Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1910 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. ■ ■ i i —i —n 1 Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY. ' LEW a ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER — — • —— —— i —~ ( Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier 15.00 Per month, by mall 25 cents Per year, by mall ...12.50 Single Copies 2 cent* Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. LODGE AND THE RAPACIOUS FARMERS After five months of investigation Senator Lodge finds that the high prices are caused by the farmers. He charges them with rushing up the price of eggs 100 per cent, of bacon 70 per cent, of ham one-third, of flour half as much again. Mr. Lodge, Xl.\ Aldrich, and their manufacturer friends, who have done all they could to aid the consumer by raising the tariff and enabling him to pay more for everything he buys, are indignant at the way the farmer has acted. To read the Lodge report you would judge that the farmer is rolling in wealth. He must have been piling up his ill-gotten gains like hay mounds in the fields, while the poor New England manufacturer and the struggling New York railroad owner must worry along with a few* million dollars apiece, and have to ride in automobiles and private cars; the farmer mocks them as he rolls along by in his palatial one-horse wagon on his way to the village s;ore, where he sells ten dozen eggs at a profit of 8 cents a dozen. The average farmer is now piling up wealth at the rate of $372 a < year. He will be shocked and surprised, will gnash his teeth in rage, when he finds that Lodge has exposed him as a malefactor of great wealth. Or, the farmer may be like the ul- i timate consumer and consider the ; Lodge report as the political joke of the season. —Baltimore Sun.

| LEST YOU FORGET--Our Sale Closes July 30 j * ALL CALICOES 51 CENTS PER YARIj| lIBIG REDUCTION IN MUSLIN OUR LADIES WOjOL SUITS WOOL SKITS-A FINE LINE { r BLEACHED $25.00 Suits .... $17.50 We have a few wool skirts in light I ; ;/'v'C TXT 30.00 Suits .... $17.50 JgflL colros that sold from $5.00 to $7.00 i&fcSL \£T\ MUoLIJN 35.00 Suits . . . . $17.50 JES&L V e will clean them up at OQ fir >V 3 18.50 Suits .. . . $14.75 ; the reasonable price of . . OJi33 22. 8c Muslin, sale . . 7c 20.00 Suits . . .• $14.75 —— I 1• • 9c Muslin ’ al ® • 85 14'o Suits •• • • Hose black wool skirts n <w' ) I ! 12V Muslin, sale lie 15.00 Suits .... $10.50 ss.ooand 17.00 Skirts, all *4 Ac y&z&jjpr — 16.50 Suits .... $10.50 new models oOiJJ p 7 c Muslin rales .60 ■ • tS*SO J SkT* $7.60 I J«V r T X'f'ilAM S Ladies’ Shirt Waists iftfiflfw — $7.50 | W0MBBB&\ — We have placed Our Waists in_- M L ’IfUl A SPECIAL SALE ON EMBROIDERIES I UFiiifnr\ b iU 7c Ginghams 6c to two assortments. $1.50, $1.70 Mj l i riVlli | BcGinghams !!. 7c _ d J 2,OO Sbirt Waiste SI.9S Ml ~1l lift TT"?®? 8 -. Ribl »ns, Table Linens; White Goods, | 10c Ginghams .. 8c ci - ‘ ! //i ll " l VIM Lawns, Muslin Underwear, Heather Bloom Skirts, Lace Cur- | ■ a tv T~) j 4-* iff 11 * v |.l till* tains, Purses, Parasols, Hair Switches Ftp There is not a piece of Muslin De- A Big Reduction on I partment that has not been greatly reduced in price. The all Silk Waists and Higher priced TTfY ATfYT TYI7T AAT mn A r-x-r-i xtatU I early shoppers will be the ones who will profit by tnese prices. White Waists. U\J >vJ 1 JL/iL.Lj A1 ~ 1 PAJ3L jN ()\ V | 19 lb. Granulated Sugar SI.OO R&cSn^tfeEl)| FULLEtNKAMF> ’ s — f j

With those pridefui "mugwumps" Lucius B. Swift and William Dudley Foulke running tne republican campaign. what use is there forth% aid of Hons Jim Watson. Jim Hemenway. W. T Durbin, C. W. Fairbanks and other war-worn and battle-scarred veterans of that sort? Never has there been such a catching at straws by drowning people as that exhibited by the republican state candidates, from Beveridge down —or up, as you pleas*. Just now Roosevelt Is the "straw.” And he will be as efficacious in the emergency as other straws —and no more so. The republicans of the First congressional district are certain that Senator Beveridge is a good orator, and they say so in their convention resolutions. How very kind and considerate this all Is. However, they fail to endorse him as a senator, but this of course cuts no ice as long as they love him as an orator. Oh, you harmony. The closing hours of the debate tonight were enlivened by the antics of one of the insurgent senators, who, outside of Washington, is regarded as a paragon of virtue. He had Imbibed too freely of the flowing bowl, and insisted on making a speech. It was with great difficulty that his colleagues were able to keep him under reasonable control. —New York Tribune (Republican). When a good-looking woman from the country climbs into a buggy, the stockings she shows do not fit as trim as those shown in muddy weath er by the town woman. The reason is that the country woman has rolls of bills stuck in her hose that she as received for her chickens, eggs and produce. You don't see any such wads under the town woman’s hose. They fit close and trim, for she has a few dimes and coppers, a lot of goods, samples, a powder rag, all in a thing she calls a purse, which is about the size of a man's suit case.

’ that ah* carries under her arm for \ bluff. —Rochester Sentinel 'The gigantic monopolies of this day have representatives in the hails of congress, whoae sole purpose Is to protect, their interest and to keep open the opportunity they now have to plunder the American public. This was forcibly demoifttrated in the tariff * fight a year ago.”—Senator Brts--3 tow. of Kansas. (Insurgent Rep.) r in making the above statement 1 Senator Bristow only admitted and re- ' peated the truth of what the demor crats have been telling the people for years upon years. As the republican party has been in control of congress, ' in both branches, for sixteen years, t and as all the evils that the insurgent republicans now talk about have a grown up in that time, it' must be * clear that the entire responsibility y rests upon that party. These evils t will never be cured by that party, s On the contrary, they can only be i cured by the party which warned against them and opposed their perpetration. f THE BEST EVER. The La Croix's again pleased a 3 large audience at the Crystal Airdome j last night. They are positively the best that ever struck the town. Tonight will be their last night here, sc ! If you don't want to miss some really * excellent vaudeville don't fail to be at r the Crystal. There will also be some of the best pictures ever shown In the town. High class vaudeville, fine motion pictures, illustrated songs and good music, all at the same old price. 1 Don't miss it. o Rev. Dornsief. from north of the city, was a business caller here today. o - 5 SHOE SHINES—FIVE CENTS. 3 Beginning with Mqpday, Edwin I Knoff. who conducts a shoe-shining stand in front of his father's barber 1 shop on Madison street, will charge five cents for shines. He guarantees s bis work and asks for your patronage, f Give him a call. 166t6 o WANTED —Students to learn teleg 5 raphv. Full course, SSO. Apply ■ third trick operator, G. R. & I. 166t:l

SOCIETY DOINGS Mrs. B. J. Terveer Entertains For Mrs. A. Holthouse of Jonesboro. A KITCHEN SHOWER Given by Miss Minnie Orvis For Miss Schrock —Picnic Party at Grove. i ■ 1 — HARVEST L The plump swain at evening > Bringing home four months' sunshine , bound in sheaves. —Lowell. The threatening weather of Friday ’ afternoon told in the lessening numbers in attendance at the grandmothers' social given by the Mite society 1 in the Methodist church parlors. The ■ interest, however, was above par and the sociAl was one of the mosi delightful of the season. The program was given entirely by the grandmothers and was a very good one. Mrs. ' J. D. Hrle gave an appropriate read- ' ing, "Forty Years Aga;” Mrs. Joun ! Niblick rendered a piano solo, and - Mrs. John Rex gave a history of the ! Mite society, to which the Mesdames : D. D. Heller. John Niblick and J. D. t Hale also contributed with interest- ‘ ing talks. Mrs. G. B. Robinson of Winchester 1 was the guest of honor at a delightful picpic given at Maple Grove park Friday afternoon by her sister, Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker. The party left on the ! 2:30 car, returning on the 7 o'clock car. Guests were Mrs. Thomas Mallonee. Mrs. Waldo Brushwiller. Mrs. David Hunsicker, Mrs. H. L. Merry. Mrs. Ed Ahr, Mrs. Bert Hunsicker. i Mrs. Samuel Doak, Mrs. Lee Annen. : Mrs. Fred Blosser. the Misses Wini- ' fred Ellingham, Iris Robinson, Gladys 1 Graham, Vera Hnnsicker, Leona Hun- > sicker, Louise Teeple. Masters Lloyd Ahr, Donald Hunsicker, Mesdames > Merry and Hutchinson of Sturgis, Mich. The Misses Georgia Meibers Lil--1 lian Harris will be entertained over

Sunday at the home of Mrs B A. Dent at Fort Wayne Mr and Mrs. J J. Wolfe of east of the city will have as their guests over Sunday Mrs. Della Feuer and children, Hattie and John, of Frankfort and Mias Grace Gauze The Preble W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs John T. Baker on next Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. A program will be rendered and a good time enjoyed by the members of this society. Another one of the delightful prenuptial showers and parties given for Miss Nellie Schrock was that of Friday evening, with Miss Minnie Orvis hostess, the Dr. McMillen beautiful home on Winchester street opening its hospitable doors to about forty of Miss Schrock's friends. Very sug gestive of the nature of the affair were the festoons of little pink and white hearts, and the large pink and white heart pierced with an arrow, awinging in the archwava between library, parlors and music rooms. The parlors were adorned with dainty trailing green vines, making the man tel a bower of beauty. The same graceful green vine on the piano and mantels, with pink and white sweet peas in vases and dainty swinging baskets in the bowed window of the music room made that place a fairylike bow er, while a great bowl of nasturtiums. with their rich coloring and pungent odor, graced the librarv. Across a doorway from the library a great white sheet, covered with pink hearts had been hung, and a fish rod, adorned with a bow of pink and white ribbon, was placed in the hands of the bride-to-be with the instruction that she cast it beyond tbe white breakers of the sheet into the depths beyond. She did so and her efforts were crowned with "bite” after "bite"—but the best of all she was successful in bringing each one of the nibblers to tbe shore. *his was perhaps the first inti mation of the bride that the event was a kitchen shower for the fishing rod brought to her pots, settles, pans, and tbe thousand and one tempting things that the manufacurers use to tempt the housewife. Kitchen things are not such prosaic things as many might suppose, and there were all varieties of pretty blue and white, enameled and aluminum ware, kettles, bowls, etc., for concocting those dainties that are said to completely win the masculine heart. During the evening punch was served from the bay

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window in the music room, and this refreshing drink was sipped to the strains of exquisite music, special mention being due to Mrs. Hattie Dixon of Fort Wayne, who sang deligh'fully with piano accompaniment by Mrs. C. J. Lutz. Luncheon was served in two courses. The bride's tabie in the dining room was especially attractive. Here the same chaining colors of pink and white were carried out, the room being unusually lovelv with its rose-colored draperies and the light softened by the rose-colored chandelier hood. Vases of sweet peas, combined with ferns and vines banked the sideboards. The epergne of the bride's table was a cut-glass bowl of sweet peas and ferns, beautiful in its mirror sea. The polished beauty of the table was left in its simplicity save for a centerpiece of handsome Russian lace and plate mats of fine white linen. From the rose-colored chandelier over the center to tbe four corners of the tables were drawn festoons of white and pink crepe paper, and the chair of honor, accorded tj tbe bride-to-be was adorned with streamers in these same colors. Place cards were dainty little floral-embel-ished cards from Strasburg. Germany. With the bride-to-be at this table were

seated her five cousins and her me er, Mrs. e.Wue —...rock, while \. t . I guests were served at little tab;,, ; throughout the rooms. The hosiers vas assisted in serving by the Mils* Bessie Boyers, Helen Niblick and Ma Dick Wallace of Oaxaca. Mexico Mrs. Anthony Holt house of Jatte boro. Ark., was the guest of hosoat a bouse party given Friday eraing by Mrs. B. J. Terveer at her Lornon Madison street. The guests iaf beet* invited to come and spend :n evening in progressive peanuts. »mc; proved to be very entertaining fro# beginning to end. Tbe home was xm attractively decorated with floiaj and ferns, which made a very pretty appearance. Just the intimate frrenis of Sirs. Holthouse were presen* ass the gathering was one of much pleasure. Prizes during the evening »«t awarded to Mrs. R. J. Holthouse. Mrs Helen Berling, Mrs. J. H. Yoglewode receiving the consolation prize aw Mrs. Anthony Holthouse the pies: prize. iJiter in the evening a delicious three-course luncheon was served. The Misses Florence and Irene Holthouse, grandchildren, assisted :c---hostess in serving the lunch. The or(Continue Con page 4.)