Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Svary Ivanlng Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW Q. ELLINQHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier >5.00 Per Month, by mall 26 cents Per Year, by mall $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postofflce In Decatur Indiana, as second-class matter. Montpelier lias broken all Indiana records for a tax rate, the official levy having been announced for 1916 at $9.56 on the hundred. What in the world are you complaining about in Adams county? You might as well be dead as be a “dead one.” The fellow who is alive wants to help his community and in doing so helps himself as well as everybody else. Wake up and keep that way. The big thing just now' is to make a success of the Adams county fair. The management has done and is doing all it can. They deserve your aid in making this the biggest and best ever held here and it will be it you and each of you, citizens of Adams county, help to make it So. Indiana is fifth among the various states in number of pensions paid to war veterans. During last year pensions were paid to 45.613 Indianians and the total amount of money that went into the state in the shape of pensions was $10,096,919.78. The states that rank ahead of Indiana in number of pensions are Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois, in the order named. Between 1890 and June 30, 1915, the total amount paid to all pensioners has been $4,895,475,637.43, of which the enormous sum of $4,614,643,267.43 has been paid to pensioners of the civil war. The government surely does not forget those who fought for her. —Rochester Sentinel. . Have you noticed that according to the estimates of crops in this country, this peaceful nation has been blessed with the most remarkable harvest ever known, that we w'ill produce a billion bushels of wheat, a half more oats and three times that much corn? This means that we will have enough to supply our own wants and a large amount for exporting. The cotton crop is also fair and there will be considerable of that product exported and there is nothing but pros-

- . - ■. I JVTOWHERE in the city will you find a Fall Fashion display as pre- > tentious, interesting and full of suggestions as OUF °f Michael Stern Clothes f° r Men anc * Young Men. j I ll* _ M I M The showing will in- ! I i elude models in the I I I LATEST DESIGNS / I | Patterns and Textures. Come in and visit Ij'i 1:5 Our Display by al! means. The Myers-Dailey Company. Suits That Suit.

p perlty and lots of it in the future. = While a few lines may have suffered because of the war, this nation seems - to have been benefltted taken all tof gether, and we are just beginning to feel the effects. Our trade in South. America has more than trippled it is said, we are making in this country many lines of goods heretofore pur- ) chased abroad, and we will manufac--1 ture more of them. It's a hard time for 1 the pessimist to dig up anything that ( he can grumble about without making himself appear ridiculous. The Huntington Press says editorially: “The possibility that the C. ■ B. and C. railroad may exentually fall into the hands of experienced and financially responsible hands is indeed giatifying news. Mr. John V. Sees, who is representing the men who are interested in the project, is firm in the belief that should his parties secure the short line not only will the present line be placed in firstclass condition, but extensions necessary to the development of the road will be made. Mr. Sees is known as a man conservative in his statements, and not being in any sense a “dreamer” his activity in the matter is recognized as genuine. Fred A. Dolph, who is now holding up any immediate action by reason of the recent six weeks’ extension of time given him for making good on a purchase, has had a year in which to complete any organization or deal for the road. It does seem that Mr. Dolph has had ample time in which to interest capital in the short line, and that further leniency would be simply detrimental to the best interests of the road. Huntington is not interested in who gets the road, but it is interested in seeing that the road gets into the hands of men who will develop it.” j DOINGS IN SOCIETY j WEEK'B CLUB CALENDAR. Friday. Historical Club —Mrs. Sam Hite. Mite Society—Mrs. O. L. Vance. Zion Lutheran Aid —School House. Good Times Club —Miss Velma Butler. Christian Aid —At Church. Saturday. United Brethren Ladies' Pastry Sale —Gas Office. Good Manners. What are good manners? Many definitions have been given from time to time, but one of the best is the sort of manners which are guided by kindness and consideration for others. If you keep this in mind you need not be afraid of criticism. If you let your actions be guided by motives of kindness, if you consider others before yourself, you are

I. bound to do the right thing—j which is the kind thing—at the g right time.—Ex. >■ Mrs. Martha Shaffer, who makes B her home with her daughter, Mrs. Jay Cline, north of the city, wns eightyeight years of age Wednesday. A fine ’ dinner party was given in her honor, f and other guests were the family of . her other only child and son, A. J. Shaffer, of near Monroeville. He and his wife and children, Ed, Nellie, and Dollie, were present, with Mr. and ; Mrs. Cline's family, Mr. and Mrs. : John Cline, Harold and Clyde Cline, and Mr. Cline's mother, Mrs. Agnes Cline, who is seventy-seven years of age. The day was one of delightful reunion. Cards, conversation and a delicious luncheon made a delightful round of entertainment for the Wednesday Afternoon Five Hundred club entertained last evening by Mrs. Harmon Gillig. With the club members were several guests—Mrs. Frank Parent, Mrs. Hentzy and Mrs. Perry Gandy of Churubusco. The club prizes were won by Mrs. Joe Lose, Mrs. Arthur Mangold and Mrs. Ed Coffee and the guest's prize by Mrs. Hentzy. The prizes were lovely crystal Shepherdess baskets. Mrs. Gillig was assisted by her sister. Miss Mayme Harting, in serving tempting refreshments. The Helping Hand society had a big attendance yesterday at the Sunday school room, where they spent the afternoon knotting comforts. Mrs. Henry Moyer was hostess and served delicious refreshments. The next meeting will be in two weeks. The "out of date” social of the Do Your Best class of the United Brethren Sunday school was a novel one, enjoyed by seventy-five or eighty at the Mel J. Welker home last evening. The out of date holidays were represented, one room being especially decorated and arranged for the Fourth of July, with an Uncle Sam and the various amusements of that holiday; one for Thanksgiving and another for Christmas. There was a Christmas tree with a package and candy for each, and a real live Santa Claus. Singing and old fashioned games were played and refreshments provided. A splendid time is reported. THE OLD AND NEW (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) for the limestone and phosphate on the field, and this average annual investment resulted in the increase of twenty-four bushels of wheat per acre in 1913. Thus we may say that the previous applications of these two natural stones brought about the production in 1913 of 864 bushels of wheat, sufficient to furnish a year's supply of bread for more than a hundred people. No high priced or artificial commercial fertilizers are used on this farm. As a rulethe check strips across each of the forty-acre fields in the rotation are not harvested separately from the rest of the field. The limestone and phosphate have produced, even more marked differences in clover than in wheat; and where the first application of limestone was made to the three-rod check strip, as well as to the thirty-seven acres receiving the rock phosphate, the superiority of the phosphate and limestone together over the limestone alone has been exceedingly marked on both clover and wheat; and, of course the wheat and other grain crops are benefitted not only by the limestone and phosphate, but also by the previous increased growth of clover on the well treated land, especially where this is pastured or plowed under. Poorland Farm is in no sense an experiment station, and neither is it 1 a “show” farm. It is operated solely from an economic standpoint and with a full understanding from the beginning that general farming is not a highly profitable business, and that it is highly unprofitable on poor land. On the other hand it is equally well know’ll that intelligent permanent soil improvement on land that must or w’ill be farmed is both the safest and the most profitable investment open to the farmer and land owner. But both the difficulties and the methods of building up run-down soil have been repeatedly discussed by the writer in public addresses and in published articles, bulletins and books, and there is no necessity of repeating them here. Poorland Farm is usually inspected each year by my class of university students in soil fertility, about one hundred of whom saw the fields of wheat and clover in June, 1913. It is for the benefit of such as these, who desire to know the truth regarding economic systems of permanent soil improvement that this brief statement is published. The farm is a purely private enterprise operated by Hopkins brothers, and while interested visitors are welcome, they are not invited. nor met at the trains with automobiles. and are not entertained. There is no desire to advertise this

I farm, but on the other hand, any light it sheds need not be hidden. : SOLDIER IS SHOT 0 , Mexicans Fire from Ambush on Sleeping American Soldiers at Border. i ONE WAS KILLED [ Calvary Troop in Pursuit and it is Feared Lynching May Follow Capture. Brownsville, Texas, Sept. 24. — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Private Butterfield was killed and Captain Adam Anderson seriously wounded when thirty Mexicans fired on ten American soldiers who were sleeping in a ravine near Progresso. The soldiers taken by surprise, deserted their guns and fled. Their weapons were taken by the Mexicans who disappeared in the brush before reinforcemen s arrived. The Mexicans crossed the Rio Grande under cover of the darkness, evading the guards. The main detachment hurried to the scene ami found the camp entirely stripped of its equipment. A troop of calvary from the twelfth is leading the search for the Mexicans. Excitement is high and it is feared if the Mexicans are captured they will be lynched. o FOUR WEEKS YET (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) the administration and that ’lf you don’t pay, the police will lay on you." Rucker intimated that before the grand jury Faber answered “yes” to all those questions. Roach then said that the grana jury evidence would probably be brought in and the state would then decide whether to institute prosecution. Michael Ryan for the defense said then: “This threat of the prosecution made before this jury, is unbecoming to the prosecution in this case.” Objection was made both to the statement of Roach and to the leading with the grand jury questions but the state was sustained. o BENEFIT PLAY AT CRYSTAL Tho teachers and children of the west school building have arranged with manager Parent of the Crystal for a special show and entertainment this evening. In connection with five frig reels of moving pictures a fin< program will be given. Miss Gra< < Miller and little Miss Betty Johnson w’ill sing w’hile Miss Faye Hammell will deliver a number of jolly little readings. A Victoria! concert will !>“ furnished by Albert Sellemeyer. A two reel Charlie Chaplin comedy will go in connection the regular three reels also. The shows are “The Human Chain" a Vitagraph drama, “Mr. Blink of Bohemia" a comedy and “The Wealth of the Poor" an Essany drama The entertainment will help the west ward school buy a Victoral. o GARY TO HAVE BOULEVARDS. (United Press Service) Gary. Ind.. Sept. 24 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Those who followed through the 1915 legislature the efforts of Gary to become a second class instead of a fourth-class city, and who witnessed the final success of the “magic city,” will be interested to know that Gary’s boulevard system is about to get its start. One of the chief reasons given why Gary should be admitted to the second class was that its park board would be empowered to go ahead with plans for a city beautiful. Trees are to be planted soon in the streets selected for the boulevard system and gradually these streets will be improved, according to the comprehensive plan. Gary, how’ever. finds that its plan for growth, having been prepared well in advance against the time when Gary will be as big as Indianapolis, is now really a handicap to the plans of the park board rather than a help as it should be. The plan was laid out before the boulevard scheme was ' conceived and Gary's outlying sec- ’ tions wore subdivided into streets and lots long in advance. Now it is 1 found that the streets to be made into boulevards are too narrow, and the ’ plans of the park board are sorely limited. 1 o > STOCKHOLDERS MEET i The stockholders of the newly organized traction company; The Fort . Wayne, Decatur & Southern, which . purchased the Fort Wayne Springfield i railway recently, held a meeting here . this afternoon. This will be cotninuej . in session ip a few days. The mem- . bers are pleased with the bright pros- > pects for the company.

v CURIOUS REASON FOR MURDER " Surely Slayer Never Gave More Whimsical “Excuse” Than That Offered by Englishman. The "Brides’ Bath” murder trial in . London with one Smith charged with slaying for the sake of Insurance and legacies three of his six wives who i were found drowned in the bathtubs of lodging houses—recalls the singular case of Thomas Griffiths Wainewrlght, I journalist, art critic, forger, poisoner, j a member of the circle to which Lamb, Haziltt, Hood and others belonged, Philip Halo observes in the Boston . Herald. Among those whom he poiI soned for Insurance money was young Helen Abercrombie. When he was asked how he had the heart to kill such a fair and innocent creature, he answered, after mature reflection: "Upon my soul, I don’t know, unless j it was because she had such thick ankles." It is said that Wainewrlght was the original of Bulwer Lytton’s Varney, I and the husband of that author's Lu- 1 1 cretia Clavering; that Dickens’ "Hunt- I ed Down” was suggested by Waine-! , wrlght's career. Oscar Wilde wrote a whimsical if not wholly sympathetic j essay about Wainewrlght, and there is an account of him by W. Carew Haz- j Iltt prefixed to a collection of the poisoner's essays and criticisms published • 35 years ago. Wainewrlght had a son j > who entered tho British navy. Anx-; ious to escape the dishonor attached to his name, he came to America and, it is said, married a woman of mehns. If he is living he would now be about . eighty years old. Has his history in this country ever been traced? TRAINING FOR REAL WARFARE National Guard Preparing for Conflict as It Would Be on the Actual Battlefield. A photograph in the New- York Times shows members of the Seventyfirst regiment of the New York National guard “perfecting themselves in the operation of firing field mines.” The men are in their armory. Yet they are digging down into the earth and heaping up earthen breastworks. “This,” says the Times, “is in accordance with the recent policy by which the floors of the National guard armories were all removed in order that the militia might benefit by practice drills held on the ground under conditions more nearly approaching those of actual camp life. In plain words, the toy-soldier stuff is disappearing, with some reflection of the rapidity of Its disappearance on the fields of the great war. Those polished wooden floors were a part of the toy-soldier tradition. They were there not only for drill use, but also for dance use. Many regiments had to rent their'armories for dances or meetings in order to get revenue enough to live. With the earth floor, all this must go." War is not fought on hardwood floors. It is fought in the dirt. It is more important that men be trained under real conditions than that their armories have all the social advantages.—Chicago Post. Southern Town With Vision. A combination of foresight with the municipal ownership principle has given the United States one taxless town. This phenomenal community is Harrisville, W. Va., which 20 years ago bought a natural gas well and piped the town. Later the municipal gas plant was let to a private concern, which pays a rental sufficient to meet all the local expenses for government and public improvements. Now Harrisville, not content with the success of its experiment in one phase of municipal ownership, is about opening a railroad of its own, which it has built to another town six miles away. It remains to be seen how soon Harrisville will get out of the taxless class. Railroading is a more precarious business than selling natural gas.—Newark Star. Cat’s Pranks Bring Police. A cat whose paws caught in the chains by which the gas lamps were turned on and off brought six policemen to the pawnshop of Morris Rhodes, 106 Washington street, Patterson, N. J., at one o'clock in the morning and Rhodes in pajamas to the sidewalk shouting “Thief!” A night watchman saw the lights, ran to the police station and the rei serve squad hurled out. The proprietor’s cat was found dangling by its forepaws from rings on the lamp chains. Pussy was freed from its predicament caused by playing with the chains. Short Career of Big Gun. In a lecture on modern artillery at the Royal institution recently, Lieutenant Colonel Hadcock of Elswick contrasted the life of big guns with 5 that of a butterfly. In the case of the latter, he supposed that 24 hours would be an old age. The big gun, on the other hand, looked everlasting, but it only lived ’ when it was being fired, and if an in- ’ cessant stream of projectiles could be poured out from it, its active life in that sense would be only twelve seconds. Kultur That Counts. Captain Muller of the Bavarian t landwehr, desired to have a fireplace i built in his commodious underground I quarters in the second line trenches. ? "Sergeant," said he, “fetch mo a couple of men who can do the job. I don’t want any of your volunteer professors and doctors, but handy fellows ' —bricklayers or that sort of thing,’’— New York Evening Post, z-A ’ A. a -a ■'

1 I i Prosper in Fertile ■Jfe?- . Florida j'AND RLAD'Y A large section • ■ ° Honda s richest farm land has just been ; opened up in the beautiful, fertile i W ' KISSIMMEE VALLEY / p The new Okeechobee division of the Florida East Coast R R if?' has opened a large section of very .ich land in this beautiful valley of the far famed Lake Okeechobee e -ion—the garden spot of Florida. Ideal land for general farming —live stock dairying, poultry, hogs hay, cereals, garden truck and fruit. Rich eastern markets take all products i quickly at high prices. The new town of Okeechobee offers fine business opportunities. Other choice lands on main line of railroad. Land prices I and terms wq/ reasonable now. Personally Conducted Excursions. Come! First and third Tuesday of each month—low rates. Join us on one of these dcli. htf.,l excursions-investigate for yourself the remarkable fertility and profitableness <,f thi! i land- and experience the pleasures of Florida life—especially the superb climate. Write <<£ I complete details and our booklets “Live Stock F arming in Florida aud' Forage Crops." D. E. Studebaker, Local Agent, Decatur H. B. ELLWOOD, State Arent, North Manchester. Indiana Loui> Larson, Wcitern Industrial Agent, 155 W. Madison St., Chicago FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY qy @A BLAZE OF BEAUTY. A survey of our show t, b .-, win { ]jg. close to you the most beautiful. brilliant and sparkling ex;- ! ( ,f t | le diamond cutters art. lit- ar,- ,-xclusive in design, and there • an be no argument as to the price. These facts cannot be refuted. PUMPHREY’S JEWELRY STORE “If its new, we have it” Artistic Engraving Expert Repairing S® W /fe) O’/ ROUND OAK BASE BURNER SPECIAL DURING BIG FAIR WEEK. Don’t set around and chill yourself these cold days. Buy One of Our Famous Round Oak Base Burners Next Week at a Special Price, and heat up your home. Every person buying a Round Oak Base Burner next week will be given a Special Low Price. COME IN AND SEE THEM We also handle everything in the hardware hue, am carry a supply of Goodyear Automobile I ires. Lee Hardware Company Opposite City Hall.