Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1914 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Excepi Sunday by BULL dl' — TIE BECATUI 9EMOCIAT CPUPANI LEW G ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER ■■ — ■ . Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mail 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. Your pennies spent for Red Cross stamps will bring relief to many who are suffering from that dreaded disease. tuberculosis. What greater act of charity and mercy could one do at Christmas time? Won’t you help make the work a success in Adams county? Donn Roberts of Terre Haute is favoring a primary law, which doesn’t signify that there will be one in Indiana. The primaries held in Vigo and Manon counties are the arguments best used against such a law. Evidently Mr. Roberts would prefer to take his chances in a primary rather than in a convention. The quarantine for the shipment of live stock because of the foot and mouth disease has been lifted from fifty-eight of the counties of Indiana including Adams county. In the thirtyfour counties where the disease has existed the quarantine as to shipment of live stock has also been lifted after proper inspection of all stock is mad? Decatur merchants are inviting ycu to trade with them at this season of the year when their steres are complete and you can make money by doing so. It is reasonable that with the small overhead expense as compared with that of the big city store the Decatur merchant can undersell his city competitor. Trade at home and shep early. In the big city contest for a Red Cross pennant for the city which sells the largest number of seals per eapfta. Fort Wayne is leading all. with Milwaukee second. Grand Rapids third. Indianapolis fourth. Chicago fifth, Detroit sixth and St. Louis and Terre Haute failing to report. Fort Wayne has already sold an average of nearly two stamps for each one of its population. What will Decatur do? It is announced from the headquarters of the republican national committee that the recenj suggested ruling with respect to sowhem representation in national conventions has been adopted by the buik of the states and is in effect. Under this new rule a southern state is entitled to only half as many delegates as it formerly had. It won’t matter so much in 1916 howlarge the southern representation will be, since there is no republican president to select the accredited delegates. —The Commoner. * - Decreases in the annual expenditure for pensions, due chiefly to the death

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p of veterans of the civil war and their - widows, is shown to a marked degree in a recent report of Gaylord M. Salts- _ gaber, commissioner of pensions. Y Quoting from the report the New York Herald says: "The payment for the fiscal year 1913 on account of pensions = was $174.171,660 80, while payments for the same purpose for the fiscal g year 1914 was $172,417,664.26. This 0 shows that the largest amount ever 8 paid out was expended in 1913. Up io 1 that time there had been a gradual ass . cent, but the summit has been passed 1 and a decrease in the amount may be , expected to continue. Mr. Saltxgabe: '■ presented figures showing the loss at d , percentage of loss to the pension roll of civil war pensioners from 1909 to 1914, inclusive. There were on the roll In 1909 a total of 620.985 pensioners The percentage of loss went up from 5.2 to 7.3. In some cases the deaths of veterans caused additions to the , pension roll, as provision had to te made for dependent widows." CP • M •<-*v»r | DOINGS IN SOCIETY ( Oi:: s: czcc WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday. Mt. Pleasant Mite —Mrs. George Ruckman. C. E. Social —Mrs Minnie Daniels Home. Friday Night Club—Mrs. J. 8. Pe terson. How to Cook a Husband. “A good many husbands are spoiled, spoiled by mismanagement. Some women go about it as though their husbands were balloons and blow them up. Others keep them constantly in hot water. Others let them freeze byindifference and carelessness. Some keep them in a stew by irritating ways and words, others roast them. Some keep them pickled all their lives. It cannot be supposed that any husband will be tender and good, if managed in this way, but they are reallv delicious when properly treated. In selecting your husband, do not go to market for him. see that he is in the church on Sundays and holy days. The best are brought to your door. See that the linen in which you wrap him is properly washed and mended, with the required number of buttons sewed on. Tie him with a strong cord, called comfort, as the one called duty is apt to be weak. If he sputters and fusses, do not get alarmed, some husbands do this before they are done. Add a little spice, it improves him. but it must be used with judgment, so be sparing with vinegar and pepper. Thus treated you will find him very satisfactory. There are general rules and several ingredients may be added while you select, prepare and cook him that will help, immensely to give him just that taste which you want him to have.” A family- dinner was given at the Paul Reinking home today for Mrs. Reinking's birthday anniversary. The Three Link club, a social auxil iary of the Rebekahs, was royally en tertained last evening by Miss Gust: Cramer and Mrs. James Art man. There were sixteen present representing nearly the entire link The members spent a delightful even ing, crocheting and embroidering and talking, and appreciated the appeti?

r ing luncheon served, remaining until p quite late. The link meets fortnightly. The constitution of Indiana was t studied by the Euterpean club last » evening at the home of Mrs. J. S. Pe- , terson, with Mrs. Henry Heller, leader. As the constitution is sixty-three years old, the ladies of the club agreed 1 that It is far behind the times, and • that if the women should be given the • privilege of voting, a new constitution , would be given the state. They scored the men for their 'utsprogressiveness.' Mrs. Eugene Runyon will entertain the club next week when Miss lies? 1 Congleton will be leader. There were twenty-eight present, and the collection was the goodly sum of sl9 07 at the Baptist I aid les' Aid society meeting at the home of Mrs. John Chronister yesterday after noon. Guests besides members wen Mrs. Ed France, Pleasant Mills: Mrs. Harvey Smith, Mrs. Webb and Miss Bryl Lehman. The regular business meeting was held, followed by a social good time. A pastry sale will be held in two weeks from Saturday. At a meeting of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society yesterday at the home of Mrs. E. G. Coverdale, the annual election of officers was held, resulting as follows: President. Mrs. J. S. Coverdale; vice president, Mrs. Fred Hubbard: treasurer, Mns. Jacob Atz; secretary, Mrs. Murray Scherer. The officers will enter upon their duty January first. The meeting was quite en enjoyable oue. The Ppthian Needle club will be entertained next Tuesday afternoon ot the Pythian home by Mesdames James Fristoe, D. H. Hunsicker and E B. Lenhart. o GENEVA MAN HURT. Geneva, Ind., Dec. 4 —Geo. Green, who has been dressing tools on a well near Albany, is confined to his rooms here with a broken ankle, caused by slipping in the derrick, while at work.

ROAU SUPERINTENDENT'S ANSWER

There has been much said pro and con relative to the new highway law which made it mandatory for the boards of commissioners to appoint a man as highway superintendent who would have charge of the turnpikes of the county, look after all the repair and keep up the roads. This office pays fifteen hundred dollars a year, said officer to have an automobile of his own, and pay his own expense of upkeep on same and all other expense of board, etc., and when his machine is worn out. buy another one. It meant much to get out a map of the entire county and show all its improved roads and draw a map oi each township separately in a book, giving each township a page, then draw a map for each assistant superintendent on tracing paper for his guidance in his work: also, it meant much to get the right man for each place in the different townships as assistants, men who had ability and would make an effort to get good honest work done for the money expend ed. We do not employ the assistant superintendents just to boss. They must be able to do a good day’s work as well as boss, or we don’t keep them Under the old system everybody worked and no one was boss in away, and no one was under bond for the faithful performance of his duties, nor did he have to swear to his time. The old system had twenty different men who sent in time to the commissioners. Now they are all under bond and have to swear in their time and ire watched very carefully as to filing >f time, so we get more for the money than we did in the old way. Under the old system of care of roads commissioners were allowed approximately two hundred days each year at three dollars a day. which would amount to eighteen hundred dollars a year for the three, besides their salary of three hundred, which amount they could earn with an old horse and buggy, end be home for most all meals. Under the new system they only get the three hundred each. On account of only about one commissioner out of fifty in the state giving the roads any special attention, leaving, it to the fellows who worked only when it was too wet on the farm to see to them, and this condition existing all oved the state, and the law putting a license on all automobiles bringing into the counties quite a large sum. Adams county getting for-ty-five hundred dollars for her share, the business men's clubs and automobile associations, taking notice to the careless way in which the pikes were cared for, asked, for the new law which was granted at the last session or the legislature. The different boards of commissioners lent their influence against the law, but it went on record in spite of all protests. The highway superintendent Iff under the board of commissiouers and

WORKED FOR RELIABLE HOUSE. Some Impression may have ben left in the. article yesterday that R. P. Reeder, arrested for raising a check, had been working *'a collection agency scheme.” Such was not the case. He was employed by a reliable Fort Wayne collection agency, and he himself had been considered a reliable man, this being his first alleged offense. No action for his release from jail here had been taken late thia afternoon. -w REPORT AGAIN DELAYED. Indianapolis, Ind., December 5. — (Special to Daily Democrat)—indications were late today that the report of the Marion county grand jury on the legislature-probe wauld again be delayed. It is expected tomorrow. —— --o BEN HURS TO MEET. The Ben Hur lodge will meet this evening at 7:30. All be there. — -o •— Sheriff Durkin has returned from Jeffersonville where he consigned Frank Amero to prison, to enter upon his sentence for conviction of wife and child desertion. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Lbamon affd Frank Gessinger of Fort Wayne attended the funeral of their mother,; Mrs. David Gessinger, having been here for some time prior to her death. i o " — FOR SALE—"Small wood range, good condition.—Mrs. E. B. Adams, 'phone 159. 283t3 LOST —A lavalier with an emerald penalum and gold cross attached. Finder please return to this office or to Irene Gerald. 285t6 FOR SALE—Livery barn, with full equipment in’city of 10,600 population; have transfer, baggage, mail and funeral business of city; this is a live one; gross earnings last year $17,000; best of reason for selling. Price. $16.000; will consider farm of equal value. Address C. F. Gifford. Van Wert, O. If

must confer with them relative to all methods of repair work and must get a written report itemized and sworn to from all assistant superintendents each month and book same and check them over as to correctness and file same with the auditor for his inspection, and then the board takes it up at. its meeting and allows them, if correct. Eact assistant superintendent then pays ail his men with a check and gets a receipt in addition to the check and files same with the superin lendent, which must correspond with his reports which he has filed, making it very hard for any one to draw some Using not due. as the superintendent keeps a record of every man and the amount, who draws any amount from ten cents up, making a system whlcl is pretty rigid. I have been in every county around us and we have met and discussed the matter as to what was the best and most economical way to keep up the roads and please the public as best we could, and I find that Adams county will compare with any of them, taking into consideration the class of roads we have and the amount of heavy travel which goet over them and the travel has increased ten times over five years ago. Almost l>alf of the merchandise of the count? is now being hauled from town tc town on our roads which makes it very hard on them when they were built for team work, and common travel We will have about four hundred and sirty miles on record by January Ist. ann i find in adjoining counties the? have spent more money that we, while having less than half the number of miles that we have. Now, there have been numerous mentions in the papers as to our meth ods of repairing roads and grading them. In this we must do work to keep the water off and we are obliged to keep the shoulders off and make the roads so automobiles can pass without efiding into the ditch, and we cannot help making them rough some times, as we cannot get a levee large enough to keep screenings on all cf them, especially new roads. They must be graded in as well as the old ones, rough or no rough. We are rolling them as fast as we can and putting forth every effort that we can tc do the right thing and we surely invite criticism at all times, but please do this personally, then we can app’y the remedy so much better and be better able to see our errors, and profit by same. The board of commissioners, myself and all assistants, I assure you, only have the one motto in mind, and that is to serve the people as their beyt judgment shows them. I, personally, have driven over eight thousand miles since April 20th. hauling men to work and looking after the different districts and personally seeing t(j<? work. JIM A. HENPRICKS. Highway Superintendent.

TEETH t > The wo»t dreaded disease of the I, dental profession is Alveolar pyorry hoea, sometimes known as Riggs dise ease. It usually begins with an unt easy feeling In the gums and teeth which In time becomes painful. In the e first stages of the disease, the margin [• of the gums is Inflamed and bleeds a easily from slight causes. After a t- lime the inflammation extends deeper in the gum which becomes congested, swollen and with a tendency to separate from the necks of the teeth, which gives rise to little sacs filled - with pus. The gums fall away and . the teeth become loose. t At an extreme stage of the disease , destruction of the tooth socket and > gum occurs, the teeth Become so painful that they have to be extracted—sometimes the teeth become so loose that they drop out of the mouth. The constant swallowing of pus from (lisj eased gums cause troubles like headache, pain in the side, dizziness, weakness, sleeplessness, sallow complex- ( ion. mal-assimilation, dyspepsia, under weight, nevousness, despondency, stomach troubles in different forms, offensive breath, etc. The hiding of unhealthy conditions of the mouth through the use of flavored and per fumed tooth washes, pasts, etc., ' does no good. Diseases ot the mouth ■ and gums must be treated medicinally. 1 Are your teeth getting loose? Are your gums sore? Do they bleed easily? Are the gums soft and spongy? Are your gums shrinking from around the necks of the teeth? These are dangerous symptoms of Pyorrhoea or Riggs disease, the most destructive disease that affects teeth and gums and will cause the loss of your teeth if neglected. Al-ve-01, the new treatment for the teeth and gums will promptly and effectively relieve these symptoms. Its use restores the gums to a normal condition, the teeth clean and firm, retards decay and keeps the teeth and gums in a condition that gives a feeling of comfort unknown before. It is not a mouth wash or a tooth paste, but x medicinal preparation for the treatment of diseased gums and teeth. The various drugs entering into its composition have been so compounded as to eliminate all disagreeable taste and odor. It is a pleasure to use it. Al-ve-ol is simple and easy to use, only a few minutes daily being required It renders the mouth antiseptic, prevents discoloration of the teeth and makes the breath pure and sweet. You will be more than satisfied and pleased with its use. Get Al-ve-ol from your druggist, to■lay. Use it. Note the improvement in the appearance and health of your gums and teeth.

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