Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1925 — Page 6

80$ CATHOLIC HIGH TO PLAY GIBAULT Catholic High Team From Vincennes To Play Here Next Monday Catholic high school has schcdul<><l a basketball game with the Gibault Catholic high school team at Vincennes, to bo played in this city next Monday evening. February recording to an announcement made today. The Gibault team Is rated as < tie of th<* Stiongist Catholic high' school quintets in the southern part of the state. Gibault and Cathedral, of Indianapolis have played two. games this season, each winning: one contest. The local Catholic eagers are gain-' Ing state wide recognition through the record made so far this season A request for a game was received f-om the Catholic high school of Washington. Indiana, but was turned down. The local eagers will go tn Indianapolis on Friday evening to play’ a return game with Cathedral High. The players are all in good.

condition following Xho game with C. C H. S. last Saturday night with th'exception of Wernhoff, who broke a bone in the wrist in the game at I Berne Friday night of last week 1 Moyers is fitting in well in the for ■ward position, however. • Local Fans To Follow Leaders To Bluffton — Many Decatur fans will accompany the Decatur Leaders to Bluffton tonight to see the Leaders play the Bluffton Phi Delts. Tim Leaders have won two of the three games played between the two teams this season and are out to make it four victories tonight and thereby clinch the series The Leaders will not play at homo this week. / , Field Goals By Mark M. Upp Every team can stand just so manv defeats, it seems, and then cut loose with a world beater. Examples— Wabash high school and Indiana University. If Portland high school cag ers, who have los' nine games and won none this season, have any such high explosive in their systems, we hope they get rid of it before they 1 invade this < Ity for a set-to with the! Yellow Jackets 0.1 February 13. By the way, Feb. 13 also is Friday. I [ anyone superstitious'.’ The victorious record of Catholic High has been heralded far already. Requests for games have come from Catholic high schools in Vincennes and Washington, Indiana. A game was

scheduled with Gibault of Vincennes for next Monday night. [ I M Coach Kennedy will be forced to B play second string men against Berne B Friday night, because his regulars will B have there allotted number of twenty B games besides that one. Berne is B going big too, and the Yellow Jacket ■ seconds w 11 have to step lively to.'K bring home the bacon. a I Listen to Tip Offs, the Bluffton I News columnist, spout off: 11 "Borne wins the Adams county:! tournament! Not so long ago Bluff R ton high's second team defeated I Berne without much trouble, and to I think Berne carried away the Ad il ams county honors seems incredible. (I We haven’t heard yet what two teams I from Wells county go to the Decatur 11 district tourney but we are satisfied I that almost any one of the Wells I county teams stand to win the dis- 1 trict tousney at Decatur. Therefore. ; it appears. Well county has good ( chances of having two teams In the I regional tourney at Fort Wayne.” Portland must have a high financier besides M. S. Hawkins, judging from the outlay of basketball stars the Portland Inde- i pendents are corraling for the 1 game with the Muncie Merchants at Portland tonight. In the 1 Portland lineup will be Slum I Gullion, Paul White, and Shaw, a I star with the Indianapolis H. A. I C.* qvhrtet, besides -AfTh«r61 l ig‘aW* "Bully” Oren, who have been ,

performing with the Portland five 1 It's about lime lor the annual dark I lie, parade to st-irl. PrclTessor, a that flu-re is plenty of ttaw in those stnlht We re goiti" over and play with Out <>f Bounds and Tip Gil's tonight and iniidently see tin Leaders lick thi’-l Phi Iw-lts. See you tomorrow and ' tell you aliont it. - .... o— n . ... Football Profit At Michigan Is *95,000 Ann Arbor. Football receipts carried all the sports at the I’niversity of Michigan and yielded a profit of st(s.imn. the report for the part year shows. •* Gottschalk To Play On Legislature Net Team iCNITLI' PRESS SI'IIVK I.’i Indianapolis, Jan. 27. The .slate ; hgislatitre is go nt' to have a basket ball team. Representative Kenney, of New. ! Albany, is at work organizing a minority team of Democrats in'the house. I His tentative lineup consists of:

Kitch and Kenney, forwards: Gottschalk, center, and Hoffman and Kincaid, guards. Speaker Leslie, a Republican, agreed on Representative Claypool as timekeeper. Dates for the minority team to ■ meet the Republican quintet have not ! been announced. « Report Intruders At Three Homes In City At least three offenses against the law occured in this city Sunday night, according to reports, but only one of them wus reported to the po ; lice. Night Policeman Sephus Melchi was (ailed to the Frank Straub home in the northwest part of the city about midnight Sunday night Mr. Straub’s sister, who resides in onehalf of the house, reported that a few men. alleged to be intoxicated, had broken down the door to her house when she refused to open it for them. Tlie men were gone wlien the officer arrived and no affidavit has been filed in the case although the names of the ipen were known by the woman. It was reported in various places that a lady had been attacked by a stranger at her home in this city Sunday night, and was rendered unconscious by a blow on the head, but no r< pon was made to the police, ami. although they have investigated on the strength of the rumor, no lavis. in support of the ritmor have been learned. Eno I ..'.i nau. superintendent of the G. E. plant in this city, stated that the basement of his residence at 703 North Third street was entered by intruders sometime Sunday night, but that they had failed to gain entrance to the tipper part of the house a- the bisement door was locked. A pa r of rubbers was left in the basement .by the intruders. The police had nd report of the attempted burglary. o— Jefferson Center News Mr. Gerald Farlow and Miss Lulu Boltenbacher spent Saturday evening with Mr. Harvy Baker and family. •Jefferson Center basketball team was defeated Saturday by the Monmouth team, in the county tourney.

I The ADAMS Theatre | I TONIGHT ONLY I “ THE I I® BATTLING ORIOLES” | with Glenn Tryon A gay and spirited romance, a laughter coated pill of philosophy—and the pennant winning funmaker of the year! . Jg The hilarious story of a flock of once gay. old Birds wi known as “The Battling Orioles” the hardest hitting raj y ball team in suits—in 1871—who after fifty years of ;$) L jouty, and grouchy retirement are rejuvenated and ■ ’egain their old time batting average. <1 —IT’S A HOME RUN FOR HAPPINESS. ; ■ v O 10e ..... 25c p £ V-’e-’L. Thrrs.—“The story Without A Name”

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| A number of friends were enter I,lined nt the home of Miss Lulu Hollenhacher Sunday afternoon. Those , present were the Misses Bernelce Kulm. Esther Bollenbacher and Anna Berger, ami Mpmo Vernon and Archie Bollenbacher. Alta. Cleriild and Ernest Farlow, of Rockford. Ohio, pent Suml.iy with I Mr and Mr’ Grorv.,* Conk ami lam- : ily near Berne. j An epidemic of dihkui-pox in pre- , vailing in Jefferson Center. — . a Walh Has Eye On Race For Governor In 192 R (UNITED PRESS SERVJCID Indianapolis. Jan. 27. — Clyde A. Walb, Republican state chairman, with an eye on the governorship race four years from now. is keeping his car close to the ground for the trend !of ev, nt ill the legislature. Walb,. it was learned today, has I ri'.'ir.-u ntiilive. on the job day and night at the capital and is keeping i record of all the legislators, their ‘ - ote and committee assignments and altitude toward various measures. I In a letter to mi fnbers of the legislature Walb today again urged them to he'd down expenses of the sess'on by completing their work in less than the sixty-one days permitted tinder the i onstitution. ' Hi- letter set forth the expenses of every session during the past ten years and said the legislature should no: exceed the expenses of the 1923 sec-ion, which wore SIOI,OOO. Walb, according to political gos- • ip, lias picked the George V. Coflin faction of the Republican party in .ItlYion county as the winner in the tai-tion.il squabble, with lhe result I that Coffin is regarded by the state I organization as the regularly elected' county chairman. Although both sides in the factionNEW CORN BELT IS IN NORTH DAKOTA ON LOW-COST LAND A new corn belt has developed in America. North Dakota increased its acreage devoted to corn production over 11*0% in the last five years. In 1 !24, North Dakota produced 34,720,000 I-.| S l cis of corn, and hogs valued at $t:,850,0C0. North Dakota smiles with prosperity. In 1924, it produced in new wealth firm agriculture $560 for every man, . woman and child in the state. The ' average for the ILS. A- as a whole is I about S3OO. . L. a -cost farm lands, millions of l acres o* it. can be purchased now in | North Dakt. a under favorable circumi rtunitv knocks but once."some i great man said. Probably North Da- ' l.ata farm lard will never be so cheap j again.. for good farmers, opportunities to s icceed and prosper in North Dakota, were never better. Our g faith is pledged to you to ir.-loyoo locate just the kind of a farm ' you v ish, and at the right price. Mail thi» coupon to H. W. Byerly, 120 Nor. Pec. Ry. Bldg. St Paul, Minn. i urn mill■( * I : Send ine a Free Book on North Irakota. : ' f I " Name — — • ? - Xdd/css . R.F.D. = i : lam rtderest'd in Northwest farm oppor- : 1 g tunic its. - 120:

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IX Where do all the people come from? . V she same places where all these har<7 gains are going! i /( Hl i I JOHN T. MYERS (<»'s. JANUARY '. 'I . ! S\I.E ON ITS LAST WEEK OF IN. V- TENSE BARGAINS AND INTENSI- / Mens Suits as low as $13.50 I Mens New Model O’coats from $10.95 to I $18.50. I Art ore can do the business we are iloin« D-ov’iiint! they are willing to give the reductions we are offering. Look at the items— goods you know and v ‘ 1 an relv upon. Look at the way the peopie k \ t $ haying—people you know and people who kn WflgfA /K I H bargains. /. II P" 9 This Sale will close January 31. Until then. flt/ starting tomorrow morning, you have )" ur , «P* R{l/rTi// portunitv at the following goods—and a hun iUll I / dred other reduced items that we haven t room *1 or time to list. II Sheep Lined Coats $7.98 ’ / \ | Hoys Suits and Overcoats $4.95 to $8.95 tdw/T-My&tb Go 3 BETTER CLOTHES KiR LESS ,J MONEY-ALWAYS • INDIANA ,up— j-- ■- -M-pGC'.: VBKNBBKKHBHHBSNHMHQBE

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