Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 244, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1912 — Page 2

DA/LYDE M O C R A T Published Every E venlna, Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Rutecrtption Rate* Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mall 26 cents Per year, by mail 42.50 Mingle Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. E'ntt- * <l at the postotfice in Decatur, Indiana, as sceond class mail. The weather is not just what is ord< rt d for next week, but we are hoping that a week of ideal days will follow this week of rain and bluster. If w« get the weather, we will give you the In st time you ever had. From over the state comes the new s that the Bull Moose party is weakening, and that Wilson and the detn.i cratic state candidates become stronger each day. This is one year when the people refuse to be fooled, and this feeling promises to continue for many years. The Bull Moosers are quoting ths fact that Dr. Harvey Wiley has cast only one vote in thirty-one years as an Intimation that • Is advice to otiiers now to vote for Wilson must be pretty |ioor. The chief Hull Moose thought his advice as to pure food was pretty poor, and celled him an "idiot,” and overruled him. But the Indications are tl*e people think Dr. Wiley knows what he is talking about. — Indianapolis News. Col. W. J. Bryan, the peoples favorite, whose battle for sixteen years has been the real cause for every good law enacted by the national government. and who so lout be lives will be on thft'side of the common people, the man who "never sold the hour to serve the cause." will be here next Friday morning. That he will be welcomed by a crowd of many thousands Is assured, as is the fact that his advice politically will be followed by the voters thia year Contract a for paving Monroe. Ninth and R»igg streets have been made with K. Woods and Company. The work will be completed •arty next summer. A few years : "o .edams county roads war. laughed at by every one. and the st*.eta of Iterator were the worst to be tound anywhere Now what? Adams county baa the very enviable raputatlon of having more miles of stone pike than any couny of its size in the t nited States, white thia city, with her < . . j _ - —- 1 ———

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miles of paved streets, has but few equals in Indiana. We sure are going along about right, and a few years more should make us the greatest community on earth. Everything Ready Now frost Page 1) school house in the former days when the entrance was at the north end of the building: the wooden desks were big enough for a small boy to crawl intd and nide until his big sister returning from the class room would reassure the timid little fellow that ft was safe to come out. And it was from this same building oft remodels 1 and repaired many years later 1 took a certain Miss Coverdale, whose business It was to launch the youthful mind on Learning's toboggan, and persuaded her that I needed her mote ♦han the "kiddies" did, and thereby incurred the disapproval of the stern professor Luckey. I well remember when Decatur had but three churches: The Catholic. 1 esbyterian and Methodist. These societies then struggling for their maintenance were the representatives of the present vigorous Christian life of this prosperous community. Another reminiscence of my early ! days is of a woman who was my fa j vorite teacher and whose influence for j good iollowed me through my youth.'' One day I stopped at her home in what i was known a« the "Stndabaker, House." which stood on the corner oi Second and Attains streets, and looker! into the lace of a healthy baby boy. The to the distinction oi | your honorable and dignified secre-1 tar> Mr. French Quinn. With a sense | ot freedom iu the presence of my es-; teemed friend and teacher. I said to the chubby little fellow: "Helio, Frenchie. Frenchie, and then retreated in confusion, wondering what I had i done to occasion such a riot of oh's and ah's and other exclamations May Decatur have a happy and sue- ': cessful week. May the which is marked by the opening of the big beet sugar factory be continued, through her history. Joy to the queen- ‘ ly city on the banks of the Keklonga Joy to Adams errnnty—("rod's garden—in the water-shed where are the fouu-1 rains whose waters flow to the oceans of the south and the far northeast. Respectfully your. J. C. DORWIN. gort Townsend. Wash Showing Is Good FONT!>:.oM MIE ONE 1912, there was a liaiance -of like.921.42 ir the general fund The democrats also paid off >u> this year ILMt.IMP) of the state's bonded indebtedness, which was not due until 1915, thus saving the state. 15.250 Interest This excellent showing (or the last ten months of the fiscal year ending September t«». 1911. and the whole of the fiscal year ending September .!•>, 1912, was made la face of a decrease ! of one and a half cents in the tax 1 levy, which means a saving io the tax | layers of about IJxii.ooo a year.

DOINGS IN SOCIETY Tri Kappas Breakfast in Honor of Miss Frances Merryman. A DINNER PARTY s «... ■ .11 v For Will Schrock and Miss Midge Smith-Boys at Robinson Home. 1 hold it truth, with him who sings. To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Os their dead selves to higher things. —Tennyson's "In Memoriam." The closing one if the week's fetes for Miss Frances Merryman, an October bride, was the breakfast given this morning at 9:30 o'clock at the C. J. Lutz home. The hostesses were the Misses Fannie FYisinger and Jean Lutz and the guests were the Kappa I Kappa Kappa sorority. Covers were laid at the table for fifteen and at I i each plate were dainty little souvenir baskets of candies. A larger basket > i filled with flowers was the center- j j piece, and the breakfast served was most delicious and the appointments faultless. An electric toaster that will be much appreciated in the new home* about to be established, was presentI ed to Miss Merryman. * Mr. Earl ♦Robinson, of West Monroe ’ street, threw open his home Friday evening for the circle of boys in the j Methodist Sunday school class of which he is a teacher. The boys J range in age up to fourteen years,' and they had one jolly good time with j i their teacher, in true brotherly comladery. Thev had wrestling matches. . told stories and bobbed for apples and then had a keen appetite for the tasty , lunch served by Mrs. Robinson. The ‘class includes the following: Earl Archbold. Edwin Hoffman, Ralph Tyndall. Donald Hower. Paul 1-awson. ; Walter Holmes. Richard Archbold, Winfield Maddy, Fred Butler. Julius Fledderjohann. David Ort, Harold | Gase. v j * The Loyal Women and the Ruth Clrjcle ot the Christian church were entertained together Thursday evening by Mrs. A. D. Artman and Mrs. Olen Baker, twenty being present Miss Ocee Armstrong of Muncie, who Is the gto-Mt of Miss Mattel W<-ldy gave a recital which was very pleasing. Plans were also furthered-for the class play to be given at the opera house November 12, A Hallowe'en social will also be given Friday, November 1. probably in the Royal Neighbors hall Ixruise and Lewis Adelsperger of .South Bend will be week-end guests of j the G. F. Kintz family. Mr. George Cverelt and Mrs O. P Mills were guests yesterday of their parents, Mr and Mrs V. D. Hell at ' Craigville Mrs. Mull and Mrs. Lawrence Mey era drove from .Monroeville and were guests yesterday of Mrs. I. Kalver and Mrs. John .Meyers, respectively. Contrary to the usual order of the ! feminine world the telephone girts ■ have birthday anniversaries The second one celebrated this week, was that of MtM Frances Rademaker, Her birth snnheranry does not renlly conic ' until next Monday but the gtrls know i Ing that It has been the rule to have a surprise for their comtmnlona. and that I the "surprise” might fall flat If they watted till Monday, had it a little earlI ler. They all masked last evening and | went tn the Rademaker home white 1 Mies Frank was at the picture show. > nnd when she returned she found » motley crowd, Indeed There was IAUSIc by the Mias Inez Coverdale, Effie Res. Esther Hackman and Mae Rads maker ard others and then came refreshments of ice cream and eake ' Miss Rademaker was given a hand some silver salad fork with the com j ' hlltnenta of her friends Besides the, telephone girls, the Mlaaea Ixila Bak er of Fort Wayne and Effie Rex wtre l gneete Messrs L. <• Waring. <* A Dugan ahd J H Heller were guests last <v-i egtng at a surprise given for Judge O'Rourke at his home on Washington ■ 1 street in Fort Warne.-the event being in honor of his Wrtbdav which occurs I today. A dinner st ?’» and an enjoy , able evening. With Mrs. O Rouse as lite hostess nnd Miss Helen O'Rouke assisting was the program *Hu> Judge.) sincerely loved by those wtwi know. him well, and admired hy all for his qualities an an entertainer, la best in bis own home ami the oct salon was I very pleasant, Autumn leaves in thelt verted lints Sr-anged tastefully in the rooms of the

Schrock home, made a bright getting for the dinner party given at six o'clock last evening by Mrs. Nettie Schrock for her son. Will P. Schrock, and his fiancee, Miss Edith Smith, whose nuptials will occur Tuesday, October 22. The centerpiece of the table, perfect in its appointments, and very pretty to the eye, was a centerpiece of swansouia, the white blossoms combining prettily with the green smllax trailers. The dinner was served in four courses, and covers were laid for the intimate man friends of the prospective groom and their wives and the intimate friends of the bride-elect. They were Dr. and Mrs. Roy Archbold, Dr. and Mrs. Earl Coverdale, Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Schafer, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Adams, nnd the Misses Marie Patterson, Fannie Hite, besides the Vxo honored ones, Miss Smith and Mr. Schrock. Mrs. Oren Smith of Indianapolis, Mrs. O. H. Meyers of Blooming ton, 111., and Miss Bess Schrock, Bisters of Mr. Schrock, were also members of the party. Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Terveer will give a 12 o'clock dinner party Sunday', when covers will bo laid for the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. C. R. I'hl, Mrs. Josephine Rodd, Toledo, Ohio: Mrs. Margaret Tohle, Covington. Ky.; Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Voglewede, Mrs. R. J. Holthouse and son, Arthur: Mrs Anna Volmer and son. Al. ; The regular meeting of the Mite society of the Methodist church was held with Mrt. O. L. Vance Frfdav. The attendance and interest were 'good and the collection reached the sum .of 410.15. GOES TO NEW HAVEN Dr. Harry Erwin for two I Years at Edgerton Buys Practice of NEW HAVEN DOCTOR Also His Office and Residence—Will Locate There November 15th. i . - Dr. Harry Erwin, who has been located at Edgerton, Jackson townabtr. this county, for the past two years, aad has enjoyed a very satistactcry practice during that (reriod, will on Novembe' 15th abandon his practice at Edgerton and move to Huntertown, Allen county, Ind., where he will take up a permanent location, as he has purchesed the practice, office aud residence of Dr. Greenwait, a physician of no»e and years' practice in Hunterlowjt. and surrounding country. Ur. Erwin Is a young physician, but since lacking up his shingle at Edgerton, his first field of labor, he has won the < inhdtnee and esteem of the entire citizenship of Edicrton and community fur miles around and all regret to learn that he Is goiag to leave, but In his ping the citizens of Edgerton ond eommiinlry l«*e much and the llt'le town of Huntertown and community gain to in extent that tn the eatima tloa of all who are acquainted with Dr. Etwln and amiable companion that they will never have cauae to regret their coming among them as - Monroeville Breeze, Dr Erwin |g a eon of Judge Erwin I ot Fort Wayne, formerly of Decatur BE BURE TO WEAR BADGE. Every loyal man aud woman of Un-1 tatur should wear a reception badge next week The young ladies are out aeiiing them and you will have ample opport unity The red badges are lor the men and the white tor the lad'esj while blue iMidgcs e-lli be given to the, visitors who register at the library.l Itaty a badge They only coat !*entyfive <enta.and they show you are one al ths the cltisens —1 0 -e- , . , FOR OUICK SALE, Wo have SO acres. 3 miles of Uses- ' tnr .iirsrtlcaUy stl bisek soil, good » ' toom house, cellar, cistern, cement i walks, good barn, MaW, grana:tea. i eUu, plenty of fruit, well tiled and lenred Price, 1156 per acre HARVEY 4 LEONARD. Over Vanee, Hite A Macklin Bters. j .. in Q .... NOTICE. ; Any one Wishing htvnd Ivr Runugy tall 'phone and it wilt be delivered JIM t'OVKRUAIX lAdvevtinooienti IBTPAV NOT Ct I hate enclosed a stray hog Owner < please call for sama. I. P. UAVIA Monroe Telapb.vo* 2S«tf (Advertisement)

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