Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1916 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published (vary Evening Excapt Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rataa Per Weak, by carrier 10 cents Per Tear, by carrier 16.00 Per Month, by mail 26 cents Per Fear, by mall >2.60 Single Conies 1 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Poetofflce in Decatur, ndiana, as second-class matter.

The big state convention will be held at Indianapolis Wednesday. The Adams county delegates will leave tonight and tomorrow morning and the district meetings will be held tomorrow evening. Bernard Korbly, state chairman asks that every delegate be on hand by tomorrow noon. Every city In the country is asking for laboring men and it is not a difficult proposition for any man who is able bodied and really wants to work to secure plenty of employment at good wages. The most prosperous era ever known in this country is at hand and if you hustle a little you ought to get your share of it President Taft has no use for those two-by-four politicians who are trying to criticize the president and his administration, and he said so in a recent speech in Chicago. He says this is neither the time nor the place to indulge in political personalities, but is the time when every American citizen should support the government and the administration. . We are going to get those slides for the children. It may take all summer to do it, at the rate the subscriptions are coming in, but we intend to continue calling your attention to this matter until you ye glad to give your share. It ought to be easy but everybody seems to be waiting on somebody else Loosen up, and let's buy these two slides right now, while the whole summer is ahead of the children. who will get so much pleasure out of them. Fred Van Nuys has written the delegates over the state, calling attention to a forged letter sent out last week in which several misstatements were made with the idea of injuring his candidacy The letter intended to defeat him will probably serve as a boomerang for those who sent it out. Such tactics never aided a political cause. Fred Van Nuys is one of the most capable young democrats of the state, a clean and splendid attorney, and he deserves success. The meeting Thursday night at which time will be decided the very important question whether or not Adams county will observe the centennial is one that should attract the attention and the attendance of every public spirited citizen. Put aside any little business or pleasure engagement for this one night and attend the meeting at the court house. You may be the one needed to put this over. At any rate you are entitled to your opinion and you ought to be s there to express it.

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nimwuEuirmr.cjiwuHiMumiuuu DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Monday. Euterpean Club—Mrs. J. 8. Peterson. Tri Kappas—Gladys Myers. Afternoon Club —Mrs. P. H. Hyland, (Evening.) Tuesday. Pythian Sisters’ Needle Club — Pythian Home. St Vincent de Paul charity bail and party. Thursday. Evangelical Aid —Mrs. Tom Kern. Ben Hur Called Meeting. Presbyterian Ladles' Aid —Mrs. E. G. Coverdale. Friday. Christian Aid—Mrs. J. E. Anderson. Research Club Closing Banquet —K. of P. Home. lullaby. "Good night, little baby,— I’ve counted your toes • I’ve kissed all your fingers, and rumpled your nose. "Good night, little baby.— The day’s gotlte away The big, tired darkness Doesn’t know how to play. "Good night, little baby,— My arms are the bed. My heart is the pillow, My love is the spread.” —Exchange.

The Pythian Sisters’ Needle club will meet at the Pythian home Tues' 1 flay afternoon and hostesses will be Mesdames Johnson, Bieneke and Worthman. Mrs. Sam Howard. Mrs. Jennie Schlickman and daughter, Vera Jane, Mr. and Mrs. Clem Yarger and soijs, Harold and Floyd; Mr. and Mrs. Cloice Lesley were guests of Mrs. Howard's son. Oscar Shady and family at an Easter dinner in their home in Fort Wayne. The dinner was a most excellent one and a fine time was reported. Mr. and Mrs. Perry James and daughter, Goldie; Earl and Albert James, Tim Sprang, the Misses Fanchon and Jessie Magley comprised a party that enjoyed a fine chicken dinner at the hospitable James country home, two miles west of St. John’s, Easter Sunday, and otherwise enjoyed the day much. The Evangelical Ladie’s Aid society will meet Thursday afternoon with the Mrs. Tom Kern. The Christian Ladies' Aid society will be entertained Friday afternoon by Mrs. J. E Anderson The Tri Kappas will meet this evenwith Miss Gladys Myers instead cf the regular Tuesday evening. Mrs. P. J. Hyland will entertain the Afternoon club Wednesday evening, instead of afternoon. This is their first meeting after the lenten season. The Research club will have its closing banquet Friday evening April 28, at the Knights of Pythias Home, the dinner to be served by the Pythian Sisters. On account of other entertainments this week, the Ruth Circle will meet next week instead. Miss Irene Eady wil be the hostess. The Fort Wayne Ben Hurs will give the spectacular degree work Wednesday evening in Fort Wayne and a large delegation will go from here to witness it- This is something that the team here put on some time ago, under the direction of the supreme instructor. The Martin Beery famjly had a delightful Easter reunion at their home on Monroe street yesyterday. Those present at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Beery and son, John Wilson,

Sherman Beery and Miss Irene Putnam of Jackson, Mich., Freeman Beery of Batesville; W. F. Beery and family and C. H. Colter and family. Mrs. Israel Rex and daughter, Ette. The same company were members of the dinuer party given Saturday evening by Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Colter. The Euterpeans will hold a very important meeting this evening at the home of Mrs. J. 8. Peterson. As business of much imjiortance will come up, every member is urged to come. Mr.;. Charles Knapp will have the program. The Clyde Rice family and Mrs. M. F. Rice were Easter guests of the David M. Rice family in Root township The United Brethren Sunday School had a fine Easter rally and program. The collection for the day was $31.51 the Old Reliable Men's class of which Joe Beery is teacher, coming down the pike with nineteen dollars. Mr. and Mrs. U. Deininger had a family dinner party Easter day. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kilbourne case down from Fort Wayne, and Leonard was at home from college at Rensselaer for the holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Gottschalk and children of Berne were guests at supper Easter Sunday of Mrs. Henry Winnes aad family. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Redlinger and family of Convoy, Ohio, spent Easter Sunday with his uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. John Drake, and family. Miss Jane Long entertained at Eastet dinner for her sister Miss Edith Long who came from Fort Wayne, where she is employed, and for Miss Frances Mougey. Will Parent and family entertained at Easter dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parent. Mr. and Mrs. Roman Parent and Miss Vena Parent. Mrs. James Watts, Given Patrick and little Miss Merle Marhenke of Monmouth were Easter dinner guests of the Dick Hill family. Little Miss Mabel Hill accompanied them home for the night, this being her first visit away from home over night alone. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rabbltt visited Mr. Rabbitt’s sister, Mrs. J. A. Kinch, of Sheldon Indiana over Sunday, going there from here Saturday night. Mrs. Kinch served a beautiful noon wedding dinner for the newly married couple, who later went to Fort Wayne where a six o’clock dinner was served them by the bride’s daughter, who lives there. • The wedding ol Wai Wemhoff and Miss Helen Webek .will take place in Indianapolis next Saturday. The Fred Sehemeyer family had an Easter reunion that was very enjoyable. The dinner at noon was fine. Cut roses were the centerpiece and for place cards were substituted hand-painted Easter eggs in tiny baskets. The party included Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sellemeyer, Mr and Mrs. O L. Vance and daughter, Lee Anna; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Heuer and Miss Della Sellemeyer. The cantata given by the M. E. choir under the direction of Miss Kathryn Egly of Berne yesterday afternoon, the Presbyatrian cantata by the choir in charge of Dr. Fred Patterson, the sunrise prayer service at the German Reformed, and the other Easter programs, including that of the Evangelical Y. P. A. in the evening, and the Christian Sunday school in the morning, were also very good. Easter lilies and other flowers were the decorations of the churches. A very pleasant time was spent Sunday at the home of Miss Elizabeth Dailey, east of the city. A most sumptuous dinner was served at 12 o’clock The afternoon was spent in playing games. Those present were The Misses Ada Heath, Mary Helm* Naomi Holm, Eunice Meyers, Lillian Robison; Messrs. Forest Bunner, Rufus Roop, John. Meyers, Clarence Johnson, Brice Robison. The Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. E. G. Coverdale. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peterson, four miles south of the city, had a fine chicken dinner and other delightful erftertainment for their nephews and nieces, the following: Mr. and Mrs. Colonel Foreman and children, Merle, Edna, Frances and Mary Louise; Mr. and Mrs. Ves Baker and children, Sylvan and Raymond. Mr. and Mrs E. J. Spaulding returned last evening to their home in Muncie after a visit here with Mr. Spaulding’s sister, Mrs. L. C. Miller, and family. . . ■ . —— BOARD TO MEET The board of Childrens guardians will meet Tuesday afternoon at the Library hail at 2:30. All members are requested to be‘present. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG

NEEDED HIS WINTER CLOTHES Mlnua-Zero Blast Chilled the Captain of the Merton Hall, Arriving From the Tropics. From a torrid heat of 110 degrees into a minus-zero blast came the Brit Ish steamship Merton Hall from India, a few weeks ago. Captain Sullivan oould not find words to tell how Inhuman he found Boston weather. The ship was six Inches deep in ice. Its aides so white one might say they •were painted so. The navigating bridge was a toboggan trampled by hobnailed boots that tortured. Cap tain Sullivan vowed it seemed as it the whole world was freezing up, and awning stanchions, the electric fans and screened doors, the tumbler with the lemonade straws and the canary were hollow mockeries. When the Merton Hall crept up bar bor with anchors and chains so in cased tn toe It looked doubtful If they could be used. Captain Sullivan began to think of going ashore to see bls agents. That gave rise to the ethics of drees, for the Merton Hall’s commander was unprepared. He had a eutt of flannels like they Wear at Budge Budge, the headland after leaving Calcutta. Also a gauzy hat with a gay ribbon to frighten the mosquitoes, and a bamboo cane that was the vogue in Aden. His top coat was ample protection for a storm on the Indian ocean, and of material colored like the storms of sand that sweep Suet. His gloves were just about as thin as they handle in Oran. Naturally the captain was praying for a thaw. In the Red sea, a short time back, the ship was broiling under a sun that heated her decks too hot for the bare feet of the Chinese deck hands, while the temperature of the boiler rooms scored as high as 120 degrees. The enervating weather tapered off as the freighter neared Port Said, but it was not until some time later that arctic conditions 300 miles from Boston were encountered. PRISONER USES TIME WELL Convict In Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth Has Perfected Invention of Considerable Value. Theodore Murdock, an Inmate of the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kan., has invented a motor tire easing which It Is claimed will preserve the tire for a distance of 15,000 miles of rough wear, the Kansas City Star says. During the five months he was confined in “isolation” Murdock worked patiently on the main features, perfected the specifications and did everything else possible toward its completion, except to make a model. He .then sent It to the patent office at Washington. On February 22 he received a letter from the patent office Informing him that his patent tad been granted and that its number was 864309. Murdock claims that bls improvement excludes any foreign particle from coming in contact with the tire, prevents puncture and blowouts, and at the same time gives the same resilience that the tire affords In the absence of his casing, which Is fitted together so as to preserve this most necessary feature. The government “roomer and boarder” has been in communication with some of the large motor car manufacturers, and he expects to sell the patent shortly. Overfeeding Causes Obesity. Those persons who had expected that Dr. Walter B. Bloor of the department of biological chemistry of the Harvard Medical school, would give expression to some new theory concerning the reduction of obesity, at his lecture on “Fat” at the Harvard Medical school recently were disap pointed. Though the lecturer did admit that obesity was undesirable, most of his discourse had to do witfc the praise of fat as an article of human consumption. Speaking of obesity, he said, according to the Boston Post: “The principal cause of obesity is overfeeding. Unfortunately persons approaching middle age do not know that they aro overfeeding themselves. As less exercise Is taken, less food should bo eaten. Persons who worry requlra more food than persons whose minds aro at eadb, for worry /results In greater physical, heart and mental ac tiou. A certain scientist has shown that a daily diet consisting of a cupful of milk, one ounce of butter, one-quar-ter pound of meat and three slices of bread means a twenty-three pound increase in weight in a year.” Why Children Leave School. Half the children who left school, in a large group studied by Investigators of the federal department of labor, did so because of their dislike for school work. Less than a third left because their parents could not afford to keep them longer In school. These tacts are brought out In a recent government bulletin. They help explain why the Gary system of education is gaining so many adherents all over the country.—Kansas City Star. Three Types of Sea Mines. Rubmarino mines are of three types. First, ground mines, which are usually cf great size and laid directly on the bottom of shallow seas; second, anchored mines, which are attached by a c.ible to a weight on the bottom and are designed to float at a predetern- '.ned depth, so that they will touch and be detonated by passing ships, and, third, floating mines, which are dropped on the surface of the water.— Exchange.

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