Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1909 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LE W G. ELL INGH A M. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 ceats Per year, by carrier 15.00 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. This is bum prosperity. Every day comes the announcement of a cut in wages at some of the large manufacturing plants of the country, and to add to the gloom the railroads are reducing their forces and cutting wages. At Huntington many of the employees of the shops have been laid off. Come on now, President Taft, and give us something more substantial. . ■ Ai'.CjS Senator Beveridge is just out of the hospital. His return to health is welcomed by a horde of the boys who are after a government snap with little or nothing to do, and big pay. Unlike Governor Marshall, the senator will listen to their tale of woe and see to it that part of them are made happy, while the other half will have their axes ground good and sharp. Congress and the special interests

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are still fighting it out, both wanting the best of the argument, and what is more important, the interests want something that counts more than argument —they want the tariff schedules to be high, that combination may be the more easily manipulated for the common good of the few engaged in that particular industry. In other words, the infants have grown to the point that they themselves can figure out what they want, and hades to every one who tries to keep them from getting it. Mighty husky individuals are those tender infants we have nursed for so long. OPEN AT NOON AND EVENINGS Beginning April 19th the county treasurer’s office will be open at seven o’clock in the morning, and will remain open until eight o'clock in the evening. This is done for the accommodation of those who cannot come in the regular office hours. ts L. F. LACHOT, Treasurer. o COSTUMER TO DEALER. Costume-: My chickens are dying while apparently in good health. They are fat and have red combs. Rapid Remedy Co.: Feed the Rapid Cholera Remedy and Egg Producer in chop feed for awhile and nothing else and your chickens will be all right. For sale at Smith, Yager & Falk, the druggists, in 25c. and 50c. packages and |2.50 pails. o PAY FOR YOUR PAPER All persons who take papers are requested to pay each month. We must settle and consequently have to have the money. Please arrange for this at once. City News Co., Lee Stults. Mgr. 78-3 t

THE SOCIAL NEWS Mrs. Fanny Colo Entertains the Bridge Whist Club A SURPRISE PARTY Mrs. H. R. Mol'tz to Entertain at Euchre—Other Society Items Mrs. Gus Reinking will be hostess at the regular monthly meeting of the Aid Society of the German Lutheran church this afternoon, at her home on west Marshall street. The Bridge Whist Club met last evening witn Mrs. Fanny Cole at her home on Madison street, and the usual delightful hour is the report. Mrs. Cole also entertained the ThimMe Club during the afternoon, and the guests announce a pleasant event. Mrs. H. R. Moltz will be the hostess for the Euchre Club tomorrowevening, at her home on Fourth street. This is one of the clubs of the city where a good time is always a safe forecast. A surprise party was given last night by the neighbors for Miss Etta Brandyberry who leaves tomorrow for Terre Haute, for a three months’ term in the State Normal. Miss Effie Patton invited the neighbors and several other friends to the home of Charles Pennington. Prom there they went to the Brandyberry home and completely surprised Etta. The guests were amply entertained by engaging in a taffy pulling.

Miss Margaret Mills will entertain the Queen Esthers Saturday afternon at the regular meeting. Miss Lucile Hale will have charge of the program and devotional exercises. The girls are studying “The Corral of the Waters” now’, and are gaining much benefit from the book. Misses Neva Brandyberry and Florence Meyers will render a piano duet Miss Margaret Bell will sing a solo, and Miss Reba Quinn will give an instrumental solo. The entertainment at the close of the study period will be an interesting contest. Mrs. French Quinn and Mrs. J. S. Peterson entertained last night at the home of the latter at a class reunion party. The guests were all members of the graduating class of 1891. They were very pleasantly entertained by talking over old times in their school days. Photographs were brought taken at that time, which were very interesting. The seniors of 1891 will always be the best of friends, as they were in the old school days. The members of the class are Mrs. Mary Gratner Right, of Chicago, in whose honor the affair was given and the Misses Laura Alban, Nellie Shrock, Stella Vore, Mesdames C. L. W’alters, Nellie Oakes, Dick Townsend, John Peterson. French Quinn, L. A. Graham, Hugh Miller.

CHANGE AT PARK G. W. Styles New Landlord at the Park Hotel - HAS TAKEN CHARGE He Assumed Control Today—The Hams Will Leave Decatur A deal was closed yesterday morning which makes G. W. Styles of North Manchester, Indiana., the new > proprietor of the Park Hotel, He Is ; a brother to Mrs. M. A. Ham, wife of the former manager. Years of experience in the hotel business in • Missouri has well fitted Mr. Styles • for the business, and he is well able , to handle the work. He assumed control of the hotel today. Mr. Styles and his wife will move here soon. M A. Ham, who retires from the I business, has made no definite plans I for the future, but he will leave the I city, which Decatur people will reIgret to have him do. Gaining Mr. | Styles as an enterprising citizen is la good thing for Decatur, and he will |no doubt make a success of the business.

"Two unlucky thieves” was the title of the show at the Grand last night. By special request it will be repeated tonight. It is the funniest show ever put on by this house and should be seen' by all. Another interesting reel will also be given in connection with it Good music by Miller and Fristoe. The traveling auditor, who will check out George W. Crim as local agent for the G. R. & I. railroad, will not arrive here until next Monday, and that and the following day will be consumed in the work. Mr. Crim stated Wednesday morning that he expects to take a couple of months’ vacation before again engaging in business. Just what avocation he will follow, he is as yet unable to say. —Portland Daily Sun. IN CIRCUIT COURT X Mrs. Schlegel Asks for a Divorce and the Children OTHER NEW CASES A Paternity Suit Filed— Suits on Note and on an Account

Peterson and Moran, of this city, and Emrick & Emrick, attorneys from Fort Wayne, filed a divorce case in which Sadie Schlegel is plaintiff and Henry Schlegel defendant. The couple were married May 19, 1883, and lived together until January Ist last, over twenty-five years. Henry is accused of being an habitual drunkard and failure to provide, Mrs. Schlegel being forced to work for neighbors to support herself and children. They have four children, tw-o of whom are married. Mrs. Schlegel asks for the custody of the other two, Charles, aged eleven and Bessie agde seven. Prosecutor Heller has filed an affidavit and transcript from Squire Smith’s court, in the circuit court, Gracie Bever vs. Homer Aschleman, a paternty charge. Eichhorn & Vaughn, of Bluffton, are attorneys for the relatrix. Another new case filed is entitled Fort Wayne Electric W’orks vs. William G. Spencer, to collect $125. It is alleged that Spencer owes said firm for $72.79 for seven meters, delivered July 6th last. A. P. Beatty is attorney for the plaintiff. E. S. Callihan has sued Clara Wheat on a note given December 22, 1908, due in sixty days and calling for $66.53 and interst. Butcher & Armantrout are the attorneys. The report of the insanity board, declaring Mrs. Louisa Kruckenberg, of Union township to be of unsound mind, was filed at the county clerk’s office and she will be taken to East Haven as soon as there is a vacancy. o ROOT JUICE IS DOING IT Scores of Local People Praising It

These last days of the Root Juice demonstrations at Holthouse drug store, it is hard to get the great medicine in fast enough to supply the demand. •'•The fecien!tist said: While many people of Decatur are surprised at the sales at this point it is not surprising to me, as at Fort Wayne Lafayette and many other points, the demand for the juice is so great that he people at the laboratory up at Fort Wayne are often behind with orders as much as two weeks.” Those who are interested in the remedy should go to the drug store and listen to the reports of the dozens of people that are calling daily. Among the many to testify to the great good Root Juice is doing here in Decatur was a well known business man who said: "My wife has been a long sufferer of catarrh of the stomach, bowels and bladder, her kidneys were so badly deranged, she suffered a great deal with pains in the small of her back and stomach and bowels, her tongue was badly coated and she always had a bad taste in her mouth, she was very nervous, sleep did not refresh her. In fact she had so many pains and they were frequently so severe that she couldn’t tell what part of the body pained the most. She has treated with doctors for months at a time and took many kinds of medicines, but was growing worse all the time. Os late lour neighbors have ■ been talking so muqh about Root Juice and telling of the wonderful things it is doing that she decided to try it, she has been using it but a short time but is gaining in strength very rapidly. I don't believe she would have lived three months If

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i* hadn't been for Root Juice.” Those who have not visited the Holthouse drug store during the past three weeks can nave no idea of the number of people that have expressed themselves as wonderfully benefitted after taking the Juice a short while. Many have called to report a complete cure, and many others have said: “I am fast recovering health under the Juice treatment. The great remedy is so soothing, healing and strengthening to the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels, that it seems to cause every one that takes it to feel better in a very few days. We are told that the demonstration will close next Saturday night and until then the Juice is sold for $1 a bottle or three for $2.50. A SCHOOL REPORT The State Superintendent Makes a Report of Progress ARE MAKING STRIDES Adams County Well Spoken Os in the Report Just Published School o;cials, township trustees and others entitled to them, are re- | ceiving the 1908 report of the superintendent of public instruction of Indiana, and the last report of Fassett I A. Cotton, who has been in that office ! for the past several years. It is a volume of over one thousand pages, well illustrated and shows the public schools of the state to be in a flour-1 ishlng condition, and to have made' great progress along new and better systems. Os Adams county the report says: The schools promise to eclipse any former year of their history. The high school courses have been strengthened, labratory equipment added, the length of term made more uniform, and the course of study arranged so that it conforms with that of the certified and commissioned high schools. Thus students completing their course in the township high schools are privileged to contnue their work in the town or city schools with full credit, and without a break or loss of time in their educational careers. The enrollment shows a gain of twenty-five per cent. The teachers on an average, are well trained, enthusiastic and interested in the work, most of them having had special training. Music is taught in every school in the county.” The report is a good one for the county, but no better than the schools deserve. County Superintendent Opliger has done good work and has the support of the school officials and the people generally, especially those who are interested in the education ,of the youth. — It was announced at the G. R. & I. station today that the new agent would probably not be appointed for a week or ten days. — o———. We are shipping a horse to southwestern Nebraska and can furnish free transportation to any one wanting to go west. Frislnger & Co. 76-3 t

Do You Want an Automobile? If you do we know where you can purchase a firstclass Winton touring car or a runabout, at prices that will make you wonder why you hadn’t purchased one before. This is worth your while and if you are ■ interested you should get busy at once. Mention the Democrat and write or call on. W. D. CROSS, Geneva, Indiana. fii oAYS more) I Must Get Out of Business I All Goods must be sold at a Great Sacrifice | I On all gallons or quart goods such as the faI mous Kenwood, Monticello Club, Solo Rye, Gins, ■ Wines and Cordials, all good for medical purI poses. ■ Get your supply now before too late. [J “CURLEY” ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■lll i Order That New Suit I ■ — ■ ■ g Here, now and learn for yourself ® Bl why our work is so well regarded ti E by those who appreciate good tail- ® oring. SB I our choice of hundreds of the ife p most beautiful Spring and Summer 4 H wo °lens, made up just the way you f a want it, for a price vou can readilv afford. i : I CHRIST MEYER g g 135 South 2nd. St Decatur, Indiana. J