Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 312, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1915 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAI Published Every Evening Exceu Sunday by I'he Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier |5.0( Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail $2.5C Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur, ndiana, as second-class matter. Judge Jacob Denny of Portland is , a receptive candidate for the democratic nomination for congress in this district and he will no doubt prove a very popular one. He is well known over the district, has made good on the bench, is a splendid speaker and an untiring fighter, and would well represent the district in the halls of congress. Mayor Mellette and Frank P. Foster of Anderson are also candidates for the same place and it is rumored that others may enter before the time limit is up. The contest promises to become interesting. Roosevelt has the republicans up in the air. He is looming up like a thunder cloud that threatens to storm the republican camp. Seasoned standpatters are shivering in their boots and watching fearfully and with bulging eyes the approach of this thunder cloud. They are beginning to realize that Roosevelt is practically certain either to be the republican nominee for president or control the national convention so that he can nominate whom he pleases to nominate. And there is where the trouble comes in. If the convention nominates Roosevelt the standpatters will be up against it because of the way they have fought Roosevelt and the way they have denounced him. And if the convention fails to nominate him or his man and if the standpat element wins, Roosevelt will undoubtedly start and lead another revolt of Progessive Republicans that will make the revolt of 1912 look like a Sunday school entertainment. In either event the Republican party is in for another big split, all of which should be extremely entertaining.—Marion Leader-Tribune. The republicans are holding a love feast in Indianapolis today and the Star run several pages of advertising telling of the wonderful (?) qualities of the several candidates. This is what appears to be manufactured enthusiasm. A few years ago it might have worked but now the people think when they vote and page edvertisements will probably not prove very effective. McCray, who wants to be governor, features the fact that he has been a successful farmer; another is backed by the manufacturers’ league; some have run before and think that entitles them to recogniAre Offering For The Remainder Os This Week A Reduction Os 11. 0» ALL ODD TROUSERS fr—■gl —l. l q THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

r tlon now; others have never indulg — ed in the game and feel that wouk be an asset, and so on through the — pages run the display and feature ad V vertlsements in their efforts to prove why this or that man ought to have the support of his constituents at the - coming primary. Through it all can be seen that the strongest candidates :s are the old standpatters and they arc 0 probably not reckoning the fact that 8 they have not yet ironed out their difficulties with the moosers. When 8 - they do they will likely not be so 11 anxious to get on the ticket. •, tnammronnxnßUßxrnmmnßmmjf . | DOINGS IN SOCIETY [ >- Kind Words. s Kind words are the music of 3 the world. They have a pow--1 er which seems to be beyond nat- } ural causes, as if they were some angel’s song, which had lost its way and come on earth. It I seems as if they could almost do > what in reality God alone can do I —soften the hard’ and angry thoughts of men. No one was ever corrected by a sarcasm; crushed, perhaps, if the sarcasm was clever enough, but drawn nearer to God —never. —F. W. Faber. Mrs. J. W. Tyndall invited the Tri Kappa girls and a number of neighbor friends to come to her home this afternoon and to bring their sewing and enjoy a cozy, informal good time. Tea and wafers were served. The affair was one of the delightful reunions possible because of the return of many girls from school for their holiday vacation. The Christmas decorations of holly and mistletoe, with the Christmas tree, provided the holiday setting. Mr. 'and Mrs. Breitenbach, of Dayton, Ohio, will arrive to be New Year’s guests of Mrs. Christina Niblick and son, Jesse. A New Year's dinner will be given in their honor. Alex and Murray Sutton will be the hosts this evening at a dinner given for a number of their boy friends. Covers will be laid for Francis Stephenson, Wayne Beavers, Richard Archbold and Ralph Tyndall. Mrs. Paul Tribolet of Coldwater, 0., and Mrs. Edna Darson went to Fort Wayne today noon to visit with their sister Mrs. Earl Watermann. Attention pf the public is again called to the Pocahontas watch party Friday evening. There will be a good program, several good speakers, music, games, contests and a fine supper. Miss Vivian Bulk will give a slumber party tomorrow night following a watch party. o—— TURNS OVER BIG SUM. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 30 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —In accordanme with the statutes as fixed by the legislature of 1915, at the close of the year Charles A. Greathouse, state superin tendent of public instruction, will have turned into the state treasury $5,150.24 surplus, after paying all expenses in the manuscript division of the state department of public instruction. This is the largest amount that has ever been turned over from this department to the state treasury in any one year. Under the operation of the new law all money received in the state treasury since September 30 from the teachers’ manuscript department shall be accredited to the state tuition fund. Mr. Greathouse stated that in his judgment the legislature of 1917 should change this part of b the law passed by the 1915 legislature , and require the surplus money turn'ed over to the state tuitfcn fund to be placed in the teachers’ retirement fund. Mr. Greathouse stated that under the operation of this law all teachers desiring to have their manus'-ripts graded by the state department of public instruction shall pay a fee of seventy-five cents in order that the manuscripts can be graded and license issued. Under the operation of the old law the teachers had to pay one dollar. He further stated that since the teachers were required to pay the fee for taking the examination when any surplus remains that such surplus should be turned over to the pension fund to become a part thereof. It is his intention to recommend to the governor and to the next legislature. O NOTICE. Get your harness ready for spring work. We save you money oil repairing and oiling. 310tf. A. W. TANVAS. , HERE is a reticuy that win cure most all skin ant scalp troubles. Eczema, Barbers Itch, Itch. Cuti and Sores. Why waste time and money when B. ;B. Ointment is an ointment of real merit? Ask your druggist. If not handled send 50 cents to the B. B. Ointment Co.. 217 Monroe street, Decatur. Indiana.

•CHANGED PLINS 0 - 1e Heavy Storm of Yesterday Forced Change in Plans 0 n of Tree. 8 ® HELD IN POST HALL r n Drum Corps Drummed Up 0 Crowd —A Program for New Year’s at Tree. : Inability to prepare the tree for the ; exercises Wednesday evening and . the impossibility of having automobiles gather the old folks to the tree, caused a change in the plans of the municipal tree committee at the last minute yesterday and the exercises were held in the G. A. R. hall. Promptly on the minute the drum corps began playing and the crowd gathered at the tree wended its way to the post hall where the exercises were held. Efforts will be made to hold the New Years day exercises at the tree as previously planned, and the snow will be cleared up tomorrow for that purpose. NEVER LIE DOWN TO READ Easy to See Why the Practice Is Injurious—How Proper Breathing Promotes Health. "I never read without using a book rest,” said one well-known literary woman. “I think it easier to adjust a book to the sight by its use. A book rest can be raised higher than the level of the lap and the hands and the wrists will not be wearied by the strain of holding it higher than the knees. "I never read in bed. I am thankful to those, older and wiser (han I, who taught me that to read while reclining was to overfill the blood vessels of the eye and so cause a degree of conges tion in the eye. If one is too tired to sit straight I am convinced she is too tired to read. She should rest in the silence and darkness of her room.” In the very way a girl carries her body when walking or sitting she can do good or harm to the prettiness of the neck and throat The chest must always be held high, and this instinctively raises the head more prettily. The abdomen must be held in, and since some intaking of the breath is required for this last muscular effort, the muscles of the throat and chest are at once benefited. Muscles, by the way, depend tremendously upon good breathing for health and firmness, so if a girl never did anything more violent than picking a rose, if she simply gives the windmills of her lungs all the good air they need, the blood will be freshened and the muscles nourished almost as well as if she played golf every day. The value of outdoor sports, however playful, is in their action upon the mind. PUT UP STRONG ARGUMENT Kentucky Statesman's Unique Appeal for Retention of the Bounty on Foxes’ Scalps. A new angle is given the old yarns about the parson and the chickens and the necessity of having the latter on the table when the former appears in the homes of his parishioners by the story related in Case and Comment, of the speech made by a member of the Kentucky legislature against the repeal of the law for the payment of a bounty on foxes’ scalps. The member came from the mountainous section of the state and he put his arguments this way: “Do the gentlemen want to deprive my constituents and me of the benefits of hearing the gospel preached? "We all are Methodists up my way, and our preachers won’t come without we can give ’em chickens. We can’t raise chickens unless the fotxes are killed by somebody, that's sure; and there ain't anybody that can afford to spend their time huntin' foxes and get nothin’ to pay for it. "So, gentlemen, if you repeal tins law you’ll be depriving my constituents of the benefits of bearin’ the gospel preached. That s the way it looks to me. And we med the gospel.” The vote was against the repeat Turkish School Children. “Turkish children recite their lessons all together in the old-fashioned schools, and if you could hear them, - you would think that you had gone > into Wonderland with Alice, where t ‘things wouldn’t come straight.’ The little girls go to school in groups, and t with them is always an old servant who carries all their books on what looks for all the world like a small clothes-tree. The boys go and come in two long lines attended by their r teacher. They carry their own {looks and wear long trousers and fezzes exactly like their fathers. Some of the tiny girls carry their own little tables and drawing-boards. In the gypsy village in Scutari the children learn their “ lessons by songs in the street. They ,‘ stand in a circle with a big girl in thoi middle, and they get noisier and t noisier the more interested they grow.”—Lindamira Harbeson, in St ' NxcfieiiM.

1 ROUSED SAILOR'S IRE ' CAPTAIN RATHER RESENTED UNMERITED REBUKE. Forced to Lighten Ship in a Hurry, It Was a Case of Heaving Overboard the First Cargo Reached, as He Could Prove. Seventy or eighty years ago the only regular passenger vessels from London to New York were the Ar irican Black X liners! Capt. Josiah Joshua Champion was the oldest and bestknown man on the line. He did not believe in hurricanes or cyclones, and ■ when he heard of ships being disI masted in them, always attributed such disasters to rotten rigging or spars. Fire was the one thing which the captain rather dreaded, and at sea, according to him, “it had one point in its favor over fire ashore, namely, that water in a general way was plenty and handy.” "But,” the captain al.vays added, "my carpenter is a smart man, and spends most of liis spare time between decks among the steerage people. And no mistake about it, the yarns he spin's down there about his escapes from ships afire are not calculated to make them careless about lights.” When a young man, the captain was once "pooped” in running too long before a heavy gale, when something started about the stern-post, and he was forced to jettison some of the cargo in order to lighten his ship aft and get at the leak. He was loaded with flour, cheeses, apples, and American clocks. The clocks unfortunately were the first things that could be got at. In consequence over two hundred cases of clocks went to the bottom before the cheese boxes were reached. He lightened his ship nearly a hundred tons aft in twelve hours, some of the steerage passengers keeping the pumps going while the crew handed up clocks and cheeses. “No, sir,” said Captain Champion, “I guess I didn't have to coax them passengers any. I just told ’em they'd got to pump or drown! But when I got home again in New York, and my owners asked, 'How was it, Mr. Champion, that it did not occur to you to select something of less value than them timepieces'* I felt pretty small. I only said: “ ‘Well, gentlemen, I rather wish you had been there yourselves, to pick and choose that night.’ "Yes, sir, that riled me, specially as my wife was with me that voyage, and her own private pianny was one of the first things that went overboard." Distress in Palestine. Letters from Palestine report great destitution in Jerusalem and other parts of the land. There have been no imports for a year. The internal resources have been taxed to supply the army. Food is both scarce and exceedingly dear. The tourist trade, % whieh gave employment to, many, and brought much money to the country, is cut off, and with it the manufacture of fancy articles, souvenirs and trinkets which was the chief industry. Agriculture is hampered by the absence of the able-bodied men in the army. Banking has been suspended for many months. Three women missionaries of the Christian and Missionary alliance are carrying on the school and other work of that society in Jerusalem, and the Syrian staff are said to be doing their part nobly. Missionaries both at home and still on the field believe that the end of the war will bring unparalleled opportuniCTes in Palestine. Prehistoric Camels. A partially restored skeleton of a small ancestral camel, Stenomylus hitchcocki, from the lower Miocene ot Nebraska, has just been added to the exhibited collection in the geological department of the British museum. The specimen was obtained from Prof. F. B. Loomis of Amherst college, Mass., who discovered the remains of a herd of these small animals which bed been suddenly destroyed and buried by some local accident. As a camel, Stenomylus is remarkable for its extremely slender build, which would render it as agile as a gazelle. -It also has molar teeth with unusually deep crowns, so that it would be able io feed on hard and dry grasses. It was therefore more completely adapted for life on open plains and Uplands than the other camels which abounded in North America in Oligo,cene and Miocene times. Everything Changed. A Cleveland party went out automobiling the other night and had an unpleasant mishap. It occurred on the -Euclid road not far from Willoughby. A four-footed creature of intensified odor got in the way of the car. Nobody in the auto noticed the impact, but everybody noticed the appalling result. The man who drove the car told a friend, about it the next day. "Terrible,” the friend agreed. “I suppose you ail had to change your clothes?” “Change our clothes!” snorted the chief victim. “Why, we even had to change our tires!’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Easily Disposed Os. "I understand you got several wedJ ding gifts.” / "We did At first I thought I’d have to hire a safe deposit vault, but after going over the stuff we simply stored ’em in a barrel in the cellar.” ■* • -'i

Ipci»TIVFS HERE HLLniIILU HUIIU Mrs. T. E. Miller of Van Wert Died Yesterday Afternoon at 3:30. WAS LYDIA B. ROOP Before Marriage—Sister of Mrs. Sam Acker —Well Known Lady. Mrs. T. E. Miller at Van Wert, passed away yesterday at 3:30 from capilary bronchitis. Her funeral will be held Saturday afternoon, with burial in the Woodland cemetery. Mrs. Miller lias many relatives near here and also in this city. Her maiden name was Lydia A. Roop. She is a sister of Mrs. Sam Acker of North Second street who at present is too ill to attend the funeral. o FAIRBANKS NAME (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) dence on every hand. Wherever people gathered signs posted prominently bearing the words ‘Fairbanks for president.” Brass bands and fife and drum corps paraded the streets beneath huge republican banners. The G. O. P. Elephant, made up of an imitation elephant skin and two men walked the streets bearing the Fairbanks banner. In the hotels entire floors were 4et aside as candidate headquarters. Delegates went from room to room chanting republican battle cries and improvised election songs. o APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator <>f the estate of Zoe McAlhanex, late of Adams county, deceased. Inc estate is Probably solvent GEORGE E. McALHANEY, Administrator. C. 1.. Walters. Attorney. Dec. 13. 1915. 16-23-30. —o APPOINTMENT OF EXECtTOH. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed executor of the estate of Louise Homeyer, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably Executor. Dore B. Erwin, Attorney. Dec. 11, 1915. 16-23-30 — —o NOTICE of final settlement of ESTATE. Notice is hereby "given to the creditors. heirs and legatees of Peter .1 Brvan, late of Adams county, deceased. to appear in tlie Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on the 18th day of January, 1916, and show cause, if any. why tlie final settlement account* with the estate of said decedent should not be approved: and said heirs’are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. JOHN S. BRYAN, Administrator. Decatur, Ind., Dec. 21, 1915. John T. Kelly, Atty. 23-30 o APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATRIX. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administratrix of the estate of Frederick Scherry. late of Adams County, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. EMILIE SCHERRY, Administratrix. John Sch Urger, Atty. Dec. 16, 1915. 23-30-6 o APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned lias been appointed administrator of tlie estate of Christian Conrad, late of Adams County, deceased, i'he estate is probably solvent. HENRY CONRAD. • Administrator. .1. Fred Fruehte, Atty. Dec. 16. 1915. 23-30-6 O , APPOINTMENT OF EXE! I TOR. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned lias been appointed executor of the estate ot Charles Krueckeberg, late of Adams county, deceased. Tlie estate is probably solvent. FREDERICK KRUECKEBERG. Executor. Dore B. Erwin. Attorney. Dec. 20, 1915; 23-30-6 o— ELECTION NOTICE. Noti. e is hereby given to tiie lot owners in the Decatur Cemetery Association, that there will be an election held at tlie law office of J. W. Teeple in the •City of Decatur, Indiana, on tlie <>lli Day of January, I9IG, at 4 o’clock, p. m., for the purpose of electing seven trustees for tlie Decatur Cemetery association for the ensuing year. J. s. COVERDALE, 23-30 Sec'y D. C. A. — o —— NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMEN T OF ESTATE. Notice is hereby given to tlie creditors. heirs and legatees of Silvester Earner, deceased, to appear in the Adams circuit court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on the 7th day of February, 1916, ami show cause, if anv. why the final settlement accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive tiieir distributive shares. ANNA GARNER, Administratrix. Decatur. Ind.. Dee. 29, 1915. I lore B. Erwin, Atty. 30-6 O — APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned lias been appointed administrator ot the estate of John Klpfer, late of Adams county, lieeeksed. Tlie estate is probable solvent. PETER STEI'FEN, Administrator. Dei. 28, 1915. . D. B. Erwin, Atty. 30-6-13 o — LOST—-Boy’s right-hand new kid glove, between municipal Christmas tree and John Hill home. Please leave at this office or telephone Glen Hill, phone 453. 309t3 LOST —Pig, between John Limenstoll and William Zimmerman farm. Finder return to William Zimmerman. 309t3* •y- '

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