Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1949 — Page 7

AUGUST in. 1949

Qer Os Nine Is Eyed In England (Kmpire Killer Is Mhngcd Early Today AUK 10.—(I'Pl — John ii .iuti 4". Ih *' bloodiest and |V, kill* r known to 20th cen BWp..dand, was hanged hi j |LL,tih prison today to pay IK "f nine murder* he claim11 in nt I ft ed gS„, r and calm. Haigh walked ■Ktallow* at ft urn About Dm bystanders gathered out, |K, prison walla, in keeping Ehri'iah procedure. there were |K, n - official witnesses when l’ |( rrepolnt. Britain'* ma* u'ioii> r dispatched Haigh death. |K a minutes before the < xe< u

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Hon a post office messenger In a blue uniform arrived at the pri.on with a telegram addressed to Haigh. Contents of the message, and its sender, were unknown. Observers speculated it may have come from the mysterious woman who ran crying from the courtroom when sentence was pronounc ed and who visited him in the final hours before he went to the gallows. | Although Haigh was sentenced j to death and hanged only for the murder of Mrs Olive Im rand Dea con. 69. a wealthy London widow he confessed to killing eight other persons in London and Its vicinity. In his confession. Haigh told police he drank some of the blood of each of his victims. His attor ney claimed at his trial he did ‘ this because of dreams which created in him a lust for blood. Mrs. Durand-Deacon was lured to a factory in a suburb, shot in the head and her body dipped

in a vat ot acid to dissolve it. Haigh said the bodies of his other victims also were dissolved in an acid bath. The prosecution contended that Haigh coveted Mrs. Durand-Dea con's possessions and that he killed for gain to cover his losses as an unsuccessful London businessman. A jury of 11 men and one woman convicted him in 14 min utts after a two-day trial. During his trial, Haigh proved a smug, conceited individual who responded to the glances of curious women like a movie star to bis fans. County Council To Convene In Special Session Next Week A special two-day session of the Adams county council will be held at the county auditor's office. August- Ik and 19, to consider requests for additional appropriations of funds for general purposes and the highway department. Tlie highway department is asking for 937,100, Os this amount, 93.500 is listed for a heavy duty truck to be purchased by the department. Appropriations of 310,000 for stone and 911,500 for asphalt also are asked by the department, from unappropriated funds. Other requests total 917,960, including 99,500 for tile and open drain projects under the supervision of the county surveyor; 95,0n0 for services in connection with the reappraisement of real estate, and opproprlations for other county exiienses. , Mvnt'K TO TA>l*4t»lS or timiimx %i, ti-i-Hoi*i<i t riovs N<»tl<-e Is hereby given the taxpayers of Ituot Tow nship, Adams County. Indiana, tliat th>- proper l< aal officers of said niunh lpallty at tln-lr regular meeting place at k 30 o'clock p ni, on th*- 30th day of Auf'llt, 1919, will «-onalder the following additional appropriations which said officers consider necessary to meet the extraordinary emergency cxlst : Ing at this time Sprclal school Pond: No. 2.- Janitor ger vice lUO.O't No. 34 Water, light and power Ititioe Poor Hr lief: Hl. Medical fare . |.,00 »e Hi. Direct Belief and Co. lloiio- .... .',XO 00 Tuition I uhil: N . 2« too n« Taxpayers appearing at such meeting shall have a right to be 11, ltd tliereon The .idrlil loli-sl gpp'opriatlons u» finally made will l„ autotnath ally referred to the Hi ite Hoard of Tax t'ouimlsslonera. whl h Board will hold a further he.-ni a w thin flft-,!i days at the I’ouhtt Auditor's offh, of Ad.'ims County, Indiana, or at such other pla- as may be designated. At such hearing tax|e»y, r» objecting to any of or h additional a|>pr<g>rla lions may lie heard and Interested taxpayers may inquire of the t'ounty Auditor when and where such hearing will be held IJHD WIIIEFKIIS'I KIN Trustee of Boot Township Al’tJ. i»-«»; Non-sporting dogs include watch dogs, shepherd dogs, pets and oth-

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Tickets For Dairy Exposition At Bank The First State Bank of this city today announced that tickets for the international dairy exposition. to be held at the state fairgrounds at Indianapolis, will he given without charge to all 4-H club members and all five-acre corn club members in the north six townships. Members of these organizations may obtain the tickets simply by calling at the bank during regular business hours. A similar distribution for 4-H and corn club members in the south six townships will be made by the First Bank of Berne. IMMANUEL (Cont. From Page One) Tex., and former pastor of Immanuel church, will deliver the pulpit message. Societies of the congregation include the ladies’ aid. founded In 1900; the Walther league, dating from 1920; the Berea society for married couples, organized In 1941; the Lutheran women's missionary league, since 1945; and <he men's dub, an affiliate of the national Lutheran laymen's league, organized this year. Members of Lie societies will serve refreshments after the church service. The main centennial services will he held on the morning and afternoon of Sunday, Aug 21. The German centennial service will begin at 9:30 a. m„ with the centennial sermon to be delivered by the Rev. Henry E. Bleeke. pastor of Immanuel Lutheran church. Cedarburg. Wls. Guest organist will be Wilfred Bleeke. principal of Zion Lutheran school. Georgetown, Tex. The sermon in the English centennial service nt 3 p. in. will be deli' • ered by the Ref. August <). Bleeke. pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church. Storm Lake. la., with Wilfred Bleeke again serving as guest organist. History of the Church In |S3k John IL Ph. Ble« ke. then living at Cincinnati, made a trip . • Adams county and for his future home bought tin* northwest quarter of section 21. being the third man to enter a deed for land in what *s now I'nlon township. In l*4<» he returned with his wife and their two sons and three daughters, arriv. n* on Nov. 27. The wagon .•<»» • r stretched across crotchet-poles was their only shelter while thev built a rough log-house, which still had no roof or floor when they moved in on l>ee 24 In 1852 they built the house that still stands on the old homO place, now the residence ot <Mto Rleoke, grandson of the pioneer. During the first years In their i new home, the Bleeke* would walk I five miles through the swampy i woods to attend church services in the Clamor Fuelling home in Root Township and then in the logchurch built there in the early forties. It was in 1849. 100 years ago. that the Rev. J. Andreas Fritze, pastor o| St. John's Bingen, and of St. Peter's Root township, began holding regular preaching services in the Bleeke home. In November of the same year two other families arrived from Germany to settle’in I'nlon township. John 11. Krueckeberg with his wife and three daughters. and Henry Wm Weyland ami his wife, son. and daughter. Both families at once joined the Block)* at divine services in their home, thus forming tile nucleus of the present Immanuel Lutheran coif.regallon Other Lutheran pioneers were J. 11. W. Carl Grote, who came in 1x52. ('. D. Ferdinand Reinking. tn 1*53. and J. Andreas Thieme, ! n 1X55 Before the end of 1858 th< re had come also Carl IL W. Kruo'-ke-berg. C William Schamerloh, K 11. Ludwig Koldeway, J. F. Hoeriger, and H. J. Ruecklos. Sr. These 10 men. with John Bleert* and bis sons Christian F. and K tri F. Wm . were the chatter memher t who on Dec. 11, IK3B, adopted and signed the constitution ami thus formally organized the Immanuel < hurch. Four sons and one daughter of charter memluirs are at peso t memlters of the Immanuel congtegation, including Otto Bleeke, Theodor Thieme, Carl Grote, Mrs Sophia Thi> me, and Minis Koideway. Some 12 or 15 other sons and daughters ot pioneer members rside elsewhere. The first church, built of logs, wax begun in 1851 by the half dozen pioneers here at the time, lint the structure was completed and dedicated until 1X55. The first psr«-n---age wax constructed in 1X65 and was replat od in 1917 with the pre.-, ent brick-veneer dwelling The pre.; ent bouse of worship was built in IX9I at a cost of aboet 95.<mml In 1912 the church was placed on a higher foundation, furnace and pipe organ installed, the tower lowered 30 feet, and other minor changes made In 1929 side baiconlM vere huiß. the church redecorated, and altar statues of Christ and the a-

during angels added. In gratitude for a century of God's blessings, the members of the congregation have made a number of improvements in and about the church, in the fall of 1948 the church and cemetery grounds were landscaped and additional sidewalks laid. Since the beginning of this year the church interior was redecorated by professional craftsmen, new chancel car|>eting laid , and the pipe organ converted to! electro-timgnetic action. Members of tlie congregation elevated the seats in the balcony and choir, und refinished the floors and pews. Tlie ladies' aid presented beautiful altar and pulpit paraments in four seasonal colors and added other touches of beauty and utility to the chancel ami sacristy. The Walther league gave cathedral lanterns for the nave of the church, while the Berea society provided matched 1 ceiling fixtures for illumination un-' der the balconies. The school child r< n made a gift of the missal stand , of polislit tl bronze. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Schamerloh i are |. resenting a set of polished brass offering plates as a memorial i to their son, Carl Schamerloh, killed in action in the late war. The John Blakey family will honor the memory of Mrs. Dorothy Blakey, de parted wife of Wilbur Blakey, with tlie gift of 12 copies of the Lutheran Hymnal. The Anton Thieme an I Gilbert Thieme families will prr-j sent handsomely Itound copies .f i the Lutheran liturgy ami Tlie L'ith-i eran agenda, the approved service books of the synod. In honor of Mr. j and Mrs. Theodor Thieme, oldest living married couple in the congregation at the time of its centennial celebration. Pastors who have served Immanuel church since it founding include J. A. Fritze to 1865; Henry Steger,

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first resident pastor. 1865 to 1870; Paul Rupprecht. 1870 to 1973; Hugo Caemmerer. 1874. to 1879; Henry Steger again. 1879 to 1885; William Schmidt, 1886 to 1905; Gottlieb Bauer. 1905 to 1913; Karl Hoffman. 1913 to 1917; Franz Mohn, 917 to 1922; John Lindhorst. 1923 to 1924; Martin Frosch, 1924 to 1940; William Remmert, 1940 to 1944; and Erich B Allwardt, since 1944. Immanuel congregation on August 1, 1949, numbered 307 souls, 222 communicant members. 82 voting members. Record show the following pastoral arts performed during the < hurch's history to August 1. 1949: 754 baptlswis since 1850; 577 confirmed since 1867: 171 marriages since 1867; 192 burials since 1865; and 42.928 persons communed since 1859. Immanuel School Just what arrangements the early settlers could make for the schooling of their children, it is hard to state We know that some ' were sent to Fort Wayne and elseI where for confirmation instructions When Rev. Henry Steger arrived in 1866, he started the school with I some 15 or 20 pupils. Until 1906 the pastors taught school, though usually not more than three days a week, ami sometimes less than that, when the press of other duties intervened. Rev. Schmidt's wife assisted in tin- school for a year or two about the turn of the century, in 1906 a [lady teacher was engaged In the i person of a Miss Burger, who served about a year, and wax followed i by a Miss l.ankenau for about two j years. When the state of Rer. Bauer's health still did not permit of his teaching school, the congregation jin 1910 rekolved to call a resident male teacher and built the present teach* rage. The first called teacher was Walter Gotsch. from late

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1910 to 1919, followed by Oscar Gotsch, 1919 to 1922. and O. J Schmidt, 1923 to 1927. Bernard Schultz has been teaching at Immanuel school, serving also as organist and choirmaster, since 1927. his 22 years of service being tlie longest term of any of the congregation's pastors or teachers. Among vacancy teachers and assistants who served from time to time were Edwin Bauer, Olga Reinking, Carl Retaking, and .Mrs. Ferdinand

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Bienz. No information Is on record as to when the first school was ball*. When in 1892 the old church became the school building, the old school was removed by 'Edward Bleeke. and is still one of the buildi Ings in use on the Victor Bleeke farm. The present brick school was completed and dedicated in Octo'ier of 1915. School enrollment for the 1948-1949 term was 57 pupils in the seven gradex.

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