Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 13 December 1915 — Page 3

MONDAY DECEMBER 27th. OUR NEW CHRISTMAS CLUB STARTS I Your check for the 1915 I Club will be mailed on I Wednesday evening the I 15th. A few holders of • I Cards telephoned they could not get in until I WEDNESDAY Please try and close up at noon on that day. THE PEOPLESIOAN AND TRUST COMPANY.

| HELP WANTED | ■WANTED —Girl to do housework. No I Washing. Inquire L. Yager, 246 ■g. Second St. ’Phone 44. 296t3 ■IDEAS WANTED—Make SSO weekly I during your spare time; 50,000 moKies want more ideas from both Hexes. No experience necessary. Par■ticulars free —C. L. Kellog, 4055 Cook Kkve., St. Louis, Mo. 293t14 SffiFOß SALE —20 acres of improved I land, well drained. Big sacrifice, if in thirty days. Also, silk comSorter for sale or trade for ten dol:iar value. Will call to see what you ■lave. Write Mrs. C. B. Andrews, Decatur. Ind., R. R. No, 5, Monroe teles phone. 292tG* FOR RENT —A modern house for rent. | Has everything except a furnace. |kfcood barn and garage in connection. Inquire of Mrs. Al Burdge, phone No. ■OB. ' 287tf. FOR - SALE —Large refrigerator, two E beds, book case, hall rack, side- ■ Board and two rockers. Inquire L. T. ®rokaw, corner North Seventh and Indiana streets. 289t12 FORD FOR SALE —A brand new fivet passenger Ford touring car. Has never been used. Inquire at the Holthouse Fireproof Garage, North First Street, Decatur, Ind. 281tf FUR RENT —Four furnished rooms for g light housekeeping, 336 Line street. 'Phone No. 521, 607 Monroe street.— B. W. Sholty. 291-e-o d-ts FOR RENT—At a low figure, my house, furnished. Everything modern; electricity, gas, cold and hot city water, soft water, bath, furnace, coal or wood range. Call 233 North Fifth Street. 284tf FOR SALE —Thirty-inch double wags’ on bed and one twelve-inch single wagon bed. Also a number of feed troughs. Inquire of Peter Kirsch, •phone 211. 296tf LOST —Two-inch suction hose, 7 feet " long, a two-inch gas pipe, put on with new brass clamp, lost in front of George Zimmerman farm. Please return to this office. —P. B. Dykeman. 297t3 LOST —Small pocketbook, containing '{Schafer Hardware Co. check and betweefl two and three dollars cur*ol"—

.■A-w... - I CHRISTMAS PRESENTS? I THE XMAS ELECTRICAL SPECIAL j I HAS ARRIVEDI With the latest designs in Showers, I semi-indirect and indirect lighting fixtI ures, Electric Stoves, Radiators, PercoI lators, Sad Irons, Heating Pads, Curling I Irons, and the finest Portable Lamps, and j I Christmas Tree Outfits ever shown m j I Decatur. I We design and install special ChristI mas Tree Lighting Equipments .or < I Churches, Lodges and private homes. I - z'"’-'"" - — I LAWERENCE eTeCTrTcAL COMPANY.

rency. Reward. Call at Schafer Hardware Co. 294t3 NO HUNTING ALLOWED From this date on we will positively not allow any hunting on our farm. Violations of this will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Please take notice. 295t4. MERRYMAN BROS. FORNAX MILLING CO. Pays highest prices for good milling wheat. Want good hand sorted new ear corn. Call and see them. 281tf NOTICE. No hunting or trespassing will be allowed on my farm. CLINT CLOUD. o BARBER SHOPS WILL CLOSE All Union barber shops will be clos- • ed Christmas, but will remain open . until ten o’clock the night before. , city hall. 296t3 , The new city house numbers are only fifteen cents each. Tack yours up today 1 and save the extra expense of having the city to do ;jL - : _ ■ + 4•4■4•4•4•4•4••i•♦♦♦♦♦ t * Fine second hand Packard pi- 4ano, in first class condition, for 4" ? 4> sale cheap, if sold right away.— * Yager Bros. & Reinking. 291t3 + 4.4<4.4.4<4<4‘4 > 4-4>4*4-4 > 4 i . - - 4- 4- 4- 4-4>**4-4‘4-4»4 > 4 > 4- * PLENTY OF MONEY * . * * . 4> To loan on farms, 10 years’ * 4> time, without renewal, no com- + . mission, partial payments any 4> 4- time. ERWIN OFFICE..4-4-4.4.4*4<4-4‘4'4-4<4*4-4'4' 0 — 1.{.4^4 > 4.4>4>4*4'4>4'4*4'4' f + PLENTY OF MONEY * t * to loan on * a * IMPROVED FARMS * t * at 5 Per Cent ' * Abstracts made on short * ' * Notice. * - * SCHURGER’S * a * Abstract Office. 4. 4. -£ 4. 4" 4> 4- 4> 4- 4 1 4" 4> '!

H DAYS OF COLO t Immense Output Follows Discov- J ery of Metal in California. < 1 For Eleven Years, From 1850 to 1861, ’ the Yield Was Prodigious, Amount- , Ing in 18b2 to Over ( $65,000,000. ] Washington.—" Tho historically im- , portant discovery of gold in California was made in January, 1848, at John ►Sutter’s mill on South Fork of Amerl- ' can river, near Coloma, a point only 1 ten or fifteen miles southwest of tho 1 town of Auburn," says a statement by the geological survey. “From 1850 to 1853 the greatest , yield was derived from the gravels, and the largest annual output for this period was more than $65,000,000 In 1852. There was some reaction in 1854, due to previous wild speculation, but a production of about $50,000,000 a year, chiefly from placer mines, was maintained up to 1861. “At first the gold was won chiefly from the gravels along the present streams. Those who first got possession of the rich bars on American, Yuba, Feather and Stanislaus rivers and some of the smaller streams in the heart of the gold region made at times from SI,OOO to $5,000 a day. In 1848 SSOO to S7OO a day was not unusual luck; but, on the other hand, the income of the great majority of miners was far less than that of men who seriously devoted themselves to trade or even to common labor. “The gold pan, the ‘rocker,’ the ‘tom,’ the sluice and the hydraulic giant, or ‘monitor,’ named in the order of increasing efficiency, were the tools successively used by the miners. Into the ‘rocker’ and the ‘tom’ the miner shoveled gravel or ‘dirt,’ rocking tho machine as he poured In water and catching the gold, often with the aid of quicksilver, on Tillies set across the bottom of his box. Sometimes a stream was diverted into a flume to lay bare the gravel in its bed so that the miner could get at it. “In sluicing, the gravel was shoveled into a similar but much longer box through Which a stream of water was allowed to run. “The hydraulic giant was employed to wash Into long riffle-set sluices immense quantities of gravel, especially from the higher (Tertiary) deposits, much of which was too lean to work out by hand. Water was brought for many miles in ditches and flumes from the high Sierra and conducted under great head to a nozzle, from which It was projected with tremendous force against the gravel. “It was the vast quantity of refuse 1 washed into the streams try these hydraulic operations that brought about the conflict between mining and agricultural interests, finally decided in favor of the farmers.” BIG HAUL FOR “CRIPPLE” This Beggar Kept Record of Receipts —Gives Poiice Hard Battle. Allentown, Pa.—William Newbecker, a perfectly healthy man, who can twist his arms so that he looks crippled, did such a prosperous business begging in Allentown that he went on a spree and he was locked up, giving the bluecoats a fight before they landed him in a cell. At court it was found out that he had a roll of several hundred dollars. Newbecker, who covers the entire East, kept a book showing his daily receipts. His best day here brought $14.50, and the average for some time past was $lO a day. He was fined $5 for drunkenness and told to leave Allentown. NO NEW JOBS AT PANAMA Canal Office Warns Unemployed Not to Seek Work at Isthmus. ' Washington.—The blockade of the Panama canal by earth slides has not created new work for Americans in the Canal Zone, and the canal office here issued a statement in an effort to counteract published reports which have drawn many Americans to the isthmus in search of employment. “General Goethals indicates,” the statement says, “that the number of men continually being laid off on account of reduction of force is in excess of the vacancies which were temporarily created by the work on the slides, and the influx of men looking for employment on the isthmus is entirely unwarranted.” They Rescued “Tige.” Huntington, Ind.—A dog Delonging to William Wilcox, living west of Andrews, followed a coon into a tcn-inch tile ditch recently. Hunters spent hours in trying to call tho dog back, but got no response. The owners dug up the ditch at several places and finally located Tige forty rods from the opening and in an eight-inch side ditch. The dog was exhausted, but j still alive. Burned Tommy and AIL ■ ! Appleton, Wis.—Desiring to see a I tomcat burn, 'i :-/-v..n-year-old boy liv--5 ing on the outskirts set flro to the • animal, the aftermath being the de- ' struct! on of a carpenter shop. The ! blazing fur of the feline communicated t to shavings in the building, and the ? gtrvcturo was converted into ashes I within a few minutes.

PUBLIC SALE. n The undersigned will sell at public fl auction at his residence in Monroe I township, Adams county, Ind., 2% >4 miles soutn and 2 miles east of Mon- ,1 roe, 3% miles north and 3 miles east of Berne, Friday Dec. 17, 1915, beginning at 1 o'clock p. m„ the following property, to-wit: Four Head of Horses: One bay mare, 12 years old, weight 1200 lbs.; black horse, 4 years old, weight 1400 lbs.; bay driving horse, 6 years old; light bay driving horse, 2 years old. Four Head of Hogs: One sow, weight about 300 lbs..; 3 shoats, weighing 150 lbs. each. Farming Implements: One hay loader, mowing machine, John Deere breaking plow, walking breaking plow, Hoosier drill, check row corn planter, riding forn plow, double shovel plow, spring tooth harrow, seventooth corn cultivator, 4-in. tire truck wagon, 3-in. tire double bed wagon, 1 set hay ladders, fanning mill, scoop board, oil tank and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms; —$5.00 and under, cash; over $5,00 a credit of 9 months will be given, purchaser giving his note with approved security, bearing 8 per cent ; interest after maturity; 4 per cent off i for cash. No good removed until set- i tied for. A. B. DAUGHERTY. t Jeff Liechty, Auct. 1915CI1RISTMAS1916 About December 15 your check for Christmas Savings will be mailed to you with accumulated 4 per cent in- < terest. Please look at your ■ card and make sure that you have paid for 50 weeks by Monday, December 13. New club for 1916 will open on Monday, the 27th of December. Get ready. THE PEOPLES LOAN & TRUST COMPANY. o ( SPECIAL ATTRACTION. One of the biggest displays of the electric houselold needs ever attempted in a city the size of Decatur is now on display at the Lawrence Electric Co. 29315 WANTED. A native evergreen tree that can be used as Christmas tree, about 12 feet high. 29313 JESSE G. NIBLICK.

MM——II'HHIIWII 303X3 WBKgWKSaBBaaua&ZXS We Invite Father, Mother, Brother, Sister and the Children To Become Members of the OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK LANDIS CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB Starting Monday December 20th. 1915. We want the whole Family to have the Merriest Christmas it has ever known. Every one from Father down to the Baby can easily carry a Membership in one or more classes. Each will receive a Check a couple of weeks before Christmas, and will have money to buy presents and other things that go to make up the festivities. MAKE IT A FAMILY AFFAIR LET EVERY ONE BE A MEMBER

Members starling with 5 Members starting with cents and increasing five two cents each week and cents each week for fifty increasing two cents each get w ±.....563.75 :,r e^e r ; fty s2s.so u * B Members starting with Members starting with I $2.50 and decreasing five SI.OO and decreasing two S cents each week for fills cents each week io; - | Bt . t weells '.... 563.75 $25.50

j* THERE ARE NO IONS—NOR EXTRA COSTS. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TO MAKE PAYMENTS. | Old Adams Coirnty Bank Reserve Over A Million.l

[STAR GROCERY • Marco Spring Wheat Flour ..90c Lye, 3 cans for 25c Navy Beans, tb 8c Kitchen Cleanser, 6 cans.. 25c Perfection Crackers, tb 8c Golden Rio Coffee, tb 20c Arbuckles Coffee, tb 20c Santa Clara Prunes, 2 tbs 15c Sayman’s Vegetable Soap, 3 for 20c Soap, all kinds, 6 for ......25c Baking Molasses, qt. can ...10c Pure Buckwheat, 10 tb. sack 45c 1 Maple Syrup, large bottle 25c ffl Red Kidney Beans, tb 10c Dried Peas, tb 6c tWIK Johns. B. C. HENRICKS D. C. YOUR CHIROPRACTOR Above Voglewede’s Shoe Store. Phone 660 Office Hours Ito 5 7to 8 LADY ATTENDANT Decatur, Ind. 4.*4>4-4>4>4-4>4'4**4*4<* * A fine used Packard * * piano in first class con- * * dition sold cheap, if * * sold right away.—Ya- * * ger Bros. & Reinking. * 4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4..J.4.4..J4.

CHRISTMAS GIVING “Merry Christmas” is a happy season indeed for the far-sighted individual who plans hig course to completely carry out the generous impulse of giving that is the very soul of the Christmastide. A little foresight provides substantial Christmas Funds without sacrifice. It only means the systematic saving of spare dimes and nickels, the saving of small change instead of wasting it. To create a Merry Christmas in Decatur join the Christmas Savings Society of the First National Bank and begin saving NOW. A few cents weekly will produce surprising results next Christmas. Let our officers explain the simple details of the Christmas Savings Society or write for our interesting booklet. FIRST NATIONAL BANK DECATUR, INDIANA. IT IS NOW TIME TO TAKE OUT YOUR 1916 LICENSE GET YOUR BLANKS FILLED OUT AT THE OFFICE OF THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. It is necessary that you have the 1916 license numbers on your automobile January Ist. Your motorcycle also needs them. All blanks filled out here and sent in to the Secretary of State. Licenses will be issued the 15th of December. HOMER H. KNODLE, ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Notary Public. ■I

Members starting with one cent and increasing one cent each week lor fifty weeks, $1 2.75 Members starling with 50 cents and decreasing one cent each week for ni,v weeks. $12j75

Members paying 25 cents a week fixed, for fifty j ks -$12.50 Members paying 50 cents a week fixed, for fifty ;;; eks - $25.00 Members paying SI.OO a week fixed, for fifty - ks -$50.00