Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1912 — Page 1

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CRUSADE STARTED Against Use of Tobacco by Boys—Dr. N. Hurty Branches Out. IN NEW DIRECTION Health Board Finds Weed Injurious to all- Who Have Acquired Habit. fu state board of health proposes to m.tke a crusade against the use of i tobaoco and cigarettes by the boys of i ,:id and lx. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the board, has addressed a letter to the young smokers and tobacco chewers that is to be sent broaibast over the state through he medium of the public schools In the letter the secretary appeals to the boys to give up the weed, pointing out that it lowers the e.fficiency of any young man who uses it. We have evidence of this fact,’ said the secretary in commenting on the letter, "in correspondence the board has had with the superintendents of diifferent schools. Those school officials have kept a record of the Niggards of the school and they assure us they have good reason to believe that much bf this backwardness in studies is due to the use of tobacco. While boys are growing there is no doubt but that nicotine does whip up the nerves. Os course tobacco is more dangerous to young men while in the growing or elastic stage which is a time wueu they are mote profoundly impressed by drugs. The dose of medicine is always smaller for the young than it is for the older. We are often met with this bnm excuse: There is old Tom Jones who is ... . f.ve and Tie is still living tnd has used great quantities bf to- ' icco al! his life. He is uninjured." ‘Now, as a matter of fact,” contin- i tied the secretary, old Tom Jones is i injured His kidneys have been datu- i

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aged; his heart has been injured and his breathing apparatus is out of kelter. Besides he is not a normal man and he is not getting the enjoyment out of life that he would if he did not uao tobacco.” Secretary Hurty quotes from a sei- ! entitle article published by Dr. Frederick J Pack in the October Popular Science Monthly, who gives the following as the result oi his investigation among students: First, the smokers furnish twice as many conditions and failures as do the non-smokers. Second, only half as many amokI ere as non-smokers are successful in tests or "tryouts" for football teams Third, in the cases of many ablebodied men smoking is associated with loss of lung capacity amounting to ten per cent. smoikng is invariably associated with the low scholarships, i "Another authority says,” declared ’ 1-fT- Hurty, "that the loss of efficiency in men due to the use of tobacco amounts in the United States to a I work represented by 150,000 horse power." SOME ONE STOLE FLAGS. Who is the most patriotic man in •the city? Bob Blackburn doesn't know his name, but he is convinced that it is the one who stole his large flag which he had hanging out at his home in celebration of home-coming week. It is said that thirty large flags that adorned the telephone poles on Winchester street were also stolen last week, by some one who evidently had the interest of his country at heart. ~ " 1 \ " <»— ■ - M. W. A. TO INITIATE. The Modern Woodmen will confer the degree upon Alonzo Dutcher tonight and close their meeting with a smoker. All members ot’ the team and all members of the order are urg- ' ed to attend. *»— o YEOMEN. NOTICE. The attendance of all Yeomen is requested at the meeting tomorrowevening, when arrangements for the children’s festival to be held on Hal- ! lowe'en will be completed, and other important business given attention.

COURT HOUSE NEWS Fred Koenig Files Suit for SI,OOO Against Nephew, Julius Bright. THE DANIELS ESTATE Redocketed for Sale of Real Estate—Other Probate Matters. Fritz Koenig is suing his nephew Julius J. Bright, for the sum of 11,000, account and labor. The case was tiled in circuit court today by Koenig's attorney, C. L. Walters and grows out of the setting off of the interests of the various heirs in settling up the estate of the late Mrs. Margaret Koenig, a big partition case also pending in the court in relation to her estate. The suit against Bright is in nine paragraphs, each naming specifically from which sources the amounts are due Koenig. The first sets out that 1100 is due him from Bright, for the use by the last named of Koenig's horses in 1910 and 1911, at 50c a day for 200 days. In paragraph two, he wants $123.50 from Bright as difference, due him when they exchanged horses. In another paragraph he wants |87.50 due him for 250 bushels of oats at 35c each, which Bright bought of him, and which he still owes, he says, in spite of his promise to pay when he threshed. He wants sllO tor hauling coa|, and plowing with his teams; also a large board bill—the sum of >3.50 per week, for 104 weeks in 1907, 1908, 1909; >SO for doing Bright's laundry for four years. In another instance, he states that when both were farming together, and doing each an equal amount of labor. Bright obtained his permission to do >SO worth of hauling, for Mike Miller, Koenig to get half of the money, but that Bright failed to turn it over to him. He wants >25 for this. This with other minor accounts, Koenig figures up, are his basis for demanding SI,OOO out of Bright's share in settlement.

Lillian Carter et al. have brought suit against Nancy Mills et al. for partition of real estate. D. B. Erwin filed the suit. Summons was issued to the sheriff of DeKalb county for Rosa and Emil Zunbrfinnen and to the sheriff of Allen county for BerCONTINUEr. ON PAGE FUUK FUNERAL NOTICES Services for Mrs. M. M’Connell Will be Teld Thursday Morning. AT THE M. E. CHURCH Body of Thomas Woodruff Will Not be Brought Here for Burial. The body of Mrs. Mark M. McConnell arrived this morning over the Clover Leaf from the late home at Cardwell, Mo., and was taken to the home of Mr. McConnell’s brother, Frank McConnell, in the north part of the city. The body will lie there in state until Thursday morning when the funeral will be held at 10 o'clock at the Methodist church. The body was accompanied by Mr. McConnell and his son-in-law, Ben Pillars, and wife. Mrs. McConnell's death occurred Sunday night following a long illness from cancer of the breast. Decatur relatives of Thomas Woodruff, whose death occurred Tuesday at his home at Paragould Ark., have received word that the body will not be brought here for burial, as they desired. Arrangements to hold the funeral at Paragould Thursday afternoon had already been made by the widow. The details of the death are still unknown here. The McConnell funeral party passed through Paragould enroute here, but did not learn of Mr. Woodruff’s death until arrival here.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday October, 24 1912.

FEWER SEPTEMBER DEATHS. There wore 2,802 deaths in Indiana in September, according to figures compiled by the state board of health. The number was a decrease from the preceding month, when 2,888 deaths were reported. For Seiptember of 1911 2,409 deaths were reported. The total number of deaths for 1912, reported to date, is 26,152. The anneal death rate for each 1,000 population in September was 12.5. Pulmonary tuberculosis caused the deaths of two hundred, other forms of tuberculosis, fifty-one; typhoid fever, ninety-three; scarlet fever, five; diphtheria and croup, sixty-four; measles, one; whooping cough, fifteen; pneumonia, ninety-one: diarrhoea and enteritis, 329; cerebro-spinal fever, eight; poliomyelitis, eight; influenza, four; cancer, 136: external causes, 229; hydrophobia, one; deaths in institutions, 259. The poliotnyeditls deaths occurred in the following counties: Grant, Lagrange, Lake (2), Newton, Bartholomew, Hamilton and Union. Two of them were fn the cities and six in country distreits. The death from hydrophobia was in Dearborn county. The total number of deaths in the cities of the state was 1,372, at a rate of 14.1, while the total number in the country districts was 1,420, at a rate of 11.2. WM. DUNWIDDIE DEAD. Prominent Man Living West of Geneva Succumbs to Cancer. William Dunwiddie, a prominent farmer living west of Geneva, cumbed Tuesday after a long illness from cancer of the throat. He was an elderly man, nearing his seventieth birthday, and is survived by a widow and several children. He is well known over the county, being a prominent man of affairs. — ■ ■ — ■ . — — KE£PS THEM GUESSIN’. Uncle Jimmy Wagoner of near Monroe claims he found in his com harvest the biggest ear of corn he ever saw. He jpill give the ear to the person guessing nearest the number of grains of com on the ear. He’s keeping them guessing, too. The ear will be on display in the window of this office in a few days.

-■-f*.— — — ' ' - — CONFESSED. (United Press Service) Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— Joseph Buommomo, who said he lived in Chicago, confessed today that he murdered the young Italian woman found on the outskirts of Stratford last night. He said she was his wife and they came from Chicago yesterday. —• ... — o EAGLES, NOTICE. All members and officers are asked to be present at a meeting to be held in the lodge room Thursday, October 24th.. Every member.should be present as there is business of* importance to come up before the lodge. PRESIDENT. —o— AGAIN LOCATED. James P. Haefling is again located, he now being sent to Terre Haute, where he is going over the records of the cleric and sheriff of that county. He will be there for some weeks before Ho finishes the audit. —i ~-Q > 1 11 ■ * ROOSEVELT BETTER. (United Press Service) Oyster Bay, Oct. 23—(Special to Daily Democrat) —After a good, sound sleep, Colonel Roosevelt awoke today in high spirits. No visitors will be received until Thursday. _— o —• OLD SOLDIERS. AH old soldiers, regardless of politics are requested to meet at the Murray hotel Thursday night at 7:30 -o'clock to escort Congressman J. A. M. Adair to the court house. THE CENSUS REPORT. A’ boy baby was born Tuesday evening to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hurst of West Monroe street. They recently returned from South Bend, where they resided some time. Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer and Mrs. W. H. Nachtrieb of Goshen will go to Ft. Wayne tomorrow to attend the federated clubs’ convention. They will be guests of Mrs. H. P. Moses while there.

ARTISTIC PROGRAM Os Sketches and Short Plays Will be Given by the Pierces IN THE FIRST NUMBER Os the High School Seniors’ Lecture Course, October Thirtieth. The very first number of the seniors' lecture course starts out auspiciously Wednesday evening, October 30, with an entertainment by Harry Raymond Pierce, and his wife, Zulette Spencer Pierce, at the Bosse's opera house. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce are impersonators of rare skill and have had ten years of lyceum exeprience. They have also during recent years conducted the Department of Oratory and School of Expression at Mt. Union college, Alliance, Ohio. The Coit Lyceum Bureau under whose auspices the local seniors secured them, says: In presenting Mr. and Mrs. Pierce in their interpretative program of sketches and short plays, we do so knowing it will supply a long felt need in the modern Lyceum. During our many years of experience in dealing ; with committees representing the ly|ceum public, we have made a constant study of the form of entertainment that pleases most and the reason it satisfies. The program which most universally gratifies is the one affording splendid variety with every feature, whether classical or popular, artistically presented. The personality of the platformist has much to do with his I reception by the audience. The Piercies have a most charming and winsome i personality which explains why they are so popular both on and off the platform. The fact, combined with their clever impersonations, explains the cause of their many appearances. Their portrayajs are true to life whether the typo be taken from socle t ' or quaint rural life. Their character studies whether humorous or serious, are of people who really exist and are never a burlesque. The effect is generally strengthened by correct costuming. For their short plays, they present sketches as effective in morals and uplifting thought as the lecturer, and in a highly entertaining manner. The board for the reservation of the seats for the entire lecture course, will be open at 8 o'clock Saturday morning at the Holthouse drug store.

THE FIRE DEPT — ? Has Been Arranged in Most Convenient Way by Henry Dellinger. - X FOR QUICK WORK Many Improvements Installed —Can Get Out of Building in 30 Seconds. The Decatur fire department is now complete. Since entering the new city hall some months ago the men have been constantly engaged in doing something to make the hall better and more convenient. The first work done was the painting of the interior of the fire department on the first floor, which work was followed by the installation of a gasoline storage system. The firemen’s quarters on the second floor were fixed up comfortably and now the men have all the comforts of home in the building. At the present time the tegular routine of work and duties prevail, in the morning comes the cleaning of the building and machine; at noon the testing of the motor, and in the afternoon various other light duties are on the time card. The three men on duty are able to start out of the building within thirty seconds of receiving the alarm and the motor is capable of getting to any point within the city limits within one and a half minutes. An alarm gong just installed will cut this figure a few seconds. Fifteen men in the volunteer department go directly to the fire instead of to the engine house as formerly.

TO GET STATE BALLOTS. County Clerk Ferdinand Bleeke left this morning for Indianapolis. He goes to get the state ballots to be used in the coming election. Mr. Bleeke was accompanied by Mrs. Bleeko and they will enjoy tlhe sights of the capital city together. UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES Guruld Shoop is wun uv these jelus an' suspisihus men; wi, if u’d bleev ut, he's so jelus uv his wife, thet he goes around an' looks t’ see if there's any kiss-marks on the glasses uv th' pictures hangin' on th walls. TO MAKE FIGHT Against Tuberculosis in the County — Organization Took Place Today. BY DR. H. MOORE Adams County Will Get Proceeds from Sale of Red Cross Stamps. The first movement toward an organized fight against tuberculosis in Adams county took place today when I Dr. Henry Moore of Indianapolis, corresponding secretary of the Indiana Association for jj;e Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, was in the ci©’ and completed an organization of the entire county. This organization will look after the sale of the Red Cross Christmas stamps in Adams county and the net» proceeds from the sales in Adams county will be used for fighting tuberculosis in this county alone. County officers were named as follows: President—Dr. P. B. Thomas. Vice President—Lawrence Opliger. Secretary—Miss Bertha Heller. Treasurer —Mrs. W. A. Lower. Besides these, township presidents were appointed. These will supervise the sale of the stamps in his own township and assist in the fight against the great (white plague in his own territory. The township vice presidents are: Union—J. A. Fleming, Decatur, R. R. 12. Union—Miss Helen Fonner, Decatur. Preble —Dr. J. C. Grandstaff, Preble. Kirkland—Rolla M. Houck, Decatur. Washington—Dr. H. E. Keller. St. Mary's—Dr. J. W. Vizard, Pleasant Mills. Blue Creek—Dan O. Roop, Monroe. Monroe—Dr. M. F. Parrish, Monroe. French—John C. Augsberger, R. R. 1, Berne. Hartford—Dr. T. J. McKean. Wabash—Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter, Geneva. Jefferson —Mrs. Jesse A. Buckmaster, Geneva. Dr. Moore is also president of the board of trustees of the state tuberculosis hospital, recently opened at Rockville, Ind. The Red Cross stamps will be on sale at the various business houses in the city this year as last, and an even more vigorous campaign is expected this year, since the complete county organization. o L. KOENNEMAN SELLS FARM. Louis Koenemann, a prominent farmer of Preble township, has sold his ninety-six acre farm to Henry C. Gallemeyer, of Wells county. The deal brought the munificent sum of SIBO per acre. Mr. Koenemann will probably retire and come to this city to live. o HOPES FOR RECOVERY. Mrs. Arthur Bleeke of Union township, who has been at the point of death from kidney trouble and other complications, is much better since yesterday, and hopes are now entertained for her recovery. Mrs. Kauffman. a trained nurse from Ft. Wayne, is attending her. BAND PRACITCE. The members of the band are requested to be present at the hall tonight at 8 o’clock to practice music for the next event. Every member must be present.

pretty wedding Nuptials of Wm. P. Schrock and Miss Edith Smith Solemnized. AT THE SMITH HOME Witnessed by Only Members of Two Families— Reception Given Later. With quiet simplicity, but exceedingly beautiful in every detail, the sacred ceremony witnessed only by the nearest members of the two families, the nuptials of Mr. William P. Schrock and Miss Edith Smith were solemnized Tuesday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Smith, corner of Winchester and Adams streets, marking the union of two of the best young people of the city. A veritable bower of greenery and flowers and lights was the Smith home for the occasion, blossoming forth into unusual beauty under the artistic fingers of Miss Flick, the Fort Wayne florist, and her assistants. A profusion of southern smilax, with its shining wax-like green leaves, was brought fresh from the southern forests. This was twined about the pilasters of the open stairway and wreathed in the archways and baywindows, making a bower-like effect of the entire home. Between the hail and reception room the smilax alone was used in the archway and twined about the pillars. Guarding the pillars, were large vases of magnificent white chrysanthemums on pedestals. Combined with the smilax, twined in the archway between the reception room and living room, were white roses, making a pretty effect. These were arranged in crystal vases at the side of the doorway, in a climbing effect. In the living room, the pink and white snap dragon was combined with the smilax in the archways, and vases of the large white chrysanthemums found places on pedestals and tables. The library opening from this room, was enlivened with the glow of yellow chrysanthemums, And in the open fire place was banked the warm red bitter-sweet berries. The myriads of little electric lights concealed in the greenery made the effect unusually pretty in the evening. The bay window in the living room was perhaps the prettiest nook in the house, with its outline of smilax and white chrysanthemums in banks and arranged in the hanging basket effect from the center of the archway. It was at this place that the bride and groom mingling informally with the others, before, took their places at 6:30 o'clock, where the Rev. R. L. Semans of the Methodist church, assisted by Rev. W. H. Gleiser of the Presbyterian church officiated, using the ring ceremony. The wedding was a very Informal family wedding, and there were no attendants. Miss Smith looked unusually pretty in her wedding gown of white charmeuse satin, with over-drape of French lawn, becomingly made with trimmings of Flanders lace and white jet. With this pretty costume, she wore a white corsage bouquet of orchids and white roses and the groom s gi.t, a platinum necklace with pearl and diamond pendant. Immediately after the ceremony, a dinner was served. The dining room was lovely in the rosy glow of light from pink-hooded candles. The bride's table, as well as the smaller ones for the guests, were decorated with pink Killarney roses in large centerpieces, vases surrounded with smaller branch-vases and also by the pink-hooded candles. Mrs. Shoemaker of Fort Wayne catered and the dinner was served in six courses from the following menu, which carried out the pink and white effect, very pretty to the eye as well as pleasing to the palate; Oyster cocktail. Bouillon salted nuts, olives, toasted bread rolls tied with ribbons. Stuffed squabs, parsley potatoes, peas in heart-shapes, jelly, rolls. Sweetbread salad in tomato cups, served from baskets of lettuce, cheese in ribbon sandwiches. Ice cream in the shape of wedding bells on ornamental rose-leaf petals. Bride's cake, fancy candies and coffee. The candies were served nestling in pink rose petals in a flower basket, the handle of which was tied with a tulle bow. The groom's cake was cut and CONTINUED vN FaGE THREE

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