Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 284, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1922 — Page 4

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Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Hldg., New York City N. Y. IJfe Building, Kansas City, Mo. Three weeks from today is Christmas. Os Course it don’t seem possible but it's true and the sooner you 1 start your shopping the happier the occasion is going to be. Evidently the only way Bluffton could beat Decatur this year was by describing a little squabble at the last football game as a lynching bee and they brag about good sportsmanship Shame on you boys. If advertising in the Daily Demo- ! crat doesn't get results it’s because t of the fact you don't use your best > argument. If you will tell the people what to give for Christmas you will do business. ‘ - r Wabash is enjoying a “blue law" ‘ war. Efforts to close the picture shows has caused the administration to take the position that they have as much light to operate as other business houses. Y'esterday every place in the city, including drug stores, restaurants, news stands, cigar stores and candy shops were closed and it is announced that next Sunday the order will include garages and the street car lines. Fine stuff for the prosecutor and the jnstiee of peace.

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The Last Week of Our Anniversary Sale Our Eleventh Anniversary Sale this morning entered upon its last week and big preparations are going forward to make this week the biggest money-saving event in the history of this store. ~ Many women have taken advantage of the wonderful bargains we have offered during tni sale. We are going one better. Watch tomorrow evening’s paper for a great volume of unheard of values. E. F. CASS & SON _

Governor McCray wants a liberal appropriation to complete the prison palace now being constructed at Pendleton. Why so particular about the place of abode of law breakers while giving but little attention to other unfortunates? Doggoned if we can get it. Geb whiz, a fish caught near Greenland had 28,331,006 eggs. If you could Induce Luther Burbank to quit foolin' around witli some plants I, and 'tuters and get busy on a cross ■ between that old boy und your best lien, say boy wouldn’t it be a grand i, and glorious thing? Just figure it out , it fifty cents a dozen. > - An Indianapolis man was sent to ( jail for failure to support his family., (

The wife and mother struggled on a few days and then attempted suicide. Wouldn’t it be an improvement if he man could have been put to work ittd his earnings given to the family? Our laws are a long ways from being perfect and the more we try to fix them the worse they get apparently. _____* in another four weeks this year will be last year and we will b° starting a new page. Let’s make it the best one in the big wok of life The outlook for 1923 is very bright and with a little effort on the part of each citizen we can make some real progress. Forget your selfish ideas and nut up some real ideals including ' one to help the other fellow a little. * Some Christmas present for the , hipping trust if the president can nut over his subsidy bill —fifty mil lion a year and a gift of billions of dollars in ship value. That’s more than the average fellow will get in bis stocking we are sure. Did any one ever vote you a subsidy? How would you vote if Adams county was 'rying to give a bonus to some particular line of business? Would you favor • voting your neighbor a huge ortune and an income for ten years while you struggle on to make ends meet?. You would not, but that’s just what the administration »now proposes to do tinder the subterfuge, that it’s necessary because of the high wages paid American seamen .is compared to those of other na-i lions. It is claimed the Farmer's Federa-i lion of Indiana has decided to lobby for increased license fees for automobiles, fifty per cent for pleasure cars , and one hundred per cent for trucks j , and also for the two cents a gallon on gasoline. We doubt the wisdom f such a position for it is only a great expense for about every one, and with no relief from present high taxes. The extra money will be 1 .-■pent in addition to what is raised in ihe regular way and besides you az - e but fixing a plan for continued in--1 creases. The fewer methods of tax ation you have, the better it is for every one. A period of retrenchment in expenses and expenditures with a reduction of taxes would be more popular and we do not believe for a minute that a majority of the farmers of Indiana approve the posiItion credited to the Farm Federation and if it was taken we are sure it was done by officials influenced by politicians. \ Robert W. Huck of Illinois has the , hardest job in the world just now. | He is the first husband of a congress-

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woman. The predecessors of Mrs. Robert W. Huck were spinsters. They came alone to their seats in congress. Mrs. Huck was escorted to Washington by a husband and for the two years of her term will have a “princo consort’’ iu the gallery. Mr. Huck’s position of Albert to Mrs. Huck’s Victoria causes apprehensions for the future. Evidently the spinster is not to be aloue iu the achieve ment of high political ambition among women. The wife, too, is to have hor say in the oncoming female participation in the affairs of the nation. And, then, if woman, lovely woman, should scale the heights even unto the peak of political endeavor? What if she should enter the White House, dragging her husband after i her? Ah, what a job would be there, i

our countrymen! First gentleman of the land! It will need experience, this posturing before the critical \ eyes of envious men. Therefore we are the original Huck man. If it must be a woman as President, we shall vote for Mrs. Huck, whose husband will have become a veteran as the political consort of an ambitious wife. —Cincinnati Times-Star. STATE BRIEFS Warsaw, Dec. I—The Federated! 1 ! 1 Women's clubs of Warteaw lias presented to the city council a petition. , asking that increased water rates which will be necessitated by improve- 1 - % <; ment of the local system be defrayed by general taxation. in a recent survey engineers recommended improvements to cost $75,900 and if the plan is carried out water rates would be raised 50 percent to 1 fray the expense. Alexandria, Dec. I.—Mortimer Wil ‘ son lays claim to being the best corn * I raiser in Madison county. On ten acres he raised an average of 144 bushels to the acre. On one plot, however, the production ran as high ' as 157 bushels to the acre. , Hartford City, Dec. I.—Doctors in this city have been notified to hold anyone'coining to them with severe i cases of indigestion.. Evansville, Dec. I.—Posey couaty. the southwestern point of the state is claiming to be the best county ir, I the state for the bee industry. There are said to be more beekeepers in this county than in any '■ other part of the state. Warsaw, Dec. I.—Fifteen men and I two women have been sent to stptc i penitentiary and fifteen other met: ! have been sent to the state pena: farm from Kosciusko county courts this year. A majority of the persons sentenced were violators of the liquor Jaws. Muncie, Dec. I.—Forty eight years of married life ended for Mary Van Landingham when the court granted titer a divorce after she had testified 'hat not only had her husband beaten ilier frequently but that her only son had subjected her to like • treatment. The aged woman wept bitterly as she gave her testimony. Etna Green. Dec. I.—Even Indiana ; i girls of 8 to 14 years are turning to • |football as an athietjc sport, hut par-; ticipation in the game proved too; l strenuous for Betty Martaugh, aged 1 g, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew Murtaugh of Etna Green, who frac- > tured her leg below the knee while i participating in a practice contest . 1 with other girls. j Edwardsport—Phillip Reinster and 1 Malcolm Miller, both sixteen years of ! age, left here on a river raft for Teny i nessee with two guns and a few supplies. Fort Wayue—James L. and Edith , Faulkenburg lived together just five [days after they were married, accord- ' ang to a divorce complaint filed by the ' husband who charged cruelty.

South Bond—P. W. Plazer, naturalization investigator, announced that sixty five foreigners had qualified for American citizenship papers here during the past week. Marion —Although he fell from a senfford twenty feet to the ground, Dora Sailors, brick mason, suffered no serious injuries und only slight bruises. Washington—Sixty five members of the Elks lodge here will compose ten hunting teams who expect to obtain enough rabbits to supply the poor of this city for a Thanksgiving dinner. Acton — Emerald Pfender, living north of here, husked 143 bushels of ■orn In eleven hours and his brother, Roy, recently husked 130 in ten hours. Valparaiso —Betty Jane, two year nld child of Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Burns, ind a button lodged in her nose but lhysicians gave her medicine to make her sneeze and the object was removed.

Portland —Mayor Thomas Fleming ( has issued orders that the Ku Klux flan is not to parade the streets of his city and reports are that the orler will hold a demonstration in the tear future. Noblesville—Erie Lamb, 82. a Civil var veteran has been suffering with he hiccoughs for twelve days and tis condition is becoming serious. South Bend —Brooms and butcher -.iiives were the constant menace to Tlieo Bawens, who stated in a divorce | tomplaint filed here that he lived in onstant fear of assasination. Columbus —Officials of the Interstate Public Service Company charge that the city of Columbus has been using twice as much current as it has been paying for, due to a defective meter. Anderson—C. C. Gray, of Muncie, has been indicted here for embezzling S6OO obtained from O. P. Walser, of Anderson for an investment in a get-l| rich-quick scheme, which never materialized. Frankfort —Just as he placed a ring over the peg while engaged in a game of hrose shoes, Henry Keinple, 79. cf Mulberry, sank to the ground and died. Whiting — Tony Gustaki. while traveling at a high speed in his automobile came to a fork in the road and because he could not decide which fork to take, crashed into a telephone pole between and fractured his skull. Bluffton—The W. C. T. U. of this city held a “Carrie Nation” ceremoney, including prayer by Rev. C. H. Smith and destroyed several gal lons of confiscated whiskey here. Attica—Mrs. W. J. Ulrey wife of the com sweepstakes winner or region three in 1919 and 1921, has hopes of being crowned the “corn queen” of the world at the international grain show in Chicago. Fort Wayne—Mrs. Edna Mayer has filed suit for divorce against her husband, Merle, because she said, they have had to move five times in ten weeks of married life. Bickneil —High school girls here ore rebelling against the school authorities “anti-cosmetic” order and demand it apply to boys also. Crawfordsville — Lloyd Keeling, postal employe here, bagged a rabbit weighing seven and one half pounds after it almost got away when he hit it with three shots. Danville, Ky. — “Uncle Charley” Moran has signed a new five year ! contract to coach football at Centre j college. Plans have been approved Ito build a stadium to his honer at the college. Paris —“If he is a good boy meanwhile”, Battling Siki can have a new license as a boxer when he sqgves his nine months suspension, the French boxing federation lias announced. New York —Dave Rosenberg, form-! : er world's middleweight champion of ■ the New r York commission, was set • down for thirty days for fouling Mike O'Dowd in their recent fight. Roseni berg was suspended previously for ■ riot fighting O’Dowd and now he got - the air for fighting him. ; West Point, N. Y. —The army eleven wants to have games next fall

with lowa, Yale and Notre Dame. In October date has been accepted for the Yale game and negotiations are pending with lowa, Notre Dame, John Hopkins and North Carolina. Loudon— Helped principally by Bill Stevenson and Tevis Huhn, for nier Princeton stars, and Mosely, former South Carolina runner, Oxford defeated Cambridge three to two in their annual relay meet. The Americans are Rhodes scholars. o- — HAMMERS FOR HOOCH Charleston, W. Va., Dec. 4. —Hammers are needed as accessories by many motorists in Raleigh county, according to Captain Thoinus C. Norton, of the West Virginia state police. The tools are used when the autoists suddenly encounter members of the state police force. However, they are not used with murderous intent, the captain says, but merely to destroy

I The Gift of a Life Time I A beautiful Piano beside your Christmas Tree! It I will make this the most memorable of Christmases. I And furthermore, the outlay will be no greater than g the cost of a few hastily purchased trifles. 1 Our special low Holiday terms bring a high quality 1 Piano to your hoine on Christmas Eve —and you make | only a small initial deposit. | In fact, your initial payment on a Piano will prob- | ably be less than you would otherwise spend on gifts of | little permanent value. ■ § A Piano is a lifetime Gift—a gift that every member of the family will enjoy for years to come. , ; It can be counted on to make this Christmas the merriest of all—one not soon forgotten. v Come in today, make your selection now, we will tie- ■ liver any time you say. ; YAGER BROS. FURNITURE STOS Is East Side 2nd Street Decatur, Indiana i

i evidence. At the sight of a state trooper there i is a clash between the tools and glass i bottles and Jars containing moonshine. The contents are splashed into the ’ | highway. j The Raleigh county detachment is , 1 majting strenuous efforts to break up ■ | automobile drinking parties which at--1 cording to Captain Norton are numer- ! I ous in that section. A HARD PROBLEM ' Paris, Dec. 4.—While diving in one of tlio Siene public swimming pools. Adolph Damlermann lost a .valuable pearl from a ring, it dropped into the ’ mouth of another swimmer who was floating on his back with his mouth open and he swallowed it. Lander- ’ mann has asked the police to force 1 the swimmer to disgorge. o s—s—s—WANT ADS EARN—s—■s—s

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