Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1917 — Page 2

GET YOUR DeLAVAL NOW! if you are selling cream or making butter, and have no separator, or are using an inferior or half-worn-out ma chine, you are wasting every day you delay the purchase of a DeLaval. You can't afford to wait until next spring. It means too .much loss. Let the DeLaval start saving cream for you right now, and it will pay for itself. JOHN SPUHLER, Agent See him right away and let him show you what the DeLaval will do for you. 803 N. sth st. Phone 531

..!■■■ I. 1111. , , 1.511.1 —— ■ Relieved in one minute. Money back it it fam. Get a 25. or Stk. tube of 1"... ;i .i -k. Tor elirc-u.' catarrh. <Jrv entmh. nwr «<■-“- ths. tn. z.r.*.' suae bh-el. <-te. Writ- tor ft ,• pl.-. T-i<- lire <irup used via do e—l. A-k drr, Kondon Mfg. Co., Minneapolis, Minn. ■WTV.7IJRM* ■nMurawiinrm** ' laan , IM* * W»«wa— Mr- ■ -M-MMMMMBM 'MI ~ + NOTARIES PUBLIC + + DAILY DEMOCRAT OFFICE 4 + License Applications, Affi- * ♦ davits. Certifications, etc. ♦ ♦ + ♦* + + + + ♦♦♦♦♦♦ T TTgossard Live Wire Public Sale Crier Seven years’ experience in buying live stock. Phone No. 28 for dates Tocsin. Indiana. Also writing Lincoln Life insurance. nss—rn—»—M— —’ i "'■■»<— l - -mt— " • "*"«—i«s .-sw- — ■— M. J. UNDERTAKING AND EMBALMING Fins Funeral Furnlahlngs DECATUR, - IND. Telephone: Office 90; Homa, 11’. Dr. C. VjConnei! VETERINARY x * SURGEON Office li-2 rnone Residence IT Dr. L K. Magley VETERINARIAN Corner Third and Monrt* Streets. PHONE gl: 186 DECATUR, IND. FOR QUICK SALES List your property with Butcher & Hill, the real estate dealers. Office rooms over the Trust Co. Bank. Also special attention given all collections. DECATUR’S CHIROPRACTOR PIONEER Office Over Vance & Hite’s w 1:30 to 5.-00 ilGliid 6:30 to 8:00 PHONE 650. 0. L Burgener, D. C. No Drugs No Surgery No Osteopathy B. C. HENRICKS D. C. YOUR JHIROPRACTOX Above Morris 5 & 10c Store. Phone 660 Residence 610 Cleveland Street. 0 H ice Hours Ito 5 7to 8 LADY ATTENDANT Decatar, Ind.

FULL CONSTITUTIONAL ’ CONVENTION LAW Sec. 1. Re it enacted by the General Assembly ot the state of ludiatiu. that an election shall be held ou the third Tuesday lu September, 1917, at which delegates shall be elected who shall constitute a convention for the ■ purpose of revising the constitution of the state of Indiana and which new constitution shall be submitted to the legal voters ol the state of Indiana to ’ be bv them ratified or rejected at such time and iu such manner as the i.invention may determine. Upon le tnand of forty-five (45) delegates any question submitted to the legal voters by the convention shall be submitted separately. Sec. 2. The convention shall con- ' sist of one hundred lifte. n ilslegt.’es (115). One hundred (It. ) <! legates ■hall be elected by the stale rei re--entative districts, each district eb-i-t- 1 ing as many as there are represet alives from the district, and the remaining titteen (15) shall be ele. ed by the state at large No person sb .1 be a delegate who. at the time o,' i.is election, is not a citizen of the United States; nor any one who has not 1 • en ter *w;> years next preceding his election an inhabitant of the state, and for one year next preceding his el< ction. an inhabitant of the county in which he resides at the titre of ils election. The election shall be proclaimed by the sheriffs of the «-veral counties and shall in all respects, ex et>t as provided in this act, be co:. ; ducted, the returns thereof made and the result canvassed and certified as ’o delegates at large In the manner piovided by law in ease of the election of state officers and as to district delegates in the same manner as the vote for state representatives is < anvrssed. All laws regulating elections and prescribing penalties for violal?on. so far as the same ate applies) le.' -oall be In force in said election of delegates the same as are pro' i>4 by law in the case of general elections. Th« election officials shall consist of one inspector and two (2) clerks appointed by the judge of the Circuit Court of the county at least ten (101 days before the election shall have the same powers and receive rhe same compensation as the inspector and clerks receive at a general election. Sec. 3. Candidates for mt-mln-rs of the constitutional convention shall be nominated by nominating jietitions only. Qualification of Delegates. Sec. 4. An. legal voter having the qualifications required by Sec. two (2) of Illis act may lie nominated for d' legate to the constitutional convention or a representative district ii|>on a petition in writing filed with the secretary of the state not less than thirty i.’O) days nor more than sixty (»:<») days prior to the day of election. Such petition shall be signed by not feiver than two hundred (2001 qualified voters of the representative district. Any legal voter having the qualifications required by See. two (?) of this act may be nominated for delegate at ,arge -o the constitutional convention upon a petition filed in like manner with the -ecretary of state and signed by’ not fewer than fifty (50) voters residing in each congressional district of the .state. - j Sec. 5 Such petition shall contain a provision to the effect that each signer thereto pledges himself to s-.it> port and vote for the candidate or candidates whose nomination is therein requested. Each elector signing a petition shall sign such petition in his own handwriting and shall add t< his signature his place of residence in his own handwriting (unless he ran not write and his signature is made by mark), which shall include street and number when there is a ' street and number. No elector ma.' i sign his name to more than one nominating petition for each office to be tilled, and where an elector has signed his name to more than one petition, his name shall not be counted on any of the petitions. Nothing herein shall he contrued. however, to prevent more than one petition from being signed by the same person up to the num'oer of members of the convention for whom he will be entitled to vote. Sec. 15. Each i>etitlon may con i’t of more than one paper, but each separate sheet shall have at the top a statement indicating its support and shall be sworn to by at least two (2i signers who are resident freeholders that It is lwma fide in every respect to the best of their knowledge, and the certificates of such oaths shall be annexed. Sec. 7. Resides containing the names of the candidates, all petitions shall specify as to edch candidate: (1) That he is a candidate for the office of delegate or delegate at large to the constitutional convention. (2) His place of residence, with the street number thereof, if anr. >3) A declaration by the candidate that he vlll quality if elected. t-’ec. S. When tiled. th- petition snail be preserved and be open under proper regulations to public inspection. and if they are in conformity with the provisions of this act, they 'shall he deemed valid unless objection thereto is duly made in writing within five (.') days after the filing thereof. ?ueh tH'tßetie— er ethe> ’inoEt'OßE sr ring tp the rfiurs- es th* ‘ n-.xiastisa of Bald candidate shall b<

1 considered by the secretary ot slalej ! and his decision shall be final. I No Party Emblem. See. 9. The names of candidates for delegates to the constitutional convention, nominated as provided herein, shall be placed on one Independent and separate ballot, without any emblem or party designation, j See. 10. The ballot for delegates to the constitutional convention shall be prepared by the slate board of elecJ tlon commissioners as now provided iby law for ballots for general elections. The ballot for delegates from representative districts and at large shall be painted separately. The 1 whole number of ballots to be printed for each district shall be divided by the number of candidates for members of the constitutional convention from the district, and the quotient so obtained shall be the number of ballots In each series of ballots to be printed The names of candidates shall be ar- ' ranged in alphabetical order in the first series of ballots printed. The first name shall be placed last and the next series printed, and the process shall be repeated in the same manner until each name shall have been first. These ballots shall then be combined in tablets with no two of the samtiS. der of names together, except where there is but on candidate. The ballots for the election of delegates at large shall be prepared in like manner. 1 sec. 11—The person or persons in each representative district equal to the -number of delegates to which a representative district is entitled and the fifteen (15) candidates for delegates at large receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected delegates to the constitutional convention. Sec. 12. Any vacancy occurring among the delegates from the representative districts by death, resignation or otherwise shall be filled in the same manner provided by law for till ing a vacancy in the office of state representative. Any vacancy occurring among the delegates at large shall be filled by election by the remaining delegates at large. Sec. 13. Delegates who shall be elected as aforesaid shall assemble in convention in the hall of the house of representatives at the Capitol, in the city of Indiahapolis, on the second Tuesday in January, nineteen hundred j and eighteen (1919) and organize by j electing a president and all other necessary officers. It shall be the duty I of the secretary of state to attend th-' 1 convention on the convening thereof, to call over the list of delegates elect ' ed. receive the credentials of dele-' gates, and generally to perform the J duties of the organization that are usually discharged by the officer' i whose duty it is b' law to attend the. organization of the House of Representatives of this state at the com mencement of its session: and shou.d the secretary of state fail to attend ■ in person, or by deputy by ten (10) | o’clock a. tn., on said day. then it shall be the duty of the auditor of state to attend tor such purpose. The superintendent of public buildings and grounds shall proiierly prepare the hall of the House of Representatives tor the use of the convention. Sec. 14. Members of the conven-’ tlon shsll enjoy the same privilege . and immunities in going to. attending upon, ami returning from the conven- i tion that the members elected to and 1 attending on the General Assembly ] are entitled to by the constitution er by the law. The convention shall I>e • the judge of the election and qualifi-’i , cations of its members; and sh?’. 1 ( possess the same power to adopt | rtiles. ex(>el a member for disorderly ; conduct, and punish contempt, that , are now exercised by the House of i Representatives of the General As- ; sembly in similar cases. A majority j of the delegates elected shall consti l , tiite a quorum to do business, but a , smaller number may adjourn from > day to day. and take measures to com- , pel attendance of absent members. <, See. 15. The delegates to the eon- , ventton shall receive the same tnil‘»- . ags and per diem while attending upon ( the sitting of said convention as mem-' bers of the General Assembly are allowed by law. and all the officers. em-‘ ployes and attendants shall be paid a compensat’on to be fixed by the convention: all of which expeoaes. together with such other expenses as may lie incurred by the convention, shall be certified by the president of the convention, and shall be paid by the treasurer ot state out of any fund ■ not otherwise appropriated, on the warrant of the auditor of state, am! i an amount sufficient to cover such I mileage, compensation and expenses i is hereby appropriated. i Printing Provided For. 1 Sec. 16. The secretary of state and 1 all other officers shall furjjish the f convention with all such papers, stato- ' ments. statistical information, copies > of records of public documents in s their possession as the convention : may order or require: and it shall lie 0 the duty of the proper officer or oflie cers to furnish the members ot the ) convention with all stationery as is < usually furnished the General As- > eemb'.y white In session, which shall e l»* paid for on the certificate of th" president, in like manner as provided n in th-- preceding section. r 17. It shall be th» duty of each - state, countv and municipal officer In r the state, to transmit without delay ? any information at Iva. command which the convention, by resolution » or otherwise, may require of him. and t if any Officer shall fail nr retuse tn , - r«j-: .-onion’s of sh f . j.nt.nn, h* shall f.-rfMtt a n d pi; th« i tuns of three hundred dollars (1300)

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to be recovered in any court of cot j- I petent Jurisdiction, in an action in ' name of the state of Indiana, by t e . attorney general, whose duty it shall , be to prosecute ail cases of de::.'.- ; quency under this section coming to his knowledge or of which he shall be informed. The bureeu of legis’.a- ; five and administrative in tor matt n ' shall cclleet. compile and prepar" I such information and data as it m <y • de m useful to the delegates and tl.e public, including digests of constitutional provisions of other states an.i an annotation of the present const’- ' tntien s’.d the s’.rte shall be printed ‘ and paid for out of the appropriation i for the commissioners of the public ; printing, binding and stationery, and ! distributed in such manner as the ; bureau shall determine in order to j give the same the widest possible circulation. The bureau shall, in like manner, publish and distribute twenty thousand (20.000) copies of the present constitution of Indiana. The clerical and other expenses of the bureau not exceeding three thousand dollars i $3,000) are hereby appropri? - ed to be available April 1. 1917. The Indiana historical commission shall furnish for the use of each member a copy of the volume entitled '■Constitution Making in Indiana'' printed by the commission if the same shall be available. Sec. IS. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause immediately twentv thousand (20.000) copies of this act to be printed and distributed to thtXauditors of the counties in proportion to the population of the sev- | eral counties; the auditor of the county shall deliver one or more of the 1 copies to each inspector of election ' in the county* appointed as provided in this act. PUBLIC SALE. As I am going to move to Tipton, O' i will offer for sale at my resident e known as the old Fulk place, 4 miles west of Monroe. or 4** miles south or Peterson, on Tuesday. Feb. 13. 1917. beginning at 10 o'clock n. tn., the following personal property, to-wit: Three Head of Horses: Black gelding, routing 5 years old, weight 125 d; bay mare, general purpose 6 years old, weight 11(W>; bay horse colt, coining 2 years old. a good one. Four Head of Cattle: Red <<>w, 6 years old. giving 4 gal. of milk a day: red row. 3 years old. will be fresh March Ifi; 2 spring calves. Twenty Head of Hotts: :’ sngi will farrow 3rd litter in March; Durov gilt duo to farrow latter part of Maith; 2 Duroc gilts due to farrow middle of l

I April; Poland China male hog. jygt. I I.V lbs.; 13 head of shoats. 5 doz. ' laying hens. 2 red rooters. 12 geese. 1 consisting of S geese and 4 ganders. ' 3 Moscories ducks. Farming Imple--1 ments: Disc harrow, with 14 discs. is. inch: hay ladder, stone bed. 2 hog houses. Cxß; 14 chicken coops. New Holland feed brinder, 1 Otons of good timothy hay, 200 bu. of good coni; 5 • be. of soy beans, 2 bu. of timothy seed, set of light work harness. 6 cords of wood,, hay fork, rope and pulleys, sanitary davenport, couch, new; 3 cornered cupboard, cream can, jars, several lbs. of new geese r feathers. 5 rolls of poultry wire, hog i troughs and other articles too numerI ous to mention. Lunch will be serv- ‘ ed on grounds. Terms:—>s.oo and under, cash in | hand; over that amount a credit of I 12 months will be given, purchaser I giving bankable note with approved ! security; 0 months without interest. ' and the last 0 months bearing interest at the rate of 8 per cent; 4 pe: cent off for cash. No goods removed i'atil settled for. T. C. DeWITT. John Spullcr and Hib Heigh. Aucts. Jim Brown, Clerk. PUBLIC BALE. Having rented my farm, and as I am going west. I will offer at public sale at my residence on what is known as the Scott Hughes farm. 1' miles souibeast of Decatur, and 2 milcsesouth and 4 miles east of Mon '■ roe, and mile west of Salem, Ind.. • on Thursday, February 15, 1917, be f ginnjjig at 10 a. m.. the following perI sonal property, two-wit: Six Head of Horses: Brown mare, 12 years old., weight about 1500, a number one ’ worker in all harness; brown mare. • coming 4 years old, broke double > weight about 1400 lbs.; bay mare i coming 8 years old. sound ami a good i ,'kcr, v. -icht about 1350; bay mare,' coining 4 years old, broke double, : ,v‘-:;rh' 1350; bay horse, coming 12 | years old, works in all harness; bay ; driving horse, coming 8 years old, lady broke. Four Head of Cows: Light Jersey cow. coming 7 years old. • milk and butter cow; red Jer- - soy cow. coming a years old, hard to , jbeat: brindle Jersey cow. coming 4' «I years old. hard to beat; brown Jer-' . ;rey eow. giving a good flow of milk, I . and hard to beat; the above 4 cows' .'are all good milk aud butter cows. c'Hle.en Head of Hogs: Five brood t bows, will farrow in April; 6 good s feeding shoats, weight from 80 to 100 j Tbs. Farming Implements: Eight-ft. Deering binder, with tongue trucks, H good as new; Deering mower, in run- ; niug order; Oliver sulky plow, good as 1 new; 2 walking breaking plows, good >■ as new; John Deere planter, in good r , condition: John Deere disc, with trail-’ p cr ui.tnciitin iit. good a* H‘> v; *:■' tooth 2 'h-.crow. land -41 ter. double and single I she vel plow, corn sheller, 3 corn cul-

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tivators. cozy cab. good as new; double trefis. single trees, pair of bridles and 2 extra bridles and some collars, garden plow, buck saw. garden hoes, corn in crib. 2 water tanks 2 pair hay ladders. 2 empty barrels, 3 log chains, post hole digger, spade, shovels, crosscut saw. cupboard, kitchen cabinet, 6 stool chairs. 4 dining chairs, organ, number 14 Jewel stove, never been used much: Wilson heater and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms: —Sums of ss.(k) and under, cash; over that ampunt a credit of 12 months "ill be given, purchas ■ ■ r

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giving bankable note with approved security; 6 months without interest ■and the last six months bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent; per cent off for casn. No goods removed until settled for. The Ladies' Aid of the Salem M. b. serve dinner. Everybody come. J. L. LOI Kb. J. C. Michaud, Auct. W. P Merriman, Clerk. FOR RENT —Modern 8-room house, corner High and Grant str'' ts. ' 'Phone S-D. or Andy Ze er