Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1912 — Page 1

■ Volume X. Number 192.

MAKE OUT YOUR LIST Help the Boosters Boost the ' Big Boosting Week Here for October 14th. EVERYBODY DOIN’ IT — Watch the Names and Send fW Them a Card of Invitation —lt Will Help Some. ■ ~ E If you care to investigate, you will have uo trouble in ascertaining that there is enough hidden energy back of the Old Home Week proposition j to make it a wonderful week in De•eatur. Everybody who has anything to do with the various departments is up on his toes and the work of preparation is going forward now steadily The lists for invitation are coming in and everybody is showing a big interest in seeing that everybody who ever lived here gets not one, but a dozen letters or cards, urg- ' ing them to join the bunch here, the week of October 14th.. If you know Os anybody who has not been invited, -and you can tell by watching the pa per. don't accuse anybody of not doing their duty, but do it yourself. Cut I out a coupon and send it in. The slogans are coming from everywhere, i Berne, Monroe, Geneva and this city. I Get in the game and send one in. You may get the five dollars and anyway «<>n show the proper spirit. New names have been added to the list sent in Saturday. If you know any of the following, write them a ■card and insist on them coming home for the big week. It will help wonderfully. Those Invited. James Stoops, R. F. D. No. 1, Shar-j on, Okla B. P. Stoops. R. F. D. No. 1, Bloom I City, Wis. George McConnell, Oklahoma City, Okla. George W. A. Lucky, Lincoln, Neb. Frank Ferrell, Hommond, Ind. Hon' George T. Whittaker, Dunkirk, j Indiana William Baughman, Fort Wayne,; Indiana. Harrison street. Mark McConnell, Cardwell, Mo. | Hon Richard H. Hartford, Portland, Ind. Hon William H. Harkins, Portland. | Ind | tlon. Jdbn P. McGeatb. Harv»y Harruff, Fremont, Mich. | William E. Fulk. | Hon. George W. Cromer, Muncie, Indiana ' Hon William C. Ryan. Fort Wayne, Indian* Elmer Johnson, Fargo, N. D., care Home Telephone Co. g Hou. Richard K. Erwin, Ft. Wayne, Ind > Hoti Stephen Fleming, Ft. Wayne. | EgCeorg* McKean, Granite City, 111., j 501 W First street. William Hoile, Fort Wayne. Ind , tlfeon J. A. M. Adair, Washington, | gWC.: Portland. Ind. Hkoa J J. M. LaFollette, Blooming , ten, Ind ®Hon. bkank Snyder, Portland, ind ■ f Hon. J. FVed France, state house.: Xn'diauiLpolis, a Ind 8 Lew EXlingham. state house. Indian , I Spoils, Ind. ■ H L. Coater, state house. Indianan- 1 oils. Ind. ■'Hon. Thurman Gottschalk, Ottawa. Ohio. K Hon J. Fiaak Mann. Muncie. Ind. POLICE COURT NEWS. ■kjqvire Stone heard two cases Saturday night, the first being against Lawrence Doughlerty, who was up before him once before on the same charge. Dougherty pleaded guilty to the charge as stated, and drew five dbllars and costs, with the judgment reading that he should work it out on the streets. The next up was Thomas (Jlaxson, who pleaded guilty to being drunk and drew a ‘‘fiver and coats, with the same judgment as to working the streets in his case. This makes a total of six men who Srill work on the streets and it may be that more will be added from time to time, in order to keep up the force of workmen. It is thought by the best authorities that if the judgment. ' the sentence to work the s.-jjfeets that It will prove legal in btbry way. .

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

guy stock company. I he Guy Stock company band made its initial appearance on the streets here today, where they gave,a band concert at which there were a good many present. The band rendered several new popular pieces and gave a eery creditable performance. Tonight the company will &4ve as their opening bill the drama, “A Man of Honor," a play known from coast to coast. It is replete with good, situations and cannot fail to please when played by these old favorites of Decatur.

WAS KNOWN HERE Edward McLeod Murdered at Garrett Saturday, Formerly Lived Here. THE COMMON LAW: Is the Defense of Grover Emsley, Who Killed McLeod in Front of Home. Edward McLeod, aged about thirty, son of John McLeod, a former rest-, dent here and at Pleasant Mills, and who has many relatives and friends ' here, was shot and killed, at 11:30 o’clock Saturday evening, by Grover . Ensley, in front of the latter’s home at Garrett, where McLeod also lived. Ensley is a fireman on the B. & 0., while McLeod was a painter, unmar-1 ried and living with his father. For six or eight weeks McLeod has been intimate with Mrs. Ensley, and the matter had been the town gossip. As usual in such cases the husband was the last to hear of it, but when he did, he became wildly jeolous, and ar once planned for a brutal revenge. He left the house Saturday noon, telling his wife .he was going out on his regular run. Instead of doing so he secured a shot gun and a revolver and hid in the home of a friend just across the street. At 9:30 Mrs. Ensley and young McLeod came home, acompanied by a Miss Mary Swizer of Howard, Pa., who was her guest, and who also had a friend, a plumber, named Smith. They sat on the front porch about a half hour, when they went into the house. Mrs. Ensley noticed that her husband had taken his revolver and became frightened. She telephoned to the B. & O. offices and learning that Ensley had not gone out on his run, showed real alarm She and McLeod arranged then to go somewhere else to spend the night, and packing a suit case, left the house. .Ms they stepped out on the walk, Ensley, who had been hiding near the house, emerged from around the corner and when not more than ten feet away, fired directly at MeLeod with the shot gun. The shot did not scatter and a terrible hole 1 was tom in the victim's side. He was carried into the Ensley home, the murder himself assisting. Later he was removed to the hospital, where ( he died in an hour. Ensley gave himself up, confessing to the deed, i and expressing his sorrow. As he stood beside his victim, bathing his . brow, McLeod said: “I want to shake hands with you as I -must die; ! I have no one to blame but myself.” Ensley, Mrs. Ensley and Miss Switzer are all in jail at Auburn and will be held until court convenes. Edward McLeod was the second son of John McLeod by his second marriage and was known by a number of Decatur people. He has borne a good reputation and his death in so tragic a manner is regretted deeply by all. Ensley will no doubt plead the common law, and he has the sympathy of the people of Garrett. Mrs. Ensley is a beautiful woman, twentyseven years old, and has been popular in Garrett, until her faithlessness toward her husband became the topic of conversation. —o — A. I. U. TUESDAY NIGHT. Regular meeting of American Insurance Union will be held at the Yeoman hall Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. AH members requested to be present. District Deputy Rayburn of Fort Wayne will be in attendance. ’ | FARM FOR SALE. The last chance to buy 95 acres, for quick sale, we will take $75.00 per acre, within 3 miles of Decatur. See Harvey & Leonard, over Vance, Hite and Macklin’s. 192t3

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, August 12, 1912,

BEAT THE NIGGERS Shamhocks Defeat Marion Colored Giants in Fast Game Sunday. BEFORE A BIG CROWD Locals Considered Among the Fastest Playing Independent Ball. The Marion Colored Giants, the declared champions of independent base ball teams in Indiana, went down to defeat before the fast Shamrocks Sunday by a score of U to 6. The largest crowd of the season responded for the game, and it was one excitement from the words “play ball’’ to the last inning of the game. The visitors were a nice, clean bunch of players, and knew the game throughout, but were outclassed by < the locals and took their defeat as a deserving one. Charles Baxter was the man with the big stick, and secured, a home-run and a three-bagger. Bone and Coffee formed the battery for the Shamrocks and were in fine trim, while Newson and Bassett controlled the ball for the Giants and put up a good fighting game. The game for next Sunday will be announced in a day or so, and another fast battle is looked, for. Faster teams are secured for each game and the locals are becoming recognized as in a class unsurpassed. The score by innings was as follows: 12345678 9—R H E Decatur ..0 4004030 *—ll 16 5 Marion ...0 10500000—6 85 Home Run —Baxter. Three-base hit —Baxter. Two-base hits —Ellis, Johns, Weaver, Simmons. Batteries, Decatur—Bone and Coffee: Marion, Newson and Bassett.

FOR JOHN’S DAY Excellent Program Being Arranged for August 15 at Eaton, Ind. MANY ARE GOING Decatur and Other Parts of County to be Representen for the Day. Johns' day, which has now come to be recognized by all as one of the big days throughout Indiana, and to be observed at Riverside park, Eaton, Indiana, on Thursday, will be attended by a number of Johns from this city, Monroe and other places of the county. Preparations for the biggest time ever are being made, and Eaton expects to have .more Johns on that day than all the rest put together. Among the big speakers to be present on John’s Day are Hon. J. A. M. Adair, congressman from the EightTl district; Judge John LaFollette of Portland; John M. Studebaker of South Bend; Hon John Forkner of Anderson; John Burns, John Bonham, and Father John Keller of Hartford City. The day will commence with a big automobile parade of the Johns which is scheduled for 9:30 in the morning. The parade will be headed by the Eaton band and it will form on West Harris street and leave for the park at 9:45 sharp. A prize of $5 in gold will be given for the largest delegation of Johns In line for this parade. One of the features of the entertainment, aside from the speeches, will be the old fiddlers’ contest, which commences promptly at 3 o’clock. All fiddlers over fifty years of age may enter this contest. Prizes will be given. All musicians desiring to enter the contest are requested to notify John Remington of Eaton. Prizes will be awarued also for the longest John, the shortest John, oldest John, youngest John, fattest John, leanest John, prettiest John and ugliest John present. Another feature of the day will be the big balloon race at 4:30 o’clock between the biggest aeronautic Johns in the state.

Contests will include running, swimming, sack and other kinds of races. The entertainment will include a baseball game between the Gaston and the champion Eaton teams. In addition visitors will find the regular amusements of the park, including roller skating, dancing, boating, bathing razzle dazzle, shooting, bowling. ABOUT THE BRIDGE I Some Very Funny Ideas Entertained About Building of the New Bridge. MANY QUEER BELIEFS Are Evidenced by Visitors to the New Monroe Street Bridge Site. “Some funny ideas are advanced by persons who happen down to look at our bridge,’’ said one of the men concerned in the building of the ‘ bridge, today, “inasmuch as they appear to have no idea of how a concrete bridge is made or what it looks like. One fellow from down near Linn Grove came up today and after ; sizing up our bridge appeared to think it wasn’t much. In talking with him it developed that he thought that inasmuch as the arches were rounded on top it would be necessary for persons crossing the bridge to get their wagons down on one side and then drive up hill, down, up hill and down again in order to get across. In other words that the bridge would form two steep hills to , be climbed, he not thinking how he would get down to the base in the! first instance. Then, there was an-' other, who objected to the bridge be cause it would cause the water to back up, in his estimation there not being enough opening for the water to pass through under the arches. He believes that it will cost from three to five thousand dollars every winter to keep the river free from ice south of the bridge. He can’t see w-here the extra pressure of the water, if it did back up behind the bridge, would help create a force that would force more water through the openings thap if it flowed through of its own accord. Another fellow can’t see how the bridge can be built solid and permanently by placing wet con- j create against the dry, laid the day I before. “Yes, there’re some funny ideas en-1 tertained about this bridge," said the I speaker. The workmen began this morning i to place the concrete on the east arch of the bridge. The concrete is poured in sections, it requiring over a week to cast each arch. Much interest is evidenced by the public who view the operations. o COME ON BACK, KIDDO! (By de Author of “Everybody’s Doin’ It.) Say, Kiddo, did yeh notice the bunch of Invitation senders in Friday evonin’s pape? Ought to get somethin’, what? The only question is I are they liable to go o na vacation? Well, as fur me, 80, I don’t think so. I’ve got ’em guessed right, they will all be investin’ in new fountain peny and petitionin’ the council io remove the speed limit. It's a cinch, Kiddo, that Mister Wilyum Movedaway out in Montana and Mister Samuel Binaway out in Arizona is going to git an invite to stretch their legs under the new extension table back here in little old Decatur that will give ’em th’ cum home fever right, get me? And say, 80. Believe me, the postmaster may get a few extra yellow boys in his pay envelope from Uncle Sam when the old man gets on to what a hel of a bunch of pen pushers live In this 'ere metropulis. Say, Reginald, if you see any fellow that ain’t got ink on his fingers, reprove him. will you? If you havn't, I’ve got a pair of. brass knocks Say, Kiddo, don't worry about that Yager boy. he'll git the funny boys here so that there’ll be so much fun old Home week that half the ginks on Saturday night will think it's last Monday evenin’ 1 . No kiddin, now, 80. Is there any ink on your fingers?

AUTO BROKE DOWN I Crowd of Jolly Young Folks on Way to Celina, Got Stuck in the Mud. NEARING WILLSHIRE i Had to be Pulled Back to City and Trip Was Called Off for the Time. A jolly crowd of Decatur young people, starting out early Sunday morning for Celina, Ohio, to spend the ; day as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Christ j Meyers, were prevented from enjoyI ing their festivities, when one of their j automobiles, just three miles on this i side of Willshire, failed to go further in tile mud and the rear wheels, failing to work, the party became stuck in the mud, and they had to send word to Willshire to send out some help and bring them back to Decatur. The party expected to enjoy a day of rare pleasure and everything was in readiness for their coming, but they were compelled to call up Mr. and Mrs. Meyers, telling them of their trouble. The crowd was composed of Oda and Letta Fullenkamp, Carrie Dowling, Lydia Miller and Stewart Niblick, Tony Hackman, John Ramsey, Ed Weisling and Fred Rullenkamp, the first five being in . the ill-fated car. They were pulled to this city with ropes, and although much pleasure was afforded the party, they were greatly disappointed that ■ their pleasure was failed as it was. They arirved home at noon. o BUSINESS MEETING. The young people’s society of the United Brethren church will hold their business session with Mrs. i John Potter this evening at 7:30. Let 'ah be present. Important business. o~ — M. E. EXCURSION Many from Country Will\ Join the Outing—Everybody Cordially Invited. ROOM FOR ALL United Brethren Sunday I School Will Probably Join —Buy Tickets. i There is plenty of room for you and . I your friends on the big excursion to be given Wednesday under the auspices of the M. E. church of this city, and you are invited to participate in ! this day of guaranteed pleasure. Many country folks are preparing to take | the day out, and the committee has asked us to say that they are most ' cordially Invited and that all arrange I ments possible tc make them comfortable and make it a day of real enjoyment will be made. The fare is sev-enty-five cents for the round trip, leaving here over the Clover Leaf at j about 8 o’clock, standard time. Tick I | ets can be purchased at the Graham j & Walters office. The United Brethren Sunday school will also probably take advantage of this day’s excursion, thus making the crowd bigger and happier. At Marion the day will ■be spent at beautiful Goldthwaite park and the Soldiers’ home, where everybody can enjoy themselves to the limit. Better join the crowd. ATTENTION! The Sunday school pupils who anticipate going with the Methodist picnic crowd on tho excursion to Marion on Wednesday of this week, can secure their tickets from their teachers, and are asekd to secure them in time to avoid any misunderstanding at time of going. ! <j — WEDDING BANS. Bans of matrimony were published for the first time Sunday at the St. >' Mary’s church between Miss Ruth • I Shaffner of Willshire, Ohio, and Will Keller of this city. Both young peoI pie are well known, the groom being 1 one of the employees of the city.

BAND CONCERT. The regular band concert of the Decatur city band will be held on the corner of Madison and Second streets Tuesday evening, commenc ing at 8 o'clock. The Guy Stock company’s band will also give concerts on the streets at noon and 7 o’clock of each day and on Tuesday evening the public will be treated to a feast of music as the city band will play at 8 o’clock, closely following the show concert band. All should come out and boost the home band upon these occasions. SUGAR BEET NOTES Farmers Are Advised to Cultivate the Late Beets and Get Weeds Out. HUBBARDS AT MUNCIE Work on Beet Sheds and New Pike at Plant—Mr. Baird is Here. Following the three or four days of rain, the late beets should be cultivated. Mr. Wagner says his advice to the farmers would be to cultivate the beets where they can get in between the rows without damaging the plants. The farmers must use their own judgment in these matters, remembering all the time that the more cultivation and the freer from the beets, the bigger the crop will be. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hubbard and daughters, Fredericka and Ruth, motored to Muncie for an over Sunday visit. They will return Wednesday and in the meantime Mr. Hubbard will call on wholesale dealers in central Indiana, taking the first orders for the Decatur sugar to be made this fall. C. B. Wilcox has actively assumed his desk work in the sugar company’s office and takes hold of the duties like an old timer. He is familiarizing himself with the various duties and will soon be acquainted with the thousand and one things necessary to answer all the questions that are asked there each day. The work on the new beet shed-s, wagon and train, at the grounds north of town, is going on rapidly now. The foundations are completed and the buildings will soon take shape. Work on a team track or wagon road, leading from the road which extends from the stone quarry road to the beet sheds has begun, and there will soon be a good highway across the grounds, just over the hill. Christen & Smith are completing the work of putting in eighteen hundred feet of water main, giving the big plant ample fire protection. This part of the Improvement was done by the city committee. W. H. Baird, secretary of the I arrows Construction company, is here (Continued on Page 2)

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BURGLARS ESCAPED Big Haul Made by Thieves, Who Entered Rundell Home Saturday Night. MOSTLY IN JEWELRY Bloodhounds from Celina Failed to Keep Track and Parties Escaped. Bloodhounds from Celina. Ohio, failed to run down the robbers, who on Saturday night at 9:30 o’clock, entered the Will Rundell home at the corner of Fifth and Madison streets, and made their escape with jewelry and other valuables totaling the sum of $645, and twenty dollars in money. The Rundells were about to retire for the night, when Mr. Rundell, who is the manager of the Ward Fence company, said he had to go down to the office for a short while and secure his umbrella. Mrs. Rundell, desiring an ice cream soda, accompanied her husband, and it was while absent from the home, from 9:25 to 9:45 o’clock, that the robbery w'as committed, and the burglars escaped without being captured. In the meantime. Miss Grace Shaw, employed as domestic by the family, who had been down street, returned home, and upon entering the house, noticed the robber, a tall, slender man, wearing a raincoat and soft hat, ransacking a desk in the dining room, but upon her arrival he became frightened and fled. Miss Shaw, also frightened, came back up town and going to the Steele & Weaver racket store, called Mr. Rundell, who, by this time had reached home. Mr. Rundell at once went for his revolver in his bedroom and found it to be gone. The local police were at once notified and responded to the call a few minutes later, while bloodhounds were sent for at Celina, Ohio, and arrived on the scene a few hours afterward in charge of Charles Schenck, and were at once put to work. The dogs were the same ones which tracked the “jack the peeper," at Monroe a year or more ago, but owing to the soaked condition of the ground could carry a track no further than a square or two. They followed up to the porches of various neighboring homes, but whether it was the tracks of the robbers, who had prowled around the homes in the nearby neighborhood, or the tracks of the neighbors who had called during the day was unknown. The valuables were nearly all the property of Mrs. Rundell alone, and consisted of a diamond, and perhaps fifteen other rings. Twelve of the thirteen rings were all of Tiffiany settings, and eight of the number turquoise. Two bracelets, two rosaries, one a silver with amethyst beads and another of gold, with agate beads. Each was valued at sls, and one was a present to Mr. Rvndell from his mother. Mrs. CONTINXrerrt ON PAGE TWO