Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1922 — 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, Associate Editor and Business Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subscription Rotes Cash In Advance Single Copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier >5.00 One Month, by mall 35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mall .... sl-75 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within flrat and second tones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffioe at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. t—E= I ’ - 1 — Ab a part of the normalcy program, Indianapolis has voted $20,000 to take care of the unemployed. With a billion dollars appropriated for road building in this country, the cement men in session in Chicago had a right to feel as though they **jlst didn’t have nothin’ agin nobody.” The Volstead act is being enforced in nine-tenths of the country, we are informed by Washington dispatches but then the one tenth seems to be keeping the other nine portions well • Stocked. If Senator New accepts the postmastership at Washington, it is quite | likely that Congressman Will R. i Woods will bo the old timer and , Standpatter who will be groomed to I oppose Mr. Beveridge. He would be i endorsed by the central committees i and the republican nrgAiiWrtion and 1 that’s something to overcome in Indiana even with Beveridge and Lew i Shanks as the battery. — ] Illinois and Ohio will vote on the wet and dry question again next November. They evidently believe ] that Mellon and Daugherty will be • able to accomplish their purpose of modifying the Volstead act and they want to be ready for it when the I change comes. Headquarters have 1 been opened by both wets and drys ‘ in Chicago and Cleveland and the ( fight promises to be as warm as in , the old days. - I I At last it is being admitted that ' t the big thing which caused Will Hays ( io resign from the cabinet and enter the motion picture business is the attractiveness of the salary which is to be twice that of the president of the United States. We had an idea all the time that was the real cause of the change and never blamed Billy much for his decision. Money is an I awful nice thing to have these days, they say. John Brown of the state tax board ' says most people are ignorant of the f fundamental workings of the tax law. 1 Well sir they are learning them , about as fast as they get to them. He ’ is now out trying to convince the i people of Indiana that land is worth j Just as much now as three years ago I and that there should consequently , be no reduction in the appraised val nations. If they put that over on you, you ought never say a word about ' taxes. ■ — -— ... —1 Check That Cold Right Away A SUDDEN chill —sneezes —stuffy feeling in the head —and you have the beginning of a hard cold. Get right alter it, just as soon as the sniffles start, with Dr. King's New Discovery. For fifty years a standard remedy for colds, coughs and grippe. There are no harmful drugs, nothing but good, healing medicines, that get right down to the trouble and help nature. You will soon notice a change for the better. Has a convincing, healing taste that the kiddies like. Good for croupy coughs. All druggists, 60c. Dr. King's New Discovery Put “Pep" in Your’Work. Many a man is a failure in business, many a woman in her home, because constipation stores up poisons that emsrvate and depress. Dr. King’s Pills make bowels act naturally. 25c. PROMPT! WON'T GRIPE Dr. King’s Pills

• The month ia slipping by and tba special offer of this paper ia bringing in many renewals each day, We , hope by the end of the month to have , each and every subscriber credited up to January, 1923. Have you looked after thia? You Will want the news, the markets, the information that the Daily Democrat gives you each day and you can get it this month for less than a penny a day and a handsome and useful gift with it. Happiness and advertising are similar in some respects. One cannot have happiness unless they give it away. The more happiness one gives away, the more one gets. One cannot be benefited by advertising without spreading It broadcast. The more you spread intelligent advertising, the more it brings you back, and the more you have of both happiness and advertising. If you are a merchant, your best friend should be the publisher. That is a genuine truth. When the merchant goes back on the publisher, he goes back on his best friend. No real man ever does that. —Business Chat. A city without a band is like a home without a piano or a phonograph. To have a band we ought to support it. especially when we get more than we give. The Decatur City band is trying to stick together during the winter and to meet their bilfc. including music, rent, fuel and other overhead but it has proven a rather difficult proposition. Mr. Rice has planned for the public a series of delightful concerts, the first on the afternoon of the 29th of this month, for the benefit of the band and this event ought to be patronized to the capacity, not only because of the band but because you will get the biggest iud best entertainment for your money ever offered here. It’s a real January sale and you will thoroughly enjoy it.

Den t forget the Cloverdale I Hampshire sale, Tuesday, Jan. 24 at the Rice feed barn. 14-4 t DIED IN NEW MEXICO. Mrs. Isaac Brown received a telegram late Tuesday evening telling of the death of D. J. Abner of Tucumcare, ( New Mexico. No particulars of the death were stated. Mr. Abner visited , here with relatives last summer. He was well known as he was born in Adams county, but for many years has been in the west. He has many relatives and friends in this city who will j regret the announcement of his sudden death. i POT STOMACH IN FINE CONDITION j SAYS INDIGESTION RESULTS FROM AN EXCESS OF HYDROCHLORIC ACID. Undigested food delayed in the stomach decays, or rather, ferments the same as food left in the open air. says a noted authority. He also tells us that indigestion is caused by Hy-per-acidity, meaning there is an excess of hydrochloric acid in the stomach which prevents complete digestion and starts food fermentation. Thus everything eaten sours in the stomach much like garbage sours in a can, forming acrid fluids and gases which inflate the stomach like a toy balloon. Then we feel a heavy, lumpy misery in the chest, we belch up gas. we cruciate sour food or have heart-burn, flatulence, water-brash or nausea. He tells us to lay aside al! digestive acids and instead, get from any pharmacy four ounces of Jad Salts and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast and drink while it is effervescing and furthermore, to continue this for a week. While relief follows the first dose, it is important to neutralize the acidity, remove the gas-making mass, start the liver, stimulate the kidneys and thus promote a free flow of pure digestive juices. Jad Salts is inexpensive and is made I from the acid of grapes and lemon | juice, combined with lithia and sodium phosphate. This harmless salts is used by thousands of people for stomach trouble with excellent results. • • ♦ FARMERS’ INSTITUTE ♦ + 4 + + + + + + + 44't + + + ■ Monday, January 23, 1922, Monmonth, Ind. Cal. D. Kunkle, chairman. Tuesday, January 24, 1922, Monroe, Ind. G. H. McManama, chairman. Wednesday, January - 25, ■ Kirkland high school. Jesse Byhrly.'chairman. Thursday, January 26, Geneva, Ind. Frank Ineichen, chairman. Friday, January 27, 1922, Hartford high school. G. W. Holloway, chairman. Farmers are requested to be present at any or all of the above meetings. Splendid programs will be rendered and good speaking assured.— G. H. McManama, county chairman.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. WEDNESDAY JANUARY IS. 1922.

OLD COURT HOUSE TRIED By High Tribunal, Found Guilty and Condemned

Haled before an august tribunal, tried in a distant court, condemned, sentence of execution issued and appeal refused, the orders of the court are being enforced and Adams county's first Temple of Justice has met its fate. ’’To be torn limb from limb." The decree of the court sounds like a judgment of the Middle Ages determined in this pious year of our Lord 1922. Yet none, we dare say, are shocked nor perhaps have even our finer sensibilities.been touched by this exhibition of rigorous justice and we presume that the victim rather feels that that judgment should have been rendered and that sentence should have been earlier carried out. We apprehend therefore, that the victim has met its fate resignedly and courageously, feeling that its glory had completely departed and that life had no further meaning nor held out no further usefulness. The old and first court house of Adams county, is being torn down. The powers that be at Indianapolis, the Fire Marshal's office, has so decreed. The fire hazard was too great and workmen are now demolishing the old structure. Quoting from Snow’s history, we have: "It was at the May session, 1839, that the construction of the first court house of Adams county was ordered. The records read: "Ordered, that John Reynolds and Samuel L. Rugg be authorized to build a court house on lot No. 94 in the town of Decatur, which shall be a framed house built of good material, and thirty feet by forty feet in size and two stories high; the lower story or room to be left whole, without any partition, and the upper story or room divided into rooms to accommodate the grand and petit juries and that they convey the said lot to the county by its proper agent, for which lot they shall be allowed the sum of SSO, the cost of which, together with the cost of the building the said house, shall be paid out of the donation soon to become due from the said John Reynolds and Samuel L. Rugg. The expenses of building the said house shall be adjusted and agreed on by the county agent with the said contractors .and the said county agent shall exercise a kind of superintendance over the completion of the said building with the said builders in a fair and equable manner, and that the said building shall be completed by the October term of the Adams circuit court, if possible. The weather boarding on the two sides next to the street shall be planed."

'pjlfi 'Si —.. ■ ' ?gfeOi»» THE UNIVERSAL CAR \\2 £ ■** i) ’^ s^EaH ®7®! RM ANNOUNCEMENT 4 New price $580.00 f. e. b. Detroit «*lil VUII VLIIUEIH 1 New prkc MfeM ( p b Mr. Edsel B. Ford, president of the lord Motor Company, makes the following announcement: “ We are ™ aking ailot J ier reduc ! ion in l he P r A ces ; of Ford car » and the Ford truck, effective today. The new prices average $9.50 iinder former prices, and are the lowest at which Ford cars and trucks have ever been sold. List prices, F. 0. B. Detroit are now as follows: New Price old Price Reduction e are taking advantage of every known economy tHAas,s s2Bs $295 $lO in the manufacture of our products in order that we RUNABOUI $319 $325 $6 may give them to the public at the lowest possible price, T,n,RINGtAR $348 $355 s7| and b y doing that, we feel that we are doing the one big TRUCK $430 $455 sls thing that will help this country into more prosperous CWPE SSBO $595 sls timcs - Pe °P |c are interested in prices, and are buying SEDAN S64S $660 sls when prices are right.” “One noteworthy feature of our sales is the increased demand for Ford trucks and cal's for salesmen This class improvement iSI bL& * PaSt 9W dayS and We interpret * a * a very good sign of “No reduction has been made in the price of Fordson tractors, and none is contemplated ” - * Ford truck. Can you interested 6 ' 1 m ° re aboUt Y ° U regarding the delivery of the particular ««in which you are With these rock-bottom prices now in effect, it would be well for you to place your order now for future delivery. 7 I ' I fT j! ‘ ■ ’' ' Az— —ffl, Shanahan-Conroy Auto Go. LOk A®) = AuthMM New price, $319.00 f. o. b. Detroit -,-irgTjm-, „ M in-- New price, $348.00 f. o. b. Detroit

And there you are. That part of said building facing the avenues must be pretty well done, thank yoia Messrs. Reynolds and Rugg, contractors and builders •vidently got their pay from Messrs. Reynolds and Rugg which was handy and caused no disputes. The said county agent also evidently was delicately cautioned to exercise a "kind of superintendance and Messrs. Reynolds and Rugg were strictly informed that "said building shall be completed by the October term of the Adams circuit court, if possible.” The structure therefore was duly and carefully constructed on lot number 94 being at the southwest corner of Fourth and Madison street. You bet it was carefully constructed, out of very heavy timbers and best material and the "sides next to the street" carefully planed and that hard task done by hand, mind you and Messrs. Reynolds and Rugg the donors, held Messrs. Reynolds and Rugg builders strictly to good work. It cannot be found in any old records that the said county agent "‘butted in” any. If Messrs Reynolds and Rugg were the whole thing, we presume that the county agent appreciated the delicacy of trying to exercise any authority. For four and thirty years justice was administered in this building and many heated and bitter battles took ’ place within its walls. The lawyers. and litigants of those days distained j to use anything but heavy artillery and every term of court the booming and reverberations of their guns could be heard all over the country side. However, poison gas and under sea fighting were righteously fqrbidden and | rules of civilized warfare were uni-| formly used. But those were days i when men's passions were dynamic l and the lawyers called a "spade a' spade". Avilliam Elzey and T. Hooper ; were associate judges. Jacob Barks i was the probate judge. Other gentle-, men who were on the pay roll in 1839 were Samuel L. Rugg, clerk of the i court; John Reynolds, treasurer; | Zachariah Smith, sheriff; B. F. Blossom, school commissioner; Robert D. Tisdale, assessor; Enos W. Butler, coroner; and George A, Dent, E. Dialey and I. D. Simison, county commissioners. Late in the fall of that year the I building began to function and these gentlemen ruled and the wheels of j justice began to grind and to “grind exceedingly fine.” Previous to the erection of this court house, all meetings of the county commissioners and most elections were |

Fneld at the residence of John Reynolds who was county treasurer and member of the firm of said Messrs. Reynolds and Rugg. John was quite a fellow and from all historic records well, deserved the confidence of his fellows., In the summer the meetings were held in John’s front yard under a giant Elm but in the winter all repaired to John’s front parlor. For all this thoughtfulness the county allowed John the sum of sl2 per annum, which sum took al) of Jefferson townships annual tax payment to liquidate. And now the old building passes. For thirty-four years it had distinguished honor, what boots it if its declin Ing days were Somewhat neglected Its memories are priceless, its heart J at all times was sound and if evil | days came and old services were forgotten and execution decreed because some Indianapolis foks simply without sentiment but full of 1922 practicality,, well, so be It, Requlescat in peace. Remains of a Bun Temple at Avebury, England, are said to be older than Stonehenge itself.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. —Benjamin Franklin. January 17th, Franklin’s Birthday, is National Thrift Day For an example in the use of money, we cannot do better than look back to Franklin—or our Pilgrim Fathers three hundred years ago; certainly they made wise use of their resources. Their thrift, brought up to date, is covered in this 10 Point Financial Creed: 1. Work and Earn 6. Own Your Own Home 2. Make a Budget 7. Make a Will 3. Record Expenditures 8. Invest Wisely 4. Have a Bank Account 9. Pay Bills Promptly 5. Carry Life Insurance 10. Share With Others If your money isn’t giving you full satisfaction, try this out. Our assistance and facilities are at your disposal in doing so. First National Bank

Money Means Power The powwion of money m«n« Power. tu men who are looked up to in a community, „ho« o'pX. eought. are the men of oubotanee. Who cares what the spendthrift thinks? His views carry no weight You don’t seek advice from the “down and outer.” Have you a Bank Account? If not open one NOW. No time like the present We welcome your account large or small. The Peoples loan & Trust Co Bank of Service NOW IS THE TIME.