Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1919 — Page 1

Volume XVII. Number 284

RE-OPEN mines JNO GIVE RAISE Indiana Coal Operators Following Meeting With Mr. Slack, State Mines WILL BE REOPENED Miners Who Return Will he Given 14% IncreaseFactories Are Closing. (United Press Service) |ndianapo|si, lnd„ Nov. 29—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Guaranteed “every protection at the government’s disposal,’’ by District Attorney Slack and Special Assistant District Attorney Dan Simms, a committee of the most prominent coal operators in Indiana today announced that they will ! re'open their mines, posting notice s to the miners that all who return will be granted a 14 per cent wage increase in accordance with the recommendation of the fuel administration. The operators went into conference! with the district attorney and Mr. Simms shortly after 11 o’clock this morning. The conference was secret. Some miners are expected to accept the 14 per cent wage increase and go back to work. It is pointed out that| if any one interferes with them in any way such act would be in violation of Judge Anderson's injunction. This would give the government the right to seek to have the interferers brought before Judge Anderson for punishment. In the event of serious widespread violence the government has the United States army to fall back upon. Under an agreement entered by representative merchants manufacturers and industrial heads today the factories of this city will close at 4 o'clock for four days pext week aid all day Friday and Saturday. Doors will be closed at 4 o'clock, the skip system will be installed again on city street railway lines, and an advertising campaign will be instituted to educate the public to the seriousness of the situation. Washington, D. C., Nov. 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Formal notice of an average wage advance of 14 per cent to all miners returning to work was posted today at entrances of coal mines throughout the central competitive field, comprising Indiana. Illinois, Ohio and western Pennsylvania. according to advices here. Posting of notice was the first move in the plan to wear down the strike, a policy decided upon by government officials, following refusal of miners in joint conference here to agree to the proposed new wage scale.

BULLETIN The wind storm of Saturday afternoon caused real inconvenience at this office as well as in many other places in the city. The wind blew down trees and limbs, breaking the light and power lines and many telephone lines. The power was off at this office from 2:30 until night and as a consequence the edition of the paper at the regular hour was impossible. The delivery boys and the force remained on the job until night but nothing could be done until the power came on. The city workmen worked with a*l possible speed but there were so many breaks that many business houses and homes were without electric current for several hours. The storm was one of the fiercest s e en here in many months and caused considerable damage. The interurban cars were also out of commission for several hours, it being reported that Several poles had been blown across the wires and tracks. FACTORIES SUFFER. The wind tore down two big smoke stacks and took the roof off one of the buildings at the Krick-Tyndall plant and blew down a smoke stack at the Bluffton hocp factory. The damage at the tile plant is estimated to be $1,500. Judge J. T. Merryman is able to be at his office after a couple days illness. Mrs. Esther Best went to Fort Wayne to visit with her daughter Mrs. Nlckolet for a week. Miss Verena Niblick left this morning for a visit with Dr. and Mrs. Stewart Niblick in Chicago.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

STORM DOES DAMAGE During the thunder storm yesterday imorning, lightning struck the new tile [Equity eievntt I at Chattanooga. Ohio, causing quite n bit of damage to the building which was still in the process of construction. The loss, which may amount up to SI,OOO, will fall upon the Tile Silo Company of this place, as they had the contract for the erection of the elevator and had not yet completed their work, thus relieving them o' the.r obligation on the contract. No insurence was carried cn the structure - Berne Witness

A TRAGIC DE'.TH Came to Lester .1. Miller of Fort Wayne on Day After Wedding. INSTANTLY KILLED! While Making Exchange of Airplanes at the Florida State Fair. Lester J. Miller. 25, of Fort Wayne. ! was instantly killed at Jacksonville, Fla. yesterday when attempting an] exchange of airplaines over the grounds of the Florida State Fair, ■ falling two hundred feet. The accident occured while his bride of a day,! formerly Miss Agnes Becker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Becker of Fort Wayne, awaiting his return at a Jacksonville hotel. Miller and Miss Becker were married at Jacksonville Thursday at the Church of the Immaculate Conception and had kept the marriage a secret until yesterday at which time, fair officials learned of the wedding and two of them were in a jewelry store purchasing a gift at the time. The bride was well known here to Miss Mayme Harting, who met h”r last at a club meeting in Fort Wayne. At that time the wedding Was known and discussed. Plans were made to! have it in Fort Wayne on that date, I but later the company for which Miller worked, booked him for the Florida fair and in order that the wedding be not postponed, plans were made to have the bride elect join him there I and be married on the schedul'd! time. Some one at the club meeting remarked about the long trip and the bride would be obliged to make ami the possibilities of his meeting death, | but little was thought of such a tragic ending until local friends learned this morning of the accident. Mr. Miller was in the army and had been ordered overseas landing just as the armistice was signed. COURT HOUSE NEWS. Licensed to marry: Earl F. Foreman. farmer, born Oct. 21, 1899, son of Willard F. Foreman, and Leah Christy, born Febuary 1. 1901. Upon the petition of the executor or administrator, Dec. 20 was the date set for the determining of the value of the following estates for inheritance tax purposes: Agnes Cline. Marion Fuchs, Fred Decker, Fannie Kocher, James D. Martx, Edward P. Dunishee, William A. Martz, William A. Tritch. Vacuum Oil Company vs. Louis A. Holthouse. Motion by plaintiff to r. -. quire defendant to make complaint more certain and specific. C. J Lutz, attorney for John H. Heller, filed a petition asking that six streets and three alleys be vacated. in this city, flic ground abutting on the greater number of them being used for gardening purposes only. This is the land for the proposed site of the new factory. Real estate transfers: The following lots have been deeded by the respective partis to J. H. Hellr, for the factory site: C. S. Niblick, lot 17, $100; Lewis A. Graham et al„ lot 16. $800; Mary F. Holthouse, lot 23, $100; Samuel Butler, lot 26, $100; F. M. Schirmeyer et al., lots 1, 12. 19. 20. 24, 25. $100; J. Fred Fruchte et al., lot 28, $100; Martha Johnston, lot 18, $126; Jean Lutz Smith et al., lot 33, $100; J. S. Covetdale, lot 27, $100; Mary E. Hanna et al., lots 24 to 40- 85 419 to 422. $3000; Earl B. Ad!ams et al. lot 31, $100; F. M. SehirI meyer, trustee, to Samuel Butler, lot I $26, $225; F. M. Schirmeyer, trustee, to Jonas S. Coverdale, lot 27; Daniel N. Erwin to Charles E. Sullican, east half of lot 78. Decatur, $3500; S. S. Magley, administrator, to Charles Darkless, 1.05 acres, Root tp., $505.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, November 29, 1919.

WED AT BLUFFTON ■ Wedding of Richard Gay and Miss Irene Venis Took Place Thursday. AT BRIDE'S HOME Will Live at Ashtabula, 0., Where Groom Teaches in Business College. The Bluffton News says of the wedding of Richard I). Gay, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gay, of this city: “Miss Irene Venis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Venis, and Richard 1). Gay were united in marriage Thanksgiving Day, at 6 P. M., at the home of the brides parents 113 West Cherry street. The single ring ceremony of the Reformed church was used. Rev. B. E. Reemsnyder pronouncing the service. “The bride was beautifully attired in a gown of blue georgette over white satin, and wore a corsage hoquet of bridal roses. The bridal couple were attended by Miss Rhea Church and Harold Case. “A three-course dinner was served following the ceremony. Miss Venis is one of Bluffton’s best known and highly esteemed young women, and has been employed as a bookkeeper at the W. B. Brown factory. Mr. Gay is a teacher of shorthand typewriting and business English in business college at Ashtabula. Ohio. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Gay, of Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Gay will leave Monday for their home at Ashtabula. "The wedding guests were Mr. and Mrs. James L. Gay. parents of the groom. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Gay and sons. Harold. Fred and William Gay, Misses Ruth and Golda Gay. Homer Parent. Harold Case, Miss Irene Smith. Miss Lillie Venis, Miss Rhea Church, Mrs. Ellen Venis, Mrs. B. Ditzler, Herman Lobnsiller, Leroy Venis and famjj.y, and Rev. Reemsnyder and family.”

ENGINEERS HERE To Secure Further Information Preliminary to Building the New’ Plant. FOR ELECTRIC COWork Expected to Start Soon—To Proceed Rapidly—Hunt Machinery. Mr. Matson, chief engineer for the General Electric company, accompanied by several other experts in various engineering lines, was here yestrday afternoon, surveying and ascertaining facts with which to start the work of building the new plant. They spent several hours in the city and said the plans are to hurry the work along as rapidly as possible. Mr. Barnes, superintendent of the plant, informs us that the work is going forward, four or five men now scouring the country for machinery with which to equip the new factory. These men will report back Monday and Mr. Barnes and others of the company will be here Tuesday to look over the ground and take the preliminary steps required. The first unit will be one-story, 250x300 feet, giving 75,000 feet of floor space and producing 500 motors per day. By adding fifty feet in depth and width the plant can be just doubled as to production and this may be done before the building is complete. Two buildings 3(50x350 will produce, if the labor is secured, 2,000 motors per day and would go far towards solving the great demand for this product: They hope to be in their new building by spring and to have two units here within a year or two. The new industry will no doubt prove a great impetus to industrial Decatur.

TOOK MASONIC WORK Several of the local men went to Bluffton last evening to take the Masonic work. They were given a fine chicken supper and a fine time This was the work of the Council Degree. Those who went from here were Cal Peterson, Charles Teeple. Barney Kalver, Charles Ernst, Eai 1 Adams, Charles Burdge, Hugh Thomas Vail, Irvin Merry, Clyde Hendricks Bob Shirk, Glen Glancy, Cy Vail of Marion.

NOT FIGHTING IN MEXICO. (United Press Servtcel Washington, D. C., Nov. 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Reports that there had been fighting in Mexico City between forces led by Gen-! eral Obregon and Carranza troops i and that Carranza had fled, were discredited at the Mexican embassy here today. The embassy has been in touch with the capital since the time when the fighting was supposed to have occurred and its dispatches did not mention any clash. The report was believed false. GIVEN A SURPRISE Are Friends of Miss Inez. Black—She Was Married Last Evening to CLARENCE L. WEBER i Sister Accompanied Her as Witness—Wedding Took Place in Fort Wayne. Clarence Louis Weber, son of Mrs. Mary Weber, of Nuttman Avenue, and Miss Inez Black, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Black, of Adams street, | were married yesterady evening at the St. Josephs Catholic Parsonage in Fort Wayne by Father Verpillat. The news of the wedding, telephoned to the bride’s mother, immediately after the ceremony, came as a complete surprise to her parents. However the sisier of the bride. Miss Frieda Black, was a helper in carrying out the surprise, and with Bema'd Keller, of this city, witnessed the wedding. Miss Frieda had spent Thankngjiv-[ ing in Fort Wayne and plans were, made prior to the wedding day. to: meet the prospective bride and groom i who left here yesterday afternoon on 1 the four o'clock car. Meeting them at the Fort Wayne station. Miss Frieda and Mr. Keller went with them as witnesses.

They will return here Sunday noon and be guests at the Black home. They will live in Fort Wayne where Mr. Weber is a Motor inspector at the j General Electric Works. For her wedding suit the. bride woe a blue tricolet suit, with a pretti.v. harmonizing hat. Mrs. Weber has served three years | it the local telephone exchange; is a member of several socoal and jhurch organizations, and is one of the most generally liked young ladies, j She has been very competent ond faithful telephone operator and she [ will be missed here in many ways, j Mr. Weber is an exemplary young | man, and was a resident of this county and city practically all his life Miss Black resigned her position :it the local telephone exchange yester-l day noon, a number of her c<-workers being informed of the plans fcr the wedding.

MR. WERUNG DEAD Prominent Farmer North of Tocsin Succumbs After Five Years’ Illness. i i WAS 79 YEARS OLD ' Funeral Will be Held Tuesday Afternoon from the Bethlehem Church. George Wertling, well known farm- < er living in Wells County, two miles north of Tocsin, died yesterday after- t noon at four o'clock, following a five i years’ illness from Bright's disease. Mr. Werling is survived by the widow and four children —Mrs. William Hoffman, of Monroeville; Martin, of Fort Wayne; and Herman and Lou- 1 ise, at home. He also leaves four brothers and one sister. The deceased was fifty-nine years, eight months and twenty-three days of age. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon leaving the house at one o’clock standard time for the Bethlehem Lutheran church where the Rev. Junghuntz will officiate. Burial will be in the Bethlehem cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER, Colder tonight with rain turning to snow; Sunday probably fair and colder, cold wave.

GAUZES IN SIDE Wound After Operation Failed to Ileal and Joseph Sipe, Pulling Raveling ’ FOUND “Ts LEAD To Gauzes Which Had Been Left After Operation Wound Was Sewed. I Joseph L. Sipe, well known Berne man, has been in consultation with attorneys relating to the probability of bringing a damage suit against a| prominent Fort Wayne surgeon, the) result of an operation which Sipe underwent last March in a Fort Wayne I hospital. I The operation was for gall-stones and was pronounced a success, as gall- , stones were found. But Sipe says | that after he returned home he found ' something else too. The wound failed I to heal and he was given ointment to [pour into the same. One day while j treating the running wound, he noticied a raveling and took hold of the same to remove it. It failed to come off but as he pulled, it unwound and iinwoii 'd as from the wound and still r<> end tame Then he fainted. When he came to. and examination , was made, it was found that three gauzes, each about six inches in width and three feet in length, were remov- , ed from his side, having been left in and sewed up after the operation. FARMERS HOLD MEETING. The Adams County Better Farming association held its annual meeting 'jin the court roim today. At time of ; going to press, Noyce Marshall was [addressing the gathering. 'I ABOUT THE SICK Ford Tinkham had his tonsils and , adnoids removed yesterday. He also 1 had an operation performed on his ' ( l:irge toe, sceptic penning having set caused by an ingrown toenail. 1

RD TO HONOLULU I Dr. A. G. A. Buxton Feels It is His Duty to Accept Call to Honolulu. WILL CLOSE SERVICES i At Christian Church Sunday Evening—Will Re~ turn Here in Spring. Dr. A. G. A. Buxton, who has been | engaged in Evangelistic services at [ The First Christian church here for I the past five weeks will close his meeting Sunday evening. The meetings have been very successful with some 25 additions. The doctor has been contemplating the Honolulu call i for several months and feels it his

duty to obey the summons. The members of the Christian church have offered him a larger salary to remain with them as pastor and are loth ti part with him as also his many friends in the vicinity. The Doctor is with out a doubt the strongest preacher ever visiting Decatur. He says he will no doubt return in the spring and his flock here have said they would release him on those conditions hence it is still hopeful to have him aspastor of our flourishing Christian church. The doctor will preach his final sermons for the time being tomorrow morning and evening, the services are as follows: Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Holy communion and sermon, 10:30 a. m. Evening sermon and baptisms, 7:30 p. m. Come early and secure a good seat, BURi; MANGOLD, Clerk.

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FIRST GAME MONDAY The Decatur Independent basket ball team, composed of a number of a number of star players of this city, will play their first game of the season In this city Monday night, at which time they will clash with the fast Wayne Rayl team. The locals have been putting in some hard practice each week, and the aggregation is considered the strongest eyer organized in this city. The Rayls have also strengthened up their lines this year, adding a number of old-time players, and the game Monday evening promises to he a tight one.

DEFEAT AUBURN Decatur High School Wins Double Victory from Auburn H. S. AN EASY VICTORY Games Clean and Snappy— St. Joseph Eighth Grade Loses to Central.

The Line-up. Decatur—36 Auburn—l7 Myers F Culver [■ K«rn F Huffman Linn-Hyland CBrown, D. I Teeple GBrown, E. Baltzell-Keller ~G Franz Field Goals —Decatur: Myers, 6; . Kern, 5; Linn. 5. Auburn: Culver, Human, 2; D. Brown. 3; Franz. Foul goals: Decatur. 4; Auburn. 3. Girls' Game. Decatur —12. Auburn —3. Butler F Boland Leonard F Guild; Reynolds C.... Hoodlemeyer Kocher C Rhodes Parrish G Kuhlman Peterson G Williams! Field Goals —Decatur: Butler, 5; ! Leonard. 1. Auburn, 0. Foul Goals: Decatur. 0; Auburn, 2. The Decatur high school basket ball teams, both the boys and the cirls’ outfits, added a double victory to the laurels of the school last evening when they defeated the boys’ and gills’ teams of the Auburn high sell, ol at the Athletic hall. The program started at 7 o’clock in order to enable the visitors to reach their destination before morning,

Aith a game between the eighth trade of the central school and the St. Joseph eighth grade. The game •'as close througrout, and when the final whistle blew the score stool > to 7 in favor of the centrals. The second game in preliminary to the boys’ game was played between ihe Decatur high' school girls' team iiid the Auburn high school girls’ earn resuling in an easy victory for he locals, the score being 12 to 2 at the end of the game. in the game played between the D. H. S. boys and the Auburn five, he locals redeemed themselves for heir defeat on Wednsday night to ‘he Monroe high school aggregation, aking their spite out on the visitors, uid defeating them to the tune of 16 to 17. The locals showed more ipeed and action at this game than

it any other time of the year, and ilthough outweighed, each man played a wonderful game which resulted in a victory. With the defeat of the Auburn outlt, which came to this city with a dean slate, revealed that D. H. S. has i good, snappy team, both the boys md girls, and much credit is due o their coach who so successfully whipped them into shape. The locals will meet the fast Ken- [ dallville boys’ and girls teams in; this city next Friday evening. Keniallville has a strong aggregation and a splendid record, and the gamei promises to be a tight one. Watch I for it. COURT HOUSE NEWS By agreement of the part ies, the' case of the state vs. Luie Myers, for! speeding auto, is reset for Dec. 3. Hon. Jesse C. Sutton is appointed special judge to hear the Oscar E. Price vs. Bessie May Price divorce case, the regular judge, John C. Moran being disqualified to serve on account of having been of counsel. Mr. Sutton took the oath and E. Burt Lenhart, prosecuting attorney, filed answer. The case is set for Dec. 18. Esias Dailey, administrator of the David Dailey estate, was authorized to set aside and transfer assignment of insurence. Murry Scherer filed written motion to squash indictment in which he is! charged by the state with violating; automobile regulations. •

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A BAD ACCIDENT Hugo, Son of Chas. Getting, Has Muscle of His Right Arm Shot OfT. TENDON IS SEVERED Holding It to Elbow—Shot Gun Accidentally Went Off Last Evening. Hugo, aged sixteen, eldest son of Charles Getting, of the firm of Black & Getting, this city, but living a bait mile east of St. John’s, north of this city, had the tendon connecting the big muscle of the right arm, shot loose from the elbow, and had the forearm badly burned, when a singlebatreled shot gun accidentally went oft. The accident happened last evening at 4:45 in the wood-yard of Prof. Hohnhaus. at St. John's, to which place the lad had hauled a load of wood. In leaving home, he took his shot gun with him. telling his mother he would bring home a rabbit. The boy had just driven into the

wood-yard to the place where he was to unload the wood, and had stepped up on the donblt-tree and was reaching up to get the gun, when, in pulling it forward, the trigger is supposed to have caught, sending the load of number six shot up the forearm and through the arm just above the elbow. Professor Hohnhaus heard the shot an.l rushed out, finding the boy’s coat sleeve afire. He hastily extinguished the blaze as he inquired what had happened Hugo said that he had shot his arm off, and i asked Mr. Hohnhaus to take it out ■of the sleeve. The boy was taken into the house and then rushed at ! once to the Lutheran hospital, Mr. Getting, who was at his place of I business here, meeting them there. Examination found that the injury was very severe, but not as bad ;as it might have been. No Irones were broken, but the tendon holding the big muscle to the elbow was severed and a two-inch hole shot in the upper arm. Some of the shot passed through the arm, but some lodged in the flesh and these were extracted. A toxine to prevent lockjaw was administred, as the danger from infection is strong in cases of this kind.

The boys forearm was also badly burned where the clothing caught , lire. Had he not worn such heavy [ clothing it is said the arm would I have been more badly torn, but the ! Iveavy winter clothing worn in the outdoor work at this time, did much i in lessening the severity of the in- [ jury. The boy will be a patient at the ' hospital about a week, it is thought, ! and his rapid recovery is hoped for. !It is believed that he will recover ! and regain the use of him arm, a-s in trial last evening he could move [ the hand and showed much pluck in , sustaining himself. He is an industrious, capable, • young man, well liked, and is associated with bis father in the shipi ping of poultry, the firm being known as (Jetting & Son.

KAUFF-AMSTUTZ The Berne Witness says: "That romance dies out with youth is not a truth and the old are subjected to Dan Cupid's darts just as the young are. Cupid pulled his strings dexterously and brought about the culmination of a wedding yesterday morning, when at 8:30 Mrs. Rosina Kauffman and Abraham Amstutz were quitely married at the parsonage >f the Reformed church, the pastor, Rev. F. W. Hoernemann, receiving the vows.

“Both of the contracting parties have been married once before, death having desolved the former marriage of each couple. Mrs. Kauffman is the widow of Jacob Kauffman who died | seven years ago. Since retiring from the farm in Monroe township, she has imade her home on North Jefferson street. Mr. Amstutz had spent a long itime In the western states and has returned here only since last spring. “The couple will for the present make their home at the bride’s home in town. Mr. Amstutz has bought the Sam Habegger farm in Wabash township and will take possession of the same in the spring.” SERVICES THIS EVENING. The regular church services will be held nt the U. B. church this evening.