Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1913 — Page 2

DAILYDEMOCRAT "Every Evening, Except Sunday by TIE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G, ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rate, Fee Week, by carrierlo cents Fer Year, by carrierls.oo Fer Month, by mall ..25 cents Per year, by mai112.50 tingle Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the poetortice la Decatur, ind' * - aa sc<*cnd cU.,4 Stall. There are signs of considerable competition among the residents of different portions of Decatur for the location of the new federal building. It occurs to us that the energy being expended is a little premature. To start with the bill has not yet passed the ‘ senate, and may not, tn which case it would be useless to worry where it would have been placed. Then, there should be only one consideration and • that —where would the building be the greatest benefit to the community and the most convenient to those who use it as patrons? To a large extent, no doubt the location will result in the se. I lection of that property where the owners are fair and where no effort to over-charge is made. The selection is made by the government inspector, and so far as we know there is no op- j' portunity for any outside influence, I but what's the use to become excited over this problem until it comes up? We only wish to warn the people that in other cities factions have arisen ever this problem that have so divided the business men that they have been years in getting together. Let's leave it up to the inspector and be satisfied. If we get a public building It shonld help the city. If our city is to be divided into factions, we might be just as well off without it. Representative Adair has written to 1 acquaintances in various counties in I Indiana asking them to forward him I »ie names of fifteen or twenty active , democrats in their respective counties j “who are in the habit of attending district and state conventions. " Other ’ members of the Indiana congressional delegation are receiving inquiries from home as to the meaning of this move by Mr. Adair. The Eighth district member has given no explanation. One theory is that he is preparing to be a candidate for governor to succeed Samuel M. Ralston. The other is that he is getting in position to look after the interests of Dale Crittenberger of Anderson, who, it is said, hopes to make a winning race for auditor of state next year.—Louis Ludlow, Washington Correspondent to Star. Let's not lose sight of the fact that we need ?. public gymnasium or boys'

IF YOU PREFER YOUR EASTER CLOTHES Tailored To Order You can select your favored pattern from 500 handsome woolens we are showing. Price about one-half of what ordinary tailors ask for equal quality. Suits To Measure SIB.OO up SEE WINDOW DISPLAY THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPAQ

city in Decatur. There is a spirit of going ahead with this idea and it means more to future Decatur than any problem we can think of. If you prepare the boys and girls and furnish them a place of amusement where they can enjoy the sports they like in a clean atmosphere, every moral question will be easily solved. The legislature is making good. , True, they have considered some bills that the general public will not ap- ■ prove of, but these bills have been lost somewhere along the line, and when it's ail done and figured up it will be found that the legislature of 1913 really did something worth while. Governor Ralston is taking a hand in the fight for a good public utilities measure, one that means something, and It will be one of the “somethings" I before the session closes. — DOINGS IN SOCIETY — .Mil The Misses Zerkle, Triplets. Celebrate Eighteenth Birthday Today. I A DINNER PARTY At Everett Home — Boys Send Mission Box to Chicago Poor. WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday. The Little Helping Hand —Beulah Kenna. Ruth Circle —Dora Schultz. Saturday. Thimble —Fannie Hite. Jolly Juniors —Vivian Burke. Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder. —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar. The Eureka club held one of its happiest meetings last evening at the i home of their president, Mrs. J. J. i Foughty on Ninth street. She receiv- ! ed her guests in a most delightful way | and then ushered them into the dining room where the tempting dinner was i awaiting them where they all partook ,of it heartily. Mrs. Foughty chaperi oned her guests to the revival services at the United Brethren church. Those that shared the evening's pleasures were the Misses Nina Chronister, Evangeline Venis, Leah Hammond, Goldie Fisher. Vida Chronister, Hazel Butler, Marie Hay, Ethel Potts, Glen Lake, Ercie Butler, Leah Hill, Lena Butler, Anna Oakley, elma Stevens, Bertha Deam, Margaret Johnson, Hope Hoopengartner, Annetta Dean and Frances Williams. Mrs. Glen Lake was taken in as a new member. Mrs. Foughty was assisted by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. W. W. Foughty. Mr. and Mrs. E. X. Ehinger, Mrs. Helen Berling and Mrs. Lawrence Kleinhenz spent yesterday in Bluffton the guests of the former’s daughter,

Mrs. Will Berling. Mrs. Kleinhenz remained for an over-Sunday visit, the others returning home last evening. A well known Decatur man requested that we publish the following. Woe be on him, and not us, if any take exception thereto: "The members of the Ladies' Sewing Circle of South Amboy, N. J., assembled In the home of one of their number, were all in a flutter when an expressman came in with a huge packing case addressed to the circle. Some of the men In town had been dropping hints about the possible arrival of something handsome in the way of a present, so when the expressman arrived sewing was abandoned and the morals and manners of South Amboy were left undiscussed while all the women crowded around th ehugs case. They thought they never would get the box open. It was just too exasperating, but there seemed to be no real hammer or chisel in sight, and a small tack hammer and two silver dinner knives were spoiled before any entering wedge could be made. The women hovered close around as the final layer of wrapping was thrown aside, and then — there was much silence at the meeting of the South Amboy Ladles' Sewing Circle —their husbands’ old clothes — and the garments were palpably in need of darning. “My wife belongs to the sewing circle," said one note attached to a certain garment, “but kindly note that I have been holding up my trousers with a nail during the past few weeks.' ‘Any attention to the lining of this coat,’ another ran, 'would be appreciated by a poor, married man.' The sewing circle husbands are now anxiously awaiting results.”

It was an enthusiastic company of

fifty-two that attended the meeting of the Evangelical Ladies’ Aid society Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. George Winters. This section of which Mrs. E B. Kern is chairman, reported the sum of $23.35 to be added to the building fund for this month. The subject of the new church, for which the congregation and all its organizations is working, came up and was animatedly discussed. The society is busily working, quilting and sewing and holding sales to raise the funds that will, at some Indefinite time help swell the fund to build a new edifice. Mr. and Mrs. I. Bernstein will leave tomorrow evening for South Bend, where they will visit with Mrs. Bern stein’s parents. Mr. Bernstein will only spend Sunday there, while Mrs. Bernstein will remain until Thursday. It was a very interested company of forty ladles that pursued their regular missionary study Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. John Niblick, when she entertained the woman’s Missionary society of the Methodist church. The chapter on the Mormans, from the year-book was studied, with Mrs. D. D. Heller, leader. Sub-topics | were discussed by Mesdames Seuians, Hooper. Joe McFarland and J. C. Tritch. At this time a report of z barrel of clothing and necessaries and toys for boys, that was sent to the poor of Chicago, was made. Quite recently Mrs. Bernheim, a converted Jewess, spoke here and told of her work in the Ghetto district of Chicago, among the poor Jews, and of their great need for the necessaries of Jife as well as spiritual needs. Her talk so Impressed two little boys of the congregation—Bryce Thomas and Herman Myers, that they immediately enlisted the aid of the society and made a canvass for clothing—waists, overcoats, and other clothing, and toys that included balls and everything that would appeal to boys, and packed them in a big barrel to send to Mrs. Bernheim at Marcy Center, where the mission workers under whose auspices of the Methodist Woman’s Home Missionary society have their headquarters. These they asked her to distribute to the poor. s 0 ready were the responses for aid, that the barrel would not hold all the things donated to the boys, and they ape enthusiastic over the results of their first mission work. After the business was given attention, a social-half-hour was spent. Luncheon was served, Mrs. Niblick being assisted by Mrs. E. M. Wagner. A teature of the luncheon was the fine sugar donated by Mr. Wagner, who is chief agriculturist of the Hol-land-St. Louis Sugar company. This is a very fine brand callfcd sugar dust, made at the local plant, and many of the ladies present had never seen just this kind, which vwere considered very good and praiseworthy. 'I he Misses Esther, Rnth an(J trinie/ > e ' thß Popular young ladies, t jblet-daughtars of Mr and Mr j A tlrthdayZne' 1 w 6B * Proved to be lhat The young ladies are Decatur high school. They

~ — — if. ir.Eir.iaEJMHipa : SAVE TIME, SAVE MONEY : I - I i What is the use of bothering yourself by worrying over the kind of | s goods, the kind of trimming and then the uncertaimty of fitting when you S I get your Spring Garments? Why not do your shopping the sensible way? | Get your garments READY-MADE 1 = This saves all the; trouble and time from f-VP EVth I fT Ndu/ * worrying, besides you don’t have to buy LVuljlil’llg liuW more than you use. Ready-to-wear Gar- f ments save remnants of “Left Over" of the IN SPRING COATS, SPRING SUITS $ u- goods and the trimming and therefore sav- L SPRING DRESSES and SPRING t : es you money in buying. 'W SKIRTS IN SILK AND B REMEMBER-We guarantee a fit. No un- WOOL AND WHITE • S §fj certainity about your purchase. If a gar- \ » p, FABRICES s ment does not fit you need not spend a n S cent for it. This is not possible unless you Iml w nite has never been more popul- ® tfi buy READY-TO-WEAR goods. I H ar than it will be this season. We are S £ SPRING is HERE ;. ready for the “White” season because g The Dainty garments of spring are more J our line is the most complete ever 1 S attractive than ever. We have been exceed- brought to Decatur. $ 5= ingly careful in your selection this season. L * \ lr g Come in and we will prove this to you. We ' n Y weeks until Easter. This ? have built an annex to our store to double me3ns ear b’ buying SO COme in at once S the room for this big stock. It includes. V and look Over this line. I _ I S wZzZzfcntfVTl z / Z/Tz-x-y 7A g I O/ f ’ TI“ g- DECATUR, 1 1 |

bright, healthy, and happy, and as much alike as three *oses blooming on the same bush. Because of rare occurrence in the birth of triplets, and the still rarer occurrence of all living, and being equally healthy and strong, they became widely known, and requests came from far and near for pictures of the babes. ’ They have grown from year to year in srength and happiness and today on their eighteenth birthday anniversary, may well be likened to the “three Graces." They were named for Mrs. Frances Cleveland her two daughters, Ruth and Esther, who at the time of the. triplets’ birth, were the “first lady and children of the land.” niraliSiiiiiiiiiiiiiSiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii; JFatc* for cur rccija in Iku nouifaftr. .tf/J you the Knox Recipo I Book—and enough " ”(J Gelatine to make , . one pint— enough to try most any one of our desserts pud5 aUd * J or j* lUes > “ko ice cream, ices and candies. T * f '’•’>* book fret for your tracer', •aru-fm lamfU tor 2c itamf. CHARLES B. KNOX CO. ** Knox Ave. Joho.town, N.Y. n pCNoO PURE PIAIM 1 5 1 GelatihF k CHARLES B.KNOX CO j! Illlgglgl

Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Hessert and daughters, Dorothea and Margaret, were guests of Mesdames Oscar and ; Charles Fritzinger in Root township, , at dinner today, going out on the ll:3o car. The Jolly Juniors' club wiH meet tomorrow afternoon with MissWivian Burk, where they will have a jolly good time and an interesting study Miss Lola Boch will have the paper on “Friendship,” and others will have sub-topics. The club may decide to change Its name at this meeting. ■ — Mrs. T. R. Moore will leave tomorirow morning for Swayzee, where she | will spend several days with h«r sister, Mrs, J, a. Barnhart. I

| JORDUcan’laf FOmj | wm Sy a I Steel Fully F Car $615,011 Pa ™ er 5540.00 SHOVE GARAGE Co~ SIMON MOORE ’ I Branch Manager f-j joy l J i

* -v— UOBB TT, SCZ- » " ■■■■ i •• ■ am—■, ■ii . r |~|- —- - M . .. . . _ _ DONT CHOOSE WHISKEY or other liqut rby the bottle, 4 but by the character and re- ffjS!• jSgzi Y putation of its contents. Good livers ar d physicians will tell you cur liquors beat manv of “ the most beautifully bottled . ■ ftFn brands in the world. And this < • J LJ! liL _ despite the tact that our price -na— —IwJV do not even come near reach- x* wfft mg those of all the others. ' Berghoff Beer by the case. CIjRLFY Comer of Sec nd and i p • Madison streets.