Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1910 — Page 6

SFSrfeSH green od'nd preyed. Rope, of the tissue Id these color, were drawn from wail, to the chandelier in the center of the room., where they were caught with a cluster of red Christmas bells, and these bells Were also suspended from the archway, and other available places. At one side of the room a tree in its pretty attire, with candles all ready to "light with a touch," added the finishing touch to the Christmas setting. The usual occupation of sewing was laid aside last evening for a series of parlor games played at little tables, there being all varieties of games to suit the taste of the player. During the delicious luncheon, which was served in two courses between the games, which consisted of sandwiches, salad, pickles, coffee, cake, 1c cream, the candles on the Christmas tree were lighted by Miss Ruth Maydr and shed their soft gleaming light over all. An exchange of gifts was in order by the club, and those having been prepared In advance were brought daintily wrapped and laid at the foot of the Christmas tree, from which they were handed out by jflss Ruth Mayer, who acted as an impromptu Santa Claus, and were opened with many pleased expressions by the recipients. The evening closed with music by the . company, “The Star of the East,” in chorus, and with Christmas solos and duets by Ruth and Naomi Mayer and others. The Misses Joyce Keifer and Osa Cowan were guests, beside the regular members. This will be the last meeting of Miss Dickinson with the club as she goes to Cleveland to become a trained nurse. The Christmas decoration in red and green colors carried out in the way of ropes, streamers and bells, the Christmas spirit manifest in many way., including the exchange of gifts, made the social evening spent by the Entre Nous club at the home of Miss Goldie Gay one of unusual pleasure. A very unique contest contributed in no small measure to tile delight of the evening. The profile of each guest was drawn on a paper following the outlines of her shadow cast against the paper. The pictures thus made were then guessed, Miss Pearl Purdy guessing the greatest number, was awarded the first prize. Christmas music and a delicious luncheon were also in order. The entire dub membership, Including Matilda Sellemeyer, Pari Purdy, Electa Glancey, Ruby Millej/Lilah Lachot and and Mrs. H. S. Lachot were present. Miss Lilah Lacihot will entertain the dub in two weeks, ■■■■——l 1 Mr. and Mrs. F. A Peoples, Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Lewton and daughter,. Eloise of this city; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Magley and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Magley and children will complete the family circle cm Christmas Day at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Magley, at Monmouth. ~ i' . The R. D. Patterson family will enjoy their family* reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Morris at Bluffton •Christmas Day. The family includes besides the father, R. D. Patterson of this dty, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bell and son of Hillsdale, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meyers and family, Jtr,- and Mrs. D. F. Quinn and family of Decatur, Mr. and Mrs. N. K. Todd and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. George Morris of Bluffton. One of the happy preChristmas events will be the entertainment accorded the girls of the Methodist Sunday school class by their teacher, Mrs. - T. W. Holsapple, at her home onWest Monroe street this evening. The class Monroe street this evening. The guests will include Cecil Eady, Vera Hunsicker, Frances Butler, Agnes Eady, Pearl McGill, Blanche Cowan, Mary Teeple, Nellie Meyers and Florence Cowan, May Patton and Gladys £, Graham. There will be a number of social amusements in harmony with > the Christmas-tide and refreshments, consisting of pop-corn and candies, will be served. O OBITUARY. Armetha Yeoman was born January 26, 1867, and died December 16, 1910, aged 43 years, 10 months and 20 days. She was united in marriage to Jesse H. Burnett, January 28, 1880. To this union were born seven children, three boys and four girls, all of which still remain at home. She leaves to mourn her loss besides the above, her father, two brothers and a host of other relatives and mends. She united with the Church of God in 1886 near Men- | don, Ohio, and then Joined the Methodist church near Spencerville, Ohio, v/. in 1894, from which place she transferred her membership to the Salem Methodist church In 1901, to which she remained faithful till God called her to tiie church triumphant Among

11 church*December 19th M 9 o’doX f i “When Jesus comes I must be awake, » I- must see His beckoning hand; » My eye must follow the way He will take . > To that radiant, far-away land.” r.’ . ’ > Then she slept the long, Jast sleep; , Her pain was swept i And life, in one great pulsing leap, ' • Dawned into fadeless day. v * J : “She has gone!" the lightning mes- . sage said To her children, spent with grief. • "She has come! from the shadowing realms of dread," Breathed the angels In relief. ,- — . Dr. and Mrs, J. M. Miller arrived home Friday morning from a two weeks’ visit in Cardwell, ,Mo, ahd vicinity, where they spent one of the moet enjoyable times of their lives with Wash GHpen and wife and other relatives, Dr. Miller taking side hunting trips through Arkansas and Missouri. The hunting there is remarkably fine, though very little game aside from rabbits and squirrel was, scared up, according to the report of t'hfi doctor who ntjitcd that if ho h&d seen s&ttApc&rs no would surely nave | shotwMkrhe fine stretch of timber land W ■files at a time are fine haunt/Tor the rabbits and squirrels | and there are great numbers of them. I During his stay Dr. Miller had as his I hunting companion Ed Beery, from I this dty, who, with his wife and daugh-1 ter, Jeanette, are spending the winter | with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gil-1 pen. They win probably remain two I or three months longer. Dr. Miller stated that the weather there Is fine! at this of the year. They have! had but two light freezes this far forming only light coverings of ice.| Among other former Decatur people met there by the millers were Bud Shellne, Joe Thomas, Mark McConnell and the Vails. LODbE ROOMS PRETTY. The regular meeting of the Young Men’s. Social club will be held this evening at thetr lodge rdoms, all the members beiufi? UT£TOd to b 0 DTOBOUT,. 1 JIUSIUOB Air* Lilt? o*3v <?*<*! vvtztJlk© I appearance as any lodge rooms in ins i city. All are working together toi nxake the orennlion a success and I ing more familiar wiui tne fantastic I step. I — . I. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 23—The of-1 flee of secretary of state has been giv-1 a friendly bombardment the last'l few days by some or the people of I Vincennes, they being anxious to have! in their >OSBSsion the Vincemnee I University bonds. These bonds and I their history is known to most of the I people -of the state. The legislature I of 1907, by an act, gave them bonds! in the sum of one hundred and twenty-1 one thousand dollars in payment of I vhnt is Icnown BA q debt ow® bv thel state to tne board 01 trustees oi tne i Vincennes University. The legisla-l ture of 1907 passed a bill providing! for the issuance ot these bonds, but I Governor Hanly vetoed the measure, I but the legislature proceeded to again pass the measure, this time over the I governor’s veto, Whatever else he is, I Governor Hanly is a fighter, so he en-1 tered suit as a taxpayer of the state and endeavored to enjoin the officers of the state from certifying these bonds. The suit was tried in the lowimmediately appealed tne case to tne supreme court, and their decision- and disposal of the case came on the 16th of this month, when the governor lost again, the court, rendering what is known in legal circles as a sweeping decision. About all that is left is to ' sign the bonus and turn them over to the people to whom they now rightfully belong. This, however, will not likely be done before the lapse of sixty days, as that is the limit of time for the ’ filing of an appeal from the decision > rendered. Such an appeal is not prob- ■ able, because were the case to’ be > heard again the same court would 1 be called upon to decide it, and it is ’ not often that any court will reverse i itself, it will be remembered that 1 the Indiana supreme court did re- • verse themselves in the grivel road ■ bond suit, but such cases are rare. I The secretary of state will wait until ■ the lapse of sixty days before affix■<ing his signature, and in speaking of . I signatures it will require 2,541 signa■ltures to validate these 121 bonds, it T* enough to say that they ought to I I b® good B ftor all that signaturing. '’ i ‘ h - Oeuny SuperintoDdent Opligtf tom-

’ perplexing problems that dally worry ent state superintendent of public instruction blds fair to become a worthy tZn any other Individual in the state. Mr. Greathouse is winning friends every still to admire and tie to. What is better, is that ne is big enough for the place, and in time will be the most popular occupant of this importnat great event. ' iff I ■ P IMS ] was a reception to this great democrat, and the speaker ot the house during the time that the democrats have «>n- ] trol of the maioritv All the live ones I | shade ana wished him a long life in | I the speakers cnair. y I■ - I I Colonel Dick Townsend, with his wife, spent a couple days in this city, I If&H. ’ .’??/ : ' ■ si ■■ nn— l The census department has announced the population as shown by the nose countert of 1910 for all the Indiana cities of from 5,000 to 25,000. Decatur is not In the list and thia-ls no! doubt conclusive information to* the fact that we haven’t got the coveted and long-claimed five thousand. The census taking came at an in-opportune time for this city. A slump in factory population caused an exodus of people here last spring and we had several] hundred less people than a year ago. I - a/tnnwlfntf fA> fhp Tt’AW Ifafe I roruana, a ecu rum is tv luc i has 5,130 and Hartford City has 6,187. Bluffton Is not in the list, and many of those that are are. several thousand .. | below what they have, been claiming. The population of the cities less than 5,000 will probably be ’ officially an-| nrrfmrad within a* feW days. Tefa we can make a considerable gain without ileachjng the coveted mawwplnion as to whether we have fcSKi at all of not seems to be divided, but the greater number seem to feel that the official figures will be around the 4,560 mark.

J ' ——- } was, we are coia. in ijvv tnat tne 5 nltAori in »h. L*. a# Sinn •In Milan '’* ' ■ i B.tnnUhmAnt ad© greatest ustoujsnnipnvwxtyj ft,a* > mlmtlnn WAFA num if aq tori hv nrrtfayAa r <_ \ J . A"' Who flocked to see the timepiece. In • 1344 a clock was installed in the palace of the nobles at Padua. This Was a wonder of mechanism indeed, for besides indicating the hours It showed the course of the sun, the revolutions of the year. The period of the evolution from the clock to the watch was seventy-one years-not so very long, an things consldered—and the record Os the first watch is 1880. A half century later an alarm clock made its appearance. This, we are told, was looked upon by the people of that age as “un instrument prodlgleux The fortunate possessor of this dock was Andrea Alciato. a councilor of Milan. The chroniclers have placed on record that this clock sounded a bell at a stated hour, and at the same time a little wax candle was lighted automatically. How this was done we are not told, but it must not be overlooked that until about seventy years ago We had no means of obtaining a light other than the tinder box, so that the Milanese must have been centuries ahead of us in thin respect. Not much progress was made with, the watch until 1740, when the second hand was added.—London Globe. TEMPTED, HE ATE. A Story of Heinrfoh Heine and t Toothsome Lyons Sausage. Returning from a Journey to the south of France, Heinrich Heine met a friend, a Germap violinist in Lyons, who gave Mm a large sausage that had -town merty tn'f ,ynnn with the request to deliver it to a mutual acquaintance, a homeopathic phystejah. in Paris. Heine promised to attend to "the commission and intrusted the delicacy to the care of his wife, who was traveling with him, But as the poetchaise was very slow and he soon became very hungry, on toe advice of Ms wife both tostad of the sausage, which dwindled with every mile. Arriving at Paris, Heine did not dare to send the remainder to toe physician, and yet he wished to keep Ms promise. So he cut off the thinnest possible slice with his rasor. wrapped it In a sheet of vellum paper and inclosed it in an envelope, with toe following note: j Dear .Doctor—From your scientific investigations we learn that the millionth part KBMtest results. 1 beg, therefore, your llonthpart of a Lyons sausage, which our friend gave me to deliver to you. If piece win nave tne same gnect on you as the whole sausage. Your TTKTNRTCW HKINH -Ughettfs “With Physicians and CH ■'. • “ |ll,l "" l " ” " Old Timo English Elections. In old time England each constituency gave Its representative In parliament a hoase to toWlte to WesttnAndi' A-lan ■ Ikf* A AW ; -~ - AlAAMAwiw* -wAM* gf® ■4 Ar F“|f***®*W| , with an allowance for eaeh day spent enUlyat’toe 8 rste’of’aoamts a day, wmm wrfmtdnA tn one inmn sum when the member retomed atthe end of toe parlamentary year. Sir F. DeGeorge ton. Andover, to my legs being thereby broken, to sugeon’s bill and loss of time and business, a« to the service ofStr F. DelavaL £B00.” Lord item "skat whtgfrv* caused Mtn to protest faintly. “Begorra,” said his election agent, ‘lf ye want to squeeze a pippin like that ye'll never do for Borpontt*~ ‘ : *** In New Caledonians serpents an toebeadbetng very emwit and scarcetoe tall nr formed like an oar. In length they ate gvnpmiy between three and four feet In too Jaw theto are tiny glands containing poison, but as the mouth is very small It is dlffi<»nlt for them to bite, and the natives handle them fearlessly. A European traveler witnessed ah experiment at Noumea which shows that under certain conditions the sea serpent can do deadly work. A rat was caught to a trap, and its tongue was grasped by a pair of ptochera and placed to the month of a sea serpent The serpent Immediately bit it and toe rat died in four minutes. ‘ . C1..... nV ThAUahi. mv*, St rtmXSf tonteht firXrked BrovmM he sSheiMmself on two chairsS ; "Yes,” said Smith. “I have Just got atJbA l SSL d.flxx~ a -What does she say?* at^Thw^Zter’wU? fbr brOaph of promise. Pm thinking ' pore, of T: > *

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! kad? to JX j-1 the sßifo they failed to open Ibe iiiui plate and gave up the job. iThe rob 5 shop. They were traced td Miiyiap’* * I ■■ i --* I Arthur Suttles this mornlnlreceiv0d a letter from Hattie Studafcer of {St Paul, Minn., which was on me fast I giving ifflCTtoi the IcSiZ up to r gacity, the genius for generalshiplho grace of manner and the optlm tic prognosticating faculty which, bmbined, would make him the gieJest state chairman since the days of |os- | MERCHANTS WERE I Today, the last day previous to I ... . ' I Christmas, the local merchants «re kept quite busy, and many pelple , ' Bi JBk ■ I AayMv V**l*v vvseß *v*V <ey VllUll • . • • I I the buying has been Quite brißK. rbsrs* [would have been a record-breaker. Flo I dfi,v tn a last daV TitMiri v overv bno