Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 17, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1919 — Page 5

Announcing THE Zf7/F)rt/7/u VMODELS 1920 ryl (K SERIES ) QUALITY has been the foremost consideration in the construction of the 1920 Model K Series. An established standard of Buick construction that for years has given to the Buick Valve-in-Head Motor Car a reputation of superiority. Upon such a foundation of strength, durability, and value has the 1920 Buick Series been designed and manufactured. An inspection of the new line will reveal improvements and refinements that are sure to please the most exacting purchase:. Prices of the New Buick Series Model K-Six-44 Three-Passenger Roadster . . . $1495 Model K-Six-45 Five-Passenger Touring Car . , . 1495 Model K-Six-46 Touring Coupe 2085 Model K-Six-47 Five-Passenger Touring Sedan . , 2255 Model K-Six-49 Seven-Passenger Touring Car . . 1785 Model K-Six-50 Seven-Passenger Sedan .... 2695 F. O. B. Flint, Michigan PORTER & BEAVERS Corner Monroe and First Sts. TWWMir »■ ■mi ■ ■■ ■ ■ ■■■!■■

Mrs. J. S. Peterson received a letter from her daughtei*. Lo|s, who with seven others of the Kekionga C. -wflre girls send their Kntu-dian. Mrs. Tom Vail left last Sunday , for a ' '

No Heat is Wasted in the Cellar Hlrmr . /, 3 , I;' -1 m ' I jII ~AA~=. .LI <flh " '''"'- H t I Vegetables won’t spoil I Heat costs money. Wasting heat in passages keeps the heat within the furnace t the cellar is throwing clinkers on aod stnd ' u dirtctl * to the rooms above - the fire, paying tor fuel that does not ILeauge of the Thermo-Seal Inner Lining, the give you its full heat value. Homer onfr radiates about one-tenth the heat 'that other furnaces waste in the basement. It 1 4y*' ,b - 1 Ik * The Homer is the first furnace that can be set saves the heat for the parts of the house you up in the vegetable cellar without interfering want warm and comfortable saves the canned ' Jfllls. "2fepWlhjA | with cold storage. The Thermo-Seal Inner fruit, vegetables, apples, meat and the like in Lining between the warm and return air the cellar. H©MBB =“ WlOtel ORIGINAL PATENTED P 1 PIPELESS FURNACE . fA 3 *.!. , Equipped with the 'lhHrmn-Seni Inner Lining —vt[ I The Homer is not an ordinary furnace with the pipes left off, Thermo-Seal Inner Lining is the secret of the Homer's sue- fli It is built around the basic law that warm air rises and cold air . cess. A bout every twenty-five minute s all the air in the house mMflll Si VW f- descends. It does ail its work through one combination passes through the Homer, where it is heated, sterilized |j register because the return air is protected from the furnace and moistened. The rooms are filled with air of the proper l **i ? proper by the Thermo-Seal Inner Lining. That’s why the warmth and humidity—almost die balmy air of spring. Mk Ii I Homer is the original patented Pipeless Furnace L-£M vk Il s!*■ *' / The experimental stages in tic growth of the Homer passed years ago. Improvements, including the Thermo- ™ | Seal Inner Lining and the adoption of Strokel iron in all cast parts, brought about during ten ycurs’ experience, ! Jk still maintain the Homer as die standard of pipdesa furnaces. Ask this Dealer for “Healthful Heat” AUGUST WALTERS Successor to Geo. E. Steele 119 No. First St., Decatur, Indiana Manufactured by Homer Furnace Company, Homer, Mich.

two weeks’ stay at Lake James. They have the same cottage they had a year ago and are having a fine time. I They were taken by automobile tot Ft. Wayne by G. T. Burk and took I 1-- '!

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919.

the train for Angola from there. Mrs. Samantha Shoaf returned to i Fort Wayne this afternoon after a | visit here.

♦♦♦♦*♦*♦♦*♦***♦i + WANT BIG INCREASE. ♦ I + Washington, D C., Aug. 7 — ♦ + (Special to Dally Democrat)— + I ♦ Postal workers today asked + + President Wilson for a 50 per + ♦ cent wage increase. A letter car- + ♦ ried to the white house by a de)- + + egation of postal union heads, + ♦ said the postal wage problem is + + fully as pressing as the railroad + + wage problem and asks that their + ♦ case be included when the gen- + + eral proposition of food and liv- + + ing costs is submitted to con- + + gress. + +++++++♦ + + + + + + + ICE CREAM SOCIAL There will be an ice cream social held at the Hines school house, 3 miles south of Decatur on the Monroe road, on Saturday night. August 9th. Everybody cordially invited. 187-t3 Folks living in th*' country are urged to buy Chautauqua season tickets; $2.00 for adults. ?l,'oo for children between 8 and 14 years, plus 10 per cent war tax; younger children free. Tickets on sale at each bank, drug store and clothing store. 186t5 EXPEXOITI KFS AM) TAX LEVIES FOR THE TEAR 1930. The trustee of Blue Creek township, Adams,county, presses for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by tile advisory board at its'annual meeting, to be field at the office; of said trustee, on the second day of September, 1919, commencing at one o’clock p. m., the following estimates and amounts for said year: 1. Township expinditures, $1,255.67, and township tax 6 cents on the hundred dollars. 2. Local tuition ■ expenditures, $2,511.54, and tax 12 cents on the hundred dollars. 3. Special school tax expenditures, $5,231.97, and tax 25 cents on the hundred dollars. 4. Additional road tax expenditures. $1,255.67. and tax tt cents on the hundred dollars. 5. Poor expenditures for preceding year $418.55. and tax 2 cents on the hundred dollars. 6. Other items, if any, (bond), expenditures, $5,231.97. and tax 25 cents on the hundred doll irs. Total expenditures $15,795.92, and total tax 75 cents on the hundred dollars. The taxables of , the above named township ary as follows: Total valuation of lands and and improvements $1,864,820.00 Total valuation of personal property 1... 291,260.00 Valuation of railroads, express companies. palace car companies. .- telegraph lines, telephone lines, etc., etc. (estimated from last year's tax duplicate > 680.75 Amount of credit on account of mortgage exemption 670.60 Net taxable property of township ’ $2,092,790.00 Number of polls.) 153. I'HAIII.ES JJ..TONES, Trustee Datad. Aug. 4, 1949.

?,450,200 WAR’S TOLL Estimated Total Battle Deaths for All Belligerents. - | Total Cost to United States $21,850,000,000—50,000 Fall in Battle. Washington.—American casualties luring the 47-day Meuse-Argonne offensive aggregated 120,000 men, or 10 per cent of the total of 1,200,000 engaged, according to a statistical summary of the war with Germany, pre- i pared by Col. Leonard P. Ayres, chief \ of the statistical branch of the gen- ; eral staff, and published by the war department. “Os every 100 American soldiers and sailors who took part In the war witli Germany,” the report said, “two were killed or died of disease during the period of hostilities. In the northern army during the Civil war the number was about ten. “Among the other great nations in this war, between 20 and 25 in each 100 called to the colors were killed or died.” Best information obtainable by the general stuff places the total battle deaths for all belligerents at 7,450.200, divided as follows: Russia 1,700,000 Germany 1,600,000 France 1,385.300 Great Britain 900,0"0 Austria 800,000 Italy 330,000 Turkey 250,0<)0 Serbia and Montenegro 125,000 Belgium 102,(60 Roumania 100,060 Bulgaria 100,OW United States 49,900 Greece 7,«oo Portugal 2,000 American participation is summarized in the report in the following table: Total armed forces, including army, navy, marine corps 4,800,000 Men who went overseas 2,086,000 Men who fought in France 1,390,000 Tons of supplies shipped from America to France 7,500.000 Total registered in draft 24,234,021 Total draft inductions 2,810,296 Cost of war to April 30. 1919, $21,850,000,000 Battles fought by American troops 13 Days of battle 200 Days of duration of Meuse-Ar-gonne battle 47 American battle deaths in war.... 50,000 American wounded in war 236,06) American deaths from disease 56,991 Total deaths in the army 112.422 Under the head of “Sources of the Army,” the report- shows that 13 per cent came from the regular army, 10 per eent from the National Guard, and 77 per cent from tile draft. A concise history of the military operati<»w< in which ’ Amejjcan troogs took part is given in a chapter headed “Two hundred days of battle.” Attention was called to the fact that “two of every three American soldiers who reached France took part in battle.” WAR CHANGED SIGN POST tlx 4Mi I As a result of the war the name of a cross road in the Champagne forest, in common with hundreds of other French roads, has been changed. The road is now called the “Armistice” instead of the “Port.” Doctors Amputated Legs S ; as Man Dangled in Shaft t !; Doctors amputated both legs * i of Henry Shiers, of London, Eng- j [ land, while he hung head down- j : ward, both legs caught between t c an elevator cage and the floor- ? : ing. J i It was impossible to move the man and a staging was built out ;> c into tile shaft from the floor and ;> a platform erected. On this the ;> c surgeons stood and while one ;■ i! gave an anaesthetic the other u cut off the legs. The victim was removed to a hospital, but f died. Saved From Lightning Stroke. Alliance, O.—Mrs. Rose Wernet owes her life to the fact she left the windows of her father’s house open at Homeworth the other day. A heavy thunderstorm broke and she quit milking a cow to close the windows at the house. While she was gone lightning struck the barn and killed the cow she had been milking. No Place for Them. Los Angeles, Cal. —Fearing pickpockets, Thomas Atkins put five $lO bills in his shoes for safety. It would have worked fine had not much walking worn off the ten-dollar marks.

HAVE YOU TRIED IT? In boosting Decatur we have not mentioned “The Limo Metal Co.” because they did not claim to be an industry. This company has devoted most of their time and energy to boiler compounds. They are directing their efforts at the present time to the manufacture and jobbing of boiler specialties. This is the third year of their existanee and their business is surpassing all expectations. They have a compound of Phenol Creosate oil, Napthalene, Benzine and Homologues, etc., that makes the most effective louse exterminator on the market, i This is a sure disenfectant for chick-

■ool IO WHITE 111 |f-l SHOE lllii |hADRESSIHGJM| MBB I KEEP YOUR SHOES B9HL A MtSfe- THFFFDAIIFY 'cjtS CQMPOR ations " (■nffmwMwiTii BortAiu.s't. j JL -$• -9- -9- -9- -9- -T- -3- .9, -7- ata .Ta a?QoTa a?a aTt_ ata <•-?<_ aTa a?a I PUBLIC SALE! 5 • • T » * OF DUROC-JERSEY HOGS ♦ • • 4* I! At my farm, 4 miles northeast of Decatur, Ind., on * ® :: MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1919 i 60—HEAD—60 I rI! We will offer for sale 60 head of Duroc Jersey S o I! Hogs of the best breeding, consisting of 2-ycar-old 1 d tried Brood Sows and Yearlings, and 32 Sepleniber 1 B Gilts, bred to Fancy Orion 4th <80909, Orion’s Hero 4 - B I(H>’><B3, Orion Fancy Joe 12137, for Suplcinbcr j (i farrow, and 20 male flogs ready for service. j f TERMS —Six months with seven per cent inter- j • ■ est from date. f ■; Sale to Begin at 1 p. m. Free luncHat 12 noon- * ;; Come and buy a Duroc at your own price. Bring t ;; your crates with you. Crates only furnished for $ •• liogs to be shipped. ± • J. I). NIDLINGER & SON. $ ;; L. H. Igleheart, Albert Morriss, and Jell' Liechly, I ;; Auctioneers. f I 1STORAGFf X / F battery & 1 C WillaraJ mm »a«3na«u«S3C»Mims TRADE MARK REGISTERED I Only Two Kinds I ® of Batteries q Those that have Threaded Rubber Insulation—and those that don’t. 5 " I Ask any owner who has had years of experience with fcl each and he’ll tell you the difference. Kh It means money in your pocket. We can give you the names of some owners to refer to. HOLTHOUSE GARAGE I Decatur, Indiana, I J

en coops and hog houses. The LimoMetal Co. stands back of every dollar's worth of goods sold. Any di--satisfied customer can return their can to W. J. Archbold, 318 North 10th street and their money will bo refunded. —Advt. 187-eod-t2 THE PLANT RIPENER Phopshoric acid in available form favors rapid development of the young i plant, hastens maturity, increases the ! proportion grain to straw, assists in developing the grain and is necessary to the development of the protoplasm i without which there could be no plant growth.—Purdue Experiment Station.