Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 62, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1924 — Page 6

FINAL CLASS GAMES TONIGHT Sophomores And Juniors Win Again In Second Round The Sophomore, unit Juniors were victorious again yesterday evening in !hf intel class basketball tourna menl being played at the new high school gymnasium. The second year lien downed the Freshmen 24 to 6, and the Seniors hud their dignity trampled under by the Juniors, score 14 to G. The final games of the tourney will be played this evening. The Sophomores will meet the Juniors in a game which will decide the inkerclass championship and the Seniors and Freshmen will determine which is to occupy the cellar berth. The first game will be played at 3:45 and

The Losing Side of Mail Order Trading How An lowa Farmer Lost Over $5,600 Killed the home town and lost his property value —a striking testimonial to the virtue of preserving local merchants.

» Hans Garbus, a German farmer of lowa, has discovered that the benefits which appear on the surface as attaching to the mail order plan sometimes spell disaster and has written a very interesting story of his views in a certain farm paper. Here is a part of his story: “We farmers need awakening to the fact that we have unmistakably' reached the period where we must think and plan. I am one of the slow: German farmers that had to be shown, and I am now giving my experience/ that others may profit, for knowledge is more expensive now than ten years ago. s ‘Twenty-nine years ago I began my farm career. I had an old team' 1 and .V»0. Our furniture was mostly home-made chairs, cupboard and lounge made from dry boxes, neatly covered with ten-cent creton by my girl wife. We rented eighty acres. Being a boy of good habits I got ail needed machinery and groceries of our home merchants on credit, until fall crops were sold. The first year was a wet season and I did not make enough to pay creditors. I went to each on date of promise and explained conditions, paying as much as possib'e, and they all carried the balance over another year. They continued t > accomodate me until I was able to buy a forty-acre piece of my own. “As soon as I owned these few ac’es the mail order houses began fending ine catalogs, and gradually 1 began sending my loose change to them, letting my accounts stand in my home town where I had gotten my accommodation when I needed it. “We then had one of the thriftiest little villages in the state—good line of business in all branches, merchants who were willing to help an honest feHo wover a bad year, and a town full of people who came twice a week to trade and visit. Our little country town supported a library, high school, ball team, and we had big celebrations every year. “A farm near a live town soon d >ublcs in value. I sold my forty acres a< a big advance and bought an eighty, gradually ading to it until I had 200 acres of the best land in liwa. I then felt no need of asking favois, and found it easy to patronize t ie mail order agents that came almost weekly to our door. I regret to say that I was the first in the country to make un a neighborhood bill and send it to a mail order house. ’Though we got bit every once in a while, we git in the habit of sending away for stuff. "Gradually our merchants lessened their sto k of good*—for lack of patronage. Finally we rgan to realize that when we needed a bolt quickly for machinery, or clothing for aickneaa or ,lea 'h. we bad to wait and send away for it. whi’h wasn't so pleasant. One hv one our merchants r’’’'’’*."here they were appreciated, anti men of less energy moved in. Gradually our oun has gone down; our business houses are •larky’ in appearance, a number are emptv; our c oots, churches and walks are going down, we have no band, no librarv nor ball team. There is t r .«i r I** * n '*** «»*■". and therefore no taxes to keep things up. Hotel is closed for lack of packages* 0 < ’ QWn to "hen the freight pulls in and you will see the sequel in mail order ttr.7 »° m - v Jar was worth $195 an acre; today I'd have a hard matter to sell it at wants n nlarl Jith'u fr ? m “ •«*»’—so even farmer has said that wants to buy. He ened to th.- fa. ’th.tin h' hur [. h ’“‘’ wherc hls children can have advantages. I have awakened to the fact that in helping to pull the town down it has cost me $5,600 in nine years." •

the second contest at 4:45. Uncaps and summaries of yesterday's games: 1 Sophomores 24 Freshmen G Beal F Acker Baker F (’ovnnlt j Bi-boul <’ McGill Mosure <1 Welker Bcgnet (lAnderson Subst Hut ions: Sophomores Strickler for .Mosure; Freshmen- Baum • gariner lor Covaull. Covaull for Me ; Gill, Bi II for Covaull. Field goals: j Beal, 2: Baker, 2; i Mosure, 2; Stiickler, 3; Baumgartner • I. , Free throws: Beal, 1; Baker, 3; Mo 11. C, 1; Bogner, 1; Acker, 3; ■ Baumgartner. 1. Referee: ('oath Howard. I Senior G Juniors 14 Chase ...F*. Ford Hunt F Leonard Singleton .(' Hunsicker . Holmes G Breiner Spuller G Wittgenfeld Substitutions: Seniors—Beavers for Hunt, Hill for Singleton: Juniors—

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Lnwso'n for Ford, Matbaugh for Hunsicker. Fee for Wittgenfeld. Field goals: Chase, 1; Ford. 2; Leonard. 2; Wittgenfeld. 1. Free throws: Chase ,4; Leonard, 1; Hunsicker, 1; Breiner, 2. Referee: Couth Howard. o— — Escaped Convicts Are Being Sought Near Here Portland, Ind., March 12.- Henry Zenick, 22, and William Milnor, 28, escaped convicts from Chelsea Barracks, Mich., are being sought by Hal Ayres, state motor policeman, of this city, ami other officials, as they have been trailed to Adams and Jay counties to Greenville, (),, jind thence to Allen county, where the trail was lost yesterday. The convicts, serving sentences for larceny ami burglary, stole n Chevrolet machine at Chelsea. Mich., belonging to W. B. Schank, and later abandoned it along the Wabash river near Geneva. laist Sunday, a week

ago. they stole a fjord touring car, belonging to James Miller, of Jay City, this county nnd are now driving this machine in their flight from the officers, Milner's wife Is with them. It was learned by Policeman Avres ; that the fugitives had been given shelter at the Dines home, east of Bry-j ant. for several days; also ihat they had been in Pori land, where they fre-, quented a pool room. They were rec-■ ognized from pictures in the posses-1 Sion of Policeman Ayres. They left here and went back to Richmond and thence to Greenville, Ohio, coming I back to the home of Goldia Rupp, north of Decatur, where Zenick was 1 tn hiding for four weeks, and thence on into Allen county. Rewards of fillo have been offered for the capture of each of the con victs by the Michigan prison anthorlt les. ■ ' o — Peru —The John Robinson and Sells Kioto circuses me preparing for opening performances April Ist. The wild nnimul acts are being rehearsed daily.

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Parker Is New Captain Os I. U. Basketball Team Bloomington. March 12.—Paul P« rk ' er, center on the Indiana I nivorsity basketball team,- last night was elected captain of the 1924-25 team at a meeting of letter men. Parker is «, junior and has been varsity centerj for two years. He is from Kokomo, Indiana. Dunkirk— Bankable notes ami sei-ur (ties and cash amounting to si.7*io were discovered in the hoim of Mrs. Illigabeth Willshire, aged recluse who wus found dead. The coroner said the bad suffered from lack of food and warmth.

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