Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1924 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller—Pres, and Gen. Mgr. K. \V. Kanipe—Vlce-Pres. & Adv. Mgr. A. 11. Holt^use —Sec’y. and Bub. 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 25.00 Ono Month, by mall _..._.._35 cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mail $1.75 Ouo 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 Rates Made Known on Application. Foreign Representative Carpenter & Company, 133 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Fifth Avenue Bldg., New York City, N. Y. Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. A seven-year-old boy is preaching in Maryland and Delaware. He can read only the simple words of the primer, but his sermons are said to be convincing and wonderful and his only explanation is that the words just come to him. Explain it if you can. , The weather may not just exactly suit you but that's no reason for not attending church, in these days when the newspapers arc filled with sensations of about every kind imaginable. It seems that about the best thing for everyone i 8 to turn to the oldfashioned way of living and worshiping. Try it tomorrow. There is one thing sure about the democratic national convention which opens in Madison Square Garden next Tuesday. It has not been fixed up in advance. There are a dozen candidates and as many dark horses, there will be a battle on rules and one on platform and plen*y of matters to make it n red hot convention. All matters will be tlecided by the delegates and not by any previous arrangement or orders. Every business man who wants to ] increase his business can do it by a judicious and sensible use of advertising. When business drops off you can attract attention of the buyIng public easily if you will give some thought to it. The wise merchants look their stock over and announce to the public the timely article and the right priee. it has worked for a hundred years and ft will work now. One of these days those who desire to assist this community will be ask < d to become a member of the Hard-' ing Highway Association of. Indiana j and pay the sum of five dollars. The! money thus raised will be used fur I murking and advertising the road and those back of the organization will use their united efforts to secure the ini- 1 provetnent of the highway across the' state. We lielieve our citizens will: resjH.nd to this appeal as they always l have for those thing* best fur the* community. It is well to remember that a lot of the report* you read just now from New York regarding the democratic convention is propaganda pure and unadulterated. They talk a lot about the ktan and the religious attitude of leaders, the proposed platform and the bonnes an daUer all it Is just a convention of earnest men who will try to work oat the beat ticket and the bc*t platform for they want to win. It Is will to remember when reading tk* advance notices that at least no one ta In <ontrol an dthe delegates them selves wilt decide who is who and whas ta what. •hit a few days more until the on enlng program Is offered by the Com* inanity Chautauqua. Those better able to Judge than we are, tell u* that the number* are the best ever offern*t here. There is a variation that trill please everybody, splendid music. the heat lectures, excellent plays, special features and a wonderful juvenile department. The ticket sate is

Flashlights of Famous People

Face toOFace r. With A1 Jolson r His Songs Have Broken Records on Phonograph Sales (By Joe Mitchell Chappie) 1 A few minutes before the night per- * foiVnnnce A1 Jolson whs chutti jig with 1 friends on the Broadway curb telling > them of hlamexperiences in motion • pictures that day, and he was gnihor--1 ing "stop-press" events for that night. ! "1 love to gut something new and come close to my audience and sing and talk to them as I would at home.” su!d A1 Jolson us he left his dressing room for the “flying bridge" in front of the footlights. loiter his r'ch voice tilled the house with "Bombo" arias, but the charm of his personality predominated. Perspiring freely he sang and chatted as If he were glad to see the old friends in front. Coming off stage ami pulling off his, wig for n few minutes' breatlvngj spell he continued, "There Is nothing I ke a little song to reach the hearts' of people. Audiences enjoy the fun 1 with me, but I cannot reach them al-| together until I begin singing." Little Asa Yoelson, son of a Jewish cantor in Washington, I). C.. played truant from the home in which his father sought to restrict his childish education and started out to study foal life around the railroad yurdsj and the wharves. A self-made ch id j of the streets, little Asa was endowed with a remarkable voice that his father had cultivated. When Wilton Lackayo came to the ’ Capitol with "Children of the Ghetto" i and needed some street children as 1 suiters In the production he found A1 Jolson. for A1 Jolson and Asa Yoelson ! are two names for one very Interest- ! ing man. After the first plunge Jolson and hie brother Harry sang in restaurants and followed street carnivals tinHl the Spanish-Amerlcan War. Jolson wanted to enlist and they told him he was too young, but he became the singer mascot for a regiment where he en-j ts rtained the soldiers. The Walter i L. Main circus, in which he was a ‘ concert performer win his field. He! sold papers and sang in the back! rooms of saloon* In Baltimore. Fath-J er Yoelson had detectives searching for him and he was raught in Baltimore and taken home, hut he escaped I again, and Joined a burlesque company. While he was plavjig in a

Editor's Note: S?nd ten names cf your favorite famout folk r.ow liv.nq to Joe Mitchell Chappie. The Attic. Waldorf Astoria Hotel. New York C<ty. Tht | ' read-r* nf thl* paper are tn nr.minste for this H»ll of Fa*re. >

now on and you are urged to secure < yours at once. The committee and the special representatives who are here have been working for several ‘ days. They report good succes* but we have not yet gone over the top. F iy your tickets and make every one feet good. Member* of the Moose lodge here are making an effort to put on an old fashioned Fourth of July celebration. They have arranged a program that should Include some thing of interest I to every one, races, speeches, drill*. I free acts, fire works and a good time i for two day*, the Fourth und fifth, i They will present the program with two ideas In view, first to provide a clean and wholesome entertainment for the people and 'second to secure; | funds for the building of their pro*j ' |M>Hcd new home. They are hastier*, ' on the level believe In giving you your money's worth and deserve your hearty support. Flan to picnic at Beilmont park Friday and Saturday. July 4th and sth. You will have a good lime and help a good cause. —

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’ iXt” iiSssT I .... ■ >.yAL JOLSON says: ! “It is a thrill to get up close to an . audience and sing to them, as you; would at home around your own piano." little Brooklyn theatre on small time a I’oli circuit man recognized his talent. He became a black-face cornedtun and made u hit from the start. A! long line of successes followed )(*ad-| Ing to the installation in h s own ! theatre in “Bombo." "How do you manage to keep your i jokes so fresh night after night?" j “Thinking of- my audience all day long, using my eyes and wondering j w hat they would like to have me talk ' about that night. I mention every- | thing thati conies to my in'nd. Henry j Ward Beecher said. 'Always speak j that which Is uppermost n vour mind to your audience,' and I a:u willing j to follow Henry." , This little bundle of nerves can i command all the dignity of a Senator |ln his native Washington. He has]; j sparkling dark eyes and a family of i: i children that dote on the'r jolly little n I daddy. A1 Jolson Is a whole show in lr’ni- j self. There Is a chorus, scenery, and i ! a plot that no one understands, but I I they count only as background. In- I cju*e after all it is only "an evening i [with A1 Jolson.” that the audience - seek. I! "What pleases you most in your! ! work?" : "When I feel that the audience is ! j all with me rea-17 to laugh or cry. to I shout or do anything that the Impulse ( cf the moment inspires—it thrills m9.l] [ Os .cn after a strenuous two or thro** ! hours on the stage I .Ini loathe to sayji I good night —for people nre 'Just l, folks' after a’.»." The audience* tinners after Al Jol-l-son hds fini.-hed and slowly leave the j theater humming lit* songs that *lg-|l nal the aid society page phru-e. "And < all present had an enjoyable evening."!<

cert. ‘ ]< WTAM. Cleveland. (309 M) 9 P- m. _ _ _ . .. „„„... . S. T.) —the \\*.\K dunce or-1 chectrs and Amplon quartet In a ] popular program. Sunday's Program WEAA. Dsßa*. (476 Mri !• p m. (I. jS. T.) —G«r» cfcurch double quartet and orchestra. WOH, Jefferson City, f44i<9> S p. m. IC. S. T)—l'nlon open air servfco* with Missouri state pmiltentiary land, i WBAF. New V..tk, .V 2 M) 639 ;p. tu. (K. S. T.t Ihrograru frutn th*iCapitol theater. N< w York. ISP. St. 1-oul.v. (546 ill S p. Ut. <(\ S T.)—Musical program from the Grand Central theater. WII*. Philadelphia. <s:>9 M) S:3O p Im. (E. 8. T.)—Special Sunday .eveni ing concert, IFjIVVuLMITj nfel nl 2 _ * THE CARPENTER

Seven iwmm«*r»i. Overalls. Little bn* of nail*. Hammer. Raw. Odd end* of boards, that never fall*. One day II L an airplane He*l*n.—original* Ootn’ to 8y around the world,— 8«e there a place for Fait" tPal’a h*a doc.—companion; friend. He’d «bare with I’al hi* bed; And If he had only one crust Would *e* that Pal wa* fed ! Nest day he hutld* a martttehuuM Out tn hi* little shop But neither bird not boy could ten The bot’ont from the top, Today tt la a rover for Hl* little toy espreaa But how he’ll ever make tt fit No grownup man could gueaa, ’ f wonder if tong year* ago fkevnnd the ocean blue Another mother * Httle boy Flayed carpenter Phe yon —A. D. Burkett

+ + .;. + ** + + + + * + + + + TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY + + , * + From the Daily Democrat files + * 20 years ago this day + + ♦ + + ♦ + ** + ♦♦♦ + June 31 —Ellhti Root is temporary chairtmt nos republican national convention and Joseph Cannon permanent chairman. Three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Mogley falls in cistern and reamed by hla mother who hears screams. — O. G. Hall opens pool room on Monroe street. Twenty-five Van Wert ladles inloy initintion of candidates in Poco- 1 hontas lodge here. Albert Hraclit arrives home from ' three years in the Pbtlllplne*. Miss Ilessie Krlck goes to Gar- ' rett to attend Epworth League con- 1 ventlon. city council extends time limit to complete traction ine. one year. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Anderson ' are attending the World Fair at St. Louts. • Mr. and Mrs. Dick Christen of Omaha, Neb. arrive for visit. | o 1 “If Y’ou Talk In Your Sleep Don’t Mention Mv Name”; But He Did i ■ (United TrcsT Service) 1 Chicago, June 21 —(Special to Daily* Democrat) —Dr. Robert K. Schaefer,l 33, had pa d heed to the old ditty "If you talk in your sleep don’t mention I niy name"— j Dr. Schaefer is In jail here today, charged with bigamy, all because he talked <n hr# sleep of "Shirley."' The doctor said many sweet things alMiut and to “Shirley,” Mrs. Cecllel Schaefer told police, for she took I notes and will present them in court when the bigamy case Is disposed of and divorce proceedings aro under way. “Shirley" is Shirley Marie Blee of Kansas City, Mr*. Schaefer said. De-jl teetives who arrested Dr. Schaefer;' said their prisoner admitted havingi 1 gone through a marriage ceremony! ! with the Kansas Clip* girl last Junu- ' arv 12. Dr. Schaefer said be thought his wife had divorced him. Mrs. Schafer No. 1 said she* found I I a note from Shirley Marie Blee to ' her husband reading: 1 “Hello Bobby, Dartin', are you mamma’s little baby boy tonight and 1 do you love her-a whole, big lot?" |< Several other tethers are in pos-j' .ses.ilof Mis. Schaefer. Hr Schaefer ,s a member of the! ! faculty of the Kansas City University] cl Physicians and Surgeou* and main-' ta n* offices in Kansas City and Chi- ' ••ago, Mrs. Schaefer said. She be- 1 came suspicious of his prolonged vis-1 ' its to Kunsus City and discovery of hi* bjramous marriage .fullowed gov- I eral nights of s!e**pd*lking, she said. SEVERAL RAGE HORSES ARRIVE Bonn Training For July I Races; Hix Entertain- i< ments Promised Several race horses which will be; entered in the Moose Rare meet. July] 4tb and sth. at Beilmont park arrtv-i.-d here yesterdov and are -tabled at] the burn* at the park. Walter Wlk in-on. dicta'ora of the] Moose lodge and general manager of I [the Moose Festival and race meet, j I was at Montpelier yesterday and Ihh tired Jack W nan*, fantna* race ] horse man to act as the official start,.r for the btg races. Winans has had) l experience on the grand circuit, it Is cab], and i* one of the capable start-, err In the gams. Mr. WUka*«n also secured two I race kur»e entries at Montpelier yea ( I trtday. bt nginc the number to date UP to 42. Jack Mctbera, weft known I horseman of this rl'jf, trill act as the I superintendent of the race*. The I track at the pttrk ta being put in! I shape for the meet and plan* made *|for one of the biggest entertainment*] I in the history of Decatur. Firtwork* at Night I The fireworks display, to be yv»n! lon the nights of July 4th and sth. I will be, without doubt, the biggest l and most spcctacntar program ever I given in this rity. In addition la the j program futn sheii by the iillnots |Ft reworks display company of IhinI vtUe 111 not*, tin* Moose havo ar* W |t*ng«d for serrral *peclal pieces. th» 1' Mnoi# pmht* to a likeness nf Pr« dent t'oolidae and several other large l nieces The regular program con- ] cists of 54 numbers. 1m lading many I set pieces, and an aerial program ol ] |ft, 14, IS and 1 inch aerial shell* and rockets Among some ol the f.re works displays will he the following: fainting the Flag of our Country | The World la Rotation. Moon Wheels

I Train Yellowstone WondI ors, Land oi' the Midnight Sun, Oriental Cascade Fountain, Mosaic Seta, Niagara Falls, Devi! Wheels, Fountain of bight, Monarehs of the Air. Electric Summer Storm. Azotic Fountain, Crazy Wheels, Sfiootlng Galleries. Jewel Fountain, Palm Fountain, The Bombardment of Verdun. Many Free Attractions In addition to the three races each afternoon and the fireworks at night, there will he free acta in front of the era ns'and each afternoon and evening an effort is being made to secure the famous Moose degree team from Ft. Wayne to put on a practice drill in front of the grandstand. The free arts will be furnished by Glenn and Ford Rcrobnte and trapeeze prrformers. who will give two separate acts each afternoon anil evening. Their act is one of the best on the platform. . The Lilt's amusement company, which opens a week's engagement at the park beginning Monday, June 3tr, will also be on the grounds on July •4th and sth and will afford amusements of all kinds for the visitors. They have twenty-five concessions and five or six shows, merry-go-round ferris wheel and other devices for the j amusement of the crowd. A number of Moose from nearby cities will send delegations here for the two-day event and a prize will he I given to the lodge having the largest delegation present. The Moose nre planning to entertain several thour-1 and people on the Fourth and July ] sth. HOME TALENT j WINS APPROVAL 1 Audience Enjoys Performance Os “Daddy Lon£lex*” Last Nixht Although the weather interfered greatly with the attendance, the home talent production. “Daddy Lonslcgs.” given at the high school auditorium last night by the Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian church, was a great sucresW- Bevery one of the few hundred people present greatly enjoyed the play, as was evidenced by the prolonged clieer.ng at> frequent Intervals. There are four acts to the play. The stogy deals with a young girl In an orphan's home, who Is taken from the home and‘educated in a girl’s school by a rich young trustee of the orphan's home. The trustee keeps his identity a secret to the girt, she knowing him only as Daddy lamglegt. He visit* the girls' school under the pretense of visiting his niece, and a lore affair Immediately starts between the trustee and the orphan girl. The Identity of the girl’s benefactor remains a secret to her until the close of the play when she finally learns the true identity of Daddy Longlegs. Alt of the cararters in the play did rcmgrkably well. There was very little prompting ta do. although the play is long and difficult, and the action was peppy and well timed throughout. The leading roles were played by Miss Helen Kocher and Charles Lamm!man. and both handled their parts in fine fashion. They were assisted by an able caste. Mrs* Floy Utair coached the play. The proceed* Hum the play will be used by the young people In defraying expenses of those who attend the Young Peonies’ Conference to be held I at Lake Winona this summer. Stray Bits of Wiadont Life la u problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem, 1 right °r wrung—■> O A'iam«

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Court House I Guardia Appointed Rudolph Schug, of Berne, today was appoited guardian for William Rrewster, ago 17, a minor heir of Charles W. Brewster, late of Allen county. Mr. Schug filed bond in tho sum of $(125. Marriage Licenses William Mulching, pipe line employe, Vera Cruz, to Ilessio May Ileffe, Geneva. Vilas Lugintiill,"farmer, Blue Creek f ttsiita POPHAM’S i THMA REMEDY! Prompt ami Positive Relief In Ever* S ! i UaM. SolilbyDruifirmts. Price 11.00. 3 Trial Package Ly Mall 10c. J WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Prop*. Cleveland, 0. ■ For Salo ENTERPRISE DRUG CO. 1

The Cert I T-H-E-A-T-R-E I Matinee Every Afternoon At '2:30. Evening Show \, 7 ,w, ■ Saturday Matinee At 2:00. Saturday Evening At iV : J ■ ta rnrur - “high sHEEir - I I i I Universal featuring H IY/lllUMi Herbert Kawlinson ■ “OWN A LOT,” A Clever Comedy. BB S# Reels Fox News Vk-Ut I MONDJY Film' I ! ANU TUESDAY ■ “THUNDERING DAWN * A bSfr producUoß ■ Universal Special, featuring featuring R J. Warren Kerrigan.. l ranklyn Farnum ■ Anna Q. Nilsson, Tom ■ Sant chi and many others. Konmneo of the pi.i:-is and i B I h** moat spectacular love dra- ro’iel: riding, ami a rapid fire fIH ms ever filmed! Gripping and story or strenuous lc.v>- tiaUn. Hi iml-tating! A glamorous love *' picture that touch- < tin liear*. story unfolded amid the* awe- snugs. j^H inspiring fitrles of crashing . .. H storms and devastating tidal lave in HH . . , . . * A _,„ M | rO . M , ~v * H “Tin Knights in a Hallroom” * N ‘- V - s with Percy and Ferdie. y «.* _ BH II Reels Fox News ' 9 Rests loe-2St WEDNESDAY I ANDTUItDOnBY THE BA<K muL " 1 I nUnuUn I A big Western with ■ “PAINTED PEOPLE” Jack Hoxie I 7 reel First National A photoplay of ti -ut H featuring _ w I Colleen Moore West where nu n ar. tmn. ■ The "Flaming Youth” girt in You'll I ke It. B| Tift ill*, heart throbs, laughter H and happy tear* in s love ro- “Such is Life” H mance of thu fich and the poor. H the painted people und the .Comedy with Baby !*• ggy. H shanty folk. ...... H “Itarnum Junior” I A cl* -.sr comedy. g g c ,|| ICc 2S* H 9 Reels 10e-25e ■ Coming jj y y 5 Harold Lloyd I In “GIRL SHY” I

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