Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 12 April 1921 — Page 1

Volume XIX. Number 87.

PRESIDENT URGES PEACE RESOLUTION

PLANNING FOR THE CHAUTAUQUA Directors Met Last Evening and Selected Members of the Committees WILL BE HELI) IN .JULY Will Try to Secure Government Lot—Will be Given Under Large Tent The officers and directors of the Decatur Independent Chauatuqua association met last evening at the office of Walter Johnson in the Schafer block, with O. L. Vance, president of the organization presiding. Mr. Vance appointed the following committees to look after the details pertaining to this year’s chauatuaqua: Tent, Grounds and Platform —C. S. Niblick, chairman. Hugh Hite. Oscar Hoffman, Martin Mylott and F. E. France. Advertising and Printing—A. R. Holthouse, chairman. E. S. Christen. W. A. Fonner and Wai Wemhoff. Tickets —C. E. Bell, chairman. J. S. Peterson and Dan Tyndall. fiecorating Platform — Mrs. Faye Smith Knapp, chairman, Mrs. Dan Tyndall and Miss Agnes Kohne. The program committee, that is the committee who will select the talent will be composed of the entire board. E. W. Johnson is secretary and C. S. Niblick is treasurer of the association. About a month ago a representative was sent here by Mr. Loar, general manager of the Chautauqua and a tentative list of talent was selected by the directors. The directors also asked that the Chautauqua be held during the week of July 18th in order that it would not interfere with the big Northern Indiana Fair to be held in this city during the first week of August. The directors and the members of the various committees hope to give Decatur the best -'Chautauqua evq, and of course they feel that they will have the hearty support of the community. , ATTENDING PRESBYTERY Rev. A. H Saunders and Attorney Clark J. Lutz are in attendance at the meeting of (he Fort Wayne presbytery of the Presbyterian church at Bluffton today, and each gave talks to the assembly. Delegates were appointed to the meeting of the general assembly to be held at Winona May 19. naWaOeet Os Delta Theta Tau Sorority Will be Held in Fort Wayne June 28, 29, 30 LOCAL GIRLS ATTEND Fort Wayne Organization Installed by the Decatur Chapter a Year Ago Decatur members of the Delta Theta Tau sorority are planning to attend the annual convention of the sorority which will be held June 28. 29 and 30. in Fort Wayne. The local members iiave a close interest in the coming convention, because they instiatuted the Fort Wayne chapter just a yeai ago, the organization starting with ten members. It has grown in the year to a healthy sorority, now having approximately fifty members, and is striving to make the coming convention one of the most interesting In the history of Delta Theta Tau. At a meeting last evening at the homa.of.Miss Virgine Smith on Fourth street the local chapter made plans to attend. Miss Grace Arnold was selected as the business delegate, and Miss Marcella Kuebler was named the social delegate. Other members of the sorority will also attend. The Delta Theta Tau sorority is one of the leading charitable organizations in the city. Rev. A. H. Saunders is at Bluffton today to attend the Fort Wayne Presbytery in session at that place.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRA’'

++++++++++++++++ ♦ A SPECIAL MEETING + + + + The Ladies* Auxiliary of the + + American legion will meet in + ♦ special stssion this evening at + + the G. A. 11. hall, promptly at + ♦ 7:30 o’clock. The meeting is nn + ♦ important one, and every mom- + ♦ her of the auxiliary Is urged to + 4* be present. 4. 1-+++++++ + + + + + + + + MEETING WAS POSTPONED The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Decatur Home Builders scheduled for this afternoon, was postponed because of the absence of Mr. Erwin who was called to Fort Wayne by the death of his niece. A call will he issued later for the meeting. MRS. MYERS DEAO Mrs. Dan Myers, Decatur Lady, Passed Away at Ellsworth, Kan. Hospital BROKE HIP IN A FALL

Six Weeks Ago—Body Will Arrive Here Wednesday —Funeral Thursday Mrs. Dan Myers, long a resident of this city and Washington township. I died yesterday at the hospital in Ellsworth, Kan., where she had been tak en following a fall six weeks ago in %hich she broke her hip. Mrs. Myers j went to Kansas last fall to make her > home with her brother, M. M. Gwyn I ner, her home having l>*en broken up here following the death of her, daughter. Mrs. John Erwin, at Fort I Wayne. November 2. *1919. Anna Gwynner was born March 3. 1856, a daughter of John and Eliza beth Gwynner. in Pennsylvania, with whom she removed to Ashland county, Ohio, when she was fourteen years old. She was married to Daniel W. Myers, November 23, 1880, and four children were born to them, all of whom are deceased, Florence, wife of John Erwin, of Fort Wayne, passing away November 2, 1919. After the death of the daughter Mrs. Myers continued to make her home in this city, but last fall her brother, M. M. Gwynner, took her to Kansas, and she , continued her residence there until . tier death yesterday. There is one other brother. Grant Gwynner, also residing in Kansas. Mrs. Myers was a member of the Decatur Methodist church, and was always found in her place of worship as long as her health permitted. The remans will be brought to this city, arriving here Wednesday evening at 5:36 over the Erie, and taken to the W. J. Myers home on North Fifth street, from where the funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 10 o’clock, the Rev. Charles Tinkham officiating. Burial will be at the Decatur cemetery. 4> + + *** + + + + + + *** 4. CONGRESS TODAY 4* 4> (By the United Press) * + tttiHt + + t + t<’*!*<**<' SENATE Met at noon and goes into joint session with house to hear President Harding’s message. Takes up Colombian treaty; Senators Lodge and Kellogg to speak. Republican senators caucus at 10:30 a. m. on committee assignments. Democratic senators to oppose republican increases on committees. Senator Penrose to call meeting oi finance committee for Wednesday to begin tax hearings. HOUSE Meets at noon and provides for joint session witli senate. Leaders prepare to push emergency tariff bill through on Wednesday if possible. »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ THE WEATHER FORECAST ♦ Indiana —Fair and warmer tonight: Wednesday cloudy, probably showers in extreme north portion. Lower Michigan—Probably showers tonight and Wednesday except fair in southeast portion tonight; warmer in south and central portions tonight, cooler Wednesday in north portion. Upper Michigan—Unsettled weather tonight and Wednesday; probably rain turning into snow; colder Wednesday and in northwest portion tonight.

WARS “HEALERS" TO 8E BANISHED Says Mrs. Maud Wood Park, ('hairman of Women Voter’s Convention WANT UNIFORM LAWS Equa< Interest of Husband and Wife in Real Estate and Other Rights Cleveland, April 12—(Special to Daily Democrat) Woman, the newly enfranchised, is going to drive machine politicians and ward healors out of the American political system. This was the keynote of tho annual report of Mrs. Maud Wood Park, chairman, delivered before the second annual convention of the national league of women’s voters in session here. The committee on uniform laws is to present the following recommendations: An equal interest of husband and wife in each others real estate. The removal of all common law disabilities of married women. Wife and child abandonment should be made criminal offense. Common law marriages should be abolished. The state should require health certificates before issuing marriage licenses. There should be uniform state leg islation on marriage and divorce and statutes prohibiting the evasion of marriage laws. John W. Parrish of near Willshire was attending to business here this ■ morning. Mrs. Dan Tyndall who has charge | of the program for the Tri Kappa I state convention at Indianapolis will leave Thursday morning for that place. The convention will be held Friday and Saturday. RAVEW STAFF Desires That All Graduates of Local High School Bring Cuts for Special ALUMNI EDITION Will be Issued Soon — Graduates Can Help in Making it Interesting The staff of the Ravevlings, the paper published by the Decatur high school, today asks that every graduate of the Decatur high school in past years having any cuts used in publications of former years, or in a business way since graduation, which will surely be of use to the staff in presenting the alumni edition, which‘is soon to appear, bring them to the high school, or phone the superintendent’s office, and a messenger will be sent after them. The Ravelings staff is making a | great effort to print a paper that | would be a credit to a much larger school, and they ask the earnest cooperation of every graduate of the local school. Many have already started the special write-up of the classes of which they were members, and with the cuts and photos it is expected the coming edition of the high school paper will be a most interesting one. So far the interest manifested in the organization of the permanent alumni association, through efforts of several former students residing here has been good, and the announcement seems to have struck a responsive chord. Many memberships have already been received from many’ parts of the country, and it is hoped to make the Decatur Alumni association one of the strongest of any school in this part of the state. If you have any cuts of yourself or anything of interest, send them to the high school, call the superintendent’s office, or bring them to the Daily Democrat, and the faculty and members of the Ravelings staff promise they will be taken care of and returned to the owner immediately after the edition of the paper is off the press. Help the staff make the number a success.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening,April 12, 1921.

♦ WEEPS BRIGHTENS EYES •> ■b Chicago, April 12—(Special to + ♦ Daily Democrat)--Girls, if you •> ♦ would have beautiful sparkling + 'i 1 eyes just sit down and have u ■b good weep nt least one a week. + Tills was the advice given to- + •e> day by Madame Louise, famed •> <■ beauty expert. 4* <• Weeping in moderation 4b strengthens tho eyes, said •> Madame Louise. “Tears have •)• natural cleansing power:; and ■b impart a charming luster to the ♦ ♦ orbs. * <• “The difficulty of deriving + 4« benefit from the natural tonic is + •b that few people can weep at ♦ will. -b b “The best and most success •? >b fill way t > bring tears is to liave <b ■b a good laugh.’* >b *++♦++*++*++++++ ‘‘SPELLiF BEE" The County Match Will he Held in This City on Friday, April 15th PRIZES TO BE GIVEN Best Speller Gets a sl6 Webster’s Dictionary— The Interest is Keen The “Spellin’ Bee" committee has completed in detail the arrangements for the final county contest which is to be held in Decatur on Friday evening. April 15. The B team (fifth and sixtli grades) will spell at the gymnasium. while the A team (seventh and eighth grades) will spell at the . court house. An admission fee of' ten cents will be charged at the door. The money to be used in purchasing the dictionaries which will be qsed in purchasing the dictionaries which will be given to the winners in the contest. The best speller wilj receive the sixteen dollar Webster's International dictionary. The following are the officials. Fifith and Sixth Grade Spelling—B Team. (a) To be held at the gym 7:30 Friday 4 ' evening. (b) Pronouncer, Supt. C. O. Leh man. Berne. (c) Judges, Trustee Dallas Spuller, Union township; Trustee John Snow, Washington township. and Prof. Clyde Hendricks, Monroe.i (d) Chairman. W. Guy Brown. • Seventh and Eighth Grade Spelling Team. (a) To be held at court house 7:30 Friday evening. tb) Pronouncer. County Superintendent E. S. Christen. (c) Judges, Mrs. W. A. Lower, Decatur; Prof. R. J. Mann. Pleasant Mills and Prof. Don Collom, Geneva. The interest in the Friday night contest between the spellers and patrons of the various schools is at a high pitch, and it. need not be surprising if the matches last several hours. Each township and corporation will boost for their favorites. INSPECTOR HERE Byrel J. Masterson, National Vice President of Phi Delt Fraternity ATTENDED MEETING In This City Last Evening Four Other Bluffton Members Present The Monday evening meeting of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity was a most interesting one, it being the occasion of the regular inspection by tlie national vice president, Byrel J. Masterson, of Bluffton. Following the inspection the officer pronounced the Decatur chapter in excellent condition. Four other members of the Bluffton were in attendance at the meeting, being Frank Moynihan, Cy Bolden, Noble Reed and C. Bucher. The district meeting of the fraternity will be held in Bluffton Sunday, April 24th, and it is planned that every member of the local chapter will attend. Twenty-five young men of this city belong.to the fraternity, and they have comfortable quarters over the Mills grocery.

SENTENCE IS GIVEN VIOLATORS Dane Sprague Goes to the State Pena! Farm for 100 Days — Fined S3OO MISS DELLA MOSER Goes to Correctional Department Woman’s Prison and is Fined SIOO Judge John C. Moran today passed judgment on the verdict of the jury in tho case of Harve Snrague and MisDella Moser, convicted in I hi 1 Adams j circuit court thirty days ago, on a charge of violating the Indiana liquor lows. Sprague was fined in tho sum I of |3o(' and is also sentenced to the | Indiana state penal fram for a period I of 100 days. Miss Moser, who was also convicted, is sent to the correctional department of the Indiana woman’s prison at Indianapolis for a j period of thirty days, and is fined ■ SIOO. The defendants must also pay I the costs in the case. Sprague and Miss Moser were arrested here last December after, the officers had raided their home on North Second street, and secured eighty-six gallons of masty, and other evidence which proved to a jury that they were making intoxicating liquori illegally. The trial of the case lasted three days, the jury bringing in a verdict in less than an hour. Prosecutor Lenhart was ably assisted in | the prosecution of tho case by Henry 18. Heller. L. C. DeVoss and R. C. Parrish were attorneys for the defendants? The prisoners will be taken to the institutions by Sheriff Melchi at once. M. L. Hanley, former manager of the Crystal theater, was a business v isitor here today. thOunior mt “Green Stockings” Title of Clever Play to be Presented April 29th AT ATHLETIC HALL High School Juniors Plan Great Entertainment in Their Annual Play In selecting “Green Stockings” for their annual play, the members of the Junior class of the Decatur high school believe they have made a choice that will prove one of the most popular entertainments ever given at the local gym. The scenes of the play are laid in Old England. An old English custom requires an elder sister to wear green stockings at tho wedding ol her younger sister, if the younger sister captures a husband first. It so happens that Celia Farady, tho eldest daughter in the Farady family, had worn the green stockings on two occasions, and when the announcement of the engagement of her youngest sister was made, and there was a chance of her wearing the green stockings, she almost collapsed. She announces her engagement to an imaginary Colonel in Somaliland. The world changed, and everybody respects and honors her. An aunt finally discovers there is no “Colonel Smith,” but instead of exposing her, helps her along with her plan. Finally a “Colonel Smith” in Somaliland through a mistake gets hold of one of Celia Farady’s love letters, and he decides to call on the young lady under an assumed name. Everything turns out fine for all concerned, after very many funny experiences and complications. The following cast will present J’.e play: Admiral Grice Lawrence Linn Col. Smith Christian Macy Mr. James Raleigh... .Othmar Smith Mr. Henry Steele Glenn Hill Martin Charles Fike Mr. Farady Walter Lister Mr. Tarver Fred Kinzlc Celia Farady . Lois Peterson Phyllis Farady Bitty Butler (Continued on page three)

IN HIS FIRST MESSAGE TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ASKS CONGRESS TO RHNRACIt GN VERSAILLES TREATY-FAVORS TARIFF ANO TAX LEGISLATION AND MERCHANT'S MARINE.

STATE CASES SET Liquor Law Violators Will Face Judge and Jury During Month of April HENRY VIAN APRIL 25 Braun and Knight Hearings Set for April 27—The Other Court Notes Tho state docket in circuit- court this morning bore the dates for trial of the alleged liquor law violators with the exception of that of “Jeff Jones," which was continued by agreement of tlie attoneys interested, and they have not agreed at this tim' when this case will be brought tc. trial. The first case will be ’that of Henry Vian, on April 25. The two other cases are those of the State vs. | John Braun and Fred Knight, and they are set down for trial the same day, April 27. Another state case set down for trial is that of Harold Rankin, on a charge of assault and battery, his arrest growing out of trouble in a Geneva pool room last summer. The case of the State ex rel. Addie Laisure vs. Leo Gauze, paternity proceedings, will be heard again May 2. 1921. This is the case upon which the j jury hail agreed and tho foreman died before the verdict was read in court. 1 H. I’erling Co. vs. National Express I Co., damages. Defendant withdrew motion to make complaint more spo- ■ cific and certain. Answer in general I denial filed by defendant. Cause is \ submitted on agreement of both j parties. Finding for plaintiff in sum I of $230, and judgment is entered against defendant for amount, and the costs of action. Jennie Talbott vs. Ivie Talbott, divorce, is the title of a new complaint filed today by I’rughte & Littcrer. Tho couple was married October 27. 1917, and separated March 19, 1921 Cruel anil inhuman treatment are charged against (he defendant. Be- : .sides the divorce, the sum of SSOO all- j inonv, and all other proper relief are asked. Howe Lamp & Manufacturing Co. vs. Schafer Co., on account, demand SSOO, is the title of a new case tiled today by’ Somers & Kennerk, attorneys, of Fort Wayne. t Charles Feichter vs. Charles IT. Hyde, damages, for (alienation ci wife’s- affections, is a new ease which reached tlie clerk’s office today on a change of venue from the Allen cir- j cult court. J. 11. and A. it. Aiken are attorneys for the plaintiff. ADAMS COUNTY INVITED The Jefferson club of Fort Wayne will observe Jefferson Day next Thursday with open house at their spacious club rooms, opposite the Anthony hotel, west. A special invitation to all tho democrats of Adatrts county to attend has been received and we have been asked to thus inform you that you are urged to drop in at the Jefferson that day. During the morning and afternoon, musical programs will be given, sandwiches ajid coffee will be served without charge, everybody will get acquainted with everybody else and in the evening Senator Bob Proctor, the silver tongued orator from Elkhart will give an address. YOU ARE INVITED.

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HARDING HIGHLIGHTS Perishable foods -cost too much. Congress should inj vesfigate. Pass emergency tariff at once full revision later. Pass immediate peace with Germany resolution. Against league of nations. Bring the cost of maintaining the government inside present revenue immediately. IWashington, D. C., April 12— (Special to Daily Democrat). — President Harding appeared before congress at 1 o’clock this afternoon .to .read .his .first message to the joint session of the senate and house. He had worked most of the night and this morning to complete his message which was rather long and somewhat rambling. He expressed his desire to keep faith with his campaign utterances by adopting a peace resolution but in the meantime congress is preparing to devote its time to the tariff question. Washington, April 12.—(Special to Daily Democrat). —Congress adopted resolution declaring peace without further delay. President Harding recommended in his first message to congress today. Such action he said could in no sense be eantrued as a desertion of the allies. He made plain his belief that the league of nations is dead. Measures to lower taxes and lower retail prices wen* the outstanding feature of his recom(Continued on page four) HIfWE'SIAV School Children Remember Father Seimetz on the Patron Feast Day GAVE A PROGRAM In His Honor —Also Presented Him With Purse —Father Seimetz Spoke Hundreds of voices joined in wishing Father Seimetz a happy name’s day today as ho entered the assembly room at tho St, Joseph’s Catholic school this morning and was greeted by the children who under the tutorship of the good sisters had arranged la program in honor of the pastor's patron saint, Saint Julius. And it wa . not alone an observance of tlie name’s day alone, for on next Sunday Father Seimetz will celebrate bis fiftieth birthday anniversary and combining the two it was made a most happy event. The sisters arranged an excellent program and every class in the school partook in giving it. There were songs, recitations, drills and addresses and it is useless to say that I Father Seimetzt was pleased more i than word-; could tell. I The school children also presented the good pastor with a purse of twenty-five dollars. Father* Seimetz made a few re- • marks, thanked tlie sisters and i school children for remembering > him and remarked that he hoped he t. would live to see the day when the - new and beautiful school building and church would be a reality.