Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Every Evening, Except Sunday by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rate*. Fw week, by carrier 10 cents per year, by carrier $5.00 Par month, by mall 25 cents pw year, by mall $2.50 Kngle copies 2 cents ’ a.arertlsing rates made known on *»9lte*tfon. ~Petered at the postoffice In Decatur, in Slana, as second-class mall matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. THE INHERITANCE TAX. The inheritance tax bill has been passed by the house and may become a law. As it now stands the bill provides for two scales of taxes. One applies when the transfer of property Is to father, mother, brother, sister, child or lineal descendant and the other when relationship is not thus clear or when blood connection does not exist. In the first scale the taxes are as follows: On legacies valued betw’een $20,000 and $50,000, $2 on each $100; between $50,000 and $200,000, $4 on each $100; between $200,000 and $400,000, $6 on each $100; between $400,. 000 and $500,000, $S on each $100; betw’een $600,000 or more, $lO on each $100,000; bequests less than $20,000 in the first scale shall not be taxed. The second scale is as follows: On bequests valued between $5,000 to $25,000, $5 on each $100; between $25,000 and SIOO,OOO. $6 on each $100; between SIOO,OOO, and $200,000, $7 on each $100; between $200,000 and $300,000, $8 on each $100; between $300,000 and $400,000, $9 on each $100; between $400,000 and $500,000, $lO on each $100; between $500,000 and $600,000. sl2 on each $100; $600,000 or more, slo on each SIOO. The tax shall be due at the time of the grantor s death, and 10 per cent a year shall be charged for the failure to pay. The tax shall be charged against the property bequeathed, and the person inheriting the property shall become responsible for the pay. ment of the tax. ——p— Editor Fred Rohrer, of the v*""r.c Witness, continues to do y. < nan service for law’ enforcement ar ■ the temperance cause in his comm .nit" His most recent exertion resu'.tt 1 i ■ the uncovering of a "blind tiger" in Berne, the arrest of the proprietor and the seizure of a couple of drayloads of contraband liquors. Mr. Rohrer has been both vigilant and courageous in his w’ar against the traffic in Berne, ahd has been made to suffer much for his righteous interest in the moral welfare of that place. But with resolute spirit he has kept at the work, and Berne has become a better place to live in, enjoys greater prosperity and higher state of order that it ever knew before the militant editor began to lead the crusade against the saloon.

The appropriations to be made by the present session of congress may

Dan Beery, Mgr. James Rice, Secy. Abe Been, Treas HORSE SALE 150 'tPKPSFi 150 HEAD HEAD In the New Sale Pavillion Friday, March Ist. ’O7 AT 10 O'CLOCK A. M. We will on the above date sell 160 head of horaea consisting Draft horaea, Brood Mares in foal. Mules, Drivers, Colts and farm chunks. Our past sales have been the best ever held in thi? city. We have the leading ship pers of the best market at these sales to buy your horses. If you hi ve a horse to sell bring him to this sale. If you want to buy a horse attend this sale. We have the kind you want. We have horses of all kinds and all prices. A large number of satisfied buyers who have attended our sales in tbe past are our best recommendation. Horse buyers attend this sale. Decatur Horse Sale CoFRED BEPPER.T, auctioneer.

exceed a billion dollars. The aggregate is simply enormous and shows stupendous extravagance. In every department of jthe government there IB the utmost recklessness in expend!. Cures. The river and harbor bill, which is known as the “pork barrel,” appropriates nearly a hundred million dollars, the biggest sum on record. All other appropriations are framed on the same scale. That for the postal department totals $209,000,000, which exceeds by many millions any previous mark. The army and navy both get tremendous, sums. And so it goes. But then it is only the peo. pie who foot the bills. TAX * New Peal Estate Tax Schedule OVER THAT OF FOUR YEARS AGO Township Assessors Met Today Preparatory to the Annual Tax Limit. * * The township assessors of Adams county met today with County Assessor George Gentis in the sheriff s office and talked over and discussed the theory and advisability of making a new schedule by which to make the assessment for the coming year, and the entire board was unanimous in raising the assessment on real es_ i tate over that of four years ago, ten I per cent, thus making an advance of three dollars and fifty cents. This feeing upon the real estate alone and' not Upon the general improvements j The schedule was also fixed upon j several other things, which are not so important as the the real estate and an advancement was also made in line. Every township assessor was present with the exception of the one from French township and some new theories were advanced by the various members as to how the agents should be made and the ay of making the same. How. ... before leaving, the assessors! cie £i xn final directions by County . . . Gentis, as to how to proceed in all cases. The rate for the different townships of four years ago and the new is shown by the following table: Township. Old. New. Union $23.60 $26.70 Root 23.79 27.00 Preble 23.57 27.00 Kirkland ...... ...... 23.70 27.00 Washington 24.00 27.50 St. Marys 23.53 26.70 Blue Creek 23.48 26.70 Monroe 23.44 27.50 French 23.56 27.00 Hartford 23.56 27.00 Wabash 23.59 27.00 Jefferson 23.44 26.70 (j Democrat “Want Ads” pay. Try a Democrat “Want Ad.”

GOVERNOR VETOES THE SILL Giving Landy at Geary to the Steel ? Company. Indianapolis, Feb. 25. —Governor t Hanly today vetoed the bill granting the steel company at Geary, Indiana the right to reclaim land. He said this land is the property of abutting prop, erty owners instead of the steel company. 0 A BIG FIRE AT PITTSBURG Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 25. —A big fire which started in Liberty street between Eighth and Ninth streets at ten o’clock this morning, destroyed the Derby Desk Company's plant with a loss of $250,000. Several people were hurt by falling W’alls. o . SENATOR BAILEY EXONERATED Austin, Texas, Feb. 25?—Th® Texas senate today completely exonerated Senator Bailey by a vote of fifteen to eleven. o NOTICE. There will be a called meeting of the F. O. E. at the Elks lodge room at 7:30 this evening. Business of importance and every member is requested to be present. HENRY THOMAS. P. W. P. o • POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The doctor can’t always cure you; sometimes it’s your mean disposition. The trouble about a good time is that people seldom agree on what it is. If a shiftless man in a country town doesn’t keep greyhounds he usually plays a fiddle. So many men fool away so much valuable time doing things in which there is neither point nor profit. It is not recorded that any financial genius ever got his start by purchasing diamonds oh the Installment plan. When a man is telling of a quarrel he has had and says, “I said to the other fellow,” he nearly always makes what he says a good deal worse than It was. After a girl has married and left home she sits up and takes notice every time her parents buy an expensive dress for the daughter still at home.— Atchison Globe. The Department Store. The organization of a great department store is almost military in its discipline and is one of the best examples of what organization can accomplish. The proprietor is commander in chief, and under him are a number of assistants who are what might be considered- district supervisors; Below them are the beads of departments, who are responsible to their district chief or to some other head. The floorwalker, the man who is so much in evidence because he spends his time in the aisles, is, in fact, a superintendent or foreman in charge of a department or series of departments. Each counter is under the general supervision of what is known as a head salesman, but this head salesman Is subject to the direction of the floorwalker.—“ Starting In Life,” by N. C Fowler, Jr. Self Made Man. A rich financier said to one of our confreres who has more wit than wealth. “When I began business, sir, I had nothing.” "But those with whom you did business had something.” — Independance Boumaine. Taking: Papa Down. First Daughter—Oh, papa, dear, two young men we’ve met down here have asked us to marry them. Father —They’d better see me first. Second Daughter—Oh, they’ve seen you, papt, and they love us notwithstanding, You’d better paddle your own canoe, For that’s what you’ll have to do, For when you are in hard luck, And want to borrow a saw buck,. All you’ll get is sym-pa-thee, Unless you take Rocky Mountain Tea. —Smith, Yager & Falk. Don’t forget Mr. Shaffer at the Rink in his fancy skating, tomorrow night Money to loan on farms at low rate of inter t No eommusion, Partial os<n-“-ita allowed and interest stop>c DORE B. ERWIN, i'uet.JtFri. Attorney at Law Messrs. Shaffer and Shoemaker brought hundreds of electric lights for the Japanese masquerade tomorrow night. Great investment, absolutely safe, brings returns, giving surplus earning power of youth till old age, securing comfort and health in your declinig years. That’s what Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea does. Smith, Yager & Falk. o Come and see the beautiful costumes at the Japanese masquerade tomorrow night. o I>ehne has the Finest line of Eagle goods in the city. 45*5

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BEHAVES LIKE A GENTLEMAN In Robeit Downings new comedy success, Tl'i'.i".: ? for Governor, we are given t* play of Wesoi-i Hfe in which there is no hero with high-top uooi-, broad i W; hat an I "fc .v.i-ve Colts” swinging at his hip. While Mr Downing essays the role of a westerner, a thorough up-to-date pro. duct of the Pacific coast, he behaves like a gentleman, wears conventional clothing and speaks fairly grammatical English. He is the nominee for governor of the state of W ashington and how his race for this high office becomes entangled with a domestic difficulty forms the basis of this breezy, delightful play. The situations arising from a purely consistent plot are exceedingly funny and there is just enough pathos to heighten the humor. More than one political candidate will agree with “Hon. John North,’ when he says, “Politics is a bundle of uncertainty wrapped up with dazzling surprises.” Bosse Opera House, Monday, Feb. 25. o APPRECIATE FOWLERS LECTURE Rev. Kattman Praises “The Song of Youth.” On Tuesday evening. I'eb. 12, Rev. Alfred Fowler gave his popu’ar song lecture, “The Song of Y outh,” in the Evangelical church, Berne Indiana. In a personal letter of the Rev. H. H. Kattman of Berne, today, he writes thus of the lecture: "I wish to state that I regard ti e lecture as a product of an extensive research in literature, beautifully woven to. geth under the theme, “The Son? of Youth,” and a denunciation of that tw® faced living, so often found among men even of high social standing, yet who in reality are of low degree as to their true character.” Rev. Fowler delivered this lecture here and also at Beulah Chapel, Preble and all who heard him hive expressed an appreciation of th,- sweet sentiment, pure and happy thorghts, so splendidly given. o LOST OR STOLEN—Bicycle taken from curbing in front of interurban office. Please return to Edwin Fled, derjohann. 48.6 t , — —o DEMORCAT Want Ads Pay Big.

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NEWS IN HIGH SCHOOL (By H. S. Correspondent.) This week has been one of good work in the High School. Miss Dunathan resumed her duties Monday, having been absent on ac. count of illness. Tuesday morning the chapel exercise were conducted by Rev. Fowler, who gave a helpful and inspiring talk to the school. The school is looking forward to the next literary, which will be given one month from this date, and to which the public will be cordially in. vited. Friday morning the chapel exercises were conducted by Mr. Frazee, who read an excellent paper on “Change of Ideals of Nations.” Mr. Frazee was called home Friday on account of the illness of his mother. The science room is beginning to look like a small green house with growing grain and garden plants, which are used by the Freshman Botany class.

Snag Proof Boots We want every man in Adams County who wear Rubber Boots to try our Lycousing Snag Proof Boot. Every pair «?uarantecd. J. H. VOGLEWEDE & SON Opposite the Court House. Decatur, Indiana

Friday was gala day for the grades of our public schools The after, noon was devoted to appropriate ex. ercises for the commemoration of one who was “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Supt L. O. Opliger held a teachers’ examination Saturday at the Central school building. Several of our city teachers took the January teachers’ examination, nearly all of whom pas. sed with good grades. To this number must be added Miss X’ota Winans, a member of the present Senior class. o To stop a cold with Preventics is safer than to let run and cure it afterwards. Taken at the sneeze stage Preventics will head off all colds aad grip, and perhaps, save you from pneumonia or bronchitis. Preventics are little toothsome candy cold cure tablets selling in 5 cent and 25 cent boxes. If you are chilly, if you begin to sneeze, try Preventics. They will surely check the cold and please the cold. Sold by W. H. NACHTRIBB. Croup can positively be stopped in 20 minutes. No vomiting, nothing to sicken or distress your child. A sweet, pleasant and safe syrup, called Dr. Shoop’s Cough Cure, does the work and does it quickly. Dr. Shoop e Cough Cure is for croup alone, remember. It does not claim to cure a dozen ailments. It’s for croup, that’s all. Sold by W. H. NACHTRIEF o — Democrat “Want Ads” pay.