Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1913 — Page 2

dailydemocr AT I Published Every Evening, Ejtceot Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. JOHN H. HELLER. Subscription Rates. Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 ' Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail $2.50 1 Single Copies 2 cents — I Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at th e postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second class mail, Th e soldiers' monument will be located in the southwest corner of the court house yard, the committee evidently not agreeing with the suggestion that a monument park be arranged. However, this location will not prevent us all from admiring the handsome monument and believing in the patriotic spirit for which it stands, loving those who have served the flag, cheering those who are with us still and revering the memory ot those who have Joined the silent cavalry. We are all proud of our soldiers and we are all glad that a monument is to be erected to their memory. Secretary of State Bryan is for a world-wide treaty that will stop war , in every nation of the globe. The mil- , lions who inhabit the earth are with ( him in this great work. His task is i big, but he is prompted by pure mo- 1 tives and will succeed to a large de- ■ gree at least. P i Judge Andrew A. Adams, chief jus- j tice of the appellate court of Indiana, . has resigned to accept September Ist, 1 the position of general counsel, for Arbuckles Brothers of New York City, j Judge Adams is a lawyer_of great ] ability and will succeed in the big job for which he has been employed. He ! will be succeeded on the appellate 1 bench by the Hon. Fred S. Caldwell of ' Winchester, than whom there is no , better lawyer in Indiana. Mr. Cald- . well was a candidate for the democratic nomination as judge of the su- ' preme court two years ago, when Ji.J -.e R. K. Erwin was selected. His many Adams county friends will rejoice that he has been honored at this time, believing in his ability and admiring him for his many splendid traits of character. LITTLE FRED CHLOROFORMED. Little Fred died this morning, aged , thirty-six, his friends deciding it best that he be freed from this world of misery and trouble and bodily ailments. Little Fred was the driving herse owned and driven by J. W. Place for many years. For a long period he i had been the faithful standby o r the Place and Confer Ice Cream companies. For some months he has been helpless, a sufferer from infirmities and it was decided to put him to sleep.' A dose of chloroform did the work ami ’ Little Fred now rests in peace.

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DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesday. Concord Aid Airs. Jack Kemp. Thursday. Helping Hand.—Mrs. Ed Miller. M. E. Missionary—Mrs. Jesse Dailey. Knights of King Arthur—Presbyterian Church. Westminster Guild —Mrs. W. A. Lower. Eureka- —Miss Lena Butler. Friday. Queen Esther Supper —M. E. Church. Christian Aid —Mrs. Moncrief. Monday evening, June 2 marked the time long to be remembered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wolfe, south of town, when ninety invited guests gathered to remind* Dan of his fiftythird birthday anniversary. His birthday came June 1, but his friends took an evening later in order to completely surprise him, which they certainly did. The baskets they took were filled to the brim with all the good things to eat and two large tables fairly groaned under their weight of everything that goes to make a grand supper. Games and music were in order and every one reports a general good time. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs,, R. E. Gould, Mr. and Mrs. Wash Miller, Mr. and Mrs. John Myers and son, Clyde; Mr. and Mrs. Tomp Noll and children, Mary, Carl and Eloise; Mrs. H. L. Smith and children, Florence, Dee and Oca; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin and family, Brice, Mabel, Ruth, Ralph, Harold and Margaret; Mr. and Mrs. G~int Strickler, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wolfe and children, Lily, Ruby and Grover Al len; Mrs. Annie Gould, Chester Bryan, Edna Steele, Ruth Myers, Cecil Harvey, Calvin Yost, August Slegal, Perry Smith, Ray Harvey, Otto Yost, Burtell Smith, Guy Steele, Lily Teeple, Ralph Miller, Curtis Ray, Mary Myers, Frank Lynch, Claude Harvey, Marjorie Myers, Marion Case, Helen Cowan. Lulu Teeple, Grover Carver, Will Strickler, Will Gause, Archie Hinx, Roy Case, Forest Railing, Ida Irsam, Fred Ayres, Lynn Stettler, Dolly Richard, Jess Welch, Harry Durbin, Richard, Will Ayres, Clara Marbaugh, Clifford Durbin, Irilla Meshberger, Frances Marbaugh, Laura Meshberger, Harvey Durbin, True Gephart, Otto Sovine, Bess Lord, Pearl Strickler, Koxcy Stetler, Frank Meshberger, Calvin Myers, Frank Riff, Celia Welch, Harry Wolfe, Lark Wolfe and Bird Wolfe, Dan Gould, John Ritter, Charlie Brown, Roy Shoaf. For CJare and Jonas Coverdale, who were soon to leave for their home at Nashville, Tenn., a picnic party was given yesterday in a grove near the city, by a number of the neighborhood young folks. Others of the party were Gladys Flanders, Lucile, Genevieve and Lowell Smith, Dick and Fanny Heller. Miss Neva Brandyberry entertained at dinner last evening for the Misses 'lffie Miller, Huldah Mutschler, Lydia Kirsch, Alta Teeple and Geraldine ! Brandyberry. The Westminster Guild will have an important meeting Thursday evening

with one of its patronesses, Mrs. W. A. Lower. This is an important meeting and th e attendance of all is requested. Mrs. Scott Bockover is here for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Blackburn and daughter, Nellie. Mrs. Bockover was formerly Miss Hattie Blackburn. The Misses Anna and Margaret Clark have issued invitations for a farewell party for Friday evening for the Misses Bertha and Celia Kinney, who will soon go with their parents to their future home in Fort Wayne. Tb e Ladies Helping Hand society will be entertained by Mrs. Ed Miller Thursday afternoon at the rooms of the Reformed Sunday school rooms. Mrs. C. A. Dugan went to Fort Wayne this noon to attend a bridge party to be given this afternoon byMrs. Theodore Winch on West Wayne I street. Miss Frances Dugan accomI panied her to Fort Wayne where she spent the afternoon. The Eureka club will meet Thursday evening with Miss Lena Butler. Miss Elizabeth Voglewede South High street gave a dinner party for Mrs. Tom Haefling and son, George, of Indianapolis. The gathering was a family party and a very good time was 1 had. Others present were Mrs. ChasVoglewede, Mrs. James P. Haefling, and Mrs. J. H. Voglewede.

COURT HOUSE NEWS t - t t Board of Review Gets Down i to Active Work Today— ' Report is Sent TO COUNTY RECORDER a Case Venued from County— * Action Taken in Several t i Civil Cases. i j County Recorder Andrew Welfley i received from W. A. Dehorfty, chief * of the siute acvvuhtauts a report of ( the official examination of his accounts ! covering the year from January I,< 1912, to December 31, 1912, as made recently by the field examiners, W. A. Lally and Charles D. Sherwin. The report is an excellent one and shows a deficiency of only $2.60, due to slight erros and fee insufficiency. The total of fees collected was $2,271.70 and the total paid to treasurer, $2,269.10. Os this amount he is entitled to receive a total of $1,570.73. Os this there Is $1,300 salary and also thirty per cent commission of the excess $69.10, or his commission, $290.73. With the report , was an account of a check paid by , him to cover the amount of deficiency and from this he is to receive back the sum of 78 cents commission, leaving the real deficiency only $1.82. The report is sent for filing and for public inspection. The board of review began active work this morning, the delay being occasioned by the attention of some of the officials required elsewhere during the county commissioners' session. The assessors’ b</jks will be gone over and any errors in extending the amounts corrected, and the footings verified. The board was working today on the books of Union, Root, Preble and Kirklands townships. The board must finish its work in thirty days. An affidavit for a change of venue from the county of the Adams-Pearson quiet title case was sustained. ITn the case of the American Stan--4 d Jewelry Co. vs. Fred W. Studler, the demurrer to the complaint was overruled and exception taken. A plea in abatement, was filed by the defendant. In the case of the Old Adams County Bank vs. Wm. H. Fledderjohann el al., many new papers were filed this morning, Including answers to complaint and cross-complaints. In the case of John Mock et al. vs. Court Clerk Ferdinand Bleeke, appearance by Simmons & Dailey, Sturgis & Stein was entered for the defendant. The Bank of Geneva vs. Thomas E. Cranor. Rule to answer absolute In five days. The First National Bank of Frankfort vs. Frank Summers et al., appealance by Hooper & Lenhart for the defendants. Rule to answer. Harriet C. Blume, as executrix of the estate of L. N. Blunge, has filed an In-

tervening petition in the interurban receivership case. This is for $43,700, which she claims is due the estate for seventy-six first mortgage gold bonds. Halfhill, Quail and Kirk of Lima, Ohio, are her attorneys. SUMMER SEASON At the Bosse Opera House Will Open Next Friday * Evening, June 6th.

BIG FEATURE SHOW I Hughes and Plunkett Company will be Here for Two Nights This Week. The big feature company for Friday and Saturday nights is the ‘'Hughes and Plunkett' C 0.,” direct from Detroit, now playing all of the big vaudeville time. Manager Bosse was fortunate In securing this company, as they had the 6th and 7th open and passing through this city on their way to St. Louis, he picked them off for two nights. The Hughes brothers are the Music Hall boys that made such a great hit at the Belasco theater, New York, last season. The Plunkets are the funny Boston comedians and dancers, featuring “The Country School,” that funny skit running six weeks at th e little theater, New York. Florence Florenz, the French singing comedian, and Burns, up-to-date sketch artist. The prices for the summer will be: Gallery, 10c; blue chairs, 10c; opera chairs, reserved, 20c.

IS NAMED A DELEGATE. Dr. J. S. Boyers of this city, who is a member of the state board of health, is among the delegates appointed by Governor Ralston to the Seventh International Purity Congress to be held in Minneapolis in November. Miss Faye Hammell left this morning for Marlon, where she will make ail necessary arrangements to enter the Marion normal college next Monday to prepare herself for teaching this coming year.

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F BUICK WARNING 1 || the — LAS' 7 " RACE ISON holding back for the final decision will be P Buick Is Breaking All R< cut ds ( This year for the sale of high class cars and the ‘‘‘J'' u ,.' ~n li r e hjiek produc- 1 n out put of 30.000 cars is already in sight. One yea g record will 11 tion w; ; s V . .it July Ist and every indication is that the 1913 sales record will be even st 11 better. ■ TIME COUNTS NOW || 1 Not more than 200 more 1913 Buicks will be available for Indiara. This means only a specified allotment of cars for each Buick dealei. Natural \ v e ha\e to act and act quick ourselves to secure cars. Only About Five More 1913 Buicks 1 Will be allotted to Adams County, are you going to be one oi the lucky owners? If so, you can’t wait or delay longer. The Buick Motor Co. have issued t heir final warning and car allotments to us and every dealer, so it is not a time for postponements, but a time for action. WE MUST ACT QUICK We can no longer guarantee delivery of cars for future dates unless we get your order now. Let us get your car while we can secure same, and hold it for you until you want it delivered, but we must get it now. Delay is not only fatal to ourselves, but to you as well, and we warn you to act quickly. Be The Owner of One of the Few Buicks Available CALL, PHONE OR WRITE IS AT ONCE ’ Lee hardware Company j DECATUR INDIANA I fc -=r-H