Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 136, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 136.

MR. BRYAN OBJECTS TO PRESENTS NOTE CABINET HAD A WARM SESSION THIS MORNING-NOTE IS READY BET SECRETARY BRYAN MAY REFUSE TO SIGN IT

(By John Nevin) Washington, D. ('., June B—Special to Daily Democrat) —President Wilson caused the announcement at 1:15 thia afternoon that the German note was completed. Through Secretary Tumulty he let it be known that he hoped it would go forward tomorrow. But his cabinet was not unanimous in its approval of the document, and the man whose name it will bear, Secretary Bryan, left the meeting determined to fight for a modification 1 right up to the very last minute. Bryan believes the United States is so firmly on record for arbitration as to ■ make it a mockery to send Germany ' a document which favors an ultimatum. Although a majority of the cabinet was against him today, tie carried liis persuasive powers from the meeting to the Unlvertity club where he nnd his fellow members had lunch. The announcement wa sas fcl-r ( lows: “The president asked me to any that the note was gone over and discussed and put in final Bhape and it ’ was hoped tliat it will go tomorrow.” 1 The position of Bryan came as a com- < plete surprise to the president, in ( previous notes the secretary has taken ( the position that the United States j should invite arbitration, but in every ( instance he has stopped short of aay ( further fight when the note had been , approved by the majority of the eald- . net. The president expected that he would do this today. Prior to the meeting it was understood from the president that the note would have the approval of all members. The 1 first intimation that anything was ' wrong came when r\ an did not an- - pear at the meeting. Inquiry at the white house disclosed that he had sent word he was working on an im- 1 portant paper and would be late. The < messenger said Bryan was very’ busy and could not be disturbed. Finally, , about 12 o’clock the secretary left his office. His face was flushed and his mouth set in a firm line. He swung into the cabinet room with a set stride of determination. For an hour the ! doors were closed, then they opened i with a bang. The cabinet members l walked out, but refused to talk. Bry- < an came last. His face still set, heat- . ed with perspiration. “Is the note completed?” he was asked. “I can- i not discuss what transpires in cabinet meetings,” he saifl. It is understood Bryan carried to the meeting a ; memorandum by which he justified his view that the proposed note was I net of the character the United States should present. Although Bryan will continue his efforts to obtain a modification of the note, those close to the president said the effort will be unavailing. Should Bryan refuse to sign the note, it was admimtted his retirement from the cabinet would be certain. El Paso, Tex.. June B—(Special to Daily Democrat)— General Villa lost ten thousand men in killed alone and all of his trains and artillery, according to dispatches received today from General Obregon, victor in the great battle at Leon last week. Galveston, Tex., June B—(Special to Daily Democrat)— An American consul and a United States officer were taken from a boat and been lined up against a wall at Tampico to be shot, when a Villista colonel saved them, according to the story of Captain Wetmore of the Morgan line tanker 7oI ila, told here today on his arrival. Tex., June B—Special to the Daily Democrat) —The first signs >’£ Mexican dissatisfaction with President Wilson’s new Mexican policy cropped out at Neuvo Loredo last night during a jubilation of Carr .tn-j zistas over the Leon victory. "Mexi-| co for Mexicans,” shouted a military leader. "President Wilson’s policies are not needed. Carranza is able to handle the situation with satisfac(Continued on Page 2)

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SESSION CLOSING * Commissioners are Completing the Routine Work of Their June Term. THE SECOND DAY Road Matters Attended to— Contract for Infirmary Supplies Was Let. Concluding the regular June session the board of county commissioners to- 1 day disposed of several important docket entries today. A change was J made in the specifications for the De catur and Monroe extension No. 6, i 11 eliminating 76 feet of 8-inch tile. 27b feet of 10-inch tile, and 1,025 feet of 12-inch tile, t reduction of >416.42 from 1 the contract price being made, and the contractor was allowed ten dollars, for extra labor in placing a well on the east side of the road. I On the Henry Scheumann et al. road J. B. Corson. Albert Reppert and Da-', vid D. Metier were appointed viewers, 1 ; to meet at the auditor’s office to con- 1 sider damages. Extras were allowed on tlie Charles Patton road for S7B; Fred Hoile road, I $100; Harlow road, S2O; and J. ix. Yoder road, SBO, the extras being mostly lor additional tile. Bids were opened and the contract let for supplies for the county infirmary as follows; Dry goods, Runyon & Engeler, $11; groceries, Niblick & Company, $77.50; hardware, Schaub & Dowling, $35.75; tobaccos, Kuebler & Co., $14.95; binder, Baumgartner Bros. & Co., $145; drugs, Smith, Yager & Falk, $5.75. The Jacob Isch macadam road was acceptej and the report of the superintendent duly approved. On the Sol Moser et al. petition for drain, the report of the engineer was filed and a finding entered that all] parties had been given due notice and the cause docketed. The report of County Treasurer W. J. Archbold showing the taxes collected during the month of April was approved. TO OSSIAN TOMORROW NIGHT. The Girls’ Bible class, led by Mrs.' C. E. Bell, and the Boys' class, led bv I Mr. Cal Peterson, will go to Ossian to- ( morrow evening to attend the Mc-‘ Combe revival now in progress in the tabernacle there. They will go by interurban and all others who will join them are invited to do so. You can buy your ticket now at the interurban and it will be a favor it you will do so and report s othat an extrh car. can be secured if necessary. The car, will leave the station at 5:15 and the | fare for the round trip is 95c. Arrange to join the crowd of young people. RUMORS CAUSE DROP. Chicago, 111., June B—(SpecialB—(Special to •1 Daily Democrat)—Peace rumors caus•|fed drops of ten cents a bushel in Win- ' nepeg and seven cents at Minneapolis i'and as a result there was a drop of > 4 ! /i cents here at Ute opening today. - Wheat recovered 1% cents in fifteen minutes, July selling at

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, June 8, 1915.

COFFEE—BUTLER I Claude Coffee and Frances j Butler Quietly Married at Parish House — BY FATHER SEIMETZ Went to Housekeeping at Once on South First Street - —Surprise Friends. Not wholly as a surprise does the wedding of Claude Coffee and Miss Francos Butler come to their friends, although only a few knew tliat It was ■to take place last evening. The ceremony was very quietly performed at tlie St. Mary’s parish house by Father J. A. Seimetz at eight o'clock last evening. Witnesses were William O’Brien and Miss Lena Myers. The bride wore a natty and becoming tailored jacket suit cf blue, with a white blouse, and charming accessories in harmony with the whole. Her black hat was adorned with a white, pompom and was particularly bec/.nlug. After the wedding tlie couple went at once to their home on South First street, which was nicely furnished in anticipation of the wedding, with everything ready to begin housekeeping at once. The groom is a son of ex-Mayor D. D. Coffee : nj for some time has been employed by the Schafer Hardware store. He is a capable business man, wit li pleasing personal traits, and 's an exemplary young man in every way. The bride is the eldest daughter of City Mall Carrier and Mrs. Mel J. Butler. For several years she hi V been a clerk at the Runyon-Engeler store, where her services, rendered in a capable way, have been much appreciated by both employer and public. Her nature is such tliat she lias won innumerable friends, and is a general favorite, very deservedly so. socially as well as otherwise. The couple have the very best wishes of all. o — FOR THEMINISTRY Walter Stuckey of Berne Examined by Classis at Fort Wayne Today. TO GO TO CHARGE In Indianapolis—M. Kirsch is Member of the Examining Board. Mathias Kirsch went to Ft. Wayne this morning to attend a continued session of the Zion’s Ciassis of the ! Reformed church. Mr. Kirsch is a member of the examining board. Walter Stuckey of Berne, ministerial student at the Mission House at Franklin, Wis., for nine years, will be examined as to his eligibility to become a minister. Successfully passing this, he will be ordained to the ministry, and lias already been called to a charge in Indianapolis. Mr. Stuckey is well known here, being a cousin us 1 Mrs. John C. Moran. [ Mr. Kirsch is also a member of ‘he board of the German Reformed Or- ' phans' home near Fort Wayne and ' will attend a meeting of tlie board. — o UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. Ole Miss Lickiticut, who ez soured on the world, sez nuthing gives her th’ blues like ole Mister Parsons i playin' ‘‘th’ Last Rose o’ Summer” cr I “Darlin’ I am Growin’ Old” on th’ accordoaon, unless it is th’ last cranberries uv th’ season goin’ beggin’ at five cents a quart in June when strawburries air only ten cents a qt. _ o C. B. L. OF I. MEETING. All members of tho C. B. L. of I. are requested to be at tlie hall this evening not later than eight o'clock. ' The regular business meeting will be held. By order of BARNEY WERTZBERGER, Collector.

BERNE MILLINER SELLS. Mrs. Della Sheets, who has been in the millinery business in Berne for the past twenty-five years, has sold her stock to Miss Lucile Barley of Hartford City. Miss Barley arrived here this morning and will take charge of the business immediately. Miss Barley Is not new at tho trade. She has been engaged in tliat work for some time and is therefore capable of doing justice to her customers. Mrs. Sheets, who retires after having 1 f rsistently clung to tile millinery trade for a quarter of a century, is quitting the business for good, and says that she will make it known soon what enterprise she will undertake. —Berne Witness. o FLOWER CONTEST Two Prizes Offered Each Ward for the Best Flower Bed by League. MUST BE ENTERED With League by June 15— Prizes Also Offered for Nasturtiums and Astors. Although the season is quite late, already considerable interest has' been taken by the children and others * of the city in the planting of flowers for the civic league contest. Besides the ccntests lor nasturtiums and asters, and mixed bouquets, there will be one for the wards for tlie best general flower beds. A prize will be offered each ward for tlie best and second best flower beds. It will be necessary, however, to enter these beds with the civic league. Those who wish to compete for the bed prizes, will report before June 15, to Mrs. J. W. Tyndall, president of the league, or Miss Annie Winnes, chairman of the landscape gardening committee. A prize of $2 for tlie best and $1 for tlie second best flower bed in each ward will be offered. In the nasturtium contest a first prize of $1 will be given to contest ! ants of three ages—6 to 9 years, 9 to 11 years; an<j 11 to 13 years; a second; prize of fifty cents will be offered to| contestants of these ages, and a third i prize of twenty-five cents to the con-1 testants of these three ages. In the mixed bouquet contest there! are three prizes for contestants between the ages of 6 and 13 years. The prices are sl, 50 cents and 25 cents, respectively. A first prize of $1 will be given in the aster contest to contestants of three ages—ll to 1 >, 14 to 15, and 16 | to 18 years. The second and third I prizes arc 50 cents and 25 cents, re-1 spectively, for contestants of the same three ages. All contestants not receiving a prize will be given a large white hyacinth bulb about October 1. o HERMAN WIECKING FUNERAL. A telegram from Ernst Wiecking, at Ridgewood, N. J., this morning informed relatives here that the body of Herman Wiecking, sr„ who died suddenly at Ridgewood Saturday morning, will be brought back to Bluffton for burial. The funeral party is expected in Bluffton some time late Tuesday afternoon. Definite arrangements for the funeral have not been announced,' although the servivqs will probably be held some time Wednesday afternoon. The message received this morning gave no additional information as to the cause of death.—Bluffton News. o BIBLE CLASS MEETING. The Men’s Bible class of the Presbyterian church will meet this evening at 7:30 at the home of H. S. Michaud, on Mercer avenue, and all members are requested to be present. Something doing and a good time assured; — o - SELLS FORD RUNABOUT Tlie firm of Graham & Walters purchased a new 1915 model Ford runabout this morning from the Ka.lver & Sikes agency and which will aid them greatly in their business. o — NOTICE. Tlie Walther League will meet at the school house tomorrow evening at 7:30. All members are requested to be present as business of importance will be transacted.

MAIL MAN KILLED Joseph L. Marquart, Monroeville Rural Carrier, Instantly Killed. MONDAY AFTERNOON When Struck by Pennsylvania Passenger Train— Well Known Here. Failing, because of the wind and rain, to hear warning shouted to him from tho Evans home to which he had just delivered mail, Joseph K. L. Marquart, aged 40 years, carried on rural route No. 3, out of Monroeville, drove directly into the path of Pennsylvania passenger train No. 21, and was killed instantly at 12:20 o’clock Monday afternoon between Maples and Monroeville. His horse was ground to pieces and the mail wagon was demolished. Mr. Marquat's body was thrown more than 100 feet down the track and the wheels severed his head. Blood and bits of flesh were found on the pilot of the engine when it arrived in Fort Wayne. For eight years Mr. Marquart had carried route 3, and lived in Monroeville. He was nearly through his trip when the accident occurred. The dead man was state treasurer of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and belonged to the Monroeville lodges of Re ( i Men and O. U. A. M.. and of the Fort Wayne lodge of Buffaloes. Surviving are the widow and four small children, mother. Mrs. Isaac Marquart and four brothers. Hurd Marquart, Fort Wayne; David. Scott and Ollie Marquart of Monroeville and vicinity. Funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning at the Monroeville United Brethren church. Burial will be at Monroeville. Conductor J. W. O'Rourke and Engineer J. H. Speece were in charge of the train. The unfortunate man was well known here, being a relative of the late Mrs. Al Steele. o ANGTHER_ MOVE Clover Leaf Bondholders Ask Appointment of Special Master for Creditors. PLAYING FOR DELAY They Want Cash Instead of Paying Out to Improve and Build up Road. The latest step in the Clover Leaf mix-up is the filing of a petition by tlie bondholders, who wish a special master appointed to rule on ail claims before they are paid. It is believed that this is but another step to delay the making of the improvements recently asked for by Receiver Ross and which includes the moving of the division to this city. A dispatch published this morning said: “Toledo, 0., June B—Clover Leaf bondholders charge collusion in the road’s receivership. In a petition filed yesterday in tlie L T nited States district court, a bondholders’ committee moved for an order referring all six months’ claims of creditors to a special master. The court is asked to direct Walter L. Ross, receiver for the Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad company, to hold al! income from the road, less current operating expenses, until final determination of this suit. Bondholders, who presented the petition, were Edwin G. Merrill, R. Walter Leigh, A. V. Morton and Roberts Walker. They declare the real object of the receivership is to prevent bond creditors from filing suit to collect claims otherwise than through the receivership course. They denounce it as a collusion and an abuse of the processes of the United States court.” o NOTICE, ROYAL NEIGHBORS. All Royal Neighbors see that their dues and assessments are paid in full before the 15th of June. MANAGERS.

| BOUNTIFUL BEGONIA BLOOMER. ’ Flower Mass is Larger Than the Plant Itself. Mrs. John Bolinger of West Monroe street, who has splendid fortune with plants, lias a begonia that would surely take a prize at a fair. It Is only two years old and not very large, but it is a wonderful bloomer. Since last Thanksgiving it has been in constant bloom, and the flowers themselves form in a mass like wreathes, the bunch of blooms being larger than , the foliage part of the plant. Tho flawers are of a lovely shade of pink and in form and arrangement arc similar to the hydrangea. It will be necessary to break off the blooms from this on for several weeks, in order that the life may be preserved. — — o - THE COURT NEWS Damage Case from Fort Wayne Venued to the Adams Circuit Court. ALSO ANOTHER CASE Poling Grave Desecration' Case Reached Court on Appeal from Justice. Another Allen county case venued hero from Fort Wayne today is that of Andrew J. Langhor vs. The City, of Fort Wayne, demand, $5,000 for: personal injuries sustained. A gin, pole of a dredging machine operated by tho city broke and fell on a guy i pole of the Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana railway, which in turn fell on Langhor, who was riding in a wagcn. He was thrown out on his head, rendering him unconscious, breaking his nose, bruising both knees, injuring both hands and his shoulder, and augmenting injury to rupture. He was in a hospital several weeks, he claimed, and suffered much also from the shock. Sheriff Ed Green left this morning for Putnamville with Ira Smith, who . will be placed on the state penal farm : near that place to enter upon his six ty-day sentence imposed for petit iar i ceny. Smith has the “honor” of being the first one to be sent from Ad ' ams county to the state penal farm. I A case entitled John 11. Teder vs i Lucinda Snyder, demand S2OO, for la- i bor and material furnished for plumb- i ing the defendant’s house, was ven 1 tied here from Allen county. ( 1 i A marriage license was issued last I evening to Claude M. Coffee, hardware 1 clerk, born December 4. 1892, son of 1 David M. Coffee, to wed Frances H. < Butler, born June 25, 1894, daughter s of City Mail Carrier Melvin J. Butler. < !i The case of The State of Indiana t vs. Estella Poling, charged by her i half-aunt, Mrs. Lib Hower, with “mali- < ciously mischievously, and wilfully t destroying plants and flowers. May 1 28” which were placed upon the grave < of her half-brother, Mrs. Poling's ■ father. Jeremiah Russell, for the pur- ; pose of “decorating and perpetuating i his memory” has reached the circuit court. Mrs. Poling was fined $5 and appealed the case to the higher court, from that of ’Suite Kintz. Licensed to wed: Nicholas Jennoy, carriage maker of Berne, born October 4, 1871, son of Jacob Jenney, to wed Clara Della Sheets, of Berne, milliner, born January 30, 1860. This is Mrs. Sheets’ second marriage, her first husband being deceased. ARRIVES FROM NEW YORK. The body of Herman Wiecking, who died suddenly in Ridgewood, N. J.,' Saturday, arrived in this city at 12: 401 o’clock this afternoon over the Erie. The Thoma auto hearse of Bluffton was at the station and the body will be taken to Bluffton. The funeral! services probably will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o’clock. — o ASTER PLANTS HERE. I I Children who desire aster plants for tlie civic league flower contest may secure the same by calling toniorr row at the Annie Winnes shoe store. 1 Mrs. Al Burdg has a large number, which she will give free to any who desire them at the Winnes store.

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LIKE SN OPERA • . Situation in Mexico Describ- ] ed bv Aunt of Will Kremers of This Citv. •iWHO WRITES LETTER Fform That Country—Food Question Serious—Praying for Intervention. Will Kremers, superintendent of the sugar plant, is in receipt of an interesting letter from his uncle and | aunt, who are located in Mexico City. | The unde was formerly a smelter in a mine there, but since the revolution started lie lias been doing newspaper . work in Mexico City. The letter i gives some inside facts concerning I conditions in that war-stricken country: Mexico City, May 4. Dear F’olks: —We learned through tlie Russian consul yesterday that I they will get mail out today and here- ! after to send out every two weeks. So ; I am scribbling off a few letters to i let you know that wo are safe as ever and expect to bo, whatever com. s. I have a few United States stamps ;u i,,.., ' for.- need not lie around in Vera Cruz. Then seuU I. special messenger to the boat. It has been a long time since we have heard from you. but it has been , a long time since we have had any I mail. Until last Saturday, when they ' surprised us with a few sacks of letters, of which we got our share. They ! were mostly from Reyer, from Janu- ■ ary up to March 23. the first we heard of his safe arrival at Meykguez. We surely did enjoy his visit here. He was with us just five weeks and had to spend more than that time on the road. But he was lucky to get in and out at all. If he had stayed a few days longer he would be with .is ye‘, and a forced vacation would not be very pleasant. Besides, he would probably have lost his position. We are both well, excepting colds, which are hard to get rid of down here. Abe is busy on the Mining Journal. They get out copy after copy and then they lie here in the postoffice. We hope there will be an end to it some day, but we sometimes wonder if we will live to see it. Things are steadily growing worse. We get plenty to eat, but at very high prices, and the poor are suffering. There is a commitee of foreigners who raised SIOO,OOO. Mexican money, last February, to buy food, etc., fcr the poor in .this city. They bought the food in Toluca, because there is none here and that food has been loaded on cars for weeks in Toluca. The reason it does not come here is because tho people in charge of the railroads demand such large sums of money to allow it to pass. In other words, pure graft. These Mexicans will not only let foreigenrs feed their poor people but make them pay well for the privilege. I cannot think of any better instance of national character. The hope is intervention and that before it is too late. If they come soon they can still sweep up some of the wreckage. If not. we will all be in line when that food conies from Toluca. The food question is becoming serious. When Carranza came back in January they decided to let in “articles i of prime necessity,” so they first sent us car loads of beer and shoe blacking. Then came beer and more beer. Then when flour and corn was not to be had in the city they sent us a car load of corks. I asked the hoarding house keeper if she had lain in her supply. Really this revolution is like comic opera: we have to laugh in spite o" the seriousness of it ail. Tho Carranzistas carried off all the window panes of a fine house just around , tlie corner that covered half the block, ! and so on. One dollar Mexican monlay is now worth about nine cents instead of fifty cents, and a loaf of bread costs SI.OO. They say Carranza will he back tomorrow. We hope so, and that he will do such terrible tilings that Uncle Sam cannot stay out another month, for these people would settle nothing in a thousand years. We have had no papers since I early in January, but we are lucky to have a good library to read—we do not want too much time to think. The announcement of Dr. Kremer’s death reached us only recently from Oaxaca. It is time to get this off, so it will be sure to go. We will try to (Continued on Page 2.)