Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 175.

PETIT LARCENY Hiram McCullom of Geneva I Gets in Bad in Fort Wavne—Not the FIRST TIME FOR HIM flkd to Have Stolen Copper I Wire and Also a Bicycle in Wayne ■ |, Hi ram McCullon aged 35, a resident of& sneva. who has been arrested here several times before was arrested on th® street by Deteetiv Immel and was Indjentified as the man who stole a quantity of copper wire from the street car company on East Lewis street early yesterday morning and was prevented by Elmer L. Flowers SSS Hugh street, from stealing a blcyjjla from the home of Frederick Galltneier a neighbor, a short time later. Mrs. Flowers, who has been ill for tome time, was unable to sleep yesterday morning and while she was standing at a window shortly after 4 o'clock she saw a man carrying what seemed to be a heavy bundle of slink along the street and into a vacant lot, where tie deposited his burden in a bunch of weeds. She called to her husband, who is a conductor on the street car lines, and while the two watched him, the fellow went to the Gallmeier residence and was taking Mr, Gallmeier’s bicycle when Mr. Flowers ran out and stopped him .with a revolver. McCullom dropped the bicycle and ran. The matter was reported to the police and Detective Immel, wt\o was assigned to the case, rounded up McCullom at 11 o'clock. The traction company will file an affidavit chargingpetit larceny. —Ft Wayne Journal Gazette. | ~ o Leo Miller who resides on west Adams street is mourning the loss of a package o” tobacco which was stolen from his porch last night. This morning he placed the case in the hands of. the police for investigation.

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IN THREE PLACES l( Was Lad’s Arm Fractured. — .Bones Protruded into Dirt Theodore Israel, nine year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Israel, residing at 1027 Broadway street, Fort Wayne was terribly injured this morning at 9:30 o’clock at the home of John Henry Fuelling in Root township. The lad had been playing in barn trying to catch some pigeons, when he fell a distance of sixteen feet to the floor. Both bones of the left forearm were broken in the lower third in such away that the ends of the bones protruded through tne flesh into the dirt of*the floor, being twisted by the force of the fall. The left arm was also fractured at the elbow. Medical attention was given the lad and he is resting very well. Theboy was here visit- , ing the J. H. Fuelling and Williams Melcher famlies. o ALICE FOUGHTY MARRIED Friends here will be to learn of the wedding of Mrs. Alice Foughty, formerly of this city, which accurred May 26, to Mr. Lee Wilson of Ft. Wayne. The wedding took place in that city, where the couple now makes their home. Mrs. Wilson, who visited here returned yesterday to her home. FREE CONCERT TONIGHT Everybody is invited to come out and enjoy the free street concert to be given this evening by the band boys and the usual good tunes will be furnished for a full hour. Several good pieces which the boys have been practising on will be rendered this evening and the air for the hour be tween eight and nine o’clock will be cheery one. MICHIGAN FISH STORY Andrew Moyer who is visiting with Mr and Mrs. Tarlton Selby at Sturgis Michigan, writes friends a “big” but sure fish story. The backwater from a swollen stream filled a field to a depth of a foot. While wading around in the water in the field, Mr. Moyer caught three fine fish weighing nine pounds.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, July 23 1912.

SUGAR BEET NOTES on the New Beet Sheds is Under Supervision of Condractor PUSHING THE WORK I Finishing Touches at Big Plant—Theßeet Crp Looks good Here Work on th beet sheds at the factory has begun, Mr. L. L. Johnson, of Marion, being the contractor. This is a big job and no time will be lost in hurrying the building to completion, that they may be ready for occupancy by the time the fall campaign opens, which will probably be about the first of October. The main buildings and additions are nearing completion and ‘he machinery has pratically all been ,aced. The roofs are now being put on and the finishing touches every where are in sight. The million dollar factory will soon be ready for operation, and it will be as was claimed for it is the finest sugar factory in the world. Every thing is the newest and the best no money having been spared to make the plant a model. One of the interesting features is the coaling department, done by means of an immense crane and stokers. This apparatus will save much hard work and will save the coal, aside from consuming the smoke and making the plant that much nearer to perfect. The beet crop in Adams county certainly looks fine and has every indication of producting a dandy money making harvest. Mr. Wagner, the field manager ig pleased with the outlook and the Interest manifestedby most Os the farmers Now and then you find one who has been slow in cultivating or in keeping the weeds down and his crop shows it. So will his check next fall. But the most of the farmers are practically assured of good returns on their investment, and work. *

CARPENTERS HAVE BEGUN On Remodeling Fronts of Two BusiNess Houses. Linn and Patton have begun work on the remodeling of the front of the Fullencamp store. A fine large in-set-front, bounded at the sides and fronts with large plate glasses, with middle entrance, will be installed, making excellent display windows, similar to those of the Steele and Weaver and Morris racket stores. The remodeling of the M. Burns building, which will be occupied after August the first by F. Gass, ‘ Store of Quality," ladies' outfitters, was also begun by the contractors, Linn and Patten. The remodeling will include a fine new front, with' a large display window. The entrance will be at the north side and the large built-in display window’ will be at the south side. This will be built in on the pattern of the racket store windows, except that instead of two windows, there will be one large window, with plate glass at the front and side. POLICECOURTNEWS Si Taylor and Harry Barrone Draw Twenty Dollars and Costs each «■ — M AND FRANK HOWER Secured a Dollar and Costs for a Fight. Several Drunks this Morning Charles Smith who was up on a charge of petit larcency was acquitted by the court who held that the evidence was insufficient to convict. Si Taylor and Harry Barrone were brought up about noon on a charge of giving liquor to minors, the case being the outcome of a spree which they and Frank Straub held under the Erie freight house. Straub was taken ,up on Sunday evening and when confronted with a charge squealed on his compaions. They were given a trial Monday afternoon and were fined twenty dollars and cost in each case Straub was taken up on his plain drunk charge and pleading guilty drew the usual dollar and costs. John Grant was taken up on a plain drunk charge this morning and the mayor assessed a fine of a dollar and costs. Frank Hower, commonly called "Red a barber, was taken up Monday afternoon on a charge of assault and battery it being the outcome of a fracas which was pulled off at the ball game Sunday. It is said that Hower became mixed up in the trouble and was forced to use violence in protection of himself, Wl|en arraigned he pleaded guilty and drew’ the dollar and costs before Squire Stone. o . LOST HIS DOG The Ft. Wayne News of last even ing tells of the trouble Mr. Flaherty is having in trying to locate his little dog which he lost and only last week secured It from one of his Decatur friends. Mr. Flaherty is the looser of his dog but the article would read much better had the News just reversed the item. Farther Flaherty’s formerly or but recently transferred to Decatur, today is mourning the loss of a little French poodle dog. When Father Flaherty'c effects were moved to Decatur it is thought that the canine strayed away and became lost. The preist is exceedingly broken up over the loss and has spent several sleepless nights trying to devise some way to locate his little friend. He has exhausted every way of callin the dog and at last resort he went around the Cathedral grounds the other day ringing a small bell, hoping that the little fellow would answers. His searches so far have been in vain. Father Flaharty values the poodle at $25. —o AT THE CRYSTAL Miss Bertha Mabel Carver will sing at the Crystal theater Wednesdayevening. Miss Carver has sung in this city before at the teachers institutes and has always pleased her audiences by her recitals. She wiii sing on Wednesday evening only, the price 1 of admission blng five cents as usual. 1

CROWD TO SHOW Decatur Sends Large Deleggation to Barnum and Baileys Show at FORT WAYNE TODAY Interurban Puts on Extra Cars Account Greatest Circus in World * The world’s greatest show— Barnum & Bailey's is showing in Fort Wayne today and that city is the mecea for flhousauds of interested people from all paints within a large radius. Decatur was well represented there today, large numbers leaving by rail, interurban and auto. The interurban put on a double section leaving this city at 8:30 o'clock this morning, and there will be two more specials—one at 5:30 and another at 6:30 this evening Both will wait until the close of the show tonight, to accommdate all. Among those who left today for the city were: Lee Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Helm, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Raudebush Mr. and Mrs. John Helm, Mr. and Mrs. William Alfather and family, George Brewster, Mabel Runyon, Reuben Liechty, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mauller, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Patterson, Miss Marie Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. E. B Vdams Mrs. James P.ice, Jessie Win3s NellTe Winnes, Fanny Rice, Mrs. "red Linn, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Meyers, Jonas Trltch, John Cclchin, Joh.i loseph George Steele, Jacob Shafer, Rose Conter Mayme Deininger George Baker and Lewis Gehrig. TO BE ORGANIZED On Friday Evening — Soldiers Monumental Committee Met ’PLANS PERFECTED i i ' ' For Incorporating Attorney A. P. Beatty Preparing the Papers i I The committee appointed by the G. A. R. to take steps to the erection of a monument to the soldiers of Adams 1 , county, met last evening at the BoI wers Realty office upon call of Chairi man S. B. Fordyce. Others present 1 were J. R. Parrish L. N. Granstaff, F. i F. Freck and D. K. Shackley. It was . decided to meet again Friday night ' when the organization will be effect 1 ed. The organization will be known as “The Soldiers' Monument Association of Decatur, Indiana,” and will be incorporated. Attorney A. P. Beatty has been instructed to draw the papers for the regular organization, ’ which will be perfected at the next meeting. The association will then , at once enter upon the work of raising , the funds for the monument, in tribute I to the brave men of this country, who contributed the best of their lives . of their country. It. is desired that there be a large , representation of the soldiers of the , county at the Post hall on Saturday . morning at ten o’clock, when the comi mittee in charge will present the solution for the building of the monument and also the finance raising. A good attendance is desired. o i LINN GROVE PASTOR RESIGNS Rev P. E. Walker, pastor of the Linn Grove and Poneto Baptist churches, who resently resigned, and preached his last sermons last Sunday, will leave in ten days for his home in Hendersonville, N. C. He will spend August with his parents there and will then go to Georgia to take up his work. Rev. Walker made his home with Rev. Poulson in Bluffton. The Bamun & Bailey show at Ft. Wayne today attracted one of the largest crowds to that city from here than any other performance In years. The interurban carried several loaded cars while the G. R & I. conveyed many to that city.

OWNS ORANGE GROVE Henry Heckman of five miles north of the city received a letter from his son Tjiwrence who in June left for Exeter, California, and shortly afterward purchased an orange grove w-riting that everthing is fine and all enjoying excellent health. The Exo ter Tribune telling of the purchase which he made contained the following: Although H. D. Lester, one of Exeters popular real estate men, listed part of the Albert Sragle ranch only Friday of last week, the 20 acres was such a real bargain that he sold it Tuesday to Mr. Heckman a recent arrival from Indiana. Tho tract of twenty acres lies in the Naranjo frostless orange belt and the land is considered of the best orange land in the county. Five acres are improved with nine year old orange trees balance is undeveloped. The consideration was $6,000 and local mon declare that! it is one of the real bargains of the- season. DOWN AN INCLINE Indianapolis Street Car Crashes Into Another at Hill Bottom INJURES r SIXTEEN Justice White Sentences Mitchell to serve nine Months n Jail Indianapolis Ind., July—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Sixteen person were injured seven of whom were taken to a hospital today when a street car dashed down an incline of the Virginia viaduct and crashed into an interurban freight car. According to Guy McCulver motorman in charge of the city car said that the breakes refused to work. About fifty passengers were on the cars at the time. None of them are believed to be serious. Washington D. C. July 23—Special to the Daily Democrat) —John Mitchell who with president Gompers and secretary Frank Morrison were adjudged guilty of contempt, in renewed procedings several weeks ago was today sentenced by justice Wright to serve nine months in jail-Mitchell was not in court he having waved his right. His council noted an ap peal. At the closed of the trial Jus tice Wright offered to suspend his ■ sentence provided that hereafter he would here to all court orders but Mitchell spurned the tender. New’ York N. Y. July 23—(Special to : Daily Democrat) —Police to day are searching for the gansters who last night shot and mortally w’ounded Miss Tillie Bierbaurer and Vincent Mazzarello two children who were playing in the street- The gansters i after ompting both of their pistols . withing reach of each other departed > leisurlly. Q--Russell Foughty, son of Mrs. Alice Foughty Wilson, of Ft. Wayne, formerly of this city, is recovering from t a bad case of blood poison of the arm , resulting from a cut in the palm of ’ the hand.

To secure a savings bank account and ’" to acquire property on a small income are lMc»»»wr all we H g°°d provided the price paid ““J' is not the loss of all the things that make Little life really worth living. I would rather! rpi . • g* ve my older son a dollar that he njay 1 IllllgS see or hear something which will broaden of or deepen his intellect than a nickel for a * ® moving picture show. The moving picture World show is all right and splendidly instruc-1 ' _ tire sometimes, but it is not the cheapness By Sarah Montgomery of the entertainment that appeals to my —™——■ discriminating taste. I would rather pay S2O or S3O a month rent in a neighborhood that saves my individuality than own a home in a row of soulless cottages. I may say that my own husband earns about $lB a week and there are five in my family. I know a woman who toiled and saved until she now owns a fine home. She also has a resulting semi-invalidism. She never had time to read spiritual things. They did not interest her. She had to have property a home for her-old age. Today she is a most unhappy, discontented woman. She cannot read, as it tires or bores her. She knows no spiritual uplift; no peace that comes only from within. Books are an unknown quantity and she is a mental beggar. I hare not money saved nor property, but I have the things worth i while. which will sustain me when Iha uli >

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COURTHOUSE NEWS Will of Alexander Bolds Admitted to Probate— Children get Estate AND ARE EXECUTORS C. J. Lutz Represents Adams County at State Tax Commission Meet The will of Alexander Bolds, late of Hartford township, whose death occurred July 15, was probated this morning. The will was executed August 29, 1911, and was witnessed by S. A. M. Butcher, Daniel P. Bolds, George W Bolds and Otto Bolds. Mr. Bolds provides for the payments of just debts and asks that a monument be erected at his grave at a cost of not less than S2OO. He sates that heretofore he has given to his children the following sums To Daniel P. Bolds, $5,346; George W. Bolds, $5,154; Otto Bolds, $4,250; to Rufina M. Lindsey, $3,000. He had purposed to give each the sum of $3,000, hence the amount in excess is to be charged against them in settling the estate, each having given notes for the amount in excess. The remainder of the estate is to be equally divided among the aforenamed children, all of whom are to be executors. C. J. Lutz, county attorney, left last night for Indianapolis, to appear before the state tax commission, representing Adams county which will be given a hearing today, o FOR FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY Mr. and Mrs. Peter Braun of south of the city, woh are entertaining their cousin, Mrs. Bleckner and daughter, Eleanor, of Fostoria, Ohio and Mrs. 1 Martin of Ft. Wayne, entertained last evening for them, the day being Mrs. Bleckner’s birthday anniversary. A rideparty from this city enjoyed a hay rack ride to the country hotnee and spent the evening, and as the affair was a surprise for Mrs. Bleckner, it proved all the more enjoyable. Mrs. I Bleckner was presented with a fine souveniir spoon with the best wishes of the donors, and then an elaborate 1 entertainment program was carried 1 out. Mrs. Braun served a most delicii ous luncheon during the evening, ’ Those present were: The Misses Marie , Heckman, Frances Baker, Leah Apt, Gertrude Burkhart, Mamie Harting, i Edith Miller, Rose Rumschlag, Vera i Meyers Stella Braun, Agnes and Gert trude, Burkhart, Rumschlag, Fledder Johann, Schurger, Harting, Loshe and • Braun. i Visiting Montreal, t ' 3 1 Anna’ Parent left for Montreal Cat nada to- make an extended visit with e her uncle Joseph Abel, Miss Parent 3 vlgited there about two years ago and 5 her visit was of such pleasure to her 1 that a return to tile Canadian country Was her choise this year. On her return she will stop at Rochester New B York also at several Massachuttes - cities for short visits, i 1 Mrs. E. S. Moses and daughter, f Mabel are spending the week in Toledo and Detroit.