Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 208.

MANY FROM HERE Left this Morning to Attend the National Encampment of G. A. R. SAM HENRY POST Will Be Well Represented —A Unique Sign Has Been Constructed The national encampment of the G. A. R. ensued today with prospects of eclipsing by far all former similar events. Toledo ha s been selected as the meeting place for the large delegations from the various states in the Union. With a great program prepared, the initial day of the session is nearing its close, revealing most encouraging indications for an unusually successful meet. Sam Henry post of Decatur will be much in evidence at the big meet as a consequence of the following from this vicinity leaving for the Ohio city: Daniel Shackley EJacob Railing, S. B. Fordyce. George B. Kline. F. F. Freeh, M. Grandstaff, - John E. Smith, William Wetter, James | Edge and several others. This delegation left on the 8:30 car for Fort Wayne, from where they were conveyed to Toledo via the Wabash railroad. John Oswald. John Williams and other veterans will go tomorrow and thus be present to witness the big parade which is scheduled for .Many thousands of people had reached Toledo today and established headquarters for the week. I the Indiana delegation having arrangsfc, ed to stay at a downtown hotel. A fe feature which attracted the undivided of the veterans today was a Margo sign which had been arranged •on Summit street by a wholesale and HTetail house which is indeed unique Hn its construction. The sign which ,1s fifteen feet high and twenty-five ;feet in length is made of real fruit and vegetables. The words “Welcome G A. R. made of real red apples, is artistically arranged, the border is constructed of roasting ears, background mangolds, and the whole is trimmed by the use of pumpkins. The various committees were busy today in caring for the incoing visitors, and the encampment proper begins tomorrow. i‘- o BACK FROM BRUSH Edward Coffee Does Not Take Kindly to Jungles of Texas RETURNED TODAY Clifford Bales is Considered the Find of the Season by Gardner Edward Coffee, who several days ago went to Dallas, Texas, to join the league base ball club of that place, returned this morning minus several pounds of weight, on account of the weather in the south not agreeing with him. Coffee played in three games while gone and made good in each. He did sensational fielding and acquitted himself creditably w/.b the willow. In fact he was pronounced a promising young player when he found it necessary to return to northern regions responsive to his declining health. However, there are but six games yet to be played by the Texas teams. Clifford Bales, who also donned a Dallas uniform at the time Coffee did is more than making good. J. W. Gardner considers him the best find of the season in that he is pitching wonderful ball and plays his position well. The fans have become so attached to him that they rely upon hit services to aid mater ially in landing the flag. Bales has pitched one ' two-hit game and a no-hit game since being there, and has not been credited with a defeat That is going some.

A FEW ITEMS FROM GENEVA Dr. Graham to Have New Office—Mrs. Fristoe Home. Geneva. August 31. Mrs. A. H. Fristoe returned Saturday from Winona, after a two months’ sojourn in that literary and social center. Mrs. Reid, of Chicago, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Holloway, has been visiting during the week with her parents in Geneva. She is accompanied by her son and daughter. Dr. Graham has commenced the erection of an office in connection with his residence and adjoining the carriage factory and smithing shop of M. E. Hutton. The building is frame with brick veneer, and will add materially to the appearance of business part of town. Dr. C. U. Wade, district superintendent. preached in the Methodist church Sunday night. ARE FIGURING UP Fair Association Officials Are in Session Here Today RECEIPTS ARE SMALL Some Complaint Heard in Other Counties this Season The directors and board of managers of the Great Northern fair association ate in session today, checking up the “pay-ins" and "pay-outs" and settling the stack of bills which always accumulate at this season of the business. The attendance at this year’s fair was not so large as the association had a right to expect, but every premium and every obligation will be promptly met, whether the balance is on the right or wrong side of the ledger, which fact cannot be ascertained to a certainty for several days, perhaps two or three weeks, as all the bills have to be collected. This year’s fair was one of the most creditable ever given in this section and was thoroughly appreciated by everyone who took in the big show. Those of you who think that its an easy job to conduct a fair the size of the one given here should interview Secretary Butler or any of the managing board, each of whom has used up enough nervous energly to conduct any ordinary business a year or so. COTTON A GOOD HACK DRIVER Led All Competitors in the Holthouse Contest. Frank Cotton was brought to jail today by Deputy Sheriff Pierce from the Decatur bastite, and once more reposes behind the iron bars. He showed no signs of excitement on being pulled but remarked as he was coming over that he hoped Mother Lipkey would have beans for dinner. Lodis Holthouse & Co., the livery men, stormed the Decatur jail yesterday threatening habeas corpus proceedings. but they finally desisted when they found the nature of the Indictment. They had promised Frank a banquet if he would take in S3OO on the hack during the fair and when Sheriff Myers pulled him off he had $322.70 to his credit. As a reward he was to have been banqueted at the Murray tonight with the balance of the force. The cruel law stepped in just as he had broken a record. He would have reached S4OO easily with the Friday business, and Holthouse ■ claims that when he is sober he is , the best man ever in their employ.— . Bluffton Banner. — o BABE DIED YESTERDAY. • Three Months' Old Child of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Moyer Dead. Yesterday morning the three months’ and 28 days’ old babe of Mr. and Mrs. ■ Andrew Mpyer after enduring the • ravages of indigestion and other ail- - talents so peculiar to infants, for some > time. The .babe wffiose name was i Delbert, has suffered much pain, death - serving as its only comforter. The j funeral services will be held from the s home tomorrow afternoon, Rev. L. A. 1 Stangel officiating, interment to be made at Maplewood cemetery.

SEVERAL SPEECHES Concluded the Program at the Senatorial Convention HELD LAST SATURDAY Attorney Jesse Sutton Proved His Ability as Campaign Orator The republican senatorial convention held here Saturday, closed at five o’clock and the ort Wayne delegation left at once on the specials for home. Judge Vesey’s speech was as predicted a plea for votes on the ground of the local option plank. The resolutions as presented by the committee W. . Lower, P. L. Andrews and C. L. Walters of this city and S. A. Wood. I. N. Taylor, W. E. Doud and A. R. Walters, of Fort Wayne, was along the same line. In a half hours’ speech Jesse Sutton one cf the able young attorneys of this city, seconded Judge Vesey’s nomination and proved himself master of the opportunity. He arraigned the democratic party on the temperance question, paid high tribute to Lincoln and Rosevelt and concluding gave praise to Judge Vesey whom he said had all the qualities for a place of power and trust such as serving the people in the Indiana senate. Mr. Sutton's address was one of the features of the afternoon and he was heartily applauded. The afernoon’s program closed with a short speech by Attorney General James D. Bingham in which he fairly outdid any prohibition orator heard here in years. DECATUR PARTY AT CHICAGO Saw Chicago Cubs Defeat Fast New York Giants. A number of Decatur people, including Messrs. W. A. Lower, L. A. Graham, Fred B. Tague, and several z others left early yesterday morning for Chicago via the Chicago and Erie railroad to witness the big ball game played between the Chicago and New York national league clubs. Chicago won the game by the close score of two to one and the Decatur fans witnessed a brilliant exhibition of the national sport. The Decatur party will return some time tonight. Reduced rates of $2.00 was charged for the round trip. ANOTHERGUESS Rev. Irl R. Hicks Gives Three Regular Storm Periods FOR SEPTEMBER First Fall Month and Its Mixture of Storms and Sunshine Rev. Irl R. Hicks is out in his long range guess on September weather. His schedule for the coming month does not contain much rain only at the autumnal equinoctial period, however, he forsees the probabilities of frosts about the 15th. The forecast in substance is given below: A reactionary storm period Is in progress as we pass from August into September. Reactionary or antistorm periods may occur on and touching the 2nd and 3rd with unsettled weather owing to the approaching of the autumnal equinox. The first regular storm period is booked to be due from the 4th to the Bth, central on the 6th attended by gome decided storms. During Sunday, the 6th and Tuesday the Bth and possibly over the 9th and 10th there will be decided storms in most parts of the country with cold, stubborn cloudiness and rain for many days, progressing from southward to northward. On the 10th, 11th and 12th will occur another reactionary storm attended by much cooler weather.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday Evening, August 31, 1908.

breaking up about the loth with frost in many localities. The second regular storm period extends from the 15th to 19th. The character of these storms will be plainly Indicated many hours before they appear by reading any reliable barometer. As this storm period falls near the center of the autumnal equinoctial which falls on the 22nd general and violent rain storms may reasonably be expected at this time. This spell will be followed by a reactionary storm from the 22nd to 25th attended by electrical disturbances. The last regular storm period of the month begins on the 27th and extends over to October 2nd. As the month goes out low barometer and general storm conditions will be in transit from west to east. On and touching the 29th and 30th wide areas of cloudiness and rain will develop. bringing in a general spell of autumnal rain, wind and disagreeable weather. COURTHOUSENEWS Circuit Court, County Council and Commissoners Meet Next Week FOR BUSY SESSIONS Real Estate Transfers— Street Commissioner Making New List Amos W. Snyder, executor of the last will and testament of John Snyder has filed his final report. The sum of $4,682.23 was involved. The September term of the Adams circuit court will convene next Monday morning and everything is in readiness for a busy session. The commissioners will meet this week to select the petit jury. The board of county commissioners and the county council will also convene next Monday and the court house should be a busy place. Street Commissioner Stults was busy at the auditor’s office today, going over the city duplicates to secure a complete list of those eligible for poll tax In Decatur. If you haven’t paid or worked you might as well get ready for none will be missed when Jim gets through. Real estate transfers shown at the county recorders office today are: Jonathan Baumgartner to Francis M. Cottrell, south part of lot 165, Berne. SSO; Jonathan Baumgartner to Eve Lening, north part of lot 165 Berne SSO: Emily Stalter to George Wolf to Noah Stalter. 20 acres in Monroe township $1,200; Fired Wecther to Lena Hassman, lot 347 Berne. SI,OOO. o VERMONT ELECTION TOMORROW Will Be Watched With Interest by the Big Managers. New York, Aug. 30.—The outcome of the election Tuesday sh Vermont is awaited with keen interest at the headquarters of the republican and democratic national committees in this city. The showing made in this state in the matter of the number of voters who go to the polls and the gains or losses to either party in comparison with the vote of four years ago, will influence in no small degree the shaping of the campaign in all of the eastern states. It is conceded that the republican party will win, but if the purality is reduced by reason of republican apathy, then It will stir that party in the east to renewed energy in trying to arouse enthusias mand interest. Another test of sentiment will come with the Maine election on September 15. The speaking campaign has been going on for more than a week and great interest has been shown. The republicans do not expect to get as large a plurality as they did four years ago, but are struggling to secure from 12,000 io 15,000, which the state republican leaders term their nominal plurality. 0 The families of F. V. Mills and Mrs. Ida Simcoke will go to Maple Grove Park this evening and enjoy an outing. Mrs. Lesh, of Chicago, HL, has arrived in the city for a short visit here with friends.

DATES FOR BRYAN The Great Commoner Will Be in Indiana September 9th and 25th ONLY TWO DAYS Trip Will Require Three Weeks and He Covers Many States New York, August 31. —National Chairman Mack announced today the Itinerary of Wiliam J. Bryan through the middle west to the Atlantic seaboard. The dates are as follows: Peoria, 111,, September 9; Evansville, 'lnd., eptember 10; West Virginia, September 11; Cumberland, Md., September 12; Washington, D. C„ Sunday, September 13; Baltimore, Md., September 14; Wilmington, Del., September 15; Rochester. N. Y„ September 16; New York City, September 17; Providence, R. 1., September 19; NewYork City. Sunday, September 20; Buffalo. September 21; in Michigan, September 22; in Ohio, September 23 and 24; in Indiana 25; Madison and Milwaukee. Wls., September 26; Mitchell. S. D., September 28, and after September 29 he will remain three weeks at his home in Lincoln, Neb. The itinerary provides that Mr. Bryan will remain in Washington and New York on two Sundays on which days he will rest. Where Mr. Brayn will speak in West Virginia on September 11 and in Michigan on September 22 has not been determined. The dates in Ohio, announced in Chicago about a week ago, have undergone some changes since then, but it is , believed that the Obio speeches will be delivered in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Secretary Morrison, of the American I Federation of Labor, had an extended talk with the national chairman today on details concerning the plan of the coming labor campaign for Mr. Bryan. William J. Conners, the chairman of the Democratic state committee, was I at the state headquarters today and said he expected to be in the city the most of next week. Asked what he thought of the interview with Chairman Woodruff yester- ■ day, Mr. Conners said: “Looks as if they were trying to kill Hughes off. At least that is what I would mean if I gave out an interview like that.” - BEGIN IN EARNEST Six Carpenters Began this Morning to Remodel Bank Building FOUR WEEK’S TIME Will Be Consumed to Complete Their Work—A Great Improvement The headquarters of the national bank have been removed to the Brock ' building where the business will be conducted until the interior of the old stand is completely overhauled from top to bottom, the same being done at the present time. The work ’ on the big improvement began in ear- ' nest this morning, six carpenters employed by Mann and Christen having ' begun arduous work In an effort to complete same in the shortest possible time. The tile to be used in constructing the floor has arrived and the wainscoating will also be constructed of this material. Today the floor of the bank was torn out in preparation for the tile layers, who are expected this week. The First National bank building will undoubtedly be as attractive as any found in this section of the state when com- ' pleted. From ceiling to floor the interior wiii be beautified and when this portion of the work is completed, up to date furniture will be installed, which will complete the beauty of same. The carpenters expect to com- ' plete their labors within four weeks, and it is improbable that the bank- • ing Ttistitution will enter its newly i furnished home ere the approach of. October first. I

MOSER HAS AN ATTORNEY is in Jail and Has Made no Statement. Adam Moser, the Adams county man arrested Friday on a charge of rape i n connection with the affair in which fourteen-year-old Elsie Martin wag enticed from the Levi Wulliman home, will not be given a perliminary hearing in Squire Rinehart’s court before Monday and has been given no opportunity to furnish bond. The warrant charging him with the heinous crime was read to him this afternoon and he only dropped his head without a word of comment, but he came to a realization of the gravity of the situation and sent for Attorney F. C. Dailey. The accused man has not yet been confronteu with the girl and she probably will be brought in Monday to complete the identification. Conviction will mean the imprisonment of Moser for two to fourteen years.—-Bluffton News. WILL RAISE LEVY School Board Will Meet Tonight to Raise Tax Levies on School Funds FIFTEEN PER CENT Raise Will Be Made on Special School Fund Levy— Five on Tuition A most interesting meeting of the city school board is scheduled for this evening during which the levies on special school fund and special tuition ! fund will be raised, while the levy on the building fund will be decreased. The special tuition fund levy for the past year was forty cents, but Inas much as this fund is all but exhausted, the board expect to raise same to forty-five cents at their tonight’s meeting. The most noticeable of the changes to be made by the | board, however, is the special school fund which will be increased from thirty-two cents to forty-seven cents. The changes in the levy has become necessary for the reason that in response to an order from the state board, costly improvements have been made in the various buildings. The special school fund is to be Increased sufficiently to create a fund adequate to defray the already accrued expenses and also pay for the installation of sanitary closets which ust be placed in the central building next summer. The fact that the teachers, according to law will receive higher salaries this year than ever before calls for the five per cent raise in the tuition fund. The building fund will be decreased one per cent. The law, governing levies is considerably different this year than previously. While the board heretofore was repquired to submit the levies to the city council, the new law eliminates this feature and they simply file same with the county auditor. The board will allow a few bills at their meeting tonight and this, together with the above stated, will constitute the routine. Messrs. M. J. Wertzberger, John R. Porter, D. M. Hoagland and Joseph Helm, who were selected to the janitorships of the four wards, began their duties today and during the week they will be busy renovating the various rooms, preparatory to the opening of the 1908 school term which will occur next Monday. Never before have the prevailing conditions been more favorable for a successful term of school than is the case for the term to begin next Monday and every patron of the public institutions should lend his assistance for the advancement of same. SHAMROCKS THE CHAMPIONS Take the Second Straight Game from the Southsiders. The Shamrocks and South Side ball teams again engaged in a desperate battle for local supremacy at Steele’s Park yesterday, the former turning the trick like that of last Sunday. The Shamrocks took the count of the South Sides by the score of five to four in a well played game. These two teams when mixed up together put up a strong battle and that of yesterday's was a proof thereof. This makes two straight for the Shamrocks and in all probability they can be termed the (local champions. I

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IN A BAGGAGE CAR The Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, J. W. Kern and Party Travel New Way A SPEECH WAS ON At Winimac and as a Last Resort They Boarded Baggage Car—the Campaign Thomas R. Marshall and wife, John W. Kern, John Isenbarger and Judge Lairy made the trip from Remington to Logansport Friday evening in a baggage car. Marshall was billed for a speech at Winimac Satruday with no way to get there, so permission was obtained from the railroad company for the party to ride in the baggage car of a special train that had been run from Logansport. The party climbed into the car like trainjumpers and made the trip in good shape. Mr. Marshall has now been absent for three weeks and is delivering speeches every day.—Columbia City Post. Rather than to disappoint an audience, Mr. Marshall would have walked the distance, for he is well termed the tried and true statesman. There is no one who is fair, but what considers the (gubernatorial honors to the honorable Thomas R. Marshall. He is making a clean, vigorous campaign and is greeted by vast audiences wherever he is scheduled for an address. In and about Decatur, Mr. Marshal has a host of admirers, both republican and democratic, who will work tooth and toe nail for his election to the highest office afforded by the state, doing so with a knowledge that he W »1 thoughtfully observe the confidence reposed in him and give us an honest administration for the next four years. o MRS. MOSER BROUGHT HOME J. E. Moser went to Fort Wayne Sunday morning and accompanied his wife home, arriving on the two o'clock car. Mrs. Moser, who was operated on about three weeks ago has recovered rapidly and it is believed will now enjoy good health. She is quite weak yet, of course, but should soon be entitrely recovered from her illness. o MUST BE SANITARY Seretary of State Board of Health Issues Warnings to School Trustees ANET CONDITION Os the School Houses—A Violation of Law Calls for SIOO Fine Now that the time to convene the public schols is near at hand, the state board of health are taring occasion to warn the school trustees that the buildings must be in good condition, sanitary and otherwise. Dr Hurty, the secretary of the state board of health is sending out the warnings, which call attention to the fact that the rules of the board demanding cleanliness and ventilation have all the force and effect of law and the penalty for violation is a fine of not to exceed SIOO. The circular letter says: “The children are entitled to every condition of good health and to every condition necessary to their progress and it is acutally a sin not to give them such surroundings. Bad food, insufficient clothing, foul air in unventilated bedrooms, insufficiently lighted and unevenly warmed school rooms, and ‘desks which do not fit the children are al! handicaps to progress and health.” o — Among the guests at the Park Hotel Sunday were Rev. L. A. Stangle and family, D. R- Vail and wife. F. M. Schirmeyer and wife, Mrs. N. M. Schrock, W. P. Schrock, Mrs. Ben Schrock.