Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 87, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1913 — Page 2

'AILYDEMOCRAT •übliibed Every Evening, Except Sunday t>v TOE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rated Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mail ...25 cents Per year, by mail 12.50 tingle Copies 1 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postottice in Decatur, Ind U-a. as second cla-n smll. The Johnny-jump-ups and other May flowers ought to be about the size of wash-tubs, if the April showers are the forecasters as has always been claimed. Governor Ralston has named the new utilities commission in Indiana. The members are men of experience and ought to make good. It's up to them. The law is admitted to be the best of its kind in the United States and the men chosen to start it working should do their beat, as they no doubt will, to make it prove out as good as advertised. By a vote of thirty-three to twentyeigat the ministers of Indianapolis turned down the proposed coming to that city of Evangelist Billy Sunday. The noted base ballist was given a severe drubbing by some of the ministers. It was shown that Sunday is making 175,000 a year out of his meetings and that fact along with the one that he makes no account of it to anyone seemed to be the greatest cause for turning him down, Don't talk boycott. It's foolish. If the merchant has the goods you want, at the price that is right, and treats you courteously and in a business way, that's thething that should and will attract In every contest there is a difference of opinion, and if this re- 1 vengeful spirit continues it would be so mixed up that a fellow couldn't tell just where he was at. Let s all do the thing that is best for ourselves and everybody else, boost for the best community on earth. Congressman Cullop of Indiana will introduce a bill in this session of congress, providing for a half-million dollars with which to build a residence for the vice president. That's fine, but Tom Marshall would appreciate an eight-room cottage a whole lot more than such a mansion, and his Indiana friends know it, but the bill is drawn on suggestions from William J. Bryan and the nation must need it. If it does, Indiana’s gifted son deserves to occupy it CLEAN UP. Let me clean and whitewash your cellar with my new spraying machine. Also make a specialty of spraying trees. JIM COVERDALE. 75t6 ’Phone 448. FOR RENT. Roorne to rent over the Vance & Hite clothing store. Inquire of J. H. Stone. 78t4 •• * YOU’LL never know how distinctive you look in a tailored-to-order suit until you leave your measure and select one of the handsome woolens we’re showing at a cost way below your expectations. THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday. Zion's Lutheran Aid —Paroclal School. Rain Is Needed, Is it rainy, little flower? Be glad or rain. The sun that veils itself from thee Will shine again. The clouds are very black, 'tls true; But just behind them smiles the blue. Art thou weary, tender heart? Be glad of pain; In sorrow sweetest things will grow As flowers in rain. God watches, and thou will have sun When clouds their perfect work have done. —Mary F. Butts. M. and Mrs. J. D. W’isehaupt drove to French township this morning to attend the closing exercises of the school of which their son, Howard, is teacher. A very good program was given and a big dinner spread at noon by the patrons and pupils. Every member of the Shakespeare club should make an especial effort to attend the business meeting this evening at 7 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Harry Moltz, to consider important business. Miss Fanny Heller was initiated into the Little Helping Hand society yesterday afternoon when Miss Geraldine Brandyberry entertained after school i hours. A very delightful time was had planning the society’s work, and then refreshments were served. Twenty-three ladies attended the enthusiastic business meeting of the United Brethren ladies at the home of Mrs. A. C. Ball yesterday. Chief among the many matters were the plans for the bazaar to be conducted one day in the Morrison building, south of the interurban station—April 26. A linen and pastry sale will be held. The Bachelor Maids played “five I hundred" Thursday evening at the I home of Miss Emma Terveer, and ■ otherwise had a most delightful time, i the mere so because of the Contrast the cheery’ htrtnfc made with the rain rnd storm without. Prizes were carried off by the Misses Bess Tonnelier ( and Stella Bremerkamp. The girls re- i organized Thursday evening and the ' first meeting of the new spring season , will b» next Tuesday evening with ( I Miss Stella Bremerkamp. The climax of three or four weeks’ practice of nearly every evening will !be reached tomorrow- afternoon at ; 2:30 o’clock when a bright little band of players will present that ever-dear- ■ to-childhood story ‘ Cinderella” in the attic of the C. A. Dugan home. The play must be given tomorrow because one of the little stars, Miss Sarah Semans, is going to move to Gosh- ' jen. Miss Sarah takes the part of Cinderella, who later becomes the prini cess, and being one of the most important personages, the play must be I given before Sarah goes, as her absence would cause very much of a ; bj-**ak in the cast. The players have been drilled by the Misses Ruth Hub- I bard and Helen Dugan and the Dugan . attic was chosen because of its promt- j nence. An admission fee will be ' charged and the amount has not yet been made public. The little players will be costumed according to their parts and all in all. a very good little ’’resentatlon is expected. The following is the cast: Prince—Ralph Tyndall. Princess (formerly Cinderella)— Sarah Semans. God-mother—Fanny Heller. King—Dick Helle,r. Queen —Vera Powell. Heralds—Herman Myers and David Hensley. The Proud Sisters—Lola and Dorothy Dunn. Twenty-three ladies did not let the rain keep them from the Woman’s Home Missionary society at the home of Mrs. P. G. Hooper, Thursday afternoon, when that lady and Mrs. A. R. Bell entertained. Ar».ording to the year s book study, "Mormon Religion" came up Thursday afternoon, and under the leadership of Mrs. T. W. Holsapple, a very good lesson was given. She was assisted in various ways on the program by Mesdames p. B. Thomas, Mary Eley, Dick Myers, B. J. Rice and O. L. Vance. Vocal music by a trio, comprising Mrs. P. b. Thomas, Mrs. B. J. Rice and Mrs. C. L. Walters, and a vocal solo by Mrs. Dr. Nentune also contributed in a pleasing way to the program. On May 8 Mrs. Bliss will come to give a lecture on Mormonism. This will be illust'-ated by eighty-five stereopticon views, and will be given in the M. E. lecture room. Twenty-five cents will be the price of the ticket*.

COURT HOUSE iS QUIET. Wells County Clerk Dal Wandel of Bluffton was here this morning on business with County Clerk Bleeke. He came to collect certain claims due Wells county on change of venue cases. Real estate transfers: Fred Wechter et al. to Clovis Oberll, realty in M abash tp., >100; Isaac Lehman to Clovis Oberli, 1.21 acres, Wabash tp., $1100; Sether heirs to Warren E. Buckmaster, lot 631, Decatur, |2BO. Judge Watkins of Huntington was here yesterday on business in court relating to the Brookover-Branyan case. WERE VICTORIOUS The Atlas Bowling Club Won Three Games from Postoffice Five. THURSDAY’S CONTEST Both Teams Made a Good Record—Meet Again on Wednesday Night. In a series of three games which was played Thursday night between the Atlas Bowling club and the postoffice five, the Atlas club walked off the floor victorious, winning all three of the games. The contest between these two teams started at 8 o’clock and was witnessed by a very large crowd, some of whom wanted to see the Atlas club get a good trimming, and others who were in favor of the postoffice crowd getting the walloping. The Atlas "rooters,” however, had the last howl coming. The Atlas club won the first game by 92 points, the second by 7 and the third by 13 points. Neptune, of the Atlas team, bowled the high score on their side, and Biggs pf the postoffice team bowled the high score for thenl. These two teams will meet again on next Wednesday night and a strong fight will be put up by both clubs to win the victory. The line-up for last night was: Atlas—L. Biggs, Neptune, Lose, Bogner and A. Harting. Postoffice—Weis, Christen, Biggs, Acker, Evans. A three-dollar prize has been put up by Andy Harting, the manager of the bowling alley, for the person bowling the highest score during the month o' April. There’s a chance for you to win it • The Monroe Neus (Continued from Page 1) entertainment entitled "The Girl of the L Triangle Ranch,” at the school house. Mrs. J. J. Mayer met with a verypainful accident on last Saturday I morning by falling down stairs, In which she sustained a severely, spraiuI ed left ankle and foot, and otherwise I badly bruising herself about the body. I She now gets about by the aid of crutches, her limb being encased in plaster of parls. Friday was Johns’ day at Decatur. A bunch of Johns were “rubbering" at the place, “to see what they could see." They were: John Badders, John Mayer, John Hocker, John Andrews, John Wittmer, John Bueher, and Pete Kessler was in the crowd, who took special pains at gazing at the “sky-scrapers." HELD UP BY FLOODS. Col. Fred Reppert Comes In a Day Late from Jackson, Miss. Colonel Fred Reppert blew in from the south Thursday afternoon a day late, but in time to relieve the anxiety of his friends who feared that he might have been a vlcitm of the southern floods. Only a few weeks ago during the Ohio-Indiana floods he narrowly escaped death near Dayton, 0., when a railroad trestle, weakened by the high water, went down with a train ten minutes after his car passed over it. Mr. Reppert left Monday for Jackson, Miss, where he cried a big cattle sale. He passed through Memphis, Tenn., all right, but on his return was cut off on that route by the high waters of the Mississippi. He was obliged to go much out of his way, returning byway of Louisville and Cincinnati, where he was held up a day. — 4 ' FOR SALE—Settings of Light Brah > I ma eggs at reasonable prices. Call I ’phone 90. g7t{

RIVER IS HIGH Rose Six Feet in Twentyfour Hours — Spreads Over Lowlands. NOW ON STANDSTILL Measured Sixteen and a Half Feet at Noon Today Says G. F. Kintz. The steady downpour of rain the last few days resulted in a rapid rise of the river during Thursday afternoon and night, and when spectators looked forth this morning the water had spread to the lowlands east of the city again. During the twenty-four hours from yesterday noon to this noon the. water had risen six feet. City Engineer G. F. Kintz made this statement when he took the measurement at noon today and found the depth of the water sixteen and one-haif feet. Thursday noon it was ten and one-half feet. The river is practically at a standstill at this time and no danger of a higher rise Is feared unless the rains which ceased Thursday night begin again. At this time the water is only two and one-half feet below the high water mark, which Mr. Kintz designates is nineteen feet, and only six and one-half feet below the highest known water mark, made during the March floods of this year, when it reached twentythree feet. The normal water mark is placed at six feet. This caused some argument, but was easily explained when Mr. Kintz stated that the normal water mark was placed at that depth because the river has that depth the greater part of the time. Os course in summer the water often ranges from one and one-half to two feet in depth, and at high water very much higher. Feared Floods Again. When the water began to rise rapidly last night, there was much fear ia the Dick Roop and S. E. Brown families east of the city, that they might have to move out again. Had the rains continued during the night, such would probably have been the case, but in the night it ceased, and the river had fallen again by this morning, A Spellin’ Skulk tContlnued ram Page 1) Mrs. Harry Schwalm was finally declared the victor. Miss Evans, who has a special talent for music, and who is ever progressive, will leave Monday for Chicago, where she will enter the American Conservatory of Music for a ten w’eeks' course. o —- TO PAPER CUSTOMERS. All papers for which bills are not paid by the 15th of each month will be suspended until settled for. ELGIN KING, 85t3 City News Stand. CUSTOMERS We have several more cows to our large stock and are thereby place.d in the position to add a number of customers to our dairy service. Fresh and clean milk every morning. Call phone I-U or stop wagon. Ed Luttman and Son City Dairy

50 VIEWS OF FIRE AND FLOOD AT THE REX THEATRE TO-NIGHT on account of the weather being bad wo \\ ill show the yiewsof the Dayton flood tonight and Saturday afternoon for the benint of those that could not come to see them 5C TO ALL THE RUGGED COAST A Winning Ruse * Cowboy Sports • and Pastime 5C TOQALL

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