Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1922 — Page 5

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Will Linn han received a letter from his old pal, Dick Durkins, now employed at Vancouver, Washington, jle is getting along fine and expects to go to California soon forth" winter. Martin Reef of near Berne was a business visitor here this morning ami renewed his subscription to the Daily Democrat which he has taken for many years. Robinson & Hoagland are preparing to open their saw mill In this city. O. J. Suman of St. Marys township was looking after business here this morning. s Allen Stalter of the J. W. Vail company left this morning on a motor trip to points in northern Indiana, expecting to be absent several days. Miss Ethyle Hileman, of Willshire, is a guest of Miss Naomi Durkin for a few days. Misses faaorni Durkin, Ethyle Hileman, and Margaret Mylott visited in Ft. Wayne Sunday afternoon. I’. W. Smith, the Richmond banker, was a business visitor in Decatur this afternoon. Fred Reppert is attending the International Stock Show at Chicago this week. The annual meeting of the International Auctioneers’ Association is also being held in connection with the stock show. A number from this county will attend during the week. A number of Decatur Yeomen will go to Fort Wayne Thursday to visit the homesteads there. A. M. Fisher was selling tickets for The trip today and was meeting with good succes.. Miss Zucker, of Ft. Wayne, was here today on business looking aft'ere Red Cross interests. Mrs. Perry Walters, of east of thcity, spent the day shopping here today. <> Ed France, hardware merchant, of Pleasant Mills was here on business today. 0. J. Suman, of Pleasant Mills, was a business visitor here today.

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-M- I'-. Andrews was a business visitor in Ft. Wayne today. ' Mr. and Mrs, John Miller, and Mrs. J John Augsberger, of Linn Grove were in this city today on business, Mrs. J Augsberger is leaving for California ; I where- she Will meet her husband. ’ ; i Cash Andrew's made a business trip l to Ft. Wayne today. Mrs. Thebdore Ewell, of Preble, spent the day shopping here today. ( Augusti.Schehnan, of Preble township, was a business visitor here today. . Augnkt ( onrad, of Preble, was here on business today. Raymond Keller and Harold Cline ! will visit in Bluffton tonight. Jack Monaham, of Bluffton, visited friends here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Getting, of St. John, were here today on business. D. E. Renner, of Ft. Wayne, was a business caller in this city today. Mrs. Frank Spade, of near Peterson shopped here today. Mrs. S. P. Sheets returned today • from a visit at Rome City with her | sister and family Mrs. E. A. Malloney .'over Thanksgiving and the week-end > tn Ft. Wayue with a sister-in-law, Mrs. ! I Henry Smallwood. Mr. and Mrs. E. • A. Malloney will leave Rome City this ■ week on a western trip for the win, •'ter. They will spend part of their : time in Phoenix, Arizona, with Mrs. i Malloney's sister and brother. Mrs. R. I,R. Carson and Mr. C. C. Rinehart. They will also go on to Los Angeles, California, and will return to Rome City about May Ist. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Voglewede, Mrs. B. J. Terveer and Mrs. Minnie Holthouse Returned yesterday from Toledo where they spent Thanksgiving week with Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Uhl and family. E. Doehrman, of North of the city, was a business caller here today. Earl Nidlinger, of northeast of the I city, was in town today on business. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Borman and I Miss Marie Gass visited in Fort

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j Wayne yesterday. Mr. Borman attended « meeting td the Anthony llotel.<. V E. "H. Kruetzman, of near Preble, I was here on business today. Miss Lois Connell visited in Fort Wayne today. Misses Dora Marie Magley and Mary Callow returned Sunday from Peru, where they visited with Miss Catherine Morrison over Thanksgiving. Miss Morrison was a school mute at Angola. M. W. Schweizer, of Pittsburg, Pa., was a business caller in this city today. The Delta Theta Tau sorority held their regular business meeting last night with Mrs. Mary Conroy at her home on North Second street. Plans for tile annual Christmas dinner party were completed. It will be held at the home of Mrs. Chalmer Schafer. Other business was discussed. Deli- ! clous refreshments was served by the hostess. H. O. Davis, of Pleasant Mills, was here on business today. M. Kirsch was a Imgiuess visitor in Fort Wayne today. — o + <’ + + + + + + •!•« + + + + + + CONGRESS TODAY ♦ .>AV'IT + V + T V i , HOUSE—Marks time pending PresI ident Harding’s regular message. Appropriation bill, scheduled to be introduced in house tomorrow. . SENATE —Minpr calendar bills to , be taken up. o Mansfield, Mo.—Tom Inman was lected constable by a majority of cne vote. Some one wrote Inman’s name on a ballot and as no party had a candidate he was elected. ,—• Regulation Os Prices Paid Farmers Is Charge Indianapolis, Dec. s—Regulations—Regulation of I prices paid farmers for milk and cream was charged by witnesses for the state In Attorney General Lesh’s milk trust suit here today. Herbert Hornaday of Princeton declared he finally was “squeezed [ out” of the creamery business by Vincennes companies named as defendants in the suit —the Vincennes I Milk and Ice Cream Co., and the I Lilly Ice Cream Co. I The companies he said paid 73 nts a pound for butter fat at Princeon when he paid 53 cents the market price, said. Testimony was offered to show that tho Indiana manufacturers of dairy products and 38 affiliated firms regulated the prices paid farmers for milk and cream at Connersville, Columbus,' Fortville, Princeton, Vincennes and Lagrange. lee cream dealers of Indianapolis I icstified that manufacturers did not <impute for each others business. A small grocer told the court one | ompany refused to sell him ice cream because he did not charge I enough for it. Pythian Sisters Held Election Os Officers Annual election of officers for the coming year was held by the local lodge of Pythian Sisters last night. The officers elected were: Past chief, Mae Butler; M. E. C., Anna Handler; E. S., Dick Helm; E. J., Kffle Broadbeck; manager, Pauline Butler; M. of R. and C., Lydia Shamp; M. of F., Rachel Burdg; protector, Ethel Farr; guard, Blanche Whitright; trustee, Grace Hunsicker; press correspondent, Jessie Burdg; installing officer, Flo Bain; representative, Agnes Devon and alternate?, Hattie Beery. After Temple closed the entertaining side, with Grace Hunsicker and Jessie Burdg as captains, chose sides for an old-fashioned spelling match, after which they engaged in 3 coon hunt. There being two hunters present with eleven dogs each, the hunt began. Within a couple of hours they were successful in capturing 116 “coons,” which were later prepared and served to the hungry crowd. Everybody present voted that they had enjoyed the evening and had enough coon to last them a life-time. •— — CARD OF THANKS W o wish in this way to thank our friends and neighbors for their kindness, sympathy and assistance, and the minister and singers, In our sad bereavement in the death of our dear mother, Margaret Campbell. THE CHILDREN. — •- Arnold’s Practical Commentary on the International Sundav School Lessons lor 1923. It has 1 closely printed nages on each lesson. Price only sl. Phone your order in at once or see Robert Garard. Phone 230Black. 0 - —— o chiropractic prices I DR. S. J. ZURBtfCH. D. C., M. C. in K. of C. bldg. 6 adjustments $6.00 12 adjustments SIO.OO | 25 adjustments $30.00 O— ——■ —-— — , 28313 X

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eleek and fat, fit for tho strongest of . x competition. i Clwuowellr Jock, pure bred Kentucky short horn steer, carried his hoitors proudly. He was named the (fraud champion of the show, the highest honor of the live stock world. Uliznoweth's honors will be short lived. Thursday he will be led into the arena and sold to the highest bid- ; Ider for Christinas beef. state colleges nf jtgrieiiltnre carried j

off the bulk of the honors in fat sheep raising. The university of Illinois won championship honors for fat Shropshire wothers and grade and cross bred wethers. Kansas won In tho colswold and dorset classes. Kentucky won in the Hampshire and Chocolt clases, anil lowa State college had tile champion fat (Ixford Wether.

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