Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 7 January 1915 — Page 4

Ik s — L YDEMO c K A T C Every Evening -pt Scr' iaj ! > I BEUTI'R DEMOCRAT COMPANY ■ LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER ■ Subscription Rates er Week, by carrierlo cents Year, by carrierss.o’' Per Month, by ma11..25 cents S r Year, by mall .$2.50 Single Coplea 2 cents y Advertising rates made known on MMMwitton. Entered at the postotflce In Decatur. Indiana. as second-class matter. Charles H. Bedwell of Suili’.r.n I: ■ been Chosen speaKer m tin 1 l< . | receiving all out twelve votes in the caucus held last night. The repub'.cans nominat'd Jesse E. Eschbach o Warsaw for the place. Mr. Ik dwell i is a clean, able and qualified young man, who will make a retort! in the Position. The people of Indiana will v lion the president at Indianap- - tomorrow. From every section oi t .i- .-res est of all states, a stream of people of every political faith will gat! - r . the capital city to greet the chief executive of the nation tomorrow afternoon. From many points spe- .il I trains will be run and it is doubtful even a majority of those who go will be able to hear him. The message is deemed one of importance to the entire nation. The Indianapolis Star mal - s the following stingy admission concerning Homer L. Cook, secretary of state. ( * whom they fought so viciously during j the recent campaign: "Homer Cook is setting a first-class example to his fellow democratic officials in his drastic , enterprises in the direction of economy. No wiser or more effective way , of confounding the party's hostile cri - i ics could be devised than some such demonstration in honest efforts at ep- ( cient administraton.” Eastern railroads are making good ■ their promises based upon tth advance t in freight rates. The Pennsylvania has asked the steel manufacturing con- ' cents to hid upon 17.000 tons Os stru. - ; tural steel for bridge construction dur ing the year, 1,270 tens of steel so: | use in reinforced concrete work, and for 170,000 tons of steel rails. Tit Baltimore and Ohio is ready to put in- ( to execution soon plans for betterment f and extension of its lines involving total outlay of $30,000,000. Traffic is L opening and from every side come re-! a ports which tend to shew that a general revival of business is only a m..t-1 ter of a little time. —Fort Wayne Jem -1* i a nal-Gazette. v & Governor Ralston’s message to the ; R.legislature this morning were the L splendid words of a great executive , i p well spoken. He insists on the strict- p est economy, free from graft and if h •!* can do it, will see that the session ’ •which opens today will be a mod'll one in every way and it should be. | He recommends a procedure in t. i ■■tonduct of the house and senate which it fe Wil! if followed prevent a repetition i‘ of the last session when twb bills - e laws though they did not pa s the house. He discussed state finan (

Note These Big Bargains IN BOY’S SUITS and OVERCOATS $2.00 Suits and Overcoats . . . L 25 2.75 Suits and Overcoats . 1.85 3.50 Suits and Overcoats . . . 2,38 4.50 Suits and Overcoats . 3.00 5.50 Suits and Overcoats . . . 3.67 I 7.50 Suits and Overcoats . . 5.00 I 8.00 Suits and Overcoats . 5.35 / •■' * * I Boy’s All Wod Mackinaw Coats Regular $5.50 Value now $3.75 I 4 The Myers-Dailey Company.

•■ <eu hi a fair and honest manner and ■! rejoices over the healthy condition of tjthe treasury, recommends a number . of needed laws and improvements in | .some now on the statute books, says the legislature should pass a primary election law if they believe the people ■ want it, and asks for an appropriation of $20,000 for a celebration in , honor of the state's hundredth annlverl sary, next year. We believe the pooi pie of Indiana will approve the mes--1 sage. GREAT MESSAGE (CONTTNUKb FROM PAGE ONE) and tiiat the name of the enrolling clerk also accompany each bill that goes to the governor for his signature. Recommends that paid lobbyists ie compelled to register with the secretary <f state, setting fortii the character of their employment and the indi- ■ vidua! or corporation they represent. Discusses state finances and temporary loans. Recommends the repeal of the sinking fund. Rejoices over the healthful condition of state fnances and rejoices, too, that at this moment for the first time in eighty-two years, the state does not owe a cent of foreign debt, the last 1 eing paid on the 31st of December. Recommends that the state tax board be given the authority of equalizing personal property by classes. Recommends the removal of county assessors for cause. Recommends a more thorough classification of state printing contract. Praises the public service commission. Should pass a primary election bill if the people want it. Gives history of the penal farm dip to date. Endorses the public accounting law. Recommends the enactment of a law creating a board of conciliation and arbitration. Pass an apportionment act of representation for the general assembly. Gives an account of the "foot and mouth” disease. Recommends that the institutional schools be placed under the supervision cf the state board of education. Urges action on the twenty-two constitutional amendments now pending before the legislature. Recommends an appropriation ) twenty thousand dollars to be placed with a non-political, non-salaried cen-t-nnial remmlssion of nine membe-s. whoso duty it would be to give «or ■? public celebration which would fittingly celebrate the state's hundredth anniversary. o~ - Wayne & SpringfieM Ry. Company. TIME TABLE. Northbound. Cars leave Decatur at 5:50. 8:30 11:30. 2:30. 5:45, 0:30; 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 it 8:10; 11:10; 2:10; 5.10, 8:40, 12:10. Cornecticns are made at Fort Wayne with the Ft. Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Co., The Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway Com pnny, The Ohio Electric, and Indiana Talon Traction Company, also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash Nickle Plate. L. S. & M. S., C. H. & D.. and G. R. & I. railroads. Freight Service. Freight service consists of one train each way daily; Leaving Decatur at 8:00 a. m. and returning, leaving Fort Wayne at 12:00 a. m. This snabl-s shippers to telephone orders and receive shipments promptly. W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN, General Manaqer, - - Decatur, Ind.

I r COST OF AffiKiNG EUROPE Forty Billion Dollar* Ha* Been Spent for This Purpose in Twenty. > Five Year*. There is no escaping taxation abroad It is driven right into the vitals of the people, rich and poor alike. Like death, ! it has to be. In the last 25 years the six great military nations, England, France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Russia, have spent about forty billion dollars to get ready to fight one another. None of them has had a single war with any of its neighbors during that time. Just Stop and think what $40,000,000,000 means, writes Albert W. Atwood in the Saturday Evening Post. The farms of the United States are worth only $40,000,000,000. The total wealth of England i% only about $60,000.000.000. Forty billions is approximately three times all the money in the world. Yet every dollar has been | spent merely getting ready for a wat that good people really thought would never come. It did come more swiftly, suddenly and murderously than the wildest jingo had conceived possible and it is going to cost something, too. Now, you can't raise $40,000,000,000 without going after It hard. A great statesman, describing the tax collectors of Europe to the French chambet of deputies, said: "They have been obliged to resort to an intolerable espionage and a degrading system of informers. They question caterers, neighbors, servants, children; they keep account of dinners that are given and the cigars that are offered to guests.” Th re is no limit to the financial resources of a European power, because there is no form of wealth that is left intact. It may be only a little annoying and mostly amusing to the Amer lean tourist to have a quarter of s cent added to his hotel bill to help out the government in whose boundaries he happens to be. But there is nothing funny about the burden of militarism to the very rich continental who in some cases pays more than a fifth oi his income to the government. If you had to live on an income oi SIOO a year you would hardly care it pay taxes, and yet in Saxony, for ex ample, an income of more than 40( marks is taxed. True, the income tax is only one mark —23.8 cents—until your incoms exceeds $125 a year; but when yoi have to live on. less than $2 a week anc pay local taxes as well it is no droil oi comic matter to pay 23.8 cents to ths nation, especially as the governmeni uses something like two-thirds of youi mark either to pay interest on debts incurred for past wars —in which quits likely your grandfather was killed oi to keep up an army which you will have to join in any case when you: ruler decides to make you fight agair , —and perhaps be killed or wounded, i Old Claim Against Kaiser. Some little time back there seemcc' l a prospect of a lawsuit against thsj 1 kaiser with a view to making hint ;i disgerge some of his wealth. Ths plaintiff claimed to be the heir oi Field Marsha! von Muennich, anc stated that in 1765 his ancestor sub , mitted a feud respecting seme prop ; erty to the arbitration of Frederick ' the Great, depositing the sum ol £46 SOO as caution money. This was never returned to the field marshal, al though the award went in his favor and with compound interest was cal culated at about two million pounds when steps were taken to reclaim it The legal representative of the kais er admitted that Frederick had ro tained the money, but, as the claimant. was unable to show documentary evidence of his descent from Ven Muennich, the case did not go inti court. 1 Soldiers and Spectacles. The large number of territorials ■with spectacles or eyeglasses has been noticed. On this point the late Mr. Eustace Balfour, brother of Mr Arthur Balfour, wrote to the Londor Scottish during the Boer war' ‘ Some i members who have passed the medical’ tests on the assumption that they willi shoot in spectacles do not do so. Maj j I point out that spectacles are no hu miliation? The Germans wear them in war. They are in some respects even a protection against dust. I per sonally, have been all my life a deei stalker, and have always had to weal glasses. I do not think I have evei lost a stag which I should otherwise have hit by having spectacles on. The prejudice against them is childish and artificial in my view.” —London Chron icle. A Hero of Wight, Bonchurch. Isle of Wight, which is buying its ancient landslide as a pub lie recreation ground, can claim association with one of the famou* feats of the British navy, for It was the birthplace of Queen Anne’s Admiral Hobson. -Within a few days of Hobson’s joining the navy as a ship's boy the fleet went into action, and his vessel was laid alongside that of the French admiral. The boy male his way to the enemy’s ship unper ceived, and struck and carried Oft thn flag. The French, thrown into confusion, were successfully boarded, and the English crew, at the end of the fight was met by the ship’s bey with the enemy’s flag neatly draped over his arm. - T Bound to Be Popular. “Doppel has invented an automobile horn that is going to make him immensely rich.” “What sort of sound does it make?" "A ]>erfect imitation of a panther’s scream."

A WHOLE OF PATRONS, AND THE PUBLIC *®^“ rry! IN GENERAL HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR OUR I/' p Great Shoe Clearance Sale PeopS ■■ We o,fa RcJ “ ai « Your monev should not lay idle in your pocket, now with this Great Shoe buying opyou in the face! Get your share of the benefits! MEN’S BUCKLE MEN’S RUBBERS MENS RUBBER BOOTS Men s 4 Buckle Arctics ARCTICS 89c $5.00 Boot at $4.48 Cloth $2.48 98c • S f ndals 4.50 “ “ 4.19 All Rubber 2.98 $124 Alaskas $1.24 3 50 << « 3.24 p ■ 1.48 Per pair Per pair BOYS RUBBER BOOTS MENS TAN SHOES MENS GUN METAL BOY’S 4 BUCKLE ™ Lace and Button Cloth Arctics $1.98 $2.98 Sizes 3to 6 the Lot Shoes at “ s :: 11 “ $M,.d».24 »™..jr4s Misses “ 54c p er Da j r Per pair Childs “ 39c ONE LOT WOMANS — DtDf . ‘ nut mr wpm4lK~ — INDIES GUN METAL BARGAINS IN ONE LOT WOMANS Patcnt and Boys Youths Fleeced Lined Caif Cloth Top Patent Leather Misses Lace Shoes Baby Doll and 9gc Button Shoes at s - Per pair $4.50 Grade $3.24 sl-98 Shoes We need no brass band to advertise this sale, our patrons and our prices will do it well, fegj Winnes Shoe Store Home Os Good Shoes.

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FREE FREE TO PROVE THE MERIT OF CHIROPRACTIC ADJUSTMENTS, I WILL GIVE ONE ADJUSTMENT FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS COMING TO ME BEFORE JANUARY 20th. 1915. LISTEN PEOPLE AND THINK THIS OVER. SOME SAY THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT. IF YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED IT, HOW UNDER THE SUN CO YOU KNOW ANY THING ABOUT IT. READ ON COME TO ME AND SEE IF I CAN LOCATE YOUR TROUBLE WITH OUT ASKING YOU ONE SINGLE QUESTION. I WILL DO IT BY AN EXAMINATION OF YOUR SPINE. REMEMBER A FREE ADJUSTMENT TO ALL PEOPLE COMING TO ME BEFORE JANUARY 20th. 0. M. BRADLEY, Chiropractor. LADY ATTENDANT OVER CHARLIP VOGLEWEDE

X HAMPSHIRE SOWS At Fanners Prices BRED TO GRAND CHAMPION BOARS Special prices on Fall and Winter piss25 head of Feeders for sale, weighing from 125 to 150 pounds at Bargain Prices. We must have the room (for our Pure Bred hogs and price jthese so they will sell. Registered Holstein Bulls all ages also a few good cows. White for prices or come and see this stock. It will please you. Farm two and one half miles north of Decatur, one-half mile north of the Dent School house. Phone 8-L. Roy N. Runyon. Decatur,' Ind.

WANTED —Young man, desiring toto study law, does not interfere I with present occupations. Address: I X, care Democrat. I FOR RENT—Modern four room house Ij on Marshall street; has electric lights, hard and soft water. Inquire of Mrs. Gregory, ’phone 151. 304t3

“Yes, I’ve had fine success in baking cakes and making deserts ever since I began using MARCO Extracts MARCO Gelatine MARCO Jelly Powders MARCO Spices MARCO Mincemeat MARCO Raisins MARCO Currants In fact, I’m so thoroughly vonv ; nced that every MARCO article 15 good, that I always tell the clerk to send me all MARCO goods as far at possible—and MARCO Flour makes the finest bread we’ve ever had.' We heard one lady say just these things. There arc many more "' !1 - think them, for the sale of the MARCO brand of groceries is inert asing each month, and there must be quality back of this demand, else the de I tr.and would not be there. Never in our business history have we carried a brand of goods "hi' we could so enthusiastically recommend to our customers, with the absolua' knowledge that every article is quality, quality, QUALITY. At your service, Star Grocery Change of Secretary Joseph Gerber has resigned as Secretary cf the GERMAN TELEPHONE CO., and has been succeeded by A. K. Stoneburner. Pay rentals to Mr. Stoneburner, Wells County Bank or A. S. Abbott's store at Craigville. Mr. Stonebu r ner’s address is Decatur, Route 2. Rent and Toll for last Quarter due at this time.

I FOR SALE —Good Duroc sows. 151 weigh about 180 pounds. Inquirt if Harry Suraan, R. R. 9; 'phone 14-E. LOST—Pocketbook containing a SW. a $5. a $2, and a few $1 bills Finder please return to this office and receive reward. Was lost somewhere up town. 6t3