Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1927 — Page 1

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P CONTRACTORS 1910 ON EIGHTH | STREET PAVING I Council Expected To ReLive Bids Later; Council Holds Regular Session addition may be | IU ILT TO CITY HALL j T]l p city council, in session last evLins, failed to receive any bills from l-ntractors for llie improvement of I Uni ill Eighth street, in connection liili the improvement of the street ii Washington township. The council till, in all probability, receive bids B>r f o | the improvement of the street I'hiili is to tie improved as part of the ifcnihoff uad improvement. fj 0 objections were filed against the nprovement of South Winchester nee t and the preliminary assessllP,ns were affirmed and turned over n the city treasurer'for collection, "lie street was resurfaced with asphTo Hear Objections The preliminary assessment roll on HiiP North Second street ornamental inipr. vement was filed and adoptSpil The assessments figure. 2G7 cents jKpr front foot. Objections against the Hssessnients will be herd by the conn■dl on Tuesday, November 15. i I Waivers on tile Russell street imHprorement to the amount of $546.25 ■were filed with the council and the Hplerk authorized to issue improvement ■bonds to the contractor for that aHmount. I The electric light committee reportHnl on tiie petition of S. W. Franks for ■ two sheet lights on West Monroe ■street, ordering one light placed at Btlie entrance to Maplewood cemetery I The letter from the State Fire MarJjshal pertaining to the warehouse buildling improved with a concrete floor and new electric wiring. The council may tear down the building and erect a two-story brick addition to the city hall. The finance committee allowed bills and the session adjourned. I 0 Truck Kills School Boy Kendallville, Oct. 19.—(INS)—With--4s the sight of eight horrified schoolmates, Aloysius Kosttielney, 13-year-old school boy of near Churubusco, was killed instantly today while on bis way to school when he stumbled ami tell in the path of a gravel truck. The truck driver, Lodie Freeman, was powerless to avert the tragedy.

WILL GIVE PLAY THURSDAY NIGHT St. Mary’s Chorus Choir To Stage “Hulda of Holland” For Second Time The musical comedy “Hulda of Hollam‘ . which was presented at the D. *' H. S. Auditorium, June SO, 1927, is being repeated by request, Thursday evening, October 20, at 8:30 o'clock. The musical is give nby the St. Mary's Chorus-Choir under the direction of May Holthouse, and the proceeds derived therefrom are for the benefit of the Catholic high school. The cast is changed somewhat from the previous presentation, more members having been added to the various • lionises and dances. The cast oc eliar;|('ters is as following: I’eter Cats, a decendent of the great Jacob Cats Mrs. Joe Colchin Jacob Hoogenbeets, Peter's neighbor ami bosom friend . Fred T. Schurger Hulda, Peter’s daughter Mrs. Joseph C. Laurent Katrina, Jacob’s daughter and Hulda’s best friend .... Mrs. Fred Fulenkamp Jerry lieyden, an American, traveling ij, roa< ! Mr. Paul Briede ' ro,lw Cats, Peter's good wife . Mrs. J. Q. Neptune Jan Steen, an artist from America . Mr. John Dowling Jimmy Stone, an American, Jerry’S J? 1 Mr. Fred Fulenkamp Hack, man of all work Jerome Bosse.. Steen, Jan’s father from (CONTINUED ON PAGE I OLH)

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SEEKS PERMIT TO ERECT BUILDING L. E. Opliger Wants To Erect Building On Rear Os Third Street Lot L. E. Opliger, owner of the building on South Third street, which was being remodeled by him and was torn down recently on enters received from the State Fire Maslial, appeared tiefore the city council last evening and asked that a permit lie given to him to erect a building at the rear of his lot. Mr. Opliger was remodeling a barn, which was located at the roar of hts a house. The State Fire Marshal had condemned the building and served notice on the owner. When the time limit expired the building was not removed, city firemen were empowered to tear it down. The two city fire trucks were hitched to the building and it was pulled down. Mr. Opliger stated that he. wanted to comply with the city fire ordinance and building regulations aked that a permit tie given to him to erect a building in his lot. After some discussion the matter was referred to the Judiciary committee and City Attc"ttey J. Fred Frachte. The ehnirmap of the judiciary committee at first declined to assume responsibility in the matter, but on vote of the council the motion carried. The city attorney will investigate the matter before any action is taken by the council. Mr. Opliger, after making his request to the council for a building permit, stated that he did no know whether he would erect a building at this time, but that lie would appreciate favorable action from ho council.

Williams Child Dies At Home Here Today Mary Ellen Williams, 4-rnonths-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bronton Williams, died at 11:30 o’clock this morning at the family home on Studalmker street. The child had been in ill health since her birth June 9, 1927. The parents, one brother, Russell, and one sister, Mildred, survive. Funeral services will ho held at the United Brethren church at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon with burial in the east of Decatur. • ■ o Arthur Wemhoff To Return To Vermont Arthur Wemhoff. son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wemhoff, expects to leave Thursday evening for Northfield, Vermont, where he is enrolled in a preparatory school. Mr. Wemhoff enrolled in the school at the opening of the first semester, but because of the effect of the climate on his health r was orced to return home until the weather had become more settled. “Wemmie’s” return to school, is being urged by the Athletic Board of the college, who want him to play basketball. o Baby Hurled Through Windshield Is Unhurt Bluffton, Ind., Oct. 19— HNS) — Hurled through the windshield of an automobile, in a collision at Zanesville, the 15-months old baby of Clifford Baker, of Fort Wayne, received only slight injuries. When the two cars crashed the child was thrown from its mother's lap through the thick glass and onto the ground as the machine came to a stop. The frightened parents picked the child to find it had suffered only slight cuts.

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Aviator Drops Doll Into Yard Os Farmer Near South Bend, Ind. South Rond,' Iml., Oct. 10 — fINS) — Aii aviator who flew over South llend in the early hours of tire morning and dr. Plied a doll on the yeard of a farmer living on the Division street road bus created a great deal of mystery. Early facory workers witnessed the strange plane make several circles ever the city and then fly away. I.Ater (lie farmer brought tn a package containing a battered doll, addressed to Miss . . . The name of the address was not legible. No explanation has been offered of the action of the ‘"mystery plane”. PLANE'S MOTOR IS SALVAGED Rest Os l’lane Which Crashed Near Here Sunday Is Total Wreck Inspectors from Selfridge Airport, Michigan, arrived in this city yesterday afternoon ip view Ike remains of the plane which crashed to the ground on the Dennis Striker farm south of this city Sunday night, Injuring Lieutenant J. G. Hopkins, and his passenger Harold H. Emmons, prominent Detroit attorney. The government inspectors, after inspecting the wrecked airplane, stated that is wa a total loss. The insper tors flew to Dayton, Ohio, last night and ordered a salvage crew to this city to take the motor to that city. Tiie crew arrived here tiiis afternoon and will leave either tonight or tomorrow for Dayton with the engine where it is imped some puits of the mot; r can lie salvaged. The wings and frame work of the plane will not be taken back. Lieutenant Hopkins, who was pilot of the plane when it crashed, was not much improved today. He spent a rath, er restless night, but his condition is not much improved today. He spent a rather restless night, but his condition is not reported as serious. He will remain at the Adams County Memorial Hospital for a few days yet. Mr. Emmons, wiio received a broken leg and nose in the crash, was reported to tie slightly improved today. The atending physicians stated that Emmons spent a good night and that he seemed a little better today. It is thought, however, that he will have to remain at Hie hospital for several days yet. W. R.BARR HAS NARROW ESCAPE Prominent Bluffton Banker Almost Asphyxiated In Basement Os Home Bluffton, Oct. 19— (INS) —Saved from asphyxiation by the alertness of Miss Margaret Lepper, his 15-year-old niece, W. R. llarr, 55, president of the Citizens bank of Bluffton and 1926 Rotary governor of Indiana, was recovering today from tlio effects of fumes from a leaky gas stove, which overcarry him in his homo late yesterday. Barr had gone to the basement to get some tools. The fumes from the gas stove overcame him and lny sank unconscious to the floor. A few moments later, Barr’s niece came home from school. Site noticed the open door and Investigated. Barr revived quickly when lie was taken into the open air.

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RAILROAD MAN HURT AS MOTOR CAR JUMPS TRACK .1. 11. Kelley, Os Frankfort, Seriously Injured Near Here This Morning ACCIDENT OCCURS ON NICKEL PLATE j. B. Kelley. 65, or Frankfort, bridges and buildings inspector for the Clover Leaf branch of tiie Nickel I’lato railroad, was probably seriously injured at 10 o'clock this morning about three miles southeast‘of tills city, when he was thrown from a motor car on which lie was riding. The engine of the car struck Kelley in tiie bead and the car then passed over him. Mr. Kdley and John Grant, also of Frankfort, were riding the motor car, inspecting the bridge's of the Nickel I ’late road. They had stopped ihe car and taken it from the rails so a train could pass and had just started the car again, when, tor some unknown reason, the car jumped the track. Mr. Kelley was riding on the front of tiie car and Mr. Grant was driving j,. Kelley was thrown forward onto the tracks and the engine struck his left forehead. The car then passed over his body. He was rendered tin conscious and was brought to the Adams County Memorial hospital. Mr. Kelley’s condition was regarded as serious, but the exact extent of his injuries is still unknown. He received a had cut on the skull when the motor struck him, and there is a possibility that he received some internal injuries. Attending physicians stated that it would be necessary to wait a few hours before X-Ray pictures could tie taken to determine the extent of the injuries, Tiie injured man was still unconscious at noon today, hut physicians thought they could more thoroughly examine him this afternoon. Mr. Grant was not thrown.from the motor car and the car did not turn over when it left the tracks.

YOUNG BOY DIES • OF DIPHTHERIA Fred J. 11. Huffman Dies Near Monroeville; Relatives Arc 11l Fred J. H. Huffman, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Huffman, of near Monroeville, died at his heme at 8 o'clock this morning following a short illness of diphtheria. Four other members of the Huffman family are a'so suffering from diphtheria. Fred Huffman was born in Madison township, Allen county, in 1912. Until the last few days he attended school at Monroeville. He was a member of the Flat Rock Lutheran church. The following brothers and sisters survive; Mrs. Esther Verntan, of Fort Wayne, and Edmund,, Nicholas, iVmu, I/ondn, Olga. John and Arthur, all at home. The fatiier and mother icoxtim t:i> ox »*.u:k t"«i Two-Month-Old Baby Startles Physicians When She Walks Alone Calumet City, Ind., Oct. 19.— (INS) — Local physicians today were startled when it was learned that little Ethel Ruth Culium has mastered the art of walking at the age of two months. Ever since the child was three weeks old, the parents, Mr. and Mia. B, F. Culium, have been aiding her to take her morning constitutionals, but today she was able to proceed unassisted. "Dada,” is the word from the blue-eyed baby which mysteriously signifies to the fond mother that her child wishes to promenade.

| Fliers Have Narrow Escape Near Here | \ • * Y-• ■. ’ > v ■: :«U I''?'" ' V< • ' -- -e '<»'•»•<»'£• *Y" • Col. 11. 11. Emmons, of Detroit, and Lieut. .1. li. llopklns, of Selfridge Field. Michigan, had a narrow escape from death when litis army airplane in which they were Hying struck a tree and crashed to Ihe ground ns Lieut. Hopkins, the pilot, was attempting lit land in the semi-darkness on the Dennis Striker farm, nine miles south of Decatur last Sunday evening. Roth fliers were injured, Col. Emmons seriously, hut they are reported on the road to recovery til the Adgms County Memorial hospital here.

Says Husband Forced Her To Sleep In Barn And Work In Basement El wood, Ind. Oct. 19 —(INS) —"Sleep in a barn, cook in a shed that leaked into everything when It rained, and work in a damp basement," was the reason Pearl J.Downham recited in j court here in filing suit for divorce j from her husband. Site alleged her husband forced her | to the foregoing "hardships" although not financially restricted. She asked' order against John W. Downham, to j prevent him from encumbering real estate valued at SIO,OOO. CONVENTION IS WELL ATTENDED Many Attend Opening Os Sunday School Convention; Closes Tonight A large Viiv asd splei}dbyn* tevest marked tiie opening of Hie Adams County Sunday School convention. at the Zion Reformed church in this city last night. Tiie large auditorium of the church was almost filled for the opening session. Features of last night's program were the singing of the Intermediate Male Chorus from the Berne Mennonite church, and the addresses given by Miss Nellie C. Young, state superintendent of the children's division of Sunday school work, and the Rev. R. R. Dertweiler, of Fort Wayne. The intermediate chorus from Berne is composed of eighteen young men and their singing was greatly enjoyed *by the audience. Sessions were to be held tiiis morn<roxTiariiKn ox p*t;n *nti COUNCIL VOTES HELP FOR BAND Appropriates $250 To Help Pay Expenses Os Decatur Junior Band The city council in session last night voted $250 to the Decatur Junior Band, the* money to bo paid to M. F. Worthman who will use it in paying running expenses of the hand. Last summer, when the band gave a series of concerts on the government lot on Liberty Way, the baud assumed the rent charge and the purchase of now music from time to time has incurred several financial obligations. Mr. Worthman Informed the council that he thought the $250 would pay up all the outstanding hills and permit the band to hold its organization during the winter. Appropriation of SSOC was contained in the budget for a banc . this year and the $250 will lie paid out 1 of this fund.

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MAN IS KILLED : AT YODER TODAY i * 0 Clarence Baker Caught Be- a tween Load Os Sugar p Beets And Scales t j Clarence Baker, 46, was killed in- t stantly at 8 o'clock tiiis morning at - Yoder, Allen county, when he was ' I caught between a wagon load of beets, * headed for the Decatur sugar factory, t and scales at the Studabaker elevator ‘ I or at Yoder. The horses shield at a train which was passing, and Baker grabbed for c the reins. The wagon caught him between the building and liis skull was crushed. He died instantly. Nine children survive. The wife preceded Baker in death a few years ago. o Duvall Fails To Attend Meeting Called By Friends Indianapolis, Oct. 20.—(UP)—Mayor l . John I, Duvall did pot appear ' last night at the second mass meeting called by his friends to launch a campaign in defense of His adminlstra- i tion. More than 1,800 persons at- ‘ tended the gathering and Claude C. McCoy, secretary of the board of pub- 1 lie safely presided over the meeting. Chief of the orators was an anonymous Methodist minister from Cincinnati, 0., who attacked klan critics. McCoy did not introduce the speaker who arose and denounced Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, D. 1 C Stephenson, former klan leader 1 and others who were back of an “an--1 fair campaign," to oust the mayor. Five Killed When Train Strikes Auto Cambridge, 0., Oct, 19.—(INS)jPlans were being made here today for funeral for five persons who were I killed late yesterday whe na PennsylI vania passenger train crashed into ;in automobile at Byesville, five miles south of here. The dead included: ' Russell Cox, 35, cashier of Byesville State bank, and four children, Ralph Cox, 7; his son; William Gooden, 8; Ralph Kostelenki, 7: and Robt ert Breeden, 7. i, —— o l- ? Bomb Wrecks Catholic Church In Pennsylvania iy Pittson, Pa., Oct. 19.— (INS) —An t explosion which was heard for miles t- bady damaged St. John’s Catholic r- church here today. State police who rushed to the scene said a time bomb II had been planted In the entrance. p The church, one of the largest In it the Scranton diocese, was badly damr- aged, and windows In a number of 10 nearby buildings were shattered. Port lice arrested a number of suspects, it This was the fourth dynamittlng in I Pittslon within a short time

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MRS. WALSER IS FOUND GUILTY OF KILLING COUSIN Marion Woman, Age 17, Faces 2 To 21 Year Sentence In Woman’s Prison TRIAL SETS NEW RECORD FOR BREVITY Marion, Ind., Oct. 19. (IN'S) Dry eyed and humming it tune to herself, Mrs. Dorothea Walser. 17. waited in Ihe county jail here today to begin a sentence of two to twenty-one years imprisonment in women's prison, for poisoning Clifford Cox, 12, her cousin, with paris green placed in a glass of lemonade. "There's a Tot; of between two years and life,” was Mrs. Walser’s only comment when the jury, after being out forty mibutea, brought in a verdict of manslaughter late yesterday. Trial Is Short It was one of the shortest murder trials in the his tory of the Grant circuit court. The state presented its cusp rapidly, and the defense relied

almost entirely on the terse story of Hie girl defendant on the stand yesterday. of alleged cruelty on the part of her husband, Arthur Walser, 30, and of bis alleged in si stance that she give Hie boy the poisoned lemonade. Insurance money of J 440. carried by the Walsers on the life of Cox was Ilia motive alleged by the state. Date for the trial of Arthur Walser, on charges similar to those against his girl wife, has not been set. Mrs. WaUe.r's mother will be given custody of the girl's child, while Mrs. Walser serves her term, it was said today. “I’ll divorce Arthur as soon as I am free," Mrs, Walser said, in her cell, today. "I'll never marry again. No man Is good enough. You can’t trimt them.

Mrs. Grayson May Hop Off In Moonlight Tonight Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Oct 19 HNS) — Possibility of a hop to Copenhagen, Denmark, between :> p.m and midnight tonight by moonlight loomed today for the Amphibian airplane “The Dawn.” Weight tests were rushed oil the beach Imre under the direction of Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson JOHN C, MVEGS CALLED BY DEATH Retired Adams County Farmer Dies At Home In Kirkland Township John C Myers, 80, retired Adams county farmer, died of heart trouble and hemorrhages at his home in Kirkland township, at 4:45 o'cGock Tuesday aternoon. Mr. Myers had been ill for two months. John C. Myers was a soil of George and Rhode Allshouse Myers and was born in West Moreland county, Penn--ylvanta, February 4. 18*7. He had resided in Adams county for 48 years. He was married to Ellen Cline, December 19, 1871. Mrs. Myers died September 14, 1907. Mr. Myers was a member of the Christian Union church. Four sons survive. They are L. E. Myers, of Fort Wayne; William A. Myers, of Bluffton; Frank Myers, of Monroe; and George Myers, of Decatur. The following brothers and sister survive, also: Aaron Myers, of New Augusta, Indiana; Isrea Myers, of Jolietville, Indiana: Mrs. Peter Baker, Ephriam Myers, George Myers, Seno Myers, all of Leechburg, l’a.; and Sabanah Myers, of Canton, • Ohio. Funeral services will be held at the • Zion church at 1:30 o’clock Friday . afternoon, witli the Rev. Jay Smith, i officiating. Burial will he made In the Zion cemetery, Adams county.

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