Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1912 — Page 1

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■NTHUSIASTIC I: I WAS SESSION H I 1 if . 11 J>me-coming Committees feeport and Hold Interesting Meeting ! I ( gfe'JRSDAY EVENING ' i | f >img Men to Organize and 1 fl| ■kssist in Raising the i | Funds. M'ne board of managers of the did ' Week ' association met at the ■ ' of the Bowers Realty company lay evening. The amusement 1 reported that they were re< ly to contract witn one of the Invest carnival companies no* showupon the road and that the carnicompany's representative would to Decatur within a day or I decoration committee reported that they had arrangements all ma with a decorating firm so that t»y would be able to make satisfaccontract for the proper decoraMnof the streets within one days' nofl ■The invitation committee report'd the names of former residents being sent in in great numbets that replies to the invitations wire so numerous that every indicatin points to a very large number of coming back. ■ committee tackled between ?,nri aid 400 slogans that were sent in, after nearly two hours of a wranwere unable to decide, although more slogans will be received. The postponed the sei.-.-”.... slogan until Friday evening at time the committee will again . S»-t al ’d selectcommittee of five you: u > - to aid in the work of the s ommittees and will bold their t meeting this evening, to get toorganize and otherwise outline work The members are ?m- - who will serve as chairHerbert Bremerkamp, Harry Libert Seilemey. r and Tony tin ter. — .9 Cardwell, Mo., Aug. 191.’. 9:3r French Quinn: ■®Fr:?nd:—l see by the Daily ILnio you all agoing to have a Big time , -catur. in October, iHHc 11, and Dungoin’ to hate a lot old home folks to cum to old D * I soupos youall agoin' to have :HBlo: of Shows and such amusements I don’t ges I and Uncle Mart and o man Gorg Werlan Will be With and Don't ges Link Hill is I will quit off for this time, youall a good oil time in the , oil town of Decatur. Adams Co.. Yours truly, ’■ ORA SELL. 3 South Chicago, 111, Aug. 22. 191? French Quinn. Chairman: IMy [tear Dir: Yours to hand. on my way from Woodward, Okla , ■ ■o my old home, Decatur, Ind, to Respectfully yours, '• JAMES STOOPS. I Sharon, Okla S—l am the oldest ex-sheriff oi Mi lams county, now living Bit French Quinn: i" Friend: Your kind invitation eceived. The “Home-coming Week” planned, sounds most inviting. Its , |H)uccess is assured by its able commit-. Reading the names is a list of Decatur’s Boosters ■ > ixissible, some of us will try to be ■there during that week, but we had gßplanned our annual autumn trip to ■northern Minnesota for that month. 9 Hoping you will all enjoy the reHBunion, I am Sincerely, HELEN HART OAKES I Maywood, 111., Aug. 21, 1912. FL Wayne, Ind., Aug. 22, 191--French Quinn: I Dear Sir:—Received yovr kind in ■ 'itation to attend the “home com- ■ 'ng.” Will be glad to spend a day E with you if possible, as I am always ■ interested in Decatur affairs. Hoping By°u success and a large gathering, I ■ remain Yours truly, MARY E. WINANS.

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I’. B.—Allow me to add that I think ? would be a Sood slogan for Deca--111 • All strive to make greater outhome town Decatur.’’ ( hicago, 111., Aug. 22, 1912. Mr. French Quinn, Chairman: My Dear 1-rench:—Upon my return 1 o the office after two weeks’ vaca-' Hon I found your kind invitation to tait Decatur during the “Old Home! Meek,’ October 14th to 19th. I beg I -eave to thank you for the courtesy implied by the remembrance, and to assure you that I will make every effort to be with you. I hope to be able to leave here on the evening of the Ifn and spend the 19th with old friends and acquaintances, among whom 1 count you as one. With the hope that yon will have a reunion never to be forgotten by the participants, and with expression of my personal sentiments and high esteem, 1 am Yours truly, ELMER D. BROTHERS. Gideon, Mo., Aug. 20, 1912. Mr. French Quinn: Dear Sir and Friend:— After spending the greater part of our lives from childhood in Decatur, no other trip could afford us greater pleasure, but find it impossible to attend in October. Thanking you much for the kind invitation, we remain Sincerely, MR. AND MRS. N. C. ANDERSON. Fremont, Mich., Aug. 21, 1912. Mr. French Quinn, Chairman Invitation Committee: Dear Sir: —We also wish to acknowledge receipt of your announcement of old Home-coming week and invitation to attend. We still claim Decatur our home. It is generally understood that our absence from the Great city, Decatur, was only temporary. It affords us great pleasure to say that we will be there. . Very truly yours, S. E. AND H. HARRUFF. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lochnit, 919 W. 27th St., Indianapolis, Ind. C. W. Bushnell, 1806 Dudley St., Muncie, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Mose Byers, Freemont, Ind. William S’nger, Monroeville,. Ind. Fitch J. Spencer, Wauseon, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Foreman, Puyllup, S. D. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Smith, 104 E. Wayne St., Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Scott, care Will Ornond, Plymouth, Ind. Mrs. Tina Scott Nicewanger, R. R. 2, Marion, Ind. Mrs. Mary Scott Wertenberger, Box i 39, Laketon, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Scott, 126 N. Temple Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Wm. E. Bleeke, Redlands, Ca. G. W. Bauserman, Three Rivers, I Mich. J. D. Cline, Silver Lake, Ind. J. W. Bucks, South Rend, Ind. Sam Durbin, Starkweather, N. D. I Prof. .Jesse Lawrence, Starkweath- ' er, N. D. Pi of. Jesse Lewis, Warrensburg, ‘ Mo. Frank Foreman, Berne, Ind. Mrs. D. J. Erwm, Valparaiso, Ind. 1 Charles Spuhler, Scottsville, Ind. ' Prof. 11. D. Merrill, Kokomo, Ind. Mrs. Ollie Kingman, Delaware, O. Vai J. Grim, Ossian, Ind. Mike Gaffer, Fort Wayne, Ind. Mrs. Harvey t'phoff, 411 S. Woodbridge St., West Side, Saginaw, Mich W. C. Jordan, Box 176. Lima. Ohio. Mary Longfellow, Gen. Del., Lima, 1 Ohio. D. F. Oaks, 317 4th Ave., Maywood, Illinois ! Mrs. Harry Judd, So. 4th St., Maywood, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Clayron Stevens, Sturgis, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Valenti, Kendallville, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Todd, Bluffton, Ind. , _ Mr. and Mrs. George Morris, Bluff1 ton, Ind. ! Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bell, Elwood, ID Mr. and Mrs. J- C. Moore, 718 N. ■ Miami St., Fort Wayne, Ind. Mr , and Mrs. John McConnehey, Baker, Mont. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mann, Liberal, Kansas. _ . Mr. and Mrs. George Beers, Fort Wayne, Ind. Frank Leslie. Van Wert. Ohio. Sara Shepherd, Lima, Ohia r C Hard, Washington C. O. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Railing, 2330 Snear St., Logansport, Ind. Dr F H. Lebrun, DeWittc Ark. ; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Slagel, 418 S. Adqt Marion, Ind. 5 Tviniam T. Burk, Santiago, Cal. J Mr and Mrs. Frank Smith, 179 E. State St. Hammond, hub (Coatmuer- ->

Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, August 23, 1912.

A WEEK EARLIER Miss Inez Snellen and Mr. Paul Kendall Married Wednesday, Aug. 21 INSTEAD OF AUG. 28 As Date hirst Announced for Wedding—Wished to Surprise Friends. W ishing to surprise their many friends and give them the slip, instead of w-aiting until Wednesday, August 28th, the date first announced tor their wedding, Miss Inez Snellen, and Mr. Uaul E. Kendall of Willshire, Ohio, were quietly married a week earlier, Wednesday, August 21, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Snellon, at Willshire. The ceremony took place at 8 o’clock in the morning and was solemnized by the Rev. Buell of the Methodist church, the ring ceremony being read. Golden glow blooms were tastefully combined with ferns, in the decocations of the rooms, and a prettybower decoration of the bay windowin the library was arranged for the bridal party to stand during the ceremony. Girlish and pretty, alwa'ys, the bride was even more so in her beautiful wedding gown of white crepe de Chine, with trimmings of macrame lace. Following the ceremony, a wedding breakfast was served in three courses in the dining room, Mrs. Snellen being assisted by Mrs. G. Mercer. The bridal party were seated at a small table and the other guests at a large table, pretty in their summer floral decorations. The wedding was a very quiet one, the guests being besides the members of Miss Snellon’s family, the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kendall and son, Kenneth, and the Rev. and Mrs. Buell. The couple left soon after the wedding, in an automobile for Defiance, Toledo, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich., and were accompanied to Van Wert, by their brothers, Frank Snellen and Kenneth Kendall. They will be at home after August 30, at Willshire. Both were former residents of this city and are well and favorably known here. Miss Snellen was a graduate of the Decatur high school, and the groom a graduate from Staunton, Va. TO EXHIBIT FENCE Ward Fence Company Ships Large Consignment of Ornamental Fence to THE OHIO STATE FAIR One Week Later Will Show at Indianapolis—Decatur Men in Charge. .

E. H. Shoemaker, W. F. Place and Paul Reinking, members of the Ward Fence company, left today for Columbus, Oh’f, where they wiil place in readiness the display of the company for the Ohio State fair to be held next week, commencing with next Monday. A complete display of ornamental fence put out by the company will be shown and the display this year will far surpass anything shown heretofore at state fairs. A large shipment of goods was made Thursday and will be there on the arrival of the men to be in charge of the display. From Columbus they will go to Indianapolis to prepare a stand for the Indiana State fair, which follows one week later. The sales of the company are immense, and their extensive field of advertising is bringing for them orders from every state in the union. The three men who left this morning will be in charge of the exhibit and literature of all kinds will find itself into thousands of new places and explaining the high qualities of the Ward Fence.. Mrs. Chauncey Hoestler, who visited with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Barkley, has gone to the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Henry Judd, in ITeble township, for a further visit.

[ ISCH HOSPITABLE HOME. Couple Recently Married Are Now at Home in New House. Will Zwick of the Gay, Zwick & Meyers company, took two large loads of furniture to the J. C. Isch farm in the south part of the county Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Isch were married about, a year ago, but are going to housekeeping now for the first time in their fine new house recently built. This will be one of the most hospitable homes in the county, and is furnished accordingly to accommodate the many who will share the hospitality. Five bed room suits, two dining tables and thirty-two dining room chairs are among the many other pieces of furniture. The Boston store furnished the carpets and draperies. The Isch farm was formerly the Robison farm, the largest in the county. COURTHOUSE NEWS Sheriff Durkin in Peculiar Position Regarding Disposition of Olwein. HE IS NOW BETTER And Does Not Want to go to the Asylum—Real Estate Transfers. Sheriff Durkin is placed in a most peculiar position, and is at a loss just how to proceed in the matter of Jacob Olwein, of Kirkland township, wno was adjudged insane August 13th. Word came Wednesday that there was room for him at the asylum at Richmond. and that he would be accepted. As Sheriff Durkin had the warrant to get him and take him there, he proceeded to go to do his duty, but was informed that Mr. Olwein was so much improved that it was not thought necessary to take him there. Sheriff Durkin was at a loss as to how to act, as he had the warrant, and as he will be held responsible, unless released, it was decided best to write to Dr. Smith, superintendent of the Easthaven asylum, explaining the matter to him, and asking him to make the release. Word will be awaited from him, before further action will be taken. Mr. Olwein had worried considerably over a law suit, over the fact that his daughter had married out of the church ,and also over a son’s being in the w-est. Friends will be pleased to hear of his recovery.

County Auditor H. S. Michaud has received the notices to voters of the registration for September 6th, and inspectors are requested to call at the auditor’s office as soon as possible and get them for posting. Real estate transfers: Jane Meshbarger to Flavius Shepherd, lot 12, Linn Grove, SI,BOO. _o WILL BE FAST. Without doubt the coming ball game of next Sunday between the Shamrocks and Fort Wayne White Sox will be the fastest pulled off on the local diamond, and the locals are getting in some mighty good practice for the fast game expected. Pitcher Bone, the left-handed twirler from Hartford City, will be here again, and if he is in his usual trim, the game will be the best ever pulled off on the local diamond The White Sox is the best Independent team playing out of Fort Wayne, and the Shamrocks will demonstrate that they are there with the goods. VISITED IN COLORADO. Mrs. Sam Howard and brother, Ralph Spade, have returned from a two weeks’ visit in Boulder and Denver, Colo., with their sister, Mrs. Herman Sweigart. While gone they visited the principal places of that vicinity and found the mountains especially enoyabie. A two-mile climb up a mountain, among the clouds, where they built a fire and had their dinner, was a very pleasing and unique picnic party, although Mrs. Howard found the air there too rare, and was glad to return to the valley again. While there, a heavv Lail storm, when hail as large as hen’s eggs fell, was experienced. Touhey Green of the Boston store is enjoying his vacation at Indianapolis.

WILL MEAN MUCH New Beet Factory Will Eventually be to State Two Hundred Million DOLLAR RESOURCE Is the Talk of the Country, and it Will Soon be Producing Sweets. The establishment in Indiana of a new- industry which may eventually add $200,000,000 annually to the resources of the state, will occur a fewweeks hence with the opening at Decatur of the $750,000 beet sugar factory of the Holland-St. Louis company. That the commercial importance of the sugar industry to the state can scarcely be over estimated is the verdict of experts familiar with the situation and the facts bear out this opinion. The sinple plant at Decatur will mean the distribution of $854,500 annually made up of the follow-ing items, estimating the plant to have a capacity of 1,000 tons of beets daily and the season’s run of 100,000 tons: Farmers will receive, $500,000 for beets; laborers, $85,000; for stone, used for flux, $7,500; for coal, $42,000; package material, $200,000; other material and supplies, $25,000; and for freight, $125,000. Using annually but one acre in aten of the favorable sugar beet land in Indiana, there is room in this state for 16G factories of a thousand tons capacity each. On the basis of $850,000 per factory, this would mean the distribution of $140,644,000 annually. It would also mean the production of 1,670,000 tons of sugar, worth $176,000,000 at 5 cents per pound. In a recent report of the committee on finance of the United States senate. condemning the free sugar bill as threatening the destruction of the domestic sugar industry, figures are given showing that when rotated with sugar beet, the staple croys increase in the yield as follow-s: Wheat, 49.1 per cent; corn, 27.6 per cent; oats, 48.1 per cent; barley 5,2.0; rye, 39.0; potatoes, 46.2; hay, 35.0. The same report includes figures showing that extensive sugar beet growing increases land values enormously. Cali(Contlnuea on Page 2) BOOST FOR ADAM? No County Better in the Length and Breadth of Illinois and Indiana. SAYS ADAM J. SMITH Who Returned Today from Illinois Visit—ls Very ■■’ ' Enthusiastic.

"There Is lio county belter than our old Adams, in the whole length and h.cadth of fllinois and Indiana," stated A. J. Smith today, who has just traversed it, returning from a visit in Mason county, in southern fllinois. Mr. Smith was called to that vicinity on business and while there took the opportunity of calling on an aged man and wife, on their farm, where he was employed many years ago, when he was still in his teens. The man for whom Mr. Smith worked is now seventy years of age, and is still living on the old farm. Although he had never seen Mr. Smith since he left there in boyhood, he knew Mr. Smith at once, and was pleased to see him. The land in that section Is very fine and is selling for from S2OO to $240 per acre. Mr Smith stated that it is but a very little better than the land in Adams county, and that there are thousands and thousands of acres in this county just as good. Mr. Smith stated that the advantages of Adams county are far greater than those of Mason county. The roads in that region are very poor, beig simply the old mud and sand roads, ard a noticeable thing is the lack .of large barns. Through the entire state of Illinois through which Mr. Smith traveled in day time, he noticed less fine large barns than he saw in this county alone. Adams county and Indiana ara

noted everywhere, for their fine roads —a fact upon which a fellow passenger, who didn't know that Mr. Smith hailed from Indiana, remarked. With all these greater advantages over Mason county, Illinois, Mr. Smith says there is no reason why the land here, which is only a little below- tftat in quality of our western neighbor, should not soar to its equal in price. He urges that ?ven greater interest be taken in building and keeping up our roads, and there will be no reason why our land prices should not go up. - - -o GOES TO CLINGER LAKE. J. C. Patterson, Western Union Telegraph and National Express Agent, left yesterday afternoon for Clinger Lake, near Howe, where he will join his wife in a visit over Sunday. Mrs. Patterson, who left the first of the week with Messrs, and Mesdames Durand and Merritt, writes that Mr. and Mrs. George Nachtrieb of Goshen will join them at Clinger Lake over Sunday. Mr. Patterson’s trip to this lake last year was his first vacation in eighteen years, while serving as agent for these companies, and this year's trip will be the second, certainly a well-deserved one. During bis absence, his assistant, Lester Stanley, will serve. SELECT DELEGATES Bull Moosers Held Session This Morning in Graham & Walters’ Office. NOT MANY THERE Delegates to the District and Senatorial Meetings Are Chosen.

The bull Moosers held quite a lengthy session this morning in the office qf Graham & Walters, at which time delegates to the district convention to be held at Muncie on Tuesday, August 27th, were selected and also delegates to represent Adfims county at the district joint senatorial meeting to be held at Fort Wayne on Saturday, August 31st. L. A. Graham presided and called the meeting to order. Delegates to the district convention are French Quinn, Jacob Atz, Martin Schuler, Charles Rabbitt, William Weldy, George Davis, Charles 11. Lam miman, Robert T. Davies, N. E. Blosser, James Love, Noah Pusey, C. C. Bierie and James Hardison. Those who wiil represent Adams county at the joint senatorial meeting are Gustave Schuler, William Kueklhan, C. S. Mumma, .1. Cowan, J. Erhart R. E. Shirk, Chas Feasel, 1. Teeple, Harry Brown, Luther Martin and Tom Reed. Following the selection of the delegates to the two meetings the central committee selected the following precinct committeemen: French—Julius Erhart. South Hartford —William Glendening. North Hartford—Noah Pusey. South Kirkland —James Stoutenberry. North Kirkland - William Ehrman. South Preble—F. M. Schuler. North Preble —Henry Caston. East Root —John A. Mumma. West Root—John A. Fuhrman. South Washington—O. V. Graham. North Washington Harry Lamrniman. North Monroe —Charles Lammiman Middle Monroe —Noah Daugherty. North Wabash —John H. Smith. Ceylon—Harry Moore. West Jefferson—lke Teeple. East Jefferson -N. E. Blosser. North Blue Creek —Charles Feasel. South Blue Creek —Charles Jones. North St. Mary’s—Nimrod McCullough. South St. Mary's—David Kern. West Union —Abe Raver. East Union—Dwight Wass. Berne A—John Hilty. Berne B —Lawrence Yager. Geneva A—Josephus Martin. Geneva B—J. O. R. Campbell. Decatur, First Ward A—Aaron Stevens. Debatur, First Ward B—Chas. Patten. Decatur, Second Ward A—Ed Lyons Decatur, Second Ward B —John Tx>gan. Decatur, Third Ward A —Jacob Aft. Decatur, Third Ward B —Will Lehne. CONTINUES, ON PAGE FOUR

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OCTOBER WEDDING Mamie Kitson Announces Approaching Wedding to Clarence Cornthwaite. OCTOBER THE FIRST Will Reside in Peru Where Groom is Engaged on Peru Chronicle. At the meeting of the Needlecratt club Thursday evening at the home of Miss Sue Mayer, Miss Mamie Kitson took occasion to make the first iiunn’incc’ncnt to her coterie of club friends of her approaching marriage to Mr. Clarence Cornthwaite of Frankfort, the wedding to take place October the twentieth birthday of the bride-elect. Miss Kitson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kitson, is prominent in the departments of the Methodist church of which she is a member, and for some time was employed as one of the operators of the simplex machine at the Decatur Herald office. The groom is a member of a prominent family in Frankfort, and is a printer, being now employed on the Peru Chronicle. He was formerly employed at the office of the Decatur Herald and is well known here, where he has often visited since leaving here. While anticipating the announcement in the near future, it coming at this time was a distinct surprise. The club meeting'promised to be only the usual enjoyable one. Some of the club members plied their needles, busily, while others, including the Misses Vernia Smith, Eetta Mallonee and Ruth Mayer, furnished music. At a stage, in the sewing, Miss Mayer announced that she had prepared no contest, but would try to find an impromptu one to add pleasure to the entertainment. Misst- Kitson volunteered to help her, and repairing to another room, prepared what they called "A printer's pi contest.” A.s Miss Kitson had been employed in a printing establishment, there was no surprise over the selection, and none even when each guest was given a slip of paper on which was written a word in jumbled letters, from which she was to form a word. The hostess then called for each to read her word, in the order of the numbered slips, and when read these formed ihe sentence announcement: “Clarence and Mamie: October first, nineteen hundred twelve,” a very unique and ai>propriate way of telling the happy secret. After extending felicitations in advance, and talking over the events attending the coming marriage, luncheon was served at 10:30 o'clock, the hostess being assisted by her cousin, Miss Neola Mayer, and her sisters, Mrs. Martin Weiland, and Miss Ruth Mayer. The lunch was very delicious and 'the menu included sandwiches, Waldorf salad, lemonade, light and dark cake, fruit, ambrosia and candies. Mrs. Frank Fisher and daughter, I “eta, Miss Zelda Stevens and Miss Neola Mayer were guests besides the club members. Miss Ague? Gllllg will be the next hostess. o ■ OLDEST RESIDENT. We are in receipt of a post card photo of J C Reynolds of Indianapolis, who until a few months ago was a life-long resident of the city. He was born in this city seventy-four years ago, August 22nd, the first child horn in Decatur, and the oldest living resident of the city. He is still hale and hearty and at present is visiting his daughter, Mrs. E. Z. Hoffman, at Griffith, Ind. o ; TWINS HONOR NOMINEES. Lawrenceburg, Ind., Aug. 22—Mrs. Mary L, Dupps. aged forty-six, became the mother of twin baby boys this week. Their combined weight is 18% pounds. The twins have been named Wilson and Marshall for the democratic candidates for president and vice president. The mother is the widow of Andrew J. Dupps, city engineer, who died last March. o UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH. Union fhapel: Sunday school. 9:30 a. m. Preaching, 10:30 a. m. Decatur, preaching, 7:30 p. tri. E. A. GOODWIN, Pastor.