Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1903 — Page 8

32nd Annual BIG FAIR Portland, Indiana, Sept. 23-30 Oct. 1-2 $3,000 Purses on Races Third Engagement of the famous BICKETT FAMILY Manv Grand Special Features Each Day, in Front of Grand Stand. CARRIE NATION On Wednesday. Also Automobile Race on Wednesday. Rates on All Railroads J. F. GRAVES, Sec y. Route Five. Thomas Ruskin and wife are at Fort Wayne. C. H. Lammerman and wife are at Petoskey, Michigan. B. F. Brown has several fine farms near Monroe for sale, also one or two in the oil belt. See him if you want to buy. Mrs. Harvey Reichert of Hartford City, who is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harlo Mann, will return home Tuesday. Route Three. Trustee Boknecht is improving his farm with 200 rods of wire fence Henry Luttman's new house is nearly completed and will be a fine one when completed. St. John's church is being remodeled. A new pipe organ will be one of the new features. Fred Buseck who was hurt some time ago by his team running away, is slowly’ improving and will soon be as well as ever. Berne. B. F. Welty of Lima, Ohio, Sundayed with Miss Cora Gottschalk and others. Attorney Sprague of Bluffton, was in town a short time Monday on legal business. F. C. Foreman spent a few days List week at Cincinnati and Oxford, Ohio, visiting old friends and relatives. Mrs. E. Woodruff of Oxford, Ohio, is spending a few days with her daughter Mrs. F. C. Foreman and Mrs. H. O. Silvers. Peter Soldner and family returned home from Oden, Mich., Saturday looking the pink of health and

I DON’T MISS THE FAIR Muffin . - - - « , But above all, don’t fail to visit \ Our New Store $ While in Decatur. We have the BEST ' ’•)'7 ASSORTED and newest line of CLOTHING J HATS, CAPS and UNDERWEAR w JUWS 'W/■} \ of an y firm in town - A/ h is Not To ° Early - y .. To buy your Fall and Winter Suit and 1 IrFr Overcoat. Our Overcoat and Suit or- 1 '' I 1 / chard is dow full. Come, while the PICK-, FW ING IS GOOD ’ y Be Sure and See -£.4* ZZNliilliiThH.n... Our Woolen and Cotton Underwear be- ' 3 ‘ f° re Y ou b u Y' Now, flother, 77 We want you to bring the boys iu, and f/ll tr Y some our suits and overcoats on || them. If you do, we will make a sale and you will be well pleased. Boys’ School Suits We have an exceptionally good stock of Suits suitable for school wear. See them. If you want the LATEST STYLES IN HxATS and CAPS, we have them at prices that will make you buy. _—. .... — B — Acker, Elzey & Vance Remember the Place: Corner East of Court Ooure.

chuck full of fish stories. Mr. and Mrs. Atkson of Merom, Ind., and Miss Etta Atkson of Salimona, Ind., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Dr. C. H. Schenk. Monmouth. Jack Kemp and John Wolford are cutting timber. Dr. Zeigler has completed an ad-: dition to his house. Farmers about here are busy getting ready to sow wheat. Mrs. Dorwin is having a new house built on her farm just uorth of town. A. J. Lewton, Fred Peoples and L. N. Graudstaff are hauling gravel. E. A. Christen is getting his fine stock rea If for the Great Northern 1 Indiana Fair. Dr. John Grandstaff and family' spent Sunday with his parents. John ! stiil likes to geo his feet under mamma’s table. Everyone is busy and happy, and Monmouth is on the boom. New houses are being erected on every choice site. We have the best pilse road in the county, nearly every house has a telephone, the inter-urban is an assured fact. Even Decatur, a sub urb of Monmouth, would like to be annexed but unless they fill up some of the mud holes on north Second street, they need try longer. Monroe. Prof. C. Hocker and family spent Sunday at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Haley’ and daughter of Portland spent Sunday with relatives here. Misses Blanche Andrews and Ada Brandyberry are still in bed with typhoid and malaria fever. They are getting along fine. Ephrain Lobenstine who has been visiting friends and realtives at Spencerville, for the past week, re-1 turned home Monday afternoon. Ths Ideal Entertainers gave their entertainment at the church Satur-! day evening. It was well given 1 and well appreciated by all who were present. Rev. M. T. Brandyberry left Tuesday morning for Upland where he ' will spend another year in the univeristy. Millard is a fine young man and is working himself to the top of the ladder. We all wish him success. We'have there drays in this town, Nos. 1,2, and 3. No. 1 Bazil Everhart, No. 2 Z. O. Lewellen, and No. 3 Clifford Andrews. Cliff drives a goat to a little red wagon and does more business than both of the others in the way of hauling water. And he never says anything when the kids ride on the coupling pole. Pleasant Mills. A baby boy arrived at the home of Al Roebuck and wife, Monday 14. Rev. Peters and others of Portland Sundayed with Irwin Carter and wife.

Miss Nina Myers, living near the couny farm spent Tuesday here with her grandparents Mr. and Mr.-. James Boyd. Burton Faller and Harvey Roop, Pleasant Mills boys, who have been engaged in business at Toledo, for , the pas several months returned last week and spent a few days : here with their parents. They left Saturday for the far west. Samuel Durbin and family form- ; erly of Grover Hill, Ohio, is now lo- ! cated at Pleasant Mills. Mr. Duri bin has opened up a dry goods and grocery’ store in the Fortney i building. He expects to keep on i hand a full stock of dry goods and ■ groceries. He kindly solicits a share of your patronage. Thursday evening of last week, j while Elt Faust and Miss Maud i Steele was returning from Van Wert for some cause their vehicle was upset and its occupants thrown out, and Miss Maud recieved a broken arm and several other bad bruises. The accident occurred near Rockford. She is getting along as well as can be expected, but will carry’ her right arm in a sling for some time. Linn Grove. Rev. Erhardt was visiting with friends at South Bend the past two weeks. The delivery of brick for the I. O. :O. F. and Opliger block is being made this week. Miss Nellie Hunt was visiting i Wm. Caston and family of south Hartford, last week. Miss Julia Wegmiller of Geneva, was the guest of Miss Nona M. Hoffmann the last of the past week. Mrs. Caroline Haughton made sale of her personal property Tuesi day preparatory to moving to GeIneva. Miss Nona M. Hoffmann left last i Thursday’ for Delphos, Onio, where ; she will lie the guest of friends for the coming week. Mrs. Charles Fonts viewed the remains of Mr. Becktel who fell dead at Geneva, Saturday soon after the , body was brought in. F. A. W. Lindsey and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fonts were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lindsey at Geneva, last Sunday. L. L. Baumgartner is moving to our town, and will be at home to his frjends at No. 14 North Meridian street. The acquisition of Mr. B. I and family’ affords us pleasure to note. Peter Hoffmann made a business trip to Chicago the last half of last week. A Buckeye conductor on the C. & E. R. R. carried him to Lima, Ohio, instead of Decatur, while Peter was in the arm of morphias. Berne crossed bats with Linn Grove the first of the week and was the champion contest in our sportjing history. Berne, however, took

second place in results the score being 7to 11. We extend the Berne boys our heavy-weight of sympathy but this affords no relief to depress I ed feelings. , 1 Two oil wells were completed, near here W>e last of last week, one on the F. Shepherd farm which he reports a production of from 40 to 50 bbls, and one on the C. C. Stuck ev farm, one mile east of town, pro-, ducing 7 bbls. Three more wells arc being put down on lands owned | by Sherman Higgins, Mrs. Anna j Glaus and the Opliger farm. Christ Gerber being the late owner. lhe Shimmelfauk Co., arc also making preparations to put down another well near the Stuckey well, probably on the land of Peter Yoder. Indications are flattening for a lucrative oil field at Linn Grove at an early day. So mote it be. Monroe. Miss Lorena L dsure left Monday morning for Portland where she will visit a few weeks with friends and relatives. There will be an all day missionary meeting at this place next Wednesday, Sept 16 conducted by ten. ministers. J. R. Badders and Shelby Ray are thinking of putting down well that will produce water that is free from all typhoid germs. Little Walter Oliver son of Thomas Oliver while playing on a swinging board fell and broke his arm. He broke both bones square off. Mrs. Joseph Pogue and her granddaughter Miss Wilda Ray returned from Portland where they have been visiting friends and relatives. Those around here who are on the sick list are Miss Blanche Andrews, Miss Parker, Mrs. Detrc, Joe Wales. Jacob Rohdes and Win. Badders s baby. All the Christian girls of this place and surrounding vicinity were or- j ganized into a Young Laides Chris-, tian Band Sunday everning. There were twenty-two charter members. The Y. M. C. B. boys after spending six months of hard labor for the Lord have taken in the excursion to Detroit Wednesday. The boys have been working faithfully and they deserve it. The Ideal entertainers of Saginaw, Mich., who gave a very deiglitful entertainment here last year will be here again Saturday night, Sept. 12, to give a program in the M. E. church. The program will be varied, musical elocutionary, slight of hand work, moving pictures etc. It promises to be the best entertainment in Monroe. Admission 10 and 20 cents. Benefits of the Epworth League, everybody invited. The meeting at the Y. M. C. B. tent, one half mile west of town was drawn to a close Sunday evening. The meeting had been going on from the past two weeks, and much good was being accomplished. Upon last Sunday afternoon Miss Santa Wolfe of near the PleasantValley church gave a very nice talk and was tpllo.weA Rev. Holingsworth, pastor of the Friends church. The meeting closed Sunday evening with at least twenty five conversions and fifty taken into the church. CHARGES JURY. It was ten minutes past nine o'clock yesterday when Judge Erwin ordered sheriff Butler to call the special grand jury. Immediately I Christ Amacher, James McCune, Amos M. Downes, L. C. Lenhart and William Fuchs took their places. Judge Erwin then read the statute provision which describes the duty of grand jury and appointed Charles Morrison as foreman. He also inI structed the grand jury to look into I the violation of offenses as follows: Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: In addition to the general instruction I have given you it is my duty as I Judge of this court to call your attention to a number of matters that have been called to the attention of the court in the past few months: First: It has been presented to this court officially that a murder j has been committed in this county. It will be your duty to investigate this matter thoroughly and return | such an indictment as will cover the offense if you find a crime hes been committed. Second: It ha's been unofficially communicated to this court that some person or persons with intent to injure the preson and property of one Rohrer at Berne in this | county placed dynamite on the premises of said Rohrer. This | would constitute a felony and you •

The Great Northern Indiana [fair].L__— decatur, Indiana” September 22, 23, 24, 25, 'O3 _ ■' n.. al " lkClr - 1 ' 1 —— ~~ ~ ,ITI ' ** V , . 2iui ■■■■—- 111 lrw ' —W || $6,300 Paid in Purses and Premiums Best Fair Ever Held in the Central States. Today The Fair is Without a A CONTINUOUS EXHIBITION j* Something Going on all the —“I HE GROUNDS ARE THE BEST ARRANGED T IN THE STATE. They cover 107 acres. The buildings are new, have a complete police protection, telephone system, etc. There are shady drives and groves. No gambling or games allowed, and every factor that goes toward making a successful fair is in evidence. It will be the Greatest and Grandest Fair ever held in In.di3.n3 WEDNESDAY WILL BE CHILDRENS’ DAY ADDRESS George Tricker, T. H. Harris, President Secretary

should make duediliger.ee in an effort to discover the guilty person or persons. •' Ai Third: It has been brought to the knowledge of this court that on the 4th day of July last persons without authority of law sold intoxicating liquors on the fair grounds near this city, not only to persons of mature years but to minors as well. It is a violation of section 2194 Revised Statutes of 1019 to sell liquors to be drank as a beverage on the Fourth day of July or to minors, or without a license so to do. It will be your duty to investigate this matter thorougly and return indictments against such parties as were engaged in such traffic, if you find persons engaged in such traffic on the said day or Fourth: It has also come to the knowledge of the court that gambling devices were allowed on the grounds and in the buildings of Steele’s park on July Fourth, 1903 and run openly in violation of law and that a large number of persons pl tyed thereon and lost large sums of money. The person conducting ■ said gambling devices were guilty »£ f .yi'Atfiv J t-hv w. Tao person ■or persons having control of the 1 buildings or who owned the same who knowingly permitted the same to be carried on were guilty of violating the original Statute of this state, or knowing the same was being conducted therj on or therin to allow the same to continue. It is your duty as Grand Jurors to make diligent inquiry in regard to these matters and return bills of indictment against all other respect of violating the criminal Statute of this state. Fifth: It has been mentioned to the court that a public gaming house is being conducted above one of the saloons in this city. You should make diligent inquiry of this matter and if you find the same to exist you should return a bill accordingly against whoever conducts same. Sixth: My attention has been called to the fact that a pool and billiard room is being conducted in this city where minors are allowed to congregate and play at pool and billiards. Section 2182 of the Revised statutes 1019 makes it a misdemeanor, punishable bjffine cf not less tlMn five dollars or mWe than fifty, for any person having the care, management or control of any bil-

Hard table or pool table to allow minors to play on same. Section 2183 of the Revised Statutes 1901 makes it a misdemeanor for any person having the care or management or control of billiard or pool tables to allow minors to congregate in and about such places where such tables are kept. It will be your duty to make thorough inquiry into this matter and report the result of your deliberations to this court. Seventh: It has repeatedly been called to the attention of this court that slot machines are allowed to be operated in this city in a great many places and that men and boys even s nail children are allowed to congregate in and around the places where kept and play upon the same, the Revised Statutes of 1901 and it makes no difference whether the players get the full value of their money or not, if at the same time he is offered an opportunity to win more than the value of the sum played. It is as much an offense inst this statute to play a cent as five and five as a dollar, either being a violation of the law. You are officers of this court and as such you have a duty to perform under your oath as I have heretofore read to you from the statute and you should be doing violence to your oaths as Grand Jurors if you failet to 'investigate these violations the criminal law. 1 It is made the duty of the Jud?'' of this court by the laws of t-ie State to call your attention to the violation of law whenever the court has been informed that the sa me has been violated. It is the u. iof the prosecuting attorney investigate and prosecute ail fractions of the penal laws o ■ state, occuring within his jurition and he will lend you eurj “‘ : sistance within his power to ri -■ about a discovery of a crime co mitted within his jurisdiction, j you can proceed in your (e 1 tions with the full assurance that von have his hearty co-op ia Richard K. Judge of the Adams County 1 - r cuit Court. minted Seymore Worden was appo bailff of the grand jury at immediately went i nto -«'-afhey office of the county she t“ will no doubt be busy for days.