Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1922 — Page 2

TURKEYS SCARCE AGAIN AS USUAL Tew Can Be Obtained For Thanksgiving; Plenty Os Chickens, Though Although an excellent price is be--1 ig paid for turkeys this year it seems that the supply of these prized birds prows less each year and local produce men have a difficult time in trying to supply the demands. Turkeys seem to be the most undomesticated birds of all fowls, and farmers have a hard time trying to n .-m them. Produce men say that tu ys thrive in cold weather and w’.l the warm weather this fall the Thanksgiving birds are not putting on much weight. The supply of chickens is as heavy as in former years during the Thanksgiving season and local produce men are shipping several carloads of fj'wls to the eastern markets every week. Decatur has a reputation of being a produce center, two large produce companies being located here and the farmers have an excellent market for selling chickens and turkeys. o Wisconsin Issues A Cow Challenge (United I'reso Service.) West Bend, Wis., Nov. 20.—Washington County of Wisconsin issnes a tliallenge to the world. Pointing with pride to their five active cow testing associations, the farmers of-this cofinty have challenged my county in the United States to match their record. Any other competing county must meet the following points: (1) —Five active cow testing associations. (2) —Two thousand cows tested annually. , f'T-'— f'-ro bred bulls head every herd of the five cow testing associations. (4) —Every herd in each of the five cow testing associations under federal supervision for tuberculosis. (5) —The Allenton-Kohseville cowtesting association finished last year an average production of 358 pounds fat per cow 29 pounds higher than the -.ext highest association in the state. (6) —Two thousand cows in cow testing associations averaging 311 butterfat, and 8,884 pounds of milk. _____ Ottawa, Oont.—The number of fur farms in Canada in 1921 was 821, recording to a statement of the Ba’■eau of Statistics. ■ ->«wrwwvaiM>r w i«i i» . 'i' ■ls »■— la rc^^ ls i mo .new.»irw, — I—— Attention Moose Regular meeting Wednesday night. —-Dictator. i“ l ire Smoke With A Smile.” White Stag Londres Cigar 8c 2 for 15c Ask your dealer for it.

Heavy Loss To U. S. In Idle Destroyer Fleet San Francisco. Nov. 20.—The United States destroyer fleet in Pacific waiters is rapidly rotting away from lack 1 of adequate attention, naval officers . | declare. j The destroyers anchored in the Pa- j ciflc, for the most part at San Diego, deteriorated at least $20,000,000 in tho past twelve months and will deterior- • ate more rapidly than that during tho 1 coming twelve months if they are not • ordered properly conditioned and man- ■ ned, it is stated by officers who uatur ■ ally refused to be quoted. 1 Many of the destroyers which are 1 going to pieces in this manner are ’ Uncle Sam's newest vessels, contract- ■ ed for toward the end of the war. 1 which have only recently been put In 1 commission and accepted by the gov- ■ eminent, and which have not steamed 1,000 miles. There are now declared to be in the | ■ neighborhood of eighty destroyers de- j 1 < (.mmissioned and lashed together in lonely groups at the government docks ’ I near San Diego. 1 Theoretically, these destroyers are I ’ 'supposed to bo ready to have crews ■ 1 put aboard them for sea service nt a 1 notice. Officers point out, j however, that to keep these destroyers j from rotting, it is necessary to dry-j ! dock them at least twice a year, and. > to put full crews aboard them for at I least three months a year to do the ' necessary work. They should then , have at least six weeks, or preferably i more of active service at sea. This is a physical impossibility at • the present time, naval officers say, as ■ ’ only two full squadrons of destroyers j I are on active duty at San Diego and j ) even these have only 50 percent of full • crews. t Approximately seventy destroyers, have been decommissioned in the past - eight months, and more are being decommissioned daily. Because of their construction, destroyers are said to deteriorate fasteri f than any other type of vessel. The investment in the phantom squadrons rotting at San Diego is said 5 to be more than 125,000,000. 1 o CHRISTMAS SEALS FOR 1922 r New York, —One billion one hundred 3 million Christmas seals have been dis- , tributed by the National Tuberculosis ■ '• 1 Association in anticipation of the Fit1 toenth Annual Christmas Seal Sale, Xhich begins on December 1. Os this number, the association is expecting r to sell five hundred million or the - equivalent of $5,000,000. l ' The Christmas seal design shows a mother with a child in her arms stand-, ing in front of a white Christmas seal. lon which is emblazoned the doublebarred cross, the international emblem of the fight against tuberculosis, in red. The design was prepared by T. M. Cleland of New York. Christmas seals will be on sale in every state in the Union, in the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, the Canal " Zone and Alaska. Q Eigfity-Two Mexicans Were Drowned Sunday Mexicala, Lower California. Nov. 21. Eighty-two Mexican men, women and children were drowned Sunday when a small steamer bringing them from Mazatlan. Mexico, to the cotton ranches of the Mexican imperial valley, ran aground at the mouth of the Colorado river, according to word received here. ! The vessel carried 14>3 persons, and twenty-one w-ere saved. | A rescue party left here early today bound for the scene. It was composed of Mexican and American offiJ cials and assistants. The disaster occurred about 100 miles south of Mexicala. Low water and a crew unfamiliar with the navigation of the river were blamed for the loss of life. o Promises Federal Aid Against Ku Klux Klan Washington, Nov. 21. — President | I Harding and Attorney General Daugherty today John Parker, of Louisiana that whenever federal interests are involved by the alleged I activity of the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana the federal government will extend full co-operation. For the present Louisiana is fully able to take care of the situation, a statement by the president and Daugherty, issued after a conference with Parker declared. Parker also issued a statement declaring that “regardless of costs or consequences a most thorough investigation will b e made of the outrages reported to have been made by the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana. ■ o Connersville—The result of the election of a township officer of this city would have been different if a ■ number of voters had signed their j names to the ballots cast, election offiI cials hera say.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1922.

Father Begs Physicians To Kill Deformed Baby Chicago, Nov. 21. —A father’s plea that his two-day-old deformed baby girl be scientifically put to death was j overruled by physicians Mondays. The child, normal mentally, has ■ neither arms nor legs. The father, James C. Leßrason. begged that she "be allowed not to live,” according to surgeons. The case of Baby Bollinger that was scientifically allowed to die seven years ago after the late Dr. Harry Haiselden. attending physician, refused to perform a simple operation that would have saved the child’s life, was recalled. Baby Leßrason was born Saturday. Dr. Benjamin H. Breakstone, attend ing physician, after a consultation with his colleagues. Dr. Mandel and I Dr. Brownstein. ruled against the father’s appeal. "The child’s brain is normal —it may become a mental genius—we have no right to cause her death,” he ' said. "The deciding point is whether the I child, if permitted to live, will be a | burden on the community. "Society should be required to step , in and care for such a baby, attend to its wants and educate it.” 0 To Ask Indictment Os Thomas Clark Huntington. Ind., Nov. 21. —Indictment of Thomas Clark, insane slayer, of his wife and son, will be asked of ■ the special grand jury called for Wednesday to investigate the double i murder. “I am convinced that Mr. Clark still had sufficient possession of his facul- | ties to know what he was doing," Prosecutor Charles Haller said. "His mentality seems to be sufficiently clear even at this time to recall all of the incidents. I cannot ■ say that he could be regarded as an insane person to the extent that he is ' not answerable for his acts. “I feel that it is my duty to take this before the grand jury the same as any other murder.” Haller interviewed Clark in the jail at Bluffton and was told how the man crushed his wife’s skull with a club when she tried to force him to scrub the basement floor.. He and his wife were estranged, Clark said, because of her familiarity with Cap Bell, a stock buyer. Clark said he killed the boy because he watched the murder of. Mrs. Clark. o PERU FAMILY IN WRECK Peru, Ind., Nov. 21.—Ine was killed land four injured in a crossing acci-i dent here Sunday night. Mrs. D. Wisi enberg was fatally injured and three ; of her children seriously hurt when ' an Indiana Service Corporation traction car struck their automobile. , Wlsenberg, driving the automobile, i was slightly injured. o Cambridge, Mass. —After a trial of ( six weeks, Frank T. Mufler, Philadelphia trainer of Jack Kelly, the world’s champion sculler, has been named rowing coach at Harvard for 1923. Washington, Penna. — Washington ' and Jefferson College has adopted the ! rule prohibiting the use of freshmen ■jin varsity athletics and limiting an II athlete to three years participation in 1 ; sport, the faculty announced. It will 1 become effective in 1924. New York.—Because the tentative American League schedule for 1923 deprives the Boston Red Sox of the first Saturday in the new Yankee Stadium, Harry Frazee, owner of the club, announced he would recruit help and fight it out with Ban Johnson at the schedule meeting. New Haven —Two thousand Yale students gathered at the station here today and gave Captain Jordan and his foot-ball ,squad a rousing send-off . when they departed for Trenton. N. J. Despite faculty orders not to leave until tonight, .hundreds of Yale rooters started their exits last night. , o CONFUSING TERMS IN EVERYDAY ENGLISH GOT—GOTTEN Both are used as the past participle of the verb get; “got”, however, is preferable to “gotten” as the past participle, and is properly used when the act of getting precedes possession. Gotten is rapidly falling into disuse. Examples: I have got that new book I wanted. (This implies the act of securing). Such a sentence as “I have got a knife” is wrong, as “got” is unnecessary. “I have a knife,” is correct. DON’T—DOESN'T Don't is used correctly only after a plural subject and never with the third person singular. Fbr instance, “He don’t, she don’t, it don’t” are incorrect. "Kfe doesn't, etc., correct. Uncontracted forms are uniformly preferred in literary use and correct speech.

♦ DOINGS IN SOCIETY ♦ BLUB CALENDAI Tuesday C. L. of C.'Card Party-K. of C. Hall. Tri Kappa—Mrs. Albert Sellemeyer. Progressive Class of Presbyterian church —Mrs. J. C. Patterson, 7:30 p. nt. V. I. S. class, United Brethren church—Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Leßrun. Three Link Club in Rebecca Hall. Mary and Martha S. S. Class of M. E. church —Mrs. W. E. Smith. Rebecca Lodge at the Hall —7:30. Mary and Martha S. S. Cladb at home of Mrs. W. R. Smith. Wednesday St. Vincent de Paul society with Mrs. E. L. Carroll, 2:30 p. m. Psi lota Xi meeting with Mrs. E. i B. Adams. So Cha Rea—7:4s — Mrs. Francis , Schmidt. Bachelor Maids—6:3o, Murray Hoi tel. Miss Kynt Voglewede hostess. Historical Club, Mrs. John Schug—--2:30 p. m. “500” Club —Mrs. Glenn Cowan. Thursday Annual Thanksgiving dinner and supper at Evangelical church, noon" and evening. 7:30 p. m.—Helping Hand Society. S. S. Rooms. Eastern Star Initiation — Masonic ( Hall. Auction Bridge Club, Miss Cecil i Miller, 8 o’clock. Ladies Aid Society of Presbyterian Church —Mrs. F. E. France —2:30. Friday M. E. Ladies Aid—2:3o o’clockchurch parlors. Zion Lutheran Aid Society, School 1 House, 3 o’clock. Saturday Hospital Board, Smith & Bell office. Women's Bible Class of Baptist church — Pastry Sale —Green Meat Market. The Three Link Club will meet in the Rebecca Hall tonight. Mrs. Amos j Yoder and Mrs. Minnie Teeple will entertain. ♦ The Mary and Martha Sunday ; School Class of the M. E. church will moet at the home of Mrs. W. A. Smith on North 3rd St., Tuesday evening. November 21st Assistant hostesses •ire Ella Rice, Laura Crill, Nellie Eady ■ and Grace Reynolds. All members are urged to be present. ♦ The Rebecca Lodge will hold their regular meeting at the hall tonight at 7:30. The Three-Link Club will meet after the Lodge session. ♦ The Ladies Aid Society of the First i Presbyterian Church will meet with '.Mrs. F. E. France on Mercer Avenue I Thursday at 2:30 o'clock. This is the j last meeting before the December Bazaar and every member is requested ( 'to be present to complete arrange- . 1 ments for same. A crowd of young people from Hoag- ■ land enjoyed Sunday evening at the i heme of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mey1 , ers of 336 North 9th St., in playing cards and dancing. Those present ! were Cecilia. Velma and Irene Minnick, Clara and Josephine Fox. Earl, Orville and Theadore Minnick, Am- ! brose Gibson, John x Kl!ngenberger, > ’ Henry Renninger, Mr. and Mrs. Aloysius Sorg, Mr. and Mrs. Erman Minnick and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Meyers and son, Junior. Refreshments were ’ served. ♦ Miss Cecil Miller will entertain the Auction Bridge Club Thursday eve- ! ning at 8 o'clock at her home on MarI shall street. ♦ The Zion Lutheran Aid society will ! meet at the school house Friday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock. ♦ The Marthas and Mary’s Sunday School class of the M. E. church will meet at the home of Mrs. W. R. Smith on North Third street this evening. Each member is requested to bring a gift for the notion shower to be given for a Home Missionary and family. ♦ s The Yeoman Lodge will hold an enu tertalnment Thursday evening at the : i Hall at 8 o’clock following the RoII tarian dinner. There will be talks, ■ j eats and a general good time for 1 everyone. Mr. McKee, Mr. Farmer, '■ and Mr. Erwin tho State Manager, will 1 be present and give interesting talks. The public is invited. * Mrs. James Fristoe "entertained the Research club at her home on Adams street yesterday afternoon with twenty-three members present. Mrs. F. E. France gave a very interesting paper on “Great Fortunes of History,” taking the moneyed people of centuries ago and tracing them until the present time. She , also proved that the three richest men in the world were Americans

and are Ford, Rockefellow and Mellon. ♦ The Annual Thanksgiving dinner and supper will be given at the Evangelical church on Thursday. The Ladies Aid will serve a chicken dinner for fifty cents at noon and in the evening from five to seven will have a two cent supper to which the public is cordially invited. ♦ One of the social events of the season will be the Harvest Home Dance to be given on Thanksgiving, by the Delta Theta Tau sorority for a number of invited guests. Each member has invited an outside couple and the evening promises to be a most enjoyable one. Last evening the sorority met at the home of Florence Breinerkamp and final plans were i made for the giving of the dance. The , Harmony Five orchestra of Ft. Wayne | will furnish music and several speci ialties are on the program. A number of out of town guests will be presend anda the Misses M. Moran and Gemain Christen, members of the sorority who are attending St. Marys of the Woods college for. women at Notre Dame, will return home for the dance. Although a private dance, it is expected that one hundred people will be present and the Masonic hall ' will be beautifully decorated for the evening. ——— • 2 cent supper, Saturday, Nov. 25th, K. of P. home, 5 to 7, benefit Civic ■ Section of Woman's club. 274-4tx

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