Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1910 — Page 6

ment around the clerk’s office tor a time Saturday. John Kr&tiw and Mary Deener appeared there p»d asked for the credentials which would enable them later to be married. They failed to answer the questions required and in addition they failed to measure up to the metal requirements as specified by the laws of the state, so Clerk Haefling refused to grant the license. The matter was later referred to Judge Merryman and after considerable investigation he upheld the clerk in his contention. They were refused license and as a matter of fact were greatly disappointed. A, ■mi n— * About the only thing noticeable around the clerk’s office these days Is the occasional’ filing of a new case for the September term of court and * outside of that there is not much doing. The office force is getting things in shape for the next term, making new dockets and otherwise getting ready for a lot of business, which Is accumulating. —'O' T 5 Indianapolis, Ind., July 23—(Special to Daily Democrat) —nans for an active and vigorous campaign in Indiana were made yesterday at a meeting called by Samuel M. Ralston, of Lebanon, of the democratic state campaign committee.. Present, as invited of the committee, were members of the democratic state ticket, the democratic congressmen, Governor Marshall and Thomas Taggart. Speeches were made by men representing every section of the state and invariably these reports were such as to inspire the hearers with th® certainty of democratic victory in November, provided there be no shirking in the work incident to the campaign. “Organization” was the keynote of the meeting, which was en-_ thusiastic from the moment Congressman Lincoln Dixon, the first speaker, took the floor. Each speaker who followed him laid stress upon the importance of organization—and organization which would enlist not only every precinct committeeman in the active campaign—but one that would also carry home to each democratic voter the responsibility resting upon him. It was the concensus of opinion that if the democratic voters responded and went to the polls in November, victory for the democratic cause would be assured. Among the subjects discussed was that of foreign speakers, and among those mentioned were William Jennings Bryan, Senator Gore and Champ Clark. It was the unanimous opinion of those present that these men should be asked to assist in the Indiana campaign and at the proper time an invitation will be extended to them by State Chairman Jackson. Governor Marshall and Thomas Taggart made speeches in which they agreed with the opinions of the others, that victory was assured if all democrats would put their shoulders to the wheel. They emphasized the importance of getting PHt the democratic vote and of getting a complete and thorough organization. There were nearly thirty present during the meeting which began at 10 o’clock in thq morning and continued until 5 In the afternoon. In the course of the day a report was made by every candidate present, many of whom have already visited certain parts of the state and canvassed the situation. Each of the congressman present, including Congressman Dixon, Cullop, Korbly, Bo?hnw»' and John fi. Petersoii, nofflifiOe in the Tenth district, was called upon for ah expression of his views on the Indiana situation. Nearly all of them have gotten in touch with conditions since the adjournment of congress and expressed themselves as confident of Democratic success. State Chairman Jackson reviewed the Indiana situation as he has found it and gave an outline of the work already done by the state committee and that planned for the future. “I am pleased to find such unanimity of opinion here today,” said Chairman Jackson. “It speaks well for the success of our party. We are agreed upon all points and out of such harmony I am sure nothing but success can come.’’ Many of the things suggested in the way of organization by the various speakers were shown by Chairman Jackson’s remarks to be already under way. Steps toward perfecting a splendid State organization have been taker and much work done preliminary to the speaking campaign. Mr. Ralston ns chairman of the meeting kept things moving and with good reports from every speaker there was enthu WHEN YOU PUT ON STOCKINGS Os the heavier sort, do your shoes pinch, and your feet swell and per spire? If you shake Allen's Foot Eas< in your shoes, it will give you res and comfort, and instant relief fror any annoyance. Sold everywhere 15c. Doh'tracept any substitute. — -■ o — Children Ory FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA

i meeting At Chairman t .Raltsea made the following: stateI ment: II “The meeting of the campaign comr! mittee was attended by the state can- ■ didates and the democratic candidates -for congress. In addition to these i gentlemen, Governor Marshall, Lieut. • Governor Frank J. Hall and the na- • tional committeeman, Thomas TagI gart, attended the meeting. The gen- - eral plan of the campaign was dlsi cussed at Length, proper notice being > taken of the political conditions in : the various congressional districts, it was the opinion of those present that thq economical and statesmanlike ad- > ministration of Governor Marshall, as i contrasted with republican adminisi trations, should be made prominent in I the campaign. The tariff question, ■ including the increased cost of living i and the fallacy of Senator Beveridge’s ; tariff commission will be discussed ; from every stump. Governor Mari shall made an enthusiastic speech, urging that the democratic party must stahd for economy and the right of the people to rule in government. 1 He said the democratic party must not be put in the attitude of cham1 pioning any particular interest. Mr. ' Taggart urged the importance of organization and placed his services at the disposal of the committee and the candidates. He assured them that he was ready to cooperate with the democratic organization and was ready to take upon himself any work to which he might be assigned. Both Governor Marshall and Mr. Taggart assured the meeting that the outlook, for democratic success was nevdl brighter. It was the unanimous opinion of everyone attending the meeting that among the foreign speakers Mr. Bryan, Senator Gore and Champ Clark should be asked to take part in the Indiana campaign. Several gentlemen gave it as their judgment that Mr. Roosevelt’s coming into Indiana to whip in line the republican leaders who are fighting Beveridge would result in failure. It was the belief of the meeting these opponents of Senator Beveridge are not in frame of mind to be bossed.” o E. D. Drage, of Hoagland, Allen county, employed as a lineman by the Pennsylva 4a company, was almost instantly i illed at Dunkirk, Ohio, at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning. The young man was eighteen years of age and a son of Mr| and Mrs. Fred Drage, residing one mile south of Hoagland. Young Drage was with a work train gang and jumped off a car, stepping over to an adjoin’ng track immediately in front of an on-coming train, No. 21. He was picked up by the pilot and hurled forty feet. Death intervened soon after the injured mau had been picked up by his comrades. The remains were brought to Hoagland for interment. The young man is survived by bis parents, a sister and two brothers. The young man is known to many here and especially to those of the noyth half of the county. Albert Scbe’.unflnn of the interurban office, this city, who attending school during the week at Fort Wayne, was in the railroad station there Friday evening when the remains arrived enroute to Hoagland. Though the death occurred in the morning it was late in the evening before the body could be brought to Fort Wayne on account .of the lack of train accommodations. Q J -II ’ < A Holiday for ths Wife. Give your wife a vacation. She needs one. Little cares are harder ;o bear than great responsibilities, and she has many more cares than her husband and sometimes as great responsibilities. When your work is done you can lock it up in your office and put the key in your pocket. But she never locks her work up till sleep comes and turns the key upon it. A woman’s work is never done.—Ex. Mrs. Edythe Blake-Hedges of New Haven delivered a lecture at the Methodist church here Wednesday ev- > ming. Her subject was “The Story , if the Catacombs.” She is an able tnd entertaining speaker, possessing i good voice and a charming personality, and was at all times complete master of her subject. Her work was , much appreciated and she received f hearty applause. The lecture should have been attended by a much larger udlence as<>it was of the highest haracter and a rare treat. Mrs. has been engaged to deliver a course of lectures before rhe Twentieth Century club of this 'ty next winter. —Monroevll'e Exchange. Mrs. Blake was formerly a resident of Geneva and taught a china nainting class in this city. Mrs. Belle Harmon entertained at (upper a few days ago in honor of her daughters, Misses Gertrude and essie Phillips, of Fort Wayne. Guests from Fort Wayne were Mrs. Derkts and daughters, Mayme and Catherine,

1 r /-,* i from mis city were rar. ana Mrs. C. - H. Brokaw and Miss Hilda Smith. The musical given at library hall - Friday evening under the auspices of s “The Lucky Twelve” division of the j German Reformed Aid society, was a . successful one, as could be judged by ■ the many words of praise and appre- - elation expressed by the large audi- - ence present. The opening number, -a piano solo by Miss Flora Peters, r was well received, as were piano solos i by Miss Esther Sellemeyer, Miss Flort ence Sprunger, Mrs. Fred Fruchte c and Miss Htildah Mutchler. A vocnl • solo by Miss Huldah Mutchler, with i piano accompaniment by Miss Ella - Mutchler, a piano duet by the Misses i Ella and Emma Mutchler, a cornet , solo with piano accompaniment by : Miss Florence Sprunger, a vocal solo i by Miss Florence Sprunger, with pil ano accompaniment by Miss Irene • Schirmeyer, were well given and re- , ceived. A choral song by six girls—- . Agnes Sellemeyer, Lydia Kirsch, Flora ’ Peters, Effie Miller, Emma Weidler . and Huldah Mutchler, with piano ac- ; companiment by Miss Ella Mutchler ■ and cornet accompaniment by Albert Sellemeyer, was a leading number. • The program was not carried out as : at first planned on account of the absence from the city of several members. Miss Nellie J. Schrock, a bride of Monday, her fiance, Dr. Orreri Smith of Indianapolis, and a number of their friends will be entertained at luncheon . tomorrow evening by Mr. and Mrs. MJ. C. Patterson and daughter, Marie. The company will include the following: Dr. Orren Smith, Miss Marguerite Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ream of Indianapolis: Mrs. G. H. Meyers, Montpener, Robert Schrock, Ithaca; Mrs. Nettie Schrock, Nellie, Bess and Will Schrock, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson of this city, and Bruce Patterson of Winona. A very happy birthday party was that given. Friday afternoon from 2:30 to 5:30 o'clock by Miss Mary Erwin at her home on North Second street. Pink and white comprised the color keynote of the decorations, which were of crepe paper streamers and sweet peas, arranged tastily in the house, while nasturtiums and plants beautified the porches.. “Vacation Days” was the name of an amusing little contest, carried oiit in pink and white also. Booklets were given each guest, which they were to illustrate with pictures from magazines, telling a vacation story. Prizes for the best and second were awarded to Rosa Green and Dorothy Dugan. Music also contributed to the pleasure and a tempting luncheon, carrying out the color scheme, was served by the T. T. girls. Guests were Dorothy Dugan, Hazel France, Vivian Dutcher, Lucile White, Lulu Gerger, Rosa Green, Lillian Rice, Winifred Sowers, Gladys Graham, Flora Peters, Mabel Moses, Hazel Love, Ema Schindler, Effie Miller, Mary Falk, Gladys McMillen of Pleasant Mills and Lucy Barnes of Huntington. » i , UM iiw ns— 0«n ■—— • YOU WOULO BE SURPRISED. This city has good drinking water, but a person would be surprised to see what accumulation of sediment is obtained by the use of one of our Modem Filters. Can be attached to any faucet, is inexpensive and every home should have one Os mote. The precaution toward health is worth considering. The Fair Store, A. W. Garard, Prop. 172t«f. 0.. —■ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Force, whose daughter’s funeral was held here yesterday, left this morning for their home at Hartford City. Mrs. J. D. Hale, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Earle Parker, at Hartford City, and also was the guest of her sister, Mrs 1 . D. E. Studabaker, at Bluffton, returned home today. She was accompanied here by her granddaughter, Miss /Carolyn Parker, who will make a return visit here for several days.J. M. Brown and family of Calloway, Neb., who have been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Brown, of Union township and his host of friends and relatives, returned to their western home this noon via the Erie railroad. Mr. Brown is an Adams county boy, having been bofn In Decatur. and grew to manhood in our midst He Is now in the employ of the Union Pacific railroad, running' a train controlled by a gasoline en- j gine motor power. He.ls one of their’ best engineers and an expert In gaso--’lne machinery. While here, with his parents and two brothers of this city a brother from Omaha, Neb., two sisters from Fort Wayne, and one sister from St. Mary’s township, they gave J. E. Moser a pleasant call and had a picture taken of the family, group, that the could have a pleasant remembrance of the visit. Mr. Brown likes bls western home very well, but said. Adams county looked good to him. : --"A-: -• .

Al 1 ' 1 ’ . , lu© pulp 01 WAr-U HIM ». rollder all possible aid to the officers 1 whose toto Is to cn'nrce the laws, t At such a meeting held in the Bapi tist church at 2:30 Sunday the "Civic i League of Decatur” was organized by ’ the election of the following officers: President—Adam J. Smith. Vice Presidents—C. J. Lutz and U. , S. Cress. . Secretary—Rev. Charles E. Ehle. i Treasurer—Mathias Kirsch. Additional members of the Execu- » tive Committee are: John Niblick, C. I E. Baughman, Q. T. Burk. • The following declaration of prini ciple was unanimously adopted as the > basis of organization. It will bear i careful study: ’ “Frequent and repeated violations » of the law in respect to one law en- ■ genders and develops disrespect for > all laws; and in view' of the ntimer- - ous and open violations of the liquor laws of our state, we hereby unite our--1 selves together to aid and assist the ' legally constituted authorities to enforce the law efficiently and effective- ' ly.” More than 100 citizens had signed the foregoing declaration before 10 ■ o’clock this morning. The member- - ship of the Civic League already includes the.jiastors of each of* these churches: German Reformed, United Brethren, Presbyterian, M. E., St. , Mary’s, Lutheran, Christian, Evangelical, and Baptist, as well as lay members from most, If not all, of them. While this is neither a political nor a religious movement it alms to include in its ranks all parties and ail churches. The aim is to secure the highest possible type of good citizenship, nothing more and nothing less. Members of the league have already pledged the sum of >1,085.00 for the carrying forward of this work and the end is not yet A meeting of the executive committee was held in the library at 7 o’clock this morning, and plans were outlined. • O' - ■ A special meeting of the county morning at the office of County Superintendent Opliger. It was decided to add a course in agriculture to the work of the eighth grade and the first year high school, anij Uphan’s introduction in agriculture was adopted for the eighth grade, and Wilkinson’s practical agriculture- for the high school. This will complete one and a half year’s work in agriculture and will prove a valuable addition to the course of study as now outlined for the use of the schools of the county. Nelson’s Grammar School Reading was also adopted for the eighth grade. The state board of education has adopted a list of nine classics and these classics are embodied in the Nelson gramar school reading. It includes biographies of authors, outlines for recitation, and suggestive helps for study, and many other excellent selections suitable for eighth grade reading. Educational questions pertaining to the coming school year were discussed in an informal way, and the meeting was a successful one. The trustees present were J. A. Fleming, C. E. Magley, Daniel Huffman, David Steele, Samuel Butler, O. J. Suman, Frank Wecter, C. C. Beer, John Moser, W. L. Thornhill and J. T.- Kelley. . ■ ■ ■ o - '■ CHINCH BUG IN THE CORN. Chariee Bell of Craigvllle Wants Remedy Against Com Destroyer. Charles Bell of Craigvllle, who was in tke city on business today, reports that the chinch bug has started in the corn fields in the vicinity of Craigvllle. They suck the sap oat of the’corn and by this method succeed ing killing the stalk. Mr. Bell has about seventy-five acres of corn out on his two farms near Craigvllle and the bugs ate on both farms. The bug is very dangerous and it is weISHR very dangerous and it is well scattered at Craigvllle, but has not been reported from any other part of the county. The corn in Wells county is looking good but if the bug gets in its work it may destroy the crop. Mr. Bell or any other citizen of Craigvllle would like to And out a remedy for the crop destroyer and any one knowing a good remedy will pleisc notify Mr. Bell or some one at Craigvllle.tr; Bluffton Banner. —e • Geneva, Ind., July 25—(Special to Dally Democrat) —The closing days of ' the Chautauqua in Geneva were well patronized and everybody is up in arms for a Chautauqua in 1911. Friday evening the people were well pleased with the decture given by Dr. Charles W. Blodgett in "The Handshake of Grant and Lee.” Mr. Blodgett spoke along the line of what this country was before the rebellion, and what it is now, and that it was the handshake of Grant and Lee that made it possible. In the close of bls lecture he paid a tribute to both a runt and Lee, and said on the grave of Lee be would place a red row, and

‘ toeLt’St, ■ eating and highly instructive. Sat- ) urday at 3 p. m. we were entertained ’ by the Hattie Rood Grace Concert company, composed of three members, a mother and twin daughters. The . selections given in reading and song were well received. In the evening at 8 p. m. we were entertained by L. W. Ford, who for many years - was the cartoonist for the Syracuse . ( Herald, Syracuse, New York. He Is an artist of recognised ability, a rapid- • fire talker and a rapid worker, who > kept his large audience attentively • watching and listening to his ready wit and wholesome humor, while i sketching in rapid succession pictures • which rivet the attention, please the • eye and point a iporal. Mr. Ford • drew the largest audience of the ahau- ■ tauqua. Sunday at 3p. m. the audi- • ence was faVered with a sermon by I Dr. A. W. Lamar of Tennessee, who ■ some say is the successor of Sam • Jones. The doctor took for a basis of his remarks, “ZaccheuS in the Sycamore," and to say the least he informed us very plainly that this old world of ours is still maintaining such characters. It was Dr. Lamar that started Sam Jones on his great career, and he is a most pleasant gentleman to meet. Sunday evening- we were entertained again by the Hattie Rood Grace Concert company in a sacred concert and thus closed the first and only Chautauqua ever held in Geneva, but it will not be the last one, as at the close of the entertainment Sunday evening four hundred season tickets at one dollar and fifty cents each were signed up and pledged by the business men of Geneva for a xhautauqua in Geneva in July, 1911, but It is estimated that before that time arrives an even one thousand will be sold. o The most profound sensation that has stirred Bluffton in years has been the chief subject of conversation everywhere during the past two days, since it became known Thursday evening that Mrs. Alice Kiger, wife of Col. W. L. Kiger, had departed from Bluffton with the stated purpose of abandoning her home in this city for good and the added fact that the departure was coincident with the departure on the previous evening of Dr. W. N. Fowler and the current report that the two have plans to meet at some time in the future and the expectation of Mrs. Kiger in leaving one of the best homes ip Bluffton was to link her future of the doctor. / That Mrs. Kiger deliberately planned to leave her home and husband is a fact that is assured from her own statements to that effect to very intimate friends. Mrs. Marcellus Alexander and Mrs. W. T. Junkin were both called to her home and received the positive assurance from Mrs. Kiger herself that she intended to leave her home here. They tried in vain to persuade her to abandon her purpose. It is said further that Mrs. Kiger admitted infatuation for Dr. Fowler and that she had hopes of divorce that would permit them to live together i legally. But she know of no charge' that she could make against her husband and she knew that he would not seek a divorce even if she did go away. For Dr. Fowler, a man aged forty-two, there has been nothidj; but condemnation. He has been mixed up in other similar affairs in Bluffton and is credited with having broken up more homes in Bluffton, and it probably would not be healthy for him to return to this city.-’Bluffton News. PICNIC AT ROBINBON PARK. WHi be Enjoyed by Christlsr Sunday Bohool Next Month. The Christian Sunday school is planning to give a picnic at Robinson park, Fort Wayne, during August, the date not having*been fully determined. The Sunday school . has increased more than three-told in membership since the Rev. JIM. Dawson, the new, pastor, has been here, and everything is most encouraging for a further in- • crease. The men’s class is coming rapidly to the front and will soon be„ one of the strongest in the city. The picnic this year will doubtless be one of the best ever enjoyed by the school and plans are being made on a large scale to make the day such. o An organized band of chicken thieves are about on their last legs. Two of the gang are under arrest, and it is expected that more of them will be paying their respects to the law before the matter is entirely closed. Sheriff Meyer and Deputy Ed Green went to Bobo Sunday morning i and arrested Hugh Daniels and Clint . Death, the case against both of them being pretty dear. Many of the stolen chickens were sold to Mr. Stet- > ler at Willshire and others to Moser & Co. at Wren. The affidavit upon

ijSlOide . It 1, «Um.ted that from rour <o tve ! hundred chickens have been stolen 11 f this neighborhood during this suin- ; mer, and the officers have been look- ’ lag for some definite evidence for i a long time. They now seem to have i It and they will push the matter to i the limit. Daniels gave bond, his ■ father and father-in-law coming to his > rescue and thus saving him from r spending his time in jail. His part- ' ner, Death, also furnished bond. F ■ i j,—!' v ———«——- i William Foreman left this morning i over,the Clover Leaf tor Marion, I Ind., where he was called on account ■ 'of'the severe illness of his brother, • “Doc’’Foreman. The message was short ' and did not state the nature of the ilk_ ' • ness, only that he should come at . i once. Just the fourth of this month ? he was visiting at Van Buren with his ■ brother, but at that time had shown ■ no signs of approaching sickness. Ou I. returning to his home he became in, i took to his ben and has not been able, ■ to be up since. It is thought his sick- ■ ness is some sort of brain -trouble, as he has been troubled in this way on former occasions, and- has been 1 unconscious for several days. Mr. Foreman left at once to be at his bedside. He is well known here by many people, who wish for him a speedy recovery. - . The sick man, Chauncey Foreman, better known as “Doc," lives at Van Buren, where hd is employed in a machine shop, but when he became sick was taken to the hospital at Marion, where he now is. He had been doing quite well In Van Buren, where he had gone after leaving here about six years ago, now owning his own heme « and doing quite well financially. He was married to Miss Blanch Johnson, and they have three children, two L girls and a boy. ■ , ~ .. I, some amusing experiences Os Adams County Ladles In the State Os Michigan. George Flanders, who has returned, from a week’s visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Flanders, at Sanford, Mich., reports a very enjoyable time. He met several peoplq from Allen county who have located there and like the country very much. Among them were Phil and Will Fuhrman and families. He reports an amusing incident that occurred to the ladies and children on the day he arrived there, Which he told thorn he would tell to their friends here/ much to their chagrin. They had driveft out to get huckleberries, and in the course of the trip were obliged to ford a river. Mrs. Will Fuhrman was afraid to drive across with the children and so went in a beat. The Misses Addie and Vera Fuhrman, daughters of Phil Fuhrman, attempted .the drive across, and when half th®< distance, turned around and drove I back, when if they would have conj tinned the water would been ; more shallow and less dangerous than the turn in the middle of the stream. They then thought they would row. across in the boat, and when nearly across the boat rocked and they again became frightened and junjped into the river, into water that came very nearly up to their necks. The boat floated away and they would “have been in a dire predicament bad not the woman who.Uvea on the Flanders farm happened along just then and got their boat and helped them out I »■! W The Erwin family reunion, an nuat event in the lives of the many Erwins hereabouts, was held Sunday at the home of Richard Kenney Erwin, unde of “our Dick,” and who lives west of Fort Wayne. The Erwin homestead, where the event of . Sunday was held, is one of the old country homes, pand where this family has lived for fifty years or more. He is an unde of the Adams county Erwins, seventy-eight years old, and if he lives until next year he will i ! celebrate the golden wedding with his 1 second wife, an event happening to but < few people. Pore B. Erwin and fam- ’ lly and D. N. Erwin and family of this city were in attendance, as was also R. K. Erwin and family of Fort Wayne. About fifty in all were pres- #. ent and enjoyed the day at the home i of this hospitable family. The Decatur Erwins have returned home and they pronounced the meeting Sunday the best of the many previously held by them. Early history of this and Allen counties was the principal theme of the day, and it was entertaining to all tbe younger members of this family, who are now scattered j over all portions of this great country. , u ■■ , William Welchman made a business trip to Hoagland this morning, return-