Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 28 February 1923 — Page 2

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. .1 11. Heller—Pre#. ami Orn. Mgr K. W. Kampe—Vlee-Ptes. A Adv. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse—Sec y and Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postofiice at Decatur, Indiana, us second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by farrier $5.00 One Mouth, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (ITices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage lidded oi tside those tones.) Advertisisg Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Hldg., blew York City N. Y. Life Building, Kansas City, Mo. Plan to greet the visitors who come here for the basket ball tournament Friday and Saturday. Give them all the best of it and see that every courtesy Is extended. Let them know that we welcome then: and desire only that the best team wins. Tomorrow is March Ist and indications are that the entrance of the spring month will be rather lamb like and that means if there is truth in the old saying tiiat the month will go out with the furore of a lion. It will be several weeks before you can depend much on spring weather. A lot of people who think the legislature went rather far in passing a I bill which cuts off the speedway race on Memorial Day while other amusements are permitted, cannot understand why that day only is required to make the event a success. There are three hundred and sixty-four other days and the same amount of effort with a little real advertising will put the races over on most any one of them. The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has a slogan and it’s so good that we feel it could be used many' places including Decatur if changes as to location to read as follows: “I will not criticize or condemn the 1 Decatur Industrial Association fori

REDUCED RATES Continued During the Month of March The low fare of one way for the round trip from Decatur to Fort Wayne. Tickets good going only on car leaving Decatur at 7:ot> p. nt. and returing same day, will be continued during the month of March. This is less expensive than walking or driving. Inquire of Agent. # Fort Wayne and Decatur Traction Co. I Sectional Basket Ball I TOURNAMENT Decatur High School Gymnasium Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3 First Game Friday afternoon, 2 o’clock. For Season Tickets call ’Phone 725 I imp™... Tax-Exempt |1 “ | » men! Bonds — t— Preferreds . Securities I I ■ I With ■ Will Your Money ■ W||w|l( I Absolute S ■ Worry or Safety Taxes I The Suttles I Edwards Co. i I Industrial p Edwards. President <J. S. Gov’t I r J *• Suttles. §ecy.Tn«gs. I PrderrCdh General *”"**'■ 60U<t& I . ' *

failure to obtain adequate results, VNLKSB I. inyaelf, have given time, thought and tuy beet personal efforts in helping produce those results." Think it over men. Senator Harry New .will be post- , master general, his appointment having been made ypsterday by the President and immediately continued ' by the senate. Senator Watson who i it is said opposed the appointment ‘ on the grounds that it would divide , bis patronage iu Indiana, was not ' present when the vote was taken. New’s appointment will meet general approval in Indiana for he is u man of good sensible qualities and quail tied for th’e job and comes from Indiana. After failing to the gasoline tax bill yesterday because of a lack of a constitutional majority, it was called later and put over with three Notes to spare. It is estimated that the new law will bring In three million dollars, of which all but $500,000 goes to the state highway commission, the first year. If the money could all be retained by the county in which it is raised there woukl be more sentiment for it but by this law we only pay more that those counties which have failed to build good roads will receive the bentfits. it’s time to put on the brakes. The sectional basketball tournaments will be played over Indiana Friday and Saturday of this week and in every county in the state these are the most important events of the week, especially for the school folks and those who have become raging fans over the great indoor sport. Some idea of the rapid growth in popularity of basket ball is disclosed from the fact that 595 teams will take part in this year’s tournaments while in 1911 there were but thirteen teams in the state and in 1914 only seventyseven. Now every school has its team and by the way many of the smaller towns have fives which have’ put their community on the map by providing publicity otherwise impossible. The legislature has fixed a two ' percent limit for townships on road | building which means that this in-

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, duztry, for m»hy year# <>ue of the . really big one* in Ada nt* county, will i b# greatly curtailed and will be prac ’ t Rally done away with during the next few years. While this will tend to reduce taxes in the various townships. and for that will be appre ’ dated, it should be recognized that it ’ also hurts ip other way#. Many who I lufvc canted a livl'bood from this al** ' means will be forced into other fields or other work and In the meantime a ' number of roads which need improvement will have to wait. It should permit us to get our breath and a I lower tax rate in a few years but we 1 may have to make it up after a while. In the meantime we should see that our more than seven hundred miles of roads arc maintained aud to do that the tax levy for that purpose ' should be made sufficient for next year to permit it. We can't eat our 1 cake and have it and we can’t have good roads without paying for them and keeping them up. And so it becomes just a matter of what we want to do. COPYD/SMT 1333 * C FREE ADVICE Little drops of water. Little cakes of soap. For those who would be b»auties Arc really the beat dope. S. W. K. •STAN"SAYS: 'Sfunny how much quicker a beautiful woman can acquire popularity than a virtuous one can. A REPORTER MUST HAVE A NOSE FOR NEWS (The Peoria. 111., Transcript headed its story on the Ku Klux as follows: I TRANSCRIPT REPORTER BOUND AND BLINDFOLDED, IS WITNESS TO EVENT IMITATION The theatrical manager steers His insidious influence o’er us. Till we put our best looking ideas In the very front row of our chorus. SUNSHINE WORKERS x Sunshine work Is simply rendering obedience to the Divine command. "Do as good as you have opportunity;” if we allow an opportunity to pass without doing good if it Is in our power to do so, then we are guilty of breaking this command. By obeying it we become sunshine workers. Our opportunities may not be great, but if we do what we can it will be as the cup of cold water and the widow’s mite of olden time. A cheerful word to the discouraged; a word of sym, pathy to the sorrowing; a little dainty to an invalid; a book, a picture, a giowing plant may bring sunshine to some poor heart; a cast out garment may bo reslued from the rag barrel, cleaned and repaired and given to some unfortunate person. Any of these and icgionsl of other opportunities grasped wrtl entitle us to be enrolled as Sunshiim Workers, Francis GOAT-GETTERS To grope around a theatre in the dark, and, finally finding a vacant seatseat, have someone exclaim. “Beg pardon, but this seat is taken." H. 1. S. THE NIGHT HAWKS When eventide conies on the place and darkness veils thp planet’s face. 1 seek my mattress, tired pnd worn, with thoughts of sleep till early morn. But. hark and hist. Adown the pike, with cut-out wide,-so help me Mike, there comes some crazy auto bug who fills the air with clank and chug. He comes and goes, but in his wake comes many another Tom or Jake, who fills the night with racket punk and. as I toss upon my bunk, 1 use words not prescribed by Hoyle and yearn to tdek him 'noath the soil. All night my rest is shot away ami when the rising time draws nigh I feel like thirty copper cents- my temper’s scarred with bumps and dents. Night after night it is the same and sleep is chased clear from the game; my nerves are getting frazzled quite and i aw hlw j|itig for a fight. Homo day I’ll grab a knotted club —a. super-seasoned wet elm stub—and then I'4l gambol o’er the lea mid right umf, left, most merrily. I’ll lay aifoat with lusty thumps until I kill twelve dozen chumps who with their clanking, chugging vain? are busting old Morpheus’ chains, and folks will laud me to the skies. I’ll be the mark for friendly eyes; ami hartl-worked Igeeis will gef zepupciand rise up fresh as new-irorted clothes. Undo Dud UEAD COLDS MCtt in speon;i«hale vapor*; ’ • Apply freely up nostrils. VI JIMS Oner 17 Million Jan Uttd Yeaily !

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Wednesday St. Viuceut de Paul —Mrs. Johu t’olchiu, 2:30. Historical Club—Mrs. Walter lieaue, 015 N. Fifth street. 2:30 p. m. Christian Ladies Aid society box social—Mrs. Minnie Daniels. Annual Prayer Service of Woman's Mias' nary society—at church 7:30. Thursday Ever Ready Class of the M. E. Church — Mrs. Heber Ilumbarger, 7:30 P. M. Calvary Aid Society—Mrs. Win. Miller Woman's Houie aud Foreign Missionary Society—Mrs. Jessie Deam Presbyterian Missionary Society— Mrs. Jesse Deam 2:30 p. m. League of Women Voters—lndustrial Rooms 7:30 o'clock. Woman's Missionary society of the E. V. church—At church, 2 o'clock. Work any Win class —Mr. aud Mrs. Orin Gilpin at Clarence Drake home. Christian Brotherhood —11. L. Merry, 1015 W. Monroe St.. 8 p.m. , Friday W. H. M. S. of M. E. church with Mrs, A. J. Smith. Friday Night club, Mrs. George Handers. Zlou Lutheran Aid Society—School House, 1 o'clock. W. R. C.-G. A. R. Hull. Mr. and Mrs. Orin Gilpin will entertain the Work and Win class of the U. B. church at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Drake, Thursday evening, instead of at the home of Ross Hays, on account of sickness. * Miss Bitty Butler entertained the Tri D Club at her home on Motiroe street last evening. Music and sewing furnished the diversions of the evening will be with Miss Donna Parrish, served by the hostess. The ncxt z mcet ing will be with Mrs. Donna Parrish. ♦ The Christian Brotherhood will meet at the home of H. L. Merry, 1015 West Monroe street, at 8 o'clock Thursday evening. Ail members are urged to be present. ♦ The W. R. C will meet Finlay afternoon at 2 o’clock at the G. A. R. hall. All members are requested to be present, ♦ The Ladies Home and Missionary society of the Presbyterian church will meet in the church parlors Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, instead of with Mrs. Jesse Deam as first stated. The annual mite box opening will take place at this meeting aud a splendid program has been arranged for the meeting. A social hour will follow and refreshments will be served. Thc\ members are urged to attend and their attention is called to the change made in the meeting place. ♦ The box social which was to have been given at the Minnie Daniels home on Sixth street has been indefinitely postponed on account of a death in the family of one of the memIters who were planning to give the social. o MAGLEY STORE ROBBED AGAIN Thieves Carry Away Merchandise and Stamps; Safe Badly Battered Thieves broke into the Miller Brothers’ store at Magley last night and carried away a quantity of dry goods, groceries, and a little money and stamps frothe postoffice, which is located in the store. The door opj the safe was badly battered but it was not opened. The postoffice in ! spector has been notified of the robbery aud will make an inspection soon. The value of the loot taken! has not been determined. This same store was entered last November,' about a week before Thanksgiving, and a few hundred, dollars worth of merchandise and money curried away. Entrance Wan gained through the front door last night. ■ ■ 1 * — — Couple Married in Clerk’s Office Today Mlsa Nora Frank, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. San: L. Frank, of Blue Creek township, and Hamnel L. Hamrick. so* of Mr. #ud Mrs. Mikes W Hamrick, also of Blue Creek town ship, were married at 3 o’clock this afteraonu in the county clerk’s office by the Rev. B. N. Covert, pastor pt th-. Pr-jbj’terluu church. "**• .♦ ; s—s—s—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s

— Only Six Teams Will Play in Warsaw Tourney (United Pre## Service) Warsaw, Ind., Feb. 28.—Only six teams will taka part iu the high school sectional basketball tournament here Friday and Saturday. Eight quintettes have withdrawn in protest against the division of tourney receipts last year. Predicts Pension for World War Veterans (L'nlled Press Sonic#) Washington, Feb. 28 —(Special to Daily Democrat)— Congress, within i few years, will enact a pension mea sure for veterans of the world war, Col. Charles R. Forbes, head of Che veterans’ bureau, predicted today ns lie prepared to turn his office over to his successor. Brig. General Frank T. Hines. The pension bill is bound to come, Forbes said, as something must lie done to displace the present •’unscientific" method of dealing with veterans. # • MARRIAGE LICENSE Merl McCroskey, lailroad employ.. Geneva, age 23 years, to Hazel Nevil. Geneva, age 18. ■ —- ■ ■ o — C. M. ANDREWS TO MOVE Decatur People Buy Property in Fort Wayne and Will Move Soon C. M. Andrews, for many years a resident of near this city Is moving to Fort Wayne where he lias purchased a residence on Wildwood. He will remain here a month, but the children have already take up I heir abode at the new home. Mr. Andrews received word this morning from Middletown. Ohio, that his wife who has been ill there for several weeks, is not getting along so well. He will go there Saturday again to be with Mrs. Andrews. ————————— SIGNS BRITISH DEBT BILL Washington, Feb. 28. — (Special to , Daily Democrat) — President Harding today signed the bill proving for an acceptance of tile British debt settle nient. The way is now cleared for drawing • up a formal contract between the ’ two nations embodying the terms for . paying the greatest international debt . in the history of the world. I Great Britain is expected to make . an immediate cash payment of about • $4,000,000 and then following during > the year with payments totalling • about $161,000,000. - J. N. Bulkhead, of Monroe, was a business visitor here today. , o , (), who can imagine the feeling of a loot bath in Blue Devil. Ah-li-li. 26-2tj-2 Liquid lime & sulphur spray solution. Give us your requirements so we can give you service. IL Knapp & Son. 51-31

— ! t __ 1 1 . " ||| TI | I I ■■■ - Here’s why you don’t see K& ' shop worn goods at /Sw/BBfe/ • John T. Myers Co. I ' 4__jM 1* 'dart with, we buy in small lots »>—W 'flb’ii rather than in large shipments twice ’ a yuar - .j ia 11 ui —J Take shirts lor example—every week "* ah le sular us Friday, in come new patterns ' WmhlsS*3» and we have known of cases where every *~i- shirt box was us empty as Mother Hub* bards cupboard Saturday night. ae OUHSf. ' —One of our salesmen aptly said, “a man working in this department never needs a dust cloth because the goods don't stay long enough to gather dust.” Fresh, clean Earl & Wilson March patterns on sale now. $1.25 "> $4.00 And of course—we bought ties to match. f@tuv’T’Av€o Qq e - s k 5 J tf£T . r oggXru R? Zn dlan BoT/t'ndtXr •■ . ♦

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