Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1913 — Page 2

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IE3OE WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednenday. St. Vincbnt de Paul—Mrs. Mary Wemhoff. Thursday. Evangelical Aid—Mrs. U. S. Cress. Ruth Circle— Dora SchultzBaptist Aid—Mrs. Howard Sikes. Friday. Mite Society —M. E. Church. Christian Ladies’ Aid—Mrs. Rebecca Eady. Miss Minnie Mack entertained a jolly hunch from Fort Wayne Sunday, .July 27, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Mack. The unday was passed hy going to they! cnic at .Friedhelm, then bark to the horn-' where a big snpiier was served The evening was spent in playing games. The crowd had a jolly time. Those present were: Misses Elizabeth Droste, Louise Schafer, Della Boseker, Clara Schuster and Minnie Macke; Messrs. William C. Macke, Fred Macke. Albermeyer and Fam, of Fort Wayne, ami Mr. Zelt and Mr. Fam. from near Fort Wayne. The crowd left on the 9:3'1 cd by going to the picnic at Friedcar.—Contributed. Carl E Bishopp has returned to Columbus. Ohio, after a visit over Sunday with the G. F Kintz family. Mr. and Mrs. Owen G. Keifer of R. R. No. 1, Willshire. Ohio, entertained a party of the following named relatives last Sunday: Their parents, Mr. and Mrs .1. Frank Keiter, Mr. and Mrs- Hatt Harper, of R. R No. 1". Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hobk • Oi near Willshire, Ohio; Mrs. Kiefer’s sisters, the Misses Callie and Agnes Harper: cousins of Midland. Mich.. Miss Laura Kiefer, an aunt of Dayton, Ohio, and a cousin. Miss Marie Stremmel, of Covington. Ohio. It was a much-enjoyed meeting of relative--and friends and all did justice to the sumptuous chicken dinner and ice gleam. Mr. and Mrs. Keifer, in their cozy home that they have just put up proved such happy and able entertainers that we will all wish to go again.—Contributed. The Fred Buiteineier home near St. John's was thrown open yesterday to a party.of young people, who werewntertained at both dinner and supper, returning to their home on the last interurban car. Guests were Miss Della J’aul of Fort Wayne, Miss Mlnnjfi Sc hroeder and Miss Lizzie Schroeder cf near Fort Wayne and Miss Minnie Schroeder of St. John's. A number of Fort Wayne and Bluff ton giri employees of the Indiana Lighting company's offices will come this afternoon and be guests of Mrs. George A Mount and Miss Agnes Cos tello at a picnic this evening at Steele’s park Though it is very warm to attempt very hjg social affairs, the tea party which comes in the late afternoon when the cooler breezes of evening make their appearance, is the meat delightful of these, will he the tea party at 5 o’clock this evening by Mrs. I’. B Thomas for her guest, Mrs. Wil Ham Haubold, who will return tomorrow noon to Chicago The pretty summer flowers, of which there are many, including gladiolus and sweet pens, combined with ferns, are used in decorating the home and making the t-’a table attractive Mrs. Thomas will be assisted by Miss Congleton. Guests besides Mrs, Haubold are the ladies of the Thimble club and a few others, including Mesdames D. W. Beery, P. G. Hooper, J. T. Merryman, J. C- Patterson. A. J. Smith, Mary Woodward. Mary Congleton. Jane Crabbs, D f Stephenson Mary Eley and J A. Smith. Bryce Thomas and Miss Marjorie; Haubold of Chicago were guests of Helen and Edwin Stephenson at supper last evening. At the meeting of the Rebekahs last: evening arrangements were made for a social good time for next. Tuesda? evening after the regular lodge meet ing, when the. members will entertain their friends. An auction of the old rubes will also De held. BULL DOG IS LOST. "Bunch. ' the small Boston bull dog, belonging to Miss Gertrude Mores, has been missing since Wednesday, July 18. Description, brindle, white vest, white collar, half way round , white on tin of each foot, short tail; wore a leather collar, trimmed in brass, with raine-plate, engraved as above. Any information concerning his whereabouts will he appreciated Telephone Reeidence No 195, or green hou ,e. No. (76. E4> L. MObSS

Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison was a Fort Wayne business visitor today. Ralph Amrine has returned from a few days visit with his mother and family at DeGraff, Ohio. Don't lose your temper. It's too hot and over exertion is bad for your system tiieuc dug days. Keep cool, that is, keep as cool as you can J. H. Stewart is moving into the nr w Schug residence on South Third street. The house is a modern one, with bath, furnace, neat and everything up-to-date. The contract for the new front in the Myers-Dailey company store has been let to Mann & Christen, who will begin work at once, or as soon as the i material can be secured. LEG WAS BROKEN • I "Red" Deen Suffers Painful Injury When Log Rolled and He Fell BREAKING HIS THIGH — Rode Eleven Miles to Phy1 sicians in This City—Bad Injury. i Raymond Deen, better known as * . ‘ Red" Deen, suffered a most painful ; injury last evening about 4 o’clock . when his left log was broken in the upper third of the liiigh, a short distance below the hip. He was working ’i with others in the timberland eleven miles from the city. They had felled l a tree and were trimming it when the log rolled and Deen iell across the tree breaking the leg. ’i He was gotten Into a buggy and 'I brought through the long and painful 5 1 journey to this city at 5:30 o'clock ; and taken to the home of his father, George Deen, on Line street, where ■ two physicians set the broken mem- ’ ber. The injury :s a bad one, but he is doing very well. County Commissioner Chris Eicher ’ of Hartford township was attending - to business affairs in this city today. The county commissioners will ? I meet in regular lession Monday, and ' the usual routine business will be disposed of. - 1 I FRAME BUILDING FOR SALE. -■ Have a frame building, lo- ( 1 cated on the fair grounds, east of the' < liy. Is in good condition, can be moved as it stands at small expense' ( or can be torn dowp. Will sell cheap I : if taken at once. 177t3 J. B. STONEBURNER. i o • WANTED-Railway mail clerks, car-1 riers; good pay, fine positions. Pay | ' for instruction after you receive po-; sition. Liberty Institute, Dept. 7''-. Ro-; < heater. N Y. ROOMS WANTED—Two for light! ' housekeeping, preferred south ofl ■: court house. Adreas C. J. F., 358 S. | Third street. 174t3 LOST —Pair of nose glasses, with! gold chain attached Finder please • return to this office or to Mrs. D D. I Heller- 173t3 and prices reasonable. 175t3 | WANTED—PIace to board and room. I Inquire at this office. 174t3 Democt at Want Ads Pay. ! ; Two high class Belgian stallions, j will stand for mares at my barn 5 ■ miles northeast of Decatur. Ind., this! season. King Walter Is a blood bay, 5 years old. weights 2,000 lbs., has ! , pfoved that be Is an excellent breeder. Fred Orion Is a tine sorrel, white ■' mane and tall, 3 years old, will weigh ' . over a ton when matured. He la a i fine specimen of the Belgian horse,! i has proved that be is a sure breeder.! i Terms:— Ten dollars to insure a colt to stand and suck. Owners part - ing with mares will be held for insur-1 • auce. We solicit your patronage. J. A. FLEMING & SON, , 77-2t-w4ov-*». Oim.

A PORTER STORY Well Known Authoress Tells Why She Wrote "Girl of the Limberlost.” INTERESTING STORY World’s Work Publishes Article Written by Gene Stratton-Porter. 1 am a creature so saturated with earth, water, and air that if I do not periodically work some of it out of my system in ink, my nearest and dearest cannot live with me- When ' such a time overtakes me. I write as the birds sing, because 1 must, and j usually from the same source of in- ! spiration. So my first book was one stretch of river bank and swamp that I knew, one bird and one old man with whom 1 was sufficiently intimate to record his true picture. Then, like Grandfather Squeers, I felt that I had "the hang of it now and could do it ag in." So I wrote another book. I put in a little -more swamp, several birds and a few people 1 knew 1 could potj tray faithfully It was then the mail-box business ' began. First, a wealthy club woman of- a great city wrote me that sh» read one of my books to a company ol tired clerks, while they lunched al their noon rest hour, and it had brought to them a few minutes ot country life so real that they begged lor more A nurse wrote from a hospital ward, for a man who had always lived and loved the open and now from spinal trouble never would walk again, that my pictures of swamp and forest were so true that he had lost himself for an hour in them, and would I please send his address to my publishers, so that he might be informed when I wrote again. The warden or' a slate reform school wrote that 1,500 sin besmirched little souls in his care, shut for punishment from their naLnrnl inheritance of field and wood, were reading my books to rags because they scented freedom and found comfort in them, and would I send him word when the next one was finished? And the diginified and scholarly Orion

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! Root, sitting with his feet on the feud- ! er in the library of his beloved’"Hemlocks," read one of mv books one night and the next dav wrote me: "i have a severe cold this hiorning. because I got my feet very wet last night walking the trail with ’Freckles,’ but 1 am willing to risk pneumonia r.i.y time for another book like thnk" 1 have such letters in heaps, from t very class and condition of people, all the way from northern Canada to the. lowest tip of Africa, all asking for more of the outdoors, as 1 see it, because my descriptions are absolutely real to them, and my characters recognized as transcriptions from life. So 1 wrote "A Girl ol the Limberlost," to carry to workers inside citv walls, to hospital cots, to those bellied prison bars, and to scholars in their libraries, my story of earth and sky. Incidentally, I put in all the insects, Howers, vines and trees, birds and animals that I know and such human beings as 1 grow well enough acquainted with in my work in the woods, that I feel able to record a faithful study ot their loves, pains, joys, temptations and triumphs. This reduces my formula for a book to simplicity itself - an outdoor setting of land in which 1 lived until, as Mary Austin expresses it. I know "the procession of the year." Then I people ;he location with the men and women who live there, and on my pages write down their story of joy and sorrow commingled as living among them 1 know it to be. This is the secret of any appeal that my work may make. 1 am nothing but a machine of transmission. If it be lruth thr.t my work ■ does not yonform to the ordinary standards of fiction-writing, it is probably because very little of what I '. rite is fiction, anil people know it. I live in the country and work in tlie woods, so no other location is possible for my hack-ground, and only the ' people with whom I come in daily contact there are suitable for my actors. Naturally, there come times when other locations and people are forced upon me, but I decline to admit that I have a working knowledge of them. And I want to say for such people as I put into books, that in the plain, old fashioned country homes ' where 1 have lived. I have known such wealth of loving consideration, sinh fidelity between husband and wife, i nch obedience in children, such constancy to purpose, such whole-souled icve for friends and neighbors, such absence of jealousy, pettiness and rlvmeantinie, 1 shall have had the joy of i airy, as my city critics do not know =3E=ZE=3

Big Clearance Sale Big Sale Closes Saturday August 2nd

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Is in existence. I know that they do not know these things exist, else they would not question my chronicles of them But much tan be forgiven a critic when he attempts to criticise a lite that ho never lived, and a love that he never knew. I never could write a historical novel, because I want my history embellished with anything on earth save th tion I could not write of society, be cause f know just enough about it to know that the more I know, the less 1 wish that I knew. I have read a few "problem" novels and they appeal to me as a wandering over nasty, lawless subjects and situations ol the most ■" clvnt type, under new names. There i. nothing remaining for me but the woods, and the |>eopie I meet there So for my boys behind bars, first ol all, for my working girls, for my . scholars, and friends of ’eisure. I "i'-'u- . cd” to conjure up jsirt of a warn: r that I once knew, and bet its flow | blooming, its birds singing, its wonde I fill creatures of night a wing. And then ■ 1 tried to tell a simple story of a gitl ; in calico and cow-hide, who struggi •<: until she reached the things she cravt cd, even as once I struggled; of a . woman who suffered many deaths 11 i sins that she never committed. id > found peace at last; of a man who l> o' - everything in life, yet kept himself I clean, even as many men 1 know toi nay, because they are too refined ami proud tp stoop to common, contaniin:: i ting sin; of a man and woman who I might have been anyone's Aunt Margaret and I'ncle Wesley; of a little - child that 1 fed. and doctored, and ; quoted literally nine-tenths of his sayings and doings; and a couple o r ■ young people who found the best in I themselves through suffering, as most of us suffer and in our better selves i sooner dr later, and ■sunshine at the end, as please God it shall come to • ell of us who work and do the best w< know. My critics say that these methods < never can produce literature: yet it > is in my memory tliat the scenes of ' real masterpieces are lands intimatelv i known, and the characters are people i who are daily familiar with the auth- ■ ors. It is my belief that no great book s ever was written any other way. and i that no literature truly characterise iwof a nation is imssible ny any ollie' , method. As to whether my work is or - ever will be literature, I never bother I niy Irnad. Timo, the hearts of my i readers, and the files of my publishei . will find me my ultimate place, in the f 1 my work, for to me it is joy unspeakable to make a swimming hole spla h. x'" 1 .: 1 1 .111=301

Ssc Shirt Sale Beginning Saturday |Aug. 2nd. We will put on ■ sale the remaining stock of our Summer Purchase of high grade Men’s Fancy Negligee and Plaited Shirts. White Pleated Shirts Not Included. Assortment consists of sl. and $1.50 values. Elgin, Davies and Wilson Bros, makes sizes 14 to 18 1-2. A good time now to lay in a good supply. See our Window. Holthouse, Schulte Go. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys

11 ’ squirrels bark, and nuts rattle down inside reform-school wails, or to set a i bird singing, leaves rustling, and a ; cricket chirping beside hospital cots j As for my "aim." Cale Young recently ' i put it into verse for me. He did not know that he did it for me, but 1 did \ i the instant I saw it: ■ “I ask no more > Than tc restore To simple, homely things their for-j mer joy.' ' — o - —— CITY PROPERTY BARGAINS. — 6 room house on West Madison at.,; $950, Small Payment down. Balance like rent. « 7 room house on north 9th street. i Small payment down. Balance like rent. 6 room house on West Adams St., • at a Bargain. ERWIN REAL ESTATE AGENCY. Phone 85. 157t13 p — Michael McGriff of Geneva was at- ' tending to business affairs here this I > afternoon.

Special Rug Offer I jot Velvet Rugs large size worth sl7. This sale $12.75 A • in. best quality II Ax minster cheap at $2.75 this sale $1.98 I Prices on all 9x12 & II -ox 12 hugs in all grades best quality alt wool ingrain cheap at 75c This sale 64c

* 4 WEEDS MUST BE CUT. The season of the year is herewfej the weeds must be cut. It is the In that all property owners keep tie needs cut down in their yard in thstreets and alleys about their pro,. erty. I have been ordered to bav. this done and will obey the orders! IT you do not do bo, you wj|) be prorecuted. We hope that this will nt be necessary, but the weeds must be ! mt and if you don't do (t, you seed t ot be surprised if an affidavit is filed against you. Cut the weeds and do it at once, and then keep them down JACOB |« HI.ER, Street Commissioner. RYE WANTED— Will pay the highest market prices Nut and large lump size soft coal Chestnut and hard coal on hand. -Bovine, Manlier & Co., Pleasant Mills, Ind. 17Jt3 WANTE3Y AT ONCE Man with small family to work on farm. Steady job for right party House furnished. See R. N. Runyon, half-mile north ‘ Dent school house. 'Piiotie 8 on L line- 17St3

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