Washington Gazette (Newspaper) - May 26, 1916, Washington, Indiana GAZETTE AND HERALD BODY OP MACK END OF BY GOOTEE Unfortunate Man Had Been Suffer Mack aged about fiftyfive a wellknown citizen of Al ended his life by hanging himself in his homb some time mentally and relatives seen shortly aft er dinner His presence on the missed Friday morning and and George Allen went In search of him They opened the floor of his which had been deft and were horrified to him hanging from a rope was made about 10 He had evi dently been dead For sometime be fore the body as it was It Is that Gootee took some time Thursday I HUH Been Acting was to have acted in a manner for some time was suffering from some mental but there had j never any indications on I Jart that he was planning to kill him of ato extremely nerv temperament ahd his peculiar had been subject of com he was arrested on a warrant for lunacy at the in The sundry Friday by the houte appropriations committee carried an off for the federal in Washing trial in said circuit court on the day of 191G The judge of the Martin circuit court is requested set all of said causes for trial as herein Witness oui hands this the 19th day This agreement Is signed by Alvin Tharp George Mat ingly Greenwood Thomas Hastings all the attorneys con with the Will Recount the The attorneys progressed in this n such a pleasant way that was taken Ioi to eliminate more of he option It was then pro posed that a of which was he was S by the commission held in this city found to be sane which consisted Justice of the Yenne and Maude Gootee had living alone in a across the TUley from the Roberts drug stores in After making a noose with the rope he attached It to a hinge of an inside of j placed the noose around his neck amd permitted his body His neck was ana death resulted from followed business of a horse trader and j he was widely known over the His wife died about a year or so ago but he wo from each be appointed to the ballots now f make a report o the court of the and take nto Martin county for consideration f the the ballots that disputed this committed is made of Ezra and for nd Flavian Seal and George for the This recount be made Ip the county auditors on May It was also agreed law ers that argument presented be ore Judge on Thursday May with reference to the mooted of as the trial at time Judge ames Wl will rule as whether or not he in charge of he or whether win is in or whether a new udge will It was from the attitude of the attorneys democratic and republican national conventions had much do witty the opposing factions within distance of each It iwas also evident that there is a disposition to hurry the proceedings without further m Thin trick Years He Wi is There nnd Vast of bjst know i men in southern 40 Saturday he of the death tirkin sp o the stat n any and unex to his friends REPORT OF TOWNSHIP by survived wii Henry of Mrs Nick of Murl ami Her who make their home with and Miss who lives with Gobel In Illinois Gootee also leaves two s Gootee of and Xb of Washington and one Bert Baker of OPTION DATE FIXED Another chapter elf local option court proceedings ivp written in circuit court room when the lawyers for both slides into such an agreement ks will eliminate much of the proceedings In Martin county and save considerable The in is tothe effect that the proceedings in Martin county shall be up on June 9 that a committee shall count the ballots cast at the option election and Only the uncontented ballots shall taken to Martin far consideration of the court that argument shall be had in Daviess county as to who shall serve as judge of tht The first of the proceedings came when Judge Ogdon folio which is self i In the matter of the petition of et tion the city of Wash I recognized the for local op Appeal from county board of commissioners of appel Joseph Edgar rHenry James George Frank Ed Frank Kidwell Samuel administrator of the estate of Wil liam In the Martin circuit agreed parties to said that same ln the circuit on undersigned thei tearing number as circuit shall set for A Xet Increase of ta Evi in and Zed assessor of Washing has completed the task of compiling huj report for city and township as returned by the assessors on personal property as of thiA and it shows net increase fir city and township of In the city person ail amounted to while in 1916 this figure Is advanced to or knew was st trick fift s t ok fo and w en born It di in school olds I are A with lers it was i biot te K Tlie a loss It a gain of of the personal ami ed at was returned at 1915 was The cit crease of thi the In 1915 being list while in 19lfi this or a loss of township polls in while In the polls are listed at a loss of nine poll shows 3 list in while in 1J916 the list is The additional improvements as re by the as lessors for the town phip is while the city is gain forthe of Morton is a loss to explain away the cause of the decrease in in the 3t has to there are many farm hands employed this jdar as the fase and it is probable that many the young misn of the township are now cities and L an J til Ti clt be bo pa da stf e pa le Cl wUh contl jes JURY ACQUIT The trial ol charged with occupied half of the day in the circuit court Thurs The jury got the case following the courts instructions about 5 oclock inthe afternoon after reported a acquitting the Bush was arrested a or so the affidavit having been made TruelOve to whom Bush mortgaged a rat re and obtained a It later t that Bush claimed be the owner of the had no funds The states case deput mare and and other written proving her ofthe mar In procuring the Bush made an affidavit that he owned the horse and the charge was was unable to give and remair ed until his The defense w is conducted by tin wh appointed to the er on showing that to employ was bandied iby prosecuting attor Trial of tie case began after her vill S Sino unc the W daj Ani in jo was in this foil 5 ope sanje Ste duri tiai ent r her i was a daughte ore Mf She was of led the noon adjournment Thursday and age of thirty cents a lers u tbe d to ul ai and it real terest oilier Larl in Ca lits of looke at 4 n of ork sev 1 awn Hit al w en day years d pa uing f bis Vhile i cojal mil He ha al lab ii cit in get Ph 1 Me ma 01 s Nell dk Of tl ind M is Cat of W fashin rd was of ead rapidly over this f as his acquaintances scattered over tbe t this Tbe t that he was in ill late in tbe n at part eath of icken with Larkin was born at live years In bis bride Miss Anna to union Bernard s Ernest wl o is n Washington with the In Larkin engaged In lusi lis John Lai the firm of Larkin and this usi by the two about four years ead man and his fa He a 1 biisi is hit arc between rkin ho In On leaving Loo not disposi of selling inly as a of an an and tbe f the teachings of tbe and be was al bis in R a inan with a big b art to bad kin j never was know ny person tizen Dies at a well kn ic who from manual rail years by illi at 11 HI oclock Tl t ills Sll J was hastened 111 lie was sti was si old irn New Years day 1 nd to Washing cuts when a small life in this city for the For several ye wajs an employee of tbe other be worked is find was a well to do iny or five yea who was Miss Miry d years and a i alf e born to Lhe e daughter jihe lived with le leaves one 1m th and two of e hospital authorities on of Dr greatly im Of TO 51 OK B ELABORATE R MKM AH infla nation of the a id taken RNS Street certainly sat in pf the Ibert Thompson hen a big Ram car turtle on the shington is to have a ster of Jul Valley just east ur Saturday af Thompson and their he Citizens band and taie Bedford to visit The committee rel of down the in the big car be agible because of the wet ore Thompson could into the pf the Tli attract Dickey and away and the men hur wrecked car to render ce as wks months five united with the United Brethren church when fourteen years old and remained and de voted member until was an intelligent con woman and her love for God and her church was her memory il be tender ly a hoist of Not she ibe remembered a large circle of admiring friends but many of the school and girls IX pf bad school to She began when seventeen years old and taught ten years in the Ruther ford township She was a and to her she had a word of en for the downhearted Hnd a gentle for Surviving she leaves the following near relatives The father and mother a three broth and Ott at and who lives near Ben of Pike services were held at Innian chapel and were conducted by Garriott of Tbe funeral was probably tbe held in the neighbor last hours forcibly strength of her char When her brother spoke to her about she expressed her desire get also her resignation to tbe say I am years old ami Charley have Worked so bard to set a start but if it is Gods am ready and prepared her last she to hav granted a vision of the here Her eyes sparkled the youth and a smile illum her dying In known at the meeting by acted a petition from the two organizations asking tb date Svith the provision that tjie organisations make satisfactory i r with any persons or e to whom the park mj the celebr The track away school Ellen Herr of Ev n was a member of He was Hap on Dead in here early of sudden w Taylor at his he was lear the pf Ta ell among the older he Hy for ed the occupation of a a number of years ing rooms e Ta lacje of business in now occupied by ton to take up a r some left den M in yea s i Boonshot Je vs of the death pf Zada Boc n wife of Charles at Uer home J in Martin dear Alf r fhas been received in she was HH illness was of a of ri of me led lor set in nd of ran tbe annual state track and meet held on Franklin field Saturday afternoon witha total of 1 was second 1 1 Vj points and Brownsburg tbird with n was a glorious day nnd a glorious meet and because it had the best tea in I J Captain team was main point taking first in and second In tbe In last race tins man jumped Hie iu and was setback one and ilia one yard was tbe distance that sep from Short ridges other points Iwere lr who took first in 1211 yard who in low hurdles am who placed in the quar Tivo The day was ideal for n track Rain threatened in tin morning but the sky war clear and the ending was perfect wore OIK in tbe shot put and the other in the polo and it seemed if both will stand a number of of academy the pole over the bar at feet 7 i anil Williams of threw tbe shot a of feet The record in the pole was 10feet and 11 14 made by of Gary in The former record iii tbe shot put was 44 feet and made by of in ns Washington was defeated mainly of the number of heats tbat had to be run before the winner could be of Washington qualified in every heat except the semifinals and was worn out by that In one of the heats which Swords ran he was pitted against Butler of and in another he ran against of Evansville who took second in the Smiley also in all the hur dles and pulled out one third on the ligh hurdles could not the low The team is composed of men who are nearly all of the championship caliber no one among them is an individual It s the opinion of all who follow the work of the Washington team close and her endured with the was 5 that characterized the team lit the strongest team in the state and this is strength the fact Shortridge team which won deci sively defeated iby tbe local team here a few More than a thousand women are in cleaning the streets of At least the men in the streets department have left their Most of them are in the arm others obtained lucrative I The women who have taken their receive the same rates of from cents tQ sixty and Capped out the details if they propose to make of tbe most entertain ing and in the with tlie will be announced time to Tbe use of tbe for celebration in of tbe city wfs in the year by tHi j g T Six seven members the Riester was the af the approval of minutes lust tbe fi were allowed f cii assisting civ I 3 t not to respond T I j street pay supplied Tout met tbe for the anj disposal was lefto Majors will do the work for a Thomas I in was Tobias fi were BunIs was to a from his residence tp a fractur ankle an just The Th home of J Shoals in nothing f What n recorder Monday c It is given by tg way j company 3j Themo ferty of empty into street Greenwood granted a to install a under the sidewalk ifi jr place of storage tan front of th Roses petition asking for to tap west Eleventh stree was roads It at Thompson had beneath j the which ai tbc Ordinary prying were r the nidii was i bad over the y mashep In the region Thompson suffered both bones of the right right was dis ss Thompson suffered a oth of the right w sons wete taken to the jand Henry d Freeman of j ay morning the Injured ere to Bedford s and it is believed that us will result from the car was padly arrangements of memorial dayl by Knights of contemplate a more orate of on arrangements made its the lodge at the meeting Tuesday night and I the suggestions for a more impresi jpe of Memorial Sunday endorsed by the i Kpr several the Oak Grove ceme tery In a and holding ritualistic j exercises at Hie graves of the dei lias been omitted by the lodge was unanimously deI to revi Committees the the that custom this i 3m the visit i during the day to fraves of the deceased AGK probably age evf the most vol left with the brothers the i members lodge will assemble e hall and pro ceed to Oak cemetery In motor 1 cars for the of holding the ritualistic provided for the i The ritual 4f the Knights of las tte first Sunday in June as Sunday and it falls on June 4 tMs which will the date lodge will hold the annual services in memory of its honored visit t was filed ing with Thomas Sin and Ohio rail to Central Trust ew ge covers all the prop different rail mre a part of the mortgage contains about words and the cost of Recording Ml run between and The moj every con road railroad Daviess Is being recorded in which the ocal attorneys for the I Ithe mortgage with the tv A from K agent for the stated that the of the first train May 27 e unless permission block east or west street during the stay of the train as government man iij charge of train will not break rain for o Best Second s not a given he train be parked West of Mej near the staj McCarty informed that is the desire of the oil ers of for he The contact and bond of the Fire company was by adopted by thi unanimous of ract Sale the sale of the Ath sewer and the nd gutter Idian street was set foil clerk t The south MeriJ ement resolution DAM Tucker on miles of Peters burg liy unidentified Idam wab built for the purpose of pi ding baik the govern ment mis across the e rable si oil from the oil fiel i i the si ic oil is y owns cons was by means i was backe renters 1 tests again some of tl S landand he The park tij nation curb une th foi amended toi gutter property Wall er nance the curb anc i An ordinal of un heating pnd ce passed under a sns rules municipal payment ta the on clt Popular Yl mj School Teachers M A to Was Coffman o place Fridl a known as ed and Coffman made a hoi j with the in farm south accumulates on Round s of the this in the to the sloughs as the Tucker sen loud 1 e this city of the two or of the service serve as maste Estel Dowden Pythagorean Oak not In the Knights and mem bers of the the Pythian will attend church In a dele gation to hear ji memorial It lias been decided to to the First this The ser mon for the will preached by IV alter pastor of the congre The members ers will Castle hall an ers will meet at the move to the church In a line of arriving at the the beginning Ketchem will of while act as lodge has lost three The graves of mem burled In members by this year are Curtis bers who are anl be looked after committees from the ip The will preach the sermon for the Modern and Neigh The orders will meet at their halt in tUfe evening and proceed to the church n a The date for the serviced is ihe sediments Because on otter lands than Tuckey owners and in their pro It is thought dynamited the of Inter foil is that of to Essie which took May in e son i a cher in Tie bride I edf daughter and formerly n the school of 1912 and the school After a short honey make a home on BANK j i Pays Premium of for Five of i l The National pank gravel roads in Daviess of the premium pa was the bight were county in a and accrued gt of The iby Elmer They are to bear four and per for The bonds were issued for the William Boiling road Msteele township the John Daily in township the James Perkins road in Barr town ship the jBrown Toad in Wash ington township and the Enoch Pros ser road In Elliott 1 rr The Harrison of Wild company the Men j saw Guarantee if he unsuccessful m bank Wd on the offering a company The Sal Prosser set of of Washington co scribe of Tribe of Ben Saturday a check for to widow lot the amount of In the or died
