Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1909 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LE W G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier.... $5.00 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Single copies . 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. After all the interests get a good whack at the new tariff law, it will come about as near representing reform as John Dee might wish. After all, John Dee is not the only selfish American who feels disposed to help himself when the plate is passed ground. And we would like to know if there is hot a whole lot of buncombe about protection for the sake of the infants, and tariff for revenue for the sake of the "dear people." After all is said and done every one, no matter about his color or politics, wants to help himself. Congressman Adair has submitted to his first, interview since the special tariff session. In that nterview he makes it plain where he stands on several mportant features in the pending tariff bill. For instance he would lower the duties on many of the necessaries of life and elevate them on the luxuries. He would 1 eliminate the famous "drawback” which enables the Standard Oil com-

pcny to buy tinplate in Wales and bring it into this country without the cost of a cent in duty, thereby competing against the American laborer, "who by the way is a great stock in trade of the Republicans during campaign. Congressman Adair is right in wanting to protect the workmen of this country against the pauper labor of Wales. The ladies are butting in on this tariff making, and have notified the tariff builders that they will never stand for any increase in the duties

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on gloves or hosiery’ Well, what do you think of that! It has been the impression, for 10, these many years, 1 that the bill for gloves and hosiery is usually squared by “dad.” But if the women folks are proposing to usurp that function from the male portion i of the race and pay for their own > gloves and hose, they have a right, of 1 course, right now to begin the battle * for cheaper gloves and hose. But the i chances are they will never touch bottom. Brigadier General Aldrich will never listen to them and Brother Payne will be too busy trying to please the men folks to give any attention to the female tariff reformer. So the only thing in sight at the present time for he ladies is to let “dad” continue to foot the bills or cut a yard off the hosiery and a foot or two off the length of the fashionable glove, and thus reduce the price to within reach. —Columbia City Post. HE WILL RETIRE (Coatisaed from Page One) has been neglected, yet Dr. Wilcox has been especially successful in organizing and directing the young life of the church. The Epworth League has grown from a small organization to nearly two hundred, and the order of the Grail, a brotherhood for young men, are powerful organizations whose influence is felt throughout our city. Dr. Wilcox has the reputation of being very much interested in church politics, and has much to do with the recent elections to high positions in the church, and we predict that with his great ability as a politician, and with a powerful newspaper back of him, that he will scon represent his Michigan district in congress. While regretting to have him leave us, we wish him unbounded success in his new field of labor. — - —• — - ■■ - BERT COX DIED AT SEATTLE He Formerly Lived Here and Was a Brother of Mrs. George Patterson Bert Cox, a brother of Mrs. George Patterson of this city, and who for many years was a resident of this city, died at his late home in Seattle, Washington, on the 16th of this month. He died from hemorrhages of the lungs, it being owing to this affliction that he left here and went to the western country several years ago. At the time of his death he was a traveling representative for a big Seattle Ifind company, with whom he held a responsible position. He was a man of great influence, and was well liked by ail who knew him. The news of his death came but yesterday. o | A SPECIALIST SAYS: — “Piles Can’t Be Thoroughly Cured by Outward Treatment.” Dr. J. S. Leonhardt, of Lincoln, Neb., the celebrated specilist, who has stud j led every phase of piles, says: “Piles ■ can't be thoroughly cured by ointments, nor any other outside treat-: ment The cause is internal, and needs Internal treatment.” Dr. Leon- j hardt perfected Hem-Roid. the first' Internal pile cure. It frees circulation in the lower bowel, and has cured 98 per cent, of cases. Sold under guarantee at Holthouse Drug Co. Price sl. Dr. Leonhardt Co., Station B. Buffalo, N. Y., prop. Write for . booklet.

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THE SOCIAL NEWS Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner to Entertain the Ladies’ Aid Society THE YEOMEN LODGE Mrs. Jessie Daily to Entertain the Thimble Club The Aid Society of the Evangelical church will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner. Every member is requested to be present to help with the sewing the society is doing. A very important meeting of the Yeomen lodge was held last night at their hall. There will be twenty or more initiated next Thursday. Two candidates were taken in the order last night, Miss Carrie Daniels and Ai Burdge. A committee is preparing for an elaborate entertainment The lodge is founded on Scott’s “Ivanhoe" and the initiatory work will be very beautiful. The Thimble Club will be entertained by Mrs. Jesse Daily, Friday afternoon. The members will sstw, as usual. The Shakespeare Club will be entertained by Mrs. Samantha Dorwin Wednesday afternoon to continue the study of Mexico. The paper will be very interesting. The Historical Club will meet this evening with Mrs. P. B. Thomas at her home on Third street. Mrs. S. D. Beavers will have the paper "Letter to the Hebrews —Author and Purpose.” The paper was assigned to Mrs. Holloway, but Mrs. Beavers will read the paper instead. The work for this year is nearly completed. There are three meetings besides the one tonight. The year’s work has been profitable and a source of pleasure to all the members. The last meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Robert Allison on Adams street, April twelfth. The club has been in existence here twenty-one years.

Dan Roop, genial deputy clerk, celebrated his birthday last evening, just which one he carelessly neglected to say, but any way the guests who gathered at the Roop home in the south part of the city, enjoyed each moment of the celebration and wish it would come oftener whether Dan does or not. The guests included several of Dan’s friends and the evening was spent in playing flinch, and listening to delightful music, with a delicious luncheon to complete the pleasures, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Walters entertained at six o’clock dinner Monday evening. The guests were Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas and son Brice, and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Haubold of Evanston, 111. The Rebekah lodge will initiate a number of candidates tomorrow night. Five from one family will enter the order. The Pythian Sisters entertained at their hall last night. An elegant banquet was served in two courses by the Mesdames C. M. Hower, Charles Elzey, D. B. Erwin, Al Burdge and Fred Linn. The new members are Mesdames Charles Patton, Charles Gaines. Emerson Beavers, Charles Yager, O. J. Suman. Mrs. W. R. Dor win entertained a company of relatives and friends at twelve o’clock dinner at her home on north First street Sunday, in honor of Mrs. Katharine Thompson’s sixtyfifth birthday, and for Miss Frankye Thompson, who goes to Los Angeles soon. The dinner w-as an elaborate one served in courses. The guests were Messrs and Mesdame J. J. Longenberger of Monroe, J. A. Hendricks of Monroe. E. K. Thompson of Van Wert, A. M. Fuller of Pleasant Mills, David Flanders, Clayton Dorwjn, Charles Peterson, and Mrs. B. Dorwin, Misses Mayme Dorwin, Gertie Holthouse, Lena Holthouse, Frankye Thompson and Otto Longenberger, Clyde Hendricks. Mrs. Thompson received many remembrances from her friends. o Social functions of winter, midnight lunches, Joss of sleep tell on the health. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea clears the blood, aids digestion, relieves fatigue; makes and retains lycur health. Greatest tonic. Tea or I tablets, 35 cents. j SMITH, YAGER & FALK.

OIL PUMPER WAS BADLY HURT Frank Bussle Hurt in Working With a Gas Engine. Frank Bussle, aged about 25, married and with a family, Is confined to his home near Domestic with injures that will leave him crippled for several weeks .caused by a balky gas engine. Mr. Bussle is employed as a pumper on a lease near Domestic and was trying to start the engine when it took what is called a “back shot” that is, instead of starting as it should the big fly wheel whirled backward two or three revolutions and Bussle was caught in it. He was whipped around violently and it was fortunate for him that the wheel stopped as quickly as it did or he might have been beaten to death. It was found by a physician who was called that the bone of one leg was shattered badly and the flesh bruised and lacerated. The injuries are not thought to be dangerous but. Bussle cannot work for weeks.—Bluffton News.

A GREAT PROGRAM Northern Indiana Teachers Meeting Comes Next Week ABLE INSTRUCTORS A Great Week for the Northern Indiana Teachers The program for the Northern Indiana Teachers' meeting has been distributed among the teachers of the state. The talent includes many of the best men in the United States. The following lectures appear on the program: Dr. Brander Matthews and Dr. Frgnklin Giddings of Columbia University; Dr. Ellsworth Brown, United Commissioner of Education; Dr. Wm. Phelps of Yale University; Judge Benjamin Lindsey, Denver, Colo., and many others. Excellent music, will be furnished by Indianapolis talent and talent of other nearby cities. Since the distribution of the programs a special railroad rate of one and one-half fare for the round trip has been granted. Nontransferable tickets, good going and returning vit same route, will be sold on March 31 and April 1, and will be good for return to reach original starting point not later than April 5, 1909. All the leading hotels of the city are offering special rates. One ticket entitles a person to attend either the northern or southern session, or a person can attend parts of each session for the price of one ticket (50 cents). The city teachers have already made full arrangements to attend these meetings. It is to be hoped that many other teachers in the county will join their ranks and help to make this the largest association of teachers ever held in Indianapolis. WM. BEACHLER.

AMERICAN PLAY “’MONTANA” FRIDAY. An event that is creating a great deal of interest is the engagement of Henry D. Carry’s splendid American play “Montana” at the opera house on Friday, March 26. The phenomenal success of “Montana” the past four seasons attests not only to its popularity out its merit as a play. It is conceded by eminent critics to be one of the few great western plays and is classed with. “Arizona,” “The Girl of the Golden West,” “The Squaw Man.” etc. After witnessing a performance the reason is very evident. Mr. Carrey has displayed rare knowledge of the west and ns ways and given us a play redolent of the range, as broad as its prairies and as strong and rugged as its mountains. The characters are all human beings, not the swash buckling, pistol flourishing fire eaters of the conventional western melodrama. Although “Montana” does not depend for its success upon masses of painted canvas or startling mcchan ical effects, yet the carload of scenery and properties carried by this production is a triumph of scene painters art. This is especially true of the settling of the third act. As the curtain rises a gulch in the Rocky Mountains is disclosed, in all its imposing grandeur, bathed in the deep blue rays of a fall moon. So wonderfully realistic and imposing is the effect produced that one almost forgets that somewhere in this silent place little Flo has been carried by her abductors and that somewhere in the rock}- vastness to the westward, Jim is struggling desperately wounded to her rescue.

IN CIRCUIT COURT Gallmeyer Closed at Noon — Arguments to Be Heard April 6th A WILL PROBATED A Marriage License Issued —The Yoder Forgery Case Thursday The Gallmeyer case closed at 11:10 this morning, so far as the testimony is concerned and Judge Macy fixed April 6th as the day when he will hear the arguments of the attorneys. Both sides withdrew their requests for special findings, thus simplifying matters considerably. The cause requred eight days to complete the offer of evidence. Delilah J. Butler vs. Margaret and Henry Mayer, trespass, before special Judge J. C. Sutton, cause continued by agreement, reset for trial on April 15th. , The Noah Yoder forgery case is set for trial here Thursday and will likely create considerable interest. The last will and testament of Mary Price was probated. By the terms thereof, it is provided that all debts and funeral expenses be fully paid, that a suitable monument be erected at the grave of deceased and husband, the cost not to exceed fifty dollars. Mrs. Price gives to her son William C. Brown, ( the enlarged picture and frame of her brother Jesse Mullenix, and to her daughter, Catherine Rudolph,the enlarged picture with frame of her former home, and also all her wearing apparel left at her death. Her other property is all bequeathed to her husband. The will was written December 2, 1908, and witnessed by Erma Bucher and Katie Butcher.

Jacob Schwartz, who was born in France sixty-seven years ago, and now lives in Monroe township, in this county, has been granted a license to wed Mary Moser, aged forty, of Hartford township. The groom has been married twice before, while this is the bride's first venture. o NOTICE TO BIDDERS. Notice is hereby given that the Common Council in and for the City of Decatur, Ind., will at their council room in said city, on the 6th day of April, 1909, up to 7 o’clock p. m. receive sealed bids for the furnishing of two steel water tube boilers of four hundred horse power each for use in the Decatur water and light plant, each bid must be accompanied by a certified check in sum of five hundred dollars, payable to the City of Decatur, as evidence of good faith of bidder. The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. The plans and specifications for said boilers are on file in the city clerk's office. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said city, this 23rd day of March, 1909. OSWALD B. WEMHOFF, 2twtoApr6 City Clerk. ——o ADAMS CO. BOYS LOOK HERE The superintendent of farmers’ institutes, Mr. Latta, wants the boys of Adams county to organize some corn clubs. Can we have one or two boys clubs? As many boys from 12 to 20 years old who want to be better farmers than their fathers are, | who are willing to undertake to raise a little patch of corn all alone by ycurselves, and who will report at qur institute next winter. Drop me a postal card this week. The membership fee will be 15 cents and a number of good prizes will be given. If we get ten boys we will start a club. If I hear from that many I will let you know what next. These clubs are being organized all over the state, and Adams county boys ought not to be behind. Come on- C. S. MOMMA, R. R. No. 12, Decatur.

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