Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1916 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates. Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.60 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. The Muncie municipal coal yard has already exhausted the supply and Mayor Bunch is being met with opposition of various kinds. The coal men are getting even by discontinuing their advertisements with the local papers, the city treasurer is refusing to pay the order for $15,000 with which to stock the yards and there are various side issues which may effect the outcome of this effort. Serving all the public is not always the most pleasant job as several of the city executives over this state are now discovering. The New York Sun in discussing the question of whether or not a food product will bring results, recalls that’ thirty years ago every family was using a brand of coffee known as Maracaibo. So popular did this brand become that the coffee barons anvanced the price until it reached forty cents, then unheard of. Terrence Powderly, head of the Knights of Labor started a boycott which was joined by the whole country. Within thirty days the retail price of Maracaibo coffee was twenty eight cents A Red Cross seal on your letter and packages at this glad season of the year is the very best evidence you can offer that your heart goes out to those in distress, that you know what the Christmas spirit is. These little seals are but the means for raising each year a large fund which is used to fight tuberculosis. The society in this county is making a splendid fight and the men and women back of it deserve credit,, and more than that, they deserve your assistance. Use the seals, use lots of them and be grateful to those who are devoting their time to this splendid work. Mayor Johnson of Gary has answered those who petitioned for enforcement of laws by agreeing with them and now that he has done so and d’ .- dared that from tiiis time on the state laws will be rigidly carried oat, the very people who made the demands are claiming that this change is too radical. Its the same old thing “L if you do and L if you don't ” Mayor Johnson will no doubt be beseached with requests to let up on enforcement but then why should not the citizens of Gary obey the same laws that citizens of other towns and cities of Indiana must obey? The mayor could make no better finish to his administration than by making his orders “stick.”

X/OU cannot buy that 1 Y man or anything that will please him as f-' s-s‘v;well for Christmas as some article of clothing that he / can wear and get some good A suit or overcoat, mack*naw or sw eater would be \ ' a\ rs/rl / k/ very appropriate. x V fi/ SUITS AND OVERCOATS i ’ V-uCW Bo y 8 ’ $ 3 - 50 to $ 9 - 50 . ' Men’s ... .$13.50 to $25.00 Sweaters .... 50c to $7.50 Mackinaws .. $4.50 to $8.50 Our store is full of Christmas novelties that cannot help but please. A neat article in the jewelry line never fails to please as it will be taken care of and appreciated for years to come. The Myers-Dailey Company. SUITS THAT SUIT

p The Also Products company has acr cepted the proposition made by Decaf tur business men and will locate their first and only factory in this city, be y ginning operation as soon as they can t obtain machinery and the necessary raw products. This company comes f here in good faith, are not asking a dollar of financing in this community, with the promise to do every thing in a their power to make the concern grow 8 to such proportions that it will mean ) much to the people of this community. 3 They are deserving of the sincere sup--1 port of the people. If they win they will provide labor for hundreds of peo- , pie, will bring money from the outside into this community, will increase , the value of property and help in a ( hundred ways. Give them the welcome they deserve h DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday. i Pocahontas Needle Club. Eastern Star Election — Masonic Hall. Saturday. Reformed Aid Pastry Sale —Gas office. None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in error.— Benjamin Franklin. Don’t worry over what people are thinking about you. Already you have been sized up by the intelligent ones and the others don’t think at all. —John A. Howland. At the home of Mrs. S. E. Shamp yesterday afternoon, the Baptist Ladies’ Aid society held its annual election. The result: President, Mrs. C. E. Bell; vice president, Mrs, Harve Shroll; secretary, Mrs. S. E. Shamp;treasurer, Mrs John Everett; flower fund committee, Mrs. Howard Sikes. The collection was unusually good, being $15.10. A social followed the business. Miss Bess Congleton entertained the Euterpean club last evening, “What Indiana Has Done for Literature” was Miss Fan Hite’s subject and her paper included the ]>oets, historians, and novelists that Indiana has produced. She also touched on the early history of the state and its influence on the literature. Mrs. Fred Fruchte will be hostess next week. The Hard to Beat ’ Class of the Evangelical church will have a pastry sale and homemade candy sale at the gas office, December 23. The sum of fifty four dollars was recorded as the collection for the Evangelicalu Aid at the home of Mrs. Arthur Hooten yesterday. The business and social p-riods alternated and refreshments of sandwiches, coffee, ice cream and cake were refreshing. Mrs. Al Burdg, Mrs. Mel Butler and Mrs. Frank Winans were hostesses . to the Methodist Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society at the Burdg home yesterday. Mrs. Dan Erwin lead the devotlonals and Mrs. P. H. Hooper the study, which was of the missionary work in Alaskan schools and among the Chinese in , California. A song by Mrs. Arthur ( Ford and violin solo with piano accompaniment by Charles Thornburg and Mrs. F. F. Thornburg preceded ' the refreshment hour. The Live Wire class of the Evangelical Sunday school taught by Mrs.

s« Eugene Runyon was royally entertaini- ed at the home of Mrs. Fred Linn. r After the business, a fine program and excellent refreshments were in t . ' order. i, - - The Hard to Beat Class of the Evangelical Sunday school had a'very 3 pleasant reunion with a former mem--1 ber, Mrs. Vernia Smith who enter- , tained them at her home on Oliver 1 street, Fort Wayne, last evening. ; Some went by automobile, but the greater part made the trip on the 5:45 car. Miss Zelpha Hebblc, a former ' member of the class, now in Fort ” Wayne, joined them for the evening. f Games were played and there was . music. A fine lunch was a part of the generous hospitality of the Bandtell home. Those from here were the ? Mrs J H. Rilling, Dr and Mrs. O. L. i Burgener, Misses Ethel, Ida and Mary - Fuhrman. Thelma Brelner, Abie McConnehey, Cleo Roop, Eola Gentls, Hilda Kern, Grace and Fern Hoeneisen. | The 'steenth one of a jolly series • of community gtiatherings was the • surprise given Mrs. John Christen last evening by a company of neighbors and a few other friends. The affair was a complete surprise, and : a successful party throughout, to which merriment and good cheer attested. Piano music was furnished i by Mrs. Fred Gall and John Christen; a German trio, including Mesdames Frank McConnell, Reuben Lord and Mrs. Christen sang; duets were sung by Mesdames Barlow’ and Cooper and also by Naomi Lord and Beatrice Ba con. In the interim, mirth provoking games of many kinds were played, until very nearly the midnight hour At 10:30 a very substantial and tasty lunch of meat loaf and pimento cheese, sandwiches, baked beans, blives, pickles, corn salad, cakq hnd coffee was served from ’ the baskets which the party brought with them. The ranks of a very congenial party will soon be broken by several of the ladies returning to their homes in Michigan, having been here with their husbands durng the sugar factory campaign which cloised recently. Those pres- ' ent were Mrs. Fred Bacon and daughter, Beatrice; Mrs. Frank McConnell. Mrs. Hodgins and children, Marguer- ! ite Dorothy and Harodl; Mrs. T. C. Corbett and daughter, Lucile; Mis. Stella Barlow', Mrs. Mae Fletcher, Mrs. Fred Gall and son, Hewitt; Mr. . and Mrs. Reuben Ixird and daughter, Naomi; Mrs. W. G. Kist. Mrs. Chas. . Cooper, Fanchon and Jessie Magley. Twenty-five intimate friends of Miss Irene Smith, a bride-elect were guests at a miscellaneous shower, afternoon and dinner party for her given by her sisters-in-law, Mesdames Harve and Fred Smith at the home of the former yesterday. Tea towels hemmed by the girls were showered on the guest • of honor and at six o’clock, a dinner ■ was served. The guest of honor was seated with others at the large dining room table and small- ! er tables accommodated the others. Swansonia were the flowers used in decorating and the color scheme otherwise, was yellow and white. The place cards were in these colors as I were individual candy baskets at each i place. Miss Rowena Shoaf assisted I the hostesses. After dinner the . shower of gifts was viewed and much; . admired. The wedding of Miss Smith I and Mr. Don Vancil will take place to-

- — . AV 17. 1 laa . .. . : ' - .. .. ' - " Kidney Disorder (By Dr. L. C. Babcock)

’ Simple methods ape usually the 1 most effective ones when treating any disorder of the human system. The mere drinking a cup of hot water each morning, plenty of pure water all day, and a little Anuric before every meal lias been Mund tho most effcc- - tive means of overcoming kidney ‘ trouble. Death would occur if the kidj noys did not work day and night in , separating poisons and uric acid from I the blood. The danger signals are backache, ‘ depressions, aches, pains, heaviness, drowsiness, irritability, headaches, . chilliness, rheumatic twinges, swoll- , en joints, gout. Since it is such a simple matter to ( step into your favorite drug store and > obtain Anuric, as every druggist ris- ) penses it, anyone who earnestly de-

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» 111 ■ 1 r - morrow. Her sister, Mrs. Albert . Lachnit will arrive from Indianapolis 1 this afternoon to join the others in 1 attending the wedding. The penny supper and social of the b Young People's society of the U. B. v church in the basement of the church ~ last evening was a jolly juvenile frol- ■- ic, the adults assisting the young r people. Their supper was fine and in generous amounts. The fishing pond » was In charge of Glen Hill. Adrian j Elzey and others and netted a good r amount. Miss Agnes Gillig. who is t in demand as a teller of stories for children, told an interesting tale, and , this feature was much enjoyed. The ’ social netted $7.20 besides much fun. ■ Messrs. Hasold Markley and Doc ? Joyce of Bluffton attended the Moose ■ dance last evening. r o PRICESSMBSHEO ’ Chicago Populace Boycott High Priced Stuff With Success. 1 GOVERNMENT INQUIRY > Five Hundred Grocers Are Haled Before Federal Grand Jury. (United Press Service) Chicago, Dec. B—(SpecialB—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The corner in eggs and other produce appeared to have been smashed today when prices already , lowered, were expected to tumble still more. Widespread boycotts on butter, eggs and produce and the extension of grain and meat embargoes to include practically all foodstuffs were , chiefly responsible. Eggs were down five cents below the high point and butter had declined six cents a pound today. Potatoes vanishing from many tables when they became a luxury, have dropped from ten to fifteen cents a bushel. Retail prices are expected to follow the decline-in wholesale prices, closely following the summoning of five hundred retail grocers to appear before the federal grand jury here today. o MAY CLOSE FACTORIES. Lynn. Mass., Dec. B—ln a statement issued last night Albert M. Creighton, president of the Lynn Shoemanufacturers’ association, composed of more than 100 firms, said: “Unless we obtain some relief soon, shoe factories throughout the country will be running on half time with the beginning of the new year. There is no telling what will come later. “If the price of leather continues to increase during the next sixty days as it has during the last two months, the manufacturer might as well close their establishments, as the people certainly do not want, to pay SB, $lO, and sl2 for a pair of medium grade shoes, and that is what it is coming to.” "special. Fancy New York Baldwins. 185 c bushel, while they last.— ‘Hunsicker and Miller Phone No. 45. 29112

sores to regain health and new life will waste no time in beginning this treatment. All people in America and especially those who are past middle age are prone to eat too much meat ano in consequence deposit lime-salts in their arteries, veins and joints. They often suffer from twinges of rheumatism or lumbago, sometimes from i gout, swollen hands or feet. Such people are not always able to exercise sufficiently in the outdoor air or drink enough pure water in order to sweat freely and excrete impurities through the skin. Anuric will overcome such conditions as rheumatism; dropsical swellings, cold extremeties, scalding and burning urine and sleeplessness due to constant need of getting out of bed at night.

WORK COMPLETED Dr. G. Hunter Myers Won Another Big Victory Bedding Endowment. HIS THIRD CAMPAIGN For College EndowmentWill be Assistant Director of Educational Jubilee. ■I M H W. J Myers yesterday received a telegram from his son, Dr. G. H. Myers, of Abingdon, 111., stating that the endowment campaign for Hadding college had won, and thus his big work there is completed. This is the third Methodist college that Dr. Myers has helped to endow. Two °f them he had entire charge of. After the first of the year he will be assistant director of the educational jubilee work of the Methodist church. His family will contniue for the present to live in Abingdon as his two daughters are students in the college. Ruth, a sophomore, and Margaret doing preparatory work. The many Decatur friends of Rev. Myers will rejoice over his new victory, due largely to his unlimited energy and a devotion to his work that is deserving of great credit. —o PRICE SAYS WORK IS PLEASURE NOW Richmond Salesman Feels Like New Person Since Giving Tanlac Trial. Richmond, Ind., Dec. 7 —Ellsworth C. Price, a well known Richmond salesman, declares he cannot praise Tanlac, the Master Medicine, too highly beccause of the great benefit he derived from its use. Mr. Price said, on October 23: “For three years I have suffered from kidney trouble, severe pains in my back bothering me almost contantly. I felt weak and worn out all the time and I Was very nervous. "Friends told me about Tanlac and at their suggestion I decided to give this medicine a trial. 1 feel better in every respect since taking Tanlac. It has improved my health generally. I really feel like a new person now and my work is a pleasure. “I can’t praise Tanlac too highly because of what it has done for me and I hope that all who are bothered as I was will give this medicine a trial." Tanlac. the Master Medicine, is especially beneficial for stomach, liver and kidney trouble, catarrhal complaints, rheumatism, nervousness, loss of appetite and ti»e like and is fine for building up the system following an attack of la grippe or pneumonia cs a severe cold. Tanlac is now being specially inti educed and explanied in Decatur at the Smith, Yager & Falk drug store. —Adv.

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Big auction sale al t Hardware Co.. Satari 1,9; 9 storm buggies, lil gies, 20 sets of bu® and 8 sets of heavy ti ! farm harness will ft highest bidder. Sale I 11 o'clock.