Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1913 — Page 2

DAILYDEMOCRAT **"*' r ii*S— M -M ( Published Every Evening, Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. JOHN H. HELLER. Subscription Rates. Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Tear, by carrier |5.00 Per Month, for mai1..... ~..25 cents Pet leu., by matt |2.b6 Single Copies... 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at th e postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. WS?* SdlM* •* • J •* u> »•».». «. «. ». a. ». ». ». w a. »•»•».». » _ f'J I DOINGS IN SOCIETY | «• .. .. .. .. ~ fl r »■»-.. s. ».».».».». i, a. w ». w ». ». a. e. ». *. w ». ». a. if • WEEK S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday. Ice ('ream Social —Pleasant Mills Epworth League. Thomas Perkins has returned from Warsaw where he attended the Miller family reunion. He also visited with his daughter, Stella who is attending school at Winona. Mrs. H. .1 Weihe and daughter, Alma. of Milwaukee, Wis, have arrived ioi a visit at the Rev J. 11. Rilling home. Mrs. Weihe and -Mrs. Rilling are sisters. Albert Scheuler and daughters. Elsie and Margaret, of Detroit. Mich., are being entertained at the home of William Wetter and family. Miss Pearl Purdy who has returned] ftom a visit at Burr Oak. Michigan and Mongo, Indiana, went to Bluffton today to visit over Sunday with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary Purdy. She was accompanied by Miss Ella Mutchler and tomorrow will be joined by Miss Grace Purdy and Mr. RulphMattox. Thorn, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester L. Johnson, invited thirty little friends to be her guests yes-j terday afternoon on her fourth birth- j day anniversary. There were the us- ‘ ual merry games for little folks and■ then refreshments. the birthday cake 1 with its four candle* occupying at prominent place on the table, and in the consideration of the little folks, j The Misses .Mary Gels and Ethel I Shook of Brookville and Mrs. Charles! t oleos Hamilton, Ohio, were guests of honor at a "five hundred" party and . Jun heon given by Mrs. Joe Lose last; evening. Four tables accommodated | the players tor the games and tor thei two course luncheon whic h was serv-■ cd by the- hostess assisted by her i mother. Mrs- Henry Meyers and her sisters, the Misses Florence and Agnes Meyers. Prizes were won by Misses Marie Tonne lier and Amelia We ber Besides these named, guests were: the Bremersamp, Anna Clark. Bertha; Kohne. Georgia Meibers, Ode and Let-. ta Fulhiikamp, Louise and May me Brake, Amelia Weber, Mrs. laiwrence\ klcinhenz. Mrs. Arthur Mangold. Mrs. I Tom Ehluger, Mrs. Charles Lose, Mrs. Fred Schaub. Mrs. John Sphar returned today ( noon front Lake View , Hardin County. J Ohio, where she visited with relatives | and attended the reunion of the Sand-i ders-Smith families, held Thursday, I August 21, Mrs Simon Brandyberry and daughtj ers. Etta, and Alice, returned today ! from Vera Cruz where they visited I ovef utght and had a delightful time) at the Chauncey Oliver home. Mr and Mrs. N. c. Anderson and ,' daughter, Marjorie, of Gideon. .Mo J and Mrs. G. F. Kintz were guests at! dinner al the Beec her Meibers home, j Mr. and Mrs. Beecher Meibers and j daughter Georgia, entertained ycstet-l <>ay at dinner for Mrs. Beu Knapke ol , •tiiister, Ohio: Rev. Othmar Knapke, i Washington. D. C.f Mr. and Mrs. J. ] H. Voglewede, JJE and Mrs. Ben ) Knapke. , { f j | j(, In honor of her guest Miss Hazel H Harrison of Columbia City, formei grand president of the Tri Kappas. ; Miss Jean Lutz entertained the nine) 'I ri Kappa girls at a slumber partv l.i- t night. There was a marshmallow roast last evening, a delicious breakfart this morning followed by an autn > ride. This afternoon Miss Fanny FrisInger Is entertaining. Miss Harrison' If you're seeking something itidivi > dual In the way of style and neatness. | you'll find that The Myers-Daily Co..' who represent ED V. PRICE * CO. will actually deliver superior quality at prices lower than are asked by the average small tailors. See their display of new Kali Woolens- i Cost Is Moderate.

vus with the C. | Lutz family I < rooked Lake, a part of the time, they I returning by motor last evening from a two weeks' stay at the lakes. Next Monday, Miss Sharp will arrive from Columbia City to be a guest at the ‘ Lutz homeRev. I, W. Love of the United Brethren church went to Plymouth this aft ernoou and this evening will officiate at the double wedding of the Misses Anna and Annis Sprague, daughter of ■ G. M. Sprague, relatives of the Sprague families of this city. The bridegrooms are Arthur Ruff and Ear! Stoneburner. Rev. ix>ve was former pastor of the church at Plymouth. —— —o—- - - RETURN SOON TO CALIFORNIA. Mrs. Luther Boyers and son have returned from I.inn, where they visited with Mrs. Boyers’ mother. They! will remain here at the Dr. J. S. Hoyers home until week after next when they will go to California, where they have resided several years. They expect soon to be in San Franc isco, | where Luther Boyers will finish his I medical course, he having completed; his studies at the Leland Stanford I university. OLYMPIANGAMES Were in Order at Concord Lutheran Picnic in the Dor win Woods. SOME FAST SPRINTERS) Carried Off the Laurels— Married Men Beat Boys in Base Ball. Somewhat like the Olympian games j I c f edd, were the rac es and amusements | , that made the* Concord Lutheran Sun clay school picnic in the Dorwin woods in Rooi township very much out of the i ordinary, and enjoyable in proportion. ; I Bovs and girls, married and single ' men and women, young and old maids. ! alike participated in the fun. and the! i laurels were carried off by the* fastest] , sprinters. Rev. B. B. Uhl of Nokomis, 1 Illi., who is visiting here, started the 1 I racers off in all fairness and there, i were many breathless moments on the i j part of thc> spectators, as well as the I runners, as to whom would come out 'ahead Mrs. William Baker of Wil-1 I Earns won in the married women's i I foot race: Mastc-i Bucher in the boys ■ I race: Trustee Charles Magley in the ■ married men's race: Myrtle* Wilder in' i the young girls' race; and Imris Wilder in the little girls' race In a base ball game, the married men beat the 'single fellows, showing that double: , 'harness'' is conducive to the gaining: of strength in contest. The day furnished ideal weather for! I tue picnic and consequently the attendance was very large and interest' I accordingly great. KILLED BY TRAIN. Mike," the- tw. nty year old cut that made his home at the railroad station lat Preble, since his birth, was run ' over by the fast westlcound WeMs- | Fargo express train Thursday afterI noon, death resulting instantly ; j ' Mike" was a groat favorite among the people of Preble and his death could i not have caused more sorrow had he i I lieen a human being, and a brother to . them all When the people of Preble i I learned that he had lieen killed yesterday they felt as though they had lost one of the* best citizens of (he town. His remains were gathered up and placed in a line casket and laid in state iu the station where they have' Ie« n viewed by most every nue in ' Preble. Funeral services for Mike"! will be held Sunday afternoon. ABOUT THE SICK. Mr. ami Mrs. Frank Burkhead and ! Frank Emery arrived from Hardins- ' iiie. 111., being called here by the dan-1 gorous illness of their brother. Joe Em J c ry. With the ir sister. Mrs. Henry i , Gcrke, of this c ity, they called on theh * brother at the hospital at Pennville > t and then went to the home of their! , parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Emery.! | near Berne Mrs Gerke returned to-■ j day. The* brother is c ritically ill fol t lowing an operation for appendicitis* j and is not expected to recover. , t The c-ondit.ion of William Dowling, j a typhoid fever victim, was slightly I improved today. t e- b NOTICE/ We will start our cider mill August! > 1913. and will make cider ev/ v!| Tuesday and Thursday until further' c EOtlee Respectfully, P. KIRSCH. L

LIQUOR IN RUSSIA Statistics Show Alarming Increase in Quantity Consumed There. AND MANY SUICIDES! Result from Use of Intoxi-j cants—Also Increase in Crime. St. Petersburg. Aug.. 23 -(Special) Io D-moc-iat) Startling proof o'l Pit tremendous increase in the* con ‘■umption of intoxicants in tin* Hist 10 years, and incidentally of tlie enormous financial success of the government's liquor monopoly, is presented I in official statistics published today I in connection with the new budget. < The liberal press calls it. "the drunk ! • ii budge t '' The annual sale of alcohol I is stated to have grown from 170.- ; 000,000 gallons to 340,000,000 gallons. I and it is estimated that in the current year the* total income from this source wiD be 1-100.000,000 or more than one I fourth the entire revenue of the empire When the government monoply of] I tlie sale of spirits was established in i 1X95, it was confined at first to four ; governmental departments but within I a decade it has been gradually extend- | <-d to the whole of Russia with the ex- ) ct ption of a half-dozen of the smaller, outlaying provinces Since the estabI lishment of this system the govern i inent has sold to the* people of Russia : nearly three billion gallons of vodka ! alone, and sociologists agree that the ! amazing prevalence of drunkenness ..mi crime among the lower closses is I attrilmtable almost solely to this sac t. The result has been just what op- , laments of the project predicted—- | systematic aic-holization of the Rus sian people. Graphic illustration of * th'* system was furnishc-d in the re- ; c->nt official inquiry among school c hildren of Ekaterinodar. Out oi a.731 pupils it was learned that sixty-three per c ent drank. Os these twenty five per cent had taken to drink at the age of eight: twenty |ier cent at the age of seven, and eleven per cent I at the age of six. while many were ', found who had been supplied a steadv : diet of vodka at four years of age. A re cent medical congress here as-c-ribed the alarming spread of mental • diseases among nil classes to excesI stve use of intoxicants, and the official i «ournal of the ministry of justice ad : i..its that "the general connection ot I :ii< oholism and criminality among the masse-' is becoming evident." Figures 1 are given showing that in districts where the consumption of spirits is , above* the average*, there is always an ' inc rease* in crime. The appalling increase of suicide* al- ■ > is nttribv.ted to the government’s ■ cvcfc-nentir nlrhnllzatlon of the emnirr !t being almost iu direct ratio to the , sale of intoxicants In the past ten . rears suicides have risen from twenty i three In every million to thirty-live ! In larger cities the* figures an* even more* striking. In Mosc ow in the jiast I six years the numb *r of suicides has ipiaclruplecl and in St. Petersburg it . iias increased from five in every 10.i mm inhabitants to D>.4. More* than ::o<> | public school c hildren who arc* allow , >-d to buy intoxicants because the* gov ernmeut sells them, took their own liv-i , -s last year. COURT HOUSE NEWS. i Horace F Gallow qualified as ' guardian c*f Mary I’ ami Stanley T I Gallow Hunting and fishing liceusc-s liave i been issued to Joseph M. Rh e. 1,. E Baker. I’. P. Baker, Jjither 8. Hower, i J. L Gay. Mat Kauffman. Thomas I Draw, Guy Elzey. Frank P. .Myers. M .1. Schenck Lawrence Voglewede, W. H. Spannuth. James T- Merryman. D ! & Smith. o- — EUY WEST END RESTAURANT. ! — The firm of Girod & Baker has le.u | e<J th« building owned by Charles Scther in the west part of the city. ] formerly occupied by Txwtcr Baugh man as a barber shop, and in the near* future 'ill conduct a restaurant and: ice cream parlor in connection with their popular one up town. .Mr Baughman will move Ills barber shop to sot.ie other quarters. ** w ■ 1 ■ — ■—■III - I FOR SALE—Favorite hard coal stove and a Globe range, in good condi-! t:on. -John Spuhler. Decatur. 18M3; I*OR RENT -A six-room house, one square from the south ward school I hous*'. Has hard and soft water, just newly papered. Good out buildings House in excellent condition the* whole* way through inquire* of Will Hammell, al law offic e, above Mmyee •‘nd H:te cipthuig store. ti.

OC==3E==3 E=3E==3Oa C "~TI »■ ■» - J AUGUST CLEARANCE SALE|n We have some wash materials which must be sold to I make room for our winter stock. Nothing will be reset- I : ven and the prices we are making are far below cost. I Wash Goods Specials j Special Silk Bargains Some Other Specials j 1 II ->7I„ . , 1 a . 1 Lot 27 in. Brocades !| 27 in. Lawns to elose per yd-. .4e j Qf snkg Thjg ■ Il 1 Lot of 25c wash goods this TUfC Ci . c _ I at 121-2 C i HIS SALE !9c 27 m Seer Silksail S m i Lot of 20c wash goods this Former Price 50c colors 21c yd, 8 sale at 10c 1 at & wath ftis 5e 1 Lot 27 in. satin mes- 1 Lot summer Parsols | - — ' saline worth 85c worth S LO ° this | 1 Lot Os Silk Waists, Former Price to 00 65c $3.00 and $3.50 I This Sale $1.98 This Sale per yd. 35c AH Scost less l| [ ALL SUMMER UNDERWEAR AT SALE PRICES | NIB! .ICK & COMPANY, nr"" .—Tf——"■■■■■! r " i r .—T nnrnr —— tr , —tf* tl —

STORY OF WHEEL Mike Poitka Made Bad Bargain When He Bought Wheel of a Stranger WHO STOLE IT Wheel Was Recognized and Claimed — Poitka Finds Own Wheel Later. - Miki' Poitka. the foreign beet workI er, who had his hand injured when he tan his bicycle into the Albert Ar- ‘ | nold automobile Thursday evening, lias '! had more bad luck, the wheel proving tn be sort of a Ihmmloo. While he was I riding the wheel yesterday afternoon, which he bought a few days ago lor seven dollars of a stranger, Frank Hurst recognized it as the wheel that 1 had been stolen three weeks or so ago ■; from his cousin, a son of ames Oketey. I Ihe wheel had been altered the fenH der changed, repainted and a few oth I er changes made, hut Hurst re'-ogniz- ‘ ed it- The owner was immediately inloaned and the wheel returned to him i Poitka was "out" his seven dollars. More thr.n-that, time weeks ago, Poitka had hits w heel stolen, this making it > necessary for the purchase of another, which he did Itom a stranger. About three weeks ago, Policeman Melclii I found a wheel on the court house I grounds and advertised the same, but the owner was not found. This morn, iir.: Poitka. who in ard of the wheel i < ailed to see it and states that it is the wheel lost several weeks ago. I 0 _ WANTElk—Married simple to take employment in r. nonte .near Fort i Wayne. Employment will consist of ■ household duties and general yard ! work. Enquire at this office. t" HELP WANTED, WALE-Railway mail clerks carriers, good pay. tine . positions. Pay for instruction after you receive i>osttlon Liberty InktlI tute. Dept. 7t». Rochester. N. Y. 16 23 FOR RENT—Good 7-room residence, opposite court house, "Vith bath, ! electric lights and water. Inquire of ,A. D. Buttles at Old Adams County ; Rank. • iSltf i FOR RENT New seven room house on Sixth street, with basement, bath water, lights and at modern Improve , merits. Inquire Mrs. .Adel Neptune, | 240 N. Fifth street, t 3 I STRAYED OR S.OLEN Rhode Is hind Red rooster. Information ua ' to his whereabouts will be appreciated. (’all ’phone 168. tfcttf FOR SALE Tent, 18x20, only used three weeks. Must be sold by : Tuesday. Inquire F. If. Gilpen. R!-' ' vajre, Ind. v<3t3 *

Institute Week | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Tuesday Rural Surveys and fheir ; Meaning." Wednesday—" Club Work and ConI tests Among Boys nnd Giris ” j Thursday - Home Projects.” Friday "Cooperation.” • ■ Miss Elizabeth Schrock. Music Based; “The Ont* Hundred Bust Songs.' ''Tlie Soldiers' Chorus.” I; "The Storm Fiend ” "Union and Liberty.” I t . “The Hunt's Ur>" -‘Song Note Book.” “Song Reader.” Opening Exercices. *’[ Monday Morning Rev. D. T. Stephenson, First Methodist Church. ' Tuesday Morning Rev. J. H. Rilling, 3 j Evangelical Church. Wednesday Morning Rev. Robert ” N. Ball, Baptist church. Thursday Morning—Rev. L- W. 1 Love, United Brethren church. ' Friday Morning Rev. William H ' Gleiser, Presbyterian church. J ( .. Q Strike Ordered (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) figer for his false* arrest. Washington, D. Aug ”3 iSpec-i ial to Daily Democrat)That Repre- ■ seiitative McDermott receitful $2,00n from the brewery interests for his i 1 work in Washington, was the sworn ■ I charge made tixlay by Mulhall to the j f lions.* Investigating l ominitt- ••. He said McDermott complained because) ' he had not received s:>,miti. Mulhall ] lived the time of the conversation during the cUamp.iLgne of 1912. Settled By A Higher Power ■j (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) A lei ter followed, explaining very I : nicelv to the grandmother where she : bad taken him and why. Mrs Dan .* 1 Haley stated that there* was no reason why she should not have given him up to uer if sue had asked tor i him in the ordinary way, but the mother seemed to think Otherwise. Sm< «> 'i the kidnaping of the boy. he had been) with the mother, mid it was while i there lie hciaine ill. death ensuing. J He was Hie only child of Mr. and Mis., Nathan Haley and was four years old last January. j WANTED—Bi xor eight family wash-) fogs; will call for them. Leave word al Democrat office, or call at ' 1235 Patterson street. 199t3 ■ Charles Bell was a business visitor ■ here today. i

SB.OO J NIAGARA FALLS I and return Sunday, August 24, 1913. VIA Clover Leaf Route to Toledo, Lake Shore Electric to ClewE land, Steamer See and Bee to Buffalo and Internationale Let urn Limit 12 days, Stop overs allowed on return tripsß Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo. Special Train Leaves Decatur, at 5:00 a. m. See nearest Clover Leaf Agent or address Chas. E Roee.l A. G. P. A.’ Clover Leaf Route, Toiedo, Ohio. I * ■ 11, I FOR RENT Rooms, and board, 232 FOR RENT—Modern flat. Eg?. I _" *'* ISlto at Moser's gallery. !i-i I I Be Done Y° u can't buy silk dresses at ca l‘ c ° prices You get just a , , . P a V for and if you order a silk dress price you will get skinned -Just so with gasoline cnJrdcr a Stickney Engine from us and get value received. Chafer Hardware Co. 2£HA£ER HDW. CO. ■ Decatur, Ind, THE lei sistent, Insistent. Persuasive and Palatable flavor of .. the WHITE STAG Made it Popular with the Smoker Built with both Broad Leaf and Sumatra Wrappers Ask your Dealer for it