Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1915 — Page 1

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INTEREST IS INCREASING Miss Leila Gaddis. Domestic Science Instructor of Purdue University GAVE FIRST LECTURE To the Teachers’ Institute This Morning—Mr. Lockridge Gave Talk. Tho Wednesday morning session of the teachers’ institute opener with the singing of ’ Morning Hymn," under the direction of Professor Hohnhaus and this was followed by devotional exercises by Rev. L. W. Stolte of the German Reformed church, who read Matthew 25:14-21, being the parable of the talents. Following the singing of another song. “Jerusalem the Golden,” by the institute, Mrs. Mikels gave a talk on Reading Circle Books. Practice Altruism. She said: . If you preach altruism to your pupils i>e sure tiiat you practice altruism yourself. Teachers you should read the reading circle books, and talk over the liooks with your children. Recommend these books To your students. Books are like win dows. How would you like to live in a house with one window? Is one hook sufficient? Our reading circle hooks are selected by eminent students and readers. These books should be placed In the hands of the children. These reading circle books are of good English and are very well graded. These books will stimulate our boys and girls to do better work and at the same time make them better citizens. The Indiana Young People's Reading Circle books for the year 1915-1916 are as follows: Second Grade —Sam, or Our Cat Tales. Peter and Polly, Two Little Runaways, Nixie Bunny in Workaday I-and. • Third Grade —Bud and Bamboo. Stories of Woods and Fields, Four Wonders. Fourth and Fifth Grades—Az ! r Girges in Egypt. Hiawatha Reader. Beyond the Pasture Bars. The Blue Bird for Children. Sixth and Seventh Grades —White Seneca. Cinders. A Bookful of Girls. King of the Thundering Herd. Advanced Grades —Harmony Hall. Ralph Osborne. Midshipman. Mothering on Perilous. Laddie. Greek Myths and Their Art. Making the Farm Pay. When Max Came. Elmor's College Career. Supterintendent E. S. Christen introduced Mr. F. M. Shanklin of the agricultural extension department of Purdue university, who makes trips over the state trying to enthuse the teachers to get the boys and girls of our rural schools interested in club work. This club work in corn, stock and other additional grains will stimulate more active farming and create more interest in our boys and girls to remain on the farm. The club work will greatly help to keep the boy and girl busy on the farm. Club work vitalizes your school work. Let every teacher help to make this club work worth while. Words and Pronounciation. Dr. Gordinier followed Mrs. Mikels on the program and gave a delightful discourse ou the subject, "Words.” Dr. Gordinier said: A great deal of our new educational work in the east comes from you folks in the west. Words bring about the thought of lan guage. Where laguage came from we do not know. If there was a parent language we do not know what it was. The things that constitute the knowledge of a word are spelling (by having simplified spelling we can readily save one-third of our time). A time will come, 1 think, when we will have simplified spelling. France has simplified spelling and pronunciation. If we do not have simplified spelling we should change the pronunciation of a great many of our words. There is a tendency to throw the accent back and to pronounce the long vowel. Derivation and Origination: All persons should have at least one year of Latin. There are six things emphasized in the matter of importance in first year Latin. 1. Inflection. 2. Order of words. 3. Translation. 4. Syntax. 5. Pronunciation. 6. Word lists. In stalling a class in common always start slow. Keep a good note book. Give the students definite assignments. Let them hand in their notebooks daily.

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Give five or six words for syntax. Don’t be too arbitrary tn the matter of syntax. Many of our prominent Latin writers cannot agree. It is a good thing to read the translation Rist and then discuss the syntax of the words. DOMESTIC SCIENCE. • For the sectional period. Superintendent Christen introduced Miss Leila Gadd:«, domestic science teacher of Purdue university, laifayette, Ind., who succeeds Mr. Hutchins for the balance of the institute. Miss Gaddis first took up the subpect of sewing with the high school section and brought out the following points: Teachers are better prepared this year for the teaching of sewing, both in knowledge and equipment. Many bulletins are available from colleges and the government. The work must be very elementary. A pupil should uot be expected to make a finished garment or a perfect model in the first few lessons. It a child can be taught to select the proper needles or to secure a proi>er fitting thimble, the term’s work would not be lost by any means. The cardinal principles underlying sewing are cleanliness, accuracy and neatness. A teacher can direct the buying of material and thus help in correcting criminal waste in buying. While it is scarcely possible to have sewing machines in the oneroom schools, it is possible to do much good In home project work. Crocheting is crowding out to a large extent more practical work. Sewing is worth doing and worth doing well. Speaking Distinctly. Mrs. Mikels had charge of the primary section and again impressed the teachers with the necessity of speaking distinctly and pronouncing their words correctly. Mrs. Mikels said: Carefully consider the stammerer, the lisper or any other defect in speech. Drill to get pure tones. Be sure you know the correct enunciation and pronounciation of words, so as to teach them correctly to the children. Many grammatical errors are due to improper enunciation and articulation. Bad breathing is also a cause of bad articulation and pronunciation. Give several drills for good breathing. Some teachers are them selves the promoters of poor articulation and pronunciation by their own defects and tone of voice. Speak distinctly and carefully in the schoolroom. Some voices are too harsh and others to shrill. This error should be immediately corrected in a pleasant way. The dictionaxy is a home for the living, a hospital for the dying, and a cemetery for the dead. An illustrated lesson in reading for beginners w«is given. Work out your lessons until you have a complete story. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. Assignment and Preparation. The first thing in assignment you always must know what thing you desire the student to get. In the conversational lesson always remember the ideal. Many reading lessons must be analyzed before the children will be able to understand. Have the child in the turning point or the descent in the story. Another purpose of lesson is the keeping of sequence. The child must see the order of events in every story. If she does not she will fail to grasp the meaning of the selection studied. There are two factors which lessen the ability of the child to keep in mind the order of sequence. 1. The picture show, and 2. the short story. Liter ature appeals to the senses of sight and hearing. Only two selections have been found that appealed to the sense of smell. Many poems appeal to the ear, e. g., poems on winds, sea, birds, etc. In poetry the eye must form the picture. A fine poem for visualization for the child is “Columbus?’ I The Tuesday afternoon session opened with a song by the institute and which was followed by a general address by Mrs. Mikels, her subject being a continuation of the morning subject entitled. Superintendent E. S. Christen introduced Mr. Ross F. Lockridge. Mr. Lockridge in 1913-1914 was at the head of the department of the state oratorical contest. In the fall of 1914 Mr. Lockridge was selected as president of the Citizens' League of Indiana. The Citizens’ League is the organ of the movement for a new constitution of Indiana. The Citizens League is a monthly paper which is published’ (the first being issued in July) by the Citizens’ League of Indiana at Fort Wayne. The publication,- “The Citizen,” gives us the his tory, troubles and the defects of our Indiana constitution. If any one desires to subscribe for “The Citizen," send in your dollar bill to Citizens’ League, Fort Wayne, Ind. The pa per will devote all its efforts to influ(Continued on Page 3.)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, August 25, 1915.

HELD A MEETING Decatur Merchants to Hear Officers of State Retail Association. ON SEPTEMBER 7TH Appropriate Hundred Dollars for City Band and Assist in Getting Circus. The Merchants’ association held its regular meeting last evening at the library, with a good attendance. It was decided that the members of the local association should meet at the library at 5:30 on the evening of September 7th to hear the state officials of the Indiana Retail Dealers’ association. At 6 o’clock the visitors will be taken to the Hotel Murray for supper and at 6:30 will leave for Fort Wayne. The merchants believes in supporting an organization like the local band, the members of which have worked industriously and have made splendid progress. The band has been giving street concerts for several weeks and expect to continue for another month, once each week, and the association, to show its appreciation. last evening appropriated for them the sum of SIOO. The band boys are ail right and deserving of support by everybody in this community. The merchants also agreed to give not to exceed fifty dollars to assist in paying for the lot and license for the Wallace-Hagenbeck show, which comes here September 14th. The executive committee will meet this evening with President Yager to discuss plans for boosting trade. Miss iva Ray is on the sick list, suffering from rheumatism. o STROKEJS FATAL Mrs. Wm. Parent Dies from Stroke of Apoplexy Suffered Last Friday. I WAS UNCONSCIOUS Four Days—Death Occurred at 7 O’clock-Funeral Friday Morning. Suffering from a stroke of apoplexy at 10 o’clock last Friday morning, which brought on hemorrhages and paralysis of the right side, Mrs. William Parent, who had been in a stuport for nearly four days, passed ( away at seven o’clock this morning without regaining consciousness or speaking a rational word to anyone. Death occurred at the Parent apartments over the Crystal theater. The day before Mrs. Parent took sick she was seemingly enjoying the best of health and with her husband and two children had made an automobile trip to a number of surround, ing cities where they visited with relatives and friends. From the time she suffered the stroke she became unconscious. With the stroke of apoplexy hemorrhages of the brain were caused from the bursting of a blood vessel which brought on a stroke of paralysis and as a result her right side was paralyzed. During her short but fatal illness, two local physicians have been in constant attendance and evetj thing possible was done to relieve her. Mrs. Parent was one of the best known and highly esteemed ladies of the city. She was born on the 19th day of January, 1877. near the St. Paul church, south of the city, being the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Sheline. She had always been a resident of Adams county. Onthe 11th day of November, 1896, she was united in marriage to Mr. Parent. During her happy, but short married life two children, Dreda and Orval. were born. During the past five years Mrs. Parent had been in public life and was numbered among the business women of the city, being the manager of the Parent moving picture theater, The Crystal. The deceased is survived by the husband, a daughter and one son, besides the father, Andrew Sheline, who lives in Mis-

| souri, and a brother, Austin. | The funeral services will bo hold at 9 o’clock Friday morning from the St. Mary’s Catholic church. Members of the St. Mary's sodality, of which she was a devoted member, will act as pal) bearers. o BOY TAKES SICK I-ast evening at about eight-thirty o’clock the thirteen- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kelley of south first street took suddenly sick while playing with a number of other boy companions about the carnival tents pitched around the court house square. The young fellow was just in front of the second east tent on Madison street when he fell over in a fainting spell and for a few minutes lay in -i stupor. He was carried to one side where a local physician relieved him and "ms later on taken to his home. SOME SPENDERS Citizens of Year One Had the “Kail’ and Were Liberal With It. INTERESTING DATA Given by Dr. C. C. Cobern, Archeologist at the Winona Assembly. Winona Laks, Ind., Aug. 24—The boastfulness of the modern man over ancient man was punctured at several points by the Rev. Camden C. Cobern archaeologist, of Allegheny college, Meadville, Fa., who was one of the speakers at the Bible conference Monday. Mr. Cobern’s picture of the citizen of the year one, or thereabouts, living in ease, luxury and with convenience, is based on his own research and that of other investigators of the earth’s pioneers. Flats for Rent Even Then. Here are some of the things, described by Dr. Cobern. which existed at the period contemporaneous witli the beginning of the Christian era: Shorthand was as common then as it is now. Elevators were run in certain palatial homes. Pipe organs driven by water power were in use. Flats were for rent. Roads were built on concrete front three to five feet deep, excelling the best automobile drivs of the present day. Commuters lived in the suburbs of the cities. Surgical instruments were in use similar to those which a certain American physician invented, not having heard of the ancient instrument. Ephesus had a library unequaled by any Carnegie has erected. There were seventy trade unions in (Continued on Page Two) o TO VOTE FRIDAY Teachers Will be Asked to Decide Combination With Chautauqua FOR NEXT YEAR Plan Has Been Tried Other Places and Has Proven Successful in all Ways. At the closing session of the teachers institute in this city Friday afternoon, it is understood the county superintendent, E. S. Christen, will ask the members to declare themselves concerning the combining of the institute next year with the Chautauqua. If the vote is favorable, it is likely that this will be done, and arrangements made for a morning session of particular interest to teachers planned, it is said that this plan has been tried in several Indiana counties this year and with great success. It would mean an additional attendance of several hundred for the Chautauqua and would help, besides which the teachers would have their work of instruction intersperced with splendid entertainments of various sorts. It looks like a happy arrangement and it is to be hoped that it works out and be-i comes a permanent idea, /

HERE TOMORROW Dr. Carolyn Geisel, Famous Physician from Battle Creek Sanitarium. WILL SPEAK HERE Was Member of Second Group of Flying Squadron Which Toured U. S. Dr. Carolyn E. Geisel, who speaks at the First M. E. church on Thursday evening, August 26th, is one cf the staff physicians at the Battle Creek sanitarium, and is a prominent figure on the lecture platform. She was born in Michigan and graduated from the University of Ann Arbor; she has received medical diplomas from three American colleges; studied in St. Petersburg University, Russia; also in Germany; and at the famous Pasteur Institute in Paris. Sime 1895 she has been on the staff of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, and has been doing Chautauqua work for the past fifteen years. She was a member of the Second Group of speakers of the famous Flying Squadron of America, which, in its unprecedented campaign of 235 day", visited every state in the Union —255 eities. She is a brilliant and convincing speaker and holds her audience spellbound from start to finish. She is a member of the W. C. T. U. ami Public Health Committee of the American Federation of Women’s Clubs, as well as being an ardent advocate of Woman Suffrage. Dr. Geisel is coming to Decatur under the auspices of tlie Flying Squadron Foundation, which has been organized to prepetuate the work and effects of the Flying Squadron of America, which closed its monumental campaign at Atlantic City, June 6th. o WORK CDMPIETEO Trustees of Six Townships Conclude Assessments on Hoithouse Ditch. AT 2:30 O’CLOCK TODAY 1 t Acreage Divided as to Bene- > fits—First at Fifteen e Cents, Second Ten. f c The trustees interested in the Holt- j house ditch assessments completed v their work at 2:30 this aftrenoon. Their complete report shows 6.485 ’ acres in first benefit, assessed at sis- t teen cents per acre, and 14.875, sec- \ ornl benefit, assessed at ten cents per acre. Root township had first bene- x fits on 754 acres at 15 cents. $113.10, € and 486 acres, second. $48.60; total, j. $161.70. Washington township—--1.050 acres first, $159, and 3,139 sec ond, $313.90; total. $472.90. Preble — t 85 acres, first, $12.75, and total $12.75. Kirkland —4,456 acres first, $668.40. j and 9,330 second. $933; total. $1,601.40. ( French had 613 second, total. $61.30. t Lancaster, Wells county, had 130 t acres first benefits $19.50, and 1,307 ] second, $130.70; total, $150.20. The c totals —6,485 first, $972.75, and 14.875 r second $1,487.50; grand total. $2,460.25. j All la’iids which lie along the ditch x or which drain into ditch either by r tile or open ditch were considered j first benefited and all others second, f NEW DATE FOR PICNIC t The largo Sunday School picnic v which wus to have been given by the t Calvary E. V. G. Sunday schools east f of this city Saturday, August 21st was t postponed to Thursday, September 2. < From the large number of inquiries the delay will only tend to make a 1 larger attendance and will allow the 1 committee in charge to have every- * 1 thing in tip top condition for a gran I and glorious picnic. Sunday Schools ( and people far and near will please take notice. o MINERS AGAIN STRIKE. (United Press Service) Cardiff, Wales, Aug. 25, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —One thousand miners went on strike at Hafod today, claiming that the terms of the agreement under which they recently re- : turned to work have not been carried lout. The strike threatens to spread.

I HOOSIER HISTORY IN TABLOID. (United Press Service) One of tlie tragic events connected with early history in Indiana is that Pigeon Roost Massacre, incited by > the British outbreak of the war of 1812, the Indians again went on the warpath. On September 2, 1812, they attacked tlie isolated Pigeon Roost settlement in Scott county and practically destroyed it. Twenty-four i people were massacred, sixteen of whom were children. When night came, two men, one woman and five children escaped through the forest to tell hte sorrowful story. JUDGE ERWIN VISITS HERE Judge' Richard K. Erwin of the supreme court of Indiana, acompanied bv Mrs. Erwin and tlieir son, David, drove down to-ay from Fort Wayne for a short visit with relatives and friends. MR. ADAI£ TALKS About Conditions in Indiana and Over Country as He Has Noticed Them. WILSON IS POPULAR With All Classes and Men of Every Political Faith, Says Congressman. (By Willis S. Thompson) Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 25 —I had an interesting talk with Congressman John A. M. Adair the other day. He is one of the most interesting public speakers in the state and he is a remarkably close observer and student of conditions. Here are some of the things he said: “If an election were held in the United States today, Woodrow Wilson would be re-elected by the largest vote ever given a candidate for president. No chief executive of the nation ever faced such trying and difficult problems as has Woodrow Wilson. and he has solved them with great credit to himself and with entire satisfaction to all loyal, patriotic American citizens. He has won the admiration, confidence, love and respect of all the people regardless of party.' “Since congress adjourned I have traveled from New York to California, anil everywhere I found the sentiment for Wilson growing. Men of all parties and of all trades and professions declare that the welfare of our country demands his re-election. Peace and prosperity prevail everywhere and our republican friends ar a without an issue. For a while they talked tariff, insisting that the Underwood tariff was afailure, but now, with mills and factories running everywhere, unable to make goods fast enough to meet the demand, they have been driven from that position. “Under our tariff law the year 1915 will show the largest amount of manufactured goods ever made in any one year, and right now more men are employed in the United States than ever before. The products of both the farm and factory, and wages paid to labor, will total more in the year 1915 than in any other one year in our nation’s history. When the European war is over we will have, the markets of the world. For many years we have been shipping our manufactured goods into all the lead ing nations and successfully meetnig foreign competition. If we could successfully compete when foreign nations were at their best, what can we not do when the war is over and their resources are exhausted, tlieir factories dismantled and destroyed and when their best men have been disabled and labor is scarce? "What will become of the calamity howler who cries hard times for political purposes and who thinks more of a political job than he does of the welfare of his country? “Our state administration under Governor Ralston has been wise, just and able. The record he has made will always reflect credit on him. on the party to which he belongs and on the state. He is a big governor, both in body and intellect, and his name will go down in history as one of the best governors Indiana ever had. The record of our national administration together wflth the splendid state administration of Governor Ralston have assured democratic success in 1916.”

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DENY SINKING OF WAR SHIPS German Admiralty Claims That None of Their Vessels Were Damaged. GAIN AT DARDANELLES British Reported to Have Captured 800 Yards of Turkish Trenches. Berlin, Aug. 25, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Russian claims that the German dreadnaught Moltke, two cruisers and eight torpedo boats w<ro > sunk in a battle in the Gulf of Riga, were declared to be without foundation said an official statement issued by the admiralty today. The admiralty stated that the German war ships probably were some old vessels sunk by the Germans themselves to bar flcade the entrance to the gulf and bottle up the Russians. Some of these vessels had previously been captured from the Russians. "Neither a large ship or German cruiser was sunk or damaged” said the statement. “We silenced land batteries near Pemau.” Washington, Aug. 25, — (Special to Daily Democrat) —A French aviator bombarded and sank a Turkish transport at Anchor in tlie Dardanelles, north of Natara Roads it was officially announced this afternoon. The war office also reported tiie capture by tlie British cf 800 yards of Turkish trenches in the northern zone of operations at Gallipoli, one of the most important single gains at the Dardanelles. (I’nitod Porvi*'*'' Washington, D. C., Aug. 25—(Special to Daily Democrat) —“We ara waiting,” was all officials had to say today concerning the Arabic case. The United States waited word from Germany. Germany waited word from her submarine commander. It was deemed likely this might continue for a week or two. Secretary Lansing said he could not say whether he would answer the German request through Ambassador Bernstorff that the United States suspend judgment concerning the Arabic until Germany was heard from officially. The outlook was viewed most optimistically. El Paso. Aug. 25 —(Special to tho Daily Democrat) —Villa forces numbering nearly 10.000 have inflicted a decisive defeat on the Carranzistas around Monterey, driving them back to the Nuevo Leon capital, advises said today. The Carranzistas are reported to have lost more heavily in this engagement than in any for several months. Berlin. Aug. 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—General Mackensen has broken through the advance positions of Brest Litovsk fortress. One wing of Mackensen’s army is approaching the western bank of the Mesna. North of Brest Litovsk, the Bavarians are continuing the movement to envelop tlie fortress and after throwing tho Russians back have reached tho armies under Von Hindenberg, Von Galliwitz and Von Schultz are hurling the enemy back upon a line extending south. Washington. I). C„ Aug. 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Carranza's answer to the United States peace plea was expected by Thursday. It was understood Carranza would politely but firmly refuse to withdraw himself and demand recognition. o— ——— SWEETHEART IS INDICTED. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Gabriel Alban was indicted today by the Marion county grand jury charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of Pansy Richards, the Anderson girl, who refused on her death bed to make a statement. The state declares it has proof they were sweethearts and had quarreled. o HELLO GIRLS AT SCHOOL. (United Press Service) Richmond. Ind.. Aug. 25—(Special to Daily Democrat) —New feminine voices and even masculine voices greeted patrons of a number of tele-' phone exchanges in central Indiana today, it was because practically all of the telephone girls were at the oiu'day operators’ school here. The school was conducted by the National Telephone association.