Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 244

COURT HOUSE NEWS The Boegley Trial Will Conclude Monday Afternoon —Adjourned Today. BOEGLEY ON STAND Three Licenses to Wed Issued —Big Will Case Was Continud. The Abe Boebley manslaughter case will go to the jury some time Monday afternoon. The evidence will probably be finished by the middle of the forenoon and the arguments will require about three hours. The evidence of Mr. Boegley was heard this morning up to 11:30, when court adjourned. He stated that he turned to the right in attempting to pass the Kindel rig and collided with the buggy. The case has been a hard-fought one. The big will case from Huntington county, John F. McArdle et al. vs. Patrick Gorman et al., set for trial October 24th, has been continued until Monday, November 28th. A. J. Smith, cited to appear in the Sowers case, was dismissed from the attachment proceedings on payment ■of costs. Marriage licenses: John Kuhne, 35. farmer, Mercer county. Ohio, to Lillie Coffee, 23, daughter of John Coffee of Jefferson township; William W. Lang, 30, oil worker, Geneva, to Goldie Crumrine, 18, Geneva; Henry ffress, 23, draughtsman. Fort Wayne, to Emily Hockemeyer, 23, daughter of Charles Hockemeyer. George W. Everett was appointed guardian for Helen and Geraldine Everett and gave bond for S4OO. John E. Jack was named administrator of the Albert N. Jack estate and filed bond for S6OO. An inventory was filed by Rose Christen, giving list of personal property, amounting to about $3,200. G GERMAN DINNER AND SUPPER. The Dorcas Daughters o fthe German Reformed church have planned to give a German dinner and supper, the menu to include sauer kraut and wieners of the good old-fashioned kind with many other good substantial things that make up the typical German meals so much enjoyed by all. The dinner an supper will be given next Saturday. October 22nd in the Niblick building, south of this office. The ladies will make no ticket canvass. but everybody is invited to attend. o- — TEDDY WANTS MORE “GINGER.” (United Press Service.) New York. N. Y„ Oct. 15—(Special to Daily Democrat— Rushing direct from a train to his offices in the Outlook building today, Colonel Roosevelt summoned the republican campaign leaders and made it plain that he does not think that the managers are putting enough “ginger” into the campaign to suit him. Things are expected to liven up as a result of the meeting. - JACOB BAKER SELLS FARM. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Baker and grandchildren of near Monroe were business visitors in the city. Mr. Baker has sold his farm near Monroe to Jacob Longebarger, one of the prominent residents of that vicinity, the forty-six acres bringing the very good price of $6,300. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have not yet decided where they will buy. _o BRETHREN CONFERENCE. The annual conference of the Brethren in Christ church will convene at the Beery church west of this city October 21st. A large delegation is expected to be present from different points from Ohio. o (United Press Service.) Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Posses are today pursuing yeggmen who last night dynamited the safe at the Churubusco postoffice and secured SI,BOO in stamps and money.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

A GOOD GAME. Monroe Takes Game From the Local High School Team. The basket ball teams of the high schools of this city and Monroe met on the grounds of the local team Friday evening and a real fast game was in progress for a short time. The visiting team proved themselves the better aggregation, defeating the Decatur boys by a score of 14 to 12. The Monroe team is a fast bunoh of players and showed their superiority in several ways. The locals did their best and when the return game is played at Monroe in the near future they promise that they will have a different story to tell. AIR SHIP IN TOWN With Folded Wings it Rested at Interurban Station This Morning. ON WAY TO THE CITY Os Fort Wayne For Aviation Meet to be Held Next Week. There was considerable interest today about the interurban station in the department of the Wells-Fargo Express company, when it became known that an airship was resting here with folded wings, before proceeding on to Fort Wayne, where it will be used in the aviation meet to be held Saturday and Sunday, October 22nd and 23rd. The ship was sent from O. H. Harrington, a student of Glenn H. Curtiss, from Youngstown, Ohio, to himself at Fort Wayne. The ship was used in a similar event at Youngstown, and was then sent by Wells-Fargo to Fort Wayne. WellsFargo Agent Ben Elzey was kept busy answering questions regarding the great bird, which was in his care for a short while today. While it was packed in five large boxes, very ordinary looking ones at that, though weighing in the aggregate about 1,400 pounds, the fact that the contents was an airship, was enough to make interest at high tide about the place.

“MUSIC OF THE WILD” - BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER AND HER WORKS

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BOOKS BY MRS. PORTER. ♦ ♦ SONG OF THE CARDINAL. ♦ ♦ FRECKLES. ♦ ♦ WHAT I HAVE DONE WITH ♦ ♦ BIRDS. ♦ ♦ AT THE FOOT OF THE RAIN- ♦ ♦ BOW. ♦ ♦ GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST. ♦ ♦ BIRDS OF THE BIBLE. ♦ ♦ MUSIC OF THE WILD. ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ “Music of the Wild," the newest and we believe the most charming of all her nature stories, by Gene Strat-ton-Porter of Geneva, was offered by her publishers, Jennings and Graham, of Cincinnati, October Ist. It Is the sweetest, most inspiring, interesting and lovable story of nature we have ever read, and we believe that all who read it will agree with us. For a week we have enjoyed this new book —mark you—enjoyed it, and we expect to re-read it and then read it to the children. No one can glance through the book without becoming interested, and If you study it, you will become not only a lover of nature, but a sincere admirer of the writer, for her work is marvelous. She has done wonders and is rapidly becoming if not now, the foremost nature writer of the country and the age. The book is one of the most beautiful ever published, the cover, designed by Mrs. Porter’s daughter, Mrs. Jeanette Monroe, of green, with halfwhite binding, and the title in letters of gold, interwoven by a “rattle-box vine in green. Between the two hand some covers are 428 pages of the most delightful reading, and the most wonderful pictures imaginable, the latter being taken and developed by the authoress herself. The book is dedicated to Miles Fuller Porter. The frontispiece is “The Song of the River,” apt and pretty, with an ap-

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, October 15, 1910.

SPEAKING DATES Major George V. Menzies of Mt. Vernon Will Speak in This City WEDNESDAY NIGHT All Should Hear Him—Senator Slack For Berne and Geneva, Oct. 29th. Major George V. Menzies, one of Indiana's greatest democrats, and also a citizen of renown in various other lines, will address the people of this locality at tne court house in this city, on the evening of next Wednesday. October 19th. The information was received by County Chairman D. N. Erwin from Bert Hendren, chairman of the speakers' bureau at Indianapolis, and the news will be well received by the people here. Major Menzies is a speaker of great power and his speech will be well worth your time, this being his only date in this section of the state. If you wish to hear the important issues of this campaign discussed you should not fail to hear him. Word has also been received that Hon. L. Ert Slack of Franklin, Ind., will speak at Gevena on the afternoon and at Berne on the evening of Saturday, October 29th. Senator Slack is also one of the Indiana leaders and he should have large crowds at each place. He is an ex-senator, and is known as one of the best sepakers on the platform this year. f o ■ ■ RUSH FOR SEATS. As advertised the seat sale for the series of entertainments which are to be put on by the local high school was started at 8 o’clock this morning and there was a rush for tickets from the hour appointed, a number being on hand much earlier. The students have sold a large number of season tickets, besides many single ones, which will be good for the first performance. From present indications there will be a large attendance on the initial night and the students are deserving of a first-class patronage. Miss Rose Kleinhenz was clerking at the Steele & Weaver store today.

propriate quotation from Bryant, beneath. On through the book, every other page is an illustration that can almost talk, and they tell the story of the forest and hills, were there not a word in the volume, but there is, a delightfully pleasing, almost poetical story, that brings one back to youth as does no literature it has ever been our pleasure to read. Underneath each illustration is a verse, either original or credited to some well known author, appropriate and well chosen. In those of her own, the authoress has shown that not alone in prose lies her ability as a writer. On the title page appears the following: "Music of the Wild, with reproductions of the performers, their instruments and festival halls." These reproductions include 120 pictures of birds, insects, animals, flowers, trees and familiar haunts of the wild. The book is In three parts, namely, “The Chorus of the Forest." “ Songs of the Field,” and “Music of the March,” and we believe a short review of each will be appreciated by our readers. Unlike most writers who have gone into the forest or field, along the winding roadway or beside the sparkling brook and written of what they saw, Mrs. Porter has listened and sung of what she heard, an entirely new departure, even in nature study. She begins the “Chorus of the Forest,” by comparing the woods to a Cathedral, where the unsurpassed tree-harps accompany the singers in natures' grandest anthems, and says it is the place for “all brave and happy hearts to go and learn the mighty chorus.” She tells of the trees, mighty and small; of the flowers, beside which their hot-house relatives cannot compare in beauty or in delicacy of color. Her forest Cathedral, of which she writes was evidently some distance away, her trip having been made by rail and water, the wooded places of this section having

COMPLAIN OF BUYING BAD EGGS. Selling Packed Egg» For Fresh Ones a Violation of Pure Food Law. We have heard a number of complaints among the people because of getting bad eggs and it is said the matter will be investigated. Perhaps there are many people who do not realize how serious a matter it is under the pure food law to sell packed eggs for fresh ones. You have the right to sell them, but you must sell them as packed eggs—not fresh ones. If you do so you are liable to fine or imprisonment. The buyers are watching this matter more closely than heretofore and the parties who persist in doing this are liable to get into serious trouble. Such business means a loss to the buyer. We advise those who sell eggs to be mighty careful about slipping in the bad ones, for it will be no surprise if some one Is caught and make an example of. FRACTURED THIGH Three-Year-Old Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Luttman Falls FROM A RAIL FENCE Rail Falls on Thigh, Fracturing it Three Inches Above Knee. The little three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Luttman, prominent residents of east Root township, is suffering from a fracture of the right thigh, brought around in an unusual way, but which on account of the youth of the little one, will not prove so serious as to an older one. The little one had climbed upon a rail fence, from which she fell. In the fall a rail was brought to the ground with her, falling upon her right leg, fracturing the thigh about three inches above the knee. Doctor Coverdale was called from this city to reduce the fracture and with good care the little one is getting along well. Charles Cloud left this morning for Newcastle, where he has been working where after a short stay in this city.

been marred by axe, and the occupants frightened away by intruders. The writer is a true nature lover, and thinks the occupants of the forest, the bees, the birds, the animals, the flowers and the trees too precious to be ruthlessly destroyed. She is by no means in sympathy with the specialist who dissects birds, uproots flowers or runs a pin through a moth while it yet struggles. Her camera does her specializing. Intermingled in her first book is the story of the growth and life of the foxglove, the dogwood, the beech tree, the pawpaw bush, bees, locust, the crow, hawk, peewee and a pretty story of Mr. and Mrs. Che-wink. It closes with a story of the hop tree dance in which." Every voice of each living creature, lifted in joy, curiosity, pain or anger, with the leaf, rustle or cyclonic agony of the trees, the murmur of waters, the whisper of the winds and the song of humanity, plays a part." "Songs of tthe Fields,” the second part of the book, is if possible more entertaining than the first. While the forest is called the Temple of God, the fields are the ampitheatre of man. The old farm, forest guarded, resounding with bird song and tramped with scudding feet, have two owners —the man who pays the taxes and the woman with the camera, and an eye for the beauty of the landscape. While others have sung of various flowers, Mrs. Porter’s favorite is the dandelion, and she says that if we had to import them at five dollars per, all of us who could would grow them in pretty pots. Other flowers of the field are described, the skylark which the authoress calls the earth-born singer is given a share of pretty description. Even the hop-toad is described in language so well chosen that it converts the reader from the old idea that it causes warts or makes your cow give bloody milk. Who could help loving the bellflower,

A GREAT SUCCESS In Sale of Tickets by High School Seniors For the Lyceum Course. A VERY BIG SALE Two Hundred Eleven Season Tickets Sold—As Many More Single Ones. The senior class of the high school is more than pleased with the success of their ticket sale for the lyceum course, the first number of which will be given next Tuesaay evening, with the appearance of the Starr Quartet company. Two hundred eleven season tickets have been sold, and at least that many more single tickets have gone out. The rush for the reservation of the seats today was a grand one and those in charge at the Holthouse drug store had their hands full. The Starr Quartet company promises to furnish a most excellent evening’s entertainment, and everyone should make it a point to get a ticket if they have not already done so. This company is comprised of a staff of musicians of the highest ability, and is said to be equal to the Parland-Newhall male quartet and bell ringed, which gave an entertainment here recently and pleased everyone who heard them. o— — NO SERVICE TONIGHT. That rest may be gained, and strength and inspiration renewed for the Lord’s Day services, there will be no meeting this evening at the Christian church, but the evangelistic services will be continued tomorrow and Monday at least, the further extent to be determined later by the pastor. J. M. Dawson. The series during this week has been unusually good and productive and promise a greater growth day by day. The Sunday announcements will be found elsewhere in this paper. o Mrs. Charles Moore and son, Theodore, arrived last evening from Phoenix, Ariz., called here by the illness of her mother. Mrs. Jesse May, of Union township, who is lying at the point of death from paralysis.

wild rose, meadow rue and tiger lilly? If you don’t now you will when you read “Songs of the field.” The reader of the book is brought close home in this part, by a story df thfe accidental removel of a bed of lillies from the Long farm near Ceylon to a spot near Bryant, where the railroad section men placed them, and where they grew and prospered, becoming almost twice the natural size, a great picnicground for bees, insects, grasshoppers and birds. The molly cotton, a baby rabbit, is told about and photographed. and beneath this illustration is this little verse: “After lunch. I wash my face And go to have a romp With other little cotton tails Down in the Limberlost swamp.” Have you ever thought of the birds of the field? Mrs. Porter tells you in her own happy way of the robin, the oriole, the king bird and his queen, of the screech owl. beneath whose handsome picture is written: “The screech owl screeches when courting, Because it's the best he can do, If you couldn’t court without screeching. Why, then. I guess you would screech, too." Through all the book, the writer shows her real love for the Limberlost land, with which does not even compare the streams of India’s golden sands, Italy’s mountains or England's meadows. She follows the little stream through the Bone's woods, the Rayn farm and singing into Schaffer’s meadow and on through Grove's fields, where it rushes into the Wabash river. “Music of the Marsh,” the third part begins with: “Come with me and you shall know The garden where God’s flowers grow; Come with me and you shall hear, His waters whisper songs of cheer.”

WELLMAN OFF FOR EUROPE. (United Press Service.) Atlantic City, N. J., Octo, 15 —(Special to Dally Democrat) —Walter Wellman and his crew of five men left here this morning in the big dirigible balloon, America, for a trip to Europe. The balloon is 228 feet long and 52 feet in diameter. The passenger car, built of steel, is 156 feet long. — Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan and daughter, Helen; Mrs. S. N. Dorwin and their guest, Miss Rebecca Porter, of Canal Dover, Ohio, will be visitors over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Porter at Limberlost Cabin, Geneva. LITTLE BABE DEAD Pauline, Twenty-Month-Old Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bulmahn DIED FRIDAY NIGHT Had Been Sick More Than a Week With Pneumonia and Spinal Trouble. Pauline, the twenty-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bulmahn, prominent residents of south of Bingen, died Friday night at 8 o’clock at the family home. The little babe had been ill little more than a week, from pneumonia and spinal trouble. She grew rapidly worse and •from Tuesday her condition was regarded as most critical, her recoverybeing regarded as doubtful at that time. The babe is survived by her parents and one brother, Theodore, who is older. The babe was a favorite with all who knew her and the entire community as well as the home, is saddened by its death. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon, the procession leaving the home at 2 o’clock sun time for the St. John's church where the service wilt be held by the pastor, the Rev. H. C. Jaus. o The Misses Marie Heckman, Rose Schlickman. Vera Meyers and Sadie Barger atended the box social at Peterson Friday evening.

Then follows a bull frog story that any child of years from three to three score and ten or more, will completely enjoy. The swamp is made attractive to the reader by telling of the pretty flowers to be found there—the golden rod, astor, swamp laurel, cone flowers and marsh lillies, and there, too dwell the moth, the dragon fly, the kill-deer, the wren, plover, king rail, coot, Indigo, finch, helldiver and other of the feathered family. Listening there Mrs. Porter hears sweet music and describes it well. Mrs. Porter and Her Work. Adams county has a right to feel proud of Gene Stratton Porter and her splendid work, and we believe that every man. woman and child within the boarders of this old shire, at least those who know her and have read her beautiful nature books, are not only indebted to her, but they love her and the work which brings them closer to nature's wonders. While she has proven her ability as a novel writer, the books which really show her spirit, her ability, her real work and her power to help is manifestly in her works on nature, in which she has established an entirely new field and is without doubt in a class by herself. Nature books that read like fairy tales that show a wealth of charm, of truth, of wonder, this is her strength. In June, 1903, Mrs. Porter gave to the reading world her first book, “The Song of the Cardinal.” This was a nature book, new in style, and was pronounced a poem by able critics. Its sale has been wonderful, as can well be imagined from the publisher's report, which shows that In its fourteenth half-year, 500 copies were sold. A year later, “Freckles,” was published. It is a readable, sweet story, which nearly all our readers know, and was the book which perhaps more than any other gave (Continued on page 2.)

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WAS GREAT SHOCK Death of Hon. Theodore Spetnagel Caused Sadness at Chillicothe. ■ t - WAS WELL KNOWN Was Banker and Served in State Assembly—An Honorable Christian Man. The Chillicothe News-Advertiser of Thursday evening contained the following account of the death and the long and useful life of Hon. Theodore Spetnagel, who was well known here: “It was a great shock to the community on Wednesday evening to learn that Theodore Spetnagel had died suddenly at the nosultal. His relatives were entirely unprepared for the sad ening, for his conition had been such for several days that the time was being looked forward to when he could be removed from the hospital, and his two sons, Richard and John, departed for their homes. All of his sons in this city had visited him during the afternoon or evening and found him very cheerful. About seven-thirty, however, he had a sinking spell and before the relatives could be summoned he had passed away, dying peacefully at 7:43 o’clock. The immediate cause of death was due to heart failure. “Hon. Theodore Spetnagel was born in Chillicothe. Nov. 9, 1840, and was therefore nearly 70 years old. His business career began in early youth, his first services being from 1851 to 1857 with the Western Union Telegraph Co. At the age of 17 he accepted a clerkship in the Old Valley bank and from February 10, 1857, until February 10, 1907, he served an uninterrupted carreer as a banker and financier. “When the Old Valley bank was merged into the First National bank, he became a bookkeeper and teller, serving thus, excepting for a period of four years from 1874 to 1878. when he served as treasurer of Ross county. On July 3, 1883, with the late Thomas G. McKell and the late Captain John D. Madiera, he helped to organize the Central National bank and remained with it until he retired to private life in 1907. “Mr. Spetnagel had the honor to represent Ross county in the Ohio legislature in the years of 1881 and 1882, ■when it meant something to be a member of that body. Although net classed as a politician, he always took an active interest in the welfare and uplift of public affairs. At the time of his death he was president of the Fidelity Building association and a director of the Savings Bank company. In early manhood he identified himself with the First Presbyterian church of this city and on February 23, 1873, he was elected to the office of elder of the church, serving continuously ever since that time. He has been an earnest and faithful member during all of the intervening years. Mr. Spetnagel had the courage of his convictions and the best tribute that can be pa'd him is that he practiced what he preached, leading a blameless and honorable life. Chillicothe loses an honorable, upright citizen and a good man. “His immediate family who are left to mourn his loss are six sons, William A., Edward L„ Albert C. and Theodore H.. all of this city; Rev. Richard Spetnagel of Decatur. Ind., and Dr. John M. Spetnagel of New York City. An only daughter died in early childhood and his wife died on June 10, 1908. He also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Joseph Gerber, Mrs. Mary M. Smith and Miss Josephine Spetnagel. all of this city. “The funeral will take place from the late residence on West Second street on Saturday but the hour will not be arranged until the arrival of Dr. John Spetnagel. Rev. Hindman will officiate and the burial will be at Grandview.” o SECOND HAND BAZAAR TO OPEN. The ladies of the Christian church will open a Second Hand Bazaar in the City Hall building, corner Madison and Third streets, Monday, October 17th. Every lady is requested to send the goods she can on time Monday, and the society will gratefully accept goods from any one else who cares to give.