Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1911 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening, Except Sunday By •ECATUa DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 16.00 Per Month by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall >2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. THERE ARE NO FLIES ON THE CITY OF LAPORTE Laporte, which was recently visited by the Democratic Editorial association, is a splendid city of twelve or fifteen thousand people. Surrounded by the many lakes that abound in northern Indiana, and being a rich, agricultural region as well, its beauty and splendor may well be imagined. Broad and well-paved streets, shaded with beautiful maples, commodious homes and substantial business blocks, tells the tale of a rich and busy city and a happy and prosperous people. While this is true at this time, ypt they say, and the records substantiate them, that five years ago Laporte was a sleepy county seat, content to exist, and to exist, too, without any apparent license and especially without any effort to make Laporte a better city. But they had a change of heart. New officials came on the scene and new men began the agitation of a better Laporte. It worked like magic. They organized for more and better factories, for improvements, both public and private, and soon every one had that peculiar spirit that wins the day in this mad rush of progress. In the last five years their population has grown several thousand, and at; the present writing you can not rent! a house in that hustling little city for j money, marbles or chalk, and excep-' tional inducements are being offered to capital that will come there and invest in property and the building of more homes for the housing of a constant growth that is theirs and which is as substantial as the rock of Gibraltar. When the editorial party reached that city they found it decorated from stem to stern, the cost of this item alone being several hundred dollars. At the reception to the visitors, every one turned out and their glad hand seemed big and hearty and made one feel that there was but one place in Indiana and that was Laporte. More than ninety automobiles were supplied to take the party to the factories, and around the city and surrounding country. A banquet was given them, the caterers and service all being supplied

SOME women want to vote but we never heard of one who wanted to mend stockings. And there is absolutely no need of it, if she will insist that the men of the family wear Holeproof Hose. They are guaranteed against any sort of a hole for six month’s. Only one thing to guard against, and that is to get the original Holeproof yellow boxes. 6 prs, for $1.50 All Colors See Window Display THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY LEADING Clothiers & Furnishers

from Chicago, and it js said that this pleasant evening’s entertainment cost M. Rumley & Co., who gave it, more than a thousand dollars. All this seems just a bit extravagant, but don’t you catch the drift of what is going on In Laporte. They entertained newspaper men and women from every corner of the state, and since that event column after column of newspaper space has been devoted to the beauty and greatness of Laporte. So it pays to do things well. This little story is told that Decatur and the readers of the Democrat may know what is going on around them. Not many years ago was a city about the same size and population as is Decatur today. See the point? There is a petition under preparation which will be promiscously circulated and which will ask the board of county commissioners to delay the repair of the Monroe street bridge until after the annual meeting of the county council, asking them for an apjpropriation for a new bridge. This is | a worthy enterprise and one that de- ' serves well of the officials, and if the I public takes up the enterprise they I will doubtless succeed in getting it. SOCIAL DOING Miss Faye Smith Will Entertain the Black Rag Club. i A SURPRISE PARTY Given for Bereneta Reynolds . Miss Genevieve Berling Receives Prize. The Gossip. You’ll never find time to wash your own windows if you’re constantly searching for smudges on your neighbor's panes.—Herbert Kaufman. WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Monday. Ruth Circle —Jessje Magley. Tuesday. 1 M. E. Missionary Convention —M. E. Church. Wednesday. German Reformed Aid—Mrs. Wil- ' liam Breiner. I Evangelical Aid —Mrs. E. B. Macy. M. E. Missionary Convention —M. E Church. Thursday. Black Rag—Faye Smith. Helping Hand —German Reformed Church. Baptist Aid—Harve Shroll. Helping Hand —Mrs. Reuben Lord. Penny Social —U. B. Parsonage. Friday. Presbyterian Aid —Mrs. Wilson Lee. Little Quilters —Martha Heckman.

At the annual commencement of the ' Sacred Heart Academy held at the Ma I jestic theater, Fort Wayne, Monday | afternoon a class of eleven received ! diplomas. The younger students of the academy assisted in renderihg mu-' s'cal numbers, among them being the Misses Agnes Kohne and Genevieve Berling of this city, who weertwo of | four in a two-piano work for eight hands. The first-year prize in Latin . was awarded to Miss Genevieve Ber-; ling, daughter of Mrs. Helen Berling, I of this city, who also received honor- i able mention in the art, art needle-. ■work and plain sewing classes. A. | Kohne was also a prize-winner in the art fancy work and plain sewing de-; partment. i The Black Rag club will meet on Thursday afternoon with Miss Faye Smith. ■ The members of the Ruth Circle of the Christian church, with Miss Fern Chandler of Logansport as an out-of-town guest, held their regular monthly meeting Monday evening with Miss Jessie Magley. Among the business matters brought up. was the arrang-, ing for the purchase, to be made from the class fund, of a pair of crutches for a little boy who has been a ''shutin” during the past winter on account of being crippled with rheumatism. A social time, with refreshments, follow-1 ed the business period. The July meeting will be with the Misses Vivian and Mildred Dawson. Twenty or more of the members of ; the local Royal Neighbors’ camp drove to Tocsin Monday afternoon, there being two hack loads. Tocsin they Initiated two candidates and spent a royally good eventng as guests of the Tocsin lodge, which has been

but recently Installed. Refreshments J of ice cream and cake were served. | The Decatur party reached home at ' 1 o'clock this morning. Miss Bessie DeVilbiss has returned from Evanston, 111., where she has been attending the Northwestern University.—Fort Wayne News. The Ladles’ Aid society of the Ger- ■ man Reformed church which meets toJ morrow with Mrs. William Breiner, ■ east of the city, is looking forward to i another social gathering which they ' always enjoy when invited to this popular home. The members will meet i at the church at 1 o’clock and then I drive to the Breiner home, where they | will spend the afternoon in their regular business session, attending to such j business affairs as will come up beI fore them. They will be entertained at supi>er at the Breiner home, which will be one of-the main features of the event. , ,' The Helping Hand society of the German Reformed church will meet } on Thursday with Mrs. Reuben Lord and all members are requested to be present. ' The Little Quilters’ band of the Zion's Lutheran church will be entertained Friday afternon by Miss Martha Heckman. W. A. Fonner pleasantly entertained the members of his Sunday school class of the Concord Lutheran church Monday evening, music and a number of contests providing amusement. One was a contest in which all vied in making the greatest number of words 1 from ‘Strawberry," in a given time, | and the first honors were won by John j Townsend, with Ades Biggs a close second. The color scheme for the i evening was pink and white, this being carried out in the pink and white roses and in the refreshments of ' strawberries and ice cream. The fol- ! lowing enjoyed the royal hospitality of the Fonner home, which cannot be • excelled: • Annice Wilder, Irene Ev- ' ans, Florence Kunkel, Emma Magley, j John Townsend, Arthur Clark, Lloyd i Magley, Fred Nye, Frank Nye, Ades Biggs, Homer Biggs, George Simmers, and Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Kunkel. j Miss Anna McLean of Circleville, Ohio, was entertained at dinner today by Miss Anna Smith. I ■■ Mrs. John Niblick will give a dinner party tomorrow evening for a number * of officers and delegates who are attending the district missionary conven- , tion. Guests will be Mrs. Murray of the conference president; Mrs A. B. Cline, conference corre- . spending secretary; Mrs. Jones of Garrett, Mrs. H. H. Deam and daughter, Mary, of Bluffton. Mrs. Murray, wife of the pastor of the M. E. church at Dunkirk, arrived this afternoon to attend the missionary convention and is the guest of her nephew, J. C. Sutton, and family. Mrs. .Murray is conference president of the I Woman's Home Misionary society.

COURT HOUSE NEWS I Will of John Yant Late of I Blue Creek Township I Probated Today. i DIVIDES THE ESTATE, I | Among Wife and Children— I . 1 ; Board of Review on , i . | Second Week. I The will of John Yant, of Blue ' ' Creek township, whose death occurred ■ I June 10th, was presented to County ; Clerk J. P. Haefling today for proi bate. To his wife, Mariah Yant, he ’ gives 1800 out of his personal estate and one-third of the real estate he may ( ' own at death. He provides that all : ! debts and funeral expenses be paid ; also, and the rest of his estate be di- , vided equally among his children — , Sarah Street, Byron Yant, Leander Yant, Laura Derbyshire, Philip Yant, Emma Russell, Elizabeth Smith, Lida Chevington, Margaret Neal, Alexander , Yant, Almeda Spittier, or their living t heirs. He names William T. Waggon-, er executor. The wit} was executed August 8, 1909, and witnessed by Wm. T. Waggoner, Harry L. Murphy and Russell E. Waggoner. — Real estate transfers: Harvey G. Kitson to Sadie E. Ross, part of lots : 161 and 162. Decatur, $750. The board of review is well on its second week of work. It has gone over all the assessors’ books, both personal and real estate, and is getting ready to hear the complaints of the taxpayers from the various townships.

PEANUT POLITICS It is Being Worked Overtime in the Indiana Field. COLONEL W. C. LILLER Busy Working the Advertising Dope For Woodrow Wilson. — Indian-pells, Ind., June L? —(Special to Dai?’ Democrat)—Although the next election Is months away there is already evidence of attempts to wrest control of public affairs in this state away from the democratic ,arty. The forces at work to accomplish this end are the republican press, particularly the l-ading republican newspapers of the state, and W. C. Liller, the mysterious "what-fs-it," who has tried to attach himself to one presidential boom, attempted to start another and, after his second fiasco, is now, or rather was, recently attempting to split the Indiana delegation to the national convention. The republican press and Liller now seem to be working hand in hand. Liller gets the publicity upon which his soul delights and the republican newspapers are given some basis upon which to build wild political stories calculated to stir up dissention in the democratic fold. Mr. Liller, or “Col. Liller," to be more exact, first broke into print by attempting to attach himself to the Marshall presidential boom He claims the honor of being the first to spread broadcast the Marshall buttons. Some unknown reason later caused the "colonel” to shift his affections and he next broke loose in the Democratic Achievement banquet, at which gwat care was taken to play up Governor Woodrow Wilson as a head-liner. Again Liller was seized with the "Buttonitis" and Senator John W. Kent was made the victim of his activity. Despite the protests of the junior senator from Indiana, the Kern buttons went foi th, although no one ever noted st eh a sweeping abundance of them as the republican press discovered. Senator Kern was annoyed and then angered and finally succeeded in squelching the so-called boom. It was then written that Liller is reported to have written to a democrat in this city and admitted that although he had previously been for Kern for president that he was now convinced that the boom was exploded, or words to that effect, and that he (Liller) was now for Wilson. His subsequent activities have finally landed him upon the proper band wagon, and his recent attempts to split the Indiana delegation have been laid ! bare. The Indiana Democratic Editorial association in its session at Laporte attended to that pretty thoroughly.

1 Now r that the republican press has been robbed of the> so-called ‘‘Kern boom" as campaign material, it is training its guns upon the proposed new constitution and by attacks upon the governor, attempting to belittle the proposed changes in ihe organic law of the state. The republican state committv. mere commonly known as the “Beveridge state committee,” which refuses to take a summer vacation for fear that the standpatters will slip during its absence, is also attempti ing to fool the people through the ' press. The latest outbreak was a let- | t--. siemed by a fictitious name and purrvting to be from a democrat, in , which a bitter attack is made upon Governor Marshall for his pardon of a I life convict, who has been er parole j for several years and is seeking admitt, nee to the bar. Th' -, is certainly the open season for peanut politics in Indianapolis and all the peanut politicians are busy.

CASE IS STILL ON. Before Judge Yaple of Fort Wayne in Allen Superior Court. The trial of the school board for the vacation of the alley between the Central school house property and that of the Studebaker residence south, is still on before Judge Yaple of the Allen superior court, where it was sent on a change of venue. The case began Monday and the evidence of the petititioners' witnesses and that of two witnesses of the remonstrators was finished Monday. It is thought the evidence will be completed today and that Judge Yaple would set another day for the hearing of the arguments. Dr. J. N. Study of Fort Wayne, a member of the state educational board, who recommended the buildin,'’ of a new high school building here, co using the board to take steps for the purchase of the new lot on which to erect the building, was an important witness for he petitioner’s Monday. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS’

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