Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1911 — Page 1

Volume IX. Number 220.

BIG FAIR UNDER WAY Childrens Day Brings Thousands to See First Day's Program. geneva BAND HERE Motorcycle Race—Balloon Ascension—Stock Parade —Other Features. • With indications for the most prosperous in their history, the Great Northern Incliana fair opened this jorning in earnest. This was children's day, always a popular one, and thousands of the boys and girls enjoyed the day at the big show, taking in the various attractions, watching the races and eating peanuts, popcorn and candy to their heart’s con tent The weather was perfect and from all indications at this time the crowd tomorrow will break all records The fair is a splendid one in every department this year. The exhibits are good, and the judging of the horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, art, fruit and all the other lines begun this morning, under competent judges. At noon today the parade of fancy and prize-winning stock was given, and the long line of fat and well bred animals proved that Adams county nn raise etn. A good program of races is ready for the start at 1 o’clock and this part of the fair will be especially interesting tomorrow and Friday. The midway is well filled with shows, concessions and fortune tellers, and with such a setting the big crowd should have an unusually good time. At I o'clock this afternoon Professor Martin is scheduled for a balloon ascen lion and will repeat the act with a parachute drop each afternoon of the fair. The four famous Newsomes will perforin startling feats on the stage in front of the grandstand. One of the features of today’s program which attracted many was the motorcycle races, in which the participants were all well known here. The county trot and pace was another attraction. This year the races are under the American Trotting association rules and everything will be given as advertised. If you didn’t attend today, be sure to get there tomorrow, when the big crowd is always on hand The Geneva band arrived on the morning train and at 8:30 were escorted to the grounds where they furnish ed the music during the day. They were accompanied by a large number from the south part of the county. POLICE COURT NEWS. The gypsies who were apprehended by Deputy Sheriff Merica Tuesday afternoon were taken up in ’Squire Stone's court and after the evidence was heard, the woman, who gave the name of Susan Johnson, true name unknown, was bound over to circuit court, and the bond was fixed at $25. *hich was put up after considerable discussion. The gypsies had called at the Grim home and asked for some provisions. Mrs. Grim had promised them some Potatoes and tomatoes, and went to the cellar to get them. The gypsy "omen followed, and while there, Mis. Grim says they took a large number of eggs, which she had in a receptacle In the cellar, awaiting the weekly huckster this afternoon. The exact number of eggs is unknown, but the usual weekly harvest Is from nine to ,e n dozens. TONIGHT at opera house. Tonight at the opera house you will ’gain have the opportunity of seeing that wonderful man, “The Great Benewho is the talk of the town, cannot afford to miss him. The °l>era house last night was packed to the doors and everybody went away * e " pleased. He will do the most *onderful things you have ever seen. Hu tells your past, present and future. ■l'tst ask him the question and he will answer you correctly. Nothing like It Mw before in this city. Only a man, !, ut wonderful powers. The price is ” cents, with good, up-to-date moving Pictures and songs throwed in. Children. 5 cent 9 See Benedict tonight ** the opera house.

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HAO HORSE STOLEN. Godfrey Linn, living near Willshire, had the misfortune to have had a horse stolen Monday night from hte stables. A pair of young people are suspected of having taken the horse, as they are known to have driven into a grove where their horse died and later tried to appropriate one from a neighboring pasture field. Unsuccessful in this they tried at the barn be longing to Linn with good results. All the surrounding officers have been notified. o TO GRAND 2LODGE — Delegates From Local Lodge Knights of Pythias Planning TO ATTEND SESSION To be Held in Indianapolis October 3rd—lnteresting Program. The delegates from the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, with other members, are arranging to attend the annual session of grand lodge to be held in the Indiana Pythian building, Indianapolis, October 3rd, beginning at 9:30 o'clock. Clyde Rice, a delegate from the local order, will attend and another will be appointed by the local lodge at the regular meeting tomorrow evening to attend in the place of the other delegate, J. C. Tritch, who cannot go on account of his school work. Harry Wade, grand keeper of records and seals, has issued a bulletin to all lodges, giving particulars attending! the session. The bulletin gives in part the folliwing instructions: Grand Chancellor John F. Petri will be found in headquarters for this session in room No. 43 at the Denison hotel, corner Pennsylvania and Ohio streets, opposite the Pythian building. The grand lodge offices are located on the third floor of the Indiana Pythian building and the office of the grand keeper of records and seal is room No. 308. The offices of the insurance department of the supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias, are located on the ninth floor of the Indiana Pythian building, where Brother Union B. Hunt, president of the board of control, can be found and will be glad to take up any matters respecting that department at all times during these sessions of the grand lodge. I would ask that all representatives to the grand lodge from subordinate lodges secure from the keepers of records and seal of their respective lodges their representative’s credentrials, and that the past chancellors, whose terms expired December 31, 1910, and June 30, 1911, secure from their keeper of records and seal their past chancellor's certificates, which are now in the hands of the keeper of records and seal. I would also ask that all past chancellors who save not received the grand lodge rank, and who will attend this session to receive that rank, send to this office requesting a past chancellor's certificate, and I shall be glad to send it to them. While it is not absolutely necessary that the past chancellor have such sertifleate to gain admission, yet it aids this office very much to have these certificates deposited at the door of the grand lodge, that we may be able to keep our records correct regarding those who receive the grand lodge rank. The past chancellors who have received this rank have no need of ■ those certificates. , HAD ARM BROKEN. Gerald, the nearly six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Mylott, met with • a very painful accident Tuesday aft ’ ernoon while at play, when he had his ! wrist broken in two diffedent places, i Gerald, with his other brother, had , 1 been playing on the davenport, when ■ in some way he became overbalanced | and fell backwards to the floor in such a way that his left arm was caught under him. Two doctors were at once I sent for, and on making an examina- , tion found that the fracture had been I a double one, one at the wrist and the JI other somewhat higher up on the arm. .! The little lad. although suffering great ’ pain at first, Is resting much easier t now and ft is believed he will get along without any further trouble.

MORTALITYREPORT Interesting Statistics Given Out by State Board of Health in Bulletin. DIARRHOEA IN LEAD Followed Closely by Typhoid Fever—296 Cases in State in July. I The monthly bulletin issued by the state board of health for July shows interesting facts regarding the mortality for that month. Diarrhoea was the most prevalent disease; then following in order, typhoid fever, rheumatism, cholera morbus, tonsilltis. tuberculosis, cholera infantum, dysentery. bronchitis, inflammation of the bowels, measles, diphtheria and membraneous croup, scarlet fever, whooping cough, small pox, influenza, pneumonia, chicken pox, erysipelas, poliomyelitis, cerebro-spinal meningitis, puerperal fever. Two hundred and ninety-six cases of typhoid fever were reported in >9 counties, with 72 deaths. Os the 354 deaths from tuberculosis, 287 were of the pulmonary form. Os the total deaths in July, 159 were males and 195 females. Os the males 25 were fathers in the age period of 18 to 40. The mothers in the same age period numbered 73. Orphans under 12 years of age to the number of 141 were left by these fathers and mothers who died of tuberculosis. Pneumonia caused 5S deaths, 33 males and 23 females. In the same month last year this disease caused 50 deaths, 28 males and 22 females. Deaths from diphtheria numbered 10. In the same month last | year. 9. Deaths caused from violence numbered 296. Os these 13 were murders, 32 suicides, 251 accidental deaths. Os the accidental deaths, 37 were by steam railroad, 1 inter Urban, 3 street cars, 1 automobile, 2 motorcycle, 51 by drowning, 31 by accidental falls. One death from hookworm disease was reparted from Posey county and one death was reported from pellagra disease in Kokomo. Howard county. - ■— o BIG DELEGATION Os Odd Fellows From Here Attend the Meeting at Indianapolis Today. FIFTY THOUSAND Will be in the Line—Many Will Stay Over Until the Close of the .Meeting. This morning a large delegation of Odd Fellows left for Fort Wayne, where they will take an excursion to Indianapolis to attend the large big gest ever’’ parade, which will be held there tonight. About forty of the local Odd Fellows will be in the parade under the leadership of District Deputy L. C. Helm. The parade will require over two hours to pass a given point and will consist of fifty thousand Odd , Fellows, who will be accompanied by various Rebekah degree staffs of the ( state. Another division will consist of the sons of Odd Fellows and all the; young sons of Odd Fellows will march in this division under efficient manage-, ment. Each participant in the parade, will be given either a lantern, torch or flag which should be displayed in the march. All this week Indianapolis exhibited all the aspects of a gala day and the gorgeous festoons and ( decorations of the business section is creating great comment. A number of floats and bands have; been engaged for the parade and the, latest news from the committee in, charge is that the parade will exceed,, rather than fall short of the fifty thousand mark. | The members who went from here will return to Fort Wayne tonight. ] Some, however, will stay over until ( the close of the grand lodge sessions, j which will hold over until Saturday, j The sovereign grand lodge will also ( hold until Saturday and all the offl- ( clals of the order will be in ance.

Decatur, Ind. Wednesday Evening, September 20, 1911.

' POLICE COURT NEWS. , A young man named Krick, of Van Wert, was arrested by Marshal Peterson Tuesday night on an old charge I of riding a motorcycle in the state without a license, and was brought up before Squire Stone, who granted hint a continuance until the twenty-seventu and placed his bond at $25, which was I put up. CHILD WILL LIVc Doctor Hs Hopes For the Recovery of Little Forest Gauze, Who Was e! — b I INJURED BY AUTO i 1 '■ Skull Was Fractured, But I, ■- There Are No Signs of Concussion. I- . . ■•I h : Forest, two and a half-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gauze, who was 1 struck by an automobile from the 3 ■ Holthouse garage, driven by Charles 1 Miller, Tuesday afternoon, and serf- ’ ously injured, receiving a fracture at f the base of the skull, and other injur--1 ies, was reported as being much better ’ this morning, and the attending physi--8 cian has hopes for the child’s recov- '■ ■ ery. His condition was considered 3 i very serious Tuesday afternoon, and 3 hemorrhages of the brain were feared. 1 The doctor called again Tuesday nigh: 1 at 9 o’clock, and at that time the child 5 seemed brighter, no complications 1 having arisen, and a call made again B by the doctor at 8:30 o’clock this “ morning, found conditions even more ' favorable. Should there not prove to 1 be a concussion of the brain (which B is not thought at this time to be the ' case) an operation will not be neces--1 sary. The Accident. 1 ' As stated briefly in Tuesday even- ’ ing’s paper, the accident occurred ' about 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon on 1 Adams street, near the home of the ' child’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas ’ Gauze, who reside at the corner of • Adams and Tenth streets. The unfortunate child, Forest, who is about two and a half years of age, with its I four-year-old brother, Rolland, and a neighbor girl, five-year-old Mary Poling, had gone across the street to the south side of Adams street, and were there watching the wreck on the Clo- ■ ver Leaf railroad nearby. Presently they decided to return home and startj ed to cross the street to the nortn I side. Little Forest, it is said, had got- ; ten part way across the street when ! he noticed the oncoming automobile, \ belonging to the Holthouse garage. , and driven by Charles Miller, accom- ; panied by Charles Ball. The child, it is said, as one will who ( is bewildered, started to turn back to the sidewalk from which he had just i come, but was struck by the fender ' of the automobile and thrown to the I hard pavement, being injured alone 'by the force of the fall. Mr. Miller, It is said, when driving along, was not running at more than eight miles an hour. When he saw the child running out into the street, and fearing an accident could not be avoided, endeavored to dodge by zig-zagging the automo-. ! bile, but to no avail, though it , may have lessened the degree of injury and it is said the accident occurred through no fault of the drivers. He , hastily got out of the machine, and ' seeing that the child was injured, car-; vied it to the home of its parents a short distance away. A doctor was speedily called and arrived just a few minutes after the accident. The babe, it is said, did not become unconscious, ‘ and was able to talk a very little. ' When carried home, those who were in charge of it, tried to soothe it by saying that “papa would come soon and bring some candy,” the babe an- ( swering “no, no," feeling as though caring little for even such comforts ' in its distress. The Injuries. The doctor's examination revealed' very serious injuries indeed, the greatest being a fracture of the base of the ; skull on the right side, the bone being I caved in at that place covering a por- j tion larger than a dollar. While ( there was a fracture of the skull the, I child’s symptoms did not indicate ( | concussion of the brain. A gash about ( ' an inch and a half long, over the right | eye was another bad, though not serf-1 ous injury, and minor bruises and | scratches were noticed on various I OONTINUW OM FASH THREE I

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REAL ESTATE NEWS n ■ J [The Erwin Agency is a Busy Place These Days—Properties Change Hands. S ‘ TWO TOWN SALES I Several Trades Now on—AsE fairs Moving—Demand for Modern Homes Great. The Dan Erwin Real Estate Agency is a busy place these days, and a num- ) her of properties change hands there each week. At this time several rather good-sized trades are on and will u likely be closed up within a tew days. There is quite a stir in fa: m and city property at present and the outlook for the teal estate business is promising. I n Through this agency the Ed Ahr g property on Fourth street, one of the best locations in the city, has been sold to H. B. Heller, the well known 8 attorney, who will soon move there. *' It will make a splendid home for them. r- > r ' Dan Beery has purchased the prop- ’ erty on Nuttman avenue, just west of where he lives, from Mrs. Cecilia (1 Ehinger. <He will remodel the house II next spring and make it a modern ' dwelling, expecting to rent it. q I There is the best demand for good 8 houses ever known in Decatur, both n for sale and renting purposes, and q some person can make a good invest- “ ment and render a splendid public 0 service by building some modern rental ing houses. e I o TAFT IN MICHIGAN. —— I Sault ste. Marie, Mich., Sept. 20--With Taft aboard his special train, I for the first time in history a presi- ' dent has invaded the upper peninsula A of Michigan, was yesterday, when Taft crossed the strait to Mackinac, I f I and swang along the water toward the i t Zoo. He was greeted by large j crowds at all stopping places. ; GOESTOTHE PEN d ■| Jury Finds Lester Cook I 1 Guilty of Assault and BatI tery With SODOMY INTENT Sentence Will Mean From . Two to Fourteen Years in the Penitentiary. Lester Cook, the satellite of Gollmar Brothers' show, which played here i May 18th, and who Tuesday stood trial on the charge of assault and bat tery with intent to commit sodomy upon twelve-year-old Floyd Mon- : day, was founo guilty by the jury, the ; verdict being read Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock, which means that he will ; be given a sentence of from two to fourteen years in the penitentiary, unless other developments should result from a new trial, which will probably be asked. The case began trial Tuesday morning, the impaneling of a jury ■ taking until noon, the evidence beginning at 1 o'clock. This was concluded at 4 o’clock and after thirty minutes allowed each side for argument, the jury was instructed and retired about 5:30 o’clock. There were three ballots. A first general vote showed that all were convinced that the man was 1 guilty, but whether of simply assault and battery as charged in count two. j or of assault and battery with intent, ‘as charged In count one. The first ballot to decide that, resulted in ten ' to two, the next eleven to one, and the last In a unanimous verdict of guilty ' under the first count. The verdict as ' returned, read as follows: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as j charged in the first count of the affi- , davit, and we find his true age to be , thirty-six years. Charles Arnold, foreman.” I CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.

CLOVER LEAF WRECK. The Clover Ixsaf railroad experienced another of their numerous wrecks again Tuesday, when the local, running west, had a car derailed on the extreme western switch in this city. They had run down to shunt a car into the G. R. & 1. transfer track and when the car was cut loose the brakeman in charge of the switch stand threw it too quick, sending half the car down each track. The frog was torn up and considerable damage done to the track. No other injuries occurred. IN GALA ATTIRE Indiana Capital Greets the Odd Fellows From All Over North America. i L. G. WRITES AGAIN Interestipg Items as Caught at Indianapolis by Mr. I Ellingham. i Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 20 —Indianapolis is in gala attire, and everybody you meet carries a glad hand and a word of welcome to the many thou . sand of visiting Odd Fellows. They are coming in large numbers, every ; state in the union and the Dominion of Canada being represented. On this, Wednesday evening, the greatest parade ever witnessed is on the program. It is now estimated that fifty thousand members of this order will be in the line of march. Os this number Indiana will furnish the majority, every county, and in fact every lodge of Odd Fellows in the state will have a representative, and in some instances they will come in large numbers. 1 note with pleasure that De- 1 catur will send a representative I delegation, all of wiiicb is to the es-, pecial credit of St. Mary’s lodge, and but again demonstrates that Decatur is one of the live ones. John B. Cockrum, also of Indiana, is grand sire, and that means that he is at the i i head of the sovereign grand lodge of! ' Odd Fellows of the United States and ' Canada. It is a great honor for the ! state and a great honor to the man, I but he is equal to the responsibility ■ ' which the place imposes, and as a re-: ' suit one of the best meetings ever held is now in progress in this city. | j It will be a great week and one that I will long live in the history of Odd | Fellowship. — ; One of the pleasant events of the week was the meeting of H. L. Confer with one of his Sturgis. South Dakota, friends, who is here attending the Odd Fellows sovereign grand lodge meeting. The two men were close personal friends during the palmy days when Mr. Center was part and I parcel of Sturgis, South Dakota, anil I the meeting this week was a most ■ pleasant one. During the week the Decatur visitors to the capital city were John C. Moran, who was here looking after legal business; E. X. Ehinger, who ! was looking after macadam road j bonds and other banking business,' and Dr. J. S. Boyers, who attended a j meeting of the state board of health. Some of the state house boys Saturday attended a fish fry at Lawrenceburg, the home of State Audito. O’Brien. It was a rip-roaring social affair, participated in by the county officers, the members of the county central committee and the democrats , : of eDarbom county in general. The event took place across the Ohio river < on Kentucky soil, and say those boys i are some when it comes to frying ; I fish and showing a visitor a good time. < Judge Downey of the Dearborn-Ohio. < circuit, one of the best known circuit, 1 judges in the state, and a fine public < speaker as well, did much to enter j tain everybody, thus distinguishing ’ himself as he always does. L. G. E. j' DEAD BODY FOUND. 1 ■ 11 Gary, Ind., Sept. 20 — body of a young woman was today found- floating in the harbor of the Gary steel works. The body had evidently been in the water three or four days and was not officially identified, partially because of Injuries, and greatly swelled condition of the head. The woman was between twenty-five and thirty years of age and the police believe that 1 murder was committed.

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TAX LEVY IS FIXED 11. M I City Council Creates New Tax Levy Last Night, Being $1.73 for 1912. LOWER BY 14 CENTS Considerable Other Business Cared For and Meeting Was Important One. The city clerk being absent, and i with the city attorney caring for his respective duties, and with members present and Mayor Teeple presiding, the city council at the regular meeting held Tuesday evening, proved to be a very important and interesting session. Proof of publication for the assessment roll governing the Keller sewer was filed and ordered placed on record. This was fofllowed with the hearing of objections to same as was advertised would be heard at this time, anu after listening to what a number of the property owners had to say relative to the assessment affixed against them, referred the matter to the street and sewer committee, which will report at the next regular meeting. The engineer’s report for the construction of the sewer as well as that of the assessment roll was read and this, too, was referred to the street and sewer committee. The Reppert alley in the north part of the city, which was asked by the property owners along the route to be improved, and which was continued from the last meeting for further investigation, was ; discussed, and as there has not up to ! the present time been a petition presented by the property owners for the said improvement the city cannot take any definite steps and it was again sent back to the property owners for a petition. A report -of the street commissioner of the property of the city of Decatur was ordered to be placed on file. The Rugg street improvement, which is another topic of much discussion, and which was listened to i from both sides at the last meeting, and continued for further investigation, was, on account of the city attorney being unable to look into the matter, again postponed, and will be brought up at a later meeting. The Adams heading factory, which has recently been hauling fine shavings over the streets in an open wagon bed and allowing the same to scatter over the streets, and in time of rains to collect in the sewers, stopping the passage of water to a certain extent, will be notified by the street commis-' sioner to discontinue same, or haul the loose bulk in a closed wagon. A report of the city electrician, showing the receipts and disbursements of the electric light plant for the year from September 1, 1910, to September 1, 1911, was filed for future reference. A resolution for the $12,000 school bonds, which had been used for the construction of what is known as the South Ward school • building, and which became due in 1911, and which were to be refunded, was adopted. The new bonds are to be issued in the sum of SI,OOO each, twelve in number, and to fall due each succeeding year. A resolution calling for the clerk to draw on the various funds for the salaries of the respective city officials was read and ordered to be placed on record. The treasurer’s report for the months of May, June, July and August were filed and referred to the finance committee. An ordinance calling lor an appropriation out of the tax levy for 1912, to be used for the defraying of the running expenses of the city, also for the payment of bonds and interest, and other debts to be contracted during the year was adopted. Operating expenses of the: Electric light plants2ooo.oo Waterworks 9000.00 Streets and sewers 5500.00 Bonds and interest 7030.00 Mayor’s salary 500.00 Fire department 4000.00 City marshal and police 1300.00 City clerk 500.00 City attorney 425.00 City treasurer 550.00 Miscellaneous 150.00 Street commissioner 600.00 City electrician 1250.00 Sec'y board of health 160.00 Old orders 3000.00 CONTINUSD ON PAGE TWO.