Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 21 January 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 18.

wild disorder Retreat of Turkish Troops from Caucasus Has Al- . most Become a Rout. Russians captured By the Hundreds in Fighting Along Donajec River in Western Galacia. Paris. Jan. 21. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Destruction of a big Ger man ammunition depot from which German forces operating near Rheii drew their supplies was reported this afternoon. According to unofficial reports the explosion of iiugli suppleof powder resulted in many deaths. French aviators located the depot and furnished the range to the allied gunners. The guns had been trained in its direction when a shell burst through tile roof. The explosion shook the earth for miles. Petrograd. Jan. 21. — (Special to the Daily Democrat)—Trie Turkish retreat from the Caucasus has became almost a rout according to official re ports today. in their precipitent flight portions of the forces are disorganized and their rear guard is falling into the hands of the cavalry. In a aeries of such engagements the Russians have captured numerous prisoners. A Russian Torpedo boat operating in <le Black Sea southwest of Batum sank 12 Turkish cargo boats Vienna. Jan. 21, — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Capture of several hundred Russians in severe fighting along the Donajec river in western Galacia was reported in the official statement from the Austrian war office today. The Russians held a strong position on the west bank. Austrian artillery shelled buildings behind which the Russian infantry lay and forced a retreat to the river. Destruction of a bridge over the Donajec in the Carpathians was also reported. Washington, D. C.. Jan. 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Villa today notified the administration here through Consul Carothers at El Paso that he will continue his struggle for the liberty of Mexico. In the chaotic condition in which Mexico again is plunged he assured this government of full protection to Americans. o COURT HOUSE NEWS. Deputy Sheriff Jacobs went to J'fferson township yesterday where he arrested Charles Brewster on a warrant issued on a grand jury indictment charging him with assault and battery. Brewster gave the required $l" ( l bond. The assault and battery if which Brewster is accused was com mitted last June 14 on Maud Brewster. Certificate of the election of James O. Hoagland and James L. Gay, trustees of Kekionga lodge. Knights of Pythias, was filed witli the county recorder. Andrew J. Jutiay filed application foi letters of administration as the surviving partner of The lowa Oil company, and was granted same. In , ntory and statement of liabilities was also tiled, as was the bond. The transcript in ‘he case of Tim State vs, Louis F. Schroeder was fib 1 in the circuit court on appeal from the court of Mayor C. N. Christen. o RECEIVER FILES ASSETS. Indianapolis, Ind.. Jan. 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Finley P. Mount, receiver for the Wincna assembly, filed a statement in federal court today stating that the assets on the books of the assembly amounted to $1,168, CSI.W. He said he was unable to get ail the assets desired and that some were held by Frank Wilbur Main <if Pittsburg. The court allowed the receiver SI,OOO for expenses in recovering these assets. Mount recommended that the grocery store connected with the assembly be continued. HraAwwy—o MARKET STILL SHAKY. Chicago, 111 , Jan. 21—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The wheat market fluctuated violently all day, at one time touching $1.45%, falling be.ck to $1.43% at the close, ouly %c_above the. opening. The volume of business was small, owing to the farmers holding back their casn grain.

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I JUST FOR A LAUGH. That Is all that "Down In Alabam,” the entertainment which the Woman’s Improvement society will present nt ’ tile opera house Thursday and Friday evenings, January 28-29, was compiled for, and from the reports of the entertainment as presented in the neighboring cities, "Down in Alabam” more than fills the bill for it is s#id to be one of the funniest affairs that has struck the state in many a day. GRANTED A PENSION. - In a Washington dispatch, regarding the grafting of pensions to Indianians, mention is made of the granting of sl2 a month to Catherine Hunslcker, of Monroeville. This is the ' mother of D. H. Hunsieker of this city. Her husband died a short time ago. i CONDUCTOR DEAD 1 Frank K. Brandt. Passenger i Conductor on Clover Leaf, Known Here. DIED ON SATURDAY • At Home in Charleston, 111. —Death Due to Injury in Collision. Frank K. Brandt, a well known passenger conductor on the Clover Leaf, 1 died Saturday morning at his home in Charleston, 111. His death was due primarily to injuries received December 30th, when westl/.und passenger train No. 1, running from Charlestdn to Madison, crashed into extra 183 east, near Cowden, 111. The collision occurred upon a curve and according to Clover Leaf officials was due to the fact that Con- ' ductor Brandt had not apprised t’/e engineer of the train that the passenger was to take the siding at Cowden and allow the freight to pass. The engineer was reading his orders when the two trains met. Conductor Brandt was thrown against a door knob and several ribs broken. He was later taken to his home in Charleston. 1 The deceased had been in the era- ' ploy of the Clover Leaf company for about twenty years and for the past I ten years had been running a train. Until a year ago he resided at Frankfort. He was 54 years of age and is survived by a wife and five children. Mrs. Amos Thatcher of Frankfort is a daughter. The funeral was held at ■ ■ Charleston on Monday. > Conductor Brandt had a run through | Decatur for a number of years and has many friends here. o — THE MYSTERY TONIGHT. The fifteenth episode of "The Million Dollar Myster” will be the main at- j traction at the Crystal theater this, • evening. The title of this episode is ■ ■ “A Borrowed Hydroplane.” Not being satisfied with the dangerous and peril ■ ous situations on land and sea, the actors in this thrilling novel do breathholding feats high in the air that ' cause the shivers to run up and down ■' the spine, but at the same time are so • ■fascinating that your eyes positively -! refuse to leave the curtain for a see.’end. In addition to this two-reel feature a comedy entitled “Kill or ( ure, and the second Ford-Detroit Weeklywill be given. The Ford-Detroit WeekI I lies are growing in popularity and are '. filled with the most interesting of edui cational pictures, and current events. The price is as usual, five cents to all. o A NOTED LECTURER. . The third number of the high school lecture course will be given tomorrov night by Smith Damron, a popular and widely knowrf lecturer, whose subject i ■ will be “The Evolution of a Piece of Clay.” Mr. Damron very interestingly 1 illustrates hisj points by moulding vari- ■ oils articles on the stage, at which art he is indeed an expert. Single admis- ' sion tickets may be secured for the ■ price pf 35 cents. o- * HAD EYE REMOVED. E. H. Cowan, son of J. C. Cowan, of Pleasant Mills, had his eye removed i at the Lutheran hospital, Fort Wayne, : by Dr. Glock and Dr. Cowan of Dixon, . Ohio. The operation was very successi ful. The eye was injured while he i was in the employ of the Great Northi ern railway in Montana. He was serv- ; ing as engineer and the injury came ’from hot grease.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, January 21, 1915.

MEET GOVERNOR l - Judge and Mrs. David Smith Among Friends of Governor Ralston WHO ARE INVITED To Dinner for Him at the Anthony Hotel, Fort Wayne, Next Monay, Deaatur friends of Governor Ralston have been invited to an informal dinner to be given for him next Monday at the Anthony hotel. Fort Wayne, when he comes for the dedication of the new Palace theater. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette says: “E. G. Hoffman and William N. Griffin, president of the Commercial club, have not completed the entire arrangements for the entertainment of Governor and Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston during their stay in Fort Wayne as guests of the Commercial club fbr the palance dedication. The following warm personal friends of the gov ernor and Mrs. Ralston from out of the city have been invited to attend the informal dinner at the Anthony to be served immediately after th* arrival of the gubernatorial party: Judge and Mrs. David Smith, Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Link, Auburn; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Wood, Angola; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dunten, Lagrange; Mr and Mrs. Walter McNagny, Columbia City and Mayor and Mrs. Clinton Case, Kendallville.” o— ■ ■ ■■ THE FIELD DAY Anti-Saloon League of State Will Hold Field Day in Adams County. SUNDAY, JANUARY 24 I Schedule of Speakers, Time and Place is Announced Herewith. The Anti-Saloon League of the state wil conduct its annual field day in AdJams county next Sunday, January, 24. The following schedule of the speakers, the time and the place, was received by the Rev. D. T. Stephenson: » MORNING. Decatur. M. E. Church, D. T. Stephenson, pastor—Madison Swadener. I Christian Church, Benjamin Borton, 1 pastor—R. C. Minton. i Evangelical Church, J. H. Rilling, pastor —E. S. Shumaker. Presbyterian Church, Clark J. Lutz, (layman), S. P. McNaught. M. E. Circuit, Joseph Grimes, pastor —W. H. Chase. Geneva. M. E. Circuit, J. C. Valentine, pastor —S. A. Ross. Bobo. M. E.<’ircu4 H. C. Powell, pastor — J. E. Martin. Linn Grove. Christian Church, H. Baker, pastor —C. J. Everson. AFTERNOON. Decatur. M. E. Circuit, Joseph Grimes, pastor —S. P. McNaught. Berne. Mennonite Church, Rred Roher (lay man)—Madison Swadener. Progressive Brethren Church, six miles east of Berne, W. T. Johnson, ' pastor—R. C. Minton. Geneva. M. E. Circuit—J. C. Valentine, pastor—S. A. Ross. Bobo. M. E. Circuit, H. C. Powell, pastor - J. E. Martin. Linn Grove. Christian—H. Baker, pastor—C. J. Everson. Monroe. M. E. Church, John Phillips, pastor —E. S. Shumaker. A number of other churches in the ’ county could not have a league repre- , sentative with them on account of their being special meetings. They have expressed their sympathy in the . field day work and a desire to have a representative with them later on.

| CAROLINE FERRY ILL. * Mrs. Minnie Orvis O'Brien of Merlon, formerly of Decatur, was called to Fort Wayne by the critical illness I of her grandmother, Mrs. Caroline Ferry, who is lying in a very critical condition. Her death is thought to be the question of only a few days, or perhaps hours. Mrs. Ferry is one hundred years of age and until last summer made her home in this city • with tier granddaughter. She is now living in Fort Wayne with her daughter, Ivirs. Boyles. When Mrs. O’Brien . received the word she was confined to her bed with a case of the grip, but went at once to the bedside of her grandmother. Althoiffch quite ill, Mrs. Ferry recognized her granddaughter. A Morris Five and Ten Cent Stores Co. Incorporates—sloo,ooo Capital. THE DECATUR STORE Is One of the Twelve Stores Which Are Owned by the Company. t The Morris Five and Ten Cent Stores company, capital stock, SIOO,000, is the name of a new Bluffton stock company which filed articles □f incorporation with Secretary of State Homer L. Cook Tuesday, at Indianapolis. The Decatur store is included in the string owned by this company. A second Bluffton stock company which filed papers Is the John A. Morris Company, of Bluffton, wholesalers, capital stock, SIO,OOO. The incorporators of the Morris Five and Ten-Cent Stores Company are given by Indianapolis papers as John A. Morris and George S. Morris and others, and it is organized to own and operate a string of twelve five and ten cent stores which have been installed in various cities by the old Morris company. These stores are located in Bluffton, Decatur, Hartford City, Portland, Elwood, Noblesville, Newcastle, Columbia City, Plymouth, Franklin, Greensburg, Indiana, and Hillsdale, Mich. These are all retail stores, to operate which the SIOO,OOO company was incorporated. The John A. Morris company, with” John A. and George S. Morris and others as incorporators is organized to conduct a wholesale business. This company’ will have headquarters ii Bluffton and will carry a big line of samples for 5 and 10 cent stores in their headquarters on the second floor of the two business rooms which the Morrises bought some time ago on West Market street, Bluffton. They own the building at present occupied by the Morris five and ten cent store ! n Bluffton and also the room occupied by the Hiester furniture store. o DISINFECTING SCHOOL. After having been ill for several days, the little four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Barber, residing south of this city, died yesterday morning from diphtheria. A physician was not summoned by the parents until Tuesday,’when the little fellow’s condition suddenly grew worse. Upon the physician’s arrival he found an advanced stage of diphtheria, and although everything was done to relieve the little boy’s suffering, it proved to be of no avail and he passed away yesterday morning. Several brothers and sisters were attending school at the Brandyberry school house and upon hearing of the death and the cause, the teacher, William Noll, Immediately communicated with Trustee Augenbaugh. The school was | ordered closed and the Barber home was placed under quarantine. Dr. J. C. Grandstaff, of Preble, county health officer, and Trustee Augenbaugh- at once began an investigation and are today giving the school house a thorough disinfecting. A call to the Barber this noon by Mr. Augenbaugh failed to disclose any new cases or symptoms, and it is thought that the school will be permitted to , open again next Monday. o NOTHING BUT LAUGHS. “Down In Alabam,” the entertainment which the Woman's Improvement society will present at the opera ! house Thursday and Friday nights, ■ January 28-29, is a regular side-split-ter.

IS RE-ELECTED J. B. Holthouse Returns from Jackson, Mich., Where He Was Re-elected __■ ■ • AS ONE OF DIRECTORS Os Penninsular Cement Co. —Has Served on Board for Seven Years John B. Holthouse, the retired and most successful business man of this city, lias returned from Jackson, Mich., where on last Tuesday the stockholders of the Peninsular Cement company re-elected him a member of the board of directors. This makes Mr. Holthouse’s seventh year on the board, he having been elected shortly after the death of the late William Niblick of tills city, who had acted is one of the directors. Mr. Holthouse ’ now represents the stockholders in and around this city and at Berne, Geneva, Willshire, and Wren, Ohio, and a number of other places in the vicinity. Quite a number of people in this community are large stockholders in tlm Penninsular company. It is one ol the largest cement factories in the country and one of the few good ones that have been paying an ample good dividend each year. A large amount of the cement produced by the company is used in construction work in this part of the state. CIVIL SERVICE Examination for Special Qualification Will be Held Next Month. THE BULLETIN IS OUT Was Received by Postmaster Bosse—Decatur Men May Try. Postmaster J. W. Bosse has received a bulletin announcing civil service examinations, that may be of interest to Decatur and Adams county men, or women, who may like to try for the same. The bulletin reads: February 2 —Specialist in cotton testing, SIBOO-$3000; engineer of minesafety investigations, S3OOO-53600; title attorney (formerly record examiner), SISOO-52000: topographic aid. temporary, S4O-$75 per month; cheese maker, SI2OO-$1400; civil engineer student, $720; microanalyist (male and female), SI2OO-SI4OO. February 3-4 —Structural steel draftsman, $3.52 to $5.52 per day; ordnance draftsman, $3.28 to $5.04 per day. February 4-5 —Junior topographer. $720-SI2OO. February 10 —Aeronautical mechanical engineer. $2400. February 17 —Shop apprentice, S4OO- - February 20—Stenographer - typewriter, field service (male and female). Above examinations for men only, unless otherwise noted. Information as to places of examinations, etc., may be secured from the U. S. civil service commission, Washington, D. C., or from I. L. Earhart, district secretary, 453 P. O. Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio. — o REVIVAL IN PROGRESS. The revival at the Church of God, on Cleveland street, is still in progress and tlie Interest is growing. Good crowds are attending and the Rev. Bro. Line, from Wilmont, Ind., is preaching good sermons every night, which the public should hear. There have been three conversions to date and conviction is burning deep. There is expected to be a sled load or two from Bobo tonight. Services at 7:30 every night. Sunday school at 9:30, and services at 10:30 every Sunday, and the public is cordially invited to attend. o Have you got. your automobile license yet? If not, come to this office and we will fill out the blank for you?

I EXPRESSES HIS VIEW Bloomington, Jan. 21,— (Special to the Daily Democrat) —"I sad without lies'tation that the selection of candidates I at a general primary has not tended to the elimination of corruption or poltical machine rule and the selection of better representatives of a party” said former president Taft speaking here today in honor of Foundation Day of I. U.. “Nor is it true a primary is any less subject to a control of a machine and the boss of a political organization than a convention” he added. o TODAY ST. AGNES DAY. Today is St. Agnes day and the children of the St. Joseph schools, taught by the Sisters of St. Agnes, were given a holiday, there being no school. o WARNING GIVEN Business Men, Hotels and Banks Warned to be Careful About TRAVELER’S CHECKS Warning Given About $5,000 Swindle in Detroit, Mich., Recently. A warning lias been issued to the banks, hotels and railroad officials by ' the American Express company, to! be on the look-cut for a clever swind-, ler, who procured $5,000 worth of i traveler's checks at the Detroit office I last week. The method he employed was the raising of a $5 check to $5,000. j with which he bought the traveler’s checks. Even an experienced cashier in the Detroit office, who is an expert in detecting bogus and raised checks, was fooled by the check that the fellow presented. The checks were issued in series and , issued in values from $lO to S2OO, and several of the larger ones have already been cashed. The company is offering a reward of SIOO for his arrest and describes him as about thirty years old. five feet and eight or nine inches tali, weight about 160 pounds, smootli shav- ( en, light brown hair, blue gray eyes and pale complexion. The way he pull- ( ed the deal in Detroit is as follows: M. M. Moreland, a gentlemanly, ■ handsome and fashionably dressed ' young man, telephoned the American Express company to send a representative to room 1218, Hotel Pontchartrain with $5,000 wortli yf travelers’ checks. W. T. Gregory, a trustworthy ( i employe, who has been with the com- ; pany for 37 years, took the checks to, i the hotel and gave them to Morelan 1 in return for a check for $5,000 drawn ( 1 on the First Trust and Savings bank . i of Chicago and endorsed by the Ford ( company, per Frank L. Klingensmith.; assistant secretary and general manager. The cashier’s check was sent by , the express company to the Chicago . bank and was returned with the words ' “no funds” written on it and the ex-1 planation that the check had been ’ raised from $5 to $5,000. The fake check had been given to a bell boy j to bring up at a certain hour. Trav- j elers’ checks are hard to trace, for money may be obtained with them anywhere in the world. Some of the checks hr.'e been cashed in Detroit. Buffalo and Cincinnati, but not the slightest trace has been found of the swindler. o TO SERVE DINNER. The Ladies’ Aid of the M. E. church of Monroe will serve dinner at the school house for the farmers’ institute to be held there February 3. The price will be 25 cents. The menu follows. Chicken and Noodles Mashed Potatoes and Gravy Baked Beans Potato Salad Butter Jelly Sauer Kraut Pickles, and Last of the Garden Bread Pie Cake Coffee and Cream (With a few extras beside) o MACCABEES DANCE I 11 Attention of the public is again called to the K. O. T. M. dance given by i the Maccabees this evening at their hall. Admission will be twenty-five cents and everybody is invited. Music will be furnished by Morris Brown of Berne and Barney Wertzberger of ' this city. A good time is assured.

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PAID JUBBIINC i In State Legislature is Not a Very Lucrative Business This Year. I FROM APPEARANCES A Bill to Repeal School Inspection Law—Maxwell Company Adds Men. (By Lew Ellingham) Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 21—In the legislative message of our governor lie mentioned something upon the wornout subject of lobbying by lobbyists. In fact he said several things and thev seem to have sunk deep and made a lasting impression upon the minds of those who usually make a business of guiding the destinies .'of the Indiana general assembly. While the messages of the last several governors hav > contained allusions to this thread-bare public question, yet they were accepted as simply being made for the purpose of keeping the question before the house and not for the purpose cf actual practice. But the allusions made in the message of Governor Ralston seems to have been accepted as being more than mere allusions. That message favored the passage of a law making lobbying a business in which those engaged should come out in th? (Open, register with the secretary of . state and wear a badge so large that i the star of the average tin-horn po- , liceman would look like thirty cents. I These would-be lobbyists seem to shy from so publicly proclaiming their bus- ; iness and their attainments, and ever (since tlie day of that message the ' chambers of both the house and th.: senate have been deserted. Should this keep on to the end of the session there will be little or no need of placing in the statute books any law upon j this subject. There will doubtless be , legislation, however. The present temper of tlie legislative members seems to be that for the future guidance and for the protection of general assemblies yet to come, a law defining i tlie rights of those who may seek to control legislation should find itsr-lf ( in the Indiana statutes. Should the governor’s message be followed, a lob- ! byist wil have to register witli the seci retary of state, giving the name of the corporation or company for whom such employment is taken and perhaps further defines his business with tho members of the general assen f ly. A bill has been introduced to repeal the state high school inspection law. and now tlie educational department of the state is up in arms. The law was one of the many good educational laws of the last general assembly, and according to statistics furnished by tlie state board of education its ,rei peal would destroy the uniform inspec- , tion of high schools, which was one of ' the prime objects to be obtained. Pre(vious to its adoption the inspection ' of high schools was taken care of by 'tlie different members of the state ! board, and for this service the board ■ members received five dollars a day and five cents a miles for every mile J traveled. The work required about ( sixty days for each school board member, and in 1912 the cost amounted to $2,931. Tlie first year of a high school inspector cost this department $3,100, but there were many more inspections and then being made by one person all the inspections were uniform, and this is the one big card. Up to date the bill calling for repeal has failed to create any enthusiasm and it is not thought that it will find many supporters. There being no enonomy in tho repeal of tlie law, and as now enacted there being uniformity in school inspection, the need of repeal fails to find much support. However, the session lasts nearly fifty days yet, and all things may happen in that time. According to statistics gathered. Adj. Gen. F. L. Bridges, the Indiana National Guard has increased its numbers one hundred and twenty-seven during the past year. Many improvements have been made in the adjutant general department, and in all the conditions of the national guard throughout the state shows it to be growing and healthy. At present there are thirty-six infantry companies witn with twenty-four hundred and seven-ty-eight men. three batteries, one signal corps, one field hospital companv, and one ambulance company. T1 e one great need of the guard is armor(Continued on raga Four)