Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1923 — Page 3

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v;„x «• S!» e .‘X. D£ “? c o“ T & 1 U K»u>P*-Vlce-Fre». * Adv. Mgr. t g.• HultLuro-Bec'y * c <» Bur . tbe Poe toss ice at Decatur. «' Subscription Ratee t cents •"’’week by’cirrler 10 cents Year by 15 00 Sffih by men... 35 cent. Three b h** * .81.76 Tprk *. Quoted are within first and Jond sones. Additional postage ad‘ded outside those tone.-) Advertising Rates Made known on application foreign Representatives Carpenter A Company, ... Michigan Avenue, Chicago JiS. Bldg.. New York City N Y. Ute Building, Kansas City, Mo. ~ T he gas battle is evidently still in progress and the competition is sharp, in Indianapolis free oil is given with gas at six of the filling stations. What we need just now is most any thing but more showers. It seems a month since we have had a day without a rain and the big crop of corn and beets jus*t ready for harvest is in danger. Buy a lot at the Home Builders closing out sale next Tuesday. It s a sate place for your money and will probably bring you better returns in a year or two than anything else you can do. It’s a good thing to own real estate. The serious illness of Thomas Tag . gart. former senator and for many , years the recognized and loved leader of the democrats of Indiana is deep-1 ly regretted by all. Tom Taggart has been a great leader and that fact is admitted even by his; enemies. His private life has been clean, he has been a great philanthropist extending real help to thousands in the most modest way, his i advice is always good, he has been successful in business and he has a personality which has al- ( ways popular. We hope with a million or two others in Indiana that he, will recover his health and be permitted to assist and advise during these strenuous days when safe and sane men are badly needed. The governor's troubles as a result of hitting upon the financial rocks and reefs a few days ago are not over. The agreement to give him time does not seem to have been exactly unanimous for seven suits have already been filed and it is expected that numerous others will follow-. Another meeting of creditors will be held at Kentland, October Bth, and among those who will appear to demand their | money will be two widow women of | Kentland and one who is deaf and dumb. It's sad but apparently true, and in the meantime some of the stronger creditors seem to have bottled the good securities up, leaving the weaker ones hold the sack. For several days this week the big dailies of New York City could not be printed because of a strike of the pressmen and the millions who make a daily practice of posting themselves by reading New York papers have felt it keenly. The largest stores there have suffered a big loss for they were deserted and it has been clearly demonstrated again that advertising is news. We get used to reading our Papers an dtake them as a matter of course. If you had to live in a section or a city where you couldn't get Jour daily paper, what would you do? If you were running a store and had no means of sending a message to your customers, you can guess your business would be much smaller. Advertising is news. The state tax rate will be thirty cents. This was finally agreed upon yesterday by the tax commissioners and approved by Governor McCray and by Auditor Bracken under protest, the latter affirming that the rate will aot mee t the expenses, appropriatloDs by the legislature and pay the debt of four million dollars. The rate

"wllfr'aTse about sixleeh ninnoiTlolfara besldns the ten or fifteen millions raised by increased auto taxes, gnso- , line tax, inheritance taxes and other ■ taxes. The new rate Is an Increase , of one cent on the general fund, four cents on venevolent Institutions. .55 cents on the teachers pension fund J and a big boost by the recent legislaI ture. When the gas tax bill and the j Increased aut 0 tax bill were being , forced through the general assembly ' it was stated that this would permit a decided reduction in the state levy and now comes an Increase which produces millions and this, you understand was a compromise and will not take care of the four million borrowed during the past couple of years. ♦ ♦♦♦•••••♦••♦♦A ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY • ♦ From th* Dally Democrat files ♦ ♦ 20 years ago thio day ♦ Sept. 21. —Fred W. Meyers dies suddenly in his buggy on Monrot? street. Home of Janies T. Merryman burglarized. Mr. and Mrs. Merryman watch the masked man leave the house. Decatur defeated Fort Wayne yesterday 11 to 2. Mose Khrone umpired. Frank Jackson is located in lowa. Suttles hold family reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Walters. Ross and Clark Niblick run over at Bluffton and badly bruised. Rev. E. H. Pontius is reappointed pastor of the U. B. church here. Burt Townsend resumes studies at Howe Academy. Sherry' working world is here for, fair week. • o 1 I 1 HALLOWED BE THY NAME. I All-glorious One —Ancient of Days I Before whom angels bow, We, too, would sing a hymn of praise, i Would place upon thy brow. A crown that shall out shine the sun. Outlast eternity: With which is none to be compared, Nor shall there ever be. A crown of righteousness is thine And on that crown a name; As human as it is divine, In Heaven and earth the same. “Our Father,” glorious in thy grace In wisdom, truth and power; 'Tis life to uee thy blessed face j And this is vision’s hour. o Campaign Against Cancer To Begin October 15th New York, Sept. 21—The American Society for the Control of Cancer with headquarters in the Pennsylvania Terminal Building .announces that it will begin October 15, next, a series of six regional cancer campaigns, . which will not only cover the entire , United States, but Canada and the Maritime Provinces. These campaigns will take the place of National Can'.cer Weeks held in 1921 and 1922. : | The officers of the Society, which is • now directed by Dr. George A. Soper. , noted epidemiologist, believe that the work can be more effectively acicomplished by the new method, al- ’ though the success attending Nation- '' al Cancer Weeks was most pronouncf ed. Under the present plan extensive 1 prepartory work will occupy three | weeks in each region or district, and I I the fourth will be devoted to a Can--1 cer Week, in which information ne--1 cessary to the public will be thorJoughly broadcasted. The work will Ibe carried out by closely knit di- | visional organizations, composed of physicians, surgeons and laymen, who will be guided by the. executive at headquarters. / The campaign in the region com--1 prising Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, . Ohio. Indiana, West Virginia and S j Kentucky will begin February 15 and end March 14o- — 1 FOR EVENING WEAR. Very wide tulle skirts are worn over very narrow foundations of 6 satin or metal cloth—for evening, of 8 ( course. j

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,1923.

GOING TOO FAR I 11 .- | By ELEANOR K. BACON $ lIMI, by McClure Nawapaper Nyndkaie.) r T'HE Geoffrey Wintons stood on the' deck of a channel steamer and watched the white cliffs of Dover melt Into the sky line. ; Mrs. Winston threw back her fur cape Impatiently, and at the same moment Geoffrey turned up his coat collar and shivered. "Oh, there It goes I” cried Mrs. Win ton suddenly. She made a frantic clutch ut Geoffrey's hat as. dislodged by u puff of wind, It skidded past her. W Ith her usual efficiency she recap-. tured It with a well-timed movement. "Goodness, Geoffrey I 1 believe you would lose your head If It were not fastened on,” she declared. And, Indeed, Geoffrey’s chief characteristic,' with the exception of his absent-mind-1 edness, seemed to be his tulent for dropping his belongings. “It Isn't a bit rough today,” she said presently. "We are going to have a tine crossing." | The floor heaved under them, anti Geoffrey turned a stmde paler. "I think I’ll sit down, Martha,” tie said a trifle uncertainly. He steered a divided course toward his steamer chair, a copy of Blrrell's "Obita Dicta” fell from his pocket, and Mrs. Winton mechanically put it Into his hands, tucked him up in his steamer rug, and handed him an apple from a capacious bag on her arifi. "I brought this because you always like an apple between meals,” she remarked solicitously. "I'll go down now and see where Helen Is. You feel all right, don’t you, Googoo?” Geoffrey wished his wife would not l call him, Googoo, even in strictest privacy. He had begged her earnestly and affectionately to drop It, but with the directness that distinguished all her words and acts she told him it was a tribute to the Imperishable infant in him, and she could not give it up. “You are an Infant In so many ways, Geoffrey,” she used to say, with a sigh. "Really, at times you seem fitted for nothing more advanced than bibs and a perambulator. And If you don't try to overcome your overwhelming absentmindedness I’m truly afraid that some day you will go too far. Why, you are as Irresponsible as the proverbial newborn babe. I don’t know what you would do without me to look after you!" When she disappeared he sighed and was about to open his book when, drifting across his vision, came his daughter Helen and “That Young Idiot." The young man so classified In Geoffrey’s mind, to an Impartial eye, could and did give pleasure. He was rather short and slight, with blue eyes at I present brimming with devotion, and a smile that could charm an all-day sucker away from the greediest child. Geoffrey would have been the first to yield to It If he had not so fiercely resented its effect on his cherished and only child. The two absorbed young persons stopped directly in front of Geoffrey. On the face of Helen's lover four letters shone as if emblazoned in celestial light. “Young Idiot I” Geoffrey silently exploded, returning to his book with an Impaired interest. i Half an hour slipped away. He finished the chapter, “Cambridge and the Poets," and, looking down, became aware of the ragged apple core in his hand. I After a moment or two of Inertia, his legs began to agitate the steamer rug, at first Ineffectually, then more ami more violently. Struggling heroically, he at last disentangled himself, and rose unsteadily to his feet Ha was very, very dizzy, with a sort of Ducky-Daddies feeling that the sky was about to fall at ids feet. He gazed wistfully toward Helen's unflllal back. No thought of a seasick parent disturbed her inind as she inclined an exquisitely modeled lit tie ear to her lover’s litany. I Geoffrey leaned Over his chair and busied himself with mysterious little jerkings of the steamer rug. Very care- 1 fully he put the apple core in his empty seat. He changed its position several times, each time becoming more dissatisfied with the result. Finally he threw the rug over it, only half eon-' coaling It, and began an unstudied toe dance toward the rail. His zigzag route led him away from bls daughter’s vicinity, so that when he leaned on the rail he was still unobserved. A moment's pause, then, with almost unbelievable grace and dexterity, Geoffrey hurled himself over the rail. Twenty minutes later Geoffrey and “That Young Idiot" were lying on deck, wrapped in blankets and solicitude. Geoffrey opened his eyes. Martha’s face, white and strained from suppressed emotion, bent over him. Helen was tucking the rug around his feet. Geoffrey turned his head and his eyes met the blue, friendly gaze of his life preserver, whose persuasive smile Instantly shone upon him. | Geoffrey’s face twitched. Then he smiled warmly back, and two shining and beautiful words took form in his mind. “My son.” Dog Finds Treasure Chest. A dog digging on a plantation near Courtland, Ala., uncovered an old chest containing a large number of gold and silver coins dating from 1700 to 1800. The discovery ends a long’ search for treasure which a local I legend says was buried in the neigh- I borhood by a faithful slave during the I Civil war.—Capper’s Weekly. |

- Gypsies Cause Trouble At Portland Monday I Portland, Indiana, September, 21.— Sheriff Jumes Ha<lder*'a«M‘Chief of Police Harry Wood were called out on a gypsy chasing junki-t Monday noon after Epbrlam Hall, well known South Mederian street carpenter, reported I the loss of fifteen dollars in money from pocketbook which one of the gypsy women used in her mystic system of telling Mr. Hall's fortune. The (■money was recovered, together with 85 for good measure, which Sheriff Badders charge,' the gypsy band to cover the expense of the chas, after the gypsies, {raveling in three ma|<hines were overtaken south of Deerfield. They were traveling in cars bearing Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri license plates and were headed toward Richmond. When one of the women stopped at jthe Hall home on South Mederian street and offered to tell Mr. Hall’s fortune, he accepted. She anked him |if he had a pocketbook and he presented one, which she asked him to | blow his breath in. He did and then She took it and did likewise, closing the pocketbook and telling Mr. Hall to put it back into his pocket without locking into it. There were two tendollar and two five dollar bills in the pocketbook before the blowing process and when Mr. Hall took inventory after the gypsies had left he found that fifteen dollars must have been “blown away." He immediately called the police. Takes Point From Jest. A lest loses its |»iint plien lie who n.ikes it is the first lo laugh.— '•lilller.

Mr. Merchant It Rained DOLLARS •-■ ' - for these men Why not for you? RAIN AND FLOQP CLAIM NUMBER ,| , 3L —— - ‘C<- " .f? - s RAIN ANDFLOOD DEPT. ~ Se2tßa’2SX^6tn J Z££3_ If’ W 4J t '/e y> . |7 - </ ILW.Beexy and J.B.Meibora doing business at « Baexy And Melbera ' W&Oitwy f.zjJg ’* One Thousand and no/100 — ** endorsement of the payee on this draft is also understood and agreed to be a receipt in full satisfaction of all claims for loss and damage which occurred on ...S®pt6Kbor _3rdj|7.9/23 the property insured under Policy No. 12608 issued at XA< D6C atUT 4 lndiana .Agency * of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and in consideration of such payment the said policy is PAYABLE THROUGH 77 ~ / . / , l l ’ The management of the big Automobile Races which were staged at Bellmont Park. Labor Day, carried a policy in the Hartford Fire Insurance Company against rain—AND IT RAINED. A prompt payment of the claim was made as Mr. Fred E. Kolter, of the Koher Insurance Agency, as agent for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, delivered to the management yesterday morning, a check in the amount of .SI,OOO (the exact likeness shown above) in payment for the amount of the policy for the damage caused by the rain. By being thoughtful in seeking the pro'ection against the unforseen weather conditions. the management of the races eliminated time and worry and knew certain that with the HARTFORD protection, a bad day would be carefully taken care of financially. We Can Do The Same For You I * 1 ' * n Ask us about our various lines of insurance. We will be glad to go into this matter with you and explain each one fully. Don’t put it off any longer. FIRE - THEFT - AUTOMOBILE - TORNADO - WIND I RAIN - ACCIDENT & HEALTH - PUBLIC UTILITY I ? Kolter Insurance Agency Fred E. Kolter mgr. I ■i i 1

, r.i.n. ———— Clay County Farmers Feed r Wheat To Their Livestock Brazil, Ind., Sept. 21.—Between 15,i <too anil 25.000 bushels of wheat have i been fed by farmers of Clay county i to their livestock since July 1, uci cording to an estimate made today by I the (’lay county farm bureau. Some farmers have already fed .a high ns 300 nnd 400 bushels, a survey J showed. Farmers expect to continue i feeding their wheat unless there is a considerable increase in prices dur • Ing the next two or three months. Most of the wheat fed had been of the best quality. From the survey farm bureau ofil ficials estimate that, taking Clay conn- • ty as an average county, between 60. 000,000 and 80,000,000 bushels have ' been fed to stock over* the country, and that the surplus of 200,000.000 1 bushels reported by the government 1 In August will have vanished by 1 spring. ——o > The short white fur coat of ermine i or less pretentious rabbit is fre- : quently edged with monkey fur or I other black pelt, which sets off its whiteness. ■ J—WANT ADS EARN—I—B—I „ B—»—B—WANT ADS EARN—B—S—» rI • — I I A narrow-minded reform. I The entire anti-pistol agitation seems based upon an extremely nar-row-minded deduction, namely—pistols kill people- —take away the pistols, no more killing. Any viewpoint which does not permit of further vision than that is narrowest of the narrow. It

Is up to men of vision to take an In terest in the immediate and decisive defeat of this propaganda.—Sportsman’s Digest. Physician Surprised "Hearing of some good results from the use of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy 1 decided to try it on a chronic ease of indigestion and gastritis I was interested In. After the first dose the patient wns relieved of gas trouble and was soon able to eat radishes and many things he had not eaten in years." It removes the catarrhal mucous from the intestinal tract, and allays the Inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money refunded at The Holthouse Drug Co. ami druggists everywhere. o Fashionable veils are fastened at) the side with long tie ends that reach sometimes as far as the waistline. | —o The People’s Voice “Lest We Forget” In a spirit of all kindness, 1 wish to call attention to the common expression regarding our hospital. Inasmuch as it was built ancl dedicated as a memorial to the Adams county war veterans and given the I name of the Aadams County Memorial Hospital, let us stand by the name and by all means, do not get In the habit of shortening the name by saying. "Adams Co. Hospital.” Leave out the Adams County if it is nesessary to eliminate some of it. but do not drop "Memorial.” Respectifully, , Dr. E. Burns.

Another Litter Weighs A Ton In This County • ———" The second ton litter produeted In Adams county this year was fed out by Carl E. Armstutz, young farmer, of Jefferson township, who was successful in passing the goal with a litter of 10 pure-bred Duroc Jerseys. The pigs were- farrowed March 21st and were weighed up last Monday, they being at that time 180 day- old. County Agent Busche assisted in the weighing. The pigs were fed corn, middlings and tankage in a self-feed-er for some time before weaning, a "creep" teeing used to prevent interference from the dam. Corn, tankage and oats in -the self-feeder made lup th- ration after weaning, although •the oats was found to be too bulky for fast gains and was discontinued i after some time. Soft corn was fed ! during the last two weeks of the perHod. Rape pasture was available at all times. Mr. Amstutz is to be complimented on this accomplishment since many hog feeders older by fur than lie have failed in the attempt. In fact, quite a large number who are reputed to be good hog feeders have failed to event make the attempt. o Another Version. All the world’s n stage nnd the seen■ry Is much more satisfactory than the ■i«t. —Boston Trnnsc-ripi. tanglefoot] st icky Uy Paper Most effective and sanitary ly x destroyer known. Collects and | holds flies. Easily disposed of. I No dead or paralyzed flies fall- j in* everywhere. Sold by grocers and druggists. I THE O fa w THUM CO.. GRAND RaPHX MICH