Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1917 — Page 2

DAILYDEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by . The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary »i i i -' - ■ ,■»■, ■*•!•• ii — i— _ — *•>- •*-—■—*• Subscription Rates. Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $6.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year. by mail $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rales made known »>n applit atlon. Entered al the Postottice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. The city primaries, selection of delegates to the constitutional convention. election of city officials in November and five appointment of a postmaster would indicate a schedule which ought to furnish a sufficient program for an off-year, politically. Ixst's clean the streets and alleys.

the back lots un<; tne nooks and cor • tiers. It's a little early spring, but it’s a good time to clean up. even If we have to do it over after while. Nothing helps a town more than clean and well kept streets and yards. It denotes a live community as nothing else can do. We are to have partial woman's suffrage in Indiana. The bill has passed both houses and the governor has indicated that he will sign it. The women will cast their first ballots at the election of delegates to the constitutional convention, and it will add some interest and complications that will he new. if nothing else.

Governor Goodrich when he appeared before the committee a few nights ago to argue in favor of the excise bill stated that he wanted to be frank enough to say if he did not happen to be governor of the state, he, too. would be there opposing the proposed law Well, that makes it easy.' •Let everybody who is not governor oppose it. It develops that the Indianapolis News. which has been fighting for the passage of the excise bill is not a corporation and would not come in for any of the extra tax thus provided. which may account, largely, for the decided opinions expressed in that very excellent journal. It some times makes a difference as to whose trail is being gored, we have noticed. Judge Eichhorn says that Governor Goodrich was either pettifogging during his campaign when he told the people that the democrats had Ix'en extravagant in operating the state institutions or else he ought to admit now that he didn't know what be was talking about *He is asking an appropriation of $300,000 more than the democrats had for the same purpose.

What about the “Anchor in Decatur" signs? We believe it would be an expenditure that would be repaid many, many times. Nothing helps more than a live community. That's what every one is hunting and these signs are proof that the business men of this community want new imlus- — SOCIETY BRAND CLOTHES Ard First In the Very First Rank . $22.50 to $30.00 *■’< » -* , ■ . THE MYERS-DAILEYI COMPANY

tries* more business, and we are willing to co-operate with those looking fur a first-class location The Pinkerton detective declares that Decatur has too many "bums," ■ten who do not work and yet seem to get along, and that such a condition always means that the money is being obtained in some other manner. He is no doubt right to a large extent, and some means should be devised which would clean up the "underworld," as he seems tit to call it. We do not believe that this is the worst place in the world nor that the percentage of criminals here is as large as in many plates, but we do believe that a good cleaning up. an investigation along the proper legal lines, would be a mighty gooud thing for the people of this ommmiity.

There is little joy over ...:■ fact that the money raised from a special tax on corporations by the governor's excise bill is to be used to meet the exorbitant and* useless expense of the ■ highway commission. Who wants a highway commission, anyway? About nine out of ten farmers prefer to have the road business managed in the county rather than make trips,to Indianapolis and Purdue and besides they are fair enough to denounce a law which places special taxes on corporations or any other class, for if this is permitted it is only a question of time until they get a "dip" of the same "hot water and mustard.'' What the people want to ■know and what they will demand to know at the next election is "Whit Governor Goodrich did with all his economy ideas, after election day?"

1 DOINGS IN SOCIETY « WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday. Zion Lutheran Aid Mrs. A. W. Hinz, at School House. Ladies' Birthday Club Dinner —Mr. and Mrs. Herb Burroughs. Philathea Class—Mrs. C. E. Bell. Christian Pastoral Helpers —Mrs. j\. Dr Artman. Saturday. Tri Kapas—Miss Helen Niblick, Saturday evening. sonic Children's Party—Mason ic Home. The Yeomen lodge's twenty-fifth anniversary will fall Sunday. February }5. be observed by the local order stith a public celebration Tuesday evening. February 27. There Political Announcements FOR MAYOR. You are authorized to announce my name as a candidate for mayor of the city of Decatur, subject to the decision of the democratic voters at the primary to be held March 6. 1916. CHARLES W. YAGER. Please anounce my name as a candidate for mayor of the city of Decatur, 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.

Please announce my name as a candidate for treasurer of the city of Decatur. subject to the decision of the democratic voters at the primary to be held, Tuesday. March 6. 1917. EDGAR GERBER. FOR CITY TREASURER. Please anounce my name as a candidate for the democratic nomination for treasurer of the city of Decatur. subject to the decision of the democratic vrfters ar the primary election to be held Tuesdav, March 6th. j. d. McFarland. FOR CITY TREASURER. Please announce my name as a candidate for treasurer of the city of Decatur, subject to the decision of the democratic voters at the primary to be held March 6, 1917. ROY BAKER. FOR CITY TREASURER. Please announce my name as a candidate for treasurer of the city of De,catur. subject to the decision of the democratic primary election to be held Tuesday, March 6, 1917. H. S. STEELE. FOR CITY CLERK. You are authorized to announce my name aw a candidate for clerk of the city of Decatur, Ind., subject to the decision of the democratic voters at the primary election to be held Tuesday, March 6. 1917. R. G. CHRISTEN. FOR COUNCILMAN. Please announce my name as a candidate for councilman. Second ward. Decatur. Indiana, subject to the decision of the democratic primary election to be held Tuesday. March 6, 1917. JAMES HURST. • FOR COUNCILMAN. Please announce my name as a candidate for councilman. Second ward. D'r-ahir iv.d'aua subject to the de- ■ i ion of the democratic primary election to be field Tuesdav. March 6, |»l7. MARTIN MILLER.

will be a program of talks, addresses. etc., and the public is cordially invited. Adams county Rebekahs are Interested In the district ronWntion to be held in Bluffton next Tuesday evening. Nearly five hundred visitors are expected at the meeting. The meeting will begin in the afternoon with the initiatory work by the Poneto lodge This session will begin at 3 o'clock. The Munch* degree team will give the work at night. At this time there will be a general eon test of degree teams over the district. Grand lodge officers will act as judges and the team showing the best work will confer degrees at the grand lodge meeting at ln»llanai>olis. The grand lodge officers, who intend to be present are: Miss Florence McGreggor. president; Mrs . Leia Chesline. of Marion, grand secretary of the Rebekah assembly, and W H Leedy. grand secretary of the I (). O. F. lodge. Forty-five lodges are to be represented. They are apportioned to the counties in numbers as follows: Adams, 3; Delaware. 8; Jac. 6; Madison. 10; Randolph, 11. and Wells, 7.

"Fratlees Willard, Her Life an 1 Works” was discussed at Mrs. F. G. Rogers in a fine paper for the Historical < Inn at the home of Mrs. Charles Teeple Wednesday afternoon. Jnstead of sub-topic talks, each member agve some quotation or saying of Franc-s Willard. Mrs. W E. Smith wil be lidth hostess and leader at next weeks meeting. • J The Evangelical 1-adies' Aid society will give a kitchen shower for the new church basement Monday evening from seven to nine o'clock in lie* chUrch parlors. Everybody is invited. The Evangelical Ladies' Aid society met in the church Basement yesterday afternoon, with a large presence. Plans ware completed for the society's I art in the dedication services, t.i ■ dedication to take place March . Tie society also pledged itself to raise another sum for the new church. \ shower will be given Monday even ing. consisting of cooking utensils f< r the kitchen and other things to fit up the basement.

Mrs. C. E. Bell lead the devotion..ls for the Baptist Indies' Aid at the home of Mrs. Henry Betz yesterdav. when fourteen were present. The regular business came up. Mrs. John Chronister will he hostess at the next meet. • — Maps and books arrtvetCWiday !<>r the new Bible Class organized last Sunday at the U. B. church, with twenty members, by O. L. Vance and E. 11. !>>nhart E B I,enhart was select'd as teacher and the following offif“,s were elected: President, Ben Homeland; secretary, Mrs. Clarence Baughman: treasurer, Mr. Hammond. Democrat Want Ads Pav PUBLIC AUCTION. House and lot. Elm street. House and lot. 11th street. House a ltd lot. Elm street. House and lot. Indiana street. Vacant lot. Elm street. Vacant lot. Rod and Line streets. 22 feet, northeast corner 3rd and Madison streets. House and lot. Grant street. All in City of Decatur, Ind. Sale at east door of court house, Friday, March 9, 1917, at 10 o'clock a. m. CORDELIA I. TOWNSEND. Executrix. J. €. Sutton and H. B. Heller, Attys.

Automobile Painting CARS needing repainting get I Io S coats, depending on condition, which also determines price of job. IF YOUR CAR is in good condition, but with luster gone, bring it in and have it revarnished now to save coats underneath. Vve retininsh the cushions, top inside and out, and made to look like new. Drive your car in and we will give you a price on your job. , We repair any woodwork about the body' or top, broken doors. seat irons, efinges taken out of bodies; tops, curtains and cushions repaired; top hardware and curtain fastiners; celluloid sewed in curtains. Windshield glass—all sizes. Decatur Carriage Works Cor. fst arid ißoiww Sts. Thow No. 123

DAY OF HONOR (CONTINUED .FROM I’AGB ONBI play. Among them was an rdd •op" book written with a goose quill pen. A brick from the first brick house in Decatur, the Bollman house, showrd the print of a deer's foot illathe clay, made while it was laid out to dry. Tea it Served. The nerving of tea and cake, the cake being in squares, white-iced and fort-shaped, with its favor, a small silk flag, waving from the top, wire served in the dining room. The be y of colonial maids, with their charming manners and dropping a quaint courtesy now and then, with a number of older ladies in" costume, served the company. - ■ . 1 o PUBLIC t»ALE.

As 1 am going to quit farming. I will offer at public auction at my residence, 5 miles southeast of Decatur, and 2 miles west of Pleasant Mills, on what is known as the old Mathewson farm, on Tuesday, February 27, 1917, beginning at U> o’clock a. rathe following personal property. towit: Six Head of Horses; Bay horse. 5 years old; Sorrel mare. 5 yehrs old; driving Snare. 6 years old: black horse. 4 years old; black mare. 3 years old; colt, about 8 months old. Eight Head of Cattle: Four milch cows. 4 calves. Thirteen Herd of Hogs: Poland China male hog 2 brood sows, will farrow soon; Iff shoats, weighing 50 to 75 fits. each. Eleven Heat! of Sheep: Ten head of ewes; 1 Shropshire buck. Two nanny goats. Farming Implements: One handy wagon, one broad tire wagosi. wagon bed. hay rack, hog rack 3 horse hitch, set sump boards, buggy. carriage. Deering mower. Milwaukee mower. Dain hay loader, manure spreader. Oliver, gang plow, 2 Oliver walking plows, wood frame. GO tooth harrow, steel narrow, J. I. Case corn' cultivator. John Deere ' check row corn planter, land roller. Peoria endgate seeder, clover buncher, cutting box. barrel crude oil. 50 gals oil tank. 75 gal. hog fountain, hog houses, grindstone. 2 sets work harness, set i double driving harness, set single harness. About 200 bu. com in crib, oats in bin. hay in mow, fodder in field and other articles. Terms:—ss and under, cash; over $5 a credit of 9 months will be given. purchaser giving note with approved security; 4 per cent off for cash. No goods removed until settled for. ' L. A. SPRINGER. Harry Daniels. Auct. E. Burt Lenhart. Clerk. -

HORSE AND CATTLE SALE. As I am going to quit farming. I will offer at public sale at my residence at Monroe, Indiana, on Tuesday. February 27, 1917, beginning at 1:00 o’clock p. m.. 35 head of horses and 6 mules: Three imported stallions, imported by Frisingef & Co.; bay stallion, weight 2200; sorrel stallion, weight 2050; sorrel stallion, weight 2100; baty Belgian mare imported by Sowers & Son. weight 1900, sate in foal; bay mare. 5 years old. weight 1750. in foal; bay mare. 4 years old. weight IG4O, in foal; bay mare, 5 years old. weight 1740, in foal; sorrel mare. 6 years old, weight. 1725, in foal; bay mare, 8 years old, weight 1450, in foal; match team roan geldings. 3 years old, weight 2950; match team, mare and gelding, black, weight 2870; roan mare. 4 years old. weight 1780, in foal; 2 sorrel mares. 2 and 3 years old. weight 1100 and 1225; bay mare, 6 years old, weight 1490; bay mare. 6 years old. weight 1520, in foal; sorrel mare, 7 years old. weight 1620, in foal; brown mare, 4 years old. weight 1540; bay gelding, 4 years old, weight 1425; bay,mare, 6 years old. weight 1570; 2 bay mares 4 years old. weight 3025;..50irel gelding. 3 years old. weight 1490; eight good work horses and mares. Twelve Head of Cattle: 7 cows, will be fresh March 15; 4 yearlings; full blood Jersey bull, year old in May; 12 brood sows, will farrow March 20; 5 full blood Duroc sows, will farrow March 15 to 20; 3 teams of mules, good ones Terms made known on dav of sale. ’JOHN ANDREWS, Mgr. Col. John W. Dollin, Portland, Ind., Auctioneer. E. X. Ehinger, Clerk. — 0 FOR SALE—A Mcninoyth Bronze Tur key gobbler. inquire of Sarah Avres, Monroe. R. R. No. 2. ' 4S 3

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Landology, Skidmore Land Co., 285, Skidmore Bldg., Marinette. Wig. 3tGO FARMS FOR SALE. in Lagrange, Steuben, DeKalb and Noble cSmties, Indiana: Bft acres, all black and level land, located 2'i miles from market, all under cultivation; price $l2O per acre; fair buildings. 160 acres located within 3 miles of good market, good land and buildings; SBO per acre. 40 acres located miles from Lagrange, fair buildings, all farming land, price sllO per acre. not see what yon desire |

TO THE VOTERS OF DECATUR, IND. GENTLEMEN:a week goes by but I hear some one he rh I *\ a,f ax ’ citv official- cannot tZ . » «• W If so. how.' rate or between a hI K » necessarily A rale of tax docs not upon the inn *' i ' taX ’ as depend altogether Xe ableT? V r ah ’ e ° f the a "< ™er about the rate of tax' h '" h “ r by talkinß » are high or not Theju" and that is bv n 5 onc way of w hrich I know with cities of the to Val °*’ a ” d Ux f ° r ‘ aX Thus, do we i>ax m < Ze a surrounding district, zensof Blulltonand Port^ 01 Same va,ue than citi ’ ana, pays j n aen w*| '' ’’ !he eity of Bluffton, Indithan u e do. ThZcitv’kL 0 '" more this year as yon can find in this sam * size as '? 5 ~ 1 fr *r this nronev L ,! hc »nd what have thex Chas. N. Christen

i write us. We refer you to Schug. ' Metier Co., of Berne, or the State ; Bank of Lagrange. MARTIN & COMPANY. LaGrange, Indiana. 29t30 By H. A. Austin. PUBLIC SALE. A public sale, consisting of live stock and farming implements will be held by E. E. Zimmerman at his farm. 2 miles south of Peterson and 7 miles west of Decatur, on March Ist. l ook for list later. •2'.nr E. E. ZIMMERMAN.