Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1917 — Page 2

DA I L Y D E M OCRAT Published Every Evanln* Except Sunday by The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates. Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Ter Tear, by carrleb *5.00 Per Month, by mail 25 cents Per Year, by mail $3.00 Single Copies ...2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. - .js Entered at the Postoffice in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. If you haven't paid your subscription to the Daily Democrat you can do it Saturday when you come in for Auto Day. Candidates are being discussed and it looks as though there may be several interesting contests. The declarations must be filed on or before February 3rd to comply with the law. We invite you to call at the office of the Daily Democrat when you come to Decatur Saturday for Auto Day. We will be glad to see you and to show you where the paper is print-1. You are cordially invited to come in make yourself at home. Four or five factories, all small om s now but with the opportunity to become a big part of the community in which they locate if given a chance are figuring on coining to Decatur. We can land them with just a little effort and we ought to make the effort and a sacrifice or two if necessary. Wit! you take off your coat and help g t them ? A jury in Indianapolis has returned a verdict acquitting the Columbia club on the charge of operating‘a blind tiger. They admit that they st 11 booze there and carry a large and well assorted stock but the well select :1 jurors, urged by that prince of patriots Alvah Rucker, declare that the “blind tiger” law was not meant, for these nabbs who can afford to drink and know how to drink it or let it alone. The argument may be gold but we could never understand h.Tithe rich man could enjoy it in his club while the poor man must do without or suffer the penalty. Lets treat everybody alike whether they live in Iftdianapolte or Terre Haute or Dec.-.-tur. We have talked with a number cf tax payers and citizens of this countyconcerning house bill No. 51. concerning which Representative Walker is asking the instruction of his constituents and for his benefit we don't mird saying that the concensus of opinion here is that the bill should not pass. It was evidently written or planned by

ft 15-B All Men’s and Young Men’s , ? jfF AM Men s a »d Young Men’s Suits and Overcoats f A Suits and Overcoats ' Vk that formerly sold for $12.50 and $15.00 that formerly sold for $20.00 112-45 Mid / 16-50 ~ ========== I I 11 a ===== All Men’s and Young Men’s *|J ' I / All Men’s and Young Men’s Suits and Overcoats ‘JJ 4/ Suits and Overcoats that formerly sold for $16.50 and SIB.OO 0 that formerly sold for $22.50 THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY SThe Store That Does As It Adverti res HWmMRMIIMBI.in * . ■ *

P n curb ttone dealer who is seeking to Li protect bis mortgages without paying t any tax. The law provides tiiat a tax ‘ ot fifty cents shgll be paid on ea h of the mortgage and that there shall be no further tax against su h y mortgage. For instance, the person who holds a mortgage In this city for SI,OOO >-ould pay a recording fee of s *5,00 and would thus dodge a tux of 0 about *IO.OO. besides in making th® ’ loan he could probably make the tfns fortunate borrower pay the recording a fee and the curb stoner would thus iscape his tax entirely. The law, after . carefully reading, looks like a bad one for every body except that man fortunate enough to hold in his iron sateI ty box a bunch of mortgages. Oth- r * people would no doubt oppose the law and it is likely th: t ii would prevent many foreign companies ■; Ing busiI ness in Indiana, it don't look good here from what we can hear. Political Announcements | FOR MAYOR. • Please anounce my name as a candidate for mayor of the city of De- a- ! tur. on the -democratic ticket, subject to the decision of the primary election to be held Tuesday. March 6, > 1917. CHARLES N. CHRISTEN? FOR CITY TREASURER. i Please announce my name as a can- J didate for treasurer of the city of Decatur. subject to the decision of the democratic voters at the primary to be held, Tuesday. March t>, 1917. 1 g EDGAR GERBER. , Iwtl" 117 Z 5 71 • .‘I ! DOINGS IN SOCIETY lj s t? WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Wednesday. Walther League—lda and Lyda G unset t. Loyal Temperance Legion—M. E. Church Parlors. Historical Club —Mrs. Fannie Peterson. Eastern Star Guest Night. Five Hundred Club—Mrs. Fred A. iibaucher. ♦ ’Delta Theta Tau- Mrs. Will Bowci.'. Shakespeare—Mrs. J. C. I’atters in. Thursday. Evangelical Aid —Church Basement. ML Pleasant Mite, Society—Mrs. Singleton. Presbyterian Aid—Mrs. J. L. Ko dier. Baptist Aid —Mrs. C. E. Bell. Euterpean—Mrs. Albert Sellemeyer. Queen Esthers —Faye Stults. Loyal Workers’ Class—Mrs. Mat Breiner. Ic-Nick—Naomi Gass. Friday. Miasterr. Star Business meeting. Zion Lutheran Aid —All Day Meeting. Christian Pastoral Helpers—Mrs Ru .:♦!! Acker. Mite Society —Mrs. D. E. Smith. ' ’ Minnehaha Needle club. SATURDAY Mite Society Rummage Sale, Bazaar and Pastry Sale —Gregory building. O, do not pray for easy lives' Pray to be stronger men! Do not I pray for tasks equal to your pow- I ers. Pray for powers equal to . ■ > -.—— -

> your tanks.! Th’eu the doing of , your work ahull be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle, Ev- “ ery day you shall wonder at youri self, at the richness of life which , has come in you by the grace of ( God.—Phillipa .Brooks. Miss Ruth Haug, n former Bluffton • girl, became the bride of Dick Burdg , a Decatur young man last Friday and the news wil come as a surprise to her many friends here. She ie a daugh'er ' of the late Fred Haag, the butcher who was murdered in his South Morgan street shop a tew years ago.— Bluffton News. The Zion Lutheran Ladies Aid will meet at the schoolhouse all day Friday. Mrs. Julius Haugk wil) serve the dinner. j Betwern one hundred and fifty and two hundred were guests of the St. Vincent de Paul society at their card party and dance at the K. of C. hall last evening. It was necessary to bring in more tables and chairs *or the players, the attendants exceeding expectations. Thirty-four tables accommodated the players, those who j did not play rhum or five hundred. I playing progressive peanuts. M : ss Matilda Berling. first, and Mrs. Ralph Anirine. second, won the ladies' prizes at cards; and William Kohne, first, and F. Gordon, second, the gentlemen's prjezs. Mrs. Mary Wemhnff won the peanut prize. The latter pa t of the evening, until the midnight 1 hour, was devoted to music. When Miss Bertha Kohne, and Elmo Smith struck the opening notes of the nuii clt the grand promenade began, lead by Fred Schurger and Mrs. L. A. Holthouse. ThiS merged into the old fashioned quadrille, which wits succeeded by other dances. The affair was very much enjoyed. Miss Richards, of Van Wert, O„ i f the Young Women’s Christian Association, telephoned from Wren. Ohio, to this office this morning, in behalf of a party of tweutyfour from the Y. V’. C. A. of Wren, 0., telling of their appreciation and enjoyment of the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Erwin and family of this city last evening. The party drove here in five auto nobiles last evening and the Erwin home was given over to their entertainmen’. There was 'a round of games music and contest, followed by an appeti ;• ing supper. Miss Mary Erwin, a teacher at Wren, was a member < f the party. The party is said to have been especially pleat ing in ail wr s and the Wren guests were warm in their expression of appreciation. The Mite society of Mt. Pleasant E. church will lie entertained Thui •- day afternoon by Mrs. Singleton. The Baptist Ladies’ Aid society will meet in the bate ment of the new church. Important buainess, reiaiing to the organizing of the work for -the new year, demands the attendance of every member. important business will come up ' fore the Loyal Workers’ class at'Lie home of Mrs. Mat Breiner tomorrow. Every member should attend. The Walther League will hold its business and social meeting this even- ' ing with Ida and Lyda GunsetL I Mrs. Dan Tyndall was hostess to ’ the Sewing club members at their re-

gular needlework party yesterday afternoon. All members of the Eastern Star are expected to attend the meeting Friday evening at 7:00 o’clock on account cf important business. Dr. and Mrs. L. K. Magley entertained a congenial party of friends that have been enjoying a series ot . gatherings. They met Monday ev.*n- . ing at the Magley home for progres- , »ive euchre, followed by a luncheon. Victrola music also pased the time delightfully. The high prize was wi n by Mrs. Franklun Franz and the bo> by by Mrs. Vaughn Murray. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Peoples, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Murray, and chit lren, Mildred and James, Mr and Mrs. Franklin Franz, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jaebker, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gerke. Mr. and Mrs. Ismis Mailand and son. "start Thursday’ (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONF> live stock department. In this department there will also be instruc-, tion and judging given to the farmers in judging the various lines of live stock, including hogs, beef cattle, dairy cattle and horses. In this judging work the instruction will be , the same as is offered to the farmers attending the short course at Purdue and the refgular students at Purdue I university. In order to make it possible for the farmers to get the most I benefit, a team of horses, weighing over two tons and costing the university over *3j)00.00, will be brought I down for their use when the horse work is taken up. In the cattle work, three steers will also be brought. As the course is educational. one of the steers will be a good quality, another medium quality and another of poor quality. One of live stock men in the! state will explain what will be ex-1 petted of them in the feeding lot. j also will discuss economical rations, taking into consideration the high • prices of feed. The same will also be done with the dairy cattle and hogs. Adams county is indeed fortunate in securing this short course. There are. only eleven such courses in the entire state this year and the course that is coming here was desired and eagerly sought after by other counties. The people of this county, therefore, should take advantage of this opportunity, the biggest thing of its kind that lias ever come to the county. 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 who attends has a happy evening. Forget your cares and join the crowd. 277t3w-tf o Two Bluffton boys—Don Adams and Henry Cottingham— are yearning to get into the American field ambu lance service with the French armies and they have already made inquiries to learn if they can meet the desired qualifications. Answer to their inquiry is expected to be received within a few days and if they decide to join the corps they will probably leave at an early date.-Bluffton News. .....

I BIG SALE y n A PHENOMINAL COLLAPSE OF PRICES ii B ON FASHIONABLE WINTER APPAREL | II Not in many years has such an opportunity as this I S 1 offered itself to the women of Decatur and vicinity. | | S Right in the midst of the winter season near 1\ > s S whole stock of most dependable and stylish woman s 5 II and children’s winter apparel is offered at less than I I i one half price. S Come early and have the pleasure of picking from the big compre- 2 S hensive varieties, offering the following: u Il $25.00 to SIO.OO Fashionable Coats $14*98 U $17.50 to $22.50 Fashionable Coats $10.48 ■ raw $16.00 to $15.00 Fashionable Coats $ 6.48 II 1 Lot of Odd Coats go $ 2.98 II 2 YOUR CHOICE OF ANY OF OCR HANDSOME NEW ■ as SKIRTS AT ONE-HALF PRICE ■ Special Lot of Good Skirts, $2 08 1 ii ALL FURS, MUFFS AND COLLARS ONE-HALF OFF ■— ■ 1 ' ' ' • 2 ' IMG CUT ON ALL SWEATERS LN STOCK ■ Children's Sweaters, $1.25, Q QP* go at .UM Children’s Sweaters. $1.50 to $1.75. $1 19 I Children's Sweaters, $2.25 to $2.50, $1 79 I I s LADIES SWEATERS ” $2.25 Ladies’ Sweaters $X 98 $2.75 Indies’ Sweaters —> go at gggf $3.00 to $3.50 Ladies' Sweaters IQ ■ y go at ’ ■ $4.00 to $4.50 Ladies’ Sweaters $3 48 j j $5.00 to $5.50 Ladies’ Sweaters $4 48 $6.00 to $6.50 Ladies* Sweaters $5 48 * Children's Cap and Scarf Sets to match J Q _ go at, set 4OC Ladies’ and Misses' Scarf Sets to match go at, set I • y ALL BLANKETS AND COMFORTS AT REDUCED PRICES • Come early and get the benefit of these real choice bargains, at real j bargain prices. Come early and often. i THE BOSTON STORE t ;! DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,

WANTED TO BUY—A good sized, reasonably priced building lot. Inquire of Lose’s barber shop. 21t6

HAVE COLOB IH TOMB CHEEKS 5 Be Bettei Looking—Take Oiiv» Tablets If your skm is yellow—complexion pallid— tongue coated—appetite poor—you have a bad taste in your mouth—a lazy, no-good feeling—you should take Olive Tablets Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets—a substitute for calomel—were prepared by Dr. Edwards after 17 years of study with his patients. Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their olive color. To have a ciear pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like childhood days you must get at the cause, Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel—yet have no dangerous after effects. 1 hey start the bile and overcome constipation That’s why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and _’Sc per box. AO druggists. Take one or two nightly and note the pleasing results. ~ **"" O - -■■■ PUBLIC SALE. I. the undersigned, will sell at pubic auction, on Tuesday. February 6, I!H7. on what is known as the Abe Railing farm. 2 miU| east arm miles north of MonrM, and 4H miles south of Decatur, on county farm roau. beginning at 10 o’clock a. m the following property, to-wit: Sor"iron'. C ° min * 7 years 01,1 W( -igh ing 1700, roan mare, 5 sears old weight 1750; these two mares ar good ones; sorrel mare colt, comine 2 years old in spring; horse colt and 2-horse wagon, with double bed. good as new; John Deere riding plow good as new; C. B. & Q. corn planasrnew “ " eW: SCt ,Wb 81cd8 ’ rornis: $5.00 xud under, cashover that amount a credit of uinn months will be given, purchaser giv mg note with approved security No property removed until settled r,. r hour per cent off f or cash. John Baumgartuer W^ct^ L?ttßlN ' Darry Martz, Clerk. 2 4 31-2

THAT JAR OF MUSTERdE DI THE BATH-ROOM SHELF Has Relieved Pain for Every Ont I in the Family When little Susie had tic- ] Johnny got his feet wet awl ca’Xi't ‘jys when father sprained Ins granny's rheumatism bi'tiurm ■- That jar of tfusterole was right u ' to give relief and comfort. H Musterolc is a clean. white " ~ I made with oil of mustard. 1 "■ Mister like a mustard |>la i , | Quick relief for sre tln-it.br. «• g t-nsilitis, Stiff, neck. lie| headache, congest bm. pb ’"'' r g tern. Imntrago rains and achesJ H•' | back or joints, sprain-. - ri ... .I ' bruises, chilblains. frosted teet. eoW I the chest (it often prevents Crv Musterolc for croum m I A PUBLIC SALE. will he held 1% miles norlhea- 4 I of .Monroe on Mud Pike 1 e ’ , 1917. Horses, cattle. b«K s a farming implements ■,, I 18t 10 J. J. LONGENB^ 6 A PUBLIC SALE. A public sale of l*' e . s *j|| and fanning implenten ’\ be held at the Eli >t o tr farm. I'/j miles south <> 1 roe, on Tuesday, J u,,ual \ i a | t s. Look for ad in • )vnl " us lOti ELI W. HEM’ldth • ' - . | ;( | | Gold Fish. 10 cents Baughman’s, east i Democrat Want Ads PM