Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1914 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT t— -,-=s. ss"-, Pubil«h<Hl Zvtry Evening Except luridly By ■ST..-, '.STT,- u..», j. ...;„ S-Z7 • t ~— ssr TIE BECATUI DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates. Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15 00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall 12.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. And just when world wide peace seemed at hand along comes this explosion which bid* fair to make all the wars of the past century look like midgets. If half the men proposed to put to the field are really armed and sent to the front it will be a real war, one that will make it necessary to revise world's history. Under the stimulus of the reduced tariff, consumption of sugar in the States of the East alone has increased practically 20 per cent. To be exa< r. the consumption of sugar from March 1 to June 19 in the territory above mentioned was 893,000 tons in 1914, as compared with 784,000 tons in 1913. Thus the increase in consumption of sugar in those States has been 145.000 tons. In the wool manufacturing industry, the same as with the wool-growers, it is row cone, ded that the tariff, instead of proving destructive, is having very little effect upon conditions. The American woolen mills are having all they can do; there has been no reduction in profits or dividends, and with as-

ssssssssss ssssssssss “7 7.- « J, i </. 7. -7 -// 7I I Vr -7 : DOLLAR DAY SPECIALS! The purchasing power of a dollar has been increased half again as * much during these four days— X Wed., Thur., Fri., Sat. Some Increase--that you should loose no time in taking advantage ■* of these Special offerings. //z -7 * Just Note These Values7- -7 Ali Straw Hats up to $3 going at 7 Z ONE $ 7- *z ..y> z 6 pr. guaranteed Holeproof Hose, all colors t- formerly sold at $1.50, now 7, «- ONE $ 7 <*■ Mens fine mercerized Union Suits $1.50 val- -7/ «- ues now "• ONE $ « «- V, vr $1.50 Dress Shirts now </> ONE $ Silk Hose, all colors, 5 pr. for X ONE $ ; •t- 25c Wash Ties, 5 for -7Z ONE $ 7z- ▼ 50c Silk or Wash Ties, 3 for -7 «• ONE $ « </> -7 7- -7 X The Myers-Dailey Company, : H M H $ M ssssssssss

surances of continued prosperity, ther< have been several noticeable extonslons”and enlargements of their business. —Oshkosh (Wis.) Northewestern (Rep.). ■ ii ■" The State Board of Finance met on Thursday and authorised a $300,000 temporary loan for the benefit of the Benevolent Institutions’ Fund. The temporary loan does not mean that the state is bankrupt. There still re- ■ mains in the state treasury several (hundred thousand dollars, sufficient to I carry on the business of the state with--1 out advance calls this year. But this j money is credited - to specific funds, I the general fund, the educ ational and vocational funds, the slaking fund for Ithe payment of the state debt. And under the Democratic policy of hold ing all moneys sacred to the fund for which they were collected, not one penny of the sum-—aggregating nearly one million—may be diverted. Adequate provisions for the benevolent fund was also made by the 1913 legislature, through the ten cent tax levy to care for this specific fund, but—and bear this well in mind —the fund will j not receive the full benefit of that levy I until 1915. Taxes as everybody know;-.. | are not paid tn advance, but a year after they are assessed. | DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday. Christian Ladies Aid—Mrs. Enos. . Good Times club —Marie Butler. Saturday. Tri Kappa pastry sale.— Pennington ' Lichtle. Ice cream social —Star of Bethlehem. The Evangelical Ladies Aid society j held a splendid meeting yesterday at

the home of Mrs. Maynard Johnson . with fifty-five members present and a oiled ion of $37.20 for the month of July, this being the banner month of 1 the year. Mrs. Johnson is chairman of this section and the old members ire Mrs. Orval Haruff, Mrs. Frank Buti ler. Mrs. McConnehey, Mrs. Will M.- > Barnes, Mrs. Fred Avery, the new , members being Mrs. Henry Adler. Mrs. Ed Whitright, Mrs. Gus Johnson, Mrs. Alva Buffenbarger, Mrs. Charles Johnson, and Mrs. E. 8. Whitright. An - excellent program was given consisting 1 of a song by the members, a recitation , by Miss Viola Young and a solo by Miss Helen Whitright. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were served. > - . Mrs. B. F. Kizer of South Third j street entertained some ladies yester- . day p. m. Those present were: Mrs. Herrman Tetman, Mrs Ren Devor and children, Mary Jane, Francis, Hazel and Helen; Mrs. Ray Teeple and ' baby, Richard Smith; Mrs. Theodore > Holsapple; Mrs. Chester Imler and . Mrs. Albert Parker of Monroeville was guest of honor. Refreshments were served. tII . I The Tri Kappa sororiety will hold r i pastry sale Saturday afternoon at ! one o'clock at the Pennington A Lichtle meat market on Monrop street. Lots of good things for the Sunday dinner will be on sale and the proceeds will . be used for charity. Mrs. S. 1). Beavers had as her guests 'or dinner and to spend the day yesterday, Mrs. Nettie Schrock. Mrs. G. I H. Myers and daughter. Miss Margaret | of Bloomington. 111. A most delightful I time was enjoyed. During the month of August the laidies Missionary society of the First Presbyterian church will hold no meetings, but the regular program will be resumed in September. ! The Epworth League of the Methodist church will hold a business meeting at seven o’clock this evening at the church. Every body invited to at- , tend. BLOODY BATTLE EXPECTED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) mobilization orders have been issued i but reservists are crowding the bar- j racks expected the word. London, July 31,—(Special to Daily j Democrat) —The London stock ex- 1 change closed today until further no ! tice. This is the first instance in modern times that it has suspended all business. Ixtndon. July 31, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—A censored despatch from Vienna states. "Hope of localizing the war has been given up in all quarters. Much significance is attached to the fact that the censors passed this message. Berlin, July 31, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Daily News, a strong imperialistic paper, today declared that diplomatic relations had been broken off between Russia and Servia . o ■— ■ For Wayne & Springfield Ry. Company. TIME TABLE. Northbound. Cars leave Decatur at 5:50, 8:30 11:30, 2:30, 5:45, 9:30; arrive at Fort Wayne at 6:53, 9:40, 12:40, 3:40, 6:55 and 10:40. Southbound. Leave Ft. Wayne at 7:00, 10:00, 1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00; arrived in Decatur at 8:10; 11:10; 2:10; 5.10, 8:40, 12:10. Connections are made at Fort Wayne with the Ft. Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Co., The Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway Company, The Ohio Electric, and Indiana Union Traction Company; also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash Nickle Plate, L. 8. £ M. S„ C. H. & D„ and G. R. & I. railroads. Freight Service. Freight service consists of one train each way daily; Leaving Decatur at 7:00 a. m. aud returning, leaving Fort Wayne at 12:00 a. m. This enables shippers to telephone orders and receive shipments promptly. W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN, General Manager, - - Decatur, Ind. Q. WANTED —A hustling young man for house to house canvassing for well known tea and ccgee concern, big commission, and steady employment ta the right party. Address Teaman, 2528 John St., Ft. Wayne. Ind. INVEST your money in corn and wheat land, where it will double in value in a tew years, as well as bring big returns in crops. Think of bqying improved farms that will grow good corn and all other crops, for from $5, to $135, per acre. We want a representative in each locality. Write for further particulars. NEWTSON Bros., KNOX, IND. 175t3

A BIG REDUCTION Ford Announcement Is The Surprise Os The Business World, Issued Today ■I ■ ■ —»•— THE PROFIT SHARING Will Be Distributed Among The Purchasers If Total Reaches 300,000 The Ford automobile will no doubt continue to be the one best seller in its line during the next year. The local agents, Stewart £ Hower have leceived notice that a big reduction will be made in the price for next year and that along with this if the company sells 300,000 cars each purchaser will be rebated from forty to sixty dollars. As the company this year sol<| 221,000 cars the probabilities are very strongly in favor of them making the grade, especially assisted by the incentive to each purchaser of this additional rebate in price. The prices for the 1915 Ford effective tomorrow and good for one year, fully equipped aud delivered in this city are a\ follows:Runabout, $460 Touring car $5lO Town car-taxi $7lO This price is net but in case 300,000 cars are sold during the year each purchaser will be rebated from $40,00 to $60.00. The reduction is a big one in view of the fact that the car is identical with the 1914 car and the plan is almost sensational as it makes every buyer a booster. It is estimated that ' the division of profits among the Ford buyers for the next year will amount to from twelve to eighteen million dollars, to be distributed at the end of the year, August Ist next. Ford does things his own way and they are usually new and sensational, and while the public were expecting some change in price, it is hardly likely that they were expecting this entirely new inode of proceedure. Some time ago | the Ford plant reorganized and the i pay of every workman increased con- ! siderably. Now he takes into the fam- | ily of profit sharing bosters every buy|er during the next year General opinI ion is that the anticiapted 300,000 cars | will be disposed of and that the buyer of the Ford will thus be given a reduction of SIOO over the 1914 price. o— ITS UP TO YOU.

Indianapolis, Ind., July 31st. —Whether or not a constitutional convention shall be held in Indiana is one of the questions which voters of the state will be called upon to decide by ballot at the November election.

As provided by Legislative act, the people will be given opportunity to settle this matter by their votes. The question is purely one of individual opinion and politics does not enter into the matter in any manner whatever. The Democrat party neither stands for or against the proposed constitutional convention. While there are many party men who are in favor of the measure there are others who are opposed and will vote against it, and the same is true of adherents of the ether parties. The legislature passed a bill providing that the question of bolding a constitutional convention be submitted to the voters of Indiana on the next state ballot. The platform of the Democratic party in the last state convention endorsed the action of the legislature in giving the voters the opportunity of expressing their will in the mater, but the platform did not endorse the holding of a constitutional convention. The farmers of the platform purposely omitted such an endorsement because the question of holding such a convention is a matter that should not be involved in politics. The publishers of the Richmond, Indiana Palladium are at present conducting a poll of the editors of the state on the question of the convention. The movement, however, has not appealed strongly to the Democratic editors, who generally subscribe to the party’s attitude that the subject should not be projected into politics and beyond advising the people that they will have the opportunity to vote on the question at the next election, are not making a political issue of the matter. FOR SALE—The Eli Spruuger 86 acre farm 3 miles from Decatur will be sold gt a sacrifice. Terms reasonable. See owner or Erwin &. Michaud, Decatur, Ind. ts.

TRIBUTE TO SEEKS ERICK. (By P. A. Randall.) The passing away of a man like Reeks Erick deserves more than the brief mention that he is dead. He was far more than an ordinary i In. racier He was a big, stalwart man intellectually, one of the broadest, biggest and brightest of men. Commencing life, with only a fair education and with no ulterior help or means of any kind, he, by his Indomitable pluck, succeeded in amassing a fortune. He did this, not by making men poorer, with whom he dealt, nor by indirection and deceit and dishonest methods. He left men better and happier by ills contact with them and by his pluck and hard work and the alchemy of his genius he transposed the misfortune of others into happy opportunities. A good judge of men and a good judge of things — he made few mistakes in dealing with either men or things. He loved life and living was a joy to him. Business of life was to him a game and he played it as a game. He said I like to play the game of business as I would play a game of cards, playing them out, just as they run with no stacking of them and no tricks in the dealing of them. I play the game with all the care I can —seeing that 1 make no mistakes, but noting the mistakes of the others. He wanted to live to keep on playing the game. Although he was a sick man. for the last five years, and suffered most excruciating pain, never knowing from day to day that he would ever see the sun rise on the coming morn —he yet busied himself with the game. He wa swilling to take up the biggest kind of projects. In the hope that he might by some kind of chance see them to their fruition or well' advanced to their ending. When lessor men or men with less love of the game would have quit and in despair laid down to die, he was going right ahead with his planning. It wasjust because he liked the game and realized that he knew how to play it. Money making was not the only or sole object of his life. He seemed to care more for knowing that he could do tilings than for the money he got out'of them and often when a scheme was well started and making money he lost interest in it. He loved his family with the tenderest devotion and was indulgent to the last degree. This was true, not only of his immediate home, but included his parents and his brothers and his sisters. No road was too long nor task too hard for ills helping a friend. His sails were always foresquare to the wind and where they listed he went. o_ - — NOTICE OF LETTING. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of The Peoples Loan & Trust Company, Decatur, Indiana, will receive sealed bids at the office of Oscar Hoffman, Architect, Decatur, Indiana, until Friday August the 7th, 1914, at 10 o’clock a. m„ for furnishing all materials and performing all the labor according to plans and specifications now on file with the said Directors, in the erection and completion of all alterations to the building on the south east corner of Second and Madison streets in Decatur, Indiana. A Certified Check of $500.00 must accompany all bids as a guarantee, that If awarded the contract, the bidder submitting same will furnish bond required and enter promptly into a contract with the said Directors; his Certified check to be forfeited in case the bidder fails to enter into a contract, if he is the successful bidder, as above stated. Checks not forfeited will be returned to the bidders upon the proper execution and securing the contract. The successful bidder will be required to give bond, equal to the •>mount of his bid plus SIOOO.OO and same shall be signed by at least two resident Free-hnld suritie.s acceptable to the Board of Directors. The said Board reserve the right to accept or reject any or all bids. The sucessful bidder will be required to enter into a contract in writing and the bond shall contain provisions for the faithful performance of the contract according to plans and specifications and for the payment in full of all bills for labor, materials and board arising out of and in connection with the performance of said works (Signed) JAMES RUPEL, JOHN D. NIDLINGER W. A. LOWER. 177 t« Building Committee. o —, FOR SALE —132 feet of extra heavy iron fence. Will sell reasonable. Inqire of Dr. H. F. Costello. ts, ROOMS FOR RENT—Furnished or unfurnished. Inquire of Mrs. Addlesperger. at J. S. Cplcl.in residence on Fifth street. 166t6 FOR RENT —240 acre fam four miles easj of Berne, tnd. Enquire A. D. SUTTLES, at OidAdams County bank. ts. LOST —A set of three side curtains for “Overland” car. Finder piease return to Firer-'xff Garage and receive rewar'?, 170t3.

BA Dollar Saved t Is I A Dollar Earned! I urer Way Os Saving Several Dollars Than By Buying Your Winter’s Coal At Summer Prices! Come And See The Best Hard Coal In Town E. L. CARROLL I TANGO JEWELRY NOVELTIES Are the “Real Thing” in fashionable dress just now. We have them in a variety of neck ornaments You will want one before starting on your vacation Pumphrey's Jewelry Store “If its new, we have it.” Artistic Engraving - - - - Expert Repairing SB.OO SB.OO NIAGRRA FALLS AND RETURN VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE August 2nd, 1914 Lake Shore, Electric and Steamer Limit 12 days See H. J. Thompson, Agt for Particulars sl-25 DECATUR to TOLEDO VIA CLOVERLEAF ROUTE Every Sunday See J. H. THOMPSON, Agent Decatur for Information Here’s Where You Get Tinstone Tires, Tubes and Accessories And that means that here you get

the most for your money. m^es .P €r dollar and most comfort per mile. *' 1 ] r , es stone. f tone . Quality has led the worla for fourteen years. There is no argument about it. ecau ? e .they have the largest and notch m PPe l tire - aCt ° ry ’ and on ‘y tbe toPnotch men, the prices are right. Cail and' See Hn.SUd-Sm Wl h Tread-AU Types—AU Size,

L. A. HOLTHOUSE, Decatur, Ind.

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