Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1913 — Page 2

DAILYDEMOCRAT Publlahed Every Evening, Except Sunday by HE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subecrlptlon Ratee Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mall ...25 cents Per year, by mall $2.50 tingle Copies 2 cents Advertising ratee made known on application. Entered at the poetottico tn Decatur, Indiana, as sc«>on<t cla>»a uall. The question of cleaning up the city streets and alleys does not seem to impress itself on our people in a very forcible manner. At least no action has been reported. Three spring days right in a row are almost too many for a community which has had a mixture of zero weather, sleet, snow, high winds and a chaser of water that made former records fade into insignificance.

That the people really want a revision of the tariff downward was shown from the fact that John J. Mitchell was Tuesday elected to congress from « - the Thirteenth district in Massachusetts. Usually a republican stronghold, the democratic candidate won easily and the issue was the tariff question. The republican candidate came in second while the bull mooser was third. The parcels post will live. No experiment by the United States governmen has proven so successful. Over five million stamps have been issued this year so far, bringing the sum of twenty-five million dollars. Additional force to print the stamps fast enough * to meet the demands are necessary and the proposition is proving very satisfactory, not only to the government, but to the people of the country who are using it as much as they use the mail service.

DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesday. German Reformed Aid —Mrs. Jacob Schafer. Shakespeare—Mrs. P. G. Hooper. Thursday. Eureka—Mrs. J. J. Foughty. Needles and Nods —Mrs. Amos Yoder. Evangelical Aid —Mrs. Eugene Runyon. Presbyterian C. E. —Lucile Smith. Friday. Mite Society—Mrs. J. D. Hale. Euterpean—Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer. "Let him not boast who puts his armor on As he who puts it off, the battle done.” A called meeting of the Eureka club will be held at the home of the president, Mrs. J. J. Foughty, Thursday evening. All members requested to be present. Business of importance to

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be discussed. The disappearance of Rolland Heche, of Vera Cruz, from home Friday evening was easily explained, when he returned Sunday afternoon and announced this his marriage tc Miss Laura Travis of Ossian, had taken place Saturday In Michigan. Th * announcement came as a com pie*-. surprise to the parents o' both the bride and » win and t* eir many friends. Ti» elopement was well ■planned. s>'«r Travis cad been vis jitlng nt the nome of her sister, Mrs : Bert Markley, of near Vera Cruz, and she, with Mr. Heche, easily slipped away from that place and were well 'on their way to Michigan before their absence was greatly missed. The disappearance of Mr. Heche was generally known Saturday, although it was ( not until Sunday that friends got word of the departure of Miss Travis. The groom returned to Vera Cruz and the bride returned to her home in Ossian, where she will remain a few days. Miss Travis is a daughter or Mr. and Mrs. Perry Travis of Ossian, and Mr. Heche is a son of Mrs. Martha Heche, of Vera Cruz. Both are well known in Harrison and Jefferson townships. They have not decided the location of their future home. — Bluffton Banner.

1 Mr. and Mrs. E. Burt Lenhart and daughter, Velma, motored to Craigvllle and other small western towns yesterday on business. The Needles and Nods club will have a good time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Yoder this evening. 1 The eighth grade pupils of the Monmouth school, his teacher and other friends, gave Kenneth R. Butler the

surprise of his lite, the event being a nappy social gathering at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Butler. After general amusements, refreshments were in order. His school mates presented -him with a fountain pen. Those present were: J. E. Nelson, John Luttman, Delma Butler, Herbert Steigmeyer, Robert L. Mann. Myrtle Wilder, Luella Heckman, Catherine Christen, Gladys Suman, Florence Lewton. John Durbin, Clyde Butler, Clara Heckman, Don Sheets, Jacob Wagner, Bertha Fuhrman, Beulah Fuhrman, Verna Mann, Lloyd Magley. Harold Cline, Clark Fuhrman, Ethel Ruckman. Florence Sheets, Wilber Suman, Ralph E Roop, Eniis Christen, Albert Johnson, Arthur Clark, H. L. Wilson, Kenneth Butler. The Tri-Kappa sorority had the pleasure of the presence of one of its out-oftown members. Miss Marie Allison, of Indianapolis at the meeting at the home of Miss Madge Hite Tuesday evening. Miss Fanny Frisinger conducted the study on "The Issue of Politics Today.” There were no subtopics. Miss Edna Hoffman will have the next fortnightly meeting. Wilson Lewton has issued invitations to a number of friends for a party to be given this evening at the home of his brother, Mrs. Minnie Lewton, on Tenth street. The social given by the officials of the Rebekah lodge Tuesday evening was a successful one as the approval of the one hundred fifty guests attest. A very good musical program was given and readings by Miss Osee Armstrong of Ridgeville and Miss Mabel Weldy were pleasing. A “clover hunt” was an interesting contest. Threeleaf clovers, as well as four-leaf clovers were hidden. The four-leaf clo-

vers counted the most, and scores were made from the number found. Mrs. Ed Baker won the first prize. In a question contest. Mrs. Dallas Butler carried off honors. With Miss Florine Edwards at the piano, a grand march lead by Miss Nina Wagner and Mrs. Olen Baker, was a diversion that proved agreeable. Refreshments of punch and wafers were served. The proceeds will be used for the new robes to be purchased by the lodge. Mrs. C. V. Connell and son, Fred, went to Monroe, Mich., to spend a day with her daughter. Miss Marla, who Is a student at St. Mary’s college. The Shakespeare club closed its season’s study on Holland yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. P. G. Hooper, when Mrs. J. H. Heller was leader, giving a good paper on the women of that country which has been thoroughly discussed by the club In its past weeks. Sub-topics were along this line and the roll call answers were on what women are doing. The club has voted to do away with the historical study for the next year and will have miscellaneous programs on the great questions of the day. The committees will arrange the programs during the year. The plans for the guest night, next Wednesday, April 23, give promise of a fitting celebration of thethirtieth anniversary of this club. The entertainment will be given in the Knights of Pythias home, which will be very roomy for the large company, as each member will invite six or seven friends. A group of young girl entertainers from Bluffton, who are quite talented in music and reading, and who have given very good satisfaction at the various entertainments where they have appeared, have been secured. The group includes . Hermina Wiecking, Lucile Locke, Josephine Cook, Helen Swain, Hermina Ashbaucher. A pleasing form of after entertainment has also been arranged, and the little girls who will serve the refreshments will be dressed in the costume of Holland, the country last studied by the club.

Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Steele threw open their home Wednesday evening for the entertainment of the clerks of the Steele & Weaver store, and a right royal time was had. Mr. Steele, as trap-drummer, and Mrs. Steele, as pianist, furnished music. General social amusements were in order and tempting refreshments were served. The paYty comprised the following: Eula McKinney, Rose Kleinhenz, Josephine Lang, Gertrude Butler, Esther Enos, Harry Magner, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Beckmeyer and son, Lawrence, have returned from St. Henry, Ohio, where they attended the wedding of Miss Ida Mader and Henry Loshe, and report having had a fine time. Cal Peterson was also initiated into the Scottish Rite order at Fort Wayne. COURT HOUSE IS QUIET. (Continued from Pave 1) et al. to John W. Hendricks, lots 918 ! and 919, Decatur, and lot 87, Monroe,' 1300; Charles W. Ahr et al. to Joseph Dehner, 120 acres, Union tp., $21,000; Wm. Kiser et al. to Andrew Idlewlne, lot 357, Geneva, S6OO.

James P. Haefling arrived last night from Terre Haute, where he hag been stationed for a year, doing public accounting work. He will take a three days’ vacation, beginning in some field in the northern part of the state next Monday. He has lost but four days’ actual duty during the year and was at Terre Taute over eight months. He says that city is one nf the best business towns he ever visited and is known as the most wide open city in the United States.

T. W. WATTS. Thomas Wilda Watts was born near Mendon, Ohio (Mercer county), March 28, 1855, and departed this life’April 15, 1913, aged 58 years and 17 days. Mr. Watts was the son of William and Anice Katharine Watts. His boyhood and manhood days were spent in the home county with his parents. In 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Susie Melhls of Delphos. To this union were born three children: Mrs. Will Walter of Adrian, Mich.; Mrs. F. J. Bosse, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Cora, whom the Lord took in her infancy, at the age of eleven months. After living several years at Delphos, be removed with his family to Decatur, where he has been a resident for the past twenty-eight years. Upon the arrival in Decatur helwas employed by P. W. Smith & Son in the saw mill business, and after severing his connection with that firm, was employed y the Schafer Hardware company of this city. He remained with this company until two years ago, when he

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became a local agent for the People’s Life Insurance company. Brother Watts was a man who was conscientious in all his dealings through lite, and among all classes of people was considered a man worthy of example. He was a man of sterling qualities, always contending for the right and good of the public. In his church w'ork he was considered a man of unequaled ability, and who possessed an untiring energy. Wilda as he was familiarly known, by both old and young, will be missed not only by the church, but by all who knew him.

There is No Death. There is no death; the stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, ■ And bright in heaven’s jeweled crown, They shine forever more. There is no death, t»e dust we tread i Shall change beneath the summer showers To golden grain of mellow fruit, Or rainbow-tinted flowers. sThe granite rocks disorganize I To feed the hungry moss they bear, The forest leaves drink daily life, [From out the viewless air. There Is no death, the leaves may fall The flowers may fade and pass away; They only wait through wintry hours, The coming of the May.

There is no death! An angel form. Walks o’er the earth with silent tread; He bears our best loved things away, And then we call them “dead.” He leaves our hearts all desolate— He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers. Transplanted into bliss, they now Adorn immaculate bowers. The bird-like voice whose joyous tones Made glad this scene of sun and strife, Sings now In everlasting song Amid the tree of Life. i f And when he sees a smile so bright Os hearts too pure for hate and vice, He bears it to that world of light To dwell In paradise. Born into that undying life, They leave us, but to come again, With joy we welcome them the same, I Except in sin and pain. And ever near us, though unseen. The dear tip mortal spirits tread, For all the boundless Universe Is life—There is no dead.

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