Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 18, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1920 — Page 4

- —— " " .——- DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER President ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Ratee Cash in Advance. Ona Week, by carrier 10 cents Ona Year, by carrier 16.00 One Month, by mail 36 cents Three Months, by mall 11.00 Six Months, by mall 11.76 One Year, by mail ........13.00 Ona Year, at offies. 33.00 Single copies ....3 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflce in Deca tnr, Indiana, as second-class mstter, Have you Joined the Decatur Industrial association? Affiliate with this organization and take an active part in the building up of Decatur. The Berne Witness now says that the people of that community are not against the use of tobacco in any form. They must have found out that the majority of men, no matter how good enjoy a little smoke once in a while. Don’t be a rent gouger. It is true that modern houses are scarce in 1 this city and some may think that they have a right to take advantage ' ‘ of the situation. There is no quicker 1 way to kill a town than to have prices that smack of profiteering and labor 1 will not stay here if homes cannot be secured at a reasonable rent. You are entitled to a reasonable income 1 and you owe it to your city not to charge more tiwn that Help the town grow. Take an interest in the welfare of the city aa'd community. Right now your is needed. There are many problems, such as providing houses 'at reasonable rents for those who want to live here, ornamental street lighting, the building and financing of the power plant and a dozen or more of very important questions and undertakings -which cannot be accomplished unless the united support of the community is back of those who are trying to do things. Post 43 of the American Legion of this city is planning to hold memorial services in Decatur on Sunday, February 22nd, Washington’s birthday, in honor of the brave and gallant men who died in the services of their country during the war. The

EVERY battery has to stand more or less pounding every day of its life, for even 1 11 the best springs in the world e-H can’t absorb all the jolts. The *Jj effect of big and little bumps £ will be greatly lessened if you [ see to it that the battery is |X| clamped tightly in place. Or c: 3 ask us to see to it next time U 5 you come in. B' HOLTHOUSE GARAGE

p movement should have the hearty t support of every one in ths community and an effort should be made to help those who are trying to make t the program a success. Day homage P to the dead by attending the services, Frank Duiley, of Bluffton, able and noted attorney who is now engaged • by the United States government in ■' the prosecution of Senator Newberry j and his co-partners for election 1 frauds, informs Will Kunkle that bt > will not entertain the thought of ent * ering the race for the democratic 1 nomination for United States senator from Indiana. Mr. Dailey’s statement refutes the political rumor spread by his enemies that he is trying to ride to office through the prosecution of the Newberry case. Senator New berry and his friends are no doubt wishing that he would drop the case and get into the race. Blackford county will hold a special election on March 9th to decide whether a county hospital is to be built in Hartford City, the county, seat. If the vote is favorable to such a proposition work on the construction of the building will com mence at once. The plan of putting such a question up to the vote of the people is without doubt the best and most, satisfactory way to handle an undertaking of this kind. If the peo pie of Adams county, and we believe that sentiment is strong for and the need almost urgent, want a county hospital, we know of no better way to decide on it than to put the ques tion before the voters at the coming election. The proposition could be voted on this fall without the incuring of much additional expense. It’s worth thinking about. “OUCH! ANOTHER RHEUMATIC TWINGE Get busy and relieve those pains with that handy bottle of Sloan's Liniment It THAT Sloan's does, it does Vy thoroughly — penetrates without * rubbing to the assailed part and promptly relieves all manner of external pains and aches. You’ll find it clean and non-skin-staining. Keep it handy for sciatica, lumbago, neuralgia, over-exerted muscles, stiff joints, pains, bruises, stains, sprains, bad weather after-effects. For 38 years Sloan's Liniment has helped thousands the world over. You won't be an exception. It is unequaied in producing results. All druggists —35c„ 70c., $1 40.

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FULL OF CHARM 0 C Brandy and Whiskey Butties are Being Made Into Xylophones i 1 CHASING THE BLUES — -— Serve Their Purpose in That Respect—MusicBusiness G rowing (United Press Service) Chicago, Feb. C—“ Tom and Jerry , Fox Trot,” the “Sloe Gin Shuffle," i ind "Brandy Blues," are tunes that you may soon be spinning out on vour talking machine. Whiskey bottles, long since emptied, are being converted in o x; to-' phones. Sellarettes. now untenanted, will he shipped back to the factory, to reappear as phonograph cabinets. Bartenders are forgetting their 1 wine lists and learning the names and unes of syncopated melodies. All these are possibilities because since July 1, almost a platoon of ’ormer liquor men here have entered he phonograph business, either as 'obbers or manufacturers. With booze under the ban, these former •ontributors to internal revenue are o seek new fortunes in dispensing • lose harmony in canned music, intead of the closer harmony that ac■ompanied the bottled variety of roods. And instead of revenue men, 1 hey have only the luxury tax col-j lector to face. Many of the former liquor dealers ■ Rave followed the lead of two millionaire Chicago distillers, now manufacturing phonographs. More than i dozen phonograph concerns startid recently are reported to be own’d by former liquor men. This jump f rom booze to music is not confined o Chicago, among other cities reporting similar activity being Cleveand. where a brewing company has converted its plant into a talking machine factory. "Many liquor men when forced into some other line of activity apparently decided that there was a lot of money to be made in the phonograph business.” said E. A. Fearn. managr of a talking machine company of Chicago. “So many former liquor dealers have gone into the business that every time I hear of a new talking machine concern. I always in- J quire what branch of the liquor business they were formerly engaged iu.” "Several of the former brewers are making near beer and others have engaged in the ice and ice cream business, but I cannot understand how so many of them selected the phonograph field for their future activity.” It may not be long before one of these former drink mixers who is . dealing out phonograph records, for- , gets himself and shouts out to the ; crowd. i “Everybody have one on the house” STONEBAKER BETTER Hartford City. Ind.. Feb. s—Homer5 —Homer Stonebraker was greatly improved in health today but the fever has left him still very weak. He is unable to resume his duties at teaching today.' He was asked to make the trip to Huntington as a spectator of the game along with Earnest Shoemaker another Bluffton player, who is suffering from torn ligaments. There is is reason why | peopie buy t DR. MARSHALL’S S LUNG SYRUP | It's pleasant to take. g Guaranteed to satisfy. | It will relieve any cough. I cold, or throat affection. I By druggists everywhere, I 25c, 50c and SI.OO | | — Lose Bros. Barber Shop Peoples Loan & Trust Co, Building Modern and Sanitary The best in the city Service for the gentleman who cares. Ashbaucher’s| FURNACES I LIGHTNING RODS SPOUTING SLATE ROOFING PHONE 765 or 739

Routed the Agent One of our hoiiewt old fanners cam* tn the house ami found a sewing machine agent demonstrating to the women wl.at fine work It would do. The agent asked the farmer to bring !n a shingle and said: “I will ahow yoa Unit the Wonder Worker machine will do heavy work, for I will stitch right across the Up of the shingle, where It Is at least one-alxteenth of an Inch I thick.'" ".Not Interested," said the I farmer. “Over 'crost here 'bout three miles northeast n young man built a house Inst summer and I'll be (turned If his wife didn't take her Mechanical Wonder sewin' machine and stitch on cv’ry blame course of clapboards from gables and eaves clean down to the sills." As the agent slummed his machine into his light truck and chngged away the farmer turned to his wife •nd Mill "Well. Rita. I Sewoii that agent up all right, didn't IT Now- let's have supper," Air Mail Delivered at Sea. The first aerial mall delivery to a ship nt sea was accomplished August 14. 1919. when an airplane flying boat dropped a sack of European mall on tbo dock of the White Star liner “Adriatic" leaving New York. The experience was an official tert undertaken at the request of the post office department and may he put into general op- j eration. The flying boat overtook the "Adriatic" just as she was passing out of the Ambrose channel. After circling around the liner a few pmes, the pilot, C. J. Zimmerman, came down to within 50 feet of the ship’s ma«ts and dropped the mall bag. Some ,800 passengers crowded the promenade deck of the boat and watched the experiment. Their cheers echoed down the hay as the bag was mic*e«fully hauled aboard,—MekeN's Weekly. Pins and Needles. After being for a long time in a constrained attitude a peculiar numbness and pricking is often felt in the arm. the leg or the foot. This is caused by some interruption to the circulation of the blood and can usually be removed by rubbing or exercise. The reason for this sensation, which Is decidedly uncomfortable, is that pressure for a certain length of time deadens the sensibility of a nerve. When this pressure Is suddenly removed (as in straightening out the leg after sitting with it doubled underneath the body) sensibility gradually returns to the nerve and as each nerve fiber composing the trunk regains Its normal condition of sensibility a pricking sensation Is felt, and these successive prickings from the successive awakenings of the numerous fibers have not inaptly been called “pins and needles." Stand by Him. She v h young bride, who had alrit'ly found that what looks lik" a co piece of meat in the shop often scorns fa hare gone through a priiate transformation when it arrives home. "How Is It?" she inquirer! eagerly. when an old married friend called upon her. "that you always manage to have such delicious beef?" “It's very simple,” replied the elder woman. "I I j -t select a good honest butcher, and tlion I stand by him.” "Oh. I see. you give him all your trade, you mean?" -aid the Innocent young bride. "No"’ answered her companion, grimly, "I stand by him while he is cutting the meat 1" Open Hearts Keep Young. T’ n mind acts upon the body, and keeps it young. Those who grumble nt everything, who nurse resentments, and who let their troubles sour them, look, and actually grow, old. sooner than the contented and kindly. It is a very beautiful thing to see those who have met many storms In life, but who hare turned their troubles intn sympathy, and kept an open heart for all about them. And even when the hair turns grey, and the first youth passes, they possess that boon tn themselves and those whbse life touches theirs —a young mind. Meaning of “Selah." The word Selah, which occurs so frequently In the Psalms, is usually believed tn be a direction to the musicians who chanted the Psalms in the temple. Mattheson, the great musical critic, wrote a book on the subject, In which, after rejecting a number of henries, he camo to the conclusion ’hat It is equivalent to the modern "da capo." and is a direction thnt the air or song is tn be repeated from the commencement to the part where the word is placed. Canal Construction in Brazil. The legislature of the state of Bahia. Brazil, has instructed the departmont of public works to begin at once surveys for the construction of a canal from Jaugaripe to the river Jequirica, ind from this river another canal tn Marro de Sao Joao; a canal to join he Bolpeha and Santareni rivers, and . o cooperate with the municipalities I* '»f Cnnnavieraa and Belmont to repair ihe present canal joining these cities, mt which has long fallen into disuse. Linoleum Kills Bacteria, According tn a European scientist, linoleum nil (he floor r ,f a rnnm kills bacteria that may be brmight in on •hoes, with the linseed oil it eontglaa. And Worth the Money. Mr. Never* gd—They're still talking about a tax en barhelnrhuofl Mrs Leng Art!—A»d why not? Ak , other luxuries are being taxed.

NO FREE STATIONERY IN FARIS Pl (United Press Service) hi Paris, Feb. s.—(Special To Dally g t ' Democrat) —Before the war it was a u w ell established rule in all guide books 0) of European travel for the tourists to fl’ bring his own soap with him as Euro- “ pean hotels do not furnish soap The same rule atlll holds good while an additional one will noon require him to bring his own envelopes and writing I Kemp'sßalsam Wiu.Stop,thatCough ; bvarantbed WELL Pay You More For Hides We Pay the Cash Always. You get honest weight too. i i We have no desire to deceive anybody. We want to be judged fully by what we say and what we do. We want you to have confidence in us. We want you to know that you get every penny that is coming to you. We want you satisfied. It is the fairest way we know anything about. Maier Hide 4 Fur Co. “30 years In Decatur." ’Phone 442.

I You are saying: j I ‘‘This Victory Account is a Fine I I Thing”, just the same as thous- | I ands of other Decatur people are I doing but have you come to the | Bank and opened yours?. If not! I Act Now! Hundreds of accounts I were opened within a few hours of I the first day’s announcement and I more are being opened daily as I the people appreciate the merit | I and virtue of the I I Victory I I accounts g ■ L HW 2I I i ■ I *0 , I the new, better, different way of saving! | I I The account that may, at any time, be suddenly raised to SSOO to SI,OOO although only : ■ a few dollars have been depositted. | •i The Peoples Loanl& Trust Company h ■ DECATUR, INDIANA “SANK OF SERVICE” i B

_--I -- ■ ■ * " ' 1 1111 >apcr as well. The French Union of Hotelkeepers ms just decided that afler next April meats iu Paris hotels will have to do heir owu skirmishing for stationery n else pay for iL The price tixed is '■ ’‘ II 1 *!* 1

t — -. — FINE FOOTERY DISTINCTIVENESS QUALITY - STYLE . REFINEMENT - It is the purpose of this shop to exhibit a quality of footwear coupled with fair pricing that will exemplify the above essentials Slill a few pairs of Grey Cloth Top Shot s we're closing out at less than cost —Bare Bargains. -Peoples & Gay—- “ Fine Footery.”

paper. The envelope win i ed as a gift. p I ——. NO KAIN WATER? Don t Worry. Rnp MORE WASHING POWIIS breaks hard water. Ask’