Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1925 — Page 1

Volume Will. Numl.er 52.

HOUSE PASSES BUS REGULATION BILL

10RGE KRICK I FIRST TO ENTER I ME'OMYOR — 1,:,. (miiifilni.m And Well- ■ k„own Manufacturer ■ \nn<>unc»‘S ( andulacy B I'KIMAIU O' V,AV :> 3 Other DcniM-rats And Ko- ■ publicans Expected lo ■ Announce Soon 3 w- known ,nan "' ■ < iiy =“>«< \ ■ ..Jjre, i!i" pr, '“•nt < iiy adminis- j ■ Ir^>ll j K 111, first nun to announce j ■ as < andidate for iho^ HdrtMH-ra!.• illation lor mayor of ■ IWauir ■ ,j. K . n.inu 1 lias been menfM lin ninti'Tiion witli It"' mayor ■ r: „,i fur -nmoliine anil this }■ wHiliti- ’i" < ihi fiini l <1 iho rumor and H o „,i 1*,,11 he w.u a candidate for m [ho nomination. 33 Th»‘ rUv primary oloction will bo ■ „n Tu.-ii.iy, May 6. and inton-j B'liNU «f .•amlidai.'S must ho f led not |( B |a:,r Hun thirty days “ previous to |Bthr primary. B i:.I-Pii'ly. ill" democrats in this ; 9 n i, organized and elected a now. 9 diiirman and ntlior members of th- j 9 ri-\ iifsani-/.::'inti. Hr. Hurt Mangold.; 9 f,.n knnun ,p n'i-.t. being elected city ' ■ chairman 9 Mr Kriok is manager of tin' Krf**k9Tyndall Til" company of this citVj 9wl has been associated with his 9WT Ihr.u Kim); lid .lohn TvmlJrtl •' 9it i.o manufai titrinn business since i 9 '.'i" Me has been a member of the 9 titv council since 1921. being oloctod • 9 wiraciltnan at-large. Ho is chairman 9 «f di" electric light committee and; 1 ■ kti taki-a an active part in further-!' Bin; the improvements at the city ■ piani and tu promoting the progress ■ #f the city as a whole. B With Mr. Krick's announcement, it ; ■ i- ihouglit that other receptive candi ■ Gains tt-,,11 aniioiiiiee ttieir intentions. : BSo far the repidilieans have not or- ; - Btattitcd in the city A chairman has Bum yet been named. Names assoF dated with thr republican nomination for mayor are Charles H. Colter. I who was a candidate at the last I election. Mrs. At liurdg, ( well known I tqxiblican worker among the women . and Ford 1.. Bitterer, attorney of this , I tity. COMMISSIONERS HOLD MEETING Allow Bills At Session Today; Road Petition Filed With Them The county commissioners met in ‘gidar session tl('.s morning, the j tor{ ' noon being devoted to ehecking- | " p :,n ' l allowing of bills. A delegal llftn of farmers from St, Marys towni a Pneared before the eommis- ) lcnerß at noon asking that a petition * another macadam road in their wnship ho allowed. The Charles ■' ‘ n( k petition for an improved i r °M in gt. Marys township was ali >'ied by the board last January and J 6 c * >ntract fo «' its construction has oady ),een let If funds permit, it , 4kt,ly ,ha ‘ ‘he new petllion will granted. The petition for the ,:r> ," n,t road - rimn ‘ng east of! had not been filed with the h(>ap " UP to noon. ''/* likely ‘hat one or two other WiU bp filed with the wssion. M ° nerS llUrine tbfi present J h " b 0!U ’ d will he in session Tucsed for c " Cll tim< * b ' ds W *U he receivthe Con' 1 ! bui,dhlE ot a corn crib at I of (I, nt ' ) Inf ' rra ary, the supplying' d r/ 11 thS infirmary building tteflrm. ISh ’ nS ° f fertlHzer at I by th/t "° rk will no ‘ he taken up it was ?t!? J , Untll ‘h® A P rl! session, hick rtoch ,„ d HbWevpr ' Engineer hr -lßes P ' anS f ° r seVeral

DECATUR RATTY DEMOCRAT

Youth Arrested For Forgery; Released Carol Welker, n young man residing cast of the city, was arrested j Saturday night by Night Patrolman I Se pints Melchi on a charge of forgery, i IP was locked in the county jail whore ' he was held until this morning when I lie was released after the matter j had been settled satisfactorily oat of | court. It was alleged that Welker 1 Had forged a check at the M K. How--1 er grocety here, for $17.5M. He had written the check payable to Orvil laiisiire ami signed Henry ('oiler's name to It. Before .-ashing the check, the youth is said lo have signed Orvil laiisnre's name on the back. EARTH TREMOR FELT IN COUNTY Clocks Stopped At 8:29 P. • M. Saturday; Slipping Os Rock Is Cause The earth quake was quite perceptibly at Herne an.l Geneva Saturday night, a number of clocks in the houses and business places at each place j stopping at the same time. the .official lime of the earth tremor. In j several stores, toys r.nd other articles I wore knocked over, it was stated. K. W. Male, well known resident of Genera, called at this office today an.l !stated that lie noticed ihe house creak laud the dock stop at the above time. Although not aware that an earth quake caused the earth tremor Saturday nigh!, several people spoke of jthe tremor and think that it was thd : O.Ugka.' lUai iUcj Id! Ctie k* war.' stop j p*d in many places at 8:29, ft was | stated. The cause of the tremor is attributed to a slipping of the rock off the 'coast of Maine. The tremor was heard as far west as Wisconsin, it was ] stated. Cause Is Eeiablished New York. March 2 —The slipping of j a rock mass in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Maine, about 245 miles I from New York, caused the earth Ire-1 mor of Saturday night, which shook | the northeastern part of the United States and eastern Canada, and as far west as Wisconsin. This has been established by Dr. Chester A. Reeds of the American Museum of Natural History from a study of the seizmograpli record at that Institution. Dr. Reds said evidence indicated the quake was due to a new movement in a recently discovered fault or fracture in the ocean bed extending from the bay of Fundy, southward to tho Isle of Shoals, ofT Portsmouth, N. E. It was three years ago that this fault was discovered at Columbia university. who was studying the ocean's floor along the New England anil Canadian coasts. This fracture, called tho "Fumlian fault" had not caused trouble recently anil Dr. Johnson had no thought of finding any evidence of a quake rift, of the earth's crust whpn he set out upon h's study of the ocean bottom. Following its discovery, however, the fault was held rosimnsiblo for a series of severe quakes in New England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. o State To Get Bids On Paving Projects March 17 (UNITED rrtl'tss PR It VICE) Indianapolis, March 2 —Tlids for hard surfacing seventy and one half miles of important state trunk lines will be opened by the state highway commission Tuesday morning, March 17. This is the second letting of the 1925 building season, during which 226 miles of pavement and an additional 77 miles if finances permit will be built. The project in the March bids include paving state road 37 from the Marlon county line to the pavement a mile west of Muncie; 10 miles on tho Cambridge City road, between Connersville and Cambridge City and 9 miles between Elkhart and Middlobury. , I

,BEGIN TUSK OF ■ASSESSING TaOAV Today Also First Day For P Filing Mortgage Exompr ‘ lion Blanks Today, March 2, was the beginning 1 of several legal routines at th«>| ' county recorder’s office. lleginnfng today, those persons j , I who have mortgages on their real 1 estate could tie the proper mortgage! exemption blanks. Property owners have until the first Monday in May! to do this. Those persons who havp , i mortgage on their property nroj I entitled to an exemption not to ex-j j cord SI,OOO and not morn than onehalf of the value of the property. More than one million dollars in > mortgage exemptions are on file in 'his county. Todav was also the day for town■diip trustees to file reports of the dog funds and to pay into tho ronntv treasury the surplus balances. At noon, throe of the trustees had filed ; the r .n-ports. ■ i Assessors Begin Work , I The township assessors started out ] today to assess personal properly land to reappraise real estate through--out the county. The assessors and their deputies met with County Assessor William Zimmerman hist SaturI day. secured the proper blanks and; were instructed as how to take the) assessments asul appraisements of real estate. I Several Have Paid Their Taxes Already Evidence that several taxpayers disposed of a part of (he surplus cash they had on hands before March 1. is*»shown in the tax payments at the i county treasurer’s office. Since i January 1. 1925. $25,994.10 has been | paid to the county treasurer as payments on tin* spring installment or j taxes. Several taxpayers paid their j taxes last week, it was stated. TON LITTER RICE BEGINS Twenty-seven Adams Co., Men And Boys Enroll In Annual Contest Twenty-seven Adams County men ami hoys have begun in tho 1925 ton litter race by enrolling in the contest sponsored by the Indiana live Stock Breeders Assn., under the leadership of J. It. Wiley of the Extension department of Purdue University. Six different breds are represented by the members enrolled there being ten farmers who own Duroc Jerseys, four own Chester Whites, four own Poland Chinas, two have Spotted Poland Chinas, two have Hampshires and j five of the herds consist of a mixture of breeds. This will give a good opportunity for the owners of the var ions breeds of hogs to demonstrate the superiority of their choice of breeds. The average number of sows owned by contestants is about six. making a total of more than one hundred and fifty sows represented. According to tho rules of the contest each member must report all lit- ’ ters farrowed within seven days after date of farrowing, giving the ear mark ing of his litter. Tit's date is recorded ■ in the county agent's office, after ' which the cards arc forwarded to State headquarters at LaFayette. About the first of July the contestants will nominate litters they intend to feed for the contest each member may nominate as many litters as he may care to. The member feeding the heaviest ton litter will receive the Schmitt Trophy, the same to remain in his pos- ■ session for one year or until won by ■ another contestant. Fifty dollars premium money is being awarded the fire winning farmers by the Schmitt Meat Market of Decatur. Much inter est has been entered in the contest and no doubt those interested are watching results very closely.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 2, 1925.

Farmer Fined For Public Intoxication Fied Hoekemeyor, a farmer ri-siil , I ing northwest of the city, was ar ' jc ted Sunday by Chief of Police Joe) | Iteymdils, on a eharge of puhlii I I intoxication Him u there was no heal I j n ilie jail yesterday and the man had : driver wilh him, he was sent home | vi:.(onlay evening Vith instsrueiions to appear in eity court this morning, lie appeared at 10 o'clock and enter i"d a plea of guilty. Mayor DeVoss j iat*ll him $! and costs, which lie ! paid. GEORGE HOUSER DIES AT CARMEL i c Former Decatur Citizen Dies At Age Os 78; Has Two Sisters Here Word was received by relatives here 1 yiMterday that George Houser, age 7X years, a former Decatur resident, died at his home in Carmel, at about midnight, Saturday night. Death was due to kidney trouble. Mr. Houser was horn in Adams county and spent all of his life here until about five years ago when he moved to Carmel. He is survived by his wife, who was ElizaI beth Krick before her marriage; two 'children, Ray Tlooser and Mrs. Wil Ilium Hyman, of Indianapolis; and two sisters, Mrs. Joe Martin and Mrs. Dan Haley, of this eity. Funeral services will lie held in Car-1 me! at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning; and burial will be made there. Mr. and . ; Mrs. 0. C. Ohronister and Mrs. Marlin | |wiH attend the funeral. John Isch Undegoes Operation At Rochester Joseph Isc h and Joseph Steffen, of J French township, left yesterday for Rochester, Minn., where they will; visit with John Isch. who will undergo an operation today at the Mayo Brothers Clinic. Mr. Isch has suffer "il from ahilomlinal trouble for some, time and has been a patient at the clinic. Burton Becomes Adjutant j Os The American Legion! Des Moines, la., March 2. James F. llarton, adjutant of the lowa department of tlie American Region, to i day announced his acceptance of the post of national adjutant of the legion, recently tendered him by James >A. Drain, national commander. Barton, whose work In lowa legion laffairs earned him the offer of the ■ national post, will tender his resignation to the state executive committee March 15 and assume his new duties at legion headquarters in In- 1 dianapolis, Indiana, April 1. 1 O U, BiREVIVAL OPENS TONIGHT i Evangelist Prevented From Being Present At Openins; Coming Soon Tiie Evangelist. Miss Himmelheber did not arrive Saturday to take charge of the services at the United Brethren church, but word received by the pastor stated that sickness had interfered and that in all probability she would conu* Monday or at least early In the week. However, the meetings will continue from night to night tip charge of the pastor until the arrival of the Evangelist. Services tonight at 7:50. She is likely to > he present Monday or Tuesday and surely not later than Wednesday night. Prospects are bright for a fine meeting. ATI are Invited to attend. Weather Fair tonight and Tuesday; rising temperature Tuesday and in west and north portions tonight.

ILADY STRUCK BY i UNKNOWN DRIVER Driver Os Car Speeds Away After Striking Young Lady Last Night An unknown motorist drove away without stopping after striking and injuring Miss Etta Rothgeh. on West Adams street, about 7 o'clock Sunday evening. The identity rtf the motorist has not been learned. Mi:-.s Rothgeh anil her sister. Mrs | Meeks, who resides on ThJrteenth street, were walking to the Baptist church for the evening service. Awing to the slippery condition of the sidewalk, they were walking in the street near the south curb. At n point about a block west of the G. R AL I. crossing, the car. which was go j ing north, struck Miss Rothgeb.! knocking her *o the pavement and j dragging her a distance of fifteen or j twenty feet, before she was thrown : dear of the car. The driver of the 1 ar never slackened his speed, which was said to ho in excess of the city spot il lirnit Attracted by the lady's screams, a resident near th<* scent* of the accident hurried to her rescue and assisted her tn her feet. Although her hands were badly cut and <!n* was bruised about her body, the young lady continued on her way to i hlirch. • o Archbishop Mossmor Shows j Small Gain In Strength _ (UNITED r*ui-:ss SERVICE) Milwaukee, March 2. — (United | Press.) Archbishop Sebastian G. : Mossmer.'-RuffPrimrfFom angina pec- ! toris, gained considerable strength today after resting comfortably yesterday and last night. Although there was a slight variation in the pulse rate, it was without significance, ae ! cording to attending physicians. Automobile Stolen Here A 1919 model Biipmoliile tourning car belonging to Albert 10. Fuse wa.- j stolen from the street near tho corner of Monroe anil Third streets about 10 o'clock Sunday night. The license numbers on the car were 226-139 ( ANNOUNCE PLANS 1 FOR BIBLE SCHOOL ; l — Commiftee Reports That School Will Be Held In Central Building The central committee of the community Daily Vacation Bible School held a meeting at the Zion Reformed church at 8 o'clock Sunday evening. ] The building commute p rted that the Central school building; had been secured for the School, which will open on June 1. The teachers' committee reported that progress was being made and that a few of the teachers hhave been secured. Tho curriculum committee reported a course of study and the course was tentatively adopted by the committee. Another report will he made by the curriculum com mittoe. It was decided at the meeting last night, to make a canvass of the children attending the public scchools for , pupils for the Bible school. The canves will he made in the homes. A committee was appointed last night to arrange a method for canvassing the ' children. This committee consists of Rev. Eledderjohann, Rev. B. F. Dotson. M. F. Worthman and Henry B. Heller. Tho noxt meeting of the central committee will he held at the United 'Brothern church on March 15, at wliih time the finance committee will make a report on the method employed in financing the school. The community Bible seliccoo! is being supported by seven Protestant churches of tho city and splendid cooperation is being shown by the members of the churches. The central committee is composed of the pastor and one lay delegate from each of the seven churches.

Former Morris Company Employes Form Company niufTinn, March 2. — Anb h*s of incorporation have been filed with llm j secretary of rlie stale by the Rhotcii I Five and Ten Cent Stores Company with main office m Columbia city, and with three former employes of I Hie Morris Company of this city holding ihc* offices of the Company and tilling the directorship. The following officers are announced by the new compiiny: President. N. Posltis Rhoten; viee-presldcnt, secretary, and treasurer, Austin Over deer; and second vice-president, J. It, Parrish. DRUNK PROVES TO BE COSTLY Fml Jackson Fined SSO And Sentenced For .‘>o Days For Assault Fred Jackson, of this city, was fined SSO and costs and sentenced to J serve thirty days in jail by Mayor 1 DeVoss at 2 o'clock this afternoon in city court, as the result of a fracas staged by him at the Ed Miller south nil restaurant Sunday night. The j charge against Jackson was assault | and halt pry. According to .«it nesses, Jackson eu-j tered the restaurant, which is Incut i ed near tin* Erie station.. about N:;iu o'clock Sunday evening. They sa> lie was intoxicated and without pro vocation lie struck Ed Bunch, car in spec-tor for the Nickel Plate railroad, who was silling. iu-ar a show case in the resiauram. Bunch wis knocked through the glass show case, and was cut h.v the broken glass. Next, Jackson pulled a bottle of catsup from his pocket find burled it at diaries Fill ton, (nit the bottle missed ils mark anil struck Miss Glee Kmch on the forehead, inttlciing a wound about two inches long. Night Policeman Seplnis Melchi was called, but Jackson left Ihe lest aurant before tin* officer arrived, lie was found in Ihe south part of the! city and arrested a few minutes later. He was locked in (lie jail last night and iliis morning three affidavits vert* tiled against hint in city court Two of the affidavits charged assault anil battery and the third charged public intoxication. Jackson was arraigned on the affidavit charging as sault and battery on Ed. Bunch. He pleaded guilty, but sentence was deferred until this afternoon at which time Mr. Bunch appeared ill court and gave his version of the affair. George Elliot, Newcastle Publisher, Dies Today — (t'NITED PRESS SEIVVICE) New Castle, Iml., March 2—George Elliot, ptilisher of the New Castle Currier and President of tin* Indiana republican editorial association died her today after a two months illness with heart trouble. Elliot was also chairman of the sixth district republican editorial association and was connected with numerous banking and business interests in the city. He was 41> years old. The funeral will be held at the home Wednesday. o Son. Saunders’ Bill . Advances In Senate (UNITED PRESS SERVICE?! Indpls. Ind., March 2 —Tin* house considered Hu* Saunders senate hill providing all county conunisionors shall provide neccessary materials und supplies for county superintendents and advanced it to third reading for final action. Part Os Armour And Company Plant Burns Chicago, March 2 —Spontaneous combustion is believed to have caused a $300,000 fire in the three story beef cutting plant of Armour and company at Union Stock Yards late j-es-terday. Nino firemen were injured by explosions of grease and lard. The entire structure was razed.

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REGULATION BY PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION PLAN Bill Passes By Vote Os (1921 After Lengthy Debate This Afternoon OTHER BILLS UP State Highway Commission Under Fire; Abolishment Os Board Favored tUnitfil l»n*ss Sf'rvicc) Indianapolis, March 2 -(Special to Daily Democrat) The house today passed the Moore- | head bill for regulation of busses through the public service commission after lengthy debate The vote was (19 to 21. During debate on the hill 1 Ih prescntolive Piltinjfer. repuh- | liean floor leader, said that un- ! regulated bus eompetition is | destroying (In* taxable property ! of railroads and interurbans. Representative Freeman of ! Kokomo. leading the opposing i forces, declared the Moorehead j hill was designed to “stifle bus i competition.'’ Passage of the Moorehead | hill means abandonment of ac- | 'ion on I lit* Hull hill which proposed to place regulatory power in Ihe hands of the highway commission. The latter hiil was hacked by bus interests. liutianapol s. March 2 (Special to Daily Democrat) —The state highway commission and the state oil inspection department came under lire in the legislature today. The house adopted a majority commit toe report recommending passage of the Kissinger hill to abolish the date highway department as now constituted. The senate cut tho appropriation j 'or the oil inspection department Tom $200,000 to $10.O()ti for llte noxt two years. Under thi* Kissinger bill a new highway com truss ion composed of four members appointed ttv Hie governor on a non pari Foil basis would >e created. The director of tho highway de partment would be appointed by the governor and would he directly responsible to him. At present the directory is named by the highway commission itself. The Kissinger hill now goes to rron'd reading where foes of the (Continued on page two) SMALL SUM IS DONATED HERE Only $1(J.77 Contributed for Miners’ Relief Fund So Far Only a small sum has been donated by Decatur people for the Sullivan mine sufferers, including the wives and children of the 51 miners who were gassed to death in the Sullivan City coal mine when an explosion occurred on February 20. Eleven dollars and twenty-seven cents was donated over tho week-end. The report ns made by Miss Atm t Winnes, secretary of the Adams County Red Cross Chapter, Is as foli lows: Previously reported , $5.50 Jesse Essex (Monroe) 1.00 Mrs. Lizzie Able 1 00 !.. I). S. S. Class of Evangelical , church 2.00 * A Friend 1.00 C. 11. Colter 1.00 1 E. B. Adams 100 t-1 H. M. Crownover 2.00 i- Joe Ileiman 200 I Cash 20 ! Cash 07 — $16.77 Subscription boxes arc placed at the Daily Democrat office and at the Old Adams County Bank.