Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1913 — Page 2

DAILYDEMOCRAT Fwbliehed Every Except Sunday by Tilt DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rate* Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Tear, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mall ~.85 cents Per year, by tingle Copies 3 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the poatotfiee In Decatur, (nd<*La. as second clau>a sail An order prepared by Postmaster General Burleson with the approval of President Wilson and all the cabinet members, revokes the orders of Presidents Taft and Roosevelt and takes the civil service blankets oft of 50,000 fourth-class postmasters who were appointed because they were republicans, without an examination of any kind. It affects every offic where the total receipts are SSOO per year or more, it is estimated that more than half the present officials will resign without attempting to pass an examination. It is estimated that the next order of the kind will affect the rural carriers, very few of whom were appointed on the strength of civil service examinations. These orders are i the result of an investigation that has . been conducted by a congressional committee which showed that more than 90 per cent of the fourth-class postmasters and rural carriers were republicans and were selected without civil service examination.—Portland Sun. CHANGE FAIR DATE Decatur Fair Will Now be Held Last Week in August This Year. DATES ARE AUG. 26-29 i Change is Due to That Made by Fort Wayne Fair Board. At a meeting of the directors and officials of the Great Northern Indiana Fair association, this morning, it was decided to change the date of the fair at Decatur to the last week in August, the dates being August 26-29. The change was made because of the change in the date of the Fort Wayne fair. The board also closed up the matter of the contract for the art hall building, with Mr. Newlon, of Monroe, the lowest bidder, and attended to several routine business matters. —o FOR SALE OR TRADE—Surrey, in good condition; also set of buggy harness and set single work harness. Inquire Alva Nichols at Peoples & Gerke. g7tf FOR SALE—3 year old draft colt, percheron stock, well bred. Charles A. Hoffman one mile north of Dent school house. 76t6 FOR SALE—Good dwelling house, 3 lots on 13th St., one square from brick street.—J. H. Elick. 53t.. There is no magic about “IMPERIAL” $3. Hats Just the best of everythin.", fur Ribbon,, Workmanship and style. All shapes. — THE MYERS'DAILEY COMPANY

DOINGS IN SOCIETY -.... « WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday, Bachelor Maids —Emma Terveer. W. C. T. U.—Mrs. Henry Krick. Young Matrons—Mrs. Geo. Flanders Historical —Mrs. C. D. Lewton. Weonesday. Shakespeare—Mrs. E. E. Rice. Life's Mirror. There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave. There ate souls that are pure and . true. Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you. —Madeline S. Bridges, j A chafing dish party and open house I was delightfully given Friday evening by the Phil Delta Kappas at their > rooms in honor of Miss Naomi Dugan and her friends, the Misses Marcia Chears and Madeline Davis of Sterling, Colo., Miss Adda Donaldson, of Warsaw also being an out-of-town guest. Ten couples were present and enjoyed the evening in dancing, games, and serving dainty refreshments from the chafing dish. Mrs. Streicher and Mrs. Flory of Toledo, Ohio, who have just returned from New Orleans and other southern ipoints, including Memphis, Tenn., stopped off here for a visit with Mrs. Catherine Closs and daughter, Miss Mary Closs. ■With the interest and enthusiasm occasioned by the presence of fifty guests and a very good program presented, the meeting of the Baptist ladies' aid at the home of Mrs. S. E. Hite Thursday afternoon was a very good one. Piano solos were given by Mrs. Fred Fruchte, Miss Ruby Miller,, Miss Pauline Hite, and duets by Mrs. , John Everett and Mrs. Cal Peterson, M’ldred and Gertrude Yager. Mrs. Hite was assisted by her daughter, Pauline, and by Mrs. Charles Yager and daughters. Mildred and Gertrude, in serving very tempting refreshments in two courses. Mrs. Mollie I Gilson of Paragould, Ark., was a guest, from out of town, a former 1 member of the local church, whose presence was warmly greeted. I . — . . Mrs. James Hurst entertained at a , chicken dinner for her sister, Mrs. Harry Butler, and daughter, Velma, and Mrs. Will Elzey. The visit was an unusually pleasant one. as old asi sociations were renewed. Mesdames i Hurst and Elzey vfere girlhood acquaintances but the visit yesterday was the first one in twenty-five years that Mrs. Elzey had met with Mrs. Hurst. Mrs. George Flanders invites all the members of the Young Matrons' club to be her guests next Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Margaret Callogly Sark, a bride of this week, and one of the popular girls of the Poinsettia club, was the guest of honor at a friendship shower given last evening by the Misses Ode and Ivetta Fullenkamp. The guests were the Poinsettias with Mrs. H. S. Lachot and Miss Carrie Gal- , logly as guests. At pedro, prizes were won by the Misses Lydia Miller and Josephine Lang, being linen gifts, I presented in turn by them to the bride. Refreshments served were very delicious The shower gifts were a varied assortment of pretty things for the home, and show in a measure the esteem in which Mrs Sark is held by her friends. The Presbyterian Manse doors were thrown wide last evening by Rev. and Mrs. Glelser for the entertainment of the members of the choir. The company numbered twenty-eight and the husbands and wives of those members who are married, were also invited. There were music and games to round | out the evening's good time until the refreshments hour when a two-course luncheon was provided. The evening was a very happy one. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cline, who have recently moved from east of the city to their new home, formerly the Bogner farm, north of town, were given a housewarming surprise Friday evening by a large number of the community fjjaads who gave a royal welcome to them. Miss Irene Evans furnished the music, and a general good time was in order. Guests were: Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Butter, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sheets, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Fuhr- ’• man, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Fuhrman. 0 Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Butler. Mr. and Mrs. John Evans and daughter, Irene; Mr. and Mrs. Will Evans and children, Mr. and Mrs. John Singleton and children, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Cook. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Ed Johnson 1 entertained at 6 o’clock supper last evening tn honor of Mrs. John Watson of Huntington. The guests were Mesdames

Dan Hill, John Edwards, Godfrey Kirt and Naomi Lord. Miss Gladys Flanders will be initiated into the Little Helping Hand society which is being entertained this afternoon by Miss Beulah Kinna. Q. ... WRITES DAYTON FLOOD. Mrs. C. S. Young of 601 Russell I street, this city, received a most ' graphic account of the Dayton Sood in a letter from a friend, Mrs. W. F. Peters, who resides there. The letter follows: “No doubt you are worring about ' things here. Your place is all o. k., but say, you surely would have had a wet house if Mr. Johnson hadn’t had the spouting fixed. It rained here i from Sunday noon until Thursday, just ns hard as it could, without stopping even an hour. Your spouting bill was $1.25 and Mr. Johnson took it out of the rent. He had it fixed just two days before it started to rain. I tell you it was awful. The water is up the the third floor in Rike's store, and spreads from High street almost to the Soldiers' home. North Dayton and Riverdale are not yet beard from. At the little market house on Wayne avenue, yon can’t see a cottage. A woman with a tiny baby crawled on her roof, when the water first came up, and the cottage floated from under her. She grabbed a telegraph wire, but could not hold on and was drowned. Neda and Stella were at Fifth and St. Clair streets when it came. Neda jumped into a wagon and came home, but Stella was caught She ran into a building and had to go to the third floor. She was there from Tuesday morning until Wednesday noon without anything to eat or drink, and she was finally taken to High street in three different boats. Freddie and Fred Guthrie were up town and Fred got into the Home Telephone building and remained there until it caught 'on fire. They then jumped out on a livery stable roof and boats took them to the Lyric theater, find they lived on raw sweet potatoes, until this morning (Saturday) when they fame home. Mamma and papa were almost crazy, f.very church and school is packed. I have seen people brought ( in In boats that did not have even a wrap. Saw a man lose his mind, and another so nearly drowned that they had an awful time bringing him back ’to life. This morning they found a fifteen-year-old girl under a porch. She was naked, but still alive. They turned the Hoffman avenue park into a camp for the soldiers. There are about 2,006 here. The big plate glass windows down town are broken and jewerly and dry goods and everything else is all over the streets. The water is about gone now. J. H. Patterson has 5,000 homeless people at the t'ash Register plant. Thursday morning we had an awful scare. I was at Bomberger park and an alarm came in that the other reservoir broke. Mrs. Wetzel and I never stopped running until we got to the top of Hoffman hill. Everybody ran. Some grabbed bed clothes, some eatables and some ran bare-footed and bare-headed. People haven't slept since it happened. Fire breaks out down town and the fire wagons can’t get to them because the streets are blocked with houses and barns and other stuff. One man saw ven dead horses float past where h< was in one day. There are two hundred dead people in the union station. They were caught, there and couldn’t get out. No one i dares come into Dayton and if a per-' son lives here and leaves town he can’t come back. Everything is under martial law. If anybody picks up anything in town they are shot down, for fear they are stealing. The soldiers have shot twenty thieves already. I’ll send newspapers to you as soon as they are printed. This leaves everybody safe and sound and hqalthy. Your friend, MRS. W. F. PETERS. COURT HOUSE QUIE7\~' (Continued from Page 1) a new trial was filed by Messrs. Myers, against whom a verdict for $250 was returned this week. Adeline Smith ‘vs. Joseph W. Smith,' divorce and $25,000 alimony. Heller. Sutton & Heller and Teeple appear for the defendant. Rule to answer. Deputy Sheriff Jesse Kelly and Thompson Noll left this afternoon for Zurcher, the Monroe township youth, Richmond, taking with them Fred who will be recommitted to the Easthaven hospital for insane. Today is the last day of the Febnij ary term of court. The April term 1 begin next Monday morning. The iwon for th® April term will be > drawn Monday, th u To McC<mnell Pleaded guilty - Xv tO &11OWlng ffilnorß to Play pool and was given a Gue of s;> B and costs. ° •[democrat WANT ADE PAY RIG.

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