Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1914 — Page 1

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Volume XII. Number 51.

1 EPIDEMIC IS | YET UNCHECKED Each Day Brings Forth New M Cases of Peculiar Ah.tn.at H| Resembling Typhoid. H SEVERAL ARE REAL Illi Physicians Believe Others Ml Abdominal Influenzafl Care Should be Used. * i HB| The peculiar epidemi. ■■ ~... ■■ < ui:l much worry. tn seventy-five cases in t:.-:. MB mediate vicinity. <<y/ , MB 1 Pich day brings to -I-- 1 ■ . , ■H c.ssrs and whatever . M| tl'.e cause, it looks a- thou ■>- r . UIII . MB kined efforts of th ep. >|: j w,. MB v ‘« - inity would be no. , t , |MB it out. HH Health officers and p:. i. > BM ’ r - liy agree that th.■.-• .r. ( - r : ■ ■■ from six to ten ca.-<>< . .1 . here. Then there anMM that number of cas. - i , |l||g| teuetnble the disease r • |S| difficult to diagnose >h -i:. < . ' MB of the physician- di ■ ' HM l ' l, 'se as abdominal in;’u|||H difference between ilw d MB ’yphoid being thi-.t tin f ■ HHH differently and the pain igUB instead of the right MB My true in typhoid. Jlo- -. MB name of the disease is in BB The main fact* of interes’ >v HHi la the cau.-e?" and "Wlia; BB ®"d prevention?" BM There have been six < Mp | phold fever reported to tin gM officer, these being Elmo - p. Rrard Parent, Bart Sehralui Miss M iyme Brake and a Ml cf Ix>e Stvits. In severe! of • MB th*re have hern betnorrh.u MH cr symptoms fixing the tr ■KI rltcly. There are also tv -r : jaßal cases reported from the i MM * r y- one at the Steigtm >< r |H| one at the Charles K- : HM Among those in this est" REH Klinger. L. C. DeVoss, RB| Pat Costello. Donald V.n ! . ! |8 Sheriff Durkin, Ruth IN MH ard Voglewede. two <■' AH Fee. and two or three <!■ HM being ImpossiHe to -<■: t ' I of all. Dr. Costello has issued ; IBK assistance of all p:ir.-n! i" - ” < ■BM Ing for the disease nt I i» Hit out. He has sent J MM from three different <i.i> pies of the city water n- d ■ I BM l wrn,r 'nt nn d ariP< rt ' •v - ■ l|Hlt to likely that Dr Harty "HI to come or seri 1 th*’ ’ 11 |||Mjclog|Ht here to ■ fhi -I- 1 cause. ■B While wo do ' v.»-’• t" ■ |!IP 1 ■MB people. we belie' - that tl;i : cn.<ienii‘ |

® your aid is necessary. B®i n | |g Tc the Public: i While I do not wish to alarm the people of this i I g city and vicinity. I believe it my duty to tell the plain g f | facts concerning the epidemic now prevalent in this { J I R city and surrounding community.. I believe there H ■ JJ are really two epidemics, one of typhoid fever and M K one of abdominal influenza. Six cases of typhoid ~ K 1} have been reported to me and I believe there are at ,1 Ki !! least fifty of the other cases in this immediate vicin- K II ity. They are very similar in results and require „ Bl I practically identical treatment. For the safety of « SI I the public I want to request that: «} S Ist You boil all the water and milk that you use. ■ u It may prevent either disease in your home. Cook <> >| | food well and be as careful as you can with your chil- <; ■ I dren Watch their health closely just now and call a r» B I ohvncian when the first symptom appears. <} I I 11 you have a case of either disease in your « B n home" keep the children and all others except those }} 4 I necessary out of the room. Influenza is contagious {, S> m and infectious. , . „ I I 3rd. Physicians are requested and urged to re- „ ■ I port cases of typhoid immediately after they d.ag- ,i ■ I nose them. Please do not wait as it is impor ant J S I that we have in the office at all times reports that * E will show the exact conditions of such an epidem . ||| « While Ido not believe the conditions arc n IS particularly alarming. I feel that they arc serious b ■ I vouch that every «««»« » h ®"“ K <! ? I ,tOUt ‘ City Health Officer. Bb d i I ‘.L.-......—.

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reached a ■ tage > li re all pub Hi ity should be given it and all poeIj Bible care taken in handling it. JOINT INSTITUTE Tim seven schools of Root township T ' '. ill join In holding an institute next Saturday at the Monmouth school, to which all patrons of the township are invited. The teachers and trustee i will furnish the dinner, but all pati rons who so desire, may contribute thereto. All are Invited to come. A j good program will be given. o CITY BANC NOTICE The city band will meet this even- . ing In its room over the Rex Theater. I rhe re-organization will be effected - and a good attendance is desired. ! Several new members are anticipated ' coming in. ASKS fiDIVCRCE Mrs. Jeanette Todd of Bluffton Seeks Divorce from Nelson K. Tord. AND $3,000 ’ ALIMONY Also Sum of $75 a Month for Daughter, Whose Custody She Asks. The Bluffton News says: ‘‘The announcement that Mrs. Jeanette Todd f.b-d a divorce complaint in circuit court late Friday evening will create something of a sensation In Bluffton, in addition to praying the court for a decree of divorce from Nelson K. Todd, she also asks judgment for alimony in the sum of $3,000 and an allowance of $75 per month for the support of their daughter, Miss Margaret, whose custody she asks. ■ The suit for divorce is based largely on allegations of cruel treatment, abandonment, and failure to provide. In her complaint Mrs. Todd recites that she and Nelson K. Todd were united in marriage June 18, 18S1. and I separated January 4. 1914. since, which time they have lived apart and | have not cohabited as husband and I w ifo. "On the point of alleged cruel treat-1 ment Mrs. Todd alleges that her hanband frequently scolded, cursed, and; abused her that he frequently absent-1 ed himself from the city for periods I of days, weeks and months at a time, and that on such numerous occasions lie has failed to inform the plaintiff i when or where he was going, or how ■ long he would be gone, or when he would return; further that he failed -nd refusi'd to write to her. or otherwise inform her as to his where*- j bouts; and that during the last three months lie has failed and refused to make any provision whatever for the (Continues on race 1)

GET YOUB LICENSE . Mayor Christen Gives Warning to Automobile Owners to Get 1914 License. WILL BE PROSECUTED I _ Carrier Boys for Ft. Wayne Papers Must Not Throw Paper About Station. Mayor Charles N. Christen this morning instructed Chief of Police ( eph Melchi to be on the lookout for all automobile drivers who are running their cars in the city without having their 1914 license plates, and after the warning to make arrests of ail persons caught without the license. The state law became effective the first day of January, and since that time a great many arrests have been made throughout Indiana, especially in Indianapolis. You will ta charged the same' fee if you taki- out the license now os you would if you waited until next June, ana by doing so now it will save you. perhaps, from arrest and further trouble. Another warning is sent out by Mayor Christen and is to the effect that the carrier boys for the Fort Wayne papers, who get their papers from the 5:15 interurban car at the station, that they must not throw the wrappers from their papers in the streets and gutter, as they have been doing heretofore. it is dangerous to have the papers blowing around as horses are often frightened by the flying paper. Th“ hnys have been told about the matter several times, but seem not to heed the warning. Arrests will be made if it not stopped at once. Take this warning and avoid arrest. tj. BOARD TO MEET. The Board of Children’s Guardians will hold its regular monthly meeting in the library Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Members please be present. | LARGEST JNGINE In the World is Being Built by the Chicago & Erie Railroad AS A PUSHER On Some Bad Stretches in the East-Total Weight is 800,000 Pounds. The Chicago & Erie railroad is hav--ing built the largest locomotive ini the world, says an exchange: it is-1 of the Mallet type witii a total weight j of 800.000 pounds, 740,000 of which is ' on the drivers. The drivers arc 63 1 [ Inches in diameter allowing a speed up to fifty miles nn Hour without un ! due piston speed. The heating suri face of the boiler is 8.750 feet and the I steam cylinders are 36 by 32 inches. I The total tracliw effort will lx- 160,- [ 000 pounds, making the engine capaj ble of pulling two ordinary large train I of the present standard. The engine i will be used for a pusher on some ' bad stretches in the east. o — [ WOMAN'S BEAUTY NO SECRET. I - I • ft all lies in the care she bestows I upon herself and In keeping at bay [ those dread Ills peculiar to her sex. | The flashing eye. the elastic step and • the clear complexion never acconi- ! pany organic troubles. The distressed I i xprcsslon. lassitude, hsadai lies and 1 mental depression are only the tell- • tale symptoms. Women so troubled I should take Lydift E. Pinkham’s Veg- | etable Compound, that simple remedy ! made from roots and herb* and ret store their health to a normal condlI' tion. o PASTRY SALE Tt»C Jtlfl© of th<B fafidlvH Ahl ’> society of the Evantettcal church wl»!i J to announce that on next [} March 7 they will hold a pastry at the Baker and Hower meat r •Jkel. i’lehty of good things.

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1 "AT THE JUNCTION." 1 Comedy Playlett to be Given at Ben Hur Hall Friday, March Cth. The characters of the playlet are their heirs and lieriesßos and their two friends and the station agent, and their uncle. Deis, leaving a million to ills nephew or niece, the condition being the one married first within six months. If neither are married within that time the money goes to found an old man’s home. The compications arise when the friends of each begin to plot against them for the million. There will also be music. Admission, 10 cents. Watch for the program. Public invited. WITH JULLIGAN George Wemhoff and Sculptors Mulligan and Dodd Met in Fort Wayne. WITH PARK BOARD Mr. Mulligan to Submit Models for Several Park Monuments. George Wemhoff of the Wemhoff Monumental Works, this city, accompanied Sculptor Charles Mulligan of Chicago and Scupltor Clmrles Dodd of Bedford, in Fort Wayne Saturday, where Mr. Mulligan met the members of the park board and others relative to several monuments for the Fort Wayne parks. Definite action may result to place there a number of pieces of outdoor art to commemorate the lives of those whose names are linked with the thrilling and romantic story of early Fort Wayne. Mr. Mulligan will submit models in three weeks for the same and these will be placed on i display in the relic room in Fort i Wayne. One will be a model for a $15,000 monument to Anthony Wayne; and j another for Colonel Thomas Swinney to be placed in Swinney park. It Is said that a monument may also be I ' made tor Judge Samuel Hanna to be | I placed in the entrance to the Penn- - sylvania railroad. Mr. Mulligan Is the artist who designed the Adams county soldiers’ me morial. With Messrs. Dodd and Jl’emhoff he met with a cordial reception at Fort Wayne. Mr. Mulligan is In charge of the department of sculp ture in the Chicago Art institute .and his work as a sculptor has proved of wide popularity because of the "human interest" which his productions embody. _o SPECIAL C. B. L. OF I. A special meeting of the C. B. L of I. is called for Tuesday night at 7:30. Every member Is requeued to be present. t> FAIL TO AGREE — Jury in the Elmore Damage Case Could Not Agree on Verdict and IT WAS DISCHARGED Near Noon Sunday—A Ne.v Trial Will be Necessary— Was Second Trial. On failure to agree on a verdict the Jury in the Charles Elmore vs. Union Traction Company damage case, was discharged Sunday morning at If o'clock by Judge David E. Smith. The case went to the jury Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock. It is said that the Jury at time of discharge stood eight to four in favor of tlic plaintiff. At one time during the course of their balloting it la said they stood eleven to one In favor of the retrial will be necaa*ary' Tn a prior trial in that La nr , > 10 MT**”''p $2,000 for damages a traction car struck ▼ >bile. / i

BUSY RtSS '1 Many Instruments Filed at i This Season of the Year for Record. < PROPERTY TRANSFERS 1 Are Especially Numerous —Who, What and Where. County Recorder Andrew Welfloy and assistant, Miss Rose Voglcwede, aro very busy at this season of the year. The following deeds were Hied for recording since our report Saturday. besides witich there were many other instruments entered for record: Catherine Campbell to George E. Fink, lot 89, Ceylon, SSO; Edward H. Wietfeldt to Wm. H. Zwick, realty in Root tp„ $4800; Margaret Ey to Wm. H. Zwick, reelty in Root tp„ $3600; John R. Evans et al. to Emory A. Mailonee, 81.48 acres, Root tp„ $8500; Amos J. Smith et al. to’Catherine 1.. Hoffman, 20 acres, St. Mary's tp„ $2,000; Gilbert Strickler to Elmore J. Cook et al., trustees Church of 4d. lot 878, Decatu). $1500; Omer man et al. to Henry Michaud, lot:243, east half of lot 242, Berne, 350; Manasse M. Llechty et al. to Robt. M Llechty, 40 acres Monroe tp.. $6000: Robt. N. Llechty to Manasse M Llechty, SO acres, Monroe tp., $10,000: Fred Stauffer et al. to John J. Schwartz. 40 acres. Monroe tp.. $7200; Geo. C. Burk to Blanche Aspy, realty in Wabash tp.. quit claim <i»ed. $300; Geo. B. Shimp et al. to Blanche Aspy. realty in Wabash tp.. quit claim deed. $300; Samuel E. Burk et al. to Blanche Aspy et al., quit claim deed to realty jin Wabash tp., $300: Ralph R. Burk et al. to Blanche Aspy. quit c laim deed to realty in Wabash tp., $300; Hiram Aspy to Blanche Aspy. quit claim deed to realty in Wabash tp.. $300; U. S. of A. to Ezekiel Hooper, 260 acres, I Root tp. o WORST_IN_YEARS Is Blizzard Which is Again Demoralizing Business on the Eastern Coast. SEVEN ARE DEAD Ex-Senator p ailcy Files Suit to Test Validity of New Tariff Law. (United Press Service) New York, N. Y„ Mar. 2 -(Special to Daily fiemocratl —The entire east coast Is in the grip of the' worst blizzard in twenty-six years. Seven deaths are reported. All trains are stalled in the snow drifts, telephone communications are cut off and a fierce gale, turning to snow ha* demoralUc <! condl tlons here. The sero weather adds to the suffering of many. So great is the danger from ftre that 500 Bremen are petroling the streets watching for flames. Scrnntnn, Pa.. Mar. I—(Special to Dally Democrat i—Two thousand pertone were held prisoners in the Scran ton Tabernacle last night by the storm. Billy Sunday had opened his seven Weeks' meeting and the church was packed. Tito storm came and It was Impossible for them to face It. Two are dead and many serlmi*ly 111 as a result. A few took refuge In a niMirby restaurant and some tried to get. home. Washington. D. C„ Mar. 2— (Spi-clnl to Daily Democrat I Ex-Senator Jos eph Bailey today announced that he would file a suit in the name of the state of Louisiana against the United States to restrain the goerrnment from admitting Cuban sugar under the provisions of the new tariff law. The suit will test the validity of the new law. Mr. and Mrs. John Amsbnugh and . daughter, Ladelia. of Payne. Ohio, ; were guests over Sunday of Mr. and t Mrs. E. A. Mann , corn-r of Monroe and Tenth street*.

k CARD OF THANKS. 1 Mrs. James Hurst and the other children of Mrs. Sarali Fisher wish to j. express their thunks to ull for the assistance and kindnesses shown them duimg tlie Illness and death of their mother also tlie neighbors on Tenth and Eleventh streets for the beautiful flowers, tlie choir, and minister, and tlie Pythian Sister; for their help and < floral offerings, and to all others who helped so kindly. o TO COLUMBIA CITY. Rev. and Mrs. W. IT. Gleiser and their sister. Miss Rutli Gleiser, of Watseka, ill., went to Columbia City tills morning where they will lie a week. Rev. Gleiser goes to assist Rev. Hunter* conduct services at tlie Presbyterian church there. o BUMPED BY CAR Flagman Wm. Roebel Alleges That He Was Permanently Injured WHILE ON DUTY And Demands SIO,OOO for Injuries Sustained—Case from Fort Wayne. The fourtli big damage case received here on change of venue from Fort Wayne within a few days came today. It is entitled William F. Roebel vs. The Pennsylvania company, and the demand is for $14,004, for injuries received by the plaintiff, an employe of the defendant. Roebel alleges that for more than thirty years he was an employe of the defendant, and for twenty-five years had served as a flagman on their trains. On November 8, 1911. while he was on duty on a train between Fcrt Wayne and Chicago, and while hey were in Chicago, tlie engine was derailed through carelessness in proper maintenance of tlie railway ties. He alleges that he was standing at the end of his cabin car when the shock came and he was thrown against the car and injured in such away that he will be permanently disabled. He was rendered insensible and his right side, over tlie region of the kidney, was injured, also in the region of tlie liver, and the abdomen, so that It is necessary for him to wear an abdomInr’ support, all of which injuries will prevent him permanently from work- : ing. - ■—o ASSESSORS BEGIN TODAY Owing to the omission of a line an error appeared in the Democrat of i Saturday evening. It read that the i assessors would begin work Monday, < March 15. It should have read: "The assessors will begin work. Monday i March 2. and must be finish<*d by May | 15.” Tlie assessors begun work today i and are busily engaged in taking an i inventory of tlie personal property of our citizens. ATTENDJUNERAL Mrs. J. H. Bremerkamp anfl Mrs. C. N. Lang Left for Minster. Ohio. UNCLE IS DEAD Charles Rahe Suffered Fall and Concussion of Brain Results. Mrs, C. N. Ijing and Mrs. J. 11. Bremerkump left this morning for i Minster. Ohio, where they will attend i the funrmt of their nged uncle. Chas. I Rahe. Mr. Italic was the brother of i their mother, the late Mr*. John Ell- ■ ing. l HU death came very unexpectedly Saturday and the news camo In a telephone message Saturday afternoon to I relatives here. He had been 111 only u i, short time. He sufferetl » fail and I striking his head ou a step, caucus Halon of the brain re ulted. Mr. Italic j was a boat seventy nine years of age.]

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DECAfiUR GAG ' IN COLLISION ' Bumps Into Rear of Pontiac Car in Ft. Wayne and i Four Are Injured. ) LOCKED WHEELS SKID i On Icy Road and Prevent Car Stopping — Harley Menefee Badly Hurt. ************** * THE INJURED. * HARLEY MENEFEE, Thomas * street, of Menefee Art Store. * Spine badly injured and para- t * lyzed. Taken to St. Joseph > * hospital, and is now in operat- * * ing room. Outcome uncertain. * * CHARLES STEFFEN, motorman * * Ft. Wayne car. Spine injured. * *• F. S. KERBY, manager Equitable * * Life Insurance company. In- * * jured aliout spine. * MISS MINNIE SCHMIDT, Fcrt * * Wayne. Injured about hip. ;. ************** Fort Wayne, Ind., Mar. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Four Fort Wayne citizens were badly injured, one probably fatally, this morning at 10:15 o’clock when a Fort Wayne & Springfield traction passenger car No. 3, enroute to Decatur, ran into the rear of a city ear. Pontiac, No. 209, at the corner of Breckenridge and Calhoun Streets, tills city. Harley Menefee, ol the Menefee Art store, this city, was the most seriously injured. His spine was badly hurt, causing paralysis, and he is now lithe operating room < •. x'h- 1 hospital. The outcome is uncertain. Charles Steffen, mo’orman on tlie city car. and F. S. Kerby, manager of tlie Equitable Life insurance company, sufferi-d lees severe injuries to tbe spine and Miss Minnie Schmidt suffered injury to her hip. The city car was of the new type, with front entrance, and with tiie passengers grouped together more at the front, the rate of injury was less. The interurban car was returning on its trip to Decatur and was running along at a rate of aliout ix miles r hour. Dispatcliet Albert Schenmann. who lias served as extra motorman. was in charge of the car temporarily, taking the place of Ed W. Lewton. the regular motorman, for the run down Calhoun street. D. H. Hunslcker was the conductor in charge. The Pontiac car had stopped suddenly at the regular stop to let off some passengers. The Decatur car, running slowly liehi.id. was In perfect condition, but on account of tlie slippery condition of the rails, although the brakes were applied and worked properly, the locked wheels skiddecl along on the Icy rails and the front of the Decatur car bumped into the Pontiac ear at tlie rear. Tlie city car ireelf was damaged to an extent of only about $l5O. The Decaiur car suffered only a broken headlight. The severely Injured passengers on the Fort Wayne car were taken to the St. Joseph hospital for treatment. Car Leaves Track. A car on an extra eastbound Clover I#caf freight left the track at Pleasant Mills last evening, and i.m.-i! a li:’t delay. ■ o BUYS McLEAN RESIDENCE. Andrew Miller, a prominent farmer, residing south of the city, lias purchased the H. C. Mcla-nn residence on South Fourth street, m-ruptod by Mrs. Julia Moaes and daughter. Annettc. Mr. Miller, who I* about to retire from farming, will occupy the residence with Ills family. o- " ■■ G. A. R. NOTICE. All mombera of thn (1. A. 11. aro reI quested tn be at their hall Tuesday . afternoon at 1 o’clock sharp, and then ' | march In a body to the Joseph Helm j home and attend the funeral of Forest Helm. — —— - ——- BIRTH OF DAUGHTER. > " Helen Mary Is the name of the Rlrl I bom to Mr, and Mrs. Edward David ■ of Nuttman street this morning, thi< ■ being their first born. The mother | was formerly Miss Lucy Mclntosh. *