Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1912 — Page 1

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RECORDS SMASHED — The Decatur Hoosier Makes II Good in its Seven Days' Run at Auto Show. IN NEW YORK CITY ill. E. Brackett Telegraphs I the Wonderful Success of Decatur Truck. — ■Daily Democrat, Decatur, Ind.: I New York, N. Y., Jan. 16 —The De- j ■ntur Hoosier Limited truck has se-, Sined the world’s non-stop record, ■auctioned by American Automobile | ■Association’s contest board, and it is I ■till running without mechanical ad- 1 ■ustments of any kind. It has been mmning one hundred and seventy- ; light hours. Mileage, nine hundred 1 Ind sixty-eight miles. M. E. BRACKETT. I Hoorah, for the Hoosier! We knew Lhe was the goods, and this greatest ■of al Itests proves it. The record up j Ito Tuesday evening smashed everyItliing in history, and the car will conItinue to run until this evening at 6 [o'clock when the big automobile show [closes. The record made under the American association will stand until I beaten and longer, because it is the (first seven-day record ever made by any truck. The Decatur Hoosier is a great car. It has been proven many times, and within a few years its factory will be one of the big ones of the country. Some of the Decatur people who attended the show will arrive home tomorrow or the next day. "THE CONFESSION.” At Majestic—Decatur K. of C. Will Attend Performance. "The Confession,'’ James Halleck Reid's great moral play that has created so much talk in New York City, will appear at the Majestic theater, Fort Wayne, on Thursday night. The play, while dealing with a subject in a reverent, intelligent manner, docs not depend upon that alone for its large audiences of interested spectators, its powerful dramatic situations, knit together with gripping power, hold Protestant, Jew and Catholic alike breathless to the end of the play, ft is one of the few theatrical amusements that members of the Catholic faith have been advised to attend during Lent. 1 Rev. M. J. Lavelle, vicar general of the archbishopric of New York, in an open letter commends the play and sane-' tloned its attendance during Lent. This is the first time in the history of New York City the vicar general has ever attended public in a theater during the Lenten season. The author deserves immense credit for the reverent and intelligent manner In which he has handled his play. There Is nothing in it at which even the most scrupulous could take offense, but on tfle contrary there is much to admire and a great deal to applaud, and judging from the large attendance, the play will doubtless remain In popular favor. A section of seats will be reserved for Decatur Knights of Columbus and their friends. SPUHLER FUNERAL. To be Held Friday—Last Respects Paid to Mrs. Caroline Grote. The funeral of Dwight Spuhler, whose death occurred on Tuesday, will be held Friday morning from the North Salem church, the cortege leaving the home at 9:30 o’clock. Interment will be made at the church cemetery. Mrs. Caroline Grote, the well known lady of Union township, was laid to rest today with appropriate services. A short service was held at the home at 12:30 o’clock and at 1 o’clock from the Emmanuel Lutheran church. A large number of friends and relatives were in attendance to show their respect and a worthy tribute was paid to the deceased elderly lady. Interment was made in the church cemetery.

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A BARGAIN HANGING. With two women grasping either end of a bolt of silk offered as a special bargain at a grab sale, and which in the mad rush had in some manner managed to wrap one about her neck, Mrs. E. V. Brown, came near being strangled to death at a store in Elwood Monday morning. Without realizing the silk was formln a hangman’s I noose, and that they were acting as the woman's executioners, the two women continued their pulling on the goods until Mrs. Brown lost consciousness and fell to the floor. She was finally carried from the crowd and later recovered sufficiently to return to her home. Five hundred attended the sale and judging from the noise, fighting and pushing which prevailed, Kip- ■ i ling was not far wrong In his descrlp- | tion of woman in "The Female of the ( Species.” PURCHASE LIGHTS I > , Better Street Lighting is Now Assured for Decatur and Its People. (FIFTY NEW ONES I I Old Ones Have Run Their Course and All Desired New Ones Obtained. The street light problem for Decatur has been settled, it reaching a cli- ( max Tuesday evening when the city council at their regular meeting agreed to purchase fifty new lamps with all the necessary equipment and the furnishing of better street lighting, - of which it has been in great need for ( years past. Bids were received from ( two companies on Tuesday evening, 1 one from tne Westinguouse people of: Pittsburg, Pa., and another from the 1 Fort Wayne Electric Works, each call- ( ing for fifty new lamps and equip- j ment. Each company had its representative here, who thoroughly explained the matter, and then alter a ( careful consideration the council went; into executive session aud selected the , offer from the Fort Wayne firm, a' lamp from which has been on test at | the Old Adams County bank corner I for a month or more. The lights l were purchased at a cost of $2,005,( shipped to this city, and considered the best light of the two. now on test , here. The Fort Wayne Electric works j has seventy-five thousand lamps in ( use throughout the country and prove ( by their construction that they are the best lamp that can be secured. For some years the city has not been the best lighted town to be found, owing the lights now in use having run their 1 course and all that could be required of them has been obtained. They have been repaired time and again and at ( 'the same time hare been a heavy expense to the city, and it was not in a position to purchase new ones until now, and the buying subject had to 'be deferred. All are aware that the move was a good one, and with the arrival of the new lamps arrangements will be made that the entire city will be better lighted, making less expense and labor all around. SENSATION SPRUNG. —•—— In Shooting Trial Now Being Tried at Muncie, Indiana. (United Press Service.) i Muncie, Ind., Jan. 17 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The defense in the trial of Charles McGllliard, charged i with the murder of Alta Hayworth, his former sweetheart at a masked ball on Hallowe’en, sprang quite a surprise when Charles Benabun, a withess to the tragedy, said that the shot which i killed the girl did not come from Mc- ■ Gilliard’s gun. “I was sitting near," . the witness said, “and when McGil- • Hard pulled the gun and pointed it at the girl, there was no flash or smoke from It. The report came from ani other part of the room and was smug- > gled.” <J n — , ONE CAR IN COMMISSION. 1 k But one car was operating between i this city and Fort Wayne today, the . others being out of commission. Ow--1 ing to the fact that one was obliged k to make the trip and return, the cars r left here every three hours instead of every hour and a half.

HOLIDAYS OF 1912 Ground Hog Day on February 2 is the Next Being Looked Forward to. TWO FRIDAYS ON 13TH Many Others of Importance to be Found in the Calendar Below Given. The almanacs and calendars for 1912 contain much interesting information and data. The feast of the Epiphany falls on ' Saturday, January 6th, and Ash Wed nesday, on February 21st, or the first day of Lent. St. Patrick's day falls ton Sunday, March 17; Palin Sunday on March 31; Good Friday on April 5, and Easter Sunday on April 7; AsconI sion day will be Thursday, May 15. and Pentecost, Sunday, May 26, and Trinity Sunday, June 2. On Thursday, ‘ February 29, leap year day, those persons who were born oil the 29th of the second month, will have an opportunity to celebrate their birthday for the first time in four years. Spring will begin on March 21, autumn on September 22 and winter on December 27. Then general election will fall on Tuesday, November 5. Lincoln’s birthday will fall on Mon(day, February 12, and St. Valentine’s day on Wednesday, February 14, and Thursday, February 22, George Washington’s birthday. Memorial day will come on Thursday, May 30. We will celebrate the I glorious Fourth of July on Thursday, (and Emancipation day on Thursday, August 1. Monday, September 2, will ; be Labor day. During the year, Friday, the 13th, will occur twice, in September and ' December. NEW BUILDINGS Ward Fence Company Having Plans Prepared for Office and Warerooms. I TO LET THE CONTRACT At Once and Work Will be Hurried to Completion— Contract for Printing. Plans are now being prepared for j several new buildings at the Ward Fence company’s factory in this city and immediately after the completion thereof bids will be received for the construction of the new additions, three in number. Chief among the improvements will be a commodious brick office building at the north end of the grounds, where the business of the concern will soon be transacted, the offices being moved from the M eber building, coiner of Monroe and Third streets, wnere toey have been located several years. The other buildings will be a frame, iron covered building at the west of the main building for raw material, to be 26x40 feet in dimensions and a ware house, 60x100 feet at the north of the main building, for finished products. All the loading will then be done from that building. The improvements will greatly aid the work at the factory and have been looked forward to for s-.ine time by the management. The company has recently let a contract for nil its advertising and printed material for the ensuing year, running far into the thousands of dollars. They do strictly a mail order business and the advertising and stationery is therefore principal items of expense. . . ... —. ....■ —— IS SERIOUSLY ILL. Since Thursday of last week Mr. Samuel Laman of the firm of Laman & Lee has been confined to his home on account of sickness. The diagnosis lg.~pot as yet completed, although it is thought that he is suffering from pneum*la.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Jan, 18 1912.

( BASKET BALL. The Decatur Hoosiers played a fast game Tuesday evening against the Portland Phi belts Kappas. winning • by the narrow margin of four points, the figures being 20 to 16. Th* game Iwo ved to be fast and exciting, but the crowd was slim. Some very brilliant plays were made by Shoemaker of the home team, he being able to score again and again. The Hoosiers [ are fast coming to the front and will soon be able to beat anything in this neck of the woods. A DAMAGE SUIT Begun in Circuit Court This ! Morning—Fred Hanni Sues Auto Drivers Who 1 t FRIGHTENED HORSE » I , He Alleges, Which Tramped on Him and Dragged Him Through the Mud. A trial began this morning in the Adams circuit court tn which Frederick Hanni of Wabash township asks S3OO damages from each of the two defendants, Charles Schug, and Ferdinand Mettler of Berne. Heller, Sutton & Heller represent the plaintiff and F. M. Cottrell of Berne and J. C. Moran of this city are conducting the defence. The jury was empanelled this morn- ’ ing and one witness examined by noon. The case will probably be concluded Thursday afternoon, each side having about four or five witnesses. The case is rather an interesting one. The plaintiff alleges in his complaint that he and John Witwcr, on February 16th, were driving along in a rig, on the Monroe road, in Monroe township, about three-fourths of a mile north of the Berne pike. Hanni had bought a young mare some time previous, and was taking it home, he riding in the buggy with Witwer and leading the mare. He states that just as thee came near what is known as lhe Habegger ditch bridge, they heard the toot of an automobile horn, and looking saw one approaching at a rapid rate, driven by Charles ♦Schug and Mettler, the latter operating the machine. Other parties were riding in it. Hanni says he beckoned with his hand for them to stop, on account of , frightening the horses, but they came ■ on. He says he then got out of the | rig, and with one hand held the mare he was leading and with the other ( beckoned again to the auto drivers. 1 He says they came on and in pass- ■ ing ran so close that they touched, or i almost touched the mare’s leg. She frightened, reared, plunged and jumn-; ed, and in her maneuvers, threw Han ( i ni, tramping on him, injuring him on j his left leg between the knee and hip. , between the knee and foot, and once I on the side. She also dragged him about fifteen rods, through the rough, muddy and wet road, and ruined a i twenty dollar suit he wore. He says > by reason of his injuries he was sick and confined to his bed two weeks, his s doctor’s bill costing SSO and the time he lost from work, amounting to $75. 1 The following jurors are hearing the I case: Anton Krumenacher. Wesley t Stults, W. H. Murphy, John Smith, Sloan Meyers, Dan Haley, David Crutnm, George Braun, Samuel Fogle, Wilson Dunbar, Ambrose Durbin, Solo--1 mon Sheets. i 1 ’I Joseph D. Krick vs. E. Burt Lenhart et al., case from justice’s court. Disi missed and costs paid. I . 1 Ida Mills et al. vs. William H. Rupi right et al., partition. G. W. and Mary I Rupright filed exceptions to cornmisi stoners’ report. I I In the Landis-Adams County Pub. j company receivership case, Viola Gas- • kill, a former employee, filed interven--1 ing petition for allowance of claim for - work. > ————— - A. H. Perfect & Co. vs. the People’s - Store of Berne, on account; case dis- - missed and costs paid. I Joe E. Jack, administrator of the Albert N. Jack estate, reported distribution and was discharged. t Attorney J. C. Moran has returned i from Tipton county, where he went to a represent the Clark boy, in the case b growing out of the exceptions to the - report made by his guardian-. The case will be argued next Tuesday.

A VAST AMOUNT t k . i >■■!> * a— - - Nearly Two Million Dollars Changes Hands in Adams ’ i County in > ; THE PAST YEAR I In Transfer of Real Estate— Annual Report Compiled by Recorder. — A. F. Welfley, recorder, and Mrs. Letta Peters, deputy, have completed the ‘ recorder’s annual report for the year 1911. This covers the period w hen H.. S. Steele was recorder, but being due ( at the beginning of the year, when Mr. Welfley assumed office, was com- ( piled by him. I There werd 757 warranty and quit claim deeds (not including sheriff's and auditor’s deeds) but including executors', administrators, commissioners' and guardians' deeds, filed during the year. The amount of considera tion was $1,825,532. There were six i sheriff s deeds, involving $10,070. This I makes a total of 763 deeds; consider-| ation, $1,835,602. All other papers filed numbered 53, amount of consid-. eration in dollars being $629,085. The total number of mortgages and I liens filed was 623, amounting to $856,-' 884. Os this number, 310 were on farms, consideration being $617,567; 145 on city property, amounting to $103,072; 17 school fund mortgages, value $71,200; 129 chattel mortgages,; valued at $56,801; and 22 liens, I amounting to $8,244. The number of mortgages satisfied during the year was thirty-three less than the number filed, being 580, valued at $656,836. These are divided as follows: On farms, 327, valued at $446,373; on city property 173, valued i at $166,776; school fund mortgages, | 20, valued at $17,565; chattel mort- ( gages, 40, valued at $23,064; liens, 20, valued at $3,058. FIRE TEST FRIDAY Two Shacks to be Built on Adams Street to Test New Fire Machine. — HOUR IS UNCERTAIN I Arrangements Will be Completed Tomorrow —New Hall Ready in a Month. i Arrangements are being completed for the test of the new fire apparatus in this city on Friday of this week. I Owing to the fact that it will not bej known just what the parties from oth-; er cities who wish to witness the test I will arrive the exact hour cannot be! fixed until tomorrow, but we are authorized to say that the test will be held some time between the hours of II o’clock a. m. and 2 p. m. The frame buildings will be erected on the Fullenkamp addition an Adam i street. An alarm of fire will be sent in when the buildings are touched off, and the new engine will make Its first official run to that point. The committee is arranging for the appointment of three firemen who will be on regularly and expect to work in harmony with the board of safety of the city council. It is hoped that these appointments j can be made by Friday so the repre-1 sentative of the Kanawha company can give them the necessary instruc-> tions. Just now the heating plant is; being put in at the city hall, and it i is hoped that the new house will lie ready by February 15th. r—C TO DEDICATE PIPE ORGAN. The German Lutheran church in Al-! len county, at Flatrock, of which the 1 Rev. Dietrich Is pastor, will on next Sunday dedicate Its fine new pipe organ. Professor Walter Gotsch, teacher of the Bleeke Lutheran parochial school In Union township, who Is also organist for the Bleeke church, will dedicate the pipe organ. Mr. Gotsch 4s one oMh< finest pipe organ musicians in this part of the country, and next Sunday’s services. It is expected, will be unusually fine.

I OH, YOU HIGH SCHOOL BOY 8! The following Item has been con ttibuted by members of the high school, and we were bribed into print--1 Ing it only after a promise that those who insisted on Its appearance would protect each and every member of our force and stand for any and all damages: "Four seniors, heretofore believed to be budding into manhood, brave and fearless, destined to lead in lhe vari ous vocations of life, have shattered the hopes of their friends and com grades and their fellow classmates aie I petitioning for them place* in the nurses’ union. All this disappointment Is caused from the fact that these brawny men: Sherman Beery, Virgil Krick, Paul Meyers and Dallas Elzey, so far forgot themselves Tuesday ev- | ening as to take as their companions on a nine-mile sled-ride, four little freshmen girls. It’s too bad.” COUNCIL DOINGS II I City Buys New Street Lights and Opened Bids for Same Tuesday Night. I" 1 ■ ■ IMPROVEMENT COM. Makes Report Concerning j New Fire Apparatus— Give Test Friday. With all members but Councilman j I Christen present, and the honorable | mayor presiding, the city officials, in | regular session Tuesday evening, engaged in one or the busiest meetings! held in some time. The first work of ( the evening, following the reading of l the . inutes of the last meeting, was 1 j the filing of the proof of publication ' for the receiving of bids for new street ( lights, which was ordered placed on i record. Following this Councilman I Martin made a motion that the bids filed with the clerk for new street . lamps as advertised, be opened, there j i being but two. The first was that of ( the Westinghouse company of Pittsi burg, Pa., agreeing to furnish the city fifty lights like the one now in use at j the northeast corner of the court house, with all ryeceasary equipment, ( for the sum of $1,992 at the factory. The second was that ot the Fort . Wayne Electric Works, they agreeing i to furnish the city with the same number of lights, theirs being on test at the Old Adams County bank corner for a month past, with all necessary ( equipment for the sum of $2,005. delivered at Decatur. A motion was imme-! diately made, that as this would require some consideration regarding the two lamps, their difference in the test given, as well as the price quoted by the two companies, that they would defer the matter until later In the evening, when the council would go into executive session Each company • had their representative present and j both asked to give a ten minutes talk I explaining the good and weak points lof the lamp which they wished to i place here. Following this the council, with the superintendent, compared the two together, and it was agreed that they purchase the Fort Wayne lamp for several reasons. The first and most Important one was that the lamp, which they had on test here, seemed, In their opinion, to give a better, stronger and clearer white light which they were looking for. Second that the price of this light, although $13.00 above their competitor, but delivered here, would be of some benefit along with the great advantage of be- | ing near at home, should there be such ( a time when something would go ! wrong, the repairs of faults could be ! remedied by simply having a man from I their establishment come down and j look after same, upon short notice I The terms were also given, but stated that if not satisfactory to the city, they could no doubt come together on this point. A resolution for the con struction of the Merriman sewer in the south part of the city was read and adopted, and that council would, on the night of February 6th, hear I any and all objections relative to same. Councilman Chronister asked that 1 more conformity to rule be made in regard to the voting precincts In the First W’ard, than the one now in practice, owing to the fact that a good many people become confused as to ■ where they are to cant their vote at I a city and bounty election. Tills was , ordered to be done by the city attorCONTINUED UN PAGE FOUR

DR. M.LHOLLOWAY I ■■ , Former Decatur Lady Passed Away Tuesday Afternoon at Branson, Mo. * T,r HAD BRIGHT’S DISEASE — Will be Brought to This City for Funeral—Left Branson Today. • Just a few hours following the receipt of the letter by Mrs. C. J, Weaver ■ Tuesday from Mrs. Bertha Winch of Branson, Mo., stating that her mother, Dr. Marie L. Holloway, formerly of this I; city, was at ine point of death, and i could survive very little longer, came a telegram Tuesday evening io Mrs. Weaver, bringing the sad news that I L.-. Hello*., uy l.ud passed away Tuesday afternoon. The telegram stated further that her body would be brought I here for burial, and would leave Bran--1 son today, Mr. Winch and Mrs. Hollo- , way's son accompanying the body here. Dr. Holloway had been in failing health for several months from Bright’s disease, and several weeks ago became quite serious. She rallied from that serious attack and became better, but a short while ago she again became worse, and it was known thai she could never survive. | Dr. Holloway was a resident of this city for about thirty-two years, bo’h ' she and her husband, the late Dr. A. G. Holloway practicing medicine. ( Three years ago the first of January, she left for Branson, Mo., with her son-in-law, Willari Winch, and family. ( of Fort Wayne, for their new home ■ at Branson, where she had made her j home since, surrounded by all the loving care that her daughter and family , could give. Dr. Holloway’s life was a long, useful and noble one, a life of fulness tha* is rarely given to woman. She was born near Mansfield, Ohio. March 26, 1836, and had she lived until nex’ March, would have been seventy-six years of age. She was the daughter of John aid Maria Kennedy, and was the third child of their nine children. Her lif<*. until her ninth year was , spent in Richland county, Ohio, when her parents moved to Marion county, Ohio, where she grew to womanhood Sb.) attended the common school of her neighborhood, and was known as an earnest student, a trait which she never lost, even to her declining hours. At fifteen years of age, she began teaching, continuing this with great success for five years, when her marriage took place. She was married in May, 1855, to Dr. A. G. Holloway. Following their marriage her husband, who had been practicing medicine in Marion county, engaged in the work of his profession in several places, finally coming to Decatur in 1877. Here he continued his practice until his death, November 4. 1904, at which time he was seventysix years of age. He was an esteemed member of the community, had served 1 through the civil war, was first assistant surgeon of the 151st Ohio volunteer infantry, and later served In the same capacity with another command. For some time he also served as a member of the U. S. pension board i After settling in Decatur, Dr. Marie L. Holloway took up tba study of medicine with her husband. She read with him for some time and then entered the school at Keokuk, the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons. After some work in the lowa institution, she entered the Indiana Medical college and graduated with the class of 1887, at which time she was fifty-one years of age. She immediately took up the serious pract:ce of her chosen profession in which she was eminently successful. For about one and a half years she practiced in Fort Wayne, and then returned to her home here. Her success in her home town was assured from the beginning and aha enjoyed a large practice to the very time of her removal west. Her interests were wide and many and not bounded by those of her profession alone, and abe had been activ« in many ways. She was a member of the State Medical association, of the i Adams County Medical association, • and took a strong part in prohibition - work. She was a member of the WoI men’s Christian Temperance Union. > being an officer and most influential t member of the order. She was one of s the most active members and workers in the local Christian church, and bad CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR

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