Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 201, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1915 — Page 2

D AILY DE M PCR AT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW 0. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by currier ...”. .',55.00 Per Month, by mall 35 cents Per Year, by mall 12.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postotfice In Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Two perfect days in succession makes one almost feel happy but you don’t need to be frightened about a drouth. At that a week of this weather would mean a good many thousand dollars to the people of this community. Decatur business men should arrange a proper reception for the otti cers of the Indiana Retail Dealers Association when they come to this city on September 7th. It always pays to be courteous to visitors and these are visitors who reach every section of the state. Lets greet them and entertain them as good as we san.

What do you think about the boys gymnasium? The committee has several hundred dollars on hand and want to do what they can and whot the people of the community want done w’tli it. Please give your opinion. It will be gladly printed and the committee will be largely governed by your suggestions if within reason. Germany seems to not care a rap whether they retain the friendship of the United States. It is a fine thing to be independent but some times a nation can go too far The United States is a great country and a fair one. a united one and with wonderful rescources. It seems that the kaiser and iiis advisors ought to realize these facts but it also begins to look as though if they do they don’t care. We greet the teachers of Adams county, again assembled in -annual iu- ■ > stitntcr hi your hands wig soon'be placed the children of this county of school age and to you largely is due their future. We recognize your ability from your past achievements and we hope for you not only a profitable week of institute but likewise

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a pleasant one. The program is one of Interest and will we are sure be all that you have expected. A well known farmer said today that lie could find several things abou tho wet weather which at least partially makes up forth, loss of Ills oats and injury to other crops. He claimed thut the chinch bug had beconfe so bad that the oats average had been reduced to from thirty to forty bushels per acre. The wet season had he says drowned them out and whatever loss there will be this year will be made up in future years by larger yields, its great to be an optimist. To an outsider it would appecf the 1916 republican candidate for president ought to cot ■.. tn Vermont and the vice presidential r'T.’.lnee from Utah —or vice versa. Vermont and Utah are the only states in the union carried by republicans in the last presidential election, and as re; ..bli cans are firm in the belief “to the victor belongs the spoils,” why not let Vermont and Utah name the nominee for president and vice-president, and let’er go at that ?—Washington Decocrat. That modern houses can be rented in Decatur is proven by the statement of Mr. John Schug who is just completing a handsome and up-to-the-min-ute home on South Third street, the fourth he has built in that locality. His houses are always occupied and he has had twenty five offers to lease this new one which was rented before the foundation was in. Besides ills assistance in beautifying Decatur and being a builder. Mr. Schug has a very satisfactory investment. Why not more men like John Schug? DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK’S CLUB CALENDAR Thursday. Helping Hand Society—Sunday School Room. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Summer:, of North Second street entertained at Sunday dinner their daughter and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Hendry, sons, Elmer and Robert, and daughter. Crystal, of Ossian; Mr. and Mrs. George Simmerman and son. John, of Grant street, this city. The occasion was in honor of the oldest daughter. Mrs. George Simmerman's fortieth birth anniversary. The day was spent in a social manner.

Mrs. Reuben Lord will entertain the Helping hand society of the German Reformed church Thursday afternoon at the Sunday school room. In honor of /her seventy-second birth anniversary a reunion of the Wefel families was held yesterday at the home of Mr. aud Mrs. Henry Wefel. Mrs. Wefel was seventy-two years old and the children and other reltuives came to pay their respects to Iter. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. William H. Wefel. Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wefel and daughter. Margaret, Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. August Wefel and children, Dorothea and Norma, of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wefel and children. Louise, Aldine and Justine; Otto Wefel, at home; Mr. and Mrs. Christ Bultemeier and children. Edwin, Theodore. Edna and Lena; Mr anti Hrs. Ernst Buuck and children. Amelia. Oscar. Henry, Paul. Fred, Clara and Velma; Mr. and Mrs. August Eultemeier and children. Clara. Lawrence. Esther and Ella; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Haugk and children. Arthur. Edwin. Garhard and Rheiuard; Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Rohloff of Fort Wayne; Mrs. William D. Schlickman. Fort Wayne; Mrs. Wefel’s sister. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grote, and children, Alfred and Lawrence; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wefel and children. Edna and Wilma. Ed and Clara Boknecht’ motored to Bluffton this morning where they met Mr. and Mrs. Scott Ellis and daughter Chrisanna of Indianapolis who will spend a week or ten days visiting in the city with Mrs. Ellis’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Chris Boknecht and family. Mrs. William Butler entertained at dinner yesterday for a few relatives in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Dibble and son. The guests were Mrs. Henry Lindgrin ana son, Roy, of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. L. 1. Lindley and daughter of Marion. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ahr, Mr. and Mrs. Cal Myers. Mr. and Mrs. Dibble will return to their home at Lansing. Mich., tomorrow. Martin and Clara Wetland proved to be royal host and hostess to a com-

puny of friends at supper last evening at their country home. Those present were Adolph and Erltz Marbach. (Tarfence Dasch, Aaron Welland, Frieda and Martha Koldeway, Clara Lehrmaa, Velma Walters, Viola Grote, Cordula Welland Huth and Louise Mnrhnch, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Weiland and son, Wilson. In- tlte evening the supper party was joined by Hugo, Ernst, Amos and Carl Thieme, Herbert, Edgar and Martin Reinking, William Fritz, Frederick Blakey, Walter and Silas Boltz. Arthur Wolf. Robert Bentz. Fred Hoile. Harold Thieme, Otto Rodenbeck. Rufus Lawson. Everett Sheets, Louise, Lydia and Edna Blakey, Edl.’t Louise and Sophia Fuelling. The evening was most enjoyably spent in playing games and with music.

SILVER WEDDING Mr. and Mrs. Chas Rabbitt Celebrated Twenty-fifth Wedding Anniversary WITH BIG DINNER Guests Included all Who Attended Original Wedding Quarter Century Ago. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rabbitt, four and one-half miles east of Decatur, celebrated thetwenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding Sunday by entertainjug all day and at a big chicken dinner with everything else to make sucha dinner a success, and with all the guests present who attended their wedding a quarter century ago. excepting the minister, Rev. E. A. Boyd. It was a most enjoyable occasion and the bride and groom were the recipients of a number of handsome and valuable silver gifts. Those present included Rev. and Mrs. T. H. Harman and son; George Cramer, wife and children; A. R. Wolfe and wife; ! Bert Wolfe, wife and daughter; Charles Bailey and family; Albert Bailey and wife; George Ohler. wife and children; William Meyers, wife and children; Mrs. John Meyer and son; Mrs. Ed Kinney, Miss Irene Kinney. Miss Genevieve Kinney, Mrs. Clem Keener and son and Willis Repp of Grabill. Ind.; Mrs. Dick Roop and son: R. A. Drummond and wife; Miss Grace Poyneer and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Walters. ST<»( KHol .HERS' MEETING. Notice Is hereby given that the annual meeting of sjqj,k,a<>lders of the Citizens' Telephone company at Decatur. Indiana, will bi held at th;- office of the secretary of said company in the City of Decatur, Indiana, on Monday, September <t, at seven o’clock j. i,-,.. for the election of live directors and the transaction of such other business as may be properly hronglut before said meeting. F. M. SCHIItMEYEII. 200t10 Secretary. REUNION NEXT SATURDAY The Kunkie-Kleinnight reunion, which has been an annual event for a number of years wil be held next Saturday, August 28th at Tocsin.. A number of relatives from this city and county will attend. o Postmaster J.W. Bos.se reports the letters and cards remaining at the Decatur postoffice for the following persons: ' Letters: Thomas Dirksin. Frederic Herman. Otto Heller, Mrs. R. A- Secord; cards: C. B. Adams. Mrs. Mania Johnson. Ed Kantop. Manley, Miss Ethel Post, Harry Reed. Mr. Krimmel. the piano tuner, of Fort Wayne, is here for a few days. Parties wishing piauoes tuned can leave word at the Murray hotel, 'phone No. 57. 201t2

COUNTWAGEANT May be Given by School Children to Celebrate Indiana Centennial. DURING THE YEAR 1916 E. S. Christen Appointed .Member of Grand Committee from County. County Superintendent E. S.' Christen has been named as the Adams county member of the grand committee of the Indiana Historical commission. His appointment was announced this morning by Waited C. Woodward. director of the Indiana Centennial, who visited this city. Mr. Christen will at once name a committee to work with him, the idea being that Adams county assist in the state celebration and also have a local celebration some time next year, observing the one hundredth birthday of the admission of Indiana as a state. Mr. -Christen is the thirty-second to have been named on the •committee, and with his assistants and following suggestions from the state organization, will work out plans for a big event. It is quite likely that this may take the form of a big county pageant participated in by the children of the entire county. Mr. Woodward gave a short talk at the institute this morning and left at noon for Berne, where he will visit with Mr. Lehman, an old friend and pupil of his.

GETS PROMOTION (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) science of physics in America; and the Indiana Academy of Science, whose members are actively engaged in scientific pursuits. The physics department of Indiana university, in which John Dutcher is a professor, ranks as the greatest in the middle west. The department occupies thirty-one rooms and the equipment is adequate and of the highest type. The physics library contains 800 volumes. The high ranking the department has is shown by the position its graduates readily class in college and universities over the entire United States. The department has men at Purdue and Chicago universities, and in the institutions of many of the state further west.. Professor Dutcher has a right to feel proud of the position he holds in the university and of the opportunities he has to render service to the state. He began his career in this county as a country school teacher. For him it has been a long struggle, but his efforts have borne fruit and his friends in the vicinity of his early home are rejoicing at his success. WILL MEET TUESDAY NIGHT The Decatur Merchants Association will meet at the library at eight o'clock Tuesday evening. Regular business and plans for entertaining the officers of the Indiana Retail Dealers who come here September 7th will be discussed. o TRANSCRIPT IS APPROVED. County Auditor Baltzell has been notified by the Delaware County bank of the approval of the transcript foi the Aaron Bricker macadam road in Wabash township and the bonds have been ordered printed and delivered at once.

BIG DOINGS ALL WEEK During the entire week of August 23rd. to 28th. the Marks Amusement Co., will hold a street fair in this city. BIG PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY EVERY NIGHT Ferris Wheel and Merry-Go-Round. Many Big Free Amusements. . Doll-Baby Racks, Shooting Galleries, Lunch Stands and many other consessions. Remember the date, August 23rd. to 28th.

PUBLIC SALE. We, the undersigned, will sell at public auction at my residence-in Monroe township, Adams county, Indiana. Il miles south of Decatur, on mud pike, I mile east dr Monrne and 3 miles south, 1H miles east of Berne and 3 miles north, on Wednesday, September 1. 11)15, beginning at 12:30 o'clock p. in., the following property, to-wit: Six Head of Horses, consisting of 1 brown mare colt, 2 years ,old, broke double; bay mure colt, 2 years old, broke double; buy horse, 3 years old. broke to all harness; bay mare, 11 years old. broke to all harness, mule colt by her side, but will be sold separate; bay yearling horse colt. Twelve Head of Cuttle, consisting of one black cow. 5 years old, % holstein A4 Durham, giving 3 1 4 gal. milk it day; black cow, 6 years old. % Jersey and Durham, giving 6 gal. milk a day, calf by her side; brindle cow. 7 years old. >4 Jersey and H Durham, giving 5 gal. milk a day; Durham cow, 3 years oWI, giving 4 gal. milk a day, calf by her side; yellow Jersew cow. 5 years old, giving 4 gal. milk a day, calf by her side; red cow. 5 years old, giving 3 gal. milk a day; Jersey cow, 10 years old, giving 2% gal. milk a day; roan heifer. 1 year old; red heifer, 1 year old; Jersey heifer. 1 year old; Holstein heifer, <’> months old; Holstein bull. 5 months old. Forty-four Head of Hogs, consisting of 10 brood sows, 7 Hampshire and 3 Duroc; sow with 7 pigs by her side; sow with 3 pigs by her side; 6 sows, to farrow soon; 2 brood sows, not bred; 2 Hampshire boars. 1 with papers, other eligible to register; 18 shoats. weighing 100 lbs. each; 14 shoats. weighing from 50 to 75 lbs. each. Terms of Sale—All sums under $5.00 cash; sums over $5.00 a credit of 9 months without interest, purchaser giving note with approved security. No property removed until settled for; 4 per cent discount for cash. LETT & KALVER. J. A. Michaud. Auct. Rudolph Schug. Clerk.

CONFESSES TO REAL NAME Robert Smith, the young boy arrested Friday on the charge of stealing a bicycle and latter confessing to the theft of two horses, confessed Sunday morning after a grilling examination by Deputy Sheriff Jacobs to having given a factitious name and that n s real name was John Small and his home at near Williams. The identification was further assured by Mr. August Sellemeyer who is the young fellows guardian and "'ho called upon him at the jail. Small gave as his reason for taking the Miller horse from this city Tuesday night, as being under the influence of liquor. EIGHTY YE.“RS OLD TODAY Mrs. Catherine Cioss is today celebrating her eightieth birthday aud h ?r many friends from all over the city were busy sending her postals and otherwise congratulating her. Mrs. (Toss came to Decatur when it was nothing more than a woods and has lived here ever since. We also congratulate her and wish her many more happy birthdays. o MR. LOWER IS NO BETTER The condition of J. S. Lower continues most serious. He passed a very restless Sunday and last night and was much weaker this morning. o TO JOIN TRAINING CAMP Chicago, Aug. 23, — (Special to Dailv Democrat)—H. B.Holman. Rochester, Indiana, Paul Comstock, Richmond and C. E. Wood, of Hammond today asked to be allowed to join the Citizens training camp at Fort Sheridan. o~ . Democrat Want Ads Pay.

DATE ANNOUNCED Lydia Miller Announces Engagement to Mr. M alter Dietsch at a LUNCHEON PARTY Given at Home of Parents Last Evening—Will be Married in October. At a delightful luncheon party given last evening at the home of her par ents, Mr. anil Mrs. Martin Miller at 823 W. Monroe street, Miss Lydia Ml ler announced her coming marriage to Mr. Walter Deitsch of Celina, Ohio, and which will occur during the month of October. The homt was beautifully decorated with flowers and plants, the color scheme, pink and white being curried out both in the decorations and tn the luncheon. The guests were seated at eight tables and a game of "Hearts ’ was indulged in preliminary to the serving of the luncheon, in this game, Mrs. Fred Fullenkamp and Fred Schurger proved to have the least number of points and were awarded first prizes while Marie Gass and Ld Weisling had managed to get the largest number of points marked against them and were given consolation prizes. Following the conclusion of the game, the delicious luncheon was served by Miss Dorothy Schultz and Mrs. Ralph Miller. Favors consisted of small baskets filled with candy hearts. The basket of Miss Ode Fullenkamp however contained the surprise of the evening in the shape of two lieartsttied with a bow of ribbon, one of theu\containing the inscription "Lydia, October " and the other one "Walter. 1915.'" During the evening, the guests were delightfully entertained by musical selections by Mr. Anthony Holthouse. Miss Miller is one of the well known and popular young ladies of the city. For nearly six years she has been employed in the Fullenkamp store, where her cheery smile and courteous manner have won for her countless numbers of friends. Not only is Miss

War is H-—? Just think of it 30g For a dry cell battery AND VV ith every old battery returned to us we will allow you a credit of 2 l-2c on a new one. Bring in your old worn out batteries and reduce the cost of new ones. HOLTHOUSE Z GARAGE

Miller exceedingly popular in social jlfe but also church circles, she being u member of the German Reformed church in this city, and being a diligent worker in all of its departments. Mr Oeitsch is a well known bus!Hess man of-Celina, Ohio, he being associated with his father, I’. W. Deitsch in the retail grocery business there. During his many Visits to this city he has formed a large clrde of friends and acquaintances and has proven himself to be a most exemplary young man. The young couple will make their future home at Celina. The guests who were present last evening were: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fullenkamp. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lose, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Cowan, Mr and Mrs. Erwin Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Brodbeck, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Miller. Misses Ode and Letta Fullenkamp. Dorothy Schultz, Marie Gass, Amelia Weber, Louise Brake, Messrs. Tony Holthouse, Ed Weisling. Tony Hackman, Fred Schurger. Herbert Fullenkamp. William Helm. Out of town guest- « re Mr. and Mrs. Otto Reppert. Miss Augusta Yager. Ossian; Misses Ethel and Laura Deitsch, Celina; Miss Jessie Beckholdt, Celina; Miss Alice Kriegel. Lima, and Messrs. Henry Gansley, Theodore Bourne and Walter Deitsch, of Celina.

dairy foh sale. If we can dispose of the dairy located at Steele's park before August 10th we will do so. Good paying business. Will either trade or sell. Inquire at once. YERKEY & WALTERS, 177tf 'Phone 12-L. notice. We will start our cider mill August 3, 1915, and will make cider every Tuesday and Thursday until further notice. Factory, North Third street. 182tf PETER KIRSCH. 0 PIANO TUNING AND REPAIRING. D. A. Gilliom I Professional) rebuilier and repaired of pianos and sewing machines, and piano tuner. Dealer in both branches. Write or phone 8. Line P, city. lllm-w-f ts o FOR SALE—Eight room house, nearly modem, located on Chestnut St., good fruit trees and garden. Terms and time to suit purchaser. Inquire of Mrs. Thomas Myiott e.o.d. ts Mrs. Joseph O’Conner of Mouneapolis, Minn., was a week end guest of Miss Mabie Burns.