Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1922 — Page 3

| STYLE 1852 ! I The Virginian 111 I This is a conservative styled shoe 5 I in dark brown calf leather that will 1 appeal to men who wish their | footwear to be smart, yet not I obtrusively so. ; 1 Made on a bal pattern, and carfl ries a medium broad flat toe, and ' t I rubber heels, which adds to its I comfort. t I Charlie Voglewede ■ 1 I The Shoe Fitter. fl fl

1 7*++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ | about town + ■ ;♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ | Little Miss Edna Maupin, .7 year | Did daughter of Rev. and Mrs. MaupI j,. of Pleasant Mills, is recovering | from an operation which she | bd last Wednesday for the removal | [f her tonsils and adenoids. | Remember the pastry and apron ■ sale at Schmitt's meat market next | Saturday at 9 o'clock. I Mrs. W. E. Steele and brother, IMe Haggard, of Pleasant Mills, I looked after business in Decatur yesI torday. ■ jfo calamity is ever too sad an' distressin' but what some newspaper psragraphers try to say somethin’ finny about it. We ddn’ know Jake Bentley's brother wuz rich till we tad that his trial wouldn’ come up ffl next July.—Abe Martin in Indianipolis News. Miss Mildred Niblick is the house guest of Mrs. Otto Schcimau of Fort fine. ftitmaster Sc hindler of Berne. a |ai executive and a line young man. ns a caller at this office this morn «- pl Fred Perdue, one of the staff Mießeppert Auction School, writes m Crawfordsville, where he has hied several good land sales. He ejects to be in Decatur the latter part of this week for a day or two. The February number of the Intermttoal Auctioneer is on the press ' and will be mailed the latter part of ! 'lie week. The magazine contains twenty-eight pages this month, with many articles of interest for the i bights of the hammer. The board of charities is taking extdlent care of the poor and unfortunate. The finances are just a little slow these days and if any one cares to assist in this greatest of all charii ties—right here at home —they should Itate their contribution with the sectary, Mr. Cal E. .Peterson, at the Teeple & Peterson store.

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Dan Niblick will go to Chicago next t week to attend the meeting of a new t dry goods association known as the | Inter-State Council, in which thirty- i nine states have representation. I Several improvements are being planned for the coming year, including some new business blocks. i The building of roads in Adams county this year will provide work for many men and keep up the average in old Adams, which leads the state for macadam roads. ' Willis Fonner of Root township was atending to business here this morn ' ing. Those desiring to affiliate with the Jefferson club should attend the meet- ' ing at democratic headquarters Friday 1 evening of this week. Judge J. ,C. Moran is attending to business at Bluffton and Fort Wayne 1 today and tomorrow.. He left for Bluffton last evening. A. Harlow of Geneva was attending to business here today. Dr. ami Mrs. W. E. Smith left this ifternoon for Columbus, Ohio, whore they will attend the funeral of Dr. Smith's mother, whose death occurred Monday. Leo Yager visited his sister. Miss Anna Yager, at the St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, today. Miss Yager, who was operated on several days igo for the removal of appendix, is inproving slowly. C. N. Miller of Union township, was i business visitor in Decatur today. George Bright of Kirkland township made a business trip to Decatur this noon. Mrs. Carlisle D. Flanders, of Fort Wayne, spent last evening in Decatur. Gus Ehlerding of Preble township was in the city on business today. Mrs. E. E. Zimmerman returned last evening from a week's visit at Fort' Wayne. Dr. Ben Beavers returned this morning from a several days' business trip to Buffalo, N. Y. - ---- - ■ ■■■ «■ W'l IWI ■■ VI.

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FIVE PETITIONS For New Roads Were Presented to County Commissioners This Morning FOUR MACADAM ROADS Shoemaker Petition for a Hard Surface Road Withdrawn, New One Filed. Five petitions for new roads and road improvements were filed this morning with tho board of county commissioners by farmers and property owners along the proposed improved routes, through their attorney, J. Fred Fruchte. The petitions presented were for the William G. Bollenbacher road, 1 mile, Jefferson township; the Emanuel Sprunger road, 1 mile, Monroe township; the Simon Sprunger road, I mile, Monroe township; the William L. Ray road, 1 mile, Monroe township and one for the Warren M. Striker road in Wabash township, taking tho place of the petition filed for the George Shoemaker road. The latter road as petitioned for asks that the improvement be made a brick or concrete road and 251 names were attached to it. The petitioners asked, that in view of the remonstrance filed against the Shoemaker road, that the latter be dismissed and that the petition for the Striker road take its place. The commissioners have not yet acted on the petitions. — ■- a-- — BOUGHT IT AT JAIL Muncie, Ind., Feb. 6—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Willis Montgomery, witness in a blind tiger trial here, created a sensation this morning when he testified that the best liquor he had ever bought came from the county jail. He declared he did not know how the man succeeded in obtaining the liquor. Montgomery was a witness for Mrs. Louise Whittaker, found guilty of violating the liquor law, and who was fined SIOO and costs. MANY DEAD IN FIRE Richmond. Va., Feb. 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Five are dead, twenty are missing ami scores are reported injured in a fire in the Lexington Hotel here early today entailing a loss estimated at $500,000. The hotel was undergoing extensive repairs; The'house telephones were disconnected, a new system being installed and no elevators were operating, the old one being out wiiile a new one was being put in. THE COURT NEWS Damages to the amount of SIO,OOO are asked for in a suit filed this afternoon in circuit court entitled Edward Fennig vs. Linn Grove Light & Bower Co. The plaintiff claims that while traveling along the public highwya on June 27, 1921, that he came in contact witli a high voltage line of the defendant company with tiie result that the flesh, muscles and bone of his right shoulder were burned and destroyed and that as a result of the accident that he is permanently disabled. Summons were ordered returnable February 20th. Real estate transfers: Jesse L. Mercer to Virgil Mercer, tract in Blue Creek township, sl. DR. McGAW COMING , Will Address Mass Meeting at the Evangelical Church, February 15th Dr. James S. McGaw, one of America’s foremost patriotic platform orators has been secured to address a mass meeting to be held in the Evangelical church, on Wednesday, February 15th, at 7:45, when he will discuss the subject, “The Banished Book and the Bad Boy.” Dr. McGaw is known throughout the country as “America's rapid-fire civic evangelist” because of his method of delivery and burning zeal for the best things of our national life. As general secretary of the National Reform association, his work is nation-wide, but owing to the urgent request of citizens of Indiana for an intensive campaign presenting some definite plans to meet the wave of crime sweeping the country, a limited portion of the time of Dr. McGaw has been given to strategic places throughout the state. Local arrangements are in charge of Rev. Charles Tinkham. who is being assisted by the other pastors of Decatur. ■ mi— -

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INSTALL ELECTRIC ACCOUSTICS | I The Mennonlto church hag now in- j *talied special electrical accoustlc* • which operate electrically on the same 1 principle aS a telephone. A sounding board has been set up on the pulpit * which catches the sound vibrations as 1 the pastor speaks. This is connected j with six amplifiers which magnify the ■ sound waves anti are transmitted on the principles of a telephone receiver. Such church members who are hard-hearing have special pews where these receivers are installed. A j receiver has also been installed in the homo of Rev. S. F. Sprunger. The i apparatus was inaugurated last Saturday and is only on a trial tost now.—. Berne Witness. SISTER CLEOPHAS IN ROME (United Press Service) Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 7 —(Special | to Daily Democrat) —Sister Mary Cleo-1 phas, mother superior of St. Mary's ’ of the Woods, famous college here, was in Rome today to lay before i'ope Bitts XI the mission which was carrying her to Europe when Pope Benedict died. Her mission is to have canon-1 ised as a saint, Mother Theodora I Guerin, who founded St. Mary's ini 1841). In addition to data to prove that I Mother Guerin possessed all the vir-1 lues and attributes necessary to entitle her to recognition as a saint. Sister Cleophas is carrying the sworn I statement of two reliable doctors of Madison that when the body of the St. Mary's founder was exhumed in 1907 for reburial under a. church altar at the college, the brain was found perfectly intact.. e , BABY IN A SUIT CASE (United Preaa Service!. Columbus, Ind., Feb. 7 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Carrying the lifeless body of a small child in a suit case, two men. who said their homes were in Edinburg, near here, sought permission to bury the child in Garland cemetery. John Mitchell, sexton, told the men they would have to get a death certificate and buv propertyin the cemetery before the burial could be permitted. The men departed, walking up the road, and carrying the suit case with them. County ami city authorities were baffled by the ease. The men were gons before Mitchell luid a chance to notify officers, who advanced the theory of possible murder and subsequent repentance. —' - wgrs « More than 9.000,000 persons live within 50 miles of the New York Qity hall. — - > ‘45 MINUTES FROM BROADWAY” WRITTEN TO SAVE EXPENSES ''Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway,” George M. Cohan’s celebrated musical comedy success of a few y ears igo which has just been released by lie First National as a picture starring Charles Ray, was written on the »pnr of tile moment and under tremendous pressure, by Mr. Cohan. Shortly after Mr. Cohan ami Sam Harris formed a partnership as theatrical producers in 1904, they placed Miss Fay Templeton under, their management. Hers was one. of the first contracts executed by the young firm and Miss Templeton, then in the zenith of her fame, succeeded in having a merry little clause inserted into it. which made her salary active with >r without acting, ami as this weekly stipend was no small amount, it behooved Cohan & Harris to provide a

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play for her as soon as possible. And as they had nothing to suit her talmit at the time, it was up to George M. Cohan to get busy and give Miss Templeton something to play with, beside the money. It was under those conditions Wiat "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" was written, rehearsed ami produced. Mr. Cohan set to work on it with a will and upset the accepted

Are You Preparing For The Rainy Day The sun may be shining for you today. You may have a good job—a good salary—and nothing to worry you in the least. •>- When the rainy day comes you may be cut loose from your job—your salary cut off—and sickness and worry forced upon you. What are you going to do? You have never saved anything and therefore are not prepared for this dark and gloomy day, ? Don’t let this happen. Start right now —today—and provide for the rainy day. Open an account today. 4% on Savings. OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana REAL ESTATE AUCTION I will sell my farm at Auction. Sale will he held on the farm at 2 o’clock p. m-, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1922 160 Acres IMPROVED Farm LOCATION—I miles south of the city limits of Fort Wayne, mile east of the Bluffton and Fort Wayne road, 1 mile east of Ferguson, !< mile fronii school, on stone road. Legal description: N.E. H of Sec. 10, Twp. Pleasant, Range 12 East, Allen county, Indiana. CROPS—This farm was cropped last year to. Corn. Wheal, Oats, Clover, Timothy, and about 20 acres of pasture. All in cultivation hut the pasture which is wooded. FARM IS PRACTICALLY LEVEL AND IS WELL TILED, TO 2 MAIN LINES. IMPROVEMENTS—New 0 room frame house, new barn 32x 78, cellar, cistern, well, good fence. The improvements are all first class. Possession March L 1922. TERMS—I-3 on (lay of sale, the balance being arranged with the purchaser at 7'< interest. Title perfect, and Abstract will be furnished. HARLEY SOMERS, Owner, PERDUE & GORRELL Bros., Aucts. Hicksville, Ohio. FORT WAYNE, IND. I _ .

theory on play writing, that tho author innnt work only at certain times, or when tho spirit moves him. Mr. Cohan worked all of the time until it was finished and the result whs that the author, actor, composer and producer has always declared it to be the very bent play he has ever written. At the Crystal today aud tomorrow.