Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1911 — Page 4

THE DKMOSRAT ■▼■rrvamunAY aoßßiae by uffW O. KLMNOMAM, FteßßeMr. u.uuPBB YBAB IM ADYANOB. Entered at the poetoffice at Decatur. Ad., as secund class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPBR OF~ABAMB Ctt. Anderson gets the next Elks’ convention. The meeting which closed at Fort Wayne Friday evening was the best in history. The Decatur lodge w:as represented by over one hundred delegates, clad in summer togs and carrying pennants, and received due applause. Alvin Padgitt of Washington was chosen president Diaz has fled to Spain, after surrendering the presidency of Mexico to the rebels. Forty years of rule In that republic, with better conditions than has been known in centuries, does not seem to have counted for much. That conditions will improve now is very doubtful, and still the old president was so very tyrannical that a change seems to have been necessary. Heat records over the United States were smashed into smithereens yesterday, and old Indiana was the hottest place on the map, accord-' ing to all records. With the mercury ! holding at from ninety-four to ninetyeight in the shady spots, there were numerous prostrations. Today it reached a hundred, but the weather . man predicts showers and cooler for Sunday, thank the Lord. The good old "summer time that we have heard sung in vaudeville all winter seems to have arrived with a vengeance. If June is ascompratively hot as May has been, the fellow that has to work back of a twenty-foot plate glass will just about melt into his shoes. Commencement day has again been written in history and eighteen young ladies and gentlemen have been given diplomas, and have stepped into the ■ arena. It is a more important event In their lives than they probably realiize at this time. They have spent what seems to be a long period of | time at “book lamin’ ” and now they j will have to put into actual use what ■ they have learned and it will be fotjpd some different. There will be many tests, in fact from now on it is a continual examination and they must. make good every day. Real worth and, devotion to whatever vocation you decide to follow will count eventually. Along with all this there will be pleasing and happy events to make the way ( easier. Each success will bring with ‘ it a gladness and these successes will come easier for your having stuck to school until the coveted diploma was placed in your hands. We congratulate the class. Around the Old Camp Fire. While the war had its horrors, the camp life was not without its “social side,’’ too, as the gatnerings around the blazing campnres in the evenings may well be called, when , all made merry, when not too tired, and related the happenings of the day. And there were some funny ones, too, as well as those of horror. In the reminiscences given on this page, an effort has been made to forget the sorrow and bring to mind again the humorous experiences of “the boys in blue.” Each one of the comrades has been asked to contribute an anecdote and many have responded, humorously and otherwise. “Speak for Yourself John.” In July, 1864, a detachment of forty men were detailed out of Company I, 138th Indiana volunteers, to guard a; railroad bridge in Alabama and our ra-; tions of bacon, hard-tack, beans and , hay (as the comrades dubbed it; the government requisition would be, pressed dried vegetables), became monotonous to the stomach of our mess, ' since our parents had raised us on pie, float and sweetmeats, purely tis- ■ sue builders, bone developers, and the increasing of the gray matter of the brain, in short, food for the making of athletes, we decided that a change of edibles was essentially necessary.. At the time we were guarding this bridge, the government was shipping large consignments of shelled corn In gondola cars to the front, for the sole use and benefit of the kicking army mules. We decided that if we had some corn meal, for cakes, we could ▼ary otfr bill of fare for breakfast, which would certainly be a treat. So

one evening at dusk the corn train came along, and from some cause, stopped on the bridge. It was just about the hour for roll call and absence meant a punishment, so the boys of the mess suggested that if 1 would board the car on the bridge and throw off two sacks of corn they would answer present when my name was called. So eager were they t*> shield me that two of them answered the roll call at the same time, and my absence was discovered by the officer. I threw the two sacks of corn off the car and dragged them to a slump of bushes and concealed them and then returned to camp and was told of the error that was made by my comrades. Next morning at roll call 1 answered present (in person) and the officer Inquired where I was last evening al roll call, and "George Washingtonlike" 1 answered “absent without the officer’s permission.’’ Penalty, clean up quarters for half a day. In the afternoon we carted our corn on our shoulders a half mile down the creek to an old log mill to have it ground. The owner told ns we would have to wait until it rained for there was not enough water in the creek to turn his over-shot water wheel. He said he was thankful to get this grist, for the toll he would get would make the pickaninnies and mammies a picnic. In ten days it rained. We got our corn meal, and had our corn cakes. It has always been a mystery to me why the two comrades who were so eager to personate me at the evening ’ roll call were so silent at the morning call. I surmise it must have been the penalty. B. W. SHOLTY. Comrade Galloway Visits Here. The local veterans enjoyed a visit last week trom Comrade Joe Galloway of Pontiac. Illinois, a member of Company I. S9th regiment of Indiana volunteers, the reunion with his fellows being a mutually pleasant one. Mr. Galloway resided here forty years ago, but the visits between have been far apart. Not All “Peaches and Cream.” L. N. Grandstaff is responsible for the following excellent reminiscence: Our regiment was organized under Colonel Tom Stillwell at Kokomo, Indiana. in the fall and winter of ’63. We had a good time that winter as we were quartered in good comfortable barracks, had nothing to do but eat three square meals a day, and do a little company and regimental drilling between time. We enjoyed the eating the best. But before the blue birds came in the spring, Colonel Tom had our regiment fully organized and we were ordered to join General Sherman’s army in Tennessee. But we had been with General Stillwell so long that he had become attached to us and he couldn’t let us go without some words of encouragement. So we were called out on dress parade, then formed in a hollow square and presented with a testament by the Ladies' Christian Commission of Kokomo. Colonel Tom was a fine orator and he couldn’t let us go without a speech to cheer us up as we were so soon to leave our homes and loved ones and well do I remember a part of that speech. It was full of comfort and good cheer. He said in part: “Soldiers of the 130th Indiana, you do not need to dread to leave your native state. You are going to the sunny fields of the south, there where the orange trees are perpetually in bloom, where you can fill your haversacks with peaches as you march along the road” —in fact, he pictured us a kind of F>>nrth of July picnic and we were anxious for the land of sunshine, oranges and peaches. We Joined General Sherman at Charleston, Tenn., had our first scrap with Longstreet a few days later at Ringgold, Georgia, and were were on our way to Atlanta in less than six weeks after Colonel Tola’s speech. Were in front of Nesacca and fighting like veterans. On Sunday evening we made a fierce charge on the rebel works and were ordered to support the 23rd battery at the end of the charge, which was just at the brow of the hill. We were ordered to lie down, which we did without the second order, the 23rd battery immediately to our right, and there amidst the roar of the cannon, the ; rattle of musketry, with rebel bullets : plowing the earth close to our noses, .Jim Barton, a member of my company, remembered Colonel Stillwell’s speech at Kokomo and in about the same tone cried out: “Say, boys, if any of you ! want any peaches, come on and get ' them.” “Always Room at the Top.” More than one veteran of the present day laughs at his part In the following “forage.” The officer in charge of the boys had strictly forbidden foraging for food and other provisions. On one occasion, however, the de-' mand for wood with which to build a ( fire was imperative and the “boys” pe-. titioned that they be allowed to take 1 the rails of a fence nearby to feed the flames. The official with a twinkle in his eyes, and knowing the great need, replied: “Well, boys, you may have some rails, but see to It that you take

none but the “tout rails. Os course there were top* rails as long as the fence lasted. "All’s Fair In ar.” T. R. Moore, one of the present officers of the local G. A. R-, who enlisted in the 164th Ohio regiment, ie per.haps one of the youngest "veterans” of the bunch, as he was less than eighteen years of age when discharged at the close of the war in August, his eighteenth birthday anniversary not <eoming until October 18th. He served the last year in the war, having •enlisted at a time when there was a great need for men. When the recruiting officer asked him his age. he replied that he would be nineteen in October,” and was mustered in without challenge. "Well, so I would be nineteen in October,” Mr. Moore said in recounting the event, “but I didn’t say October of which year. Anyhow, all's fair in war." Fright a Great Incentive. T. K Mooie tells of a "Dutchman" in his company who struck the truetoned keynote of that which is sometimes mistaken for great prowess. It ■was at the time of General Early's raid on Washington, and their regiment was only seven miles away. The Dutchman got pretty well out on the skirmishing line and some of the boys called out to him to be careful or the rebels would get him. “O,” said the undaunted little Dutchman, “I ain't afraid. 1 can run like H — when I get scared.” Two “Jonathan and David” Veterans. The “Crego and Rice” post G. A. R. at Attica, Ohio, says T. R. Moore, was named for two comrades of the 7th Ohio regiment, who were much like the Jonathan and David of the Bible. They were inseparable from childhood and had pledged themselves never to separate until death. It so happened that they were both killed at the same time in a battle at Winchester, Va., being the first ones of the regiment to fall. In accordance with the custom of naming the post for the first ones who fell in battle, and also because of the life-long comradeship of these two members, the post was named for both. McLain Was a Brave Soldier. While the old soldiers are by no means stingy with their praises for all the boys who went from Adams county, or nearly so, they all agree that no man marched out from here who returned with more deserving honor than did Lieutenant Henry McLain of the eighty-ninth, who as quarter-mas-ter, aide de camp, and on special duty, did valiant work for the cause. It is said that at the battle of Nashville, his leadership won the day and secured for the officer in charge a brigadier generalship. Many From Other States. Among the veterans now living in this section are many men who served during the war, enlisting from other states. Some of these are not mem bers of the Sam Henry post, and thus their names have been omitted. Ont of these is J. T. Coots, who first en listed in Company I, 27th Ohio, in April, 1861. He was discharged the following February for disability and re-enlisted three months later in Com pany E, 99th Ohio, serving until the war was over. He was in thirty-five , battles, including Chickamauga, Lool out Mountain, Franklin and others.

Indianapolis, Ind., May 30—Among the departments of state that deserve all that is being said of it, is that pre sided over by the superintendent of public instruction, Mr. Charles A. Greathouse. Following as he did that eminent scholar and instructor, Su perintendent Aley, he is measuring well to the mark of excellence and this with his personal popularity eas ily makes him the coming man in Indiana. Instead of showing any signs of receding, the schools of Indiana are fast gaining in excellence and merit, much of this dinetion being due to the knowledge and progressive spirit inculcated into the work by the present superintendent of public instruction. He spends much time in traveling over the state getting Into touch with the instructors, the methods in use in the various sections of the state, and his kindly suggestions are being taken at their face value, resulting to the credit and betterment of school conditions everywhere. Beginning the first of June, Miss Bailor, of the Wabash schools, and by far one of the best school women of the state, will take a place with this office. She will be at the head of the manuscript department and will have in charge the preparation of the course of study for 1911-12. On June 27th she is on the program at the meeting of the county superintendents’ association, and at that time will outline methods to improve the course in English in the schools of the state. This will be one of the hobbies of the department and they intend to put forth every effort to make an improvement in this branch of study, and there is no question but that they will succeed. Mr. Greathouse has recently visited many of the schools in the southern part of the state, being in Spencer, Gibson, Vigo and Vanderburg counties, and

during the last week epent several days in Lake county. The nianu scripts for April have been couplet ed and sent esrt, the number of manuscripts sent in for ths: month being fourteen hundred, and wit of that number something like nine hundred pass ed. This depart mon Is becomtaK to be of the good financial departmerits of the state. After paying all ex|>enditures they tunnod into the treasury for January >626.20; Tlebruary. >418.29: March, and April, >447.66. But tmOr the «Tl»ervision of Mr. Greathouse we may expect to groat things acconifftished and our public schools progress as they have never progrrewd before. Among those irvtn Adatns couaty in the city during the pass -week wwre Hon. D. E. Smith of Decatur, and Hon 8. W. Hale of Geneva, both being here for the purpose of attending the sessions of the grand lodge of Masons. H. M. Romberg, another Adams county resident, also spent some time here during last week, and while here settled some business of importance with the park board and other officials of the city. The bride and groom arrived. Dr. Earl G. Coverdale and wife are here spending a w*eek with relatives of the latter. Since arriving they have been feasted and invited to many society events, in which they have been the guests of honor. They are having a happy time of it, and secretly are enjoving how nicely they put one over on their friends at home, having been married and were permitted to leave the city without even a baby ribbon being tied to their baggage. We are saying this, thinking that their friends will better know- how to deal with them when they return. It is never too late to do good, you know

Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan are coming from Richmond with Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Smith to see the races. Besides these, many others are expected from Adams county. Great preparations are being made to entertain the throng of people expected on this occasion. Hotel accommodations were sold out months ago, and now a bureau has been established which will secure accommodations at private homes, and in this manner every one that comes will be taken care of. L. G. E. o SURVIVORS LAND AT PANAMA. Panama, May 29 —(Special to Dally Democrat) — Seventy-three survivors the steamer Tobago, which struck a rock near Guanico Point last Tuesday night and sank, were landed here today. Fourteen passengers and nine members of the crew were lost. Survivors assert that Captain Campbell acted cowardly because he took tg the lifeboats before the other survivors. — o — II I USED HANDKERCHIEF. South Bend. Ind., May 29 —Grant Winrott, sentenced last week to a life term in the penitentiary for shooting his wife, because she refused to live with him, committed suicide in jail here this morning by hanging himself with two handkerchiefs.

A commencement week, replete' with festivity for the eighteen graduates of the Decatur high school, closed Saturday evening with the farewell party at the home of Miss Marie Daniels, this being the last reunion before they go to their several schools and works. Besides the students, three of the teachers —Messrs. Rice, Worthman and Tritch —were present, and the guests upon arriving were received by the hostess on the cool lawn and porches. The entry into the house was one of pleasing surprise, withal a feat attended with great difficulty, as was apparent to those who attempted to force his way through a ■ maze of a network of strings. The hostess in a well worded speech made haste to explain that as they were al! about to part and each go on his long journey, they would make a pleasant trip to the end of the rainbow, and someone would be so lucky as to find the pot of gold at the end. A slip of paper was given to each guest, and written thereon was the name of the vocation each was supposed to follow in life. To each slip was tied a string and the hostess explained that these all lead to the rainbow, which was improvised from beautifully tinted paper, rising in the form of a true rainbow arch from one end of the room. The strings formed a veritable network, and after much difficulty, attended with great merriment, the strings were untwisted and followed to the end, where each found the instruments which would be necessary to him in the vocation accredited him on his slip of paper. Prefessor Rice’s vocation was designated as a “tramp” . and he found to aid him at the enfl of his line, a cane, a red bandanna ’ker--1 chief, and a slouch hat; J. C. Tritch was to be a minister and his line lead him to a Bible and a pair of spectacles. Mr. Tritch was also sue-

cessful in getting the pot ctfoM -a' ( jar of golden candy corn. .hared with the others not so fortun ate «s himself. Coucluding. each told of hte travels. This was a X iue Mrm of followed by ore equally so, thmrrf an, egg contest. -Bidss" were chosen br Prdfeesors Rire and TrltCk an then attempted to blow an egg • from the center of the taMe. wttfcou using the hand* to help the trare along. The contest resulted in a tie A gweral soctaJ period followed, with. music, and later refreshments were served rm the lawn The decorations of the home were vases Os tastefully arranged, and beautiful potted fina The sixty-sixth birthday of Mrs/ Priscilla Wyer of Curryville was celebrated by many friends and neighbors who came in and gave her a social good time, with many presents, and a post-card shower. After partaking es a bounteous r< »ast. the post-card shower was sprung by George W. Drum, the number of cards equaling her age. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kinsey and family, Cleo. Carl : nd Roy; Mrs. H. Drum and children Effie. Opal and Edna: Mr. and' Mrs James Wyer and family, Lewis! and Priscilla; Mrs. Hattie Hountz and. children. Mary and Aggie; Mrs. Ethel' Stiffey and daughter. Helen; Mrs. Permilia Martin. George V-’ Drum, Jacoby Wyer. David Wye-, twenty-two in all.’ All report having a good time, wishing her many more birthdays. Miss Mamie Kitson will entertain the Needlecraft club Thursday evening. The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid so-I ciety will be entertained Thursday! afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. H. i Meyers on Adams street. The girls of the Needlecraft club! will be entertained at dinner next Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Baker, west of this city. Herman Henzy, traveling salesman l for a drug house of Tiffin, Ohio, spent Sunday here the guest of his uncle, W. A. Kuebler, and family. A very happy birthday party was that given Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ellsworth, south of this city, in celebration of Mrs. Ellsworth's birthday anniversary. Dinner was served at noon, and in the intervening time there was conversation, music by Dreda Parent, and other pleasant social features, with refreshments of ice cream later. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Chronister, Mrs. Mary Durr, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Fisher, son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Huffman, daughter and son, Mr. and Mrs. Israel Bender and children, Mr. Barclay Smith of Berne, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Will Parent and children, Dreda and Orval; Wesley Stultz and children, Miss Rosa Christen, Fort - Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Robison and son, Cecil; R. A. Andrews. Ralph

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ney and Bladder Troubles, Skin and Rectal diseases, Diseases of the Heart, Throat and Lungs, Catarrh and Catarrhal Deafness. Eye ’nd Diseases, and all Diseases and Weaknesses of Men and Women. MEN’S DISEASES I treat all diseases of Men, incl uding Blood Poison, Stricture, Gleet, Nervous Debility, Weakness, Discharges, Variocele, Hydrocele. Losses. Prostatic Diseases, Rupture, Eruptions on the face, and Piles. Can J 1 ** you as good treatment for these dis eases as you can get anywhere in the United States. . DISEASES OF WOMEN Women suffering with any malady or disease peculiar to the sex may consult me with the assurance of securing help if their case is curable. 1 make no false or misleading statements. rectal diseases I cure Piles and other rectal diseases without the knife or lig»t“re«ult«an ’ N ° d * tention frOm bußir >ess. No pay If not satisfied with reSEVERE AND OBSTINATE CASES W u" i , nViteS conßUttati °n from those cases who have been uM** to get results elsewhere, especially In .Cancers. Tumors and R« ct8 ‘ H.O. WELLS, M.D.

Smith and Cloyoe Chronister. ElUwsrth presented his wife w(th new K«>hler and Campbell pi ano . The Rev. C. W. Church of j.* n Wayne, former supply pastor of tb ? M. E. churdh in this city, came Sunday t» vi«*t the Junior league service of the afternoon and to attend the preaching services tn the evening, re . malntng over until today. He w a , * guest over night of Mr. and Mrs W. H. Dedderjohann and family, Mr and Mrs. Dan Petgan. Mr Ke!ler and Miss Margaret Colchin enjoy, en an airtomobUe to this city Sunday nnd were the greets of Mrs. Julia Col--1 chin and family al supper. J. L. Gay and family had as their guests Sunday Miss Della Stoops and Mr. Hugh Richie of Van Wert, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Moser and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Finkhousen of Wren, Ohio. Miss Zelma Steele entertained at supper Sunday evening, buests being Mr. and Mrs. Harry Itnler and Mr. Chester Imler, the last named now G. R. & I operator at Portland Miss Matie Chronister, who leaves today for Marlon to attend college, was given a very agreeable farewell surprise Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Chronister east of the city. The guests were members of her Sunday school class of the United Brethren church at Bobo who repaired to the Chronister home after the church services and partook of a sumptuous dinner, spending the afternoon hours socially. Among those from the city present were Miss Grace Hoeneisen and John Kiracofe. Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Grandstaff of Monmouth were guests of Daniel Kitson and family at dinner Sunday. ■ Miss Lena Lacy of Lynn and Charles Cloud of Oxford, Ohio, were guests Sunday of C. C. Cloud and family. The Evangelical Ladies' Aid society will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Frank Butler. The Misses Sadie and Kit Gaffney and Miss Myrtle Pauley of Fort Wayne were guests of Mr. and Mrs Alva Nichols at supper last evening. Although showers of rain fell Sunday evening, they did not prevent the people from attending the miscellaneous shower given by Miss Anna Miller at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Max Miller, south of the city, in honor of Miss Lizzie Knapp and Ed Miller, whose wedding will occur next month. The evening was spent in a guessing contest in which Bertha Knapp won the prize, and another contest was won by Ed Meyers of Fort Wayne, which was turned over to the pribe toVBGKQmETAOI over to the bride-to-be. A three-course luncheon followed. The company parted, wishing Miss Knapp and Mr. Miller much joy and happiness.

Dr. Wells Coming!! DR. H. O. WELLS, LEADING SPECIALIST OF INDIANA, WILL BE AT THE MURRAY HOTEL IN Decatur, from 2 to 8 p. m. on TUESDAY, JUNE 13TH, and on the second Tuesday in every month thereafter at the same hour* Scientific and up-to-date treatment for all Chronic Diseases, such Cancer, Goiter, Tumors, Ulcers. Stomach and Bowel Troubles, Liver, Kid-