Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1908 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sun day, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier $5.09 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Single copies 2 cents Hrerllsing rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffioe at Decatur, Indiana as second class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. IN A SOCIAL WAY (Continued from page 1.) today, "The Serious Problem Which Confronts the People of the gbuth.” How can the negro be governed and controlled? Each member had a splendid subtopic which was to bear on the lesson. This week’s meeting was very interesting and greatly enjoyed. Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner delightfully entertained the Ladies’ Aid society of the Evangelical church Thursday the entire day. The ladies worked during the morning hours, until noon, when an elegant dinner was served. The afternoon was spent in a business and social session. The ladies of the Thimble club were charmingly entertained by Mrs. Roy Archbold this afternoon at her home on Monroe street. The afternoon passed by swiftly, for needle work was the chief occupation. Light refreshments were served by the hostess. There were no outside guests. Mrs. John Fleming pleasantly entertained a small company at a twelve o’clock dinner Thursday noon in honor of several guests.

• R ot,pw ta U U UUU UU vb lib Ob] UUilu I have for sale eight head of full blood Duroc-Jersey sows, bred to the best boars to be found in the country. No left overs—all good individually. Prices are right. Come and see these hogs at the old Studabaker farm, just east of Decatur, or write or phone for further information. D. E. STUDABAKER, Prop. Phone No. 300 R. R. No. 3, Decatur

The Racket Store — 10,0000 PACKAGES— Os all kinds of Fresh Seeds from'L. G. May & Co., has been received by us for this seasons business. ONLY I CENT PER PACKAGE Think of it and don’t pay Five Cents for them when we sell them for such a low price. DO THEY GROW? Never mind that. If they hadn’t we could not sell a double amount each year, All we ask is : for you to try jyst one pockage, if no more. REMEMBER THE PLACE THE RACKET STORE Steele & Weaver.

A RECRUIT FROM INDIANA. By Alpheus Roop, Now a Member of F Battery Sixth U. S. A. Once upon a midnight dreary, • After hikiug tired and weary, | Thro the jungles and rice swamps with the water to his belt, A recruit from Indiana, Supping on one lone banana Thought sadly of his boyhood home, And soon upon the ground he knelt Hard he cursed himself and roundly; Deeply, fervently and soundly Cursed the luck that cast his lot upon distant Mindinnos shore. i And he swore that while life lasted He’d eternally be blasted If ever again a khaki uniform and a service kit he wore. J I Never, never, never more. I I Back in Adams now they re courting And the fellows all are sporting In thiMr Sunday clothes cavorting at the annual county fair; While out here, we’re being shot at By a foe that can't be got at; i When we think that we have got him Mr. Gu Gu is not there. 'lf I ever get this hitch in ■ I'll hang this hat upon a peg and with it I’ll give over Every thought of martial glory The recruiting sergeant’s story Will never rope your truly in the army any more. Never, never, never more. o— ATTENTION, FARMERS—We have on hand to retail some good brood mares and a few colts broke to work I anywhere and if you are in need of a horse, call at our barn on First street and look over our horses. We will regularly keep on hand for retail at all times between our regular sales, a good consignment of farm mares, colts , and general purpose horses, and if you are in need of a horse for any purpose call and see us. Decatur Horse Sale Co. 54-9 t

WORK IS COMPLETE Jack Schwab Moves the Gang of Standard Oil Workmen TO NEAR LIMA, OHIO Will Soon Finish One of the Biggest Jobs of Pipe Laying on Record Jack Schwab, the Standard Oil company's field manager, who has had charge of the construction of a new line of pipe from Illionis to Pennsylvania, left last evening for the east, having completed the work in this county. The final connections were made in Blue Creek township yesterday, the entire territory where the men were working being under water but this in no wise stopped them. Today the camp was loaded on a special train at Willshire and taken to a point fifteen miles east of Lima, where they will start on the last string of pipe on the big job> My. Schwab’s orders were that he have the work completed by April 20th and he is going to do it easily, though at first, the task was predicted by many to be impossible. He has had from six to ten squads of men, 200 in each gang, at work constantly and have overcome many and various difficulties. o . EAT WHAT YOU WANT. Science Has Now Found the True Way to Cure Indigestion. The first thing to do in the case of indigestion or stomach weakness is to strengthen the muscular walls of the stomach and int. stines, so that they will care for the food that is eaten. In no other way can this be done as well as by taking a Mi-o-na tablet before each meal. This restores strength to the stomach muscles and stimulates the pouting out of gastric juices, so that the food digests readily and its nourishment is retained in the system to build up energy and vitality. Use Mi-o-na and you will have no more sick headache, heartbum, bad taste in the mouth, coated tongue, spots before the eyes, sleeplessness and the many other symptoms that are the direct result of indigestion. Holthouse Drug Co. gives with every 50-cent box of Mi-o na a guarantee to refund the money unless the remedy cures. o SURPRISED HIM. F. A. Estes, Wyandotte, Ky., says: “My hogs were so sick they could not eat and they were all scouring very badly I gave them Bourbon Hog Cholera Remedy and to my surprise it cured them without a loss.’’ Sold and guaranteed by Holthouse Drag Co.. Decatur, Ind. o DEMOCRAT WANT ADS. PAY BIG

NEW AMERICAN INDUSTRY. Invention Makes Possible Establishment of Linen Mills Here That Will Save Large Part of the $20,000,000 Now Spent Abroad Every Year For This Fabric. Since Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin there has been no development in the textile industry more important than the discovery of a process of linen making commercially practicable under American labor conditions. The earlier Massachusetts inventor’s problem was the separation of the cotton seed from the fiber. The problem that has now been solved by another Massachusetts genius, B. C. Mudge, was much more complicated. He had to find away to wrest the linen fiber from the flax straw’, clean it of its woody envelope, remove the natural gums of the piant. bleach the fiber, clean and make it ready for spinning. As this work is done in the European countries by methods that have changed little in the past 2,000 years, it takes from sixteen to thirty weeks to transform flax into linen. The Mudge process in actual commercial operation does the same work in twelve hours! Americans have been paying Europe over $20,000,000 a year for linen because the expense of old world methods of making this fabric is prohibitive with the higher priced labor of the United States. The Oxford linen mills of Boston, that now have absolute control of the Mudge process, will change all this. They can not only save from sixteen to thirty weeks of time, but get more fiber from a give— amount of straw after the seed crop has been harvested. The “scutching” of the straw is done by machines and the remaining treatment of the flax by chemicals. From the date of Whitney’s invention the cotton Industry has grown until its product is now valued at $500,000,000 a year. The Oxford linen mills are now founding another colossal textile industry. Using a raw material that costs less than one-third as much as cotton and with the economies of production brought about by the new process, these mills are only the pioneers of many that will soon be turning out linens of every grade with which the foreign product cannot compete. Work is beiug rapidly pushed on the equipment of mills at several points, and orders are being taken for early delivery of their product. The great New York house of 11. B. Claflin & Co. in giving an order the other day for 25,QU0 yards of linen crash told the representatives of the Oxford mills, “If you can furnish goods like this, you need seek no other market, as we will take all you can manufacture.” PROGRESS OF SCHOOL CITY. President Roosevelt One Supporter oi New Plan to Teach Good Government In Public Schools. Lyman Beecher Stowe in the current number of the Circle tells th# story of the School City, originated by Wilson L. Gill as a method of student self government, which has spread until there Is today a School City in practically every state, with some 400 or more in the entire country. Mr. Stowe says: “The School City method is applied by the establishing in schools of miniature democracies modeled as closely as is practicable upon our state and city governments. “It has two important purposes—first to teach the children to ’-govern and discipline themselves under super vision and again to supplement their text book instruction in the theories of civil government by showing them the governmental machine in actual operation, in which operation they are one and all active parts, with a work to do and a responsibility to share. “Mr. Gill is the president of the Patriotic league, an organization formed primarily to give moral support to the cause of civic education. President Roosevelt, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Jacob Riis and many other able, distinguished and patriotic men are now on his board- Mr. Gill in financing tliis work practically alone has been reduced from the luxury of wealth to the pinch of poverty. Now that the movement has been tried iu the balance and has not been found wanting is it not time that public spirited men came to the rescue? “When we realize that our corrupt and boss ridden cities are the feature of our democracy which has proved most nearly a failure, can we as Americans allow oue man longer to fight almost single handed a battle the outcome of which is of such vital concern to our entire republic?” Any one interested in the School City can reach Mr. Gill by addressing him in care of the Circle. French Government Adopts American Idea. The order just issued by the French minister of posts and telegraphs that letters may be telegraphed at night for a nominal charge, to be delivered at destination by mail, is an adaptation of the scheme announced two months ago by the Telepost. This company, whose plans for the establishment of a national telegraph system are going rapidly forward, will transmit fifty word “teleposts” for 25 cents between any two points on Its lines. Its rate for telegrams delivered by messenger is twenty-five words for 25 cents without regard to distance. , A method of bluing small steel goods by dipping is to melt saltpeter In an iron pot, then immerse the previously polished and cleaned articles until sufficiently blued. Remove and cool at once in paraffin oil and afterward dry out in sawdust

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G. A. R. GAINS IN NUMBERS. Notwithstanding the Big Death Rate Among the Veterans. Notwithstanding the death rate among civil war veterans has been greater the report of Col. John R. Fesler, adjutant general oi the Indiana G. A. R. for the year 1907, will show that the posts of the state have gained in membership to the extent of thirty men over the number of 1906. A report complied from reports of posts for the last six months of 1907, by Emma K. Stuart, chief clerk of the department, shows that tb.er e are 377 posts in the state, with 14,045 members. During the six months ten posts were lost and two were gained. The total gain in membership was

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872 and the total loss 857, a net gain for the six months of 15. The total receipts of the posts for the six months was $75,732.78, and the total disbursements amounted to $lO,316.74. cash balance on hand among the various posts at the end of the year was $65,416.04. The total relief expense for the six months was $1,081.59. The total value of property owned by the posts of the state is $113,230.80. Three hundred G. A. R. veterans died during the last six months of 1907. About six hundred members in all died during the year. Mrs. C. D. Smith, of Portland, who has been the guest of her mother, Mrs. C. R. Hammell for some time, returned to her home this afternoon.

TO ARTIFICIAL ICE USERS. The Decatur Packing Co. will make artificial ice and will either furnish the same direct to their patrons, or through some one authorized by them.

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