Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1910 — Page 2

ii he Daily Democrat. Ptbllihed Every Evening, Except Sunday, by DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY. LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier 15'00 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail |2.i»o Single Copies 2 cents advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. It is a little hard for one man to be punished for the sins of his associates; but the prostration of Congressman Barnhart points a moral for the delinquency ot congress. Had that body acted with decent promptitude and a sole regard for the public good, it could have finished all its work a month ago, and been out of Washington before the heat came on. The eternal dilly-dallying and senseless procrastination of duty which have characterized its sessions, deserve both ensure and punishment—only, it would have been more equitable to have had the penalty inflicted on Illi nois, New York or Rhode Island than upon comparatively innocent Indiana. - South Bend Times, Though Governor Harmon preferred it otherwise, the democratic state convention of Ohio endorsed him for the presidency in 1912. The plank to that effect read as follows: “We invite the attention of the

How About Your Hose? We’re selling Holeprof Hose, guaranteed to wear • , 6 months. 6 ps. to a Bx. $1.50 Bx. —- COLORS —- Blk-Pearl-N. Blue--Lavender--Red The Myers-Dailey Co - 11^——— w/ynt speedS Breed to Speed I Judge Askin 2:11J4 I holds a world’s record. Has been a mile in 2:07, 1 half mile track. Fastest stallion ever owned in ■ Adams county. $20.00 the season. B AMERICAN COASTER I A show horse, fast, a son of Coastman 2:08% S ■ dam, Chestnut Beauty by American Boy 2:26, g B his 7th dam in the American trotting registry. f JOHN A. McCARRIAN, Jr. I g Standard. By John A. McCarrian 2:04 1-4 dam ■ 1 by Wayword, a nice big horse, ■ The three named will be in training and allow- g g ed to serve a few 7 mares only. Will have the fast- £ f est yearling you ever saw at the track by Judge ■ B Askins. Come and see them step at the Steele B ■ Driving park, Decatur, after July 11. Before fi J July 11 at Geneva, Ind. F. M. SULLIVAN, ■ MANAGER AND OWNER J

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nation to Judson Harmon and the work he is doing In Ohio. Two years hence this will have been completed, | then we can spare him for larger duties. He believes that guilt is personal —is acting on the belief at home and would act upon it In larger fields. A high sense of duty provides his only motive for official actions and bis sense of justice alone compels judgment. Firmness and strength mark him the man to supplant vacillation and weakness. The nation needs a real man and Ohio democracy here presents and endorses for the presidency in 1912 Judson Harmon. Martin Smith, wr.o is working at Marion, will spend Sunday in the city with his mother, Mrs. Mary With. Dr. D. D. Clark, who has been at Chicago, attending a several days’ session of medical instructions, returned .to the city last night. Beginning with tomorrow the services held at St. Mary’s church on Sunday, will be a half-hour earlier in the morning and the afternoon • service will be held in the evening. The masses during the week days will also he a half-hour earlier during the summer season. The Misses Reba Quinn and Naomi Dugan will be members of the house party given by Miss Margaret Todd at her home at Bluffton from Tuesday to Friday of next week and will attend the various social functions given by the Phi Delta Kappas during their national convention. Mrs. Mary Crawford, Mrs. W. A Kuebler and Mrs. E. X. Ehinger and daughter, Edna, will leave this even- ' ing for Cincinnati, byway of Fort Wayne, where they will spend Sunday as the guests of Mrs. Crawford's and Mrs. Ehinger's sons, who are studying there in preparation for the priesthood.

SOCIETY DOINGS I Methodist Ladies Hold “Experience Social" of Dollars Earned. A SOCIAL TONIGHT By Baptist Ladies —Mrs. Henry Stevens Hostess —Other Socials. The gold-eyed wine-cups fine; The frail blueball peereth over Rare broidery of the purple clover. —Tennyson. Miss Marie McMullen entertained at her home on West De\\ aid street the young ladies of the graduating class of St. Catherine's academy of, which she is a member, at a reception ' last evening. The house was very pretty with its decorations of class colors, maroon and white, with many i garden flowers. The porch was deco | orated with large bowls of field daisies and Japanese lanterns. There was music on a new Baby Grand piano, which was received by Miss McMul-j len in honor of her graduation. A fine time was enjoyed by the guests, who were Misses Helen Gruber, Irene Len non, Theresa Danehy, Grace Daley. Erin Laughlin, who are the classmates of Miss Marie. Other friends present were Misses Elizabeth Glib, Marie Miller, Irma Gruber, Irene Fox, Marie Aurentz. Adella Ehrman, Winifred Daley, Camilla Rohyans and John Hagan, Hugh Hart, Lynn Garman, Roy Williamson, Albert Racht. Arthur Mills. Frank Goetz. Earl Laughlin. Roy Goetz and Miss Agnes Costello of Decatur.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. About forty-five were in attendance at the social given by the June section of the Mite society of the Methodist church Friday afternoon in the church parlors. This was the ingthering of the dollars earned by the individual members of the society, and the sums collected by each chair man from the members pf the sections totaled $lO7. The "experience meeting” in which each told how she earned her dollar was an interesting feature, and there were various methods whereby milady secured her dollar by labor of her own hands. Some sold eggs, some sold chickens, baked bread, gems, cake, shaved their husbands, put up the screen doors and stained them—and a hundred and seven different things. The Christian ladies to the number of twenty-six with Mesdames D. V. Steele and David Stoler as guests, were entertained Friday afternoon byMrs. Henry Stevens. Among the business matters given attention was the i division of the society into three sec I tions, and committees appointed for I each to arrange for work. The chair | men of the various committees are Mesdames A. D. Artman, P. G. Williams and E. H. Shoemaker. Plans were considered, but not determined, for the giving of a dinner the day of the circus—August Bth. A delicious luncheon in two courses was served. The hostess was assisted in serving by the Misses Eola Gentis and Ada Stevens. The graduation of Miss Perle Burdg from the kindergarten and primary teacners' training school at Indianapolis occurred Thursday. Miss Perle will be at home about July sth for her summer vacation. Arthur Kleinhenz and Herbert Fullenkamp went to Fort Wayne last evening to attend a party given by Miss Margaret Miller. The members of the reception and decorating committees of the German Reformed church for the jubilee tomorrow met at the church Friday evening and completed final plans. The various committees will meet the Berne and Fort Wayne and other delegations at the trains tomorrow, while others will be at the church to greet those who arrive there, and arrange for their entertaining during the day. The committees also began the decoration of the church, which will be made beautiful with potted and cut

| p’ants and flowers, and the colors of the church. The day wll be one of . great spiritual uplift and rejoicing, | Mrs. A. I). Suttles and children, j Mary and Josephine, and Arthur Dan- ! iel went to Fort Wayne this morning ' where they will be guests over SunI day at the W. J. Vesey home. They ‘ will be- joined this evening by Mr. I Suttles. Mrs. Henry Martz of Pleasant Mills ! entertained a company of friends I trom this city at a chicken dinner ' and supper Friday. The guests were ; Mesdames D. B. Erwin, O. L. Nance, I C, D. Lewton and F. A. Peoples. Miss Agnes Glllig of south of th< | city entertained Friday evening for Miss Agnes Costello and her friend, John Dalton, of Huntington. — The Baptist ladles invite tile public to attend the ice cream social to be given by them this evening on the lawn of the John Daugherty home on Third street, across from the Pythian Home. A MAD SCRAMBLE Bargain Seeking Women Crowd the Opening of Baughman Store. AT GRANITE SALE Lost Hatpins. Rats, Belts and Some Nearly Fainted—Great Crowd. Not since the days of the old-fash-ioned circus, with the people crowding around twenty feet deep along the curb, to get a glimpse ot the parade as it passed, has there been such a thronging, maddening mob as that which crowded about the Baughman store this morning at 9 o'clock, tor the opening granite sale. At 7 o'clock it is said, women put in their appearance there, standing close to the door in order to be the first one in the rush. The crowd kept increasing with tne ever-bargain-hunting women in the lead of course, though there were a few men, and a great many children sent out by mothers, who deemed it best to stay at home and attend to the Saturday pie baking in the cool o' the morning. Promptly as the old court house clock chimed forth its notes of nine the door opened and the crowd pressed forward, the older ones trampling on the children and dragging others, however, unwilling, into the store. There was not enough room inside and the surging crowd extended to the curb without, while across the street hundreds viewed the mad scene from afar. Geo. Morris of Bluffton had charge ot the sales and he was stationed at the entrance to the display window, from which the pieces were taken and handed out. The first one who grabbed got the piece and the scramble was something terrible. A dozen hands were extended for each piece, and then ensued such a tearing, push ing, jamming, screaming, quarreling. th<t would out-scramble the efforts of a dozen chickens after one fat worm. Women lost barettes, rats, belts and hairpins in the fracas, one woman's hhlr came down and fell about her shoulders; some had their hats mashed by the boilers and pans, which were thrown out, falling on the heads of the crowd, and one woman, it is said, fainted and was taken home in a cab, though this report could not be verified. Children were trampled upon and their screams could be heard away down from underfoot in the stifling heat. One lady, Mrs. R. A. Davis, of Eleventh street, who was in the throng, afterward missed her purse, which contained $3.25. The money was in a little yellow purse, carried in a larger one. The larger one was pressed open in the jam and it is thought the other dropped out. When the pieces were gone, many or the women emerged, triumphant, bu'. sorry looking specimens, some with fine large .dishpans, tea kettles, stewkettles, boilers, etc., of granite, though all did not get the exact article they wished. The Baughman store surely-

had a successful day for the opening I in their new building, which is one of the finest in the city or in any part of the state for that matter in the way of beauty and convenience. Assisting on the clerical force besides the proprietors. Mr. and Mrs. Baughman, were George Morris of Bluffton, the Misses Grace Purdy, Mamie Harting, Genevieve Bremerkamp, Deasie Mann, Margaret Gallogly, Velma Porter, Mrs. Wertzberger, Leater Baughman and Carl Fisher. The dish sale this afternoon crew an equally large crowd, as will the handkerchief sale this evening. o — MANY GOING TO CIRCUS. The Barnum and Bailey Greatest Shows on Earth Is the powerful magnet that will draw thousands of people from this vicinity on July 13th to Fort Wayne. The railroads will make a special low, rate and excursions will be run. A glance at the list of attractions offered by this circus discloses many wonders. Jupiter, “the Balloon Horse,” takes a trip to the dome of the tent and conies back to earth amid a shower of fire works. Desper ado. a rash Frenchman, dives from tht top of the arena to the ground, alighting oh his bare chest. Charlie the First, a chimpanzee, presents a greater bicycle and acrobatic act than an' man ever achieved. A company ol fifty clowns creates incessant laugh ter. A member of the Segrist-Sllbon iamily of aerialists. blindfolds hl# eyes and leaps across the entire width of the arena, turns a double somersault on the way and catches the wrists of a comrade who hangs , head down from a flying swing. The Abreu family of Mexican gymnasts introduce a great novelty act. Berzac’s horses present an amusing play, the scene of which is laid in a country inn. One horse plays landlord and another in the town is constable. The other horses make very amusing boarders. Paula Peter's monkey and dog circus holds the attention of the audience for half an hour. A mastiff villain sets fire to the hero's cottage. ' The dog fire department responds The captain climbs a ladder and rescues Mr. Poodle and an ape detective puts the villain in a cell. Other notables are the Konyot family of riders, the LaFaille family of world's strongest men. Winston’s equestrian seals, the Dollar family of acrobats, and Victoria Codona. the greatest high-wire , artist in the world. L In the menagerie are to be found ■ 1,200 rare wild animals. Among them - is Bumbeon, the only giraffe ever • born or exhibited in America. It is ■ but three feet high and is worth its i weight in gold. There are forty elepants. 700 horses and 1.280 employees. I The show travels on a train over a . mile in length. The forenoon parade is the most gorgeous affair ever offered by a circus. It cost $1,000,000.

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