Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEM O CR AT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by ME DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrierlo cents Per Year, by carrierls.oo Per Month, by mail2s cents Per Year, by mails"'so Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Splendid weather; bright and fair and with an air that is good enough to eat, the kind of atmosphere that makes a fellow throw back ills shoulders and feel like winning any old battle.

Tliis is the last day to send in your income report, if you haven’t done it, better mail it tonight for the government is the hardest tribunal we know of to convince that “you didn't I mean to be negligent.” By the way the lowest fine is SI,OOO. Rev. Honeywell is boosting for a boys’ and girls’ “gym,” a place where the physical body can oe improved. He also favors a clean and healthy club, a boys’ city, anything that tends to give to the young i>eople the amusements they crave and with environments that do not take away from their purity and cleanliness. If he gets these things in Decatur he will deserve the lasting prayers of every parent in this community. We added a hundred and fifty new subscribers this week. Os course we are glad of it and hope the new subscribers are. Many of these were sent by friends who want them to read the story of the tabernacle now being run in this paper. These pipers will be stopped promptly when the five weeks have elapsed unless

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here and now invited to so notify us. We hope you will all continue to read the Daily Democrat for many years. Governor Ralston is the wise governor. He has solved the question which has worried the legislators and many others for two months, and has recommended to the members of the assembly that they refer the proposition to give the railroads a two and a half cent passenger fare in Indiana to the public service commission, which will thoroughly and diligently investigate it and make a decision one way or the other. The democratic party will thus be treating the big corporations as well as the people fairly. No one wishes the railroads to carry passengers at a loss and if, as they claim, they are doing so at a loss, they should lie granted the increase. The commission can and will, if given the power, investigate the various figures and claims and the matter will thus ba adjusted in a business like manner. We believe the governor’s recommen-

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< dation should be followed by the leg- ■ islature. ! i. ■ n itxx: I DOINGS IN SOCIETY I gKrnsosezcoe z •hocooacacxaact q WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Saturday. Helping Hand Pastry Sale-j-Gas Office. W. R. C. Oyster Supper—G. A. R. Hall. The Woman’s Relief Corps is preparing to serve a large number at their oyster supper at the G. A. R. hall this evening from 5:00 to 6:45. The public is cordially invited. Supper will be twenty-five cents. Mr. and Mrs. O. P. Schug of Hartford City will be entertained over the week-end at the home of their uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Henry. Mr. Schug is manager of the glove factory at Hartford City which was heavily damaged by fire a short time ago. The factory will be ready lor operation again Next Monday. Mrs. Charles Miller will entertain at dinner Sunday for Miss Neo'a Moyer of Fort Wayne and Miss Lydia iirsch. The Elks had initiation last evening, four candidates being taken in. Lloyd Kiracofe of Wren, Ohio, is here for a week-end visit with his brother. John B. Kiracofe, and family and to attend the tabernacle services. Judge D. E. Smith officiated this afternoon at 1:50 o'clock at a wedding in the county clerk's office. The groom was Amos A. Moore, a machinist. of Muncie, born November 6. 1593, son of John Hickman Moore, The bride was Miss Rutli Hullinger, born February 17, 1899, daughter of William Hullinger, of Monroe. NOT CONSIDERED

Maston Limited Suffrage Bill Not Considered To- . day by Committee. MANY BILLS KILLED House Does Quick Work by Killing One Hundred and One Measures. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —The house judiciary committee did not consider the Maston suffrage bill today. Representative Pierce, republican, advocate of the bill, said that after the committee had considered other matters he made a motion to take np the senate bill and the motion was seconded by Representative McConagle, a republican, of Muncie. “Chairman Sare then said, ‘the meeting is adjourned,’ and the members walked out,” said Pierce. Sare said: “As the meeting was adjourning, somebody said, jokingly, 'Let’s consider the suffrage bill,’ that was all. I don’t know when the bill will be considered.” Sare has been accused of attempting to allow the bill to die in his committee. If passed it would go to the governor.

Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The house today passed the Van Nuys bill appropriating $125,000 to reimburse owners of cattle slaughtered in the war on the foot and mouth disease. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 27 —The house today killed 101 bouse bills. Whenever a bill of Representative Feick's, who lias introduced many ol them, appeared, there was a loud yell of “consent” to its death, in which Feick often joined. Among the bills killed was the Cleary bill providing for only one ground for divorce; Feick, for a commission on economy and efficiency; Fulton, providing that a householder could keep his neighbor's chickens when they came on his lot after notice to the neighbor, Sare, making gun-toting a reniten tirary offense; Feick, providing that wages of convicts shall be paid their families; Simons, tor the shading of auto lights. t Indianapolis, Ind.. Feb. 27—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The house today passed the Rinear bill to permit the people of Bluffton to vote on the question of building a new city hail. Representative Eschbach declared the bill unconsitutional, because it seeks to set aside the constitutional debt limit. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 27 —(Spec-

ial to Daily Democrat)—Senator Kattnwn of Terre Haute today made the statement that the bill to license jitney busses and I place them under the public service I commission had originated with the I T. H. 1. H E. Traction company. I "This bill (S. D. 366) should be entitled a bill for the benefit of the T. H. I A E.” said Kattman. IndianaiKilis, Ind., Feb. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The senate today passed 33 to 2 the Ballou bill providing tor the non-partisan nomination of judges. The bill would allow a candidate for any judgeship to run on more than one ticket and would allow hltn to total the vote received on all tickets on which his name appeared. THE COURT NEWS Nothing Doing in the Way of Divorce for Either Hazel Emery OR HER HUBBY Peter Emery—Judge Refuses Them—The Musser Case Dismissed. Some rather sensational evidence was introduced this morning in the circuit court room when the divorce case of Hazel T. Emery vs. Peter Emery was called for trial. The defendant had filed a cross-complaint setting out that he was entitled to the divorce instead of Mrs. Emery, hut after the evidence was heard Judge Smith entered his decision refusing a divorce to both. The defendant will come in, for the payment of costs.

Tlie state case against Samuel

Mussser, charging him with rape, was dismissed. The cash put up oy the defendant for his bond, and now in the hands of the clerk, was ordered returned to him. In the divorce case of Mary Beatrice Murphy vs. Carl 1. Murphy, the motion to make the cross-complaint more certain and specific, was overruled and exceptions were taken. In the case of the Schafer Hardware company vs. Wilma Emery et al., a judgment for the plaintiff for $45.15 was rendered. An order for- - the lien was made and the property ordered sold. The costs were adjudged against the defendant. Joseph Wetzel, executor of the Peter Wetzel estate filed a petition to make partial distribution of assets among the heirs and this petition was sustained. A report of the sale of personal property was approved. The current report of Thomas Per kins, guardian of Naomi Gilbert, et al. was approved and the trust continued. Nancy A. Dutcher, guardian of Blanche M. Dutcher, et al. made suggestion of the death of a ward. Alonzo Dutcher, and filed a petition to settle his estate without letters of administration. Tins was ‘granted.

Real estate transfers: Lemuel L. Mattax to Virgil Mercer, 80 acres, Blue Creek, quit claim deed. $-1 Barbara R. Mattax to Virgil Mercer. 80 acres, Blue Creek, quit claim deed, $2,000; Adam Neuenschwander to Simon Smith, lot 18 Monroe, $1: Simon Smith et al to Bernhart Lehman. lot 18 Monroe. $1,000; Emma J. Anspaugli et al Dore E. Anspaugh, 46 acres in Jegerson township, $45,000; Bernard Lehman et al. to Peter Hilty, lots 88. 68, Berne, $2300; Katherine Huser to Jchn P. Huser. 100 acres of Monroe township: $10,000; Katherine Huser to Philip P. Huser 60 acres of Monroe township. $5500; William B. Jones to Esther A Sprunger. 120 acres of St. Marya township, quit claim deed. $2,000; Kerenhanpuch Johpson to H. A. Fuhrman, lot 293 Decatur, $2,000; Daniel Donovan to Theresa Colchin, part of lot 111 Decatur, $2500. o GRAND PRIX IS STARTED. San Francisco, Feb. 27 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The long grind of the grand prix auto race began promptly at 10:30, when Cooper, driving a Stutz, was sent away over the exposition course. He was the first of thirty to start. o I FOR SALE —Syphers 240-egg incubator: only used for 5 settings. Price, $15.00. —Inquire of W. W. Hawkins, | R. R. No. 10, 'phone, Monroe. 4413

BOOST FOR GYMNASIUM (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) seres to have more of the smaller gatherings, than a few of the larger ones. The smaller the divisions, the pneatt-h' opportunity for reaching more people. Hence plans were forInitiated to subdivide the present ►rayer districts, so that not more than thirty families will be in each district. This division is being made under the charge of Mrs. John Niblick, general prayer captain. That every family in the city may be visited and given a personal invitation to attend the morning prayer services, irrespective of religious belief or denomination, each prayer district captain will appoint a committee to visit every house in each district and give a personal invitation. Cards for tit's were handed out. The prayer circles are recognized as the foundation of a revival and special efforts are made to make this work strong. The Sermon Text: “Seest Thou A Man Diligent in His Business? He shall stand before Kings: He Shall Not Stand Before Mean Men”. Some things' God gives us often, some he gives us only once. The seasons return again and again and the flow-ers change with the months, but youth comes twice to none. While we have it, we think little of it. but we never cease to look fondly back to it when it is gone. That we realize its value so poorly while we enjoy it arises from several causes. What we have for an hour or a day is prized in some degree rightly, but we are young for long years together. Then we judge of a thing by contrast -and comparison, and youth is all sunshine. It is only as it fades that its shadows come out and show’ us what we have lost. If the sun rose only once a year, we would know how to value its light, as it is. we don't think of it.

In Lapland all the world flocks to see it again after a six month's eclipse; here, when it rises each day, it finds up asleep. Water in the desert, summer in winter. health in sickness, youth in age, want makes the worth. A lawyer sought to humiliate his rival in public by saying: “You blacked my father's boots once.” And 1 did well,, retorted the successful opponent. Success is the goal we all desire to reach. How may we win? In order to make asuccess in life there are certain tilings which you must do and certain things which you must be. First of all, you must be pure and noble apd upright in life and character. Nobility of Character Nobility of charcter lias ever been the bulwark of individual and national strength. The world today as never before, is seeking for men witli strength and force of character. A mistake made by too many youag men is to imagine that they can act out in their lives and part of useful and exemplary citizens without embodying corresponding traits of character within themselves. The first requisite of real success is nobility of charcter. The hearts of men far more than the heads and hands of men shape history. Multitudes of young men make a failure of life net because tlie chances of success do not exist —for success gleams out before every man —but because tlie elements of success, a noble charcter, is not within them. Manhood is above all riches, overtops all titles and character is grea - er than any career. As there is nothing great in all this world but man, so there is nothing great in man but character- and we are our own architects, building whatever character we please. Then to success —go with people larger than yourself-larger in thought in desire, in ambition, in influence, in character. A woman one morning told her husband that she dreamed she was at an auction where they were selling husbands and that one man brought $lO,000. “Was he like me?” inpuired the interested husband. Like you—whv husbands like you were selling three ounces for a nickel. Ont Will Do

Father do not try to make that boy another you—one of you will do. You may know that you have found your right place if your work is a pleasure to you. If you long for the time to quit, you are on the wrong job; if you go to work with no more delight than you left it, the job belongs to some other man. When yeu hace lit md y<\ir true calling, you will not find nature putting any barriers in your path of progress, if you have been boring away in some hole for fifteen years without striking something, depend upon it, something is wrong. Nintv-nine young men in every hundred must depend for success upon their own energies. A genius for hard work is tlie best kind of genius. 1 It is the general impression that ora-

tors, poets. Inventors and others do not have to apply themselves. Thl belief has done much harm. No difficulty to him that wills. lit the great battle and struggle of life, there are no real (insurmountable difficulties to him that wills. A Napoleon Story When Napoleon, that great French warrior was one lime in the thick o. a battle the bullets were flying thick and fast—on every side the dead and dying lay wounded on every hand. He turned to his drummer boy and said: “Drummer boy, beat a retreat." Bn l the drummer boy stood motionless. Whereupon Napoleon thundered his command: “Drummer boy, 1 say to you, beat a retreat.” The drummer boy looked up into the face of his great general tears came into his eyes as he replied: "General, I can't beat a retreat. I don’t know how. Martial Dessaix never taught me how.' "But said he. "I can beat a charge, 1 can beat a charge that will make the dead fall into line. I beat it at Mount Tabor, I beat it at the Pyrmids. 1 beat it at Austterlitz. Can I beat it now ." And he did. Over the breast works of the dead and over the dying, he beat tlie charge and beating it, led them on to victory. Battle of Life In the great battles and struggles of life, no one should know how to beat a retreat but burning the bridges behind, set your face and beat the charge and doing it. you will beat U on to victory. But. lastly, to win the highest success in life you cannot afford to leave Jesus out of the question. ’ A mother was one time printing tlie text ui>on the blackboard for her little girl: “Jesus Christ came into the world' to save sinners.” As she was placing the text upon the board. Uie little girl came running in and commenced to spell it out and then she exclaimed: “Oh Mamma, you have left Jesus out.” True enough In transcribing that verse to scripture from her Bible to the blackboard she had left, the blessed word Jesus out. No one can ever win the highest success in life and leave Jesus out of the question. It has been well said that when God made man he made him foursquare. He gave to him a physical side, he gave an intell ectual sid(; and a social side, but he did not stop there. God crowned the whole man with spiritual life. DOUBLEVICTORY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Decatur. Geneva. Baker F Kehr Miller F Vance Ball C Blosser

Gay G Pyle Roop G McWhirter BaltzellSub. Referee —Christen and McCollum Field Goals—Miller. 2; Ball. 3: Gay, 1; Blosser, 1; Vance. 3. Fouls —Baker. 1; Miller, 1; Ball. 3; Zehr, 3; Blosser, 1. J. Fremont Frisinger, Dwight J. Peterson, Robert. Merryman and Herman Elilnger accompanied the girls' team, acting in the capacity of mascots. Next Monday evening a good game will be played in this city between the high school faculty and the Decatur merchants.

ASSESSORS MEET Township Assessors Get Supplies and Instructions Today from COUNTY OFFICIAL Wm. Frazier—Deputy Assessors Qualify—Begin Work Monday. Tlie township assessors and their deputies met with County Assessor William Frazier today. The deputies qualified and tlie supplies and instructions were given to them that they may be ready to begin their annual inventory of the property of the county's residents next Monday morning. March 1. The township assessors comprise the following: Union—Fremont Bowers. Root —R. K. Fleming. Preble —Edward Gallmeyer. Kirkland—Janies Brown. Washington—William Blackburn. St. Mary's Dan Roop. Blue Creek-Willis H. Laughry. Monroe—l. G. Kerr. I- rench —John Tenner. Hartford-Joseph E. Eckrote. Wabash—George C. Fink. Jefferson—S. J. Fogle. Democrat Want Ads Pay.

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