Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Publish** Cv*ry Kv*nl*g Bxcapt •untfav by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW Q. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER •ulMorlption Rat** Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 16.00 Per Month, by mail 26 cents Per Year, by mail $2.50 Single Copie* ~2 cent* Advertising rate* made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice In Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. DIDN'T HE OVERSTEP:— The ambitious young republican prosecutor of Marion county rather overstepped himself. By securing the indictment of Thomas Taggart, Mayor Bell and Chief of Police Parrott he has disclosed, what for liis purposes should have been carefully concealed, the political animus of the proceedings. The rumor has been going the rounds that the more ambitious attempt of indicting Governor Ralston had been actually considered. Whit sort of conspiracy the governor wrs guilty of was not made quite clear. Now. no one believes that Mayor Bell, Mr. Taggart or the other prominent democrats mentioned had any hand cr direction in any of the election offenses alleged. Men of position in I politics ate not out jacking voters or procuring others to commit these crimes. No one expects a conviction in the election cases, notwithstanding all the Judicial machinery of Marion county is in the hands of republicans. The purpose is not to convict but to humiliate and scandalize prominent democrats. It is a process that has been going on in New Albany. Koko mo and ootber parts of the state. It had an outcropping in the indictment of a batch of legislators and state officials last fall. To lug in Donn Roberts was a rather course bit of work. Donn is a very energetic person, but some people may doubt his physical ability to do all the things charged against him in Terre Haute and yet have time to corrupt the honest electorate cf Marion county. The palpable purposes of bringing in Donn Roberts is to connect in the minds of the public the conditions in Terre Haute with those in Indianapolis. The object is to show some sort of esoteric connection between the conduct of the election in Terre Haute and in Indianapolis, or else to give the impression that a sameness existed. But we think the instigators of the indictments have gone so far as to dis’re 1 it themselves. What is needed is r

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probe of the conspiracy, far reaching and cunningly managed, to have prominent democrats in all parts of the state scandalized and humiliated. — Evansville Courier. Tills is tre "hay-day” for the farmer, and quickly following will come wheat harvest, oats, rye, potatoes and corn and beets. This Is some country In which to live and if you doubt it take a look at the splendid looking fields. The sale last week was a big su - cess. Why not have a Decatur Dollar Day? It would prove the biggest of all. A dollar package attracts and 1 ■ giving real bargains you will get bit iness that you won’t get otherwise It pays to be alive and yen will notice it at the end of ti e y »r, Mr. Merchant, but you mt: t not t >■ o fool the people. Give them good goods . . good prices and you will have a go -1 trade. !>et's try a Decatur Dollar Day Our competitor says ‘ the joke is us,” because they made a misstate ment in their paper. Well, perhaps is. Just let it go at that, though w always found when we made 'em the joke was on us. It might be well to read up the ditch laws before handing out so much advice. t H I DOINGS IN SOCIETY g t ItltlltttMttttttltXttttttttMtt, tilt, ttMltt* ‘ WEEK’S CLUB CALENDAR. Monday. German Reformed Aid —At Church and Parsonage all day. Wednesday. St. Vincent de Paul —Mrs. Joseph Knapke. Thursday. Home Guards —Mrs. Mel Butler. Queen Esthers —Josephine Myers. Presbyterian Aid —Mrs. C. F. Davi son. Presbyterian Aid Society—Mrs. (’ F. Davison. Friday. Zion Lutheran Ladies’ Aid —School House. Saturday. Mt. Pleasant Mite Social —Ben But ler Home. Be Kind Now. Dost thou intend a kindness to thy loved one? Do it straightway before the future comes, destroying thy opportunity—Carlyle. The Ladies’ Aid society of the Pres byterian church will meet with Mrs C. F. Davison at 421 North Second street, next Thursday afternoon. This is a special meeting and each lady is requested to take some article lor the Hope box. Work for the bazar to be held next fall will be started at this meeting, and the articles are to form the nucleus of tiie things the ladies will prepare for that event. Other work fur the afternoon will be furnished. The Home Guards of the Methodist church will be entertained Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Mel Butler on Fourth street Thursday afternoon. Miss Josephine Myers will entertain the Queen Esthers circle Thursday evening and she will be assisted by the Misses Electa Baltzell and Florence Myers. The newly appointed superintendents. Mrs. O. L. Vance and Mrs. J. T. Myers will also be present and assist. The annual election < : officers will be held and reports from the delegates to the recent distrii t convention will be given. Jesse Braden and family, Tom Dent and family motored here from Fort Wayne and were guests of their parents C. U. Dorwin and family. The ladies of the St. Vincent <:e Paul society will be entertained Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. Joseph Knapke at her home on north Second street. The wedding of Miss Emma Gillig and Mr. Andrew F. Gast of Celina, 0., will be solemnized Wednesday morning at the St. Mary’s Catholic church. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pearce entertained a t dinner Sunday at their home 225 North Seventh street for Mrs. Tom Smith of Phoenix, Arizona, who is the guest of the Henry Gunset family. Covers were also laid for Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Dullahan. Miss Esther Dullahan, James Rossean of Fort Wayne: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gunsett and their daughters. Ida and Lydia, delicious chicken dinner was served, with all the good things that go with it and in the afternoon pictures of the party in the automobile were taken. Mrs. O. L. Lamborn joining them for the after nocn. There were also joy rides in the auto to round out the delightful time. In the evening. Mrs. Smith with

the Henry Gunsett family, were taken. | in the auto to Willshire and other I places of interest. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Laehot and son, Noble, of Fort Wayne spent Sunday here with their son. H. S. Laehot, an.l wife. Mr. Uachot returned last evening, but Mrs. Laehot and Noble will remain for several days. Mr. Deardorff of Chicago, of the firm of Deardorff & Hoffman, spent Sunday here with the A. C. Ball family. Miss Jessie Winnes, accompanied by Margaret and Amy Kremers, went to Anderson this morning to visit with Miss Winnes’ sister, Mrs. Hugh Miller, several days. Mr. and Mrs. George Braun threw open their hospitable county home south of the city yesterday for the entertainment of a party of friends ; and relatives who were their guests at dinner and supper. The day was a very pleasing one. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Claude Coffee. Mr. and Mr - James Colchin and daughter, Maiw Jane: Mildred Coffee, Josephine Lang Edith Miller, Ed Berling, Jerome and Adraln Coffee. A large number of the high school girls’ Bible club took their suppers 1 and left on the 2:30 car for Monmouth where they had a picnic. Their teacher Mrs. C. E. Bell accompanied them. i Mr. and Mrs. Merle leisure of West Adams street entertained at dinner , Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Wolic 1 and children. Ada. Emma. Bareneia Calvin and Doyle: Mr. and Mrs. Wil Wolfe and children, Hubert and C$ T i> erine; Mr. and Mrs. Otis Brandyberr; and son. Harold; Mr. and Mrs. Clee Yager and children, Harold and Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schlickman. Frat ces Howard. James Howard of De’ phos, hio, Maxine Laisure and Howard Peterson. AUTO IS BURNED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Five tires are said to have burne —two on the rear wheels of the aut< and three extras carried. The me ire said to have jumped from th burning car, which, thus abandonc-f ran into the ditch where it was la to burn. Q COURT HOUSE NEWS. The board of review is correcting assessments in several townships, it cabling Blue (’reek, St. Marys. Wasl mgton and a few in Root.

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From My Narrow Little Window By v THE HOOSIER OBSERVER It s A Long Road To Happiness

It's a Long Road to Happiness Poker, Tongs—Keep Them all Going It’s a long road to happiness and there are no jitney busses to take you • there. The other z day on my news gathering route I saw one of tho clerks reading a story. It was entitled “It's a Long Road to Happiness." And that set us thinking. As 1 said before, there are no jitneys to take us there, it is a slow journey. Some of it is by foot over rough and ’ stony ways; others more fortunate have a slow journey by the old fashioned stage coach. But the fare to Happiness is a big one. A toll is collected at every stage of the pourney. Happiness is the station that you will always reach tomorrow—and tomorrow never comes. Proctor says: “It is ever thus with happiness; It is the gay tomorrow of the mini. That never comes." Horace speaks the truth partially whenhe says: “You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is with’n the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all.” Right enough, ut hew is one with ambition and high deals to have the contented mind? To be perfectly happy, one must be perfectly contented. No one, except i person who’ has no mind, no ambi ’ion, no striving after ideals will be -erfectly contented and hence perfect y happy. No one ever quite reaches ns ideal, because the ideal shifts up vard, with each rise on the plane What is happiness?” we asked. Evr-i ■•oi'e cannot define it otherwise than 'his: Who that define it say they more or less Than this, that happiness is happiness.” I say that happiness is that condiion you expect to be in when you ret something you haven't got. But ust as soon as you get it, you do n »t vant it; you sigh for something else ’ou haven’t got. and thus keep on ■nd on. expecting to gnd Happiness ’ust around the bend in the road. Don’t you remember some wee little ‘hing that you have always wanted, -ven when you were quite tiny: and hen when you got it, you weren’t sat isfied? Don’t you remember when you got I THE MAN WHO CAME BACK FROM THE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS By sperial arrangement and through the courtesy of local raen, the Crystal theater had booked a reel of 1,040 feet, featuring Robert Wilson of Missouri, in a true and realistic film story of his part in the present war —not of bloodshed — but in the Ight. against and conquest of that menacing monster of the human flesh — tuberculosis. Wilson is one of the million members of the Modern Woodmen of America. Discovering that he la afflicted with this disease, he takes advantage of the comforts, care and ure of the Sanatorium owned, maintained and operated by that Society, free of charge to its members. For serral years that fraternal institution his f hus actively and effectively cooperated in the world wide movement advocated by the Red 'Cross and medical idthorities, to stamp out the dread ‘white pjague” and Wilson is the beneficiary of this Woodmen life-saving station. It is an intensely interesting and heart-gripping story of the leavetaking oi wife and children. Weak in body and hopeless in mind he jurneys to the beautiful Rocky Mountain region near Colorado Springs. Colo., where, in the rarified climate and contain sunshine, at an altitude of 7.000 feet, he is destined to spend nine months at the foot of Mount Cedar, in the care of the most modern Sanatorium in the world. His experiences in “chasing the cure”, his absolute rest irom all cares and labor, his gradual return to health and strength, his “hikes” among the fragrant pines and ever the rock trails cf the U. S. forest reserve, leased by and adjoining the sanitarium, result in his final return to family and friends, victcricus over his foe. “The Man Who Came Back" is a thrilling and dramatic story—and absolutely true as well; indeed, his experience has been duplicated by nearly 2.000 of his fellow neighbors. who have already enjoyed the benefits this justly celebrated institution. This film is pronounced by competent authorities to be one oi the very best in this highly-developed age of motion pictures, and it is .in such great demand that it can be booked for only cne day and night in each

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a penny for candy? Well, somehow the word spread, miraculously, didn’t it. until there were two or three little playmates ready to accompany you on the trip to the candy store. Os course you always knew just which place gave the very most for your money — a count always verified that. Your noses pressed the glass in the case until you finally decided on the kind—and then once gotten, it was carefully divided cut among you all. Don’t you remember your resolve that when you got "big” and had all the money of your own that you wanted, you were going to buy a “whole nickel’s worth" of candy and eat it all yourself?" I do. But when 1 got big and had lots of nickels. I just didn't want the candy—a whole box of Schuyler's best would not have tempted me. I wanted something else. It’s a homely little illustration, but one that will prove out in everything we think we need to complete happiness. Since happiness is the station “just around the bend in the road,” it seems that it is never to be gained except in some bright tomorrow —the world to come. Sheridan says: "True happiness is not the growth of earth. The soil is fruitless if you seek it there; ’Tis an exotic of celestial birth, And never blooms but in celestial air. Sweet plant of paradise! its seeds artsown In here and there a breath of heavenly mould, It rises slow, and buds, but ne’er was known To blossom here —the climate is too cold.” About the nearest approach to achieving earthly happiness is given by Adam Clark, who says: "1 have lived to know that the great secret of human happiness is this: Never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of ‘too many irons in the fire,’ conveys an untruth — you cannot have too many—poker, tongs —and all, keep them going.” j/rwu-JfccL town or city. It is a rare opportunity one cannot afford to miss. At the Crystal theater, on July 1, afternoon and evening. Admission sc. o For Wayne & Springfiela Ry. Company. TIME TABLE. Northbound. Cars leave Decatur at 5:50, 8:30 11:30, 2:30, 5:45, 9:30; arrive at Fort Wayne at 6:53, 9:40. 12:40, 3:40, 6:56 and 10:40. Southbound. Leave Ft. Wayne at 7:00,10:00,1:00, 1:00, 7:30, 11:00; arrived In Decatur at 8:10; 11:10; 2:10; 6.10. 8:40, 12:10 Connections are made at Fort Wayne with the Ft. Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction Co., The Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway Com pany, The Ohio Electric, and Indians Union Traction Company; also with the Pennsylvania, Wabash Nickle Plate, L. 8. & M. 8., C. H. & D„ and G. R. & I. railroads. Freight Service. Freight service consists of one train each way dally; Leaving Decatur at 7:00 a. m. and* returning, leaving Fort Wayne at 12:00 a. m. Thh enables shippers to telephone order, and receive shipments promptly. W. H, FLEDDERJOHANN, General Manager, ■ - Decatur, Ino o CHER.TIES. Cherries $2.00 per bushel. Call Geo. Burkett, West Monroe street, 'phone 615. 147t3 o NOTICE All Dog Tax deliquents will be turned over to the Prosecutor after July 10. ED. L. AUGHENBAUGH. o . FOR SALE —Six-room house and four lots, on Chestnut street, near South Ward school. A bargain. Reasonable terms. See Henry Barkley, 'phone 13, P liW. or Clark J. Lutz, over National bank. 152t10 FOR SALE—Two fresh cows.—Ban EITING, phone 5-C, R. F. D. 2. 153t3

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