Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 184, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1914 — Page 3

“SOMETIME” |. You are going to wear Cushion Comfort Shoes “WHY NOT TODAY” CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. THE SHOE SELLER

•••••«•..«• .. * I WEATHER FORECAST | nxxix tx xxx i•x«zxxx«« »t' **i S' thunder ,-liowe: »• ~i.,y i' r! I y . r KG. ('. Steele. tlie nu k. I -hr, mail BW; at Fort Wayne. Edna Baker <' mtr..m»<> :a .■“Ohl" was a business x.sitor here ye ay. ■Theodore Fetters of J’ tt-Tr-on township was a business visitor here yesterday. . M r and Mrs. Henry Magley of Monmot: ill were business vfc-itors ii. r>terday. ’ D F. I.eoiiiird. the r> il .state man. was at Rockford. Olii- yesterday on business. and Ireta Stewart of Wren. Mphio. changed cars here enroute to Ft. Wayne for a visit. and Mrs. Joe Stev> ns and < :.ti dree went to Montpelier. Ohio, yeso iday noon to visit with relatives. s..Mr- French Quinn went to Fort IpVkyne yesterday noon io < ;.ll on I -r son. Robert, at the hospital. He is , recovering nicely. tF* Mr. Janies Harkless and daughters, MEces and Naomi, and Mrs. Ruth —Bpeker returned yesterday morning to gaPauld: Ohio, after a visit here. HKorge Thrif of New York, who was ' a guest of the U. Drummond family, fthas gene to the country to visit with ■f the Fred Burger family by whom he 'l4 was reared. Z. Mrs. Fred Scheimann 1 it yesterday I for a visit with her parents, Mr. and i_ Mrs. Fred Koenentann north of Preble. Ip She will be gone until a week ironij Sf';. next Saturday.

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George Krick was in Huntington on business. Willie Scherger of Tiffin, Ohio, is here for a visit. Ed Myers of Preble was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Ed France of Pleasant Mills was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Mrs. G. C. McAlhany and son, Ora, of Salem were visitors in the city yesterday. The Jacob Myers family have returned from Logan, Ohio, where they spent their vacation. Mr. and Mrs. J. Malley and children, Thomas and Loretta, spent the day in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. FTed Colter and daughter, of Magley were visitors in the city yesterday. Miss Grace Baxter and brother, Floyd, arc spending a week at the country home of their aunt, Mrs. Jonas Fisher. Little Miss Cecil Miller returned from Fort Wayne where she visited two weeks with her brother, Fred Miller and wife. Mrs. Chas. Strebe left this morning for Huntertown, returning home this evening with her daughter, Mildred, wb.o has l>een visiting there. Mr. and Mrs. .Totin Hendricks oi Monroe have gone to Petoskey, where they will visit with relatives and friends for a couple of weeks. Rev. Father ledephonse Rapp, professor at St. Joseph’s college, Collegeville, is in the city assisting Father Seimetz at the St. Mary’s church. E. F. Watkins, district Public Savings Life insurance manager, of Fort Wayne, was here on business today with the local agent, J. J. Magley.

Adolph Bauman was a Fort Wayne business visitor today. Mrs. Jean Pontius returned to Fort Wayne this morning. Locke Bracken returned to this city yesterday after a several days business visit to Greensburg, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Spuller of Monroe changed cars here yesterday enroute to Fort Wayne on business Miss Esther Hobrock returned to her homo at Hoagland this morning after visiting in the city with relatives. Mrs. Ellen Essig returned to her home in Fort. Wayne this morning after a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Dauer. Mrs. Jeanette Merlllat returned to her home in Fort Wayne this morning after a several weeks visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dauer. Mr. and Mrs. John Spnhler, Mrs. Henry Mayer and Mrs. Barbara Spuller motored to Fort Wayne this morning to attend the orphans’ home celebration. Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Parker and sons, Stewart, Lowell and Norbert, returned yesterday noon to Monroeville after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Steele. The Misses Huldah and Rhoda Lammert, Mrs. Martin Miller and son, George, and Miss Sadie Bauman went to Fort Wayne on the 8:30 car to at tend the orphans’ home celebration. Mrs. Julia Colchin left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne for a several days’ visit. She was accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Alexander Tanvas who spent the afternoon In Ft. Wayne.

Rev. and Mrs. L. C. Hessert and daughters, Margaret, Dorth “a and Hildegarde, left yesterday afternoon for Fort Wayne to attend the thirty-first anniversary celebration of the German Reformed Orphans’ Home held there today. Mrs. G. H. Woods left Tuesday for a several months visit with friends and relatives in California, Washington and Utah, Mr. Woods accompasying her as far as Chicago. Mr. Woods returned to this city where he will attend to the packing of the household goods and will then leave for his new location. Harry Starr got word this morning from his father-in-law, Eli Sprunger. of Saginaw’, Michigan, stating that Mr. Sprunger has abandoned his intention of making a trip to Belgium and France to buy horses this fall. Owing to the disturbed conditions in Europe it will be impossible either to buy the horses or ship them if they were bought.—Bluffton News. John Walters, of Delaware, Ohio, a former Decatur and Adams county resident, is here visiting with relatives. His daughter, Marguerite, who was graduated this spring from the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, will teach this year in Ashland, O. Miss Dorothy Walters will spend another year in the university. A third daughter, Helen, is now married and lives in Chattanooga, Ohio, and with her babe, recently spent two months at her home. Decatur friends will be pleased to hear of them as they were students in the Decatur high school. Relatives of Ernst and Herman Wiecking, who left a few weeks ago to visit relatives in Germany have received no word from them since they left New York on the HollandAmerican liner, Stattsdam. They were to land at Rotterdam, Holland, last Saturday and when they landed there probably found that both advance and return were prohibited. Holland is one one of the states not yet deeply involved in the general conflict and it is possible that the Messrs. Wiecking may be able to send some reassuring word to their relatives here soon.— Bluffton News. At a meeting of the firemen last night C. C. Clemmer, assistant secretary of the Northeastern Indiana. Firemen’s association, filed the expense account of the convention, which was held in this city June 25. A total of two dollars and thirty-two cents was realized on the venture and this was given to the street fair committee according to the agreement. The account is as follows: Total subscriptions, $511.80; received from carnival and concessions, $126.85; received on program $25.00; total, 663.88 and expenditures, $661.36; balance $2.32, —Bluffton Banner. Suit for $5,000 against the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad has been filed in the Grant circuit court by Cassius Cochrane. He alleges that on June 17 last sparks from a locomotive owned by the defendant company set fire to a machine shop owned by him at Marion, and completely destroyed it. Cochrane claims that his shop was located sixty-five feet from the track of the defendent, and that with due care and caution to prevent sparks irom flying the fire could have been averted. Cochrane claims to have invented a new kind of aeroplane, a model of which was destroyed in the fire.

TIME HAPPILY SPENT LITERARY WORK INVOLVING ENORMOUS LABOR. Famous Historians Spent Larger Part of Lifetime in Collecting Materiala for Volume*—Scott a Notable Exception. Buckle devoted nearly twenty years to the collection of material for hla ’’History of Civilisation.** He wrote only a portion of the introduction, which remains a monument to his literary achievements. If the work had been finished on the same scale as Degun a hundred volumes would have scarce sufficed. Bancroft devoted nearly thirty years to his "History of the United States," which, strictly speaking, is not a history of the country at all, since it ends where the history of the United States properly begins. Had the work been continued on the same scale down to the present he must have written seventy-five of eighty volumes. Scott is said to have written "Waverley" in less than six weeks. He composed very rapidly, seldom revised, and as a consequence his novels contain many errors of fact and anachronisms. Burns committed his poems to memory before he wrote them, and when he sat down to write be had before him little labor of composition, since ho had only the task of writing down that what be had already finished. A period of 20 years was consumed by Gibbon in the labor of writing the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This was one of the most stupendous literary feats ever accomplished by one man. it took Thomas Moore two years to search for and prepare the material necessary to the composition of "Lalla Rookh," and two additional years were required for the actual writing of that work. George Eliot is said to have written ’’Miudlemarch’’ in four months. Some doubt, however, is cast upon this statement by the fact that she commonly worked with, great care and deliberation. and made few erasures after the work was done. In his preface to “David Copperfield" Dickens says he spent two years in the composition of that work. He did not usually require so long a time, many of his novels being finished in a year, and most of the short stories In a few days. Though it is said that Congreve could prepare a drama for the stage in a few days, four or five times that period was given to the work of revision and reconstruction after the play was given to the actors. Nearly five years was taken by Irving in the writing of "The Life of George Washington," though it required no more than ten days to write the first 120 pages of "Bracebridge Hall.” “The Alhambra” was written dirfng the three months he spent In that palace. Froude consumed seven years in the preparation of materials for and in the writing of his "History of England.” He was very amputate, and often spent days in an effort to verify a single date or fact. Sad Time for Frenchmen. One hundred years ago the convention of Paris was concluded between France and the victorious allies. This convention preceded the drawing up of the formal treaty which was to determine the position of monarchical France In Europe. In general, It restored the boundaries of France as they had been in 1792, before tlie Napoleonic conquests. All the vast territory outside of France that had comprised the empire of Napoleon was taken from her at one stroke of the pen. "So much bloodshed to no purpose,” said the historian of the times, "so much wealth spent without result." Small wonder, then, that the entire French nation experienced a painful sense of depression and that the restoration of the monarchy excited little interest, much less enthusiasm. New and Trying Position. A Baltimore lawyer tells of the amusing plight of an Irishman summoned as a witness in a burglary trial in the city mentioned. It was apparent from the start that the witness was much alarmed and rattled by his unsought and undesired prominence in this trial. "Remember, Carey,” said the judge presiding, “that you have sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” "Yis, your honor-r," stammered Carey, his eyes wavering from the judge to the jury and back again: “an I’ll do the best I can. But I hope ye gentlemin will be a trifle alsy on me at the shtart, for I’m little used to that sort of thing, your honor-r.” Critic of Rlchea. Here is a comment by an acute observer of the effect of wealth on the conduct of its possessors. “And henceforth they press forward on the path of money getting, losing their esteem for virtue as the esteem for wealth grows- upon them. For can you deny that there is such a gulf between wealth and virtue that when weighed as it were in the two scales of a balance, one of the two always falls as the other rises?" The gentleman who made these observations as to the demoralizing tendency of great riches lived 2,300 years ago. His name was Plato.

AIRED FAMILY TROUBLES. A near sensation was caused last evening at. 5:30 o'clock in front of the Girod & Baker restaurant when James Worden and his wile entertained a large crowd of pedestrians by airing their family troubles, ami the grievlances which they had against one another would make an exceptionally interesting book. The first warning of any trouble was given when Mis. Worden entered the Model cigar store where Worden was standing, and made some kind of a request. He undoubtedly refused her for with true militant style she drew bock and let fly at him a newly purchased potato masher. In base ball lingo her throw would be called a ball as it missed home plate and struck an innocent spectator, setting him down quite suddenly, on the floor. Thereupon began a battle of words and harrangue which could be heard for half a block and which quickly attracted a crowd of listeners. The principles were then invited to air their troubles in the street by Mr. McConnell and they proceeded to do this in front of the restaurant. Becoming tired of the clamor, a business man finally sent in a police call but before the officers arrived the instigators of the excitement decided that they were getting too personal for publicity and started for then home in Steele’s park (, WANTED—AGENTS: Good hustling men to sell Paints, Oils and Specialties. Good money to be made by good live hustlers. PULLMAN Manufacturing Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 183t3

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SET FIELD ON FIRE Angered at the sight of the tall grass and weeds in the old fairgrounds in the south part of the city and which is now owned by the county. Daniel Haley decided yesterday afternoon that about the best way to get rid ol them and the quickest way was to sei the field on fire and which he at once proceeded to do without stopping to think of the danger of such an undertaking on account of the past dry weather and the possibility of the sparks flying and setting tire to a number of residences just across the street. The fire department made a hurry up run to the scene and with the assistance of a large number of men and boys the succeeded in outening the lire after it had consumed about two acres of the dry grass. Mr. Haley was very much angered at the frustration o! his well meant but badly carried out plans, and threatened to again set fire to the field at some future time. Should lie do tiiis however, legal action will be taken against him. o SUFFERS FROM CANCER Henry Mailand of St. Johns was in the city today taking further treatment for cancer of the face which he is having removed. . o ERROR CORRECTED. An error was made in the article on the death of Henry Frederick Worthman. It should have read that he was the son of Em st and Elizabeth (H.'lgeniann) Worthman.

TYPHOID DEVELOPES. Harry Fleming, principal of the south ward school, who Iras been assisting County Superintendent of the Schools E S. Christen, has developed a pronounced case of typhoid. A trained nurse arrived yesterday to care tor him. Miss Catherine Christen is assisting her father in the county superintendent’s office, during Mr. Fleming’s illness. « j 4 4 } . <0 a*2 A trained nurse arrived today from Fort Wayne to attend Johnny Clark, son of Dr. and Mrs. D. D. Clark who is ill of typhoid fever. o ■■ ... ■ THE ROOP REUNION Announcement is made that the second annual reunion of the Roqp family will be held at Steele’s Park, September 17. The first reunion was also held at that place last year, when the organization was effected. ■ o ROYAL NEIGHBORS’ PICNIC The reporter made an error In writing the article on the Royal Neighbors’ picnic. It will be held next Wednesday, August 12, instead of Saturday, August 15. It will be in the Kunkel grove near Monmouth. LOST —A coral head breast pin with gold band on Second street. Finder return to this office. ts LOST -Gold band bracelet with name “Lottie” engraved on top. Lost on road between state line and Rivarre Sunday night. Return to this office. 2t

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