Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1914 — Page 1

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DEFEAT STATE I u CHAMPIONS Gfirls' Basket Ball Team of the Decatur High School ■R Take Great Victory FROM WARSAW GIRLS Defeat the Northern Indiana i ..l<!h.u n|lions by 3 Points—- | Play Here Friday. " ’'‘tiß* 11 ' "°' v v ' ,la ’ •*” ■ Vl ” 1 | )u: , ket ball team of th.'n Indi on. Not think that sm h an honor could be •fltetOW. | upon our pro )H rolls little girls' basket the high school to Warsaw ■ Fri<l:»\ afternoon where tli-x played the V. ar ..-s girts by a score of 12 to !t. thereby *lnnin for themselves the title of being the champions of northern In ..... • dtana. The game was pulled off at the Army hall and witnessed by one of , the largest rfrowds of the season, it was Worth seeing, ti e r< < ord of both ' teams making the <otit t all the more 'sheerest .• The 10. al girls put up a Jjpand:•! game, and ’ ,t >mg was admire by every <.n>- Even their op ' jAOßeni were forced to sit up and take notice, more -o. ai'. r ti e game, when the local girls walked off the fiwr the champions of rt rn Indi ana. taking this hcored title from them on their home floor The Misses Fannie I'risingtr md I'ru Dugan, teacher* in the D<. ..iar >igh school, accompanied the te;;': t. v, arsaw. The 1< line-up for the team, w. follows: , Decatur Warsaw. j Diwan * C Bowers Bienek" C Hanks Cfeßutler. Banksi 1 MauS'jid t Hein* 1 Houley Veda ...(1 Youst 1 Hensie. Ixsili <1 . Phillips ‘ WS Field goals w. re made for Decaturl * by Butlm 1: Mane.'hl. Warsaw, Hain*. 3. F< ui goals l> • ..tur. Mangold, t; Warsaw. Hein , 3. Referei - .Miss Dugan and Mr. J Whittier The pet urn game beiuen these two) teams will bo played Imre next FrU 1 day gMning in i’ort’-i hall. It will, be one of the bitg« i -i.imes of the 1 season Come ami help the girls win another victory. ABOUT THE SICK. I Mr. aud Mrs. t ide By. rly went to Port Wayne this mornii.e to visit with bls brot: | r Otis By.ily of Willshire, i Ohio, who is u pii'i.’it at the Luther an boaplt-d It. war ep, rated upon n week ago la; t Tuesday and is getting along well. Mrs. William er and daugli ter went to Fort Waym tins morning ; to Visit with Iler m.>ti •r in law. .Mrs. Paulina Alfatlier. who Is ill. Ptter Fulk, the promim nt Kirkland tSKWHshI;; farmer. ha- ••een quite ill of gall bladder trouble, was able to conn to town today for the first since his lllinw. Adam Huett. I the w.-il known tailor, la coafln. to I.ls home again on ac count of illness. He has been 111 foe litre® of foui weeks and was <on fined tO tlfaf'iwtm II week, but grew better ■ • nnj was able to lx- out again, whan lie suffer’ i a relapse and Is again conlined to III: home. BLUFFTON COUNCIL 18 COMING Member* of the Bluffton Council a will come to this city Tuesday even Itic ut iieven oclock to .outer the Hoy *1 Art'll degrm. on three candidal er L. L. Baumgartner. Clarence Ball, and J. 11. Holler They will return on the ten or lock <ar and inetnlmrs of th* Chapter are requested to lie at the hell at 6 b» so that lodge may be Open).l and lr readiness for the degree work without losing any time. 1»H 18 HARD ON SOLDIERS . Dayt’" Ohio. Jan. it Forty six ' yM«rae of the civil war died In the first fourteen day* of January at the Nation..' Sodlers' Home In Dayton. Qflkl.' there predicted that In a dated. *t the present mortality rate thaFornnd Army of the Republic would all have responded to the last “tups"

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ATTENDED FUNERAL. A large number of Decatur people are at Fort Wayne today where they attended the funeral of Mrs. A. K. Hart, formerly Miss Hertha Miller held this afternoon. Her dentil ocurred in a Detroit hospital. Those who went to Fort Wayne this morning were: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Avery, Mrs. David Buckmaster. Mrs. George Kern, Mrs. Frank Butler and daughter, Mel vena. Mrs. J. W. Scholey, Elkhart: Mrs. John Floyd. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hite and daughter, Fannie, Mr. and Mrs. William Mißarnes went yesterday afternoon. BUY BURKETT RESIDENCE Mr. and Mrs. James Stonerook have purchased the comfortable cottage on West Monroe street in which they have resided for some time. The purchase was made of Mr. and Mrs. George Burkett. The consideration was SISOO. ACCEP£_OFFER Stockholders of Bluffton & Geneva Traction Co. Agree to Terms AT BLUFFTON MEET Preferred Stock Amounting to $400,000 Will be Issued —Begin Work Soon. Bluffton. Ind. Jan. 17. —(Special to Daily Democrat.) —The stockholders of the Bluffton & Geneva Traction! company held an interesting session j here yesterday, the question being! whether or not they would accept I the offer of the Cleveland lumbers i to echaage preferred stock for that i now held by them and to then finance the company so that the line ’ can be extended to Celina. A mujosity | of the stockholders voted for the change of stock and agreed as to the amount of Ute new issue. $400,006. It is said today that the other stoc k holders have agreed to sign and the future for the road looks very bright. It is bellevad that the work will stan soon. In the same deal it is understood the Fort Wayne a- Springfield line la to be etended from Deca tur to Portland. schobG funds Have Been Apportioned Among School Townships and Corporations.

BY DEPUTY AUDITOR Per Capita of $2,019 for 6922 School Children of the County. Deputy Auditor Paul Baumgartner lias completed the distribution of th>* state und congressional township school funds, of $13,428.69 and $553.49 for Adams county, a per capita of $2,019 uiihhik the 6.922 children of school age, according t othe school census In each townulilp or school cot point ion. and the following amounts are awaiting the trustees of each tow nah Ip or sclkmil corporation: I n ion I 601,95 Root 85<>.4'i Preble 626.19 Kirkland 563.57 Wasliiugton 933.22 | St. Mary's 723.13 Bine Creek 745.36 Monroe 1682.64 French 725.17 Hartford 737.28 Wabash »97.86 Jefferson 735,27 Berne 812.02 Geneva 654.47 Decatur 2693.63 Mrs. Emma Dull and daughter, Mra. Morehead, of Willshire, clianced cars enroute to Fort Wayne toeday noon to visit with her brother. John M Stewart, and fnamlly.

Decatur, Indiana,Saturday Evening, January 17, 1934.

PINK EYE ADVICE 3 —■ * Epidemic Comes With Dry Cold Weather—Separate Towel Advised AND EXTREME CARE Should be Taken—-Germ is Conveyed by Touch—ls Very Contagious. Pink Eye Advice. Wash your eyes with a solution of boric acid, even If they are well. It will kill the pink eye germ. Do not use the same towel any one lese uses—even if he is a member of the family. Do not rub your eyes—there may be germs on your hands. Wash hands after touching anything a person with pink eye has handled. There Is an epidemic of pink eye in many places and now and then a case in Decatur. Doctors in many places are being kept busy with patients suffering with tl« disease. When asked for advice for the public to stop the epidemic. Dr. C. W. Ryan, of Battle Creek. Mich., gave the above advice. “The cause of the epidemic Is the dry cold weather. Pink eye germs nourish in dust and cold weather, said Dr. Ryan. “The germs are in the dust. When cold dry weather comes, and especially when we have dry snow, pink eye is prevalent. As soon as we have damp weather, there will be I a letting up of the epidemic. Until | then the people will have to be careful for pink eye is extremely contagious. People cannot catch it from simply talking to persons with it. They have to touch them, and convey. tile germ to tlieir own eyes by rubbing them.” TO BE FIELD DAY I Anti-Saloon League Work- 1 t ers of the State Will Send i Field Workers Here - I I SUNDAY. JANUARY 25 1 1 In Every Church in County ' —Business Meeting to be Monday, January 26.

Tlie Anti-Saloon League of the state announce* tliat it will have a county field day in Adams <|>unty a week from next Sunday. January 25. On tiie following day, January 26 a convention will be held in the Methodist church in thia city, for the purpose of organizing the dry forces of the county to aid tlie Anti Saloon league In the battle to place prohibition iu the new constitution of Indiana. This meeting will be held at 10 o'clock Monday morning and will be attended by delegates from various churches and organizations. Tlie Anti-Saloon league announces that its field workers will fill the pul pits in the various churches of the county, as follows, on Sunday. Janu ary 25: SUNDAY MORNINO. Decatur. M. K.—R. C. Minton. Evangelical- -C. J. Everson. Christian J. E. Martin. Presbyterian E. S. Shumaker. U. II W. P. McKinsey. Berne. Evangelical—B. P. McNaught Geneva. M. E. Clrcuit—J. E. Rodenbeck. Bobo. M. E.—B. A. Roas. SUNDAY AFTERNOON. Decatur. itaptiat—R. C. Minton. Bera*. Mennonlte—E. 8. Shumaker. Geneva. M. E. Circuit— J. E. Rodenbeck. Bobo M. E.—A. A. Rou. Near Berne. Progressive Brethren—B. P. MeNaught. Pleasant Milla. Baptist (Unionl—J. E. Martin.

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1 Linn Grove. Evangelical—C. J. Everson. ' Decatur —W. P. McKinsey. AFTERNOON. Bobo. M. E.—S. A. Riss. Geneva Circuit. M. E. —J. E. Rodenbeck. HAS MOVED HIS OFFICES. The Knapke Insurance Agency has removed from the rooms over the Voglewede shoe store to the front rooms ov® rtlie Winnes shoe store, being now in the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. McMillen. Mr. Knapke will be glad to meet old and new friends there when they want any kind of insurance written. o DON BURK'S ORATION. Published With His Picture in The American Patriot. The American Patriot, the national organ of the Anti-Saloon I .eague, contains a picture of Donald Burk in its lust issue, and a copy of an oration he delivered in a national temperance contest. BEGINS SENTENCE C. D. Murray, Well Known Citizen and Business Man, Went to Jail Today. GIVEN THIRTY DAYS And Must Pay Fine of SIOO and Costs—The “Blind Tiger” Case. Charles D. Murray, convicted several weeks ago before Mayor J. W. Tee . pie for operating a “blind tiger." today I began his sentence of thirty days in | jail. He was convicted before the for- ’ mer mayor and fined SIOO and costs and given a thirty days' jail sentence. The case was appealed to the circuit' court and was set for trial, but on { the day before that on which it was j to be heard w. j, upon motion by Mr. Murray's attorneys, returned to the mayor's court. Mayor Christen docketed the case Thursday and issued the mittimus under date of today. Marshal Melchi went to the hotel this I morning and notified Mr. Murray, who', uncomplainingly agreed to accompany teh officer as soon as lie could at range his business affairs. The marshal gave him that permission and returned nt 10 o’clock at which time the well known hotel man accompanied him to jail without further delay. About three years ago Mr. Murray was con victed on a similar charge, and the jail sentence was suspended. o CAUSES TROUBLE

Bruce Patterson Suffering Consideraby as Result of Broken Foot. MAY AMPUTATE PART Physicians Held Consultation Last Evening and Again This Morning. .. Bruce Patterson, city editor of this paper, who had his right foot injured Wednesday of lust week, when it was caught in th* eog wheel of the Idg Gons Comet press, was last evening removed to the home of hla parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patterson. A con sultallou 6( phyalclans was held yesterday aflernuoti and again thia morn Ing and It was decided that lliere is an affection of the bone which may necessitate the removal of a part of the foot. He rested well teal evening and had but little temperature this morning, but It was necessary to give him an anaesthetic wlien the examination w«ui made. He aeemed to be recovering from the accident and was at this office Monday and Tuesday. It is thought now that a tmall piece of the bone was silvered off and that this is causing the trouble. A further I examination will be made tomorrow.

ECLIPSE OF SUN Mav be Visible to Decatur People if Weather Conditions Are Favorable ON FEBRUARY 24-25 Elipse of Moon March 11-12 Os Sun in August and of Moon in September. Decatur people this year may be able, if weather conditions are right, to get just a squint at a partial eclipse of the sun. This year there will be four ellipses, two of the sun and two of the moon: and a transit of mercury over the sun's disk. February 24-25, an annular eclipse o fthe sun. Visible to the South Pa efle ocean and the regions around the south pole. March 11-12, a partial eclipse of the moon. Visible generaly to North and South America, and in part by Europe and Africa. Moon enters the shadow on the eleventh at 9:43 p. m. and leaves shadow on the twelfth at 12:44 a. m., eastern standard time. Central time one hour and mountain time two hours earlier. August 21 a total eclipse of the sun visible as a small partial eclipse to the northeastern portion of North America as far south as Washington, also visible to Eurorpe, northernr At- ‘ rica and the western half of Asia. September 4. a partial eclipse of the moon. Visible to Australia amj the! greater part of Asia and in part to; the western portions of North Amer ' lea and the eastern portions of Africa. Moon enters shadow at 5:16 p. m„ mountain time. November 7, a transit of mercury. Partly visible to the United States, the sun rising witli mersury on its disk. ARE THE WINNERS Marion High School Basket Ball Team Defeated by the Local Boys. THE CITY TEAM Also Wins Victory from thejj Kekiongas at Ft. Wayne —Good Games.

Decatur is sure some liasket Ini 11 town. Friday our basket bril teams won three victories. While tlie gjrte' championship game was In grogre - at Warsaw the hoys' basket hall team of the Decatur high school was winning another victory for themselves and for the glory of the school. They defeated the Marlon high school team In a stiff game on tlie local floor by a score of 24 to 19. Next Friday the team goes to Hartford City, where they play the high school te>ys of that pluee. Tlie game promises to lie 11 good one. Tlie line-up for test night was as follows: Decatur. Marlon. Quinn .F Weeks Fnlk F... Cooper Vancll *.C Veach Gay G Crane Miller G Gotsi'liall Merryman Suh Bruner Field Gouls Quinn. 4: Falk. 2. Vantil, 4: Veach, 4; Cooper. 1; Weeks. 2. Free Til rows--Decut ur 0: Marlon 3.1 Referee - Warren Foster. Bluffton. I Scorer ('ole and Stephenson. Timekeepers Graves and I’eteraon I In the preliminary game the eighth I grade won from tlie freshmen by a score nt 14 to 11. The city basket ball team went to Fort Wayne teat evening where they played the Kekiongas of that city in I one of the moat exciting games of tlie season. Th® game was hard fought from start tn finish, but Deca tur showed them they were made of “good stuff" and defeated them by the score of 15 to 13. The game was played ou the St. Mary's high school floor and witnessed by a large crowd. Tlie line-up: Decatur. Keklonas. Merrill F Alter Shoemaker .......F App Vancll C Hoffman

I Frank G Offerle Bremerkiimp O Keip LOST PET RABBIT Little Marker Mount, son of G. E. Mount, the Indiana Lighting Com pany's local manager, is mourning the loss of a tame pet gray Belgian rabbit, which is believed to have strayed away from their home on Fourth street. Marker misses his pet very much and lias inserted an ad in tills paper asking for its return to him. Tlie rabbit is about seven weeks old. K. OF C. MEETING. Every member is asked to attend the meeting Monday, January If). There will lie some very important measures up for discussion, so be there to take part. During the months of January , February and March and April meetings will be called to order at 7:30 p. m. G. K. TU CIRCLEVILLE. 0 Daniel Donovan Will Leave Tonight—Called by the Death of HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW Charles McLean—Father of Mrs. Floyd Smith and Miss Anna McLean. Daniel Donovan, the well known clerk in the Boston store grocery, will leave tonight for Circleville. 0.l where lie will attend the funeral of ilia brother-in-law, Charles McLean. I Mr. Donovan received a message that he passed away last night after an illness of lung fever. Mr. McLean was about seventy-one years of age and is known in Decatur to many, as lie lias often visited here, lie and Mr. Donovan having married sisters. He is the father of Mrs. Floyd Smith and also of Miss Anna McLean, who was formerly steno grapher for the Smith A- Bell office , in this city. He also leaves a son in Chicago and one in Hammond. The widow, his second wife survives. The funeral will probably not be held before Monday though Mr. Donovan did not receive particulars. A BUSY RECORDER Property is “Moving” in Old Adams County — 682 Deeds Recorded IN THE PAST YEAR Statistical Report of Deeds, Mortgages, Liens. Etc., is Made. County Recorder Andrew Welfiey and his assistant. Miss Rose Voglewrdr, have completed theirr statistical report for Hie year, and the same la ready for the state statistician. Thomas W. Brolley. A total of 682 deeds w«re recorded, representing a total consideration of $2,149,993. Os this number three were sheriff's deeds, for a eonslderut loon of $4,398 and othrer deeds numbered 679. the conslderatllon being $1,145,I 600. All other mtaeellaneotts papers filed numls-r 159. ut a value of $713,003. There were 287 mortgages on farm I land, valued at $65:1,331, recorded, while 300 were satisfied, their rvalue I being $454,390. Tlierer were rec-ord led 136 mortgages on city property, at a value of $234,888. while 121. reporting a value erf $82,731. on city property. wer>« satisfied Thera wore fourteen school fund mortgage’s record ed. being n value of $16,075. as against the twenty satisfied, representing u consideration of 118.035. Oae hundred fifty chattel mortgage*forr 997.558 were entered of record, and 50 at 941.776. were satisfied. Liens In the number of forty six and valued at 13.039. were recorded, and thirty nt I $5,362 were satisfied.

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■ OLD SCHOOL DUS I l-J.i At Pleasant Mills Recalled by E. F. Gilpen in a Poem to Teacher. MISS EMILY DAILEY Entitled "That Old School Miss of Mine”—Clever Poem Written. E. F. Gilpen of Indianapolis, a former Adams county man, who is gaining considerable fame’ as a poet, sends tlie Democrat one of his latest, entitled "That Old School Miss of Mine.'' fills was written by him in memory of a former teacher, Miss Emily Dail ey, whom he has not seen since In r term of school dismissed in April. 1878, at Pleasant Mills, but who was recalled by Mr. Gilpen when his mind turned “backward” in pleasant recollections of his boyhood days. Tlie poem which Mr. Gilpen sends for his school mates to read, follows: I retired somewhat early, thought a special hour to keep. Ere I found the soothing pillow, I was walking in my sleep. 'Twas a sort of moonlight ramble, so I traveled on that night To tlie old abandoned school house, where I learned to read and writ*. Though I was little thinking of romance to begin. I gently pushed the door aside and softly walked within. And there within tlie building on the rostrum or incline, Wrapped in deep and silent study stood that old school miss of mine. And I again was stealing forth, with footsteps light and slow: And playfully tapped tier garment ns I had long years ago. No sound or voice the stillness broke. of school books not a trace: And we within the tottering walls were standing face to face. I saw tlie smile of years ago upon her features play. But time had stamped the fading brow, and I, my hair was gray. “I come each year to meditate, and call the roll," she said, “In honor of the living, in memory of the dead," "No name have I erased for crime, no face have I forgot. And there in this abandoned room, n poet once I taught. Though that was years, long yearn ago, yet I would honored be, If he would on this fading wall, a sonnet write for me." “With all my heart and once again will act at your command. If any honors great or small I hold within my hand. Then I be more than pleased to grant tlie one which you prefer.” And on the blacklmard dim with age, this sonnet wrote for her: If all the universe could stop, and tfme reverse his sands. And calendars reverse their dates, and clocks reverse their hands, Bun. moon and stars and planets all could stop nt will some day: Reverse t hedruid march of years and start the other way. Some unseen hand or hidden power could change Hie present truth. Reverse the law of youth to age. and change from axe to youth. If tills could lie. and we could change, and she would change, and then Come lan k some duy to Pleasant Mill--and take up school again. Return with smiles nf long ago. to greet each lad and lass. And I could come and stand agni'i with others In tlie < lasa: Oh* wouldnd’t that be beautiful: oh* wouldn't It l>e fine To talk the lesson* over with that old school miss of mine. „ .—Q—- ■ CELINA SAFE BLOWERS Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelley reed- j rod word this morning that two aafes | were blown open nt Celina, Ohio, j last night after which the yeggs atole j a horse and buggy and made their ; escape. The officers were warn-l to he on tlie lookout for suspicious characters. Mr. Kelley made u search over the town hut failed to I find any here.