Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 11 January 1924 — Page 3

Indiana Has 31,802 Miles Os flood Ronds (United Press Servtc ) Indianapolis. Jan. 11.--The 'itnto of Indiana has 31.502 miles of improved I lada. 4,138 or which nr.' maintained pysn inalically by the State high way commission, according to a uiil'-.r ■ list announced at the statchon. • to day. Os the total mileage, l‘H iniles 1.1 roads were coimtructed in 1922 ;. a ro st of approximately s4,'.c (l.ouit. The 1924 program call, for 4 i miles of hard ami graded In: I<>. at a cost of more titan |U»,OOO,Oeo. A forge part °f the revenue for Hi! pro pram is to come stem the state gmo line tax and the anto llu i let's. Tho constitutionality of the litter

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art Is now being fought out in the i eoi.rts, but slate highway officii I ,'; tiro preparing to go ahead with tin : !program iri originally planned. . The federal government reim 1 i buries the Hite for one half of the! total expenditures an it:.; pari it con I stria ting ,i national. system mar ! Ikets highways. Marion county leads Indiana In Ute! 'number of Improved roadi, the mil" ■ in e report, shows Thme ar' 1.<112 piillen of improved highways in the ■ county, Grant county i.i aeeittid with Inns niih s.. Others coaniies include: Clinton! 1,4 47; Wills, .‘00; Hamilton. 79<); I Adams 747.69; Parke, 735; Greene. 725; laiwri he<, 70b; Tipton, 071.5;' I’eone. (isl; Knox. 004.5; llartholoI in< w. 5o<»; Blackford, 240; < lay. itnre-l I ported; Daviess, 422; De atur, 405:.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1924.

i : Delaware, unreported; Elkhart, unreported; Gibson, 4ml; Henry, 440; .Jasper, 450; Jay, 512; Koselnsho, 1f,4 'Lake. 045; l.npoite, 430; Marshall, 1289; Monroe, unreported; Montgorn"iy. (100; Morgan, 372; .bible. ft'.Hl; .I’l.tnian, unreporti <►, Rush, 335; I'l.cby, r.nrcporhd; f'.t. Joseph. 255; [Sullivan. 500; Tipton, 071; VanderI Isitrxh, 423; Vermillion, unreported; | Vigo. 555; Wab r-h; WayiV', 452; .Whitley, 2SO. o ALL OVER INDIANA (IT. f*. Staff Correspondent 1 Elwbod- Elwood no longer Im i a city engineer. When the term of J< hn D. Serif lit. 'last incumbent, expired, the council took no action. SheiL", -Joseph Cannon. SO, has , taken office as .sheriff id’ Martin county. He is a civil war veteran, and, unlike his famous namesake, "I'nele Joe'' Cannon, is n democrat. Dlufl'ton O. I). Moore, Muncie, and Charles Turner. local lad, won high honors in i district, checker tournament here. They will phiv against ith T checker kings in the stale tourney. . Vincennes J din E. Organ has received . it si pjxiint inent to West Point Ircm Congressman Arthur 11. Greenwood. Organ is a aophomow at Indiana university. Paoli- The Paoli Advance, a weekly. has been sold hy Its editor and publisher, T. J. Wright, to J. A. Key. Shelbyville. Wright will assume management of a new weekly in Bloomington. South Bend A winter carnival will be held here Tuesday.

| Court House Cross Complaint 111 the ease of Otto I', Hildebrand ’ vs. Jacob Kriitznuinn et al, an answer and cross-complaint .was filed to- <?:»>• by the* Bhwmker. Anlowers were filed by the plaintiff to lull of the cross-complaints of the other * def. nduni s. The cross- complaint of 1( Hie defendants, Gay, Zwlck & Myer. . I.elnke and Schltnun were dismissed ■is to tile defendant Royer. Estate Settled In the estate of Ulyssess S. G. s Cress, the final report of the ad " mfnistrutor was discharged. 11 Fuelling Will Probated ’’ The last will and testanmnt of Fred I’ucilinK was probated in court yes j ’’ lerday afternoon. The document I 11 provides that the threshing c> J if| nd all appliances be given Io th< I three sons, Henry W.; Fred E„ and! ' Otto Fuelling. The sum of $2,590 Is r iven 10 a son. Otto, and $2,000 tou: t daughter Minnie Franz, with the .■pacification that the two sums be! I ."aid wlth'n three years by the other; iwo sons, Henry W. and Fred E.. to t '.horn the real estate was bequeath j ( l cd. The remainder of the estus .; , ..olh p< tsonal and real, is to be dividp < d equally among the children. H inry n V. Fuelling was appointed executor i f the estate and he filed bond in th" I ,] : um "f 2.000. Real Estate Transfers - John W. Armantrout etux to Emma Steed. Jot 47 In Geneva, for $125. o German Spy Quizzed In Chicago Robbery Today Chicago, Jan. 11. —Albert Langner. < rack German spy during the world •ar charged by police with being the I brains of a sn a'l but daring band of < riiainals. was cross-examined today in the hope of recovering loot taken from several puhtiul homes here. i Langner already has < onte.i >ed to robbing the Lake Foreu home of Clive Gunnels, vice-president of the Pullman company, police announced. i Fred Desihart, another of the gang.

i luo is in custody, and a hunt is on ir a charm ter known as Berlin 'rank. i At the outskirts of the city l4,ngner maintain ‘d a cache for the gang's loot. Deschart told police. Deschart 1 ■ aid he could not lead the way to the l>laee. o Meet you at the K. of (’. haaar tonight. Come up and see he booths and beautiful pres- '< nts. o— Survey Shows Many Empty Farm Houses —— Columbia City, Jan. 11. —A survey lOtupleteil by the rural route mail iiarriers, out of the Columbia City ' ’ o» (office, shown thut there are 127 empty houses in the Whitley county rural district. Along one mail route. ! No. 3. going north out of Columbia ■ City, there are 25 vacant homes. BevI < ral other fanners are holding sales land leaving their homes, at least for • ,he coming year, claiming they can- ‘ not make enough to pay taxes nnd live. , ill Ul in To Reduce Illiteracy In America Muncie, Jun. IL—Arthur Ball, state lonimander of the American Legion, left Thursday for Washington. D. C. | where he will attend a national conference of represent at hes of educ , ationul movements called to plan a > program to reduce Illiteracy in ‘ America. The American IZKion will lu- one of the principal boilies participating in the conference, und is Its, original sponsor. On previous occasions, regional con- 1 fereticeM on the Illiteracy problem have been held throughout the nation. ] but heretofore no attempt hail been 1 made to conaMer Its uspect m nSectIng civil welfare. 0 1 ■' Asks Lrgionaires To Help Locate Nephew Indianapolis, Jun. It.—An appivtl I to the Legiotitilrea of Indiana to help j him find his nephew.’George Luther Vein h, has been made hy 11. F,. Man .non. rural toute No. 5. Chillicothe, Missouri. Veach is wanted nt ChilliI cot he to < iaim his share of an estate, 1 settlement of whhh will he held up j until he has been found or dec larecl legally dead. Veach was n member of Company ;F. Twenty-aocond Infantry. Followj Ing his dh.charge he went west tn j take up a claim nnd wns lust heard ; from nt Montrose, Colorado, lie la about twenty five years old. o / 1-1-6—WANT ADB EARN—I 6—l

| j One of Life’s i ♦ Ironies • . By JOHN PALMER : [ t 4 (&/, 1123, Western Newspaper union.) cp.JOMAS DEAN hud been an avernge young American before lie iviunturlly enlisted lu tlie Cutiudluu expeditionary force for service lu the wur. He hud probubly hud some trouble with his young wife uud enlisted in u moment of pique. He hud never discovered himself. Men nre cupable of-Infinite heroism, us intluite hugeness. The same ludi- \ iduul will display both. Deun hud been un average soldier, until the attack on Bel leu u Wood. Then, running forwurd in a shower i of lead and bursting shells, with Ins stomach upheaving uud un uwful sinking in Hie buse of his spine, Deun luund thut be could go no further. lie dropped. The result of lie utj tuck wus never known to him, He I i nly knew thut ut nightfall a vust silence had succeeded the bell 1 of euriler hours. All about him were dead men. t ruwllng forwurd, Dean encountered one of these corpses. The touch of l.ls hand upon the cold face terrified him Into hysteria. I However, Deun accomplished wbut :he bud set out to do. He exchanged i Identification disks with the dead sol- [ dier. Then he uiude ills way back to- | ward the reur. It was a time of rout and confusion. Regiments were undlstingutsiiuble. Every mun wus put to whatever job lie wus ut hund for. As u driver of a i uagun, Dean found himself u little ' luter buck ut tiie buse. He discovered that he wus Thomas ! Junes, incupacituted for further sarv- ' ice by reason of disability that hud : developed. He learned the symptoms I uud pussed the superficial medical ! test. A month later lie wus back in ; t'anuda. Another month, und he wus dlschurged —Tliumus Jones, with a I wur pension. A week luter he was fleeing for his life. The news of the Imposture had become known. As Henry Smith, Deun crossed the Aiuericun border. Thus an average young Amerleun who iiud quurreled with his wife found himself a nameless man and a fugitive—ull because he had not known himself. He might equully have become a hero. He Imagined that the story was known In tils home town. For years he wandered from place to place, until at length be thought it safe to re-

turn with the object of persuading Mary to accompany him West under the name of Smith. 11l fute was with him. lie arrived on armistice day. He tend not thought of that. It was simply an example of the fatality that dogs one's foolsteps. on the town green a memorial hud been erected to the men who fell in the war. In his shabby clothes, disguised with a mustache, Dean mlu- , gled with the crowd unrecognized. He wandered aimlessly to unti fro. looking at the statue with the wreaths, at the weeping women. He knew hine self more clearly than at any lime before for the scoundrel, that lie was. Presently bls heart jptve a great bound. He suw Mary—Mary, lean.ng on the arm of a young fellow whom he knew as a former friend of his — one Williams. They were walking very lovingly together. Heun watched them, choking, Incapable of moving as they approached him, even hud they recognized him. But they did not recognize him. They did not cast a glance at the shabby trump standing beside the monument, but halted a little distance •way. “I ought not to have brought you here today," said Williams. “I'm glad you did, my dear,” Mary answered. Another glance at their demeanor showed Dean that they were married. There was no possibility of mistaking that. Married? not long married, haje plly marrleu—Mary happy, as she hud never been with him. “I wish 1 had been a better wife to him.” "He wasn't worthy of you. Mary." “He was a good num. a brave man." The mayor appeared. He was standing on the steps of the monument. He raised his hand to speak, and a hush fell upon the crowd. The mayor was speaking. “Friends, we are gathered here today to commemorate tbo men who gave their Uvea for freedom-—" What was he saying? "And above all. that hero who gave his life gladly to wipe out that ma- , chine gun nest, at Belleeu Wood, that hero whose name will remain (minori tai, Thomas Dean." Trained to ths Minute. I “Some people are born unlucky. I see where an obstreperous citizen picked a quarrel with a dapper tittle man and got the thrashing of a life time.** "The dapper little man must have been an athlete." "You said It He was a drummer In a Jass orchestra." Put Cdgs on Knife. Guest—Waiter. thia steak Is like leather and thia knife Is dull. Walter—You must strop the knife on the steak.—Michigan Gargoyle Wasted Motion. Bunker—What's Ijutt chap who took sixteen putts at tlw fourth hole? j Caddie—That's Mr. Duhbe, the eftclency expert.

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