Decatur Democrat, Volume 58, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1913 — Page 3

Indianapolis, Ind., Q*<\ 27.(Speclal i to DtiM De«ocrttt)—Judge Albert I Anu >on announced at 10:06 thl« i ~g that the dynamite jury *ui no: .sdy to return thetr verdict and I ax ordered untill 2:30 this ' < afternoon. The forty defendants were [ i in their places and remained in ths I < ~ >m during the entire session.*) F . . ,i| of them enjoying the funny I columns of the newspapers and Btun .uieapollß wiggling hie ears and i, . -ig funny faces for the represent- 1 : ll.e press. Olas of San Francis- | g the only one of the forty I 'io appeared serious, the others i no outward appearance of I cot . in. 1 London, Dec. 27.(Special to Daily 1 Dem rat.)—Militant suffragetts car- i . letter-box, fire-alarm and telcrusade one step further when thev began interfering with the sig-: i nal - . stem of railroads. The signal [' one railroad were found tied : i together with a rope and to which was l attmhed a note pleading for votes for 1 . i ■ ton, N. J. Dec. 27.(Special to I Democrat) —President elect t 'eft this morning at 10:30 for i ■ c Vir., after having been pro- 1 ' fit for the journey by bls physician. The Presiden-elect stated ’ was feeling as well as could ; - ted again but that every pre- ■ would be taken against taking cold on the trip. The Governor ve In Stauton tonight and will : lee Monday morning at 11:05. —v lebrating our tenth anniver-, sb he Daily Democrat anticipates o thousand subscribers will pay heir subscription during the . ,-f January. To each of these v I give a handsome souvenir, a C knife, each one wrapped Ini' e from the company, showing: li . e as good as represented. On i ■ ' t we agree to furnish you a ■aper than in the past, a live, ne >y record of everything going on in : city and county, as well as the | m< mportant events of the state ■n. We do not claim the Dem-1 o covers the world’s news, but we do gree to protect our readers on b a- ■ stories of state and national Im .ince. We are members of the V- i Press association and each dsy receive over our own leased wire, r amount of telegraph news. Os tl ... ■ use that which Is of Interest »aders. We also receive each d wire report on the stock mark< much value to those who deal ir s, cattle and sheep. In addition , *e make an effort to secure . m of news in the county. We. , ke to make the month of Janiggest subscription month history and we will do so if : on our port win make it. . xpect to take the Democrat ' < he next year, pay for it duri , -he month of January, whether' ■i has expired or not, and se- • of the knives. ;»h Maley, a young man living .1 a half miles east of the city. Dent school house, fell from of a thirty foot ladder this ” - at 8 o’clock, while working _ . son street, and was renderconscious for a few minutes. F<- nd a severe jolting, many bruises : - i id general sprain, he was unIn t, a matter of great wonder to >!io witnessed the accident. Maley, with A J. Jarrett, of • t. Ky., In the employ of the Ornamental Iron Works, has rking on the placing of the escape at the south side of i son building. This morning . ler was placed at r ir, ie doors of the Runyon & En- . d the Teeple, Brandyberry & ,u stores, and Mr. Maley as- < to bis work. In some way the • lipped and Mr. Maley 'ell to the pavement. In falling b ruck the edge of a large box on t' -Ik, and when his companion, M Jarrett, who was working up-1 f . arrived below, Mr. Maley was 1 unconscious under the ladder. I taken into the Runyon Engel- < jn*. where he regained consciouster a few minutes. The ladder -•>; n in the fall. 'i.bridge, Mass, Dec. 27—An uniuate committee investigating ■ iltions of student life found f i trvard men spend $15,000,000 t tor "pleasure.” York, N. Y., Dec. 27—(Special t ly Democrat) —Colonel Roosethe first man to join Mrs. / : Belmont’s "Spug” club, formprevent the useless giving of s at Christmas. fork, N. Y, Dec. 28—(Special t ■ y Democrat)—To prove that a I .. . <an drink anything and live : i tiking the water of New York ) . Dr. William Copeland swali dphuric acid. He lived. I hkeepsie, Dec. 27—(Special to i D; y Democrat) — Seventy-five-year- 1 o' phen Scott, the "vinegar king,” m d his seventeen-year-old niece, 1

gave her a wedding present o| $25,000 and today Is searching for her. London, Dec. 27—(Special to Daily Democrat)—King George reads a chapter In the Bible every day, keeping a promise he made to his mother, Queen Alexandria, in 1911, according to a letter from his secretary to the Scripture Gift mission. Denver, Dec. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —“Doctor," spare that appendix." This is what the next legislature will say to the surgeons of the state, if a bill now being considered by a number of members of the new house of representatives Is passed. The new bill will make It a demeanor | perhaps a felony, for a doctor to cut a perfectly good appendix. Berlin, Dec. 27 —(Special to Dally l Democrat) —Women's skirts must not drag the pavements so that they will stir up dust, and the twirling of canes will be a misdemeanor after the new police code becomes effective next April. Provisions of the new regula tions are that yedestrians shall not walk the streets more than three abreast. No whistling, singing, humming or loud talking shall be indulged In on the streets. Regardless of the weather, cases where music is played shall keep their doors closed and the throwing of cigar and cigarette butts will cause arrest. Charles Freducks of St. Louis, Mo., and Joe Kane, of Altoona, Pa., itiner[ant strangers, indicted by the grand ' jury on the charge of robbery, and , whose trial was held Thursday in the [ circuit court, were acquitted by the Jury after two and a half hours’ dellb- [ eration. The trial begun Thursday ' morning and was a short one, the case going to the jury at 4:30 o’clock 1 Thursday evening. Charles Murphy of Chicago was the : prosecuting witness. He had worked here several days assisting at the Gregory and Vail homes, and on the ■ night of November 22nd had gone i west to the Erie tank to await a freight to ride to Huntington to cash , his Wabash railroad identification ' check, worth sl7, for work done for , the Wabash railroad. There he fell in with the two men who had built a fire around which they warmed. They were evidently notwarm enough for he alleges they beat him on the head with a club, breaking his nose and cutting his face and then robbing him of hie overcoat and I check. When he regained con- ' sciousness he came to this city and , got the officers, who returned and I found the two men with the goods on. i The grand jury, which was in session then, took up the case and return■ed the indictment. Murphy has been in the county infirmary here since. When the final load of stone was hauled on Yellow Creek road Thursday afternoon, Superintendent Samuel [ Doaki ,who had carefully and persistently watched and pushed the road along to completion, and Julius Haugk, the contractor, threw up their hats and shouted, for that work made a new record in Adams county, tho completion of every road started, at least every road in which there was a chance for completion. The only road not completed is the Conrad in Preble and on that no effort was made | further than the grade, because of the lateness of the letting. The fact that thirty-four and one-half miles of road have ben completed this year is due to the good weather, the splendid selection of superintendents and the industriousness of the county commissioners and surveyor who had the work Well in hand at all times. It is a wonderful record, and when itr is considered that this county with far and away the best, roads in Indiana can keep on building this amount of macadam at a cost of a hundred thousand dollars, one begins to realize that we really live in the best county in the world. Among the roads built and completed since last spring are the following: The Bell road, east of the city in Washington township, and said to be the best road grade in the state, entering Decatur over a beautiful concrete bridge; the Lenhart, Yellow Creek and Nyffler roads in Washington: the Fuelling and Magley in Root; the Hart in Union; the Davies in Blue Creek; the Baumgartner in St. Mary’s; the Mt. Zion and the Stahl in Wabash; the Ashleman and the Mertz in Hartford; the Rich in Monroe; the Christman in Wabash; the Adler on the Kirkland-French township line; the Juday in Geneva and Water street in Berne. It’s a grand record, one that any county should be proud of and we are sure this one is. It has added value to every farm and to every piece ol property, town or country in the entire county. Another year will bring us up to the 500-mile mark. That’s going some. A large number of new books have been received for the library shelves in time for the holiday reading of those who are now having their vacn tfon. In the list are five volumes of “History of the American People,” by President-elect Woodrow Wilson.

Others are: Thanet, The Marshall, Secret of Lonesome Cove, Place of Honeymoons, The Voice, Daddy Loag Legs, Romance of Billy Goat Hill, Charge It, Red Cross Girl, Miss Billy’s Decision, Chronicles of Avonlea, eight volumes of Hawthorne’s works, In the Bishop's Carriage, Katrine. Man from Glengarry, Martin Eden, Master’s Violin. Weaver of Dreams, Message, Power and the Glory, Prospector, Purchase Price, Right Princess, Riverman, Rose MacLeod, Red House on Rowan Street, Rose and tho Ring, Rosnah, Sky Pilot, Stringtown on the Pike, Sweet Clover, Sword in the Mountains, Throckmorton, Two Gentlemen of Virginia, Younger Set, Somehow Good. Trail of Lonesome [ ■Pina, Coniston, Crisis, Lorna Doone, [ iThree Daughters of Confederacy, ■ Dreadnought Boys, seventen volumes 'of the Webster series for boys. Besides these, in which many old fa- [ vorites, as well as the newer fiction ■ appear, there are the following, which! Include this year’s new books of the series to which new ones are added each year: Motor Ranger's Cloud Cruiser, Boy Aviator's Flight for Fortune, Motor Maids, The Girl Aviator's Motor Butterfly, Rover Boys in the Air, Putnam Hall Mystery, Larry Dex- ’' ter series, Five Little Peppers In i Brown House, Bird's Christmas Carol, Mary Ware's Promised Land. ,| i Miss Lilah Lachot received a message this morning from her parents , informing her of the death of her aunt, Mrs. G. H. Lachot. Mr. and Mrs. John I Lachot were called to Apple Creek, I Ohio, Wednesday evening by a mes- ■ sage informing them of the serious > illness of the sister-in-law. The funer- ■ al will be held Sunday afternoon. > Christopher W. Wybourn, a life- : long resident of Fort Wayne, died last evening at seven o'clock after a two ■ years Illness from diabetes and ganI grene complications. He had been > employed as an air brakeman on the ? Pennsylvania until two years ago, j when he resigned on account of ill i bea'th. He was a brother of Mrs. Juli la Johns of Pleasant Mills. He also i leaves two brothers, William of Fort r Wayne; Robert of Andrews and an--1 other sister, Mrs. Mary Smith of Kant sas CTty. His wife, and three children are living. The children are: Mrs. 1 Jesse Sircle. Orlando and Alva. » -o ? When the case of Charles Moore, - charged with larceny, with theft from i Will Cowan—was called in court this - morning, it was learned that one of 1 the state’s important witnesses had I fled, and upon motion of the prosecu- . tor, the case was dismissed without - prejudice, and Moore was released. - The bonds of John McCoy and Elmer i Smith, who were out on their own recognizance bonds, to appear as witnesses, were ordered forfeited. All 3 were beet factory workers, and the theft is said to have occurred several weeks ago shortly after pay-day, while the men were at their rooming j house in the north part of the city. Cowan claimed Moore slipped up r while he was sleeping and took some money out of his pockets. — ' In the case of the Monroe State Bank vs. George Paille, on note, finding was made for the plaintiff in the sum of $502.80, and also for $35.50, in another complaint filed under this cause, with affidavit and bond in ata ’ ' tachment. Garnishment proceedings [ were also begun against the People’s State Bank of Berne which holds funds of Paille’s. Court ordered that the People's Bank of Berne pay to the clerk of the court the sum of $469.85, for the plaintiff in this case, the clerk in turn to pay it to the plaintiff. ’ Patlle is the Amlshman by adoption, who recently sued the Amish elders t for alienation of his wife’s affections. ‘ He is said to have skipped out and the Monroe State Bank is looking to his property he left behind for payment to satisfy a debt owing them. t! , I Wesley Hoffman is home from his r weekly business trip. ! ■ 31 Mary Opliger vs. Lawrence E. Op- ■ Higer, divorce. Affidavit for change of ■, venue from judge, filed by defendant, : was sustained. II i 1 Minnie Prange vs. W. H. Fledder- . I johann, on note. Answer to cross--1 complaint of Martin Gerke filed by > plaintiff and W. H. Fledderjohann. Cause submitted. Judgment for plains tiff against all defendants for $376.52. Martin Gerke is surety only for W. H. 1 Fledderjohann, whose property should be first exhausted. , i ■ ’ Hoagland State Bank vs. John H. 1 Koenig et al., foreclosure of mortgage. Proof of publication filed. Appear- • a nee by Lutz for Koenig and Koenig : and 9. E. Whlpp. Rule to answer. Appearance by Erwin for Henry Gerke. Rule to answer. Appearance by Beatty for Fuelling. Rule to an- ■ swer. — ’• Real estate transfers: Jerry Coffee et al. to Thomas H. Baltzell, lot 517, Decatur, $3200; Edwin J. Ahr et al. to Martha E. Ahr, 169 acres, Wabash tp., $8000; Martha E. Ahr to Edwin J.

Ahr, 169 acres, Washington tp., quit claim deed, $8000; Emerson E. McGriff et al. to Danny C. Sprunger, 120 acres, Wabash tp., $13,000. s Not more than half of the 10,000 f Red Cross Christmas and New Year's t seals given to the Adams couuty e anti-tuberculosis society have been i sold, la the announcement made by t General Sales Manager Albert Selle- i meyer. The public should remember' t that the seals are good for New Year c postals, letters and packages, and [ t should make it a point to buy them. [ c Not more than fifty dollars have been v realized thus far this year. The coun- r ty should remember that the proceeds a ' from these seals are used in the fight a [direct, in this county, against the a ■ great plague tuberculosis. c fc The Fort Wayne Anti-Tuberculosis r society alone has netted S6OO from t [the sale this year. From previous c sales and donations, the society has t 'now about $1,600, which is consider- t ed large enough to open a much-talk-ed of tuberculosis camp for the treatment of sufferers from consumption, t It is hoped by them to open this with- e in the next year, and a deal for the J land is pending. One of the sites Bug- i gested is southwest of the city, near ( the Allen county orphans' home. I o t The Reformed parsonage on Wa- I bash street was the scene of a quiet S wedding at 6 o'clock Wednesday even- 1 Ing which united in marriage two s very estimable young people. The 1 bride was Miss Vera Claudia Purdy, a i daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. < Purdy, and the groom was Mr. Wil- s liam Willard Markley, a son of Mr. 1 and Mrs. W. A. Markley, east of Bluff- < ton. The Rev. H. B. Diefenbach per- < formed the ceremony, and witnesses ■ were Miss Hazel Higgins and Mr. i Fred Waugh, who accompanied the j bride and groom to the parsonage, i The bride wore a pretty tailored suit of blue. Following the wedding the , newly-wedded couple went to the home of his parents, accompanied by < Miss Higgins, Mr. Waugh and Misses Grace and Pearl Purdy of Decatur. On Christmas day there was a dinner given in their honor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver VanEmon. The bride and groom are moving today onto the farm of his father, east of Bluffton, where they will reside — Bluffton News. The bride's parents formerly lived in Decatur, her mother being Mrs. Mary Conrad before her marriage. Her father is a son of L. H .Purdy of Decatur. The bride has often visited here. From friends of the couple comes the report that Miss Lyda Reinhard and William Achleman, both residents west of the city, are to be married Saturday, December 28th, at the home of the bride. Miss Reinhard is the daughter of Daniel Reinhard and wife, living in Harrison township, Wells county. Mr. Ashleman is a son of Simon Ashleman and wife living near the Adams-Wells county line, ■ and is at the present helping his father on the farm. The couple, it is said, have made the announcement to their many friends, who are well pleased. INSTALL McCASKEY SYSTEM. Fullenkamp Store Adopts the New Credit System. The M. Fullenkamp store is adopting all the newest and latest methods and appliances that will add to the convenience of the employees and the dispatch in serving their customers. The latest is a very fine credit system called the McCaskey register system. Tliis includes a fine case tn which, in alphabetical file, Is contained the account of each credit customer. Each customer’s file contains one of each duplicate bill of purchases made by the customer. To each new bill is added the balance on the account preceding, so that a glance at the register will show the account owing to date by each. The customer is given a file pad for his duplicate bills, so that by simply referring to both, all disputes may be settled easily and convincingly. This simplifies exceedingly, the bookkeeping. o I, MURDER AND SUICIDE. (United Press Service) I Louisville, Ky., Dec. 27—(Special to Daily Democrat)—lt is the belief of , the authorities that jealousy was the . cause of Philip Jordon killing his wife and then taking his own life here to- , day. Relatives forced the doors of , ' his home and found Mrs. Jordon in a ■ ' bedroom with her throat cut and upon ( entering the kitchen found Jordon j also with his throat slashed and with . his head lying in a box stove. No oth- , er reason can be assigned for the murder and suicide. — — i

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AMISH COLONY MOVES. The Amish colony of about 500 persons live miles northwest of Oakland City, is preparing to leave in a body for the vicinity of Macon, Ga. All members are stock raisers and farm-, ers. The Amish people compose a peculiar religious sect, every action, mode of dress and the little common-' placee of home life being controlled by the church, says a dispatch. "The colony is leaving Pike county because the court ruled against construction of the Virgil Bozeman levee, which was intended to confine the Patoka river within its banks. Their farms i are situated in the Patoka low lands and because of the repeated overflows are not profitable. As soon as the court ruled adversely the Amish men began holding public sales of their property. The first move was made by Joseph Witmer, bisbop of the church and ruler of the sect, with his two sons, John and Amos, both ministers." o-.— —— To but few of us mortals is allotted the distinction of celebrating Our eighty-sixth birthday, but that is what Mrs. Mary Jaques Garrison will do on next Tuesday, December 31st. Mrs. Garrison is now making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Belle Johnson and grandson, W. G. Kist, foreman of the Democrat, at their 'home. No. 116 South First street. She came here last May from Des Moines, lowa, where she had been living for some time with her son, and the neighbors who have met her admire her for the many good qualities so evident. Grandma Garrison, as those who know her best love to cail her, was born in Wood county, 0., December 31, 1826, coming to Indiana with her parents when she was seventeen years old. In 1847 she was married to Alfred Garrison, who died in 1881, since which time she has made her home with her children. She is familiar with the hardships of pioneer life and remembers vividly many Incidents relative to early life in Indiana, making a conversation with her most interesting. When she first came to the Hoosier state the country was wild and but thinly populated except for the Indians She knew many of these people of the forest well and often recals how they came to her to have her count their money or perform some errand for them. Grandma Garrison Is the mother of five children, but besides rearing these found time to care for six orphan children, of near relatives. Os her own family only two are still living. She is of a serene and kindly disposition, sacrificing in many ways for those she loves and can assist and Is most industrious. One of her most enjoyable vocations is the piecing of quilts and during the past five months has completed five handsome quilts, which would do credit to a woman many years younger. Her health and mental condition Is good, excepting a lameness which prevents her from attending church services, sh« having been a member of the Methodist church for many years. She enjoys reading the newspapers and is posted on all the current events of ths day. She looks forward to her birthday w-lth pleasure, realizing that her long life and good health are due to the good will of He who doeth all things well o A double murder occurred Friday night at Lagrange, when Edward Hart, aged thirty, went to the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Mcßride, and shot both Mrs. Mcßride, aged fifty, and Hart's wife, Mrs. Rena Hart, aged twenty-three, as they lay sleeping in their beds. Hart has been addicted to strong drink, and was also despondent over the fact that his wife refusd to live with him. They have been married eight months and bad separated several times, the last being about three months ago, when Mrs. Hart went to live with her mother. Mrs. Mcßride was shot twice through the head and died instantly. Mrs. Hart was shot twice through the neck and lived until 1:15 o’clock this morning. The Harts’ three-months-old child, which was in the seme room where the shooting took place, was [unharmed. After the shootnig Hart ' escaped and ran north down the G. R. & I. railroad toward Wolcottville, with . armed posses in pursuit. The thirty-two caliber gin with [ which Hart did the work, was borrowed Friday from John Caton, a Lagrange undertaker, who, of course, had |no thought of the trouble to ■ hich it would be put. Mr. Caton is a brother 'of Claude Caton, a brother-in-law of George C. Steele, of the Steele & Weaver racket store, of this city, Claude Caton being associ. d with his brother in business there. Mr. Steele, who also conducted a racket store at Lagrange several years ago, was also slightly acquainted v th Hart [ who often called at the sto He is said to be a rough acting r in, with not a very strong love for work, and has served as a sort of rous'about at a livery stable. Imgrange, Ind., Dec. 28.(Special to Daily Democrat.) —Edward Hart who shot and killed his wife and mother-in-law at the latter's home early this

morning was captured four hours later and is now a prisoner in the county jail here. _ o ■■ A number of counterfeit dollars are in circulation in this county at the [ present time and local dealers are warned to look out for them. The bogus money 1h passed in department stores and pool rooms, especially the latter, where there is a rush. The ones that are found at the present time can be easily detected from the real money after an examination. The passing of the counterfeit coins is general along about the Christmas period and winter months when there is much trading. The manner in which they are passed is accomplished by buying some small article and pay- i ing for it while in a rush although the plan of exchanging ten supposedly silver dollars for a paper ten has been worked upon dealers In this vicinity in the past few days. The dollar is the more common of counterfeit money put in circulation at the present time and the federal authorities are trying to find the manufacturers who are flooding the state with them, NEARING ITS COMPLETION. Is the Rev. Charles E. Ehle’s New Church. Rev. C. E. Ehle, the pastor of the South Side Baptist church, announces that Rev. 8. L. Roberts of Franklin, i Ind., the Indiana State Sunday school missionary of the denomination, and • Rev. Mr. Pope, the superintendent of i the state mission board, will be here , on the occasion of the rededication of | the church, the services of which will i be held in January. The exact date, i however, has not been arranged. I Work on the edifice is almost completi ed, the decoration of the wall now be-. ing in progress. The building is loi cated on Indiana avenue, between, r Home and Cottage avenues. —Fort I > Wayne Sentinel. i Rev. Ehle went to the Fort Wayne s congregation from this city, the new » church at Fort Wayne being built - while he was there. , John Mackey, against whom a charge f of conspiracy to commit grand larceny r is pending, was taken to jail at noon r today. He has been out on a SI,OOO .- bond, ad this morning his bondsmen, ; including Henry Mackey, Thomas • Archbold, J. E. Moser and Robert f Archbold, appeared and upon request were released from the bond. This is r one of the cases which grew out of s McClish’s get-rich-quick schemes. 1 t The cause of the State vs. Jacob f Grim, selling liguor to intoxicated pers sons, was continued by agreement; i, also the recognizance bond. The case a was first set for December 30th. 3 a Sarah Hakes vs. Joseph Martz, com- ? plaint in replevin. Appearance by Ert win for the defendant withdrawn. s I Jennie Baker has dismissed her di- , vorce suit against Ira J. Baker and v will have the coats to pay. £ e Lillie Carter et al. vs. Nancy Mills g et al., partition. Motion to strike out withdrawn by defendant Answer in two paragraphs filed. Rule to reply to second paragraph, said reply filed by plaintiff. 8 Anna Clans vs. Morris Ehrsam, for possession of real estate. Motion to j make more specific withdrawn by plaintiff. i* Real estate transfers: F. M. SehirI meyer to .Teese C. Niblick, lot 35, De--1 catur, $350; Almond Shaffer et al. to .. John E. Heath, % acre St. Mary's tp., , quit claim deed, sl. Licensed to wed: Bessie Habegger, born January 13. 1890, daughter of Solomon Habegger, to wed Albert Brack er, farmer, born November 7, 1887, soi 9 of Jacob Bracker. 1 ° GETTING EXHIBITS READY. t Poultry and Corn Exhibits Will Include County’s Beet. Prospective exhibitors at the ninth 1 annual show to be given by the Adams County Poultry and Corn Growers Association in Berne, are getting I things ready for the entry, and the ' show will be a great one. The bright ” est and best of Adams county’s pro- , ducts in the poultry and corn line will be there. The show will be held in the new Berne Witness building [ now in the course of construction. the dates being January 7,8, 9, 10 and [ 11. Q. TO CALL ON BROTHER. Philip Carper Goes To Call On Brother ! Who was Blinded. Philip Carper and son, Robert, left this morning for the old Carper homestead at Seymour, 111., where they

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will have a sort of family reunion, Mr. Carper, meeting his brother, Richard Carper, who is coming from his home at Centralia, Mo. They will then go while there to call on their brother, Uylsses wjio is a patient at the hospital at Champaign, 111. Quite recently while using a hammer on a steel wire fence, a silver of the steel flew off into his eye. He was hastened to a specialist at Danville, 111., who used a powerful magnet in drawing the steel out. The sight, however, is lost, and he is obliged to stay at the hospital for a while. ■ — —■ <•> mi i■■ i—i" " (United Press Service) Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The first package to reach the local postoffice bearing the ' parcels post stamp arrived several days ahead of time from a small Michigan town. It will be held until January 1 and then delivered. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—4lev. L. L. Ward, pastor of a Colliersville church, who just nine years ago preached on the text, "The Way of the Transgressor Is," spent Christmas in jail here. He 'is under indictment in connection with the failure of a bank, and is in jail in default of $20,000 bond. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Christmas homecoming of former citizens brought the heaviest man ever a guest in this city. He is James Chambers, colored, who tips the scales at 793 pounds. He could not get through the station door. j Trenton, N. J., Dec. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat)—A thirteen-year-old orphan girl of Maryland wrote Pres-ident-elect Wilson a letter in which she asked him to adopt her. “I i heard you were nice and kind,” she ■aid. Chicago, Dec. 28— (Special to Daily Democrat) —An “inaugural parade” of woman suffrage advocates will be held in Washington, March 3. “Be lievers” from all parts of the country will march in it. It is planned to 1 make the demonstration the most striking of all the inaugural ceremonies. /. FAST GAME TONIGHT. The strong Churubusco city basket ball team will play here this evening at the Porter hall with the hope of de--1 feating our fast city team. Churubusco is the only team that has won a victory from the local boys this year, hut they cannot do it again. The boys ' have been practicing for some time and the battle for the high score will jbe a hard one. The seventh and ‘ . eighth grades of the city school will play this evening also, at 7:15. The big game will be at 8:15. Mrs. Olive Doty returned to Elida, Ohio, this morning « ter a visit with her son-in-law, Earl Richards who is ill with tuberculosis at the home of [ his father, Frank Richards east of the city. The son is in a critical condition and cannot recover

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