Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1910 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW GL ELLINGHAM Subscription Rates; Per week, by carrierlo crate Per year, by carries ..s6Mo Per month, by mail2s cents Per year, by mail ..*2 50 Single copies 8 cents Advertising rates made known on application. "Entered at the posSifflce at Decatur, Ihdiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELL E R. ManagerE. M. Lee, the new chairman of the republican state committee, is an undertaker, and now we wonder If there is any significance in the selection. If the party in Indiana is to be “laid out" there is nothing like having an expert to do the job. Farmers who are paying high prices for lands these days should exercise some care. They should be careul not to put too large a mortgage upon their purchases. Present prices are not going to last always and it will not be so easy to remove the mortgage as it is to put it on the land.—Columbia City Post. t The democratic editors have decreed just what every other citizen in the state has previously decreed, and that is that Governor Marshall would make a safe and victorious leader for the democracy in the next presidential campaign. As chief executive of the state he has shown that statesmanship that not only endears him to his own people, but the eye of the nation is attracted, and the public may expect to hear much of him as the leader and candidate of his party in the next national contest. BANK STATEMENT. J. F Hocker, president M. F. Panish, vice president Menno S. Liechty, cashier. C. E. Bollinger, assistant cashier. Report of the condition of the Monroe State bank, a state bank at Monroe, in the state of Indiana, at the close of its business on January 31, 1910. Resources, Loans and Di5c0unt5177,376.47 Overdrafts 126.08 Banking House 3,572.28 Furniture and Fixtures 2,225.46 Due from Banks and Trust Companies 4,767.61 Cash on hand 3,590.16 Current expenses ..81,622.56 Taxes paid 406.74 2,029.30 Interest paid 1,516.66 Total Resources >95,204.02 Liabilities. Capital Stock —pain in>25,000.00 Surplus 200.00 Undivided Profits 43.49 Demand deposits ..>24,241.30 Demand certificates 33,975.22 58,216.52 Bills Payable 7,000.00 Exchange, discounts, etc.... 4,744.01 Total Liabllties >95,204.02 State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. • . I, Menno S. Liechty, cashier of the Monroe State bank, do solemnly affirm that the above statement is true. MENNO S. LIECHTY. Subscrbed and affirmed to before me, this 4th day of February, 1910. A. B. BAILEY, Notary Public. My commission expires November , 20, 1911. o HOME CURE FOR ECZEMA. * • 1 Does it not seem strange that so ( many people suffer year in and year , out with eczema? A 25-cent bottle of a simple wash stops the itch and will surely con- , vince any patient. This wash is composed of mild and , soothing oil of Wintergreen mixed with thymol of glycerine, etc., and , known as D. D. D. Prescription. We do not know how long the D. D. D.| Laboratories will continue the 25c offer, as the remedy Is the regularly sold only in >I.OO bottles and has never before been put cn the market at any special offers. If you want relief tonight, try a bottle nt ?«;(• on our personal recommendation. Smith, Yager & Falk. Foley’s Kidney Remedy wll cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble that is not beyond the reach ot medicine. It invigorates the entire system and strengthens the kidneys so they eliminate the impurities of the, 1 blood. Backache, rheumatism, kid-! ney and bladder troubles are all cured by this great medicine. | ‘

THE SOCIAL NOTES t Howard Wisehaupt Entertains Members of Senior ’ Class of High School. I i — ' ROYALLY GOOD TIME I ■ Mr. and Mrs. Gilpen Honored Guests at Cardwell — Other Social Notes. —— . i Kindness is the golden chain by , which society is bound together.— ‘ Goethe. I 1 A goodly number were present at the regular session of the Christian Ladies’ Aid society at the home of Mrs. G. T. Burke on First street Friday afternoon. The ladies are sewing on articles for their Easter sale and Friday advanced heir results in a i great measure. After the work period . a pleasant social hour was spent and a delicious lunch served. 1 Miss Dysinger, superintendent of the Marion hospital, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Shoemaker and family of North Fifth street over Sunday. From Cardwell. Mo., comes the following item of particular interest to Decatur folk: Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Vail delightfully entertained a number of their friends on Sunday in . honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wash Gilpen. who have just moved to Cardwell from Decatur, Ind. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Simon Loeb, Joe Jacobson, James Culberson, E. Willis. E A. Vail. The class party given Friday evening by Howard Wisehaupt at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J D. Wisehaupt on Nuttman avenue was thoroughly enjoyed by every one of the stniors and their teachers present and will go down in the class annals as one of the particularly bright spots in the school days. A flower wedding was one of the pretty as well as interesting contests, in which the story of a wedding is told, the blanks to be filled by the names of flowers There was all kinds of amusements and music and Jollity, such as is known only to happy student life. Mrs. Wisehaupt served very dainty and delicious refreshments of ice cream with nougats, cake, sweet grape juice, crackerjack and fudge. Those who shared the pleasures were the teachers —the Misses Rose Dunathan, Nora Del Smith, Bess Schrock and Annette Johnson, the sixteen members of the senior class —Homer Raudenbush. Fred Meyers. Free Frisinger, Frank Mills, Don Burke, Bruce Patterson, Howard Wisehaupt, Alma Kooken. Caroline Dowling. Perth Crays. Effie Patton, Irene Evans, Lilly Teeple, Dorothy Walters, Anna Winans. Hazel Sowers, with Inez Snellon of Willshire, Ohio, as an out of town guest. One of the attractive and beautiful features of the song service at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning will be the vocal solo to be given by Mr. Leo Wood. NOTICE TO BIDDERS. Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of Decatur will at their council room in said city on Tuesday, the 15th day of February, 1910, up to 7 o’clock p. m., receive bids for hauling coal for the period of one year, for furnishing coal to the city for the period of one year, furnishing oil to the city of Decatur for one year, drayage for said city for one year and sweeping the streets iin said city for the period of four years. All bids shall be accompanied by bond or certified check in the sum of [fifty dollars, as assurance that bidder will enter into contract as per bld. | The City Council reserves the right ,to reject any and all bids. Witness my hand this 3rd day of February, 1910. H. M. DeVOSS, City Clerk. Feb.s-11-14 o Leave your address or goods with 'Misses Bowers’ millinery. I will collect or quote you prices tor the French Dry Cleaning Co., Fort Wayne, every Thursday and return the next.—O. D. Manship. 3it3 —o ■ ——. LOST —Friday night between M. E. j church and 321 N. Fifth street black fur neckpiece. Reward for return to Gretta Shoemaker at above address. 31t6 ■■ ■■ FOLEYSKIDKEYPIIIS K»» Bacsachc KiefasnaMs Blaobkw

I PRESIDENT HELPS ORPHANS. Hundreds of orphans have been helped by the president of the Industrial and Orphans’ Home at Magon, • Ga.. who writes: "We have used Electric Bitters In this institution for nine years It has proved a most excellent medicine for stomach, liver and kidney troubles. We regard it as one of the best family medicines on earth.’ It invigorates ull vital organs, purl- ■ ties the blood, aids digestion, creates appetite. To strengthen and build up pale, thin, weak children or run down . people it has no equal. Best for female complaints. Only 50c. At all druggists. PLAN ANEW ARMY Will Increase the Number' t But the Garrisons are to be More Concentrated. i USE NATIONAL GUARD i Tt Will Require About Six Years to Complete Big Military Change. (United Press Service.) The United Press is today able to give the principal features of the forth- ' coming retort of the reorganization of the regular army. The report will censure the present plan of the army, which is scattered in small garrisons over the country and will arraign the "Pork barrel” method of military appropriations. Among the things the general staff wants are: Five new regiments each year; the doing away with the various posts and the concentration of the army into four garrisons, the uniting of the national guard and the regular army so that a higher degree of discipline can be brought about, putting the guard practically under the seventy-six garrisons. The new plan will be completed within six years. e — SAVED FROM AWFUL PERIL. “I never felt so near my grave, ’ , writes Lewis Chamblin, of Manchester, Ohio, R. R. No. 3, "as when a frightful cougn and lung trouble pulled me down to 115 pounds in spite of many remedies and the best doctors. And that I am alive today is due solely to Dr. King's New Discovery, which completely cured me. Now I weigh 160 pounds and can work hard. It also cured my four children of croup.” Infallible for coughs, colds. It’s the most certain remedy for lagrippe, asthma, desperate lung trouble and all bronchial affections, 50c and >I.OO. A trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. o —- FOR SALE—A BARGAIN. Six room cottage house, in good condition, good drove well, good cistern, good cellar, some fruit, full sized lot, within the railroads, in good location, owner is moving away and will give you a bargain if sold before Saturday, January 29th. For further information call on or ’phone 430, above Burns' harness store. 20t6 FRUCHTE & LITTERER. 152 ACRES. 152 cleared and under high state of cultivation. Every foot good black land, good drainage, fair fences, good orchard, good buildings, story frame house, 7 rooms, two large barns, large corn crib, granary and in fact every outbuilding that Is needed on a farm. On stone street, 40 rods from sugar factory, just at the eldge of the city of Saginaw. This as good a farm as lays out of doors. A great bargain $13,500 Saginaw has a population of 65,000. It Is the largest factory town in the state of Michigan. MICHIGAN LAND CO. Care S. E, Shamp. o Bowers & Niblick Grain Co. deals in all kinds of farm seeds. 3tf Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is a very valuable medicine for throat and lung troubles, quickly relieves and cures painful breathing and a dangerously sounding cough which indicates conwested lungs. Sold by all dealers. FOR SALE —Full blood Duroc Jersey male hog. A good one. Will sell at right price. Ben Eiting, R. F. D. No. 2, Decatur; telephone 5C 296-t6 o Chamberlain’s cough remedy is not a common, every-day cough mixture. It is a meritorious remedy for all the troublesome and dangerous complications resulting from cold in the head, throat, chest or lungs. Sold by all dealers. oDemocrat Want Ads. Pay

OLD WORLDARMIES Drafting Methods by Which Their Strength Is Maintained. TRICKS OF THE CONSCRIPTS. All Manner of Dodge* Ar# Adopted by the Eligible Young Men to Avoid the Enforced Military Service That la So Hateful to Them. We bear a good deal abet;* conscrip-' tlon. but few people know what It actually means. In no country is every I person who is able to fight drafted i into the army. All males who are liable to serve undergo a physical examination. resulting in only a certain number being passed as tit for service. No government has sufficient funds < ' to draft the whole of these men into I the regular army, so a selection is made by ballot the number of men en- ’ rolled varying according to the funds in the bands of the authorities. The pay provided for the conscript is necessarily very trifling indeed and . will not compare with that paid to vol-1 unteer soldiers. In fact it is generally ' true that the conscript must fall back upon his private means. The methods vary in each country. But take the case of one European power. Every male subject not physically incapacitated is liable to enter the army at the age of twenty, although those who care to enlist may do »o at eighteen. A register is kept of all the youths who reach the age of twenty in the particular year. Men under five feet two inches in height are exempt from service. as well, of course, as those who suffer from natural infirmities which render them unsuitable for active service. Other men are also exempt if they have helpless dependents — thus the only son of a widow or of a disabled father, the latter category also including the only son of a father who is above seventy years of age. Then the eldest of a family of orphans is exempt. and in the case of two sons only one is liable, there being various other exemptions. The term served by the conscript is one of twenty-five years, three years being spent in the regular army, six and one-half in the army reserve, six in the territorial army and the remaining nine and a half years in the territorial reserve, all liability to service ceasing at forty-five. The service is frequently so hated that all manner of methods are adopted in order to avoid it In many cases substitutes are provided by the wealthy, though there are stringent regulations with regard to the provision of the substitutes. in most European countries military malingering in order to avoid compulsory military service has reached the stage of a fine art. In fact, a formidable list of new crimes bas been added to the statutes as a result, and medical men frequently have to suffer for their assistance in this particular kind of fraud. Thus some time ago a number of Cologne doctors were arrested upon a charge of having administered pills to young conscripts. These pills consisted of drugs wbicb produced tbe symptoms of heart disease so effectively as completely to deceive the military authorities. with tbe result that the conscripts were declared unfit for service. In this case tbe fraud was brought to light by one of the conscripts dying as a result of an overdose of tbe medicine. In Germany, where tbe conscript is frequently treated with the greatest harshness, there are very few towns where there are not specialists whose living depends solely in inducing such a condition of affairs as will render young men exempt by reason of unfitness. In the French army it is quite common for youths to feign all manner of ills, deafness being tbe usual ailment trusted to in order to escape tbe service. As a result the military doctors have made an especial study of methods of detecting feigned deafness and to trap tbe cunning youth who acts tbe part of a deaf man. Another common practice in France Is to tamper with the eyesight though this frequently results in permanent Injury. For instance, short sight Is produced by wearing powerful concave glasses for a considerable time despite tbe risk of bringing about permanent blindness. It is no uncommon occurrence for men to commit suicide rather than submit to forced service in the army. In eastern Europe most brutal methods are adopted by parents in order that their sons may be able to work for them instead of serving in the army. Tbe boys are frequently ill treated, and it is not at ail uncommon even for their limbs to be broken or their sight to be destroyed in order to prevent any likelihood of their having to become soldiers. Switzerland probably bas the cheapest army and the least burdensome methods of conscription, tbe service being much lighter than in the other continental armies. Indeed, the conscript tn the iuiantry army nas to undergo actual training for only 135 days during the entire period of his service. <— Philadelphia Ledger. Knew Her Minutes. Bridget—Will yez have your dinner now. sorr. or wait for the missus? Head of tbe House-Wbere is your mistress, Bridget? Bridget—There’s an auction beyant tbe corner, sorr. an* she said she’d stop there for a mlnntt. Head of the House—Have dinner now, Bridget—New York Son.

AT THE CHURCHES ST. MARYS CHURCH Low mass 8 a. m. High mass It a. m. Christian doctrine 2.20 P ®- Vespers 3 P n» EVANGELICAL CHURCH. — Sabbath school at 9:30 a. m. i Preaching and communion services ( lat 10:30 a. m. I Y. P. A. will meet at 6p. m., Gladys Kern, leader. I Preaching and baptismal services a’7 p. m. The presiding elder Wise will i preach in each of the services. Everybody welcomed to these meet j ings. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 9:15 a. m., Bible school 10:30 a. m., morning worship. Third in series on general subject I I • Christian Mathemetics.’’ | A rare treat awaits the members ’of the congregation. Mr. Leo Wood will delight us at the morning service with one of his solos. He has a sweet and beautiful voice and should be beard by all. The offering for foreign missions will be received at the morning and evening services 6:00 p. m., C. E. 7:00 p. m./evening service. Remember that tomorrow will be tbe day for our special Sabbath school offering. You are cortdally invited to I the services of our church. .... —-o — GERMAND REFORMED. 9:30, Sunday school, lesson Matt. 6:1-15. 10:30, German service, text, John 4:7-9. 6:30, C. E. meeting, topic, ‘The Model Christian Endeavorer.” John 15:1-8. 7:<M>, English service, text. Gen. 15:7-18, "The Confirmation of Faith.” The Ministerial association will meet at the library Monday, 1:30. Paper by Rev. Spetnagel. o METHODIST CHURCH. It is the occasion of the fourth quarterly meeting. Saturday evening, brief revival serv- : ice. Sunday, 9-15 a. m., Sunday school, led by C. L. Walters. 10:30 a. m., reception of members on probation into full connection and by letter. Baptism of children and the sacrament of the Lord’s supper. 3 p. m.. Sunday school board. 6 p. m., Epworth League. 7 p. m., revival service; preaching , by the Rev. C. U. Wade, D. D. Monday evening, quarterly confer- , ence. p — UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH. I ——- Sunday school, 9:15 a. m. Preaching, 1:30 a. , Y. P. C. U., 6p. m. Sermon, 7 p. m. Official board meeting Monday ng1 Prayer meeting Wednesray evening. The teachers’ training class win i , meet Thursday evening. ! A welcome for all. Come and go with us. The new members should attend all the services. ' L I I Don’t Owe Everybody I 1 It’s bad business policy. Owejoue man and let that one be us. Your bills then will never bother you. We loan money on any good chattel security such as Furniture,Pianos Horses, etc. ; We give a liberal discount i [ on all loans paid off be- [ fore due. 1 If you need money fill out the following blank, cut it out and mall tt to us. Our agent la in Deoatm every Tuesday. Kama ' Address Am’t Wanted ..... Kind of Security Reliable Private > FL Wayne Loan Company Fort Wayne, Ind — | i

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Notice I We have a number of SECOND HAND BUGGIES that we will offer special low prices ;onj for the next ten days. Come and see us. ATZ A STEELE North Second Street. notice. R. B. Gregory, agent for the Little Hoosier Butter merger, will demonstrate it from Z to 5 Saturday afternoon at the Baker & Pennington meat market It will make two pounds of butter out of one pounb and a pint of milk. ■— GREAT DROP IN EGGS. F. V. Mills stated this morning that eggs had made a great drop in the ( local market. Tuesday the price was J thirty-tkree cents. Today it is twen-ty-eight whereas about two weeks ago they were paying thirty-five to thirty- 1 six cents. Eggs were higher this year, he said, than they had been for twen-, ty or twenty-five years. —' ’ o See Bowers & Niblick Grain Co. for timothy, cloved and alfalfa seed 3tf

THE CRYSTAL | “NEW SHOW” W. H. JOHNSTON’S Institute of Osteopathy Main office Fourth Floor Shoaf Bdg. Fort Wayne, incBRANCH OFFICE, Room io, Interurban Bdg. Decatut. —__ ~

Boys and Girls I*™ 1 *™ would TO OWN A DANDY BICYCLE? We will give any boy- or girl a ffrst class bicycle Free. All we ask is a few hours work afterschool. Write for secret. State age. Self-Help Club, Box 114, 4 West 29th street New York Citv.

Take Heed Why endanger your property and the lives of your family by using gasoline for fuel and light when G/YS , is Safer, Cheaper, .More C® nvent. Contract eor GAS Indiana

First National I Bank of Decatur I Interest bearing certificates Jof deposit issued,7payable 'on demand at three per I cent per annum left for six months. j»Four per cent interest given on certificates left for one year. »> j* F ING-LIFE SAFER: I Everywhere life is being nidt I more safe through the work of Or. I Kings New Life Pills in constipate I biliousness, dyspepsia, indigestiot. I liver troubles, kidney diseases and I I bowel diserders. They're easy, ta I sure and perfectly build up the healtk I 25c, at all druggists Democrat Want Ads. Pay |

ACCOUNTS AT J. H. STONES ■ 111 11 Accounts due me ha»e been left with J. H. Stone for collection. If you are on the list please call at his o* fice and arrange same as soo» as possible. FRED B.