Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1914 — Page 4

D AIL YD EM OCR A 7 Published Every Evening Except Sunday by TIE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER fc ■■■ 1 Subscription Ratee ! ■ f,. t—j——t Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 26 cents Per Year, by mail >2.60 Single Copiea 2 cents Advertising ratee made known on application. Entered at the poetoffice in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. So far we haven’t heard of any one giving Decatur that gymnasium as a I 'Christmas gift for the boys and girls. I Perhaps it is too much to expect from I one person, but any part of it would be I acceptable and would help so much I

Decatur ladies are selling Red Cross seals and they are selling them. The latest plan is for several of the committee to meet patrons of the post office as they call there with their letters or packages and sell them seals - But few refuse, and this effort will increase the total sales several thou sand. The poor children of this commun I it y ought to have a Merry Christmas] and they can have it, if each person! who can well afford it will be a big I brother to just one or two. During I the past few days much of this kind I of work has been done through the I Elks and it is sure to bring real joy I to many a little boy or girl who would I otherwise have had a sad Christmas. I It takes more than a little old fifty I thousand dollar fire to discourage I Fred Schafer. For nearly half a cen-l tury he has fought against all kinds] of odds and won in a business way. I He has climbed the ladder of success I and the reason is demonstrated at this] time, when at his age he takes charge I of straightening out his business as I fairs with the energy of a much I younger man. And he will win again I We predict that within another year] the Schafers will have a new store] that will outclass the old one. I The boys at the water station call ] cd on us last evening to tell us how I much they appreciate the publicity] given them through the Democrat for] their efforts to keep up the water] pressure during the big fire. They were I deserving of praise. It is not always | the man on the firing line who is the I hero, and are deserving of all th- | credit they receive, but often some | person hidden away from public view I is just as much a hero. We believe] that had it not been for the work of I the boys at the water station, the fire-1 men would not have made their gil] lant fight and risked their lives tel save property for nothing. It’s great I to have efficient service everywhere. I and Decatur had it on this occasion. | or the loss would have been much j greater. I The Hobson resolution preventing! the sale or manufacture for sale ol I intoxicating liquors forever in the I ISN’T This the Most Natural * Place to Buy a Man’s Present? A Store For Men Check Your Gifts From This List I BATH ROBES SMOKING JACKETS PULLMAN SLIPPERS FUR CAPS FUR GLOVES SHIRTS NECKWEAR HOSE COLLAR BAGS JEWELRY SETS HANDKERCHIEFS SWEATERS TRAVELING BAGS SUIT CASES UMBRELLAS ———’ i 1 THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY a

United States was voted on in congress last evening and lost tor want of a constitutional two-thirds majority, though a majority of the members voted for the resolution. The Indiana delegation voted solidly against it on the argument that the question is om< for the states to decide. The showing made by the temperance workers is almost surprising and it is announced that the fight has just begun. Sena tor Shepherd of Texas it is said will now introduce a similar resolution *n the upper house, the idea being tc place every member on record. The question will probably be much dis cussed in the next campaign. I DOINGS IN SOCIETY!

Christmas Carol. | God rest you, merry gentlemen, I Let nothing you dismay; Remember Christ our Savior Was born on Christmas day, To save us from all Satan’s power

I When we were gone astray; IO tidings of comfort and joy, I Comfort and joy, . I O tidings of comfort and joy. I From God our Heavenly Father, I,A blessed angel came, I And unto certain shepherds I Brought tidings of the same, I How that in Bethlehem was born I The son of God by name, IO tidings, etc. I Now to the Lord sing praises I All you within this place, I And with true love and brotherhood ] Sach other now embrace, I The Holy tide of Christmas I All other doth deface, 10 tidings, etc. Christmas Candles. I There is an old legend, so old that I t is only just reselling us, that is be I come very alive this year in the east I and 'middle west. This legend dates I 'rom long before the belief in Santa | Claus. And that is, the leaving o' I lighted candles in the unshaded win I lows to light the way of the little I Christ child as He travels from house Ito house leaving blessings on His I own night. Three candles are placed I ighted on the window sill. | Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schroyer of Ak I ron, Ohio, have arrived for a visit I with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Free I Mutschler. They came from Belle | ontaine, Ohio, where they were I ;uests of Mr. Schroyer's parents. I With the exception of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Niblick, who are at Coronada Fla., the family of Mr. and Mrs. Johi. Niblick will be in complete reunion on Christmas day. The A. D. Suttle? family and Miss Helen of this city, Mr and Mrs. O. P. Edwards and daughter Harriet, of Leipsic, Ohio, will be at home. The Misses Lulu Atz and Pear’ Baumgartner will go to Goshen for a week's visit with friends during the holidays. I Mr. and Mrs. Perry Gandy of Chur übusco arrived last night, and Stew art Niblick, a medical student in Chicago, is here to complete the C. S Niblick family circle for Christmas. The Voglewede family will havtheir Christmas entertainment at the James P. Haefling home. Mr. anc Mrs. J. H. Voglewede and daughters Bertha and Rose; Mr .and Mrs. Fred Schaub and Miss Elizabeth Voglewede will be guests. Mrs. Margaret Meibers an j step daughter, Mrs. J. H. Voglewede, will leave Saturday for Toledo, Ohio, for a week's visit with the latter’s sister. Mrs. B. B. Uhl, who leaves the first of the year for Phoenix, Arizona, for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schaub will leave Christmas afternoon for Union City, where they will be guests over the week-end of Mr. Schaub’s sister. Mrs. Harry Horn. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barthol will leave tomorrow for Mansfield, Ohio, where they will attend the Sellers family reunion. The W. C. McKinney family is anticipating with pleasure its Christmas reunion. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. McKinney of Milwaukee, ( Wis.; Mrs. Robert Hawkins, Kokomo; Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Andrews, Mr? and Mrs. GzE. Steele and son, Irvin, will join the family circle here for Christmas. L. W. Frank will attend tine Simmers reunion at the home of Grandma Simmers at Baldwin, Ohio, on Christmas day. An uncle from West' Virginia will be present. There will be very little doing socially this week until Christmas Dv- • t I

The various clubs have suspended ail their meetings for the holidays. The Christmas Day will be the big event of all, with its various family reun ions, for everybody tries to go home on that special day. It is said there will be several Adams county weddings during the holidays. The Walther League will meet at the Zinn's Lutheran parochial school house tills evening, instead of tomorrow evening. Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Frye of Rockford, Ohio, changed cars here today enroute to Fort Wayne for a Christmas visit with her mother, Mrs. Helen Blossom. Mrs. Frye was formerly Miss Jessie Blossom of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Bremerkamp and children will also spend Christmas with her mother, Mrs. Blossom. Professor E. E. Barnhart is entertaining his brother from North Manchester, who came here to attend the basket ball game. Both will go to North Manchester tomorrow for a vacation visit. ■ - o - TWENTY MILES

FROM CAPITAL (CONTINUE# FROM PAGE ONE) Jon have ample opportunities to observe lines of work extending in an almost unbroken line. For two months the German invasion has been expected “next weekf’. The actual invasion is over-due, but this causing no relaxation of vigilance. It is now mown in London that Lord Kitchener recently made a personal tour <-f inspection at the point where it is considered most likely the Germans will attempt a landing. Berlin, Dec. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Repulse of the attacks of the allies in Belgium and the recapture of positions taken by the British it Hichedurg is claimed in a statement today. The situation on the eastern front is declared to be satisfactory. ' o HAD HAPPY REUNION. • Mrs. Bert Haley has returned from Gas City, where she had a happy reunion, meeting her mother and twelve brothers and sisters, whom she had not seen since she was four years of age, and whom she remembered but faintly. It will be remembered that she was taken by the Peter Frank family of this city from the orplianige at Marion and reared. She spent nuch time in the past few years tryng to find her mother and last week was successful, receiving a letter from her. She went to Gas City at once, on receiving word from her mother; and had a fine visit. Her mother, Mrs. xjng, is fifty-one years of age. There were fourteen children, seven' cf ■ vhom were half-brothers and sisters. Mrs. Haley was the youngest of the family, and with three others was placed in the orphanage when the widowed mother became unable to care for her children. A sister, Goldie, was immediately taken out by a family and all trace has been lost of ler. The whereabouts of all the others are known and it is expected that a reunion of them will be held here at the Haley home in the near future, Mrs. Haley is now twenty-two years jf age. Her mother, who has been ill, s better at this time. 0 GOETHALS IN NEW YORK. New York, N. Y., Dec. 23 —(Special .0 Daily Democrat)—Gov. George W, 'ioethals of the canal zone arrived on bard the steamer Panama. Goethals will leave for Washington tonight to liscuss with President Wilson his rerent request for the enactment of the United States neutrality in the canal zone. o HAS GIVEN A FORTUNE. New York, N. Y„ Dec. 23—(Special to> Daily Democrat) —J. D. Rockefeller gave $10,000,000 to universities and :olleges during the past year, accordng to a report from the educational board today. Indiana got the following amounts: Depauw, $100,000; Earlham, $30,761; Franklin, $49,399; Wabash, $50,000. DELAY SUFFRAGE BILL. Washington, D. C., Dec. 23 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —In order that the house may have a real breathing spell after its prohibition debate, the Mundell suffrage amendment will not be called before January 10. o PERFORMED MARRIAGE. Thomas Jefferson Dague and Orah Olive Gephart, both of this county, were united in marriage yesterday morning by Rev. Stephenson. The newly-weds will make their home near Rockford, Ohio. o —- Democrat Wants Ads Pay

AT THE LYRIC Big Christmas Program CANDY TO BE GIVEN AWAY—FREE A box of candy will be given away free to every child attending the Lyric theater. Christmas afternoon. in the Evening a one pound box of delicious Dolly Varden chocolates will be given away free between each show to the person holding the lucky i number. Come and Bring the Family and Enjoy the Day. THURSDAY’S SHOW "The Messenger of Death”—Thana- | houser Drama in two parts.

i FRIDAY SHOW “The Long Fued”—A two part dra- I ma, and “All on Account of a Jug.” I A good comedy. ' 5c . LYRIC THEATER I — ---— . —II SCHOOL DISMISSED. f The public schools were dismissed I this evening for the holiday vacation I which extends over New Year's, I school beginning again Monday, Jan- ■ uary 4. | —o B Democrat Wants Ads Pav. "

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I I Make This A “Jewelry Christmas” I OURSTORE I I Furnishes The Richest Opportunities For The Buy- I I ing Os Xmas Presents. Great care has been taken | f S the selection of our stock and it is worthy of | your notice that the Stock Is New And Up-To-Date, jg We Are Open Every Evening For Your ConvenI ience. Time Is Short. Take Advantage Os This Evening. j Pendants and Wrist Watches are very popular this year for ladies and girls, Waldemar Chains with Knives attached, the new chains for men. Come in and let us help you decide what will be just the Right Gift. I jfis, Pumphrey’s Jewelry Store „(^ r I »■ ”■" “ r (KM I ARTISTIC ENGRAVING. EXPERT REPAIRING > I——i—l