Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1925 — Page 1

Vol. XXIII- Number 177.

DAYTON PROPOSES A BRYAN UNIVERSITY

CBNTRUCT LET f|)B REMODELING OF ELKS HOME Plans Call For Lodge Room And Dance Floor On Third Story other PLANS MADE Basement Likely To Be ( onverted Into Club Rooms In Near Future A contract for the remodeling of the third floor of the new Elks home into a lodge room and dance floor has been let to C. N. Christen and work on the new project will begin at once, it was announced today. The new room will be large enough to aeomodate more than one hundred tuples and also will be one of the largest lodge rooms in the city. Plans are being furthered at. preset to convert the basement of the ucw home into a club room, containing a billiard room and several card room? At present the second floor, of the home is being used as the cluhl room but it is the plan to use the s-cond floor for sleeping rooms and move the club department to the basement. The third floor will be completed within a few weeks, it is said, and then the work or remodeling the basement will begin. In the mean-, time the present rooms will continue as the club rooms. It is also expected that the dining room of the new imme will be opened soon No defln ite action has been taken toward the dining room, but it is thought I bat sjectal meals can be had at any time after the room is opened. No meals are being served at the hom • at present. Plans are being forwarded for several parties this fall for the ladies and the north parlors sill be opened soon, according to members of the committee in charge. A find membership drive will start soon and will last about three days, during witch time the initiation fee will remain the same. 0 Warn Children Against Hopping Rides On Trucks Neycastle, ind.. July 28. — (United Press.i —Children of Newcastle were warned by police against hopping rides on trucks. The warning came after fl little girl harely escaped being crushed to death beneath the heavy wheels of a truck on which she made an unsuccessful attempt to flip a ride. ROAD BONDS SOLD TODAY ( ounty Treasurer Sells $28,'6O Worth Os Macadam Road Bonds County Treasurer Louies Kleine s °ld $28,760.00 worth of macadam road bonds this morning, a premium he‘"s paid on every issue. Eight bids " as highest number of proposals received on any one issue. The bonds ar e issued for the improvement of the Hilgentan road in Preble tonship; the "alters road in St. Marys township; 'he Miller road in St. Marys and >Vashington townships, and the Shlrkck ro;1 <l in Kirkland township. The successful bidders were MeyerKiser Co., Indianapolis, on Walter r °ad. issue $3200, premium $48.75. ■i'din w. nhd James H. Kelly, Geneva, mt Shirack road, issue $7680, premium vUo.IS. Breed, Elliott and Harrison, on Miller road, issue * 5680 Premium $102.00; Breed, Elliott. an d Harrison, on Hilgeman road, isb"e $12,200, premium, $219.00. The °nda bear four and one-half per cent, he roads will he constructed this hummer. Weather a n(| iana:Fair tonight and Wednesa>’ not much change in temperature.

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Hileman Garage Has Enlarged Its Quarters G. R. Hileman, of the Hileman garage, has purchased the Walter Hofstetter automobile repair shop and equipment, located In the west half of the building occupied by the Hileman garage, and has thrown the two rooms into one big garage. Mr. Hofstetter, who does cylinder grinding and many other forms of repair work, has accepted a position with the Hileman garage and will cotninue his line of work. MANY GIRLS IN DRESS CONTEST Much Interest Shown In Home Economics Work By (Jiris Os County Those in charge of the girls' contest to determine which girl from Adams county shall attend the State Pair School of Home Economics are gratfied by the interest being taken by numerous girls in the county. According to the reports from several townships, every locality yill be ed. Miss Helen Schenck, of St. Marys township, who attended the school last year as Adams county's representative and who will also attend this year through having won a scholarship while there last-year, has been of much assistance in interesting girls in the contest. She appear ed before a meeting of girls in Kirkland townsliip and explained to them what the Home Economics School is and what benefits one can expect to obtain from it. The contest is limited to girls wno reside on farms in Adams county and who are not less than 16 or more i.»an 25 years of age. They are requested to make a one-piece dress with kirnona sleeves using Peter Pan Gingham Accompanying the dress should be a written statement of the cost of materials and the time involved in making it. Dresses shall be presented to those in charge at the basement room of the Decatur city library at 10 a. m.. August 1. A competent judge will select the winner of the contest. JENNIE D AUER DIED MONDAY South Whitley Woman Expired While Visiting At Pleasant Mills Mrs. Jennie McKeeman Dauer, age. 68 years, wife of Henry F. Dauer, of South Whitley, died Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the home of her daughter. Mrs. K. H. Everett, in Pleasant Mills where she had gone for a visit on July 4. Death was due to complication of diseases, resulting from several strokes of paralysis, suffered tw oyears ago. Mrs. Dauer was the daughter of David and Margaret McKeeman. and was born in Albany, New York on January 25, 1867. At the age of two years her parents moved to Indiana near Hoagland. In early girlhood she joined the United Presbyterian church. On January 5, 1882 she was united in marriage to Henry F. Dauer at the German Lutheran church at Soest, Ind.. To this union was horn seven children. five of whom survive her. Mr. and Mrs. Dauer resided in Decatur from 1913 until 1919. at which time they moved to South Whitley. She was a member of Christ's Evangelical Lutheran church, of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Dauer leaves to mourn her loss. Itbsides her bereaved husband, the following children: Mrs. Louis F. Merillat and Mrs. Ernest H. Felger, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Randolph H. Everett, of Pleasant Mills: Mrs. Ijlarvey A. Everett, of Binghamton, N. Y.; and the following brothers and sisters, al! Herbert A. Dauer, of Denver. Col.; of Fort Wayne: William. Alexander, David and Dr. R. B. McKeeman and Mrs. Robert Mercer and Mrs. Ellen Essig. and eight grandchildren The body was taken to the home of her eldest daughter. Mrs. L. F Mer ' j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

U. S. AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN DIES IN TOKIO TODAY Edgar A.Bancroft Succumbs To Attack Os Intestinal Trouble DEATH IS SHOCK Ambassador To Japan Since Last November; A Prominent Attorney Tokio. July 228— American Ambassador Edgar A. Bancroft died here today. Bancroft had been ill with an intestinal trouble but was reported within the past fortnight to be improving. At that time ills physicians believed that rest would suffice to restore him to health. Edgar Addison Bancroft was born in Galesburg, 111., in 1857 and was graduated from Knox college of that city and Columbia law school New York. He had been ambassador in Japan since November last year. Bancroft had won for himself an eminent position in the bar of Illinois during his practice in Galesburg and Chicago. f He was especially skilled as a railroad attorney and was also general counsel of the International Harvester company. He belonged to several Chicago chibs and had made a name with several works of an economic and leg(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) EVANGELICALS MEET AT LAKE Annual Summer State Meetings At Lake Wawasee AH Next Week Several young people from the Evangelical church of this city are planning to attend the six-day session of the Oakwood Park Assembly, at Oakwod Park. Lake Wawasee, August 3 to 9. The summer state conventions of the Evangelical church are held on the beautiful grounds, consisting of forty acres, owned by the church. The Young peoples conference, the Sunday School convention, the Epworth league Christian Endeavor for young people and the Women's Missionary Society all meet simultaneously. There will be a school of methods, also. Each afternoon will be devoted largely to rest, recreation, bathing, boating and other sports. A model daily vacation Bible school is built up at the lake on Mie Children's grounds. Miss Gladys Kern, of this city, is one of the instructors in

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Bryan's Spirit Takes Up Battle In Midst Os Which He Died; Undelivered Speech Published

(By John Nimick. United Press Staff Correspondent) Dayton, Tenn., July 28—The sipirt of William Jennings Bryan spoke today—as if to take up the battle in the midst of which the flesh had fled. It spoke as a crusader, now going forth to battle the "forces of darkness", in behalf of the forces of light. It assaulted the fortress of evolution and defended the “old religion" proclaiming a sirtfple faith in the Bi b e as the Inspired Word and the Christian belief as a revealed religion It likened the Tennessee evolution trial to the trial of Christ before Pilate and proclaimed: "Again force and love meet face to face and the question of "What shall I do with Jesus ’ must be answered. A bloody, brutal doctrine. —evolution—demands, as the rabble did 1.900 years ago. that He be cruei-l . tied." The spirit of the leader spoke

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 28, 1925.

Yoder Bank Depositors Receive Another Payment An announcement was made yesterday. that another payment of ten per cent, would be available today for depositors of the Yoder State Bank, which closed its doors severs, months ago. This will make a total of 80 per cent, paid to depositors of the bank. The Farmers Trust company, of Fort Wayne, is liquidating agent I for the institution. o _— — I MRS. LA FOLLETTE, NOT A CANDIDATE Late Senator’s Widow Declines To Enter Race; Son Probable Candidate Washington. July 28 — Mrs. Belle Case I«a Follette, widow of the late Wi cousin independent republican leader, in a statement issued today, i declined to enter the race for the, seat of her husband in th senate and I thereby opened the wav for her son. Robert M. I.a Follette, Jr., to become his father’s successor. An announcement of young La Follette's Intention to seek election to the senate replacing his father is e»peetd from Madison. Wls.. within a fw days. A call for a special election may be issued by Governor Blaine Shorty thereafter and a new battle launched to determine the political future of the i,a Follette movement. The declination of Mrs. l.a Follette was addressed to organizations of women which recently began a movement to induce her to champion the cause of women in the senate. She stated that after due consideration she would adhere to her original intention of retiring to conduct the periodical founded by her husband, “La Follette's Magazine," and to write his incomplete memoirs. o_ COVERDALE FUNERAL Final Rites For Mrc| Elizabeth E. Coverdale To Be Held From Presbyterian Church Thursday P.M. Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth E. Coverdale, wife of Dr. J S. Coverdale. pioneer Decatur physician, who died at her home here Monday afternoon. will be held from the Presbyte ran church at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon. The Rev. B. N. Covert, pastor of the church, who spneding his vacation in Cambria, Wisconsin, wired relatives of Mrs. Coverdale today that he would return to conduct the funeral services Thursday. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Mrs. Coverdale's death was due to acute oedema, which developed following an illness of acute heart and kidney trouble. The remains may be viewed Wednesday afternoon between the hours of threeand five o'clock and Wednesday evening between the hours of seven and nine o'clock.

through the text of the speech which 1 Bryan had prepared as the closing argument in the prosecution of John Thomas Scopes for violating the Tennessee evolution law. The speech , had not been delivered at the trial : and before it could be published, Bryan had died. It was made available to the United Press today—and found to stand ' as a remarkable document, of more i than ten thousand words, running ! the gamut from the almost sublime ' to bitterest. condemnation of the | "damnable philosophy” which "is the f ower that blooms on the stalk of evolution.” | It ridicules and denounces Clarence 1 Darrow's defense of Loeb and Leo- , - pold and cites their case as things the teaching of evolutiion leads to. I It calls Charles Darwin the father t of the theory of evolution, as a witI uess and quotes from his writings I to show that he started life firm in ,an orthodox faith in a "personaD

STRIKE OF COAL MINERSAPPEARS CERTAIN TODAY I Indications Are That Miners Will Strike And Government Will Step In DEADLOCK CONTINUES Chance Os Agreement In Conference Appear Highly Unlikely Atlanta City. July 28 —A strike in the reat anthracite coal fields will be called and the government will step in according to every indication today as the miners and operators' representatives continued their conference in what apparently is a futile | eftort to arrive at a basis for a contract to replace that which expires I August 30. I There was an atmosphere of tenseness on both sides as the conference continued that made it appear ex tremely unlikely the deadlock over the demands of the miners and the counter demands of the operators will be broken. The miners are submitting their demands quite formally—a wage increase and adoption of the checkoff. When this formality is completed, the operators will submit their reply. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, was here lining up the union representatives to stick by their demands He was to lead the miners in re-sub-(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) — o — ADAMS COUNTY FARMER DIES Delbert H. Walters Succumbs To Leakage Os Heart Monday Night Delbert Harrison Walters, age, 54 years. Adams county farmer, died at his home in St. arys township, four and one-fourth miles east of Decatur at 8 o’clock Monday evening, following an extended illness of leakage of the heart. Mr. Walters had been ailing for the last six or seven years. I Mr. Walters was a son of Henderson and Emily Walters and was born in St. Marys township. November 16, 1870. He spent his entire life in St. Marys township. He was a member of the Calvary Evangelical church. Sur- ■ viving are the wife Mrs. Lulle Walters four sons, two daughters, three brothers. one sister and one half brother. .The children are: Chalmer, of Fort Wayne; Lawrence of near Decatur; Margaret. Raymond Opal and John at home. One son. Chester, is deceased. The brothers and sisters are: Oliver, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

God.” and hjls studies led him into agnosticism One can easily picture the fire of Bryan’s sarcasm—now stilled forever—as the speech reads: "There is no more reason to believe that the man descended from some Inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage." In the next paragraph it passes to a vein almost, prophetic of his own approaching death as it says: “There is a si|iritifa.l gravitation that draws all souls toward Heaven just as surely as there is a physical force that draws al! matter on the surface of the earth towards the earth's center. Christ is our drawing powett He said: ‘I, if I be lifted up from this earth, will draw all men unto me,’ and His promisees being fulf.lled daily all over the world " But a few pages farther on the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Opposes Abolishment Os Federal Trade Commission Swampscott, Mass., July 28 -President Coolidge disapprove sos the current movements to abolish the federal trade commission. The. commission is j a "business policeman”, Mr. Coolidge | realizes, but it performs a necessary function and the administration will oppose any move to abolish it because of dissatisfaction with the commission’s personnel, It was said at the summer white house today. SARAH E. ROOP EXPIRED TODAY I Pioneer Resident of Decatur Died of Acute Indigestion This Morning Mrs. Sarah E Roop, age 74 years, a pioneer resident of Decatur and Adams county, died at the home of her son. Jesse Roop, on North Tenth street., at 3:15 o'clock this morning. Death was due to acute indigestion Mrs. Roop took suddenly ill last Fiiday night. Mrs Roop was a daughter of Henry ami Mary E. Hower and was born in Champaign county. Ohio, March! 17. 1851. She came to Adams county when a young child and spent the remainder of her life here, She was a life member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Her husband. George W. Roop, djled nine years ago. Mrs. Roop had been residing on North Tenth street, this city, since his death,. Surviving are three sons. Jesse B . and Miles F. Roop, of Decatur, anil Ailphus M. Roop of Akron, Ohio; one half brother. James Hendricks, of Monroe; and one half sister, Mrs. Hattie Sells, of Monroe. One daughter. Elsie Jane, preceded Mrs. Roop in death Mrs. Roop's sister, Mrs Dan B. Roop, died at her home in Pleasant Mills a week ago today. Funeral services will be held from the home at 2 o'clock and from the Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. o— WORK BEGUN ON STREET PAVING ______ Curbing Being Laid On Jefferson Street; Begin At First Street — Work has begun .on the Jefferson street improvement, from First street to Seventh street, and at present workmen are laying the concrete curbing. The street, when completed, will consist of seven blocks of improved brick. The curb has been placed for about two blocks and the workmen expect to complete this part of the work in another wek or ten days. The curb is set in the ground about two feet and there is a break every eight feet, so I that if the weather spoils a part of the concrete the rest will still be intact. The macadam street will he leveled and possibly dug out at certain irregular points and the brick wil be laid on a sand base, permitting the curb to be about eight inches in height. It is expected that the entire street will be completed and opened for traffic in the early fall. The bricks for the street have been unloaded along the right-of-way and, as soon as the concrete has set, work will begin on the laying of the brick. The street will first be completed at First street and the workmen will then advance west toward Seventh street as the concrete settles. Jefferson street is one of the last streets within the railroad boundaries to be improved and should be one of the heavy traffic streets, because neither Court nor Madison streets run through beyond the railroad in the west part of the city. Julius Hauck has the contract for the paving.

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CONSIDER MOVE AS MEMORIAL TO GREAT COMMONER Meeting Os Citizens Called; Hundreds View Remains This Afternoon FUNERAL ON, FRIDAY / Arrangements Completed For Simole Services And Burial In Arlington (UNITED PRESS SERVICE) Diiyton, Tenn., July 28 - Ihiyton’s monument to the man who became its martyr in the cause of fundamentalism may be a William Jennings Bryan university. Permitted today to file past the glass topped coffin in which lay the remains of the commoner, the grim features slightly relaxed with the suggestion of a smile at death. Bayton's inhabitants and hundreds from other Tennessee towns and cities resolved to carry through the idea first proposed during the Scopes trial B. Y. Morgan, president of the Dayton progressive club, and the other leading citizens of this town, called a meeting to take place after Bryan is buried at Arlington, at which an effort will he made to raise the necessary funds for a fundamentalist university. "It will be a fitting tribute to the man who came among us. fought his great fight in defense of the Bible and then died in our midst," Morgan said. Friends View Remains For three hours tins afternoon the commoner's cotfin will be placed on the shady lawn beside the cottage where Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Uved during the Scopes trial. Mrs. Bryan bearing up bravely through her ordeal. declined an offer to have the remain lie in state tn the courthouse. Those who came to the cottage (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Seven Arrested In Federal Liquor Raid Rochester, Ind.. July 28. (Untied Press.)—Seven men were held in the net of federal dry agents here today following raids last night on suspected bootleggers. A squad of six federal officers- worked quietly for several days gathering the evidence and then made the arrests. D. H. S. TEACHER HAS RESIGNED Helen Dugan, Physical Training Instructor, Accepts Position In East Miss Helen Dugan has resigned her position as instructor of girls' physical training in the Decatur high school ana has accepted a position as instructor of sciience and gymnastics in ,\Hss Mills’ Private School, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, according to v.'orti received from Miss Dugan by M F. Worthman. superintendent of the city schools. A successor to Miss Dugan has not hmm selected. Miss Dug.m was graduated from Vassar in 1924 and taught in the Decatur h gh school during the last school year She was very popular with the high school pupils here and she was successful in coaching the grin' basketball team in addition to her regular work with the physical training classes. Her new position is considered as a marked advancement Pittsfield is a city or more than 40.000 population and is located forty miles northwest of Springfield near the western boundary of the state. The school lias a wide reputation. Miss Dugan is touring Europe at present, navlng sailed the first of July, but she will return home before startling east to assume her duties at Pittsfield on September 15.