Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1915 — Page 4

daily democrat Published Every Evening Except Sunday by IE OFi atm f'EMOCIAT r WW' LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 centfl Per Year, by carrier * s ' oo Per Month, by mail 25 cen,! * Per Year, by * 2BO Single Copies Advertising rates made known on application. Entered ut the postofflce in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Nearly a thousand people have been converted at Hartford City .during the two weeks of the Dob Jones campaign. it need not surprise any one if Hev. Lyons makes a success of h:s campaign at Terre Haute. Every subscriber of the Daily Democrat should take advantage of the opportunity offered to secure a copy of the World’s Almanac free by renewing to nest January, and in doing so you are helping to build a daily newspaper that will continue to do good in the community. The Indianapolis finance bill lost

out in the house by a vote ot' ninetyone to two, proving at least that if any influence other than that of men who have the best interests of the democratic party at stake had anything to do with it, the legislature is not paying much attention to them. A. A. McCormick, former editor of the Indianapolis Star, was nominated in Chicago Tuesday, as alderman of the Sixth ward, after a straight-out fight as a progressive leader. So in spots they are not nearly so dead ur our republican friends would have us believe. At tho Chicago primary this week 150,000 women voted and of the number nearly two-thirds voted the democratic ticket. If this is the ratio the country over it might make a good many people change their views on the subject. Perhaps the state senators had an advance tip when they passed that bill a few days ago. Have you sent in your income tax report? If you haven’t, don’t wait another minute for Uncle Sam has the ways and means to make things decidedly unpleasant. If you stop to think that if you don’t do this the lowest fine is SI,OOO, to which may be added imprisonment, it may niako you realize tiie importance of complying witii the law.

MdM • J§lrv.; Jr Jf mlm Our CustomTailoring Dept. is filling tlie requirements of men wlio liave heretofore paid fancyprices m order to have clothes just as they want them. If you 11 have Ed. V. Price & Co. tailor your new Spring suit to individual order well guarantee every detail of style, fit and workmanship and the value will please you immensely. The Myers-Dailey Company W-

it |I DOINGS IN SOCIETY i ’icaoooassaxxiaocaocKKXxxK t . WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Saturday. Helping Hand Pastry Sale—Oaa Office. W. R. C. Oyster Supper—G. A. It. Hall. Nothing truins better than the . presence of an excellent person. I It is not necessary for him to . teach or to preach; his silent , presence is a sun which warms i and gives light.—J. A. Wolff. A week from this evening a ban- ’ quet will be given for all the business , women of the city at some church, by the ladies' aid societies of the various churches. A personal invitation will be extended to every business woman irrespective of religion to come. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Gillig celebrated their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary in a quiet way yesterday by entertaining a company of the nearest relatives at dinner. The wedding of Loyal S. Woods and Miss Pearly Gerwig of Hluffton will take place this evening at the home of Mr. Woods on Eighth street. The bride’s pastor, the Rev. Dieffenbaugh, of Hluffton, will officiate. There were thirty in attendance at the meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul society yesterday at the home of Mrs.

■ John Holthouse. The ladies eonductf ed a bazaar and pastry sale in con- , nection with their regular meeting and realised twelve dollars from tho sale, which was considered very gool. ' Some brought their needlework along 5 and sewed, and later refreshments . were served. . Miss Marie Lillark of Fort Wayne will arrive Saturday for a visit over * the week-end with Miss Mamie Haiti ing. t ° GIVEN A SI.OC AND COSTS Three foreigners giving their names > as John Zokazs, Mike Zokazs and Jo ;- eph Polfe formerly employed by Ho.ea Ray on his farm were arrraigned . ty'fore Squire Kints this afternoon as result of an affidavit filed against them for petit tareeny. The affidav t - read that the theft was committed > last Oct. 10th and that 20 bushel of apples were stolen from the Ray fawn. They were found quilty and assessed ’ a dollar and costs amounting in ail ■ to $17.35 which w’as paid. o FRANK JACKSON ARRESTED Frank “Prox” Jackson was arrested this afternoon on a charge of public intoxication and lodge in jail un- ; til he could sober up and be arraiga- , ed before Mayor Christen. He was ) raising quite a disturbance around first street and when found by Marshall Melchi was back in an old barn near the river. , o DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG

'MARRIES TODAY Wesley W. Miller, Wells County Farmer, and Miss Wilma Opliger TAKE LIFE VOWS Rev. Rilling Officiates at 10 O’clock at Evangelical Parsonage. Another quiet wedding was performed ut the Evangelical parsonage by the pastor, the Rev. J. H. Rilling, the hour being ten o'clock this morning. The groom was Wesley Walter Miller, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Miller, residents of Wells county. The bride was Miss Wilma Kathryn Opliger, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ( Samuel Opliger of Linn Grove. The | groom was attored in a handsome , blue suit and the bride in a pretty white silk costume. With them was Mrs. Rose Opliger. Mr. and Mrs. Miller left over the Pennsylvania railroad for their wedding trip. On ( their return they will be at home on a farm three miles west of Linn Grove. Both are estimable young people, prominent in their communities, and deserving of all the good wishes given them. (

MORE SNIPS SUNK Two British Vessels Fall Prey to German Submarines or Mines Yesterday PREMIER SAYS THAT Germany Is Hopelessly Beat en and That a Financial Crisis Is Near London, Feb. 25, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Eleven steamers are known to have suffered disaster by Germany. At least three others are missing possible victims of German torpedoes or mines and Berlin clings to her claim that a British transport has been sunk in the English channel. London, Feb. 25— (Special to Daily Democrat) —The British steamer Western Coast was mined or torpedoed off Beachy Head yesterday. Her crew and passengers were landed at Portsmouth today. London. Feb. 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The British steamer Deptford was mined or torpedoed off Scarborough and went to the bottom, it was announced today. One mem ber of the crew was drowned and the others landed.

Paris, Feb. 25 (Mm. P. Simms, U. P. Correspondent, copyrighted)— (Special to Daily Democrat)—Pre- j mier Viviana today pictured Germany to me as a hopelessly beaten nation in the first interview the prime minis- i ter has ever granted any newspaper man. “The German torrent is check ed,” he said. “Germany is militarily An ini laeable blockade is growing tighter about her. Despite all precautions Germany lias taken to conceal the truth, 1 can assure you that her financial and economic rout ( is complete.” o MACHINE HAS FALLEN Indianapolis. Feb. 25, —(Special to ] Daily Democrat) —"The great demc cratic machine has fallen down. It , is being relegated to the scrape hea i” Representative Niblock, democrat o’- 1 Vanderburg county, twice speaker ot l the bouse startled the house witii ( these words today. He was greeted , with applause from republicans and some democrats. Niblack spoke in ! support of the Friend resolution that 1 house itnployees should be paid from ' the first day of the session. The resolution was defeated 50 to 37. Nib- , lack asserted that the democratic majority was bound in secret caucus at the opening of the session to the 1 program of paying employees. Shaking ids fists at his fellow members, Niblack said, “someone is responsible fur this break of the most* binding pledges. 1 declare that is one reason that the democratic machine of Indiana is demoralized. The great machine pretending as it docs to own the legislature and pretending to organize things in this legislature has # fallen down. Lots of bad things have taken place”. He said that

t “somebody" had interfered with ’> i piaps fur lire priming of ihe calendar and caused the printing ot a “cheap screw” calendar. I did n< t expect tbia resolution to pass, u'.id 1 the opposition Hvhlch has develop has proved the facts that the ma< him is on Its way to ruination. The era that be have lost control. Ih> powers that he thought they could control everything, just or unjust. Tills proves they cannot." i o — MORTAL COMBAT I ■ (CONTINUED FROM 1 AGE ONE - team. Reply to the Challenge. Whereas, The faculty feels that the merchants’ basket ball team need a reasonable” reproof for their tem-v ity in issuing the challenge, and Whereas, The faculty thinks it lik< ly that they may have a few rooter with rings, be it Resolved, That we, the members i D. H. S. faculty, do hereby neve;-’, the challenge of the basket ball mediants to play a game of basket bid under the following conditions, to wit: 1. That tiie game be played in the Basket Ball Arena, Monday, March .1 at 8 o'clock. 2. That “Bill" Schroek play ce: ter part of the time and that lie sliui not slug. 3. That Charley Teeple shah wtear a low-winged collar with :> white tie. 4. That Hugli Hite be kept from telling gross stories and not trip any one while playing. 5. That a competent surgeon ac company Bill Dowling to the game. • G. That John Heiler be allowed t take notes on the game in short-ban. 7. That the school board march to the game in a body. 8. That Cal Peterson be ke; from seeking revenge on Mr. Worthman. 9. That Albert Sellemeyer giva concert on his victrcla betweei halves of the game. 10. That Dan Falk shall not trea the “rooters" with cigars. 11. That Mr. Peoples wear a nev I air of basket ball shoes with i newest strings. 12. That Jesse Sellemeyer be kep from purling any of the pedagogues 13. That Dyke Frisinger bring a advertisement of the Frisinger Horst sale. 14. That Chalmer Schafer be a 1 lowed to play center and that h< watch his lines definitely and care j fully.

15. That Frank Lose will no harm Mr. Tritch. 16. That Jesse Niblick be request ed to paper the ceiling of basket bai ball half an hour before the game. 17. That Judge Smith shall decidr the game in case it is played to a tic 1?. That the best of feeling slial exist between the two teams afte r the big battle. QKJMON Decatur Horse Sale Co. Giv en Verdict for SSOO Damages This Afternoon. AT TV/O OCLOCI By the Jury at Bluffton Against the Chicago & Erie Railroad.

Attorney Shafer Peterson of the I firm of Peterson & Moran will return I this afternoon from Bluffi.cn, where I he represented the Decatur Horse I Sale company, including Abe Both, Dan Beery and James Hice, in a suit against the Chicago & Erie railroad. The case went to the jury today and after only two hours' deliberation returned a verdict this afternoon at 2 o'clock for SSOO in favor cf the Decatur Horse Sale company. The company shipped horses over the road two or three years ago, the animals being injured in transportation. The suit was brought to collect damages therefor. The trial started Tuesday in Bluifton. where it was venued from here. Ed France, well knokn merchant ot Pleasant Mills, also the trustee cl St. Marys township, was in the city today attending to business affairs. FOR BABE —Syphers 240-egg incubator; only used for 5 settings. Price, sls.oo.—lnquire of W. \V. Hawkins, ft. R. No. 10, 'phone, Monroe. 4413 o : DEMOCRAT V/ANT ADS 1 PAY BIG

TIRED OF THINGS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) „ 0 , jiate-wlde comwtaor* primary. While 'he telegraphic Mr- s . "taxied with red-hot interrogation points, the senate members remained cool and calm. But nevertheless, the late of Mr. Jones and his primary H cue of the leading questions of tue present session, and the people now r.vait tiie verdld to he rendered by the upper house of the Indiana general assembly. David J. Swartz, a hull tnocser of Adams county, is just now posing in the Indianapolis newspapers us a riied-in-tlie-wool democrat. He voted that ticket once at u primary at which lie undertook to he the noraimlor representative, hut before and sin •' he has always taken delight in sta> hing the democrats under the fifth ih. The Indianapolis News can dig up more phoney democrats in tiie state than any other newspaper in l, e world. Mr. Swartz is now enjoyng a season in the headlines in which he is supposed to represent a million •nr more Adams county democrats, in opposition to the 801 l finance bill. This is a cheap way to lobby without registering with the secretary of state. — — INTRODUCES PRIMARY BILL Indianapolis, ”|Feb. 25. — (Special to Daily Democrat) Y'uator Van Nays iemocratic tioor leader today intioJuced the much talked of primary -.ill. it is hopetf by organization nic-n Sits will take the place of the Jones bill now in the hands of the election -ommittee. Tiie Van Nuys I>Ml provides that on a petition of 5 per cent of tiie qualified voters of a precia t or county will be sufficient to call any question before the January primary. The same is applicable for congressional district. The bill provides that precinct committeemen shall bo elected at the primary and shall servo *or two years. The primary is optional. Election of precinct commitfeenien by primary is mandatory.

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FOUNDED -1872Our Bond Department Has Had A Steady Growth Last Year We Bought And Sold $500,000.00 Bonds BUY TAX EXEMPT 4 -V 2 per Cent Bonds NOW We Own And Have For Sale $49,987.98 Adams County Gravel Road Bonds All Denominations SIXTH OLDEST STATE BANK IN INDIANA Old Adams County Bank

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Mends good Oil Grain Tan Work Shoe, a dandy sl.iiS ! Men's Vie! Kid or Gun Metal Shoe .$1.58 | A good Men’s Gun Metal Button Shoe, regular $3.00 value, special $2.45 Ladies’ Vici Kid Shoe, Pat. tip, medium heel, only $149 Ladies’ Gun Metal Button Shoe, a nice medium heel $1.85 | good Oil Grain Tan, Boy’s Shoe. all sizes, 254 to 0, only sl.ss Men's good Rolled Edge, Duck Vamp Rubber Boot, a * dandy. only $2.89 Our new line of spring and summer j Muslin Underwear is on display. Come in and get what you want. Ladies’ Kimona Sleeve Aprons, , made of good percale and ginghams, regular 50c value, 0n1y..31c

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