Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 18 December 1922 — Page 6

Sheffer Sent To Prison For Life Sentence (Continued from page one) wanted no effort made toward a now trial and Judge W. I*. Endicott immediately passed sentence on hint. Ills attorneys, Bratton & Gleason, of

Pleasure Pleasure is a universal want. It is what we work for and what we play for. The material foundation for the pleasure of life is to know that our money matters are in good shape and to be relieved of anxiety concerning them. Let thi> hank assist you in attending to this important sourc? of pleasure in your life. Come in and consult us before making your farm loan. The Peoples Lean & Trust Co. BANK OF SERVICE No Discount on Your Light Bill After the 20th of Month All light bills must be paid on or before the 20th of the month to secure discount. The company has no choice but to enforce this rule to one and all alike without any exception whatever, whether it be the largest or smallest consumer. City of Decatur Light & Power Dept. CLOSING OUT SALE of Edison Diamond Disc, and Cheney Phonographs We are going to discontinue the handling of ail other makes of phonographs and handle the VICTROLA exclusively. We are offering the following machines which with needle attachment you can play any and all makes of records. . I^ S $175.00 Edison, sale price z— t $125.00 $167.50 Edison, sale price $115.00 $120.00 Edison, sale price $75.00 k L.. i $115.00 Cheney, sale price [ $75.00 And 6 double faced records free. See these machines before you buy. The Holthouse Drug Co.

Angola, ~ issued u statement to thoj effect that any verdict which saved their client from the electric chair was a distinct victory for the defense. Thill none of the jurors voted i either for acquital or for the death! penalty during the 14 ballots which marked the 17 hours of deliberations on the case wus revealed by mem-

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. hers of the body after their dis--1 charge. On the first ballot the vote stood four for murder in the first ! degree with the penalty life imI prison mant; three for murder in the | second degree with the penalty life I imprisonment anti five for manslaughter. Tile verdict finally readied wits in the nature of a compromise, the jurors revealed.

■ The statement of Nle that he did I not desire a new trial was taken by II attorneys for the state to be an InId treat admission of his guilt and for I his gratitude in escaping the electric || chair. I Tho attorneys for the state weft jubilant. They could hardly sit still j while the plaintiff received his sen ' fence. | "That was some victory for the I state," exclaimed Special Prosecutor Howard Mounts. The jury came near fulfilling the ! prediction of Angola citizens that the j panel would never arrive at an agrecI ment. About 1 o’clock Foreman Fred i Kankamp told Judge Endicott that I the jury could not agree. The court j refused to dismiss the panel and told members to continue their de- | liberation. | The case went to the jury at 7 I o'clock Saturday night and the long | fight over the proper penalty began. I Many persons who were interested in the case spent the night in tho court room reclining on benches. Judge Endicott spent the entire night in the court room. o ENOS COURSE AT MOODY INSTITUTE Lottie Lett Rauch One Os Class Os 67 Graduates This Year Mrs. Lottie Lett Rauch, member of Me. Talior Methodist Church, Decatur. is one of -a class of seventy-six ' students, thirty men. and forty-six women, who will be graduated from I The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, Thursday. December 21st. These students represent twenty states of the Union, and three foreign countries: Canada, Newfoundland, and Egypt. They have completed a two years course in the Bible and related subjects, gospel music, and practical I methods ot Christian work, and will Igo forth into various lines of Christian work at home and abroad. Mrs. I Rauch is one of twenty-seven of her class who have volunteered for the I foreign field. The graduation address will be given |by Rev. Aquilla Webb, D. D„ pastor lof the First Presbyterian Church. Wilington, Delaware. o Washington, D. C., Youth Wins In Essay Contest Washington. D. C., Dec. IS—-Karl C-. Pearson, seventeen year old student in Eastern High school. Washington, District of Columbia, won the Harvey S. Firestone Four Years’ University scholarship offered in connection with the 1922 National Good Roads Essay contest, according to announcement from the offices of the Highway Education board today. Pearson is a native of Lindsborg. Kansas. His essay entitled “How Good | Roads are Developing My Community” was chosen as the best of approximately 250,000 papers submitted in a contest conducted with the cooperation of extension divisions of state universities and state departments of public instruction. The scholarship, given annually by H. S. Firestone, Akron, Ohio, for the best essay on a subject pertaining to good roads, provides tuition and all reasonable expenses during four years at college and is the greatest single edu-] rational award offered in the United States. It is valued at not less than $4,000. A distinguished editor has referred to the winning of this scholarship as "One of the best prizes life can offer.” Honorable mention in the contest was given the essays prepared by Harold O. Beach, Dundee, New York and Miss Lorene Hobbs, Cheyenne,, . Wyoming. The fourth annual offer of the scholarship is now being made by the Highway Education board, Willard building, Washington D. C. which will send particulars upon request. Indiana Ranks With N. Y. In Tuberculosis Fight Columbus, Dee. 18 —Indiana has been placed in competition with the state of New York for honors in na- ; .tional campaign against tuberculosis. I according to word received today J>y Dr. Geo. T. McCoy, president of the i Indiana Tuberculosis association. The competitions is based on the amount |of funds each state raises through I the Christmas seal sale for educational and preventive work against tuI bereulosis.

, V YES or NO? A Test of Your Intelligence 11 The correct answer to one of these 1 problems Is YES. to the other NO. , STOP TO THINKI 11 Questions Answered Tomorrow J I.—Whs the Declaration of Indo--, I pondenco written before the constitution of the United Stat, s J 2. —Is the habit of untruthfulness hl] I children a sign of defective charm’ i'tor? Yesterday’s Questions Answered ' I.—ls coal a mineral? Answer NO. Coal Is a vegetable product since It is composed of trees which have been buried beneathe the i surface for ages. 2. — Is selfishness an Instinctive idea more than an intelligent course of eon duct? Answer —YES. Selfishness is in- , stinctive and not a manifestation of ] intelligent thought. The selfish in- I stinet IS to be observed in every form i ot life. o > ( Man Badly Burned At Bluffton On Saturday ] Bluffton, Dec. 18. —Joe Mailer, liv ' ing seven miles east of the city, a me- ; ihanic at the Dodge garage, suffered J ' evore burns Saturday morning when;, I a can ot coal oil explodid in his hands ( ias hi as attempting to start a fire < in th ■ rnace at the garage. Mr. ..laller would have in all prob- * ability been burned fatally had it not ) been for the quick work of Verne Het- < finger, a fellow workman, who with ( presence of mind came to Mailer’s as- , distance and extinguished the flames < by throwing his heavy overcoat t around Mr. Mailer. I" I 1 Mr. Mailer arrived at the garage , early and in trying to start the lire in i the furnace, put some oil oil the coal. 2 The oil. however, contained so much ' - water it would not ignite so Mr. Mailer got a can of coal oil to start the. t fire. The coal ojl had been mixed with ’ j gasoline without Mailer’s knowledge ! and of course, when he applied the f lighted match a heavy explosion fol- r lowed. 11 Mailer s clothing was soon a mass of c flames and he ran upstairs and attempted to extinguish the fire with .water from a faucet. At this instant ‘ I Mr. Heffinger arived and using his 1 i oat smothered the names. Mailer was taken immediately to the | county hospital where his burns were dressed. His left arm from the shoui-I * der down was badly burned and h:. 1 - j . right arm was burned to the elbow.] ( The back of his neck and head was], also scorched. The heavy cap he ( wore saved his eyes and the rest ot his < head. The palms of his hands were also severely blistered. o Movie Actress Tells Os , “Snow” At Wild Parties • Atlantic City, N. J.. Dec. IS. —How cocaine was served in sugar bowls at wild parties of movie stars was described today by Evelyn Nesbit, former member of the Hollywood film colony. "I was a ’dope’ once, but I fought my way back and cured myself,” declared Miss Nesbit, sending a word of hope to Wallace Reid, celebrated 1 screen star, who, according to his 1 wife, is fighting a desperate battle against the drug habit. Miss Nesbit, a year ago haggard i and worn with her struggle to break the grip of narcotics on her system, ' has greatly improved in spirit and ap- . nearance since she won her fight. Only a'few months ago she attempted suicide by taking an overdose of ( drugs when her uptown tea room in ‘ New York failed. Today, brisk, alert, she is mantiger of one of the most -4 prosperous .cabarets on Atlantic City’s 1 famous board walk. • i < Mont Clair, N. J. —Tad Jones will ; positively be retained as head football 1 coach at Yale, “Bill" Mallory, captain 1 ’ of the 1923 team, said at a gathering , of Yale men here last night. i] 11 i j I I < >1 g i J BABY’S BATH means a lot to baby and a lot to you, too. Therefore why not put in one !of our sanitary, up-to-date, snow- \ white, spotless, tubs? Baby’s bath will be an event then. Let us show I you the real economy and added ' I pleasure from having a sanitary bathroom such as we install and euip. The cost is nothing when the comfort is considered. P. J. HYLAND West Monroe Street

PUBLIC SALE I, llw itnrterslgnnd, will Ball Bl p»l'lie auction at my residence 1 mile rust and % mile south of Monroe, Indiana, on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922 Sale to begin at 10:00 o'clock sharp. ; 't he following property to wit: HORSES -3 Head-Bay mare six years old, sound, bay mure, five years 'old, sound; Hits is an extra good working learn in all harness; black inure colt, eight months old. CATTLE — Three Head Red cow, 7 years old, will be, fresh June 19; Red cow, 3 years old, will be fresh May 15; Roan cow, 3 years old. will be fresh Muy 8; these lire nil good milk cows. HOGS -18 Head—Two O. I. C. sows will j farrow the last of January; two Duroc sows, will farrow the last of January or first of February; 14 shoats weighing from 75 to 150 lbs. each. SHEEP—IB Head 17 breeding ewer! to lamb in February and later; one full-blooded Shropshire buck. CHICKENS—B Dozen- —Four dozen Barred Rock bens; four dozen Rhode Island Red pullets, and a few other fullblooded pullets: also a few full-blood-ed cockerels. IMPLEMENTS —On Fordson Tractor, with fenders, and governor, and 14 inch Oliver plows: one new Turnbull wagon, inch skein; one Turnbull wagon with two sets of wheels; Doering binder. 8 ft. cut. good as new; Deering mower; j Cultipacker, good as new; John Deere two-row corn, cultivator, new: hay tedder; Keystone hay loader; Rude manure ’spreader; Oliver corn plow; I breaking plow; Keystone double disc. | 14-16; Keystone single disc; Empire 10-disc grain drill, good as new; John Deere corn planter, good as new; spike tooth harrow, spring tooth harrow; shovel plaw; 7-shovel cultivator clover buncher; hay rack and beet bed i combined; dump boards; auto trailer.) good as new; two sets of breeching’ harness, one set good as new; sot of I good flynets; about 10 horse collars. I hog troughs; hog house; self-feeder: chicken hatcher; 1000 chick oil brooder; chicken coops; corn sled; Anchor Holth cream separator; scoop shove’s I and forks; 14 ft. long chain; hanging scales; new grain sacks: double I trees: wheel barrow; oil barrels; oil cans: two cream cans. HAY ano GRAIN —7 or 8 tons of good clover hav; 200 bushels of good oats; "00 bushels good corn: some seed corn: 20 shocks of corn fodder: some shredded fodder in mow. HOUSEHOLD GOODS —One Morse air-tight heating stove: one dining room extension table: side hoard: six chairs; carpets. and lamps. Other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS—SS.QO and under, cash: over that amount a credit of nine months will be given with S per cent interest the last three months. No goods removed until settled for. LEO SPRUNGER Auctioneers —Jeff Liechty. Jesse Ellenberger. Rudolph Schug—Clerk. Lunch will be served on the grounds. 1518 The gift that every tennis' player a Dayton Steel Racquet. Its steel frame and steel strings cannot warp, crack or break. Something! new that has met every test. Come in and see it.—H. KNAPP & SON. 29513 o Anyone wanting a good watchdog, cal! 452. 294-Stx.' s—s—s—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—3 MARKETS-STOCKS Daily Report of Local and Foreign Markets Indianapolis Livestock Market Hogs—Receipts 9000: market 10c higher; best heavies $8.35; medium mixed [email protected]; common choice ?8.45fi8.50; bulk of sales $5.350’5.40. Cattle —Receipts 1000; market, dull and steady; steers $10.50'?/11.50; cows and heifers $6.00@>9.00. Sheep—Receipts 100; market steady top $5.00. Calves —Receipts 400; market steady) to 50c up; top $12.00. Foreign Exchange New York. Dec. 18. —Foreign ex-‘ change opened irregular. Sterling francs 0755%; lire 0515; marks 0162; Belgian francs 0694%. East Buffalo Livestock Receipts 6400; shipments 12730, yesterday; receipts 4600. shipments 4940, today; official to New York Saturday 4560; hogs closing steady; medium and heavies $8.75; mixed $8.75@ 8.85; yorkers [email protected]; lights and pigs 900; roghs $7.50; stags $4.50@ 5.50; cattle 2750; choice steers steady; I medium and common 25c lower; cows strong; shipping steers butcher steers $6.50;@-9.75; yearlings | up $11.50; cows and heifers $2.00@ $7.50; sheep 18000; best lambs 1525; culls $13.50 down: best yearlings $13.00; aged wethers [email protected]; ewes [email protected]; calves 2000; tops $13.00. LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Corrected Dec. 16 No. 2 Wheat, bushelsl.2o Good Yellow’ Ear Corn, per 100.. .90 White or mixed corn, per 100.. .80; Oats, per bushel 42 Rye, per bushel 75 Barley, per bushel 60 DECATUR PRODUCE MARKET for delivered produce Corrected Dec. 16 Heavy hens ]7c I Chickens iGc Leghorn fowls and chickens.... 12c Old roosters 8c j Ducks ir>c; ■ Geese 15 C Young Turkeys 37c] Old Turkeys 32c] i Eggs, dozen 45c Local Grocers Egg Market Eggs, dozen 45c Butterfat Prices At cream buying station 55c

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+♦♦♦♦♦+++♦♦♦♦♦+ ♦ CLASSIFIED ADS ♦ ♦+*♦+♦♦+++♦♦+♦+ FOR SALE FOR SALE—Lump ruck salt at 1c a lb. Adams County Equity Exchange, Monroe SL & G. R. & I. Phone 233. * 218tt FOR SALE—A few second hand coal | ranges. The Gas Co. 284tf . [ FOR SALE— All kinJT of fire and 'furnace wood. A. F. Thieme. Phone * ong ant * a B * lort - . _ • FOR SALE —Brand new tireless cooker. Call phone 149.291-6tx I oil SALE Tinilwr. 10 trees. A. it Bell, Phone 19, 296 3tx WANTED WANTED —To call for your laundry—dry cleaning, dyeing. We will call ]for aiwl deliver. All work guaranteed. 'Phone 448.291-6tx I WANTED —To call for your laundry dry cleaning, dyeing. We will call I for and deliver. AH A’ork guaranteed. Phone 448. A. Mahan. 295-titx For Rent FOR RENT —80-acre farm. 3 miles from Monroe. For particulars see ! Sherman Arch.r at G. E. or Pleasant Mills. 1 nd. 295-3t< LOST AND FOUND LOST—One child's gray gauntlet glove with two purple stripes and fringe on enff. Finder please leave at ) this office. 295-Stx, FOUND—Bicycle at Decatur Lumber company's coal yard. Owner may have same by describing property and paying for this ad. 295-2tx 0 Gifts of Utility: Sweeper Vac Vacuum Sweeper. Electric Wash Machines, Ideal Fireless Cookers at H. KNAPP & SON. 295t3 Gift baskets and basket weaving material at the Art Store. Mrs. Wm. E. Teete’s. All Dry Goods and Grocery stores will remain open each evening this week until 8 o’clock.—Committee. 29612 o j The Spirella Corset Co., of Niagara Falls, wishes to announce that Mrs. Florence Baumman, of 1104 Madison St., will give the Spirella service in ! Decatur in the future. o Pension System Costs Public $255,201,662 Washington, December IS. — The American pension system cost the public $255,201,662 during the fiscal vear ended last June 30, according to ] the annual report of the commissioner of pensions sent today to President Harding. Os tiiis amount $253,807.- . 583 as paid out for pensions, the cost of maintenance of the system be]ing $1,394,079. j That the number of pensions in this! country is rapidly diminishing is, shown in the statement that $4,908,259] less was paid in pensions during the] last fiscal year than during the pre-| vious year; that 25,082 civil war vet-j erans died, as against 24,775 lor the previous year, and that 21,259 widows' .died as against 19,451 the year pre- ( vious. | The number of pensioners on the I rolls June 30, was 547,016 com , pared with 566.053 on June 30 the pre-] vious year. Os these 193.881 were! ■ civil war veterans; 272,194 civil war*) widows; 45,955 veterans of the Span-, ish war and 9,198 widows of Spanish war veterans. Seventy-three soldiers were drawing pensions for service in ' the war with Mexico, and forty-nine I ; widows of soldiers of the w r ar of 1812.! WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s $—$—?—WANT ADS EARN—S 0 NO HUNTING ALLOWED Hunting or trespassing on the Pe-I . ter Fill'; farm in Kirkland township is forbidden. 296-3tx 1 ■ ■■■■■ ~ I Calendar Dec. 19 —J. C. Pierce, 5% miles east, % mile south of Decatur. Dec. 20—Leo Sprunger, 1 mile east, and % mile south of Monroe. J December 27.-2% miles west and ’4 north of Convoy, Ohio. E. L. Pierce, i ; Jan. 3—Lewis Yake & Sone, 4 ] miles west, 3 miles south of Decatur, Jor 3 miles south ot Preble. Big Type) l Poland bred Gilts. | February 14—Perry C. Walters, 4] iles east of Decatur and one-half mile south, or 1 mile west of Bobo on the u Piqua road.

I Pains •" I you Should net allow t 0 co I heeded. Con tlnu< ■ Kidney trouble. are ■ where they reach final I ■ Let me examine your | My corrective method. 1,, E lof your kidney worrie,. ' rl<l ■ p OR BETTER HEALTH ... I Office Hour. 10-12 a I s. E. BLArr I UNDERTAKING ANo I Calls answered promptly <hy I Office Phone; w ■ Home Phones: ’ I Home Phone: 727 I Agents for Plan.,/. H nd I DR. H. E. KELLER I Decatur, Indiana ■ Internal organs; X-rav and’la of tl * I treatments tor high blnna e ‘* ctr| c«l I and hardening ot the aru?i., 1 ! r »*• I treatments tor GOITRff e I LOSIS AND CANCER. ’ TIBEE « I Office Hour.; I Itoll a. m.—l to Sp.m — 1 . I Phnn„.? u “'i> ly ’ J by '‘PPolntment.’’’*’ I Phones. Restdence llo ; O— » FRED W. BI’SCHE ! auctioneer Experience with training ' eures you of a good sale. Monroe or Decatur Phon. ] O ~ JEFF LIECHTY AUCTIONEER A successful sale and the high dollar. Berne Phone. O N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined, Glasses Fitted HOURS: 8 to 11:30—12:30 to 5;00 Saturday 8:00 p. tn. Telephone 135. DR. C. C. RAYL Surgeon X-Ray and Clinical Laboratoriei Office Hours: I to 4 and 6 to 8 p. m. Sundays. 9 to 10 a. m. Phone 581, I FEDERAL FARM LOANS Abstracts of Title. Real Estate. Pleaty money to loan 01 Government Plan. See French Quinn. iffice—Take first stairway south Decatur Democrat. 0 DR. FRANK LOSE Physician and Surgeon Located in office formerly occupied by Dr. D- D. Clark. North Third Street Phones: Office 422; Home 413 Office Hours—9 to 11 a. m. 1 tv 5—7 to 9 p. m. Sunday 8 to 9 a. m. (5 o -0 5% MONEY On Improved Farms. LONG TERM LOANS Decatur Insurance Agency E. W. Johnson, Mgr. Phone 385 Schafer Block 0 7 -0 O — CHIROPRACTIC Adds years to your Health and health to your years. If you are not perfectly well | let us examine you and make the proper adjustment to suit ’ your need. Also Baths of all kinds. SMITH & SMITH, D. C. Drugless Physicians Over Morris 5 and 10c store, ] DECATUR. IND. Phone 660. 1 T -0 277t3wks — ’ FT. WAYNE & DECATUR TRACTION LINE Leaves Decatur Leaves Ft W*y»» 5:45 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 8:00 a. m. o'oo »■ ®- 10:00 a. m. 11:00 a. m ' 12:00 p. m. 1:00 P“• 2:00 p. m. P 4:00 p. m. 0 :,l! P- *• 5:30 p. m. 7:00 p. m 7:00 p. m. 0:00 P “• 10:00 p. m. 11:05 p. m - Freight car leave* Decatur ■ • - 7:45 a ® Arrives at Fort Wayne..9:3o a- ® Leaves Fort Wayne... .12:00 noo Arrives at Decaturl:3o P 01 P. a RAYMOND. AX'" 11 Office Hours 7:30 m, 7:00 p »