Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1923 — Page 3

| Built by the | American I People ' i ‘HE Railroad* were not built by '■ » * railroad men, and they are not ■* owned by railroad men. They were £ , I built by the merchant! and farmer* of the United State*, and they are now owned indirectly by all the people of the United State*. g . The whole splendid system of IS I r*ilroad» a* it exist* today was I j i" ' J U built with capital, energy and 8 brain* furnished by American busiSM® Hli' n !< nou mcn ar, d American farmer* a* ■ 111 111 with the high purpose of developing IS H 3 the commercial and agricultural E lllnHl I mHII ■uni II M W B . interest* of the country. pl Every one know* that a* soon a* S IBBr'''W FT'' I the ‘ ron horse drew hi* shadow j across the land the farms which the j 1 Government could scarcely give away suddenly jumped in value to ,] I W lllulUß Hl I F hfty ° r " h un dred dollar* an acre, j because the railroad* had supplied them with the means of develop- ■ TVo ment, production and distribution. 8 When the railroads are making 8 plenty of money, every shop is 3 Lf’- humming a song of happiness and g| gk*—Ha* ■ 1 — every farm is growing rich. * M | Pennsylvania N Railroad System The Standard Railroad of the World I I Good Banking I Depends on these two requisites: Safety Service Our conservative methods and ample reserve guarantee Safety. The spirit of co-operation existing between this institution and its clients is built on Service. » Old Adams County Bank 1 —-— t - I We Have Employment for Girls —who wish to learn the glove making business. WE OFFER YOU—1. A Steady Position 2. Light, easy, clean and pleasant work. 3. Ideal working conditions in a modern and up-to-date factory. 4. Central location. 5. Highest wages paid of any factory in town. 6. Bonus given while learning. WARING GLOVE CO. 110 Monroe Street|

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1923.

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SPORTS .> < > NATIONAL LEAGUE. Team. W. L. Pct. New York 93 55 .628 Cincinnati 90 60 .600 Pittsburg 85 63 .574 I Chicago 78 69 .531 ; St. Louis . .... 76 72 .514 ; Brooklyn 71 76 .488 Boston 50 95 .345 ' Philadelphia 47 100 .320 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Team. W. Lu Pct.' New York 94 50 .653 Cleveland 76 65 .540 Detroit 74 69 .518 St. Louis 71 70 .504 Washington 71 73 .493 Chicago :64 78 .458 Philadelphia 63 80 .440 Boston - 58 8403 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Team. W. L. Pct. St. Paul 104 50 .657 Kansas City 100 51 .662 Louisville 74 79 .484 Columbus 74 .484 Indianapolis 66 85 .437 Minneapolis ...65 85 .433 Milwaukee 63 86 .423 Toledo .... 50 102 .329 YESTERDAYS RESULTS. National League. Philadelphia, 0; Pittsburgh, 6. Brooklyn, 5; St. Louis, 7. No others scheduled. American League. Chicago, 0; Washington. 1. St. Louis, 2; Boston. 3. Detroit, 8; New York, 3. Cleveland, 5-6; Philadelphia, 3-2. American Association. Milwaukee, 4; Indianapolis, 8. Kansas City, 6; Louisville, 3. Minneapolis, 5; Toledo, 3. St. Paul, 3; Columbus, 11. PLEASANT MILLS TO PLAY FORT WAYNE BASEBALL TEAM The Fort Wayne Independent baseball team will play the fast Pleasant Mills nine on the latter’s diamond next Sunday afternoon. These two teams recently played a twelve-inning tie game, the score standing 3-3 when the contest was called on account of darkness. The game Sunday is expected to be the hardest fought game of the season at Pleasant Mills. MeBarnes will pitch for the Pleasant Mills team. o STURGIS BASEBALL CLUB IS TRANSFERED TO FT. WAYNE By a deal completed last night. Ft. 1 Wayne is assured for next year of baseball approaching very near to the major leagues in class. The Sturgis, Michigan, team, probably the strongest independent club in the middle west and embracing in its lineup stars who have but recently played big league baseball, has been transfered to Fort Wayne and will next year represent that city. — * BLUFFTON HIGH LOSES ANOTHER STAR PLAYER I Bluffton, Sept. 27—Homer Mentzer, star tackle on the local high school football team, was ruled ineligible this morning, according to announcement made by Coach Rippe. Mentzer lacked the necessary credits in school work to allow him to participate in athletics but this was not found to be the case until a check-up of his grades was made this morning. Mentzer’s place on the team will be hard for Coach Rippe to fill for only a few men were out for the team this year. o WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD With a punch in the tenth inning I the Tigers scored five runs and beat, the Yanks, 8 to 3, in their last game of the season. |

Johnny Morrison dropped the t’hils with one little hit and the pirates won, 6 to 0. The Cleveland Indians earned an even break In the series with the Athletics by winning a double header at 5-3 and 6-2. Dazzy Vance was knocked out of the box and the Curds won from the Robins, 7 to 5. Dixie Davis let the Red Sox down with four hits and he walked five and hit one and the Browns lost, 3 to 2. Ruel’s single in the sixth inning drove In Rice with the run that gave the Senators a 1 to 0 victory over the White Six. Walter Johnson got the shutout. Hornsby Out of Lineup of St. Louis Nationals (United Press Service) i St. Louis, Sept. 27. — Rogers Hornsby, leading slugger of the National I league, is out of the Cardinal lineup again today. President Sam Breadon indefinitely suspended Hornsby after he refused to play in yesterday’s game against Brooklyn here, and tacked a |SOO fine on him. The team physician, after an examination, told Breadon that Hornsby, I who has been out of the game for 16 days with a skin infection on his bac k was in good physical condition. i "I told Mr. Rickey that I was feeling all right, but that I didn’t believe 1 was good enough to jump right lack into the game," Hornsby ' said today. Breadon then told Hornsby that he, ncr no one else, was going to run the Cardinal team and gave him official notice of the suspension and fine, • Fight Was Stopped , i St. Sept. 27. —Twenty three hundred dollhrs, the combined purses : for the participants in the Jock Ma-lone-Frank Carbone middleweight i fight, were in the coffers of the ; boxing fund today, instead of the two

middleweights’ jeans. The city boxing commission which stopped their fight because it wasn’t, decided unanimously that Malone and Carbone weren't entitled to pay for their playful exhibition.

Yes - the Fall suits are in at John T. Myers Co’s. j fl J I in the most appealing J,' j Try models you ever saw! For the past ten days (‘very man in (his store has gone home whistling lor they have been un- / packing, sorting and placing in stock the biggest ( • j improvement ever made in the history ol the men’s clothing industry. The * suils iirc .i us * here from MichaelsZ ZIW Stern & Co. they are more than new cloths * sewed together in new ways. True they are still * I coats, vests and trousers but they are not the ——same coats, vest and trousers that you have ever tried on before or since. You can believe your own eyes we don't .* -■ 11 ;d»< 111 111.- suit-, |<» toll We asking y° ll to come in so that you will have something fed. /r/zV v to brag about vourself. fl MICHAELS-STERN VALUE FIRST B FALL SUITS gD ¥ rec “ eo $22.50 “ $45.00 Tefub-T-My&cb Ge J BETTER CLOTHES FOR LESS J MONEY-ALWAYS ~ • DECATUR - INDIANA•

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AMERICAN ELM IS DEAN The dean of shade bearers and city beantlflera for New England, New York, and the Great Lakes region in the American elm, suys the American Tree Alsoclatlon of Washington,

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