Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 208.

WITH FLAGS AND BUNTING Will Be Gsilv Decorated During the Days of 1 “Old Home Week” Bllloon race daily Special Invitations Being Sent —Big Auto Parade— You Must Wear a Badge i' I At. the meeting of the board of managers of Old Home Week last evening, it was decided that the prize ffions.7 for slogans should be di- ’ u.i’’.y among Lie winners as •c. ? two for each one. The first choice “Decatur Can and Will’’ was submitted by Judge J. T. Merryma: and Miss Amelia Tonnillier, each of whom receives five dollars. The •second prize-was on “Decatur Knows How," the winners being W. J. Schumaker and Fred LaDelle, and the third was "Decatur Defies Defeat,” by Helen M. Evans, of rural route one, and Dan M. Tyndall. The winners •are requested to call on W. P. S-b-nck. secretary, and secure their order for the money. City Will Be Gaily Decorated. ’ Deeat"" will present a gladsome apTPinne during the big week. A representative of the Seifert Brothers, ©ffDetroit. was at the meeting last the committee contracted with him to decorate the city. Sixteen blocks of the down-town district will be decorated with flags and streamers, four lines across each block, besides welcome and other banners. In addition this firm will solicit t I<ness men. decorating the fronts at a moderate cost and they already have a number of contracts, including that of the sugar factory. The Old Home Week is to be a right one. “Decatur Can and Will.” A Balloon Race Each Day. The amusement committee were authorized to close the contract with Coleman Brothers, of Louisville, for a race dally. Each afternoon a lady and gentleman will make an ascension each making an effort to go higher than the other and each will make a double parachute drop. This is in addition to the wonderful ele■phant wire act and the others heretofore announced. To Send Special Invitation. A motion carried that special insent to Senators J. W. Kern and B. F Shively, to each of the congressmen, and to the state officers, also to tha various candidates, including Senator Beveridge, S. M. Ralston and W. T. Durbin. An effort to get as many of these men as possible will he made. Sugar Men are Coming. F. H. Hubbard, of the jmgar factory. is taking n great interBest in the big week. He has arranged for handsome souvenirs and pamphlets describing the new' factory and the industry. He has arranged with the Larrowe company for the use of the building and permission to gi'-e the public demonstration, as the factory will not be accepted from the contractors until after the first season. He has also arranged for J. E. Larrow, W. H. Baird, President McLain and others to deliver addressee » on the opening day. He is also making an effort to secure the pres’_r.es Wilson, United States of agriculture, and has re- ? <e. c .» the follow ing reply to his letter: Washington, D. C., Aug. -- Mr. F. H. Hubbard, Decatur, Ind. My Dear Sir:— I thank you very much for your in vitation ol August 19th to attend tl<* opening of your sugar factory on tober 16th, I would be glad to mee your people if it would be possible o do so. but 1 am not able at this wiu ms to decide whether I can be present or not Public duties here are very heavy and insistent. I iia ' do-bt whatever that Indiana can make not only the sugar that is nee eu by-her own people but by the peo K many more states. I wish you all the success that you so deserve. Verv truly yours. JAMES WILSON, Secretary. Home and Visitors Badges. KThe committee on badges -in veaira was authorized to purchase

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badges for the guests and for the Home folks. The badges will be handsome and will contain the name of the wearer. The guest badges will De given free and will be blue while the nome folks will w r ear red and white badges. The idea is that when one of I the home folks meets a person wearing a guest badge he will greet him and call him by the name which appears on the badge. As a result we will all be acquainted at once. It listens good. Auto Parade on Thursday. One of the features of Thursday, it was decided, will be the automobile parade, with Mr. O. L. Vance in charge as the day. Every owner of an auto in the county, will be invited to participate and prizes will be given for the best decorated car. r . raising More Funds. It takes money to give Old Home Week and do it right and that what the boys are going to do here. C. C. Schafer, chairman of the music committee, is our hustling for a fund to help pay that end of the business. His list of bands include a number of good ones, in fact they are all first- 1 class. A committee of clerks, headed by A. D. Suttles as the chairman, are soliciting funds from the clerks, the sums varying from fifty cents to five dollars. Every clerk and employe in ; town shiid give something, whatever | they feel they can afford. It is your I week as much as anybody and if you , give a little you will feel more as though you have a share in the event. An Error is Corrected. Editor Democrat: — I noticed an error in last evening’s ; paper in the article regarding Decatur in 1840. In the year 1839, Mr. | Charles L. Schirmeyer built a home j where Mr. A. S. Gillig now lives, and although the house has been remod- j eled and made modern in every way,, ': yet much of the old frame is there , and is the oldest building now stand- [ ing in Decatur. The old Shane prop-; , erty on the east side of the North 1 I Second street was completed in 1814 [ and is the oldest unremodeled house in the city. I think the house is oc- ■ cupied by Mr. Green. OLD RESIDENT. Why Nuttman Mansion Was Built. An interesting incident of the old ' days is recalled by an old resident. t In the antibellum days, Mr. J. D. Nuttman, a pioneer merchant of Decatur, ! operated also an ashery upon the ? river bank, upon a spot in the rear , of where the county jail is now lo- ( cated, and this ashery was operated t tor Nuttman by a man by the name Jof Roedel. Now, J. D„ as he was , familiarly known, was a man of some I consequence and he builded a very , desirable home after a well-thought- . out plan of himself and wife, the identical house is now standing on the 'east side of First street, between Monroe and Jackson. Upon its comI pletion Roedel ambitiously constructed an exact duplicate, building upon j the spot where Mr. A. J. Smith now lives. The house was afterward deI stroyed by fire along in the seventies. Mrs Nuttman was annoyed, it was ' rumored at the time, that the status of employer and employee was thus disturbed by this duplication and put ! it square up to J. D. to get busy and build in size and in costliness a home the like of which no resident of the I town would dare attempt to build, j D surrendered and planned and I constructed the big home on Second ' street and long afterward the Niblick homestead and now owned and be- , I iU g remodeled by Mrs. Emma Daniels. Fort Wayne, Indi, Aug. 12. 1912. Mr. French Quinn, Dear Sir: — Just received your invitation to old ' Adams county’s Home week, where '' 01ir childhood days were passed (Providence permitting) I will pass at least a couple of days renewing old friendship and enjoying the pleasure o{ mee ting old Adams county people as we feel it our home still. air AND MRS, ALFRED DEAM, Fort Wayne, Ind. Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 27, 1912. , Mr . French Quinn, Decatur, Ind. Dear Sir: — . We received your kind invitation , to Home-coming in October. We will be pleased to come. We thank you. Sincerely, Mr o))Pu). shrdlu hrdlu shrdlu' \. R , x xn MRS. BEN HILL. I I Detroit, Mich., Aug. 27, 1912. ‘ Mr . French Quinn, Decatur, Ind. Mv Dear Sir:— ( YoUr very kind letter inviting me, the Old Home week In Decatur was received. 1 appreciate your invitation very much for never will " et the two happy years which it | J my Pleasure to spend in Adams (Continued on Page 2)

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Decatur, Indiana. Friday Evening, August 30, 1912.

PETITION FILED Action For Proposed Dredging of Limberlost Creek Has Been Started A BIG PROPOSITION Sept. 27 Day For Docketing of Petition—F. S. ArmanTrout is the Attorney The petition asking that the Limberlost creek be dredged from a point beginning at the Noble and Wabash township lines in Jay county and extending throught Wabash and Bearcreek townships, Jay county, and Wabash township, Adams county, was filed Wednesday noon in the Jay circuit court. This is one the biggest drainage propositions undertaken for several years and the petition has been filed at this time by those favoring the dredging of the creek because of the recent high water which done untold damage to crops in north- | ern Jay and southern Adams coun- ' ties. F. S. Armantrout, of Geneva, and Jacob F. Denney, of Portland, are attorneys for the petitioners, John H. Alig and eighteen other owners of nearly 1,300 acres of land, who claim I that they will be benefited by the construction of the proposed work signed I the petition. The petitioners say that ! nearly 4,000 acres of land, besides that owned by them will also be asI fected and benefited by the dredging ■of the creek. The proposed dredge ’ will be approximately twelve miles in | length. ' Notice of the filing of the petition has already been issued by publication to a number of whose lands will . be affected if the dredging is ordered established. The petition has been set for docketing on September 27, 1912. o — — ED DAVID HURT i ■ 1 Gash Cut at Side of Head When Iron Rack Fell at Ward Fence Factory. —- ; HIP ALSO BRUISED i' . , I Was Worker at Loom—il Came Here From Kokomo —Other Sick Notes ;' Ed David, aged about sixteen, son 1 ' of Sol David, of South Seventh street, ' was badly injured yesterday afternoon ' at 3:30 o’clock while working at his . 1 looms as a wire fence weaver at the ' A r ard Fence factory and will be con ' fined to his bed for several days. Mr. 1 David was sitting at his loom, when suddenly an iron rack gave way and fell, striking him at the right side of the head, cutting a gash over the right temple. The pulley was so heavy that when it fell it also struck bis right hip, badly bruising it. He was taken home in au antomobile and medical . care given him eased his ' pain, but he is bedfast and will be so tor several days. The young man had been employed in the fence factory at Kokomo for some time and quite recently came to this city where he sought employment with the local fence factory. STORM FAST TRAVELER. The storm which passed over this ' city at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morning, reached Portland about a half ' hour later, according to the following in the Commercial-Review: “Coming j from the north, and traveling fast, a ’ windstorm passed over Portland about 10 o’clock Wednesday morning. Al--1 though it looked threatening for a few 1 minutes no damage was done in the ' vicinity of this city, as far as known. I At. Ceylon, a mile north of Bryant, a house burned about the time the i storm was passing that place and it is believed to have been struck by lightning.” I o I Read carefully the list of Old Home Week names and drop your friends j postcards. Do this.

NEW 2 CENT STAMP A new 2-cent stamp in commemoration of the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco in 1915, was approved today by Postmaster General Hitchcock. It is about an inch and a quarter long. It bears an engraving representing the Gatun locks of the Panama canal, showing a steamship emerging from the northern lock and another vessel being raised in *he southern lock. In the middle distance is a group of tall palm trees and in the back-ground rise the hills of the isthmus. Across the top are the rtords: “U. S. Postage.” and directly below these lines, "San Francisco, 1915.” In each lower corner' is an olive branch, typifping peace; and balancing it, on the right is a palm branch, indicative of victory and the tropics. No color has been selected ; for the stamp. The first issue will . be on sale in a few weeks. POLICECOURTNEWS Effie Woods and F. Salchle Were Up on Sensational Charges. FINED AND JAILED; I Both Pleaded Guilty to Im- [ moral Charges and Further Testimony Given. A very sensational case was soon finished up in Mayor Teeple's court this morning when the case of the' State v«. Mrs. Effie W’oods, wife of I Jim Woods, was brought up on al charge of Jceeping a house of ill fam». 1 and Fred Salchle was also brought l up on a charge of associating with a prostitute. Mrs. Woods was arraigned first, and after some quibbling pleaded guilty to the charge as stated. Tim 1 mayor withheld sentence for the time I being and went into the other case, in which Salchle pleaded guilty. After some consideration the mayor placed the fine in each case at ten dollars and costs and gave each ten days in jail. In an interview with Night Policeman Melchi, who, with Deputy Sheriff Kelly, ran in the couple at 10 o’clock Thursday night, he stated that they caught the parties with the goods, hence their unwillingness to come to trial, While upon the witness stand the woman gave some damaging testimony against Jim Woods, which may form the basis of further inquiry. BUYS NEW TOURING CAR, Eli Sprunger, the well known horseman, and one of the best known men of this county, now drives a brand new and very handsome automobile. It is a 1913 model of the 1 Overland make, and first next season i car to be delivered in the county. It ■ is modern and complete, slightly larger than the 1912 car, and is in every way a most beautiful machine.: Mr. Sprunger and family will no I . doubt derive much pleasure from the I ear and Mr. Sprunger will also find , it very serviceable in his extensive business operations. ———.——o THE STAR TONIGHT. The Hathaway company, comedians and vaudevillists, played before a well filled house at the Star theater Thursday evening and there clever working together and high-class profession will without doubt win for them a crowded house from start to finish this evening. A special feature about this engagement is that. it is a regular ten-cent show and given to one and all for the small sum of five cents each. Come tonight, and see the people whose actions are too smooth for the human eye to follow. WANTS GAMES. The managers of the Fort Wayne Hoosiers was in the city today and issued a sweeping challenge to all Decatur or Monroe believe themselves be played on some Sunday. If Decatur or Monroe believes themselves fitted to cope with a fast aggregation like this they may address Mr. Bernard Brinker, 1001 Wilt street, Fort Wayne, Ind., and they will be accommodated with dates for games. o Read carefully the list of Old Home Week names and drop your friends postcards. Do this.

QUARTERLY MEET The Local Methodist Church Will Hold Quarterly Meeting Sunday MISS CARVER SINGS Rev. J. A. Beatty, D. D., Will Have Charge of the Meeting Wednesday j The Methodist church will hold iia | quarterly meeting services next Suni day. The sacrament of the Lord's supper will be administered at the morning and evening services. Every , member of the church is urged by the | pastor to be present at one or the ’ other of these celebrations. The pastor will be glad to go to the homes , of any who are sick and administer | the communion. At the morning worI ship Sunday Miss Bertha Carver,, the [ blind singer, will sing “Face to Face.” ' Miss Carver has a fine voice and has | received training under the best I teachers. Her singing is with a great ; deal of expression and will add great- : ly to the helpfulness of the service. | The quarterly conference will be 1 held on Wednesday night and will be ; presided over by the district superI intendent. the Rev. J. A. Beatty, D. D. I o L SUNDAY SERVICES. Preaching services will be held at j Salem and Calvary Evangelical 1 churches, east of the city, Sunday, : September 1, 1912; Salem at 10:30 !a. m.; Calvary 7:30 p. m. The second quarterly conference of ' the circuit will be held at Chattanooga I Evangelical church Sept 6-8. AU members desired to take notice of this matter. E. B. JONES, Pastor. THE MARRIED WIN In a Fast Tie Game Thurs-, ! day Night the Married Men Win Again — A STRONG SCORE Os Eight to One Gave Victory. Second Victory With a Like Score In a fast and furious galaxy of exciting playing Thursday evening the married men of the Adams County Teachers’ institute met and defeated the hitherto undefeatable single men, , champions of the county. In a game I played Tuesday the married men won, * a fact that gave the slgnle men a sm',l jar, hut when Wednesday the single men again asserted their supremacy, confidence was restored and they came to the grounds Thursday iull of confidence and knowledge of their ability to win. However, something was wrong with the signs as they did not work to the manager's satisfaction and they drew 1 a fine drubbing to the tune of 8 to 1. This was the third and tie game of the series and the married men feel justly proud in defeating the champions. For the married men the batteries were Smith and Lose, while the single men used two sets, first trying out Johns and Huffman and then substituting Archer and Schnapp. The substitution came at a too late interval in the game to do any good and the result was that the champions secured the drubbing. It is thought that they will endeavor to recapture the belt next year. o MARRIED MAN WINNERS AGAIN. The third ball game between the married and sigle men of the Teachers' Institute association resulted in a victory for the married men last evening, the score being 8 to 1. Joe Johns and Ike Archer were batteries for the bachelors and Frank Lose and Ray Smith for the benedicts. A dou-ble-header game is scheduled for this evening.

“FRECKLES DRAMATIZED. "Freckles." the story written by Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter, is dramatized and the Washington papers pronounce it a great success. The piece is well presented at the Academy in Washington and promises to have a successful week. The story as a whole is one of sentiment, romance and intrigue, and makes an appeal to each spectator. The scenes are laid in our wilderness, and as Mrs. Poster Is well known in the city, it is of interest to many to know that her play has been well and kindly received. COMING WEDDING Nuptials of Vera Ehinger And Lawrence Kleinhenz Will be September 17. THE ANNOUNCEMENT By Bride at “Five Hundred” Party Last Evening— A Pretty Affair. At a pretty party given last evening to a large number of her friends. ME3 Vera Ehinger daughter of Mrs. Carrie Ehinger, made announcement of her wedding to Mr Lawrence Kleinhenz. giving September 17th as the date for the happy event. The guests had been bidden to a “five hundred” party but were anticipating the announcement. Consequently when the games were over and the prizes were distributed to the winners —the Misses Mayme Deininger and Besse Tonnelier, there was a little flutter of happy anticipation when i the bride’s sister, little Miss Jeanette Ehinger appeared bearing a large white basket decorated with red and . gilt hearts containing the napkins and rings, which she gave out to the I guests before the luncheon. The guests immediately busied themselves looking for one of Cupid’s secrets to leak out through the daintily decorated heart affairs, but were very much ■ disappointed When the napkins pulled forth from their white-gilt-edged rings showed no words of the announcement. They were neverless suggestive, for the white of the gilt edged napkin was broidered with cupid’s pierced hearts, and a winged cupid bearing a shower of pink roses. The secret came out later, however, during the two course luncheon which was served. The decorations of the home were pink and white asters th? pqlor sc’tmie of pink and white being earI ried out through the festivities in entirety. With the second course of pink ice cream and angel’s food cake, tame little favors which were dainty . baskew filled with tiny pink and white candy hearts bearing appropriate mottoes. Thd baskets were of crimped crepe paper, white, adorned 1 with tiny gilt hearts. The handle of , the basket was tied with a pink rose, > and in the midst of the “sweet" hearts was concealed a tiny slip of paper, bearing the words “Vera and Law1 rence, Sept. 17, ’l2. Little Misses Mil- ’ dred Niblick and Jeanette Ehinger •. served, and were pretty in dresses !j of pink and white. A pleasing ac- ■ companiment to the evening’s plea- ’ sure, was the music furnished by • Mrs. L. A. Holthose and Miss Naomi i Niblick. The announcement of the sei cret called forth many expressions of : the esteem in which Miss Ehinger is held by her friends, and many good i wishes in advance were given. She i is a highly pleasing young lady, and > a favorite with her many friends, bei cause of the sterling qualities with > which she is endowed. For several : years she has been connected with I the Niblick Company’s store where . she served most efficiently and in a s pleasing wav. resigning last Saturday, I in view of the approaching wedding. - The groom is a son of Mrs. Mary Kleinhenz, and is a member of the - firm of the Holthouse Drug Co. being recognized as one of the leading business men of the city. The follow- . ing were guests; Stella Bremerkamp, May Berling, Mayme and Adelaide • Deininger. Rose and Margaret Conter, Anna Clark. Mrs. Fred Schaub, Mayme and Emma Terveer, Rose and Bess Tonnellier, Hertha and Kynt Voglewede, Celecte Wemhoff, Georgia Meibers, Odo and Letta Fullenkamp, Louise Brake, Amelia Weber, Irene Gerard Clara Lange, Lettie and Josephine 1-T.nge, Rose Kleinhenz, Kate CONTINUED UN Page THREE

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INSTITUTE WORK The Last Day’s Session of the Institute is Now In Progress . o ) I ANALYTICAL WORK Proves To Be the Leading Feature of the Last Day’s Session Friday Morning. The opening or the iasi da> s B eS> ions of the institute was with devotional exercises in charge of Rev. Serians, of the Methodist Episcopal church, and following the song and prayer service Dr. Kinnaman gave his lecture on “Education.” The doctor illustrated his address with illustrations clear and convincing and gave a talk that should be productive of much good. He will have one more address to this institute on the subject of “Children's Falsehoods," which will be given in the first period of this afternoon’s session. As usual this lecture will be replete with remedies as well as explanations. The music period by Professor Swarthout again proved interesting as the teachers are deriving much good from it. Professor Vernier in his address on “The Teacher’s Part in the Study of i the Classics,” gave some technical in- ■ formation to the teachers which will . prove advantageous in their literary ; work the coming year. It proved to be probably the most technical sub- . ject of the series. In the afternoon the professor will • finish his engagement here with his lecture on “How to Study Prose,” an- ! other of his valuable analytical series . during which he will introduce an > analysis of the “Legend of Sleepy I Hollow,” showing the teachers how ; to do it as well as telling about it. > Throughout the week the instruc- > tion has proven to be far above par i and this year's institute will doubt- > less prove to be one of the best ever - held here. Many expressions of ini terest and appreciation is heard I among the teachers and many thanks i are given to Professor Oplinger for - his activity in securing instructors of - such sterling worth for them. I Thursday Afternoon. s After the regular music period conI ducted by Professor Swarthout, Proj fessor Venner Interested the institute ; in his talk on ‘‘Helps Toward Solving s the Reading Problem.'' The boy reads > what he reads on account of its ac- ; reusability. He reads Buffalo Bill be- - cause he can get it, He - something; bettor if ne has not access f io the poor class of books. The great- , est thing a teacher can do is to bring r lis pupils in touch with good I Books are great silent factors which • greatly aid in the making of men and f women. The boys will read the things 1 that Interest them most. All pupils f want to read stories of travel, explo- , lotion and discovery, and heroic lives. The reading pupils, whether in the , city or county, will make better citi- - • ens for having had their reading well - selected. Have the boys and girls • read Grim's Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fas hies and Arabian Knights, Homer’s Iliad should be read once each year • by the boy or girl in school. If you ’ advise a boy or girl to read somei thing he does not like or does not - conform to his surroundings, you may r spoil his entire reading life. A list s of books should be made for the boy 1 and a list should be made for the ; girls. Novel reading is beneficial. 1 choose standard novels. Trashy lltera- - ture of any kind is unfit for anyone i to read and no pupil can afford to 1 read it. Do not condemn the literai ture a boy or girl reads. Change their ‘ kind of literature by careful substii tution Don’t try to read all the books , in the world. After a short intermission Dr. Kinnnian gave his regular lesson on “Education.” A man is a man because he will be a man. When a pupil goes wrong in school don’t get excited and go wrong yourself. Punish if necessary, but each time you punish, you admit that you are not as good a teacher as you ought to be. The--truant officer can put the bad boy in the legal institution called school, but the teacher must put him in the spiritual spirit of the school. You can’t “lick” a boy back into the spirit of the scbxfl. The rule for punishment, when jou must use it, is the mildest thing that will induce him to go the (Continued on Page 41