Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 5 February 1923 — Page 2

WantedFive machine operators. Experienced girls preferred. Waring Glove Co.

Thrift Savings Account GOOD LUCK SELDOM JUST HAPPENS YOU will be SUCCESSFUL or UNSUCCESSFUL You will either save a little each day and eventually have a hank balance, a home, a business of your own—or you will spend it all and sooner or later become impoverished. Come in and let us tell you about our Insured Savings Account. The Peoples Loan & Trust Co. BANK OF SERVICE

Dwelling Property For Sale! We have a good house and lot in the north end of Decatur which we will sell to the right person on easy payments and long terms. Can give immediate possession. II interested, call at our office TbeSdiaferCompany 101-117 N. First St.

PHONE YOUR ORDER TO —MILLER’SSouth End Restaurant and Grocery Telephone 965 We will deliver anything in our line. FREE CITY DELIVERY, Starting Monday, Feb. 5

Rolled Oats, 10/, Sardines r Box tJC Salmon 9£z» can 15c Bed Salmon 20c CXH-U, 1 can 15c ALIvV Pancake Flour 1 IL» Sack 25c & Ivv Post Toasties Box 15c to 1V Maccaroni, Spaghetti 1 fir* br Noodles AvV 3 lor 25c Rice 3 lbs

Fresh Baked Goods. Cohl Meats, Cigars, Tobaccos. Candies. Soft Drinks Furnjghed Rooms Meals 35c E. J. MILLER, Prop. I Opposite Eric Depot!

, | White Napllia Soap : £‘“ J ‘ cn ’,lsc 2 lot- 25c Matches r* Box Jc & t)C Kelloggs Posl Brand 25c Swans Down Cake Flour, box 4vC toe Cocoa. Otiarl jar wt/V IS 1 "! s !' 10c

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ZluckA Strike J ™ ,S f / ONE EXTRA \IVaiF 11 PROCESS GIVES I 1 A DELIGHTFUL/# f—’’—- ■ ~~ — = s? Field Goals Ig ' . '■ v- ■ Was It Football? At no time were the Auburn eagers in danger They whipped through the opposing lines like lightning and their tackling was spectacular. It was a game which kept every fan on edge.— Auburn Star. Better begin storing up your pep for Friday night. A lot of good loyal rooting will help the I>. 11. S. eagers very much in their battle with the Auburn team in the new gymnasium. lowa won another Big Ten victory Saturday night by conquering the Chicago University five after trailing at the end of the first half. Stagg's men gave the Hawkeyes an awful scare. Indiana's two representatives in the Big Ten are beginning to climb up Ihe ladder now. Purdue occupies fifth position and Indiana is close behind in a tie for sixth place with Northwestern. Purdue plays Wisconsin in her next game and a victory over the Badgers will pull them out of a tie with lowa for first place and will boost the Boilermakers considerably. Indiana's next conference game is with Illinois, February 12. Tlie Crinisoif live should win fairly easily from Notre Dame Wednesday night. The Irish quintet has had rough sledding in its games with other Hoosier Fives. The game between the Decatur Catholic High five and the Van Buren High has been postponed from next Friday night until the following Friday night. The local boys should be putting in some hard licks because Linn Kern lias his bqys at Van Buren going at a good dip now. INDIANA MEN GET PATENT I. W. Macy, Former Decatur Youth, Receives One Os Patents Patents issued to residents of Indiana. for week ending JanuaiA- 30, 1923, as reported from the office of Clarence J. Loftus, Patent & Trade Mark lawyer, Marquette Bldg., Chicago. Illinois: C. T. Chapman, Torre Haute, cutter head for coal drills; Albert H. Coble, Frankfort, color game; Floyd K. Eastman. Kokomo, vehicle door check; F. M. Hess, Whiting. Vapor box; E. M. Heylman, South Bend; Multiple-gang harrow; I. W. Macy, Elkhart. Conveyor bucket; H. C. Mannon, Indianapolis, heated roll for flaking mills; H. C. Martin. Elkhart, sound box for phonographs; T. J. Murray, Covington, folding wire crate; I-’. A. Ruckman, Fort Wayne, radiator filling attachment; Calvin S. Schott. Buck Creek, internal combustion engine; W. Tankersley, Frankfort. gas mixer. Baby's things deserve most careful attention—soak the unmentionables in Blue Devil. 5.7.9 0 Best meals in the city, 35c. Hough’s case, north of court house. mon wed. fri-l-lOx OD S. J. Z U Ft 8 U C H D. C. M. C. Chiropractor. Office Hours: 10-12 a- m. 1-5, C-8:30 p. m Rooms K. of C. Building Phones— Residence 590 Office ... 189 •• ■ ... Our druggist far 'jr JEW DISCOVERY - thrjanily syrup ‘

Monday Woman's Club, presentation of two plays by members of Dramatic Section. Music Section of Woman's Club, Library room, following meeting. Research —Mrs. Eugene Runyon, 2:30. Dorcas class of E. V. church —Mrs. l-lsta laddy. Phi Delta Kappa meeting and initiation, 7 p.m. Tuesday Psi lota Xi—Miss Marie Magley at the home of Mrs. J. H. Heller, 7:30 o’clock. Philo Class of Baptist Sunday School with Miss Grace Baxter, 7:30 p. in. Woman's Missionary society of Zion Reformed church, Sunday School rooms, 2:30. Bachelor Maids, Mrs. Theodore Graliker, 6:30. C. L. of C— K. of C. hall. 8 p.m. Auction Bridge—Mrs. Janies Westveld, 7:30. Reformed Missionary Society—Sun day School Room, 2:30 p. ni. e‘. L. of C. E.— Mr. and Mrs.| Eugene Runyon. Wednesday Tri D. club —Miss Lucille Butler — 7:30. Shakespeare Club —Mrs. 11. IL Moltz. •'soo'’ club—Mrs. Will Keller. 8 o'clock. Thursday The United Brethern Aid society— Mrs. Ulyses Drummond. Ixiyal Workers Class—Mrs. William Lux. Baptist Woman's society witli Mrs. Blossom, N. Eleventh street, 2:30 p.m. Mt. Pleasant Ladies Aid—Mrs. Jessie Singleton. Ladies Aid of Christian Church and W. 11. C. —Mrs. Sam Chronister. Ladies Aid Society of Methodist Church. Ever Ready Class of the M. E. Church—Mrs Giles Porter, 7:30. Saturday Rummage Sale —Methodist Church Basement, 1 to 8 p. in. The members of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity will hold their regular meeting in their “club rooms over Mills' grocery at 7 o'clock tonight. In addition to the regular meeting, there will be initiation given tonight. ♦ Mrs. Blossom, of North Eleventh street, will be hostess to tfie Baptist Woman's society at 2:30 Thursday afternoon. * Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle Flanders entertained with dinner Sunday for Mr. anil Mrs. George Flanders and daughter. Gladys. + The Dramatic section of the Woman's club will have the program tonight witli two plays. “Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil,” by Stuart! Walker, with Miss Leona Bosse, Mrs.! A. R. Holthouse, Miss Olive Peter-' son, Mrs. James R. Blair, Miss Lois Connell and Katherine Seilemeyer as the characters, is one of the plays, and the one act play “Everybody's Husband.” by Gilbert Cannan with | Miss Fannie Hite, Virgene Smith. | Eva Acker, Mrs. Kathryn Niblick and I Mrs. E. W. Kampe as tint characters, is the other. ♦ The Ladies Aid society of the Mt. Pleasant church will meet all day Thursday at the home of Mrs. Jessie Singleton for the purpose of knotting comforts. Mrs. Singleton will serve j dinner and all members are urged to be present. * Mrs. Sam Chronister will be hostess to the Ladies Aid society of the Christian church and the W. R. C. at her home Thursday. All members of both societies are asked to be present. ♦ The rummage sale that has been conducted in the basement of the M. E. church duripg the past few weeks' has proven such a benefit to many people who have attended that the .committee in charge has decided to continue the sale next Saturday, Feb.: 10th. From one o’clock to eight. + On account of the dedicatory services of the new high school audi-j torium and gym, the Ladies Aid so-: cioty of the Methodist church will) meet Thursday afternoon instead of Friday as previously announced. All members arc urged to notice the change of date and plan to attend the meeting on Thursday, as some very important business is to be transacted. All important meeting of the Reformed Missionary society will be held in the Sunday School room at

12:30 Tuesday afternoon and every member is urged to be present. Business for the year will be closed and at the meeting next mouth new officers will be elected. Mrs. Martin , Jaberg is president of the society. , —• MEYERS APPEALS CASE Eli Meyer Takes Case to Allen Circuit Court Following Fine Eli Meyer, of this city, former coun ty sheriff and well-known citizen, took an appeal to the Allen circuit couit Saturday afternoon after he had been fined $lO and costs by Justice H. F. Bullerman. of Fort Wayne, on a charge of trespass. The charge was preferred against Meyer by Fred William Franke, of Madison township, former county who claimed that Meyer had cut timber on the Franke farm after he had been warned by Mr. Franke to stop. Mr. Meyer says he did not violate the terms of the agreement. He declares that he cut only that timber I which he had contracted for. Mr. Franke, the prosecuting witness i t 83 years of age. Prosecutor laMtis F. Crosby and Attorney Elmer Leonard represented the state in the case and Attorney R. U. Parrish representI 1 d the defendant. FRENCH EXTEND THEIR HOLDINGS The Infantry And Artillery Push Forward During The Week End — Berlin, Feb. s.—(Special to Daily 1 Democrat 1— The French extended their hold on German territory over the week-end today, consolidated positions that gave them a strangle hold on rail transportation between Germany and Switzerland. Cavalry, infantry and artillery, pushed forward from the Kehl bridgehead, held Offenburg and Appenweir, on the edge of Black Forest. The Frankfurt-Basle railway lies in the French grip. JESS MERCER IS LOCATED - Wanted Here for Wife and Child Desertion Found in Huntington .'ess L. Mercer, who has been wantin Adams circuit court oil a charge of' wife and child desertion since Fcbru-' ary 21, 1922, was arrested in Hunting-1 ten by police officials of that city yesterday. He as returned to this city and placed in the county jail last night by Sheriff Joint Baker. This' morning, lie furnished bond in the sum of SSOO and was released. He is! to appear in court here on the first I day of the next term of court. .Mercer's wife and three children late living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Huffman, in Blue Creek township. Mrs. Mercer has a suit for divorce pending in the circuit court. Mercer has been working in HuntingItem.

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Avenues !of Service ! I I w'j EGINAI.D Me K ENN A,head of the largest bank I in the world, say* that “Splendid isolation is a { dream;” a truth which every industrial leader I accepts as axiomatic. Had he substituted monopoly for I isolation he would have expressed another self-evident truth which would been acclaimed by every man I who has given serious thought to the development of business on a large scaie. I !Thc Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is a big business I striving to do a big job tn a big way, yet no thought is given to achieving a monopoly: for those who direct the Company’s activities know that in any basic industry such an antbition is impossible of fulfillment. Competition i» welcome, for no single organization can hope to serve the people of the Middle West with petroleum products as they should be served. The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) enjoys 2 large volume of business I and is satisfied to let this volume take care of its profits. There is a reciprocal bond between every great industrial I organization and the social environment in which it operate’ An organization is truly great only when the | service it renders is great. I The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is in daily contact I wi n a community of about 30 million people. I It serve them through,a host of useful product* refined I from n:'r< Through these products it touches the industrial life of the people. It enters I th* -i 1; <• amber w.t!i miners! oil and petroleum jelly. I Jr er,ten; the -. 'ory, the roundhouse, and the farmyard I w:.h iub'i -at tg oil;. tor machines, engines, and tractors. I It seeks the farm home with gasoline, kerosene, candles I and pnrowrx It 'ouches the railroad right of way with I Formtc Long Time Burner Oil for signal lamps; it inds of public and private garages with l| g;:. ’• < and lubricants. It feeds the furnaces of homes I and faenrrhs wth Stanolind Furnace Oil. It goes to I ;l < hospital with Stanolind Surgical Wax. It paves the streets with Stanolind Paving Asphalt. T ■ hut a few o( the avenues of service which the ; . Hh) Ojmp. ny (Indiana • maintains. To keep | «)(-.. • , >n> open tl'.e Company operates 1700 service I st. -o •, .•990 bulk stations, 7000 tank wagons serving I th v .;:i of garages, and 6 great refineries to supply I I their need?. I Thus th-- Standard Oil Company (Indiana) acL. ■ ’ . ,<■ 1“ rce;proci»! bond, and by creating a host of I i. '..1 *v.*n:ird products from a single basic raw | r ' rni crude pctrolrum—justify its claim to master husbandry. I ; Standard Oil Company (Indicr.a) I I MO ' o. Michigan Ave., Chicago 3042 J ONE FARE FOR ROUND TRIP TO FORT WAYNE and RETURN This very low rate will be effective each evening during the month of February, except Sundays, and only on car leaving Decatur at 7:00 p. 111. Returning on cars arriving by midnight same. day. I FORT WAYNE AND DECATUR TRACTION CO.

FUNERAL IN RUSSAVILLE O. T. Johnson went to Russiaville Sunday to attend the funeral of his brother’s wife, Mrs. Ellit Johnson. Mrs. Johnson died on Friday follow-

_ .. .. ■ - ing an illness with leakage of the heart. 0 ——. . Greenfield —Over 100 school children have been absent from the Greenfield schools during the past, because of sickness.