Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 196.

THE TEACHERS GATHER HERE Annual Institute Convened Here This Morning at 9:45

AT M. E. CHURCH About Two Hundred Are Enrolled—lnstructors Arrive FIRST DAY’S WORK Interesting Lectures by Dr. Armstrong and Dr. Van Ormer Responsive to the call issued by County Superintendent L. E. Opliger, the teachers of the various schools of Adatns county, assembled in the spacious lecture room of the M. E. church this morning, where the annual institute was auspicuously opened at 9:30 o’clock by Professor Opliger, who called the initial meeting to order. About two hundred representative teachers, in all, had gathered to absorb the excellent instruction scheduled for the event, and Adams county should be proud of the gallant array of educational talent which was in evidence. It is a corps of intelligent teachers who guide the destinies of Adams county’s youths to honorable and busy lives and this, together with other conditions accounts for our rapid progress in the all Important affairs of education. County Superintendent, Opliger, the ever aggressive and consistent controller of our schools, took on an air of pride as the young teachers filed in the church after being registered by the recording secretary. His reasons for pride are ample. The schools are undergoing unprecedented progress in every department, which is sufficient enlogy to those in whose hands the interests at stake are entrusted, The convening of the session proper was signaled by a prayer by Dr. C. B. Wilcox, touching on the vital interests of school representation after which Professor Opliger in his usual pleasing and courteous manner greeted the teachers and their friends. His address was only a verification of the fact that none but harmonious relations existed between himself and teachers and that he was willing and ever ready to do all in his power to advance the interests of the great cause represented. He admonished the instructors to continue in their excellent work and pledged his unswerving support in their behalf. The notes of today’s session as furnished us by the secretary follows: Greetings, Prof. Opliger. “We have met here this morning with the hope that these sessions will be a help to you for the work of the coming year. By enrolling in college as you have done during the past summer our schools wills fare better than ever before. To have a successful institute, there should be no strangers present. With friendly greeting to one and all, I present to you this institute. "The Teacher Before His Class,” Dr. Armstrong. A good deal can be done with the child in the way of enthusiasm. There is just one thing in this world without enthusiasm and that it to rot. Enthusiasm comes from association with others. In some ways individual instruction is better than class instruction. In our schools where we have twenty-five or thirty pupils to each teacher classes are organized to create enthusiasm and to save time. These things the master must do to test ability, give instruction and inspire. The class should be arranged by the teacher with a view to compactness, and to avoid communication. Attention is imporant in a class and should be procured by the teacher. No pupil should be allowed to lounge in his seat, because a careless attitude destroys attention. Three ways of dealing wih inattention: let it alone, demand attention, and by indirect Cleans. Close attention may be procured by convincing thq pupil that if he inaHantk-n hfl will be required

to answer most of the questions The teacher should be a magnet of interest. Some pupils are easily magnetized; others are more difficult to magnetize; still others are extremely difficult to magnetize. Constant application of the magnet to the pupil will at last magnetize the most difficult subject The teacher should exercise infinite patience in applying Instruction time and time again to the mind of the pupil. The teacher should be well prepared before going before his class. His information should be beyond the knowledge of his class. The imagination of the child should be appealed to, which can be accomplished by the well prepared teacher. The duty of the teacher is to suggest a plan of study to the pupil, and teach him how to get a hesson. A program of study is desirable. The easiest lessons should be studied when the mind is the most fatigued and the hardest when the mind is freshest. The teacher ought to suggest the principal points in the lesson to the pupils. Review points in past lesson. A general rapid survey of today's lesson first, then a serious study with a view of mastery of the lesson. Never go over several times what you already know. The power of concentration Is the important thing in successful study, “The Chief Aim and the Greatest Need,” Dr. Van Ormer. The function of an aim in education cannot be overlooked. Aims are adequate and inadequate. The first thing for a teacher to do is to find an adequate aim for the term’s work. Aims are determined from time to time by geographical, social or personal environment. The French aim in her education is determined by her army: present aims: the bread and butter aim the result of ancestral poverty; the dollars and cents aim, the result of desire for financial standing, and iniquitious distribution of money. The intellectual aim, the result of a desire for mental growth. The culture aim, the result of a desire for culture: a surface veneering, the thing that will show and shine in society. The fitting for the work of life aim. The social efficiency aim. The character aim. The true aim is determined bv the needs of society. The supreme aim is the character aim. the development of good men. We need character stable and strong, that cannot be trampled upon by demagogues, and that insure us our liberty. The teacher who teaches with the character aim in (Continued on page 4.) —• LAND A CONTRACT Corbin and Gaffer, of Decatur, Will Frescoe Jefferson Township Church ►— ■ — IS A BIG JOB Two Week’s Time Will Be Required to Finish the Work Lewis Corbin and Peter Gaffer have landed a contract in Jefferson towni ship that of frescoeing the St. Marys i Catholic church. Two weeks’ time will , be required to complete the job, and i we might, say here that Corbin and i Gaffer are artists at the business, and I they will do the work in a manner that . will satisfy all concerned. The Jefi ferson township church is a mammoth • place of worship and is attended by i many members. The progressive peo- • pie in that vicinity always keep in . pace with the times, as is indicated I by the fact that the whole interior . will be beautifully decorated. Messrs. ! Corbi nand Gaffer have arranged to be- • gin the work next Monday. They will 5 ta k e a force of experienced men with , them so as to complete the large cont tract within two weeks a 3 the church - directors require that the scaffolds and t other paraphernalia be standing but I one Sunday.

FORFEITED GAME The Local Ball Club Administered Defeat to Montpelier Bugs NINE TO NOTHING Umpire Declared Game Forfeited But Decatur Didn’t Need It The Decatur base ball club closed its 1908 career at Montpelier yesterday when the game was awarded to the locals in the ninth inning 9 to 0, by the umpire, after the Montpelier captain refused to obey the ground . rules as set forth by the official. Clifford Bales was slated for slab duty for Pennington’s squad and he kept his opponents jumping sideways in all stages of the game, in fact, but allowing five dinky hits. IBimultaneously the locals clouted the sphere to all corners of the lot pushing six runs across the pan before the crash came in the ninth. Not satisfied with the square deal given by the first umpire, the Mjontpelier pulled him out of the game and substituted another, who also gave Decatur fair decisions, which meant defeat to the Montpelier chaps. In the ninth a dispute arose as to ground rules and as a climax to the game it was forfeited to the locals much to the dissatisfaction of Montpelier club. About four hundred people witnessed the contest. o ESCAPED INJURIES Clayson Carroll Figured in a Runaway Last Evening BUT LITTLE DAMAGE Was Done to the Outfit— King Bolt Broke — Horse Captured Clayson Carroll figured in a runaway accident in which he luckily escaped injuries. He had secured a horse and buggy at the Fashion stables and was driving about the city when, as he was crossing the Chicago and Erie railroad track the king bolt in the vehicle gave way and the animal started on a run down Winchester street, i’ drawing after it the front wheels, while the rear of the buggy occupied by Mr. Carroll was left near the track. The rear portion was not overturned and Mr. Carroll escaped uninjured. The animal proceeded northward on Second street and was captured near the Heckman flour mill. An examination disclosed the fact that neither the horse nor the buggy was damaged to any extent which is indeed fortunate to all concerned. FATAL EXPLOSION AT MACKINAC Boiler on Pleasure Boat on Carp Lake Lets Go. Grand Rapids, Mich., August 16.— 1 (Special to Daily Democrat) —The boiler of a small steamer Leelanaw, a pleasure boat plying on Carp Lake, a few miles south of Mackinac City, exploded today, killing Mrs. Labonta, of Traverse City, fatally Injuring A. B. Koch and Mrs. Rudolph Hastings. Two ■ people are missing and a dozen were [ seriously hurt.. The boat carried forty passengers when the explosion oc- . curred. o William Wittwer, an employe at the • Decatur Furnace factory was painfully i burned this morning as a consequence I of hot tar being thrown in his face. A physician cared for the injury and be resumed duties this afternoon.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, August 17, 1908.

ERIE ENGINEER TEASED BURRO And Narrowly Averted Being Pinched for Same. John Horn, the popular Erie engineer. had a most strenuous time explaining matters to the chief of police the other afternoon at Hammond. William Drake, the Hammond operator, has a burro at his home and the little animal is the main attraction for the boys nearby. The ranimal was tormented to such an extent that the owner called the officers' attention to the matter. John Horn, not receiving notice of the late bulletin, was having great sport with the burro when the chief of police, who happened to be passing at the time, placed John under arrest. John explained and explained, and at last persuaded the chief to go with him office where, after an interesting debate, John was once more a free man. — Huntington News. MR.WINTERS DEATH Gas Pipe Was Driven Through Entire Body Piercing Heart FUNERAL SUNDAY Remains Were Taken Through Here Today Enroute to New Haven Portland, Ind., August 17.—At the autopsy held in the Baird & Hardy morgue on north Meridian street by County Coroner Dr. George L. Perry, assisted by Dr. W. D. Schwatz, over the body of John Winters, who was found dead shortly after two o'clock Friday at the Cartwright & Headington elevator where he had been employed for more than a score of years, it was discovered that an ugly hole presumably inflicted by a short gas pipe, had penetrated the upper part of the heart extended from the front through the entire body. Two ribs were also crushed or broken by the force of the deadly weapon and the hole in the back was apparently as large as in front where the pipe started. A waist worn by the deceased at the time of the fatal accident was not pierced in the back although much discolored with blood which flowed in profusion from the wound. The only mystery at present puzzling the minds of the surgeons is as to the manner in which the weapon was extracted from the body but since the injured man made his way from the engine after the accident, to the stairway and had climbed part way up the stairs before expiring, it is probable that he jerked the pipe from the wound himself. The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at. four o’clock. Rev. R. O. Rogers officiating and this morning the remains were taken to New Haven Allen county for burial. o ANOTHER CHARGE AGAINST PAPE Fort Wayne Man Ac.cused of Trespass at Telephone Office. An affidavit has been filed against Ed Pape, a young man from Fort Wayne, charging him with trespass. While here a few nights ago he invaded the telephone exchange and acted foolishly. He will probably answer to the charge within a few days. His brother was here Saturday evening. trying to square the affair, but was unable to do so and declares they will fight the charge when it comes to trial. Pape caused enough disturbances here to last him for awhile. — —o SHAMROCKS ARE BEATEN. Bryant Boys Take the Measure of the Locals. The local Shamrock base ball team played at Bryant, Ind., yesterday, and lost one of the hardest fought and best played games they have lost this season. Buffenbarger was on the mound for the locals and found a great many of the visitors. The game w r as a pitchers battle from start to finish, and ended by the count of six to five in favor of Bryant. Neveretheless the Shamrocks played classy ball and it was tough luck that they lost. They expect to play another date with the Bryant boys when they expect to even up matters.

A FISHING TRIP Is Now Planned for Mr. Taft on Famous Lake Erie GIVES UP GOLF After this Week and Will Go to Cincinnati on September sth Hot Springs, Va., Aug. if.—W. H. Taft and party will leave Virginia Hot Springs Friday, Aug. 18, for a week's fishing in Lake Erie, at the end of which the nominee will go to Cincinnati Sept. 5 or 6. to remain until election day. The announcement of the itinerary, which is to conclude the candidate’s pre-campaign vacation,was made today. Mr. and Mrs. Taft will be the guests of the Middle Bass Club, the headquarters of which are on Middle Bass Island, a short distance out in Lake Erie from Put-in-Bay. The club claims distinction for having had as members Presidents Hayes, Garfield and McKinley, and being the host cn a number of occasions of President Cleveland. The visit of the Taft party was arranged by Charles T. Lewis, of Toledo. president of the club, and Representative J. Warren Keifer, member of the club. Mr. Taft is fond of fishing and has been induced to believe that the change for a week from the mountains to the lake will put just the proper edge on his condition of fitness for the front porch work he is to do in his native city. o LEAVE TOMORROW Holy Grail Boys Will Go to Winona for Ten Days’ Outing A GREAT TIME Is in Store for All Who Go— Initiatory Work at Winona Tomorrow morning at eight o'clock Dr. C. B. 'Wilcox accompanied by a number of the members of the Holy Grail organization will leave for Winona to enjoy their annifal ten day outing and a most glorious time is expected. The boys will camp on what is known as Chicago Hill which affords a race track, gymnasium sites, circus ring and is contiguous to the lake, where good service is afforded. A program will bo observed each <lay and the boys expect the time of their life. Some of the Grails will return in one week so as to attend the fair while several will remain for the ten days. Those who expect to go to i Winona are Earl Colter, Harold Wilcox, Ben Beavers, Tom and Forest Vail, Kenneth and Dan Vancil, Sherman Beery, Clarence Stevens, Frank : DeVoss, Law'rence Archbold, Clyde Baumgartner, Frank Shelton. Eugene E.cele Don Tyndall and Erwin Butler, initiated into the order at Winona. Earl Colter and Fran kDeVoss will be o .... GOT A CHILLY RECEPTION. Decatur Business Men Give Fort Wayne Her Own Medicine. Representatives of Fort Wayne business houses and an advertising man for the Allen county fair met with a chilly reception here today, when : they called on Decatur business men. The fact that the banner advertisinfi i the Great Northern Indiana fair to be L held here this week were ordered from : the interurban cars by the Fort Wayne police was a little not in every sense, I and has so thoroughly aroused the r people of this vicinity that Fort Wayne - will feet It in more ways than one. o Next weeik is the Great Northern In- - diana fair. This year’s fair will be i the best one ever and the many en- ■ tries are fast coming in. The fair • committee has been working hard the . past few weeks and many thousands of people are expected to attend.

DRIVEN FROM BOYS’ CITY Everett McGriff Woudn’t Return His Medals. Winona Lake. Ind., Aug. 17.—The Boys’ City council held a stormy meeting Saturday. The cause of the trouble was Everett McGriff, formerly of Portland, but now of Winona. It seems that young McGriff registered at Boys’ City and stayed one day in camp and then went to his Winona home. The day of the track meet young McGriff won six medals. The boys said it was not a “square deal," and that he had no right to compete as he was not a resident. The matter was referred to Judge Brown, who turned the case over to the council. The members voted that according to the letter of the law McGriff had a right to compete, but that he was not really a citizen of Boys’ City though he had registered. The council told McGriff that if be was “square” he would return the medals. This he refused to do and the boys have driven, him out of camp. The council decided that any boy who wishes to compete in the athletic meet must sleep in camp five nights of each week. J. M. Studebaker yesterday gave $7 to Goshen camp, $5 to East Chicago, $3 to Madison and $2 to South Bend and $1 to Saturday Evening Post camp for cleanest camps. The boys will break camp today. Q. BLUFFTON IS EASY MARK For Perpetrators of the Bunco Game Lots of people would rather lose their money to a street fakir than give It to the heathen, or buy bread checks for he dbildren. Last night a fakir drove up In front of McFarren’s store and sold rings for a quarter worth sixty cents a dozen. After he had sold a bunch of rings he handed each purchaser back the money, and then the old gag started in. Pulling; a bunch of brass watch chains that even Sears & Roebuck would scorn to sell for more than two for a quarter he offered them for a dollar. In two seconds the money was coming up so fast that part of ft got heated in transit. One man handed up four dollars, and another three, and the fakir had thirty dollars In less time than it takes to tell it. Then he gave each sucker one of the five cent simon pure brass triple plated guaranteed brass rings and drove away with the money. And thus another sad tale ends, and one more Instance of man’s inhumanity is registered.—Bluffton Banner. COURT NEWS IS SCARCE TODAY John W. Vizard has purchased 78 acres in St. Marys township from Ada Rae et al for $4,500. S. W. Hale, a member of the board of the New Castle epileptic village was here today to examine Clay Peterson. He will report at the home Friday and Clay will be taken to the village some time next week. HE WALKED HERE Alec Whale, Demented, Escapes from Officers at Finley, Ohio A FORMER RESIDENT Left Here Fifteen Years Ago—Will Be Returned to Buckeye State Alec Whale, a former citizen here, and who moved to Finley, Ohio, about fifteen years ago, and has since resided ■ there, arrived some time Saturday ■ night. The old man is in a pitiable i condition having been demented for . two years past. He spent a year in ■ the Ohio asylum, but was released a I month ago. Last week he got off ‘ again and the sheriff took him in i charge, but he got away and walked ’ here, arriving fairly fresh for a man . of seventy year?. He said he was on ’ his way to San Francisco, and seemed ‘ to enjoy meeting old friends. He was taken to jail Sunday afternoon by Sheriff Meyer who lat once notified the ■ authorities at Findlay. They refused to come after him, but the authorities here have decided to take him back, and take the chance of collecting the expenses from that county, this being much the cheapest plan, whether the money is recovered or not.

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AS AN INSTRUCTOR George W. Cromer of this District Has Become a Teacher IN POLITIC GAME Employed by Mr. Watson and is Now Busy at Fort Wayne Acting under instructions from James E. Watson, the nominee for governor, the republican county central committee yesterday assembled to get some pointers nn organization methods from former Congressman. George W. Cromer, of Muncie. The meeting was held in the assembly room of the city hall, and it was an executive session, a Journal-Gazette reporter who dropped in being called off into a corner by Chairman Rose, who suavely informed him that he could get all the information that was to be given in an hour or so. When the time was up the extent of the information to be doled out by Mr. Rose was that Mr. Cromer, Congressman C. C. Gilhams. Acil Alexander, of Marion. deputy state treausrer, and District Chairman James M. Henry, had made little talks to the committeemen. Mr. Rose, ordinarily the most jovial and open hearted of men, showed the w'eight of a great secret, and his ordinary equanimity seemed to be disturbed. The coming of Mr. Cromer is in accordance with an arrangement made some time ago by Mr. Watson, who regards the ex-congressman of the Eighth district as the best political manager in Indiana. Last spring, during the contest for Allen county’s delegation to the state convention, Mr. Watson said, at a gathering of his friends, that the republicans up in this part of the state needed a man like Cromer to line up the voters, and after capturing the nomination he was not long in getting the old Muncie boss into harness. This was not done without objection among the local republican leaders, however. They knew that Cromer’s political methods had brought him into disrepute with the beter elements of his party in his own district, and resulted in his defeat for re-election two years ago. Mr. Cromer held the whip hand in the Eighth district for more than ten years, and came to be looked upon as a true type of political bossism, ruthless, unscrupulous, and entirely devoid of political morality. The decent republicans of the district finally revolted, and the result was the overwhelming defeat of Cromer In a district which for years had been strongly republican. The overthrow did not discourage Mr. Cromer, however. He kept at. work, and at the old methods, too. The better element of the party was resting quietly Jn (the assumnoe flhat Cromer and Cromerism were forever ended, and preparations were made for a new deal in the organization. But they did not know Mr. Cromer yet, and when the convention was held at Anderson, the wily George dominated not only the organization, but the nomination. The men who had rebelled against him in 1906 found themselves as helpless as babes under his Iron rule, and saw one of his favorites, ex-Senator Hawkins, nominated for congress over their protests and their pleas for decent politics. The Cromer coup delighted Mr Watson, and Still more strongly inclined him to admire Cromer methods. It was the way Cromer undermined the opposition and successfully triumphed, that led Mr. Watson to suggest placing the Eighth district boss in charge of the effective work of organizing for the state campaign, but vainly. They said the bringing of Cromer here would alienate the support of the men who favored clean politics, and lend color to the current stories of Watson’s own devotion to doubtful machine methods. They urged that Mr. Watson was too nearly in the same boat with Cromer to run the risk of having Ibe latter made a dominating factor in the campaign, and argued that the best thing to do to overcome prejudice against machine methods was to keep Cromer and men of his kind out of active participation in the campaign. The objections were ruthlessly overruled, however, by Mr. Watson himself who Insisted that a man of the (Continued on Page Two)