Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 212.

FIVE HOUR RAIN CHECKS CROWD

Attendance for Big Day of the Great Northern Indiana Fair is Reduced One Half by Heavy Showers THOUSANDS COME ANYWAY

THE FAIR IS GREAT Yesterday’s. Races Exciting —Wednesday a Rcord Breaker For Crowd. VISIT TO ART HALL Various Business Houses Are Represented—The Displays Unique. 11 ■ * J M - A gentle, steady rain (beautiful as ever wee suppose, but why couldn’t it have come on any other day this summer?), started this morning about daylight and never stopped until 8 o’clock, causing much uneasiness to the management of the Great Northern fair. It left the grounds, wet and soggy, and no doubt cut the crowd ■more than half in two for today. Every effort is being made to get the track in shape and if the showers do not con’inue it is probable that the race program will be carried out as advertised. It was with gladness that the many interested saw the sun peep from behind the clouds at 9 o'clock. , The Berne band arrived on the G. R. & 1., which was fifty minutes late, and the town was well filled with people. It is likely that the rains today will make Friday a big day also. The fair is one of the best ever given here and deserves patronage. Wednesday was a busy one for the judges of the stock and they completed the work late in the evening. The stock show was one of the best ever seen in this section and those who witnessed the big parade at noon Wednesday say it has never been excelled. While the complete list of winners could not be obtained we learned that the Adams county stock men kept up the standard here, Smith & Ulman winning everything in the Hereford class, Tom Baltzell securing his share in sheep and .1. D. Nidlinger there with the goods in the Duroc hog line. There were many other home winners in these lines and ’he horse show. Today will occur the awarding of grand sweepstakes in she various departments, always of great interest and the time when al! classes seek the ribbons. Mr. Carlo of Aan Wert t who judged the cattle, said that he had never seen so good a showing but once and that was here some four or five years ago. !!• spoke in high terms of the cattle exhibited here and ( said it certainly spoke well for the locality. One of the best features ever offered the fair-going public here is ( that this year as furnished by the Hoagland Brothers. They gave three big acts Wednesday between heats and each was a real feature. These include a standing race, in which two men, mounted on fast running horses, made the ha’f mile in fast time. The next was a half-mile Roman chariot race, in which two chariots drawn by four bourses dashed at break neck speed around the track, the heat resulting in a great finish, almost a dead heat. The last was that of a riderless horse outrunning h runner on which rode a jockey, and this was a most exciting race. The race program included four fast faces. A. P. Beatty acted as starting judge and did his work like a veteran, there being but little of the always Prevailing “kicking.” The judges were A. R. Bell, D. E. Smith and Dr.

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J. W. Zizard, with Dr. D. D. Clark and J. A. Hendricks as timekeepers. The firs: race was the Gentlemen's Buggy Road Race, one-half mile, three in five for a purse of SSO. It was one in straight heats by Dan, a bay horse owned by Willis McQueen of this city. The result was as follows: Dan 11 11 Bonnie 2 2 6 2 Dolly R 8 3 2 3 Midget 4 4 3 4 Barney Oldfield 5 6 5 5 Babe 6 5 4 6 Best time, 1:25%. The second race was the 2:30 Trot, one mile, three in five, for a purse of |250. and was won in straight heats by The Sport, owned by B. F. Smith, of Hillsdale, Mich. The results were: The Sport .’1 11 1 Maud V 2 2 2 2 Harry Axtell 3 3 3 3 Best time, 2:24%. The Geneva Stake race, mixed, three in five, for SSOO, resulted in a rather poor exhibition. Five horses started, but three of the drivers apparently became dissatisfied and quit after the half, leaving but two to finish, the card showing: Reward 11 1 Judge Askins 2 2 2 Best time, 2:50. The running race was as pretty one as was ever witnessed on the local track. J. S. Pteerson did the starting and his work was most efficient, he getting them away nicely. The four starters were bunched all i the way n und and the first heat was so close that the judges had difficulty In awarding the money. The finish was: Lady Rathmorel 11 St. Juveline 2 2 2 Mary Johnson 2 3 3 Beauford * 4 4 Best time for the five-eighths mile, 1:06. The Art Hall. The art hall, as usual, attracts the attention of the many, not only because it is the center of the grounds and all walks lead thereto, but because of the beauty and variety of the exhibits—and in this case as in every other, "variety is the spice of life.” All the avenues of the building lead to the horticultural exhibit in the center, where a myriad of plants, beautiful in their foliage or flowers, form a mound or spire that stretches like “Jacob's ladder” toward the sky-light dome in the roof. Here plants from the tropical palm and lemon tree to the cactus of the arid plain, and the flowering geranium, brilliant coleus, astors of many colors, and a thousand and ene that could only be identified from a posy, catalogue flourish in profusion. The judges had not begun work in this department Wednesday. The needlework and art department Is unusually good, and over these the ' ladies linger the longest. Drawn work, embroidery and all the other artistic forms of needlework in its infinite variety, is there exemplified in snowy table linen, doilies, centerpieces, lingerie, shirt waists, suits, baby dresses and a thousand and one articles in which milady sets dainty stitches. One must not forget to mention the pillows and cushions which fairly bans one side of the section and bloom “like a flower garden,” and which must tax the judging powers of those in charge to the ut most. Mr. Broadbeck is superintendent of the art department, with Mrs. C. D. Kunkel, assistant. Miss Fanny McConnell was also assistant Wednesday. Miss - Lettie Kintz had been asked to serve as judge of the needlework, but on . account of other work she was obliged • to refuse, and Miss Katherine B. Er- ■ sig of Fort Wayne is serving in this i capacity. Work began Wednesday on i the judging, but will not be finished . until today.

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A piece in the crochet line that attracted much attention, showed the outline of a deer with a beautiful border pattern. As usual the line of quilts are growing rarer every day, and it will not be long until these relics of days gone by will be worth their weight in gold. Among those on display was one of Intricate pattern, made a half century ago. Knit shawls in many designs and colors also appeal to the lovers of this work. The display of curios of Mrs. B. W. Sholty, who is a connoisseur in this line, was a handsome addition to this hall. In this are pieces of Indian pottery end other curios from Arizona and other western states, curios from the Philippine Islands, Honolulu, an old charcoal furnace, the way of heating many years ago. a basket, sev-enty-five years old, and many relics of the early days of this state, each with an interesting history. Mrs. Sholty also has an interesting collection of china. Some two or more years ago she began collecting souvenir plates, one from each state in the union, bearing some view representative of the state. She has persiste in her esire, until she now has thirty-two. plates from as many states, and experts to soon complete her collection. As soon as finished. Mrs. Sholty expects to give a dinner, inviting those who have aided her in the collection. These plates are on exhibit in the fair, reposing in a fine china cabinet in the Gay, Zwick & Meyers booth. The juvenile art exhibit contains cut paper, crayon, pen and ink and water color sketches, worthy the effort of many an older one. and while the painting exhibit is not so large as that of other years, it is quite admirable. A charcoal sketch, representing a sleeping child, made by Jesse Christen. attracts much favorable comment. One little girl of forty years ago, has kept her playthings in better condition than the average tot of today, for a little table, set with well preserved dishes, a doll chair, all some forty years of age, presided over by a doll-lady of the same number of (Continued on page 2 ) WILL SHOW HERE The Singer Company, With Which True Fristoe Travels Will be Her.e. ON NOVEMBER 14TH Giving Him Opportunity to Visit Decatur Friends For Two Days. True Fristoe, the talented young musician, who is serving as pianist with one of the big Singer companies out of New York, has written friends here that he has just learned from the management that his company wil play at the Bosse opera house In this city on the evening of November 14th. They will show at Delphos on the Saturday evening previous and this will give True the opportunity of visiting friends here over Sunday and Monday. He is with the north company, which is on a tour to the coast and will travel over many states. He is doing nicely and likes the work and the experience gained in traveling. His company is one of the best ones for towns of from 5,000 to 2;>,000 and it is safe to say that the theater hero will be crowded when they appear in Decatur. o— —— A PICNIC BY ST. JOHN'S CHURCH. Their Annual Picnic Will Be Held Next Sunday at Their Grove. The members of the St. Johns Lu- > theran church are looking forward to ■ next Sunday at which time they will i hold their annual picnic, the same taki Ing place in the grove at their church. > The program for the afternoon ini eludes some very fine orchestra music I from the Fort Wayne musicians, and -a delightful time is expected by those i who go. The church, through its pasi tor ,extends an invitation to the genl eral public to come and enjoy the day with them.

NEW AUCTIONEER IN FIELD. O. C. France Enter* the Business and ! Asks For a Share of Patronage. O. C. France, a well known young man who has lived in this community all his life, and who has for three ' years past been studying to become s an auctioneer, has started into busl- - ness for himself. He Is opening an off flee in this city, his 'phone number , being 411, and he will appreciate any • business that may come his way. His r card will appear in the Daily Demo- - crat during the next three months , and you should see him before bookt ing. He is a clean cut young fellow • with a future. He expects to complete his studies next year by taking . up several languages. t o— ■■ -- : HE SOLD COFFEE 1 ■ , r Smooth Grafter Stung the r Fair Ground Boys in Neat Fashion. ! WAS A DIRTY SHAME 1 Charged Them Seventy-Five > Cents For a Half Pint of Just Coffee. A story so good that it had to leak ‘ out is being told by one of the victims, who is conducting a stand at the fair grounds this week, and as it was one of the smoothest ones we have heard of for some time, believe it should be : given to the public. While the boys were setting up for business a day or two ago, a smooth looking individual : came up and set bis big double-decked • suit case down. In an argument which followed he had cause to open . his grip and the gang all caught sight of row after row of bottles, labeled , “Green River,” “Kentucky Bourbon," ■ etc. One of them intimated that he carried quite a stock and asked the chances for the saving of a life. The stranger with a wise wink said, “Just a litle coffee, boys.” One offered to buy and he replied that as soon as he was located in a quiet place where he could do business in merchant like manner he would accommodate them. The news spread as only such news can on a fair ground where are quartered several hundred men and boys, and when that evening, Mr. Slicker had his stand ready for business he had a rush standing in front of his tent that looked as though he had advertised a bargain sale. At the proper moment he informed them that since he was taking long chances that he wanted them to aid him by not opening the bottles until safely behind the walls of their own tent. He then opened up, saying, “Come on. boys, just a little coffee, like your mother used to make,” and he handed out case after case of half-pint bottles at a simple little charge of seventyfive cents. The boys took the botI ties and hurried away to their berths where they prepared to wet their 1 parched whistles. You can Imagine 1 how they felt when they got the bot--1 ties open and tasted the stuff and ' found it was really just as represented —plain coffee, and they had paid ' six bits lor a half pint. Th® grafter 1 didn’t remain for today's crowd. I o DEATH OF TWIN BABE. I ’ Os Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown of Fourteenth Street. » - : Harley Clarence, one of the little • twin babes born August Bth to Mr. ’ and Mrs. Charles Brown of South I Fourteenth street, died Wednesday » afternoon at 3 o’clock from a complica--1 tion of whooping cough and other ail ments. Had the babe lived until today ,lt would have ben just one month ■ of age. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock from 1 the home and the body will be laid to rest in the Decatur cemetery. The babe had done exceedingly well - until it took whooping cough, which > caused its death, and the other twin 1 babe and two older children also have - the disease. The babe leaves to . mourn its early departure, father, - mother, one brother and two sisters. , ,— — 1 Charles Meyers of Poe was in the a city today to attend the fair and also i- pay a visit with Lon Wagner. “Schucks” Shoemaker, who has f been at Fort Wayne for several weeks, is here to spend fair week.

PICTURES TO TALK d ■■llli* ■ M K Thomas A. Edison Has Produced Another Wonder--0 B ful Machine. iWHAT THIS MEANS S t « I9 Ordinary People May See , and Hear Great Shows at r Small Cost. Announcement is made from the • laboratory of Thomas A. Edison that ’ the Inventor has about reached a satisfactory solution of the problem of making moving pictures that talk. The assistants of Mr. Edison have been laboring for months to perfect the device so that the words as well as the actions of actors will be recorded in exact unison with the films. ’ Heretofore the effort to reproduce the words of stage folk has failed because the recording machinery was not » adapted to catch the sound of the voice at different angles. It is asserted that this difficulty now has been largely overcome. That this improvement of the cinematograph holds immense possibilities E of human entertainment an instruc- . tions is indicated by Superintendent ■ Weber of the Edison laboratory, who, . in discussing the new device, said: i “A few years hence and there will be an entirely new order of things in ' moving pictures. The pictures of the ; future will have a speaking effect that will accurately portray the entire work 1 of a theatrical company giving a 1 play.” Accordingly, should ‘ a large and extensive production be offered in 1 some city, prohibited to many because of the high price of seats, then a bio--1 graph production will be made to be placed before the public at popular ' prices. Thus it may soon come that ’ grand opera and the most elaborate Shakespearean revivals may be open to the poorest citizen. 1 o I ATTEND CONGRESS Miss Anna Parent Visiting in Canada —To Attend Euchristic Congress. i NOW IN SESSION i The Grandest Catholic Celebration Ever Held in North America. I Miss Anna Parent left Sunday for ’ Detroit, Mich., and from there she , went to Montreal, Canada, where she will remain for some time visiting I with her aunt, Mrs. Joe Miller, whom • she has never seen. While at the lat- ' ter place she will attend the Euchrist- ' ic Congress, which is now in session, and which is the grandest demonstration of Cathocicism ever held in this country. Inuring this time the highest dignitaries of the church from F abroad, as well as from this country will be in attendance. Pope Pius X of Rome will be represented by a car- ■ dinal delegate in the person of Cardi- • nel Vincent Vannatelli, who is now 1 present, as well as other cardinals, ' including Cardinal Gibbons of Balti- • more. This Is the first time that this gathering has been held in this coun- ‘ try since they have ben .held, this be--1 ing the twenty-first one. The city of ' Montreal itself has taken on much 1 splendor with the decoration of the > papal and various colors, and. from word received from Miss Parent the 1 city is overflowing with people. The 1 congress began on Tuesday and will 1 be brought to a close with a solemn 5 procession on next Sunday. ) o 1 • THE COURT NEWS TOMORROW. As we went to press early today on 3 account of it being our day for the ’ Great Northern Indiana fair, it was impossible to get the news from the s court house, but this will be covered .11 for tomorrow's paper, as will any oth- | er happening overlooked in the rush.

TWO INSTITUTES. Professor L. E. Opliger, superintendent of the county schools, announces that the first preliminary institutes ' will be held this week. The first one, for the teachers of the north six townships, will be held Friday in the Baptist church, this city, beginning at 9 o'clock. The second institute will be held Saturday in the assembly room of the school at Berne, and will be sos the teachers of the six south townships. The program for these institutes are suggested by the teachers’ outline, and give promise of being Interesting and instructive. Professor Opliger stated that he would be able to definitely announce the time of the opening of the schools over the county by tomorrow. o PLAYED WILD WEST And Arrested For Drunkenness and Carrying Concealed Weapons. V WAS AMOS FISHER Will be Given Trial Before Mayor Teeple This Morning. Sheriff Meyer was called to the fair grounds about midnight Wednesday night to arrest Amost Fisher, who, it is said, had imbibed too freely of intoxicants, and attempted to play wild west, a game in which a revolver figured conspicuously, also threats threats against the lives of Jesse Lane and Charles Edwards and wives, all of whom are concessionaries on the fair grounds. Fisher was arrested and taken to jail over night and this morning two affidavits, charging him with public intoxication and carrying concealed weapons were filed against him. His trial will come off this morning in Mapor Teeple’s court. There is also a probability that the ones he threatened wil bring action to put him under a peace bond, as it is said he had threatened their lives. —o GOOD CHANCE TO LAUGH. “Hello Bill,” a High Class Comedy, at the Opera House Tonight. At the opera house tonight the Imperial Stock company will offer Goodhue’s big comedy success. “Hello Bill.” It is a three-act comedy, built for laughing purposes only. If you were arrested in a gambling house a fe whours before your wedding, and after the ceremony, if you had to keep your bride from knowing that you had to appear in police court in two hours, could you think of away out of it? This is the predicament in which one William Fuller, a man about town, finds himself, and how he gets out of his scrape forms the basis of the funniest of t'arcial plays. At his wit’s (hid to know how to escape from the yawning chasm before him, he assumes the identity of another William Fuller, whom the president has that day appointed a colonel in the army, and tells his bride to be, that he Is the man appointed, and that he is off to Cuba to fight for his country. Time passes an dthe war is over. Fuller is now confronted with an even graver situation than before. The real hero is back, crowned with laurels, and Fuller, the gambling house victim, must manage to make his wife and friends believe that he is the hero, while the real man is on the ground, and how he does this results in one of the funniest comedies ever written. Entire change of vaudeville features tonight. Tomorrow night, a dramatization of Mary R. Rowson's famous novel. “Charlotte Temple.” ATTENDS FUNERAL Dowling Family Receives News of Death of Niece at Kentland. Thomas Dowling and daughter, Miss Carrie, have gone to Kentland in answer to a message which informed them of the death of the former’s niece, the one-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Dowling. She i had been sick about eight weeks with ! summer complaint, and all medicinal t efforts to restore it to health were J of no avail. Funeral services were 1 held this morning at 10 o’clock from i- the Catholic church at Kentland, and i. interment was also at Kentland.

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A NEAR BURGLARY A— ■ 4 , At Home of Eugene Runyon , Last Night—Prowler Attempted to r ———— 'BREAK IN THE DOOR 5 - He Was Frightened Away When Electric Light Was Turned On. ( Orte of the very few reported attempts at burglary during fair week, when they are supposed to be quite common, was that attempted at the Eugene Runyon home on Madison , street Wednesday night, or at least that seems to have been his object, as the night prowler was frightened away before he accomplished anything. Mr. Runyon went home from the store about 10 o’clock and very soon thereafter the family Yvere sound ; asleep. They were awakened about 12 o’clock, however, by Mrs. DeVilbiss, who lives just across the alley, and who had remained up late awaiting the return of her daughter, Mrs. Fanny Cole, from Detroit. Mrs. DeVilbiss bad noticed a man prowling about at the rear of the Runyon home and became more suspicious when she saw him dodge into the shadows whenever any passersby appeared on the street. Mr. Runyon examined the premises, but found nothing, and about 12 o'clock they were again aroused by hearing a noise at the back door, as though some one was trying to get in. Mrs. DeVilbiss heard the noise also, and turned on the electric lights in her home. This is supposed to have frightened the prowler away, for Mr. Runyon found no one at the door when he got down. A basket left there, however, had been overturned, showing that someone had been there. Whether it were a burglar, or a drunken man, who had lost his bearings and was trying to find his way home is not known, but Mr. Runyon says he is sorry he got away, as he simply went down to invite him into the house. COUNTYCOUNCIL Made Their Appropriation at the Annual Meeting and Adjourned. IN SESSION TODAY A Ditch Hearing Was the Order of Business For the Day. The county council completed their work for the annual session and adjourned. During their two days they went over the large budget of appropriations tor next year and gave their stamp of approval to the large sums required for the transactions of a counjy like Adams. They ended the session by making a tax levy for bridge purposes of 14 cents on each one hundred dollars valuation on each cents for county purposes. The present council has been a diligent body of men. who for the meagre salary attached to the office of county councilman, lave several times demonstrated that they were interested in the welfare of the county and were willing to give their time and experience in business for the purpose of doing those things that will help in the proper transaction of the public business. o Mrs.. Leo Kintz and children have 1 gone to Fenton Harbor, Mich., for a visit of several weeks with relatives. 1 3 Mrs. William Broadbeck left today f for Elmore, Mich, where she will make p a few weeks’ visit with friends at h that place. I Mrs. C. O. France, son, Carl, and e daughter, Hazel, left this morning for e Columbia City, where they will make i their home. Their household goods II have already been shipped and will be I there upon their arrival.