Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1911 — Page 6

PECK'S BOY AND HIS PA. The annals of the state of Wisconsin record the name of the Hon. W. H. Peck, who once served most creditably us the governor of that commonwealth. It is doubtful, however, if anything recorded in those annals as having been done by this Governor Peck has been as instrumental in perpetuating that statesman's name as has been his play, "Peck’s Bad Boy,” which is again to be presented at the Bosse opera house Monday, January 30. This old bill Is so well known and is of such a nature that one is likely to lose sight of the fact that it is the result of the literary efforts of such a distinguished man as the governor of one of these United States. Yet the play is founded upon a series of sketches for juvenile readers which were written by Governor Peck when he was in the height of his power and Influence in the state of Wisconsin. The dramatization of the sketches was made by Charles F. Pidgin. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 26 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Proctor bill came up before the house at 3 o’clock this afternoon and will be passed by the vote as heretofore given in that part of the assembly on the liquor bill. It will probably go to Governor Marshall this afternoon for his signature and will soon be a law. The vote was 61 to 39. A letter from Dr. Robert Lang offering to donate $200,000 for a hospital to be in charge of the University of Indiana was sent to the legislature in a message by Governor Marshall. It was referred to the ways and means committee. The Strickland Armory building bill was also called this afternoon. o Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Proctor option bill, the enactment of which will in reality repeal the old county option law, throw a score or more of "dry” counties "wet,” and make city or township the voting unit on the liquor question, will not become a law before Monday afternoon, when the house and senate reconvene. Although passed in the house Thursday by a vote of 60 to 39, the legislature did not deliver the bill to the governor before adjournment Friday. Before going to the governor the bill must be signed by Speaekr Veneman and Lieutenantgovernor Hall, while their houses are in session, so there is no hope of it reaching the governor before Monday. Senator Proctor today promised a nember of the Indiana Democratic Editorial association he would present the pen with which Marshall signs the bill to the association when they hold their annual banquet here next month.

Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The past week was taken up mostly with discussion and voting on the liquor question, and members of both houses were hopeful today that the big regulation bill, which is yet to be passed, would be rushed through next week, and the biggest part of the “option” legislation thus gotten out of the way to make room for other work. The prompt reporting of the Proctor regulating bill, which is identical„with the Fleming-Brew-er’s bill, with the exception that it provides one saloon to every 1,000 persons, instead of 500. Considerable oratory will probably have to be used before the bill is finally put through. In the debates on the township option measure some of the democratic and republican speakers came very near rivaling their prohibition friends in their appeal, and numerous amendments are promised to the regulation bill. Although the passing of the Proctor option measure redeemed the big pledge of the democrats, it Is not going to end the liquor legislation. Besides the regulating bill there are still four others for consideration. The Fleming regulating measure will probably be put in cold storage by the public morals committee, now that the Proctor measure is out, but remaining are the Wise regulating bill, the Royse license measure and the Foor bill. Representative Wise was not satisfied with the Fleming scheme of regulation, so drew up a bill of his own. Friends of Wise assert it is a better measure bill than either the Fleming or Proctor bills and intend to see that it is reported from the committee. It is similar to both of the regular bills, but drawn on closer lines. One of the main features requires that screens be taken out of all saloons, so that a clear view may be had of the entire place at all times. Senator Royse’s bill would give the state power to license, tax and regulate distilleries. depots and agencies of breweries, preventing evasion of the regular liquor tax. Representative Foor has introduced a bill which serves as a good example of what Is generaly expected in the way of amendments to the regulating bill when it comes up. The title of Dr. Foor’s measure Is "A Bill to Protect Molly and the Baby.” The bill provides for the appointment of guardians for all habitual drunkards

through the circuit court and is designed to protect the property and families of victims of the liquor habit. Other measures, such as Wise proposes will probably come up and talk is heard of an anti-treating provision being introduced. Nebraska now has an antl-treating law. There is talk of a measure to be intrduced by the “drys" providing that the cost of trials for drunkenness shall be paid by the community in which the person on trial secured the intoxicant. The "drys" have another proposed bill which would license drinkers. This would be a certificate issued on proof of good, sober character. The “drys” see some danger in the Curtiss bill passed by the senate and now pending before the house. The measure gives a saloon keeper the right of appeal to the circuit court if his license is revoked by the mayor in the city in which he is doing business. It also gives the saloon keeper the right to continue in business until the end of the first term of court, providing the appeal has not been taken up. The Keegan child labor bill will will brobably draw a great deal of attention during the coming week. Although the majority of the labor committee reported favorably on the bill Friday, two minority reports were filed, one recommending indefinite postponement, and another recommending various amendments as to hours of employment. Free discussion of the measure will be made on the floor of the senate as great opposition has been shown the bill by various manufacturing industries. Some of the “plum” bills will come up next week, being measures providing for increased salaries for various state and county officers. In all twent-ty-nine of these bills have been Introduced, asking for increases totalling between $150,000 and $200,000. In all 354 bills have been Introduced in the house and 263 in the senate. — o Returns were made by Sheriff Durkins on grand jury Indictments as follows: Sate vs. Dawson F. Suman, for transporting carcas of a dead hog, property of one Edward F. Hiller, which hog had died from cholera, to the fertilizer plant north of town. State vs. Edward F. Miller, for failure to cremate or dispose of the body of a how which died from cholera. Bond for S2OO was furnished in each case. Attorney Lutz for the county has filed petitions, entitled J. R. Graber, ex parte, to secure the admission of Nora Amstutz, aged 11, and Elmira Garwood, aged 9, inmates at the county infirmary, to the Indiana School for feeble minded youth at Fort Wayne. Each child has been at the infirmary all their lives. About a half dozen indictments of the twenty-eight returned are still held up the arrests having not been made. In all probability all but three will be in by Monday, and those parties are out of the state. Quit claim deeds have been filed by Louis Schoppman, Mary Silvers, Conrad Kaiser, William Hartman, Henry Kaiser, Edward Auer, Caroline Dressier and August Roembke to John Selking, for 80 acres In Root township.

MR. KOHLER RECEIVES WORD. From the American Steel Company at Denver. J. H. Kohler, who is to act as superintendent for the large steel structural building, which is to be erected by the American Steel Co. at Denver, Colo., has just received a telegram stating that something like fifteen or twenty car loads of structural material have arrived from Cleveland, Ohio, and which will be used in the erection of this building. It is to be one of the largest buildings of its kind in the west, and Mr. Kohler is to be the superintendent for the entire structure. o IS IMPROVING. Miss Marguerite Case, who on last Wednesday underwent an operation for the removal of a tumor, which had been growing under her left eye-lid for some time, and causing her much trouble, is improving. The operation was performed by Dr. Miller at his office, and was a very difficult one because of its location. It is healing nicely, and it is thought everything will come out all right. .. o —. Fast and exciting was the basket ball game of Friday evening when the Columbia City team defeated the locals in a hard fought lyattle for supremacy on the home grounds, and ’it was only through a little bad luck that the boys went down In defeat. Before a crowd that comfortable filled the hall, all went well until the last half of the game when the locals failed to handle the ball as well as in the first half, while all the luck went to their opponents who won by the score of

30 11. The fins! half ill,l was evenly matched and at the < h'-e of the halt the score stood “' u °. eight IB tWOf I't’lutnbLi ( ■ ' claimed no cinch on the game.. 11 “ lumbia City Is considered the fastes team in the northern part of the state and so far have not lost a single game. They are all good piujers anti their success is due to the fact that this is their third season Mid each one knows the best position for getting the ball into the basket. Whjje the home team lost, they are to be complimented on the game they put up. and jus recently have they acquainted themselves with signals, and with steadpractice wil soon meet with better luck. They have but two more gamt* to be played at home, one of them nex* Friday, when Fort Wayne will cone here, and later Portland is scheduled for a date. The rest of the games, about six in number, will be played away from home before this season closes. The girls’ game, between the Purples and Golds, was also interesting, the former proving their strength in the game by defeating the Golds 18 to 13. The crowd was orderly throughout the evening and the decisions rendered by both referees were satisfactory to all. FRESH, COLD AIR CURES. And is Best Preventative of Colds and Pneumonia. “Fresh, cold wind never gave any one a ‘cold.’ Stagnant air. however pure, is unnatural air, and the still air of imperceptible ventilation, the ideal of the old school sanitarians, is a delusion of a fraud,” says a health bulletin issued this week. “Wind to the skin, variations in heat and cold, are but natural stimuli to the constitution. We have nervous and vacular systems that require these stimuli. Too many shirts and double windows have been disastrous to many a man. Dr. Grenfell on the bleak coast of Labrador hustles pneumonia victims out of five or six shirts, out of their tight, over-heated and overcrowded hovels, into a tent in the snow and cures them. “Can we hot-house plants of present city life endorse radical changes? Will we do it? We certainly can do it. Witness the open air schools in our city and elsewhere; witness the marvelous growth of the sleeping porch idea everywhere. “Also, we will do it, or we will become more and more pampered weaklings or puffballs that a touch will destroy. “Now for a starter. Sleep with the windows open twelve to eighteen inches, and hall door or transom open. An abundance of the lightest and finest bedding is cheaper than doctor and hospital bills. Don't shut your carriage or limousine up so tight. Demand better air in street, elevated and steam cars. Blow out of house, office, factory or store several times a day. Blow yourselves out occasionally by deep breathing three to five minutes before an open window or on a rear porch. “So long as people will continue to poison themselves with bad air. just so long will pneumonia prevail and the pneumonia death rate will be high. Both February and March are bad months for pneumonia, March being worse than February.” “THE MAN ON THE BOX.”

A superb company of players will be seen at tne tsosse opera house on Thursday, February 2nd, In a revival of Harry McGrath’s classic story, “The Man on the Box," dramatized by Grace Livingston Furniss. This play had a run of over 200 nights in New York and was an instantaneous and decided hit. It has in no degree lost any of its beautiful and pleasing powers to catch and hold in its entrancing and fascinating spell the hearts of its hearers and delight them with its strong heart interest; its delicious, high-class comedy, rich and sparkling with wit, fresih from the pen of a master hand, who has in one grand stroke, reached every position of the human soul. The piece will be correctly staged and costumed in every detail. The book has been widely read, and as the play closely follows the book, it will be an evening of rare entertainment for all. o PASSED DANGER PERIOD. Mrs. Fred Heuer returned Friday evening from Fort Wayne, where she spent the day with her sister, Mrs. O. L. Vance, at the St. Joseph hospital. Mrs. Vance, who was operated upon last Monday, has now pass ed the danger period, and every hope for a good recovery is given, though she suffered much yesterday. The meeting of the Elks, held at the hall Friday evening, was one of the most interesting and well attended that has been held for some time. The principal object of this meeting was for the selection of a home, which would he brought up and decided .by

was taken. No ~resent wi’i"' ’ Friday evening. »it u begin ( of three i work at once. A commi # . - **'" ,Z?fwJ ‘ ’ matter and see it tin. , , suitable Place that *”“ U1 "‘ t >ady club rooms for the order, am Which is next Friday night, If 1 are not satisfied with the report of h committee or that the comm -tee eannot find a suitable location t ( seek a location and erect a atntabl building, and one that will I the purposes of an «>>todate home, and where the members can spend their leisure hours. I _ something that the memt-ers h» c been wanting for some time, and » hen it is pronounced as completed by tne Elks it will be a building that Decatur can well feel proud of. Miss Margaret Daniels, one of the ••hello girls,” who has been visiting in Boston and vicinity for several weeks, going east to attend the wedding of Miss Harriet Hill, formerly of this citv. and Mr. Will Hayward writes the following jolly, good letter to the telephone girls who find it so full of general interest that they pass it along the line, and we are sure that all who read it will be sorry when the “ringoff” comes: Georgetown, Mass., Jan. 19. 1911. My Dear Hello Girls: No doubt you are thinking I am not keeping my promise to write to you very well, but if you could be a mouse in the corner and see me you wouldn t wonder. I have written no letters but to the folks at home since I came but have sent several cards. I received yours and was very glad to know that you remembered me. I can scarcely realize the changes that will be noticeable in the office when I get back. I think from all appearances I had better hurry back or I will be missing some of those chances that are going by. Well, if I should begin at the beginning of my trip and give you a full account of my time it would fill a book, so I will just skip over it and when I get back home you may read my “diary.” I have kept note of the most Important events and places I have visited and I have some list. This has surely been the time of my life. I sincerely hope you may all have as great a time some time; if not here, some other part of the U. S. I never realized how much there Is in a trip to learn. My trip out here was something fine. The scenery cannot be described. Through Ohio there was not so much change, but when we came to Pennsylvania, the scenery began to change. And by the way, Ada, I passed through “Sharon. Pa." Did you ever hear of that place? New York and Massachusetts was great. Thursday night it was so pretty and moonlight, and it had snowed hard all day, and the ommense high hills covered with pine trees, certainly made a picture with the little towns and villages tucked in between them, as though they were trying to keep warm. The scenery was about the same, only more hilly the further east we got, until we passed through the Hoosac tunnel, about five miles in length. It rather made me shiver to know that for twenty minutes I was going through the earth anda big pile of it, too. As 1 was thrown out of my way at Birmingham, N. T., about three hours on account of a wreck ahead I didn't get into Boston until 8:30 Friday night and as I only had five minutes to wait for a Salem train I saw nothing of that city until later. When I got into Salem I found Harriet was doing light housekeeping by herself in one of the oldest but very comfortable houses in the city, and as I was nearly dead I rolled into bed 'about as fast as I could get there. I didn't do very much but play lazy until Sunday, when the real estate man, through whose agency they were buying their home, came ever and took us up about eighteen miles to another town in his auto to see the future home. When we got almost there the car broke down and we had to wain me rest of the way. It wasn't very warm either the Sunday before Christmas, but when we got to the house we found a stove up and wood in the shed; so we soon had a warm lire to warm by. We also found a barrel of apples in the cellar. So we were not starved either. As we were going over the house and came to the dining room we foun dthe chauffeur was talking to the garagg^over the 'phone, which by chance had not been disconnected, and telling them to send another car after us. By and by they came and we had 3, lovely ride home after all our ad venture. As the wedding had to be postponed from Christmas day on account of sc much red tape to be gone through with before they could get it settled about their home, the days during the

- were rather busy ones. Harriet < h l more to do than she thought, and she worked right along she needed wlmtHtUe help I could give her badly. 01l ‘Sunday, however, we made up for we went to church in the morning somewhere, and as soon as we had ‘"’ dinner we would mart out on a ' day we went overJo the little old. old town of Marblehead-I ‘ss the oldest town on the coa.tLi it surely looks IL It I. hhe qunlnu ... ( place you can imagine. It looks like the first settlers built their funny I little houses just wherever they want,.,l to along the coast and then as | they walked In and out among them, that made the streets. There are no sidewalks and the streets are just wide, sandy paths, leading from one house to the other. You think you are going straight ahead on a street, and when you wake up you are In some one s back door. Th etown is right on the rockiest part of the coast along this part of the country. The entire coast is one long line of monstrous, high, ragged black and brown rocks, and on one side of the largest of these is the light house. Per our Christmas supper we had fresh fried lobster. Didn't they laugh at me when I said 1 had never seen a lobster or a clam? They think here I am the funniest person they ever saw or heard talk and I think the same of them. It was here I first saw the ocean. New Year's evening we all went to i st" Paul's Episcopal church, tihe old- • est church in Salem, and heard the New Year’s service. It made you think you were either dreaming or living > about 200 years back. The chut ch is » so old that it Is moss-grown on the outside and the pews are the old high 1 back kind with the door. They are so high that you can just see the peoi pie's beads. > They have the choir boys to sing ■ the service, little boys from eight ■ years up to sixteen, and I never have • or never expect to hear such music again. It can’t be described; it was - so beautiful. The middle of the first week in Jan- , uary I went to Lynn to spend my 1 birthday with Harriet’s sister, Mayme, ■ and her two children, and they start- ! ed me off with a very pleasant sur- > prise party, the chief feature of which s was a handkerchief shower. 1 The following Sunday we saw the s big city of Lynn. Went along the , Lynn boulevard, which goes right along • the beach for miles and miles, all as- ) phalt street and cement walks. We went up on High Rock tower, the ; highest point in Lynn, and from there . you can see the cities and ocean for i miles, and it certainly is a lovely - sight.

On Monday morning Forrest (Har- ( riet’s nephew) and I started for Bos- j ton. sight-seeing. We took in all the i most historic places, the old, old state i house, with its old relics, Faneuil hall, ( the old South church, from which t place the “Boston Tea Party” started, t the "Tea Wharf.” where they dumped the tea. This old church is just com- f pletely filled with old historical relics s as is the old North church, the tower < of which is the place the two lan- I terns were hung to give Paul Revere < his signal to start on his famous ride. The old guide took us clear up to the f top of the tower, past the belfry, t where hang the eight chimes which i were sent over from England by King t George in 1623, as was also the solid i silver communion service, which is < still used on communion Sunday. i From the top of the tower you can < see the entire city, the Charleston i navy yard, in which the old ship, t “Constitution” is still standing, well i preserved, but looking so tiny beside ; the larger ships, and the whole Bos- ; ton Harbor. ; , The view is something lovely and 1 when you stand in these old places and think of the many things that i transpired there and the wonderful < people who have lived there, there Is a feeling nothing short of awe that : comes over you. Right in the heart of the city is the oldest cemetery of Boston. In it are buried John Hancock, Samuel Adams, James Otis and Paul Revere. M e also visited Paul Revere’s home and it is still in fine condition. He lived here and the rooms are nearly all furnished just as' they were originally and part of the first furniture is still in the same rooms. The more modern places that we visited were the public library, the state house, and so forth on. The next day Mayme and I went, and we went first to Bunker Hill monument, climbed 294 stair steps to the top, 221 feet high. Going some I claim, Then we took in the shopping district, and didn’t we have a time in those immense stores. The largest one Is nine stories high and covers a whole square. The first day we went over on the train to East Boston, crossed over the harbor on tlhe ferry boat to Boston Proper, and came back in the evening | through the tunnel under the water that we went over in the mori*ng. The second day we went over in the

. ..Uh! TO by the el. vated by airship, and I .. , n , them flying Ht'mimi . - , would have I^.. u R When I got ba. f. ■ , IB wits in the midst ■ • .■■ ftn#l up and as the "bn: tiie following Sum: . . k „, )t ling around pr. in ; ®| Saturday Eliza: .■ •■. .. n ,j , hero and flni-t . I , dll(! ,?W furniture around ■ . packed the di-!...-. .. . the wedding sup;.. ®| Sunday Harriet ; will's J® and family came .i !(l and Will came in Harriet’s sister ... ■ auto. Those w t r. .. ~n | v The great fun < : ceremony was set : . Will was supposed ' ;.,. r „ a ‘,® Well, he wasn’t 1,. at 2:00, and at _•.!„ Al . ®| nervous, and at j ~n in there was a sigh ’’'-liH'I you. They had m t .k on th( ® as usual. ® They had a pre".- wedding® quiet, but impressice. ® They took their ; ... -.vi-ij f - Of ® and 1 in the archw . • .v..„ n lor and library and •:.,> double® service was used W We had a supper :md then quittl reverse to the u- ,alway the party stayed at : ■ ; ua:cile< ® guests depart in th- ear. ■ They have a lovely little ten acres to be used is a ; The house is one of the old cok® houses, with large .cry dining room has .■ • • .mis and pl® all done in their n.r ,:al \o«d showing. The china closet ii ® right in the wall. ■ In the parlor then- is a loveirfl fire place and we art having a li® time by it. E I shall stay here a part of ® week and then finish up in Lyaiß Boston, and then home. g Well, I tfhlnk if you can trtittagß make this scribbling "lit yotuwiH® the history of my trip in a nutih<fl have had to write fast and cic«fl getber, so please ex> use me. I I hope every one is all o. k. says dinner is ready, so I will haul close. Will see you all befon M Year old pal, I MARGARM ■ Speaking on February weather 11 Hicks says: I “A return of rain, sleet and al may be expected on and touching ti 2nd and 3rd, quickly followed by sis freeze and blizzard A cold wave vi dominate most parts of the count(

from the 4th to th. 7’... "A regular storm • • vers tlM| Cth to the loth, t:.-- r. I'.’.ioM grow into active ing to sleet and "7 progressively fr. • Change to fair and ■ .'i will follow prompt; ?:lt these storms. KM “A reactionary . •■■'H’kiOß from the 13th to tl storms of tropical n days of threatening 3,1 e *Bs| Ing in violent chair- :< ’ eal 'Ei er. “A regular storm ;• from the 17th to tie 2i-’. tionary period just preceding regular period will have little or - time between the t"" :or “*-r---weather, so that Ip. ■ 1' h . coming of rain and so w .-tvrm» iny west will be in grorvss The er will be rough and wmtery. ing after that manner well ; the month of March. l’ei‘i n( i , rain and snow storms. “ !l 11 * ably pass eastwardly over the cOWM about 19th, 20th, and 21st, 100 J rapid rise of the bir-'ineter. by a wicked cold wave. A reactionary storm period. on the 24th, 25th ami wll ““■ cloudiness. B A seismic period, centra 28th, covers the 26th ’ 1 ■ sth. M MRS. CATHERINE SMITH Passed Away at Bluffton— Mot ■ Jesse Smith. Mrs. Catherine Smith. Monroeville and this city. li - .[■ afternoon at 4 o’clock a |A her son, at Bluffton- " ' ‘ , t jiiß ■ been making her home tre ■ months. Several weeks ;lgo hre itß tained an injury by falling a ing a leg, and this, added o treme age made her re l o'— sible. Mrs. Smith is the Jesse Smith of this city - 1 ices were held at 1 morning and the body from there to MonroevUie. burial will take place. I C. D. Tillo, who has '"” !1 of the Newspaper i nion ■ Wayne for the past '" ‘' has resigned. The l " rt '' e \Vest er) H was recently merged into Newspaper Union and ment has Wallace' g Wayne to take charge |