Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1919 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates By Government Order Cash In Advance. One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One Month, by mail ..36 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Mouths, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice In Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. It seems that there should be some way in which to reach or appeal to the state highway commission for a change in the tentative routing of the highway system as proposed a couple of months ago. The system as then maped out practically excluded Adams county from the rest of the state, the only connection being a little jog running from Kingsland to Decatur. The balance of the county was not touched. We believe that public spirited citizens, regardless of political affiliations should make an effort to have the highway commission amend their plans and see that this county, one of the foremost communities in the building of gravel and macadam roads, be given more consideration and that one of the main roads be changed to ' pass through this section of the state. It is quite true that much indignation has been expressed over the tentative routing of the highway system as it affected this county, one of i the reasons being the changing of the proposed O. I. M. Way after .t was 1 routed this way. If this road was per- 1 mitted to run through Adams county it would be of material benefit, it affording the people of this community a direct connection between Fort Wayne and the northern part of the state and would connect with Portland on the south, passing through Monroe, Berne and Geneva, on to . Richmond and then to Indianapolis. , This change could be- mado and ] thousands of people would be bene- 1 sited. The residents in the south part ! of the county would find the road of much service. ( Adams county tax payers are pay- j ing as much, if not more than the ma- j jority of counties for the building of e these improved highways over the ' state, the automobile license money 1 going for this purpose also and the * people deserve something in return. The highway commission will meet | in September at which time definite I plans will be made and the routes laid out for the building of the roads * 1 and it is to your own interest and good that you take some action. You are t-nlilled In at least one road, if you v are helping to pay for the hundreds r over the state. Think it over and then act. t ? Arrange to be in Decatur during 1 i the week of August 11th and attend the Independent Chautauqua. The 3 week’s entertainment will be one of y merit and the program will be enjoy- t ed by all who attend. The talent se- t looted for Decatur is exceptional, any * number of which is worth the price of ' a season ticket. Such entertainment , should have the hearty support of the : community. W e trust that the county commissioners of Huntington, Wells and Jay counties will see the advantages of locating the joint tuberculosis sanitarium in this city and will accept the exceptional offer for a site that will be made to them. Adams county citizens should boost for it and show the board that Decatur wants the hosnitAl.

ABOUT TOWN Mrs. U. Deininger and daughtei, Mrs.r Bernard Terveer went to Fort' Wayne to be present when their niece and cousin, Miss Anna Deiu-’ inger, takes the veil in the order of tlie ‘‘Handmaids of Christ” at the St.' Joseph hospital. Ferdinand Bleeke went to Ft. Wayne on the ten o’clock car on business. I *

' SOCIETY t Club Calendar Wednesday. St. Vincent de Paul—Mrs. A Kohne. Thursday. Mt. Pleasant Mite —Postponed. Baptist Missionary—Mrs. Clarence Hilyard. Epworth League Social — Miss Mary Suttles. Evangelical Ladies' Aid Stereopti con Entertainment—at Church. Friday Evangelical Y. W. M. C. Picnic- - Waterworks Park. Methodist Missionary—Mrs. Will Butler. Saturday S. S. Pastry Sale — Meyer, Brushwiller & Beal Meat Market. The meeting of the Mt. Pleasant Mite society which was to have been held Thursday at tiie home of Mrs Sam Fuhrman, has been postponed. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ellsworth entertained at dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Long, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Mullendar, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Mullcndar, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mullendar and children Dartha and Fannie. Mr. and Mrs. Thering Mullendar and daughter Edna, all of Columbia City; Mrs. S. J. Oliver of Keifer. Olahoma; Eugene Mullendar and Mrs. J. S. Gage. In the afternoon ice cream was served. All departed at a late hour after enjoying a good time together. —Contributed. Prof, and Mrs. Lester Keller and twin babies, of Davenport, lowa, who are visiting at Monroe, were guests of the Dr. C. R .Weaver family Sunday evening. Prof. Keller was formerly a teacher in the Decatur high school. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Holsapple left this morning by automobile for Green-' ville, Ohio, where they will attend the Eighteenth Annual reunion of the Minnich family, held at the fair grounds there. They expect, also, to go to Casteen, Ohio, to visit with an aunt and to Dayton, Ohio, to visit with a brother. The Tenth Annual reunion of the Butler family will be held Sunday, August 17 at the home of Jesse Butler. Jr., four miles southeast of Fort Wayne. Those not familiar with the way, should bear in mind that they take the Lincoln highway to the four-mile house; then go one square south and two squares east, the Butler home being the first house from; that point. Those going by traction, should take the Ohio Electric line and get off at stop 68. Mrs. J. M. Donald and children. Cozy May and Floyd, left this morning for Van Wert. Ohio ,to visit with Mrs. Donald’s brother, J. J. Wertz and family. They were accompanied by Bert McDonald, who spent the day there. The Methodist Sunday school class taught by Mrs. A. A. Patterson, will give a pastry sale Saturday morning, beginning at 10 o’clock, in the Meyer, Brushwill°r & Beal meat market. They will have all kinds of homehacked goods for sale. The proceeds will go towards the centenary apportionment. The St. Vincent de Paul society will meet with Mrs. A. Kohne Wednesday afternoon. Announcement was made today of the wedding, to be held August 14. of Miss Maro Beck and Justin Merriman. Both young people are well known here. Miss Beck having been a mathamatic teacher in the city schools. Mr. Merriman is also a well known school teacher, having taught in the county schools. The wedding ceremony will take place at the home of the bride’s parents in Warren. Mr. Merriman is well known in Wells county and has been appointed in Wells county and has been appointed principal of the Craigville school. He taught a short time last year at. Murray after he received his discharge from ike army. Miss Beck won a host of friends while a teacher in the city schools, and she is receiving congratulations and well wishes by them today.—Bluffton Ban- ■ ner. Miss Gertrude Moyer invited in a r few friends last evening for her r friend. Leonard Rifenburgh. who is 3 here from Batavia, Mich. All enjoyed a good time. At a late hour ice cream and cake was served.

Six little friends of Dick Teeple,! son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Teeple, of Fort Wayne, enjoyed the party with! ■ him, given at the home of his grand- 1 parents, Mr. and Mrs. Judson W.l I Teeple yesterday afternoon, for his' ’ sixth birth anniversary. Outdoor games and amusements were in ord'er and delicious refreshments of ice | cream cake and crackerjack were tempting. Guests were Harold and Bobby Gay. Belva and Gladys Teeple. i Jimmie and Mary Cowan. • i

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, JULY 29,1919.

SEVERELY SCORED Are Officials of Willshire, L 0., in the State Examiner’s Report e IT STIRS A RUMPUS s In the Quite Little Village At the East —What’s Off-Color. i A Willshire, Ohio dispatch to the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, says: “Village officials are striving to keep as quiet as possible the findings contained in the report of State Ext aminer Howell, of the state auditor’s t office, relative to corporation affairs, as they are anything but complimentary to the conduct of village affairs covering a period of ten years. Hi finds that the various town funds are • practically depleted, that there is no chance for replenishing them under ’ present tax duplicate, and a great '■ deal of the town’s business is being I done, and has been thus done for years in a most negligent, haphazard ■ manner, many of the operations of the village authorities bordering on ■ criminal order. ’ "This, says the report, is especially true of the improvement of State ■ street several years ago. when the village official family accepted the II services of the attorney for the bond , I buyers, which has resulted in a net loss to the village of $367.57 in ac- . ] crued interest which the Spltzer- ' Rorlg company of Toledo has never (paid into the village treasury. This j the examiner states, is a direct vio- ' lation of the statutes, and should be I recovered by the village. “Examiner Howell states that cer tificates of indebtedness in favor c‘ ' . j the Rockford Electric Lighting Co. ■ are also illegal for the reason the' 1 , such certificates cannot be issued ir i excess of the known income of the 1 village for six months in the future “He comments at length upon the : ' general carelessness in the manner ■ in which the books and records cf ' the village have been kept, and in 1 sists that in the main the transac 1 tions of the board of public affairs ; have been irregular owing to the ♦act that the board is shy one mem her —he died more than a year ago—and that the board is not officially 1 organized, that it holds no meeting for the transaction of public business and that one of its members owes the village a refund of salary either as member of such board or as village treasurer, as the law prohibits any one from drawing two salaries from the funds of the village. “Added to these strictures of the examiner comes the danger of the general tax duplicate of the town being held for the improvement that has been done on State street, owing to the fact that three of the abutting property owners have refused to pay their improvement assessments and have brought suit in common pleas court to stop their collection on the part of the abutting property owners. “These unfortunate and wholly unnecessary conditions are kicking up a good-sized rumpus and there is talk of petitioning the courts for a dis- . scolution of the village charter and to be set back in the township.” The body of Mrs. Belinda Dorwin arrived from Columbus, O. today nion and was taken to the C. L. Walters home until three o’clock this afternoon, when the funeral was held at the Methodist church. STERIOPTICON ENTERTAINMENT To Be Given at the Evangelical Church Thursday Evening The steriopticon entertainment to be put on by the Ladies’ Aid society of the Evangelical church on next Thursday evening will be one of the finest attractions ever brought to Decatur. The entire group of slides of the National Cash Register Company 1 of Dayton, O-. will be shown, in which they illustrate the welfare work they carry on among their employes—and 1 also the plans for real, civic improvep i ment they instituted which have made s I Dayton one of the most beautiful ■(cities of this country. It will be an e i evening well spent to see these pic-

4nres and Hear the lecture. No admisI sion is charged but a liberal cash offering will be solicited. The ladies , will also serve ice creum; and l Ice ( cream cones in the basement at the i close of the entertainment. Come at 8 o clock on next Thursday eveniner. I ♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ WEATHER * I Generally fair tonight and Wed- . nesday, not much change in temper- ' ature. i

Want Highway Route Changed (Continued From Page One) country, more populous, would be left out. It has been figured by persons interested, that a road from Portland north, to Bryant, Geneva, Ceylon, Berne, Monroe, and on to Decatur to Fort Wayne, a straight road, would not be more than ten miles longer than the proposed way, (two state roads to Pennville), and that there would be a half dozen towns, three of them good sized towns and cities, without a state highway. It has been figured that the population along a road from Portland north to Decatur, via Geneva, Bryant. Berne and other towns, would reaclt a city population of something near 10,000 or 12.000 people, and the country population is large. Now why leave out this fine territory, with thousands of people, and have two roads into a small village, when ten miles additional would reach all? By this plan the people between the road that should come | through here, and the one that should J go north from Portland to Decatur, I on to Fort Wayne, could build spurs | and easily get connections to two | good highways. That is what a few. | who are favorable to the Pennville I] route, have argued to the people here.!, and no doubt have given the people |; between Portland. Decatur and Fort | Wayne some of the same dope. “‘Serve the most of the people | with the least possible mileage,’ is [ the intent of the law, and this has j been made plan by the state commls < sion. Now the most of the people ; will ask that the intent of the law be | carried out in full. The men on the i state and the majority of people, and j they will be given the straight facts f and figures on the road as proposed | by the said commission, and the one . that the most of the people want Besides these facts, there will be nt I least 85 per cent, of the people ask. through petitions, that the intent of the law be carried out, and that the majority, with all of the arguments on their side, be given a hearing be- • fore it acts. It has been stated that , the percentage in Harrison township ( and Montpelier for the road through ■ • this city is 100 per cent., while in ■ ; Hartford City, the percentage is 1 about 95 per cent, in favor of the 1 road straight through the county. “While the commission will, no doubt think seriously on this ques- i tion before deciding definitely on the ’ route, every citizen in the city and i _ country between Hartford City and Bluffton, should make known his ’ wishes by signing a petition, and see- J ing that his neighbor does the same. • jx xxc u&s uvt uGi*f? so. i • NEGRO IS TAKEN (Continued from page one) revolvers, and began their search for ; the negro. As they neared an open ■ place in the woods the negro sprang ' up from behind a log and, holding 1 up his left hand shouted to the of- i ficers, “Don’t shoot, the electric chair , is waiting for me.’’ While the deputies ' covered the negro with their guns, Sheriff Pressnail searched him and then securely handcuffed him He] was then taken to the Newcastle jail I to await the arrival of Sheriff Hiatt. | "A squad of local detectives who had started to Honey Creek in search ' of Anderson were the first to arrive nt the jail. When Chief of Detect I ives Puckett saw Anderson he asked him how he escaped from the jail. " ‘Fred, wouldu t you walk out if the door was left open for you ’ replied the negro. “Anderson was brought to Muncie shortly after 11 o’clock last night by Sheriff Hiatt and Deputy Sheriff Strading. The negro is a physicali wreck and collapsed when he reach ed the jail. He said that all he had to eat since last Wednesday was two doughnuts which he secured when he entered a farm home near Honey Creek. He said he broke into farm houses to try to get something to eat. Anderson is being closely guarded in a cell on the lower floor of the jail. No special guard, however, has been placed about the jail, despite rumors afloat that an attempt will be made to lynch Anderson. Sheriff Hiatt says he expects no trouble. Anderson murdered Clyde Benadum, local druggist on the night of June 10. He made his escape but was later captured near Economy by Sheriff Carr of Richmond. "Anderson refused to talk to either] the police or newspapermen. “I’lie officers have no trace whatever of who escaped with Anderson. The negro is suspected of filling. Fred i Hoile,; Allen county farmer, on the night of May 30. ' WHO CAN BEAT THIS? ’ I Cletus Gentis, southeast of the ► I city on rural route 6, thrashed 189 L bushels of wheat from 6 acres; avI- eraged 31% bushels t othe acre testr- ed 60 The variety is Red Winter ' King.—Bluffton Banner.

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