Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1915 — Page 1

■Volume XIII. Number 96.

| ROCKS BUILDINGS ■Earthquake Visits Tacoma. Wash., and Causes Panic Among Residents. ■PEN OF DIPLOMACY ■Must Not Spoil What Sword I Has Achieved, Says German Official. I Tacoma. Wash., April 22 (Special Daily Democrat) A very severe! Bk' ll ,11,| Ua..• • !.i I c..:... .<• k, j and drove hundreds of per into tile street strit ken, damage was done. ■<t)y Karl Ackerman, r. P. Corrc|E spondent, Copyright 1215) EtDerlin, April 22 1 to Daily —“lf this is to be a war of Refill-tor bullets, German is prepared. Bail's. but Germany will remain unMri .1 toned. The German people have ■fever subscribed (wo war loans. In nr opinion they stand ready to over■nbscribe a third, should a third prove nSccssary.” That is the opinion of ■Bnancial Germany as expressed today jgkby Dr. Karl Helft'erich, secretary of H the imperial treasury. It reflects the Kpfiieial view of the relation of finance to the war. Bfeerlin, April 22 (Special to Daily Hteme.l r. t) —“The p n of diplomats i ( must not spoil "hat the sword has so, y^' ei ' ■ ' ■ TjMkb"ed Counsellor P.-ttfru he, liberal I len jcr and vice president of the IJ Reichstag, in dircussing today the suggested terms of peace. He declar- ‘ . cd that' Germ; i v could never return jggh- * 1 i fend which was so thickly strewn •<,. 1 ■lritli Gorman blood IPs speech was ■K < Bin direct, contrast to recent sugges- , V tionr. that Germany might be willing | '.to call the great conflict a draw and j Firas the first direct utterance of a r prominent German official in several weeks which favored territorial ac- ‘ Cjuirements. “The land which wc ‘ have conquered at tiie cost of so much German blood, our bravest and J our best, must never be returned. We , must not stop where we are but we must progress to the English chan- , nel and capture all of the British ( strongholds as a surety for a permit:- ( ent. peace and we must also secure , much needed assurance that there ( will be no renewed attempt at invasion by the Russian hordes on our eastern front. The sword has well ach- ( loved its mission. Diplomacy must ( not spoil it.”

London, April 22— (Special to Daily Democrat) —German first line troops are ag.Tn being massed along the northern front from Soissons to the sea. Advises received today from Dutch sources indicated that the kaiser’s general staff is preparing to launch a drive against the new British army. Sir John Drench's troops according tq. the statement made yesterday by Lloyd George, number over 750,000 men. It is against, these that the kaiser is expected to make his wfost strenuous efforts. All of the lines of railway centering in Belgium have been devoted to troops and ammunition movements since the British raitured Hill No. 60, dominating the territory about Yprcs. These troops have been moved to points where they can strengthen the main German positions and also be used in attacks on the British-Belgian gas 3. WANTS LIFE IMPRISONMENT. Atlanta, Ga., April 22 -(Special to Daily Democrat) —Leo Drank, undi r sentence of death following conviction of Mary Dagan’s murder, this afternoon filed with the state prison commission's secretary his petition for a Jnl tio:i f< r life m> | ’ fon'l • i> i. CHURCHES ARE UNITED. | Indianapolis, Ind., April 22— (Special to Daily Democrat)— The United Brethren and the Methodist Protestant churches were formally merged into one under the new name of the United Protestant I ‘.church here today. About 500,000 church members are affected, ihe members of the U. B. church must ratify the action by referendum vote.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

WORRIED OVER SON S ABSENCE. Mrs. Mary Steeje of thin dty is growing much concerned over the absence ami continued silence of her youngest son, blank Steele, Irani whom no word has been received lor three years. When last heard of he was in Kort Wayne, but in th© past three years no word has been received by (he brothers nn,| mother. It was a very nmi: uni tiling for him not to write, as piii r to that ho had been very regular in so doing. I. O. O. F. ANNIVERSARY. The Rebekahs are arranging for an entertainment for next Tuesday evening for the Odd Fellows and their families, the occasion being the I. 0. 0. F. anniversary celebration. A good program will be given etui a supper will follow the regular lodge meeting. REAL SENSATION

> Created in Geneva by Return of Elopers—Pictures in the Paper. MARKED WITH X’S Band Turns Out to Greet Them—People Sprang from the Earth. It pays to be elopers from a small town. Scarcely a story is created by an elopement in a city, but when one occurs in a little town, it creates interest second only to the coming of the president, a circus or some other such. It is a big event. The Geneva Herald contains a cut of their station, a big truck and nearly all the populace that turned out to greet a runaway couple rn their return. In the picture the elopers are marked with crosses or “X’s.” People seemed to literally spring out of the earth to welcome them home. The Geneva Herald says: “When the runaways, Rex Haviland and Miss Mildred Pontius, returned as man and wife last Friday afternoon from their hurried trip to Newport, Ky., they were, met by an enormous throng of people. Two of the high school grades were present, besides a host of friends and spectators. Ten minutes before the train was due there seemed scarcely twenty people on Geneva’s main street, but five, minutes later the number Increased to hundreds. People seemed literally to spring out of the earth. “Just as the train pulled in Dad Cross drove up to the station with (he Cross auto truck and the bride and groom, with their friends, were taken over town to the home of the groom's grandfather, Christopher Haviland, led by the Geneva band. Before the

march began the above picture of the truck load of young people was taken by the photographer, A. H. Moyer. The bride and groom may be distinguished by the white crosses. “The truck, whose capacity is sup posed to be only 1.500 pounds, carried fifty-one people on this little trip, a total weight of considerably more than 5,000 pounds. The machine ran down the hill east of the railroad, turned around, started on the upgrade and 1 ulled the load hack up the hill, proving itself to be even more than is claimed for it. The young couple was presented with several dozen fine roses and carnations by some of the town.” O : CONFERENCE IS ARRANGED. Chicago, 111., April 22—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Peace in Chicago’s labor war appeared nearer today when Simon O’Donnell, president of tin building trades council, announced he iiad arranged a joint conference between committees representing the 20,000 carpenters on strike and the contractors. The conference is set for late today. Officials of the carpenters' union were angered made by the contractors that “labor terrorists” were responsible for the tire which early today destroyed a building under construction. o PASTRY SALE Mrs. Clem Voglewede is in charge of the pastry sale to be given Saturday at the gas office by the Civic Improvement society. Ail those - who deI sir© to contribute and have not yet been solicited may notify Mrs. Voglewede.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, April 22, 1915.

IS BADLY_BEATEN Watchman Williams on Clover Leaf Crossing is Assaulted by Tramp. REFUSED TO RETURN ——— \ Brass That the Tramp Had Thrown from Train—Arrested After Chase.

While standing at his place of duty this morning at 7 o’clock, John Williams, Clover Leaf watchman, was surprised to see a large amount of (brass being thrown out of a car on a passing freight train. After the train had passed, Mr. Williams gathered up the brass and placed it in his siianty. Shortly afterward a tramp appeared and demanded the brass. Mr. Williams refused to turn it over to him. Angered by this refusal, the tramp assaulted Mr. Williams, first striking him on the arm, badly bruising it, and then striking hint on the back of the head. Several men, who were witnesses of the assault, started to assist Mr. Williams, hut the tramp saw them coming and made a get-away. A telephone call was sent in for Marshal Melchi and a good description of tiie man was given by Mr. Williams and the spectators. Aft■r a two-hour search Marshal Melchi found his man hiding among some box ears on the G. R. & I. railroad. He at first denied having been in the vicinity of the Clover Leaf, but after an automobile iiad been secured to take him out to Mr. Williams for identification, he told tiie marshal he would save him tiie trouble, and confessed. An affidavit was filed this afternoon charging the tramp with assault and battery. He was brought before ’Squire Kintz, pleaded guilty and given a fine of sls and costs, amounting to $24. Clover Ix?af detectives were notified of the case and they will come here and endeavor to trace down the i brass. PREtTUwEDDING Nuptials of Vera Goeke and Vernon L. Tannehill Celebrated. AT FORT WAYNE Herman Ehinger Was Best Man—Decatur Friends Among the Guests.

St. Paul's Catholic church was the scene of a pretty wedding yesterday norning at 9 o’clock, when Miss Vera Idna Goeke/ only daughter of Mr. and Sirs. Louis 11. Goeke, and Mr. Vernon L. Tannehill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Enos Tannehill, of Hillsboro, 0., were married by Rev. J. F. Kroll with the double ring service. The sanctuary was banked with palms, ferns and spring flowers, and here the officialng clergyman and the groom met the bride, who walked up the aisle on the arm of her father. She wore a suit of blue serge, witli white silk blouse, and a hat of black silk braid, faced with blue and trimmed with pink flowers. Her bouquet was a shower of idnk roses and asparagus fern. The bridesmaid was Miss Margaret Miller, who wore a contrasting suit of puttycolored serge, with blue hat, and carried a bouquet of pink and white sweetpeas. Mr. Herman Ehinger was best. man. The ushers were Messrs. August Miller and John Creigh. The ceremony was followed by a wedding breakfast at the home of the bride, ”,12 Brackenridge street, where about twenty young friends of the bride and groom made merry until noon. Guests from away were Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Goeke and baby of Chicago, Mrs. Lawrenco Kleinhenz and Miss Georgia Meibers of Decatur, Ind.; Miss Henrietta Kingsley of Michigan City and Mr. and Mrs. Otis Tannehill and daughter, Miss Aline, of Columbia City. During the afternoon the bride and groom left for Chicago for a short wedding trip, and upon their return will reside with the bride’s parents until they decide upon a location. Mr. Tannehill is a clerk for the Fort

Wayne Engineering company. Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, o BIBLE CLASS MEETING. Mrs. F. A. Nichols will have the Bible club meeting at her home this evening, this being the club west of the G. R. At I. railroad and north of Monroe street. Mrs. Martin Beery is president and Miss Etta Mallonee, teacher. — ■ o NOTICE OF TRUSTEE ELECTION. Notice Is hereby given that on May 5. 1915, at 8:15 p. m„ at the Evangelical church, five trustees will be elected as trustees of the above named church and parsonage in the City of Decatur, Indiana, for the term of three years. IL A. FUHRMAN, Sec'y. J. IL RILLING. Pastor.

A BUSINESS MAN Will Preside Over Redfield Meeting at Indianapolis Next Wednesday. HON. SAM’L M. FOSTER Has Been Well Chosen— Rev. Hamilton and Blind Tiger, Columbian Club. (By Lew Ellingham) Indianapolis, Ind., April 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —As another evidence that the Belfield meeting in this city on next Wednesday evening and the opening of the love feast season for the Indiana democracy, is more of a business than a political meeting, is porne out by the fact that the Hon. Samuel M. Foster of Fort Wayne lias been selected as chairman of that great meeting. That Mr. Foster is more of a business man than lie is a politician, will be understood when it is known that in Fort Wayne alone he is president of the German American bank, president of the German American Trust company, president of the S. M. Foster Shirt Waist factory, chairman of the board of directors of tiie Wayne Knitting Mills, member of tiie board of directors of the Western Gas Construction company, director and stockholder in a score of other financial, manufacturing, jobbing and retail business institutions. In addition to this record given the chairman of the Redfield meeting, (lie thirteen vice chairmen, are one and a’l business men, and business men, too, of distinction and note and not only in Indiana but throughout tiie, country. The Redfield meeting will be no political pink tea where politicians and office seekers will give (Continued on Page 2.)

ft HAPPMJOUPLE Married at 1:30 This Afternoon by Justice of the Peace E. B. Lenhart AT CLERK’S OFFICE ■ Groom is Michael Spangler and the Bride Miss Ellen Berryman. Justice of the Peace E. B. Lenhart was called upon again to officiate at the wedding of a happy couple. The groom was Michael Spangler, a boiler maker of Crestline, Ohio, and the bride Miss Ellen Berryman, giving her residence as Adams county. Indiana. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Berryman of Crestline, Ohio. The wedding was performed - at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon in the county clerk’s office and was witnessed by the court house officials and a reporter for this paper. .The bride wore a white dress with lace trimmings and wore a corsage bouquet cf red roses. A white hat and veil completed the costume. The groom wore a dark blue suit and a button iere of red roses. The couple came to this city this morning from Fort Wayne, and will return there to make their home.

SIX DECATUR MEN Are Completing Scottish Rite Degrees in Masonry at Fort Wayne. BANQUET WAS HELD Last Evening—Judge Smith and R. C. Parrish Among the Speakers. Decatur men took a prominent part in the Scottish Rite semi-annual convocation at Fort Wayne last evening and the large number of thirty-second degree men irom tills city and county who attended report a very delightful occasion. In (he first place there are six Decatur men who are completing the work. They are Dr. J. S. Coverdale, R. C. Parrish, John S. Falk, J. T. and R. D. Myers and Dick Longshore, besides several who took a part of tiie work. At the banquet last evening at which Hon. James E. Watson, former whip of the national legislature and a prominent public speaker. made (he principal address, the talk to the class was delivered by Judge David E. Smith of this city, and the class selected the Hon. R. C. Parrish to speak for them. It is needless to say that both men distinguished themselves and won the praise they deserved from the hundreds seated at the banquet table. The work will com hide this evening when the tflirty-second degree will be given and many from here will attend again. Tiie Shriners will hold their semi-an-nual celebration Friday of next week and tiie biggest event of years is anticipated. 0 UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES Nothing causes a bigger sensation in a little town, especially among the natives of a pool room, like the appearance of a strange girl. o FOR MOTHERS’DAY

Celebration Preparations Being Made—Falls on Sunday, May 2. IS GAINING FAVOR Woman’s Franchise League Seeks Co-operation of Clergy in Celebration. Indianapolis, Ind., April 21—Co-op-eration of the clergy of the state is being sought by the Woman’s Fran c.hise league of Indiana and especially in connection witn me celebration of Mother’s day, Sunday, May 2. “The present custom of celebrating Mothers' day,” reads a letter sent out today by the state board of the league to all the clergy in the state is an indication of the increasing recognition of the value of woman’s participation and influence in the affairs of the home and state and church.

“This year we are asking all the ministers to incorporate into their May 2nd sermons some of the underlying reasons for this intelligent change in attitude toward woman’s responsibility toward society. “Women join forces with men in the churches in a mutual fight against vice and its leaders.

“The care and rearing of children is essentially the business of both the fathers and mothers, yet the whole system of modern education is practically under the jurisdiction of men alone. The sanitation of the home is the mutual concern of men and women and depend on sanitary conditions outside the home. The sanitary conditions outside the home are under the jurisdiction of men alone. “Today the common concerns of men ana women have crept into politics from which all women are excluded and thus socially is deprived of the full value of women's influence. “The woman suffrage movement stands for applied Christianity. The women active tn the suffrage cause I are looming toward the betterment of I the human race and we feel that we

need the more active co-operation of I the churches in this work.” Tiie letter is signed by Dr. Amelia R. Keller, president and Mrs. Julia C. Henderson, secretary. Q. POLICE COURT. Dave Miller, a young men of the city, was arrested last evening by Officer Joel Reynolds on Second st ret, charged with carrying an overload of "joy juice.” Davey spent the night in jail and upon his appearance this morning before 'Squire Kintz, pleaded guilty to the charge of public intoxication. A fine of $1 and costs, amounting to $8 50, was administered to him. and being financially embarassetl, Dave will remain as the guest of Sheriff Green during the rainy spell.

LIFE INJRISON Not so Bad as Terre Haute Men Had Right to Expect —Are Comfortable. POWER IS GONE And the Men Who Ruled a Great Indiana City Arc Common Prisoners. Leavenworth, Kans., April 22— 1 Twenty-one men who ruled a city two months ago, and believed five months' ago that they were the last word of authority in that city, sat down to, prison fare here today at the beginning of their fourth day of their so-1 journ in the federal prison. Their appearance was strikingly changed. | Although prison stripes have been dis- ( carded by the government, their' heads were clipiied close and they 1 wore clothing of sombre prison tyjie ; The men were Mayor Donn M. Roberts, Judge Eli Redman and the leaders of the conspiracy that worked under the leadership of Roberts to elect Redman circuit judge in order that the organization .light absolutely be assured that no force could despoil their plans to despoil Terre J Haute. These men never had the, slightest thought when they “put over”' the election of Eli Redman that the federal government would step in and disclose their plot. Otherwise they would not have left so wide and deep a trail for the government to follow.

To detail the routine of prison life discloses that the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters left at home are the ones that really suffer because of the crooked game played by the former political leaders. The men are plainly fed, but. they get plenty. They are warmly clothed, and

get healthful exercise. They get music with their meals and can even engage in base ball. They have work to keep their minds healthy—or make them healthy. They are spared the disgrace incident to association with their former friends. This humiliation is borne by the women left in Terre Haute. Leavenworth prison rests on n, grassy hill. About, it is a cement ‘ wall with picket outlooks on top. where guards patrol night and day. There is an enormous dining room with sunshine where waiters serve meals in courses. At noon there is a soup course, meat, vegetables, milk.! coffee, pudding, and even pie. There have been as many as four hundred cooks in the pastry room alone. Here are some of the pleasures: The dining room orchestra plays up-to-the-minute selections: the prisoners are furnished tobacco by the government; the dining room service is equal to that of a good 50-cent restaurant in Terra Haute; there arc several base ball teams and the men have exciting games; once a week movies are shown. Every Sunday, Mayor Roberts and others must attend church services. Their quarters here are much more comfortable than those in the Marion county jail. Roberts was still mayor of Torre Haute today, but he was given to understand that his office might leave him before tomorrow night. — —c> — Miss Frances Cole will go to Huntington to spend Sunday with Miss Jean Butler, who has returned from Sanford, Fla., where she spent the , winter with Miss Vera Ward. I

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A BANNER CLASS Thirty-four Decatur Men to be Initiated Sunday Into Knights of Columbus. JOINT INSTALLATION Special Train to Huntington at 7.3o—Local Council to Have 264 Members. Sunday, April 25, will be a big day for the Knights of Columbus all over the state, who will assemble at Huntington for the joint initiation to be held in that city between the Decatur and Huntington lodges.

Thirty-four men will make up the : class for the local lodge, while the Huntington council will have about forty candidates. A special train on the Erie, consisting of several coaches, will leave this city at 7:30, arriving in Huntington about 8:30. Besides the thirty-four candidates there will be between 150 and 200 De- ! catur Knights who will accompany J them. Decatur no doubt will be the best represented body in the bunch. At 9 o’clock the first degree will be put on by the Huntington lodge. At 10:15 every knight will attend high ■ mass at the Catholic church. Rev. I Father Noll, editor and publisher of the Sunday Visitor, will officiate at ,tlie services and also deliver one of his excellent sermons. At 1 p. m. 1 the second degree will be put on by Charles J. Becker and staff of Logansport . At 3 p. m. the third and final | “touches" will be given the “boys” by National Director Mailer of Chicago. After Hie initiation ceremonies and beginning at 8 o’clock a smoker and banquet, at which speeches and talks I will be made by some of the leading i men of the state. The K. of C. glee club from this city will also render ' a few musical selections. The day ; will no doubt be one of the most jolly and happy ones ever had at an inflation. The special train will leave Huntington on the retur.n trip at 10 o’clock. Any one who desires, whether a knight or not, may go to Huntington on the special. The round trip fare will be only $1.20.

’ The local order of the Knights of Columbus at present has 230 niem- . hers. After Sunday the membership will be increased to 264. It is one of the strongest organiaztions in the state. o REPORT OF FEMALE FLY. Thursday, November 2, 1911: Went into winter quarters. Barely lived through the long, hard winter. April 20, 1912: Came out of winter quarters and laid my first batch ■ of eggs, 120 in number, in a manure iieap. April 21, 1912: My first 120 eggs have hatched. April 22, 1912: larvae have undergone first molt. April 23, 1912: Larvae have undergone second molt. April 26, 1912: Larvae transformed into pupae. | May 1, 1912: One hundred and j twenty full grown flies, sixty of which ‘ are females. May 3, 1912: Laid my second i batch, 120 eggs, this time in the filth of an uncared for privy. May 13, 1912: One, hundred and twenty flies came from my second . batch of eggs, laid my third batch in ■ a kind neighbor’s garbage can. I May 20. 1912: The city has offered a prize to the school child who will kill the largest number of flies. The - boy at the house where I live is kill ■ ing flies right and loft. And to think - we have all been eating at the same < table with him! May 21, 1912: Laid my fourth - batch of eggs. Left alone and unhinijdered, by September 10. 1912, my des- < cendants will number 5,598,720,000,fooo. I — o — HEROIC RESCUE WORK. ■ D i Loansport, Ind., April 22 (Special to Daily Democrat) —Ninety-one pae tients in two Infirmary wards at the - Northern Hospital for the Insane were b saved from death by fire today by prompt action of employes when the two wards were destroyed. Sixty- - five of the patients were bed-ridden, s The fire followed the explosion of a i coal oil stove. The loss is estimated Jat $25,000. Work of rebuilding will (begin at once. . * i .jt , .ill