Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1921 — Page 2

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The New Year - . ft talari out oiuthe new year with a resolution lo SAVE more of your earnings and to place the m»»ey in our Bank w here it will be safe. »o♦ * • • a# * You couldn’t well make'a better start. The year iie>before yoB. Success or failure depend largely upon your own efforts. Start right. Then, no milter how slowly you travel you are at least goirtg ahead and in the right direction. Resolve to make this year the best year of your life. The past is a closed book, leaving nothing but experience. The new year opens a new book of opportunity Make the most of it. We fill help you. ■ The. Peoples toan & Tryst Co 3 »«•!»** Bank of Service.

Crystal Theatre THE HOUSE OF QUALITY * TONIGHT-TOMORROW “SCARLET •DAYS’* A big Paramount-ArtcrafUiuper feature and D. W. Griffittf’s greatest picture play.' If it is a Griffith production, it must be good. A delight-# ful and entertaining drama of the golden west in the olden days. Something different. 6 Also another of the “Fox News,” the mightiest of all. Come tonight or tomorrow. Admission 10-15 cents.

WAIT WAIT Our Big January Clearance Sale Starts Friday, January 7th. Look for Our Page Ad in Thursday’s Paper. Biggest Sale in Years. Wait for it BERNSTEIN’S

— judgv E. E. McGriff of Portland was conducting court hart* thia morning. Miss Mary Heavilon’s Big Free Cooking School is now in session in the lower room of the Public Library building. Thu i_-lritl. 11

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. WEDNESDAjfr JAM'ARY W-

BOCH APPOINTED New Surveyor Starts Term With Thirty-seven Roads Ot|j His Hands SALARY IS INCREASED E. S. Christen, Superintendent of Schools, (iiven An Increase Accepting the resignation of Orval llarruff as engineer on the macadam roads now under construction or ordered sold, the county commissioners lin session yesterday appointed Dick ! Hoch, who began his duties as county ■ surveydr on January Ist, as the en- ! gineer on the thirty-seven roads, mak Inga total of fifty-one and one-half miles. •

Mr. Harruff in resignimcas the en-' eineer on the roads assorted to him ! while county sftveyor, established a new precedent in the surveyor’s office and thus turns over much work to the incoming surveyor. Mr. Harruff has accepted the appointment as city civil engineer and superintendent lot the water Jepartincnt of the city plant and was unable t# supervise the, road and look after the city’s interests • • • The thirty-seven roads aft? in nearly every township in the county anil a number are under construction, while about ten of them have just been staked. Mr e ßoch started to work at once on»the roads and it was* the opinion of the members of the board of the eounar commissioners tlfat no roads should be ordered constructed until the thirty-sejjpn were weljj out of the way. There are several metitiumers for new roads but no action was taken by the cemmfssion 1 ers. „ , Two Roads Accepted. The Stahley road in Hartford town ship and the S. T. Welker road in St. Maisi township were accepted by the board upon the finding of the report of ' Engineer Harruff. The finqj reports of Engineer Harruff on the John W.’Hppple and J. T. Dailey drains were also fil|d and the improvements accepted Salary Is Increased. „ The commissioners increased t’ue sartry County Superintspdent cf Schools EAS. Christen, to J 2.400 pei an increase of about S4OO ovei last year, or 81.000 over two years ago. Two years ago the sakfty of the superintended was only 41,400 pei year, out of which he had to pay hit ; traveling expends. sal' . ary was hundred dollar-

MS THAN CAUK f Thousands Have Discovered Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets Are a Harmless Substitute • Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets are the result of Dr. Edwards’ determination not to treat liver and bowel complaints with calomel. For 17 years he used these tablets la vegetable compound mixed with olive oil) in his private practice with great success. • They do all the good that calomel does but have no bad after effects. No pains, no griping, no injury to the gums or danger* from add foods—yet they stimulate'the liver and bowels. Take®Dr. Edwards’ Olive® Tablets when you feel “logy" and “heavy." Note how they clear clouded hraix and perk up the spirits.

and this y.ear the balance of four bun dred dollars, the limit allowed by law. warranted to the superintendent CARD OF THANKS We wish in this way to express our sincere and heartfelt thanks to the; neighbors and friends who so kindly, assisted its during the sad hours of our recent bereavement, the death of father and grandfather; also many thanks for the beautiful floral offer-1 Ir.gs. Children and Grandchildren of the Late J. C. Roop. FOR 4HE WenSpecial Invitation Given AdamsaCounty Ladies to Join Jefferson Club INTEREST IS GREAT — A Mock Trial Tomorrow Night—Permanent Head- j quarters Are Arranged A epecU invitation is extended to i lie w>men of Decatur and Adams. county to a®end the Jefferson club, in the Noble building. Fort Wayne, < Thursday etemng of |£is week, when a mock will be conducted and a good time is The Jefferson club is a organization a great future. Or ■ ganig-d recent dladk-i trous election, it has already beqgpte : a lirte, hustling club and thejt want j five thousand members. The dues arc but oft* dollar per year ship ft being solirtttl from all„surrfinding counties. • „* # jg. Earl Catena is president igi . b making a rerord for interest is, high and new juembers are reported I eaclwmeeting. The club occupies the! *-ntjre thWd floor of the Noble building. opposite the Anthony fcotel and| includes *a fine dance hall, big assembly- room and six other rooms. A . rest room is being fitted up. and will be in charge of a competent i woman, and will be found a Amfoi, £ • • table and popular )*>ce if visiting ladies to the city at any time. You -.re >.< to the m •' n.- to-; mortow night and to become a timber of the Jefferson club. ' • JAL EG SI*ART TOMORROW Th« Vance and Linn the & £ay" shoe safes willftjpen tomorrow, ’rage lids were .Tried jp paper announces g these tvo sales. ajl* CObiCkrtT *AT ♦: 15 O'CLOCK

The Irene Stolofsky concert which is io be held at $e Masonic hall Friday evening, January S, under the aus;>»es of the Woman's e'(jb. begin' at 8:15 o'clock so as not to interfere with the prayer-meeting which is also 1 conducted at the various churches this week. The concert will net begin until after the’ prayer meeting ' and the public is cordially incited to attend Miss Mary Heavilori’s Big Free Cooking School is now in session in the lower room of the Public Library „ building, Third street. 2-41 We have just received a big shipment of ARISTOS Flour. ‘Phone your order to No. 31. Steele's Grocery. 11 ♦ DOINGS,IN BOCIKTY ♦ Club Calendar Five Hundred Club—Mrs. Fred Ash, baticher. W. M. A., U. B. Church—Parsonage Shakespeare Club—Mrs. J. C. Patterson. Thursday Baptist Woman's Society—Mrs. S. E. Shamp. » Ic-Nick Club—Mrs. Dan Falk. Calvary’ Ladies’ Aid — Mrs. Dora Shilling, State Line. The Ever-Read y Class of the M. E Church—Mrs. Leland Frank. Mt. Pleasant Methodist Ladies’: Aid—Mrs. Herbert Butler. W. M. S. of Evangelical Church— With Mrs. Geo. Dutcher, Mercer Ave.l e » Friday M Oman's Home Missionary Society, I M. E. Church—Mrs. R. D. Myers. Hot soup and hot sandwiches of till kinds at the Fred and Bill lunch room, opposite court house. Give us a call. 2-6 t Miss Mary Heavilon’s Big Free Cooking School is now in session in the lower room of •he Public Library building. Third street. ' 22- It

J i ® MW LEGION ! (Copy for This Depwtmeet W ' ” National Headquwt.ni <4 Ua> > ! 1 EX-SERVICE MEN in SPCRT3I Olympic Games Will R«all * ■ Daye When All Athlete* W'.re Fighting Men. Vntil the Oxford-Cambridge relaj team went to the Pennsylvania relay carnival a short time ago and won Ut I- mile relay race from some of the nee I 1 est teams U the United States. Ame* i lean athletes looked npen the OUmg I games to be held at Antwerp as i designed more or less for their owr particular amusement The vlctojj <X the English runners at ; was something of a shock, I dopesters are tilling to concede the Stars and Stripes may not aggr ' all break tape first In all the may , CoDtrarv to general belief, there w li be quite a«l>rinkling of ex-serrice >. The American team. Ont et’u expert bus estimated that I/' f ft ten or more of the competitors w ii'. be veterans of soffie branch of the eti - Many of these on form should be f iaeedt high in the events. Athletes —the teurs —travrf*at so fast a pace tha they do not remain at their top form Tor long but many cd the exs.rvi: men still are leading In track and L-‘b-.•fe have, for instance, P t ?' former artillevman. for the art.i’.er is an ideal branch for a ■&- thrower. Pat is still the world'! chip- f I pion and the record holder, e:. tt J Intdr-Allied Mimes ft J*.rise ’ *! he was only allowed to five * -i ( tion. The Flinch ♦=.;G. ! would mess up some rs W> • if he were permittsA 4e j, ', » heave into the hamfcw. Earl W. Eby is one at t<rt V. die distance runndw IStates, qp *oi» the 4<Li=eL • I and finished second in the B*?9 race at the Inter-Allied fr.m . Nick Cianakoptlos is a Hke’v wi: ♦ of the Maretkon. Nh k net only csr in the torld war*bat . ! around threush Use .<<«' en ' * • ( under Pershing. .Nick i:;r L i expert «t k. p. thatt >s • I . two armies as “Soaj." « Ex-service men are Isoati « to la 1' >•* acts os caldtdat4S *:» the : ican Olympia toa». Tue®b. -t

— —■ , dfc,..— „ — - J • ■ ■ • - I J , IMII w .. KICK GIANAKOPOLOB. is putting up C. E. Higgins In two of the ancient sports, the javelin end d!s" cits events. California is banking on Charles Paddock to take the 100 and 200-metar races. He won both of these events in the in ter-Allied games. WHAT THE LEGION HAS DONE Established service station at nai tlonal headquarters and system of co. ' operating war risk officers in evenstate, thereby adjusting thousands of compensation claims for dependents of men who died or were disabled. National headquarters alone, which takes up only the most complicated cases that cannot be haudled.-by posts -<lr state headquarters, has settled individual claims aggregating approximately 51,000,000, between November 11, 1919, and May 15, 1920. The American Legion was conceived in Paris, February 15, 1919, at a gathering of twenty members of the 1 E |F. Prior to th» “Membership Push’’ it had more than 1,500.000 members ‘ in more than 9,000 posts throughout America and foreign countries, besides I more than 800 women’s auxiliary units. How's that for a “youngster”’ fifteen months old? The senate recently passed the bill adopted In the house October 30, 1919 providing for the deportation of cer’ tain undesirable aliens and denyint to those thus deported This measure embodied principles vored by the Legion at its’St. Louis caucus in May, 1919, and its - r , as was largely due to the of Legions national legislative tee, of which Thomas W. MiiC. i. chairman, w 14

January 1921 Release -of - Brunswick Records ** ISw-«^* r ' ~r ‘' l “ s “' 1 • '■ » Hf.,l Faces Fox Trot Introducing flrievinK For ’iou t° x Trot Introducing ••Mammy’s Apron Strings .85 ’057 Apple Bloxom Time Male Quartet with Orchtbtra „ . .. Old Pal. Why Don’t 1 ou Ans« er Me. Baritone with Orchestra -So Your Fingers at Core Fox Trot—--2 9 Irrtroducing ‘ Love Flower” from Green- • Owieh Village Follies Castle of Dreams Fox hot frum htue .8a Manne Fox Trot—Orchestra Home Again Blues Fox Trot—Orchestra .85 c ft 29 Sin* Me to Sleep Soprano with Orchestra ( ‘ " Sweetest Story Ever Told Soprano with Orchestra 1-I*o 5030 Some fessed Day Male Quartet ' Sometime, Somewhere Male Quartet LOO 1 5031 I Love You. Sunday Fox Trot—Orchestra Finga Bulf-Fing-Hng One Step-Orchestra LOO 5030 Until You Say Good-Bye Soprano with Orclhxtra • ' lose of My Heart Tenor with Orchestra - 1.00 i 10822 Rgstff! of Spring Pianoforte Solo 1.00 10024 Tosca Tenor with Orchestra 1.00 ♦5« l MnngariA Rhapsody ParF*l—Concert Band Husgariai Rhapsody Part 2 Concert Band 1.50 fX«B£ IwMioftsque Violin Solo 1.50 Tar fell PtaMgrejh Will Be A Btunswick I Pumphrey’s Jewelry Store

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The 1921 Outlook i What has the new year in store for us? Carefully considered, its outlook • (includes greater crops, better traffic facilities, lower prices, improved productivity, cheaper production costs, growing thrift and iiureasing economy® *i his R the lime when individuals and busfhess institutions should avail themselves oi u banking connection c, that assures dose, personal co-opera-tion. Interest on Savings Deposits. * « OLD ADAMS COUNTY BAKU “The Old Reliable” Ae sell European food Certificates” NOTICE TO FARMERS AND BREEDERS Great e-, Opportunity Sale W ill be held by > DUBACH BROS. & FRENCH -WhenJanuary 8tb,1921, at Night 9 Head JJland China Sows and Gilts Where you can buy L ° AT PUBtIC SAt -E the very best of Wood T'*' TheSe ‘° WS and a ' ,tß are ail earryinß make Se tXed “mil ' ° Ut< ™ s E "° lißh bl °° d ’ (Arch Back Defiant II) tw ° of the widest advertised boars of the breed, widest advertise^ ? j ArCh B * k the '*° rid ’ S grand sen of old (imp. Queen of'r* T*** <L ' neal Prin ce of England;) he ' s 3 h, i. out of Hi ” ire - rwi orinc ' champion and grand championship ° f the screed - The > have W ° n ter mate sold for $1,600.00 Noui • piace they were shown, and one lit’ boars. Any time you tell a br«a° Ur tme t 0 bUy a sow or two bred t 0 SUCh such sires, he will tell you that h " y ° U haVe a litter of P'S B at home from them for him. This is the onnrl ’* con ' !,n S ‘«ke a look at them to keep mind and be present at this great sale* k "° cS<inß at your door, so bear in Dl’Ra7-’u tnd U-At H BROS. & FRENCH -i