Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1915 — Page 2

LAWN MOWERS The INDIANA BALL BEARING, a first class, high wheel, ball bearing mower, the easiest pushing mower on the market. This mower for $6.00 is equal to any SB.OO mower. Other mowers at prices ranging from $3, up. Are you ■ prepared to take care of your little chicks? When driving along the road you will see our Sanitary Brood coop in almost every chicken park. Let us explain the merits of this coop. If it is anything in the harness line you need, WE HAVE IT. CHAS. F. STEELE & COMPLY I NORTH SECOND STREET | Coming In Fine:Up to this time we have collected in full from 140 of the 250 applicants of the Decatur Life Insurance Company. All those who have signed applications are requested to call at our offices in the Peoples Loan & Trust Company block and arrange for examination. By so doing you will save expense for you and the company. “Be a booster for your home city--not a knocker. Get in at once.” J. S. PETERSON, H. M. GILLIG, SECRETARY. PRESIDENT.

MADE FOR LONG WEAR ’-S' .-. That is the kind of harness we sei:. When you buy here you are sure yo Will not need a new harness for some time t 0 corne - The many different stylus in light and heavy harness it exceptionally low prices, quality cor.TP*ii>rtidered, afford you ample choice . your selection. A. W. TANVAS The Harness and Buggy Man. NORTH SECOND ST. TO SOUTHWEST VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE First and Third Tuesdays of each month. See H. J. THOMPSON, Agent. Decatur, for information. s»we-i cvK-.,.xwis -asisaMara&suHuaHKc Especially resistant to shock, strain and vibration, the Ford is the sturdiest, most durable car in the world. Vanadium steel, heat-treated by the Ford process, accounts for the strength and light weight of the Ford car. Strong, light, simple and efficient, the Ford gives service and satisfaction to more than 700,000 owners every day, at an average cost of two cents a mile for operation and maintenance. Buyers will share in profits if we sell at retail 300,000 new FORD cars between August 1914 and August 1915. Runabout $440; Touring Cars49o; Town Car $690; Coupelet $750; Sedan $975, f. o. b. Detroit with all equipment. On display and sale at KALVER & SIKES, Agents

A Nico Point In Law. Os Sir TUnmns Egerton, who was gifted with quick perception, this story In told: "A poor woman had been in trusted with the cure of a large sum of money by three farmers who told her to keep it safely until they appeared together to claim it Shortly afterward one of them went to her and, representing that he came nt the direction of the other two. ho receive I the money and forthwith disappeared. The other two brought action to recover the whole deposit Egerton hn|>pened to be in court during the trial, in which an intimate friend defended the woman. Seeing that the case was going against his friend. Egerton volunteered to speak as amlcuscurlne. Permission was granted. Emphasizing the condition on which the money wns left In the woman’s care, Egerton said: ’lt Is clear that the plaintiffs cannot recover because it Is to the three appearing together that the defendant agreed to deliver the money. Where is the third? Let him be produced.’ Thus Egerton saved the day for his friend.” Kilowatt Formula. Here is what a kilowatt is and the formula for computing it: First, multiply the current by the conscience of the proprietor of the electric light plant; divide this by the meter on the wall and add whatever you can't multiply. The answer will come in dollars and cents. Just divide these by the price yon pay per kilowatt and multiply again to find out what a kilowatt is. it is something you can feel, but can’t see; something that you pay for according to what some one tells you who doesn't know what ho is talking about, and he proves it by the meter that runs by guess and by thunder and is attached to a wall by a hired man with machine grease on his nose. You know just how many kilowatts you have had, just what they cost you it piece, but you don’t know what they ure, what they look like, who made them or what shape they are. — St Louis Post-Dispatch. The Curious Pelican. The pelican is as large as a swan, has white feathers tinged with red. while the breasts of the old ones are yellow. The breast feathers end in narrow points, and all the plumage is very coarse. But the remarkable point about the pelican is its beak. The upper jaw is long, large and flat and has a hook at the end, which curves over the lower jaw. The lower jaw has attached to it a great pouch, which the pelican can make small when empty or can expand so as to carry all the tisb which it catches in a hunt. This pouch is the pelican’s game bag. When the peUcan goes into the water of a stream or lake it catches all the fish it can. but does not swallow them. It carries them in its pouch. When it reaches the land it can eat the fish atits leisure. But more important is the fact that from the pouch the pelican can feed its young ones.—Kansas City Star. Hymns and Longevity. The practice of hymn writing appears to be conducive to longevity. Charlotte Elliott, who wrote "Just as I Am.” was eighty-two at the time of her death; Bishop Bickersteth, who wrote "Peace, Perfect Peace," was eighty-one, as also was Charles Wesley. Bishop Walsham How, author of some of the most popular of the hymns, ancient and modern; John Keble and Bishop Kerr, the writer of the famous "Evening Hymn,” were seventy-four Fanny Crosby, the famous blind hymu writer, was ninety-four. And in compiling such a list as this, one ought not to forget the name of W. E. Gladstone, who narrowly escaped becoming a nonagenarian. One of Mr. Gladstone’s hymns—“Oh, Lead My Blindness by the Hand”—is to be found in the English Hymnal.—London Chronicle. Perilous Experiments. Even fungi collectors seem generally agreed that there is really no trustworthy test for distinguishing whole some from dangerous mushrooms be yond the old Baconian method of ob servation and experiment. Toward the end of the eighteenth century Curtis, the original compiler of “Flora Londi nensis,” adopted an Ingenious device for determining whether fungi were edible or poisonous. He tried every suspected fungus, not “on the dog,” but upon his gardeners! What happened to those unhappy horticulturists is nor recorded.—London Family Herald. Not to Be Desired. “How artificial we have grown since the good old days!” “Maybe." replied Mr. Growcher, “but no argument Is going to get me longing very seriously for the good old days when the women used to come down to breakfast with their hair in curl papers.”—Washington Star. Sandstone. All rocks contain some water, but some, such as the granites, carry only an inappreciable amount. Sandstone, on the other hand, has an absorptive capacity of a gallon or more of water to the cubic foot of rock and is the best water bearer of the solid rocks. Decided to Stay. “Oh, hubby, I’m happy!" “What’s the good news? Somebody left you a fortune?” “Oh. better! The new cook has sent for her trunk."-Pbilndelphla Ledger. Color Change. “Your new assistant is blue over bls Vork.” “I guess that is because be is so iVeen about it.”—Exchange. One has no protecting power save prudence.—Juvenal.

BANK STATEMENT. < C. S. NIBLICK, President. I'!. X. EHINGER. Gaultier. A. 1). SETTLES, Assistant Cashier, i I Report of the condition of the Old ( Adame County Lank, n state bank at < Decatur, in the state of Indiana, at the t close of its business on May 1, 1915: RESOURCES Loans and discounts $892,656.84 Overdrafts 1,787.62 Other bonds and securities 9,586 99 Banking house 7,367.1. Furniture and fixtures.... 3,700.00 - Other real estate 8,413.06 t Due from banks and trust companies 86,315.67 Cash on hand 18,637.62 Cash Items 2,956.60 Current expenses 3,510.40 Interest paid 7,647.17 Profit and loss ! Revenue stamps 251->J ’ Total resources $1,044,544.75 LIABILITIES. Capital stock —paid in $120,000.00 Surplus 7,000.00 Undivided profits 1,209.51 Exchange, discounts and Interest 13,684.. 111 Dividends unpaid 20.00 p Demand deposits $335,092.34 Demand certificates 540,444.71 875.537.051 Due to banks and trust companies 24,093.11 I Reserve for taxes 3,000.001, Total liabilities $1,044,544,751 State of Indiana, county of Adams,ss. I, E. X. Ehinger, cashier of the Ohl Adams County Bank, do solemnly swear that, the above statement true. E. X. EHINGER, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me. I, this sth day of May, 1915. i My commission expires Jan. 5, 1918. JESSE C, SUTTON, Notary Public. o —— HORSE SEASON—I9IS. Ebene, Belgian, No. 47014, Amer>•an. No. 3486. A beautiful bay Bel;ian, 2400 pounds, imported August 21, 1908. Sired by Major d’ Onke • zeeze, 1084. Dam is Delta, 2053?. took first in class and sweepstakes it Van Wert Fair in 1910. Neron is an elegant black, Percheren Norman, with white star in for: - uead, seven years old, weighs 21<Jb pounds. Sire Cassimer, 44206. Dam s Parlette, 45903. Took first in cla and sweepstakes at Van Wert fair in 1910-11. Both are extraordinary movers, well ouilt and of the best stock in Euro Terras, $15.00 to insure a colt to stand and suck. Will stand Mondays and Tuesdays

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at Conrad F. Germann’s farm, one mile west of Wren, Ohio, week at keeper’s home. FARMERS’ HORSE CO., < Wren, Ohio. < W. W. Stewart, Keeper. 78-t&s3mo > i I AM SELLING THE MARTIN DITCHER AND GRADER. We are willing for you to be both judge and jury. Aou can decide for yourself after using this machine in your own worx, whether or not it is 1 worth the price to you. It must stand 1 upon its own merits. One man, with a good team, can cut a ditch two feet deep and 150 to 200 rods, in one day, and do it easy. G. W. GENTIS, 52 to 105 Decatur, Indiana.

. NOTICE TO PUBLIC. All persons knowing themselves in- j debted to Williams £ Sons are requested to settle same with Justice oi! the Peace Kintz not later than the. 17th of May and avoid further costs in j the future. 93t6 WILLIAMS & SONS. | 30ARD AND LODGING. Splendid rooms; excellent board; electric lights; teleplume and bath. 632 No. 2nd St.; telephone 755. tl'. o FOR SALE—Two full blooded Jer-’y male calves; one 6 months old; other, 2 months old. Inquire of Wa. A. Myers, Decatur, R. R. No. 2. Cra g-

SAVE YOUR POULTRY. Lippincott's One Night Roup, Gape, White Diarrhoea Cure. it has a equal. For tale by The Uultho« Drug Co., JtexaU Drug Store, Et'.» prise Drug Co. SBt3» o — FOR SALE. Rose Comber Rhede Island W I eggs for hatching, 3c and 5c a pi«t J. P. SMITH, j S5-t-t-s-2wks Preble, Ini i ——o Yes, we repair and sell said irad vacuum cleaners, electric wahiq; electric stoves, electric pumps— Jrence Electric Works. Early cabbage and tomato pla:3 'on sale at Fullenkamp's. Ifil