Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1917 — Page 1

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LOCATE RAIDER pFirst Dispatches Locating Raider Come to Brazilian Port Today. IS STE AM INC NORTH Six British \\ arships Rush- • ing to Intercept the Sea Scourge. (United Pi>«q Service) (By H. D. Robertson copyright. 19’7 by the United Press. Rio de Jane.-10, Brazil, Jan 20 (Special to Daily Democrat) —First reports indicating the general location of the German south Atlantic raider were nc.-ivi-d todav. The Brazilian packet steamer Bahia Reported she had sighted a vessel hellevid '.o be the raider off the north coast or Brazil Thursday. The stranger was traveling northward. t? practically all South American na- «> tions are taking steps to guard tiie WUtrality of their waters. The I’r tguyan government sent a steamer .<•-* day to patrol its const line. The Brazilian government had already disStched several of its war vessels t<>| back up enforcement of neutrality. Meanwhile dispatches tip anil dov ii i the South American coast indicated a concentration of allied warships in these waters. Wireless dispatch's! said that six British warships have | sped northward searching Tor the ;.>a terror (By Carl D. Groat) Washington, Jan. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Danger of complications with Germany over marine problems seem to authorities today to be! nearer than for months past. Her capture of neutrals and making them prisoners pius the strong trend of German sentiment townrtt wider* submarining made these possibilities more omnious. The official German statement rc-l counting that the missing Yarrowdale! with more than 450 aboard had been brought into harbor as a prize with a number of neutral prisoners—gave rise to a graver concern than anything that has happened in months. Washington. Jan. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Swiss minister flit-; ter acting on instructions from Ins government today issued orders that all reservists on conditional leave hi Bdieric;; are ordered home immediately. Three additional Sw i s armycotps are to be mobilized on January 24th. the Swiss statement said. Lilly Charles I’. Stewart) KonvriUit 1917 by the United Press.* Buenos Aires, South America, Jan. tO.-Kpecial to Daily Democrat) — ! Pigmv submarines eighteen feet in leggth - tire carried by the German raider which has wrought such damage to allied shipping in Vlantic waters. The captain of the captured steamer Ketherby Hall was authority for this statement today. submarines are carried by the raider” he said. "They are capable of operating over a small radius and are equipped with tornadoes dyna-| mite and ammunition." Such additional details as this in-, dieated the typical German thoroughness with which the raider war. prepared and equipped and led shipping I circles to predict a long chase by a.lied ‘warships before the sea scourge is cornered. Certainty that she has not been definite! v located today according toj dispatches at South American por,s[ -and this despite the fact that a big I fleet of allied warships is now raking the ocean for her. F —o —■ —— ” NINETEEN INJURED (United Press , ( . ial Indianapolis. Jan. 20-(bpeciai Daily Democrat)— Nineteen persons were seriously injured when a street car going at a high rate of speed left the tracks and plunged against toe heavy railing of a bridge early toda w Fifty-five pasengers were on a car. All were bruised and cut by *i„g glass. Police declared Kg ntotorman apeared t dMnking. He was placed und * ’ &eet on a charge of. assault and batterv The motorman declared that ue rJLs .lek.and had fainted while running the car

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!DR. HARTMAN RE-ELECTED Friends of Dr. Henry A. Hartman,! 1 former superintendent of (he schools at Marion, 0., will b<‘ interested in ’ reading the following from The Marion Daily Star: “Di. Henry *A. Hartman, who his I been superintendent of the Marion I public schools for the past seven ■ I years, was re-elected suporintendoni I of the schools for a term of five years, last night at a called meeting of the hoard of education. In the same motion th“ salary of the superintend!nt I was fixed for the first year at S2BOO, ; increasing SIOO a year. The fifth I year he will receive $3,200. Dr. Hartmans’ salary now is $2400.” o SHORT COURSE — Arrangements for Short Course Here Are Being Gotten Under Way. FOUR BIG DAYS OF IT Much Prominence Will be Given to Corn Work— Nine Instructors. Work on the arrangements for the* farmers short course which will be| held here commencing February sixlit ending the evening of the ninth i I going on at this time. This course is in every way th'' * , equal of the short course the farmers 1 igo to Purdue to take each winter,: covers the same subject, is taught by 1 the same instructors and goes over 1 the work just as thoroughly. Several cars are necessary to trans-' port the equipment and stock used 1 ' by the instructors, Four big rooms ■ must be provided to house the display.' ' -Nine instructors will be here, two of : whom qre women who will have clmriL ' of the home economics and womens! work department. Advertising on the course will cotn-! I mence next week and will be kept up until the course is over. A season ticket to everyone, morning afternoon !, ] and evening sessions for the entire four days, costs fifty cents and the money is used to defray the local expenses, rent, heat, lights and other expenses incident to so large a con- * cern. There will be one hundred > five ear samples of corn, grown local- ! ly used in the corn work in the course, which will he given much prominence ] here. County agent M. F. Overton has moved from north Ninth street to 617 north Fifth street where he may be seen, of if not at his office leave calls at phone 768. He will get your call. School children will be admitted to < ! the show free and if under eighteen and not in school at half price. • 1 CHRISTIAN CHURCH , Unified program in the morning, service beginning at 9:30. Comm,m- ( ion and preaching at 10:30. morning subject “Doing Good.” A special sermon for the membership of the 1 church. All arc given a special invilaoin to this service. Junior C. E. ; i Societqy will meet at 2:30' at t'iep church. C. E. society meets at 6:30. p Gospel preaching in (he evening at 7:00. Subject of sermon, “The Love ! 1 less Church- —Ephesus”. This will he the first one of a series of sermons from tlie hook of Revelation. Come' and hear the first one of the series.! —o NO HOPE FOR BROTHER Miss Virginia Cravens, teacher cf English in the Decatur high school I left yesterday for Bloomington, where I she was called by word of the illness, of her brother, George Cravens, who was finishing his medical course at ■ the slate university. A telegram received today by City School Superintendent, M. F. Worthmann, brings die ,'word that Mr. Cravens is suffering . from Tubercular mengitis and that there is no hope for his recovery. _ -—n- — VETERAN F. F. FRECH 1 1 - Veteran F. F. Freeh of North Third J street who suffered from the grip, J with a fainting spell Wednesday, is rc- ,! covering nicely. His grandson and i granddaughter, Mr. and Mrs. James . j Darr reside with him. Miss Ada Click was accompanied to 3 Berne by her nephew, Otis Bodli?, who ■ will be a guest there for a few days.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, January 20, 1917.

OMNIBUS BILL Includes Appropriation of $50,000 for Federal Building in Decatur. MR. ADAIR’S EFFORTS — Bill Must Go to Senate and President Says He Will Veto it Finally. Washington, D. C. Jan. 19. ’l7 John Heller, Decatur Ind., House today passed my Bill authorI izing fifty thousand dollars for post- ! office building at Decatur. J. A. M. ADAIR. The above telegram arrived at 7:15 ! last evening and is another stop to-, I ward the building of a handsome fed-' oral building in Decatur during the j next year or two. Mr. Adair has! ; worked for several years to secure I I tliis improvement for the city and his! | efforts are appreciated. He first se- | cured an appropriation of SIO,OOO for the. lot and has fought for a couple ■of years to secure the funds for the I building. If the senate passes it and the president signs the bill the money , will be forthcoming at once but it I will prolmbly be a year or more before actual work begins as the architects are about that much behind the appropriations all the time. The $50,000 appropriation was a part of the omnibus bill for buildings all over the country carrying a total of $38,000,000. However the bill has not yet completed its weary way. It now goes to the senate here it will meet considerable oposition and President Wilson lias announced that no will vetoe the bill as it stands. The house passed the bill by a vote of 234 to 92. The appropriation for Decatur was increased from $45,000 to I $50,000 by the committee on Thurs- ' DISTRICT MEETING — Ben Hurs to Have District Meeting Here on February Second. THE GRAND OFFICERS j Big Degree Feast in Evening—Fancy Drill for the Public is Planned. Plans for a big district meeting here of the Ben Hur on the afternoon ind evening of Friday, February second, have been started by officers and , members of the local court. On that night seventy-five members from Fort Wayne will be here and after a public meeting in the afternoon, in which the ladies team of Ft. $ Wayne, will give a fancy drill, a sec- • ret meeting will be held in the evep-j ing at which the work will be given, a class oi tenty-five candidates. Dr. R. H. Gerard, supreme chief of * Crawfordsville and P. O. Bowers, state | manager, also from Crawfordsville; will be here and both these grand officers will give addresses. At the meeting of the order last night about thirty-five members of the order gave a luncheon in honor < f the officers, an event -much enjoyed by everyone present. HIS LAST TRIBUTE (United Press Service) Washington, Jan. 20 —(Special toj Daily Democrat) —The last tribute j was paid Admiral Dewey today. President Wilson, Secretary Dan-! iels, other government officials, middles, jackies, soldiers and civilians joined the impressive ceremonies which closed the “taps” at Arlington. At ten o’clock private services were held at the residence. Then the casket was taken to the capitol where the public might attend. Chaplain Frazier of the Olympia, Dewey’s fighting parson at Manila Bay, said the simple eulogy. At noon, a secretarial salute of nineteen guns, sounded over the city while battleships at distant points took up the farewell.

GOING TO TEXAS ■ Raymond Hartings son of Mr. ami ! Mrs. William Hartings will resign tonight at lite Fisher Harris grot 1 - ‘I fry ami then get ready to have "or Dallas, Texas where he intends * to make his home for an indefinite period. His brother Andrew and wife have lived there a number of years and Raymond or “Teedie”,as we gen- < orally call him has been offered :i position in the same hardware concern that his brother works for. His | many friends in this city regret very much to see him leave but wish him all kinds of good hick during his stay away from home. BOY IS BORN ) Their second boy and fourth child was born yesterday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hurst of N. Eleventh .street. Miss Schneider, attending trained nurse is in charge. UNNOUNCESNAME I Mayor C. N. Christen Files I Declaration as Candidate .1 for Re-election — WITH CITY CLERK Candidates Must Enter Primary in Next Two Weeks and Pay Assessment. Charles N. Christen is the first candidate to enter officially in the demo cratic primary race which concludes March 6th. Mr. Christen is a candi | date for reelection as mayor of Hie city and yesterday filed his name and intention as a candidate with H. M. ' DeVoss, city clerk and as required by ! law paid his entrance fee of six doli lars, one per cent of his salary for ! one year. Under the primary law those who expect to be candidates for city offi-I ! ces must file such a declaration with j the city clerk not less than thirty! * days prior to the date of the primary! . and pay in one per cent of one years i salary for what ever office, he is a | I candidate. This means that all can-' 1 didates must enter their names by I February 3rd to assure the placing ' of their name on the ticket. So far there has been but little dis j Mission as to candidates on the democratic ticket and no names have been mentioned out loud for places on the republican ticket. Edgar Gerber lias stated that he will be a candidate for treasurer. It is expected tliat a number will announce however within the next couple of weeks and the race will have the usual interest before election day. Late Judge D. D. Heller Leaves All His Estate to His Wife. WILL IS PROBATED 1 - In Circuit Court—lnstrument Was Executed October 13, 1904. The will of the late D. D. Heller was probated today. Witnesses were! Rose Christen and F. M. Schirmeyerl and the date of the execution of the J | will, is October 13, 1904. The customary provision first, for! , tiie payment of any debts, and the ex- ! penses of the last illness and funeral. is made, directing that the same to be done as soon as possible. To his wife, he leaves all real estate that he might be owning, or in which he had any interest, at the time of his death, the same to be hers in. fee simple. , He leaves to his wife, also all his , personal estate, including all money . and his life insurance. He directs that his wife serve as ’ executrix if it be necessary that toe ■ estate be administered, but he asks i that the same be settled without, if it can be done.

.[OFFICERS NAMED ’* - « i County Conference of the Christian Church Elects G. T. Burk President I. ■ 1 FOR THE COUNTY ■< ——- ' C. R. Mann, Geneva, Vice President—Splendid Addresses Last Evening. j The county conference of the Christian church closed with a splendid i meeting last evening, with addresses : by Revs. Martin and Cole. A feature of the forward-looking • I movement for the coming year, wis 1 the election of the county officers who! will be in charge of the work of the various departments of the church for the year. The new officers are: President, —G. T. Burk, Decatur. Vice President —C. R. Mann. Gene-1 I va. Secretary-Treasurer—Dr. Burt Mangold, Decatur. Superintendent Sunday School Department—Charles Pyle, Geneva. Superintendent Christian Endeavor ' Dept.—John Schultz, Decatur. Superintendent Christian Woman's Board of Missions Dept. Mrs. Minnie Daniels, Decatur. Superintendent Educational Department —Vivian Burk, Decatur. o- — I MOTHER WAS ASPHYXIATED , Ed Burkhardt of Blue Creek township, was called to Rockford. O. this week, near where his parents have lived for many years and where !:is mother was found dead a few mornings ago and his father near to death, the result of asphyxiation from coal I gas. The gas came from a base! burlier. PERSHING COMING! Press Reports That Pershing’s Withdrawal Has Begun—ls Denied. EXPECTING ORDERS i It is Asserted That Ei Valle J Troops Are Moving i Northward. [ (United Press Service) (By Webb Miller,) El Paso, Texas, Jan. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Although official an- ’ nouncement is lacking there is evary indication today that withdrawal of j Pershings punitive expedition from ! ] Mexico has virtually begun. Reports!: today stated that the American camp! : at El Valle, Pershings southernmost ( outpost, was broken yesterday the • ! troops there starting northward to ] join the main camp at Colonia Dublan. i San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —“Absolutely | nothing to it," said General Funston this afternoon when asked if reports that Pershings expedition was on its .* way out of Mexico were true. Washington, Jan. 28— (Special to Daily Democrat) —Announcement < f orders for General Pershings with- | drawal moy be expected at almost any time, was department officials aug- ! gested today. The preliminaries of such withdraw--lal are already staged. General Per i shing is ready to move his entire ! force northward. This will be done ! gradually it is said. When General I Pershing returns his men will be distributed along the border. This will be sufficient guard for the border with other available regulars, is the military view. o DECATUR MEN’S CHORUS The Decatur Men’s Chorus will meet Sunday afternoon at three p. tn. at the Presbyterian church. DR. C. R. WEAVER. President. JITNEY CHANGE : Beginning Monday, the jitney will leave here at 7:00 o’clock instead of 7:30 in the morning. •

I RAID ON GUY SHULL'S Portland, Ind. Jau. 19 In a rtUd made on the Guy Shull drug store at Bryant Wednesday night, at n time * when a half dozen patrons were drinkI ing liquor behind the prescription case, five bottles containing whiskt y three of them tapped, were confiscated. The ruid was made by Sheriff Thomas Fleming, his deputy, Glenn ■ Arbaugh, Henry Miley and Deputy Prosecutor Wheeler Ashcraft, No arrests have yet been made. E. O. , Houser of Bryant, swore out the search warrant in tiie Circuit. Court. Shull lias been arrested during 'he past two years for violating tiie liqnbr laws. He was not at his store at the time of the raid. THE COURT NEWS I November Term of Court Closes—Bruce Dibble Asks for $2,000. — BREACH OF CONTRACT I From Creamery Companv | —Decrees of Quiet Title Are Rendered. In the matter of the Adam J. Fisher et al drain, report of the drainage commissioners filed December 1, was rr-! corded now, as for then. February 12 was set for the hearing of the ■ same and notice was ordered to all I parties brought in by the drainage * commissioners. The case of Mary Jellison vs. A. P Addington, i» set for February 22. The case of the state on the Bela-* tion of Fred W. Busche vs. Peter Periling, et al. members of the county! council, for mandate for appropriation for county agent, was dismissed. The •:ostf are adjudged against the cocnI ell. I A decree of quit title was granted ! James M. Duff against Martin Fueling. D. B. Erwin was apointed guardian nd 'litem for the minor defendants, and I answered for them. A quiet title decree was rendered for George T. Burk vs. George Crist,! et al. The land in the partition ease oi’fj Sarah Fox vs. Andrew Fox, et al was! ( found indivisible and an order of sale; ( given. C. L. Walters was appoint'd! ( commissioner to make sale under $20,000 bond. The sale is to be pul* | lie after due notice, at not less th in two-thirds of the appraisement ; terms are one-third cash, one-third in one j year and one-third in two years. The Adams circuit court closed the I November term today. A two weeks’ j vacation will follow. Licensed to marry: Cary Orvali Brandyberry, born September 12, 1895, garage man of Monroe, and Mi - Mary Charlotte Everhardt, born nn March 9, 1900: Martin Blomenbcrg,’ chauffeur of Fort Wayne, born Mar h 15., son of Fred Blonienberg, to wed Esther Preuss, seamstress, born Aug-j list 16. 1893, daughter of Rev. Preuss. William Teeple qualified as executor of tlio estate of George Teeple.. David P. Habegger qualified as .guardian of Margaret Jacobs, an aged and infirm person. H<* gave $3,000 bond. Peter Steffen was discharged as I executor of the estate of John Kipfer. on the approval of his final report. There is no inheritance tax due. Joseph W. Walker, trustee was authorized to lease the property of his ward. Rose Wheeler, as set out in tin 5 petition. Deputy Sheriff L. D. Jacobs and j Frank Bosse accompanied Ijawrencej Bosse to Richmond this morning j where the last named will be a patient I at the infirmary. j] R. C. Parrish and Peterson & Moran 11 are attorneys for Bruce Dibble in alt $2,000 suit, against The Martin-Klep- i per Company, for alleged breach of contract. Dibble was a former employee. Real estate transfers: A. T. Cotlgillj et al to Charles B. Cougill, realty, in ! | Jefferson and Wabash townships: F. j M. Schirmeyer. trustee, to C. A. Du- j (Continued on Page z.) j

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.GAINS VICTORY I , Jesse Steele Declared AtII ( tendance Officer of Ads ams County 1 ■ BY JUDGE McGRIFF Adam Butcher Declared a Usurper and Must Deliver Up Office. Jessie Steele is the attendance officer for Adams county. Such is tha ! decision of Judge E. E. McGriff of the , Jay circuit court, who yesterday rendI ered his decision in the case of The ! State of Indiana on the Relation of Jessie Steele vs. Adam C. Butcher, i The case was sent from the Adams ■ circuit court to the Jay circuit court * on change of venue, some time ago, ‘ the decision being rendered yesterday. Judge McGriff's findings are: “That the allegations of the information are I true; that the relator, Jessie Steele, I was on the first day of May, 1915, duly ! elected county attendance officer for ! Adams county. Indiana, for a term of one year from August 1, 1915, and uni lil his successor was elected and qualified: that he afterwards qualified for I said office and on the first day of August, 1915, entered upon his duiics as such officer, and at no time since his said election has he relinquished tlie duties of said affice: that ever since said first day of August, 1915, the said relator has been, and lie is now, entitled to hold said office and receive the salary and emoluments I thereof; that the defendent, Adam (’. Butcher, on the first day of August, 1916, usurped said office and has ever since held the same without right, and has, during said time, wrongfully and unlawfully kept said Jessie Steele, relator, cut of said office. The judgement was rendered accord ingly, “That the defendent, Butcher, ! be ousted from said office, and that i he deliver the said office and papers and appurtenances thereto belonging to the relator. Jessie Steele, forthwith.” The costs are adjudged against Mr. Butcher. The complaint was based upon tho fact that Butcherjs term as a justice of the peace of Kirkland township had no. yet expired and Hint he was therefore ineligible to election to the attendance office. MANY SIGNERS Several hundred citizens of Adans county have signed the petitions to be sent to Joseph W Walker, representative and Abram Simmons, senator from this district, protesting against the repeal of the Three Mile Road law. Sentiment in Adams county seems to be almost unanimous that the present road law should be l°ft , alone and the interest was shown l y the fact that at every place in the county where petitions have been prepared the signers are coming in bunch- ! es. Several farmers have even secured petitions of their own and are circulating them and if the legislature ! will listen to the splendid citizens of ■ this community they will not turn ovt legislation to modify or repeal the present aw. We believe they cannjt i pass a more satisfactory highway U'v and we know-that those ho have helpled to macadamize the rest ol the i roads in his township is himself entitled more relief than he will get in I a hundred years if he has to get it through a state commission. O’ 1 " in——* "COUNTRY CLUB” MODEL The Holthouse Fireproof garage agents for the Overland automobiles have on display and are demonstrat- : ing one of the new “Country Club” four passenger roadsters, just put on the market by the Willys-Overland company. The car is certainly a beautiful and easy riding machine. It sells for $750. The new 1917 models are ariving at the Holthouse garage daily. o BRYAN SPEAKS AT PERU. (United Press Service) Peru. Ind.. Jan. 20 —(Special to the ! Daily Democrat)—William Jennings Bryan spoke here today, after his dryI drive on Indianapolis, where two big | meetnigs were held yesterday. Bryan I spoke on Good Government.