Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT PuMtaM Ivary Kxcap •wutay fey The Decatur Democrat Companj LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER ■ubacrlptlon Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by maU 25 cents Per Year, by mall 52.50 Single Coplea > cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. The stranger who comes to Decatur boosts us. Why don't you? It's to your interest and when you can do it honestly as you can here and help yourself and everybody else, you ought to thaw outand do it. Have, you bought your Chautauqua ticket? We have them for sale and in buying now you will aid the committee which has so many things to look after if the event is to be this year what it is hoped for—the greatest success ever. Decatur has built more new homes this year than ever before in one year. The farmers of the county have done more improving. We are building twenty miles of macadam road and several miles of brick street. Every factory is running full time, our people are happy and prosperous—there are no hard times here —in fact there never is. It's the land of happiness and prosperity. Thumbs up. We have failed in securing the Clover Leaf division, but it is not the first time; in fact, it has happened so often that the announcement didn't make a ripple on the smooth sea of commerce and business. Os course we would like to have it and believe that some of these days we will get it. It hurts, but then “It isn’t the fact that your hurt counts, but only how did you take it?” Receiver Ross and his assistants, practically every man in active sei. - ice on the road, favored the moving of the division, but the federal court refused the application and for the present there is nothing to do but to "grin and bear it.” Decatur is nevertheless the best town in this part of the world. We are going right ahead and will continue to do so. Thumbs up and straight ahead. The Times is still looking for a respectable republican newspaper in Indiana that approves the recent indictments of the Marion county grand Jury. Most newspapers, whether they be democratic or republican, just like most politicians, have some sense of fair play. When they, are defeated YOU CAN make light of the Hat? —this summer. It’s simple. Just come in and Pick your particular stylenow. Snappy straws—every one a winner—sl.so, $2, s2l-2 $3 Leghorns— $5 Panamas- $5 THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

p at an election they do not trump ui = a lot of charges and seek to havt ** their opponents indicted or disgraced _ A few days ago a republican, prom inent In business and financial dr des In Indianapolis, remarked that il Tom Taggart and the owner and ed = itor of the Indianapolis News were tc run for mayor and the voting be con g fined to business men and church 0 members, the former would win by a s three-to-one majority. This conveys ® an idea of the relative standing ol ’ these individuals in their home com a munity where they are personally known—New Castle Times. "The finest spot we have visited,” was the remark of a stranger. He was one of a party of four gentlemen from Buffalo, N.Y., enroute to the ’ Panama exposition, via the auto 1 route and he was talking about Ad- ■ ams county. Continuing he said: "Your county is a garden spot. We doubt if on our entire trip we will see such crops, such pretty homes, such i well kept farms, and say, your roads are a revelation. We came into the county in a down-pour of raiu and traveled over eighteen miles of macadam road from Chattanooga. Ohio, to Decatur, which seemed to us the equal of asphalt pavements of the city. It is wonderful, and we don't believe you people realize how fortunate you are in having such a country. Decathe advantages of the metropolis and tur, too, is a beautiful city, with all none of the disadvantages. It looks like a big park and w-e have all decided that if we were to locate now out of our own city, it would be right here.” Some statement if you please, but every word the truth. The thing the stranger does not see or appreciate perhaps is the fact that this country has been made by improvements. by a progressive pdople, by years of hard work—but we believe in it. and we have a right to feel mighty proud of our county and our city. DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK'S CLUB CALENDAR. Friday. Zion Lutheran Ladies’ Aid —School House. Saturday. Ben Hur Aid Pastry sale —Gas office. Evangelical Aid social —Corner Madison and Third streets. Mt. Pleasant Mite Social —Ben Butler Home. Wise men ne’er sit and wail their : woes, But presently prevent the ways to wail. —Shakespeare. Mrs. Chester Imler gave a pleasant surprise party yesterday afternodn at her home on West Monroe street for Mrs. Catherine Eady, better known to her many friends as “Grandma” Eady. Mrs. Eady who is eighty-two years of age, has been confined to the home rather closely the past winter and the surprise was arranged that she might meet many of her neighborhood friends’ at this time. Mrs. Imler had invited her to her home, and did not tell her that she had also invited a number of Mrs. Eady’s friends to spend the afternoon there also. They brought their crocheting and talking over things of mutual interest. The party included besides Grandma Eady, Mrs. Sam Doak. Mrs. Joe McFarland, Mrs. Martin Miller. Mrs. Fred Bieneke, Mrs. John Glaney and daughter, Nedra. Mrs. David Hunsicker. Mrs. D. V. Steele. One of the prettiest of the social affairs of this pre-holiday week was the sewing party given Wednesday after noon by Mrs. Frank Pearce at her home on Seventh street. Mrs. Tom Smith of Phoenix, Arizona, who is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Henry Gunsett. and who has made many friends here during her visit, was the guest of honor. While the afternoon hours flew delightfully with crocheting and sewing the ladies talked and then eh- . joyed several games and contests. At | four o'clock luncheou was served. The approaching Fourth suggested the motif for the decorations and color scheme which were carried out in the national colors. Gardenllowers tastefully arranged, in the national colors, alternated with the flags and bunting At four o'clock luncheon was served at the table. The grand march to the table, was lead by Mrs. Smith, to the accompaniment of .national airs. The national colors were drawn from the chandelier to the covers, and shielit were fastened at intervals on the streamers. The centerpiece of tin

p table was a large white-frosted cake, e bearing a small cannon. Favors were I flags and the national colors were carried out in the menu prettily. The I ice cream was topped with a waving r ’ flag, for style. While the guests were it seated at the table, a picture of them j. was taken as a momenta of the o occasion. The party Included besides Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Henry Gerke and daughter, Jenlce, Mrs. O. L. Ijimborn, ’’ and daughter. Vivian: Mrs. Frank II McConnell. Mrs. B. W. Sholty, Mrs. s Benj. P. Rice, Mrs. Henry (lunsett, ( f Mrs. Amos Gillig and daughter Agnes, ( Miss Mabel Weldy, Miss Katie MeElwee, Master Eugene Pearce. The ' hostess was assisted in serving by the Misses Ida and Lyda Gunsett. " Miss Josephine Myers, home was e thrown open to tlie Queen Esther Cirde last evening, her assistants being tlie Misses Florence Myers and Electa g Baltzell. The circle had with them ’ at this time, its new superintendent’, Mrs. O. L. Vance and Mrs. John My- : ers. Miss Grace Butler was the > splendid leader of the exercises. The devotlonals, business and social period were each considered. A report from the recent convention was interesting ' as given by Miss Ruth Fledderjohmt. ’ Miss Abbie Bigham sang, the Misses I Gertrude and Mildred Yager gave piano duets. The election of officers was also held. They are: President. Florence Myers; vice president. Merle Leonard: secretary, Abbie Bigham; treasurer, Grace Butler: mite box secre- ■ tary, Romona Smith. The society has been apportioned twenty-five dollars for missionary support and will proceed to raise this at once. An me cream social is announced for Friday evening. July 9. on the church lawn. Tickets will be sold for that and everybody is Invited. Grace and Anna Gerard, Aniln Swearing?-, Ida and Mary Fuhrman took a hike to the state line yesterday morning, ledvihg home at 5 o’clock At 6:30 they arrived at the Charles Sehnitz home where they feasted on strawberries and cream, and the# continued their way to the state line, where they were entertained at the John Shifferly home. In the after noon they had horse back rides, took pictures and otherwise enjoyed them selves. They were forced to ride home, however, on account nf rath. In all. they walked about ten miles. Sanford S. Rail, wife and son. Arthur of Ft. Wayne, who have been visiting with their mother. Mrs. John T. Coots., left this morning at ten o’clock for Donaldson. 111., where they will vsit with Mrs. Coot's sister? Mrs. Amanda Jones for a week. Mrs. Coots accompanied them for the visit. Mrs. I. A. Kalver was a charming hostess yesterday afternoon when she entertained forty ladies in cpmpliment to Mr. Kalver's mother, Mrs. Max of Chicago. Mrs, Max's sister. Mrs. Mull of Monroeville, was also a guest. Fourth of July was suggested in the decorations. There were vases of flowers in these colors; crepe paper streamers, bunting, flags and other pretty things, prettiest among them being a floral flag made by Miss Amelia Tonnelier. The affair was a sewing party but there were other amusements later. One was the contest in which articles suggested Fourth of July things Mirs Tonnelier and Mrs. C. N. Christen cut for the prize. Mrs. Christen'winning. The prize was a silken flag. Mrs. LaDelle won the booby prize. Music on the Victrola was also much appreciated. The two course luncheon was tempting and just as pretty to look at. The ice cream was in red. white and blue and the national colors were carried out otherwise in the menu as mush as possible. Small silken flags . were given as favors. The hostess was assisted in serving by the Misses Gertrude and Lena Holthouse and . Amelia Tonnelier. A splendid meeting of the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid, with many in attendance, and good interest, was held , at the home of Mrs. C. F. Davison yesterday afternoon. The ladies brought . their sewing and worked in preparation for the bazaar to be held this fall. . Miss Hanna and Mrs. Belinda Dorwin were guests besides members. . Mrs. Davison was assisted by Mrs. W. ■ A. Lower in serving delicious refresh- . ments. 1 Miss Frances Dugan entertained t the Tri Kappas yesterday afternoon. , During the summer months there is ? no program and the hours are devoted r to purely social affairs. The girls e therefore brought their needework and ■- sewed until six o’clock when refreshments were provided. During the afg teruoon three girls were pledged L>r d membership. They are Mary Frisnig e er, Ruth Bowers and Ruth Patterson, e Miss Ruth Hanna, of Philadelphi, who o is the house guest of her uncle, the e Rev, Hanna, was a guest. Is o e Miss Irene Buffett Is visiting Miss el Vera Clark for a few days.

■] —— , -- -- : From My Narrow Little Window Bfel ' By PFo THE HOOSIER OBSERVER “NO, SHE SHOULD NOT”

"No, she should not," said a mar who took up the discussion. Whether you remember or not, a few days ago 1 wrote what some nl ’ us girls thought about the magazine 1 contest question, whether a married 1 woman should keep herself just as ■ nice and attractive looking after mar ■ riage as before. We all thought she ' should: that if she did not she was ‘ like a criminal—selling goods tinder : fiise pretenses, or making her husband 1 appear mean and stingy before the world, although he might not be at fault at all. Well, it is interesting to hear what the men think about it. One in particular entered into the discussion. This particular man thought it would be well nigh impossible for her to keep herself just as nice looking. He assumed, however, that by “nice-look-ing” we metnt dressed up, or as the present day term is, "dolled up" in silks and satins and laces and fluffyruffles, sitting in a portch swing all day long, with nothing to do but look nice. “Why,” he said, "she wouldn't have time to keep herself looking as nice. A married woman’s business is to keep the house running smoothly, and a woman who attends to her house has considerable to look after. There wouldn't be time for her to keep herself dressed up. Before she is married, all she has to do is to dress herself and look nice.” So this man said. That seems to the majority of us girls a pretty poor argument. In the first place we didn’t mean she should keep on her Sunday-go-to-meet-ing gown around the house. Os course not. Neither does a girl do that before she is married. Before she is married she has gowns appropriate for the house, or for work, or for the street, or church. After she is married she will have appropriate gowns for every occasion. Under no circumstances would she be considered well dressed it the gowns didn’t suit the occasion and work. But when she goes out she should look just as nice as she did before she was married; when she works around the house she should be just as nice and clean and sweet looking as before she was married. If not. It would be a dead give-away that she "dressed up" before her marriage simply to “catch a man" —and the average woman, whether married or not —would crucify herself with all the latest improved methods of agony before she would admit that. Then Bulwer would be justified in bis saving: “The moment a woman marries, some terrible revolution happens in her system; all her good qualities vanish, presto, like eggs out of a conjuror's box. ’Tis true that they appear on the other side of the box. but for the husband they are gone forever.” That contention that unmarried girls are “dressed up” all thetimc. hinges upon the fact that a man usually sees his sweetheart only wiien she is dressed up in her best duds, waiting for him to come around. He naturally supposes. 1 guess, that she wears that kind of flub-dubbery all the time. If he would just use a little common sense, he might wonder of what use in the world she would be as a wife to a man whose wife would have to do her own work. To a woman who amounts to anything otherwise, her clothes are only a secondary part of herself, they seem naturally to belong to her nature, and are not a useless ornament. Os course the average married woman may not have as much money to spend in clothes as an unmarried woman, because there are usually several more to share up with. But pretty clothes JULY WHEAT MAKES GAIN. — ■ Chicago, 111., July 2 —(SpeciaJ to Daily Democrat) —Just before the close today, July wheat rose to $1.12. It closed at sl.ll 3-8. a net increase over last night of 4 1-Sc. The rise was believed to be due to extensive crop damage in Nebraska and other states. o K. OF C. ATTENTION The regular meeting on Monday. July sth. has been changed to Tuesday. July 6th on account of the 4th. being celebrated on Monday. - —o— — - ■ HOUSE FOR RENT—Corner of Fifth and Marshall, streets. Modern, tn- > quire Mrs. Elmer Sprague, Monroeville, Ind. 156t3

n are not always rich clothes. A wo man with the same pride and skill a after marriage that she had before if will manage to make a calico dress e look just as nice as a silk one. It is d that matter of pride, that wanting s to keep pace, that gives that careful r- touch of "niceness” to a calico dress, e as well as a “silk” one —if she can't s afford a silk; or that" makes over” to r best advantage from old ones. d Fuller says: "The good wife is none of our 1 dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every ' day new; as if a gown, like a strategem in war, were to be used '■ but once. Rut our good wife sets ' up a sail according to the keel ’ of her husband’s estate; and. if B of a high parentage, she doth not so remeffiber what she was by 8 birth, that she forgets what she is 1 by match." Then that point that unmarried girls have nothing to do but "dress up." ’ Rich girls in the city may have. But in a town the size of Decatur, the ’ majority of the girls are "working girls;” if they are not, everybody ’ knows they are “loafiing around at somebody else's expense. They have, in fact, less time to keep pretty and nicely dressed, than the housewife., The housewife has time to make her own clothes and give them that In 1 dividual touch, whereas many a girl who works away from home has lit--1 tie time except Sunday morning even 1 to mend -her hose. Some of the housewives have more , time than one would imagine, in spite ( of cleaning, scrubbing, baking, mend- , ing. washing, ironing, and fruit canning. I used to think that they didn't . have much time when I went to and from work morning, noon and evenings. and saw them all busy over hot , stoves. But I want to tell you. Two years ago, one hot August afternoon I had a raging headache, my collai was wilted with the plebian moisture that js supposed to be tlie curse upon Adam, but comes to some Eves as well who earn their bread —my nerves were all unstrung with the ceaseless clatter, clatter of men and women. Well. I decided to drop everything and go home. I went. Now. I love my work, and I think 1 wouldn't be happy doing anything else. I wouldn't for anything trade places with any other woman. But that afternoon my spirit rose in revolt as I went home. There I saw porch after porch of women, sitting in cool looking crisp muslins, dainty and pretty and untouched by perspiration, drinking cool drinks out of ice-clinking thin glasses, with apparently nothing else to do. I reached home fairly angry. When I got there, a poor, but tired looking girl, wearing an old, ugly brown, heavy cloth jacket suit rapped at the back door. She was selling blacking to help support h?r aged parents. 1 felt so sorry for her that I bought some, though we didn’t .need it a bit. I also gave her a drink . of cool lemonaxle. Well, neither of us, apparently, had aime to make ourselves look nice and feel comfortable—we had something else to do. I didn't hear her say that she was married and had to sell the ! blacking to help keep her husband. 1 If she had I would hate traded back ' the blacking immediately. I : think the majority of girls in a town as little as Decautr are in the same ’ boat. They dt/have something else ' to do besides doll up and look nice. ' so there. You Man! TO GIVE SOCIAL > ' (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ’ song; solos by small boys; reading, ' "Old Glory;” duet by small boys; tableau, entitled “Woman’s Rights;” flag drill by ladies; sketch, entitled, “Doin' Somewhere;” a pantomime and other features. Everybody is cordially invitfed to come. ,• — r o-—— NOTICE NOT TO TRESPASS. AU persons are hereby notified to trespass on the property of William 1 Koldeway in Prebie township. Tresi- passers will be prosecuted according -1 to law. 3 158t6 WILLIAM KOLDEWAY

r rv - < W 00 THf.WE/VK POINTS Our Experts have made a thorough study of the weak • noints in binders and the Walter A. Wood binder has prof--8 ited thereby to such an extent that it is absolutely the n lightest running and strongest machine on the market. Not only have they remedied these defects, but have ‘ added several improvements, such as an absolutely de- ’ pendable knotter, perfect sheaf separator and easy adjuster to meet all conditions of grain. It would require a book to tell of the many other good points so we extend to ,r ou a cordial invitation to inspect one of these machines and see for yourself the economy and labor it will save you. Lee Hard ware Company 730 times every year you use a separator IF IT RUNS HARD OR ISN'T EASY TO WASH OR DOESN’T skim clean, it is a constant annoyance and bother. NO OTHER MACHINE OR IMPLEMENT ON THE FARM receives such constant use, and there is no other machine on the farm where quality of work means so much and first cost means ho little. A LITTLE LOSS OF CREAM WITH A CREAM SEPARATOR, multiplied 730 times soon runs into money. It’s too big a handicap for any cow owner to try to work with. CREAMERYMEN ALL OVER THE WORLD LONG AGO CAMB - to the conclusion that the De Laval was the only machine they ! could afford to use. That's why 98 per cent of the cream separators used in creameries the world over are De Lavals. : ou And the biggest and best dairymen almost invariably using a De Laval. Experience has taught them that it is ths 3— most economical. /! il ■■■'£■'l/ YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO TAKE ANY / m chances with your cream separator and f'7l ' we * cnow that if you come to us and let I n us P u t ’ n a Laval for you 730 times I I • year you ,ay *° 7 our,e lf. "I made a 1 u good move when 1 bought that MM LAVAL JOHN SPUHLER DECATUR, INDIANA

p OR RENT—New house, near North Ward schcci fictse. Phone 349. Everything a penny at the Yeomens social Thursday evening. 155t3 Save your pennies and spend t h em at the Yeomans social Thursday evening. 155t3. FOR RENT—Three rooms, with clothes closet and pantry, and a good cement cistern. Also a good full lot, suitable for a late garden, on South Fifth street. Inquire at 335 So. 3rd St., or 'phone 669. 140tf

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A penny social at the Yeomans hall ' Thursday evening. Lots of fun, ’55t3 LOST —Glass part of an automobile light west of the city. Finder return to this office and receive reward. , 153t3 WANTED —Girl for housework in a family of three. No washing. Call prone 455. 155t3 FOR SALE—Good steel range, also a large gas stove; china closet folding bed. side board. Call Mrs. W. L Kuebler. 15M