Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 47.

MORE THANFIVEHUNDRED Marched Behind Church Banners To The Honeywell Tabernscle-tighteen Hundred Hear Great Sermon

* * e .J: COLLECTION. * * * <s Tuesday 26.42 * « * Total $30.68 $ # T.: sj: !■: :J: s|: s': EUtfato hundred people packed the big taberi de to the doors last night, the largest crowd of the season; eighteen hundred people opened their mouths and sang out song alter song that reacted far down the streets and gave nvtice to the passer by that n Honeywell revival is on in Decatur; eighteen hundred people inspired Prof Chase and made him lead as he had not led before in Decatur; eighteen people to preach to and many hundred souls to save made Evangelist Honeywell at his best-ami say the' way that man can talk—-he begged and coaxed and scolded a little and boosted much and handed out jolt after jolt that made the people gasp and cheer and as a result there were various kinds of enthusiasm. Rev. Honeywell worked for several years with Billy Sunday and the way he made base hits last night is proof to a real fan that he earned a place on the team with the great est captain of the tabernacle diamond. Eighteen hundred people saw the service dismissed by Rev. Honeywell without a prayer. After a powerful sermon the evangelist batted out a home-run to the church member who does not pay his debts, and to other sinners, leaned bis face on his hand for an instant, and announced dramatically that the services were closed without the usual prayer. Another unusual' occurrence was that in the midst of his address when he told ’he audience how he had first declined to come here, but how glad he was that he had. He said he believed he had been directed by the hand of God. Paraded Down Main Street Prior to the opening of the meeting members of the Methodist and the churehs lead by the City Band, , with Dr. J. Q. Neptune, as marshal, marched from their churches to the big place of worship, coming down Monroe street to Second and thence south through the principal thoroughfare to Court street. In the Ser Jllll KiS* Bl! teW'i B REV. JOHN H. McCOMBE I Who has joined the Honeywell party and is taking his place as one of the active workers.

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t crowd marched 549, by actual count : as they passed this office, the Chris- ' tian church with nearly a hundred : behind the banner bearing their name : leading and the Methodists next. The : parade reached out about four blocks : in length, a crowd of good looking, : fearless men. women and children of every age. We saw a babe in arms • and we saw men and women of four , score and it made us think, for they • were earnest and sincere people. The • middle section of seats at the taber- ; nacle had been reserved but it proved i too small and the overflow found t seats along the side sections. At ; 7:15 every seat was taken and there I were many standing in the aisles. 1 Mrs. McCombe’s First Talk i Mrs. Met ombe, one of the assist--1 ants made her first public announce- ■ meat, asking that all mothers who 1 cared to, leave their children at the ■ nursery established for the purpose in the library, where each evening a I committee of ladies will look after ■ the little folks. She also stated that each lady would be asked to serve but once during the meetings on that ■ committee and expressed the hope in i a winning manner that they wou|l not refuse. A request was made for I toys, perambulators, books, and cabs for the room, to be left there by seven o'clock this evening. Nursery Is Now Ready > And so we slipped across the I street and took a look at the nursery ! and there sure enough, in a pleasant and comfortable and warm room, v;e i found Mrs. W. A. Lower, Miss Rose ■ Smith and Miss Emma Carey in ! charge of several children, with Mas- ■ ter Billy Bell as captain of the play I force. It is believed that many moth- ■ ers will take advantage of this oppori tunity to place the children in a safe i place and where they will be amused 1 during the service. The Opening Services I Song Leader Clase was delighted with the great throng of people that surged through the doors when they ; were thrown open at 7:10 and he was > not slow in expressing his delignt. ’ The crowd was easily the largest so i far during the campaign. The openi ing song was “If Our Heart Keeps : Right” and the cheer in response was the most genuine of the week, showI ing an increase in interest. “All Hail : the Power of Jesus,” and “Come Thou ’ Fount” were also rendered while the audience was being seated. “Bright en the Corners,” with whistling variations, proved a delightful number and > the response from the audience, in ! beautiful swelling tones, under die wonderful leadership of Mr. Clase was inspiring. Rev. Rilling Offers Prayer. The opening prayer was given by Rev. J. H. Rilling of the Evangelical church and then Rev. Honeywell ex pressed his delight at the attendance. The audience was somewhat surprised when he introduced Mr. McCombe his assistant, who had just arrived and who will assist in the work during the rest of the campaign. Mr. Mei Combe made a happy talk and said Ihe had visited here several months j ago and already felt acquainted. He i is a natural mixer, who will soon have I a wide acquaintance here. Some Announcements. Rev. Honeywell announced that at the Wednesday afternoon service, Mr McCombe would open and then tu.n the meeting over to Mrs. McCombe. Tonight the Presbyterian, United Brethren, Baptist and Evangelical and other churches will march to the ta > ernacle in a body, led by the band. The subject tonight will be 'The Home and the School.” Rev.' Honeywell expressed his de light in working in Indiana and said he intended to remain near here. Announcing the taking up of the collectio, he said, “As every heart-beat counts in life’s collection, so does every dime and quarter count in paying expenses," and the choir sang. “Harvest Time is Here,” and the ushers passed the plates. The Captains' Meeting. Mrs. McCombe met the chairmen of the prayer services at the home <>; Mrs. Walters yesterday afternoon i.i a very profitable conference, regarding the plan of work for Decatur. These were presented in detail at the (Continued on Page 4.)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, February 24, 1915.

| A "DOT CASE Kicked Aroun’ from One > Court to Another—Here on Change of Venue. FROM FORT WAYNE Strawbridge Demands Pos- ' session of SIOO Liver and 1 White Colored Dog. I 1 It is not a “houn’ dorg” case, but a 1 ■ SIOO Gladstone setter replevin case. that is being kicked aroun’ from one 1 court to the other, showing that some people consider that “it’s a long, long way” to what the alleged injured party considers justice. The case was received in the Adams circuit court today on change of venue from the Allen circuit court. Before it went to the Allen court, it had already been in the courts of Justice Taney and Justice Nierman in Ft. Wayne, but had taken changes of venue there. John Strawbridge is the plaintiff, and he claims to be the owner of and demands the immediate possession of “one liver and white colored dog, with split nose, being a Gladstone setter, known by the name of ‘Don,’ about three years old and valued at $100,” which he claims Frank Martin is detaining. o — HELP TO WIELD The Hatchet Against Tuberculosis — You Can Help by Pushing HOUSE BILL NO. 271 State Society Asks Co-oper-ation—Write to Members of Senate. The following bulletin is issued by the Indiana Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis: “George Washington’s hatchet still lives. “If the ‘Father of his country’ were living today, it is a dead moral certainty that he would use it against tuberculosis. “But since most of us have strong right arms and a well-developed inclination. it is up to us to do the wielding. “We can do effective ‘hatcheting’ just now by pushing House Bill No. 271 through the Indiana legislature. Get an influential citizen in your community to write to the members of the general assembly and urge its passage. “Assuming that you have written to the members of the lower house, we send you herewith the names of the state senators. By the time you receive this, the bill may be on its way to the senate. If you have not written to the members of the lower house, however, it might be well to do this first. “Then about Wednesday address a letter to the senators. They will appreciate your interest. Address them State Hotise, Indianapolis: Members Indiana Senate. “John F. Adams, Pinkney S. Arm- i strong. Lewis A. Baber, Otis L. Bal- , lou, Oehmig Bird, Walter S. Chambers, Charles B. Clark, Wm. F. Cleveland, D. Frank Culberson, Edward C. Eikman, Edward P. Elsner, Fred H. Engel, John B. Faulknor, James R. Flem- i ing, Stephen B. Fleming (resigned); Geo. F. Gelts, Willard B. Gemmil), i Harry E. Grube, Levi P. Harlan, Hen i ry A. Harmon, Gaines Homer Hazen, i Joseph R. Hemphill, Joseph M. Hirsch, i James H. Humphreys, Rowland H. ' Jackson, Frank A. Kattman, Dwight M. Kinder, Jacob C. Xolsem, William P. Krau, Chas. W. Lanz, Walter McConaha, Chester A. McCormick, Marion H. Maston, William S. Mercer, Thos. L. Neal, E. A. Norman, Floyd I Parks, James Porter, John G. Reidel- i bach, Alva O. Reser, Elias M. Rinear. Arthur R. Robinson, Gabriel Summers, Michael Thornton, Glenn Van i Auken, Frederick Van Nuys, William . M. White, Geo. C. Wood, William A. Yarling, Albert F. Zearing. (Continued on Page 3.) i

’[' HONEYWELL HITS If there is one spot in hell hotter ! than another you will find there the stingy old skinflint, supposed Christian, cracking brimstone. • • • The fellow who says ‘Amen’ the loudest, may skin you in a horse trade next day. ♦* ♦ . You might as well expect the devil to love holy water, as to expect a revival in Decatur unless it begins in the house of God. * * * A man is not any more a Christian because he goes to church than he is a horse because he goes to the stable. Peter preached one sermon and 3,000 were converted. Now it takes three thousand sermons to convert one little dried-up nubbin of a Christian that is no good after you get him. » » • Lots of the church members in your town are hypocrits, and furnish the best argument for the world against the church. * * * The bitterest wail we have heard comes from the business man outside the church on account of debts of church members that were outlawed. * • * God is a mighty good bookkeeper. You will clean up your slate or you will give an account at the bar of God. r • • * If you are a Christian you will go to church, and you will not be a “oncer.” » « » I don’t care what you pray. The question is, “How do you live?” * * * It is a hard thing to go to a man and say you have lied to him but God wants a frank statement. * * • Some people bury the hatchet but they leave the handle sticking out so they can go and get it when they want it. • * * Lots of people will go to the local merchant’till he refuses to trust them any longer and then send their cash to Sears, Roebuck Xz Company. * » » If you are earning SSO per month and living at at $75 a month gait you are not honest. * * • You say you have defrauded no man, but how about your debts. * * * If you die tonight with the unforgiving spirit in your heart you will wake up in hell or this Bible is not worth the paper it is written upon. * • * There are many men and women who go to church and pray in the name of God who do hot know their A, B, C’s in the true gospel. * * * I haven’t met the gossiping sisters yet, but before I leave here I will have a line on nine-tenths of you and without seeking the information. * • • Wanamaker, the multi-millionaire business man, is a member of the Billy Sunday meetings each night now. RECEIVE FLORIDA ORANGES. J. S. McCrory Enjoying Visit in the Southland. The family of J. S. McCrory today received a crate of oranges and grape fruit from him from Dundee, Fla. Mr. McCrary left last Thursday for Florida, on business and pleasure combined, and‘will also visit at Dalton and Atlanta, Georgia, with relatives before his return here. He will be gone about ten days. Cards received by the family asked them to address him at Tampa, Fla., his next stop. The oranges were Satuma oranges and both fruits are very fine. They were sent from the packing house there. o PLUMBERS FOUND GUILTY. Des Moines, lowa, Feb. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Thirty-six indicted master plumbers on trial during the past two weeks in the federal court for violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, were found guilty. The jury returned a sealed verdict during the night. Nearly all the men are prominent in lowa and adjoining states.

CLOSEDAJEWER Causing the Water to Back Up Into Frederick Wessel’s Cellar. HE WANTS SI,OOO Damages from August Wissel—Ft. Wayne Case to Adams Circuit Court. A second case was received today in the Adams circuit court on change of venue from Allen county, coming here from the sui>erior court. Frederick Wessel is the plaintiff and demands SI,OOO from August Wissel for damages. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant caused a sewer to be closed, allowing the water to back up in the plaintiff's cellar. He alleges that a quantity of potatoes, fruit, preserves, canned goods, etc., in the cellar was destroyed. The water, he alleges, also washed the plastering and lime from the stone of the house and foundations, caused the floors of the house to be damp and wet, dampening the plastering and walls of the rooms, and causing an impure and foul air therein. Wherefore he wants SI,OOO. behindjthFbars Os Portland Jail Elsie Straub and “Uncle Charlie’’ Are Languishing. PLEADED GUILTY To Adultery—Straub Also Said He Beat Two Board Bills. The Portland Sun says: “For the next forty-eight days, while an inmate of the county jail, Charles Straub, employed in a local barber shop, until last Saturday night, will have ample time for thought to ponder over his shortcomings, while Mrs. Elsie Straub, wife of Charles Straub, of Decatur, a nephew of the barber, will likewise sojourn behind the horizontals and perpendiculars, however, her rest will be for but twenty-three days. - “The couple recently spent some time here, living together as husband and wife. Straub was employed at the tonsorial parlors at the rear of the Model on Meridian street. They left Monday morning without having first settled two board bills, one due Mrs. Dora Bickel, and the other owing to Clarence Hay. Marshal Tiben was apprised of the beating of one of the board bills earry Monday morning and talked to the couple.at the train just before their departure. Promise of settlement was made by Wednesday of this week and as no charges had been filed, he permitted them to depart from this city. A little later the ' officers were told that they were not man and wife and it was not long until two adultery charges had been pre- 1 ferred in the court of Justice of tile 1 Peace Lewis. “A telephone call to Decatur Monday afternoon brought information ■ that the couple could easily be locfited. They were placed in jail there and a message sent here telling of their arrest. Marshal Tieben went to Decatur on the night train Monday, returning with his charges on the early train Thiesday. “Pleas of guilty to adultery charges were entered by both Straub and his niece, and Straub also said he was guilty of beating the two board bills. Both were fined ten dollars and costs —522.35 each —on statutory charges, and Straub drew fines of $1 and costs —512.35 in each board bill case. Neither were able to rake up enough ; money to settle their bills and were I sent to jail in default of payment, i “Mrs. Straub is principal in a Ji--1 vorce suit pending in the Adams cir- ; cuit court. She was also the victim ) of her husband in a fistic encounter ;. recently and still bears a blackened , eye from the fracas.”

| TABERNACLE PROGRAM. Wednesday, February 24. 10:00 to 10:30 a. ni. —Cottage prayer meetings. I 2:30 —Afternoon sermon. 3:30 p. m. —Conference of women with Mrs. McCombe. 7:15 p. m. —Night sermon, “The Home,” Several churches will attend In a body. 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.” Friday, February 26. 8:30 a. m. —Chapel service at the high school by Rev. Honeywell. 10:00 a. m.—Cottage prayer meetings. 2:3o—Sermon at tabernacle. ! 7:15 —Sermon, “The Secret of Success.” o ■ ■ SELLS TO PARTNER Milo McKinney Disposes of Interest in Plumbing Concern to Mr. Steele. THE FORMER NAME Os Business Will be Used— Change Will Go Into Effect March 1. Milo McKinney, the young and hustling business man of this city, and partner in the Steele & McKinney plumbing and heating concern, has disposed of his interest to his brotn-er-in-law and partner, George E. Steele. The change will become effective the first of March. Mr. McKinney became a partner with Mr. Steele last June and since that time has been actively connected with the business. The plumbing and heating concern o; Steele & McKinney is one of the oldcst and most reliable in the city, hav- , ing been started a number of years I ago by Mr. Steele. It enjoys a splcn- i did business and is numbered among i the most progressive places in Deca- 1 tur. Mr. McKinney has not yet de- s cided what he will do in the future. < but is figuring on going into busines-. < either in this city or some other place, s It is not doubted that he will mak > 1 good whereever he goes, as he is a I bright and progressive man. t DECM ~SIUH; <J 8 Among Ninety-one Cities in » t Per Capita Sale of Red k I' Cross Seals. a i V FOR THE YEAR 1914 i V t Had a Per Capita Sale of 1 6.64- -Bulletin Received ’ i Today. i i i Mrs. J. H. Heller, secretary of the i I i Red Cross Christmas seals' sales organization, has received from the J state association, a “per capita” report of the recent Red Cross seal < sales. Decatur is sixth in the list, hav- < ing a per capita sales of 6.64. The 1 state association says: “In each instance we have taken j the county seat as a basis and in com- < puting the standing, we have given the home city of the local anti-tuber-culosis society credit for the county ; sale. We have sent a large part of , this record to the national headquar- I ters to be used in national pennant ; contest. Fowler has the largest per < capita in the state. The Benton I county capital reports a total of 17,- < 498 s?Sls, and a per capita of 11.8 I seals. Hats off to Fowler and Ben- i ton county!” t The six who lead in the state are: < Fowler, 11.8 per capita; Osgood, 9.09; f Paoli, 8.68; Brookville, 7.82; La v grange, 7.28; Decatur, 6.64. c With ninety-one cities reporting, the 1 , fact that Decatur is sixth is deemed n 'quite a record. *

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NO BED OF ROSES Is the Lot of Indiana Legislator Just at This Stage of the Session. MUCH HARD WORK And Many Interesting Questions for Law Makers Now in Assembly. I (By Dw Ellingham) Indianapolis, Ind,, Feb. 24 —Tills is certainly one busy season for the general assembly. Heading the list of important measures pending in the house is partial woman's suffrage, which slipped through the senate Saturday, with but three votes against it. It was so unexpected that even those who favored it were astonished and are yet hardly able to realize and appreciate the victory achieved. It all happened in thetwinkling of an eye. There was a democratic caucus attended by practically all the members of the majority, the matter was presented, arguments were made ami when the vote was taken partial woman's suffrage won out thus binding every attendant at the caucus. Following the caucus action the report of the committee was adopted, the bill was advanced to second and third reading, and really before the average attendant of the senate realized what was in the air the roll was being called on the final action of the bill, and it carried with but three votes against it. Monday morning every one awakened to the fact that partial woman’s suffrage was among the possibilities of this general assembly. At this date the old capital is filling up and about all one hears is an argument upon the merits of this pending measure in the house. Notwithstanding the anti-lobby law there is some real work being done both for and against this bill. The life of the members of the lower house is not one bed of roses these sweet days. While the house will have to sweat through a suffrage campaign, the members of the senate will have to decide whether the Jones primary bill shall be a statutory law of the state. The house passed it, and now the action of the senate is awaited with more than ordinary interest. According to figures compiled Indiana now lias a compulsory primary in live counties —Allen, Marion, St. Joseph. Vigo and Vanderburgh. The cost of the primary in these five counties last year was $3:1,243.63, and should this be approximate the state over, it would cost in excess of three hundred thousand dollars to hold a primary election in Indiana. Many of the members of the general assembly who have been strong on economy do not believe that the passage of such a law would he ! n keeping with the record they are making on the economy issue. Others are strong for the platform pledge, believing that no party can afford to violate the sacred utterances of their platform. Another bill will find its way into the legislative hopper and this bill will provide for partial primary, including the election of all delegates to state conventions. So the water is muddy, and the final disposition of a state-wide compulsory primary is in doubt. An agreement has been reached and a permanent registration law is assured, andjn my mind this will be one of the important laws of the session. It provides for a permanent registration and only those who move out of their precinct need to register the second time. The one protection needed the most in Indiana is a law prohibiting foreigners from voting before they are naturalized citizens of the state. We need this protection more than we need woman’s suffrage, a primary, or any other proposed cure of our many ills. Horticulturists are up in arms over the bill that bids fair to pass the senate consolidating the offices of the state geologist and entomoligist. it is claimed that within the last ten years one hundred thousand acres of orchard lands have been planted and that this industry bids fair to be one of the coming important branches of farming. Much progress has been made in the treatment of fruit bearing trees, which with a favorable soil and climate makes Indiana a coming state for large and flourishing orchards. It would be a calamity should anything occur to hinder or deter the fine possibilities of making Indiana rank with many of the other states in the union (Continued on Page 2.)