Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1911 — Page 4

fHE DEMOCRAT, ■nanioiun morhin* by utw a. ELMNQHAM, RaklUbor. UA» PVR YBAM LN A*VANON Mnterod at the postoffioa al Decatur, .ad. as second class mail matter. OFFICIAL RARER"off ARAM* CO. The rains have come again, and the crops, already excellent, are assured of a completeness of life that will make them break the records of all years of the present decade—that is, in Adams county. Tw en ty-oii e t housana you ng people will compete at forty-five of the county fairs to be held in Wisconsin this fall for $16,000 offered as prize monfor the best exhibits of grain grown by boys or girls under eighteen. Ix-t us remind you again that the period of the year is here when it behooves every one to see that the yard is kept dean from rubbish and weeds. A little effort on your part may save the life of some dear one or friend, or at least avoid a serious sickness. Attend to this and do it now. Os all the seasons in the year when the merchants should advertise, now is the most important one. True the busy summer sale season is over and there is a lull between the clean-up period and the fall ruth, but it's the business man who can keep things moving now that shows a good dividend at the end df the year. The Great Northern Indiana fair will open five weeks from today. Os all the year's events this is one in v ;;ieh every resident of the county should combine to make it a glorious success. The managers can furnish the amusements and they will do this. | It’s up to all of us to boost. Why not . have a big “Home-coming" for one day? The congressional investigating l committee has discovered that the de- ' partment of printing has been accepting supplies below the standard of i samples on which the contracts were let. This has been an open secret among the newspaper men and printers for years. It has been published and charged, but the department and congress heretofore have had only deaf ears to lend to such stories. Now we shall see. What has become of the man who a year ago was fuming over the fact that we had two hundred empty bouses, and worrying for fear we had gone to the dogs entirely? Today we talked to a man who has scoured the city from one end to the other and has been unable to find a house fit to live in. The growth in Decatur has been steady. There has been no boom but just a simple getting back to life. Prom now on, we will march with unfaltering step forward. ( The last step toward the building of a pgw city hall was taken yesterday when Secretary Will Schrock forward* ed to Indianapolis the pUpY.rs , incorporation of the City Improvement company, signed by about thirty of the best known business men of Decatur. Within a few days these papers will 1 be returned, and bids advertised for. The buying of the equipment will follow and we will soon have an apparatus that will get to a fire when It starts. Those of a superstitious turn of mind will no doubt figure out the dope to the disadvantage of the old number “thirteen” as a result of last night's wreck at Fort Wayne. It occurred on the thirteenth of the month. The two passenger engines were number 7313 and 7513, and the home address of Engineer Arick, whose body was the first removed. was 1320 Winter street. No doubt the expert will be able to figure out several other “thirteens," when he gets busy. The manager and committees of the ’ Fort Wayne & Springfield traction line are putting forth a wonderful ( effort to build the line south. The men deserve credit and aid in every reasonable way. They have fought long and against great odds. It is ( ►aid that another week will develop

the definite knowledge of whether or not the extension can be made and it is to hoped that they will win. No one doubts the good that would come from a traction line through to Portland and no one should stand in the way of such an Improvement Newt Gilbert, once the representative of this district in congress and now holding a lucrative as well as responsible position in the Philippine Islands, had a few complimentary words to offer to a Washington correspondent this week in favor of Governor Marshall. He says the ability of the Indiana governor is unknown among the democrats of other states, but that they will learn of his accomplishments later. Os course Mr. Gilbert expresses great confidence in the renomination and re-election of President Taft. Hut fellows who are not filling a fat bffiee at the hands of the said Taft are not quite so cock sure about Taft and a second term.— Columbia City Post. An effort will no doubt be made to fix the blame for the cause of the terrible Fort Wayne wreck, and it is likely that it will be possible to place it to one of the brave engineers who went, to death beneath rhe tons of engine iron. Every one knows that the speed of eighteen hours from Chicago to New York is unsafe, and still in this age of speed madness, when not only trains, but motor cars and motorcycles and motor-everything else are tearing up the dtast of the countryroads, it is not likely that the schedule will be slowed up any. The men who make the schedule might be blamed, but after all they are only trying to please the public and get the business, which they wouldn't ger at forty miles an hour. The commissioners of Adams county have included in their estimates for next year's expenditures, $15,006 for I a bridge over the St. Mary’s river at the East Monroe street entrance to j this city. This will no doubt mean the erection of a beautiful concrete bridge, : with a walk on either side, electric lighted jtosts, marking a suitable entrance into the best town in Indiana. Many travelers coming from the east teach Decatur as the first city in Indiana, and nothing makes a better impression than a handsome bridge. We have all heard of the structures over the rivers at Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Richmond and other places and this movement here is a mighty important one. -Not only the city is thus weli advertised, but the county and state also derives a lasting benefit therefrom. Various republican newspapers have begun nervously to figure out the dope for next year's election, showing that they expect the greatest fight in a quarter of a century, at least. One of them finds comfort in the statement that the democrats must carry the | state of New York to win, or losing that must carry Ohio and California, or still losing these must carry Michigan and Wisconsin. Now anybody fBQWft that in order to win the democrats will have to carry some stated that were lost by Mr. Bryan and we are going to carry them—all those mentioned with the possible exception £>f Michigan, and if Taft's unpopularity continues to grow, the republicans) will have to cover the Wolverine state • and Pennsylvania with senators and • Cabinet members to save their state , tickets. The fellow who beats Tom Marshall for the democratic nomina-| tion for president will be the next chief executive of the United States. Our old friend, George W. Cromer, of Muncie, former congressman, and well known politician, broke into the headlines again this morning as the I result of a fistic encounter with another attorney and former judge, Joseph G. Ijeffler. The men had met at the office of Attorney Guthrie, to take testimony to be used in the saloon cases in September, Cromer representing the “wets” and Leffler the "drys.” The men had been political opponents for years and it did not require much to renew the feeling. As the men 'started to leave the room Cromer rushed upon Leffler, but the latter I eocv had his arms pinioned and was

slowly backing him up to a window 1 when other lawyers separated them. J The saloon fight, which comes up at • Muncie September sth, has long been advertised as a warm one, and these > preliminaries would lead the outside world to believe that the performance will be just as advertised. I The Indianapolis Stax used to be i pretty fair in its editorial columns., . but now it is just old moss-back regular republican. Anything that the par- . ty does is the right thing. Anything . ITesident Taft favors the Star favors. 1 If he signs the wool bill it will be all right, and if he doesn't sign It the Star still thinks he will be doing the right thing. Thus we have it—President Taft is right no mater what he does. It is a remarkable state of affairs —for the first time in the history of a nation, a god sits in the president's chair. This promulgation of the Star's even transcends the doctrine of the divine right of kings. The Star also condemns the democrats for the latFollette bill because it was not exactly what they had stated they favored before the election. Remarkable argument. In view of the former indejtendence of the Star, this latest attitude is very surprising. • Something must have happened. Gary Evening Post. The government crop report, just issued, does not contain much comfort for the man who has been look-1 ing forward to a reduction in the cost of living. The three main crops o: this country show a big shortage a* | ■compared to other years, and there can be but one result of that shortag* . —higher prices all along the line. I With a shortage in feed for hogs and cattle and sheep, meats will increase ’ in price along with the increase in the ■ cost of feed. The shortage not only extends to the three important crops but is also very marked in many of tlie less important one§» such as potatoes. hay, barley and garden truck. Tlie government figure- are based on the best information attainable anl can be relied upon: and yet there is nothing surprising in the figures to men who have observed conditions in their travels iii The corn and wheat regions. They could see with their own eyes that there was a great shortage. There is a possibility that the eleven-dollar hog will return to be given an affectionate embrace and a rousing smack. —Columbia City Post. John T. Willett, pure food law state inspector, arrived in the city Monday evening and this morning began a canvass of the drug stores, groceries, restaurants, confectioneries, hotels, meat markets and places where food products are sold and which come under his jurisdiction for inspection. He stated, as a while, the general condition of things In Decatur was good, but there was ample room for improvement at a number of places. There are some places that do not come up to the standard and t ;se that have I been found to be in : n unsanitary •condition, and not coming up to the requirement of the law will be notified. Milk wagons w ere also Inspected by’ Mr. Willett, and these, also, were /otind wanting, and instructions were given as to what was required. The new egg law is one of the principal features that is being closely watched by the inspector, and every place they are being examined and instructions Jest as laid down by law. They are authorized to buy at a loss off the charge to be made to the farmer, or wherever the goods are purchased, and where this is the case the prosecutions will follow. The merchant is also Instructed to candel his eggs 1 and to sell to the consumer none othler than the best of eggs, as is I what the people want and expect. Dr. Keller, of the city board of health, ’s co-operating with the inspector and all places where defects have ben found, notices will follow, and if they fail to comply with the instructions laid out, a more stringent law will be executed. The egg law is also to be enforced and the fines which can be imposed ' against any one who violates the law , 1 are as follows: For the first offense, a fine of not les sthan $lO nor more than SIOO. and for the third offense a fine of not less than $lO nor more 1 thirty to ninety days in jail will be ■ imposed. This afternoon Mr. Willett • and Dr. Keller made various inspections in regard to the sanitary condition of the city, and if there is any one 1 who would fear to have an inspector 1 call and look things over, they had - better clean up before he gets around. ■I •—— ’ Derrucra* Want Ms Pat.

Jesse McCullum, the Geneva young mtt n and self-confessed hoi* tt e. who several weeks ago was a tert at Fort Wayne, was brought to t hl city Monday afternoon by Sher f J. King. The officer left thls Uy Monday morning, going to with a warrant for hi. arrest, and re turned home on the afternoon The prisoner Is charged < with the theft of the horse and buggy belonging to Elmer Steed of Collett. Mr. Steed came to thU clt , Saturday and made the ' j against McCullum, charging him wi h| stealing his outfit on the night, of July Bth. It was ,be theft of th | Steed rig that led to the apprehension | of McCullum by Sheriff Relchelderfer | of Ft. Wayne, who took him in charge . at the home of a prominent farmer near Fort Wayne. After being placed . in the Allen county jail. McCullum . confessed to the theft of the Steed horse and buggy as well as several other outfits, including the Al Shafer, horse and buggy and the Thomas I ; Goodson rig. McCullum was brought to this city ■ with hi. hands manacled with hand- , cuffs, the officer taking no chance on . the prisoner making an effort to es cape. As the sheriff and prisoner pass-, ed the hitch rack on Commerce | street at the east side of The Daily Sun office, and enroute to the jail,, McCullum eyed the rack with some . ' degree of familiarity. The telephone [ pole at the alley between Main and Water streets, standing at the intersection of Commerce street, was, where the Al Shafer horse on December 4, 1916. was tied when McCullum made his getaway with it. He ad niitted to Sheriff King as he passed the spot that he remembered the identical pole.—Portland Sun. 1 art Wayne. Ind., Aug. 15—(Special to Daily Democrat)—With two blood-' hounds vrougut here from St. Mary s, ■ ' Ohio, guid'ng them, the wrecking ■ j crew at noon today recovered the body of Ira R. Berger, engineer of the see-, I ond passenger engine of the Pennsyl- ! vania flyer, which was wrecked here Sunday night. The body was bound beneath tons of debris and crushed into an unrecognizable mass The body of J. F. Wilson, fireman on the first passenger engine, is still under the wreckage, and the workmen have turned their attention now to finding his remains. Both Berger and Wilson lived in this city. The wreck workers never stopped their hunt from Sunday night until Monday night, when they were forced to quit from exhaustion An immense throng of people watched the men and the huge cranes at work all day yesterday and today. Just after noon today the dogs located the body of Wilson, but it is buried so deep under the iron and steel that several hours’ work will be necessary to reach the body. The injured people at the hospitals here are all reported as getting along nicely and it is possible that four will be the total deaths, j Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, has sent out the following valuable information in reference to the nickel theaters of the state which are conducted in illy ventilated and unsuitable rooms. He Says

thaff fully ninety per cent of the nickel theaters of the state are nuisances and should be suppressed by legislation. There are a few nickel theaters conducted in large, airy and well ventilated theater, buildings which are not detrimental to health, and these constitute the other ten per cent of' the total number in the state. The state board makes no complaint of the nickel theaters conducted in such places, but is after the ones conducted in rooms with no ventilation. Hurty says: “I have no hesitation in saying that fully 90 percentum of all the nickel theaters as now conducted are nuisances pure and simple, and should be suppressed. The laws of Indiana prescribe two kinds of nuisances. The first kind concerns health and the second kind concerns personal comfort and the right use of property. The average nickel theater is both kinds. But it need not and should not be either kind. The way they are constructed and conducted is why they ( are two kinds of nuisances. “And here seems a good place to, say that if the public would arouse I itself against polluted air to one-tenth the degree it has aroused itself against adulterated foods, it would experience benefits ten times greater than have proceeded from the pure food campaign. Foul air and air starvation kill an average of 100 each . month in Indiana and lower efficiency . terribly, but adulterated foods lately , if ever kiil a single person. A grocer . who by selling adulterated foods. . i would do a small fraction of the . i harm done by foul air in the nickel > theater next door, would be most severely dealt with. By breathing foul I air we poison poisoned blood poisons our tissues, cells and nerves; and thus the resistance against microbes being lowered . they take hold, and off we go with a

cough’, a cold, a catarrh, or pneumonia and .iMiaumptlon, You *'U> always find a superabundance of foul air In theaters. ■The close packing of the people is also another objection to nickel theaters. It is the most possible thing in the world that the persons you are in actual contact with because of the close seating, may have some transmissible disease. •■We may rightly class as unsanitary any conditions which might injure hearing. *nell or sight. The shimmer of moving pictures, the glint and the glare are all certainly injurl- : OUS to the eyes, even though the shimmer be marked and excessive, but the daily or almost daily viewing of them has done ram to sight. A well known occulist of my acquaintance ' has had two cases of eye trouble attended with nervous trouble, which, after much searching, he found to be caused by moving pictures. T suggested to him that the foul air might also have had some Influence because it is such an active agent in lowering vitality and resistance. He finally ! concluded the bad air did influence : the situation to some degree. In the Instance of the two cases mentioned I the eye trouble of the patients and ! the nervous trouble, too, disappeared | when they ceased attending the moving picture shows. 'lt is apparent the objection here recorded lies practically against the surroundings under which nickel theaters are conducted and managed. If the rooms are kept clean, and more important, thoroughly ventilated and of the awful dust saKated, dirty, mi-crobe-laden curtains at the entrance were abolished, then the greater part of our sanitary indictment would fall. These improvements are necessary for the nesltJ of the patrons of these she ws. 1 o bring them about 1 is to na« oicdiiijces regulating the ' matter. At 6:30 o’clock Monday evening. ■ following an illness of several years' duration from enlargement of the heart, and since last January being in a very serious condition. James McClain Archbold, Civil war veteran, re tired farmer and one of the best known men of this county, passed away at his home In St. Mary's township, four miles southeast of the city after enduring very excruciating pain for the past several days. He was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1841, where he lived with his parents until they came to this state in 1851, and located in Wells county. Some years later the father purchased a farm in Preble township, this county, where the deceased was reared to manhood. He was a veteran of the Civil war, enlisting as a member of Company D of the 51st Indiana infantry. After his return I iiffll war service he located in St. Mary’s township, where he has since lived. He was permitted to gain an excellent education and far two years taught school. Mr Archbold had reached the ad-

vanced age of three-score and ten , years, lacking but two months, and this, along with the lingering illnees. < with which he has been suffering, caused his demise. He leaves to mourn the ; - loss a loving wife, three children —Miss Jennie, 1 at home; Mrs .Stella Kern, and Mrs. Jesse Swartz, also of St. Mary’s township. The following brothers and sisters also mourn their loss: Mrs. A. Kreigh of Wells county ; Mrs. W. Murphy, Decatur. William Archbold, Ossian, and Eera Archbold, of Ft. Wayne. James M. Archbold first enlisted in ■ Company K, 89th regiment, Indiana volunteers. Having taken down with ■ a fever that lasted quite a period of. time, he failed to get with his com- ( ,mand. He later enlisted in Company ( D, 51st Indiana infantry, and was immediately sent to the front to Join ( General Thomas' army, and from the joining of this cavalry until the close' of the war the comrade saw hard • fighting and marching, having partici- ( pated in all skirmishes and battles from the beginning of the Confederate General Hood’s invasion of Ten- * nessee till the close of the war, the soldier, with his regiment, saw hard service. His colonel, A. D. Streight, was noted for his fighting qualities,' and in command of a regiment or bri ( gade, was at all times pushing his com- . mand to the fighting line. Mrs. John Gratner dodged the jail doors Monday by a narrow margin, and she may feel thankful if the first grand jury >on’t return an indictment against her. It is charged that she was in possession of a fifty-dollar bill, to which she had no right and she had George Mumma and the officers guessing for an hour or two. George is a thresher and came in Saturday night with >l3O, consisting of two fifty i dollar bills, a twenty and a ten. As he could not get into the banks he took the money home with him and placed it under his pillow when he retired. He got up early Monday morning and went to the country near Monroe to do some work. A little son, aged about four years, while playing . in the bedroom found the roll of motj-

ey and gathe i!l)K .. remark U,,. r M ”” a search for t1 ... fina It. and linalh band. When he arr(vwj questioned and ,„ 1(j money without unw^« Opl , the neighbor lady. interviewed eighty dollar*. < )I1H ~P j g . bill being misstug T|i( , searched at ,| 1( . Mntnn.a was the hon*. and y. Vll M ., 'Mlb* even joining in th,. h ,. n , was round Xaturalh y| rg was simple),., n(l ma charged A,. b h;bias ey She bee;).)),, ened to a ,,.. s!e(i G.-orge < . Ul ’ the “ b)..„. |y Mtu Merita „ n , t _ ise.-. but he n , r flVv whi( 11 ' <1to jail on >i.))n t , ~f shorten . ■ ma is happy ... - ile rM ■ fifty ami -a . ie . ful in the fiitu--) HB At the ■ Fellows Mon • t ... turnisliinn ■ Sovereign i; , A;ls • when - pointed to . ■ . ly in order b o-rniine i ..... . Imlianapol:- ~-h ■ . day ot the ably the ■ . order .. • which ove: ))■■; • Twenty -ti'.. . ; ust d and pt i ■ . dollars will • i\ Odd Fellows . ■,. in ail that - ; ; , tives from :. > ' best degree ■ give several -v : ing any man ■-. .co team ami d< B j ror. So tl.oro rhe t • of this team m,-.t. i of the ritual:*:: • and can o< :. ■ j gree The - :ui ( 060 per man. ■ s Many thing.1 there for the t 1 not an Odd F. ■■ .'well taken ■ who have th.-■ t 1 day night it w ■ . , would go from : ■ • H HI

CiaiellCe Hoc. voting this city., who home from t' 1 ;. ■ - ployed in one ■ cases, has oomph ''<i all •’ ments for the « . short order am! - l,l£ lishment. Menu. M '■ C. L. Walters !:• 11 he leased the building® door north of th>- Myers 4 clothing store, :m.t work rearrange' ' as to be ready :••• "i'"" 11 - tember Ist. Mur n'--ht k<- ® CWicstgo, where h- U ,ll! > sary fixtures to meet die ments, and whiiii will iea«.b a few days. Ever. ng wii’date in every resist and heJ«® to give the people of r * catur ® thing in the line sorting » ’ have not enjoyed More De® room will be of im<siou ® very latest type, while the ® will be’'eqtiipped ’*’•!. a ll '* ® sarv utensils for "• best seruttj upstairs will be a !or ' ■ furnished rooms. with ,iath a ° er. Mr. Holthouse is a ® young than; enjoy' lll -’ nianand his success is assured. The electrical storm night worked havoc over ■ area of the farm me com J of Berne, says the Berne ' ® The heaviest John Sipe in Blue • * ® whose barn was tomple with all the hay and l»rfc and other implements tba in it. Lightning strutk o’clock in the m'' 1111 ”- who lived on "'' e P , ,he John Sipe, was up and almost in a minute a w and quickly got o> and harness, but by _„ f ft whole barn was on< • ' and nothing more could loss is Partly cover'd to s I About a half mile the barn of Frank , ' struck and partly at standing nearby w plli iip S« I In Jefferson towns' 1 suffered considers > ‘ t itf® damaging his barn ' rafterS and tearing down slates, ~ v last we<* ,W ! At another da. ■ Vabash' Sam Teeter’s h ° rse * ‘ ißg , b>« ship were hurt by killed. . f Democrat Want