Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1922 — Page 2

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Confidence A conscientious effort on our part to serve both investor and industry to the best of our ability has secured for us many friends. It is these and those we are adding daily that we depend upon for the continued success of our business. Knowing our relations with them in the past we have no fear for the future. There is mutual confidence. The R. L Pollings Co Indianapolis, Ind. Safety Service Seven percent, tax exempt. Clearance Sale Specials for Saturday Kight in the heart of our January Clearance Sale comes the news of even greater specials. Shoes, the latest styles, and all sizes for everyone. Below are listed just a few specials with many more to be found in our large stock: Girls Black and Brown Calf Shoe. $3.95 latest styles Girls Black Calf Pumps, $2.95 low heels Boys Black and Brown Dress 75 Shoes, ail sizes Youths Black and Brown Dress $2.95 Shoe, all sizes Sale Ends Saturday. Jan. 28 BUY” NOW. GAY BROS.

MAKE YOUR MONEY BRING GREATEST RETURNS The price we are ask’n# f° r our U P t° th? minute All Wool Style4ffe Plus Overcoats has If 11 made them easy to sell. —— ■ : p If you " ill look we can -K-_. 41 convince vou. 1 ; > Gtir Adler Rochester :~r ? -Clothes for men and ——students have made lots Jnllu business men and students smile when arn pr ’ during our 13 day sale. .? Good many mothers have been glad to see 2 • ■ ' their boys fit out in good all wool school or dress -suits for one-third of the regular price. . U nderwear, Dress Shirts, Hats and Neck VN ear have sold fine. Sale Ends Saturday, January 21. Teeple & Peterson

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“HOME" FLOORS HELP. Indianapolis. J*» 11—With probably ®en bad boy. playing basketball, in th. state. th. often repealed statement “basketbnll is • home floor game" is important. It | mean, that basketball H a pa* ' which the home team ha. a big ad vantage gained by tamitanty with th. light., the sire of the floor, and the s general rarroundings. The ba.kec.ball rule. state "the play-1 ing court .hall be a rectangular rar-! ♦ sfe from obstraetfoffs and .hall ■ have a maximum dimensions of 88 I feet in length. SO feet wide and mint I mum dtmensajc of sixty feet in l length 35 feet wide." By mutual agreement of the captain, the sixe of the court and the distance from obstruo t; r -n: e ?.an«- • Ybe outside line, of the playing space however are supposed to be three feet from ‘ any fixed obstructions Baskeball under these rule, can be' played and is played on all siaed of floors. However, the •endeacy dur-1 ing the last f.w years is to erect good , basketball courts Purdne took a lead in this many year, ago when that university erected a gymnasiam with a j full sited playing space »exsß in sixe. Indiana university with it. wonderful zymna.ium has a full sited door with j plenty of room to .eat a crowd of’ i».«M basketball fan*. A recent game | between Bloomington aad Bedford ( high schools attracted such a crowd, that the advance sent sale raised the came to be played in the university gymnasium instead of the smaller high school Every seat and all stand- | ing room was taken DePuaw University at Greencastle started playing basketball years age in a downtown hall where the playing space was hardly enough for a grade school team Today DePauw has one at the largest and best basket ba« floors in the coanty. A good floor means a good team. Wabash college in the old days played basketball and developed champfonship teams in th. cd Y. M. C. A gym in what is now the Crawfordsville traction system station. At one end of that gym was a wail and before the rule forbidding running up a evil was put in the rule book. Wabc<. players could ran by , that wall like going up a sraitway and they always scored • New Wabash college has a big j gymnasium In the center of this is a full fixed basketball floor. Wabash! has always been one of the strongest j - ©lieges in basketball and the new , zym had helped Nctre Dame plays- great indoor tante on a dirt floor It takes more indurance to play the game on a dirt floor than on a wood floor However, there is a different action to the ball j in a dribble on a wood floor than a I dirt floor and when Notre Dame gets off ts own playing space that team is handicapped. Fisher West of Auburn referee at •he M rnroe-De-atur basketball game' last evening. returned to his home at Auburn this morning, after being the j finest of Mr. and Mrs W A. Lower i over night.

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* ♦ doings in society ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦** CLUB CALENDAR THURSDAY. Presbyterian Aid—Mrs. James El ' ' berson. 3:30. U. M. S. of the Evangelical church . lat the parsonage. Thursday ip » Ladies' Aid of U. B- church at par jsouage —3 o’clock. Baptist Women—Mrs. Sam Hite. Calvary Ladies Aid—Mrs. Inc1 Walters I Ladies Aid society of Presbyterian church—Mrs. James Elberson Eastern Star—Masonic Hall. T:*> FRIDAY. M £. Ladies Aid—Church parlors M. £ Ladies Rummage sale— L; brary building. I Christian Ladies’ Aid—Mrs. H. L- ' Merry. I Pocehoatas initiation— Hall. SATURDAY. M E Ladies' Rummage sale— Library building. Pleasant Mills Queen Esthers —3< • supper at M E. church basement. The Historical dub met yesterday I afternoon with Mrs. Tom Vail. Mrs I Charles Teeple having the paper. Some topics were also given by Mrs. tSchag and Mrs. Hite Seventeen I tnetnbers were present Mrs Vail I 1 served home made cake and coffee las refreshments. ♦ Members ot the So<ha-Rea ctab < were pleasantly entertained Mednes lay evening by Miss F.orence, Rrsmerkamp at her home on Seventh . street. A « o'clock dinner was served , and at "5W prures were won by Mrs. Claude Ccffee and Mrs. Charles ; Starost. A =-jsS del gktful social eve ■ nmg was spent by the y. w ladies. ENTERTA SWEST AT 8 O’CLOCK. At » e’ei-.ck ths evening at the. Masonh: kali tie Zandorff Entertainers w£l appear This number has been well atvert»ed and ys-u cannot afford to min ito CHICAGO MARKET CLOSE Chicago. Jan. 11— special to Daily Deoocratt — Wheat: May $131%; I July S3 3 *. Corn: May 53 w! July. 154\. Oats: May 3SV. July »%■ THE ANNUAL REGIONAL CONFERENCE Foe Covoty and Township Sunday Sc" 001 Officera at Fort Wayne, January 17. One of the most important nc&day School meetings of the year wGI be held at the Fort Wayne Y M. C A. Tuesday. January IT. The county and township officers of northwestern indisna. ineluding Allee. DeKalb. Noble. Stewbra. LaGrange Huntington Weils ar i Adams counties are expected to attend these meetings. The prixctpal speaker will be Pref. George Platt Knox. Educational director of \bo IntornaUcnal Sunday School | assocUtkm. The state workers who will appear on tas program are General Serretnry E. T. Albertson, SupL of chndrw'g work. Nellie C. Young; Supt of Young Peoples' work. Wayne G ML-er The entire day will be given to inspirattoeal and divisional eoeference I' meetings and planning for the work I to be accomplished during this year. o MICKIE SAYS DO MXJ R.E>AEMBea. TM A OLE- MBt.QviAHY j **-O TD A’XERT.SS AN' ruCM GOT bAADOBtU A I ) WOOT O*A_ BEtux. TW K>rcd eOUDTW A UVE < 1 >JfesG*»BOCt'dfe Owm MERSMAJdX \% _ J I /< r ; it ’ 1 / r { mt Un —— I; It -A* average Gt eight vessels are I wrecked each year m the North At I UetH through MtlUsibG with flaalsag I lerwiicts. I. Marruge st«t»ta.v gc to prove that Iwa &f a*. <g« 4 w«e. to I choose wives of <> age I to their own.

) l rh I ' 1 J /I * la/ \ :T7 7 r ~ r j'x High Price Butter I ! -Low Price Karo s Karo is selling at prices even lover than the lov pre-var prices, and you'll find it more economical than ever rpiHERE S nothing the chil- FREE I I dren like better than plenty of P tAkis Cook B>k of sixtyI X delidoos, rich Karo, spread j on bread or served with pancakes psrunent a, A»go, liiinoia. s or biscuits, these cool mornings. , ® § Karo is so much less expensive | fl than butter—there’s no comparison 8 between them. It is one of the most ckkccv E wholesome and nutritious foods you could possibly give the children. ■ 1 Keep the pitcher of Karo on the L E table ail the time, and Jet the chil- II dren have all they A ant See how strong and rosy they’ll grow’—and wWE how full of life and energy they’ll be. W TeH the grocer to scad your Karo K around today. Mml CORM TRODL'CTS S.NIIS CO. ■ C.H. Sil-ltaMU M 712 a JzAlr .a:una,~ciM. Lui. M|BBEg>-> ■ iE

Rummage Sale — Library— Friday and Saturday. It SEEK FRIENDS IN HOUR OF NEED "1b the hour of teed we quickly seek our best friends." "---.’es Chas. Schridd Ward de Weu >57 73rd Ave Oakiaad. Cal., "our little boy and girl had a vere dry, rasping cough without phlegm, a cough that chokes :and flushes the face of the suffered ‘like uato convulsions. Foley s Honey i and Tar wa* a wonderful emergen-.y remedy." Cases like this give Foley's i Honey and Tar its reputation as the • best remedy for coughs and colds. RECEIVER IS APPOINTED — BluSton. Ind.. Jan. —.Special to . Daily Democrat I—A receiver was to ' day appointed for the Berlins i. > Molu Produce company, with plants . at BJuflion, Hartford City. Decatur . and several other places. W W. Rag- ; e-s. cashier ot the Studebaker bank. * of this city being appointed, he givfog bc-Sd for ssAifoff. All assets were ' ordered sold. The receivership peti- ’ tk n was Sled by H. R. Molts of De- , catur and William B. Frisinger of ‘ Rockford. Ohio as the outcome of the case against the Berlin? A Molu company sometime ago. a *—s—S— WANT ADS EARN—B—s—B

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J. R. Porterfield, ot Fort Wayne, 1 was Jt the city for several hours this Eiiniing on business.

Klepper Klover Klub s -vsB ■ Muncie Maroons : Mon. Night, Jan. 16th Come out and see some , fast independent ; BASKET BALL e ~ — > ' The First Hundred i Dollars is the one that counts. Plan to save i that money now. With the year nearing a close, and 1922 about to enter which means a brighter and more proserous year for every one ■ —the first hundred dollars will be ; easy to get. a i Start the new year right Resolve to v isit our bank every w r eek with ; your money set aside for this occas H ‘ m " your be large d or small and the rest will come easy. -4% INTEREST ON SAVINGS. ; DIO ADAMS COUNTY BANK ’ T ba,,k buildi "»-. o Ui ’ • - - . . Indiana

John E. Mann of St. Mary’s town > ship. Route 8, was in the city yesterday lookin? after business. ■ —- —