Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 198.

THEY ARE ALL COMING Congressman Adair, Edw. Meyers and Geo. Maddy Send Acceptances. MANY NEW NAMES Interest in Old Home Week Continues—Herman Yager Goes to Chicago. g Herman Yager, chairman of the Old Home Week amusement committee, left at naon for Chicago, where , he will Lock over the Mezzappa “hows and talk business with their manager, In an effort to get them here for the big event. This company is the greatest carnival company in the world, and if they come, the amusement end ot the show is “fixed.” & Thomas M Reid and Charles H. Colter have been appointed a commit- / tee representing the T. P. A. on the Old Home Week invitation committee. Congressman Adair writes the following acceptance Washington, D. C„ Aug. 17. Dear Mr Quinn: —I acknowledge receipts of yours of the 14th, extending an invitation to attend the “Old Home Week" in Decatur, October 14, 1912. I thank you kindly for the invitation and assure you it will be a pleasure for me to visit your city some time that week. With best wishes and again thanking you, I beg to remain. Very truly yours, J. A. M. ADAIR. George L. Maddy writes from Jonesboro. Ark., demanding that his address be changed from Paragould to Jonesboro, that he may receive' an invite He says there used to be a station by the name of Paragould, but that it is now on a rural route. ! He to join the throng here i the big week. Hon. Ed W. Meyers of Ft. Wayne sends the following: x Ft. Wayne, Ind.. Aug. 17, 1912. French Quinn, Decatur, Ind.: Dear Mr Quinn:—Yesterday I received an invitation signed by you as chairman of the invitation- committee to attend a home-coming celebration to be held in Decatur during the , week of October 14, 1912. It is useless to say that I am highly pleased with it, and feel very grateful for the invitation that your committee has tendered me. Your well phrased and finely gotten up invitation abounds in sucii beautiful sentiment that it maeks one feel that the old friends in Decatu" and Adams county have not yet forgotten and perhaps forgiven their expatriated brethren. Governor Marshall recently at Columbia City. Ind., gave expression to very admirable sentiment relative to old home visits. Although Governor Marshall and I do not agree as to the best policies of government, his remarks on the subject of old friends and old home reminiscences made me feel homesick for old Decatur and Adams county. On that occasion he told the people of Columbia City that they lived in God's country, and advised them to stay on their farms in Whitley county. I say that if Whitley county is God's country then Adams county is the capital of God’s country, and I would all the more urge the people of Adams county to take pride in their precious heritage. SKBelieve. me. that I will be with you during the home-coming celebration R Yours for services in your praiseworthy undertaking. EDW. W. MEYERS. Ss To Mr. French Quinn, chairman Invitation Committee: B Below is a list of the absent members of the Knights of Pythias lodge of our city: ♦ Jerry Archer, Midland, Mich. F D. Annen, 805 S. Elwood AveOak Park, ill. E. C. Annen, 947 Mt. Vernon Ave., Columbus. Ohio. « C. Anderson, Gideon. Mo. Ed Augenbaugh, Indianapolis. Ind. Ed Beery, Moris, Ind. i Albert Brittson, Owasso, Mich.

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Dan P. Bolds, Geneva, Ind. Dick Burrell, Rochester, Ind. James A. Beery, Medora, N. D. G. W. Barnett, Redkey, Ind. A. B. Bailey, 317 Melita St., Fort Wayne, Ind. Cui no Di’unu, Ijutte, Mont. Dan J. Bailey, Berne, Ind. Charles Burdg, Ft. Wayne, Ind: M. E. Brackett, Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. Baumgartner, Linn Grove, Ind. L. O. Clark, 1809 Cadiz St., Dallas, Texas. John A. Cook, Cardwell, Mo. James O. Cook, Cardwell, Mo. C. M. Crawford, Hoagland, Ind. Dee Custer, Pleasant Mills. C. T. Dorwin, Lafayette, Ind F. W. Dibble, Box 75, R. R. 1, Lansing, Mich. J. B. Dutcher, Bloomington, Ind. Rufus East, Bloomington, Ind. R. K. Erwin, Ft. Wayne, Ind. L. G. Elllngham, Indianapolis, Ind. Frank France, Muskogee, Okla. H. A. Fristoe, Rochester, Ind. C. 0. France, Columbia City, Ind. Lew P. Fulk, Logansport, Ind. Henry Gaylor, Mesick, Mich. Fred Hancher, 809 E. Market St., (Continued on Page 2) LOST SLOW GAME Fast Shamrocks Went Down to Defeat Sundav Before Larue Crowd. FT. WAYNE SENECAS Held Locals Down to Three Runs—Ft. Wayne White Sox Next Sunday. — I 1 The tables turned Sunday for the Decatur Shamrocks, when they went down to defeat before a large attendance of enthusiastic fans, the defeat being administered by the Fort Wayne Senecas by a score of 12 to 3. To start with the grounds were wet and muddy, making the game rather slow, and the visitors rolled up a score four times that of the Shamrocks. It was a slugging battle and long drives were a common occurrence in Sunday’s game. Ellis, the star short stop, succeeded in bringing in the few scores obtained by the locals, outside of which they were unable to cross the home plate. Coffee, while up at the bat four times, managed to secure four hits, but his work was unavailing against the fast playing of the Senecas. The locals were also crippled in the way of a pitcher. Bone of Hartford City was unable to pitch the game, and Buffenbarger, who had been playing third base, was substituted, and from want of practice was unable to hold the heavy hitters. On next Sunday they will meet the Fort Wayne White Sox, a team well known to Decatur fans as a team of fast reputation, and the best independent nine playing out of Fort Wayne. They have guaranteed them $50.00 for a game, and the locals will be strengthened somewhat for the game of next Sunday, Out of fifteen games played they have never secured less than fourteen hits, and are a bunch of all-around players. Come out next Sunday afternoon if you want to see a game well worth the price of admission asked. d , AUTOMATIC INSURANCE. The Aetna Life Insurance company has installed in the interurban station, an automatic weighting and accident insurance machine. Drop a nickel in the slot and you get weighed, and also g# a SI,OOO accident insurance policy good for twenty-four, hours. Tht> machine is a new one to this city and is the cause of much comment. — o CHICKEN THIEVES. Chicken thieves have been bothers '.ng the spring fries that Holty keeps back of his place and Friday night cf last week the intruder awakened Holty, who managed to “sling” five shots at him before he disappeared from view. A watch is now being kept and a further visit will probably prove disastrous. UNCLE HEZEKIAH OBSERVES. People who never worry about, “crossin' a bridg till they git to it” | nearly alius finds when they git t’ th’j stream an’ hev t’ cross tbet they | ain’t no bridg fer them t’ git acrost.

Decatur, Indiana. Monday Evening, August 19, 1912.

FUNDS ARE LOW Jay County May be Obliged to Close Hospital at Portland Unless HELP COMES SOON Thought That Expenses of Winter Cannot be Met— May Close Sept. Ist. If financial assistance from some source not now available does not come to the Jay county hospital by September Ist, it has been announced by the board of managers that the institution will have to be closed Money now on hand, it is announced, with income expected, will be sufficient, it is stated to maintian the institution until that time, and pay all outstanding obligations. On the money available; however, it cannot meet the expenses of the winter, the managers say, and it has been thought wise to close now. Although usually not without opposition, the county council has appropriated SSOO annually for the use of the institution, it is said this is not all that is needed. Whether any increase will be asked or is possible is a matter that has not been considered. Many of those who have realized in the years it has been in existence, the value of the hospital, will be loath to see its doors permanently close, and it is expected that s6me method will be attempted to be devised to solve the financial problem. —Portland Commercial-Review’. Miss Lillian Gerard, daughter of A. W. Gerard of this city, has been superintendent of the hospital a number of years. BACK FROM WEST Miss Mabel Winans, One of County’s Teachers, Has Pleasant Vacation. MEETS MANY FRIENDS Formerly from Adams Coun-ty-—Are Doing Well— Visits Various Points. Miss Mabel Winans of Pleasant Mills has just returned from the west, after a pleasant vacation of three months. She stopped with her broth er, B. A. Winans, who is superintendent of the Livingston, Montana, schools, and she is very enthusiastic about the west. She also visited Ycl lowstone National park, and then went to Seattle, Wash., Portland, Oregon, and from there to San Jose, Cal., to see some Adams county peo-ple—-Frank Troutner, Mrs. P. P. Keeblc and Mrs. Stella Gardiner, formerly Oro and Stella Troutner. All are doing well. Mr. Keeble is one of the leading fruit growers of Santa Clara valley. Mr. and Mrs. Keeble took (Miss Winans in their car to all the interesting points near San Jose, namely: Stanford university, Alm Rock, San Francisco, Oakland and Hollister. From there she went to Reno, Nev., and spent some time with Mr. and Mrs. Asbury, formerly Ida Fuhrman, of Decatur; Mr. Wilda Fuhrman and Mr. Flave Payne and Lily Payne. Mr. Fuhrman is clerk for a large hardware store and Mr. Payne is collector fora lumber company. The boys like the west and as Mr. Fuhrman has captured one of Nevada’s fair daughters he will no doubt stay. x Miss Payne returned with Miss Winans. They stopped at Salt Lake City and saw the famous Mormon temple and heard an organ recital in the tabernacle. They came byway of Royal Gorge, Canon City, Denver and Omaha to Chicago. Although she saw some of the best country of the United States, she says that old Adams county still looks good to her. o Mr. and Mrs. E. B. will leave tomorrow for a visit in Detroit, Mich.

SHAVES AFTER 38 YEARS. Samuel Doak Surprises His FelloeTownsmen. No the man is not a stranger in the city. He is nobody more nor less than our estimable townsfellow, Samuel Doak, who has shaved off his beard for the first time in thirty-eight years. Strictly speaking, the first time in about thirty-four years. Thir-ty-eight years ago Mr. Doak let his beard grow, and then a few- years later, shaved it off for only a very short while, when he let it grow and has never been without it since. Probably no one in the city remembers him without a beard, but he doesn’t look so very strange after all —except; many years younger. O. SPLENDID SERVICES. The entire series of splendid services for the whole day Sunday at the United Brethren church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. E. A. Goodwin, wer*e crowned with six baptisms and four additions to the church. ABOUT THE SICK Perry Blackburn Undergoes Operation for Appendicitis Sunday Morning. A SERIOUS CASE Young Man in\.Employ of Adams Heading Factory —Notes About Sick. One of the worst cases of appendicitis coming to the notice of the Io cal physicians in the case, was tffat of Perry Blackburn, aged twenty-four, a young man in the employ of the Adams Heading company. Mr. Blackburn was operated upon Sunday morning at 10 o’clock at the hospital department of the county infirmary by Drs. D. D. and C. S. Clark and J. M. Miller. A number of adhesions were found and the case was p serious one, but it is thought the young man will get well, as he rested well over the night. Mips Wiggans, a trained nurse from Hope hospital. Fort Wayne, is attending him.. Mr. Blackburn has been subject to attacks of appendicitis for son)* 1 time, but none so serious as the last. Dimples, little daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. George E. Owen, has been 111 the past three or four days with summer complaint. 0 PROF LUCKY TO EUROPE. Prof. G. W. Lucky and family of Lincoln, Neb., who are visiting here with relatives, w’ere guests at dinner today of his sister, Mrs. Mary Kern, and at supper this evening of Dr. W. E. Smith and family. Prof. Lucky, who was a former teacher of this county, and who is now connected with the Nebraska university, is enroute to Europe, where he is being sent, by his university. While there he will also attend the international peace conference. BEGINS WORK TODAY. Miss Dora Schultz this morning be gan work at the Fullenkamp store, having charge of the alteration work of the cloak and suit department. Miss Schultz returned Sundav evening from Fort Wayne and Rome City, where he visited for a short while. Her sister, Miss Emma, who acompanied her, will remain for a two weeks' stay. oLOSS WAS ENORMOUS. I Niles, Mich., Aug. 19 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Damage close to a million dollars, two known to be dead, and many injured, is the result of a storm which swept the southern part of Michigan last night. Seven railroad bridges were carried away near Niles. Water in several of the streets reached a depth of five feet. Q TO ALL MEMBERS OF CITY OF DECATUR ORGANIZATIONS. As grouped lists of the organizations of which you are a member is printed in the paper, please cut out and file away and drop each person listed a letter or postal without fail. Eacu luulvldua! member ahnuM not shirk this responsibility.

FUNERAL SUNDAY Services for Mrs. Mary Runyan, Formerly nf Adams County, at Bluffton. SHE WAS ILL LONG Well Known Lady Succumbs Five Months After Death of Husband. The funeral of Mrs. Mary Runyan, aged sixty-one, was held Sunday morning at the home of her sons in Bluffton, where she had made her home. The death of this lady, who had been an invalid for the past twenty years, from dropsy and heart trouble, occurred last Thursday, five months after that of her husband, George W. Runyan. She was born in Adams county, November , 1851, her maiden name betng Mary Hilton. She was married in this county thir-ty-four years ago, and for the past fourteen years has resided in Bluffton. Her husband preceded her in death five months and passed away on March 7, 1912. One son, Jack, is dead and the following children survive: Edward, Delbert and Noah, all of Bluffton, and Mrs. Rosa Wheeler of Adams county. There are also the following surviving brothers and sisters: Mrs. Lavine Burgman, Geneva; Mrs. Phoebe Ligget, near Portland and Martin Hilton, whose last known residence was at Winchegtffl-. Mrs. Runyan was a member of the United Brethren church at Geneva, and had ever been a Christian, and a beloved mother. Burial took place at Linn Grove, where the husband was also laid to rest. LOOK OVER FIELD Representatives of Chaska, Minnesota Beet Factory Here Over Sunday. WERE WELL PLEASED Mr. Wagner in Michigan— Mr. Booth Employd as Chief Factory Engineer. C. T. Fenton and William Starke of Chaska. Minn., were here over Sunday to inspect the new sugar plant and the field of Indiana. The former is the manager and the latter the superintendent of the sugar factory at Chaska and they are touring the country looking at different plants. They were shown over the new plant here and taken tor a drive through the beet country about here by Manager Fred Hubbard, expressing themselves as delighted with the showing. E. M. Wagner, agriculturist for the sugar company, is at Ashley, Mich., this week looking after personal business. He owns a 220-acre farm adja cent to that town, and is looking after the harvesting of the crops and attending to other matters. Mr. Booth of Caro, Mich., has been given the position as engineer in chief at the new sugar factory. His position makes him the master mechanic and places him in charge of all the machinery, one of the most responsible places in the factory. He will move here at once. Mr. Booth has had many years’ experience in the business and the company feels they have chosen wisely. Other men will be employed soon for the force. g FUELLLING SOCIAL SUNDAY, The Fuelling church will give a big social next Sunday at the school house and the public is cordially invited to attend and participate in the happy events of the day. The affair is in charge of the Ladies' Aid society of the church and is sure to be a success. Ice cream and cake will be served and there will be other refreshments oil the grounds. Be sure to attend. ,

GAS PIPE BREAKS. When Water Mains Trench Caves in from Rains. Monroe street, between Eleventh and Thirteenth streets is in a state of “unrest” and turmoil. On the north side the water main trenches are being dug, and on the south, the sewer trench. The rains of Saturday and Sunday softened the earth to such an extent that the water main trenches caved in to a great extent and will cause much extra work. The water mains run almost parallel with the gas mains, also. To add to this, at places, the gas pipes are exposed. When the earth caved in it caused the gas pipes to sag in places, and near the corner of Thirteenth and Monroe streets, the gas pipe broke. Consumers who live west beyond this point were without gas Sunday morning and had to rig up some other stove to cook their meals until the leakage is corrected. The escape of the gas over Sunday and Sunday night also caused the neighborhood much disagreeable discomfort, in the matter of odor. BARN WAS BURNED William Worden of Union Township Suffered SIOOO Loss—No Insurance. ELECTRICAL STORM Responsible—The Lightning Soon Kindled Blaze— Contents Consumed. Llvljtnlng, which struck the . new barn on the William Worden farm in Union township, three and a half miles northeast of the city, during the electrical storm Sunday morning, be tween 1 and 2 o'clock, is responsible for the total destruction of the barn and its contents, entailing a loss of about a thousand dollars, with not a cent of insurance on barn or coptents The barn was practically new and was filled with a large quantity of oats and hay, and other farm products, together with farm implements, harness, buggies, etc., all of which ■iere lost. All of Mr. Worden’s crop of oat;s, except two loads, left in the fields; were deseroyed. Fortunately no live stocK was in the barn, and this escaped. The fire was first noticed by the Ed Ulman family, which lives near, members noticing the blaze through their windows. Mr. Worden had heard the •crash of thunder which followed the lightning stroke, and thought from the sound that it had struck nearby. He got up and examined the premises, but finding nothing, returned to bed. It was about a half hour later that they were awakened, by tire others, but by that time the entire inside of the barn was in a mass of flames, and beyond extinguishing. The barn was built about a year ago. q COMING WEDDING. Announcement of a wedding to be solemnized in the near future was published for the first time Sunday at the St. Mary's church, between Miss Tena Rademackcr and William Lattin of Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Lattin is a well known business man of Toledo and the event will be a prominent one. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Summers are home from Kalamazoo, Mich., where they went Saturday, and later were married. The bride wos Miss Rosa Hoffman, daughter of John Hoffman, and is well known to many Decatur people. The groom was all smiles as he came to work and at once got busy passing out cigars to his friends. They will reside on Walnut street, where their furnished home awaits them. MASONIC WORK. The F. and A. Masons will confer the Master Mason's degree Wednesday evening. A smoker will follow the confirming of the degree. A large attendance is expected. FUNERAL OF MRS. DAILEY. The funeral of Mrs. Rachel Dailey was conducted at the home in St. Marys township Sunday and attend ed by a large number of relatives and friends. Burial at Mt Tabor

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BUTLER REUNION Eighty-six Attend Annual Reunion of Jesse Butler Family Sunday. AT OLD HOMESTEAD In Root Township—Dinner in Yard—Program and Officers’ Election. Eighty six attended the annual reunion of the descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Butler, pioneers of this county. The reunion was held Sunday at the old Jesse Butler homestead in Root township, on which now resides a son, Harry E. Butler, and family. The home-coming, though there were several vacant places, was a hapily one, and the general social mingling was indulged in, until noon, when all sat down at once to the sumptuously tilled tables spread under the trees on the lawn. In the afternoon a program was given and officers elected. The Concord Sunday school will give a picnic in Clark’s grove, just east of the Monmouth school house Wednesday evening, August 21st. All kinds of amusements will be on the ground, including a game of ball between the young married men of the community. A royal good time is assured. Everybody invited to enjoy the day with us. Refreshments on the grounds. Come and bring your baskets well filled. COM. The annual missionary feast of the Bleeke church in Union township, oh which Rev. Bauer is pastor, was held Sunday, with a large atendance. The morning service was held in the church, with preaching by Rev. Jatis, and the afternoon service in the grove, Rev. Kohlmeyer of Kendallville preaching. Arrangements were completed Sunday by the Baptist Sunday school for the holding of their picnic in the Kunkel grove at Monmouth on Friday of this week. Those desiring to go will leave on the 8:30 or 11:30 car and returning will leave the grounds at about 2 or 5 p. m. The treasurer has been authorized to pay the fares •>f all those children, whose means will not permit them having the required amount of ten cents, and no one will necessarily be deprived of the day of pleasure in this way. The parents of the children are also asked t< attend if possible. — o— CRCUS COMES WITH RISING SUN Gentry Bros. Trains Will Arrive Early in the Morning. The first section of the trains bringing Gentry Bros.' All New Feature ehows will arrive in this city Tuesday at o’clock in the morning. Arrangements are made to have track room for the trains, that are today twice as large as ever before. With the stopping of the first wheel a host of showmen will tumble from their berths, refreshed by a night’s sleep. Almost before the earliest riser is astir the show lots will be transformed into a city of canvas coliseums. To the casual observei this will be accomplished in great disorder. But the training of the circus is such that no man makes an unnecessary move and wastes no energy. At 10 o’clock the famous parade ot the Gentry Bros.’ New Feature shows will leave the grounds. It will traverse the principal thoroughfares, presenting to old and young alike their nearest dream of fairy land. The Gentry Bros.’ shows, which are the world’s pioneers in trained animal exhibitions, have been so enlarged that they now present the realistic taming of leopards of the jungle and other ferocious beasts within canvas coliseums. A large portion of the youth of the community will welcome the trains on arrival, because this feature appeals to both old and young. Gentry Brothers’ All New Feature shows will give two exhibitions in this city Tuesday. These displays will be upon a larger and grander scale than ever before in the two decades of the Gentry Brothers’ career. For Decatur only admiss on Is reduced to 25 and ?5 cents.