Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1916 — Page 1

Volume XIV. Number 38.

CRUISER IS SUNK French Cruiser Admiral Charner is Sunk With All Hands. FIERCE TRENCH FIGHT Ends in Teutons Gaining Considerable French Positions. > (United press Service? London, Feb. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat i—German troops have made the most successful drive against the French lines since their defeat at the battle of Marne, early in the war, the Berlin war office claims this afternoon. In the last forty-eight hours of fighting, Berlin reported, the Teutons have captured nearly a mile of French trenches in the Champaine region, as well as four hundred yards by an inexpected smash in the Vosges. The French war office this afternoon admits the loss of two hundred yards to the Germans in the Vosges fighting. The official statement at Paris, however, was silent on the operations in the Champaine. Continuing their battering tactics against the French left wing, the Teutons stormed seven hundred yards of French trenches west of Tahure, Berlin reported this afternoon. The gain was in the same region where the Germans Saturday night reported capture of seven hundred yards of French positions. London, Feb. 14,—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The first proclamation calling upon unmarried men eligible for military service under the conscription act was posted at Wallesey, near Liverpool today. Paris. Feb. 114,— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Roumanian mobilization is now complete, said an official statement given out here today. The Carpathian and Danube defenses have been finished. Paris. Feb. 14.—(Special to DailyDemocrat) —Three hundred and seven-ty-four • lives were lost when tlie Frenchi,cruiser Admiral Charner, was sunk off the Syrian coast. Dispatches confirming the loss of the cruiser today said that only one man was saved. The ministry of marine gave out a statement last night expressed fear for the safety of the Admiral Charner. a 4680 ton cruiser. It was stated that no word had been received from net since February 8 when a German report stated that a French warship had It been torpedoed by a German submarine. n-miint- o— —— — ARE FINDING A CASE (United Press Service) Madison, Wis., Feb. 14,—(Special to Dally D^fcocrat)—Charles Hassinger, clerk in a local drug store, admitted today to the police that on last Tuesday he sold an empty two ounce bottle to William H. Orpet, Wisconsin University student, held for the fcinrder of Marion Lambert at Lake Forest Illinois. Tuesday was the day Orpet ,* left for Lake Forest to meet Marion. The bottle from which the Lambert girl took the poison cannot be found. Young Orpet) arrest in connection with the case, authorities said, was based on the theory that he had purchased the poison. Hassinger emphatically denied that there was any poison in the bottle he sold Orpet. Hassinger also admitted that he had sold through a mutual' friend an abortive medicine last August. Doctors who have examined the Labert girl’s body said there was no occasion for the use of such medicine, but the police theory is that she feigned a situation to hold Orpet. — —o “LADY AUDULEY’S SECRET" Lady Auduley’s secret, a photoplay in five reels, and one of the meritorous dramas now receiving the approbation of the picture theater goers, will be here Teusday night at the Crystal theater, where it will be shown for five and ten cents. Theda Bara, peerless actress of the screen will portray the title role. For a •lean drama, portraying plenty of action and holding the interest to the end, it would be hard to find a bettei play. Better try to get in Tuesday night. ——o Mrs. C. S .Clark is entertaining thit afternoon at her home on North Sec ond street.

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! TO MEET IN INDIANAPOLIS. I (United Press Service) Indianapolis, lleb. 14, — (Special to Daily Democrat)—The coming of tho I National Association of Charities and Correction convention Is to be signalized by a state-wide membership ca npaign that is now under way. The convention is May 10 to 17 and will bring between three and five thousand delegates to Indianapolis. ' Last year the meeting was held in Baltimore where a membership campaign added more than 600 names to ’ the roster. The Indiana workers, headed by Miss Kdna Henry is choosing county aides, all of whom will l.e women. She expects in the next few weeks to have obtained a helper ai each of the ninety-two o.— . .. CARD OF THANKS. 1 We wish to express our thanks to ' those who assisted us so Wndly duri ing the sickness and after the death , of our beloved mother. BRACHT FAMILY. THE COURT OS Russel Barrone Sentenced to from One to Eight Years in the STATE REFORMATORY For Stealing Chickens—; Judgment Falls Account Old Charge. When Russell Barrone aged twenty, tried to pass a one-dollar bill which he tried to mak,e look like a fiver by , pasting a “five” over the "one” last Friday night he jumped from the frying pan into the fire. A charge of for- ' gery was filed against him in the Adams circuit court and Barrone will go to the state reformatory for from one to eight years. It is not directly for 1 the last offense, however, but for steal-' 1 ing chickens in March, 1914, that he lis sent to the reformatory; The charge of forgery will still stand : against him, no action having been ■ I taken in this court. Barrone acknowledged the chicken Stealing, but j Judge Smith did -not sentence him. 1 telling the boy that he should report to the court and as long as he kept' out of trouble, he would suspend action. When the forgery charge came up, Barrone was brought up and the judge passed sentence on the old charge hanging over him, he was also fined a dollar. The case of Marcellus E. Hutton vs. John Ellenberger et al. is set for trial for Matx h 7. — I John T. Myers vs. John J. Leimenstoll et al. Answer by Leimenstoll. Rule to reply to second and third paragraphs. The case of Horace R. Allen, jr., vs. i — 1 (Continued on Page 4.) OPERATORS QUIT? J Everything is Ready for Walk-out of Operators on Clover Leaf. I ; MUST MEET DEMANDS I i j Local Operators Will be Affected — Organizer in i Bluffton Today. 5 r I „ A strike of all the operators on the Clover Leaf is probable unless officials of the road meet with the men in an endeavor to avert an action, said to be imminent, probably tonight. The Marion Chronicle'said today: “A strike of the telegraphers and agents y of the Clover Leaf will be called soon, according to L. A. Kilcullen, national >- representative of the Order of Raili, way Telegraphers, who is in Marion 1 e today in the interests of the union, e One hundred and thirty men on this a 1 division will strike. There are fifty i J thousand men in the national organia zation of this division. i “Kilcullen made the following statee' merit regarding the cause of tke , r J strike: ‘A committee representing v . the agents and telegraphers of the ' Clover Leaf have been trying to get a I schedule for the Clover Leaf similar ig - to those existing on all the other lines , c . jin this territory. The officials have! I (Continued on Page 4.)

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, February 14, 1916.

ROBERWLONEY Former Marshal of City Died Saturday at Marion Soldiers’ Home. SICK TWO WEEKS Funeral Held Tomorrow at the Home — Deceased Was Aged 69. Robert Maloney, former marshal of this city, and during nearly all his life a resident of this county, died at the Soldiers’ National home at Marion, Indiana, at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. His only son, Joseph, of Blue Creek township, was with him when the end came. Bob Maloney, as he was best known here, was a popular figure in this city in, the eighties. He served as marshal for several years, retiring in 1886. For a number of years I lie had lived with his son, Joe, on a farm in Blue Creek township. For some time he had been in poor health and a short time ago went to the home for treatment. Two weeks ago he contracted the grip and in his weakened ’condition he could not fight it successfully. He saw service in I Company H, 23rd Indiana infantry, during the civil war. The funeral ; services will be held Tuesday afteri noon at 2 o'clock at the national home and interment at the home cemetery. He was sixty-nine years old. o PAROLE LAW GOBI Nineteenth Year of Indiana’s Law Proves Its Worth. CONVICTS SAVE MONEY . ■ i Law Has a Wide Application, Producing Excellent Results. I Indianapolis, Feb. 14, —(Special io Daily Democrat)—The indeterminate sentence and parole law, after having been in operation 19 years, was pronounced a success today by the Board of State Charities in an extract made from its forthcoming annual report. ; However, the board's figures sho.v- --! ed that of the 9,338 prisoners paroled, 1 2,508 or 26.86 per cent had proved unsatisfactory. “A careful record of the earnings land expenses of these paroled prison- ' ers is kept, “says the report. ‘The re--1 port shows an aggregate of $2,620,628,[77 earned, in addition to which many received board, lodging and laundry. Expenses amounting to $2,143,423. 41 j were reported, leaving a balance on : hand of $477,205.36, which is an average saving of $51.10 each. ‘lt speaks well for the ecomical value of the law that these men and women, instead of being maintained in prison at public expense, proved theraselves capable of obeying the law and ' earning their own living.’ I The law applies to men over sixteen 1 years of age and women over eighteen years, convicted of a felony other than treason, murder or rape. METHODIST CONFERENCE The fourth quarterly conference of the Methodist church will be held in ' the church Sunday School room tonight commencing at seven o’clock 'nstead of at seven-thirty o’clock as formerly anounced. Much business of importance is to come before the members of the congregation at this meeting and every one is urged to be present. I This is the last regular meeting at ■ which Dr. Beatty of Fort Wayne will jbe present and preside. Every member should therefore come. Remember the change in the hour. ■—o — HAS LEASED A FARM Huber E. Zerkel. who for a numr.ar 'of years has had charge of the grocery department in the Runyon, Engeler ,i Co. grocery has resigned and today moved on a farm on route nine out ol 1 this city. Huber is a hustler and will make good. His place in the store | will be filled by Harvey Everett whe (began his duties today.

I SMALL FIRE SUNDAY I Fire, started by a spark from the chimney, caused five dollars damage to tho house occupied by Clinton Grim y on 15th street at two o'clock yesterday afternoon. A hole two feet in diameter was burned through the roof. A little fellow, discovering tho fire, ’.in two blocks .to the James Hurst residence, Monroe and 13th streets to , have the alarm sent in. Neighbors 5 put out the first by the time the engine arrived. t INDIAN LAND SALE. The postoffice has received a bulletin announcing the sale of Indian lands in ten to 600-acre tracts from $2 to S2O per acre. The sales will be held every throe months. The bulle--1 tin is issued by Gabe E. Parker. Mus--3 kogee, Okla. The land is adapted to 3 fruit and poultry growing, dairying ' and general agriculture. - Q-— — — 1 - i PETITION LOSES 3 , - Commissioners Will Hold i Myers Petition for Road i is Insufficient. I HARD FOUGHT BATTLE t . Inning in Commissioners’ Court Today—Petition May be Refiled Soon. Th board of commissioners were in session today, hearing the evidence, one side and ’tother of the now almost famous John W. Meyer et al petition for a macadam road and to open a new road across the Henry Eiling farm just southwest of this city. A former petition for the same road was defeated last year. The present petition was filed last December with 236 signers. . As only fifty are necessary it looked like a sure tiling as to defeat it a greater number of free holders had to' sign a remonstrance. Henry Eiting and son started out to defeat the road and in due time filed a remonstrance containing 305 names. Then began the work of checking off those who had no right to sign, not being free holders in tills township. John C. ' Moran appeared as attorney for the pe--1 titioners today and Dore B. Erwin ; represented the remonstrators. The evidence was concluded at 2:30 this afternoon and Mr. Erwin asked to be 1 heard. It was decided however that. ■ the showing was favorable to the re-I monstrators even after giving every i . contested name to the petitioners. The | totals after marking off those not legal signers were 194 petitioners and 219 remonstrators. As only six or eight j signers were under controversy there 1 ’ is no doubt as to the result. The ■ road cannot be. built on this petition. (Continued on Page 5.) TO ERYSIPELftS 1 Was Due the Death of Mrs. Sidona Buettner of ! Union Township. I DIED EARLY TODAY 1 . ‘ Was Thirty-six Years of Age—Funeral Will be Held Wednesday. f —_ II Mrs. Sidonia Buettner of Union 1 township, wife of Henry Buettner, died at 3:55 this morning of erysip- ’• elas. She wap thirty-six years, eleven ls months and twenty-three days of age. i- Born in Germany, February 21, 1879, t- she came to this country October 21, I- 1898, with her brothers, coming to Adams county. She was married here t May 29, 1900, to Henry Buettner. 1 The husband and the following i- children survive: Bertha, Erma, Eli. mer, Oscar, Walter and Norman. Norman, the baby, is but three weeks old. Her mother and a brother, Philip Noack, reside in Germany. The following brothers live in this country: r I Ervin Noack, Traverse City, Mich.; y I Walter Noack, Decatur; Ewald Noack. Grawn, Mich. y i The funeral will be held Wednes'■f, day afternoon at one o'clock from the H: home and later from the Emmanuel e i Lutheran church, Rev. Hoffman ofti o elating. Burial will take place in the ! church cemetery.

GOSHEN WEDDING (• - ll Y In Which Decatur People I. t Are Interested—Mrs. Whitmer Married to [) s LINCOLN J. CARTER Chicago Author and Playwright—Sister of Mrs.. 1 Lulu Studebaker. Decatur friends of Mrs. Mary Whit- } mer of Goshen, sister of Mrs. David , E. Studebaker, of Goshen, will be interested in hearing of her wedding, .which took place Saturday evening at I the Whitmer home in Goshen. Mrs. . Whitmer was married to Lincoln J. Carter, of Chicago, author and playwright, and the Rev. Robert H. Smith, pastor of the First Baptist church, of- | ficiated. They left Saturday night for Chicago, where they will reside. Mrs. Whitmer is well known in Decatur, having visited here many times with her sister, Mrs. Lulu Studebaker, when she resided here. She was the widow of Harry R. Whitmer, a i wealthy Goshen manufacturer. Mr. Carter first met Mrs. Whitmer when he went to Goshen to stage a benefit performance for the Goshen hospital. He is also known to many Decatur people. Several of his plays, including “As Told in the Hills,” and “Klondike, 7 have been given in the Bosse opera house here. DINNERJS_ GIVEN The High School Domestic Science Girls Entertain the Teachers at A DINNER PARTY • Saturday—Girls do Marketing, Cooking, Serving and Work in Full. The high schoolgirls’ domestic science class, of which Miss Bessie Boyers is teacher, gave a dinner Saturday, institute day, for the city i school teachers, this being the second one till sseason. The girls were busy as bees in the i morning in their class rooms in the I Allison-Studebaker block, where the ' dinner was given, and at 11:30 everything was ready for the guests, of whom there were twenty-eight. I The little tables were perfect in ', their appointments and the covers were designated by Valentine place cards. The following was the menu served: Cream of Pea Soup Croutons Beef Loaf Tomato Sauce Baked Maccaroni with Cheese Parker House Rolls Clover Leaf Rolls Grape Jelly Fruit Salad With Boiled Dressing Cup Cakes Coffee The work was divided among the girls each section doing its share. A number of the girls did the marketing, others the cooking others served, and still others arranged the tables, • and did the dishwashing, and the work that comes afterwards, all being done in the scientific method in which they ■ have been instructed so ably by their teacher. The domestic science rooms will be enlarged soon, one of the vacant rooms adjoining to be fitted up as a dining room. The dinner Saturday is a part of the girls’ lesson study for this week and last, being a lesson on the minimizing of the cost of serving dinners. Strict attention was paid to the expenditures and the securing of the best possible results in the way of ■ well-balanced, nourishing foods and ' good service. ! — n NEW YORK STORM BOUND. (United Press Service) New York, N. Y., Feb. 14 —(Special . to Daily Democrat)-* Folio wing twen- ) ty-four hours of wind, snow and sleet, ) with the lowest temperature of the - year, two above zero, a storm warn- : ing from the New York weather bu- ; reau today gave promise that the :1 worst is yet to come. “Hoist storm warnings from Cape Hatteras to Bosi- ton,” said the weather bureau's bul e ietin. New York was covered with a il coating of ice and snow, but early to I- day no fatalities had been reported e i Railroad traffic was delayed, and wire I communication suffered.

J A PROBABLE SETTLEMENT. J Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 14 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Settlement of the long-drawn-out street car strike here _ veritably hung on a button. It had been announced that the strike probably would be settled at the next meeting. But the strikers made one final demand. They demanded the right to wear their union buttons while at work. This the company ret j fused to grant and the strikers walked out without arranging for another meeting. Cars have run on schedule . since the first week of the strike. TODAY'S HOO r siER ODDITY, (United Press Service) Gary. Ind., Feb. 14 —(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The sins of ancestors verily are visited upon the gen- ‘ ■ erations to follow. The cat which fre--1 quents Mollner’s case here lost her ' j tail in a back fence engagement years ’ ' ago. Recently she bestowed a litter 1 of five kittens upon Mol’.ier. And ■ not one of the arrivals has a tail. • N. B. —Nature fakers please write. NEW DIRECTORY Philadelphia Farm Journal’s Adams County Directory and Map Arrives 1 Hand it is complete i Was Printed at Loss of SevI eral Hundred Dollars I But is a Good Job. — Copies of the new Adams County Directory have arrived, many busi- . ness houses receiving them this morning by parcel post. The directories were made by the Farm Journal company of Philadelphia and were promised last July. We had almost given up getting them, but they will • be welcomed by the business men and :by others of this county. The direcJ tory is the most complete ever published here and is a very necessary article. The book contains a number of photographs, including the court house on the cover, library, street scenes in the various towns, prominent citizens of Monroe, farm scenes, Limberlost Cabin, and others. The ' | advertising section is interesting, con- ‘ taining the announcement of nearly ’ every firm in the county. The book also includes a list of officials, directory of Decatur, a map of the county and many other interesting and nec- ! essary facts. It may be of interest to ! our readers to know that the com- ’ pany which produced the book lost ■ 1 several hundred dollars on it and sim ’ < ilar experiences in other counties has j caused them to suspend this system of II advertising and soliciting subscrip- ’ tions for the Farm Journal. We be ‘ i lieve it will prove a useful book for 1 the people of this county and it ought to be duly appreciated even if it is a little late in arriving. OuOTath Wesley Nusabaum, Berne, is Very Low—Blood Poisoning Develops IN HIS THIGH Was injured in a Fall at the Berne Milling Plant a Week Ago. Miss Nellie Fox, who is at the • James P. Haefling home, was called to Berne this afternoon by a telephone t message that her brother-in-law, Wes--1! ley Nussbaum, is very low and that his death is expected at any time. Miss Fox left on the 1:05 train over the G. R. & I. 1 Mr. Nussbaum had been employed i- at the Berne Milling company's plant. *•’ He fell eight feet a week ago and e sustained a dislocation of the shoulj. der. A large place on his thigh was e also badly skinned, but little was n thought of it and he returned to his 3- work again. Later blood poisoning 1- set in, in the leg that was injured and a this morning an operation was per- > formed in the hope of saving his life. 1. Mr. Nussbaum is twenty-two years e old, and has a family of two chil1 dren.

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.VALENTINE DAY > k 1 Observed Over the World, and in Decatur as Well —Many Cards Sent. ALSO FLOWER GIFTS And Bon Bons—One of the Traditions of St. Valentine’s Day. Today is St. Valentine’s day, with all its pretty sentiments of love and devotion, and Decatur people are getting their share of the valentines, as the busy postoffice force can vouch. The most common from is the postcard, but there are also the beribboned, befluted and be-crinkled paper kind that come in boxes. The old-time so-cailed “eomic” valentine is rarely seen, having lost, with their bitter, stinging rhymes, the popularity that makes for longevity. Valentines also take other forms—flowers, bon-bons and even gifts of jewelry. There are many stories and traditions of St. Valentine and many versions of how the celebration of the day began, but the prettiest one and the one that appeals most to sentiment is that the gracious St. Valentine day custom sprang from a tragedy. Perhaps this story will appeal more this year than any other when it is realized what being a soldier means to many mothers, wives and sweethearts. The story is told that in seeking soldiers to form more legions for the stern business of fighting, Emperor Claudius of Rome found that men who were married or engaged to be married did not wish to go to war; love and home ties held them. So he decreed, according to history, that there should be no more marriages. Now, it is well known that a little opposition lends the greatest impetus to love, and all the swains and maids, who had long been dallying as to a decision, besieged the priest, Valentine, to marry them. This he did. The emperor, enraged, had Valentine put to death, but be lived in the hearts of the people, particularly sweethearts, who have since celebrated the anniversary of his death —St. Valentine’s day. In medieval times the first youth who saw a maiden in the morning or the young man whose names she drew from a box was her valentine or chivalrous knight for the day. He gave her a gift, often flowers, and attended her gallantly. The gift, too, became a valentine. The day has come to mean much to the three sweethearts, mother, wife and little daughter, the first,second and the third sweethearts that come into many a man’s life. A few years ago these little remembrances were sent surreptitiously, but now the man is the exception to the rule who does not send a sweet message to one of these three sweethearts on St. Valentine’s day. There is nothing that appeals more to a woman than the observance of days, which mark an epoch in her life. Man, with the hurry and rush of a busy world, has little time Cbr sentiment, but with a woman oftentimes these laftle observances mean much. Is there in all the world a man or woman who has grown so old, so cold and removed from sentiment that they can look into the shop windows these days and not have a little tugging of the hear strings? Is there a man or woman whose minds does not turn backward to the days of long ago when messages of love were exchanged in just the same old way that they are today on February 14? There are the same sweet messages, the same little bits of sentimental verse —maybe not just the same words, but the same sentiment prevails, showing: For love is the same as long ago, Grandmother’s valentine told me so. TO ADOP” BOY. Lewis Merrillot, a farmer, living southeast of Bluffton, across the lino in Adams county, was in Bluffton this afternoon to see Judge Eichhorn and Juvenile Officer W. A. Likkey, relaI tive to the adoption of an orphan boy, one of the Wells county wards in the Grant county orphanage. He will provide a good home for the boy on the farm. ■ o TO GIVE INFORMAL DANCE. ) ) An informal dance will be given at 5 the Masonic assembly room, Friday 1 evening of this week, February 18. - Dance starts at 8:30 sharp. Music • by Fort Wayne orchestra. Tickets on 3 sale by members of house committee - or telephone 275, and your ticket will be delivered.