Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 15.

CALL SOUNDED FOR PIONEER I— ■ » Captain Robert D. Patterson Dies After Short Illness Saturday Evening. — WAS A RESIDENT Os Adams County for Threequarters of a CenturyFuneral Tuesday. With the greatest of sorrow and sad ness was the report of the death of * Captain Robert 1). Patterson received by his host of friends and acquaintances Saturday evening shortly alter 6:30 o’clock, when that worthy gentleman answered the last call and sa luting the Great Commander, gave his soul into His keeping and guardianship after having for seventy-six years obeyed His orders and commands, much to the benefit and edification oT the community and Adams county. But few men wito have contributed to the development of the county have left a more, indelible imprint on the growtii of this section than has been the result of the life c-f Captain Patterson. The present progressive condition of Adams county and the social as well as the industrial life reflect the man and are better for his having lived and foiled Although for the past two years and a half. Captain Patterson has been a constant sufferer from neuritis and herpes zoster, which at times induced almost unbearable pain, he was uncomplaining and patient to the last degree. During the holiday season he visited with his daughter, Mrs. George Morris, at Bluffton, and it was upon his return the Saturday following New Year’s that he contratecd a ■' '■ ' " M ■ 1 Jft.' CAPT. ROBERT D. PATTERSON. severe cold which later developed in to double pneumonia, an I toget! . with arterial sclerosis, resulted in hi death Saturday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Mr) r, on Winchester street. Captain Patterson was born at St. Mary's, Ohio. October 31. 1838. and was the son of Janies and Eliza Pat- | terson, being the oldest of a family of seven children. When Robert was a little over a year old. the faniil' moved to Adams county, settling on a tract of land which is now included in the city limits and known as th" Patterson addition. His early lifewi.s spent on his father's farm ami his education was secured in the best schools that the times and opportunities afforded. After finishing his school work he took up the trade of stone, cutting which he followed from 1859 to 1862. In this latter year he answered, the call of his country and served in Company H, of the 89th infantry until the close of the Upon his return to Adams county he engaged in the milling business and. established the grist mill now owned by Hnugk & Son. He was very successful in this business and operated the mill until 1905. when he retired from active life. Captain Patterson was honored by being elected treasurer of the tjounty in 1880, in which office he served two terms, after which he was several times chosen a member of the school board. In 1869 Mr Patterson was unitel in marriage to Miss Sophia Berry and to this union seven children were born, two of whom, with the mother, have preceded the father in death. Those srjviv-

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Ing are Mrs. Jennie Todd, Mrs. Eva Quinn. Mrs. Harriet Morris, Mrs. Elizabeth Myer, Mrs. Fred Bell. He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs, Nettie Schrock and Mrs. Julia Moses and two brothers, George and James C., all of this city. Mr. Patterson euJoyed the distinction of being the oldest Odd Fellow in number of years of membership in the city, he having Joined the local order Ln the year 1860. He was also a member of the G. A. R. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Presbyterian church, Rev. W. H. Gleiser of Delavan, 111., officiating. Military Record. (By Robert Blackburn) Captain Robert D. Patterson entered the volunteer service at the call for 300,000 three-year volunteers, July, 1862. Comrade Patterson enlisted in Company H, 89th regiment Indiana volunteers, on August 9. and was mustered out July 19, 1865. At the organization of the company he was a (Continued on Page Four) o DISTRICT MEET Teachers of Eighth District Will Meet at Muncie the Eighth Day of May. FOLLOW NEW PLAN Will Take Up Specific Educational Problems and Do Research Work. Mr. Martin L. Worthman, principal of the local high school, was at Muncie Saturday, where he attended a meeting of the Eighth district section of the State Teachers’ association. The story of the meeting is told in the following from the Muncie Press: “The Eighth district organization of the Indiana Teachers’ association held a business meeting in the office of County Superintendent Ernest J. Black here Saturday and decided to have a general meeting of all the teachers and others interested in education of the district. This meeting is to be held in Muncie, May 8, 1915. L. T. Turpin of Muncie, Superintendent J. P. Kling of Union City, and Superintendent J. L. Clouser of Elwood, were named as a committee to look after the program and select a place for holding the meeting. It is hoped to have at least 600 educators in attendance, including most of the teachers of the district. The organization intends taking up specific problems in education and doing original research work. Among the things to be investigated will be the Courtis tests in arithmetic, the Hilligass tests in reading. Ayers’ and Thorndilx’ tests in writing. The county schools here are now taking up the Courtis tests and the city (Continued on rage Two) LAUNDRY IS SOLD Messrs. George and Frank Kern Dispose of Decatur Steam Laundry TO FARR & PULLEY New Proprietors Took Possession This MorningOne Has Moved Here. George and Frank Kern, two well . known Decatur young men, who have I been proprietors of the Decatur Steam - laundry for the past two years, have sold their business here to Messrs. ?B. R. Farr of Wabash and D. H. Pulley 1. of Marion. TTis two new proprietors I took possession of the laundry this ■ morning. I Mr. Farr is moving his family here I from Wabash and has taken the Ja i cob Blew residence. He has spent - his entire life in the laundry business - and will be a very capable manager i Mr. Pulley is at present in Marion - where he is engaged in teaching school. Messrs. Kern, who have beer > very efficient managers, and have con i ducted the business in a very excel E lent manner, have not yet announcec ■ their intentions as to their future

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, January 18, 1915.

AN EXTRA YEAR A ; Year of Commercial Work to be Added to Course of Studies in the i I ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL I Department Will Open Next September—A Special i Teacher in Charge. i i Beginning with the opening cf ■ school next September a commercial ■ course composed of a year's study i t . bookkeeping, which will also include arithmetic and rapid calculation, typewriting, shorthand, commercial law, i and whatever studies are needed to give the student a thorough commercial and business training, will be started in the St. Joseph Catholic schools, under the direction of a spec- ; ial sister teacher. This statement was made yesterday by the Rev. Father 9e>imetz, pastor of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, to the members of his congregation, when he read the annual report, shoxwng what improvement had been made during the past twelve months and what he, with the help of -the! congregation, intended to do during the coming year. The news was received with a warm welcome by everyone for it has long been a much needed department in the school. The commerical course will be mostly for the graduates and eighth grade students, and wiT consist of one separate year. A special teacher will be nt the head of the department and the students taking the course will receive one of the best commercial educations obtainable. o THE com NEWS Attendance Officer to be Elected Friday Morning at 10 O’clock I COURT IN VACATION ■ Jury Will Be Selected Next Monday-New Account Case Is Filed County Superintendent E. S. Chris- . ten has issued a call for the meeting > of the county board of education at ; his office next Friday morning at ten • o'clock, for the purpose of electing ; a bounty attendance officer, succeedng Caleb'Andrews, whose death occurred suddenly last week. J. F. Snow was appointed inheri- | tance tax appraiser in the Christian Wente estate. The petition for the sale of person- : al property, in the Wm. L. Linn estate, as ptivate sale, without notice for cash at not less than appraisement, was sustained. Report is to be made within thirty days after the day of sale. Abner M. Fuller, Daniel N. Erwin Irene Gerard have filed their bonds and qualified as notary public. The bonds each require an additional war revenue stamp of fifty cents besides lhe regular fee. Hooper & Lenhart today filed a new suit on account, entitled James M. Miller vs George Chronister, de--1 mand SBS. e i Sheriff Ed Green will leave tomore row morning for Richmond with Emil i. Baumgartner, who will be committed y to Easthaven hospital. s s The two weeks’ court vacation began today and the February term'will e begin Monday. February 1. The jury i- commissioners will meet next Monday t to draw the jury for the next term. s " r. Real estate transfers: Jacob Stahl i, et al. to Henry Stahl, 1 acre, Wabash g tp., $900; Leonard G. Kessler to John n Schank, 40 acres, St. Mary’s tp. 11- County Clerk Ferdinand Bleeke ?e---d ceived word today from Easthaven Ine sane Asylum at Richmond that there is rdom in the men’s department and /

| that Emil Baumgartner, the French j township young man, who was declared insane and lias been confined in jail here for safe keeping, will be accepted now. ■— . o NOTICE, G. A. R. All members of the G. A. R. axe requested to be present at the ball at 7 o'clock this eveninc to arrange for the funeral of Comrade Patterson, and ' are requested to meet at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon to attend the funeral. o CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank sincerely the friends and neighbors and others who so kindly assisted us during the illness of our beloved son, husband and father, Caleb Andrews. We appreciate every act. MOTHER, WIFE AND CHILDREN. . o TWO VICTORIES Germans Win Distinct Success in Argonne and LaBeiselle Regions. IS STILL IMPOSSIBLE For Italian Government to Give Definite Information of Casualties. Berlin, Jan. 18 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Two distinct successes for the Germans over the French were announced today. The first at LaBoisselle in the nortii, the second in the Argonne region. It lias been admitted that severe fighting was taking place around the former place. Rome, Jan. 18—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Although the government claims it now lias the work of relief in the earthquake none well in hand, it is still impossible to make a definite list of the casualties. Thy number • killed still remains at 30. 000 but many of the injured are in a critical condition and may die. It is estimated that 75,000 soldiers are assisting in the relief work. London, Jan. |L8 —(Special to Da ! y Democrat) —The official press bureau in making public today a Treport of conditions at the front emphatically denied the report published by the London newspapers that a great success had been gained on January 14 in the vicinity of This report recited in great detail a charge by British troops which gave them possession ot more than a mile of German trenches and extended their own front over a mile. “On the contrary there has been no attack attempted by our forces in that neighborhood. London, Jan. 18—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Word was received today that the British steamer Penareh was wrecked during Sunday’s gale, being driven on the rocks off the Norfolk coast. Twenty-two members cf the crew were drowned. ’ Paris, Jan. 18 —(Special to Daily . Democrat) —Two German assaults in • force northeast of Vic-Fur-Aisne have ' been repulsed with heavy losses, according to reports today. The fighting there continues with t>e Germans trying to gain foc.thold. The Germans , have also attacked Crest 263 in the ! Argonne region, but have been de- ■ seated with heavy loss. They chargi ed the French only to be met with a fierce French artillery fire which killed many, while the French losses • were slight. i (Von Wiegand) General Headquarters of General Von Mackensem, Russian Poland, Jan. . is—(Special to Daily Democrat)— 1 The only Russian forces on German I Soil are isolated troops operating .23 miles inside of the German line west of Edt'kumhen, according to the best reports obtainable. The Russians, 1 who were operating against Lyck r have for the first time been driven across the line. The Germans are about 100 miles into Russian Poland. They held Lodz and Aabon and their 1 advance was within eight miles of i Warsaw, but they had to fall back i when the Russians took the defensive with a large force. The Russian army for the defense of Warsaw, ac- - cording to reports from the German • aerial forces and from prisoners nume bered more than thirty army corps, :l or 1,200,000 men.

ANOTHER VICTIM 11 Mrs. Dee Burger Passed Away Last Night at Home On South First Street FROM TUBERCULOSIS Had Been a Sufferer For Several Years—Funeral Tuesday Morning Another victim of the dreaded tuberculosis was added last night when Mrs. Dee Burger passed away at her home on South First street at 7:20 o’clock. Although having been afflicted with the disease for the past five or six years, it was not until two years ago that Mrs. Burger was unable to attend to her household duties, and from which time she lias steadily declined until death relieved her last evening. Mrs. Burger's maiden name was Dora Reynolds. She was born in Adams count, January 1, 1879, and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Reynolds. On September 12, 1897, she was united in marriage to Dee Burger and to this union were born five children, they being Veinnia^Anna, Clara. Inese and Medford, all it home. The deceased is survived besides the, children and husband, by two brothers, Louis and Joel of this city and one sister, Mrs. Della Raudabush, residing east of Berne. Mrs. Burger was a member of the Church of God, having accepted her Savior on Christmas eve. The funeral will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock from the church of God and interment will be made in the Reynolds cemetery. o NOW IN CHARGE Milton Leavell Resigns as Rural Route Mail Carrier to Take Charge of LBLACKSMITH SHOP □n West Monroe Street-Had Been on Route Eight For Sixteen Months. Saturday afternoon Milton Leavell United States mail carrier on rural route eight out of Decatur tendered i his resignation to Postmaster Bosse J the same to take effect at once. The resignation was accepted and immediately sent to the Mail Department at Washington D. C.. The cause of Mr. Leavell resigning is that lie desires' to take active i|iarge of his black- ( smith shop on West Monroe street,' which place during the past three years has been conducted by Peter Mougey. Mn Leavetl-has been employid by Uncle Sam in the Decatur postoffice for nearly three years at first icting in the capacity of substitute carrier then as one of the mail clerks in he postoffice. Sixteen months ago be was given the position as regular carrier on Rural Route eight. During this time served the government in a very satisfactory way. Lloyd Archer a deputy carrier is taking Mr. Leavell's place until the government appoints mother man. Mr. Leavell began work it his blacksmith shop early this morning and invites the general pubic to come and see him when in need of anything in his line of work. o— —, . — HAVE TYPHOID FEVER. Roy, aged thirteen, years, and Raymond, aged five years, sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gibson, residing a mile north of the city ,are confined to their , beds with severe cases of typhoid fe- : ver, having been ill for over a week, i In both cases the fever reaches from • 104 to 105 degrees. A trained nurse rom Fort Wayne is in attendance. r o f ATTENDS UNCLE'S FUNERAL. c ? A. J. Smith is at Millersburg. Ohio, i attending the funeral of his uncle, - Philip Leppla. Mr. Leppk>was eigiii ty-seven years of age. He was a na- :- five of Prussia, coming to this couni, try in 1852. He is also a great uncle of C. H. Colter of this city.

HOLD MEETING TONIGHT. Any person interested either for or against the proposed increase in passenger rates by the railroads, is invited to attend the meeting to be held at the Bowers Realty company's offices at 7:30 o'clock this evening, at which time the adoption of a resolution favorlag tho Increase will bo voted upon. There are those who argue each aide of the question This is the time to express your opinion. o FAILS TO OPEN DOORS. ’ Uniontown, Pa., Jan.' 18 —(Special to Dully Democrat) —The First National Bank of Uniontown, which for years had led the honor roll of National banks in the United States, did, not open its doors today. No cause for its failure to open was given, but a statement was expected to follow a meeting of the board of directors now in session. The bank has had a large surplus. SAYS GOOD WORD For Old Maids Does Wm. H. Taft—lf She Has Practical Training. SHE WAITS FOR LOVE if-. Before Marrying—Girls Not Pushed Into Matrimony Nowadays. "Practical training gives girls independence and precludes the necessity for marriage without love, said William Howard Taft in an address at the annual meeting of the Hebrew technical school for girls, in New York City. “According to your report, 2,700 girls have been graduated from this school, and I am glad to see that only 260 got married," said the former president. “Now I am not opposed to matrimony, but I am one who believes that there are thousands of women who have made the world sweeter, purer and better, who did not marry. The trouble is that many have to marry, not because they'ww the man of their choice, but because it is a custom. The only way to avoid that condition is for a girl to become independent by learning a useful trade. Then a man who is a scrub asks her to marry she can say, I can do better as an independent.’ In this way she can make no mistake.” Strong disapproval of the literacy test in the immigration bill was expressed by the speaker, who asserted 1 that the illiterate immigration did not expect to make his living by his wits, I and that men who came here with that | purpose were no desirable addition to , the population. The unlettered alien, he stated, usually tried to give ills ' children an education and the children made loyal citizens of this country. IS NOW LIFTED Adams Countv Hoof And Mouth Quarantine On Live Stock Shipments HAS BEEN RAISED According to Letters Agricultural Secretary to C. S. Mumma C. S. Mumma, president of the Adams County Farmers’ Association luis received from the U. S. secretary of agriculture, a letter addressed te Congressman J. A. M. Adair, for him, regarding the lifting of the hoof and mouth disease quarantine in Adams county. The letter is in answer to one written by Mr. Mumma relative to this. The letter states that effective January 9, the quarantine was lifted from twenty-nine counties in Ind iana; and that by January 15, the quarantine would be lifted from Adams , county and forty others. Tills would , permit the shipment of live stock • from the county without federal res- ■ triction and with no otiier restriction, • except that of the state imposition. ■ Tliis order has not yet been received freight agents.

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, A PRINTING PLAN t That Will Save the State a ’ Gpod Many Thousand Dollars Each Year. J —— ’IS NOW PROPOSED By Newspaper Men Who Occupy Seats in Senate— Lawmakers Careful. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 18—The printing committee of the senate, and by the way there are four newspaper boys occupying important places upon this committee, are giving grave concern and not a little of their knowledge of the printing game to a scheme which has for its object the lessening of the cost of printing to the state, and which also will permit many it' not all of tile counties of the state to lessen the cost of their printed matter. The plan is as yet in a primitive form but as a result of the discussions and the intimate knowledge seme of the members of this committee have cf the general subject of printing, it is quite probable that a bill will find itjelf consigned to the legislative ho >- per. smattering of what iome of the members of this committee have in their minds, is to further ‘quip the printing plants of either the left'erson ville reformatory or the boys school at Plainfield, and have liese prining plants supply all the wenty-three institutions witli whatever they may be able to do, without 'oo great a cost in additional equipment. It is the thought in the minds >f the committee that perhaps these Hants may be able to supply most if not all the plain printing needed by he institutions of the state, and it nay be that some of the plain printed 'orms for the use of the state officers nay alsp be furnished in this manner. \nd then again-'it may be extended urther, and assessors' blanks and >ther forms used in large numbers by he counties, might be printed at these itate printing plants at a saving in he cost of the same over the prices low in force. The governor’s message devoted considerable space to rinting and the present methods involved in contracting, and it is known hat any bill looking for a change or he betterment of state printing condiions will be welcomed by the chief xecutive. All this is an incentive to his committee to get busy and indusriously use their gray matter as well s their knowledge of the printing msiness, in putting into full force and ffect some reforms along this line. About tlie best indicator that the nembers of the legislature are carryng in their vest pocket a nice little an of caution, is noted in the official ecord of the number of bills introuced. At this stage of the game two ears ago there were 118 bills offered or legislative consumption and pasage in the house, while right at this ninute the number is forty-seven, learly a third less. In the senate two years ago thirty-seven bills were offered on ' the first day, and eighty-nine vere ft tire’grind after the first full veek, while at this lime there are sty-one. This is the best indication et offered that the statesmen in the ixty-ninth session of the general asembly are sitting on the lid, and by lie way this is the best sort of legisi ation. The senate seems to be first in etting their legislative machinery vorking, and already have nine bills ■eported out of committee and passed <> third reading. Now comes the circuit court district if Parke and Vermillion and is boldly knocking at the legislative doors asking for a division of that circuit. The equest -had no more than been pre- ( lented than had some lightning calcu'ator figured out that should every cir- ' uit having a like population as Parke ' ind Vermillion be divided, the state . would have one hundred and fifty cir--1 ' uit courts and judges instead of six- > ty-six, which they now have. This bill > will not likely get further than tho ice cooler. The friends who are industriously ■ pushing Gary from a fourth-class to a - second-class city, nave had their first s inning and now returns are coming 1 thick and fast from the other side, c Their arguments are very impressive - and record the fact that should Gary , step down and out trom a fourth to • a second-class city, it would mean the 1 appointment of u double number of (Continued on Page 3)