Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1923 — Page 5

r"i-OCAL NEWS I

Williuin Zimmerman has returned rro m a bueineaa trip td Indtanapo U, Xe he attended a meeting of the county assessors. He reports a good Xting with »>“"> “"“F- of *“• tereat. Fr( ,d studler of Linn Grove was looking after business he* last evening. > .u„ Almost every one who roads the •■iwellty ye #rß ago toUay coluinu „. s to feel the dales are wrong, etin.es too far back and offer not ‘long as they thought. Os course L items are taken from our fllea the dates are correct. Much tn‘t(.ri.st is manifested from reports received. Hotter get your auto license before vou do your driving. While the state Hl llce will not make arrests until February Ist there is no question that any one who so desired could file an affidavit at any time as the law specifies January Ist. There are different rules in various localities. Take no chances. Dr. Hid will lecture to the Woman's dub at the library at eight o'clock this evening. The Misses Marie Gass, Fan Hainnidi. Ruth Hammell and Mrs. V. J. Horman saw Eugene O'Brien in "Steve” at the Majestic last night. F. Gass was a business visitor in Fort Wajme yesterday. Wilbur Porter made a business trip to Fort Wayne yesterday. Miss Bitty Butler went to Knightstown today to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Peterson. Fan and Hugh Hite were among those who saw "Steve" at the Majestic last night at Fort Wayne. Free Frisinger returned home from Akron. Ohio last night. to visit his mother, Mrs. Jane Frisinger. Col Earl Gartin returned to Greensburg., after finishing his work here as instructor in the Reppert Auction School. Nothin' makes a well-dressed woman as mad as t’ time herself t’ git t’ a the-ater jest after th' curtain goes up an' then find th' house dark ter th' first act. Tell Binkley stopped at th’ Little Gem resturint immediately after th' banquet last night t' git somethin’ t' eat aji’ some one stole his overcoat. — Abe Martin in Indianapolis News. Mrs. Fred Seliemeyer and daughter, Pella. Mr. and Mrs. Albert" Sellemeye? ami daughter Catherine, went to Fort Wayne today to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Max. Barney Kalver as a Fort Wayne visitor today. # Paul Sauers, of Markley will join his wife here Sunday, who has been helping at the First National Bank, and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cole. Jess Cole and Dele Cunningham, of Fort Wayne, will be the guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Cole. William Zimniermau returned from Indianapolis, where he attended an as sessors convention. He reports a good meeting. C. J. Lutz, who is planning to go south for a few weeks, has postponed leaving today because of court matters which will detain him a fewdays. ■Mr. Snyder, representing the Rudy !■ urnace company of Cincinnati, was here last evening inspecting several jobs. Fred Ashbaucher is the Rudy

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agent here. Charles Ewell of Preble township was looking after business here this morning. The Noblesville basketball team will play here this evening and the fans are expecting a good hot one. Hugo Gerke, of Root township was a business visitor here today. Gustave Bussick of Root township attended to business matter here today. Jake Wright of Wren, Ohio was a ’ business visitor here this morning. Wilson Gullick, of St. Marys township was here today on business. Dr. Hill, of the Reppert Auction school, will give a very interesting lecture at the Library tonight on “Applied Physicology" under the aus ' pices of the literary section of the 1 Woman's Club. Each member will 1 be given a free guest ticket and it is I 1 hoped there will be a good attend ' ance. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Gaunt of east • of the city, were shoppers here today and the guests of relatives., i Mrs. Eli Ray of Monroe is visiting ; relatives here today. Mrs. Anna Mallott will go to Fort . Wayne tomorrow to bo the guest of her sou, Charles Mallott and family. t Mrs. George Baker, Mrs. D. D. Clark and son, John Clark, will re- . turn to Anderson today after spend ' Ing several days here with relatives. ■ ( Herman Ehlerding of Magley was a business visitor in this city today' Tom Oliver/- of Monroe, was a bus- ( iness visitor in this city today. W. P. Merryman, of south of Salem, was here today on business. Vern Brodbeck, of South Bend, is here to spend the week-end with his mother. Mrs. Anna Brodbeck, of Union! I township. 1 George Raudebush of Washington township was a business visitor here today. Harry Daniels of Pleasant Mills 1 was here today on business. Mrs. Ed Arnold of Peterson was a ■ shopper here today. i John Woods of Peterson was a > shopper here today. t W. Coldeway of Preble township’ - was here today on business 'i Lewis Hoile of Root township was •i a business visitor here today. William Miller of east of the city was here today on business. J T. Beatty of Union township was s among the business visitors here to,' t day. J. H. Helm of east of the city looked after business interests here today. Peter Loshe of east of the city was' here today on business. 'i A. Rumschlag of east of the city I was here today on business. | Mrs. Susie Bower, trustee of St. j j Marys township was a business visitor here today. 1 R. D. Hamilton of north of the ’ city was a business visitor her to-, 5 day. Judge D. E. Smith, of Fort Wayne j i was here today on business. Harvey Shell of east of the city i was here today on business. T. L. Stephen of south of the city > was among the business visitors here 1; today. Martin Grote of Preble attended to ■ business interests here today. Mrs. Effie Bowman and daughter, >■ of Bluffton were shoppers here today. t Miss Leah Porter went to Fort 1 Wayne today to be the guest of / friends over the week end.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20,1923.

WITTGENFELD NAMED CAPTAIN Veteran End of 1922 Team ; to Lead Yellow Jackets on Gridiron Next Fall i ■ i George Wlttgenfeld, star end on the i 1922 Decatur high school football i team was elected captain to lead the ; Yellow Jackets in 1923, at a meeting ' of the football players at the high school building at the close of school yesterday evening. Wlttgenfeld succeeds Gordon Engler, 1922 captain, who will be graduated from the high school next spring. Wlttgenfeld played a great game for the Yellow Jackets at end last fall. The past season was his first ' on the local team and he will be eligible for much more competition. I He Is a husky and fast performer on the gridiron and will make a fine loader for the Yellow Jackets next year. Many of the members of the 1922 team, which was the greatest team in the history of the local high school, will be lost through graduation next spring. However with the veterans Wlttgenfeld, Jack Teeple, Sweurepger Hunsicker. Mills, White and a few others who have had some experience in the game, around which ' to build a team, the Purple and Gold ] should be represented by a strong ■ team again next year. ALL OVER INDIANA Bolivar —There will be few, if any peaches in this part of Indiana, due to the sudden drop in temperature beforo Christmas, according to Moses I Hoover, agriculturist. — Huntington — More than 60,000 books vero circulated from the j Huntington public library during the past year, according to Miss Priscil- ; ia McArthur, librarian. Elwood—Canary bird fanciers of Madison county held a meeting at I the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. D. , Walrod here. Kendallville — The Rev. Martin • Kretzman, for 14 years pastor of St. Jolm's Lutheran church here, has de- ‘ dined an offer to become president of Concordia assembly at Porto Ale- ' gre, Brazil. Lagroo—The home of Mrs. Jennie Renner, was saved from destruction , by fire when Charles Fultz, conductor of a passing interurban, stopped | the car and led a bucket brigade of passengers to extinguish it. ABOUT THE SICK Uncle John Schurger, veteran abstractor and attorney of this city, is ' suffering an attack of rheumatism and ■ in order to gel about must use a cane. Mr. Schurger will be 85 years old on ; his next birthday, March 11, 1923, Mrs. Conrad Gillig is able to sit up after suffering from a heart attack a few days ago. Mrs. Fred Reppert has been quite sick the past week, but is feeling better today. Jack Battenberg of Ft. Wayne was operated upon yesterday for hernia at the home of his parents in this ' city. Local physicians performed the operation and he was reported as doing nicely this morning. Friends and relatives in this city have learned of the serious illness of Mrs. Joe Rapp of Syracuse, Indiana, formerly Miss Ruth Patterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Patterson of this city. Mrs. Rapp was tak en to a hospital at South Bend this

week where she underwent an operation for the removal of the appendix and other complications. Her condition is reported as being serious. Mrs. Sam Workinger. who has been suffering wifli rheumatism lor the past two weeks, does not seem to be much better. She is with her daughter, Mrs. Joe Palmer. O'— Commencement Exercises at Auction School Today Commencement exercises were held this forenoon for the graduating class of the Repport Auction School. Thirty-three men received diplomas. The other men completed a postgraduate course. The principal address was delivered by Dr. Harry Hili, of Indianapolis, who is a mem- ■ ber of tho ’ faculty. ;Thc\ diplomas were presented by Col. Fred llepport. Each member of the faculty made a and other interested powers, her atshort talk complimenting, the students on their good work and wishing them the very best success. The new “colonels” will soon leave the city for their homos in various parts of the United States and Canada. The present term began on December 26.

RANK LOW IN BASKETBALLS Indianapolis High School Quintet Weaker Than Teams in Smaller Cities. United l*rr«n Stuff CorrrNpoiidrtit Indianapolis, Jan. 20 —From appearances now in the state high school basket ball situation, the Indianapolis teams do not have a very high i ranking in the fast and furious net sport, that is played in Indiana. Os | tile local fives Manual lias shown the best stuff so fur and must be con- | sidered more favorably than either Tech or Shortridge. It is rather hard to diagnose Tech’s case. The team started practice early and kept away from the , early season games so that the football men could work into the scheme of things, but the hopes of the Green and White have beeu dashed to earth each time they have taken the floor. The last sad story was told at Columbus and in no uncertain terms. The team has shifted about considerably since the opener but none of the shifts seem to add much power. The Indianapolis teams usually improve, however as the season advances and there is not much doubt that such will be the case this year. Manual has shown good form especially in defeating Columbus some time ago. Manual has lost to Kokomo and Franklin only by three and two point margins. It is a team of some real possibilities and, under the coaching of Rowland Jones, former Butler player, may develop into a real outfit before the tourneys start Shortridge looks better than in seasons past but is not strong enough. to stand up under the terrific competition that they may meet over the state. The team still has far to go in order to be placed with the top notchers. It is doubtful if any in any season there has been so many evenly matched teams out over the state. At present, there seems to be one outstanding team, and that is Vincennes. The “Alice boys" have set a fast pace from the start, and impressive victories have been won by them over a number of the best teams in Indiana. HAD NARROW ESCAPE Simon Moore, of Monroe, Seriously Injured In Sawmill Near Murray - Simon Moore, aged about 45, a resident of Monroe, received a serious, but it is not believed dangerous injury Thursday afternoon about 4 o'clock, while operating a portable sawmill on tile farm of Mrs. Mearl North Brown, near Murray, when a section of a heavy board was hurled Toni a saw and struck him a glancing blow across the abdomen and one hip, aying open a gusli about tour inches across the abdomen. Had tile board, hurled from the saw with terriffic force, struck Moore squarely in the stomach, he likely would have been killed outright. Another workman was shoving back across the rip table a heavy board to be run through the saw again to square it, when the board slipped into the saw, was whipped around ami sawed in two, and one section went hurling in Moore's direction. A ragged edge just grazed across his abdomen. catching his overalls and underclothing. and virtually ripping all clothing away from the front of his body. He was taken into an automobile and hurried to his homo in Monroe, and received medical attention there. The gash did not penetrate through to the abdominal cavity. It is reported no dangerous complication had developed today. The injured man is the owner of the mill at which he was injured, and was sawing tember for James B. Eaton, of this city. BIG POL ICE SALE Muncie, Ind., Jan. 20.—Three automobiles, two hundred pocket knives, several bicycles, many old automobile tires and a great number of glass and stone jugs will be sold this week at public auction by police. The jugs formerly contained liquor.

ROBERT B. MANTELL —and— GENEVIEVE HAMPER In Shakespearean and Classic Plays MAJESTIC THEATER 3 Nights Starting MONDAY, January 22 Monday Evening — “Merchant of Venice.” Tuesday Evening—“ Macbeth,” Wednesday Matine4—“As You Like It.” Wednesday Evening—“ Julius Caesar’’ Special prices for this Engagement Evenings, 50c to $2.00 Wed. Matinee, 50c to $1.50 PLUS TAX Special Tractior\ Rates and Service for this engagement. Decatur to Ft. Wayno, Round Trip 66c.

Field Goals . "T-ai-g,, ~4--r—i -4—-< Monroe won another victory over a team in this district when they took Lancaster into camp at Lancaster lust night by a score of 18 to 14. Monroe looks like a participant in the finals of the sectional tourney. Bluffton looks like a first-half team this year. On Wednesday night Coach Hippe's five held a one|-point jlead over Liberty Center and then lost the game in the second halt. Last night Bluffton held a one-point margin at half-time in the game with Hartford City, but the H. C. five snowed the Wells county lads under in the second half for a 24 to 14 victory. Portland grabbed a 33 to 20 vietpry last night from the Noblesville 'Quintet, which furnishes the opposition for Coach Moore's team here tonight. This is a worse defeat than the locals suffered at Portland several weeks ago. so we ought to have the ■ edge in tonight’s game. After winning thirteen straight.' Frankfort's Fighting Five faltered last night and dropped the fourteenth contest to Jefferson of Lafayette. The game was played on Jeff’s floor and this court has always proved a hoodoo for the Frankfurters. Elwood continued to live up to the many nice things which have been said about her when she swamped Pendleton 40 to 19 last night. Maybe we’re not so weak after all. Whiting’s quintet, which had a hard fight to win over the locals a few weeks ago. took Emerson of Gary into camp last night, 26 to 8. BEAT NOBLESVILLE. If anyone has a field goal in their system, just shoot it at our basket. Contributions of “dope" for this I colyum will be welcomed. Address al! communications to the Daily Democrat and mark it "Field Goals.” c Auction school wilt soon be over and Decatur people will miss the bunch of live, young hustlers who have been attending.

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