Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 164, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1920 — Page 2

Are You Aware That You May Die Today? Should you—is your wife and family protected? Unless they are you have not fuililled your obligations as a husband and a father. Why gamble with the fortunes and welfare of your loved ones so carelessly? You have been true Io your family obligations while in health but this duty does not end there. Consider the chances you are taking and remember The Western Reserve Life Insurance Co. Stands ready to protect your family. You can not afford Io be without a lite insurance policy. I nless you are insured you are not "square" to even yourself. ■ \Ve are here to serve you by protecting your family, through your co-operation, when you could not \ourself. Call or arrange to see me al once. Chas. W. Yager, Agent Decatur, Ind.

Low Shoes - t f —F 0R— Vacation Wear Good Fitting and Easy on the feet Stylish and long wearing The story short for a hot day. LA PIES' . White Pumps & Oxfords $2.5054.00. * That will give twice their price in ,'wear and comfort —high and low heels. LADIES’ Black Pumps & Oxfords $5.50 $9.00 For all sorts of summer wenr—of best quality - guaranteed for lit and wear. All sizes. High and low heels. Peoples & Gay Fine Foolery.

FARMS FOR SALE | Are you looking for a farm? If so, come to Convoy, I Ohio, as I have some; good farms to show you and I be- | lieve you will say they are worth the money I ask for them. ! Here are a few of them that 1 want you to see: i 100 acres—This farm is a mixed farm but will raise good crops; the J fences are fair; fairly well tiled;- the. buildings consist of an 8 room | house, up ground cellar and other buildings, the barn is 40x60 with I sheak: one 14x60x14x40 granery and crib. This farm has a mortgage ■ of SBOOO.OO. good for 6 years at 5/ 2 per cent. I will sell you this farm I for $225.00 per acre. k 100 acres—Joins the above one hundred, with good-buildings; also fi a mineral farm but will raise good crops: it has the best of corn, on it now and very fine oats. Look these farms over. Price $217.50 per acre. Has a $5000.00 mortgage on it for 6 years at SJ/ 2 per cent. 110 acres—Gcod house of 7 rooms; barn 60x80, a good one, and other buildings. Just a fine home for some one; only 3 miles from" Convoy; % mile to school; pike to house and barn. Price $265 p. a; 80 acres—House of 8 rooms; up ground cellar; barn, a good hib roof barn, with cattle shed; good tool shed and other out buildings; ' ’/a mile to school; a fine place to live; on pike. 'Price $235 per acre. 80 acres—House of 7 rooms and small basement; has electric lights in house and tarn; on pike; well tiled and fair fences; has about SIOOO or more of good timber ors it, Price $262.50 per acre, if taken before Aug. 1 owner will take back first mortgage of SIO,OOO for 5 yrs. 100 acres—On Lincoln Highway; good house and barn; good i double corn crib; 4 miles from Convoy. A fine location. Price $250 per acre. >O/ acies On Lincoln Highway; good house and fair barn; 2 miles from market; just a fine location for some one. Price right. I 88 acres—On Lincoln Highway; house with basement; electric lights in house and barn; a lot of fruit. If you want a nice home look this over before you buy. Price right. I have many more farms to show you. and I believe you wouid like for me to show you the farms, so if you a're in the market for a farm come to Convoy, Ohio, and- I will show yeu some of them. ADOLPH GEHRES Convoy, Ohio. DEMOCRAT WANT AdTbETRESULTS

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, JULY 13. 1920

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ DOINGS IN SOCIETY * ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Club Calendar Tuesday i TH Knifiias Miss Gladys Fl:.ndem. Phoebe Bible Claus-Mrs. Irvin Miller, North Fifth Street. . 1 The Otterbein Guild ?.liss Ethel Mumma. Dutiful Daughters of Evangelical Church Vias Viola Bowman. \V. C. T. V. Mrs. Jacob Aiz Thursday Ludles’ Aid of Presbyterian Church -Church i’a.lor. H. M. S. -Mrs. John Chronister. Helping Hand -S. S. Room. Reform ed Church. Friday Women’s Foreign Missionary Society, M. E. Church- Mrs. C. L. Walters. j. Christian Ladies’ Aid — Rebecca Eady. Root Township Home Economies Chib Mrs. Bernice Magley. ’ D.'Y.'B. Class—Mrs. John Gage. The first Sunday in June the classes of the East Liberty Sundnv school began a contest to see which class cou.ii’ have the largest attendance on itSunday. The men's and women's classjes a tie in attendance, so it wa° decided to give a basket dinner on th: ,11th of July, it being the primary lasses' Sunday, the women furnish ing the dinner and the men the ici cream. The attendance was 111. A i verv good offering was given and in i ill all fifty dollars will be sent so i the Syrian-Armenian relief fund. | Tables were arranged under the largr trees on the church lawn and were well filled with all-the good thing.: of the season to which all did jusL'c.e The afternoon was spent in converse .lonointil tour b'qjocli when iee cr<-..i. ' was <<efved. present orc Ittp. and, Mrs.'E.sD. Hively and .on Messrs. and D. J. Bark ley and family, Delina House and family, Henry Lehrman and family, Ceo fillet atul sons, J.C. Bark! y* v I i.tnly. (leveland Brown and family. 1. I Wass and family. John Van Buskill and family. Wm. Barkley and. son Charles Shafer and daughter. Run ome Barkley. Wm; Shafer, J. T. "Bari ey and daughter. Dick Brown am

| daughters, Robert Wilson and family, I. D. Berkley and Sjon, Earl IJarklej tnd daughter. George Miller, Win. iionroe and family, Lduis Kliiiker anti 'amily, Herman R'oth and faijrlly'.Mrs Will Anderson and family ...Mr ■ Si ■’ r Brown. Mr. J. idlir w.Xir' I. Barkley, Ivan, Guy and Ferol Brown: I 'letty Traxler, Lauren Miller, Pores’ - imitli. I.aura ireta <-r. 'tar ,i I nond Hill. Robert Zinn. * The Dutiful Daughters of the Evangelical church will hold their regular I business meeting this evening at the home of JJiss.Vlbla Bownfhn. Miss j 'lather Sheets will be the assistant i hostess. j ♦ The Baptist Missionary society will | noet Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o' , ■ lock at the home of Mrs. John Chi’or i ■j ster on West Monroe street. Mrs. C I T. Peterson will have charge of th- | program. * Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Gass issued I ; nvitations this morning to a party t< ! >e held Wednesday at the home of J z Mrs. Harris. + 9 The Co-Workers class of the Meth | ■ list church met ax Bellmont park ■ ■ ast evening where they had a picnic I upper consisting of weiners, coffee. I ■ I baked beans and ice cream. Their! ■ tides wore present to helg-Teed-them • ■ | Liter the lunch'they played base ball: | nd the batters hit W. F. Beery's bails ■ 'c hard that the ball was lost sev.-r-t. I Jmes. Due to an argument it will not ■ Jo for us to say which side was tin I vinner. but suffice to say no one wa; - ■ tilled. The boys also vented their: I trength in playing anil I arious otiier games. They all en-l loved themselves immensely and wish I to thank Mr. Reppert for pro,ldin;-: such an ideal place* to hold a picnic The next meeting has been postpone-: ' because the date conflicted with tin [ ■ air and the time will be anouuqed[ ! ater. ♦ The clerks of the Boston store had a picnic at Beilmont park last even-' I ing. They roasted weiners and had ti I general good time. Those pre. ent : were Mr. and Mrs. .Kueblcr, Mr. and! Mrs. Barthol and daughter, Helen; Mrs. Frank Butler and Mrs. Carrie Sutherland; the Misses Marcella Kuebler, Effie Patton, Lettie Lany, I Rose Fulletikamp. Matilda Sel!emey<' ! Fanny Hamtnell, Ruth Hammell and [Rose Klcinhcuz; Oscar Lankenau audj] Tom Murphy. * The W. Ct T. U. will meet next j’ Tuesday with Mrs. Jacob Atz on North I Second street. ♦ ' There will be a called meeting of I I the'.Root .Township Home Economics., ! : club Friday evening with Mrs. Bernice Magley. All members are re- 3

' quested to be present. 1 * W. M. A. of the Pleasant (.rove IJ. It.- church will meet with Mrs, Ros Harden Friday afternoon at <.'clock. The following program will be given: missionary hymn, all; scrip-j turn lesfbn’and prayer; song; reccp ( tion of new members; roll call; mis celleuiieous buslnescs; vocal sol" ijlali Mumma; recitation. Marguerc" Burger. Ivan Tank, Heuuie Harkless, * song. Indies' quartette; recitation » Harold Zurger and Loren Miller; reading, Edith Carter; vocal du >. , Mrs. Butler and Mrs. Harden; reeita--1 lion, Ruth Burger; reading, Golda Nidlinger; Instrumental solo, Mabi. Mumma; offering, officers’ reports. ♦ The -I). V. B. U. class of the I. I , hurch will meet Friday evening atj lie home of Mrs. John Gage. M: - J John Hill and Mrs. Frank Hurst wl ' i.c assistant hostesses. + The Helping Hand society of the s Reformed church on Thursday afteinoon at 2 o'clock. Ail members, ami all members of the Aid society are requested to be present and bring self s sors and thimbles. ♦ The- Birthday club will meet at the Peoples & Gay shoe store Wednesday evening at six o'clock from which ' place they will leave for Ft. Wayne in antos where they will be the guests of Dr. and Mrs. S. P. Hoffman. Were Married In Columbus ii . (Continued from page one) ' months. They were married the m x Tuesday, however, and Robert left Co: umbus on Thursday night, arrivin'? here Friday morning. The groom graduated from the De ■aftlr high school with the class <.; 1913, and during his high school vent .' oveyyi|o<ly in this City, and man. voting people ofThe surrounding cities, knew him as a leader in athletics and as a basket bail fan especially, he serving as captain of the basket ba-. , quintent two or three seasons. I; track and field meets he was also one cf the enthusiasts of the local high school. During his senior year he wa iso one of the editors of the. “Ravel ings”. the official nigh school paper,

“Xfo" • ’ and never was it a more newsy an [ in.-to-lhe-TOinute sheet than during th< j school term of and 1913. During his high school years he alet I worked in this office and learned f | be, a most efficient .linotype operatoi ' which vocation he followed during va I cation during his college career. . 1b the fall of 1913 he entered Indi ana university, and attended that in ] stitution until this country entered th- , I world war. when he enlisted in the I service and assisted in the forming iof Company A in this city. Ho left i here in September 1917, and for r time was stationed qt Camp Shelby. ! Miss. Later he took the officers'; •raining course at Camp Taylor, and! ! was commissioned a second lieuten ! ant, and was stationed at Camp Sher ! man. Ohio, and for a time it war thought would leave the camp witlthe Eighty-fourth division, but did not |do so. and the armistice was signed before he got away. Following the -signing cf the armistice he <lirl,<. 1.-r l ical work, retaining his commission, I ind was later transferred to Colum- | bus barracks, where he was athlete I director, with the rank of lieutenant He met Miss .Tvffries at a soeifi' ! affair given at the officers’ headounrters at Columbus, and the couple have ! i since been warm friends. She is a: I graduate of the Columbus high schoo 1 I [graduating with the class two years [ego. Soon after her graduation she Hnlisted In the navy a a yeoman and | i served two years in the service of Uncle Sam at Fort Harrison, art Charleston. S. C. She is an active member of the Methodist church in! i Columbus. She returned to Columbus where ho is nftw employed, in a re.sponsil-lr i i position with the American Railway: j l-.'xpress company, and will retail her [ position until her husband gets located the l-iisine- s world. She has lived ! iln Columbus all her life and Ims a i mother and sister who have ", -ed [there also, her father being deceased. Mr. Peterson, who took a jouranal[istic course at the university, exp-e.it !to get into the newspaper game, and ■is now seeking a location, and when to gets a suitable position, they will I go to housekeeping. "Bob”, as he is familiarly known tc all, is one of those wideawake fellow.- ■ who is bound to succeed in anything ho undertakes, and in this “new ven-!' ’'ttfre he has the heartiest congrattt- ■' lations of ail. and it is to bo hoped that he will locate si m.-where nc . home, wlmu’Q wo can see him often. ( _ __ , , CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE I ' ‘ ,1 'United Press Service) Chicago, July 13—(Special to Daily j Democrat)— Corn. July SLS6H; Sept. $1.5614: Dec. $1.41%. Oats. July, < 95‘4; Sept. ; Dec. 76y 8 . , $-S—S—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—7s <

THIRD PARTY TO NOMINATE TODAY Committee of 48 and Lahm Agree to Amalgamate and Nominate a Candidate STARTS AT EIGHT A Platform Presented and Agreed to—New Party Will be Launched (United Press Service) Chicago, July 13.—(Special to Daily) Democrat) —A new political party will) be formally launched here this after noon. The national convention of the com mittee of 48 and the labor party con ventions each amid scenes of enthus iasm, voted unanimously, to amalga ) mate and meet in join convention at Carmen's hall at 2 P. M„ to complete) plans of organization and finally adopt, a platform. Candidate for president and vice 1 president will be nominated at a joint session called for eight o'clock to-) night. Already unanimously agreed upon the platform with the exception of oneplank through the action of the conferences. the way was paved for the con ventions to merge by the action of the I joint committee on political procedure in recommending details of an amalgamation. Both conventions went into a frenzy of applause when the news was received that the other had voted to merge. Hotel Morrison, Chicago, July 13.— (Special to Daily Democart) — All basic differences have been adju-tei and the new third party will be forrually launched today, it was officiallj ■announced after an all-night conte - . enee of leaders of the committee of 48 j' and the American Labor party. Faced by threats of the rank and lib l of both the labor and 48 conventions to take matters into their own hands and effect an amalgamation unless an agreement was reached in committee when the meetings re-convened today. .) the leaders within a few hours ap-

parently accomplished what they hai' i hitherto failed to do in three days oi i wrangling —reached a common underI standing. The joint committee on platform ! was still in session less than three hours before efpiration of the time : limit according to the leaders, but !: hey would be able to present a com- | promise program shortly after the I convention got under way. Indications were the platform would provide for government ownership of public ultilities. opposition to the league of nations, with or without reservations; recognition of Irish inde - peudence; opposition to compulsory | military training; taxation to “forci Idle land into use;” equal * economic i oolitical and legal rights for all persons; "immediate restoration" of free speech, free press, right of assembh I ind other constitutional guarantees I abolition of the injunction in labor eases, and indorsement of labor’s right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives or its owr •boosing. There was still, some friction over two details of the platform. MR. WISEHAUPT HOME Howard Wisehaupt, of Cleveland. I Ohio, is here for a visit with his parents and friends. Howard is employed by the Knox School of Sales- , manship and Business Efficiency at Cleveland, and during the past winter his work was of such a strenuous nature that he suffered a nervous pollapse. He had been in the hospital at Cleveland some time, and is here on a month’s vacation during I which time he will rest. 7 o save two pet dogs deserted when a schooner sank near the Azores, the : crew of one lifeboard rowed bad more than one-quarter of a mile in a rough sea. SUNDAY, JULY 25th In the write-up of the base ball 'game yesterday we stated the Lim-j team would play Decatur again "Monday. the 25JJ1.” This should havo been Sunday, the 25th. The Decatur team [plays its first game out of town Saturday at League park, Fort Wayne, with the American Legion team KEEP UP TO THE MARK Good health is impossible when the! kidneys are weak, overworked or dis-' eased. When they fail to filter out of 1 the poisons and impurities that cause! sore, swollen muscles and joints, ; backache or rheumatic pains, prompt steps should be taken to give the! kidneys and bladder the h-lp these symptoms indicate they need James, Carmen, Mayfield. Ky„ writes: “I am in good shape and can say I found Foley Kidney Pills certainly fine. 1 can't say .enough for them.” Sold, everywhere.

We Will Be Glad T o-See-Y ou If you have not yet found out by actual experience the benefits ol a checking account come in and see us about it. Our ollicers will be glad to meet you and talk over banking matters with von. We want you Io learn Io take full advantage of every facility this bank offers you. Safety Deposit Boxes Insured. Ths Peoples Loan & Trust Co BANK OF SERVICE Special Sale Sleepy Eye Spring Wheat FLOUR Made from the CREAM of Minnesota SPRING Wheat. To start this Flour the mill has made a Special Price of $14.50 a bbl. For one week starting today. This price is Two Dollars a barrel under the market on Spring Wheat Flour. E. L Carroll & Son STOP - LOOK! Why You Should Buy Here Consider and be convinced. We buy and butcher our own beeves and pork. Our motto is always "cleanliness” and we stand ready for inspection at all times. In the preparation of our meals and the selling of them, we arc able to give you the highest quality cuts. Our customers rely on the word of our salesmen, and are never deceived. QUALITY & CLEANLINESS Are these two features not worth considering? When buying, you should gel the best for your money—here that is possible. You demand sanitary conditions in the preparation of your foods — here that is done. We are here to serve you—let us. Once our customer —always our customer. Come in and inspect our market. Fred Mutschler Pkg. Co. Market DECATUR, INDIANA ATTENTION! Watch thij space for Studabaker’s advertisement Insurance of every description carefully attended to. farmers Insurance—Fire and Tornado One of my specialties. , See me before placing your tornado business. Pncne No. 392, or write me at Decatur, Indiana, and I will call and see you. D. E. STUDEBAKER, 418 Jefferson St.