Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1921 — Page 3

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♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦l* ♦ ABOUT TOWN ♦ **************** The comfort to be given away by the American Legion next Wednesday night is now on display at the John Myers clothing stere. Don't fail to get a chaiice on it. Seed treatment on a large scale is practiced in Marinette county, Wis„ as is usually the case with counties having a live county agbnt , There will be 12,000 bushels of seed potatoes treated in the county this spring, and oats treatment for smut is progressing at the rate of 1,800 bushels a week. Miss Irene Fry of Fort Wayne is spending Saturday and Sunday with Miss Grayce Baxter of Rugg street. The farm bureaus of Ohio have bought 1,500 bushels of state inspected seed potatoes from Marinette county, Wis., farmers this spring, paying $1.75 a bushel, with the table stock market around 50 cents. Ezra Highlen, sen-of William Highlen, and brother of Mrs. Jesse Gilbert, who visited in the’ Gilbert home for two weeks at Easter and had gone to Fort Wayne to visit a few days before going to Michigan, changed his plans and returned here Monday of last week for a longer visit and instead of going to Michigan, he loft Thursday for Toledo, Ohio, and was planning to try for employment on some of the freight boats on the Great Lakes. He was employed as fireman on a freighter on the lakes in 1916 and likes the work very well, and he thought when leaving here that he would go on the lakes for the season. He has been visiting in Indiana since the forepart of March.

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Miss Celia Gillig and niece, Mary Gast, left for Cincinnati this morning after spending the winter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Gillig. Rev. J. J. Heffner of Cassella, Ohio, visited his uncle, Mr. C. Gillig, this week, and also Mrs. Andrew Gast and daughters, Mary and Gertrude, of Celina. 1 Little Jack Conner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Conner, was quite ill for a time Friday evening, giving his parehts quite a scare. It is thought the trouble was caused by his teeth and stomach. He is much better today. Mr. and Mrs. W). A. Kucbler will lleave this evening for Indianapolis where they will attend the Carson-Pierre-Scott spring opening, returning home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Conner of Geneva came up last evening, being called by the illness of their grandson, Jack Conner Mrs. Conner remained over night, and her husband returned to Geneva. Miss Gladys Kern went to Van Buren today where she will visit friends over Sunday. The Evangelical congregation will hold special services at the church on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Dr. Stewart Niblick, of Indiana Harbor, who had been here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S? Niblick, returned yesterday noon to his home. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bell were in Fort Wayne Friday evening and were privileged to listen to the address of Edwis M. Hurley at the Anthony hotel. Mr. Hurley was chairman of the United States shipping board, and is one of the great business men of the country.

i DECATUR DAILX DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, APIUL 23, 1921.

Prof. Willis Alfred Fox, president of the Tri-State college at Angela and one of the best known educators of the state, visited us a few moments this morning on his way to Pleasant Mills where he gave the commencement address to the class of 1921, Mr. Fox was a candidate for state superintendent In 1918 and has many acquaintances over Indiana. H. P. LuFountaine, superintendent of the county infirmary, called here thiS morning. He reports the spring work well out of the way and everything going fine at the county farm. All the inmates are as fcell and happy as can be expected and Mr. LaFountaine likes his work and is getting along nicely. L. C. Waring returned last evening from a .business trip to Fort Wayne. Paint up, clean up, fix up for spring. It’s time and it’s proper. A little work on the yard and the home and the business house will give an appearance to the town most attractive to visitors and enjoyable for yourself. Mr. and Mrs. Dave McWhirter stopped here today enroute to Wolcottville to visit their son Forest, who formerly was first trick operator at the G. R. & 1., Decatur. They will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Miller and Mrs. Hugh McWhirter. Martin Burger from Flat Rock, Allen county, was in town on business today. Paul Lichtcnsteiger of Wren, 0., was a business visitor in Decatur. Among the business callers today was Johnas Kleine from Hoot township. Albert Knavel of Monroeville was a business caller in Decatur today. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hanhert and son, of Salem, were in the city today. Ollie Heller of Preble made a business trip to Decatur today. Mrs. Issac Bowman and daughter Mary of Pleasant Mills, were in the city today. Mrs. Minnie Ilolthouse and daughter Naomi, made a business trip to Fort Wayne this noon. There will be a two-cent supper in the basement of the Evangelical church Thursday evening. The menu will be given later. Fred 11. Meyer, of Monroe, was a business caller at this office today. Aloysius Schmitt arrived home from Notre Dame for an over Sunday visit with his parents. Chris Strebe of Fort Wayne was calling on friends and attending to business affairs here this morning. The city primary’will be held one week from next Tuesday and the candidates are busy these days. The campaign though quiet promises to develope considerable interest during the next ten days. Allen Stalter has returned from a business trip to the south part of the state in the interest of the Vail company. C. H. Colter is home from his regular business trip for the Smith & Bell company. If you have any local or society news, we will appreciate it if you will call Fanny Heller at this office. ’Phone 51. Prof. Paul Dorn of Root township was looking after business in town this morning. The J. F. Arnold house on Third street is being redecorated and beautified for the season. Simon Smith of Monroe was in town on business today. Mrs. Steven Miller of Fort Wayne and a former resident of Decatur was a business caller at this office today. Mrs. Charles Christen and family went to Fort Wayne today to visit Mrs. Christen’s sister, Mrs. Hieman. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Brown of R. R. three were shoppers in the city today. Fred Ahr and Bob Helm made a business trip to Portland today. J. R. Peterson, student at the Indianapolis Dental school, arrived today to spend the week end in this city. Among the business callers in town today was Mrs. Tony Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs. Cable of Preble were in Decatur on business today. Mrs. Ben Butler, of North Third street, is ill with heart trouble and will be compelled to take tho rest cure for a year. Mrs. Dick Peterson and children, Marguerite and French, of Cincinnati, arrived in Decatur yesterday tor a visit with relatives. From here they will go to Bluffton to visit Mrs. Peterson’s mother. The Misses Zula and Lelah Steele, of Pleasant Mills, were in Decatur shopping this afternoon. Robert Mann, of Pleasant Mills, was in Decatur on business this afternoon. Ray McCoullutn, of Geneva, was in the city today. Albert M. Sellemeyer returned last night from Ohio. Mr. Taggart from Jackson, Michigan, drove a Ford coupe to this city for Albert Sellemeyer. Mr. Taggart who is a week-end guest at the Sellemeyer home on Fifth street. The local Rotarians have been invited to Union City next Tuesday to attend the installation of a Rotray club in that city. The Winchester club has charge of the program.

LOVES OLD HOME Rev. E. A. Allen Tells His Story for the Vevay’s “Wanderer’s Edition” FORMERLY LIVED HERE Struggled Through Universities, Traveler, Preacher and a Banker Rev. E. A. Allen, former pastor of the Presbyterian church here and now serving in a similar capacity at La Junta, Colorado, is a native of Switzerland county, Indiana, down on the Ohio river. The Vevay Reveille, the home county paper recently issued a "Wanderer’s Edition” in which old timers from there were asked to give the story of their life and here is what Rev. Allen wrote: La Junta, Colorado, Dear Reveille: The task you assign me is not easy but since home folks are speaking 1 must take notice, so here goes: I bid good bye to the rockiest and roughest farm in Craig township in November of 1875. Like Abraham of old, 1 went out not knowing whether I went, but unlike him I was not looking for the unseen city whose builder and maker is God. No, not a city, but an education was my goal. Hopewell, a Quaker academy was my ( first destination. Good folks I found here. But after some months J found my way to Hartsville College. Here I found home and health ,and education. I clerked, I huckstered, I sold books and I taught school. At the end of five years I was a proud graduate and would hardly have exchanged places with the president of the United States. And by the way, my first school was Pendleton Run, Craig township and I never will be happier this side or the other side of the Pearly gates than the day I began my school work for tho magnificent sum of $35.00 per month, (six month term.) My next venture was to capture a Decatur county girl, as a wife. Together we journeyed to the Indiana State University. There I came in contact with larger things and bigger men, among them being David Star Jordon. After my university course I again embarked in teaching but at the end of three years I found myself in Lane Theological Seminary preparing for the ministry. This calling has been my life's work with the excep

—Putting Our Cards On The Table — i Ex-Vice President Marshall made a hit with the public when some newspaper paragrapher quoted him as saying “What the country really needs more than anything else, is, “the return of a good five cent cigar.” The Daily newspapers say that the five cent cigar has come back, BUT HAS IT? We think not—-not if we have in mind the kind of a five cent cigar WE BUILT IN PRE-WAR DAYS: > It’s true that there are plenty of cigars on the market that sell for five cents each (and we make some) but they are the old familiar “two-fers” and “three-fers” smokes of pre-war days and their present price is just a 100 a advance over old prices. In this instance the city newspapers are just as near to the truth as they were when they published ail over the land that cigar prices should come down because the new Kentucky crop of burley tobacco was* selling at a low figure. Fancy you, Mr. “WHITE STAG” Smoker “enjoying” a cigar made of the 1920 crop of Kentucky tobacco at live cents or at any other price. WE KNOW YOU WOULDN’T. Now we feel that the public generally does not understand (he condition in the cigar type leal tobacco market. The prices of QUALITY cigar leaf owing to its scarcity is higher for the 1919 and 1920 crops than ever before, in fact cigar type leaf has attained its peak prices since the fall of 1918 and in view ol the proposed increased revenue taxes and an increase of about $1.15 per pound import duty on Java and Sumatra tobaccos the cigar manufacturers who expect to keep up the quality of their inerchandise'face an increased production cost of from $2.50 to SI.OO per M cigars. This added burden the cigar manufacturer must carry in spile of the fact that during the abnormal conditions before and during the war and since the armistice was signed, there was no business that suffered so badly as the wholesale and retail cigar business. All other commodities trebled and even quadrupled in prices but the cigar manufacturers and retail dealers combined in an effort to give the smoker more for his money than he could get in any other line of merchandise. In pre-war times the retailer sold a good smoke for a "nickel” and his cost per M was $33.00 to $35.00 per M. As war conditions came to have its effect on the trade and manufacturers costs increased the retailer paid SIO.OO per M for this same merchandise and sold it for the same old nickel, then as labor conditions both in the tobacco fields, cigar factories and cigar box factories almost doubled the cost of manufacture and the revenue taxes were increased from $3.00 per M to SO.OO per M his price from the manufacturer shot up until he was paying from $60.00 to $61.00 lor merchandise that he sold at 8 cents or 2 for 15 cents so that both cigar manufacturers and retailers practically gave a part of their legitimate profit to the smoking public. The Standard brands of really good, former five cent cigars are not lower in price, nor will they be lower until tobacco, labor, cigar boxes, labels, revenue taxes, and import duties and other overhead expenses are lower, and that is a matter of the uncertain future PERHAPS NEVER. When we manufacture a cigar like the “WHITE STAG” and sell it at 10'< to (>()'< over pre-war prices (for the 8 cent and 10 cent sizes) we are certainly giving our customers better value for their money than you can obtain in the present day offerings of “five-cent” We feel that our business foundation was built on a QI ALIIY proposition and that that QI ALII I will tell in the long run. Ol R QUALITY MAKES PERMANENT FRIENDS WHERE QUALITY IS PARAMOUNT - AND WHERE OUR EVERY IDEAL IS ONE OF SERVICE AND SMOKE SATISFACTION TO OUR CUSTOMERS THE PRICE IS FORGO! TEN, for after all its an old axiom that, "we get just what we pay lor,” therefor we are going to continue to build a GOOD cigar, charge a Fair prolit and STICK TO IT and if you Mr. Smoker will “STICK TO THE ’WHITE STAG’ YOU’LL NEVER GET STUCK.” , . i ~ . The White Stag Cigar Co. . ' —r:— —- :-x-. — ' e.;;:.:, . ...i .l. . . . '''A ■ —UtV

tfon of an extended trip to Europe, and some years in the banking bust neia. My pastorates have been Decatur, Indianapolis and Kokomo, Ind., and Harvard, 111. Six years ago I was called to this thriving town, one of tho best between the oceans. Yes, out here amid the stir and thtf bustle I am living a glorious life. “Out where the handclasp's a little stronger. Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins; Out where the sun is a little brighter, Where the snows that fall are a trifle whiter, . Where the bonds of home urea wee bit tighter, * That’s where the West begins. Out where the world is in the making Where fewer hearts in despair are aching, That’s where the West begins; Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying— That's where the West begins.’’ But do you know Misses Editors that 1 have a day dream now and then that I will pass the afternoon and evening of my life back amid the hills of my native county. That Good iGod has been kind to me beyond compare. My boyhood was'a struggle with poverty—a frail body and by no means a strong mind. Health has been mine with as much if not more of this world's goods than I deserve. My wealth of friendship has also been very great. All my pastorates have been ones of great joy. I have oliiciated at 1075 weddings and 1125 funerals. I joyfully accept the universe as I find it and believe it the great mission of all to make it better. In theology I am a Cfhvanist. In church a Presbyterian, in politics, a republican and in practice a sinner. I believe in humanity with a big “H” and always and everlastingly I am , tor the under dog, black or white. I am creeping into the sixties but my eyes are not dim, neither my natural force unabated and I can still go upstairs two steps at a time and do not mind a scrap now and then. I enjoy life to the full but when I fall I wish to have my face to the front. Let me bumimy house by the side of the road,

Where the children of men go by, Men that are good, and men that are had As g<x>d and as bad hi you and T, 1 will not sit in the scoffer’* Mat Nor hurl the cynic's bane. But M ,s.« by the side of the road And be a friend of man. With ail good wishes I am as usual Your servant, * M. A. ALLEN. APRIL FOOL JOKE Four of the leading ministers Os tho city were victims of a practical joke played upon them on April Ist, by a fellow pastor. Dr. E. A. Allen of the Presbyterian church arranged with the good lady who presides over the destinies of the Park House Case teria, to call up Rev. J. B. Gilmore, Rev. J. N. Bowling, Rev. J. E. Stebbins and Dr. C. B. Steele and inform them that a $5 fee was waiting for them if they would come to tho Park House at 11:30 o'clock and perform a marriage ceremony. Five real doll are looked pretty good even to those who receive the munificient salaries paid the shephards of the flocks in La Junta, and each one dressed in his best and arrived at the appointed place at the time specified. After a sufficient period of bewilderment on their part, the light was turned on the joke, and all enjoyed a good dinner at the cafeteria at the expense of Dr. Allen.—Lt Junta, Cal. paper. Rev. Allen was formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church here.

THE MECCA CRYSTAL TONIGHT TONIGHT William Faversham .... r , _ , _ . fe Where Fairy Tales End— ft, Mt 111 Where Divorce Suits Begin 1 “ IN FOLLY TRAIL g X featuring BB > By Frank Packard, „ K 5 author of “Miracle Man.” CarmeMWjerS Eg An unbeliever who masks in fe the guise of the church and “WIFE’S CALLER” Ejf|j reaps virtue for a life of wrong a Btg Two Reel St H doing. Sunshine Comedy H —also— —o— Be •#’ ROMEO AND JULIET & MONDAY SJf comedy gF Admission 10-25 c Buck Jones Et H —o — H B NOTE:—No show will be giv- “THE BIG PUNCH” H 91 en at this theater Monday and and ’JS Tuesday of next week on ac- “FANTOMAS” ' jO count of painting and repairing. 10c—15c

PLANNING FOR A BIG CONVENTION Portland, Ind., April 23.—Things are rapidly taking shape for the firemen’s convention, which will be held here on June 16. At a meeting of the executive committee held In the chamber of commerce offices Tuesday evening. tho features of tho tournament were presented by the heads of the different committees, and a budget of expenditures was made. The decorating committee has estimates for the decoration of tho city for tho occasion, and the old "burg” will take on a gala attire, as elaborate, if not moro so, than ever before. An industrial parade will be held, for which all industrial enterprises and the various civic organizations in tho city will be asked to prepare floats. Prizes will bo given and it is expected that this parado will be a very elaborate one, artistic as well as instructive and entertaining. Entertainment will be provided in the nature of free attractions, as well as the different contests by the firemen, such as water battles, hose laying contests, etc., which will be thrilling and interesting. The meeting will bo given wlda publicity throughout Northern Indiana by every possible means, so that a record crowd will I>e insured. Visiting firemen will bring a number of features with them. There will be twelve or fifteen visiting bands, uniformed companies, and a variety of fire trucks and fire-fighting apparatus. The Decatur firemen will attend the convention.