Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 26 February 1919 — Page 2

D A I L Y D E M 0 C R A T 1 Published Every Evening Except Sunday by . — i The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE Secretary Subscription Rates By Government Order Cash In Advance. Ouo Week by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier ?5.00 One Month, by mail 35 centsThree Months, by mall 5100 Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mail 53.00 One Year, at office 53.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Mr. Wilson has a dreadful way with his critics. He does not reply to them, he does worse. They rail at him as an idealist, a visionary, a man wthout practical objectives, or if he has them, that they are impossible of acceptance; and they obligingly point out the things he ought to do. Mr. Wilson calmly continues his great labors, and presently lays his critics fiat and leaves them helpless either by doing the very things they had proposed, and doing it in a manner better than they ever dreamed of, or else by attaining his ends in away that robs their objections of every point. —New York Times. William Hale Thompson, unsafe and with the mind of a sixteen year old boy, was renominated by the republicans of Chicago in yesterday’s election by a majority of 45,000 votes. Capt. Merriam was a poor third. Not more than half the normal vote was cast the lack of interest being largely responsible for the result. Those living in Chicago may understand why a man who has failed as Thompson has to make good, could be named for a second term as mayor of that great city, but those outside, have not that vision. A bill of much importance to every city in Indiana is No. 441 in the house an act to amend an act concernin municipal corporations. Briefly, it provides that the limit of taxes in Decatur would be $1.25 on the SIOO. The city tax at this time is about $2.00. Now the question is, “Do you want your tax reduced or do you want to progress?” After all we need a certain amount to keep the city go-' ing and we really don’t see what dis-1 ference it makes whether we have a high rate or a lower rate when the total must be raised one way or the other, except there may come a time when we need some improvement badly and if there is a limit we might be stopped. And yet that might be just the protection we should have. We admit we do not know whether the proposed law is good or not and we hope those most interested in the welfare of the city will give it the thought it deserves and write J. W. Walker, representative, who is anxious to know the opinion of the peope of Decatur on this bill. It has

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been recommended for passage. ~ , i.—. i Governor Goodrich signed the Ger-, I ' man language bill last evening, an hour and a half aftc; it had been passed by the house, further evidence that any promise he made to those opposing it was solely for political purposes. The republicans intimated to the German voter that they would treat them different than they were handled by the democrats and yet every republican of the house and senate voted for the bill and the governor whisked his signature to it the moment it came to him. Just another broken promise.

The scrap over the league of nations will soon become the great topic in this country with President Wilson, Howard Taft and others great on one side ana Senator Borah, Senator Reed and more of their belief on the other. It will be interesting and it will be a part of history. The president is backing his judgment that the United States should become the ruling force of the world, set an example that will forever do away ' with war and its horrors. Borah fav- ' ors building a fence around the United States and selfishly allowing the rest of the world to look out for itself. It will be an epoch in twentieth century history worth watching and ■ studying. In making up your mind as to whether or not you favor a league of, nations don’t overlook the fact that if * you don’t you and your children and their posterity will be taxed to main- j tain an army and navy that wll out-j ' shine and can outfight any in the t,, . i world. American rights must be sa.e , 5 . 1 guarded cither by a treaty that is effeetve such as the league of nations will provide or we must establish a I military defense that will make every I power quake with fear. Which do. you prefer? Y’ou may be required to vote uopn it and you should be really and earnestly interested. The gym fund grows. We can use r I several hundred dollars yet and no a I . , , . more in portant work has ever been 1 ! done in Decatur. The children are ent j titled to clean and wnolesome sport, jWe are trying to provide it at the i lowest cost and they are delighted. Let’s complete the job. i I SOCIETY! Club Calendar Wednesday. Miss Celeste Wemhoff will entertain the Bachelor Maids Wednesday evening. Mrs. Edgar Gerber, teacher of piano. For information call ’phone No. ■ 850. 48t3 St. Vincent de Paul—Mrs. M. 11. Harris and Mrs. E. F. Gass. Historical Club —Postponed. Thursday Thimble Club—Mrs Will Schrock. Bachelor Maids — Miss Celeste Wemhoff. Baptist Aid —Mrs. Jacob Buhler. Mt. Pleasant Mite —Mrs. Jesse Singleton. ' Eastern Star Initiation and Social ,

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Evangelical Aid —Mrs. L. L. Baumgartner. Presbyterian Aid—Mrs. Oscar Hoffi 1 man. Friday Mite Society—Mrs. Roy Archbold. Mrs. Roy Archbold will entertain the Mite society of the Methodist church Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. W. H- C. Initiation. Minnehaha Needle Club —Pocahontas Ixidge. Friday Night Club —Mrs. George Flanders. Saturday. Bread Sale —Christian Ladies 1 society at gas office. Christian Ladies’ repeat two-cent

supper, Gregory building. Madison, St U. B. Ladies' Pastry Sale —Hower & Baker meat market. Offended vanity is the great separator in social life. Helps. The most difficult thing in life is to keep the heights which the soul has reached. —Rev. David Riddle, Jr. May all go well with you. May life’s short day glide on peaceful and bright, with no more clouds than may glisten in the sunshine, no more rain than may form a rainbow; and may the veiled one of heaven bring us to meet again. —Richter. The Bachelor Maids will meet Thursday instead of Wednesday, with Miss Celeste Wemhoff. Mrs. George Flanders will entertain the Friday Night club and guests at a six o'clock dinner and five hundred party Friday evening. The Monday Night picnic club had their six o’clock supper and “five I hundred” party Monday evening with ! Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hoffman. The Catholic Ladies of Columbia will serve the lunch for the Knights of Columbus this evening when they i give the fourth degree to candidates. The Thimble club coterie enjoyed the afternoon hours Tuesday with their needlework at the home of Mrs. Will P. Schrock. Mrs. Frank McDowell invited them to be her guests in two weeks. , There will be a meeting of the W. R. C. next Friday afternoon, continued from a week ago, when Mrs. W. ! F. Rosenwinkle, of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Ed Miller, of West Monroe ! j street, will be initiated. i The Minnehaha Needle Chib will meet Friday evening after Poeahontias council. The names of the hostess I will remain a surprise until that eve- ' ning. Important business will also ■ come before the drill team that night. Every member is urged to be present. Every member of the Ben Hur degree team is urged to be at the meet- , ing Friday evening for practice, i | There will be_ special drill practice to prepare for the big event March 1 when a class of candidates will be initiated. The supreme chief. Dr. R. H. Girard and the state manager. P. O. Bowers, of Crawfordsville, will be here for that evening. Ferdinand Bleeke, well known merchant. was given a pleasant surprise on his forty-seveth birthday anniversary by a company of relatives who brought a picnic supper and spent the evening, socially, with games and other amusements. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Koldewey. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Linnemeier, Fort Wayne; William Bieberich. and children. Fred, Emma and Olga Bieberich. Hilda Reinking. Preble; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Koldewey and ' family; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krueckeberg. of Union township; Miss Martha Koldewey, Gust Reinking and daughters, The ladies of the Methodist church met last evening and organized a

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i Woman’s Foreign Missionary society with forty members and eight honorary’ members. The charter will be ‘ held open until the March meeting to be held at the parsonage March 20. s i The church has long had a Woman's Heme Missionary’ society, but no foreign mission organization. The officers elected last evening are: Presi'ident, Mrs. Harriet Palmerlee; vice! president, Mrs. Frances Hunter; recording secretary. Mrs. N .0. Grove; assistant secretary, Mrs. B. W. De-1 J vor; corresponding secretary, Mrs. C. ‘ L. Walters; treasurer, Mrs. Lena' Frank; assistant treasurer. Mrs. T.\ , V. Johnson. — o — M "ft* 'June ’tt: rrrtnxt s 160 U R T 3 g Ci ? 'ttmsmacßeximswTWJW -.r/x:: fc‘ 5 1 William Frazier was appointed in-1 ? heritanee tax appraiser of the estate j ' of Mary E. Tabler. t Inventory numbtF one wits tiled t and approved in the George Aumiller . estate. 'I In the matter of the estate of Pauli 1 G. Hooper, a petition was filed by ’ the administrator to sell personal I : property at private sale, without noI lice for cash at not less than the ap- • praised value, and to report within i. thirty days. In the estate of Henry C. Gallmeier I current report was filed and approved. ♦ The case of Philip Wyss vs. The; Boss Manufacturing company was set for March 13. f When the jury reported for duty . this morning, as they did yesterday morning, they found that again, , Quinn Heaton, plaintiff In a 52,500 rnrrnWERF WITH BUSKS i Dr. New Discovery relives them and keep jvu going on the joo r P r ‘“ alio ’-s years of almost ' si , J -■' -i checking and relieviazcoue!'4, 2r 8 i an v kndred sufferings is the eV3B,Mt r ‘ s New i vtS'in-fibers, mothers, the 1 F m e ussd and using i. as tn. surest, most . , to-fckc re.- -My they oL ple^-A ! ! ° cia b y mi druggets. 60: and ?.l y» i i ’ —===== | Keep Bowels On Schedule s ...A ’7 . rttarr functioning throws • the Me day s duties cut of c „- ! r/stem cleansed, th- sVZ • tite lively, the stomach staunch with • Dr. kmg s New Life Pills. Mild and > • tonic in action. Sold cverywhsr;, 255. i i

damage suit against The Willshire Telephone company, set for trial for yesterday, had not put in an appearance. The case was dismissed at Heaton’s cost. He is a railway conductor and lives at Frankfort. He asked for |2,500 for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him when his train passed a crossing and he was caught by the telephone wires which he says hung low enough to catch him as he performed his duties as conductor on his train. Real estate transfers: George Zehr et al. to Frederick Kauffman, 80 i acres, Jefferson Tp., SI2.BGU; Caroline Sprunger et al. to Philip Wendel, lot 119, Berne, SSSO; Riverside : Cemetery Company to C. S. Stanley lot 55, Riverside cemetery, SSO; Andrew J. Powell et al. to Straus Bros. Company, real estate in Washington Tp., $24,800; J. Fred Koldewey et al.

I THE UNIVERSAL CAR ■ Hi Because of the millions of Ford cars in daily operation, the l| l ord Motor Company will e?rtend the giving of service to owners of Ford cars by selling genuine Ford parts to all reliable garages throughout the country’, when such garages pledge the prompt and efficient giving of service—the standard Ford service—to owners of Ford cars. l lP t° this time, the Ford Motor Company has confined 11V the sale of genuine Ford parts exclusively to the authorized TA I ord Dealers. Therefore, many garages throughout the counXVCclSOri "hile giving service to Ford cars, used duplicate or inula--r-<7l ticn parts, not made by the Ford Motor Company, although VV h V charging the Ford owner the same price as if the genuine ford " ’ parts had been used. Now, the authorized Ford Dealer will sell to any responsible garage genuine Ford Parts, and will supplv them with an authorized Ford sign. The millions of Ford owners will thus find the j genuine Ford parts and receive genuine Ford service anywhere and everywhere throughout the United States. Ford owners will no doubt show their appreciation of this by patronizing those garages where the certainty of genuine Ford* parts with the genuine Ford service is assured. The fol lowing authorized Ford Dealers will be pleased to supply any reliable garage in this vicinity with I everything or anything in genuine Ford parts promntly. I I % KALVER-NOBLE GARAGE CO. „2—■ . .... I in

i to Straus Bros, co., real estate, Un- ■ . ion Tp., $12,000; Harry E. Braun et . al. to Nellie Derrickson, lots 62, 63, t' 64 and 65, S6OO. The Bluffton News saya: "One ut ) the oldest cases in the county was - i . dismissed from the Appellate court 1 r Monday, that of the Wiley estate: ’ case. The case was taken to the Ad-1 } ams circuit court on a change of ven- . ue from there to the Appellate court on an appeal. The ruling of the highr er court is as follows: 10343. Alex-j j ander J. Wiley, executor vs. Oliver ~ P. Wiley, et al.. Adams C. C. Appeal dismissed. Dausulan, C. J. The ape pcllant as executor filed his final report to which exceptions were susi- tained and he was required to file an i. aanended report more favorable to the : 1 estate and less favorable to his indi- I I. vidual interests, to which he except-1 —ii

■ ' .m.„ j ed and attempts to appeal as elect;,or of the estate without bond, The i ruling of the trial court Wing beneI ficial to the estate ami against ip I pellanfs individual interest he ra not take the appeal in his capacity a ! executor.” Detective Sergeant Jacpb Havel and Charles Nave today brought Chauncey Brokaw from Decatur, lai, to this city. Brokaw will face a charge of child neglect in the city court tomorrow morning—Ft. Wayne Nows & Sentinel. ■ ■ ■ "■■■' A federal officer came here today, ; and having with him Sanford Aid* I son, a negro from Garret, left him la i the jail here while he attended todI ficial business near here, before leavj ing for Indianapolis.