Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1926 — Page 1

Vot XXIV. Number 15.

“MODERN WOMAN BLUEBEARD” FOUND

CALLS CHURCH THE BRIDE OF JESUS CHRIST Rev. Fledderpohann Compares Christianity To Man’s Courtship REVIVALS ENTER i THEIR SECOND WEEK Th<> attendance nt yesterday s simultaneous revival services of ihf. s. ven co-operating churches Bls the largest it hns been for feveial years. More than 2.200 people were present at the two services and each church struck the high mark of the revival. Ihe pastors are working hard to hold the al tendance throughout the week and predict’ that it will he the greatest last week revival ever held in Decatur. The men’s prayer meetings will he held each mornm at 9 o'clock In the Industrial rooms. E. Peterson was the leader this morning and a good crowd attended. Taking the twenty fifth verse of the fifth chapter of Paul's Epistles, "Christ Ixrved the Church and Gave Himself For It.” die Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, pastor of the Zion Reformed Church, delivered an interesting and stirring sermon to his congregation Sunday morning, as the seven cooperating churches reached the mid-way paint of the two weeks' simultaneous revival services marked by unv.sually large cronUs at each of the seven churches. Rev. Fledderjohann took “The Ix>rd and His Bride.” and the large audience showed approval of his interesting text and sermon. “There is an institution closely related to the home," Rev. Fledderjohann said, “and that is the church. The two are closely interwoven, and one is not much of a success without the other." 'The Lord has a lover, a sweetheart. a friend,” the pastor continued. “He gave Himself up for her —it is his bride—the church.” In a striking comparison. Rev. Fledderjohann described the bride of today, adorned in her pretty clothes. "She is so important." he said, “that the groom gets scarcely a word of mention. Still, the more (CONTINI El) ON PAGE THREE) - O ——■ THIEVES LOOT PRY STATION Few Dollars Taken At Interurban Station; M. F. Worthman Is Held Up Thieves, sometime Sunday, looted the telephone pay station at the Decatur interurban station and escaped with a few dollars in money belonging to the Citizens’ Telephone com ] panyt The theft was discovered about 7:30 o’clock last night and police were notified. It is not known at what time during the day the box was opened and so it is almost impossible for police officers to obtain any clues. The box was forced open. A few tnonths ago a similar theft was made a| the same pay station. At that time, the thieves took th,e entire pay Station box and fled. < M. F. Worthman. superintendent of the city schools, received a thrill Friday night that he will not forget very soon. A man stopped him as he was driving on the Fort Wayne road north of the city and pressed a Kl| n against him and commanded him t° drive him to Fort Wayne. Mr. ''orthma’n complied with the demand and avoided any gunfight that might nave occurred) He had about $45 in belonging to the schools of this rity, but the money was not taken by ‘he man. Mr. Wortbman left the man out of s car at the edge of the business ' strict of Fort Wayne and returned 0 this city. Nothing was stolen rn ni him, but he stated today that e experience was one that he will not forget for some time.

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Give Order For Liquor As Copper Passes Ry; Five Men Land In Jail Indianapolis, Ind., .lan. IS- (United Press) Five men are in jail here today ns the result of giving an order for illicit liquor while a police officer was passing them. The officer who heard the order, at once searched a car standing nt the curb and confiscated nearly two gal ions of white mule liquor. 0 — FARM INSTITUTE NEXT WEDNESDAY Hartford Township Farmers Plan Interesting Day And Evening Sessions Plans are now completed for a day and evening of instruction and enter tainment lor Hartford township farmers and their families when their farmers' institute is held next Wednesday. January 20. Chairman Lindsey announces a program lias been arranged which wiU be of interest to old and young—a day of music, addresses by talented farmers institute speakers and rivalry in a field and kitchen products exhibit. Mrs. E. T. Stanley, a farm woman who resides in Union county, will deliver two addresses during the day. Mrs. Stanley is an Interesting as well as a thought-provoking speaker and will have a real message for rural foil' 1 She lias been state piesident of the W. T. U. of Indiana and is vitally interested in child welfare. Mr. E B. Moore, a Clinton county farmer who resides near Snircleville, will also address the institute, both forenoon and afternoon. Mr. Moore will speak from the standpoint of a successful farmer and. no doubt, will leave much valuable information with farmers who attend. The domestic science ylass of the Hartford higit school will serve a lunch, cafeteria style, at the noon hour, with Mrs. June Lybarger in charge. About S4O is beldg offered in premiums for exhibits of white and yellow corn. 10-ear and single ear samples. A potato show will also be featured, one peck being considered an exhibit. A show of culinary products will be of interest to the women and girls. No doubt, the good corn ami potato crops of Hartford township this year will make some interesting competition, while the skill of the farm women and girls of the township will stir the appetites of those who like good things to eat. An evening session, with local talent on the program, will be held. Chairman Lindsey and the various committees have given considerable t'me and thought to the arrangement of the events of,the nay ans no doubt everyone attending will feel well Repaid. Everyone is invited. MILLER CHILD DIES SUNDAY Month Old Son Os Mr. And Mrs. Peter Miller Dies Os Complications David Otto, four-weeks-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Miller, of Decatur, rural route No. 1, died Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The child took sick with pneumonia about twelve days ago. but had shown improvement. However, complications developed and cauteed his death Sunday. Surviving are the parents and the following brothers and sisters: William. Cecilia Ann and Joseph. Funeral services will be held at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning from the St. Mary's Catholic church in this city, with burial in the St. Joseph Satholic cemetery. o Workman Falls Into Vat Os Scalding Water South Bend, Ind.. Jan. 18.—(United Press) —Dominick Bongiorno, 21, a factory workman, died yesterday from burns suffered when he fell into a vat of scalding water at a local factory.

STILL MASH AND 1111)11 OR TAKEN IN RAID; ONE ARREST Julius Roop Jailed Following Raid By Local Officers This Morning FOUND IN HOUSE SOUTHWEST OF CITY I Julius Roop, of this city, is in jail anil all'iilavils charging ilI legal manufacture anil possesIsion of liquor are pending against him as the reStilt of a raid made at 11 o'clock this morning bv police oflicers. Arthur Clark and Charles Hickman, Sheriff John Baker and Deputy Sheriff Dalia* Hower. Roop was taken into custody on the Mat Quigley farm, nine miles southwest of Decalin-, where a still, two gallons of moonshine liquor und two large barrels of mash were confiscated. ThY farm is conducted byLeo Hester, a foreign beet worker, bui Gester was not at home when the raid was made The local officers planned the raid on information received lately. They obtained search arrants this morning and went to tlie farm where Roop has been staying, recently. Rcop offered no resistance when the officers came to the house although at the lime of his arrest he carried a .38 calibre revolver. A search of ♦he house revealed the still and mash The still was in working order when the officers arrived. Roop destroyed Several jugs of liquor when he saw the officers cflmtßg. hut -they managed to obtain two gallon Jugs of the manufactured liquor. Still on Second Floor The liquor and still were found on (CONTINI El) ON PAGE SIX) o ORGANIZATION MEETING JAN. 26 - * Fine Program Being Arranged For First Meeting Os Agricultural Ass’n. An open meeting of the Adams County Agricultural Association, recently incorporated, will be held in the auditorium of the Decatur high school building, Tuesday evening. January 20, at 7:30 o’clock, it was announced today. All stockholders are urged to attend ami the public is invited. An organization will be perfected at the meeting. Sixteen directors will ( be elected by the stockholders. The directors, then, will elect a president, first and second vice-president, secretary and treasurer. The Dunbar band, of Berne, will )>e present at the meeting and give; :i free concert. Edward Marsh, of the Fair Booking Exchange, of Chicago, will attend the meeting and bring a big act to take part in the program. G. R. Lewis, of Columbus, Ohio, secretary of the County and District. Fair Association of America, and manager of the Ohio State Fair, will make the principal address of the evening. Several fair secretaries from the middle west will attend the meeting, also. The event will be a big one and will give the county agricultural association a great start on its work. O ; Premiums Offered For Exhibits At Institute In the premium list for the exhibits to be hold in connection with the Kirkland township farmers' institute, at the Kirkland high school building next Friday afternoon and evening, which was published recently, were three mis-' takes. The exhibits of cold pack can fruit is open to girls under the age of | 18 years; the loaves of bread for exhibition must weigh one and one-half pounds instead of one and one-eighth pounds and a 25 pounds sack of Quaker flour will be given by the Preble Equity company for the best loaf of bread baked from Quaker flour.

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Excitement Caused At Indianapolis By A Driverless Truck Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 18. (United piress) - Sleepy Hollon and its headI less horseman has nothing on Indianapolis today as the result of the ap- ' pea rance of a driverless truck here. Rolling easily over the Morris street bridge, the truck catted pedestrians | to gasp and finally crashed Into a telephone pole. Police arrested Omer Sanders, who parked the <iw with the motor run'ning and with no tale light burning. PASTOR CHOSEN BY LUTHERANS Local Church Extends Call i To The Rev. Paul Schultz, Os Cleveland, Ohio The Rev. Paul Schultz, of Cleveland, Ohio, has been selected as the new pastor at the Zion Lutheran church in this city, to succeed the Rev. A. W. Hinz, who left here to assume the pastorship of one of the largest Lutheran churches in Cleveland. The call to the new- pasttor was made yesterday afternoon, after the congregation had voted unanimously for Rev. Schultz at a special meeting, called for the purpose of selecting a pastor. Rev. Schultz has been acting as a supply pastor for the Lutheran churches of Cleveland, and comes to this city highly recommended. He nreached to the local congregation a few weeks ago and the entire congregation was very much impressed by his ability. Rev. Schultz will arrive- tn this city this week and take charge of I the local Lutheran pastorate at once. ! He will be ready to preach his first sermon to his new charge next Sunday, it was announced today. o Furniture Firms Enter Pleas Os Not Guilty Chicago, Jan. 18. —(United Press.! —Pleas of not guilty were entered by representatives of 99 furniture firms and 70 individuals when arraigned before Federal Judge Adam C. Cllffe, today in connection with the furniture “trust" prosecution started last summer by the government. Upon suggestion of special Assistant -Attorney (.'eneral Roger Shale, special prosecutor from Washington, the trial for those arraigned was set for April 5. WANTS ACTION ON COAL RESOLOTION Sen. Copeland Plans To Press Early Action On ' Matter In Senate Washington, D. Cl. Jan. 18 —(United Press)—Senator Copeland, New York democrat, served notice in the senate today that he would press for early action on his resolution empowering the President to end the anthracite coal strike. ' "If the President would cal) representatives of the operators and miners to the White House the strike would be settled in half a day/' Copeland said. o State Treasurer To Undergo An Operation Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 18. —(United Press) —Ben H. Urbbans, state treasurer, will go to the Methodist hospital late today for an operation for kidney trouble. —o Kicks Sister In Face Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 18. —(United Press)—Police today are seeking trace of Arthur Wade, who is said to have , kicked his sister in the face during a 1 family quarrel Weather Cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Probably some snow in extreme north portion. Much colder.

ACCIDENT AT GENEVA BEING INVESTIGATED Charges Likely To Be Filed Against Two Youths As Result Os Injuries INJURED BOY IS IMPROVED TODAY Charges likely will ho filed soon against Harry Hanni ami Harold Lehman, two Geneva youths, tn connection with the accident in which Marion Ray. 15, son of Otto Ray, of Geneva, was seriously Injured <las| Thursday evening. Ray fell from the running board of the car in which Lehman and Hanni were riding and struck his head on the iron railing of the Limberlost bridge, a half mile east of Geneva. It is reported that Lehman and Hanni laid the Ray boy down in the road and drove their automobile over his legs, following the accident at the bridge Public sentiment at Geneva is said to be running high against the two boys. Harl Hollingsworth, town marshal, has been conducting an investigation and he said late this afternoon that John T. Kelly, prosecuting attorney, probabb' would be called to Geneva this evening or Tuesday to take, action in the matter. Alleged To Have Confessed The Ray boy and Billie Eckrote, another Geneva youth, hopped onto the running board of the automobile at the invitation of the Hanni and Lehman boys, it is said. After riding for a while the two boys asked to be let off ffthe running board, but the driver of the car speeded up instead of stopping, it is said. The Eckrote bov jumped off and was not (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) FIRE TRUCK HITS AUTOs 3 KILLED Fatal Accident Occurs At Vincennes This Morning; Another May Die Vincennes, Ind., Jan. 18. —(United Press.) —Three men are dead, one is dying and another is in a hospital seriously injured following a collision of a fire truck and an automobile here today. The dead ar P George Lane, 40, city electrician, and Claude Woodall, 50, and Fred Compton, 37. firemen. Fire Chief Dan Decker, was so seriously injured tliat little hope is held of his recovery and Thomas Russell, of Bruceville, driver of the car which hit the fire truck, also was seriously injured. The accident occurred when the heavy ladder truck of the local company, responded to an alarm, struck Russell’s car at a street intersection. Both machines plunged across the street, striking a third car parked at the curb, rebounded and hit a tree on the opposite side of the thoroughfare. The tree was snapped off at the base and three men riding on the running board of the truck 1 were crushed to death instantly. The fire chief, who also was riding on the running hoard, was badly crushed and attaches at a local hospital say there is no hope of his recovery. — o Mother Defends Son Charged With Murder Anderson, Ind., Jan. 18. — (United Press) —Mother love today came to the fore in defense of Charles Gray, Muncie machinist, accused of the brutal murder of his babe, when Mrs. Virginia Fisher, the mother, expressed faith in her son. "They can send him to the electric chair and take his life but I will never believe him guilty of such a hideous crime, unless he admits it to me with bls own lips.” the mother said. Her husband, the boy’s stepfather, also expressed the same sentiments.

Negro Bandit Shoots Victim Because He Has Only 35 Cents In Pocket Indianapolis, Ind. Jan 18. (United Press) —The negro bandit who shot and killed John Ward. 42, during an attempted holdup today is being sought hy Indianapolis police. Before dying. Ward told police the negro shot him when he found that lie had only 35 cents in his pockets. o — — FIRST SEMESTER TO END FRIDAY City Schools To Start New Term Monday; Not To Have Semester Exams The first semester of the present school year will dose in the Decatur public schools next Friday night, according to an announcement made public today by Superintendent M. F. Worthman. The pupils Will know immediately whether they have been promoted or not. since the new system shows the daily standing of the student and also banishes the much dreaded semester exams. The new semester will start Monday. and no time will be lost between the semesters as was formerly the case. The ew system, which is called the “bank system." was started last fail in all public schools of the city. After a topic has been thoroughly studied, an examination is given and the entire class then passes on to another topic. If a pupil fails to make a passing grade in a week’s work, he is forced to remain after school until his proticlency is shewn in that certain topic. If he fails to show any knowledge of the subject, then he is marked failed for the week. The system does away with the old habit of permitting all work to go until the end of the semester and then “clamming" for a test, and the pupil knows as soon as a topic is completed whether or not he has passed. Several high school seniors will complete their work at the close of the semester next Friday, but they have signified their intentions of remaining in school until spring. The same systefan of garding Is being used in all grades and high school and Superintendent Worthman and all the instructors are highly pleased with the first trial of the new system. o Jury Unable To Reach Verdict In Murder Trial Tipton. Ind., Jan. 18. — (United Press.)—A third trial was in prospect today for Lee Kincade, accused of murdering his father, Janies Kincade, wealthy Hamilton county farmer. The jury which heard the second trial was dismissed after deliberating twenty-two hours without reaching a verdict. In the first trial Kincade was found guilty of manslaughter but a new trial was ordered and the case was brought here on change of venue. o—— —— CONCERT GIVEN SUNDAY EVENING Blind Brother And Sister Give Entertainment At Catholic School A musical concert was given in the auditorium of the Decatur Catholic high school last evening by Ixiuis and Barbara Trenimel, blind brother and sister, of Syracuse, N. Y. A fair sized audience attended the muisical, which was one of great merit. The flute and zither were played hy the man and woman, and both played the piano. The selections were good and the audience greatly appreciated the fine music. The proceeds from the musicale were donated to the Catholic school fun. The Tremmels also gave a musical selection at the early mass at the l Catholic church, preceeding the offer tory. The brother and sister have been playing together for about forty years and aJ* accomplished musicians.

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SIX OF SEVEN HUSBANDS DIE MYSTERIOUSLY i —— ■' Ohio Woman, Held For Murder Os Preacher Husband, Denies Guilt BROTHER TELLS OF HER OTHER HUSBANDS Enst Liverpool, Ditto. Jan. IX (I’niled Press) The Bev. William Chrvslv, an allache of (he Christian Missionary Alliance, who died suddenly \\ ednesday from arsenic poisoning, was the seventh husband ot his widow. Mrs. I.aura bChrysty. who is held in the county jail al Lisbon. Countv Prosecutor Brookes declared todav. Characterizing Mrs. Chrysty a “modern woman Bluebeard." Brookes said he had found the woman's brother. Charles Whippier and that the latter had enumerated seven matrimonial ventures of his sister and asserted six of the husbands had died suddenly and under mysterious circumstances. Mrs. Chrysty, who has be°n charged with murdering her preacher husband. appeared on the verge of collapse yesterday, but seemed refreshened when she arose today. She greeted interviewers defiantly, reiterating that she js innocent. "I didn't poison William deliberately." she declared, her eyes flashing. ‘‘He asked for arsenic to relieve his indigestion and I gave it to him.'’ "Laura married a man in Steubenville two years ago." Whippier told Brookes. "‘He died suddenly amt she married John Ebert, her sixth husband, who succumbed suddenly in Newell. W. Va., November 7. Her marriage to Chrysty was the seventh" Other husbands, according to (CONTINUED C'N PAGE FIVE) Grain Elevator Burns Newcastle, Ind., Jan. 18. — (United Press)—Charles Byrket, owner of an elevator which was destroyed by fire yesterday at Messick, four miles from Newcastle, today estimated his loss at SIO,OOO. ———o HAS AUTHORITY TO MARK TRAIL YPlans Being Made To Designate Road Through Here As Limberlost Trail Martin Luecke, of Fort Wayne, well known attorney and good roads enthusiast, has been given authority bv the Hoosiar Automobile Association to proceed with the work lor marking and improving Limberlost Trail, between Rome City and Geneva, and has called a meeting of a number of those interested in the project, to be held at Fort Wayne. Wednesday afternoon, at which plans will be discussed, and after which Mr. Luecke will proceed to make an organization composed of two representatives from each of the towns and cities along the proposed route. It is believed the highway can be made one of the most outstanding of any in this section of the country, because aside from the facts connected with the life of Gene Stratton Porter, which will attract attention, this particular section is rich in historical lore, about which very little has ever been published. Five times or more, the Indians were fought baev from Fort Wayne along the SI. Mary's river; Johnny Appleseed who brought the apples into this part of the country, is buried near Fort Wayne; there is still evidence of an old Fort at Middletown, btween here and Fort Wayne, and the old fore at Fort Wayne is a place of great interest. In every town along the line, some attraction can be found and the idea is to so present this as to secure the greatest amount of publicity.