Decatur Democrat, Volume 56, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 2 November 1911 — Page 6

A concrete example of promoting better business and establishing a permanent "boosting spirit ‘ is that of a little town down in Texas. New life came into tnts community when the town-men and the farmers joined hands and began pulling together. The business men of this town realized that one of the most important 01 their many town development movements was the promotion of closer and freer relationship, both in business and sosial ways, between themselves and the farmers. They believed that the tillers of the soil must be made to feel more at home when they came to town. This favorable condition was brought about by the adoption of a "Trades Day,” which was a monthly , celebration. "Trades Day" was a sort I of a county fair, to which the farmers and people in neighboring communities were invited to exhibit the fruits of ills or her labors. Prizes were of- i sered for excellence in every conceiv- 1 •tie /.reduct of the farm and home, from babies down to berries, grasses and woods. w , • 'The immediate result was that, in spite of the dry months, the "Trades • Day” exhibits brought the farmers into | town and the merchants forgot there was such a thing as a "dull season." The merchants of the town have provided attractions and amusements for the crowds that attend these events. Horseback parade, driving contests, bronco busting, goat roping, cigar races, tournament riding, etc., help to popularize the town as an attrSctive shopping center. No one living outside the county is allowed to enter or compete for the prizes. The number of entrants to each contest is limited, so that not too much time will be consumed by any one of the contests. '.Vben not enough contests are programmed and entrants continue to puor in, it is an easy matter to arrange for relay races, hundred-yard dashes, foot j a/es. etc. As long as entrants present themselves some arrangements are made to use them and give them a chance to win a premium and a blue ribbon. This method guarantees a continuance of their heartfelt i interest and insures that none of them win have cause to become offended. Judges for all the different depart- 1 ments are chosen from among the ‘ farmers attending and who are compe- I tent. The success of "Trades Day” 1 can be attributed to the loyal and un- i selfish support of the farmers and the ■ pulling together of the towns-men. The i merchants always welcome the com- I ing of another "Trades Day,” because it means that many people will come to town and that their business will be rut t eased for that day and that they will have a chance to meet and I mingle with some of the farmers they i have never met, as well as their old i friends. Fairs, carnivals, street fairs, old set- ; tiers’ weeks, market weeks, homecom- i ing weeks and other such familiar events represent the present methods used by small-town business men for attracting visitors and drawing trade. Another popular movement peculiar , to small-town business men is to have special inducements for the people within their trade areas to become better acquainted with their town, its resources, and to buy home-made goods. A small western town, awake to the benefits of concerted effort and to the need of arousing the purchasing public by unusual means, set aside a week of shopping events bordering on sen sationalism. It was known at "Home Products Week" and has resulted in inducing home folks to buy homemade goods in increasing quantities. In this particular town the “Home Products” shows have been held in the downtown shopping district. The manufacturers have made displays of their goods in the windows of the retail stores. Care was taken in disposing of the space so as not to have certain products displayed in windows of stores handling that class of merchandise. Products from a packing house were displayed in a furniture window, a woman’s skirt manufacturing concern used a grocery-store window, and so 00. In addition to this, displays were made in booths built along the edge of the sidewalks. Prizes offered for the most attractive window displays spurred up the exhibitors to do their best in making artistic and novel windows, stret decorations and other attractions which would form drawirfg cards. Many novel store-selling schemes were employed to make the people realize the value of patronizing home industries. In order to stimulate interest of home people in the different brands of goods made in the town, one hundred dollars in prizes were given to housekeepers who submitted the most correct and largest list of goods manufactured or produced for sale in that town. Previous to the opening of the "Home Products Week" the manufacturers advertised their brands extensively, thus making it possible for all people to become familiar with the goods. Lists were made of the different kinds of goods, with an introductory clause applying to the loyalty of the people in patronizing home industries, and these lists were inclosed with all packages delivered from the

stores. Clergymen In- the town called the attention of their congregations to the list; moving picture shows carried a film, at all performances, urging their patrons to read the ligt; the newspapers advised the same thing in front-page headlines and placards giving lists were displayed in ail retail store windows. Small and attractively framed cards were supplied to be hung in their establishments. These cards read, "We Sell Home-made Goods. Secure a List." Free atractions were offered to bring in the farmers as well as the town people, because the merchants ho|»ed to be benetitted by immediate sales, during "Home Products Week," , and by acquainting those from a dis tance so that they would trade in that town in the future. Premiums, prizes and other inducements were advertised. Realizing the value of all pulling 1 together, the stores gave several thoul sand complimentary tickets to the moving picture shows, and the theaters, tn turn, offered two hundred- dol!v? in cash prizes for the holders ot certain numbers drawn from a ballot box. —Leslie’s Weekly. The Hallowe en- spirit was breathed forth in all the pretty autumnal decorations of the Charles Elzey home on West Monroe street Wednesday afternoon when Mrs. ivizey entertained the Orient club, Mrs. M. V. B. Archbold of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Fred Linn also being guests. Festoons of maple leaves in their autumnal colors were stretched from corner to corner of the i living room and caught to the chandelier in the center with clusters of red i bittersweet berries with their green < foliage. The bitter-sweet also adorn- 1 ed the archways, and the maple < branches were arranged in other taste- I ful ways about the room. Pumpkin < faces were used as shades for the can- ! dies and other lights. After the guests sewed ai)d chatted during toe first hours, they all mingled in an in- ’ teresting "good luck” contest. Hors- t shoes and wish bones, cut from light < yellow and deep pumpkin-yellow col- i ored paper, were hidden about the 1 rooms. Poifits were scored in the find- < ing of certain horse shoes and wish i bones, according to size, and the final 1 count showed Mrs. Harry Helm to 1 have scored the highest, while Mrs. t Charles Murray was given the booby prize. At 6 o clock a delicious fourcourse dinner was served in the dining room, the hostess being assisted

by the Misses Ethel Smith and Ruth Parrish. The same pretty decorations were carried out in the dining room. Autumn leaves adorned the sideboard, in the midst of which grinned pumpkin jack-o’lanterns, and the pumpkin faces also shaded the candles suspended from the chandelier over the center of the table. Under this making a pretty table centerpiece was “the tree of knowledge,” an autumn branch on which were hung apples. The tree was guarded by black cat candle tedders. Each guest secured an apple from the "tree of knowledge," and opening it found therein her fortune, written on a piece of paper. These were read and created much amusement Between the courses, Miss Ethel Smith gave some very excellent readings. Miss Stella Davis, one of the prominent members of the Baptist church, who, with her ppronts, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis, will leave in about two weeks for Wayland, Mich., to make their home, was given a surprise party Wednesday evening at her home cm Mercer avenue. She attended prayer meeting, and after the service, which was dismissed early by the Rev. C. E. Ehle, a party of about thirty-five of the Baptist church members and the Davis neighbors, gathered at the home while Miss Davis was persuaded by two of the ladies to take a round-about walk home on account of the fine moonlight night. When she turned on the lights just as she entered the house and found all assembled there, she was very much surprised, though she took the affair very coolly. Games and a social time were enjoyed, and much regret expressed that the lam ily is about to leave. Miss Davis was presented with a cold meat 'ork and a beautiful dish as a remembrance gift. The St. Vincent de Paul society en- , joyed a card party Wednesday afternoon at their regular meeting at the K. of C. hall, there being eight tables ! of players. The prizes were awarded as follows: First, Mrs. G. B. Grimme of Fort Wayne; second, Mrs. H. F. Costello; third. Mrs. W. A. Kuebler; booby, Mrs. E. X. Ehinger. The officers. Mrs. Helen Berling and Mrs. A. Kobne, were assisted by Mrs. Emma Schulte in serving delicious refreshments. A very fine social time was spent. A number of the young people of the Mt. Pleasant M. E. church gave a. very pleasing surprise for their pastor and wife, the Rev. and Mrs. C. Lantis, who resides on Winchester street, this city, the affair being given in celebration of the twenty-second wedding anniversary of the Rev. and

I Mrs. Lantis The evening was spent i delightfully, and the guests presented the couple with a beautiful piece of china as a token of their esteem. The *■ guests were Merle Leonard, Fanny and Ethel Ruckman, Velma Butler, Verna Mann, Letitia Singleton, Edith and Saloma Rice, Etta Mallonee, Helen Sheets, Iva Lett. Beulah and Her tha Fuhrman, Otto Rice. Lawrence and Wilson Lewton, Milton, Oscar, Frances, Joe and Clark Foreman, John Mann. Herbert and Clyde Butler, Noah Sheets. , The Ben Hurs will give a Hallowe’en social Friday evening for the members and prospective members, and a good time is assured. Besides other entertainment features, the following program will be rendered: Instrumental Solo —Marie Daniels. Recitation—Chalmer Ray. Vocal Solo —Nellie. Daniels. Instrumental Solo —Mrs. Nora But ler. Recitation—Naomi Cramer. Instrumental Solo —Goldie Biggs. Duet —Misses Worden. Recitation —Faye Jackson. Vocal Solo—Lawrence Biggs. Instrumental Solo —Iva Ray. Recitation—Mrs. Martha Hay. Vocal Solo —Margaret Daniels. Duet Grace Butler, Effie Miller. Instrumental Solo —Ruby Artman. .’ Music —Mary Erwin and Gladys M •- Millen. i Mrs. James Hurst entertained at dinner Wednesday for Mrs. Chris Weldy, Mrs. Sarah Cochran and Mrs. Fisher. She gave another delightful ( dinner party today, guests at this at-1 fair being Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fish-, er, Mrs. Rachel Mallonee and daugh-[ ter. Etta: Mrs. Jacob Eady and daugh-1 ters. Ceil. Vera and Irene, and Mrs. I Sarah Fisher. I Miss Bernardine Heidemann was very pleasantly surprised Wednesday night when a crowd of her girl friends came in on her unawares. The even j ing was pleasantly spent in playing games and pulling taffy. Those present were Gertrude and Iva Ray, Marie and Agnes Metzger, Grace Hoeneisen. Mary Starost, Beatrice and Dolores j Heidemann and Bernardine Heide- j mann. j POLICE COURT NEWS. A rejeort of the field examiners w! c

were here some time ago examining the records of the mayor's office, ha ( reached the city, and it shows that tl. mayor has collected during the period under examination $l5O in fines and $175 in docket fees, all of which has been paid into the city treasury. It shows a full and complete account of the city’s business as done by the mayor and is on file in the council room for public inspection. o Poultry owners have often asked the question, "Does it pay to fatten poultry for sale on the market?" but it remained for the Ibirdue experiment station, and more particularly the Purdue poultry farm, under the direction of A. G. Phillips, to demonstrate that there really is a profit to be obtained from such a process, states a dispatch. Mr. Phillips recently purchased 41 birds from a local farmer, paying for them at the rate of 11 cents a pound. They were in a poor condition, weighing only 137.4 pounds. The cost of fattening these to a total weight of 187.5 [tounds was $2.77, and Mr. Phillips, at the close of the experiment, secured ready purchasers for the fowls at the splendid price of 16 cents per pound. In other words the increase of 41 pounds in weight or nearly one pound to each bird, cost $2.77, or less than seven cents per pound. The increase in weight was approximately’ 30 per cent and the per cent of profit on the birds, over the cost of feed, 70 per cent, not inclusive of the labor expended, however. Mr. Phillips is confident that the experiment carried on at Purdue is indicative of the general results to .be obtained on any poultry farm in the country and suggests that in this one profit-making discovery might lie the solution of the present worries of the country over the high cost of living. One ol the prettiest of autumnal brides was Miss Pauline Boerger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Boerger, residing in Allen county, just across tne line, whose wedding to Mr. Louis scherer also of Allen county, was solemnized last Thursday at 1 o’clock at the St. Peter’s Lutheran church, northwest of this city, by the Rev. Dornseif. The bridal party made a very pretty scene as it entered the church to the march as played by Proi fessor Dorn. The bride was beautiful in a costume of pure white crepe de ' chine. It was made with a high yoke : of lace, outlined in bertha form, with a wide silk fringe. The short sleeves were met with long white gloves, and ■ the high waist was outlined with a silk cord. She wore a long veil of I tulle, caught to her hair with myrtle I and a pearl band, and the roses she

t carried were white bride’s roses. Her I cousin, M'-ss Clara Boerger. was maid !’ of honor and wore a gown of tan silk • poplin, with silk fringe and blue bead > trimmings. On her hair she wore tan , silk rosettes, and the flowers she cari ried were pink dahlias. The brides- * maid was the bride’s sister, Miss Emma Boerger, who was similarly gown- ■ en in pale blue poplin, and carried J white asters. The groom’s attendant : was Fred Hoile, of Adams county. Alt- : I er the wedding the bridal party drove Ito this city and sat for their photo-, i graphs at the Moser studio, returning later to the Boerger home, where one hundred fifty guests joined with them in the festivities of the celebration, a feature of which was the sumptuous supper served. The decorations of the home were in pink and white, carried out with autumn leaves and crepe paper streamers. The couple are very well and favorably known. They will make their home in Allen county with the groom s parents. Among the wedding guests from this city were Mr-;. C. Gotsch and family, Henry Schulte and family, Kate Henneford. Clara Lang, Dan Diblick. J. H. Bremerkamp and family. Announcement was received this morning by Decatur friends of the marriage of Harry Miesse of Indianapolis, a former Decatur man, to Miss Carolyn Bright Armstrong, which took ( j ;.iace Wednesday at the home of the ! bride's sister, Mrs. Henrietta A. Dil ' len. in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis, Star says regarding the wedding: “The marriage of Miss Carolyn I Bright Armstrong and Harry Miesse i took place yesterday afternoon at the . home of the bride on East St. Joe i street. Only the members of the fam- | ily were present at the ceremony. 1 which was read by the Rev. Frederick E. Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist I church. The bride, who was unattended, wore a handsome tailored suit of, taupe cloth, trimmed with bands of fur and a hat to match. The roomr. I were decorated with a profusion of chrysanthemums. Mr. and Mrs. Miesse left immediately after the ceremony for their wedding trip. They will be at nome to their friends at 929 North [ .Meridian street after December Ist." Mr. Miesse, the groom, is a son ol j . the late 1. J. Miesse, who for many years was proprietor of the Miesse i House, the leading hostelry in this city for many years. He served for several years as deputy treasurer and was also a member of the city school ( boa:d, at the time of the construction of the north ward school house. Mr. Miesse has been a resident of Indianapolis during the latter years, being now secretary of the Manufacturers' Association of Indiana, maintaining offices in Indianapolis. MRS .WOLFE OPERATED ON. Mrs. Clyde Wolfe of near Monroe was operated upon yesterday at the Lutheran hospital. Fort Wayne, by Dr. Duemling of that city and Dr. C. C. Rayl of Monroe. The operation was a very successful one. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 27 —All the footings of the business of the state have been completed by the officials at the auditor of states office, and comparisons can now be made with the record of the previous year. The total disbursements of the year just closed exceeded those of the year previous by $83,78b.08. but this increase also includes $117,465.76 paid for state fair pavilion bonds and interest on Vincennes University bonds. The state fair botids were handed down as a Christmas present from the previous administration, as the appropriation was maae oy 1909 legislature. With this credit the administration of affairs of the state of Indiana during the year just closed was less by $33,630.68 than was the year preceding. For many years the legislatures of the j state have had the habit of appropriating more money than the revenues of the state would justify. The readers of the Democrat will yet remember the pointed remarks of Governor Marshall in a special message to the legislature of 1909 upon this subject, but in the face of it the senate of that session log rolled into the appropriation , bill the one hundred thousand dollars’ worth of state fair pavilion bonds, I without any provision of payrcznt. They were paid this year out of the general funds of the state without incurring any further obligation. This is what caused the calling of the advanced payment of the December . state setlement funds last month. The state is now working under the approi priations as made by the legislature of ■ 11911, and this legislature did not permit their appropriations to exceed the revenues, so this year there will not ' only be any deficit, but the taxpayers I of the state will witness what they ' have not .witnessed for a good many ’ years—a payment in the state debt, i This is now the hope of those in I charge of the finances of the state, I and it is a safe bet that they will make i good. f | » The state printing board has set s the day for the letting of the contract

for all the books, blanks and station ery for the use of the state during the next two years. This Includes the printing for the state institutions and the supreme and appellate court re ports. November 18th is the day lor the opening of the blds. Five biddercompeted at the last bidding. W B. Burford being the lowest, but he had a close competitor in the Sentinel Printing company of this city, ’the contract is for two years and will begin on the second day ol December this year. There has been a ( deal of comment over the action of the state printing board turning back into the general fund over thirty thousand dollars at the end of the last calendar year, which ended September 30th. The board has been using the pruning knife with a vengeance. I Indianapolis is this week entertaining the Indiana Bankers’ Society and the Indiana Federation of Women s Clubs. The latter began with a reception in the governor’s rooms at the state house on Tuesday evening, and was attended by one Decatur lady. Mrs. J. H. Heller, who is spending the ' week with Mrs. L. G. Ellingham. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan arrived Wednesday, and both shows can proceed , to proceed. Former Senator Aldrich is the big card for the bankers, he being the principal speaker at a smoker. Wednesday evening. I I Congratulations are in order. W<have heard the good news —the sure enough location of the beet sugar sac tory. How proud and happy must be, because even at this distance it re quires all the nerve force possible to contain ourselves. It was a great vic-' tory and you deserve it all. Take one on L. G. E. HAVE FINE DISPLAY. Schafer Saddlery Company Showing Goods at Tri-State Convention. Chalmer Schafer, Walter Kauffman 1 and Henry Gentis of the Schafer Hard-! ware company are this week at Cincinnati, Ohio, attending the Tri-Staie Vehicle and Implement Dealers' Association, being held in the music bali j in that city. The Schafer Hardware company has a fine display of harness | and sadlery goods on exhibit, which is attracting wide attention, as this firm is becoming widely known throughout a number of states con neeting Indiana, and who are distrib- j uting much goods over a wide terrl- ■ tory. The three men mentioned above. C. C. Schafer, Manager Walter C. Kauffman, sales manager, and Henry Gentis, salesman, are in charge of the display and are proving of great abil , ity in the way of demonstrators and showing their stock of goods. THE GREAT AMERICAN PLAY “Paid in Full,” to be in Fort Wayne, at Popular Prices. The greatest play of the time and the most popular, will be the attraction at the Majestic theater Thursday. Friday and Saturday and Saturday matinee, when Wagenhals & Kemper I Co., offers Eugene Walter’s "Paid in Full." with a cast that brings out in highest degree the superbly dramatic qualities, the human sympathy, the comedy that makes this the most appealing work the stage has ever seen. “Paid in Full” is a masterpiece. It drives across the footlights and grips ' with a pow er that is not once relaxed.' It contains every’ factor that lifts a.' play to highest place in public favor. 1 Consider its wonderful record and it I becomes plain that everybody likes it.' Two years ago in New York it ran, 1 going without halt through a summer, exceeding in drawing power the musical shows that until then had been the only form of hot weather theatri- 1 cals Broadway would patronize. At 1 the same time in Chicago it scored an all-summer run. Then throughout last' season five companies appeared in it, more than ever before had played any piece at the same time, and again this* Year an equal number are touring the j ' country. With all this is the fact that more persons have seen "Paid in Full" tfean any other play in a like length ' of time. I- ■■o- — - BREAKS ARM. Burton Smith, eldest son of Elmer Smith, last Thursday, met with a fracture of his left arm while wrestling.' He, with several of his friends, were 1 playing in a rather rough style, and finally came to see which iwas the strongest. After a short while of tussling about young Smith, in some way, got his arm so twisted up as to break the short bone oj of the main one just below’ the elbow. He was taken at once to a physician. ! the injury was dressed, it hav ing had to be bandaged, straightened lengthwise, so as to keep both bones together that knitting be made. It was very painful, being quite severe, uti®i medical treatment was given. o— If there has been a single solitary idea of doubt as to the location of the beet sugar factory in Decatur and if

the telegram published Wednesday was not sufficiently convincing, the following letter from tne president of the company should remove it: -Holland Mich., Oct. 24, IL "Mr. J. H. Heller. Decatur, Indiana: "Dear Mr. Heller:— Received your telegram this morning saying you had 4,600 acres contracted for 1912. 4,2.0 for 1913. expecting to finish work t. day We have just wired you, gratulatlons. Ixx-ation decision left to committee. We expect to come to Decatur.' •We have asked our attorney to write to the secretary of state of Indiana. to find out just what steps we need to take to permit us to do business in your city. We have also asked him to draft resolutions to be passed ' by your city council for the laying o’ the water mains to our property, and contract to be placed in escro, whereby your people are to turn over to us the deed to the forty-acre site, when we have placed the contract with the i construction company for the erection < of a sugar plant at Decatur: and a further contract to be signed by some of i your responsible citizens, acting as i trustees for your association, agreeing to carry the city water to our plant for < fire protection and to carry out other i agreements, such as furnishing wells : to product 400,000 gallons of water pet ; twenty-four hours, etc. “We think your people have done a ’ ' noble work in securing these contracts I in the time that you have. It gives us 1 faith not only in your city, but in your surrounding country—and it was the I latter especially that we wanted. We i hope our future relations with your i farmers will be such that they will I never be sorry for having signed a sin- i gle one of these contracts. As soon as 1 you have the contracts completed, let , < us know, please, and we will take im- < mediate steps to close up all matters. "One or two of us go to Paulding I this week to look over the plant there, i as we expect the builders of that plant ' to make a proposition on the Decatur 1 plant. We expect also propositions i from other erecting companies, and : hope to close the contract for our new < factory at Decatur by the fifteenth of' < November, and possibly earlier. It is i our desire that the foundations shall 1< be put in this fall. “Assuring you that we appreciate the earnestness that your people have j shown, and believing that as the years i go by you will be fully repaid for the ' exertion you have made we are “Yours very truly. HOLLAND-ST. LOUIS SUGAR CO.. 11 “C. M. McLean. Pres." 1 The above is a dandy letter, just ; such a one as those who have met the cultured and business-like presi- t dent would expect, when the promises had been kept by the local men who ' have had the matter in charge. All : the things requested will be provided in due time. The acreage question, which was the biggest one, is now complete. Though the 5,000 acres have been secured, the boys started out this morning, determined to take contracts for about 200 acres to cover | any shrinkage. In a few instances j there were duplicates of contracts and 1 a sufficient amount will be taken to, cover this. The acreage for 1913 may be a litle short of the 5,000, but it is believed that this can also be secured by a little work. The Decatur business men and the Adams county farmers | appreciate the kindly letter from Mr. McLean and are elated over the fact that their work has met with the approval of the head of this great corporation. We also hope that the future relations between the factory and the farmers will be of the kind that will grow with the years and knowing both the men at the head of the sac- ! tory and the class of citizenship here, we believe this will be true. Within the next two or three weeks ; at the furthest, the dirt will be flying at the factory site. The building of . the beet factory will be a monster job, , but the wheels will be ready to whirl .by the first of next September. This j means that no time will be lost and j . that the building will be pushed along I !as rapidly as possinle. The railroad | will likely begii, work within a few days, as they also have some job in , the laying of about two miles of-track | and switches Decatur is dn the map as a sugar town. —_ There are perhaps only a few. if any, more happier recorded birthdays in the long and useful earthly career of I eter Holthouse, the well known clothier, than the one of Wednesday, October 25th, when he began counting on his, seventy-first milestone, the seventieth of which his children deemed it, a most appropriate occasion to honor' their beloved and aged father by plan- j ning a surprise on him for the evening. Guests to the number of fifty made up mostly of the relatives and friends of his, were invited for the happy event which proved to be none other than one of the happiest gatherings at the Holthouse home, generally his custom to leave the store , some time before the 8 o’clock hour, but this time, as was deigned to he was left all alone until closing time before he could start for home. Reach-1 ing the house he noticed all the blinds

down, but though' the as qjey have been on form,-. *” Not finding his meal on th room table, ns Is the cu ’. thought he would look a I)ttl and upon opening the sltti^I*' 1 *' door beheld the entir.. ilowd? ' of friends who hud < otn« to , i evening with him ,\t first know v\;hat to make out of ?"* 1 scarcely knew what was up pm’ a little thinking, said it was j]| and joined in with the many f, ■ several hours of pleasure, pj slve peanuts which had was indulged in at tw.dve small tu which afforded grea- p| eilßtlre pastime for all. Priz, < for b e i C! most successful were awards J Charles Voglewede, a box of silk h and Miss Kynt Voul-wede a wine sherbets, ns ti--t and Prank Bosse and Miss Mary Niblick \i boobies, while Mrs. Frank llossc a J Dr. H. F. Costello w.-re given thee solation prizes. After his several cellent piano solos were rendered M Tony Holthouse and Mrs. .1 o 3e]L meyer pleased the many with solos. A dainty two-course lunchem’ was then served. The givers of ty, evening's pleasure were assisted it the serving by the Misses Mayme Brake, Bertha and Kynt Yoglewede Margaret Confer and Mrs. Jesse Selle meyer. After this the young folk, I were allowed to remain and indulge* ' in dancing for an hour or so, whies : was greatly enjoyed. Mr. Holt!to W j wafe presented with a beautiful rocker ' by the guests as a token of the esteem • in which he is held by them. o - The wedding of Miss Igiura Biiic, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David ler of Berne, which took place Bun 1 day at the home of the bride’s par i ents to William j. Kinderspacher, at' Hastings. Neb., is the climax of a pru-i ty romance U.al grew out of anas: forme'? by the couph when Miss Bixler, who was a trained] nurse in a Chicago hospital, there ng some time ago the groom, who was a patient in the hospital under be care. The acquaintanceship thusfoml ed grew rapidly into love with the resulting; happy marriage today. The ceremony was pronounced by the Rer Kaley of the Evangelical church, aid while the wedding was very pretty, r, was very quiet, being witnessed br only the members of both famili* The bride was attended by Miss Marie Schissler of Chicago as maid >! honor, and the groom by C. 0 Riadc spacher of Chicago as best man. L' tie Louise Hoffman was flower girl and Laura Reusser ring bearer, th bridal party taking its place at a Joni altar and archway to the strains of the wedding march played by a sister ol the bride, Miss Esther Bixler. Are: an eastern trip the couple will be. home at 826 North Denver street,] Hastings, Neb., in which city ® groom is engaged in the packing bt ness. The bride is a daughter of Devid Bixler, the well known opticiaz and jeweler of Berne. PHILADELPHIA WINS. Thus Closing the Series of World'i Championship Games. (Unite< fTess Service.) Sheibe Park. Philadelphia, Oct. (Special to Daily Democrat 1 The sixth game between the M’ York Giants and Philadelphia AatM’ ics this afternoon proved to be the ■ al windup of the series, when the A letics too kkheir fourth game it H walk-a-way, the score being L w ‘ In the seventh the Athletics run seven scores, thus putting a 1 the game, without a doubt, and - f ] seventh game unneccessary to be pl*J| ed. Philadelphia is now the holder 1 ’ the world’s flag the second year ■ the American league, and laso tless'| ond season for the Philadelphia . — ■■■—<> — BOOKS ARRIVED. Thoee Who Ordered Books of D Tracy, Get Them of Rev. WiseI The books on "True ■ Man J ood . which were ordered by a num c people from Dr. Tracy some fe w * * ago, when he gave a course o tures at the opera house here, at be sent in care of Rev. M i se - j rived, and are now ready for dispe I Any one who subscribed for ° D * , the books should call at once an it as it is one of valuable info- w tion. __ O ' ' BIRTH OF GIRL • ] «*aC l)0 ! ® A fine ten-pound baby g” ' u s Wednesday niglh. to Mr. an 1 Chester Johnson. o f i Miss Kathryn Blenn is the “ 13l the baby girl which the st«r the M. H. Fee home Tuescw Everybody doing nicel' orvrE AT POE. . ii kn 0 *® Rev. Clancy of India a ] ]is missionary, and C. L. W al,l ’‘ fSgeS »t city, gave very excellent Wl' l ' 1 a missionary meeting held ' 1 jl)f E. church at Poe i pa. Democrat Want