Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 8

I a a of of of of THE DECATUR DAILY HERALD. March 16, 1908 DANGEROUS DECLARES SUNDAY Evangelist Staggered at the Indifference of Some of His Hearers. Mr. Sunday's evening sermon was addressed especially to those who have delayed coming to Christ. part: You will find my subject tonight in Exod.

8:10: "And he said tomorrow." Tomorrow. tomorrow; I you feel like that condemned king. Night after night you have come and sit here end are still on the border of God's kingdom. Some years ago an insane asylum burned and the inmates taken up on the hill side and about twenty of them burst through the attempted barriers that restrained them and ran down the hill and stopped in front of the flames. They stood there and shrieked and screamed in their insanity and clapped their hands and before they could be stopped eight of them leaped into the flames and were consumed.

You say certainly I would' expect anything else from those insane people. Then do you expect me to consider you insane when are condemned to go to hell if don't repent, and you you sit by and reject God's judgment? Do you expect me to consider it a sane thing for men and women to come here night after night and listen to the appeals God giving to you and have resisted everyone? Every resistance pushes you closer to the flames of God's judgment. Three Reasons for Coming. You ought to come tonight for three reasons. First, because if you would.

you would be relieved of the burden of sin in this life and the dread of the future consequence of sin. There are people who dread the future. There a man or woman that doesn't that you can forsake your vile Isn't sins, if you submit to God. Procrastination, idleness, weakness of character, indecision are milestones along the great highway of life, leading over the precipice of what they call tomorrow. Opportunities are gregarious; habits love company, they swim in schools, they fly in flocks.

they travel in herds. God calls the people of Decatur in a marvelous manner. and God honors me to see the marvelous manifestation of His power, but I am Irank to say aS I stand here tonight to tell you people that never in all my history as an evangelist have I witnessed such marvelous sights as I have witnessed in Decatur: never in all my life; and still you resist all such evidences of God's power. Indifference Staggers. I tell you it staggers me.

I can't understand your indifference under such conditions. You ought to choose tonight for the sake of your influence. No time or place has ever been presented when you could use your influence a better advantage, than right here. Never has anybody had a grander chance to choose between Heave and hell than you have had Never has it been easier to take your etand for Jesus Christ as now. You have never had such manifestations of God's power, and you have stood back God pity you.

You must have a heart like adamant. I can't understand it. You ought to choose for the sake of your influence. There are men and The Day Following THE CLOSE OF THE Billy Sunday Revival Meetings We will start our postponed sales, which were declared off in Feb. on account of the severe weather at the time, and the approaching above meetings.

This sale will last only for the rest of the week, after meetings are closed. Two sales a day, 2:30 and 7:30 p. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at auction. YOHE JEWELER women in Decatur, Ill. who are leading the young men and women in this town to hell as sure as two and two make four.

There are men in this town using every ounce of influence to damn and rot the manhood and womanhood and the homes and perity. They are pouring uthemoney like water to curse your home. That damned ruin the land, curse and" bigheryour home and your manhood womanhood. For the sake of your influence you ought to do what is right for God and his truth. Dangers of Delays.

Another reason. Delays are dangerous. I tell you, you know it was said that the head was the resistance force of Intellectual power, and heart affects the love and joys. When Sir Walter Raleigh was about to be executed and they lay his head upon the block the executioner said, "How lays your head, Sir Walter?" Sir Walter said: "It matters little how lays my head Ag long 88 my heart is easy." If your heart is all right with God that is all God asks. of you.

Delays are dangerous. If you wait your heart grows hard. A noted pirate was about to be executed in Boston and he go.ve this testimony from the scaffold. He said strange as it may seem, I was raised in a Christian home. I spurned, and resisted and repudiated all chances of career as andiratent He said: "When I salvation on my mad.

wild came along side the first ship and scuttled the ship the first life I took. so wrought all my nerves that for days could not eat and for night I could not sleep. I saw the vision of that one whose life I had taken. "I continued on and on driven by stupidity, averice and greed until at became so hard of heart I could go along side of a ship tie it to mine and turn my crew of cut throats loose. I could seize a woman by the throat and lift her over the gunwhale and upush her screaming into the sea and stand and laugh until the tears rolled down my cheeks, and watch the sharks cuting her body to pieces.

I could take babies and throw them into the sea and watch them drown. I could murder and kill until the deck was slippery with blood. I could take a dead body and drag it out and use it for a pillow and lie down ad sleep nine hours and never waken." God, what a heartless man, who My could get into a condition like that? That is the way men are today. They have hearts like steel. Every semblence of manhood seems to be crushed of them.

They have gone on and out on, God pity them. Tomorrow the Thief of Time. And when I stop and think my friends, that this is about the last of another great opportunity on the part of God to bring you to repentance and there you sit without God. I tell you my heart is nearly breaking. I have poured out my ItTe in Decatur as never before.

Every sermon I have preached I have gone the limit. Think of the sermons you have heard and the preaching and the tears that are being shed over you. of the prayers are being offered for you and the pleading to you and still you are without Jesus Christ. I know some of you have got more respect for a brute; you have more respect for a dog than you have for Jesus Christ. Listen, born in another man's man's stable, burled in another man's tomb.

His first companions were cattle in stalls, his last were thieves on the cross yet you refuse him. You sit there and you pay no heed God. Your opportunity is passing. Tomorrow, tomorrow where is your authority tomorrow. You ought to begin some new I will tomorrow.

A You ought to begin saving money for a rainy day. I will tomorrow. Tomorrow is the thief of time. Tomorrow is the time that will never come. Tomorrow is the day that never dawns.

Tomorrow is the day that never faces is your authority for tomorrowere I see some woman wearing and I see some woman dressed in black that tells me that you have been to the graveyard. That tells me you have left somebody at that graveyard. That tells me that a hearse came down the street and stopped at your house. Say, some day they are going to carry another body out of your home and your body will be in the coffin and your name on the coffin plate. If I could come back to Decatur five years from tonight how many of-you people here tonight would be here? If I would come back ten years from tonight, how many here tonight would come back and take these same seats? If I would come back twenty-five years from tonight how many would be here.

If I would come back here fifty years from tonight who in this tabernacle would be here then? At twenty-five years a scattering few. Brevity of life, brevity of life is the reason. MAROA TO GO DRY? So Declare Some of the Old Time Residents. Old time residents, disclaiming any particular interest in the outcome, prediet that at the election on April 7. the voters of Maroa township will declare against the saloon.

If that proves to be true, the possibility of the usual uncertainty of the contest in the city of Maroa will be removed. Mayor Potter will have no further opportunity to test his chances drawing straws. The fight between the license and anti-license forces tn Maroa has always been a warm one. The best informed politicians could never have any confidence in the result. On three separate occasions, Frank Potter, candidate on the license ticket for mayor, has been compelled to draw straws with his opponent on a tie vote and each time Potter has won.

If the voters of the township declare in favor of anti-saloon territory. the license question cannot enter into municipal politics. The politicians there. If they need an issue to stir up lively Interest, will be compelled to get up something new. The saloon feature will be dead for two years at least.

GIFT TO MISS POXON. Women Contribute for Chicago Worker Now Ill tp Hospital. The farewell union service for women was conducted by Mrs. W. A.

Sunday and Miss Frances Miller at the First Methodist church Sunday afternoon. About 1.800 women attended the meeting. The collection taken this service amounted to $71.60 and Mrs. Sunday asked permission of the audience to send the entire sum to Miss Susan Poxon in Chicago. Miss Poxon has for twenty years given her life to mission work among workgirls of the north side in Chicago and during the last 10 years has visIted each town in which Mr.

Sunday has held meetings. in the Interest of her work. Miss Poxon is now in a hospital in Chicago, where she underwent an operation for cancer four weeks ago. Mrs. Sunday led the song and testiservice and made a brief introductory talk, after which Miss Miller addressed the women, giving a general outline of the Bible work which she expects to do in Decatur during the next three weeks.

Ticket Sale Begins Today. Ticket sale for the production of the "Red Mill" will begin at the box office of Powers theater this morning at 8 o'clock. SCHOOLS TO OBSERVE TREE PLANTING DAY Thirty-One Teachers Report Insufficient Shade About Buildings. Miss Bowman, county superintendent of schools, has received from the teachers of the varlous country schools a detailed report of the needs in way of repairs and betterments on the school buildings. Not only do these reports deal with the needs of the buildings but with the grounds as well.

There are one hundred and twenty-eight schools in the country districts and there were 113 reports. The teachers reporting in eighty-two instances said there was ample shade, thirty-one reported insufficient shade. The list does not show this, but there are four schools in the county without a single shade tree. At twenty-nine of the schools last year flowers were planted. The reports say that this year there will be flowers in ninety-seven school yards.

From September 1 to January 31 inclusive, school entertainments in ious parts of the county netted $1,560, and to that there was added by the school boards $80.16. This money is expended to keep up the school libraries, beautify the rooms with pictures and work of that sort. During the current school year the libraries have been increased by 1.422 volumes. The total number of volumes in the country school libraries is said to be 12,796. The total enrollment in the country schools is 3.101.

The average attendance during January was 2.552. During the current year 931 pupils have maintained an average scholarship above eighty. Miss Bessie Redman, teacher at the Acom school near Niantic, reports the five children of Z. Hallet, pupils at her school, have been neither absent nor tardy during the current year and the youngest of that flock is only five years of age. A certificate of honor is issued to pupils who have been neither absent nor tardy during eighteen months of school work.

Within the last week there were six names added to the roll of honor. Marle and Mildred Myers, Maggie Michael, Louis Shuman and Rubie Overly of Eldorado school, and Violet Bean of Rosedale school. There is to be a concerted effort to appropriately observe Arbor DayApril 24. In his proclamation the governor calls attention to the statement that in 1.444 school yards in this state there are no trees and that in 3.205 there is said to be insufficient shade. There are only four school yards in Macon county that are absolutely bare and if the present plans do not fail after April 24 there will be no places that list in this county.

KNOCKOUT DROPS You say over production is the trouble with this country. You lie. The trouble is underconsumption. You people have got the faucet running and are trying to wipe up the floor at the same time. You can't do it.

The thing for you to do is shut off the faucet on the seventh day of April, and then wipe her up good. Twenty-five million dollars were paid by the brewers and distillers last year for corn in the United There are 80.000.000 people in States. country. We sold out to the whisky gang for 27 cents each. We are about the cheapest gang this side of hell.

New York alone spends annually enough for drink to buy 73,000.000 barrels of flour. If the money was in one dollar bills it would cover acres of ground. It would buy every laboring man in that city a $3,500 home. You have sixty-three saloons in Decatur, with a population of 35,000 people. license fee is $500 a year, or $31,500 as the total receipts from the saloons.

Why, God bless your souls, that isn't a dollar a head. You certainly are a cheap bunch to let the saloon gang buy you for a dollar per capita. If we should quit drinking booze we could pay the brewers and the distillers 10 per cent on their present investment of pay the farmers 10 per cent on the amount of stuff the brewers and distillers buy from them annually and still save $500,000,000 a year, to say nothing of the misery and crime we would avoid. Who owns the saloons in Decatur? The Decatur Brewing Co. of course, and it keeps most of them in debt LO it all the time, too.

It has fought like hell and damnation to prevent the musicians' unions from playing at this revival, and still that gang has the effrontery to stand out and claim to be good citizens. Why, you are the worst citizens in the city. If the man who drinks whisky goes to hell SO will the man who votes to keep the saloon man in power. If the man who votes for saloons gets to heaven and the man who drinks goes to hell he will have the right to stand on boundary line, wrap his arms around the pillar of justice, shake his fist in the face of the Almighty and cry out: "Unjust! Unjust! Unjust!" You say you would lose trade if the saloons are voted out of Decatur. You are a black-hearted liar.

When you say that, you insult the finest class of men on earth. I'm a farmer, and I've got the stink of the barn yard of me today. Why did you old whisky gang pour money like water in Springfield to defeat local option? Because you were afraid of the farmYou're afraid of them, and I ers. tell you they will knock your dirty business Into hell if you give them a whack at it. Won't Test Salofski's Sanity.

Adolph Salofski, the coal miner arrested Saturday by Sheriff McGorray upon the complaint of several restdents living in the eastern section of the city, will not be examined as to his sanity. Salofski de thought to be feeble-minded, but is possessed of his mental faculties. He will be arraigned today on a charge of indescent exposure. Philomatheans Adjourn Meeting. The Philomathean Literary society of the James Millikin university will not meet this evening on account of the continuation of the Sunday revival over that date.

TOTAL TAX RECEIPTS PASS $200,000 MARK Figures Expected to Reach $215,000 Best Previous Total $185,000. It was after 2 o'clock Sunday morning when Tax Collector L. W. Haerting and his force of clerks finished the work of compiling Saturday's recelpts and were able to what the total tax collections for Decatur township had been. Then Collector Haerting smiled a smile that was justified, for his office had made a record that he thinks will stand for some time.

Total tax receipts in round numbers are $205,000. With checks that are expected to come in on the mails and the payment by the McKinley syndicate properties, which has been certified to by the proper officials but not yet received by the collector, the figures will be increased perhaps $215,000. The greatest previous total was about $185,000. Saturday was the most strenuous day the tax collector's office had. The payments were $6,400.

There were other days when a larger amount was received, notably the day the banks paid their taxes, but in no one day were so many individual receipts issued and a constant stream of propflowed through the tax erty-owners from opening hour at 9' o'clock in the evening. Collector Haerting's assistants in his office have been F. M. Garver and John P. McGarry.

They will finish the details of the work and then the books will be returned to the county treasurer and their duties will end. With the return of his books the collector will call himself a private citizen, though he holds office until his successor is elected on April 7 and qualifies. As Mr. Haerting is a candidate to succeed himself and has no opposition for the Republican nomination, he naturally has a right to feel that in himself his successor is as good as chosen. Two Outside Books Still to Come.

Three of the township tax collectors made settlement with Treasurer Cooper Saturday. There are still two books outside of Decatur to come in. The books returned to the county treasurer's office Saturday show these totals: Long Creek- U. Gustin. Amount $13,537.63 Amount collected.

13.207.88 Amount 329.75 Collector's, McGaughey. 264.15 Amount $16.385.01 Amount collected. 16,097.35 Amount 287.66 Collector's 321.94 Milam-Edward Ekiss. Amount $8.254.86 Amount collected. 8,033.97 Amount 220.89 Collector's 160.68 Deaths and Funerals MISS THRIFT ASSES AWAY.

Former Member of the Millikin University Sophomore Class. Miss Albertice Thrift, a member of the Sophomore class of the James Millikin University during the first mester, died at her home at Emory Saturday morning. The sophomore class will send flowers and a quartet of class members will sing at the funeral in Emory at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. Bunker Funeral Today. The funeral of Mrs.

Christy Caroline Bunker will be held o'clock this morning at the family residence, 1248 West Decatur street. Brief services will be conducted at the house by Rev. R. W. Gammon of the First Congregational church.

Following the services here, the body will be taken to Warrensburg, where services will be conducted by Rev. Dr. Pierson, pastor of the Illini Congregational church. Interment will be at Illini cemetery. Hold Funeral This Afternoon.

The funeral of Francis L. Wood will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the family residence, 125 West Wood street. Services will be conducted by Rev. W. J.

Davidson of the First Methodist church, and interment will be at Greenwood cemetery. Friends may the remains at the residence between the hours of 9 and 12 o'clock this morning. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL R. J. Godfrey of Moweaqua was a visitor in Decatur Sunday.

J. P. Grindol of Mt. Zion is visiting in this city as the guest of friends. Mr.

and Mrs. Amos Watts and J. J. Turner, of Blue Mound, visited friends in this city Sunday. The Ross triplets were brought down town by their mother Saturday afternoon.

D. R. Davidson, representing the Detroit Film exchange of Detroit, is in the city on bustness. The Knights of Columbus will hold a smoker and social at their hall tomorrow evening for members only. Dan Moeller left yesterday for West Baden, where he will join the Pittsburg ball team.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gulick have moved to their new farm home two miles north of Forsyth on the BloomIngton road. Gus Ahrens is in Chicago to attend the convention of the Soda Water Bottlers' association. The members of this, in this association section look after for a the fine first bust- of May.

Misses Dena Noonan and Mabel Spark of Jacksonville, Miss Ethel Jackson of White Hall and Miss Edna Gray of Blue Mound, spent Saturday and Sunday with Peter Noonan and family in this city. CREGAR VERDICT UPHELD. Cripple Will Receive $22,000 For Loss of His Legs. William Cregar, the cripple pencilvender who has been awaiting the ruling of the supreme court of Indiana in a suit instituted against the Pennsylvania railroad, has received word that the decision of lower court has been sustained. there will leave for Fort Wanye, today.

The decision of the supreme court awards him 000 for the loss of his legs in a railroad accident. Valuable Fur Boa Found. chain attached, whoa, found at the transfer house last night by Officer Powell. The fur 1g being held at police headquarters pending proper identification by the owner. MISS MILLER REMAINS AT PASTORS' REQUEST Will Stay Three Weeks to Give Instruction in Bible Study.

The calendar for Miss Frances Miller's Bible classes for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week at the First Baptist church is 88 follows: 2:30 p. m. Class for everybody. 4 p. m.

High school class. 6 m. Class for office workers, teachers, clerks and those who cannot attend earlier. By request of the pastors of the local churches, Miss Miller will reDecatur three weeks to give instruction in Bible study and for the organization of classes. Instruction will be given to leaders to provide for the continuance of the work.

Many of the prayer meeting districts have planned for permanent Bible classes, she asks that each district see that it is well represented, especially by its chairman and some possible leaders of classes, this week, when instruction for organization and study will be given. The work offers special advantages for Sunday school teachers. Young Women's Christian association will be headquarters for information concerning all classes. At St. Johannes' Church, Rev.

William Heyne of Johannes' German Lutheran church read a letter at the Sunday morning service announcing the death of Rev. William Hallerberg, pastor of the St. Jakobi Gorman. Lutheran Hallerberg church was well Quincy, known Decatur having preached at St. Johannes' church several times.

He was 70 years old and had been pastor of the Quincy church for the last 35 years. He held the distinction of being the oldest member of the Lilinois Conference of Lutheran preachers. He is survived by two sons, one who has been assistant to him in the Quincy church and another who is pastor of the German Lutheran church at Jacksonville, Ill. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon in Quincy. Several Decatur German Lutherans expect to attend.

Word was received that the congregation of the Fall Creek. Lutheran church held a meeting Sunday morning to decide whether or not it would allow E. W. Gothe to take up the principalship of the Decatur Lutheran parochial school. Members of the local congregation are expecting word from Mr.

Gothe regarding the decision of the church by the middle of the week. Mrs. J. T. Link and children have already left the city.

They went to Chicago, where Mrs. Link will visit with her mother, Mrs. Leibe. She will be joined there by Prof. Link, who expects to leave Decatur about March 27, and the family whil then procced to Seward, where Prof.

Link takes up his new duties at the German Lutheran seminary at that place. Lenten services will be held at the church on Wednesday evening. Rev. Mr. Hayne will preach.

The Ladies' sewing society will meet at the home of Mrs. Alhert Bressem, 1221 North Clayton street, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Lenten Services at St. Patrick's. Lenten services were held at St.

Patrick's Irish Catholic church Sunday night. Father Murphy preached on the subject, "Sin Judged by Faith." There was a large attendance. Lenten services will be held this week on Wednesday and Friday nights at 7:45 o'clock. Father Murphy will preside at both services. The regular services will be held at the church on next Sunday.

At St. Paul's Church, Regular services were held at St. Paul's German Luthern church Sunday. At the morning service one child was baptized. Rev.

Willlam Heyne, pastor of St. Johannes' German Lutheran church, preached the confessional oration at the night service, assisted by the Rev. Theodore Lohrmann of St. Paul's church. There was a large congregation present at the evening service.

St. Paul's Ladies' Sewing society will meet at home of Mrs. E. C. Stein, 1035 West Main street, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Reception Tomorrow Evening. There will be a reception at the English Lutheran church, tomorrow evening for those to unite with the church. Rev. Roy G. Catlin, the new pastor, will remain over and will conduct the special service on that occasion.

Services Sunday were conducted by Mr. Catlin. Large congregations were present at both services. Big Congregation at St. John's.

The congregation at St. John's Episcopal church Sunday morning was the largest that has attended any service since Dr. George P. Hoster came to the church as rector. The services were of a quiet and impressive nature.

The Lenten services during the coming week will be as follows: Holy communion Wednesday and Friday mornings at evening prayer, penitential office and address Wednesday evening at evening prayer, litany and address Friday afternoon at 4:30 and instruction for minors Thursday afternoon at 4:30. Adjourned Until Tomorrow. The meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of the Centenary United Brethren church which was announced for this afternoon, has been postponed until Tuesday afternoon on account of the lecture by Mr. Sunday at the tabernacle. All ladles of the congregation and all new members are asked to be present.

Revival services will be continued at this church all this week, beginning Tuesday evening. New members will be received into the church at all services next Sunday. Endeavor Societies Meet. The Christian Endeavor society of the First Presbyterian church held its regular meeting last evening at 6 o'clock in the dining room of the church. After the meeting a lunch was served.

The Christian Endeavor society of the Second Presbyterian church held Its regular meeting yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the lecture room of the church. After the services a lunch was served. May Build a High School. Voters of Stonington township at the coming election will pass on the question of issuing bonds for $15,000 to build a new high school. The building now used for a grammar and high school has become too small for the increased population of the village, SAYS CLINTON WILL GO AGAINST SALOON CLINTON, Mar.

15-E. Scroggin, district attorney for Anti league, spoke at the Presbyterian church today againt saloons. He made the statement among at other hand things is to that the effect information that he Clinton had will go prohibition by an overwhelming majority and that the issue would be settled once and for all. He likened the coming contest to the Civil War, an irrepressible conflict in which both sides would put forth all their resources to win and one that must decide for all time the "whisky slavery" issue. It was a fight, he said, that the community could not afford to wage again; it must be settled so decisively on the 7th of April that the heads of the saloon men would never bob up again and 80 positively, that never again could talk be made of business disturbance.

Business would then adjust itself to the new order and soon social conditions be so improved that the public would see that saloons only unnecessary but that there were inimical to the business interests of the city. REFUSES COLLECTION. Sunday Addresses Attentive Audience of Colored People. In the gathering of several hundred colored people at the First Presbyterian church yesterday morning Mr. Sunhad as attentive and interested an audience as any he has preached to in Decatur.

With the text, "Is it well with thee, is It well with thy wife, is it well with thy child?" the same one which he has used before in the meetings here, and with practically the same sermon only here and there making changes, he preached with the same vigor, the same earnestness and conviction that he used before, stirring mightily the hearts of his people hearers, for of whom rose at the close the service and went forward at the invitation to give Mr. Sunday their hands. A few of this number were children, but by the larger proportion were men. Among them was Officer John Wiliamson, and Harry Johnson, a clerk in the T. T.

Springer grocery. "You are a neat looking crowd" said Mr. Sunday, "and I am proud of you and I only wish that I knew that you were spending as much ttme on your knees praying as you are before your looking glasses. A collection was taken at the beginning service which was divided equally, between the African Methodist the African Baptist churches. The collection was offered to Mr.

Sunday but he refused to accept it. CALHOUN TO BE SPEAKER. WIll Deliver the Memorial Day Address At Marseilles, Ill. Dr. W.

F. Calhoun of this city has been chosen as the principal speaker and orator of the day at the Memorial day exercises to be held at Marseilles, on May 30. An elaborate program for the appropriate observance of the day is being arranged, and considerable Interest is being manifested, more particularly because it will bring together again many former residents of that vicinity, Dr. Calhoun being among the number. The Marseilles Plain Dealer pays the following high tribute to Dr.

Calhoun: "Where possible to do so, we believe it has been the aim of the committee on speaker to secure a G. A. R. comrade, and in this their course is certainly appropriate and commendable. This year the committee has, indeed, been fortunate In engaging W.

Calhoun of Decatur, at present editor and postmaster, former speaker of the house in the state legislature and yet earner a soldier. He comes with a fine reputation as an orator of distinction and will no doubt have one of the largest audlences before him that has ever gathered at beautiful Riverview cemetery. To him and several others vicinity his coming will be like appearing at his early home, for our people can be proud to acknowledge that he was formerly of this near vicinity." TOWN TALK DAVIS CABS AND TRUNKS. -Little Victor, a cigar of quality. -MAIENTHAL TAILORS.

YOU PAY A LITTLE MORE FOR CLOTHES THAT DENZ MAKES, BUT -St. James Hotei. European. clean place for clean people. 100 rooms -List your property with Burtschi Bros.

O' Mara, 123 E. Main. -Miss Mary Nesbitt, Optician, has just opened an office at room 118 Millikin building. -New oak case upright piano, $185; $6 per month. Prescott's.

-See our Mandolins, Violins, Guitars and Musical Merchandise. Prescott's. -March Victor and Edison records on sale at Prescott's. -New mahogany case Brewster piano, $200. $6 per month.

Prescott's. -Pianos for rent at Prescott's. -Yazoo Valley Lands Excursion March 17. Gher Evans, Millikin Bldg. TO ARRANGE DETAILS OF ORATORICAL MEET Executive Committee of Corn Belt Association Convenes Today.

Principal 8. W. Ehrman of the high school will go to Springfield this afternoon to attend a meeting of the ecutive committee of the Corn Belt Oratorical and Athletic association. Details for the meeting to be held in Springfield on May 1 will be the principal business before the committee. Ten high schools will be represented the contest this year and over 2,000 students will attend.

Principal Ehrman is president of association and has charge of the general arrangements. The association was organized seven years ago and this first meeting was held at Normal. purpose is to encourage athletics and oratory in the different schools represented in the confederation and money realized from the admission fees to the different events is equally divided among the contesting schools. The following schools are in the confederation: Atlanta, Delavan, Lincoln, Mason City, Havana, Decatur, Clinton, Normal. Mt.

Pulaski, and Springfield. Each school sends a representative orator and track team to the annual meeting. The orator who will represent the local high school be selected in a preliminary oratorical contest to be held the latter part of the month. Forum Meets This Afternoon. Final arrangements for the purchas.

ing of the E. A. Gastman memorial, to be presented literary societies to the high school, will be made at the meeting of the Forum Literary society this afternoon at the high school. The feature of the meeting will be the program to be given by the members of the second division. The medal contest will begin at the meeting of the society next Friday night.

Costumes Arrive for Flag. Elaborate costumes to be used in the high school senior class play, "A Russian Honeymoon," and representing an outlay of nearly $100, were received from the Chicago firm Saturday morning. The costumes are exceptionally beautiful. Dresses worn by the Russian aristocracy in 1750, guards' uniforms, and peasant dresses, were ceived and used in dress rehearsal Saturday afternoon. The members of the cast carried their parts well.

Miss Mary Clark. superintendent of music in the public schools, is training the bridal chorus which will sing at the wedding scene. Don't Be Selfish. Let Your Friends Enjoy His Sermons Too. Write name and address of a friend or relative here.

Name Address Enclose this slip with 50c and send it to the Decatur Herald, Decatur, and The Herald will be mailed for the rest of Sunday's meetings, together with all back copies since the meetings began. Sent by (Name) Address LUTHERANS SLANDERED The full page display ad. in both the Sunday papers, purporting to state the position of the Lutheran church, upon the liquor or local option question, is a wilful and a malicious misrepresentation of three millions of Lutheran people in America. The Lutheran church, in its government, has no plenery power over its members. Our church is the one church which has never assumed the power to interfere with the right of private judgment of its members.

There is no such general church party in as "the Lutheran The Lutheran conference, as a general church body, is the bogus production of a beer besotted and self assumed fraud. Such a stand as the one said to have been taken would be contrary to the well established policy of the Lutheran church and every member would consider it an insult to his own individual rights to be dictated to in such a manner. Signed, A. G. WEBBER..