Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 3 December 1924 — Page 1

Volume XXH. Number 287.

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I NOT TO CANCEL I PLEASANTMILLS 1 I light contract I ■ ■ — ■ Council Decides Against I petition Os Pleasant B Mills Men I RI'HAI- fire calls II Several Rural Residents I Refuse To Pay For ■ Work Os Firemen ■ Til’' rdllt I'ilf't lx*l W e*'ll t»l- City Hi : H r)i’,atttr anil the Pleasant Mills Light ■ ami power company will not In j M ~a !| , ,11, || the electric UkIU commit-i ■ r ,.piirtiiiK against the eanoetbm.H „[ ihr i, ml met to the city council in J ■ ?essinii last evening. H Two weeks ago the Pleasant Mills , l.ii'tii am! Power company, thfote.’li Its attorney. Bore It. Erwin of this I 1 f city, je t itionoO the council to cancel the existing contract between the mvu parties. |l was stated that the Pleas ant Mills Light and Power company, had been operating without profit ami that an opportunity was presented ml sell the power line to the Inset! PtiliH interests, providing the <•• m ; trait with the city wat cancelled The Instill interests would farm di : ’power for the line, which suppli-s several hundred eustomers at Pleasant Mills. Itoho and in that ! vicinity it was (dated. Dr. .1 V Vizard is president of the company . and ,\ M. Maulfer is secretary of the corporation. Ttie city of Becalm sells jcurrent to the company at I'jv* cents j* per K \V. 11. and the company in turn f ! tlistrihnte* it to its enstomers at twelve cents per K. W. H. Rural Fire Calls Tlie subject of answering rural fin- i i calls was discussed by the council- j men last evening, the matter heinr, brought up because several people who have served by the Decatur Hr- • men and the local fire equipment ■ fused to pay the fixed charges set by I the council for suc h services. A c harge is made for the true I. and Ji.lhi per hoijr for each man on duty, the charges varying on the distances front Decatur. The council wants to nerve those who need the services of the department tint feels that the •ity should be reimbursed for the cost "f making the trip. Five of those people served by the department have hot paid the charges. C. L. OF C. HOLDS ANNUAL ELECTION Club Closes Successful Year With Annual Meeting Last Night The Catholic Ladies' of Columbus closed a successful year with the an mud meeting and election of officers ut the Knights of Columbus ball last evening. New officers elected were: Mrs Clara Parent, president; Miss Christena Schurger. vice-president; Mrs Mrs. Louise Braden, treasurer; Miss Ethel Ervin. financial secretary; Miss Naomi Teeple, recording serr* j’•ury; Miss Edith Ervin, monitor; Miss Marcella Lengrich, inner-guard, unci Mrs. Elizabeth Parent, trustee flip new officers will tuke office at •he first meeting in January. The retiring officers who will serve until January 1, are Miss Rose Fullenkamp, president; Miss Rose Kleinbenz, vice-president; Mrs. Louise Braden, treasurer; Miss Ethel Kevin, financial secretary; Miss Naomi Teeple, recording secretary: Miss Edith Ervin, monitor; Mary Lengrich. inner guard and Margaret Braun, trustee. The society has a membership of about 140 and between now and f'hristmas the club will give a party far its Members. In an attendance contest, Miss Naomi Durkin won the blanket given liy the losing side'.

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i Ships 18.’) Curs Os Beets To This City I'.til (Tt on. Dec. ll p. Easier, who [so far as shipping is . oneerued, was in tin* city today and he re ports bav-j ing shipped 15s car . of 015 tons of heels out of Liberty Center, and 7 |eurs, or 23tt tons, oat of Illulftnn. these heels were all raised in The Vicinity from where* they were shipped and means more than the corn crop, in dollars and cents, says Mr. Easier. And at that the* cron was not more* than half a crop this year. The licets were all shipped to (he* Decatur plant. ALL CANDIDATES FILE ACCOUNTS Every Candidate In November Election Files Expense Account Statements of expense accounts in[ciirrcd during their campaign have hern filed by .ill the candidates who were successful or unsuccessful in i the November election. The republican central committee. Dirough its ti.*asiiror. Oscar Teeple, j till'd a report, showing every cent j ! paid out which was received during [the campaign. The treasurer reported cash receipts of $:!47 and the expenses listed as “telephone., postage.! | gasoline, telegrams, services of poll j hook holders and incidental expenses 1 >347.00" and a notation, “leaving nothing in treasury at this time.''| The report was dated November 29 anil should have been filed by No[vember 24. according to law. 0. N. * |efenast«p...treasiiser o£ democratic ' iiira! committee filed his report ou ( November 24. showing a balance on j t ami. lint with a few hills not paid. I l.i. report of Mr Christen was item-1 I izeci in detail. The remaining candidates who fII- | eel their expense accounts within the 1 ,st week were. Dick Boch, democrat.' xurveoyyr. $171.86; Thomas Rawley.i republican candidate for surveyor. fIU 'ci; Don Teeple. republican canill,hit* for auditor. Slot!: R O Elston., •epublican candidate for state representative. $5.52; William Parlow, republican candidate for commissioner, thrd district. $6.00; John Baker, democrat, elected sheriff, $167.90. December 4 is the time limit fixed j in law for candidates to file their expense accounts, tint as all of the candidates have made a report it wlil not k" necessary to prosecute an> one. o ——- — TRUCK DRIVER SADLY INJURED Elmer Wells, Os Ft. Wayne, Suffers Compound Fracture Os Leg Elmer Wells, of Fort Wayne, an employe of the state highway garage in Fort Wayne, was painfully lnjur,,,l Portly before noon today when ,n army truck ran over him on the port Wayne road, about a mile north of the city. Mr. Wells suffered a compound fracture of the lower third of his left leg. and severe brumes about both legs and knees. He was brought to the Adams foun > Memorial hspita. where his injuries were dressed. Few details concerning the accident were available, other than tlcit Mr Wells had gone to Berne Ster the truck and was returning it Wivne It wiib said that he A <".*■*. *»» '»' ‘ cMM occurred. rharlos Wetrick Dies At ( Sister s Home In Bluffton Cn]y '? uim. a. Bluffton. at 4:47* Mrs. J- H • wetrick's ' " l in W"l«>tt. Indiana FI" it

PLAN TO DELAY MUSCLE SHOALS | SILL ABANDONED Final Disposition Os Project At This Session Is Forecast EARLY ACTION SEEN Four Years Spent In Fruitless Endeavor To Settle Problem (Knifed Press Service) Washington. Dec. :b — Administration plans to send pending Muscle Shoals hills back to the senate agriculture committee for further consideration were abandoned today, forecasting final disposition of the 1 project at this session. Senator Curtis, republican leader, announced when the senate oonven ed that no effort would tie made to sidetrack the proposition as was originally planned. Washington, Dec. .I.— After four years of fruitless endeavor the senate today set out to determine tin- ! jolly who is to operate the big $l5O.- J '090.000 Muscle Shoals nitrate and power project and how. A coalition of southern democrats! j and midwestern republicans has formed to force through some bill as | rapidly as possible that cheaper fer-, ' tilizer may he furnished the farmer | soon after completion cd' the i roject 1 in July. j Encouraged to this end by Presii dent Coolidge himself, senate leaders ! put the subject ahead for consider•at ion. President Coolidge’* annual ' message to congress was ready for I delivery immediately after the two I chambers were called to order by -lay. Abandoning the custom of ready the message in person. Mr. Coolidge • dispatched the text of his c address by messenger for delivery in j the senate and house liv reading j clerks. SHOT WOUND PROVES FATAL Milton Eokrote Dios In Hospital At Bluffton Early Today Milton C. Eokrote. age 29, business man nf Van Wert. Ohio, and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel ('. Kckrote. of this city, died at five o'clock this morning at the Wells County Hospital Bluffton. of lungenlmlism. the effects !of a gun-shot wound which he received in. the right shoulder while hunting with his brother-in-law. \\u> Horror ,on Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Kckrote and his brother-in-law were hunting on the Lewis Burgess farm near Petroleum, when the fatal accident happened. The two men were chasing a rabbit at the time and Mr. Kckrote was about 2.'* feet ahead of liis brother-in-law, when the lattei stumbled over a ditch, dropping Ids gun, which was discharged and the contents of the 12-gauge, single-barrel shotgun entered Mr. Kckrote's back, injuring the shoulder blade and evidently a few shot pierced his lung. However, the first X-Ray picture did not show the bullet in the lung. Mr. Kckrote became suddenly worse early this morning and at five o'clock death occurred. A blood clot lmri formed on the lung, which burst, causing his death. The body was removed to the home of his father-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rorror of Ossain. Mr Kckrote was horn in Linn Drove on August 26, 1896. On October 7th, 1916. he married Miss Oarlinda Horror, of Os?lan. He moved to Van Wert, Ohio, several years ago and was the manager of the Erie Stone Company at that place. He was a member of the Van Wert Rotary club and was known to many people In this city. Besides his patents, who (Continued on pag* two)

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December •'», 1921.

—---- - - - 1 GOOD FELLOWS Cl.I IS | Give Your Bit AnJ Make Some Poor Child Hapoy On December 25 j Donations to the Good Fellows, »'lub. tieiug sponsored by the Delta i l Theta Tau sorority for the purpose! of providing a merry Christmas fori, the poor children of the city, today | totaled $52.90. People are urged to donate to the fund as eqrly as possible in order that those in charge of the movement may have an idea of the amount that will be available to spend on the children and govern ■ their plans accordingly. The coi>-j trilmlions to date areas follows: Balance from last year $26.10 ■ Delta Theta Tau Sorority 25.00! Janies Cowen 1.00 1 A friend 2 r * ; A friend .55 1 Total $52.90 ELECTION COST IS $8,560,1 9 Total Cost Os Each Vote In General Election Was $1.05 Here The primary, registration of voters and tlie general election last month cost the taxpayers of Actants County a total of $9,560.19. according to the records in County Auditor Martin I ' Jaherg’s office. Based on the vote for J president at the November election. | the total cost per vote is aliout $1.05. I , j The cost of the No vent leer election | was $3,826 11. including all supplies [ and the individual cost of each pre j . cfiict in the county. The primary j , election last May cost the county S 3, . 100.23 and the October registration of • voters cost the- taxpayers $1,633.85. I Based cm the cost of the* November | , election, the vote for president, 8,100 i , 'cost about 47 cents each, r This year s7.saa'was appropriated | for | election expenses a fid yesterday j when tlie county council was in session an additional appropriation of sl. 250 was made. PLEADS GUILTY , TO INDICTMENT Wiley Slusser Released On Probation Following Plea Os Guilty Wiley Slusser, who has been con filled in tile county jail for the last few weeks, following his arrest for, wife and child neglect, was brought ' into court before Judge Jesse C. SitT- j ton yesterday afternoon to answer to a grand jury Indictment .charging him with neglect of his wife and! child. Upon a motion of the defend-j ant to plead as a poor person, the] court appointed the law firm of Fruchte and Liiterer to defend himSlusser entered a plea of guilty to , the second and third counts of the indictment, charging him with neglect of his wife and neglect of his child, respectively. The first count was dismissed. The court suspended judgment and released Slusser on probation for a period of two years, with orders for him to report in court whenever ordered to do so and to , pay $lO bi-weekly for the (-support of his wife and child. Weather , Rain tonight and Thursday. Probably mixed in north portions with ( snow; colder in extreme north por- . Mion tonigh t.

CHRISTMAS SEAL' SALE IS OPENED IN ADAMS COUNTY Annual Campaign Against Tuberculosis (Jets Under Way ONE BOND IS SOLD Tri Kappas First To Huy Health Bond; Children . Sell Seals ~ The annual campaign against ttib* rculosis in Adams county opened yesterday, when the little Christmas Seals were distributed among the school children by W. C.uy Brown, v bo is in charge of the sale in this county again this year. The seals will lie sold by tlie school children lx tween now and Christmas The usual Health Bonds will be sold, at ' so. to those who wish to donate a larger amount to the fight against llte white plague. Tlie Tri Kappa sorority, was the first organization to purchase a health bond, Mr. Brown receiving a check from that organization Eighty per cent of the money raised through tiie sale of the seals and health bonds in Adams county will remain in this county to be used in conducting the fight against tuberculosis. About SSOO was raised in the county last year. I The Adams county anti-tubercnlo-s's association has done much good i work during the past year in adiding | tubercular patients and in feeding j tinder-notufshed children who show a tendency to deve'.ope tuberculosis, j Outdoor sleeping quarters have been ! provided for tubercular patients ' .Mrs. ('. V. Connell, of this city, is (Continued on page two) EVANGELIST TO VISIT FACTORIES Preacher at Baptist Revival To Hold Suecial Services This Week Another very impros ive service was bad at the Baptist revival last night Rev. Antrolms, who lias a very pleasing personality, and who speaks calmly but with much grace and winsomeness. spoke again on Hie surrendered Christian life, using Rom. 12:1-2 as his text. He said. “God has Iwo wills for every Christian, a good and perfect will, and a permissive [will. Hut God gets effective Service ,from those only who know and do llis 'good and perfect will. No person can know the good and perfect will of God [until they have presented their body I unto God. a living sacrifice, wholly |and acceptable. God let- us all hav, Jour own way and own will, but we have no right to do our own will. Out | Saviotis did not have His will; h< obeyed perfectly the will of His Father. The hotly, which means the whole being, surrenderetf wholly tt God is the secret of a stweet, useful and joyful Christian life." in addition to the services each ev cuing at 7:20. Rev. Antrolms will speak at outside services in the fol ( lowing places: . j Thursday, Dee. 4. shop meeting at the Waring Glove Factory, at 12:30. , Friday. Dee. 5, at the High School Chapel at 8:15 a. m.. and Friday at 12:30 noon at the General Electric Blunt. Saturday, Dec. 6. shop meeting at , the Di Fountain Handle Company at. . 12:05 noon. Sunday afternoon, Dec. 7. at 2:30 * a men’s mass meeting in the Baptist church. Monday, Dec. 8. shop meeting at Ibe Indiana Board * Filler Co., at 12:00 noon Tuesday, Dec. 9, shop meeting at lb,, Decatur Castings Company, at 12:30 uoou. Wednesday. [>*c. 10. shop meeting at the Erick fi Tyndall Tile Mills, at 12:00 noon.

1 Hoard Os Pardons To Consider 11 New Cases i ITntted Press' Service) tndlanapois. Dee. 3- Forty-one new and three renewed p'.eas for i lem j • lit", will be considered by the state board *f pardons during its December session, according to Hie docket of the board issued today. Among those making pleas are fifteen confined to stale penal institutions for liquor law violating: .twelve for grand and petit larceny and vehicle taking, tJiifor assualt [and battery, and one for manslaughter. MUCH INTEREST IS BEING SHOWN < - ■ Rev. Marsh Preaching Fine Sermons At Church Os God Revival j Much interest is already being shown in tlie revival which is in pro- ' gress at the Church of God. on Cleveland street. Monday night the Rev. Marsh spoke on “The Blessed Man", choosing his text from the Psalms. A lew of tlie remarks made in the sermon were : “No man is spoken of more in the Bible than the Blessed .Man. If you walk in the counsel of the ungodly they will la* your eouneelors. The heart must lie right before God will dwell within. We are either blessed or distressed. There are no • neutral grounds. We are either down or tip. The Blessed Man is the man : who takes God's eternal truth for his , counselor. God lias one standard for ' us all. All we have to do is to live . in bis demands and we will l>e blessI ed. If we walk in the counsel of the Itibl* we will never go astray. Don't * stand in the way of sinners. There is a remedy for every ill in the Bible." | One of the features of the service Tuesday evening was a duet entitled, ' Someday." Rev. Marsh is a tluent speaker and preaches the old-time go-pel. Services will It" held each ev ening this week, beginning at 7:30 J o'loek. The public is cordially invit | eil to attend these services. Tlie subject of Rev. Marsh'a sermon ibis evening will be “The Big | Four." < MIDNIGHT FIRE ; DAMAGES HOUSE r> R ' p Flames Damage Roof On House Occupied Bv John Elzey d : p I Fire, thought to have started from ’* sparks from the chimney when the s chimney burned out. burned off the II east side of the roof on the house or copied by John Elzey on Sttidahaker - street, west of the South Ward School ' building at about 12:10 this morning, ’ The home is owned by William Me- ' Barnes. Vitas Elzey. son of Mr and 11 Mrs. John Elzey, returned home after 1 his parents had retired for the night s and threw some coal in the soft coal e burner. It is thought that the ehitn- ° ney burned out and that the sparks 'V were scattered over the roof. The | alarm was sent in by Arthur Baker, v ' who noticed the blaze on the roof and " the lire department responded at 1 jOnee. The fire was put out with the aid of chemicals, it not being neces- '* sary to throw water on the blaze. 'Members of the Elzey family were ’* 'asleep when the fire was noticed liv 1 * Mr. Baker Captain Jack Freidt and c Irvin Elzey. answered the call. Fire Chief Amos Fisher had not turned in ' the estimate of the loss at noon today. ' - —- o- - — „ “Shipping Fever” Among t Horses At Camp Sheridan i Chicago, Dec. 3.-— (United Press.) I -Extra army veteriuurians today | were ordered to Fort Sheridan, army I i«iitp near here, to check the. spread ii of a type nf influenza known as "shipping fever” among the fort's i* horses Two animals have died and t Lieut H K. Moore, veterinarian ol the post, reported 2d more are sick

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FURTHER NEED FOR ECONOMY IS EMPHASIZED Annual Message Os President To Congress Quietly Received READ BY CLERKS Appeal Made For Economy To Permit Further Tax Reduction Washington. Dec. (Special in Daily Democrat) Amid unaccustomed quiet and total absence ol ceremony the annual message of the President ol the IHi ted States was reatl to the two houses of congress for the first time in twelve years with a single unavoidable exception. The appeal of President Coolidge lor further economy in government to permit of more lax reduction fell from the practiced lips of the reading clerks of the senate and house in sing song manner while senators and representatives sat quietly in their chairs. The President's message emphasized the need of economy above all else. The publicity provision of the tux law should be repealed Mr. Coolidge advised the Senate should approve the Harding-Hughes work! oourt proposal Muscle Shoals should be sold or leased for production of cheap fertilizer and voluntary cons* iidutjqu of railroads should be encouraged. Tiie President announced he would not cull a disarmament conference until tlie attitude of other nations on ihe subject is definitely ascertained ind declared against any cancellation of any part of the foreign debt. The agriculture depart ment’s chief problem is to find better markets and tlie government will help to this end. The President urged that pro hihitiou agents along with first, sec ond and third class postmasters : should tie placed under civil service. He advocated the maintuinance of the navy at full treaty strength declaring that the supreme court and criminal law procedure should he allotted to relieve congestion and , speed up justice and recommeuda- ■ tion of Hi*' eliurnation of inhuman ■ provision of tin* immigration law Washington. Dec 3—- Congress' 1 most important duty is to reduce ttie * ost of government and provide for (Continued On Page Five) OSCAR D. WOODS DIES AT MONROE Retired Farmer, Age 80 Years, Dies Os Paralysis Last Night Oscar D. Woods, age So years, a resident of Monroe for the last 85 years, died at his home at 11:30 o'clock last night, following au illness of paralysis. Mr. Woods was stricken with paralysis five years ago. It** suffered another stroke six weeks ago and a third stroke Monday night. Mr. Woods was born in Huntertown. Allen county. September t, is tt. He was a farmer by occupation anil was a member of the Univeralist church. Mr. Woods was married three times, his first two wives having preceded him in death. He is survived by his third wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Rithley Woods; one daughter by his first wife, Mrs Ed Booth, i of near Monroe; two stepchildren, r Frank Pulver and Edward H. Smith; z ope grandson; and four great grand- ] children. s Fuueral services will lie held from s the Friends church at Monroe, at H* d o'clock Friday morning. Hie Rev. if Whitonack offeiating Burial will be {. made at HuntertowP.