Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 189.

MORE TROOPS GOTOBORDER Three United States Soldiers Killed and Five Ranchers Wounded in BATTLE WITH BANDITS Carranza Orders Minister Out of Mexico and May Force Wilson’s Hand. (United Press Service) Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 9 (Special to Daily Democrat) —Three United States soldiers and fifteen to twenty , Mexicans are reported to have been wounded in a battle today al the Norias ranch. Harlingen, Tex., Aug. 9, — (Special to Daily D e mocrat (—Reinforcements consisting of 35 U. S. soldiers and 12 civilians were rushed from here early today to the Noriae ranch in Cameron county where five Americans were reported wounded, and six Mexican outlaws were said to have been killed or wounded in a battle last night bet we.-n U. S. troops, Texas Rangers and the American ranchmen on one side and Mexican bandits on tlie other. Rumor says that at least 2(10 Mexicans were in the stacking party. The fourteen ranch men defended the house until late last night when the surviving Mexicans withdrew. All this section of Texas is in terror as a result of the frequent Mexican raids and many trains have been stopped and business practically suspended throughout the threatened territory. Sheriff Baker of Hildago, county is reported as saying that 300 Mexicans have crossed the Rio Grande and are traveling over ( Hildalgo county in parties of threes ] and fours apparently making ther way to some meeting point. I By Charles P. Stewart) i Washington, D. C., Aug. 9—(Special to Daily Democrat)—That General Carranza is on the eve of proclaim- ■ Ing himself provisional president of < Mexico as a means of forcing the ■ hands of the United States and Latin- , American powers and, if possible, j compelling them to recognize him was | rumored here this afternoon. General ■ Carranza personally has muddled mat- ; ters by expelling from Mexico Gauta- < malian Minister Orteca. The sudden leave taking of the Brazilian minister, , Olievera, the only diplomatic renre- . sentative of the United States ■ in t Mexico City, also caused turmoil. The , navy department instructed the com- . mander of the gun boat Sacramento to place a war ship at his disposal and to do all possible to assist Orteca. , Carranze is believed to suspect Or- . teca of encouraging the Yucatan re- . bellion. The Latin-American countries may consider this as a direct , slap from Carranza, making the efforts of Secretary Lansing without avail. That Carranza was angry with the Brazilian minister was hinted. Loredo, Tex., Aug. 9,—(Special to Dally Democrat)—Under rush orders the department of Texas, four companies left on a special train for Hammondville in the Brownsville country early today. They will arrive this afternoon. Berlin, Aug. 9—(Special to the Daily Democrat) — The Turkish Kheyer-Ed-Bin Biassen, one of the largest fighting units in the Turkish navy, has been sunk in the Sea of Marmora by a British submarine. This was formerly (he German battle ship Kurfust Frederick Wilhelm and was purchased from Germany in 1910. She displaced 9,000 tons and normally carried a crew of 579 men. Washington, Aug. 9,— (Special to Daily Democrat)—General Villa is massing forces at Torreon for what the state department reports today, declare promises to be the decisive battle of the Mexican struggle. The Hague, Aug. 9,— (Special to the Daily Democrat) —By blasting his way through the Russian defenses with terrific gun fire, General Von Galliwitz with 300,000 German troops has arrived within less than ten miles of the important Warsaw-Petrograd railway, one of the two last avenues of escape for the Slavs in the Warsaw district. Berlin, Aug. 9,— (Special to Daily Democrat) —German troops have crossed the Vistula and occupied Kraga, an eastern suburb of Warsaw when the ‘ (Continued on Page Two)

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NO JOBS FOR GRASS WIDOWS. Washington, D. C. Aug. 9 —No | "grass widow" need apply for any Job I in the gift of the postmaster general, * according to a decree filed today in the announcement of a competitive examination for October 2 by the United States civil service commission. The clause is too strict to admit of misconstruction, so the matrimonially dissatisfied must turn either to the courts for a divorce or seek other fields of human endeavor. A divorced woman may be placed on the eligible list. o PURCHASES STUDEBAKER. L. W. Frank has purchased a new Studebaker car. He and Carl Smith the local agent, will go to Huntington tomorrow to bring the car here, MANY SEE WORK » —“■ ' i Dredging of Blue Creek Proves Interesting to the Many Spectators DAY AND NIGHT Sunday and Week Day Big Machine is Busy—Flood Relief to Land Owners. The high waters have worked much destruction to crops over the country, but a portion of Adams county has great relief in sight. This is the portion of the country which is drained by the big Blue creek. The work of dredging is now going on day and night, Sunday not excepted. Many from this city visited the scene of the "wet” dredging yesterday, near the George Gates farm southeast of Monroe. The dredge has been effected a distance ofa half mile, but it was found to be not deep enough, hence the machne was pulled back and the work is being gone over again. The large “wet” dredge sets on the water like a boat. The employes live entirely on the water, their two "shanties” being in boat form, and pulled after the dredge by the dredge power. There are six men working by day and three by night. The weather does not affect the working, as the men work under cover in the dry, and can proceed rain or shine. The ditch will be forty feet wide and eleven feet deep when completed, and the "wet dredging” will be about twelve miles long. As they can go about two miles a month, it will take about six months to complete the job. The big shovel carries out a cubic yard of dirt with each dip, and is suspended on a large crane about forty feet long, which carries the dirt out and over onto the bank about fifteen feet from the edge of the ditch, a safe distance to prevent its washing back into the creek again. Coal is used in operating the dredge. This is brought down to the creek by wagon and loaded on barges which carry it up to the dredge. Tha “wet” dredging proceeds east from the George Gates farm. Near this point there are two branches of the Blue creek. One runs toward Monroe and the other towards Berne. These will de “dry” dredged. The dredges for this are on the scene but work has been delayed on account of the wet weather, as the “dry” dredges cannot be operated at all times like the “wet”dredge. Fred C. Morgan has the contract. The visitors find the trip to the scene a very interesting one. Much of the land along the Blue creek and its branches have been under water during the Tecent floods and crops have suffered heavily. o HELD UNDER HEAVY BOND. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 9—(Special to Daily Democrat) —James Kervan, president of the board of county commissioners, jokinglytold a reporter that he intended to go to California to remain until December. The story was printed also jokingly. It became known today that Prosecutor Rucker, who considers Kervan a valuable witness against Thomas Taggart, Mayor Bell and 100 other politicians charged with conspiring to corrupt the election, saw the item, notified Special Judge Eichhorn in Bluffton, rounded up a deputy sheriff and had Kervan give a $5,000 bond to appear as a witness in the case. —o — — The Loyal Workers' class of the Evangelical church will meet Thur«- ' day evening with Mrs. Ollie Heller on Jefferson street.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, August 9, 1915.

IS PROSPEROUS ) , 1 Geo. J. Henneford Prosperous in Montana—Contributes to Growth • OF THE COUNTRY Owns Fine 320-acre Ranch and Also in Business in the Town. George J. Henneford, a former Decatur blacksmith, son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Meyers of North Third street, who went to Montana several years ago, is the subject of one of the interesting series of business men’s sketches, published by The Carter Herald, Carter, Chouteau county, Mont. Decatur friends will bo pleased to hear of his success in the west. The sketch says: “It may not be generally known, but it is a fact nevertheless, that Carter has as good a blacksmith and machine shop as there is in Chouteau county. George J. Henneford, the owner, was born at Vera Cruz. Ind., and learned his trade there under the able instruction of his father. Later on he went to Decatur and put in a shop which he conducted for eleven years. He came ti Montana in 1912 and filed on a 320-acre homestead fourteen miles from Carter and has it all fenced and about 100 acres under cultivation. Mr. Henneford opened a blacksmith and machine shop in Carter in May of this year in a new building 24x48 feet, and has installed the latest labor-saving machinery. He runs two forges, has a fifty-pound trip hammer, power drill press, emery stand, disc sharpener that will handle a 32inch disc, the latest creation in a tire bolter, a four horse power gasoline engine, overhead shafting, belts, pulleys, and carries a big stock of iron, and everything necessary for quick repair work. He makes a specialty of horseshoeing, plow sharpening and general repair work. He also carries a good line of wood stock for wagon and buggy work. Mr. Peter Weis, who learned his trade in the old country, assists Mr. Henneford in turning out reliable and thorough work.” TEACHERS_NAMED Instructors for the Coming Year Have Been Selected With Exception of THE SCIENCE TEACHER School Will Open September 6—Several New Names on the List. With the arrival of Monday, September 6th., the old familiar bells from the various public schools in the city will again summon the students from their three months delightful vacation and rest to begin another nine months term of study ana educational seeking. To assist the students and instruct them in their work, the school board has selected an exceptionally strong corps of teachers for the 19151916 term and all of the positions with the exception of the science chair, have been filled, as follows: Superintendent. C. E. Spaulding. High School Faculty. Principal—M. F. Worthman. English—Virginia Cravens. Latin—Belle Batchelor. German—Rrieda G. Wehmhoff. History—Ray C. Penrose. Commercial —E. E. Barnhart. Manual Training and Agriculture— H. R. Charman. Domestic Science—Bessie Boyers. Music and Drawing—Elizabeth Schrock. Science position not yet filled. GRADE TEACHERS. Central Building. Principal Departmental Work, i Arithmetic and Algebra—Jonas C. I Tritch. t Penmanship and Grammar—Grace Coffee. Reading, Geography and Physiology —Ella Alutschler. 3 Read ng and History—Matilda - Sellemever. ) / Library. Primary—Bessie Congleton. *1

| Second and Third—Effie Patton, k North Ward. Principal, Sixth Grade and Part of Fisth —John R. 1-arrlsh, Fourth and Fisth —Margaret Moran. Second and Third—Della Sellemeyer. Primary—Elizabeth Peterson. West Ward. Principal, Fifth and Sixth —Lewis O. Adler. Fourth and Fisth —Neva Brandyberry. Second and Third —Nelle E. Winnes I Primary—Ruby F. Miller. South Ward. Principal, Fifth and Sixth—John E. Nelson. Fourth and Fifth—Estella Perkins. Second and Third—Alma Kooken. Primary—Eva J. Acker. A BOLDJOBBERY Three Berne Youths Break Into Candy Kitchen on Sundav Morning and GET AWAY WITH Twenty-seven Dollars—Fathers Settle Damage and Case is Dropped. i With a display of daring that would | shame a professional cracksman, I three young boys, members of highly 1 respected families, residing in Berne, 1 broke into and robbed the candy 1 kitchen of Raymond Abdul, a Greek, 1 at that place, Sunday morning, while ' the proprietor was attending Sunday school, and made their get-away with 1 about $27, taken from the cash box. 1 Following Abdul’s return from Sun- 1 day school, the lads walked in and or- ! dered ice cream. Mr. Abdul was pre- * sented with a dollar in payment and 1 upon going to the cash box to make 1 change, discovered the robbery. After an investigation. Indications pointed to the three boys as being the guilty ' ones and Ab'ul turned the matter ' over to the marshal. The boys were 1 apprehended and after a little “third 1 degree” work, finally admitted their guilt. They stated that one of them ' had entered the place of business by a rear window, while the other two remained outside and kept watch. | The boys’ parents were notified and | as they promised to make restitution, Abdul decided not to file any proceedings against them. The boys range , in age from fifteen to seventeen years. o BROADWAY FEATURE. The Broadway Star feature at the Crystal this evening is entitled “The Lady of the Lighthouse,” and is a feature in every respect, with Miss j Rose Tapely playing the leading role. The story isa heart touching one filled with tense and dramatic situations ] and one that will appeal to all. For tomorrow’s program, Manager Parent has booked the popular two-reel Biograph drama entitled, “Adam Bede,” one of the most noted and interesting features on the road. In connection with this an Essanay comedy entitled “The Undertaker’s Un- 1 cle” will also be given. 1 o , HAND IS SPLIT: 1 1 1 Leland Hall. Thrown from ' Wheel When it Collides i With Automobile. I ON ADAMS STREET ‘ ( Right Hand Split Between ' Index and Middle Fingers i —Painful Injury. , i Leland Hall, aged fifteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Hall of Thirteenth 1 street, harf an exciting and most painful experience Sunday afternoon. He was riding along Adams street when he collided with an automobile. The i boy was thrown from his wheel, falling ' to the brick pavement in such away that he received the weight of the , fail on his right hand. The bone of the palm between the index and ■ middle fingers was split. The services of a physician eased him somewhat t and he will get along all right, but will be disabled for some time. He Jid not know who the occupants of the automobile were.

GOLDEN_WEDDING Friends of Well Known Couple, Mr. and Mrs. .Jasper Gilbert Join IN THE CELEBRATION Os Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary at Steeles Park Sunday. Fifty years ago tomorrow, Jasper ’Gilbert and Miss Milly Stogdill were married near Newville, southeast of this city. Their golden wedding was, however, celebrated yesterday at Steele's park, this city, in order that more might attend who would otherwise not be able to come during the week. The day was also the seventysecond birthday anniversary of Mr. Gilbert. Mrs. Gilbert will be seventy years of age her next birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, who reside on Patterson street, this city, have spent the majority of their married life here, though they have lived at Ossian and other places for a period of the time. Os their eight children, seven are living, and they also have twenty grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. The greater number of their children and other relatives including brothers and sisters, were present, besides a large number of friends, when the celebration took place yesterday. The occasion was much enjoyed. Rev. Benjamin Borton and Rev. F. H. Harman of the Christian and United Brethren churches, this city, and John Vardanan of Ossian gave fine talks, and a grand dinner was spread at noon. The couple received many pretty gifts from friends who live away, as well as letters and messages of good wishes, while those at the celebration yesterday gave them a purse of money with which to buy a gift that would suit them best. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Stogdill of Ossian; Geo. Stogdill and daughter, Glen, of Bluffton; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stogdill and daughter, Jeanette, of Ossian; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Sotgdill of Convoy. Ohio; James A. Stogdill of Os(Continued on page 2) o OFF FOMOLEDO Everything Ready for Methodist Excursion to Walbridge Park, Toledo. AND FAIR WEATHER Is Promised by Weather Man—Leave Tuesday at 6:30 O’clock. Everything is ready for the Methodist Sunday School Excursion to Walbridge Park, Toledo, Ohio. Tuesday, morning. The weather report for today says “‘Fair tonight and tomorrow” ana everybody is glad that definite plans can now be declared for starting bright and early at 6:30 o’clock tomorrow morning over the Clover Leaf. It is estimated that five hundred from here will attend; at Willshire,, Ohio, 200 will join the delegation; and about 150 at Bobo. Ample accomodations will be in order. Refreshments will be sold on the train and the baggage car will be especially fitted up to care for the lunch baskets. A fine time is anticipated, and everybody expects to enjoy himself to the utmost. It needed only the favorable weather report to put everybody into the best of spirits. o BIRTH OF SON. Rober Randall is the name of the son born to Mr. and Mrs. Homer Raudenbush south of the city, this being the second child and son in the family. The mother was formerly Miss Olive Tague, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Tague, of Monroe. BAND CONCERT The city band will give its regular weekly concert this evening at 7:30 at the corner of Jefferson and Second streets.

| I WILL GIVE TRANSFERS. I Terre Haute. Ind., Aug. 9—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Jitney bus lines operating in Terre Haute in competiI tion with the traction company will adopt tickets and establish belt lines They probably will give transfers. These points were brought out at a meeting today of jitney men at C. L. U. hall. They are organized into Local Union, No. 168. Terre Haute also will have a Jitney terminal station, if i the plan of J. C. Holden, presdent of the union, is adopted. It will he in • the shape of a down-town office where information will be supplied and orders taken for special jitney service. Jitney men said today that from now on all their efforts will be to please the public. They predicted a never-end- . ing fight with the traction company. o A BIG_SOCCESS Former Decatur Enterprise Developing Into Ten Million Dollar Concern. AT GRAND RAPIDS Is the Subject of a Special Feature Write-up by Harry J. Daniels. The following clipping is part of < an advertising article written by Har- 1 ry J. Daniels on the United Motor Truck company, located at Grand Rapids, Mich., and which was formerly the Coppock Motor company of this city. The article was headed, ' "Getting Honey from a ‘Lemon;’ or the story of making a splendid success from a down-and-out industrial enterprise.” The article states that the new enterprise is one of the most successful in the automobile field and is developing into a ten million dollar business: “When Frank T. Huswalt, president of the United Light & Railways company, bid in a certain decrepit motor truck company at a receiver's sale more than a year ago and organized the United Motor Truck company, several of the financiers and manufacturers of this city suggested that ‘Frank has bit into a lemon at last,' and they 'sort of felt sorry’ that the brilliant young heir of the successful United Light company had been so easy. “But presto, that lemon is proving to be a plum of most luscious size and taste. “Supposing the United Motor Truck company worked 365 days in the year —and it may have to in order to keep ahead of the order book—and built ' five trucks a day. They would be making 1,825 trucks. Supposing they were to get $2,900 for each one of ' them. They would beturning out of 1 their factory $5,292,500. Then let us 1 suppose that they were to double this ' business—and in reality they MUST —and get up to ten trucks a day. 1 Their business would be reaching the ’ staggering figures of more than ten and one-half million dollars a year. , "This is not a case of ’suppose,' • however, for the company is now , building five trucks a day, and has the orders on its books for ten trucks a day—if the company can find the 1 men to deliver the goods to the ship- 1 ping clerk. “That is the sort of a lemon that 1 Frank bit into. He is somewhat surprised himself. “The United Motor Truck company has become the talk of the town in the last few days, business men having but recently heard much of anything of the new company, so little of the details of the company's work having leaked out from the factory, and the phenomenal success of the United Motor Truck company is surprising. “A little investigation showed that the company has been buying 50 to 75 large size Continental motors per month, from 50 to 75 large size Wisconsin motors per month, 150 to 200 steering gears per month, as many axles, radiators, frames, transmissions, sets of wheels, sets of tires, and all of the component parts, as a matter of fact, that go to make up a motor ! truck. “Thus has been built up since the ; eleventh day of March, 1915, a going - concern with nothing for a start, not i even good advertising, which today is 1 rated by Dunn and Bradstreet's as of the very best credit, a company that today is being given an unlimited credit by the biggest parts makers in the r United States. 0 “With tlie expection of the Packaid j and White companies, the United I (Continued on page 2) |

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. MONMOUTH NEWS Busy Time in Little Town I Sunday—Rev. A. K. Mumma Resigns as Pastor OF HIS CIRCUIT Will go to Spencerville, O. —Several Sunday Dinner Parties. Monmouth, Ind., Aug. 9—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Rev. A. K. Mumma, of Hoagland, pastor of the Hoagland Lutheran church, Concord, Massillon and others on his circuit, has resigned and will move his family to Spencerville. Ohio, where he has accepted a charge. He will preach his farewell sermon next Sunday at the Concord Lutheran church, north of this place. Harry Daniels has purchased the Kemp home here and will move hero today. Mrs. Hovarter and children visited Sunday afternoon with the R. K. Fleming family. The Amos Lewton and Philip Schieferstein families were guests at dinner Sunday of the Ed Lewton fatnly. Mr. and Mrs. Vesta Brokaw and children, Luther, Fred and Luella, were entertained at dinner Sunday by the S. S. Magley family. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Hill and daughter, Mabel, of Decatur, visited Sunday with Mrs. Hill’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Watts. Miss Florence Lewton will entertain the Concord Leaders Thursday evening. Ellis Christen of Decatur took dinner Sunday with his cousin, Dr. Lloyd K. Magley. Jesse Christen and Lawrence Magley of Toledo, Ohio, visited Sunday with relatives in Monmouth. Marie and Malinda Schieferstein visited with Miss Esther Lewton. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nye, Miss Pauline Krick of Decatur and Miss Agnes Huttinger spent Sunday with Mrs. Nye’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wilder. Kenneth Christen of Fort Wayne, Ferd Christen of Decatur and Heber Fonner were at Charles Johnson’s home for dinner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Rice and family entertained Sunday for Mrs. Frye and daughter, Irene, of Indianapolis. Other quests were Al Fritzinger and family, Miss Bertha Rice and children, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fuhrman, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Cline, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Magley. Dr. and Mrs. L. H. Ziegler of Monmouth entertained Sunday for Mrs. Zeigler’s brother, Burt Lord, and wife of Decatur. Misses Myrtle Wilder and Pauline Krick will leave Thursday for Angola to visit with the former’s sister, Miss Bessie Wilder, who is a student in the college there. With the backwater from the river and creek, Monmouth has an ideal “bathing beach” and it was quite like a summer resort the past several days, with its bevy of bathers. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kunkel and daughter, Eloise, spent Sunday evening with the Philip Schieferstein family. R. K. Fleming and family called on the S. S. Magley family Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Crozier and family as near the state line gave a dinner tor the Smith Stevens family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fritzinger and Joe Stevens and family of Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Fuleton of Goodland arrived from Greenville, Ohio, Saturday for a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Henry Bauman. They will visit here a few days before going to Wabash for a visit with a niece before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson and children and Mrs. G. Kurt of Decatur were visitors in Monmouth Sunday. I Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. (Continued on Page 2.) ’