Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT (vary Kvenlng Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subacrlpilon Rate* Per Week, by carrier 10 cent* Per Year, by carrier 16.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall 22.60 Single Copies ...2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. / Entered at the Postofflce In Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. / J. Kirby Risk ot Lafayette, a candidate for the democratic nomination for the governorship, was here today, setting the first pegs in his organization. He declares his intention to make a real fight for the place and has faith in the results. Have you bought your ticket tor Chautauqua? You can save money by doing so at once. In aiding yns movement you not only help out iu maintaining a week of splendid entertainment but you assist the Ladies Improvement Society in providing out|door amusements for the children, play grounds and in lieautifying the city. Come on. Robert Lansing has been named by President Wilson to fill aut the term as secretary of state, succeeding W. J. Bryan, whose resignation a few days ago startled the nation. Tiie appointment is a most satisfactory one. as Mr. Mnsing is splendidly fitted for the high position, being an international lawyer and having earned this position through years of service in the state department. His selection is agreeable to men of every political party, and was the one most favored by Mr. Bryan as well. He has been a life long democrat though he has never taken an active part in the game. He will work in perfect accord with the president. The Berne Witness calls attention to the overiiead expenses of Blue Creek and warns those tnteresteJTd keep an eye on the money. It is well. No man should pay out money unless he knows what becomes of it and this case is no exception, if there have been over charges on this or any other job, don't you stand f ir it. but we presumed that the fact that these bills were allowed by the cou:t would be some proof at least that this has been done. The Witness too should remember that much of the cost was caused by • the filing of a remonstrance which required fortytwo days of trial which created a large part of the fees charged by attorneys, which by the way is fixed by law. Practically every other part of the over head charges are fixed under the statute and we doubt if there will be found any serious c.t'jections there to. The evidence offered when the court allowed the bills recently showed that the fees charged by the engineers and attorneys were less than were really earned and tire evidence came from experts outside the county. If the Witness knows of errors or over charges they should

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point them out and have them corrected. mwir.e xju DOINGS IN SOCIETY I WEEK’S CLUB CALENDAR. Thurtday. Evangelical Aid —Mrs. J. H. Rilling. Friday. Class Social—lsaac Nelson. Mite Society—Mrs. Elmer Archer. Baptist Aid and Missionary—Mrs. Henry Wlnnes. Christian Ixtdies' Aid—Mrs. Dr. C. R. Weaver. Saturday. Washington Church Social on the Church

Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue, in order that they could sc - ' e as much as they say; but to::; the’r conduct one would str. pose I were bom with two tongues, and one eye; for Jltose talk Ahe most who observe the least, and obtrude their remarks upon everything, who have seen into noth ing.—Colton. On Saturday evening the Washit ton M. E. church, southw-est of th city, will give an ice cream social on the church lawn to which everybody is invited. The social is given for tin benefit of the church. i Mrs. 1. A. Kalver issued invitations today for a sewing party for next Thursday afternoon. July 1, at 2:3C in compliment to Mr. Kalver’s mother, Mrs. Max, of Chicago. Invitations were issued to forty and the affair promises to be one of the enjoyable ones of the season. Twenty-three attended the Ruth cit cle meeting when the Misses Fanchoi and Jessie Magley entertained at the’’ home, corner of Monroe and Thir teenth streets, last evening. The coo weather spoiled the plans for a porch and lawn party and the meeting w.u shifted to the indoors. Miss Mate' Weldy, president, was in charge o' the business meeting. Plans for r watermelon feast and social on tlu Christian church lawn in the first part of July were made. Committees wer named to attend to the details, as fol lows: Refreshments and place. Mrs A. D. Artman, Miss Vera Eady, Mis* Eula McKinney; program, Miss Hew itt, Miss Marie Daniels, Miss Dorotir Williams: tables. Miss Stella David Miss Irena Eady and Miss Florent" |Dichtensteiger. The matter of again taking up the teachers’ training course was considered. During the social Miss Mabel Weldy read Marjorie Be-' ton Cooke’s “Who's Afraid.” and th' Misses Dorothy Williams and Mn:-I< Daniels furnished music. Light rc freshments of strawberries, whipped cream and pink and white cake wcr' served. Miss Gusta Cramer and Mr Minnie Daniels were guests and the circle also welcomed Miss Nellie Dan iels. a member who is in training a> the Lutheran hospital. Fort Wayne to be a nurse, and Miss Dessie Beery who lately returned from Mott, S. D Miss Stella David will entertain t two weeks. The social at the Isaac Nelson home by the members of Mrs. Shoemaker? class will be given Friday instead r Saturday. _ ’ The following is the program of thBaptist Missionary society meeting t? be held at the home of Mrs. Henry Winnes on Friday afternoon at twr o’clock: Hymn, Scripture reading and prayer, president; Scripture ref erences, members; duet. Mesdame: Everett and Peterson; Bible needs it: America, Mrs. Shamp; A Very Urgent Need and Call. Mrs. Schroll; The Bible Powerful and Popular. Mrs. Rog

era; Instrument and Inspiration of Missions. Mrs. Everett: The Word of God —First, Mrs. Buhler; benediction. The friendship shower given lust evening for Miss Alice Knapp was one of the several delightful prenuptial events of the season. The hostess"s were the Misses Lydia Miller and Lydia Kirsch and the party was given at the home of the former on West Monroe street. All the pretty and fr igrant spring blossoms —lilies, nasturtiums. daisies, roses and other garden flowers were combined prettily in the decorations. In the dining room while crepe paper streamers were fluted from the chandelier to the corners of the table under which the gifts, ot many kinds, and exceedingly pretty, were laid. Progressive hearts, play- d with cubes, was an interesting one, Margaret Weidler and Esther Sellemeyer taking the first and second prizes and Mary Bieneke the booby. These were, of course, bestowed upon the guest of honor. The refreshments of ice cream and were served nt the little tables after the games and during the refreshment hour. John Lind, of Cincinnati. Ohio, played. Assisting in the serving were George Miller, Doyt McCrory, John Lind and Mrs. Ed J. Miller. The tables were later cleared again and a heart hunt indulged in. Miss Ireta Erwin found the greatest number of the tiny candv hearts with their motties, and Mrs. John Beineke got the booby prize. Miss Knapp was finally given al) the hearts and she was required to real the mottoes aloud. Professor Withatjs. the skilled violinist from Berne, came before the festivity closed, and played delightfully. After the heart hunt, Miss Knapp was taken into the dining room, where she opened the packages containing the gifts. Her wedding to Glen Cowan will take place the first of July. Guests at the shower were: Mrs. Ed J. Miller. Ode and Letta Fullenkamp, Mrs. Fred Fallenkamp. Dora Schultz. Georgia Meibers. Agnes Kohne. Mrs. Fred Colchin, Genevieve Bremerkamp, Mayme Harting. Alice Kpann, Margaret and Emma Weidler. Ella Mutschler, Matilda. Agnes. Della and Esther Sellemeyer. Bullay Bauer. Letta Wetter. Ruth Mayer, Lulu Gerber, Ireta Erwin. Amelia Weber, Mrs. Charles Brodbeck, Mrs. Fred Ashbaucher. Mrs. T. E. Millet'. Mrs. John Beineke, Lydia and Mary Bieneke, Mrs. Irvin Miller. The party ntluded the members of several clubs and church societies of which "M.ss Knapp was a member. Yesterday was the birthday anniversary of the sisters, Mrs. Stalter and Miss Bess.. Eisher, ajj'l also their niece, Mr. Clayton Billing .. of Fort Wayne. These “triplet” members of the family had a joint celebration yesterday at the Martin Staltcr beautiful country home near Peterson, when a fine chicken dinner was served at noon, in the afternoon there were further refreshments of ice cream and the day. all in all. was a most enjoyable one. Mr. and Mrs. John Drake pleasant’y entertained a few friends and relatives at their beautiful country home, five miles east of the city, Sunday in honor of their son, Louie's, birthday anniversary. At 12 o'clock a good country dinner was served. The day was most joyfully spent in chattier and instrumental music. In the after noon they all enjoyed picking and eat ing strawberries. The followin’ guests were present: Mr. and Mr?. Benjamin Shook and sons, Edward and Teddy, of Wren, Ohio: Mr. an 1 Mrs. Harvey Gay and daughter, Lucile; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Drake; tl-e Misses Amelia Depinet, Helen Diller. Blanche Smith. Fanny. Cora and Clara Drake; Messrs. Burley Hinderlang, Ray Akom, Theodore Drake. Burrell, Hind and Louie Drake. They all report a fine time.

RECOVERING FROM ACCIDENT. Leona, aged ten, daughter of "Mr. an<i Mrs. Kill Zwick. who was serioun--1 yinjured last Friday in a runaway, is getting better and was able to ■ h up a while today. The little girl had been in the country at the Charles Kraft home in Root township, and had gone for a ride with a girl friend, driving a shetland pony. They made haste to reach their destinati >n before a shower came up. Turkeys along the road frightened the pony and it ran. The Zwick child was thrown out on the stone road and was dragged some distance. Her forehead was cut open above the right eye, for a great distance, the wound taking seventeen stitches to close if. In spite of the bad wound, and without the help of her companion, who was unable to assist her on account of fright from the sight of the tom AM Meodipj wonnd. th“ skis he’OK laid open in such away that it hum: down over her face—the child got u > and walked a distance of some sixty feet or more to the house, where h<dp was called. The child was very badly bruised over her entire body also.

From My Narrow Little Window By THE HOOSIER OBSERVER A Loaf Os Bread—And Thou

I don't read Omar Khayyam myself but there is one love-aick yuotation iu his Rubaiyat that is a great joke with us at home. It is this; “Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, A flask ot wine, a bit of verse and THOU Beside me singing in the wilderness— O wilderness is paradise enow.” 1 guess that it ia quoted tight. I may have gotten the loaf of bread and the jug of wine reversed in place, but what does it matter —so I get in all the facts. I always say "Humph,” when I hear it because, as a reporter, I have a busy time in divorce court, and 1 know from what 1 learn there, that the greater number of United States nmtrimonial barks (or tugs of war) struck the rocks and split just because they didn’t have enough .'rocks'' to finance the voyage. The United States lovers and their THOUS require more than the aforesaid Persian poet's hero to make the world's wilderness a Paradise. They might have thought so,’ too. wheu, like Omar's hero they sighed tor wtiat was not, and later in realizing it, sighed for what it was not. But then in Persia it may be different. Do I have them mixed up with the South Sea Islanders, or do they in Persia live on the desert edge, so hot that the coal bills are dired up and waited away to that bourne from whence they never came to annoy the hero and his THOL? Don't they just have to readh up into the bread fruit tree get a loaf and lay it on tne hot desert stones to bake? And don't they just have to climb a cabbage palm to get a tpft of salad cabbage, a jug of the palm wine and then crawl down to lay it at THOU’S feet in the desert oasis, that with the aforesaid feast and bit of verse is transformed in tQ a Paradise? Likely I have gotten the counties mixed, but anyhow that is not the way it is here in Adams county. Would you believe it. the greater number of the Adams county THOUS who apply fora divorce have found that ct takes more than that to make a paradise and hubby often fails to supply aught but the jug of wine and maybe a little bit of verse after the first few of the honeymoon paradise are over —and that for himself? The loaf is usually left for “THOU” to find.

NARROWJSCAPE Thirteeen Year Old Arthur Kelley Has Close Call from Drowning While FISHING IN A BOAT c. Taken Suddenly 11l and Head Fell in Water—Rescued by Mr. Voglewede. Ar. exceedingly narrow escape from drowning was experienced this afternoon by Arthur Kelley, thirteen-year-old son of Mr. anj .Mrs. John Kelley, residing on South First street, when the little fellow became suddenly ill while fishing in a boat near the Ertg railroad bridge and fell in such a manner that his head was submerged in the water. The little hoy, with a companion, had entered the boat which was fastened to the river bank and were enjoying themselves fishing. Suddenly Arthur fell against the side of the boat in such a manner that his head and arms were in the water. The companion thought that Arthur was merely playing and had it not been for Henry Voglewede, who was fishing nearby, in all probability the little fellow would have drowned. Mr. Voglewede went to his assistance, ipulled him to the bank and by rolling him around managed to get the water out of his lungs before be strangled. The boy was then taken to Lis home and a physician summoned. It is not known what caused the illness. Mrs. Schuruacker's class of the U. B. church will give a penny social Friday evening at the Isaac Nelson home. 15012

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after the more prosaic days come and she has reached the stage when she is addressed as “Say,” instead <,f "Thou' Also the coat in winter and ice in summer; and the clothes that even in the best of earthly paradise are necessary. Or If the hubby does not furnish the necessaries of life, how terrible it is to to hear i” the court, the reccunting of the paltry little sums that he has handed out.. One man in the Adorns circuit car. t refuted the non-support charge by reading out of his memorandum book that on such a date he gave his wife $1.00; several mouths afterwards a dollar or two; and that in the course of time begrudgingly handed out $1.50 to buy the baby, clothes with; that he liought a coat for his step-daughter at a cost of $1.98 and shoes for his wife for $1.68 and a petticoat lor 56c. The rest of the things she bought with her butter and egg money. When a man can remember every dollar he has handed out to his wife in their several years of married life —a man who is capable ot and does earn a good income—it is not a wonder that the tug of war strikes the bottom rock — the divorce court. Os course not every woman is capable of caring for her husband’s money and the management of his home, but she should be. The modern woman wants more than a loaf of bread, a book of verse and the man lounging around with her under the bough of a tree. She wants to feel that she is doing her share of the partnership work by taking the household reins into her own hands, having a regular weekly allowance to run the home-business with in a systematic way. keeping within the allowance and making it go to the best advantage. All the girls of the modern day who are seeing to it that such is a prearranged pre-nuptial agreement in spite of the fact that it may detract somewhat from the romance of the affair, will find that the romance will be more evenly spread over the after-yeark instead of all in the short few bread and wine paradisical honeymoon days. There will lie little danger of hitting the court-rocks on'that most common of all reef, the non-support splinter. Sorry, but I'm cynical enough to say ‘ Humph" aga : n —when I only even think of Omar Rubiayat, beautiful as it may bein Persia.

YOUR PROBLEMS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) shipments, keep all the shipping rates on the different lines in different states. “System” is also a monthly business magazine received at the library. c i The Eastern Stars will meet Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. o POLICE COURT. James Smith, against whom an affidajjjt was filed by Night Policeman Reynolds, charging him with assault and battery upon the person of Dan Haley, appealed' last evening before Squire Kintz, pleaded guilty to the charge and received a fine of $1 and costs. Smith stayed the docket. A similar charge was filed against Haley on Tuesday, he receivjpg the same fine and glso staying the docket. The trou ble occurea at the Ed Kintz cigar store. No matter what you paint, or where, Devoe Lead-and-Zinc Paint is right for it. Inside the house—a room, or the whole interior of the bouse; outside the house, or any part of it: or anv other buildtngs; Devoe Lead-and-Zinc Paint will do the lob. Made of right materials, put together in the right way, ready to use. Specify Devoe to your painter. THE BROCK STORE

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CASE GOES OVER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) have favored the handling of the prosecution by a special prosecutor because Prosecutor J. Frank Mann is said to have expressed the belief that his deputy, Gene Williams, is guiltless. William A. Thompson was the special prosecutor named by the court.. Whether he will be permitted to carry the prosecution to a conclusion is now to be determined by the supreme court, which, under a new act. has original jurisdiction in writs of mandamus, -Muncie Star. o COURT HOUoE NEWS. Hooper & Lenhart, attorneys for the plaintiff, have filed three suits against Walter L. Ross, receiver 'or the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railway. One is by Daniel M. Byerly and Nancy D. Byerly, jointly, asking for $122; the other two are by each one alone, asking for $225 and $125. reTAKE A FOURTH OF JULY DRIVE. behind a team fitted with a set of our harness. You’ll meet nothing on the road better outfitted. Handsome, light, strong and durable, our harness makes ordinary horses look fine an.l fine horses finer. Take a look and you'll take a set.

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spectively. This is for fence which they built along the railroad’s right-of-way which abutted on property in Kirkland township—to keep stock i if the railroad. They had served notice cn the railroad to build the fence and after thirty days’ time expired and it was not built, the property owners built it themselves and seek to tecover for the amount expended. Real estate transfers: Zera O. Lewellyn et a) to William Scherer, lot 61, Monroe, $1,350. o WILL VISIT INDIANAPOLIS. Washington, D. C., June 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A wide swing around the circle of American industrial and commercial centers is xpected to be announced in a few days by the federal trade commission. Among the cities to be visited is Indianapolis. The commission wan’s first hand information on business conditions and problems peculiar to each city and community. TOQ / CvT? 1. M til, i ■EjgQBSr |fe *