Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1903 — Page 1

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Great Nortnern Indiana Fair Opens Tuesday.

SOME FAST ONES * I ' < Good Racing Each and Every Day. ■— I I The Success of the Fair Which Was Long Ago Assured, is Now Ahout to Be Realized. Arrangements are about complete i for the opening of the Great North- ] era Indiana Fair, which begins in < | Steele s ;>ark next Tuesday morn- i I ing. About everything is ready i ■ although there will be work to do up to tlie last minute of the last day. i St'ek exhibits are already coining i ; in and by tomorrow night the i gr./dr.ds will begin to show the real i signs of the coming fair. The , ■ weather has been acting ill-timed this week, but today appearances begin to show favobrable signs of e d fair weather during the next fer sday. Every one is hoping nsrainst hope that good fortune is in i ’■ re for the management as well I

ENTERTAINED. Rev. and Mrs. White as Host and Hostess. Members of the Church Board and Their Wives the Invited Guests. t Rev and Mrs. J C. White enter 1 1 the official church board and •‘•if wives at the parsonage last * 'fning, the event being an elaborate fou r course dinner. Forty invitatioiw were issued and everyone who iiossibly could was present of “nne, and glad of it. for the events was certainly delightful. Mrs. *■!» 8.-U furnished music and Mesn< s Beery and Vail, Misses Mary *yers and Blanche Dibble and .vtle Valentine assisted, in reeeivand entertaining the guests, dinner was a very sumptuous *nd nicely served and it is needless ° . enjoyed to the limit by those P'-M.pt table decorations Tl sniilax and carnations, the also being beautifully decorat"id arranged for the occasion. A Narrow Escape. "bile doing some plumbing at “•‘ home of Mrs. Ella Bell yestery. Burt Mangold narrowly avert- " ing seriously burned. He was 1 ing t<> start a fire under what is ""n as the plumbers furnace, am? K,UH ’ ,ino « ot on his clothes "• was wxin a mass of flames, icr boys oatne to his rescue d noon extinguished the same, and "hi? '* WHH 11 n,lrrow escape ' v >ll be more careful next time

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as patrons and that a cloudless sky will predominate during the great event. There is not a weak spot in the whole exhibition and the best of it is, the Great Northern Indiana Fair is known far and near as the best that ever happened in the fair line. Great crowds of people are expected and in this respect there will be no disappointment. Every day will be a good day, especially Thursday and Friday will be immense. The racing will be fast and some good speed will be in the contest. In Wednesday's races there are nine entreies in the 2.35 trot, purse |250; fourteen enterics in the 2.30 pace, purse <250. The purse fob the running race is f 100. On Thursday there is three entries in three years old |>ace or trot, purse ♦ 150; ten entries in the 2.25 trot, purse |300; eleven entries in the 2.21 pace, purse |300; running race, purse |SO. On Friday there are nine entries in the 2.18 trot, purse |350; nine eateries in the 2.15 pace, purse ♦350; running race, purse ♦1(M). It will be seen from this that some clever purses are placed on the wire and that they have attracted quite a number of fast horses for each day. The purses as well as everv other premium offered will be paid in full. A I). Mock of Elwood has l»een selected starting judge. He is known all over the state as the best man in the business, and the fact of his selection will be well received by the owners of fast horses.

COURT NEWS. Routine of Business Transacted Today. In circuit court th is morning James M. Rose fik>d a separate demurrer to each paragraph of the complaint in the case entitled Nicholas Gasser vs L W. Luckey and James M. Rose. Anson VaCamp was given judgment for 1193.14 against the Decatur Oil Ar Gas Co. Next week will be a light one very probably as the Groat Northern Fair will be an attraction. The only cases set for trial are Biumgartner vs Baumgartner and Mayer vs Mayer both divorce suits which will Pome up Monday. Court will be held every morning next week but it is thought no business of great impor tance will be brought up. Later this morning Alma Englehart was granted a divorce from Michael Englehart and she was given the custody of the daughter Grace. In probate court A. C. Gregory asked that his guardian be instructed to allow him |!sa month. The question will he heard next week. HOTEL BURNED. Oden. Michigan, Has a $5,000 Blaze. The Oden House, the largest hotel in Oden, burned to the ground at midnight Wednesday night the guests having a narrow escafte for their lives. The hotel contained fifty rooms and the loss will lie about |5,000. Had the wind been from the east all of the cottages along the lake shore many of them owned by Bluffton people* would have burned. Marcellus Alexander and wife loft Oden a few hours after the fin l and they came nearly lining caught in the building with the other guests. They hail expected to spend the night in the hotel but were offered the hospitality of a cottage nearby —-Bluffton News.

DECATUR, INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1903.

CODIFY TAX LAWS State Tax Board to Meet Soon. Hereafter Seventy-Five Days Will Be Given Assessors to Complete Their Work. Indiana's laws of taxation underwent numerous changes at the hands of the hist legislature. The new provision becomes effective with the next listing of property. The state hoard of tax commissioners will be in session within the next few weeks for the purpose of codifying the tax laws as they now stand. The most important change s in the time for listing property. Sixty days are now given assessors to do their work, beginning April 1 1 and ending June 1. Under the new law, which repeals the act of 1891, personal projierty must be listed between the first day of March and the 15th day May. This gives seventy five days to the ' work In nearly every county of the state assessors have experienced difficulty in finishing their work in sixty days and as the j>ay of assessors and their deputies is provided for in an appropriation by the county councils, and is based upon ■dxtv days it has often times ee curred that the assessors have been compelled to put in extra time without pay. Law suits have resulted in one or two counties, attempts I having been made by assessors to comjiel county councils to make appropriations for the additional time. It is believed that with fifteen extra days there will be nodifficulty in finishing the work in time. I < ELECT OFFICERS. —- Baptist Meeting Closes at Bluffton. Mrs. N. Gilson Member of Board of Systematic Benificence. The Baptist Salamonic Association closed their annual session at Buffton last nigho, with a sermon by Rev. G. M. Lehing. Officers were elected as follows. Moderator, Rev. (). Fritz, Dunkirk; first moderator, Rev. H. Allen, Montpelier; second vice moderator, H. W. Reynolds, Bluffton; clerk, Roy Hathaway, Muncie; treasurer, G. F. Me Farren, Bluffton. Os the B. Y . P. U. Winnie Strough, of Muncie, corresponding secretary Nellie Carber, of Dunkirk,treasurer and Miss Clara Quick, Junior Leader. Sunday School board, Rev. J. C. F. Scher - ich of Poneto, president; Bertha Smith of Warren, secretary; A. L. Johnson, Muncie, treasurer. The Board of systematic beneficence, State missions. Rev. Scherck; Home Mission Rev. A. H. Allen; Foreign missions, Rev.C. M. Carter, Muncie; publication society, Henry King, of Warren; Education, H. W. Reynolds; ministerial aid, R. J. Sutton, of Dunkirk; Woman’s home missions, Louisa Crosbie; Woman's foreign missions, Mrs. M Gilson, of Decatur.

ARBOR DAY.

ARBOR DAY. Governor Durbin Will Designate October 23rd. Fassett A. Cotton, state superintendent of public instruction, has designated Friday, Oct. 23 as Arbor and Bird Day in the schools of the state and Gov. Durbin will soon issue a proclamation asking a gen eral observance of the day. Mr.'Cotton has in preparation an attractive little volume on Arlxtr and Bird Day, copies of which will be distributed among the schools of the state. It will contain much information | relative to forestry and the need of I stimulating interest in the work of ' preserving the trees. Suggestions Ito teachers as to the appropriate i manner of observing Arbor Day will be made. William H. Freeman secretary of the sate board of forestry, will contribute an article and the book will be illustrated with many photo-engravings of beautiful j trees, typical of certain parts of the I state. In addition, there will be i considerable reading matter, des- , criptive of some of the native Indi- ! ana birds. STILL GRINDING. - Grand Jury Examined Twenty Witnesses. Adjourned a! Noon Until Monday. - Will Close Next Tuesday. The grand jury adjourned at noon today to a How the members to reach their respective homes for Sunday. They will he back in their room bv nine o’clcock Monday morning ami proceed with the duties. It is believed they will conclude some time iTuaeday. At their morning session About twenty witnesses were examined, including a number from Berne and several from the country The general opinion now is that not a great number of indictments will be returmsl. There will, without doubt be a writ against Joe Osburn and probably a few misdemeanors. A great number of witnesses have been examined on the Berne dynamiting affair but ■ whether the evidence will warrant the arrest of any person or persons lis not known at this time, nor will it be for several days. WHAT THEY GET. The Bluffton Ladies and Their Photos. Os the 100 or more women who received invitations to send their photographs to a firm in St. Louis to be exhibited at the World's Fair how many forwarded the photo and the dollar. Please raise your hands . a little higher and keep them up until they can ,be [counted That's ! it—6l. Well your photographs will. lie found in a book advertising a sure cure remedy and under it will I be a testimonial signed by you say -1 ing that you have taken a bottle of j this remarkable remedy and that you are entirely well. The pictures will not get into an exhibit at the fair as promised and you will not get a collection of them except in a patent medicine book. Women in a dozen states have been victimized by this graft and society leaders and prize Ix'auties all over this glorious country have contributed to the fraud. Orders have Ixsm issued agints the concern by the postal department but that will not satisfy the women who contributed.—Bluff . ton News.

A HOT ONE. I Railing will Pitch Tomorrow's Game. I Hottest Ball Game of the Seai son.—Fort Wayne vs Rosenthals. I : . The base ball game tomorrow between the Fort Wayne Nationals and the Rosenthals promises to be one of the hottest that has ever been played here. You all know what the Nationals are without us , commenting upon them, but in aii- . dition to what they have had before they will be'greatly strengthened by a part of the Shamrock team. Decatur will also put a greatly improvled team on the field tomorrow, her new strength lying in catcher Goshorn of Ossian. Tom Railing in the ■ box, Mauriec shortstop. Decatur’s line up for tomorrow will be Gos- : horn, catcher. Railing pitcher. Meri cer first, O. France 2nd, Peterson 13rd, Maurice ss, Peterson If, DeVin ney c, and B. France rs. This will be the first opportunity that the Decatur fans have had to see what Railing can do in the box, so go out and help the home team in everyway possible. STATE MEETING. Federation of Literary Clubs October 15th to 17th. Preparations are being made by j the various literary clubs of Logans 1 port for the meeting of the State 1 Federation of Women's clubs, to be I held Oct. 15, 16 and 17. The busi- ’ I ness meetings will be held during I;the day at the First Presbyterian ’ j church. On the first evening at re- ‘; ception will be given at the home of I Mrs. J. T. McNary. On the second ' evening a musical entertainment, ’ arranged for by the Woman's club will be given at the First Presby- | terian chruch. The third evening at the same church, Judge D. P. Baldwin will deliver a lecture. Delegates may attend from Decatur. WILL CLOSE TOO. : Names of Two Firms Omitted Last Evening. I In our list of merchants who will close Thursday afternoon to go to , the fair and allow their clerks to do likewise we unintentionally omitted I the names of druggist W. H. Nach I trieb and tailor J. H. Meyers. Both I these names were given us but were omitted from the list as published , in las*, evening's Daily Democrat. ; As stated the closing will be observ led by nearly every business house in the city and the holiday will be , i engaged by everyone. Let the pres- , | ent fine weather continue, all the , success of the fair is assured. WORK PROGRESSES. — Allison-Studabaker Block Improvement. 1 The Allison Stiidubaker block is progressing rather slowy just, at present but with enough rapidity to < insure the fact that the handsome 1 building will again show itself as < proudly as it did before the disastr- < ous fire of last June. The block is < to be enclosed by December and i completed early in 1904. The rooms t 1 will lie excellent business location i , and will soon be occupied by twen- 1 [tieth century stores.

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VISIT OSBURN. —— His Friends From Grant County Are Here. . H. M. McCaskey, ex-representa-tive of Grant county was here today to visit Joe Osburn. He is a brother of Lew McCaskey with whom Joe Osburn had trouble several years ago. He reiterates the statement that the sympathy of all Green towni ship is with Joe. He was accom--1 panied by Frank Osburn and they also went to Union township to call on Mrs. Osburn. He says that, his brother even expresses sympathy for Joe. While here the gentlemen called at this office for a few moments. WON EASY. Decatur Horses at Huntington. Special Train Here Tomorrow Over Erie to Bring Race Horses. Virgi C.,won the 2.2srace at ifuntington today, this being the unfinished race from yesterday. Three horses had each taken a heat yesterday and Virgil C was in straight I heats today, making a mark of 2:19-11-4 to do it. It was a great race. True Worth won the 2.22 trot for ♦250 easily in straight heats. A Special train will be run over the Erie here tomorrow to bring race j horses from Huntintgon here as nearly all the fast ones from three will be here. HOWARD-DORSET CO. Ladies Free to Monday Night’s Performance. On Monday evening will mark the initial performance of the How-ard-Dorset company in this city. During the week the Fort Wayne paiM-rs have been liberal with praise to their old favorites. The company has played to record breaking business at the Temple all this week. The management gives all details of the pieces produced, all the sjx-cial scenery will be used carried by the company, making each scene a play in itself. On Monday evening ladies night, "The Street Singer" will be the offering, a four act comedy drama full of merit. Sjieeialties. moving pictures, and illustrated songs will be changed nightly. Remember ladies free Monday night when accompanied by one paid admission. Seats are now on sale at Holthouse Drug Uo. Many were surprised when calling at the reserve seat sale and found how rapidly the seats had gone. There are still some good ones left, if you want them you will have to reserve them at once. Prices 25 and 35 cents. TO REPAIR LINE. Gas Will Be Turned Off Tomorrow. As will be seen in an official notice elsewhere in this issue and signed by John S. Bowers, manager of the Gas Oonqiany, the gas will be shut off tomorrow afternoon from one o'cltx-k to five while repairs are being made at the pumping station and on the line. ()f this everyone should take due notice and be careful, to avoid accident. Be sure and turn your gas off after dinner.