Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1906 — Page 2

TWO NEW TEACHERS CHOSEN Board Organizes for Tear—-Prof. Beachler Was Present —Bids Were Allowed. The school board met Saturday evening at the High school building. The first thing before the board was the reorganization of the same and resulted in the following officers being elected: A. H. Sellemeyer, ;■ R. D. Patterson, treasurer, and Fred Mills, secetary. Professor Beqchler the newly elected superintendent, met with the board, and offered some very timely advice. The following bills were then read and allowed: P. J. Hyand, $1,362; M. J. Wertzberger, $45, Loch, Dirkson & Co., $2.35, Adams Express Co., 45 cents and Burt Terry Wilson Co., $9.00 The resignation of Miss Blanch Reynolds as a primary teacher, was read and upon motion, was accepted ,and her vacancy was filled by Miss Ahr, who was elected by the board. The application of Miss Emma Sellemeyer was also read and she was elected to act as a teacher in the public schools during the coming term. No other business coming before the board, they adjourned, to meet again, subject to the call of the president. UNION CHAPEL TO HAVE SOCIAL The Union Chapel U. B. church will hold an ice cream social at the home of J. S. Lower, east of the city, Saturday evening, August 25th. A good time. Be sure and attend. Manager Lewton has booked Geneva for a game here August 31st, the last day of the fair, and the Corner Rod and Gun Club for Elks’ day, September 6th.

Only Big Circus Coming This Year AT DECATUR, IND FRIDAY, AUGUST I *7 FROTH’S AND BEST ASK ANYBODY. l( xouxrt. 3»”BC<» HINGS- 31 A: 3-»WGE STAGES” 3 Z V sow S-EQIHNE FAIRS-3»Sww/ V MIW fl -mst 3<OMBINEB MENAGERIES-3 J m » 3? k££’3-SPE«JAI TRAINS -3/\L~ L>« ■ W3U Xvtsscogs^e^ r < . SU S RPRISES°HERE ' MOQERfi I HJPPODROM|> fa,// IN DEATH-INVITING FEATS /< 3 300 JoSsPjfc ™ C t E r o' A Zly •’EOPLE.UORSES s» flS»; ' >l/ AMERICA’S ONLY' \v I RARE WILD AaIMALS., / AMUSEMENT ENTERPRISE' \ / LARGEST RAILROAD CONCERN XM * JE*Z WHICH HAS CIRCUMNAVIGATE® A 7 PROPELLED 8Y STEAM. THE GLOBE. \\ |-A!.L TENTS SUN AND RAIN PROOF -'SEATS FOR 11,000 PERSON S.\ Thrilling Equegtrfnne, Fearless Acrialiste, Dazzling Wire Kings ar 3 Queens, Amazing Acrobats and Gymnasts, Boneless Marvels, Race Riders find Drivers, Expert Bicyclists, Wonderful ** WF wfvfp r rvrnw Jn&glers, Astonishingly Educated Ele- ■ OR MSAPPCTTT Plants, Kors as, Ponies, Dogs, Goats, WE SEVER CHARGE — Monkeys and Bare Fierce Animal,. OVR DATES. Everything Wealth enn Procure—Culture Suggest— Experience Conceive. THEGREfiT CLUCK WILD BMTHIH CAMEL £££■„“; ONLY ONE EVER SEEN IN AMERICA. Hindoo Koosh UNLESS? THEOREMAD? BLACK TIGERS THE GLOBE QUB TENTED ZOOS Contain Species of Teeming EARTH’S RAREST CREATURES. 'WITH THESE AND ONLY THESE GREAT SHOWS ARE TO BE FOUND ; ’ IST/T Aerial Shaw. Mj —■ hivnal If I Aerial Goyts High‘Class I " Rosc.ietta Brothers I ■ Fu ’ ,alures I E Bussell Trio W 1 E Seven Delameada TsMf Berdie Rolland Coshelle Trio kwjk Z|V’4 ; - z / ® va Clark Pacheco Family Kl/aK, IJnda Jeal Julian Deffel Trio ®° se Geer Mike Rooney TSffiSf Wm. Rolland Wm. Winslow J rof * Joe Ser ris and Over 300 Others, ‘ INCLUDING qf Jolly. male and Female rAiir-Tim,/, Joke-Making Jeeten. SOMETHING |B,. . _ H’717'71 THE CHARMING - REALLY NEW |f| LLE U £l££| PARISIAN BELLE INA FEARFUL, FRIGHTFUL, FRENZIED, FLYING FLIGHT SPANNING DEATH’S ARCH raE ® E s^ffi l r ,H! ABSOLUTELY FREE TWICE DAILY on the Show Grounds . U ~ M MEEI. l ATELY AFTER THE PARADE AND AGAIN AT 6-30 P M Only living Woman who «ga Bicycle down „ steep Incline Inti Spat. md ACROSS A 65-FOOT YAWNING DEATH TRAP, , STILL THERE ARE MORE STARTLERS TO FOLLOW. f & i BIG STREET PARADE 5® Overwhelming moving Miles of Wealth and Splendor. Open Dens of Fierce Wild’ Beasts, Herds of Elephants Camels, Ponies, Horses. Five BandT of Music and all Exclusive New Novelties. JMMreries and attendance of the Musical Festival & Peerless Triple Men- 1 PROF, TINNEY’S CELEBRATED INTBSKATXOWAD THE arm mwn ’ ‘ . . • A. . ■ •• J ■ . ■

WILLSHIRE MAT HAVE BUTT Mrs. Roop Injured Through Town’s Negligence. Saturday evening Mrs. J. M. Roop and her sister, Mrs. Pritchard, were driving up town fom the depot, on the Decatur road, and when passing along the Frybank-Riker crossing, their horse ran the buggy up over a pile of stone screenings. The buggy was upset and the thrown out. Mrs. Roop seemed to be seriously injured internally and was taken ini® Lew Biter’s home, and Dr. Christy summoned to attend her. Late Saturday night she was sufficiently com- ' posed to be taken to her home sev- ■ eral miles in the country. Dr. Christy ' has not been able to definitely deter- ■ mine the extent of her injuries. It appears that Mrs. Pritchard escaped > without injury.—Willshire Herald, i The first number of the Huntington ( Morning Star, the paper which is > backed by a SIO,OOO stock company, . raised among the liquor men of Huntington, made its first appearance this morning with the exchanges. It hau j been looked forward to for some time, ,i owing to the great- amount of talk there has been about it. The paper fe a newsy sheet and well gotten up and i the future of the paper will be watched with considerable interest. There has been no little complaint from farmers, since the squirrel season has opened, of hunters entering farms without permission. The law provides that no hunting shall be done until the consent of the owner of the land has been secured. There is much squirrel hunting at the present time throughout the county and the hunters who are too busy to fulfill the obligations of the law will find themselves in a sea of trouble.

nr A NEW CASE JUST PILED Marriage License Issued to Well Known Parties—No Sherff Deeds Filed for Three Yean. ' ; Cottrell, .representing the paintiff, filed suit today entitled Samuel Kuntz vs. Clarence Biersdorfer, suit on note, demand SSOO. The note was given October 18th, Isat, due in - four months with six per cent interest and calls for s4l/AO. The defendant , is the well known base ball player, pitcher for the Geneva te*b. >. . . A marriage license was issued today to Charles Ranier, aged twentyfour, and Rosa A. Ayres, aged thirty. ■ The groom is a baker and now lives ■ at Van Buren, though his home form- ' erly was in this city. Abstractors Hooper & Lenhart ! in their study of the county records, have discovered that the last sheriff’s deed was filed in this county June i 15, 1903 and for' over three years [ there has not been a single one. Such , a record certainly proves a good showing for the community. The September term of the A-iams Circuit Court and the fall session of ' the Grand Jury will convene Septem- , ber the 3rd, three weeks from now. A GREAT~ METHODIST DAY The Services Were Attended by a Large Congregation and Enjoyed by Them. Sunday was a banner day with tne Methodist congregation of this city, v' en sixty-four probationers were taken into the full membership of the church. These probationers and now full members of the church, is the result of the revival meeting last winter, and the faithful work of the pastor. The list comprises children, young men and and even aged persons, one being eighty-four years old. A large audience was present and enjoyed the services, Rev. White being assisted by Revs. W. J. Meyers, W. H. Daniel and W. R. Peters. Those who were then enrolled upon the church roste, are: Dora A. * Steele, Frank V. Crill, Anna B. Amspaugh, Ethel M. Butler, Carl A. Brown. Flossie I. Bollinger, Eda G. Butler, Jessie F. Burdg, Ollie C. Chronister, Agnes J. Dutcher, Alonzo W. Dutcher, Lydia L. Elzey, Ruth A. Ernst, Delphia A. Elzey, Addie M. Fuhrman, David M. Gessinger, Lewis A. Graham, Francis Hurst, William- Hurst,, 'Mina Hurst, Mary J. Hite, Jacob 8. Hart, Margaret E. Huber, Irvin H. Hendricks, Vera M. Hammond, Susie A. Harrison, 0. A. Hall, Jennie M. Hall, Bessie Jeffrey, Agnes J. Krick, Daniel N. Kitson, Mary C. Kitson, Walter C. Kauffman, Hulda Loser, Florence G. Myers, Irene E. Myers, Nellie C. Myers, Vera C. Myers, Herma J. Mann, W. A. Moon, Dessie V. Moon, Joe D. McFarland, Ada L. McFarland, Idella L. McGonagle, Nellie M. Nichols, J. N. Parrish, M. F. Parrish, Enos M. Peoples, Louisa G. Peoples, Almira B. Scott, Ida C. Stoneburner, Bertha I. Smith, Lillian Stetson, Mrs. W. L. Stanley, Della D. Thomas, Frank Winans, Gladys White, Anna White, Sadie A. Weldy, Samuel Acker, Alice R. Acker, Henry Dellinger, and Letty Dellinger. INCENDIARY FIRE AT GENEVA Destroyed Slaughter House and the Contents. GENEVA, August 13.—The slaughter house, barn and ware room owned by Chris Haviland and located in the south part of town burned to the ground between nine and ten o’clock last evening. The contents owned by Byron Ault and consisting of tools, supplies, hides, etc., and valued at $l5O, were also burned. Mr. Havialnd’s loss is about S3OO. Tfte fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin, and arrestes may follow in 8 few days. A trip over Adams county at this time shows up to the best advantages I Adams county’s wonderful resources i as a corn growing district. On everj ‘ | hand are fields of corn and the rains I of the past week have made the crop. There is scarcely a possibility of anything occurring at this time or from this time on till cutting time to injure 1 the crop in anyway. The acreage Is. 1 large, the corn is well eared out and jit is well worth driving out to see i just in order that you may know what ■ a glorious old country this is in which 1 we live. 4

PAUL WOOTEN AS AN EDITOR > Now Publishing Paper at Oaxaca, Mexico. , .. , .. -.4 The Herald, published at Oaxaca, Mexico, has reached our table and we note with pleasure that Paul Wooten, formerly of this eity, is editor of the progressive sheet. It is an eight pager, live and well filed with advertising. Four pages are devoted to English news, and four to Mexico, the latter printed in Spanish. Mr Wooten, is prospering in the ’land of the and his Decatur friends are glad of it Until recently, Mr. Wooten was with Russ Harruff on the Mexico City Journal. Norman Lidy, a young farmer living east of Kingsland, lost SIOO yesterday on his way home from Decatur Yesterday morning he took a load of grain to Decatur and the money he put in a pocketbook on the return trip. Before dinner he lost the money some place on the road. Lidy did not miss the money until he had driven home and unhitched. He then drove back over the road again but was unable to find it. —Bluffton News. BALL TEAM GOES TO BLUFFTON For a Battle Wtih Murray’s Dolls— The Gypsy Tribe Strikes Geneva in Force. GENEVA, Ind., August 10. —The date for opening of the Geneva Public schools has been set for the tenth of September—just four weeks from Monday. This will be welcome news to some and unwelcome news to others, especially to the boy who can tell where the best swimming hole may be found in the river or where the fish bite so good. The schools this year will be in better shape than they have ever been before. The corps of instructors are capable and competent. Under the superintendency of Prof. Poer everything will be right up to the mark. The students should make the best of the remaining vacation days and then start into studies in dead earnest. COMPLAINT AGAINST OWNERS Greyhound Managers May Get in Trouble. Decatur people who had the misfortune of getting home late from that excursion trip to Teledo a week ago Sunday will be glad to learn that formal complaint that the managers and owners ofthe White Star steamer Geyhound permitted the prices of coffee and sandwiches to be raised while the steamer was stranded off Hiqkory Island on that day, and was unable to proceed on her return voyage to Toledo, has been filed at the United States customs office in Toledo. Inasmuch as the stranding of the big steamer occurred in Detroit waters, the complaint was respectfully referred to the federal customs officials at that port, and will be investigated there. The steamer, too, is owned by a Michigan corporation, with headquarters at Detroit. The complainant is of the opinion that the prices should not have been increased under the circumstances, and says that an investigation should follow. The White Star Line company, through Captain Meikleham, of the Greyhound, has filed a stranding report with the Detroit officials, thereby complying with the federal statutes. Officials of the White Star Line will welcome all complaints that the prices of edibles were increased by the manager of the lunch room, and if proof is produced, the guilty party or parties will be prosecuted vigorously by the owners of the boat. The United States government makes it obligatory on the part of the owners of steamers to provide for the comfort of s guests and passengers during stranding or mishaps. This, the officials of the boat company assert was done, when food was furnished. The federal government has • no voice in regulating the prices charged. Many persons are noticing the peculiar manner of the rain fall received in this part of the state during the past summer and it is frequently remarked that it was never known to be of such a local nature as it has been in the past three or four months. Heavy rains will fall in one section, while a mile or two away the water is hardly sufficient to lay the dust. There is one strip of country in the north part of the county that has been missed on nearly every occasion that a rain has,fallen this year.

TO DISPOSE OF THE Framed by Anderson Man, Who Says Trustees Have Been Expensive Experiment. Scrfppa-Mcßae Special. ANDERSON, Ind., August 9.—A movement to abolish the office ot township trustee in Indiana has been started. It had. its inception in Anderson and an Anderson man will draft'the bill that will be presented to the legislature to do away wtih the office. The trustee’s office in Indiana has been an expensive institution and there is no means of estimating the needless expense it has been to taxpayers. There is no public business connected with the office of trustee but what can be ‘very properly cared for even if the office were abolished. The county commissioners under the proposed new arrangement will have supervision of road matters and the county superintendent will have charge of that part of the work pertaining to schools, In this way the township trustee, who has proven an expensive official in many communities, could be disposed of without loss , to the public. | Dealers in school supplies and bad machinery have found the township trustee’s office a fruitful field for questionable work, and has used it for everything it would stand. All sorts of combinations have been formed and all sorts of worthless goods palmed off on taxpayers at top notch prices. It was this kind of business that first brought the office into disrepute. # T> e Grea*- Northern Fair is but two weeks off, and the managers are leaving nothing undone to make it the best ever.

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The church board of the Washington M. E. church received bids Saturday afternoon late for the construction of a new church in Washington township, but after • receiving the same, came to the conclusion that the price asked to construct the building was too much and concluded to give up the idea of building at the present time. The foundation had already been laid and this will be torn up. The bids and"bidders were as follows: Dentler & Newman of Monroe, $2,225; Weaver & Suttles, $2,606.75; Mann & Christen, $2,015, and D. I. Weikel, $1,823. ■I S ■!— II 111 I II I ■— « In an effort to square their tear* for rowdy and jiaby ball playing, the Bluffton Bannen last evening devoted a half column in saying mean things about C. D. Lewton, whose character is far above any Wells county halfbreed who upholds such outlaws as Comingore. 1

IB MOVING TO ALEXANDRIA Dr. Beardsley Will Locate in Gm — ) Dr. E. J. Beardsley is busily ,negaged in packing his household goods, and effects, preparatory to moving to , Alexandria, Indiana, where he expects to make his future home. The announcement will no dqubt prove a surprise to our readers, as Dr. Beardsley, was looked upon as being one of ' our leading physicians, and during his five years residence in our city, enjoyed a large practee. He was looked upon as one of our leading citizens, as he was of a progressive nature and was always wiping to promote and assist in any enterprise would assist in pushing the city’s interest. During the five years, he has been looked upon as one of the best physieans in northern Indiana, when it came to treating diseases of a chronic nature and diseases of the eye, ear, nose and' throat. Esepciaßy was he an expert at fitting I He expects to engage, in the practice lof medicine at his new location, and ■ has secured one of the finest offices ■in the Gas Belt city and the same is now being fitted up for him. Mrs. Beardsley will also be engaged in business in the same city and'has already secured a large business room, in the heart of the city, where shlT' expects to open up a millinery store on a large scale. Mrs. Beardsley is an experienced lady in this line of work, having engaged in the same, business in this city which Was a ‘decided success. The doctor and his family expect to be located and settled in their new home in one week, and kindly invite any and all Decaturpenj le who chance to go to Alexandria to pay then a visd.

PHEMUMS FOR ALL. A great deal lias been said about how k to keep the boys and girls on the farm. J The Great Northern Indiana Fair assorjl elation, at Decatur, is doing its part for i the boys and girls interested in farm work by offering premiums on various articles for which boys and girls may compete. Liberal cash prizes are being offered for exhibits of live stock, grains fruits, 'vegetable and dairy products; also for art and floral exhibits, needle and fancy work, canned fruits and culinary articles. These prizes may be competed for by boys and girls who exhibit products and articles of their own raising or making. A number of special premiums are offered for specib mens of various kinds of work done by boys and girls under fifteen years of age. The date of the fair is Auguse 28, 29, 30 and 31, 1906. Parents should encourage their children to become exhibitors and in this way help to create in them an interest and a love for the farm and Its surroundings. It may mean the making of future- farmers and farmers' wives who will an honor to themselves and their profession. A premium list of the. fair” may be had by addressing Secretary c. D Kunkle; Decatur, Ind., Send for one J at once and prepare to exhibit some-.i thing from the farm 2-days. I