Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1914 — Page 1

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Volume XII. Number 174.

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FUUNU GUILTY National Cash Register Co., Fined SIO,OOO By Michigan Supreme Court gTIME IS EXTENDED For Servia to Make a Reply' to the Ultimatum Sent Them By Austria ’|*V Lansing. Mich., July 25,—(Special to ■Dully JOemiH-rat) The supreme < otirt today found the National Cash Regis ter company guilty of unlawful restraint of trade and fined the concern SIO,OOO. London, July 25.—(Special to Daily Democrat) Austria will consent to extend the time limit in which Servia must comply to Austria's ultimatum was believed today, hut it is acknowledged that the Belgrade government's answer is absolutely certain to be hostile. Berlin. July 25.- (Special to Daily Democrat)—Newspaper extra's contained war like despatches from Vienna and St. Petersburg todaj intensifying the excitement as the result of the ultimatum which Servia must answer before six o’clock tonight. Belgrade, July 25,—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Greatest excitement pre vailed today as the ministers met in special conference to discuss the Aus trian ultimatum. The key note here is to face the peril of destruction rather than comply with the terms. Paris, July 25, — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Judge Albanal, presiding ever the trial of Mme. Caiiiaux for the murder of editor Calmette, today challenged First Associate Judge Dagoury to fight a duel. This followed a remark when Dagoury leaned over and whispered "Sir, you are dishonoring us.” Mme. Caiiiaux fainted today when two love letters from the former premier, writtet to her before her Remarriage, were read in court. One of ) these ended:- "Thousands and thousands of kisses on your beloved body." A recess was ordered while she was removed from the court room. New Orleans, July 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat) - Blood hounds and six parties are today trying to find three train robbers who held up an 1. & N. New York limited train within the city limits and robbed the passengers of $2,000. The robbers shot and killed the flagman although he offered no resistance. A dozen suspects are under arrest but none have been Sldentificd If the robbers are captured, a lynching will probably take place as there is wide spread indignation over the wanton murder. ( WILL HAVE NEW CATCHER. Manager Thomas of the White Stag” base ball team received word this morning that both Reimnington and Kinney, ex-league players will be here to strengthen the local line-up for tomorrows game when the “White Stag" team will cross bats with the Lew Scott Bluffton team. Both of these men are catchers of a high class and just which man will be placed behind the bat is uncertain. Cashdollar ’ of Fort Wayne also sent word this morning that he will be here without fail to do the twirling. Captain Coffee has arranged the balance of tlve team positions in such a manner that it will make an almost impenetrable backing for the battery and the game gives every promise of being one of the closest and hardest fought battles I ever contested for on the local diamond. Be sure to be present, don't forget to treat the visitors with all duo curtesy and last but not least don't fail to come in through the gate. IS IN HOSPITAL. Robert Wemhoff Underwent Operation This Morning. E Robert, aged ten, son of Mr. ana Mrs. George Wemhoff was taken to ■ the St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne last evening and this morning hid SfcnoMs and his tonsils removed. His mother was with him during the oper atldn. A telephone message at noon today brought word that he was getting along well.

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LEFT FOR MANISTIQUE TODAY L. C. Waring left this morning for Fort Wayne, where lie wil meet Judge O’Rourke and they will leave this evening on their annual trip to Little Manistique lake in the northern peninsula of Michigan where they enjoy life for five or six weeks. Mr. Waring owns a delightful three acre island at that place and has built a modern and in every way comfortable cottage which they will occupy. o — CHESTER BESS WINNER. An error was made in the name of the first prize winner in the nasturtium contest as published last evening. The first prize was taken by Chester Bess, instead of Chtester Betz. BOYHOOD SCENES In Pomeroy, Ohio, Visited By David and William Werling Recently THE FIRST VISIT There Since Leaving Sixtyfive Years Ago—Find Descendants of Uncle. i Ex-county Commissioner David Werling and daughter, Roney, and his brother William Werling, recently bad a much enjoyed trip to the scenes of their boyhood days, Pomeroy, 0., in the mining district along the Ohio river. This was their first visit there since sixty-five years ago when their father, Andrew Werling with his six children came to Adams county. At that time, David Werling was but seven years old. The mother died and was buried at Pomeroy and the trip here was made by the father and children. They came by boat down the Ohio river to Cincinnati. Ohio, and then by canal to Fort Wayne, as there were no railroads between that place and Fort Wayne at that time. The trip here sixty-five years ago, and the return trip there now, showed much contrast. When Andrew Werling left the home of his youth, he left an aged uncle living in Pomeroy. No communication was entered into between the two after separating, and the trip to Pomeroy was made by the Werlings recently to trace up any relatives they might have there. They found three cousins, two women and a man, who are descendants of the aged uncle, they being the third generation from the uncle. Their rather died only about a year ago. The cousins informed the Werlings of relatfves in lowa. They expect to come here in September from Pomeroy, and David Werling will join them in a trip to Cedar county, lowa, to learn more of their family and relatives. While in Pomertiy, the Werlings visited the grave of their mother and other relatives and old scenes of their boyhood days. They found the city much changed and very much larger. It is built along the Ohio river for a distance of about six miles, and about a block in width. Behind the city towers a steep cliff, church tower high, arising from the lower banks of the river on which the town sets; beyond this, the mountains rise and the country is rich in mines. The Werlings also visited in Virginia before returning home. FOR CHAUTAUQUA WEEK. The Library Will be Open Only In the Morning. During Chautauqua week, the last week in August, the'Decatur public library will be open only in the morn ings from 9 to 13? closing at noon for the rest of the day. This will allow the librarian, Miss Annette Moses, and her assistant, Miss Nellie Blackburn, both to attend the sessions of the Chautauqua. This custom has been in effect in neighboring cities also. — —-o EPWORTH LEAGUE PROGRAM. Song. Scripture reading. Different readings. Vocal solo—Ruth Myers. Instrumental solo—Mary Fuhrman. Vocal solo—Agnes Meibers. Talk—Mr. Suttles. RUTH BALTZELL, Leader.

Decatur, Indiana. Saturday Evening, July 25, 1914.

ON BOGUS ORDER . Representatives of Purity Products Company Collected the Commissions i I 1 AND THEN SKIPPED Member of Firm Here Today I Investigating and May Cause Their Arrest • A. L. Roop a member of the firm and representating the Purity Products 1 Company of Fort Wayne was here to i day investigating what looks very much like a “skin game” in which they came out the loser. The com pany manufactures Cerochic, a substitute for coffee and which they claim is the best article or its kind on the market. Some three weeks ago a young man giving the name of H. L. Stanley and a young lady came to their place of busmess with good decommendations and askew ror a position which was given them. They were sent her? to solicit, the plan being to take orders from house to house, turn these in to the grocer, who in turn gave an order for the goods. They did a good business here or at least they turned in a large number of orders and the firm shipped to this city thirty dozen packages of the goods. When tlie grocers tried to deliver the goods however it was discovered that many had not given orders. The solicitors returned to Fort Wayne where they drew their commission and are said to have “hiked.” They worked several other cities in this locality and Mr. Roop is now out investigating with the view of causing the arrest of the parties. o HAIR-CUT DANGER Well Known Doctor Discourses on Need of Reform In Barber Shops SAYS STERILIZATION Os Every Instrument Used Should be Compulsory— Tells Why. And now the barber is being brought into the lime-light of- reform. Dr. Leonard Keene Hirshberg, of John Hopkins University, in the Indianapolis Star says: ! “Barbers, unlike other individuals, , need not be judged by the company they keep. Nor need they be held as , abominations because, they continue I to perpetuate the Pilgrim’s mistakes . of 400 years ago. “The herbs and other tonsorial messes which the jazor-handed tnyr- . rnidon caresses as cure-alls of falling I hair and baldness are the heirlooms , of a once dignified but now badly . trained “profession.” r Heaven has sent many a man a fine suit of hair, and the barber has , deported it from him. Not that the barber is wicked, or wishes ill to his , patrons, but because barbers are notoriously unobservant and, uncon sciously, avoid seeing the results that do not accord with their treatment. Many barbers, nowadays, have fallen , into a pit of ink. They can not, it seems, be washed clean again. The arts and practices of barbers are'even t more antiquated than those of many :■ doctors and merchants. “Take, for example, the filthy praci- tice of shampooing tlie head with eggs. ? If there is a better nest for germs 1 and microbes to make their home in it is unknown to bacteriologists. 3 “If there is one germ or fungus of 1 ring-worm, itch, eczema or dandruff present before the egg shampoo is applied you may hazard a can of stale sardines with assurance that there are a centillion hillion of them a few hours later. For it there is anything a microbe loves better than an egg shampoo it must be two egg shampoos. "Yet this tonsorial delusion is no worse than singeing the hairs to make them grow and stop them from fall- • ing. Singeing the hairs really splits them, dries them and injures them al-

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most beyond redemption. "Each time a barber singes a victim’s hair he opens up the hair shaft and penults molds, microbes and other disease germs to be gradually squeezed downward into the hairs. Thus, before decay’s defacing fingers have swept the lines where beauty lingers, the singeing process brings baldness. The haircut, though necessary, also has its dangers, it kills ass the siiafts almost as often as singeing. Tlie reason lies partly in tlie fact that a barber’s scissors are rarely, if ever, sterilized and germs of disease, like tlie proverbial flea, jump from head to head without respect to color, race or previous condition of servitude. "We have become civilized enough to pass pure food laws and clean milk statutes, now let us get after the barber. Sterilization of every instrument in a barber shop should be compulsory. TO THEJIOSPITAL Robert Quinn Will be Taken Monday Morning to Undergo an Operation RESULTS OF BURNS Wound is Too Wide to Heal and Physicians Decide to Operate Robert Quinn, only son of Mr. and' Mrs. French Quinn of First street, who came near being electrocuted when his head came in contact witli the main trolley wire six weeks ago, shooting (1600 volts of electricity through his body, will be operated upon next week. He will be taken to the Hope hospital at Fort Wayne Monday morning and the operation will probably be performed that day. Tlie burns on top of his head nave healed as well as could be expected, but one of these is so wide tiiat tlie flesh will not cover the floor of the wound and it will be necessary to cut another gash in Boll's head so that the sides ol tlie old wound can be pulled together. His condition otherwise is excellent and It is believed that he will recover rapidly after this operation. MRS HEIMANN FUNERAL. The funeral services for Mrs. Casper Heimann were lield this morning at nine o'clock from the St. Mary’s church. Members of the St. Mary’s sodality of which the deceased was a member acted as pall bearers. Burial was made in the St. Joseph’s cemetery. Mrs. Heimann died Thursday afternoon following a stroke of paralysis. THENEWOFFICERS Installed by the Ben Hurs Last Evening at Splendid Meeting A. L. STULTS CHIEF Ben Hurs Will Repeat Statue Representation on August Eleventh. The Ben Hurs installed the following officers last evening for the new term; Past Chief —Adam Weis. Chief—Alva L. Stults. Judge—Cora Worden. Teacher—Grace Hoeneisen. Scribe— Mary Artman. Keeper of Tribute—Emma C. Burk. Captain—Orlando Springer. Guide —Alonzo Cherryholmes. Inner Gate Keeper —Mary Cramer. Outer Gate Keeper—John Burk. Pianist—Ruby Baker. Ben Hur —Russell Acker. Mother Hur—Mary Artman. Tirza—Grace Hoeneisen. Master of ceremonies—W. B. Teeple. Arrius —William Worden. Tlie Ben Hurs have set. August 11 as tlie date when their Ben Hur statue illustration will be presented again at the Crystal theatre, having been asked to repeat it.

1 HIKE’TORIVARRE Boy Scouts, in Splendor of New Uniforms and Trapings Make Trip TO MT. TABOR PICNIC Guests of the Church—lnvited to Give Drills and Marches Clad in all tlie splendor of their new uniforms and trappings, with their “knapsacks on their backs,” and tlie contentedness that comes from a happy state of mind, the several patrols of Boy Scouts, in charge of Assistant Boy Scout Master Dr. C. R. Weaver, left this morning early on a “hike” to Bobo. From there they went to tlie Teeple grove a mile and a half northeast of Boho, where they were guests of tlie Mt. Tabor church at their Sunday school picnic and rally. Tlie boys were invited to come and give their marches and drills and were guests of the church at their picnic dinner. "The boys met at the home of Wayne Beavers, and were to have started at 5:15 o’clock. Ow ing to tlie rain that came up early, their start was delayed until about 8:30 o’clock. Tlie boys have had some splendid “hikes" into tlie country and woods and are learning much daily about woodcraft. They expect to go to Rome City in the near future. UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. Will sumbuddy now invent sumthin' t’ keep th’ fly swatter, germs' n’ all out’n th' babies’ mouths? o PLAN A BIG TIME Bluffton Spanish War Veterans Plan for Elaborate

Entertainment FOR 160th REGIMENT When Annual Reunion Is Held at Bluffton on Aug. Nineteenth. Decatur and Adams County veterans of tlie Spanish-American war, of the 160 Indiana regiment, will be interested in hearing of tlie further plans for the annual reunion to be held in Bluffton. The BlulTton News says: “Members of Company E. 160th regiment, held a meeting at tlie clerk’s office Thursday evening, and adopted further plans for tlie annual reunion of tlie 160tli regiment, Spanish-Amer ican war veterans t-j be held in this city on Wednesday, August 19th. “It was announced that the Grand opera house lias been rented for both day and night on reunion day and the 160th boys will hold all of their reunion meetings at the opera house, where excellent entertainment facilities will be provided, regardless of the weather conditions. A camp-fire at night will be a big feature. “An official program has not yet been adopted but the program committed has progressed with their work far enough to give tlie promise that there will lie something interesting doing/ ?f the time. containing about 700 n/ members lias been / £ Rations will be mailed to all of Ambers today. The committee wants St understood that there necessarily were some members whose addresses were not secured and these members, if they see this article or in any other manner learn of the reunion are urged to be present with the rest of the “boys.” “The Company E, members will finance the reunion entirely from their own resources and will not ask for subscriptions or other aid from merchants, other than to ask that business men decorate their places of business on the day of the Mrs. Henry Stevens is reported better and tilts morning was able to sit up for awhile.

LAST NIGHT FOR THE GUY’S Tonight will be tlie last chance for the people of Decatur to see tiie Guy players this seasou as they will do# their weeks engagement here with the play "The Cow Punchers.” Every night of tlie show lias been a big one and their large tent lias been filled to its capacity at each performance. From here they go to Warren. Ind for a weeks engagement. ARTICLES FILED. Indianapolis, Ind., July 24.—Articles of Incorporation have been filed with the secretary of state as follows: Old Adams County bank, Decatur; capital $120,000; banking business; Frank M. Schirmeyer, president; Edward X. Ehinger, cashier. THE PRIZE MONEY To Winners in Nasturtium Contest Will be Given Tuesday Morning ■ BETWEEN 9 AND 10 Winners Requested to Cass at Home of Mrs. J. H. Heller. The children winning prizes in tlie nasturtium contest Friday at tlie library, are requested Co call Tuesday morning between the hours of nine and ten at tlie home of Mrs. J. H. Heller, when their prize money will be given them. Some mistake lias been made in tlie name of tlie first winner. It is enter ed on tlie records as Chtester Betz, but may be Bess or Best. He is seven years of age. The boy of tills name, or similar, who entered flowers, is requested to make himself known. After the contest closed yesterday afternoon, tlie flowers on display were sent to cheer the sick. — o BIRTH OF SON. Friends here have received an nouncement of the birth of a son. Lewis, to Mr. and Mrs. John Koop of Fort. Wayne. The babe arrived yesterday morning. Mrs. Koop was formerly Miss Clara Bultenieier o. this city and for some time a clerk al the Peoples and Gerke shoe store.

A. C. SALLEE SOME SECRETARY

The Democratic State Committee has some secretary in A. C. Sallee. 1 should say—if any body asked my opinion—that who ever was responsi ble for liis selection had a flash of in spiration. And I’ll tell you

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Secretary Sallee is a living demon st ration of the vaiue of publicity training. Os course there have beei newspaper men employed as state sec retaries and in tlie press bureau, bu Mr. Sallee came from the publicity end of the business. And that makes all the difference it. the world. He knows tlie value of proper pub licity—and he does not worry about whether it is dignified. Will it pull? That is all he stops to ask himself. Most important tlie higher-ups have the good common sense to allow Mr Sallee to go as far as he likes in his plan of putting his perfectly good ideas into effect. As I said, it makes all the difference and before long this state is going to wake up to the fact that it has a real live secretary running a state cam paign. To be sure there is a chairman anc a few others on the committees, bu the secretary is responsible for work ing out the details —in short—his i is to plan the campaign. Personally, I propose to watch mat ters with great glee. I’ve ilway. cherished a notion that campaign lit - erature could be liviier than —well saj : the Congressional Record —and stil not without effect.

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WILL OPEN SOON 7* ' • ' State Penal Farm Will Soon be Ready to Accept County 1 Jail Prisoners i BIG PROPOSITION Farm Will be Composed of I 1500 Acres and Must be Self-supporting Tlie state penal farm will be ready , for inmates on and after Hie first day of August. It is the intention of tlie state, under a law enacted by tlie last legislature, to take charge of all jail prisoners who are in for any conl siderable time, and convey them from the jails to tlie farm, where they can get a little healthful exercise instead of being compelled to lounge around in tlie cool and oftimes damp cells of a county jail. In years gone by, able bodied men ' have been fined and sent to jail to serve out two weeks, a month or six months and they simply put in Hie [ time and tlie county paid tlie bill. Under the new arrangement tlie prisoner who lias more than a few days to | serve will be shunted to the state farm where he will be required to perforin a day’s work every day he is there, and there will be no vacations such ■ as have been enjoyed in tlie past. The penal farm consists of 1500 ’ acres and the superintendent will be I expected to make it self sustaining . after Hie farm is properly improved i and tlie fields are restored to a good state of fertility. i It is rather doubtful whether thia - can be accomplished, especially when , I tlie matter of transferring prisoners > is taken into account. Tlie fare for . the prisoner and the- sheriff will run i up in counties remote from tlie farm, and this will in reality be a part of tlie expenses of tlie farm. SITUATION HAS IMPROVED. (Special 2:30 p. m.) Vienna, July 25—(Special to Daily I Democrat) —Tenseness in the Austria- . Servia situation was relieved today i when Servia formally submitted to : tlie Austrian note. The word came from semi-official circles. Tlie demand on Servia was for tlie punishment of j those implicated in the assassination | of tlie Archduke and wife.

Why, it is a crime to print even a department store catalogue without "life” in it, so why should a political campaign be merely an affair of dry statistics and figures. Doubtless we shall always be aiiiicted with figures since the opposition seems to think that the most vulnerable point of attack —but Oh! Well. Why not try to write them in away that people might be induced to read —since, presumably, that is the reason for undertaking the vast expense of collecting and printing the dry-as-dust statistics. Make ’em interesting put some life in them. That is what Mr. Sallee, who is “some sec” proposes to do. So watch carefully for the first sign of his genius. One of his good ideas is that it might be well to familiarize the people of the State with the names of the candidates —I'll wager that, ardent Democrats as you all are, you cannot get 'em this minute. Well, "some sec” has a scheme whereby you cannot get away from them. Neither can anybody else for that matter. s I really think, however, that his very best idea is In regard to the e newspaper men. Why, he is going to ° hang out a welcome sign that will tl flash all over the state—he is going to give the newspaper boys a room of their own, where they can loaf and d wait around sos news to their heart's it content. Everything is wide open, it - j with no closed doors. AU the newsit papers aud bulletins and things will be right there waiting day and night. it- I call that a pretty nifty idea, eb? rs t fl* f //// ill/ a a ii r K I