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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
FLAMES DESTROY
DANCE PAVILION
Mysterious Fire at SpTingbrOOk
Causes Loss of $1,000
GrOundkeeper Saves Base
ball GrandStand With Hose.

Fire Of unknown origin completely
destroyed the dancing pavilion az
Springbrook park Thursday morning
damaging the roof of the grandstand
in the baseball park and burning
holes in the canvas cover Of the
merry-gO-rOund The dancing pa
viliOn is a total loss. nothing remain
ing standing save the concrete pillars.
How the fire started is mystery.
When smoke was found pouring from
the pavilion the groundkeeper sent
IN an alarm TO the central station. a
moment later the entire building
burst into flames and the attention
of the firemen was diverted 10 con-
fning the flames and averting damage
10 adjoining property.
The roof of the grandstand caught
fire from sparks famed across the
artificial pond by the wind William
Silver, who was sprinkling the dia-
mOnd i'm the baseball park when the
fire started, went onto the roof Of the
stand and played the hose on the
three fires which started The east
fence OF the BAH park caught fire but
was quickly extinguished. Great holes
were burned i'm the canvas coverings
of the merry o-round.
The confectionery stand was saved
through prompt action by the fire.
men. 1t was badly scorched.
The loss on the pavilion viii total
about $4,000 A piano and trap drum
equipment was destroyed. Another
drum belonging TO Ray Acrese. one
Of the ground keepers, was also de-
stroyed. The pavilion was the prop
erty OF +. p DALEY. Mr.. DALEY
started for Fort Wayne just Is min
utes before the fire started but word
was telegraphed 10 him at Elkhart
and he returned TO South Bend inn
mediately.
Great danger from live wires burn
ed down by the fire was averted by
a gang of repair men. who strung nap
the loose ends as soon as they could
approach the pavilion
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
BELGIANS ARE GOING
TO CHICAGO MEETING

II is estimated that 300 Belgians
from this county viii attend the
meeting OF the Belgian alliance In
Chicago on Labor day when "A dis
cussion of the war in Europe viii be-
the most important issue before the
gathering The de egation from
South Bend viii take a band to Chi
cago Saturday afternoon. Fifty Bel
gians viii accompany the band while
others viii follow on the later trains
Saturday ana on Sunday. IL was first
intended TO form "A parade before the
delegation left the city but as many
Of the men are compelled 10 work
Saturday afternoon this viii be inn
possible. Joseph NoOrde and Julius
Van OverWaele are officers OF the ma
tiOnal alliance. Mr.. NOOrde being vice
president and Mr.. Van Overwaele "a
member Of the board Of directors.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
DISCUSS THREE-FOLD
ASPECT OF RECITATION
Prof. Albert Tells Teachers Import
ance OF Accusing Interest TO
Focus Attention.

Prof Charles Alberts lectured on
The Recitation-Its Three Fold
Aspect. at the ST. Joseph. county
teachers institute Friday morning.
He said that the recitation might be
devided into three parts. the class
room. the lesson, and the teacher
He said that there must be interest
above all in the classroom as that
brings about an earnest effort upon
the part of the pupils for conscien-
tiOus work. with an attentive
audience. Prof. Alberts said, the
teacher is able to keep the children
interested in the work. 4 class
should not be kept in session after
interest lags.
The speaker said that the diff
culties in an advance lesson should
be explained before il is assigned TO
a class This should be done just
before the close OF the recitation.
The first part should be devoted TO
review of the study of the pre-
viOus dav, he said.
The greatest trouble with teach
ers today is that they want 10 do
most of the talking Let the child
do the talking. not only TO facilitate
expression work but that he may
have confidence in his ability 10 talk
and present his own ideas.
DIT Lincoln HUXLEY talked on
Riley and HOmefOlks.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
PRISONERS ARE GOOD
WORKERS, SAY OFFICIALS
WHO TRIED THEM OUT

The experiment of using prisoners
in the county Jail on work about the
city is proving q surprise according
to the officers in charge of the men.
Six of them were taken from the Jail
to the north pumping station Friday
morning where they were employed
in work of cleaning up the premises.
After eating their dinner at noon they
were taken TO the haymarket All of
them were anxious for their dinners
when noon came and there were few
scraps left when they had finished the
meal. They are apparently satisfied
with being permitted to get into the
open instead Of being confined to the
Jail.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
NAB MEN GUILTY
OF COPP ROBBERY
Two Being Held in Kankakee
Confess to Both Warner
Bros. and Music Shop Raids,
Police Say.

After confessing TO a list of crimes
which included depredatiOns in many
large cities in northern Indiana and
Illinois two men, according TO police
in Kankakee, Ill, have
admitted their guilt of the Copp music
shop robbery and the Warner Bros
hardware store footing in this city.
They are being held in the Illinois
city after it is claimed they were
caught handed in footing one or
the city's leading haberdasheries
The men we're caught playing the
same game by which the Warner
Bros store in this city was success
fully looted. One had the proprietor
on the sidewalk talking about pro-
posed purchase while the other was in
the store in the act OF robbing the
safe
However. they were not so fortunate
as they were in this city. One or the
proprietors entered the place from
the rear and was upon the man al
the safe before the latter knew of his
approach. He succeeded in escaping
from the store. only TO be chased
through the business portion of the
city bv the proprietors of the store.
The partner. to allay suspicion.
Joined in the chase and when his pal
was caught. put up a bold front Ions
enough To hire lawyer TO defend him.
However. the police department grew
suspicious and ne also was placed
under arrest. The confessions OF both
came later.
Chief Kuespert has not yet learned
their names. but will receive them in
the next few hours. They are said 10y
the Kankakee authorities TO have
confessed To attempted burglaries in
Laporte and other cities in which
their game had been worked success
fully
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
JOHN J. SCHNEIDER is
APPOINTED RECEIVER

John J. SCHNEIDER has been ap-
pointed receiver for the estate con-
trolled by a number Of heirs in
Mishawaka The suit for receiver
was fled with Judge Walter A Funk
in the circuit court By Mary Bucket
and others against Rupert Auer and
others. IL was claimed that due to
mismanagement the lessees ~ the
property owned by the parties % the
suit refused TO pay rentals. Judge
Funk selected Mr. SCHNEIDER 10 take
care Of the business of the estate and
ne was placed under $4,000 bond.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
MRS. JENNIE STROUP.

Mrs. Jennie StrOup, 40 years old,
81 +. south St, died Friday morning
following an illness Of two years.
Death was due to a complication Of
diseases She has been a resident Of
this city for q years, having come
here from Elkhart county. She was
born April >, 1869. She IS survived
by her husband, Charles a. Stroup,
one son. Basil F. Stroup; three sisters,
Mrs William Bird, Mishawaka, Mrs.
Clarence Shernberger and Mrs. John
Smith Of Middlebury; a brother, Will
lam smith Of this city. She was a
member OF the local order OF the
Ladies of the Maccabees, No. A.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
DEATHS.
MRS. MARY HAMILTON.

Mrs. Mary Hamilton, 46 years old,
1908 S. Main St. died Friday morn
ing at her home following an illness
of two years. She was born in Ra-
cine, WIS, and came to this city p
years ago from KenoSha- She is
survived by her husband, William
Hamilton, two children, George
Strauss. 229 E. Elder st; Mrs.
Charles Emmons, 1903 +. Calvert
St; two brothers, Charles Boerner,
Kenosha, Wis, and Philip Strauss,
Niles. Funeral services will be held
from the English Lutheran church
Sunday afternoon at o'clock, Rev.
A. II. Keck officiating. Burial will
be in Niles, Mich.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04

selected. The first meeting will be
devoted exclusively to reports of the
biennial in Chicago and the thirteenth
district convention here.
Along with Les Misera.bles'' and
study of MOliere the North Side Cul-
ture club Will take up child study, a
feature of their years work which is
looked forward to eagerly by all the
club members. Some of the topics
which will be taken up in that con-
nectiOn will be inheritance and en-
vironment, kindergarten MOntessori
methods, answering questions, play
and playmateS, occupation, discipline,
moral training and manners. The
clubs first meeting Will be Oct. IA, at
the home of Mrs. William Bertsch on
Portage av.
Mothers Department Work.
OF a similar nature will be the work
ment of the Progress club, which will
be watched with interest by both
members Of the department and mem
bers of the entire club, owing to the
newness of the work. The program
committee of the department is Miss
Isabelle Kennedy, Mrs. j. A. Harris
and Mrs. Sterling Winchel and they
have exercised great care in the
choice of topics which would be of
special interest to young mothers.
The first meeting, Oct. 6, will be
social. The second will be devoted to
"a lecture on Preparing for the Elk
pected Guest" by Dr. Mary L. Owen.
other topics of special interest will be
the physical development of the child;
play and it's purpose; how to cultivate
the power of self amusement; inherit
ance and environment; beginning OF
religious training; how to interest the
child in nature; the telling of stories
and parental responsibility for good
schools.
Department Meetings.
The various other departments with
the subjects for their respective
studies and dates of their first meet
ings are as follows: Art department,
Raphael in Rome" and Spanish
Art, first meeting, Oct. .; Current
Events. first meeting. oct. u; History,
Advanced Civics". by Forman. first
meeting, oct. Z; first section of Lit
erature department, Alfred Tenny-
SON., first meeting Oct. IA; second
section, French Drama After Hugo,
first meeting, oct. 2 Music depart
ment. Bach Mozart, Beethoven, first
meeting. oct. 8; Philanthropic depart
ment first meeting, oct. 10.
The chairmene of the various new
committees appointed by the new
president, Mrs. Victor Jones, are as
follows:
Arts, Mrs. L. Clarence Ball; civics
and civil service reform, Mrs. Fred w.
Keller: education. Miss Katherine
Campbell; forestry, Mrs. l.. S. Ficken-
scher: home economies, Mrs. Z. Jay
smith: industrial and child labor, Miss
Neva Harrison: legislative. Mrs. Frank
DunnahOo literature, Miss Vera
Campbell; music. Mrs. Charles P.
Drummond; food sanitation, Miss Ma
dine Folsom.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
SAYS HUSBAND FAILED
TO PROVIDE FOR HER

Charging that her husband failed
to provide proper living quarters for
her and that he has treated her
cruellv by refusing TO stay at home
for davs at a time and making her go
unaccompanied whenever in public
Grace Il. Hagquist filed suit in the
superior court Friday for five-year
separation order. She maintains that
the defendant has compelled her to
stay alone and has cursed her. She
asks for $50 a month for support dur
ing the period of separation.
LOCAL.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04


State u Indiana. 81 Joseph county, So;
Tn the -. Joseph circuit court sep
tember term 1914.
Ex-parte in the matter II The adoption
~ Verne Conrad by Dianrha Bragg. Cause
No 1870
BE IL known. that the above named peil-
TONER has fled in the office of the clerk
~ said court her petition Tor the adoptioa
~ Verne Conrad. together with proper
affidavit THAI the mother Of said cht4J IS
deceased that the p~ldeuce o. The father.
Edward Conrad. Is unknown and that said
father Is not a resident 81 the state n
Indiana said Edward Conrad IS hereby
nogified that said cause WIN stand Tor
trial ou rhe 2Stn day 81 September. fHl4.
the same being the 18TH day ~ the sep
tenrber term " Couz commencing Ca rne
Second Monday in September. 1914 on
which 5ay said Edward conrad Is re-
quired 70 appear % said acfiou
FRANK T.. CHRISToFH
Cyerk 81 Joseph Circuit Court
JOHN N. IiAAB. Deputy
Wcilder. Parker. reuInsiiL attorneys for
peutioEE.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
ASKS GUARDIAN.

4 petition for suardiau for
Frank Farekas was filed in the cir
cult court Friday by Joseph V Wypi-
szynski. Il is stated that FareSas is
insane and that a guardian Is neces-
sary TO care for his affairs
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
MARRIAGES LICENSES.

OrviIe J. Keltner. %. teacher;
Carrie l.. Bassett % teacher.
Ignacz Lapkiewicz. p, laborer;
Helen Hoffman. 81
simon e. Vannator. so. cobbler,
Milford Ind: Lydia Backer. ~,
WalkertOn. Ind
Nathan Evans. %. machinist; Hazel
NJ. Miller 20
Bartholomew Schwartz. 81. car
penter Howard, Pa; Able Briggs, 50.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
FUNERALS.
MRS. MATILDA sHERLAND.

Funeral services for Mrs. Matilda
Sherland. :. Taylor 81. will be held
from 81. Patrick's church at o'clock
Saturday morning. Rev. John F. De
t5roote officiating Burial Will be in
Cedar Grove cemetery.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
WILL HOLD PICNIC NEAR
ELKHART ON LABOR DAY

Members OF the South Bend Maen-
nerchor will have "A picnic Labor day
at Yellow creek. two miles south OF
Elkhart ne picnic viii be IN con-
junction Wa the German Working
Mems association Of Elkhart.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04

Robert Elbel 420 = Michigan ST.
was arrested Thursday afternoon on
Vistula an. for exceeding the speed
INIT When arraigned in city court
Friday morning ne pleaded guilty and
vas fined SI1.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04
FATHER AND SON DRAW
FINES BY MOTHERS WORD

Stanislau and Bernard Narchiniak
Of Chicago ST.. father and son. were
arraigned in city court Friday morn
ing charged with drunkenness, COM
planning witness being the wife
and mother Both were found guilty
and were sentenced to IL days in the
county jail.
Mrs Marchiniak stated that the two
came home Thursday night intoNiCat-
ed and had raised a disturbance The
neighbors had complained and she
had fIed charges against them.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-04

Miss Adelaide st. John announces
the opening OF her piano studio Mon
day, Sept :, IN her new quarters. suite
coz Jefferson building. Lessons given
privately and in classes. In order TO
keep in touch with the work done
along the lines OF the best music
schools OF the country and 20 rein
force her work with new ideas. Miss
ST. John viii have two examinations
given pupils this year by some one OF
he faculty OF the Columbia School CO..
Music OF Chicago. the first 20 be given
oct. 2. The class system OF technical
Instruction used by Miss ST John are
the principles underlying the work of
such teachers as oscar Raft Theo
Leschetizsky and a. *. Virgil Adv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17
THE HOWL OF The WHANG DOODLE
GuytOn Young Man Up Trees
and Through SMamps.

GUYTON, Ga.-A young Guyton
man heard for the first time in his
life the mournful walls and hideous
howls about midnight of the whang
doodle while on the banks of the
Ogeechee river attending a fish fry
given by the young men.
The sounds of the whang doodle
outrival the hideous and mysterious
walls of the Hound of the Basker-
villes," made famous by A. Conan
Doyle. and when the Guytonian heard
those awful sounds coming from the
inky darkness of a dense forest he
was seized with fear, thinking it was
wild beast of huge dimensions, and
it is said by some of the Annanias
kind he kicked several rabbits out
of the way, Skinned up several trees
and hung trembling with fear as the
bowling and wailing tones of the
whang doodle fell upon his listening
ear.
The rest of the crowd had been put
wise and when the awful sounds be-
gan they broke and ran, leaving their
companion alone in the swamp with
his fears and misapprehensions. At
forwards they assembled at the camp
fire and came home together in the
gray dawn of the early morning after
having enjoyed practical joke.
The next morning the Guytonian
said he enjoyed the experience and
when the whang doodle got near him
at one time it resembled a large COW.
| The noise of the whang doodle is
made by stretching a hide over a
barrel and drawing a rosined thong
through a hole in the middle.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17
Teaching Thrift,

A New York educator has con-
cluded that there is no need for any
one to be poor, that all poverty re-
suits from mismanagement and that
tendencies toward mismanagement
can be reached and corrected in the
schools. Provided the schools do their
whole duty he believes there will be
no need of almshouses and organized
charities. AS the first step toward
elimination of poverty he would have
the children taught the value and
proper use of money as part of their
school course.
His creed is that there can be no
excuse for the development of
Indebtedness and want in the lives
of men and women who have been
average children endowed with ordi-
nary physical and mental capacity.
Part of the plan is to teach all aver
age boys and girls to save their pen
nies-providing a nucleus of capital
and osperity-instead of spending
them for gum, and while accustoming
them to thrifty habits to also instill
in them a determination to be eco
n0mically Independent.
Thrift teaching in the schools has
long passed an experimental stage,
but that the schools can exert the
strongest power for the sitting of
poverty is a new idea. John H. Thi-
cry gave the impulse to thrift teach
ing when, in 1885, he established the
school savings bank system in school
number four, Long Island City, on
the plan used in the schools in
France. This feature in education
work has spread through many
schools in the country, and accounts
opened by the children have
amounted to hundreds of thousands
of dollars formerly wasted on half
appreciated fripperies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17
An important Meeting,

The National Drainage Congress
will meet in Savannah next week,
and will be in session Wednesday and
Thursday The following statement
will show how much Georgia ought
to be interested in this meeting and
the purpose of the organization:
In addition to the many rivers in
the state, several of which furnish
flood problems, there is the great
Okefnokee Swamp The total area
of Georgia swamp lands is given by
the government statistics as 2,700,-
coo acres. If these we're reclaimed
and converted into farms not only
would there result a great improve
ment in public health, but the state S
crops would be increased in value by
at least 100000 year Nothing
else could benefit the state of Georgia
more than the reclamation of these
lands, which result will follow the
successful efforts of the National
Drainage Congress.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17
A Noted Georgia Woman

Mrs " "A. FELTON,, the Oldest act
Two snaragette in Georgia and the
.Con4b and the oldest in America
with the single exception of DR.. Mary
walker has been honored at the ad-
yanced age Of 10 years by Governor
slaton with appointment as one OF
tho five trustees and managers OF the
new training school for girls.
Mrs. FELTON, is one of the only two
women in Georgia who have ever
hoon selected to represent their state
in tbe national councils of any politi-
oal marty, She is a woman OF pow
orfpI intellect, equipped with caus-
tic tongue and pen which she knows
how to use when occasion requires
if She has been closely identified
with the leading people in public life
in the South for more than half a
century. She was named one of the
DELEGATES at large from Georgia to
the national bull moose convention
at Chicago.
Mrs. FELTON, has taken up with
yigor the state work
Of the new institution for the care of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17
More Misguided Genius,

A man who might have been an
other Hartman, strange example
of misguided genius, is a convict in
the Atlanta federal prison as reveal
ed in reports of postottice inspectors
on Samuel Bondurant, now serving a
term as the head of gang of crook
ed "financiers." Bondurant, or Du-
rant, as he was known in his gang,
is the son of an aristocratic Southern
family, and in his boyhood was ambl-
tious to become a great railroad
builder. His pet enterprises were the
promotion of small railroads, and
before he was thirty he had success
fully built several lines.
HE is a genius, human dynamo
who would have become one OF the
biggest men in the country had he
not been misguided by his associ-
ates,' says the report of the inspec-
tors.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR STATE SENATOR.

I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for the State Senate from the
Eleventh Senatorial district, subject
to the Democratic primary. l have
endeavored to profit by my opportu-
mites to learn to become useful dur
ing my experience in the General AS
sembly, and believe that my expert
scce in a law maxim body has bet
Ter equipped me to serve the people
whom / represent. If elected, /
promise a faithful and conscientious
discharge of the duties of the office
to the best of my ability. I solicit
your support. D. C. PICKETT.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17
Radical Legislation Proposed

Senator Lewis of Illinois has intro
duced three bills that would revolu-
tionize the entire transportation sys-
tenn of the United States through the
purchase by the government of all
interstate railroads and the construc-
ton by the government of 100 ships
to be chartered as a government
merchant marine. The bills also pro-
pose the creation of a commission OF
p members, one-third of whom
should supersede the Interstate Com
merce Commission; another to have
control over banking and finance
and the third to hold jurisdiction
over manufactures in industry.
A complete scheme of government
regulation, wages in the industries
and transportation enterprises is in.
Guided.
The country is not yet prepared t.
accept such radical legislation as il
proposed by the Illinois senator.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17
THE STATE OF CHATHAM.

Editor Dawson News: Under this
heading the Albany Herald publishes
an editorial showing that from some
cause the county of Chatham is one
to itself when it comes to politics.
This is not so strange when it is an
open secret that in many instances
Chatham county and especially Sa-
vannah has seemed to think that the
laws of Georgia were not binding on
her people, that they were especially
privileged to do as seemed good in
their own eyes. Whatsoever a man
soweth that shall he also reap" X
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17

Popcorn or peanuts-which is the
favorite gastronomic consolation or
resource of young America in his
hour of sadness? Peanuts, it seems,
have a large majority of the vote,
for 20,00O,OOO bushels of peanuts
are produced annually as against
only 100000 bushels of popcorn,
But together these delectable deli
cacies are headliners at the 1000
amusement parks and 1900 county
fairs of the United States. Popcorn
has now also found a market, it is
said, on the boulevards of Paris.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-17
HE DESERVES THE PRIZE.
Rural Mail Carrier Shoveled Snow to
Make Path For Horse.

Charles Ackerson of Bridgewater,
Conn. deserves the prize as rural
free delivery carrier. During the
past winter, with snow drifted to 8
to u feet much of the time, and his
route leading through the twenty
five miles of such travelling, he has
not missed a single trip. He carried
a snow shovel every day, and often
had to shovel out a road for his
horse