Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1907 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat ■ i -. ■ —'— E»ery Evening. Except Sunday by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. •uoacriptiea Rate*. jhj* *a«.k, by carrier l ft cats IFe.- year by carrier *s.t» Per month. by mail 25 cents Pw year by mall ............82 SKi.*** copies 3 cents a*. <rtMag rates made known, era eatb- _ ftvtered at the pcstcffce in Decatur, ftrtltna. as secoEd-ciass m‘M alter. J. H. HELLER. Manager. V -■ - - The fine wheat-growing lands in the: western provinces of Canada ecatinue to attract a larger and larger yearly I fimntondcE from the United States The lands are cheap, the rates ligir, the frontier population hospitable, and

the form of government not greatly at variance with free goveraa.ent in tte States, fte ope-iing of Canadian cont in . a' railways L-s made it possible to put the produce of farr ”!■ lands in either Ertrop l aa or Asiatic cart- s on a footing .•; e; laiity with the *ai n products ’ the Unite-1 States —Philadelphia Rec: rd. Ln addtion to the above it will be rosnea-j be red by o-ir American farmers that 1 the ti~£ in this country puts the n. at a disadvantage when compared with < the farmers of Canada The Canadian I is not only taied lightly by his g -i ernment. but that government does i not allow a horde of tariff-fed erases; to levy tribute upon him. as our gov- • ernaent does with respect to the American farmer. . i “There is a moral awakening, - say s' William Jennings Bryan, in the Sat- ■ urday Evening Poet, “that is world-

■wide in its extent; its effects are ex- ] pecially noticeable in this country, is the growth of altruism. in the increase in church activity, in the large consideration given to sociological suh- . jeers and in the demand for a n approach to justice in govern.. ~ ■ The basis of this movement is - idea of brotherhood, and its purp ...: is not merely to stay each hand oplifted for another’s injury, but so substitute in each the desire to benefit others in the place of the desire to overreach. The means by which the movement is to be advanced is the cultivation of an idea which will measure life, not by what one gets out of the world, but what one contributes to the sum of human happi-

Bess.” Congressman Adair spent :be day I here and during the five hours greeted many of his acquaintances. He ’ = just fresh from the natietta' catitol, where he succeeded in getting next to the important ropes that wfH later help him in his ctmgressionai life. Mr. Adair is a worker and the Eigirh distric. will many timet be given a sample copy of his abflfty to accomplish something during the next two years. He will be constant in his efforts, and we all know what devatton { and determination will do. W*..«h;-> ? . ton correspondents paid him a hasd-j some compliment and they will be

■* -a A- A. A. A-- _ _ _ - ~ *w- * w~v T4r T ♦ t♦♦ ♦ ♦tft♦ a-a : | 1 Announcement I | : ♦ : ♦ Th; undersigned hive established a plant near ♦ ♦ Decatur, lai, for the olerless and sanitary reduc- t 1 . | X tion ordeal animals saeh as horses, cattle, hogs etc. a j Parties losing such stock by death will please t W I > ♦ notify us by telephone at our expense or by card and 11 2 we will remove the carcass free of cost as promptly 1! 2 as possible 11 : DECATUR FERTILIZER CO. Phone K. 14. KALVER <St HURST, Props, llj >»♦♦»♦» »*»»»»»♦»»»» »»»♦»»♦♦»»♦< << ><<«

“ — compelled to repeat it. when he gets on his working harness. Oktyrressmaa. Gilhams has two . ‘ votes in the short session very much j ■to his credit. The first 'is his rate ‘ iga ; ~3* increasing salaries: the sec- > dnd is his vote against the ship sub--1I sidy graft. On these questions ail .twill agree that Mr. Gilliams voted the ■ ' sen timer: t of the hoensi men of the Twelfth district. —Fbrt Wayne Jorar- , nal-Gazette. STOPPED AT LAST Post Office Bowlers Finally met Waterloo

THE KLONDYKES DID THE DEED I Defeat ng Them Twc Out of Three Games. the Last One Being a Very Exciting One. STANDING. Played. Won. Lost- Pfr - ’ -■ - . lElka 25 1* 1- - 3 ‘•KiondySres .. .51 H -51’; - X. of C 45 +ls I ■ Palace .’j If -- -4- ■ The mighty PostoSce team that has; I for th* past two months been -wee:-| everything before them in the <ri*y > t be* ling league, met wrh a Tartar i |last f'ening when they bumped up! , agninat the {Qondytoe teas and were j ; forced to content themselves with justl Ime garre out of three, and as a re- j suit they lost something like thirty ■ , per cent by the -ransaction. That the , Klondike team is entitled to ranch credit, is conceded by all as they played and wen the games with a

patched up ream only three of their regular players being present. However. they can artribnte their success in the last game to their substitu’e Johns, who rilled the manificent score -f it and made it possible for the FI .f ’ es to win by the sma.l mar;:.n i Ine pins. The games were wit- .: . * a large crowd and the roctlav.red the Kkmdykes. Keep in the clip. beys. The scores: POSTOFFICE. Frisinger 14i 124 147 IIS Vaughn 154 I*3 142 I*s Foreman 115 lt-‘r 175 149 Shaffer 182 147 155 145 Peterson 194 144 1-1 ’57 Totals .809 74a 848 KLONDYKES. Klein 149 191 147 I<s banksna:i 154 295 171 I®:. 1 Johns 141 124 221 Uri Lac-hot . 144 152 125 ’?;■

Peterson 174 147 14* Totals SIS * - 7 THE DITCH BLL IS AMENDED Expected the Gevermcr Wilt Vets Farber B H Today. Indianapolis. March s—The5 —The house • accepted an amendment to the Kelly ditch bill which now goes to the governor for his signature. _ \ The seante put off until Saturda • . afternoon the vote to pass the Vm-I cennes University bill over the gov-| eroor's veto, which practically means] -bar it will not be done and that ] the gwvwßtw wins oat. — The governor s veto of the Farber I biD is expected before adjonrnmen;.his evadng.

THEY WILL ATTEND Schools to be Representa * ed byoir Teachers i TEACHERS MEET AT SOUTH BEAD . - I - ——■ Twenty-fiftb Annu Meet'**? cf *iert“ern Indiana Assccat cn.. TWe programs have been reo-: and are being mailed to the teachers of the county, for the twenty-fifth an-, ’ neral meeting of the Northern Indies a Teachers’ association, which wCI be . held in South Bend on April 4. 5 and i. ‘ Among the leading lecturers wh ?! will address the teachers are Dr i Jaotes M. Greenwood, superintendent - of the city schools cf Kansas City j Dr. George Edgar Vincent, professor! tn Sociology and Vniverstty Exte-t- j skm, lecturer as the Vni versity of ( Chicago; Dr. William Harrison Mace. I processor of History in Syracuse Vai- > versity; Dr. CliJcrd Freeraenc Hodgprofesson. ?f Bi.obJgv in Clark Vniversity. and Prof. Hugh Black, gndut .- yr.:'-?-or of Homiletics iu Vnion ■ Thecicgical Seminary. Xew York City.* I It is likely that the scmrols of this ' * city *ili be dismissed rn the Thors-: ■ -Aty and Friday :: the meeting, and I that a large number of the teachers .’ i will attend. The ftdiowiag is the I program of the general of; | the three days, the ueetiags being ’ t-ld in the Auditorium, f'lC'll' Sowth I Michigan Street 1 j Trarsday Music. Elkhart High Schooi Chorus. > Invocation. Rev. H. M. Appleby. ' pastor First M. E. church. South Bend. Music. Eikhar: High School Chorus Introduction of New President N. L T. A_ retiring president. O. P. j Kinsey, Valparaiso ittaurural Address. O. P. Medlin. Hartford €sty. Lecture —■'Children Versus Grown ups, ” Dn George Edgar Vincent, Uni-' versity of Chicago. Announcement of committees. Music. Elkhttrt High SchooL Friday-Marring. 8:45 O'clock. Music, South Bend High SchooL Invocation, Abraham Kronlarh. Rabbi Temple Beth-EI.. South Bend. Music Sc nth Bend High SchoolLecture —’Nationa! Ideals. - SupL J. M Greenwood. Kansas City. Mo. Music. South Bend High SchooL Lecture —“Lincoln and Douglass.' Prof. W. H. Mace. Syracuse University. New York. Miscellaneous business. Friday Evertrg. 2:00 O'clock. Music. Laporte High SchooL Invocation, Rev. John F. DeGrotte. 'C. S. S Paster St. Patrick’s church ■ South Eend. Music Laporte High School hectare —"Books and Reading Rev. Hugh Black, recently of Free St. George’s church. Edinburgh. Scot- ( land, but now lecturer Union Theoiogl teal Sen, inary New York City. Music. Laporte High School. Saturday Morning, 8:30 O’clock. Marie. Valparaiso University. Invocation. Rev. WnAam Kirb, Bryce, pastor First Baptist church. i South Beni Music. Valparaiso University. Lecture of Living Nature > in Relation to Society and Education.' Dr. C F. Hodge. Clark University, Worcester. Mass. Music, Valparaiso University. Reports of Committees and Miseel- . ’aaeous business. ’ A large delegation of Adams county • teachers will attend the convention ’ I this year. ! CHEAP EXCURSIONS [ Via Erie railroad to points tn the ’ west and southwest. On the first and > third Tuesday cf each month, we will ! j nave on sale, both one way and round [ trip tickets at exceedingly low rates. > Call on Erie agents 'or particulars, or > write O. L. ENOS, Trevaßng Passes- [ ger Agent, Marton. O. JS-*** ; Reliable Life insurance > Reasonable Cost i $9,500,000.00 ! ttAt4STtE 4*9 ttiESVI HRBS Cwt M SLOW OG i« 1906 wu : Me a $5 25 Me 40 SOW : Me i A<e 50 S 2 50 0 Ser M« >■ Pr»s«rtiß« : j Eetabi.sbed in 18J9 The Banker’s Life Ass’o. Des Moinee, lowa J Z Bnckley, Diet. Mgr Biuff.on, Ind.

“Children I; come home | from ■-■■■ SchooL I 0 ¥ They usually want something from w <hcpantf y I IK I V< • \ * ' ou rcmcm^cr tke hunger you bad I M 3 > —Home cooking counts fo7~much 4 in the chi H’s health; do not imped lit with food by the use of poor .baking powder. ... I Have a delicious, pure, home-made muffin, cake or biscutt ready when they I come in. To be sure of the purity, you must use I ROYALS B Royal a difference in your home—a difference in your health—a difference in your cooking. j ROYAL is absolutely Pure. grrr ii,llM " l " i —— ■'— , ~ ~ — SQ |

A PLtAiM AFMIi (Continued frora Page Li 'edge held their regular weekly m i-r - ing at their hall Last evening. After the business was transacted, the Mesdames A. L. B-irdg. Barnett and A L. Garard delightfully entertained the order. A very delicious luncheon was served by the hostesses. During the evening an invitation was read and ' accepted to initiate a class of candidates at Hunting-. ?n on the evening of March 18th. Mrs McKinney of North Eleventh street pleasantly entertained the members of the C. W. B. M. of the Christian church ar her home yesterday afternoon. The business of the society was attended to and dainty refreshments were then served. An excellent program was rendered during the afternoon.. The meeting of the Euchre Club win be held at the home of Mrs. T. M. Reid of First street this evening. The little members of the L. P. C. Club win meet ax the home of Miss I Glenys Mange.d on Saturday after-, noon. A small company of friends were , entertained by Mrs. Harvey Meyer: at a quilting party at her home on ’ Chestnut street, yesterday afternoon ■ At a laie hour of the afternoon a ■ dainty iuncheon was served. The guests were Mesdames G. W. Louthaa. John Beery. Jacob Tester. Ves Peterson. Edington and Archer. — The members of the T F. F. Club will meet at the home of Miss Lilah. Lachot, this evening at her home on West Monroe street. Mrs. O. M. Snellen entertained a smali crowd of ladies in a very charm : iag manner at a twelve oeloek lux ehe-.r and a cclock <*rnner yesterday at her home on North Third ■ street. The dining table was artistically decoraxed. The color scheme at red and green was carried out very nicely. During the afternoon several other guests were entertained. The out of town guests from Fort Wayne were Mesdames George Snyder. Andrew Kefiy, George Greabie and Mrs. Hill of Michigan. The guest from town were Mesdames rhyries Metbers, B. G. Members, C. V. Connell and daughter. Lois. An excellent meeting of the Ettter- ’ peas Society was held at the home of | Miss Bessie Schrock last evening The evening's subject was the life aad compositions of Beethoven, the great Prussian musical composer Mrs. F. M. Schirmeyer and Miss Midge Smith had charge of the program. which was prepared and reni dered in an interesting manner. _ Dover. Dei.. March S.—Dr. Marrin of Kittshammoek, whose four-year-old boy disappeared Monday is m receipt of a leaer from the kidnappers M hi child. The letter demands a ransom and the withdrawal immediate'v of the rewards for the kidnappers. The letter also said that the child is safe i sjpfte safe, but intimated what i happen if the ransom is not forth-

W’LLIAM H. WECHTER IS DEAD *y f f ’ Known But Crttk To-vns :p Citizen Succumbs to Disease. , V.'diam Henry Wechtcr was bora I September IS. 15-54, in St. Louis. Mo., end departed this life Fei. 28. 19’47. aged ’ years, five months and 10 1 diys. at his home in Bine Creek town-l ship, Adams com.''. Ind. la his boy1 hc-od days his parents moved to the I vicinity of WE !shire, Ohio, and settled on a farm, where the subject cf this sketch grew to maahecd. working on the firm, and at times tn other i empioyment that presented itself. for| be was an industrious, enterprising I yianz man. But at about the age of twenty-five years he suffered a severe attack of typhoid fever, following | which he was taken with rheumatism and a complication of diseases, which left him comparatively helpless the*

(out the\Tgo'| • ■ Look tor a home in Southwestern North f Dakota, the land where fuel famines are ■ impossible,-land of big crops, fat cattle, surshine and contented farmers; an al- J wavs reliable crop country You should f > , e ect j6o or 320 acres of the sl7 an acre | ■ lana from our tract of 85,0c0 acres. ■ I Write to a I WM. H BROWN & CO, Mandan I North Dakota, or 131 LaSalle St, Chi- | cago tor maps and facts. Low excur- 4i > >:oura es March 19 L; April 2nd and / I i6th,i9Q 7 . See 1 I L.E.IAMTSON | AH Farmers Attention

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JOHN SPUHLER-

» rest of his life. The severity of sufferings and his patience, ehei-rfd 1! endurance of his afflictions are widely known. May 4. 1881, he was united in marriage with Miss Doiiie Fairchild <a Willshire. One child, a son, was bora of this union, who with the fai-hfsl ' wife, the agyd parents, two brothers and many others less closely related, beside a multitude of friends will treasure the memory of the departed, and will be inspired to bear more tatiently the sufferings that in time t.me to us all, from the recollectia lof his patient fortitude. Deceased was a sou of the venerable Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wechter, who live one and one-half miles southwest of Willshire. The funeral services were held Sunday morning from the M Z church at Willshire, Rev. Hoffman officiating. assisted by Rev. Betts and Rev. Delk.

John Souhler The LiveS’ock and General AUCTIONEER will get you the high dollars for your property Call early for dates. >dl Residence 53* Phone Office 45°