Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1909 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELL.INGHAM. 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. IT PAYS TO TRADE AT HOME Those who always stand in the forefront of every movement having for its object the advancement of Decatur, will be found that patriotic band of business men, of whom all Decatur is so proud. They give freely- and they give more in proportion to their means than any one else, and they give that cheerfully for the upbuilding of their home city. They give it for the purpose of making better an already good town, and if there is any class of people that deserve to do well it is the merchants and the business men of this city. They deserve all the trade and all the business that belongs to this city, and when any one goes out of town to buy that which they can get here, they are slapping in the face the very ones who are spending their time and their money for the betterment and the upbuilding of this city. Besides, there is little if any need of going elsewhere to purchase anything under the sun. No better stocks are carried in the larger cities than are carried right here, and the prices do not compare with the home dealers. Therefore it pays to trade at home with the home merchant, and where you are insured of fair treatment and a value for the money spent. Money spent with the home merchants means more boosting fora mighty good town. It always pays to trade at home. The appointment of Mr. Millard F. Cox as clerk of the Public Accounting Board, is a just and merited tribute to a worthy Indiana son. Mr Cox is especially well adapted for the duties encumbent upon him and hu extended knowledge of public affairs will be of great value and assistance to the board. It is said that President Taft is “determined to prosecute the sugar trust.” That sounds all right, for the sugar trust ought to be prosecuted to a finish; but the trouble has been that the prosecutions started from Washington get no where. There is usually a great flourish of trumpets, a sounding of cymbals and a beating of tomtoms, but the trusts scarcely receive a scratch in the judicial shindy that follows. Mr. Roosevelt thundered loud and long, but it was only in the index, and little better is expected from his successor. Perhaps, however, the people really don’t want anything done to the trusts. Mr. Bryan was earnestly on the people’s side —or thought he (was —but Mr. Taft was chosen by the people and the trusts. We shall deserve what we get. whatever it is. It may be that

Listen To Your Pains. Aches and Pains Are Nature's Warnings of Trouble Ahead.

Mental and physical sickness are exactly like the breaking down of the loaded coal wagon across the car tracks. The hindered traffic represents the state of mind or body under diseased conditions. Our aches and pains are nature's warning that we have violated the laws of life and health and soon we must pay unless we heed. Most ills can be traced directly or Indirectly to the stomach or digestive tract. Eat right and it's 10 to 1 that you will be right in health, and health means wealth. .Don't load your stomach with heavy foods such as meats and bread and potatoes in the morning. Try E-C Corn Flakes or Egg-O-See Wheat Flakes with good milk or cream and perhaps • little fresh or stewed fruit. You’ll like it—it’s good—so crisp and delicious •—easy to digest—ready to serve. Children grow strong and healthy on it. -v Invalids And It acceptable and nourishing and busy men and women find they can do a day’s work with- , out the hindrance of a sour stomach or an aching head if they eat it. Remember it's the wonderful Egg-O-See , process that makes it so good to eat I •ad so easy to digest. '(

some day the people will vote for their own interests. And then, again, maybe they won't. It is all very true, of course, that certain democratic congressmen are proving just as inconsistent in this tariff bill consideration as are certain republicans, but the latter would do well to remember that they must bear the burden of failure alone if failure there is. They cannot go before the country with the plea that the democrats proved recreant to their party platform and thus prevented an adequate revision. That will not suffice, for the country knows that the republicans dominate in both houses and should be able to redeem their party pledges even if the democrats presented a solid front against them. Because the democrats are unfaithful is no excuse for republicans proving recreant, and the voters of the country are keenly cognizant of this fact. If Aldrich wins, even through the grace of democratic votes, it is the republican party that must bear the odium of it all, and that such a conclusion of the session would result in an overwhelming republican defeat in the congressional elections next year no sane person will doubt for a moment. 'Without discussing the justice or injustice of the country's attitude toward Mr. Aldrich, the significant fact remains that it is sick and tired of him, and will bitterly rebuke at the polls a party that suffers him to dominate. Mr. Aldrich is today proving a better asset for democracy than William J. Bryan is for republicanism, and that is saying a good deal. —Fort Wayne News, Rep.

NEWSCHOOLBOOKS State Board Have Decided Books for Use the Next Five Years MAY EXCHANGE Old Readers and Primers May Be Exchanged on New Ones County Superintendent Opliger has received a copy of Governor Marshall’s proclamation in which is set out the aertrn of the state board of education in the adoption of school and text books for the coming flv» years, and this settles a long drawn out contest in which many book firms tried to draw first money. The board has contracted with Charles Scribner’s Sons for the Howe primer, and the Howe readers, first, second, third, fourth and fifth, an<’ with D. C. Hea h & Co. forWalsh’s new grammer school arithemetic and new primary arithmetic, and with Eaton & Company for the New Era System of copy books number one to five. The retail and exchange prices of these books are as follows:

Books. Ret! Price Ex. Pries Primers $ .15 $ .08 I First readersls .08 Second readers2o .10 Third readers2s .13 Fourth readers 30 .15 Fifth readers 40 .20 New Era system writ. .05 none, Gram, school arith.. .45 none i Primary arithmetic. .22 none | As will be seen by he above old j readers and primers can be exchange I, for the new books and thus save I half the cost of the new books. This ' saving should be taken advantage o*; by every one who purchases books for next year's school work. All infor-1 .mation in this regard as well as all ■ will be furnished by the county superintendent.

THE D. & C. LINE NINE * The Greatest Fleet of Side-Wheel ’ Passenger Steamers in the World. j The nine steamers of the D. & C*. a Lake Lines are the largest, speediest, and most luxurious on the Great r Lakes. The operate regular and punc- ’ tual service between Cleveland, Dei troit, Buffalo, Toledo, Mackinac and r all Lake Ports. Send for the illus- ■ trated pamphlet that tells all about j the steamers, the service and the i places to go. Enclose two-cent stamp to D. & C. NAVIGATION CO. 8 Wayne St, Detroit, Mich. Q FOUND —Ladies' black hand pocketbook. Contained some money. Owner can obtain particulars by calling George C. Mann, on R. R. 6. I

WILL NOT APPEAL The Tonnellier Saloon Case Will Not Be Taken to Supreme Court OTHERS ARE AHEAD And No Saloon Cases Will Be Decided Until After the Vacation Prosecutor Heller has decided that he will not appeal the Tonnellier saloon case, as no benefit can be derived from doing so. The court will not render any decisions until after the summer vacation and a case exi actiy similar has already been appealed, so that this case would probably not be recognized any way. Along this line the Indianapolis News said this morning: It has been definitely decided that the supreme court will hand aown no decisions concerning the county option law before it reconvenes after its summer vacation, which begins July 1. In the case of the State vs. McPherson, appealed from the Hamilton circuit court, and involving the constitutionality of the law, the attorneys for McPherson asked that a decision be reserved until October, and the state, agreeing to the delay, asked that all the cases concerning the law be delayed also. The case attracting the most attention at this time is that of the State vs. Gilbert Williams, in which is questioned the meaning of the phrase “after the passage of this act.” Williams, who lives in Wabash, obtained a license between the time Governor Hanly signed the county option act, September 26, 1908, and the time the law became effective, November 20. The contention of Williams’ attorneys is that any license Issued prior to November 20 must run throughout the year, even if a county option election resulting “dry” intervenes before the license period runs out. In Williams' case a county option election pas held, and, according to the contention of the attorneys for the state, his license had expired before April 12, on which date he sold liquor and was arrested. Two minor cases, one from Montgomery county and one from Noblesville, are also before the court.

THE MENS CHORUS Is Now an Assured Organization at the Presbyterian Church Here EVENINGS OF SONG Will Be Furnished by Them on Each Sunday Evening—Held Rehearsal

1 The organization of a men's chorus to furnish music for the popular Sunday evening services at the Presbyterian church is now well under way and promises to be a great success. For several weeks past the men have been in charge of the music .at these ! services and have succeeded in makI ing them most interesting. Commenc- , ing with this evening's rehearsal the chorus will begin practice on special ! music for “An Evening of Song,’’ ' which will be given in a few w'eeks. ( This program will consist of choruses, quartets and solos given entirely by the members of the chorus. The . present membership includes Hugh Hite, Wesley Huffman, Will Schrock, Charles Loch, P.oss Mills, Will Lehne,

Bruce Patterson, Oscar Huffman, C. J. Lutz, Raleigh Jackson, Dan Roop, Cal Peterson. Will Biggs, J. C. Patterson, W. H. Lee, Hugh Perkins and Rev .Spetnagle. The chorus is under the direction of Dr. Fred Patterson. It is hoped that it will be enlarged to twenty-five or thirty members by the time the fall and winter season comes, at which time a mixed chorus will be organized. The regular weekly rehearsal will be held at the church this evening.

EAT THEM LIKE CANDY. No other remedy can be compared with Rexall Orderlies for the easy, pleasant and successful treatment of constipation. You may have back the money you pay us for them if they failtv satisfy you. Eat them like candy any time of day or night. They don’t gripe or cause any annoyance whatever. Two sizes, roc. and 25c. Smith and Yager, Druggists

A GREAT STORY OF TURKEY Everybody remembers the spectacular visit of the Kaiser to his exMajesty “Abdul the Damned,” as Mr. Gladstone once called the Sultan. But it has remained for E. Alexander Powell, recently an American conscl in Turkey, to show’ just what the emperor’s little game really was, and what came of it. In “The Fight for the Highway of Nations,” July Everybody’s Mr. Powell very entertainly describes how William of Germany, with an eye to the future, secured a concession that made him ruler of 18,600 square miles of Turkish territory. This is an empire in itself, and it has much to do with the European feeling that war between Eng land and Germany is inevitable. The Fatherland appears to be encroaching upon the patent lahd-grabbiug rights of the Motherland. Other timely topics in this number are Forrest Crissey’s description of the evolution of the old-time “Drummer” into the modern high-salaried “Traveling Salesman;” "How Thieves Live,” a study in the social side of criminals, by Charles Somerville, and two remarkable photographic articles. The first of these latter, by J. B. Kerfoot, the literary reviewer of Life and Everybody’s, describes the excitement of going for wild game with cameras instead of guns. The illustrations thus secured are a valuable contribution to our knowledge of animal life and Mr. Kerfoot's own clean, delightful style makes the whole work an J nominating production. (The other photographic article is a collection of pictures of children who work, with a brief Introductory paragraph by Charles Edward Russell. How any manufacturer who sees these pitiful baby faces, aged by unnatural toil, can continue to profit from child labor is one of the puzzles of a commercial age.

ESTABLISHES RULES Governor Marshall Sent Out a Regulation on Requisition Law ON WIFE DESERTION Will Not Issue Papers Where Family Troubles Are the Cause Governor Marshall has established a new rule regarding the issuance of requisition papers where an effort Is being made to arrest a man for wife desertion. He has sent orders to the proper officials in Decatur and over the state to this effect which read as follows: Hereafter, no requisition will be granted for wife desertion without a showing satisfactory to this office that the alleged desertion was not the result of family quarrels and difficulties and with the intention upon the part of the husband to separate permanently from his wife on account of such difficulties, nor will a requisition issue wnere proceedings for divorce have been instituted by the alleged deserted wife. Officers will take notice of this regulation. Respectfully yours, Thomas R. Marshall, governor.

ROOTS, HERBS AND BARKS. You can no doubt recall the collection of roots, herbs and barks your grandmother made every fall for the family medicine chest. It is interesting to note that the most successful remedy for female ills had its origin more than 30 years ago in one of these home medicine chests, and Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is made today in immense quantities from those same roots and herbs with extreme accuracy, care and cleanliness. NOTICE The (Ladles’ Aid Society of the Beulah Chapel one-half mile south of Preble,’ will give an ice cream social on the church lawn Saturday evening at seven p. m. The ladies extend a cordial invitation to the public, and ask that a large crowd be present. o — NOTICE. Blindness and Deafness it makes no difference how bad your eyes are or how deaf you are, can be cured by Dr. Thain. Will bo at the Murray House Saturday, June 26. Consultation free and medicine furnished. Dr. Thain, of Fort Wayne. 147-3 t o Ask for Alien's Foot-Ease. A powder for swollen, tired, hot, smarting feet. Sample sent Free. Also Free Sample of the Foot-Ease Sanitary Corn-Pad, a new Invention. Address. Allen 3. Olmsted, Le Roy N. Y.

SOCIETY COLUMN Mrs. Julia Moses Entertains Moses and Patterson Families THE YEOMAN LODGE To Hold a Meeting—Other Notes of Social Whirl All mcmbcis of the Yeomen lodge are requested to be present on next ' Monday evening at their hall. Several candidates will be taken in. Refreshments will be served. Ordered by Lady Rowena. * * * Mrs .Sadie E. Meyers, of Craigville, entertained a number of people from this city at dinner at their home yesterday, and the event was a happy one. The dinner was a splendid one, and all enjoyed themselves. Among those present were Mrs. E. Archer and son and daughter, Mrs. John Ferest and children and Mrs. W. M. Richards and daughter Emma. * * * The engagement of Miss Dollie Pennington and Mr. C. R. McMachen, of Fort Wayne, has been announced. Miss Pennington is now in the city visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pennington. The wedding will occur in the near future. * * ♦ Miss Fannie McConne! was hostess at the regular meeting of the Waste R Club yesterday. Among those who were present are the Misses Florence Kunkle, Annice Wilder, Alma Watts, Helen Fonner of north of the city and Miss Veshtia Fonner of Fort Wayne. * * ♦ Miss Emma Terveer will entertain a number of her lady friends this evening at her home in honor of Miss Alta Miller of Greenville, Ohio, who is the guest of Miss Anna Amspaugh. The evening will be spent in the social way and a pleasant time will be had. Those present will be Miss Bernice Daily, Lula Schaub, Bessie Baumgardner, Anna Amspaugh and Marie Allison. * * * The Bachelor Maids were entertained by Miss Ida Kohne and a very pleasant time was enjoyed by those (Continued on page 4.)

SECURED A HOME Citizens’ Trust Company Have Rented Ellis Building WAS A HARD NUT Difficulty in Finding a Suitable Room for Their Business

The board of directors of the Citizens’ Trust company have just concluded the first step toward an actual solution oft their troubles in getting a home and place from which to conduct their business. They have leased the Lafayette Ellis room opposite the court house on Second street, and from this time forward they will be a busy lot of Indians in getting things lined up for the openings of the institution on the first day of September, the date agreed upon at the organization of the board. The renting of a room developed into a hard nut for them to crack, and the board have been sweating red blood in solving the conundrum, and now that this part is settled the rest will prove to be easy sailing. It is one of the most complete business rooms in the city with a tile floor and almost every other kind of improvement that is needed for the Citizens’ Trust to begin business. Ordering the furniture, safe and the other needed articles of business warfare will be of little moment now that they know where they are going to light. o A SOCIAL AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH The ladies of the Christian church will give an ice cream social on the church lawn, next Saturday evening, and the public is most cordially invited to come and enjoy an hour or two. Ice cream and cake will be served and the usual pleasures of a social will be there. Be sure to come. At the corner of Fourth and Monroe streets.

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ANOTHER TESTIMONIAL Lima, 0., June 22, 1909 Mr. Chris Meyers, Decatur, Ind. Dear sir:-The suit received 0. K. lam more than pleased with the fit and that you are up-to-date. I always had the best tailors in Lima to make my clothes and paid much more for them than you asked me. I paid you $42.00 for my suit but if I could not get another one that fits me as well as the one you make for me I positively would not take $50.00 for it. I am more than pleased. Yours Vesy Truly W. A. Stevenson 127 N. Jackson Street. Lima, Ohio. P. S. As soon as you receive your fall line I want a suit and overcoat.

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With CHI N A MEL any old floor can be made tolook like new hard wood Old furniture can be made to look like new. We have it in all colors. It requires no skill to use the Chi-Namel graining outfit. Give it a trial. You will be pleased with the results. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.