Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1916 — Page 2

e Th* Zig Zag Tag Means Tested and Guaranteed Portland Cement @| LOOK FOR THE BAG I MARQUETTE | / J PORTLAND CEMENT > C Ta™ O /—tested and nJ / \WITH THE ZIG ZAG TAG When, you 4 use & Portland Gement for roads, bridges, houses, walks, silos, troughs, look for two marks of goodness—the name “Marquette” and the green zig zag TAG. You’ll find it easy to hand 1 ' -’nd the finished work will have a fine _k * and texture. aHRSCH-SELLEMEYER & CO. ©Made by Marquette Cement Manufacturing Co. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS LA SALLE, ILLINOIS

NEW SIX CYLINDER AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE CHEAP One Model 32 Oakland, 6 cylinder, 5 passenger body, a fine car in every respect. If you are going to buy a car see this one. We have only one to sell Go. WE <XSV3S IT 017 MOETBY Car Ij • l> O n _ ||V ■LL...11I ||J ' j Electric Starting and Lighting J The new Maxwell is equipped with the SimmsHuff Electric Starting and Lighting System. This system is a single unit type, combining in one instrument the generator and motor. e=» - It is the simplest, “sure-fire” powerful selfstarter made and has about «one-half the wire of ordinary starters. I We are waiting to take you for a test ride in the car that has broken all low “First-Cost” records, and is breaking all low “After-Cost” records.' E~a Eg • J "OneManMohairlop f&S&BectricStorter J i Demouidable Joins' B f ' tNagiutio Ignition h P.O 6. OETQ.OIT SCHUG-SMITLEY CO., BERNE, IND., g| BERNE, Jefferson St. DECATUR, E. Monroe St. g

+ + + + + ♦▼»* + + + + + ♦ SHALL WE CELEBRATE? + ♦ + ♦ Cltizena of Adams County, Ind.: + I •$• Presuming that there has + ♦ been enough said about our cen- + ♦ tennial it seems expedient to as- + + certain quickly by a public meet- + + ing whether Adams county will ♦ , + observe Indiana's centennial In + if statehood, as many of the noun- ♦ •J* ties of this great state are do; + 1 inp. Therefore all the citizens + I ♦ who are interested in properly + | + observing the one hundredth + ♦ birthyear of this state, are re- + + quested to meet at the court + + house in Decatur at 8:00 p. m. <• 4- Thursday, April 20, 1916, for the + ( ♦ purpose of considering and de- <• + ciding if we may whether we <■ , + shall have a county celebration + + and of what it may consist, and + Jt how and when. <• Al! business men, clubs, organ- + + izations and farmers from every + + part of the county are requested + + to attend and participate in this $• meeting. •!' v Very respectfully, ♦ i> E. S. CHRISTEN, + ♦ Chairman Appointed by State + ■? Commission. <• 4- + ❖ 4-4-4>4-4-4> + 4> + 4- + DR. BURNHAM’S SAN-YAK Acts as a Living Antiseptic In the Stomach and Intestines. San-Yas prewuts salt poisoning that serious illness from which sc many persons of sedentary habits and advanced age suffer. San-Yak prevents clogging of the colon and caecum: hence its great value in destroying germs from undigested animal food which are a factor in the true cause of poisonous decompositions of the bowels, causing appendicitis, rheumatism, typhoid, dysentery arterio sclerosis or hardened arteries. Heart trouble is developed through self poisoning from the kidneys and bowels. To maintain health all such poisoning must be checked, and you can do so with the use of San Sold by Holthouse Drug Co.. ’ Yak. Take San-Yak: it is the greatest medicine yet known for man, woman or child. SI.OO per bottle. Sold by Smith. Yager & Falk drug store, Decatur, Ind. Morris & Co. rug sale Saturday, April 22, 2:00 p. m.; 48c mat and rugs, 24c. See them in north window. 9413 \ ii liilW Y"x jft? 11l S / Millions of vLOf housewives know this is the truth — they realize the cost of a \ tingle bnke-day failure. That’s t why they stick to Calumet. ■ Be on the safe side —avoid dis- p appointments — use Calumet next bake- fi day—be sure of uniform results— learn g why Calumet is the most economical g to buy s.nd tn t c. It’s pure in the i g can —pure in the baking. Order now Received Kiahcct Awards I A rut Cwi Pbvtrrcr— I Z*A Stt Slif in I ( 1 ! I Car.. Be fcdOd Safe-Win/My UseJySgy ws

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THE CRYSTAL, THE HOME OF high class amusements. Only the best in drama and vaudeville and moving pictures. Our shows always please. Get the habit. Change of program daily. Win. I’arent, Prop. TO THE CONSUMERS OF FLOUR,' when you want winter wheat flour, buy our brand. We make the best. Our mills are right here in town/and we can please you. The Fornax Milling Co., Decatur. CARUSO SINGS TODAY AT THE Holthouse Drug store. So do all other famous artists on Victor and Edison records. Diamond discs. A full line of drugs and medicines. Holthouse Drug Co., Decatur. THE REXALL STORES ARE ALways reliable and leaders in the drug line. See our large line of specialties. We also carry a full line of druggists’ sundries. Sick room and physician's prescriptions a specialty. Smith, Yager & Falk. WE HANDLE LADIES' READY-TO-wear clothing exclusively, and carry a large stock. See our prices on furs to close out for this season. It will pay you to trade with us always. Gass & Meibers. REX THEATER. THE UNIVERsaI play house. Change of program daily. See the best shows. Every Wednesday see ‘‘The Girl and the Game,” featuring Helen Holmes. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF Decatur does all kinds of legitimate banking in all its branches. Pays in terest on time deposits. Capital and surplus one hundred and twenty thousand. WE ARE THE FIRST TO DISPLAY the latest creations in hats and millinery goods and carry a large line oftrimmed and untrimmed hats. We are boosters for home trade. Mrs. Kate Burdg. TEEPLE, BRANDYBERRY & PE terson are ready to show you a complete new spring line of clothing and furnishings at reanonable prices! Call and see them. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS IN DEcatur for all kinds of electrical goods, and do wiring in all its branches on short notice. W’e carry a large line of everything electrical. A. C. Lawrence Electrical Co., Decatur. ALWAYS- TRADE IN DECATUR for anything in tlie furniture line. You can get honest goods and fair treatment at our store. A large assortment to choose from and right prices. Beavers & Atz. WHEN IT COMES TO DRY GOODS our reputation for fair dealing is our guarantee. We know and want you to understand we can do better by you than any catalogue house. Niblick & Co. HOW ABOUT LUMBER AND building material. We want you to see us first. We can save you money on anything in our line and want you to get our prices first. ’Phone your coal orders. Kirsch, Sellemeyer & Sons. BUY AT HOME. YOU WILL ALways come out ahead by buying Guaranteed Clothes of Holthouse, Schulte do. DO YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE leaders in furniture, pianos, organs and musical goods, and are well equipped for funeral directions. We are boosters for home trade. 'Phone 61. Gay, Zwick & Myers, Decatur, Ind. THE FIVE AND TEN CENT stores are a great convenience in any locality and are a boon for any community. We cany a large line of household necessltives. .C. E. Baughman, Decatur, Ind. BRING IN YOUR CATALOGUES. Just give us a chance to quote you prices on hardware before you send off to the mail order house. We will convince you that we can do as well. Lee Hardware Co. STOP, LOOK, LISTEN. WE ARE agents for San-Tax household remedies and carry a full line of drugs and medicines. Located on east side of street. See us> Callow & Kohne, druggists, Decatur, Ind. THOSE OLD PICTURES OF father or mother are very dear to you. Priceless, in fact. Just bear in mind that your childreti would cherish just such pictures of ydu. Erwin’S studio, Decatur.

DEAD TOWNS AND HIGH TAXES Home Disloyalty Is the Causeof Decay. ; I — ITA 1 WHAT GREAT NAPOLEON SAIL __ I Should Tax Vices Instead of Property-In a Ruh. , Prosperous Community Faxes Au no Bur. In a Community Where the Local Town is Dead Taxes Are High.

(Copyrighted. 1914. by Thomas J. Sullivan ] Taxing is un easy business. Any new official can, contrive, new impost- , tlons. any bungler can add to the old. : but is it altogether wise to have no j other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to hear them ? What a benefit the government would render the state, the city, the village and hamlet if it would but tax . vices instead of property! Bouapaite said lie found vices very profitable. He got So.'XKI.OOO annually from the ' lovers of brandy, and lie wanted to • know what virtue would pay him that much Taxes Increasing Each Year. Taxes are the sinews of the state, and they are indeed heavy, but if those laid by the government were the only , ones we bud to pay we might more easily discharge them, but we have others, and much more grievous to ' some of us. ‘ We are faxed twice as much by our ■ ignorance, three times ns much by our disloyalty and four times as much by our folly, and from these taxes the commissioners cannot euse or deliver us by allowing an abatement. The state, county and town levy and 1 exact a certain tax from every piece of I property located within their boundaries. the amount depending upon the official requirements. In a rich, pros- • perons community, where marketing and manufacturing lend their stimulati ing imiuences. taxes are low. A eotn- , munity where the local town is dead taxes necessarily are high. The explanation is easy. The town which is prosperous has successful merchants with large and valuable stocks of goods: it has manufacturing • plants and industrial enterprises of ■ great worth; it has newspapers, bnnk- - ing houses and hotels, and. above all. I it is a marketing center. The large amount and the high value placed upon this property materially decrease the • tax demands made upon tile farmer in that vicinity. Streets Paved With Jimson Weeds. Then take the other town, the dead 1 town. What are the cause and effect? c I The cause is lack of patronage, lack of industrial pride, disloyalty and ignorance of ones own Condition and best I interests. The effect? The town has , become a "Jay” town. In the streets hpve grown-jimson weeds, the side-| walks have gone to decay, the stores i 1 are vacant and mi air of poverty and i WE'LL WASH EVERYTHING BUT the baby. And we guarantee you satisfactory work, or it don’t cost you ■ a bent. Decatur Laundry. DON’T BUY YOUR TIRE OUT OF . town until you get our prices. We ■ can do just as well in prices as any . one anywhere. Be a home booster. , Kaiver-Noble Garage Co. I » . HAVE YOU EVER SMOKED A Masterpiece cigar? If not, why not? Try one and it will convince you that it is one of the best that money can • buy. John H. Lose. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF ANY : work in my line, just call phone 739, ■ or 765. Furnace, roofing, spouting, lightning rods, and cornice work. 1 guarantee all my work. A. R. Ash- , baucher. I WE CAN COMPETE WITH ANY mail order house. Bring in your catalogue and make us prove it. We deal in harness, buggies, carriage, hardware, etc. Repair work done. Chas. F. Steele & Co., Decatur Ind. HOW ABOUT YOUR BICYCLE OR! motorcycle. If it needs enameling,' just bring it In and I will make it look like new. Omer Parent Supply House. ~I• ■ , WE DO SANITARY PLUMBING. Steam and hot water heating, vapor and vacuum heating a specialty. Seo i us for estimates. We guarantee all i our work. P. J. Hyland, 222 Mouroe I St., Decatur, lad.

——— I x' ertv values have decreased, and a to- ; getiier it is an undesirable place to lhe j Tn. and the disposition of such pro|*rty , is an imiiossible feat. i As we stand and survey the ruins of a ouee prosperous and promising m > wo turn to the once successful nt.iil merchant, now standing in the door of his empty store, and ask for the answer. ... Briefly he makes rejdy: "I be retail catalogue houses. Our residents in th s community became hypnotized by their pictures and prices and misrepresentations. and this is the result.’' On the Altar of Greed. They sacrificed their own interests and their own town on the altar of greed and misunderstanding. The fanner should easily comprehend that when a stock of goods tn a stere is depleted one-half or more it cannot be taxed for more than its value, and in case the merchant for lack of patronage is forced to retire altogether from business then there remains nothing to be taxed but the building. And what ( .in it be taxed at provided a tenant who is willing tv take a chance with his money cannot be found? Eventually the farmer will have to pay the taxes. This merchant formerly paid, and if the farmer eonI tinues throwing bis patronage to outside concerns he will continue to reduce local values and increase his taxes. Reflect Too Little. Some farmers read too much and reflect too little— depend too much upon others, too little u;ion themselves. They make of their beads cold storage warehouses for other people’s ideas 1 instead of standing up in their own indepi-inleiit. gialllke liMlivldiiall!.,-. Heading ami rereading of mull order catalogues leave a man in about the same condition as Mark Twain’s toad with its stomach fall of shot What do the mail order houses do for tlie farmer? Do they relieve him of any of his tax burdens? No: they just relieve him of his money It is a case of representation without taxa I lion, and we fear in time this manno' and method of doing business win j cause a revolution among the proi diners and consumers whk-h win i eclipse the American Itevohitinn j We would suggest tn the mail order catalogue. !ioiis<-s that they shear, not ; skill, their <lmep DRY CLEANING. WHEN YOU think of Dry Cleaning, think of us. - vzuouao, vppuaiie me Murray Hotel. BUY YOUR PAINT BY YEARS, and square yards, not gallons. If you can't own the best house in town, you can at least own one of the best painted ones, if vou buy Patton's Sun Proof Paint from Schafer Hardware Co. T A. LEONARD IS LOCATED ON ber rk Bt ir - and hiS ’ PhOne her is 3,4 if you are in need o( furnace work, ju 8t call COME IN AND LOOK OVErTur mcThltaJlV ;rimn,ed and untrim ' eoS AIX *2 r^ 10Sing ° Ut Boese. lSt Bt>,e3 ’ Mrs - A. WE want the7P s Decatur and Ariane OF we handle the best piano 11 ' 7 kDOW '“U3ical goods an! X’7 anSand =,Ld* taported H J2t* iSrSlfc AN ° connection. t ‘! llird ro °® in court house, Decatur. ° PPoßite B"- A HOME oomes to anything in N IT compete with any mail ’T' We win Farm implements of all ? er house - Dowfiug-Scfiuey co, descrl Ption.

HEADQUARTERS FOR ANy ning in furniture at prices right. \v f " K an save you uruiicy on the pi atlo I®*' i a !US t buy. See us before buying.— Y agei jJi'vß. Rclnkillg, ; A FIRST CLASS GARAGE |J A ■ l, lk)U to any community. We h ave lad? . very facility to take care of )uttr H tomobile. tarry a large line of lc . | ,-essorics. Prices right. L A . Holthouse. Fashionable Livery. DON’T FORGET TO REMEMBER i:at you shouldn’t forget. Smoke tb. White Stag extra mild. It’s made « home. fflgl THE MADISON HOTEL UNCER new management, the favorite s t O p. I ping place in Decatur. All modern, I trie-lighted, steam heated, home B cooking, near business center oi B town. American or European pi» a . William Heiner, Prop. I CAN’T MAKE ALL THE BREAD used in town, so I just make the best I of it. My bakery Is open for inspec. lion at all times. Decatur Sanitary Steam Bakery. , j A WORD ABOUT CLOTHING IS >!ow in line. We want every one to examine our large stock and get our ■ ■ prices before you buy. Our pri ces ' will keep your money in Decatur The Myers-Dailey Co. * THE KUEBLER CO. BOSTON Store, will sell you any kind of d ty goods as low as any mail order house. Buy your dry goods at home and see what you are getting. The Kuebler » Co., Decatur, Ind. GET ALL THE MILEAGE YOU CAN. We can help you. Have your old tires rebuilt and double-treaded. We carry a large line of harness, buggies etc. Repairing a specialty. A. W Tanvas, Decatur, Ind. COME IN AND SEE OUR Display of Easter hats. Trimmed hats I from $1.50 and up. U. Deininger. GET THE HABIT OF SMOKING I Decatur made cigars. To boost home trade, try our N. H. C., a leader, and I our 104 La Sena, straight 10c. H. A. i Colchin, Toecatur, Ind. MAIL ORDER HOUSES CAN GIVE you a fit, but not in shoes. For up-to the minute styles in footwear, just call on Peoples & Gerke. OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK IS H j the oldest and strongest financial in- ■ stitution in Adams county, and pays interest on still accounts. Come in I and get acquainted. We want yow account I THE PEOPLES LOAN 4 TRUST Co. does a general banking business and our depositors are protected by : insurance. See our list of rcsponsiMe officers and directors. Safety deposit boxes for rent. SEE US FIRST FOR PRICES on monuments, marble, granite art stat ! i uary. We can please you and serve you well.. Wemhoff Monumental j Works, ’Phone 395. Decatur. Ind. I - ’ ’ GET OUR PRICES FIRST IN hardware, implements, automobiles i and vehicles, 17 series. Studebakers, just out. Buy it because it is a Studs- i baker; 40 horse power, |845; 50 horse power, SIOSO. Henry Knapp & Son. ! Decatur, Ind. DECATUR’S RESIDENT CHIROpraetir. There is only one resident chiropractor in Decatur, or Adan s 1 ■ county. Only one chiropractor that Pays city "and county taxes. Only one chiropractor that does his pur chasing from your home merchants. Help him help your community. 0 IBurgener, D. C-, over Vance & HitesAUBURN IS YOUR CAR. ANO talking about “Trading at Home, why not decide on the Auburn ( ' ir It's made In Indiana by men whoks 0 * how and who will back up anything JH they say about it. T. J. Durkin, De catur, Indiana, resident agent. ATTEND OUR SPRING OPENING sale and save money. Bernstein's. OUR FIFTY YEARS IN THE SHOE > business should be sufficient pro» ; we are there with the right kind of .1 goods and treatment. See us for kinds of footwear. Winnes Shoe Store. REYNOLDS' ASPHALT SHINGLES will give you a lower rate of in sUl anee on both house and content 5 - Their beautiful soft tones make the® harmonize with your building. J’'® Personality to your house and ad“ y the value of the property as a who l4.