Decatur Democrat, Volume 58, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1913 — Page 1

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WAS RE-ELECTED C L. Vance Will Serve Another Term of Three Years on the School Board. the CITY COUNCIL Voted Unanimously Upon Re-election—Other Notes of Tuesday’s Session. The regular session of the city council last evening was a short but well carried out meeting. Councilman Male came all th e way from (Rome City to occupy his chair and help to transact the city’s business. The first thing to act upon was the assessment toll to property owners along the Magley sewer. This report, upon motion, was accepted and the city clerk ordered to give notice to the property owners that would be affected by the assessment to appear before the council at their meeting on July 17th. A resolution ordering the city clerk to draw an order on the treasurer for ll'ii, payable to the Northeastern Indiana Volunteer Firemen’s association for their convention to be held here June 2* was approved and the resolution stood adopted. The plat of the Niblick heirs’ subdivision presented to the council at the last meeting by Burt Lenhart was approved and adopted, and the street and sewer committee filed report to that effect. The petitions and proposed improvements of South Third street. East Adams and sidewalks were deferred to some time later, when the city would be in better shape to have them built. The. extension of line street was referred to the street and sewer committee The waterworks committee, upon motion of Mr. Hale, moved that aew bids for the construction of a 230,H'ki gallon reservoir be re-advertised to-, as Mr. Newlon had called for the balance of his SSOO check, amounting to S4OO, leaving SIOO with the city is a forfeit. The firemen’s salaries were then raised upon motion to $65 for the head man and S6O for the others. Contractor Woods, who has been figuring on buying the steam roller owned by the city for use on the streets which he is building, asked the council through Jacob Atz about the matter. This was referred to the finance committee. The street and sewer committee was ordered to make arrangements for the building of the apCONTINU’ED ON t-.-.GE THREE MORE OF THE BOYS Will Spend Summer Vacations in Beet Fields Caring for the Plants. THIRTEEN YEAR OLDS Johnny Cobett and Cass Bacon go to Farm Four Miles West of Berne. * More of the Decatur boys have decided to take up the work in the Ad*ms county beet fields as do the boys girls of Micnlgan and other states wi >ere the industry is furtner advanced. The latest recruits to me service two thirtccaycarold boys. They , are Johnny, son of T. C. Corbett, the cigar man, and Cass, son of Fred Becon, who is employed as a sugar boil*r at the sugar plant. The boys are( heighbors, and getting together planhad to take up the work. Accordingly, they left with E. M. "agner, the field manager, Tuesday for a farm four miles west of Berne, bey will spend their summer vacahappily, working in the beet elds and caring for the young plants ”>ey expect to make good wages, be•tdes having a good time in the free, °Pen air and learning much of agriand becoming industrious OTs that cannot fail to make good, JJ’eful men. They expect to como 1 °® e to spend their Sunday vacations, ut the rest of the time will be spent 111 labor there.

| TO DISTRICT CONVENTION. | Dscatur Pythian Sisters Will g 0 to Huntington Friday. The Pythian Sisters of Decatur are making plans to go to Huntington Frtday to attend the district convention. A good program has been prepared and the Huntington lodge will entertain the visitors royally. The convention was held in Decatur last year and largely attended. RETURNS FROM WEST. Harold Henneford, who has been ' teacher of German and biology In ithe high school at Moorehead, Minn., I the past year, has finished an excellent term there and arrived home today to spend his summer vacation. He will probably return tber e for the next year also. En route to his home at ’ Vera Cruz, he stopped off in this city for a several days’ visit with his sister, Mrs. Dan Niblick. GO TO CALIFORNIA Miss Fanny Hite Left Today For Los Angles Accompanied by Miss Eva Acker WHO GOES TO DENVER To Take a Course in the University There—Will Meet Della Sellemeyer. The Misses Fanny Hite and Eva Acker left today for Denver, Colorado. Miss Acker will take a course in the Denver university, and Miss Hite will meet Miss Della Sellemeyer, there and proceed to Los Angles, stopping off at points of Interest alosg the way. Miss Sellemeyer left Monday for Denver and has been visiting with the Misses Emma and Dora Schlickman from this city. Miss Acker will also visit at Colorado Springs with her brother, Levi Acker and family. The( Misses Hite and Sellemeyer will visit with th e G- F. Lewis and family of Venice, Cal., formerly of this city. Miss Hite will remain in California un-| til the later part of October or the first of November. Miss Sellemeyer will return in time to take up her achool work again as teacher in the public schools. Miss Hites place in the Old Adams County Bank will not be taken by anyone. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. The Annual Convention of the Un-ion-Root Sunday School Association will be held at the Mt. Victory U. B. church, nin e miles North East of Decatur, Sunday June 15 at 2 o’clock P. M. standard time. Programs will be out shortly. It is desired that each school in both townships be represent- ( ed and prepared to sing, one or more songs. As this is the last convention ■ that our Co President, Mr. 'Rupp, will: attend, it is earnestly desired that; there be a good attendance. It has been arranged that all the Department officers to be present. Let every S. S Worker be present that we may have a profitable session. C. S. MUMMA, Tp. Pres. - o BUYS AN INTEREST. ■ I Quite a change has been made In tonsorlal circles this week. Jim Sprague has sold his interest in the Sprague & Crable shop on East Madison street to Will Cowan and the shop will be known from now on as the Crable & Cowan shop. Sprague has taken the position made vacant in the Barney Wertzberger shop by the resignation of Will Ruckman, who has built himself a new shop in the rear 'of the Sam Hite grocery in the south '•nd. —■ - MRS. TROUTNER FUNERAL. The funeral oOfrs. Mary Troutner will be held tomorrow morning a church at Willshire. Ohio. Her dea n oeccurred Tuesday from old age. Mrs. Troutner is the grandmother of Mrs. Hubert Zerkle of this city. T O ATTEND CONFERENCE. Charles S. MuZfthe well known I Union township resident, 1 g.encerville, Ohio, today to atteuu the Auglaize United Brethren conference.

board adjourned Commissioners Concluded a Busy Two Days’ Session With Last SOUTH BERNE ROAD Petition Found Sufficient and Resolution Filed by F. C. Foreman. The board of county commissioners concluded a busy two days’ session and adjourned last evening. It was ordered that repairs be made to the heating plant at the county farm, the smoke box over the boilers to be repaired at a cost not to exceed $65.00. . The viewers’ report on the South Berne road was approved. F. C. Foreman, clerk of the town of Berne, filed a certified copy of the resolution passed by the council of that town, turning the road over to the county. The petition was found sufficient and the cause continued. By agreement of the petitioners and the remonstrators in the matter of the W. A. Straub et al. petition for drain, was set for hearing on July 8, at 1 o’clock p. m. ' I The auditor was ordered to notify the commissioners of Allen county that a joint session of the boards of Allen and Adams county will be held ! in this city on July 2, at which time the petition of Fred C. Hoile et al. for a county lin e road Improvement will be considered. The board appointed Peter Stuckey 1 Peter Rich as viewers on the Joe Schoaf road, to meet at the auditor's office on June 9. A FINE SESSION I Thirty Bluffton Masons Are Guests of Decatur Chapter Last Night. WORK WAS GIVEN To Two Candidates—Both Teams Participated—A Smoker Followed. The hall of the local Masons was , the scene of a splendid meeting last evening, when the local members had 1 with them thirty members of the Bluff- ■ ton chapter. The Bluffton visitors came over by automobile last evening, the , trip being a delightful one with the almost perfect* weather of a perfect . June evening. , The work was conferred upon two Decatur candidates for the degree of ] Master Mason. The degrees were given separately. The Bluffton degree team was the first to give the work, their candidate being County Surveyor Phil Macklin. This was given in fine ] form. Decatur then gave the work for , J. E. Anderson, local agent for the > Erie railroad. After the work was given in vigorous and exemplary style, refreshments < were in order. Bieneke & Girod ca- 1 tered, serving ice cream and caka. < Then came a smoker and the hour i struck twelve before the session clos- i ed, and the Bluffton delegation left for I home. C. R. Dunn, worshipful master of the i Decatur chapter, now residing in Bluff- i ton. was present and took an active part in the events of the evening. i ■■—o ' DELIVERS NEW SCHAAF PIANO. J. B. Stoneburner has Just sold and delivered to Will Engle, the rural route 1 carrier, a handsome upright Adam i Schaaf piano, the finest piano of the < kind made by that well known com- 1 pany. It is a very beautiful instrument, burnt walnut case and finished i most’complete in the minutest detail, i and Mr. Stoneburner, as well as the Engle family, is very proud of it. |i

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday June, 5 1913.

INQUEST HELD TODAY. Mrs. Fry e Became So Violent That It Could Not B,e Held Yesterday. So bad did Mrs. Lucy Frye, the Insane toman In Blue Creek township become, that it was impossible to hold the inquest yesterday as at first intended. Sheriff Durkin and his deputy, Jesse Kelley, left this afternoon for Blue Crtek to take her into custody. She will be brought to this city and the inquest held here, probably by Drs. Keller and Parrish, the latter of Monroe. The inquest will probably be held before Squire Stone. Mrs. Frye has been a teacher thirty years in the Chicago schools and had a nervous breakdown. She was brought here last March to be with her mother, Mrs. Brandyberry and her sister, Miss Mattie Young. She became violent and when a special room was being prepared for her to keep her in safety, she became frightened and sent word herself Monday evening to the sheriff to come and protect h eras she feared she was going to be killed. HEART~ TROUBLE . fir •*' ... . — Causes Death of Geo. Wertzberger at Home of Son on Ninth Street. ILL BUT ONE WEEK Had Been Resident of DecaI tur Entire Life Until Seven Y|ars Ago. -■!- —| Heart trouble combined with dropsy caused the death of George Franklin j Wertzberger at 1 o’clock this afternoon at the home of his son, George, Jr., on Ninth street. Mr. and Mrs. Wertzberger had returned to this city from Hamfhond, Did., where they had been making their home for the past seven years, only a week ago Monday, I with the intention of making this their future home. The following morning i Mr. Wertzberger was taken ill and continued to gradually grow worse until' death came this noon. Mr. Wertzberger was born in Boston, Mass., July 9, 1849, and was the son of Balts and Magdaline Wertzberger. In 1851, when j George was four yea/i of age, they moved to this city. On August 3, 1872, Mr. Wertzberger was married to Miss Emma Warrell. Seven years ago, deciding that a change of climate would j prove beneficial to them they moved 1 to Arkansas, where they resided but three months, returning to Hammond, Ind., where they made their home until a week ago. Mr. Wertzberger was a devout member of the German Reformed church of this city, always endeavoring to his utmost to accomplish th© services required of him and will be greatly jjrflssed by the church as well as in social circles. Besides the bereaved wife ’ left to mourn his loss are seven children: Mrs. Lena Baughman, George. Jr.. Frank, Charles. Alvy, Lawrence j and IRobert Five children have preceded him in death. At the present time no funeral arrangements have been completed. A LITTLE FIST FIGHT. A fist fight, free for all, which might have resulted In something more serious than It did was pulled off this morning in th e Schlickman feed yard, when L. F. Schroeder, manager of the Republic Food and Medical company of this city and John Coffee, better known as "Sheriff John," met and decided to fight out some of their personal troubles. The quarrel first arose this morning when Coffee went to the Schroeder home for water. A few words were exchanged, and the next thing to take place was the meeting of the two men in the feed yard. No one was hurt in the scuffle, nor any arrest made by either party. ARTISTIC DISPLAY. The display windows of the Holthouse Drug company represent one of the most artistic displays of kodaks, cameras and accessories ever shown in the city. The window was decorated by Lawrence Kleinhenz, who is an artist at the work and shows much study and thought in placing the goods so as to attract the most atten- | tion.

'MANY ARE COMING I Responses from Various Cities Indicate a Recordbreaking Crowd FOR FIREMEN’S DAY i Departments and Bands from a Dozen Cities Have Al- , ready Been Promised. — Three weeks from next Thursday will occur the biggest one-day event ever held in thik section of Indiana, at which time Decatur will entertain the annual convention of the volunteer firemen’s association for northeastern ’ Indiana. All plans are being complet- i ed to make it a red letter day in De-1 catur as well as the biggest and best convention ever held by the assocla- : ( I tion. The boys of the local companies j i under Chief Hammond and Chairman ■ L. C. Helm, assisted by the members ( of the various committees and the secretary, O. B. Wemhoff, have worked Incessantly for weeks and will be ready for the occasion. The advertising is lust beginning and for three weeks will be pushed along continually. That I large crowds are coming from all the I cities of the district Is signified by the replies to requests for information as to the number of delegates and visittors. Bluffton is coming with full department and band, Union City will have thirty-six firemen and a band, Portland a department and band, Parker City twenty firemen, Dunkirk, a de- ( partment and band, Fort Wayne Elec- ; trie Works and General Electric! [works of Fort Wayne, each_ a department and band, Butler, twenty men. 1 Hartford City, department and band, : Winchester ten firemen and fifty citb. zens and so on down the line. Every-. body is coming for a day of pleasure and entertainment. The city will be 1 gaily decorated and there will be plenty doing all the time. ACCEPTS THE CALL i Benjamin Borton of Garrett. Christian Church Will be f Pastor of " I ’■w 1 iTHE LOCAL CHURCH Acceptance Received Today ! by Elder Burk-Will Be- j gin Duty at Once. Elder G. T. Burk of the Decatur Christian church, received word this morning of the acceptance of the call of the local Christian church by Rev. HJenjamin Borton or Garrett, to become the pastor here. Rev. Borton will arrive .tomorrow eventng or Friday morning I to begin work at once, and will preach his first sermons as regular pastor of the Decatur church next Sunday morning and evening. He comes tomorrow or Friday to make arrangments for securing a house and will move his family here as soon as this can be done. * He came from th© cnurch at Gary to Garrett a year ago, and has had a wide and varied experience in the ministerial field. Last Sunday he preached for the local church and th e congregation was so pleased that they extended a call to him at once. He took the matter under advisement to consult with his family and sent Word today ■: that he would accept. His family includes wife and three , sons, two of whom are at home. The; third is employed in a railroad tiffice., The local church is well pleased with the selection, and although Bev- | eral candidates have been heard here during the past several weeks, the decision to extend a call to Rev. Borton was made last Sunday, the first time he preached here. o INTERURBAN CARS RUNNING. On account of shutting off the pow-; er for repairs on the engine at the i power house, there were no cars run-( ning from here last evening at 9:J0 ( o’clock until 11:30 o’clock this morn- t ing, when the regular schedule was ’ resumed. _ £

NAMES ON MONUMENT. I Should be Spelled Correctly—Appoint Yourself a Committee to Assist. Your attention is hereby called to the fact that it is most important that you see that if the names of any of your relatives or friends are to appear on the tablet of the soldiers’ monument ' these names should be spelled correctly. Several errors in spelling have been discovered and you should deenr it of enough importance to see for I yourself that the names of those in whom you are interested are spelled as they should be. This monument i will stand for many years and the names should be right. Perhaps some are not on that should be. These things should be looked after at once and Contractor George Wemhoff has agreed to wait until Saturday of this week before sending the list in to the sculptor, giving every one a chance to o. k. the names. If you are interested call at the auditor's office and make any correction you deem important. BABY FOUND DEAD Sixteen-months-olti Child of' Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edington Died 1 -i -a DURING THE NIGHT Found Early This Morning by Mother—lll About Five Months. — i Upon going to the cot this morning Ito look after the condition of the little babe, Mrs. Robert Edington, living north of the city, in Root township, was horrified to find Donald, their six-teen-months-old child, wrapt in the sleep of death, life having departed from him some time between mid-, night and morning. The little fellow had been suffering for the past five, months from a complication of diseases and Tuesday night when lulled Unto his last sleep by the mother was apparently in as good health as at any I time during his illness. Donald An- ‘ j drew Edington was born in Decatur( Panuary 5, 1912, being at the time of I his death one year and six months old, I To add to the Sadness of this death is 1 th e fact that the little fellow’s thred-[year-old sister was buried only a little I over a month ago. The body will be taken to Bryant, where the mother’s parents reside, and the funeral will be held at that place tomorrow afternoon.. Interment will be made in the Gravel I IHill cemetery. | | GYPSIES STRIKE TOWN. With the pretty, wafnl June days, | with their flowers and fruits, and good things, come flies, weeds ami j other seemingly necessary evils that I are not so good. A band of gypsies j who have already struck the warm I trail, arrived in the city this morning with their picturesque wagons and I camping outfit, which so early in the ■ . season are not so dirty as they may be a little later on. The men of the tribe drove the horses and wagons through the streets, while the women 1 in the picturesque costumes of brilliant red, struck out to make a tour of the business part of the city telling , fortunes. MOVED TO VAN BUREN. The E. B. Kern family left for Van Buren, where they will make their ! future home. Mr. Kern, who has been relief agent for the Clover Leaf railroad, being sent to various places ! along th© line, has been at Van Buren (since January. Miss Gladys Kern, a teacher in the county schools, who ■will teach in French township next ( winter again, will have the advantages of the interurban to her new home, ' (making th e trip even more conveni- ' ently than when the family resided here. WILL BE GRADUATED JUNE 18. Decatur friends have received invl- ' tation to the commencement exercises of Wabash college, from Ben Beavers, (son of Dr. S. D. Beavers, of this city, I who is a graduate. The exercises will (be held two weeks from today, Wednesday, June 18. Many from here will ( probably attend. Ben will take a four years’ medical course at the John Hopkins university. *

Number 23

GIVEN A SHOWER Miss Anna Meyer, Whose Wedding to Frank Parent Will Take Place ON JUNE EIGHTEENTH Was Feted by Fifty Friends Last Evening—A Happy Event. Fifty friends of Miss Anna Meyer, who will be a June bride, responded to invitations issued by the Misses Agnes Costello, Margaret Gerard and Lena Meyer for a friendship slower for last evening. The large hall where the shower was given was prettily decorated with streamers of pink and ! green, and the reception room in purple end gold. Little tables accommodated the guests for progressive pedro, and were later cleared for the luncheon. The repast was very tempting and included sandwiches, potato salad, pickles, brick ice cream and cake. Favors were little fans on which were written the names of the bride and groom and the date of the wedding —“Anna Meyer and Frank Wednesday, June 18." Assisting the hostesses were their mothers, Mesdames Johff Gerard, H. F. Costello and John Meyer. The Jadies were Joined by the gentlemen later in the evening I and dancing was then in order, music being furnished by Miss Leona Bosse and Mrs. Perry Gandy of Churubusco. Miss Hazel LaDelle also sang. Prizes at pedro were fine pieces of aluminum jware, won by Mrs. John C. Moran, Miss j Marie Gass and Mrs. Celia Zeser. These they presented to the guest of honor. The shower was a rich and varied one, comprising cut glass, linen, alumium, pictures and many things to beautify the new home which will be established in the Moltz property, corner of Fifth and Jefferson streets. (The bride is one of the Decatur young ladles, who is favored by nature with 'a charming personality, which* has been developed in many pleasing ways, and will preside over her new home , with grace and skill. The groom is a , young business man of the city, being I In partnership with his brother in the 1 electrical supply and repair shop on Second street. w Among the out-of-town guests were the bride's brother, Dr. Lawrence Meyer and wife of Monroeville; Miss Pauline Ehrman of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Perry Gandy of Churubusco. The wedding will be one of the happy ones that have taken plac© this season at the St. ; Mary’s Catholic church. WRITES NEW BOOK I "Laddie” Will be Wonderful New Limberlost Story to Add to (THE FAMOUS TRIO Os Gene Stratton-Porter— To be Published on Memorable Day, Aug. 17. “August seventeenth,” has been a most auspicious date to booklovers for several years. Especially has it been so for Adams county. This is the birthday anniversary of Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter of Geneva, and the anniversary also of all of her >mous novels. Each year a new book from her pen has made its appearance from the presses on that date. This year will be no exception. Already her publishers announce that her latest book, "Laddie," will be published August 17th. This will add another wonderful Limberlost story- to her famous trio —“Freckles,” “A Girl of the Limberlost,'’ and “The Harvester," and the other books of her that perpetuate tho “lovely out-of-doors" of southern Adms county, and her interesting peoples. For three years Mrs. Porter has been one of thirteen authors whose books have been best sellers—those selling 100,000 a year for three years. Her latest story will be eagerly awaited and will no doubt prove to be as popular as the others of her favorites.