Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1916 — Page 2

I) AILY DE M OCR A1 Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Companv JOHN H. HELLER.' President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUE, Secretary Subscription Rates. Per Week, by currier 10 cents Per Year, by currier $5.00 Per Month, by juail 25 cents Per year, by mull $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffiee in Decatur, .Indiana, as second-class matter. The republicans seem to feel perfectly safe about Minnesota which was carried by n majority of 396. and still they seeip to feel very doubtful about California which shows a dem ocratic majority of more than 3,000. Just where do you get this brand of optimism and hope? , Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, it is said, will have the job of handing out the federal patronage in the Indiana districts where republican congressmen will serve. Some job. hut Tom has handled some big jobs and always with credit to himself and his beloved state. Decatur is to have an auto day. You will know all about it in due time. The local merchants are going out after business and you as a good citizen ought to help them boost. A live town is always better than a dull one. We can and will make this the best one in the world. Will you boost or knock? Do you think you could live on half of what you spend now? They are doing that and twice that in poor old Belbium today. The cost of living is high, but a large proportion of it is the cost of high living. We want too much. It's a good time to think about it if the advance in prices is to continue as is now predicted. •‘Potatoes, they grow large in Kansas, and they eat ’em skin and all in Kansas’ ami they also do many other things in Kansas that folks in oth r states wonder at. In the recent election the 100,000 republican majority was upset and the state carried bv Wilson by 20.000 while they elected a republican state ticket —yet the ‘.wo rockribbed democratic counties vo’ed for Hughes. Eli Stansbury, attorney generalelect of Indiana is going to appoint his son. Dale, to a deputyship in his office which pays SI,BOO per year. And did some republican papers during the past few years mention something about The facts are i hat the hungry republicans are determined to make up for the pa t eight years away from the public crib. They will oust every democrat, fill every job and add a few if they can. Considerable of that talk you heard during the campaign was or political puffposes only. Governor-elect Goodrich evidently believes he is going to have troubles enough of his own. and he announces

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that state officials and heads of institutions must make their own appointments. We had rather gathered from Mr. Goodrich's criticism of the Ralston administration that there wouldn't be any appointments to be made if the people of Indiana only considered with proper favor Mr. Goodrich's application for the job as governor. It is evident we must have misunderstood Mr. Goodrich's campaign utterances.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. . ■" Tom Taggart never forgets. Even after the recent rather stormy political campaign which ended in his defeat and in which he figured as one of the headliners, he has written to his editorial friends thanking them for their efforts and reasserting what he said during the . . aign that the re-election of Mr. Vv ilsen v as the allimixcrtant thing. He re.ckez that Woodrow Wilson will have four years more in which to finish the splendid progressive program so well beg n and says that is far more importa.it than any personal ambitions. Ton Taggart is always right. It is quite in order to keep an eye on Gov. Hiram Johnson, of California. Hiram has made quite a record in that state of sunshine, flowers and fruit. He is credited with having, turned the state upside down, knocked out ra'lload control and obtained a splendid program of social justice legislation. Under his leadership California was transformed from one of the most reactionary to one of the most progressive states in the union. Now he goes to the senate with the prestige of a majority behind him in a state that was almost evenly divided on the head of the ticket. He is an effective speaker, a hard fighter and he hates to compromise. It will be interesting to see how he will make life miserable for Doe Gallinger and the other standpatters in the senate.— Goshen Democrat. We listened a half hour this morning to a banker who was telling of the tendency of every one now-a-days to live beyond their means, to spend m-re money than they receive, to fail in their duty to save a portion of their earnings for the rainy day that is Icourid to come, to provide for that time in life when one’s earning capacity, begins to recede, and we knew he spoke the truth. He laid down this splendid rule —that every person who earns money should save one-tenth, put it away as a safety fund, and we believe that all of us would be far better off and just as happy if we did it. STOP right now and think it over. If you are earning fifteen dollars a week and spending sixteen, you will soon be so deeply in deltt that you will worry a great deal more than you would, had you lived, on a dollar and a half less a week and saved that amount. It is safe to sav that even during this period of high j rices, there are places where you could get along without spending some of the money you do and still enjoy life just as much and perhaps more. The thrifty person is always the happy person and thrift means to live within your means and save something. It’s a gobd resolution for the new year and to be in practice, better start it now.

0 DOINGS IN SOCIETY | »»«itetetea« »• to ** w w to 'to tote toto to KWF' WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday. Tri Kappas—Miss Madge Hite. Afternoon Club —Mrs. Carrie Ehinger. Evangelical Social—Old Laundry Building. Wednesday. Delta Theta Tail—Mrs. Herman EhInger. / Evangelical Aid Oyster Supper—Old laundry building. Bachelor Maids—Miss Adelaide Deininger. Y. P. C. E. ,U. —U. B. Church. Shakespeare—Mrs. D. D. Heller. Historical—Mrs. Will Butler. Thursday. Euterpean—Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer. Baptist Ladies’ Aid—Mrs. H. M. Shroll. Presbyterian Aid—‘Mesdames Hubbard and Coverdale. Friday. Tirzah Aid Social—Ben Hur Hall. Queen Esthers —Mabel and Vera Hower. ! Zion Lutheran Quilting all day at

schoolhouse. Eastern Star Regular meeting. Saturday, Evangeleal Ladies' Aid—Fancy work Bazaar. Gas office. good many men depend for their courage upon those who stand back of them." Miss Adelaide Deininger will entertain the Bachelor Maids club Wednesday evening. The Young People's Alliance of the Evangelical church held its regular monthly business meeting at the parsonage last evening. The busim-. s consideration came first, and then the excellent social. A fine program included readings by Mary Fuhrman and Naomi Cramer; piano duet by Hope Hoffman and Helen Rilling; vocal solo by Miss Eola Gentis. Rcwere thirty present and a very in*'rfreshments were tempting. Th : ? esting meeting is reported. Eighty guests thronged the spacious rooms of the 1 J. T. Merryman home yesterday afternoon when 'h/ Research club had its “guest day" Study was laid aside and while busy fingers plied the needle over their sewing conversation held sway. Later Mrs. C. E. Bell and Mrs. Eugene Runyon, with piano accompaniment by Mrs. Albert Sellemeyer each sang to the enjoyment of all. Companion ■. for the two course luncheon were found by matching buttons which were distributed. The club coi >r, orange, predominated in the luncheon which took a pleasing form, attractive to the eye as well and bowls of chrysanthemums contributed to the beauty of the rooms. Mrs. Charles Bell ot' Fort Wayne; Mrs. E. P. Hubbard. Montague. Mich., and Mrs. Jeff Bryson, of Portland, were from cut of town. THe partv was characterized as one of til l most pleasurable of the several of the club socials. The committee on entertainment comprised besides (’•« hostess of the home, Mrs. Eugene Runyon. Mrs. Carl Pumphrey. M: . Frank France. Mrs. Horace Callow, Mrs. L. W. Stolte, Mrs. C. D. Lewton. Next Monday. Mrs. James Rice wilt lead the study at the home of Mr-. Ed Moses. The musical program given yesterday is spoken of as being especially pleasing, Mrs. Runyon singing “The Bird Lullaby” by Wilford Sanderson j and Mrs. Bell, “On the Shore” by Nidlinger. The regular meeting of the Eastern Star will will be held on Friday evecing. The Zion Lutheran Ladies’ Aid ; >- ciety will hold another all-day quilt-' ing at the schoolhouse Friday. Mrs.| Ferdinand Bleeke will serve the dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Mead of St. Lorn':, Mich.,; Mr. and Mrs. William Auspaugh. of Delphos. O.: Mr. and M-:. W. O. Bigham of north of the ci y and Miss Abbie Bigham of Fort Wayne: Mrs. L.' A. Jackson and -on were guests Sunday of the James Gattshall family. The Queen Esther Circle will be entertained Friday evening at the horn of Vera and Mabel Flower. Miss RnJt Parrish assisting them. All the Quern Esther girls’ presence is desired.

Mrs. F. M. Sehirmeyer will en< tain the Euterpean club Thursday evening. Miss Agnes Kohne will go t<T Fort Wavne tomorrow to attend a K. of C. dance’in the evening as the guest of Miss Helen Aurentz. The Tirzah Aid of the Ben Hur' lodge will give a social Friday night at the Hen Hur hall. A good program and refreshments will be features of the entertainments. The public is invited. Mrs. George Simmers entertained at dinner today for her mother and sister, Mrs. C. C. Wilder and Mrs. Rhoda Mahan. Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Will Rohan and Mrs. J. B. Reuss of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Reuss’ Mrs. Nodermann? of Cincinnati. Ohio, will be guests of Mrs. W. A. Kuebier tomorrow. Mr. ami Mrs. Cal Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bell. Rev. F. G. Rogers, Mrs. H. M. Shroll. Mrs. John Everett, Mrs. 8. E. Shamp, Miss Jessie W’innes will attend church at the First Baptist church in Fort Wayne this evening. Mrs. Anna Buhler of Indianapolis, who visited he<;e with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fisher, left this afternoon for Fort Wayne to be the guest of her sister, Mrs. L. L. Syphers. The Delta Theta Tan sorority will meet with Mrs. Horman Ehinger at her home on North Fifth street Wednesday evening. HERE ia a reuieoy that win cuta moat ail akin aM tc*lp troubles- Eczama, Barbara Itch. Itch. CuU and Sorea. Why waata time and money when B B. Ointment ia an ointment of real merit? VOW druggtit If Sot Laadlad tend 50 cantt to tie B B Ointment Co.< #l/ Mamoa atmt pocatw, Indiana

SEERESS ON WHITE MOUNTAIN " 111 ■ 11 " X How an Old Yankee Woman Preeaged to Perfection the Comipg of a Storm. I once knew an old woman who lived under the shadow of the While mountains, and whose Instinct for (weather changes was almost uncanny. She did not have barometrical bones, either, as so many people maintain they have. Her deductions were all based on observation. Once, I recall, she was taking in some clothes from the line at ten o'clock at night—a still, starlit night without u cloud. I saw her shadow bobbing about huge and fantastic on I the barn wall, thrown from the lantern she carried in her left hund, and went out to ask her why she took the clothes in. "There wa'n’t a eloud in the sky all day,” she said, "and tonight the mountain's talkin’." I listened carefully, and, sure enough, in the silence I could hear, three thousand feet above us, the Steady rush of wind through the stunted spruce forest at timber Hue. Up there the wind was roaring, then 1 I thought of Martineau’s words, that the noisy hurricane rushes silently through the upper spaces 'where there is nothing to oppose it —that force by itself is silent. There seemed to me something almost Celtic, too, in this old Yankee woman’s imagery. And her prediction proved correct: the next day came a deluge.—Waltci Pritchard Eaton in Harper's Magazine. FIND JOY IN BEING ALONE Experience Which Is Nothing Short of Delight Is Recommended by Lover of the Woods. The art of being alone is worth cultivating. Unless you have really tried it, you have no idea how unusual and refreshing it is. City Jife, and even modern country life ar*not conducive to its practice. It is very different from being lonesome and quite another matter from being ill. It is found at its full flower only in the woods, and its best development requires adjustment and practice. The first experience is apt to leave one somewhat baffled, if not frightened. We live so much with othei men and with the evidences of their activity that we luydly know how much is durselves and how much someone else. In the woods —and it need not be the remote wilderness—we can divest ourselves of all that is not really a part of us. We can learn how small —or perhaps how large—we are. We can soak up impressions with time to taste them and consider them. We can learn the true value of wind and clouds and sun and shade. If we feel like it, we can talk out loud to out-selves, and there will be no one to think us crazy. We can sing and no one will tell us we are off the tune. In short, we cun be natural for once in our lives —free from the warping effect of what other people think. That is surely an experience worth while.—Outing. As to Ideals. People talk as if ideal was a kind of inagie salve, to heal any kind of hurt, individual or social. Put your ideal high enough, and live as you please, is the modern gospel. If your intentions are really good, do not worry about the ritual of daily living. A hundred magazine-pulpits are preaching that doctrine. High ideals are held to justify the breaking up of the home. High ideals are considered more important than fundamental loyalty—whether to an employer, a church, or the president of the United States. And since no one would admit for a moment that his ideals were anything but high, this system simplifies everything in life except the consequences. It is much easier to have a high ideal than to make it work. It is sometimes nobler to be true to the ugly job in front than to soar aloft.—Wallace Herbert Blake. Saints of the Bath. I would not say a word in deprecation of modern plumbing. Beyond a doubt it is one of our greatest blessings, and the herald of a true democracy, when there shall be neither a "groat unwashed” nor a “submerged tenth.” But, somehow, Saturday has lost its savor. Life is tamer than it used to be. No man in his senses would wish, in this day of Pullman sleepers, to crosp the Great Plains in a prairie schofJner, but the names of the men who risked their lives to do it are enshrined in history. And so I think we ought to build a little altar to the middle-class country mothers who, in the face of every obstacle, kept the Saturday-ziight bath a sacred institution, and Handed it down to their children inviolate. —Atlantic. Peril in Cleanliness. With sobs in his voice, the applicant for a meal and some old clothes had told fts story, and the kind-hearted woman had helped him. Now he sat eating a hunk of bread ami cheese and she thought it wise to get in a little good advice. So she began: “Don’t yon think that —er —if would be better for yourself if you used soap and water occasionally?” The tramp sighed dolefully. “I would, nih'am —I would,” he answered eagerly, “but the truth is that there's so many different kinds of soap, and it’s so hard to know which is" injurious to the skin, that I'm afraid to take any risks.”

“I WILL INSIST,’’ CAPT. MILLER SAYS Prominent Richmond Man is to Urge Friends to Give Tanlac Trial. Richmond, Ind., Nov. 20 -There is not a better’known or more highly respected man in this city than t’a, t. Miller, for thirty-three years at the head of the local organization of the Salvation Army. It has always been Capt. Miller’s policy to neip the other fellow when he could, and so. after gaining great benefit through use of Tanlac, the Master Medicine, he issued the following statement hoping others might 1:' aided by what lie had to say: “Some time ago I suffered a general physical breakdown,” f'apt. Miller said "My strength failed me completely and my health in genearl became poor. I felt tired and weak and worn cut all the time. 1 had no appetfte and nothing that I ate tasted right, j "Since taking Tanlac I feel like a different person in every respect. This medicine has built me up all over. In fact. I’ve gained thirty-five pounds since I began taking Tanlac. My work is a pleasure now and I take a new interest in everything. “I shall insist that all my friends, who are in my former ondition. giv*e this medicine a trial.” Tanlac. tire Master Medicine, is line for building up the system after an attack oi illness or a general breakdown. It also is excellent for stomach, liv/ar and kidney trouble, catarrhal complaints, rheumatism, nervousness. and the like. Tanlac is now being specially ini ’>> duced and explained at Smith. Y»g-r & Falk Drug Store. REAL ESTTTE INVESTMENTS. Dear Friends: — Would you be interested in an 86 lust south of Pleasant Mills? 40 acres quite near Monroe? 120 and another 120 and 200 acres near Steele? 102 and 118 just west of Decatur? 60 and 50 just south of Decatur? A 40 about one mile south of court house? Two 80's near Honduras? 50 and 40 and 33 acres just east of Decatur? 106 and a 60 and 100 acres iust a little ways south of Decatur? 10 acres 3 miles efest of Monroe? 145 teres adjoining Monroe? 180 acres two miles west of Berne? 230 acres in north Monroe township. We would be glad to have you ask US about them. Respectfully, THE BOWERS REALTY COMPANY FRANK M. SCHIRMEYER. FRENCH QUINN. 277t3 FACTS IN HISTORY WANTED. I want to publish a pen picture of the first ten years of Adams county. I would be pleased for any one whose parents or ancestors moved to this county prior or during the year 1845, to write me stating when they came, where they settled, giving quarter section and township. This writing to me would not in the least obligate you to buy a when published. The obligations will be all on my side.

Will you help me to make the book worth while? PAUL BAUMGARTNER. 815 N. 2nd St., Decatur. Ind. 27716 MOOSE DANCE THURSDAY. The regular Thursday night dance will be held this week as usual, at the Moose hall. Don’t forget it or you forget an enjoyable occasion. These events are popular because every one wfio attends has a happy evening. Forget your cares and join the crowd. 277t3w-tf — e—■ SON IS BORN. County Auditor Thoma# Baitzell is proud over the birth of a new grandchild. This ,is the eight-pmuid son, Thomas William, born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Adler, who reside on the Baitzell farm, southwest of the city. The mother was formerly Miss Theresa Baitzell and the babe is the first horn. The child is named for its two grandfathers. LINER IN'DISTRESS? ” ~, , /United Press Service) Washington. D. Nov. Zl—(Specda! to Daily Democrat)—The liner Lampaeas is in distress off Brunswick. Ga„ and a coast guard cutter Is rushing to her assistance, wireless dispatches said this afternoon. The vessel is in the passenger and freight service between New York and Galveston.

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NO HUNTING ALLOWED. Notice is hereby given that no hunting will be allowed on my farm and violators of this notice will be fallowed by prosecution under the law. 264t36 JOHN HESSLER.

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ATTENTION, FARMERS! Book your sale with the live atock and farm sale auctinoeer, who wffi get you the highest prices. HARRY DANIELS, Auctioneer, 206-e-o-d-ts Pleasant Mills, Ind.