Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1916 — Page 1

Volume XIV. Number 192.

TEACHERS HEAR INSTITUTE WORK Annual Opening of Teachers’ Institute at Central School This Morning. EXCELLENT TEACHERS Head Program for Four Days’ Work—Resolution Adopted Unanimously. 1 Again the teachers of the county are I assembled to attend the sessions of I tile annual Adams county teachers’ institute, the opening of which was successfully carried out at the Cen- . tra school building this morning at 8:30 o’clock. Practically one hundred per cent of the teachers of the county are in attendance today. Those few who are not here in person have valid ex- 1 cuses. Quite a good natured rivalry existed to see who should be the first ] teachers to register for the institute work this year. Os the men John S. Falk was the first with Martin Worthman, superintendent of schools, a close second. David Bixler, of Berne came under the wire third. Os the women. Miss Neva Brandeberry, of this city, registered first, Bessie j Davis of Pleasant Mills, second, and Katherine Christen, of Decatur, third. p The Opening Session. ' Prof. H. C. Clase of Ashley, Ohio, j opened the institute with devotional . exercises and song. The - scripture , lesson was found in the book of |n. read by Professor Clase. “Je- , sus is Not Ashamed of Me," a special selection, was sung by Professor and * Mrs. Clase. 1 County Superintendent Ed S. 1 Christen gave the announcements for 1 the opening sessions of the institute 1 and then introduced Dr. Green, of the 1 state normal school of Pennsylvania. Dr. Green assumed the time devot- ( I ed to Professor Ellis on the pro-Ji grams, owing to the absence of the < latter. i Dr. Green's Talk. t Dr. Green, a teacher of strong per- i sonality, magnetic interesting, and i a pleasure to hear, said: < “The inquiring spirit is the thing we want to get hold of during this < institute, explaining that the interro- ( section point is an outgrowth of the , Latin ’quo,’ meaning ‘what.’ I, "Eighteen hundred thirty-seven [ , marks the date of American independ-. once because it was at that date that ; American people began to assert I their independence in intellectual I matters. Beginning with the spirit j of Emerson, let us inquire." i Dr. Green developed his subject to , the modern needs of the question. ’ “We should encourage the children to ( ask questions and should always rat- . isfy their curiosity," said Dr. Green. "The teacher should be in his pro-, session, ■" continued the doctor, "in the interest of the children. Not merely to teach a year or two and then drop out. The teacher should also face himself squarely with the question. ‘Am I fit for my profession?' ” Professor Clase Instructs. With the time for the musical instruction at hand, Professor Clase instructed the teachers in fundamental principles of singing. Professor ■ Clase said: “Too many fail to get the resonance I from the nose and throat. There J should be a proper balance between the nose and throat along with a proper use of the tongue when either speaking or singing. Several songs were practiced, using the instructions just given by this master musician. Then Dr. Ellis. Dr. C. C. Ellis of Juanita college, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, spoke on "The Business of the Public School. “It is the business of the public school." said Dr. Ellis, "to care for the physical welfare of the child, secondly we must look after the mental development. That means we must do the right thing at the right time.” To illustrate the last point Dr. Ellis showed that the boy s language habits must be formed while in the grades. •■We need not only deal with the boys as individuals, but collectively and with the school as a whole. Furthermore we cannot teach school within the four walls of the room, but we must go into the child's life, the child's home problems - ..nt'.uued on Page ?.)

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MODERN PAUL REVERES 'Unite'! Press Service! Ashville, N. Carolina. Aug 14 — (Special to Daily Democrat) —How possible heavy loss of life in the villiages below the great lake Toxaway dam was prevented through a daring ride of mountaineers just ahead of the waters loosed when the retaining wa.l broke, was told today by survivors. The mountaineers risked death, galloping through the vintages telling of the floods that followed them and warning residents to flee to the hills. Not a life was lost. RUCKMAN FUNERAL Funeral services for Mrs. George Ruckman were held at the Methodist church in this city this it two o’clock. Burial was in the Maplewood cemetery. SHOOTriiSTER John Seckier of Uniondale Shoots Mrs. Carrie Holcomb. WOUND IN BREAST Is in Jail Awaiting Outcome of Wound—No Charges Are Filed. (United Press Service) Bluffton, Ind., Aug. 14 —(Special tc Daily Democrat) — John Seckier, 40 shot and seriously but not fatally wounded his sister-in-law, Mrs. Carrie Holcomb, 22, at Uniondale this morning when she persisted in her determination to go to Huntington. Mrs. Holcomb has been making het home at the Seckier home in Uniondale for several months, and yesterday came to a determination to go to Huntington to live. Mr. Seckier did not like the idea and upon her refusal to reconsider the move today, he shot her, using a 32 caliber revolver. The bullet penetrated the right breast, inflicting a flesh wound four inches long and one and a half inches deep. It is serious but not necessarily fatal. Mrs. Holcomb ran, Seckier following. He fired another shot while chasing her a block. She ran into a neighbors home and locked the door. The Wells county sheriff found Seckier at home and placed him under arrest. He is in the county jail, hut. no charges have been filed and will not be until the outcome of the wound is known. o—- - ' LESS PARALSIS 'United Trews Servloe.) New York. Aug. 14—(Special to the Daily Democrat) —A sharp reduction in both the number of new cases and ,the number of deaths from infantile paralysis accompanied unseasonably cold weather in New York today. Figures given out by the health department today showed only 95 new cases and 31 deaths the lowest figure in several weeks. NOTICE TO GUARANTORS. A meeting of* all who guaranteed to take Chautauqua tickets will he held at the People’s Loan & Trust company’s rooms, Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. Please be there. A few of the guarantors have not taken their tickets out yet and you should do so. • and at once. The guarantors must dispose of the tickets or pay for I them. This is the last week. Get I busy and don’t forget the meeting Thursday morning. HASH GOES TO TRIAL Robert Hash, 70 years old charged with rape by his 17 year old niece, Eulalia Dunn of near Geneva, went to trial before Justice of the Peace E. Burt Lenhart this afternoon at two o’clock in the circuit court, room. Attorney DeVoss appears for the defense and prosecutor Fred Fruchte for the prosecution. The cause is said to have been prepetrated on January Bth, last. ..--■g - . ‘ ..-J A MONTHS’ VACATION E. M. Beavers and family left Decatur this morning for Sylvian lake. Rome City, where they will spend the next month in resting, fishing any , enjoying the fine hot weather we are - having. FORD SALESI t Jerry Coffee, son of David Coffee is s a new Ford owner. He had a five ’ .passenger car delivered to him this morning.

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

IOLA HOUK WEDS Daughter of Mrs. Abe Boch, Former Decatur Girl. Married to Joe Smith AT FORT WAYNE Had Honeymoon Trip to James Lake—To Live in Lakeside, Ft. Wayne. Joe Smith and his wife, formerly Lola Houk, a Decatur girl, have returned from their honeymoon visit at Lake James and are at the home ?f the bride's mother. Mrs. Abe Boch. Fort Wayne, until Friday of this week when they will be in their own home at Lakeside. Their wedding, which will be of interest to Decatur friends, took place Saturday afternoon at three o’clock August 5, at the Wayne street Methodist parsonage, the Rev. Shoemaker officiating. The bride wore a blue suede cloth suit, with hat and shoes to match, and looked very pretty. Before moving to Fort Wayne four years ago. the bride lived in this city. She is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Berger, of First street, this city. 1 The groom is employed as a freignt agent for the Paper Goods Company, Fort Wayne. TO GIVE SOCIAL The Elgin ing lawn, Third street, will be an admirable place for the social Tuesday evening to be given by the Willing Helpers’ class of the Reformed Sunday school. Ipe cream, i homemade cake and candies and pep < will be sold. The public is cordially , invited to come. SOMFJPEACHES : 1 Is Adams County for Raisi ing Peaches—Bleekes i Have Proven i THE COUNTY IS GOOD ! For Peaches—Will Have Several Thousand Bushels This Year. i That Adams county is "some peach- ’ es" in the fruit line, as well as being the best spot on earth for corn, wheat 1 and general crops, lias been demon- 1 strated by Otto and Henry Bleeke, 1 two prominent Union township farm- 1 ers. Otto has about 1200 peach trees and ‘ Henry about 900. These trees are 1 now three or four years old and the : crop this year is a bumper one. The peaches are now ripening nicely and are luscious and juicy. It is estimated that there will be from 3,000 to 4,000 or maybe more, bushels of peaches gathered from these trees this year. They are already appearing on the local market. With the apple crop v4ry small this year, the peaches should find a ready market. o ITALIANS PIERCE LINE. (Unfteil Press Service) BULLETIN. Rome, Aug. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat)—General Candora's force pierced another strong line of Austrian entrenchments south of Goritz, I and are continuing to press the enemy on the Carso plateau, it was officially announced today. ' London, Aug. 14—(Special to Daily 1 Democrat)—The Germans gained a ■ temporary footing last night in ■ trenches west of Pozieres captured by f the British in yesterday's fighting, I General Haig reported this afternoon. GOSPEL TEAM NOTICE The Gospel Team members are requested to meet Wednesday evening - at the church after the regular prayer . service to arrange for the services at ’ Mt. Pleasant church next Sunday.. All y members are urged to be present. RESUME DANCES. Upon next Thursday evening tbs Moose will resume their series Os s dances at their assembly hall. Plenty e of good music, electric fans and good s entertainment. Dances start at eightthirty o’clock. You're welcome. |

HAD BASKET DINNER Men's Chorus Attend Services At Mt. Hope M. E. Church. The Men's chorus of the Methodist church, with their families, went to the Mt. Hope church, three miles soputh a nda half mile east of Salem, yesterday where they had a basket dinner and attended the service. Dr. Martin, Ft. Wayne district superintendent, was the speaker. The services were fine .and the ladies of the church served a most excellent dinner. About fifty from here attended. ARKANSAS* TORNADO. 'United Tress Service) Memphis. Tenn.. Aug. 14—(Special to Dail*.- Democrat)— Five persons were killed and seventeen injured, four fatally, when a tornado swept over eastern Arkansas last night, blowing down twelve buildings at Edmundson. Arkansas, seventeen miles west of Memphis. WILSON "MAT WIN HIS POINT His First Conference With Employes Sends Them Away Smiling. THEY ARE OPTIMISTIC President Wilson Bending Every Effort to Avert Strike. (United Tress Service) Washington, I). C., Aug. 14 —-(Special to Dally Democrat) —The first step in the effort of President Wilson to prevent the threatened tie-up of the country’s railroads by strike ended at noon when representatives for the employes left the white house smiling broadly. They had been in conference with the president an hour and a half. "The negotiations are entirely in the president s hand," said A. B. Garretson, spokesman for the employes. He refused to discuss the situation beyond that. Warren S. Stone, representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said: “1 am optimistic.” W. P. Lee, of the Order of Railway Trainmen. ,added, “It looks very good." The employes’ representatives were to see the president again this afternoon following his talk with the representatives of the railroad managerswhich was scheduled for 3 o'clock. The president spent part of the intervening time going over reports of the morning session in order to formulate propositions to make to the managers. An apparently well authenticated report that preceded the conculsion of the morning conference was to thr effect that the employes had agreed to arbitrate the case, providing the railroad managers agreed to withdraw their counter proposals and that the railway managers had so agreed. Following the conference none of the employes’ representatives would confirm this report. Washington, I). C., Aug. 14—(Special to Daily Democrat)—While the railroad employes conferred with President Wilson over differences that threatened to tie up all American railroads still was in progress today, it was learned from reliable sources that the men are willing to accept arbitration if the railroad managers agree to have their counter proposals considered at a later date. At the same time it is also understood that the managers were inclined to be favorable to a proposition of this kind. , The president met with the representatives of the four brotherhoods at ten o’clock. How long the session will last, was not determined, nor when the meeting of the president and the representatives of the railroad managers would be held.

The latter conference was expected , to follow immediately after that with | the workers' representatives. , The president arranged to see each . side alone first, getting the different points ot view and giving his own. After this both parties were expected to hold secret conferences, later probably meeting with the. president together. At this final meeting it probably will be determined whether the president’s efforts have succeeded or failed. It is believed the conference will last throughout the day. | (Continued on P.igc 2) |

TAKE FINE TRIP Misses Agnes Miller and Deila Kehrn Will go to New York City TO VISIT BROTHER Henry Miller—Decatur Boy Married a Year Ago to New York Girl. Miss Agnes Miller daughter of Mrs. Verona Miller of Mercer avenue, ami Miss Della Kehrn. of Craigville, will leave Wednesday morning for a fine eastern trip. They will visit with friends in Detroit, ('leveland and Buffalo, before going to Niagara Falls. From there, they will go to Albany. N. Y. and enjoy a trip down the beautiful Hudson river to New York City. At Brooklyn. N. Y.. they will visit with Miss Miller’s brother. Henry Miller and wife. Henry, who was a former Decatur boy, and has been in the U. S. navy two enlistements or more, was married a year ago. to Miss Kittie Nolan, of New York City. His term of enlistment will expire next January. after which he expects to return to Decatur to live. His ship is now stationed at Newport, Rhode Island, and the young ladies will visit with him there, before returning home. They expect to be gone thirty days. Thci rtrip will certainly be a fine one. READY FOR BRICKING A force of employees of the Interim.an company are raising the unused tracks on south Winchester street and ballasting them so that, the tracks may settle nicely by the time the work of bricking the street begins. The tracks are being raised to grade. borneJreunion Held Sunday at Home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Reppert, This City. A SPLENDID EVENT M. F. Worthman President —Reunion at Ft. Wayne Next Year. The annual reunion of the Borne family was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Repperl, this city. Sunday, and was attended by eighty-six All came with baskets of good things, with fried chicken a prevailing item of the menu, but by no means, the only item. After the sumptuous dinner. a program ot recitations, songs, and dialogues was given by the children of all the families. Mrs. Herny Peters of Fort Wayne invited the members to hold the next reunion in Ft. Wayne and it was unanimously agreed upon. It will be held in some park there. Committees appointed far next year's affair, are: For games and amusements—Flora Peters, Gusta Yager and Mrs. Otto Reppert; arrangements —Oscar Crum. Henry Peters; Invitation —Mrs. Walter Deitsch, Mrs. Gust Yager. Mrs. Mart Miller. The new officers are: President. Prof. M. F. Worthman, treasurer, Elton Crum, Fort Wayne: secretary Mrs. George Houck, Muncie. , n—- -— 1 — — HEARD TWO CASES. Justice E. Burt Lenhart was a busy man this morning having two has tardy cases to hear. At eight o’clock Floyd Shoaff faced the court charged by Miss Cleo Steele, daughter of Mr George Steele, living at Steele's pari east of the city. After hearing th«

evidence in this case Squire Lenhart I hound Shoaff over to the circuit court , under a $750 bond. Attorney DeVoss , appeared for Miss Steele and John ( Moran conducted the defense. At ten o’clock the squire heard the I evidence in the case in which Miss Nellie Dean, daughter of George Doan of Line street, charged William Lee with bastardy. Lee. if he ran furnish SSOO bond may have bis liberty until , hi# case conies up in the next term of the circuit court, as the squire, bound him over to that court. Both! cases were hoard in the court room. J

I UNION CHAPEL CHURCH. The Sunday school and preaching services nt the Union Chapel church yesterday were ot more than ordinary interest, and well attended. The , Sunday school Is kept up to date on the forward movement plans. At the ■ morning service the spirit of God ; seemed to fill the entire house. It [was a service that will sweetly lini ger in the memory of those present. lAt 7:30 Tuesday evening there will be a special prayer meeting in this church. This is to take the place of the regular Wednesday evening pray- | er service, and is to be a special serv- | ice, and it is hoped that the entire membership will be present Some i official business is to be attended to J and it is hoped that the entire official board will be present. Contributed. A CANOE UPSETS I At Rome City, Drowning Fred Kreiselmeyer— Known Here. WAS NEAR THE SHORE — Body Recovered Within an Hour—Life Pronounced Extinct bv Doctor. r i Walter Krieselmeyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Kreiselmeyer of Ft. Warne drowned Sunday morning at l eight o’clock in Sylvan lake. Rome City and the recovery of his body an [ 'hour later was witnessed by a number' of Decatur people who are visiting at the resort. The unfortunate young man was but twenty one years oil | and with his parents had gone to the lake the day before for a vacation , The parents had gone up the lake 'o j fish and Walter borrowed a can • i from Henry Bunner in the next collage. stating that he could handle ' and could swim. The lake was rather I rough and the canoe overturned wh 'll I the current struck it. The lad got I hold of the canoe but before Bunner 'could get to him he let go and never came up again. The accident occured just east of the Alabama cottage and the body was recovered in about fifteen feet of water and not more than thirty feet from shore. Evident? , .Waller had made a strenous effort in 1 reach shore for he was found ten , nearer than the point where he sank. [ The accident cast a gloom over th- - resort, the news spreading rapidly . from cottage to cottage. The faini'" formerly lived near Wren and wore well known in this city where th' - frequently traded. They have resid' ’ at Fort Wayne for eight years an I Walter was employed as cashier nt the Dudlo Manufacturing plant. He j survived by the parents, a brother and sister. The remains were taken in I Fort Wayne in an ambulance. Th • [funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock front the residence I land at 2:30 from the Emmanus Luth-1 eran church. Walter was to have been advanced by his company today and was very happy over his future which seemed so bright. Dr. Cruil who aided in recovering the body pro nounced efforts to resusitate the young man futile anil the coroner w-r---summoned from Kendallville. FUNERAL HELD TODAY Funeral Os Mrs. George Ruckman Held This Afternoon. Funeral services for Mrs. George ; Ruckman of Root township were conducted at the Decatur Methodist church this afternoon at two o'clock by the Rev. Ezra Glendenning assist cd by the Rev. J. H. Rilling. The text

was from the twenty-third Psalm. "Though 1 Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. 1 Will Fear No Evil." Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Walters sans Pall bearers were chosen from th“ members of her Sunday school class, they being Samuel and Edward Spangler. John and Samuel Fuhrnian, Chris and Sol Sheets. The girls of Mrs. C. C. Sheets class gave a song service and Rev. A. S. Elzey of Ossian gave a prayer. EPWORTH LEAGUE NOTICE All members of the Epworth League are urged to bo at the meeting to night at 7:45 at the church. The aim is to talk over and plan for the soliciting for "Today's Magazine". Every I member of the league is urged to be ' present.

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DIFFERENT NOW 11 1 I I I !• I Interesting Exhibition of i Flip-sloping by a Once i, t Senator from Indiana. i ALBERT’S BIG JOB * r Will be to Convince Public What Has Brought About Big Change. I (By Willis S. Thompson) Indianapolis. Ind.. Aug. 14-—Here Is a most interesting quotation from a 1 speech at Tomlinson Hall in IndianI apolis by Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge on March 14 1912. In the light of recent history and the tremendous prosperity of the country and the fact that business has been going to the dogs, as he said, for three years previous to the time when he was making the address, what he said is of peculiar interest to Indiana people. Here Is a part I of his speech as quoted from the In- [ dianapolis Nows, and please bear carefully in mind the date on which he spoke, four years ago: "Four democratic years will be [ hard enough on the hundreds of thonI sands of honest business men in the I country, but it will harder on the millions of men who earn their bread by the sweat of their faces To these latter it will mean the pinch of hunger. And to these four lean years two more years to recover from them. | Take these six years out of the life [ of a business man fifty years old and i you have taken from him much, but ( take six years out of the life of a working man fifty years old and you have taken from, him well nigh all. • » I “Some good men think right and mean well but cannot got things done. Roosevelt has the gift of achievement. It is not a question of whom we shall honor most, but who can serve us best. Business, peace and prosperity mean more to us than any man's political fortune. » » • "There is a nation-wide need of sound business laws which will give our whole people a renewed and steady prosperity. For three years we have seen business growing worse. It is time that wo should begin to make business grow better. * * I Mr. Hughes should read carefully some of this. Such as "business, peace and prosperity mean more to us than any man's political fortune." Albert Jeremiah might also recall that he said "there is a nation-wide need of sound business laws which will give our whole people a renewed and "steady prosperity." Will Albert Jeremiah he honest enough to admit that the Wilson administration has not only given these "sound business laws” and that the "sound business laws” have brought "the whole' people a renewed and steady prosperity?” Will Albert Jeremiah not also recall that he told ns "for throe years wo have seen business growing J worse?" And will he not admit that while he told us “it is time that we should begin to make business grow better" that the democratic administration under Woodrow Wilson has made it grow better and better every month of the four years, until today out prosperity is the greatest in • the history of (he United States? Will I Albert Jeremiah not also admit that ■ho was mistaken in predicting the | "pinch of hunger" which the rule of ; democracy was to bring? Two years after he made the speech which Is herein quoted, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge made another speech in the same Tomlinson hall, this time to the progressive state convention. : the date being April 18. 1914. Among many other things of the same sort, i he said:

"Here in Indiana the. republican managers are men who were lieutenants in the old machine, whose orders the republican organization is carrying out at this very moment. Promises to reform from a party so controlled, insult the intelligence of the people, for breaking of promises is their specialty." Will Albert Jeremiah be just as honest with the people of Indiana in 1916 and toll us If Jim Hemenway. Joe Kealing. Jim Watson, Charlie Fairbanks. Jim Goodrich. Harry Uew. Will Wood and the rest of the bunch of whom ho spoke in 1911 are not the same yesterday, today and forever? Would he advise the voters of Indiana to trust them any farther in control of a political party er in political office tn 19HS than he would have trusted them in 1914? ~ ~(Continued''oS"!*»’«:« 2.)