Decatur Democrat, Volume 57, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1912 — Page 1

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I TELLS AN OLD ONE fl lames Stoops Recites an Actual Occurrence in Court Forty Years Ago. I MR. ROBINSON HERE I Eormer Decatur Boy Now a Prosperous Attorney in West. Here for Visit. MB The Horse Show committee has |fl sent persona! letters to all the memM hers of that association, asking that ■ they attend a meeting to be held at fl the Horse Sale Stables on next Monfl day afternoon and they would like to ■ have every member attend. They are fl anxious to make this the biggest s now ever held m the state and they fl| -ill do it, with the proper co operafl tion Give it to them. Mr. Stoops Tells Good Story. T lames Stoops, who is here for the ■ Old Home Week, retold a story of ye I olden times that is new only to the fl younger generation, but it's good I enough to stand repeating Forty BB »<•> when Jim Stoops was the I sheriff of this county, he had a deputy I known as Handsome Harry Blowers. I and he was a brave and fearless and original officer During a session of court with Judge Lowery of Fort ■fl Wayne on the bench, a case was callwhich Judge Studabaker appeared ||H - one of the, attorneys. Handsome fl Harry filed a return on a summons Sfl or a man woo lived m Wabash town- ■ ih-r, and whose presence was necesfl,.-. to proceed with the case. The mH man was called, but failed to answer ■ and the court asked for the summons. fl As he glanced at the return, he befl can to smile, as he read . "Seeable. ■ but not get-at-able." He asked the S deputy w'hat he meant and Harry re- . j plied: ‘ Wall, ye see, jedge. the Wall l-ash river just now is about a mile fl «ide and whar this man lives is now ■flß an island I got down close enough fl to see him. but. not havin' a boat Jfl couldn't git him ’’ The case was con flfl tinned. j Second Home Comer Here. The second Home Comer dropped fl in Tuesdaye afternoon He is Jesse I Kobison, a sou of Berry Robison of ■ this city. Jesse is now a practicing ■ attorney at St. Joseph. Mo. a mem ..fl her of the oldes’ firm in that city ot ■flfin.ooo, and is prospering He brought ■ his family with him and will stay for the big doings Many More Say “Yes.” ■fl- Ed Xeuenschwander writes from ■ Vera Cruz that he is coming with a I half-dozen friends; Will Reiter and ■ wife and Mrs Rebecca Chaney of ■ Plymouth will attend; Mr. and Mrs. I fl' lord E Ritter of South Whitley Isl ’ rite that it will give them great fl pleasure to come back ''Home.” A ■ number of other letters tell the same story and the names for invitations fl continue to come in. Everybody's [fl doin' it. Getting ready to come to ■ Decatur the week of October 14th. tfl The names and addresses of the list L fl sent in by this committee that have ■ already been invited and have already ■ been published are omitted and only ■ those names published below whose ■ names have not been previously sent ■ in. This is necessary on account of ■ lack of newspaper space and because ■ there are now more than a thousand ■ new names awaiting publication. ■ Mr. French Quinn. Chairman Invitation Committee: I Below is a list of the absent memfl bers of the Ladies' Mite society of : ■ the Methodist church, to whom invitafl tion.-, were sent September 4. 1912: Mrs. Lemuel Fisher, Huntington, Hfl Ind. Bfl Mary E. Fullhart, Marion, Ind. Annie 3. Foor, St. Mary's, Ohio. Mrs. Mary F. Grubb. Ashland. Ohio. Mrs Walter Gillette, St. Mary's, O. Mrs. William Gains, Indianapolis, Hind Mrs. D. J. Harkless, Paulding. Ohio Mrs. A. O. Hess, East Liverpool, 0. Mrs M. A. Hamm, Ft. Worth, Tex., fl care lunch room, Texas & Pacific Sta. Dora Hendrickson, Dayton, Ohio B Mrs. Nat Hull. Mrs Walter Harpster, Bellevue, |fl Mich. fl -its Kate Kinsey, Bellevue, Mich f Mrs Kate Kinsey. Ft. Wayne, Ind 1 Mrs Laban auffman, Redkey. Ind. Mrs. R p. Menefee.

; Mrs Romain. < , Mrs Lillie Mann, Liberal, ana. I Mrs Sarah j'. Marrh, Winchester, Ind Ida !,. Mayor, Monroe, Ind ' Mrs. John Miller, Monroeville, Ind. Mrs. J. L. Mcrshon, Riverside. Mich. ■Mrs Earl L. Plough, Delphos, Ohio. Xancy D Phillips, Bryan. Ohio. , Mrs John Powell, Indianapolis, Ind. , Mrs Vida Kaough, Pt Wayne, Ind ' Mrs Cora Good, 108 Atwater, St., Massillon. Ohio. Mrs. Lulu Bright. Peterson, Ind. I Mrs Susie Porter, Dayton, Ohio. Mrs Artie Crays, Angola. Ind. Mrs Chas E. Doty, Bellefontaine, O. Mrs. J. E Ellsworth, Ft. Scott, Kans. ' | Mrs. Rebecca Swigart, Boulder. ' Colo. Mrs W. W. Sheifherd, Anderson, ’ Ind. Mrs. Mary Sutilef, Berne, Ind. Mrs. Grace A. Sammer, Portland. ’ Ore. Mrs. Belle Waldron. Geneva. Ind Mrs Mary E. Young. Delphos, O. , Gertrude Burkhead. Indianapolis, ' Ind Mrs Elizabeth Hart, Oklahoma city. Okla Mrs. Ella Fetzer, Frankfort. Ind , Matie Amspaugh Jones, Upland, . Ind. Mrs. Margaret Huber, Marion, Ind. I Mrs. David Scott, Indianapolis. Ind. Mrs. Tillman Baker, Sturgis, Mich. Mrs. Ixiuisa G. Peoples . i Mrs. Oscar Jones, 511) Jackson St.. | Ft. Wayne, Ind I: Mrs. Abraham Ernsberger, Ada. O. >1 If any one knows of any member • that may have been missed or if any address has been incorrectly giv°n kindly 'phone Mrs Susan Rex or Mrs .! Hattie Lew ton .1 HATTIE LEWTON , SUSAN REX — . The names and addresses sent in by this committee that have already ■ been invited and have already been, published are omitted and only those names published below whose nam-s have not been previously sent in. | This is necessary on account of lack of newspaper space and because there are now more than a thousand new names waiting publication Below is a list of the absent members of the Pohahontas lodge, to , whom invitations were sent Wednes day, Sept. 4. 1912: Harry S. Miller. 1813 So. Lafayette St.. Fort Wayne. Ind. W. X. Smitley, Illa Pontiac St., Ft. . Wayne, Ind. O. S. Jones. 1016 Paper Ave, Fort Wayne, Ind. Wm. Sleigel. Berne, Ind Dug Elzey, Preble, Ind. If any one knows of any member I that may have been missed or if any , address has been incorrectly given. ' kindly ’phone Mrs. Mary Gerard or Mrs. Rebecca Eady. Respectfully submitted, MRS. REBECCA EADY. MRS. MARY GERARD. F. L. Litterer made a trip to Port- ' land this morning on business. John Wagner went to Monroe on 1 business. ' W. A. Barett. who has been visiting ; here for a few days with friends,; ’ returned to Monroe. > Below is a list of names to whom invitations were sent Thursday, September 5, 1912: t Mr. and Mrs. Philip Luley, 2002 , Reedmiller Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind. r Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Malley, 1056 N. r Central Ave., Austin, Chicago. , May Hill, 5763 Madison Ave., Chicat go, 111. ■ f Mrs. Carrie Harding, 97 E. North-' ■ wood Ave., Columbus, Ohio. I Miss Laura Blazer, 1106 St. Mary’s Ave., Ft. Wayne, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Hess, Salem, O. Mrs. Minnie Cannon. 65 West Ohio - St., Chicago, Hl. f Elwood Blazer, Peru, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Syphers, Warsaw. Ind , 222 W. Market St. Mr. and Mrs. Homer King, Star Route, Sanford, Mich. Mrs A. L. Freed, Campbellsburg, Ind. James Carrier, Woodlawn, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Rober Arent, 302% N.’ „ Water St., Decatur, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Talbott. R. 1i 12, Tunnelton, Ind. >. Mr. and Mrs Arthur Bollman, 1324 .. Elm St., Ft. Wayne. Ind. L Mr. and Mrs. Lee eKlso, Saltillo, Raymond Hughes, Saltillo. Ind. >, Mrs. Ida Hughes, R. R. 21, Satillo, ’“Miss Susie Sutilef. 415 S. El Moline. I. Miss Mattle Sutilef. 415 S. El Moline.. (Continued on Page 4)

THE FIRST HOOSIER Narpe First Appeared in Print in 1830—But Word Is Much Older — WAS USED FORMERLY — In Contemptous Way-Rich-mond Palladium First Printed It. I So far as it known the first appearance of the word Hoosier'' in print occurred In a poem called the 'Hoosier's Nest,” written by John Findley, of Richmond, Indiana, and published as part of a New Years address In the Richmond Palladium ‘ in 1830. This is the first known appearance of the word in print but no doubt it was already in common use, for in 18.36. Charles Feno Hoffman, of Now I York, founder and first editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine, used it in his A Winter in the West,” a very popular book in its day. Writing front Door Prairie, Indiana, December 29, 1833, Mr. Hoffman said: "I am now in the land of the Hoosiers’ and find that longhaired race much more civilized than some of their eastern neighbors are willing to represent them. The term Hoosier, like that i of Yankee or Buckeye, first appeared contemptuously, has now become a sobriquet that bears nothing invid- , ions with it to the ears of an Indii anian." The writer: in 1833. used the term i as one that already had a distictive meaning, and was not offensive to Indianians. Hoffman himself was a gentleman of culture and used the word respectfully. From this time on the word appeared in print quite often. In 1840 it appeared in the Congressional GJobe. when William W Wick, of Indiana, then representing the Indianapolis district in Congress said: | “We have witnessed manifestations ofwhat must here, I suppose, be called chivalry, but which in the Hoos- ' ier state the boys would call gostra- - I tion? “The word appeared again in the | i Congressional Globe of June 30, 1841,! and in 1846 the author of “Life in ! Prairie Land.” spoke of a “raw Hoos- j ier girl who had been our fellow passenger from Louisville. ’ But so far 1 as known the use of the word inprint dates from 1830.—Ex. LONG HIKE ENDED Battery B of Fort Wayne i Completes Long 127mile Hike. RODE ON HORSES From Adams County Furnished by Beery. Boch & Watson. Completing the last lap of a 127- ; mile hike the boys of Battery B, ’ numbering more than eighty, tramped ! into Fort Wayne at noon Tuesday. ; Their journey occupied just a week, and the hike was the longest ever undertaken by an Indiana national guard troop. According to officers who accompanied the soldiers Battery B made a much better showing on the hike than was made by Battery A of Indianapolis and Battery C of Rockville on similar hikes. The Fort Wayne battery not only covered a greater distance in a shorter time, but the condition of the equipment, horses and men upon the return home was much better than that of the others. The night were spent by the battery at the following places: Aboite Center, Huntington, South Whitley, Claypool, Pierceton and Peabody. There were only two minor accidents during the entire trip. More than 100 head of horses were in line and the horses and equipment used on the march totaled a value of $107,000. The horses were Adams county horses furnished by Beery, Boch & Watson of this city.

Decatur, Indiana. Thursday September, 19 1912.

TONIGHT AT OPERA HOUSE. The Shannon Stock company tonight will present “Ishmael," Mrs. E. D. X. Southworth's greatest novel. The Shannons give a splendid production of this welt known play. Elegant gowns will be worn! by the ladies, made expressly for this production. Tomorrow night “The Village Gossips,' the play that made such a big hit here last season, when the Shannons put it on, will be repeated by special request. BELIEVE IN ADS Steele & Weaver Say They Pay and Tell Their Magazine They do. ONE IS REPRODUCED In Magazine from Decatur Democrat—ls a Progressive Firm. The September number of the "Five and Ten Cent Magazine de-1 votes a page to the expression of the , Steele & Weaver store of this city re-! garding advertising and its "paying” ‘ qualities. With the expression is a' reproduction of one of the firm's large ' ads whch run in the Decatur Demo-! crat, showing the value of the cleat . cut and well set advertisement. Some time ago the management invited a statement from its readers as toj whether newspaper advertising pavs in this business, and in response. Steele & Weaver say it undoubtedly does that is wlien advertisers do as they do—live ufc to and carry the goods that they advertise. The sam- | pie of ad sent in as run in the Democrat shows the kind of ads that bring them money, and makes this firm one of the most progressive of its kind in seven states MAKES BIG SALE ' ' I Ward Fence Company Will Supply Fine Fence for Magnificent Home. OF OHIO COAL KING Saw Exhibit at Ohio State Fair—More Orders Will Probably Result. E. H. Shoemaker, of the Ward Fence office, has returned from Columbus, Ohio, where he closed a contract for his company, for six hundred ' thirty-four feet of the heaviest design of wrought iron fence, six feet high, with three fancy entrance gates, which will surround the new $72,0M residence which has just been erected by Edward Johnson, who is president of the Lorain Coal & Coke company. The residence is located on Johnson s farm five miles out of Columbus, and is one of the finest ever. The fence ■ alone cost about SI2OO and will be a handsome finish to a fine property.; Mr. Johnson wants about 2,000 more ; feet of fence, and this order will also be probably secured by the company, j Mr. Johnson's brother is contemplating building a similar residence on l his estate, across the road from that ■ ' of the brother, which he wishes to finish with a similar fence, and the; 1 local company will without doubt se-. ■ cure that order also. Mr. Shoemaker ’ spent the time from Friday to Mon- : day, in closing the deal, which is- coni sldered a remarkably good one. Mr. ; Johnson was first attracted to the i company by the exhibits which the i local company had at the recent Ohio . state fair, and immediately entered • into correspondence with them, with t the result that Mr. Shoemaker was , sent to close the deal. I LEFT TO ATTEND FUNERAL. 1 I Rev. H. Theo. Wilken and Henry t Bremerkamp left for Fort Wayne this . morning to attend the funeral of one ' of their friends, J. B. Neizer, whose death occurred last Monday., Father Wilken will officiate at the high mass.

A UNIQUE GUARD For Protection of Property Former by Adams County Residents. BACK IN YEAR 1858 Known as Buena Vista Guards —Well Remembered Men Members. E. B. Lenhart, while taking off some records in the county recorder’s office came across a record showing a most unique organization formed September 9, 1858, by the residents in the southwest part of the county known as "The Buena Vista Guards.” This association was formed for the protection of property, as there were not the means of enforcing the laws, in those early days, as there are now. Its members comprised some of the well remembered pioneer men In ifs I own most interesting way, the articles of association tell its own story: ■Whereas, crime is abounding in i our land and depredations of the most i daring and malicious character are daily being perpetrated in our midst, | our property taken from us feloniousi ly and our lives at the mercy of a i bandit' of desperadoes, whose course is wholly in defiance of law and whose j ears are deaf to the cries of injured justice. Therefore for the purpose of : suppressing these great and grievous evils in our midst we do hereby agree to organize ourselves into a companv. The object of this company is for the purpose of detecting and apprehending horse thieves and other felons. The company shall be known by the name and style of “The Buena Vista Guards," and to continue for a . term of ten years and that the mem- . bers thereof and attached thereto reside in Adams county. Signed: Isaac Wilson, Peter Kizer, Lucien Dunbar, William French, i Daniel Miller, Bagley Anderson, Silas Kizer, George Simison, Xathan Hall. Alonzo Sheldon, George Sheldon, Elehu Sheldon, Timothy Foutz, Lot French, Joseph Martin.” O. F. Hart served as county recorder at that time. At the same time were filed articles of association of a company known as "Wabash Regulators.” for a similar . purpose. NAMES DELEGATES Commissioner James Hendricks Names Adams County Delegates to ANNUAL IRRIGATION Congress to be Held in Utah September 30 to October 3—Big Event. Upon receipt of a message from George A. Snow, chairman of the | Utah Board of Control, advising him that he is entitled to appoint five dele- | gates to the Twentietn National Irrigation Congress to be held at Salt • Lake City .September 30th to October I 3rd, Honorable Jim A. Hendricks, . chairman of the Adams county board of commissioners, has named the folj lowing delegates from this county: i Mr. Dwight Briggs. Geneva; Mr. Amos Hirschy, Berne; Mr. J. F. Crist, Monroe; Mr. E. Woods, Decatur; Mr. Ernest Doehnnan, Decatur. An impressive program has been provided and many of the ablest men in the land will be present to discuss the various vital subpects that will come before the congress. Prominent among these subjects are: Irrigation of the great west. Storing of the floods, Measurement of Streams, Scientific Investigation of Irrigation Projects, Proper Safeguarding of Irrigation Securities, Enactment of Practical Working and Uniform State Irrigation Uws, Preservation of the Forests, Opportunity to Build New Homes, Heeding the Call of the landless Man for the Manless Land,

Elimination by l<aw of Fraud in Con I nection with the Location and Sale of Lund, Co-operative Effort, of Governnieiii and State Immigration Officials, Close Co-operation of state Engineers. ’ While these subjects cover generally the scope of the congress program, other matters of general Interest by way of agricultural developments will arise anti discussion will be free and o|>eti to all. Salt Lake, the hostess city for the > twentieth congress, has made extensive preparations for the entertainment and accommodation of delegatus I and guests. The greatest electric parade ever held in the interniountain west will occur Monday night, September 30th, while a mammoth exhibit of products of irrigated farms will lie made in connection with the Utah State Fair, which will be In s progress during the congress. The famous Ode to Irrigation, ret quiring thirty minutes, will be rendered by the great Mormon church choir of over five hundred voices, ac--1 companied by the world-famed taber- ' nacie organ and an orchestra of twen- • ty-flve pieces, all under the personal , direction of Professor John J. McClellan. COPY OF CHARGES X Complaint as Filed by Couni ty Supt. Against Mr. Baumgartner. i EIGHT PARAGRAPHS > Hearing Will be Held Be- ’ fore Mr. Opliger Thursday Morning at 9:30. X The following is a copy of the charges tnea by County Superintend--1 ent Opllger against Daniel Baumgart--1 ner, as received by him Tuesday evening, and on which he will have a hearing before the superintendent Thursday morning: State of Indiana, County of Adams, • September, 1912. ’ County Supt. of Schools vs. D. A. • Baumgaitner. Cause for Revocation of License. I • The county superintendent of Adams county schools says, basing his knowledge upon observation and reliable evidence, that the cfefendan|, D. ’ A. Baumgartner, holds a valid state ’ license issued April 29, 1911, by the state superintendent of said state and that said defendant is now teaching in the public schools of Decatur, In- ' diana. I That for cause of said revocation the county superintendent says that the defendant has failed to meet the requirements demanded of teachers teaching in Adams county and has been guilty during the past two weeks of immoral and unlawful conduct, which acts are more specifically set out as follows: That at various times said defendf ant failed and revised to properly cooperate with school officials. That he willfully refused and neglected to perform his duty as a 1 teacher at the last three county institutes, frequently entering the sessions of 1910 and 1911 after the sessions had already commenced and occasionally arranging to enter purposely late two or three times in one day, ; notwithstanding the fact that he knew that ft was the request of the instiB tute that he be punctual and on time. 1 During the institute of 1910 he was i- requested to report to Professor Miessner for quartet work but he t willfully refused and neglected to do r so without just cause. During the last county institute he absented himj self part of the time and spent that time or a portion of that time playing . croquet when he knew that his place s was at the institute. That said defendant has not been - teaching the subject of German properly in the Decatur schools and that i his discipline has been rather loose 1 and weak. These facts have been s based upon reliable evidence. I That his scholarship is not strong i- for he holds no grade over 83 per cent -for any subject he teaches, or has f taught during the past year. i, That at various times he has been a guilty of planting discord and a lack 1- ot confidence in the school system by his misrepresentations. That said defendant during the past, e two weeks plead guilty to the charge v of assault and battery, which is an e unlawful violation, immoral and 1. CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUK

COUNCIL DOINGS Bids for Proposed Street Improvements Opened But Not Awarded. WILL CALL ENGINEER Motion to Prepare Plans for Market, Adams and Rugg Streets Carried. The council, in regular session Tuesday evening oi>ened the bids lor the improvements upon Monroe, Ninth and Rugg streets, but failed to award the work to any of the three contractors, pending the report of Engineer Tx>n Batson, who will be called from Bluffton to make a detailed examination of the bids, there being some difference in the way the bids were written up. Opening of the bids for Monroe street came first and three bidders, Julius Haugk, Mann Woods and Wheat, Fisk & Sprinkle entered their blds for the work. All three also made bids for the other two stree:s and the council agreed to take up the awarding of the bids in executive session. Here no agreement was reached as the three bids were different and a resolution to secure Engineer Batson of Bluffton carried and lie will be called to work on the bids and make his report to the council Friday evening. The council agreed upon adopting a five by twenty-inch limestone burb. Objections to the assessment roll of the Merriman sewer were called lor and as none were forthcoming the resolution to adopt the assessment roll was carried. The bids for the construction of cement sidewalks heretofore ordered by the city to be built and not being constructed by the property owners was filed and opened. Dallas Butler bid 13A, cents for cement walks and 12% for brick: Benjamin W. Sholty bid 20 cents per square foot for sidewalks; John Hill bid, cement walks, 10% cents per square foot; brick Vlk<. 8 cents per square foot. The contract was awarded to John Hill. Engineer Kintz reported that the Ward Fence sewer was completed and tht full amount was due John Richard, the contractor. The report was approved and spread of record and the engineer was instructed io declare an assessment to cover cost. A petition was offered by interested citizens asking for an arc light on the corner of Walnut and St. Mary’s streets and the matter was referred to the light committee with power to act. Adam J. Smith came before the council with a complaint as to the condition of Adams street east of Second, and asked that it be paved. Council agreed to take up the matter tn executive session. It was reported that the contractor of the Butler sewer failed to fill in the sewer properly and that it interfered with the other work being done on the street. He was ordered to fill In the sewer immediately. A. P. Beatt yappeared on behalf of a number 1 of the property owners on West Monroe street, who did not want the sidewalks next to the curb. They not 1 annearing at the proper time to make objections the matter was laid on the table. A motion to refer the matter of ’ having some needed repairs at the waterworks, such as painting the window frames and replacing glass, to ’ the waterworks committee was car- ' ried, with power to act. The financial committee entered an ordinance, fixing the tax levy for 1913, ' at 33 cents for the sinking fund and ' $1.19 for the general fund, a reduction of 21 cents over that of 1912. i A poll tax of 50 cents on men between the ages of 21 and 50, and dog tax : of one dollar on males and three dol- ' lars on females was also reported, i After the third reading the ordinance was unanimously carried. The ordinance for appropriations to : furnish running expenses and payi ment of bonds was allowed as follows: Operating electric light plant, i $20,000; waterworks. $10,000; streets : and sewer, $5,500; building and rer pair, $6,270; mayor's salary, $500; fire department salary and rental, $4,t 800; marshal and police, $1,600; city clerk, $475; city attorney, $450; treas--1 urer, $525; street commissioner, $600; 1 secretary of board of health, $180; (Continued on Page 4)

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