Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1911 — Page 4

THE DEMOCIAT ■mnamuT bobbin* BY uKW U gLUiNQ HA M, Fwbl labor. MA* FBI* Y«A> IN ADTANO*. Entered at the poatoAce at Decatur, ad., aa second class mail matter. OFFICIAL RAFBR OF ABAMS CO. Don’t be frightened over this little cold streak. It's Just as sure the early part of May as is that it always rains on Decoration day, and how many times have you known that to fail? The crops have not been ruined, nothing spoiled but the nsnmg, and that only temporarily, so let's try to endure it Muncie, Tu^argS^Ori^city in Indiana, is today voting on the local option question, under the new Proctor law. Both sides claim a victory, with betting favoring the "wets.” The drys," headed by the Star, made an aggressive fight, which closed Sunday evening when Captain Hobson, of • kissing fame,” and now a democratic congressman from Alabama, delivered the principal address. Last Saturday the "drys” gave a parade in which it is said over five thousand people took part, the line being over three miles long. Congressman James Cox of Ohio, will call on the government for the nations Philippine expense account. He and Congressman Cyrus Cline of Indiana —who are both suspected of working under the inspiration of Mr. Bryan—propose to try to force the question of Philippine independence as a party measure in this congress. There may be considerable difference of opinion as to whether the Filipino is ready for self-government or ever will be, and also over the policy that should be pursudd;' but it does not seem unreasonable that the country should have some idea of what the islands are costing, at least in money and lives. Thirteen years have passed since Admiral Dewey entered Manila bay. In that time the nation has had no accounting and today is as completely in the dark on the question of cost as when, several years ago, the late Edward Atkinson was estimating the cost at $1,200,000,000 and the New York Herald was placing it at $400,000,000. —Indianapolis News.

This March weather —delivered in May—is just right for grip victims. What? You never had it! My, what you'vA missed. Never went to bed feeling like you could lick the world, and woke up the next morning, after fitful dreams that an elephant (the largest in captivity) had been walking up and down your spinal column, and had finally located on the hinge that connects your head and body, feeling that perhaps you were mistaken and that anybody in the world could lick you? it s great, for it teaches one to be patient, but personally, after a three days’ course, we favor the election of a new teacher. The Berne Witness has Inaugurated a campaign against the 1911 styles of ladies’ hats, referring to the wonderful creations of art, as "that straw stack or what looks like the roof of a hog pen that you carry around on your head.’’ It’s useless, Fred, and while we all prefer to sit in front of the lady who wears one of these new four-story affairs when we go to church, we can’t help but feel that your crusade for the old-fash-ioned sailor will never reach Fifth uvenue or the Paris millinery shops where the styles are made. ADVERTISE Dea. fellow struggler, nobody—absolutely nobody—cares a rap about your little game of solitaire but yourself and your wife and the babies. You see the most of them have their own selves and their own wives and their own babies and their own troubles to worry about John Smith is specializing in Johnology, and Henry Jones is cramming up on Henryometry. Each man has his eye on the road in front of his own machine, and isn’t worrying about your gasoline supply or the mixture you're getting! in your own little selfish carburetor. i

Your only hope of stay Ing out of the ditch lies in holding on to your own wheel and steering straight ahead Don't waste time on your competitors—booet your own game according to the rulee and rule one is blow your horn, keep to the right, and display the big letter "1" on your radiator. — Brass Tacks. Root township is voting on the local option question today. The early morning rain, which made the ground too wet to work, brought out more votes than would have otherwise been cast and makes the result even more doubtful, perhaps. Washington township in Whitley county, voted a tie on the local option election Thursday and will have to do it over again. The "drys” won in ■ township elections in Brown, Mont- ■ gomery and White counties. , Portland is getting more or less ! fame from the story that the dyna- • mite used to destroy the Los Angeles ; Times was purchased there and de- . livered at Muncie. John W. Kern, junior United States senator, is at home for a few days, . and laughs at the presidential boom , he has been receiving the past week. He is still for Tom Marshall and will do all he can to land the nomination for that worthy gentleman. s i x Those who delight in "figurin' '’ the f dope, were busy today with their pen- { cils on the Root township election and its comparison with the probable » result on a county election. Os course , it means nothing because there was really no fight made and the vote was , too light to estimate what a red hot , campaign would mean. r The mailing lists at the Daily Democrat office have oeen reset during the past week, and if by any chance any name has been omitted we will appreciate the favor if the mail carrier or any one else will notify u» that we may start the paper again. ’ A great national boom for Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana for the democratic presidential nomination in 1912, is formally launched in the May number of the National 1 Montniy, of which Chairman Norman E. Mack of the democratic national committee is the editor. Coming through this important channel, the 1 friends of Governor Marshall are • greatly elated over the prominence 1 which he will gain in being the first • of the candidates to be taken up by • Chairman Mack in his widely read r democratic magazine, now generally - looked upon, from one end of the ! country to the other, as the official 1 organ of the democratic national com- [ mitteo. ! MODERN MERCHANDIZING. ; Some of the merchants who hold , to the older business methods do not j quite realize how modern trade has . abandoned its former passive attitude. Our older men will recall a time when buyers of manufactured goods , usad to visit the factories to make , their purchases. Manufacturing then t was pretty well concentrated in the } eastern states, and the long difficult r journeys were taken to see the goods personally.

A manufacturer of those days would have laughed at the idea that he spend his good money in sending out salesmen on costly junketing trips to jolly up the retailers. He was sure of a certain trade by sitting in his tracks, and waiting for the business to come to bis door. Today the buyers sit down in their stores and wait for the manufacturer to send salesmen to see them, and manufacturers that fail to do this lose their trade. But a remnant of retailers still think they can do business of the old time principle of letting trade come to you. The public, however, assumes that the man who thus fails to play the game of modern merchandizing lacks confidence in bis goods, since he is not willing to pay the ordinary expenses of selling them. The newspaper advertisement serves with marvelous efficiency as the retailer's traveling salesman. It tells his to thousands of read-

era hi the time a salesman would spend talking to one customer. Watch a train load of people when the new periodicals are brought in Two out of three turn first to the advertising. They read the stories and articles a little afterward, and finally turn to the advertising again. If you enter the homes when the local newspaper is distributed, you would find a similar searching scrutiny of the store news. The reason is obvious. The general news relates to things not directly connected with the personal interest of the reader. The advertising talks about one's every-day interests, like clothing and house furnishings and personal belongings. It appeals to the ever present desire to live comfortably and attractively, and to reduce the cost of living. How can people help reading it?

How could McNamara, the Indianapolis man recently rushed to Los Angeles, for connection with the dynamiting cases, be a fugitive from justice, if he had never been there? That is the question now asked, and with some merit. Under the law. a man charged with a crime cannot be taken from one state to, another unless he is a fugitive and it Is held that a man cannot be a fugitive unless he flees from one place to another. Since McNamara had not been to the coast it looks like he had some defense. But the fellow who says he couldn t be taken, is like the man who told his comrade that they couldn't put him in jail for certain reasons. He's there Just the same. Local option elections were held in seven counties yesterday and the "drys” won in eight units and the “wets" captured but two. Union township in Gibson county and Washington township in Green county voted “wet, - ’ while Cass township, Green county; Patoka, Pike county; Penn. St. Joseph county; Cicero, Tipton county, and Brown Posey and Washington in Washington county, voted "dry.” Burns, the great New York detective, was arrested at Indiajjapolis by an ordinary constable. The detective smiled and joked about the matter, while the local officer swelled with pride over his accomplishment. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. No less than a dozen men have grown famous in the past week over the dynamiting case, and there may be more before the matter is definitely settled.

N OBUSNIES STRANSACTED. The meeting of the members of the Commercial club, which was to have been held at the C. J. Lutz office Monday evening, brought out less than a quorum and consequently no business was transacted. The annual election of directors was scheduled to take plqce at this time. o WEATHER TO DROP 40 DEGREES. (Unfted Press Service.) Washington. D. C„ May 2—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Frost is predicted tonight in the lake regions, the Ohio valley and the eastern coast states. The weather bureau reported an average drop in the temperature of forty degrees in these regions. Storm signals have been placed along the Atlantic coast. Interest is being manifested in the local wool market at this time, the first clippings having reached the local market and brought fair priaces, the market hovering between fourteen and seventeen cents. This price ranges from seyen to ten cents lower than the marxe. of last spring, and is rather unsteady owing to the indeLuite state and the probable outcome of the reciprocity bill. In the house the democrats clipped many duties off the wool schedule and the Chicago Tribune of recent date quotes the action of the house as follows: “A reduction of the duty on raw wool from 11 and 12 cents to 6 cents per pound, and reduction of new duty by 1 cent annually until free wool is obtained; in case free raw wool is finally abandoned, the elimination of all compen-1 satory duties. i "A horizontal reduction on all manufactured woolen goods by 25 per cent and a reduction annually thereafter, equivalent to the cut made on raw wool. "Substantial reduction on tops, etc. "Substitution ot ad valorem for specific duties.” Thia wIM leave the wool market la

a very unsteady shape for some time to eome, or until the tariff measures are definitely fixed NOTICE TO S. •> WORKER#. Believing that loyalty to God aarf native land Is the beet possible combination for good citizenship, and recognizing the custom of an annual p»c nic and day of social recreation and sociability observed by most Sunday schools, the Adams County SundaySchool Council, at its last meeting recommended that two Sunday echo I picnics be held in Adams county July 4. 1911, the six southern township.uniting in one and the six northern In the other. As this is an untried experiment tn the northern part of the county, and as earnest cooperation is essential for success, we request all Sunday schools in this section to give the matter their careful consideration. THOS S. PERKINS, L. C. HESSBRT. C. L. WALTERS. Committee. E. H SHOEMAKER. Sec y. - — SAFE AND SANE FOURTH. To be Planned by Adams County Sunday Schools. Delegates from the different Sunday schools of Washington township met in the Presbyterian church on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Quite a number of schools were represented. Ine meeting was called to order by Mr. Thomas Perkins, who is township superintendent. Rev Imler of the U. B. church of this city invoked Gods blessing on the assemblage. Miss Reppert of the German Reformed church was elected secretary for the afternoon. Mr. Perkins then stated that the purpose of the meeting was two-fold. First, to discuss. "Why all patriotic Americans should help to promote a sane celebration of the Fourth of July.” Second, to arrange the program and plan for the county convention to be held at Washington church on the afternoon and evening of May 14, 1911. This convention is held especially to celebrate the "tricentinary” of our translation of the English Bible. After some discussion from several present it was decided that Mr. Perkins should call all the Sunday school superintendents of the to tio® - and where all patriotic people in the six northern townships of this county desired to hold a celebration of the Fourth of July. The program for the convention at Washington church was to cover these three general subjects: First. Christ, the Great Organizer.” Second, an address on the Bible, or the threehundredth anniversary of the King James version of our English Bible. Third, “Christ, the Master Teacher of the Ages.” Washington township is trying to become a front-line county. In order to be a front-line county is must have Cradle rolls in 50 per cent of its schools. * Home departments in 40 per cent of its schools. Adult organized classes holding certificates in 30 per cent of its schools. Teacher training classes in 20 per cent of its schools. Increase in county enrollment, 10 per cent of its schools. It is earnestly requested that every person who is interested in a proper celebration of the Fourth of July will express themselves and help with all their might to make this year's celebration one never to be forgotten.— Contributed. About thiry bidders were in the scramble for a part of the repair and building of twenty-two bridges scattered over Adams county, the letting of which was advertised for today. It made a big job for the board, but they are wading through it and will make the announcements late this after i noon. The board ordered advertisements for the sale of the Egly-Nyfller, Peter Braun, Kessler and D. 8. Wolfe macadam roads, all located in Washingtownship, all to be sold, June sth, being the first day of the next term. Proof of publication was filed in the D. S. Moser macadam road, and no objections were filed thereto. In the David Berger petition for a drain, the drainage commissioners were allowed until the first day of next term to make their report. New bonds to be dated September 15, 1910, were ordered for the Teeple macadam road. / Abraham Egly, August Scbug. George Zehr, and C. C. Yoder filed a written proposal to furnish all the earth to make the fills at the Egly bridge, and the compromise wm duly accepted by the board. Children Cry i Fll FltTMirS i OASTORI A

THEODORE BAKER Getting Better From a Stone Cut Gath. Theodore. HtUe son of Mr and Mrs. John Baker mMdanU of Mercer avenue who on last Friday met with an accident while engaged at play, is improving and will get along all right. He, with his brother, were playing the game of “duckey" when he was struck just over the eye with a stone, cutting quite a gash, which required the attention of a physician, who put in a stitch to close up the gap. CLASS CONTEST STARTED. By Christian Sunday School—Sunday's Services Were Excellent. The regular services at the Chris tian church on Lord's Day were well attended and were impressive as well, showing great enthusiasm. The Bible school, which has had a steady growth the past year, started a contest between the various classes for increasing the attendance. The class bringing the largest number of new pupils into the Sunday school will receive a prize of five dollars. The pastors subject for the morning service. "Repentance," was a good one and many good lessons were taught those who gathered to hear them. The special music for the service was a duet sung by Mrs. Albert Anker and Mrs E. H. Shoemaker. At the close of the service one was added to the church. The subject for the evening was "A Plea for Ignorance,” and proved to be a stirring twentieth century subject. The principal theme carried through the discourse was the thought that, as in the commercial and educational world we are not satisfied with what other people say, but are continuously investigating and studying the problems for ourselves, so must we in the religious world keep our minds busy finding out for ourselves from the Word, the way to a higher and a better life. A vocal solo, “The Lost Ship," was sung by Mrs. P. G. Williams

The coach stallion, which was recently purchased by C. M. Foreman of Willshire, and which had been getting — DTP* caution to life. In a former attack the animal oroae an arm and leg for Mr. Foreman and shortly after that be entered a suit for SIO,OOO damages against George W. Souers & Sons/cf Huntington, Ind., the parties who are alleged to have sold him the horse, guaranteeing it to be gentle. The exact shape of the animal's disposition is aptly shown by the description of the Willshire Herald: "C. M. Foreman's coach horse, mention of which was made in the Herald week before last, and which nearly killed Mr. Foreman, grew steadily worse until Monday morning, when it was necessary to shoot him as a precaution to life. The horse had broken several halter straps and it was impossible to get in to tie him up longer and the feed was shoved in under the door, while an opportunity was awaited when the horse had his head at the opposite side of the stall to set a bucket of water in quickly and get the door shut before he got turned around. Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning he was raving just like a maniac and it was thought once that he would break down the door. The horse was purchased from George W. Souers & Sons of Huntington, Ind.. and was sold to Mr. Foreman as gentle. This certainly isn't a very good reputation for this firm, and as they persist in refusing to settle, it is presumed that they are intentional cheaters. There has been considerable talk since Mr. Foreman got the horse bat he says he doesn't care, and that if be has to lose any of it, he may as well lose it all.” Many parties were under the impression that the Frisinger & Sprunger company of this city was implicated in this deal, but as this firm does not handle coach horses, and are perfectly reliable, it was probably started through a mistake, as the above Mr. Foreman has to date purchased three Belgian horses from the local company. INTERURBAN DIRECTORS MEET. The directors of the Fort Wayne & Springfielc railway company held their regular monthly meeting in the assembly room at the traction office Monday, matters of routine interest coming before the board. REV. KLIEWER RESIGNS. Rev. J. w. Kliewer, pastor of the Mennonite church, read his resignation to the congregation last Sunday, stating that he had accepted the call to taka the Bible chair at Bethel collag*, Newton, The church taken no action on the_resignation, but- it i» expected that a meeting will be called soon and the

resignation accepted. Rev. Kliewer will remain here until the first of September if no successor is secured by that time, but is ready to give up the place as soon aa some one else will fill it. —Berne Witness. — — CARD OF THANKS. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Avery wish i n this way to express their thanks to all who assisted them so kindly during the illness of their son, Floyd, and at the time of their bereavement —. OBITUARY. Catherine Hoffman, wife of William Hoffman, was bom in Albany township. Bercks county. Pa., on the eighth day of December, in the year of iS4u. On the 17th day of January, 1841, she was baptized in the name of the triune God. When about fourteen years of age, she with her mother, and step-father, came to Adams county, Indiana. Here she faithfully attended religious services in the Reformed church and after being carefully instructed in the Christian religion she professed her faith in the Savior Jesus Christ, September 17, 1857. At this time by the holy act of confirmation she was received into the fellowship of the Reformed church. Although she was not a church member in later years, she nevertheless attended religious services as often as she could. The word of God always remained a comfort and a directory of her life. In 1862 she was married to William Hoffman. This union was blessed with ten children, two of whom died in early infancy. She was a faithful wife and a tender mother. After suffering with the fatal sickness, pneumonia, for six days, her soul took flight to the other world. She died at about fifteen minutes past 5 o'clock Tuesday evening, April 25, 1911. Thus she attained the goodly old age of 70 years, 4 months and 17 days. There survive to mourn her departure, her husband, eight children and other relatives and many friends. We shall sleep, but not forever. In the lone and silent grave;

Blessed be the Lord that taketh, Blessed be the Lord that gave. In the bright eternal city Death can never, never come! In His own good time He’ll call us Prom our rest, to Home, sweet Home. _—, . p , — .. - On last Sunday at the beautiful country home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smith, one and one-half miles south of Monroe, a most nappy event was celebrated, it being Mrs. Smith’s twentyfourth birthday anniversary Mrs Smith acknowledges that she was completely surprised, when a few of her friends and relatives gathered in with well-filled baskets to remind her of her birthday. At noon a dinner was served, fit for a king. Although the day was gloomy, the happy occasion seemed to spread sunshine everywhere. Those present were: M and Mrs. Wiley Smith, Mr. and M -. John Smith, Mr. and Mrs. George Lett, Mr. and Mrs. William Coppock. Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt, Mr. and Mis. Perry Hunt and sons, Lester and Leland; Mr. and Mrs. Tharner DeWit: and daughter, Roxie; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith and sons, Lowell and Doyle, and daughter, Ocy; Misses Merle Coppock, Iva, Nellie and Lottie Lett Leah Burkett, Daphna Hill. Bertha Smith; Messrs. Francis Fuhrman Thomas Coppock, Asa Smith, Oral, Dale and Dari ismith. The day was spent in music and games and a general good old-time chat was had by all. Mrs. Smith was the recipient of many useful present. Mrs Fred Smith baked the charming birthday cake. AU departed in the afternoon, wishing Mrs. Smith many more such happy occasions. The Christian Endeavor of the I nited Brethren church is completing arrangements for a ten cent social to be given Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Adam Deam on South First street. The members expect to interest a large crowd and extend a special invitation to the public to be present. The Ladies' Aid society of the Baptist church will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Henry Betz. A good attendance is desired. The music section of the Euterpean club will give a May party this evening at the home of Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer. A delightful and original entertainment nas been outlined and the party will doubtless be one of the most pleasant given by this society in some time. Mrs. Daisy Ballenger and daughtei, Dolores, were entertained Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dwigbt Brown, east of the city. The pedro party and dance to be given this evening at the K- of < ba wiU without doubt be well patronized and the members are looking forwar to a large number te t*ta part la thia- pleasant >astiu*- j