Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1912 — Page 2

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Men’s Winter Caps All the latest styles in fancy mixture, plain colors and plushes, the regular SI.OO values. now 75c i Regular 50c values now 39c THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

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D AIL Y D 0 CR A T Publ I (heJ Every Evening, Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rat's Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 2s> cents j Per Year, by mail $2.50 | Single Copies 2 cents J Advertising rates made known on ; application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana. as second-class mail. Tile weather man has lifted the lid a little and we are all thankful for it. I the m nth of January hasn't suited the most ambitious ice man in the state, he’s a natural-born kicker. We have been tipped off that our “kicks'' against the Clover Leaf schedule have about as much effect as our complaints about the zero weather. Anyway, from the source of our tip we realize that they know how the people along the line feel about it, and if they don’t care, that's their business. Decatur business men are downcast today by the loss of one of their leaders. Samuel Laman was a clean, aggressive, public-spirited and thrifty merchant, a splendid citizen, whose loss will be keenly felt. His advice 1 has always been good and he neglected no service which would benefit the community. His untimely death causes much sorrow- in this community and his place in our business circles will indeed be hard to fill. Programs fc«- the Indiana Democratic editorial associations' mid-win-ter session to be held at the Denison hotel, Thursday, and Friday of next week, have been sent out. On the program appears the name of Governor Marshall, State Superintendent 1 : eathouse. State Chairman Korbly and Kin Hubbard. The business session will be held Friday morning, at which time paper by several well known editors of the state will be read. It is said that President Taft is greatly worried over the boom for Teddy of the last few days. Republican pajrers seem to have decided that the best thing for them to do would be to nominate the colonel for a third term. It’ss ore straits, indeed, when a party has but one man m a decade . who can fill the place. Now, the democrats have a dozen men, any one of 1 whom van repeat nationally, the defeat given the strenuous one, during the campaign of 1910, in New York state, and who will make a splendid executive officer. FOR RENT —Eleven room house on Mercer avenue; water ar.d lights in house; also cellar; phone 227. 14t6 FOR SALE—Acme range, ’<i excellent condition Call ’phone 577 or see E. H. Shoemaker, So. Winchester street

DOINGS IN SOIL Francis Schmitt Entertai for Company of Friends at Party. LINN GROVE BOY 'Weds in the West—Presby- ; terian Ladies to Meet With Mis. Leavers. WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tup.day. Sewing—T B. Thomas. Aiternoon—Mrs. H. H. Bremerkamp I TriKappas Jean Lutz. Poinsettia- Grncvicvo Bremerkamp Historical Mrs. Amos Gillig. Wednesday. Shakespeare—Mrs. P. G. Hooper. . Sina Cura- -Marie Kintz. Flohrul de .Purin —Stella Chronister. , Thursday. Presbyterian Aid —Mrs. S. B. Beavers. i Ruth Circle —Vivian and Mildred ; Dawson. Presbyterian Aid—Mrs. A. L. Peck. G. W. C. —Celia Kinney. 1 Euterpean—Mrs. Eugene Runyon. Friday. Needles and Node —Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker, Mrs. O. F. Schug. *■ :-3 Be firm: one constant element in luck, I Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck. I —Oliver Wendell Holmes. | The Misses Madge and Mary Hite gave an enjoyable sewing party for the following guests: Mrs. J. Q. Neptune, Letta and Marie Kintz, Ethel Barkley, Lilah Argust. Fan Hite. Sewing, conversation and music, with a lunch, were entertainment features. The Ruth Circle of the Christian church will meet Thursday evening at the home of the Misses Vivian and Mildred Dawson. Noah French of the Noah French company, undertakers, sprang a surprise on his friends on the night of January 3rd, when he was quietly married at 8 o’clock to Mrs. Pearl M. Brice of Gratiot county, at Trinity Methodist church by Rev. Russell H. A. Bready The ceremony was performed in the presence of two friends, Miss Mary J. Taylor and Alexander Payne, both of this city. Owing to pressure of business. Mr. and Mrs. French will defer their honeymoon trip. They are at home at S 3 Jefferson avenue. Mrs. French has visited lor several years in Grand Rapids at the home of Mrs. Mary Hastings, 83 Bostwick street. — Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press. The groom in the above reported marriage is a son of Marion French and wife of Linn Grove, and a grandson of A T. Studabaker of Bluffton. Miss Margie Hanna of Fort Wayne ( is being entertained at the Schrock and Patterson homes. Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart and son, Meredith, and Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Steele and daughter, Jeanette, took an,automobile trip yesterday to the home of Hie Utters* father, James Steele, in Kirkland township, and after dinner there continued their trip to Bluffton. Miss Josephine Lang was the guest of Miss Bertha Steigmeyer at her home east of the city yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Walters entertained at dinner Sunday for Mrs. E. M. Suttles of Conneaut, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baker, and the Rev. R. L. Semans. The Sina Cura girls are looking fori ward to a good time at the home of Miss Marie Kintz Wednesday evening Mesdames Dallas Hunsickei and Oliver Schug will entertain the ladies L of the Needles and Nod club and their husbands Friday evening at the home , of Mrs. Hunsicker. I A special business meeting of the Y. P. A. of the Evangelical church has been called for 1 uesday evening and will be held at 7:30 o’clock at the , home of J. F. Lachot. There will be business of importance ami the at ' tendance of all members Is desired at this time. | The Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society is announced for Thursday afternoon, when the ladies will meet with Mrs. S. D. Beavers on First street. Francis Schmitt proved to be an excellent host Sunday evening when he entertained a number of his friends at 6 o'clock dinner at his home on Mercer avenue. Pedro was the evening’s rlrasure, enjoyed by all, and a greatly enj yed occasion. Those who partici-

. Misses Grace .tie:, ’. u ■aga et Mills, I > fee and Messrs. Felix Holt iter Co i. n Sc itt. An excel ent It n in the evening FEEDING BEET TOPS • aiing never weighed the tops iro’u an a< re of ground, I am unable to state n .. liars and cents what they would e o th, but as a feed lor milch cows e> are excellent, if fed carefully. I tit that they are not a kind of food oi: cculd feed liberally and use for I the entire amount of the succulent food. I feed them morning and evening, and very sparingly, just what I can i.-iek up easily on a three-tan fork, to eacn co", and one fork full ' I two cows to start. I feed my cows I just the same as I would without 11. ! tops, and when 1 have the beet tops Ito feed, I give that that extra. I ini creased the flow of milk something j like forty per cent on the four eov. a i I milked last year. Another thii : about the tops, you must not haul up : a large pile and throw them off at the : barn, expecting to have a few daj s' teed ahead, as they will commence to heat and will turn black in a week's i time, and I do not believe they are sa good to feed: also, feed-'ng too many tops will make the milk taste. C. C. Lillie puts a price of $lO per acre on beet tops, but I don't believe I would want to sell them at that price, for I think they are worth that as manure. i I gave that a test last year. I had some tops that I did not feed, and , when I dished the ground in the ‘ spring for oats, I took a fork and seat- 1 ■ tered the tops around, and I could tell all summer just where the places were that had been covered with the beet tops. The oats were more thrifty, were headed better, and did not turn as soon as the others. E. M. Wagner gives a correct rotation to follow in beet raising in his article of January 19th, although I think a good clover sod, fall plowed, makes just as good beet ground, as to always follow corn ground The beet crop is not only a source of wealth, in itself, but it improves the agricultural conditions throughout the districts in which they are raised. As an outsider, and one who is not interested in the interests of the sugar company, but speaking as a farme T wish to say that Decatur, and especially the farmers in the surrounding districts can be proud of the fact that they are going to have a sugar factory in their vicinity, as it is a great source of wealth to everybody. At present I am living in Paulding, Ohio, and city property has advanced almost one-half in value, and also it has increased the value of farm lands throughout the county. As I understand, the farmers here have raised but few, If any ~eets, and can hardly realize the immense profits there are in a few acres of sugar beets. I formerly lived in Michigan and you can easily guess how much the farmers there think of sugar beets, when there is a factory at St. Louis. Three miles west, there is another at Alma. Fifteen miles north of Alma, at Mt. Pleasant, there is one not quite completed. Thirty-five miles south of Alma is one located at Owasso, and another a short distance from there, at Lansing. making five factories within a fifty-mile circle, and they have all the beets they can take care of. At the present lime they have called in their field men and have refused to write any more contracts. Many are the mortgages that have been paid off in Michigan by raising one of the greatest money-making crops in the world —sugar beets. C. A. AMSPAUGH. Paulding, Ohio. 1 — D MAN IS INSANE CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE i earth'd abou’ aix or seven dollars, and • had about thirty or forty cents when taken into cPLcOdy Sunday night. Mr. ] Durkin gave a description of the man s for publication, hoping it may lead to r his identification. He is about five p feet, eight ir.Lies in height, weighs about 135 pounds, has dark red hair sandy complexion, smooth-shaven, hat a long. Roman nose, long, slender s freckled hands, two upper front teeth d missing, wore a light suit, dove-coloretl e cap with fur ear-tabs. e The man is said to be be very versa t- tile, and had apparently a very bright intellect. He claims to have been a music teacher and gives practical il lustrations of his claims. He alsc j- ciaims to have been a doctor, lawyer, a i, base ball player. The mute language is i also one of his accomplishments though ne does not, by any means, confine himself to that silent way <>f • communication. That he is greater i than God is also one of his assertions —that there are three persons in the God-head, and six in him. Probably no acPon will be taken against, him until more If learned about his home, If he has any.

' TIES COMMISSION. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 22—In inviting tho democrati< and the members of th party to discuss the e s ! i tilidcs mm.tt i. • ■ Marshs’*, and Bernard ort eha . man. e g ided that the progress ve s ir t times is rapidly demanding justice between public utiliti "n I the users of the services they rende ; Neither the governor nor the st-’ i chairman has declared positively fc a public service commission law, br.i both are inclined to the belief that a full and free discussion will result in a party declaration on the subject The governor and the state chairman agree that the question is one demanding serious consideration and they have already begun a study of the various laws enacted by different states. The principle upon which these laws are based is that public service corporations are neither public nor private but quasi public. They have received valuable rights and privileges from the public and are dependent upon the public for their profits: sonsc quently, they owe corresponding du ties and if they fail or refuse to perform those duties properly, it is the right and duty of the people acting through their governmental agents, to regulate them so that the public may have justice in rates and service. A railroad company or other corporation which is given the right of eminent domain or a gas or water company Which has received valuable franchises in the use of streets and public places, owes just rates and adequate service in return tor these rights and privileges. The public has come to a recognition of the fact that these corporations are not private with all the immunities of private property, but that they are public servants and subject to regulative control. The equitable working out of that control is the proble. for the legislators. It was that problem which the new public utility laws of New York and Wisconsin sought to solve. Five states now provide by law for the regulation of public service corporations other than railroad corpora tions by state commissions. These are Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Maryland Massachusetts regulates by state com mission: railroad, street railroad, express, gas and electric light, telephone companies. New York has control over common carriers, and services connected with common carriers, gas and electric companies supplying heat, light or power, and telegraph and telephone companies. Wisconsir places common carriers and all con panies for the conveyance of telegraph or telephone mesages or “fol the protection, transmission, deliver; or furnishing of heat, light, water nr power, either directly or indirectly, io or for the public," in t’he control of 'he commission. The Maryland law applies to all common carriers and serv ices connected with common carriers, telegraph and telephone companies, gas and electric companies supplying heat, light or power, water and heat ing and refrigerating companies. The New Jersey law applies to railroad, street railroad, express, traction, canal. subway, gas, electric light, heat and power .water, sewer, telegraph, telephone and pile-line companies. In nearly every state In the union, a railroad commission is provided, which is more or less effective in wu troling common carriers. In several states, additional powers hate beer 1 granted over certain other public utilities; thus warehouses are subject to I the commissions in some states; eelegraph and telephone companies are controlled by the railroad commission ■ In Michigan. In Texas, power is given to the district courts to supervise services and rates .m complaint. LIQUOR SHIPMENTS. d Can Now be Shipped from One Stat< II Into Dry Counties of Another. 11 ’United ' ress Service. I 0 Washington, D. C., Jan. 22 —(Specia e to Daily Democrat)- —Prohibitionist 3 suffered a severe defeat today h| r > decision of the supreme court declar 13 ing that liquor may be shipped fron r > one state into "dry” counties of anott: b er state, though prohibited by the law d of the “dry” state. I ’ s FUNERAL OF MRS. MICHAUD. it. - a County Auditor and Mrs. H. S. Mi I- chaud and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. >o were at Berne Sunday where they al a tended the funeral of Mr Michaud’ s step-mother, Mrs. Henry Michaud s. which was held Sunday morning at s, o’clock from the home and later fron >f the German Reformed church. Th r Rev. Kattman had charge of the serv s ices. v FOR SALE -Rooming house, first 1 class, st a bargain. If taken at once Cheap rent See W. S. Hughes, 72’ Barr, FT. Wayne, Ind. lit

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PUBLIC SALE. Having rented fits farm the undeisigned will offer for sale at his resl dence, 3 miles north and % mile west j of Preble, and 3 miles east of Echo, o 6 miles northwest of Decatur, on th«. Ossian and Decatur road, on VVednec ' day, February 7, 1912, beginning at '10:00 o’clock a. m., the following property, to-wit: Four Head c Horses: Two brood mares, 1 grey mare, 10 years old, and 1 bay mare a years old: 1 bay horse, 7 years old; 1 mare colt coming 2 years old in May ; Nine Head of Cattle: Four milch cow t . 1 cow with calf by side, 1 cow to be fresh February 10; 1 Jersey cow, giving milk, will be fresh in June; 1 Je • sey cow’, will be fresh February 15: 2 | steers, each 1% years old; 3 heifers each 1 year old. Fourteen Head o'. Hogs: Two brood sows, one will far row in February, and 1 in March; ’ Chester White boar, 11 heads o shoats, weighing about 60 lbs. each Twenty Head of Sheep: Farming Implements' Binder, Champion grass mower, Dane hay loader, Thomas haj rake, Cassidy riding plow, walking plow, Clipping riding cultivator, John Deere walking cultivator, spring-tooth harrow, one-horse corn cutter, fanning mill, Buckeye disc, grain drill, with fertilizer attachment, good as new; combination stock and grain ■ rack, 3-in. tire Troy wagon, 2-in. tire Milburn wagon, top buggy, 2 sets heavy farm harness, set extra heavy breeching harness, set buggy harness, set extra heavy breeching harness, set buggy harness, 100 shocks corn in . field, more or less: 20 gal. cider vine-1 gar, Knapp wire fence machine:’ Gal. copper kettle, churn, sausagi I stutter, Reo automobile, five passer, ger, 22-horse power, in good condition, jugs and jars, household goods and many other articles. Terms—All Gums of $5.00 and un r der, cash in hand; over $5.00 a credit n! of 9 months will he given, the purn chaser giving his note therefor with c | approved security. Four per cent off for cash. Lunch served on grounds. OTTO KEIFFER Noah Frauhiger, Auct. :e Fred Fruchte and Otto Ewel, Clerks L. F. MAILED h1 Is the nifty dresser’s friend ts If you’d look we’ - , your old clothes send a To this house tot clothes ill r Where they L". orders quickly fill m Send to Mailand, have Cctn made ne,’ h- And at a very low figure, too. rs Have clothes cleaned and pressed Keep them clean and be well dressed • 'Tis not so much what you wear ' As how you keep it in repair. Here, ladies’ clothes get special care; ii- If your’s needs ptessing, take them □t there. “• L. F. MAILAN P , Over Model Ciyar Store. d. 13t6 ■ "■ - -<> m Just arrived, an entire new lot of te sheet music; 10c a copy.—Yager Bros, v & Relnking. 15t4 FOR SALE—A carriage factory and j garage. Big bargain.—J. Groddy, t- j Arcola, Hl. e FOR SALE —flood Monarch, malleable ill range. Used two winters. Phone ■’ 212. ig t 3

GUTTING SOME. IGE r That’s what our sweet flavored free burning, seed and Havana hand made “White Stag” cigar is doing with the smokers of this town just now 7 , You never can improve the quality of your smoke until you try V \7\ home product. NX ' Made In Decatur, That Makes It Right. J. D. HALE : SEEDS, COAL AND FEED: | < • L - —- ♦ Portland Cement, Gypsum Rock Wall ; + * Plaster, Lime and Salt » ■ > We make a specialty of furnishing Seed Goods good | ;; in quality and low in price. I ;; Call, Write or Phone No. 8. 201 S. 2nd. St. f <l*4llllll • » f 4 4 4 I « ♦ H4HWU

500 copies ot latest in sheet music, just arriveg; 10c copy.—Yager Bros. & Ranking. 15H FOR RENT OR SALE—Good farm, 8 miles northwest of Decatur, tood markets, good roads, excellent build Ings. Will sell right. Address "Farm.” I Hoagland, Ind. i5 ( 6 [

Old Adams County Bank . i Decatur, Indiana. Capital |l2O Wfl IWII ; I rTSS-t I ' , Surplus . s3o.ixw *|.gSs C- ®- Niblick, President ISmSEI Cy Z" M. Kirsch and John Niblick IwMlartn. nL ?_ J 4 Vice Presidents yJfISL E. X. Ehinger, Cashier. I n A „j Farm loans W Ked( * a Specialtv R?flcct - I / LiWFIOTk j I Resolve Collections 1 11™ Made Good Books Are Valuable —-. ==— ======— able Rates. . A Bank Book is a Good Book to Have — " AND VALUABLE JS a . 10 the extent you make it Con ' nr nn Irv sistent We sell Bank Books for one Dollar With Safe | ls Credit you with the dollar Banking And return it on demand exUS 1 1 Plus Interest, After a Given Time Tn uur _______ Patrons E* 1 We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest on 1 Year Time Deposits

WATITHD Any one desiring hou'-t cleaning, dish washing, or any kind of house work should call on MiJoan Kratner, at Hunsicker Brother j restaurant. FOR SALK —Mammoth Brons? trnkeys; high scoring; young TomsI 'Phone C. D. Kunkle. IS;: