Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1911 — Page 6

After a three hours' cent eat, Miss Ardella Rose Saib of Jasper, representing the Third congressional district of Indiana, was declared the champion speller of the graded schools of the state, Thursday over thirty-seven other contestants selected from the best spellers of all the grades of the state. Naomi Frank of Greenfield was second and Levin Litzenberger of Middletown was third. The Adams Bounty delegation which hud two contestants from the'three of the Eighth district entered in the contest, returned home this morning, and while not gaining the highest honors, Professor L. E. Opiiger, county superintendent of the Adams county schools, stated that he was well . pleased with the way his contestants acquitted themselves. Mlarion Michaels of Monroe township, tills county, who was the champion speller of this county, as well as one of the three from the Eighth district, was the twenty-sixth to go down in defeat at the state contest, there being only twelve of the thirty-eight contestants left standing when he went down. The word on which he met defeat wa« -ogre.” This word is spelled both • ogre" and "oger," but the formed way is recognized as preferable and was eo spelled in the Hat from which, the words for the contest weve given out, riievefore his spelling it as “oger” was not recognized as correct. Miss Catherine Waid of Union City, anotb er eighth district contestant, was the, twenty-third one to miss, and Miss’ Clara Gilbert also of Monroe town-j ship, this county, was the third to go down, so that Marion Michaels. rite Adams county boy, has the honor of' being the best speller from the Eighth district, being the last one to miss. The word missed by Miss Gilbert was “Ilium,” a prefer name, taken from an extract from Homer, and one not listed in the regular spelling list. Adams county people in general will agree with Professor Opliger that our contestants made a good showing and everybody here is mighty proud of them. Those from Adams county who attended returned this morning. Professor Opliger going to Linn Grove to join his family in a visit there with relatives. Miss Saib, the winner, is fourteen years of age, and an eighth grade pupil. As a final test, after all her opponents had been forced to their seats, Miss Saib spelled “falsetto” correctly and was awarded a gold medal and a dictionary by John I. Huffman, deputy state superintendent of public instruction . “Hereditary” was the stumbling block of Miss Frank and “recurrence” proved the undoing of young Utzenberger. The Indianapolis Star gives the following account in detail of the state spelling match: “For more than three hours, from 2:30 to 5:30 o'clock, the thirty-eight children, ranging in age from fen to 15 years, and representing Indiana's school children in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, held an audience which packed the house chamber, while they battled for the spelling honors of the state. Approximately 5,000 words were pronounced by Miss Anna Brochhausen of the Indianapolis public schools and J. Walter Dunn, state manager of the Indiana Reading Circle, who gave out the words, before the long line of “beet spellers” dwindled to the three last children. Miss Georgia Alexander of the Indianapolis public schools was referee of the match and Lee L. Driver of Winchester, superintendent of public schools of Randolph county, served as bookkeeper. The Alexander spelling book of which the referee of the contest is the author, was used to start the fray, but a long list of wqrds mispelled throughout the state in the district word battles, the winners of which contested Thursday, was used and then the pronouncers had to tum to several fifth readers before they could find words hard enough to thin the line. “Few misunderstandings marred the con feet, though in several cases pa.’ents and teachers of the children who missed a word questioned technicalities in its pronunciation or definition. In all these cases the matter was cleared by the decision of Miss Alexander to the satisfaction of the parties concerned. “Such words as ‘prerogative,’ antecedent,' ‘sovereignty,’ ‘felicitous,’ ‘avoirdupois,’ ‘fatiguing,’ ‘direlict,’ ‘lsraelites,’ ‘Achilles,’ and ‘radii,’ came glibly from the tongues of the children, with scarcely a falter, and the audience applauded vigorously when tho child succeeded in spelling an unusually hard word. “Jennings Gordon of Napanee was the first speller to miss a word. He spelled the word ‘traveler,’ and put an additional T in, which is permissible in practically all dictionaries, but which is barred by the Alexander speller. This first break in the long row of children after twenty minutes of successful spelling. “Bertha Howard of Bridgeport was the next to go down. She faltered on

s ‘precipitous’ seven minutes after Gori- don had been spelled down, and was i- forced to take her seat. Clara GilB bert was the third to fall, missing 1 ilium.' So it went down the long Hue, r none of the words missed being r-u • common use. Several times the s nouncer faltered on a decision auJ f once Miss Alexander, referee and au- .- thor of the spelling book, which was . used, misspelled a word in explaining 1 how the child to whom it had been’ f given had missed it. d b “Pronouncer Dunn called 'linea :, ment.’ The child did not understand t and Mr. Dunn defined the word as a medicine. Then the child sjielled it , l-i-n-i-m-e-n-t,’ and Mr. Dunn declared; 1 that the word was misspelled. Miss b Alexander immediately took a hand. • declaring that the child had misunder- • stood and that the definition was not I correct. During the melee some one j asked Miss Alexander to spell the s word correctly and she unhesitatingly t spelled l i-n-arm-e-n-t' amid uproarious f laughter. i ’’Such littJe used words as 'succu--5 lent,' 'eligible.' ‘impostor,’ 'analogues,’ t ’beseech,' ‘chrysalids,’ 'mademoiselle.' li 'jaunty,' ‘blotches,’ ‘peered,’ 'buoyant,' courtier,’ 'perchance,’ ‘equilaterals,’ I 'assiduously,' aliquot.’ ‘gelid,’ 'trapeij zoM,' 'feigning,' and 'crypt’ were those i on which the school children made ” their errors. i “Children from the same county ■; werenot allowed to sit together in the line. In the long list of words was a >; written test of fifty words in which i but one child failed to spell correctly. > Eulila Martin made a grade of 98 per !■ cent in tthis contest, misspelling f' mademoiselle.’ The remainder of the i children, probably twenty-fir* of them, spelled each of the fifty w*>rds i correctly and received grades of TOO per cent. Miss Martin spelled the word on which -She was sent to her sean. madamoisMk .’ “AH words which were given to the children Thursday tv spell will be recorded and a bulletin containing them issued to teachers of the seventh and eighth grades next year for use in the schools of the state. “Vivian Lewis of Argus, representing the Thirteenth district, was the only winner in the district contests who failed to appear for Thursday's test. No reason *tus given f»r her absence. Miss Saib was congratulated by friends and relatives who had attended the 'match' to cheer her on. After she had received the gold medal the little girl said: “ ‘They tried to beat me in several ways, some of which I didn’t like, but I kwBW I could win if I could stand up long enough, and I did. I am very glad to be considered to be the best speller in the state, but as I previously had won all such contests that 1 had been in I was practically sure that I would win today. I have never specialized in spelling. I have attended a parochial school since I started to school, I am glad I have pleased father and mother so much.’ ” The Magley school of which Miss Theresa Baltzell and Miss Anna Fruchte are teachers, closed today with much festivity, the entire day and evening being given over to the same. Besides the events of the day a good program will be given this evening. The school, District No. .’, in Washington township, also closed today. The teachers are Melvin Mailonee and Ray Smith. Among the many schools of the county that closed today was that two miles south of Peterson, known as the Election school, taught by Frank Mills of this city. There was a good, bounteous dinner at noon, in which all the patrons joined, and an excellent program this afternoon. Attorney C. L. Walters of this city was among the speakers, and among others who attended the festivities were Frank's parents. Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Mills of this city. MILLER’S TRIALS EXPENSIVE. Auburn, Ind., March 30 —It will cost Allen county just $3,084.54 for the expenses in connection with the trial of Herman Miller, tried in this county, who was accused and found guilty of murdering Marshal Croy of Woodburn, several years ago. Deputy Clerk Denison has been busy ever since the trial trying to get all the items of expense together so that be could make a formal demand upon our sister county for the amount. In compiling the figures it was found that $987.90 of the amount is taxed up as costs for the jury and this added to the expenses of boarding and rooming these gentlemen brings the total up to $1,525.25 for jury items alone. At this was the fourth of the trials incident to the murder of Marshal Croy, it can thus be estimated what a great expense to which’ J the county of Allen ha» been put in order to prosecute the guilty parties. W. J. Archbold, who for the pasti seventeen years has acted in the capacity of local agent for the Adams

Express company, and also caring for the city’s business for a number of years, and who on account of a business deal which he made several weeks whereby be becomes a partner in the linn of True Runyon. and who some time since sent in his ixwlgnid ion to the express company's bxiadquarler* at Grand Rapids, Mica., to take effect SaturI day, Apiil Ist, has not yet been iei Ikwed of his duties with the company. ~A. D. Harrison, route agent, with headqua: ters at Grand Rapids, was in I the city Thursday all day. talking the ' matter over with Mr. Archbold, trying to compiomise in some way, so that the company can retain his services as local agent. They know the value of him who lias served them so faithfully for thia period <if time, and do not care for a change to take place, and liave not as yet accepted his resignation. He went over all the business accounts up until yesterday, and found them clean and giving perfect satisfaction from one end to the other. No conclusion was reached on Thursday and the matter atill remains to be closed. Mr. Archbold wishes to resign that he may better devote his attention to the new profession which he will take? up in a short time, and with the express business, he feels that he could not put in the proper time for ail that he wishes to do. Just when satisfactory arrangements can be drawn up to suit both parties remains to be done, but it is thought a decision will be reached in a day or two. oAMOS LIKES OHIO. Writes Interesting Letter to His Adams County Friends. Amos Light, a former Adams county man, who recently went to the vicinity of Newton Falls Ohio, writes the following letter to his many friends here: Newton Falls, Ohio, Mar. 30, ’ll. Decatur Democrat, Decatur, Ind.: Quite a number of my people and acquaintances wanted me to write chew concerning us and our new home, and I will take this method to inform them through your paper, if you will do me the kindness to do so. We are well pleased with the country. and people. The country lies about the same as our country, and 1 have done considerable plowing at present. We find the country very healthful and have plenty of good water. The land i» one-half cheaper than there and we raise just a» good crops, with better markets. You can buy good farms in this section from $35 to SBO per acre, with good improvements, and with little tiling is better land than out at our old home. If any of our old friends and acquaintances desire to change their location, would be glad to have them come and look at farms in the vicinity of Newton Falls, Ohio, and would be glad to have all them come and see us. We are all well and hope this letter will meet you all the same. Will be glad to answer all letters concerning this country. Yours truly, AMOS LIGHT. WIDOW RETURNS HERE TO LIVE. Mrs. Isaac Weaver of Devil's Lake, Michigan, arrived here and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. D. Artman, of this city. Mrs. Weaver accompanied her widowed daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ernest Weaver, and babe, to this city, where they will make their home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Henderson. Ernest Weaver, who was a former resident of this city, was well known here, living here before he went to Michigan several years ago. His death occurred January 27th from measles. The widow was Miss Nellie Henderson of this city before her marriage. The Decatur public schools will be boosted at the meeting of the Indiana Teachers’ association at Indianapolis next week. Heretofore the larger cities have been making a display of their penmanship, art work, etc., and realizing that the work here is just as high class as in any of the schools of the state, a display of penmanship has been prepared and will be taken to the meeting this year. It is assured that Decatur will this year make a showing that will compare with any of them. For this purpose the penmanship work of all the grades have been arranged in neat book form, with a handsome cover, designed and made by Cecil Cole, a high school student. The cover is finished in scroll design, in the high school colors, with the words “Decatur,” at the top of the page and “Penmanship” at the bottom, making it very attractive. The books are numbered as per grade from one to nine, the last being that of the first year high school, with an extra copy showing the special design work. The display includes various kinds of writing, with special-exhibits of full arm moveI ment work and is almost wonderful. On each page the age of the student who prepared that sheet is given, but

•no name, and It would surprise you_to 4 look at the wonderful anUnff . pupils of all grades, particular!. I .children of from six to ten yearsentire exhibit Is excellent and w . show well beside any in the state- _ - 0 * i Indianapolis, Ind, Mar. JII majority of two votes i nion t. nJ •“ •* - local option election Thursday declai . ed for Ha.' roadtnillamw of saloons . two y«xs ago, hx the Randolph i county option election. I aion 1 ' t went dry hy a majority of ln ' > returns from the election. " 1 ; closed a hotly contested campaign showed the wets had polled 3,6 votei and the drys 374. Martinsville, the seat of Morgan county, vote wot under the new city , and township option law by l”-0. 'l || ‘ , county had been dry under the old county option law. In Hendricks county, Center township, including I the town of Danville, and Idnco.n township, including the town Brownsburg, voted wet by majaritiei of thirty-seven and seventeen, re ; spectively. The drys were successful in Gill township, Sullivan county, in which i is situated the college town of Merom. ■ and in Richland township. Jay county which includes the town of Redkey. The majorities were IS and 118 re- , spectlrely. —————• REGARDING PAYMENT Os Teachers While Attending Conventions. Charles A Greathouse, state super intendent of public instruction, has received many inquiries concerning the power of trustees and school boards to pay teachers for attending teachers' meetings. “Such payments formerly were not authorized by law,” said Mr. Greathouse yesterday. “However, the last legislature passed a law permitting trustees and school boards to adjourn school to enable teachers to attend educational meetings, and to visit model schools under the direction of proper school officials. The number of days which may be paid for in that way is limited to three. This law contained an emergency clause, and is now in force. The law is of peculiar interest at this time for the reason that the Northern Indiana Teachers’ association will meet in Indianapolis April 6th, 7th and Bth. ”A number of school officials have written to the state superintendent, to the board of accounts and to the attorney general inquiring whether in paying their teachers for attending such meetings they should be paid out of the tuition fund or the special school fund. After carefully investigating the law it has been decided that such payments may be made from either the tuition fund or the special school fund.” — NEW FLOOR Put in the Fred Mutchler Meat Market on Monroe Street. The Fred Mutchler meat market on Monroe street made quite a change from Thursday evening until the doors were opened for business this morning. A new floor was placed in the entire room, the carpenters commencing their work shortly after supper so as to have things in readiness for the carrying on of business today. NOT MANY THERE. Only a few witnessed the play, “Jim and the Singer,” at the opera house Thursday evening, the audience being scarcely large enough for them to carry out their performance. The play was very good and well pleased the . few present, and the company was de-; serving of a much better crowd. The company is first-class, and their play-' Ing pleasing, and no excuse can be of- j sered for them not having a good and appreciative audience to show to. They left this morning for Portland, where they have an engagement for ' this evening. ( , El Paso, Tex., March 31—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Considerable anxiety resulted today from the report from Nocales, Somora, that from 800 to 1,000 men had been killed in , a battle which has raged for three days between the federals and insur- i : rectos near Sans Rasael, resulting in I that town being burned. The report : has not been confirmed, but it is given credence. It is said that the insurrectos dynamited the hill near the town and the fire resulted. The battle progressed while the town burned and the federals could not leave the battle field to take care of the women and children who suffered from the conflagration. It is also said that many people perished as a result of the terrible fires. -,. San Antonio, Tex., Mar. 31—(Special to Democrat) —Premature news of the report that the Mexican government had agreed to treat with the insurrectoe ia declared today to be reBPWwible for the delay of the plans

11 future movements will be kept secret The insurrectoe have been regarded as outlaws by the government td to treat publicly with them would be to give them recognition. 1 has sore eye. Clem Voglcw.de is going about with. a very sore eye as a result of a mishap which befell him the other day wlille performing some work about I,la home. He was trimming some trees and in some way a brunch -truck him in the eye. causing it to become very irritable and causing him much inconvenience. He endured the pain for several days and on last Wednesday it began to pain him so much more than before, he having taken cold in the member, redoubling the lain. No serious injury was done to the eye itself, but it is very sore and care will have to be taken to allow it to heal WOMEN TO VOTE IN WISCONSIN Madison. Wis., March 31, —(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The senate today i>assed the bill granting the right of suffrage to women in state elections The bill has passed the house and will become a law providing a referendum is endorsed at the next general election. “GINGER” GASS WAS "HOT.” Trouble Grew Out of Hot Bed —The Seed Was Stolen. Frank Gass, manager of the Fullenkamp store, was a “hot' man Thursday afternoon and he was pretty "Gingery aoout it, too, all the trouble growing out of his hot-bed. the making of which is an annual event of much importance to him. He had gotten about three dollars’ worth of fine seed from a New York firm and had laid the package out near the hotbed behind the Fullenkamp storewhile he raked and raked the earth into a fine condition for the reception of the seedlets. Just at a critical point he was called into the store to see a customer and was gone about two minutes. When he returned to the hot-bed his seed was gone. He thought at first he was the victim of a joke, but as the seed has not turned up yet, he is convinced that it was deliberately stolen. What provokes him is the delay occasioned necessarily by ordering more. o .—— - The Hartford City papers give the later chapter in the "hard times” story of the Lee Minstrel show which arrived here Tuesday from Hartford City and wanted to give a performance that evening at the Bosse opera house, and were turned down because they had not been advertised. While here the sheriff was telephoned front Hartford City to arrest the manager for beating a board bill, but he let them proceed on their way to Fort Wayne, as he did not have the proper warrant It seems that at Fort Wayne the manager ran up against the proper warrant and was taken back Wednesday to Hartford City, a paper from that place giving the following: "Harry L. Lee, ex-rough rider, theatrical manager, and at present a guest of Sheriff Clamme, will make an effort to effect a settlement with the proprietors of the Interurban restaurant, whereby he can pay the board bill, which he is charged with jumping, by the installment plau. “The time for Lee’s trial has not been set. Before Justice Lucas Wednesday Lee entered a plea of not guilty and declared that he wanted a trial. He told his side of the story to i the authorities and the latter are not j Inclined bp be hard with the actor. It | is thought that an arrangement will , be made whereby Managers Herman ( and Surface of the Interurban hotel i will be given some show parapherna(lia as security. Lee claims that once he gets out of jail he can easily raise enough money to liquidate the bill, which he is charged with trying to beat. He had already applied $lO on the account, which originally was $54 His trial has not been set.” ABOUT THE SICK. The measles epidemic has struck , the Nelson May home in Union town- ; ship about right, five of the children | being sick at the same time with the measles. Theodore Droppieman was reported as being very low Thursday, according to the latest word received from Jeffersonville by his relatives. Attorney L. C. DeVoss, who has been quite sick with heart trouble and asthma, is somewhat better. Mrs. Chriitena May, the pioneelady of Union township, who has been helpless since October Bth, from ar attack of paralysis, shows no Improve ment, in fact, it is thought if there Is «y change it Is that she is growing gradually weaker.

POLICE COURT — » w The case of the State w H Hamrick, asking that hv be under a i*eaco Pond to from Injuring hia wife a. (s C|| H Friday morning by Sl „ nv H the prosecuting witness :, Ilg pear, the proeecutor ma.;. , to dismiss the case. It wi!: ... renj( W bored that Hamrick was , l: .. -,,| week on an affidavit , ()jr step-daughter who had .. f ,.S Lima, Ohio, to visit with . ;wh W A case was filed lieto,,. S , lU H Stone this morning ent . . Young vs. William OM, , , N| W a civil suit on an unpaal lnt ■ $30.00. A summons was . , lt the trial set for April ut- 10 .8 ■ o'clock. — J 19 MISS BURWELL GETS GOOD jq| Bluffton, Ind., March iSpec® to Daily Democrati— Mi-s p an H Burwell, clerk in one of t .- 'oral offices, was today apjtoinie,; >, v Sturgis as official court reporter « the district competed of Wells al ' Hartford counties. The position ■ 1 worth about $1,500 per year j WILL START A NEW TOWN H West Hammond, Ind., March 31.1 (Special to the Daily lh-ni< rati-F»M ing in tneir crusade against grafl ■ Miss Virginia Brooks tod., plannfl an exodus from West Ha-.m.-nd aifl the founding of a new town tnunll ipally pure. Miss Brooks says t J early Monday, skids will h e put ufl der the cottages of between 4<to anH 700 families in West Han -nond anH they will be moved across the finH where the new town ot ProokvilH will be established. ■ TWO TOWNS VOTE TODAY I Indianaqolis. Ind., Mandi iSeH ial to the Daily Derm >• rat ‘—N'eH Castle and Plymouth ar. 'i.e on IM towh« voting on the salt r.-tioH today. Both the ‘‘wets” and ' drysß are claiming a majority, r. >, folio J ing townships are voting: .la.-ksonß Miami county; Locke. Washington and Union, Elkhart; four '.ownshijß in Marshall county. 1 o —_ | ABBOTT’S BODY FOUND TODAY.I Albany, N. Y., March 31,—iSpecJ tn the Daily Democrat)—The body ofl Samuel Abbott, a nightwat. Lman whcl lost his life in the capitol fire, waal found in the ruins today . 1 o I NEWS FROM COURT HOUSE. I Heller, Sutton & Heller Lave fileil a new case, entitled James Wat-1 kins vs. Noah Acheson and James Hoblet, for breach of warranty, de-i mand, S2OO. * The case of Laura A. F, ■ ’ Charles K. Foughty, divo . continued by agreement. The February term of ' wil’ close next week but the A term convenes the following continues until June. T missioners will meet next 1 select a petit and grand j: : County Auditor Michaud ceived blank licenses, bond- and application, under the new law. and L now ready to do business with the successful applicants for licenses next week. —o ATTENDS MEETING. J. E. Moser left this noon for Fort Wayne and this evening will attend a meeting of the Cuban Land & Improvement cempany of which he a member. The meeting will place at the law office of J- ' ese) and promises to be one of mm-b intei est and importance. Headquarters o , this company are located at this P a™ and much of the business locality is attended to. Mr. >1- ” ’’ greatly interested in the company • , | having gone some time ago ' L number of others, to Cuba to era land deal and where he purchase of many acres. HOME FROM TRIP. Fred Vaughn, who for moif 11 month has been absent from ' returned last night from ' ’ . , Y., where he has been f<" days, and during this time making an extensive trip ,hu! '’^ laceS east, stopping at a number ■ , of interest. His principal st-.'l--' _ were at New York City, Ix>n- ■ Sound, Syracuse and Buffalo. . ing been at the latter pla l ■ days. A very pleasant afternoon spent Thursday with Mrs. • bold by the Thimble club, M‘- aB Failing of Flint, Michigan, be out-of-town guest. Mrs. I 1 n will entertain next week.