Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1916 — Page 2

i < ' ' i»fmocr<T Publi***' bvery €v»n»r»g £xc«n< ««'**<!•> by T' e !><•>.itur Ut-mocrat Company lOMHf H Ht|_u»R Pr»«ld«nt ARTHUR « hOLTMOUSE. Secretary duotciiptlon Rato*. Per Wwk, by carrier 10 cents Per Tear, by carrier *5 00 Par Month, by wall 26 cents Per Year by mall 12.50 pi., r’ rr>ni aii 3 cents -rtiHins -ates made known on »rnl<- «»tnn ..i *i i tie Postoffice In Decatur, i .rtaAe matter The vice president of the United States will speak in this city on Monday. September 18th, his only speech during the campaign in the Eights district. Candidate Hughes was not greeted very cordially at Nashville where he spoke last night and cheer after cheer /' was given Mr. Wilson at every opportunity. The judge is certainly feeling the pulse of the people and he ought to wake up. Hon. Phillip Zoercher, reporter of the supreme court, is in this county for a three days speaking tour, addressing Germans principally. He is a splendid speaker, well qualified t.i explain the great public questions and a hale fellow, well met. He will speak at St. Johns this evening. The frosty reception given Mr. Hughes at Louisvillq today compared to that given President Wilson at the same place yesterday will give you some idea of the feeling of the people. The speech for which Mr. ’tqzbes was scheduled was called off be-H’se of the lack of a crowd. The < ity tax ra v slightly and there will be the usual cry of distress. The boost was necessary to provide a sufficient fund with which to pay for citys’ share of Third street which is to paved next year. Its the same old story, if we want improvements, we must pay for them. A few republican papers, too parti * san to be fair, are still arguing thct the president did wrong in urging congress to pass the bill which pre-, vented a strike, but the great majority of papers and the great mass of citizens recognize the greatness of Mr. Wilson’s actions and give him due credit. The Marshall meeting on the 18th in this city will be one of the big meetings of the campaign for Adams county. The vice president will make one speech in each district and hundreds of voters will want to hear the great hoosier who comes direct from the administration which has done ao much for all the people of this land. Have you noticed that the streets of Decatur are in excellent condition and are being kept clean? If you drive over the streets of some of the neighboring cities and ther. come to Decatur you feel like you arc going into the parlor. Why not say so? We are all prone to criticise. MICHEAL STERN AND SOCIETY BRAND CLOTHES Arp no v on display here in all the latest styles and fabrics. iC . 25 THE MYERS-DAILEY 1 COMPANY !;

I Then let’s give Mr. Chronister, the street commissioner, credit that he deserves. DOINGS IN SOCIETY WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday. Reformed Woman's Missionary— Mrs. Henry Mayer. Reformed V. W. M. A.—Ruth Mayer j Presbyterian Missionary—Mrs. J. C. Hanna. Wednesday. Pythian Needle Club—K of P Home. Concord Aid—Mrs. S. S. Magley. Thursday. Union Chapel S. S. Class Social— Mrs. Grace Light’s home. C. L. C —K. of C. hall. Presbyterian Aid—Mrs. Jacob Atz. Friday. Eastern Star Initiation—At Hall. Tri Kappas—Ruth Patters, a. Do Your Best Class—Mrs. George Hill. The Concord Lutheran Ladies’ Aid society will be entertained Wednesday by Mrs. S. S. Magley at her home in Monmouth. Mrs. Christena Niblick and son. Jesse; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler and daughter, Marcella, and their guests, Mr. and Mrs. E. Christln of Chicago and Miss Callie Selmbacker, of San Francisco, Cal. will motor to Fort Wayne tomorrow where they will Join the Archer. Henderson and Reuss families in a picnic. ' Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Vance and daughter. Lee Anna. Misses Fanny. Carol and Gail Baughman of Fort Wayne motored to the home of Mr. and. Mrs. Glen Baughman at Salem Sunday where they were guests at dinner. In the afternoon ice cream was made and there were other tempting refreshments. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wainright John Applegate and daughters of Oa': Harbor. O, returned home after a several days' visit with the George Martin and William Shoaf families. They -"a-to the trio by automobile. The Misses Flora and Edna Wietfeldt returned last evening to their home in Fort Wayne They spent the here and were guests at upner of Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Magley n f North Second street Mrs. Homer Krick and Miss Nora Brown of Fort Wayne are here for a several days visit with Mrs. Henry Wclfe. The Catholic Ladies of Columbia will hold their regular monthly meeting this evening at the K. of C. hall. Miss Agnes Costello has returned from a two weeks' visit with her cousin, Miss Helen Gerard at Louisville, Ky., accompanying her to her home there, from a visit here. The wedding of Herman F. Ehing-r and Miss Leah Hensley will take place ♦omorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock at the St. Mary's Catholic church. A wedding breakfast at eleven o’clock will be served at the D M. Hensley hone, to the members of the two families Arthur Holthouse will be best man. Miss Leona Bosse, bridesmaid. TTf.bnns will he Raymond Kohne and Richard Ehinger. The Pythian Needle club will meet ’Vodnesdav afternoon at the Pythian Home. Hostesses will be Mrs. Frank Carroll, Mrs. D B. Erwin and daughters.' Ireta and Mary., Mrs. Jacob Atz will entertain the Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society ouThursday afternoon. Miss Jessie Holthouse entertained the Delta Theta Tau sorority last evening. As this was the last evening that they could have “Miss Leah Hen sley” with them, as henceforth she will be Mrs. Leah Ehinger. the evening was a purely social one and festivities in her honor. The refreshments were very toothsome. Miss Marcella Kuebler will leave Wednesday for Fort Wayne where she will return to her studies at the Sacred Heart Academy Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Pease re- 1 turned this afternoon to their home at 1 Edgerton. Mich. They visited here 1 with their daughter, Mrs. Oliver Hel- 1 ler and attended the annual reunion ' -f the Pease family at Steele's park. ' More than one hundred were present. Fried chicken and other good things were in abundance at the dinner. Officers elected are: President, C. S. Pease. Bluffton, vice president, C. S. Chris Sea bold, Bluffton: socre'nry i Carl Pease. Honduras: assistant secre tary. Warren Pay A n 1917 reunion will be held at Blufft next Labor Day. Mrs. George Hill will entertain the Do Your Best Class Friday night. Class number six of Union Chapel Sunday school will hold an ice cream social, parcels post sale and fish pond,

Thursday evening, September 7. at the ] home of Mrs. Grace IJght east of I town. Homemade candies, homemade i Ice cream and other good things will < he sold. Everybody Is invited to i come and bring a friend and enjoy I the good time. -■ ■■ I Mr and Mrs. H. S. Lachot had , as their guests at a chicken pot pie ( dinner yesterday, Miss Jennie Ernst ( of Fort Wayne and T. H. Ernst. . f A GOOM.ETTER Received by Faithful Followers’ Class from Its President MISS BERTHA BUNNER Tells of Auto Trip to Gideon, Mo., Where She Will Teach This Winter. The Faithful Followers’ class of the Mt. Tabor M. E. Sunday school of Bobo met oh Friday evening. September 1, in their regular monthly class meeting at the home of Mrs. Anna Bunner In Bobo. In the absence of both the president and vice president the meeting was called to order by the second vice president. Miss Nellie Lett. The meeting was opened by song and prayer, and a Scripture lesson from the first Psalm was read by Mrs. Troutner. and a short story on the life of Job by Miss Elizabeth Dailey. This was followed by the reading of a very interesting letter from the class president. Miss Bertha Bunner, Who just recently departed for Gideon, Mo., where she expects to spend the winter as a teacher in the public schools of that place. The letter read as fol lows: “Gideon. Mo., Aug. 28, 'l6. “Dear Friends: —We arrived in Missouri all safe and sound, a very tired, dirty bunch. We left Saratoea on Saturday morning about seven o lock on xlirect route through Muncie to the capital city, we arrived in Indianapolis at noon. Had dinmfland stayed two and one-half hours there, sight-seeing. There we met with several cars of tourists, oue from New York City going to California, one from Kansas City on an eastern trip, one from Dayton on its way to Mississippi. We all looked dusty and dirty and of course were hungry and wanted a drink (our crowd using water exclusively). “On leaving Indianapolis we started ou the old national road, driving almost seventy miles without a turn in the road. We passed through many small towns that were very interesting. but too numerous to mention. Plainfield especially, in which is located the boys’ reformatory school. Rev. Goodwin, the evangelist. who helped in our meeting was from there. It is a beautiful place, looks like incorrigible boys could surely be helped in such a fine place. We arrived in Terre Haute about 4:30. Had supper there. Saw the principal parts of the city and started on for Marshall, 111., where we spent the night. They weja having a street carnival, and everything was so crowded that we felt as if we were right in line to be there. “On Sunday morning we decided to not attend church services in the morning, but would try and stbp in time to attend in the evening. But on Sunday evening we were caught in a terrible rain storm near Centralia. HI., and did not get to church that night, as we were intending to get to Sparta by night. The roads being mostly mud, we were forced to put up at Nashville. 111., and had supper about nine at night instead of being i at church. i “In the morning we found that the i storm had been even worse than we I had thought the day before, as we : saw five nice cattle in one place and three in another that had been kill- 1 ed by lightning, and a farmer told t us of other live stock and of build- t ings burning. t “About noon on Monday we arriv- t ed in Chester, a beautiful little city s on the Missouri railway. It is all hills and would surely be an uphill business to go to town from most any part of town. We had dinner there. r then drove down the steep bank and c out on a ferry boat ‘named ‘Edna,’ both cars side by side, and they took us across the river without getting out of the cars. There were several other boats; one named ’Ruth,’ and " one named ‘Gladys.’ 1 “When we were across the river 8 we were in Missouri. From Chester n to t'ideon is the most interesting part P f the trip, as we passed through the foot-hills, but parts of the way are | very dangerous, unless you have a good driver, and we proved we had, as we came through all right. t “We arrivein Cape Girardeau about i five o’clock, only ninety-five miles c from Gideon, and could have driven < on home, but it had rained and the t

hills were slipper) and Mr. Wilford Sarffs wanted to stay with her sister over night and ‘Billy Burke’ played at one of the theaters that night, so that will explain why we wanted to stay, too. “On Tuesday we started on to Gid- 1 eon, but found the roads in rather bad condition, and we were in another hard rain during the day, and did not get here until evening. We all attended church Friday night. Sunday morning and Sunday night. “1 have seen Mrs. Johnson and 1 family several times. They are not very well at present, being poisoned from eating meat, but were able to be out to church Sunday. She said she would love very much to see all of you girls again. “Os course it isn't necessary for me to tell you I would be glad to see you girls, for that is understood. I think, and if nothing happens it will be quite a while before I get to see you again, but you each have my best wishes and prayers that the ‘Faithful Followers’ will be just what the name signifies and discharge ev- . ery known duty for our Savior wherever we are. “Hope to hear from each one who cares to write to me. News is scarce to write to you /oiks, but anything is news te me from home. “Yours, with much love. “MISS BERTHA.” The reading of this letter was succeded by the business period of the meeting, in which the class voted to pay the sum of $lO from its treasury toward repair work on the church parsonage soon to be in progress. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were served by the hostess and daughter, Gladys. Roll call was responded to by the following members: Bertha Troutner, Mae Funk, Mary Coller, Lucy, Anna and Glady Bunner, Rachel. Mabe! and Maud Springer. Lottie and Nellie' Lett. Ora Gilpen. Florence Koos and Elizabeth Dailey, with Miss Louis Colter and Mrs. Milton Chronister as guests of the class. Class dues amounted to SI.OB. The next meeting will be held with Miss Florence Koos in the evening of October 6. It is requested that each member make a special effort to be present at this meeting as the class will be reorganized at this time and the new officers will be elected for the coming year.—A member. COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING The county council met today for the annual session and are making the appropriations necessary for next year and up to noon the sum agreed upon totaled about $40,000 as follows: for clerk, $3,095; auditor, $3,925; for treasurer, $3,230; recorder, $2,000: sheriff, $4,722; surveyor. $400; count y superintendent, $2,268.50; assessor $905; coroner, $542; health officer. $567.60; commissioners, $1,245: coun ty attorney, $600; pauper attorney, SSO board of review, $350; board of truancy, $530; township assessors, $2,836.50 expense of poor, $4,400; court house expenses. $2,675; jaff expense $139; county farm expense, S6OO. The session will close tomorrow. Vote Against County Agent. By a vote of four to two the county council decided not to appropriate any funds for employment of a county agent, denying the amount asked. $1,500. At 2:30 the appropriations were about complete, the total being $71,560. which would make necessary about the same county tax as last year, from forty to forty-two cents. ARE MEDICINES LIQUORS? A certain class of prejudiced and jealous doctors cal! patent medicines only alcoholic beverages. They will tell you that such and such a medicine contains as much alcohol as a glass of beer or a certain quantity of whiskey; but they do not mention that the beer or whiskey is swallowed as one draught, while only a small quantity of the medlicine is taken at one dose. At the same time they will use alcohol quite as freely and many in four or five times as ' great proportions in their own pre- 1 scriptions. i Such standard remedies as Lydia 1 E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound 1 use barely enough alcohol to pre- ’ serve the rot and herb extractives, ' too little to have injurious effects; ' and the medicine can be had, if de- * sired, in a non alcoholic form. —Advt. s ‘-n— C COURT hOUsE NEWS. A (CONTINUED >TtOM PAGE ONE) rice and Edward Rice, minor heirs p of Benjamin Rice, giving $4,000 bond. . IMPORTANT MEETING TONIGHT a e The Civic Improvement Society will s meet at 7:30 o’clock this evening at the J W. Tyndall home on Monroe street It is important tha! every member be present as matters of im- 0 portance are to be discussed t , MARY C. TYNDALL, Pres. A ALL ABOARD FOR GPEECH. ri A numjjer from here vzill attend the Zoercher speech at St. John's tonight. Automobiles will leave this office at 6:30. Six cars have arrang- o. office at 6:30. Six cars have been h arranged for. Fill ’em up. IV

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HUNTINGTON WON (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) defeated Lankenau and Frisinger, Decatur 7-5 and 6-2. Second Round. Cummins and Swain Bluffton defeated Hoffman and Fulton, Hartford City 2-6, 6-3 and 6-4 Popp and Plogsterth. Fort Wayne defeated Engeler and Schafer, Decatur 6-3 and 6-4. Crites and Glass Huntington defeated Bergener and Edwards, Decatur 6-1 and 6-0. Third Round. Crites and Glass Huntingtdh defeated Pancrost and Ellenberger, Hartford City 6-0 and 6-2 Popp and Plogsterth Fort. Wayne defeated Cummins and Swain, Bluffton 6-4 and 6-4. SHE WASA SCOLD 'CONTINUED rnoM PAGE ONE) He charges further that she accusad him falsely of being untrue to her. At times, he says she refused to cook for hired help and the family and not long after they were married she demanded payment for her labor. He says they kept cows and chickens and she got the proceeds therefrom for the upkeep of herself and family and they were all well provided for. Once she attacked him with a broom, he charges and when he took that, and in turn, a stick of wood and a buggy whip from her. she got chunks of coal and threw at him, striking hiiti on the head and wounding him. He alleges that she would lie in bed until late at night scolding and nagging him and on one occasion when he got up and went into another room and locked the door, she got a piece of wood and threw it at the door, wljic.h retains the sea, | thereof to this day. CHARLES CHAPLIN IN VAGABOND “The Vagabond.” third of the Chap-lin-Mutual comedies, filmed under Charles Chaplin’s $670,000 contract with the Mutual Film corporation, will be shown at the Rex today. In this picture Chaplin is presented in the role of an itinerant musician, who after a series of comic and near-trag-ic adventures in the big city, where he finds the competition of the German street bands and hurdy-gurdies too much for him, desldes to try country life. Unfortunately in his travels he serenades a band of gypsies with his violin. In the filming of the various scenes in connection with the progress, of the story particularly those taking place in the camp of the nomads, Chaplin has introduced numerous new and laugh-provok-ing stunts which are certain to rank as the cleverest the comedian has ever done in his long career on the screen. - —- BIRTH OF SON Paul Girod Hendricks is the name sf the fine boy born Sunday morning o Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hendricks. Mr. Hemiricks is with the People's restaurant. AIMEE SMITH HERE Aimee, wife of Bird Boy Art Smith, vith a girl and young man friend, motwed here yesterday afternoon for an wur or so and called on Mr. and Mrs. Walter Robinson and other friends.

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