Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 235.

BELL TRIAL DRAGS Morning Developments in Bell Trial Prove to be Very Tame Indeed. MR. HAMILTON TALKS And Claims He Assisted in the Campaign of <1 Democratic Candidate. (United Press Service) Indiana polls, Oct. 2, — (Special to Daily Democrat)—Little progress was made by the state during the early hours today in the prosecution of Mayor Bell on election corruption charges. The trial seemed to drag. Leon Reed testified that when he objected to what he said was an illegal vote he was slugged. He said he drew a knife to defend himself, and under cross examination admitted that he was tried in the criminal court on a serious charge. He said he was acquitted. I Later the defense showed that the feeords proved that Reed was convicted on the charge of assaulting a ten year old girl. Lucius O. Hamilton, president of the Columbia club, biggest republican elub in Indianapolis, took the stand •for the state in the trial of Mayor Bell today and admitted that before the primaries in 1914 he gave the democratic mayor S4OO in small bills. He "explained that he told Bell he wanted Isthe money to be spent to aid Theodore Portteus, the democratic candidate for sheriff. ■ “We understood that Portteus was in need of help and we knew him to In a good man for sheriff. I specified th i' the money should be-used to get ou' the vote, such as hiring autos, and the .like," Hamilton said. ■Hamilton said he rtet Bell in the Dei ison hotel. This hotel is owned by Thomas Taggart, a defendant. ■Phen Hamilton took the stand the ■efense made every possible objection to prevent him from testifying. Attorney Miller said he had been kept •before the grand jury all morning ‘’and that it is not fair.” B He said the money was collected , fr >m business men. | That an auto which represented the democrats election day, hauled a load oi five men to three different voting Bpl ices and these men entered the poll■n g places and later talked of voting ®Was the evidence of a state witness ■today. Clarence Parry, the driver of ■he auto, was the wijness. THE THEATER OF WAR. (United Press Service) | London, Oct. 2,—(Special to Daily —The allies have pushed tjtheir line forward in the Artois and champaign regions in the renewed assaults throughout last night and early today, the war office announced this afternoon. I Southwest of Scshed they have hurled the front closer to the heights of Vimy, the immediate objective of the advance. " The Bulgarians have joined the Aus-tro-G ormans in a combination to block an advance through their territory lo Constantinople, it was learned from reliable sources today. The central empires plan Is to crush Serbia by squeezing her between three hostile armies. The Austro-Gcrmans will operate on the west and north front, while the I Bulgarians are expected to strike ’ the Serbians from the east. The allies promise to repel their 1 invasion. Geneva, Oct. 2, —(Special to Daily ■ Democrat) — Italy is prepared to send [ two hundred thousand troops to the I, aid of Serbia when the expected Ger--1 man-Austrian-Bulgarians offensive be- ' gins, according to Rome advises to- ! day. BANDIT SURRENDERS (United Press Service) BULLETIN Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 2, (Special to Daily Democrat! —Edward Lostus alias Joe Ryan, 34, surrendered himself to police here today and confessed that he was the lone bandit who held up Ralph Williams express messenger of a Lake Erie and Western train between Arcadia and Cicero, September 14th., securing $2,500. Lostus told the police he arrived there this morning and buried $4,000 cn the banks of the Scioto river.

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REPORT OF STATE MEETING The various count officials who attended th® annual meeting of the county commissioners of Indiana have returned home and they report a moot delightful session. The Indianapolis News contains a picture of the new officers chosen to conduct the affairs of the association and first in line is that of William Reppert of this county who was elected vice-president and who locks well the part. Mr. Reppert and Mr. Hendricks say the meeting was the best in history. The program yas excellent, including a half hour talk by vice-president Marshall, and talks and lectures by other men of note. Carl Fisher entertained them with a drive around the" speedway, they visited the Ford plant and weie entertained with a luncheon at the hotel Severin. It was a most pleasant occasion. FALL RALLIES Os United Brethren Young People’s Societies Are Now in Progress OVER THE STATE H. J. Wisehaupt Making Big Campaign for Banner Financial Year. F. H. Harmon, D. D. pastor of the local United Brethren church will leave here Tuesday morning for Fort Wayne where he will attend the district fall rally for this group, in behalf of the young people’s society. The rallys propei, started today at Huntington, and Miss Ethel Todd and Mrs. Chester Imler are attendi:| ; thtem. They left here Friday. Howard J. Wisehaupt, of Kingsland formerly of this city and yet a member of the local society, will attend all of the meetings as he was recently elected the district treasurer. The rallys cover a program of eight days, and the entire northern portion of the state will be visited. The local society will elect the delegates to the Fort Wayne group meeting at the regular session Sunday evening. Five delegates are asked for, and more if possible. R. A. Walker, state field secretary will meet with the delegates every day and give an address. Wisehaupt is boosting the financial end and aims to put over a fifteen hundred dollar year, it is not known whether local people will appear on the program or not. TEN MEMBERS i Odd Fellows Have Secured Applications of Nearly a Dozen Men FOR THEIR LODGE The Class Will be Admitted Commencing the Second I Week in October. The Odd Fellows have been busy too. Commencing the second meeting night in October the local lodge will admit a class of about ten new members to the different degrees of the order. All of the applications now on file have been acted upon and others are in the hands of committees. An entirely new degree team has been arranged. Waldo Brushwlller is the degree master of the initiatory degree; Homer H. Knodle has charge f the first degree; L. C. Helm has the second degree and Daniel will have the third and last degree of the subordinate lodge work. Special meetings are being held for the practice of the work. a LEFT FOR ALABAMA Captain Gertson and assistant and manager, John Weaver, left this afternoon for Onecta. Ala., where they will give aeroplane exhibitions next week. They expect to winter in the south and the West India Islands. Gertson is one of the world’s greatest biplane men and it is regretted that the exhibition could not be given here.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, October 2, 1915.

TO WORLD’S FAIR Will Adams County Cattle be Taken by George and Bert Ineichen J -■ OF NEAR GENEVA Herd Has Been Shown ini All of the Large Stock Shows. On the seventh of October, George and Bert ineichen with their car load of fine show cattle, together with seven other car loads of Indiana cattle, will leave Indianapolis for the world’s fair at San Francisco. The entire trip will take about six weeks. The state is sending these cattle there and it expects to cop on to several first prizes on its fine cattle. It is a sure thing that unless some foreign country sends in some mighty fine looking stock that Mr. Ineichen will return with the big badge pinned on his coat lapel. Mr. Ineichen’s herd has been shown in all the large stock sjtows in the United States for the last several years. Ever since 1910 he has won first prize at the Great International Stock show at Chicago, until 1914, when the big show had to be called off on account of the foot and mouth disease. There is no reason why Mr. Ineichen shAild not return with first honors. If so, Indiana will still be the producer of the best bunch of cattle in the world, and little old Adams county is the particular spot in Indiana where these cattle were raised. —Geneva Herald. o SUDDEN DEATH Miss Mabel Cramer Passed Away Very Unexpectedly Last Evening. ILL OF QUINSY - - But Had Not Been Considered Serious —Not Bedfast at Any Time. Miss Mabel Cramer, eldest daughter of Mr. an ( ] Mrs - Uriah Cramer of North Sixth street, passed away very , unexpectedly last evening at seven o’clock at the family home. She had been ill all week of quinsy, having been taken ill last Sunday in church, when she experienced a chill. She was subject to minor attacks of quinsy nut these had always succumbed to home treatment. This w’eek. however, she went to a physician, and yesterday afternoon at 2:30 the quinsy having reached a certain stage, her throat was lanced and she felt better. She was, however, not considered seriously ill at any time, and had not been confined to her bed at any time. She had been up all week, and in fact, only ten minutes before she passed away, she had undressed herself, and seemed in a jolly mood. It is supposed that the throat haj become swollen closing the air passage, and that her heart was not sufficiently strong. Miss Cramer, who was born January 12, 1896. at Kokomo, was hut nineteen years, eight months and nineteen days of age at death. The family moved here when she was six or seven years of age. She was a member of the Evangelical church, active in all its departments, being a member of the various societies and of the choir, and her life was a most exemplary Christian one. Site will be indeed, sadly missed, in the various depart; . ments of the church, as well as in the ’ home. She was also a member of f the Ben Hur lodge. One sister, Dottie older than she, . died several years ago. There, are surviving, besides the parents, the following brothers and sisters: Troby, Naomi and George. The funeral will be held Monday as--1 ternoon at the Evangelical church, the Rev. J. H. Rilling officiating. The hour of the funeral has been set for two o’clock at the home and 5 2:30 at the church. o t Jonas Cline has returned from att tending the G. A. R. national encamp- . ment at Washington D. C.

| AUTO RACES NEXT FRIDAY. I It was arranged late this afternoon to give the automobile races at the fair grounds on next Friday, October i 8, for the benefit of those who held season tickets for the fair. The tickets will be good then. The general admission will be twenty-five cents. There are twenty-four entries and will probably be more. Watch for further announcements. o TO FIGHT LIQUOR TRAFFIC. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 2—(Special to Dajly Democrat) — J. Frank Ilanly, former governor of this state, said today that plans for the publication of the National Enquirer, a weekly, that will fight the liquor traffic, have been completed, anti that the first issue will appear October 5. Associated with Hanly is Oliver Wayne Stewart, former member of the Illinois legislature. He is the associate editor. Harris Dante, formerly connceted with a Cairo (Ill.) paper, will be the managing editor. AUTOS COLLIDE Eli Girod and George Smitley Collide in Unavoidable Mix-up Today. NOT MUCH DAMAGE The Noise of the Impact Brought Curious Crowd for Satiation of Mind. Smashed fenders, lamps and batteries. were the extent of the damages of an automobile collision between Eli Girod, driving an International car for Christ Bucher, and George Smitley, near the postoffice alley at seven o’clock this morning. Smitley was backing out of the north and south alley just west of the postoffice and a car standing at the curb prevented a view of rhe street. Girod was driving west and turning out for the standing car did not see Smitley coming out in his Auburn, with the result that Girod ran Into Smitley's car broadside, on, smashing the fender, the step and putting the batteries out of business. The International car has a broken lamp. Neither of the drivers believe the accident avoidable. The damage will amount to twenty-five dollars, mostly sustained by Smitley. Clerks for quite a distance around heard the crash and ran to the street, expecting a serious smash-up to loom forth. o—— — MISS DECATUR A NEW REEL Mr. Kerr, who is in charge of the work of making a moving picture in this city entitled “Miss Decatur” is a live wire and a former newspaper man from Dayton. He knows the value of advertising and to tell it. He also believes that the picture of a city helps to advertise that town and so do we. If It has not other merit than to prove that the people of a community are awake., it is worth whatever the cost is. We saw "'Miss Celina” reproduced at the Crystal last evening and it is a most interesting reel. The contest for the heroine closes tonight and the pictures will be taken the first of the week and given here the week following. TO MOVE IN MONDAY. Workmen are rushing the complettion of the harness room in the new Schafer building in order to allow the firm to commence moving their harness stock into the new building the first of the week. Painters were finishing the walls today and it is thought that the harness department will be entirely established in the new room during the week to come. Pat Hyland, who is installing the heating plant, hopes to have his part of the contract finished by the twentieth of the month. It is the largest steam installation job in the city. — n REBEKAH SOCIAL On next Tuesday evening at eight o’clock after the regular lodge meeting at the T. O. O. F. ball, the Rebekahs will give a social for the public. A good time is assured. Come and enjoy it. o BEN Hurt NOTICE. By request of the chief, the Ben Hurs will meet this evening at eight ■ o’clock at the hall to make arrange- - ments for the funeral of a sister. Miss Mabel Cramer.

THE RIGH£ SPIRIT 1 Is Shown by First National i Bank in Letters Sent Out i in This Territory. WE SHOULD WORRY When Banks of the Nation Could Pay National Debt Twenty-three Tinies. The First National bank of this city has sent out handsomely printed letters which contain at the top an engraving of the treasury building at Washington, and which calls attention to the fact that the 29,254 banks in this country have total capital, surplus and deposits or more than twen-ty-three billion dollars, that the total national debt of the United States is less than one billion. In other words the banks alone could pay the national debt twenty-three times and have money left. In the letter addressed “to our friends" attention is called to the fact that the confidence thus imposed in the hanks of the nation indicates that we will be able to take care of every requirement placed upon us as a nation and adds: “We confidently look forward to continuous industrial development, enhanced by increased demands at home and abroad for our products—backed by our bulwark of bankind power. Every American can turn to plow, work shop or office with the best assurance of full reward for his toil.” The spirit is worthy of commendation and shows real enterprise and a desire to aid on the part of the First National. ARE DELEGATES Jim A. Hendricks and Mike Miller go to Northwestern Road Congress AT CEDAR RAPIDS, IA. Will Attend Four Days’ Program in Road Building and Maintenance. Jim A. Hendricks and Michael Miller will leave Monday for Cedar Rapids, lowa, where, commencing October 4th, they will attend the sessions of the Northwestern Road Congress. Mr. Hendricks is the delegate and was appointed by Governor Samuel M. Ralston, and Miller is the alternate appointed by our county auditors. The sessions last four days and will deal largely with the maintenance of roads, although considerable time will be devoted to road building. The advantages of the lectures will be brought home and used to our profit by the two delgeates. George W. Clark, govrnor of lowa, will welcome the delegates from 'he various states on the opening day, and engineers and road builders of national reputation will be present to address the delegates. The Northwestern Road Congress was originated in Milwaukee in 1914 and the first congress was attended l»y 1,614 delegates from all parts of the United States. Indiana has but recently been admitted to the congress and our representatives go for the first time as qualified delegates. The purpose of the congress is to bring together In closer relationship those interested in highway construction, to stimulate interest in the subject of permanent highway improvement. to collect and impart educational information bearing on the subject of good roads, and to advance and advocate legislative measures that have for their purpose the extension of the highway systems of the participating parties. A general invitation has been issued to every good road enthusiast to attend the sessions and give voice in favor of building and maintaining good roads. Free and open discussion will be permitted. The states now participating in the congress are Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, lowa, North Dakota, South Daxota. Missouri and Indiana. o Miss Mary Beineke went to Fort ■ Wayne this morning to visit with Miss i Emma Snyder of Magley, who is a nurse at the Lutheran hospital.

r STERLING JUNIOR HOFFMAN Born October Ist to Dr. and Mrs S. P. Hoffman of this city, a seven pound son. Tiie lad was born on ills 1 fi thers birthday and has been christened Sterling Junior. This babe is tlie first Adams county and probably In this part of the state to he brought into the world under tlie new method being developed { by the best obstetricians in America. This method will be to American mothers, it is said, what “DammerchI lass" is to the expectant mother of Germany but differs radically from the latter. Dammerschlaf or“Twilignt sleep” is intended to cause annes'a. a forgetfullness, while the above m entioned method allows a normal birth r during a state of analgesia, a loss of sensation to pain. Miss Esther Hanser. a trained nurse t from Fort Wayne, is taking care of ( Mrs. Hoffman and babe. o POLICE COURT I John Doe Proves His Right to Liberty by Producing i a Roll of Bills BUT RICHARD ROE An Indian. Will Buy His by Remaining Within the County Eleven Days. John Doe, true name unknown, but nevertheless the possessor of a roll i of yellow backs that would, choke a' horse, yes. a mastadon, was haled into j Mayor Chirsten’s court this morning on a charge of intoxication preferred J by Joe Reynolds, who found him in a' badly soused condition on Madison 1 street last night. He pleaded guilty and paid his fine of one dollar and costs out of the twenty-five dollar bond he haq given Reynolds for his release. Richard Roe, a brother in distress, and also an employee of the merry-go-round that has been operating at, the fair grounds, did not fare quite' so well. Roe had no funds with which j to pay and went over for eleven days! on a drunk charge. He is claimed to be a full blooded Indian, and from’ descriptions furnished by those who: saw him last night, lie certainly is. j He started something in tlie KalverNoble garage when Reynolds got him.' He became so furious that persons ( some distance away could hear him. grinding his teeth. AT M. E. CHURCH * • Series of Special Meetings Tuesday Evening and Wednesday. SOME FINE SPEAKERS Coming—Former Superintendent of Korean Missions on Program. A series of meetings, in which the Methodists of Decatur, Monroe, Bobo. Hoagland and, the Decatur circuit will be associated, will be held in i the Decatur Methodist church next Tuesday evenings, and Wednesday . morning, afternoon anj evening. On Wednesday evening, George Heber Jones, former superintendent of j Missions in Korea, wi'l give an adress, 1. N. Tyinnan, J. W. Pickett, B. O. Peterson, returned missionaries, will also speak. On Tuesday evening, there will oe an address, illustrated by stereopJcan, and there will be present also, Rev. J. A. Beatty, district superintent, ■ and the Rev. Fred Thornburg, of Au--1 burn. ‘ The same program will he given at Fort Waye, Auburn, Portland, Bluff--5 ton and other cities. o , REFUSE TO STRIKE (United Press Service) . Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 2, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Employes of the Westinghouse electric and manufactt tiring Company have voted against s striking and wil laccept the comesa sions offered by the company, it was announced today.

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WAS AT HIS BEST 1 J 4 Vice President Marshall DeJ livered Splendid Talk at Second District Meet. i HELI) AT WASHINGTON Wants This Country to be a Real “Melting Pot”— 80 Per Cent Democrats. (By Willis S. Thompson) Washington, Ind., Oct. 2 —“Old tilings have jiassed away, all things have become new,” declared Vice President Thomas R. Marshall as he discussed national and political affairs to ten thousand cheering democrats of the Second district Thursday afternoon at East Side park. Anticipating that the weather might be rainy and to be on the safe side, the committee in charge had provided an enormous tent with open sides. The threatening clouds of the morning held many delegations at home, but just the same the people kept pouring into the grounds long after the rain had started. When the downpour became a drenching rain more than half the crowd hurried hack to tlie city and those who could, find shelter under the tent remained for the speakjng. Die vice president was in one of his best moods. He said he felt at home speaking to an Indiana audience oit i optical issues that are not I now party issues in the same sense I they once might have been designatI ed. Fur “old things have passed away, all things have become new.” jHe declared “eighty per cent of the • American people today are dmocrats. There is no longer any popular notion in tbit' country that some men are made just a little better than the rest of us, designated as the common herd, if jou please. When I was horn I found myself in the swamps of northern Indiana, where none of us had more than we had to have of (some things, it’ we wanted to keep on , living, even there, we had our aristoc- , raiy. We had the ague and malaria. ’ all of us. which we did not need. Some of us had the chills and shook i everv ether day. But there were aristocrats who would shake only every ' three days. I “I v. ant to make this country the melting pots for all creeds and nationalities of the world. The ’nun 'who <on’<:. here anil is a good citizen 'is a better American than I am. It I was none of my doings that I was born in this country and became an American by birth. The man who comes to this country, renouncing the country of his father, comes here because he knows America is far superior. The man who comes to this country. who is put into the melting po*. must melt into a true American. The man who will not melt thus should bo sent back. I grow tired of the people in this count! v who are mad. If you are mad go o -er there and fight. There is lots of employment there for you. If you are satisfied with peace, with honor, 'hen stay litre and be peacable. i read a very interesting interview tlie other day with Elihu Root, a great' American. Cue of our greatest men He said there is an invisible government. always has been. And 1 say this same Elihu Root is an ex attorney general of this same invisible government. “One day at Jeffersonville I met Hie sheriff with a woman all dressed in mourning. I asked where he was going. He said he was taking her to prison. What had she done? Killed her husband. For whom the mourn- ' ing? For her husband. When you hear a man complaining of the invisible government and that some one has been destroying this or that, . look lor an ex-attorney general of the invisible government and the man who has himself brought about the destruction for which he mourns." ’ Senator John W. Kern also spoke, denouncing agitators who urge militarism in this country, declaring they ' are manufacturing war materials of some sort He ridiculed the idea that some worn out country across the water might come over here to whip 100,000,000 Americans whom no coun- ’ try can whip. Senator Pomerene also spoke, as did Congressman Cullop. Mayor John W. McCarty had charge of the details of the day's program. The automobile parade, which drove ~ (Continued on Tag< 2.)