Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 182.

101 RANCH WILD WEST The Best Show That Ever Struck Decatur Here Today—lt's Guaranteed. OVER THE G. R. & I. 'wo Big Special Train Loads of Paraphernalia Arrived Early This Morning. Miller Bros, and Arlington's big Oklahoma exhibition arrived in the city early this morning, coming over the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway from Lagrange, wnero th‘ey exhibited Wednesday to nearly all of Lagrange county. The Tepees of the Aboriginal red men are pitched on the mayor’s lot today, where in days long ago, before the coming of the pale faces, Indian tribes of savage days fought for the mastery of the wilderness. Today the Tepees do not stand alone for all about them are great tents sheltering nomads from all parts of the world. Here the Cossacks and Mexican Vacquerros |rie with the American cowboy in displaying feats of horsemanship, rough

Wm INI I J.C. MILLER THE RANCH KING f riders from almost every clime are j gathered in the big arena of the 101 ■ ranch. Time in its onward march! has made the noble redskin, one I among many, but the Indian still fc clings to his blankets and customs of the early days. The Parade This Morning. I Joseph C. Miller, one of the Miller Itfcrothers. led the overland trail parade, ' seated on his magnificent charger, | p “Ben Hur.” There was a company of j cavalry buglers, a cowboy band, and following in rapid succession came a siring of cowboys, cowgirls, Cossacks from far-away Russia, Mexican Vaccjierros from the “Land of Diaz," and Sindians from almost every known tribej were represented. Crowds lined the | thoroughfares to witness the street demonstration, and judging from the favorable comment it is safe to sav . 'that the attendance this afternoon will he a record-breaking one in the history tjf Decatur and alsfi the 101 Ranch. s ~ EXPRESS RATI (United Press Sendee.) ■lndianapolis, Ind., Aug. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —When the state commission met in session to consider the express rate withi nthe state, it was decided that instead of conducting an extended hearing a committee would be appointed to investigate the Ki conditions of things and to report to the commission October 10th. T. W. Ipbirnahm of I»uisville. Ky., has been named to bead the committee of auditors composed of the various express |||jpmpanies. SERVICES AT PLEASANT GROVE. ■Preaching at Pleasant Grove T • B. Church on Saturday evening, August sth: theme, “Seven Downward Steps.” school. Sabbath morning. * ■caching. Sabbath evening; theme, "Seven Upward Steps.” RRV. D. S. KNISELY. Pastor. jfcdiss Pauline Franz went to Fort Wayne this afternoon for a week ■ igjMlit with friends

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GOING TO BLUFFTON. The new base ball team, which was but recently reorganized, will try their initial game with Bluffton, Manager Tom Stoneburner of the locals, having received a date for next Sunday from Lew Scott, manager of the independent team of Bluffton, the game to be played there. The new team since Its reorganization Is one of the strongest in the state, and Bluffton will have their hands full to watch ull the corners. The line-up for the locals will he as follows: Pennington, catcher; Ford, lb; Bauman, 2b; Andrews, ss. Peterson, 3b; Johns if; Devlnney, cf; Harrington, rs; Bowen, p; Fullenkamp, sub. p. The boys will go prepared, but are looking for the long end of the game. MEET TONIGHT Meeting of Portland Business Men Called For 8 O’clock Tonight TO CONSIDER PLANS For Aiding in Southern Extension of Fort Wayne & Springfield.

President John Koenig of the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction company, and John Springer of Decatur were In the city for a short while Tuesday afternoon, but they talked straight business while here. President Koenig made the emphatic i statement that the matter of finance i sufficient to extend the line from De- | catur to this city has positively been ■ arranged for and that If the citizens and towns along the line will only I give them the slightest encouragement ! he will guarantee that cars will be runI ning into Portland over the Fort I Wayne & Springfield line by January 1. 1912. The matter of a power house and machinery to generate the electricity is already installed at Decatur and all that remains to be done is to make the grade, lay the rails and string the wires. While here Tuesday', President Koenig made it known that he wishes to meet the business men of Portland and all others interested in seeing the line built into this city and for that purpose a meeting has been called for the circuit court room at the court house at 8 o'clock Thursday evening when the plans will be gone into in detail. It is understood that all the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction company will ask the citizens of Portland and the farmers along the line is for the right-of-way between Bryant and this city. In other words they will expect the citizens to secure the right-of-way and the company will furnish the necessary cash, then when the road is completed and cars running into Portland, which they are willing to guarantee to be by January 1. 1912, they will expect to be reimbursed to the extent of money expended for the right-of-way. Like arrangements are now being made at Berne, Geneva and Bryant, each town taking care of the intervening right-of-way to the next town north. The traction line will parallel the G. R- & I- railroad from Bryant to the vicinity of the plant of the Portland Drain Tile company, just north of this city, when it will turn to the south (o Votaw street or North street, thence west to Meridian street and south into the business section of the city and probably connect with the I “Y” track of the Muneie-Portland line. In times past the right-of-way has 1 been taken up over this same route ' and the cost, it Is said, is about $3,000. Such a right-of-way is not hard to 1 secure nor is it expensive as it only 1 means a narrow strip of land along the ! g. R. & I. railroad and the benefit to I be derived from the traction line and 1 the increased value it will bring to ! the adjacent farms will many times ! compensate for the value of the land ! appropriated. —Portland Sun- — ICE CREAM SOCIAL. The Epworth League of the Mt. Pleasant church has announced that on Tuesday, August 8, they will give an ice cream social on the church lawn to which all are invited. A good time Is assured.

YEOMAN PICNIC Anderson Will Entertain Members From All Over the State. SUNDAY. AUGUST 27TH Number of Locals Will be Present to Witness Day’s Exercises. Five hundred lodge men from all parts of Indiana are expected in the city on Sunday, August 27th, when the annual state picnic of the Order of American Yeomen is scheduled to occur at'Mounds park. Anderson Homestead, No. 1069, has already started plans for entertaining the visitors. The ! gathering will not be the regular state \ meeting of the organization but in-! stead a social occasion. To assure good entertainment at the park the Anderson Homestead has j named the following committeemen to arrange plans for the day: Hr. B. H. Cook, W. T. Kiphart. Walter Russell and John Southard. The committeemen are planning various events for the day’s program. Some of the prominent officials of the lodge will be here to address the picnickers. W. E. Davey of Des Moines, chief corres]>ondent of the Yeomen, will be one of the speakers of the day. W. T. Bailey, chief overseer of Buffalo, N. Y., is expected to attend the | picnic. Another distinguished visitor ; will be W. F. Carter, state manager. The largest picnic in the history of the Indiana organization is planned. It is expected that a number of the members of the home lodge will attend I and take part in the day's program by | being present and help swell the large i number which Anderson believes they will entertain. Miss Vernia Smith and Mrs. Eugene Runyon left yesterday for Oakwood park. Syracuse, where they will attend the Evangelical convention. BAPTISTS TO MEET Bluffton Will be Host to State Meeting to be Held in October. TUESDAY, THE TENTH Prominent Speakers Will be Present —A State Wide Attendance. The Indiana Baptist state convention will meet in Bluffton October 10, and will last several days. This is one of the largest religious bodies in Indiana. The program includes a number of distinguished speakers from both the north and south, as well as from Indiana. W. S. Smith, superintendent of the First Baptist Sunday sctfool of Bluffton, is chairman of the general committee on entertainment of the convention and he annouces that plans and preparations are progressing nicely. Many committees made up of Bluffton people have been selected and they are hard at work preparing for the convention. The Baptist church has made big headway in the state and Is now one of the leading denominations, having a large influential membership with much valuable property. _— -oENJOYS SHOW AT NINETY-ONE. One of the oldest residents In the county, In town today for the show, yet one of the youngest in spirit, was Samuel Kunkel, of Monmouth, who will be ninety-one years old August 25th. THE FIRST BUMPER CROP. The first bumper crop reported is by John Appleman, who threshed 1,954 bushels of oats from thirty-nine acres. This averages a yield of fifty bushels to the acre.

Decatur, Ind. thursday Evening, August 3, 1911,

NOT MOVING TO LAFONTAINE. Mrs. William Belck accompanied her husband to their former home at La Fontaine Wednesday, where he will take treatment of physicians there. They will spend some time there, hut will not move their household goods to that place as stated Wednesday. Mr. Beick has been quite sick with what some physicians stated was cancer of the stomach, and incurable. The physicians at LaFontaine, claim that it is liver trouble, and extend hopes for his recovery, hence his return* to his former home. Mr. Beiclt is connected with the LaFontaine handle plant. Some of the best specialist - have been consulted regarding Mr. Belck’s case, and they extended very little hope for bis recovery. A SAD Mrs. Harry Amrine of Ada, Ohio, Formerly of This City, Succumbs TO PERITONITIS Passed Away Last Evening —Taken to Former Home at Quincy for Burial. Ralph Amrine this morning received 1 a message of the unexpected death of . his sister-in-law, Mrs. Harry Amrine, • which occurred last night at 9:30 , o’clock at their home at Ada, Ohio,

where they had resided for the past nine months, death being due to periI tonitis. The message came very unexpectedly as Mrs. Amrine had been ill but a very short while, and there was | no intimation of the seriousness of the ‘ case. Mrs. Amrine was well known 1 here, residing here three years while Mr. Amrine was publisher and editor of the Decatur Daily Times. A year ago they removed to Florida, ' where they resided several months, ■ going later to Ada, Ohio. Mrs. Amrine was Miss Bessie Hillings of Quincy, Ohio, before her marriage, and at death was twenty-nine years of age. She is survived by her husband, a daughter, Frances, nine years of age. one brother. Bud Hellings, and three sisters, Fanny and Minnie Hellings and Mrs. Nell Melhorn. Her parents 1 have both preceded her in death. Mrs. Amrine was a lady in every sense of the word, and was most highly esteemed and beloved by her every acquaintance —and she had many in this city as well as elsewhere who will be saddened by the message of her death. The body was taken this afternoon to the former home at Quincy, from where the funeral will be held tomorrow. The brother-in-law, (Ralph Amrine, left today to attend the funeral. -■ — - ■ ■ Mrs. A. A. Arnold and children, Florian and Helen, will return to their home this evening at Fort Wayne, after a pleasant visit here with her sister, Mrs. Harry Fritzinger. MET OLD FRIEND Fred LaDelle Recognizes Tim Kidd, an Old Show Friend, After Twenty YEARS’ SEPARATION Traveled With Show, a Sea-son-World’s Champion > Bucking Horse Rider, Fred LaDelle and wife were pleased to meet Jim Kidd, a member of the | wild west show troupe, here today, a show friend of theirs whom they had not seen for twenty years. Twenty years ago—in 1891 —Mr. and Mrs. LaDelle and Jim Kidd were in the same circus, Mr. Kidd being then the champion bucking horse rider of the world. After that one season together they separated and bad not seen each other until this morning, Mr. LaDelle recognizing Kidd the instant he saw him getting off the train. Kidd is now in charge of all the cowboys that travel with this show. Mr. LaDelle went to the grounds this afternoon and had a pleasant talk with his old-time friend.

TYPHOID BREEDERS July and August Are Months When Physicians Fear Typhoid Fever. HOW TO AVOID Rules Given by Health Board to Prevent the Spread of Malady. The months of July and August are the months when physicians fear typhoid fever. i Torrid skies breed millions of ty- | phoid germs In compost heaps, gari bage cans and wherever filth is to he I found. The same conditions that breed the j germs, hatch out flies from the larvae l deposited in the same rubbish heaps i and the flics carry the deadly germs I on their feet, to drop them in the butter, the milk, on the bread, the pies and cakes, ice cream, bananas or fruit i of any sort, in fact, any place where I the fly may step. Typhoid fever is essentially a dij sease. conceived in tilth and the learn- ! ed physicians declare that, were filth j wiped out, typhoid fever would cease. The state board of.health is sending I out thousands of circulars, showing by graphic pictures how the disease is 1 transmitted, how wells are contaminated and telling plainly the means to be taken to prevent a spread of the malady, once a case is discovered. I There are three cases of the fever under observation in Fort Wayne at 1 this time and the local health board .'is doing its best to prevent .any others : appearing. , j The following rules are given for the , 1 avoidance of typhoid fever: Sw'at the flies. , I Avoid over-rope or partially decayed fruit. j Boil the water and guard the milk 1 jealously. I Live up to every rule of sanitation. ’ | Keep the bow els regular, j Then swat more flies.

MUST PAY QUICKIY Contractor Kelleher, of i Frankfort. Here to Collect Money Due Him ON STREET CONTRACT Will Enforce Liens Unless Immediate Settlement is Made With Lawyer. » Jerry Kelleher of Frankfort, who bui{t Mercer avenue and Adams street last fall, is here today, his real purpose being to force the payment of a number of assessments, which have not been looked after. The money was due last December and as S7OO or SBOO has not been paid in, Mr. Kelleher has concluded that he has been lenient enough and today arranged with his lawyer to foreclose the liens against the properties. This will be done unless immediate settlement is made. If you are on his list and owe. our advice would be to get busy immediately and save yourself some unnecessary costs. It is a bill that must be paid and immediate attention thereto means a considerable saving and needless notoriety. Just now Mr. Kelleher is building a three-mile pavement at Lafayette. He says the injunction suit which stopped work on the street was a friendly one, due to the fact that no plans for straightening the road had been made. A settlement will be arranged. SERVICES AT MISSION. M There will be services at the mission this evening at 7:45; Saturday evening at 7:45; Sunday afternoon at 2:30, and Sunday evening at 7:30 All are cordially Invited and welcomed to these services. JOHN GIBSON, Supt. Wednesday Elias Crist finished threshing sixty acres of oats, and ten acres of wheat on his farm four miles southwest of the city.

K. OF C. NATIONAL OFFICERS. Ifetrolt, Mich., Aug. 3—The Knights of Columbus, holding annual conven tion In Detroit, elected the following officers yesterday: James A. Flaherty, Philadelphia, re-elected supreme knight of the order; Martin Carmod.s of Grand .Rapids, Mich., re-elected deputy supreme knight; William J. MeGinley, New Haven, Conn., national secretary; D. J. Callahan, Washington, treasurer, and J. C. Pellltler, Boston, national advocate and head of the committee on laws. William Fox of Indianapolis is made a member of the national board of directors. The figures as announced today give the number of members now in the United States as 267,000, a gain of 17,000 new members during the past year. MOTHER IS DEAD Mrs. Mary Merryman. Mother of Judge J. T. Merryman, Passed Away AT 10 THIS MORNING At Home Near Monroe—

Had Reached Age of Eighty-five Years. Mrs. Mary Merryman. widow of Charles W. Merryman, and mother of Judge James T. Merryman of this city, passed away this morning at 10 o'clock j at her home near Monroe, after an ill- j ness of heart and bowel trouble, which her extreme age of nearly eighty-five years could not resist*. For several days she had been at the point of death and her demise at this time was not unexpected. She had been given the best of care, a trained nurse, Miss Raquet, from Fort Wayne, being in attendance, but the burden of many years was more than the frail body could withstand, and this morning. surrounded by all her loved ones who have been at her bedside much during her Illness, she passed away. Mrs. Merryman was one of the pioI neers of Indiana. She was a native of Ohio, being the daughter of Thomas and Malinda Archbold, coming with j her parents to Indiana In 1835, where > the remainder of her life has been i spent. She was married in this county to Charles W. Merryman October 18, 1848, and to this union were born six children —Jonathan, Zacharlah, Susie, James T., Eliza J., who died in July 1878, when but twenty-six years of age; and Henry L., who died June 5, 1884. a short- time after he graduated from the Valparaiso normal school. The mother was one of those strong, whole-souled, loving, womanly, yet courageous ladies, whose goodness blossoms forth in the strong, rich lives of her children, and one of the best tributes to her is given in the words of one of her sons himself—who has said that “whatever measure of success he may have attained, he attributes chiefly to his wife and mother." The entire community is saddened by the death of this good woman. The funeral services will be held Saturday morning at 9:30, sun time from the home. Interment at the Reynolds cemetery. ( o WILL VISIT U. S. Admiral Togo of Japan to Arrive in New York Tonight. (United Press Service.) New York, Aug. 3—(Special to Daily Democrat) —(Running down the Atlantic coast, the steamship Lusitania is racing against time in an effort to reach quarantine by 10:30 tonight. It will return with Admiral Togo, Japan’s naval hero, who is coming as a guest of the United States. Togo will be the recipient of unusual honor. Saturday he will go to Washington and dine with President Taft. ELEVATOR BURNS. (United Press Service.) Columbus, Ind., Aug. 3 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Fire at an early hour here this morning destroyed the big grain elevator belonging to Ben C. Thomas. The loss is estimated between $70,000 and $75,000. The loss on grain alone will amount to $40,000. The fire was still burning at noon today, but was under control. George Hobson, a fireman, was overcome, and had to be carried from the building.

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REGAINED OUTFIT Sheriff Durkin and Jesse Rupert Recover Horse and Rig Stolen FROM MR. RUPERT Last Saturday—Had Been Abandoned Near Ottawa, Ohio. The horse and rig belonging to Jesse Rupert of near Monroe, which was stolen Saturday night from the hitching rack behind the Everett & Hite grocery in this city, was recovered Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock near Columbus Grove, Ohio, by Sheriff Durkin and Mr. Rupert, the latter driving the outfit home today. The thief, however, has not yet been apprehended. The recovery of the stolen property was remarkably quick, an achievement for which the Adams county officials deserve much credit. When the theft was reported Saturday night to Sheriff Durkin he Immediately got out the cards describing the stolen outfit, and offering a reward for the return of the property and capture of the thief, which were mailed Sunday and Monday to sheriffs of surrounding territory. The one sent to the sheriff of Putnam county, Ohio, was among the last to go out, being sent Monday afternoon and received by Sheriff Nick F. Miller of Ottawa, j Putnam county, Ohio. His deputy hat* j occasion to go that day to Columbus ! Grove. Ohio, about seven miles west of Ottawa, and while there happened upon a farmer who asked him if he knew of any one who had lost a horse and rig, stating that one had strayed to his gate about 4 or 5 o’clock Monday morning and was found at the gate by his hired hand who was returning to his farm work after spending Sunday away from home. The horse and rig had apparently been abandoned near that place, as a knot was made in the over-check rein which had fallen down. The deputy immediately remembered the card received that morniug and told the farmer therof. Upon returning to Ottawa, the deputy sheriff read the card more carefully and beiqg convinced that the outfit held by j the farmer was the one described by Sheriff Durkin, sent him a telegram which was received about 10:30 o'clock Tuesday night. Sheriff Durkin sent word to Mr. Rupert and the two left Wednesday morning on the 8 o’clock car for Fort Wayne, thence to Lima, Ohio, and then to Ottawa, arriving there about 1 o’clock, from which place they drove to the farmer’s home near Columbus Grove, where the outfit was identified as that belonging to Rupert. The reward of twenty-five dollars offered for the apprehension of the property was divided between the farmer and hired man. Mr. Rupert proceeded to drive home, coming as far as Delphos Ohio, Wednesday night where he stopped with a friend of Mr. Durkin’s over night. Sheriff Durkin returned home by train, however, arriving here about 8 o’clock Wednesdaynight. As soon as the property was identified, Sheriff Durkin telephoned to this city, the message of the recovery coming at 4 Wednesday afternoon. Several clues as to the thief have been found and officials are working quietly upon these in the hope of a speedy bringing to justice of the guilty party. — o GOING TO OTTAWA, ILL. The Rev. D. A. J. Brown, pastor of the Bobo M. E. church and others on that circuit, who was forced to resign a few weeks ago on account of failing health, and who, with his wife, has been at Upland, lit going to Ottawa. 111., where they will be at home at 1131 Sycamore street. Rev. Brown hopes to have fully recovered his health by spring so that he may resume his work in the ministry. ■'■ — . — o— — — -• GUYS AT BLUFFTON. The advance man of the Guy Stock company was in Bluffton Tuesday evening and completed arrangements for the appearance of that popular company in this city all of next week, commencing Monday, August 7th. The company will show under the tent at the Studebaker grounds on North Main street. The company has been at Montpelier and Hartford City, where It played to crowded houses. The company has been here before and has always been popular with Bluffton theater goers —Bluffton News.