Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 55, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1912 — Page 2

D AIL Y DEM[QCRAT w Published Every Evening, Except 0 Sunday by b THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM I JOHN H. HELLER ■ Subscription Rat»« Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier... $5.00 Per Month, by mai1.......... 2i> cenjs Per Year, by mail $2.50 ; Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rato« made Known on application. T Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class me’’ Farmers of Adams county should be ; thinking about the beet crop. It's time to get ready at least. The early work is most important. Every farmer - should raise beets this year. It means bigger profits, an increase in your land, a boost for the county and the county seat. It will pay. Roosevelt is worried about condi- ( tions in Indiana. He is afraid the state ! will be controlled by the machine. Why, from the republicans papers, the ’ last few months, Tom Taggart has the only machine in this state, and surely j he is not in this game. When the other fellow wins, it’s a machine. Well, I it will probably he a machine so far as Teddy is concerned, and when he gets through with the Hemenway-Goodrich-Fairbaiiks-Watson roller he will think the one Taggart drives is Brush runabout compared to the limousine of the . old guard in this state. — Mr. Taft is sick over the announce- t ment that Roosevelt is a candidate. He , q is not afraid of being defeated, for in j y fact he has safely tucked away in his a vest pocket enough promises to in- ‘' surt him a nomination, but it is the ‘ final breaking off with the colonel. ; e Within the past few months he receiv- j ed a letter from Roosevelt in which j the latter says positively that he will 1 ! S not be a candidate in 1912 under any 1 c circumstances. Taft may have thought it, but he now knows it. the ex-presi- [ dent cannot be depended upon. He c has just found out what a great many - other people have known for some 1 i time. i t The old town is cff the boom. There . is no use denying that fact. No dis- 1 ference how have felt about it, 1 whether you have S ’”ed back, or help- 1 i ed to push, it's here. The fellow who , thinks not will wake up some spring morning, when the sun is shining, the i blue birds singing and the hustlers moving, to find the surprise of his life. Are you going to take a part in it, or are you going to sit with hands idly folded and say, let the other fellow do it? There is surely something you can do that will help the community and incidentally yourself. That's the game. The sugar factory is building, the Erie is double trackng, there is much public work to be done, the Standard oil company is preparing to build two new lines thrt ugh the city, paral- . ieling the other line. There will be building and much of it, new streets and plenty of work 'f you don't want I to work you will have to do some tail | dodging if you are a real booster you

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will be happy. If you are a natural- < born knocker, you had better move jut. Let’s pull together, not too last, : , but just enough to keep things going. ( DOINGS IN SOCIETY I I' Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer Gives Birthday Dinner for Husi I band—C. W. B. M. i — MEETS ON TUESDAY Mrs. L. N. Grandstaff Wiil Entertain Concord Ladies' Aid—Other Socials. WEEK’S CLUB CALENDAR. Monday. Loyal Women —Mrs. A. M. Fisher, i Tuesday. C. W. 13. M.—Mrs. A. D. Artman. Sunday School Class —Mrs. Jennie Gehrig. Wednesday. Concord Aid—Mrs. L. N Grandstaff. I Shakespeare —Mrs. J. W. Tyndall. Thursday. Ruth Circle—Stella David. Embroidery —Mrs. L. (.'. Annen. M. E. Missionary—Mrs. Jesse DaileyFriday. Medical Society—Dr. Costello. Saturday. W. C. T U.— Library. Sin has many tools, but a lie is a handle that fits them all.—Longfellow. * M —i— The Woman's Home Missionary society of the Methodist church has outlined an interesting study for next j Thursday afternoon at the home of I Mrs. Jesse Dailey, beginning promptly at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Sprang will be, leader of the program, which will be - on the subject, ‘The Problem of ' Race.” Mrs. Dailey will be assisted in : entertaining by Mrs. D. W. Beery. The following will be of interest to the club women of Indiana: The sea- 1 son for making the programs for the , coming club year is now at hand. The | Traveling library Department of the Public Library Commission of Indiana extends to you its aid. Outlines on such subjects as the following have been prepared and are at your service: The modern drama, Civic improvement, The English novel, Dickens, American poetry, and Japanese art. Books on which the outlines are based will be furnished to any club for the club year, upon the application tor same and the payment of the round trip transportation rate. Outlines that are not already prepared will be made upon request if the request comes within the next few weeks. Write to the Traveling Library Department of the Public Library Commission. Room 104. Stare House, Indianapolis, Ind. Tell them what you have in mind and outlines will be sent, together with application blank ond other information. Miss Stella David will entertain the Ruth Circle Thursday evening. The Concord Ladies' Aid will its regular meeting Wednesday after- : noon of this week, Mrs. L. N. Grand- | staff to be hostess. The graduating exercises of the Bible teachers' training class was held Sunday evening at Berne. Adams i county has six advanced classes in the i work as follows: Advanced class at ! Berne, fifteen scholars; class in Reformed Sunday school. Berne seven : teen scholars: class in Evangelical Sunday school, Berne, nine scholars' i Geneva I nion class, t»enty-lwi> schol ars; Monroe Sunday school clauS, i fourteen scholars; Decatur 11. B. Sun- , day school class, eighteen scholars. I There are over ninety graduates in j the county, and it is the aim to have ’all of the Sunday school teachers | trained in a few more years. There i were two classes that graduated on this occasion, one a Mennonite Sun- ’ day school class of ten and the other, I a union class of ten. Th'e regular meeting of the Sunday school class of the German Reformed church taught by Mrs. Henry Moyer, will be held tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. Jennie Gehrig on Eighth street. The Fort Wayne Sentinel contained a picture and interesting sekteh of I Mrs. Mary King Jenkins, one of its ; pioneer ladies, who has lived there j since the ’3os. Mrs Jenkins is an i aunt of Mrs. P. B. Thomas and has oftI en visited here, becoming acquainted | with many. She is the mother of Mrs. i William L. Carnahan and Oliver S. j Hanna of Fort Wayne. | A pleasing event of Sunday was ihe fifty-ninth birthday celebration ac-

corced Tied Selle who gave a tamily d in honor of the occasic. the birthday dinner w cake whose nurnera ano • "forty-nine,” was very s gg< t i < Only the children of Mr. Sellemeye. and their families were present and spent the day in extending hap] y greetings to the celebrant. Sunday, March 3rd, was the birthday anniversary of Jesse Williams, re- : siding one and one-half miles northwest of the city, with his wife, on the ! old homestead. At noon a big dinner | was served and enjoyed by the forty | relatives present. Mr. Williams is a ■ I native of Pennsylvania, but has lived I [ here many years, coming here from | Ohio. The Concord Indies' Aid society ’ will meet Wednesday afternoon with .Mrs. L. N. Grandstaff at Monmouth.! j All members are cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Magnel had as j their guests Sunday at dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Plumber Ahrart of Markle and . Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Kurt. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Peoples entertained the ! same company at supper. The Christian Women’s Board of Missions will meet Tuesday afternoon ’ with Mrs. A. D. Artman. The W. C. T F. will hold its regular meeting Saturday afternoon at the I i library. .! Dr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson, Dr. , and Mrs. Starkweather and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kirsch and daughter, Helen, were guests Saturday evening of Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Stewart. Pedro fur-1 ■ nished amusement during the early , hours of the evening. A two-course luncheon was also a much-enjoyed sea- ■ ture, and social' conversation wound ! : up an altogether pleasant eventing. o DEATH MAY BE RESULT 1 CO.NTINLED TTtOM FAGE ONE ’ pvt out- the flames and the injured ones were taken to the next door home : of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Lord, which ! 1 was turned into an impromptu hos- 1 i pital. Three doctors —Dr. D. D. Clark. | E G. Coverdale and J. M. Miller —■ soon arrived and did what they could | to care for the injured ones, two of! whom were soon found to be probably I fatally burned, though the outcome, ol course, is not certain. Mrs Bailer was burned over nea' ly the entire body. Her hair was singed, her face. head. neck, waist, hips and legs were literally roasted or baked. and her arms were cooked to the : elbow, the flesh falling from the fingers in places It is thought she is’ burned internally Her clotting wa.nearly burned from her body, her back ! being exposed in places. Eva, the older daughter, who was. with her in the kitchen at the time,’ suffered burns nearly as bad. It : thought she also was burned internally and that her injuries may prove fa ’ tai. Her burns cover the head and face, chest, arms and legs, similar to that of the mother, and it is said the flesh also fell from her fingers. Dorothy, who was in the adjoining sitting room, but rushed to the kitchen door when the explosion took place, was badly but not fatally burned, it is thought. Her face, shoulder and arms suffered the greatest. She will probably live. Frank Huston, Mrs. Bailer’s brother, who proved a hero in rescuing the children, suffered painful, but not serious burns, about the face and hands The Bailer home was cleared ot the rebris, and the injured taekn there later in the morning. So great was the force of the explosion that the open door between the kitchen and sitting room was shattered to pieces, and badly splintered and was found lying under the kitchen table. Windows were cracked and smoke-stained, the kitchen table oil i j cloth burned off. A package of corn ■ meal and a bag of beans on the table t ’ were burned open and the contents - scattered, and the kitchen floor and t j walls badly burned. The flames were. however, extinguished without any se- , rious damage to the house. Mr. Bailer, Who is a drayman in the employ of Frank Teeple, was away from home at the time, but arrived 1: soon after the accident. ’, ’ The Bailer family is in strait t circumstances, and the misfortune n I that has come upon them at this time I is doubly sad, for that reason. At 2:30 this afternoon, report from J ’ the bedside is that all remain about f the same, showing very little change. P M. E. BROTHERHOOD. 1 The Methodist Brotherhood will hold - its regular meeting on Tuesday night 1 at 7:30. A good program of music and . speaking will be given. The Rev. . C. Tinkham of Garertt. Ind., will be present and deliver an address on the subject, "Methodism and the World.” i There will be a social hour, and gener- ■ al good time.

db* j• 3 GIDEON i yrmc. oecatur Man Tells of the Golden Opportunities in the Southwest

Dear Friend. —This beantiful spring morning, whi’a the nortnern states ■ are wrapped in tneir mantle of snow and ice; while ou r stock is revelling in rhe newly springing grass and those of the north are munching their hay or expensive silage. 1 want to give you a personal invitation to visit southeast Missouri —the land of Sunshine and the Home of Prosperity. Perhaps the best reason to give for your coming would be the one that brought me and ali rhe members ot our company—because, after investigation, we preferred being here to being anywhere else on earth. WHY? Just why we preferred this section to elsewhere is the purpose of this let ter to you. It is longer than I could take timeto write with a pen, or even a typewriter, and therefore 1 am hav- ! ing it printed. It will occupy less space and be mere easily read, but will be no less a personal letter from I me to you, than if 1 had written it by | the long process of pen and ink. T fully believe that the vast major- ’ ity of those who will read this letter would view the matter and this section just as 1 do, if they would come here and see the country as 1 have ' seen it. Os coure 1 cannot make this as plain in a letter as I could if you were here so 1 could “show you” the evidences ’ of fertility that are present on every j hand, or you could experience the pleasant climate with which this country is blessed. 3ut if you will ’ read every statement I shall make, i and remember that 1 am making them i in the belief that many of those who read them will become my neighbors ■ and take me to task for every misstatement, I feel sure that you w ill j I be convinced that it is worth invest! ( j gating. The first reason that 1 would assign ■ for your coming is. that it is EASILY REACHED—CLOSE TO MARKETS. You do not have to take a several i day’s journey from the old home, or, get away from the great central markets where nearly all of the produt of these great central states finally co tor distribution. We are only 200 miles from St Louis and 450 from Chicago, and the same distance from Cincinnati and Kansas City, and 150 from Memphis The greatest markets in the centra, states are only six to ten hours from the fields on which grow the finest crops of corn, alfalfa, cotton, stock, and hogs that reach the purchasing ■ public. This means that while this secaion and the soil are new it is really located in the heart of, so far as the environments are concerned, an old, seti tied country, and you don’t have to undergo the exposure and endure th c deprivations that those do who settle an entirely new country, remote from markets and the •civilization to which you are accustomed. MYSTERIOUSLY FERTILE SOIL. So remarkable is the productiv. ness of the soil here that it has in spired one of our friends to print a pamphlet on it, entitled, "The Land of Growing Gold,” because it produces gold for its owners faster than th" average gold mine, and that without like a mine, exhausting itself in a fe v years. 1 cannot tell you all abou; the wonderful crops it has produced and is producing every year. But lots of 'this land has made seventy-five bushels of corn to the acre last year ' which was confessedly one of the worst crop years within the memory of young men fn all the central sates. Field after field (not a few acres', of this land produced fifty bushels of ’ corn per acre last year, as others had in other years, with only one cultiva- ■ tion after planting. ! j It is really the heart of the corn belt of this continent, due to the fertility I of the soil and the adaptation of the climate to its production. AFLALFA. } The prize at the world’s fair at St. ■ Louis, awarded for the best alfalfa soil, was awarded to some taken from this i section. It produces from one and a t half to two tons per acre, and is cut as many as six times in a year. Farmers frequently take as much as S6O per acre from this crop. 1 As to the other staple crops I can-' t not take time to particularize, but It 1 produces wheat, oats, all kinds of hay and all ther farm crops of the » north temperate zone proportionately ’ and its cotton brings the highest price for short staple cotton of any that is grown in the United States, and better than all else

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A CROP FAILURE The nearest failure that has been recorded in twenty-five years was about fifteen year o ago, when one of our farmers said he had a short crop ! and only made half a bale of cotton to the acre. As the average in the cotton states is below that most folks would scarcely regard it as a failure. IT IS A GREAT STOCK COUNTRY. The short and mild winters, the abundant pasturage grasses that grow ! wild in the woods or in cultivated fields, the fine mast with which the woods abound, practically fattens the hogs used for home consumption by killing time, and that keeps them in good condition for ten months of th<year, are the apparent reasons why fortunes have been and are being made in this important industry Being only a few hours from mar- j ket enables our stock raisers to take ! the best possible advantage of the prices and makes their freight savings alone a big item of profit over those who have to ship further. Hany men have made the price ot * their land out of the profits of one < crop of corn fed to stock and then had ' a comfortable balance in the bank with which to begin the next year's operations. Our company is pretty extensively engaged in stock raising, and 1 know what can be done in this. Raising mules is profitable, and this section imports hundreds of them every year to supply the demand made in the development of the country. SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES ABOUND. As to the former the county court ! of New Madrid county has been lav- j ishly liberal in providing schools, so I that any child should conveniently at- ’ tend at any season of the year. . Churches are even more plentiful and < all denominations are represented in ! the vicinity. TAXES ARE LOW. The state, county, ditch and school ! taxes are based on a low valuation, not exceeding about one-fourth of the I real value of the land. year tue total taxes on land that has sold ft.. $35 an acre were less than 70c pet acre. And the ditch tax, which was the bulk of the total tax levied, will be removed in a few years. The total state tax is only 18 cents on the hundred dollars of valuation (about four and one third cents per hundred on ! actual valuation), and 5 cents of th came back to the county for school purposes. FRUITS. I neglected to sr.y, in the propet j place, that fruits of all kinds, native to the temperate zone, do well here. Apples, peaches, plums do particular!' well, while it appears to be the natural home of small berries, including strawberries, blackberries and cherries, while the melon crop of the stir- ■ rounding territory has already made this section famous In the markets of the west. GIDEON, A GROWING TOWN. The town of Gideon has the reputation of being one of the most prosperous in the country. It is only about 1 eight years old. but boasts of a popula-, tion of 1,000, and Continually growing. We have good schools, churches and fraternal orders and everybody is employed. It is located on the Frisco and Gid con & North Island railroads, the lat ter employing quite a good many men it its shops and on its train crews. Gideon is the manufacturing point of the Gideon-Anderson Lumber Mercantile company, which operates a saw mill, planing mill, handle factory and stave mill There are also two charcoal plants here. NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY. The price of this land has gone up remarkably during the last two years, j Literally it has quadrupled in price within five years. The reason for this ; is that farmers from other sections seeing that they could get as much , profit out of this land that cost them ’ from S2O to $35 per acre as they, could out of the land in the older communities that would cost SIOO to S2OO j have been coming in in increasing I numbers. It is only a question of a • few years until not an acre can be bought for less than SIOO per acre. Those who buy now will get the benefit of the increased valuation, while they are at the same time making as much, and In many instances much' more, than they could make out of; SIOO land elsewhere. I N. C. ANDERSON..

ismriw—r 11 1 Old Adams County Bank Deca cur, Indiana. , Ga 1120000 “•••*• Surplus . $30.000 C ' S ’ N,blick ’ President A- ’'l M K,rscband J °hn Nibuck -L'--„ ,ce & X ’ Ehlnger ’ c «*hier Read Reflea Resolve Collections ' Made The Feeling Os Security, fe. -- ~ able Rates. The Freedom From Worry, The Knowlege That Every You Are Prepared To Take AccomodaAdvantage of an Opportunity WHEN PRESENTED, With Safe Is Worth Any Sacrifice Mefif In Starting and Building Your Extended Bank Account! To v ur Patrons We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest on 1 Year Time Deposits FOR SALE —House and two lots on LOST— 3unch of keys—one house key, North sth street; 40 acres. % mile others assorted padlock keys Fiaj. east of Monmc^ta—C. D. Kunkle, ex- er retc.n to this office or to ” : ecutor J«hn Woy estate. 37t18 Meyers, So. stb St, NOTICE W eare mailing to those farmers who engage this spring in growing Beets a little book on SUGAR BEET CULTURE This paper was written by|Mr.|E. M. Wagner, the agriculturist, and approved by Mr. F. H. Hubbard, the manager of the HollandSt. Louis Sugar Co., and therefore is authoritative. It is confidently beleived that’much able information is contained therein W e are only too happy to mail to any one sending his name and address a copy,so long as we have them. FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, INDIANA There’s No Excuse — For ccmplaing aixutthe high cost of liquois when this store can be conveniently reached. You are rather late in coming, many of' our friends have been Here long ago and often since. Make up for your delay by coming now and learning that your idea of the excessive cost of high class liquors h wrong Corner Secondhand Madison Sts. CORLEY Bosse Opera House MONDAY MARCH 4th. The Sweetest Story Ever Told! Fred Raymond’s Famous Domestic Comedy mj GRAND IN ITS SIMPLICITY! GREAT IN ITS INTENSITY! t GORGEOUS IN ITS ENTIRETY! •MISSOURI | .. ZB k7“'7'!X,~| fZIDI A MASTERFUL COMBINATION Os , UIKL SPARKLING WIT, HEART-FEELINJ’ PATHOS AND STIRRING INCIDE> L" Prices 25,-35 and 50c •Advance sale at Usual Place