Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1916 — Page 1

Volume XIV. Number 182.

THE LOWBIDDERS L. W. Frank & Son Were Low Bidders on the Line Street Improvement. COUNCILMAN RESIGNS — Resignation of L. L. Baumgartner Accepted—Had Busy Session. Councilman Janies Hurst was elevated to the mayor’s chair last evening and presided over the regular session of the city council in a very creditable manner. Mr. Hurst called the meeting to order and City Clerk H. M. DeVoss called the roll, with a response from every one, except Councilman L. L. Baumgartner. After the proofs of publication, giving notice to contractors to file their bids for the improvement of Line street had been spread on record, a motion was made to open the bids. Michael Miller and L. W. Frank & Son were the only two contractors competing for the job and after their proposals were read a motion was made to go into an executive session for the purpose of awarding them. City Engineer Harruff had the bids tabulated, resulting in L. W. Frank & Son being the lowest bidder. The contract was not awarded, however, as the property owners have ten days’ time in which to petition for the kind of wearing surface to be used tn the construction. The contract will more than likely be awarded on the brick paving. As no one objected to the Wagoner sewer the final resolution adopting the improvement, and ordering the j city treasurer to collect the assessments was passed. As about an equal number of prop-' ertv owners along Ninth street had filed petitions for the improvement of the street with brick and others I for tarvia, the matter wes referred to the street and sewer committee.' The withdrawals of George W. 1 Teeple and Raleigh Chrisman from the petition to improve Ninth street, with brick were filed and referred to the street and sewer committee. The street and sewer committee reported as having entered into contract with Michael Miller for the building of Third street, and with Metzer and Mayer for the construction of the Tonnelier sewer. Their reports were approved and spread on record. The street and sewer committee, tt> t which had been referred the matter of opening Cleveland street, reported favorably on the proposition and recommended that the street .be opened for public use. The city engineer was also instructed to file his assessment roll, showing the amount of benefits or damages that each property owner incurred. The final resolution adopt-j ing the improvement was passed and , adopted. ' City Engineer Harruff filed his report and specifications in the Del Lake sewer improvement, his report of completion and preliminary assessments in the matter of the Oak street improvement and the preliminaiy as- ' sessment roil for the Russell street improvement. The reports were approved and spread on record and a resolution setting the next regular meeting night, Tuesday, August 15, as the date on which the remonstrance would be heard, was passed and adopted. Objections will be heard in all three improvements on the above date. The resignation of L. L. Laumgartner was then read and placed on file and upon the motion of H. F. Linn was accepted. Mr. Baumgartner was elected at the last city election as a councilman at large. His successor will be chosen by the city council in a special session on Wednesday August 9th. The law requires a special session for the election. The street and sewer commitee, upon motion, ordered the city contractors. to build the sidewalks along South Eleventh street and First street as the property owners, after being duly notified, failed to do so Henry Stevens was awarded the contract for the building of the Foos 86 W6l*« Martin Mylott was authorized tc 1 i run a two-inch water line along Kek ionga street. Four property owners 1 along this street have already peti , tioned the council to install the line t The waterworks committee was in man about the right of way for tin j; e!ty pipe line running through he property to the river. * The executive session followed am

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I after the bills were allowed the ipcet I ing adjourned: Wm. Chronister 1123.01 Street commissioner’s pay roll 134.2 C City firemen 62.5( ! Isaac Chronister ....’ 32.5( Police pay roll 90.0 f Lenna Harruff 5.7 f Volunteer firemen 9.0( A. C. Foos pay roll 198.0 C Winifred J. Russell 11.7E Volunteer firemen 12.0 C 1 Volunteer firemen 16.50 M. J. Mylott pay roll 179.50 The Kuebler Co 6.05 Buffalo Meter Co 8.2(1 Illinois Wire & Cable Co 176.98 Protective Elec. Supply Co. .. 71.68 Indiana Elec. Appliance Co. .. 10.86 Everett & Hite Co 2.50 Democrat Co 25.25 Orval Harruff 37.50 J. W. Bosse 21.24 Democrat Co 16.23 (Continued ou Page 4.) ATTABKSJLONDON Germans Conduct Air Raid Over London, Destroying Much Property. BOATS SAFELY HOME England Demands Complete Restoration of Belgium and Servia. (United Frees Service) Berlin via Sarille, Aug. 2,—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The city of London was attacked In the German | airship raids of July 31 and August 1 acording to official announcement today. j “German airship squodrons on the night of the last of July and the first lof August attacked London and the , Eastern British counties,” the statement said “We dropped bombs successfully on coast works, defense batl.terles, and industrial establish- ( ments of military importance. All our airships returned safely although violently’ shelled by sea forces while approaching.” . London, Aug. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat)—England regards as an essential part of any peace communication the restoration by Germany of Belgium and Servia, both materially and economically, and the repair of devasted portions of France and Russia, Premier Asquith declared in a speech in Commons today.

London, Aug. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Roger Casement will be hanged tomorrow morning, it was definitely announced tonight. This was the final word of the government concerning the execution at nine o’clock tomorrow morning of the degraded knight convicted of treason for his part in the Irish revolt. I Preparations were being made at 1 Tentonville prison for the hanging of I the Irish leader. His counsel declar-1 ed Casement seemed utterly uncon- 1 cerned at his approaching fate. Premier Asquith acknowledged receipt of a monster petition signed by prominent Irish today, appealing for clemency for Casement. I El Paso, Texas, Aug. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat)—On reports that 150 j Mexican bandits crossed the Rioj Grande at Finlay Texas, eight miles] west of Fort Hancock, two troops of cavalry, a motorcycle corps and ten i truck loads of infantry were rushed ■ from Fort Bliss today to Fort HanI cock. The reported raid is believed, ■ to be in retaliation for the killing of 1 four Mexican bandits there Monday. (By Wm. G. Shephard.) i San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 2 —(Spec- - ial to Daily Democrat)—Militia com- - j panies which contain members who -'(left factory positions expecting to i' fight in Mexico are rife with discontent. It is undeniable that the federalized militia system which broke down • as to soldiers with dependents an 1 5 also in connection with students who * will be leaving for their homes short- ■ ly, is working unfairly in respect to factory hands. e o s WANTS TO BREAK RELATIONS (United Press Service) o Washington, Aug. 2 —(Special to the ( Daily Democrat)— Representative Gal1 livan of Massachusetts this afternoon j. 1 moved in the house the breaking of B 'diplomatic relations with Great Britn. ain because of its refusal July 25 to s . admit Thomas Kelly, of New York ie and Joseph Smith of Massachusetts, 3r two American citizens, entrusted with I funds and relief supplies for Irish re' id volution sufferers.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, August 2, 1916.

TO THE CHILDHEN Is Given His Estate in Jefferson Township by the Late Jacob A. Rian. WILL IS PROBATED Today—Gives Forty Acres to Daughter—Remainder is Divided Equally. The will executed by the late Jacob A. Rian, February 27, 1907, and witnessed by G. W. Brewster and L. D. Wyman, was admitted to probate in the circuit court here today Mr. Rian’s death occurred recently, at the age of ninety-two years, he being the oldest resident of Jefferson township. The customary provision for the payment of debts as soon as practicable, is made. The provision that his wife receive all his property, both real a.td personal, for use during her life, is of non effect, as her death occurred before his. To his daughter, Barbara Ellcd Adams, is bequeathed forty acres of land in Jefferson township. The remainder of the real estate, which consists of forty acres, and what remains of the personal estate after the payment of debts, is to be equally divided among the children. Theftdore, F., Barbara Ellen and Jonathan Rian. He asks that his friend, John T. Kelly, who is now deputy clerk, serve as executor. Mr. Kelly qualified this morning, giving $5,000 bond.

TO PUS£ SUIT Art Smith, Jumps from the Frying Pan in Fire, on His Return. I WILL PUSH SUIT I 1 For Divorce, Which Was Delayed by His Trip to J Japan. The Fort Wayne News, says relative , to Art Smith, the Fort Wayne bird ( boy, well known here, personally: j, The divorce suit of Art Smith, the ■ aviator, in which he asks a permanent separation from Mrs. Amiee Cour- • Smith will be pushed Immediately, as i Smith has returned to this city from Japan. Smith filed the suit on the I eve of his sailing for Japan and of j course nothing could be done until his return. | Smith is planning leaving for Fort i Wayne within the next few days to visit his parents. Mrs .Smith now is in Fort Wayne. “Mrs. Smith is represented by an attorney in San Francisco, who has. been instructed to take whatever ac-1 I tion may be necessary,” was all Judge ! S. L. Morris, her Fort Wayne attorney | would say in commenting on the fore- ' going dispatch. BEANS BROUGHT CROP E. T Jones, farming the Jacob Raleigh farm four miles south-east of the ' city has conducted an experiment with soy beans that will prove of value to local farmers. He sowed four acres of oats, one acre of which gave a crop of soy beans the season previous. In cutting the oats he found that the one , acre that bore soy beans the year bej fore gave as much oats as did the three acres that had no green crop grown on them. A little experimenting with crops of this nature, under the guidance of the county agent, 1 might help Adams county farmers in- ■ crease profits wonderfully. Talk it > over with Hutchins, it might pay. THE TICKETS ARE HERE C. S. Niblick, treasurer of the Chau- ! tauqua association has received the • tickets for the big event. They have i been left at the Old Adams County f bank, the First National and the Peo- • pies’ Loan & Trust company and the > seventy guarantors are requested to c call at once at any of these places and , get their quota. The seventy guarani tors are expected to take the tickets i- and either sell them or pay for them. Get ready to boost.

REAL ESTATE CHANGES James F. Arnold, Principal In Big Deals. Real estate changes of considerable magnitude, show James F. Arnold, residing corner of Third and Jefferson streets, this city; and his father-in-law, Daniel D. Ford, as principals. One was the purchase by these men of the Jesse Koos 126.4 acre farm near Pleasant Mills, for the sum of $18,270. Another deal is one in which Mr. Arnold trades as part consideration, three houses and six lots in Decatur, for eighty acres of land, belonging to Henry Scherry, and located a mile north of Willshire, O. The money involved in this, is $9500. A FINE - LAKE TRIP ~ Elmo Smith has left for Chicago where he will take a weeks’ lake trip. He leaves Chicago on board the steamship Minnesota for a weeks’ cruise, stopping at Milwaukee. Makinac straits, Detroit, Put-in-Bay, Cleveland Buffalo and Niagara Falls. He will return home by rail. For Building of the School House, Dist. No. 1, in Jefferson Township TO FRANK SPANGLER New Building Will be Completed by November 1— Hoffman, Architect. Contractor Frank Spangler was the lowest bidder and was consequently awarded the contract for the construction of tile new frame school house, to be built in district number one, Jefferson township, of which Jacob Yaney is trustee. His bid was $3060 for the building and $400.25 for the furnace. The building is to be completed by November 1. There were several bidders, the bids being opened yesterday afternoon at one o'clock. Among those present were Architect Oscar Hoffman of this city, who made the plans for the school houst>, and Attorney D. B. Erwin, who is attending to the legal matters relating to the same FELL OFF BALCONY Fred Butler, the clerk in the Robison ice cream parlor, had the misfortune to fall off a balcony in the store room last evening about 5 o’clock. He was sent up to get some sacks and when starting to come down he lost his footing and fell to the floor a distance of about ten feet. He fell on a large can filled with marshmallows and on a board and broke a rib. He will be laid up for a few days after his little fall. HAS A DISTRICT AGENCY J. S. Peterson has been appointed district agent for the Southern Insurance company, writers of employers 1 liability insurance. His territory cov--1 ers Adams, Jay, Allen and Whitley I counties and he is prepared to issue I the policies direct, without sending the application in. He went to Columbia City today to confer with his sub agent there. MOVE IN NEXT WEEK It is probable that the Modern garage building will be completed so that Thomas Durkin may move his garage into the new location next week. Today the carpenters are putting on the inside trim, the plasterers will commence work in a day or two, and the cement workers are puttting in the approach to the building. It will be Decatur’s most modern garage when completed. _______ o '' —— NO SUFFRAGE FIGHT (United Press Service) Washington, Aug. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat)—President Wilson today dissipated any hope suffragists might have that he might try to outdo Hughes on the suffrage question. He authorized the announcement at the white house that he had not changed is attitude. MRS. BANDTELL DIED TODAY. Friends of the Fred Bandtell fam ily will be grieved to hear of thf ' sudden death of Mr. Bandtell’s moth 1 er, which occurred this morning fron • heart trouble at her home in For > Wayne. The deceased was the moth • er-in-law of Mrs. Vernia Smith Band tell.

JIS LAST ACT 2 County Agent Henry of Al11 len County Plans Big 1Picnic. n ? r ASKS OTHER AGENTS •, Our Agent, A. J. Hutchins, a to be There and Take Part. Seven county agents in addition to > C'. Henry, county agent for Allen coun- ( • ty, will attend the picnic of shorthorn breeders on the farm of Arthur Harri- ’ man Thursday. They will be: A. Z. I Arehart, Dekalb; H. R. Smalley, Stem 1 ben; A. J. Hutchins, Adams; W. V. Kell. Pulasgi; Harry Gray, Wells, and , W. A. Place, Wabash county. His Last Work. The picnic, which Mr. Henry is conducting, will be his last activity of . note among the farmers before he ' leaves, September 1, to begin work as assistant state leader of county agent • work under G. I. Christie, head of county agent work from Indiana. More Cars Needed More automobiles are needed, it is announced, to transport the persons, who will attend the picnic. Provision must be made for boys between the ■ ages of 10 and 18 years and for out-of-town guests. The picnic will open at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning, ( following arrival at the Harrison ( farm at 10 o’clock. The members of j the i>arty are scheduled to leave the ( court house at nine o’clock. j mmbieTbefom About One-eighth of Bridei grooms in Past Seven Months in the County < WERE WIDOWERS J ( 1 And About One-seventh of i c the Brides Were Widows , Statistics. i About one-eighth of the bridegrooms ' in Adams county in the first seven ( months of the present year, and about j one-seventh of the brides in the coun- , ty during that time, have had previous j married experience. 1 Statistics taken from the marriage I , records here during that time, show 1 . that eleven men of the 89 bridegrooms i were widowers, Six were made wi- I dowers by the death of their wives; < and five by divorce. One of the latest married, iiad been divorced three ' times, and had lost two wives by j , death. Os the women married, thirteen had been married before. Os that num- , ber, seven had been divorced, and six < had lost their husbands. In some < cases, they had been married more _ thah once previously. ( GASOLINE TO DROP - — I Findlay, Ohio, August, 2—With an- ( other cut in Ohio. Indiana and Illinois , oils announced today it is predicted ( here that the price of gaoline will hit | the toboggan within the next few , days, i ’ The cut in oil, the second within a week, was announced by the Ohio Oil ( company, tiie Standard's biggest pro- • during company. The new prices per i barrel are: 1 “North and South Lima $1.58, off I five cents; Indiana $1.43, off five cents Wooster SI.BO, off ten cents; Illinois $1.62, off ten cents; Princeton $1.62, j off ten cents; Plymouth $1.48, oft ten ! cents. o CLUB ORGANIZES. 3 e An organization of the Good Times e club was effected last night at a meet--1 ing held with Mrs. J. M. Miller, following the session of the Rebekah lodge and Mrs. Amos Yoder was selected as president, Goldie Gay as secretary v and Mrs. Elgin King as treasurer. Ree solutions calling for a discontinuance i- of meetings throughout the summer tn months was carried and the next meetrt ing will be held early in September, h- to be followed by bi-monthly meetings d- until the summer schedule again takes effect. I

LEAVE ON TRIP. Otto Smith, Elmer Grove and Geo. Yake left Tuesday morning for a trip through the middle west. They will go by the way of Chicago, to Nebraska. where they will stop off for a short time, after which they will go on to Sapulpa, Okla., where Mr. Grove’s people live. Mr Smith is the son of Mr and Mrs. Simeon Smith of west of Monroe, and Mr. Yake is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Yake of west of Decatur. Both are well known in that vicinity. Mr. Grove has for the past eight years been at Amarillo, Texas, where he has been attending school for the last few years, and is a graduate from the high school at that place last term. He formerly lived near the Smith home before going to Texas, and has been here on a visit for the past six weeks. The three young men were schoolmates and will try to see some I of the west together.

AT EGLY HOME I min j In Fort Wayne at Noon Today Was Solemnized Wedding of WELL KNOWN COUPLE Daniel Heller Tyndall and Miss Kathryn Egly Married Today. A simple home wedding, informal'i and unostentatious, and witnessed by only those nearest and dearest, the 1 members of the two families, characterized the marriage of Daniel Heller Tyndall, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Tyndall, and Miss Kathry Egly, this afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Christian Egly,! 1029 West Wayne street, Fort Wayne. Mingling informally with the guests until the hour, 12:30, at the conclusion of the song. “Because,” by the bride's sister. Mrs. Guy Latchaw. of Findlay, Ohio, the bridal couple took their places before a pretty altar arrangement, a mantel banked with pink roses and ferns, and guarded at either side by two tall wicker baskets of roses. Rev. A. J. Folsom, pastop of the Plymouth Congregational church, met them there, and with the double ring ceremony united their lives. The bridal gown was of white net. becomingly made, and the bride, slight and girlish, of the brunette type, was never lovelier. At one o'clock, immediately after the ceremony and felicitations, a ' luncheon was served by Mrs. Schu- 1 maker, cateress. One large table and 1 four small ones were set, and the cen- 1 terpieces, as. well as the individual 1 favors, were pink roses. Covers were < laid for the bridal couple, the Tyndall , and Egly families, and other near i relatives, including Henry D. Egly* ■ and family, Fort Wayne; Mr. and i Mrs. Guy Latchaw and daughter. Mar- ; cella, Findlay, Ohio; Judge and Mrs. , D. D. Heller, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hel- , ler and children, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. . Heller and children. Decatur; Miss ( Bertha Heller, Indianapolis. , Mr. and Mrs. Tyndall left this aft- , ernoon for Cleveland, Ohio, and oth- ( er points in the east for their honeymoon trip. For her traveling costume, the bride wore a dark brown ' velour tailored suit with tan hat..' gloves and shoes harmonizing. After I a visit of a week or more in the east, they will come to Decatur, where they will make their home with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tyndall until this fall when they will go to housekeeping. i Mrs. Tyndall, on returning here, re- ( turns to the niche, by no means a small one, where she has already be-' come a favorite, in both church and | social work, not only because of her j lovely singing voice, which has been. trained by some of the best instruc-| tors, assuring her of a career if she should so desire, but also because of her winning, personal charms otherwise. For some time she has been director of the Decatur Methodist choir, besides taking leading solo parts. She has also been a great help in several of the culture clubs here, and is one of the latest members of the Tri Kappas. In Berne, where she lived before going to Fort Wayne, as well as in this city, she has been given a number of pre-nup- ’ tial parties and showers, in the past 1 few weeks by organizations of which ’ she is a member. Mr. Tyndall, who is an excellent . young man, with fine business and soJcial qualifications, is associated with his father in the Krick-Tyndall tile manufacturing business.

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MANY _SPEAKERS Will Spread the Democratic Gospel in Indiana This Year—Adair to Open FORT WAYNE MEETING Party Standing on Straight Out Issues and Record of Accomplishment. By Willis S. Thompson. Indianapolis, Aug. 2 —(Special to the I Daily Democrat)-The democratic cam paign in Indiana will not lag an instant from the opening by John A. M. Adair on the 19th of August at Fort Wayne, until the close on election day in November. From the day on which ho makes his opening speech Mr. Adair will appear at least once each day and as many times a day as the speakers bureau car arrange the appointments. The demands exceed the possibility of meeting them all. The candidate for governor will be accompanied by other speakers on his tour of the several counties. There is to be no lack of good speakers, and when the. state committee meets with the executive committee and the several candidates in Thursday the arrangements of the campaign will be gone into carefully. The campaign issues will be thoroughly considered. There is no lack of issues. The national and state records appeal strongly to the people. The state administration has wiped out the state debt. It is worth remembering that this republican debt was paid by the democrats more than twenty-one years before maturity.

Besides this the present state administration, as has been frequently pointed out, has been responsible for more constructive legislation than had been attempted for years. The workmen’s compensation law, of which candidate Hughes had so many fine things to say, has come nearer the point of perfection in Indiana than in any other state. Both the provisions of the law and in the manner of its administration. It has been copied and is being copied today by many of the other states. It is the most economically managed of any state in the union and the efficiency the highest standard. The benefit to employer and employed is most thoroughly ap- • predated. Vocational education has been of equal importance, its benefits extending from the country to the city and the thoroughness of the application of the benefits has placed Indiana in this particular also at the head of the procession of states. There are but a few of the things, that the democratic campaign orators will have to discuss in Indiana. While Candidate Hughes is proclaiming, as he did in his Keynote speech—“We propose to promote by every practicable means our agriculture interests and we include in this program an • ffective system of rural credits”. The farmers of the country know that theare was never a time in the history of the country when they were so substantially prosperous as at present, and the rural credits has already been achieved. While Candidate Hughes further proclaims on the grave mistakes of Woodrow Wilson in his Mexican and foreign policies, the fact remains that Woodrow Wilson has kept us free from war. That while thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions have been slain in the useless European 'murder fest, we have kept out of it. ' And we have maintained honor. | While Candidate Hughes deplores j the terrible conditions of the laboring , man under democratic rule the fact is | present that the laboring man was , never so splendidly provided for as at | present. Wages were never better, i The demand for laborers was never ' so great. While Candidate Hughes tells of the ' awful disaster to labor and produc--,tion that will follow the present awful ' | war, all students of economic conditions, including the strongest finan- ’ dal. commercial and manufacturing L institutions of the country are telling k the people of America the necessity of being ready for a demand for the ] American products that will be unprecedented during the many years of reconstruction that must follow tho desolation now being wrought in EuroI pean countries. I And in the midst of all the political (Continued on <•)