Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1925 — Page 1

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ItOIBNITY VACATION I BIBLE school planned

I LOCAL I HC' SCHOOLS I Six Or Seven Pnrteslar.l ■ ( hurdles Plan To Hack ■ School Next Summer ■ will Lave a CornmunH itv Vacation Eihle School, H ignored bv six or seven of the MB rh(,(,'st;iiit clmrdK s. !)<'!mitt .IC- ■ towards the forming oi n ‘‘.3, ■. M-hod and an orgamza- ■ t ion to carrv out the details per- ■ taining to the school was taken M a t the monthly meeting of the; ■ Decatur Mini-!- rod Associate n ■ held yesterday. ■j Sjs ~f th namely tlm v ,.f, Pr< •uoi.ui. Christian. M tnii-l Uot'iOH Evangelical and Bi J],;,-;-: !,;.<■ -iln-ady voted their upHH pruvii <•( the >■<;..! and. at a future IB actio’) 'till I"’ taken by the IB < enervation. IB TV rc • 1 • ill |.a •lot sat the M I.as prevented the |B prf'fcnt Cion "f the nuttier to the |B cun::: 'kation. it was stated. |K 1; o. ihoiu-’hi tluit the J»ible and IB reOvit.i: ■ s hool will be held |B tit I’te ei ’. v 'hieing the month of |B Jt'iT ‘s far ns plans have been M ill-in- hr d ministers and Bible Bi ei.il.-r- «i'i 1" t'o'' instructors. The |B Pl. ll '- < ■ l'"M ..> tl>.- Bible School has |B no’yet been te.l. bat a commit |B l '“‘ I'-'“ '""' n ' tit’-.l to secure a |B sttitabk place. To Organize Next Sunday Bl 'oied at tlte meeting of the ■ Ministerial Association to hold a MM ueino >n at two |B e.itfk tiie Methodist church for I . . |B officers of the Community ■B Daily Vacation Bible School. The |B ibairmsi!: . prescient elected at the |B organization meeting next Sunday ■fl »il be empowered to appoint com|B mittees necessary to carry out the ■B plans tor the school. Committees ■B whose it ay it will be to determine the ■H teaching force necessary and the ■ oirri. uiiim < > be taught dnd the methB <d oi financing the school will he ap|B Pointed. ' B ■ l,lp Bible School will serve as a H religious training for boys and girls B the ages of six to 14 years B 'Continued On Page Four) B — I attorney finds I 010 BAR DOCKET 9 L W. Teeple Finds Copy Os | Docket Published Here, ■ November 1, 1886 B Attorney J w. Teeple was cleanB U P bis summer kitchen last evenB ">? and among other things which recalled old times, he found a copy of B c bat docket of the Adams circuit B ’ l)lllt - Published Monday, November B*• ISKG - Under the old custom a ■ Ocket was printed and distributed B 6 f,rst day of each term. This c.onB ta,np(l ’he rules of the court, a list 0 all the cases on the docket and B causes with the initials of B p attorneys, in each case and B '“Ses for a record of disposition of B ' hc matter. At the time this one B as Published James R. Bobo was B llgp ' Os car Adair, of Portland, B ' “seeming attorney; L. C- DeV/lss, B m'ty prosecutor; John D. Hale. BY,' F ' M ' Schirmeyer, deputy IMn J » MiChael MeGriff - shfiriff - and II Th McConnell, deputy sheriff. | Sr, I°, necatllr ,aw firms were David ■ jr' a . ker Peterß °“ & Huffman, I f Hooper ’ France & MerryI X „ T ' Bailey ’ W s - (W>*B over dale & Dorwin, J. W. ■ Mann* n J UtZ L ' C ' DeVoK8 ’ J- * I Jam ’ Geneva ~J- Fred France, P. B. IL" r ' fcrT William DreW ' The Petit Bi m r tile term included—J. F. T 1 Dorwin, Alex Bolds, Magk. Bar '' Sa ™ uel Moses, John ilrMiio,-, r DaV ‘ d Run y°n. William Jolla B - Nol] . Henry Hilge Smith and Peter Kinney j MT Bra,lti jury was made up of Steele B?'.’ Jolln L e nl 'art. David and fi’w niel Holier. Peter Parrot *B Patterson.

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John Heron Art Work To Be Exhibited Here During the week of March 1. Miss Catherine Martin, instructor in Art lin the llecatur high school, and her pupils will have on display at the high school building, several articles of the best work of the students of the John Herou Art Institute, of Indianapolis. This display will be highly interesting and the public is invited to visit the high school building during the week and view the exhibit. COUNTY TO BUILD ONE NEW BRIDGE To Replace One Damaged Bv High Waters In / Washington Twp. A new bridge, will bo constructed on the road one-fourth nTilo east of the county farm road, the county commisisoners stated this, morning. High waters and heavy traffic have damaged the east abutment and the bridge is unsafe. It cannot be repaired and give any satisfaction, it was, stated The bridge is known as the McAhren bridge and spans the. Yellow Creek ditch in Washington township, near the township line. It is proposed to lengthen the bridge when the new one is constructed. Action in the matter will be taken by the commissioners at a future meeting and bids will be received in th« near future for the construction of the bridge. The county commissioners purchased an electric ironing machine for ima-ui-Hm Cowoty tMirmarv The bid of William C. Reinhard, of this city, for 1184.50, including the ironer completely installed, was accepted by the board. Heretofore, the ironing of all clothes at the county intCnnttnned On Pape Four' RECEPTION FOR PASTOR TONIGHT Congregation Os Zion Reformed Church Welcome Pastor And. Family A reception will be given this evening by the congregation of the Zion Reformed church for their pastor, Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, who assumed the pastorate of the local congregation last Sunday.- Rev. Fledderjohand came here from Linton, Indiana, and officiate'! for the first time at the services last Sunday. The reception will be held at the church at 7:15 this evening and a congregational and community welcome will be extended to Rev. Fledderjolumn and his family by members of the church and through members of the Decatur Ministerial association. Following the program, which was prepared by William Beineke. Fred Fruchte and Charles Beineke, a social hour will be enjoyed in the basement of the church. The Ladies’ Aid society will serve a luncheon during the evening. The following program has been prepared: Opening song—By congregation. Invocation—Rev. H. W. Thompson, pastor of Christian church. Talk aud welcome on behalf of congregation—M. Kirsch. Welcome on behalf of ministerial association—Rev. IT. S- A. Bridge Talk, —Rev. B. N. Covert of Presbyterian church. Song—By church choir. Talk —Rev. B. F. Dotson, of United Brethren church. Talk—Rev. Thompson. Song—Trio. Mrs. Ben Schroyer, Mrs. Emma Goldner and Miss Elia Mutschler. Response—Rev. Fledderjohann. Song—By choir Dismissal by Rev- Fledderjohann. Rev. Fledderjohann succeeds Rev. R. R. Elliker. who resigned the local pastorate to assume a charge as pastor of the Reformed church at Robertsville, Ohio.

RESCUERS WORN NLIGENTLYTO RESCH EXPLORER Men Diif Awav Narrow Passage Way Bit By Bit Far Below Surface — NEAR IMPRISONED MAN Man Held Since Friday By Heavy Boulder Expected to Be Reached Today (UNITED PRESS SERVICK) Cave City, Ky.. Feb. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Abandoning efforts to sink a shaft from the surface to tile imprisoned Floyd Collins, 300 feet below, rescuers concentrated their efforts today on digging bit by bit through the narrow passage way that leads to the imprisoned explorer. Fourteen men almost prone crouched in the slender tunnel and passed back earth in gallon buckets. The foremost worker hacked with a trench fork at the walls picking of) tiny chunks in the painful task of opening the way. Toiling even at top speed the rescuers could pass back only a few bushels an hour. But they exported to reach Collins at 4 p tn. Cave City, Ky.. Feb. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Dawn found rescuers once more at work in the dim recess cf Sand Cave, hopeful that before many hours they would free Floyd Collins, who has been imprisoned beneath a boulder and in peril of his life for four days. - Despite his suffering and exhaustion. Collins actually slept a . few hours during the night, comforted by the presence of a friend who braved the dangers of falling shell rock and rising waters to be with him. John Jeralds of Cave City spent part of the night with the under--ground prisoner anti crawled from the cave at midnight with word that he thought Collins’ foot could lie extricated early today. The victim was exploring the cave which runs into the Mammoth Cave system, when a falling boulder crushed his foot. Cave City. Ky.. Feb. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —With rescue apparently only a few hours away, Floyd Collins grew hysterical early today and bent against the walls of the narrow passage where he has lain a prisoner since Friday morning Crews of expert miners were drilling their way through 300 feet of narrow crevices which bar all but very slender men from the, victim, whose feet are pinned beneath a huge boulder. Noise of the automatic drill which started at midnight after a dash from Louisvile on train and motor truck aroused Collins from his stupor. He started to shout and cheer at the (Continued On Pasre Four)

I ll,—■■ -r-, .. n-.X ■ Former Adams County Man Writes From Canada Singing Praises Os Daily Democrat

One of the finest compliments ever paid the Decatur Daily Democrat arrived this morning in a letter from far off Canada, it being written by Rev. Jason Hoffman, former Decatur and Adams county resident, who is pastor of a Reformed church at Saskatchewan, Alberta. Canada. Rev. Hoffman is known to many people here. Mrs. Hoffman formerly lived at Magley The letter is as follows: Fort Saskatchewan. Alberta January 28. 1925 Circulation Mgr. the Daily Democrat. Decatur. Indiana. My Dear Sir: First of all, a piece of news to glqdden the heart of the Circulation Manager: a P. O. money order, to cover my subscription to the Daily | Democrat for another year. That should do for you, not so? And now, a bouquet for the Editor: The Democrat seems to be getting better all the time- The addition of numerous features In the past few years are adding to its attractiveness. “Twenty Years Ago” hits the right spot, for those, at least, who] about that time packed up the old war bag and started to breast the waves of the world. The improvement in the well edited sports section is especially noticeable. Church, School and other community matters are well protected in the same editor-1

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 3, 1925.

| Seven-Year-Old Girl Admits She Killed Three (UNITED PRESS SERVICR) Los Angeles, Feb. Confessing with smlliug assurance that she had ■ caused the death of her twin sisters . and .1 woman. Al.su Thompson, seven * year-old school girl, was being exam | ined by psychiatrists today while po- | lice sought to verify or disprove her ’| story. The girl said she killed her baby I sisters, two years ago. while residing lin Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada, by ■ feeding thorn ground glass. I Later in Los Angeles she gave a I Mrs. Pratt, with whom she was living, rat poison, and the woman died. Friends of the child's parents verified the fact that the twins and Mrs. Pratt died mysteriously. "I guess I did it because I wa.t so * mean.” Also explained. “I liked to ; see it hurt them.” > 0 MRS. M, A. RIPLEY t. DIED YESTERDAY l ' ‘Blue Creek Township Lady Died of Cancer After Several Months Illness Mrs. M. A. Ripley, age 59 years, died at. her home in Blue Creek townj ship, near the Union church, at 5 o'clock Monday evening, following an illness of cancer, lasting several j months. Mrs. Ripley was born in Mercer county, Ohio. February 4. ! I<6C ’ but spent most of her life in , Adams county. Indiana. ? Mrs. Ripley is survived by her busband and the following children: I Earl F. of Hamlet, Indiana; Forest, of near Willshire, Ohio; Fay. Leland 'and Dorothy, at homo. Mrs. Ripley is c survived by the following brothers ( . and sisters also: Mrs. Elizalreth i Williamson, of -Ruscin Michigan; ! Mrs. Rosa Schabner, of Dayton, O ; JMrs. Harriet Remp. .Mrs. Nettie Colt- ! er and Mrs. Dore Riley, all of Will- .. shire. Ohio; and Frank Hops, of , Divide. Colorado. t Funoral services will bo held from „ the Union church in Blue- Creek township, at 1 o'clock Wednesday ? afternoort. with burial in the Trieker , cemetery. 0 'London Author And Publisher Is Dead j itxir.-!.' i i:t-:.5,4 fE'-vtcEt London. Feb. 3.--John Lane, authr or and publisher, died here today. He f is survived by Mrs. Annie E. Lane. , 'who for many years was director of (the Boston conservatory of mus e. John Lane was born in 1554. After t completing his education at Chutnleigh, he was one of the founders of ’ the Bodley Head publishing house iu 1887, and in 1894 he acquired complete control of the first. I Weather Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; rising temperature.

•al section. It is heartening to one of my calling, to see the willingness of a daily paper to awaken interest in and hold high, the banner of the Christian Church. Naturally, the Democrat must march along with the city in the pa,rade of progress. And the city is progressing. The cuts of the many beautiful buildings, which have been erected within the past year or so, prove a steady and sane moving onward. 1 had real enjoyment from reading the account, a few minutes ago, of the Decatur Merchants—Kirkland Farmers basketball game. Its good to put away worries and dignity for a few hours, and be a boy agajn. Atta Boy. Kirkland! Treason! Treason! you howl. “There’s a reason.” As a rather restless and more than inquisitive boy, I made more than a passing acquaintance, with a large number of apple sprouts, growing in an orchard of ample size, a mile east of Honduras: so the interest in Kirkland township is not a passive one. We are well, and enjoying our work in the Northland. We are having the most severe winter in many years, but plenty of verj’ good coal at $5 00 per ton, is more than a blessing in disguise. With kindly regards, Yours, JASON HOFFMAN.

CONTRACT FOR SCHENCK ROAD IS LET TODAY Charles Arnold Successful Bidder On Road In St. Marys Township BIDDING IS SPIRITED Petitions For Improvement Os Three More Roads Are Filed Today The contract for the construction of the Charles Schenck macadam road in St. Marys township, was awarded to Charles Arnold on his bid of $4,694 by the county commissioners in regular session this morning. This was the first road contract to be awarded by the county commissioners since the spring of 1924, when the road building in Adams county was curtailed to due to the 2% road bond bill. Bidding was spirited this morning, eleven bids being filed with the county commissioners. The next lowest bidder was only s6l higher than the successful bidder. The bids filed by contractors on the proposed road, which is 1.01 miles in length, were as follows: Jeff Crum, $5,996.50; Barger and Andrews, $5.150; Dennis Striker, $6,465.84; Dale Cowan, $5,738; Julius Haugh, $5.096; C. W. Merryman. $4,755; Charles Arnold. $4,694; Sisk and Houser, $5.173; Wabash Stone Co.. $6,130; Christ Eicher, $5,877; Phil Sauer. $5,000. Work on the construction of the road will commence as soon as weather conditions permit. Petitions For Road Three petitions for macadam road improvements were filed with the commisioners this morning. Attorney J. Fred Fruchte, representing the petitioners. Two of the petitions were for roads in Kirkland township and one in St. Marys township. The roads petUipneilJor in Kukland township were the Henry A. Brelner and 1 the Andrew Schirack. These two roads were improved more than 20 years ago with gravT‘l and now the petitioners are asking that they bo improved with stone. The road in St. Marys township is petitioned for under the name of the Lulie Walters road. The two proposed road improvements in Kirkland townships are about one mile in length and form part of the BhiiTton pike, west of Decatur. In all probability the Schirack road will be constructed this spring and, if funds permit, the Brelner road will be (onstrutced. it was stated. The Walters road will be constructed, if sufficient funds are available in the i St. Marys township road fund. Viewers Appointed Harold Tieman and Henry Biebrick were appointed viewers on the Mills road in the town of Monroe. This proposed road is about one-fourth of a mile in length and connects with the state road at the southwest part of the town of Monroe. It will be constructed th s spring. The petition and Mrs. Charles Brown is suffering jections were filed against the improvement. The viewers will stake the road Thursday and make their report to the commissioners at the next meeting. oRequest That Man Be Left In County Infirmary Vance Mattax. trustee of Monroe township, and C C. Beer, well known resident of the same township, ap peared before the board of county; commissioners Monday afternoon and asked that Frank Atnacher, who has made his home in Monroe town ship for several years, be permitted to remain at the Adams County Infirmary. Mr. Atnacher had lived at Newville, Ohio, for several months and a question arose regarding his legal residence. Mr. Mattax and Mr. Beer stated that the unfortunate man was a resident of -Monroe township. He is 83 years old and was removed to the infirmary last week. He is contented there and wants to remain, it was stated- The commissioners granted the request. Gasoline Up To 22 Cents 1 In Pennsylvania Today Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 3. — An increase of two cents a gallon on gasoline, bringing the retail price of the fuel to 22 cents plus a two cent state tax at tanks, was put in effect by the Atlantic and Gulf Refining company in Pennsylvania today.

SUNDAY "BLUE LAW’ BILL BETS CHANCE FOR LIFE

Father And Daughter I Burned By Explosion Vincennes, Ind., Feb. 3. — Harley Dillon and his 16-year-old daughter, Helen, of Oaktown, were brought to » a hospital here today wilh burns which may prove fatal, suffered when I a. coal oil stove in their home exploded. ■ The explosion sprayed flaming oil over the father and daughter. Both rushed from the bouse with their j cldthing on fire, stripping themselves as they went. They were burned I from head to foot. o | MUSIC LOVERS TO HAVE TREAT l — Gibson-Plectrum Symphony > Orchestra To Appear Here On Feb. 19 i , : Mitch interest is being manifested ■ in the coming appearance of the Gibson-Plectrum Symphony Orchestra in this city, on Thursday. February , 19. The orchestra, which is compos- • ed of from twenty-five to thirty professional musicians and graduates of the European School of Music in Fort Wayne will give a concert in the high school auditorium here on the above named date. I The program for the concert. ‘ which will be published in the near ' future, will consist of numbers by • the entire orchestra, the Hawaiian ? I quartet, Barrs' banjo fiends and by 1 the banjo band of twenty-five pieces. ' | Tickets for the concert are now being sold ut the nominal price of 1 twenty-five cents for children and 3 thirty-five cents for adults. This 1 ! concert will be one of the musical ’ treats of the yesu' for the people of ’ Decatur and surrounding community, i o ADMITS PART IN HAHMANROBBEHY 1 __ i One Os Men Sentenced At Van Wert Tells Prisoners He Was In Gang Van Wert, Ohio, Feb. 3 —A few minutes before leaving the county ■ jail here Saturday afternoon to’ jour- ! ney to his new abode, the state peni-1 tentiary at Columbus. Martin Walsh. 1 a member of the trio now doing time 1 for the robbery of the Jacob Sluterbock home in Union township, called th? boys in the jail together and told them he was a member of the quartet who robbed the John Harman home last June. “And," Walsh added. “I can tell to the penny how much was taken.” He did not tell how much. ' however, and he failed to say who was in the gang besides himself. He remarked that Samuel Gallagher was not implicated and did not mention Roy F. Comer, now held here under indictment for the Harmon robbery. Walsh’s story was made known by a prisoner in the jail and did not' 'i come to the attention of the sheriff i until he had returned from taking Walsh. Miller and Gallagher to the , state penitentiary. Tells Os His Gang I The convicted man then went . ahead and told the boys in the bull pen a bit about his gang, which according to him numbered between twenty-five and thirty and had operated over the Lima, Fort Waye. Terre Haute route for two years making several robberies. Walsh. j Gallagher and Miller, the former two now serving twenty-one years and the latter twenty year sentences for the Sluterbeck robbery, lately would have little to do in the jail here with Comer, and it is thought that /Jomer was suspected by them of having revealed the attempt at escape when Fred Grush left a window to freedom. Walsh said the gang, of which he was first lieutenant and John E. Baldwin, who was’ sent to New York “ to answer a clfarge. was leader, robb- ! ed a post office at Terre Haute. It 1 was then, he, told, that Gallagher ' was shot in a heel- Gallagher limped while here.

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BILL GOES TO SECOND BEADING Bill For Regulation Os Sale Os Revolvers Is Passed By Senate Indianapolis, Feb. 3. — The Sunday “blue law” bill was £iven a chance for life in the house of representatives today. Following an appeal by Representative Kissinger, of Columbia City, its sponsor, that every member be permitted to get | acquainted with the measure the house adopted a minority report on the committee on public morals for passage. The bill now goes to second reading. The house also adopted a committee report for indefinite postponment of the.bill prohibiting Sunday baseball. Without argument the Senate parsed the bill introduced by Senator Holmer. of Gary, for the regulation of the sale and possession of pistols ?nd revolvers. The vote was 35 to Quick act on was taken on the two Pittenger bills introduced in the house yesterday when that body adopted a favorable committee report for passage. One bill would turn all fees and revenues of all state departments into the general fund and the other would create a permanent state budget advisory board. The house passed to third reading the bill putting ‘ teeth" in the present “blue sky” law following tlff> ,adpotion of two amendments. The Shirley bill to prevent raises n salaries for state, county or city -officials during the term for which they are elected as sent to engrossment in the house after a determined attempt by Representative Clements, of Evansville, to amend the measure. Clements argued that the bill was unconstitutional. ' The senate passed two bills to require public utilities to bear the eni lire expenses of investigat’on made (Continued On Page Four) PROMOTION DAY AT LOCAL CHURCH Representatives Os Benevolent Boards To Visit Presbyterian Church Thursday. February 5, will be known as Promotion Day at the Presbyterian church. A team representing the church's benevolent boards and agencies will visit the city and each member will give several addresses during the afternoon and evening. Only a few cities in this part of | the state will be visited by the team and Decatur is fortunate in securing the conference. Recently, an important Presbyterian conference, attended by more than 1 000 delegates, was ■ held at Chicago, and proved to be j one of the most successful ever held in the history of the church. Echoes from that conference will be brought to this city by the visitors Thursday. The regular meeting of the women's home and foreign missionary society will be merged with the promotion day program on Thursday. In the afternoon, beginning at 2:30 o'clock, the following program will he given: Hymn Devotionals —Mrs. C. A. Dugan Business Piano Solo —Mrs. C. C. Noble Reading. “Sandalthon.” by Longfellow—Mrs. Faye Smith-Knapp. Vocal solo —Mrs. C. E. Bell. Addresses by Miss Rankin and Rev. James R. Smith, representing the Board of National Missions. A pot-luck supper will be served in the church parlors promptly at 6:30 o’clock. Following the supper, another program will start at 7:30 o’clock. This program will be one of inspirational addresses. The public is cordially invited to either or both of the sessions of the conference.