Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 102, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1916 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Excapt Sunday by BETmFTPfWFX'TV " ' * ■ ■ The Decatur Democrat Company LEW G, ELUNGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier ..10 centa Per Year, by carrier (5.00 Per Month, by mail 26 centa Per Year, by mall (2.60 Single Copies 2 centa Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Poetoffice tn Decatur, ndlana, as second-class matter. The appointment of Edwin Corr as a member of the public service commission is entirely satisfactory to his hundreds of friends in this county, who have long recognized his ability. The slide fund is growing and will in due time reach the desired proportions. Add your name to the roll of honor. The accomplishment of this move will bring joy to the hearts of the children and you will never regret it. It looks as though the citizens of Adams county do not care to celebrate the centennial and indications at this time are that the proposed event which would have meant mOeh for the community and the business houses is off. Senator Taggart said in his speech at the convention on Wednesday that he believed there is room in the United States senate for a business man, and the people of Indiana will send him there for four years, taking his word for it. John Adair promised the delegates at the big convention a real campaign and he will make good on that promise as he does on every one he makes. He will speak in every county in the* state and he will win the confidence of the voters. The selection of the Hon. E. G. Hoffman of Fort Wayne as the Indiana member of the national committee was, tee believe, a very wise one. Mr. Hoffman is a splendid organizer, proven by his record as chairman of the Twelfth district for many years. He is popular, of pleasing personality. and will hold Indiana in the high place she has attained in national affairs. The democratic state convention in Indianapolis this week was pronounced by every one in attendance as one of the most enthusiastic and in every way most interesting ever held in the old Hoosier state, famed for her political conventions. The ovation given Mr. Taggart when he accepted the nomination was one rarely equaled, the ticket selected is an exceedingly strong one and throughout it djy II Imperial $3 Hats We would like the opportunity to prove to you that Imperial Hats are better. In the first place we buy them direct from the manufacturer. This alone makes the hat a better one for the money. ’All styles and colors $2.00 to $3.00 STETSON All colors and shapes. $3,50 THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

< all harmony prevailed and victory al : the November election seems aaspr ( ed. The Eighth district again c«m< in for her share of the honois, th« , candidate for governor, Hon. J. A. M Adair, being one of our leaders, and besides him were nominated Pale J . Crlttenberger for auditor, Judge Mo ran of Portland for the appellate bench, and others had their share in the organization and in the honors distributed for the national conven tion. Then, too, the delegates from this county took an interest in tht ■ several victories for the Twelfth district, our neighbor on the north and all in all it was a most satisfactory convention. tfIOTIMRWintRIIUiriRIIIWMMMKinnm DOINGS IN SOCIETY mmmmxmmnmmtmnamnoma WEEK'S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday. Christian Aid —Mrs. J. E. Anderson Research Club Closing Banquet—K. of P. Home. Zion Lutheran Aid —Mrs. Julius Haugk hostess at school house. Saturday. U. B. Endeavorers Pastry Sale —At Gas office. My Creed. Do you keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed until your friends are dead? Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them; the kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go. The flowers you mean to send for their coffins, send to brighten and sweeten their homes before they leave them. If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away, full of fragrant perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend to break over my dead body, I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours, and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin without a flower, a funeral without an eulogy, than a life without sweetness of love and sympathy. Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand for their burial. Post mortem kindness does not cheer the troubled spirit. I Flowers on the coffin cast no fragrance backward over life's weary way.—Auburn Bee. Mrs. A. D. Artman and Miss Iva Teeple will go to Indianapolis May 15, to attend the Indiana Rebekah assembly. They go as delegates from the local Rebekah lodge. Miss Baldwin, the entertainer for the Shakespeare social last evening, who was the guest of Mrs. 11. R. Moltz over night; and Miss Hanna who was the guest of Mrs. J C. Patterson, returned to Fort Wayne this morning. i To meet their daughter and sister, Mrs. Frank Bremerkamp, of Terre Haute, Mrs. J. H. Bremerkamp and daughter, Genevieve, entertained their friends at a supper and card party last evening at their home on Seventh street. Seven little tables were set for the three-course supper served at seven o’clock by the Misses Lois Connell. Florence Holthouse and Florence Bremerkamp. The same tables were reserved for the five hundred games in which Miss Adelaide Deininger and Mrs. Lawrence Kleinhenz won prizes. Bowls of spring flowers were decorations. Mrs Henry Moyer entertained the members of her Sunday School class at her home this afternoon. On last Monday, the class gave her a surprise for her birthday, enjoying the hours socially. They presented her with a handsome gift. Mrs. Moyer retaliated by inviting them to her home today. Mrs. Ellen Dailey arrived in the city to spend the week-end with Mrs. Jessie Beam and Mrs Haefling. Mrs. Locke of Kokomo is also a guest of Mrs. Deam, having come to attend the Shakespeare dub party, , Mrs. Don Quinn and daughter, Lou- ! ise, left today for Chicago to join Mr. Quinn in their new home. Mrs. E. G. Coverdale entertainer the Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid, with ;»t< unusually large attendance, and a good collection yesterday afternoon. Muct business was discussed and the socla period was enjoyable. Mr. mid Mrs. Clayson Carroll en tertained the “five hundred” club o which they are members on las’ Wednesday evening. The club mem bers present were Mr. and Mrs. Os car Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs. Alber Selemeyer. Mr. and Mrs. Avoi Burk Mr. and Mrs. Dan Vail Othei

it I guests were Mr. and Mrs. Wesley r . Hoffmau, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Sellemeyer, Mr. and Mrs. W. P Schrock and Mr. and -Mrs. Charles Loch of * Fort Wayne, who have been guests I- of Mr. and Mrs. Vail. With forty present, a collection for ’’ the month of (50.20, which they earn- ’’ ed Ln various ways, the April section e of the Evangelical Ladies' Aid of n which Mrs. Eugene Runyon is chaira man, bad a fine meeting at the home of Mrs. Tom Kern yesterday afteru noon. The May section is planning for a parcels post sale May 18. 0 . h Rev. F. F. Thornburg was the I guest of the J. L. Gay family at din ner today. Rev. J. A. Beatty passed through the city this afternoon enroute east to attend the national conference. GIVES UP FRANCHISE. The management of the Ft. Wayne & Springfield Traction company, of which C. H. Worden is trustee, and Sam W. Greenland is general manai ger, has voluntarily surrendered its I. franchise, both in the city of Fort Wayne and Allen county. Hereafter s the company will operate under an indeterminate permit issued by the state public utilities commission and f under which, it is claimed, the Decatur line will be relieved of much paving and other incidental expenses of a similar character. The Decatur line’s franchise in Fort Wayne include the right-of-way from Rudisill avenue to the city limits and the privilege of operating over the lines of the Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction company. The county franchise gives the company privilege to cross county roads and other county property. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. z O * — MRS. BLACKBURN STRONGER Mrs Robert Blackburn who was stricken with a slight stroke of paralysis yesterday morning early, affecting her throat, is stronger this morning. Mrs H. J. Beulah and Mrs. Guy Camp of Chillicothe, Illinois, relatives of Mrs. Blackburn’s arrived last night to be with her. .—o— HATFIELD IS TRUSTEE. (United Press Service) Indianapolis, April 28 —(Special »o Daily Democrat) —Governor Ralston today appointed Frank H. Hatfield of Evansville trustee of Indiana university, filling the vacancy left by the death of Senator Shively. Q t FORDS IN MAJORITY. Sixteen unashamed Fords, out-and-out; one disguised Ford, wearing a “domino;” one Grant car, were parked on Madison street, within a square at noon today, by actual count of Charles Petersqn. i o jr NOTICE ) ■ a The choir of the Methodist church will rehearse Saturday evening instead of Friday evening. All members are r requested to be present at 7:00 o’clock :> prompt. g DR. BURNHAM’S SAN-YAK s " Acta as a Living Antiseptic In the Stomach and Intestines. ’> San-Yak prevents eeit poisoning, e that serious Illness from which so many persons of sedentary habits <! and advanced age suffer. d San-Yak prevents clogging of the II colon and caecum; hence its great s value in destroying germs from undi- ! gested animal food which are a factor e in the true cause of poisonous decom- ’ positions of the bowels, causing ap--1 pendlcltis, rheumatism, typhoid, dye--1 entery and arterlo sclerosis or harden--1 ed arteries. Heart trouble Is developed through ’’ self poisoning from the kidneys and I bowels. To maintain health all such poisoning must be checked, and e you can do so with the use of San s Sold by Holthouse Drug Co., < t Yak. e Take San-Yak; It is the greatest s medicine yet known for man, woman , or child. SI.OO per bottle. 1 Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk drug •tore, Decatur, Ind. O ' ■ ■ . FORT WAYNE AND SPRINGFIELD TRACTIQN Leave Decatur, f A. M— s:so, 8:30, 11:30. 2 P. M.—2:30, 6:45, 9:30. Leave Fort Wayna. A. M.—7:00, 10:00. P. M.—1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00. Freight car leaves Decalnr at 7:65 a. m, and leaves Fort Wayne at 11 d m„ arriving In Decatur at 1:45 p. m. » HOMER RUHL, Agent, d o h HOTEL FOR SALE OR RENT. II The Park hotel Is for sale or rent A good opportunity for the right per[l _ son. Inquire at once of Mrs. D. W. Myers, Winchester street. 20tf st —— —— u- ——— Early vegetable plants at Werder s ’ Sisters, 602 Marshall street. ’Phone rt 347. 95tG 11 —— O ■ — 'Democrat Want Ads Pay*

DEATH RECALLS OLD SCANDAL Lata Stephen W. Dorsey Accused of Being Leader In ‘‘Star Route” ' Fraud. The death of Stephen W. Dorsey, former United States senator from Arkansas, at Los Angeles a short tirffo ago recalls the “star-route scandal, " in which he waa accused of being the leader, the Kansas City Star remarks. Star routes were mail routes in the West and Southwest where there were no railroads or steamboats to carry pouches. During the Hayes administration a ring of contractors, who bid on carrying mail on these routes, and politicians, through favor, secured control of the routes and by expediting the time required for trips over the various routes and by increasing the number of trips far beyond the needs of the service brought about an increase in the compensation allowed. Also contracts were sublet contrary to law. Stephen W. Dorsey was alleged to have been leader of the ring and to have put through such legislation as waa needed by his influence in congress. The fraud cost the government more than four million dollars. President Garfield called for an investigation soon after taking office. The alleged combination waa brought to trial. At the first trial two men were convicted, but the jurors after being out three days were unable to agree concerning Senator Dorsey. A second trial brought, his acquittal after a jury deliberation of a day and two nights. i FLOWERS HAVE REPAID CARE Those of Today Incomparably More Beautiful Than Any Known to Our Ancestors. Our grandmothers had one gladiolus about as handsome as a ragged stick dotted with brick-red paint We have scores, with a vivid, orchidlike beauty and wonderful range of color. They had a stiff, formal dahlia, that looked like a statuette carved out of colored soap. We have dahlias almost as beautiful and graceful as the rose. The whole race of rambler roses is new; so are the rugosa roses; the Darwin tulips are things of yesterday—and it is only a little more than fifty years since the first goldenbanded lily flowered on American soil. Yet who can imagine a perfect garden without one? The old-fashioned garden of today is the olden spirit working with new materials. It ought to be, and in time it will be, more beautiful than anything our ancestors ever knew. HOW SHE KNEW. On Washington’s birthday the children in Marion’s school gave an entertainment. An afternoon dress rehearsal preceded the evening performance. On returning from the rehearsal I was amazed to hear my six-year-old daughter say: “Well, mother, I looked the prettiest and nicest of all.” “'Why, Marion,” I replied, “who told you so?” “No one; but I looked at all the other children and then I looked at myself.”—Chicago Tribune. AMERICAN GUIDES. For nearly three years, under the general editorship of Mr. Fremont Rider, an entirely new series of guide-books have been in active preparation, which will aim to do for the United States in particular and America in general what Baedeker has so long and so excellently done for Europe. GETTING FAT. T ’ “I thought you wouldn’t diet. You said you didn’t care a fig for the doctor’s orders.” “W’cll, I decided that I care a figure.” u. PARADOXICAL APPEAL. “How do you suppose that merchant tried to square himself ?” “How ?” “With a circular.” ALSO NOTES WITH SLIPPERS. City Minister —Do you preach without notes ? Country Minister—Not entirely; I get a five-dollar note once in a while. NOT A GOING CONCERN. Sax—-Your new auto is sixteen , horse power, isn’t it? i Fox—Um! Sixteen balky horse power.—Brooklyn Life ’ s ——— A—• -ru.z,;. ~ - „;i-fiWßit.<il

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SOCIAL CLOSING (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ceseful one. The guests were highly 1 entertained and the club has achiev- '■ ed the closing of another successful year’s study. i - Friday. Easter Star —Masonic Hall. 1 • . Regular meeting of the Order of I Eastern Star Friday evening. All members asked to be present. NOTICE. Beginning Wednesday afternoon, [ May 3, all dental offices of the city will close every Wednesday afternoon until November. ' DR. FRED PATTERSON. Dr. J. Q. NEPTUNE. i DR. ROY ARCHBOLD. ; 102tf DR. BURT MANGOLD. appointment or administrator. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of I, ashington > s Wolfe, late of Adams county, de- ' ceased. The estate is probably solvi ent FERDINAND YAKE. Administrator. ’ Heller. Sutton &-Heller and J. Fred Fruchte, Attys. 28*5-12 ‘ April 27. 1916. O— 1 — . WANTED —Two or three unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping. Enquire of Mrs. Belle Johnson at phone ’ l’ s - ♦ + + *♦♦•**♦*♦♦♦ ♦ PLENTY OF MONEY ♦ i ♦ to loan on * ♦ IMPROVED FARMS ♦ ♦ at 5 Per Cent , ♦ Abstracts made on short * ♦ Notice. ♦ SCHURGER’S ♦ ♦ _ Abstract Office. ♦ Book your Sale with an Auctioneer. Who is able to make your sale a success. Telephone No. 8-L R. N. RUNYON Decatur, Ind. 3

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