Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 19, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1921 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Amociate Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single Copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 16.00 One Month, by mail 36 cents Three Months, by mail >I.OO Six Months, by mail $1.76 One Year, by mail 13.00 One Year, at office >3 00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter Not much snow yet but a glare of Ice which will permit old Santa to skip around with his reindeers to his heart’s content. If he uses his Packard he will need chains. The next couple of days will be good ones in which to think over your New Year resolution. Os course you will make one. Let's resolve to keep those we make this year. “Peace on earth, good will toward men.’’ This is the period of the year when this wonderful sentence, al ways new, though two thousand years old, should mean something. Does it? Better shop late than not at all and this is the last call for the year. Some are promising themselves to start right away however so as to , avoid the final rush next year and maybe it isn't a bad rule at that Tomorsow is Christmas while Monday is the legal holiday. This gives you the advantage for you can eat everything you want Christmas day: and then have one more in which to. recover. Business houses will be closed Mondag and there will be no publication of this paper. The rural carriers will however make their usual trip on Monday.

FREE! You can secure ROGERS SILVERWARE WITHOUT CHARGE BY TRADING WITH US One card given with every dollar purchase. Stop in and ask us about this offer. Save the cards. They are valuable. Cards given by GAY BROS. Fine Footery

We wish you all A Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year ?•'■s*», '’ - • ,'> . *i; - ■* , ■ ' . , 1 ’ i - ' 5 - . I i ’ ' * t ? 'j> ■ . , Elberson Service Station .* v *

’ I Eugene Debs and several dozen others serving terms for violation of espionage laws during the war, will . enjoy Christinas at home. Now why . not send word to those deported that • : they can come back and say what . they want to. Even though we have grunted a i lot about the times the trade record 1 issued by the National City Bank of New York shows we spent something over a hundred million dollars for Christmas toys alone. Guess we are fairly well off yet. Os course we wish you the merriest Christmas ever. May you all have a happy celebration and may you all be more than delighted with your remembrance from Santa. The glad day comes but once a year. Be happy and make some one else happy for the greatest joy is in giving rather than receiving, we are told. France sends word that they will not ratify the agreement of the Washington conference if the results force them to sacrifice their defensive naval strength. Its a long, long ways to peace by this route we fear for grumblings heard now will almost surely grow after discussions in senates and parliaments. * The basketball team received their first defeat of the season last evening when they met the fast five from Kendallville and there is no doubt the visitors played a few rings around them. The locals were not in usual form and the break was against them but the boys from Noble gave a fast exhibition and ' earned the victory. Never mind boys you can’t win them all and it would detract from the interest if you did. Pep up and practice up and keep on trying. Remember its the season average that counts. Cleveland chemists have issued a warning to those who are indulging in bootleg liquor these days and its i a warning which should be heeded by those who care to remain on this * earth the allotted time. These men

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□Seasons £ — We wish to thank you for the patronage shown us during the past year, and wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR St' TTOET MOJVX’X - - - - ' F. V. Mills The Grocer, Decatur, Ind. Truly, there is something finer and grander in business than just the exchange of money and merchandise. It is the spirit of friendship and mutual good will that grows out of every satisfactory and pleasant business transaction, such as you and we have enjoyed during the year which is just closing. May the friendship we have formed continue and may we greet you today as real friends and wish for you a hearty MERRY CHRISTMAS and a PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.

are not fanatics, are not issuing the I warning for any purpose other than the good of the people whom it is J known are flirting with real trouble when they use the stuff. Its rank poison and within a few years the 1 chemists claim will asphyxiate those < who drink it. The high percentage ( of fusel oil in the bootleg whiskey is., said to be the dangerous element. Be- < ware while you can, for by the time you find out the truth in the warning by actual test it may be tpo late. ( Here is the way Arthur Brisbane sizes up the intention of congress to pass a light wine and beer amendi ment to the Volstead act on the. strength that this is necessary to carry the bonus bill through: "Congress is to consider beer and wine sales, with a tax to raise money for the soldiers’ bonus. It is the only way to raise revenue for the soldiers, say the statesmen. Many other ways of raising money were found to send men across the ocean. The richest country in the world easily found a hundred billions for war. What! makes it so hard to find even one bil-l lion for the men that fought* There , has been enough hypocrisy attached to prohibition without making thel soldier bonus responsible for evading and twisting the law. If congress believes that absolute prohibition is a i dismal failure, putting the country on a bootleg whiskey basis, and that ’ beer and light wines should be allowed as aids to real temperance, I why not say so? The King of Spain is the first monI arch to own a private aeroplane.

FORD RAILROAD’S NET RETURN. ‘‘Henry Ford is learning it is not so easy to operate a railroad at a profit as it appeared last spring, says the Railway Age, which shows in its current issue that the net operating income of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton has declined from $276,452 in April, to $15,191 in October or 93 percent. The road’s statistics of earnings and expenses for September and October have just been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission after a long delay, due to a controversy between its officers and the Commis-

sion as to whether the road should I comply with the same requirements as I other roads regarding the reporting of I I its worthy results to the Commission. I “It was widely reported,” says the I Railway Age, "that Mr. Ford had ad- I I vanced the wages of his employes, re- I duced the rates, and at the same time I converted the railroad from a bank- j rupt into a profitable enterprise. The 1 advances in wages and reductions in j local rates went into effect on July 1. In March, the month when the Ford management took charge, the net operating income was $77,985. Mr. j Ford’s reports of his railroad operaj tions within recent months have been i awaited with unusual interest because he has been giving interviews as to how he could revolutionize railroading if he were n charge of all the railroads. His reputation as a railroad wizard was based primarily on a sud- ] den jump in the net operating income of the road to $276,452 in April, which was nearly $200,000 greater than for of the tonnage of the Ford Motor Co. March, as the result of the diversion to the line. The net operating income has declined in every month since then, and in each of the months of August, September and October, althought its total earnings have steadi ily increased, its net was less than it ; was in March. In August it was $70,643, in September. $46,749, and in October only $15,191. This reduction tin net occurred in spite of the fact ithat the gross earnings of the road in October were $213,000 greater than i in March. "Mr. Ford has said in an interview that he could operate all the railways of the United States just as well as he does the D. T. & I. Since he has reduced the net operating income of the D. T. & I. 95 percent, in six months, while the other! railways'of i the country have been gradually improving their net returns, his stateaieat what could do with tae rdads as a whole cafi be accepted as untjudstioilitfly cdrrdct.”

Miss Rose Conter will be the guest of her sister and brother in law. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. and family of Fort Wayne over Christmas.

Public Sale I the undersigned will sell at public auction at my farm 3Vi miles northeast of Decatur or I*4 mile north of the Dent School house on Tuesday December 27, 1921. Beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. The following property towlt: 4 head of horses —1 bay mare, 12 years old, 1.400 lbs.; one 6 year old mare, weighing 1,200 lbs.; one 6 year old mare 1,300 lbs.; 1 general purpose mare, 8 years old, weight 1,200 lbs. These are all broke and good workers. 3 Head Cattle—l Jersey cow, 6 years old, will be fresh in May; 1 Jersey and Holstein, 7 years old, will be fresh February 15th; 1 Red Polled cow, 4 years old, wil be fresh in June. These cows are all good milkers. 25 Head Hogs—3 pure-bred Duroc male hogs, weighing 125 each; 1 Chester White cow will farrow March 20th; 14 shoats, weighing 50 pounds each; 7 shoats, weighing about 110 pounds each. Hay and Grain—3l4 ton good mixed hay, 1 ton of oats straw, 20 bushels of oats, 7 large shocks of corn fodder. Farming Implements— One 7 foot Osborn binder, good as new, used two seasons; 1 Hoosier grain drill with fertilizer attachment; 1 C. B. & Q. check row planter, good as new; 1 J. I. Case disc 12-14, good as new; 1 John Deere Riding Breaking plow; one two horse cultivator; 1 new Meal Spreader, good as new; 1 Milwaukee mower in good shape; cast iron land roller, 1 spike-tooth harrow’, good as new; one 1 horse wagon; 1 top buggy; 1 mud boat; 1 grain bed; 2 double shovel plows; one I*4 H. P. Fairbank and Morse gas engine and 1 pump jack; 1 tank heater; 1 triple wagon bed; 1 hand sled; 1 wheel barrow; 1 barrel of vinegar; tool boxes, baskets, spades, corn knives, 1 lawn mower, storm front, chicken coops, hay knife, 1 iron kettle, one 50 gallon feed cooker, 1 buggy pole, horse collars, 1 set of iron wheels, scoop board. Household Goods —1 oil stove, 1 Wilson heater, chairs, 1 table, 3 beds, meat block, 2 cupboards and many other articles too numerous to mention. Terms of Sale —Ail sums of >5 and under, cash; over that amount a credit of 12 months will be given, first 6 months wihout interest; last 6 months bearing 8 percent, interest. No goods removed until settled for. Discount of 5 percent, on all sums over >s.< ROY CARTER w Lunch will be served by Pleasant Grove Ladies' Aid. Runyon and Bohnke, auctioneers. 20-22-24 Samuel Shackley of Bryan, 0., was a business visitor here today. Mr. Shackley was called to Fort Wayne because of the death of his mother, Mrs. Howard Shackley. HAD KIDNEY TROUBLE TEN YEARS Don’t give up hope if you are suffering from backache, rheumatic pains, stiff, swollen joints, always tired feeling, pains in groin and muscles or other symptoms of kidney trouble. J. T. Osborn, R. F. D. No. 1, Lucasville, 0., writes: "I had kidney trouble for 10 years. I tried all kinds of kidney remedies but they did me no good. 1 took one bottle of Foley Kidney Pills and they helped me so much I am well now." Sold everywhere.

Speaking of Women- ' ■ -J Irvin Cobb points out that feminine shopping does not necessarily imply buying. It means hard work for everyone concerned —but seldom results in a transaction involving money. As a country minister once declaimed: “King Solomon said, and I partially agree with him ...” We only partially agree with Mr. Cobb on this subject. It is true there are still some aimless shoppers left. But they are in the minority. Today most women —as well as most men—are well-informed buyers, with a sound basis for comparing stores and values. By buying goods of recognized merit they save themselves the throes of oldtime “shopping trips” and at the same time get a better and bigger money’s worth. Most women read the advertisements that appear every day in their newspapers. They make a practice of keeping strictly up-to-snuff on new developments, innovations and improvements. They know just where to go for “this” and who in town keeps “that.” When they shop they generally know just what they want, where to find it, and how much to pay. Their knowledge saves them endless trotting, wearisome questioning and haggling. J, };■ •'i f’.rtj . . The advertisements have taken the “hop” out of shopping. • t • Isn’t that worth while?

To you whose friendship and good will have helped to make this a most successful year for us we offer our cordial appreciation. The Christmas season brings memories of our pleasant relations. We wish you heartily a Merry’ Christinas and an enjoyable New’ Year. We trust that there may come to your door Peace, Happiness and Prosperity. Sincerely Yours, TWhite Stag Cigar Co.

t * fora wHI i 4,4 One of our real pleasures This Christmas Season is the opportunity it gives us to greet our friends and express our appreciation of the splendid spirit of harmony and co-operation that has made the year 1921 a season of joy. ■ May the friendships we have formed be strengthened—and may we greet you today as real friends and wish for you a HEARTY, MERRY CHRISTMAS and a NEW YEAR of Prosperity. s Sincerely, M. E. Hower The Home of Quality Groceries.