Decatur Democrat, Volume 58, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1913 — Page 1

Volume LVIII

A BUSY SESSION Os the City Council Was Held Tuesday Evening With all Present. SETHER SEWER LET J. Record Given the Contract —Bid Lowest by But Sixty-five Cents. The city council met in regular session Tuesday evening, with every mem- 1 her present and a very busy and important meeting was transacted. Bills were allowed, contracts approved, and a talk from Councilman Christen, Su-, perintendent Mylott and Citfr Engineer Kintz on the convention of the Indiana sanitary meeting held at Indianapolis last week, and which they attended, was enjoyed by all present. The first business matter up before this honorable body was the specifi cations on the Madison street sewer, i and a motion to have them placed on file was seconded and carried. A resolution from the property owners along North Fifth street, asking the council to have said street, com- 1 niencing at the crossing of Marshall street and then running north to the corporation line bricked and curbed, was then read. Upon a motion this matter was referred to the street and sewer committee. A petition from the property owners along South Third street, asking to have same bricked and cement sidewalks built was then in order. This matter was also referred to the street and sewer committee upon motion, which was seconded and carried. Proof of publication to property owmers along the Sether sewer was then read and a motion to have it spread of record was carried. A motion to open the bids of the different contractors was then up before the house, so the clerk was ordered to proceed. Only two bids were at hand, and the difference between them was only sixty-five cents. The bids were: J. Schafer, $225.50, and J. Record, *224.85. Mr. Record was given the contract to build the Sether sewer as his hid was sixty-five cents lower. Resolution on th< Madison street sewer was then prepared by the city clerk, as he did not have time to do it before. During this juncture of the meeting the talks of Councilman Christen, Superintendent Mylott and Mr. Kintz were given. The resolution prepared by the clerk was then read and complaints and objections on the building of said sewer will be heard at the next council meeting on March 18th. It was then moved and seconded that the resolution be adopted. Carried. A paper in the form of a petition filed by Mr. Heimann in behalf of the property owners along High street, asking the council to notify the railroad company to place a gate, watchman or electric light at the crossing was then read. This matter was referred to the street and sewer committee. The city clerk was then ordered to notify the oil company which is working on Mercer avenue to give a bond, guaranteeing the city that they would Put the streets in as good condition as they found them. The bond was fixed at *200.00, A motion to put an electric light at the G. R & I. railroad crossing at the corner of Nuttman avenue and to, have same charged to railroad company was seconded and carried. The waterworks committee then made their report and under this head Mr. Gillig showed plans and specifi-. cations on a larger reservoir to be erected at the city waterworks plant. The motion for the adoption of these Plans and specifications was carried. Xext in order was the motion which was seconded and carried to furnish the Holland-St. Louis Sugar company with electricity at the same rate that it is sold to the people in the city. The sugar company would connect the Power at the corpofation line. Chairman Christen of the judiciary committee then made the following report, in the form of a city ordinance, that a fee should be charged for the conduction of certain businesses in the city of Decatur. These businesses include circuses and the like. The fees to be charge for the different kinds of amusement companies are. Shows, circuses or menageries from *5.00 to *35.00 a day.

Theatrical shows, concerts or other entertainments, *2.00 a day. I Patent medicine men, *2.00 a day. i Peddlers of goods, wares or merchandise *2.00 a day. Venders of buggies on streets, ,5.00 a day. Merry-go-round" companies, *5.00 a day. Doll racks, dodging racks and other amusements not mentioned in this bill a fee of *I.OO a day will be charged. Any one violating this city ordinance a fine not exceeding *25.00 will be imposed upon the violator. Tnis ordinance was then passed to its third and final passage, and stands adopted. CONTIN” rr Ob PAGE THREE WEDDED AT LAST Harvey Shaw and Rosa Blazer Married at Ft. Wayne —“And They Lived HAPPILY EVER AFTER’’ May be End of a Course of Love That Has Not Run Smoothly. — — The last chapter in a second love story ended in the usual way—"they were married, but whether they will live happily ever after or whether there will be a sequel, remains to be seen.” The Fort Wayne Sentinal of yesterday, contained the notice of the issuance of a marriage license to "Harvey Shaw, 50, teamster, and Rosey Blazer, 42.” After being in jail here for more than a week, for failure to pay the monthly allowance for the support of I his children of his divorced wife and himself, Shaw was released yesterday morning on condition that he pay *lO a month for the support of the children who live here with their mother, Mrs. Mary Shaw. He left yesterday | noon for Fort Wayne, and it is quite likely- that his blushing bride, Mrs. • Blazer met him at the station with open arms and that they hied away immediately to the clerk’s office for the license. The wedding was to have | occurred a week ago last Thursday when Shaw had served a sentence in 1 the Allen county jail, but the wedding i was necessarily postponed when Shaw , was brought here to answer the contempt of court charge. It will be re-1 membered that both Shaw and Mrs. I Blazer were given jail sentences in Fort Wayne for living in adultry together, and the marriage was decided upon later. That the course of their love, like that of so many did not run smoothly, is a matter of fact, for annoyances were thrown in their way, and their sepeiation, during the time that he was in jail here, was a matter of grief to both. It has just been learned that their sadness in separation was enhanced by practical Jokes played upon both. This was rendered easier because neither are able to read. Shaw’s men acquaintances here, wrote a letter purporting to have been written by Mrs. Blazer from Fort Wayne. Shaw got one of his friends in jail here to read the letter and was sorrow-stricken to hear that Mrs. Blazer said she had sold all her furniture in Fort Wayne and that she and her daughter were going to Chicago, never * again to see him. Shaw was so griefstricken that he spent the entire day here in jail, crying. At the same time Mrs. Blazer’s girl companions at the Merryman restaurant in Ft. Wayne j iplayed a similar trick on her. They got a newspaper and pretended to read j from it to her, an article to the effect, jtha Shaw had been given a sentence of from one to three years in the pen- ' itentiary for failure to support his family. When Mrs. Blazer heard this she •fainted dead away in the restaurant. I The proprietor at once discharged the 'girls who played the trick on her. By his marriage Shaw is making a double burden upon himself in the support of two families, and the bride may be obliged to return to the wash board to assist in paying for the support of his children by the former wife. — UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. Whun y’ want t’ scold sumbody, don’t! Set down an’ write out your little grievances. Th’ next mornin git up and read it an’ you’ll wunder how y’ kud be mean enuf t’ think up sich things ez that.

BOTHSHOULD SIGN Where Joint Mortgages Are Made, and Should Sign Exemption Blanks FOR FULL AMOUNT Where Only One Signs, Only 1 Part Will be Given— Other Points. t County Assessor George Gentis wishes to call attention to several rules that must be observed in the filing of mortgage exemptions. If these are not observed, the exemption blanks will be thrown out and not considered at all. The number of the mortgage record and the number of the page on which the mortgage is recorded in the recorder’s office in this county, must be given. The correst description of the land on which the mortgage is given, and also the full address of the mortgagee, or the one to whom the mortgage is given, must be written out. The full address must be given so that the county assessor can easily locate him. If this is not done, the trouble required to look up the address cannot be taken, and the exemption will be thrown out. Another thing that should be taken into consideration is this. In cases where a joint mortgage is given there must be a joint signing of the exemption to get the full *7OO exemption allowed by law. Where two persons have signed the mortgage and only one gives the exemption, only one-half of the exemption will be allowed or the amount of *350, if both would be entitled to the full amount of *7OO. In case a man and wife sign the mortgage, and onlyone is living to sign the exemption he or she will get the full amount of exemption. It Is necessary, however, to i state the fact of the death of the othler to get the full amount. Mr. Gentis stated that many making out the exemption papers fail to recognize the importance of attention to all these things, and the party getting the exemption blank filled out should insist on having it done right. PLEASURE TRIP Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Smith Left This Afternoon for Trip Through the West HONOLULU ISLANDS Will Spend Ten Weeks Visiting Historical Spots andCities of Interest. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Smith left this afternoon for Chicago, from where they will begin the first stage of a pleasure trip through the west and also to the Honolulu Islands. They will leave Chicago this evening over the Santa Fe at 8:05 going through to Los Angeles and arriving in that city Saturday afternoon at 2:30. They ' will not make any stops enroute, but ! will spend three weeks in Los Angeles, also visiting San Diago, Santa I Barbara and other points of interest. ' Their traveling in this vicinity will be accomplished chiefly by automobile. From Los Angeles they will visit the Yosemite valley and then to San Francisco, from which port they will sail '.April 10 for Honolulu. They will make ! this city their headquarters and will take trips to the various islands and cities of importance. Mr. Smith has several acquaintances in Honolulu and carries letters of introduction to several men of prominence and will be royally entertained during their visit. They expect to begin their return trip sometime beween May 15 or 20 and from San Frisco will take the Rock Island railroad, visiting on the return trip at Salt Lake City, Puebla, Colorado Springs and Denver. ——• Mr. and Mrs. Homer Stewart and daughter, Mary Alice, arrived from Ft. Wayne this noon for a visit with h's brother, John Stewart, and family.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday March, 6 1913.

MRS. MARY BIXLER DEAD. Former Adams County Woman Passes Away in Anamost, lowa. William J. Archbold; county treasur-er-elect, has word of the death of his aunt, Mfs. Mary Bixler, wife of Moses Bixler, I who, until they went to Animosa, ihwa, thirty-five years ago, were residents of Adams county. Mrs. Bixler’s maiden name was Mary Paulison, sfoe being a sister of Mr. Archbold's mother, Mrs. Jeremiah Archbold, of north of the city. Mrs. Bixler's death occurred February 19, from illness superinduced by old age, as she had nearly reached her ninetieth year. She leaves two children residing in Kansas. CABINET NAMED President Wilson Sends List of Cabinet Officers to the Senate Today. THE OFFICE SEEKERS Need Not Apply at White House—Accepts Resignation of Old Cabinet. (United Press Service) Washington, D. C„ Mar. s—(Special I to Daily Democrat) —President Wilson sent his cabinet nominations to the ' senate today. The selection of the officers were as follows: William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, secretary of state. William G. McAdoo, of New York, secretary of treasury. I James G. Mcßeynolds, of Tennessee, attorney-general. William G. Relfield, of Brooklyn, secretary of commerce. ' ( Albert B. Burleson, of Texas, posti master-general. | William B. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, ; secretary of labor. i Joseph Daniels, of North Carolina, j secretary of navy. Franklin K. Lane, of California, secretary of interior. Lindley M. Garrison, vice chancellor of New York, secretary of war. David F. Houston, of St. Louis, secI retary of agriculture. The cabinet held its first meeting this morning at 10 o’clock in the cabinet rooms of the executive officials at the white house. "I feel perfectly at home in the white house,” remarked Mr. Bryan, smiling. Vice President Marshall did not attend the first meeting of the cabinet so far as this session Is concerned, therefore ft is apparent that President Wilson has not yet adapted his tentative plan to have Vice President Marshall sit in cabinet session. Washington, D. C., Mar. s—(Special to Daily Democrat) —No office seekers need apply at the white house, was President Wilson's order today, 'and first official statement. He said he would be too busy with official busi--1 ness to talk with applicants for office ' unless they were Invited. His inten- , tions are to deal with the applicants through the several executive departments. Hundreds of democraic politicians are eagerly awaiting the first distribution of offices. The first business i transacted by the new president was the dictating of letters to the retiring cabinet members and their assistant . secretaries, accepting their resignations. The resignations of the mem- . bers take effect tomorrow, but the resignation of the assistant secretaries ■ will not take effect until their successors have been chosen. President Wili sbn got an early start on his first day’s work, arising at 7 o’clock, and with his family fitting their first meal, a simple breakfast, in the private dining room. He then plunged into a mass of papers, mail, and official records. o — McKinley memorial seals. ! The McKinley Memorial hospital committee is taking a course similar i to that of the Red Cross society, for I the raising of funds to build a nonsectarian McKinley hospital in New York city. Several Decatur business men received booklets containing seals to be placed on letters, the proceeds to go to the hospital fund. The stamps . bear a picture of the martyred president, and the words “McKinley Mei mortal Hospital.” Several have the seals for sale.

MRS. MARY BIXLER DEAD.

SESSION IS OVER — ! Board of County Commissioners Concluded Their Duties and Adjourn. > • — NEW ROADS ORDERED ! Six Will be Let at April Sesi sion—Turnpikes the Biggest Business Now. i The board of county commissioners concluded their work of the March term this morning and adjourned, after allowing bills. The board of commissioners awarded the contract for the county supplies as follows: Seeds, E. L. Carroll; dry goods and groceries, E. L. Carroll dry goods and groceries, Niblick & I Co.; clothing, Holthouse, Schulte & [ Co.; shoes, C. J. Voglewede; tobacco, Frank McConnell; drugs, Smith, Yager & Falk; harness, Schaub-Dowling ! C ° ~ The county surveyor was given until April 8 to make and file his report on the petition of Alva Curies et al. for a drain. The board found the following petiI tions correct and sufficient and in due (time they will be macadamized: Jos’jeph Stegmeyer, Peter N. Moser, Abra- '■ j ham Inneger, John W. Bollenbacher, - Elmer Eley. — — ■■ It was ordered by the commissioners that hereafter in the construction of new work, all sewer pipe to be used ’ in said work in this county shall be ideal construction pipe or solid cast , iron pipe. The Frank Coppess road was order-! ed sold on April Bth, making a total of five roads to be contrated for on turnpike day at the Aupril session. ’ The petition for the F. J. Shepherd road was found to be sufficient and ’ J. D. Hendricks and Henry Reiter named as viewers and Phil Macklin as engineer. They will meet at Monroe (March 7th. - O —- DECATUR HOSTS :| ■ Yeomen Entertain Three 1 Homesteads from Fort t Wayne Last Night. f CLASS WAS INITIATED J t — By Fort Wayne Team from 1 Homestead Number 856 —A Good Time, i A special inerurban car bringing sev-enty-six Yeomen from all three of the 3 Fort Wayne homesteads, arrived Tues- :- day everting at 8 o’clock and were - heartily met and greeted by the local - homestead. A class of several Deca--3 tur were initiated into the s order by the homestead number 856 of ; Fort Wayne. The work was very fine t and many w’ords of praise are being - bestowed upon the team. Refresh- - ments, in two courses, were served by - the Decatur homestead ladies, and a 3 pleasant social time enjoyed. About - one hundred sixty in all were in at- - tendance. The Fort Wayne special 3 bearing the tired but happy throng 1 home, left here at 11 o’clock. i ——-<•- ’ VAN WERT EVANGELICAL CHURCH 3 Plans for Same Made by Oscar Hoffman—Bids Received Today. Oscar Hoffman, the architect, went 1 to Van Wert, Ohio, this noon, where r this evening bids for the construction r of the new Evangelical church to be - erected there will be opened. The r plans for the *IB,OOO brick church, 3 which has a seating capacity of 600, s were drawn by Mr. Hoffman. Linn & s Patton and Mann & Christen of this s city are among the bidders. |. - O ri- Russell Harruff of Fort Wayne was e here today voting and visiting with friends.

RIGHT-OF-WAY SECURED. Geneva, Ind., Mar. s—Announcement of the proposed extension of the 1 Bluffton, i line from Its terminal here to Celina , has been made if the financial aid can be secured. New Corydon, one of the towns on the proposed extension will take *20,000 worth of stock. The road will go through Skeel’s Cross I Roads and Durbin before reaching New Corydon. The right-of-way has been secured and a preliminary survey has been made which will be certified. As Geneva is almost half way between Celina and Bluffton a power house and car barns will be located here. YOUNG WIFE DEAD Mrs. Martin Marhenke Passed Away This Morning at Home in Monmouth AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Death of Well Known Young Woman Causes Sadness Among Many Friends. The many friends of Mrs. Martin Marhenke were sadly grieved this morning when she passed away at 8 o’clock at her home in Monmouth. While she had been ailing for some time, it was only last Saturday that : she became seriously ill, and very few ! knew of her critical illness. She first contracted a sore throat, which i brought on septic infection and very serious complications, and her condition rapidly became alarming. She was formerly Miss Minnie Watts, being a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Watts in Monmouth. She was born in that town Junue 2, 1888, and spent her entire life there, with the exception of a year in Fort Wayne, after her marriage. She was married June 21, 190, to Mr. Martin Marhenke, who survives. She also leaves two children, Merle, aged six, and a young son, Robert. One child is deceased. Alma, wife of Dick Hill, of this city, is the only sister living. An elder sister, Florence, wife of John Frank, died a number of years ago. She is also a niece of Wilda Watts of this city. Mrs. Marhenke was well liked and favorably known, and | the news of her death is received with I sadness. She was a member of the Concord Lutheran church of Root township. Mrs. Marhenke was just twenty-four years, eight months and three days of age. The funeral will be held Friday morning at 10 o’clock from the house, ithe Rev. A. K. Mumma of Hoagland officiating. TAKES LONG WALK. Decatur Boy Walked to Bluffton on a Pleasure Jaunt. With no thought whatever of imitating a suffragette hike, Paul Baylor, aged 13, of Decatur, remained away from school Monday and walked the distance to this city to spend the day with friends. After a day of pleasure and accompanied by his friend, he started homeward in high spirits and claimed that they would be home shortly after dark. The boy claims to have started from Decatur at 9 o'clock on Monday morning and to have arrived in the city about 2 o’clock. He remained in the city until 3 o’clock, playing with a son of J. Monday, living on Horton street. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon Paul and the Monday boy started eastward for Decatur and the intention of the Monday boy was to visit over night with the Baylor family in Decatur. Paul was anxious to get home, although when questioned by the police here as to why he missed school he replied that it was his birthday and that if he attended school the “gang” would paddle him.—Bluffton Banner. THE CENSUS REPORT. Kieht Worde is the name of the son born to Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Brown, this morning at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Brown. Mr. , and Mrs. Cliff Brown, who have lived in Detroit, Mich., are preparing to move to a big randh in Montana and Mrs. Brown is staying here until ar- . rangements can be completed. She was formerly Miss Blanche Worden.

RIGHT-OF-WAY SECURED.

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ACROBATIC FEAT 11 ‘ Must be Performed by News--1 papers if They Tried to Favor All. ) I —~ ; SOME INSTANCES i Advertisement Space is for I I Those Who Buy it to Use as They Please. I — (By a Reporter) “Ting-a-ling” the telephone bell rang . Tuesday evening at 4:15 o’clock. “Hello! Yes, this is the Democrat office.” “Well,'' said a voice, breathlessly, at | the other end of the line, and hurriedly, without tendering the information as to which one of our 15,009 readers ' she was, “your paper has just come and I have just read the ad on the back page, and I want to tell you if ■ that is what you uphold, I do not want to read your paper any more. My neighbor, Mrs. Blank, says so, too.” Albert Edward Wiggam, the lecturer, said Monday evening in Decatur that some say you can’t reason with a woman. He s£id you CAN, but it 1 i won’t do any good. Well, it may not i do her any good, but it certainly re- ; lieves the tension of the reasoner somewhat —so here goes! ; This one little instance is not 'enough to provoke such a tirade, but t it is simply one of several instances ■ in which newspapers are criticised un- : justly—and is the last straw that i breaks the proverbial camel’s back. ■ i The ad referred to was one given ■ and paid for by one of the factions in ■ the local option campaign. The other • of the two factions in the wet and dry I campaign, had also givea and paid for ■ ads which were run several times, in , the paper, and had, in fact, conducted i an even more vigorous newspaper , campaign than had the oue she opposed. Moreover, one of them was in the . very issue that the ad that was so of- ■ fensive to her was run, and she must I undoubtedly have scampered across it » before coming to the one that so : shocked and offended her. She must - certainly have read her favored ad in > several issues of the paper—but not a i word of commendation was given to i the newspaper—for printing that ■ which she undoubtedly favored. It 1 was only when something was printed i that did not coincide with her views : that she found expression—and that t not in a very pleasing way. Why a newspaper should be partial r to any one side, in the selling of the t advertising space, by which alone, the r paper is able to subsist at all and > serve the public, was evidently not 1 considered by her, and probably not by the average woman who usually 'considers it a medium for the playing 'up of parties, social announcements, • unclaimed letter list advertisements 1 and what-nots, which are usually slip- ; ped in free of charge for charity. | A newspaper’s advertising space is f a public conveyance of expression, just I as a street car is a public conveyance I I of people. Neither, unless run as a 1 special, is a vehicle for a select few. LAs long as a passenger behaves with- ■; in the confines of the law, and pays s his fare, he is allowed to ride. Just 1. as long as an advertiser behaves withLin the confines of the law and pays • his fare, he is entitled to the privileges 1 of the newspaper space. In fact, genr eral business is run in that way. The s proprietor of a meat market, a cloth--1 , ing store, a grocery, sells to all people i —who pay the price—of their wares, i ’lf he sold only to those who would ■ come up to the high ideal standards of ■ •an angel he would soon take on the ■ ethereal qualities of one himself —he -: wouldn’t live very long. ’ | The policy of not taking a paper t ; because it sold a portion of its space r to an advertisement that did not come Ijup to your taste, is the same as that -1 which would make you refuse to buy I groceries, clothing or meat at acer- -. tain place because the proprietors sold to people whom you did not like or who did not come up to your standard or ideal. There are some who think a newsII paper should be the privilege of only s a few—and those only who believe as i, they do, else they have no use for it The advertising, which is sold as 1 goods in stock, should not be confuses ed with the general news columns. In d | the general news columns an attempt '• jis made to be fair and impartial in the e accounts of occurrences. The news I OONTOTOEb OK PAGE TURKE