Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week,-"by carrier W cents Per year, by carrier $5.00 Per month, b ymall $5 cents Per year, by mall .. $2.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at th* portoffioe in Decatur Indiana, as second class mail matter. J. N. HEL t I fl, Manager. WHO PROFITS? The same -message over the same telephone gave the dealers their orders for buying and selling produce today. A farmer living near Monmouth said that his neighborhood drove to Monroeville or interurbaned to Fort Wayne with their butter and eggs, in preference to dealing with a produce trust in Deeatur. This they have been doing for months. These farmers live but four or five miles from Decatur, and really want to come here. Isn't it about time the Business Men’s association were getting busy and were providing means of protecting their own business? The merchant not handling butter and eggs, who imagines that the high handed methods of the market trust does not effect his business, has another think coming. When any buyer is driven away from Decatur, every merchant is a loser to some extent.

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With every new one that comes in every merchant profits to some extent. We should look for all the old ones and some new ones. The boosters of Decatur have worked with energy to boom Decatur. They worked, not to boom the business of any certain individual, but the business of every one. They knew that when that was done, every individual would profit. In this same sense, the market trust hurts the general business of the town. The thing to do is to smash it. Another farmer near Monmouth says that during this summer Monroeville merchants paid two cents more for a dozen eggs and two cents more a pound for butter than did the Decatur market trust. In addition they bought coffee for two cents less a pound and three-fourths of a pound more sugar for a quarter than the same was sold by Decatur merchants. To add to this misery, Decatur produce packers and shippers bought every surplus dozen of eggs and pound of butter from the Monroeville merchants, hauled it by wagon to their store rooms in Decatur for shipment. Did the Monroeville merchants lose that two extra they paid for every dozen eggs and pound of butter? Who is getting beautifully skinned in this bunco market game? Who profits by this wholesale tirade against every business man and business interest in Decatur? By the way, who profits by having a corner on the buying and selling price of butter and eggs? Do the

business men? Do the farmers? Who does? ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ QUOTATIONS TODAY. ♦ + + ♦ Monroeville. ♦ ♦ Eggs 18c ♦ + Butter 21c ♦ + Decatur. ♦ ♦ Eggs 15c ♦ ♦ Butter 16c ♦ ♦ How do you like the com- ♦ + parison? ♦ ♦ Do you think the market ♦ ♦ trust is doing business on too ♦ ♦ close a margin? Are the mer- ♦ ♦ chants of Decatur satisfied ♦ + with the ruinous—to Decatur — ♦ ♦ policy as practiced by the ♦ + trust? How do you like to be ♦ ♦ hung up by the toes, anyway? ♦ ♦ Deeatur produce shippers will ♦ ♦ buy the surplus produce sold ♦ ♦ under above quotations at Mon- ♦ ♦ roeville. and stand the addition- ♦ ♦ al expense of carting to this ♦ ♦ city. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ If thee chances of an election shall be deemed fairly assuring by that time, it may be safely predicted that the friends of Thomas R. Marshall will make a vigorous effort, next spring, to secure the nomination for governor for that estimable gentleman. Mr. Marshall measures up to the position. He would fill the office creditably. His election would strenghten his party. This is not always the case, neither in Indiana nor elsewhere. The demand of the hour is for capable, clean, honorable, upright men. No party can afford to be indifferent to this demand. Mr. Louthian emphasized this in his excellent address before the editors at their recent gathering at French Lick.-—S?uth Bend Times. societFcolimn Six O’ClocK Dinner at the Ehinger Home

RENDERED BEAUTIFUL SOLO Visitors From Chicago—Ben Hur’s Surprise Mrs. Baumgartner— Other Society News, Messrs, and Mesdames J. B. Grimme, H. L. Goeke, Henry Krammer, of Fort Wayne, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry , Goeke, of Denver, Col., were the guests at a six o’clock dinner last evening given by Mrs. E. X. Ehinger. Miss Mabel McLaughlin, of Elkhart, the guest of Miss Marie Berry, rendered a vocal solo last evening at the Methodist church, during the evening service. The solo was a beautiful sacred hymn, and was highly appreciated by the large congregation which filled the church. Miss McLaughlin was formerly of Decatur, and is a highly gifted musician, being the 1 possessor of a magnificent soprano voice, and it has been hoped that it will not be the last time that her many friends of Decatur will be favored by hearing her sing. Mrs. John C. Waggoner and her sister, Miss Princess Menard, of Chicago. J will be the guests of Mrs. Edward Luttman for the next five weeks. I There will be several parties, picnics 1 and dinners given in compliment to her guests during their visit. A surprise which was exceptionally a perfect success was when .the fifty members of the Ben Hur lodge gathered at the home of Mrs. Artman, of Eleventh street and went from there to the home of Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner to celebrate her forty-first birthday anniversity Saturday evening at 8 o’clock. The evening was pleasantly spent with music and games. At ten o’clock a refreshing luncheon was ’ served. Mrs. Baumgartner received many pretty and expensive gifts from her guests. o The Marion base ball team will play a benefit game August 11th for Eugene Gorman, of that city. He was formerly umpire for games here until his health forced him to give up the position. All the gate receipts will be given him as a token of the friendship existing between the team and Mr. Gorman. He expects to go to Arizona in the hopes of building up his health. Today he is with the Bluffton players at Kokomo—Bluffton Banner.

SOME FAST BALL Decatur Takes Two From Portland DECATUR NOW STANDS SECOND The Locals Are Playing the G’me Like the Old Veterans that They Are —The Crowds GrowingSTANDING. Played. Won. Lost Pct. Richmond 8 6 2 -JJ® Decatur 8 5 2 .714 Portland 8 g 8 626 Bluffton 8 3 4 .4-8 Kokomo 8 2 6 .250 Van Wert 8 2 6 .250 Saturday's Games. Richmond 3; Van Wert 2. Bluffton 4; Kokomo 3. Decatur 4; Portland 3. The locals pulled thmselves up a notch in the percentage column Sunday by defeating Portland in one of the prettiest and fastest games ever seen on the local grounds, and as a result we are now pressing the Richmond bunch for first place. One thousand enthusiastic fans saw the Jay Birds go down in defeat and in that famous eighth inning finish men hugged each other and bubbled over with enthusiasm and could not re-

sist the temptation and gave vent to their good feelings by yelling and cheering until they were ordered to desist by the umpire. To say that it was a good game would be putting in nrild form, for It was something grand, especially from a Decatur standpoint, and goes to show that rile Indiana-Ohio league is creating some enthusiasm. The game was tailed promptly at three o’clock by his honor, the “Umps," with Way, the pride of Ossian doing slab duty for the locals and Gray holding down the same Job for the visitors and it was a pitcher’s battle of no mean ability. For five innings the Jay Birds worried along without scoring, when in the sixth, by clean and timely hitting, they pushed two runs over the plate and right here we might say that those two runs looked very large. The locals were unable to solve Gray's delivery until the famous eighth inning, when Pierce, the first man up was safe on an error, "Wallace promptly sacrificed and Burns then singled, scoring “Lucky” James; Burns taking second on the throw to the plate. Weber then stepped into the limeiight and bingled safely into center field, Burns scoring, thus tying the score. Way was next up and the crowd was expecting something from Os, and he did not disappoint them, but immediately singled into right center, Weber never stopping until he reached the plate with what proved to be the winning run. In turning third base he slipped and fell, but immediately was on his feet and away, but was forced to slide into the plate, and in so doing threw his index finger out of place, and for a short time it looked as if he would be out of the game, but he gamely stuck to his job for which he was roundly applauded. Gray was benched by Manager Hunt after the three hits were made, and Wagner was substituted, but the mischief was done, and Wagner could not win for them and the game closed three to two. The feature of the game was three fast double plays by the locals, which undoubtedly put Portland out of the running, one coming in the first inning, one in the fourth and the last one in the ninth. The box score tells the tale.

Portland. Name. AB R H PO A E Parker, 2b 0 1 2 2 1 Brambough, 3b . 0 2 2 3 1 Hurst, If 0 11 0 0 Durham, cf ... 3 0 0 1 0 0 Brambough, rs. 4 0 0 3 0 0 Carmny, lb .. 3 0 0 13 0 1 Hanns, c .... 4 0 0 2 0 0 Thomas, ss .. 3 11 0 2 1 Gray .Wagner, p 3 11 0 11 Totals 32 2 6 24 8 5 Decatur. Name. AB R H PO A E Behringer, 2b. 4 0 0 4 4 0 Pierce, cf .... 4 1 0 3 0 0 Wallace, ss ... 3 0 0 0 5 1 Burns. If 3 11 1 0 6 Weber, lb ... 4 11 12 0 1 Way, p 4 0 2 0 1 0 Witham 3b .. 3 0 0 1 4 1 Winger, c .... 4 0 0 5 1 0 Nash, rs 3 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 32 3 4 27 15 3 Portland 00000200 o—2 Decatur 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 x—3 Summary— Earned runs —Decatur 2; Portland 2. Base on balls—Off W’ay 3; Gray 1. Left on bases—Decatur 8; Portland 5. Double plays—Wallace to Behringer to Weber 3. Stolen bases —Burns. Time of game—l:3o. Umpire—Burke.

SATURDAY’S GAME. Portland. Name. AB R H PO A E Parker, 2b ... 5 1 2 2 3 Brambough, 3b 5 1 2 2 0 Hurst, If 5 0 0 1 0 0 Durham, cf .. 5 0 5 0 0 Brambough. rs. 3 0 11 ® Carmony, lb .. 4 0 1 10 2 1 Harmes, c .... 4 0 1 9 0 Thomas, ss .. 4 0 1 0 - o Romine, p .... 4 11 0 " Totals 39 3 14 24 10 1 Decatur. Name. AB R H PO A E Behringer. 2b. 2 2 1 3 1 0 Pierce, cf .... 2 0 1 0 0 0 Wallace. If ... 4 0 0 2 6 0 Burns, If 4 11 3 0 0 Weber, c .... 4 0 3 - 0 0 Way, lb 3 11 14 0 0 Nash, rs 3 0 0 0 0 1 Witham, 3b ... 4 0 1 3 2 0 Knapp, p .... 4 0 0 0 4 0 Totals 30 4 8 27 17 1 Portland 0 0110000 I—3 Decatur 0 0110002 x—4 Summary— Two base hits —Pierce, Brambough. Bums, Durham. Home runs W ay. Romine. Base on balls —Off Knapp 1: off Romine 3. Struck out—By Knapp 2; Romine 8. Left on bases—Decatur 7; Portland 11. Double plays— Romine to Thomas to Carmony: Wallace to Behringer to Weber. Time of game—l:4o. Umpire—Burke. RICHMOND IN THE LEAD. Richmond, Mid.,'. August 4.—Richmond defeated Van Wert this afternoon by a score of 3 to 2 in an interesting though loosely played game. Pitcher Moore forced in the winning run for Richmond by giving a base on balls In the ninth inning. Both pitchers were effective and runs were largely due to errors. 123456789 RHE Van Wert 00200000 o—2 6 4 Richmond 20000000 I—3 8 5 Moore and Hlllinger; Fleming and Jessup. BLUFFTON WON. Kokomo. Ind.. August 4.—Kokomo was defeated by Bluffton today by a score of 4 to 2. Grimes pitched a fine game for Kokomo, but lacked support. 123456789 RHE Kokomo ..20000000 o—2 4 3 Bluffton ..20200000 o—4 6 3 Grimes and Orr; Boyd and Spicer. o NOTICE. Next Thursday. August Bth, has been the day set for cleaning the Reynolds cemetery. All those who wish to take part and help at the good work should come prepared at an early hour. By Order of Board of Trustees. o WANTED —Two or three union carpenters or those who will join the union at once. Inquire of Smith and Armen 188-6 t o FARM FOR RENT—With good buildings on it. Inquire of Wash Kern, Decatur, Ind., R. F. D. No. A, Box 81. The above will have wheat to sell this fall 186-6 t o NOTICE. All person assessed in the Maggie Miller Ditch in Blue Creek township take notice that ten per cent of your assessment on said ditch is due and payable at the county Surveyor’s office on the last Saturday of August, 1907. and one installment of 10 per cent on the last Saturday in each month until said assessment is paid In full. L. L. BAUMGARTNER, Supt. of Construction.

THE Electric Theatre TONIGHT Admission S Cents. Motion pictures—“ Lighthouse Keepers in a High Sea.” “A Drunkard in Spite of AH.” illustrated song—“ Love Me and the World is Mine.” Schmuck A Miller, Proprietors. Farmers Attention Just received a load of high-grade fertilizers and In order to sell it quick ] will sell it cheap. Inquire John Sehinnan, at City Coal A Feed Yard. ’Photic 240. $6.50 Round Trip $6.50 DEC AU TUR TO NIAGARA FALLS via CLOVER LEAF ROUTE Wednesday, August 21. Through coaches ard sleeping cars direct to the Falls without change. Secure reservations early. For particulars consult nearest Clover Leaf Agent

PERHAPS ~ || Your Tin Roof Leaks! Or perhaps a new one is needed. I n I either case we can supply your needs. I “JOE” Is our tinner and what he does not! know about tin or metal work is 1 hardly worth knowing. If you are I in trouble with any kind of metal I work send for Joe, he will help you. I SCHAFEM HARDWARE CO. HAVE YOU ORDERED YOUrI COAL IF NOT IT IS TIME. We have the best of all kinds at the right price. HARD COAL from the SCRANTON MINES. If you want SOFT COAL take a look at BLACK NANCY. THE PRIDE OF VIRGINIA —new to this market. DON’T FORGET US WHEN YOU WANT Building Material ANYTHING NECESSARY FOR HOUSE OR BARN Decatur Lumber Co.

H Decatur, Ind., July io, 1907. Special Fifteen Days Annual Clearance Sale For the next fifteen days the Keller Incubator Company will conduct their annual clearance sale of their famous Keller Incubators and 1— —ll Brooders, at the priees here named for the number of machines here mentioned, or as long as these machines last: Seventeen 120-Egg Incubators, Catalogue price >lB. While they last.>l2.M Eight 170-Egg Incubators, Catalogue price |22.00 15.00 Five 200-Egg Incubators, Catalogue price >25.00 18.75 Six 100-Chick Broders, Catalouge price >12.00. While they last at .. 7.50 Four 200-Chick Brooders, Catalogue price >16.00 10.60 One 300-Chick Brooder, Catalogue price >20.00 14J0 The above prices are for the machines here mentioned, and we make these bargain prices for the purpose of getting things shaped up for eur next years product, which we hope to be able to begin the manufacturing of by the time these 15 days are up. Now is your opportunity to get one of these famous Keller Incubators and Brooders at prices that cannot be equalled anywhere for a high class machine. These prices are good only for the time above stated, or while this number of machines lasts. Each and every machine guaranteed new and to be as represented. Address all orders to The Keller Incubator Company, Decatur. Indiana, U. S. A.

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SEE Haefling & Ernst FOR ALL KINDS OF Electric Wiring WORK GUARANTEED LOST—A light green purse with si*' teen dollars and small change, between seventh and Madison street If found please return to Mrs. John Rice and receive reward.