Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1914 — Page 1

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Volume XTT. Number 137.

MANY ATTENDED dec™ sale First Day Os Co-operative Sale By Thirty-nine Merchants A Success TWO MORE DAYS Many Come From A Distance To Take Advantage Os Special Prices I ini delighted with the first days sale and believe the merchants will agree at the end of the three days that the event has been a. pl asing surprise. I know that many a time every merchant has been worked into schemes that coat t great deal more titan tills and couiii not see any results. So far as I know every store has done more titan the usual amount of busi boss today and the pros- I pects for three big days is excellent as I view it. I hope the business men will continue to work together and that this is bur the start of a movement that will prow duie much business during the years to come. ■—Charlie Voglewede, President of Business Mens Association. If there is one of the thirty-nine merchants who took part in todays first co-operative sale who was not greatly pleased with the first day, we failed to find him. ut course we were looking for those who were delighted and we had no trouble finding them. Every place we went and we tried to call on every merchant in town, we found them busy, not rushed to death, but a dandy continous trade. Included in the crowd who patronised Decatur ■ tores today were a number from a long -distance. One merchant told us that when they opened their store this morning there were two customers from an Ohio town twenty miles away waiting to buy. Another showed us a list he had kept of his customers and it included a dozen up to noon who camo a long ways and who did not make a practice of buying here. Every store in the city was busy all day and the sale has just started. It will continue until Friday evening and if you did not take advantage of the first day you still have the opportunity. The various stores have marked tho special bargains they are offering in such away as to 'how the customer just what they are doing in the way of inducements to the many who want to buy good trticles at a low figure, thus enabling the customer to almost wait on themselves. The trade today was not confined to any one line, but included every kind of store, dry goods, clothing, furniture, hardware, grocery, shoes, railinery, drugs, jewelry, cigars, in fact every place in the city was extending the hand of welcome and proving their sincerity by giving special prices. The merchants are optimistic also and believe that the business will continue good during the three days, getting better all tho time. Tell your neighbors and your friends about the golden oportunity to buy in Decatur this week. BACK FROM MEXICO. Mrs. Abraham Whitright was agreeably surprised this morning to receive n letter from her son, E. D. Overly, who is serving in the U. S, Navy. He is with the U. 8. torpedo boat, the Reed, and was in Mexico during the entire time of the late disturbance, though Ids boat was hot in the fight. They have now returned to Charleston, S. C. He has two years longer to terve in his present four year term, and has already served a three year term, erlering when he was seventeen yars of age. He i now suffering from a hnd’.en thumb, and was therefore unable to write by band in this last Etter. to he wrote by typewriter inBtcjM Wb’-u the mother received the typewritten letter, postmarked from •he H 8. Navy, instead of in her son’s ‘handwriting, she feared ,:£sie wots agrees. to iitsd that h'i WP ‘ '•*' ‘‘‘ th« slight inivry. ii« »?•- in hina (hiring tftu entire time st the Clause jSSw and is seeing his portion of the things <>f the world and its u'.’’Jit'.'

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HANDICAPPED. , ' Mrs. Binx has her appendix, ■ I Bridge and tangoes (foesn’t know, ■ I Keeps her maids until they marry, And is sorry when they go. » Likes her children’s course of study, On no regimen depends; But she feels her limitations When she’s chatting with her friends.—N. Parker Jones in Judge o CONDUCTING CLASS. Mrs. Stella Philips of Fort Wayne was here today and conducted a class at the Indiana Lighting Plant, instructing the patrons in the use of the gas range and its appliances. wedoingjooay Miss Ruth Harkless, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Harkless Married. ■ "”4 TO IVAN DECKER Decatur Relatives Attend Wedding—Family Formerly Lived Here. Decatur people will have interest in hearing of the wedding of a former Decatur girl, Miss Ruth Harkless second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Harkless, of Paulding. Ohio. The wedding was solemnized at noon today at • the home of the bride's parents. The groom is Mr. Ivan Decker, a well-to-do young farmer of near that town. The wedding was a very quiet one, only the relatives of the two families witnessing it. Among relatives from tills city who are attending are the bride’s grandmother. Mrs. Sarah Hower; her aunt. Mrs. John D, Myers and daughter. Harriet; and her cousin, Lloyd Beery. Mr. and Mrs. Decker will make their home on the groom’s farm which is near Paulding. recorFlrieaker Gass & Meibers Had All They Could do to Wait or. Trade Today. •MANY FROM DISTANCE Store Was Crowded Early This Morning With Customers Ready to Buy. One of the bussiest places in De . catur today was the handsome big store of Gass & Meibers, where from , early morning until afternoon the big force of extra clerks were kept on the .'jump constantly. At eight o’clock there • ‘were by actual count thirty-eight cus- . * toiners in the place and they were ■ 1 there to buy. Many of these came from a long distance and one lady told the reporter that she had never bought goods at such advantageous prices at she had today. She said siie had bought heretofore at Fort Wayne and • Van Wert but that from now on she , expected to do her trading at Gass AMeibers. She was delighted with the big stock, unexcelled any where and the prices were marvelously low. In- , dhations were that the Quality store would break all records for one day , sales today. They hope to increase it i each day. o— — CHAS. BRIGHT INJURED i ' ” t Charles Brigiit, aged about 12, suff- • ered very painful Injuries Monday in an automobile accident that oscured . at Craigvllle, the home of the Bright ■ family. The boys w.s accidentally i caught by the Merritt Abbott automo- ; bile and a wheel of tho machine pasI sed over one of his feet, al part 01 i tb' sli< ' was torn off and the toot , be- s was t’lfcrt i i th • ji the • ui< i.i.e ffeph ni.'l ■ It male «;• wound which w (1 > - quire time to heal.—Bluff'.m Banner.

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sum OF BIBLE In Public Schools Cannot be Ordered by State Board of Education. ' SAYS ATTY. GENERAL INo Credit for Work Done Outside Public Schools Except Rated Schools. Indianapolis, Ind., June 10—The state- board of education has no power to order the study of the Bible, as a text book, in Indiana high schools, according to an opinion given to Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of schools, by Thomas M. Horan, attorney general, Monday. Greathouse had asked for an interpretation of a section of the Indiana statutes, wherein it is made plain the local school corporation officials have power to initiate or prescribe any course of studies to be used in their local schools, other than those prescribed by statute, and that the powers of the state board of education in such cases are merely to revise, if necessary, the action of (he local officials. Tills decision will take from the state board of education any further consideration of the question of adopting the study of the Bible as a text book in Indianapolis higli schools, credit to be given pupils for its study as other credits are given, but the study may be carried on outside the schools. Much agitation over the question was moused. No credit can be given by the state board of education for work done outside the public schools unless it be done in a private school which has tho rating of a commissioned high school, the opinion said. WILLSHOW OFF A Contest Between Decatur and Bluffton Fire Trucks Is One OF THE FEATURES Os the Firemen’s Convention At Bluffton June 25— Programs Out. The Bluffton fire department met in regular session and perfected the program for the convention there June 25. The program arranged is as follows: Morning Program. 7:00 —Receiving committees meet at •ity hull. 7:00 to 10:00 —Reception and registration of visiting companies. lu:oo—Address of welcome by Mayor John Mock at court room. Response by G. W. Guenther, president of the association. Afternoon Program. I:oo—Assemble at Cherry street for parade. 2:00 —Judging of decorations. Motor truck contest, Decatur and Bluffton. 3:oo—Water battle. 4:oo—Hose laying contest. 5:00 —Free exhibition of Japanese fireworks. Evening. Grand Carnival. • Tlie program is to be one of the best ever arranged by any entertaining company in the association. Every event will start on time, and it is :be purpose of the Bluffton company to see that the program does not lag. Howard Stout, Jacob Masterson and Arlie Hammond will have charge of ■ the parade while the judges for the i contests will be selected later. I Thu reception committee will lie t composed of Mayor John Mock, members of the city council, members cf - the fire department and their wives, and others whom the department will i later seie-t. A price of 55 will h'j ouered to the II resident on the stre< of the Vie rs ■’.••nwi. bn th i-icorau •. • I ”1 be Cl. ..... v Ml -sei ■ «' Vv V 11». ..cue. | A prize ot 510 for

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■ orated automobile, and a prize of $5 1 for the second best decorated auto- ' mobile will be given. The automobile parade will follow the parade of the fire companies. The fire company • selected to entertain the 1915 convention will lead the parade. For the hose laying contest, the distance of run was placed at two squares with a laying of 150 feet of hose. There will be two men at the nozzle and ortb man at the hydrant. ’ There will be a number of ladies among the visitors and the firemen have secured the Elk’s home, the ! Pythian Home and the Odd Fellow’s club rooms as rest rooms for tho visiting ladies. The Decatur band will attend. Union City it is said has. the inside track among claimants for the next convention. I AFTER PERKINS l Pinchot Demands That He Withdraw From Directing Affairs of the Party. WORST FOR YEARS Springfield, 111., Reported as Hottest City in United States Today. ’ Now York., June 10 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Amos Pinchot, a mem- ’ ber of the state progressive executive , committee today made public a 4,000 word letter in which lie demands that ■ George W. Perkins, chairman of the Nationa 1 committee, withdraw absolutely from direction of the party’s affairs” for the good of the party.” Pinchot’s letter was sent May 23 to members, and the committee, to Roosevelt 1 and to Perkins. Perkins has made no reply. He could not be found today. Pinchot said that a condition existed in the party that must be terminiatod. An element in the leadership, he said, headed by Perkins, favored the protection of private monopoly in American industry and has been taking active steps to campel the party to take this policy. He charged that Perkins was actively opposed to the recognition of Labor’s rights to deal will capital through unions and that he has frequently gone on record to that effect. Chicago, June 10, — (Special to the Daily Deinocrat,) —Scorched lor the fourth consecutive day, the middle west states today saw no immediate relief from the almost unprecedented June heat wave which has caused more than a score of deaths and many prostrations. Springfield, Illinois was today designated as the hottest city in the United States. The mercury had reached the 100 mark there at 9 o’clock this morn- - ing. Nashville, Tenn. 98; Louisville, Ky. 90; Chicago 95; and Indianapolis . 86 at 9 a. m. Eleven deaths caused • by heat were reported in Chicago > alone and eight are dead at Pittsburg. New York, June 10, —(Special to the ■ Daily Democrat.) —Five persons were burned to death, two killed by jumping and a dozen seriously injured when lire swept through a tenement firt trap in the densest portion of the east side today. Two women, two men and four children are in the hospital, some • of them awaiting certain death from their burns. Spontanious combustion was the cause of tlie fire. PARK OPENING AT HONDURAS. The grand opening of Fisher’s park i at Honduras on Saturday evening. I June 20th. is being advertised with . large bills and the invitation Is original 1 and worth reading. Watch for tlie f Lilis and for further announcement in ? this paper. A big ice cream social that will continue tho reputation Henpeck ? ha' mid for the best place in tlie - county in which to enjoy yourself will < be maintained. o— —— I Mrs. I.atlian Steffen, living east of Bluffton .was in this city yesterday ; i ■ .-urrparliid by ber husband, for the f pu-pose undergoing an operation for ti e removal of small tumors from her scar ’’’ E. i niton operated. Mrs St ‘ M 'k ver. uksly ! was aide w-i-m-. her i home.—BlU.P ... Barmer. I

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IS TRYING OUT J. W. Bosse at Postoffice This Week Acquainting Himself With Duties OF THE OFFCE W. A. Lower Will be Checked Out Saturday Evening —Bosse Goes In. J. W. Bosse is spending this week at the po> ffice becoming acquainted with the duties of the office upon which , he will enter as postmaster Saturday evening. W. A. Lower, who has served well and faithfully for tlie past four year, will be checked out Saturday evening, and Mr. Bosse will immediately takn up the responsibilities of his office. A change has been noted at the postoffice. According to tlie requirements noted l>y tlie building inspector, a revolving door, was built to keep out the (.rafts of cold air during the winter. The requirements do not say anything about keeping out the fresh air in summer, so in order to help keep down tlie stifling heat, a portion of the partition leading to the revolving door has been removed, thus allowing any cool breezes that might stray that way, entrance without waiting their turn at the revolving door. There is quite a noticeable degree of greater comfort since tlie change. o BUYS OVERLAND CAR A fine Overland toui ing car lias been purchased by Frank Mclntosh, the Union township farmer, through tlie Schug-Mettler agency. JULY INCREASE Rural Mail Carriers Will Receive SI2OO a Year After July First. COST OF LIVING ♦f And Cost of Delivery Has Increased Warranting Raise —Once S4OO a Year. Postmasters and rural carriers over the country are receiving word from the postal department of Washington to the effect that tlie rural carriers’ increase in salary will soon be effective. After July first the salaries will be increased from $llOO to SI2OO per year. This increase has been expected for some time by the carriers. During the past year there have been several count and weight tests made by the carriers for tlie benefit of tiie department showing the Increased business handled after the installation of the parcel post system in the offic. . In some instances rural carriers have been compelled to buy new and larger wagons to take care of the great bulk of parcel post matter and this II bought to be the reason for the increase in salary which soon becomes effective. A number of rural route carriers working from the post office here have seen tlie remarkable changes which have come into the rural delivery of mail. Rural mail carriers at one time received S4OO a year and were repeat’dly raised until a few years ago when the salary was S9OO. It remained at that figure for two years when it was increased to SI,OOO, then to $l,lOO and now to $1,200. This is an increase of S7OO a year since 1900. Tlie length of rural routes has been shortened since that time when the carriers were working for small wages and methods of work have been made easier. The amount of mail has stead ily increased, however. There are alwut 42,200 rural carriers’ in the United States. o Fred Heuer went to Fort Wayne morning vit’’ . ’ih her mother, i c s. fred Sell . ■ f m the Hope hosjpital.

■ WORKING ON NEW FRONT. Linn & Patton today began work on tlie remodeling of the front of the Niblick building, corner of Second and • Madison streets. When completed, this will be occupied by the Vance & Hite clothing store which will move from across tlie street. The building in which this firm is now located, was purchased by James Rupel for tlie pro- , posed trust company. AN ICE CREAM SOCIAL Tho July section of the Ladies Aid Evangelical church, will serve Ice (Team and Cake, Thursday evening on tlie church lawn. An invitation to the public to attend this affair. GAVE A SHGWEB Miss Emma Reppert Whose Wedding W : ff be Thursday Surprised iy Friends ON LAST EVENING Jason Hoffman, Young Minister, Is Groom —Given a Charge in Tennessee. Miss Emma Reppert, whose wedding to Jason Hoffman will be Thursday at the Magley Reformed church, was given a shower last evening by fortyfivt> of her friends at her home at Magley. Among Decatur friends there were nresent the Misses Lydia Kirsch. Emma, Msrgaret and Mary Wieder, Lettie Wetter and Ella Mutchler. She wa.-. presented with a handsome rug. A fine social time was spent at the Reppert home witli many good wishes for a happy new life. Tlie groom, Janson Hoffman, a son of Mr. end ' s Jason Hoffman cf near this ci.y, was graduated this spring from the mission house at Franklin, Wis., and has been given a ministerial charge in Tennessee where lie and his bride will go to make their home. THE COURfNEWS Last Week of Tenn of Court Is Nearing Close—Long Vacation WII L THEN FOLLOW Elmore Damage Case Still on Trial—Another Marriage License. This is tlie last week of the April term of court, which ends Saturday for the long summer vacation until the first Monday in September. A session of court in chambers however will be open, d next Monday when the Opliger impeachment case is set for trial. A judgement of $51.25 and costs foi the Peoples State Bank against Christian A. Standiford et al was rendered. The S2OOO damage case of Charles Elmore against Tlie Union Traction Company continues on trial before Judge Smith and a jury. The case grew out of a collision between a traction car of the defendant and an automobile belonging to Elmore, at the Central Avenue crossing, Bluffton. Tlie case was venued here from Wells county. It was tried here several months ago but the. jury disagreed, the jury standing 11 to 1 for Elmore. A marriage license was issued to Samuel Reinhart, farmer, born Fed. 4. 1894. son of Frederick Reinhart, t'> wed Liscta Haunie, born July 28, 1891, da xi.ter of Cottlleb Hannie, Th a will of Emanuel Woods was pn bated yesterday, having been wit i nessed by C. A. Dugan and Samuel Doak. It is very short and after making the customary provision the ! payment of debts and funeral expenses . Livies all his personal estate • - his - wife f r ’’er cse eui! . ' life At ’> ••• (Uoutinueu ou w «re >

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INDIANA_STOCK Will be Exhibited at the World’s Fair at San Francisco Next Year. GOVERNOR IS BUSY Will Not Take a Vacation This Year Except for a Day Now and Then. (Democratic News Bureau.) Indianapolis, Ind., June 10 —Special to Daily Democrat) —Lieutenant Governor O’Neill who was here today spoke of some novel plans that are being considered for an Indiana exhibit at the San Francisco Panama canal exposition next year. Tlie live stock interests want the spite to b"lp them make a creditable showing. O’Neill says the plan being considered is to ship to San Francisco about twelve car loads of choice Indiana stock to be shown throughout the fait. He says that there is a big opening for Indiana stock raisers on the western ranches. Indiana has developed some of the finest cattle and horses now raised and the live stock interests want the state to give them a little help in arranging for their exhibit. There is a plan also to have a great map of the state showing the soil of every county and what it can produce. Many r unique features are being con sidered. One calls for a library in the Indiana building to contain nothing but books and poems written by Indiana authors. Indiana has been critically called tho literary belt of the country so the commission wants to have Its literature and works of art exhibited. The commission is proceeding carefully. The Lieutenant Governor is confident that the Indiana exhibit, will compare favorably with that of states that are spending three or four times as much money. Governor Ralston is not going to take a vacation this year. He takes an afternoon off from his office now and then liut he seldom is away more than a day at a time. Probably no other governor of Indiana ever devoted more time to his office than Governor Ralston. He never has been in the habit of taking vacations. He is a glutton for work. Being rugged physically he is able to handle an enormous amount of business without fatigue. He has a farm in Boone county to which he goes frequently and works for a day or for a few hours to keep his muscles limbered up. The Governor and practically all of the state officials have accepted invitations to accompany the Democratic iditors on their annual outing to Evansville and Mt. Vernon, June 25 and 26. oMANY SHOPPERS IN THE CITY, A partial list of tlie many shopper - who were in the city today taking advantage of the big sales being put on by tho Decatur merchants during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week is given below. The following list of out of town visitors was handed in by a few of the merchants: Charles Ellison, Bluffton; 11. <l. Edwards, Blue Creek; D. W. I.aisure, Monroe; C. Kessler, Monroe; John Elzey, Monroe; Herman Wefel. Preble: Henry Brunstrap, Pleasant Mills; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Glecker, Monroeville; Mrs. Ed. Fugate, Monroe: Mrs. L. ( liver, Salem; Mary E. Everett, Wren; Fay Everett, Wren; Fred Koldeway, Union township; Otto Berger, P.oot twp.; Mrs. Wm. Frauhiger, Magley; Jacob Barkley, Monroeville: Chris Borne, Peterson; G. 11. Rice, Washington twp.; Adam Hower. Bobo; Ed. Myers, Preble; Mr, and Mrs. Jesse Sipe; Chattanooga; Mr. and Mrs. Jliou Sipe, and Bert Irelan, Chattanooga; , V. H. Buchanon, Berne; Mrs. Dallas Spuller, Union twp,; O.M. Snellen, Will-hire, Ohio; Mrs. Stevley, Lima; i Mrs. C. Brunsrup, Middletown; Mrs. Geo. Budmever, New Corydon; Mr. and I Mrs. Frank Reidsach, Schutnm, Ohio: • Daniel Stauffer, Berne; Peter Helnii r- » ick, Magley; Otto Berger, Bingen; i Chris Rich, Borne: Mrs. Anna Inne- er, : Berne; Marion Hudson. Wren; Will•|inm Petterson Steele, and Mrs. Allies I I'elrcl.ild of “teele.