Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1915 — Page 1

Volume XIII. Number 278.

MONITORJS SUNK Dispatch from Constantinople Says British Monitor Was Sunk. PASSPORTS GRANTED For German and AustroHungarian Cardinals to E* Attend Consistory. (United Press Service) Rome, Nov. 19—(Special *to Daily Democrat)— Pasports to Austrian and German cardinals will be issued by the Italian government, enabling them to attend the consistory at the Vatican in 1 December, it was announced today by the council of ministers. The inference drawn is that the ministers know of peace plans in the Vatican. Berlin, via Saville, Nov. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Five thousand more Serbian prisoners were takbn by the German-Austrian-Bulgar-ian forces Thursday, an official statement announced today. Berlin, via Saville, Nov. 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The sinkihg of a British monitor witli its entire crew on the Tigris presented today in an official statement from .Constantinople under last Sunday’s date. Washington, D. C„ Nov. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The state department is delaying diplomatic action against Austrian Counselor Von Nuber and other Teutonic agents involved in bomb, passport and other conspiracy charges because criminal prosecution of the guilty parties preferred by the administration. This was stated on excellent authority today. The government has long had sufficient evidence warranting the recall of Von Nuber and other GermanAustrian officers. , —o ■NEWS OF. THE STORM (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Nov. 19, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Indianapolis was swept by a real snow storm today but the flakes melted as they getting steadily colder. Washington, Nov. 19, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Dangerous gales on the great lakes as high as 76 miles an hour reported by the weather bureau today. A storm was also reported off the New Jersey and south Nev England coast where winds 52 miles an hour were reported. New York, Nov. 19, —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —A seventy mile gale swept New York today, sending dozens of signs crashing down and overturning wagons. A dozen persons were fatally Injured, according to rc ports made to the police. • Erie, Pa., Nov. 19, —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —A 76 mile an hour gale unroofed buildings in this city crushed plate glass windows and causing $75,000 property damage here today. Shipping was imperiled. —r. — DOCTOR EXONERATED. (United Press Service) Chicago, 1)1.. Nov. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Baby Bollinger’s twisted body went to its last rest this afternoon. The infant whose life science said wasn’t worth saving was driven through the blizzard-swept street in a closed carriage, which contained the father and other relatives. There were no church ceremonies. The jury of experts summoned by Coroner Hoffman to decide whether Dr. Haiselden acted properly in permitting the defective baby to die, was to render its verdict this afternoon. The six surgeons were present at a postmortem examination of the twisted little body last night. None would express his views for publication, but it was learned on excellent authority that Dr. Haiselden will not only be exonerated from any blame, but will be commended for the stand he took in not performing an operation that they all believe would have meant life ri short duration hor the infant. ALL READY, BOYS. 1 have opened a new barber shop in the Frisinger & Co. office on South Second street and will be ready for business Saturday morning. November 20. Come in and have your work done. Everything new and sanitary. Good service and you can bet we will appreciate your business. Give us a trial. MARSH BURDG. 278t4

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1 Y. M. C. A. CONVENTION. 1 Huntington, Ind., Nov. 19—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The fortysixth annual state convention of the ‘ Indiana Y. M. C. A. opened here today with hundreds of delegates present. As it was stated, probably no important new issues will be taken up, the advance in membership and growth of . the state institutions will probably be dwelt upon to a great extent. A delegation of eighty-five “boosters” from this city has been working hard to make this convention—the first for Huntingion—a success and some good speakers have been secured. The Rev. A. A. Stockdale will be at the head of the list. A business men’s dinner is planned for tonight and about 300 are expected. A car load from Marion, headed by Mayor James O. Batchelor, have ordered plates and are no doubt planning on being heard from. R. S. Parsons, general manager of the Erie railroad, is the chief speaker for this occasion, while a number of other good talks are planned. The convention will be held in the new Y. M./c. A. building and the Central Christian church.

ELECT __CASHIER Directors of Farmers’ State Bank at Preble Elected Lewis Adler Cashier OF NEW INSTITUTION Will Try to Open Bank on Jan. 2—Mr. Adler is West Ward Principal. The directors and officials of the new Farmers’ State bank organized at Preble, Ind., a short time ago, held a meeting last evening and elected Lewis Adler, principal of the West Ward school in this city, the cashier of the new banking institution. The other officials of the bank are: John Hoffman, president; Jeff Klopfenstein, vice president. At the time the latter officials were chosen, Will M. Myers was elected temporary cashier. The Farmers' State bank was organized by Messrs. M. S. Hawkins* and Fred Meeker of Portland. Both men are bankers, Mr. Hawkins being one of the best known bankers in the state. The officials of the bank hope to have everything ready for the opening on January 2, 1916, at which time Mr. Adler will assume charge of the institution. He will tender his resignation to the school board within a short time. The Farmers’ State bank is capitalized for $25,000, of SIOO shares each. The stock is largely owned by Preble and Kirkland township farmers, among whom are some of Adams county’s most prominent and wealthy men. A WFpTan Thought Out by Phil Heffner, Better Known as “Uncle Pudge.” A HUSKING BEE Will be Held Thanksgiving Day—Will See That it is Executed. Among the family Thanksgiving dinners that are planned is one by Phil Heffner, west of Monroe, who is better known as “Uncle Pudge,” Mr. Heffner is a successful beet grower and is just a little late with his corn husking. Not being willing to give up his annual Thanksgiving dinner, he has thought out a plan in favor of the poor preacher, as some folks have a very hard time earning money for the ' preacher. Men are requested to bring 1 their own gloves and husking The man husking the greatest i.uiji ‘ ber of shocks will receive' a prize. : Dinner wil be served by the ladies • of the family. Who will be next? 1 _— o ! Only five weeks until Christmas and its time right now to do your Christmas shopping early.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, November 19,1915.

CONTROLS PLAGUE I Continued Efforts of A. J. Hutchins and Prof. Starr Controls Plague OF HOG CHOLERA In Preble and Root Townships—iNo New Cases Reported in a Week. • The hog cholera epidemic which has ’ been serious for a while in Root and . Preble townships is being eradicted, ’ and present indications are tlpat the 1 disease will thoroughly be controlled 1 within a couple of weeks. County Agent A. J Hutchins has given much of his time in this section , of the country, in efforts to control the plague, arqj the fruits of his untiring efforts are now being shown. He

was assited several days by Proffessor A. G. Starr, of the Purdue university, who is acknowleged to be the one expert in hog cholera in the state. Proffessor Starr is in charge of the extension department, controlling the treatment of this disease,- and gives his entire time to field work along this line. Considerable loss has resulted from the rapid spread of the disease, but its further development has been checked by the prompt methods used by our county agent. The illustrated lectures by Dr. Starr has had much to do with the eradication of the disease here, and Mr. Hutchins has given his time night and day, in the fight against the expensive luxury. o NOW ATJ/IINOEN Frederick Herwig Writes to Henry Retkamp of This City—ln German Army. VISITED IN DECATUR Three Years Ago With Uncle Barney Lengerich—Sure Germany Will Win. Minden, Oct. 6, 1915. Dear Henry:—While I have the time and opportunity I will write you a let ter. I know that you like to hear from your home country, especially in these hard times that have come over us and overall of Europe. This trou ble has not yet seen its end. and it is hard to tell how long it will last. Our enemies are getting weak, but they are not entirely exhausted, and before that it is not our aim to make peace but win, we will. You can see in the maps how much land we have occu pied in France and Russia, and we are still successfully making headway. In Russia we have occupied just about all fortified .cities. The offensive from the British and French was a failure. It broke down along our front like a big boat dashing aganist a rock in the ocean, and breaks all to pieces without doing any damage to the rock; but we had some small losses too. thought not nearly as great as' our enemy. Our enemy’s soldiers were laying thick where they tried to storm our trenches. It was horri ble to look at! What will come next in our warfare we will have to wait and see. I dare not write about that But I suppose we will be successful Money, provisions and food, we have a plenty as yet. I suppose you have read about our third war loan; wasn’t it great? Between twelve and thirteen million marks—a little over .three million dollars. The starvation plan that England has been trying is a complete failure. Everything is divided now for everybody. We have plenty of reinforcements as yet. All camps and public buildings are full of militia. Here in' Minden, where I am I now, they are still building to get I room for the soldiers. Where all the I military recruits and war material J comes from. 1 don’t know. Well I I have told you how the situation i stands. Henry, your folks are well, and so are mine. This war has not done them any damage, and the profit s is increasing for them. You wouldn't ’ hardy notice in this country that there is a war, excepting that most all the

able bodied serving men from nineteen up to forty went away to the war. All the industries and agricultural work is going on just the same. Now. you see that we will hold out a long time yet. How long our enemies will hold out we dpn’t know, but surely not longer than we can. Our money remains in our country. It just goes around in circulation, while our enemies have to pay millions and millions of dollars to America for ammunitions and war material, if America would not stand behind our enemies, I mean if she would not supply them with war material, this war would have seen its end months ago. No matter how much ammunition and war material our enemies get, we will be their glorious conqueror anyhow, some time. I have been in Minden since the fifteenth of March. I get vacations sometimes, two and four weeks, so that I can go home to help my folks on the farm. My brothers are all well so far. Theodore is in Namur. Best regards to all relatives and friends. FREDERICK. FIRE’JIE CRIED

Jos. Hillstrom, Utah Murderer of Two Men, Died With Mocking Cry. FATAL SHOT AT 7:42 Uses Hidden Broom Stick in Terrible Frenzied Fight With Guards. (United Press Service) Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 19,— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Shot through the heart w;th four bullets while blindfolded and strapped in a chair Joseph Hillstrom young I. W. W. leader ar.j poet, convicted of murdering two men here for robbery in Jan uary 1914, was legally executed by the state today. His last words were a mocking cry of “Fire! Let ’er go;” Hillstrom went to his death fighting in an insane frenzy. In some unknown manner he had concealed a broom handle in his cell. When the door of the cell opened Hillstorm leaped upon the guards swinging his club fiercely on their heads, severely cutting one ibeut the scalp and face. The guard; leaped upon him. overpowering him ilmost in a twinkling. The march to the firing squad was then commenced. Warden Arthur Pratt and a deputy led the line. Two physicians followed. Hillstorm’s eyes were not blindfolded until he had been taken into the prison yard. I: was his wish to face the squad wit! open eyes but a thick heavy banj o loth was placed across his eyes an tround his head. He was pronounced dead within thireen /seconds after he was shot a 7:42 a. m., The doctors pronounce: the execution “most humane” ant obviously superior to hanging.” Hillstorm,, himself, chose to be shot by a firing squad instead of dying on a scaffold. The Utah law gives the condemned man his choice. Up to the moment he came out o' .he cell he had not indicated he would resist and his assault took official: completely by surprise. “I will die fighting, not like a cow ird," he continued screaming whet the guards pinioned his arms to if side. They urged him to be quie and take his medicine like a man ant when further resistance was useless Hillstorm settled down suddenly in an apathetic calm. “Now I can die with a clear conscience,” he ended An eleventh hour attempt to save Hillstorm’s life failed. A Seattle man named Busby, is reported to have signed an affidavit furnishing Hillstorm with an alibi. Hillstorm him self swept away even this small hope >f obtaining a reprieve. ' “I do not know Busby," Hillstorm said when officials questioned him about the affair, That settled it. Probably One hundred fifty persons including a score of women standing outside the prison in a pub lie street since dawn heard the death volley. The city is quiet. Despite threats of dynamite no disorders occurred. Painted in scarlet letters near the new state capital were the words, "good by capital" were discovered today. The structure is under heavy guard. This and similar legends were painted in several di' , ferent sections of the city during the _____ ______ pago jjj

TO START MONDAY Herman Gillig and Gilbert Strickler to Take Charge of Fornax Mill. , ON MONDAY MORNING Mr. Bremerkamp Closed Deal With New Partners Thursday Evening. Although the incorporation papers were taken out witli the Secretary of State sometime ago the owners and partners of Mr. H. 11. Bremerkamp in the Fornax flower mill one of the oldest and best established railing concerns in the city was not signed and officially closed up until last evening. With the new transaction the milling company will be incorporated for SIO,OOO witli H. H.

Bremerkamp president, Herman Gillig. Secretary and Treasurer and Gilbert Strickler, Vice-president. Tiie incorporation will be known as the Fornax Milling Company. Both Messrs Gillig and Strickler will begin on Monday morning in the management of the mill. Mr. Gillig besides bein the Secreary and treasurer of the new company will have active charge of the management of the business. He will act as the general manager No doubt the new concern will increase their all-ready splendid busi ness and grow to be one of the largest milling concerns in the state. The men conected with the business have all been in the flour business nearly all their lives and known the many turns that are necessary to make it a success. ONE DAY NEARER Pitiful Experiences of a Russian Condemned to Die December 3. AT COLUMBUS PRISON For Murder of Toledo Detective Who Attempted to Arrest Him. (United Press Service) Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—On the spot representing the third of December on a little calendar, Peter Skribner, death cell prisoner in the Ohio penitentiary here, has marked a star. At the close of each day he puts a mark on the calendar, each one crawling nearer and nearer to the dreaded star. Time and again he points to thisj calendar, he mumbles to the guard in broken English, “Electric chair.” A little over a year ago Skribner work ed for and lived with his only living relative, an aged mother in Odessa, Russia. He/wanted to come to America to “make good” and returning make his mother happy for her remaining days. He managed by hard work to get a few hundred dollars to send him to America. At Toledo, Ohio, he met a woman, who, through promises of marriage took nearly all his money and then jilted him. In a jealous rage, Skribuer shot and slightly wounded her. When Detective Kaiser Bartecki attempted to arrest him, Skribner shot and killed him. Since his arrival at the pen, Skribner has made several unsuccessful attempts to starve him to death. For weeks at a time he refused to eat any food, only to break his long fasts by threats of the authorities to use a feed tube upon him. “1 want to die now,” Skribner has said. “The courts have decreed I should die December 3. 1 wish to God it were today.” (United Press Service) Pittsboro, Ind., Nov. 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —lndiana editors of weekly newspapers came here today for the annual fall meeting of the Indiana Associated Weeklies. They will be addressed by Governor Ralston tonight. J. F. Warfel, publisher of the Ladoga Leader and president of the association, talked this afternoon on “Community Betterment.”

PENNY SOCIAL AND POST SALE Class number six of the Union Chapel Sunday school announces a penny social and parcels post sale for next Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bailey, a mile north and a quarter mile west of the Dent school. Anyone wishing to contribute to the sale may do so and it will be tladly accepted. A good attendance is desired. GIVE MUSICAL PLAYLET The chapel exercises for the high tchool in charge of Miss Belle Batchelor this morning, were unusually good. A musical playlet entitled “The Quilting Bee” was given, in which ■i number ot pupils took part. Chaimer Porter rendered a tenor solo and Billy Linn a bass solo in this. ■ o THE CENSUS REPORT Doris Marie is the name of the nine pound girl born last night at ten o’clock to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ball of South Line street, this being their first born. Mrs. Ball was formerly Miss Florence Van Order of New ' York. All are doing well.

SOUP J!Y_ POST Brought to Farmers’ Very Door by Decatur Rural Mail Carrier. MODERN CONVENIENCE —a_ Telephone to Butcher — Butcher Mailed it in Time for Dinner. Soup by parcels post. That is the very latest achievement of the Decatur rural route service. Well, not soup exactly, but the wherewithal to make it, brought ready to the door, in time to put on the fird and boil for dinner, piping hot for the corn huskers, when the come in from work. A soup bone was delivered this morning to a country home by one of the rural carriers. The farmer called the butcher by 'phone; ordered a good “bone" or soup chunk; the butcher hustled over to the postoffice, mailed it, and the carrier had it out by the state line about nine or ten o’clock, at least in plenty so time for dinner. Talk about modern achievements and conveinences! This week’s Monroe Reporter also tells of a similar achievement there —that of sending "back-bones” by parcel post. o FUNERAL HELD TODAY Funeral services for Mrs. Lewis Worthman were held this afternoon from the Magley Reformed church, in charge of the Rev. Hoffman and as sistant Mrs. Worthman was a prominent lady of near Magley, and is the mother of Prof. M. F. Worthman o this city. CAR ISJERAILEO Interurban Car on B. G. & C. Line Derailed Near Geneva. INJURED NO ONE But Delayed Traffic Three Hours—Ran Forty Feet on the Ties. Car No. 400 on the B. G. & C. traction line was derailed for about three hours at Pontius curve just west of Geneva last evening when it jumped the track. The rails had spread and on the way to Geneva Motorman Pete Worster experienced a shock as it passed the defective place and on the return trip he started over the spot at a very slow rate. The car could not be stopped until it had run about forty feet off the trucks and had it gone ten feet further it would have rolled down an embankment. The wrecking crew was called and the car was not replaced on the tracks until about 9:30 o'clock. The car was in charge of Conductor John Neff and Motorman Worster.

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A TRUE STORY Os a Brave Young Man Who Decide dto Try the Uplift Business AND HIS SUCCESS After Years of Preliminary Pioneer Work Against Great Odds. C. C. Kirkpatrick of the agricultural extension department, in reporting the first annual meeting of the National Asociation of Commercial Organization Secretaries, held recently in St. Louis, quotes the following by Secretary Norwood, of the Greater Davenport. lowa, committee. It portrays graphically the difficulties encountered by commercial secretaries and county agents in their farm development work and suggests some of final rewards:

iiuai icwaiuß. “In the summer ot 1912 the secretary of this organization and the president of the First National bank, who is a live one, and wanted to make hipself solid with the soil tillers, toured Scott county in a 1909 model visible, distributing literature, calling meetings, ticketing the bell cows of every township and doing other needful things in connection with the formation of a county agricultural organization. The commercial club provided an office, furniture, stenographic help and other necessaries, the government contributing $1,200 a year; the business men of Davenport dug up an even larger sum and the farmers of Scott county yielded $124,19. With a favoring wind their moans could be heard for miles. Chered by results, we induced a kindly millionaire with a penchant for agriculture to guarantee the payment of any deficit that might be incurred, and launched the Scott County Farm improvement League on a chilly world. Then he bought a second hand car and a tank of gasoline, hired a solemn young man from an ag school and we were ready for business. “Our success was not exactly immediate. Although the young man can tell from looking at a rolled oat whether it was planted with a drill or a shot-gun, and is equally proficient in other directions, he was at first the object of considerable suspicion. Some farmers met him on the wrong sfde of the front gate with their hands on their Ingersolls, and some of them shooed their stock in the barn when the second-hand car hove in sight. His advice was as welcome as a case of small pox and was followed as literally as the ten commandments. And when he insisted there were better methods of testing seed corn than by looking at it wisely through a pair of ten-cent specs, that cholera serum was not invented by black-hearted confidence men to separate the farmer from his loose change, that alfalfa will grow in Scott county, and that sprayed trees yield more and better fruit, he was looked upon as a hopeless and dangerous I lunatic. "Two years elapsed. “Tested corn came up and untested corn did not; serum-treated hogs lived and untreated hogs died; sprayed orchards bore fruit and unsprayed orchards did not; alfalfa grew and thrived and returned big yields. The farmers began to smile upon the young man from the ag school. Some gave him buttermilk. A few invited him to supper. The second-hand car got a new set of tires. The live bank president began to believe some of his own agricultural predictions. The secretary of this organization began to hope. And the farmers began to give up money. “Another year slipped by. “The second-hand ear and the young man are welcome guests on every farm. The live bank president is'' known as the farmers’ friend, and his bank’s rural deposits make him blush. The secretary of this organization calls farmers by their first names and hope sone of them may some day join the commercial club. The government still provides $1,200 a year, the business men still dig up even more, but the farmers, God bless ’em. are parting with about a thousand. The sun shines, the birds sing, the corn crop grows as thick as clover, the hogs dies of old age, the alfalfa, is cut every so often, the orchards groan with the wdlght of sanitary, sprayed fruit, and the Scott U mty Farm Improvement League is considered to be the best ding-busted organization in the whole blamed state.”