Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1921 — Page 3

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♦♦+t+++++++i ++++ ♦ ABOUT TOWN * ♦♦+*+++tt+t+t4++ I C. M. Carlson, a representative of the Schoenhofen Company, Chicago, manufacturers of Green River, the snappy liine drink, was in the city yesterday calling on the local bottler, H. L. Conter and some of the retail trade. Green River is selling big at he fountains and for a good cool Jrink in bottles nothing beats it. John Hesher, of Honduras, was a business jailer in Decatur this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Ivatich of 1022 South Thirteenth street have entered the contest for the prize offered for the best field of sugar beets, to be given away at the Northern Indiana fair. They have four acres of very fine beets. Mrs. William. Marker visited yes'.'rday in Fort Wayne at the home of Mrs. Frank Monahan, 81S East Washington street. Dr. Burns made a professional trip to Fort Wayne yesterday. Miss Blanch Whiteman left today for Sturgis. Mich., to visit over Sunday with her parents. Mrs. Liddy and daughter, Mildred, will leave this evening for Fort Wayne where they will spend Sunday the guests of their brother and uncle, Nelson Gentis. Miss Gusta Cramer will go to Berne tonight to spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Stnegel who will motor here this evening to take Miss Cramer to their home. W. D. Porter was a business visitor in Monroe tills morning. Douglas Elzey of Preble was in Decatur on business this morning. Miss Alice Green of the telephone forct will take her vacation next week. Mr. Frank Morrell wiil spend Sunday with his family at Clinger lake. Miss Effie Drum of Craigville who has been working at the local telephone office, has resigned her position and returned to her home. Walter and Hugo Thieme of Union township were business callers in this city today. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Sellemeyer and daughter, Martha, will motor to Rome City to spend Sunday. Miss Margaret Burkard of Toledo, Ohio, returned to her home yesterday after being the guest of Mr. ami Mrs. O. T.‘ Johnson. Charles Teeple will motor to Rome City to spend Sunday with Mrs. Teeple who with her father, S. B. Fordyce, is spending the summer there.

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'' dii..: i I' . o f l‘r, IJe was m De- ( catur on business today. William and Dick Bleeke of Union , township were in this city today on , business. , A meeting of importance will be < held in the church parlors of the > Evangelical church Tuesday. All < members be present. < Mrs. Mary Brown of Willshire, Ohio, 1 was a shopper in Decatur this morning. . j ' I The men’s class of the Christian church motored to the home of Joe , Beery west of town last evening and a , very fine time was had. Leo Andrews of Monroe was a bus- , iness caller in Decatur today. , Miss Alma Boerher of Route No. 5 , shopped in this city yesterday. Jesse J. Helm of Fort Wayne will join his family for an over-Sunday visit with relatives in this city. Mrs. Mack Wright and daughters, Dorothy and Esther, of Kirkland township, were shoppers in this city today. Helen Faulk of Bluffton visited in this city today. Peter Fulk of Kirkland township is improving and able to be up and around again. Mrs. Mary Meyers of Willshire, 0.. was in Decatur today. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Stove of Willshire, Ohio, tfere in this city Friday making preparations to go to Los Angeles, Calif., Sunday afternoon. They expect to be gone some time and will visit a brother of Mr. Stove’s who is located in California. Mr. -and Mrs. Bernard Holthouse and children of Muncie are the guest of relatives and friends in this city. Miss Irene Burch of Kansas, 111., is visiting with Mildred and Gertrude Yager. Miss Burch was one of their classmates at Depauw university. Miss Lois Peterson was in Fort Wayne yesterday to spend the afternoon with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boese of Preble Were business callers in this city today. “Dad” Cross of Geneva was in Decatur this afternoon. Mrs. William Roop has returned from Detroit, Mich., where she has been the guest of her son for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Bieberick of Preble were shoppers in this city today. Mr. T. E. Swoveland and sen of Wren, Ohio, were in Decatur yesterday. Miss Charlotte Stopenhagen of

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Route 4 was a shopper in this city yesterday. Misses Margaret Moran and Margaret Mylott spent yesterday in Fort Wayne the guest of Miss Morun’s aunt, Mrs. .1. R. Zimmerman. Alfred Mougey was a Fort Wayne caller last evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Ruhl of Middletown were shoppers in this city today. Miss Veena Parent of Fort Wayne will be the guest of relatives over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Roop and children of Blue Creek township werta shoppers in this city today. Mr. Harve Kessler and son, Kenneth, of near Monroe shopped in this city today. ++++++++ + + + + + + + + BOARD DOES NOT APPROVE * + VALUATIONS IN THE COUNTY ♦ + * + Indianapolis, July 23— (Spe- ♦ ♦ cial to Daily Democrat) —Valua- + •> tions of personal property for + + taxation in several; Indiana qouns + + ties were approved by the state + •F tax board today and changes + •F were recommended in several ♦ ♦ others. ♦ •F Amons’those counties in which * ♦ the valuations were approved t ♦ were Sullivan, Porter, La- + ♦ Grange, Lake, Kosciusko, Whit- + F ley, Blackford and Vermillion. + ♦ The tax board recommended + + a ten per cent increase in the + F valuation of sheep, farm imple- + + ments, horses, cattle and mer- + ♦ chandise in Marshal county and + + a 10 per cent increase on auto- + •F lyobiles in Wells county and 25 *F F per cent on household goods and <• ■F farm implements. + +❖♦+++++<• * + + + + ♦ —• ♦F+F F F F F INFANTILE PARALYSIS F •F TAKES ITS FIRST F F VICTIM AT LAPORTE F ♦ F F Laporte, Ind., July 23 —(Spe- F ♦ cial to Daily Democrat) —Law- F F rence Kessler, 32, salesmanager F F of a Blanket mill and member F F of a prominent family was the F F first victim of the infantile par- F •F alysis in Laporte and vicinity. F F Kessler died at 2 a. m. after be- F F ing attacked by the disease a F •F week ago. Paralysis first grip- F F ped his leg and then spread. F F Seven other cases are worry- F ing the health department and F !« Dr. Cracher, health officer, to- F F day demanded all persons F F to strictly enforce the quaran- F F tine law 7 . F F A new case developed this F F morning. Jack Ridgeway, 7, F F was declarde to have the dis- F ♦ ease. His condition is serious. F TO BIG CROWDS “Billy” Sunday opened his four-day camp nfeeting Friday at Winona Lake, the initial service being held at 2:30 o’clock, with approximately 4.00 people in attendance. Last night’s audience reached 7,000 people. Representatives of “Billy Sunday Clubs” from more than one hundred cities are present at the camp meeting. An immense crowd is looked for on Sunday, there being three services at 10:30, 2:30 and 7:30. MARRIAGE LICENSES - A marriage license was issued today to Warren W. Locker, clerk. Fort Wayne, born September 19, 1898, son of Ellsworth Locker, and Florence C. Johnson, clerk, Decatur, born September 30, 1897, daughter of Walter P. Johnson. It is rumored another license will be issued “after the paper goes to press” to a well known couple. THEY ARE MILD BUT EFFECTIVE A person with inactive or slowed up digestive organs suffers doubly from hot weather. Biliousness, headaches, blurred vision, bad breath, coated tongue are almost certain to be present with-a mass of heat-producing undigested food in the stomach. Foley Cathartic Tablets keep the digestive organs active and the system fit and fine, purged of poisons. W. D. Kennedy. Albany, N. V., says: Foley Cathartic Tablets are mild but effective.” Sold everywhere. the Mecca” LAST SHOWING TONIGHT David Work Griffith’s Newest Picture “THE LOVE FLOWER’’ Hundreds of Decatur people after seeing this picture last night pronounced it the best yet; if you miss this one you are niis- > sing a real treat. Try and see it. Last Time Tonight. 10c—20c Also pictures of last year's fair

MONROE NEWS r —n , Rev. John Phillips, pustor of tho 1 South Whitley Methodist church, for live years pastor of the Monroe Meth odist church, well known and highly respected by the people in this community, was in town a few days this week and on Wednesday evening delivered one of the most masterly and interesting sermons at the Interdenominational tent meeting which is now in progress. At the closing of I the sermon seven persons went to the altar. Rev. Phillips is an excellent pulpit orator a fine talker and he has many warm friends at this place who at all times greet him with a large audience when he comes here to deliver a message to them. Harvey Springer early Thursday I morning came up town wearing an unusually large smile. When asked what he was so well pleased about, he made ; it known in loud trms, "It’s a great i big boy” that came to gladden the hearts of the Springer household. This event makes it doubly joyful as this is the first and only boy, while three i Little girls are already enrolled in the household as members of the fam ily. Mother and son are reported as ’ getting along nicely. C. M. and Forest Andrews were at , Decatur Wednesday evening to see , their brother, Franklin Andrews, who i is lying very low with typhoid fever, i Charles Swigart who for the past > eighteen months has been stationed at • Camp Grant, 111., as a member of the < th Division, received his discharge i from the U. S. service on Tuesday and • stopped off here enroute to his home > in Muncie, Ind., to visit his uncle, Elmer Eley, east of town, for a 'I days. C. C. Rinebarger of New Albany, ’i Ind., evangelist singer, and Miss Ken- ' rick, pianist, arrived here Thursday ‘ ; afternoon to assist Evangelist Arthur 'I C. Zepp in the tent meetings for the ‘ I next two weeks. 1 i Ira Wagoner informs us that he has ‘ a supply of roasting ears and some ' good apples that are now ready to put ' on the market. See him at once if ' you want any of the above. ' i About 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon ' the beautiful home of William Pat- '' terson. living four miles east of town ‘ | was discovered on fire and for a time ' | seemed that the same was doomed, but owing to the timely arrival of the ’ neighbors the blaze was extinguished, thus saving a great loss. A big ten-pound substitute mail i carrier on Rural Route No. 3 arrived •

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at the home of G. A. Hahnert on Thursday night, und in consequence Alph was all smiles on Friday morn ing when he appeared for duty at the Fostoftlce. GENEVA NEWS Mr*. Ray McCollum, Correspondent Miss Miriam Stolz spent Thursday in Geneva visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. O. R. Price went to Portland Wednesday, to have home dental work done. Miss Eva Acker of Decatur is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Relcheldeffer this week. Mrs. Roy Buckey is visiting relatives in Vicksburg, Mlchiigan. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Shoemaker went to Berne Thursday where Mrs. Shoemaker had some dental work done. The Misses Gertrude King, Mary Allas, Goldie and Arvil Webb, spent Wednesday in Muncie, visiting relatives. Miss Laura Church of Indianapolis, is spending her vacation here with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Al Vorhees made a business trip to Decatur Thursday. Mrs. Pearson left Thursday- for St. Louis, after spending several weeks here demonstrating for the Purina Chicken Feed company. Mrs. Bessie Weldon left for her home in Toledo, after visiting here with William King and family. Miss Lucile Couch of Buller, arrived Wednesday, for a visit with Virginia PyleMrs. Roy Buckey left for Vicksburg, Mich., where she will visit with rela tives. Mrs. Peter Gaffer has gone to Fort Wayne to spend two weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Monahan. She will also be under the care of Dr. McCaskey. .* ' ‘ FULL OF t»AINS AND DIZZINESSI “I was full of pains and had such a swimming sensation in my head 1 could hardly sit in a barber chair to get a shave,” writes Swift Nelson, 211 W. 35th St., New York, N. Y. ”1 felt better the next 24 hours, after taking Foley Kidney Pills, and I haven’t had ' any trouble since.” Foley Kidney Pills give the help needed to overworked, deranged kidneys. Their action is prompt, healing, tonic. Relieve swollen muscles and joints, backache, lameness, dizziness and rheumatic pains. Sold everywhere.

LET EXPERTS .\ EXAMINE YOUR BATTERY Get honest, conscientious service. We will \ we make regarding your battery. RELIABLE REPAIRS We are now permitted to use the patented ' Vesta Impregnated Mats in repairing all makes > • of Batteries. Let us explain what this means to I you. r DECATUR BATTERY CO. 203 So. First St. ’Phone 505. to —s Send It To The Laundry DAMP WASH This is a new service we have added to save tile work and worry of wash day and to give you the advantage of hanging your clothes in the sun, With this service you can get 20 lbs. washed for SI.OO, ready to hang on the line. Can you afford to w«jsh this much for $1.00? We think not. Your washing is delivered same day received. Your clothes are washed in waler , SOFTER THAN RAIN WATER. ’Phone 134. Decatur Laundry Launderers and Dry Cleaners