Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1923 — Page 3

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Interest Due Third Liberty Bond Interest is due March 15th i.vml vour March funds in R. L. Pollings Supervised First " preferreds. A RELIABLE Security that pays 7‘<. The Suttles-Edwards Co. 0 P. Edwards. Pres. A. D. Suttles. Sec’y-Treas. Morrison Building. Decatur. Ind.

THECRfSTAL ■ THE MECCA Home of Paramount Picture. ■ —IUDAI—- — ■ “STEELHEART” ■ Says J “CATCH A Vitagraph production ■ My SMOKE » featuring w 8 If you can. William Dunean ■ ))( . s . i(|(||c(| I|w win(| and ■ and spurred it to Edith Johnson I t,rt at sjutd. 'j —Also— Thrills action and ■ . Tfcri|s of the Yukon „ a beautiful romance. £ vi n a ■ 10c-20c Also Comedy. io ” S —Crystal - 10c-20c ■ .. i o m j ■ Monday, Tuesday Monthly & Tuesday ■ “What’s Wrong With ■ “that’s Wrong With the Women” M .the Women”

Cort Theatre PROGRAM FOR NEXT WEEK Matinee Every Afternoon 2:30 O’clock —Evening Show at 7 o’clock Saturday Matinee at 2:00 O’clock—Saturday Evening 6:30 O’clock •— , , |.rc=g= ===== CT • I . “THE GIRL WHO RAN WILD” I OfllO*rl ■ *— featuring Gladys Walton " “Hello Mars,” comedy, with Harry Sweet International News 8 Reels 10c and 25c MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY “THE ROSARY” “THE ROSARY” D. W. Griffith presents 6 reels, featuring 6 reels, featuring “ORPHANS OF THE I Lewis Stone and 1 e^s Slone and STORM” i. in „ Nnvnb Jane Novak . featuring Jdl,e No ' ak Dorothy and Also —Also— Lillian Gish ‘ hove Loops the Loop” “Love Loops the Loop” Wonder picture of I aramount-Sennett Paramount-Sennett the year. Comedy—Fox Nows Comedy—Fox News 12 Rig Reels 25c-50c 9 Keels 10c-25c 9 Reels 10c-25c Shows at 6:45 and 9:00. THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY n W. Griffith presents “A PERFECT CRIME” “OUT OF THE “ORPHANS OF THE .. , .. , . SILENT NORTH” STORM” ’’ rt ‘<‘ls, featuring Monle Blue 5 r«h. tainting and Frank Mavo Lillian Gish Paramount-Sennett J Wonder picture of Comedy “Foolish Lives” 19 »• y ear ’ Fnv \7ivs Lee Moran Comedy ig Reels 25c-50c International News Niows at 6:45 and 9:00. 9 Reels 10c-25c 8 reels 10c-25c CUT OUT - SAVE FOR REFERENCE Watch for Big Attraction Coining Each Week Results of Basket Ball Tojrnament will be shown at this theater tonight Jitter pictures are being shown and the cort is showing them 0

DfcCATI’R DAtLY DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1923.

Interesting Letter »' From Wes Hoffman ‘ The following letter from W E. 1 Huffman, of Cupp Girardeau, Mis- 1 sourl, to his brother iti law, Albert ' Sellemeyer Will be of Interest to many readers. , r My bear Albert: A letter from Er ma tolls me that you up busy every ' day In the cement gam*. ' My business is better than It Was * last year, while th»- weather bus not ' been exactly right for the sale of 1 rubber footwear, I find that all the ‘ dealer* are feeling good over the * prospects for 1923 and 24 and are 1 buying easier because of the fact I that there is more money in the 1 country (generally speaking) and 1 naturally business, in general, is bet ter. From all indications here will be an advance on all rubber goods soon. 1 i I expected it before finishing this ; years canvass. Many of my larger dealers are anxious to get their requirements, for a year, on paper. Some of them have written me by special delivery asking me to call as early us possible on account of the probable advance. 1 wish you could bo down here, with me, Albert, to see some of the wonderful opportunities in different channels. Last year, being my first in this territory, was taken up so much with figuring on how to get here and there and studying my dealers who were all new to me, that I really never noticed the chances for great things to be accomplished just literally waiting for some one to grasp them. Just this week I was aw*ay down in the southeast corner of my territory in the little town of Gidion, Mo., a place whose name is familiar to many Decatur and Van Wert people, but as for the future possibilities of this little town and surrounding country and what has already been accomplished by men from our own county and state who saw the great chance of a lifetime to be of service to a country where others failed to see it and claimed it utterly impossible to develop, to any degree of importance on account of the vast flats or swamps which seemed good for nothing except the timber which stood on it. Valuable as it was, these pioneers, from our own Deca, tur and Adams county, had to risk their health and in some instances, almost, their lives to accomplish what they have. Some of the men from home who came down here with tl.e Gideons and Andersons, Sherm says, got their feet wet soon after they arrived and they went back in disgust, saying, ‘‘They will never make it.” Others at home who knew of their venture and had heard some thing of the conditions here also said the same thing

but they carried on and woi. My r, visit with Mr. Anderson and Mr. Mumffiu, both Insisted that 1 addrenn r them as Sherm and Matt and leave j, the riikuer off, was so thoroughly en- ' joyed that 1 must tell you about it (i No time, during my talk with these ? men, was there the least sign or evidence of self.exultation nor egotism in words or actions which would lead any person to think they felt themselves any better or above any q .common ordinary good fellow -and ti that's just what they are, “good fol | lows." ready and willing at all times fl -to be of service to their farmer ( neighbors—cooperating in every way v possible to Improve conditions, in s every respect, in Gideon and com j munity, besides being just as capable £ and efficient us any large business f man must necessarily be to accom. , plish and acc-umilate and carry on , and kcey growing larger and larger ( as they are doing. Can you magine a farm in Adams , county of 17.01 H) acres’ All under one management, run by scientific: j methods of agriculture? That is the , company farm only. Each one of , the hoys have their own farms besides this. I passed Mart’s farm on my way in to-Gideon and it's just as nice looking from the road as any you see in Adams county. While I was there, Mart was trying to buy a carloard of hogs from Sherm, but Sherm said he didn't care' to sell just then as his hogs would only average about 3uo pounds . apiece, he wants to fatten them up a little more before he sells then*. , Newt is the agricultural manager and has charge of the company farm. , Last year they harvested 150 acres of cotton from wich they realized $.'12,000 This year they will have at ( least 1500 acres under cotton. They have imported many Alabama ne r groes to help them with their cotton , and other farm work. Newt’s boy ! Kenneth, who is now a big fellow ( weighing more than 200 pounds, has t charge of the actual farm labor and , is capable for his position, having , graduated in agriculture from Co. lumbia University. f Mart V. Mumma is general man- ( ager of the company's mammoth I store This store has few equals in ! They have a dry good and ladles furnishing department, boots and shoes and gent's furnishing department, ’ grocery dept., furniture, hardware, house furnishings, drug store, meat t matfket and bank all in one building, 100x115 feet, two stories high. j They also have lumber, coal, fence s wire and posts, so you can imagine r the- volume of business transacted I with the Gideon-Anderson Co., in the , course of one vear. s T hey have another large business e in 1 tmber, of all kinds. They employ nearly 500 men in this lumber „ mill and sales force which comprise or include a large band mill, cjrcje mill, stave factory and planing mill, the combined capacity of which -is 150,000 feet per day. At the present time they have fifteen millions feet of lumber on stick. Will Anderson and his son Carl have charge of the sales end of the •lumber business with main offices in St. Louis, where they make their homes. Sherm and his son Ralph have the supervision and general management of the entire enterprise in Gideon with a large office force comfortably located in rooms on the second floor of theib beautiful brick building. It is a busy place, but the fact that I am from Decatur, Indiana jtnd that the store sells lots of rubber footwear, gained my admittance to the private offices of Sherm and Raljph Anderson, and to the desk of Mart V. Mumma, where all treated me with such courtesy and respect that I shall always remember them in no other than a kindly manner. I must not fail to mention that Newt Anderson was gone on a pleas, ure trip to Texas and Old Mexico while 1 was there, but I had the pleasure of vlsting in their home with Mrs. Anderson and Kenneth. They had many questions to ask about their home folk and wish to be

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remembered to all their friends. I Newt is vice president of this fall t road which is linowh as the 41d«-oh t North Isalnd railway. J Their bunk Is only q little over line yeqr old. capitalized at $25,000, ' with deposits of more than $275,000. The town of Gideon bus around 1500 Inhabitants, a good high school, ihurches. one cotton yin and anoth er under course of construction.' They are planning on paving their main streets this year and will also build hard surfaced roads leading to and from the town. It is a live and progressive place, made so by the untiring efforts of these men who are held in high esteem by their em pioyeeg and fellow citizens, as Weil as the most prominent people of the state of Missouri who recognlae the accomplishments and their ability to further develop this rich section of country to the highest state of production, which at one time was considered almost worthless. Forty negro families ure now liv | ing on the company farm and they, are kept busy the year round at first. one thing and then another Just ■ now Kenneth Is getting ready for al large Duroc hog sale which will be held on the farm on February 21st when they will offer more than a hundred head to the farmers of the community, thus encouraging the raising of blooded stock, where very little attention was given to that end of farming in former years. A hog was a hog and nothing else, to the farmer down there. Gideon is located in Anderson township, named for the Andersons, and the school section in which it lies is the largest in the state, It contains 73 sections of land, almost as large as Washington township in Adams county. If you ever go to Gideon you need not fear about getting good hotel ac. commodations and passing a dull day or two there. You will find excellent meals and a good clean bed in an up-to-date hotel called the Sherman hotel, owned by Gideon-Anderson Co., and named for Sherm Ander. son. After supper you can go to the movie which belongs to the same company, and if you have time to look through one of the largest band mills In the country it will pay you 1 to have some one take yon through ■ the one at Gideon. If nothing happens, I am going back to Gideon in 1924 and if it Is ' possible to do so without losing time 1 will arrange to Sunday over at the ' Sherman hotel just for the chance ’ to look, further, into the possibilities 1 of this town and surrounding tom munity. Gideon, Mo., is one place where 1 ’ believe are chancee for hustling young fellows who are willing and ready to do their share for the good of all, to come out victorious in the ' end. is growing in value, cot- • ton is being more extensively raised 1 and farming in general, is being done along scientific lines more each year. 1 . Township, county and state roads fire being built every year. Many 1 miles of bad roads over which I have 1 traveled last year were graded up and graveled or stoned this last summer and many more miles will be built this coming summer. It's the yomlng country for many fellows. Many will see the opportunity but more will miss it. Write me occasionally in care of the Adau Ha hotel, Cape Guardrail, Mo where 1 make headquarters. Next Saturday and Sunday 1 will

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het- 1 love her. With best wislms for everythin)? good in life to you | and Edna, and love to all I am y’uiir brother, WES.