Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR BAKLY DIMOCIUT Riiiimm (very ■«•»•••• Sunday by THS OECATUR OEMOCR*’ CO J. H. Haller—Pre* and On Mgr B. W. Kampe—Vice-Pree. * Adv. Mar. A. R. HelUioose—Bec’y nod Bns. Mgr Itntarad at Urn Poatoffica at Decatur, LadlaA*. aa aeeond elaas matter Subscription Bataa Single copies 1 cents One Week, by carrier.. 18 cent# One Tear, by carrier IMO One Month, by mall cents Three Months, by mail 11 00 111 Months, by mail 11.75, One Year, by mall. 13.0(1 One Year, at office. ... 13.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application

Foreign Representative* Carpenter & Company 122 Michigan Avenue. Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg.. New York City N. Y Life Building, Kansas City. Mo. HITCH TO A STAR: — Fred P. Mann is a dry goods merchant in Devil’s Lake. North Dakota. He sells a half million dollars' worth of goods every year in a town of five thousand population, lie has built his business from nothing. His capital has been intelligence. He stands today an inspiration for. any small town merchant who seeks to build a paying business on a sound foundation. There are thousands of merchants who flop along without any definite aim except an instinctive desire to accomplish. These are the merchandising derelicts. The ship that reaches port in time to win the cargo is one that is steered with a definite purpose and along a course thorough ly charted. Mr. Mann frankly says his success is due to two things—sensible buying and vigorous newspaper advertising. He spends more money in newspaper advertising than any small merchant in the United States. Th- , answer is he does more business; than any small merchant in the Unit ! cd States. Half the local merchants in small] towns see in advertising nothing but typographical announcements. The < money they waste in direct by mail ] advertising is astounding. There is not a skilled advertising man in the whole of the United States who uses a dircct-by-mail advertising except as a supplement to the newspaper. Without the newspaper the rest i useless. If we fail to learn by tieexperience of others who have succeeded then we fall behind in th march of progress. John Wanamakcr, Marshall Field and Fred P. Mann are not fools. Hitch your wagon to a star, not to a doubting Thomas.

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Ihill together boys. Don’t be caromed off on acme wild goose chase which will tend to disrupt the general feeling of genuine co-opcratiou so noticeable during the past few years, it takes a long time to establish that condition and certainly no one will knowingly do anything to tear it to pieces. In this law abldlug community there is no need for a vigilance committee. Old fashioned neighborliness, helping each other and all building and progressing at once, is I the best rule and the only one which I will eventually win. The commissioners will help put over the big campaign for a brighter and better looking county seat. They i have ordered the twenty-one trees I about the court house whitewashed i and are investigating the proposed ] proposition of replacing the town pump, relic of olden times, with a

new and up to date drinking fountain. Most of the business houses are having fronts repainted and when the job is finished we will attract attention from the visitors here. Come on boys, put it over NOW. ss Spring has come. She flitted in this morning and scattered the remnants of yesterday's glacier in a hurry. Now we're off again for. the clean up which old man winter disturbed by dodging back on us for a day or two. Don't let your enthusiasm disappear all together. Remember your promise to paint up and clean up and make good on it. Get a painter and put him at it. You can do it if you try real hard and this campaign is worth it. .. - A high executive of the General Electric company who visited here today said the Decatur branch was one of their pets and that it's growth up to this time was splendidly satisfactory. He praised Decatur and I her people and expressed the belief I that we have just startd <Jn a march : jf progrss that will eventually make thi about the best place in the world in which to live. That's the right jkind of music. ! As a result of the investigation of the unfortunate lad who was killed j while being hazed at Northwestern University, it is likely rules will be adopted in every college which will forever put a stop to the foolish ' practice for of all the foolishness r permitted and encouraged is the haz ] ing of freshmen in tho universities. ] The tulips and other flowers, the' grass and the trees and the garden l seem to have stood the snow bath! very good and came back smilingly]

- this morning. It Is too soon to state i positively whether the fruit was in- ■ jured or not but every one it hoping i and optimistic. ■s" ■■■.ijji—.L. auisjgtg Get the painters busy on the front. NOW is the time. Tho bad weather may have set us back a few days but it surely did not discourage any one. Paint the front. e Camphor Water For Eyes Nothing has the quick action of simple camphor, witchhazel, hydrastin, etc., as mixed in Lavoptik eye wash. One small bottle Lavoptik helps any case weak, strained or sore eyes. Aluminum eye cup free. Smith, Yager & Falk druggists. LUNCHEON AT EATS The regular weekly luncheon of the Decatur Rotary club will be held this evening at the Eats Restaurant, The business meeting and program will b-

held in the Industrial rooms. • —o I The minimum bet on horse races in ■] Germany Is 50,000 marks, or 50 cents > in American money. I-ist season. ’ bets were taken to value 3 cents ip American money. RHEBMATIC AGONY NOW EASILY ENDED Says Mr. James H. Allen of Rochester, N. Y. It does not matter to me whether you are disabled with cursed rheumatism or have only occasional twinges. I know that Allenrhu. my own discovery, will stop the agony, do away with the knawing pains and reduce the swollen joints. 1 know it will dissolve the uric acid deposits that have become deeply imbedded in joints and muscles ami quickly drive every trace, of rheumatism your body. I know this because I was crippled for years and many times was unable to work, and Allenrhu made a well, robust, healthy man of me. I know because since i cured myself, hundreds have taken Allenrhu and speedily rid themselves of this agonizing disease. No matter how severe your case. I urge you to put your faith in the prescription that it took me years to perfect— a prescripton that made a new man of me after doctors tried and failed. * Allenrhu is no laggard; it start: right in at once: it gets into the blood, searches out the poisonous uric acid deposit and in two days starts to drive the concentrated impurities that cause rheumatism, out I of the body through the natural chan i nels. Through the columns of this news- ; paper. I authorize every druggist to . guarantee one full pint bottle in ' every instance. , o SENDS A BABY THROUGH MAIL Giri Sends New-B-pni Babe to Ficticious Address by Parcel Post The following story, taken from a Chicago newspaper, will be of interest to local people owing to the unusualness of the occurence. More interset will be added, to the stow since Mrs. Foret,* Vail, of Waterproof, Louisiana, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Butler, and a former resident of this city, was personally ac-qua-'nted with the principal characters in the stoiy, the young school ‘eacher. The story is as follows: Washington. May 1 —(By I. N. S.) —The postoffice department this afternoon .wired inspectors at New Orleans for a detailed report of the circumstances leading to the arrest of Josie Y. Fultz, who is accused of sending an infant through the ma'ls. Since the discovery of the hotly in Oklahoma was reported to the department, no further official advices on the case, have reached here, although a nationwide investigation of the mystery had been in progress. Opelousas, La.. May I—(Speciall—(Special to the States)—The world has come crashing down about the head of a nineteen year old Louisiana girl. Racked with pain, her nerves unstrung, pretty, blonde, child-like Josie Y. Fultz, state normal school graduate, high school jteadher /finlittle town of Scott. L-i.. just outside Lafeyette is stretched on a bed in the Lacopibe Hotel here in a guarded room. She has confessed. say the authorities, to mailing the body of her newborn babe—born dead, she says—its a parcel post package to “Miss EM,el Martyn. Duncan, Oklahoma,” a sicI

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c titious address to a non-existing peri- sou. And then, after days without g medical attention, prior to and follo ving the birth of the child In her battie to cone Ml L»r plight, from tho world, she collapsed. Her family has iallied to her side. r Her aged mother Is hurrying from t Newellton to her .laughter's uid. into tbs*, guarded room at the Lacombe Hotel go onlj her father, J. D. Fults, of Newellton, La; her undo mid aunt. E. F. New-dl of St. Joseph, chief deputy clerk of court of Tensas . parish, und Mrs. Newell’ her physl ' clan. Dr. 8. B. Wolff, and her lawyer, John W. Lewis. > A Min Somewhere : Outside for c day waited the authorities—J. W. Adamson, chief post- ’ office Inspector, and Inspector J. W. Lesman, both of Kansas City, who will file the federal charges; and Sheriff Felix Latlolat-i, with Doputy| Sheriff Campbell, armed with a warrant charging murder. And somewhere—no man today knows where —is a man yet unnamed. He has not stepped forward. There is no Indication that he will step forword. Josie Fultz's lips are locked where his identity is eon-rernt-d. The trip to Opelousas came as the result of conflict between state and federal authorities. Each sought jurisdiction. At last, after confer-] mee. it was agreed that Miss Foltz should be taken to Opelousas for u hearing before United States Commissioner Leon H. Hans, after which the state charges were to be served. But the pain-racked and nerve- ] tortured girl, once she reached Opelousas, collapsed. Dr. Wolff issued a certificate that she was uhable to move from her bed in the Lacombe Hotel. Judge Campbel! of I>afayette issued orders that tho physician's cartificate be respected and that Sheriff Charles Thibodaux of St. Landry Parish be placed in |

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■■ charge of the girl, provided he would » accept tho charge. The sheriff ac cefitod it. r John W. Lewis, the girl’s attorney - retained by her father, waived ar-, raigmneut before the United States . Commissioner. A bond of 12,500 was i set and provided, and the postoffice Inspectors and parish officials of Lafayette left Opelousas. At orders of her physician, all > newspaper men are barred from , Miss Fultz's room. The only state- * meat issued is the brief comment of Mr. Lewis, the girl's attorney, that , "in due time the public will learn Miss Fultz is the vicarious victim of

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r i I circumstances. Throughout South Louisiana sympathy has been stirred for tho plight of the pretty young high school teacher of Scott. Slender, young, blonde and appealing in personality, she rcsta today under the care of a' physician. Medical care in her case,] say the authorities should, have had Its inception weeks ago. It was April 16th that the parcel was mailed to “Miss Ethel Marthyn. Duncan, Okla." The postmaster at Duncan could And no "Miss Ethel Martyn." Investigation disclosed the 1 contents of the package as the body of a newborn baby. Postmarks led

'the postal Inspectors t 8 which it W as I the package had been m allee , ' ft whs tlW eed to Luu; fitllg | "No such trijne haM (Charged before to anyoM r ] United States," Hal(1 Chlef ' < , Inspector J. W . Ad amßOn J “J 11 * ,, B “ 8 City. “The Federal based on Section 8808 of the t> “ ed statutes of the United Stated Meanwhile her whole Worl(1 J ing about her. pretty imu Fultz is stretched p ron , ; j * darkened hotel room i n 0 " with the shadowy form hovering about her bed. "