Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 21, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 28 December 1923 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Free, end Bus. Mgr. E. W. Katupe—Vice-Pres. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouze—Sec’y. and Bus. Mgr. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur 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 mall 35 cents Three Months, by mail ; SI.OO Six Months, by mall $1.75 Ono Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office... $3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage addvd 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. We presume the earthquakes yesterday moved the earth back six hundred miles so we are now about where we were before. Any way the air begins to feel like we were about normal for this time of year. You don't need to go to southern Indiana to find where pansies, violets and dandelions were in bloom on Christmas day. We had them right here in Decatur and Adams county and several people bad their ( own picked tlowers for decorations. That's something for this section. A program of road improvement. 1 house building, beautifying the city, ‘ repairing of streets, securing of in- . dustries and otherwise helping ours. lves should be made up now and every ciitzen should make his first > r< olution for the New Year one to assist in this work. A live community is always a better one. We cun have 11 with Just a little effort. Edward Young Clark, former im- 1 portal wizuid of the Ku Klux Klan, is • in Washington, urging the president to clean up the klan or sUmp it out < nthTly. In an open letter to theL presHtaU Clark declares he Is dune I. with the hooded order and points out I < the danger to the country if they arc permitted to continue. The fight on the inside of the klan seems *o be The republican state committee and a number of leaders .including Senator Watson, decided yesterday that I Governor McCray must quit the rt-1 1 publican party and decided to hold a i meeting early in January when a restint Inn voicing their request is to I b < adopted Mr. McCray will prob-1 übly .otitinue to find that he is gov-1 truer <>f Indiana and not of the few I who operate the republican party for! I uh’.ii ul purposes only. 1 I’latis are being made for a roadi meeting tn U> held here burnt- time during January at which time the principal speaker will be an active I uiembT of the State Hgihway Com-1 Mr will explain the problems which c.<n-1 front th it Imhlv and how we <nn b<-Ht a t lie nt lu meeting them. *We are sure a latter acquaintance with lit., commlasiun will help a* lo in-cure b ttcr roads and to work to greater udvabtagu. Watch for the announcement next week. Osborn Wood, son «>f General Wood of the I’hlllipinos has rlnaned ti,» three quarters of > million dollars hy : !«■< uiattne in Wall street accurb Una. Ho is but twenty lhr«x> years old mid the fact that be Is a lieutenant In the army han catiscd demand for a conxreaslotml investigation. Thai part Is a Joke but It would far Interenilng tn know just how he got kin tips or bin wisdom. A 10l of older and keener l>u«lnesn men have tried the aame game for fifty years and fallal and It hurts that a boy should cotee trotting along now and tmt It over, tfe'g certainly too wise for the army or the diplomatic ner*> i< «•. t Any way he has the money and will be some boy from now on. Tae story w torn ut a city man who

was put io shame by a country cousin because the latter, in only a few days in the city, had observed more of the city's noteworthy features than the other. Then the city man had a bright idea and proceeded to quiz his rural relations. It developed ' that the country man never took , time to visit several spots of scenic beauty near his farm, that he had never v isiled another place of true historic interest only five miles from -his land, and that, on the whole, he was just as remiss in his appreciation of his own Community as was his city friend. If the two had pressed their comparisou a little further, no doubt each would have found tho other ignorant of some of the shortcomings of his own community, too. What improvements were needed in sanitation, in the schools, in traffic regulations, and so on, would probably find neither man so well informed or thoughtful as intelligent citizenship requires. A know-your-own-town campaign would be productive of beneficial results in almost any community of any size.—Elkhart Truth. Field Goals by “Eagle Eye” Pete Ito your New Year's resolutioning early. Liberty Center, the home of last year's district champs, sends their high school basketbailers to Decatur tonight for a return game with the Yellow Jackets. This 'promises to be a real game. Our good friend Out of Bounds gets credit for this one; Oil flight. We Gas First Chester fan (after game)— - "Have you sec Pete?" , Second fan —“Pete who?" First (an —••Petroleum.'' Second fan —“Kerosene him before the game but he hasn't benzine ( S'funny world. Jeff of Lafayette I defeated Anderson recently. Along came Montmorenci and downed Jeff I and then Anderson trips Montmor-I encic. to 22. We're still pickin' Frankfort. Tip Offs says the score of the t'asey-ix*aders game wasn't so liad and that he really expected worse. The Caseys nearly met their match last night, being forced to stage a last half rally to win from the Detroit Legion team. 36-31. . _ The Phi Delta came to life at Bluffton last night and tronneed the Monroe All-Stars. 3315. The Phi Delta are doing that Uff aguiu-on ■‘■gain Hannigan stuff. MONROE NEWS .■ml. Muncie Is spending the week I with his pan-nut. Mr. and Mrs. John Mrs. t’lus Johnson and daughter .loth of Morgantown. W. Ya., aif I spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Alph Hahnert Mr. and Mra. Alta Everhart visited relative* in Fl. Wayne Christmas. Mr. Gerry Marts visited in town Wednesday, McGee Hendricks visited Deane Dorwtn at Decatur this week, tiylvestor Everhurt visited lu Fort Wayne Christuucs. Mr. and .Mrs. I»cv( Johnson sp< nt ( hrismtus with their daughter Mrs.. Etta Splllnvr, in Fort Wayne. Hanford Wugnn«r. students at State Normal. M unite. is <ipM !‘ng the hole days with his father usd mother Mr. and Mrs. Ira Wagoner. , W.JI Mughery, of f*’. Uayn« h visiting his mother Mrs. Ono. W. Keller. J. 11. Badders am! wife motored tc Ft. Wayne on Christmas, taking dinner with hla borther William Badders, The Mon For All HtuFit with 1&0 roof, era will invade Bluffton. Thursday 1 eve, to play tho Phi. Delta, J. H. Gould and family wtsel of town I ate Xma K dinner with Mr and Mrs. , J. N. Burklwad. Mrs. Barak Kvaaler. son Herman and daughter Demarioa. of Colon. Ml. h. are Hettlng friends nod relatives bare this ***• • i ’WfWM CUa« E. ll'dtn. r, mtr onterptisingTiai * .bet waa compelled to clow his shop

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u J Wednesday in order to visit the deus tist at Decatur. 0 Miss Helen Parrish of west of town a visited Miss Mardelle Hocker, Tues- { Ralplir Yager of Decatur was a business visitor in Monroe Wednesday. Win. Mitchel entertained Mr. and ‘ Mrs. Clprenee Mitchell and sou Les- - ter and Mr. and Mrs. Harve Rupert 1 and daughter Helen at dinner Xmas.. > Jacob Scherer entertained Mr. and ( Mrs. Chas Bohner and Mr. and Mrs. > Murray Scherer at dinner Xmas. Jude Hofer is out and around again ' feeling fine. Miss Ixiuise Busche, of Indiana L’ni- : versity is spending her vacation witli her parents Mr .and Mrs. E. W. Busche The Monroe Fire Dep't was called to the home of Orville Osterman last Tuesday night. They made the run in record time, but it proved to be a fasle alarm. Mrs. L. L. Mills, the live stock buyer, remembered the writer with a Pittsbugh stoggies on Xmas morning Lew. has a large hFiirt and wants to share with his friends at all times. George McManama of east of town was in town Wednesday. The local Junior League is going to Poe Friday eve, where they will give a demonstration. Ransom Zechiel is home from I. U. Medical Clog’ele at Indianapolis. Noll Sells returned home from Greenville, 0., for the holidays. All the business firms in town, were Ausy invoicing Wednesday after a very prosperous year. Ollie Heller and family spent Xmas in Berne. Mrs. Wra. Stucky and sons visited friends in Berne Wednesday. Alton Me Kean, of Decatur visited Monroe Wedensday. Dr. Somers made a professional call here Tuesday. Chas Hocker and wife ;o fDecatur spent Xmas with Joseph P. Johnson. Velma Peterson of Ft. Wayne spent Xmas with her parents Mr. aud Mrs. Joseph Peterson. Wm. Lobsiger of Detroit, visited hii l>arents Mr, and Mrs. John Lobsige.' this week. Blanche Graham went to Richmond Wednesday. Mrs. Sadie Roop of Decatur visited Airs. J, A. Hendrick’s Thursday. M>ren Burkhead entertained Otis Hocker and family; Herb Parrish and family; Mrs. Jestine Hocker; Mrs. Maucy Jane Parrish at a Xmas turkeydinner. z -. Mrs. Merit turret of Toledo, is visit ing her sister Mis.. Ruth Gilbert . Sylvester Everhart, Robert Meyer, and Alford Beavers local teachers, are now engaged in selling a |pte edition of New Method Books. A U. S. Dollar Goes . A Long Way In Germany Warsaw, Dec. ZB.—One l ulled ■ States dollar purchased more* than 4,-| Ooo.tgHi.ooo.UOU marks when sent to I Hamburg, Germany, by John Erfurt, Warsaw. It engaged the services of the entire police force in a town near that city, provided funds to stage a big party; bought cigars at 5.000,000

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i- marks each, one pound of meat ut 2,000,000,000 marks and a loaf of bread ! at 1,200,000,000 marks uud there were ;■ still half of the marks exchanged for the dollar remaining to be spent. But the dollar did more than that, for it helped locate Erfurt’s parents I and brother, who had been lost from ■ him for nine years. t John Erfurt left Germany early in 1914. Some time after his arrival I here the world war broke out. All communication with bis family was cut off during the conflict and after i the armistice was signed and mail service resumed between the Vjlited Slate and Germany, letters he sent ! to his relatives were returned as tindeliverqjile. Erfurt, however, was not convinced that his relatives were dead and fin ally conceived the idea of sending the dollar to Hamburg to be converted into marks. He has received a letter from his father telling of all the things the lone dollar performed and hus followed it up with other American greenbacks with a view to aiding his parents. o —- x Shooting Boy To Save Soul From Crime Fails Chcago, Dec. 28. —Mrs. Rose Simiz, a Hungarian who last August shot her son, Desco, 19, "to save his soul from .crime,” learned today her experiment had failed. He was apprehended while trying lo hold up a storekeeper, it was said. "Desco was a good boy at heart,” Mrs. Simiz said after shooting her son. “But neighborhood environment and bad company proved his undoing.” • Desco recovered aud promised to become a good citizen. His mother was exonerated, the state's attorney declaring “it appears tbut this woman, through supreme sacrifice, has changed a potential bad man into a useful citizen." Today Desco pleaded with police. “Don't tell mother,'' he asked them. I “It will kill her.". But Mrs. Simiz knows. ■ > — Ruth Frisinger Wins Honors In Athletics Bloomington. Ind.. Dec. 28. —While a tremendous amount of attention has been given during the fall months to .men's athletics at Indiana university, it will be interesting to note that Miss Ruth Frisinger. of Decatur, has won honors at the state university in the field of womens athletics. Miss Frisinger. through proficiency shown in various branches of sports and physicial training holds membership in the Women's Athletic Association. a group of about 125 young women students who have earned and maintained their membership by .

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