Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 15 February 1922 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except ' Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER ...Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE. Aaaoelate Editor and Bualneae Manager JOHN H. STEWART City Editor Subacrlptlon Ratee Cash In Advance Single Coplea 8 cents One Week, by carrier...... 10 cents One Year, by carrier... I&.00 One Month, by mail SI cents Three Months, by mall 11.00 Blx Months, by mall 3L76 One Year, by mall. 13.00 One Year, at office 13 00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside thoae zones.) Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Deca tur, Indiana, as second-class matter A LATE CLASSIC: — The latest gift to Indianapolis from , the pen of the mayor is directed to , Phillip Zoercher, a member of the ( state tax board, signifying a quarrel , in which plain language is used. With ( all his faults it should be said how- . ever that Zoercher has never stooped ( to such mud-slinging as the follow ( ing: , “Mr. Phillip Zoercher: —Dear Sir— ( Head in the paper the other day the ( remarks you made about my making ] any improvements in Indianapolis. I j want to say here, you big stiff, 1 don't ] care whether there is anything done in Indianapolis, but you are not run ning the city, and as far as I am con f cerned, you will not run it, now or , ever. Please answer. Yours truly, B. j L. Shank, Mayor. , ‘P. S.—l don't believe you could be elected dog pedler, if there was such an office in Indiana. 1 understand you are from Salem and you had better go (] back, in my opinion, if you would cut , your whiskers you wouldn’t have dys- v pepsia so bad.” d - ■ f United States health officials arc sending broadcast a warning against growing careless, now that spring is approaching and subjecting yourself to sudden changes of temperature. A return of the flu in a mild form has been noted in several sections, and we need only recall the terrible death list from this disease of a few years ago to remind us that it is a scourge to be shunned. Open weather at this season invites colds and pneumonia, and a weakened system is very apt a to contract a case of flu, the most n deadly lung trouble known. Guard well the ventilation of your office, store, shop or home. Take Uncle Sam's advice and steer clear of stuffy rooms. Get all the fresh air you can, but dress comfortably and avoid unnecessary exposure. All of this is easy to do—far easier than to pay doctor bills or leave a lot of relatives and friends behind to mourn your carelessness. Dr. Ellis of the University of Tex v as acting at the request of the U. 8.

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CRYSTAL Last—Ti me—Tonight “THE SIGN ON THE DOOR” A big First National production featuring the famous star, Norma Talmadge A masterpiece, vital in force and justly styled as the greatest photoplay ever photographed. Ask your friends who saw it last evening t and then come tonight. You’ll be more Ilian pleased. Admission 10 and 25 cents NOTE—"The Sign on the Door" ie the picture used by the Chicago Theater, Chicago, 111., for the opening of that theater several weeks ago.

’ board of education has prepared figures which show the average wage for uneducated laborers for forty . years has been 3500 or a total of r 130,000 while the average fot* high * school graduates was 11,000 per year p or a total of 340.000. Therefore, if 2,180 days in school adds 320,000 to a man's income, each day in school 1 adds 39.25 and the boy who remains J out of schoqj to earn less than that , is not acting as wisely as be may think. School is always a good investment and those who try to make themselves believe otherwise are simply working against themselves. And your education does not end with graduation. You should keep on informing yourself. ji ill— ■ at- a By a ruling of the supreme court of Ohio political literature destined to injure a candidate's reputation or to put him in a false light is a viola tion of the law. The court refers to scurrious letters and circulars sent out during campaigns, which do not bear the name of the author. Occasionally some citizen sends iu an anonymous communication, a letter , the writer is too cowardly to sign his , or her name to, and we toss it in the , waste basket. The people who write i such letters to the newspapers and 1 expect them printed are the same j kind who circulate character destroy- j ing literature during a political cam- , paign. Indiana has a similar law. 1 The meeting of the democratic 1 editors tomorrow and next day Will ' be of much Interest, for a number of ; prominent men and women of the i state and nation, including Hon. Cor- 1 dell Hull, democratic chairman will : give addresses. The banquet will occur tomorrow evening aud the busi ness session on Friday morning. If is expected that considerable talk will be heard as to probable candidates for United States senator and for the state offices.

Senator Smoot declares that a sales tax of one-half of one per cent will produce the $380,000,000 necessary for the soldiers’ bonus each yeor. Well, then, why hesitate? Why quarrel and fuss around over that which is so simply and satisfactorily settled? The gross cowardice and arrant stupidity of certain members of congress simply is inexplicable and unfathomable. —Fort Wayne News. Editor Green seems at last to have admitted what the people have felt now for a year or two. Henry Ford says that Muscle Shoals is a damsite better adapted to his power development purposes than any other, and that he is anxious to save it and set it to work for the benefit of the people. If Henry wants to benefit the people and save shoals of their muscles he should put a door on his flivver that can be opened and shut with something less than a million horsepower.—The Pathfinder. And so it becomes a question of whether a dam is better than a Ford. BENEFIT SHOW TOMORROW NIGHT The Crystal theatre will be turned over to the members of the Decatur City Hand tomorrow’ evening and the public is urgently requested to attend. An excellent film has been secured entitled “Cheated Itearts 'featuring Herbert Rawlinson and which is reported as being one of the best pictures the noted actor has ever made. The proceeds of the evening will be used by the bund in defraying their expenses during the winter season. The price of admission will not be increased but will remain the same as usual, ten and twenty cents. Come out and help the boys. WANT ADS EARN—S $ redpeTperfor RHEUMATIC PAIN I Red Pepper Rub takes the “ouch’’ from sore, stiff, aching joints, it cannot hurt you, and it certainly stops that old rheumatism torture at once. When you are suffering so you pan hardly ges around, just try Red Pepper Rub and you wjll have the quicji est relief known. Nothing has such concentrated, penetrating heat as red peppers. Just as soon as you apply Red Pepper Rub you will feel the tingling heat. In three minutes it. warms the sore spot through and through. Pain and soreness are gone. Ask any good druggist for a jar of Rowles Red Pepper Rub. Be sure to :get the genuine, with the name • Rowles on each package.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15,1922. «

Don’t cough THE violent paroxysms of coughing soon eased by Dr. King’s New Discovery. Fifty years a standard remedy for colds. Children like it. No harmful drugs. All druggists, 60c. Dr. King’s New Discovery For Colds and Conans Make Bowels Normal. Nature's way is the way of Dr. King’s Pills—gently and firmly regulating the bowels eliminating the intestine clogging waste. At all druggists, 25c. PROMPT! WON'T GRIPE Dr. Kings Pills BERNE NEWS Mrs, Abraham Speheger died yesterday at 5 o'closk at the home of her i daughter. Mrs. Anna Bowers.at Bluffton. Death came after a long illness of I diabetes and nephritis. She had been ailing nearly 12 years but was not I bedfast until the last three days Early Friday morning Mrs. Speheger broke an arm while in bed, the bones having become greatly weakened dur- 1 ing the long illness. Rebecca (Fritz) j Speheger was born near Livermore. Pa., April 14, 1850, being the daught er of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fritz. In 1871 she fas married to Abraham Speheger, they having moved to Wayne county, Ohio, soon after. In 1882 they moved to Wells county, Ind., [

where they lived tor many years. Before making her home in Bluffton. M’a Speheger lived at Lint. Grove for two years, Her husband preceded her (n death In 1818. Funeral services will bo held tomorrow at 1 o’clock at the Linn Grove Evangelical churchThe Blue Creek township telephone line operates through Citizens Telephone Company Exchange at Berne since the first of this month. The addition of this line brings eighteen new patrons under the Berne exchange. A new millinery shop will be opened by the Misses Martha Ehrsani and Rufina Stuckey, above the Berne Dry Googs Store. Miss Frieda Lehman visited with her slater, Mrs. Henry Alder, at Decatur today. Mrs. Jesse Gerig of Grabill aud little son visited at the C. W. Baumgartner home over Sunday. Misses fcfiizabeth .Cook of Albion, and Ema Winteregg. visited at the Dan Winteregg home over Sunday. Both Miss Wjnteregg and Miss Cook are attending the I. B. C. at Fort Wayne. O. F. Gillion is a business caller at Indianapolis today. Christian Speicher, who lias been ; making his home in Berne for some time was taken to his home in Olney, Illinois on Saturday afternoon. His two sons arrived here on Frnday night and accompanied their father home. Mr. Speicher was taken home on aci count of a sore foot. D. J. Schwartz, I. G. Kerr, and T. l A. Gottschalk attended the first meeting of the Adams County Jefferson Iciub at Decatur Friday evening. J C. H. Sprunger spent Saturday and Sunday at Cleveland and Oberlin, 0., where he witnessed the Obeilin-Re- ' serve basketball game at the latter place on Saturday evening. ■ Mrs. Dick Miller, three-fourths mile west and one-fourth mile north of (Winchester church, died this noon.

Hurry If You Want the County Daily Another Year The Daily Democrat IS CLOSING ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL RENEWAL CAMPAIGNS EVER CONDUCTED DURING ITS NINETEEN YEARS AS A DAILY NEWSPAPER AND AS THE CAMPAIGN DRAWS TO A CLOSE WE URGE THE TWO OR THREE HUNDRED SUBSCRIBERS WHO HAVE NOT YET RENEWED THEIR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO DO SO Before March 1,1922 You can’t afford to be without the county daily for less than one cent a day by mail. IT’S WORTH SEVERAL TIMES THAT AMOUNT TO KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON IN AND AROUND GOOD OLD ADAMS COUNTY, THE STATE AND NATION, TO BE POSTED ON THE MARKETS, WHERE TO BUY AND SELL, ROAD, COURT AND LEGAL MATTERS, DEATHS AND THE MANY OTHER ITEMS THE DAILY DEMOCRAT GIVES YOU Still Have A Few Bill Folds RENEWALS CAME IN SO FAST DURING THE PAST SIX WEEKS THAT WE HAD TO ORDER ANOTHER SUPPLY OF BILL FOLDS. THOSE WHO RENEW FOR ANOTHER YEAR BEFORE MARCH Ist WILL RECEIVE ONE OF THESE HANDSOME LEATHER, SEVEN - IN - ONE POCKET BOOKS. YOUR NEIGHBOR HAS ONE. ASK HIM HOW HE LIKES IT. THOSE SUBSCRIPTIONS IN ARREARS WILL BE STOPPED AFTER MARCH IST. Renew your subscription now to the The Daily Democrat THE COUNTY DAILY

Timothy Fouts, <m» of the pioneer* of Adams county, died al his home In Linn Grove yesterday evening at 1 , o'clock at the age of 91 years. ,lis death was due to pneumonia aud old, age. Mr. and Mrs. Ura Townsend visited with relatives iu Decatur over Sunday. The Berne Athletics came out of the District tournament us winners. 1 h”y defeated Warren Independents by the score of 27-18 in the final game for honors of this section. They will enter State Meet. They defeated the Linn Grove Triangles, Montpelier Independents. Van Burren and Warren

HART SCHAFFNER & MARX Beautiful Woolens for Spring Suits and O’Coats are here on display. The prices are much lower than last season, considering the fine quality of materials. Per* fectly Tailored and Correctly Styled. We’ll be glad to show you. Holthouse Schulte & Co. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

'all withip M bour». Ths Club returnnd home from Warren Saturday night with the well earned title of 'Dis'trict Champg.” Although playing the Loqt difficult schedule of tourpaImont the local quintet through their unusual ability won four successive games, three of them being played on one day to win this honor for Berne as well as for themselves. The first game appearing on the locals 'schedule was with Linn Grove Triangles. This game was played Saturday at 2 p. m. and resulted in a victory for the locals by a score of 2416. On Saturday morning the locally

had as tfeeiy oppotwutg MuaJui?, quintet. Thia wore w M siYf opposition In the seml-fliuin w * islp d by van Bureq and left Berne with th* mgrgig el aV? victory in their favor, la 2" with Warren, Berne waa on end of a 27-18 count, after whl _[ Berne was congratulated as the 8I premo team of the district. " Mr. and Mrs. ' Bob linker bo# . Preble, shopped here today. Dan Johnson of Hartford city member of Co. H. 89th Indla M yJ unteers, spent Tuesday visiting t B this cltf.