Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1921 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by • THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. hAIER Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, A««o---plate Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single Copies 3 cents Ono Week, by carrier 15 cents One Year, by carrier $"-50 Ono Month, by mail 45 cents Three Months, by mail >1.25 Six Months, by nihil $2.25 One Year, by mail >4.00 One Year, at office 14-00 Advertising rates niadr known on application. Entered st the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter. ■■ —a , SLAPPING AN INCREASE ON YOUR AUTOMOBILE: — No matter if it's a ''flivver” or a ' “baby grand," the stat? tax board says your automobile is worth twen-. ty-flve per cent more than you value i it and that you’ll have to pay taxes ' on that amount. Just anoAer in- j stance of the powers enjoyed by 1 these men. It's not a question with them whether your automobile is, worth that much, and no doubt with . the twenty-five per cent added many , an automobile owner in this county j will be paying on a valuation more | than the “lizzie" is worth. The tax board fails to take into consideration that within the last few months automobiles have come down in price. 1 anywhere from ten to thirty per cent

The stronger the guarantee the less need of any by Mrs. Mary Preston Cooking Expert and Food Analyst It’s surprising the queer ideas we get sometimes. When I first started to write these advertisements, I didn’t understand anything about guarantees — nor advertising either for that matter. After I had written my first advertisement, the sales-manager of The Heekin Company said, “Mrs. Preston, I think we ought to guarantee this baking powder.” “Good gracious,” I replied. “A superior baking powder like Heekin’s doesn’t need to be guaranteed. Why, any woman can get excellent results with it. I’ve analyzed it, and I know that a purer baking powder can’t be made. (No foreign int gredients are gdded to create an unnatural effervescence or to give a false impression of quality.) I've baked with it and so have my assistants. We’ve never had one failure when we used Heekin’s.” Then I learned something about guarantees. The sales-manager said that it is only because Heekin’s is a superior baking powder that we can • . k afford to guarantee it. He explained that only a good article can be guaranteed—a poor one would go out of business sending money back to dissatisfied customers. “That being the case,” I said, “let’s make the strongest kind of a guarantee for Heekin’s. For I truly believe that it is the finest baking powder made, and we know that it is the favorite with thousands of women.” And here is the guarantee we decided upon: If anything you bake—using Heekin’s—doesn’t turn out to your entire satisfaction, list the ingredients in whatever you bake, their prices, and the price of the baking powder, and the entire amount of money will be returned to you by The Heekin Company. Cincinnati, Ohio. Simply send the list together with your name and address. After one trial, I am sure you will agree with me that Heekin s is the finest baking powder you ever used. Buy a can today and try it. You’ll like Heekin’s. La fjry | • \ / Xx t ■ ■ ■■ 1‘ t, ' V*. « .

and still these tax barons say you did not turn it In at Its correct value and then olap on the increase. County Assessor William Frasier who attended the meeting yesterday was ushered iqto u loom where he hud to battle with the members of the board. He made a fight against the unjust increase but to no avail. It was stated that oue member of the board told him that the automobiles In Adams county did not correspond with the average in Allen and Marlon counties. And they should not, for the majority of the cars owned by local people are not of the high pribe 1 variety. It's a safe bet that the autos in Allen county are not worth 1 as much as those you’ll find at Newport, Miami or those resorts where 1 | the rich have nothing to do except ; ride around in the highest priced 1 cars made. The assessment sheet shows that there were 2.490 automoi biles In the county on March • Ist, with a total valuation of $760,000 and with the "horizontal increase” ■it will bring the value up to nine hundred thousand dollars or $381.00 for every car. The tax board attempted to place a ten per cent increase on household ’ goods and hogs, but some how the ' words of Mr. Frazier must have born 1 weight with them and they consented to take his assessment on these two articles. With everything on the decline it does not look right for the tax board

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to place an Inflated value on automobiles. household goods, live stock and farming implements, it's putting a burden on the taxpayer that he will not be able to stand up under. Why give the right to a few men in liiUianapolls to place*a value on your property? The Reppert School of Auctioneering. known from coast to coast, as evidenced by the students coming from nearly every state in the union, from Montana to Massachusetts, to attend the four week's course, closed its second term last evening. Thirty-five young men were given their diplomas and today they are speeding back home where they will tell their friends about the school and the people they met while here. Col. Reppert, his business manager, J. O. Sellemeyer, Dr. Hill and* others of the faculty, are to be congratulated on the splendid success already attained by the Reppert school of auctioneering and we wish for them many years of continued success and a realization of their fondest dream. Since autoing and traveling by auto has become so popular many cities have provided convenient camping grounds near the city for the tourist. The plan is a good one. If the tourist knows that a camping ground has been provided for him he will make it a point to stop over night in that city. We believe Decatur has many an ideal spot for this purpose and that with a little effort we could secure a place and invite the tourist to stop over night with us. What do you think about it? The Chicago Tribune's health authority advises against spanking children on an empty stomach and Jimmy Almond of the Wabash TimesStar says he’s sure that his neighbors turn ’em over. Must be a new fad. People in the cities and many of the smaller towns are showing the new Harding badge. Take out your empty trouser’s pocket and wave it. Is your automobile worth twentyfive per cent more today than yesterday? The state tax board says it is. Governor Small evidently did not deal in small figures when it came to loaning money. . Peace between England and Ireland is about as remote today as it was a week ago. * Auto Valuation Given Big Boost (Continued from Page One) age, $5. Automobiles, 2,490; value, $760,491; average $305. Farm implements, 1,677; value, $273,980; average $163. Household goods, $4,080; value, $705,537; average, 173. Money, $718,993. Notes, $953,833. Mortgages, $562,550. Merchandise, $1,833,059. Total valuation of all personal property $9,441,230. School Days . Ended Friday (Continued from Page One) made the Ystart, and every livestock man n Amerca now knows Earl Gartin, as one of the very best. "J. O. Sellemeyer is one of the most loyal managers any man ever had,” said Colonel Reppert, and of course everybody in Decatur knew' that fact long ago. His work in connection with the school and other matters was praised. Miss Agnes Costello, the school stenographer, “who writes to all the boys,” when their applications come in, was also presented. She came in for her share of the praise, and Mr. Reppert stated she was true to the cause and stuck to the ship at all times. After the presentation of the diplomas to the graduates, the band played another selection, and' the big crowd was dismissed. — « NOTICE, G. A. R. The G. A. R. boys meet at Black & (Jetting's Sunday at 12 o’clock to attend tfie funeral of Comrade Hobbs, Civil war veteran. Conveyances will be furnished for all who come.. M • H. MEYERS, Commander, j

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pigeons' Fully seventy trained horaw and Shetlands arc presented it is the biggest circus program the world has ever seen, given under the largest tent and. in connection, is the ( famous combined Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey menagerie. • DOINGS IN SOCIETY ♦ CLUB CALENDAR Friday and Saturday. Epworth League Ice Cream Social —Court House Corner. Monday. Delta Theta Tau—Miss Florence Bremerkamp. z Tlie ladies' Aid society of the Evangelical church will meet at,the church parlors at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. A good attendance is desired. ♦ '. The St. Vincent DePaul society will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Roy Lahman, 321 Jackson st»6et. The assistant hostesses will be Mrs. Alex Converse and Mrs. Frank Gillig. + | The local telephone force, including all the employes and their families and nine from Berne, plcniced at Bellmont park last evening. Mr. Sellemeyer and Colonel Reppert were guests. Everything that was good to eat filled the table. Mr. Klepper furnished the party with ice cream as a gift for the splendid service the girls have always given end to show his appreciation. After supper they toasted marshmallows along the lake. In three weeks the Berne force has invited the Decatur crowd to plepic with them. _• Governor Small - . Is In Chicago (Continued from page one) the road hard but I am going through. Those who could not control me would ruin me.” Small’s conference with Chicago's Mayor was dubbed “Thompson’s last stand” by enemies of the powerful political machine. The governor’s indictment conies on the heels of Thompson’s recent repudiation by his own city council which voted to investigate the hiring of high-paid city experts. Several of Thompson’s pet measures have been frowned upon of late by the 'alJermanic body. Small late today will carry his fight to the people. He is slated for,an address at a picnic sponsored by Thompson’s followers. It was at a , similiar celebration a year ago that Small announced his candidacy for governor and was zealously acclaimed. While Small was ■ holding his war council in Chicago his attorneys at Springfield said if the governor submitted to arrest it would be a surrender of the executive powers to the judiciary and a violation of his oath of office. DYNAMITE KILLS TWO < I nited Pres* Service). Cleveland, Ohio, July 23.—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Two men were killed and a third injured when a stick of dynamite exploded prematurely at the Medal Paving Brick company here today. 1 The men were preparing to blast sand. They had two sticks in the hole ' when the third, still in the honds of one of the men exploded. They were buried by many tons of sand as the blast caused a cavein in • the sand pit. The dead are: i Cecil Compara, Collinwood. An unidentified man. IMPORTANT NOTICE t 1 Members of the local post of the 5 American Legion and all other exservice men are requested to report at 1 Legion headquarters Sunday forenoon 1 at 11:30 o’clock to attend the funeral 1 of Vernon C. Parr whose body has re- ’ cently arrived from overseas. All who can should be in uniform but if you have no uniform be there regardless. 1 Any person who can and who desires ’ to donate the services of an autornoE bile to convey the boys to and from 1 Monroe are kindly requested to call • 'phone 821. i - ICE CREAM SOCIAL 1 i_ 1 There will be an ice cream social at I the Bobo M. E. church Tuesday even- • ing, July 26. A good time is assured 1 all who attend. » TENOR SOLOIST RE- '■ COMMENDS FOLEY’S I _John F. West, 272 Morris Ave. , Trenton,N. J., well known tenor soloist, .writes: “I had a very severe : cough and tickling. in my throat Could not sleep at night. I tried ! Foley’s Honey and Tar and was reC S ° nCe ’ Also tk ’Hling in my ■.±‘ h v S , g °, ne ’ ’ can hi * h, y ’■ecoffi-' I jnend }• oley s Honey and Tar ” • There’s no better remedy for coughs - colds, crop, hay fever and asthma. . t is safe wholesome, and quicklv - brings good results. Sold everywhere.

repair shop <„mnhile tractor, or machinery of in ‘Xired promptly by experienced any kind and have itl • shop in Bellmont park; workmen at a reasonable priw ’phone 502- Restdence phene, OTTO REPPERT loans i—on-* Farm and City Property At low rate of interest and reasonable tenne. THE DECATUR ABSTRACT 4 IOAN CO. 157 South Second St Decatur, Indians Henry B. Keller, Pres. E. Burt Lenhart, Sec’y. j BUILDINC A REPUTATION Every man in business is building a reputation. Every deal he makes is one more stone in the structure of his success. As an aid to this you need the co-operation of a good Bank. Your Bank dealings are the foundation and buttress of your ; reputation. I The Peoples Loan & Trust Co “BANK OF SERVICE” A NEW CREAM STATION Sherman White & Co., have opened a station in the Bowers Building, Monroe street, which was formerly occupied by Ihe Berne Overall & Shirt Co., and are desirous that all cream patrons come in and give them a trial. The highest prices will also be paid on poultry and eggs. Station open from 6 a. in. until 6 o'clock p. m. during the week. Open until 9 o’clock on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Bring us your Cream, Poultry and Eggs. Wm. P. Hawkins Kenneth E. Hawkins buyers and operators A MOST FASCINATING GAME monov „ savi . n 8 and watching fTsc’nlr r0 "~~ ls one lc m °st « \' v lng g ames in the world. xssx aßrow ' Get in the Game, Today! t Interest on Savings °LD ADAMS COUNTY BANK 4 The Old Reliable” ' Oecatur, Indiana