Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1924 — Page 1

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fcfIIUSIASTIG I MEETING BEU I at linn grove Than l our Hundred ■ Pain And Sugal B ' Beet Meeting ■ HOAGLAND TONIGHT ■ <inli i i;l| . Meeting Scheduled ■' for This Evening; ■ Good Speakers ■ On ,> of the L("g- st ""’S' Pn ' |H ell > in A.*..’:-- '""iitv was held last K-ninx ' ,:r ' ,VP ’ ,h " <r ""' rt |K j||L . liinat.nl at more than four |K w!r . i Adams county i- noted for K wend. ■’ .on mimitv meetings • K d ,i «!(.. n’t. ml. d 'lm meeting |K t n.ght will von. h that it was one the best ever held. Bl Rev. Miller, pastor of the Evan|K.|..:d (hurch. acted as (hairman of K,. meeting and kept the crowd in |H ni »l humor. Ered Studler. one of best known residents of Linn i-'ed ill planning the meet H ine and Inn v throughout the evHrainc in helping carry out the pro- ■ gram. ■ Avricultural subjects. of interest to Hthe farmers and the community in w. dis. ussed by the speak■ers. John W Tyndall, of this city Hand F. 1' Astroth. representative of Hthe American Jersey Association, ■delivered the principal talks during Hthe evening. W. A. Kleppqr. general Hmanavr of th. cloverleaf Creamery ■Comany :i!so cave a talk on dairying. ■ Four reels of moving picturs were ■ shown by County Agent Busche and ■ E .1 Fricke, fieldman for the llollandHst. l ouis Sugar company. The Berne ■quartette made a “big hit” by sing- i Hing several of their catchy songs. ■ A room in a vacant building was ■used as the place of holding the meet- ■ ting and the crowd packed it to the ■ doors. Many stood up during the pro- ■ gram and the crowd was one of the ■ largest ever seen in Linn Grove. Ice ■ cream, soft drinks and sandwiches ■ were served to the crowd. ■ Tonight a similar meeting will be ■ li-id at Hoagland, the county agent of ■ Allen County cooperating with Mr. tusche in arranging the program. Among those from this city who attended the meeting last evening were A. I) Suttles. W. A. Klepper. N. R. Holthouse, Mr. Fricke, Mr. Buscbe, Mr. Tyndall and several others. Several business men and farmers from Bern also attended the meeting. Eye-glass Grafters Reported In County It is reported that eye-glass grafters have been busy in the last week or so in the farming communities east of Berne and around Monroe. An exorbitant price of SSO is being demanded for the wonder glasses, and on several occasions they have been successful in the swindle, it is said. There is a state law that makes it illegal for any person to fit or sell Klasses without a license. Men who ate in the business working under the jurisdiction of the law will gladIv test and fit glasses for much less money. Sheriff Baker and his depunave also learned of the eye specialist and arc ready to take him into camp. —o ;— teachers kill ATTEND MLETINC Schools In County To Dismiss For Meeting At Ft. Wayne October 9-10 A H of the city and rural teachers Adams County are planning to at'nd the Northeastern Indiana eacher's meeting which will be held loth ° rt " ayne ° n October 9th and th Th® achools in this city and roughout the county will be closed '■n the two (i ayg in order that the teachers may attend. of t't ’ 'Northman, superintendent t Decatur schools is secretary 'he Northeastern Teacher’s Ash' latlon and the program for the Sev mePtinß 18 now being printed. ‘ ' eral noted educators are on the Wam and teachers from all parts 11 state will attend the meeting.

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' I'nysuians rma .viay n . I Reynolds Os Unsound Mind M.’Ss May W. Reynolds, age 31, a' daughter of Clarence Reynolds, corner of Seventh street and Niittmnn avenue, Is being held in the county jai) while arrangements are made for .sending her to the Eastern Hospital I for tile Insane, at Richmond. Missl Reynolds was placed in the jail yesterday evening and this morning an inquest was held before A C. Butcher, justice oi the peace. The examining physicians found her to be of j .unsound mind. Application for her I admittance to the hospital at R'chmond was made this morning. —_ —o CONVENTION OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS Annual Monroe Township Convention To Be Held Next Sunday On next Sunday afternoon and evening the Monroe township Sunday school convention will be held. A splendid program has been arranged by the program committee of the township organization and according to all indications the convention is holding in store a fine time for the Sunday school people of Monroe township. The afternoon session will be held at Spring Hill church northeast of Berne at 2 o’clock. Rev. J. N. Niergarth of Cleveland. Ohio, will deliver the address of this meeting. The evening session will be held at the Evangelical church in Berne at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. Niergarth will be the principal speaker at this session. Following is the program that has been arranged for both sessions of the convention: AFTERNOON SESSION I Spring Hill 2:00 O'clock Song Service, led by Means Invocation. Music —Men's Chorus. Evangelical S. S„ Berne, Ind. Reading. Music —Spring Hill S. S. Address —J. N. Niergarth. Cleveland, Ohio. Offering. M usic. Special Music —Evangelical S. S Remarks. Closing Song. Benediction. EVENING SESSION Evangelical Church, Berne. Ind., 7:30 O'clock 1 Eong Service, led by P. L. Amstutz Devotional. Music —Missionary S. S. Reading. ' Music —Mennonite S. S. . Address—J. N. Niergarth. - Music —Missionary S. S. s Offering. Remarks —County Chairman [ Report of Nominating Committee. , Closing Seng. b Benediction. 3 Everybody is cordially invited and 3 urged to attend the convention. 1 Although not in connection the x Evangelical Sunday school will hold r their annual Sunday School Rally - Day next Sunday. The Rally Day 3 services during the morning starting i- at 9 o'clock, the usual Sunday school '- hour. The regular Sunday school and 1 church services will be merged and the entire morning will he devoted to ; the Rally Day festival. | Each year the school greatly enjoys the Rally Day and is usually held on the same day as is the Mon- | roe Township Sunday School Con-' ■ vention in order to use the conven- " tlon speaker at the Rally Day proThis is again being done this \. ••- ■>!)(! Rev. Niergarth will speak *at tile'•“. ■angelical church on Sunday morning. | Rev. Niergarth is said to be a splendid speaker and many will no doubt s want to bear him on all of the three - addresses which he will deliver on i Sunday, h Is a Treasurer of the 1 Superannuation' ! 'und. of the Evanl gelical church. I | Besides his address, an interesting I prgram will be carried rot’.* at the > Rally Day services as well as at. the Monroe Township Sunday School t Convention. r | o CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE ‘ Wheat: Sept. $1.32%. Dec. sl-36’4, a May $1.41%. Corn: Sept. $106%. 3 Dec. $1.02%, May $1.04*4- Oats: Sept. 47%c; Dec. 51%c, May f>s%c.

SEN. CARAWAY ON A SPEAKINCTOUR I Discusses Issues Raised By Secretary Wilbur In “Silent Address” — (By Dale Van Every) (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Washington. Sept. 25. —Senator Thaddeus Caraway, democrat of Arkansas, who public a speech he i said Secretary of the Navy Wilbur was to have made at Denver, today 1 set out on a speaking tour to discuss the radical, league of nations and "scandal" issues which he claim Wil- 1 j bur raised in the silent address. “I’m going to. keep on reading the 1 statements Wilbur planned to make I in that speech until President Coolidge accepts or repudiates them" said 1 accepts or repudlites them." said Caraway today. He will speak in 1 Maryland and Kentucky. “If the president believes as his cabinet member states, that the ‘only great issue since the division between the republican and democratic par-. 1 ties is the"issue of the negro.’ then' the public ought to know it. “I want to know if hi s administration proposes to do anything about it. | Does he plan to propose some new. kind of force bill to attempt to secure votes for evety negro in the south?! If he does, we want more of an authoritative statement than the hastily suppressed speech of one of his cab inet members.” - o Advertisers To Hold Meeting This Evening An important meeting of the Decatur Advertisers' Association will be held in the Industrial Association rooms at 7:45 o'clock this even ng. All merchants *ho are members of the association are urged to be present. •' Base Ball Scores National League Pittsburgh. 1; New York. 1. (fourth inning). St. Louis. 3; Philadelphia, 1 (fifth inning). American League No games scheduled. JOHN CLAIISER DIED YESTERDAY Aged Resident Os Berne Died At East Haven ; Cancer Caused Death Berne, Sept. 25. —Dr. D. D. Jones, who has been guardian for the aged John Clauser for several years received a telegram yesterday morning from Richmond stating that Mr. Clauser had died at the East Haven | Asylum, where he has been an inmate approximately three years. Death was , due to cancer, it is thought. He had I been suffering with the disease for / some time and his condition had been ~ reported as quite serious several : weeks ago. I Mr. Clauser was born at Greenfield [ Ohio, about seventy-two years ago. I About thirty-five or forty years ago > he came to this county and was engaged in farming in Monroe township -for a number of years. About twen- ; ty years ago Mr. Clauser and his wife ■ retired from the farm and moved to ' Berne, where they occupied a home - on Water street between Jefferson - and Sprunger streets. s There they lived together until c about ten or twelve years ago. when r his wife, who was formerly Mary Caffee, died. He continued to live in his - home until he was admitted to the t asylum for the insane. He was a 3 prominent figure on the streets dur--1 ing the last few years and was well 3 known by local people. He was the father of one child, a daughter, Laura, later Mrs. Wm. ; Spangler, who died a number of 3 years ago. His ton-in-law, Mr. > Spangler, is the only relative that sur--1 vives Mr. Clauser in this community. A brother, William, lives at Greenfield, Ohio. Eli Bierie. local undertaker, went to Richmond to birng the body back, which will be buried at the side of , his wife and daughter. : No funeral arrangements have baen made.

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Autos Not Essential To Securing Education Says I. (J. Dean Os Women (Vnltcd Press Service) Bloomington. Ind, Sept. 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— Possession of an automobile is not essential to the tusk of securing a higher education, Miss Agnes Wells, dean of women at Indiana University ruled today. Miss- Wells Issued an order that no woman student be permitted to have an automobile at the school for more than four weeks. It is understood that the board of trustees of the school will issue a similar order applying to men. Students brought so many automobiles to school this fall that the traffic problem swamped Bloomington police Limited parking was placed in effect on all down town streets. "The students of twenty years ago used to be hearty enough to get from ■his fraternity house to the class room without a limosene." one >f the professors said when the new ruling was announced. "1 guess the present generation of students can do it too if they want to learn bad enough.” o DAVIS TO SPEAK IN STATE AGAIN In Indianapolis October 11; Four Other Cities Will Be Visited (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Sept. 25 (Special to Daily Democrat) —John W Davis, democratic standard bearer, will swing into Indiana from Ohio on October 11 for his second drive to capture the Hoosier votes, it was announced at democratic state headquarters today. Davis will address a monster mass meeting in Indianapolis on the night of October 11 and will remain here over Sunday. He will speak at Lafayette on the afternoon of October 13 and at Terre Haute that night Davis will go west from Terre Haute and on his way back will speak at Vincennes on the afternoon of Oct. 22 and at Evansville that night. o Funeral For Mrs. True To Be Held Tomorrow Funeral services for Mrs. Charles | True, former Decatur resident who died at her home near Poe Tuesday night, will be held at the residence tomorrow morning. The remains will be brought to the Maplewood cemetery in this city for burial, arriving here about noon. The casket will be opened at the cemetery. —— o Assaulted And Killed A Young Italian Girl (t’nited Press Servile) Gary, Ind., Sept. 25—(Special tc Daily Democrat)—A heavy guard was placed on the jail here today tc prevent possible attempts of enrag ed Italians to seize Peter Verbo'jina 28. who confessed to assaulting and ki'liug Anna Tomisch. pretty nine year old daughter of an Italian liter chant. After hours of sharp cross exatnin ation Verbolina confessed to police that he carried the child off Mondaj afternoon, assaulted her. choked het and then carried the body to Tolles ton. a suburb, and buried it in t shallow grave. Verbolina led a squad of police t( the spot. The body was found unde a six inch covering of sand The bod’ was face down with hands tied b( hind her back with a cord. Verba lina was arrested in Chicago las night. oDecision Regarding Mrs. Ferguson September 2! (United Press Service) Austin, Tex., Sept. 25 —A decisiot on the petition of Charles Dickson San Antonio contesting the eligibilit; of Mrs. Miriam M. Ferguson, detpc cratic nominee for governor, will h handed down Sept. 29. District Judg George Calhoun made this announce men toady at the close of a hearing it stituted by Dickson for an injunction Judge Calhoun took the case unde advisement.

W, R. C, HONORS DECATUR LADY Mrs. Ida Chronister Elected Vive-President Os District Order The fortyeighth district conven- j tiotl of the Women’s Relief Corps 1 was held at Columbia City. SeptemI ’ ber 23. Those who attended the Iconvention from here were Mrs. i, i Mary Durr Mrs. Elizabeth Hower,l I , Mts. Aaron S evens. Mrs. Bebout, i 1 Mrs. George Mclntosh, and Mrs. Ida ('ljronister. president of the local | ihapter. The first session was at nin > o'clock and t.he national and post department officers were introduced and flowers were placed on the altar for leparted members of each corp. The Sam Henry Post No. 41 placed . la beautiful bouquet for Jennie Whit- • | right, who was flag bearer of the ’ 'local post for five years. The Fort Wayne drum cot p furnished music for the line of march to the Baptist church where dinner was served at nocn. Tne Columbia City corp gave j ritualistic work after which inspection was held by Ella Foster, of Ft. , | Wayne. . i I The following district officers were j I elected. Mrs. Lida Hildebaum, Co- j lumb’a City, president: • Mrs. Ida Chronister, Decatur, vide president; i . Sallie Sawyer. Bluffton, treasurer; Alice (lark, Fort Wayne, secretary: Mrs. Alice Deckhart. Bluffton, delegate to department convention to be held at Grand Rapids, Mich gan. , The next district convention city and •late has not'been announced. — o Thomas Taggart May Undergo An Operation (United Press Service) Boston. Sept. 25.—Physicians will decide today if Thomas Taggart, de--3 mocratic leader of Indiana, who is t achusetts General ho pital, must go ? under the knife for appendicitis. He rested comfortably last night 3 and it is believed his condition is not , serious. Mrs. Taggart and their daughter, who spent the summer with him at Hyannispsrt. Mass., are in 8 Boston. £ I O - — CATTLE CLUB MAN IN COUNTY s " 0 Interesting Farmers In Purchase Os Sires From "Bull Special” s II ■W. W. Fitzpatrick, field man for the American Guernsey Cattle Club, *■ was interviewing Adams county farmers today in regard to the sale of Guernsey sires to be brought here on the Bull Special to be tun over '1 the Erie railroad on October 20. L M. Busche, county agent, accompanied Mr. Fitzpatrick today. Mr. Fitz--0 Patrick will attend the dairy and *' sugar beet meeting to be held at 0 Hoagland this evening. The Bull Special will spend the entire day of October 20 in this city. '* There will be at least one carload e each of Jersev. Guernsey and Holr’ stein bulls and several Ayrshire bulls. The train will carry a lecture a ’ and demonstration car. also. R. D. ;e Canan. dairy extension specialist y from Purdue University, will be one ‘ r of the speakers Decatur will be the s ’ first stop made by the special train. a Two stops will be made in Wells county the following day. and the t 0 train will continue, its trip across sr Indiana, ending at Crown Point on 'y November 1. Several Adams county e ’ farmers have signified their intention of purchasing bulls brought here st on the train. — o- — Geneva Man Dies At Epileptic Village 19 -— Geneva. Ind.. Sept. 25. —The body of Eugene Barnes, 72, who died at >n the Epileptic Home. Newcastle, Sunn, day night, was brought to his home ty here Monday night. The deceased was o- struck on the head with a scantling te thirty-five years ago and had been qe subject to epilepsy since. He is sur:e- vlved by his wife; one daughter, Ida, in of Geneva, and one son. Roy. of Obn. long. Illinois. Funeral services wore ?r held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the local M. E. church.

German Airplanes Fly Over Paris; Arouse French I i Paris, Sept. 25. Several German airplanes flew over Faris ten days ago at between 5,090 and 6.000 metres, according to an official report in the hands of the French government, La Liberte declares today. The newspaper points out how easy it would he lor tile planes to have ( made the trip for the purpose of mak- ’ ing maps which could be used for bombing Paris by night. ’ "At a time when Germany’s good will and the need for peace is being stressed as so important, one wonders witli anguish if France is not playing the role of dupe," I (Liberte commented. | BLAME DEVIL FOR POISONING • I ' Residents Os Ina. Illinois, • Shocked Beyond Anger | At Pastor’s Crime (United Press Service) Ina, 11 Sept. 25 —(Special to! Daily Democrat) —“The devil did it.” | This Is opinion of Ina. shocked beyond anger by the poisoning of Wilford Sweetin by his wife ami Anna , Hight by her husband, Rev. Lawrence H ght. “Sex did it,” say the Jefferson county authorities. The 225 members of Rev. Hight's Methodist Episcopal congregation ; here and the other 175 citizens of the town went back to work, today, sadder. wiser, still astonished. I New stories of the relations he- | tween Rev. light and Mrs. Sweetin came out into the open as (he preacher in a grimy cell at Nashville. 111., and the woman in the Marion county jail at Salem bared their infidelities. ! The pastor, during his hectic tliree month love affair culminating n the death of Elsie Sweetin's hard I working coal miner husband and the j pastor's wife purchased the milk sor 1 his household from the Sweetin's. I But the peculiar detail is that instead of sending his 16 year old son 1 or his 11 year old daughter for it the pastor always made the trip himself. Many times Hight was seen sititng atop a pile of lumber across the ■ street in view of the Sweetin house, mopping his brow with a handkerchief in an ostentatious way suggestive of signalling, after which he would walk away. Several n ghts the pastor wou'd I stop at two in the morning at an .all I r.’ght lunch cottntet* fully dressed. explaining that he saw a light and | go: up to find out wiiat the boys were doing. This happened frequently. especially when Sweetin went to Benton to work. Ina believed in its pastor. That’s why it hurt the town so much. Several citizens, including two women, visited him in his ce'l after his arrest, assuring him of their faith in the innocence which he I lien proclaimed. The funeral sermon of Elsie's husband, dead by arsenic which he gave the woman, was recalled frequently. Using as his text, the verse in the bock of St. John, "Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God; believe ye also in me; in my father's j house are many mansions." The I pastor preached a powerful sermon ‘ and moved audience and himself to 3 1 tears. I "I didn't weal to come to this pulpit io preach hut now I see the Loi'l t I had reasons for sending me here. It was to convert this good man who is a now testing under His beneficient smile.” This hypocrisy now causes good citizens in the quiet village to user be the crime to the devil. Hight himself gave the same reas--1 on exclusively to the United Press in ' an interview looking through the ! bars at the Nashville jail. Elsie Sweetin says she felt file pastor had some influence upon her. driving her on to the terrible crime. But State's Attorney Frank Thotnp--5 son. gathering tales of assignations and mysterious meetings* between the two poisoners and blase newspaper men say "Just a case of sex break tig against the limitations of their social bonds " Long repression of the pastor’s desire for a pretty woman to take the 1 plan of his steadfast wife of 26 years is seen in the discovery of dozen: ’ of pictures of pretty women, sonu membrs of his congrgations in place where he was formerly stationer (Continued on Page Five)

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ROOSEVELT IS NOMINATED BY NEW YORK 0.0,P. Selected To Make Race For Governor; Nominated On First Ballot DEMOCRATS MEET Re-nomination Os Gov. Al Smith And Entire Ticket Seems Assured (By Percy B. Scott) (U. P. Staff Correspondent) Convention Hall. Rochester. N. Y.. S<-pt. 25- -Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Rocsevelt was nominated as the republican party's candidate for governor by th«» state convention here today. Roosevelt's nomination came on (he first ballot of the convention, receiving 557 votes according to unofficial figures while he needed but 496 to win. Roosevelt was at his hotel headquarters when the nomination was made, but his managers in the contention hall said he would issue a j statement later in the day accepting the nomination. Rochester. N. Y., Sept. 25—After a nearly all night battle behind locked i doors, the platform committee of the republican' state convention voted to present a plank denouncing the Ku I Klux Klan, by name. The plank condemns "any organization. whether it be called the Ku Klux . Klan or by any other name," which seeks to inject race and religion into politics. I Going into executive session at 8 o'clock last night, it was 3 a.tn. when the platform was finally adopted with , the plank naming the klan. Democrats Open Convention • SyrttcuKe. N Y. Sept. 25.—New I York state's democracy began the formal task of renominating Governor Al Smith and the entire state 1 ticket when the state convention opened here today. Harmony is assured and nothing is in doubt ex- . cept the exact timing of convention events and a few planks in the platform on which Governor Smith will ask reelection for a third time this fall. I - I'". {J —— Congressman Hill To Have Hearing Tuesday BULLETIN 1 Baltimore, Md„ Sept. 25. —United States District Attorney Amos W. 1 Woodcock today announced that ConI gressnnn John P. Hili will be arraign--5 ed in United States district court on " Tuesday for manufacture and pos- • session of 2.75 per cent, cider and wine. 1 Hill, however, will not he arrested. • “I have had a talk with Hill's counsel,” Woodcock said, "and he has said '■ that he will have Hill in court on 9 Tuesday. It will not be necessary to • arrest him." B When he is arraigned Hill may der mur to the indictment if he desires. ■ His'trial will be after the election in s November. B O- — SENATOR FESS : HERE TONIGHT Ohio Senator Opens Republican Campaign Here With Address At 7 p.m. ! French Quinn will preside at the republican meeting to be held this evening in the court room, when SenaItor Simon I). Fess, of Ohio, will deliver an address. The meeting tonight opens the republican campaign in Adams County and the public is 1 invited to attend. L. A. Graham, republican county chairman, stated again today that the .'meeting would be called at promptly .. seven o’clock for the reason that 4 I Senator Fess must leave at 5:49 over the Nickel Plate on a trip westward. Senator Fess spoke in Fort Wayne , s last night, he coming to Fort Wayne ls | with the Coolidge-Dawes Caravan ' which is touring tlie country. He touched on national issues. He is a . good speaker and one of the well L known United States Senators in that part of the country.