Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1916 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published gvsry evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER ■HMCi ipiUn Raise Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall >2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Fostoffice tn Decatur, ndlana, as second-class matter. The meeting at the court house next Thursday evening at which time will be discussed the question of celebrating the centennial is just as important for you as it is for the other fellow. Don’t expect some one else to do the work and carry the burden of this important event but do your share and it will be easier for the others to do theirs. It now looks as though there would be a contest for democratic national committeeman Between Ed Hoffman of Fort Wayne and W. H. O'Brien of Lawrenceburg. Both Are well known and have had the experience necessary to represent this great state and either would prove satisfactory to the democracy of Indiana. Mr. Hoffman has served as chairman of the , Twelfth congressional district for many years and has proven his worth and ability by winning every election in his district. Mr. O’Brien has served as treasurer of the national committee, as state chairman and was for four years auditor of state. The Ladies’ Civic Improvement society, whose sole purpose is to beautify Decatur and to provide clean and healthy places of amusement for the children of this community desire to install some outdoor equipment, such as slides, swings, etc., and to do this they need money. We believe a popular subscription for this purpose would be popular and we propose that some one start the fund at

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Light’s the word. In fact, light’s not even the word to describe the weight and attractive coloring of these special unlined garments which Michaels-Stern have made for us.

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once. A few hundred dollars thus expended will provide a hundred times as much clean and healthy sport for the youngsters. The work Is deserving of support and the best way to support It just now is by giving a little cash. Who will start it? The press dispatches announce the re-election of Hon. Bernard Korbly ns chairman of the democratic State comittee. As Chairman Mr. Korbly has twice led his party to victory and with the splendid administratioh of state affairs under Governor Ralston and the rest of the democratic state officials there is every reason to believe that the party will be again successful at the approaching November election. Chairman Korbly is a native Madisonian. He is a son of the late Hon Charles Korbly, who was a leading lawyer of the Jefferson county bar before removing to Indianapolis about twenty-five years ago. Chairman Korbly is one of the prominent men of Indiana and has a na-tion-wide acquaintance. He is an able lawyer, a strong advocate, and his professional career reflects the highest and best ideals in the administration of justice. His temperament peculiarly fits him for the high and responsible place among men to which he has been chosen for the third time, as he is broad and liberal in his views, modest in pretension but ample in power of execution. Mr. Korbly’s many friends in his old hom< town of Madison are pleased at his re-election as state chairman and extend to him their congratulations and best wishes for success. —Madison Herald. | DOINGS IN SOCIETY ■ WEEK'B SOCIAL CALENDAR. Monday. Research—Mrs. Dan Sprang. Bible Club —No Meeting. Nonsense Defended. We consecrate a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men. —Emerson. 1 know that dancin’s nonsense, but if you stick at everything be- ■ cause it’s nonsense you wonua

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go very far in this life—George Eliot. I find nonsense singularly refreshing,— Tall eyrand. There were forty-five present, Including a number of visitors, last evening, when Mrs. Zella Baker, Mrs. Jesse Beery and Mrs. Arthur BrentUnger entertained the Do Your Best class of the United Brethren church at the Baker home. Mrs. George Simmers, the class president, presided. Mrs. Jesse Swart* and Mrs. A. L. Brentlinger were in charge of the program which included a number of instrumental selection and a vocal duct by Mrs. Chester Imler and Mrs. Frank Fisher. Ice cream and cake were tempting refreshments. The Young Woman’s Bible club which usually meets Monday evening at the library, will have no meeting next week because of the scarlet fever quarantine at the C. C. Schafer home, which thus prevents the teacher, Mrs. Emma Daniels, from leaving the house. Anouncement of the next meeting will be made in the paper, for which the club members should watch. At the meeting of the Woman’s Civic Improvement society at the library yesterday afternoon. Mrs. J. W. Tyndall, president, heard reports of various committees appointed. Work on the beautifying of the city waterworks park, with the planting of more shrubs and flowers in beds and also the work of establishing a tennis court in the North Ward school grounds and other improvements heretofore planned was discussed and work on this will begin soon. The Christian Ladies’ Aid society at the meeting with Mrs. A. D. Artman yesterday, decided to have a parcels post sale April 27. The place will be announced later. A committee appointed to superintend the papering and cleaning of the church this spring includes Mesdames P. G. Williams, G. T. Burk, Olen Baker, Noah Mangold, Frank Kern, G. C. Steele and G. E. Mount. Refreshments of cake, fruit and coffee were served by Mrs. Artman, who was assisted by her daughters, Mrs, James Artman and Mrs. Olen Baker. In two weeks Mrs. J. E. Anderson will en tertain the society. Twenty were present. Mrs. L. W. Franks gave a supper last evenhrg for her son. Moron’s thirteenth birthday anniversary. Paul Castle and Chalmer and Paul Steele, little neighborhood boys, were guests. A fine supper was served and the youngsters enjoyed it immensely. ■**' —» There were thirty-five at the meeting of the Loyal Temperance Legion last evening when Harold Case and Gregg McFarland entertained at the Case home. Harvey Everett was leader and the fine program announced was given. The talks by Clelland Ball, Mrs. C .E. Hocker and Clayton Schafer were fine, as were the musical numbers. Mrs. Cravens the regular lecturer for the legion, gave an excellent talk on “Effects of Alchol on the Digestive System’. Punch and wafers were served. The girls of the society are planning to give a playin the near future. Among business matters considered was the election of Pauline Krick, to succeed Rachel Leavel! who has moved from the city. Miss Alta Teeple wil have the Maymeeting. Mrs. W. E. Smith delightfully entertained the ladies of the Historical club yesterday afternoon. The club has closed its study, but the entertainment was purely social. In a penny contest and a state abbreviation contest, Mrs. F. W. Downs and Miss Etta Mallonee were the winners. Refreshments of cottage cheese, pickles, doughnuts, apples and coffee were served. Palms w-ere used in the decoration of the home. There were about twenty-five present. Rev. and Mrs. Thornburg arrived this afternoon and the former will preach at the Methodist church tomorrow. Mrs. Thornburg will return to Auburn to remain until school closes. Their furniture which has arrived, was stored in the interurban block as repairs being made at the parsonage will require a month. o HABERDASHERY AND HASHERY. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, Ind., April 15 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Enter the man who is “big enough and ugly enough to cook his own meals.” Thomas Quinlan, employe in a haberdashery. told Judge Clifford during the hearing of his divorce suit that when he remonstrated with Mrs. Quinlan for not cooking his meals she laid down the above domestic receipt. “And she said, ‘The bright lights and the man with the big automobile for mine,’ ” said Quinlan, quoting his wife. Quinlan had prepared his own breakfast for two years. The divorce was granted. FOR RENT —New house on North Third street. Strictly modern, exI ccpt i’uroacc. inquire of Jacob Atz. ffitf

PETE HENDERSON, CANADIAN, ENTERS SPEEDWAY RACE 1 IP ■ 3 PFT€ \- W r-iCNOEPSOtt ■ ? / IS. t ".nm* •*» s J* ’’"'■•a., Pete Henderson steps across the f boundary line of Canada to the States c and crawls in behind the wheel of a “Made in U. S. A.” car with his head full of determination to win the Sixth International Sweepstakes Race on 1 the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, ’ May 30. 1 Henderson is one of the youngest ’ drivers in the game both in age and ( 1 in experience, but neither has youth nor his limited experience deterred him from the ironclad vow to make veterans do or die. That he has pluck 1 was shown last summer when one of his team mates gave up a race at ’ Burlington because of axle trouble. - Pete looked the car over, yes, the axle . was in a weakened condition, but , Pete realized that motor racing is a chance from start to finish, so he took the car and finished the race with a broken axle. With such Indomitable courage as this Henderson’s friends believe he is destined to be a star and expect great things from him at the ■ wheel of a Maxwell at Indianapolis, s May 30. Originally he was scheduled > to drive a Dussenberg, but has since joined the Prest-O-Lite racing team , that owns four Maxwell cars. The Maxwell cars are being finished at Indianapolis and Pete is hanging . around impatient to get going in practice. 1 Duesenberg’s Out for Blood. — Indianapolis.—The first three official entries made for the Indianapolis Speedway 300-mile race this year were made by F. S. Deusenberg for the Duesenberg cars, three in number, with O’Donnell and D’Alene as 1 drivers. I The entry of the Duesenbergs gives • credit to the rumor that this team is . going out in 1916 to “make a killing.” I There is every evidence to substanti- , ate this rumor- During 1915 the Duesenberg cars made thirty starts. ! „ OBITUARY. ( Mary Ann Freeh, wife of Frederick F. Freeh, a daughter of George j W. and Catharine Graham, was born in Hancock county, Ohio, August 15, 1839. She was united in marriage to Frederick F. Freeh December 3, 3 1867. They resided in Hancock coun--1 ty until November, 1871, when they 1 moved to Adams county, Indiana, and settled on a farm in Union township, ’’ and here resided until the autumn of 1907, when they moved to Decatur, where they lived until sickness of Mrs. Freeh compelled their return to the 1 farm to live w-ith their daughter, and 5 where she gradually grew worse until death relieved her at 7:03 o’clock, 1 April 10, 1916. She leaves a husband, one daughter and eight grandchil1 dren; also two brothers and one sister. She was an industrious woman. - Funeral services were conducted 1 from the farm in Union township by 1 the Rev. H. C. Powell of New Ha--3 1 * ven. EH?—WHAT’S THAT? 1 ] (United Press Service) Topeka, Kans., April 15—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The Topeka State Journal, a Taft supporter in ' 1912, in an editorial, announced it 3 will support Colonel Roosevelt for the republican nomination for president. 3 FARMERS ATTENTION . Bring your disc harrow to sharpen. On the Peter S. Steffen farm, 7 miles west of Monroe. Work guaranteed. , Craigville phone No. 11 or 3. S*7**> WUTT CTPVC’W EARLY VEGETABLE PLANTS. ? For Sale —Early vegetable plants of t every description. The very finest varieties. AU plants in season. 3 TONY HOLTHOUSE. i- 33 No. 4th St.. ’Phone 286. 85tf B FOR SALE. 0 One set of heavy harness, 1 set ol farm harness. 1 set of buggy harness. Q ail new, hand made. Harness oil ’■ right, as long as it lasts. Stop at 506 So. 13th St, and get the price. , 12-f-s-4wks W. H. AMRINE. h • -- FOR RENT —The second floor of the b, Se.utl; End meat market. Inquire of I’miniii-ltm & Knapke. BSt3

TWO HABITS THAT TW May at Flrat Apptar InelflidMl’V ®°* Really Are Dangerou* *• the Hearth. The practice of licking rtWWJ Jg* i gummed envelope flaps, as w®“ —ur of sucking the end of the lea£ IB very unsanitary indeed. A» .me should know, the glue J» stamps and envelope flape to made> of, refuse products, consisting of the bou»* and hoofs of animal* which may « may not have been diseased, rne stamps and envelope* themselves made of all sorts of rags, which, in tn® course of their transformation into paper, are handled by all sorts and conditions of people. We never too whether it is a clean or dirty pair 01 hand* that has handled a stamp or envelope just before we purchase it. There have even been cases of pol- ' soning from the stamp-licking practice. Fortunately, they are rare, but it suffices to say that the ordinary sterlUfr I lug process in their making does no necessarily kill a form of germs that are poisonous. The safest plan is o , moisten the gummed surfaces on » small wet sponge and take no risks Children should be carefully warned about the indiscriminate sucking and chewing of pencils. This seems to o a habit of childhood that Is hard to overcome. The lead In a pencil is poisonous, and so is the point, and the' wood furnishes a convenient lodging place for all sorts of germs. I PIES FOR THE ROYAL TABLE English Cities Furnish Delicacies t# Embellish the Banqueting Board* of Their Ruler*. Each year the city of Gloucester, ' England, presents the king with a pie. For many centuries, until the year ■ 1834, Gloucester followed the custom of expressing Its loyalty to the sov- ! ereign by sending him a lamprey pieI In that year the custom was. for some • reason, suspended, but In 1893 it was revived, and has since been continued. In 1897, the year of Queen Victoria s I jubilee, it was felt that some special effort should be made to produce a pie that would be a pie indeed The queen's pie was dispatched to her palace at Balmoral upon a gold dish, and was of a more than usually elaborate character. It weighed 29 pounds and was adorned with truffles, fine prawns on gold skewers, and aspic jelly On I the top was a representation of the royal crown and cushion, with a scepter to which were attached streamers of royal blue, and at the base were | four golden lions. Ancient custom requires that the town of Yarmouth annually furnish to the sheriff of Norwich a hundred herrings baked tn 24 pies. The sheriff conveys them to the lord of the manor of East Clareton, who, in turn, sends them to the king. Set a Mark in Life. Work for something not for nothing. It is not wise to live just for the fleeting moment or just for today. Without some aim, one’s time and work go for naught. The years go by and he has nothing to show for them. If not advancing, we are falling back. If not keeping alive, growing to something better and higher, we are becoming weaker and of less worth. Even though we never reach the goal, we have made some advance In striving for it. A good alm. a real purpose in life, makes worth of character. All have not the same tastes. There is a wide field from which to choose what one will work for. And this is well. The one universal aim is the same, to live truer, better lives from day to day. A life without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. Want of motive makes life dreary and monotonous. Nothing satisfies. “Better little talent and much purpose than much talent and little purpose.” Aim for something worth while and keep your mark steadily in view. Life will mean much more to you. You will be more useful to the world, you will find more satisfaction in living.—Milwaukee Journal. Had Had Enough of Beans. Bill Pinkerton of the Chicago detective force was accosted on State street by an ex from Joliet, to whom he had shown some favors in former years. The ex, being temporarily flush with money, invited Bill to have lunch with him at one of the fashionable restaurants. The ex offered the bill of fare to Bill, and the waiter, having taken his order, handed the French menu card to the ex. He looked at it a moment, puzzled at the strange hieroglyphics, ’ and then turned to the waiter: : “Where are the pork and beans on ■ this card?” The waiter indicated the item. - “Well, bring me everything above and below that line.”—Joliet Prison Post. • - —l» Primitive Weapons. The bolo is a kind of large single, edged knife, of considerable length, re- , sembling a machete. It is now used as an agricultural instrument or a weapon of war, as occasion demands, by some of the natives of the Philippine islands I The bolas is a missile weapon, consisting of two or more bails of stone or I metal fastened to the ends of con- . nected cords, and hurled so as to hoppie or entangle cattle and large game It is used by the Gauchos and Indians of South America. A similar weapon , is used by some of the African tribes , and a small form by the Eskimos . ogu&xu# birds.

! niE UNIVERSAL CAR lj ,i ~ nn the road is a Ford; Every ‘' j , (he cars bought this morC lh |l hi Eorf’< There’s a mighty year wlll bc 1 ford cars are filling a g ?° d inTverv field of human activity. £ Liit two cents a mile to operate Cost about two u order vourg j 1 "? “‘“Runabout $390; Touring Car • Cm ociet $590; Town Car $640; All prices f. o. b. Detroit On sale at K llver-noble garage. ■- 1 TomSeker excursion fares TO , SOUTHWEST VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE First and Third Tuesdays of each month. See H. J. THOMPSON, Agent. Decatur, for information.

FRIENDLY NOTICE TO DECATUR CITIZENS. On account of failing to secure a ; ' steady renter or buyer for our prop- . erty in Geneva. Ind., we were com-' | pelled to move back to that place and '. ■ occupy our home until satisfactory , I plans are reached. So I wish to an- *: nounce to the citizens of Decatur and ■ friend customers that I will be back 1 in Decatur in time to do your spring < and summer work on your piauos and 1

Maxwell | < Hte“Wo'n.der Car* j . ■' Ml > (u 4 "- g s ' Oi T u v yJrJ? ® 11 $ MA—J ;p- vSi I One-Man Mohair Top I The new Maxwell is equipped with a one- ’ man real mohair top. It can be raised or lowered almost in an instant, by one person. There are no top bows near the driver’s seat. This gives the driver and passenger beside >m an unobstructed view on both sides of the car. The storm curtains are quick-adjustable. We are waiting to take you for a i I *®, 1 r^e ® cA that has broken 1 | ad low First-Cost” records, and is ‘ breaking ah low “After-Cost”records. I OxifaMfaffy A ✓ pf pElecfricStaiKr | i, DemaM-fat | . ; J |> B ! *•’ “ z <1 *0 8. DETROIT I j B®E G jSS Y ’, CO ~ BEKNE. ,ND - « I ' - j DECATUR, E. Monroe St. g — J — — ■ ■■- = -'»| ~ >I. -J -y/'. .'.- 4' ’X<X?ll»i Hill:’ .--si

sewing machine. I will be here is a few weeks, or when your fire is ok of your house. Read notice in th Democrat when I am here doing wort D. A. GILUOM. Rebuilder and repairer and paa tuner and dealer. SSU o — PIANO TUNING. Mr. Krimmel, the piano tune, of Fort Wayne, is here for a few te Orders can be ieft at the Mumu *• tel; phone, 57. Kt