Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pres. and Gdto. Mgr £. W. Kampe— Vice Prei & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouse— Sec'yand Bub. Mgr Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates Single copies 2 cents One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 15.00 One Month, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail >IOO Six Months, by mall >l-75 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representatives Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Rife Building, Kansas City, Me. And this was to be a summer without any weather to speak about. Well just listen to some of them “speaking about” it now. President Harding has sold his interest in his paper at Marion and it is announced will make his rest dence in Washington after he is out of office. And so Marion loses her greatest attraction for the sight seeing visitors after next year. Those politicians who discuss the prosperity of the present day surely do not interview the farmers. These men who produce the food of the nation are working without profit and it will take a silver tongued orator to convince them that times are good. The 'carnival is gone ,uwd all we have to do now is to clean up the streets and the court house lawn and forget it. Usually such shows are of little benefit to a community and though this one was cleaner than the average, we could have worried along without it. It's a matter of opinion as to how the Gibbons-Dempsey scrap for the world s heavy weight championship will come out July 4th, way out there where the west begins but we are all in favor of a quick match between the winner and the weather man and hoping the latter gets a licking he will remember a while. The painters are about caught up with the big rush now and those business houses who have postponed painting their store fronts because of difficulty in securing workers can have it done with speed if they will get their order in. The results have been splendid and we hope that every one of the sixty who promised to paint up. will do so and do it at once. The discussion about the retaining of seats in the court house yard goes on steadily with opinion very much divided. We believe we should take some steps to arrange for the comfort of visitors to Decatur as well as for many of the elder citizens who like to come down town but who can't just stand around, but we also feel that this can and should be done in some manner which would not make the court house yard, the very center of the business section, look • as though it was not taken care of. What do you think about it? That's more important than what we think. Wonder just where the president does stand on the world court. He doesn't seem to know himself and his Iri straddle position is getting him in trouble. Brisbane of the Hearst papers thinks -the court is bad every way and the president erftirely wrong. Secretary of State Hughes, Root and others who believe in it are disgusted with the recent reversal of the president and it is reported that Hughes will resign. In the meantinfte nothing will be done, there will be no efforts at a foreign market and the farmer will suffer as he has the past few years. In ■- one to ns over ■ Indiana the business men arc of* rii: ; ftelr s rvices >o 'he farmers just now. Remember that of all the labor problems in this country the most serious

li that of the farmer. He mull harvest his hay, wheat and oats in the next two or three weeks, caa't afford to pay the wages necessary to secure labor and couldn't get it if he could r. r afford it. An acre of wheat will bring r. about twenty dollare. The farmer p can't afford to pry five or six dollars a day for a helper and its Important that he harvest his crop. If you s know anything ala>ut farming and * are physically able to do a day’s s work, you have a real opportunity to ? assist the farmer. Do it in suefi a 0 way that it will really be help and I don’t go as company. It's worth .- thinking about. The crops must be saved. • —• SPORTS GENEVA BOOSTERS BEAT HARTFORD CITY ATHLETES IN TWELVE INNING GAME Hartford City came down to Geneva town Sunday with blood in their eyes. And from the time the “umpn" called “Play Ball” there was a fight to the finish. Clark, who was called I upon to take up the work of their former hurler, Bills, proved to be all I they had exepected of him and with I a tew more breaks of the game, would I have allowed his team to return home I with the victory. Owing to the threat- I ening weather a small crowd was in I attendance. The Boosters won, 7 to 6. I It was a pitchers' battle between I Clark of the visitors and Romine of I the Boosters. And their performance I can be summed up as follows: Each I pitcher remained for all twelve in- I nings, Clark allowed 9 hits and made I 12 strike outs and knocked a home I run in the Sth with no one on. Romine I allowed 11 hits, made 23 strike outs I and he also clouted out a home run I in the 6th, with no one one. I The first innings were uneventful. I The third produced two scores for the I Boosters. Both teams were blanked I in the fourth. Hartford City scored I one in the fifth. Romine got his horn- I er in the sixth and his team led three I to one. The visitors came thru twice I in the seventh to tie it up and in the I eighth Clark came thru with his horn- I er and put his team in the lead 4 to I 3. The Boosters were held in the I Bth but came thru in the last of the I 9th for the necessary run to tie up. I Both teams tightened and the tenth I and elevnth innings produced no I scores for either team. But Booster I stock took a tumble in the first of the I 12th, when a couple hits, a walk and I an error filled the bases and sent I two men home. Indeed it looked any- I thing but encouraging. But full of de- I termination the home boys showed I their “stuff” and this is how- it hap- I pened: McCollum was out on a I grounder. Ford was safe on an infield I hit, Campbell walked, Jim Briggs, who I twice before this season had pulled I the game out of the fire at the bat. I trippled to left and scored both run- I ners, tying the score. Romine bunted I for a squeeze play from third but the I signals were confused and the runner I held third. Romine was out at first. Jackson singled to right and the game was won. Score by innings: Team r Hartford C 00001021000 2 —6 Boosters 00 2001 001 00 3 —7 Hits: Hartford City. 11; Boosters. 9. Batteries: Clark and Giancy; Romine and Briggs. Struck out by Clark 12; by Romine 23. Parker City will face the Boosters next Sunday. The Fort Wayne Kips will be the opposition on July Fourth and Portland Studabakers will appear there on Sunday following. • o GRAYS SLUG BALL HARD AND DEFEAT MONROE After resting for two weeks, the Decatur Grays returned to the game * Sunday afternoon and pounded the i ball hard for 13-3 victory over Monroe at Bellmont Park. “Steel-arm” death, pitching for the Grays, was in fine form and allowed the visitors only three hits. The home team started ,-hitting the ball to all corners of the . lot in the first inning and continued j the onslaught throughout he contest. The features of the game were a home run by Schneider, of the Grays, in the ! sixth inning with two men on bases; > a home run by Whitehurst, of Monroe, > with the bases empty; and the heavy t hitting of Schneider, G. Laurent and Ralston, for the Grays, and Whitehurst, for Monroe. Score: Team RHE ? Monroe 00101000 1— 3 3 3 . Decatur 2 0 2 1 3 3 0 2 x—l 3 20 1 Batteries: for Monroe. Whitehurst and F. Moore. Biggs; for Decatur, Death and Schulte. 5 Umpire: R. Ralston.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS i National League Boston. 3; New York. 6. Philadelphia, 4: Brooklyn, 9. Cincinnati, 0; Chicago, 2. Pittsburgh, 6; St. Louie, 4. American League Chicago, 9; Detroit. 8, St. Louis, 2; Cleveland, 8. Philadelphia, 4); Washington, 8. (No other* scheduled.) American Asiociation Minneapolis, 2; St. Paul, 7, Toledo, 10-4; Louisville, 8-5. Kansas City. 17-17; Milwaukee. 514. Columbus, 6-0; Indianapolis, 7-2. a Eighteen states now have laws forbidding fraternities and secret societies in high schools.

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1923.

Tell Os Hidden Treasure LaPorte, Ind., June 25.—8100 d aud thunder stories of doubloons and pieces of eight on the Spanish Main have nothing on an old story which is being received here. According to accounts of old residents, the “Swag" of a gang of bunk robbers is buried in Pine Lake cemetery near here.' About IS68 —so the story goes—after a series of large bank robberies in the east the robbers sent one of their number to hide part . of the booty away in the west. The man started for Chicago, but got off the train at Michigan City, ’ fearing that he was being followed. • He drove to LaPorte in a buggy and as he passed the Pine Lake cemetery,|

stopped, buried his plunder and then came on to "the city. ~ He was arrested here and taken to , Joliet. 111., where he became sick and died In prison. On his death bed he told the story of his flight and the ‘burial of the treasure, but was un-! able to give the exact location of the spot where the money was hidden. Numerous searches in the intervening years have failed to reveal the treasure, and still youths of LaPorte dream of unearthing the money that has lain buried for half a century. — • Princeton—Hot weather had a bad effect on the temper of Mrs. George Burton and Mrs. Lillie Guin. Neighbors filed profanity charges against | them.

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Colter, and daughter Leah, and Miss Catherine

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