Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1913 — Page 1

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Volume XI. Number 299

DON'T BE ALARMED Uncle Sam May Not be Able to Deliver More Than a • Fourth of Package. THE END IS IN SIGHT - _ End of Long Debates on the Currency Bill Came To- ' day—Signed Tuesday. (United Ur-- Service) Washington, D. c.. ial to Daily D< . ra< > { b . < I may not be able t deliver more Hue, one-fourth of the «'bri unas pr/kas delivered by pan : post next v,., Postmaster Burle-n intimated todav when it was learn d that the postof-i lice system wa with b u < news. In order to relieve the congestion and facilitate delivery. Uuri-s>: ! lias considered a plan of poniards to' be sent to the addr< of th- pa< k ages notifying them that a parcel awaits them at i.. pe 'office but can-1 not be delivered immediately. All of the offices throne ; - the country r ; port a tremendou- pared post busi-; ness and ar-- d> minding additional' clerks to handl ■ it. Washington. D < Dec. 19_—(Spo f .' lal to Daily I»-i rati The end the long debat. i‘curn-m- hi’, was at hand w n.i'e i . day. Ix-aib r Bion it by tlie end tla-aft- nio-.ai <c< ■ sion. Then tl 'all .vid go to the; ■ conference con tie . '• b will re- ■ port Monday alter » Hdi it <-'ll lr> ■ rushed Uirough <>u •• - and into ■ the white hou .-•-.>:ur<-. T'' ■ will permit th-- . ■ - ■ f <o:.u.-- -- ■ Monday until ■ i- 'v.i -n January ■l2 and 19. B Indianoplis. . It' 1J (Special ■ (Conti n ■ • ; < r. Page 3) UTOPIAN SOCIETY I Decatur Hi ' School Gives g Fine Procf •m This Aft- ■ ernoon Before ■ HOLIDAY CLOSIN'. ■ Intercsiui ’ c W.isOie y of the IT-- A Pla >' Also Given. »S . , rv .H ietv of the ■ The Utopi |Shigh school ■tills often pr- , . V Berth* SpMff** ’ - - ' ~, w i i...» u CleUand lull s* |Kdr presld. ii pp , RKetery WIM! . ~, Sawreth. ('horn ■Grain-. I tl |mnli>r ■ | Debate b( , ~u |lhH to th. - \fl;r■Mdint... ■h*: ■win Goldin r KB mi, Karl bl! 1 ’ ' ’ ' H' 1 ■ ■.ludgi- D I |KH Song "Ti>“ •' K.; Ing*‘—t' l ' lll v ' . r - Rower Bk Rend I 111 1 H I Piano Tl-• ru , ll)iin ai ■Eva Aug* • h *'" ru«toffl*" Pi ißssuy ■Lulv Brown , M;tri h" Bn I Piano DU' ’ ‘ )M ‘ r| (-..iii-r a Kindred str. !■ '■ nr BE" I Story '"l' ! " KR-Dorothy I" 1 () p 1 |,.,, r ih." ■ I Play - t ri. ■' I Lvanoel< I* At the la-» rhri-tmae « Wn d-i'i-i I won Kw junior d. I'--' . bsrlty I Kbrin «ift» or “ * u) pr pl* 4 * l K> r others »•’ I well as others.

WATUR DAliy DEMOCRAT

'COMEdy AT LYHK I? *W lA n ' '-'I I” ‘“res- Tin. ’ leadll, g f Pn heuMtlJi rs i 3 \ i ‘ Melodrama ‘with ,- !nr illin K situations. "tL ; n ' ,n si -n will no doubt be displayed at j every performance ti.« "'ill be given daily STROKE IS FATAL Mrs. Elizabeth Leyse PassI ed Away Today from Stroke of Paralysis at DAUGHTER'S HOME I Had Suffered Two Slight j Strokes Previous to This One But Recovered. ‘I A teleplione message to Marshal ■ Peterson tire mc.rr.hiß conveytd th. ' ad news that lite mother-in-law. Mrs. ■ dlkaheth Dyse, formerly of Hondo:*as tot for the past five monihs hav Jing resided with her daughter, Mrs. Jets* Shafer, of Bluffton, waa sullenly . -tricken with paralysis last night. Wien she retired last evening she was , feeling in fair health for a lady of ; ng her duehter Mrv. 8< i>afer heeru th® nAihpp hrwdt'iioK bMvilv mu' ' Rofng into the room dtecovered that she was in a serious condition. Medl.al aid was ausckly ummoned but be- ; s dside. life had departed. A daughiter. Mrs. Frank ".Tersoa. was visit I mg with a brother at Crslgvlile and tUflUIMMted Sht* . WX' lluulcUi»l“‘y nuiaiii". then informed her husband it '' -’ city who in turn notiM the two : ,||nght.rs residing here and they Im- | n-sadlately Wt f« Mr<i Lfysc had suffered two light - r »• previous to thte.hut it oUk ' ! that she had fully recovered. Mr. ’ L.y« passed *nf flr< “ oonlh ' aR " ! troni a paW ?J> an n Mrs Levse hw making :-• r ■ ion IM4 and bum au#-* * «Ccr’*3ned CO WC* he fOEs r Have Been Distributed to Various Townships and Corjiorations- — TOTAL is, » 42, s " ■ Sheet »!«* by to* Baumgarts ! M* 1 ’ L n!>«""“' , ' ,b " , itoH'l'"" 41 « di-trtbtttinK ,-k' rtrtiion* 1 yplil"* .’■"V !|l*bk' rd 46f15.*>. W«« ™ "' t •43.11'1 l|opr iM ■ 1 ** KM- >'» r, 7 Z'. W»* uMI-4’ it *'4,2 ■ Lm d*** fieOf” ' di« »n' lof IM Bn *' mr tw "** our S '"J «*’ " J »'*“

‘DECATUR CAN AND WILL”

Uecatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, December 19. 1913.

J-tAST OF MUSIC ic ill Presb y te rian Choir Will L)e- --* Hver Excellent Music on ir Next Sunday i A T MORNING SERVICE fp Under Direction of Dr. Fred; L Rattersori— Christmas it Sermon Delivered. •he Presbyterian choir under the directorship <>t nr. Fn-d I. Patterson, has been diligently practising for the I ■ past several weeks on several v.-ryj dift.cult and beautiful selections fromthe greatest cantatas and will le-l - liv.-r them at the Christmas serv ee I Sunday morning. The selections are Holy, Holy laird" from Gounod’* cantata "St. Cecelia", and "I Will ExTol Thee," from Conti’s "Ell.” These selections are said to be the most beautiful :i well as the most difficult h passages from the cantatas amt have required much study and practise by the choir to secure the desired har- . mony. The members are: Messrs. I w. H. I>-e. E« i.ngeler, J. (’. Patterson. tenors; M.-sdann-s Ed Engeler, i W. H. L#e, Albert Anker. Miss Mari-.- ■ Pati.r-on, soprano; Misses Bess Schrock. Estelle Perkins. Mrs. J. (’. j Patterson, alto; Messrs. E. H. Hub i-bard. Wesley Hoffman, Bruce I’atter- ' son. bass; l>r. Fred I. Patterson, dlr- . - or; Mi: Jean Lutz organist. Rev. j I Gl« Iser has also prepared a special I BUILDING FENCE ‘ Hen. Dick Milburn'of Jas- ! per Here Today—Candidate for State Office. WANTS HONAN'S JOB' Well Known Southern Indi-, ana Man Seeks the Nomination. )' Hon. Richard M Milburn, of Jwper. | iDubOf county. Indiana candidate lor. r . . ri n. t , .inntion for aUor-t P ni.ral s-sllOtlt lh® h<*rF K**’’| , t i w j||j (he polltk iunw I I unmi wHli the many I | »•" irfv vilfht I ii ' >/• Itilitl* Mn’li* « t Mi it th*’ next <•<>•>• < f RICHARD M. Mis Uf* l *' ■i hTisl grwduaio of the wtntd .o; tention »• southern In . lf , |Un |versHy n" 1 MU( . hP ||, of I j diMW • s " rl,u ' . „ f th,, fuinto-rland ;l I **.. ( ‘7.t r 'l^“ n,,n ' T * n ’ T I ■ I unlvcr* i. years 'ln *h« II '-’’‘’’rat Terre Haute- He U. | ,1 yptti-No™* 1 , plH ,didly i|U»M#*d If' good l»*f® r l 0 which h« »»■ | t) f the I' l * 1 ( f tr utatn aon5 Pirra. «»|*|.i<V , rt lift** nl®** I “i”' Mr '.n hit pohllr life and h. hM "> nM,nJ for'hlm in hta prow r | ly who wIH lent r»r*-

I MRS. VAYHINGER INJURED. While f)r. and Mrs, Monroe Vay- | hlnger of Taylor university ut Upland. . wore driving ir» that city yesterday afternoon, their horse became frightened at a passing automobile and ran off. The buggy was soon overturned and the occupants thrown out Mrs. Vahinger was badly bruised about the head and was otherwise injured and Dr. Vahinger received many minor bruises and scratches. Mrs. Vayhinger is a state W. C. T. I’, official and recently spoke here at , a meeting of the local union. TO VISIT MOTHER. Mrs. \V. L. Johnson and son, Doyle, went to Fort Wayne 4his morning to visit with her mother, Mrs. Janoy* <'rosier of Union township, who Is a patient at the Lutheran hospital, ; where site was operated Upon. She is getting along nicely. , VENGEFUL MEN I Italian Laborers on Erie Beat One-armed Man to Unconsciousness. LAY HIM ON TRACK At Wren, Ohio—Narrowly Escaped a Terrible Fate. Charles Cook, a one-armed man' | hailing front .Mlddlep<dnt. had a most J I unpleasant experience Tuesday morning at Wren, when he was set wpon.l ' , hoked and beaten Into unconscious \ I ties* by three Italians and left for dead , >n the railroad tracks, says a Van' v.ert diapaUh. A tUguian waa forced ( , »o stand nnarby and see the man mfs>rented, and after the Italians had left 1 'hey returned and assaulted him with 1 a board and knife, when he attempted ; ' to remove Cook’s body from the path I <>f an approaching freight train. The Italians have been working in I Ohio City all summer, on Improve-1 ! ments being made by the Erie, and i (were recently removed to Wren. > where they engaged in similar work. ' Ihe men loafed much at their work | land Cook incurred their displeasure i | I y reporting some of their derelictions to the foreman, as a result they lost considerable pay Cook wns going to i his work as engineer In a pump station operated by the J. It. la-e Con -truction company, which firm is en gaged In double tracking the Erie, and i waa metthere by three Italians, one ot whom said. 'Well. Charley, we ll have l it out now." and all three jumped . onto him. Cook Is not a large man ! and owing to hi* crippled condition was unable to offer any resistant e. and in a few seconds was down and out. and It is more than likely that i|he flagman would have suffered a similar fate had not the attention of » crowd of railroad men been drawn to the Imttle. when the Italians fled. Cook was removed to the office of a < physician officers went from Van Wert to Wren and after sonte trouble arrestIM | two of the men and a third waa : < aptured after a hot pursuit In a railway motor car. Thera they were I heavily mud. paid out and returned [to Wren. .-. ■ . - o - NEWS FROM THE Oak Grova School —An Interesting Spalling Contest. A vary Interesting and entertaining I spelling < ontest waa held Wednesday avnnlng at Oak drove achool house. ' The contest was preceded by a good. I spicy and patriotic drill. In order to make parts of the drill more perfect for a Clirlatmas program, critics were epiadnled and the report of the critics >liowed that the drill had been watch-<-d with the utmost care. The critics were David Depp. Tillie Christalner md Mary Depp. Flrat prises were , taken by Marie llrffey, second by Edna Rich. In the second <on tost, anybody could spell and the prigs was i a dollar. The Judges were William Itk-h. Joe Springer. Mary Depp and John christalner. Tha prise went to ( ;| u <ty rl - . A pie social will l>« held at the tarn* school next Tuesday evening. A few good reliable man I have roswtied to act as marshals so that tha evening may Im enjoyed by . all. The social will tie conducted on the plan of a hog social.

GIVEN JUDGMENT Clover Leaf and Erie Must [ Pay $7,000 to Clark W. Dinins. i SUFFERED INJURIES While Switchman for Two Roads at Junction at Ohio City. Indianapolis, Ind. Dec*, is. The . Supreme Court today affirmed th--1 Wubaslt Circuit Court in giving I Clark W. Dinius a Judgment of *7. 0M against the Chicago & Erie Hail ! road Company and tho Toledo, Si ' lahilh Ar Western Railroad compan).! Diulus wan injured while- acting it V switchman for tho two roads al their junction at Ohio City. Ohio, on March 4. 1904. The injury is alleged I to have resulted from the. rough con dition of the track. This is the second appeal of thesame case to conn- before the Su preme Court, the court having re versed a Judgment of $7,250 in favor of the- plaintiff on March 20. 190 X. In announcing its tradings in tlncase- today the court says that through the former decision rever 1 Ing the former judgment has often been doubted as the true statement 1 cf the law, that it will have to stand ' as the law is considering this case.; ' but hold* tne iast Judgment may be - afflrmf-d through regarding the- for i mer decision “the law is the case.” LIFE IS SAVED ■By Red Cross Christmas Seals in Whitley County —ls One OF MANY INSTANCES Local Sales Moves Aloni Quite Briskly—Proceeds Will be Used Here. Concrete evidence that the- R-d Cross Chribtmas seal provides means 1 for preventing and curing tul»-rc-ulcc-l : is found in the case of a daughter of • Henry Reece, a Whitley county farmer. The anil-tuberculosis society 01, that county last year spent a portion I of Its Christmas seal money for i-' fresh air cottage, which waa set up on the court house lawn that the public ' might see It. and where It was ceen b; Reece. He purcha-ed the cottage fori I hla daughter, who was very HI of tu tw-n ulosls of the lungs, and ahe ha continued to u- >- It M bdl’ li««n •• M •’ ItfXjt*' R* At/ JT" i — place to alestp. While her days wee j said to b«- numbered a y-ar ago, th- , ! freah air treatment has so Imunive-I ’ her condition that she has galm-.| 14 - pounds In weight and ia now well on . Hie way to recovery. She has taken I • the freah air cure under the direction , ! of Dr. t>. V. Schuman of Columbia ' City, upon whose advlca her father i purchased tho cottage. The Red Cross seals may be the i means of saving more than one life t In Adams county also. The greater I ' part of the proceeds are kept for use . ' within the county where sold and the , grtwter the sales the greater tlie sum I ot money to be retained Tho sales l are moving along briskly and all tho I leading merchants have them U»- > them on your Christmas packages. I They make a bright cheery greeting - —« —— — i Mrs. Will Berlin* of llluffton. who > naa been the guest of her mother, t Mrs. K. X. buinger. went tn Fort 1 Wayne thia afternoon to attend "Tho tlardeii o« Allah”.

• GET CHRISTMAS CHECKS. Columbia City, lud.. Dee. 19 E. M Wagner of Decatur, a repre entatlvv of the beet sugar factory, togelhet with J. Stuckmun, the local field man. spent Thursday in the surroundim: territory handing out checks to the re spective farmers who raised fn-et during tho past year, and according to those bepefltted they state that the i diet I. - come in handy for Christmas purposes. Mr. Wagner states that the Det-atur factory dill a great buslnes - , during tin- past year and that they are In the game to stay and will make greater efforts during tlie year to come for mon- acreage in Whitley county. Those who raised beets dur ing the (Mist year are more than satlsffed with their returns. A MALE CHORUS Os Thirty Voices Will Furnish Music at Sunday's Brotherhood Meeting. — AT THE M. E. CHURCH Mr. E. F. Yarnelle of Fort Wayne Will Give an Address to the Men. Attention is called to the men's [ meeting to be held at the Methodist church Sunday afternoon at which i time Mr. Yarnelle of Fort Wayne will address the audh-nce under the aus pices of the Metluslist Brotherhood.' Tho music for this occuulou will be furnished by a male chore* -of thirty voices, the men to bo selected from the various choirs of the city, led by Mr. Yarnelle. who Is a wonderful singer. The event will be one of tlie best ever given In the city and every man in this community to urged to attend. Mr. Yarnelle I* known over the north part of the state ns a business man who flmis time to assist | hto f> How men. Hear him at this time and you will profit thereby. O'— — -—— DANGER FROM MOTORCYCLES. A resident of Thirteenth street Is rightfully very much annoyed b<-< au young men who own motorcycles ride them over the sidewalks, endangering the llvew of the children. If the praI tire to Indulged In in the future, ar ; rest* will follow. The riders should | take notice and save trouble. SCHOOLS CLOSE i For Annual Holiday Vacation—Will Get Two Weeks This Year. A HAPPY TIME Anticipated by Youngsters Teachers Will Attend State Convention. The Decatur public achool* < lowed i thia ufternmm for Hie two weeks’ I holiday vacation, much to the gratlfl I cation of the small boy and girl who I have been most faithful during the I past four months. Many pupils wilt j go away for visit* with relatives In 'other titles, and otliera will enjoy the home stay to tlie utmost. Several of tlie non rosltlent teacher* will return to their liomea for the holidays. Many ! of Um tnacher* will attend the state ■ tea, hers’ convention at Indlanapolto. which will be lield Dei ember 22. 23 i' 24. Several of the grades and hlg'i i! t-ehool gave Christmas programs this i! afternoon. THk. PASTRY SALE. Tlie Union f’hapel laidlo*' Aid !• ready for Its market *ud pastry »*!♦ >'to bn held tomorrow. Saturday, De , i comber 20. in the Hower and Baker I ' meat market. Rabbit*, home-baked I goods and many dellcletl* thing* will j be for sale.

| Reaches Every Nook Os County

Price, Two Cents,

VETERAN HERE James Young, Colored Civil War Veteran of Wren, 0., Visits Here g IS 85 YEARS OLD Mother Was a Slave—Slaves l» “ Liberated by Kind, Dying V Master. ' . v JdinrH Youbk « colonel civil Will* 11 veteran of Wren. Ohio, who i> nrar i l ■■ ' ■ ■ ■ ' ■ <>f the Mhopperi In !>«•< iitnr thin morn* ing mitl ‘warmly icr»*et<Hi by hit* many friend* here. Although well up * j In years ho Im very able and enjoys good health. Mr. Young i» one of the men of tlu* I < Svil war, who fought not for lain ow n. j but for tlie liberty of hiM fellow-cotHl* tryinen.aa he was more fortunata* than j many. Ilia mother waa once a Have !of awealthy aouthorn plantation ownI< r. The aged owner b«u amc ill end before Ida death resolved to free all hia slaves. Thia he did and gave each one a nutn of money with which to go out and begin life anew for themaelvea. Mr. Young’a mother tame nortli and nettled in Ohio. ter. when the war broke out. and knowing so much of the h«rora cf I slavery from his more fortunate moth- ! er. he resolved to join the army and ! flght ft >r the deliverance of tlie le*« fortun.ite xlavt*. Mr. Young apt-akn I tn the highest terma of hi* mot her’a [old "uias'a." and *aya: M | know that ■ i be surely went to heaven, for he wiih > no ko<hl to his alavea, in liberating them ” Mr. N oung I* one of the highly re* *pe< te*l men of his rommunity an»l I for many years served a* class lender Uhi the colored Mefhorfht thunh at ■Wren. SWIFTLY FATAL " 1 Clara. Aged 12, Youngest Daughter of Rev. and Mrs. L. W. Dornscif PASSED AWAY TODAY Was 111 But a Day and a Half—Second Fatality in Few Months. ■ For tht-.ccotHi time in only ■ few ■ th* Vlt* IWMIII ->l *!|*- llcv. I. W. Dorn>>rlf of Hoot town.hip, pa.Uir of tlm Fuelling Lutheran church, wa* - btrlckcn by death, wlo-n Mto> Uluru, tli«- twclvwycgrold dnugllt'-r. puayed away u short while before 2 o'clock till* afternoon. Th- Httto girl waa 111 but a day and a half, the lllnua* being diphtheria. She flrat Im--aim- HI Thursday morn > thg Wlieti rhe otll of whoui and thl* morning the cave wa* pro noum e<l diphtheria, t'roup devohip-d - today and tin- death came thto after noon No arrangement* for the brlal had IH-en made at time of going to pre-a. but a privau- burial will undoubtedly !>« held The little girl wa* a favorite with all who knew her ami the fam- ' lly ba* the *lni-ere *ympathy of all In ita (Het. A brother, Benjamin (1., dl<-ff only * la*t July 3. while a atudent at t'on- ’’ cordto college. Fort Wayne. Ileaidea ’ the grief etrteken parent*, there *ur- " vlve the following brotlmra and *l*- ” ton: Herman Dora*elf, Mr*. Dtliillla '* Hoile, luitianapoll* Wither and E<U R win. of Fort Wayne; Ij>ul*. Tai' boa and l.utlinllla. e <>■—• ————•. CORN AND POULTRY SHOW. I. ■■■■■! ■■■< '• Tho <ifli< lal* of tho 4dam* I'ounty * Poultry *nd Corn Grower*' a*ao.-ln-t|nn are getting ready for the poultry and corn »lmw to tie held tn thl. city January 6 10. They will meet tomorrow and arrange for the room and ■ other preliminary matter*. A bl* Hat e of buMnco* men'* »pecl*l pr<-mium- *• on both poultry and corn will l>e nitr nouticed in an l**ue of thto paper anon. <1 Watch tor it. It you want a gate II logue. write to 11. Dotting, bothtary.