Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1909 — Page 4

SOCIAL COLUMN Mrs. M. E. Brackett Will Entertain Friday Afternoon SOCIETY IS BUSY C. W. B. M. Society of Christian Church to Meet Thursday Invitations have been issued by Mrs. M. E. Brackett for an afternoon party next Fridaj’ at her home on Madison street

The Historical Club will meet with Mrs. M. Burns on Third and Adams streets this evening to continue their study of the Bible. Mrs. Peterson will read the paper on Paul's letter to the Galatians. The sub-topics are “Purpose and Scope of the Letter,*’ “Relation of Jesus and Gentiles to the Church," and "True Liberty of the Gcspel.” Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan and Miss Hattie Studabaker will go to Fort V. ayne today, where they will attend a party to be given by Judge and Mrs. W. J. Vesey in honor of Miss Tillie Mienhardt, of 3t. Louis.

There will be a stereopticon lecture given at the Calvary church Saturday evening. Feb. 13th, by the Rev. W. D Thomas. His subject “A Trip Around the World in Eighty Days,” and ‘ Ten Nights in the Bar Room.” The regular meeting of the C. B. L. of I. will be held at their hall tonight. All members are requested to be present by order of Chas. Pennington. The C. W. B. M. Society of the Christian church will meet Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Arthur Fisher on Fourth street. Al’, members are requested to be present. Mrs. Lula A. Barton, district manager of Fort Wayne, will preside over the meeting and will also deliver a brief address to the members. Mrs. Eugene Runyon will entertain the members of the Young Peoples' Alliance of the Evangelical church at her home this evening. Playing games and interesting contests will be the amusements. The anniversary of Mrs. Lorina Nifone’s one hundredth birthday was appropriately celebrated at Bourbon, and the friends and relatives have returned to their homes. J. R. Freeman the Methodist minister at Pleasant Mills, is a nephew of Mrs. Nifone, and attended the reunion. Mrs. Nifone is a pioneer resident.and can remember when this state was a vast forest, Indians hunting and wandering through the woods. She has seen the first villages started and seen them grow to hustling cities, the land cleared and railroads built. Although born In eighteen hundred and nine, Mrs. Nifone at her one hundredth birthday is still hale and hearty.

CHEER UP Dono’t feel downhearted simply because you lack ready money. You can borrow what money you need on your household goods, pianos, horses, wagons, fixtures, etc. You can have from one to twelve months’ time in which to pay it back. Our contracts a l- * simple and ail transactions are clean cut and private. $1.20 per week for 50 weeks pays a $50.00 loan. AU amounts in uropcrtion. If you need money fill out the following blank, cut it out and mail it <to us. Our agent will be In Decatur every Tuesday. Name Address Am’t Wanted Kind of Security Reliable Private Ft. Warns Loan Company. Established 1896, Room 2, Second floor, 706 Caihound street. j Home Phone 833. 1 Fort Wayne, Ind 5

COURT HOUSE NEWS (Continued from page 2.) Sheriff Meyer has issued to B. W. Sholty a certificate of sale for a piece of realty bought tn the case of Sholty vs. Mary E. McGath. Michael Miller has been appointed guardian of Otto and Milo Baumgartner. minor heirs of Libby Baumgartner deceased. The Decatur Cemetery Association has given a warranty deed to Lovina Osborn. Also John Mosser et al to Noah Moser 110 acres in Hartford township. Auditor Michaud has issued a call for the county commissioners to meet tomorrow to sign macadam road bends, and to appoint inspectors for the local option election.

DICK LOOKS GOOD TO THEM. Third Ward Republicans Talking Him for Mayor. A new and a formidable candidate for republican honors in the mayoralty race is likely to appear in the Third ward. This latest candidate is Dick Townsend, manager of the National hotel. Republican leaders believe he will be a strong candidate with all classesof the party. He is liberal enough, has energy and public spirit and is just the man the Third ward republicans have ben seeking. He was waited upon Saturday evening by a committee and did not give a decisive answer, but it is believed he can be induced to make the race. There are republicans in the Third ward who believe Townsend could win not only in the primary race, but the race against John D. Carey for the office itself, without an effort on his part.—Peoria, Ills., Transcript.

OBITUARY. The funeral services of Albert William Stahley were held Saturday morning, Feb. 6, 1909 at the Missionary church west of Berne. The German sermon was preached by his pastoi. Rev. O. P. Vitz, and the English sermon by Rev. H. H. Kattman. Rev. F. J. Crabill read the Scripture lesson and led in prayer. Albert was bom at Linn Grove. Ind., January 16, 1873, and died at the home of his mother, February 3, 1909. His father and a sister preceded him in death while his mother, three brothers and two sisters and a host of friends mourn his departure. He united with the Reformed church at Newville on March 27, 1891, and remained a member until death. After six years of battling against disease the grim reaper of death released him of his suffering. Though the siege was long and the suffering great, he bore his affliction with resignation and Christian fortitude. Thus out of trials and affletions and from the evidence he gave one who has made his robe white in the blood of the Lamb has gone to that heavenly home beyond.—Berne Witness.

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FARM LIFE MESSAGE. President Tells of Country Needs. COMMISSION’S REPORT. More Profit and Satisfaction to Farmers Should Result From Its Work. Washington. Feb. 9. — President i Roosevelt sent to congress today 8| special message transmitting the report of the country life commission, appointed by him to investigate the conditions of life on the farms of the country and to make recommendations of ways and means whereby farm life may be made more remunerative and attractive.

In the message the president lays stress upon the fact that the farmers and their families are the stay and strength of the country and that whatever tends to make their lives less burdensome or unattractive is necessary to the Interests of the nation. He praises the work of the members of the commission, who, as he says, have labored without pay and do not now ask compensation for their work. The only recommendation in the message Is the request for an appropriation of $25,000 to enable the commission to digest the material It has collected and put it In such shape that It will be available for the nation. In an appendix to the message, preceding the report of the commission, the president comments on the replies made by a Missouri farmer to the questions asked by the commission. “To the question, ‘ls the supply of farm labor In your neighborhood satisfactory?’ the answer is, 'No, because the people have gone out of the baby business,’ and when asked as to the remedy he answers, ‘Give a pention to every mother who gives birth to seven living boys on American soli.'” The president's message Is as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith the report of the commission on country life. At the outset I desire to point out that not a dollar of the public money has been paid to any commissioner for his work on the commission. The report shows the general condition of farming life In the open country and points out its larger problems. It Indicates ways In which the government, national and state, may show the people how to solve some of these problems, and It suggests a continuance of the work which the commission began. Methods of the Commission.

Judging by thirty public hearings, to which farmers and farmers’ wives from forty states and territories came, and from 120,000 answers to printed questions sent out by the department of agriculture, the commission finds that the general level of country life is high compared with any preceding time or with any other land. If It has In recent years slipped down in some places, it has risen in more places. Its progress has been general, If not uniform. Yet farming does not yield either the profit or the satisfaction that it ought to yield and may be made to yield. There is discontent in the country and in places discouragement. Farmers as a class do not magnify their calling, and the movement to the towns, though, I am happy to say, less than formerly, Is still strong. How Farmers Can Help Themselves. Under our system it is helpful to promote discussion of ways In which the people can help themselves. There are three main directions in which the farmers can help themselves—namely, better farming, better business and better living on the farm. The national department of agriculture, which has rendered services equaled by no other similar department in any other time or place; the state departments of agriculture, the state colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts, especially through their extension work; the state agricultural experiment stations, the Farmers’ union, the grange, the agricultural press and other similar agencies have all combined to place within the reach of the American farmer an amount and quality of agricultural information which if applied would enable him over large areas to double the production of the farm.

The object of the commission on country life, therefore, is not to help the farmer raise better crops, but to call his attention to the opportunities for better business and better living on the farm. If country life is to become what it should be and what I believe it ultimately will be—one of the most dignified, desirable and sought after ways of earning a living—the farmer must take advantage not only of the agricultural knowledge which is at his disposal, but of the methods which have raised and continue to

raise the standards of living and of intelligence In other callings. Those engaged in ail other industrial and commercial callings have found it tie essary under modern economic conditions to organise themselves for mutual advantage and for the protection of their own particular interests tn relation to other interests. The farmers of every progressive European country hare realised this essential fact and have found In the co- • peratfve system exactly the form of business combination they need. Now. whatever the state may do toward Improving the practice of agriculture, it is not within the sphere of any government to reorganize the farmers’ business or reconstruct the social life of farming communities. It Is, however, quite within its power to use Its Influence and the machinery of publicity which it can control for calling public attention to the needs and the facts. For example, it IB the obvious duty of the government to can the attention of farmers to the growing monopolization of water power The farmers, above all. should have that power, on reasonable terms, for cheap transportation, for lighting their homes and for innumerable uses to the dally tasks on the farm. Farmers' Own Work Needed.

It would be Idle to assert that life on the farm occupies as good a position In dignity, desirability and bust ness results as the farmers might easily give It if they chose. One of the chief difficulties is the failure of country life as it exists at present to satisfy the higher social and intellectual aspirations of country people. Whether the constant draining away of so much of the best elements In the rural population into the towns is due chiefly to this cause or to the superior business opportunities of city life may be open to question. But no one at all familiar with farm life throughout the United States can fall to recognize the necessity for building up the life of the farm upon its social as well as upon its productive side. It is true that country life has improved greatly in attractiveness, health and comfort and that the farmer’s earnings are higher than they were. But city life is advancing even more rapidly because of the greater attention which Is being given by the citizens of the towns to their own betterment For Just this reason the Intro duction of effective agricultural co operation throughout the United States is of the first importance. Where farmers are organized co-operatively they not only avail themselves much more readily of business opportunities and improved methods, but It is found that the organizations which bring them together in the work of their lives are used also for social and intellectual advancement

The co-operative plan is the best plan of organization wherever men have the right spirit to carry it out. Under this plan any business undertaking is managed by a committee. Every man has one rote and only one vote, and every one gets profits according to what he sells or buys or supplies. It develops individual responsibility and has a moral as well as a financial value over any other plan. Farmers’ Problems the Whole Country’s I desire only to take counsel with the farmers as fellow citizens. It is not the problem of the farmers alone that I am discussing with them, but a problem which affects every city as well as every farm In tbo country. It is a problem which the working farmers will have to solve for themselves, but it is a problem which also affects in only less degree all the rest of us, and therefore if we can render any help toward Its solution it is not only our duty but our interest to do so.

The foregoing will, I hope, make it clear why I appointed a commission to consider problems of farm life which have hitherto had far too little attention and the neglect of which has not only held back life in the country, but also lowered the efficiency of the whole nation. The welfare of the farmer is of vital consequence to the welfare of the whole community. The strengthening of country life, therefore, is the strengthening of the whole nation. The commission has tried to help the farmers to see clearly their own problem and to see it as a whole, to distinguish clearly between what the government can do and what the farmers must do for themselves, and It wishes to bring not only the farmers, but the nation as a whole, to realize that the growing of crops, though an essential part, is only a part of country life. Crop growing is the essential foundation, but it is no less essential that the farmer shall get an adequate return for what he grows, and it is no less essential—indeed, it is literally vital—that he and his wife and his children shall lead the right kind of life. For this reason it is of the first Importance that the United States department of agriculture, through which as prime agent the ideas the commission stands for must reach the people, should become without delay in fact a department of country life, fitted to deal not only with crons, hut also with all the larger aspects of life in the open country.

Three Needs of Country Life. From all that has been done and learned three great general and immediate needs of country life stand out: i First.—Effective co-operation among farmers to put them on a level with the organized interests with which they do business. Second.—A new kind of schools in the country, which shall teach the children as much outdoors as Indoors, and perhaps more, so that they will prepare for country life and not, as at present, mainly for life In town. Third.—Better means of communication, including good roads and a parcels post, which the country people'

are everywhere, and rightly, unanimous in demanding. To these may well be added sanitation, for easily preventable diseases hold several million country people in the slavery of continuous II health. Organization Is Necessary. The commission points out—and I concur In the conclusion—that the most Important help that the govern ment whether national or state, can give is to show the people how to go about these tasks of organization, education and communication with the best and quickest results. This can be done by the collection and spread of information. One community can thus be informed of what other communities have done and one country of what other countries have done. Such help by the people's government would lead to a comprehensive plan of organization, education and cnmmnnlratton and make the farming country better to live in, for Intellectual and social reasons as well as for purely agricultural reasons. The government through the department of agriculture does not cultivate any man’s farm for him, but it does put at his service useful knowledge that he would not otherwise get. In the same way the national and state governments might put into the people’s hands the new and right knowledge of school work. The task of maintaining and developing the schools would remain, as now, with the people themselves. Money For Expenses Asked.

The only recommendation I submit is that an appropriation of $25,000 be provided to enable the commission to digest the material it has collected and to collect and to digest much more that is within its reach and thus complete its work. This would enable the commission to gather to the harvest of suggestion which is resulting from the discussion It has stirred up. The commissioners have served with out compensation, and. I do not recommend any appropriation for their services, but only for the expenses that will be required to finish the task that they have begun. To Improve our system of agriculture seems to me the most urgent of the tasks which lie before us. But it cannot, in my judgment, be effected by measures which touch only the material and technical side of the subject. The whole business and life of the farmer must also be taken into account. Such considerations led me to appoint the commission on country life. Our object should be to help develop to the country community the great ideals of community life as well as of personal character. One of the most important adjuncts to this end must be the country church, and I invite your attention to what the commission says of the country church and of the need of an extension of such work as that of the Young Men’s Christian association in country communities. Let me lay special emphasis upon what the commission says at the very end of its report on personal ideals and local leadership. Everything resolves Itself in the end into the question of personality. Neither society nbr government can do much for country life unless there Is voluntary response in the personal Ideals of the men and women who live in the country. Plea For Farmers’ Wives. In the development of character the home should be more important than the school or than society at large. When once the basic material needs have been met, high ideals may be quite Independent of income, but they cannot be realized without sufficient income to provide adequate foundation, and where the community at large is not financially prosperous it is impossible to develop a high average personal and community ideal. In short, the fundamental facts of human nature apply to men and women who live in the country just as they apply to men and women who lire in the towns. Given a sufficient foundation of material well being. the influence of the farmers and farmers' wives on their children be- | comes the factor of first Importance in determining the attitude of the next generation toward farm life. The farmer should realize that the person who most needs consideration on the farm is his wife. Ido not in the least mean that she should purchase ease at the expense of duty. Neither man nor woman is really happy or really useful save on condition of doing his or her duty. If the woman shirks her duty as housewife, as home keeper, as the mother whose prime function it Is to bear and rear a sufficient number of healthy children, then she is not entitled to our regard. But if she does her duty she is more entitled to our regard even than the man who does his duty, and the man should show special consideration for her needs. I warn my countrymen that the great recent progress made to city life is not a full measure of our civilization, for our civilization rests at bottom on the wholesomeness, the attractiveness and the completeness as well as the prosperity of life to the country. The men and women on the farms stand for what is fundamentally best and most needed in our American life. Upon the development of country life rests ultimately our ability by meth- | ods of farming requiring the highest i intelligence to continue to feed and

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c-KETth? hungry the city with fresh blood, clean tsxMes and clear brains that can emtore the terrific strain of modern life. We need thedeveiopment of men in the open rountrv. who will be in the future, as tn the pash the stay and strength the nation in time of war and its guiding and controlling spirit in time of peaC< ‘' THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The White House. Feb. 9. 1900PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer at public sale at Ins nome 2% miles north of Decatur, beginning at 10:00 o’clock a. m Thursday, FVb. 18. IW9. the following property, to-wlt. Horses, Cattle, Hogs: Horses— One bay work team. 1 bay ccach horse, gelding 4 years old. lady broke; T bar general purpose mare 4 ear old. 2 two-year-old colts, gen eral purpose; 1 yearling mare colt, sired by the famous True Worth. Cattle—One Jersey cow, T years old, giving milk; 1 dark red cow 5 years old. giving milk; 1 red Durham cow 3 years old. giving milk; 1 roau Durham cow 5 years old, will be fresh in March: 1 Jersey cow 4 years old. w ill be fresh in March: 1 Jersey heifer 2% years old. will b efresb in March; 1 full bloded Durham heler 2 years old. will be fresh in July; 1 Durham bull calf, one year old.

Sheep—Eight head of fine Shropshire ewese. Hogs—One full bloded O. I. C. sow,. will farrow Ist of .April; 1 full blood- j ed O. I. C. boar. 1 year old; 5 full bloded 0. I. C. shoa» weighing about T) lbs; 1 full bloded Duroc-Jersey sow, will farrow the last of March. Implements —One farm wagon and bed, 1 Buckeye fertilizer disc drill, i good as new; I John Deere riding i breaking plow, used on eseason; 1 i walking breaking plow, 1 check row- J er corn planter, 1 good land roller. ; 1 2-horse hay rake, 1 self binder and ; mowing machine, 1 2-horse com plow, i 1 double shovel plow, 1 hovel plow, 1 bobsled, 1 lever spring tooth harrow,: 2 spike tooth harrows, 1 top buggy j and harness. 1 corn sheller, 1 large ccpper kettle, 1 iron kettle, 1 emery grindstone. 1 grindstone, 1 10-gal!on churn, 1 grain cradle, 1 heating stove, I coal oil cook stove. 1 coal oil Seating stove, 1 good parlor organ (very goodl. Poultry—Turkeys, ene full blooded Bronze tom. 3 firtl blooded Bronze hens and 3 ful blooded young turkeys. Chickens, six dozen laying hens, mostly R. I. R-. 1 R. I. R. eock. Grain—2oo btt. selected Big Four s#ed oats, also one pair dump boards, and many other article. If weather is bad sale will be held inside, and hot coffee will be served free. Free lunch. Terms —$5.00 an dunder cash on day of sale; over $5.00 a credit of nine months time will be given to purchaser who gives approved security. 4% per cent discount for cash. ED LUTTMANN. John Spuhler, John Singleton, Auct.

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer for pub-1 lie sale at his home 1 mile southeast! of Steele and 5 miles south of Pleas-I ant Mills, beginning at 10:00 o’clock a. m., Thursday, Feb. 11, 1909, the fol- | lowing property, to-wit: Horses, Cat-1 tie. Hogs—One brood mare, 14 years old, in foal, 1 brood mare 9 yearsl old in foal, 1 yearling Coach marel solt, 1 Belgium mare colt One cow. | 8 years old, will be fresh in May, 1 ' cow 7 years old, will be fresh in March, 1 cow 3 years old, will be fresh in April. On brood sow, will, farrow in April, 6 shoats, will weigh ; about 50 pounds each. Implements—One two-horse wagon. I good as new, 1 spring wagon, 1 end gate scoop board. 1 combination wagon bed and hog rack. 1 Oliver breaking plow. 1 Clipper com plow, 1 double shovel plow, 1 60-Bplke-tooth harrow, 1 clod masher, 1 corn shelter, 1 pair mud boat runners, 1 double set work harness, 1 grindstone ,1 ball barb wine, about SO bushels of selected seed oats, some seed com, I washing machine. 1 good rat dog and dog house, about 3 dozen R. I. Red chickens, a few full blooded R. I. rosters, about 10 dozen mixed chickens, a 200-egg incubator, good as new, 4 tons of good hay in mow, some corn fodder. Terms —15.00 and under cash on day of sale; over >5.00 a credit of nine months’ time will be given to purchaser who gives approved security. T. A. BAKER. J. N. Burkhead, Auct. — Conker’s Roup Cure 50c. at Smith, Yager and Falk’s. Makes 25 gallons medicine. Save your fowls.

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