Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1911 — Page 1

■vo.ume IX. Number 178.

WAS BADLY HURT ■V. L. Gunder Injured in 11 Runaway Accident Near I Belleview Farm. ■condition SERIOUS ■Several Ribs Broken Loose I I From Spine and May be I Injured Internally. El W. L. Gunder, who resides on Bellefarm, one mile east of the city, very seriously injured this mornat about 8 o'clock, narrowly esinstant death, and is now lying ■ a very critical condition at his He had arranged to go to Fort to meet two of his children returned today from a visit in Will Jonnson. who is employKd on the farm, was hauling oats from field nearby on « nay wagon, and Just coming out on the road with team of colts, when, as they the bend, a farmer driving the road, started around the wagon, frightening the colts. They to run and Mr. Gunder. who standing nearby caught the by the bridle and made an esto quiet them. The horses swervto his side and he was crowded a telephone pole. He let go the bridle but escape was impossithe hay rack jamming him against pole with great force. He had of mind enough, however, to k. and this fact saved him from inI Want death. Upon the arrival of a who was summoned at it was found that three ribs had broken loose from the man's one of these being broken in |Ko in front. He was badly bruised the body and it is feared was internally, although this fact be fully determined for two or I days. The rear wheel of the struck with such force that the was broken off near the ground telephone service in that section stopped until repairs were made IHwo hours later This afternoon, Mr. I condition was reported quite due to the severe shock. He IK one of the best known farmers in ■ ■his section. The horses were stopIKir'l before any further damage was | Hone. Dick Roop, who was at the I came to this city and went to I Wayne, where he met the chilI Hlren, returning home at noon. I HIS FIRST SPEECH. I (United Press Service.) I Washington. D. C., .July 29— l Specj Hal to Daily Democrat'—Senator Kern I Knade his first speech in the senate | opposing the appointment I K>f sixteen new messengers for comI Knit tees Senator Bristow introduced I Hthe resolution calling for the appointi Smeuts. Kern said as he was elected I Bona platform calling for retrenchI Aments ho could not let the bill go | Hthrough without objecting. Kerns obI Bjection caused a lively debate. ■r? • ■ — : i I •> * I * JEHEhItBSk | **<>• I I J*-'*”’ 3 I ' ■mH ' i I “ E I UPf “RED” McCOLLUM. The Geneva young man who was I ■ arrested by Sheriff Reichelderfer o I ■ Allen county, and has since confessed I ■to stealing five horses and buggies, a ■ Part of the horse stealing taking place ■ while he was under suspended senS tepee from Jay county court for a ■ grand larceny charge, since a year ■ ago . -

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EDWARD BATCHELOR KILLED. Supt. Pittsburg Union Stock Yards— Known Here. Many of the stock shippers of this city who were acquainted with Edward Batchelor, superintendent of the union stock yards of Pittsburg, Pa„ will be sorry to learn of his death which occurred Wednesday evening, with that of three others, while riding In an automobile which was struck by a fast train on the Pennsylvania railroad at a grade crossing in a suburb in Pittsburg, His aged mother and a niece were two of the others who were killed. Mr. Batchelor was fiftytwo years old. ABOUT THE SICK Mrs. Frank Mann of Muncie is Merely Alive From Reports Received. MR, SCHERRY BETTER W. L. Hilpert Also Improving—Other Items of the Sick People. Mrs. Frank Mann of Muncie is still giving those caring for her, as well as the many concerned about her condition. much alarm, as word received from there last evening, stated that she was just alive. At the passing of the fever crisis on Tuesday evening, it was thought that she would soon show signs of improvement, but this failed to come about, and she is still very serious. ______ z W. L. Hilpert is improving each day and gaining strength fast. It is now a week since the operation took place and there is but little fear but what he will get along all right from now on. Crist Sherry, who on Wednesday underwent an operation for appendicitis and other trouble, is greatly improved, and the attending physician has good hopes for a speedy recovery. Mrs. Daniel W. Hoffman, wife of the trustee of Preble township, has been sick since Thursday with a touch of typhoid fever.

Henry Durr, a prominent farmer living near Pleasant Mills, is recovering from a bad injury to his left eye in which the sight of the eye was lost. The accident happened while Mr. Durr was tedding hay, the lever of the machine striking him in the eye. HAVING BAD LUCK. Walter Scott and "Heck" Bowman arrived in Bluffton this afternoon from Wabash and reported that at a meeting of the directors of the league at Wabash last night the organization was declared officially defunct and a date set for burial. Sunday will be the last day, according to the local players. They state that there will be no game at Wabash today, and that the Bluffton team is disbanded, the players leaving for their homes and various other points. Scott and Bowman will probably leave for Youngstown tomorrow. Lew Scott is expected home this evening.—Bluffton News. It appears that the bottom is out of the league and that the end may come soon. There being no game at Wabash with the Bluffton team, the players left for their various homes. Some fast ball has been witnessed since the organization ot the league, but it is a big proposition to keep the aggregation on its feet, and a winner. —o —, - - ANOTHER BILL CAR. The third bill and advertising car for the Miller Bros, big wild west show, which is to appear in this city on next Thursday, August 3rd, arrived here this morning from Lagrange, and as the previous one, did the advertising which was in its line to be carried out. They are leaving nothingundone in the way of advertising in any way. and they will no doubt draw one of the largest crowds to the city that Decatur has witnessed for many a day. It is the largest wild west show on the road, and has become prominent only recently, on account of their many clever and thrilling stunts, and the first-class company which they carry with them.

MEMBER OF BOARD State Board of Health Reorganized in Indianapolis Yesterday. DR. J. S. BOYERS Now a Member—Picture of New Board in the Indianapolis Star. The Indianapolis Star of this morning contains oirthe first page a group picture of the members of the state board of health, which was reorganized in Indianapolis Friday, Dr. J. S. Boyers of this city being one of the new' members. The Indianapolis Star savs: “In reorganization of the state board of health, which took place at the regular quarterly meeting, held at the state house yesterday. Dr. Fred A. Tucker of Noblesville was elected president of the board and Dr. T. Hensy Davis of Richmond was elected vice president. The two new members of the board, Drs. John R. Hicks of Covington and James S. Boyers of Decatur, were sworn into office. “Rules were adopted by the board governing the care and handling of hydrophobia cases, which may come under the provisions of the new law pertaining to'the Pasteur treatment of patients to be administered by the state, it was decided that hereafter the health officer from the county in which the patient was bitten by a rabid animal should file a certificate with the board, giving the history of the case, and that a certificate should be filed by the township trustees of the inability of patient to pay for such treatment himself. Another rule passed makes Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the board, the final arbiter in questions of whether patients shall be accepted by the state. “Extensive rules were adopted by the board governing the medical inspection of school children, under the provisions of the law recently passed by the general assembly. These rules relate to the duties of the medical examiner in the various schools and to the responsibilities and duties of the teachers." IS HnT MICHIGAN Mrs. Marianne Murphy, Whose Home Burned, Visiting in Michigan. WILL BE A BAD SHOCK Eight Hundred Insurance on House and Two Hundred on Household Goods. The burning of her home in Union township, three miles northeasf of here, Friday noon, will be a sad shock for Mrs. Marianne Murphy, as that lady was not at home at the time, having been visiting relatives near Traverse City, Michigan, for the past two weeks. As the part of the house occupied by her was farthest away from the place where the fire started, more of her household goods were gotten out than that belonging to her son, Lewis Murphy, who occupied the other part of the house. Eight hundred dollars’ insurance was carried on the house and S2OO on the household goods, this being in the Continental Insurance company for which Gallogly & Johgnson are the agents. The[ policy would have expired August Ist, | and notice of the pending expiration was sent this week to the family, showing how very serious a thing a lapse would have been had the policy expired and there been failure to renew it. The stricken family which is left without a change of clothing, is now at the home of Mr. Murphy's sister, Mrs. Bert Wolfe, \_in Union township. Samuel Bartlett, born November 17, 1889, laborer, son of Andrew J. Bartlett, of Delphos, Ohio, was granted license to wed Mozelle Fisher, born July 26, 1895, daughter of J. C. and Mary Ellen Fisher. |

Decatur, Ind. Saturday Evening, July 29, 1911.

POLICE COURT NEWS. The trial of the case entitled the State vs. Joe Hower, on a charge of ' provoke, was heard In ’Squire Stone's court Friday afternoon and as the state could not produce sufficient evidence he was acquitted. It seems that , the prosecuting witness in the case started the trouble when one of Mr. Hower’s family passed the house on the way to work. | Further investigation was made in , the cases filed against the young people for disturbing a religious meeting and it developed this morning that , the young ladies who were charge 1 . were totally innocent, the prosecuting j witness appearing and acknowledging I his mistake. In the case of the boys , a different conclusion was made, they being held, and all pleaded guilty with the exception of Ira Carver, who left for parts unknown. John Kenworthy appeared and pleaded guilty and drew , $5.00 and costs, and the appearance of the other, Frank Somers, was slated for this afternoon. Friday one of i the boys, Tom Billingsley, appeared, and paid his fine for public intoxlcaI tion. LONG WAIT IS OVER. Bride-to-be Reaches Required Age of Sixteen Years. After a long wait of eight or more I months because of the fact that the bride-to-be had not yet reached the required age of sixteen years, which entitles her to enter into the nuptial , contract in Indiana. Samuel Bartlett and Miss Mozelle Fisher will be united in marriage this evening. It will be remembered that the couple applied for a marriage license in the early part of the winter but were disappointed, because the bride was then under sixteen years of age. Wednesday was the bride’s sixteenth birthday and the long wait was over, so the couple applied for the i license today and were made happy, i The bride is the daughter of Mr. and [ Mrs. J. Clinton Fisher, and is a well ■ liked and very lovable young lady. | The couple are deserving of all the ' good wishes bestowed upon them. i c REFORMED ORPHANAGE PICNIC. The annual picnic of the Reformed [orphans' home, near Fort Wayne, will be held on Thursday, August 10th, In the grove near, the home. The Rev. Paul Wiemund , of Brooklyn, N. Y.,; the Rev. Valentine Rettig of Buffalo, N. Y„ and the Rev. | F. H. Diehm of Huntington, Ind., will deliver the addresses during the afternoon. Some time will be reserved in which prominent visitors will be given an opportunity to speak. Many members of the Decatur German Reformed church will attend the anniversary celebration picnic as usual. The Rev. B. Ruf, superintendent of the orphanage, is the father of Mrs. Rev. L. C. Hessert of this city. TAKE A MONTH’S LEAVE. Rev. L. C. Hessert and family will leave Monday for West Baden, Ind., where they will enjoy a week or so vacation. After their stay there Is completed they will return to Fort Wayne for a several weeks’ visit with relatives and enjoy a month's leave of obsence which the church here has granted them. They aiso presented him with a purse, for him to enjoy his trip, thus showing their esteem for him. While absent his charge will be cared for by several ministers from nearby places, and the services will be carried out as usual. The good wishes of his people accompany him. COURSE NOW READY. Charles A. Greathouse, state superintendent of public instruction, has received for distribution copies of the' revised copies of the revised uniform 1 course of study for commissioned. 1 certified and accredited high schools' of the state. The revision was com- 1 pleted by the state superintendent and 1 state board of education some time i ago. The chief changes are in the course of English and literature, more attention being paid to the literary element in the study of literary selections, and to the practical application of grammatical principles. — ■ o — CALL FOR T. P. A. MEETING. Members of the T. P. A. are requested to meet Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the office of Smith & Bell, at which time the proposed picnic for members and their families will be discussed. Please be present. T. M. REID, President. Robert M. Blackburn has filed his | bond as notary public.

FOUND THE HORSE Gypsies Apparently Innocent of at Least One Offense Laid AT THEIR DOOR Horse Belonging to Andrew Zeuber Supposed Stolen, is Found. The gypsies may be a bad lot, but apparently they are not guilty of everything “laid upon them." Andrew Zueber, the Fort Wayne man, who with the Bluffton officials, passed through this city this week, trailing up the gypsies, which passed through here a week ago today, whom it was thought might have stolen a missing horse, belonging to Zeuber, has recovI ered the same, the animal being 1 found near Uniondale. The Bluffton Banner says regarding the finding : of the horse: j “A grey pony belonging to Andtew Zeuber, of Fort Wayne, which was reported to have been stolen by a gang of gypsies a few days ago, was found Wednesday evening at the home of W. S. Price, one-half mile south of ' Uniondale. Mr. Price found the animal running loose on the road and ' mailed a description to the Banner which resulted in it being restored to ' the rightful owner today. “Mr. Zeuber came to Bluffton Wed--1 nesday morning for the purpose of enlisting the aid of Marshal Pierce in hunting for the pony and they made a long automobile trip into Ohio in ' an effort to find the gang of gypsies, I who W’ere thought to have the pony, j The trip was unsuccessful and it was [ not until after Mr. Zeuber returned Wednesday night that Marshal Pierce got trace of the animal. “The Fort Wayne man will arrive here today to claim his property and take it home." WILL SING AT M. E. CHURCH. Miss Lola Belle Erwin, who is visit- [ ing with her uncle, D. N. Erwin, and family, will sing at the Methodist Episcopal church tomorrow morning. Ia safe arrival At Rotterdam, Holland, Announced by Mrs. Moses and Daughter, Gertrude IN A LETTER To E. S. Moses—Stood the Trip Without Touch of Sea-Sickness. A letter received by E. S. Moses from his wife and daughter, Gertrude, who left July 4th for a trip abroad, announced their safe arrival at Rotterdam, Holland, July 15th, from which place they went to Manndam, Germany, from where tin, fetter was written. The ocean trrp was a very delightful one, passage having been taken on a slow vessel that Miss Gertrude, who went abroad for relief from rheumatism of iong standing, might be benefited by the sea breezes. Neither Mrs. Moses nor daughter suffered the least bit from sea-sickness. As yet. Miss Moses is no better, but it is thought this is due to the extremely damp weather which they have had thus far. They like their present location at Manndam very much, the city being in the Rhine valley, and a very beautiful spot. The first letter received by Mr. Moses was written on the ocean, twenty-five hundred miles from New York City and a thousand miles from Rotterdam. They will probably ne gone three months. GRANTED MARRIAGE LICENSE. A marriage license was issued this afternoon to Miss Minnie Leyse and Mr. Jesse O. Schafer, a well known bookkeeper of Bluffton. The bride is a sister of Mrs. Frarfk Peterson of this city.

RETURNS FROM TEXAS VISIT, Mlm Clara Bultemeler Vialtt in Lutheran Colony. Miss Clara Bultemeler, living in Adams county, near St. John's, has returned from a two months' visit near Rhae, Texas, with the Charles Gallemeier and Charles Schroeder families who went there to join the Lutheran colony which was established there about two years ago by thirty or more families from the north part of Adams county. All are doing well there and the colony is a most prosperous one. Miss Bultempier is a daughter of Charles Bultemeler, who owns a farm in the new colony, on which Ernst Schroeder resides. FOR CONVENTION Rev. D. O. Wise, Conference President of Y. P. A., is at Syracuse. IS GETTING READY For Week’s Convention to be Held There, Opening Next Tuesday. Several members of the Decatur Evangelical church will go to Oakwood park, Syracuse, to attend the conference branch Young People’s Alliance convention, representing the various local societies in the state, which will convene at Syracuse next j Tuesday for the week. Rev. D. O. Wise, pastor of the Decatur Evangelical church, is president of the conference branch Y. P. A., and left this week for Syracuse to get things ready for the convention, and has a good program for the week. A Syracuse dispatch says: Strong speakers have been secured and a rich treat is in store for all who may have the privilege of attending. The Woman's Missionary convention will also be held at the park, begin-1 ning on Friday, witfi Mrs. John Koch, of Indianapolis, as president. Rev. G. Hemmiller, D. D., and Rev. H. A. Kramer, both editors of the denominational literature of Cleveland, Ohio, will make addresses at the conventions. Sundays, August 6th and 13th, w'ili be the greatest days, when thousands of visitors nearby, will flock to the park to spend the day and hear the addresses. On Tuesday, August Bth, the quadrennial convention of the Young People’s Alliance will convene. This body is made up of elected delegates from every conference in the United States and Canada. There will be representatives also from Germany, Switzerland and Japan. This is the first time that such a body of dignitaries ever met at Oakwood. All bishops, editors and leading men of the Evangelical association are expected at the park from the Bth to the 14th. Surely these coming conventions will eclipse anything that the church has ever held at Oakwood park, and why should it not be so? We are making many improvements in every line, why not in church work ? The board of trustees is doing its best to entertain the people. In addition to the large hotel on the lake front and the superintendent’s home on the top of the hill, the dormitory and sleeping rooms over the dining hall and the twelve or fifteen cottages owned by the association, there are ten nice new tents, with floors, which are fine outfits for private parties who wish to spend a few days' outing. Two ’ large assembly tents have been secured, one to use in holding meetings in addition to the large, frame tabernacle, and the other large tent is to be used for a garage to accommodate parties driving to the meetings in automobiles. This week seems to be preparatory week, as all the cottagers are busy cleaning and getting ready for next week-. Carpenters and painters are working with might and main to put things in order before any meetings are held. The superintendent of the park, P. W. Soltan, and his family are working almost as many hours as the negro who said he worked twentyfive hours every day, and when told that there were only twenty-four hours j in a day he said, "Well, I get up an ' hour before day."

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IS COMING AGAIN Fort Wayne Dispatch Says That Stephen B. Fleming Will be a Candidate FOR SENATORSHIP Has Waited For a Candidate For the Place From Adams County, He Says. Fort Wayne, Ind., July 29 —The political desires of State Senator Stephen B. Fleming have just been made known to his friends here. Mr. Fleming wishes to be returned to the Indiana state senate from the district composed of Adams and Allen counties. He has talked of going back to Indianapolis as a state representative; but his friends say that wherever he made the suggestion that he would like to go to the lower house he was asked why be did not stick to the upper house, where he could do his work with better efficiency. The upshot of it all was that Mr. Fleming found his friends insisting that he stay in the senatorship race and let the talk of a house seat drop. The fact is, Allen county is entitled, under customary action by mutual agreement, to take down the state senatorial nomination next year. All the time Mr. Fleming has been talking of his desire to go back to the state legislature and of his purpose to make a race for a place on the ticket as a I candidate for representative, his friends have been listening for word from Adams county to tell them of a prospective aspirant for Fleming’s seat. Adams county, it is said, has not responded with the suggestion of a successor to Fleming. Apparently there is no democrat in Adams county who wishes to take Fleming’s place. The Fleming democrats in Adams evidently are pleased to permit Fleming to continue in his place as state senator. Anti-Fleming democrats, knowing the I probable fate of a democrat who would make the race for state senator against the wishes of Fleming are inclined to let the matter go by the board. So the word has gone out here quietly that Mr. Fleming will accept a renomination for the state senate. Here in the Twelfth district Senator Fleming is the dynamic whole thing in democratic politics. He is a mine of enthusiasm, hustle and shrewdness. He will work twentyfour hours a day to gain the point, and he will be as vigorous and cheerful at the end as he was when he started. He is an athlete in politics and in business. With his shrewdness, his wealth, his untiring industry and ag gressiveness, he is a tremendous power for good or evil in this part of the state. “If you will just bet it out of your head that Steve Fleming is ambitious and start from the realization that be is entirely without political ambition you will be able to dope out Fleming’s course,” said one of Mr. Fleming’s closest followers. “Mr. Fleming is not seeking high place,” he went on. “He is not a would-be state boss. He does not plan to land any office. We do not look on his aspiration to the state senatorship as a vaulting ambition in a man of his native ability and strength of character. One thing is certain as to Allen county and the Twelfth district, and that is, Mr. Fleming can have about anything he asks for. He is that strong."—lndianapolis Star. FAIR SEPTEMBER 19-22. The Great Northern Indiana fair will be held in Steele's park, this city, September 19-22, and it. bids fair to be a hummer. While this is a little later than it is usually held here, it is by nd means the last in the list. Os the fifty-two county fairs listed in Indiana there are five later than that of Adams county, the last one being Steuben county, whose fair will be held at Angola closing October 13th. , — o —— BUMPER WHEAT CROP. A postal received by D. B. Erwin from Tony Hackman, who, with t arl Moses, is at Watson, Canada, where they own a large tract of land, states that crops are good there and they expect a yield of 16,000 bushels of wheat this year.