Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 46.

BAND WILL LEAD PARADE Methodists Will Attend Tabernacle Services Tonight In A Body-Fair Sized Crowd Monday Night

. The soul winning campaign of Dr.: Honeywell and his party of able und sintendhl assisj,itiits has started in j earnest, the organisation work is well; under way and within another dav; or two, tlie men and women who con-! duct this great work, will be hitting the stride that counts. Last night tho big Tabernacle w; s [ more than two thirds filled, though it was rather an extra date. Usually: Monday is rest day but Rev. Honey- 1 well announced Sunday and through the press tho meeting last night, which took the form of <a choir practice and was finished by a splendid j talk by the evangelist. That the members of the party believe in advertising is evidenced in numerous ways. First they show the newspaper workers every possible courtesy, assisting in many ways, in securing the news items which long experience has taught them will interest the public. And then too one sees signs of the advertising belief in the big banners which adorn the walls of the tabernacle, inside and outside. As you approach the building now you will notice on either Xside the announcement in large letters: “The Honeywell Tabernacle.” At the rear of the stage you will no-j Doe in large leters: “Get right with God. Make Christ your king. Saved for service.” And at either side j “Men appreciate no hats 'in sight ' here. All hats off in the Tabernacle?j Ladies will please wear their millinary in their lap.” The management of the revival meetings wish it understood that they move off on time. Right on the dot last night Musical Director Clasej started the music, entertaining the I crowd for three quarters of an hour with choir rehearsal, in which the : crowd, wore invited to and did join with pleasure. The program opened with' tho choir singing, “Harvest Time is Here,” and then “Awakening Chorus,” and then “Come, Thou Fount.” Professor Clase gave an interesting little reading that told how to brighten the corners when you say, “Hello,” in file right tone and then the choir sang, “Brighten the Corner Where ou Are.” Another song was “I Love to Tell the Story,” and then Mr. and Mrs. Clase gave the feature of tho Bong service, a duet, “Sweeter as the Years Go By.” Made Some Announcements. In his announcement talk Rev. Honeywell praised the song service and predicted great things from the choir organization/ He stated that on Tuesday afternoon the chairmen of the personal work circles will meet with Mrs. C. L. Walters. The services Tuesday night will include a “Message to the Business Men,” an ' for this occasion every business maq is earnestly invited. Tho Methodists will meet at the church and march to the tabernacle in a body, it being announced amid applause that the| City band had volunteered tiieir services to load them, and also that lhoy l will lead any other organization on! similar marches. Wednesday night j tho United Brethren and the Chris- : tian members will march in a body. A Nursery for the Babies. Rev. Honeywell announced that airrangements had been made for a room [ at the library where mothers may! leave babes and where they will be, cared for each evening by a commit-[ tee of women. This will permit many; to attend the meetings undisturbed j end knowing that the babies will be 1 well cared for in a warm room. Tho opening prayer was offered by j Rev. D. T. Stephenson of the Metn-j odist, church. The Sermon In part Rev. Honeywell sa*d: I never stand up before an audience of this size in our evangelistic work, without having a number of thoughts, crowd in upon my brain and force: themselves upon my heart. One Is this: We never met until j we looked into each others faces a! but yesterday. The probabilities j are that we will never meet after! the.se meetings close, until wo meet, at the judgment of God. A Few Brief Years Another thought is: In a few brief years we will all be sleeping beneath the grassy sod. Ten, twenty, fifty,

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■ seventy-five years from now —where shall we be? Not simply this congrej gatlon shall be changed, not simply this city of yoqrs shall bo changed, i but this great country of ours with all ! its living tenants shall he changed. Not a familiar face that wo see now shall be seen then. Our church bells ! will ring out from our eliun/h spires j but they will be rung by other hands | ! and for other worshippers. Our ui- ! pits will he filled with other preach-* I ers and our pews with other listen- ! ers. We ail go the way of the living. ! In a few brief years all these breathi ing, animated forms will lie cold and still in death, asleep within the silent tomb. “A few more years shall roll— A few more seasons come, etc.” But there is still another and a p'more serious thought which conics to meas I look into your faces at this hour, and It is this: What an immense power; I mean immense moral power, there is in a congregation of this size. You may laugh at that young fellow, who, when standing by the cataract of Niagara, as she was ] gathering Her waters to roll them over with the roar of a hundred thunders, instead of being filled with adj miration at that sublime scene, calmly sat down and tried to calculate how much machinery all that water 1 | power could turn. I Serious Thought . | Fut to mo, it is a serious, solemn, , I stirring thought, how much macliin- , ery all this moral power could turn, if ( every scheming brain and every busy hand and every heating heart here , was only actively and earnestly en- , I gaged in the service of Christ. Oil, wliat an honor would come to ( , God. What a glory would come to | Jesus Christ. What an invaluable service to these churches and your . town. Do you know it is possible for us to , over estimate, or for us to even esti- , mate aright the power that, lies latent | in the churches of our land today? I, And I want to say that if you ever liavea revival hero, if you ever see souis saved, if you even see your loved (.nos horn into the Kingdom, if you i ever see your friends and neighbors [ brought to God, the work will not l; n accomplished by any evangelistic party which you may bring from the outside to lead you in such a campaign. It will not he accomplished by the. ministers of these churches alone, consecrated and loyal and true, as 1 have every reason to believe that they are. You will never see these results till members of these churches: commit themselves unconditionally to God, and living a complete surrendered life, standing at their posts, doing their duty and their whole duty, J and if necessary, ready to die in the . discharge of that chrfetian duty, will: you see the work of grace that God wants Decatur to have. ; Briefly and clearly let me place be- 1 t fore you how all may add to the sue.cess of this campaign upon which, 'you now enter: j First: You cab help to draw a con- ; grfgatlon. Tills is one of the great ; | roblems today in church work and j revival effort. We talk about men being gospel hardened. After years of ; experience both as a pdstor and in; | the evangelistic field. 1 declare to you j that men are just as responsible to it he gospel's call as they hqvc ov. r | been In the world’s history. Both with j | the drive of business, the mad rush | ! for wealth, the great earv4ng for fainoj j and honor, the craze for pleasure; j with tho thousand and one other j things to allure men anil women and I young people, it Is a most diffieul* task to arrest their attention, to I cause them to stop and listen, j Second; You may not only help to draw a congregation but you can also , help to preach. Demosthenes has well said that 151- ! ceuence lies as much in the hearing ! as in tho tongue.” Anybody who can ; speak effectively knows that the power of speaking denend3 largely upo i ■ the way ft is heard. Upon the sym- ; pathy one succeeds in gaining from those he addresses. When Demosthenes was asked the secret of public speaking he replied: ‘ The symathy and attention of the (Continued on Page 3.)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, February 23, 1915.

FOR JEACHERS New Order Concerning Examinations Issued from State Headquarters, IN AFFECT HERE Certificates to be Used Separately for the Pre-voca-tional Subjects. County Superintendent Ed S. Christen lias received a communication from tho state department of public instruction which says: “In view of the fact tliut during the current examination year, elementary and high school certificates in pre-vocational subjects are to be issued separately from licenses in regular elementary and high school subjects, it is necessary in order to facilitate the work of the department, to require applicants for such certifi<ates to write upon them in separate manuscripts and under different numbers from those containing the regular subjects. The intention is that tlie two examinations shall lie separate and that failure in regular subjects shall not determine tlie applicant’s failure in pre-vocational subjects if the grades in such subjects are passing grades, and vied versa, i Tim success or failure of tlie January manuscripts, some of which con- , tainod regular subjects and pre-voca-tional subjects under the same mini- ( brr, was determined according to Vie' above stated requirements that will govern subsequent examinations this t year, rather than according to para- , [graph nine of the bulletin, which pro- , vlded that a special certificate would not he issued where one failed in the common or high school branches. | ( “A committee with proper authorIty, has decided to discontinue the ( examination in Sneddau's ‘Vocation- , el Education' as a sub.Mtute for one ( of the three pre-vocattonal subjects. on tlie common school list on this book will he advisable on account of ; the fact that the pre-vocational ex- ‘ aminaficn is to he entirely separate, from the other subjects. Any appli-' cant who receives a grade of 75 or ( more in an elementary or high school ‘ pro-vocational subject will receive a | certificate. j A DOZEN POINTS _ k Won Bluffton-Decatur Basket Bal‘ Game Last Night for Bluffton. — A GOOD GAME — I i Skidoo Number Was Hoodoo for Decatur Girls— 1 •Score 23 to 11. — The tables of victory were switched last evening for the Decatur girls I when in a spirited basket hall contest 'at Porter’s hall they lost to their opponents—tho Bluffton girls by an even dozen points. Tlie game was a good one, and much enthusiasm was displayed by both the teams and the | j many rooters. It was clean through- ! out. The first half ended in a score 1 [of 14 to 4 in favor of the Bluffton hi- [ ; dies, while tlie second half gave BlulT- . 'ton 9 points and Decatur 7, making J the final score 23 to 11. I-ast week! the Decatur girls played at Bluffton j ; and won the game by four points. The , championship between the two opposing teams now stands a tie. Next Friday evening the local girls will play a return game at Geneva. The line-up for last evening's game was as follows: Bluffton. Decatur. Masterson F Frisinger Kelly F Smith Campbell C Bieneke Plessingcr C Schultz Fetters G Hensley Sark G Bowers Campbell Sub Gregory Referee—Long; timekeeper, Peterson; lineman, Frisinger; scorers, Christen and Morris. Field Goals—Bluffton: Masterson, G; Kelly, 4; Decatur: Frisinger, 3; Smith, 1. Fouls—Bluffton, 6.

PORTLAND MARSHAL HERE. Taken Elsie Straub and Husband's Uncle to Portland. Marshal Tiehen of Portland arrived last night at midnight and this morning took hack with him the two prisoners, Elsie Straub and tier husband s uncle, Charles Straub, who are wanted there on the charge of adultery. The couple had been at Portland hut skipped out for Decatur yesterday morning, before thp officials could got them. They were located here at tlie Alice Harmon home, which is at the rear of the Monroe street riverside feed yard, and taken to jail yesterday to await the Portland official. FINE INSTITUTE Conducted by Root Township Teachers at Elzey School House. A GOOD PROGRAM Was Given—The Patrons Spread a Delicious Feast at Noon Hour. The sixtli township teachers institute of Root township was held last Saturday at District No. 8, known as tlie Elzey school house. It was a perfect spring day and a goodly number of patrons and pupils were present. The teachers were all present and cne as the most interesting an enthucne of tlie most interesting anil entli-i---was held. The following program was carried out: Opening exorcises, consisting ol Scripture reading and songs, conducted by Harry Hoffman from the Psalms or Proverbs, applicafroin the Psalms of Proverbs, applicable to the edueaticji or training cf children. The Course of Study in Arithmetic, as adapted to the new text books and suggested modifications—Miss Edrtf. Fleming. The Course of Study in Reading, es adapted to the new text books and suggested modifications —Otto Rice. (Continued on Page 4) HONEYWELL HITS. “ Any half-wit can be a knocker. The turkey buz:;ard has Its place better to me than I have been to it. * * * The turkey buzzard has its place in the world, but 1 prefer the humming bird. * * * You can’t saw wood with a hammer. What we need is not knockers, but boosters. * * * You might as well try to go down to the depot, tie a twine string to an engine and pull it down Main street as to expect a revival here without beginning in the church. * * * - A preacher who cannot draw- a crowd is no good. Why, even a poru3 plaster that won't draw, is no good. * * * Our party was invited here. If you did not investigate us beforehand, you should have. My point Is that the doors of criticism arc now barred against you. It's too late to do that. You’d better boost. * * « This is your work, if 1 thought It was mine and you had no part in it, I would pack my trunk tonight nnd return to Chicago. * * * Spul winning Is the great business of the church and every Christian must feel that they have a part In the redemption of your town. * * « You business men must give up your lodge, your club, the golf links, and your auto and must arrange your business to give these meetings as much of your time and energy as possible. * * * It takes a first class preacher and a first-class listener to make a firstclasp sermon. * * * Men are as responsive tp the calls of gospel as they are to the calls of history.

(CALL TOJREACH i John Kiracofe, Well Known Young Man of City, to Enter Ministry. ! TO ENTER SEMINARY i 1 At Dayton, Ohio, September i First to Take a Four Years’ Course. 1 At a meeting of the quarterly con--1 ference at the United Brethren parsonage last evening between six and seven o'clock before the tabernacle • services, a vote was carried to grant a conference license to preach to J. B. Kiracofe, a well known young man of the local United Brethren church. In the absence of the district superintendent, the pastor, the Rev. Harman presided. Mr. Kiracofe will leave September first for Dayton. Ohio, where he will enter the Bonebrake Theological sem- ; inary for a four years' course preparatory to entering the ministry for his life work. Mr. Kiracofe lias been bookkeeper for the Smith & Bell company and will resign his position there in April, when he will have completed Ills fifth year with the company. He will spend this summer in the country and will take a long rest, preparatory for the school work, when he and Ills family, which includes himself and wife and baby daughter, Juanita, will go to Dayton to make their home. The Bonebrake seminary is the best of the United Brethren institutions and Mr. Kiracofe lias chosen well. He is still a young man, hut twen-ty-six years of age, but having a good 'education as a foundation, supplemented with a course of school teaching, and a business college course, he is well fitted to enter the seminary. He comes from a family of ministers. His grandfather was a minister, as were several of his cousins. Os a family of seven sons in one Kiracofe family, six were ministers. Mr. Kiracofo has long had the desire to enter the ministry, hut has waited until he felt himself definitely called to the work. (Continued on Page 4.1 THE COURT NEWS [ Plaintiff Completes Evidence' in Sparrow-Erie Stone Company Case. __________ INVENTORY IS FILED ! And Appraisement of Real Estate in Caleb Andrews Estate. When the plaintiff, Adelbert F.! Sparrow concluded his evidence in j his SIO,OOO damage case against Tiie ! Plrie Stone Company, the defendant | made a motion in writing that the j I court instruct the jury trying the I ! case to return a verdict for tlie <le- j fondant. The motion was overrulod to which the defendant excepted, and thirty days’ time was given to file 'said bill of exceptions. The trial be-j gan here yesterday. The case was' | venued here from Huntington county. The petition of Henry F. Linn, administrator of the estate of William j F. Linn, lor leave to make a partial distribution among the heirs of the j decedent, was sustained and so or dered. Addle Andrews, administratrix of the estate of Caleb B. Andrews, filed Inventory and appraisement of real 'estate, which was approved. In the partition case of Esther A. Springer vs. William 11. Jones, answer by the defendant In one paragraph was filed. The case of tho Decatur Horso Sale Co. vs. The Chicago & Erie railroad, for S9OO damages for injuries to horses sent over the road in 1912, was rallbil for trial at Bluffton today, (Continued on Page 4.)

J TABERNACLE PROGRAM. Tuesday, February 23. 7:15 p. m. Sermon; special mei sage to business men. Methodist* tl and Christians will attend In a Ixidv Wednesday, February 24. 10:00 to 10:30 a. m. —Cottage prayer meetings. 2:30- -Afternoon sermon. 3:30 p. m. —Conference of women with Mrs. McCotube. 7:15 p. m.—-Night sermon, “Tlie Home." All other churches will attend In a body. I- Thursday, February 25. 10:00 a. m.—Cottage prayer meetings. • 2:30 p. m. —Afternoon sermon. 7:15 p. in. —Sermon, “Hitting the Nail on the Head.” Collection. i- Sunday $48.91 '* Monday iti.3s l 3 Total $64.28 t o- - ■■■ TO TRUST NO ONE But God is Advice Given in \ Warning to Young Girls by Portland Girl WHO HAD ESCAPE 1 Narrowly from Being Sold by Her Husband, a Confessed “White Slaver.” J. Venera Thompson Armstrong, tlie young Portland girl, who recently married John Armstrong, self-con-fessed “white slaver," being held at Evansville awaiting tho action of District Attorney Ilailey, has addressed a letter to the public. It will be remembered that her husband, who was preparing to sell her to white slavers, relented and confessed, when he sav. her kneeling at her bed to pray, In Indianapolis. Her letter: “I take this opportunity of speaking a few words to the public on tinsubject of ‘White Slavery.’ “When it first dawned upon me that I had fallen to the wiles of a ‘white slaver,' I was completely heartbroken, and could not understand why I should have to suffer the re morse and humiliation of such a sad affair. I had always heard, read and studied so much on the subject and have often made the remark, ‘The j white slavers cannot get me for 1 'know too much about them,’ anl | when I found 1 had been so complete ly deceived, I was nearly crazy. “However, I have begun to look at the matter in a different ilgiit and if this may ho a lesson to other inno cent girls, who might have fallen into tlie same snare as l did, I am will | ing to make the sacrifice and be a« optimistic as I can, for I know thn* ft is only through the ‘grace of God’ anil His 'wonderful power’ tha.t 1 am safe at home today, and I can never get through praising Him for It. The Lord works in a mysterious manner and this certainly proves His power. “It all seems like a dream to me j now, wonderful, and O, how terrible! |At times it seems almost impossible, 1 but it is only too true. 1 j “At times the mere thought of till* j sad experience seems unbearable. [ then I think, 'O, how lucky I was to escape such a terrible fate Just in the [nick of time.’ I am fully awaro of [the fact, that many, many poor inno--1 cent girls have become ensnared as 1 did, and scarcely none of them have been shown the mercy that 1 recelv- ' ed, and 1 fully realize that It was > through tlie guidance of the Almighty Father, who iloeth ail things well, that 1 escaped the doom awaiting me. “I wish to thank all my neighbors and friends for (lie interest and sympathy shown me tn this time of distress. “This certainly gives mo an opportunity to tost my friends, and know '! tho true from the false. Friends who . are merely friends when everything I goes along smoothly and nicely are not the kind that are worth having. A true friend is a friend in time of . need, and I am very, very glad to say ■ that I have found many true friends 1 in Portland. “There are some people, however, who care nothing for your welfare. It > is only a matter of dollars and cfents , on you, they are no longer your > friends, but instead do all they can to 1 degrade you In the eyes of honest, up- , right people. (Continued on Pago 4 )

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HANDED IT BACK j. ■ ■ - ■■ s • Governor Ralston Answers 0 Insulting inquiries of the Indianapolis News. K II — B TWO MORE WEEKS Will Mark Closing of Legislature—New Laws Will e Not be Numerous. i (By Lew Ellingharu) 5 Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 22’—But two - weeks of the sixty-ninth general as- ’ j Bembly remain. These two weeks 1 will necessarily he busy ones, be--1 up to dute the actual accom- ,' jplishments of the .legislature have j been few anil far between. But few bills have been passed and sent to ( tho governor, so few In fact that they jean be enumerated ou one hand. This .does not mean that the record of tho remainder of tlie session will be similar to the six weeks that have passed, but it does mean that the acts of the Indiana general assembly for ; nineteen hundred and fifteen will be I smaller than the usual edition, anil [that fewer laws will be enacted. This record will be accepted by the gen- • eral public as u recommendation of , faithful service. It will be a reco«n---j meudaticn of the saueuess of those j who hold membership in tills general assembly, and unless something breaks within the next two weeks their record will be filled with acts commendatory of u well balanced and 1 high-minded lot of law-makers, the I large majority of whom are democrats. Economy is still holding a Ircnt seat on the stage of action, and there is no danger now but that this feature of their legislative program will como through with colors Dying. , As is usual and what can only be expected In a program of this kind, , their economy ut times and places takes on the form of stinginess a:i i In the long run Is false economy, but nevertheless they liave played tho ’ game to a fare-you-well. The democrats really made up tlielr mind to this end of the program during the last campaign when the republicans pan-handled the state administration for their reckless extravagance and even graft. Their mud-slinging was the cheapest and dirtiest, and many of their charges were without foundation In fact. However, it accomplished one tiling, it caused all the democrats to resolve that they would show those republicans what real ! economy Is. This legtslaturo has made the republicans take the count on tills charge, and now in the next campaign, 1 suppose they will go out on the stump and tell what a lot of cheap skates those democrats are; Xliat they half starved all tho Inmates of the state institutions; refused to buy the governor a home and were niggardly about buying postage stamps for the freo use of tha legislative mpmbers and employes. While they are doing that tho democrats will be shooting a few beans of their own. They will show- how the minority members of the legislature voted against about every mon-ley-saving bill presented, and that, when it was proposed to reduce tinsalary of the prosecuting attorney of Marion county from twenty thousand to sevesity-five hundred dollars a ' year, that every republican senator not only voted against it, but made speeches in which they decried tho - injustice of such an action. This is - only a sample copy of many other • charges against their duplicity after a campaign in which they were long ■ on promises and short on execution. • | The legislature has much, in fact, [ most of its important work yet to i do. They liavo things well in hand, -'and it is expected that they will speed up and clear the docks before j the hour of final adjournment comes. - Tlie appropriation hills, compulsory i primaries, workmen’s compensation, 1 registration, and laat hut not least, ; ■ partial women’s suffrage, which is • j right now a real issue in the leglsla- . j ture. The senate much to tho surf prise of themselves, I think, passed ,- j the bill and now the house will have < 1 to tackle the responsibility of making this one of the new laws of the . state. The governor is reported as 1 having said that should the legislature pass such a law he would sign r it. So there you are. Governor Ralston Is even tempered, only at times he is not. One of (Continued on