Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Publltha* F.WKV Evening txcept Sunday by _ f|E OELATUB OFMOCRAT COMMW lew g. ellingham JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier .-10 cent * ?er Year, by carrier * 6 ' oo Per Month, by mall 26 cents P6r Year, by mall ♦- 50 Single Copies 2 cePtf Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the poetofflce in Decatur, Indiana, a* aecond-clase matter. Boost Decatur. It's the best town in the state in a business way and in every other way. Boost Adams county, the greatest twelve townships that lio out of doors'. Every boost is a help to you. Every knock is a detriment. George Bitler of Fort Wayne today became treasurer of the slate of Indiana, some accomplishment for a young man of some thirty summers, and especially so when the place was earned by the individual effort of the man ' himself. We are glad for him and we know he will succeed.

The contract has been let for the new Schafer block, the Haugk block will be completed in the early spring, more than twenty roads, and several streets will be built this year, the outlook for crops was never better at tills season, it looks like a real year —and then, ’if we should be lucky and get the Clover Leaf division, a factory or two that seems possible—it would be great Let's get them. It will be better for every one and all these things are possible if we just stand together and do a little pushing. The appointment by Governor Ralston cf James Mcran of Portland, a former resident of this county, where he was born and reared, as a judge of the appellate court, will be particularly pleasing to his hundreds of loyal friends in Adams county. He is well qualified and as judge of the Jay circuit court has made a splendid record. He will serve with great credit in iiis new position and will prove one of tho strong men on the higher court bench. His aged father, who resides here, is proud indeed of the success of his son, as he has the right to be and every one joins him in this feeling. Judge Mcran is an able lawyer, a splendid citizen, a wise counsellor and the governor made no mistake in selecting him to succeed the late Judge Powers. Jacob Denny, who succeeds Mr. Moran as judge of the Jay circuit court, is also well known here and will make a good record or, the bench.

Gee whiz! Jim Watson disagrees with Mr. Bryan! He said so to the legislature. Well, lie never did agree HALT" PRICE SUIT and OVERCOAT SALE THIS WEEK ONLY THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

with him that wc heard of. Neither has he ever agreed with ony one else except those of the inside ring of the republican party. Mr. Bryan took U) ft lot of territory In his Indianapolis speeches. He said he was out for a good time and knew he was going to have it from the number of speeches he was billed for. He knew he was preaching a lot of politics that would only serve to stir up ideas, while some of it will some day become real, I ut that has, been his business for twenty years, thinking ahead of his party and his country, and saying these thoughts in away that causes disc isslon. All that Jim Watson has done, on the other hand, is to oppose li n. Which do you honestly think I: ae best citizen? Which man does the most for his fellow mnr?

By 1916 the pol >f ""’Y 1,1 have worked out. if they work cut well, as they now promise; if the cc iutry prospers and business mo cs strougly and actively, no power of noise, or subtlety of malice, or spitt ig of rage can prevent another de iocratlc victory. If a year hence M x ico Is at peace and in process of rec astruction and restoration, our policy toward her will be vindicated. If by that time peace is returning to Europe and we can have an honorable and ix>tent part in causing fair and humane adjustments and settlements, ill's unanimous sentiment of the country will be “Thank God for the leadership we have; thank Him devoutly that that leadership is not Roosevelt or Hearst, or any other charlatan or sen satiou monger or professional hero. These shriekers forget that the great body of the men who sincerely doubt ed and steadily opposed Mr. Wilson in 1912 are now his staunch friends and have been taught by his conduct to believe in him; and where they expect or hope to find a following idifficult to imagine.—Roanoke Times.

| DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesday. Wednesday Afternoon “500" —Mrs. Ed Coffee. Minneha Club —Pocahontas Hall. Shakespeare—Mrs. D. Mfl Hensley. Thursday. Civic Improvement Society—Library Hall. Presbyterian Aid —Mrs. C. A. Du : gan. Ben Hur Aid—Ben Hur Hall. Friday Night Club —Mrs. D. M. Hensley. Evangelical Aid —Mrs. Levi Miller. Baptist Aid —Mrs. S. E. Shamp. Baptist Brotherhood —Ray Collins. Friday. Methodist Mite Society—Mrs. A. J. Smith. Christian Aid — Mrs. Lawrence Schlegel. Eastern Star Children's Party.

Friendships. May the law’ of Sallust always remain engraved on the heart of your king. “Not with the help of armies nor treasures do kingdoms continue to flourish, hut with the help of friends, and thesq cannot be gained by force nor bought with gold; they are won by acts of kindness and by faithfulness.” And, moreover, "it is necessary always to live in unity with one’s own; by concord the smallest things become great, whilst by discord the greatest are reduced, to nought.” Let him remember the example of M. Agrippa, who thought much of this precept which alone may speak of your royal master a good brother, a good comrade, a good friend, a good king. Next to God let nothing be dearer to him than friendships. Let him always implicitly trust the man he once found worthy of his friendship and, according to the advice of Seneca, let him prove his friends in all things, but take care first to prove himself also. * * * Slow in contracting friendships, let him be even niore slow in breaking them asunder, and if possible, never let him do so. —Petrarch. 'the Baptist Ladies' Aid society will meet Thursday afternoon with kus. S. E. Shamp at her home on Mercer avenue. The Eastern Star will give the annua! party for tlje Masonic children next Friday evening at the hall at 7:30 o’clock. The parents are invited to come and bring a donation for Lie picnic supper which will be sitrmU and the children are requested to

bring their silver offering for the orphans’ home bank. A good program will be given, there will be games and music and a delightful time, as usual, is assured. The Evangelical laidles’ Aid society will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Levi Miller on West Adams street. Tills will be the last meeting until after the tabernacle services and all members should be present. Mrs. D. M. Hensley will entertain the Friday Night club tomorrow evening instead of on Friday evening. The Dixie Embroidery club welcomed two guests, tiie Misses Christeni and Agnes Coater last evening when Miss Edith Miller entertained at their regular club meeting. After embroidering for a while, the girls sang and played and had a fine lunch. Mrs. Ross Tyndall has invited the club to be her guests next Tuesday evening at her new home on Eleventh street.

Miss Adelaide Deininger was hostess to the Bachelor Maids last evening, Mrs. Raymond Bremerkamp also being a guest. At five hundred, pri .es were taken by the Misses Georgia Meibers and Bess Tonnelier. A delicious chicken dinner was served after the games. Miss Bess Tonnelier will entertain next Tuesday evening. The annual social and mite box opening of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church will be given next Tuesday evening. February 16. at the home of Mrs. C. C. Schafer and Mrs. Emma Daniel. A good program which will be announced in full later, will be given. A silver offering will be taken. This is the big event of the year for the society and the observance is a notable one in its calendar.

“UNDER COVER.” Great Play to be Seen at the Majestic in Ft. Wayne. “Under Cover,” am exciting new American play by Roi Cooper Megrue, which has proved the theatrical sensation of the year in both New York and Chicago, in each of which cities it has been running to crowded houses for months past, will be presented by Sedwyn & Company at the Majestic theater, Fort Wayne, Friday night and Saturday matinee and night. "Under Cover,” if reports speak true, is a play which will interest a large va riety of people, and one which will interest them so much that they will want to go again. It is a frank melodrama of the modern American kind, and the interest begins with the rise .of the curtain. There are repeated and increasing crescendos of suspense, the action is rapid, the subject timely and Selwyn & Co., promise a cast which will be excellent in every particular. “Under Cover” is truly a mystery play, therefore it is not advisable to reveal the full story of the piece. Yet even knowing it repeated visite do not detract from the entertainment. The story deals with a secret service investigation of smugglers and grafters. A certain man is known to have bought an expensive necklace in Paris and does not declare it when his ship reaches New York He is followed by secret service men to the home of a fashionable family on Long Island. The detective, by reason of his knowledge of a young woman’s defrauding a jewelry insurance company, compels her elder sis: ter to give him assistance. Their pursuit of the smuggler gives the audience a rapid succession of laughs and thrills, and in the end the story ends happily. In “Under Cover,” the author, Mr. Megrue has made his first real success. In it he shows the hand of a good craftsman. The lines are bright, the business is skillfully planned to help every point and as adroitly carried out. Selwyn & Co., who are responsible for that other great success. “Within the Law,” has given "Under Cover” the same careful direction as marked their earlier production. It is said to be a play which will make friends wherever presented.

DENOUNCES ANY CONNECTION. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 10—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Governor Ralston today issued a statement in which he denounced as “absolutely unsound and “as the creation of an overworked newspaper scribbler,” the story that the gubernatorial nomination for 1916 entered into the selection of Judge J. J. Moran of Portland to the appellate bench. He raid Moran was supported by Congressman Adairof Portland and, was well qualified for tire position. 0 —_ FOR SALE—A few Single Combed, Rhode Island Red hens and pullets, and a few cockerels.— Geo. W. Burkett, Decatur, R. F. D., No, 11; ’phone, No’ 615 - 21X3 LOST—GoId signet ring bearing tali, ial “F,” somewhere in city. Finder will please return to this office. 3U3

THE PUNK POETRY I Candy and Flowers to Hold Sway Next Sunday—- > Valentine Day. LITTLE DAN CUPID Will Persuade the Johnnies to Part With Some of Their Good Money. The Indianapolis Star hits the nail on the head when it says: “Sunday is the day that Cupid goes to it in his shirt sleeves, lights a large, black cigar, and hangs the 'Busy' sign on the door. "February 14 —St. Valentine's daj the day when every one is entitled to get soused on sentiment. "Do you remember the dear old days, back in the last century, when She thought She was doing very well, thanks, if you sent her a valentine of paper lace with pink cupids and blue roses on it, and a pair of clasped milts with ‘True Regard’ up at the top, and some ferocious poetry on the inside tof the folder?

“Ah —them was the good old days! “Today, if you sent her a valentine like that She would gaze at it with the same expression of affectionate joy that she would turn on a ’thousand leg.’ That stuff is ajl right for the school kids, maybe, but after that, it simply won’t do. “Sunday is the day when the florists and the candy foundries reap a large and bountiful harvest. “The offerings are graded, too. For example, a little bunch of violets bears friendly interest, a bigger bunch, more interest. As for a wagon load of American Beauties—when she gets those she begins to figure on which kind of style she likes best for the announcements —the Old English or the curly kind. “Just in the same way, the fivepound box of a sl-a-pound chocolates, reposing in their heart-shaped basket, lined with pink satin, tell a far-differ-ent story from the pound box of car!amels—althought, at that, she may like the caramels better.

“For days and days all the little boys have been saving up their pennies to buy valentines for the little girls that sit across the aisle, and the little girl that rounds up the most lace paper valentines is the heroine of the day. But —say —did you ever get a ‘comic?’ It's perfectly awful' to get a comic. "It’s the old fashion not to send any name along with a valentine offering, but this is bad policy, because a hated rival may get in ahead of you, and take a long chance, and get all the credit. There have been villains base enough to say, when they come in and see the flowers, or the candy for which you parted with all your week's lunch money, ‘l’m glad to see you enjoying them, Ermentrude,’ when they never heard of the candy or the flowers before. Then Ermentrude gives the villain all the credit for having sent them, and gives you, Percival, the cold, cold eye when you drift around the next evening because you didn’t have enough sentiment to send her a valentine. “However—there’s ope thing in favor of St. Valentine's day it gives temporary jobs to some of the worst poets in the world, and you know the poets must live. Why must they live? —Oh, to write the poetry for the valentines!”

MASS MEETING. This evening at 7:30 o’clock will be a union mass meeting of all the churches in the city at the Evangelical church in the interest of tire Honeywell meetings, to begin February 2L Let there be a large attendance and crowd the church. Good singing, speaking, and fellowship are some of the good things in store. A cordial invitation to the public to attend. COMMITTEE.

WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 13 Wednesday, February iO, 7:30 p. m. Decatur Chapter, No. 112, R. A. M. Special called convocation. Work in Mark Master’s degree. Friday, February 12, 7:30 p. m. Decatur Chapter, No. 127, O. E. S. Regmar stated meeting, also annual children s party and entertainment. — o — . FOR SALE—Cheap, it sold at once. A five-passenger automobile, in tine condition. Inquire at the Kintz cigar store, 22t.6

WHAT DID WE TELL YOU 1 Bring™ stomach trouble along with you doo. T™ us your troubles after we have told you. we don't rub either. SOME j wp can do this. Come and find & February. This is absolutely our LAST FREE oF Zple should never give an opinion about something they know absolutely nothing about and have never tr^ e ?’ T ~ Don’t be like the following lEOI * the first steam train. When they A man and wife drove 40 miks se ® *“® thing o n e d and ready to start. got there, the , .‘S ■ «.5. ■»« «. would not allow himself to be convinced. AMSBAUGH~& BRADLEY CHIROPRACTORS Over Charlie Voglewedes Shoe Store Office Hours: Ito 5 and 7toBP. M. - Sundays by Appointment - - Lady Attendant

MUSICAL EVENT ! - Euterpean Club Charmingly Entertains Friends at “Guest Day” Party AT K. OF P. HOME I Last Evening—Music Talent of Club Gives a Fine Program. A very charming “guest day" en-

tertainment was accorded their friends last evening at the Knights of Pythias home by the Euterpean club. The spacious lodge room on the second floor was arranged in auditorium style and a committee of young ladies from the club, as ushers, seated the one hundred seventy guests for the musical which was the form of the entertainment proper. In the receiving line to welcome the guests as they arrived, were the club president, Mrs. J. S. Peterson and Mrs. J. W. Tyndall. That the club is one of real culture, education and charm was manifest by the character of the musical, the numbers of which were given by the music section of the club, and consisted of selections which are given at the regular club meetings. So delightful have they proved to the club members that the club president prevailed upon them to give them for their friends at this guest day observance. The section also had the pleasure of the presence of Miss "Kathryn Egly of Berne, a very charming singer, whose voi~e added much to the program and delighted the audience. The club has much musical talent of a high order and every number was rendered with perfection, of which the audience was highly appreciative. Mrs. Jesse Daily served as accompanist for the vocalists. The program follows:

PART I. Lovely Night, O Tender Night, J. Offenbach—Ladies’ Chorus. Piano, Polonaise C-minor, Chopin — Miss Rose Smith. With Verdure Clad, “Creation.”— Miss Kathryn Egly. Lullaby of the Iriquois—Ladies’ Chorus. January, Koerner— Marie Patterson PART 11. Piano Duet, Hungarian March, H. Berlioz — Mesdames Dailey and Fruchte. Chant Hindou, H. Bernberg—Mrs. Will Schrock. Rockin’ in de Win’, Neidlinger—Ladies’ Chorus. Gondolier!, fiftlielbert Nevin—Mesdames Engler, Schrock and Miss Egly. Chanson Provencale, Dell’ Acqua— Miss Egly. Accompanist—Mrs. J. D. Dailey. There were also several extra numbers given in response to encores. At the close of the program the club president, Mrs. J. s. Peterson, gave a short talk in which she ip. vited the-, guests to remain for the social period: During the following hour dainty refreshments of angel food cake and tri-color ice cream, hi chocolate, strawberry and pineapple were served by the refreshment corn-

mittee. On the cake were red winged cupids, or red hearts pierced with golden, arrows, symbolic of the coming St. Valentine’s day. It was at first planned to have the musical at the Elks’ home, but an unavoidable disappointment in not getting the piano tuned in time, made the change of place necessary. The club is a member of the state federation, was organized in 1902. and is devoted to the study of art, music and literature. The active members, who on various committees, helped to entertain their friends so pleasingly last evening, are: Literature —Mrs. Mary Tyndall, Miss Fannie Hite, Mrs. Mary Mills, Miss -Bess Congleton, Mrs. Florence Myers, Mrs. Alma Stephenson. Art—Mrs. Olive Peterson, Mrs. Nola Archbold, Mrs. Pearl Heller, Mrs.

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Helen Patterson, Miss Fanny Frisjng. er, Mrs. Lida Patterson. Music—Miss ElizabeUi Schrock, Mrs. Clara Runyon, Mrs. Hazel Em geler, Miss Grace Miller, Miss Maria Patterson. Mrs. Carrie Schirmeyer, Mrs. Nina Adams, Mrs. Dessie Dailey, Mrs. Edith Schrock, Miss Ruby Miller, Mrs. Myrtle Fruchte, Miss Rosa Smith. o — CARD OF THANKS. The family of tlie late Solomon Lum expresses ita sincere thanks to the ones who assisted them, in many ways during the Illness and at the time of the death’of Mr. Linn, to those who gave floral offerings and the carpenters who attended the services, leaving their work on the tabernacle to do so, and to many others.