Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1915 — Page 3

You Can’t Keep The Girls Away —From the “Dollie Dimple” Pumps. We have them with Grey inlaid Cloth Tops and with a two strap colonial effect. Want to see them? CHARLIE VOGLEWEDE. AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

- —— l ' ■ j'' weather' ' forecast" | Rain today. Partly doudy tonight. Sunday fair. \ Happy is the statesman who never lias to rush into print to explain anything. it is better to get new business than to get wealth by cutting down expenses. Dead men’s shoes have never been known to fit the feet of those waiting for them. There is no dead beat so aggravating as the one who can face every creditor with a smile of indifference. The bachelor is the man who claims to understand women. Hut he is sometimes the chap that women understand. Mrs. Ethel Rex. Ulmer of Bluffton arrived for a visit over the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rex. Farm and Fireside says: “Ducks are good watchdogs for the poultry yard. No matter what time of night the thief may come, the ducks will quack.” Evangelist Lyon, who has been conducting tabernacle meetings at Tilfin for the past six weeks will close there Sunday night. There have been 2,216 decisions. Riding a bicycle and holding onto the rear end of a street car, Richard, eight-vear-old son of R. J. Berry, superintendent of the Ohio Oil company, at Findlay, was thrown under the car and injured so badly lie died an hour later.

iTheHome Os Quality Groceries I SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Have been made with the Factory on Soap and Washing Powder. For a few days a limited number of cases will be sold as follows: 4 Bars Rub-no-More Soap "1 «>> 1 50-pkg. Rub-no-More Washing Powder f/hi! 1 sc-loaf of Bread J We pay cash or trade for produce, Eggs 19c f Butter 17c to 27c M. E. HOWER North ot G.R.& I. Depot Phone 108 — ■■ .... _j—■ ”JSL I !L I -L."liL” 1 11. 1 Ij F. M. SCHIRMEYER ' FRENCH QUINN j| President Secretary Treas. I I THE BOWERS REALTY CO. | I REAL ESTATE, BONDS, LOANS, ■ ABSTRACTS. g I The Schirmeyer Abstract Company complete Ab- tm m stract Records, Twenty years’ Experience Farms, City Property, 5 per cent.

I The indifferent man is not always lazy, but the lazy man is usually indifferent. Mrs. I)r. Kuntz of Berne changed cars here yesterday noon enroute to Fort Wayne, A bit of advice injudiciously administered often seems to be a sledgehammer knock. It is better to take a chance on a party line telephone than to put foolish thoughts into love letters. A man seldom gets any pleasure out of a thing that doesn't separate him from some or his money. The love of home life is to be commended, provided it does not make a bigamist of the old man. The Dr. W. E. Smith home which has undergone a course of remodeling!# is now being lathed for the outside stuccoing. Mrs. Claude Gundy changed cars here enroute to her home at Roanoke from a visit at Rockford, Ohio, w ith her brother, Nestor Rice » Miss Vernia Smith went to Fort Wayne yesterday for a visit until Sunday when she will go to Kendaliville to attend the Evangelical conference. Ever’ time we begin t’ git interested in some good, commendable enterprise we discover a deadbeat or two mixed up in it. All springs look alike t’ rhubarb. —Abe Martin. Tiie pension department at Washington is opening up correspondence with clerks of courts regarding the marriage of soldiers now drawing pensions, /liis is clone so as to protect and help the widows who apply for pensions. In many cases soldiers die and no proof of marriage is made and troirble arises at once for the widow.

Some persons are so hard to suit that they wunt the silver lining to every cloud gold plated. / The robins and blue birds liavfe coino long ago and the wrens came back from the south Thursday. Now we may expect that spring Is here to stay. We had some April showers Friday ami if is warm and line growing weather. Register “23” for the coal man, hut look out for the big hurley fellow with the ice hooks. It may be of interest to old soldiers who contemplate entering the state home that under the new law paused by the last legislature that the excess pension received above sls for unmarried soldiers, $2? for married soldiers and sl2 for widows shall be paid to the Institution to be used for additional comfort of the inmates. A skunk broke up a meeting of Rod Men at Greenville, when the animal .got into a hallway, where it was accidentally aroused. When some of the braves went to open the wigwam they espied what they supposed was a cat in the doorway, and kicked at it. It is of no use to tell how Tfe braves made their get-away or how the skunk was finally killed by John Shannon —the smell was enough—and pedestrians along the cement sidewalks in that vicinity were not bothered with roller-skaters. 6 An engineer of a fast express on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad received a signal to stop his train near Defiance. It was an emergency signal, so the train was stopped as quickly as possible. The conductor, amazed at the sudden stop, went to the engine and reached it just as the engineer was preparing to go back to the train to ascertain the trouble. Both were dismayed when told no person had given the signal. An investigation of the express car, however, revealed that a horse had the signal cord in its mouth aud was pulling it With all its might.

In the April American Magazine David Grayson, writing his story “Hempfield,” goes on with his wonderful account of the “Hempfield Star” and its editors. Hempfield is a small town and the “Star” is a country weekly, one es tiie editors is Norton Carr, a youth from the city, who conceived the idea of printing the naked truth about tilings in the paper. Following is a paragraph he wrote about the village church service. It wa» the truth but it did not get into the paper, “The usual forenoon service was held in the Congregational church on Sunday. Being a hot day, the Rev. Mr. Sargent wore his black alpaca coat, and preached earnestly for thirty minutes, his text being John x, 3. Miss Daisy Miller played a selection from Mozart, though the piano was unfortunately out of tune. There were in attendance fifteen women, mostly old, seven men, and four children, besides the choir. During the sermon old Mr. Johnson went to sleep and Mrs. Johnson ate four peppermints. Deacon Mitchell took up a collection of fifty-six cents, besides what was in the envelopes.”

C. E. AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH. The following program will be rendered Sunday evening at the Christian church by the C. E. society: Song Service. Opening Service —Psalms 121:1-8. Prayer. Hymn. Scripture Lesson —Ps. 27:1-24. Talks: “Faith Needed,” Heb. 11:24-30 — Miss Clara Berry. “The Promise,” 11 Peter 1:2-4 —Miss Eva Acker. “Grace Sufficient,” II Cor. 12:7-10 — Harvey Segur. "Paul’s Way,” II Cor. 1:10 —Marie Daniels. “God With Us” —Joshua 1:6-9 —Dr. Weaver. “Looking to Jesus,” Heb. 12:1-3— Marie Daniels. Piano Solo —Marie Daniels. Closing. -o ■ — ABER SCHOOL CLOSES. Miss Edna Fleming, teacher of District No. 2, in Hoot township, closed a successful term of school Thursday. In the forenoon the regular school work was carried on. The patrons came with well-filled baskets and at noon about eighty people partook ol the fine dinner that had been prepared and brought by the patronft. After noon a splendid program was rendered by the pupils and was enjoyed by all. — o SIXTY-FOUR AND HAPPY. Shafer Peterson, the well known and popular attcAney, was sixty-four years oiu today and said he was the happiest man in the county over fifty. He will meet all Corners. o RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS, CARrieVs wanted. Life positions. Pay for instruction after you receive position. Apply Liiierty Institute, Rochester, N. V.

EARLY TIVAL OF NEW YORK Eastern Metropolis of- the United States Might Have Been In Staten Island. We are reminded that New York came mighty near being on Staten island by the announcement that the famous Cubberly cottage, with ail its furnishings, has been donated to the public by its owner, Dr. Nathaniel Britton. The structure is one of the finest examples of the so-called "colonial” architecture extant, and it Is in an excellent state of preservation. It has been satisfactorily determined that it was built not later than 1680, and most of its furnishings antedate that year. It was in ail probability a finer rural residence at the time of its completion than any on Manhattan island. Now it stands at the intersection of New Dorp lane and Cedar Grove avenue. At the time when the builders put on the last coat of paint and told the Cubberlys to move in it was surrounded by tributary acres constituting a splendid estate, and the Dutch aristrocats of New Amsterdam, across the upper bay, followed the example of the original Cubberly promptly in establishing themselves upon the salubrious and picturesque hills of Staten island. The Cubberly cottage was but the pioneer among many. In fact, as historical records show, the new settlement on Staten island grew so rapidly at that time that some people thought It might outgrow New Amsterdam. The Cubberly cottage came Into the possession of the Brittons in the year 1695, when it was deeded to Nathaniel Britton, an ancestor of the owner who has given it to the public as a historical reiic. The cottage, with all its contents, will be kept open to the public under the charge of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Science.

HARKING BACK TO NATURE Few There Are Without Strong Feeling of Kinship With the Things of the Wild. A bond from which we are never ,'ree unites us to mother earth. The appeal of the refinements of civilisation is strong; they are needed and Ihey have become an Integral part of Dur life, but somewhere in our natures is spmething that always harks back to nature. This feeling of close kinship with wild things, the stream, the birds and inimals, the woods, gives strength to the soul. Were we to live always on the artificial heights, we should be:ome enervated. For the earth is our home; from the actual physical earth we gain strength of body and mind* From considering it, we learn lessens of truth and purity and order, and the foundations of beauty are all found in the material world. Our love of nature, our longing sometimes to get out into the wilds comes, though we may never realize it, from our need of these things. With all our refinements, we shall never do so well without the knowledge of the kindly earth as with it. Even in winter there is much to learn, much to enjoy, and we lose much when we think we can do without our close communion with the mother of us all. Gift of the Gods. A meat packer's wagon rattled over the cobblestones down First avenue, says the New York Evening Post. Overhead roared an elevated train and in the sunshine on the curb sat live boys, shooting crapjl. Suddenly one of • them darted out into the street, swung himself up on the passing wagon, seized a ham, and jumped off—into the arms of a “white wing.” This agenj, of the city, after appropriating the ham, gave the boy a vigorous shaking and flung him toward the sidewalk. Immediately all five boys vanished into the earth. The “white wing” looked down the street and the wagon had disappeared as completely as the 1 boys, with the driver quite unconscious of any unusual stir. He looked in every direction, then doubtless thanking the gods for their gift, he wrapped the ham in a newspaper and he, too, disappeared down a side street.

Background for Pictures. A plain pafeer or one with quiet selftone pattern is the only kind that makes a successful background for pictures. The soft neutral tone of cartridge paper is a splendid setting for ornaments and pictures, while soft brown is a safe choice of paper for the average room, as against it almost any picture, be it oil painting, water color, portrait, etching or photograph, appears to advantage. Gray ts also a good and restful color to live with. A happy and popular combination is the gray wall covering with white woodwork. It is an admirable idea for the city apartment, where there is none too much light. The Dutch Waterstaat. The supreme defense of Holland must be the “winter line” through the heart of it. from the Zuyder Zee to the Scheldt, created by opening the sluices. Holland has a department of state, with a cabinet minister at the head of it, for her “waterstaat,” an untranslatable word, which means, practically, the state of all waters from the field-drain in the polders to the Rhine at winter level. They are afl ‘linked up In one Bcheme in an office at The Hague.—London Dally Chronicle,

IN FORTJNAYNE Will 1916 Methodist Conference be Held—Decision Made This Morning. A BIG CONTEST On Among Huntington, 0 Bluffton and Others— Conference Notes. Auburn, Ind., April 10 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—lt was decided this morning that Fort Wayne will get the 1916 Methodist conference in session here this week. The contest was a great one, Huntington, Bluffton and Marion also pulling strongly for the honor. Bishop McDowell delivered the second of his series of addresses yesterday morning, speaking on “The Tools Which the Minister Uses.” He said that as a minister thinks of what kind of a man he ought to be, so also must he think of the kind and condition of the tools lie employs. There is tendency, he continued, to use one method all the time Everywhere as a man would use one tool. The conference requested Bishop McDowell to appoint Rev. J. W. Osborn, R. E. B. Westhafer and Rev. T. M. Guild as conference evangelists. The appointments will be made by the bishop. The committee in the case of Rev. R. I. Black reported that the charges were not sustained. The decision was received with great applause. Dr. B. S. Hcllopeter, superintendent of Logansport district, gave his report during yesterday morning. In this district there have been 2,160 conversions. The report of the bishop showed that the disciplinary requirements were carried out, and the elders in the district reported their collections and membership conditions. Later in the morning Dr. Dunlavy was introduced and spoke on tlie student pastorate in Durdue university. There are Methodist students in the various state universities numbering over 25,000. The church Is facing the problem of caring for these young men. Seven hundred and fourteen Methodist students are enrolled at Purdue university at the present time, and the North Indiana conference has the largest number of these students, 199 in all. Tiiere are 650 Methodist students in Indiana university. The conference resolved to have a committee of five to act with a like committee from the Northwest conference to consular this matter. Later Dr. Summerville Light "reported tiie work for the year in Goshen district. This district lias had the most remarkable development since its inauguration. The pastor’s salaries have been increased $3,730 and a gam in benevolence of $8,753 was reported. The revival work report shows that 2,523 conversions have taken place during Dr. Light’s term. Following the report the district superintendent was given a great demonstration with shouting and clapping from all parts of the church. Rev. A. G. Neal, of Warsaw was given the floor and presented Dr. Light with a typewriter as an appreciation of the district. Dr. George Richmond Grose spoke at the closing session of the morning.

For Wayne & Springfield Ry. Company. TIME TABLE. , Northbound. ' Cars leave Decatur at 5:50, 8:30 11:30, 2:30, 5:46, »:30; arrive at Fort Wayne at 6:63, 8:40, 12:40, 3:40, 6:56 and 10:40. Southbound. Leave Ft. at 7:00, 10:00, 1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00; arrived In Decatur at 8:10; 11:10; 2:10; 5.10, 8:40, 12:10. Connections are made at Fort Wayne with the Ft. Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Co., The Toledo & Chicago luterurban Railway Company, The Ohio Electric, and Indiana Union Traction Company, also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash Nlckle Plate, L. S. & M. S„ C. H. & D„ and G. R. & I. railroads. 4 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 enables shippers to telephone orders and recoive shipments promptly. W. H. FLEDDERJOHANN, General Manager, - - Decatur, Ind. Democrat W ant Ads Pay,

THE NEW Adams County Directory Now being compiled by the publishers of the Farm Journal, will include not only the city and towns, but also every farm in the county, and a numbered road map different from any map you ever saw, with other new features of interest to business men. Get Mr. M. E. STRAUP, the county manager, to call and explain them to you. His address is P. 0. Box 212, Decatur, Indiana. Wilmer-Atkinson Company Publishers of the Farm Journal PHILADELPHIA.

WANTED— Quantity of yam seed potatoes. At FullenkamfYs grocery. FOR SALE —A house and lot in a good location, on a brick street. WiH consider ;in exchange on other property. See Henry B. Heller. 85tf

DO VOU WANT TO PILE An Affidavit of Mortgage Indebtedness? Now is the time. I have the necessary blanks and can do this for you any time during the time allowed by law. March and April. Don’t delay. Do it now and have? it out of the way. RUTH BALTZELL, Notary AT COUNTY AUDITORS OFFICE HOMESEEKER EXCURSION FARES TO SOUTHWEST VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE First and Third Tuesdays of each month. See H. J. THOMPSON, Agent. Decatur, for information. [. I ÜBGIEV Now 84 Years Old The Author of 49 General Tonic^that You hear so much about in Adams Co., Says He has studied this composition for 55 yrs. and 49 general Tome will relieve any case of Colds, Headache, Backache, Dizziness, Rheumatism, that worn-out feeling, that the winter has left you in, and if taken properly, in children it often relieves them in one nights time. Have you ever tried 49 Tonic? If not just try one bottle and we guarantee that you will be like every other family that has used 49 Tonic you never will be without it agairl. One mother in Decatur tells us that whenever any one of her family of six children finds they are ailing that they always run for the bottle of 49 Tonic and it never fails to relieve them and they have never had a Dr. in their family since 49 Tonic first came to their home. All we ask you is to just try one bottle of 49 Tonic. We know the rest. 49 is sold by all druggist. A dose in time will save you many a doctor bill.

FOR SALE —Top buggy, in good condition. Also set single driving har- . ness. Will sell cheap if taken at . once. Call at Mrs. Willielmina Mil- ■ j ler’s, So. 10th St., or ’phone L. F. Mil- ' j ler, Monroe Slt3