Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1912 — Page 1

Volume X. Number 223.

JIM STOOPS THE FIRST A Former Adams County Sheriff Drops in for Visit Ahead of Home Week. WELL KNOWN HERE The Letters of Acceptance Continue to Arrive at the Secretary’s Office. The first Old Home Comer, arrived this morning, and who do you suppose it was? James Stoops, of Sharon, Okla., bless his old heart, and looking as fine as a fiddle and no younger than when he left here three decades ago. He has already had enough pleasure, he says, to pay him for the long trip, having been busy greeting the old timers and many of the younger ones, whom he remembers as children. He knows most of those who lived here years ago, it being just twenty-four years since he l,;t Adams county Mr. Stoops was the sheriff of this county from 1866 to 1870 and at that time knew every-! body in the county, and just how many horses and cows they owned.' He is the father of Duke Stoops, the ' FeWsburg newspaper man, and will visit him there before returningi horn He is going to stay for the f Old Home Week, in fact that's his' ; -in s» here and he will assist in gritting those from a distance as they come straggling in. It's to be a itreat occasion. Don't you forget to do yo it part, whatever it is. Why, you want io do it, so you can say the show s yours as much as any one vise's. From a Former Teacher. Knightstown, Ind., 3ept. 15, 1912. Mr. French Quinn, Decatur, Ind.: Dear Friend: —The invitation to, the Old Home Week has been received. I wish I could be there, but since 1 am jw in school work again, it may be impossible for me to accept the hospitality of your very hospitable citizens. With best wishes for a joyful time, I am Sincerely, EMMA BYERLY. • There With hard in His Hair. Lima, 0., Sept. 15, 1912 Mr French Quinn, Decatur, Ind.: Dear Sir: —Received your letter several days ago inviting me to at- j tend the opening of the first sugar i beet factory in Indiana and informing , me of the immense time you have in . store for those who call Adams coun ty home. I want to inform you I'll be there with lard in my hair for a cou-I pie of days, anyway. Thanking the invitation committee fqr remembering me, and hoping the affair will be | a success, [ remain. Yours, RALPH A. KNOFF. i Is Coming from Delphos. Delphos, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1912. Mr. French Quinn, Decatur, Ind.: Kind Friend: —The invitation to journey back to Decatur was received. Thank you, very much for informing me of the affair. Will try to put forth efforts to spend the week at my old home town. Very truly yours, EVA MeGATH. And One from Monroeville. Monroeville, Ind., Sept. 15, 1912. Mr. French Ouinn, Decatur, Ind.: Dear Fnend:-»-I have carefully read your Old Home Week invitation, and it sounds good to me. Many thanks for it. If I can possibly so arrange my business so I can get away we will be there, for I think there is no other spot as green as old Adams county. With the exception of four ’ears I have spent my entire life in Adams county and this home-coming surelv means something to me. Hope to meet you on October 14th. Yours truly, O. M. ROBISON. George Holloway is Arranging. Ravenna, 0., Sept. 15, 1912. Mr. French Quinn, Decatur, Ind.: Dear Sir:—l have your invitation for Old Horae Week, and in reply will •ay I will gladly attend if I can arrange my trip to be in the vicinity

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of Decatur October 14th-19th. Thankifag you kindly ror the invitation, I remain Yours sincerely, GEO. H. HOLLOWAY. Another Ft. Wayne Family. Ft. Wayne, Ind., Sept. 16, 1912. Mr. French Quinn, Decatur, Ind.: Dear Sir:—Your invitation for Old Home Week received. Tell our friends they can exjfect us. Thanking you for the kind Invitation, we remain, Yours, MR. & MRS. L. St. PAULISON. Here’s a Hammond Family, Hammond, Ind., Sept. 16, 1912. Mr. French Quinn, Decatur, Ind.: Friend French:-—We certainly appreciate the fact that we were remembered with an invitation to the Home-coming, and assure you we will put forth an effort to attend a day or two at least. Thanking you for the invitation, we remain, H. S. ASHBAUCHER & WIFE. Mrs. Closs Sends Greeting. Westfield, N. Y„ Sept. 14, 1912. Mr. French Quinn, Decatur, Ind.: Dear French:—Your invitation to attend Old Home Week with all of its pleasureable posibilities, awakened within me, such a desire to be present that it is with sorrowful regret that I write you of my inability to come. It is the time of our grape harvest here, and duties are pressing. I trust that the week will meet all expectations and that it will see the uniting of many old friends. With much love in my heart for my old Decatur friends, I remain, Yours sincerely, JENNIE E. CLEVER. Mr. and Mrs. Alle Ayers, Paragould, Ark. Peter Long, Viola, Wls. Mr. and Mrs. John Bradock, PageHolt Co., Neb. Mr. and Mrs. U. G. Denman, 2106 Wilson Hpts., Aots., Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. F. G. Reppert, West Point, Neb. Mrs. Eilzabeth Brown, Shambaugh, lowa. Geo. Spangler, 710 W. 15th St., thicago, 111. J. B. Crankshaw, Ft. Wayne, Ind., Ft. Wayne Electric Works. Gus Rogge, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Harry Beers, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. M. S. Wilson, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Gus Kaiser, Ft. Wayne Electric Works. Ft. Wayne, Ind. E. A. Wagner, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. O. O. Cooper, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. George Smith, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. George Smith, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Link Johnson, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. F. E. Welsh, FL. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. S. S. Nold, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. H. W. Hastings, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. F. E. Wells, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. F. J. King, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. A. L. Hadley, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. II E. Crane, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, FT. Wayne, Ind. p. H. Hazleton, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft, Wayne. Ind. F. B. Owen, Fort Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. j. b. Mills, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. S. H. Hirsch, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind, j. J. Wood, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. F. S. Hunting, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. A. A. Serra, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. T. W. Behan, Ft. Wayne Electric W’orks, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Chas Becker, Ft. Wayne Electric. Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. E C. Olds, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. j. E. Hall, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. F M, Weber, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. H a. Gable, Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. George Wood. Ft. Wayne Electric Works, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Mrß . Thomas Mylott, 5015 Prairie Ave., Chicago, 111. Miss Mayme Mylott, 5015 Prairie Ave., Chicago, 111. Andrew Mylott, 5015 Prairie Ave., Chicago, Hl. Miss Celeste Mylott, 5015 Prairie Ave., Chicago, Hl. CONTINUED ON FAGE four

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Decatur, Indiana. Tuesday Evening, September 17, 1912.

HOW TO BE HAPPY Healthy and Wise in School — Health Regulators Give Some Advice RELATIVE TO THIS Do Not Exchange Chewing Gum for One ThingThen Keep Clean. With the opening of schools over the length and breadth of this great country, the health advisers come to the front with advice on "How to be happy though in school.” The following rules were given forth by one of the great city's regulators and are applicable eyerywhere: "Fresh air makes the mind bright and makes learning easy. "Don't shut out the sunshine, teacher. Flood the rooms with sunshine; it's God’s best germ destroyer. "Never put pens or pencils in your mouth. The last mouth they were in may have been an infected mouth. "For the same reason, never ‘swa'p’ candy, chewing gum or apples. It's dirty and a dangerous thing to do. "Keep clean; soap is your good friend. Treat your stomach right. Eat very little candy and what you do eat be sure that it is pure. ‘ Don’t run to school, especially after eating. Start early, so that you will not be obliged to run." WILL MEET HERE Adams Co. Sunday School Convention Will be Held Here Nov. 7-8. A BOYS’ CAMPAIGN Will be Given Week Probably in November—- \ Workers Met. The Adsms county Sunday school c6nvention held its semi-annual business meeting tn this city last evening in the office of Graham & Walters, wbp.r?.eports were heard and plans for the future discussed. The meeting was attended by County President Jesse Rupp, of Berne who presided: other officials including the township presidents, and many of the pastors of the churches of the county. It was decided that the county Sunday school convention would be held in this city and the dates set were November 7 and 8, the dates, however, being subject to change. Plans relative to the boys’ campaign were also discussed. It had been decided to conduct this during the week in which November 7 and 8. the convention dates, fall, but this was later remembered to be election week, and therefor not the best time possible, it was decided to write to the secretary of the A. W. Connor evangelistic company to ask whether another week could not be secured. Reports from various township Sunday schools, given last evening, showed the work in a flourishing condition. The committee for the program for the county convetion wi|l be named later by President Rupp': Among those in attendance from out of town were Rev. Schroeder and Rev. Kaley, Jesse Rupp, Rev. Johnson and William Zehr, all of the south part of the county. PRESBYTERIAN S. S. TREAT. The members of the Presbyterian Sunday school will be given atreat this evening. They will first meet at the church where refreshments will be given and social time spent, and then the children will be taken to the moving picture shows, where a special reel will be shown them. o : RECEPTION TONIGHT As announced in last evening’s Democrat, the reception to be given in farewell for the Rev. E. A. Goodwin and family, will be held this evening at the United Brethem parsonage, and everybody is invited to attend.

MAY DISCUSS THE PLANS j The G. A. R. will hold a meeting! this week at which time there is likely to be a discussion of further plans concerning the monument for which 119,000 has been appropriated. It th plans are selected now or arrangements made with some competent person to prepare them it is possible that the county commissioners will advertise for bids in January and will let I the contract in February. This would 1 mean that the monument would be 1 completed by next fall. The G. A. | R. will probably name a committee to' look after this and the commissioners will accept the recomendation of th» 1 committee. THE HORSE SHOW Will be Biggest Ever Witnessed Here—Premiums Will Amount to SSOO. COMMITTTEE NAMED Premium Lists Will be Out ! Soon — Entrance and j Stalls Will be Free. One of the biggest events ever held in Decatur will be the horse show I on Friday of Old Home Week, and it is believed the showing will surprise every one who witnesses it. This part of the program is in charge of J. T. Myers, Dan Beery, Eli Spnmger and J. S. Peterson. They are raising a fund that it is believed will cover all expenses and the premiums will amount to five hundred dollars. There' will be prizes in each class, with ribbons for third prize and the amounts will range from $1.50 to $19.00. The premium lists showing classes and ail other particulars will be out soon and the boys expect to have the greatest showing of horses ever witnessed in the state. The entrance is j free and no charge for stalls. The following committee has been named and they will meet at the Horse Sale ! stables on First street next. Monday afternoon to discuss plans. Every 1 member is asked to be present: C. D. Kunkle, William Melchen, Jay 1 Cline, Phil Schlferstein, Root; Edw. Carrier, Union;Gust Conrad, Preble; Dr.J. C. Grandstaff,Preble; William Bieneke, Kirkland; Ed J. Ahr, Thos. H. Baltzell, Elmer Cook, J. A. Harvey, J. P. Browm, Amos Bauman, Win. I Meshberger, Washington; Dr. J. W.' Vizzard, Henry I. Teeple, St. Mary's; i Jacob C. Steiner, Isch Brothers, ’ French; John C. Lehman, John M. > Andrews, Jacob Huser, Monroe; J. P.j Steiner, Hartford; A. P. Hardison, Noah Shoemaker, Geneva; Wm, B.! Campbell, Blue Creek; Samuel Sold-■ ner, Jefferson; Rufus Meschberger, I Linn Grove; Oliver Sheets, Wren, O.; ; Charles Ash, Monroeville; Thomas Bowen, Willshire; John Hartman, Bluffton: Louis Sprunger, Christ Yoder, J. J. Liechty, Chris Hilty, Berne; J. S. Peterson. Decatur. Eli Sprunger, superintendent; D. W. Beery, ringmaster: Charles E. Magley, secretary; John T. Myers, chairman. o—“FRECKLES” AT BLUFFTON. Gene Stratton Porter’s Work Will be Given There in Play. The play “Freckles,” dramatized from the book written by Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter of Geneva, opened the season last week in Washington, D. C., and is said to be scoring a great success,' the greatest dramatic critics spreading praises of it. It will appear in Bluffton October 18th, when it is expected a number of Portland admirers of Mrs. Porter's writings will take the opportunity of seeing it. — o— ENJOYING EASTERN TRIP Word from Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler who have been gone two weeks on their eastern trip, is that they are at present in New York City, where they are buying goods for the Boston store. With the ideally fine weather that we have been having, their trip prior to this, down the St. Lawrence river and throught the Thousands Isles, was most delightful. They expect to go baek to Montreal tomorrow and take the boat for their trip home and will probably return in a week. —o Mrs. C. W. Wert returned yesterday to Peru after a visit here with friends.

DEDICATION MEET Os Ft. Wayne K. of P. Home Will Draw Large Crowds from Outside Towns. THURSDAY EVENING Local Lodge Will Charter Special Car — Degree Work Wednesday. The K. of P. dedication meeting of the new K. of P. Home in Fort Wayne ti be held there on Thursday of this week will find practically all the lodges within reasonable distance well represented. The local lodge will charter a special car which will leave here Thursday at 1 o'clock over the interurban and which will deliver the members at the home in Fort Wayne. The car will then await the finish of the meeting and will run a special back to Decatur. Already fifty or more of the local members have signified their Intention of going and the car will no doubt be comfortably filled. Others who cannot get away from business duties will leave here at 5:30 and will come back on the special with the rest of the members. As Thursday is the regular meeting night of the lodge here the meeting this week will be on Wednesday night at which time the third degree will be given a candidate. A PECULIAR FALL John Andrews, While Hauling Large Number of Chairs, Falls Hard. UNDER THE WAGON Foot Severely Injured and Rear Wheel Passes Over Body—Able to be Out. John Andrews, while hauling a large number of chairs from two miles south of Monroe from the Smith funeral, Monday, was the victim of a peculiar accident which incapaciates him from further duties for some time to come. Mr. Andre ws,"wuO"was"iiauiing for the Meyer, Scherer & Beavers store, had loaded up a couple of hundred folding chairs and sitting on top of them, started to town. On the way one of the chairs on top suddenly slipped and precipitated him to the road, where the front wheel of the wagon ran over his foot and the rear wheel over his body. The horse, which is a family pet, did not run, and Mr. Andrews was able to stop it, so that further injuries might not be inflicted. He was able to climb on the wagon alone and continue to town. Where the wheel passed over his foot he was injured severely, so that it became necessary to call a physician to dress the injuries and today he Is having trouble getting around, even with the aid of a cane. PEACH CROP A FROST. Twenty bushels of peaches last year and one small runted peach this year was the crop obtained from an orchard of forty trees in this part of the state. The orchard is composed of young trees and last year when only twenty bushels were obtained, steps were taken to better conditions for a larger crop this year. However, something is wrong somewhere, and only one small runted peach was obtained from the entire forty trees. o ATTEND PRESBYTERY. Rev. W. H. Gleiser and Amos Biggs went to Fort Wayne last evening to attend the semi-annual session of the Fort Wayne presbytery, which opened Monday evening and continues through today. The session opened with a sermon by Rev. Dr. Gray of the Moody Bible institute of Chicago. The presbytery is being held in the First Presbyterian church.

GIFT OF PIANO. After a two weeks' visit in Rlchvill Cotners, Ohio, Mrs. Ferdinand Reinking and children returned home Sunday evening and were surprised to find that Mr. Reinking had placed in their home a fine Packard piano, which he purchased from Yager Brothers & Reinking in this city, a very handsome home-coming gift for his family. — ... - ... o COULD STOP BALD HEADS. Women are to blame for everything. If they did not love bald-headed men so devotedly, bald-headed men would not be able to marry so easily and baldness would be no more, for baldness is largely hereditary, and is transmitted by the father or even by the mother if there is baldness among her male ancestry, father or grandfathers, as far back as Noah. o WEDDING BELLS Pealed Merrily at 6 O’clock This Morning at the St. Mary’s Church FOR YOUNG COUPLE Miss Vera Ehinger and Mr. Lawrence Kleinhenz Were Married. The portals of St. Mary’s Catholic church swung wide this morning with the pealing of the bells at 6 o’clock for the wedding of Miss Vera Ehinger, daughter of Mrs. Carrie Ehinger, and Mr. Lawrence Kleinhenz, son of Mrs. Mary Kleinhenz, two of the popular young people of the city. The church was filled with the friends of the couple, who listened to the impressive nuptial service given by the Rev. Father Wilken, and echoed in their hearts the many good wishes for a long and happy life for the newly married couple. The only attendants of the couple were a life-long friend, Miss Vera Cocke, of Fort Wayne, and the bride’s brother, Mr. Herman Ehinger. The bride wore a pretty and neat tailored suit of two-toned diagonal cloth in purple and tan weave, with which she wore a tan hat and tan gloves, Miss Goeke wore a tan tailored suit, completed with gloves to match and a tan hat with blue wing. Both carried prayer books. A wedding breakfast was given at 11 o’clock at the home of the bride's mother to a company including the immediate members of both the bride, and groom’s families. The colors of whitwaHu - piu.k were "Carried out in the room decorations and in the three-course breakfast, which was served by the bride’s aunts, including Mrs. E. X. Ehinger, Mrs. C. N. Lang, Mrs. J. H. Bremerkamp, Mrs. Henry Meyers. White wedding bells twined with smiiax adorned the arches and around the white cloth of the bridal table was laid a delicate tracery of green smiiax. The centerpiece was a bowl of pink asters and vases of these | retty autumnal flowers were used effectively in other places. Besides the bridal party heretofore named and the bride’s mother and family, covers were laid for the following: The groom's mother, Mrs. Mary Kleinhenz, Rose, Ed and Arthur Kleinhenz, Mr. and Mrs. George Krick, Frank Kleiiilienz of Fort Wayne, the bride’s grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ehinger, and her grandfather, Mr. John Eiting; Miss Georgia Meibers. At noon Mr. and Mrs. Kleinhenz left for Indianapolis and before their return in a week will also visit with relatives in Bluffton. On their return here they will be at home in a very comfortable cottage belonging to the bride’s mother, located on Sixth street, which has been very prettily remodeled and rearranged for the newly married couple, and where the bride, who is gifted with home-making, womanly qualities, will preside with true hospitality. fl he groom is a member of the Holthouse drug firm, and is one of the hustling business men of the city, endowed with the attributes that make for success. Miss Ehinger is well known to the people of the county, having some time been employed at the Niblick store, and her friends are legion. Very many pretty gifts were received with warm good wishes from the friends of the couple.

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ANOTHER CHAPTER Dan Baumgartner to Show Cause Why License Should not be Revoked. CHARGES ARE FILED State Superintendent Greathouse Will be Asked to Hear the Case. It is probable that State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles Greathouse w*ll hold court in Decatur within the next week or two. The proceedings, while new here, is provided for under tho statutes of Indi ana and now seems the only way in which a controversy between Daniel Baumgartner, a teacher in the Decatur high schools, and County Superintendent L. E. Opliger can be concluded. Mr. Baumgartner is a brother of Mrs. Opllger, who some weeks ago filed suit for divorce. Since then things have been happening, including several “near battles.” About ten days ago, or a week ago Sunday, to be exact, in an affair at Linn Grove an account of which has been publish ed heretofore, Mr. Baumgartner assaulted Mr. Opliger, in a controversy over little Velma Opliger. Mr. Baumgartner plead guilty and was fined. He opposed a case against him for a peace bond which was heard before 'Squire Stcne last Friday, but in which he was bound over to court under SSOO bond. While Mr. Baumgartner claims he has several cases of assault against members of the Opliger family as a result of the same battle, he did not file any cases against them, no doubt preferring to avoid the notoriety. It was expected that their trials, another for trespass still pending, would settle the | trouble for the present at least, but it | seems to be a finish “go.’ Both Messrs. Opliger and Baumgartner went to Linn Grove to visit their parents over Sunday and last Saturday evening, Mr. Baumgartner received a registered letter from Mr. Opliger, notifying him that he had failed to meet the requirements demanded of teachers in Adams county and that because of certain unlawful conduct, he would be given the choice of tendering his resignation to the school board of Decatur before 8 o’clock Monday, September 16th, to take effect immediately or have his license revoked before 8:30. Mr. Baumgartner took no action as to the matter and Monday morning received a notice that his license had been re-veke-A, However. later in the day, Mr. Opliger decided that he should give the teacher a hearing as a matter of precedent, and wrote him again notifying him to appear at the office of the county superintendent at 9:30 Thursday morning of this week to answer the charges. Mr. Baumgartner has employed Attorney Dore B. Erwin, who will appear with him. If the license is revoked, his only recourse is an appeal to the state superintendent, the law providing that in such cases and under such circumstances, if an appeal Is taken within five days, this shall act as a stay of proceedings until the state superintendent shall have pass ed thereon. This is the action that will be taken, and Mr. Erwin will ask the state superintendent to come to this city to hear the case, thus saving the parties in the case much expense and time. The action is under Section 9, chapter 143, of the acts of 1899, which provides that revocation of the license of any teacher shall terminate his employment in the school In which he may have been employed to teach. Mr. Opliger has prepared charges, a copy of which was today forwarded to Mr. Baumgartner, that he may have the opportunity to prepare his defense. There are five or six items in the charges, but Mr. Opliger refused to make them public at this time. He stated that he would have preferred that the matter have no publicity until after the hearing and that his records would not be made public until that time. 0 Charles Lee, a native of Korea, who gave a talk on his native land at the Methodist church in this city Sunday evening, left this morning for Fort Wayne. Mr. Lee has been converted to Christianity and is in America attending school.