Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 181, Decatur, Adams County, 1 August 1916 — Page 2

DAIL Y D EMO C RAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Companj JOHN H. HELLER Preeldent ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUBE, Secretary Subscription Rates. Far Week, t»y carrier 10 cents Per Tear, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall 12.50 Single Copies.., 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. The Hon. Charles E. Hughes declares that this nation was "Shockingly unprepared." Might we be permitted to ask whose fault that was when the republicans just prior to the time when it became evident that we might need some preparation, were in power sixteen consecutive years? The republican candidate for president declares that the prosperity which he actually admits is at hand is but temporary, that we are living in a “fools’ paradise.” Yet the greatest business men of the country as well as the great financial agents of the east and the west, unite in declaring that there are no signs of a prosperity break in the next ten years. Just what does the judge want anv way? Like many other republicans who are out of office se seems to want in—which is about all one can gather from his speech, to which ho has devoted so many hard hours of the days and nights during the past seven weeks. Judge Hughes has accepted. His speech delivered in New York last night is an evasion rather than a declaration of what iie will do if elected. or what he would have done had! he been president during the trying' days of the past three years. It is usually easy to criticize and apparently that is just what the distinguished jurist is trying to do. but he fails even at that task and he fails miserably in sounding a battle cry that will bring hope to the hearts of the standpatters. He announces that he stands for woman's suffrage and then declares that even in this he expects delay. He attacks the president and goes so far as to say that had Germany been held to a strict accountability the Lusitania would not have been sunk, yet he fails to say just how that could have been accomplished or how he would have attempted to prevent the calamity. It is a very ordinary speech, failing, we should guess, in creating the stir of enthusiasm expected from the occasion. He opens his performance by waving his hand to Colonel Roosevelt, who occupied a box seat and who cheered his every word. Mr. Hughes bows and bends to the wild ideas of Theodore and yet claims to have back bone enough to meet the problems of the hour as they arise. Miss Gusta Cramer, who has been ’ll of ulcers of the stomach, suffered a relapse, on account of the heat, and is confined to her bed again.

VY7E still have on sale over 200 mens . suits from which the most fastidious dresser can find something that will suit his fancy and fit the same as if he had paid twice the price. Suits that were S2O to $22.50 now $15.00 Suits that were $16.50 to $lB now sj? 45 Suits that were $12.50 to sls now $9.75 MOTHERS Remember this would be a great time to fit that boy out with one or two school suits at the greatly reduced pric ?S. The Myers-Dailey Company. SUITS THAT SUIT j

| Muononun , DOINGS IN SOCIETY I nnnTtCHUfimtMuiui t wkmwiuimjk WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday. Reformed Y. W. A. —Ella Mutchler. Reformed W. M. S.—Mrfs. F. Sellemeyer. Presbyterian Missionary! Postponed. C. L. of C.~K. of C. hall. Sewing Club —Mrs. Dan Vaii. Wednesday. Union Chapel Social —Geo. Cramer home . Thursday. Evangelical Aid —Mrs. L. A. Jackson. M E. Missionary—Church Lawu. Friday. Christian Aid—Mrs. William Engle. Mite Society Social —Waterworks Park. Fortune will call at the smiling gate.—Japanese Proverb. Attention is again called to the social to be given Friday evening at Waterworks park by the Mite society of the Methodist church. The band will play all evening and the ladies will serve ice cream, both in dishes and cones; watermelon, erackerjack and other good things. Everybody is invited. Mrs. Maude Bell and daughter, Bettie. of Bluffton, were guests yesterday at the W. A. Kuebler home. Besides these, Mrs. Kuebler had as her guests at supper. Mrs. Jessie Deam Mrs. C. A. Dugan and Mrs. Tom Haefling. of Indianapolis. Miss Marcella Kuebler will return tomorrow afternoon from a most pleasant ten days’ visit in Chicago witha school friend. Thursday Mrs. Kuebler and Miss Marcella will leave for South Bend for a few days’ visit at St. Marys-of-the-Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Braun of south of the city will have as their guests at dinner Thursday noon. Mrs. W. A. Kuebler and Mrs. Julius Spies and daughter. Helen, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Jane Strickler and daughter. Laura, entertained a company of friends and relatives at their beautii ful country home, six miles south of the city, in a most hospitable and pleasing way Sunday. In the afternoon refreshments of strawberry and vanilla ice cream were served, which were most appetizing in this extremely warm weather. » Those present were Mr. and Mrs. John Chilcote and children. Nellie, Roy, Delrio Floyd and Grace; Mrs. Lawrence Strickler and children. Lester and Mildred; Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Strickler and children. Clarence, Robert and Paul; Mr. and Mrs. George Strickler and children. Dorothy and Roy, of Celina. Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Railing and daughter, Mildred; Mrs. Elizabeth Ross. Mrs. Elmer Cook and grandsons, Glen and Dale Cook; Harry Coffelt, Martha Jacobs and Cecil Dague. Attention is again caled to the Union Chapel social Wednesday evening at the home of George Cramer. The Bobo quartet will sing and Miss Martha Tucker will read. A good time is in order, to which the public is invited, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Knapp, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nichols motored to Rome City Sunday where they were guests of the C .D. Lewton and F. A. Peoples families who are spending two weeks at Rome City. They had a fine fish dinner for them and were otherwise royally entertained. Fishing is very good ajid the Peoples-Lew-ton fishermen, in a few hours Saturday, caught seventy fine blue gills and others. Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry

Magley of Monmouth, were also their guests over the week-end. The KnappNichols party had a fine trip thet", leaving hero at 4 o'clock and arriving at Rome City at 7. having made an extra detour of twelve miles enroute there. % Prof. Theodore W. Hinz, of Cleveland, O. t is here the guests of his son. - the Rev. A. W. Hinz, of west Monroe street The Home Missionary society of the M. E. church will meet on the church lawn Thursday afternoon. Au--1 gust 3. If the weather is unfavorable to a lawn meeting, it will be held in the church parlors. An excellent program has been prepared. Mrs. W. J Myers will lead the devotionals. Mrs. Dr. Thomas will conduct the study on City Missions. The hos- ■ tesses are Mrs. H. E. Butler, Mrs. ’ Harve Smith and Mrs. John Parrish. A cordial invitation is extended to all members and friends of the society. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Miller entertained at supper last evening for Mr. and Mrs. Henry Knapp and son, Har- ! ry, and the following party, which motored through from Indianapolis . and were guests at the Knapp home, returning to Indianapolis today; Mrs. ‘ Ernest Schafer. Will Harrison and sons. Fred and Ernest and Miss Cornelia Houst. Mrs. Ed McWhirter arrived from Kalamazoo, Mich., this afternoon to visit with the Hugh McWhirter. B. E. Miller and Dallas Hunsicker families. Tomorrow Mrs. McWhirter and daughters, Vivian, Vera and Irene; Mrs. B. E. Miller and Mrs. Dallas 1 Hunsicker will motor to Winchester I to be guests of Mrs. G. B. Robinson, i They may also stop at Geneva to . visit with their brother, Dave Mej Whirter. 1 Mrs. T. C. Corbett and daughter. Eileen, and Mrs. Will Hartings were i entertained at dinner Sunday by Mr. 5 and Mrs. Martin Laughlin at the . county farm. 1 Miss Mabel Dedrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Dedrick and David Mosure, a son of Mr. and Mrs. f John Mosure, of Linn Grove, were married at the Six Mile parsonage by the Rev. W. D. Samuel. They have f gone to Linn Grove and will live with • his parents until September 1. when ’ they intend to move to Bluton to re--1 side. —Bluffton Exchange. i Mrs. I. A. Kalver will give a six t o'clock dinner tonight in honor of 1 Mrs. Homer Johns, Mrs. Homer Stewi art and daughter, Mary Alice, of Fort r Wayne. They motored here with Mr. ; and Mrs. Charles Loch and son. Miller t who came in the'r new Overland car, ; and are guests of the Jesse, Sellemeyer 1 family. f The Delta Theta Tau sorority had . the pleasure of the presence of their ] national grand secretary, Vera Rein . hard, when Miss Leona Bosse enter--1 tained last evening. Refreshments followed the business meeting. AT BAPTIST ASSEMBLY T — I ’ Alice Brandyberry. Beryl Lhamon. Rev. F. G. Rogers and Cal Peterson, of the local Baptist church are spende tng the week at Franklin, attending the Baptist assembly. This is hell on the college campus and fine speakI ers, goo dlectures and other features ? are listed. The Misses Ida and Mary Fuhrman went to Ooakwood park, where they 8 will attend hte Evangelical assem--1 blv. 3 O CHILEAN STEAMER SUNK. CUnfted Press Service) t Santiago. Chile. Aug. I—(Special . to Daily Democrat) —The Chilean r steamer, Ecuador was wrecked near ’ Coronel today. Forty persons were drowned. J _-, A BABY GIRL. Carl Gerke. a carpenter, residing in ’ Sixth street, is the proud dady of a baby girl that came to the home last I night. One other child, a boy, is in the family. Testing Oil's Specific Gravity. The specific gravity of oil may be ascertained by taking a glass vessel and weighing it; then weigh into it one ounce of water and mark the point where the water reaches; then fill to this mark with oil and weigh it. Express the weight of the oil as a decimal part of one ounce, which will be the specific gravity of the oil. That of grease may be obtained in the same manner, pouring the melted grease into the vessel. Wise Women, “Why did you tell your husband to buy a yard of that goods? The salesr lady assured you yesterday that the sample could not bo matched." "I [ know. He’ll be afraid to come home ■ without matching it, so he'll order me a fine new dress.” —Kansas City Jour, I ual. Daily Thought, Read not to contradict and confute, ] , nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, tut to weigh, and consider. —Bacon.

ENTERS ON TERM I Attorney D. B. Erwin Be-, comes Member of City School Board Today. IS MADE TREASURER I R. 1). Myers Elected President, and J. S. Falk, Secretary. Attrtrney D. B. Erwin is now a member of the city school board, having qualified today, and entered upon 1 the term, which begins August 1. He succeeds O. L. Vance, who retires after excellent service, with a fine record. The new board met today and the ' organization was effected. R. D. Myers was elected president, John S. i ' I Falk secretary .and the new member.! Mr. Erwin, was made treasurer. Mr. Erwin was a member *of the ' board at a prior time, and is remark-' ably well qualified. HELD UP CONFIRMATION. 1 (United Press Service) Washington,,!). C., Aug. I—(Spec-1 . ial to Daily Democrat)—Charging i that President Wilson violated the law by making the farm loan board , democratic instead of non-partisan. ■ republicans on the senate banking and currency committee today sue ' , needed in holding up the confirmation ! . of W. S. A. Smith of Sioux City as ' a member. ATTEND SYNODICAL CONVENTION ; Rev. Dornst if. pastor of St. Peter'ss Lutheran church; Fred Melcher and' I Prof. Dorn will go to Fort Wayne to- i morrow to attend the synodical con-, veution in session there from August ■ • 2 to August S. Five hundred minis- ( ters, lay delegates and are ‘ expected to attend. , Rev. Hinz and Chris Bieberich, from , the Decatur church, will attend. FREC MUTSCHLER HURT. Fred Mutschler, the well known meat ■ dealer, had his head bruised this morn- , ing when he was thrown to the street. He was assisting Scliamerloh unload hogs at the G. R. & I. stock when the Scliamerloh team started to run and Mr. Mutschler, tryin to stop them, was thrown to the street.

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NOTICE TO STOCK MEN . AND FARMERS If you are so unfortunate as to lose any horses, cattle, sheep or swine, call us by telephone at our expense and we will take care of same free of charge, and we will also take care of your Cholera Hogs free of charge, / saving you a great expense and bother, as we hold a state license under the rules and regulations of the State Veterinarian for taking care of same. The state law requires any person In this buslpeqp to take out a state license, as the following will show: Section II of Act H-120, of the General Laws of Indiana, approved March 6, 1913, and found In Chapter 111 on ’ page 294, reads as follows: “Any person, firm, or corporation, who shall obtain from any other person, firm or corporation, by purchase or otherwise i the body of any animal for the puri pose of obtaining the hide, skin or ! grease from such dead animal, or for I the puri>ose of disposing of the car- • cass of such dead animal In any way ; whatsoever, shall be deemed to have engaged in the business of disposing of the bodies of dead animals and shall be subject to all of the provlsI ions and penalties of this act: Pro- , vided, nothing in this act shall interfere with the original owner dlspos ing of carcasses of dead animals upon his premises.” Such disposition on the owner's I own promises must be made accord I ing to law, however, to avoid the penj alty. I The law relative to the disposition ! of dead animals is found in |he same General Laws of 1913, and Section 8 | of page 33G of Chapter 135, Act H-193, ; approved March 7, 1913. reads as fol- | lows: “It shall be unlawful for any person . caring for or owning swine that have (lied to allow the carcasses to lie ( about the fields, yards, pens, and hog houses. Such carcasses shall be disposed of immediately by cremating, or by burying four feet deep and covering by quicklime, or by disposing of them to a state licensed person, [film, or corporation licensed to ren- | der such carcasses under the rules • and regulations of the State Veterinarian.” DECATUR FERTILIZER CO. ’Phone 14-K. D. F Suman, Propr. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS PAY BIG

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