Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 70.

CLOSED TODAY jtewis “Cull" Whipple ClosI eil Portland Drug Store Rather Than GO TO THE JAIL Was Convicted of Operating Blind Tiger—Sold Store and it Reopened. Portland, Ind.. Mar. 23—(Special to r Daily Democrat)—Rather than go to jail for thirty days, Lewis “Cull” Whipple, of Portland, formerly of Decatur, closed his drug store at Portland at 9 o’clock this morning. Whipple was convicted a few days ago of operating

a “blind tiger.” Whipple's fine of SSO and a jail sentence of thirty days was withheld by the court on the recommendation of the jury which found him guilty, provided he closed his store. The store was sold to Prank Alberson, who reopened it for business last Saturday. Calling attorneys for the state and also Mr. Whipple into court at nine o'clock yesterday morning, like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, Judge J. F. Denny issued an ultimatum that affected the future of the drug store. He announced to the interested attorneys that his attention had been called to the fact that the store was being operated again. “Without casting any reflection on the new owner, or proprietor of the store," said the court, “<t is enough for me to know that the store is again being operated in the same location. Mr. Whipple will have just twenty-four hours to close this place of business. Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock if the place is still open the verdict of the jury in the trial <>f| Mr. Whipple will be ordered execut a 1 H and the motion for a new trial, action on which is withheld will be taken.” Without giving attorneys opportunity to answer Judge Denny instructed attorneys interested in the trial of another case to “call a witness.” Whipple claims that the sale of the store to Alberson is bona fide and that he is entirely out of the drug business, merely renting the ooom to Alberson. Among the final remarks of Judge Denny yesterday was the announcement that he does not mtend his court to be trifled with. Whether the drug store will be removed to another location or not was not known this morning, as the store had merely been closed and no action taken in moving it.

K =2— I — ——t < MKS. McCOMBE AND HER WORK |;

•'The best-laid plans o’ mice and men, Gang aft a-gley.” b We trust that Rev. J. H. McCombe; that ardent Irishman will forgive our. | quotation from Scotch Bobbie Burns,. but in spite of our love lor Irish Poet, | Tom Moore, there is nothing lie said that so aptly fits the situation, as (hat one quotation from Scotch Bobbie. E. You see Mr. McCombe, as Cupid came . along and up-set the plans of her who f is now Mrs. McCombe and that is why she is now one of the beloved work®«rs in the Honeywell evangelistic par-; ty now’ working in this city. Mrs. Me--Combe said, recently in speaking to the business women, of their ambitions: “Sometimes our plans do not i always work out as we had outlined f? them. You know, I had intended to C’ be a missionary to China, but Mr. McBjCombe came along and up-set my plans and now I am doing home-miss- . ionary work instead of foreign missH'lonary work.” And the people of Decatur will cerjß tainly always feel grateful to Mr. Me-1 1 Combe for giving them the privilege of I |b the inspiration and help that his wile, E has afforded them during her stay K here, w’hich could not have been great Eer had F h e gone abroad to labor with ■ the heathen in a far country. So | many have expressed the fact that it E dotes them good “just to see Mrs. M< - | Combe’s smile” for she is an unusual- | ly cheery body, and you just can t | help feeling that her religion must be ' a good religion, indeed, that shines [ forth in the countenance, as does I hers. And it peeps out just as bright- [ ly in her every act and deed. Hers is ; a busy life indeed, as she is in charge ; of the women’s work in the Honeywell party. This includes the women s mass meetings, the personal work cir- ! cles, the prayer meeting department and the business women's department. Each one of these is thoroughly or-

DECATUR. DAILY DEMOCRAT

RAID A "BEER PARTY." A raid on a beer party on Ninth street last night about 9 o'clock is alleged to have been made by three well known and highly respected women of the. city. It is said that fifteen or twenty men of the city were found in the house and that a keg was the plebian form that the “flowing bowl” renowned in poetry and song, took In this instance, it is said the house which belongs to a couple had been closed for the winter while they were away. The man is said to have come home and the frolic of last night, in which so many participated, was doubtless a house-warming. RECORDSJROKEN For Church Gatherings at Ossian When Honeywell

Party Arrived. 1 CHURCH WAS FILLED And Enthusiasm Was Genuine—Probability Party Will go There in June. Far beyond expectations was the 1 I assembly gathered at the Methodist ’ church at Ossian last evening. Some said it was surprising, others said it was wonderful, but Mr. McCombe and i. , his associate members of the party I . declared it was the greatest demon-[< stration they have ever witnessed in a town the size of Ossian. Even an , hour before the arrival of the party,l the large churcli was overflowing, and i •j hundreds were unable to get any far-,' ther than the porch of the church. At the appearance a tremendous ap-j plause broke out and lasted several 1 minutes. Th(,v have found friends in and around Ossian, as well as Decatur and we will have to watch them or the folks west of town will run away , with our evangelistic party The j choir and orchestra had been enter-1 taining the anxious throng, but they.' like the people of this community, are ' always ready to hear from Mr. Clase and the rest of the party, either n sermons or in songs and selections ny the quartet, followed by duets by Mr. and Mrs. Clase and Mr. McCombe and Mr. Clase., met witli the approval of , every person in flie church. On request the quartet sang, “What Did (Continued on Page 4.) ' "" " ~~l

1 ganized. The personal workers are, i thoroughly instructed, and there are i 1 special talks and works for them; 1 1 then the morning prayer meetings in 1 . ■ the many districts and the business | ( i women’s conferences and luncheons; ! the Sunday afternoon sermons for wo- i * ' men, and —many other things keep her .: busy indeed. Besides this, Mrs. Me-, < Combe takes a part in the vocal mus- j 1 ic, in quartet and other work. 1 : Mrs. McCombe is a native of Canada.; t She was'born in Toronto, one of the p four children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J i Crouch, who are both of English birth. 1 ;She was. greatly bereaved this sum-JI mer in the death of her only sister.: < • Several of her English cousins also 11 'were among those first to fall for 1 their country In the European war. |i Her father and mother were both : earnest Christians and leaders in the i church and as a result all their child- ]i ren were brought into the church in j. childhood. Mrs. McCombe united ( i with the churcli at the age of ninej’ years. Some of her earliest and most; i precious memories, those which have | i greatly influenced her life, are those of | ' the evening family worship conducted | by her parents. Mrs. McCombe volunteered for missionary work at the Y’oung People’s Missinary Movement Conference at Silver Bay, N. Y., in July of 1907. Her special training for the work has been a thorough one, including a course at the Dtewson school, Toronto, Canada, besides doing missionary educational work, teaching and speaking at summer schools and winter institu- ■ tes in Ontario. She has also had ; voice training under two instructors • in Toronto. Her evangelistic work I has covered a period of five years—i three in Canada with her husband. - Rev. J. H. McCombe and his brother, l Rev. C. Jeff McCombe, also with the Rev. J. E. Honeywell party with whom j - she is completing the second season.

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

DID NOT ELECT Decatur Merchants’ Association Postponed the Election of Officers FOR TWO WEEKS A Banquet Will Then be Given by Them—Business Matters Discussed. About thirty business men were present last evening at the regular meeting of the Decatur Merchants’ association held at the public library and after a few matters had been taken care of it was agreed unanimously

to postpone the election of officers which was to have taken place. It was then voted that the association give a banquet some time within the next two weeks at which time the annual election of officers would take place. The place of holding the banquet or the exact date on which it would be held was not set, but a committee composed of Lee Vance, J. Kocher and Horace Callow, was appointed to look after all the details connected with the giving of the feast. After this matter was disposed of, ' plans for the summer campaign for business was talked of and a number 'cf suggestions offered by the mon I present. The meeting adjourned with the understanding that every merchant i was to be present at the banquet. toworldFfair Two Excursions From This Section Will Be Conducted By Portland Men BURLINGTON ROUTE Stop-overs at Yellowstone Park, Seattle, Salt Lake City and Other Places S. S. Stratton of Portland was here last evening and completed arrange- , ments with Mr. James Rupel, presi- • dent ot the People’s Loan & Trust

Company, to act as agent for Stratton & Praigg the latter the editor of the Portland Commercial Review. They will have charge of two excursions from this section to the world’s fair now in progress at San Francisco, representing the Burlington route for eastern Indiana and western Ohio. The excursions will be run on June 2lst. and August 9th, and from the number of inquiries already coming in it is likely that a. large number will take advantage of this opportunity to make a 7,000 mile trip, the entire cost being $195. and the only additional expense is for meals a part of the time. The special train will go through here over the G. R. & I. to Fort Wayne, thence over the Pennsylvania to Chicago. From there the party goes to Minneapolis for a day, then to Yellow Stone park for six days, then spend a day at Spokane, Seattle and Portland, Oregon. From there to San Francisco the trip can be made by boat or jail. After six days at the fair the party goes to Santa Cruz, where the big trees are, spends a day at Los Angeles and another at San Diego and returns Via Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs, Denver and Chicago. The fare me’j j tioned above includes the meals dur- | ing the Yellow Stone park trip and the boat trip. It will be a delightful thirty day trip and if you are interested you can secure any further information de sired by seeing Mr. Rupel. o ————— LAWSON POPEJOY IS DEAD. Lawson Popejoy, one of the best known farmers of Weils county, died Sunday morning at his home in Harrison township, after an illness of one week from pneumonia. He was born in 1838 in Fayette county, Ohio, and had lived in Wells county seventy-five years. He figured in a big law suit which was twice tried here some years ago and which attracted considerable attention. The funeral services were conducted this afternoon.

• MURDERER CONFESSES Indianapolis, March 23,—(Special to Daily Democrat) —When Vernle Lewis confessed Terre Haute flat iron murderer of the Balding family was seen today he gave a new reason for his deed. He said he met with an accident in the mine where he was working five months ago in which the back of his head was crusher. "Since then my head has hurt and often 1 have wanted to kill some one" he said. "I crept into the house that night just to see Mrs. Balding and didn't want to hurt any one but when I got there my head began hurting and when I saw the flat iron the idea suddenly came to kill the whole family and I did it." An examination cf his head showed that it had been crushed as described. Today's statement gave additional information on the relationship between Lewis and Mrs. Balding. o A FLY’S WEIGHT

t 1 Plays Funny Part in Weighing of Strychnine by the Druggist. SETTLED IN THE PAN I Os Scales and Made “Grain ’ Just Twice as Large as it Should be. It is the little thing in life that counts. But we don’t always realise that. The little thing is that which counts especially with the druggist, with whom even a hair's-breadth of difference might mean life or death especially when dealing with dangerous drugs. A Decatur druggist had a novel experience with a fly. Now a fly is considered a dangerous thing, but not often would the weight of a fly, as far as weight itself goes, make much difference to the average person. But on a fly’s weight, hangs the druggists’s story. The druggist was weighing out a grain of strychnine. Now there are about 420 grains in an ounce, and when you realize that in one grain of strychnine, there are sixty doses, you may realize the very great part that the “littleness” plays in this Instance. The druggist weighed out the poison and was astonished to find the pile

rolling up very large on the pan opposite the one in which the grain weight lay. He looked in the weight pan and saw a large fly had settled there with the grain weight, making the weight jusj about twice as heavy as ordinarily. That would have meant a double dose of strychnine for the taker, and while it probably wouid not have meant death, it would have made the results somewhat serious. POSTAGE REDUCTION. Postmaster J. W. Bosse is in receipt of the March postal bulletin in which the government announces a reduction of postage on letters between the United States and British Honduras. Letters mailed to the United States in British Honduras may be sent for one cent an ounce or fraction thereof; those mailed in the United States to British Honduras require one cent an ounce or fraction thereof. Shortage in postage will demand the collection on delivery of double the shortage. o————— THE STORK’S STOP. A fine girl baby was born last evening to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kauffman. This is the second girl and child in the family. The babe has been named Sara Jane; Miss Melvin of Fort Wayne is the trained nurse attending them. Friends here of Mrs. Marie KintzBishop, wife of Carl Bishop, of Colum bus, Ohio, have received announcement of the birth of an eight-pound boy, Paul Edwin, to them last Friday. Mrs. Bishop is a daughter of Justice of the Peace and Mrs. G. F. Kintz. o PRAYER MEETING NOTICE. The members of the prayer meeting district of Ward 3, District 3, Section A, of which Mrs. E. S. Christen is capi tain, will meet this evening at 6:45 at ■ the P. G. Hooper home to march in a body to the tabernacle services.

WAS BIG SUCCESS 1 9 Bluffton Tabernacle Meet- ' ings Closed Sunday With 650 New Converts. !RESULTS ARE GIVEN t i i Collection for Rev. Stevens , Amounted to $1865.18 — Other Expenses SI2OO. —— —< Evangelist Stevens, a nephew of [ James Hurst of this city, has just completed a five weeks’ campaign at Bluffton and as many Decatur people are , interested in the outcome, we give the following from the Bluffton News: Length of campaign—Five weeks.

New converts —650. Contribution to Stephens—sl,B6s.lß. Other expenses, estimate —$1,200. Note —Evangelist Stevens, at the closing service, announced that new converts totaled between 600 and 700, and today 650 was given as the total. He explains that in counting converts he does not figure in his net results for the church the number of already active church members who had gone forward during the meetings. He said > there were about 500 such church members at the Bluffton tabernacle services. Evangelists usually count these on their total of conversions; thus the net result of the tabernacle services here would be about 1,150 conversions as they are usually counted. BOOK In Your Library is the Bible So Said Abraham Lincoln and Many Other Men. HAVE YOU ONE? Whether You Have or Not! You Should Have One Now Being Offered. Many and various are the amusing stories attributed to Abraham Lincoln, and like all good story-tellers he be- > came the butt of many funny yarns.

himself. It is told of him that at on,; of his early public receptions a man came up and shook his hand. The man proved to be his shirtmaker, but Lincoln did not recognize him, and told him so. > “Oh,” said the man, “I made your shirts.” In the noise and confusion, Lincoln did not exactly understand him, but with his usual desire to make everybody feel welcome he turned to his secretary, who stood near, and said: [ “Here, Mr. Hay, I want you to meet Major Shurtz." It was sometime before Mr. Lincould could be made to understand that the man did not claim to be Major Shurtz, but that he had said, “I made your shirts,” which sounds very much the same. It was Lincoln who said that the most important book in the library is the Bible. Lincoln was a great student, and much of his learning came from what we term “every day” books. The Bible is one of them, and now that The Democrat offers such an opportunity, everybody in Decatur shomd get the New Illustrated Bible. See the display anouncements from day to day and you will at once recognize the necessity for coming into possession of one of these beautiful volumes. Then turn to the certificate on another page of this issue and you will find out just how you can get this magnificent work on practically your ■ own terms. Don’t lose another minuta—they are ■ going fast. Clip the certificate and I present it with five others. RECEIVE INSURANCE CHECKS. S. E. Brown, of the Yeoman Iddge, has received insurance checks for beneficiaries therein. One was a 5 check for $793 on the policy carried by 1 the late Mrs. Henry Stevens. The other was for $79.12, payable to Mrs. t Alice Whitcomb, for injuries received » several weeks ago when her arm was broken in a fall,

I| TABERNACLE PROGRAM. Tuesday, March 23. 7:15 —Evening Sermon. District prayer meeting delegations will meet ■ at respective districts and march to library, then in body to tabernacle. Wednesday, March 24. 9:30 —Men's prayer meeting. 10:00 —Cottage prayer services. 2:15 —Afternoon Services. 7:15 —Evening Service. Bible classes of county invited. Thursday, March 25. 9:3o—Men’s prayer meeting. 10:00 —Cottage prayer meetings. 2:15 —Afternoon Service. In honor of "Home and Mother.” 7:ls—Evening Service. Men’s parade. AGED LADY DEAD Mrs. Polly Barrone Succumbed to Alments of Old Age

Monday Evening AT HOME OF SON On Nuttman Street—Had Been Confined to Bed for Months. The hand of death again made its presence known in this city last evening at 6 o’clock when Mrs. Polly Bar rone succumbed to the infirmities of old age and complications at the home of her son, William J. Barrone, residing on Nuttman street, and at which place she had been making her home since September, 1912. Mrs. Barrone had been in very poor health for several months and it was known by' the relatives and friends that-her death was but a matter of time. Mrs. Barrone was born in Pennsylvania April 29, 1829, her maiden name, being Polly Brown. In 1847 she was united in marriage to Michael Barrone and the couple settled in Monroeville, Allen county. To this union were born eleven children, four of whom with the father preceded the mother in death. Those still living are: Levi, of Payne., Ohio; Isaac F., of Fort Wayne; George | W„ of Monroeville; William J., of this I city; Mrs. Charlotte Ebersole, of Co-i lumbia City; Mrs. Mary C. Clark qf j California, and Amos S. Barrone of Little Rock, Ark. The deceased is also survived bv fifty-one grandchildren, thirty greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. After the husband's death , jJanuary 1, 1894, Mrs. Barrone contln-j

ued to reside at the home in Monroeville until about three years ago, >when her failing health and old age made it necessary to come to this city and make her home with her son. The funeral party will leave this city tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock for Monroeville at which place funeral services will be held at 10:30. Interment will be made in the Monroeville cemetery.

| PROF. CLASE, THE CHOIR LEADER

Seldom a day passes in our lives ; < that we do not hear of or come in i contact with some great person. < some one who has made a name for • i themselves through years of faithful ; work. And of couse when we think ; of a famous man, we consider his; life both early and late and very frequently find that in his early life he ; was a real, old-fashioned "bare-foot boy with cheeks of tan,” with the • marks of the pure and simple life oi the country in his face. Mr. I’lase was not born in the country, but a good share of his early life was spent with his parents on their • farm. His birthplace was Gallon. 0.. ■ and his parents, William H. Clase i and Ida Keeler-Clase, brought their I boy up in the truest and most faithi ful, godly way possible. Both being • earnest church workers they taught their son to love and serve our heavj enly Father, as best they knew how. 1 After spending three years in the public schools at Galion, Harold C. Clase moved with his parents to the farm and it was in the country school that he received his early education, gradi, uating from the grades at the age of r thirteen. Two years later he took i up teaching in a district school and t after four years of successful teach- - ing he entered college. It was in col- ' . lege that he began the development I of the work he is now carrying out. 1 3 Carrying the hardest subjects lie i could find In college he met with sue- <

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SONG OF GERMANS t o In Marches—Very Touching and Clean—Begin With . God in Morning 5 AND END WITH GOD When Dark Comes—lnteresting Letter from Germany Received. Another letter from Madame Seibier de Ferry, granddaughter of the late Grandma Ferry, has been received by Mrs. Minnie Orvie O'Brien and will be read with interest here. The letter follows:

Strasburg, Germany, _Feb. 9, 'ls. My Dear Minnie: —Your two welcome letters are before me. 1 haven't had time or should have answered before; also the enclosed pictures cf John and the one taken together pleased me ever so much. I think your wedding picture will come through all right now. Only put it well between cardboard or something hard so it will not bend, and leave it open. Your new home looks so nice and cozy. The flowers on all the American homes make them look so comfortable and “happy like” and I am ever so glad to hear you like Marion and the people. 1 received a very nice picture of Grandma and a note saying Grandma was quite well. The picture being taken on her one hundredth birthday is very interesting and I think one of the best she ever had. Every one who sees it will not believe that she is one hundred years old. I am sure she misses you some times. It must delight her when you go to see her. It seems our letters go through now, but they take some time, probably over Genoa, Italy ; —otherwise our other neighbors would take pleasure in destroying them. Did I tell you Clinton had been ill? Was three weeks in the Lazarett in Dienze in Lothringen, wh#re they are at present and have beeji for some time. It is only a couple of ! hours or so from here, but we are not I allowed to visit him or any other i place situated in the operation disI trict, but we have had very good nev.s j from him. The sister and doctor wrote he got on so nicely and is about on duty again since Monday last. Kikle had taken a bad cold in building trenches (the boys must get used to it all —the air, the draughts, the damp- ! ness, etc) and it settled in his ears , and he was quite laid up, but they

took such good care of him. I was 'so thankful. These young women or ■ girls are mostly volunteers, as there were not enough Red Cross nurses to I be had at the beginning of the war. ; i But now we have plenty. It doesn’t cost a soldier anything at these hospitals. Os course if they want, anyj thing very special, it does —but their (wants are mostly to be had; even (Continued on Page 5.)

cess in every phase of his work an 1 immediately became popular throughout the college circles. Mr. Clase was appointed song leader during three years of his college life and sang first tenor in the university quartet for four years. In 1908 tile quartet sang its way to San Francisco and back, covering the distance in a period <f nine weeks. During the summer of 1911 the quartet was booked by the ! Redpath Lyceum Bureau during the Chautauqua season. Mr. Clase st'id- ■ ted four years in the Ohio Wesleyan School of Music, studied voice culture in Pittsburg and is at present a pupil of Prof. Richard G. Culthrop. of Syracuse, N. Y. In turn he has spent the past two summers in charge of the Bible conference and Chautauqua at. Lake Side, Ohio, also teaching voice culture at this ylace. After spending two years witli Dr. L. A. Banks in evangelistic work he is now finishing his second yei>,r with Rev. I. J. Honeywell. Mr. Clase he.s made untold numbers of friends during the revival campaign here and like the rest of the party his good work we will remember. He has not only proven himself a song leader, but has been very successtul in his work with Hie young men of the high school. Mr. Clase has worked hard to organize a Boys’ Bible class and it was through his efforts and influence that a great number of young men accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior.