Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1925 — Page 4

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Excagt Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller, Tree and Gen. Mgr E W. Kampe, Vice-Prea. & Adv. Mgr A. R. Holthouae. Sec'y. A Bui. 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 One month, by mail —— 3# cents Three Months, by mail SI.OO Six Months, by mall $1.75 One Year, by mail $3.00 One Year, at office $3.00 (Prices quoted are withn first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates Made Known by Application. Foreign Representative Carper ter & Company. 123 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, HOW CAN YOU DO SOME GOOD? The Yeoman Shield, edited by Harry C. Evans, and recognized as one ol the best fraternal magazines in the country, pays the following tribute to French Quinn of this city and publishes a human interest story from hip pen that deserves being read and re-read: French Quinn, of Decatur, Indiana, has a penchant for getting goodness which is at the heart of things. He sends us a cheery New Year's greeting: "I hope you are well and happy. I have the pleaure of reading the Shield each month. Congratulations on every issue." Then he asks the ageold question. “When does a man's usefulness end?" He gives this interesting incident, showing that some good may come from America’s famous resort of despaair and wretchedness — the poorfarm: "When does a man's usefulness end?" has been a question that the world has summarily am! easily dismissed with the answer. "When he Is 'down and out'." It may be true that in its classification of the "down and outs" and the “no goods" the world has taken "snap judgment" aml has erred thereby. Be that as it may, a true little "heart interest" story, or what we may think is a “heart interest" story, may illum'nate. A short time ago, in the city of Decatur, in the county of Adatua in the state of Indiana, a ques'tion of title to some very valuable real estate came up. The points at issue were technical but of such importance as to seriously “cloud” the title. If some one could be located who knew all the facts in the matter and would make affidavits showing the trtvr- condit'on the situation would be relieved. Inasmuch as these errors had to do with certain Sullivan heirs during the Civil war period, it occurred to the investigators that a certain Sullivan * known as “Blind Tommy,” an inmate of the county Infirmary, plight have some knowledge of the matter. A visit was therefore made to the poorhouse, “Blind Tommy" located there, and the "heart interest” .‘■lory had its opening. In the large living room of the infirmary some eighteen or twenty old men, inmates of the place, were congregated, among them "Blind Tommy.” As no privacy was available nor necessary, the matter was taken up with Mr. Sullivan. in the presence of all. and to the decided interest of the I stneres, whom, it is obvious, needed things of small import- ' ance to make them boos absorbing interest. "Blind Tommy" was found to be mentally alert, memory remarkable and in full possession of the facts that corrected all errors. Affidavits were accordingly made, witnessed, and sworn to, and at the conclusion of the execution of the papers, "B’iml Tommy" said: “Well, I hope that does those folks good and helps them out; I'm glad to help them." lie was assured that he had and much annoyance aud expense would be eliminated. Whereupon a discussion took place among all and sundry aa to when a man is "dbwn and out." One bright eyed old man, Mike Johns, made the observation: "Don't make no different e who a feller is nor where he I:-, be kiu always help somebody." Another old chap chipped in with: "Mebbe some of us kin 1 now somelllitig that kin fix things up for folks some time." Othqr eager remarks similar were made, nods of assent and more diseiiss oii. It was solemnly agreed t| la | if old "Blind Tomin.' ’. <■> years old. blind tor.niurb than fifty years, au inmate ol the poorJioure for forty-nine years, '•ithout family or relatives, no fri-ini . o iitterly inc.'.'pm.itat.d, tould still boos real service, to hi fellow men :iml be glad to be of such service, then there was hope for ail utid sundry that th" tunc push! conic when they too ' oitld be really meiul to others. We wonder if one can real ze that, those poor old men held tiien amj there a sort of “revival B? rating? ’ ■ W heu does a mi» ut>eUiae»a

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end? It might be suggested that locked tip in the mind and heart of the "down and outers” is an ability not only to aid in just a matter of dollars and cents but an to “save the city.” Up-to-date newspapers these days ire just keeping the Herrin headline landing and can "fat" most of the story for each succeeding horror there is at least very similar to the proceeding oue. If any one can figure •good as a result of the year or two t>f warfare between the klan and the 1 cutis in that spot, we wonld like to hear it. The town will be shunned for years to come except as a curious spot for tourists. How would you like to invest your money in that town, now honest? With the. campaign for the renewal of our mail subscribers half over indications are that the campaign this year will be the most successful one we have ever had and that’s fine. Saturday was the biggest day during the month, several hundred securing receipt < for payment. We appreciate it. and we hope every one who has not taken care of this matter, so important Io us just now. will look after it during the nejt week,or two. Please, do. Groundhog day and the old boy had difficulty seeing his “shudder" which of course really- doesn't mean any thing except that about nine out of ten of us believe in hoodoos and Jonahs” and enjoy watching these signs which are as old as time. Any way you figure it, the safe thing to do in this part of the country is to sec that the coal bm well filled. You will probably need some heat in the *hotmc during the next three months. -■"X. ujt.i.ixmw Don't get 100 much excited over the bills now in the legislature. Os course a 10l of them will become laws and will in <|u<- time he printed and scut out and placed on the statute book, jud then most of them will bo forgotten and iu a lew years you will buve to employ an expert attorney to find out whether or not they are laws. | The People’s Voice rural education Ihrec hundred and fifty-seven ouc

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room schools were abandoned in Indiana in the last year, while eight such schools were reopened, showing a decrease in one-room schools for the year of 348, according to figures compiled in the office of the state superintendent of public instruction. In the last twenty-five years 4.869 oneroom schools in the state have been abandoned. The statistics show 8.321 one-room schools in the state in 1900, while the number had decreased to 3,452 in 1924 Randolph county, with a total of 99,11 per cent, of abandoned one-room schools, ranks first in consolidation. This county has only one single-room school out of 113 schools. Three schools were consolidated in the year. Wabash county is second with 97.35 per cent having three one-room schools out of 116 schools; Wayne 1 county is third, with 95.39 per cent., having three such schools out of sixty eight schools; Marion county has a percentage of 95.24; Montgomery. 94. 92; Tippecanoe, 92.80; Miami, 92.60 Hancock, 89.55; Benton, 89.19; and Carroll, 88.20. The largest percentage of oneroomm schools in Dubois county where the percentage of consolidation is only 8.14. Martin Perry and Orange counties also have a high percentage of one-room schools. I Th greatest activity in consolidation of one-room schools in the 1922-24 | sechool year was in Lawrence county where twenty one-room Scholls were abandoned. Allen couty abandoned thirteen and Harrison twelve. Hoosier Farmer 0 ***♦*****♦♦*♦« ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ • ♦ • From the Dally Democrat fllee ♦ i ♦ 20 yeare ago this day ♦ J. O- Sellemeycr has shoulder broken in fall from window at. Oberleiu, Ohio, while assisting at a fire. Czar of Russia gives $25,000 to families of strikers and appeals to working men to use reason. Strike spreads each day. Legislature passes first bill to regulate, motor traffic. , Ground hog day—clear aud coldsix weeks more of winter. > Sleighing party to the Herman Sellemeycr home. F. E. France Returns to Mijukogeo after several weeks here. Thermometer registered 15 below at four this morning and 10 Vein”*’ at >7a. m. Coldest day so far thio

Solution of Puzzle WB. 7Z. PWA]ajMWp<E]A[p| lUBfIQ Aldßt OiLHDBP [I SgTWOgR' S P O O KfiPfflllS N A'R E fPIUiRXiE dWm E MH BMRA B I ’DjfiFl ESI nrBBHHu r “flMr ■ A is I|s|nio UfrWijoMl I MP A c rg|B|E VfE R S R eXcJhBBBs I O L.E * ° E fl E i T J c flll A O OJNKmiE a'nWt BC| U| Rj LBM>D' r O|PBl ■. ■ — winter. Ceylon schools closed because of scarlet fever. o—- — * * FORTY-SIX YEARS (Written on mv forty-sixth birthday,, Jan. 28. 1925. in six minor meditations.) 1 Fortv-six years! Seems like it can’t be, — ' j But the gray 'bove my ears and the "crow's feet" agree; And when I think back to my first pair of pants And my red-topper boots, and see my-, self dance All over the house and out the front door, — * It IS quite a ways back to when I was four! The pathway looks long leading back to the door Where a cotton-topped kid sits in soiled pinafore. With a big slice of bread in a fat little hand And with rooster-tail-feathers, stuck in his hat band; To my “bare-foot-boy-days” aud my low trundle hed Aud the bosom so soft where I pillowed my head; » To the first pair of skates and the place where I sat So sudden and solid.- and the "stars and “black cat" To the thick woolen “socks" my own . mother knit N And the red-flaunel shirts, —I can feel them scratch yet! To the balls made of yarn, of my “go-sheep-go" days.— To the play-time of childhood. —it IS quite a ways! —A. D. Burkett. — o | Big Features CM | RADIO ( | Programs Today MONDAY'S f7vE~BEST RAIDO WCED. Zion, 3f5-M, 8 p. m. (C.S. T.) — Special program dedicating WCED's new high power transmission. KOA, Denver, 325-M, 8 p. nt. (M.S. T.)— Trio aim Glee club. KGO. Oakland, 312-M, 8 p. m. (P. C.S.T.)—Educational program. WTAM, Cleveland, 364-M, 8 p. m. (E.S.T.) —Tall Cedars band. ’ WEEI, Boston. 303-M, 9:30 p. m. (E.S.T.)—Mendelssohn Choral union. o SWINDLER GETS NEAT SUM FROM GENEVA CITIZENS (Continued from rage One) Covered Wagon," at the theatre Saturday night. He bad hand bills printed and also had a large number of tickets for the theatre printed at the office of the Geneva Herald. Sold Tickets to Merchants Taking the tickets, tire swindler visited every merchant in town and sold them to the merchants for two cents each, with tbc understanding , that they would give the tickets away , to their customers With purchases. , Practi.'ally every merchant took 250 , tickets, aud paid the man in cash The theatre was packed with people wanting to see “The Covered . Wagon," Saturday night, but the film of the noted picture had failed to arrive. The picture that had previously been advertised for Saturday night > was given instead. The uiau who i represented himself as tbc picture j show promoter put iu a long distant telephone call for Fort Wayne, saying he was going to talk to the office , of bis company there in regard to tbe picture which had been promised to him for Saturday uight.. He ap . patently carried on a lengthy conversation over the telephone in the presence of local people, but later i tbe toll operator at Decatur talked to I lie telephone operator here aud said that the uiau had done all the talk- □ ing himself, as there was uo ouc at the other end of the hue. Ibe local pt .pie tbeu began to tall for the v trick. .t Took Deer Receiptj ,s Itcar the close of the second show

T— | Saturday night, the swindler went to the box office and pocketed all of ‘he door receipt!, but the owner of the theutro became suHpicious and made the stranger turn the money over to him. Shortly after that the strangpr 1< ft town ami has uot been seen since then. The man was described as beIng shorter than the average man and of middle age. —o—■ TWO STORIES OF UNHAPPINESS BY FORT WAYNE COUPLE (Continued from Page One) with her husband who. she said, was ’ jealous and so improvident that often the childreuwere hungry aud wouhl have suffered more but for the kindness of neighbors who gave them food On the other hind, Mr. Seaman the former husband, who told his story with a little tot of a girl sitting on bis lap in the dingy third-! floor apartment, declared that the 1 eternal triangle, his ex-wife's improper relations with another marr-j led man, is the cause of hi s grief aud the reason why she took the baby last Tuesday night and left it on tbe porch of the home of Dr. C. C. Dill-, worth, 220 West Wayne street. "I have visited her home three time s I jin the last year, once in July three i weeks ago. and last Friday, and 11 J came then only to see my children I as J was allowed to under thb terms of the court order issued after I the divorce. Wo had arranged to be j remarried, however, for the sake of the children and we had set the date for some time next week. Then this thing came up.” “She told me Friday night that she was sorry and asked my forgiveness |lf it wasn't for the married man who 1 first broke up our home and who is responsible for the dead baby things might have been all right again o Curtisville. — Mrs. John Alley, here, was seriously burned when a stove exploded after she had thrown several ounces of gunpowder into it in an attempt to blow soot from tbe flue. o I 'ourt House | I a February Term Opens The February term of the Adams circuit court opened this morning. Entries were made in several cases but none were set for trial. No jury cases are to be heard this week. Judge Sutton will go to Bluffton Wednesday to sit as special judge in a case. Suit For Partition A suit for partition of a ISO-acre farm in Boot township was filed iu tlie circuit court today by Joseph A. Kintz ct al vs. Mary T. Kintz et al. Attorneys Fred T. Schurger and John T. Kelly represent the plaintiffs. Marriage Licenses Cl'fford Yoder, fanner, Wabash township, to Gladys Jack, Adams county. Charles Pierson, laborer, to Edith Delhi, both of Decatur. Sale Is Confirmed In tli ecasc o£ Clinton Stnveus ct al vs. Ruth Webster et al. •he appraisment of the real estate was tiled and approved. The report of the sale of the real estate was filed and approved and the sale confirmed. The deed was ordered, filed aud approved. Venued To Wells County In the case of Gottlieb Kroenieu vs. E. J. Fricke, a motion for a change of venue from the county was filed by • the plaintiff. The motion was sus- , taiued and tbe case scut to the Wells circuit court. Defendant Defaults Iu the case of Frank Straub vs. I Sarah Straub, the defendant was > called and defaulted. Attorney Appointed ' Tn the case of Lulic M. Walters vs. . Delbert 11. Walters, tbc defendant > filed an application to plead aa a poor person. The application was granted aud the court appointed I James T. Merryman attorney to repi resent the defendant. To Amend Complaint In tbe cases of Fred 11. Zehrbacb, t. Zoe Zehrbacb and Mrs. Maggie E. > Fuhrman against the Citizens Telei phone Company and tbe city of DeI' calur, the defendant, the Citizens ■ Telephone company filed a motion to s make the complaint more specific. > The motion was sustained. 1 Cited For Contempt lu the case of Sophia Dollarhitc vy. - Benjamin 11. Dollarhite ct al. tbe de a fendaut. Benjamin H. Dollarhite way r cited for contempt of court aud was 5 ordered to appear in court February 1 6 to show cause why he should not be > ] punished. Cases Dismissed 1 The case of Service Motors vs. c Philip F. Hodle, was dismissed today on motion of the plaintiff. T’."> cay? •of Gretii-M’yh company v :vs. John S. and John L. McCrory was

dismissed today on motion of the plaintiff. «—- O' . I "" Call 436 for_Taxi. If

BIG SALe I at the I H. C. North Grocery I PREBLE, INDIANA I Formerly the old Jaebker grocery store. « We have arranged a number of Specials that will save I you money. Sale is for a limited time only. H Feb. 3rd to 7th Inclusive I ' Mens Shoes Work nr. ■ (M (W QQ Shirts OUC and fl $1.98 and All Rubber Overshoes, I Childrens Shoes, 15% and 20% Discount. ■ j $ 1 .00 and $ 1 .25 I All Bob White Overalls at S ' and Blouses QI gQ Gloves and Mittens at fl . Garment .... ePL.UV reduced prices. fl A Guessing Contest will be held to make the sale fl more interesting. Ask about it. fl | February 4 1925 |l Will be Primrose Cream I Separator Day at Our I Store I An expert of the 1. H. Co., will be with us 9| to adjust—repair—and instruct you in the fl use of E PRIMROSE SEPARATORS. ■ No charge will be made for his service. ■ Any repairs used will be charged at the fl regular price. f If your Primrose needs adjusting, bring || it to our store on Primrose Service Day. i| JFJKTTD ~ ' fl Why Lose $4 I Suppose you gradually save M up one hundred dollars. If you ■ 1 spend that one hundred, iu- S stead of using it to open a Bank fi Account, you stand to lose B 11.00 a year as long as you live B —the $4.00 which it would earn B for you if deposited in our B Savings Department. B Think that over; isn't it fl true? ■ Then why not take just one H dollar and use it to— B ■3 OPEN A SAVINGS A t OCM I HERE TODAY ■ Old Adams County Bank I Established Fifty- Years Ago || —•— ' ' I 3 mnwm B ■ ■ 1 I

See the Leaders P | ay (h B Berne A. C. eagers here : day night. ■