Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 9, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1911 — Page 2

pail y democrat Published Every Evening, Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier... 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 2b cents Per Year, by mail,, $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflee in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail. Don't forget to decorate for the convention tomorrow. • Even the pipes which lead to the furnace were frozen up this morning and there are those who claim to prefer this weather to the balmy days of June. Don’t it just beat all? The boys began to arrive today for | the democratic convention, which will | be held in the K. of P. Home here ; tomorrow. It is likely that at least ’ three hundred visitors from over the district will be here. Get your glad hand ready. The contract for the sugar factory will be sublet Saturday, after which the work will begin within a few days, just as soon as material can be ship- j ped in. The cold weather will not stop this improvement, and by early spring we should be going good. The fact remains that the democratic state officers, with a republican deficit of over $3,000,000 facing them when they came into full control a year ago, have met all of the current obligations of the state, have reduced the state tax levy and have money in the treasury. This is a record of which they can well be proud. The Indianapolis Star is owned and controlled by John C. Shaffer, Chicago streer railway manipulator. Through the Star, Shaffer has declared that he is for Taft. But Mr. Shaffer also owns the Chicago Post and the Post, has come out for Beveridge, who boasted at the close of the last campaign that while he had made 100 speeches in Indiana he had not mentioned Taft in any one of them. The point, however, is that the Indianapolis Star is just about as unreliable as a newspaper can be. Its recent attempt to shoulder upon the democratic state officials responsibility for the $3,000,000 republican deficit in state finances is additional evidence of its political crookedness. Henry Wafel of Preble township, who was here this morning attending to business affairs, which required bls attention, returned home this afternoon. W. A. Kunkle, of Bluffton, the only candidate in the field for the district chairmanship, arrived in the city this noon and has taken headquarters at •he Hotel Murray, where he can be found at any time until after the convention tomorrow Today is the seventy-eighth birthday anniversary of J. L. Edge and Wednesday the twenty-eighth wedding anniversary of his daughter, Mrs. M. V. B. Archbold. The event Will be celebrated doubly next Sunday with a turkey dinner at the Edge borne, and the M. V. B. Archbold family will be guests. Mrs. Edge s sister, Mrs. Sarah Stone, of London, Ohio, Is also a guest here, coming to visit with her sister, who has been ill, following a fail received a week ago Saturday, since which she has been unable to walk. CAST rjCjFbAJLO. East Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 28—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Receipts, 3,200; shipments, 38C-; official to New York yesterday, 380; hogs closing steady; all sold. . Medium and heavy, $6.555J56.60; i Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs and lights/ [email protected]; roughs, [email protected]; ' stags, [email protected]; sheep, 6,400; steamy; lambs, tops, $6.65; cattle, 150; steady. FULLEN KAMP’S. Lard • , Butter 26c Eggs 25c NIBLICK a. CO. Eggs - 27 c Butter »• 17c@25c <

DOINGS IN SOCIETY Mrs. William Niblick and Son, Jesse, Give Children Christmas Party. I i A DINNER PARTY i I; Given by Stewart Niblick—j Misses Hensley Entertain —Other Socials. —— WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Thursday. Evangelical Aid —Miss Eliza Spangler. Presbyterian Missionary—Mrs. Jasob Atz. Friday. Mite Society- M. E Church. An Evary-day Christmas. A good conscience is a continual Christmas. —Bsnjamin Frank- I lin. | i Reflect upon your own present . blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfor- | tunes, of which all men have some.—Dickens I Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Dawson. Evan-’ ■ gelist Roger Fife and sons and daughter were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry I Stevens at dinner and supper today. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Workinger eni tertained at a Christmas turkey dinj ner the following guests: John Hamrick, wife and daughter, Della; John Meyers, wife and daughter, Mabel; ; Warren Hamrick and sons, Chalmer land Albert, of Decatur; Owen Sims and wife, and son, Cloyd, of Will- : shire, Ohio; Alex Counterman and i wife, and Clarence, Wilma, Sammy and Eva Counterman, Della Frank of Glenmore, Ohio; William and HarveyMiller of Kimmel, Ind.; Worthy Dukes, wife and son, Chester, of Rome City, Ind.; George Massonee and wife, Decatur; Leroy Ray, wife and daugh ter, Doris, and Miss Mary Wechter. ] The afternoon was spent with music , and a social time, One of the most happy Christmas dinners was that given at the home of Mr. and Mrs John Drake, living five miles east, of the city. The following guests were present: Mr. and Mrs. John Drake and family, Mr. and Mrs. H. Gause and family, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gause and children, Laura, Golda and Joe: Mr. and Mrs. John Wolfe and children, Mary, Lawrence and Addison; Mr. and Mrs. Jacob J. Drake and children, Roy and Glen; Mr and Mrs. Harvey Gay and daughter, Lucile. The William Niblick home rang with good cheer, laughter and song Wednesday afternoon, when Mrs. Wil- , liam Niblick and son, Jesse, entertain : ed a company of thirty little boys and ■ girls at a merry Christmas party, the happy one of last year being repeated. Gay Christmas decorations of . holly wreaths, bells and Christmas . greens prevailed, and in the front par- . ( lor, its star-crowned tip reaching the . ceiling, its branches gaily adorned ( with colored lights and tinsels and pretty gifts, around whicl* floated a i shimmering white, cloud-like veil, stood the festive Christmas tree. The , little guests were received at the door by the little Misses Margaret and Charlotte Niblick, and were ushered ' into the fairy-like Christmas palace, where later they formed a line of march and marched about the tree, the happy little tots in festive dresses ' of white and pink and blue, and all the dainty colors, making a lovely picture. Then came speeches and songs j ’ by the little ones, and right in the midst of all the happiness came a real *1 live Kris Kingle, who distributed gifts. i The boys received horses and wagons • and the girls dolls and story books, i and each a basket of candies, with ■ gay striped canes. Then came singing. Including tbe beautiful Christmas song, "Holy Night," and the day closed with one of the very best good times ever enjoyed by the company. The guest list included the following: Helion and Margaret Bremerkamp, Mary 1 ’ and Josephine Suttles, Winifred and 1 Alice Clark, Margaret and Hertze liessert, Eleanor Ellis, Naomi and Neva Laman, Jeanette Clark, Ixmlse -and I Junior Coppock, Frederick Connell, j Margaret Rademaker, Catherine Bell, I Elizabeth Miller, William Holthouse, | Mary Gertrude Schmidt. Harold Nib- , lick, Mary Colchin, Romaine Her -e- --| ford. Frederick Schulte, Helena Meyer, Jeanette Eh Inger, Charlotte and i Margaret Niblick, Margaret Ehinger and Celia Gaffer. I _ I Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson gave a i Christmas dinner and supper for the 1

following, who found the day one of unalloyed pleasure provided by their host and hostess: Peter Zeser and sons, Will and Tim: Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Zeser and family, Mrs. Schafer, of this city; B. T. Bowen of St. Joe, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Engelking of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon, where they joined some friends in a theater party at the Majestic, James K. Hackett playing in “The Grain of Dust.” The wedding of Clyde Death and Miss Susie Mathewson took place Wednesday afternoon at the parsonI age of the Rev. Kohne at Willshire, | Ohio, instead of to take place next | Sunday as stated in Wednesday evenings paper through an error in type transposition. A Ckristtnas £arty was given by Miss Della Werling. Those present were Misses Hulda Huffman, Adella Ewell, Emma Ehlerding, Hilda Bieber ' ich, Alweina Ewell, Tjora Bieberich, ; I Frances Kirchner, Amelia Ewell, Vera ■ Werling and Loretta Buuch. AdeI licious dinner was served and the a<t- ' ernoon was spent tn playing several ■ games and two contests were also giv--len to entertain the guests The prize I in the first contest was won by Miss Hilda Bieberich and the second prize 1 was won by Misses Adella Ewell and | Miss Huldah Huffman. 1 Miss Ireta Erwin Wednesday even | | ing entertained at a theater party in | honor of the Misses Eva Edwards and Mary Rodehaven of Monroeville. This I evening she will also entertain in their honor the T. T. F. girls at her home ’ on North Second street. The St. Vincent de Paul society met Wednesday afternoon at the K. of C. hall and held its annual election of> officers, resulting as follows: President, Mrs. Helen Berling; secretary, Mrs. A. Kohne; treasurer, Mrs. C. V. Connell. The report of the year’s; work was also given and plans outlin-1 ed for the coming year. Henry Addler and Milton Miller will receive the third degree at the K. of P. hall this evening. The annual election of officers will also be held. 1 A very happy event occurred at the ' home of John Ruhl in Marion township, Allen county, on Tuesday even ing, December 26th, it being the twen-ty-fifth anniversary of their mania;.:, and over a half hundred neighbors and friends came in honor of the occasion, bringing with them many beautiful gifts, which bespoke a silver wed ding. A grand repast was served, the table decorations being artistic in ev-I ery particular. This amiable couple were united in marriage by Rev. A. J. Douglas, and three sons and two daughters do them honor. The following is a list of those present: Messrs, and Mesdames Charles Ruhl. Rolle They, C. E. Ruhl, E. E. Shockman. George Shookman. Ed Drage, , Hom y Neireiter, John McCague, i Frank Fuller, Mrs. Ellen Drage, Lloyd Oberlin, Misses Callie Ruhl, Nettie Ruhl, Leia Ruhl, Messrs. Homer Ruhl, Chester Ruhl, James E. Ruhl and Master John Ruhl, all of Hoagland; Miss Nora Ake, Ontario, Ind.; Miss Flora Fledderjohann Decatur, Ind.; Walter Oberlin, Hamilton, Ind; Miss Lois Drage, Ossian, Ind : < Miss Luella Ruhl, Hoagland: Miss Beryl and Miss Grace McFarland, Mar- . ion, Ind.; Misses Florence, Flossie and Mary Drage, Hoagland. Those pres- j ent from a distance were Messrs, and Mesdames A. M. Henry, Decatur; I John Drage, Ossian; James L. Ruhl., Payne, Ohio; Grayston Ruhl, Fort ' Wayne; Mrs. W. D. Ruhl, Ft. Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Schug and Mrs. W. H. Fledderjohann, Decatur; Mrs. A. J. Douglas, Columbia City; Mrs. J. R. McFarland, Marion, and Dr. Fonner, , Fort Wayne. The Misses Leah and Veda Hensley informally entertained in a pleasing way Wednesday evening for Miss Winifred Ellinghain and France Confer of Indianapolis, the party numbering eight couples. “Five Hundred” was played the first part of the evening, and was followed by dancing and music, after which light refreshments were served. George Nachtrieb of Hudson, Mich., was also an out-of-town guest. i 1 The Chanticleer Girls responded to invitations issued by Miss Winifred Burke for a 6 o'clock dinner sh honor of Miss Winifred Sowers of Sbarom Pa., and Miss Sally Cabler of Fort Wayne. The home was beautifully decorated in mistletoe and holly and the dining room looked gay with its decorations of green and white crepe paper, the Chanticleer colors. The guests found their places by beautifully decorated place-cards, which bore the date of the birthday of each girl. The dinner was served in three courses by Vivian Burke and Vera Eady. Ethel Smith filled tbe place of

f toastmistress and toast after toast was r given by the members. At the end of ! the second course the members of the . Chanticleer set were greatly surprised r when one of their number announced her engagement (?) The guests did i . ample justice to the bounteous feast, 'after which they went to the home . of Miss Lillian Rice for the evening, i Those present were Neva Brandyber- , I ry, Vera Hower, Ruth Parrish, Flori ence Myers, Lillian Rice, Reba Quinn. : “Billie” Dugan, Ethel Smith, Winifred ’ ■ Burke; out-of-town guests, Sallie CabI ler and Winifred Sowers. ———— The Chanticleer Girls will be entertained this evening at the home of : Miss Naomi Dugan, and Friday afternoon Miss Neva Brandyberry and Miss Florence Myers will give a tea ! party at the former’s home. Sunday j evening Miss Reba Quinn will enter I tain the bunch at a New Year’s watch j party, when early in the morning the I girls will accompany Miss Winifred Sowers to the train, she leaving at that time for her home in Sharon. Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Rollo C. Pifer and daughters, Anna, Isabelle and Alice, arrived today’ from South Bend and are guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Myers. A very pretty bap I tismal service will be held Sunday ar I ernoon at 4 o’clock for the baby, Alice. I at which her uncle, the Rev. G. H. My-I1 era, will officiate. Other guests Sun I day will be Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hard-1 ■ ing and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Harding of Fort Wayne. Miss Sallie Cabler of Fort Wayne . and Miss Winifred Sowers of Sharon, Pa , were guests of honor at the party ■ given last evening by Miss Lillian Rice, other guests being the member?, of the Chanticleer set and Miss Catherine Vesey of Fort Wayne, and he: i guest, Miss Lucy Leibing of Terrel Haute. The company was divided into. | different families, each one being call , ed upon to do various amusement ■ stunts for the entertainment of the • others? Then each one wrote a New ; Year’s resolution for the others and , much merriment was created when ■ these were read, for they all realized that it is far easier “to tell what it were best to do than to do it one’s self.” Refreshments of grape juice and wafers were served. 1 Mr.’ and Mrs. C. A. Dugan gave a 6 o'clock dinner party Wednesday ev ening for Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Eiling-1 ham of Indianapolis, covers being laid for twelve. Pink and white roses as j a centerpieco were the pretty table ; decorations. In the evening the dinner guests were joined by a number of others and there were cards and music and the lighting of the Christwas tree to complete the pleasure of | the evening. I -■ ■ Stewart Niblick gave a 12 o’clocl dinner party today at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. I?. Niblio'-

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I in honor of France Center of Indianapolis, the guests including college ' chums—John Colman of Union City, I Charles McArdle of Monroeville, Leo : Bierkmeyer of Delphos, Ohio; William Butler of South Bend, Harold Moran of , Huntington, Joseph Lili of Ft. Wayne, j Leon Meibers, Walter Corbett, Frances Schmidt, Martin Braden, Felix and Arthur Holthouse, Clarence Miller. Covers were laid at little tables in the dining room, where the Christ- . mas decorations of red bells and green and red festoons prevailed. During the delicious dinner served byMrs. Niblick and daughter, Naomi, the I Christmas tree in the bay- window of the dining room was lighted. Mr. and Mrs P. M. Carper are rejoicing over the birth of a baby girl, the only girl in a family of six children. o I The condition of Al Buhler, one of the best known men of the city, continues very serious, being bedfast, as he has been for several months. His many friends hope sincerely that he will show improvement very soon.

■ " e I J ; Our Patronind'Friends THE officers and bMf directcrs of the First National Bank wto extend to our depositors and friends, it thanks for their patronage and loyagrinjr the past year, and t we recognize that grovof this institution during the 29 years of ite buss history as been largely due to the confidence ansteem in which it is held by the public. On the basis of safety and service which the depositors and patios this bank have eniovnew a,i<l FIRST NAWAL BANK DECAT INDIANA (P W Smith, President® C A’Duean W A Ku. M . r , Vie. P

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