Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1902 — Page 1

! AL L THE NEWS all the time.

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I ' RAIN SPOILS IT. H he First Two t>ays of the Great I Northern Fair Stopped by Heavy Rains. ■reatest Exhibit ol Stock. Merchandise, Etc. Ever Seen In the State. ISo far the Great Northern Indiana ■air has been disastrous from a finanlal standpoint, owing to the heavy I tins of the past two days. The showIs began Tuesday morning and have ljutinued almost incessantly ever ance. As a consequence no admis|on was charged either Tuesday or Wednesday and not a ecu -of money l, a s been taken in to repay the associIjion for their enormous expense, ■owever. the members keep up with fining countenances and hope for several good days yet. It will be irn■ssible under any circumstances to Eve races today and that part of the Eogram has been declared otT. The ■st’days racescan not therefore be ■ven at all, but if possible the races for today will be given toEJkirrow, and Friday’s races will be iKiO’d off Saturday. Every effort be made to carry out the program aear as P oss *ble, and the associaa treat everybody as though K-v were coining money. ' The fact ■ flat there could be go fair yesterday a sore disappointment to thousKls P (> °pl e > "’h o bad planned to None feel worse than the. I- children, who were dismissed from and were to be admitted free. they will still have an opto attend as the fair will continue over Saturday. Durbin who was to have present yesterday w’as luckily I prevented from coming as the follow ■ message received yesterday shows: I Ind., Sept. 24, 1992. ■G> rge Tricker, Pres. Great Northern Kir Association Qwing to the unajoidabie complications growing out d President Roosevelt’s breakdown Sere yesterday, the governor deeply re? rets his inability to be with you Elay. He is keenly disappointed ■t under circumstances he can net do otherwise than send regrets, sorely depjores conditions wkich under any other action tlkn this impossible. Charles E. Secretary to the Governor." >1 id it been good weather this news wluld have been disappointing but ■it was, he could not have enjoyed th> fair to anyexteut. Notwithstanding the bad weather hundreds of IJk'ple visited the fair grounds yes and all say the exhibits are the bkt they have ever seen anywhere, wery line is complete and the stock, pc iltry and other departments posiexceed the state fair. The art is a palace of beauty and its standing even in the rain to I g»t a glimpse at the pretty booths, I 8»h of which contains hundreds of ||Hlars worth of stock. Besides this ■ - re are many individual display tidings and tents used by the rdware and other merchants and nr exhibits invoice into thousands dollars. It is a well-known fact at last year’s fair was far ahead, of b average, and an idea of this year's may be had when you know that are more than twice as many enin every line than last year. er ' department is “chuck” full. are Norman, Belgian, Clydes, coach and hackney stalI B*' roadsters, light harness, general ■ Pjpose and match teams, the best on including eleven head just IjE'aght direct from Belgium by Fri ‘N Co. In cattle there are horn and polled Durhams, | l/B rt ‘‘°rds, Galloways, Jerseys, Hol ' I Hed Polled, Devoushires and I Si 1110 . olll ©rß. I* l sheep are the Oxfords, Hampshires. Horned, Southdowns, Cots I E* 11 ' f heviots, Lincolns and Lieces- ' Every breed of hog is there, in Chester Whites, PolandIE* 111 *' 4 ' b( \ rl(R hire, Jersey, Durocs and ■ ■ ,OrR . Every feathered fowl known I Ei ! Uotlern poultry-raiser may be I Mr 1,1 lllal ( h'partment, which was I E.‘ iir tIJO small, and had to have ad I ■ions to accommodate the who desired to enter. * ru '*‘ a nd agricultural depart I a are fi . lled to the brim > a,KI bines the price of admis | art department in charge I■' u ’ " ' D- Mason of Bluffton and I ■Moses of this county is another I E C ° " n " re 11M1 * es may enjoy all the C X;” 111110 they care to, looking at | tt'i"' 111 work. Another feature of IE. <i ir " bich shows days of work is u noral display in ' charge of *»r Hatfield, of Bluffton IE ■ , rH - M. Gilson of tin's city, judges to the various smaller deI w °rebusyyesterday award and they informed us EHL take steady work from El, j'"'t? 1 lato Saturday night to ■■.. ' I, *e association expects to E> in o y Premium and will do i l.. P ow or to keep up ■Kt r[X ltll Ti"‘ ° f cloi,lg everything ’ I|T ' J he men who have per nr. A’ r< * aR n,ll( 'h as anyone we EE , Privilege and stand men, 180 hnv 00 * 8 lavo 1100,1 ruined and ■L'.' • 0 “K'merai bad attack of the ,, r ”°" OVOr there is still a I | r everyone for thousands of

people are awaiting the first good day to attend and they will be there in large bunches. The races for Friday and Saturday look like sure things now and should be great attractions, t nday s races will include the following: Drivers’ race ?75.00, 2:28 trot 2.17 pace $300.00, three-quarter-mile dash run SIOO.OO, and ci a -n r^ a \,’ B^ tlie three-year-old trot 'oo’ trot $300.00, 2:17 pace $300.00, half-mile run $l(X).00. Here’s hoping the weather man will yet permit the Great Northern Fair Association to show visitors what they have been doing for six months past. John Miller, of the firm of Sebastian Miller & Sons, of Fort Wayne, basket manufacturers, is in the city attending the fair. He has one of the finest line of baskets on exhibition at the fair grounds ever seen. The Great Northern Indiana Fair was the greatest attraction in the state this week and great credit is certainly due the association. Nothing advertises a county more than a good fair given by hustling energetic people. Miss Florence Cook, fifteen years old, died Friday evening of typhoid fever after a short illness. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Cook, and was well known. Funeral services were held at Pleasant Mills Sunday morning. The recent illness of superintendent H. A. Hartman has apparently disappeared leaving him as sound as ever, notwithstanding this fact he has no desire to repeat the experience as it doubles him into several kinds of a figure eight and causes the kind of pain that hurts. The Entre Nous, one of the popular young men’s clubs of the city, held a meeting Friday evening, and important business was transacted, among which was the election of offi cers. Calvin Peterson was chosen as president, Ralph Kuoff. vice-presi-dent and Ed Ashbaucher treasurer. The election of new officers was made necessary by the resignation of T. V. Hutchinson, former president, who has removed to Fort Wayne and Will Wiuness, former treasurer, who left Sunday for Columbus, Ohio, where he will enter college.

Tipton is to have the next annual reunion of the 160th Indiana SpanishAmerican war veterans. Such was the decision of the committee at Wabash Wednesday. Tipton was present with a large delegation. It is the home of Company I and the boys of that company are determined to show their comrades a good time. More than 400 were in line at Wabash Wednesday, and the day was greatly enjoyed. The camp fire in the evening which consisted of an extensive program, proved veiy entertaining, and the veterans enjoyed it greatly. Raymond Bremerkamp came about as near having a serious runaway Tuesday afternoon as he cares about. He was driving the delivery horse to a buggy and had two sacks of bran in. As he drove down Second street one of the shafts broke and frightened the horse who tried his best to get rid of everything attached to him. Raymond showed his nerve by holding on and checked the animal after he had ran about a square. The dashboard was kicked off the buggy and harness torn up some, but the damage was not serious. The street was crowded at the time and it looked for a few minutes like something might happen. The death-knell of the Panama hat has sounded, and it will not come to the fore in popularity for many years, say those who know the foibles of the headgear business. It sprang up quick Iv, flourished like a fragrant flower, and fell into disfavor, with the men who dress well, early in the season. Whv was the fad so shortlived ? Imitations. Like many other good things it was killed by its own popularity—it became too common. It is now the time of the year when the importers and manufacturers of hats are preparing to get out next summer s styles. The Panama and its imitation have been cut out almost entirely so that it will cut little or no figure in the headgear worn in 1903. Straws will be m as big demand as ever for hot weather, but they will be of the accustomed flat, pancake variety that has prevailed in former years. The Bluffton Evening Banner of Tuesday said; The neighborhood of Craigville was greatly excited last night by the work of burglars. About one o’clock Mrs. Elmer Beech heard a noise at the screen door. She called her husband, who got up, and seized his revolver, and started to look for the prowlers. They had succeeded in making good their escape. About two o’clock they went to the homo of T. B. Zurklo. Mr. Zurkle is troubled with asthma and was up. He his revolver and looking through the door saw two men. The robbers again saw they were discovered and ran across the corn field. Mr. Zuikle then opened the door ami lirwl two shots at the retreating forms. At the second shot one man threw up his hands and emitted a yell. However, he did not fall out and continued to rut at even a m ire rapid gait. I here is no clue who the prowlers were.

DECATUR, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1902.

Marriage licenses were issued this week to the following well known people: Charles E. Armstrong and Lulu Connor, Gilgrin Imniger and erena Leichty, David Schertz and Mary Petersmith. Burgess A. Dix and Amanda T. Hatcher, E. K. Ray and Iva V. Ludy. The Decatur City band gave a concert in the band stand Monday evening and proved they can do it’if they want to. They played a number of pieces and each was done in a manner that proved they were each and every one Musicians. ’A baritone solo by Dr. Dick France was perhaps the best thing on the program. Deputy ( lerk James P. Haetling and custodian of the court house, Titus Ernst left Monday for Michigan City, having in charge Charles Augerman, Ed Johnson and John Duncan, whom they will turn over to the authorities of the Northern State prison. The men were sentenced last week for terms in that institution. Among other attractions at the Boston Store booth in the art hall at the fair grounds is a little machine which transforms a penny into a pretty souvenir. It crushes it into an oblong shape, and places upon it an advertisement for the Boston Store and an outline of the famous park driveway. It seems to catch the popular idea. Last week's Willshire Herald said: Willshire W’ill have gas to burn in a few weeks, if everything goes right with the Decatur Oil & Gas company, who have accepted the franchise granted them by the village council a few weeks ago. The company has already bought pipe for he main lines and the work of locating a route from the gas well north of town has been completed. It goes without saying that the company will push the work to completion as rapidly as possible, as its franchise expires Noeember'lo unless the council sees fit to extend the same. Secretary Fleming of the Fort Wayne Fair Association, writes that the races of which there will be three each day trotting, pacing and running, are filling up beyond expectation and that the largest field of hosres ever seen in Fort Wayne will be in attendance during the fair Oct. 7to 11. A number of special premiums not enumerated in the list have been added by Fort Wayne merchants and all indications point to the most successful fair ever given in Allen county; over $7,000 in purses and premiums will be distributed. The railroads will make special rates and the admission will be 25 cents.

Among the society events of the past week at which enjoyment was profuse, was a surprise upon Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas Saturday evening. Several guests had been invited to six o’clock dinner but just as this part of the program was about to lie served there came a ring at the doorbell and a dozen more guests arrived. These however were kind enough to bring with them a liberal supply of good things, and within a short time everyone present was busy, Music and other amusementt followed, and the occasion was a very pleasant and happy one. Among hose present were Messrs, and Mesdames R. K. Allison, P. G. Hooper, F. W. Dibble, D. \V. Beery, F. M. Schirmeyer, \V. H. Nachtrieb, A. R. Bell and Mr. Burt Townsend. Charles Augerman, who sought to blow the Adams county Infirmary and inmates into eternity by the explosion of a wholesale amount of dynamite which he had stored in his trunk, will not Ixither that institution or any other one for some time. He was tried last Thursday and the jury returned a verdict in less than five minutes, finding liim guilty and hie age about sixty-five years. Judge Erwin passed sentence upon him Saturday morning filing his punishment at two to fourteen years at the Michigan City State prison. The prisoner was taken to that place Monday evening and the chances are that the old man will not live out his term as his health is by no means good. He is certainly a peculiar old character and withall a genius. He has a number of trades and can make or repair most anything. A matter of interest to farmers and stock raisers. A matter which will no doubt interest the farmers and stock raisers of this vicinity is the introduction throug H. H. Breinerkajnp of the American Stock Food Co’s famous remedies. This gentleman has been successful in securing the agency in this locality, in which he is to be congratulated as the goods manufactured by The American Food Co., Fremont, ()., seem to have peculiar merits not possessed by similar remedies. A remarkable feature of this company’s methods is that they give away free sample packages to demonstrate their faith in the goods. They also publish a valuable book which can be had for the asking, winch gives many good pointers regarding stock and stock raising. Their advertisement in behalf of their agent H. H. Bremerkamp, appears for the first time in this issue. We believe that it would bo well for farmers and stock raisers to follow their advertising which will run for a three mouths in this paper.

New cases filed in the circuit court j this week are entitled Mathias Striker ivs Edward K. Ray, suit on note. State vs Ohio Oil company, maintaining ordinance; State vs Wm. Loutzenhizer and Vint Everett, malicious tresspass; State vs Joseph Eley, assault and battery. A gentleman who has a stock exexhibit at the fair this week is authorj ity for the statement that the Great i Northern Indiana is the best advertised fair held in Indiana this season, not even excepting the state fair. , The good part of it is to that the association will do just as advertised jif the weather man acts half wav j right. The commissioners met Saturday and accepted the viewers reports on I West Pleasant Mills and Decatur and ] Preble macadam roads. On the forI mer John Myers and Adam Hower I were named as election commissioners and on the latter Charles S. Niblick and Frank McConnell. The voting will take place at the general election | November 4. Mrs. Martha Rhodes died at her home at Paulding Ohio Sunday afterafternoon after an illness of several days. While her friends here knew’ of her illness it was not believed to be so serious and the news was a sad surprise to them. Mrs. Rhodes formerly lived in this county and was the mother of C. L. Walters of the Big Store. Mr. Walters was at her bedside last week but did not believe her illness so serions as it proved. The remains were brought to this city and the funeral services were held Wednesday morning at the Union Chapel church. About a hundred Decatur people were at Fort Wayne Tuesday to attend the dedication of the Allen county court house, and though it rained the entire day they say the city was thronged with visitors. President Roosevelt was not present as advertised, as he was operated upon at Indianapolis during the morning. He was injured in a street car collision a few days ago and it became necessary to operate on his log, and he left immediately afterwards for Washington. The principal address at Fort Wayne was made by William Bourke Cockran, of New York, and all who heard him say he is the greatest platform speaker in the country, a reputation he has borne gracefully for j’ears. Frank Jones, state school superin tendent, has issued an arbor and bird day annual, prepared by W. H. Freeman, secretary of the state forestry board, to be used by the public schools in the preparation of exercises on October 24, which has been named by the governor’s proclamation as arbor day. The annual contains pictures of many native trees and pictures of school houses with fine shade trees in the yards, as well as school houses that have no trees near. The cover of the annual bears a picture in color of a Norway maple growing near the entrance of Crown Hill cemetery, Indianapolis. The annual describes some of the good, native trees, and tells the story of some of the historic trees, among them the constitutional Elm at Corydon, Ind.

The work of excavating for the new Presbyterian church is nearing completion and the contractors, Mann & Christen, will soon begin work on the brick and stone work. They will make every possible effort to have the outside work done and the budding enclosed by January Ist. If they can do this it will be an easy matter to have the church ready for dedication early in the spring. The contract price was within two dollars of $9,000. This, however, is simply for erecting the building from the foundation and includes none of the interior furnishing. which will include a beautiful organ, modern seats and everything up to date. Rev. Allen esti. .ates that the entire cost will not Im* less than $16,000. The church will have a seat ing capacity of from 800 to 1,000 people, and will be a public building that our city may point to with pride. A letter from R. J. Holthouse, the first of the week gives the information that his son Norbert who was bitten by a madened cat last week is getting along nicely and he has no fear of future developemeuts, while Dr. Lagario of the Pasteur Institute said there was probably no danger still he could not insure the fact unless the boy was treated and Mr. Holthouse concluded to take the safer course and have Norbert treated. It will require about fifteen days. Miss May mo Ter veer left Friday and will remain with Norbert during his treatment which will continue until the latter part of next week. A circular was enclosed with the letter which gave us some information not generally known since the Pasteur Institute was established in Chicago in 1890 nearly 14(X) patients have been treated of which but seven have died and all of these waited too long before beginning the treatment. The patients were bitten by almost every kind of animal including dogs, cats, mules, horses, skunks, pigs, wolves, cows, coyotes, burros, rats and several by hydrophobic human la'ings. The doctor guarantees a cure if ho receives the patient in good time.

We are indebted to the Bluffton K. of P. band for a serenade in front of the Democrat office yesterday morning. We say without hesitation that this organization is one of the best we have ever heard, and there are certainly none better in the state. The boys aside from being first-class musicians are clever gentlemen, and we doff our cap to them. The Zion Lutheran church will be built by Mann & Christen, that hustl ing firm having been awarded thecontract by the building committee last Saturday, the price being $3165.45. This does not include seating or furnishing and other extras which makes a total cost of perhaps S4OOO. The building will be erected at once and the congregation expects to dedicate same in about three months. The new church will be located at the corner of Monroe and Eleventh streets. Work upon the Willshire gas line is now on, and if the present clip keeps up it will not be many weeks until gas will be delivered to'that village. The shipment of the line pipe was made Monday and Tuesday the same was delivered at Willshire. Teams have been engaged to haul the piping and the work of laying it will begin in a few days. It will thus be seen that the management of the De catur Oil & Gas Company are full of business and will soon be dealng in gas w’ith the revenue attached. The principal feature of the meeting of the Indiana Jewelers’ association at Indianapolis last week was a discussion of measures that can be adopted to protect the jewelers from pedlers and department stores. It may be decided to present the depart ment store question to the state legislature and urge on municipalities higher rates of license on peddlers. The Jewelers’ association was organized in Indianapolis in May. It has a strong membership over the state,and a great effort is being made to interest Indianapolis jewelers in the organization. The officers are: PresiJeseph Hummell. of Hartford City; vice-president, William Hazletine, Kokomo; secretary and treasurer, R. E. Scott, Muncie. The Ohio and Indiana old settlers' excursion left here Tuesdaj - morning about seven o’clock on its twenty-first annual tour, and about 300 passengers boarded the train at this place for a visit with relatives and friends in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The Chicago Erie railway company have run this excursion each year, alternating the trip, one year running from Indiana east and the next year coming from the east to this state. They have become the most popular excursions in the middle west and are anxiously awaited each year by hundreds of people. This year’s excursion was run in three sections of twelve coaches each, and every car was filled when the trains left the city. Most of the Decatur passengers left on the section that was due here at seven o’clock. Business in the circuit court this week is not very brisk, as no cases of importance we. 3 set down for fair week. However the docket shows the following entries: State vs Lue Case, found guilty, fine a dollar and costs. State vs John Duncan and Edward Johnson, guilty, sentenced to penitentiary for one to three years each. State vs Charles Augerman, guilty, sentenced for two to fourteen years. State vs Joel Ellenberger, ordered redocketed. Joseph A. Moon vs Hannah Moon, divorce granted. Mar garet Markley vs Margaret Coffee, amended complaint filed, motion to make more specific, demurrer filed by defendant. Emil Mayer vs Isaac Zimmerman et al, motion to dismiss overruled, demurrer overruled, answer filed. Town of Geneva vs F. E. Wibel et al, finding against defendants for $35. Matthias Striker vs Edward K. Rav, leave asked and granled to withdraw all papers. A continued session of the city council was held Tuesday evening. Mayor Coffee presided and members Peterson, Weaver, Stetler and Corbett were present. On motion of Mr Corbett the matter of building cement sidewalks on west Monroe street was reconsidered and carried over to next regular meeting. The jietition of property owners to vacate a portion of Market street was filed and referred to committee on streets and alleys. A remonstrance was filed by Mrs. Anna Meyers and others to macadamizing Rugg street and same wasgrauted. The matter of extending water mains on Line street was referred to the committee. The sale of old iron and old calaboose was n ferred to fire committee. The matter of arranging the cost of lights and water for the telephone company was referred to the electric light committee. The plana and specifications for the Thirteenth street stone road was filed and approved. The matter of buying a new piston roil for the engineat the city plants was referred to the water works committee. The purchasing committee was ordered to purchase a sot of books for the city electrician and the water works superintendent so they can makemonthly reports. Council adjourned to meet in special session Monday evening to consider plans and sjMK'ifications for the new Fourth street pavement.

CIRCULATION 2800 WEEKLY

NUMBER 29

The girls of the high school are enthused by the record the footbAll team is starting out with, and although they cannot play the great game of the pig skin, they have dej cided on the next thing to it and will °ugage in basket ball. Goal posts were put up today in the school yard and the field marked off. Next week they will begin to emulate the example the boys are setting, only in a different and somewhat milder form.—Bluffton Banner. Al Fristoe has added a musical featture to assist in amusing his patrons and it seems to do the work satisfac- : tory from the way it is used. It is an I electrical banjo slot machine and cer- : tainly a clever piece of mechanism. | It plays over 100 pieces of music, five new ones being put in each day and it’s W’orth the price, a five cent piece to watch the machine do its work. A number of storage batteries furnish ; the power, and it’s a cinch that the i man who invented the instrument : knew what he was doing. Ed Johnson and John Duncan, | whose true names are unknown were I tried in circuit court last Friday and | convicted of stealing chickens. As a consequence they will do from one to j three years time in the Michigan City 1 prison. While it looks a little tough to send men to prison for stealing chickens it must be remembered that it is just as much an offense as stealing any thing else and he who stoops ! to do this kind of pilfering would usually do some worse crime. Besides it was shown in the trial of these two men that they had lived here nearly a year without working, had worn good clothes and generally had a little money and the general oninion is that the jury made no mistake in their verdict.

A surprise upon Miss Marie Patterson was the order of events Friday evening in the young society crowd, and to say it was a delightful occasion seems but a mild way of expressing the minds of those so lucky as to be present. The young ladies called at five o’clock and enjoyed an elabor ate dinner, after which a number of gentlemen friends called and helped to make the evening’s enjoyment complete. The usual social pleasures, dancing and games were indulged in. Among the guests who made the birthday surprise, which it was, complete, were Misses Lucile Bryson, Midge Smith. Vera Patterson. Bertha Heller, May Coverdale, May Niblick, Agnes Schrock, Dessie Beery, Fanny Hite. Genevieve Hale and Blanche Dibble; and Messrs. Joe Mason Jesse Niblick, Tom Ehinger Bert Mangold, Frank Wemhoff, Dan Vail, Hugh Hite, Louis Holthouse and Paul Wooten. The United Brethren conference closed at Peru Monday after one of the most interesting meetings ever held. Bishop Kephart presided and the services were harmonious throughout. Rev. Pontius was returned to this city and the fact is good news to his many Decatur friends. Elders for the ensuing year are- Peru district, F. Thomas; Fort Wayne district, J. A. Cummins; Elkhart, R. P. Burton; Warsaw, J. W. Lower. Appointments for this district are as follows: Fort Wayne, J. W. Lake; Decatur, E. H. Pontius; Monroeville, D. B. Kessinger; Ossian, J. A. Keck: Tocsin, J. W. Borkett: Roanoke, J, L. Goshert; Pleasant Mills, J. H.Crouse; Columbia City, L. W. Love; South Whitley, C. S. Parker; Noblesville, A. F. McCloe; Huntington. D. Robinson. Miscellaneous appointments are: Lafayette, I. S. Cleaver; Brimfield, J. W. De Long; Albion, A. M. Cummins; Butler, C. H. Bell; Indian Village, Curtis Sickafoose; Warsaw circuit, C. A. Spitler. A real live hold-up was perpetrated in this city Monday night about nine o’clock, and the affair was bold enough to do credit to the Chicago slums. Mr. J. J. Hewett of Meadville, Pa., was the victim and he was relieved of fifteen dollars in cash, a valuable gold watch and his milage book. Mr. Hewett is a lumber merchant being a member of the Keystone Lumber Company of Meadville, and has transacksl considerable business with the Decatur Egg Case Company. He arrived in town Monday evening and having some important business with A. T. Vail decided to hunt him up at once, and accordingly set out to find his house. He went west on Madison street and when near the residence of A. Gillioin, corner Fifth aud Madison streets, met throe men of whom hi* inquired the direction to Mr. Vail’s. They itifc.ir-' ’ him correctly and he started in the way pointed out. However, he had gone But a few feet whan one of the men ran up behind him and grablaxl him around the neck, at the same time another of the party produced a business like revolver and leveled it at his head, while the third proceeded to go through his pockets. Robbed of all his valuables he was told to proceed, but informed that if be caused any disturbance he would be sorry. Mr, Hewett reported the matter to the police as soon as possible, but no clue to the guilty parties has yet been ascertained. The fact that the men correctly pointed out where Mr. Vail lives tends to prove that it was home talent.