Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1916 — Page 1

Volume XIV. Number 224.

TO BUILDJEWER J. B. Buhler Awarded Contract for Building of the Vail Sewer. PROPERTY OWNERS Remonstrate Against Marshall Street Assessments —The Council Met. Petitions and committee reports, remonstrances and resolutions were the heavy items of business up before the city council, which met in regular session last evening. City Clerk DeVoss read the mlnu les of the previous meeting and upon motion they were approved. The proofs of publication giving notice to bidders to file their bids for the building of the John Vail sewer were placed on record a motion made to proceed with the opening of the proposals. Stevens & Stevens agreed to build the sewer for $444.00 while J. B. Buhler proposed to do it for $373. Mr. Buhler being the lowest biddethe council awarded the contract to him and ordered the street and sewer committee to enter into a contract with him. Following the filing of the proof of publication giving notice to property owners to appear or file their remonstrances against the preliminary assessment roll in the Marshall street improvement a motion was made to hear the objections. Written remonstrances were filed by J. S. Bowers, Will R. Dorwin and Mary E. Bowers and upon motion were referred to the street and sewer committees. The petition of Dyonis Schmidt et al for a concrete sidewalk on the west side of Kekionga street was filed and referred to the street and sewer committee. The street and sewer committee reported as having entered into a contract with Stevens & Stevens for the construction of the sewer. The petition of property owners for a sidewalk along south Winchester street was referred to the street andssearw a r committee. Upon the adoption of a resolution the City Clerk was authorized to issue street improvement bonds in the amount of $548.10 this being the total of the waivers signed by property owners in the matter of the John 11. Porter sewer imprevented.

The petition of Isaac Chronister et al for a cement sidewalk along Eleventh street was referred to the > afreet and sewer committee. A reso-1 iution for the clerk to draw his war-I rant on the city treasurer for the quarterly salaries due the city officials was passed and adopted. The City Engineer filed ills report of completion in the Tonneilier sewer South First street and South Eleventh street improvements. They were approved and spread on record and the resolutions adopting the improvements were placed on record. The preliminary assessments rolls were also filed and the resolution setting, the 3rd day of October as the day on which objections and remonstrances would be heard was passed and adopted. The street and sewer comnjittee recommended the improvement of the, alley from First to Second, upon the petition of John Schug et al. The improvement was ordered made with brick. The Street commissioner was order <d to look after the repair of the sidewalk on east Monroe street, near the river bridge. The purchasing committee made a final report of the purchasing of a Lung Motor. The water works com mittee, was ordered to look after the trimming of trees at the city water works park. The same committee was instructed to purchase a muffler for the air compressor at the water works plant. The following bills i were allowed by the finance committee,and the meeting adjorned. Michael Miller 37.60 Fisher & Butler 87.45 John Coffee 800 Decatur Insurance Agency .. 32.00 Lee Hardware Op 15.45 Kalver-Noble Garage Co 3.75 Electric Appliance Co 9- 88 Westinghouse Elec. Mfg. Co.. 28.54 Charley Roop 63.12 City' Firemen 62,50 G. R. & I. R. R 88,58 L. L. Baumgartner 15,00 Police pay roll 102.50 Warn* Belting A Supply Co.. 12.75

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M. J. Mylott pay roll 177.50 Life Saving Device C 0150.00 Street commissioner's pay roll 188.40 Isaac Chronister 32.50 A. C. Foos pay roil 189.00 Orval Harruff 38.50 T. St. L. and W. 11. R. Co .... 306.22 11. Mueller Mfg, Co 36.67 Indiana Elec. Appliance C 0... 2.00 Standard Oil Co 46.66 P- & H. Supply Co 14.62 L, A. Holthouse 49.61 Waterworks pay roll 171.90 Elmer Miller Coal Co 68.02 National Mill Co 43.73 Ft. Wayne Oil & Supply C 0... 1.73 General Electric Co 135.98 Smokeless Fuel Co 150.58 Lee Hardware Co 10.42 J. B. Tangeman 49.23 JEWISH NEW YEM Together With the Day of Memorial Will be Observed Next Week. THURSDAY, SEPT. 28TH

Time Dedicated to Retrospection and Resolutions for the Future. Jewish congregations are making preparations for the celebration of the Jewish New Year, called Rosh Hashanah and also Yom Hazikoron. “Day of Memorial,” to be observed Thursday September 28. The date now to be ushered in is according to the traditional Jewish calendar, the year 6677. According to the teachings of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the meaning of the day is explained as follows: “It is a time dedicated to retrospection, introspection and resolutions for the future. The day bears the special designation of Yom ha-Din, or a Day of Judgment. With quaint mysticism the old tradition represents the souls of men as being on this day before the divine Tribunal at the annual assizes on high. The great Recording Books lie open and the individual destinies are set down, but (and this is the significant element in the conception) the award in each given cas--must be sealed by the person himself, meaning thereby that, though the varrying issues of the New Year proceed from God’s providence no one’s future is determined apart from -what he himself is and does. Out of the above conception has grown up the familiar greeting (ntt-rchauged by Jews on Rosh Hashannah, namely, “leshonah tovah ti-kasevu," meaning “May you 1 be inscribed for a good year’” “An important feature of the ritual or' Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the shofar or Ram’s horn. In ancient days the sounding of this instrument was associated with, times of national crisis and other solepin occasions. There are various fanciful' explanations of the connection of the Shofar i with the celebration of Rosh Hashana Each of its dominent notes likewise • has been given a symbolic signifijcance. As the tones of the Shofar are iof a peculiarly piercing quality the ; sounding of the Shofar may be regarded as a clarion-call to the conscience i to strive after the higher life in the New Year. The prominence accorded to the ceremony of the sounding of the Shofar during the services has I made Rosh Hashanah known as the Yom ha-Teruah, “the day of the Sounding of the Shofar.” SCOUT AUCTION TONIGHT. The Yeomen’s Scouts, a new organization of the young people interested in the lodge, have arranged for a most enjoyable time at the Yeomen's hall, beginning at 7:30 o’clock tonight. They will have an auction of “pigs in the poke,” various articles being sold in closed boxes at auction, with Col. George Simmers as the auctioneer. In addition to this there will be a fish pond, a good program and its Free. Be sure to go ’ and help the boys while you are having a good time. —n— ■ 1 TO WEIGH PARCELS , Postmaster J. W. Bosse is In rc--1 ceipt of instructions from the postil . department requiring the counting i and weighing of all out going and n- > coming parcels handled at the local ofI ' flee during the month of October. This > includes all handled by both city and > rural carriers as well as that called j for at the general delivery window. ) With the parcel post business each ) parcel must be weighed and listed > separately as to zone and postage.

. Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening,September 20, 1916.

A BIG_CAMPAIGN Local Ben Hur Court Will Institute Big Membership Campaign. STARTS THIS WEEK With Meeting and Initiation Friday Night — Committee in Charge. With the initiation of four candidates and other important business to come before them, the local court of Ben Hur will have one of the most important meetings of the year on next Friday night. During the past week or two the degree staff has been practicing the work and on this night a presentation of the degree in all its parts will be given. October has been selected $ the grand council as "Girard” month, in which every court on the nation is to make an especially strong campaign for membership in honor of Girard, the head of the organization. At the meeting Friday night a committee will be appointed to take charge of this special campaign and work of securing membership proposals will be begun at once. CARD OF THANKS. We desire in this public way to express our many thanks to the neighbors and friends who so nobly assisted us when our home was destroyed by fire August 25. May God bless and prosper each one of you. is our daily prayer. MR. AND MRS. CHARLES HILL AND CHILDREN. LEGS “CRUSHED Chas. Johnson, Root Township Farmer, Has Legs Crushed in Catch BETWEEN WAGONS Mas Riding to Field When Another Got Too Close —Ligaments Torn. Charles Johnson, prominent farmer of Root township, quite painfullv hurt yesterday afternoon when both legs, caught between two hay wagons and crushed. No bones were broken, but tne ligaments were torn and bruised. Just how long he will be disabled, whether several days, or several weeks, remains to be seen, as the injuries are such that the extent cannot be told at this time. Mr. Johnson was assisting in filling a silo on the Frank Rumschlag farm. With others, he got on the wagon to drive to the fields, his legs hanging over the sides of the wagon. In this trip the wagon and another ran too closely together, Mr. Johnson’s limbs being caught in the crush and held there. AN AMBULANCE TRIP M. J. Scherer used his ambulance today in transporting Mrs. Milton H:l---pert from their former residence three miles east of Decatur to Mr. Hilperts new home on Ninth street in this city. Mrs. Hilpert is suffering from tuberculosis. Today Scherer made a hearse trip for Harry Cowan, the Willshire, Ohio undertaker, going to Rockford where a burial was held in the Ridge cemetery. GRANDSON IS DEAD Mrs. Annis Merica received a message this morning informing her of the death of her grandson, Noah William Meries, son of Mr. ar/1 Mrs. F. H. Merica formerly of this city. Mrs. Merica and daughter, Mrs. Jonas Fisher will leave this afternoon for Muncie to attend the funeral services which will be held Thursday afternoon at two-thirty n *■■■ EVANGELICAL CHURCH Mid-Week service this evening at 7:30 at the home of Mr| and Mrs. Jacob Tester. L. L. Baumgartner will have charge of the meeting. Come and enjoy the service.

HE PREFERRED DEATH. Indianapolis, Sept. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Fearing that he was losing his mind. Police Sergeant Frank M. Schwab, 58. killed himself today, using his service revolver. Schwab was the oldest man in the police force in point of service and was the oldest sergeant in the service. Schwab was born in Cicero, Indiana. He was a musician and led the band in that town. Sergeant Schwab recently resigned as bailiff in police court, o SIX MEN KILLED. (United Press Service) Huntington. Pa.. Sept. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Six men were killed and at least one was seriously injured today when an explosion wrecked part of the plant of the Aetna Chemical company at Mount Union, near here. TAXI IS DEAD Well Known Dog, Belong-’ ing to Hyland Children, M as Run Down BY AN AUTOMOBILE J — - - Dog Mas Picture Show' Fiend — Killed While Enroute to Show. “Tax” or more lovingly known at “Taxi”, the little dog belonging to the children of P. J. Hyland, known to nearly every person in the city -.s the “picture show fiend dog,” was run down and killed by an automobile in front of the Holthouse Livery house last night. Taxi was a lovely dog, a little curly brown dog of the water spaniel type. He was a good dog, model in everyway. His one obsession, in fact his one dissipation, was the picture show And the love of the picture show was undoubtedly the couse of his death. For it was probably while going or coming from one, that he met his death. For years the dog has attended the picture shows every night, thus becoming known to nearly every person in the city. About time that dusk fell, the call of the picture show- would fall strong upon Taxi, and away he would trot. He always gained entrance and trotting up, took his place before the screen watching with intense interest every picture. Not content with one, he attended both shows. Sometimes, so ardent became his love of the stage, that he would get up and trot across the stage, unconcernedly during special vaudeville performances. Taxi was about eight years old. Hb was taken by the Hylands when just a puppy, and the fact that they had to pay tax upon him the day after they got his, led to his being named “Tax”. But he was worth it. and more to the children, all of whom are heart broken. Taxi has been attending the picture shows for five years or mere, be ginning when Mr. Stoneburner w .- in business here, he providing Taxi ) with a special chajr. nelHmTherei C. T. Brooks, Former WellsFargo Agent at Fostoria, Ohio TRANSFERRED HERE Takes Charge of Local Office, Succeeding Ben Elzey, Who Resigned. C. T. Brooks arrived from Fostoria. 0., and is in charge of the local office ,of the Wells Fargo Express Company. He succeeds Ben H. Elzey, as agent Mr. Elzey resigning last Week, after eight years’ service. Mr. Brooks was formerly WellsFargo Express agent at Fostoria, O„ and was transferred here. He will move his family to this city as soon as he can secure accommodations. Fred Elzey, who has been the local driver for some time, will continue in this capacity.

IS SIXTY - FIVE Local Order of Rebekahs is Sixty-five Years Old and Rebekahs OBSERVE OCCASION Big Picnic Supper Spread at the Hall Last Night— A Hundred There. Celebrating Mir- sixty fifth anniversary ot the founding <>i the Rebekah degree, the local Rebekah lodge last night, following the regular meeting lof the lodge, celebrated the annive’--j sary in a befitting manner. A big picnic supper was spread and the twelve tables were loaded with I good things to eat. The Odd Fellows | who were present enjoyed the feast to the uttermost limits. Musical numbers by various members of the lodge, readings and speech es from the older and most active Odd Fellows constituted the program. Arangements were made for the deI gree staff to go to Berne on Wednesday evening, September 27, when j Berne Rebekahs will entertain the local staff. At that time the initiation of several candidates will be had, and the reinstatement of more than twenty-four will be made. The locil staff will leave Decatur at about five o’clock and will receive their supper at Berne. Many local Odd Fellows will go, each taking a number of the degree staff. n - ■ ■- DANCE THURSDAY The regular weekly dance will be given Thursday night at the Masonic assembly rooms. Good music and a good time. ) H«LF_MILLION Berlin Issued Statement Showing a Half Million Allies Are Killed. IN SOMME DEFENSIVE Allies’ Reports Continue to Show Gains on all Fronts —Greece on Fence. BULLETIN. London, Sept. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Two American seamen were aboard the British steamer Stratheay which was torpedoed in the English channel by a German submarine on September 6. Consul Skinner, in London, reported to the state department today. London, Sept. 20 —(Special to DailyDemocrat) —While all allied reports today continue to tell of advances made by the allies and big losses for the central powers, the Berlin semiofficial news agency told Anglo--1 French losses of 500,000 men belt ween Julv 1 and September 15 in the I Somme offensive. The statement as- | serted that it was a conservative esI timate anti that the total British losses alone was 350,000. Paris reported today that the Servians have captured the well fortified Hill 2625 east of Berna and the highest peak of the mountain range there. The Bulgarians resisted with great firmness and were practicallywiped out, said the statement, and only fifty prisoners were taken. The Germans hurled strong forces against the French lines north of the Somme last night but all attacks were repulsed, said Pairis. BULLETIN. London Sept. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Greece has sent an urgent note to Germany demanding release of the Greek troops removed from Kavala said a Reuter dispatch from Athens today which declared the news to be officially confirmed. n- ... HELD FOR ALIENISTS. (United Tress Service) Pittsburg, Penna., Sept. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Morris Diamond. 62, of Bay City ,Mich„ was held for examination by alienists today following his arrest tor writing threatening letters to President Wilson. He admitted when arraigned that he had written letters in which h etcld the president he intended killing him.

BIG BARN BURNED The big barn belonging to John Cowan, one and a halt miles southeast of Pleasant Mills burned to the ground at ten o'clock today as a result of being set on fire by a spark from an engine jvhlch was being used to drive an ensilage cutter. Efforts of the workmen to put nut the blaze were, unavailing and the barn is a total loss. A grainery containing more than a thousand bushels of oats was also destroyed. The barn I was forty by eighty feet in size and contained at least one hundred tons of hay. There is some insurance. Mr. Cowan’s loss will die about three thusand dollars. THECOURT NEWS I Anna Musselman Awarded 5520 on Claim for Care of Mrs. Emily Carter. A DAMAGE CASE Against Ft. Mayne Began Trial Here at Eleven O'clock Today. In a verdict returned this morning at ten o’clock, after a half hour’s deliberation. the jury awarded Anna Musselman $520 on her claim "again- t the estate of Emily Carter for nursing. board, care, etc., of the deceased. A jury was Impaneled at eleven o'clock to try the $5,000 damage suit of Andrew Langhor. a farmer, against the City of Fort Wayne, brought here on change of venue from Allen county. Langhor states that he was injured when a pole froth a dredging machine fell on his head a year ago. ' City Attorney Guy Colerick represents the city of Fort Wayne and Attorney R. B. Dreibelbiss the plaintiff. Charles Steiss, secretary of the park board, and laborers who worked •on the dredge are present at the hearing. L. A. Graham and Earl Adams renewed their oaths as notaries public for another four years. Each filed SI,OOO bond with County Clerk Hanimell. Attorney C. J. Lutz, for Wm. J. Mrers, surviving partner of Myers. Richards & Myers, filed several n<;w su: being for the foreclosure of sewer assessments liens, on property in G< - neva. The defendants and amounts demanded from each are: Clyde Kraner. et al demand $75; Reuben It. Bradford, et al. $150: Henry P. Bradford, $75: Margaret Hollingsworth, S2OO. Attorney G. A. Henri of Marion. 1 filed two suits. One is a partition suit brought by Maude Baker, et al. against Emery D. Wass, et al; and another by Maude Baker et al, against Emery D. Wass and other defendants j for quiet title and partition. J. T. Merryman entered appearance for the plaintiffs. Fishers’ licenses were issued to C. C. Pumphrey, Dwight Archer, Edgar, Gerber, W. S. Sutton. Judgment on the verdict returned some time ago was today renders 1 for E. Collins Ford against Homer Pontius, for $5,750 for alienation <>: his wife’s affections. The case was appealed to the supreme court, the bond being fixed at SB,OOO thirty days being given to file the same. The current report of E. Burt Lenhart, guardian of Hazel Reynolds was approved and the trust continued. PORTLAND NEXT SUNDAY The Decatur Shamrocks have another good game of base ball scheduled for next Sunday al the Shamrock park in this city when they will play the Portland city team. The pitcher for the Shamrocks will be the left handed man that twirled the ball for the Fort Wayne Kidders a week ago. The past few games have been Interesting ones and the one Sunday promises to be a little hotter. Como out and see the game. » o PRICE IS TWO BITS. Owing to an oversight in the Crystal ads for “Where Are My Children?” the management ot the show allowed the night prices to be run twenty-five and fifty cents. Today, however. Manager Parent stated that the night price would be twen-ty-five cents to all.

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BIG MENJGOMING Ollie James, Martin IL Glynn and John W. Kern to Tour Indiana. FOR THE DEMOCRATS iNew York Results Show That Democrats Capture Enough Progressives. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Sept. 20 -(Special to Daily Democrat —Announcement was made at Indiana democratic headquarters today that Senator John W. Kern will come to Indianapolis Saturday. His speech making itinerary will be completed shortly after he arrives. According to present plans he will speak first at Shoals on October 4th. j Chairman Butler of the speakers ' bureau said it is ptractically certain Secretary ot War Baker will make jseveral talks in Indiana cities. Senlator Ollie James will also come. Martin H. Glynn former governor of New York probably will be engagj ed for several speeches in the state as many persons have requested the I state commitee to obtain his services, so pleased were they with his address at the notification of vice president Marshall. . New York City. N. Y„ Sept. 20/- ' (Special to Daily Democrat) —Sixty per cent of the 20,000 progressives who voted in yesterday's primary 'cast their ballots for Governor Chas. S. Whitman for the gubernatorial nomination. Forty per cent supported Justice Seabury. who will oppose Governor Whitman at the polls. This much was indicated in still incomplete returns this afternoon, which indicated also the possible defeat of Robert Bacon, former ambassador to France, who has the support of Colonel Roosevelt. ex-Senator Root 1 and William Barnes of Albany for the republican nomination to the United States senate. The latest returns show William M. Kalder of Brooklyn leading Bacon by 6,567 j votes with 1.146 districts missing, i but the former senator failed to show his expected strength in delayed returns from upstate. i ' Republican and democratic leaders place radically different interpretations of Governor Whitman’s capture of sixty percent of the enrolled progressives. i "The result in the progressive primary shows that a sufficiently large percentage of the enrolled and organized progressives of New York favor the democratic candidate to insure ah--1 solutely the re-election of President Wilson.” said democratic national I chairman Vance McCormick who had just returned from a conference with President Wilson. Cleveland. Ohio. Sept. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The first broad- . side of a campaign to throw the labor vote of the country to the support of President Wilson and the democratic ( party for passing the Adamson eiglit- | hour law was fired today by officials 1 of the tour railway brotherhoods. A bulletin sent out by W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, reads: “Surely it is the duty of not only our members but all persons who work for a living to support our friends and if possible defeat our enemies at the coming election. Therefore. it is urgently requested that, the position taken by President Wilson and both branches of congress be not forgotten and that all members use every honorable means to retain In office, regardless of partisan belief, those who have proven their loyalty to the cause of labor.” BIG MUSEUM BURNED (a.->lA4»s pejinn) Newcastle. Ind.. Sept. 20 —(Special t oDaily Democrat)- Worth's museum, a private collection of relies and ! curious said to be the most extensive , of its kind in America was destroyed J by fire today with a loss that cannot be estimated but which was well over half a million dollars.’ An overturned alchol lamp exploding set fire to the star shaped building which ' located at Springport, seven miles south of here. Ralph Sowers, of Indianapolis, was a guest at luncheon at noon today of Mr. and Mrs. Will Bowers. The boys were friends while attending the state university together.