Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1920 — Page 1

Volume XVII! Number 51

RESIGNED IN ORDER TO GET SALARIES INCREASED CITY ENGINEER, STREET COMMISSIONER ANO MARSHAL TENDER RESIGNATIONS—GOUKCIL TO REAPPOINT THEM AND GIVE INCREASE, '

Officially the city or Decatur w, ; without a city engineer, street commissioner anil a marshal today, but technically not. as City Engineer Dick Mock. Street CommD toner Thottc.s Dowling ami Marshal Joel Reynolds, who tendered their resignation- m Mayor Yager yesterday, and wli! 4, were accepted hy him at the council meeting last evening, agreed to catover and hold office until this evening, when the council will beet In continued session and officially t 'iippo;-. i theip to their former position* ;,t in creased salaries. The three mmi ittiered their re ignations on account <0 the Isw salaries paid, anil in order to get an Increase, which the council agreed to give them if it could lie done -under the law It is not known whether the state hoard of account will snnetion their action as the lawread* that the salary of a tilt officer cannot he increased during the term i f his office. Tint the city faced the possibility of lieing without officers. ai ! acted at once, if the increase cannot be allowed, the resignations will remain in effect. The salaries now paid the three men are meager, compared to the high cost of living, and Hitscale for labor, the engineer's m >;nh|y salary being only Ui. lint street commissioner's sss. pins s!<• per month for acting as deputy health officer, while that of the city marshal - S7O per'month. The board ,of safe:' to which hoard the matter was refer red, proposes to raise the salaries of the men to one hundred dollars per mouth or more if it can be done The matter is being taken tip with I d Attorney 1,. C. DeYo-s and City Clerk Dick Christen has written to the starboard of Accounts about the situation Was Not Brought Up The queshop of annexing land in Moot township to the rorpoi ' - fit ' ' of the city was not l;r- agin ill' anti 11 in thought that the matter v.t’.l be t; hied for some time. Other Council Dc-ngs The resignation of Ervin I Hey at a member of the Decatur hre depat liient was tileil and accepted and the matter* of appointing a sumcssor ferred to the board of safety. M Klzey ha- acceptem employment wuh the Moses Greenhouse company The street and sewer committee r ported on the petition of Fred Aveo for a sesger. recommending that should not be granted as the P-tit-ers had changed their plait' The ordinance authorizing Hie icrease in pay given the city eim 1"> of the waterworks and otle-r >l.-]t .- til cuts at the regular meeting la ' month was passed and adopt -d schedule Os the increases was print-" 1 in tiie Dally Democrat at the time the council acted oil the matt 1 The finance committee allowed Hifollowing hills and an executive session followed, during which tmle rraig nations of t h»- three wetie brought up and actept tl claims: . p Kirseh-Keppert t o . Jl'- ' Burfard. $37.50; F. S Webster <-- $14.33; T. S. Dowling, 1 ' Dowling. $32.50; f’itizen* 1 - 1 <°" $4.50; American Kailwav hxpt' ' ' $1.69-, nick Modi. $27.50; < men', $107.50; Police pay rol ’ Street rommissioner s I 1 - 1 ' $19.95; Rosiestii-ation ’ $5.U<; Citizens Teh to., kirsc-h-Uepper. Va. Reypert C Goal & Coke CO . »!♦*■ ; Standard Oil Co. W| . h , ( . rn r , KleetTicicsl Co. $»- ' Teeplo . ion Telerraph Co. .1 - v , rd „- $lO 09 A 0 Foos pay f" ' ' „ 5,4-150 W-iter M. J. Mylott ; \: ilvo ,tne Oil works pay roll. p Co., $15.59: John Thomu _ ' P. Teoplo $4.11: Sanitary $5 00.

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HIVE S CHANCE ? Local Fans Show Much Interest in District Tourney to be Held in Bluffton i FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Opponents of I). H. S. Slated to be Minus Several Stars in Their Hattie Mui'li interest is being fnanifested j:i ; n-al basket ball circles and the big 3 question that comes before the many fans at this time is whether or not til local high school aggro;;.,tiq:i w':l - have any chance in catrying If til • district tournament honors, the tor. - i nauient t> be played in Ml-affton I-’ri-r. L I tlav and Saturday of tins week, tiie ! big contest to open at nine o'clock j Friday moriting. continuing thronght.ut loth days and the final game to ' la* staged Saturday evening, At .t meeting of the High School • Athletic association held in the city t.-f Kokomo last Saturday, a schedule j f: r every district in the state was pro- 1 pared. Sixteen teams representing I ' loch st bools in four comities. Attains, j Blackford. Jay and Wells, will take part in the Bluffton tournament. with Liberty Center. Wells County and G-- ' neva. Adams county to play'the opening game. , 011 Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock Hie lot als will make their debut ini 1 the tournament and will clash with the fast Hartford City quintet. From ' all indications this may be the only , that the locals will play in* thtournament, as this team Is slated as tin district winners, and could J.e justly styled so. according to the dork they performed in this city a few weeks ago. Th- locals, however, are not the weakest team in the tournament. and according to word from Hartford City. Coach Stonebrnker wi'l have twi> men and possibly more out ; rs the regular line-up. if this prov-s to lie the case. Hie locals will not ho so badly off and will have an even chance of winning their game. The tournament this year is booked as being the strongest one ever held in this district, all the teams egter-'l being prettly evenly matched and all caiiahle of putting up a stiff fight. Tickets for tiie tourney are selling fast and a large crowd is expected - to tie •present, at every game. Co.i- !i Groves of the local high school lias received sixtv season tickets and has . j disposed of a number of them to the j local fans, anti states that lie has a few of them left. They are selling i for $1.50 and entitle you to see every , game. Any one planning on attending tiie big event are requested It) see Mr Groves as soon as possible for their ticket as they are to In* turned into the Bluffton officials tomorrow noon. Get your ticket and pull for . the home teai^ CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS • f — (United Piyss Service) Washington. I). C.. Mar. 3 (Special - ;o Daily Democrat)- Instruction for - organization “of a bolshevlst revolution in the United States, and dia--1 mortis valued at 3,000,000 rubles, were ■ found on a capXinfd soviet courier Pound from Moscow to New York, a • cording to state department docu- ' ments read today to tiie senate com--1 mittee Investigating Russian propa 1 i gamin. The courier was captured at ; Kiga. carrying the jewels, and a mass ei of propaganda, instructions and flrb 1 v„t,. messages to Russians in (his -. i country, according to the document. : I Ludwig Martins, soviet agent here. denied knowledge of the men ••engv. il i The courier's papers included a m*s- , : sage to American revolutionaries, ae* .! cording to a report'from the American i, ominissioner at Riga. i

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, .March 3, 1920.

EOS LOCAL BOYS Opportunity will be Given to Decatur Hii*h School Hoys to get a FREE SCHOLARSHIP In DePauw University— Ope . to the Graduates — Awards This Year Our local high school is to he given : an opportunity to share in ope of the mo t generous gifts ever offered an 1 institution of higher learning Through the munificence of Mr. Edward Rector of Chicago, one hundred iree scholarships in DePntlw university have been established. These j scholarship- are now open to the young men graduates of the hi; It schools of Indiana ami one of them ; lias been issued to the local school. Character anti scholarship are the Insis of award and the young man who receives one of these coveted gifts I will find all of his tuition and fees ! paid for the four years of his college jcourse and will, in addition, he per-' 1 milted to borrow a reasonable amount from tiie loan fund. I The chief purpose in the mind of ;he founder is the encouragement of I scholarship in the high schools and r< ll -ges of the state. Therefore, the ' attainijient is an,)iflnor worth striving for hy any man whether he needs tinancial assistance or not. The names of those receiving this honor from the local high school will I)e announced at the end of the school | year. - ALLOW INCREASE | \ Commissioners Allow Salary Increase to School Superintendent j WILL GET S6OO MORE Petition Filed Lo Vacate Wabash Township Highway—Road -Matters The commissioners late yesterday afternoon, following their action in r gartl to the building of the county hos-. pital. allowed the six hundred dollar j inorease. in the salary of County School Superintendent Ed S. Christen ( as appropriated several month- ago i hy the county council, upon the filing j oh the petrtitftis asking that his salary b,- increased to two thousand dollars a year. Mr. Christen heretofore had been, receiving only $1,400. out 1 f which tie must pay his expenses, including the running of an automobile. In order to get the inr-rea-e it w-isj necessary that n petition signed bv | at least two bundled freeholders as;t ing that the superintendent's salary | lie increased he presented to the county council, the money then appr ipriat led, and the increase approved hy at least two thirds of the township trus-j tees before the board of_ eommissio.i- 1 et/ could allow it. The commissi ,ners entered into a | contract with Thomas J. Durkin forj the furnishing of it three and one-half j ton Indiana truck upon his bid of $4 S9T 75, which was accepted hy them I at their last meeting. The petition of Thomas Rawley fori the vacation of a highway in Wabash township, east of Berne, was fil'd; and placed on record. The board ap-| pointed C. C Be -r. Benhart Lehman 1 and Fred Schwartz as commissioners; in the matter of vacation, they to meet March 3th at Frank Foreman's ■ in Berne to qualify and to report to the hoard at their next session. The monthly report of County Treasurer High Hite was filed ami approved. The board accepted the bid of L. C. Smith &■ Bros, for an L C. Smith typewriter on their proposal to furm -h. ; same with an extra carriage for $39.59. The typewriter is for the use' of the county auditor. , Martin I.augbh'n, superintendent of the cotintv infirmary, filed his monthly report of receipts and expenditures which wsro approved a.n,l placed on tile. His quarterly requisition was also plated on Hie and the auditor authorized to advertise for bids on Mo tday. April slh. Mrs. A W Hittz and children went to SI Johns to visit with Rev. RisohoiT and family. ,

I FUNERAL TOMORROW The hotly of Mrs. Linus Beard, formerly Bessie Hat-ruff, of this elty, whose death tx-cui'r-d Suntlay evening ut Grand Rapids. Mich., arrived j In this city last night at midnight I and was taken to the home of her | mother. Mrs. S. K. Ilarmfi. on south t Fifth street. Funeral services will lie ftoni the Harrnil home tomorrow j morning at 10 o'clock with burial in - the Decatur eetneti-iy. Rev. Haney of the Evangelical church will niliI clltte. VETERANS ASK FOR DASH BONOS i Minimum Pay of S3O for Each Month’s Service and SIOO Extra I ; FOR OVERSEA SERVICE -‘ j f Should be Given to Exservice Men, Declares Legion Representative Washington. Mar. (Special to Daily Democrat)- A tMinna of S3O for each month's services'with slou additional for overseas service is the inin iinnnt tliat the government should give to the service men. representatives ql the Veterans' of Foreign Wars declared in appearing before tiie house ways anti means committee. Edward H. Hale, chairman of the organization’s executive committee i asserted that this amount would not entail any expenditures beyond the resources of the government. He also asked that in addition to the : bonus, all service meh tie allowed • gtrvernmetit loans for the purchase of homes or farm lands. | "In fixing the bonus figure," Hale : said, "the veterans of foreign wars ! attempted to establish a figure which will equitably represent thfv monthly savings which each service mall , should have been able to collect if ' they had been permitted to remain in civil life and followed their usual vocations. • “Thousands of ex-service men have suffered keenly hy lack of appropriate clothing during the past winter, occasioned by their financial circurn- | stances and their inability to obtain : proper employment, j “With slight modifications, the Morgan bill is acceptable to us after a bonus program lias ben enacted. It should be framed to permit the i purchase of a home oUa farm in ex- ! cess of $4.01)0 anti provide that Hitgovernment will loan up to $ f .OOO on first mortgage, the balance to he evidenced by second mortgage to the seller of the property.” * | MRS. NIBLICK BETTER A telegram was received-this after ' noon tlx Burton Niblick, stating that Ins mother. Mrs. John N'itilifk. hail passed tlie r'riids and was on the way to recovery. This is the most encouraging news they have received. TO CONSIDER IT i . i j Council w ill Consider Hid j of Harris Trust Company to Take the Bonds OFFERED PAR VALUE — And Accrued Inkiest from January Ist and Wanted a $1620.00 Fee. 'i'lle council today was considering j the bid filed last night hy The Harris J Trust A- Savings company of Chicago to take the $75,000 worth of bonds offered hy the city of Decatur, the mon|ey from which will he used to start ( the building-of the new power plant. 'The Harris Trust company offered to pay par value for tin- bonds and aec.rhed interest from January Ist. the idate of the proposed issue. Imt 'wanted b fee of $1,620 to pay their nttor-. ney and the. t ost of furnishing the j bonds. The council took the matter ( under consideration and today - wasconferring with local hankers who expressed the opinion, it is raid, that their proposal was worthy of investi ' gallon for the bond market was in a deplorable state at present. They will act on the matter within the next few days, and will either reject or accept the trust company's bid. v

'DUE TO PARALYSIS f \ -nT li Mrs. Elizabeth Xaugu Stept ler Died at Her Home in , French Township h v TUESDAY AFTERNOON I) y Was Fifty-six Years of Aj»e —The Funeral will be Held Thursday N Mrs. Elizabeth Zaugg Stqjjler pa-s-, ed Bwav at her home in French tow . ] » | ship Tuesda> afternoon at the age t-t k seventy six venrs. Her death was due Ito paralysis. Tin- tii-t-easetl was a daugiityr of David Shifferly and was | f horn in Wayne county, Old i, in 1544. ! At tin- age of twenty slit- was united | | i’t marriage to Daniel Zaitgg. They j fame to Indiana In 1364. and settle t' $ / in French township. Mr Zaugg par ed away about six years later Site was married to John Stepler ini IX7O. He also preceded her in death. | Tin- following children survive: 1 BhilipxZaugg. of St. Mary s township. I 1 Mrs. Jonas D Hoffman of Washington! r township. Mrs. Jtt+Lus Earhart, Mr-. William Hieiieking of French town-' - ship. Daniel Stepier of Kirkland town-j ' ship. William and Sarah Stepier, at ‘ home. Nineteen grandchildren and 1 live great -grandchildren also survive. besides a host <T other relatives aad j ' friends. The funeral services will lie held at St Luke's Reformed church at H-n- --) duras at 12:3a Tinirsrtjiy afternoon WARSAW COMING i r ' « Warsaw H. S. Girl’s Basket Hall Team, Better i Known by Name of STATE CHAMPIONS t Will Battle with Local H. S. Ladies Here Friday Evening—A Lively Game * The many basket ball fans of this 1 city who will not find it possible to at tend the district tournament which r< to he heltl at Bluffton Friday and Saturday, are not; to he disappointed ns -tltev will he-treated to some of tlc-ir favorite sport right here at home, a- ; t n Friday night the local high school girls’ team will clash with tin* live)-.-Warsaw high school girls' to-t;n the Athletic halt. The game promises to be the greatjest battle even stage I Ix-twen two ; high school gills' teams in this eitv the Warsaw ladies coming to this city with ait invincible record, they not having suffered one defeat tills year; and are given the name of the "chain-] , pion high school girls’ team of Itnli ; ana." i This long name of honor does not j ; scare the local girls' basket bailers in j the least, a- they have a similar retord. they having 1 .st only one,game ; . this year, losing that/by one point. I | and are quite confident that tiie visit ' 1 ors will lie forced to return to then ! city without the state championship . and they will do all in their power to .hang the little Mag aver D H. K j The girls' team year is considered j the strongest ever had in the history of tiie school anil tltev are planning ‘on continuing their basket hall sea I < son for some time. A number of t h i • lenses have been ,settt out to other girls' teams throughout the state, and , it is expected that a number of inter j, ' esting games will take place within the near future. Come out anti indp ] tiie locals defeat the state Friday night. Several preliminaries will he arranged for to he played before the 1 ,girls' game, these lieing between Hie' different elasses in tie* schools, and , the program will prove to be one most interesting. Watch for the team’s pi'-; tare in several of the, leading Sunday papers. BENSON ON BOAD 1 — 11 "n 11 *-< I Press St-rvlee) Washington. D. C . Mar. 2 (Special to Drily Democrat) i’residpnt Wilson i to-lay sent to the senate the nomitia ‘ tion of Admiral William Benson, re- < tired, to lie a member of the United St at qs shipping hoard. Benson is the 1 new chairman, succeeding John B. Payne. I

DEFENDANTS DISMISSED ! FOR LACK OF EVIDENCE JUDGE SESSIONS FOLLOWS MOVE OF PROSECUTOR DAILEY AND FREES FIFTEEN MEN CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY IN NEWBERRY CASE. !

ARE ORDERED SOLD Bids will bo Received on April 6th for Construction of Five MACADAM ROADS — Viewers Granted Extension of Time in Road Matters —Have .Adjourned Tilt* county commissioners, before adjourning last evening, ordered live I macadam reads constructed in this | county and authorized the auditor to receive hills for their construction on Tuesday. April sixth. Tin fivt - roads are: Ueulien Meyer road. Jefferson township: Seigrist road. French township: Martin L. Smith road. Wabash township; ; Ferdinand Stauffer ('bad. Monroe | township; O. N. Tyndall road. Blue j Creek township. The viewers re ports on the above roads were till'd anil approved. The view ers on tiie iolltivi cailani roads were granted an extension of time to March 25th in which to file their reporte The roads are; Fred Bilderbeck, Blue Creek; I). E. Bollinger, St. .Mary’s; John C. Cowan St. Mary’s and the Nathan Ehrman road. Kirkland township. - The commissioners adjourned last evening tu meet March lath at which time Die)s will be received for the sale of lhe ten thousand dollars worth of temporary loan bonds, lo lie issued hy the county of Adams. The state hoard of accounts have already ap proved the issue. WORRIED OVER STUDIES t United Press Servtee) Bluffton. huh. Mar. 3—(Special tc Daily Democrat) Because he had been a victim of influenza this wintefind was somewhat behind in histudies anti would not in- qualified t,t graduate with his school mates till year. Robert if. Norton, aged IS. senior in the Bluffton high school committed suicide at 9:30 o'clock this morning hy drinking three ounces of carbolic at the honu of his grandmother with whom hr had been staying. Tiie lad has told iiis grandmother early this miutiin; that he intended to write an essay and going into another room wrott an essay entitled "Life." giving tht cause for his action anti saying good bye several times. STATE MAKES CALL (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Mar. 3- t Special to Daily Democrat) The slate hanking department today issm-d a -all sot ' 4 lie condition of state banks at the ' close of business. Saturday Feb. 2s. ' Mrs Rudolph Meyers of Monmouth ’ was a business visitor in Hie roly to- ' day. Her finger from which she hail ' Hie nail torn is still-very painful. Mrs. () .1 Small returned to hoi ’ home in Fort Wayne after visiting ' .villi her mother. Mrs. |, (;. Williams ' Mrs. J H. Heller, who suffered a •' •elapse front tiie Hue last week, is again able io he up anil is feeling much better. \\ ILSON TAKES RIDE fPnttsil Pres* Servlc*) Washington, Mar. 3 (Special to I Daily Democrat) President Wilson today took his first automobile ridel since Lie became ill early in October ! ++++++♦+*+**+**+ 4- THE WEATHER FORECAST * ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*•♦♦♦•• Rain tonight, warmer south pot ! tion; Thursday rain ot snow and! colder.

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(United Press Service) Grand Rapids. Micfi.. Mar. 3—(Specie! to Daily Democrat t The wtalls of the government's case built up around respondents in the Newberry conspiracy trial continued tc fa'.l today when Cistrict Judge Sessions on his own motion, dismissed fifteen more re spood e nts. following the sensatiqnal move of Assistant Attorney General Dailey yesterday afternoon, when he asked for the dismissal of twentythree. / Judce Sessions said these respond cuts were discharged on tiie ground of ; -nsufficient evidence that they had a part in the conspiracy. J Grand Rapids Mich. \1 .• 3 tSti?1 1 in 1 to Daily Danin -rati Urn. mi rat-ad by the dis'iiDra! f twenty Dirt minerespondent! it- tin- \Vwl> aib-gc-d co: spiracy i.r-c o:i tin lr.t.'ion ot Federal Attnrni'y Frank 1 Dailey on the •-round that tin tt -tiiti.i- y did not warrant tin- government .: holding them for trial, tin- tl. ; through main counsel, Martin V>'. Littleton, continued today in an attonr,)' to t v tlier the pmsei-iitiui:ca -" in m iviug to withdiav. from c .nri-'l) .-.ittoii of linJill> counts tlirt'ii. four, ivc a -ti six in tlio indictment which charge the t-i;t' .apt use of .rimt-v to gain a s.-nalori i! ele.titin aft it- the Auy’ist. 1913. primaries. I ittleton ill tiie opening ot court turned the full force of his legal hat lories against tiie proem itTion in a highly polished argument tii which Judge Sessions listened with great care. He said the walls of the pro.-e---•iition's case were beginning to tumile and that throughout the six weeks f hard work had been iinaide to proiitce evldeiice which warrants tiie -ottrt iti holding Newl rry and his t lefendaitts for any act that is aileg -I ifter tilt- primaries aial before thteneral eleetion. SHOWS LIBERAL ATTITUDE CUnltPfl Press Service) I.ondon. Mar 3 (Special to Daily Denim lilt) Prime .Vinisu: IJ.tiyti ' leorge's plan for a more ole r.d a' tide tt ward Genoatiy liotli in on’orcement of the treaty of Versailles •ud -in the fontpiercial and economic ■elmhiUtntion of the German nation as begun lo hear fruit, il was learn tl today Tlj - council of premiers, ii -as understood, had prepared a statetieut. hasetl upon tin- deliberations if it - economic sect ion in which P -mphasizes that Germany must he retort'd to economic prosperity The tateineiif. it was understood, was tiefdt'd u |> -n after considerable argu- ’ >n*i:f hy the liritish conferes. k + + + + + 4 , + + 4‘ + < b •<> + + + F HIGH BOTH WAYS + ♦ + + Chit ago. Mar. (Special to * + Daily Democrat) Women won't + <■ know whether tltev are going or + F have been there when they get + F into their new soring skirts this + F year. Spring skirt styles are go- + F ing to he free-for-n+K eateh-as- + F t-nteh-can with the field wide op- + -F un. Milady tan get in - them ♦ + from tin- top or bottom and vveai + + the front in back and t ,11 he + + stylish. That's what Lee Flor * + sheiill, skirt make- tb-luxt said ♦ + today There's going to lie no + + handicap at the st-r-i homo + + spans, silks anti p'-tv.-tles all are + + favorites Homespuns the + + same kind our forefather wort + + and in a|l tdor- shades and + •F varieties will tome higit. Tin + + pri'-e is around s2' anti ,s:lu a + + skirl at $4 it yard Skirt tiutk + + ers here report as, ait by of + •F homespuns but promt e to make + + up for il in spicy colors + + Two hit-lies will hp clipped oft ♦ •F the bottom this year making + •F them ten itn li*ii from the + + ground and tickling the shoe + + tops + ♦ + ♦♦ + <•♦♦ + + ♦♦♦*♦♦