Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1923 — Page 2

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller —Pres and lien. Mgr. K. W. Kampe Vice Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. K. Holthouse—Bee'y ami Bus. Mgr Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, ns second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier Id cents One Year, by carrier $5.00 One Month, by mail 55 cents Three Months, by mail SIOO Six Months, by mail $1.75 One Year, by mail $5.00 One Year, at office $5.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage ad ded outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company. 122 Michigan Avenue. Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg.. New York City X. Y. Life Building. Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Bryan is advocating a “sten the pledge” campaign to check the bootlegging business. Sounds like the old Murphy days. The trouble is that drinking today is largely on the rtr and signing the pledge won’t have the result desired, which need prevent no one from signing lip who wants to. Paint, paint, paint. That’s the slogan for the next month and we hope every business man in the city helps to put it over. Several land lords are taking care of the work themselves but the cost is small and we insist that no one can afford to do without the improvement. More| than sixty have agreed to paint up| and now is the time. Get after the painters and see that your job Is completed at once. We are all anxious to have the city looking its best June 2lst when several thousand visitors will be here. Don't all wait for the last week. Start it now. NOTICE To Meat Patrons — Change in Closing Hours effective Monday, May 28 All Meat Markets in the city i of Decatur will close promptly at 6 o'clock p. m. during the week —Saturday evenings excepted. All shops will remain closed on Sunday mornings and Holidays, remaining open until 8 o’clock p. m. the evening before holidays and all evening on Saturdays. PATRONS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE Mutschler Packing Co. Market Green Meat Market Starost & Son Meat Market S. J. Hain Meat Market H. P. Schmitt Meat Market.

T,i,i 1 ===== > *fsUPERIO!Vp BAKING ■ Real Boys Get Their Pep From Eating Lots of Superior Corn-Top, Holsum, | and Superior Bread They make them sturdy and husky. REAL BREAD. Pure food and nothing else* Give them to your hoys and girls whenever they are hungry. That means any time. With hutter, with jam. with honey. With anything They're food and dessert too. Have plenty on your table. Kiddies like them. Fresh Daily at The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Decatur, Indiana The Everett Grocery, Pleasant Mills The Home Store and Tabiers Grocery Monroe, Indiana »»—; - '!'/■■ .*. 1 v'■.i.-r ~-i:».'^asssg' j

Business men of Benton Harbor, It la reported are petitioning Judge Dlngemun to slop the investlgatlin of the House of David because it is ‘'injuring the business of Ihe city.” Such a business. It seems Impossible 1 that any city would care to thrive on! a “curiosity shop” which Is made up of long haired men who induce girls scarcely more then children to Join a life of immorality. The investigation should go on and will for If the charges are untrue the House of David should be cleared and if true no community has the right to profit in a business way or any other way while bartering human lives. According to Washington dfspatches there is much real talk about Henry Ford as a candidate for president and tnere is some probability that he will receive some votes In loth the democratic and republican national convention. We do not believe he can secure a nomination from either of the old parties for those who gc as delegates to the conventions are always well saturated in ihe policies and principles of their party. Mr Ford might attract stfen. tion as a third party candidate though in years past this has not been a very successful means of reaching the presidency in this country. Mr. Ford is a successful business man but his queer ideas would bring distrust and a lack of votes at election time most likely. Our form of gov eminent is necessarily one which depends on political organizations and| a man who admits he doesn't xnow i which party he belongs to and that |he has only voted occasionally will not create wild enthusiasm among those who make up conventions or influence primaries. Commencement tonight, an important date for fifty-one young men and women of Decatur, their relatives and friends as well as for the com- : munity. Tonight's class is composed i c.f thirty boys and twenty-one gills who have earned their diplomas by four years of hard work in high | school. It is a creditable performance for it requires determination to | finish school these days when the i business world, begging for workers allures those who have reached the : age where timy can serve. The graduates are just starting in active life. May we call your attention to the truth that your years of activity are few. Rooking twenty years ahead the time seems interminable but you will be surprised how short those : years will have seemed when they I are finished and you are looking backward. Start tomorrow to make ' the years count if you would acconii plish the greatest good in the time | allotted you. You enter upon the j stage at a time when brains ami ' energy and clean habits are badly needed by a world just emerging J from a terrible war period. You have the greatest opportunity to make good but it will require courage, de-

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termination anti a great desiro. 11 > is truly year commencement. —«_o —* **— • TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ » • « From th* Dally Democrat file* • A CO yaara age thla 4ay * A young cyclone blows down tree* 1 In this section and furnishes window in New building opposite court house. Twenty- second annual commencement of high school occurs at opera house with six graduates—Carrie Illosser, Fanchion Rice, Dan It. Vail. Mayme Dot-win, Johu Jones aud Vera Petersot. [,. D. Adams heading factory at Frankfort, burns with $15,000 loss. Miss Maty Arbye Doth entertains the Hit de Ciecle club for Celina guests. Miss May Hill of Chicago is visiting Decatur friends. Hall, Son & Fulk announce third homeseekers low rate excursion to Oklahoma. Lawrence Tester reurns from five day trip through Ohio. Boy baby born to Mr. and Mrs. John Keller. Beard of health ftdvises general clean up of city to prevent epidemic of diseases. GENEVA BliyS BALLDIAMOND Geneva, Ind., May 22.—(Special correspondent) —Work has been started on the new baseball diamond which is being laid out in the south west part of town. The new diamond will he laid out in the same loi as the old one, hut has been moved westward several hundred yards and turned so that the batter will face nearly directly east. This gives the out field a much better lay of the land and will aid the batters in garnet played late in the day, also. Th* new stand will be erected directly behind the plate and will be made large enough to aeeomadate the large crowds which will undoubtedly attend soon after the opening of the season In the meantime players are being signed up aud practice started. If the weather is permissable, it is likely a practice game will be staged next Sunday and the season formally opened on the Sunday following. Those wishing to book games should comnfunieate with James D. Briggs. Geneva. Ind. Byrd, of Dunkirk, and Kessner, of Marion, both very good in semi-pro circles will be found on the mound this season, hut the full lineup has not been announced as yet. Tv Cobh smacked the first ball Ed Rommell pitched as a relief liurler in the ninth inning and drove in the ninth inning and drove in the run that gave the Tigers a 5 to 4 victory over the Athletics. — —o Lee accounted for all Phila's runs with 2 homers, but the Pirates won 5 to 3. o Rice sprinted home on an infield roller by Evans and scored the run that enabled the Senators to win the i Browns 3 to 2. i Waite Hoyt shut out the White Sox .j while the Yanks were piling up 5 i runs. THE MECCA I if Today—Tomorrow S If R-C PICTURES * H presents A Jack London story, gs IS “THE SON OF « I A story of Ihe North. I ■ \ Plenty of Thrills j| r Don't Miss This One, ik I The Carter DeHavens B First Vacation” I p Admission 3c-10c §|

f CLUB CALENDAR Tuetday Meeting of Civic Section of Woman's club postpoued until Tuesday eveuing, May 29. Wednesday Psi lota Xl—Mrs. Baumgartner. ' 7:30 p.m. So Cha Rea—Miss Peggy Weber, 8 o'clock. Philauiath Bible Study class of Mt. Pleasant M. E. church, with Mrs. Harve Baker, 7:30 p.m. Thursday Young Woman's Auxiliary — Miss Margaret Kinzle, 7:30. Aid society of Presbyteriau church —Mrs. J. C. Sutton, 2:30. Evangelical Receptto t > -Gb"' ch parlors. Regular meeting of Order of East ern Star, 7:30 p.m. Class for Service of Baptist Church 1 —Dr. Smith's office. Friday Zion Lutheran Aid Society at the School House, 3 p. m. Ladies Aid Society of the M. E. Church —Church Parlors, 2:30. The PUilamath Bible class of the Mt. Pleasant M. E. church will meet at the home of Mrs. Harve Baker at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday evening. All members are urged to be present. * The Class for Service of the Baptist church will meet Thursday evening at Dr. Smith's office at 8 o'clock. The class wilt study the 4th chapter of John. Each member is asked to bring a Bible. ★ Mrs. Herman Ehinger was hostess to the Delta Theta Tan Sorority last evening at her home on Fifth street. A short business session was held at which time plans were made for the convention. During the social hour delicious refreshments were served in which was hidden a secret. Buried in the ice cream, which was molded like a rose, was an English walnut, in which was placed the pictures of "Leona and Ray” with the date ‘■June 12. 1923” written on a tiny heart. Miss Leona Bogse is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bosse ,of this city, and is widely and favorably known. She is a member of the Delta Theta Tau Sorority and of the Womans Club. Mr. Raymond Kohne is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Kohne, and is a partner in tlie Callow and Kohne Drug company The wedding will be solemnized at the St. Marys church, June 12. ★ The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church will meet Friday al'teroon in the church parlors at 2:30 o'clock. All members are requested to be present. . —« • Sale Bill, 70 Years Old, Is Interesting An old sale bill clipped from the Chenoa Times, which is seventy years old, will be read with interest: “Having sold my farm and intending to move to Missouri, I will sell at public auction one mile west and four miles south of Harrisburg, Ky„ on Saturday, September 26, 1850, the following described property, to-wit: One buck nigger, 25 years old, weight 210 lbs.; four nigger wenches, 18 to 24 years old; three nigger boys, 6 years old; 13 nigger hoes, one fine sled, 6 yokes of oxen, broke; 10 ox yokes with hickory bows; 2 ox carts with 6 in. tires; one saddle pony, 5 years old; one side saddle, 3 double shovel plow's. 10 and 2 inches; 25 gali lons whiskey in jugs, 100 gallons apple cider, two barrels good sorghufh, two barrels soap, two barrel kraut, extra good nigger whip, two tons of tobacco two years old. 1 “Sale will begin at 10 sharp. I Terms, cash. I need the money. J. L. Rhodenbaugh, Auctioneer.” o NOTICE TO ELKS An important meeting of the R. P. I O. E. will be tomorrow evening. I Initiation of candidates and big feed. I All come. , D. M. HENSLEY, E. 11. o— —— Pool Room And Cigar Store Has Been Closed | The doors of the Walter Either | poo! room and cigar store on South I Second street have been closed since I Monday morning and it was itnderI stood that court action and assignI ment proceedings would be filed to i I morrow. A barber shop, managed by ! I James Sprague was also located in i I tue place. Mr. Either purchas 'd the j I place of business a year or two ago | from La tuna and John Barnett. f! —<>- —* I *—S—*—WANT ADS EARN —$—$ —$ | s—s—s—WANT ADS EARN —$—$ —$

t Chancellor Os Excheequer Is Named By King (Continued Page One.) AO CHANCELLOR OF Washington, May 22—(Special to Daily Dentocrut)— Selection of Stanley Baldwin as prime minister of Britain means an early final agreement between the United States and Great Brilaiu on the funding of Britain's $4,000,000,000 war debt. While it has been generally supposed that this matter was all settled, the fact Is It has been hanging fire, and only today the British ambassador here sent to his governneni the "last word” of the United States on certain changes desired by the Btitish government in the terms of the agreement. o—, Assure yourself real satisfaction by letting us provide you with Patton’s Sun-Proof Paint, Also varnishes and enamels for any purpose you have in mind. —Schafer Hardware Co. Successor Named For Ben Hur Supreme Chief Crawfordsville, Indiana, May 22. — The tragic death of Dr. R. H. Gerard, Supreme Chief of the Tribe of BenHttr, on May 12 as the result of a hotel accident at Terre Haute, Ind., made it necessary for the Executive Committee of the Society to elect a successor to serve during his unexpired term which ends in June, 1924. John C. Snyder was the unanimous choice of the Commttee. Mr. Snyder has been connected actively with the society since it started in 1894, first as an organizer in the field, then as head of the the field force, and since 1906 as Supreme Scribe. His elevation to be head of the orded will be recognized by the membership as a

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wist* solution of the problem caused caused by the untimely death of Dr. Gerard. As Supreme Scribe to succeed Mr. Snyder the Committee elected Edwin Mason who for eighteen years lias been connected with the Home Office of the society. For fifteen years lie

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I has been Mr SnyderT ’ thto BiV *“ hl '» train, experience which wifi be M tu tl ‘« Society. He U i of the new certificate i sued by the Tribe of Ben-B* 5 done mut 'h constructive work “ order In recent years. ° r