Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1910 — Page 4

gVBBYTHUMSDAY MORNING EY _ i ( , „,, _.»T*.-. B.OOPBB YBAB nt ADVASOI. ' '■ - - : 1 u ........ '■’■■■»■ ■■■^.■>^., l .U|Entered at the pOstofltee at Decatur, lad., as second class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ARAMS CO. GOOD ' V ■ ' " ROADSAGAIN At the meeting of'the good roads i congtess Wednesday Samuel Hill of ! Washington contended that good 1 roads were of more Importance to. the 1 .country than the Panama canal; and it is easier to quffiKHffi' Ms assertion than it Is to disprdVe lt He made a ' formidable case. very pertinently, what use the Im- ' provemant of. waterway’s would be if 1 the roads of the 'country were such that the farmer could not get to them. The very able demonstration that he made, and, indeed, all of the utterances at .thia meeting, have all been of high value. The moral value of the subject was • presented in a letter from Mrs. DeGarmo, in which she pressed the idea ' of the great importance of good roads ‘ to Child life; the crying need tor roads 1 on which children could make needed journeys without endangering life and health by crossing railroad bridges, ! wading in water, and plowing through ' mud. Whope that one effect of this good roads meeting shall be to so impress Indiana that the legislature will take up the subject in earnest. We shall be dull, Indeed, if, after this showing, we are content to continue a faulty road system that wastes money and hardly keeps even with the * current' deteroriation. Mr. Page, the national director of public roads, has prepared a bill which it Is to be hoped that our legislature will consider. There will never be a mOre auspicious time to begin 1 ■ 1 this great work than now. With the information and impulse which the present great road’‘meeting has imparted, And with this help from na- * tional officers, we are in the best possible condition to take up the subject in earnest and make a beginning at least toward. a< better system.—lndianapolis News. < ■ i “A long dry document'* is the man- 1 ner’tii which the late message of the 1 president is spoken of in a majority of 1 . the newspapers of the country. Few people . will probably read it, but every one will watch with interest the 1 work of the congress. There are many 1 ‘ thinjgs to be done if .the republican ' party, still in complete power, really ’ wishes to relieve the common class " of people of the burdens of high cost'Of living, etc. A general reduction in the cost of the government < maintenance will Jop t off some the i burdens, though the’ real way to do it l is ■> tokoep that promise made in 1908, : “a revision of the tariff downward.” Christmas is drawing so awfully near that It makes a fellow shudder as he notices his dilapidated old pocket book and wonders if the end isn’t about near. About ten days yet, and if you have put off your shopping, do it at once. There will be plenty to do next week, without having this agony to go through. Merchants tell us that the before Christmas trade is not as large as usual for this time of the year, but this week opened like a live one, and probably will be the banner week ot the Christmas year. Read the. advertisements in today’s paper =========2=-==S The magazine, Push, gives the following very splendid definition of what a gentleman is; .. . , “A man that’s clean inside and out- . side; who neither looks up to the rich or down to the poor; who can Ipse without squealing, and who can win . without bragging; considerate to wom«n, children and oid 'peopie; whois too brave to He, too generous to cheat and too sensible to loaf, and who takes his share of the world’s goods and lets other ; people have theirs. ■==- The Christmas trade is on and the coming Saturday should be one of the largest of the year. The Decatur merchants have been taking advantage of

For two weeks they have each evening extended to you a welcome and the promise of fair treatment. Buy your Christmas goods in Decatur. Buy them now. =—==? ; The Indiana legislature' will convene at the capltol January sth and will be in session tor sixty-one days. These will be the most Important six-ty-one days that the democrats have had In a decade.and they are preparing plans in such a manner that will assure the Hoosiers they can govern and govern well. : : . il'!——ns—it’s about time for the' fellow who expects to reform on January Ist to begin thinking of just What he is going to do. It might be well to try the new resolutions about three weeks and then you will be ready to start tn with New Year’s Day, which wifi, be here now almost before you get ready for It. • • t The presidential message, in .the United States is becoming a serious problem, at least for the unregarded newspaper man -whose business it is to tilform the people—-who, of course, will not read it—of its contents. Mr. Taft Tuesday sent to congress a message 4 containing more than thirty-five thousand words. It filled twenty-two columns.—lndianapolis News. jj. l 1 mw The “unwritten law” has won another Victory in the verdict just returned at Vincennes. While such things appeal to the majority, lt’s,.a dangerous practice. This shooting down of men, cold-blooded, as was the case in this instance, is a mighty poor practice, no difference what the provocation. hi ... L.— »—» Mr. Greathouse will do a great thing for the schools of the state if he can actuaDr Inspire foe teachers |o work more persistently andjnsistently for pure speech—that is grammatical speech. The things one hears, even, among tolerably well educated people hi this Hoosier land, makes one wince A new year, is approaching. Every citizen of Decatur should resoluteto make the year 1911 the best in the history of this good old town. We have everything here to do it with. Let’s. You couldn’t just call it early shopping from now on, but it's better now than a week from now, and there is one sure thing, it won’t help ft any to put off your shopping, so do it dayPay your money and your choice. If there is anything you want in the Christmas line you will find it' in the Decatur stores this yedr. They are better than ever., The stocks are large and well selected, and the prices Hffht. and again—well, well. Here we find Indiana has an antitrust law and an attorney general to enforce it and a trust right in our midst to try It on! Now wouldn’t that frost your pippins? Bet a cooky you never knew anything amout that antitrust law, or if you did bet you never suspected the attorney general knew anything about it. But there it was, and there he was, and here were we as contented as a cat by the chimney with an octopus going and coming right among us. Maybe, it there could be some more beating up the bushes other trusts would give a rise. If this is the open season and Indiana has ’em, the bag ought to be good. Trouble is Attorney General Bingham ha* only a few more days on the job. It will be 1 a comfort none the less to know that • the law is on watch and no trust can .irswrm,,4a Jndhma. -Feriaw 1 now that the law is discovered, some 1 communities may feel like going at it ■ to dig up a local coal trust, a neigh- • borhood ice combine or a hometown > lumber consolidation.. These things are favorites with many of the localized magnates. The Ohio anti-trust > statutes brought a quite impressive • number of them out into society. Perhaps Indiana may do as f Wayne Sentinel. x

other guests being the. Misses Pansy e an c o ae. ss spent the week-end with Miss MerrytHßT) luorn B While attending the conserya- ! music at Cincinnati,, 0. Mias Kincaid who is a very accomplished vory oryßyi lymp** bers at both the morning .and evening 89rirjc>6S th© Mothodist. church yesterday.- ■ The Preble W. G. T, U. society will meet at the home es Mrs. J. D. Gause Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Mrs. Emily Mclntosh of .Hoagland will, at this time, make her report on the national convention, which was held at Baltimore in November. Having bden a delegate to this great convention, she will have a very interesting report to give. A good attendance is desired. Mr. and Mrs. M. P._ Burdg entertained a company of ’friends St one of the most pleasant dinner parties of the reason Sunday. Guests were the Misses Margaret Gallogly, yjslpja Porter, Donna Sowers, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Helm and children and .Mr. George Loughenry. \ ,- ,-~r '■■■’ .•Mr..and Mrs,.®., B. and children,, of Decatur and Grant Ball and family of. Malley, , w«e entertaip.ed by their father, R. B. Johnson at Peterson yesterday. The dinner served at noon was “simply great,” _ UNDERWENT AN OPERATION. Miss. Id?. GWNom Crux Qpei> ated Upon For Hernia. Miss Ida Gilliom, an eighteen-year-old lady of Vera Cruz, underwent an operation for femoral hernia this morning at 8 o’clock, the same being performed at the home of . Dr. ,D. ;D. Clark on Third street. Th? operation lasted tienty-Hve minutes and waa a most successful one, , being performed by Doctors C. S. and D. P. Clark of this city and Dr, McOscar of Fort Wayne. Miss GiUiom is npder the care of a trained nurse, Miss Harshbarger of Fort Wayne, and hps every chance of being folly , nqiiered tol good health. -7. r- :• s AUTO HIT BY FREIGHT TRAIN. issa Fuller and Mary, Ode ate suffering from severe injuries today, dud-' tained last night when an automobile driven by Coe in which they were track, where an eastboqnd freight I train hit the car. Theii* escape from I instant death was mlracnlbus/\ I — HINSHAW MAY Bt RqLiXStp, I MMBia. D«. lai to Daily Dei&crat)—lt Is bellevqd j that William E. Hinshaw, who. is. serv-l the a life sentence In the state pris- l on for the murder of his wife, #Ol, be | paroled or pardoned as a restilt .of ani examination made yesterday by the t pardon board. The matter will Be l finally determined at a meeting of thej board to be held at onl Thursday. | MERCURY WENT DOWN TO EIGHT I Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 12—•(Spec-1 ial to Dally Democrat)—The mercury] in the official thermometer of the 10-| cal station of the' weather bqreaul dropped to nine degrees above zero at I 7 o’clock this morning and then to make a better record descended to 81 above at 8 o’clock. This was the low-1 est it has reached this winter. I o —— ’ I. t BUED HUSBAND FOR SALARY. I Tipton, Ind., Dec. 12—(Special to Daily Democrat)—An unusual suit] was filed in the Tipton circuit court today by Mrs. Emma Bauer, who sues, her husband tor 12,555 for services rendered since 1905. .-Mys, Bauer has cooked in hen husband’s restaurant and now wants her salary. She says she has not asked for any overthdeJ SCARLET FtVERtBLQtyU SCHOOL I At Monmouth*—Cherfos Johnson’s Ss»ni ~ Both rooms of the Monmouth school closed today oh account of scarlet fever, a son of Charles Johnson, of near that place, being sleff .with this dk sease. The boy became sick l&st Thursday and was'forded to go home from school. His case has since been, pronounced scarlet fever. — - .1 I — JUDGE WHITE AS CHIEF JUSfICE (United Press Service.) Washington, d; C„ Dec. 12—(flpeeial to Daily Democrat)—Associate . .. .

democrat, Served oTthe'su-1 I he was a United States senator and ■ l •'< .■ , . member of, the supreme court of Louisiana. me nomination or FreaericK W. Lehman to be , solicltpr-geheral • Wesley Hoffman, Ted Sowers and Bruce Patterson left this morning for make a canvass of the county in the interest of a patent lamp burner, which is said to be a great taker. REGULAR MEETING A Of‘th. Adams County Horse Detective association wlrf be held in the Grand Army hall in k J)ecatur» Indiana, on December 17th. Remember that at this time the report, by the delegate to the national meeting, wiU.be given. Everybody come. 292t5 J. F. FRUCHTE, Sec y. : ... MEXICAN WILD HOG 'SKIN. Received by Robert Blackburn From I Robert Blackburns the happy recipient this morning of a Mexican wild hog *kin in black and yellow, finely dressed, which was sent to him by so? son, Hatch, who is traveling XXTXTTmX £ akins, and this win be a handsome addition to them. The skin is a very handsome rug, very nearly tod fine FOUR STITCHES TAKEN r In toh.ro. Under* Henry ScherrTV Preble peseed Broiuik th. di, today noon-on hte. .y toi» t™ Port Wayne trh.ro “ " OT " to » ™ toe£ w °b.e“ - ■ sight -W*the -eyer and* which, though removed five times before, always reXT m’S V the ImL "Four stitches were taken in the eye-ball this morning and the opone JaeobEbr.^etLrne^b^ -Ky - *■’ t ri-1 A 'mS ‘ f? ’'-A 'I • 1 lu : aav ' ' I [ rMh in his i g’ ’ -* -i,aAvxt I ■ . V' ' ' : ■ ■ ' • j *•' - ; ' ■ -a. - Thursday tor Salem, whie X fwitt attend the Christmas wedding of Miss Harriet HUT to Mr. Will HayI arinH Will whh'for about Seven I WaTU* JMIdB nHly WMV AVI •UVMV DC |aunts, the Misses Sarah and Lell Setntr and attended the Decatur high schirnl, from which she graduated in 1898, is well and favorably taiown to I; ■/ ,T ■ r- A z > " a.a I gQO return6(l W ucr eas verity ;

I raalh T vpiir IndisnADolis 'bought I < |2,000 worth of the seals, while the h I *a>- i.' Io«w taking some of it for use in oth- i er Communities. •-v > . » ’- It Was a real “live' scare of first wa-1 < di A kill rl ned ’possum that has the proverbial | I The chef' has read now and then'of r I the aood 'possum dinners enjoyed by 11 the Coon Skin club and his .mouth il ty morsel He made bold to hsk one < of the member that should they L it to him and show them < how to prepare, the dish of ,’possum j and sweet potatoes aS it should be. I kjuue receiiuy a man iieai uro- cifcj 11 caught a ’posdum in a W, and L I brought the tr&p with iti liw pris* | I oner,, to town, taking it to the Kai ver I I shop. Mr. Kalver ordeted the'possum skinned, entire, and knowing K lith f th M ra ' hrti, f ’ liAalrod I theST The ctarf X Sre than pressing duties. When he turned]; again to toe table he was horrified toL See that the sklnned ’posfehm had ris- i en and was sitting up looking boldly L trro t As th « H L theVhbTbounded away Jnd up to his i room, where he locked himself in and 1 could only be Induced to come down < again when assured that the ’possum ll had been taken away. Jt is said that i the ’possum id remarkably tenacious] have gotten up and made' away. ..." , a. r «]» The lied Cross Committee Is willing P to spend thaLportlop of the fupjsfo take care of the worthy victims of toe] [Hie in city; 'town or 0n 8 farm. To ’the dOmmittee-the important thing Is 1 I . Il greatest The Red Crnmr committee I 1 Boenda" ’the' funds Judiciously zolnx ‘ ZSnTtad H e no? toe ' I confidence’of the people of the state, 1 htft It makes a conscientious effort to 1 I i*n its worK AgriiiiSu tne woit© piague i | awo inousana ur been placed on the business f a#’ ‘ V Min <av«a I' I llftfl© C*hrifittnas nfSiisuigflfi of I ■ • ! t-?' 7 I ■■■: ' I Mrs. Jofan W? ThomfaTof ttinches-l tar, well known -berg, filing visited being and an aunt of Mrs. U G. EUingham.l' died very suddenly at her home Sunday morning at 5 o’clock. While she had been in rather poof health during the summer, the announcement of her death came as a terrible shock to the many relatives and friends. . The afternoon at 2 o’dock. Efet ' ' - ■ 1 W. Thomas, who pasted from earth I lon toe eleventh day of December.l XSriT Winchester on January 28, 1842. She |

of rubb©r stock and its rpofospiita - I Uv6 demanded & to see th© stock I U—V 1. Li- '* J J. ilOO k Trtl) if*rrt XXTQ ft £o’ll TCkf i llYlnAY* TITO— I wo*id saysi secretary jNorris turn - ■ -i. ' - jss A ' I-.*'' stock for ; - 4 ~ .r--ir vo cue * j field. Five brothers are left:>i Ohio* Tfinn/i Mnrl Ttfrmh Wollffi frf»Difn number of years and her Huband made Ms home with his two daugh- X ters.—Portland Sun. ' 'Vd = J ■J Th. .iJS. w«. Monday morning at 10 o’clock at the Burr Oak church, a mile and a half 1 east of Berne, and the body was tak‘j Bl ® ,N THW BVE * 4,NO - •yr 'titnclna Lessons at Hall. ? - I ihAtF* 'drlulniy