Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by *IE IECATLI OENOCIAT COMPAQ LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Pw Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15 00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail 12 50 Single Copies -2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. Surveyors and assistants have been busy for several days on the Clover Leaf project and the indications are that within a few days some definite announcement as to the removal of the terminal from IMphos to this city will be made. If this happens, watch old Decatur this year. Mayor Bunch of Muncie. Gene WilNam*. deputy prosecutor of Delaware county, and John Day, a justice of the I’eace. have been indicted for accepting bribes from a slot machine man The accused men say it is a game of politics and if that is true the men who thus willfully charge men with crimes are the ones who should suffer These spring days are perfect. Never again will we doubt the wis dom of the ground-hog. It* time to be up and doing. There are many things to be accomplished in Deca tur and the start should be made this year. Several new blocks have been started, empty houses are scarce, in fact there are none of the modern kind and if we grow we will have to have homes for the people. Come an.

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WARD EXTRA HEAVY FENCES THE BEST AND HEAVIEST FARM FENCE ON THE MARKET TODAY IS MADE RIGHT HERE IN DECATUR AND SOLD AT THE LOWEST PRICES. Realizing the increasing demand for ar. extra heavy square mesh fence we nave recently above fences are made from BASIC OPEN HEARTH STEEL WIRE exequipped our factory withthe best and most modem machinery for the manufacture of same, pens have tested and found to resist rust and corosion much lonee- thin a nvS o go '-Tntnnf''e t ' The above fence & made from, OPEN HEARTH STEEL WIRE. extra heavily galvanized, and ured. Our FARM GATES cannot be beaten and the prices mas Snin standard heights of 47 and SoS inches in both 6 and 12 inch spacing. orders we are receiving is strong evidence that our products are what we ciaimfor ■ kin R dTon™^^d^b“ro ESAhiDGATES for CT «y Purpose. We 1 also handle a« ket and so well known that no further comment is necessary Our EXTRA HEAVi DIAMOND MESH COMBINATION POULTRY AND STOCK FENCE is positively the strongest fence of its Call at our factory and see what we have to offer you. It will bp n + ci Vnrce ‘ kind manufactured and will turn cattle and hogs as well as your poultry. I: has no competition to show you through our modern plant, whether you buv from r a r.A?l eas^ et 0 our a if +o’pI and is a world beater. Our ORNAMENTAL LAWN FENCES are the best made. All the phone Na 257 at our expense or drop us a card and we will “J™ cannot call te<e 1 you our cutulog. WARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY. ' BUY IT NOW DECATUR. INDIANA. suy lT nqW

' boys! 1 According to R. G. Tucker, the In dlanapolis correspondent to the Cia . cinnati Enquirer, and himself a republican. James E. Watson and Charles W. Fairbanks are vicing with each as . to which shall have the indorsement of the Indiana delegation for the re--1 publican nomination for president in ( 1916. Both Wtson and Fairbanks (not i Crawford) know that Indiana would 1 get scant recognition with two pres!- • Cential candidates in the running and it was this knowledge that propmted James Eli to journey to California recently where Fairbanks spent the winter and the two held a conference in an effort to determine who should be who. ’Tis said Watson is keeping mum about the conference but that Fairbanks has quietly told some of his friends about the affair and he also intimated that he and his backers conrider that he has a prior lien on tiie chance and that if there is to be any backing away it must be on the part of Watson.—Portland Sun. r KXXKiCTXK'SvSKisaoecsJKJKXifg | DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesday. German Reformed Ladies' Aid— Thursday. Mt. Pleasant Mite —Mrs. Ben Butler Success is full of promise until men get it: and then it is a last year's nest from which the bird has flown. —H. W. Beecher. Mr. and Mrs Charles Dugan have received a telegram from their daughter. Naomi, who is attending Northwestern university, that she is now a pledge of the Pi Beta Phi. This is one of the best sororities in Northwestern. and the one she has always

hoped to make, and is the one to which her room-mate Mongs. No k . doubt Billie's friends will rejoice in her good fortune. The week after 1 pledging Is filled with numerous social festivities. 3 a Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Carpenter and t family of southwest of this city had as their guests for Sunday dinner. Mrs. Carpenter's brother and wife. “ Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Estelle, of Cin '< cinnati, Ohio, and Mr. George Barnett. J The time was spent with music and [. talking about olden times. Mr. an.i . Mrs. Estell left for their home this 1 j morning. ' - Mr. and Mrs. James G. Miller of .- Warsaw, who have been here visiti mg with their son. T. E. Miller, and e wife, left for Willshire. Ohio, for a short visit before returning here. r 1 The German Reformed Lillies' Aid s society will meet Wednesday after- - noon with Mrs. Fred Reppert. Messrs. Allbody and Floyd Seabold of Fort Wayne spent Sunday with r Ruth and Alma Bowers. t Miss Lulu M. Prough of Ossian is spending the week with Miss Mar- ■ guerite Burnett and the Tern Druley I family. I The Berne Witness says: “Tne I wedding of M iss Henrietta \\ elty to Clinton A. Lehman was announced 'from the pulpit of the Mennonite I church yesterday. The marriage ceremony will be performed next Sunday i forenoon at the morning services of ! the Mennonite church. Several out-of-town guests are expected to be present. Among them will be the bride's father. Daniel Welty, and her sister, Mrs. Rose Weld: the bridegrooms brothers, G. A. and C. O. Lehman, of Bluffton. The wedding dinner will be served Sunday neon at Hotel Alpine. About twenty-five guests are invited to this wedding. Miss Welty is the youngest daughter of Daniel Welty of Los Angeles. Cal. She is well known in this community. She was bcm and reared here. At one time ste • 1 ' i the position as bookkeeper at the Bank of Berne. For the past five years she has made her home’with her parents in Los Angeles. Cal., doing the ! household work for her mother who suffered severely from asthma icr many years. Mr. C. A. Libman is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Leh- ! man of Berne. He is a graduate of the Berne high school in the class of 190 Since tlat time he lias been engaged •in the banking and publishing business. After be test high school he became bookkeeper and then teller at the Bank of Berne, which position he held till in the fall of 191 S. when he was made cashier of the Flanagan State bank at Flanacan. Hl. In the spring of 1914. he secured the padtion of manager of a branch office vt Chicago of the Loreui Publishing company of Dayton. Ohio, in which busiae-s he is still engaged. Mr. and Mrs. Lehman will make their future [ tome in Chicago, where Mr. Lehman i has prepared furnished Teems for . s bride.. The large number of friends extend the young couple their best wishes for success and happixeas in the new life which they are about to i begin” - —o — COURT HOUSE NEWS(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEtrix of the estate of Simon Traister. giving Md® bond The will of Festus A. W. Lindsey, executed February 22 1911. and wit nresed by Thomas Drew and C. M. Orismaa. was probated today. He rivts to Eis widow. Mary M Lindsey all his real and personal estate foi life. At her death it is to be equaiiy divided among the f.-Hewing children: > Wf.wsm €.. Eugene M.. Fred E.. ud Frank M. landseyY ElLabeth Fcutx r Mrs .. - isey's d'-’ - occurred ekvt: J Lays after the death of her husband

WOULD NOT DISCUSS ORDER. 5 i Washington, D. C., Mar. 16 —(L'pecr ial to Daily Democrat)—President t- Wilson today refused to discuss any phase of Great Britain's uncompromising attitude toward foreign trade. I He took the ground that until he and 1 his cabinet are in full possession of all facts they cannot decide on their , next step. The president indicated there would be no hasty action, but . would not deny that the strongest 1 sort of protest would be made to i Great Britain The president and his » cabinet planned America’s next move Two notes from the allies were under consideration. They were: The . British order in council decreeing the ■ stoppage of all trade to and from Ger--1 many, contraband or non-contraband, i even though destined for transit through neutral Italy. Holland or the Scandinavian countries. England's I curt refusal to meet the suggestion • in the “identical note’ which G“rmany in part accepted, asking a mod-1 j ification of the German submarin* I blockade in return for removal of tne, i embargo on food supplies for Ger-; many's non-combatants. An evidence !of just what this new development s I means to American business men was ' Secretary Redfield's announcement • that last week's foreign trade broke all records. The week's trade balance in America's favor will reach > $14.000,000.. ABOUT THE SICK. Mrs. Dan Haley was called io Fort Wayne this afternoon by the illness of her daughter. Mrs. Rcss Joker, wao is suffering from tubercular affection of the glands of the neck. Florence, little daughter of Mr. an! Mrs. Sol David, who has been ill four ' weeks at pneumonia, is better, but is still unable to be up. She received a box of lovely violets from her aunt. Mrs. J. A. Blew, from Diar. Alabama. Bessie, daughter of Mna. John Lahey. is ill of a severe cold and tensilitls. I I —— F J. Ferguson of Mercer avenue is confined to his bed with an acute attack of indigestion. ■i NO CLUE IS FOUND. T--t Haute, Ind. Mar. 16 —tS:-' - ial to Daily Democrat) —With no clue of value having developed over night to solve the mystery cf the flat-iron murder cf Mrs William G. Balding. ..nd two of her children, the polk? today hope that one of the three surviving children might recover sufficiently to tell something of the midnight assailant, who crushed the skull of the mother and five children. The police were inclined to credit the theory that some maniac possibly crazed by the impossibility of obtaining drugs under the new act had revenged some fancied wrong. The three surriring children were hovering between life and death. ——o - - NOTICE We sre. prepared to charge your automobile storage batteries ca short notice. Charges reasonable. 50U2 PETER KIRSCH 0 SAME A3 RENT. Seven room honse on Eta street, and one on Adams. Small -aynaent eash. ERWIN i MICHAVD LOST—Small bh»ck purse near G»a-Zt-imsrmaa home, east of town. Costa ... j $4 in btlls and some small ■- change. F ader please return to th*s ej office, or call 'phone 492. 56t*» . WANTED—A man of good repute that r is thc-rougaly acquainted with the ■ farming commsnity to represent as . in sellinc the best metal post on the d market. Fer -particulars apply in pert. sen to J. Savesky Sons Company, fill u West Second Si.. Marie®. Indian* L 'pacne 2316. 6*12

DEAD MAI[ VOTES Everything from the Dead to Vacant Lots Registered at Terre Haute. SHARP REBUKE GIVEN Defense When Political Questions Are Brought Into the Trial. Indiauapolls. March 16,— (Special to Daily Democrat)—Even the dead a» well as vacant lots w»re re gistered as , legal voters prior to the recent elee- , tion according to Silas M Brewer, pia!na man. who made a personal canvass 1 of the voters in A of the 4th ward, i He testified today in the trial of the 28 politicians charged with conspiring to corrupt the election. Brewer said he got the list of alleged voters from the registration list in the county auditor's office. He said on the list was the name of O. N Hamilton. 707 North 11th street who bore the registration number 41. Brewer said his investigation showed Hamilton had been dead a year and that even the house had been moved. When some of the defendants in the government probe of the situation failed to appear in court today federal judge Anderson declared that he would forfeit the bonds of any of the 28 defendants if they failed at any time to be In court without an adequate excuse. Joe Straus, whiskey salesman a defendant failed to respond when his name was called Some of the other defendants said he was ill. Others were absent with the appearance of men? Terre Haute gamblers in the witness room In the federal building it w*s thought the government was preparing to prove its charge that the gamblers "kicked in" tor a slush fund in return for police protection. Among those were Jimmie She*. Bert Shea. Mike Sweeney. Walter Roach. Cop Burns who ran a tig keno game in the west end and Charlie Murphy An attempt of Congrts*<.an A O. Stanley who 3 Don Roberts' counsel tn the government election prone to inject politics into the ease today, resulted in a rebuke from Judge Anderson. Stanley tried to connect cne witness with the republican party. 'I object to the question as this is not a political case. " said District Attorney Dailey. “What difference does it make whether a niah is a democrat republican or progressive, ts he is corrupt ?“* "I differ," said Stanley. ‘ I think polities has something to do with it" "Pohtk s has nothing to ao with this 'iff. Any attempt to inject politics into it will be s'op-ped immediately.” said Jpdgr Anderson Stanley started to speak, but wns interrupted "I do act want to hear anjr tiling more of politics tn this case do you unders'aadt” the court said. When .the government introduced the origin*! restraining order of Judge Cox to prevent Roberts' men from Interfering with election boards there was another scene. "The government will prove that Roberts tpld ais henchmen not to pay any attention to this order” said Dailey. “Where is this taking place, in Indiana*" asked the erwrt. “No. in Terre Haute.” said Dailey. “I never heard anything like it m my life." said Anderson.” o CHRISTIAN CHURCH. I II ■ All members of the Christian chunk, as well as all attendants at charth and Sunday school, and the.i ■ fr. r.is are requested to meet at tht churve at 6:59 o'clock tonight it march in a body to tne tabernac'.t serv.<es. BENJ. BORTON. I j Pastor.

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