Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1915 — Page 1

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AN APRIL WEDDING I Walter Thieme and Miss Paula Bienz Will be Married April 11. I SUNDAY AFTERNOON I Fully One Hundred Guests Bidden to Wedding Feast and Festivities. A coming wedding of much interI est in the north part of the county I is that of Mr. Walter Thieme ami I Miss Paula Bienz, two of the proniiI nent young people of Union township. I Tlie wedding will take place Sunday, | April 11. The ceremony is set for 3 I o'clock in the afternoon. This will he performed by the Rev. Hoffman, i pastor of the German Lutheran i I church east of the city. Fully one hundred guests have been invited to partake of the wedding feast and to & join in the festivities which will be \ given at the home of the bride’s fa- • ther, Mr. Adam Bienz, northeast of “ [ the city, and the affair promises to be one of the most brilliant of the season. The bride-to-be is pretty and accomj plished and has an innumerable host of friends, as has the groom, who is % a highly esteemed young farmer of ■ the township, being a son of A. F. Thieme. A MAY WED DING Will be That of Fred Smith and Miss Jean Lutz—Announcement Made TO THE TRI KAPPAS As a Surprise Last Evening When Miss Lutz Entertained. “Jean and Fred, May 6, 1915.” This was the delightful surprise yielded by an Easter egg at a charming Easter dinner given last evening by Miss Jean Lutz when she entertained the Tri Kappa sorority. This announced the wedding of the hostess, daughter of attorney and Mrs. C. J. Lutz, and Mr. Fred Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. W • R Smith, which will be Thursday, May 6. The engagement has been known to the sorority, but the date was not, many anticipating that it would not take place until this fall. Hence the surprise can be imagined. Last evening was the regular meeting night of the Tri Kappas, but they had been invited to a six o'clock dinner at the Lutz home, prior to the meeting. The Easter colors of yellow and white prevailed and Easter was suggested in many ways in the four course dinner and announcement party. Very pretty was the table with its white luncheon set. The centerpiece was a natural willow basket, filled with large yellow roses, the basket handle tied with a tulle bow. The fourteen covers were designated by place cards -charming little pictures of Easter hats trimmed with yellow flowers. Favors were tiny lace baskets filled with little yellow candies. The basket handles were tied with yellow tulle bows, in which nestled a tiny rose. From each cover lend a yellow ribbon ending at the basket centerpiece, where the ends were tied to the Easter eggs concealed therein. At the end of the third course the eggs were withdrawn from the basket. Miss Madge Hite, retiring present, found her egg much different from the others, for witmn its hollow shell was concealed a paper bearing the words announcing the coming wedding, which she read. Os course there was a busy hum < f voices, all expressing their surprise, but giving a showef of good wishes. The excitement did not subside during the entire evening and it was with difficulty that the sorority business afterward could be attended to. The officers were installed and Miss Frances Cole, delegate, gave her report of the recent convention at Indiana,) oils, but there was no attempt to carry out the program, which Miss Helen

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Niblick, as leader, had prepared. Hence she and Mrs. J. J. Heim will have two .programs when the Tri Kappas meet in two weeks with Miss Fanny Frislnger. Guests besides the sorority members were Mrs. Mildred Burnette of Spokane, Wash., and Miss Irene Smith. Miss Lutz is one of the best young ladies of the city. The domestic traits are hers, as well as the more aesthetic. She is a talented musician, supplementing her training with a course in the college at Oxford, O. She is also a china painter of ability, an active worker in the Presbyterian church, and in the county Sunday School association, as well as the organizations of her local church. She is a member of the Tri Kappas, and other social organizations, and a prime favorite witli all. Mr. Smith is a young man of fine character and ability. He is with the Vance & Hite clothing company. HAD APDPLEXr Mrs. J. P. Johnson of Monroe Had Sudden Attack Tuesday Afternoon. IS BETTER TODAY Her Sons, Mayor R. O. Johnson and Chester of Gary Arrive at Bedside. Mrs. J. P. Johnson of Monroe suffered a stroke of apoplexy yesterday afternoon. For a while she was unable to speak and connect her sentences, but she has rallied and is now •ibetter able to speak more clearly. She was conscious during the entire time. Mrs. Johnson has been in ill health for several years, but had never suffered an attack of this kind. Four years ago she was operated upon for gall stones, and of late years had been suffering from a form of dropsy, and other ailments. She seemed in her usual state yesterday, however, and had eaten a .hearty dinner, after which she sat reading a magazine, and it was while thus engaged that the attack came. Her sons, Mayor Roswell Johnson and Chester, cf Gary, arrived last night; a son, Walton, and a daughter, Mrs. C. E. Hocker, of this city, and a son, Sylvester, of Monroe, were all at her bedside. She was reported as better this morning. She is about sixty years of age. MONEY SFUES Anti - Tuberculosis Society Will Pay Ten Cents a Hundred for Flies. WHICH YOU KILL Between April 1 and April 15—Now, Get Busy, and Swat Them! Money for flies! You swatted just any amount of them last summer for the satisfaction of knowing that you were lessening the spreading of germs and dirt and disease. But now you will have the opportunity of swatting them for money as well. The Anti-Tuberculosis society, recently organized in this county, of which Mrs. C. V. Connell is president, will pay the sum of ten cents for every hundred flies which you kill between April 1 and April 15. Now, get busy! When you have your dead flies to report, go to the council room of the library on Mondays and Fridays cf the two weeks, between the hours ol 3:30 and 4:30, and some one of the society will be there to receive your report. The early swatting of the flies is the most effective. The flies breed rapidly and those killed in the “early stages” of course will leave just so many less for the laying of eggs during the early spring breeding time. Every fly killed now- will deprive the community of thousands of offspring. Some one last year figured out just how many thousand or millions of flies less, the early death of (Continued on Pago 2.)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening. March 31, 1915.

TWO SISTERS DIE J. W. Tyndall Called to Branch, Mich., by Death of Two Sisters. CAUSE IS UNKNOWN Mrs. Alice Huston Died on Friday — Mrs. Maggie Abel Saturday. Relatives and friends here are anxiously awaiting the details of the deaths of the two sisters of John W. Tynclall, who left Sunday night for Branch, Midi., in response to a telegram that both were dead. The two are Alice Tyndall Huston and Mrs. Maggie Tyndall Abel, both living in tlie country near Branch. Mrs. Huston’s deatli occurred Friday and Mrs. Abel’s Saturday. No word of their illness had been received here and it it not known what caused the deaths that came so nearly together. The funeral was held yesterday. The deceased ladies have many friends here, having spent tlieir early life in this county in Blue Creek township. o UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. Nuthin’ ez so heart-rending t’ a sensitive natur ez t’ see so meny homeless, friendless dogs runnin' 'round now durin’ assessin’ time, ——o CITY _CLEAN-UP Again Planned—Will Probably Take Place First of May—Get Busy. THE CHILDREN’S PART In Planting Flowers Urged —Why They Should be Encouraged. With the comtng of spring minds are turning to tlie vernal house cleaning. The city .also, will be given its second formal “house cleaning.” The Woman's City Improvement society will again ask the help of the council, in making this a day to be generally observed. If their request is granted, the “city cleaning” will take place about May first. In the meantime the City Improvement society is “keeping on a-keeping on,” and all the departments of the society are planning to help inake the town a “City Beautiful,” In Saturday’s paper, a list of prizes offered by the landscape department for flowers grown by the children, and also for the best flower beds in the several wards, was publishd. The children should be given encouragement in this, and every help given them. In a pamphlet entitled, “School Gardens,” issued by the flower mission, are several reasons why children’s gardening should be encouraged, as a benefit to the child, individually, as well as to the community. They are: First —: It will help to take children off the streets in the vacation period, and still give pleasant out of door occupation in which they will be interested. Second: It will teach the children the elements of the industry on which life principally depends, that is, agriculture. Third: It will teach children to learn by observation and give them practical training the eye and the band. Fourth: It will influence the character by an appeal to the children's love of nature. Fifth: It will prepare the child for citizenship by teaching in a practical way the care of private and public property. Sixth: It will educate the emotions by teaching children to care for and protect tender growing filings. Seventh: It will mold character by demanding independence and self-re-liance, each child being dependent upon himself in working for the results of his labor. Eighth: By promoting this work through the school, it will help to bring the school and home into closer

relationship and lead both parenji anil teachers to a better appreciation of easli other’s efforts. Ninth: It will teach the child how to make home more cheerful and attractive, by becoming acquainted with and learning the cultural requirements of tire varions kinds of beautiful flowers. — CHURCH AT CONCORD On next Sunday, Easter, there wdl be preaching services at two o’clock in the afternoon at the Concord Lutheran church, in Root township, instead of in the morning-as heretofore Communion will be held at that time and new members taken in. Sunday school will be at one o’clock. o TAKES THE REINS “Colonel” Dick Townsend of This City is Going to Give Paducah, Kentucky A GOOD HOTEL The Palmer House Will be Remodeled and Put in First-class Shape. “Colonel” Dick Townsend, who left this city a few days ago for Paducah. Ky., to assume the management and ownership of the Palmer House at that place, intends to give the people of Paducah and the traveling men one of the best stopping places in the state. Tlie following is a little story slipped from one of the Paducah pa pers: “When Mr. Dick Townsend, one of the most popular hotel men in the state of Indiana for a number oi years, takes over the management of the Palmer House next week, work of improving the hostelry from the basement to the fourth floor and the service from chef to bell-boy, will be commenced in earnest. “Mr. Townsend, when seen yester day by a Sun reporter, stated that hardly a piece of old furniture would be left in the hotel, every room m the house will be papered and the building otherwise thoroughly revamjied. Other improvements will be made later on. “Mr. Townsend, or ‘Dick,’ as he i best known to his friends, says he is now a Paducahan and wants tc join in with the army of boosters. ‘l’m going to make the service at. the Palmer first-class,’ said Mr. Town (Continued on Page 2.) rinHWlew Taken from Bone of Body of Infant Interred Thirty Years KEPT BY MOTHER As Memoir —Body Was Removea from the Old to the New Cemetery. Mrs. John Miller and sister, Mrs. Alice Walsh, of Fort Wayne were here yesterday on business relating to the removal of the remains of tin little daughter of Mrs. Miller from the old Catholic cemetery to the new St. Joseph cemetery. The little daughter was not more than a year old al deatli, which occurred thirty years age. When the grave was opened tlie coffin, to all appearance, was whole, but when the air struck it, it crumbled to pieces, showing only the bones of the body. On the bone of the ring finger, was found the tiny ring, bearing the word “Darling.” The ring was just as bright as new, and wholly intact from corroding influences. This Mrs. Miller retained as a memoir. 0 — PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Special service tonight at 7:30. XU members and new converts with Presbyterian preference are urged to be present as far as possible. A cordial invitation to all not attending other churches. Bring the song book you used in the tabernacle services. JAY C. HANNA, Minister.

WILL HOLD SALE Ladies’ Civic Improvement Society Will Offer Inviting Bill of Fare , - % FOR 1 EASTER GOODS Funds Derived Will be Used for Playgrounds—Saturday at Gas Office. Do you want to buy colored Easter eggs? It will save you all tlie trouble in your own kitchen. Don't you want some good homemade candy or some pastry goods of some kind —pies or cake or homemade bread or some biscuits like your mother used to bake? You will want some goods of this kind for Easter, won't you? Well, you will have the opportunity to get them. The ladies of the Civic Improvement society will conduct a sale at the offices of the Indiana Lighting company, witli a full supply of these goods—and say listen to this —the proceeds go to the playground fund for the children. The cause is a good one. The pastries will be delicious. You can't lose. Call early or send in your advance order to one of the ladies and make sure. Any way, patronize them and show that your heart is with the “kids” of old Decatur. o MORE NEW BOOKS Received at the Decatur Library—Consignment of 180 Volumes. ALL OF THE BEST Including the Newest Fiction as Well as Reference Books. Patrons of the Decatur library will be pleased to know that another big' consignment of iso new books has , been received. This includes tlie newest fiction, adult and juvenile, as' well as reference books. The complete list follows: Life in America One Hundred Years Ago, Witli Sabre and Scoepcl, Last Rose of Summer, Bobby, Gen'l Manager, Turmoil, Twice Born Me::, Souls in Action, Man and Superman, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, Measure of the Man, Kentuckians, His Royal Happiness, Tinder Box, Martha of M. Country, Katy Gaumer, My Heart's Right There, California, Tlie River, Billie’s Mother, Right Track, Dark Hollow, Light of Western Stars, Clean Heart, Man of Lite Desert, Ward of Tecumseh, Winning the Wilderness, Red Mist, Street □f Seven Stars, A Soldier of tlie Legion, Honorable Percival, The Doctor, Janet of the Dunes, Stranger’s Pew, Brotherly House, On Christmas Day in the Morning, On Christmas Day in the Evening, Ben Hur, Wood Carver of Lympus, Head Coach, Tennessee Shad, Stover at Yale, Poor Little Rich Girl. Three Furlongs, Wall 'S'tween, Sylvia’s Experiment, Flame of the Frost, Training of the Girl, Vacations for Girls, Miss Gibbie Gault. Man in Lonely Land, Mary Cary, Sword of Youth, Rise of Johnnie Cushing, Bambi, Muting of Elsinore, Lone Star Ranger, Little Gor Eblsn, Britton of the Seventh. Captain of His Soul, For the Allison Honor. Amazing Grace, Anne of the Blossom Shop, Women of Egypt, Animal Books for Children (6), Frank Armstrong Series (6), Boy Scouts in Lost Trail, Baseball Series (4), Crowds, Pollyanna, Glory of Youth, Contrary Mary, Molly, Greyfriar’s Bobby, Auto Boys (5-, Children in the Little O. R. House, Red House Children at Grafton, Red House Children Vacation, Helen Grant, Bert Wilson (8), Furry Folk Stories (5), Boy Chum Series (6), Grace Harlow (7). Little Wonder Books (8), Fairview Boys’ Series (5), Pickett’s Gap, Motor Power Series (7), Two Little Indians, Little Women Series (4), Bobbsy Twin's Series (5), Twilight Town (6), Automobile Girls (6), High School Boys V. Ser. (4), High School Boys (4),

Grammar School Boys (41, Motor Boat Chib (7). HAS LITTLE PIG STUFFED. D. M. Hensley, tlie well known taxidermist in this city, is busily at work .stuffing the* little pig which was born on tlie Gephart farm some days ago. tlie feet of which resembled the hands of a human being. Tlie pig is a freak and Mr. Hensley will have it on display in a few days. It will no doubt attract attention. o REV. JAUS RECEIVES CALL. Rev. H. C. Jaus, for ten years pastor of tlie St. John’s Lutheran church north of tlie city, on the interurban line, has received a call to the pastorate at Watertown, Wis. Whether lie will accept will be decided tills week. Rev. Jaus is well liked here and all would be sorry to have him leave. Services for Two-year-old Harvey Tschannen Will be Thursday at REFORMED CHURCH At Vera Cruz—Services for the Hawkins Babe— Other Notes. Tlie funeral of Harvey, aged two. son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tschannen, of west of Monroe, in Wells county, who strangled himself to death between the pickets of a fence at hi. .home yesterday, will be held Thuis’lay afternoon at the Reformed church at Vera Cruz at two o’clock, tlie cor tege leaving the house at one o'clock. Burial will lie at Vera Cruz. Funeral services for Charles Meyers, aged 73, who died yesterday morn-, ing at four o’clock at his home near Berne, will be Thursday at 12 o’clock at tlie residence, with burial at Berne. Mr. Meyer had been ill some time with asthma and during the past week other complications set in. Surviving beside the wife are the following children: Mrs. Dennis Striker of near Berne, Mrs. W. M. Striker, Mis. Chris Liechty, Albert and Fred Meyer of Geneva and Mrs. Witzman of (Continued on Page 3.) MRS. THAIND YING i Wife of Dr. Thain, Now in State’s Prison, Said to be Dying AT CLEVELAND, OHIO Writes Her Attorney for Information Regarding Her Little Son. “Mrs. Daisy Thain, former wife of Dr. George Thain, now under sen-j tence for causing the deatli of Mrs. J Marhenke, of Monmouth, by a criminal operation,” says the Fort Wayne News, “has written her attorney, 1 I Hans Meland, asking information r> garding her son, who was given into ( the custody of a guardian when tlie | couple were divorced. Mrs. Thain says she is dying, and has but a few days more to live. She asks Mr. Meland for information because she says the guardian of the boy will tell her nothing. Mrs. Thain went on the stage after the divorce was granted, and is known as Daisy Wilds. She met witli success until her health broke down and is now unable to get to this city.” Dr. Thain was taken to state’s prison only a few weeks ago, when the supreme court finally decided his case and a parole for which he asked, was refused. The little boy mentioned above, has often accompanied the father here on his trips to court. Tlie little fellow was very ill at the time the doctor was first arrested and brought to jail here, and Dr. Thain passed tlie nights in a great, state of worry, pacing back and forth in the jail to which he was dragged from his child’s sick bed.

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AN EASTER BALL The Maxixe Dancing Club Will Give an Easter Ball Tuesday, April 6. AT K. OF C. HALL Good Music Will< be Furnished by Casino Orchestra of Fort Wayne. Neat little invitations in folder style have been issued by tlie Maxixe Dancing club of tills city, inviting all those who receive tlie missives to tlie Easter ball to be given by them Tuesday, April 6 at tlie Knights of Columbus hall. Tlie affair will be the first since lent opened and will no doubt prove to be a very pleasant affair, as during tlie last six weeks the lovers of dancing have all been doing the "lock” step, or in other words, not dancing at all. Tlie grand march is called for 8:30 o’clock sharp. Tlie music will be furnished by the Casino orchestra of Fort Wayne. o W. R. C. TO MEET. Tlie regular meeting of the W. R. C. will lie Friday afternoon at two o'clock at tlie hall. This is tlie first meeting since tlie tabernacle services. o TOPE-AINSWORTH Wedding of Couple Took Place Near Wren. O.— Well Known Parties. AN INFAIR DINNER Given for Them—Rev. Hamilton Officiates at the Wedding. Sunday, March 21, 1915, at tlie beautiful country home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ainsworth, living just across tlie state line, about seven miles northeast of this city, was solemnized tlie wedding of their only daughter, Miss Gertie Ainsworth, to Mr. Ray Tope, a young business man of Wren, Ohio, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Tope. The ceremony was performed at high neon and as tlie strains of the wedding march were heard, tlie bridal party, accompanied by their attendants, Mr. Clyde Ainsworth, brother of tlie bride, and Miss Zellah Tope, cousin of the groom, descended the stairway and took tlieir places in the parlor where the wedding was performed by the groom’s pastor, the Rev. Hamilton, of Wren, Ohio. After the ceremony tlie bride and groom received the best wishes of all those present, of which they are most deserving. Tlie bride also received many useful as well as valuable presents. Those who partook of the wedding dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tope. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ainsworth, Mr. and Mrs. ]W. V. Tope and son, Harry; Rev. Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hurless, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence McMichael 'and daughter, Eulah; Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Clifton and daughter, Helen, Mr. ] and Mrs. William Miller, Mrs. M. F. I Tope, Grace Tope. Russell Tope, Chloe Sunderland, Zellah Tope, all of Wren. Ohio; Dr. and Mrs. Sidles, M-. and Mrs. William Runnell. Miss Katie Lare, Convoy. Ohio: Mrs. Emanuel ! Hower, Rockford, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. i Isaac Everett, Decatur: Mr. and Mrs. Dick Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Corvell; Hoagland. Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Craball, Monroeville, Ind.; Charley Ramsey and daughter, Nellie, of McComb, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Pierce and family. Willie Montinger, Convoy, Ohio; Cloyce Springer, Miss Ora Hawk, Daisy, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Dennison Krick and family, Dewey, Basil and Clyde Ainsworth. Infare Dinner. Sunday, March 28, 1915, Mr. and 1 Mrs. W. V. Tope, living one-half mile north of Wren, Ohio, gave an infare dinner in honor of their son, Ray Tope, and wife, formerly Miss Gertie Ainsworth, whose wedding was solemnized Sunday, March 21. Those (Continued on Page 2.)