Decatur Democrat, Volume 49, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1906 — Page 6

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CLUB PAPER Paper Read Before the Shakespeare Club Civic Improvements as Seen by a Ciub Member—Such a Society May be Organized. The following naper was read by j Mrs. L. G. Ellingham at a meeting of Shakespeare club. It deals with civic improvements, about which considerable interest is being manifested : It is not my purpose in this paper to discuss at length any of the great' subjects that come under my topic I today. I rather desire to look at I the matter in the light of individ-1 ual effort, to ask the scriptural question “and why beholdest thou : the mote that is in thy brother’s I eye, and cosiderest not the beam ; that is in thine own eye? I have) selected civic improvement as my main theme, and the very small and practical beginning is the part upon which I wish to dwell. It- is always well to look at the material upon which one has to work as a man building a house takes account of his resources: first, how much money he has to invest, how much to keep'up runningexpenses, the location, neigh borhood, etc., so must a community find out what it already has as seme times advantages are not appreciated. The mayor, marshal and city council are largely irfluenced by] public sentiment.* and here is I where individual effort comes in. j In the recent eleoti j-is an indepen | denoe in [voting was manifest that! has never before been apparent. A wave of reform is sweeping over the country in city, state and national affaiis. The very small beginning to this gigantic movement was one man’s determination that the ugly corporation cursed city of Jersey City should have some beautiul places for the poor and that every child should have a respectable place t) receive a common school education. One man’s love of beauty and humanity, aid he a man who had never gone to school but six weeks in his life, one man who had the courage to do his duty and the strength to stand by his convictions. When the people found a man whose heart beat in sympathy for their needs and who knew what those needs were, they chose him as their leader .and then stood by him. To my mind, Mark Fagan, mayor of Jersey City, is the ideal'.town officer. Tnere is the point we must demonstrate, the need of better things, the laws set a higher standard than the people demand shall be enforced. The mayor and town oounncil reflect the sentiment of a majority of the citizens, hence the only way to get better officials is to get bet ter sentiment, nothing is gained by criticism ; knocking is the death knell to advance. But how you •say? Well, the first thing to do is to begin by finding out all the good things about our town. Ihrst, we have muncipal ownership of our electric light plant and water works plants, (which I personally believe is right,) but that is a question it would be unprofitable for ns to discuss at great length. There is a rapidly growing sentiment in favor of public ownership of public utilites. Chicago is now facing A proposition of voting >75,000,000 for that purpose. Decatur has a better light rate than any other city near. We have excellent water. We have a fine sewerage system which is proved by the absence of typhoid epidemics among us. We have many good streets, gosd, but ineufficitnt school buildings, |

and last but not least a Carnegie library. As the care of the house beautiul belongs to the woman and the strife for providing financially for it belongs to the man, so the care of the town beautiful belongs to the woman while the questions cf finance and politics [belong to the man. But as the man and woman strive together for the same end in the home, (that of provid-1 ing good clothes, beauty, literature and every comfort themselves and their children,) so must mon and women work together for better civic conditions in the town. The home is the very first step in civic reform. Let the individual i members of an association, keep j their lawns neat, their alleys.streets j and sidewalks clean. Cleanlines i is the very first requisite of beauty the very foundation of improvement, then the beautifying or porches and barren places with flowers, vines, trees and shrubs should begin. One such home in a neighborhood is an incentive to others. And here organized effort 'is a great help, We often speak of ! getting fl-iweres to grow as luck ItTis[not luck, it is science, although : the last thought in the successful amateur’s mind is that he is do!ig anything scientific. He will i mix and rub and prepare the soil I just right, he will select his location for certain plants with an eye to sunshine and shade, drainage, etc. There are no other artists so generous with advice and help as those out of door lovers of nature's paintings. A few such successful ones in a civic betterment society would save the inexperienced many failures and a great expense of time and money. The next step is to interest the children. there are many many ways of doing this which have been tried most successfully. In every place that a determined effort has been i made, it is remarkable to read of J the result obtained of bad boys . made obedient, of generous impul- ! see awakened and the love inspired , in whole families by the interest of one little child. Now let us turn our attention to our streets and alleys: in our mind’s eye let us determine to have a spring house cleaning in our town as well as in our homes. The first step in the civilization cf a barbarian is giving him a clean shirt; so, the first step we must take is to clean up. If we want to be morally cleaner we must be physically cleaner. The unction of a Civic Improve ment Society is not to make arbitrary demands upon the people and officers of a city, but by the cooperation of all the people with the society and officers to make a cleaner, more beautiful and more healthful place to live in. It is in the province of an improvement society to do what it can directly and through its influence to cause other things to be done both ty the city and by individuals. It is only by the approval and encouragement not alone of the societies’ members but of all the members of a community, that such a society can reaon its greatest or even moderate efficiency An individual may complain of a nuisance, and it may be abated, but usually what is everybody s’ business is nobody's business. It is obvious that a town with an organized body of men and women whose object it is to receive complaints and investigate such matters will have wore influence in securing relief. “It is an undisputed fact that a standard of cleanliness once established is always maintained.” The commercial value of civic art should not be overlooked. Beautiful bridges, clean streets, well cared for lawns, a general air of tidiness and prosperty is always appreciated by the most casual observer. Better [results in dollars and cents could be obtained by an out of doors art club than anything Decatur has ever tried. The pulpig press and Commercial Club would assist in every way possible. I Our new library is nearing oomple the committee has provid-

ed a most excellent place for meetings of this character. If one could look far enough into the future to see Decatu" with all the unsightly bill boards abolished, telephone poles relegated to alleys, an antispitting ordinance enforced, Main street clean —think of it, you would not have to lift your dress shoe top high to escape rivers of tobacco spit. In how much more worshipful frame of mind some of us would reach services on Sunday morning if the banana stalks, decayed vegetables and general refuse from Saturday’s traffic were removed. “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.’’ Then if the court house, library scboolgrounds and many vacant lots around town were made into at tractive gardens—it seems to good to be true! Less than ten years ago this civic improvement movement was inaugurated and all these things have been done in hundreds of towns. It has extended from small villages to great cities and the great American Civic Assooia tion formed in 1904 with offices in Philaelphia, is one of the busiest places in the country today. Card of Thanks. , We desire to extend cur sinceie thanks to our many friends and neighbois, who so kindly assisted us during the death of our beloved mother. The Parent Children. Noah A. Loch, of this city, attended the hardware dealers’ convention at Indianapolis last week. All the various wholesale dealers were represented and used various means to advertise their wares. The Indianspolis Tent and Awning company had a novel scheme. They had a big watch, the face of uhich was covered with cloth, and each dealer pres ent was allowed to guess as to when the watch would stop. Mr. Lech’s guess was that it would stop at twen-ty-three minutes and eight seconds after fiye. Tuesday he was notified that the watch had stopped just nine seconds later than his guess, and his guess being the nearest,'he had been awarded the premium, a dozen fleece-lined buggy storm aprons, worth £55.00. Barney Hackman, one of the bes known farmers in Adams countv died Friday evening at his home foi r miles east of this city at eight o’clock, after an illness of six weeks duration, death resulting from typhoid fever. Mr. Hackman was forty-nine years of age, and during all of his life made his home in this county, following the vocation of a farmer. He was successful in this lin*. and other business transactions, and was always fair and honest with those he dealt with. He was first attacked with the fever six weeks ago, and during that time his sufferings were something terrible. Two weeks ago his medical attendants successfully broke the fever, but the patient was not able to rally from the ravages of the disease and last evening he departed this life. He was a member of St Marys Catholic church and was a devoted Christian', and his many acts of kindness and deeds of charity will be sadly missed by those who came in contact with him. The funeral services will be held Monday morning at nine thirty o’clock at the St. Marys Catholic church. Father Wilken officiating, interment will be made in the St. Joseph cemetery. He leaves a wife, two daughters, two sons, six brothers and two sisters to mourn their loss. The two men killed in the explosion at Geneva yesterday were Ed Gates of Hartford City, and Lee Howard of Bluffton,. Gates was married man and lived with his wire and baby at the corner of Franklin [and Mill streets. Mrs - Gates, a half hour after the accident, was notified by telephone fromGfneva of the tragic death of her husband. The couple were married within the past year and the young wife is almost prostrated by the shook. Lee Howard was the youngest son of A. M. Howard and wife of Blufftrn, and was a brother -of William Howard and Mrs. Maude Landfair of Bluffton. He was formerly employed by the Empire company here and [resided in that city. He was known as an industrious young man and was well liked. The death of his brother, who was killed in a similar way near Bluffton,three years ago. What remains could be distinguished from horse flesh, sixteen pounds I in all, were picked up tenderly and ‘ will be buried in one grave, funeral . services for the two unfortunate men being held together.

Jasper Lening, aged fifty five years, a well known and well to do citizen of Jefferson township was this morning declared of unsound mind at an inquest held by a board consisting of Drs. Reusser ard Schenk of Bertie and Squire Ault. He will be taken to the East Haven Asylum at Richmond as soon as a vacancy can be declared fcr ti is county. His trouble was I rought on by despondency. An eastern editor says a man got into trouble by marrying two wives. A western editor says that many men have done the same thing by marrying one. A northern editor says that a number of his friends found trouble by merely promising to marry without going farther. A southern editor says bis friend was bothtred enough when he was simply found with ano her man’s wife. Word was received last evening from Fort Wayne about five thirty o’clock annouming that Mrs. John Barger had departed this life at the Hope Hospital, where she had been confined for a week suffering from a cancerous growth in the stomach. The doctors were unable to relieve her in any manner, Mrs. Barger was thirty years of age, and just in the prime of life. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J I eop!es, who reside in this city. Some time ago she became afflicted with what was supposed to be an obstruction of the bowls and Dr. Rosenthal was summoned from Fort Mayne to perform an operation. The patient was too weak at the time, and it was decided to take her to the hospital at Fort Wayne, where an operation could be performed as soon as she was able. This was accomplished last week, and it was then found that Mrs. Barger was suffering from a cancerous growth in the stomach and nothing could be done to save her life, and death was a matter of only a short time. She gradually became weaker until last evening, when she expired. Undertaker Gay was dispatched at once to Fort Wayne and arrived here with the remains this morning. The funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at one o’clock at Beery church, Rev. Hocker, of Bluffton, officiating, and interment will be made in the Decatur cemetery. She leaves ahusbind, father, mother, two brothers and o ne sister to mourn their loss.

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