Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1923 — Page 3

+ TWENTY years ago today ♦ + * + From the Daily Democrat files ♦ * 20 years ago this day ♦ Hnco program with 11,000 In purse*. July « th > announced by Decatur Driving club. Oscur Huffman preparing plans for n< w school house near Washington church. Rev. Wilken and committee visit Celina, St. Mary's and Wapakoneta to inspect* heating plants. Fred Scheiman purchases West End meat market from Charles Pennington. Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction company say power house may ho located here. Walmer & Engeler store at Bluffton destroyed by fire with $40,000 loss. David Gessinger’s cow, valued at |50.00, eats flock of stale pickles and expires suddenly. Right of way taken for Fort Wayne & Springleld traction line to Pleasant Mills.

fr- ' \ j *7 keep six honest, serving men ; (.They taught me All 1 Knew): Their names are WHAT and WHY and WHEN, and HOW and WHERE and WHO" KIPLING WHAT was the Declaration of London? WHY does the date for Easter vary? WHEN was the great pyramid of Cheops built ? HOW can you distinguish a malarial mosquito ? WHERE is Canberra ? Zeebrugge ? WHO was the Millboy of the Slashes ? Are these “six men" serving you too? Give them an opportunity by placing Webster's New International Dictionary in your home, school, office, /ufc,’ club, library. I This“Supr>me Authority” in all i j knowledge offers servfce/ 5 ® SK ' I immediate, constant, lasting, trustI worthy. Answers all kinds of questions. A century of developing, enlarging, and perfecting under exacting care and highest scholarship insures accuracy, completeness, compactness, authority. Write for a sample page of the .Vew Words, specimen ot Regular and India Papers, also booklet "You are the Jury," prices, etc. To those naming this puMkgtM l we will sead/rse a set ot Pocket Maps C. A C. MERRIAM & CO. Springfield, Maas. U.S.A. Eit. 1831

Cort Theatre PROGRAM FOR NEXT WEEK Matinee Every Afternoon at 2:30. Evening Show at 7:00. Saturday Matinee at 2:00. Saturday Evening at 6.30. We have installed two large Typhon fans in our theater and now have the coolest place in town. Drop in, enjoy a good show and a bit of comfort. tonight! “A DANGEROUS GAME’’ Universal featuring Gladys Walton. A romance in spooks and lo\e. “A Small Town Derby,” Comedy. 8 REELS FOX wed. & THURS. “NIGHT LIFE “ A DANGEROI S IN HOLLYWOOD” ADVENTURE” A story of the most a 7 reel production talked of city in the o f Jungle Life in world, featuring, Africa, featuring 10 Great Slurs. GRACE DARMOND “The Duck Hunter j on es. fl . ; , Sennett Comedy Mermaid Comedy Fox News I 10 25c 9 Reels 10c-25c | 9 Keels FRIDAY SATURDAY “DEVOTION" “ KINDUN COURAGE" A wonder picture, featuring Universal featuring HAZEL DAW’N HOOT GIBSON The story of a woman s Mule” wnii <? «• Sennett Comedy. I Fox News ■> Reel/ 0 ’ 1 NeWB | 8 RM ' B Cut Out—Save for Reference. “Belter pictures are being .show n and the Cort is showing them.

Invitations intuit'd for st. Joseph] commencement June 19. Graduate J are Rose Voglewede, May Rademach I <*r ami Bernard Coffee. —nine — Taxes Indicate That Lima People Are Poor I.nma, Ohio, June B—Few homwt here contain more than SIOO worth of furniture. Most of the automobiles in Dima are Junky old things, worth SIOO or less. Local women wear litilo Jewelry, most of which is of paste, or is of no value. There are practically no savings accounts in Lima hanks. At any rate, these are conclusions based upon local tax returns. Officials state a large percentage of the citizens admit they have SIOO worth of furniture, but the law ex empts tills amount from taxation. Judging from the tax returns, Lima homes contain a kitchen table, a stove, a few chairs and a bed. These articles cost about SIOO in the stores today. If all the girls here have complied with the law requiring that they list their engagement rings for taxation, there will be few marriages in Lima this summer and fall. One woman told a tax assessor her handsome diamond dinner ring was purchased at a ten-cent store. A 12-cyllnder automobile became a flivver when one man filled out his tax report. O O I Ccasarian Operation Performed On A Cat o o Frankfort, Ind., June 9 —(Special) —A most unusual piece of veterinary surgery—a Ceasarian operation upon a cat —was performed in this city yesterday by Dr. It. A. Moore, local veterinarian. While the three kittens thus brought into the world did not live, the life of tho mother, a valuable Angora cat was saved. o Insures Life For $2,000,(MM 1 (United Press Service) Chicago, June 9. —(Special to the Daily Democrat)—A $2,000,000 life insurance policy has been taken out by Mrs. Marshall Field, third, of Chicago at Lloyd’s Neck N. Y„ it was disclosed here today. The policy is said to lie the largest ever issued to a woman. Captain Marshall Field, her husband, is declared to be the sole benificiary. Captian Field’s life is insured for $1,005,000. 0 — Mrs. E. G. Coverdale spent the afternoon in Fort Wayne.

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MONROE NEWS Much complaint Is being made in ri garil to our young hoys who are omewhat premature ns to celebrating tiio 4th of July ot this place, In shooting fire crackers ami other explosives within the corporalfon limits. There is an ordinance prohibiting such sport and the same will will lie rigidly enforc'd and carried out, prohibiting the tile or use of ,-my such explosives that may conflict with said ordinance, and violators thereof will he duly prosecuted for such offense. llarve Sells, who about a week ago look charge as agent of tho Standard Oil station at this place, resigned his position on Monday. Mr. I). E. Circle, of Decatur, lias accepted the position as agent here and began Ilin duties at once. Miss Miikel, a trained nurse from ihe Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne, who has been at the bedside of Mr. R. 1,. Shirk during the past several days, left Tuesday to resume her duties at the hospital. Miss Cora Hendricks has taken her place as nurse. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Badders, Mrs. W. B. Martz, Mrs. Harve Sells and dangter, Crystal, were visitors in Fort Wayne, Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Fish and family, of Decatur, moved into the J. W. Hendricks property, recently vacated by Tcm Dague. Mr. Fish is a railway clerk on the G. R. & I. railway. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Warren, or Wren

The Appeal To Furnish A Room In The Adams County memorial hospital has been answered by TWENTY public-spirited individuals and organizations ” 77?e We are grateful to those individuals and organ iza- The rx 7 tions who have so gloriously responded to the appeal to Deed . . , , , , 1V Lxestoonse furnish a room in the hospital and take pleasure in calling A your attention to the fact that the appeal has been heard Has M scent all the way to Dallas ’ Texas> proof that former cozens of Been agnjl this splendid community, love the people, are interested in One their welfare and cannot forget the “old home town.” M Onderjul L' Have you decided to donate a room in the Adams County Memorial Hospital? We would like to have all donations on record by July 4th, the tentative date for the dedication of the beautiful hospital and kindly request that those who wish to make a gift of one of the rooms, to do it now. Os the 31 bed rooms and 3 sun rooms, twenty have already been donated. The cost of donating a bed room is $209.00, that of a sun room, $300.00. JOIN WITH THE TWENTY WHO HAVE ALREADY DONATED A ROOM INDIVIDUALS „ U mre a l Smith and Mr and Mrs Mr. and Mrs. Daniel N. Erwin Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Schafer Mr. and Mrs. F. E. France Mr. and Mrs. and Mr. Mrs. Dr . "No. „„ UnknO wn Mr. and Mrs. James F. Arnold Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan LODGES Pythian Sisters R«bek.h Lodge Decatur Chapter Order of Knights of Columbus B. P. O. of Elks Eastern Stars CLUBS CHURCHES SORORITIES riuh Evangelical Church Iri pp Woman's Club u Psi | ota xi Decatur Rotary Club Delta Theta Tau INCLUDE YOUR NAME IN THE LIST AND LET THE BRONZE TABLET ON THE DOOR CARRY THE MEMORY OF YOUR NAME AND DEED THROUGH THE CENT I RY Board of Trustees Adams County Memorial Hospital FR YNK HEIMAN Trustee A ’ J ’ S> "™«| 1 ’ resid '' nt MRS. CLARA ANDERSON, See’y. FRANK HEIMAN, Trustee E M RAy yi( , e p resident (Geneva) 1 (Berne)

City, Ohio, were over Sunday guests i at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel i Noffslnger and family one-half mile south of town. Next Thursday, June 14, Is Flag Day, nnd our businessmen as well as , iltlzend should display the national emblem—the American ting, and show his loyalty to the stars and strips Let every one display a flag on that day. The eighth grade county graduation will bo held at. this place on Thum-1 day, June 14. Rev. Whitman will deliver the principal address for the occasion. A large crowd is expected to! bo here on that day. Next Sunday is Children's dAy nt j

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the M. E. church at 7 o’clock In the evening. All are Invited to attend. D. E. Circle, of Decatur, will move his family in to the W. B, McKean 1 property on West Jackson street in a few days. At. tho regular meeting of the town board of trustees, W. F. McKean, a member of the board resigned, owing to moving to Fort Wayne. W. F. McKean and family will move ! to Fort Wayne within a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Win, A. Duer, Mr. and Mrs. Manes Lehman of tills place, and | Mr. and Mrs. McClain of Berne, and I 1 Mrs. Venice, of Decatur, were Sunday' visitors nt the Albert Duer home northeast of town.

An Indisputable FactMore people every year are coming to look upon their insurance affairs as too important to lie traded upon or turned over to a “friend.” Johnson’s Insurance Service * s lar « e, - v responsible for the new viewpoint. Consequently, we are enjoying an increasing vtw patronage from that discriminASj- ating public which insists upon v something more than just a ’i policy of insurance in return tI for their premiums. A telephone call will bring an Insurance Specialist to you. Decatur Insurance Agency E. W. Johnson, Agent Schafer Building Phone 385