Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1919 — Page 4

Page Four

DAILY DEMOCRAI Published Every f ening Excep Sunday -/ THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates By Government Order Cash in Advance. One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. A WORD OF WARNING. A Chicagoan, writing to the Chicago Tribune, after a visit to the soldiers’ hospital at Fort Benjamin Harrison to see his wounded son, made a pertinent observation it would be well for those who are trying to make political capital out of their opposition to the League of Nations on the alleged ground of Americanism to bear in mind. He wrote: "There are about 1,000 wounded soldiers, (in the Fort Benjamin Harrison hospital), who saw service overseas. While there, 1 heard enough -—from the wounded soldiers—to convince me that any man in public life who takes a stand against the proposed League of Nations will most assuredly be retired to private life. * * * All the wounded men with whom 1 talked feel that the Presiident is trying to do something for humanity. They know what war really is, and are anxious for universal peace. * * * Talk to the soldiers, more especially to those who have been wounded or gassed, and they will tell you, as they told me: ‘We have had all the war we want. We want peace.’ And that is what President Wilson crossed the sea for, to bring about peace—international peace—peace for all peo-1-eople.” Adams county never made a better step forward than in approving the efforts being made to establish a tuberculosis sanitarium. The cost is so small per capita, that it cannot be considered. Those who have visited these hospitals in other parts of the state declare that the work they arc doing for unfortnatue mankind is wonderful, indeed. Think of sixty t eturned soldiers within a year needing the treatment to be thus received. think of the loved ones who now and will, in the next few years, needthis attention, think of living in a community where tuberculosis and its ' dreaded results are practically wiped out, and then tell us if you can, one . single reason why we should not go < on record for this great cause. Adams county is for it, let the world know it, and let other counties play j politics as they will. i i A sample of what must be contended with if you wish to do business with the state tax board comes from s Geneva where the state high school ' inspector has required that certain * improvements, Including a new Heating plant be made in the school house. Os course, to do this, bonds ’ must be issued and when the board appeared before the tax commission And were told it couldn’t be done, they said, “What will we do with oui school children?” they were told, "Go away, we don’t want to hear ,«bout it.” This is only one case. Every county in the state is having similar experinece and some of these days that state tax board and those who are back of such a tyrannical rule are going to hear a lot of things they would prefer not to listen to. The Laisure road in Monroe town ship, a half mile that the citizens there who have helped to build other roads, feel is needed and have the credit to build, has been refused by the state tax board. This business of having three men in Indianapolis tell

p us what we need and when we can 1 have it may be fine for the fellows holding the $6,000 jobs, but it’s darned inconvenient for the progresJ. sive citizens of Monroe township. Though the wheat and oats crops y will not lie average in this county, the outlook for hay, corn and other crops is good, and the farmer will, no doubt, be bountifully blessed, and we s u sure hope so. 0 __ s - - - - ■SOCIETY o - Club Calendar 1 T Tuesday. Rebekah Installation —1. 0. O. F. Hall. Co-Workers’ class—Harve Smith. W. C. T. U. —Mrs. John Niblick. Wednesday. St. Vincent de Paul Card Party—- - M. H. Harris Home. Thursday. U. B. Aid—Mrs. G. Curt. Pitesbyterian Woman's Missionary i —Presbyterian Manse. , Phoebe Bible Class — Mrs. Glen . Cowan. Loyal Workers —Mrs. Charles Pet- ■ erson. Christian Pastoral Helpers’ Japanese Social—Noah Mangold Home. Friday. Christion Pastoral Helpers — Mrs. Irvin Acker. Mite Society—Mrs. Forest Elzey. Mt. Pleasant Epworth League So- , cial Time —Sam Fuhrman Home. Pocahontas Officers Entertain. In the long vista of the years to roll. Let me not see my country's honor i fade; Oh. let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in freedom, and not freedom's shade. —Keats. : Mr. Pal Harroldu. of Detroit. Mich., came to spend the week end with his wife, who is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Woebbeking. of West Jefferson street. —Ft. Wayne JorunalGazette. ♦ The Loyal Workers' class of the Evangelical church will meet Thursday evening with Mrs. Charles Peterson. on Penn street. Mrs. U. S. Cress will be an associate hostess. All members are urged to be present by eight o’clock. + The Mite society of the Methodist church will meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. Forest Elzey. Mrs. John Parrish is associated with her as chairman of their section. ❖ ”he Delta Theta Ta usocority at | the home of Miss Agnes Kohne last j evening heard an interesting report o ft he grand convention at Portland last week, from delegates who attended. No program otherwise was given and the usual business was , transacted. There will be a called ’ meeting Thursday evening at 7:30 at j the home of Glennys Mangold, which all are requested to attend. The reg- 1 ular meeting will be in two weeks 1 with Miss Mabel Hower. Miss Kohne j served ice cream, cake and a cooling drink. + Mr. and Mrs. Dan Niblick wen to Rome City today to attend the annual outing and picnic given by the ( members of the Tri State Merchants’ association for their wives and fa- ' milies. ♦ The United Brethren Ladies’ Aid . society will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Godfrey Kurt. Assisting I her in entertaining, will be Mrs. . Blanche Elzev and Mrs. Shacklev. Mrs. W. O. Bigham returned from Delphi. Ind., where she spent a week 1 with her children. Mr. and Mrs. Jam- 1 es Gottshall. Mr. Gottshall and fa- ' mily motored to the Bigham home a week ago Saturday and she returned c home with them. They had a fine time, spending the Fourth on the . banks of the Tippecanoe river, where they took lunch and had a picnic ] William D. Lee of Co. D. 113 En- ( g’neers arrived home from overseas e and a big dinner was given Sunday. , e by his sister, Mrs. Wf” ohler. Bin- : j ner was served at 12 o’clock and ice cream and cake in the afternoon. Those *hat were present were Mr. and Mrs. Will Ohler and daughter, Marcia, Mr. and Mrs. James Lee and v family, from Fort Wayne. William Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Marquard and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harve r Stetzel and family from Huntington, e Mrs. Molie McConnehey and family, j,. Mrs. Mag McConnehey. Mr. and Mrs. £ Jacob Lee and family. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Sherry. Mrs. Susie Corson'and 1 family, Mr. and Mrs. Will Brown and

TAKES A BRIDE s Ed Lewton, Motorman on Ft. Wayne-Decatur Traction Line, Married i TO GRACE SHAFFER Wedded at Fort Wayne at Methodist Parsonage— Surprises His Friends Ed Lewton, of Monmouth, motorman on the Fort Wayne-Decatur traction line, who has been taking a few days’ vacation, surprised his fellow employees and other friends, by taking a bride. He and Mrs. Grace Shaffer, of Lima, 0., were married Saturday afternoon at two o’clock at the Methodist parsonage in Fort Wayne. The bride is a lady of Lima, 0., who has been employed as housekeeper in the Lewton home at Monmouth for the past three weeks. She is well liked and has made many friends during her residence in that town. The groom has been employed on the traction line for a number of years, in the capacity of motorman, and is likewise well known and highly esteemed. They will make their home at Mr. Lewton’s residence at Monmouth. ABOUT TOWN Mrs. Mary Wemhoff and son. Wai Wemjioff and wife, returned from Rome City where they attended the Monumental Association’s district convention. Artue Kelly of Van Buren, who visited with his uncle, C. B. Ford and wife, left this afternoon for Berne to visit his grandfather. Alfred Elliot. Mrs. Elizabeth Burdge, of Berne, was a business visitor here today. Miss Susan Magner, of Ft. Wayne, accompanied by Miss Mabel Staley, went to Berne to visit with relatives including Miss Magner’s uncle. Geo. Andrews and family. Mrs. A. P. Rumple, of Monroe, was a shopper here today. Leona and Homer Amstutz returned to Berne after a visit at Lima, O. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Gross and children and nephew, Samuel Laisure, of Anderson, returned to their home after a visit with Mrs. Gross’ father, Levi Gross and family, west of the city. James Snyder, of Ft. Wayne, passed through the city on his way to his home at Craigville, where his father, Samuel Snyder, is critically ill of tuberculosis. Mrs. Lydia Wegmiller and daughter, Juia, returned this afternoon to I Geneva. The: visited with the Eli j Myers, John Myers. John Glancy and H. M. Devoss families. Miss Wegmiller was a Red Cross nurse in France. Commissioners for Sanitarium {Continued from Page One) parts of the county attended the meeting which was held in the court house and at the conclusion of the meeting there was a general handshaking and congratulations. The action of the board has the hearty approval of the people of the county. Bluffton, Ind., July 7.—The board of commissioners of Wells county, by a resolution favorable to the establishment of a joint tuberculosis saniyirium by Wells county and other adjoining counties . One proposition is to have Wells. Adams. Blackford, and Jay counties establish such a sanitorium. while another suggestion is to have Huntington county hooked with Wells and one or more other counties. The tentative suggestion is for four counties to join tn the project, each contributing $25,000 toward the joint sanitoriiim. Adams mw;‘y commissioners will vote Tuesday on the project. HOGS ARE SOARING (United Press Service) Chicago. July 8. —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Hogs sold at $22.70 per cwt. in the stockyards here today. Dealers predicted $23 hogs by tomorrow or the next day. family, from Bluffton. Mr. and Mrs. George Ohler and family, Mr. and Mrs. Gid Stetzel, from Huntington, and Miss Manley.—Contributed. ♦ i ? . Mr and Mrs - 1 Bernstein and their I brother, Simon Bernstein, of Spring ! Valley, JU., are attending the mer- , cantile annual outing at Rome City . today. y ♦ The Christian Pastoral Helpers win 1 meet Frida afternoon with Mrs. Irvin 1 Acker on First street. 4 ,

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919. »

Z PHILOSOPHER’S VIEW OF LIFE Mr. Goslington Tells How Sight of Funeral Procession Brings Reflections That Uplift. “As a rule," said Mr. Goslington, "1 take a cheerful view. Perhaps when I get to be older I shall be more doleful, but it would be hard for me to be that way now. For as far as I’ve got life has been pretty good to me. I { have had my little setbacks and now and then a real jolt, but on the whole my lot has been happy. "True I have not accumulated a fort tune, but I have hnd work to do and I have earned a living. I might say a comfortable living; and I have been blessed with good health. And so for me all nature smiles and men are friendly and the world is a pleasant place to live in; I take a cheerful view-—as a rule. “But I will admit that I do have spells, not of sheer despondency —I v would not say that, but times when I v am depressed, when things go wrong, :- when adverse happenings have all but e discouraged me; times when I totally 1 forget what we should in such days t always remember, namely, that there j never yet was a storm but cleared oft j some time, to leave everything bright and sunshiny as before; there are ’ times, I say, when even I, usually so ' cheerful, am downcast. 1 “When thus oppressed I find great 1 help in funeral processions. “As the solemn cortege passes I cannot but reflect that I still have the ! j one groat priceless gift and blessing— I j life, with all Its hopes and opportuni- I ties; and so, with all respect and sor- ; row for the dead, in this presence my I own petty troubles vanish, the clouds roll back and the sun comes out clear and strong again.—New York Sun. STORK’S VISIT TO SCOTLAND I Record of Bird’s Appearance in 1416 May Be Found in Chronicles of the Country. 1 The white stork of the continent of, Europe, which is encouraged in most,' > and even protected In some, of the ] countries to which it resorts to breed, j and round which much story and legend have gathered, has been known ■ for centuries to be an occasional vis- | Itor to the British isles, chiefly to Norfolk, but very rarely to Scotland, . though it has never been known to nest or even attempt to do so in Briti aln. However, a record of its having nested in Scotland appears in Goodall's edition of the “Schotchchonicon.” ’ This work wc -i begun by John Fordun, who died about 1884, and was ' continued by Walter Bower, the abbot of Inclicolm. It is in Bower’s chron- . Icles for 1416 that the story appears, f The translation runs thus: , “In the year of our Lord, fourteen hundred and sixteen, there died on the morrow of the birth of St. John the Baptist. Master James Biset, prior of St. Andrew's. In this same year, • a pair of storks came to Scotland and i nested on top of the church of St. Giles of Edinburgh and dwelt there throughout a season of the year; but to what place they flew away thereafter no one knows.” Commenting on this, Lord Lagle ’ Clarke says: "The church of St. Giles, i on which the storks nested, was a new I stone edifice commenced in 1387, to re- . place a former church destroyed in , 1385, and some of It doubtless forms part of the cathedral of today.” Mark Twain on Conscience. | There is on record a conversation I that Mark Twain had with Kipling, in which the former discoursed on the conscience. The story Is told by Kipling. He reports Twain as saying: “A conscience is like a child. If you pet It and play with it and let it have everything that it wants It becomes spoiled and intrudes on all your amusements and most of your griefs. Treat your conscience as you would treat anything else. When it rebels spank It —be severe with It, prevent its coming to play with you at all hours, and you will secure a good conscience; that is to say, a properly trained one. A spoiled one simply destroys the pleasures of life. I think that I have reduced mine to order. At least I have not heard from it for some time. Perhaps I have killed it from severity. It’s wrong to kill a child, but in spite of all I have said a conscience differs from a child in many ways. Perhaps It's beat when it is dead.” Ingenious “Fake” Pistol. A French inventor has recently placed on the market a "fake” pistol. This weapon, although hi reality absolutely harmless, goes off with a very realistic crack when the trigger is pulled. It also makes a blinding flash calculated to scare any burglar. Inventions of an even more complicated nature are constantly being heard of. A well-to-do gentleman living in Surrey has recently had his house and grounds fitted with an elaborate burglar trap. With this device a midnight marauder cannot approach near the house without setting a number of electric bells within a-ringing. And should the burglar not hear them and, actually enter the building he would be caught in a vise one of the many steel contraptions cunningly placed about. —London Tit-Bits. Second Thoughts. Mrs. Justwed—When I married I resolved to yield to my husband in everyl thing. n , Mrs. Langwed—So did I. And then I nti» S ° lV6d neVer t 0 aCt 011 that reao ’ !

1 I “Life Saver” oo By VICTOR RSDCLIFFE ;IL_— 1 (Copyright. 1919. bj Western Newspaper t'aich.) i The night was starless, there was a promise of rain and fierce blasts of . wind shook the old house. Abel Lane, I its owner, paced the living room nervously. His daughter Miriam was clearing away the supper dishes, but hent her ear at every unusual sound as i If sharing the half repressed anxiety of her father. She was startled uad gave a little jump as there came a knock nt the door. “Could you give me a bite to eat?” I spoke the tramp who faced her from ■ the doorstep. "They've ordered me out of town. It’s ten miles to the next and I’m so weak from hunger that I can't make it." “Step in, please,” directed Miriam and closed the door against the night, j “Father,” she said, going to the sitting | room doorway, “there’s a stranger I wants a meal.” I “Give it to him,” replied Mr. Lane i directly. “I don’t think Vance will be here tonight and there’s plenty to I spare.” j So Jerry Moore sat down amid I warmth and comfort to a repast that | seemed to make his thin, homely face I flush with new vitality and cheer. “You're a life saver, lady,” he de- ' dared, as with an enjoyable sigh of l fullness he arose and regarded his almoner gratefully. After he had gone Abel Lane continued bis restless promenade and Miriam, her work done, sat at the window watching the street In a tense, expectant way. “I do hope nothing has happened to Vance," spoke her father, after the lapse of half an hour. “I think I’ll go down to the river and see if there’s ' any sign of him. He crossed it in a ' boat going, but if he tries to come back the same way he’ll take a big risk.” Vance Denslow was the fiance of Miriam. He was a young engineer and I had been away for six months. Mr. I Lane had called him back to Bellville a few days previous. Vance was the sole witness to a document made a year back in which bis evidence would prevent the loss of all he possessed to the father of his promised bride. Vance was to appear in court the next day. Mr. Lane buttoned bis coat tightly, pressed his cap firmly down over his , head and went to the kitehen and llghtI ed n lantern. “It will go hard with us, Miriam, if anything shou’d happen so Vance wouldn’t be on hand in the morning,” he spoke. “Take care of yourself, father.” pleaded Miriam solicitously. “I shall I be worrying greatly if you don't get back soon. Don’t you think, if there is no sign of Vance, that you had better go down town and telephone Leesville to see if Vance has remained there for the night?” “I'll do that, Miriam, yes,” replied her father, but he left the road and took the footpath along the river shore. Abruptly he stumbled over a tree root, went tint, and the lantern, torn from his hand by the contact, rolled several feet ahead of him and its light went out. “The mischief!” he muttered, as he searched hi* pockets for a match "It's a mile back home and as much further to the nearest house townwards. I'll keep on to the turnpike, light or no light. Hello!” Abel Lane had proceeded a little distance when he drew back just In time to escape a second tumble. H’s foot had met an obstacle. He stared, halted, as a human form arose to Its feet. “In your way?” piped a cheery voice. "Sorry. 1 sat down to rest and fell asleep. Say,” bending nearer and steadying his glance, “aren't you the gentleman whose pretty daughter gave me the feed of my life?” “Oh, I see who you are now,” returned Mr. Lane. "Say, friend, you don’t happen to have a match about you, do you?” “Why, isn’t that strange!” ex claimed Jerry Moore. “I happen t-< have, and just one. I was going to use it before I fert*asleep to have a smoke, but, thinks I. it’s my last, a regular life saver, and I won’t risk It till 1 find a sheltered spot from the wind. Easy and careful now, If you want to light your lantern.” With infinite care the two shielded that last match. It was nearly blown out. but the wick of the lantern, finally flamed. “What’s that,” abruptly exclaimed Jerry. It was a faint yell. Then It was repeated. Mr. Laue set up a great shout and hastened in the direction from which it had come. And near the shore, clinging to a broken pile, was the man he was seeking—Vance Denslew. IL boat ha.l swamped In midfnream. He had managed to swim to the pile.' but was so exhausted that, but for shouting as he saw the lantern glare and the opportune arrival of his rescuers, he would soon have collapsed. "Your .last match did.it,” pronounced the relieved and gratefill Abel Lane, and Jerry Moore was a welcome guest at the Lane home for a long time after that Far Too Short. I still find each day too short for at the thoughts I want to think, all-th* I walks I want to take, all the books ? | want to read and al! the friends 1 want to see.—John Burroughs.

TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION. K FOR SALE—Hard coal burner. Favom rite. In good condition. Inquire Otto Hoile, R-5, or call ’phone 1 long, 2 short, 694. 16243 LAZINESS ACTING AS SPUR Good Work Done by Those Who Dislike It, and Want to Get Through and Rest i f The best work la done by the lazy , people who want to get through and • rest. s The industrious, active body, busy t es a bee, ai*d always at It, Is very llj able to become a putterer. , Mark Twain called attention to the , I fact that the ant, to whom the sage i recommended the sluggard to go, spends most of his energy In running > around like a drunken Indian, j The great humorist hated to move; he used to give the boy In the prfntt Ing office a nickel to sweep around him, so that he would not have to take bls feet off the table. At seventy he j confessed that “all exercise Is loath- I ' Bome.” ’ Laziness is not good In itself; but , when joined to conscientiousness and a sense of responsibility, as It often Is, It is the very be«t worker. The world’s work is done by those who do not like it. Nine persons out 1 of ten would quit what they are doing if they could. At the very beginning of Arnold Bennett’s novel, “Hilda Lessways,” is ; a luminous bit of philosophy: “Hilda hated domestic work, and because she hated It she often did It I, passionately and thoroughly" Mark Twain hated to write. —Dr. Frank Crane, in Farm Life. MUST CONCENTRATE TO WIN Though Thorough Absorption May Bo t Carried Too Far, It Is Necessary to Success. There is always danger, when any- ! one concentrates, that the concentra- , tion will be carried too far —so far that it produces a narrow, one-sided , and warped point of view. The great scientist, the greet scholar, the great' thinker in any line is usually not an i i all-around “good fellow.” “Crabbed,” "queer,” “peculiar,” “odd,” “funny” and “warped”—are these not the ad- , jectives that generally describe the , geniuses of the world? The very es- ' fort to concentrate on the one subject which has brought success has made It impossible to keep In touch with the thousand-and-one currents of thought and topics of conversation ( which go to make up comfortable and i easy-going life. Like the old sea cap- j tain, these geniuses miss something in ] their effort to fix their attention on I < one thing. 1 In spite of this danger, it is a good I thing to work for concentration. The . 1 likelihood of becoming one-sided Is big where genius is concerned, but then ( it can be excused. Most of us can [ safely concentrate our attention and ■ I still feel sure that we will keep In < touch with the world about us. 1 Misses Matilda and Eula Meibers ( returned last night from Rome City 1 where they spent a month at their 1 cottage. 1 UNDER THE TENT ( ’ £ 3rd & Monroe St. DOYLE 1 STOCK COMPANY £ Prices: Children under 12, ... 15c Adults 25c 1 War Tax Included. ' t TONIGHT “THE COUNTRY BOY” i

•< HINT TO HOUSEWIVES Save Money By Buying Now, at THE HOME OF QUALITY GROCERIES. ' Fancy Solid Smooth White Old Potatoes, peckloc New Potatoes, peck 75c (“Best and Cheapest” Brand of Coffee, a bargain (a) 40c i o doz. 4 in. Finished Clothes Pins, in carton 15c i Large Double Splint Clothes Baskets,6oc & 75c >.arge Box Toasted Corn Flakes, pkgloc ‘ U- g t S’ Pet ' Carnation, Wilson, babv size, ... .2 for 15c / ! g f J.’rade Milk. Pet ,’ Carnation, Wilson, tall cans 15c 1 Grade Salmon, 1 lb. tins 25c 30c & 3>c . M hile they last, 40 to 50 Prunes, lb. 25c J Evaporated Peaches. Ib. ..28c Fancy Whole Grain Rice. [Fancy Evaporated Apricots. lb 12L> i| lh 35 c Climaline, 3 pkgs2sc ■ 1 70 to 80 Prunes, lb 20c *Y>ko Palm Soap, bar 5c .Seeded Raisins, lb. . pi/, Bar Tar Soap, riimav vv a ii t> '■ “ 1 L ana Oil Soap, 3 bars a( . C bov " P Per Ctean , e L 3 lb- Argo Starch 25c r 12’/j 8 lb. Argo Starch 10c Eggs, 38c Butter, 35c to 45c M. E. HOWER ' ir?3lSnaiS'il

MEETING OF STOCKHOLDER] Notice is hereby gi ven th ■ annual meeting of the M tO( . Ull , * I of the Old Adams County n ank <I,T, | be held at their banking | loUse ?“■ tur, Indiana, at 10 o’clock a ' 3 Tuesday, August 5, 1919 ” I for the purpose of electing n ' rectors to serve for he ensuing. d ‘ I and to transsaset such other busi?'' I as may come before them I E.X. EHINGEIL Ca6II!er e. d. Aug 5. Naomi Mayer, Alta Teeple and c I don Engler returned yesterday I Winona latke where they spent I week. * ■ —™ SANK STATEMENT. I M. Kirsch, President H. M. Gilllg, Vice President W. A. Lower. Secretarv Fanny B. Hite, Asst. See'v Condensed statemeni ,r the I tion of the Peoples Loan & I | Company at Decatur, t n til6 Su ”’“ I ; Indiana, at the close of its buslJ I lon June 30, 2919: 10 uusln «i I Resources. I latans and discounts jjoqp,, ■ Overdrafts “ I ■ Bonds and stocks I Company’s building ■ i Furniture and fixtures .. «’ I Due from banks and trust ' I companies I Cash on hand lO.iw I ‘ Taxes and interest paid .. 5mS I Current expenses ’ 4’328«- I Total resources $444 ‘>"i« I Liabilities " I Capital stock-paid in $ 50.00000 I Lndivlded profits I Interest, discount and other earnings 8,91585 I Demand deposits, except „ banks 346,28625 I Savings deposits, except b» nkß 8,437.71 I Cash—over I Bills rediscounted 27,000iXi I Total liabilities $444,271.66 I State of Indiana. County of Adams, st: I I, W. A. Lower, Secretary of the I People’s Loan & Trust Company, of I Decatur, Indiana, do solemnly swear I that the above statement is true. I W A. LOWER. Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Bth day of July, 1919. SUSIE MAYER, Notary Public. My Commission expires February 14, 1922. BANK STATEMENT JOHN G HOFFMAN, President. JEFF KLOPFENSTEIN, Vice President. LEWIS O. ADLER, Cashier. Report of the condition of tne Farmers’ State Bank, a state bank at Preble, in the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on June 30, 1819: Resources. Loans and discounts ....$112,284.52 Overdrafts 22347 U S. Bonds 18,050.00 Other bonds and securities 10.706.00 Banking house 2.000.00 Furniture and fixtures.... 1,462.50 Other leal estate 300.00 Due from banks and trust companies 30.410.39 Cash on hand 2,892.91 Current expenses 1.226.05 Taxes paid 350.54 Interest paid 1,584.45 Other assets 1.76 Total resources $181,493.59 ■ Liabilities. Capital Stock —paid In ... $ 25,000.00 Surplus 750.00 Undivided profits 21.50 Exchange, discounts and interest 3.856.97 Demand deposits 60,824.19 Demand certificates 89,064.33 Savings deposits 1,97 6.60 151,865.12 Total liabilities $181,493.59 State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: I, L. O. Adler, cashier of the Farmers’ State Bank of Preble, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. L. O. ADLER. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of July, 1919. ORIE NEWHARD. Notary Public. My commission expires September 11, 1922.