Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1923 — Page 1

Volume XXL Number 93.

BIG FIRE LOSS AT MONMOUTH TODAY

LOCAL WOMEN ARE ENJOYING SHORT COURSE Hundreds Attend Daily Democrat’s Free Cooking School at Old Gym AWARD MANY PRIZES Women Eager to Learn Scientific Method of Cooking; More Recipes THURSDAY—CAKES Discussion of cake making— Mrs. Brown. P-eparation of different types of of cakes by newer methods—Mrs.' Brown and Miss Johnson. Serving Decatur made ice cream and cake —High school girls. Award of attendance prises. The crowd at the Dally Democrat's Domestic science short course and 1 cooking school at the old gytn exceed ' ed that of yesterday by a hundred, best .evidence that the event is meeting 'the approval of those who are ' I 1 taking advantage of the four days’ instruction by Mrs. Brown and Miss ■ 1 Johnson who are incharge. Today lucky women had the privil-! ege of carrying home whole cream raisen. and mock cherry pies and apple dumplings, while the mouths ol ' the other three or four hundred watered. However many of them were happy because of being awarded ' ether prises. Rttlwno-more article!. ( Bursley goods. People's restaurant bread, piano rolls, Aurentz candies, Gas Company prize, sack Os Hour others, while the rest felt amply r ' paid because of the delightful afternoon and the instructions so well ' given. 1 1 Mrs. A. R. Holthouse and Mrs.! James Blair received at the door tc ‘ day while Mrs. Heller, Mrs. Kampe-j and Mrs. Holthouse were the ret ep-1 tion committee yesterday. This afternoon was devoted to pastries though ■ “ Mrs. Brown repeated several of the I Points from yesterdays instructions! lor the benefit of those unable to at-1 tend the opening day. She opened her afternoon talk by saying that in ( [ the making of pastries the housewife ( is so apt to guess at quantities. "She 1 robfibly would sift out what she ! thought was sufficient flour, put in ] what she thought was sufficient fat ] and then add water, Too much water , makes the crust and too much flour makes it tough. Accurate mens ( urement is especially necessary to the , making of flaky pie crust that is so delicious when properly made,” said the speaker. , Mrs. Brown explained that hard wheat flour requires more fat and ■ urged economy and practicality in I cooking. The Mazola in cooking to day had been used in the deep frying Tuesday. Among the recipes for pastries today were: , Pie Crust 1% cups pastry flour. % teaspoon baking powder. % teaspoon salt. 6 tablespoons Mazola. to 3 tablespoons water. Sift dry ingredients. Add liquids . and mix with knife. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Tills recipe is for top and bottom crust pie. ' Pastry Flour 4 cups flour. 1 cup Argo cornstarch. Sift together five times. Apple Pie Line pan with under crust. Put , .two tablespoons white Karo syrup in bottom. Then the apples and % , cup sugar and % teaspoon salt. Over top put 1 tablespoon Mazola. Cover with top crust. Bake ten minutes at 4on degrees and twenty minutes at < 325 degrees. < Peanut Butter Pie 1% cups scalded milk. 3 tablespoons peanut butter. ’A teaspoon salt. 1 cup brown sugar. i 1 tablespoon flout'. 2 egg yolks. Use whites for meriAgue. Raisin Cream Pie 1 cup brown sugar. (Continued on page four)

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CO-WORKERS INVITED TO EVANGELICAL REVIVAL ! f The Co-Workers class of the MethI odist Sunday School lias a special in- | vitation Ui attend the revival service at the Evangelical church this evenI ing. Tonight has been designated as I Men's Night at the meeting. All i members of the Co-Workers' class | are urged to attend. Song service, starts at 7:30. MANY ACRES OF BEETS ASSURED Local Sugar Factory Already Has 9,800 Acres Under Contract © indications are .that the total contract acreage for raising sugar beets I for the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company of this city. Indiana's only sugar mill, will be in excess of 10,000 acres, the total to date being s 9,800 in round numbers. John Carmody, manager of the plant stated that outlook was one of ,the bret in the history of the company. 9 The farmers of AdainsPcognty have contracted for a splendid acreage this year, over 1.800 acre<tO(/>e glren over to the cultivation of beets. Allen {g'county fanners are nftining up and tuck with their neighbors and it was stated tjiat nearly 1.80(f acreqj of beets would be under contftict in that county. These two counties leadjhe list in having the largest Btjmber of a<Tes under contract for the 1923 crop. * @ The largest is tor 'eighty acres, a farmer at Woodburn, 1 Indiana having contracted to raise .this amount ot beets. Another ; farmer in Ohio has contracted for 50 (acres. Within the last ten days con, tracts for one thousand acres have been fumed into the local office, many farmers deciding to chjinge from raising wheat to beets, the recent cold and freezing weather having i ijured many wheat crops and irt* ord *r to recuperate financiauy thA farmers are turning to the raising of beets or have increased their acreage. , With such a splendid outlook for one of the largest crops in the history of the local plant, 1© is stated thaV [plans were being made to operate the b< et factory at least 100 days during the 1923-1924 The sugar company is paying :: guaranteed price of s*,oo per ton sot the raw beets, plus a bonus based on the average price for sugar for the four months of October, Noverifbe . December and January. liiis ye..i the be?t growers received a bomus of $1.87 per ton or a total of s7.B<. About twenty-five men are employed at the mill now repairing and overhauling the machinery and making a number of improvements. The local office or the company's field men will be glad to get in touch with any farmer who wishes to contract to raise beets, this it' inquiry is made. The goal now is 10,000 acre.: or more. CLEAN-UP WEEK • DATE SELECTED Council Sets Aside First Week for Annual Cleanup Campaign Now is the time for all stood men (also women and children) to com-; to the aid of their city, and lend a hand in the annual spring cleanup campaign. The first week in May was duly set aside for clean up week by the city council last night. Each spring the city council and the civic section of the Woman's Club calls upon the citizens to do their bit in making the city beautiful. A commuieation from the civic section was read to the council last night. The women pledged their support in the clean-up movement. Ed L. Augenbaugh, city street commissioner, will have charge of the clean-up campaign for the city. The two city trucks will be used to haul away tin cans, ashes, and other rub(Continued on page eight)

WILSON TAKES LEAD AGAINST HARDING’S PLAN I Former President Assumes Active Direction of Democratic Strategy MAPS OUT PROGRAM Plan* If Carried Out, Will Place Harding in Difficult Predicament I'nltrd Preax Staff CnrrrHpondrnt Washington. April 18 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Woodro-W Wilson has assumed active direction eof democratic strategy on the fight. epf t?he Harding world court proposal. Wilson in conference with Senator Carter Glass and others has mapped out a program which i£. carried out wall put Harding in a predicament like that which Wilson faced st n tli*’ of* Nations fight irPthe sen-, , ate. ® a J 5 The plan is to force Harding to choose between: 1 — Unconditional c American adhesion to the world court of the league pj nations. 2 — Defeat of plan® for American participation court. The fight®will jV'nter on the Hardin&Hughes reservation to tljf- court protocol. Hughes submitted and Harding approved these reservations as protecting American rights and has asked the senate to ratify the protocol with the reservation. As Wilson statet in his letter to Representative Rouse of Kentucky, he is opposed to membership on such restricted* terms. But his strategy goes further,,than that question. If 3 ,i,t is deported by lemocratic senators it will eventually force to Tjlg? front agaitf'lhe clear cut issues of Aiqprican memlfership in the leagg 0 of Rations as against the various o‘itCT piece meal plans for-American participation c?in intersational eft'oits tn prevent war Wilson believes. £l_ o 2- g Charles au, E. F. Gass and C. C. Pumphrey wejjt to Auburn on business yenterday. o _ g LAWYER LOSES 0 HIS OWN CASE © & Judge Moran Finds Fort Wayne Attorney Guilty of False Pretense Fort Wayne, April 18. —AttorneyHans C. Meland was found guilty of obtaining a signature to a note iquler false pretenses and was sentenced to six months in the county jail and to pay a fine of SSO by special Judge John Moran, in circuit cqgrt late yesterday afternoon. Meland was released on his old bond until May 5 when Judge Moran will hear a motion for a new trial. Meland was indicted by the grand jury last May on the charge that he secured a noto of S3OO from Mrs. Josephine Knapp, 1111 Hanna street, on the pretense that he would file an . appeal bond in her divorce case which she wished to carry to the supreme court, and that lie sold the note and spent the money. Meland’s defense was that he took the money to apply on attorney’s fee’s which Mrs. Knapp, then Mrs. Nootnan, owed , I him. While on the witness stand yesterday morning, Attorney Meland admitted that he was the father of the , child of Miss Edith Helbig, 512 , Greeley street. Miss Helbig took the stand in the afternoon and admitted that Meland was the father of her baby, 6 months old. She explained to the court that she was engaged to niaitry the attorney, but said the marriage was postponed after he was indicted ,‘by the grand ju'ry., Tlbd couple are still on very friendly terms. Attorney Meland, who closed the arguments before the court In his own defense, made an eloquent plea for his acquittal.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, April 18, 1923.

KILLS BETRAYER ■irng On t z # • t ' f# Y / g w • fc, > f 1 A- # A T I- ' f' L_ i L. Y_J

’’ I Anna Daidone Chicago. 111.—Local girl avenges herself for attack by man. Some ' three years agft Frank Taranto, 40 years old, slipped into Anna Daidones . bedroojn and attacked £er. She kept , the ssret all this time. When TaranUJ returned to Chicago on Sunday, Antia went to her hwtiie and soured a revolver, returned aud shot her betrayer three times. He died instantly.

FIREMEN PLAN i FOR CONVENTION ) ———• i Officers of Volunteer Firemen’s Organization Meet '■ Ht*re Last Night ■ • fs ‘ A tentative program ftr rite big 1 Northern Indiana intfthtrial qpd Vol- ‘ unteer Firemen* convention to be ’ held in sbis city on ®.June 21. 1 drafted last evening by the officers 1 and execiftive board members of the association at a meting held at the ®ity hall, © Those attending the meeting were: O. Portland; F. G. Duryee© G. F. Rogge, R. Oster, of Fort Wayne; Georgy Kihm. Kendallville; C. .1. Moon, Warsaw; (George Butz, Mishawaka; E. E. of Roanoke, and Ajno® Fishei® J&k Freit, Joe Hunter, ' sistant secr<4ary;, L C. Helm, member of the executive board and other ' members of the Decatur Fite department. © Many Outdoor Contests ■ Th* committee on arrangejjjents prepared a tentJifive Cn the contests U> be held on convention day, the yvinners events will M>e awarded prizes to the amount of . $360.00, including, a parade ot the fire companies, hose laying contest, running ladder contest, water bat- ' tie, truck race and band concerts. ' Prizes will be awarded to best ' dressed and best drilled firemen’s ■ company in the parade, to the largest company in tlie line of inarch 1 atSl to the best band, besides to the | i winners of the athletic contests. To Solicit Funds I Ainos Fisher, chief of the local ! company, stated this morning that . it would be necessary to solicit , funds from among the business men, i business housesg and .manufacturers ■ with which to pay the .cost of the • convention and the. awarding of the i prizes. It is estimated that at least I $1,000.00 will be needed. The com- • mittee on finance, composed ot Amos Fisher, Peter Gaffer, Joe Smith, Os- [ car Sprague, C. O. Meibers ,and Clarence Stefens, will’start out»next week, and it is thought that the amount of money «?< needed can bo , raised Expect a Large Crowd Thirty-seven fire companies, ini eluding the Industrial and volunteer ‘ companies will be represented at the ! convention. Each company averap';s ' about twenty men, making t£i- total ) over 700. To this will be added the i (Continued on page eight) o ♦ LEATHER ♦ ♦T4 + 44444 + 4 + 4 + I — i Fair and warmer tonight and Thursday.

INTERIOR OF CITY HALL TO BE RE-PAINTED City Council Sets Example for Annual Paint and Clean-up Campaign SEWER ARGUMENTS Minnick Sewer Matter Discussed; Buy New Uniforms for Firemen The interior of the city hall is going to be redecorated. Setting an exanftde for the paint and elean-up movement, the citv council In session last evening ordered that the interior-of the city ball on Monrce street be rented and Redecorated, the iward j of safety- being authorized to £pntty>ct for the Work. X has neen six or eiglit years since the city hall lias been and the coal snWke general exposure <roni wear has greatly mated she walls and they show the neqd of paint? ® The ballway. corridor, the mayor's and council chamber, the ctric light®superintendent's, city | clerk’s, city Mid city engineer's offices and the Yemen’s sleepinti quavers OT second Jioor will be repainted The fire department rooin on the first floor will alv> be paifterl The council wijj recerve®oids for the -work it tashoped th#f' th£ job will be completed by Juntfr first, “or earliffjjiJf Boasible. Nft For and Against Sewer Arguments for and against the the Albert Minnick seweu in the wei# part $f tlfr city were heard bv the city council last evenin»o 9 8 ® Attorney JOT. Merrvnian represented Mt, Minnick petit .era and cross-examined several of the remonsttktors who werg present and offered objections to thp building of a gpjew sewer., After the il heard tlie arguments pro atwl con. ; (Continued on jiaqe four) o • PETITIONS MUST BE IN BY MAY 1 City Will NoV Oil Streets Not Petitioned for by That Date Petitions asking for the oiling Os the unpaved streets in Dwtitur must be filed with the city council on or before May 1, 1923, the councilmen, in regular session last evening, stating that it would be impossible to proceed with the oiling of any street if the petition was not filed by that date. The property owners have to pay the cost of oiling tne streets. Last year, merely as an experiment, the council had several of the principal, unpaved, streets oiled, and the cost of the oil and labor totaled about twelve hundred dollars. Other property owners wanted their streets oiled and in justice to all the council decided that this year the cost should be taxed against the property owners the same as costs in any other improvement. Ed Green and sixteen other prop.erty owners along South .Winchester street, filed a petition last evening with th« 4, council, asking that this street be oiled. As soon as weather conditions permit those streets petitioned for will be oiled and the council is desirious that all petitions be presented on or before May Ist. _o INDUSTRIAL MEETING Members of the Decatur Industrial Association are urged to attend the meeting this evening at eight o’clock when an Erie (representative, will talk to us about the agricultural cars coming Saturday and how you* can best serve the farmers of the eftfnmunity. Please be present. DAN NIBLICK. President ■■■■ ' """"j

ev angelical, Brother hood Every member of the Evangelical men's organization, and every man _ of the church whether they belong to the organization or not, is requested to be present at the church this evening by 7:15. We have invited the Co-Worltcrs class ot tWv- Methodist church to join us and we must be there to a man. Remember tonight is men's night. Let’s go.— Committee. o CITY HOST TO RED MEN TODAY District Meeting of I. O. R. M. Lodge Being Held q in « Decatur Decatur was host a large («um- ' ber of Members e of the Improved Order of Red Men whp were here to attend a dfrtrict meeting. The meeting. which began at IT jO o’clock this afternoon and wig close tonight, is , being held in th# Odd Fellows’ hall oiver the Boston store. This is |he first district meeting of the |pdge whfth has be®n held in Xhis city. The loca£ wigwam was organized in 1895 and ncuw e has a membenmip of 120. The charter members who are pfill active here are James Fristo*,; James J. Hylfltri and Charles®Christen. The lodge known as Pocotaligo Tribe. ® t£The meeting beginning at o’doA this AfttSnoon was open to all degree nembers. *fhe roll of I all tribes in the district was called. The Adoption degree was to be conferred as C o'clock and the Great 1 Council degree at 5 o’clock. The evwiing-®session will at 7,:3t> o’clock, at which time the &e|Hflcation or the unwritten work will be given by the Great E 1 ? Hinesy, Mechecannochqua tribe, of Fort Wayne,® will confer the Chiet degree <?<'l<?gk evening, after which, a session will be held. & ® o Officers and Delegates 1 counties ot®Jay, Wells, Wabash, Allen,-Whitley, Huntington and Adams were represented at the pitting today. Among 'the delegates who were present were: Harley Thom> son, Woodburn; G. M. Burchneli and Grant Ginther, Monroeville; S. H. Rogers.® C W. Habecker, G. A. Bowers qpd Daniel R. Kilgore, of Fou Wayne 1 ? The state sffid district offi cers are: Hobbs, chl« of records, Indianapolis; James StocVdale, great sachem, NeW§ Albany; Fred Hines, great Sr. Sagamore. Noblesville, and J. Chamberlain, district deputy, Huntington, The Local Officers The officki-s the local order of Red Men are, Carl Hower, S:H&em; Jess Hurst, prophet; William Foughty, Sr. -aigaWore; George Steele, Jr.. Sagamore; Sol Lord, secretary; S. - E?. Black, keeper of wanton, and Clarence Weber, collector. Activities under the wigwam were many and the ceremonies were well attended . casemenue’d FROM ALLEN CO ?. ' i Two Complaints Filed Here; Industrial Board ’ Member Here Today —— Two cases, venueg t'ron® the Allen I circuit court, were filed in the Adams circuit court this morning. One case is a complaint for damages tiled by Samuel H. Staggers against Clifton H. Lines. The plaintiff demands SI,OOO. His attorneys are Barrett,' Eberhart and Barrett. The other ease is a complaint for posession ot real estaie in Fort Wayne, tiled by William A. S. Parry against John A. Switzer and' others. Attorney for the plaintiff is E. V. Emerick. Mr. Roberts, a member of the state industrial board, was here this morn- ' ning hearing evidence in the claim ■ case of Aaron Odle. The claim was! heard here some time ago and the 1 board gave Odle a reward. The in--1 surance company is seeking to bare i the award reduced. (Continued on page tour)

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CHILDREN ARE RESCUED FROM BURNING HOUSE Residences of Calvin and Sherman Kunkle Destroyed This Morning FURNITURE IS SAVED Most of Furniture Removed From Both Houses; Buildings Were Old r A loss of several thousand dollars was caused by fire this morning when tho residences of Calvin D. Kunkle and his soi& Sherman Kunkle, just west ot ''Monmouth were totally destroyed. The blaze started about six o’clock in tfie old house from a spark from (he chimney. Mrs. Sherman Kunkle was workftg- down stairs when her little son. David, came running down and told her the was on fire, men rushed to the stairway and were malP by a cloud of smoke but finally succeeded in getting upstairs and Rescuing th* three other children who were asleep there. Neighbors responded to the call for help and every effort, was made to save the Sherman Kunkle house but without avail. A high wind was blowing and the houses were soon burned to the ground© Most of the lurniture was amoved, anil during the day was placed in homes in Monmouth until new homes can be erected. iJ & sA call was sent ttff’the Decatur fire department for assistance and the chemical was dispatched to the scene of the fire. However, the blaze had gained great headway by the time the fireme-r reached Monmouth, owing to tpe strong wind and dryness of the buildings, and the efforts of the local firemen were of no avail. The old house where C. D. Kunklo lived, was built nearly seventy years ago ky Dr. Dorwin. and the Kunkies had lived there 1 " many years. The Sherman Kunkle house fas built a number of years ago. The loss is partially covered by insurance in the Preble Township Mutual. Mrs. C. D. Kunkle, who has been very ill for zevera! weeks, is at the home of tier daughter. Mrs. Dale Moses where she was removed a fortnight ago. She is improving slowly. Sherman Kunkle house was built a some tftie with rheumatism but is better and was able to assist in removing furniture from the burning houses tills morning. Several old locust trees, landmarks of that locality, were also destroyed by the fire this morning. City Has Re-Employed Barnett As Sprinkler The water works committee reported to tlie council last evening that a contract had been entered into between John Barnett and the city for the ftfraishing of water and the sprinklng \f all street intersections in Decatur. With the new contract, Mr. Barnett begins his thirtieth year as sprinkler of the city streets, and as soon as weather conditions permit, [ lie will start out w.ith the sprinkling I wagon and will see that the dust is I laid on the principal streets in the city. ■ • Chicago’s Hoboes Have All Gone to Work Now Chicago, April 18 —(Special to DailyDemocrat) —The last of Chicago’s hoboes went to work today. Along ' West Madisou street, labor clearing bouse and "port of missing men" where the Idle congregate and the soap box agitators harrangues crowd in “hard times" are left only the lame, sick and aged. All able bodied men have been absorbed in the industrial boom, employment agencies declared. Labor agents looking for “forty men for | Montana,” twice that many for railJ road work in Utah farm laborers, railroad huskies and oil field rough necks, were lucky to get one man in a quota of twenty. o ——. Paris has 1528 public damci»s h a|is - ■