Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT PubllahMl Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company J.EW O. ELLINQHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Tear, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall $2.50 Single Copies I cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Poetoffice in Decatur, Indiana as second-elaas matter. THE SITUATION: — General confidence in tills country is increasing every day. Conserve-! tive bankers are convinced that the commercial markets are making big | strides forward. These close observers say that the country has been headed right for a considerable time, but that now we have a breeze behind us an* are speeding our pace. Sometimes we are deceived because we are prone to take our cue from the security market, and whenever a reaction occurs there we attribute It to some serious defect in the general situation. But we forget that the stock market at times becomes overbought and that liquidation is the only corrective. It is best opinion that fundamental conditions are astonishingly sound. We are heavily ’ long of both crops and money, two distinctively necessary ingredients. We have been feeling the effects of the war; now we are to derive the benefits of the profits made by war contracts in our own domestic business and our war profits are still accumulating. The supply of money is larger than ever before, despite the furious speculation and the steady growth in the volume of general business. The present troubles of the security market are therefore technical rather than fundamental. Those who are playing for the fall are those largely who have sold out And wish to recover at a lower level/ Shrew'd traders fear an inflation of values more than they do a protracted reaction.—Finance. The president very quickly ordered that a deputy postmaster who was removed because he had critisized the president's engagement be reinstated. provided that was the one and ! only reason tor his removal, which 1 probably had little to do with it. Trade with Decatur merehants. If ,

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' you deal with the live ones you will = get the best goods for the least money and you can tell the live ones by . glancing through the Daily Democrat / each evening. That’s where they invite you to visit their stores and buy flieir goods. And don't forget that : if you keep that dollar at home you have a chance to get it back again i and you haven’t if you send it to ChiI < ugo or some other outside market. 1 It ought to be easy for you to figure. i Incidentally, one Isn't hearing so j much nowadays of the rumor prevalent some timeago, that Senator Kern was likely to be unseated as the democratic senate leader and exiled to the cold outside because he was presumably out of exact alignment with the president on his views as to nai tional preparedness for defense. Sen , ator Kern is much too big a figure to i be distressed by this sort of talk, and there is no evidence that President Wilson has been at all disconcerted by it. The coming session of congress will find the Indiana senator as fully and completely on the job as before.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. The appointment of Evan B. Stotsenbnurg as attorney general may be "pointed to with pride” by the legal profession of the state and the people generally. Mr. Stotsenburg is an attorney of high standing, keen appreciation of the ethics of his profession and careful training covering a period of nearly thirty years. It is doubtful whether Governor Ralston could have obtained a man better equipped to succeed the late Richard M. Milburn. Although Mr. Stotsenburg has been prominent in the democratic party he never has been given to playing politics as the game is understood generally. In the present appointment the office sought the man. Mr. Stotsenburg was talked of three years ago as a candidate for governor and last year for attorney general, but he refused to enter the race. As a member of the senate for eight years he was the leader of his own' party and recognized by the oposition as a man of ability a fid good judgment. An unfriendly press which' could not use him to suit its purposes referred to him as the leader of a vague "bipartisan" combine, but the attack failed to deprive him of his great usefulness as a lawmaker or weaken his among the men with whom he served. —Indianapolis Star. SON IS BORN. Mrs. John Brothers has received announcement of the birth of a son. Virgil, to Mr. and Mrs. Otto Gross of Ashland, Ohio. Mrs. Gross is her sister and was formerly Miss May Dibble of this city.

iI flirßi*nit*irbi>nnnnHn«nntiiTt>ttnnTfn t : I DOINGS IN SOCIETY [ t c rtunnntiuttttnottttniHtttttHtiutigt?* WEEK’B CLUB CALENDAR. Tuesday. Loyal Men’s Class J’, G. Willliams. Wednesday. 1 Shakespeare—Mrs. A. D. Suttles, i Five Hundred Club—Mrs. Arthur . Mangold. Thursday. Presbyterian Aid Church Parlors. Helping Hand—Sunday School Room ( Euterpean—Mrs. Eugene Runyon. Bachelor Maids —Mrs. Harry Fritzinger. 1 Baptist Aid —Mrs. Howard Sikes. Embroidery—Agnes Costello. i Friday. Mite Society—Mrs. Will Butler. Historical —Mrs. James Fristoe. Zion Lutheran Aid —At Schoolhouse, all day, Mrs. Herman Dierkes hostess. • Saturday. Tri Kappa Pastry Sale Gas Office. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. —Geo. MacDonald. The Tri Kappas announce a pastry sale for next Saturday at the gas office. Mrs. J. O. Sellemeyer will also hove some honxmiade candy for sale and will receive orders for Christmas candies. One of the social events of this week is the friendship shower and pedro party given at the K. of C. hall I by the Misses Bess Tonnelier and Celeste Wemhoff for Miss Anna Clark, whose wedding to Ralph Amrine will be next Wednesday, November 24. The Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society wil meet next Thursday afternoon in the church parlors. They will knot comforts and prepare for their bazaar to be held soon. To welcome again to the city and their society and church, Mrs. Jessie Allison Deam. who was one of their, most valued members, and who has lived away from Decatur for several years until her recent return, the Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society gave her a house-warming reception last evening at her home, the old Allison homestead on Adams street. Mrs. Deam knew nothing of the plans until sixty, who had previously met al the home of Mrs. J. C. Patterson, walked nito her home. They brought a picnic supper with them and at six o’clock the feast was spread. They remained for a very delightful evenwhich was spent socially in a general way. A fine study of “Scientists” was conducted for the Research club yesterday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Jesse Dailey, by Mrs. Jesse C. Suttno. Mrs. Sutton’s paper was excellent and the sub-topics given out and discussed were on the twelve greatest scientists. Some time ago. a thousand leading scientists were ask to vote upon the question as to which were the twelve greatest, and the ones they elected were the ones discussed in the sub-topics. Miss Irene Meyers

was a guest. Next Tuesday afternoon the club will have a “guest day” at the home of Mrs. Will Kremers. Mrs. O. L. Vance, who fs chairman of the social committee of six In charge of the preparations, and elaborate arrangements arc being made tor the observance of the day. Each member will invite two guests. The next regular club meeting will be the following r week and Mrs. Junies Fristoe will have the paper on "The Colored Man and His Development." i The Rebekahs will have their first nomination of officers this evening and . a good attendance is desired. After tin- lodge session lunch will be serv ed. > Mr. and Mrs. Clem Yager entertained at dinner Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kern and daughter, Margaret; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sowards and • son, Lavore; Mrs. Jim Archbold, Miss Jennie Archbold and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Swartz and children, Harold and Lola. Friends are in receipt of letters from Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sellemeyer, who are enjoying their honeymoon in Chicago. They are having “one grand time,” and expect to be home the latter part of the week. They were married last Thursday. Mrs. Sellemeyer being Miss Edna Hoffman. Mrs. L. A. Graham will have as her guests Thursday and for several days. Mrs. R. F. Oakes and daughter, of Maywood. 111. Mrs. Oakes was formerly Miss Nellie Hart of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Will Leedy and Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Moses of Fort Wayne motored here and were guests Sunday of Mrs. Julia Moses and daughter, Miss Annette Moses. A pleasant luncheon of Saturday afternoon in which a coterie of friends including those of the former Thimble club enjoyed a pleasant reunion was given at one o’clock at the Judge J. T. Merryman home, by Mrs. Don Quinn for Miss Margie Hanna of Fort Wayne who was her week-end guest. The Mite society will meet with Mrs. Will Butler on North Eighth street Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. E. B. Lenhart will be assistant hostess. Every member of the Presbyterian Ladies' Aid society is requested to meet at the church parlors Thursday afternoon when business of importance will be attended to. — ARREST AUTO THIEF (United Press Service) Sullivan, Ind.. Nov. 16, —(Special io Daily Democrat)—Dr. Charles W. Pagel, who was arrested in Chicago in his private garage and was held in jail here today, was the ringleader : n a gang of organized automobile thieves’ according to a statement made today by Chief Rich. Pagel was arrested while cutting a number from a machine which was identified as having been stolen from William Hampke cf Carlyle. Page! has served a term in the Indiana state prison from Greensburg for forgery. Efforts are being made to connect him with operations in Lake and Vigo counties. FAY GETS SCARED (United Press Service) New York, Nov. 16. —(Special to the Daily Democrat)—When “lieutenant” Robert Fay, reported to have confessed to a plot to blow up munition carrying ships learned today he might be sent to serve twelve years if he pleaded guilty he announced he would refue to turn government’s evidence. Counsel for Fay today ..filed demurers to the inditement returned against him. Federal authorities abandoned their efforts to obtain from Fay the names of “higher ups" in the alleged conspiracy.

GREETINGS TO PUBLIC I Mr. John Scheuy having purchased the interest of Mr. Fred Schaub in the Schaub-Dowling'Hardware store the firm will now go by the name of DOWLING-SCHEUY CO. We therefore extend to all the farmers in Adams County and vicinity, as well as to the citizens of Decatur a cordial invitation to drop in and see us. We will be glad to make new acquaintances as well as to renew old ones. We also ask the public for their patronage and will do everything to please. When in need in hardware, stoves or the like give us a call. WATCH FOR BARGAINS LATER. Dowling-Scheuy Co.

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CALENDAR FOR WEEK ENDING NOVEMBER 20. Monday, Novmeber 16, 7:30 p. m. Decatur Lodge, No. 571. F. & A. M. Special called meeting. Work in Fellow Craft degree. Friday, November 19, 7:30 p. m. Decatur Chapter, No. 127, O. E. Star. Regular stated meeting. o THE FIRST MOVE? (CONTINUED FROM PACE ONE) Democrat)— Conscription is not yet necessary in England, Premier Asquith told the house of commons this afternoon. He added he hoped and believed it will not be resorted to at all. ~MILLER-HALBERSTADT. Rev. D. T. Stephenson officiated this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Methodist parsonage at the wedding of James Wesley Miller, a young farmer of Monroe'' township, and Miss Nancy Halberstadt, a well known young lady of near Berne. The groom is a son of Mathias Miller and the bride a daughter of G. W. Halberstadt. o FINGER BADLY CUT. Miss Malissa Langworthy, of the Morris store, cut the right index finger severely at 2 o’clock this afternoon while at work. She was using a butcher knife as a sort of lever, when it slipped and cut the finger nearly to the bone. o— A. W. BECHLER ELECTED. (United Press Service' Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 16 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —A. W. Bechler, of Garrett was today elected grand junior warden of the Odd Fellows’ grand lodge over a field of six candidates.

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