Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 171.

TO LIVE LONG RNDJBE HAPPY Dr. Charles E. Barker Tells How to do it—Practical Lecture. SCIENTIFIC NIGHT Tonight—Pallaria and His Band Will be Here Saturday. THE PROGRAM. Friday Evening—7:4s. Concert, Orchestral club: popular scientific demonstrations Gyroscope and Ultra-Violet Ray, Montraviile Wood. Admission, 50c; children, 25c. Saturday Morning—9:oo. Children’s Hour, Russian Folk Tales and Folk Dances, Miss Vivian Ditto; lecture, "A Man's Thinking and His Children,” R. E. Patison Kline. Admission, 25c; children, 15c. Saturday Afternoon—2:3o. Grand Concert, Signor Pallarfa and his Band. Admission, 50c; children, 25c. Saturday Evening—7:4s. ( Grand concert, Signor Pallaria and his band. Admission, 50c; children, , 25c. • • » 1 There may have been scores who had , not the least expectation of living a j hundred years; and just as many who t had no desire of living a hundred t years, in their present condition of health, when they went to the lecture; but there were very few who heard 5 Dr. Charles E. Barker, of Grand Rap- 5 ids. Mich., at Chautauqua yesterday < afternoon, who went away unconvinc- j ed that they could not. and did not \ want to do so. j His lecture was wholly that of a v physician, and, according to many, the r best of its kind ever given in this 1 city; in fact, it would be difficult to < find its equal anywhere. c All the diseases in the world, he 1 said, may be called “impure blood.” ( To that they are due. How to keep \ the blood of the body in a normal, or. q pure condition, is therefore the way t to keep oil the disease. The body has q four ways of eliminating the impuri- , ties—by the lungs, the skin, the intestines and the kidneys. f Each of these he took up in de- .. tail. Speaking of the lungs, he said. 1 , ninety per cent of the people over r forty years of age. have subnormal , chest expansion. At the close of the f lecture he gave out charts with an outline of physical culture exercises , and among them were breathing exer-. r : rises for the development of the lungs. I ? He demonstrated the taking of the f exercises at the close of the lecture , j on the stage, and these carefully car- J ried out. he assured the people, would f insult in an increase of health and. assure longevity. 1 1 ; • The skin came next. The skin, he ; £ I said, is a network of fine sewers ( ■ through which the poisons in the form ; [ of perspiration or “sweat” are pour‘cd off. It is very necessary to keep ( I the sewers open. A startling thing. I perhaps, to many was hi» declaration 1 j that underwear and of I clothing clogged these “sewer open-1 ( ■ ings.” He advocated a hot water ' bath, but not every day. for that would . i weaken and shorten life, but at least ' | once or twice a week. He also advoI rated a dry-rub of the body with a i flesh brush or “fibre mits” each mornI Ing on arising and in the evening I when about to retire, to keep the |i pores open and clean. One lady | I ninety-six years of age, whom he met t after his lecture in Sault de Ste. Marie, I Mich., who retained the good looks, | the vitality and health of a woman j of fifty or sixty, had told him aftei Ehls lecture that she had used the I? daily dry-rub for .eighty years, having learned the secret from a physician I of eighty years of age in New York. » The intestinal elimination was next Constipation shortens 4 life. Ninety-nine cases out of a huntdred, of appendicitis, he said, are due to constipation. Much of consti- . pat ion he attributed to patent mediSeines. He fired a heavy broadside at Kthe users of patent medicines, which »he declared to be one of the greatest, menaces against longevity. After a lurid description of the methods used by patent medicine concerns to advertise the medicine, he stated that the majority of people took them for the large per cent of alcohol they contain- | ed—that they got them and went on a "cheap drunk.” He stated that he

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had more respect for the man who went straight up to the bar and I bought a drink of whiskey than for one who took It In patent medicine form, a "refined” form. He gave five things lor the cure of constipation. (1) , On arising each morning drink two glasses of hot water, sipped slowly, in each of which a quarter teaspoonful of salt has been dissolved; this makes an antiseptic wash for the Intestines. (2) Spend ten or twelve minutes daily in exercising in your own room, the lyin-down exercises for the stomach and intestines. (3) Consider the diet. Eliminate meat, until cured, and then use sparingly; eat cereals, green vegetables and fruits. (4) Form the habit of drinking from twelve to fourteen cups of cold water every day. (5) Before going to bed at night, drink the juice of two oranges. \ White bread was given as the cause, and he advocated the using of whole wheat bread. Bananas were among the fruit tabooed, as being very indigestible and causing appendicitis. What every city needs is a hospital of its own. The cause of the majority of deaths in those cases where patients are taken out of town to a city hospital, is that the cases are turned over by the surgeons after operations to the green, young physicians, just out of medical college. In the hospital in the home town, the family physician, who knows every ieature of his patient, could have personal supervision. He then took up the kidneys. These organs eliminate the poisons not taken up by the foregoing ones named. When they become overworked, they go on a strike, after several years. That is the reason, he said, why so many people, at the age of forty, fifty or sixty, when they should be at their best, break down. Care that the skin, lungs and intestines do their duty, will save the kidneys. He, told of one great Paris physician who went to Bulgaria and learned why of the inhabitants of that small country, 4.773 were over one hundred years of age! and of that number, 400 were 135 years of age. He spent a year there and on his return home went over his data carefully, with the result that he found that their long life was due to the following: (1) Not one had ever eaten meat more than once a day because they were driven by necessity to eliminate it. They confined their diet chiefly to green vegetables, cereals and fruits. (2) That every one drank from fifteen to twenty-five cups of water daily. (3) That they drank buttermilk or sour milk two or three times a day. Buttermilk or sour milk has been found to supply to the intestines those “beneficient” germs, conducive to long life. If the butttermilk or sour milk is not obtainable, there are tablets which can be bought whereby it can be made, from sweet milk. He spoke of the great harm done in eating when in an attitude of worry, anger or irritation. When in that state, the gastric glands close and refuse to secrete or pour out their juices, hence digestion is retarded. There is no necessity for worry he stated, and urged happiness, which he said was not due to external conditions. Happiness depends upon law, and this law can be learned. He gave the following rules for “How to be Always Happy:” 1. Cultivate the habit of always looking on the bright side of every experience. 2. Accept cheerfully the place in life that is yours, believing that is the best possible place for you. 3. Throw your whole soul and spirit into your work, and do it the best you know how. 4. Get into the habit of doing bits of kindness and courtesies to all tliose who touch your life each day. 5. Adopt and maintain a simple, child-like attitude Os. confidence and | trust in God as your own Father. The exercises he demonstrated, were those used by President Taft, whose physical adviser he was during Taft’s administration. At the close of the lecture he invited the women to remain for a specific talk. Dr. Barker's morning lecture, mi "The Finest of the Fine Arts” or "How to Be Always Happy” was equally good. Those who heard Signor Gieusuppe Bartolotta, the Italian tenor, in Ills impromptu numbers the evening before, were prepared in a measure for ] the excellent musical program he ' gave yesterday afternoon, but he exI celled even their best expectations. Signor Bartolotta gave the first part of the program, principally in his native language, and lor the second sang in English. He is a master and . Decatur seldom has the privilege of , hearing a better singer. He is a s (Continued on Page 2.)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, July 16, 1915.

i LAD DROWNED IN BLUE CREEK r I j Milo Reynolds, Residing Near Berne, Loses Life in Blue Creek Ditch, SWEPT FROM ROPE — And Could Not Swim—Was Wading in Ditch With Four Companions.

While wading in Blue Creek with his brother, Chester, and three other companions, Paul, Homer and Edgar Habegger, Milo Reynolds, the seven-teen-year-old son of Mrs. Bessie Reynolds. residing in Monroe township, three and one-half miles north of Berne, was drowned this morning shortly after ten o’clock. Owing to the torrential rains of the past few days, the water in Blue Creek has reached a flood stage, the place where the young boy lost his life being over ten feet deep. As none of the boys could swim, they had secured several ropes and stretched them across the big ditch, then they would wade out to their depth and paddle around. The ditch lielng rather narrow, the large volumn of water caused a very strong current and it is thought that young Reynolds lost his grip on the rope and was carried out of the safety zone by the current. As none of his companions could swim, they were incapable of offering any assistance and were forced to stand by and see their brother and companion lose his life. The boys immediately summoned several farmers to the scene but they arrived too late as the boy had sunk (Continued on Page 3.) 7 o CHANGEJ DATE Fly Swatting Contest Will Close July 24 Instead of on July 25. AS WAS ANNOUNCED Much Interest Being Manifested in County—Many Flies Being Killed. The contest being waged by the Ad- ' ams County Anti-Tuberculosis asso- ' elation, in which prizes are offered to the person killing the greatest number of flies, will close July 24. In the previous announcement the date of closing was fixed for July 25, but as that date falls on Sunday the association has changed same to the 24th. The first prize is $4.00. second $3.00, third. $2.00 and fourth SI.OO, and the contest is under the following rules: Contest open to every person in the coupty. Flies may be caught or killed in any manner. Flies must be presented in lightweight grocery sacks, tied in such a manner to permit inspection. Al flies must be presented not later than 12 o’clock, noon, July 24, 1915, to the persons whose names appear opposite their town in list following: Decatur —City Library—Mrs. C. V. Connell. Monroe—Postoffice — Miss Harriet Mayer. Berne —Berne Witness Office —Fred Rohrer. Geneva —W. A. Wells—furniture Store. All persons entering the contest must carefully observe above rules to be eligible to a prize. ' Prizes will be sent to winners and ' a full report of contest will be pub--1 lished in all papers of the county, as soon as reports are received and com- ' . piled. , ' o MRS. CHRISTEN OPERATED ON. Word has been received that Mrs. - Frank C. Christen was operated on a few days ago at. the hospital in Mus•'kogee, Okla., for inward goitre, and t that she is believed to be recovering ■ nicely. She underwent an operation' I in the early spring for appendicitis I and had just recovered from that f many friends here are sincerely and i earnestly hoping for her speedy re- ‘ • covery.

' NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Decatur. Indlanrf. July 16, 1915. Whereas the common council of the City of Decatur, State of Indiana, have had all the ordinances of said city printed in book form and whereas there are new ordinances printed therein relating to the driving and parking of automobiles, the building of sewers on streets and alleys, doing plumbing work, changing the names of several streets, cleaning of sidewalks by property owners, inspection of buildings and several other ordinances, Therefore. I, Charles N. Christen, mayor of the City of Decatur, State of Indiana, do hereby declare all ordinances as printed in said ordinance book, to be in full force and effect. CHAS. N. CHRISTEN. Mayor of the City of Decatur, Indiana.

o — TRAFFIC FOLICE * “Cops” Will be Stationed at the Monroe and Madison Street Corners. SATURDAY MORNING To Instruct Vehicle Drivers to Turn Corners—Ordinance Must be Obeyed. Starting with tomorrow morning Saturday July 17, two traffic policemen will be stationed at, the corners of Monroe and Second and Madison streets for the purpose of instructing anj giving ’’lessons” to all auto drivers or to any other vehicle how to turn a square corner and then to keep on the “right” side of the street thereafter. The new city ordinance which went into effect yesterday compels all drivers of any vehicle to turn a square corner and then travel on the right side of the road. In order that this ordinance will bo observed and that the public will have no excuse for disobeying it, the traffic policemen will see that they are acquainted from the start. The names of the traffic "cops” are not yet known but it is thought that Will Biggs will be one of them. Chief of Police Melchi will appoint the men and also see l ' ie ru l es of the ordinance are observed. The men will remain at their post about three weeks. —o —— HORSES FOR ARMY Last evening Ed Ahr and Leo Weber shipped twenty-eight head of fine cavalry and artillery horses to Paul Conley Philadelphia from which place they will be shipped to Europe and taken by the French government for army purposes. The horses were shipped from here over the Erie. IN THE BIG TENT All Young People of Different Churches Will Meet Sunday Evening IN CHAUTAUQUA TENT Good Program is Arranged -■-Services Will Open at 6:3o—’All Invited. A union meeting of all the young people’s societies of the different churches will be held Sunday evening in the Chautauqua tent just across the river. The services will open at 6:30 o’clock. An invitation to everybody is extended to attend the services. Following is the program that will be delivered: Opening Song—Audience. Prayer—Mrs. B. Borton. Vocal Solo—Cecil Andrews. Talk, subject, “Social Obligations of the Young People’s Societies to the City of Decatur" —C. J. Lutz. 1 Singing —Ladies’ Quartet of the M. E. Church. Talk. “Decatur’s Need for Christian Young People”—C. L. Walters. Song - Audience. Prayer. \

TRACTION LINE OFFERED AGAIN Koenig and Dirkson Forfeit SI,OOO Deposit—Sale Ordered August 12th. ■ OFFER MADE TODAY Fred Dolph Offers $130,000 for Road and Presents Check for $5,000. I

The Fort Wayne £• Sphingfield traction line will again be offered at public sale on Thursday, August 12th. On that date the bidder must qualify by depositing a certified check for $5,000 and enter into a contract to pay the balance o? the purchase price within sixty days from date of sale. This will make the fifth time the property has been offered for sale, three times there having been no bidders and the last time, May the 4th, but two. Mrs. Dirkson and Mrs. Koenig fortified the SI,OOO deposit made at that time when they failed to‘pay into court this morning the sum of $5,000. When the matter came up on the 6th, the court agreed to a proposition that the parties who had deposited SI,OOO be given ten days in which to pay in $5,000 with the understanding that the balance be paid within twenty days. This morning these parties reported that they had been unable to secure the money and a longer time was asked. This was denied by the court. A petition was then presented, signed by Fred Dolph in which he asked that the road be sold to him for $130,000, he agreeing to pay to the receiver the sum of (Continued on Page 4.) o BOY IS DROWNED Erwin Smith, Son of J. S. Smith, of Monroeville, Loses Life. WENT -SWIMMING- IN Flooded Creek and Seized With Cramps—Relative of T. G. Thomas J. Smith, reslduig near Williams, received a message this morn-1 ing informing him of the deatli by I drowning of his nephew, Erwin Smith, at Monroeville last evening. The Journal-Gazette says: Erwin Smith, fifteen years old, son of John S. Smith, barber at Monroeville, was drowned while bathing last night at Quinlan’s bridge over Flat Rock, one and three-quarters miles east of Monroeville. Young Smith had been swimming in the afternoon where he later lost his life,) and after supper returned with three other boys, Wilbur and Howard Webster and William Taylor.. With the creek high because of the recent rains a depth of over twenty feet of water was registered. Smith and Howard were swimming together, when evidently seized by a cramp, Smith disappeared beneath the surface, sinking without a stroggle. The alarm was given by his companions and preparations were made to drag the stream. Word was sent to Sheriff A. C. Gladieux and the Fort Wayne police who prepared to send grappling hooks to aid in the recovery of the body, but before the apparatus could be sent, word came at 7:30 that Roy Johnson, armed with a pikepole, liad brought up the body some distance from where Smith was drowned. It was lying in about ten feet of water and close to the shore. Coroner E. H. Kruse was notified and Clerk Robert Garmire viewed the body at Monroeville. Besides Smith’s father, one sister survivec. n A GRAND ARMY MEETING The members of the Grand Army will Saturday afternoon at 1:3(1 o'clock at their hall. Business of irn portanee will be transacted and every member Is requested to be present.

THE JITNEY IS WANING. — Vincennes, Ind., July 16—(Special to Daily Democrat) Jitney bus traffic in Vincennes is waning. The jitney became almost an Issue in city life, because of the war which the local city administration has waged on the Vincennes Traction company. The jitney obtained popular administration favor immediately. For several days the business flourished. Evevery person who had four wheels and a carbureator got into line until the more responsible men withdrew. A jitney regulation ordinance was threatened which placed a license of SI,OOO on the business. Jitney busses became scarcer until now an occasional jitney Is seen, with several Saturday night lines in operation. As an offspring to the jitney service, auto bus lines to neighboring towns sprang into vogue with varying success.

COMING HOME r , ) Governor Ralston and Party Expected to Return by » End of Next Week. AFTER GREAT TRIP — ■ Now Enroute Home from Panama—Well EntertainI ed at Exposition. (By Willis S. Thompson) Indianapolis, Ind., July 16 —It is un- j derstood that Governor Ralston and family will return from their PanamaPacific trip about the 24th or 25th. They are now interning from the Panama canal, and will come byway of New Orleans, whence they took pas- j sage on the 7th for the round trip to ■ the canal via Havana. Those of the governor’s original ! party who have returned declare they had the time of their lives on the trip to San Francisco. Most of them I managed to stay together for the week they visited the exposition. They were entertained as a party with auto rides and in various ways. They were | guests of Colonel Foote at the Pre-! sidio, the military post; also of the | commandant at the naval training sta- ( tion on Goat Island, and were taken by a government boat to visit the battieship Oregon. The party began to scatter at San ( Francisco, but almost twenty of them go together again at Los Angeles, j where they were entertained by the chamber of commerce, under the man-' j agement of Secretary Frank Wiggins. I The entertainment included an auto I drive followed by a luncheon at the ( Beverly Hills hotel. The second day included a trip to the Catalina Islands, j three hours by boat from Los Angeles, j The Ralston and the Hughes families made a one-day stop at Bakers-1 field on their way from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where they visited Mr. Hughes’ brother and other friends. The governor’s stay in San Diego was short, because he was due with his family at New Orleans July (i,, having secured passage on a boat j leaving for Panama the next day. But, they spent a very busy and pleasant half day at that exposition. While | of course the San Diego fair is nothing like so pretentious in size or scope ; as that at San Francisco, yet in some respects it is superior. The landscape architect who conceived and ' carried out this vision, creating aver ! itable paradise out of rough desert of , sand dunes and sagebrush, was certainly a master of his profession and ; i a genius. o WABASH ON A RAMPAGE. 1 Huntnigton, Ind., July 17—(Special - to Daily Democrat) —Floods along the ■ Wabash and the Salamonie, a branch ' of the Wabash, were damaging crops, ' washing out tracks and delaying t trains today. At Monument City the • Salamonie is out of its banks, water 1 is leved with corn tops in some fields. * Wheat fields are destroyed. Last 3 night the Wabash tracks were washed out in five places between here and Wabash. Grave fears are felt along the Wabash because of reported floods in Ohio. The Wabash is an y outlet for northern Ohio. All train I) and traction service is tied up and i- telephone lines are down so that it y is impossible to collect details of damage done.

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{PEACE PLANS ARE DISCUSSED Ambassador Bernstorff and Secretary Lansing Held Long Conference. TALK OVER POINTS In American Note and German Reply™ Gernian U-59 is Sunk.

Washington, D. C., July 16—(Speci ial to Daily Democrat) That German i Ambassador Bernstorff suggested to 1 Secretary Lansing today a plan he believes may serve as an entering wedge for peace's restoration in Europe, was confirmed this afternoon on reliable authority. Washington, I). C., July 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The GermanAmerican situation was gone over in all its angles today between Secretary Lansing and Ambassador Bern* storfl’. Naval warfare, blockades, the use of submarines, the Lusitania case —every question raised in Wilson’s last communication to Berlin and in the German response to it—were handled in detail. The Nebraskan case was also referred to and it was understood that in a chat the ami bassador had with Assistant Secretary Phillips following his conversation with Secretary Lansing, the matter of indemnity to the ship owners i was taken up. When Lansing was I asked if the conference was satisfactory, he made no reply. The conver-* ' sation was said to have included no reference to Austria’s complaint eonI cerning American munition shipments ■to the allies and from this it was con!eluded that Germany did not plan, as it was supposed she would do. a similar note to the United States. I — Athens, July 16. —(Special to Daily I Democrat) —Russian ships have sunk pile German submarine U-51 in the , Black Sea according to advises from reliable sources - The U-51 performed one of the most notable exploits of the war by 'proceeding from Wilhelmshaven to Constantinople, through the Medditer- ! rian. the longest trip dver undertak'en. Arriving off the Dardanelles, she torpedoed the Britisii ships, Triumph I and Majestic. 1 Berlin, July 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Germans are continuing their drive upon Warsaw from the north, sweeping onward through ' I’rzhsnysz. the war office announced 'this afternoon. The official statement 1 also contained the admission that the French have driven the Germans from a section of trenches south of Souchez. o LIMA HOMES FLOODED Lima, 0.. July 16. — (Special to the Daily Democrat) —At 10:10 a. m. the Ottowa river’s flood stage passed the ' highest mark reached in the 1913 flood. This put 1,000 more homes un--1 der water, making the total number about 2.200. Firemen and police in boats were busy rescuing maroon■ed persons. Torrential rains caused the floods. Several deaths are expected among invalids. An unidenti- ; tied man, aiding in the rescue of a I marooned family was caught in the flood and drowned. This was the first flood fatality. j Two persons are dead, many injured and thousands are homeless as a result of the flood that is sweeping a path half a mile wide over twenty miles between Ada and Lima today. o MINISTER IS ON TRIAL. i * ■■■' ■ , Princeton, Ind., July 16—The secre- ; tary of the Sunday school faced the > minister of the church here today r when the criminal case of Miss Dale . Gardner, against Rev. J. A. Persingter came to trial Mr. Persinger is - pastor of the Christian church of Ows ensville. Gibson county, which charge t he has held for three years. When ■ the minister was arraigned last week, i he pleaded not guilty to the charge. i He said that the charge was a scheme I to injure him. He is married. Miss i Gardner, who is the daughter of Mrs. Jeanette Gardner, has been secretary of the Sunday school for some time.