Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1909 — Page 2

Does a person have to wear a pair of TOURIST SHOES, 11 fl 111 * n orc^er t° realize their immense sav- • ing value and contevenience. They soon become invaluable and the demand once created continues. LEHMAN & SPRUNGER MONROE, INDIANA

PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will offer at public auction lt» miles south and 2 miles east of Craigville, or 1 mile west of Handuras at the Deihl school house, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., Friday, October 8. 1909. the following personal property, to-wit: Horses —One gray mare, 12 years old; 1 brown mare 9 years old, 1 bay mare 8 years old, a good driver. Cattle —Three good milch cow-s, excellent winter cows- 2 spring calves. Hogs—Four sows, two with 11 pigs by their side; 1 having six pigs by her side; 19 shoats weighing 75 to 80 pounds each. Farm implements—A good Studebaker wagon, a good Moyer buggy. 1 good breaking plow. 1 corn plow, good spike tooth harrow, 1 spring tooth harrow, good hay tedder, Deering mower, hay ladders, with hog rack combined; 2 sets of britchen work Harness. 2 sets of buggy harness, 5 tons of timothy hay, 300 shocks of corn .good set of bob sleds, 1 tubular

B ! Ist ANNUAL MERCHANTS DAY | | IN DECATUR, INDIANA \ ■ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th, 1909.1 —!—■■! ■■!■■■ ■ - S S — 2 ——■ = i A day of pleasure, a day of business, a day, set aside especially for the merchants to display their goods, in the | | most attractive manner, a day for the people to look these stocks over, and enjoy themselves while doing it. | Good Bands of Music Will Enliven This Great Day | 8 There will be plenty of other amusements, to please an entertain you. Don’t Miss coming on this big day. | H Among the merchants who are interested in making this occasion are the following who have subscribed towards B It paying the expenses of the affair: | H Niblick & Company, The Daily Democrat, Gay & Zwick i H Eugene Runyon, Schafer Hardware Company, Anderson & Dolch ! Kuebler & Moltz Company, Decatur Steam Laundry, First National Bank k § M. Fullenkamp, Misses Bowers, E. Moser ’ I fl The Myers-Dailey Company, Everett & Hite, Old Adams Conntv I J Holthouse, Schulte & Co., Anna Boesse, Winnes Shoe Stnrl 1 =g Elzey, Vance & Hite, H. W. Amrine, Lew Holthouse ’ § Fred B. Tague, Teeple, Brandyberry & Peterson Steele & Weaver 1 Charlie Voglewede, Laman & Lee. F. V Mills ’ i Holthousr Drug Company, T. A. Leonard. Hunsicker Brother« b Schaub, Gottemoller & Co. W. H. Fledderjohann, Yager Bros and ~ I Kate Burdg, J. H. Voglewede & Son, 8 and linking |

cream separator, good as new; set horse clipers, and many other article*. Terms —All sums of >5.00 and under cash in hand; over 85.00 a credit of 12 months will be given the purchaser giving his note therefor with approved freehold security to the satisfaction of the undersigned. No property removed until settled for. Four per cent, off for cash. JOHN W. BEAL. John Spuhler, Auctioneer. Joseph V. Pease, Clerk. o BUY YOUR APPLES A car load of fall and winter and wind fall apples. The car will be here Friday on the Clover Leaf tracks and the price will be right. Samples in Democrat window. Irvin Acker. 225-4: o , LOST —At Beulah church or between Beulah and James A. Steele, a lignt calf skin horse collar with buckle at top. Leave at Racket store or James A. Steele, Magley, Ind. 226-6 t

HIGHEST RECORD — I The Indiana Children's Home Society is a Good One A GOOD HOME I — i The Society Now Have Over Five Hundred Children During the past sixteen years, there has been quietly at work in the state ' of Indiana, a private charity through jthe channel of the Indiana Children's Home Society, located at 152 E. Mari ket St, Indianapolis, Indiana. This is a private organization to dispense [charity to homeless children. These' 1 children are not always orphans. Many have one parent, some have both. Those who have parents have become homeless because the juvenile court, for some reason, has taken the custody ; of the children from the parents. It has been the custom to place many I of these children in county orphan-: ages, which are supported by taxation

and paid for by the county at so much a day for each child. Mr. Butler, speaking of these orphanages and other institutions in the state, which have the care of children, says: ‘ There are a number of institutions for children in the state, which make little effort to find family homes for their wards." In this statement, Mr. Butler did not refer to the Indiana Children's Home Society, for in the same report he says, "Among the associations, the Indiana Children's Home Society, which has its headquarters at Indianapolis, made the highest record for placing." and again he says, ‘‘The inactivity of a majoritv of the orphans’ home associations in the matter of home-finding, is regretable. Some of them are depending almost entirely upon the agents of the board of state charities, whose work more properly is that of supervision. It is the theory of the Indiana law that placable children shall be i kept in institutions only until good : j family homes are found for them.” i j The Indiana Children’s Home Society : is a home-finding society. It has one

receiving home in the state, where it takes care of children who must wait for homes. The society has nowunder its supervision, over five hundred children ranging in ages from two months to seventeen years. All of the work of the society in placing • and supervising these children is done by charity, the money having been given by those who became interested in aiding a homeless child to get , away from the dependence upon public aid, to the independence of the home life found in some good Indiana home. o PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will offer for sale at his residence half mile northwest of Pleasant Mills and 5 miles south 'east of Decatur on the river road, i beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., ThursI day, Sept. 30, 1909, the following personal property, to-wit: One bay mare [ 5 years old. weigh 1,250, good driver! and good worker: 1 sorrel mare. Both' mares are bred. Two head of cows, both No. 1 milk and butter cows. 12 head of fine young breeding ewes. One O. I. C. sow weighing 400 lbs., registered; 2 O. I. C. sows weighing 200 lbs. each, 3 full blood Durocs, weigh 200 lbs. each: 3 halt blood Durocs, .weigh 150 lbs. each; 3 sows with pigs !by side, II head O. I. C. shoats weigh 100 to 125 lbs. each. 150 chickens.

most brown Leghorns. Implements—Set double work harness, new: 1 three and a quarter Turnbull wagon, new Cassidy riding plow, walking Moline plow, good as new; J. I. C. riding cultivator, Deering mower in good running order, .revolving hay rake, new; double shovel plow, new; spring tooth harrow, single shovel plow, wheelbarrow. forks, shovels augers, brace and | bit, 20 ft. ladder. 24 ft, extension lad - ; , der, 10 ft ladder, steel sledge, hay, ladder, new; cook stove. Sharpless I cream separator, used 2 months, j j churn, corn shelter, 100 bushels Big ! 4 seed oats, 800 shocks of good corn.' ‘ also numerous other articles. Having 1 sold my farm everything will positively be sold to the highest bidder. Terms —All sums of $5.00 and under cash in hand; over $5.00 a credit of 12 months will be given the purchas-1 er giving his note therefor with approved security to the satisfaction of the undersigned. Five per cent, off for cash. W. H. AYRES. ( J. N. Burkhead. Auctioneer. , T. J. Durkin, Jesse Steele, Clerks.

RECLAIM DESERT President Taft Will Press the Button to Release Irrigation Project OF GUNNISON RIVER Five Thousand Forty Acre Farms Will Loom Up Where Desert Existed On September 27th the eyes of the people of the United States will be centered on a desert town in the , southwest corner of Colorado— Lujane. lAt the hour of high noon President TafL either at Lujane or wherever he may be, will touch an electric button releasing a spark; and mites awav, out of a tunnel through a supr in the wi’ds of the Rockies, the Gunnison river will be diverted from the worldfamous black canon and will rush into the I’ncompahgre Vhlley with the rumble and thunder of a cataract. Into a huge canal it will seethe and roar, a deluge of molten silver ten feet deep and eighty feet across, traveling

at the rate of a mile a minute with a force of 6.000 horse power. At the rate of 8,000 gallons a minute it wi-1 flow, filling 400 mites of lateral eanals that gridiron 200,000 acres of brown, lifeless, uninhabitable, bald as the palm of your hand, cracked open in seams and fissures with the bombardment of ages of suns. As the flood gushes forth, dynamite minues will 'crash salute amid dust and rocks and j pebbles, clouds of yellow fumes waiting lazily toward azure skies. Then the news that the first of our gigantic i irrigation systems has been put into operation will be telegraphed throughjout the land. A desert, where no creature could have lived, will have been reclaimed. Five thousand forty[acre farms, the home sites of 25,000 men, women and children will have been thrown open. Crops, herds, vililages and towns with refineries, hay presses and other factories will spring up amid that fertile soil —from the beginning of all time the range of the I viper—through the wizard touch of the engineer, turned into a garden spot, a source of inestimable wealth

HERE IS A CHANCE j You Have Been Looking For Coloring’your Suit, Overcoat, Dresses, Skirts, and Curtaing at the following prices. One Suit One Coat and Vest $2.00 One Pair of Pants SI.OO One Heavy Overcoat $2.50 One Light Overcoat $2.00 One Dress Skirt SI.OO One Full Dress $2.00 One Pair Portiers .... $2.50 One Pair Chenille Curtains . ■ $3.50 You to pay express chargesone w ay. Steam Cleaning One Suit. . 52.00 One Coat and Vest $1.50 One Pair of Pants 75c One Heavy Overcoat. . • • $2.50 One Light Overcoat ' $2.00 One Dress Skirt SI.OO One Full Dress $2.00 One Pair Portiers $2.50 One Pair Chenille $3.50 Ering in your goods in time'so I can send them on every 7 Monday at noon. CHRIST MEYER THE TAIL-OFR DECATUR -NDIANA —

to the nation.—From ’ The Heroes of the Gunnison Tunnel,” in Everybody’s Magazine. o JUST RECEIVED A fine lot of gold fish, consisting of medium sized and extra selects, 3 to 4 inches long, Fan Ttails and Swallow Tails, Fish Food, Green for fish, and ornaments for aquariums and fish Globes, at the greenhouse. 223-6 t Ernsberger Bros. & Moses.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Our shop will be closed on next Saturday, September 25th, on account of its being a Jewish holiday. The public is asked to take notice accordingly, if they have business transactions at our place. 223-6 t B. Kalver & Son. o FDR RENT —Good barnelectric lights. city water. Fred Patterson