Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1923 — Page 3

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1923.

LOADING U. S. DESTROYER FOR RELIEF WORK IN JAPAN MVU • \ /s'v MEOA ■ ’. a, ’ ' is. jery L aMrr 3 -• f an WRPh* DhHw The above photo shows one of the U. S. destroyers which will steam for Yokohama carrying relief for that quake ruined city. America is sending a score of warships on errands of mercy. Six other ships arrived in the stricken city on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

TO MARK FAMOUS SPOT IN JAY CO. Underground Railway Station, Balbec To Be Marked Saturday, Sept. 22. The Historic Marker Committee of Pennville, is honoring the old Irey Silliven house at Balbec, Indiana, where tradition of over seventy years says, Eliza Harris of “JJnclj Tom’s Cabin” fame, was hurried for shelter ■when Kentucky slave hunters were close on her track. This house was a station of the Underground Rail road. The house was built in 1838, and has been used, as a home, continuously since that date. Rachel Silliven, who always stuck to the story of having k- pt the famous slave, lived in this log cabin for 53 years. She came to Jay county from near Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio, and in Ohio. She lived near the home of the noted “Old John Brown.” She and her first husband, Mahlon Irey, were Hicksite friends. A program has been arranged, ■which will be given on Saturday afternoon, September 22, at 2 o’clock. The exercises will lie held at the old house in Balbec, three miles north of Pennville. Descendants of early pioneers of this settlement will prei sent the marker. An admission of I ten cents will be charged. Following . is the program which will be carried out: Boys’ Band of Pennville. Opening address —Lucy M. Elliott, of Indiana Historical Society and Indiana Commission of History in Indianapolis. Address—Dr. 'J. P. Mac Lean. of the i Greenville, 0., Historical Society, j A European traveller, author, lecturer. "Greenville in Indian History and in Underground Work.” I Plantation Melodies in Club and I Lodge ladies. (Pre Civil war costumes. Address —"Canadian Refugees — the end of the Underground Railway.” Dr. J. W. Mustard of Chatham, Ontario, Canada, Secretary of the Kent Historical Society; an authority on i Canadian history. Illustrated Song—“ Happy Side of i Slavery.” High school girls in costume. ! Reading—“ The True Story of Eliza,” I Marie Flahie, graduate of the Schuster-Martin College Dramatic Art, of Cincinnati, Ohio. ! Specialty in Remarks. Boys’ Band of Pennville. — o Property Valuation In State Is $5,262,799,290 Indianapolis, Sept. 19. —Property listed for taxation in Indiana next year amounts to $5.262,799)290, or ! $37,-06,904 more than the total listed for this year as shown by figures compiled in the office of the state board of tax commissioners by Frank C. Nusbaum, clerk. The figures were called in from* counties by the board so it may know how to figure next week on the state tax rate for 1924. The taxable property total shows that each 1 cent of tax rate will yield about $526,000 of taxes. Last year, the rate for this year was figured on the basis of each cent raising about $522,000. W. C. Harrison, secretary of the board, said the greatest gain in taxable property was that of $17,000,000 in Marion county. He said the gain in Allen county was about $5,000,000; Elkhart county, $21000,000; Laporte county $1,300,000; Monroe county, $1,300,000; Ripley county, $1,250,000; I .

Ripley county, $13,250,000; Vanderburg county, $4, 200,000; Wayne county, $1,000,000; Lake county, $900,000. Harrison said decreases were observed as follows: Boone county, sl,100,000; Cass county, $900,000; Clinton county, $1,600,000; Howard county, $900,000; Noble county, $1,700,000; Sullivan county, $900,000; Wabash county, $1,600,000. There were smaller variations above and below last year’s total in many other counties, Harrison said: The total of taxable property in Indiana in 1922 was $5,225,692,395; 1921, $5,701,825,792; 1920, $5,838,717,040; 1919, $5,749,258,000. Figures, show that the peak was reached in 1920, the year after the passage of the present tax law. ®nd that the total fell each year thereafter until this year, when the slight increase is noted. Still Loved First Husband Chicago, Sept 19.—Love for her first husband which she had been unable to overcome, led Mrs. Pearl . Thomas Ryan to attempt suicide here I last night. “I’ve swallowed poison because 1 > can’t live without you,” she told ChasThomas, her first husband, whom she . called on tfte telephone. Thomas no- - tified police and the woman was taken to a hospital where she will re--1 cover. f Thomas said she had become separ- ' ated from him after deciding she was ■ “too beautiful a butterfly” for him. E After her second marriage, she com- ’ municated with him often, Thomas 1 said. The second husband, out of the city for several weeks, was notified . f ■ , VOCATIONAL COURSES. Several High Schools Introduce Agricultural Courses This Yeas Indianapolis, Sept. 19. —Courses in vocational agriculture have been established in 35 new high schools over 1 Indiana during the last few weeks,

according to a report by Z. M. Smith, state director of vocational education, to the Indiana State Board of Education. Six new courses in vocational industry and 13 in vocational home economics also have been established, showing a decided growth for these three lines of vocational work. The new schools where agriculture is being taught as a vocation for the first time are: Argos, Bluffton, Chester Township, Daleville, Elizabeth, Elnora Linton, Lowell, Markleville, Martinville, Medaryville, Monrovia, Monitor, Orland, Petersburg, Petroleum, Pierceton, Plainfield, Rising Sun, Royal Center, Salem, Sandborn, Scott Township, Shipshewdna, Spencerville, St. Joe, Thorntown, Washington and Waveland. The new home economics vocational courses are offered in the following places: Bluffton, Cromjvell. Eaton, Elnora .Kokomo, Medaryville, Orland, Ownesville, Petersburg, Salem, Waveland, West Ijafayette and Mt. Summit. The industrial vocational courses j are being offeded for the first time in the following schools; Bloomington. I Goshen, Greensburg, Michigan City, New Albany and Whiting. Goshen Opens New High School Building Goshen, Ind., Sept. 19. —The new Goshen high school building, erected at a cost of $400,000, was opened today. The building is situated on a | 17-acre plot of land. Five hundred I students are enrolled in the high school this fall.

AIDS IN CAPTURE. Telephone Operator Aids In Capture Os Slayer In Clinton Cinton, Sept. 19 —Capture of Frank Glover, charged with shooting Ezell Hopkins, is credited to the work of Miss Hazel Haase, telephone operator here. When she received word of the shooting shd*had the police whistle 'blown. Receiving no answer, she called business houses and enlisted the aid of business men in finding the police.

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