The Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 6

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Office la Building, corotr ot Mtln ta4 North rates knew anpllca- tfn IkM aatks (la adveaee). 2.50 May t. "TOP WHITISG. From Washington cnnies word that Is question as whether or not the German reply of few days tn-e to answered. If there isn't a very big reason why an answer hould be sent, thin Is a fine place to let 'hlB correspondence drop.

Tho Incident Is closed, so far words go; from new on everything turns on the action of Germany. If that country stops Illegal destruction of merchant ships and lives of noncombatants something Has been accomplished. It remains to be if Germany will do as It Is thought to have promised In this matter. We quick to admit that It Isn't at ail clear that Germany has made ny definite promise. lias said it will do certain thlnes.

provided of Vntted States succeed in getting certain nther things done. We know right now we not going to get the we know we sre rot going try to get eome of them ifone. Tt Is F3irt Wilson Is a thing but pleased at eood nt the German notp; he takes exception to the quality of Isn- used. Fn much more Is the reason why he should not answer, unless Is real demand thst he should. If you the style a correspondent the thing- do to stop This nemettmes helps In pre- the peace.

TOO MITCH OTO The Urbane high nchool won the trscV met at Charleston a a last, thin in a contest with eipht or nine ether schools. Decatur got second place. There Is a line In that report that Interests us. Tt that the meet was won for Vrbana "practically by one His name is Allman and he secured eichten of the thirty-three points a went to his school. When we come to Decatur's showing we find lh.it one man, Paul Powers, cot sixteen of the twenty-five points prnrrrt by our school.

Tt shows that the result of these meets turns too much on the performance of single contestant. A school may cut no real figure In athletics, and yet If It happens to have one star performer it may go In and win a meet. The trouble about this is that It phows nothing as to the state and condition of athletics In a school; that is may rhow nothing. A few years elnee there was a school In a small town In Illinois that had two star 1n athletics; the rest of that school made no pretense of getting Into tha going. The school won the state meet two years.

The two stars passed on. and then the school disappeared, and not even Its name Is recalled. TUB TAR MTUANCE. If the weather remains "hot enough" Commissioner Becker will put a force ftf Ben st work scraping the tar off certain streets In the city paved with creosoteA block. Well, here's hoping thst Commissioner Becker will not wait too long In sjUrtlns; good work.

It etrlkes of us who caw these, streets that ft "hot enough" last Friday and to men this rea- busy. Tt to really matter of consequence to the. city to have this tar scraped off neon fhf work can done. The ilaatnge done by tracking i tar ev- evywbere must considerable. One is Bot (surprised to learn a careful ftouaewiveg on eome streets object to this style of paving until something Is to take of this-extra tar nutpanf.e.

Anyone whr saw some of our block pavements Friday anrj Saturday last knows the situation la tint joke. who are behind this of pavement should try hard to find some i that will do better a the article of or pitch now used. And i something better found Commissioner Becker can't render a handsomer servlc. than to ready to fall on this tar at drop if a summer hat. The thing often ts an unbearable nuisance.

that be taken to spread the Btory throughout the country. We had been Iet to believe the sparrow was about to drive other birds out of this fair land, and it was told there was no help In sight. The wren Is and always has been modest. It is not a bird with fighting inclinations--in fact some have looked on It as just a little too much of pacifist, touched with the virus of mollycoddle, not raised to be a soldier. And all of a sudden this humble little wren gets its dander up and licks the sparrow.

It is an Illustration of what can be done in this country when some outsider Is foolish enough to get obstreperous in his crowding. Who would have suspected the modest wren of being able to come to the rescue when the English sparrow got too gay" In this country yon can't tell In advance; you can he of Is that a way will be found. Hardware Age has investigated widely and has come to the conclusion that magnates are "controlling" the price of gasoline. That is what everybody in the country thinks, except a few who live 1n city of Washington. We never have learned what It Is that alls these.

You would better arrange to spend most nf your i this evening and tomorrow at the Household free show on South Water street. Urbane gentlemen who are present will smilingly assure you It is a. bigger card than Chicago puts on at 50 cents a throw. A motorbike speeder has been arrested and fined right here In Decatur. Judging from the i i a lot ef these speeders appeared to enjoy, and to utilize, we did not suppose the law couH reach out and grab them.

Tr(. thera is a whisper that several In the city will not refuse to serve on the board of education If they are called. One difficulty 1s that nobody In his senses will waste his time looking at a semaphore board when can feast his eyes by gazing on Officer Cross. If the best the Navy league can do Is to sue Henry Ford for libel it would better arrange for a special meeting to disband Itself. This Day in Illinois History 4 May 8, took under consideration a plan for instituting a civil government in the Illinois country to remedy the anarchy which had been reigning: there.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY IN DECATUR MAY 8, IBOfl. The members of the Goodman band were to get new uniforms. The, local members of the Letter Carriers' association, of which there were ten in Decatur, gave $10 to the San Francisco letter carriers' fund. Another cent was put on the quotation for round lots and single loads of corn the price 4-1 and 43 cents. Arthur Stuffleheam attempted suicide and it was thought he would die.

In the Three-I league, Decatur lost to Dubuque, 4 to 3. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY. A a of society people enjoyed a picnic on Johns' Hill. Tom O'Conner received injuries in a cave-in in i trench at the corner of Broadway a Mason streets, from which he afterwards died. OCR HKSOUMCE3.

A Korth Edward street man report? that when It comes to a showdown the American wren Is able to lick the EnS- llsh sparrow. TV would like to know whether the man maWngr this report pro-German or not. Is Just possibility that he may lie prejudiced against a i a has "English" attached. If it If true tha' the little wren can lick Bullish sparrow It is proper OF DECATUR DIE Harry Pick, Aged 76, Victim of Paralysis. MEMBER OF G.

A. R. Mrs. Lucinda Vaughan Enthusiastic Church Worker. Harry Fisk, died at 13:30 Sunday afternoon at the family home.

825 West Main street. Mr. Flsk was seventy-six years old In March. His death was caused by paralysis. He was stricken eight months ago and had since been unable to leave his bed.

His strength failed steadily and for the past week It was known that his death could be expected at any time. Mr. lMsk was born at Covington, March I I 1S40, His early life was spent in Kentucky. He later moved to Indiana, and when the Civil war broke out he enlisted as a volunteer in the Seventh Indiana Infantry. He eerved in both companies A and of that regiment and remained In the field until mustered out at the close of the war.

He was member of Dunham, post, A. R. CAME IV 1889. Mr. Flsk came to Decatur in August 18S9, and built the residence on West Main street that has ever since been the family home.

For a number of years he was In the furniture business. He bad the leading store in that line for a number of years. It wai located in the Powers black and was destroyed when that block burned the first time. Later he engaged In the real estate, insurance and loan business and had office on Merchant street for a number of years. His health began to fail several years ago and four years he retired from active business.

During his last nines' Mr. Flsk suffered intensely. An attack of Mood poison three yearn ago caused him to lose his right hand. Mr. Fisk Is survived by his wife and four children.

Mrs. W. A. Warncs, Mrs, C. A.

Plnkney and Harry Fisk, al! of Decatur, and Frank Flsk, of New Orleans, He also leaves one brother. Marlon Fisk of Mt. Zion. When of strikers at the Westinghouse plant, in East Pittsburgh made a sortie r.scainst non-union workers, is a a i girl of 20 who lead the charge. A a Bell.

Idol of strikers, was taken to jail, however, when a charged a she attacked him. She was held in 1540 bai for trial. MRS. LTTCINDA VATJOHAN. Mrs.

Lucinda Vaughan, mother of Dr. Hugh Vaughan, died at 8:15 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the family residence. 615 West North street. She would have been eighty years old In June. Her death was cause I by apoplexy, with which she was stricken a week ago.

Mrs. Vaughan was born at Bethany June 10, 1838, and most of her life was spent In that vicinity. She and William F. Vaughan were married there May 23, 1858, Just fifty-eight years ago this month. The family moved to Decatur In 1891.

Some time ago Mrs. Vaughan fell and broke her hip and this left her In a weakened condition. Mrs. Vaughan was one ef the oldest members of the Second Presbyterian chuqeh. 6he was an enthusiastic worker in the church and was one of the best known women In the congregation.

Mrs. Vaughan is survived by her husband and our children, T. A. Vaughan, Dr. Hugh A.

Vaughan, Mrs. Jay Montgomery and Mrs. Clara Haw- Kins, all of Decatur. She also leaves two brothers, John E. Bone and A.

Bone of Bethany. There are seven grand children. The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Second Presbyterian church. The services will be conducted by Rev. J.

W. McDonald. The Interment will be in Greenwood. Friends may call at the residence from 10 o'clock Tuesday morning till time for the funeral. ALFRED MOTTRAM.

Alfred Mottram died at 2:55 o'clock Sunday morning at the family residence. 540 East Conflll street. He would have been sixty-four years old WbODMAN OFFICER COMING TO DECATUR MAJOR A M. W. Major General Saxon of Topeks, Kan.

in command of all the M. W. -A. Foresters in America, i come to Decatur on Friday evening. May 26.

at the Invitation of Decatur camp. No, 144. A celebration Is to be held by Decatur camp because of i i the camp membership to 1,000. Drill teams from Monticello, Clinton. a i Urbana, Tuscola, Mattoon and Charleston as well as two from Decatur will be inspected by General Saxon.

In July. His death was Paused by pneumonia, after an illness of two weeks Mr. Mottram was horn Fon de L.ac. Julv 19. He came Decatur when a young man and most of hts life was spent here- He was an erpert cement i i and wss well known.

He and Miss a Elizabeth Lon? were married In Deratnr Dec. 15, 1851. Mr Mottram was a member of Decatur lodge Xo. IS. I.

O. O. and of Easterly camp. Modern oodmen of America. He is survived hy his wife and one son.

William G. Mottram of Decatur. The body was removed to the Dawson Co. undertaking establishment and prepared for burlnl. The funeral will be held at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the residence.

The services will be conducted by Rev. F. M-Daniel. pastor of Grace Methodist church, and will be under the auspices of Decatur lodge No. 65.

I. O. O. F. The ritualistic exercises of the order will tie conducted at the grave.

The interment will be in Greenwood. MRS. MARTHA MAGEE. Mrs. Martha Mage'e, a resident of Decatur for over half a century, died at 10 o'clock Sunday night at the family residence, 5S6 East Leafland avenue.

She was over seventy-five years old. Her death was caused by paralysis. after an illness of two weeks. Mrs. Magrce was born at Belleville, 111., Feb.

22, 1S41. She came to Decatur' In 1837. and a year later was married to Uriah Magee. His death occurred In 1SS3. Mrs.

Magee was a member of the First United Brethren church and had many friends. She Is survived by three children, Mrs. Frank Mahan, Charles Goodmlller and John E. Magee, all of Decatur. There are eleven grandchildren and great grandchild.

A E. MCMTU.IX. Elizabeth McMillln, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Byron D.

Me Mlllln, died at 12:55 o'clock Monday morning nt the family residence. North Main street. -She was five old. Her death was caused by congestion of the brain. Phc had been ill for the past four or five weeks and Sunday she seemed better a for some i past.

Congestion of the brain developed at 7 o'rlnrk in the evening and she died in about six Itours. was born Deo. 26. IHl'-i. a i dishes some women thoughtlessly use laundry soap which is bound to contain lye, then spend considerable time and money trying to keep their hands from becoming red, rough and sore.

Other women use nothing but Ivory their dishwashing and have no trouble ing the skin soft, smooth and Soap for in keep- IVORY SOAP PURE CLEAN UP PUNS Groups of Boys Enthusiastic Over Contest. "Pack your suitcases." ordered Secretary W. H. Duerr addressing enthusiastic boy captains in the Third Sanitary district cleanup campaign Saturday evening, "for were going to enjoy that trip to St. Louis when the bell rings and the city Is white a snow!" "Easy!" said the boys and gol their heads together plan ways and means of bringing home the sanitary bacon in their summer fight against all dirt.

SIX DISTRICTS. Mr. Duerr divided his southwestern district Into six parts and assigned one captain to organize boy clean-up forces In each of the divisions. Nearly IOC youthful workers will rally to the colors in the warm summer contest which promises to be the best thing Decatur has seen in years. George Procter as first, i a of the district will receive reports from the giving his findings to Mr.

Duerr in turn will report to Commissioner Mattes. THE CAPTAINS. Carltor Cummin's wag named captain over Division A and will have charge of the work to be done by the 14 boys In his section, one boy to the block. Stewart Wood Is captain of Division with 16 bo.ys In his regiment; Don Murphy of Division with 39 boys; Frederick Schauh of Division with 18 boys; Horace Bell of Division with 9 boys and Hubert Robertson of Division with 20 boys. SURVEYS AND MAPS.

The first move to be made by district leaders Is a. complete survey of the territory and the making of two big maps of the district. Colored pins will be used on the maps to show the location of fifteen anti-sanitary Items to be done away with such as red for nsh piles, blue for manure piles, green for tin cin heaps, yellow for open refuse receivers, and the like. AS soon as the maps are dotted with pins the boys will wade in and etart their cleanup. More boys are needed In the organization and captains promise to use every boy In the district between the ages of 15 and 16 years.

As the campaign progresses the pins win be removed from one of the maps whenever an anti-sanitary item Is cleared away, but the other map will remain intact, thus at all times the boys may see the exact progress they are making. Tlie picnic and auto ride on June 22, the Orlando hotel banquet In August and the trip to St. for winning district teams has proved inducement enough to Interest a small army of boys and "Colonel" Duerr expects quick results when he opens fire. ORNAMENTS FOR I GARDEN AND POROi IS i to start hanging baskets for the porch and b(g vases or for lawn or garden. Many people fall to recognize the beauty that ornaments of this kind give to a house and go lone the pleasure that may be gained from the possession of such objects.

In recent years, the use of moss In packing various plants has led to the development of very attractive forms for hanging baskets. These are so Inexpensive as to be within reach of everyone and to many eyes the basket of moss filled with bright flowers is quite the most attractive form of arrangement for porch or hanging garden. The woman who likes to see her orite plants growing In pleasing forms should take pains at this time of the year to secure some standard garden- Ing magazine or florist's or gardener's trade paper in which all the various lines of basket and garden ornament supplies are advertised and so be able to secure the basket shapes that are most satisfying to her rather than to go into the nearest store and purchase whatever happens to be offered there. Hanging baskets of wire can be bought from ten cents up to fifty. Some are of really beautiful shapes and some are so arranged as to be practically self-watering.

Then there are clay and terra cotta baskets for hanging that can be bought In many sizes and in different colors. These cost from fifteen cents to half a dollar. For stone, cement or brick porches these clay baskets seem especitlly suitable. Still another kind of basket Is the bark basket with chains which can be bought from twenty-five cents up. Vases or urns en standards cost all the way from five or sis dollars up to a hundred.

These may be of wire. or clay or terra cotta or cast Iron. Some have a sort of reservoir arrange ment that needs filling only occasion a and that makes them almost self- had been placed a square, flat clay (it had been part or and on this was set. some da? a large glass bowl containing re fish, sometimes a huge jar of cut sometimes just a of fern Always, the effect was beautiful an the members of the family that live in that garden all summer long; from day to day In the mad A simple and enjoyable ornamet that a small garden can have Is a pot for the birds. If your family boasts one of the brown earthrn bread ml) Ing bowls such as Colonial grandmotl ers used--shllow, with flaring sides this will make an Ideal birds' POO Such a bowl might be placed on te of a green-decked rockery.

Let me tell you of a garden eeat tbi I saw the other day. A friend move into an old-fashioned house and ha new plumbing installed. The ol wooden laundry tubs were taken ou three of them, large and unwieldl But they were made of very thicl wide planks. From these, she hs two fine garden seats and a simp garden table made and on this tab she i serve many a cup of tea dui ing the coming summer. The are plain, flat benches painted to loo almost like wide, marble slabs, and one would ever suspect their numb origin.

I wish I had space to tal about the charm of having a sun dli and bird houses In your city garde Perhaps I shall, some day. LAURA LEONAnD. i sell waterlng. Hanging baskets or boxes placed high with vines trailing down from them, arranged In the city back yard garden, give a touch of charm that no one can fall to appreciate. An ugly shed or extension porch may be transformed Into a thing of beauty during the blooming season by having very ordinary flower boxes placed along edge and filled with an Ivy vine and few petunias or other good blooming plants.

A rockery is something that may be both useful and beautiful in a city- back yard. I saw one last year made from old bricks and big stones which had been picked up around the yard of an old house and had become an object of delight. Nasturtiums an.t Wandering Jew" had been planted to cover the stones so that there was a green mound. At the center, on top. TO SELL OLD SALEM CHAUTAUQUA Petersburg, Slay Ac with resolution passed by etockholde and lot owners of Old Salem Chautai qua Association, for many years tt most flourishing enterprise ef that ni ture In this section of the country, tl board of directors of that Institullo at public auction on Thursda the grounds and assoclatio buildings of the chautau-iua associ; lion, to pay the existing indebtednei of about $10,000.

Numerous efforts, all of which failed, have been made to raise th Indebtedness, so that this step might I averted and Old Salem go ahead. 1 Salem enthusiasts, and In fact ever one In this community, are hoping th: a new company may be formed. wht will buy In the property at the for the debt, and then re-'nstate Salem in Its rightful place as chat tauqua leader. PUhtav Near MMtewsk Tuscola Frank Smith i this city and Newt Cox and Ben Pteifi of Arcola went down to Paradise Lak last week whera they landed fls in the lot being bass welghii pounds. Paradise lake Is seve miles from Mattoon and some good ca ches are made every year by Tusco fishermen.

weather a here to stay, let hope--and now if the time for men to be selecting new to conform with ntmmer-time attire. New Oxfords For Men "Walk-Over" Make At a Moderate Price --Trim straight laced patterns on English lasts for young men, modified English and conservative styles; all the height of refinement and good taste; the last word in comfort. --Leathers-carefuUy seleJted-of first quality; tan and black calfskin and soft black kid. The dark tan calf is a prime favorite, although black calf has its full quota of --Exceptional quality at moderate price is the feature of these "Walk-Over" Oxfords for men-materials of exacting selection and shoemaking performed by skilled "Walk Over" workmen under careful supervision. They're matchless combinations of value, style and comfort, at $4.00 Sensible Shoes For Boys "Boy Scout" Play Shoes --Ideal shoes for boys--on the play ground, on the diamond, for any outing wear.

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