Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 65, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1922 — Page 1

' vy Number 65 Volume XA.

creamery party j| GREAT SUCCESS — • Fifteen Hundred Boys and C ris Visited the Cloverleaf Creamery. PATENTS MACHINE Heber Humbarger Invents Eskimo Pie-cutting Ma-rine-Model Plant. .■They came so fast we couldn't register them, but we. did give out •bout I.® oo Kskimo p,e# aml ‘ CC tream <ones to the boys and girls Friday afternoon." stated W. A. Klep„r general manager of the Clovercreameries, Inc., .last evening. tolowlM the big party given the .cbool children of the city and coun » at the creamery, from 3:30 to 6 p. ®- • .. The par')’ was a grea ’ BUcceß8 ‘ both la attendance and in interest, stated Mr. Klepper, and the Democrat reptentative who attended the big as fair, will back Bill's statment, for the kiddies sure did enjoy it. Practically every school child in Decatur visited the creamery and Wi» shown through the plant and revived an Eskimo pie or an ice cream cone, a number from Monroe and other district also attended. Some of the older boys and girls brought pads and pencils with them and were seen taking notes on how Cloverleaf i Brand Butter and Tasty Ice Cream j vers made and ready last evening a number of essays were sent to the creamery office, the boys and girls competing for the cash prizes of sl2 offered for the best essays on "Why We Should East Cloverleaf Brand Butter and Tasty Ice Cream. The esays must be in by Monday, March •8, and the judges, M. F. Worthman, Rev Otto Peters and J. H. Heller will aeled the winners Tuesday or Wednesday. Invents Pie-Cutter We were shown through the Clover t Creamery plant, upstairs and | torn, and were taken back to the| room where a number of girls and | sen were busy making Eskimo pies. Ono woman was busy cutting the ice | cream cakes with a small machine, I getting sixteen cakes the size of the Eskimo pies with one cutting. We inquired of Mr. Klepper about the me-, chine and he informed us the plant superintendent, Heber Humbarger. j had Invented the machine, stating ■ that it was the only one of its kind 1 la the United States and that the U. S. patent office had granted him a I patent on the device a few days ago. j and that when he (Mr. Klepper) was ■ in Chicago the other day he contract-! ed with a reputable company for the' manufacture of the "Humbarger Es-I kimo pie cutter." A brick of ice cream ia paced in the device, the operator pulls back the lever and the brick is cut into sixteen little cakes. Six thousand cakes can be cut in an hour with this machine and the success of it is assured. Other plants making Eskimo pies are cutting the ice cream cakes by hand with a knife. A Model Plant The Cloverleaf Creamery plant is no doubt one of the model creameries in Indiana. It is well equqipped and only recently the interior was redecorated and painted and otherwise remodeled. Mr. Klepper stated that beginning next week every machine in the building would be run by mo-tor-driven power, the overhead belt nnd pulley devices coming down and motors placed at every churn or machine In the plant. To Publish Winners The names of the winners in the essay-winning contest will be published in this paper, next week. Watch for them. o- —• having fine services Tlie Evangelictic services being conducted at the Bobo M. E. church are being well attended and the interest in the meetings is exceptionally 1 Sb. The pastor, Rev. R. A. Fens•ermacher Is being assisted by Ray ungfn of Toledo, Ohio who has c args of the music. On Sunday afterJ’con at 2 o'clock there will be a specmeeting f or men and boys Rev wm lartelle George of Willshire win F' 8 11,0 uddress. Special music by v 6 rt iV6n by the men ’ 3 choir led beri/ „ nsln ’ The regular services a t < .30 o’clock each evening. er of Blum 018 aDd Jlmray PlessingSwearii Called on MIBSeB Helen this citv t and Donna Parrish of “by last evening.

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ABOUT the sick Dr. 11. E. Keller was a Fort Wayne yesterday where he assisted Dr. M. I. Rosentahl in performing a serious operation upon Mrs. Sophia Smith of this city, for the removal of the Ap I pendix and adhesions of the gall bladder. Dr. H. E. Keller says she stood the operation well and barring complications she will fully recover her former health. The operation was performed at the St. Joseph Hospital. Dr. H. E. Keller reports Miss Gusta Cramer as doing quite well, and Mrs. August Busick as able to go home today having recovered from her operation nicely. GRADUATION DATE Closing of City Schools and Graduation Exercises to be Held May 19th. WEEK OF FESTIVITIES Is Being Arranged—Junior Reception May 12—Baccalaureate, May 15. Vacation days are drawing near I Superintendent Martin Worthman an nottneed last evening that the date had been selected for the closing of the city schools for the summer season and that the graduation exercises sot the members of the senior class would ibe held on the evening of May 19th, at the Athletic hall. The first of the ' series of festivities marking the dos ing of the present school year will be held on April 7 when the Senior class play will be given, entitled ‘‘The Broken Idol." On May sth. the Jun ior class will give their play entitled "Stop Thief”. On May 12th, the Junior reception for the Senior class will be held. On May 15th, the Baccalareatc | services will be conducted and on the evening of May 16th, an operetta en titled "Miss Cherryblossom’” will be given by the students of music undei : the direction of Miss Snyder. The graduating class for 1922 is composed of 41 students and is thf second largest class to be graduated in the history of the local school. The j speaker for the commencement exer feises and the place for holding the baccalaureate services are at the pres ent time being arranged by the school I board and it is expected that these ' details will be anounced with in a few ' days. The district grade and high schools j will begin closinv on April 28 and : will extend over the period of three i weeks, the last school closing on May 115. Arrangement for the county com ■ mencement have not as yet been com : pleted. MRS. EHINGER IMPROVES E. X. Ehlnger visited his wife at St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne last evening and found her improving nice I ly. The physicians and nurses say ! she is recovering remarkably rapidly ! and is practically out of danger. She was operated on Wednesday morning TO TEST WELLS TOMORROW Illness in the family of Mr. Yocun of Mendon, Ohio, the driller of the Habegger oil well, prevented him from being here today. The test has therefore been postponed until tomor row. If Mr. Yocum cannot come Mr. Heffner of Monroe will run the tools. — • Dr. Hamilton of Fort Wayne w'as in the city on business this morning. o AN IRISH PARTY Anniversary of St. Patrick Will be Celebrated in Fort Wayne. Broad smiles and the wearing of the green predominated among the Irish in this city today. This evening a number of local people will go to Fort Wayne to attend an entertainment and banquet to be given at the Wolf & Dessauer store 1 by the Ancient Order of Hibernans. Today marks the 1,429th anniversary ' of the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick, his death occurring on March 1 17, 493, at Downpatrick, Ireland. ' Those from here who will attend I the Irish banqquet in Fort Wayne this i evening are: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Durkin, daughter, Naomi, and sons. Tommy and Clarence; Mr. and Mrs. - John Carmody, Judge and Mrs. John I C. Moran and daughter, Margaret; t Mr. and Mrs. James Cowan and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mylott.

A MINERS' STRIKE Will Take Place April Ist— Secretary Green of the United Mine Workers TELLS THE REASONS’ Describes Working Condi-' tions of Miners—Mines Idle Much of Time. ■ (By William E. Green) of Vie United ' Mine Workers. Indianapolis, Mar. 17 —(Special to | Daily Democrat) —A suspension of I mining operations in both the anthracite and bituminous coal fields of the United States will take place on April I—and1 —and why? The answer is because certain coal operators in the central competive coal field, the key to the whole bituminous coal situation refuse to meet the miners for the purpose of negotiating a new wage agreement. During the course of events leading up to the impending shutdown of mining operations discussion is taking place among people in all walks of life regarding the merits and demerits of the miners demands. Particularly is this true with reference to the proposal for a six hour day and five days per week. People generally conclude that a coal mine operates like a factqry. every day in the week, and that a miner may work each and every day just like a clerk in a store or an empliyee in a factory. This popular misconception and a public misunderstanding. Coal miners are not like factories and stores. They do not operate every day. They operate only a small percentage of the time. Frequently they are idle for weeks and months and during all this time the miners are forced into Idleness. The capacity to produce bituminous coal is so far in excess of market requirements that the miners are idle from thirty to fifty percent of the time. During some of these periods of long enforced idleness, miners and their families suffer great distress. Now' the miners want to remedy this unhealthy industrial situation. They do not want to be idle during 181 days per year. They want to work more days per year. So in proposing a six hour day and five days per week they intend that instead of working less days per year they will be permitted to work more days per year. (Continued on page five) BODCE 1$ IN JAIL Young Man Who Set Wild Pace in Kalamazoo Gets Fine and Sentence. TO ANSWER AGAIN To Face Other Charges and Damage Suit as Soon as He is Free Again. (United Press Service) Detroit, Mich., March 17 —John Duval Dodge, scion of the millionaire automobile family, was vaccinated and set to work with other inmates of the Detroit house of correction today. Dodge was sentenced to five day in the workhouse by Judge Bartlett after conviction of violating the speed laws. His license was revoked and SIOO fine assessed. As soon as Dodge’s five days are up he must return to Kalamazooo where charges against him alleging violation of liquor and auto laws are pending. These were the outgrowth of a ride Sunday night during which Emellne Knakerneck normal school student was injured when she fell from his car. Dodge, in court, was served with papers in a SIO,OOO damage suit which charges Edwin Schultz, 12, was run down by a car driven by Dodge several weeks ago. The wealthy young man was hauled to the workhouse in the patrol wogan, in spite of his prominence and position as deputy sheriff of Wayne county. Dodge last night slept in the ond bunk in the big corridor, next to a snoring drunk sentenced to thirty days. Money and cigarettes were taken from Dodge when he was “checked In,” , "Can't I keep my cigarettes?” he asked the jailor. "You can have cigarettes when you earn them," was the answer.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday Evening, March 17, 1922

4+*44*+4**44*++4 4 AMERICAN HISTORY 4 4 DAY BY DAY 4 ❖ By T. P. Green 4 ♦ ♦ 4 March 17 4 * * 4 The Church of England was 4 4 established in Georgia parslhes 4 * on March 17, 1758. ♦ ♦ *| + Boston was evacuated by the 4 ♦ British on March 17, 1776. 4 * + + The IT. 8. Treasury was auth- 4 ♦ orized to buy bonds or notes on 4 !♦ March 17. 1862. 4 4 — 4 !4 Gen. Grant was placed in 4 4 command of all IT, S. armies on 4 4 March 17, 1864, 4 4 — 4 4 The National league of base- 4 4 ball clubs was formed on March 4 + 17, 1883. 4 4444444444444444 STATE TOURNEY IS IN PROGRESS; Vincennes, Bedford Franklin and Bloomington Show Class Today. CUTLER IS BEATEN But It Required All That Vincennes Had—A Big Crowd Attending. The Garfield high school, of Terre Haute, met and defeated Whiting high school in the second game of the afternoon by a score of 24 to 12. Whiting eliminated the local high school five in the regional meet staged at Purdue last Saturday evening by a score of 26 to 6. Indianapolis. Ind., March 17. —Vincennes, Bedford. Franklin and Bloomington the three favorites in the state high school basketball tournament here, took the four morning games opening the meet here today. The scores were, Vincennes 31 Cutler 22. Burford 40, Atwood 14, Faranklin 27, Evansville 16, Bloomington 21, Man- 1 uel 7. The best game of the morning was between Vincennes and Cutler. The latter team considered by many as a dark horse of the tournament gave Vincennes a tight race coming within one point of a tie score during the last half. They came up to 19 with' Vincennes standing at 20 before the ■ Allcetown five spurted. Cutler made the first goal but Vincennes came back ending the half 18 to 14. Neither Franklin nor Bedford made . an extra showing in their morning games. The one sided score In the Bedford game was due to the Atwood five being outclassed rather than exceptional playing. Vincennes showed fine team work in I defeating. Cutler. They had to be-: cause the Cutler five had the ball two thirds of the time. Indianapolis, Ind, March 17. —Frank(Continued on page five) CLUB GIVES PLAY Gecode Girls of G. E. Plant Gave Delightful Program and Play Last Night. FORT WAYNE GUESTS Present and Gave Talks— Readings, Songs and Refreshments Enjoyed. The members of the Gecode Club delightfully entertained last evening in the club rooms at the local G. E. plant when a program and a one-act play entitled “At the Junction” was given. All of the girls employed in the plant were invited and requested to bring one other guest, preferrably their mothers. The cast of the play . was as follows: Jack Sharpe, prospective heir —Miss Velma Nelson. Percy Keen, Ills friend—Miss Ethel , Tombleson. Jonathan Spotts, ticket agent—Miss Leona Keller. , Fannie Quick, prospective heiress—- . Miss Arvllla Hendricks. ( Clara Cute, her friend —Miss Mary Lutz. | Following the play. Miss Florence (Continued on page four)

SHOWING RESULTS Milk Campaign is Meeting With Success as Shown by Increase of Sales. OVER TWO THOUSAND People Talked to During the First Three Days of the Campaign. The milk and mill; products cornpaign now being conducted in Adams county is going strong and will continue until Fridaf, March 224th. This work is being put on by the people! of the county co-operating with counJty agent Busche and with the Extension Department of Purdue university. : Miss Beadle and Mr. Wann of Purdue i are the principal speakers and are I making a thorough canvass of all schools and before organized bodies of the city and county. With the assistance of several local ladies, the •speakers are delivering lectures on the subject "Tlie Story of a Quart of Milk." Thee talks are on the food value of milk and its products, .both from the standpoint of health and of economy. The talks are illustrated by the use of four bottles which contain the ingredients of milg. such as fat. I sugar, mineral matter and proteins. 'They also tell ofthe relation of these I elements in the building up of the , body and of the vitamines which aid 'growth and good health. The first day all of the schools of the city were reached and a total of 1406 | people were talked to, most of whom . were boys and girls. The campaign ■has been boing on for three days, extending into all parts of the county, i and a total of 0 meetings have been ' held todate with a total attendance of 12,069. Yesterday noon Mr. Wann spoke at the G. E. plant at 12:40 o’clock and 170 employees reported for duty 20 minutes early in order to attend the meeting. Milk is being served daily at this plant and every effort is being put forth by the com pany to popularize it as a drink. Today Mr. Wann will speak to the employees of the Dunbar Furniture Co., at Berne, and next week will address ■the employees of the Borne Over-All Co. That the campaign is meeting with decided success is shown by tlie fact that one dairyman in the city reports an increase in milk sales of 11 percent while another one reports an increase of 5 1-2 per cent. The schedules for next week are as i follows: MANY PRESENT Demonstration of Regulator at Gas Office Yesterday Was Attended BY FIFTY WOMEN I Complete Meal Served and Unique Demonstration of Cake Flattening Given. The demonstration held yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the gas comI pany’s office by Mr. Ullrey, of the Dangler Stove company, of Cleveland Ohio, was attended by about fifty women and was a complete success in every way? The object of the demon stration was to show the great amount of saving in both labor and fuel and the superior quality of cooking when meals and baked goods are prepared on a Dangler stove equqipped with a Lorraine Oven Heat-Regulator. After a short talk on the many advantageous points of the new equipment, Mr. Ullrey served a complete dinner, consisting of roast pork, sweet potatoes, baked rice. Lima beans and stewed apricots, to those present. Following the serving of the meal, a most unique demonstration was held when a number of women stood on a plank placed across a large four-layer cake which had been prepared on Wednesday afternoon by the members of the freshman domestic science class, and baked in one of the Dang er ovens. The cake was completely flattened out by the weight of the women and as soon as the pressure was removed it Immediately rose to its | original form. It was then cut and i served by Mr. Ullrey to show that there was no deception connected, Expressions of satisfaction heard on with the demonstration, and from the every hand, it was an exceptionally good cake, despite the rough and unusual treatment that had been accorded it. >

STRIKE IS SURE Indianapolis, Ind., March 17,*-A na-tion-wide coal strike “will take place on April 1," Wi|liam K. Green, secre-tary-treasurer of the United Mino workers, said unreservedly today In a statement written for the United Press. Green said all blame for the strike will rest upon the mine owners who refused to meet union representatives in interstate wage conference as provided by tlie existing contract, lie defended tlie six hour day, five day week demand of tlie miners as an effort to equalize the work throughout the year and furnish employment to more men at the present basic wage. instant’ death Harvey Close, Former Decatur Boy, Killed When He Picked Up Live Wire AT ASHBAUCHER HOME In Bluffton Thursday—His Companion Also Handled Wire But Escaped. The Bluffton Banner gives the following account of the deatli of Harvey Close, former Adams county res - ident: “Harvey Close, 25, son of George: Close, was instantly killed at 2:15 this afternoon when he picked up a high tension city power wire which had been torn down by a falling limb at the Frank Aschbaucher residence on West Washington tstreet. “Close and Homer Hankins were trimming trees at the Ashbaucher home and one large limb, in falling tore down the wires running along! Washington street. After the limbi had been pulled away. Close picked! up the wires and stretched them out , along Washington street, and out of the way of passing traffic. “He then ’phoned Superintendent J.| S. Gardner at tlie city plant that the I wires were down, but before the ine , men could get to the Ashbaucher' home, Close picked tlie wires up: again and was dragging them up into; the Ashbaucher yard. "Immediately he stepped off the dry j concrete walk onto the damp yard, the 2,300 voltage ran through his body,' killing him instantly. "Hankins stated that he saw him pick up the wires and drag them into the yard and then turned his back, lie stated that he then heard Close scream, "Oh,” and turned about just as he fell backwards, his body stiff from the force of the current. "Hankins stated that lie kicked the wire away from the body and picked Close up, but it was evident that death was instantaneous. Dr. McKinney was called immediately and Mr. Gardner notified Coroner Herman Thoma. "There was no mark or discoloration about the body, except a small burn in the pam of the left hand. "Harvey Close was born in Adams ; county, and the family came over | here about sixteen years ago. They ■ later moved back to Adams county ■ and returned here about seven years: ago. Bert Close, a brother of the! young man. Is foreman at the Me-1 Dowell mill. Harvey Close was a la-; borer and was well known in the city, j He is survived by .the brother, Bert; the father, George Close, and three sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Kinder, Mrs. Olive Cutler and Mrs. Jane Brand. o 4444444444444444 4 THE WEATHER FORECAST 4 4444444444444444 Indiana: Unsettled and slightly warmer tonight probably rain or snow in north portion; Saturday rain warmer in north portion. Lower Michigan: Cloudy and slightly warmer tonight, snow in tlie west portion; Saturday snow in north and snow or rain in south portion, somewhat warmer. o *q. 4. 44-?• 444 4 4444444 4. REGISTRATION 4 + * 4 Bluffton, Ind., Mar. 17—(Spe- 4 4 cial to Daily Democrat)—Judge 4 4 Frank Gordon in the Wells cir- 4 4 cult court, this morning sustain- 4 4 ed the demurrer of the defend- 4 4 ants in the case of A. Simmons 4 4 vs. A. J. Byrd, township trustee 4 : 4 and other county officials in 4 4 which Simmons sought to pre- 4 4 vent the putting into effect of 4 4 the registration law. It Is prob- 4 4 able that an appeal will be made 4 ■4 to the supreme court. The com- 4 4 plaint alleged that the registra- 4 4 tion law worked a hardship on 4 4 the voters and created uuneces- 4 4 sary expense. 4 44444444444+4*44

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CHARGE OF ARSON FOLLOWS A FIRE Causes Arrest of Three Fort Wayne Men—Result of Big Ridgeville Fire. TITLE HELD HERE C. C. Kelly Had Interest— Trade Consummated for Adams County Realty. The last real title to the Carrysot implement warehouse at Ridgeville, destroyed by fire yesterday morning, seems to have been in the name of C. C. Keller of this county for whom Wilson Lee. well known hardware dealer here was named receiver. Three Fort Wayne men were arrested last night charged witli arson and the following story as it appeared in the JournalGazette this morning is of interest here Henry Carrysot 1008 Glasgow avenue. secretary of the Carrysot implement company, 214 East! Columbia street; John Dehner. 2320 Calhoun street, manager of tlie General Sales i& Implement company. 306 North I Ciinton street, and B. 8. Vail. 1510 St. j Joe boulevard, a real estate matt , maintaining offices in the Swinney I block, were arrested here late yester--1 day afternoon on charges of arson ! brought against them in the Ranidolph county circuit court, as a result of the burning with total loss of the Carrysot Implement branch warehouse at Ridgeville, early yesterday morning. Accompanied by their attorneys, they returned to Winchester over the G. R. & I. railroad late I last night with officers from that city At police hearquarters, all of the 1 men talked freely of the fire to re- ' porters, each declaring That he had no knowledge of the start of the conflagration. Mr. Carrysot, former i owner of the destroyed building, and holding a mortgage upon the prop- ■ erty stored there, declared that he had no interest in the matter, other ; than that which was security for the ; property investment there, and deIdared that he carried no insurance ; other than that which was transferred to him at the time of taking over tlie property from the trustee in bankruptcy in the C. C. Keller business. iff Decatur. Mr. Carrysot purchased the building which was destroyed in March, 1921, lie declared, and, in August, of last year sold it to C. C. Keller, of Decatur, who, a short time later, filed bankruptcy proceedings. In November, the property was returned to Mr. Carrysot througli an order of trustee, Wilson Lee, of Decatur, although the formal transfer of title under the bankruptcy proceedings were only filed with the referee in bankruptcy, Judge Sherman, of Kokomo, last Saturday, and have not yet ; been approved. On February 23. Mr. • Carrysot said, he sold tlie property i again to John Dehmer, taking as se‘curity, a mortgage upon the contents, ■ having an estimated value of from j $36,000 to $37,000. Further than the I interest in this mortgage, Mr. Carry- | sot declared, he had no interest longer ■in the property. Mr. Dehmer. in speaking of ills interests, said he carried insurance only on four automobile trucks which were stored in the building, and that the remainder of the stock would be a total loss to him. He denied that lie had SIB.OO insurance, as authorities in Ridgeville claimed, and said that he had made no efforts recently to increase the amount of insurance held, Mr. Dehmer also stated that, through the agency of Mr. Vail, one of his co-defendants in the arson charge, he was planning to complete a deal yesterday whereby the property would go to Alonzo E. Lambert. 214 West Main street, Fort Wayne, in a trade for farm property in Adams county. This deal was prevented by I the fire, he said, the first knowledge of which, lie had when police called him yesterday. Mr. Vail, when questioned concernling his knowledge, said that he could ■ see no reason why he should under any conditions, be included in the ' | list of suspects for the fire, because '| of the fact that he had no interest ' i in tho place other than that which he ’ i might get as commission for the ’ I trade for the Adams county property. He declared be knew nothing of the fire until police called and could not, from present information, see in I what wmy he might be connected with the destruction of the property. • (Continued on page six)