Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1914 — Page 1

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NEW OFFICERS | WERE ELECTED F. M. Schirmeyer Named as the President of the Old Adams County Bank THE OTHER OFFICERS Old Banking House Will Open Under New Charter Monday, July 27th. The charter of The old Adams County Bank will expire one week from next Sunday, July 26th and on 'the day following the bank will re-open under the name Old Adams County Bank, the word "The" having been dropped in the new charter name. The new bank will have a capitol stock of $120,000 and will continue business in the same building where the Adams County Bank and The Old Adams County bank have done business for so many years. The board of directors met last evening and selected th- following officers for the ensuing year: President —Frank 3f. Schirmeyer. Vice-president—Charles S. Niblick. Caslijer —E. X. Ehinger. Assistant Cashier —Arthur D. Suttles. These men are all too well known to need any particular mention or praise. Mr. Schirmeyer. new president of the bank lias for nearly a third of a century been connected with the best business interests of Decatur. For many years he conducted a loan and abstract office and for five years past ] has been the head of the Bowers Realty Company. He has served as manager of the Citizens’ Telephone Company for many years and has proven his business ability and inte- . grity beyond any question, the stock', under his management increasing j steadily in value, the property grow- ( ing and the dividends coming regularly. He is also the secretary of the ( German Building Loan Fund and Savings Association, is connected with , various other busmess enterprises, has served in positions of trust as . receiver and trustee and is in every’, way fitted for the high position to which he has been chosen. While he ( will have active duties to perform as president of the bank he will also con- 1 tinue for the present his connection with the Realty company. Mr. Niblick, the vice-president has been connected with the bank for thirty-four years, is splendidly quali-, fled and is recognized as one of the most popular men in Adams county. He will continue actively in charge of affairs at the bank. Mr. Ehinger has also spent the greater portion of his business life in banking and has for a number of years past held the place of chasier. He knows the business »thoroughly and is unexcelled. Arthur Suttles who becomes the assistant cashier has been employed in the bank for a number of years, serving as book keeper and in various other capacities. He is an industrious and accomodating young man and has many friends who will be glad to heat of this recognition. The Adams County bank is one ol the oldest financial institutions in this part of the state and is one of the strong ones. Its total assests exceed the $1,100,000 mark and it has grown steadily. That it will continue to do so under the officers selected is assured. _ o— — UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. My sun Bud whut gets his dinnur at a eatin’ house and wurks tin a nusepapur in th’ menetime sez he felt a-kin In spirit to Strickland Gillilan whut edits th’ funny column uv th’ Indianaplyus Star whim he red his following part esss.y un "Coffee’ : "Coffee is a general name for anything dark served ffi a cup. "It is known, in restaurants, as acuppacawfee. “People with idle curiosity often wonder what they are drinking under this name. "It is worth going miles to hear a man with asthma and a heavy overhanging mustache made of Spanish moss and excelsior pour a cup of coffee into his veranda and drink it on the way to the garage.

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PLEASING EVERYBODY From every person who attended the performance of the Guy Stock Company last night at their tent on tlie corner of Fourth and Monroe St. last night, words of the highest praise were heard this morning. Not only are the members of the company holding up the high reputation formed here during the past years, but many devotees are being made this season. Tlie company, while practically a newone to this city, is probably the strongest company that has ever played the circuit under the Guy management and is securing praise and comment in every city. The play last evening was entitled "The Minister’s Sweetheart" and was a strong comedy drama, pleasingto every one in the large audience. Tonight's play is entitled “Secret Service”. a play never before having been reproduced in the city and one which calls forth the best talent and characterization of the cast. A complete change of vaudeville will also be made. These shows afc being given under the auspices of the Decatur City Band who receive a percent of tlie receipts. mJIETUMAMED Rev. Benjamin Borton Unites Lives of Dr. Frank Mann and Miss Velma Daniels ON LAST EVENING Wedding Very Quiet on Account of Serious Illness of Groom’s Father

On account of the very serious illness of the groom’s father, Joseph ,E. Mann, who is at the point of death, tlie wedding of Dr. Frank Charles Mann and Miss Velma Daniels, last evening at 5:30 o’clock, was very) quiet. Tlie ceremony was pel formed at 5:30 o’clock, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Minnie Daniels on Sixth street, by the Rev. Benjamin Borton of the Christian church. Only the nearest relatives were present. The bride was a teacher in the Adams county schools for several years, and for several years last past, was a teacher in tlie Geneva schools. She ;is a young lady of much merit and , I excellent character. The groom is an ‘ .exemplary young man. He completed' Jiis medical course at the state uni-' versity and the Indiana Medical col-' lege and is now connected with the! Mayo clinic at Rochester, Minn. o LED BY MADERO Northern Division Against Mexico City to be Led by Brother of Martyred Pres. THREATENED BY FIRE Brazil, Ind. Suffers Loss Os $126,000 By Fire Which Threatens the City I Chihuahua, July 22,—(Special to the i Daily Democrat) —General Villa an- > i nounced that part of the division of - the north which will occupy Mexico City will be commanded by General Raoul Madero, brother“vf the martyred president r Brazil, Ind:, July 22,—(Special to i Daily Democrat) —The heart of the t Brazil business section was threateni ed early today by fire which wiped ' put two business blocks and badly 3 damaged two others with a total loss of $126,000. partially covered by in- - surance. One man was arrested because he refused to help fight the ' flames. A company from Terre Haute responded to, a call for help and made a the run of 16 miles on a special train r in 11 minutes. . a Boston July 22,— (Special to the ’■ Daily Democrat)—Lawrence Robinson, h held for the murder of Inspector Norf- ton when the latter endeavored to arn rest him for a triple murder at Grand (Continued on /age 2)

Decatur, Indiana. Wednesday Evening,July 22, 1914.

REACH LOUISIANA Adams County Boys on Long Boat Trip Spend First Night in That State MAKING GOOD TIME Wind is With Them This Week—Traveling Sixtyfive Miles a Day. ■win » John Boner and Ralph Fuller, two Adams county boys who are making a boat trip to Lousiana write us under date of July 23rd from Lake Providence, La., saying: “As tlie long days of hard work go by we are climbing a little closer to New Orleans. Last night we slept in Louisiana for the first time. We have traveled about 1500 miles and still have 450 miles to gb before we reach cur destination.' Days when the wind does not blow are very hot, averaging 114 in the shade. Last week here was a strong wind against us and we could not make very good time. Now tlie wind is in our favor and we are making about sixty-five miles daily. We are arranging to have our picture taken when we reach New Orleans and we will have a good story for you when we get back home. Yours Truly, John F. Boner and Ralph Fuller. whaTand’how

To Do Relative to the Preparation and Mailing of Parcels A FEW SUGGESTIONS Given by Postmaster J. W. Bosse to Patrons of the Decatur Postoffice. Many parcels, improperly wrapped directed are received at: the postoffice for mailing. This causes inconvenience not only to the post-' office force, but often disappointment' to the sender and the one fro whom the parcel is intended. Feeling that the same is due not alone to carelessness or negligence but in many cases the lack of knoweldge of | the rules governing the preparation of the parcels, Postmaster J. W. Bosse gives to the patrons of the Decatur postoffiee, the following suggestions: All Parcel Post packages should be securely tied with strong cord and the ends folded down so the contents will not be exposed; do not paste tlie ends or sides down as this will make it a sealed package and cannot be received as Parcel Post Mail. All parcels post packages must be wrapped so that the contents may be examined by postal officials. Umbrellas, canes and similar articles must lie reinforced by strips ot wood or otherwise sufficiently wrapped to withstand handling. Hats or millinery ->f any kind should be packed in strong corrugated paste board box<>. Cut flowers, candies, etc., should be enclosed in strong boxes. Stove castings and pieces of machinery should be protected witli excelsior or material and wrapped in cloth, burlap or strong paper. Sharp pointed instruments or tools must have their points and edges protected so that they cannot cut through their covering. Medicines or liquids of any kind, if only intended for local rural routes if enclosed in glass or metal containers and securely wrapped in heavy paper will be accepted. Glass, crockery, fragile toys, etc., must be so packed as to prevent the escape of particles or pieces from tlie package if broken in transit. Cigars should lie packed in a manner i to prevent damage by shock or jar. Maps, drawings, paintings, etc., must • be securely wrapped and protected . with stout material to prevent damage. Eggs will be accepted for local delivery when so packed in a basket or

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other container as to prevent damage to other mail. Butter, lard and perishable articles, such us fish, fresh meats, dressed fowls, vegetables, fruits, berries and articles of similar nature which decay quickly, when so packed or wrapped as to prevent damage to other mail, will lie accepted for local delivery either at tlie office or any rural route starting from this office. All parcel post packages should have tlie name of tile sender and address on the package preceded by tlie word “From" as From J. Smith, De catur, Ind., To J. Jones, Chicago, 111., as no packages can be accepted without tills return card. Do not enclose any writing in any parcel post packages, as this would make it first class mail. Tlie limit of weignt for parcel post mail is 50 pounds for parcels mailed in the first or second zones, 150 miles and 20 pounds for all other nones. Parcel Post matter must not exceed 72 inches in iengtn and girth combined, hence a package measuring 36 inches long and 36 inches around the packages, constitutes tlie 72 Indies, and is the largest size that will be accepted. wilTeat’ emTjp ■... I II —.l Lew Scott’s Bluffton Team Will Play Newly Organized White Stag Team NEXT SUNDAY Visitors Will be Strengthened by Several Good Minor League Ball Players

Next Sunday the base ball fans of tliis city will be treated to one of the most exciting and best games of ball ever staged in tlie city and one that will bo equal to the old league days when the base ball fever was at its lieightli. Lew Scott’s fast team from Bluffton lias decided to again put forth every endeavor to win back tlie laurels which they have lost to this city for three times this season In order to do this, and to do in a proper form, and one that will forever lie a lessen to the fans here, they have almost completely changed their lineup and filled in with fast minor league players secured from Fort Wayne and the northern part of the state. Their battery will consist of Shulte and Mumma of Fort Wayne who formerly (Continued cn rage Two) ARE TAKEN HOME Schwartz Family Injured in Collision With Wable Automobile TAKEN TO ROCKFOD Father and Babe Doing Well —Mrs. Schwartz Not So Fortunate, Mr. and Mrs. (’. W. Schwartz and baby daughter- of Rockford, Ohio, who were injured in automobile-motor-cycle accident Sunday July 5, near tlie Pleasant Valley church south of Decatur, were taken to their home at Rockford, Ohio, today. It will be remembered tiiat Mr. Schwartz was thrown fifty feet from tlie motor cycle and ills back injured. He lias recovered so that he is able to walk without a crutch now. His wife and nine months old baby daughter were riding in tlie cycle-side car attachment. The baby whose leg was broken below tlie knee, lias also recovered. Tlie mother, whose right arm was crushed at the elbow, and who also suffered complications of a more scri.n.s nature, is not doing so well. After the accident they were taken to the Frank Strickler home In Mon roe, and while there Mrs. Schwartz gave premature birth to a still born child. Some time afterwards she went insane and has not yet recovered her normal mental condition. She was taken home today in an ambulance.

SMALL_CYCLONE Comes Out of Unruffled Sky and Carries Up Into Air Part of Pig Pen AT HAUGK HOME Carried Up in Form of Inverted “V”—Made Loud Roaring Sound. One of those peculiar little whirl winds, like miniature cyclones, that come up so suddenly, and oftentimes out of a clear, warm and unruffled sky, but which are due to uneven heat distributions, was observed yesterday afternoon in the West part of the city. A resident near tse Julius Haugk home was lounging in a hammock, when suddenly from tlie rear of the Haugk property, near tlie there came a roaring sound. Tlie observer was startled and horrified tn see carried into tlie air, what appeared to be about twenty- feet of fence, in tlie form of an inverted “v.” This was carried up and tlie leaves of the trees quivered and shook with the force of tlie updraft. Investigation revealed that it was not fence which was taken up but tlie side of a building formerly used as a pig pen, on tlie Haugk property. A part of the tin roofing was also torn off and carried up. o MR. CONTER TALKS

Deputy Secretary of State Gives His Ideas on the Times in Indiana. I SOME AUTO FIGURES , ' i One Person in Fifty in State 1 I Owns a Car—s7s,ooo,ooo I Expended This Year t Indianapolis, Ind., July 22—(Special i to Daily Democrat) —A report that is i now being prepared in Secretary of 1 State Eilingliam’s office showing the ' amount of fees collected in the automobile license department to the first six months of this year contribute an interesting chapter on the financial condition as it exists now in Indiana. It will show that more than fjp.ooo automobile licenses have been issued iu Indiana since the first of last January. While the report will not be complete as to tlie number of licenses issued up to date, it will cover the first six months of the year fully. In view of tlie claims of tlie Republi cans that money is scarce and that a panic exists in Indiana the report of the Secretary of State will be astounding. Herman Conter, Deputy Secretary of State, said today that tlie report shows that at least one in every fifty residents of Indiana owns an automobile. It is not likely that any other state in tlie Union can surpass this showing. By the first of August it is expected i that 60.000 licenses will have been [ issued which will make the number | of automobiles for each person in In-, diana about one for ea?h forty-seven or forty-eight. “It is difficult to see how people can say tliey are hard up, or that times are bad in view of the number of automobiles there are owned and are being purchased in Indiana,” said Deputy Conter, “with one person in every fifty owning a car it would' not seem that money is as scarce as some people are trying to make us believe.” The Secretary of State is issuing automobile licenses yet at about the rate of 200 a day. Estimating the price of the automobiles at SIOOO.OO each, which is conservative, fully sixty million dollars have been invested in automobiles by automobile owners. It the amount of money invested in gasoline, oil and accessories is added to the original cost, of tlie cars the total amount invested will probably be sev-enty-five million dollars.

Thu* such a sum as this has been Invested in automobiles is regarded as one of the remarkable features of business in Indiana today. Several months ago predlcitions were made that the automobile business would fall flat tills year because of tlie scarcity of money but tlie records as kept, by the Secretary of State show that tlie number of cars has IncrdCsed rapidly so that tlie peo pie must have money ,to invest in spite of tlie calamity howling of the Republican State organization. Il is estimated that the amount ol fees collected by the Secretary oi State from tlie automobile license department will exceed $400,006.00. Tills money is distributed among the coun ties of the State for the purpose ol improving tlie roads. This is one ot the laws that tlie Democrats enacted at tlie legislature u year ago, and for which tliey received a great deal of criticism from the Republicans. By the end of .the first year and a half of the operation of this lawfully. $600,000.00 lias been collected and is being used in making better highways in the counties. toteach_again M. M. Dunbar Will Again Head the Schools at Petroleum This Year LINN GROVE BOY Planned to Open Law Office. at Bluffton—Decides to Teach Another Term

The Bluffton News says: “When M. M. Dunbar moved to thi. city from Petroleum last spring i was expected that Trustee Baker, o Nottingham township, would have ti employ a new principal of the hig‘. school at Petroleum for the coming year, but following a conference b< tween Trustee Baker and Mr. Dunbai here Monday afternoon it was an nounced that Mr. Dunbar will teaci again the coming term and will agaii head the schools at Petroleum. Thi. will be good news for the students ir Nottingham township and tlie patron: of the school there, for Mr. Dunbai has been popular as well as success fill as a teacher. When Mr. Dun ba moved to Bluffton he contemplated opening a new iaw office here and hi has delved some Into law practice 1 but he lias decided to teacli at leas another term." o BE HEREJNIGHI State Commander and Mrs A. B. Crampton Will be Given a Reception HERE FOR PICNIC Public Cordially Invited tc Assist in Welcoming Them To the City. State Commander A. B. Crampton accompanied by Mrs. Crampton, will | [arrive in this city this evening at i ■ 8:40 over the traction line to attend ■ the Soldiers’ picnic to be held at Mon'mouth tomorrow, at which time Mr. Crampton will deliver the principal address. They will be met this evening by the G. A. R. and W. R. C members, headed by a drum corps and will march to the west side of tlie court house, near tne fountain where an informal reception will be held, giving every one here who desires the opportunity To meet the guests of lion or. A short address of welcome will be given by the Sons of Veterans and a general get acquainted hour will follow. Tomorrow morning tile crowd will leave here at nine o’clock on a special car for the picnic grounds, where a good program will be given and a general good lime had. The pic- ■ ture show given to raise the funds > for paying expenses was entirely satis--1 factory and the soldiers and their families and friends are planning a good (Contmuea »n Page 2)

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HOLD SESSION The City Council Met Last Evening in Regular Session —Heard Objections ON ASSESSMENTS —■■■■■ For Street and Sidewalk Improvements—Owners File Petition. The regular session of the city council held last evening at the council chamber in the public library building opened witli a complete roll call and tlie reading of tlie minutes of the previous meeting. Upon motion these minutes were approved as read and the proofs of publication giving notice to property owners to appear before the council witli any and all objections against tlie preliminary assessment roll in tlie matter of the Hast Adams and South Third street and tlie Jefferson street sidewalk improvements were placed on file and spread on reord. No one was present witli objections against the East Adams street niprovement and tlie final resolution ordering the city treasurer to collect

lie assessment was passed and adopt’d. (’. E. Bell objected to his assessment on tlie South Third street improvement and a remonstrance filed by Attorney Henry Heller for the Chicago & Erie railroad was placed on record. No action was taken in the matter and a motion was made that the preliminary assessment roll be ■arried over until the next meeting. Tlie final resolution ordering the ity treasurer to collect the assessnent for the Jefferson street sidewalk niprovement was passed and adopted is there was no one present with obections. A petition signed uy Charles Sether ■nd other property owners asking for i cement or brick sidVvalk in the lest part of the city was placed on Tie and the matter referred to th? ■street and sewer committee. The finance committee reported as laving sold $37.20 worth of cinders from the city water works plant. A petition containing three clauses and signed by a lumber of property owners was filed and read. The First petition asked that tlie city install a water plug at the inlot number 967 n the Sholty addition, tlie second being for the erection of an electric light at tlie corner of Rodd and Vine treet and the third was that Vine ■treet be graded. Upon motion the petition was referred to tlie respecive committees having charge of the different matters asked for in the petition. The street and sewer committee reported as having entered into contract with Haugh and son. Tlie report was •pproved and spread on record. A favorable report from the street ■nd sewer committe recommending he building of the McConnell sewer was placed on file and approved. The petition of James Ross for a ddewalk was refused as tlie street ind sewer committee did not see fit o go to the expense of of building it. X motion was made and carried grantng tlie street and sewer committee nore time to investigate tlie petition if Harry Kooken for a sewer. Tlie street and sewer committee was 'nstructed to look after the covering of tlie tops of tlie old cisterns within tlie city. The city engineer was instructed to notify the city contractor to fix all the sidewalks arid street approaches. The two city firemen were granted a vacation of tw ■> weeks each with full pay and a motion made to hire a man when either of the two were absent. The petition of the property owners along north Tenth street asking for the improvements of the sidewalks was granted and tlie city engineer was instructed to prepare plans and specifications. The water works committee was instructed to look after the matter of getting power for hauling the coal into the water works basement. The purchasing committee was emi powered to buy a minute’ book for the , clerk. i Tiie finance committee then allowed - the following bills and the meeting s adjourned: - W. L. White $ 9.18 - Decatur Herald 7.85 I John D. Meyer 9.06 (Continueu on 'Pttge 2)