Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 3 January 1923 — Page 4

———— DECATUR DAILY DRMOCBAT Published Kvcry Kvbnlnfl Ixcept Sunday by THS DiCATUR DSMOCRAT CO. J H. Heller—Prea. and GMt Mgr. E. W. Kampe—Vtee-Prea. * Aflt. Mgr. A. R. Holthouee—9ecT and Bnt. Mgr. Entered at the Poetofßee at •ecztur, Indiana, as second claaa matter. Eubucriptlon Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week,by carrier ....... 10 cents Ore Year, by carrier wr™ *5.00 Ono Month, by mall 35 cents Throe Months, by mall *IOO Six Months, by Mail ...» *1.75 One Year, by mail 3.00 One Year, at office . • *3-00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added 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. MAYOR'S MESSAGE:— Mayor DeVoss and the five mem bers of his council have concluded the first year of the present administration and the annual report shows a careful and successful twelve months. In his message read to th 1 council last evening the mayor makes several important recommendations including better fire protection equipment the creation of a depreciation fund for the city plants, erection of ornamental lights on Second street and attention to park improvements and play grounds. These things can and should and | will be done. There is no doubt that| we need fire equipment and nothing is of much more importance than to 1 be able to combat the fire fiend. Let’s I do it now before a great confiagra-! tion calls it forcefully to mind. Ornamental street lights for several i blocks down town would help a great deal and we hope tile owners of properties will enter into this plan cheerfully. If it is started the plan can be used oved the city gradually ; and within a few years Decatur. would be well lighted. A deprecia i tion fund is good business and the , people will approve Mayor DeVoss's . recommendation that we have such' a treasury here. Best of all perhaps in the annual report is the splendid financial show ing made. The city has a cash balance of more than seventy thousand dollars and a comfortable credit in electric, water, general and sinking! funds. The officials are working together in a most satisfactory manner. for the good of all Give them your heartiest co-operation that we may I improve our city. ~’ - - - For a couple of year or more we have been talking about ornamental light posts in this city. Several ef-| fortr have been made to place the posts on various streets under a spe 1 eial law which provides that it the posts are put in by the property owners the maiutainance will be taken r are -of by the city. Regularly these efforts have failed due to the fact that three-fourths of the propertyowners must concur. Now the may or has recommended that posts be in stalled in several blocks down street. There is no doubt that the improvement would add about one hundred per cent to appearance of our city and that we should do it. Let's quit bluffing and do something towards beautifying the best town in the state. The cost to each will be small but the benefits to the community large. Now's the time.

Now is the time for every good booster for Adams county to subscribe for the Daily Democrat. We are making our annual campaign, following twenty jears of service effort and we realize more than ever that our Access is due to your support. Ol >ly by up o f us working together can we do things worth while. We ’•lcit your cooperation and in reru promise you overy courtesy and y effort in our power to accomp- .. l lSt t,,ln 8s of greatest good to T greatest number. Enw *BU (u hK lg | Eattv a . ** n *’ m ’de about Uy Arbuckle's r ,_„_ 8-autee thM . to ’"‘ K hit or a fourth T eWW U * 3 ~Uow ‘» e «^toTi n Tnie J vwy ’ l ° Ubi 'to beitt hl » »M didn’t * lty Uad nt appreciate it. No J

he will have to make his own and without very much boosting from th« public. His new smile is artificial and will never have the magnatism the old one had. ill. . Ul'-H Dr. Luther Boyers here tor a visit after several years absence expressed surprise at the improvements in the city and the general air ot prosperity. Dr. Boyers has traveled far nnd seen many cities but said none looked better to him than old Decatur, It's good to hear, coming from a man who knows and who is saying it absolutely because he means it. We would still like to know why some of the railroads don’t have to pay any attention to the order to put in gates at the dangerous crossings while others do. They have had two ( years to take action and ought to do I it before some terrible accident 1 makes it necessary by arousing pub- 1 i lie opinion. Twenty nine deaths is the New , Year's toll as a result of celebrations, t alcoholic poison, wild auto rides, etc. • Not as great as many expected after ’ blind and lame officials permitted the ( landing of seven million dollars worth t of liquor at the New York docks alone. < The Indiana legislature meets to- J morrow for a two month's session. ( Get ready now for a lot of freak bills and a fight on necessary laws. Here's | . hoping they manage some way or ’ | other to hold down appropriations ! and get rid of some of the prasent 1 ’ overhead. - Read the list of murders, suicides I and sensations for 1222 and you will t .realize what a piker Nick Carter was s in his blood and thunder stories. , We are in the age when truth is stranger than fiction—much stranger. ■ - f You probably can't repair a broken f ; resolution but you can start over and | that's a good way to do it. Make . your resolutions each morning and . you have a better chance to keep f I them. t The snappy weather today is to re- 1 mind you that we may have thre»- ( months of cold, rainy, sleety and uu- ( certain temperature. t —■ ■■ i i j: MINISTERS ELECT OFFICER t Rev. R. R. Elliker, Reformed Church, - Is Chosen President Os Association 1 - i At a meeting of the Decatur Minis- * ! terial Association in the public library ! I yesterday afternoon, the Rev. R. R. * i Elliker, pastor of the Reformed church 1 ■ was elected president and the Rev. B. ■ Covert, pastor of the Presbyterian 1 I church, was chosen for secretary and ■treasurer. The Rev. U. S. A. Bridge. ' : pastor of the Methodist church, read a 1 very interesting paper on "The Minis- 1 ter and His Books.” The next meet- 1 ing of the association will be held in 1 the library on the first Monday in ' February, at which time the Rev. Co- 1 vert, will read a paper on "The Authorship ot the Fourth Gospel." + CONGRESS TODAY + Senate: Discusses ship subsidy. House: Considers appropriation bills. Immigration committee hearing on proposals for modifying immigration law to permit entry of more unskilled labor. o Better Fire Protection Urged By Mayor DeVoss (Continued from Page One)

. "Under this section of the Statute I ? would recommend that you take such . steps as may be necessary to cause to t be erected, lamp posts, on each side of Second street from Jackson street south to Jefferson street, except where' the same already exist and that the ■ posts installed conform to those #l- - ready in service. "I would suggest that the matter 1 of parks and public play grounds be given some consideration, in the early part of this year and that you cooperate with, and assist, the civic societies and others interested in the matter of city beautification. “Finally, gentlemen. I want to commend you f er your diligent and careful attention given to matters pertaining to the city, and assure you that you will have my hearty co-operation; therein. H. M. DeVOSS, Mayor I Lewis Kumschlag. of Monroe, was I a business visitor here today.

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THOUGHT MOVIES A TRICK ■ ■“ Aged Civil War Vet Saw Hia First Movies And Declared It All A Trick (United Press Service) Clarksburg, W. Va.. Jan. 3.—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Tumor Wiseman. S 3. Inmate of the Harrison County Infirmary since the Civil War, is Itack home, after visiting Clarksburg, where he saw his first movie. "You can't fool me,’' the old man told his companions, "they work them pictures behind that curtain somehow or other, it ain't possible for pictures to move." When Wiseman came to town it was his first visit to the city in all the sixty-one years that he had been "over the hill." All in ofie day he saw his first movie, first street car. first train and ate a meal in a resturant for the first time It was a visit to fairyland for the aged, bent old man who went back to ■ the house of disheartened souls, dazed and mystified. He could only mutter that he had been tricked —that it was either a dream or that the things he saw had been the result of magic. Driven to fare for himself by an irate stepmother, according to his own story. Turner went to the home of a distant relative in 1861. This relative was poor, too poor to keep the crippled lad who could not earn his meals and Turner was forced to the poorhouse, where he has been eve? since. When a newspaper man went to the infirmary he found the old man in bed. The reported suggested a visit to the city, but the old man said It was impossible. He would like to go. but he didn’t believe he could stand it. “I'll take you to the show.” the reporter persuaded, "and you'll see pretty girls dancing in tights.” Turner propped himself on an elbow. "What's tights?" queried he. The reported tried to explain and Turner sat bold upright. “I dunno," he reflected, "maybe I kin go with ye." And I'll buy you plenty of chewing tobacco." the reported added. That settled it, and a few minutes later Tinner was being whirled away in a taxicab. He was first taken to a photographer's studio, where the camera frightened him. Turner had his way in one respect. When the reported took him to a res taurant for dinner, no amount of persuasion could prevent the aged man from drinking his coffee out of his saucer. •" • "It tastes better that way,” he explained. Once safely seated in the theater, the reporter found it difficult to keep the old man quiet. He talked a great deal, asking countless questions and all in a loud voice. A soubrette took the oid man's interest and he kept quiet until the girl kicked above her head. ' Wheel” shouted Turner half rising from his seat. It was a harder job to get the old fellow out of the theater than to per suarie him to visit the city. He wanted to stay nnd see another movie, the art he could not understand- He wanted to see the vaudeville all over again, especially the dancing girl. The poorhouse is located on the crest of a hill, overlooking the city.' three and one-half miles away. Os course, the city is a smoky blurr at that distance, and at night its lights look like tiny pinpoints of flame. But it can he seen from Turner’s window, and he said he often wondered what went on behind the veil of factory smoke. o HEALING CREAM STOPS CATARRH Clogged Air Passages Open at Once— Nose and Throat Clear if your nostrils are clogged and your head stuffed because of catarrh or a cold, get Ely’s Cream Balm at any drug store. Apply a little of this pure, antiseptic, germ destroying cream into your nostrils and let it penetrate through every air passage of your head and membranes. Instant relief. How good it feels. Your head is clear. Your nostrils are open. You breathe freely. No more hawking or snuffling. Head colds and catarrh yield like magic. Don't stay stuffed Ittp. choked up and mieerabie. Relief is sure. o Police Warns Children Against Sled Riding Although there is no snow on the ground at .present, the prospects for some soon ate good.' and chief . of Police Joel Reynolds iskned'warning to children to refrain from fastening their sleds to the rear of buggies and automobiles and "stealing" a ride. Thia is dangerous, and Mr. Reynolds mitts that parent* warn their children against the practice. If it is necessary. he said, arrests will be made. ■ n *—. WANT ADS EARN—S—S—S

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