Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1925 — Page 1

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I BOUNTY TAXES I FOR 1925 ARE I $945,800.49 Taxes Payable This Year Are $12,718.87 Higher [ Than 1924 Taxes I VALUATION IS LOWER PavnirH or Snri«g Installment Os Taxes Has Not Started Act i I Taxpayers in A<laras Co u ”‘y- num ' I l.ering alKiut 10,000, will pay a total of I $94.-..Ko**-49 in A*®” du,ing 1925 ’ ° n I ,r assessed q<< valuation of properI ty of $40.48.5.730.00. The taxes to he H (o ]]f('ed during 14*25 total $12,718.87 j ■I more than the 1924 taxes. | The valuation of the taxable profl r ,rrty in the county this year is $527,-1 fl inO.iM) les.-' than a year ago. a loss bell mg made in the personal property as- | segments and in the state's assessfl nonts of railroads, utilities, etc. In | 192:1 tin taxes payable in 1924. fl amc inted to $933,081.62 of which, $6,K 457.22 wet ■ delinouet taxes. Os the fl taxes sot 1924, payable this year, fl $9,114.22. represent the delinquent fl toes. I The Va'uations I Tin total vahu. ion of assessable ■ p-.iierty in the county would lie SL-j I 444 .•.tm.iiii higher if it were not for the I fl mmtga';i' exemptions which are on fl fil.. The mortage exemptions, deflfl i'iu table fic.'it the assessment of real SB estate anil improvements thereon. Ha imotint to $1,444,560.00. The real estate lands low. in l fl| the county, are assessed at $21,695,|U 690.00. The improvements thereon j HI are assessed at $6,890,990.00, making I ||| a total of $28,576,680.00. From this fl total the amount of mortgages are de- i fl ducted leaving a net valuation of' fl $27,142,120.00. ■ The above assessment is added to 1 g.| the state's assessment of railroads j | anti utilities of $5,964,330.00, and the | fe| personal property assessments in the fl county of $7,379.280.00. making the || grand total of $40,485,730.00. net. g- County Auditor Martin Jaberg prefl pared the abstract sheet of taxables B| in the county and the state board has I approved his figures. The spring E| payment of taxes has not vet started ; SI | at the county treasurer's office, taxI payers having until May 4, to pay their taxes without the 10 per cent. I penalty being added. o CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE I Wheat—May, $1.84 1-8; July, $1.58 1-4; Sept. $1.47 1-8. Corn—May, $1.32 2-4; Sept. $1.32 7-8. Oats—May, 61 ■ ••8c; July, 61 7-8 c; Sept. 59c. EX-SERVICE MEN ENJOY BANQUET — Splendid Talks Given; Newly Elected Officers Are Installed An enjoyable evening was spent by the ex-service men o fthe community last night at the annual banquet of the Adams Fost No. 43r of the American rooms and about thirty-five men attended. Clarence Herber, retiring commander of the post, presided as toastmaster. I'rench Quinn gave an interesting 1 uik on the American Constitution and Dr. Harry O. Jones, of Berne, delivered a peppy talk on the Legion. Joseph c. Laurent gave an interesting llist ory of the local post. Following the banquet the newly -■ected officers of the post were InLlbd. The new officers are: Joseph McConnell, commander; Chancey u'okaw. first vice-president; Joseph ■ ( nnan, second vfce-c<Mnmander; 0 K. Ehinger, adjutant; Vernon brand, finance officer; Clarence HerW ’ chaplain; peter Gallogly, ■argeaat at arms; Joseph C. Laurent, "•> Gass and Clarence Smith, mem--1,13 of the executive committee.

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Col. Garten Leaves *{v f vJ B «♦ II iBR f ? RO ri I Col. Earl Gartin Col. Earl Gartin, popular instructor in the Reppert School of Auctioni eering, left today for his home in ' Greensburg, Indiana, where he will spend a few days with his family j before leaving for Miami. Florida, where he will spend three weeks selling real Estate. Col. Gartin has been an instructor in the Reppert School in every term since it was founded, and he has endeared himself in the hearts of all graduates. His farewell talk to the students this morning was a sad feature of the school. Col. Gartin his a national reputation as an auctioneer, having conducted sales in all parts of the United Slates and Canada. He is : well-known and held in high esteem iby Decatur citizens. The Reppert School will close its annual winter term Friday. The last auction sale of the school will be held this evening. wi¥fiELHAT DIED YESTERDAY Well-Known Fanner Died Os Paralysis At Home In Root Township W. M. Kukelhan, age 71 years, well-known Adams county farmer, died at his home in Root township, three and one-half miles northeast of this city, at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Death was due to paralysis, Mr. Kukelhan hav ng suffered a paralytic stroke four weeks ago. Mr. Kukelhan was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kukelhan, and was born in Cincinnati. Ohio, July 16. ' . 1853. He came to Adams county ■ when about ten years old and spent i I the remainder of his life here. In I 1880 he was married to Henrietta I Melcher, who survives. Mr. Kukelhan had the misfortune to fall and break one of his legs eight years ago, and he had been crippled in that leg ever since the accident. Mr. Kukelhan Is survived by his wife; four children. Mrs. Henry W. Fuelling, of Allen county; Mrs. Otto i Fuelling, of Root township; Fred, at I home, and Mrs. Minnie Molthan, of Fort Wayne; and fifteen grandchildren. One daughter, Mrs. Albert France is deceased. Funeral services will be held from the residence at 9:30 o’clock. (Standard time) and from the Fuelling church, of which Mr. Kukelhan was a member, at 10 o’clock Sunday morning. The Rev. Moeller will have charge of the funeral services. Burial will be made in the Fuelling cemetery. o Fire At .lames Moses Residence This Morning The Decatur firemen answered the second fire alarm of the year at about seven-thirty this morning, when they were called to the home of James C. Moser on North Second street. Fire started under the floor in the front room and gave every indication of being a disastrous fire. With the aid of chemicals the firemen put out the blaze. A large hole was burned in the floor and some damage was done to the house by the smoke. The origin of the fire is unknown, although it was thought that a defective wire might have started the blaze.

LEGISLATURE HOLDS SHOUT SESSION TODAY — 'Adjourn To Give Commit- ' tees Time To Make Reports On Measures NEW BILL INTRODUCED 1 Bill Would Give More Power To Public Service Commission (UNITED PRESS SERVICED Indianapolis, Jan. 15. —More power to the public service commission in the enforcement of its rate ord- . ers to the larger public ut'lltles in , | Indiana was sought in a bill introduced in the senate today by Se..ato.Barker, of Thorntown. The bill would prevent the a peal 1 by ut lities to the United States dis 1 trict court from orders made by the commission. It is aimed particularity at rate increases such as was granted the Indiana Bell Telephone C.t.. in many cities throughout the state through appealing to the district court. The bill would require appeals to be made only to the state courts and from the state courts to the United States supreme court. Both houses of the legislature held short sessions this morn'ng and adjourned until tomorrow morning to give committees plenty of time to ' make reports on bills that have been introduced. The administration bill providing tor revaluation of re &l estate in Indiana in 1925 and every four years I thereafter was reported favorably out 1 of the senate finance committee and now goes to second reading. The I same b’ll was introduced in the house I by representative Claypool this morn- | ing. Favorable action was taken by the senate committee on public health of the senate English bill making the sale of food or drinks containing wood alcohol a misdemeanor. State, township, city and county officials would be prevented from getting increases in their salaries durng their terin of office under a bill introduced by Senator Shirley. The administration bill to provide additional safe guards for depositors and stockholders of state banks and trust companies was introduced by Senator Southworth of Lafayette. WREN ROBRERY SUSPECT HELD Roy F. Comer, Who Broke Jail At Marion, Caught At Roanoke Roy F. Comer, 28, of Fort Wayne, who is wanted at Van Wert. Ohio, for the holdup and robbery of Mr. and Mrs. John Harmon, aged couple residing near Wren, Ohio, and in Marion, Indiana for the robbery of a Standard Oil Company gasoline filling station and who escaped from the Grant county jail ait Marion on August 7. was arrested at Roanoke yesterday and returned to Marion. Comer was arrested in Fort Wayne last June after a spectacular chase in which he jumped through a secondstory window at the home of his mother where he had been in hiding. After his capture he was taken to Marion to await trial on the filling station robery charge, but escaped from jail on August 7, leaving behind a note, in which he chided the jail attaches for their laxity. He was i hunted in Fort Wayne several weeks ago. police having been informed that he was implicated in the robbery of the Upland bank last month. However, it was since learned that he has been in Los Angeles, since his escape from the Marion jail. He was placed under arrest yesterday by deputies from the office of the Huntington county jail. He said (Continued on Page Six) f

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 15, 1925.

Canadian Radio Station Spoils Snodgrass Program Radio funs throughout the country had difficulty in getting proper reception of the final piano recital of Ila’ry M. Snodgrass, al station WOS. Jefferson City, Missouri, last night, dut to the fact that station CNRO, at Ottawa, Canada, wps broadcasting on the same wave length as station WOS during the program. It was impossible to tune in either station successfully while, both were on the air. The Canadian station signed off about 11 o’clock and station WOS camo in good after that. United States radio officials attempted to correct the difficulty last night, but the operators of the Canadain station refused to get off the air, stating that they were licensed to operate on that wave length. The matter will have to be adjusted internationally. SLEMP WILL RESIGN MAR. 4 President’s Secretary to Resign Post; May Accept New Appointment (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Washington. Jan. 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —C. Bascom Slemp. secretary to President Coolidge, will resign March 4. it was authoritatively learned at the white house today. Slemp refused either to confirm or deny the statement personally until he has had a chance to confer with | the president. Everett Sanders. representative j from Indiana, whose term expires I March 4. will succeed Slemp. it was indicated. Slemp may accept some official or diplomatic appointment on retirement from the White House, but it is understood that he chiefly desires to resume direction of his business enterprises, which include huge coal properties. It was thought that after presiding over Mr. Coolidge's campaign destinies. Slemp would probably receive a cabinet appointment if the president were re-elected Recent developments in reorganizing the cabinet ap parently have dispelled the prospect of suclk advancement and some believe thN Slemp’s withdrawal is in connection with disappointment to secure Coolidge’s consideration for high office. Relations between Slemp and the president have not always been smooth. c Firemen Enjoyed Chicken Supper At City Hall Sixteen of the regular and volunteer firemen enjoyed a chicken dinner in the basement of the city hall last evening. A fine dinner was prepared and the boys had a |ood time. Fire Chief Amos Fisher and others made short talks and the evening was thoroughly enjoyed. Sen. Saunders Placed On Senate Committee Indianapolis, Jan. 15. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Senator Saunders, of Bluffton, Indiana, will serve on the senate judiciary and senate morals committees during the present session of the leg’slature in addition to the committees to which he was assigned Wednesday, it was announced today. ~EXTRA You can't afford to be without the Decatur Daily Democrat for less than 1c a day by mail. RENEW Your subscription to 1926 and keep posted on what’s happening in and around Adams Count, State and Nation. Weather Cloudy with snow in north portion and rain or snow in south portion beginning late tonight or Friday. Rising temperature.

MAN HELD FOR ALLEGED ATTACK i ON YOUNG GIRLS — Hugo Zurber, Who Jumped Bond Several Months Ago, Arrested Again HELD IN JAIL HERE Bond Fixed At $2,000; Denies Serious Charge Placed Against Him Hugo Zurber. who was arrested here a year and a half ago for assaulting two young school girls near Monmouth with criminal intent, and I who later disappeared forfeiting a j j bond of SBOO, was arrested again yesj terday evening near Fort Wayne by 1 Sheriff John Baker, and is now confined in the Adams county jail. His bond has been fixed at $2,000. Zurber disappeared shortly before his case was scheduled to come up for trial several months ago and until i few days ago, local authorities wore unable to locate him. Recently the local officers learned that Zurber was married and was living a few miles west of Fort Wayne. The case against Zurber was placed on the docket again and a warrant issued for his arrest. When brought before Judge Sutton in circuit court this forenoon. Zurber asked for more time in which 'to . enter a plea to the charge. However, ; he declared he was innocent. It was said that he was seeking to have the amount of Iris, bond lowered. He . was accompanied into court this ' morning by his wife and parents, who . reside near Hespe Castle, on the De- ,’ catur-Fort Wayne road Zurbw was identified by two young girls as the man who attacked them one morning on their way to school at Monmouth. They claimed that he stopped them as they were walking along the road and asked them to ride with him in his car. Later he made indecent exposures before them, they said, and attacked them, but they succeeded in freeing themselves. Zurber later was arrested at the home of a relative at Willshire. Ohio. 0 CITY SCHOOL TEACHERS MEET Plan Work For Second Semester; Issue Grade Cards Tomorrow The grade teachers in the city schools held meetings this afternoon to discuss the work of the second semester which will open Monday morning. Teachers of the different grades held sepa-ate meetings. All pupils of the city schools, both grade and high school, will meet at their respective school building at 1:15 o’clock Friday afternoon to receive their grade cards. Re-organiza-tion for the second semester will take place during Friday afternoon, also. The pupils and their parents are asked to wait until Monday to purchase the, new books, needed, however some changes may bo necessary, before the semester gets under way. The first semester examinations were held in the city schools on Monday and Tuesday of this week. There was no school yesterday or today, the teachers being engaged in grading the manuscripts and filing out the grade cards. There will be about thirty-six pupils graduated from the eighth grade at the Central school this semester and will begin their work in high school Monday. This will increase the high school enrollment to 270 or more. The total enrollment in the city schools at the opening of the first semester was 996 and it is thought that the figures may reach 1,000 with the return of a few former pupils at the start of the second semester. I

| “KING OF IVORIES” ® - Jr K — Iftii i' Harry M. Snodgrass Jefferson City, Mo. Jan. 14. —Harry , M. Snodgrass, a convict in the Miss- i : ouri state penitentiary at Jefferson! City, who recently won the title of | ! “the most popular radio entertainer” i in a radio station WOS. in this city, and on Friday will be released from prison. Radio fans throughout the nation sent gifts and best wishes to Snodgrass and last night it was anHiounted that total of $3,587.35 in cash besides hundreds of gifts in merchandise, had been sent to film by his ad- 1 mirers. Snodgrass made a short I talk over the radio la-t night, accepting tlie gifts and expressing his appreciation.' He gave his pledge that he would ■’■go straight.’’ “The King of the Ivories.” as he is famillary. known, was sent to prison for three years for a robberv in St. Louis. He has a wife and an 8-year-old son awaiting hitn. He has acj cepted a contract with a vaudeville | company, calling for a salary of SI,OOO \ a week, and will begin his vaudeville ! career at Evansville, Indiana. January 18. He stated last night that he would Jiroadeast in the future from various stations when opportunity presents itself. MORE DONATED TO RADIO FUND To*al of sll to Fund To Purchase Radio Sets For Blind A total of sll was added to the fund being raised here to purchase radio receiving sets for the blind residents of the city, making a grand total of $88.25. The sum of $77.25 was contributed at the annual meeting and banquet of the Decatur Industrial Association Monday night. The fund has a nice start, but much more must be contributed be-: fore the plan can be carried out, as j there are at least six blind residents of the city. The General Electric facte“y and other manufacturing concerns of the city will be visited ' within the next few days and the em- . ployes and official solicited for con- \ tributions. The plan has met with approval al- : most on every hand and it is thought j that the fund will swell to a few hun-1 1 dred dollars within a short time. Charles H. Colter and R. J. Harting are the leaders in the movement. The new contributors to the fund are: Previous total $77.25 R. J. Harting 5.00 M. J. Wertzberger 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Erwin 2.00 Curley Strond, Ft. Wayne . v . 1.00 ' Henry Meyer, Bluffton 2.00 Total $88.25 Shoots Mother Because She Opposed Gay Life San Francisco. Jan. 15. — Dorothy Ellington, aged 16. confessed today that she shot her mother to death because of parental opposition to the gay life she desired to lead, police announced.

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IMPROVEMENT OF FORT WAYNE ROAD ASSURED AH Land Owners A’ong Route Sign Easements For Right-of-Way UP TO STATE NOW — Contract Expected To Be Let Soon A”d Road Improved This Year It’s up to the state highway commission to complete the road improvement from this city north. The committee in charge of I securing the easements which I give the state the privilege to I proceed with the construction i of the highway and provides a J fifty-foot privilege for same, I reported at noon today that ’ every land owner had signed ’ the necessary papers. The work was speedily done and a better record of co-operation was never made in this section. Those who have signed, between here and the county tine and which includes every property owner in the eight miles except those in Monmouth with whom the state commission will deal direct, are: Anna Moltz ■et al. Mrs. I). Becktneyer. A J. Smith, ’ Mrs. C. D. Kunkle, Fanny D. Dugan, IC. A* Dugan, S. B. Fordyce, D. M. Rice, Phil 1,. Scheiferstine. (.'. H. Ilarkless. William H. Bultemeier, . jHiuxiy C. P.ernrug. Theo lore Droege, i Henry Dirkson. William F. Hobrock, Henry Wi-hmeyer. Henry Heckman; Herman Schroeder. Herman Mailand, Martin Auman, trustees of St. John's ; church; Henry L. Getting. Louise : Kleine, Minne Kleine, Sophia Scheimann. The committee in charge of the canvas was composed of Cal E. Peterson. Enau Lankenau. C. D. Kunkle, I William Hobrock. Henry Berning and •T. H. Heller. The report was for- ■ warded to the state highway commission with the easements which will ;be filed there. It is expected that the contract for the read construction ■and the hirdges will bo let next month and that work will start early in the spring. Mr. Siniff. district superintendent, who was here this ! morning, says that a number of contractors are seeking the job. the con- ! tract to include all the work to be j done in this district during the year, jit is also reported that some advancement has been made on the work of securing the right-of-ways in Allen (Continued on Pace Seven) BIG SUM SPENT FOR EDUCATION Sivfy Of Taxes Go To Schools And Roads In Countv — More than sixty per cent, of the l $945 800.49 of the. 1924 taxes, payable lin 1925, by the taxpayers of Adams ling the schools and teaching and for County, will be spent for maintaini building and upkeep of the roads in i Adams County. Exclusive of the state's ■•--■•■■■-nnenl [for the state school fund, the vocation Jal education fund nnd other levies J) for educational purposes. Adams I County will spend $293,601.82 for | school puproses this year. The tuition J*a.x totaled $133,966.74 and the Special School fund. $159,635 OS. A total of $286,377.51 was c opnt for Jroad maintainence and road building j during 1924. The township levied I $8,258.50 for the upkeep of the dirt roads, the county gravel road repair 'fund totals, $101,214.30 and the levy ' .for the gravel road bonds and the I payment of interest thereon totals, ‘ j $176,904.71. 5 The two funds added together make s (Continued on Page Six)