Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1922 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. JOHN H. HELLER. Editor ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, A*»ociate Editor and Business Manager J. R. BLAIR City Editor Subscription Rates Cash In Advance Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 15.00 One Month, by mail 36 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mail.. $1.75 One Year, by mail One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising rates made known on application. —— -X -. j Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. , i Tlie government boats on the high seas are still kept agoing by the rush of business at the bars on the ShipI ping board's vessels. J Other cities may boast of a tourist ' camp, but we venture to say that no 1 city in Indiana or the middle west has ’ such a convenient and beautiful spot 1 as provided by Decatur in Bellmont 1 Park. It’s tin ideal place and if you ‘ are asked if Decatur has a tourist's * grounds direct them to Bellmont Park. • , i t Many are of the opinion that extra f parking space for automobiles can be 1 provided in Decatur by securing a va- 1 cant lot and then make the proper ai- 1 rangements tor the parking of the f cars. Witli the 2400 automobiles in - this county the parking of them is a ’ problem and we believe that such a c place would prove very popular. v What’s your idea? , » 0 In less than six weeks the third an , nual fair of the Northern Indian? Fair association will be given, it pro. misos to be bigger and beter than ever Tiie race program, agricultural chav tuaqua, the live stock show and ex a hihits will be owrth going miles to sc” and now is the time to invite your ' h friends to come here during the first week in August and take them to Bellmont park. n ,v. iu-qM" 7 A person who signs himself "On< ti who voted for the hospital” contri ’’ is butes an article to the Peoples Voice h column in tonight's Daily Democrat is relative to the building of the Adam t n Ii County Memorial hospital and the advisability of making an additional ap- ~ propriation of $25,000 with which to n complete the three story building. c Read it and let us have you opinion. ’

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p Th* first step toward* the raising of funds for the providing of playgrounds ( was taken last evening at Bellmont I‘ark when forty men who attended the r luncheon meeting of tho Rotarians '• subscribed nearly two hundred dolr lars towards the proposition. Ti|e money was not given in the name 6f the Rotary club, but as individuals, 1 each man subicribiug for what he J thought he could afford. The women , of tlie Civic section of tho Woman's i club will endeavor to increase this 1 fund to about a thousand dollars and will see that tenuis courts and other I playgrounds, properly supervised are furnished the children. The action of the men last evening is to bo commended and since the ball has been started, let’s keep it a roiling. Decatur, tlie best little city in the universe, is eighty-six years old today, the original plat of the the town being recorded on June 3, 1836 by Thomas Johnson and Samuel U Rugg, the founder of our beautiful city. Johnson donated the present site of the court house and during the next year a small log building was erected and used as a house of justice. During the srftne year a county jail was built. In 1850 the town had a population of only 231 and from that time on, after the Piqua plank road was built tho population increased rapidly. On September 5, 1882 Decatur was incorporated as a city and Judge J. T. Merryman was elected as the first mayor. Onr city was named in honor of Commodore Stephen Decatur, of naval fame and known for his true blooded Americanism and his memorable words, “Our country! In her intercourse with other nations may she al- < ways be right, but our country right j or wrong.” 1

The People’s Voice In response to your editorials which ask an expression from the citizenry regarding the size of the Memorial hospital, I desire to make a few remarks. In the first place, the archi feet planned a hospital to meet our needs for say fifteen years or more. To plan a smaller one would soon have to enlarge it just as Wells County will have to do. To enlarge any building is always much more expensive than to build it all at once; with a hospital it is decidedly more expensive and would make it necessary to suspend all hos pit al work during that time. Judging from the other county hospital the three story hospital as plan ned is just the right size for Adams county. It will be none too big for there is every reason to believe Adams county's population will increase rapid iy.

It is a known fact that the general electric plans to double its plant here in the not distant future. There is good cause to believe that the large Yeoman Children's Home will be located here. Other institutions arcsure to come because we have the natural facilities to induce them to come. This makes suitable hospital facilities a necessity. Furthermore this is a "Memorial Hospital", a monument to the boys who were in the World War. God knows that has been shown little enough, honor and respect by the nation at large, and that makes it all the more incumbent upon us here at home to do them honor. So let's don't skimp here —let’s build the memorial right and dedicate to them a building of service that all can be proud of. Let's build the building three stories as planned; to leave off the top story would be a great mistake. .. —ONE WHO VOTED FOR IT.. STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION OPENED BIDS ON 84 MILES OF STATE ROADS TODAY Indianapolis. June 23.—The state highway commission today opened bids on 84 miles of state roads. This is a part, of the state’s $1,500,000 secondary road program. Thirty road projects in nineteen counties are to be let in nine contracts. Proposals according to John Williams, director of the commission, are invited on three types of construction: surface treatment, bituminous top, and penetratiop top. These projects comprise 28 road sections that are located in twenty different counties. The counties in which they are located are; Floyd, Clark. Harrison, Dearborn, Jefferson, Lawrence, Monroe. Wayne, Delaware. # Grant Morion. Montgomery, Allqp. ■ Elkhart, Laporte, Lake, Carroll, Cazs. t and Marshall.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1922

City of Decatur Founded Eighty-Six Years Ago Today (Continued from page one) of the pioneer type. The first store building to be set up was a log structure on the corner of Monroe and First “treats whefe tho L. Waring ibome is now located. The keeper of the store was Henry Relsdiard, who came to Decatur in 1838 from Willshire. Several other stores were built the following year. The first tavern was built also in 1838 by James Crabb. It was erected where the Everett-Hite Company is now located. The first brick building was built in 1849 where the town pump is now located. The present court house was completed in 1873. In 1851 the Methodist congregation built the first church. It lias been remodled and changed into a gfnasium but the original building still stands on the corner of First and Jackson streets. In 1880 Second street was paved with "niggerhead rock.” This pavement was described as “very rough,” in

i v THOMAS JOHNSON. Who donated site as county seat. Snow's History of Adams county. Monroe street was gravelled in 1880. A few years later in 1893, brick was used to pave the streets and cement

began to become the popular compo sition for sidewalks. The first town officers in Decatrr were elected on the last day of December, in 1853. They were: Trustees: James Crabb, James Stoops, Thomas Pearce, Jacob Crabb and Parker Wise; clerk-treasurer. William Spencer; town marshall. Hamilton Wise. Sixty four votes were cast in the first election. There have been few large flret. The big Store fire is perhaps the larfe est that Decatur has had. It destroyed the block in which Engeler's Grocery and Drygoods store, Teeple and Peter son’s clothing store and Schmitt's meat market are located. The fire occured in 1903 and the loss was estimated at $75,000. The entire city was threatened for a while but firemen and volunteers gained control after JCOMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR

a hard struggle. The Burt House destroyed by fire in 1905 and was never rebuilt. Recent big fires were the Schafer fires. The first railroad to be built through Decatur was the G. R. & I. The first train on this road ran through Decatur on Christmas day in 1871. Sinco that time the Toledo, St. Louis and Western and the Chicago and Erie have built lines through the city. A traction company has also been built from Decatur to Ft. Wayne. In tho 15 years Decatur has grown rapidly. Today she is the home of the only beet sugar factory in the state, a branch of the General Electric company, two foundries, a tile factory a handlS factory, a hoop mill, a creamery and many other factories that make this town a good site in which to locate. But the rapid progress of this city 1 in the past 86 years has not satisfied ' the 5,000 loyal inhabitants and they are striving to improve the city, build ’ it up and gain for It more honor. The latest'project, for a bigger and better ■ Decatur is the attempt to bring the ’ National Yeoman Home to this city. Decatur was named after Commo- ■ dore Stephen Decatur, fgmojts spldier of the seas, whoee great',wards. ’"Our 1 County! In her intercourse with for- • eign nations, may she always be right, a but OUR COUNTRY, right or wrong.'' I, have been written in the thousand hisi, tories of the United States and have >. been heralded from pole to poie.- ( I. $. t-j-WANT ADS EARN—S—S—S WANT ADS EARN—4—4—4

PRINCIPAL FOR DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL CHOSEN (Continued from page one) take charge of Girls' Physical Training and will also assist in Domestic Science. Miss Rutlidge has had two years' course in Physical Training and comes with a good Physical Training course for the girls of Decatur. Miss Ruth Vizard of Pleasant Mills and for the past four years a primary teacher in the Willshire, Ohio schools, has been selected to succeed Miss Mary Fuhrman, who recently resigned to accept a position with her uncle, Supt. B. A. Winans of Helena, Mont. Miss Vizard will teach at the Riley Building. Miss Serena Honanda, a gradaute of Decatur High School was selected teacher to succeed Miss Doris De Voss, who resigned, tyiss Hornada is a teacher of two years’ experience and. has been very successful. Mr. Tom Venis was chosen janitor to succeed Mr. Carl Hudson, who recently resigned to enter an Electrical Engineering School. The high school teachers who will return for another year's work are Miss Blanche McCrory, commerce: Miss June Ossenberg. science; Agnes Sellemeyer, mathematics; and Martha Tyner, history. Mr. Thomas Moore, athletic director last year, will also return and have charge of the high school athletics. The vacancies in the high school teaching corps which remain unfilled are English and music and art. It is said that teachers have been selected for these positions but some unavoidable delay has been experienced in closing the contracts. The same condition exists in several of the grade school positions in the city. However the vacancies will very likely be filled at a meeting of the school board to be held sometime next week. A full list of the city school teaching corps will be published as soon as all contracts have been signed. EDITORSHEARO RALSTON SPEAK

Senatorial Candidate Made Address to Democratic Editors Yesterday Madison, Ind., June 23. —Samuel M. Ralston, nominee for United States senator, from Indiana, sounded the keynote for the 1922 Democratic state campaign in his address before the Indiana Democratic Editorial association here yesterday afternoon. George W. Purcell, editor of the Vincennes Western Sun, followed the address of exGovernor Ralston with a discourse on the pioneer newspapers of Indiana. Marcus R. Sulzer, president of the Madison Commercial club, delivered the address of welcome to the editors at Madison, while Dale J. Crittenberger, of the Anderson Herald, replied to the address of welcome. The speaker of the afternoon, for mer Governor Samuel M. Ralston, was introduced by John Heller, of Decatur, president of the association. The former governor was warmly greeted and his speech was received

with great enthusiasm. The visitors began to arrive early in the morning and about 100 registered at the headquarters of the convention. The guests w-ere entertained last night at a dinner given by the King's Daugh-. ters and the editors and their friends took a steamer for a ride on the river. The program of today wilt consist of drives to Clifty Falls, Hanover College, the Southeastern hospital and other points of interest. Mr. Ralston spoke in part as follows: "It is the custom of political parties, preceding every campaign, to make a declaration of principles, that the voters may know what to expevt of them in the event they are given a vote of confidence. The Democratic and Republican parties of Indiana have each recently adopted a platl form and I call attention to the fact - that the Republican party gives the I people of this state no assurance that ■ in the event it is continued in power, • they will be given a more economical > administration of state affairs in the future than that party has given them - in the past. r i ‘ “i.'dq hot kpow of, a farmer in r diana. .who is not complaining that • his taxes are too high. t The grocer, :, the merchant and the manufacturer ” are all crying out against excessively i- high taxes and demanding that .there e be a reduction in tax ' rates. There is, no question in government that so vitally couiigrps the people as does $ that of taxation,, and. certainly there $ is today, no other question in Indiana

over which the people are so arouied and yet the Republican platform promises them no relief. “It is absolutely astounding when we reflect that It is now costing the taxpayers of Indiana more annually to maintain the state highway commission than all the money collected in an entire year for state purposes under the last Democratic administration and yet that administration was not only a progressive, but also a debtpaying administration." MILLER GIVES FACTS IN WIFE'S CASE TO PUBLIC Was Astonished at the Way She Began to Mend When She Took Taniac—Completely Relieved of Stomach Touble of Ten Years Standing. "My wife had suffered ten years from stomach trouble, getting worse rapidly,” said W. B. Miller, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., employee of the N. Y. C. Railroad. "A year or so ago she became violently ill and had to stay in bed for days. She had no appetite and after nearly every meal she would bloat up with gas and have pains all through her body. She was so nervous she couldn't rest at night and her back and limbs hurt all the time. "But it is surprising how quick she began to mend when she started taking Taniac. She is now feeling better than in years and her housework is easy for her. We think Taniac is the greatest medicine in the world." Taniac is sold by all good druggists. * Operation Not Successful "16 years ago I was operated on for appendicits and later operated again for gall stones. Neither did me any good and I suffered all kinds of torture since. Five years ago I took Mayr's Wonderful Remedy and have felt no symptoms or pain si.nce. All stomach sufferers should take it.” It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including -—endicitis. One dose Will convince or monev refunded. For sale by Holthouse Drug company and druggists everywhere. s—s—s—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s

Diamond Jubilee 1847 - 1922 A Rare Event Joint Jubilee Services of Lutheran Congregations, Missouri Synod at St. John’s North of Decatur on Fort Wayne-Decatur Road Sunday, June 25, 1922 t An All-day Affair Good Speakers Mass Chorus Public Cordially Invited

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