Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1912 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT ►vol l» Red Every Evening, Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Par Week, by carrier 10 cents Fer Year, by carrier 16.00 Par Month, by mull 2t> cents Psr Year, by mall $2.50 flingfe Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. » Entered at the postofilce in Decatur, " ulhn&. as second-class tnni’. The speech delivered by Governor Marshall last week before the democratic editors at their Fort Wayne meeting is one of the soundest political utterances of the day—lndianapolis News. It's up to the citizens of this community to say whether or not they want an “Old Home Week’’ here this fall, and the meeting at the library Wednesday evening should be well attended. Men and women should take part in the event and they should take an interest that will assure the success of the week or else it will be dropped. There is no use to half do such an event. If we give it, let's make it the best ever witnessed in this section. Mayor Preston of the city of Baltimore is an avowed candidate ■ . the* democratic nomination for vice president and is making a vigorous campaign. We have no doubt that he is i a clever and able statesman, but we J firmly believe that the vice president should be a man big enough for the j presidency. Mr. Preston may be that size, but unless the convention was to 1 meet in the Maryland city, it is likely that ho would never have been 1 heard of in this connection. In a terrible one-column wail this morning, the Indianapolis Star says “The republican party of Indiana affords some very fine gentlemen whose idea of successful political warfare consists in killing off about half oi the line and staff, throwing the ranks into panic and mutiny, grabbing off the quartermaster's department and! the commlssiariat for themselves and ' then calling God to witness that the damned old party needs a licking anyhow and they hope it will get one. As we understand it, Messrs. New, Kealing, Hemenway, Watson and Durbin constitute so overwhelming a majority of the Indiana voters as to make their control of the republican party equivalent to victory this fall. No other votes will be needed, no other arguments required. The republican rank and file can take their medicine and like it, and if they refuse to swallow the dose at the November polls perhaps it is much the better anyhow.” Irvin Hrandyberry made a business trip to Fort Wayne this morning. Miss Margaret. Hanlin of Portland is here today on business. Miss Hanlin is agent for a fruit and flower nursery and makes semi-annual business visits here in the interest of her agency.

9 Wash Suit Time Hot days are near when the youngster must don his thin clothing. Is there anything more suitable or comfortable for the little chaps than Wash Suits. See our line of Nobby SAILOR and RUSSIAN Blouse Suits 50c to $2.00 THE MYERS-DAILEY ’ COMPANY !

DOINGS IN SOCIETY Showers Given Last Evening for Two June Brides —Dinner Partes. NURSES GRADUATE Many Attend Commencement of Miss Irene Myers—Announcements. ■a Growing Old. A little more leisure to sit and dream, A little more real, the things, unseen. A little nearer to those ahead. With visions of those long-loved and dead: And so we are going to where all must go, To the place the living may never know. Rollin J. Wells. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Meibers delightfully entertained at progressive pedro the following guests: Misses Celia and Anna Smith, Rose and Marie Tonnelier, Celesta Wemhoff, Sylvia Droppieman; Messrs. Theodore Graliker, Clyde Kraven, Roy Altman, Frank Maley, Bernard Smelser, Henry Harris, Jack Roberts, Bob Meibers, George Gibson, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank McConnell. The first prize was awarded to Sylvia Droppiemen and Bob Meibers. and the boobies to Frank McConnell and Theodore Graliker. De- ' licious refreshments were served by the host and hostess. The wedding of Miss Martha CoverI dale and Albert Boeckman of Bluffton | will take place Wednesday evening in that city. The couple will go for a wedding tour of ten days or two weeks to Niagara Falls and Great | Lake points. Miss Coverdale is a I granddaughter of Mrs. Harriet L. CoI verdale of this city, and is known to many here. Miss Bess Baumgartner whose en- ' gagement to Mr. Ben Welker of DelaI ware, Ohio, was recently announced, ! and who will be a June bride, was given a pleasant surprise last evening , in the way of a kitchen shower, by her friends, of the Ent re Nous club, : Miss Jennie Ernst also being a memI her of the party. All kinds of useful i things which will be of use in the now j j and by the way, they were pretty as I well as useful. The gifts were pre- | sented in a large clothes basekt, which was a most convenient way of making the conveyance. Games and music and a luncheon completed a pleasing social evening. I Decatur people who attended the Weber & Fields Jubilee company's entertainment at Ft. Wayne a week or so ago. will be interested in the dispatch from Pittsburg, which says that Lillian Russell, a member of the company, will reward the long and ardent i devotion of Alexander Moore, propriej tor and editor of the Pittsburg leader I by becoming his wife, in that city, toj morrow, after the closing of the Weber | and Fields company’s tour, which will ibe given there It is expected that Miss Russell will retire from the stage, ; in fact she has indicated several times ] t that she is ready to resign her foot-1 I light laurels for the joys of domestic-I . > ity. However no inkling of the plans I ~ of the pair have been given out. Mr.' Moore is the leader of the RooseVeit , f' forces in this part of the state and he i has done such good work during the . campaign that he is regarded as certain of high political preferment if Mr. Roosevelt, is elected. During the tour of the Weber and Fields Jubilee company, Mr. Moore has been a constant attendant at most of the performances and had been conspicuous by his attention to the fair Lillian. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette contained a picture of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kenny Erwin, sr., whose fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration was attended Sunday by the D. B. and Dan Erwin families of this city For fifty-three years they resided in Abolte township, Allen county, and are no doubt the oldest residents of that township. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Moore of Fort Wayne, Vane Weaver and the .Misses Marie and Letta Kintz enjoyed an automobile ride to Rockford, Ohio, and through the country, with a picnic supper along the way, the afternoon being a most delightful one. Miss Irene Myers, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Myers of this city, was a member of the class of 1912 graduates from the nurse’s training school of the Hope hospital, Fort Wayne, the commencement being held Monday ev- ■ ening. Among those from this city who attended the teßtivities were Mrs.

' Elizabeth Myers and daughters, Vera and Nellie, the Misses Florence Myers and Marie Heckman, Mr. Andrew Harting, Mrs. W. J. Myers, Dick Myers and family, John T. Myers and ■ family, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gay and daughter, Golda A pleasant social evening was spent at the spacious country home of J. W. Shifferly, six miles east of Decatur, last Sa’urday evening in honor of Miss - Gertrude Shifferly and Mrs. R. Sprunger, and Master Merrill and Miss Kathryn, who will leave in the near future for a visit with friends and relatives in Montana and other western points. The evening was enlivened by several spirited contests, and a peanut race, which was won by Mrs. Otis Shifferly. The folliwing guests were entertained Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schnitz: Mrs R. Sprunger and children Merrel and Kathryn, of Berne; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shifferly, Mr. and Mrs. Otis Shifferly and daughter, Doris; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Shifferly, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Schnitz, and the Misses Gertrude and Wildas Shifferly, Zelda Schnitz, Ida and Ethel Fuhrman, Iva and Carlo Standiford, and Mr. Ivan Shifferly. Shadow pictures also created a great deal ol amusement. Those present were the Misses Kathryn Sprunger, Gertrude Shifferly, Vera Mitch, Eda Gay, Ethel Fuhrman, Nellie Lett. Lottie Lett, Carlo Standiford, Doris Shifferly, Zelda Schnitz. Ida Fuhrman, Iva Standiford, Wildas Shifferly and Messrs. Rolla Jackson, David Meyers, Cleo Jackson, Clarence Drake, Curtis Miller, Ivan Shifferly, Oren Standiford, Merrell Sprunger, Artie Jackson: Mr. and Mrs. Otis Shifferly, Mr. and Mis. V. G. Shifferly. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Schnitz, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Shifferly, Mrs. R. Sprunger. Ice cream and cake were served and the guests departed, declaring themselves royal entertainers. Members of the Y. P. C. E. U. of the United Brethren church are earnestly requested to be on hand this evening at 7:30 o’clock at the church, when important business matters will come up before the members. The attendance of every member is asked for this time. I The pupiis of the Sacred Heatt Academy, Fort Wayne, will present "Scenes from the Old Curiosity Shop” at their commencement exercises on Wednesday afternoon at 2:15 o’clock at the Majestic theater. Fort Wayne. Miss Genevieve Belling, daughter of Mrs. Helen Berling of this city, is a graduate this spring. Miss Berling and Miss Drusilla Gandy of Churubusco, well known here where she has often visited, have completed the academic course, and. Miss Berling has the honor o r uelivering the valedictory. She plays the part of Mrs. Wedgewood in the play and also renders several piano selections. Miss Bertha Knapp, a June brideelect, was given a surprise friendship shower Monday evening at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. .Henry Knapp, by the German Reformed Helping Hand society. She was the recipient of many pretty and useful gifts, including cut glass, silver, kitchen utensils, of many kinds, and after a social evening spent at the Knapp home, the bride-elect accompannied them to her own. home on Indiana' street, which they are furnishing in | advance of the wedding, which will oc- j i cur Wednesday, June 19th. The I groom is Fred Ashbaucher. After the i wedding, which will take place Wed- ! nesday evening at 8 o'clock, the young i couple will take a wedding trip to i Orville, Ohio, where they will be the guest of his aunt and other relatives. Those who formed the party Monday evening were Mesdames Fred Heuer, Fred Reppert, Otto Reppert. L. C. HesII sert, Frank McConnell, M. F. Worth- ■ man, Ed Miller, John Spuhler, Ben Elzey, the Misses Lucy Fruchte, Della ( Sellemeyer, Ella Mutschler and Matili da Sellemeyer. Mr. and Mrs. .1. L. Gay and dauglis ter, Golda, and the Dick Meyer fam- . ily motored to Fort Wayne, where - they attended the Hope hospital comi mencement exercises, Miss Irene Mey- . ers being a graduate. i Fred Fullenakmp, Edgar Gerber I and Dick Boch were Sunday afternoon ’ guests at the Marie Lillak home at Hesse Cassel, joining the Misses Agnes Meibers, Ester Corbett and Naomi Niblick, who went earlier in the day. Miss Esther Sellemeyer will entertain the German Reformed Christian Endeavor society at its regular monthly meeting this evening. The Young People's Christian Endeavor Union of the United Brethren church will hold its regular monthly business meeting at the church this evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Heckmann of St. John’s, who were married a week ago Sunday, were guests of Mrs.'

L. Bultemeier and daughters, Clara and Luella, last evening, leaving at 11 o’clock over the Clover Leaf for St. Louis, thence to California, where they will probably make their home. They were accompanied to the train by a company of forty or more relatives and friends who were loath to see them go. Mrs. Heckman was Miss Anna Bultemeier before her marriage. The Mite society of the Methodist church will meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. Emerson Beavers. The attention of the members of the Presbyterian Christian Endeavor | % society is called to the regular business and social session to be held this | evening at the home of Owen Edwards on Winchester street, just across from the S. E. Hite grocer'*. The session will be c C.ed at 7:<5 o'clock. The Misses Anna and Nell Winnes, Della Harruff, Mrs. Fred Linn attended the Emmanuel Lutheran church dedication Sunday and were guests of the Henry Krueckeberg family at dinner. A delightful dinner party at 6 o'clock this evening will be that giv- : en by Mr. an<* Mrs, D. W. Beery. The place cards will no daintily decorated with wild roses done in water colors by Mrs. Adella Neptune and will mark the covers for the following guests: Messrs, and Mesdames R. L. Semans, A. R. Bell, P. G. Hooper. P. B. Thomas and son, Brice; Dan Sprang, J. T. Merryman, John Vail, C. J. Lutz and J. C. Patterson. rO Earl Heffner of Fort Recovery, O„ went to Fort Wayne this morning to visit with the Henry Franke family. Commissioner Zwick of Bingen returned to his home after being a busi- . ness caller in the city between trains. I Henry Bleeke of Union township | was in the city today looking after business affairs requiring his atten-1 tion. John Omivr of Root township re-| turned home on the 10 o'clock car aft- I er visiting here between cars this | morning. Mr. and Mrs.. Henry E. Yokem and: children, Doris and Dors, are home ' from Ohio City, where they visited w’ith friends and relatives. Mrs. Will Chronister and daughter, Rachel Francile, went to Fort Wayne this morning where the child is receiving treatment for a hip disease. It is thought that a cast which she has worn several weeks, can be removed at this time. The G. R. & I. strip of lawn just north of the depot, is one of the pret-: tiest spots in the city, and with the I close attention being given it by the 1 various employees, adds attractive-1 ness to the company's plot. The new I hedge, started last year, has been trimmed low o allow it more strength i for the oncoming next growths. Lawrence Voglewede and friends, I who Sunday returned from a ten days’ fishing trip at Clear Lake, failed I to relate of his backward slide for .' life at 3 o'clock one morning, but oth-1 ers told it for him. They were just' pulling to shore at this quiet, still j hour of the morning, and all but Law-I rence had left the boat. One of the 1 party, wishing to draw the boat half | ' onto the shore, gave it a jerk, and tn I , an instant “Logger" gave a backward ■ ' somerset into the deep. Owing to his I fame as a swimmer no fear of him not ' getting out was held <nd he soon en- ! joyed tho sport wtih the rest. Law- [ rence tried to keep it quiet, but it was I too good for his friends to keep uu- I der cover. o NOSE STOPPED UP ♦ WITH CATARRH Ely's Cream Balm Clears the Head and Nose Instantly—Makes You Feel Fine. No matter how miserable you are j with catarrh —nose stopped up, throat' sore, dull pain in the head, dry cough, i fever, foul breath—Ely’s Cream Balm I will give you instant relief. It gets right at the root of the trou- [ ble, cleanses, heals and strengthens the raw, sore membranes, and stops the nasty discharge so that you are i not constantly blowing your nose and | spitting. In a few minutes after ap- 1 plied, you can just feel it doing its work of clearing the head, the gain | and soreness are relieved, the breathing becomes natural, and the stuffed up feeling is gone. This cleansing, healing, antiseptic balm contains no mercury, cocaine or other harmful drug. It is easy to apply, pleasant to use, and never fails to give quick relief, even in the worst cases. Don’t suffer the miseries of catarrh nor disgust your friends with your hawking, spitting and foul breath. Get a fifty-cent bottle of Ely’s Cream Balm from your druggist, and start treat- j ment at once. You will find it will j prove to be thy best investment you ever made. t-t-s

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