Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1922 — Page 4

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DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Ev.ry Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. • — JOHN H. HELLER Editor ARTHUR R- HOLTHOUSE, A.so-| elate Editor and Buainest Manager; JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Ratea Cash in Advance Single Copies 2 cants One Week, by carrier 10 cent* One Year, by carrier 15.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mall 5100, Six Months, by mall 31.76 One Year, by mail 33.00, One Year, at office 13.00 (Prices quoted are within first and, second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofflee at Deca-j tur. Indiana, as second-class matter. While getting started In this new yeAr remember that while the smile goes a good ways it always comes I back. *. One thing that worries us a lot is; why paper money in Russia is worth less than raw print paper in this country.

“Behold My Wife” A GEORGE MELFORD PRODUCTION Tonight and Tomorrow, Tues, and Wed., CRYSTAL, Matinee 10 and 20c, Night 10 and 25c ii i u L — **-- ■ — -• ■— ——~—— .... I N "":;r CLEARAWAY SALE 1 Priceß ENTIRE STOCK <** SUITS, O’COATS, HATS. CAPS, UNDERWEAR, I I and Furnishings at Prices that will astonish the people of Decatur & Adams Co. I EVERY GARMENT IN OUR ENTIRE STOCK NOW PRICED LESS THAN EVER OFFERED BEFORE. YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE VALUES OFFERED I READ EVERY ITEM. IT MEANS MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS. COME AND PROVE THIS TO YOUR OWN SATISFACTION. I Sale Now Going On In Full Blast '” 1 X f Satisfy Both in Quality and Price. —— —— — ! Four Great Groups of Mens Suits . I “ | & l Se" e ' 0,0,Ex " p,i<m, " yGoodValues ’ $12.50 TV*? Men’s Rain Proof Overcoats [" I $35.00. —$40.00 Values, sale price Pafi ■ \I. $28.50_532.50 Values,’sale'-price I W VW Values, sale price $19 # 75 A » New Merchandise ~ ■ $22.50 Values, sale price sl7 50 ' $ 25,00 Values, sale price | sl9 75 I ’ I I 20 % discount on all Suit Cases, Trunks and Hand Bags. F|| . $16.75 I El discount on all Mens and Boys Raincoats wMB slßdo Valu e% sale price sl3 75 ® I ft MR r -’ I Wj f- Childrens Polo Caps * i \ — — _ I si.oo IlVOn ■ Sal. Mm g P I |MR i Boys Wool O’Cmts I " — ,'fea. “ijS wL*-' ln Pi’ ated back and latest designs at ■ ~ HH sls ’ OO 7 418 ; 00 Val ««8» sale price ; sl2 85 1 I rW ■'» sl °' — ovalw “ k -"t $7.95 I — pri " 7 s4* s B °° Va,UM ’ 88,0 p?lce t $2 95 MW— 1 ' 1 ' -

The fellow who predicted a severe winter 1. getting even over Ui» die- < appointment by Baying that we will 1 have a late spring Some one is al- I i ways taking the Joy out of life. ■—■» I Lack of funds ha» caused the board i at Defiance. Ohio, to accept the resig- . nation of the librarian and the announcement that the library will be closed except for a short time during I afternoons each day. These be rath- ' j or hard times. 1 "j-tiggai i It only cost Columbus 37,200 to j discover America. That paid for all i hie ships and Included the payroll. , j It costs that much an hour to keep ! the conference at Washington going and a good many doubt if its worth < i U N.IJIJ. a.3!8-g t Mayor DeVoss and his associates j , have assumed office and for four < years will have the responsibility of 1 conducting Decatur officially. They a i are qualified and they begin their 1 terms of office with every desire and intention of serving the people. With the cooperation and assistance of t our people we are sure they will ac- a ! eomplish much. s

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY. JANUARY 3. U>22_

In 1839 the total tax paid in Adams county -was less than 3800 and now that is multiplied by more than a thousand. If we grow the next eighty years as we have the past we will have some valuation and some taxes and indications are that we will do Just that very thingSt. Louis women spent three million dollars for the face paint they used the past year and they ar. making and awful fuss about it as they should, but one of them comes back in a snappy way when she says that Isn't half as much as the men of that city spent for bootleggers nose paint. With an income of over nine thousand dollars a month at the city plant we will soon show a neat balance on the profit side of the ledger. The Decatur power and water plant is one of the best in any town this size in the state and will eventually prove a great institutipn for the municipality. AVhile extending congratulations to the new officials we should not forget appreciation for those who have served in the past. They have each

» tried their best and have held office t during the most trying times ever t known in this locality. They have r done well and they deserve your 1 thanks for really that's about all » there is in holding public office—ap- > predation for acrvices rendered. It will be a great relief to say the ' very least to be rid of the petty fed- ' eral taxes, the penny on ice cream ’ sodas, the war tax on passenger ' fares and freights, the extra tax on : clothing, shoes and other articles 1 and a hundred other items. Its all fine and we are heartily glad that it can be done but we can’t help wondering where the money will como from to meet the government’s ob- - ligations. JI J !J!? i Nearly every big business man predicts better times for tlie year 1922 and he who does not hope that these prophecies come true is indeed an unusual sort of an individual. However it may be well not to expect too much for until the farmer gets a market for his products and until there is a real equalization of earnings prosperity will be mostly a

j] dream .nd a hope. We are sure this ■ ■ will come and perhaps within t a > year and we believe every citizen in • this county will do his best towaids I that end. ( During ihe war we heard much t about intensive training, when the t . boys were sent to military camp. I ■ and given a hard old drill that either 1 i made them soldiers or broke them 1 • down in health. Now comes an order t i from the postoffice department in i Washington that newly appointed,' postmasters must report to the near-, > est central accounting postofflee iu r their state and take intensive train- t ing in how to operate a postofflee. in this state they go to Indianapolis for ' one week. Now if a fellow can learn to be a first claw postmaster in six days what's the argument for j civil service? AVouldn't it look more [ ] like business to have him go into L the office he is to conduct and learn the system? Hon. Edward O. Hoffman, demo- 1 ■ cratic member from Indiana of the ' national committee, a leading politician of the stale for many years. f has announced that his New Y ear’s t

rtzolution isVhat he will retire from |cU ve participation in he may d.vote hi. entire time to his profession. Many a good man ha. m ad. a .imilw resolution only to break it the next campaign. The trouble is that we do not control! these affairs altogether and if the party needs our services we find it hard not to comply with the demands. We doubt if Mr. Hoffman will find that he can by a simple announcement thus turn aside from doing his big part in politics. He says he will retire from the position he holds as member of and secretary of the national committee. -* - — WANTED—A WIFE FOR A MILLEPEDE London, Jan. 3.-"Mnton'’ the giant Khartoum millepede—in ordinary language, thousand-leg—is living a life of pampered idleness while the London zoo is scouring ths world to find him a new wife. Milton, a rare specimen, suffered the loss of his wife. Millie, a few daye ago. He was moved into a luxurious bachelor apartment of special glass, a yard each way all around, specially heated—and has since been fed on bananas, lettuce and condensed milk,

D for fwr he might get t low her. ’’l . r Zoootfellals are t : y ißgh a wife of his own bred ■ ' 8 laßlt . as he ha * never be« .J : o and cannot be until he is a? B 1 »-*- 4 - WANT AD» ■ SA GE TEA DA* TO DARIEN | I Look Years Younger) u M • Time Sage Tea and 3ul»J* Nobody Will 'fl — —. You can turn gray, faded Wll tlfully dark and lustrousXiSJ night if you’ll get a bottle of3? Sage and Sulphur Compound.; ■ drug gtore. Million, of bmtil' old famous Sage Tea Recjn, u ed by the addition of other iL! are aolJ annually, says . wj* ’ druggist here, because it dart , hair so naturally and evenly a one can tell it has l.een anDlis Thoee whose hair is t-trX* becoming faded have a sumrlf Ing them, because after «», ■ applications the grav hair » and your locks become lui» dark and beautfiul This is the age of vqou haired, unattractive folks areu ed around, .o get busy with Sage and Sulphur Compound t» , and you 11 be delighted with yotr handsome hair and vour youtlft pearance within a few days.