Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 301, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur, ndiana, as second-class matter. BOSSES IN THE SADDLE: — Horace Stillwell, former progressive and who has been trying to get back in line with the republican party, has about, given up that idea, according to dispatches from Washington, where he went to attend the meeting of the republican national committee, hoping to have some progressive ideas adopted. He was turned down cold, and here is what he says: "The bosses are in the saddle," said he, "and it is useless for a well-mean-ing progressive reformer to buck up against the little tight corporation that is doing business at the g. o. p. stand.” When asked to whom he referred by the term "bosses” he said he meant Barnes Crane, Smoot, Hemenway and Penrose. “The five men are running the republican party machinery,” he said, “and I find it is perfectly useless to try to put any reforms across. This little bunch is not particularly fond of reforms.” Stillwell came to Washington with Oswald Ryan to try to get the national committee to change the basis of representation at the national convention to votes cast instead of arbitrar- , ily according to states and' districts. He soon found he had run up against a stone wall. Then, in a letter to National Committeeman Goodrich, he proposed that the national committee voluntarily abdicate its right to select the temporary roll of the convention and permit that to be done by the committee on credentials. "Barnes, Crane, Smoot, Hemenway and Penrose looked over my proposition,” said he, "and it was ‘good night.’ I came here as the self-ap-pointed voice of 4,500,000 republicans who were in rebellion in 1912. But I didn't get a look-in.” i Red Cross seals are still for sale in Decatur. The committee is working hard to dispose of the 30,000 on hand and would like to dispose of an additional 10,000 They can’t do it unless you help. Will you? Hon. Frank P. Foster of Anderson,

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t a candidate for the democratic nomi- - nation for congress, is out after the * honor. He met many of the boys here . today and will cover the entire disj trlct during the next few days. The race will soon be on as candidates must file for this office by January 7. Frank Dailey has quit politcs and , resigned from his high office as dis- ) trict attorney. Fred VanNuys, anoth- ) er of the brilliant young democratic 1 workers of the state, has just an- ' nounced that he will henceforth pay i strict attention to business and will leave politics alone. Evidently the , state of the pudding is not up to expectations, for both these gentlemen have had some honors and were looked upon as possibilities for even better positions. | DOINGS IN SOCIETY 1 WEEK’S CLUB CALENDAR. Thursday. Christian Aid —Mrs. Benjamin Borton. Mt. Pleasant Mite Society—John Cline Home. Euterpean—Mrs. Jesse Dailey. Helping Hand —Mrs. Martin Worthman. Presbyterian Aid —Mrs. Jessie Deam. Rebekah Parcels Post Sale —I. O. O. F. Hall. Friday. Good Times Club —Sue Mayer. Do Your Best Class Christmas Exchange—Mrs. Frank Fisher. Mite Society—M. E. church parlors. W. C. T. U.—Mrs. J. M. Miller. Historical —Mrs. Amos Gillig. Remember you can’t afford to stand still Because he who stands still is already going backward: Neither can you afford to be a mere follower. For he who is content to follow another is always behind. The Good Times club will be entertained by Miss Sue Mayer tomorrow evening. With decorations of red and green streamers. Christmas bells and greenery banking the piano, the Christian church presented a festiv holiday scene last evening for the Ruth Circle social. The church was nearly filled when the Christian church orchestra the program for the evening, playing several selections. Miss Abbie Bigham sang, her piano accompanibent being played by Mrs. Amos Yoder; Miss Nola Snyder gave a reading. as did Miss Helen Wilhelm, all being well appluaded. The parcels were numerous and sold rapidly, but there were not nearly enough to supply the demand. At one side, homemade candies and popcorn were sold, and in another alcove, refreshments of punch and wafers were served. Two cakes were given in “cake marches,” being given to Mrs. A. D. Artman fend Bob Gerard, who shared them with those in the marches. The affair was a great success socially and financially. More than thirteen dollars were taken in of which more than twelve is

Men’s Suits and Overcoats $12.00 to $25.00 Boy’s Suits and Overcoats $2.50 to $7.50 Our store is full of other gifts that will be appreciated in the line of jewelry, neckwear and holiday novelties. • We can furnish you with a desirable gift that will please for as small a sum as you may want to invest. Anything purchased from us can be exchanged if it does not fit or suit.

- clear. This will be applied on the 3 piano fund. s “Russia" was the subject of Mrs. J. ■ S. Boyer’s paper for the Shakespeare > club at the home of Mrs. Jessie Deam t yesterday afternoon when the twenty ladies there listened attentively and took part in the sub-topic talks. There will be no more meetings until after 1 the holidays. Miss Florence Lahee was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Amrine at a : chicken dinner today noon. FROMMISSOURI John A. Mumma Returns from Gideon—Spent Two Weeks With Brother AND OTHER FRIENDS Trouble With Night Riders Averted — Eighty-five Arrests Made. John A. Mumma, prominent Union township farmer, has returned from a delightful two weeks’ visit with his I brother, Martin Mumma, and others at Gideon, Mo., the brother, Martin Mumma, having a lumber plant there. Mr. Mumma states that the country there is the finest that lies out of doors, and is especially good for wheat. The country is being drained.' and when the roads also have been gotten through, it will be the finest ever. The climate there now, is similar to that we enjoy here in May. Sherman, Newton and William Anderson, formerly from here, are als engaged in the lumber business there. For several weeks the large landowners and mill men have been troubled with “night riders," who sent threatening letters. Before Mr. Mumma left, however, there had been eighty-five arrests made and it is believed that the threatened trouble has been averted. o WAR TAX CONTINUES? (United Press Service) Washington, D. C., Dec. 16—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Announcement of a resolution continuing the present war taxes through 1916 was indicated this afternoon in the first test vote during a sharp parliamentary fight between the republican and democratic forces in the house. A motion designed to faclitate passage of the resolution carried, 208 against 192, three democrats, Calloway, of Texas, Keating and Hilliard of Colorado, voting with the republicans. The senate finance committee today reported favorably on the war emergency tax measure. The measure will be up for action in the senate tomorrow. ANOTHER WEDDING. Justice of the Peace G. F. Kintz solemnized the wedding of Miss Ruth Brokaw to Robert Marbaugh at his office at nine o’clock this morning. The groom is twenty-three and the bride nineteen years old. Both of them reside in Adams county.

e TELL OF STRANGE MEETINGS r. e Doctor* and Nurse* Relate Remarkn able Happenings Occurring In the y Military Hospital*. d B The long arm of coincidence was r never more strikingly Illustrated than by the remarkable cases of hospital reunions related by the commanding t officer of the Welsh General Military t hospital. Recently a nurse entered one of the wards, calling the name of a certain Aoldler who was due to take I his medicine. In response to the call a man sat up in one of the beds, but further inquiry showed that although the surname was the same, the Christian name was different from that of the man she was seeking, says Lon--5 don Tit-Bits., At that moment the right man, who was well enough to hobble about, arrived upon the scene, and then, to the amazement of the nurse and the other occupants of the ward, the patients recognized each other as brothers who I had not met for many years. What Is more extraordinary still, the two brothers had been in the same ward . for several days without either being aware of the other’s presence. Even more extraordinary is the case of two men in another ward, who, when the roll was called, suddenly recognized one another as chums who some years ago joined the colors the , same day. They had been close chums in the ranks, but drifted apart through the drafting of one of them on foreign service, to find themselves reunited in adjoining beds 1 in the Welsh Military hospital. On comparing notes a further string of coincidences was discovered. The two men, unaware of each other's ■ presence at the front, had been wounded the same day, taker to the same .base hospital, brought home in tho same ship, carried to the same train and finally placed next to one another in the same ward of a home hospital. Another curious case is that of a man who after being wounded at the front was admitted to one of the wards of the hospital. On his discharge he went back to France, and, wounded a second time, found his way back once more to the same ward. THIS PARROT SAID TOO MUCH Proved to Have Vocabulary Worthy of Human Actor When He Is Annoyed. A woman with a parrot went into the Punch and Judy theater and upset the lentils, as the management expressed it. Polite phrasing of things was in order after this parrot had spoken its bit and went away ruffled. ’ ' Advertisements for a parrot to take part in the production of “Treasure Island" were inserted in the newspapers, Charles Hopkins, director of the theater, having decided it was high time a bird be put into rehearsal. All the parrot had to say is "Pieces of eight” in the role of Captain Flint, Long John Silver’s pet in Robert Louis Stevenson s tale of adventure. The radiator in the Punch and Judy office was spitting a trifle. When a woman who brought the bird set the cage, covered with a torn newspaper, on the floor, a tiny jet of steam began playing on the parrot; in facLj the sputtering vapor practically chased the parrot around its cage. First the parrot, screaming, condemned the radiator to torment even more heated than its own. Then in a harsh volley of consonants it went into the graceless survey of the mode of life of its enemy, paid heed to Its ancestry in ironical cackles and at last turned into a long mumbled jumble of epithets that would easily be recognized as insulting in the scullery of a longshoreman's home. The owner was informed that the i management had already another parrot in mind. —New York Herald. 1 —— Life of an Electric Plant. ! The electric plant in the Hoffman nouse now being torn down cost $16,200 seven years ago. It was sold a few weeks ago for $1,950. And this was an exceptionally good price, as the plant had been so well cared for that it was in unusually good condition. The value of the plant as scrap was $1,350. Which leads the Edisou Monthly to some remarks about allowances made by builders for depreciation. They usually, it seems, calculate on five per cent depreciation per annum, but this plant, which was far better cared for than most machinery, shows an annual depreciation of approximately 12% per cent. According to Albert A. Volk, head of the wrecking company that demolished the Hoffman house, an elec- . trie plant depreciates to scrap value in ten years, instead ot’ the 20 generally allowed, and even then the scrap value is usually less than eight per cent of the original cost. Reasons for the Dentist’s Bill. The dentist who told the common . sergeant at the Old Bailey that at one ’ time his profession brought him in £IO,OOO a year would find it difficult I to make that amount nowadays, remarks the London Chronicle. The cost of materials has gone up and dentists have been unable to increase their charges proportionately. Where- | as a few years ago platinum could be bought at 28 shillings an ounce, it now costs not less than £9 10s an ounce. A dentist’s chair with modern improvements now costs at least £25 and there has also been a rise in the price of drills, reflectors and sterilizers, which all have to be bought before the dentist can start saying: “A little wider, please. I am not going to hurt 70U.”

DAN PLEADS GUILTY. : Daniel Straub changed his mind today and appearing before Justice of . the Peace E. Hurt Lenhart, pleaded guilty to breaking the quarantine at his home, and was assessed a fine amounting in all to $18.40. Dan Could 1 not pay it and went to jail. He was 1 to have stood trial Monday morning 1 at 10 o'clock. o PROCEEDINGS WITHDRAWN I ' • (United Pre»H Service) i Muncie. Dec. 16,—(Special to Daily I Democrat)— Impeachment proceedings . against Mayor Rollin H. Bunch, were i withdrawn by Thomas Patterson who ’ filed the suit in the Delaware circuit ’ court. He is said to have withdrawn the suit on recommendation of Attor- ! ney General Stotsenberg. INDIANA STOR STRICKEN. I — Sleet and rain is falling generally 1 over the half of the state and tele- ' phone companies are having hard times getting connections* At Peru, at two o’clock today, street cars were stalled on account of the sleet. Bluffton, Huntington, Hartford City and , Warsaw all report heavy falls of sleet. — o LICENSE GRANTED (United Press Service) ' Washington, Dec. 16. —(Special to ' Daily Democrat)—The license for the * marriage of President Wilson and Mrs. Galt was obtained this afternoon. The Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector of the Saint Margaret Episcopal church was named as minister. 1 ——4) ■ ' 1 ■■— PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will sell at public 1 sale at my residence on the Charles Shafer farm, four and one-half miles south of Monroeville, one and onehalf miles south of East Liberty, and 1 eight miles northeast of Decatur. Ind., , in Union township, Adams county, on , Wednesday, December 22, 1915, the , following property, to-wit: Four Head of Horses, consisting of one brown mare, 8 years old, weighing 1700 lbs; sorrel mare, 7 years old. weighing 1509 lbs.; black mare, 7 years old, safe in foal by Freidline’s jack, weighing 1400; coach horse, 8 years old, weighing 1100 lbs. Five Head of Mules, consisting of one span 7-year-olds, weighing 2100 lbs.; one span coming 2-year-olds, match team, weighing 1500 lbs.; one yearling mule colt. Thirteen Head of Cattle, consisting of Durham cow, 5 years old. will be fresh the 15th of March; 3 year old cow, will be fresh February 15; 3-year-old cow, will be fresh Mar. 11; 3-year-old Jersey cow, fresh Feb. 16; 6 head of 2-year-old heifers, bred; 2-year-old Holstein bull, 2 spring claves; 9 head of ewes. Thirty Head of Hogs, consisting of 1 sow, with 6 pigs by her side; 2 Duroc sow’s, bred; 21 head of fall shoats; 75 head of chickens. Farming Implements: Gearless hay loader. McCormick mower, 5 ft. cut; hay tedder. Oliver riding breaking plow, good as new; Osborn disc, walking cultivator, spring I tooth harrow, spike tooth harrow’, truck wagon, 2 spring wagons, one light and one heavy; set of bobs, platform hay ladders, with bed attached; harness, set of buggy harness, light cook stpve, stock rack. 2 sets of work set of double harness, one horse corn drill, forks, shovels and other articles. All these articles will sell regardless of the bid. as 1 am leaving the farm and cannot use them. The ladies of the East Liberty U. B. church will serve dinner on the ground. Terms —Nine months, 4 per cent off for cash. JOHN J. BARKLEY, Jr., Owner. S. R. Rose, Auct. John A. Barkley, Clerk. t-s DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BTG . LIVE STOCK and General Auctioneering I thank you for your past favors I am still on the job Telephone at my expense. J. N. Burkhead Monroe, Ind. DECATUR’S CHIROPRACTOR PIONEER Office Over Vance & Hite’s Hmire to 5:00 IWUIS 6:30 to 8:00 PHONE 650. I 0. L Burgener, D. C. No Drugs No Surgery No Osteopathy

BOOZE IS BARRED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) arches in the adamant hills? To the dangers so unconcernedly; to the privations he endure* so uncomplainingly; to the reverses he accepts so philosophically; to the successes he bears so modestly? Call him a gambler, if you like. He doesn’t care. He sits into the game with the ice scepter of the snow plains, or the heat devil of the arid places with buoyant hope that sustains him amidst the ordinary Vicissitudes «»f this gamble, called Life. He is a good loser and a good winner. He has wagered upwards of two hundred thousand dollars of hie hardearned money on the success of the mining promotions of Oatman, and he stands to win a pot o’ money. Not having lived in a mining country, Johny, it is probable that you are not much interested in Oatman, except so far as you or any other redblooded American citizen is interested in the stories that 1 could relate of the latter type, and if you or the Democrat readers are interested in such, 1 would be glad to give you a letter on it now and then. There is a bunch of men in Toledo. Ohio, and another in Gary, Ind., and another in Elkhart, that will be spending a bunch of Oatman money in Christmas presents before another year rolls around. The first mentioned bunch, especially. Bill Gray, whom I have mentioned before in this letter, blew into town about a month ago, and since that time has earned the title, “Lucky Bill.” Bill represents some people in Toledo, and has had them with him to some extent since Goldfield, where he was one of the prominents. Coming in on the automobile he met an old Desert Rat who had taken up a group of claims about three miles from Oatman and had stuck to their development, although laughed at by every “wise Hombre” in the camp. He believed he had it and he had. Bill looked it over, and then Bill took it over and now Bill and the Desert Rat are both on Easy street and can ' afford to eat pie for breakfast. The

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