Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 135.

ANSWER TO GERMANY IS BEING HELP BACK RUMORS THAT IMPORTANT NEGOTIATIONS ARE GOING ON—FRENCH TROOPS USING LIQUID FIRE IN TRENCH FIGHT

Washington, D. C., Jun 7- (Special I to Daily Democrat) —While President | Wilson's note remained unsent, indefinite rumors of possible moves that might end the European struggle circulated throughout the diplomatic circles today. They were so entangible that it whs impossible to locate their authorship. Diplomats declined to comment on them, yet they seemed anxious to learn whether there was any connection between them and the failure of the note to go forward The rumors apparently had their origin n the offices of the international banking houses, which are interested in the restoration of early peace. The 1 note itself was nnce more back in Wilson's hands. It was stated that the president was highly displeased over the speculation on its content. Flerlin. June 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —French troops have re-' sorted to the use of liquid fire, accord- ' ing to a statement from the war of- 1 flee this afternoon. The German : | trenches near Bourgois were sprayed < with the fiery fluid. The attack was un- r expected and m.-.ny soldiers were burnj cd alive before they could retreat. Tiie 1 i enemy attempted to follow up this at- ’ tack by rushing the trenches, but were beaten off by a rain of shrapnel and t machine gun bullets. Amsterdam, June 7—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—A Zeppelin airship, destroyed by the British between 1 Ghent and Brugges. crashed through i the roof of a convent at Monte St. Amand. killing two nuns, according to - dispatches from«Chent. The airship was in flames when it fell. The entire j crew was killed. A dispatch to the Telegraph said there were twentyeight members of the crew. The con- 1 vent was filled with orphans. The correspondent wired two children, not nuns, were killed. Berlin, June 7—(Special to Daily Democrat) —In their flight from I Przemsyl the Russians have abandonI ed Mosciska and have fallen back one- | third of the distance to Leinburg. The ! [enemy has thus far not offered serious resistance to the Austro-German movement eastward along the railway toward Lemberg. Unofficial reports from Vienna said that 7,000 Russian prisoners and about 50 cannon and machine guns were captured at Przemsyl. Rome, June 7—Special to Daily Democrat)—Count von Hindenberg of the German embassy who departed J from Rome with Ambassador von Beulow, unexpectedly returned today. His arrival caused a sensation in liplomatic circles. Because of the prominent part he played in the Austro-Italian negotiations, considerable significance was attached to his visit. t Berlin. June 7, — (Special to Dady Democrat)—A German submarine torI pedoed and sunk the Russian second E class cruiser Amur in the Baltic, Fr>- | day night, it was officially announced I today. ondon, June 7, -Special to Daily I Democrat)—German Zepplins raided | the east coast of England last night I dropping incendiary and explosive I bombs. Five persons were killed and i forty Injured. Two fires were started. Constantinople. June 7. (Special to ■ Daily Democrat) —Enver Pasha, Tur- |. key's “man of destiny," in an inter- | view with the U. P. today declared that the Dardanelles are as impregnable as Gibraltar and more impassable than at any previous time. He said that the one fortress which the allies have subdued "'as an out-of-date affair and that it had not been depended on as a real defense. He'said the Turks had been given ample time to install a complete system of modern defense so that the straits are defended as never before. The youthful minister (Continued on Page 2)

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CASTFORTHEPLAY “America’s Reception to the Nations” to be Given on Tuesday Evening AT THE M. E. CHURCH Girls Will Appear in Costume of the Lands They Represent. The cast for the.play, “America’s Reception to the Nations," to be given by the Queen Esther Circle at the Methodist church Tuesday evening at S o'clock, is an excellent one. The , admission will be fifteen cents and the proceeds go to swell the apportionment to missions, of the local circle. The cast will appear in the costume of the lands they’ represent: Herald —Helen Kinzle. Messenger—Florence Myers. America —Grace Butler. Escorts to America—Eloise Lewton. Mildred Butler. Eola Gotschall, Helen Augen baugh. Woman’s Home Missionary Society — Mrs. C. L. Walters. Nurse Deaconess —Ruth Fledderjohann. Deaconess —Velma Lenhart Indians —Ramona Smith. Ireta Butler, Mabel Hoagland. Spanish I>ady—Vera Hunsicker. Missionary Barrel —Electa Baltzell. Chinese —Josephine Myers. Japanese—Celia Andrews. Mormon —Muriel Leonard. Bohemian —Gertrude Kinzle. Mountain Girl —Doris DeVoss. Italians—Eva Augenbaugh, Anita Swearenger. Alaskans —Hallie Leonard, Gladys Flanders, Beulah Kenna. Hawaiians—-Nola Snyder. A’<bie Bigham. Mite Box —Esther Butler. Porto Rican—Cecil Andrews. Slum Child —Helen Stephenson. o FtINERALNOTES Dealth Claims Life of Infant Son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Fuhrman OF PREBLE TOWNSHIP Funeral of Allen Moore Held At Infirmary—Many From Berne Attend Alfred Adam Fuhrman, aged one year, ten months and eight days, only child 01 Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ernest Fuhrman, of Preble township, died Sunday afternoon of indigestion. The , funeral will be held Tuesday aftor- . noon. There will be a service at one i o’clock at the home, and later at the : Friedlieim Lutheran church. I Burial services for Allen Moore, the i Wabash township aged resident, whose 1 death occurred at the county infirmary i of pneumonia, following exposure, was ? held Sunday afternoon. A large party 3 of Berne friends came up to attend r the service. Rev. David Klopfenstei i gave the sermon.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, June 7, 1915.

DIED SUDDENLY Herman Wiecking, Well Known Bluffton Man, Related Here DIED IN NEW YORK Had Been There Visiting Sister—Body May be Brought to Bluffton. ■ Blurtton, Ind., June 7 —Herman Wiecking. unmarried, for years numbered among Bluffton's leading busi- < noss men, died suddenly Saturday morning at Ridgeway, N. ¥., where ho had been visiting several months with 11 a sister. Mrs. Charles Helmrich. I message received by his brother, Ernst Wiecking, of this city, gave no details as to the manner of death, but ( it is presumed he was a victim of heart trouble, from which he had been a sufferer. Mr. Wiecking was born at Bramsche, Hanover. Germany. May 10. 1849, and came to the United States in 1866. first settling at Pittsburg. He came to 1 Bluffton in 1875, and for years was in the tobacco ami cigar business here retail and wholesale. He retired from j the active management of the business in 190:’, since which time his brother, Ernst, has conducted the business. Mr. Wiecking became an extensive traveler after he retired from business and had visited Mexico several times, also had visited the Holy and every coiftatry of Europe, except Russia. A 1 nnnyner of brothers ahd sisters are the f nearest surviving relatives. Mr. Wieck- s ing ws« a member of the local lodges v of Elks and Odd Fellows. His brother, a Ernst, left Saturday for Ridgeway, and r may have the body brought here f.’.r j burial. f o s THE CENTER TOWN ' a fl Monroe, the Seat of County p School Commencement Thursday Will s v HAVE BIG CROWD J <i t Event Arranged That Excel- a j lent Train Acconimoda- v tions May be Secured. With Monroe the central town of Adams county, the seat of the county ; commencement next Thursday, June c 10. the 1915 commencement bids fair E to exceed all others in attendance, t The class, too, is extra large, having 1 167 members, and with the parents t and friends of all these present, the f event promises to be a big one. I It' the weather is fair, the commence- t ment will be in the Haggard grove at he back of the school house. If the ( weather is not good, it will be held I in the Methodist church. The exercises will, begin at 9:30. This is made early that all may be 1 etter accommodated, by the railroads. - Trains arrive in Monroe from the north and south at 7:13 and 8:57, rerecti vely, and leave for the north ; nd south at 3:09 and 1:30, respectively. All graduates are requested to meet at the Monroe school building at 8:50 ‘ for organization and instruction, after which the class will march to the grounds for the exercises. Reserved seat sections will be kept for the parents and friends of the graduates to whom tickets hjve been given,. No one will be admitted io the reserved section except by ticket before 9:20. After 9:25 the remaining seats will be open to any Jne desiring a seat. The expenses of the commencement are borne by the various school corporations and there will be no charge • to parents, friends or graduates Ev- ■ erybody interested in education in ■ general should be present. The program as announced Saturday, will be given. Music will be fur- > rished by a Decatur orchestra, and > Rev. Kulm of Indianapolis will speak. Dinner will be served by the Monroe s Ladies' Aiel society. A big display of manual training, as--1 ricußural and domestic science work, I i will also be made. i The final arrangements for the big'

event have now been made by County! School Superintendent E. S. Christen and the day is eagerly awaited by .ill interested therein. o—COMMUNITY BIBLE CLASSES. Ward I. Dist. 1. No report in. Dist. 2. Mrs. W. A. Lower, Adami street, Tuesday 2 p. m. Ward 11. Dist. 1. Mrs. Devor, corner Third and Jefferson. Tuesday. 7:30 p. m. Dist. 2. Mrs. M. J. Scherer, West Madison street. Monday, 7 p. m. Dist. 3. Mrs. Mary Parrish. South Tenth street, Thursday, 7 p. m. Ward 111 Dist. 1. No report. Dist. 2. Mrs. John T. Myers, North Fourth street, Tuesday 7 p. m. Dist. No. 3. No report. Dist. No. 4. Mrs. B. J. Rice, Fifth street, Tuesday 7:30 p. m. o — fl MERRY CHASE Over Muddy Fields Did the Officials Make After Chauncey Steele. EARLY THIS MORNING He Gave Them the Slip, Took to the Tall Timber and Still in Hiding. Chauncey Steele, who was taken back to jail again Saturday evening ] for intoxication, gave the sheriff the j slip Sunday morning, by creeping out - while Sheriff Green's back was turned as he entered the prisoners’ depart- . ment to attend to some work. Steole , made his get-away, and search Sunday ( failed to locate him. This morning . some one telephoned from Preble that he had been seen there. Sheriff Green , and Deputy Jacobs motored cut. Steele saw them, however, first, and started and ran. He made tracks across a field with the officials in full pursuit in mud knee-deep. Steele, who is light and as fleet as a deer, made greater headway than the officials, who are more burdened wdth fat. and far outstripped them. Like the hair that raced with the tortoise, he thought he could sit down to rest a while, and he did so, sitting on a log. Unlike the hare he did not go to sleep and let them overtake him: he got up and started out again. He hopped over a fence and jumped into the tall timber of a grove, where he was lost and the officials returned to town for the time being. ZION’S LUTHERAN PICNIC. Announcement is made tha t the Zion’s Lutheran congregation of this city will have its annual picnic next Sunday at the St. John’s grove north of the city. A special interurban car will leave here about one o'clock and return about six. The children will have games and amusements of various kinds and a good time is in store for all. circusjrieTds Mr. and Mrs. Fred LaDelle Will Meet Friends With the 101 Wild West AT FORT WAYNE Jim Kid, Charge of Cowboy Riders, Taught Mrs. LaDelle To Ride Mr. and Mrs. Fred LaDelle will go to Fort Wayne tomorrow to meet some friends with the 101 Ranch wild west show to be there. Jim Kid, in charge of all the cowboys, and himself one of the best broncho busters ever, is a special friend of theirs, having taught Mrs. Ladelle to ride, before she entered the Frank Robbins circus, several years ago. Jean Durand, in charge of the concert, is also a friend of theirs, as well as several others, and they make it a point to meet them whenever I they can. When the 101 played here I some time ago, they met them also.

GOES TDCHICAGO Dr. S. P. Hoffman Represents Adams County AntiTuberculosis Society. AT NATIONAL MEET In Chicago June 8 and 9— Will Visit Institutions There. Dr. S. P. Hoffman, a delegate from the Adams County Anti-Tuberculocls society, left today for Chicago to attend the eleventh annual convention of the National Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The time will be spent in visiting the various tuberculosis institutions about Chicago devoted to setting forth the best methods of caring for incipient cases of tuberculosis, and visitng the various fresh air sanitariums. There will be two full days of study. The convention will be held at the Hot >1 LaSalle. Tuesday evening at seven o’clock they will be guests at a “good fellowship" dinner given by the Chicago Tuberculosis Institutes. A number of the delegates will go to Seattle, Wash., to attend the second half of the convention, but Dr. Hoffman will not go there. He will return Friday or Saturday to Decatur. The Adams county association is hoping to take more practical means for ferreting out incipient or beginning cases of tuberculosis and applying the cure and prevention to these, as the early and preventative treatment is the great hope in eradicating the disease. They I]cpe also to have ■a county hospital established. MANY NEW HOMES Are Being Built in Decatur —Colonel Reppert Plans Spanish Mission Home. NO. SECOND STREET E. D. Engeler and D. N. Erwin Build —The Tyndall Home Remodeled. If budding is a sign of progressiveness and a prosperous condition in a ■ity, Decatur never was in a better way than she is right now. During the past tew weeks some thirty or forty new houses have been built and remodeled in this city and the idea seems to be contagious. Among the Handsome homes of the city now' is that of Dr. W. E. Smith on Third street, 'emodeled completely and stuccoed with pebble dash. The house is finished with hardwood flaars. new fire places, pretty walls and is one of the best homes in the city. On Fornax street the Ed Berling home is nearing completion and Walter Kauffman is rebuilding the house recently moved from Mercer avenue into a modern home. John Schug is erecting a fine new modern home, of pressed brick, on South Third street. On nearly every street in the city you will find new homes going up and old ones being made modern. It's a dandy good sign and the work seems to be just started. A visit to the office of Oscar Hoffman, the well known architect, developed the fact that he is up to his neck in work, mostly for new homes in this city, and the indications are that the contractors will be kept busy around here during the entire season. Plans have been completed for a new home for Colonel Fred Reppert the well known auctioneer, that will be one of the best in this section, and will be something new in the way cl architecture for this city. It will bf located on the east side of North Sec end street, just south of the old Mers man property, and will be a Spanisl Mission home, occupying the entin ■ width of the big lot. It will be finishet in white stucco, roughed, and will re ' semble an old Spanish fortress. Pre ■ trading from the corners of the mail house and the driveway entrances

I will be Imitation cannon effects. The house will be finished in a most modern way with sun parlor and sleeping porch, hardwood floors and a splendid heating plant. The den winch Is to - he used by the colonel as an office, will he finished in Pullman style. The house will he built this year. E. D. Engeler, the dry goods merchant, is planning a no* house to I e located just east of the Prebyterian ’ church. It 1« to bn a handsome lit'le modern cottage, complete in every way and will just finish off that corner. On Mercer avenue, I). N. Edwin is planning to build a new home on the spot where the old Smith home stood. Later two or three other houses nre to bo built in that section of the city. , J. W. Tyndall has the plans for the remodeling of his home on Monroe (Continued on Page 2.) o THE COURT NEWS t Board of Review Begins Ses- > sion Today—County Assor Chairman. ASSESSMENT VALUES Averaged—Judge Smith at Portland—Probate Matters from Saturday. The board of review met this morning. organized and adjourned until tomorrow, on account of commissioners' • court opening today. County Assess- , or William Frazier presided as chairman, and Auditor T. H. Baltzell as : secretary. Sheriff Ed Green, Treasurer, Wm. Archbold, are also ex-offi-cial members, while Henry Bleeke and George Gentis are appointive members. County Assessor William Frazier has completed his general average of assessment values. These may be changed, however, by the board of review. They are higher than Allen county values. The averages follow: Cat'le $35.23; horses and mules $99.29; hogs. $5.72; sheep, $5.68; automobiles, $231.90; farm implements and machinery, $56.61; household furniture and library. $39.53. Judge D. E. Smith is at Portland where he is sitting as special judge in a case. This is the last week of the Adams circuit court before the long summer vacation. Peterson & Moran are attorneys tor the plaintiff. Michael Miller, executor of the James Wagoner estate, in a partition case against Mary C. Andrews. The inventory Number one of Jos- ■ eph D. Urick, executor of the David Urick estate, was approved. IS A GRADIIfiIE Edwin Fledderjohann Completes Electrical Engineering Course . IN PITTSBURG, PENNA. : W. H. Fledderjohann and Son, Clarence, Attend the Commencement. < s W. I-I. Fledderjohann, general mane ager of the Fort Wayne & Springfield rl railway, with his son, Clarence, leit this morning for Pittsburg. Pa., where a they will attend the commencement t, exercises of a college. The former's e brother, Edwin Fledderjohann, will be d a graduate in the electrical engineer•f ing department. ie Edwin Fledderjohann was formerly c- auditor of the Decatur interurban Hue s- and spent several years of his life ,h here, while connected therewith. Two •e years or more ago he went to Pitts;d burg, where he entered the school to e- take the electrical engineering course, o- and also had practical training with in the Westinghouse plant, where he is s, employed during spare time.

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WILL GRADUATE I i Gregg Neptune Completes Course in Northwestern at Chicago. TO PRACTICE HERE After Few Weeks—Father, Dr. Neptune, to Attend Exercises Wednesday. Dr. J. Q. Neptune left Sunday for Chicago, where he will attend the commencement exercises of Northwestern university, at which his eldest son, Dr. Gregg Neptune, graduates from the dental department, where he has completed a three-year course. The commencement exorcises will ho held Wednesday morning and this week is filled with the usual festivities, marking the close of the college year. Gregg will remain in Chicago a few weeks to rest and to take a little finishing work in his profession. About August 1 he will return to this city and form a partnership with pis father. Grogg is a graduate of the local high school and is now well prepared to ?n---ter the profession of dentistry. Dr. J. Q. Neptune will return Wednesday evening and will be at his office Thursday morning. o THE BLACK BOX TONIGHT. Tonight the first two reels of "The Black Box" will be shown at the Rex theater. This show is one of tiie greatest serial films ever produced and consists of thirty reels. Two f rhe Universal stars, Herbert Rawlinson and Anna Little, will take the leading parts. Five cents to everybody. o E, M. RINEAR DEAD Senator of Wells. Grant and Blackford counties Died Last Evening. HOME IN BLUFFTON Death Was Due to Over-Ex-ertion—Would Have Represented Adams County. As a result of overwork and a severe ■train to his constitution, E. M. Ritiear, aged 71, a resident of Bluffton and senator in the last legislature, epresenting Wells, Grant and Blackford counties, died last evening at his tome in Bluffton. Owing to a change if districts, Senator Rinear would have ilso represented Adams county in t'J ■ oming legislature. A despatch says: Bluffton, Ind., June 6 —State Senator Elias M. Rinear, aged seventy one years, one of the prime workers for the state-wide primary bill in the last session of the Indiana legislature, and 'ong a prominent figure in the life if Bluffton and Wells county, died at 10:30 o’clock to-night at his home hero. Death was due to complications. Senator Rinear, who represent ed Wells, Grant and Blackford counties i nthe last legislature, introduced the first state-wide primary bill in the senate, and near the completion of his work on this measure was forced to take to his bed as a result of overwork. Since that time his health had been bad and he has been confined to his home much of the' time since the close of the legislature. Three days ago he was seized with hiccoughs ami - this trouble so weakened him that he 1 sank Into unconsciousness early this t morning, death resulting to-night. > Surviving are tiie widow, a son. Dr. t Edwin M. Rinear. Mt. Vernon. Ind., s and a brother, J. W. Rinear, Liberty b Center. Senator Rinear served through ■- the civil war as a member of Company G. 101st regiment. Indiana. f e WOODMEN INITIATION. 8 j The local Woodmen are making - elaborate preparations for the initia- > tion of a class of forty candidates , Tuesday evening. The Fort Wayne i team will confer the degree. It is rei quested that all Woodmen be at the hall by 6:30.