Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1921 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Publlshad Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER Editor R. HOLTHOUSE, Associate Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor SubsdWJitlon Rates Cash In Advance Single Copies 3 cents One Week, by carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier $7.50 One Month, by mail 46 cents Three Months, by mall $1.26 Six Months, by mall $2.25 One Year, by mail $4.00 )4te Year, at office $4.00 Advertising rates made kaown on Application. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter When the legislature recently undertook to change the primary law, u howl went up that it was an effort to take away the rights of the people to chaose their officers. Now we have n primary on and the public as usual is sitting idly by and permitting things to take their course. Then it it don’t suM, they will cry long and j loud and inconsistently. Now is the! time to take advantage of your rights, not after election. Help se- 1 lect the men who will best govern j your city and then support them and help them to improve conditions. Virgil Decker, nineteen year old boy from near Warsaw, has confess- j ed that he murdered his friend. Le Roy Lovette and placed his body in a buggy on the railroad track. He had taken out $28,000 life insurance , and expected the body to be identified as his own, permitting his mother to collect the insurance. Now he will either be electrocuted or spend the rest of his days in prison. It’s a difficult job after all and his dream bursts. The young man who plans to get money easily usually discovers too late that the old method of earning what you get and saving from. your earnings is after all the only way to get ahead and enjoy life and liberty | ' ’ - Business is not as good as it was six mouths ago. That seems to be 1 an undisputed statement. Prices I have tumbled, factories have closed, future buying is at a standstill and j th# return to normalcy has b t een more sudden than even the loudest politician proclaimed. We face a period When only real work counts and it behooves every one to make an effort to do his part. The merchant who advertises will reap a reward in number of sales, the man who is' willing to work for an honest wage I and deliver an honest day's work will have no difficulty, those who look the situation squarely in the face and meet it with a smile, will win in this battle. The people seem to rather relish the murder stories, sensational divorce suits and ‘freakish” developments these days, a break which though gruesome in some Instances is refreshing after years of war horrors. For four or five years the maneuvers of armies, the results of battles, the strategy of war, the casual-

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'* ty lists und the newa from seat* of government hold the first columns of news. Now tho lead story is lsk«ly . to be thut of a murder or u divorce p and the more sensational the better • the people seem lo like it. We are j) swinging back to normalcy uml ; so popular have these stories become thut the spectators are now spoken s of as ‘'murder fans." It’s u new sport | and in time we will tire of It but Just s now it's u form of hysteria that may | be the means of making us forget the ) horrors of war and get buck to bit--1 man things and the smaller selfish i results of living. Herbert Hoover, the new secre- > tary of commerce and a recognized authority on international business, says we must meet the world in competition and we must make no mistake in the plans towards this end. "If we meet this competition," says Mr. Hoover, “and still maintain our high standards of living, we still have to work harder; we will have to i eliminate waste; we will need to still | further improve our processes, our I labor relationship und business methods. if we would so improve our : national efficiency and our foreign i trade we must consider our trails- ; portation, both railway, water and 1 marine, as one system directed to I serve the nation as a whole. The , development of certain trade routes ; through our mercantile marine, as the real extension of our inland transportation; the improvement of great I waterways; the opening of the great lakes to ocean going vessels; the development of great electrification of our power necessities, and the handling of our labor adjustment by moderate men on both sides, are all problems that have a fundamental bearing on the recovery in commerce and on our ability to compete.” * DOINGS IN SOCIETY ♦ Club Calendar V v Saturday C. L. of C. Pastry Sale—Schmitt Meat Market. Beulah Chapel Easter Social —Peterson School. Home Guards —Monai Butler. MONDAY. Woman’s Club —Postponed. TUESDAY. Thimble club—Mrs. Carl Pumplij-ej. An Arabian frees his slaves after seven years' service provided they have embraced the Moslem religion. IT WORKED WONDERFULLY Have you noticed the number of persons coughing this spring, caused by an irritated condition in the chest, bronchial tubes or throat? This coughing is banished by a few doses of Foley’s Honey and Tar. Mrs. Anna Stein, 410 Wesctern Ave., Covington. Ky., writes: “Your eought medicine worked wonderfully on our little son. He is subject to bronchitis. The first doses helped him.’ Good or all sorts of coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough and grip adds. Sold everywhere. Big barrel of fresh salted peanuts arrived last night. Get a poupd today for 15e, 2 lbs. for 25c at Steele's Grocery.

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KENTUCKY GIRL WRITES LETTER , How She Was Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Sunnyside, Ky. — “I suffered for more than two years with my back and ner-

ivousness, and was nqt able to help my mother do the houseIwork. I took treat.Iment from two docItors and they did not do me any good. Mother saw Lydia E. Pinkham’s VegetaI ble Compound advertised in the paper and 1 took about ten bottles. It has done Ime a great deal of

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FOR THE FARMERS Items of Interest to the Farmers of Adams County. A meeting will be held on the John Glesler farm, south of Pleasant Mills, on next Monday afternoon ut 2:00 o’clock for the prpose of demonstrating the formaldehyde treatment of seed oats for smut. A similar meeting will be held on the John Amstutz farm in Jefferson township on Tuesday afternoon. A demonstration In orchard pruning and spraying will be held in Monroe : township during the latter week in March. At thut time an orchard spe- < iuliet front Purdue will be present lo assist in the work. Further details as to time and place will be given shortly. Purdue Jersey Holds State Butterfat Mark. l’urdue's Golden Estella, nine years old. a pure-bred Jersey cow in the dairy herd at Purdue university, is the new champion butterfat producer of her breed in Indiana, winning this | honor February 15 when she completed a year’s record which showed 14,101 pounds of milk and 752.35 pounds of butterfat or nearly 900 pounds of butter. This mark established a new Jersey record for the state, and also one of the best in the United States. The champion cow is remarkable as a producer. She was bred and raised on the university farm so that her records are complete in every detail. One of her daughters as a two year old produced more than 500 pounds of butterfat and this year in the three year old class promises to make another record for three year old Jerseys. All her female offspring have been high producers and bull calves have grown into valuable sires. Her daily ration consists • of 25 pounds of silage. 14 pounds of alfalfa hay, and about 12 pounds of the grain or concentrate mixture which includes ground corn, ground oats, bran, oil meal and cottonseed meal. Last fall the also received a good feed of beets each day. Despite this high record land the rearing of a calf, the chamj pion cow has come through the year in good condition and is in batter flesh than when she started the test last February. , “This shows what can be done with a good, pure-bred cow properly handled,” said Prof. L. H. Fairchild, of the dairy staff. “She is of good breeding, is a good individual, and she has been fed the best we know how. She is a splendid eater and appreciates good attention, as is shown by her record.” Elephants, in many parts of India, have been appointed official executioners of justice. They will break the limbs of a criminal, trample him to death, or pierce him with the tusks, in compliance with the master’s instructions. NOTICE I have moved my tools to Bellmont Park and will repair and rebuild cars there. If you have any work you want done, call me during the day at phone 502, and in the evenings at 450 61-6 t OTTO REPPERT. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT Please announce my name as a candidate for the nomination for mayor on the- democratic ticket, subject to the decision of the primary election to be held Mav 3, 1921. 63-ts CHAS. N. CHRISTEN. NOTICE! H. A. Straub, the expert wall-paper cleaner, the man who knows how, will make that dirty paper look like new. Small or large jobs: also rugs I and chimneys cleaned, porch washing and cisterns cleaned. 1 will gave your water. Prices right. All w’ork guaranteed. Leave order at Daily Democrat office. 63-t6xl AN EASTER SOCIAL The Ladies’ Aid society of the Beulah Chapel M. E. church will hold an Easter social at the Peterson school house. Saturday evening, | March 19. The public is invited. Good "eats” will be served, and the public is most cordially invited. 63-t5 — CUT THIS OUT—IT IS WORTH MONEY Cut out this slip, enclose with 5c and piail it to Foley & Co., 2835 Sheffield Ave., Chicago, Ill* writing your name and address clearly. You will j receive in return a trial package containing Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for coughs, colds and croup; Foley Kidney Pills for pains in sides and back: rheumatism, backache, kidney and bladder ailments; and Foley; Cathartic Tablets, u wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic for ; constipation, biliousness, headaches, land sluggish bowels. Sold everyj where.

SPELLING TEAMS From the Fifth and Sixth and Seventh and Eighth (Jratios Are Selected FRIDAY AFTERNOON Township and Corporations Held First Spelling Bees Over the County The vurious townships and corporations over Adam county held their first spelling bees on Friday afternoon, the contests being between the pupils of the fifth and sixth and the seventh and eighth grades. Twelve , spellers were picked from the various classes, and the Beven best were I to be members of the teams to repre- 9 sent the grades in which they spel- 9 led iu the sectional meets to be held j March 15, the six north townships to 1 spell in Decatur,' aud the six south | townships at Berne. The winners ofJ the sectional matches will spell at | (he county meet to be held in Deca- I tur, April 15. The city of Decatur j was the only corporation reporting ( today to M. F. Worthman, who is in charge of the north half of the county. Those in the south half will re- I port to C. O. Lehman at Berne, and it is urged that all teachers report to these men as soon as is possible for them to do so. The city of Decatur reported winners as follows: Seventh and eighth grades, Misses Coffee, Mutschler, Sellemeyer and Mr. Heller, teachers —Ivan Douglas. Edith Mae Bell, Jeanette Steele. Lela Reffy, Margarett Jane Hoffman. James Leonard and Clyde Cline. Honorable mention should also be given Doris Peters, Guyneth Doug las. Marion Blackman, Gladys Stanley and Carl Tucker. Fifth and sixth grades, Misses DeVoss, Stevens, Moran and Brandyberry. teachers—Gretchen Douglas. Jeanette Beery, Ruth Engle, Dora bovine, Robert * Krisinger. Geraldine Andrews and Margaret Haley. Honorable mention is also given Betty Erwin, Kenneth Hoffstetter, Harry Dailey, Gordon Teeters and Helen Kirsch. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Anker and daughter, Veronica, were Fort Wayne visitors Friday afternoon and attended the show at the Palace last evening.

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Special Just received a fresh shipment of Hillings Cherrv Cocktails and fancy Malto Malted Milk Chocolates in Vi to 5 !b. fancy boxes which we know will please you. Also Easter eggs, the soft jelly kind, good for the old as well as the young. For sale where they all go • _ ‘ West End Restaurant MONROE STREET in -i i 11 —. || ‘ | The Road That * Leads To Financial j Independence Is Just What You Make It ] You can make it a never ending one by not saving any of your earnings. You can make it a long and tedious one by saving only occasionally. I You can make it a plyasant, interesting and shorter road bv saving systematically, by '<RfmwL!frtg' ouch week a part of your earnings with us. Which road will you take? • -i 4 r c Interest on Saving Deposits OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK*j Decatur, Indiana, y 1 V?