Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1921 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CC JOHN H. HELLER Edito ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Aset elate Editor and Business Manage JOHN H. STEWART City Edito Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single Copies 3 conti One Week, by carrier 15 ceutt One Year, by barrier $7.5C One Month, by mall 45 centt Three Months, by mail Six Months, by mail 12.26 Ono Year, by mail $4 00 One Year, at office $4.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. The milk dealers in Elwood have reduced their prices to ten cents per quart, eggs have dropped tor thirty cents a dozen retail, normalcy seems to bo coming in real strides these days. The Decatur Industrial association will have its own quarters und they are to be comfortable rooms, well furnished, heated and properly lighted and the public will be invited to use them. We believe these quarters will prove very popular and that interesting meeting will be held. Several of our oldest subscribers and a number of old have written us objecting to the change of text books by the legislature under the persuasion of the school book trust. We doubt if this can be stopped now but it might be well to drop a line to Mr. Gottschalk or Mr. Decker. Its an outrage against the people and one that should not be perpetrate' l . The farmers of Adams county can help themsleves and the community by planning to raise sugar beets the coming year. By the way, this is one crop which you have sold before you harvest it. Y’ou know the minimum price per ton you will receive and you know approximately the cost of production. It seems to us the right crop for the farmers during these times of uncertain and fluctuating 1 pricse. 1 The Decatur Industrial association 1 is an organization for your benefit. There may be weeks and months , when they do not seem to be doing i much but just the same it is an or- ■ ganization of those citizens interest- 1 ed in the community—the county and city—ready to get busy on short notice. They have already done’a number of good things and with proper support can continue to do so. If you are not paying dues, start now. , The world is somewhat up-side-down, the future is not as bright as we would like it, we are passing through the real after war crisis and it will require the courage and the ability and the firmness and the hon esty of the pioneer to bring this land out of the muddle. We do not say these things pessimistically but it is the truth and the sooner we all face The Brand of Battery Quality By this brand on the battery case you will recognize the Willard Threaded Rubber Battery. Buy this brand and you will get the only battery that is free from the familiar woodseparator troubles, expensive replacement, carbonizing, perforating, checking and cracking. The Willard Threaded Rubber Battery i.i the only battery that can be shipped end stocked absolutely bone dry—no deterioration. Drive in and get acquainted with Willard Service. Ask us about Threaded Rubber Insulation, HOLTHOUSE GARAGE Willard ssxteries

T> these facts and then smilingly start in to lick them, the better we will all be off. » 0. If you get the paper by mail, you or 0 . should renew this week. It will cost sr but $3.50, just about a penny a day. sr For this you will keep posted on the markets, the conditions of affairs !s generally, the events in legislature :s and in congress, the inauguration . celebration, tho court new/ local, 5 state and national happenings and a (i hundred other items in which you 0 are i«terested. You cannot afford to ! be without your home paper und this week Is the time to renew. Do it now —today. In these days of hard tmies many I contend that thrift must be practiced by everybody, ■ but there appears to be a great diversity of views regarding tho definition of I

thrift. Guy Gundaker has said that thrift is the efficient handling of what one has and is not necessarily gauged by the amount ono has left. A thrifty individual may or may not be economical. It depends upon his objective. In the United States when a person is designated as “a piker" it is generally considered that such a person is neither economical nor thrifty. Thrift is certainly in opposition to waste. Let us stop wastage and we will be thrifty.—Rotarian. TO SEEK HIS PARDON. * Ossinging, N. Y., Feb. 8. —(Special to the Democrat). —Mrs. Anna Foster of Evansville, Ind., mother of Jesse Walker, convicted murderer went to Washington today ot obtain the aid of the president and Indiana senators to win her son's freedom. Walker and Guy Nichols were accused of murdering Samuel Wolchak while robbing hisstationary store in ‘ Brooklyn. Walker is to be electro- ' cuted this week, probably Thursday. 1 WIFE SOLD TO BUTCHER - < i (United Press Service) , ■ Chicago, Feb. B.—Special to Daily' I Democrat) — Marie, 1 wife of Eric Johnson, was sold to their butcher, Berger Peterson, for a vacant lot valued at SSOO by her husband, she said today. The transaefton was drawn up in legal phrasology by a Chicago attor- i ney, she said. ■ Police unearthed the alleged sale wher Johnson in an attempt to at- ' trieve his wife went to an apartment i where he was heated, by Jess Peterson ' the butcher’s brother. The men were 1 arrested for disorderly conduct. Anniversary Greatly Enjoyed (Continued from page one) Coffee furnished music for the occasion, and the old-fashioned dances of the time when Mr. and Mrs. Gillig were youths, furnished delightful entertainment for all. During an intermission, however, there were talks by D. D. Coffee, Judge Moran and others. Harmon Gillig, of tihs city, responded for his father and mother, in words of appreciation to the many friends for the esteem in which the parents are held, and for the many expressions of congratulations and best wishes which had come to them during the day. The children presented their parents with S2OO in gold, and there were; also very many other valuable presents given by the relatives and

friends. The day and evening was a most happy one, for every one —'the parents, children and grandchildren. It was the third golden -wedding in the Gillig family, the others having been celebrated by the brother, Martin, and sister, Frances. OYSTER SUPPER TONIGHT The regular meeting of the K. of C. will be held this evening at the hail after which an oyster supper will be served. Members are urged to be present Come and enjoy yourself. G. K. MUST APPEAR IN COURT. Pittsburgh, Kan., Feb. B.—(Special to the Democrat). —Alexander H. Howit,’ district president of the Uni ted Mine Workers of America, and several other miners’ officials were to appear before district judge A. J Currua .today to explain why . thej called a strike of 200 miners despitt an injunction restraining them from doing so. . ‘ ; .> i Howit .admits calling .the strike am; i “eays- it ie up to the court to saj whether I am guilty.” The men were arrested yesterdaj I and released on their own recogniz i ance.

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25,582 MORE BIRTHS THAN DEATHS IN THE YEAR 1920 There were 25,582 more births than deaths in Indiana in 1920, according to, the annual compilation ot vital statistics for lust your, that has been completed by H. M. Wright, registrar,statistician of the state board ot 1 health. The total number ot births: tor the year wus 64,893, and the deaths totaled 39.311. in 1919 the total births were 59,2’3. and the deaths were 37, 077. The birth rate tor each l,ot>o population in the state during the last year was 22.2. as against 20.1 in 1919. The deaths in 1930 exceeded the deaths in 1919 by 2,234, the death rate being 13.4 for each 1,000 in 1920. as compared with 12.5 in 1919. The disease which caused the largest number of deaths In both years was pneumonia, with tuberculosis secondThe 1920 deaths Yvere distributed among important ages as follows: Under 1 years. 5,233; 1 to 10 years, 3,035; 10 to 20 years, 1.739, and 65 years and over, 13,916. During 1919 the deaths by ages were as follows. Under 1 year, 4,690; 1 to 10 years, 2,791; 10 to 20 years, 1,725, and 65 years and over, 12,553. —Indianapolis News. WOULD DREDGE KANKAKEE • _____ Indianapolis, Feb. 8. — Representative Fifield's bill providing so the appointment of a commission to confer with a like body from Illinois on the feasibility of dredging and straightening the Kankee river has received the approval of Governor Warren T. McCray, it was learned here today. The bill provides that the commission investigate the proposal to dredge the river, how much such a project would cost and how long a time the task would require. Senator Will Brown, of Hebron, who : is sponsoring the bill and who asked Fifield to introduce it in the house of j representatives, said that the dredging of the river would reclaim swamp lands in northern Indiana. There is about a five-foot decline in the river at the point where it turns south just a few miles from the state line. Brown said, and this permits the water to back up on the farm lands. The county commissioners are meeting in regular session at the auditor's office.

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