Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. , J. H. Heller—Pres, and Bus. Mgr E. W. Kampe—Vice-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 Mouths, by mall 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 zoues. Additional postage add.d outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made known on application. Foreign Representative Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City N. Y. Life Bldg , Kansas City, Mo. The shipping board announces the first around-the-world passenger line maintaining continous service under one flag and it will be called the "Dollar Line” which means we presume that unless you have plenty of the cart wheels, better confine yourself to a trip to Cedar Point or Rome City or some whore else where row boats are accessible. Tile quarrel inside the ku klux klan increases in fury, one sure way for the society to kill itself as it likely will. Phillip E. Fox yesterday shot and killed W. S. Coburn, an attorney for the insurgent klan. Fox said that Coburn was trying to ruin him and that he would just as leave hang as be hurt. When there is a lot of easy money to divide there is bound to be trouble. Wish every citizen in Decatur would give honest thought to how he can help the community the next year. If a thousand men and women would do that and one per cent of the suggestions and efforts made good, we would be putting it over big. Add to that individual'effort the combined force and you have a steam engine of progress that couldn't be stopped. And it means something to you. An old Ford car with a balky engine, a bum starter, a broken fender and a few other defects refused to go in Hammond the other day. The woman who claimed it got out and gave the crank a turn and the car ran two blocks and came to a stop in a garage. Gosh it it had been in good running order it would probably have called at a filling station, swiped a few’ new tires and come home wjth a case of old fashioned Scotch. On the grounds that "McCray has cost the people enough money already” the Marion county commissioners have refused to approve an appropriation of $5,000 to pay the expense of a continued grand jury investigation of the financial affairs of the governor. They evidently think the jury has enough evidence now if they wish to use it and that it isn’t necessary for them to visit each bank where they are holding the sack. Elections are being held today in a number of states and strange as it may seem iu this country there is but little interest manifested as to the results. In most cases the districts are decidedly democratic or republican and few changes are expected. Vermont will elect a United States senator; seven .congressmen will be chosen to fill vacancies, one in Illi- ' nois, one in Vermont, four in New York and one' in North Carolina; Maryland, Kentucky and Mississippi will elect governors and New York, Maryland, NewSlersey and Virginia will elect members to the legislature. The results will to some extent indi cate the feelings of the people but it most instances the issues are loca rather than national. Oregon wli vote on an income tax similar to th, federal law and Pennsylvania wil vote on an amendment permittim the state to borrow fifty million dol lars to complete her highway build

Ing and repairing. It would take us a long time to tell you what we don’t know about road building and maintainence but there . is one thing we do know and that is r that the state road from here north r. to the county line, is about as rotten us it is possible to make it. In the ir summer they pile course, heavy stone on it and in the autumn great ruts appear and through the winter you can s stay in those ruts or get stuck. The s road like the rest of them costs for ® maintainence $750 a mile and we g noticed last evening in driving over - it, that the county macadam roads q which lead off from it and are main--0 tained at an average cost of less than • SIOO per mile per year were iu much better condition. As we said, we don't know what they ought to do about it, but it just seems as if the stone were scraped in and then rolled, to give a better foundation and then kept smooth by grading, it could be as good a road as any of its kind. It will soon be too late and it ought to be done quickly for the highway is perhaps used more than any other “ which enters the city. • ■ The death of Dr. James A. Beatty, i superintendent of the Muncie dis- • treit. of the Methodist Episcopal I Church, brings sorrow and loss to a much wider circle than merely the residents of his home community. Through his loss and ardent service to his church <*nd his Master, Dr. Beatty earned the love and admiration of Christian citizens throughout the state, and particularly in the North Indiana Conference, where he was one of the able leaders of Methodism. A record of thirty-nine faithful and useful years in the ministry assures to Dr. Beatty a high place among the workers for his God. Distinguished ability caused his elevation to the superintendency of the Fort Wayne district of tho church about fourteen years ago. After six years there, he was transferred to the Muncie district in April, 1916. His seven and one-half years here have been abundant with fruitfulness, which shall be sorely missed in the years to come, but which will remain always as a beacon light in the minds of those who knew him. — Muncie Star. MORNING PRAYER. Lord, now at early dawn of day, My heart still free from care, Mind clear and fresh, my spirit strong, 1 come to thee in prayer. Thanks, dear God, for night's sweet rest, For undisturbed repose, With body well and conscience dear, What peace the Christian knows. And new’, before the world awakes, And duty’s tasks begin, Give me thy blessing and thy grace, Keep me this day from sin. • How r precious is Thy Word! Thy will Doeth make my heart rejoice, > Hold thou my hand, guide thou my feet, And let me hear thy voice. 1 Whate'er the day may have in store, ! Through pleasure or through pain, Help me to keep the vision clear, Life’s *>ath of duty plain. Help me perform each simple task, 1 As in thy holy sight, ■ And may I hear thee say, "My child, t Well done,” when falls the night. I—■1 —■ o—- ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ + ♦ + From the Daily Democrat fllee ♦ 3 + 20 years ago this day ♦ b . Nov. 6. —Bowers takes over Decatur Metal Screen factory. '* Surprise party for Martin Beery, ■’ celebrating his birthday. a ■ — 3. Most modern barn in county is bej, ing built on the Mattie Young farm a in Blue Creek township. Local elevators are taking iu new >1 corn when sorted. te, I John Starost is visiting relative* Monroe. ’l'| Miss Eva Rex, employed at th< Smith & Bell offices at Brookville, ii

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visiting here. 11 E. L. Carrol is attending nwetlai d of Grain Dealer's Association at Fort Wayne. e _____ 8 Davy Gunn, well known local char It acter was In Montpelier fire. He esa caped with slight injuries. B ——— B Contest over Zehr ditch in progress before the commissioners. t ‘ Berne High School Net Teams Opens Play Friday 9 The Berne high school basketball r team will open its season in the i Berne auditorium Friday night in a game with Liberty Center, district champs of last year. The Berne girls 1 very likely will play the Bryant girls. 1 The Liberty Center team is strong > again this year, but it is not expect . ed to have a walk away at Berne as i the Berne team is considered stronger this year than it was last year. The following players make up the 1 boys’ team: Newell Rice, Merlin Ellenberger, Judson Erne, Myron Leh man, Arley Habegger. Kermith Baumgartner and Grant Smith. o Harry Wills, Colored Boxer, Wins Another By HENRY L. FARRELL. United Press Staff Correspondent. New York, Nov. 6. (United Press.) "“Set the rest of them up and we'll knock ’em over," Raddy Mullins, the squat, dump manager of Harry Wills said today. As stunt number two in his belated campaign to force Jack Wills knocked off JcTamohkpcmf Dempsey to accept his challenge. Willis knocked off Jack Thompson, one of the leading seventh raters in Newark last night. Thompson became what is known as a “technical” victim when his seconds tossed in a towel five seconds before the end of the fourth round. ‘ 1 suppose those who have been trying to keep WMls away from Dempsey will say that Harry looked bad and Thompson was only a ham.” Mullins added. They are saying that very thing. The most flattering said about the colored challenger after he had landed on Thompson at least a hundred times without getting one back was that Wills did not have brittle hands. ___< —. PUBLIC BUYS HEAVILY IN UTILITY SECURITIES Indianapolis, Nov. 6. —Nearly SIOO,000,000 more public utility securities have been sold to investors during the first half of 1923 than during the same period of 1922. The total of utility securities sales for the first half of this year was $601,910,936. Financiers predict that the coming years will see a steady trend upward in the amount and number of public utility offerings. This prediction is basdd on improved living conditions in the United States. An official in charge of financing for one of the largest utility companies in the world, after a trip through the country, said the thing which astounded him most was that living conditions are so greatly improved in comparison wit hten or fifteen years ago. Other utility men have made the same observation and point out that improved living conditions at once call for the installation of gas, electric lights and telephone service. RHEUMATIC AGONY NOW EASILY ENDED

It does not matter to me whether you are disabled with cursed rheumatism or have only occasional twinges, I know that Allcnrhu, my own discovery, will stop the agony, do away with the gnawing pains and reduce the swollen joitts, says Mr. ’ Allen. I> I know it will dissolve the uric acid . deposits that have become deeply im- ' bedded in joints and muscles and f quickly drive every trace of rheuma; ► tism from your body. I know this because I was crippled for years and many times was unable to work, and Allenrhu made a well, robust, healthy r man of me. I know because since I cured myself hundreds have taken Allenrhu and speedily rid themselves of this • agonizing disease. No matter how severe your case, I urge you to put your faith in the prescription that it took me years to per- " tect—a prescription that made a new a man of me after doctors tried and tailed. Allenrhu Is no laggard; it starts right, in at once; it gets into the v blood, searches out the poisonous uric acid deposit aud in two days i starts to drive the concentrated im- i purities that cause rheumatism, out b of the bipod through the natural. channels. Through the columns of this newspaper, I authorize every druggist to ; guarantee one full pint bottle in every 18 instance.

Tree On Court House At Greensburg Not a Maph R _ — 1 The tree growing out of th* Cour house tower at Greensburg, Indiana which has for about Torty-five year been known as a maple tree, has beet Identified as a largetoothed aspen Charles G. Sauers, assistant to th< director of the Indiana stale conserva “ tion department, said Friday. Mr Sauers was aide to obtain a fev branches from the tree and from them positively to classify it. A r mounted specimen has been placed Ir the state museum, where it Is now I on display under its correct name. > The large-toothed aspen (populus ( grandidentata). once rather common t to Indiana, is now found in a few col i onics in the lowlands of northern Indiana and on the "knobs” in the south- ■ ern part of the state. —Q One Hog In Twenty-Five Dies of Cholera Disease Approximately 4 per cent of the hogs on farms in the United States died of hog cholera last year. ■ This appraisal of the ravages of hog cholera Is made by the Bureau of Animal Industry. United States Department of Agriculture, for the year ended April 30, 1923, and is based on estimates of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Losses were heaviest in lowa, Nebraska, Indiana. Missouri. Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, Minnesota and South Dakota in the order named. Each of these states last more than 100.000 head of swine from the disease during the year, assuming that SO per cent of the deaths from all causes among hogs is due to cholera. The total number of swine lost from hog cholera exceeded 2.250.000, valued at approximately $29,393,000. The highly contagious nature of hog cholera makes the disease difficult to control. The preventive serum treatment combined with strict sanitation and through disinfection of premises after outbreaks, are the most effective control measures. The losses reported for last year are not so great as in 1913 and 1914 when the disease appeared particularly prevalent. but they were larger than department experts consider they should have been considering that swine growers have a preventive treatment which is effectual, if used properly before the animals become sick. s—s—s—WANT ADS EARN—s—s—s

PUBLIC SALE

As I am leaving the city I will sell at public auction, on the vacant lot opposite the Public Library, Decatur, Ind., on SATURDAY. NOV. 10, 1923 Commencing at 12:30 P. M. sharp. The following personal property: — Oak davenport; oak library table; 5 rocking chairs; writing desk; floor lamp; table lamp; 4 pedestals; large fern; heavy oak straight back chair; 2 hall chairs; music rack; 3 9x12 rugs, good ones; large mirror. ISx4O; mirror, 14x24, oak frame; leather couch, a good one; rolltop office desk and chair; fumed oak library table; center table; 5 plush bottom chairs; dresser, white enameled, with oval mirror; fumed oak porch seat; gas 1 heater; medicine cabinet; clock; golden oak china cabinet, new; buffet, new; round oak dining table; portiers; electric washing outfit with wringer combined; 10 dining chairs; , commotie; fruit cupboard; square oak dining table; kitchen cabinet; dresser, square mirror; 2 clothes presses: gas range; 3-burner oil stove; 2 heating stoves; sanitary eot; 3.small spring cots, nearly new; 3 new cotton mattresses; bed clothing; lace curtains; pair heavy curtains; 30 yards ot almost new white and blue checked linoleum; 22 yards

—your footwear Correct and stylish footwear adds more to your appearance than any other wearing apparel.’ Dress up in the latest and most attractive creations which are always to be found at this store. Ladies* straps, pumps, oxfords, in new shades and styles. Men's oxfords and shoes in a wonderful selection. Our low prices will surprise you. Peoples Cash Shoe Store

UNCLAIMED LETTERS AT DECATUR POSTOFFICE Mr. Bud Loe. Mrs. Dora Debolt, Mr. r Fred R. Ellinger. H. L. Thompson. “' H. Fritsinger, P. M. r* n n, 12 Photos make 12 Gifts ie Make your appointment now! EDWARD’S STUDIO r Phone 964. stx w 0 n THE FIRST LAND. A n (Continued from Page ()n<D w Eli must have had method when he insisted. if he did, that everything be s plainly set forth. The glorious Octi tober days were tinting earth and 1 sky and all the inhabitants thereof >• and Eli was no doubt enraptured, ex- >• alted and desirous. Yellow to golden had become the elm, beech, honey locust, chestnut, red ash and hickory; the black walp nut, butternut, white beech and populars were green and yellow; the ale der, silver maple and willows yellowg ed, and the sumachs, red oaks, white oaks, flowering dogwood and hazel 8 nut were a mass of scarlet and crim- •• son. The sassafras and red su--1 gar maples were all shades of purt pie, crimson, scarlet, orange and yel- ,] low. In truth and in fact that sev- |. enty-three acres was a mass of color, ,1 beautiful beyond compare. The elms n and oaks towered heavenward and i joined majestically in the carnival. Besides all this, every tree had its I squirrel, every hole its rabbit and u every trysting place its deer. Friend !. Hipes conveyed to friend Eli great t and marvelous wealth on that day of I long ago. Besides conveying those i. broad acres which were also four 3 thousand miles deep and a million 1 miles high, these "appurtances” were transferred: Slippery elm. water elm, f yellow elm. white elm. shell bark . hickory, white hickory, pip nut hickj ory, water beech, yellow beech, honey i- locust, black locust, chestnut, wilf lows, yellow poplar, sugar maple. » white maple, quaking aspen, hack ? berry, pawpaw, red haw, black haw. t. .sarvis, June berry, burr oak, pin oaks, 3 sweet oaks, red oaks, butternut, wal- . nut, sycamores, spice woods, cotten- .. woods, prickly ash. white ash. black 1 ash, calico ash. linden, buckeye, null--5 berry, crab apples, wild cherry, wild t plum, red bud, iron wood, pine black . raspberry, red raspberry, wild grapes, blackberries, dewberries, wild currant, wild gooseberries, witch hazel, I hawthorne. sumachs, red ossier. bitter

of almost new flowered linoleum, this linoleum is sure nice; 10 yards of new flowered linoleum; 20 yards of linoleum, slightly worn; ironing board; shower bath cabinet and fixtures; 7-foot galvanized top table; 2 galvanized watering tanks with wood frames, a very nice tank for the farm; pedestal wash basin with wat-| er tank and mirror combined; can-' ned fruit; 2 folding screens; about 40 ft. of M in. and % in. galvanized pipe'; 60-gallon oil tank; 2 Beaveri board partitions 6x7 feet; and some Beaver board; window shades;, dishes; cooking utensils; crocks and jars; refrigerator: some carpenter ( tools: pictures and frames; light fixtures; 2 chandeliers; one 3 way ceil- : ing light and light bulbs; and numerous other articles. TERMS—AII sums of $5 and under cash in hand; all sums over S 5 a credit of 6 months will be given, purchaser giving a good bankable note, drawing interest at the rate of 8% from date. DR. C. M. SMITH Roy S. Johnson. Auct. Jack Brunton, Clerk. In case of rain sale will be held in Teeple's storage house on North First street. 6-8-9 1

sweet, ginseng. Indian turnips, spikenard, Solomon's seal, and a considerable bunch of may apples. For the whale doggone thing Eli paid that man the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars. The record says so, and presumably James got the money. Besides that Eli Imught isolation and solitude. He could go onto that seventy three acres and commune alone with nature, it he wanted to, and no one could say him nay. As far as that is concerned he could so commune most anywhere within an area of ten miles of that place. At any rate Eli had paid and Mr. Dailey had put the 1 paper of record, by gosh. |

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Many yearß have O’ where, may Wo ask , h that glory of autumnal be aut y?’ mills, my boy. and the hUn „ ” levied their destructive J good did it do Ell to | ns ,' ■ ' Vi "l purtancea" being put ln We cannot answer but nerh. maybe before the ye ara ~ a|>s at| i have equmed the' deed was made tt | OVe ot ' its growing glories shall have ed wanton destruction in the of men and those with the - ,an ' hand" shall bring Into living V S the glories of the original ‘ K h ° M “ ereS S I a thing t>f beauty and a lov f *