Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1910 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Pubil«h»d Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LBW a ELL I M 0 H A M Subeorlptlon Rates; Per week, by carrier........ 10 cante Per year, by carrtea............|5.00 Per month, by mail. ...........26 cents Per year, by mail *2.50 Single copies ...2 cents Advertising rates iuad« known on application. Entered at the’postotlkts at Deoatur, fadlana, as second-eiase mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. THAT TIRED FEELING We had much talk and loud talk last fall, and even after congress met, about the retrenchment policy of the administration and the prospective economy of congress, but an experienced public was inclined to take it all with at least a grain of salt. If there was really to be economy, so much the better; but if there was not —well, extravagance was to be expected, and there was nothing to do but to grin and bear it until next November. The people generally expect nothing in the way of economy, and they are not likely to be disap-

pointed. It was, of course, encouraging to learn that the president was requiring all the departments to cut their estimates to the bone; it was fine to hear that there was to be no river and harbor. and perhaps no public building bill, and it was interesting to hear Mr. Tawney eloquently set forth his program of national economy. * * And why, good sooth, should the public expect anything else? The old guard, which is to say the old gang, is still in control. The people have stood for this sort of thing often before, so why not again? But there is an end to all patience, even of the people's patience, and there are signs everywhere that the people are tired of having their money used as if it did not cost anything; they are tired of official extravagance; they are tired of the extortionate tariff; they are, in fact, tired of everything that has saddled on them the present enormous cost of living, and they are especially tired of the men responsible for it. ?ÜBgW. .1- . 2— "If the republican party stands or falls by the Payne tariff bill, it will fall,” says the Indianapolis Star (Rep.) As one faction of the republican party stands by the Payne bill and another faction refuses to stand by it, there is nothing for the party to

Bant Sale I anal Inventory I tort ends of | ■)ods and Cotton I als 1 e made up into I 5 these at about I Galling Early /laterals large shipments iring. New silk erserized, Fan- ! and fancy. I I Complete showing-New Ginghams, Red Seal, Bates, Amoskeag Utilities, Everett i I Classics, Barnalb Zyphrs. Prices from 8, I 10, I INiblick. <fc Company. |

do except to fail. And that is precisely what the country expects to happen. Not only that, but it Is the very thing that should happen. Neither of the republican factions represents the real sentiment of the people on the tariff question. Relief from trust domination and robbery is the demand of the time, and this will not come from either the standpatters or the Insurgents, both of whom avow eternal fealty to the doctrine that it is proper to enact a law whereby a few persons are enabled to tax all the rest for their own private profit. TEN P. M. TONIGHT Is the Limit for Candidates to Make the Extra Vote Offer. $50.00 MEANS 200,000 Oppoutrunty to Use Old and New Subscrptions Will Not Come Again.

Tonight' will end the last chance that any of the contestants will have to use both old and new subscriptions to make bonuses for extra votes during the contest. Old subscriptions after tonight at 10 o’clock will only count the regular schedule from then on until the end of the contest, but there may be an offer for new subscriptions only, whereby you can get extra votes on new subscriptions. But here is your golden opportunity to get in all the old business that you have or expect to have, as it gives you the advantage of the extra votes. Just think of it! A little over two weeks remain fn which to secure votes any more to win the automobile or any of the other valuable prizes. It will pay you well if you do have to devote half of your time from now on to securing subscriptions to the Democrat, if you can win the automobile and there is no reason w r hy you cannot do it, as it is not going to be hard to win. There could be such a thing as a candidate starting in right now, and having real good luck, to go out and devote every minute of their time to getting subscriptions for the next two weeks and winning the automobile. But just stop and think where a candidate can get to that is already in and has been winning the bonuses all the way through the contest, in the next two weeks, who will just devote even half of his time to the contest, and then be nicely rewarded for work with a nice automobile. Remember that the time is short now and that you can almost count the remaining days on your 1 fingers.

THE SOCIAL NOTES Masquerade Surprise Party for Joe and Beulah Fuhrman Given A PLEASANT EVENT Mrs. Roy Archbold Will Entertain the Thimble Club s Thursday Afternoon The Rev. Richard Spetnagel left this morning for Rockford, Ohio, where he will officiate at the wedding of J. Lloyd and Miss Hazel Schultz, which will take place this evening, the wedding party being friends of the Spetnagels, with whom he was associated during his pastorate at Rockford. Mrs. Roy Archbold will entertain the members of the Thimble club Thursday afternoon. The joint, celebration today of the seventy-second birth anniversary of Thomas Fisher and the thirty-eighth birthday of his daughter, Mrs. Alice Syphers of Fort Wayne, which took place at the Fisher home in this city, with a family dinner party today, was »■ a most enjoyable one. Conversation bringing to mind many reminiscences of the days when the family was young, and all around the family fireside, were enjoyed, and at noon a dinner fit for a king, was served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyers and Mrs. L. L. Syphers of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Bern Stetler of Peterson, Mrs. Anna Buhler of Marion, and Jacob Eady and family. Mrs. T. M. Reid is being entertained for a few days at the home of her sister, Mrs. Nellie Boyles, at Fort Wayne. The Ladies' Aid society of the Church of Christ will be entertained Friday afternoon by Mrs. Jacob Eady at her home on Tenth street. All members are urged to be present. O. A. Wemhoff, local agent for the Prudential Insurance company, has received an invitation asking himself and company to attend an informal business meeting and dinner to be given for the staff of the Fort Wayne district Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, February 24th, at the Hotel Anthony. Mr. Wemhoff will attend. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yager gave a delightful dinner party at their home west of Peterson Sunday. Those present were Bessie and Hiipert High, Margaret Longenberger, Ina Martin, Viola Hoover, Edward Miller, Ernest

Longenberger, Floyd Ixmgenberger, Lester High and Homer Ginter. Mrs. Arthur Ford and son of Muncie and Mrs. D. M. Hower were entertained at dinner today by Mrs. J. O. Sellemeyer. Joe Fuhrman and hie sister, Miss Beulah, were given a most pleasant surprise party last evening a* the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fuhrman, in Root township. The event was planned in honor of the sixteenth birthday anniversary of Miss Huelah, which, however, does not come until Friday, but as Joe was to return to his work at Plymouth today, the party was given last evening, being in the nature of a farewell to him also. The jolly crowd of friends all masked, gathered early in the evening at a neighbor's home and then went to the Fuhrman home, where the unsuspecting two gave them a heart greeting in spite of their great surprise, and all much enjoyed the social time and the tasty lunch which was served. The costumes and characters portrayed were quite novel and it took many a minute before all were “guessed.” The following attended the party and extended best wishes to the honored ones: Misses Ellen Crill, Edith and Salome Rice, Hattie and Annice Wilder, Bertha Fuhrman, Ethel Ruckman, Naomi Butler; Messrs. Ralph Crill, Otto Rice, Charles and Curt Fritzinger, Herbert Butler, John and Noah Sheets, Lloyd Davis, Frances, Oscar, Clark and Milton Fuhrman, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fuhrman and family and Mrs. H. E. Bugler.

THE COURT NEWS I : Judge Merryman Transacted I Some Business | Here Tuesday Evening i THE TONY BUBB CASE J 1 Was Called in Court at Bluffr i ton Today on a Plea of Abatement—Other News X - f The cases entitled the Old Adams I County Bank vs. S. S. and R. C. Mills, on note, and Benjamin F. Sarwood vs. F. C. and R. C. Mills, on note, and at- , tachment, have been dismissed and I the costs paid. Clayton H. Love, administrator of t the estate of Lusetta Love estate, has „ filed his final report an was discharg- , ® d - Ed Hall, guardian for Sybil! Hall, ’ filed his current report, which was allowed by the court. John T. Kelley, guardian for Jacob Fogle, filed an inventory of the personal property. Clayton H. Love has been appointed guardian for Imo and Lowell Love and filed bond In the sum of $2,000. He also filed an inventory of the personal property. The suit of the administrator of the estate of Anthony Bubb against the Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway Company, in which damages in the sum of SIO,OOO are demanded for the killing of Anthony Bubb by a trolley I car at Nine Mile, this county, two • years ago, will come up in the Wells circuit court at Bluffton Wednesday on a plea in abatement filed by the traction company. Attorney Gus Colerick will appear for the Bubb estate and Attorney B. F. Heaton represents the railway company. The case was once tried at Auburn, but the jury disagreed. It was then dismissed and ! a new suit entered. It is said efforts are being made to reach a settlement I without further litigation. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. Real estate transfers: Andrew Mili ler to Fmyt Wayne & Springfield Railway Co., acres, Washington tp., $1.00; Wm. H. Graham to Dallas I Grim, 1 acre, Washington tp., $150; , Samuel A. Barber to John H. Striker, lot 362, Berne, SI,OOO. I Articles of incorporation of the Holt- | house, Schulte & Co. clothing store wcie iecu.dea. Ihc capital stock is . SIO,OOO, and the members of the comI pany are Peter Holthouse, Henry Schulte and W. P. Schrock. Judge Merryman of Decatur will be here Friday, at which time he will hear the blind tiger cases against Mason Reiff. The case will be a hardfought affair. There has been considerable conjecture regarding the possibilities of Clark, the detective, coming here. —Bluffton Banner.

ONLY ONE WEEK Bov’s and Children s Clothing Sale Ends February 26th This sale is reducing sale; ' and our prices are so uncommonly low that we are surely making things move. Many of our customers wonder why we offer such great values at such unreasonably low prices. We are doing it to reduce our stock and convert it into cas . Here Are Some of Our Moving Prices Boy’s Knee Pants 19c Boys Sweaters . . 19c Boy’s Caps . . 19u Men’s Work Coats 89c Men’s Work Pants 98c Men’s Boy’s and Children’s Suits, the last of a lot at Half Price. Men’s, Boy’s and Children’s Overcoats at 30 per cent off. 50c ties 39c;’25c ties 19c VANCE, HITE & MACKLIN Comer East of Court House - - - Decatur, Indiana

TO BE SATURDAY The Adams County Spelling Contest to be Held at Berne MANY WILL ATTEND Great Interest has Been Manifested in This Great Event

The Adams county spelling contest, which has been the source of prime interest in the schools of the county. > will occur at Berne on Saturday. County Superintendent Opliger has the arrangements In hand and everything is ready for the big event. It will begin at 9 o’clock in the morning, a short program to be rendered along with the event of the day, the spelling contest. Two representafrom each of the twelve townships will compete for the grand priz eand the honor of being the best speller ' in the county. Every township will likely be represented at the Berne meeting and it is so arranged that those going from this city and the northern part of the county can rei turn here on the afternoon train, the : same reaching here at 3:07. This will : give ample time for the contest, and those attending are assured of a most enjoyable day. '— o — NOTICE. i Just received —Three car loads of anthracite coal, chestnut and furnace. , 'Phone 495. G. H. Wagoner. 40t6 NOTICE. > There will be no mid-week prayer i meeting oh account of the lecture • to be given at the M. E. church this evening by Mrs. Sibbits of Kansas. Let all the members join in this noble work of the W. C. T. U. REV. D. O. WISE. I o Three young men, Messrs. Charles ■ Gates, Baker and Kitson left today ■ for Chicago, where they will meet ■ Cal Meyers and the four will proceed ■ to Mott, North Dakota, where they expect to engage in farming.

I I Shoe and Trouser Sale Begins Feb. 19, and Continues Tw® Weeks '2o|Per jeent Reduction on our “Entire Line of Shoes,” on our STOCK of TROUSERS.« Yours JSineerely LEHMAN&SPRUNGER Monroe, Indiana.

~l EVERYONE is pleaded. *" T inculding ourselves, because ° r ” I V'} Phased if our patrons profit by °“ r /"L J TITrfJ i'L work and receive genuine sati^ t3C ' r - Nrwi* 11 ~, ill 11l J t-d-i . tion. We clean and press a sui 01 iHlJni. men's clothing, or a lady's tailoi ul * wyJwß* i dress, in a manner that makes it If mm . .«•«< like new, at a liberal price. The Regis French Dry Cleaning Company Local Agents— The Misses Bowfrs Millinery, Decatu’ 1 w H. JOHNSTON’S Institute of ~ Osteopathy BRANCH 5 OFF?CE F R OOrS^oaf Bd g- Fort Wayne, IA vrriL «> Room io, Interurban Bdg. De catflr