Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1922 — Page 1

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to BUY GRADER I FOR REPAIR OF I CITY STREETS Vjtv Council Authorizes I Purchase At Regular Meeting »EW ELECTRIC PUMPS Kid Equipment At Light I And Water Plant Sold, New Installed ■ special care "ill be given to the reKir of road intersections and the mnK«hnn streets in Decatur after Street Kmmissioner Ed Augenbaugh re- ■ iv. s the new road grader to be purKased by the street and sewer comLiitee. the council in regular session ■st evening authorizing the commit- |. to look after the purchase of a fir ii grader suitable for the needs of Ke city. ■ The petition of C. E. Bell to have, ■li railroad switch extended south to ■le La Fountain Handle company 450 ■eet along the west side of the Pat■erson street was filed and referred ■o the street and sewer committee. ■ The communication from the GenBral Electric company relative to an ■djnstment or the company’s water ■ate was referred to the water works ■ommittee. I The electric light committee reportfid that the 200 Kw. generator and ■ther old equipment at the city plant ] ■ad been sold to the Nussbaum company of Ft. Wayne. New electric Inimps for pumping water at the plant ■re being installed. A proposition ■rom the White Way Advertising com■any relative to the placing of san-I ■ary containers for papers, etc., Kiong the streets of Decatur was referred to the Judiciary committee. fThe street and sewer committee was Inthorized to purchase stone or sand Bor the repair of street Intsnsactions ■nd those streets needing repair. I Water superintendent Orval HarLift' was authorized to extend a six finch water main along Nuttman aveLue to the property line in order to Burnish water to the new greenhouse Ibr-ing erected by G. W. Stump. Work Bi.is been started on the erection of the greenhouse, announcement of which , Las made in the Decatur Daily Demolerat on October 7th. j I The committee on public safety and ! [city attorney, J. Fred Fruchte asked for further time in the investigation of Ithe removal of the stock yards on ■seventh street. N'o report was made. 1 F'ollowing the allowing of bills the council met in an executive session and talked over city affairs. The following bills were allowed: Erne Elzey, $13.00; City tiremen pay roll, 145.00; Street Com. pay roll. $235.50; James Hurst, $9.50; A. E., Borface Co., $18.65; Flax Mfg. Co.. ‘ $1.50; Decatur Laundry Co. .$7.75; ( Thos Dowling, $4.00; Orval Hnrnff. ’ $02.50; Police pay roll $105.00: Schmitz & Tricker, $4.00; Ainos Fish- ( er, $27.50; Decatur Casting Co., $7.70; General Hocking Fuel, $211.40; Elec ] trie Light pay roll, $246.00; Service] Coal Co.. $187.25; Protective Elee. C 0..! $3.78; Ft. Wayne Oil & Supply Co..] $3.65; Schmitz & Tricker, $1.50; The] Schafer Co., $12.50; Carroll Coal & Coke C0.,5233.16; T. St. L. W. R. R-,[ $508.86; Decatur Foundry, F. & F. Co..’ $2; Schafer Co., $1.26; plant pay roll, $490.90; Triangle coal and Coke Co.. $1284.64; Ohio & ichigan Iron Foundry,, $110.00; Schmits & Tricker, $18.00; water Dept. Pay roll, $85.63; Bourbon Copper Wks., $25.35; Decatur Foundry, F. & F. Co., SB.BO. ♦ CONGRESS TODAY + 4-4-4. + + 4 . + + + + 4 . + + a.+ Senate, Mrs. Felton, first woman senator, scheduled to make address. Debate scheduled on Liberian loan. House—Takes up special rule for R hip subsidy bill, with vote planned before adjournment. — o WEATHER + Fair tonight and Thursday; rising temperature Thursday in north and central portions. •— • BOY SCOUT NOTICE There will be a meeting of the Boy Scouts in the Legion hall tonight at 5 o'clock. o Miss Naomi Baker has accepted a losition. with the Decatur Service company as bookkeeper.

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Mrs. Teeter Purchases Art Store On Second St. Mm. William E. Teeter Ims purchased the Art Store on South Second street formerly owned by Mrs. Bina b, Buhler. Mrs. Teeter has had her innI ' bine removed from her former location over Engler’s department store to ( the new location and is ready to fur •nish art goods to the public besides ’ doing fancy sewing. • o GRAND JURY IS . PROBING MURDER 'Huntington Jurors Trying | To Determine If Clark Was Sane At Time J Huntington. Ind.. Nov. 22. —tSpecial . to Daily Democrat)—Grand jury investigation of the Clark farm double ! murder started here today. 1 The jurors will try to determine ( 1 whether Tom Clark, who killed his wife and small son was insane or had possession of his mental faculties and **aa responsible for his actions. Charles Haller, prosecutor if llunt- , Ington contends that Clark was re sponsible even though he was an inmate of an insane asylum at one time. Haller interviewed the man after he 1 had been captured in the southern part of Wells county two di-s follow- , ing the tragedy and he will ask the grand jury for tin indictment. i “It was the most horrible murder in recent Indiana history,” Hall-r said. I "Clark must have known what he was doing or he couldn't remem’ner! how he had battered in their skulls and tried to burn their bodie ■ by pour ing gasoline on his dead wife s body and firing it." Clark, who was near death from pneumonia, is report -d to have pa- -ed ! the crisis. His condition was better today, Haller said, upon receiving re ports from Bluffton where the man is in jail. o GOTTSCHALK IN LINE FOR HONOR Berne Man Looms As Min- • ority Leader In Indiana State Legislature — ' Indianapolis, Nov. 22. —Talk in Democratic circles interested in the organization of the Indiana senate and house has centered around the party choice for minoriity leader in both houses. It is the idea of the . 1 Democrats to cast a complimentary < , vote for a speaker and if the Repub , licans are successful in organizing tin I | house, the Democratic c hoice will be j 'come minority leader. I Thurman A. Gottschalk, of Berne ; ' representing Adams and Wells conn ; 'ties, is mentioned for the honor. Mr. 'and has served several terms in the I hotise. For the minority leader in 'the senate the names of Walter S. I Chambers, of Newcastle, representing I Hancock, Henry and Madison cottn 'ties, and Joseph M. Cravens, of Ma 'dison, representing Clark, Jefferson, lohio and Switzerland counties, arc 'mentioned. Mr. Chambers is chair 'man of the Democratic state committee and arose to a position of power in his party in the recent campaign. He is an editor and long has been a worker in the party. Mr. Cravens, who is a farmer, is a veteran of many legislative sessions. Two years age he led the small Democratic minority in th< senate. . Democratic politicians are extreme • ly anxious to see the minority in both ■ houses placed under the leadership Jof capable men. It is realized, the headers say, that the fortunes of the • party two years hence depend to n I large extent on the conduct of the Democrats in the forthcoming session of the legislature, it is not the inten ■ tion, the party leaders say, to make • political capital out of every measure > that comes up. but to support what f ] they regard as meritorious bills and ' to oppose those they fell are not for the best interests of the state. In older to present a united front on all , measures, especially those of a pollJtical tinge, it will be necessary to have leaders capable of commanding the support of the Democrats, the party , chiefs say. and for that reason they J are looking into the qualifications of I all the members of the two houses.

$ < ■ — - ■ . Yeomen--Yom’H Be Lucky i I (By Our Favorite Poet) • I IV , Boys. I’m getting old us old, W<- surely have some heritage, An my bones arc creaking some, When we've got this happy place, I’ve lived in this here town of ours, Il meant a hundred earnest years, i Slice the danged old town begun. Os lookin’ up to Grace, I’ve pruyed and cussed and whooped for Iler, It meant God-fearing people. Nigh onto eighty year. Patriotic, kind and good, An' I'm rejoicin', not complainin', An’ honest upward efforts — Halnt both of us still lure? Christianity understood. II V You bet we’re lu re, still pluggin’ Boys. I'm patriotic, dung it, | An' lookin' back into the past. An’ I want tlie world to know. . We’ve got cause for much rejoicin’, In this bright Indiana burg, I Not that we’ve growed so fagt. We're aiming not to blow, But growed so might}’ healthily. But if tiny want to settle here, Kept clean and square and just, . An' raise their children strong. Kept our armour bright and shiny, By gosh’ they can’t do better. f And never let her rust. Haint we proved that all along? HI VI Bovs, we started right, (hat long ago, If I am old, I'm foxy, When folks first settled down. Now, what I aim to say, To sweat and tug and groan and pray. I'm not uiglng, simply statin' 1 To make this a decent town. In a simple truthful way. An’ praise bo, they succeeded, That the Yeonun Home for Children, An' their children carried on. if they bring ft to this spot, An’ I reckon that they’re smilin’ They’ll be lucky, mighty lucky, t’p there, where thov have gone. ’Twill help their kids a lot.

X. '" ■■— ' - DELPHOS FIVE CANCELS GAME — St. John’s High Has Conflicting Date; No Game Here Friday Night Coach Linn, of the Catholic High 1 School, received a letter from the; management of the basketball team of 'the St. Johns high school of Delphos Ohio, this morning, cancelling the game scheduled to be played in the: ! gymnasium here on Friday night. A 1 conflict in dates was given as the reason for the cancellation. The St. Johns team will play the St. Rose ] team of Lima at Delphos, on Friday i night. Coach Linn received a letter from Ithe Student. _ Atwmisw--at St. Johns I high school yesterday in which he was i congratulated for the splendid show - ling made by the local team at Del | phos last Friday night, when St. I Johns was defeated by a score of 21 116. The letter stated that the local 'Catholic high school quintet was one of the best teams that had ever played on the floor at Delphos. They asked, for another game with the locals to be played in Delphos, and two dates were offered. It is likely that the locals will go to Delphos for another game this season. There will be no game here on Frilay night, owing to the fact that it is impossible to obtain another team to play on so short a notice. 0 Herman Hollman made a business trip to Fort Wayne yesterday. o T. 4 ST.L.DFFICERS IN CITY TUESDAY I High Clover Leaf Officers Conferred With The City Officials Officials, high in the management i | and supervision of the Toledo, St. Louis and Western railroad, commonly known as the Clover Leaf, spent a few hours in this city yesterday aboard their private Pullman coach which arrived from the west at 2:14. Included in the party were: D. F. Mellon, general superintendent; F It. Ramsey, division engineer; E. M. Davis, division freight agent; F. G. Davy, road master; and C. Druke- , wriller, train master. A number of the city officials, including the councilmen and Mayor DeVoss were invited to their Pullman and spent a few hours with the rail- ' road officials. While here the railroad officials looked after the ex--1 tending of a switch to the LaFountain Handle factory and discussed the probability of building stock yard ’ pens along the Clover Leaf tracks 1 in order to accommodate the ship--1 pers of live stock, in case the stock 1 yards on Seventh street, belonging ' to the Pennsylvania system, were 1 moved, and a new location for them ■ were not selected. It was also stated » by onO of the men who were guests 3 of the railroad officials that mention z of moving the Clover Leaf shops z from Delphos was made, but no deflf nite statemept was made by the rail- | road men.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, November 22, 1922.

Quilt Top To Be Sold To Highest Bidder Friday A beautiful large quilt top. made by the ladies of the Methodist Ladies Aid Society, is on display in tin- Elzey Store window. The quilt will be soldi to the highest bidder at the Methodist I church at 2:30 o’clock next Friday til ternoon. All bids must be sealed.; Those who cannot be present at the ] time of the sale, may leave tl.eir bids 1 with Mrs. Elzey. MINOR AFFAIRS DISPOSED OF IN CIRCUIT COURT Grand Jury Still In Session But No Indictments Returned Yet CASES SET FOR TRIAL One Case Dismissed; Ceiil Melchi Reappointed Riding Court Bailiff Several minor affairs occupied the attention of the circuit court yesterday afternoon and today. The grand j: ( rv is still in session but no indie.- ! ments have been returned yet. Several witnesses have been examined during the last two days, it is said. In the circuit court, the defendant. in the ease of Chris C. Yoder et al against Walter L. Ross, receiver for the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad company, filed a motion to dismiss the ease tor want of prosecution. In the ease of Matthew Brothers Company against Charles N. Christen and company, the defendant filed an answer in one paragraph and also i interrogatives numbered from one toj nineteen with a written request that the plaintiff answer each interroga-] tive. The court ordered the plaintiff (Continued on page five) NEW CHRISTIAN PASTOR COMING Rev. Thompson, Os Ligonier, Called By Local Church Sunday The Christian church of this city has called Rev. W. if. Thompson of Ligonier to serve as pastor anil that gentleman who has accepted the charge, to begin duties January Ist, will preach here next Sunday morning and evening. He will move his family. Mrs. Thompson and son here, the latter part of December and become a permanent citizen of Decatur. | Rev. .Thompson will be w - om> d I by our people. He is an extreordinarv ( citizen and a hustler both for his church and the community. He has been at Ligonier eight years and n..s just dedicated a beautiful ne ' church building, has built up the niember«uip i and besides has taken a very active part in other affairs, being the presdi dent of the Ligonier chamber of com- ■ merce. The public is Invited to hear him Sunday at the Christian church here.

LARGE MORTGAGE WAS FILED HERE —■ ■ Chicago Firm Operating Condensery At Berne Files Document In looking over the mortgage record 1 book in the office of County Recorder Joe McConnell our attention was called to the largest mortgage ever filed or spread on record in the history of Adams county. For the purpose of issuing bonds last year, while the company was being re-financed, Libby, McNeil & Lib ! by, of Chicago, irave a ten million dollar mortgage to the Harris Trust & Savings Co., of Chicago, on till its property in about ten states, Alaska. Hawaii umU iu a number of foreign ! countries, including the company’s I condensery at Berne in this county : llt was necessary therefore to have I , the mortgage spread on record in this | county. It took 73 ledger pages, type | written, to copy the mortgage and it I was necessary to place ss,ooti word' of United States internal revenue , documentary stamps on the document j to make it valid. The recorder's fee [ to copy the mortgage was $78.40, he i receiving a certain amount for each 100 words. There is an average of , 47 lines on a page and 17 words to the hue, so if you want to figure how many words were contained in the mortgage, just get your pencil and figure it out. The next largest moitg.igc in the way of value was given by the Hol(Continued on page five) o LECTURE TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT Mississippi Man To Give Illustrated Talk At Red Men’s Hall — An illustrated lecture, depicting the many beautiful sights to be seen in and around Biloxi, Mississippi, the second largest oyster port in the United States, will be given in the Red Veil's hall tonight following the regular lodge meeting, by Sumner W. Rose, a former resident of Indiana. The lecture will begin about 7:30 o’clock, will bi free and open to the public. Mr. Rose formerly published the Hoosier Blade at Greensburg, Indiana. For several years he has been residing in Biloxi, which is a city of 12.000 population, situated on the Gulf of Mexico. Baltimore is the only port which produces more oysters than city, it is claimed. Mr. Rose has been travelling over Indiana and Ohio I since last September, giving his illusprated lecture. He is not deriving any lfinancial benefit from the lecture but! Jis making the trip for the purpose ot visiting his old time state. There will be one hundred or more scenes shown tonight, illustrating the oyster industry, agricultural activities □nd the sceuery in aud about the city. Trucking is a big industry in the rural section of that country. Mr. Rose says. Many northern people spend the winter in Biloxi and thousands of tourists visit the little city during each year.

To Take Boys To State Penal Farm Tomorrow I Sheriff Sephus Melchi will leave i early tomorrow morning for Green i castle, taking with him Arthur Forei man and Raymond Harker, who will ' begin a term on the state penal farm. The two boys wore sentenced yemer , day to serve a term of thirty days, 1 after pleading guilty to a charge of petit larceny. IDLE MEN FIGHT LONDON POLICE Make Effort To Force Way To Bonar Law Residence On Downing Street Ixrndon. Nov. 22. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —2.000 unemployed fought with mounted and foot police today around the foot of Nelson’s monument I in Trafalgar square in a vain efferot to] force their way to the Downing street residence of Preffiier Bonar Law. I I tiny were wounded in the milling about the entrance to Whitehall while pedestrials fled from the scene of the battle and all roads were blocked. Repeated police charges in which 1 heavy truncheons the bobby's last re | sort were wielded freely on heads of the strugling unemployed finally fore ] ed the mob back from Whitehall and , scattered them for the moment upthe Strand and Cockspur street. Hun-| ilreds gathered in front of the national gallery. The hatle was the climax of a march of unemployed upon Downing street, the workless demonstrators sought to] carry their cause home to Britain by clamoring at the gates of the premier's house. Thousands have come from all parts of the country to take part in the demonstration. • Mr. Fred Studler of Linn Grove was a business visitor here today. I Mr. Von Murray and Mr. F. E. ' France have returned from a business trip to Akron. Ohio. ENTIRE FAMILY j DEAD OF POISON — Ohio Family Os Six Believed To Have Been Given Arsenic Poisoning Lancaster. Ohio, Nov. 22—An entire family of six were found dead of poisoning in their home here today. Police believed they had been giv«m arsenic. The dead qre: Irvin Hen derson, 31, his wife. 26, and their ] four small children. The family had been ill for several days. I The police based their belief on the arsenic theory on an unmailed letter which Henderson had written ;to the Ohio board of health at Colum 1 ! bus. The letter lay on the floor of the Henderson home where neigh- 1 hors found the six bodies. "1 believe we have been given arsenic," the letter said. “I want you to tell me if any arsenic could have got in my well and 1 am sending you 1 I some samples of corn meal from I ] which we have been making mush. I If it would not cost too much 1 want i you to examine them.” When neighbors broke, down the ; doors of the Henderson home short!} i before noon they found Henderson's | body sprawled on the floor of the liv ; ing room. It lay at the feet of the , body of his wife who apparently had , died while sitting in her chair in , front of the. tire place. Death seized the four small children in bed where their bodies were , found by the neighbors. The house was in perfect order except where a ( chair had overturned where Hender1 son had fallen. I* 0 _ I j Nephew Os Mrs. Joseph Helm Dead In FT. Wayne , Milan! Weimer, a nephew of Mrs.| Joseph Helm of this city, died at the , home of his daughter, Mrs. Samuel ( Bonner, in Fort Wayne this morning. I Mr. Weimer was born and lived for a number of years a few miles north of Willshire, Ohio, but for the past five or six years has resided with his daughter in Fort Wayne. He was ( past fifty years as age. Mrs. Helm went to Fort Wayne at noon today. -Utbough definite funeral arrangements have net been learned here, it is likely that the funeral will be held from the Pleasant Mills church and burial will be held in the Mt. Taber cemetery.

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FRENCH LEADER STUDIES EFFECT OF HIS SPEECH America’s Answer To Clemenceau’s Plea For France Expressed Today FRENCH DISAPPOINTED Says His Country Is Not j Satisfied With Results Os Peace Efforts By A. L. Bradford (I nllril PrrMM Srrtirr.l New York, Nov. 22—A letter threat ening the life of Georges Clemenceau was received today at the home of George Gibson where the Tiger is , staying. “Don't you dare say too much ] letter read in part. “If you don't about our country and Germany” the ] heed our orders you will hear bullets flying about your head. “We are sick of you Poilus poisoning the minds of our people." The letter was signed “a world war veteran.” ] A police guard escort that was to have accompanied the Tiger to the i chamber of commerce this after- ' noon was doubled. The letter was turned over to the I police sergeant in charge of the squad protecting Clemenceau. The letter was scrawled in bad English. New York, Nov. 22. -(Special to Daily Democrat) —Aiiierica'it answer to Georges Clemenceau's plea that she return to the side of l-tazeo to . preserve world peace was i enveye-l ;to the “father of victory" today in 'reports on the first editorial (omnient and other expressions of opinion on ' his speech at the Metropolitan Opera ; house. j The Tiger arose at 5:15 a. tn., after i his vigorous evening ou the piatloim. ‘and after orders wore issued that all I comment on his appeal be gathered land put in shape to be studied, he set about translating his own address n’ last night from English into r---n ■. Clemenceau’s speech, delivered beI fore an audience of four thousand in- | eluding many of America's bed minds, leaders in business, finance. .. li’.cs land other fields, ,was regarded as one |of the frankest declarations >-> r cord jconcerning international relations. Ho warned that German monarchists such as Ludendorff and Hindenburg art* preparing to overthrow the government and establish a monarchy —a prelude to further wars. The great war. he said, was us much the affair of America as of France, but the United States left before the whole matter was cleared up. France has been disappointed in tho results of the peace, he said. It' Focb ' ’ foreseen that Germany would pay no reparations and would flout the Versailles treaty, he would have marched on to Berlin, Clemenceau said, adding that General Pershing would have gone with him. General Pershing Present Pershing sat on the platform. Paderewski, the former premier of Poland heard the speech from a box. i The audience broke into applause repeatedly during the speech. One man in the gallery who interrupted and yelled "yes. yes" when Clemenceau asked whether anyone feared the French army was being kept up for aggressive purposes, evoked a chorus of "throw him out" but the Tiger talked on right through tho disturbance as if serenely unconscious of it. Tiie Tiger undoubtedly scored a great personal triumph. "You left after the contract was finished and you said ‘execute it as you may' the old French patriot empbnticnlly declared of the United States. And you were wrong iu tha.t you left without any proposal whatever. "When people have been mixing their blood—l am not speaking ot the godos of the world—but their own blood on the field of battle, they have no right to leave. If there is a difference, without trying to adjust that difference. “Broke Economic Solidarity" • “You broke all the organs of economic solidarity. Now, we hear that we had better pay wliat we owe. Certainly, I do not want yvu to believe that we are sueb people that do not like to pay uur C.t’-- The questions is really dob existent (Continued on page five)