Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1912 — Page 2

DAfI.YDE M O C R A T Published Every Evening, Except Sunday by TB£ DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier...' 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 10.00 p«r Month, by mail ..25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as sceond class mau. The bull moose party has advertised a county convention to be held at the court house in this city, at 10 ocloek, Friday morning of this week, at which time they aunounce they will nominate a county ticket. The campaign will soon be on in earnest in Adams county and for the next seven weeks you will hear politics, and lots of it. Hon. J. A. M. Adair will open at Pleasant Mills Friday evening of this week, speaking the following evening at Geneva,. County Chairman Bosse has also announced the following dates for speeches: Tuesday, September 24th, I at Buckmaster school house, Jefferson j township, Hon. J. C. Moran and Hou. . J. F. Fruchte; same date, Kinseyj school, south of Salem, Hon. Dore ’ B. Erwin and Hon. H. B. Heller: Sept. ] 25, Linn Grove, Hon. D. E Smith and Hon. Milton Miller; same date, at I 'school No. 6, in French township, > Hon. C. J. Lutz and Hon. R. C. Par- | rish; Friday, Sept. 27th, at Brodbeek ( school, Union township, Hon. D. E. . Smith and Hon. D. N. Erwin; Sep.. 30th, School No. 4, Kirkland township, . Hon. D. E. Smith and Hon. R, C. Pairish; same date, at Berne, Hon. D. B. . Erwin and Hon R C. Parrish. . ..entj-live per coot of the vote in , Adams county, or close to that number, has not been registered. This should be enough to startle the sleepy fellows into a condition that will make them hustle during the -ext three weeks. The third ah'' ast registration wiL occur on October 7th and there is much to do. Some of those who have not registered stubbornly refuse to do so, because they do not favor the law. In this they are wrong and are injuring only themselves when they do not protect their right of suffrage. Others simply neglect to register and will do so if they are urged, and still others have not had a chance to do so. It's important that all these people register the next time, and it's important that you see that they do. Let's make old Adams county lead all the rest. It is said that more than 300,000 voters have not registered in the state. There is much work to do and we should do ours. It’s the last chance. TO ATTEND CONVENTION Dr. J. S. Boyers will leave this evening for Washington, D. C. where he will attend the international convent'ca of hygie’-.a and demography. Dr. :s goe > as a delegate. ,) — K. OF C. MEETING. Tonight, regular meeting of the Knights ot Columbia. Business of importance will be up for discussWn a< this meeting so a good attendance is desired. o FOR SALE OR TRADE—A full blooded Shropshire buck. Address I. Bender, R. R. 10, Decatur, or telephone 4 on the B line. 221t6 If You Like To Wear good, all-wool, made-to-measure clothes that hold their shape and look good until worn out, call on THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY and select one of Ed. V. Price & Co’s, beautiful, new Fall and Winter woolens and leave your order. Suits To Measure , SIB.OO to $40.00 mot. V/rw.v.. ..livS’ <•s- . •

BEET TOP ENSILAGE. I think beet tops are a good cow feed well worth saving and feeding, and I have been experimenting to find out the best way to preserve them and feed them. Like corn, they are good when the beets are first topped, the cows like them, and you can get them in no better shape, but the trouble of it is tt _y won't stay in this shape. If the weather is bad it is a job to go into the field after them every day to feed the cows, and they will freeze and finally rot. So we have to figure in some way to preserve them, just as we do the silage. I ian the beet tops through an ensilage cutter into my silo on top of the corn silage after we tread it down in the fall. They kept nicely. They did not waste at all. The cows ate them all clean ard they liked them, too. This was U j old-fashioned elevator carrier. It was hard on the machine. Then 1 built a silo on purpose to preserve beet tops in. I built it close to the drive bridge into the barn so that we could drive up onto this bridge and pitch the beet tops in. The silo is eighteen feet high, and standing in the wagon on the bridge we can pitch clear to the top of it. The great trouble was, I didn't -et this silo big enough. It wouldn’t hold i all of the beet tops, and consequently . ’ 1 had to extend it on up higher and maek it 36 feet high; and then we' couldn’t pitch them up. Last year f j rigged up an old carrier that could | run with a gasol _e engine and we! j elevated the beet tops with this. It t was rather slow work but we got them . 1 all up there. Then 1 got a car load J I of fresh beet pulp from the beet far-' j tory and ran that on top. This sealed; { up the silo so that there was abso- ; lutely no Waste. The beet tops all ! settled down, heat up. and made good ' ensilage. When we filled in the beet i tops we put in a layer of oats straw i and then a layer of beet tops, another j | layer of oats straw and so on. The ; beet tops are vry moist and the , straw helps absorb some of the mois- : ture. The cattle ate the oats straw , almost as readily as they did the beet * tops, after it was saturated with the , I juice from the tups. , Beet Tops With Cornstalks for Ensilage This year I tried another experi-' ment. The corn was so wet that I did not husk it with a shredder. W’. > were very late with husking and very laU with th< -eets, and so I got a man to see if he couldn't cut the beet tops and the cornstalks together and run them into the silo. He did it, and we have the regular beet top silo brim full of cornstalks and beet tops all-chopped up together, and wd have several feet of beet tops and cornstalks in one of the regular corn silage silos. We are feeding this ensilage at the present time. The cows eat it all up, and like it, stalks, beet tops and all. Now 1 believe this was a good way to take care of the cornstalks. I don't imagine that these cornstalks are as valuable as they would be if they had been cut up when they were just at the proper stage of ripening as we do the ensilage corn. Some of the starch and , sugar has turned to woody fiber and ; become indigestible, if the cows do eat them. While they are a filler, they are not very valuable as a food, and yet they don't waste any part of them. The cows relish the whole mess and are doing fairly well on them. I don't see but what they are doing just as well as they would on corn silage. Now, if it wasn’t for husking corn by hand I would say- that this was just the way to dispose of the cornstalks. which 1 have on the corn where I want to save the ear corn. If I could only have a husker with a blower attachment that would blow the cornstalks and beet pulp into the silo I would husk the corn with a husker and fun the beet tops into rhe silo at the same time. This, I believe would reduce t’ e harvesting and disposition of the com crop and would save this feed at a minimum cost and a least possible loss. The cornstalks being dry would absorb some of the juice from the beet tops and would make a valuable cow feed, which would be cheap. But I don t like the idea of husking corn by hand. And. whether I do this again or no’ will all depend upon the fall. If the corn gets dry enough so that we can husk and shred it I think I shall do it that way, just because it is almost impossible to get it shucked by hand. > One has to vary his plans to suit the seasons and conditions with which he t is confronted. Feed Beet Tops and Preserve Them for Winter Use. In the first place the beet tops are used to cover the beets each evening, and are left until they are delivered to the factory. When the beets are uncovered the taps can be placed in j piles about eighteen inches in diameter and as high as possible, and left In this condition all winter without injury to the beet tops for feeding purposes. This is a practical method that the farmers in Michigan follow in preserving the tops for feeding sheep, cows, etc. Snow and freezing will not injure then for feeding pur- — »

poses. With the exception of a silo my experience has been that this method is a paying proposition. E. M. WAGNER. o The Beet Harvest lUcatLrued Turn Page 1) ed in sugar beet growing than the owner of rented farms. The beet crop will insure you gening your pay, and will not only conserve, but will increase the productivity of your land. It will therefore be to the interest of you and us to be able to get rid of these unprofitable tenants, and get in better renters to take their places. As so many farm owners have asked us to secure tenants for them we have decided to get into the rental business systematically. We propose that if you will list your farm with us for a time that we will advertise in some of the newspapers in that part of Michigan that we came from and where we believe we can secure some good renters who instead of "knocking’’ the sugar beet, will encourage it. If you want us to assist you to get a good renter, come to our office and fill out one of the blanks which will be provided, and we will see what ' can be done along the line proposed. I We will ark yor. to deposit one dollar , to r,-.; U.c exp.-use of advertising, but ' other than this there will be no expense to you and we feel quite certain of being able to secure a tenant for you if your farm is good and your ! terms right. Don’t delay, as what we i do must be started immediately. F. H. HUBBARD. ' _- - —-p—- --; Court House News — i Continued trom Page 1) I cused on account of illness. The 1 court ordered five additional names of •jurors drawn to serve for those, and 1 this will be done later, as the jury commissioners were out of town. I Judge Merryman today authorized the probate of tbe will of Lucinda Dickerson, deceased, September 5, To husba"-’., George R. Dickerson,! she eb--_, U er real estate, io* _O4, in j ' otunabaker’s addition io Geneva, ) Should ne die uefore the testator, their property is to be given to their' son. William R. Dicekrson, to be held J trust by Isac M. Dickerson, and Sadie Chrisman. Out of the rent and 1 1 roceeds the repairs, taxes, etc., are to be kept up, and the further pro-1 reeds to be kept by said trust for the maintenance and welfare of the son. At the death of the son, William, the property is to be equally divided among her other children —John Harry Dickerson, Anna M. Chrisman or heirs, Minnie Vondeluns, Eli C. Dickerson, Isaac M. Dickerson, Sadie Chrisman, Thcmas E. Dickerson and America Ball or her heirs. The will was executed November 30, 1900, and witnessed by Sadie Chrisman and Isaac M. Dickerson. i ’ The account current of Addie F. Andrews, guardian of Carl and Lawrence Callow, was allowed. The current report of W, Glendening, guardian of R. L. Shoemaker, was allowed. A. B. Bailey, administrator 'of the I Jacob Miller estate-, filed report. The final report of William T. Wagoner, executor of the John Yant will, was filed. October 9th is the day set j for the hearing. — ; Real estate transfers: Marion Ketchum et al. to W. V. Buckmaster, 80 acres, Jefferson tp., $8000: W. V. Buckmaster to Mary Ketchum, 80 acres, Jefferson tp., $8000; ePter Stefj fen to Aaron Moser, 160 acres, French tp., $2400; Rachel Stuckey, guardian, to Jacob A. Neuenschwander, lot 373, Berne, $475. Miss Rose Voglewede began work this morning at the office of CountyRecorder Andrew Welfley, succeeding Milton Yager, who resigned to enter Depauw university. 1 LADIES FREE TONIGHT. The Shannon Stock company opens its week's engagement tonight at the Bosse opera house, presenting “A Re‘j ceipt in Full.” This play received its first production last season right here 1 in Decatur by the Shannons, and Manager Shannon shortly afterward changed its title to “A Receipt in ■ Full.'’ The play is giving most excel- | lent satisfaction. Ladies will be ad- . mitted free tonight under the usual conditions. o FOR SALE —12-foot extension dining room table, colid oak; also a kitchen range. Inquire of J. G. Niblick, at Old Adams County Bank. 22t6 FOR SALE —''Quick-meal” gasoline range, sslf-generator, good as new cheap if sold at once. Inquire Mrs. Dick Christen, 206t7

! DOINGS IN SOCIETY Reunion Held at the Hattie Studabaker Home a Pleasant Affair. t , A DINNER PARTY i ' Given by Mr. and Mrs. J. S. t Peterson to Celebrate Wedding Anniversary. i : There is this beautiful thing i about growing old, and having.to i resign one dear earthly compant ionship after another, that as I earth grows drearier Heaven “ grows nearer, and dearer. So thgt when at last we come down in the dusk to the narrow sea, all the lights in the windows are over I there. —Ex. I WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday. Historical —Mrs. Jane Crabbs. Thursday. Baptist Aid —Mrs. David Stoler Ruth Circle —Mrs. A. D. Artman. Needlecraft —Fanchon Magley. Friday. Christian Aid —Mrs. Arthur Fisher. .Mrs. A. D. Artman will entertain the Ruth Circle of the Christian church Friday afternoon. Mrs. Arthur Fisher will have the I pleasure of entertaining the Chris- | tian Ladies' Aid society Friday afternoon Mr and Mrs. J. B. Kiracofe entertained at dinner Saturday for S. F. | Carter of Los Angeles, Ca.. and Mrs. j George McGill and son, Thomas, of • Trumbull county, Ohio. Mr. Carter was a former resident of Van Wert countv, Ohio, and was a life-long' I I 1 friend of both Mr. and Mrs. Kiracofe. j j For the past four and a half years he I has been at Los Angeles. | Albert Lisle, little son of Mr. and ' Mrs. Ross Mallonee of West Monroe ' street, was three years old Saturday 1 and a large number of little friends * were invited to share the afternoon's ! special pleasures .with him. The lit-! ■ tie folks were given the freedom of ' the lawn and there had a grand pea- ■! nut hunt. Robert Mills found the I ! greatest number of the secreted nuts' and was given first prize, while Helen 1 ' | Russell was awarded the booby prize. | -1 Pinning the tail on the donkey was ■ ' ! also enjoyed and Donna Parrish and j I ■ Ireta Beavers were the prize winners I in this. The little folks were then I > seated at the table in the house, ' I where high chairs were provided for; the tiniest, and delicious refreshments of sandwiches, pickles, ice • > cream and cake were served by Mrs. • Mallonee. assisted by Mrs. E. A. Mann. The center of the attraction was the pretty birthday cake, with its • three lighted candles which twinkled . a merry greeting to all, and nearly made them forget to eat, so pretty was its glittering light. A picture of ‘ the group was to have been taken, i but owing to the gloom which over- ' cast the sky at the last minute this i was given up. The guest list included , the following: Germaine and BerI nardette Christen. Ireta and Glen Beavers, Donna Parrish, Irene and Helen Russell, George Wehmeyer, i Deward Wilson, Margaret and Robert , Mills, Brice and Georgia Dilley, Ma*y Poling and William Henry, the last 1 named from LaGrange. Mr. Mallou- - nee came home from his work at i Markle to be with his babe, and E. A , Mann, for whom the child was warned, , came from his work at LaGrange to attend the festivities. : Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller ,resid- ■ ing three miles south of the city, en- - tertained Sunday in honor of their - guest, Miss Mary Cook, of Crown Point. A large number of friends were entertained at dinner and supper, and a still larger number in the evening, when games and other social f amusements were in order, with reI ? ’ freshments of ice cream and cake. • The unanimous vote of all is that fj their host and hostess are fine eriter- , i tainers. 1, Mrs. Charles J. Miller and her 1 guest. Miss Mary Cook, of Crown - Point, and Mrs. J. C. Moran and son, - Ri-hard, and her mother, Mrs. Lena 1 Yager, of Berne drove to the country : home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Steigmey- • er. five miles east of the city today, r, where they are being entertained at - dinner and supper. f 1 Miss Hattie Studabaker and brother, i David, who recently returned from Cornado, Fla., and Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison and daughter, Mrs. Dick Wallace, cf Oaxaca, Mex., entertained at

1 the home of Miss Hattie Studebaker! yesterday, the affair being in the nature of a family reunion. A party came down from Fort Wayne by automobile to join the Decatur relatives, : and there were present the following: Mr. and Mrs. William Vesey, Jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Dick Vesey; Miss Crow, W. J. Vesey and daughters Catherine and j Margaret, of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick and daughter, Helen; Mr. and Mrs. Burton Niblick, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Suttles and children, Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Edwards, of Leipsic, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. John Everett and Mr. and Mrs. Cal Peterson motored to Akron yesterday where they were the I guests of the Dr. Perry Ferry family. Miss Vera Goeke from Fort Wayne arrived to be in attendance at the Eliinger—Kleinhenz wedding tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hill entertained! yesterday for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burr, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Kurt and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson. Miss Marie Bultemeier of the Graham & Walters office, was the guest of her cousin. Miss Clara Bulteme’er of St. Johns at supper last evening. The Baptist Ladies Aid society meet, Thursday afternoon with Mrs. David) Stoler of West Monroe street. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kleine and daughter, Elia of St. Johns were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. C. Boese. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Peterson observed their twentieth wedding anniversary Saturday, giving a very pleasing 6 o’clock dinner party. Covers were) laid for Mrs. Fannie Peterson, Miss i Elizabeth Peterson and Miss Clara] Williams and Mrs. Frank Alwein and; | daughter, Mary Catherine, of Shelby, I I Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Cal Peterson will I entertain the same guests at dinner I this evening, the occasion being Cal's ‘ birthday anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kunkel enter-1 , tained Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. E. S. j Christen, Mr. and Mrs. Charles JohnI son, Mr. and Mrs. John Magley, Mr and Mrs. Sherman Kunkel and Mr.) and Mrs. Dale Moses. In the after-, noon the two automobiles were pressed into service for joy rides. Mrs. Charles Voglewede entertain- ' ed at 12 o'clock dinner Sunday in hon-. or of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Vogle-, I wede and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hocke-, meyer of Hoagland, and Mrs. Lew VoI giewede, of Muskogee, Okla. o COUNTY PROGRESSIVE MASS CONVENTION. ,j Dccitur, Indiana, Friday, Sept. 20, 1912, at 10 a. m.—Official Call. — To the Progressives of Adams Coun- ] i I The progressives ot Adams county are hereby/called to meet in mass ■ convention in the circuit court room i nthe city of Decatur on .Friday, September 20, 1912, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating the county ticket, to be voted for at the November election. The following nominations will be made: A candidate for judge of the twentysixts judicial circuit. Prosecuting Attorney, twenty-sixth • judicial ticket. II Representative in the General AsI sembly. ] Auditor. Treasurer. Sheriff. , Surveyor. Coroner. Commissioner, Second District. Commissioner, Third District. LEWIS A. GRAHAM, Chairman. CLAYTON SCHAFER, Sec’y The Honorable Edw. C. Toner of . Anderson, candidate for congress of i the Eighth district; the Honorable Clifford Jackman, candidate for actor-1 ney general of the state, and the Hon-1 orable Frank Thompson, mayor of j Winchester, will address the conven- ' tion. • o MAKES FLYING MACHINE. And Expects it to Fly—Lester Stanley Trys Skill. Lester Stanley, Western Union Tel-i egraph Messenger boy, who has made a five-foot model of a flying machine, in order to learn the details, has made plans for a larger one, twenty ’ five feet in length, which, when com- ! j pleted, he expects will do the work of , i carrying a passenger. He has already’ ■ cut a number of the parts and expects to employ his spare time in the con- ■ struction of the machine at tbe re.ar , room of the office. o CHRISTENING SERVICE The sons born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hess and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coffee were christened yesterday afternoon at the St. Marys Cathoiic church.

auction S?.U.E vO ' The undersigned will offer for sale at public auction, at I the Bernett Sales stables in Fort Wayne, Ind., beginning 10 O’clock a.m. on FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1912 100 HEAD OF HIGH CLASS HORSES I Ranging in age from 4 to 10 years and weighing from 1000 to 1500 pounds each. These horses are purchased in Adams, Wells and Allen county, by the undersigned on a contract with Adjutant General Garard, for use of the Indiana National Guard in their maneuvers out of Fort Wayne, from Sept. 10th to 117th. Thev were purchased especialy for this purpose and I are first class animals. Having no further use for them 'they will be offered for sale at the hour and date fixed above. They will be at the Bernett Stables any time after Sept. 17th. or may be seen in any of the towns along the route of the Guard. Watch For Them And Pick One Out. It’s. An Opportunity. Every horse sold under a guarantee to be exactly as represented or money refunded, BhKkY BOCH ii wAtson

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