Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 288, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1909 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier ~...55.00 Per month, by mall 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. H E L L E R, Manager, CREAM PUFF CONTEST. Leo Bolinger and John Lose, two young men of the city engaged In a cream puff contest the other evening to see which one could consume the most. The boys enjoyed themselves very much and were kept busy for forty minutes to see who was the heartiest eater. At the end of that time I>eo Bogner proved to be the victor. Thirty-nine cream puffs were eaten by the two boys and Will Lose, Jim Colchin and Perman Hefei had to settle the bill as was the agreement. —o —— TO BE SUNDAY EVENING. A Program to be Rendered at the Church of Christ. ' The C. W. B. M. of the Church of Christ will give a program on Sunday evening at the regular church service ,7:30. This is the special day which all C. W. B. M. societies use for foreign missions. The following is the program: Son, “Reaper Son, chair. Song, "All Hail the Power of JesusName,” congregation. Reading of Scripture Lesson, Mrs. Fisher. Prayer, Mrs. McKinney. Instrumental solo, Greth Shoemaker. “Our Orphanages,” Mrs. A. D. Artmon. Solo, Miss Daniels. "Medical Missions,” Miss Sarah Segur. Solo, “Mexico,” Miss Jessie Bentz. “The Executive Committee,” Mrs. Williams. Solo, Miss Velma Schroll. Remarks by the pastor. Solo, Miss Maude Crowley. Call for new members, Mrs. Artman. Offering. Doxology, congregation. Benediction. Everybody is cordially invited. Come and bring your friends. NOTICE. On next Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. al Peterson the Rev. James Tumblescn will speak i*> ine congregation and all members are urged to be present. NOTICE. On next Monday evening at their hall the Knights of Columbus will hold an election of officers for the coming year. There will also be other business looked after and attended to and all the members are requested to favrir them with their presence.

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HIS THIRD BRIDE William H. Price of Hartford Twnship Weds Jay County Lady. AGE IS NO BARRIER Both He and His Bride are Sixty-Nine and Each Has Been Married Twice. Portland, Ind. Dec. 4.—That Dan Cupid and bis match-making antics accomplishes some stunts of an unusual character was evidenced Friday afternoon when a marriage license was issued to a couple, both of whom are past sixty-nine years of age. The arrival of the couple at the office of County Clerk Gillespie during the afternoon Friday was not unexpected, as during the forenoon the groom, William H. Price, of Hartford township, Adams county, appeared at. the office to learn whether or not he could secure the necessary credentials without his bride-to-be, Mrs. Nancy Smith, a resident of the north part of the city, appearing before the clerk and was informed that she must personally answer all questions connected with the application blanks before the license could be issued. Both the bride and groom have been married twice before and each time their marriages have been severed by th grim reaper. Price's first wife died twenty-nine years ago and his second in 1908, while Mrs. Smith said her first husband had died forty-six years ago and her second had been called to the upper world in 1884. They refused ‘o say where or when they wou’d be married and when asked if they expected to reside in this city or lo go to Adams county to make their future home the brie-to-be answered, “That's our business.” BIG EXCITEMENT. Quite a stor was caused by the srowd this afternoon who came to the Holthouse drug store to get the wonderful P. C. W. that has caused so much talk in the city by the great things it is doing for sufferers of rheumatism, kidney, liver and stomach trouble. One man said it had done more for him in four days- time than two years of other treatment. The sale promises to be a record breaker here. HELP WANTED —MALE. WANTED —Young men to learn automobile business by mail and prepare for positions as chaffeurs and repair men. We make you expert in ten weeks; assist you to secure positions. Pay big; work pleaeant; demand for men great; reasonable; write for particulars and sample lesson. Empire Automobile Institute, Rochester, N. Y. WANTED —Sewers on waists; steadywork; good wages. Paragon Mfg. Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. 2td

THE PIONEER. The pioneers of all countries have and always will be the subject of thoughtful consideration and those who follow In their tread often too lightly appreciate their efforts and achievements. That they fared better than their ancestors is but an idle tale. A false delusion, an utterance from the lips of those void of appreciation. To travel through mud and brush or on pikes of stone and gravel. To ride on horseback or on cushioned vehicles shaded from the scorching sun and rain or in autos, or fnterurans one can easily tell which the traveler would much prefer. True the pioneer grew poetic in the moonlight courting but to grope in the dark or under the brilliant light of the ark lamp he would without hesitancy choose the light. Ours has been a profitable age. All possesions of realty has grown in value for a score of years at least 5 per cent annually and will so continue in the years to come. How favorable we are situated and how little we appreciate what a storehouse we possess, and how poor we pretend, are shameful meditations and sinful ingratitude. Compare our country with Michigan, Texas. Canada or any other where efforts are made to induce the rural settler to go and none will equal ours In advantage, productiveness and profit yielding. Ours was once a pioneer country, once on the frontier, once her value and fertility of soil was unknown, now , her history is an open book, the prob- ■ lem has been solved, at the price of great labor, demonstrating truthfully ‘and emphatically there is no excellence without great labor, and to a certainty that with labor here the re-j ward and good returns are assured. t Ask the pioneer the value of our lands and he will answer as valuable as life itself. If you would know the value of an investment ask the pioneer. If you ' would know the value of improve--1 ments, advancement and civilization ask the pioneer. If you would knot: when you can buy ask us after years of experience learning to select only that which would yield the investor profit, ahd assure him value received we invite your inspection and ask, your judgments after investigating the following long since shown from] i the wilderness by the pioneers and at | a sacrifice of brain‘and muscle. If [ you have money or have it not, but i want it, we gladly consent to assist! 1 you to acquire and point out the way ( I that leads you to possessions that will, . bring with it the blessing of contentment. Think of some of these advantages within three miles of our paved streets and arc light for SBO.OO per acre with comfortable fireside wherein you may sit protected from the storms of win-. ter, with well built barns wherein the lowing herd may be sheltered from. the icy air of night. For instance, $3000.00 investment i yielding an annual income of $216.00. I Five acre tract as finely improved i as could be desired at a great bargain. Fine six room house and a half-acre of ground, outside of corporation, $900.00. Nice Fifth street property at half price. Nice modern farm, 80 acres, will trade for city property. Vacant lot for sale, 10 cents per day or trade for live stock or any other ' commodity having commercial value. I have for sale 1,200 pound bay ' mare, farm and city broke, and safe for any dri. er. Cash or on time. DAN N. ERWIN, Decatur, Indiana. — o HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. SUCCESSFUL After a great deal of effort and correspondence Holthouse Drug Co., the populai druggists have succeeded in getting the Dr. Howard Co. to make a special half-price introductory offer on the regular fifty centy size of their celebrated specific for the cure of constipation and dyspepsia. This medicine is areeent discovery for the cure of all diseases of the stomach and bowels. It not only gives quick relief, but it makes permanent cures. Dr. Howard's specific has been so remarkably successful in curing constipation, dyspepsia and all liver troubles, that Holthouse Drug Co. willing to return the price pat.l in every case where it does not give relief. So great is the demand for this specific that Holtnouse Drug Co. bav« been able to secvie only a iimitel supply, and every one who is troubled with dyspepsia, constipation or liver trouble shou'tl call upon tueui at or.ee, or s.nd 25 cents, ana get sixty doses of the best medicine ever made, on this special half price offer with their personal guarantee to refund the money if it does not cure. 11, 18, 12, 2 FOR SALE—Favorite soft cOal stove and a laundry stove; phone 319 or ’ see Dallas Hunsicker. 6t

FOR THE PRIMARY, The Voting Precincts of the Democratic Primary Electtion. ELECTION NOTICE Chairman Gallogly Gives the Notice for the Big Event. « ft As established and agreed upon by the Adams county Democratic central committee, the Democratic primt-y election to be held Friday, December 17, 1909, the following named places, have been selected as voting precincts: Union townshin, two precincts, one at Broadbeck school house and the other at West Union, S Koher school house. West Root in Monmouth; Preble, two, North Preble at Friedham, South Preble at school house north of town of Preble; Kirkland two, North Kirkland at school house in Peterson and South Kirkland at Honduras; Washington township, one precinct at dwelling house east side of railroad; St. Marys, two, North St. Marys In the town of Bobo; South St. Marys, at Pleasant Mills; Blue Creek two, North Blue Creek at Steele, South Blue Creek in the Prairie school house; Monroe township, three, North Monroe in town of Monroe, Berne “A" east of Grand Rapids railroad to corporation line east of Jefferson street thence south to line vote at Cottage hotel, Berne “B” west of Grand Rapids railroad to corporation line and west to Jefferson street to township line, vote at town hall; French school bouse; Hartford, two. North Hartford, Linn Grove, South Hartford. Brushwood J school house; Wabash three, North Wabash at school house in Dist. No. 2, Geneva “A" town calaboose, Geneva “B” in Hutton building; Jefferson, two. West at Buckmaster school house. East at Booher school house; City of; Decatur, three, in First Ward in Linn ■ 1 and Patton's shop, Second Ward, north ] room of court house basement, Third. I Ward, Holthouse livery barn. Such election shall be held in compliance with the rules and regulations 'of the Adams county Democratic cen--1 tral committee. ELECTION NOTICE All democrats of Adams county, Indiana are hereby notified that on Fri--day. the 17th- day of December, 1909,1 there will be a primary election held under the Austrialian Election laws !of said state for the purpose of nom inating democratic candidates to be I voted for at the November election lof 1910. That candidates will be nominated for the following named offices: One State Representative. One Prosecuting Attorney. One County Clerk. One County Treasurer. One County Recorder. One County Surveyor. One County Assessor. One Commissioner, Third District One Commissioner, First District. Also one county central committeeman for each voting precinct in the county. Such committee to serve until the next Democratic Primary Election. T. M. GALLOGLY. Chairman. ■ o — — — “AS YOU LIKE IT”' COMING. Mr. Bosse has secured an engagegagement with Mr. William Owen to produce this great play in the opera house in this city on next Tuesday, December 9. The news will be welcomed by the many students of Shakespeare here and the many others who love good, strong, plays. Mr. Owen is good, is supported by an excellent company and will please the theater goers of Decatur. o ■ FOR RENT—I2O acres of land east of the city. Inquire James K. Niblick. FOR SALE—Saloon, two miles south of Fort Wayne. Good buildings and good business. 3t

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RULES AND REGULATIONS OF DEMOCRATIC PRIM ARY ELECTION The County-Democratic Central commlttee in executive session assembled, adopt the following rules tor the control and regulation or uie Democratic ( vote to be polled in the nominating . election of said party, of candidates to be voted for in the general election I of 1910: Section 1. The Democratic primary election on Friday, Dec. 17, 1909, shall be under the Australian system of election laws of the state of Indi- ( ana, with the exception that there , shall be ene inspector, one judge, two clerks and one election sheriff, and , except as hereinafter set out in sec tion seven and eight. Section 2. That the interest and purpose of the nomination at a primary election is to secure a full and , free and fair expression of the whole democracy of the county. Provided , that all those who voted the regular , democratic ticket in 1908 be considered Democrats. Section 3. The qualifications other than heretofore given of voters of such primary, shall be, that he is a , citizen of Adams county, and ale- , gal voter therein, or will be a legal , voter before the next general election. That he be a bona fide resident of the , city, and of the precinct wherein he offers to vote. Section* 4. The eligibility of a can- , dldate .shall depend upon his eompli- , ance with the foregoing requirements, , and paying the assessments for cam- , paign purposes, placed upon him as a candidate for the office to which he . aspires. Such campaign assessments shall be paid at least 15 days before , the said primary election. Provided that if a candidate neglects or re- , fuse? to comply with the requirements of the Democratic Central Committee as are provided for in the rules and regulations herein contained, the name of each candidate shall not appear on the tickets used in said primary election. Section 5. That the County Central Committee shall meet on the day following the next democratic primary election in Decatur, Indiana, at 10 a. m. and receive from each inspector or committeeman |of the precincts the returns of said election and proceed to compare the votes cast for all the candidates who have complied with the rules and regulations of the committee aforesaid, and the person having the highest number of votes cast for any given office, snail be declared the nominee of the Democratic party of saidcoun. ty and state of Indiana, for such office sought. Provided, that no Central Committeeman, whose . name appears as that of a candidate on the election tickets of such primary, or who has any relatives whose name appears as that of a candidate on such election ticket, shall be eligible to serve as inspector of such election, nor shall he be allowed to select any election officers to serve in said primary election. In case of Ineligibility of the committeeman to appoint such officers aforesaid, the chairman, secretary and treasurer of the City Central Committee shall appoint such election board in such precinct at least one week before the primary election. Section 2. Each board of election shall keep a poll book In which shall be entered the name of every person who votes at such primary election, and after the polls are closed, said election board shall count the votes or ballots cast and make out a tally sheet and deliver such tally sheet properly signed by such election board to the election inspector of such voting precincts, who shall deliver such tally sheets and poll books to the chairman of said County Democratic Central Committee ort the day following such primary election aforesaid. The officers of said election beard shall at the time of making out the tally sheets make out and sign three certificates of election showing the vote in such precincts as shown by the poll and tally sheets and place one of said certificates in the possession of the inspector, one in the hands of each election - clerk to be held as authentic reference should any controversy hereafter arise. Section 7. Al! voted ballots shall be by said election board placed In ar paper bag, tied with a string and sealing wax melted and pasted over the knot of the string and delivered to the inspector and by him returned to Democratic headquarters in the city of Decatur, Indiana, on the day mentioned in section five. In no case shall any voted ballot be destroyed bji the election board, but all such ballots so sealed shall be kept for the period of thirty days by the Chairman of the Ce’ntral Committee, and such sacks so sealed shall not be opened except by order of the committee in session regularly called and in case of contest by any candidate voted for, contested ballots shall be placed in a sack with tally sheets

hereinafter set out. All unvoted ballots shall be destroyed by the several election boards by entirely consuming the same by fire before any votes are counted or ballot boxes be opened until the polls are closed and all unvoted ballots destroyed as hereinbefore provided. Section 8. Any voter who declares that by reason of physical disability or inability to read the English language, he Is unable to mark his ballot, may declare his choice of candidates to the election board, and tho poll clerks, In the presence of said voter and in the presence of said election board, shall prepare the ballots for veting. and on request shall read over to such voter the names of the candidates as marked. Section 9. No person being a candidate for the nomination to any office and to be voted for at said primary shall be declared the nominee of the Democratic party of said county, who loans, pays or gives, either directly or indirectly, any money or other thing of value to any elector, or to any other person for the purpose of securing the vote or Influence of such elector or person for his nomination. nor shall any such candidate offer or promise to loan or give any money or other thing of value to any elector for the purpose of influencing or retaining the vote of such elector, or to Induce such elector to work or labor for the election or nomination of such candidate, or to refrain from working or laboring for the nomination or election of any other candidate, or to any person to secure or retain the influence or vote of such elector in his behalf as such candidate, or to be used by such persons in any wAy to influence the vote of any elector, or electors generally, for himself or any candidate. And no candidate shall hire or otherwise employ for a consideration any elector or person to work at the polls on the day of such primary election for the nomination of such candidate, and should any candidate violate any of the provisions of this section he shall be dealt with as provided in section eleven of these rules. Section 10. All contests and disputes out of the canvass and counts folio-wing said primary election shall be settled by a majority vote of the County Central Committee under whose direction such primary election was held. Section 11. Should any candidate violate the rules and regulations of County Central Committee and thereby fraudulently secure the nomination to the office to which he may as-

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pire, the candidate for such office who. shall have received the next highest nufbber of votes provided such candt. date shall not have also fraudulently secured his nomination, shall by a majority vote of said Central Commit, tee be declared the nominee of the party aforesaid to such office. Section 12, Should there be a vacancy occur at any time by removal resignation or death, or should there be a tie vote of any candidate, or ol any candidates nominated, the vacancy shall be filled by a majority vote of the Central Committee at such time as it may then and there agree upon. * Section 13. That the contested ballot and tally sheets shall be placed in a paper bag tied with a string and sealing wax melted and pasted over the knot of the string and delivered to the Inspector, and by him returned to the chairman in the city of Decatur. Indiana, on the day herein before mentioned in section five. Section 14. The names placed on the tickets used in said primary election as referred to in section one, of the rules and regulations shall be arranged in alphabetical order. Section 15. The Chairman of the Central Committee snail have a notice printed for two weeks In the Decatur Democrat, giving names o! offices to he filled by candidates voted for in November, 1909, and voting places tn the next democratic primary election. That if at any time within ten d;ys, any three persons residing within any precinct of said city shall make affidavit jointly -that each of said persons voted in said precinct at said Primary Election, and that he believes that the vote of said precinct was not counted or returned as same was cast, or that the same has not been correctly counted, and request a recount of said precinct, a recount shall be made as follows: A committee of three persons, legal voters of the democratic party shall be appointed ,one by the City Chairman, one by the petitioners and one by the two thus appointed. The committee thus appointed shall make the recount and certify to the result thereof to the full county central committee which shall be called together by the chairman for the purpose of receiving such results, and of Yaking such action as it may deem proper in the premises. JAMES P. HAEFLING, WILLIAM ADLER, L. N. GRANDSTAFF. JOSEPH CHRISTMAN, J. L. YANEY. Committee.