Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 68, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1915 — Page 2

DAIL YJD EMO C RAT Published Evary Evaninfl Except Sunday by f|E DECATUB DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier *6 00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the poetoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. The city of Elwood will observe Welfare Week March 24 to 26, with Prof. Floyd Davis of the Wisconsin University Extension Department as lecturer and director. Elwood is the first city in Indiana to procure the services of an expert to make a survey of the city and direct the work of civic improvement and the experiment will be watched with much interest by other cities over the state. At the St. Mary’s church in this city and in every Catholic church throughout this and other nations, tomorrow morning a prayer for peace in the countries where the terrible war is devastating the land and causing untold and unknown sorrows is a worthy movement, showing the true Christian spirit and the prayer of every person will join with them. May God hear and answer the millions of prayers which will be made tomorrow. In concluding his services for the Democratic Editorial Association of Indiana, Lew G. Ellingham advises the workers and the editors and all others interested in the cause of democracy to "Get up on their toes,” and organize. He praises the work of the legislature and shows the many good things that democrats can be and ought to be proud of. The democrats have a good record notwithstanding the effort being made to find fault with every official and a careful study of what has been done will result in a verdict in their favor by the voters of Indiana. There is a sentiment just now for that boys’ and girls’ gymnasium we have talked about and boosted for so long. The right man or woman at the head of this project could put it over in a few days. Have you ever stopped to think about the importance of this ide* and what it would mean to you to know that your boy or girl is in a clean, healthy and well-ventilated place, enjoying themselves in good company, with good surroundings, and under the leadership of a high-class instructor who teaches them how to help their bodies, physically, thus strengthening them for any battle of life? It would be the best investment the community could make. In all the contemporary mourning over the real loss to the senate through the retirement of Root and Burton, it must not be forgotten that they are out of it because they lacked faith in the brains and sense of the

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average voter. If they had had that faith, they would not have' feared misjudgment at a popular election. This same lack has been i* cardinal defect in the make up of a lot of our "statesmen” in recent years, especially among the republicans. They think that the people must be coddled, nattered, bribed, and managed, and they get down to what is thought to be the popular level in order to do it. It is one of the eternal lessons of Lincoln’s life that he had faith and that he kept it to the end. —Colliers. DOINGS IN SOCIETY ; WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR Sat: rt'ay. Stanard Bearers' Supper—Office Monroe Reporter. Ben Hur Pastry Sale —Gas Office. Decatur friends of Mary Roberts Rhinehart, the novelist, whom they have come to know through her series in the Saturday Evening Post ; .id other current magazines, will be surprised and pleased to hear that rite is back again from the war zc.ie, where she went a short time ago to get material for her stories. She is a nurse by profession and the wife of a Pittsburg surgeon, but devotes much of her time to writing. A New York dispatch says: “Mrs. Mary Roberts Rhinehart, who went *p Belgium »o write impressions of the war, is back In New York. She met King Albert, obtained royal permission to visit the trenches and was under fire of German aeroplanes when in Dunkirk. Mrs. Rhinehart said General Fociis showed her a spot where 70,000 French soldiers fell near Ypres. She estimates the French are holding 400 miles of battle front and the English forty miles.” Mr. and Mrs. Asa McMillen of Pleasant Mills will be over Sunday guests of D. B. Erwin and family. A reunion of the family of Mrs. Katharine Thompson will be held tomorrow at the Wid Dorwin home, this being the celebration of the seventysecond birth anniversary of Mrs. Thompson. Miss Fraykne Thompson, who is at home from Calgary, Canada, came a week ago to attend the party and visit here a month. The Misses Ellen Jaberg, Elma Manus and Hattie Bauers of Magi ay were guests of Mrs. Sarah Jaberg anl attended the tabernacle services. John Stiverson of Rockford, Ohio, is here visiting with his daught ?r, Mrs. W. O. Bigham, and family. Mrs. Anna Williams Malott and son, Charles, of Ridgeville will spend Sunday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Williams. They come also to attend the tabernacle services. o USED A BEER OPENER.

Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —How Joe Kelly, one of the eighty-eight confessed conspirators in the Terre Haute election corruption case lifted his finger, manipulating a voting machine for repeaters and then substituted a beer opener with which to turn down democratic keys, was told today. "What, you used a beer opener on election day?” continued District Attorney Dailey. Kelly also told how “the boys” fooled the paymaster of the conspiracy in Precinct B of the Sixth ward. “I ran out of white cards used for vouchers for repeaters and bjgan using cigarette coupons. Pretty soon I found the boys were adding a lot of their own coupons for vouchers and we had to quit them.” Kelly is known as the "man who short-changed Chappie Moran,” an international crook and confidence man. He is one of the most famed characters of the Terre Haute tenderloin. In order to establish the claim of the government that Roberts misused the United States mall to further the conspiracy to steal the election, Dailey today asked Judge Anderson to send Elmer Conover, red light bar tender and confessed conspirator, to his Terre Haute home, where Conover said he had a letter written him by Roberts. • -o — ELOPED TO MICHIGAN, Evading their friends and relatives, Miss Georgia Longenecker, residing on Nuttman street of this city, and Samuel Kuntz, a young farmer residing east of Geneva, eloped to Centerville, Mich., Thursday, were married at that place and returned to this city last evening. The young couple will reside on a farm east of Geneva. o . PIANO TUNING—High class work, strictly guaranteed. Orders left at Gay, Zwick & Myers will receive prompt attention.—Harry Sawyer, Ft Wayne, Ind. 240m-t-tf

THE COURT NEWS Judge Smith Returns From Bluffton —Court Matters Taken Up Here. NEW SUITS FILED J. L. Gay Qualifies as Administrator of Mary J. Magner Estate. Marriage licenses were issued to Ira Smith, farmer, born September 15, 1892, son of Ira Smith, to wed Esther Florence Straub, born December 24, 1896, daughter of Charles Straub; also to Clinton Arnold Lehman, of Chicago, business manager of publishing concern, born April 18, 1888, son of Japhet F. Lehman, to wed Henriette I. Welty, of Berne, born July 20, 1885, daughter of Daniel Welty. In the estate of Newton Stevens inventory number one was filed and approved. A petition to sell personal property on shorter notice than required by statute, was sustained and public sale ordered for March 30. Louis Kreutzmann vs. Chicago & Erie railroad, a motion was made by the defendant to strike out a portion of the complaint. Adalbert E. Sparrow vs. Erie Stone Co. Bill of exceptions by defendant filed, signed, sealed and ordered made a part of the record herein. John P. Baker vs. John P. Brown, demurrer to complaint.

The cause of Fannie Newiscombe vs. Mattie C. Young, set for trial today, was continued. Earl D. Honugh et al. vs. Daniel C. Shannon et al. A decree of quiet title was entered for the plaintiff, and the clerk is ordered to make a transcript of record. C. L. Walters was appointed commissioner to make deed, and this deed was reported and approved. A judgment for costs was entered for the plaintiff. Shafer Pe' r son was appointed guardian ad lit r for Forest Pepe, a minor, and answered for him. Attorney D. B. Erwin filed a suit on note for the Old Adams County Bank vs. Martin Gerke et al. A Polish young lady stenographer from Fort Wayne, speaking several different languages, was here to serve as interpreter for Joe Burrege and wife, who are held on the charge of selling liquor illegally. They are the ones arrested near Bobo recently. Real estate transfers: Abraham Beer et al. to Noah D. Schwartz, 20 acres, Monroe tp., $2900; U. S..patent deed to William Lewis, 10 acres, Washington tp., sl. The final report of William S. Welty, guardian of Bertha Ann Welty, was approved and the guardian discharged. The current report of Lena Craig, guardian of Earl J. Craig, was approved and the trust continued. Enos D. Lehman, guardian of Elizabeth Lehman, filed inventory whi h was approved. J. L. Gay took out letters of administration on the estate of Mary J. Magner. He gave $1,400 bond. The late Fred Lullaman gives a life estate on all his real and personal property to liis wife, Anna. At her death the real estate is to be equally divided among their children: Jutia Scheumann, Lizzie Buuck, Herman and Martin Conrad. E H. Stopehagend and Mr. Schuricht were witnesses to the will which was written March 12, 1915. Heller, Sutton & Heller filed a suit on judgment, demand S3OO, for The Bruce Sewing Machine Company vs. F. V. Studler. —— o " - ANDERSON GETS Y. M. C. A. Anderson, Ind., Mar. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—James A. J. Brin.', one of the oldest bankers in Madison county, today announced a gift of $125,000 toward the establishment of aY. M C. A. building here. Jack Brunt, as he is known, is probably the richest man in the county. “I only know that 1 want to help the boys,” said Brunt. o— FOR SALE —S. C. Rhode Island Red eggs, from good stock, 50c per 15.— J. L. Kocher, 516 Adams St. 66t3

IS WORLD’S GREATEST CHOIR Cathedral of Alexander Nevoakl, in Petrograd, Said to Hava Flneat Body of Singers. In many departments Russia has proved herself the greatest of all countries. Her dancers are the world’s finest, her novelists are certainly among the world’s greatest novelists, her Cossacks —ask the Austrians ! — are the world's fiercest fighters. She also possesses the world’s fin est choir. This is in the cathedral of Alexander Nevoski, in Petrograd, and is attached to a convent erected in honor of the patron saint of Russia. It consists of about thirty members, all monks, chosen from the best singers in all the Russian monasteries. Their voices are amazingly sweet and strong, and every member of the choir can, it is said, shatter an ordinary glass into fragments merely by singing into it, so powerful are the vibrations of each voice. These monks are trained as rigorously as any opera singer, and whole duty at the monastery is to assist at the music at mass in the morning and vespers in the afternoon. When too old for service they are retired on pensions. Unlike most monks, they are exceedingly fastidious about their appearance, and every night put up their hair and whiskers in paper.— Montreal Herald. SLIGHT CHANGE IN WORDING Wherein Wife’s Letters to Husband Differed From Those That She Received From Him. This little story was told by Congressman William H. Murray of Oklahoma the other evening, when the conversation turned to the letters that the old man writes to absent wifey in the good old summer time. Recently two women were busily knitting scarfs and things for the soldiers, when one of them casually referred to a summer visit she had made to the mountains. “That makes me think,” was the smiling response of the other. “What kind of letters does your husband write you when you are away on your summer trips?” “He always -writes very affectionately,” answered the first, pausing to see if she had dropped any stitches. “He invariably begins with ‘My precious treasure,’ and ends by sending me his love.” “Very beautiful,” was the smiling comment of the first. “I suppose you answer in the same loving vein?” “With a slight variation,” reflectively replied the first. “I start my letter with ‘My precious treasurer,’ and end by asking him to send me $lO.” —Philadelphia Telegraph. Potato Flour. Experiments carried out by a Danish medical man seem to show that potato flour, which is now largely used for breadmaking in Germany, has strong nutritious properties. In order to prove that albumen is not essential to the maintenance of tbe human system. Doctor Hindhede has since 1895 lived for months at a stretch on potatoes for his staple diet, flavored only occasionally with butter and milk. He further induced his gardener, Frederick Madsen, to live on potatoes for 300 days at a stretch, his average consumption being nine pounds a day. During the experimental period Madsen was so closely watched that his master can vouch that he tasted no other food, yet the diet left him stronger than he had ever been. But what a life!

Beautiful Ypres. The old Belgian city of Ypres, which has suffered much destruction at the hands of the Germans, was at one time one of the most flourishing cities in West Flanders, with a population of almost 200,000. Like other ancient cities of Belgium, it has many architectural and artistic reminders of its past greatness in its Cloth hall, Guild halls, and churches, the burghers’ houses, many of which have now been laid in ruins by German guns. The Cloth hall, which was commenced in the year 1200, and took a century to build, has a beautiful far cade 120 yards in length; while there are also the Meat hall, the Cathedral of St. Martin, and a number of fine old houses with the wooden facades Flemish architects were so fond of. Men's Ankles. Another reform the war should bring about touches the ankles of men. Who would have thought Londoners to be so good looking as are these recruits —all of them—as they go by? It is not the color, for khaki is not flattering; it is not the cap, though that is decidedly becoming; it is chiefly or entirely the putties. These restore to the figure of man its shape, its spring, its poise, its distinction. Why not take heart of grace and abolish the tube trousers for good and all?—London Chronicle. Tiflis. Tiflis, which the czar has been Visiting, and terming “a pearl of the Russian \Crown, ’ was described by Mr. Janies Bryce some forty years since as “a human melting pot, a city of contrasts and qjixtures, into which elements have been poured from half Europe and Asia, and in which they as yet show no signs of combining.” The description holds good today, for there are said to be 70 languages spoken in the streets of the ancient city by representatives of as many nationalities.

SAYING GOOD-BYE s ■ (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) idency, and also printing false alarms about a score of candidates for the governorship nomination and publish ing broadcast fake lists of repeniten's and returning progressives. This is being done for the sinister mo'tive of scattering hope and courage among the republicans of the state. It is being done for the purpose of creating an atmosphere of hope and to encour age the republicans of the state into the belief that this is the day and Nie hour for them to make hay. The democrats will lose much by a little lethargy at this time. There is no reason or excuse for any honest progressive casting his political fortune with the standpat republican party. No matter if there are a few new faces it is the same old stand-pat game played by the same old stand-pat crowd, and played in the same old way. Thousands upon thousands of the earnest progressives never will return to them. They «ill join the democratic party because that party more nearly represents the things they believe in and are living for, than does the republican party. In order to claim this vote the democratic party must in no way go se°d. They must show that life that draws added strength and vigor. They must be up and doing. n —’ BURIAL MONDAY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) came very peacefully and sweetly. Mr. Heuer wa£ born in Wittlage, Hanover, Germany, May 11, 18-14. When six years of age he came with his parents and three brothers to this country, settling in Fort Wayne in 1850, and while the town was still in it infancy. There his father and two brothers died of the cholera plague. The surviving brother, William, died later at the Heuer home in Root township, to which the subject of this sketch later moved. He was married January 4, 1872, to Louise Christianer. The six children born to them are all living: They are: Sophia, at home; Fred, the druggist, of this city: Herman, living on the farm west of this city; John, at home; Mrs. Henry Franz, Fort Wayne; Theodore, at home. There are two brothers —Gv.s and Martin Christianer, Lincoln, Neb., and a sister, Mrs. Sophia Hobrock, of this city. Card of Thanks. The family of the late Henry Heuer takes this way of expressing their thanks to all who assisted them so kindly during the illness and at the time of death of their father. ■ ——l>. NOTICE TO LIGHT CONSUMERS City light and power bills are now due. Penalty if not paid on or before the 20th. Payable at city treasurer’s office. Call ’phone 225 for any information regarding your bill. 59tlQ

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We have installed one of the r latest and most efficient I Generators I FOR Charging Storage Batteries HOLTHOUSE S GARAGE Buildings For Sale Up to and including April Ist. the undersigned will recieve sealed bids for the two frame buildings located on the west side of Second street and occupied by the Lose & Schrank barber shop and the Corbett cigar store. Bids will be recieved seperately or on the two together. The barber shop building can be taken away at once and the Corbett building as soon as vacated. The buildings have been ordered taken out by the fire commissioner. E. X. EHINGER At Old Adams County Bank. MM*.-< ■» - —m. M I in !■ . —■— FOR SALE—Fresh cow. Call Geo. FOR SALE—Six-foot show case. ApZimmerman, 14-J, or R. R. 9. 56t3* ply at Clarence Baughmon store. 67*3 ADAMS COUNTY BOYS We want every boy in Adams County, between the age of ten and eighteen years in our FIRST CORN CONTEST To do so we offer $35,00 IN CASH PRIZES For the best acres of corn grown in the county during the season of 1915. We are doing this to interest the boys of the county in farm work and in raising a better quality and larger yield of corn and we propose to offer Ist. prize Trip Pursue Corn Show, or $25.00 in Gold 2nd. prize $17.50 i n Gold 3rd - “ $12.50 in Gold 4th - “ SIO.OO in Gold sth-6th-7th—Bth— prizes each $5.00 in Gold The corn must be grown in Adams County during season of 1915 by boys between ages ten and eighteen years 1 urther details and rules governing the contest will be announced before April Ist. WATCH FOR THIS The Peoples Loan & Trust Co. Decatur, Indiana