed I • 'Ille« and Rug- -f' ' ”'‘ l ' ' . .. ... ■fi ti ‘’’ ' •eoui t. Att*r r. ■/ , • r • rr* <i u 1 ■ fit was Itpell I ■ ■Anar F k,: " ■s♦rjfiled ll' • I, ‘ ~d ■Mad and t " , ~M , ui,*.* I ii» - n*P°' I *' l COlhll 1’ I an .| 1 ','K by the nwnii • r * K • iiin *’ r ' ''"■ rrv ' 1 which K* r • n*hey»Kr*' t . ;N P r*. Ek *btb» : s ' r " 11 " nlrt | mid ~ » ( *ri *»“' r s poa*'i Til'* r ‘ 1 I ■, A resol . ..prior

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, RE ° CRO3S WS WORKING m' HKninst the wHiJ " ""' ir " Wi; "here l ' !a * Ue 1,1 Kokomo, used tr ' " the money is l,Pin ’ • ( * to nave the life, . the disease In the'Z/ I''’ 1 ''’ ‘last spring Th,/ ' ls 01 *s* low tlilt t!.. <«"X JXX* :■ zz ofeatly stimulated the sa les in Koko "hire the Women's Department club is actively at v.ork in the cause. HEAVY DRINKERS t . •— Ameran People Are Consuming More Liquor and Cigarettes Each Year. TELEPHONE LINES May be Controlled by Governmnt if Lewis Measure Becomes a Law. tl'nlted Press Service) i Waehington. De*-. 17.- iSpciial to! 'Daily Democrat.l-People are drink : i ing more liqucr and sn.oking mor. : jtigarettes if the hereaulni: manufai t-j I ured product as shown in the annual I | report of the fiscal year Is any indi | iiation. The product ion ot distilled] spirits for the last year totaled] ISJSS.3S3 gallons or T.Ouu.WO ga' t Hons mere than the pn-eding year.]' '“Th!** million am. odd iinrnti« mon* ; than last rear were manufactur'd. I ] Washinpon. Dec. it*-1 Special U LWly Demacrat.l—PoaaiMlltin* tha. ithe U*is bill o< government owner , ■ ship of the telephone lines may i made an administration measure, d* ■ velopcd when it became known tnr.t I the advocates ol this plan were, ' Railing th? of i G .. Mra l Burlcon. The bill v.xs to I h »re heett enured thia week ] umrlfon Who haa talked over Ihe jdati 'with Ptwidert Wii»/0. askew so". I time to ior. -’lgs'* • .. . f- (Special to X ** • rat l Beating towa*-J the al<*n.l"Mt p : •I wwmt Mattie Baasett in I " n (ng The Tennessee ' T D, h damaged that the was tun. 1 AJk rd arrived at her pier esrb'. C (WeKitement took H«ce I I' “* . swagera at the tltu** "t i among the pa« injured.] | l.k his h* e fippt-r up. ’*“! ■ ruM a»< «»* »‘| lot i’Ob » •* Washington. I* l - '' r (ry th* | ‘Lilj ord* nd me I L n Dani* Is |

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Becatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, December 17, 1913.

WERE PUNISHED Strange Case of Imprisoning Horse Fourteen Years , in Barn KILLED HER HUSBAND And Widow Takes Her Revenge in Punishment of the Beasts. A strange “cruelty to animals" ease is reported In the following lafayette dispatch: An animal resembling a horse, yet lacking many equine cliaracteristics. was led down main street by a deputy sheriff to a livery stable to be cared for hy humane authorities. The seizure of the animal hy the authorities revealed a case of cruel treatment which has caused astonishment and indignation. Fourteen years ago William 11. Moore, a contractor, was killed in n runaway accident. His widow. Sarah Moore, said nobody should ever ride behind the animals again and that they should never leave the barn in which they were kept. She and her son. Wilbur Moore, an I I electrician, have kept the animals j l.onfined in the same barn In the rear! I m their home, a stone's throw from] I the retail business district. One of the horses died two years ago. The I I other is still alive, but so emaciated ] i and deformed from long confinement, land la<k of exercise that it looks very! j little like a horse. .Never having been shod for four-j teen years, tlie hoofs, like nails, have, •Ckr’-nued on t'lgo 4) THE COURT NEWS | The Wise Divorce Case ia Set for Trial Day Before Christmas. CROSS COMPLAINT' ■ — Withdrawn by Cramer Lindsey and Hensley New , Jury Commissioners. — — Willi wise vs. Myrtle Wise, dl 1 ori .- .Set fur trial Hee* mlw-r 24. Cramer v». John >'• * 'rattier. 1,i,',. laave asked by defendant /'withdraw rnwa-complain’ *« ' mt the cross complaint was grantnC ano t n _.i..,«rlv aill'drUU'Ha ,icc< rfiinK'y Clarence H Flay hy his next friend I m ctav v*. Walter D. Crow. t 'ab-slllH M. < ’«/• I . osn. ebv Peterson * Moran. I vppearan* e . Kule to answer. j Fu< ene Undsey of Hartford townhit> and David M. Hensley of DeciI rt . ..ppnlnted jury commissionirs for f ’ n '' y, * ar ' Inventory of the personal property L the Edward Johnson estate was ap : proved rpon pe««l"“ • l-rt'»f ’•’* , ~ , ..,11 was ordered, report to b* .ll* in thirty days. Appraisement of . d estate " W u, * d I Ileal estate ordered sold aft- | ir °. sale tn be private, the to be nne-thlr.l eaah. nne'hird | t month*, one third,in eighteen I current report of Mary J* I ... 'k. guanllnn of Helen Weeks ot k ' proved and the trust conI al., was 1 tinued. I ”• report a. tn other wards I 1 '” - . roved The guardian wan '“ r " us to Thomas and <ontln dlmhantad us t<> i;M I M to the other* _ . isanafer* Wm - ** l ' <> ‘ ,n» »>"l" I'-""“' r "‘ l " :.X ! Zm et ul. 10 John Carleton, |Z"'lU'2. BemeJlUlkit. cram* •« * r ‘ n '*' l * “ I J e from John »• f "* er ' £ plaint-

WILL CHARTER CAR. Decatur High School Basket Ball Boys go to Fort Wayne. > The. high school basket hall team " 111 charter an Interurban car to make the trip to Fort Wayne Friday night, where they play, providing they can ■ secure the fifty required passengers, i The car will leave here at fi:3o and returning will leave Fort Wayne at 11 o'clock. The fare will be fifty cent* ! round trip. HELD ELECTION. ’i'tie officers were elected Sunday ! for the coming year, 1914, at the Winj Chester V. 11. church for Subbath school: Superintendent— Ira Wagoner. Secretary Ida Üby. Treasurer Miranda Bollinger. Chorister Ida Smith. Organist Esther Ixvbsiger. Librarians Lester Wagoner, William RECEIVES ’ WORD Rev. Edward Freiburger in Notified That He Will go to Lafayette on JANUARY THE SIXTH —• •i,r I ” Rev. Julius Seimetz Will Come Here the 9th—Reception is Postponed. " lr Reg. Edward Freiburger. assistant pastor of the St. .Mary’s Catholic I church in this city, received word this ; morning that he is to leave for Lafay > ette on the sixth of January, where he will become superintendent un*l I < liuplain of St. Joseph's orphan asy lum and manual training school, taking the place of the Rev. Julius Sei metz, who comes to this city to at < ept the irremovable rectorship of the St. .Mary’s church. Father Seimetx will arrive here on I the ninth of January. It was first ] thought that the change would take I place some time this week and th* many friends of Father Freiburger were busy getting ready to give him • a farewell reception and smoker at the K. of C. hall Thursday evening. - Since the time for his departure hut i been * iiar.ged until the sixth of Janu ' nry. the date for the reception will i also be postponed until a few days be- ; fore he leaves, the exact date not being set. LEFT MONEY AT HOME > Aaron Dent, the colored boy, taken ; into custody on wUsph-ton ot having I Molen seven dollars from a mesh pun*** la-longing to Mlaa Ida Elzey, a dark at the Economy store, was released land allowed to go away In peace. Itenl so strongly and straiahtfor wardly protested his innocence of the theft, and the evidence against him was so Incotnpleto that he was allowed go by the local officers. .Miss El-ey reported later that upon going to her home last evening and making a search, the money wa* found In a place when* she had left It Sunday evening Mlaa Eli«y had tlie mouey In her pocket laa»k Saturday night and had forgotten that she ' had taken It out of the pocket book When she discovered yeaterdny that the money was gone, she at once came to tlie cimcluslon that Dent had the coin, and so reported. Bluffton Banner. ■' 'O--' AID SOCIETY TO MEET. An Important meeting of the Evan ' gellcal Ladles' Aid society will l« 1 held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Merri man. North Fifth Mrret. It will he the teat meeting of the year of the Evangelical latdles’ Aid aociety. At ’ thia session the election of officers ' will take place and the final financial report of all tha sections will be given’ Tlie society has enjoyed a moat de lightful and successful year the ban m*r year t<f Its history. The members are antlci|>atlng a pleasant session. A ’ rord'al Invitation Is extended to th* friends to attend Tha fuaenU <rf ttevld Linton, oou ol Geneva* oldest clttesms well know* - and highly reape, ted, was held Hunds) afternoon, lite death occurred Erl day noon of Bright's disease.

ANOTHER HONORED i Muri Fulk, a Senior, is Appointed One of Ten Student Marshals i IN THE UNIVERSITY At Bloomington—ls a Sen of Peter Fulk Southwest of the City. * Another Adams county boy lias been honored ul the state university at Bloomington. Ind. In u recent ls-| sue of Tlie Student, a daily paper ofj the university, it was announced that President Bryan had aelected stn dents to till the vacancies of the stu dent marshals, made from last year's graduation. Among the list of tin ' ten men appears that ot Muri Fulk, one ot the Adams county represent'! fives in the university. The student marshals are a repr* sentative group of men chosen hy the president of the university to promote self government among the stu dent hody. The marshals have their I < hies and prosecuting attorneys. They | plan the university’s parades and eele-; brations, try disorderly students and have power to inflict punishment if need be. The appointment is considensl quite an honor since the president makes tew such appointments during th*-‘ year. Mr. Fulk Is the son of Peter M. Fulk, living southwest of town. He is a senior at the university In the combini*d liner al arts and medical (nurses. He is also laboratory assist nnt and prose< tor in tlie state anatom 1 leal laboratory. IS BURIED THERE Mrs. J. B. Corson of Monroe. Whose Death Occurred i. at Germantown. Ohio ' | I MADE THE REQUEST: II ■ That Interment Take Place There—Died at Daughter’s Home on Visit. Monroe, Ind.. Dec. IT —(Special toj Dally Democrat! J It. Corson will I return today from Germantown, Ohio. i where he hus l**-eti during the Hines - t and death of Ills wife, who passed ‘ away Saturday evening at •:‘.U 1 o'clock a! tlie home of her daughter. Mrs. t'nsron went there to spend '. Thanksgiving with relatives ami * while there les ame 111 and during het • Illness suffered terribly. Ijvst Fcbru nry alto was also 111 and It was feared ( then that she would never Ih* able to I leave her bod. Sfli” beeamo better. - however, but Iler health had been |Ks»r t since, her ailments being a compll< a 1 tloii. Site was lairti October 17. |x. r <o. '• dying December IS, Ittl i. at the age *• of sfxty-tlire** years. As ah«< re*iu**sted. burial took place t at Germantown. Ohio. Mrs. t'orson i* was one of tlie highly res|H*<ti'd lull dies of Monroe. n -o ■ — IT LOOKS LIKE DAILEY. • Washington. D. <'.. Dec. 17 "Frank (*. Dailey of Bluffton will la* the next i- district attorney for the dlstri* t of Inr dlana and his appointment will Is* an k nounced w Ittiin a few daya.'' I- This was the positive opinion ex e pressed by Representative J. A. M. e Adair, who aootned to l»- happy in the t prospect that one of his constltuetiti s should receive this high honor. il "Betti-r not* do any guessing on the ,* dlstri* t attorneyship ytsi might go e wrong," was Senator Kern's advice I- to the repr**»ontativo of the Indlanup a oils Htar Senator Kern assarted tha* \ l.« and Senator Shively have not ■- coma to any sort of an agreement or ! understanding on the district attor ■aywhip. Tha depart meat of juatt*-' >( i bae laid down the nil* that It will not u I appoint corporation attorneys tv y threw offlere. This would seam tn tetr I- Daniel W. Simms of tafayetle, who lis a prominent railroad attorney.

1 1' ATTENDS FUNERAL Dwight Smith will return today to Joppa, Mo. He earn** to attend the funeral of his grandmother. .Mr- Sti san House which was held Mondnv. Mi- . House who wn- nearly seventy nine years ot age Is probably oto- ol th** oldest persons to submit to at: operation. Sin* was operated upon Saturday for appendicitis utid died during tin* operation. Th** appendix had already bunded. When th** oper atton was suggested Mrs. House wa heartily in favor of it tin*) urged that it la* held. Mr. Smith is a -on of Wail** Smith and this is ills first visit her** in many years. Mrs. House left a son, Morton House, five grand | children and seven great-grand * lill*i r**n. LOW DEATH RATE For Decatur and Adan*s County During September of This Year. WERE BUT 18 DEATHS' During September in the County—Only Two in City of Decatur. Tin* Indiana Slate Board of Health j I has issued Its bulletin showing th**! vital statl-tii s for the month of Sep (ember. Eighteen deaths were re ported in Adams county during Sep-! tember this year, which was tlie san: ■ I number as September df last year. It- ■ I August of this year there were thlr ’ teen deaths. Tit** death rate of Ad ' lams county, which has an estimated I I population of 31.1H14, is much lower] I than that of Alien county, will* it hr 1 an estimated population of #7,145. an i had l»S deaths during Heptember During the year 1913 to date there! were only 175 reported deaths In Ad j I tints county, while Alien county had j 931. The annual death rat** per I.Wtt I population in Adams county during I Septemlwr of this year wan P.P; ot I August this year. 6:S. of September! I la-t year. id. of the year 1913. to date. I lo.ti: of 1912, to same date. 9.3. Till-' last rate show- a higher death rat*** this year In Adams i-ounty there were but. I two death- of person- under two) I ycar« of age during Heptember whll* ■ I Allen county had 25. They*- was but • lone death during H»*ptemher of a per ,I sot, from lu to 14. and seven ♦>.’• >*-ar , I and over. I'ulmlnary tiil***r* ul*»l* *iatin*-d two* in this county in September, typhol'* j 3; dlarrlio** and enteritis funder two I years I, I. cancer, I. J The total of 2.810 deaths were re ' I |H*rte*l In Indiana for September and . I there were 4.747 births. **f which 3. I 431 were white males and 2,273 wlilte: lemale - There were 43 colored i I Idrths, of w til* It 22 were males and ' I 21 females. De* atur. * whi* li lias an estimated [ population **f 4.535. had two death- | during September this year In Hep 'ltemlH'r ot last year and 3 In August ' this year. The death rate for Sep teiiib* r this year wa- •*’• Heptember. l . 1912, 18.2. August. 1911. 77. COOKIES AND SHOES i Loaded on Car Hero on tha Clover Leaf War* Stolon. A way-ear In a t'lover Mas westl*otind local freight was broken Into la-t evening while the train stood in t tile local yards from 7 o'* hs h to U M I waiting to meet one of the fast through freight trains. A *-m*« of shoes (onslgned to Michigantown and two cases of cookies, * onslgti***! Io Van Buren were removed from tlie tar. . They had been ;*std<-d at lesatur anti * mem tier- *»( the crew are almost post tlve that they were taken here as th** loss was discovered at Van Buren, ' and the only other stop was t'raig > vllle. where tin* train switched for a ' tew minutes Marshal I'h-rce and I Is-pu!) Sheriff Fn *1 Adams made an I I Inve-tlgatlon thia morning and round 1 I *-d up a motley collection of hob»s---r from the railroad yard*. None of the I missing good* waro found and most * j of the hoboes * (aimed to have spent ' th* mght tn tfin cHy lock up They j ware chased out **f town. Th* ofti rl«*rrs say that they believe that local i* talent was responsible for the r**l» I Itery Bluffton News,

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A MEASLEY POINT Is the Margin Ft. Wavnc i Says Decatur Phi Deits Won by I A BRISK GAME ' r | » 4 Played at Ft. Wayne Last Evening—Guessing Till Last Mihute. I Doalng by u measly on** point is getI ting Io bo u habit with Fort Wayne ha-ket liali aggregations. The Active Tumor- suffered thl* ! misfortune last night when they wen i down to u 35 to 34 d**f**nt at tlie hand of the IhM-atur I'ni Dells at th* local gym. Th*' crowd from the n. *' * city lost to Juniors a week ago i»t»*l tame to rort Wayne load***! to the Isiards for the Active gum**, addirn* I Just strength enough to get r*-v*>ni • I for the former beating. The contest was a brilliant affair with ju-t enough rough play injected to keep the fan- *• e*lge It was any • body's game unt the last minute ami i Turner follower hooted their heads off during tlie-* chising three minute of play, hoptnc, for one «*f their fa vorites to cut In with a l*a-k*'t or tw*. which would put t ie home gunrd back • in the lead. , After getting a poor -tart the A* | fives came back hard and fast In th last (sirtlon of the first period t*n * wh*;n that half ended the locals wer ; hading with the score H* ft* s. M* 1- * her. a husky Decatur guard, spran , , the almost Impossible at this stag nnd four long shots in about tlir** 1 minutes camtefl a tie al Id. After that the -core switched back and forth I three different times lu the last llv* • minutes of play the visitor- were a! ways In the lead, but never by any I more than two or three points. It wa the play of Qass and Mel j chrr. th** vl-itors powerful guards I which won for Decatur This palt i put up a remarkable game tn the sec ond half, when they scored eight times between them from the tl* Id and al* ay- by -**ii-athma| shots fron; ! the center of the court. Merrill had little * ham *' against the l*s al guards ' but Sho**maker managed to break I away lor an <Hca-i*inal goal and his ; five tied Welcher for high <> unt from i tht* belli. Weberos* played ring* I around hit* opponents, and Bates au*t ! Backman gave g*»***l acc***itits *»f litem* I selves iii the fir-t half, hut bad their [ troubles getting free for shot- in the j < losing luilf It »s- » ureal < ( .nt>-t | *n*l the visitors comph tely upset thf«!op>*. The lln<->tp and -cot*--Active*. D*satur. Bates R F Meddill ! Ite* kman ... L F Shoemaker i We’ e u- * t*........... Vancf. ’ Barth III* .. . W**l* he? (irtlteh ... .. LG Gas* Field Uoal- Bates. 4 Backman. « I Webentss, 4 Ortlieb I Mtoemaker, 5. tali'll I Welcher '• Igaiiks, Goals an free throws Welieruss. 4. Fh**emak*T. 7. FATHER IS DEAD From Shook of Birth of Twin*—Oklahoma Tragedy. Samuel Itealmer. a yoting farmer of H*a*p* r county, newr Kpeermore. tikLi I fell dead today when twin- w*<e born ito his wlf* When the stork < ame *arller than was expected, ll*->lm**r tailed up a Speern lore physician over th* telephone and after excitedly ■*-■ ■ teg that the physl* ten come quickly. ■ fell with th** receiver In his hand and th* message unfinished A n<*iglila>r 1 woman a»*i-t*sl hl*n to another r*s*m, * and wlien the d>» *< arrived, he found > lhe father dead ts heart failure. The * mother waa k* j - In Ignorame of th** ■ tragedy, The Infants are doing well. 11l * *— O* 1 UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. . A groat man said Aou *utim*t E* dream vour***if into a *hars*i»*t. y***i * j must hamnier and forge your-elf Into il | one,’' but that don't m**«n that you n should us* your Immitier for km»»* I- : Ing. •* i ' ■ 1 > ! INFANT IS DEAD. I —' — l! The girl baby born i*r*m*turely f fundsv ot Mr and Mr*. Harr* Fike i I of Find itreet. died this morning eur* lily, from exhaustion Mr Flk* la tlu* ' well known blacksmith. A prtvnl* jlm rial ass held.