Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1913 — Page 2

dailydemocrat Pubii»tied Every Evening, Except Sunday by Tilt DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. JOHN H. HELLER. Subscription Rates. Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Tear, by carrier... >5.00 ' Per Month, by mail ....25 cents Per Tear, by mail |2.5C ; Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at th® postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. f .•« •• •* •• •••« •* •» -a *<,•* •*•••••« •« £»•»•*• »• »• »• W >«r *• ***• «r«« * tJ ts || DOINGS IN SOCIETY i] •.,«>. w.. •• •.*•».». *• w.. »• *» .......« .. ... WEEKS SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesday. St. Vincent de Paul—Airs George Wemhoff. Mis. George WemhofT will have the pleasure of entertaining the St. Vincent de Paul society ladies Wednesday | afternoon. Mr. and Mrs, William Weiland en-i t’’rtained at supper Sundoy evening in j honor of their son, Martin’s birthday i anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph! Weiland and son. Wilson, and Aaron Weiland were abong the guestsThe descendants of Philip Krick, j foruiei )y of Union township, will hold i their annual reunion September 1. at I VanWert, Ohio. The reunion was held i last year at Monroeville. Among i those from this city who will attend . are the George Housers, Ben .Rice,' .foe Krick families and others At the meeting of the Trt- Kappas ■ Saturday afternoon at the home of Miss Fannie Frisinger, the Misses A\ ir.ilred Burk and Florence Myers and Mrs. Dick Wallace were pledged lot imnibership. A delightful social time was spent following the sororit-. business. Miss Hazel Harrison of Co-, iunibia City, former grand president of the Tri Kappas was a guest A delightful social affair of yester-i day was that at the home ot Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Sehanierloh in Union I township, when the members of the! < Loir of the llleeke church, of which Mr. Schameilob is a member, were entertained. The occasion was tile birthday anniversary of Mr- Schamerloh.! Quiet diversions in keeping witli the day. were in order, and refreshments were served- Besides the choir, other guests were Mr. and Mrs Fred Bulte-j nieier and children, Emma and Henry, i Fred l.ichtensteigi r and family of Wren. Ohio, wt re guests Sunday at the home ot Oliver Johnson south of tlio city. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Battenberg pleasantly entertained a company of) relatives and friends yesterday, among them being their brother-in-law. Jesse brown and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Own Brown and wife of near Monroeville; I -lack Battenberg of Fort Wa'iv ■; ami Dallas Elzey of Preble. Miss Dorothv Schultz and Mr. Will Heim of this city were among a num--ler of guests entertained Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hanna in Fort! Wayne. One of several pleasing social af-| lairs given for the Misses Mary Geis! ami Ethel Shook of Brookville was! the picnic party at Steele s park, given yesterday afternoon by the Misses' Ode and Letta Fullenkamp. A number] < f pictures of the party were taken . for sonveniiy. and after a number <>i . quiet amusements, a delicious piciiii ! supper was spy ad. Besides the) guests of honor, others were the Misses Amelia Weber, lamis Brake, .Mr.! and Mrs. Joe Lose. Mr. and Mrs.) • I.arh s Lose. Messrs. Alph Volmer.. Will Johns, T<my Hackman. Ed Weis I ling, I ony Holtiiouse. Fred Bchurger. - - —— —.. ... Kill RENT—Good "-room residence,] opposite court house, with bath,) ' lectric lights and water. Inquire of! ' D. Rutiles at Ohl Adams t'outily Bank. IBltf l*Odt RENT -New seven room house on Sixth street, with baaeinuiit. bath' water, lights and al modern improve! merits. Inquire Mrs. Adel Neptune. 240 N. Eifth street. t 3 ‘ This is the last week oti the Lehne big silver sale. If you have nut bought yet. you are missing Big Bargains. ; w—ii si If you’re seeking something lndivi-i dual in the way of style and neatness, you'll find that The Myers Jhdl.v C 0..! ■who represent Eli V. PRICE A- C 0..! will actually deliver superior quality i at prices lower than are asked by the average small tailors. Fee their dis-, play of new Fall Woolens Cast la Model at*.

ODD TYPE OF MEMORY BIRDS AND ANIMALS SEEM LACKING IN DIRECT SENSE. Difference In This Respect Between Man and the Lower Creation Is Marked—Striking Cases Under Observation. Let us suppose that a man, In the full possession of all his senses, is ae customed to find his favorite chair placed in a certain spot, near a window, and suppose that on one occasion the chair is taken away. It would be very odd indeed if the man came into the room in broad daylight, and made repeated and obstinate efforts to sit ! down in the empty space where the chair usually stood. For our memory is chiefly a memory of things that we see, rather than a memory of our i own movements. But many animals have the odd type of memory that the man would display if he insisted on going through his habitual movements in the absence of the chair. Professor Watson of Johns Hopkins university has for several summers studied the habits of the sea birds that nest on the Tortugas islands. Among other experiments he raised lor lowered their nesta, which are I built near the ground, while the bird | was av ay. The returning bird wouTO always hover about and attempt to ' alight in the empty air at the former ; height of the nest. When honey bees are carried a long distance from their hives and i arc set free, they first fly far up into ' the air. as if to look for a familiar j landmark. Then they drop back, and ! have been observed to hover in the air at exactly the height of the en- ! trance to their home hive. A still more striking case of this j kind has been observed in a chipmunk by R. B. Rockwell, who des- ! cribcs it in the Journal of Animal Behavior. The little creature had made her nest in a mattress on a spring cot. The young were discovered, mistaken for mice and destroyed. The cot was removed altogether. The mother, returning, ran to the spot where she had been accustomed to climb up the frame of the cot to her nest. Here she stood on her hind legs aftd pawed the air frantically in the effort to find the missing frames. Several times she jumped high into the air from this position, and finding no frame to catch, fell backward. Another observer reports that a bat. whose actions he was studying, was accustomed on entering its cave to fly up to a piece of white cloth . that hung on the opposite wall. The | cage was turned completely round, so that the door through which the ’ bat entered was on the opposite side. The piece of cloth was still attached to the wall, but. although it was in plain sight, the bat flew to the position in space, now over the door, that the cloth had occupied when the cage was in its former position. Such a memory of place in and for itself, i quite apart from the objects that are to be seen there, is almost unknown to human beings. Evidently these ! animals do not depend upon the sense of sight completely as we do.— Youth's Companion. Exclusive Oxford. The ignorance of the scholar concerning what is going on in the world around him is proverbial. But a story i of Thackeray s own telling points to ) surprising possibilities of the cloistered life at Oxford, at least in the last ;century. Thackeray, it seems, was to lecture i at Oxford, and, according to custom, had first to get the vice chancellor's license to do so. This is the conversation that occurred, as the novelist I reported it: Vice-Chancellor—Pray, sir, what can I do for you? Thackeray—My name is Thackeray. Vice-Chancellor—So I see by this ’ card. Thackeray—l seek permission to lecture within your precincts. Vice-Chancellor —Ah! You are a lecturer. What subjects do you underI take, religious or political? Thackeray—Neither. I atn a literary man. Vice-Chancellor—Have you written anything? Thackeray—Yes, I am the author of I "Vanity Fair.” Vice Chancellor—l presume a dis r-enter. Has that anything to do with ] John Bunyan s book? Thackeray—Not exactly. I have alsc written "Pendennis." Vice-Chancellor—Never heard of these works. Hut no doubt they art ) proper books. Thackeray—l have also contributed ; to Punch. Vice-Chancellor—Punch? I hav« heard of that is it not a humorout ! publication ? - London Tit-Bits. Advocates the Corn Muffin. A sociologist of practical temper . thinks that educational and social re ! form can be helped greatly by corn muffins Those wbo like corn muffins i will instantly agree that he Is right—whatever form his suggestions may . take It seems that he knows of a , school teacher who wrought wonders in the blue grass region of Kentucky by teaching school children how to be Clean and their parents how to cook corn muffins. In other words, the inhabitants had to be raised to the corn muffin stage. Will It be so ease to make those who believe themselves above it conform to Its Spartan simplicity and nnftenchlfied palatabiiity? —Sprixigfioid .. —— X i C

Teachers Are In f Annual Session — (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | ns an illustration he said: imagine | yourself in a tall building: think ol yourself as falling, how you would look In failing; after you have fallen, then that one had better be careful and stay from Hie window. "Why We FYtil,” using the illustration of a ball player who has become an expert. He may be expert because lie can picture where the ball is going to light, or because '<e can hear how it ’would sound when hit or how it would feel when hit, but if you feel uncertain you will fail. Any one who can form an idea and purposes to w in. can win. Why do not children behave or behave too much? Any idea of ours will work itself out in action.l It is very difficult to get the right ) idea. Once we win it it is very sim- j pie- We want to avoid any idea that is contrary to the action we want performed. So if we want our children I to behave well we must have the idea I ! to make this end. , j Miss Elizabeth Schrock, supervisor ; of music in the Decatur schools, gave I some rules in teaching music- 1 • ! Plenty of fr sh air. 2. Position of teachers. .‘I. Breathing exercise. 4. I Enunciation and pronunciation. I J These were emphasized very much by , i Miss Schrock. This period was much ) • enjoyed by tlie institute and the j I teachers were pleased with the way in i » which Miss Schrock conducted her ■ I part of the program. After rest Beniamin M. Davis, of the) i department of agricultural education.! ! Miami university, Oxford. Ohio was I . introduced to the teachers by SuperII inteadent Opliger. Dr. Davis spoke i on the subject. ’ Phases of Agriculture • ’ Adapted to Public School instruction." ' : The putting ot the teaching of agri- ( culture is being encouraged in this I ' state and our country and in the whole , world Because of the increase in tile cost of living causes this Interest in ; agriculture and the farmers Any ' thing we can do that will help to in- ■ etease the farm production is helping | 1 , to solve this problem of the high cost j ol living. We liar-, increased our tarm production but it lias not increas-1 ed in tuoportion to tlu> cost of living | i Our average production of corn is , i ' not as much in this state at the pres ' ' ent as it was in the past. The same is; ■ ■ true of wheat. The farmers are only , ' ' producing one-tenth as muc h of corn I as can be produced; that is. if the , fat niers would apply scientific means . . to farming they could produce ten fold. | Farmers are of different classes. 1. t 'I hose who are making money: those 1 who make a little money; those who ' i make no money, and those who are » ( i losing money. The first class are , those who are educated and using the s scientific way of farming. There tire ■ twenty states that are giving and en- ' couraging the teaching of agriculture. It is the coming generations we must look lor the increase in the average . of production of crops. I Agriculture consists of two phas<*s: r Production and disposal of products. > TraitHportation is very’ essential in agriculture and a thorough knowledge of these is of great value to the farm- ?' er Plants must have fertile soil be free } troni disease ami we must have the - right kind of plants It costs as much t to cultivate a poor stalk of corn as it i does a good one, sc it is necessary for 1 us to select the coni to produce good | corn.. ,! Monday Afternoon—l:ls. Music- Miss Schrock. • i Rest. ■’School Discipline"-- Dr. Harvey. ’ ) Rest. ' ; "The S< hool and Rural Life Petter inent"- - Dr. Davis. Adjournment. , Dr. Nathan A. Harvey. Tuesday Morning—B:4'.), t Opening Exercises Rev Rilling. ‘‘Motives, or Why Children Arc ■ Pad”—Dr. Haney. ' i Rest. Music Mirs Schrock. ’’Soil Fertility"- Dr luuis. I Adjournment. Afternoon—l:ls. Music—Miss Schrock- ’! Rest. "Psychology of Early Infancy "—Dr Harvey. Rest. | "Rural Surveys and Their Meaning'’ -Dr. DavisAdjournment. ! lost .Motorevi Io tall lamp some ! wh<re between De'uliir and Will | ihire Finder please return to this of- ) lire and receive reward 20it3 . I’fiß. SALE -Favorite hard eonl stove and a Globe ratigi*. in good ctmdl i , . t’.on.— John Spuhler. Decatur. 18'JtHi | FOR REN I’ A six-room house, one I square from the south ward h< hool | hom.f. Has ha:d ami soft waler, just ) newly pupereti. Good out buildings , i House in '.steUeiit comillion the! > whole way through. Inquire of Will pJammell, at law office, abwie Vance) -’ul Hit* clotjuag itere,. ' I ■ •W’--.' ■*

THE COURT NEWS i Ballots for Hartford Town I ship Local Option Elec- ii tion Printed Today. I AT THIS OFFICE j New Suit Filed by Decatur j Parties in Wells County |! Court. Under the supervii’iou ol the elec- | lion commissioners, Fred Studler, Al- | btrt Yordy and Deputy Auditor Paul | Baumgartner, the ballots for the local I option election tor Hartford township. which will be held August J’ l , were , printed at this office today. There were 31U ballots lor North Hartford I and 2(H> for South Hartford ami 284 I reserve ballots. The number of bal- j lots, except the reserve, represents j twice the number votes east for see; retary of state at the last election- , Two new cases were filed in cir cuit court here this morning. One is I entitled George E. Steele and Levi j Mumma against August Schlickman. ! and is a complaint on an account. It I ! is alleged that'Jhe plaintiffs furnished i ! labor and material for a well on real | estate at Decatur Iwlonging to 1 Schlickman and that the mount Sc;w j timber 14, I!H1. amounted to s!'<’• Sit i I The demand in the complaint is for i $125. Dorr B. Erwin of Decatur is ; the attorney.—Bluffton NewsA marriage license was issued Saturday afternoon to Henry Fred William Franz, carpi liter of Fort Wayne, born Feb. 21, IS7:’>, son of Ernst Franz i to wed Margeret Frederica Heuer, I born o< tober 51. 18S2, daughter o' Henry Heuer. Real estat’ transfers: Belle Wolfe] to Charles W. F. Davis, lot I. Salem. ! 5 acres. Blue Creek tp., John W. . I’ilts et al to Howard Ashton et al. I l >7 feet west side of inlot !<»::. Studa ' i aki r's addition in Geneva, sl. A marriage license was issued Sat- I I mday to Walter Li* < hty. farmer, born. ' September 7, ISSK, son of Christian J. I I Liechty. to wed Millie Sprunger. born • February 5, IX9I, daughter of oshua j Sprunger, of Union township . In The Churches Evangelical Church. •'He saved others; himself In- cannot save." Mat. 27-42 was tile text, irom which Rev. Rilling spoke the following words Sunday morning at the Evangelical church "It was during the last hours of the life ol Christ <>u the cross, that the enemies spoke these words of Hu Sou of God. They said: 'lf he be the King of Israel, let him come down from the Cross and we will believe him.’ While it was a challenge and tame from the lips of sinful men unknown to them, they s|M>ke a great truth. Christ could not save himself from the Cross and be the savior and iv dimmer of others. For whosoever will save his life will loose it; but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.' To save one’s self and for one's self is a work that ought to engage our time and strength. It is a duty and obligation to provide for temporal and eternal things. But to save for others and to save < titers is moving on a higher plain Moses did not choose the easy side of life, lie diil not save himself from much trouble but suffered with his people in order to save them from the cruel band of Pharoah. Mosch never entered into the promised land. Christ gave his life that the ]>eop|e might live. It takes life and blood to rave life. He paid the price He had the power to step down from the cross and die a natural death hut he would I hem forfeit his Sonship and cease tn be the Redontner rtf the world So it is a greatli truth that 'lie saved others: himself he I'annot stive.' Many a reformer paid the price of Ib'ltering conditions, with he own life." At the close of the sermon, th 1 ' Lord's supper was eelehrated. Quill; a large niiinbi r eoQjntuned. The choir sang a helpful song at the evening service. 6UNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC. Th' 1 Sunday > hool of the Methodml I church at Preble will gjvc a school i idetiic at the B' ul.ih Chapel Salurda) . i August .'in. and everyone invited Io ! attend. A general good time is iimair . i-d. The Tocsin hiiP.d litis hen r'-cur , e<| to deliver Homi.' exclleut inm-ic dur i ilig the day 2’ittJ I —' —-C - Democrat Want Ads

IPUBLICSALEI i FIRST-CLASS LIVERY STOCK • « On account of having sold out and going out of business, the undersigned | * j will offer for sale al public auction at the Livery Barn in Berne, Indiana on | | Saturday August 30 i The following personal property to-wit | I 10 HEAD OF FIRST-CLASS LIVERY NORSES | 4 storm buggies good as new. 8 top buggies, 4 carriages, 9 sets single harness, 1 1 ifi 4 sets double harness, 1 set heavy work harness, 1 tarm wagon, 8 sets fly nets, s I robes, blankets, whips, 4 cutters, 1 set bob sleds, office fixtures, roll top desk, 2 J | ffi clocks, chairs, 2 stoves, 5-passenger Auburn Automobile, 1 runabout Maxwell II Automobile, wheelbarrows, forks, shovels, cot, and many other articles not ifi mentioned. J 1 | SALE WILL COMMENCE L | ATIO:A.M. * TERMS MADE KNOWN ON DAY OF SALE ) ! FRED BRAUN J. A. MICHAUD, AUCTIONEER C. A. Lehman Clerk < 1

I tJ umb bczj >. MB icrj umb BcJ uM La* »*- 1 LiM ■ tU 111 ' WAS NINETY FOUR YEARS OLD. I Grandma Gaffer Celebrates Her Birthday Anniversary. "Grandma" Mary Gaffer formerly of Decatur, wag ninety-four years old last Wednesday, but the event was not celebrated until Sunday, when all her children gathered at the home of her son .Michael Gaffer, in Fort Waytie. •'Grandma" has just returned from Milwaukee, Wis-, where she spent the summer with her daughter Mrs. .1. Duer, and be ing very tired over the trip, was not in the best of trim She attended church, however, with the others and on the way was stopped constantly by her friends who greeted I her and gave her all good w ishes- All three of her children, and families, in- ; eluding Peter Gaffer of Decatur. Michael of Fort Wayne and Jacob Duer, of Milwaukee were present, and in the afternoon many others joined her to < xti'iid greetings of the day. Grandma Gaffer is well.known and loved in Decatur, and all her friends trust that she may see many more birthdays. GOOC CONNECTIONS. the result of the wreck on thei ('lover Leaf Sunday morning near Peterson, a little itteon venieiiee was ex-1 lerieiiced hy John Stoneburner, who 1 ; (tempted to reach Geneva He got there all right but not until the day had turn'll into night. Mr. Stone burner loft here at 10:25 over the Clover laaf. The train was transferred over the G. R. & I. tracks, then! onto the Erie tracks and taken to Kingsland, where it was transferred tc th. Istke Erie tracks and ran Info' Hhiffton, where it war. again liiinsler I nd to the Clover Ix'-uf tracks Mr ■ Stonebunior then took the interurban ' ftoni JllllHit< ll l to G» '.eva, and reached; ids destination at 7;3u Sunday evening. PYTHIAN SISTERS. \IJ Pythian Si:.leu, are urgently r< j |o |a> ai th(> specl'i.i meeting Illis evening at S o'clock. Business oi l importance to all. - , Only otic mot e w-k ol i Prime's silver sale. Sec win 1 plow display of same anti see and buy The Bargains. (WANTED Three men for shovelingi < "al in cellar .it Can oil ware ■ house " It i

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