Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier $5.00 Per month, b ymail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce in Decatur Indiana, as second class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. THE RIGHT WAY TO BOOM DECATUR » It is time now that the Business Men's Association should be a business men's association in fact, as well as in name. It is time they were dissolving all combinations, both for the prices paid for grain, live stock, poultry, butter and eggs, as well as the selling prices thereof. It is time they were boosting a little for Decatur, instead of using their organization for the purpose of gratifying the selfiish interest of a few people. How does it come that grain raised within a mile of Decatur is conveyed miles to every little town around us? Why is it that both cattle and hogs are taken from the close proximity of the corporate limits of Decatur to Willshire? Why is it. that farmers complain that the prices paid for poultry, ■ butter and eggs is lower than every

Clothing n / v\ 1.1 /» i 1 vv LA vow mi f IM wi ™ 30Ji M yili •IVWMWIwW MEN'S SUITS Men's stylish working suits in a variety of Scotch and Cheviot mixture. Substantially lined. Values as high as $6.50 This sale Q no price Jpj.yO Men's Stylish Working Suits in a variety of Scotch and Cheviot mixtures; some blues and blacks. Excellent patterns and color effects; substantially lined. Values as high as SBOO. Our Clearance Sale tl AO Price «p4.yO Another lot of desirable suits, stylishly made, lined substantially, and made to sand hard and exacting wear. Values positively up to SIO.OO. Our Clearance Sale Price is pg In this lot you'll find a variety of materials and patterns, but every suit is an example of the tailor’s best efforts in style and workmanship. Double and single breasted. Actual values $12.50. Our Clear- Z zr ance Sale Price uv.UD

, Our Guarantee We assure each and every purchaser absolute satisfaction. We guarantee every article and every statement herein made. Any purchase made proving unsatisfactory for any cause can be returned and the purchase price will be refunded.

little jerk-water cross roads around here? Why is it that farmers come into this office and say that our market reports are incorrect as compared to markets in every other town around here? Decatur is losing trade and losing business by the pigheaded methods that are in vogue among certain business men. These methods are apparently approved by the Business Men's Association. The Democrat regrets to speak of this existing condition. We would rather boost everything and everybody than to speak ill of business men or their methods. But this question is a public one. It concerns the vitality of our business life. It drives away that which would come for the asking. Decatur should have good markets, not only good, but the best markets. That should be our grand rallying cry, and afford us the right to ask and demand the patronage of all the surrounding country. Some merchants are already complaining that the Ft. Wayne and Springfield; railway carries many buyers to Ft. Wayne. They will continue to carry them and their numbers will grow and multiply unless the right markets are acorded them here. What is the use of raising a factory fund and booming our town, if by so doing we are simply to fill a leak that ought not to exist ? Let’s get • right. Let’s boom our markets up and' ' make them the talk for miles around. Let’s boom Decatur.

Last Week of the ‘HUB’S’ Mid-Season Clearance Sale Sale Positively Ends Saturday, July 20

$20,000.00 worth of High Grade Clothing and Shoes to be Sacraficed

Better made suits, nor stylish ones at even treble the price have never been shown here or elsewhere and with a variety of styles to select from youH agree with us that here's a bargain. Real value, sls. o nn Clearance Sale Price yO./y The man who is posted on either Style or Material the man who knows what is being worn by the exclusive dressers will wonder how we do this; he’ll expect to be asked for these suits at least $16.50. Clearance tfn ao Sale Price $"."0 For Nobby Dressers —men who would conform to the 1906 requirements of styi e fashion—this lot will prove a revelation. Styles that you'd expect to obtain only from a merchant tailor, and at least SIB.OO. aq Clearance Sale Price .... Jlv.yO Fine Hand Tailored Suits in all the new Broadway effects. Some staple blacks, too, every suit a triumph es the cutter’s art and the tailor's skill. A bargain any time at S2O. {| 1 IQ Clearance Sale Price ....

WHAT A VULGAR DISPLAY Only very rich men—or men with very rich wives—will dare apply for ambassadorships hereafter until the I United States government returns to something like the decent simplicity of which we once were proud. Whitelaw Reid has set a pace at London that is totally at variance with Amer- ' ican traditions and customs. The London papers say that Mr. Reid has raised the American embassy to “its present eminence at great ’ personal expense.” He has hired the son of a Lord something-or-other to act as the “controller of his house- > hold,” and this personage performs 1 duties similar to those of the king's controller. A welf-lfnown Ameriaan woman, describing a recent visit to Dorchester house, declared that the splendor and formality which characterized the occasion could not have been more marked at a royal dinner party. When Whitelaw Reid withdraws from London it is quite likely that a Democrat, the appointee of a Democratic president, will take his place. And then the Britishers will see a change. It will be a wholesome change, too, and will be approved by 1 the sensible people on both sides of ■ the Atlantic. Reid is merely making a vulgar display of his own and his wife's money. That is all. Gillis has decided to remain with the Hartford City team. He was wanted by the South Bend Central league team, and had about decided to go, but yesterday he made up his mind to remain in fast company. The South Bend team is a tail-ender, even in. the Central league, which is made up 1 of teams that cannot compare with such teams as are maintained at Hartford City, Portland and Dunkirk. Gillis is a star player and his Hartford City friends are delighted with the prospect that he will remain here. — Hartford City News.

BOYS’ SUITS All Sizes from 4s up. Regular $1.25 Pants, Price 83c Regular $2.00 Suits, Price $1.39 Regular $3.00 Suits, Price $1.78 Regular $4.00 Suits, Price $2.63 Regular $5.50 Suits, Price $3.83 Regular $7.00 Suits, Price $4.88 MEN'S ODD PANTS All Sizes, All Kinds, All Prices, Too Regular $1.25 Pans, Price 83c Regular $2.00 Pants, Price $1.63 Regular $3.00 Pants, Price $1.98 Regular $3.50 Pants, Price $2 59 Regular $4.00 Pants, Price $2.79 Regular $5.00 Pants, Price $3.29 Regular $6.50 Pants, Price $3.88 Regular $7.00 Pants, Price $4-60 BOYS’ KNEE PANTS Regular 35c Pants, Price 21c Regular 75c Pants, Price 43c Regular SI.OO Pants, Price 63c SPECIAL! SPECIAL! .OVERALLS Regular 50c value- Now here’s your chance men. Only two pair to a custom e r, and then they can’t last very long. Our Clearance SaleAA* Price 44C

B. Kalver Clothing Co. Decatur, Indiana This Sale Cash Only

SAW GOOD SPORT (Continued from Page 1.) i . forced the milling, but the referee saw > it different and called it a draw. NeverI theless. this battle alone was well ’ i worth the price of admission. Jack Ulster, of Louisville, Ky.. who was -'to have gone on in the windup with ( ' Chick Long for eight rounds, although present at the Opera House, for a short time, quietly took a little sneak I before time for his fight and although ■la number of his friends were sent - out to find him, he could not be lot cated. and the fight was declared off. , What caused Ulster to do this no one i seems able to state, and Mr. Morarity 1 ! was very much disappointed, because he was not present as he de- > sired to pull the program off according 11 to schedule. However, not to disap- ( point the crowd, who wanted to see Long fight, he substituted a young 1 man by the name of Guilfoil from Auburn. who consented to box four ■ rounds as an exhibition with Long. , The boys put up a clean cut contest but Guilfoil was no match for Long ' and the game was all one-sided. Long ■ fully demonstrated to his friends that ' he is becoming more clever every day. . Mr. Morarity, under whose supervision . the event was pulled off. is entitled I to much credit, as he entertained the j local sports in excellent style. o ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS. Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of ; the Old Adams County bank, will be held at their banking house, Decatur, Indiana at 10 o'clock a m.. on Tuesday, August 6th, 1907, for the purpose iof electing seven directors to serve for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may come before them. E. X. EHINGER, , 169-19 t Cashier. o Fourteen surveyors of the Air Line east of Laporte are now resurveying the company’s route from Goshen to Toledo and this week have been driving stakes in Wayne township. Noble county. The new line is a fewrods south of the old one and is absolutely a bee line along the north part of the township named.

Furnishings Men's Bal. Underwear,reg. 35c val.2lc “ Bal. Underwear, reg. 50c va1..42c “ Best Underwear, reg. $1.25 val.B9c “ Good Dress Shirts, reg. 65c-val. 42c ’’ Best Dress Shirts, reg. 1.00 val.Bßc “ Durable Hose, reg. 15c value.. 7c " Fine f ancy and Plain Hose, reg. 20c value 11c “ Best Fancy and Plain Hose, reg. 25c value 19c “ Bandana Hdkfs., reg. 10c value. 6c " Good White Hemmed Hdkfs„ regular 10c value 3c “ Fancy Spring Ties, reg. 25c val.2lc “ New Fancy Tecks, reg. 50c val. 42c “ Dep’dable Suspdrs. reg. 35c val.2lc “ Best make Suspdrs, reg. 50c val.43c “ Best Working Gloves, regular 50c value 42c “ Arrow Brand Collars 10c MEN’S HATS AND CAPS We shall show you only the new spring blocks and shapes and we're

KEEP THE KIDNEYS WELL. Health i* Worth Saving, and Some Decatur People Know How to Save It. Many Decatur people take their lives in their hands by neglecting the kidneys when they know these organs need help. Sick kidneys are respcm-i---ble for a vast amount of suffering and ill health, but there is no need to I suffer nor to remain in danger when all diseases and pains due to weak kidneys can be quickly and permanently cured by the use of Doan’s Kidney Pills. Here is the statement of a Decatur citizen, who has reclaimed good health by the use of this rented} Mrs. Lucy Edge, of 728 north Fifth street. Decatur. Ind., says: "I still think as much of Doan's Kidney Pills as I did when I gave a statement for publication some years ago endorsing this remedy. I suffered for years with kidney complaint and was annoyed with a constant soreness and pains across my loins, which became worse when I stooped or overexerted myself. During the night I did not get the rest I needed and my general health became affected so that I could hardly get about to attend to my household duties. I noticed Doan’s Kidney Pills advertised in the newspapers and I began using them. They went to the seat of the trouble in a short time, and removed the aching and lameness and soreness which has not returned up to this time. I take pleasure in recommending Doan's Kidney Pills, as I believe they make permanent cures. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name —Doan's —and take no other. o Probably the worst stretch of asphalt streets in the city has been repaired and is now in fine shape. Oak street, between Market and Washington streets, was considered to be in worse shape and in more need of repair than any other. All the holes have been filled now however, and the street, to all appearances is as good, if not better, than it was when first laid. The gang repairing the streets is now working on west Market street. —Bluffton News.

base ball - J Delphos - — vs — Decatur Thursday & Friday C-. '■ *" ‘Xa July 18-19 ♦♦♦♦s♦♦>♦♦♦•>♦♦♦••♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦ Delphos is coming to win. They claim the Ohio championship and the games will be interesting. ♦♦hi m$ ss>»»•s•♦♦♦»**♦— Admission, 25c. Ladies, 15c

going to sell them as cheap as you'd expect to buy a last season’s hat. That's fair isn't it? Reg. $1.25 Hats, Cl. Sale Price.. 89c Reg. $1.50 Hats, Cl. Sale Price..sl-19 Reg. $2.00 Hats, Cl. Sale Price..sl-63 Reg. s2.soHats, Cl. Sale Price..sl.9B Famous Hawes’ $3.00 Hat $2-48 Straw Hats and Caps at Correspondingly Low Price. EXTRA SPECIAL! SOX! SOX! Men's 10c grade in plain and fancy colors. Our Clearance Sale Price on| y «5C MEN’S GOOD WORK SHIRTS Blacks, Fancies and Stripes You’ve Always paid 50c for them. Our Clearance Sale prj ce only 42C EXTRA SPECIAL! HANDERCHIEFS Regular 10c values. The chance of a life time. Only four to a customer. Our Clearance Sale Price iso . oniy sC*’ . XX SPECIAL Men's best grade Elkskin Shoes guaranteed better than any $3 25 shoe ever shown in Adam- n-in county, Sale Price L.IS

Shoes Men's work shoes, guaranteed ZA to be $2.00 value, Sale Price«pl.v7 Men's Kangaroo Kip, solid in every respect, $2.50 values. Sale s| Men's Dress Shoes in all leathers, would be good value at $2.50. 04 Sale Price Men's shoes, high grade velour vid and box calf in the new bonton toes. Shoes that are dressy and uptfj AC to date; $2.75 val. Sale Price«pi.7v Men's shoes made In the very finest leather, including Lobdell’s famous Vici and box calf. $3.50 val- Q JA ues. Sale Price £.w7 Men’s shoes in very best leathers, bench made, $4.50 values. 9 CQ Sale Price BOYS’ SHOES Strictly all solid leather, strongly made and back stayed, just the thing for your boy. .. „ $1.75 values. Sale Price » ■,. $2.00 values. Sale Price J’ l, $2.50 values. Sale Price SPECIAL 35 doz. Men’s 75c overalls and blouses, blue and white stripe, while Cnr they last

A Square Deal to All All Goods MarKed jn Plain Figures Price to Everybody