Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. 11. Heller—Pres, and Bus. Mgr K. W. Kumpe—Vfce-Pres. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouse—Sec’y. and Bus. Mgr Entered at the Postoffice at Decatui 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 SI.OO Six Months, by mail $1.75 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 Kates Made known on application. Foreign Representative Qarpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. WHEAT PRICES: — Representative Little, of Kansas, republican, who declares that his ancestors have lived in this country for more than 200 years, is not going to be fooled by any of this hucus-pocus that is going the rounds about wheat. “This tale Os a world surplus,” he writes to the Topeka Capitol, “is just a great hoax, and these estimates | from Canada seem to be a deliberate effort to deceive the market. 1 1 would rather have the opinion of the' Pottawatomie medicine man than any tale that comes out of Canada con- ( cerning wheat — all imaginary and ! located at the end of the rainbow.”; What the Kansas representative pro-1 poses to do at the next session of congress is to find out just what sum of money Chicago speculators have spent in the furtherance of the delusion. Os course the speculators must not : escape the consequences of their ne- i farious acts, but the United States department of agriculture must not be overlooked. On September 19 it | forecast the 1923 wheat crop of Can* ada at 470,328,000 bushels, compared with 399,786,000 in 1922, which in turn was almost 100.000,000 more than in 1921. The annual consumption in the Dominion is about 70,000,000 bushels. The same department says that the wheat producing countries in Europe this year have a yield of 1,222,674,000 bushels, compared; with 1,026,338,000 in 1922. The north-1 ern hemisphere as a whole was esti-| mated to have 3,000,397,000 bushels ih 1923, as contrasted with 2,755,900,000 in the preceding year. Moreover crops in the southern hemisphere promise to equal those of the prior twelve months. The estimates of the department of agriculture have been supported by reputable independent inquiries. If world consumption were what it would be with economic conditions on a more stable basis, there might be little surplus wheat. The responsible leaders of farm organizations are not encouraging Little's announced intention to make, as one commentator says, what would be nothing more than an investigation of Mie ' obvious. The grain grower’s pressing immediate need is an enlarged market. Failing in that, there will have to be reduced production of the crops.—lndianapolis News. The state board of finance authorized the loan of $1,300,900 from the highway fund to the general fund. This came, from the gasoline tax aud was supposed to have been used for the highways. Os course it is expected this will be paid back some way some day but if it is there will have to be less demand for general funds for there has been a steadily increased shortage, for some time back and so far as can be noticed there is no let up. This is the money Bob Bracken, state treasurer, refused to pay over to the general fund until he was mandated so to do by the court. There has never been a time in the history of Indiana when everything was in suelt a muddle and some of it is certainly uncalled for. It looks as though the Lord is trying to wish a ay wsn of ths

troubles In Oklahoma. Following weeks of martial law, floggings and wild times bordering almoat on revolution. along comes the worst floods in history and causes people to stop p. and think, at least for a while, of r - other things Yesterday the banks r ’ of the city reservoir nt Oklahoma r City gave away and fifteen thousand people were rendered homeless within a few moments. Its a terrible catastrophe and following closely 8 upon other things disastrous will „ | tend to set the state back some g I years. 0 - 5 President Coolidge has suggested 0 to Samuel Rhea, president of the ® Pennsylvania that freight rates on 1 wheat be reduced and that freight on coal for domestic purposes be made the same as that shipped for export and the people will hope that Mr. Rhea follows the suggestions lyGovernors from two-thirds of the states are guests of Governor McCray this week en route to Washington for the conference with the President. They will discuss their problems and from all reports there are plenty of them. The trouble is that some of them can’t be solved even by governors. o ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ + TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ '■ 1 ■ — + + From the Daily Democrat files + + 20 years ago this day ♦ | Methodist and U. B. churches an-| . nounce no services tomorrow, account dedication of new Presbyterian church. Gas will be shut off tomorrow (Sun(day) for repair of lines. — Jacob Breneman and family return I from visit in Switzerland. Two rural routes from Monroeville I and one from Willshire, running into ! this county are ordered established. Van Wert and Decatur high school football teams play a 11 to 11 tie game here. Clover Leaf announces after Noi vember Ist will not accept interchangeable mileage. Mrs. Ed Kirchner of Preble badly injured in fall down celler way. Mrs. Charles Linn and son of Oakland, California, visit here. — ... o ■ I laptop?- ' —- ■ S* -- * i CONGRATULATION And now you know what once you dreamed The loveliest flower that grows Sweeter than spring or lilac breath . More fragrant than finest rose. I The something dearer than diamonds or pearls. Or gold houses or lands Or all the world of beauty w wealth Is your baby’s lips, or hands. That you have the purest, most priceless gift Ever sent from heaven above. Heart of your heart, life of your life Wrapped up in that bundle of love. —o ~ . -— Make the Ball Smooth. •That a smooth round ball gets there I with less resistance than a lop-sided, uneven one. is a wetbknowfl truth. That’s as true in work a-day life ■ns it is in physical figures. Your job is to cut comers and keep the smooth, speedy ball rolling in every pface. i

MAN WANTED WITH CAR OR BUGGY to act as out Ag-uit in thin vicinity. . $300.00 to $400.00 per month. The right party . can make < this position pay him J300.n0 to $100.09 per month Must he 1 are Table parly who ■will give our proposition his entire tinje. The work will not take you out , ot your county. Full Particulars This is a real bus'****, pro- i position. Full particulars sent you on request. ..< A. L. Brown Co., 1222 Wilson Ave., Chicago, 111. 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1923.

5 A Banquet That Was Almost a Tragedy "Three years ago at « banquet I t waa stricken with acute indigestion Two doctors worked over the for an ’ hour before 1 ct’me to. I had had t severe colic attacks before, but noth lag like that. No doctors or meal ’ fine gave me permanent help until a i j friend, who was at the banquet, auI vised me to take n course of Mayr’s 1 Wonderful Remedy, which I did wjth . wonderful results.” it is a sfaipte,' harmless preparation that remove; the catarrhal mucus from the fates- ■ tinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ail meats, including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money refunded. The Holthouse Drug Co. s—s—s—WANT ADS EARN—«—s—s

f — * Wowrlwß. x Bi iIIIIWJ&Es- < jp 1 " After all /liter all satisfies lifceX Uuwthing satisfies liheX good # A The smoke damage caused by the destruction of the Beavers & Fryback Furniture Store, which occured last Thursday night, ruined our entire stock of high grade leaf tobacco and the manufactured cigars ready for trade. I * In the adjustment of our loss the stock of loose leaf tobacco and manufactured cigars has been taken over in their entirety by the Underwriters Salvage Company of Chicago. • • This assures our smoking clientele we are starting with a brand new slate just the same as if we were beginning in business again. A complete stock of our various tobaccos used in the Manufacture of WHITE STAG CIGARS has been received from our storage and we hope the public will bear with us should the supply for WHITE STAGS be a little short temporarily. Our plant is working nights and we are bending every effort toward the normal resumption of business in an endeavor to meet the demand to satisfy the WHITE STAG smokers. x 71 , ; Vw ,A '‘ /'/ v z \ WHITE STAGS Always A Good Smoke " -

J “Sown* the Winds” «t the Cort * theater Friday evening for the high I school senior girls. 245t8 i ' 7. , Treasure Seekers Digging 1 For Gold In Jay County i Portland. Ind.. Oct. 17— According ’i to a Story being told, residents of i i the southwest part of Green township /this county, are considerably excited > j over a search that is being conducted I i on the old Florence Brooks farm fo>| ’ a large amount of gold said to have been buried in that locality in the; early days of pioneer settlers. The story of buried treasure fa that section has been handed down from | family to family for the past many ' years. Some years ago. it is said a

t spiritualistic medium came into that {■part of the township and made a I search, but without any success. Lu- ; ter on a party of men came from Ohio and did some digging in various places on the Brooks farm, but they too were unsuccessful. 11 Several years ago Jacob Foutz, now 'an inmate of the county infirmary jcbnrtueted an extensive search, not I ohly in that particular locality, but lin other parts of the county. Mr. fi’outz was aided in his search tor hidI den treasure by an instrument made | for the purpose of locating minerals, (which he purchased from a Chicago firm. The instrument was «fter the . order of the old forked switch used in locating veins of water, although it (was made of metal and had fa a pock-

ed at the end of the apparatus a peeuliar and secret substance, which was claimed to be infallible in locating any mineral or treasure. Mr. Fonts spent many months in conducting searches and excavating in various locaillties in the county, but needless to say, he had no success. He finally gave up in disgust and broken hearted, was sent to the infirmary to spend his declining days. Lately Mr. Brooks and John DeMoss have been making excavations on the Brooks farm, stor yof burled treasure being again revived through revelations made at a spiritualistic seance said to have been held recently in the neighborhood. One hole some twenty feet across and ten feet doeti has been dug. efforts to learn

whether Mr. Brook, or Mr have had any a UWbw havp w ** nought, as the two men wtU not 2 •bout what they have done w ‘ U ml. ‘Wirt-

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