Decatur Democrat, Volume 58, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1913 — Page 1

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VALUE OF HYGIENE It Can Cure Every 111 and the Result of Illness. WHICH IS CRIME Says Dr. J. N. Hurty—Take Money Used on Criminals and Prevent Crime. When Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, spoke at the Methodist church Tueaday evening on “What Hygiene Can Do for Mankind," he gave the whole matter in a nutshell when he said: “Hygiene can prevent every ill known to mankind, and Its results, which are insanity, crime and untold misery, bodily, spiritually and mentally. Take the money used in caring for the sick, the insane and criminal, and use it in prevention, thus saving the great misery and suffering, as well as dollars and cents.” Standing room at the lecture room of the church was at a premium, and when this distinguished visitor, accompanied by his host, Dr. J. S. Boyers, vice president of the state board| of health, whose guest he was while I in the city, and City School Superintendent E. E. Rice, proceeded to the platform, there was a suspended breath of exceedingly great Interest. Prof. E. E. Rice made the introductory speech. He explained that some time ago be and Dr. Boyers were speaking on matters relative to the science of health, when they evolved the idea of arranging a series of health talks for the high school students’ chapel hour on Friday mornings. These have been given by the local physicoans with great good resultant, and the closing one was that of Dr. J. N. Hurty. Dr. Hurty spoke Tuesday ( afternoon to the high school students I and a number of the grades, and gave very good talks. His lecture Tuesday evening was illustrated with stereopticon views, in his prelude he gavve statistics to show that the cost of crime for the ill, insane and criminal, is much greater than that which would be required to prevent disease. The laws of God are i immutable. If we do not abide by his laws governing our bodies, we suffer. We alone are to blame, and not God. The study of hygiene and its careful: following out, will prevent Illness. The first of the stereopticon views were pictures of the great scientists ■ who have done so much for the world, in the discovery of germs, bacilli,' treatment and prevention of diseases All showed the kindly, benevolent * face, productive of patience and great depth of character and kindliness. The one chief disease considered by Dr. Hurty in the evening was consumption, or tuberculosis. He said if one devotes his time to the prevention of this disease, it is so broad that It will cover all others, and there will be little danger of contracting others. In this disease which claims more victims than any other, there may be an ‘‘arrest’’ of the disease, but the prevention is the chief thing to be considered. More than half of the 4,000 deaths claimed annually in Indiana, are those of women. The disease is a “house disease” —air starvation, and as women are confined more closely to the house than men, the plague claims more women. Since it is “air starvation,” plenty of pure, fresh air, Is one preventive. He named several things that may lead to consumption, through shortage of fresh air. One is adenoid growths, in a child, preventing his proper breathing. These should be removed. Another is the construction of the home, with Inadequate windows, or ventilation facilities. The ignorance of mothers in the dressing of their babes for our-of-door trips Is another. A child should not have its face covered with cloths or veils, or its head warmly wrapped in blankets. Let the child get the fresh air. Faulty seat arrangements in schools, preventing the proper sitting of the child, who is forced into a cramped Position, will bring on tuberculosis, of the lungs, bones or other tissues, or organs. Tubercular cows are another source; also common drinking cups. Re sure that your milk comes from healthful animals, and carry your own drinking cup. He showed pictures of various institutions for the treatment of consumption. All showed the open air

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sleeping porches or open air colony shacks. Among them was Indiana’s state tubercular treatment hospital at Rockville, now two years old. Each county Is entitled to the treatment of a certain number of patients, free of charge. Thus far, none from Adams county has taken advantage of this. Tuberculosis is not hereditary, and It is in every case, preventable. Its ravages may be arrested, and practically cured. “Curing,” however, conveys the idea of complete restoration. The tissue eaten by tuberculosis, cannot be restored, but the ravage may be “arrested.” Among the pictures were some of tGonOwms. <>■ AUTO WAS BURNED Scott Hughes Meets With Heavy Loss While Returning to Ft. Wayne ON LAST EVENING Had Started for Decatur— Only Running Gears, Motor and Frame Left. Scott Hughes of Fort Wayne, forjmerly of this city, suffered a S6OO loss Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, six miles south of Fort Wayne, when his automobile caught fire and was burned, leaving practically nothing but the running gears, frame and motor. Mr. Hughes had started for this city Tuesday afternoon with some timothy seed for his farm. On the way here he was delayed by two punctures of ■the tires. When theshadee of night began to fall and Mr. Hughes was still far from his destination —in fact, nearer his home than the objective point, he turned around and started for home. He had gone about two miles when he noticed the flames un- ' der his feet. The fire, no doubt, started from some defective Insulation, the sparks haring good breeding place in the grease and lint that would natural-1 !y collect about the bed of the ma. | chinery. Mr. Hughes tried to extinguish the fire with his hands, and In doing so his left hand was badly bum!ed. His efforts proved unavailing and ■when the flames leaped higher and higher, he feared that the flames or the heat would reach the ten gallon gasoline tank under the front seat, Mr. Hughes decided to get out of the car Ito be beyond danger, should an explosion occur. At this point the Decatur interurI ban car came along and the crew seeing the flames, got out and helped Mr. I Hughes in fighting the fire. Ed Green, Iconductor, was chief fireman, using a 1 sprinkling can with which the car was fortunately equipped. A well in a field some distance, away supplied the water. John Stewart of this city, who was returning to this city from Fort Wayne, also arrived on the scene about this time, and helped in the fight. Other who were assisted were Motorman C. L. Meibers and Mr. Cox, a press salesman, who had been in this office during the afternoon, and was going to Fort Wayne on the car. Fortunately the gasoline tank did not explode, the top having been knocked nff, allowing the flames to shoot upward. | While Mr. Hughes’ loss is heavy, he considers himself fortunate in escaping without personal injury. He was the sole occupant of the car. The blase was quite a spectacular one, as the flames leaped some ten feet high from the burning top. The carer what was left of it—was left standing by the roadside, until arrangements can be made for hauling It back to the city. Mr. Stewart turned his car and took Mr. Hughes to his home on Columbia avenue in Fort Wayne. Mr. Hughes had insurance on his car, but whether it is accident or fire, he was unable to state. The car was an Overland. TO BE TAKEN TO EASTHAVEN. Word was received by Clerk Bleeke Tuesday evening from Easthaven asylum at Richmond that there is now room in the men's ward, and that Adam Cully, of Geneva, the aged civil war veteran, can now be received. Mr. Cully was declared Insane, February 15. Later he grew very violent and he was brought to the jail here, as his liberty was considered dangerous to others He will be taken to Easthaven tomorrow morning by the sheriff or his deputy. He is sixty-eight years old.

BUY LABEL RIGHTS Lose & Thomas Now Own the Entire Rights for the White Stag Cigar. A GROWING CONCERN, Have Advanced from a Two Man Shop to Dandy and Prosperous Factory. Lose & Thomas, makers of the White Stag and the John Adair cigars, closed amlghty important contract Tuesday, marking another climax in their growth, when they purchased the entire rights for the White Stag label. To the ordinary person the meaning of this might not appear. clear, but to them it was no small achievement. Heretofore it has been what is known as a stock label, that it was used by any small manufactorer in various parts of the country. However, the Lose & Thomas company, was I easily the largest user of this label and a deal for its exclusive use was made with the owners, Merz & Son of Chicago. The firm has shipped them ' the first allottment of boxes and the package is as neat as could be found anywhere, bearing the white stag picture inside and outside and in several places, while the trimming is a unique combination of the world’s “whie stag” and the picture of that animal. From a shop that employed but one or two men the Lose & Thomas has grown to be a real cigar factory, now employing about twenty people and the product which made it famous “The White Stag, extra mild,” is in demand all over Indiana and Ohio and they are usually behind in shipments. The boys deserve praise and credit for what they have done and a boost for what they are going to do—keep on growing. VISITED * DAYTON Jesse G. Niblick Returned from Flooded City After Three Days’ Visit. HAD A CLOSE SHAVE i From Being Arrested and Put to Work on Streets— Obtained a Pass. Jesse G. Niblick returned from Dayton, Ohio, Tuesday evening, where he had been visiting with his relatives, Messrs. Nick Thomas and William Briebenbach, since Saturday evening. Jesse arrived in Dayton at 6:15 and went immediately to the tranfer corner with the hope that he could catch a street car to carry him to the part of the city where his relatives lived. On reaching the spot he waited a little while and upon further investigation he learned that there were no cars running in that direction on account of the tracks still being washed out. This was already 6:58 and as the city is still under martial law, the curfew bell rings at 7 o’clock. After that, if anybody is seen on the street without a pass obtained from General Woods, commander of the militia, he is arrested and put to five days’ •work, helping clean up the streets. An officer happened along just at this time, when Jess was thinking what he had best do, and asked him if he had a pass. Jesse informed him that he didn’t, and asked where he could get one, and explained to the officer where he wanted to go. He was then directed by the officer to make haste to the hotel nearby before it struck 7, and there he would be able to get a pass from General Woods. He therefor started for the hotel, and reached Its lobby just as the clock was striking seven. He met General Woods and was given a pass which entitled him to-remain on the street till 7:30. When that time was up, and he had been seen on the streets, he would have been arrested, like other offenders When he reached the outside of the

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hotel he hailed a taxi and was driven to the home of Nick Thomas on Indiana street This morning in an interview with Jesse he told of the terrible scenes still prevalent in Dayton, and what a devastated city It is. Nearly every street in Dayton is upturned, and every one has a house or some other obstruction piled in It, the biggest obstruction being the pianos, which are seen about every fifty feet Dayton is still under martial law and the work of cleaning up the city is being done very rapidly, not forgetting the terrible condition it was In after the floods and fire. The curfew was changed Monday night from 7 to 11 o’clock. This allows the people to be on the street until that time. Jesse and his mother, Mrs. Christena Niblick, had arranged to go to Dayton to spend Easter with relatives, but today they are thanking their lucky stars that they did not go. ANGEL OF DEATH Called Mrs. Daniel Troutner to Eternal Home This Morning at 9:30. WELL KNOWN LADY Joanna May Edington Succumbs to Cerebro Meningitis Last Evening. The angel of death summoned Mrs. Daniel Troutner of east of Pleasant Mills to her eternal home at 9:30 o’clock this morning. Mrs. Troutner had been bedfast two weeks, being ill of pneumonia. Word came this morning at.7:30 o’clock to her two sons, Andrew and Charles, of this city, that she was dying. Very soon after their departure for her bedside, word came telling of her death. She was about sixty years of age. Her maiden name was Ella Johnson. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Johnsen, are still living, residing at Alegan, Mich. She was, first married to John Roop, who Is de-' ceased. To them were born the follow- ■ Ing children, who survivve: Virgil Roop, Toledo, Ohio; Charles and Andrew, this city; Chauncey, Otis and Jesse Roop, Chicago, and Mrs. Mary i Algeo, Chicago. Lewis Johnson Is a brother. She also leaves several other brothers and sisters. Her second husband, Daniel Troutner, is still living. Mrs. Troutner was widely known and highly esteemed. The funeral arrangements will not be made until word is received from the children. Joanna May, three-year-old daughter (CostSaweS OB rs®s 3) SERVICE TONIGHT Short Ministerial Service for Mrs. Mary Jaques Garrison. AT 7:00 THIS EVENING Will be Held—Body Will be Taken to Bristol for Interment. A short ministerial service for Mrs. Mary Jaques Garison, whose death occurred Tuesday noon, will be held this evening at 7 o’clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Belle Johnson, and her grandson, W. G. Kist, at 116 South First street Rev. Stephenson of Goshen, the new pastor of the Methodist church of this city, with which denomination Mrs. Garrison was affiliated for many years, arrived at noon today to officiate at the service. Word was received from her only son, W. F. Garrison, of Moines, lowa, whose wife is critically ill and at the point of death, that he would arrive today and is expected at 3:48 over the Erie. Her brother, F. M. Jaques, and wife, of Silver Lake, are also expected this afternoon to join a number of relatives who are already here. The body will be taken tomorrow morning at 7:54 o’clock over tip G. R. & I. to Bristol, where burial will take place in the cemetery where the husband, Alfred Garrison, whose death occurred in 1881, was laid to rest.

ASKING FOR AID Stricken City of Hamilton, 0., Asks for Dollar Contributions at Once. — MANY IN DISTRESS City Will Survive the Flood, But Poor and Destitute Are Suffering. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin” Is the headline on a pink slip being handed out by County Superintendent L. E. Opliger, by request of the relief committee of Hamilton, Ohio. The request continues: “In the name of humanity you are urged to contribute out of your abundance One Dollar, and mall it quickly to the Citizens' Relief Committee. L. P. I Clawson, Treasurer, Hamilton, Ohio.” ’ On the other side of the slip appears ■ the statement that the loss of life at Hamilton was 250, the loss of property fifteen million, while the flood victims who suffered reached 23,000, making that city really the worst sufferer in the Buckeye state. In an accompanying letter, Mr. Cullen, the chairman, says: "Hamilton as a city has civic pluck and credit to repair her public utili- i ties and streets, her merchants and j manufacturers will survive, but the losses of the humble, the destitute poor, whose homes and household goods are gone or ruined cannot be adequately supplied except through outßlde aid. The dead are gone—‘Requiescat in peace.’ The thousands of survivors, heart-broken and in deep I despair, implore your sympathetic assistance. This is a Macedonian cry— j ‘Come over and help us.’ Give us one dollar and pass the appeal along to your friends. God grant a prompt reply." Mr. Opllger will take care of any contributions and forward them to the , stricken city. POLICE MAKE RAID London Police Destroy Pa-1 pers and Furniture of Militant Suffragettes. ADMITS FAILURE Bryan Will Remain However Until Anti-Alien Bill Is Finally Settled. Sacremento, Cal., April 30 —(Special 1 to Daily Democrat) —Acknowledging his failure of his efforts in modifying the anti-alien land-owning bill, Secre-' tary Bryan left today enroute to San Francisco to make a short visit. Final action on the bill was postponed until Thursday on account of Bryan’s action. He will return tomorrow and will remain until the problem is settled. The announcement of the democratic members that they were with the Progressives and the Republicans for passing the Japanese bill made Bryan’s task hopeless. London, April 30—(Special to Dally j Democrat) —Police raided the headquarters of the militant suffragetts iu this city and Newcastle on the Tyne, confiscating all papers and striping the offices of all the furniture or smashing ft. Seven of the leading women were arrested. This work Indi-; cates that the police mean to per-' manently break the organization. The raid was ordered by the home office on evidence gathered by women detectives who posed as suffragettes and got themselves into the inner circle of the organization. London, April 30—(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Montenegrian situation is somewhat easier today on Austrias announcement that they would not proclaim was against King Nichonot proclaim was against Kink Nichoers. Austria’s threat of taking Immeadiate action was a diplomatic move to urge the powers to more quickly decide tbout Montenegro's evacuating Scutari. The moving of the Austrian , (Oonunwea on Page 3)

BOYS WANT TO WORK. I j Elmer and Pliny Lyons are two* thustling little lads who deserve to succeed and they will. They read in last evening’s issue that Dr. Keller, the city health officer, has demanded that all rubbish and trash be hauled away at once and they immediately called •at this office and ordered an advertise(ment inserted in the paper that they own a horse and wagon and are prepared to haul away your rubbish and dirt ;at the right price. If you need them Icall ‘phone 547 and they will be on 'hand promptly, with their faces beaming in pleasure, because they are do-j Ing something. A STRONG CAST Will Present the Home-Tal-ent Play “A Little Savage,” Friday Evening. — lIS IN THREE ACTS Miss Osee Armstrong is Staging the Play—Rebekah Benefit. Everything is now completed for a master production of the home talent ■play Friday evening, May 2, at the opera house, under the auspices of the Rebekahs. Get your tickets of the ladies and see a good play. The title is “A Little Savage,” a military play, in three acts. Miss Osee Armstrong is staging the production. The cast follows: ( | Capt Donald Churchill (officer in command) —Clayson Carroll. ; Lieutenant Arthur Lawton (Captain Churchill’s brother-in-law) —Howard ■' Wisehaupt. John Woodruff (West Point cadet) — Vaughn Murray. Lord Cecil Staunton Southerland (an English nobleman) — Frank Bremerkamp. | Lady Agnes Southerland (Cecil’s ! Mother) —Ruby Baker. Georgie Sherwood (Lady Agnes’ niece) —Nina Wagner. May Churchill (the captain’s wife)— Mabel Weldy. I Ruth Churchill (Donald’s sister, a little savage)—Genevieve Bremerkamp Time—The present. Locality—Fortress Monroe. Scene —Captain Churchill’s study. , Synopsis. Act I —Georgie Sherwood decides not to marry Arthur Lawton. Lady j Agnes decides that Georgie would 'make a suitable match for her son, Ce'cil. Cecil decides to doctor his cold; land Ruth decides that Cecil and John shall fight a duel. Act ll—The following evening. Swords or pistols. Lady Agnes plays eavesdropper and decides that Arthur shall go to Washington and Georgie 'shall return to England with her. The interrupted duel. Cecil signs a declaration of independence. I Act HI —One month later. The dance l at Captain Churchill's. Georgie is jealous. Lady Agnes makes more mischief. At cross-purposes. John plays I peasemaker. The decision of “The i Little Savage.” THE BAIHLE TRIO COMING. Very fine press notices follow the concerts of the Bailhe Trio, every • where they play. The Trio will give a (concert in this city May 6, at the I Knights of Pythias Home, under the] auspices of the Euterpeans and music I lovers will give them a cordial reception. Get your ticket of the Euterpeans 1 now. The Ft. Wayne Sentinel says of the trio: “Under the auspices of the 'Morning Musical Society, The Bailhe I 1 Trio gave a recital last night, and | from a standpoint of artistic excellence 'and beauty of selection throughly delighted an audience that filed the hall in the Elk’s Temple Building. The I work of the Baihle Trio, was nearly i as much of a surprise as it was the embodiment of scholarly and musical attainment and beauty of color and rendition.” e — SOMETHING TO FIGHT FOR. In a dispute over which factions should take up the collection at the Greek Easter services in a Uniontown, Pa., foreign church, twenty-five persons were cut and bruised, several fatally, during a free-for-all fight. The police quelled the trouble and several ’arrests were made.

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COURT HOUSE NEWS State’s Witnesses Separated Upon Request of Dr. George Thain. ALLEGES PREJUDICE I Thinks They Will Collude to 1 I Testify Against Him— Jury Secured. — It was not until 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon that both the state and defense expressed itself as satisfied with I the jury as it stood at that time, and I the panel was declared complete and the case of the State vs. Dr. George j Thain of Ft. Wayne ready to proceed to trial before Special Judge D. E. Smith. The jury drawn to hear the case is comprised of the following: .William Schrock, Hugh Hite, Ed Zimmerman, John R. Porter, Jesse Burnett, William Ruby, Raleigh Bradford, Jesse Erhart, John Hendricks, Henry (Stettler, Omer Butler and Joe Graber. The case will be hard fought on both ’ sides, as the crime with which Dr. IThain is charged is a serious one, that (of criminal operation on Mrs. Winnie Marhenke, resulting in her death. The penalty for conviction is from three to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Before the evidence was taken up Tuesday, Dr. Thain made a motion that several of the state’s witnesses be separated and not allowed to hear the testimony of each other. He stated in his motion that he believes that they are biased and prejudiced against him and he feels they may collude to testify against him. He also asked that they be required not to converse with each other or to tell each other what they give in their testlmoney. Special Judge Smith sustained the motion, and the following witnesses, who have been subpoenaed by the state will be kept out of the hearing of the testimony offered by each: Martin Marhenke, husband of the deceased: Mrs. Alma Hili, Mrs. Nellie Beuter, Mrs. Sophia Witte, Mrs. Chauncey Wilder, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Clark, Neigerald, Mrs. Goeke, Mr. Diebold. Dr. P. B. Thomas of this city was the first witness called by the state Tuesday afternoon. He was on the stand until nearly noon today. I Dr. Thomas was called to attend Mrs. i Marhenke after she became so very ill, and after the Fort Wayne doctors, it is said, refused to care further for her. He was succeeded on the witness stand a little before noon by Martin Marhenke, husband of the deceased woman, whose evidence will no doubt be quite lengthy. It is now thought the trial may continue over into next week. J Instead of the five jurors of the regular panel excused on account of illness Tuesday, and instead of Henry Borne, deceased, whose name was drawn for the April jury, the following have been ! chosen as “specials” and will serve as 1 members of the regular panel, with the others: D. D. Coffee, Henry Settler, Anton Krumenaker, Conrad Gillig, George Braun, George Geels, Omer Butler. Judge D. D. Heller and Attorney Shafer Peterson have returned from Bluffton where they tried the ClausEhrsam case before Judge Eichorn. The case was finished yesterday afternoon and taken under advisement by the judge, ' The case of The State ex rel. Mildred Christman vs. John Monnot, frorq 'Allen county, has been set for trial June 2, 1913. Harper & Lutz appear for relatrix. I In the matter of the John Woy estate, a petition was filed by Jacob Atz for order on executor for taxes and abstract. | The current report of Joseph W. Pease, guardian of Otis V. Meyer et al., was approved. Real estate transfers: Lewis Wible to O. J. Pearce, lot 275, Geneva, S4O; Chrlstlpher Haveland et al. to Wm. Mesel, 10.25 acres, Wabash tp., $1025; Charles W. Brewster et al. to Frank D. Brewster, 8 acres, Jefferson tp., $1300; James C. Frcnch-et al to Samuel L. Frank, 50 acres, Blue Creek tp., quit claim deed; Della Hiller et al. to John Hiller, 20 acres, Jefferson tp., $1; John Hiller to Geo. Hiller, 20 acres, I (Continued on Page 2)