Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 1 January 1924 — Page 5

❖♦♦♦♦♦♦♦oc* <-*:••}•<••>•> 4.y4**-»<*-t-84 $ TALES OF THE I OLD FRONTIER mw — ? By ELMO SCOTT WATSON -m*' G?£, 1*23, Western Newspaper L’n.-'iiJf 'THE? SUDDEN CHANGE OF ’36 IT WAS in December, 15.",6. For fl the weather had been mild, intt tl early settlers o: tin- Mississippi nilii shook their heads doubtfully. “It's weather-breeder," they said ominous’ "It was like this in December, JBi tha winter of the deep snow. Ko out tor a /thange!’’ Then the change camo. First a 112 anow fell, then It turned to r.iln a the gronnd became nnkle-d-ep slush. Suddenly a cold wind th'g blowing from the west. Almost iajta ly the temperature dropped fi'Otn degrees above zero to 20 I<*-k»w. change Os 60 degrees In a llttiiin* than that many seconds. Thejrhole face of the county v changed from water to lee and places the strong wind blew tho]w: In a series of ripples which froz&n lag a stretch of ridges on the A. one settlement a group of boyrji gohome from school, enme to i I about fifty yards wide. The ia> boys,, started to wade acro-a » reached the opposite side onlKv j difficulty for the water was fMex ahead of them. One little fell >w L hack for a few minutes and by » time he had started the Ice ' lilts enough to support his weight » whole distance. The "sudden change" wrotiA ’• rlble havoc over a wide country. Deer, elk and othc.T *1 animals perished in their trfi-la. r settlers’ live stock seemed so ? driven crazy by tho«udden coidiltb ens curled up on their roosts an* 1 I to the ground, frozen solid. '1 ons;' of horses, cattle and hogs di< they could be brought into ah. . A young My who was ridiMil" from a neighbor's cabin am ftn 1 from his horse, which ran aw«. s boots were filled with waterlr. the time he hud reached homaei * short distance away, both !>■ ds e frozen fnst to IJs feet. One ififen • ing across the prairie, st . he would not be able to rcflfiTO nearest settlement alive if h. tri- »t push on. So he dismounted, .file s horae, dismembered it and cr-tfcffii-side the Warm body to . -4,- e frigid wind. Weeks biter I Km* V found his frozen body insidAtry . tomb. Later Invest > gat ions of the Mu-e change” showed tbnt the Icy iMsad struck the Mississippi riieM>ements about ten o'clock in tltt tiling. By three o'clock that Ari-n It had reached central UliiioiKn n eleven o'clock Indinnapc lis M :.ts grip. * . ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•J* ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦lM* | TALES OF TH j t ♦ OLD FRONTIE $ + By ELMO SCOTT WA#O j 1911, WMIcID CIRCUIT RIDER DAYSiIk? WAYS Yours was not i nan-made --fr : Yours no pull -. a . God and SPvke In a cat.lß Whore tho liumtds m.-eiclMs-*A There you preached your ««OZ»P«L -Gave eoui-idabt a happy <i»" Loft them olnging songs of 8l|" your horse »id on- —" The Goopvl Gj pay." M) Uiam Herscheii. IF EVER a frontier bnllj<4 ae la erected, this “gospel sjita** circuit rider, Is aura of ids kic F< r these Itinerant preachers Mt rode from settlement to were heedless of all perils of BHr-r or hostile Indians; fearless. w'i and bumble, the/ were fired wftb zeal to edrry thgword of God t th. ti.ermost border of clvlllzati**iM The circuit rider must lMe-ir.*ed strongly upon a “reward Bp eaven" for his earthly recmnpensA scanty enough, Psrhntm the of them all was peter hut even bls salary was s -.Mln proportion to hi* fame. TheKd* of n quarterly conference of Mi'"b<!U circuit In 18H--. show that lb.*.- I a three months' wage •* <p7*i. - “quarterage" of *2.12'1. nil cents for tratellng expenses, <<m>- 1 pensatl-m of *19.60. Cartwright was an c.. • A q|<j fri- ! low. stern of demoaner iihdlust of t tongue, lie believed tborßh tn the j future of the raw Westcfltm y in , which he serve*! and ImAa great contempt for the narrow A> rl.dism of the Atlantic; ».■ übonrd.Asey represent this country ns A. .-.nste and Ms people an very Ant,” hr ! once declared. "Hut if IMg.ng to shoot a fool 1 would ti<>t Asli * nt a Western man. I o-.oibf.Ai, to the ' mutsbnro and wk my f Aut those Imps who live on oyster A The circuit riders pr<* i A|n n day of rough living and t Autn once they were esl | «*.l upon t A pt.y steal utrengi'i In turning tb^yi,marly ungodi* from the path >A once s band of rowdies Interi u|Ah> meeting that was bring < -'tnA| hr on.* of these churchmen mil A it,, did not bealtnto for a ’*••* **Anp inains: over the pulpit of the iAp i>> logcabin ehur* h. ho strode <Atl ■* aisle, seized two or three of &|>turbeis and threw them to the nA Then h<* i Bn mid. as h« Ap<*.| their ether repeslA" ho ro’Well, boys, iKpn't I trot to you, I'll !■ tits devil j did It so thAgidy that I again meet- I I r —I - i

GOOD FELLOWS ! From Page One) ' and the sororiFy is very for this. Rnskets were do- ’ itated by the Engeler and tlie Fisher and Harris groceries. Elkg Baskets Delivered g Approximately twenty-five baskets P of food for Christinas dinners, which 1 .j were donated by the Elks' lodge were |i distributed by the Delta Theta Tau i sorority, also. This was In addition '’to the oother articles ' the money donated to the Good Fellows Club. The Elks also donated , »'.O to th.) Good R. llows Clu b The money donated to the Good Fellows Club was expended by the : sorority as follows: 179, pair stockings 211.17 20 sweaters ~., ,- 21 00 15 troys' waists 12.85 16 dtosses 5.65 16 knit caps and Tam O shauters 6.91 42 suits underwar 32.90 6 baby shirts 1.98 30 pairs boys and girls gloves 9.00 3 crib blankets 1.1" 10 outing gowns "70 ( 14 knit skirts . 7.98 1 2 pairs childrens shoes .... 2.20 | Shoes 36.10 14 suits, coveralls and overalls 11.70 Nuts % 16.50 Candy K>.<*‘ Oranges g.*7< Groceries 5.00 Dolls, Toys and Games 61.10 Total $276.56 CITY PLANNING (Continnwl From Paso Ore) case a call from the rural district eanie in. j Ornamental light.* 11l also be given the consideration of the council and as many streets as is possilde ‘ will he improved with them. A few! ( weeks ago a petition was filed with; jthe tounlcl asking that the lights be' installed on West Madison street' from Third to Seventh streets. Other i petitions are also being circulated and if finances warrant the city will I favor the dPreci |<m of as many posts as possible to install. I The year 1934 promises to be a busy one in Decatur and the city ad-, ministration, living up to its past ac-i < ompltshmcnt.*i and record, will be ' ready to move along with the timet | and t;|| help to make this the best > livest. cleanest, most progressive I and "snappy" little city in the world.’ Andrews Leading Scorer For The Decatur Leaders Following ar. the scoring statis-1 tic of every player who has player! in the games of Decatur Leaders so! far this season. 'Tabby'' Aadrcws Is! fur in the lesd In regard to itoints .scored, having caged forty tield goals' ‘and eight free throws for a total of. sS paitiU. Ily’etly is second j twenty field goals and eight fmds , The leaders play the Hartford 1 Athletics st Hartford City tonight. Player '•gms, gls * gls |>ta , Andrew 9 40 ' 8 881 i'yerljr " 2«» 8 48 j Yager 9 18 5 41 1 Rdyan 8 8 31118 1 Kern '. 2 5 1 HI Oliver 2 3 17 Humbert' 12 9 4 Kvsaler 1 I * * 4 * Crist 8 1 1.3 , Wthion 110* Meyers 3 0 11 Total points s* ored by Leaders, 227 i Tot«| points scored by opponents' ‘242. Games won by l/*ade:s. S. Games lost by Leaderu, 4. WILL MANAGE , MORRIS STORE —- -nin Joe Mclhinicls To Succeed Joy Truutner At A Local Store Miss Ruth Roekafellar. ot Ifiwood 1 | form- rly of Itiuffiton, and Joe Me-1 Daniela of Elsood were married Hun ! day at Indianapolis. They were attended by Miaa .Mary Wiley, of this city and Howard Keyser, of Hunt ington. The brid" was the housekeeper st the Oeorg* J. Tribol «t home a year ■Ko last winter. The groom hasdteen employed at the Morris 6c A lOe store at Newcastle. The newly married couple will reslMo at Decatur, where Mr. McDaniels will su«<*”d Joy Tiauh|>.m a* manager of , the ! Morris store Hliiffion News. Mr Trautman has manag'd th-* local Morri* slon- for several ycgrsJ IHe has pun based a five and ten, I--enia slocc at Montpelier, o, andwill leave this week to aafiumn chara* ! lof the piece. Mr McDaniels whl ar-j

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{rive here this week to manage the local store. e CONGRESS FACES • , (Continued from Page One) vestigution ot the latest capital booze s< undal in which cabinet of|ficials and congressmen are involved according to some witnesses held by police. Politics This will be the biggest business before the senate until the tax reduction bill or the bonus comes over from the house. A Ida political bloc imposed of presidential candidates and their followers will be on the road half the tinnp making speeches and many attacks are being planned from the floor. The senate will be the principal political froum for the next six months. Ku Klux Klan Senate hearings on charges that election of Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas violated election laws will begin within a week. Hearings will be drawn out and it is doubtful w hether final action can be attained ; for use in the presidential campaign. 1 The Ku Klux Klan Is the real issue in this case. 0 JOHN T. KELLY (Continued From Page One) MB township. Adams county. Indiana.' of pioneer*parents who settled there when the most of that part ot the country was covered with native for-’ esls. When he was about seven ‘ months old his mother died and he was cared for by loving friends and relatives until about five years old.' when his father remarried and John went to like with his father and new mother. He regained at home with I his father until past thirteen years of | age. One da? when his father was 1 away from home, he left, going, he knew not exactly where, but he did know that his maternal grandmother, | whom he had no recollection of ever havibg seen, lived some where with- ; in three or four miles of his father's [ home, and he determined to find her. jHe had never been to h*-r house within his memory and the way was . mostly through thr woods, but he TZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT w®-1 IH ''HI I* ■ ■- — ■» - ■ John T. Kelly * | succeeded in reaching tin place with-, I out asking anyone any questions, and [reieived J a cordial welcome. Hit father soon located him and brought | his wandering Imy hack home. Ilia father could bring him home, but •*> induce him to remain at home was another prohl. tn. und w hen th>* op-1 portunity presentetl itself, he ran off . again Take. Ins lather brought him baCk. but the third time |>t*W*l Ibe , charm and his father didn't come for, ■ him any more. From that time John T. Kelly. 1 f. night his own way in life making hlx| 1 home with h's grandmoth* r. until her , death, and working at whatever io could find Io do during the Spring I and Autumn iiiolfihK anti going to the! 1 district school in the wlpters. The { that person to siv< him any employ I ment worth while was 'Eli D. McCol Hum. who employe i him to work onj his farm in JoStrsot. «towaship. sndi in 11 saw mill in which he had an In-1 I terrst. and for whom he worked for. I several 'rears, until after he grew to] 'manhood. After th« death of his 'grandmother he made his way in life al< ne. until hls marriage. Mr Kelly] received his education from the coni', mon schools of Adams county and nL the Eastern Indians Normal school, at Porthind, Indiana. II" procured his first license to teach school from John F. Snow, then tounty superintendent of sehools. ttnd h'» first 1 school from th« late Samuel Fetters, then ttustoe of J. ner«on township. Hr- tauglit hls first ti-rm of school in the autumn and winter ot IXB6 87 and] continued teaching, with the exception of four years that he was out ot| the business, until the spring of I9mi.| In the year 1888. on the fourth day! of November. h«» was married to R«’benun A Timtchor, of Morcer tounty, >4th In H‘» iw’Vrtti th* «lwdy nf Imw In I ; I iiH*l ikt l ** rttllllHlrd fn lh»* Adtmih jfcOUhtv Im* hi IHHI. hi lIUxVM Ji’’’ I n«»rvFt| a# deputy pruiurutiug atlor »

uey for lhe northern part of Jay county and seuthern part of Adams county, under the incumbency of the Hon. H. 11. Hartford, prosecuting attorney for the district, then composed of Adams and Jay counties. Dur ing the session of the legislature of 1893, he served on the clerical force' of the House of Representatives, the' appointment having been procured tor him by the Hon. R. K. Erwin, then] iepresfrrtative from tills district. I’i 1894 he was- elected to the Hom e of Repr* sentatives and re-elected in 1896 and wijs very instrumental in having Adams and Jay counties separated into separate Judicial Circuits in 1897, he being at that time a member of the committee on„organiz.;Mion <f courts. In 1908 he was elected township trustee of Jefferson township. without opposition, at the general election, which position he held six years. In 1916 In* was api>ointc<l deputy clerk by Will Hamniell. In 1918 lie was elected clerk of the Circuit Court and began serving as sue h January Ist, 1920. He has one daughter living in Jefferson township, the wife of Vernon Miller. COMMISSIONERS RE-ELECT CONRAN Commissioners Held Short Meeting*Today; Meet Next Week Ernst Conrad, commissioner from ’ the first district, who began his se • ond term today, was re-ele* ted presij dent of the board of county eommis- ■ sioners at a short reorganization meeting held this morning in th- - house. Th*- other two members of the board are It F Broiner. from the second district, and George Shoemaker, from the third district. Tie- bond of County Treasurer Louies Kleine, who assumed office i today, was filed and accepted by the 1 board. Mr. Kleine gave a Surety bond X • JK ' ■ Ernst Coiwacl I for *80,oo0.<H». the amount required << the county treasurer. The county coauuissionors will meet again next week at w hi* h time I r«*gtilar business mutters will be- dis I po*<‘d <>f. The appointment of a nu-m j her of the bonrd of tru-t<*e« of the j , Adams <**'unty Memorial hospital will be made at Ibis time The three - year term of Mrs. Clara B. Ahderson ; secretary of the board expires. I Several bridge an<4 ditch matters ' Will have the attention of the commlsI sitmer.. at the January meeting - ■-H-.11.0 Fragment OF Missing French Dirigible Found Kome, Jan I—(Special to Drily I D.-nu-erat t - A fr:igtn*nt of oil silk I found tangled In th<* brunches of a tree near Bcfacca was Identified today by C M Joubert. French naval attache, as tt part of ona of this atahllizaJton Itulloons carried by the , van|gp<*it dlrrtglbh* Dixmude Jnwhfrl also stated tlml |>|e<>g of IwIXW rope brought up by Flahermrt lin a net wa« a porttiffi of the win*less equipment. Th** •tnbllixation Uiihains ware carried by the air cruiser which with ■ her crow perished in a terrific storin ‘ oft-i the M<*<literiati«*nn Other bits of debris dMcoverwd by >fishermen or washed aahorw will examined in lite brlh-f they may be from tha Dlxmude, ■MBaaaK ■ Lcune Dining Room In Murray Hold Here Mr, and Mrs, hi<k llofinmn have | lensed the dining room tn the Mtir, ray Hnlrl from Ihtn W. Br- iy, s lips eetßly leased th. hotel ' I serve the first m*»l ueO I The price for (hex' a 3 * fifty c.ntx. Mr,''' \ \ I Will ope* Itp mpp-s i »

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Ex-Service Anti-Bonus Men Are Getting Active New York. Jan. I—With1 —With every Mate in the Union except Arizona and Nevada represented in its membership. th" Ex-Service Men's AntiBoutts League now; has active state organizations in California, Colorado. Connecticut. Georgia. Illinois. Mary- 1 land. Massachusetts. Michigan. Missouri. New Jersey, New York. Ohio. Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Vlr ginia. ' • These were the high ligh's in a progress i<*ju>rt made to the league's Executive Committee J)v Its National President, Knowlton Durham. The

l-~~~ * Crystal Theatre I . | f-N Exit Worry! Starting New Years Day nj « ». « Enter Joy! Wednesday and Thursday | SZt g • HAL ROACH nmment* I Harold Lloyd 'Why Worry ?" i 1 ZT3v& > > f "? |*A ikarl a hc! -Z 1 " • f A. ‘'• v'i’Z’BL V*\ ww /-5' •* \ Head-ache! or tkio'V "’ ’»\ivi- t< \ Tooth-ache! ' 1 <’ r *el ’em all. SHBI WoKSu-v—"'A—-■» ’ ’V Vol'll have nn ear- »'“ mWLI '«•*•«< •><h ( from HBV . laughter. ■* z . k f .* * A See "XX hj XXorry'.”’ .jWi A./' »' vF m / ~un .'“a ll mi) 4’ x r// ■■" h ' ‘ r" ■■ ■ t• y / , -tSeSWiW -g< .e7 't l, 1 I v » M&u o*w^* J " s -s. ' ■ 'N V ’ A w*wWAt xi* •‘•wj/.eau, \ w All 1 / Z‘Ll ;; Lii I I */•> : c<./: <Vv k in o oc . i- New Year right. I 3 B /fv/’ /“ k M auch away JLXJ XjC fasal* (iblcs. • —

Linn Kern, left, Bobby Meyers, right, were flashy forwards while ulsylng on the 1). »H. 8. basketba'l team a fen years ago. Meyers played last year. Both will-likely he seen in action tonight when the Alumni team plays the high school quintet at the now high school gym. •

I holidays, said Mr. Durham, will not interfere with League's membership campaign. While Congress is In recess th«- League will be organizing. ' "With the League's activities expanding.” continues Mr. Durham. W<- are developing a constantly in ci-easing support among American Legion posts and American L -gion I members who have hitherto had no effective agency through with h to make protest against th" bonus : scheme. ■ 1 ■ 'O Sends Money To Pope Cleveland. January 1— Bishop (Joseph Schreinbs. of th*- Catholic

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diocese of Cleveland, has sent *20,mm .to Pope Pius XI in response to an appeal sent out by tin* pope to all the Catholic bishops in the Fnitcsl States for aid for the people of Germany. Bishop Schreinbs also set January--13 as the date for a general offering throughout this diocese and named a committee of priests to make n genets! solicitation of funds and to collect food and clothing. —- o - - j Noblesville- Oil flooded three acres of land on the Lee Roberts farm near here when the pipe of the i Pumps at Lebanon were stopped and-, the oil was set afire.