Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1923 — Page 5

IrScAL NEWS I

I H ’ • here lust evening. ■ ««* “" S ~ |.; E. Guss, und child )lr iJy and Beatrice. Mrs. V. J. re"- i Mrs. Barbara BremerI |io " W " 1 «’ Wavni-. motored to Celina f W " ,P ' uMlav «»ere they will be the 01 " ,, w of Mr- ”» (l Mrs ' Uson was a business visito. • , w-ivne this morning. : Jerome and Frederick ' went -<> Toledo this morning ihp “ n i ;‘. al . e u Barnett of Portland, visit . rriends here last night. * " Mr s John T- Myers and daughter, uLett. were among those who at Ml the annual Methodist Picnic ;;\ Valb rldge Park, TMedo, Ohio, tod, Mr and Mrs. Devi Johnson, of 5 Mr and- Mrs. Ellas Sudduth iTilren. Earl and Jeanette, and ” rrv Sudduth, of this city, were Lnday guests at the home of Mr. ' . Mrs. Jesse Gilbert near Monroe. * Miss Acker attended the Methodist nk ,ic at Toledo today. Clifford Robinson and Otto Marshall visited friends in Bluffton last I evening. frank McConnell, .local wholesale I man mad- a business trip to Fort Recovery. Ohio today. Joseph Bremerkamp, old time print er . veteran and popular citizen here, is visiting in Decatur after a several wf eks absence. He came here from the National Military Home at Dan ville Illinois, where he took treatment for a week. He will be here a week. Mr Hoss, of the Clover Lxjnf c&ine in last evening and took charge of the. | Methodist excursion this morning. Bluffton expects the Nickle Plate to run there Friday ami to announce a union depot for the Clover Leaf am’, I Lake. Erie now divisions of the Nickl I Plate. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Babcock and I children have returned to their home at‘Grand Rapids, Michigan after a several days visit at the homes of i Mrs. lila Hollinger and Mr. and Mrs. I frank Coppess, of Monroe. C. (’. Pumphrey went to Indianai polls this afteriKMMi to do Christmas i buying! for the Pumphrey Jewelry I store. Mrs. John Baumgartner .and dough I ter. Helm, are the guests of Mt. and Mrs. I’. S. Howard at Van Buren for ' a few days. tins Hi ihcrii h and family, of Preble township wire shoppers here today. Willis Leigh, of Port land. was a busin< < caller in this city today. Word was received here this morn ing by relatives of the .birth of a nine - IKiuiul boy baby born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Klostcrmau, Monday evening. Mother and babe are getting along fine. Mrs. Klostcrman was formerly Mi--.; Agnes Gillig, of this city. o (onnterfciters Caught New York .Aug. 15. —Secret service agents under direction of Joseph Palma arrested five men in Floral park. liong Island, during the night and confiscated more’than $2,000,000 in counterfeit SIOO bills it was learned today. The men arrested were Samuel an* Davis Cohon, Joseph Rossotf, Joseph Kittlebaum and George Sneros.

mntN MCATVfc I THE MONEY THAT TALKS | Dollars have away of slipping through one's lingers. Yqu break a $lO bill and soon you find that all you have left is > a little change. . But deposit $lO in a Savings I Account and you have pul it where it will work for you at compound interest until you release it. You may not be able Io account for the dollars you spend, but lhe dollars you save never k. fail to give an account of them- - S< *'' ' S ' and Surplus 1120,000.00 \ ILhacqtur, Indignat <L ■ MBC-T

STEPS TAKEN TO AVERT A STRIKE • President Coolidge’s Program Will Be Submitted To The Miners New York. Aug. 15. —-The Initjjd States coal commission, in a confer mice here today decided to submit the Coolidge program in the anthracite coal situation to the miners and operators separately. Five members of the commission voted to meet president Ix-wis o, , . United Mine Workers and three union delegates at 2:00 p.m. Later the commission will see the operators' representatives. The results of the conference then will be forwarded to Mr. Coolidge at the white house. The commission decided upon this plan instead of a point conference of , alt three as had been previously arranged. President Coolidge, through his -administration agencies, moves today in handling hip first hig domestic question —the anthracite coal strike threatening for Sept. 1. John Hays Hammond, chairman of the United States Coal < omriissiom will tell the differing miners and op erators just how the government is stacking the cards to protect tin- public against a fuel famine, and ofcr ths of the government for modi- ' atlon. Hammond has received his infractions from Mr. Coolidge. They are: I—The government, while act at- ' tempting to force the two opposing factions into agreement, will lend its services through the coal commission I to arbitrate the difficulties and press ’- for a settlement. 1 2. -Public needs will bo protected ’ at all costs and fuel sub stitutes-will be provided to consumers through government < liannels. thus breaking ‘ the full force of the strike. ’ Hammond the miners and operators at the Hotel Pennsylvania here at 3 p.m. , The miners' leaders are professing ' to be adamant as ever on the question of the "check-off" now r.ipid’y b-’com ing the chief boite of eon’ention in the ! dispute. o Heavy Gas Sales Are Reported In Midwet t , Chicago. Mils..- Aug. 15. —The gaso line war in the 12 midwestern states where prices have been reduced 6.6 , cents a gallon, is saving consumers r about one million dollars daily, it was i-Miniated by both independent dealers and "old line" companies today. Most independent distributers have abandoned their reluctance to cut > more than five cents a gallon and have ( . met the Standard Oil reduction of 6.6 , cents. Since the S*findard's announcement, -a steady stream of motorists and other . gasoline users have poured through t filling stations, laying in huge storage i supplies as a precaution against the "war" being called off shortly.

sports} X 3 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦■» ♦♦♦♦♦« ‘ YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League Brooklyn, 2; New York, 3. Pittsburgh. 10; Philadelphia. 16. Chicago, 65; Boston, 1-4. American League Philadelphia,2; Detroit. 7. American Association Toledo. 6; St. Paul 7. Columbus 8; Minneapolis, 12. Louisville, 6; Kansas City, 5. No others. WATCHING THE SCORE BOARD (United Press Service) Have Bencroft, playing his garni; since June 28, stole home'and scored the run that gave the Giants a 3 to 2 victory over the Robins. With three successive doubles. Ty Cobb Idd the attack against two pit 1 chers, and xhe Tigers beat the Ath i letles, 7 to 2, Two homers by Earl Adams helped 1 the Cubs take two games from the 6-1. and 5-4. Seven runs scored' in the eighth inning helped the Phils win a wierd game from the Pirates, 16 to 10. w COUNTY BUILDING TWELVE ROADS Sixteen Miles Os New Road Being Completed In The County. This. Year The total number of miles of improved roads in Adams county will mount the. 750 mark at the end of this year, according to figures relea. ed by County Surveyor Dick Boch today. Sixteen miles of new road in .this county has been or is buying con I structed with the exception of the Warren Striker concrete road, til . Geneva, all the other roads are macadam. The total cost of the roads that ! are being completed this year will amount to $122,240.58. These figures , inclmle 12 separated roads, with a ! new mileage of 16.06 miles. Most ol the roads are south of Decatur. The John Lady road in Monroe and Blue Creek townships, which will be one mile long when completed, is be ing constructed ala cost of $4,898.00 The Bad'-rtsijier and Braun -road. ■ which is a stone street in Berne, is 1.93 miles long and will cost the ’ county $',<,685 00. ' The David Zimmerman road in ! French and Hartford townships is 2.02 > miles in length and will cost, when ; -finished, $13,930.00. The one mil, David Mazelin road in Monroe two. - is being constructed at a cost of $4, I 317.00 and the one mile Joe Lehman ■ road in Monroe township will cost the county $4,648.00. The W.F.Meyer road in Blue Creek township will be a mile in length, . when completed, and will cost $4,899. while the Ross Harden rot*l in the same township, which will also be onmile long, will cost $5,161.00. The onem'le Phil Sauers road in Union town- , shin will cost $5,513.00. A road under the name of A.N.Spruit ger isbeing constructed in Monroe ownship. The road will be 1.27 miles n length and will cost $5,612.58. The A.C.Butcher road, which in reality is ja street in Decatur, is 2.19 miles loug aid cost $23,548 to build. The contract fir this road was let last year but the oad was not accepted until this year The only concrete road being built by the county this year is the Warren Striker road in Wabash township, one and one-half miles long. When completed this, road will cost $35,450.00 The county aiso has two other concrete roads, th-- Bellmont road in Decatur and the M. R. E. road in Berne-. Adams county, with its approximately 750 miles of improved roads, has as litany improved road* as any county in the state in comparison to size, and a great amount more than most counties, according to statistics. The G. E. Road Although the contract for the con struction of the G. E. macadam road in the north-west part of the city has been awarded to Ihe contractor, work on the construction of the road has not been started for reason that the bonds have not been sold. The above] road is not included in the list of twelve roads under construction _ o — The Absolute Dismissal. •'No, yemng num.” said her father Io the- hopeful suitor, "ycui c-nn't have my daughter?" 1 don't wat-.t a s<m-in-iaw w ho's Rrteh a fool Hint lie con- |l feuiplati's nmri-yinsj a young woman d who hasn't got more "'-n ■■ than to I Inspire you with hopes of getting her. I Get out." . *

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WED., AUGUST 15, 1923.

| Court House | Auto Company Files Cases The Shanahan-Conroy Auto company, of this cjity, filed two suits on notes in the lircuit court yesterday, through th»ir attorney. C. J. Lutz. One suit was against Samuel Steiner et al, In which the sum of S3OO is demanded, and the other against Peter W. Kessler et al, in which the judgment demanded is $350, Attornery Seeks Payment Attorney C. J. Lutz filed a complaint late yesterday against Julies Haugk, in which ho demands judgment in the sum of $450, alleged to be due for legal services rendered to the defencfant by the plaintiff. Attorney E. B. Adams represents the plain-tiff. Geneva Firm Is Sued Tlie Phil Gloeckner Coal company lias filed a suit in the circuit court against Chew's Garment company, ot Geneva, demanding judgment in the sum of $75, lleged to be due on an account. Attorney C. J. Lutz ot this city, representing the plaintiff. MARRIAGE LICENSE Clarence Boner, age 23. laborer to Iva I. Wormcastle, age 18, .both of Adams county. . • Albert Coppess returned to his home Monday, from Bloomington where ho attended summer school of Indiana U. o — SOLD ADULERATED CREAM Muncie, Aug. 15.—Miss Ber-tha Best, charged with having sold adulterated ciiam, was fined $lO and costs in r. jm-tice of peace court here. It was all -ged she had revived $65 in overpa- by this method in five days.

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Felt with Hatin and felt with leather are two very popular combinations In fall miHlnery. Velvet, too, is greatly iu evidence.

—- OF TAN WOOL A smart suit of tan wool has a coli lar, cuffs and a wide border on tbo skirt of heavily brushed wool.