Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 28 January 1916 — Page 1

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COMMITTEE MET THISJMORNING Democrats Plan for Primary—Many Workers and Candidates Here. PLACES TO FILL Several Members of Committee Forced to Resign Under New Law. The city hall proved too small for the enthusiastic bunch of democrats who attended the meeting of the county central committee, held this morning. The session was called for nine o’clock and at that hour t.ie mayors office was filled with a hundred or more democrats, ready and eager to learn all about the new primary law and to plan for the coming primary. Henry B, Heller, county chairman, presided and J. O. Sellemeyer the secretary was at his desk, while every committeeman excepting one of two and many candidates and workers were on hands. Because of the new law which prohibits any person holding an elective or appointive office while serving as committeeman, it was necessary that several men resign. J. D. Winans < f St. Mary's township. John Mosure of French, Isaac Chronister of Decatur resigned. A. J. Case was named in place of Mr. Winans and the chairman was authorized to fill the other vacancies. The chairman gave an explanation of the new law and urged that the committeemen file the names of candidates for committeemen and see that candidates to the convention are sent in from the various districts as anno’.i:,c«d by the commissioners. Tin? chairman also stated that the matter of challenging votes had been called to his attention. He advised iiiai cal’e be Used ill this matter stating that the fact that a man called for a democratic ballot in the primary would be evidence that he is a democrat, lets forgot the past and look to the future, lets encouage every democrat to vote the ticket at the primary and at the fall election. ’ The statement met the approval of those present. i <’ NEW FIRM NOW IN CHARGE. Messrs. Schulte and Helm Proprietors of Holthouse Clothing Store. Messrs. Henry Schulte and Harry Helm have taken ocer the Holthouse, Schulte & Co. clothing store, oldest concern of its kind in the city, the Holthouse heirs and W. T. Schrock having retired as announced through these columns in the issue of yesterday and day before. The store is one of the old landmarks of this city, known as a store where goods of high quality can be bought at the right prices and the new firm will continue the progressive and active business standards heretofore maintained. Mr. Schulte has been a member of the firm for many years and Mr. Helm has been connected with the store as a salesman for a long time. They know the business and the people will greet them as a new old firm entitled to patronage. Mr Schrock will become associated with the firm of smith & Bell and we join in extending best wishes to all the members of the old and new firm. — c BIG AUTO BUS SYSTEM. (United Press Service) Huntington. Ind., Jan. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)—An overland system of automobile transportation passenger service which will be one of the most complete systems in the state, will go into operation here as soon as the cars arrive from the factory. The plans of the company are to take in all towns within a radius of abou twenty-five miles of Huntington. Officials of the company say ’hey will be able to furnish as rapid service as the steam or electric lines and that the trucks will be so constructed as to make them cleaner and more comfortable than the other means of transportation. A very attractive little station is being con structed in the heart of the city. WILL ORGANIZE A UNION. The carpenters of this city will or ganize a union and a meeting has been called for next Monday even ing, to be held at the west end bar ber shop. Every carpenter in th< city is urged to be present.

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ROSE MARTIN HAS DIPHTHERIA Mrs. C. V. Connell has received | word that her sister. Rose Martin, wno | is at home of her sister Mrs. George Maddy in Jonesboro, Ark., is ill of diphtheria and yesterday was giv<>n the second administration of anti-tox-in. The Maddy home is quarantined again, this being the third quarantine. The first was on account of the Maddy babe having diphtheria, the child recovering nicely. The second was Mrs. Maddy, who is yet, after eight i weeks not fully recovered, being unable to use her limbs well, the result of the anti-toxin. A. B. BAILEY HURT. A. B. Bailey, now of Fort Wayne, formerly in the restaurant business here, writes friends here that he had the misfortune to break one of the bones, in his right foot and has been laid up three weeks as a result. He lias been gone from here seven! years. MOOSE DANCE Fifty Couples Grygate to Tunes of Orchestra Last Night. A SPECIAL MEETING Os the Lodge Scheduled for Next Wednesday Evening. The first dance of the series planned by the Moose lodge of this city was held in the assembly room of the order last night, and fifty couples attended. The dances will be repeated each Thursday. Two weeks from last night, or on February 10th, the lodge will hold a hard times dance under the direction of Fred Schurger. The public is cordially invited to attend. The music was furnished by Bertha Kohne, Prof. Paul Withaus and Ollie Heller. The dancing class, also under the direction of Fred Schurger, is large. They study from seven o’clock to eighty-thirty o’clock each Thursday evening. A special meeting of the lodge will be held on next Thursday night, at 1 which time Adams Lodge, No. 1311, will give the degree to a class of candidates. Every member is urgently urged to come to lodge. RAIDS 'IANDITS Chicago Police Raid Bandits’ Headquarters, Getting Eight. THREW CASH OUT Newsy Picks Up Box ConJ taining Bank Plunder — Woman “Peached.” r Chicago, Jan. 28,—(Special to Daily 1 Democrat) —Five men suspects in yesj terday’s daring robbery of Jake Stahls Washington Park National bank, threw thousands of dollars in currency and coins from a window into the 1 street when their rooming house was ■ raided by police today. A newsboy ■ picked up the money. f Three women were arrested with B the men, who were lined up before s bank employees for identification. The raid was made on a tip from a ' woman. Several the men made atS tempts to escape but a cordon of police with drawn guns blocked them ’j at every turn. g The money thrown from the window was in a box, said to contain from (1 three thousand to ten thousand dol,r lars. Police would not give a definite amount early today. i- The exact sum secured by the bandits in the bank robbery was given out today as $15,616.00. All of it was in currency. r ‘ BROTHERS DEAD. is a- F. V. Mills was called to Bladensr- burg, Ohio, by the sudden death of leihis eldest brother, Marion Mills, who I succumbed to pneumonia.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, January 28, 1916.

THEBESTJF ALL Last Night’s Meeting at the Evangelical Church Was Best of Series IS THE REPORT Services at Baptist Church Continue With Interest —The Subject. "The best meeting so far,” was the statement of quite a few and the opinion of all at the close of last night’s meeting at the Evangelical church. After a short talk on "God Knoweth Your Hearts,” the pastor urged the people to examine their hearts, unsparingly. and let God reveal to them their real conditions. The Holy Spirit did its work with each one in making an unconditional surrender, and then followed a heart-felt praise meeting that seldom is surpassed. Like Peter, all felt, “It is good to be here,” Those who thought it worth while to attend were richly repaid. Meeting tonight. Come.—Contributed. The services at the Baptist church continue with interest and profit to all. The Rev. F. G. Rogers is giving excellent sermons. The dne for this evening will be on "Peace,” The meetings at the United Brethren church are growing in interest and attendance. In good weather the house is being filled to its capacity. The meetings are conducted altogether on spiritual lines, with a view to the moral and spiritual development of the Christian life This evening. Rev. D. F. Stewart of Anderson, Ind., will assist in the service. He will also fill the pulpit next Sunday morning at 10:30 a. m. —Contributed. —o BRANDEIS CHOSEN As Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court TODAY BY WILSON Senate Apprized of Appointment at One O’clock— His Record. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C„ Jan. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Lewis D. Brandeis of Boston was named by President Wilson today associate justice of the United States supreme court, to succeed Justice LaMar, deceased. Official announcement was made at the white house. The appointment caused a great surprise here. While the Boston legal expert had been mentioned for the place and had been urged editorially by numerous newspapers he was considered to , have little political backing. The nomination went to the senate shortly after one o’clock and created a sensation in that chamber where almost every democratic member has committed himself for one candidate or another. Brandeis, since his activities in re- • cent years in behalf of the people in s numerous cases involving corporations, has been known as "the people’s lawyer." Brandeis was born in Louisville, j Ky„ on November 13, 1856, and was s graduated from Harvard. While still a young man he amassed a comfortable fortune through his law practice, some of which was In the Interest of 1 large corporations. Several years ago when he became satisfied that his income was suffi--1 cient to care for the needs of his fam- ' ily he incorporated his law firm ,in 1 Boston and retired from active com--1 nection with its affairs. Brandeis was the chief prosecutor in the govv errrtnent action against the New Han ven railroad which led up to the re- -- cent trial. e Washington, D. C„ Jan. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Departing 1 from the manuscript of a prepared n speech, Senator Wash today sprung 3 a sensation in the senate by reading what he said were British orders to blockade vessels to obtain trade se crets from illegally opened American 3- mail. if From this mail, seized wantonly or o the high seas, he said, Great Britair had obtained secrets which would bi

used by its merchants in undermining American commerce. He demanded a ’ cessation of al! trade with the allies unless the blockade was amended to conform with international law. 1 The confidential papers, Walsh said, were ordered issued to a British blockader, but were by mistake passed into an American mail pouch and brought to this country. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN. In the drama of Uncle Tom's Cabin are pictured scenes such as civilization of today has put far away. Few now read that wonderful story of Mrs. Stowe, but dramatizing of which has kept alive for nearly three-quarters of a century. There are few persons of mature years, laymen or clergymen, who have not time and time again witnesses the play and yet it-is as popular today as forty years ago. As a historical production it is unequaled as a pleasing performance it never failed. At the Bosse opera house Saturday evening. PROBATED TODAY Is Will of the Late John B. Holthouse—Estate Left to the Wife AND THE CHILDREN Instrument Executed December 28—Asks Wife to be Executrix. Executed December 28, 1915, and witnessed by Paul G. Hooper and E. B. Lenhart, the will of the late John B. Holthouse was probated today by County Clerk Will Hammell, during the vacation of court. To the wife, Mary Holthouse, is given 160 acres of land in Washington township, during her life. At her death it is to be (rtvided equally among her children—Jessie 8., John 8., jr„ Margaret, Hugh A., Helen Elizabeth and Robert. The sale or division is not to be made until the youngest child is of age. • To his son, Eelix W. Holthouse, he gives inlot No. 226 in the first addition of Decatur. He is to pay to the testator’s daughter, Catherine G., known as Sister Mary Grace, the sum of S2OO per year for nine -years from Mr. Holthouse’s-death. If she-with-draw from community life she is to receive a sum equal to $5,000 during her life, this to be paid by Felix Holthouse. At her death it is to be divided among the testator's children by his first wife —L. A. Holthouse, Felix and Alma, wife of Clarence G. Holthouse, or their children, if they be deceased. If Catherine takes perpetual vows in community life Felix is to pay her SI,OOO in cash. The remainder of the $5,000 is to be divided among the three named before, or theii children. If Felix desires, he may sell the property and place the balance of the $5,000 for Catherine in (Continued on Page 4) o MOVING FACTORY k 1 Adams Heading Company Factory is Moving to South Carolina. 1 LOADING THIS WEEK > Local Men Will Probably 8 i Accompany the Factory to New Place. f Workmen were tearing down the " Adams Heading factory machinery J. this morning preparatory to moving n the factory to Newburn North Caro- !_ lina where it will be erected to cut g lumber in that region. The work of dissembling the plant .. will be finished this week and the mai- chinery will be loaded. It is probable that several of the machinics who have worked in the factcry here for years will accompany the company to the new location, among those who are planning to go g being Adam Weis and Phillip Meihls. 0 The company will continue to buy timber in this vicinity but will ship it n to Portland where they have anothei mill. The factory has been in Decat n ur more than thirty years and practi n cally continuously, during that time io have employed a full force of mon.

GRAND MATRON > s i Os Eastern Star Will Inspect the Decatur Chapter This Evening. MONROEVILLE LODGE Will Have Delegation of 25 —Other Grand Officers Coming. Mrs. Florence Strout of Bedford, grand matron of the Eastern Star, with a number of other grand officers . will be the guests of the local chapter tonight, when the Decatur chapter will be inspected. A banquet will precede the inspection and the dinner will be given at six o’clock. Covers will be laid for one hundred. Monroeville lias responded to the invitation and says that a delegation of twenty-five will come from there. The table for the grand matron, as guest of honor, will be decorated with roses and smilax, and the festivities will be in accord with the importance of the event, which will be one of the biggest given thus far in the new home. The work will be given two candidates, Mrs. Arthur Ford and Mrs. Hutchins. Other grand officers who will be here are the grand patron, Joseph Harrison, Columbia City; past grand matron, Mrs. Anna Robison, Winchester; the grand organist, Clara Anderson Hale, Geneva. MINNESOTA LAW IS GOOD. (United Press Service) St. Paul. Minn., Jan. 28-—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Minneapolis supreme court today upheld Minnesota’s presidential preferment primary law as legal. APPAMJIISSING African Liner is Reported Missing ith Three Hundred Aboard. LIFE BOAT PICKED UP And Belief is She Foundered—Big Battleship Due in Balkan Region. London, Jan. 28,— (Special to Daily Democrat) —The African liner Appam, carrying more than three hundred persons is missing and is feared to have been sunk off the Morrocoan coast. No word has been received here of the fate of the two hundred passengers and more than one hundred members of her crew. Crowds of anxious relatives beseig- , ed the lines offices here and at Liverpool. Though the Appam is a week overdue officials said they have not entirely given up hope that it may yet reach port. Other smaller vessels it ’ was reported, are missing as the result of a severe storm that has swept the east Atlantic for more than two weeks. All the pasengers were civilians. They embarked January 11th. The life boat was picked up five days ' later. It is possible that the boat was merely washed overboard in a heavy storm but the fact that it contained • three water casks and a life belt made it appear more likely that the vessel had foundered. BULLETIN. London, Jan. 28,—(Special to Dally Democrat) —Emperor Franz Josef of Austria has suffered a severe chill and is growing weaker and more de- ’ pressed according to Copenhagen dispatches this afternoon. Copenhagen 1 reported Vienna dispatches as declaring that the Arch Duke Karl was in 1 constant attendance at the Emperor’s bedside. b (By Henry Wood) e Rome, Jan. 28,—(Special to Daily y Democrat) —Albania, with the excep i, tion of the port of Valona and the o immediate hinterland, Is being eva s. cuated by the Allies. Italian forces y hold strong fortified positions at Vai it ona. Heavy Austrian and Bulgariar ■r detachments are closing in upon the t- seaport from the north and the east i- They are meeting with little resist io ance. Official dispatches receiver i here today indicate that the attack or

Valona, one of the most important battles of the Balkan struggle, may begin within a fortnight. Bristol, England, Jan. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Strongly worded resolutions, advocating drastic reductions in armaments and other measures designed to prevent future wars, were adopted at the closing session today of the delegates representing more than two million British laboring men. o LOS ANGELES MAROONED (United Press Service) Los Angeles, via wireless to San Francisco, Jan. 28, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Cities and towns marooned, hundreds of families homeless, orange trees uprooted by a gale and ’ property damage estimated at over one million dollars already, southern California was virtually protrated to- j day by a second flood in two weeks. ; Los Angeles, San Diego and Elsinore < were marooned, cut off from the world ’ and in touch with the outside only by i wireless. 1 a ] INSTITUTE DATES ■ » 1 ' $ s For Adams County Have < Been Selected and An- ( nounced. ■ ( FIVE IN THE COUNTY j Decatur Institute on February 18th and 19th— « 1 Plan to Come. t s 1 The following schedule of farmers' ( institutes has been sent out by the ] extension department of Purdue uni- t versity: •Ml , Berne, Ind., February 4 and 5 —C. j A. Neuenschwander, chairman. , Peterson, Ind., February 12—0. V. , Dilling, chairman. Geneva, Ind., February 15 and 16— j George Ineichen, chairman. Monroe, Ind., February 17 —E. W. , Busche, chairman. , Decatur, Ind., February 18 and 19— , C. S. Mumma. chariman. The public will please take notice . of the dates and plan to attend the , meeting nearest to them. , Address the president for program , and other information and also watch , the papers for further notice. Rev. Theodore B. Terhune, D. D.. of j Huntington has been secured to de- . iijrer his lecture, "Back Stairs to Success,” ati the evening session of the ( Decatur institute. He is a lecturer of , note and his address promises to be , highly entertaining. ( —o , BADLY INFLAMED: I Was Appendix Which Was ' Removed—Ben Butler j Operated Upon < ( I AT HIS HOME < j Northwest of City This < s Morning—Notes About Other Sick. Benjamin F. Butler, a prominent farmer of Root township, was operated upon this morning at 8 o’clock at • his home northwest of the city, by Drs. McOscar of Fort Wayne, D. D. and C. S. Clark and E. G. Coverdale of this city. Mr. Butler was seized with the attack of illness night before last. The appendix, which was 1 found to be highly inflamed, was re--1 moved. A trained nurse is attending him. He is getting along well. ! Miss Hope Hoffman, who has been .. ill a week of grip and sore throat, is 1 much better. She was able to sit up . a while for the first time yesterday afternoon. Miss Bertha Schhltz, who is very ill of lung trouble, remains about the 5 same, showing no improvement. * e FARMERS AT CAPITAL. (United Press Service) 3 Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Farmers and n draft horse breeders of Indiana were e here in force today to attend the t- meeting of the Indiana Draft Horse t- Breeders’ association in room 12 of <1 the state house. Draft horse producn.tion and colt shows were discussed. |

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A FINE_TRIBUTE Paid J. I*. Battenberg, Former Decatur Young Man, in Oklahoma. A BORN LEADER And Inspirer of the Young is Young Superintendent of Atoka Schools. The initial page of the Oklahoma Journal of Education published at Oklahoma City, under date of January 22. contains under its “Who’s Who in Oklahoma Educational Circles—and Why?” a very flue sketch of. and tribute to the work of James P. Battenberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Battenberg, of this city. He is superintendent of the schools at Atoka. Oklahoma, having held that position five years. He was but twenty-six years of age this month, and his achievement is a very remarkable one for his youth. With the sketch, in the journal, is a fine picture of the young man. With his wife and baby, Mr. Battenberg last visited here last summer. The Oklahoma Journal says, after prefacing its article, designating Mr. Battenberg as “A born leader and inspirer of the young:” “A ‘Hoosier’ by birth and education, James P. Battenberg, superintendent of the Atoka city schools, has won his way to an honorable prominence in the field of education in this fine, new state of Oklahoma. As a practical educator, he is therefore a product of this fresh environment and, in turn, he and his fellow workers are literally creating an educational environment which is the fusing agency that is now melting this crude mass of humanity from everywhere into what we call a homogeneous citizenship. "Mr. Battenberg has been in Oklahoma for six years, but in age he is yet a very young man. He came to the cosmopolitan town of Colgate direct from ‘lndianay,’ where he did his first school work. After two years in that place, ho was transplanted to a higher realm, so the Atoka people claim, and for five years he has been superintendent of the Atoka city schools. And a good job of it he has made, else he would not bo there now, for Atoka, whatever else it may not be, is a town of good repute, being a place where the inhabitants read books, enjoy good music, cultivate the art of speech, go to church and keep sober. Being truly a moral town and a place of more than ordinary culture and piety, Mr. Battenberg would not have been tolerated had he himself been lacking in these respects, and without excellent talent as an educator. "The successful school man—a true educator —must be more than a mere class room instructor. He must certainly be a born leader, an inspirer of the young; a moulder of the pliant clay of youth into definite and noble character of mature years. If Mr. Battenberg is anything, he is these things. He is an inspirer and leader of boys and girls. He imparts to young character the divine touch, for the truth is, his is a thoroughly consecrated Christian life. “A highly successful and wealthy business and professional man of this town recently stated publicly that Mr. Battenberg’s moral influence among the boys of the town was worth more than the salary he is being paid. This is, indeed, a high compliment. "Mr. Battenberg’s first year in Atoka saw no graduating class from the high Since then, there have been four graduating classes, completing a full four years’ course, fully accredited with the stato university. "The Atoka schools have an enrollment of between six and seven hundred. There are nearly a hundred in the high school proper, and although the town has increased but little in population since his advent as superintendent, the high school enrollment has increased seventy per cent and the grade enrollment twentyfive per cent, under Mr. Battenberg's superintendency. " ’Keep the boys in school’ has been Superintendent Battenberg’s slogan. He has worked with this purpose steadfastly in view. The result has been that in the past five years, seventy per cent of the Atoka high school graduates have been boys. Possibly no other public school of its size in the state can boast so good a record. "Superintendent Battenberg is of a j (Continued on Page 6.)