Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1911 — Page 3

OTI I THAT I RENTED FARM I Quit giving a landlord half the product of I your labor. Farm \ our own land and give I the landloard’s share to yourself and family The one means dependance-the other, ini dependence. Would you like to have a good farm of YOUR OWN—to plant YOUR OWN crons on YOUR OWN land, sell YOUR OWN grain and stock, and pocket YOUR money? We can help you do these very things-we can help you to independence. In South Central Minnesota and South eastern North Dakota, the very best parts of those states-or, in fact- of the whole Northwest -«* e own nearly 200 good farms of gently rolling, black, fertile, well watered soil. These farms run in sizes from 80 acres up, are well improved, and located close to good markets, schools and churches. There is not a poor or doubtful farm in the whole list; thev are in all respects the equals of the farms in the Central States that are selling at $l5O to $250 an acre, and are actually producing just as many bushels of grain. ' Farm Your Own Land We will sell you one of these farms at SOO to S9O an acre, depending on location and character of improvements. We will sell it on the easiest kind of terms; namely, 10 per cent, at time of purchase, 30 per cent, on March 1, 1912, and the balance in reasonable yearly pa v ments, at 6 per cent interest. What do you say? Is it worth investigating at the cost of a postage stamp—are you willing for us to help you? If so, write us just how you are fixed and what you would like to nave, and let us make you a proposition. ™e Straus Bros. Co. I CAPITAL $1,600,000 Redwood Falls, Minn. Lisbon, N. Dak. LIGONIER, INDIANA Chas. M. Stahl, Dist. Manager Vanwert Ohio

•‘•11 pe-sons contemplating attending | the state fair this year will have to I pay their admission and unlike other I years there will be no passes issued I lor the fair this fall. Any official at I ’he state capital, senator or represenI tative will have to dig up his fifty I cents' admission, who has heretofore I enjoyed the many privileges tree, will I this year look just the same as any I other ordinary citizen, according to I latest reports sent out by secre I Ury, Charles Downing, and others in I charge of the big exhibition The deI vision to discontinue the giving out of I Passes started some time ago. and was I brought on by an agitation which reI suited last winter in the legislature I refusing certain appropriations asked I by the state board of agriculture, and I criticising certain features of the manI demerit. It was decided to begin the I reform along this line of the legisla-| I tore. Exhibitors and stockmen-will; I hot be given passes, but will wear a : I button on the lapel of their coat, by I which they will be recognized. —_ _o .... IN PORTLAND. OREGON, TODAY. I T ‘toflraph Letter From A. J. Smith Tell* of Arrival There Today. A - J. Smith, who, with his family I have been in the west severs) weeks. I I s *nt a telepraph letter to his office j I b’adquarters here today, statins that I toey came from Tillamook to Portland, i I Oregon, today. It took two days to I cross the coast range mountains with I toams. and they passed through forty . I ®Hes of solid timber. They expect to | I lie in Seattle over Sunday at the Hotel J I Seattle, and will go thence to Spo-; I tone, to the Hotel Cotter d'Alene. EvI erybody is well and having a good tlffle . and Mr. Smith asks that the newspapers be sent to Denvier. Colo.. j "tore they expect to go next. They ; ’ill probably be at home August 15th. 1 ■ —o ATTENTION! b'or the best bargains in northern . todiaaa and southern Michigan farms, i ’rite today to George W. Fleming, 317 j M °»eer Bldg., Elkhart, Ind.

; T. H. Soldner, son of Peter Soldner > of Wabash township, secured a den- ■ ■ fist's license Friday of County I. Clerk J. P. Haefling. Mr. Soldner is a graduate of the Indianapolis dental ■ school, and will engage in practice in ■ this city in the room in the Stone ’ building recently vacated by Trustee I j Butler. Mr. Soldner has fitted up his ' office in a very attractive way. 1 — Sheriff and Mrs. T. .1. Durkin will' leave tomorrow for Richmond, taking with them .Miss Sarah Troutner of St Mary’s township, who was recently adjudged insane, and who will be committed to the Easthaven asylum. Eleven deeds giving the heirs of the late James Ira Neptune a clear title to the eighty-acre Neptune farm in St. Mary’s township, were placed oh record for the first time in the office ot < ounty Recorder Sterfe today. Ihe ' oldest deed is a United States patent deed, given by the government in 1840 land all the deeds given since were held by the parties, and have been re'corded now for the first time Some of them are old and worn, and mouseeaten, and go to show the risk taken !by property holders in falling to get ' deeds recorded. I Certificate of election of officers ot I Mt. Carmel Evangelical church of Jefferson township was filed with ( ounty Recorder Steele. Christopher Zehr, j Daniel Brewster and T. A. Beerbower were elected trustees for three years. ' E. B. Jones is the pastor and George W. Anspaugh served as secretary pro . tern for the meeting. MRS. JUSTUS FILES SUIT. Bluffton, Ind., July 21-Mrs. Jennie i Justus filed suit in the Wells circuit court demanding damages in the sum of SIO,OOO from the Fort Mayne « ! Northern Indiana Traction company ! lor the death of her husband. Txtuis < | Justus, in the terrible interurban : wreck at Kingsland on September 21.

| tis understood that the traction comIhT Contendß ,h »t Mr. Justus was I on a pmh and that f«ft relieves I K of responsibility, However, as far I “ Swn hero ' ‘here has never-been I s direct refusal of a settlement, and It Is possible that the case may be set- | tied before it comes to trial as have several others. Mr. Justus was the general manager of the B. G. & c. His I 'lt.itii claim Is one of the few remaining unsettled. Simmons & Dailey of this city have been employed by Mrs.' Justus as her attorneys. (Contributed,) Thursday evening before the G. A j R. Post had completed its business ' ’he W. R. C. to the number of about fifty, appeared at the post hall and forced an entrance, regardless of the guards, and that session of the post w ill never be closed, according to the I ritual. ■Mrs. Vinnie Lyons, with four young j ladies, who served as flag-bearers, ap-1 peared at the altar and advanced to! the rostrum, gave their president, who had crowded the commander from his ' position, the flag salute. Keeping I step to music of the organ they re-1 tired to the ante-room and brought forth a beautiful, enlarged picture of.the old soldiers, a reproduction of the group published in the Democrat in ' the Memorial Day edition, to which she voiced the gratitude of the W. R. C. for making this invaluable memento possible. Mrs. Lyons stood at the altar under the flags held by the standard bearers and in beautiful, well chosen words, I said in part that the W. R. C. was organized for the purpose of making the ( sun-set of life for the old soldiers of the Civil war as pleasant as possible, I while they are waiting for tbe Grim . Reaper,— , ‘ Only waiting till the shadows Are a little longer grown.’’ ) as time goes on. "and each take their . chamber in the silent halls of death,” this picture will become invaluable. As our lives furnish us with pictures of patriotism on the field of battle, we want your declining years to furnish pictures which are radiant with joy,—a calm and every-day fullness of peace The commander, L. W. Grandstaff, accepted the picture on behalf of the post in appropriate words, expressing the appreciation of the post for the , gift. i ’The W. R. C. is always looking for opportunities to gladden the hearts and make the closing days of the soldiers their best days. This occasion only demonstrates that they are ever looking for opportunity to gladden the hearts of the comrades and the commander expressed his conviction that "the influence and help of the W. R. C. was keeping the G- A. R. alive today. After short talks by several of the | comrades sn appropriate recitation by Miss Freck and songs by the Misses Andrews and others, were rendered and light refreshments were served, after which they all joined in singing a verse of "God be With You TiT) We Meet Again,” thus closing a happy and enjoyable evening which will always be a pleasant memory for all who were present. t United Press Service.) Bloomington, Ind.. July 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Much to the disappointment of F. A. Stephens, who believed himself to the central man of tbe country, the exact center of the population, as announced by the census bureau, does not fall upon his farm, but on the William L. Moser ! homestead, a quarter of a mile from the Stephens home. The observation was possibly completed today, and the exact spot will probably be marked tomorrow. Dubuque, la., July 21 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Indiana fourstates tourists were speeding across the state of Illinois from Dubuque today, and are expected to arrive at Rockford. 111., at a o’clock this evening. The tourists were touched with confidence and stopped for a short time at the village of Fair play in that state. Peru. Ind., July 21—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The last member o. the family of Francis Godfrey, chief of the Miami Indians, William God frey, died here today. Godfrey was ninety-seven years old and ter six months had been in feeble health, and died at the Miami infirmary. He was married nine times, and eight times with Indian ceremony, and one time according to the state laws. He was stricken blind several years ago. A DAKOTA HOLD-UP. (United Press Service.) Buffalo, X. D, July 2#— (Special to Daily Democrat (- -Three masked bandits rt 1 o'clock this morning held up an eastbound train, shot Eng'nec Sam Olson and secured probably JI. 000 from the passengets in the Piel man car. The men boarded the f air at stome stop-und when near T.c< City, near here, one of the robber? clfmbea across the tender and order-

ed Olton to stop. The two other bandits entered the coach«t firing in the air. The mall and express cars were unmolested. At Buffalo the men leaped from the train, into a waiting automobile and dashed forthe hills. Fifty men under United States marshals took up. the search and a dozen suspects have been arrested. The Allen and Adams county commissioners held a joint session here ' Friday at which time the con-' ' tract for the Louis C. Weber, or the' six-mile, Adams-Allen county line maI eadam road was let to Christ Musser,' 'whose bid of SB,IOO wus the lowest ■ and best of the six bids received. The ' bids received were: Wtn. Kruse & Son .$8,793 ' ! Christ Musser 8,100 ' N. B. Putnam 8,520' Extra excavation and concrete at $8 per cubic yard. Miller & Shirk .8,679 Extra excavation and concrete at $5 per cubic yard. L. W. Frank 8,277 Extra excavation at SSO, and concrete at $6 per cubic yard. Ijouis C. Berger was appointed superintendent of construction. The Adams county board also acted upon the matter of the adjustment of the damages done to the county in- ■ finnary building, which was struck | by lightning the first part of the month, adjusting the damages with the several insurance companies, for $127. t> NATIONAL EDITORIAL MEETING. Splendid Session at Detroit Closed Last Evening—Side Trips. 1 Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Heller arrived ■ home this morning from Detroit, ’ ' where they attended the twenty-sixth ; annual session of the National Editorial association. The meetings were. held at the Ponchatrain hotel, with 1 various entertainments. including trips over the city and to places of interest. It was a delightful week, with many opportunities to learn things of interest to the fraternity. Among those who took part in the work were Governor White of West Virginia, Governor Osborn of Michigan, Dean Walter Williams of Missouri. Joe Chapple of Boston. Senator ' Purcell. Representative Barnhart of Indiana, and many other celebrities. The meeting for next year will prob-1 ably be held at Richmond, Va, al-1 though the matter was referred to the ( general council and there are a dozen invitations. Tbe side trip this year included a trip through Canada, eighty members leaving last night for Quebec, THE APPLE HARVEST. That this year will be one of the greatest in the apple line for several years is a fact well know n about the country at present. Apples are getting ripe everywhere and every tree in town or in the country is loaded almost to the ground. The apples of the Early Harvest type are ripe and have been for more than a week. The Yellow Transparents are also ripening fast. Last year the crop of apples Was short. What few there were, were not of the best type, being worm' and knotty. This year hardly an apple is blemished, unless it is a little spot from hanging too long in the sun. Farmers have been so busy recently that not much attention could be paid to the apple crop. Harvesting is now going at full force a ltd all farmers were so busy helping one another that to stop work to pick apples seemingly means the loss of some money or time. Already home-grown apples have shown up in the local market and as far as has been seen all are of excellent type. BUSINESS RUSHING. The Scbugg, Mettfler & Company of Berne, auto agents for the famous Ford care, are nabbing all the business that comes their way and, and for the past week, it looks as though they arc getting the bulk of the auto trad** Last week they srtW and delivered three touring cars in the county and their present prospects are better now than they have had any time previous To Christ Hirschy they sold a No. Marion touring car, and to Rudolph R. Svhug a No. 15 Marion touring car. and to Joe Graber aa Everett 30 touring rar. The cars are of the best, type and the purchasers of same made a careful test of the cans before they bought and their setec firm has been a soo<l one. The Messrs. Graber and Hirschy are two of the county’s most prosperous farmers and Mr. Schiig is tire c.i:-'-lvf of the People’s State bank at Berne. STORK AT ENGLE HOME. The stork visited '• ' home’ of Rural Mail Carrie" :wl M * William Engle t n Line street. Io- ring a ninenomd ba’.; 1 V, of which they are justly proud. All are doing well. The babe has been named John Albert

Dr. D. D. ClarM made a hiavied auS tomobile trip to Delphos, 0., Friday » noon, where ne was met by Dr. Mei Oscar of Fort Wayne, to perform an I operation upon John McCabe, a well ■ known man of that place. It will' be remembered that Drs. Clark and Me- , Oscar performed an operation last November upon this gentleman at a hos pltal in Fort. Wayne, his stomach having grown shut. This was opened and the operation proved to be very successful and he was getting along very , wefl, until this morning, when Mr. \l< Cabe was kicked in the abdomen by . ' a horse and seriously injured. Dr.' , Brundage of Delphos telephoned nt once to Dr. Clark, stating that the ir. i jury required art immediate operation Land that he and Dr. McOscar should | i come at once. Mr. McCabe is a man about fifty years of nge, is well liked,' and Dr. Clark felt much concerned' over the injury which befell his friend ■- o ELECTED OFFICERS. Detroit, Mich., July 21—R. E. Dow 1 ! dell of Artesian, S. D, was chosen' president of the National ITess asso-' elation of America at the closing session yesterday afternoon. The other officers' were: First vice president, A. D. Moffett, Elwood, Ind.; secretary, 'W. F. Parrott, Waterloo, Iowa; trees- ■ urer, W. R. Hodgee, Sleepy Eye, Minn.' A. D. Moffett was formerly superintendent of the Decatur public schools. o—. BERNE INCREASES. The Geneva Herald Says, Although a Little Late. The report comes to us announcing the birth of a son to C. F. Lautzenheis- ; er and wife of Berne, and that the j street of Berne is just now getting o: sufficient width to allow Chauncey to , pass along without brushing his fellows off into the side ditches—in other j words he is beginning to act natural again, and further deponent saith not. Geneva Herald. HERE ON VISIT. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Hocker and children, Steven, Gertrude, Ruby and grandson, Richard, or Elkhart, formerly of this county, for a number of years residing at Monroe, paid the old home once more a visit, after an absence of some time, while on a pleasure trip through the northwest- ‘ ern part of the state. They left their home hi Elkhart a week ago and since then have been on the go, sigitt-seeing in their automobile and enjoying the pleasant country life. They visited at various places, stopping but a short while at each city, just to get acquainted and obtain a small remembrance of the cities visited. They arrived here Wednesday and stopped off for a visit with their daughter.' Mrs. Ed Macy? H I S twelve years' since the Hocker family made this 1 county their home, but at different times have renewed their acquaint-1 anee and made a reutrn visit to the old homestead. Mr. Hocker is engaged in the real estate business and says although he is not making all the money’, he is enjoying life and getting the good from his labors. — a--Jesse McCollum, alias "Reddle,” aged twenty-four-, who for the most part has made his home with his mother in Geneva, but who has had headquarters at Geneva, Berne, Mun cie, Portland and Fort Wayne, is the last one of the three horse thieves rounded up since July 13th, together with nine stolen outfits, by Sheriff Reichelderfer of Allen county. McCollum is held by the Allen countysheriff, who can turn him over to the authorities in either Blackford, Jay, , Wells or Noble counties for a hearing. ! The arrest of McCollum brings to an end the career of one of the most daring horse thieves <rf this section •f the country, one wlm certainly had the art down about "part." In appearance he gives no indication of his shrewdness, looking more like an inoffensive farm ha«t, a character he sought to maintain, than a Chief. He is six feet four laches tall, raw-boned and retiring, and his head is crowned by a thaTcb ol net hah- thie earned for him the sobriquet of "Red ithe." The Fort Wayne Joui-nal-Gaaette says: ■‘McCollum was ftrat. suspected by the sheriff when he sought to dispose rtf a rig at a local saHesba/w early in the spring. At that time a resident of the county, -who knew the horse and knew that McCollum Hart traded for it, came forward and he -was not molested. Since then it was learned that he had traded a. stolen horoe for the one he had offered for sale. He again fell under suspicion of the sheriff’s forces when he drove into town Sunday, July 9, with a good horse and buggy, stopping over night at the home of his brother on Broadway, and later going to the Frank Luther farm, ten miles north of the city, on the Goshen road. He was followed by the sheriff and later Mr. Luther was asked to allow him to

|'**l< for a few days, keeping him utp dor careful surveillance at all time-’ Overhearing * telephone message eon t cerning himself betwjpn tlx bberlff I and Mr. Luth, McCollum decided to ■ leave, but the sheriff was told of his restlessness and under guard brought him to the city with the stolen hors* McCollum at first declared he had bought the outfit, but when he taw the mass of evidence against him. including not only the theft of the horse ia question, which was stolen fr- m . Elmer Steed, a farmer near Portland, I but. of a number of others, he made i I clean breast of the whole affair and has since been of valuable assistan. < , to the sheriff in locating the rem i der of the stolen property. ‘‘McCollum, posing always as a farm hand, had extended his horse steali operations over a period of more th. i ! two years. After stealing an out! ( he drove to some adjoining count.' , where he would hire out to some farmer for a year, stipulating that h s horse and buggy was to be kept as 1 part or his pay. After waiting foi a few weeks or in some eases a month J or more, McCollum either sold or tried the stolen plunder and when nJ! the stuff was off his hands he usually found some excuse for quitting his job. In many cases the stolen horse-, or rigs were traded time and ag. >i and considerable difficulty was found in tracing the stuff to its last holdets "In his trips throughout this and -id joining counties, the sheriff took Mc - Collum with him and was always able to convince the fanners that he was really on the trail of stolen property Three trips were made in all, tl>? property being rounded up on the last trip. For several days the sheriff has been collecting horses, buggies and harness at his barn in this city and on his farm and yesterday began tinning the stuff over to the delight'd owners, most of whom had given up all hope of ever seeing their property again. Many of them did not know the officer had located their propei' • until they were notified to come and get it. | McCollum has confessed to the theft of five outfits, one stolen - i Elmer Steed, near Portland. July c. which resulted in his capture. The other thefts included a horse stolen o: Albert. Shaffer, near Portland, a hoi sand buggy from Carl D. Huffman, nt r Montpelier, a horse and buggy from Thomas U. Goodson, near Portland, and a horse and buggy from A. R. Burley, near Wolf Lake." During his rounding up of the horse thieves since July 13th, and the recovery of the nine stolen outfits, Sher iff Reichelderfer has traveled more than 1,000 miles by automobile., and covered the greater part of six conn ties, and the value of the stolen property recovered by him since June 13, is $2,875. Sheriff Reichelderfer was instrumental in organizing tbe TriState Sheriffs’ association, of which ' Sheriff Durkin is a member. 1 t I James Willing was one of the other I two thieves landed by the sheriff and he was turned over to the authorin'-s • at Columbia City, being sentenced <o a terra of three to fifteen years in .prison. The other was a fifteen-?ear old boy, sent back to Adrian, Mich, ' for trial. The Odd Fellows are arranging '<> hold a district meeting some time ties I fall, either in Decatur, or In one ot tini towns in the south part of the coun’y >,at which over seven hundred Odd F<‘l- - lows and their families will be in attendance. Committee have been 1 1 pointed to look after the details and a great day of amusement will be h,.d. -I A picnic will be a feature of the da.v , as will several good addresses by sir '- officers, who will he present. Thes<- ’ meetings are held at various pla<*- , during the fall and have always been tithe means of doing much good for the J order. An amusement committee has i races and other things in mind, and it the plans do not fail probably ab;»( . loon ascension will be a feature ol p the day. Adams county is one ot the - largest jurisdictions in the state, out a side of Indianapolis, and is probabb I, one of the largest in membership, in d reference to its size, in the world l Sometime in the near future ttl* I- date will probably be announce* an(| work begun on the detutlj c»* thc s e outing. -CT-- — y SECOND BILL CAR. e ■ • n Rill ear No. 2 for the Miller Bros ’ t real w-ild west show made its appealp ance in the city this morning, coming 1 from Lagrange over the G. R. & T, and t during the day completed the business :1 in this line for their performance to r be given in this city on August 3rd. Every billboard available was taken a hold of in the way of large posters, i while large muslin banners were put. 1 up here and there lor display in large t letters of the date of their arrival in - the city. Miller Bros.' show is cont sidered the largest wild west show on i the road today and is out-classing all ■ others in the w-ay of a first-class and . up-to-date performaiue: oA