Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1912 — Page 3

— FIRE WORKS FIRE WORKS j The Racket Store is tho p .«•« to get them we have the largest assortment in ( the city a i will sek ih : !tt : ,t rh * right prices. Compare our stock and prices Iwith o.heis and then wl s.vwh we had to reorder another large stock. The Old Way of Advertising' 25c package for 10 cents L M 10c 44 “ 5 44 i» 5c package 2 for 5 4 4 j; 3c 44 for 1 44 | [ Honest Advertising H Roman Candle 6 balls 1 cent s : “ “ 10 44 2 for 5 44 H ) 44 <’ 15 “ 5 u 44 44 20 44 10 “ > • Cannon Crackers 2 inch 15 for 5 cents h 44 4 4 3 44 12 “ 5 M 4 4 4 4 5 “ 6 44 5 44 « Manderin Crackers worth 5c sell for 5 cents “ 10c 4 4 44 1O 44 * Sparklers per dozeh 5 cents All penny articles per dozen 10 cents 2 ounce skv rockets 1 cent 4 “ 44 4 4 2 for 5 cents , ■ i 6 14 44 “ 5 cents „ i ib. 44 44 io 44 r PUNK FREE Torpedoes 1 cent a box 2 for 5 cents and 5 cents PLENTY OF FLAGS I— _____ _______ 11 Compare these prices and that isn’t al) compare s he sizes and quality we have 1I the goods and will do as we say, do not wait until they are all gone but buy 11 while the selection is good. g Remember The Store That Does Things it is U 3 STEELE & WEAVER’S BIG STORE J £££L ’ ".,1 11 -J" _|E3

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BRYAN FINE SPEAKER ANNUALLY DRAWS GREAT CROWDS TO INDIANA RESORT. Famous Nebraska Orator Is to Give Address Afternoon of August 1. William Jennings Bryan is one of the most popular lecturers on the program at Winona, Lake this year. He will come to Winona Lake for an afternoon lecture August 1, and will give one of his new addresses. Annually Mr. Bryan is one of the strongest attractions Winona can get, and the audiences to which he speaks are made up of men of all political faiths. As an orator even his enemies admit he is one of the few, and his addresses at Winona draw crowds from all the middle west. As a lecturer he is magnetic and convincing, and he has the power of driving home points without stepping.on the political toes of his hearers. VENETIAN NIGHT IS GREATEST SPECTACLE it Will Be the Climax of the Series of Water Carnivals at Winona Lake. Following other lake spectacles that have been presented already this year, the final preparations are being made at Winona Lake for Venetian night, August 9: To this famous spectacular entertainment the people of this country flock annually, and at times 15,000 persons have bien on the park grounds to see' the splendid water carnival and parade It was for this reason that these water events have been bo popular in the past that the Winona Lake officials decided this year to make Vene-1 tian night the culmination of a series | of lake spectacles. The first of these ■ was given July 4. Venetian night, scheduled for eight o’clock the evening of August 9, is to be the grand climax of all of these events, and is to be the greatest of them all. The others were given really in prepara-, tion for the one greatest spectacle, and the preliminaries—if they may be called that —were themselves up to the standard of past years. WINONA MISUNDERSTOOD. Its Purpose Is Not to Make Money but to Elevate the Public. Few communities are less understood than is Winona Lake, Ind., and the reason of this probably is that the individual visitor sees that part in which he is particularly interested, and tails to get the significance of the many other features of the place. The whole purpose of Winona Lake is to benefit the public. This, it is purposed, is to be done along every line, physical, moral, mental, spiritual, - And of the divisions of the one great purpose,, the chief one is that of strengthening the Christian character of the men and women, boys and girls with whom Winona’s influence comes . in contact. An idea seems prevalent that Winona Lake is a moneymaking institution. but this is an error, for Winona is supported largely by gifts. It gives to the public each year in lectures, entertainments, music and spectacles much more than the public gives it. The same entertainments that may be had at Winona for practically noth-; ing would and do cost from $1 to $2 or $3 in the opera, houses of the i cities. LEBRUN PARTY AT WINONA. Famous Grand Opera Singers Will Appear on 1911 Program. Grand opera singers, who are now ' doing Chautauqua work, will be heard ' at Winona Lake this year. August 14 i There are three members in the com- ‘ pany which is known as the Leßrun , Grand Opera Party. Mme. Leßrun is one of the world’s greatest sopranos ' and heads the party. The other mem- 1 bers are Fritz Huttman, tenor; Arthur Deane, baritone, and Laura Baer contralto. The costumes that are ' worn by the four members represent an investment of $5,000, and a big part of this amount was paid for a single dress worn by Mme. Leßrun. The operas sung by this party at Winona Lake August 14 will be in English. This is one of the strongest organizations appearing on tlie Winona program this year. Give Last Number. The Gamble Concert Party will give the last number on the Winona Lake assembly program this year at 81 o’clock, the evening of August 19 This is considered one of the strong numbers of the see son’s program. Is Tourist Point. The Central Passenger association 1 makes Winona Lake, Ind., a year- j around tourist point. Special tickets arc sold to Winona Lake for the sea-' son or for fifteen days. — President on Program. M-ontavilie Flowers, president of | the International Lyceum association,; ie on the Winona Lake program this year, appearing the evening of August 16. After Money. Bill—l see that < out of every I ten letters passing . cough the Hus-' slap pos: office is opened on general j principles. Jill —Gee! There Isn’t money in as soany as that, is there?

CURTISS BOATIHG IN HIS NEW AEROPLANE •.-’ / ? i rima | ■ - % ■: i Glenn H. Curtiss, in his new hydro- | aeroplane will be at Winona Lake ’ July 14, and will demonstrate for the first time to the people of the Inland the machine that is both boat and airship. Such demonstrations have been made rarely even on the seacoast, ! and the appearance of Curtiss at 1 Winona Lake July 14 is exciting a great deal of attention among the I aeronauts and aeroplane pilots. | BY ADD LAURELS: GLENN H. CURTISS WILL DEMONSTRATE HYDROAEROPLANE TO AN INLAND CROWD. — SPECTATORS EXPECT THRILL- — Alr-Bcat Machine Will Be Used July 14 at Winona Lake, Flights Being Made From Surface of Water. It is a peculiar fact that while some military experts are building dread- : naughts of immense weight, other military experts are building the machines that will destroy the dreadnaughts, and the destroyers are constructed of the lightest possible ' material that will stand the strain. It is to the light machine rather than to ; the ponderous battleship that naval authorites are turning. The latest machine for the use of j warriors is the ■ bydro-aeroplane, the i combination of boat and airship. On I both the Pacific coast and in the Gulf of Mexico this machine has been tested, and in both cases it was found to be efficient. Just what the hydro-aeroplane is has defied the imagination of inland folk since the date when Glenn H. Curtiss flew from a point on the Pacific coast to the battleship Pennsylvania, had lunch with ttie officers, and then flew back to land. The hydroaeroplane, however, is very simple, . even if it is new. The upper part of it is the Curtiss biplane. To the lower part of this, attached strongly with skeleton work, is a pontoon or boat. Thus, when the flyer descends from the air to the water the pontoon strikes first, and its buoyancy keeps the machine from sinking into the surface while the double wings of the aeroplane balance the craft. With the boat-air machine it is possible to travel on the surface of the water, to rise from the water into the air, and to descend again from the air to the water surface. This year, for the first time, the hydro-aeroplane will be seen inland. Winona Lake assembly has contracted with Glenn H. Curtiss to bring his famous hydro-aetoplane to Winona lake and to give exhibitions of its use. Mr. Curtiss required a fabulously large amount of money, but Winona assembly paid this in order that the people of the middle west might have the opportunity of seeing the newest form of locomotion or air and water navigation. The date set for the Curtiss demonstration of the hydroaeroplane is July 14. The demonstrations will be made on Lake Winona, a beautiful expanse of water, two miles broad and three miles long. The shores are well adapted to the purposes of both avia tor and the spectators, and thousands can stand in the natural ampbithe.a- | ters and view the flights, while Mr. | Cfirtiss in turn will have the whole | lake for his new and strange aquaticaerial feats. The newness of the hydroaeroplane and the practical impossibility of giving hydro-aeroplane demonstrations away from the sea shore have made the Curtiss flights at Winona lake July 14 of especial Interest and the prophecies of newspapers and ' magazines have been that Mr. Cur I tiss will give the Winona crowds some I thrilling exhibitions, and perhaps add ■ to his past records for brilliant work ' as a motorist on land, on water and I in the air. I Meetings Planned fcr Winona. , Many special schools, conferences ‘ and conventions are planned for the | 1911 season at Winona Lake, Ind., and this community has an interest In some of them. The first of these was the Summer ■"chocl of M.'sciorw. June 22 to 29 Then comes tbe Indiana Photograph | ers’ convention, July 10 to 14. The ' Young People's conference, for young ’ er members oi the Presbyterian I churches will be held from July 13 tc I m. - '

REMOVE BRIDGES FOR BIG PARADE I Four Spans to Be Taken Out Venetian Night. — IS CLIMAX OF SPECTACLES; i Plans Begun Months Ahead for Annual Water Carnival Scheduled for August 9 at Winona Lake. I By the plans that have been made j this year, Winona Lake's Venetian I i night will far surpass the events of ■ , this sort given at other times. This 1 I year, instead of beginning plans for I Venetian night about a month ahead of time, the work on this evening’s entertainment was begun June 1. By August 9, the date set for this event, these plans not only will be entirely i | completed, but the men tinder the di- i ! rectlon of Capt. Frank B. Pine will ' have each detail in exact working orI’der. Venetian night this year promises more than it has in many years ’ past. f Four bridges will be taken out of ■ the canal to make this feature of the ■ year’s program a possibility. All of j this has been arranged. The bridges ' in question span the canal at the , crossing points between the mainland 1 and McDonald island. Some of the I floats will be so large that it will be i impossible to get them under these ; bridges and. instead of making the i floats smaller, the plan is to take out ' the bridges themselves. I For years Venetian night has been I j one of the strongest features of the I ■ program. It is given each August j under the direction of Capt. Frank I B. Pine, builder of the annual Mobile I Mardi Gras, and Mrs. Spinning of Chi- ! cago. Mrs. Spinning again will be j chairman of the committee on arrangements. As many as 15,000 persons have viewed the water parade on Venetian night, and in anticipation of a large crowd again this year, seats have been ‘ provided for 15,000. These will be i placed along the canal baqk and the Staudium, and electrical displays, sur-1 passing those of last year and 1909, J j will be used. On June 1, Captain Pine began his ; Venetian night building in connection j with his work on the Mardi Gras, i billed for last June 16. Having tha i workmen at bis shops and the tail's already worked out, he had them fill in odd time by preparing material i and the ou ines of floats for Venetian night. At the time of building I the Fourth of July spectacle the samp j was true, the workmen giving spare | time to the Venetian night material, j This method made the preparations | for this year’s Venetian night practically a season’s task, and the result is better material. WINONA A GENUINE CITY. Has All the Conveniences Found In t Any Other Community. When snow comes to a city of unusual size, the city street force gets , out snow plows and plows the snow away. There is nothing startling in that statement, and yet a man the ' other day at Winona Lake asked: I “When it snows here in the winter, 1 what do you do?" And the answer | came: “We get out the snow plows • and have the snow plowed away In time for the children to get to school." There are many peculiar j ideas about Winona Lake, Ind., but I the fact is that It is just like any . city—excepting that it is tbe most ; moral community it is possible to' build, and that it has for its aim the uplifting of those who come to it. I It has postoffice, ice bouses, grocery, good streets, cement sidewalks, an abundance of and variety of good spring water, two colleges and an academy, and the common schools within easy walking distance of any part of the community. It is becoming mort' and more a place of winter i residence PROGRAM IS VARIOUS. j Cartoonists, Musicians, Lecturers and Entertainers Are Contracted. Winona Lake this year has erne of - the strongest programs it ever has offered the public. There is’ not an idle hour of any day of the assembly season, and there is not a day when j the average American cannot find ' something to his own individual Ilk- j ing. The fact Is that the builders of < the assembly program have tried to I follow out the instructions of a fa- i ■ mous author who said that the secret' ! of success is to be “infinitely various.’’! Winoiia’a program this year offers tliel ! greatest variety of entei -imnent and I Instruction that the public ever has had the opportunity to see and hear. Give Model Program. Closing the post season at Winona ! I«ake this year is the international i Lyceum association’s convention, I Opening August 31 and continuing to ; feptember 9. At each ?nn: a! ronven- < tion the International Lyceum asso-1 cfatirn g’’ves . tn< del ten-day chai:-' tf.uqur pi ngram in ~ hi< b members of tbe associaJon ,ake part and to which 1 the outsider may come with the as- 1 surance that he will have a royal enler'alnment. ’

THE REAL THING. “What’s doing in the way of amusA ments?” asked the newcomer of ths old Inhabitants of Hades. "Baseball game every afternoon.’ answers the old Inhabitant. "Baseball? You don’t mean It! That’s great! I was a fan from ’waj back on earth. On the square, do yes have baseball every day?” “Sure thing.” "By ginger! This place suits me Baseball! Say, this can’t be hell, then?” “Yes, It is. The home team always loses.” Couldn’t Deny It. “You’re a two-faced man!” exclaim'cd the disappointed officeseeker. “Fib not afraid to tell you so.” , I ‘'Two faced?" smiled the eminent statesman; “my dear friend, I am I worse than that. The papers have printed fifty different portraits of me. ' and no two of them look alike.” Quite So. “Jiblots asked me about my gap I den. Confound his impertinence! I ; haven’t any garden and never expect to have one.” “Well, don’t get huffy. The fact that he gave you credit for being considerably more Industrious than yon really are is a compliment.” HAD NO FEARS. A ) u 1 / I ? Kindhearted Lady—Ah, poor man; ’ don’t you know that you will fill a i drunkard’s grave? Waggles—No, madam; I expect to be cremated. Hard Work, Ills Industry he doth parade, Who hath a little garden made; Though often, with a Weary air, He moped his brow and stopped to swear. Forty-Seven Short. First Fly—What’s the matter ■with your eyes? | Second Fly—l strained ’em counting my eggs. One of the swatters says : the average fly lays sixty-seven thousard :: gs. First Fly—How did you come out!. I Seuond Fly—l think I’m about fortyseven short. For the Defense. I A noted critic and literary adviser i ! said at the Authors’ club in New York: , ’ “A reader —whether for a magazine! ■ or for a publisher—doesn’t read the, 1 whole of every manuscript. Why | should he? Do I have to eat a whole- : cheese to tell whether it’s good or not?” A Warden’s Dilemma. I Biggs—l see that a lot of convicts , in a state penitentiary have struck be- ! cause they don’t the food. Diggs -Yes, and it’s awfully hard, on the warden. f “What is?” “Why, the fact that he can’t say to the kickers, ‘if you don’t like the food, get out.’ ” ■» i THEY’D SCRATCH IT UP. Pious—The Bible says, you know, I that whatever you sow you shall also I reap. Suburbs—But suppose your neighbors keep chickens? It Doth. Doth seem as if We Just can’t wait To greet the sweet Girl graduate. t Getting Near it. “If she told you her age you cat surely figure out when she was born.*: “Judging from what she told me her age was, I should say she was bors on her fourteenth birthday.” Quite Likely. “My ideal is a husband who would’ read my heart like a book.” I m afraid, my dear, he would satisfy himself with the pretty binding. ■*