Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 203.

THE FAIR IS ON Many People Visited the Fair Grounds Today Especially Exhibitors GROUNDS AT BEST The Races to be Pulled Off Tomorrow Will Be Big Event The big fair ig on. And say, It is oerainly the best. The Great Northern Indiana Fair, the long loked for event In the ennals of Adams county’s social realm, has begun Its 1908 session under most favorable auspices and even today several thousand people visited the famous grounds. The park, with its beautiful foliage, pretty Lagoon, well constructed buildings and fast race track is confessedly an Meal spot for an event in the nature of acounty fair and the initial day is passing into oblivion with brighter prospects for a week of financial and social success than, has ever been recorded in old Adams ■county. The various superintendents and thetr assistants have assumed control of the different departments and lest we forget, we wish to say that the exhibits are simply and purely the best ever shown in the county. The art hall, with its new coat of plaster, roof, affords a commodious place wherein the artistic work of the exhibitors will be shown. J. C. Augsburger has charge of same, with Mrs. W. A. Lower and Mrs. Florence DeVilbiss as assistants. In this department the displays will be magnificent. Aside from the beautiful fancy needle work, burnt wood and such, 'several of the business men have used their artistic ability tn arranging attractive display booths in the art hall. J. E. Moser has undoubtedly prepared the most attraetve display of its nature ever exhibited in this section of the state. D. M. Hensley is displaying his collection of rare specimens of animals and birds which is the largest and without doubt the best ever seen in the county. Myers and Moses, Yager Brothers and Reinking. Gay and Zwlck. M. Fullenkamp and many other business firms are well represented in the booths at the grounds. The culinary department in' charge of Mrs. John C. Augusburger is at its best. In fact it seems impossible that such a large and well selected variety of canned fruits and culinary articles could be gotten together. J. D. Nidlinger, superintendent of cattle, informs us that every available space in the cattle barns is taken and the stock is the best ever. Never before was a better breed of sheep or more shown in the county than have been quartered at the grounds. Calvin Teter, having charge of same, declares it is the best ever. George Tricker, superintendent of horses; P. A. Macklin, superintendent of swine; Fred Bell, superintendent of poultry; H. O. Nusbaum, superintendent of fruits and James Foreman, superintendent of agricultural products all report very favorably to (their repartments, predicting that the fair, just inaugurated will eclipse all former ones by far. No admission was charged today and as the program indicates no races were pulled off, but tomorrow signals the first big day of this year’s session. During the course of the program the Hon. George E. Clark, representing N. B. Hawkins, of Portland, will deliver a political speech, a balloon ascension and parachute drop will be made and besides these and the selling of lemonade, the races, yes the big races, will come off as follows: 2:20 trot, nine starters; 2:18 pace, ten starters; three minute county race for farmers only, ten ■starters and a half mile running race. This is an excellent race program and will be witnessed by many thousand people. On Thursday for the first time in the history of the Great Northern, a SSOO stake race will be pulled off besides the others scheduled. The fair promoters have arranged for every day to be a big day and as a consequence, a 2:15 pace, 2:16 trot, 2:30 trot and a % mile running race are scheduled. The address (to be Riven by the Hon. J. A. M. Adair, candidate for Eighth district congressffian, Thursday promises to be unusually good. Mr. Adair is a clean cut politician and always pleases his audiences. Tomorrow evening the G.

R. and I. railroad company will start operating an evening train south and continue same during the fair and the people from the south pan of the county can thus find it convenient to attend the fair and return to their homes i n the evening. o —• G. R. & I. OFFICIALS HERE E. C. Leavenworth, of Grand Rapids, general freight agent; J. D. Kromer of Duluth, Minn., commercial agent and E. O. Wagoner, of Fort Wayne, commercial agent, ail of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railway, arrived this morning in a special car, on their annual visit to local shippers. They returned to Fort Wayne at eight o'clock. WAS A SAD DEATH Mrs. H. C. Fuhrman Passes Away at Ripe Old Age of 74 Years ILL FOR MONTHS From Ravages of Asthma and Heart Trouble— Funeral Tomorrow A long siege of asthma and heart trouble in their worst forms has culminated in the death of Mrs. Anna Mary, wife of Henry C. Fuhrman, one of Adams county's most highly respected citizens. The deceased was born in Pennsylvania . seventy-four years ago, removing to Allen county wit hher parents when but a mere child. At the age of twenty-two years she was united in marriage to H. C. Fuhrman and immediaely afterward settled in Root township, where they have resided since. The aged lady became afflicted from asthma and heart trouble early this spring and has gradually declined since. Her condition became so serious that she was required to take to her bed five weeks ago and but slight hopes were entertained thereafter for her recovery, death relieving her sufferings last evening at 8:45 o’clock. The deceased was a member of the Evangelical church and a faithful worker in its behalf and her many kind deeds will be sadly missed by those with whom she came in contact. The deceased is the mother of ten living children, who are as follows: Mrs. J. W. Shifferly, of Union township; Mrs. E. M. Schnitz, Root township; Mrs. C. H. Schnitz, St. Marys township; Mrs. B. A. Winans, Stockland, Ill.; (Mrs. C. H. Asbury, Stewart, Nev.; Mrs. Reuben Sprunger, Berne, and Messrs. D. W. Fuhrman, Washington township; J. M., of Matthews, Ind.; H. A., of Root township; and Miss Rosa Fuhrman, of Root township. The funeral cortege will leave the bouse tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o’clock arriving at the Decatur Evangelical church at 2:00 o’clock from where ; the funeral services will be conducted by Rev. D. O. Wise, interment to be made at Maplewood cemetery. — —-o MUST COMPLY WITH LAW. City and Town High Schools Must Have Music and Drawing Teachers. Indianapolis, Aug. 24. —City and 1 town school superintendents have been reminded by State Superintendent Fassett A. Cotton that they will be expected to comply with the law passed by the last legislature providing for the employment of music and drawing teachers in the commissioned high schools of the state. A number of high school have failed to employ ■ music and drawing teachers because ! they had no pupils enrolled for those branches, but Mr. Cotton has remind- ■ ed them that they will be expected to i comply with the law- whether they • have pupils or not. "We cannot tell ■ whether we will have pupils enrolled ; for music and drawing if there are s no teachers for these branches,” said . Mr. Cotton, “and we propsoe to have ’ the teachers in readiness when the i school term opens.” In the notices , which have been sent out attention > is called to the resolutions adopted > by the state board of education, pro- , viding for the employment of these - teachers, and asking the superinten- - dents whether they have employed the i teachers. There are something over 5 300 commissioned high schools . throughout the state.

WILLBRING CROWDS Ft. Wayne Wholesalers Are Coming to the Fair Tomorrow MR. FLEMING HERE Will Act as Starting Judge at Great Northern—All Are Boosting W. H. Fleming, of Fort Wayne, arrived today and will act as starting judge at the Great Northern fair. He is a pleasant, affable gentleman, one of the best starters in the country, and is very much pleased to have been selected to work here. He called at this office this morning and said that Fort Wayne would prove that they held no grudge against Decatur and were by no means in accord with any action requiring the removal of the fair banners from the traction cars. Mr. Fleming said that his city would send by far the largest delegation of any city in this vicinity to the fair, that every horse in training on the tracks there had been entered and will start here. Tomorrow the wholesalers will come to the fair and each day will find a good crowd here from our neighboring city. W. H. Meyer, secretary of the Fort Wayne fair is aefing as judge in the horse department here and is also doing all he can to bring a crowd from Allen county. Boys, you’re all right and we retract any mean thing we may have said about you. The famous Packard band will be here all day Wenesday. AHEATED CLASH General Sherwood Charges Members of G. A. R. Executive Committee OF AN ALLIANCE With the Republican Committee—Local Veterans Are Interested G. . R. veterans here are very much interested in a contest now in progress in the national encampment. The Toledo Times says: In a heated clash behind closed doors the executive committee for the G. A R. encampment fought over i the controversy provoked by Gen. Isaac R. Sherwood’s charges that pol- ’ itics played a hand in the selection > of campfire speakers for the coming • encampment, particularly the choos- : ing of Gen. J. Warren Kiefer and I Jas. H. Southard. The outcome of ' the meeting was a direct threat by one I of the members of the committee > that th® encampment would refuse to endorse the general’s dollar-a-day pension bill, and another member would not vote for him for congressman, if he did not withdraw his • charges. But Gen. Sherwood remained firm. lie told the other members of the executive committee that it I was a matter of opinion and he still ' insisted that Gen. Kiefer and James ■ H. Southard had been invited to 1 speak, while he was ignored, in or- ’ der to discredit the general’s work • in congress. One of the committee I who is also a member of the Grand I Army said that the national encarnp- ’ ment did not endorse but one bill ' before congress at each session, and, ! before congress would consider a bill i for the relief of the old soldiers, it ■ was necessary to have the endorsei ment of that bill by the encampment. ’ He said it was quite probable, beI cause of Gen. Sherwood’s action over I the selection of encampment speakers, > that his dollar-a-day bill would be I ignored by the national encampment. ! Gen. I. R. Sherwood said last night ■ that this was not the first time that ! politics hod crept into the Grand i Army. He recalled that, many years I ago, politics nearly disrupted the - Ohio department and that it was sav- ) ed from disaster by the election of - Gen. James B. Steadman as comman- > der. "And now they would attempt r the same disrupting tactics here in i Gen. Steadman’s own city,” concluded Gen. Sherwood,

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, August 25, 1908.

SON LOST TWELVE YEARS. Warsaw, Ind., Aug. 24. —An article appearing in the Fort Wayne JournalGazette under date of August 14 has restored to Mrs. Jessie Hyde, of Warsaw, recently of Fountain county, her son, Charles Bowman, aged fifteen years, from whom she was separated twelve years ago. When three years of age the boy was placed in the orphanage at Mishawaka. The year following Mrs. Hyde lost track of him. Early in the present month Mrs. Hyde who is in poor circumstances, appealed to the newspapers to locate her boy. The son picking up a newspaper saw the article caused to be inserted by his mother and is now in communication with her. HAIfAIFHEARTY Grandpa Kunkle Celebrates His Eighty-Eighth Birthday CAME TO DECATUR As Guest of His Daughter, Mrs. Peterson—Adams County Pioneer Grandpa Samuel Kunkle, the stur- , dy Monmouth pioneer, was eightyi eight years old today, and as hale and hearty as most men twenty years his junior. He came to this city to- ■ day and enjoyed dinner with his ' daughter, Mrs. R. S. Peterson. His health is splendid and he seems to grow younger with each succeeding year. He was born in York county. I Pa.. August 25, 1820, and when three [ or four years old moved with his parents to near Mansfield, Ohio,where he was reared. When a young man he journeyed westward ho, and landed ' in this county in 1846, and has since continued a citizen here. For over sixty years he has been one of the substantial and enterprising farmers of this locality and his life has been one of those happy and successful ones, which prove the benefits of right ' living. His anniversary today was a delight to himself, his four children, who are Mrs. R. S. Peterson. Mrs. A. ■ R. Bell, Mrs. Florence DeVilbiss and C. D. Kunkle, all of this locality an# to his many other relatives. Mr. Lyman Hart, a life long friends of Mr. Kunkle and who will celebrate his 83rd birthday next Friday, was also a guest at the Peterson home today. o TWO AUTOS CLASH Dr. Clark’s Machine Plunged Into J. L. Gay Auto this Morning NEAR TUEIR STORE No One Was Injured Although Both Machines Were Damaged I Excitement ran high on north Second street this morning when the an--1 tomobile belonging to Dr. C. S. Clark, ' driven by W. H. Ward, collided with the big machine belonging to J. L. Gay Dr. Clark and Mr. Ward were proceeding southward on Second street at a rapid rate when in front of the Crystal theater a horse and buggy appeared a short distance ahead, compelling the driver to turn abruptly to avoid a collision. The turn was made, but in crossing the interurban track the Clark machine gilded along for several feet and leaving same, plunged into the Gay auto which was standing in front of the furniture store, the result of which was the reach rod on the former was twisted out of shape. Luckily no one was Injured and aside from the small damages sustained by both owners of the autos, no inconvenience was caused. 1 The Clark machine was taken to a : blacksmith shop for repairs. o BOTH BANKS TO CLOSE. On account of the Great Northern : fair the First National Bank and the i Old Adams County Bank will close ■ at noon on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

WERE WED TODAY Miss Dessie Krick Has Become the Wife of L. E. Dolch PROMINENT COUPLE They Will Make Their Home at Monroe—Their Wedding Tour This afternoon at two o’clock at the home of Dr. C. B. Wilcox Miss Dessie Krick of this city and L. E. Dolch. of Monroe, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony in the presence of but few immediate friends. The ceremony was very impressive. The contracting parties are well known in this city and cocnty, the bride being the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krick and the groom the son of Joseph Dolch. of near Monroe. Miss Krick for the past five years has served as bookkeeper in the office of the Krick and Tyndall tile mill. She has been efficient in her work and her invaluable services will be sadly missed by this enterprising concern. She has figured prominently in social circles and is admired by her Innumerable friends. The, groom recently purchase,! a livery barn at Monroe, and the happy couple will reside in that busy little town after returning from the wedding tour to Rome City and other northern points. Mr. Dolch for three years past has contracted in California and he is a business man of ability. The many friends of the newly wedded couple extend their hearty congratulations. TnFGENEVA ITEMS Business Men Elated Over Prospects for New Traction Line EAST AND WEST I Schools to Open in Two Weeks—O. E. Kemp Will Move to Ohio Geneva, Ind., Aug. 25. Rev. King spent several days near Piqua, Ohio, last week. Several of the tenting complement from Geneva have returned home. The families of W. D. Cross and J. M. Wheeler, after spending several weeks about the lake at Rome City, came home last evening and this morning. Mrs. Robt. Brown came home last week after an outing of several weeks on the lakes in Northern Indiana. Mrs. Wig Briggs and Mrs. BlakeHedges were in Portland Monday afternoon. The youthful population of Geneva genraly are lamenting the rapid approach of the opening of the town schools, which will occur in two weeks. Vacation has too many charms to be given, up without strenuous objections. The business people of Geneva are all astir over the proposed electric railroad from Bluffton to Geneva. A sufficient sum was quickly subscribed to meet the expenses of an election in the intervening townships. Those heading the enterprise feel quite confident that the subsidy of one cent will be voted. Many of the farmers along the proposed route are eager for the completion of the road. If the required sum is provided the assurance is given out. that cars will be running by the first of next January. O. E. Kemp who has taken an interest in a flouring mill and elevator in East Liberty, Ohio, will move his family to that place in a short time. Geneva will lose one of its best and useful families when these good people go away. , The wife and children of C. N. Brown spending an outing at Petoskey, Mich. Miss Blanche Hutton spent two weeks rusticating at Rome City, and came home Sunday night.

JOHN WORTH KERN NOTIFIED Gathering of Notable Democrats at Indianapolis This Afternoon

CROWD IS LARGE Thousands Cheer Indiana’s Favorite Son as He Accepts Honor MR. KERN’S SPEECH Addresses by W. J. Bryan, Norman Mack and Thomas R. Marshall Indianapolis, Aussust 25. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Hon. John Worth Kern was this afternoon officially notified of his nomination as the democratic candidate for vice president. The big event occurred at the state fair grounds where thousands of people witnessed the ceremony. The meeting was called to order at 1:30 by National Committeeman Thomas Taggart, who, after a few words, gave the gavel to Chairman Norman E. Mack, who delivered a short address. Theodore Bell, of California, then gave the notification speech to which Mr. Kern replied in an address of forty minutes duration. Then came a short speech by Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, and then an inspiring argument by j W. J. Bryan. It wag a splendidly successful affair. Mr. Kern’s speech was as follows: I Gentlemen of the Notification Committee: For the kindly and courteous manner in which you have conveyed to me i the official notification of my nomina-1 tion as the Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States, and for the eloquent words just spoken by your chairman In your behalf, I thank you one and all. I appreciate most highly this great honor conferred upon me by the unanimous vote of the representatives of my party in national convention assembled, and I shall strive most earnestly to earn a continuation of the confidence and good will manifested by that action. I did not seek this nomination. Indeed, if my own personal desires had been consulted, another would have received the honor, but it having come to me without solicitation, I prize it all the more, and accept it, with a full sense of the burdens and responsibilities. As a candidate I shall try to wear the honor worthily, and. as faithfully as I can, discharge all the duties properly devolving on me as one of your standard bearers, and if elected I promise to serve all the people of the republic by the conscientious discharge of the duties of the office. I have no thought that the men who made up that great convention at Denver nominated me as their candidate because they believed that I had ability or merit euperior to that possessed by any one of the distinguished gentlemen whose names were considered In connection with the vice presidential nomination. Many years of service on my part might have had some slight Infinance in determining their action but I am persuaded that it was the chief purpose of the convention, in choosing a son of Indiana as its can- ’ didate, to show its appreciation of the great Democratic party of this splendid commonwealth, made up as it is of more than a third of a million of men, good and true—the very flower of the front Democratic army of the republic. I prefer to accept this proffered honor in the name of these loyal Dem orate of Indiana, for whom the honor was, I believe, really intended. It is pleasing to me to be associated In this campaign with the distinguished gentleman to whom the standard , of the party has been committed. For ysara we have been friends. I recoghlze in him a man of spotless character and high ideals, always actuated by patriotic motive* and an earnest detrt 1 to promote the welfare, the honor and glory of fiik country. He beMot year candidate became his nomination wan demanded by the rank and tie of the party, which demand was •mphasteed by a popular movement in Me flavor, which, as it proceeded,

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grew Tn volume and force "as to"become irresistible. He enters upon this campaign unpledged to any special interests, under no eMigations to any unlawful or other combination of capital, looking to no corporation for campaign contributions —asolutely free to serve the people by carrying out the pledges of his party’s platform. While he is the foe to unlawful niuiropoiy, and ig prepared to lay a heavy hand upon the lawless, whether rich or poor, without fear or f*vor. and to combat the encroachments Os greed upon honest endeavor, he is the friend of every legitimate business enterprise, whether conducted by Individual or corporation, and will sympathize with the promotion of every movement which makes for the welfare and prosperity of the country. A distinguished Republican the other day referred to his influence with his party as a one-man power. If by that he meant to say that Mr. Bryan possessed the power, in a marked de gree, to influence the thought and arouse the conscience of the republic, ss no other man of his time, or if he meant that by his upright life, his consistent course, his appeals for right living and patriotic action, he has earn ed the confidence and personal affection of millions of his countrymen, and gained the respect and admiration ot all the people of the world who love liberty and humanity, then the distinguished gentleman was right, with respect to the one-man power of William jMnlngs Bryan. Mr. Bryan has exerted no other power. He has had no subordinates to command, no officeholders to direct, i think it may be safely said that there were no postmasters, nor other federal officeholders or employes in the Denver convention. Every delegate to that convention "carried his sover--1 etgnty under his own hat,” and, as an independent American freeman, owing I no allegiance save to country and flag, I cast his vote for Bryan because in his heart he believed that the nomination . and election of such a man were de- ■ manded by the best interests of the republic. The Republican nominee for vice I president In his recent speech of ac- | ceptance affected the belief that the ! question “Shall the People Rule?” implied a charge of venality against the American electorate. He affirmed, with great emphasis, that under recent Republican administration the people have ruled without let or hindrance. It is passing strange that in a republic like this there should be occasion for a discussion of this question. It is a government of the people and by the people. They presumably govern themselves through their ser- . vants whom they send to represent them in congress. Their will, when known, ought to be supreme, and should be given immediate effect. And if the will of the people, once known, is not given effect, then the people do not rule. Will any intelligent man claim that there is or has been any substantial diversity of opinion in this country on the question as to whether the tariff duty on wood pulp used in the manufacture of paper should be reduced or removed? In this case the tariff tax operated for the benefit of the paper trust alone, allowing that combine to levy millions of tribute each year upon the ne - spapers of the country and their readers. The press of the country, without regard to party, united tn demanding relief. The people of the republic unanimously seconded the demand, The president of the United States threw the influence of his great office in favor of the demand of the press and the people. But all without avail. The dominant forces within the Republican party had established in ' the lower house of congress a parliamentary condition, in the interest, of 1 monopoly, under which the sole power to determine whether a measure i should be allowed to become a law or not was lodged in the speaker of that body and his committee on rules, and by the flat of that one man, the will of I the press, the people and the president was set at naught. Behold the spec- | taele! On one side eighty millions of free people demanding legislation to right an admitted wrong. On the other side, a few men engaged in public plunder, aided by the dominating power within the Republican party, represented by the presiding officer of the once popular branch of congress! And the plunderers and these unfaithful public servants prevail over the people of this great republic. In this instance did the people rule? On February 4. 1»M, Congressman Bsbcoek of Wisconsin, then chairman of ibe Republican congreesional com(ConUnutd on p««e 3.)