The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-14
MOVING DAY At ACTON
1T Is MARKED BY AN EXCITING IN
CIDENT AND A RAIN.
Hotel Proprietor Gipe AssauIted-No
Color Question This Year-List of
Those ON the Grounds.

ton. The charm that wrought the trans
formation was the Acton Assembly moving
day when it is supposed that all the MEM
bers of the association come with bag and
baggage to begin their annual sojourn in
the camp AS a matter of fact. however,
all of them do not take advantage of the
day, but do their moving sometimes many
days before and sometimes quite time
after the day fixed. However, the official
day is observed by the majority and the
scenes that transpire stamp the occasion
as that when the desolate camp is meta
morphorsed into an active, social COM
munity.
Moving day was yesterday ushered in by
the arrival of the baggage car. II lis the
usual custom for the railroad company to
supply this car and in it the movers place
an aggregation of diversified effects. Furni-
ture, blankets. cooking utensils, trunks,
hammocks and all things necessary for
the comfort and we'll being of campers
find Judgment in this car and the load
Ing and unloading thereof is distinctly an
important event in the chronology of the
camp. The trains during the day brought
about fifty people to the grounds, also
burdened with effects, and these added TO
the thirty families already housed caused
the population to swell to upward of sew
eral hundred. During the week many more
are expected
No services were held yesterday. 1t was
simply a day for work The entire camp
had it's coat off and its sleeves up. And
there was need for work. The cottages
abandoned for so long a time contained the
dust of months if not of ages, window
panes were broken, porches were in need
of repairs, the grass was overgrown and
the debris of long neglect needed carting
away. Lye, soap, water and paint were
everywhere called into requisition to per-
form a salutary service; the cobwebs were
hauled down, the carpets laid and last
year S doormat was given its annual Shak-
ing. Hammers were pounding, the lawn
mowers were busy and the stove fiXingS
were pelng patiently ADJUSTED. everywhere
there was a general furnishing and brush
ing up and out of 1t all there gradually
emerged that cleanly. enticing and whole
some effect for which the camp is famed.
And all this despite the rain that brought
a cherries and chilly day.
Aside from the hurly burly of the happy
movers the chief events of the day were
not such as usually mark a religious COM
munity.
AN EXCITING INCIDENT
In the early morning G. M. Gipe, the
hotel proprietor, was assaulted with intent
to kill by Frank Bartlett, a citizen of the
village of Acton. Mr.. Gipe had called for
bids for furnishing his hostelry with milk
and butter and Bartlett was an unsuccess-
full competitor. Bartlett, thinking that he
had not been treated fairly, circulated SLAM
derOus stories about Mr.. Gipe, it is claimed,
and the latter went to the village to eX-
pOstulate with him. After having carried
out this purpose he was mounting his BIZ
cycle to ride away when Bartlett hit him
in the back of the head with d neck-yoke,
cutting a big cash in the head and tearing
off a piece of the ear. The assaulted man
fell to the ground and byStanders prevented
bartlett from doing him further injury.
Mr.. Gipe was attended by several physi-
clans who dressed his painful wounds and
was afterward put to bed. He eventually
recovered from the shock however, and
was able to attend to his duties later in
the day. Bartlett was arrested, but Mr..
Gipe took a change of venue to the city,
where he thinks justice can be more eff
feCtually obtained than in the village The
campers who heard of the assault were in
dignant and the story of the deed formed
a main topic throughout the camp.
Another cause for Indignation at the
camp was the discovery that thieves had
broken into a number of the cottages dur
ing the winter and taken off many. useful
articles. One lady lost a gasoline stove and
others reported similar losses. Those cot
tages that were securely locked, however,
were undisturbed. A third unpleasant sub
ject for gossip was assault made by
Frank Benton, the son of the custodian OF
the park, upon his father-in-law. This as
sault which happened the day before, did
not, however, occur on the park grounds,
but in the country near at land.
These various untoward events were In
the main philosophically regarded and did
not dampen the enthusiastic spirit of the
movers, who looked forward to a very
successful season of mental and religious
recreation
THE camp is opening very suspicious
ly," said Treasurer Hodell land very few
cottages are empty. Much disappointment
is felt because General Harrison cannot
speak for us tomorrow night, but all the
other speakers and lecturers will certainly
attend. l look for most profitable meet
ing" Rev. Robert Roberts, who unites the
duties of his calling with those of a man
Of all trades, he being the superintendent
of grounds, has among his other multi
farious. duties that of renting cottages.
Yesterday he was questioned as to whether
any colored people had rented any cot
tages. He said they had not and thus set
at rest a report that was causing no little
feeling around the camp Last year the
color question occasioned much trouble,
terminating in a law suit but it promises
not to be brought up this year..
To-day is the reunion of the Seventeen
Regiment and a large number of the soldier
boys are expected. At night will come the
annual campfire, when good speeches VIII
be made. Tomorrow is an artist enter
tainment by William McGentle, cartoonist
and caricaturist.
THOSE ON THE GROUND.
Among the people now the ground are
the following from Indianapolis: Mrs. z.
L. Perkins and daughter Mrs. c. A. QUAD,
Mrs. F. r. Sullivan, Mrs. Louise Carroll,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Young, Miss Alice
Mooter, Mr.. and Mrs. George f. Pitman,
Frank Pitman and family, Mrs. L. B. Nc
Claim, Mrs NJ ]. Bowman, Misses Lena
and Leota Bowman, Charles Robertson,
Lew Robertson, Mrs. McA. Baird, Miss Ell
ma Woollen, Rev. B. F. Morgan, j. C.
Sample and family, Charles B. Sample.
Miss Bertha Sample Mrs S. A. Book
walter Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Matthews, f.
Reisner, W. A. Cochran, Mrs. M. a. Sid
Steinhauer, Frank Reynolds, c. j. Linton,
Mrs. George Mckinley, Mrs Frank Pick
Grill, Mrs c. Robertson, Mrs II. Wheeler,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. F. Steeg, e. l.. VIII
liams, M. V. Wheeler, Mrs. j. A. Ferguson,
Miss Emma Holloway, Harry and Harvey
Field, James A. McKeehan and family,
Mrs. George Varin, Mrs Ellen Burke, Mr.
and Mrs. John Jordan. Mrs. William
O'MOore J. c.. Mccain, William Dotson,
Francis Crawford, Mrs. n. A Ford, Mrs.
Gay Johnson, Mrs Budd Mr. and Mrs.
Miss Gusse Orpwood, Mrs. Oscar Huey,
Norman Perrine, Robert Meek, Isaac n.
Norwood Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roberts
John b. Hand, Mrs McAnderson and fam
lily. Leila Hand. Ruth Hand. Stella Hand,
Mrs. d. J. Dimock, L. G. Akin and fam
Gadd.
From Shelbyville: Mrs Martha Louch,
Dr. and Mrs r. McFloyd, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. J. Wingate Mr.. and Mrs. w. b.
Thrasher, Mrs. R. Lacy, c. Spege Mr..
and Mrs John Young, Mr. and Mrs George
Uric "a lpfc