Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1915 — Page 7

j The New Grocery ■ Opens Saturday Morning ■ ‘ December 18th. *8 a new ‘Pjd up-to-date stock of Groceries, ■ fruits, vegetables, candies and nuts. A call will i convince you I have the quality and prices to please you. It will pay you to visit the opening. ■ I CORDIALLY INVITE THE PUBLIC. 9 Phone 97. Your Orders Will Receive Prompt and Careful Attention. 1 BERT HUNSICKER South Second Street. Third Door South of luterurbsn Station.

fftOMESEEKER EXCURSION FARES TO ■ SOUTHWEST Z VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE First and Third Tuesdays of each month. See H. J. THOMPSON, Agent. Decatur, > for information. ■ Democrat Want Ads ; ■ Always Bring Results.

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DECATUR’S CHIROPRACTOR PIONEER Office Over Vance & Hite's Mcmre 1:30 to 5:00 IFJUIb 6:30 to 8:00 • PHONE 650. 0. L Burgener, D. C. No Drugs No Surgery No Osteopathy DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG

LIBRARIES FEW BOOKS Educator* Alarmed Over the Effect of Rigid Economy That la Being Practiced in England. It is expected that the war economy of the English local authorities will take the form, among other things, of a cutting down of expenditure on pub- I lie libraries. The recent local gov- i ernment board circular suggested the i libraries as one of the departments ; on which there might be a saving. The Library association at its recent meeting had a discussion which showed that many people are afraid that economy will have-the effect of seriously injuring the educational value of the libraries, and this at a time when the importance of literature, both as an escape from an overmastering obsession and as helping people to take wider and sounder views on the problems of the war, is greater than ever. The Lambeth libraries committee has Just decided not to buy any novels during the war, and it is probable that this example will be widely followed. The argument is, of course, that fiction in war times is a luxury. What are called "useful books" will continue to bo bought at Lambeth. It is likely, says the Manchester Guardian, that many library committees will adopt the sensible course of cutting down expenditures on ephern- , eral fiction while still buying the works of the first rate novelists. It is impossible that there will be any retrenchment on books on the war, which are being eagerly read at the moment. Many committees may cease buying the more expensive books of general literature. OCCUPATION ONE OF PERIL Men Engaged in Removing Awnings Hisk Their Lives in Every Task They Undertake. Steeplejacks have long enjoyed a reputation for daring, but it is a question whether they come in the same class of riskers as the awning removers, says the New York Times. These ' removers do not need or use the rope and block and fall accessories of the steeple men. Yet they climb to places and do their work in what seems to be ' an impossible manner. t Starting at the street level two or ! three awning removers will strip the entire trout of a flat house and never I go indoors. They are as agile as acrobats. The?’ reach up to a window sill and then raise themselves to the window ledge. Finishing the window while standing at this ledge they seize the top stone of the window, pull I themselves up to it and from there reach again to the window ledge above so as to strip another window. Through the belt they wear- runs a line and with this they lower the awnings as they take them down. j How they can do their work with so little to hang on to is more remarkable than the tasks performed by the structural iron workers. The iron I worker if he slips has something at hand in the way of a beam around which he has a chance to lock his arms The awning remover when he slips falls outward from the ledge and has nothing to clutch. Recently three awning removers stripped a sevenstory flat of 75 windows in the Bronx in the remarkable time of three hours, all from the outside. Artillery in the Alps. All sorts of out-of-the-way and often ’ unexpected difficulties are met by the Italian troops in the fight against the Austrians. Several fights, for instance, have taken place at heights between 7,000 and 10,000 feet above sea level. | At these great heights the ordinary gun sights are useless. The higher the altitude the rarer the air becomes I and farther a gun will shoot. Most of the gun sights are made for and tested at practically sea level, so the Italian gunners in the Alps would have found that their guns were not shooting accurately if special sights had not been used. A shell at 5,000 feet up, for in stance, which at the ordinary level would travel 2,500 yards, would go 2,SCO yards, while at 7,500 feet altitude it would be going 2,600 yards, or 100 yards further than It ought to go. I Ab the Italian mountain gunk, therefore. have to have specially corrected sights. We have, of course, used similar mountain guns in India and other places, but there has never been a campaign waged at such a height as the one between the Italians and Austrians.—Pearson's. South African Signal Service. According to a report received, there has recently been inaugurated at the Union government wireless station at Slangkop a radio time signal service for the convenience of mariners in South African waters. The signals will be sent out daily. The stations at Cape Town and Durban are operated during the 24 hours of each day and send signals of 600 meters wave length. A eleven o'clock (Union time —nine o'clock Greenwich time) at nighttime signals are emitted by the ' Cape Town station, extending over an ■ interval of 30 seconds. The time sig-1 nals are- the usual warning signal.—Scientific American. Subject to Improvement. Edison has invented a voice mill, to attach to a cradle. If the baby cries, the cradle rocks. The harder it cries,' ' tfeo faster the cradle goes. That’s a I bad idea. A clever baby will soon find ' out how it works and yell con- | tinuously.

WOULD HONOR INDIAN CHIEF — College Professor Has Aroused Interest In the Memory of a Friend of the Early Whites. Prof. Edward S. Meany of the University of Washington is arousing pub- | lie intereat in the memory of old Chief Pat Kanini of the Snoqualmie and Snohomish Indians. Chief I’at, a Blanch friend of the early whites. |is one of ; ( the forgotten heroes of pioneer days, and Professor Meany wants his grave marked with a suitable monument. In the days when settlers had rea- ! son fear the lurking red foes in the deep forests, Chief i’at Kanim’s people were powerful where Everett now stands. It is not known just when the chief died, but he was buried on a bank of the Snohomish river. When the grave was threatened by the overflowing river, relatives moved the remains to the little cemetery on the Tulalip Indian reservation, where many of the tribes lie ruled in power nbw live in humble homes. Bancroft's "History of Washington" tells of the chief's craftiness in driving Glasgow and Rabbeson from the first settlement on Whidby island iy 1848. He made a great drive witli dogs, and secured sixty deer for a I feast of assembled warriors. He counseled in favor of driving the white men out of the country. Wlasgow and Rabbeson went back to Tumwater, and the next year Pat : Kanim led an assault on Fort Nisj qually. While Pat Kanim was parleying inside the stockade, his brother | was killed leading an attack by the Indians. Pat Kanim was spared, and in 1850 he made a trip to San Francisco in a sailing vessel. What he saw on that journey made him re- , solve to become a friend of the white man. He faithfully lived up to that resolution for the redt of his life. ■ FRANCE FIRST WITH MOTORS Used Automobiles in the Field on the Day That the Great War Started. To the French belongs the credit for the first use of motor transport 1 j in the present war, according to the Fremdenblatt, which says that at the very outbreak of hostilities the French general staff seized 500 Paris motor buses and sent them off, packed with i soldiers, to the Belgian frontier, and 1,000 other motor transports similarly improvised followed next day. As "an approximate estimate" it is. stated that "the belligerent powers in the first week of the war made use of 1 some 250,000 motor transport wagons, i apart from the great numbers of auto--1 mobiles de luxe and touring cars that ' were pressed into service.” Os this 250.00 U motor wagons France had 90J- ■ 000, Germany 70,000, England 55.000, Austria 25,000 and Russia 10,000. Their total value is estimated at $200,000,000. Boy #irst to Kill Bear. Dorset Ringler, seventeen, of Trout Run is the first Lycoming (Pa.) coun ty hunter this season with a bear to his credit. Ringler and Floyd Bowen, another Trout Run lad, were returning from an unsuccessful coon hunt at one o’clock the other morning when they heard something crashing through the brush, and a moment later a large black bear passed 20 feet in front of them and started to climb an oak tree. Bowen was the first to fire and missed. At the rejiort of the gun the bear started down the tree, and as it touched the ground Ringler sent a bullet into its heart, killing it instantly. 1 Returning to the village of Trout itun. five miles distant, the boys a vaKened their fathers, who accompanied them to the scene and helped get the carcass home. The bear weighed 225 pounds. i Germans Lead in Wireless. There are about ten wireless stations in France, the most powerful bo- 1 ing that of the Eiffel tower. The Germans have many more, and especially the great station of Nauen, with a constant transmitting power of 6,000 miles, occasionally raised to 7,200 miles. They have a similar post in Spain, and another at Sayville, L. 1., opposite New York. The three pylons of the latter, each nearly 500 feet high, with the antennae and all the apparatus, were manufactured in Germany, and sent from Rotterdam to Hoboken by a Holland-Amerika steamer. When the cables connecting America with Germany were cut she had already prepared a perfect substitute, or nearly so. Chance to Think. “Miss Gadders talks so much and so fast that it is impossible to get in a word.” “Yes, but I find her conversation a great help to me at times.” said Professor Diggers, who is compelled to leave his study occasionally to fulfill his social obligations. “Impossible!” "Nevertheleas.it is quite true When she talks I'm able to concentrate my mind on matters that demand my nwdivided attention, whereas if 1 were in the society of a less voluble person 1 might, now and then, have to make/ some sort of reply.” Tourists in France. One of tho curious aspects of the war in Franco is the effort of the railways to encourage the customary tourist travel. The tourists, of course, arc confining themselves to travel in the large part of France that is outside of flic war zone, where the fear of the dangers of war may be “ungrounded. ’

IT IS NOW TIME TO TAKE OUT YOUR 1916 LICENSE GET YOUR BLANKS TILLED 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 tilled out here and sent in to the Secretary ot Stale. License s are now being issued lor next year. Come in. HOMER H. KNODLE, ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Notary Public. SPECLAL EXCURSIONFARES ~ ' TO Winter Tourist Destinations VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE See Clover Leaf Agents, or write Chas. E. Rose, G. P. A., Toledo, for particulars. SWillard^) 4WXfU Y Preparedness i The motor car owner who takes advan- f tage of our battery service now doesn’t j have to worry about what is likely to f happen later. Holthouse Fireproof Garage T| n of any battery at any time shn yv wk

,I——— - . — - FORNAX MILLING CO. Hays highest prices for p od milling , wheat. Want good hand sorted new .ear corn. Cali and see them. 281tf 1 FOR SALE Barred Plymouth Rock U cockerels, at $1 each. Address Victor Ulin an, R. R. I), Decatur. 300t6*

Sunday Excursions from DECATUR to Bluffton, Marion, Kokomo and Frankfort via i CLOVER LEAF ROUTE See H. J. Thompson Agent for Particulars

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As 1 am going to move from my 'farm anti go into other business I will I offer at public sale, regardless of price, 'at my residence on Mud Pike, south of Decatur, next to the old County Fair Grounds, on what is known as the Hauk Meyers farm, on Thursday, December 23, 1915, beginning at 9:30 ■ o'clock a. m„ the following propertyIto wit: Seven Head of Horses: One gray mare, S years old. sound, weighing 1500 lbs.; sorrel mare, 4 years old, sound, white main and tail, weighing 1250 lbs.; sorrel mare, 4 years old, weight 1350 itis; gelding, 3 yrs. old, iron gray, sound and an extra r od one; bay mare, 12 years old, work in all harness, family mare, weight 1400; one driver, 4 years old, lady e.nd city broke. Eighteen Head of Cattle: Ten head of extra good Durham milch cows, red cow, 5 years old, extra good- butter cow and fresh; Jersey cow, fresh, also a good butter cow; roan cow, fresh; spotted cow. in 4 y<rs old; spotted cow, rc-li, 8 years old; red cow, 5 years ■ old. will be fresh in May; red cow, 3 ye.-.rs old. fresh in May; red cow, will have lier second calf the first of ..!.:.eh; red cow, 6 year:: old, will lie fredl in Muy; red cow, 4 years old, will le fre li in June; 3 extra tood 2 ar old Durham heifers, 5 head of younger cattle. Seventy-five Head of !.og:i: Nine brood ‘ows. bred to have pig: *orn Ist to 15th of March; Berkshire boar. 62 fall : boats, weighing fri r.i 40 to 50 lbs.; 950 shocks of good yellow coin in field, 50 big fodder, ..ho.d:::, 12 ton of Lay in mow, 6 ton <>• X'lovor hay, the balance good mix'd bay; I Round Oak Base burner, ’good as now. and oilier household >ds. Fuming Implements: One .’i'tirnhull wagon, hay ladder, corn bed a::i| slock ra< k combined, good 20th . entury manure spreader, Keystone hay leader, Thomas hay tedder, Mil-

JOHN J. LIMENSTOLL J. J. Baumgartner ami Harry Bunn, Oi.ninn, Auets. \V. A. Lower and Willis Fotmer, Clerks. i Lunch Will be- grounds.

+++++++<• + + + + •> + * 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* 4*

r waukee mower, 6 foot cut. six foot 1 cut clover buncher, nine hole disc, , John Deere corn planter, used two f seasons, fertilizer attaches, can be r used on any corn planter, new side ) delivery rake, good double disc, good • fanning mill, good land roller, set of ) dump boards, Jolfii Deere walking - plow, Oliver Star walking plow. 2 ) good spring tooth harrows, 1-horse - corn cutter. Go-spike tooth harrov: s good spring wagon, Union City sur - rey, top buggy, with storm front; i Jamesville breaking riding plow. 2 . corn cultivators, corn shelter, a pair i of good hob sleds. SOO pound platform , scales, 2 good sets of heavy work har- , ness. 1 double set of driving harness, , set of single driving harness, and some I good collars of all sizes, 4 good hay I slings, 140 gal. of good apple cider > yihegar, 100 gal. hog fountain. 5 hog sheds, 3 lifting jai ks, 1 ten fool and 3 ■ six foot galvanized hog troughs, sev , onty live gallon feed cooker, self hog feeder, double shovel plow, float, single shovel plow, 40 rods of hog fence, 1-horse cultivator, good vise and work bench combined, good grindstone. 2 good gasoline and oil tanks, grain cradle, log chains, double trees, 3horse eveners. 4 horse eveners. neck yokes, shovels, spades and rakes, forks, scoop boards and hog hanger, two wheel cart, hog chute, hay fork, rope and pulleys, hog slop barrel, wheelbarrow, good porch swing and numerous other articles not mentioned. Terms: All sums of $5.01) and under, cash in hand; over $5.00 a credit of 12 months will be given, the purchaser giving note with approved so curity, the lust 6 months only bearing G per cent interest; 4 per cent off for cash. No property removed until settled for.