Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1922 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller —Pres, and Oen. Mgr. E. W. Katnpe— Vice-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse—Sec'y aud Hus. Mgr. Entered at the Postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Yenr, by carrier |s.ou One Month, by mail 36 cents Three Months, by mall SI.OO Six Months, by mall $1.75 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office..., $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second cones. Additional postage ad ded outside those zones.) , Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company. 122 Michigan Avenue. Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Life Building, Kansas City, Mo The conference committee’on the ■ tariff law has placed a tax of thirty 1 dollars on a ton of potash, another, smash at the energy of the farmers ‘ The farmers cannot get along without 1 potash and this country produce?: ’ only a small part of this product. ' Potash on the free list would mean a ! great saving to the farmer but in 1 stead he is given an extra slam of thirty dollars for each ton used. I’n : til the farmer is prosperous the coun try cannot go forward and the blind ' work of the do nothing congress * beats anything in history.

The state highway commission last year spent over eight million dollars which is more than all the cost of government during the last year ot the Ralston administration. Do you wonder that taxes are high and that we do not get back to pre-war condi tions? How can we under a law which permits expenditures thre> times as much as before and under an administration which is making no effort to economize? It costs six times as much to maintain a mile of state road as it does a mile of county road. Surely there is something loose in such an administration and we have about a hundred other commissions and boards operated muci the same. Owners of lajnd in the proposed sites for the Yeomen home are plac

ing values thereon which should prov< that there is no effort being made to commercialize the project. We do not beiievo that a single person in the community will stand in the road of securing this splendid improve ment or in any way check the efforts which have been made. It's a splendid showing and we are sure it wil be appreciated by the men who are to finally and definitely decide the loca tion of the school. The men who come here to place a value on the real estate will be men of excellent judgment of course and will tallstraight business. The prices fixed now should be the lowest price if we are to make headway. Senator Townsend won in the Michigan primaries in a campaign in which the main issue was his vote to seat Newberry. However he had

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three opponents each of whom took the opposite stand and these three had a combined vote of twice that of Townsend. Therefore there Is still •|a dispute as to just how Michigan I stands on the Newberry question. 1 They will have one more opportunity to clear themselves in November when Ex-governor Ferris one of the big men of Michigan will contest with Townsend. Tito state is so overwhelmingly republican however that ( all that can be expected is a reduced majority. It the people want Lodge, Townsend and Hale and like their 1 attitude they can have them of course and they can continue normalcy as ‘ long as they vote for them. Unless oni's Christianity is unus nally strong, there are few automobile drivers who have not damned the gravel haulers who dumped big gobs of gravel right in the middle of the roads without making any attempt t<. level it. It has been done for years and is still being done in some parts of the country. It has caused much loss of temper and time, but what is more it has in some cases caused accidents. On last Tuesday a traveling salesman from Danville, 111., was killed on the county road near Albany. Delaware county, when his car overturned, in the heavy gravel, which was piled high in the center and the Muncie Press claims that Delaware county could be held liable for damages. The latter would not ben , etit the dead man. but for the sake of the living who must travel that road.

this condition should be remedied There are many roads in the state in ] which gravel is now being applied in the same way and it has the appearance of criminal carelessness. —Hart ( ford City News. ■ 10-Year Old Ohio Mother Implicates Step-Father Sidney, Ohio, Sept. 14—Rev. L. W. Irwin, step-father of the ten year old i Hardin. Ohio. girl, who puzzled seien- - lists a month and a half ago by giv- ; ing birth to a seven pound boy, to- i day wah under arrest on a charge of contributing to the girl’s delinquency, i Elizabeth Irwin* said to be America’s youngest mother, has been questioned daily by authorities ever since i the baby was born. Until today her one answer had i been: 1 “1 have no boy friends.” < Sheriff John Rapp of Clermont i county, announced today, however.

that he had secured a confession • from the young mother, which Im- i plieates her step-father. ‘ Rev. Irwin vigorously denied the implication. Irwin only this week became pastor of the Methodist church at Amelia, being transferred by the church conference meeting at Dayton. He was to have preached his first sermon there Sunday. The infant son is living with Mrs. Irwin, its grandmother, at Amelia. Water Jug Hit Farmer In Face Breaking Nose Henry Motz, farmer living near Murray, suffered a fracture of his u«..sc and a severe bruise on his foreh< ad when he was struck with a '■ i<‘r jug yesterday afternoon. When Mr Motz called for the jug of water the man on top of a wagon threw it unexpectedly and it slipped through Motz’s grasp and struck him on his nose and forehead.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1922

FARMERS CAN l APPEALLEVIES The Indiana Federation of Farmers Send a Tip to Farmers in the State A memorandum to Indiana farmers citing that they can lawfully appeal alleged unreasonable tax levies to the. state board of tax commissioners, was' gent out yesterday by the Indiana Federation of Farmers Association. The bulletin called attention to the fact that ten or more farmers, who deem excessive their township tax levies, can appeal to the state board of tax commissioners and arrange for a hearing on remonstrances. The remonstrances must be filed be fore Sept. 25, in accordance with the 1 state law. according to the bulletin. It • was pointed out that the remonstran ees can be prepared without cost. Appended to the memorandum was the following rule, relative to tax ■ payer’s appeals: Ten or more taxpayers in any muni 1 cipal corporation, other than those • who pay poll tax only, who are as 1 fected by any local tax levy and who ' may feel aggrieved with such levy or iny item thereof, may fild a petition witffi the county auditor of the coun ty in which giich municipal corpora tlon is located. not later than the fourth Monday of September, setting ■ forth that the amount to be collected • >n the levies adopted by tax levying ] officers is more than government econ , omically administered warrants, or i that any item in such levy will raise more money than the public needs re 1 quire. Such petition shall be referred | by the county auditor to the state board of tax commissioners for its ac I ion there on as prescribed iA section ' 200 of the tax laws as amended by the j General Assembly of 1921, Chapter ( 222. 1 Mrs. Harding Believed On Way To Recovery Washington, Sept. 14 —Mrs. Harding will be a long time in convalescing from the critical illness which nearly cost her life, but so far as indications go, her physicians believe her convalescence will be uninterrupted from now on. So satisfactorily is the president’s wife gaining that it was decided no more official bulletins will be issued for the present. The last bulletin, given out at the White House last night, referred to Mrs. Harding s condition at S p. m. Wednesday. It follows: ‘■Temperature 100. Pulse 90. Respiration 26. All appearances and conditions show the besf day since the serious time of her illness. Convalescence will be tedious. All things going well, symptoms will very long slightly from day to day. Sufficient reports will be given to relate pro gress of the case. Regular bulletins will be discontinued.” Gathered Up Garbage Without A Contract Dan Haley was arrested by Joel Reynolds, chief of police, this morn ing on an affidavit filed by Francis Schmitt, who claimed that Haley had been gathering up garbage in certain parts of the city, which belonged to Schmitt under a contract given him by the city. Haley was taken into city court and Mayor Huber DeVoss set his case for a hearing on tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock. Schmitt holds a contract from the city fol gathering up all garbage at the restaurants and eating houses. He claims that Haley has been going to certain restaurants and getting the garbage. • Ix)cal Truck Damaged Ford Car at Berne Berne, Sept. 14 — Rev. P. R. Schroeder had his Ford car badly damaged yesterday afternoon when a Dodge delivery car struck him. Mr. Schroeder had been driving south and had just turned east on the cement road a mile west of town when a Dodge, owned by McConnell & Son of Decatur, and driven by a boy by the name of Miller, drove into him , from the rear. Both cars were dam aged. The Ford had the back of the front seat badly bulged, rear axle bent, windshield broken, body dented and a new left rear wheel badly broki en. A new cord tire and tube were ruined. Neither wheel, tire nor tube had been on. longer than tpn days. The McConnell truck received a \ crushed -fender,, broken headlights and the front axle was bent so that the wheel was turned sideways. Miller was able to drive his car to Decatur. Be sure and see the Electric Cooker demonstration on Saturday, Sept. 16. Schafer Hard* ware Co. 216t3

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