Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1914 — Page 1

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Volume XII. Number 66.

I HONORED WITH SECRETARrSHIP J. 11. Heller Chosen Secretary of Democratic State Convention. STATE WIDE PRIMARY rafter an All-night Session I the Resolution Commit- ■ tee Accepts Plank. ndianapolis. Ind., Mar. 19, 2:30 in.—(Special to Daiiy Democrat) States Senator Shiv««l> Bwcuth Bend was today rmiommate,! the democrats of Indiana Convention. The action wa, by a, The much talked of ■attempt to stamped, th,. , t. • ■ for Thomas Taggart did n..t ; at.-rial ■ tee. Tito letters of President WiLon .fpeemed to have had their <-it.-. i < IU convention. The primary plank. '{ ■ which he advocated through Sen: r ; I Kern was adopted. Senator Kern Qf spoke flatteringly of I’n-bl.-m v. d..... MB saying he was entith I to tl . fflK support of the party. Yen , ~ r .1 name because in your heart y,.n 1... Ml lieve in thl principles. ' in doim; I gC Senator Kern paid tribute •.. r-. na'or) » Shively, which caused a marled ova■H lion. These scenes in the convention K hall followed aji all nigi 1 session <.l wl the resolutions committee. <■ l - . end ■ I ed In the twelve committee. . v , , ■ opposed the primary plank Ix.wim: Bl the wish of President Wilson S| . . S ing of Wil son on the foreign relations I ■ problem. Senator Shively said tl i’ no president had eve/ had a lar K riety of foreign problems. T .-■> are

S before him. He Is reeponeiMe Hi-' fc must study them. He ha ri-.-n in ■ them with a firmness that < ->iil<l not I but surpass The people approv m" I a president who will not I tamped | t-d into extreme measures." E Judge Frank M. Powers of Angola I was declared nominat'd for the up I peltate bench over Judge Moran of I Portland. Judge M. B. I .airy of Cook I county was naniinated on the fir-t | ballot for the supreme court i> n< h. Homer Cook of Indianapolis ut-nom-inated for secretary of state on the first ballotfi receiving a total ot HTdU votes; Janies E. Cox of Columbus re reived 647** votes and Samuel Well . of Scottsburg received 212. I tale Crittenbenter of Anderson was nomi nated for auditor of state on the first ( ballot receiving a vote of 12(2*4: Myron King of Indianapolis received' 262*4, and W. B- Gray ~r f'ovington I received Sil. The nomination wasi declared unanimous before the count | ing wan over. ,1 Indianapolis. March It.—(Special to Daily Democrat.) —The committee on rules late last night chose Gov | rrnor Ralston temperury chairman ol the convention and Senator Kern as permanent chairman. John Heller of Decatur was chosen secretary. The. committee decided that the noniina- j Hon of the judges should take prece dence over other nominations The four appellate judges asking another tern will be nominated together. leaving the fight for fifth place between Judge Moran ot Portland and Judge Powers of Angola. After an all night session the resold tion committee of the convention ad vised a state wide primary plank at 6 A. M. today. The plank will retain the state convention. Till* a-tlon was taken in spite of opposition of twelve of the thirteen members. Mayor Hell of Indianapolis, chairman of the committee is reported to hava said "The member* of this convention have been made the pall bearers of the democratic party in Indians Following the adjournment. Mayor Hell told the United Press “Only one tnrmbnr the nw<’<®yhiK prim ary plank advisable. This pl» nk was strongly urged by Senator* Kern and Shively and Congressmen Bara hart and Adair. It w th * d, * lre of President Wilson, rather than ap pear to disregard the president » wish we Included the plank." The convention refused to indorse woman «u t lagr Tlte referendum and recall was discussed but no action ' 11 The platform further included thnational and state administration calls for arbitration law; cnactmeii of the W>go earner!* nnd labor !.»'• cooperation of the state and b"al forces for flood prevention; a referen endum ou constitutwnal convention

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It approved of the administration public service commission, vocational and educational law, regulation of I loan shops; anti-hog cholera law: the new law for registration of voters and thd appointment of county agriculture agents. THE COURT NEWS. Christian C. Sprttnger to Peter E. Habegger, lots 481, 482. Berne, $250; Henry H. Eellenberger et al. to Henry . Ellt nlterger, 80 acres, Wabash tp., SB.800; Eli C. Blerie et al. to Atlanta I.iddy, lot 238, Berne. $1000; John J. Prible et al. to John H. Smith, HO acres, Waitash tp.. $16,000; Wm. Scott to Myrtle M. Hamman, acres, Blue Creek tp., SSOO. BlilLD NEW STORE Ed Kolter, New Magley Merchant, Expects to be in New Building BY FIRST OF MAY Will be Located South of Store Which Was Burned Few Months Ago. Ed Kolter, who has opened a gro--1 eery and general mercantile store in Magley, succeeding Jonas Liby, who ' suffered a total loss by fire a few : month* ago. is making arrangements Ito build a new store building. This I will be located south of the one which I was burned. The new building will • be a cement block, eighteen by sixty feet in dimensions. It will be used l as a store building alone. It is expected that It will be com

i pleted by the first of May, and work will begin as soon as the weather permits. .Mr. Kolter opened his store. February 4. which is located temporarily in his residence. Mr. Kolter has j also applied for the postofflee at this place, passing the examination last Saturday. Mr. Liby. whose store was burned, is now living on a farm. - o WORK ON BANK OF GENEVA. Work has begun on the Bunk of Genevt. They expect to enlarge the apartments and install modern heat- , ing and lighting systems. The work I is to be completed in just one hun- • dred days. The second floor will be equipped with everything necessary for a modern hotel, which will be m barge of Mrs. G. W. Wright, the present proprietress. The lower floor will lie divided Into two parts. The • ast half will be occupied by George I< ►. Staley, a local merchant. He will I move his dry goods store into this i new location as soon as it is comple'id and expects to have a first-class department store. The west side will ,bo occupied by th eßank of Geneva.' WEDSIN_FLORIDA Miss Veda Ward Becomes Bride of R. C. Bower Sunday, March 15. AT SANFORD. FLORIDA Bride is Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry WardResided Here. i Decatur friends today received an- ■ nouncement of the marriage of Mias • Veda Ward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. . Harry Ward. She was married Sunday. March IS, to Mr. R. C. Bower at t Sanford. Flu., where the Wards have t a winter home. The Wards resided In this city for f several years, und returned here again last summer, where Mias Veda , renewed her acquaintance*, before leaving In the autumn again for San ford. She was popular among her ! companions of the younger social clr- ,. cle. and all will bo pleased to hear „of her marriage. _ ii The groom Is “ young business man t of Sanford, being a druggist, and they . will undoubtedly reside at Sanford. .i The bride is a daughter nf Harry Ward of the Ward Fence company, i. this city-

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday Evening, March 19, 1914.

: SCHOOL _NOTES . Domestic Science Class is Preparing to Take Course in Serving OF THE FOOD r ' Boys Are Making Magazine > Racks and Tabourettes— Girls to Play Bluffton. , The domestic science class of the Decatur grades and high school will , enlarge its scope. They have taken the course in cooking. In home decorating and sewing and other features . of the domestic science, and are doing fine under the direction of their teacher, Miss Berry. They will now prepare to take up the course in the serving of the meals, as it is quite as important to know how to attractively serve the food, as it is to prepare it. A vacant room near the two occupied by the cooking class, will be fitted up with tables, linens, and other necessaries, and they will be allowed practical demonstration in the serving of dinners. The manual training class for the boys, in charge of Prof. C. E. Spaulding. is getting along nicely. They have advanced rapidly in the preliminary work and through the making of simpler pieces and are now making magazine racks and taiiourets. These will be finished nicely and will be quite fine pieces of furniture, fit to grace the best home, when completed. The high school basket ball girls will go to Bluffton this evening to play the girls’ team there. A good game is anticipated.

RED LETTER DAY For Mrs. Housewife Will be September First—Pound for a Pound AND TRUE WEIGHT Must be Given—No Mote “Package Pounds’’ Under Federal Law. September 1 will be a rod letter day for Mrs. Housewife. After that date she will not be bunkoed so often. . For "September Morn”will announce u new epoch In buying food. No more will the "package pound" be In vogue. It will be straight "sixteen ounces net” after that day. The victory of sixteen ounces over the package pound Isn't such an Important item as you would suppose. It will result In a direct saving of I per cent on all expenditures for food stuffs bought in packages, jails and jars. And. since this is the popular method of purchase. It will nmn a decided reduction in household expenses. This was the interstlng news divulged at the third annual convention of state, county and city Inspectors of weights and measures of Indiana at the state house yesterday. The 3 per cent part was vouched for by bouls A. Fischer, chief of the weights and measures division of the bureau of standards. Washington. ,)n September 1 the new federal law compclllng manufacturers to stamp the net weight of all foodstuffs sold in containers will go into effect. So when Mrs. Housewife asks for a "pound" of crackers in a package she will get sixteen ounces of crackers und not twelve ounces of crackers and four ounces of package. "And don't you think this won't make a big difference," explained Mr. Fischer. "Do you know In those 'prints' of butter—packages sold for a pound —American housewife* are cheated out of Ik.Wd.noO annually? Well, they are—-just ajt ounce or half an ounce on eat h 'print.' i "Food sold in packages, palls, tuhs. Jara and smaller containers gives the manufacturer a great opportunity to ’ juggle the scale*. Take crackers. for . Instance. Women like to buy them In package*. They ask for a pound and

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get a box with about twenty crackers in it. By reducing the number of crackers to nineteen, one company was able to increase Its dividends 5 per cent. “That gives you an idea itow it goes. What applies to crackers goes for virtually every food sold in containers. Tile new law will do away with all Jhat. It will force the manufacturer to state tiie net weight in pounds and ounces.” Then Mr. FtachtT cited a few glaring instances of fraud that have come to ills notice. He told of one cereal manufacturer who sold a popular brand put up in packages labeled two pounds. When the law prohibiting improper labeling went into effect, this company immediately took off the two-pound designation, lie said. “And there’s a popular bacon sold in a container." he continued. “We investigated this brand and discovered that the consumer was paying 56 (Conti’iueu on Patje 2)

CALLEDBYJJEATH Lafayette Ellis, Well Known Business Man. Passed Away Last Night. DOUBLE PNEUMONIA Caused a Rapid Decline— Was Fifty-six Years of Age. Decatur citizen) were sadly surprised this morning to hear of the unexpected death of Lafayette Elils, the well known business man, who died last night at 9:50 o'clock. Mr. Ellis became ill just two weeks ago yesterday afternoon at 2:45 o'clock, but his condition was not thought to be immediately serious as he was able to be about the house. Last evening about supper time, his condition grew suddenly very serious. Double caseous pneumonia developed, and his decline was very rapid. His death came as a great surprise to all as he had been seriously ill only a short time.

Mr: Ellis was fifty-six years and twelve days of age. He was born | near Deerfield, Indiana, March 6, 1857. He was married to Miss Bertha M. Burdg. June IL 1884, the) widow surviving. Os the seven child-) ren ixtm to them, six are living. I They are Stella, wife of E. G. Coverdale, tliis city; Daisy, wife of Frank 1 .firns, M>s Angeles. Cal.: Roll and Scott. Indianapolis; James and Ellanor. at home. A son. Earl died at the age of sixteen months. He also leaves his aged mother. Mrs. Mary Ellis, of Indianapolis; tiiree sisters. Mrs. I). M. Brown. Chicago. Ill; two] brothers. Marion Ellis of Indianapolis,) and George Ellis, of Albany. Indiana; and one grandchild, Josephine Burns, Loh Angeles. Cal. Mr. Ellis resided at Redkey prior to coming here ten years ago last October. He engaged in the saloon business in this city, and was a well : known man. Those who know him well speak of him as a kind hearted, man. With many good qualities, and to ills family he was a kind husband ) and father, to whom his death comes) as a heavy shock. The funeral arangements will not | lie made until word is received from his daughter who resides In Callfor-| nia. DITCH CAVED IN On John Humbolt Thia Morning In Msibers Addition. While digging in a ditch In the Mel bera ndttlon thia morning nt 9:16. John llumbolt was the victim of a cave-ln, covering him to the shouldera with uisuit two rod of frozen earth. Yesterday while digging In the ditch, Mr. llumbolt noticed that the earth In several places scaled off aud gave signs of caving In. but this morning he liad passed that spot and thought everything was In good condition. Without warning however the big mass of earth came down upon him. giving him no chance to escape. He was caught In such n manner that hla feet were turned out and received the full weight of Hie earth.badly spraining und bruising them. A cab and physician were hastily sent to tiie scene of the accident and lie was brought to his room on First street. It is thought that several days of rest will enable him to return io hi* work.

TO Bl MANAGER Humpy Pierce, Decatur Ball Player, Assumes Managerial Career. HEAD OF YORK TEAM In Nebraska State League— He is the Clown of the Business. Huntpy Pierce, the former Bluffton and Decatur ball player, is to be a I manager this year. Pierce is well remembered in tills section of baseb.illriom. Tiie Indianapolis News comments as follows “Germany Schaefer or Nic Altrock. as comedians, never had anything on Jim Pierce, familiarly known as Hump, a local ball player, who is to resume a managerial career this spring at the head of the York team in the Nebraska state league. Hump is the clown of tiie business and lie has tiie reputation of being able to make a horse laugh. Pierce has played witli the local semi-pro teams, playing in tiie old City League years ago, the old Indianapolis Reserves, the Y. M. L. League, and others before get ting into professional ranks. He blossomed out in the Northern Indiana League and has played outfield and second base positions in a number of western leagues since that time. Hump managed a team in Logansport a few years ago.” o UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. Whun a man tells yu he's hunting' a job. y’ may know he meens bigness: I whun he sez he wants a posishun y’ may know he's waitin’ fee a soft snap. o MAKING HIS WAY Through College — Robert Edwin Heath Gave Intering Chapel Talk. AT THE HIGH SCHOOL His Best Investment—He. Represents the Redpath Lyceum Bureau. "One of the best Chattel talks that we have ever had," is the verdict of some of the high school boys relative to the talk given by Robert Edwin Heath, a representative of the Red- • path Lyceum Bureau, unu one of the attracting of the chautauqua during the coming summer, who was here yesterday. Mr. Heath is a man of great ability and verstatility. He, gave humorous and make-up sketches and told witty stories in his Inlmita-1 hie way. but best of all was his story of his own struggle for an education. I This is all the more interesting be-, cause it is known that lie has really , made good. He won first honors tn i the national oratorical contest, as a representative of Northwestern university. lie also made good in athletic' fields, having won the world's championship lienors In the 100-yard dash In a contest at Northwestern, making the da; h in 94-5 seconds, the shortest time in tiie world's records. Mr. Heath told how he hud made his own way through college, beginning with a capital of a quarter. Win i lie went to tiie college he had hut | cue little twenty-five cent piece. Tills) 'he turned over to the president. He) get a "job" waiting table, and he kept I getting more Jobs, mowing lawns, attending to furnaces, in fact doing anything that he could find to do. very much like McClure, whose biography Is now being published in his tnagu zine. He was graduated with honors, and at the end of his fourth year uni ' veralty career his bank Italance showed $250. beside* having made Ills way through college. He got hack the original quarter which ho had turned over to the president, and had it framed and is keeping It as his "lucky” piece—which was the best Investment he ever made. - "O 111 Elmo Smith, who has been HI of typhoid fever, was able to sit up today. I', :

ANOTHER HAY-CAR FIRE Last evening nt 8:30 llie fire department was again called out for u run to tiie Clover Leaf tracks, being caused by a car partly doaded with hay. having in some mysterious man tier caught fire. The hay was the property of G. T. Burk, owner of tiie elevator near which tiie car was located, and two loads of baled hay were completely destroyed. Tile car was damaged to tiie extent of about SSO. Tiie department did excellent work witii the chemicals. 0 , , - FLOOD ANNIVERSARY. Next Monday, March 23, will be tiie first anniversary of the most disastrous flood the middle states has known. ■■ —fr— ——————————— FOR GRADUATION Thoughts of High School Seniors Turn to Commencement May 22. TO GIVE PLAY “As You Like It” May 7— Italian Harpist Will Furnish Music. There are only two more months in this school year and thoughts of the [high school seniors students are al ready turning—and not lightly—to thoughts of their graduation exercises. 39te commencement proper will be held in the evening of Friday. , May 22, hut tiie calendar of the pre- | ceding several weeks will be filled I with events of great interest. The date of the Junior reception has not yet been announced, but the date of the senior class play lias liern set i for Thursday, May 7. in tiie evening. |at the Bosse opera house. The elase I . will present Shakespeare's play. "As You Like It." and will be given under the direction of Miss Frances Dugan. the Instructor in English. It has been decided to have a speakII r for the commencement proper, but lie has not yet been selected. The special music for the occasion, howlever, will be given by, Pascal! L. Montan!. an Italian musician from Indianapolis. who Is noted for ills excellency as a harpist. He is said to be ' very tine. Tha graduating class, which numtiered thirty-five last year, was the largest graduating class in the history <-f tiie high school, but it is thought bar in th» > Imn thia ye:"' equal, if not exceed, that of last year. ' As the final tests have not yet been held, however, and the exact number to be graduated lias not yet been announced. HAND IS CRUSHED Ciarence Potts of This City, Employed at Pennsylvania Railroad Shops. MEETS WITH INJURY Necessary to Amputate Fingers—ls Patient at St. Joseph Hospital. Mrs. Hiram Fotta and daughter, Ida, loft for Fort Wayne today noon. I She wont In response to word that | tier son, Clurunce. aged seventeen, had met with n Imd accident at the Pennsylvania railroad shops where h--I nd been employed and Is now in tiie Ist. Joseph hospital. Yesterday morning while at work. I ilia right hand w a no badly crushed [that it was neccessary to amputate the fingers. He will be brought to I Ills home hers ns soon us ills condi J Hon allows. ■ The ls>y had been employed at Hie [shop* for the pa:<t three years and -Iwas an excellent workman. ‘ * 0 ’ II Miss Ixiulse Vail will return from t Cincinnati. Ohio, whore she is a stu dent at the conservatory of music to spend her vacation with her parents. - Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Vail, of Webster . street.—-Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

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THE WHOLE SHOW That's What the County Auditor is Says Mr. Albert Sahm. THEN EXPLAINS IT Interesting Account of the Recent Meeting of State Auditors. “Tiie county auditor is tiie whole I show”. That is tiie opinion of Albert Salim, now treasurer of the State Life Insurance company and former auditor of Marion county -a mightily ettl cient auditor, too. Mr. Sahm talked at the meeting of the county auditor of Indiana at the Denison Intel Wednesday, and he said things. "It may be a 'stock phrase',” lie said, “but it is none the less true that of all county officers none has so many and sucli diversified duties as the auditor. “Just wliy tills is so and just why tiie county auditor has seemingly been singled out as a sort oi catch all' lias to tliis day never been reconciled with the eternal fitto . of things, to use tiie language of tin late lamented Artemus Ward. Webster defines an auditor as 'one authorized to adjust acounts,’ and in teality that is what tiie framers .of our Constitution had in mind when they made provision for an auditor. "They had in mind the fact that in the proper management of public affairs a system of accounts was imperative. and that a proper adjustment of these accounts followed as a logical sequence, and thus they provided for an official for this specific purpose and designated him as auditor. "Judged by the acts of the legisltture, however, one would get the impression that the auditor is almo't everything else than an :oi-usier of accounts. So many dutieti absolutely foreign to those of nn auditor have been assigned to him that he might today be consistently designated 'the county’s general utility man' for such he is in fact. "Generally speaking, it would seem tiiat in the enactment of laws, a majority of the hills passed contain som<> additional and entirely new duty for the auditor. So genera! has become this practice that one questions ti. phraseology of most bills presented if they do not somewhere along tieline contain the familiar words, 'and the auditor shall' etc. "The result U that while ostensibly an adjuster of account- , lie Is. by vlt tuo of the divers and sundry duties assigned to him by ea< li succeeding legislature (seldom does any other official receive such gratuftoe- att-r.-cator, referee, colh-ctor. c<:mpu<<r. contractor; he is a clerk, a secretary, a tax ferret, a reviewer, an ateator; be makes duplicates and transfers and sells realty: tie issues liquor, cir- < us. warehouse, horse tlielf detective and other licenses: he is in the high-way-gravel, brick and macadam—road business, the ditching business, and so I could go on and libitum. Infinitum ; but what's Hie use* You know it as well or better than I do. I once undertook to collate the various duties of the auditor, that alleged adjuster of acounts but stopped when I reached the 1.200 mark and seemingly had only scratched the urface. "And yet the genera! impr< ■ don is tiiat the auditor Is simply the county's bookkeejier. “Why. gentlemen, when you sift it down to brass tacks, when you eliminate the frills and furbelows, when you get right down to calling a i»«<le a spade, the auditor I' the whole show. "I know he Is not so regarded, but this la largely hla own fault. In bls modest and unassuming way he go.>i nn from day to day. does’nt tlo it tiling but work, never complains or »ugg«*t:i tiiat many of the dutlea asrigued to him properly ahd logically belong to aouM» other department, and time roll* on end his duties multiply. The fact I*. 'll" average auditor hasn't time to exploit, for If he looks after hia work a* he Is required to do, It keeps hltn mighty bus. The fact remains, however, that he owea It not only to himself hut to the public, to Ills employers. If yoe please to let be known that hr Is tiie safety valve, the governor of the county machinery. The very fact that all the business transacted by the county (Continuea on Face 2)