Decatur Democrat, Volume 58, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1913 — Page 1

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rARMERS INSTITUTE Os Root, Union and Washington Townships Opens in Court Room Today. SOME GOOD LECTURES Given by Noted Workers— Program for This Evenng an Excellent One. On account of the zero weather, the Northeastern Adame County Farmers' Institute, scheduled f®r today and tomorrow, was a little alow in jetting started. However, by 9:45, a goodly number of farmers and buafnosa man iuemtied at the court room and the meeting was called to order hy Preaident C. S. Mumu*. After a song by tha Doeatnr Mala quartet and the iavooation by Rev Rilling the institute get down to business. Mr. .lame* Kila* of Howe, Ind., one of the practical farmers of the north part of the state, delivered f able address on "Alfalfa in Indiana” Mr. Kline does not poae as an orator, but is a plaun, practical farmer. He emphasized the necessity of thorough drainage inoculation and liming of the soil. Alfalfa bacteria dies in wuter soaked and acid soil. Plow early and cultivate frequently till August to clear the soil of weeds. Inoculate with soil from an alfalfa field or sweet clover patch. Inoculation should be done on a cloudy day or in the early morning, as the hot sun destroys the bacteria The culture furnished by the department at Washington is not always satisfactory. Sow twenty pounds per acre and avoid cheap seed having weed seeds or other foreign substances. Cultivate frequently. Analysis and dairy tests show alfalfa hay to have a higher feeding value per pound than bran. Following Mr. Kline was Mr. L. W. Oviatt of Ray City, Mich. The institute management has been exceedingly fortunate in securing his services. He is regarded as one of the most able men In Michigan. For an hour he entertained the institute in a most happy manner on the subject of clover and crop rotation. The farmer gets out of his soil just in proportion to what he puts into it Feed the soil and it will feed you. No other crop grown so perfectly accomplishes the result as clover. After announcements and explanations of the institute law and appointment of committees, the institute adjaurned to meet at 1 o’clock, instead of 1:30 as announced on the program. The committee on organization for the ensuing year, which has until tomorrow to report, is: John Evans, Root; E. M. Wagner, Washington, and Ross Hardin, Union township. Afternoon Session. Institute convened at 1:20 o’clock, with a larger attendance than in the zaarning. The song was omitted and the first subject, "Importance of Live Stock on the Farm," by Mr. Kline, was taken up. The speaker explained the composition of the A-arioue fertilizers and the methods of making tests. Ground limeetone is more valuable than burned lime, as the latter is too caustic and kills seed germs. Con-. tinual cropping exhausts the soil. A , system of live-stock farming improves. the soil. Plow under clover and other leguminous crops. Red clover is the most valuable of all legumes. Alsike clover is not as valuable as a fertilizer. Mr. Kline grows cattle as being the most profitable line, considering the work connected therewith. He thinks the beef cattle business is bound to be paying in the future. The silo makes it possible to keep more live stock on the same acreage of land than dry method. An Interesting discussion followed in which several members of the institute participated. At the time of going to press, L. W. Oviatt was speaking on "Sugar Beets." Mr. Oviatt is an enthusiastic grower of beets and corn and one of his em- ' ”:c r’a'cmeats was: "Sugar beets bare paid off more mortgages and done more good in Michigan than any other product” A. D. Sutlee, Presiding. Tonight's Seeelon—7:3o, ICoinMM on Mere 2)

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EXCEPTIONALLY FINE SHOW. Was "Third Degree” Presented Last Evening at the Opera House. A fair sized and enthustactlc audience witnessed the production of the "Third Degree" last evening at the Bosse O|H»ra House and to say that the theatre goers were'given the treat of their lives is putting it exceedingly mild. Each member of the cast had a hard and difficult role which they carried through to perfection and the vividness with which the plot was worked out gave an interest to every second of the play. Although the weather was not conducive to a large audience, the house was filled to fully two-thirds of its capacity and those who braved the wintry gusts declared themselves more than repaid by witnessing the finest producttou ever put on in the city. A FORGED CHECK For $3.10 on J. E. Moser’s Account at Old Adams Cashed by Hunsickers. ARRESTS ARE MADE ( And Clarence Holthouse and Fred J. Gordon (Miller) Are Charged. ■, Clarence Holthouse and Fred J. Gordon, whose real name is said to be Fred J. Miller, are in jail on th* charge of making and passing a forg • ed check. Each was unable to give the SSOO bond required. Miller was first taken into cuatody by Marshal Peterson, Wednesday afternoon, on information given to him, and lodged in jab. About 7 o’clock Wednesday night, Marshal Peterson got Holthouse, also on information, I and the charge having been made' against the men, and the warrant is- ■ sued from the circuit court, Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly served the same on the two men. The bad check was made on the Old Adams County bank, purporting to have been executed by J. E. Moser for $3.10, payable to Fred J. Gordon. Gordon (or Miller) and Holthouse appeared at the Hunsicker Bros, store Saturday evening, where Miller had th check cashed .having endorsed it bywriting Fred J. Gordon’s name thereon. Dallas Hunsicker did not doubt the check and paid it without ques-. tion. It was turned in with their oth-' er deposits to the First National bank ' the first of the week, and by the First 1 National to the Old Adams CountyWednesday. Here the signature was' challenged and Mr. Moser, the photographer, denied having executed the check. It was then turned over to 1 Dallas Hunsicker, who, after investigating, made the affidavit charging Holthouse and Gordon (Miller) with the forgery and passing of the check. Miller is a young man about thirty years of age. He came here last Thanksgiving day from Chicago, having become acquainted with Holthouse in lowa, where it is said they cooked together. He came here with the expectation of working in the Holty Case, but found this closed and then [ went to work at the sugar plant, working in the cooper shop. He boarded I while here at the John Starost home. I Mr. Starost and all his acquaintances speak in the highest terms of the I 'young man, and express freely their I belief in his innocence. ! Miller, it is said, spent a very bad afternoon and night at the jail, being 'much worried over his plight. He 'protested strongly his Innocence. He was arrested first and when later joined by Holthouse, broke out in words against Holthouse, asking him why he got him Into trouble of this kind. He stated to those at the jail that he had met Holthouse, who had the check and that Holthouse told him to write the name Fred J. Gordon on the back and then to get it cashed at the Hunsicker store. Miller said be did so, thinking everything was all right, and not knowing otherwise until th* arrest was made. When he met Holthouse in the jail he began to upbraid him for getting him into trouble. Holthouse is said to have fold him to hush, that he would get him out all right Holthouse alleges his innocence also, stating that Moeer had given him the check. The penalty for conviction is from two to fourteen years in state’s prison.

WAS A MARVEL Late Mr. Schlegel Probably First Bicycle Manufacturer in City. EARLY AS 1868 Made One from Wagon Wheels—Envy and Wonder of All. The late Augustus Schlegel, the pioneer blacksmith, was a very skilled man, possessed of great ability as a mechanic. One of his early achievements is brought to memory in an interesting letter from J. Frank Mann, the Muncie attorney, formerly of this | city, as follows: Monde, Ind., Feb. 5, 1913. Editor Democrat: I noticed in the Dally Democrat of I February 3, an aeeenat of th* death 1 of Augustus Schlegel, one of the pioneers of Adame owunty. It r*«all*d to me that once upon a time, when I was a small boy, I saw Gus Schlegel I Jdo something that wm then a marvel. I Jin probably IS6S er 18*9, I wa« stand 'ing upon the hoard sidewalk on See-! ond street just north of Monroe, and iGus came down the street at a very I rapid pace, riding the first hf«ycle ‘ that I ever saw He had taken two I buggy wheels and connected them to-1 gether with an iron framework, placed the pedals on the front wheel, and had learend to ride IL My recollec-! tion of the speed which he traveled over the old loose board walk, and, , th® rattle and noise of the then un- , namable machine, is very vivid. I’ • presume Gus was the pioneer bicycle' rider of this country. Tears afterward , j bicycles came into common use, and J what was a very great curiosity then, has of recent years become a necessity. The memory of Gus Schlegel is entitled to be cherished because of being the pioneer bicycle manufactur-l 'er, if for no other reason. Respectfully yours, J. FRANK MANN. MANY PATIENTS From This City at the Lutheran Hospital—Rev. Hessert Makes — A PASTORAL CALL Finds Decatur Colony There Recovering—A Very Busy Month. Rev. L. C. Hessert, pastor of the German Reformed church, paid a pas- - toral call on the ill from this city, who are patients in Fort Wayne hospitals, some of whom are members of his congregation. At present there are four Decatur, or former Decatur j ' ladies, who are patients at the Lu-: theran hospital. Another former Dejeatur lady, Mrs. Rosa Weis Spade, of Fort Wayne, a member of Rev. Hes- ' sert’s congregation, while she lived I here, is a patient at the St. Joseph 1 hospital. As Rev. Hessert carried with him messages of good cheer, spiritual, as well as the more material good wishes from the friends of the patients here, just so does he bring an exchange of encouraging messages from the patients, regarding their rapid recovery. Mrs. Spade is now able to sit up and expects to join her family in their Fort Wayne home soon. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Weis, sr., of this city. Miss Agnes S®llemeyer, the high school senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sellemeyer, it was thought would be able to sit up today, and will probably be able to come home next week. She was operated upon for appendicitis, and in perfectly good health, otherwise, is recovering rapidly. Mrs. John Jeffrey is getting along remarkably well, and is in a very cheerful state, which is always conducive to rapid recovery. Mrs. Oliver Schug, operated upon for appendicitis, is getting along well, but is not in a very cheeful state of

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I mind, seeming to suffer much from de-; , pression. She is doing well, however, considering all. Not only has Decatur a large number of jietients at the Fort Wayne hospital, but others have contributed to making the past January the busiest in the history of that institution. During the thirty-one days, 134 patients were treated, and twelve children were born in the institution. Os the total number of cases, 78 were operations. During the month 105 patients were discharged, and at the opening of February there were 94 patients in the hospital. FUNERAL HELD THIS MORNING. The funeral services for the late Michael Touhey of Lima, whose remains were brought to this city for burial, were held this morning from th® St. Mary's Catholic church at 8:30 o’clock. Burial was made in the St. Joseph's cemetery. MAKING IT HUM - 'Sale of Parcels Post Stamps for First Month Amounts to Nearly SIOO. I AN EXTRA CARRIER / May be Needed in a Few Months—Fence Post Latest Oddity by Mail. I — ■ The first month of parcels post serv- . ice at the local office shows the sys- 1 Item to have be--n a very successful: ' one, the sale of stamps in this depart- ' ment having reached nearly SIOO. Bluffton reports the sale there to have been $134.48 for the month of January. The sales,show a marked increase during the last half of the I month. While no account was kept jfor the last half, as was required for ;the first, it is thought the business iwas a third heavier during the last (half of January. No data is kept as to the number of parcels handled or their weight, I ■as this information was required by, the department only for the first sis-1 teen days. The office has had to call l for theassistance of Milt Leavell, the substitute carrier, on several occassions to help get the parcels out of the way, and it is thought if the business shows the steady increase begun, it will be only four or five months until an extra carrier will be kept I busy all the time and some sort of a ( i conveyance required. : The public is getting used to the sight of the mail carrier with his strange burdens, but every now and ' then an odity pops up. The latest was an iron fence post sent through the mails. Hat boxes, sausage, smoked meats, dress goods, merchandise of all kinds, butter and apple butter, are frequently sent, and now and then a I doll. The parcels post rules out the sending of live animals by mail, and the stories current about babies being sent by parcels post in some cities are believed to be fabricated from I cloth that wouldn’t much strain, upon investigation. o- I AT PETERSON SCHOOLHOUSE. All Day Session of Kirkland Township Farmers’ Saturday. < Valentine Linker, president, and James D. Brown, secretary of the Kirk- i land township farmers’ association, announce a good program for Saturday . Feb. 8, when the first annual institute will be held in the Peterson ' schoolhouse. The session will open at ; 9:30 with a prayer by Rev. Daniel Barley, James Kline of. Howe, will %peak on “Farm Crops, Prinsiples of , Cropping" and Mrs. lAura Ixonard of Indianapolis, will give an adress on “Floods, Material and Their Preparation.” In the afternoon, beginning at 1:30 o’clock, Mr. Kline will speak on "Orchard Fruits and Mrs. Leonard on “Household Efficiency.” Excellent music will be rendered by talented ones, and the sessions will be both pleasing and instructive. A boys’ com contest held. There will be ' three premiums offered—s.7s, $.50 and $.25, for corn grown by the boys. o Mrs. S. E. Brown entertained at dinner Wednesday for Mrs. Homer Weav- , er of Davenport, lowa, and Mrs. Ba- ' mantha Brown of thia city.

DEATH IS NIGH In Evanston for Telephone Salutation “Hello”—lt's “Vulgar.” SO THEY SAY And Now “Good Morning” and so on, are all the Rage Instead. Not to "deah old Boston,” with its high lights of "cultah,” has been given the honor of placing a ban upon the usual saluatation “hello” as "vulgar;” to dear Evanston, 111., our very near neighbor, is the credit given. When anything is called “vulgar" in Evanston, its death is nigh. How soon will it reach Decatur? “Good morning,” “Good afternoon," or “Good evening,” have taken the place of the shorter and more convenient word. In some cases, where an undesirable has called, the “Good night” is used with peculiar and equal emphasis on each word. The substitutes for “hello” have become so common that they have atattracted the attention of telephone girls, no to insinuate that the girls ever listen to conversation over the (Wire. It Is necessary, however, for' | the girls to make sure that the conInection is all right. i The operator in the office of H. B. I Gates, manager of the Evanston ex- | change of the Chicago Telephone comI pany, said recently that the women have abandoned the “hello” for the (more polite and formal substitute. “It I is seldom that I ever hear ‘hello,’ ” she said. “I have occasion to call the, homes of several society women in the course of a day, and in nearly every instance the woman at the other end of the wire greets me with 'good afternoon,’ or ‘how do you do ’ But a new complication presented itself when the reform began to reach to the ranks of the domestics. The servants fresh from the lands of the (Continue* on Page 2) POPULAR PLACE <•»-•« *.<*■ *, ■■■ ■ *1» » Is Hotel de Durkin—County Had Twenty-one Guests Wednesday Night. ONLY TWELVE BEDS - Sixteen Prisoners Pipe-liners and Railroad Men Arrested as Drunks. — The Hotel de Durkin seems to be the most popular hostelry in the county. The register for Wednesday night l showed twenty-one guests—this in 1 spite of the inadequate accommodations in the bed line, for there were only twelve beds. The very cold weather, however, made huddling together more conducive to warmth and the close quarters were not so uncomfortable as they might have been had' the thermometer been higher. The congestion was relieved somewhat this' morning, when six of the prisoners i were 'released. It is said that sixteen J of the twenty-one prisoners were pipeline and railroad employees, who were 1 committed for public intoxication. I Only a small number of those committed to jail in the past several months are permanent residents of the county. INTER-STATE DRAIN. Calls Surveyors to Chattanooga, Ohio, Today. Surveyor Phil Macklin and his deputy, John T. Gillig, with Dillon R. Smalley, surveyor of Mercer county, Ohio, are at Chatanooga, Ohio, today on business. They go to survey land for a drain affecting land in Mercer county, Ohio, and Adams county, Indiana. NOTICE TO BEN HURS. AU members of the Ben Hur lodge are requested to be at their hall next Friday evening. Business pertaining to Class A members will be discussed.

RETURNS FROM FLORIDA. Guy Majors Will Remain in North Until Next Fall. ; Guy Majors, who went to Tyler, Fla., a few weeks ago and opened a barber shop there, and got his land and town property In shape preparatory to moving there, has returned and will remain in Fort Wayne until the busy season in the new and growing little town opens up more fully next fall. He will resume his barbering in Fort I Wayne, and he and his wife left sor 1 > there today noon. o FINE PAID BY UNKNOWN. London, Feb. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat.) —Some unknown party paid Miss Sylva Pankhursts’ $lO fine i and she was released from prison al- - though she dearly wanted to go on a I hunger strike for 19 days. WRECK AT MONROE I i I Local Northbound Freight on G. R. & I. Ploughs Up Track for Hundred i FEET OR MORE I 1 North of Monroe—Wreck' ! I Train Called from Fort Wayne—None Hurt. Monroe, Ind.,. Feb. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The track on the G I ' R. & I. railroad was torn up for a distance of about 100 feet, three-quarters ’ of a mile north of this town at 1 ' i o’clock this afternoon, when a car' of northbound local freight No. 30, in 1 charge of Conductor Rowan left the' track. The cause of the wreck was the breaking of one of the journals of the wheel, letting that part of the car down and ploughing up the track for a short distance. No one was hurt.’ The wreck train was called out from Fort Wayne and it was thought the work of an hour or a little more would clear the way. The southbound passenger train, which was a little , late, was held at Decatur until the j way was cleared. RADIATOR VALVE BROKE ‘ And School at Central Dismissed for. Second Time. For the second time this week it i was necessary to dismiss the students at the central school building. A valve in one of the steam radiators ;on the second floor broke and it was necessary to let the fire go out and ' let the water run out to make the repair. The building was nicely heated before the valve broke, and as the heat was retained in the rooms until about 10:30, it was not necessary to dismiss the students until that time, , I when the temperature of the second floor began to get too cool. The rei pair was made and the rooms heated ' again by time to open the afternoon session. o._ | POLICE COURT. It loked for a while today as if the police court was going to pass a day of ' rest and peacefulness, but alas, there ' was at least one man in the city who ' could not see it that way, and that 1 ' man was Joseph (Reilly, who started in 1 j early this morning to absorb ail the i loose “booze” he could find and was arrested by Marshal Peterson on Winchester street. Reilly was taken beI fore Squire Stone and drew the usual “soak” of $1 and costs. He will be ' a guest of the county for the next ten days. CARD OF THANKS. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Schlegel wish to thank the neighbors and friends, Rev. Hessert, the Christian • church and others for their kindness to them in their late bereavement, • occasioned by the death of their father, Augustus Schlegel. I o MR. CHRISTEN IMPROVING. Word from the bedside of Ed S. Christen is that he Is resting much better than he did Wednesday and his improvement is ..gradual. The first s three’ or four days following the opt eration are always trying, but he is ; as well as can be ex- . pected. I

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THE INCOME SAX L — Amendment Will Become Part of Constitution When Three-fourths of States HAVE ACCEPTED IT ft Leaders in Indiana Legislal ture Planning to Complete Work Early. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., Feb. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat)- —President Taft I will issue a proclamation declaring the income tax amendment a part of the constitution as soon as the state department has received written notfjfication from thee-fourths of the states •that their legislatures have accepted the amendment Secretary of State Knox will prepare the proclamation probably late this week, but its issuance will await receipt of certificates from the state governments officially showing the ratification. These are not expected for a week or two. The president's proclamation will automatically put up to congress the question of laws regarding the amount ■ and method of taxation. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 6 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Having contributed a vice president to the iauguration festivities in Washington, March 14, Indiana, represented by its legislature of 150 members, wants to shine at those Washington doings. For several days there has been stirred a rui>nor that Thomas Taggart, would cheerfully foot the bill for the special train or trains, to carry the legislature and its satellites to the capital, but no one has been able to prove that the genial hotel-keeper of French Lick and Indianapolis would willingly underwrite the excursion for SIO,OOO, which the trip would easily cost. The latest dope about the inauguration special came today when it was reported that the leaders of both houses had agreed to rush matters to enable adjournment on March 2nd, in time for the special to land in Washington on March 4. Not one has dared hint at a 'recess for the trip and the sixty-oue days fixed by the constitution for a legislative session would be up March ‘9 th. j The early adjournment tale was .boosted by a report that the leaders had agreed to pass some of the big bills this week. Two days had passed 'when the houses go down to work this morning, and nothing along this line of “big accomplishments” showed. - Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat) —A system of vocational education to train children for work in the shop and on the farm would be established in the schools of Indiana by the Yarling bill pending today in the iegislature. The bill embodies the recommendations of the commission on industrial and agricultural education created by the 1911 legislature, of which Senator Will A. Yarling -was chairman, and John A. Lapp, legislative librarian, secretary. Under the bill local school boards would be given authority to establish vocational schools or departments at once and levy a special tax not to exceed 10 cents on each SIOO of taxable property in the corporation to support such work. Beginning with 1914-1915 local school boards shall be reimbursed by the state for two-thirds of the sum expended for such instruction approved by the state board. An additional tax levy of one cent on each SIOO in the state shall be levied by the state to make up a fund with which to reimburse the local boards for vocational work. I Evening classes are provided for in the measure; also part-time vocational for classes engaged in similar lines of work. Attendance on day and parttime classes would be the limit to persons from 15 to 25 years of age and evening classes to persons over 17. Two or more cities, town or township might co-operate in establishing vocational schools and departments. Elementary agriculture would be required in the grades in all towns and township schools; elementary industrial work would be required In the grades of all city and town schools; elementary domestic science would be taught to all girls in such gjfhools. The bill would add three new members to the state board of education, persons actively interested in voca(tional education.