Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postofflce in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Fort Wayne is agitating a public swimming pool for next year and it’s a good thing for any city to have. It might even help in Decatur and it's not an impossibility. More than five million men have been killed and six million injured in the first year of the European war. Is it to be wondered at that the people of this nation are hoping and praying that peace will continue? With each succeeding day, week and month President Wilson becomes more popular. He is the idol right now of the American people and the citizens of many other countries. His wonderful judgment, his honesty, his desire to bo right in all things, his bravery and his diplomacy have won for him the gratitude of the people of this land and the plaudits of the world We believe the teachers now assembled in annual institute will favor the plan to be suggested to them the closing day by County Superintendent E. S. Christen, that next year the *nstitute be combined wi th the Chautauqua and it is to be hoped that the vote will be unamiously in favor of this combination. It would insure a most enjoyable and interesting week for the teachers and would prove a great boom to the Chautauqua. The teachers would thus have their school instruction work and would also hear a number of delightful entertainments. CARD OF THANKS. -r We desire to thank the neighbors and friends who so kindly assisted and helped us during the illness and death of our beloved wife and mother. And also desire to thank Rev. Rilling for the kindness shown us; and also thank the barbers for their kindness toward us. BEN SCHRANK AND CHILDREN.

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DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEK'S CLUB CALENDAR. Thursday. Helping Hand Society—Sunday School Room. One of the most delightful social events of the summer season for the younger crowd Os Decatur girls, occur‘red yesterday afternoon, when Miss Gladys Flanders celebrated her sixteenth birthday, by entertaining twen-ty-four of her friends. The party opened on the front lawn at the Flandres home. Third street, where several contests were conducted. In the* llrst. Miss Genevieve Smith was the winner and in the next , Iss Esther Butler proved most adept. Mr. Fred Heuer acted as photographer and snapped a picture ojf the young ladies. Luncheon was : *:v<*i in the dimmf room, which was <i< or' to;’ with red candles and red iluwers. A: one table in honor of the occasion were seated sixteen girls including Miss Gladys. The luncheon was in two. courses, including chicken salad. Parker II >use rolls, pickles and potatoe chips and Ice cream and cake, candy and peanuts. It is needless to add that the event was a happy one from start to finish, Miss Hazel France of Columbia City and Miss Lee Anna Vance assisted in serving. Miss Gladys was the reclident of a number of pretry gifts. Mrs. George Flanders entertaint d a few of her friends Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Yingling and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Will Lehne of Tiffitn, Ohio. Miss Lois Connell is fourteen years old today and is celebrating the big event by a slumber party at her home on Fourth street this evening. The guests will be the Misses Florence Bremerkamp, Genevieve Smith. GladysFlanders, Hallie Leonard, Ramona Smith and Fanny Heller. Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Tritch. who will in a few days move to Fort Wayne, where they expect to reside for the present. Mr. Tritch having accepted a position with the International Business College, were tiie victims last evening of a cleverly planned and well executed surprise. A sister of Mrs. Tritch induced them to walk down the street and past the K. of P. home. They were called in and found gathered there more than fifty members oi the Pythian Sisters. It proved a ha? py event. D. B. Erwin expressed th? kindly feeling of the lodge towards the Tritch’s and presented them wiUt a handsome library lamp. Brother and Mrs. Tritch responded with feeling. At 9:30 a two course lunch was served in the ditiing room. The occasion will be long remembered by all.

SOME SPENDERS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Rome and many disputes on wages. One ancient epicure gave a dinner at which the fish course cost S4O a plate. Another spent $35,000 for roses. Another spent $200,000 for rugs. St. Paul No Pig Catcher. Dr. Cobern asserted that St. Paul had bow legs and was married. He was not to be blamed for either fact, Dr. Cobern said, for he was born with crooked legs and could not escape censure if he declined matrimony, as the ecclesiastical law of his time allowed only married men to vote. Dr. Cobern also asserted his belief in evolution. “I believe in evolution.” he said, "because of the consensus of expert testimony, and also because there are now so many monkeys and beasts among men. “The church ought not to be expected to believe literally in the story of man’s creation from the dust and woman’s creation by a surgical operation from the rib of man. Adam means humanity, not simply a single man. The fall of man is the fall of any man. Jt’is not simply a doctrine, but an experience.” BADLY INJURED HAND Luther Hower, salesman at the Kalver & Noble garage was the victim of a very severe and painful accident Saturday evening when his right hand became entangled with the fan of an automobile and cut a deep gash between the fourth and little finger. M’. Hower was repairing a little engine trouble on the automobile and placed his hand inside the hood to adjust a part of the mechanism. The interior of the hood was dark and Mr. Howers’ hand came in contact with the rapidly whirling fan. The injury was an exceedingly painful one and will necessitate the taking of several days forced vacation. ■ o NOTICE. We will start our cider mill August 3, 1915, and will make cider every Tuesday and Thursday until further notice. Factory, North Third street. 182tf PETER KIRSCH.

A HIGHJCHOOL Wanted so Badly by Citizens of Blue Creek That Mandate is Asked. AGAINST THE TRUSTEE C. J. Jones and Advisory Board-Brought Under the Acts of 1913. Attorneys Peterson & Moran filed a new case in circuit court today, the first action of its kind ever filed here being a suit to compel Trustee Charles J. Jones of Blue Creek township to establish a high school. The case Is brought under an act passed by the legislature of 1913, found in the acts of that year, page 332, section 2 which provides: "That in each township in state having assessed valuation of more than $600,000 of taxable property ami wherein there is not now established a high school or within three miles of said township boundaries and wherein for two years past there have been eight or more graduates of the township elementary schools residing in such township, the township trustee shall establish and maintain therein a high school and employ competent teachers therefor." Tiie suit file,] today was entitle! The State of Indiana on relation of Charles W. Feasel and Edward Luginbill vs. Charles J. Jones, trustee of th-* •school township of Blue Creek and Harlow Alger. George Dellinger and Monroe Beyer, township advisory board of said Blue Creek township, suit to mandate. Tiie plaintiffs aver that they are resident taxpayers, voters and school patrons of Blue Creek township, that the township had a valuation of more than $600,000, that there is no high school in the township or within three miles of the boundaries, that for three years past more than thirty have graduated from the elementary grades and that a large number of these would still like to attend high school, that the schools of said township will open during September and that no preparations have been made for a high ’school. That the trustee has refused to establish same and the advisory board refused to appropriate anv money for same.

It is also avered in complaint that the school can be established and maintained without erecting any other building, there being sufficient room now and that the high school can bn maintained at but little more cost than the salary of the teacher, and without exceeding any statutory limit of law. Also that for several years large sums have been paid by the township for the,transfer of pupils tn high schools of the county and outside Blue Creek township and the cost of a local high school it is claimed would exceed that amount but a few- hundred dollars. It is avered that unless mandated the trustee and his advisory board will not act and the court therefor asked to require such action as will establish a high school with a competent teacher. THE PROGRAM ANNOUNCED. The following program for the Kleinknight-Kunkle annual reunion to be held in the Woodman’s hall at Tocsin next Saturday, August 28: Song—“My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” Prayer—Rev. H. C. Smith. Reading—Garrold Smith. Instrumental Solo—William Grim. Reading—Mauriene Kunkle. Reading—Elizabeth Johnson. Solo—C. D. Kunkle. Reading—Lydia Kleinknight. Solo —Marjorie Kunkle. Music—Mrs. C. D. Kunkle and son. Sherman. Closing Song—“ God be With You Till We Meet Again.” Benediction—Rev. H. C. SmiUi. WILL NOT APPOINT PALMER. (United Press Service) Waahingtno, D. C„ Aug. 25—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The administration has decided not to appoint exCongressman A. Mitchell Palmer counsellor to the state department, it was learned today. There was no explanation. He had been considered a strong candidate. MARRIED AT HILLSDALE According to the Hillsdale Daily News a marriage license was issued there Tuesday to Fred Glen West, aged 23 of Fort Wayne and Ada Rut’) Conrad, 26, of Decatur, Indiana. — O~ j f*R« S2OOB TO SSOOO YEARLY LEHI METAPHYSICAL HEALIH6 AayuieCaaLeunhA'Hoao wsJ-wmS DIPLOMA GRANTED • Writ: Today for Free Elaborate Booklet 4auriu MeUshyaieol Institute, Peoria. lUinnia

MINISTER IS MURDERED. (United Press Service) Gary, Ind.. Aug. 25, —(Special to tiie Daily Democrat)- Feeling tn Gary wan at higii tension today over tiie murder lute last night of the Rev. Edmund Kayser, pastor of St. James Evangelical Lutheran church who had since the European war began, strongly championed the German cause and many times publicly denounced the allies. Chief of Police Beintz was today certain that the murder was an act of revenge on the part of some of the many Slav workers in the steel mills. The minister's body was found in a clump of bushes near hts home by August Schultz and the latter's wife. There was a bullet wound ia the shoulder and another In the neck where an artery had been severed. 'Curtain cords were tightly tied about ♦he neck and right wrist. Physicians say that the neck wound caused death. Blood hounds were brought here today to aid in the hunt for the band of murderers. The ground for more than 209 yards about the Kayser home was roped off so the morbidly curious crowd would not destroy tiie scent of the men who killed the minister. Kayser had been receiving threatening letters ever since he first began to ’preach the Teuton cause as well as the gospel. He professed he had no fear. "Move away or dynamite will move you," rend one. Another read: "Before the leaves turn you will he stretched on the ground.” The police said today almost all of the letters 'were written by one person and in German. It was through a peculiarity in the hand-writing that they hope to trace the murderer. SPEECHES MUST BE SHORT. (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Ind.. Aug. 25—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The afterdiner speceh with its musty jokes is too inefficient for those fighting tuberculosis. They prefer the short, snapy and to-the-point discussions. They plan a Speechless banquet as one of the features of the three day meeting of the Mississippi Valley Conference of Tuberculosis, which will come to Indianapolis September 29, 311 and October 1. Vice President Marshall is slated as toastmaster, anj at the “speakers’ ” tables will be the visiting governors, and other celebrities. including James Whitcomb Riley. If those at the “speakers’ ” table have a message to deliver they will have it printed on the menu. All those at this table will be introduced at once by A. W. Jones, jr. of St Louis, president of the conference, so that conversation will supplant oratory. It is estimated by W. D. Thurber. secretary of the conference, that tuberculosis each year in the Mississippi valley kills 100,000 men, women and children, and that approximately 500,000 victims are infected with the disease. Thurber expects an attendance at the conference of about 1.000. — o For Wayne & Spnnghela Ry. Company.

TIME TABLE. Northbound. Cars leave Decatur at 5:50, 8:30 11:30, 2:30, 5:46, 9:30; arrive at Fort Wayne at 6:53, 9:40, 12:40, 3:40, 6:5t »nd 10:40. Southbound. Leave Ft. Wayne at 7:00, 10:00, 1:00 ♦ :00, 7:30, 11:00; arrived lu Decatu’ *t 8:10; 11:10; 2:10; 5.10, 8:40, 12:10 Connections are made at For Wayne with the Ft. Wayne & North ern Indiana Traction Co., The Toledc & Chicago Interurban Railway Com pauy, The Ohio Electric, and ludianr Union Traction Company, also witl the Pennsylvania, Wabash Nickh Plate, L. 8. & M, S., C. H. & D., and G. R. & I. railroads. Freight Service. Freight service consists of one train each way dally; Leaving Decatur at 7:00 a. m. and returning, leaving Fort Wayne at 12:00 a. m. This enables shippers to telephone orders and receive shipments promptly. W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN, General Managsr, . ■ Decatur, Ind , -o HAS LEASED SALE BARN. The undersigned has leased the sale barn, west side of First street, and wil conduct a livery and feed stable there in connection with the Palace barn which he will continue to operate on Jcqerson street. Your business Is solicited. I assure you courteous and square treatment 188-e-o-d-t« R. L. SCHNEPP. PIANO TUNING AND REPAIRING. D. A. Gilliom (Professional) rebuilder and repaired of pianos and sewing machines, and piano tuner. Dealer in both branches. Write or phone 8. Line P, city. lllm-w-f ts o HERE u a ret.,edy that will cure moat all akin an* scalp troubles. Eczema. Barbera Itch. Itch, Cuts and Sores. Why Weate time end money when B. B. Ointment ia an ointment of real merit? Ash your druggist. II not handled send 50 cents to the B. B. Ointment Co., 217 Monroe ttreat, Qecetur, Indiana. *

FORD TURNS OVER Richmond Men Had Narrow Escape Near Monroe Yesterday. BOTH WERE INJURED Were Able to Continue on Their Way to Ft. Wayne --.-Names Unknown. Willie driving at fast speed along the country road, one and one-half miles south of Monroe yesterday afternoon between three and four o’clock, a Ford roadster driven by two young men claiming Richmond as their home, turned completely over in the ditch, badly damaging the machine ani slightly injuring the men. The cause of the accident is unknown, but it is thought that the driver lost control of the machine Harmon Miller, residing near Washington church, son of Lou Miller was driving behind the men in the same direction and was on the scene within a few minutes. The back of the seat was torn completely off. the windshield broken to pieces and the radiator and hood badly bent an ( [ smashed. The driver of the car sustained rather severe injuries to his leg and arm while his companion was injured about the shoulders. The men sought the services of a physician and after securing relief resumed their way to Fort Wayne by railroad. The car was left at the Fugate garage for repairs. The men failed to leave their names. o ATTENTION, SOLDIERS! All members of Companies H, I and K. and all other veterans are requested to meet at the Grand Army hall on Saturday, August 28. 1915, at 1:30 p. m. to arrange for the reunion of the 89th Indiana regiment, which will be held in Decatur on September 21 and 22, 1915. Members of the W. R. C. are requested to be present at the meeting to assist in the arrangements. All sons of veterans are also especially invited to attend the meeting and assist in the work of preparation for the reunion.

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THE VAN WERT FAIR COUNTY 1 „ September 6-7-8-9-10, lp Ttie Bigges* Event of tt»e ear A High Spot In Ohio County Fairs Every Year A Little Better. The Premier Draft Horse Show-Noted Herds and Flocks—-Superior Displays in All Departments. SPECIAL FEATURES rrsuT? qtate Dairy aud Food Exhibit. The State and Orchard Exhibit, illustrated with Moving Pictures. 150 Boys in Stock-Judging Contest Wednesday. Sept. B—Prizes amounting to more than S3OO New Water System—New Stage at Grand StandFree Grand Stand at Horse-Judging ring Free Attractions and Entertainment The Woman’s Congress Wilts and Wilts Sensational Roller Skaters Second Regiment Band Ru |, e ~ n h » n n J With his Electric L'naphone Famous Hart s Boy Band — Charlotte M. Brand Belfords Troup oi Acrobats Cornet and Vocal Soloist GOOD RACE PROGRAM DAILY-Automobile and Motorcycle Races on Tuesday; Harness Races, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday We advertise what we have and have what we advertise. Ask the man who has been here. J. M. DULL, Pres. E. V. WALBORN, Secy. Sunday Excursions from DECATUR to Bluffton, Marion, Kokomo and Frankfort via CLOVER LEAF ROUTE See H. J. Thompson Agent for Particulars

War is H—? Just think of it • 30g For a dry cell battery AND With every old battery returned to us we will allow you a credit of 2 l-2c on a new one. Bring in your old worn out batteries and reduce the cost of new ones. "holthouse a garage -FARMERS" utention @1 min the auction business. If you • going to hold a public farm or stock sale, don’t make a mistake in engaging your auctioneer. If you don’t know who I am inquire about me. Remember that I’m in the busmessand get you the highest dollar. 6 Call Early And Be Assured Os Dates. J. J. BAUMSARTNER Real Estate-* Registered Slock and Farm Sale Auctioneer. Phone 426 or 135 __ See me or leave dates at office o f FrtsmKer & Co.