Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1925 — Page 3

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B ~ „ nnim to this picture is that it depicits the inaugtnal s< <ne of Tuft administration in I'lo9 an.l the man M 1 i!« I. i.jiii” role will take a prominent part in the inaugural on Wednesday, .March 4. Chief Justice M’r ii".lniinis't. r with of office to President Coolidge. This splendid picture of the Tuft inaugural in 1909 gives M Tj I ’ that i.ie I Os what the Coolidge inauguration in front of the eupitol ;.t Washington ou Wednesday, March 7‘ . lik ,.' |; is significant, too, that Mr. Taft willonce again figure in the inaugural, this time, in the eapae|M < ' v * U i l .' ! ,j"f justice of the supreme court of the United States, as administrator of the oath of office to President ■B i■, .._ — — i■. - ■■■■»■ ■■■■■■■■ ■ ——■■■■

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—1 I PHYLLIS SACTA ■ This it the Crosley-Doily Varden B JUdic Beauty for 1925. B She *oa the honoh in the second ■ unuai WLW Beauty Contest. Her home is in Galesville, WisconItr Votes were received from the fldluaudience throughout the cuuntrv.

nmvauuivucc unougnou: trie country. Minnesota Potatoes Shipped In For Seed Vincennes, Ind.. March 3. —(United Press.)—Fifteen thousand bushels of petatoes to he used by farmers for l seed arrived here today by special train direct from the Red River vttl- | ley. in Minnesota, the world's largf wt certified potato center. ' The potatoes are certified Early : Ohios and Irish Cobblers. The train insists of thirty cars. [ This is the first solid train load of certified need ever shipped out of the Minnesota district. It is the first unit ot more than 200 car* yet to come ■ for tl,is years planting. The, certified potatoes are exffecte,l to put the "old potato patch" on ‘ Paying basis. The yield has been I imreased in Indiana by certified il l bushels an acre over the 1 yield from potatoes raised from the ; '2' 11 " 10 " according to Purdue

'-"•■■■waafIBBHBBOBaHMMMkNidMEMaaMMBMBDnMnnHHnHMBHMHHM 1 * Don’t Forget The Date. MARCH 21 Is The Next Big “GIFT DAY” and we want You to attend 1 I ist of Awards local stores afford you a wonderful opportunity to do your trading and they invite you to visit them when 1-ilvl Vl £1 vv ClI Uu you are in need of anything. When you make your purchases BE SURE to ask for tickets as you are entitled to 2—sloo Coupon Books hem and should have them to take part in the “Gift Day” activities. j -j- (jQ Upon Book mi . I—s1 —$ 50 Coupon Book ne se special days are held in appreciation of your splendid patronage with the local merchants and (hey 1-$ 25 Coupon Book "ant you to attend them. I—s 15 Coupon Book I—s 10 Coupon Book , Pp Your Trading With The Local Merchants 5 * '*» ! ’ iils

University authorities who started the “pure seed" movement in Indiana. In connection with the special train ' regional meetings are to ho held hero today, Bedford tomorrow, and in Seymour Wednesday. At. thoso meetings, potato speciallists from Purdue will give examples . and explain to farmers the possii.il- | ity of raising 300 or more bushels of ' potatoes to an acre under Indiana conI ditions. Bartholomew County Has Champion Corn Crowers (UNITED PRESS SEItVK'R. Columbus. Ind.. Mar. 3. —Bartholomew county today boasts four champ- . ion corn growers. j They all hold serlificates Issued them by the Indiana State Corn Crow-, ers Association. In addition to his recognition from the Indiana association R. L. Heilman | wears the crown of the world corn king. J. D. Hull, has been proclaimed by. the state association as the present ■lndiana corn king. He has sueceded I, M. Vogler, for “mer Indiana king, and also of this county. i Arthur Harris was granted a certificate at Purdue university in competition with twenty-five Indiana corn growers. o • (las Company Has Big Increase In Business Substantia! increase of the business of the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric company during 1921 is shown by the annual report of the company received by stockholders today, The operating revenue of the company in 1924 totaled $8,105,950.34 tom pared w'th $7,624,883.82 in 192:’. an increase of $481,066.52. Net income of the company totaled $1,89.3.177.04 for the year compared with $1,354. 129.05 in 1923, an increase of $535.748.59. There was a material increase in the number of customers in the thirty-six communities served by the company and sales of both gas and electricity showed a good increase over the preceding year. The company added during the year 9.124 new gas customers, bringing the total '

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number of customers supplied with gas service up to 100.985. New electric customers added during the year totaled 1,793 making a total of 37.so 9 customers receiving electric service nt the end of the year. 1 Announcement was also made that • uiles of gas totaled 3.651,267.000 cubic feet during 1921 compared with 3. 257.221.500 cubic feet of gas sold in 1923. Sales of electricity in 1924 totaled 129.725.419 kilowatt hours compared with 121.771.986 kilowatt hours in 1923. The report shows a balance of $351,119.33 after the payment of dividends. This balance will lie added to the surplus account of the company and will be used for improvements and betterments, thus increasing the | investment and strengthening the position of the stock of the company which is now owned by over 10,000 ' stockholders, including a large number of customers who have invested! in the company’s 7 per cent preferred ' shares. In spite of this surplus, however, j it was necessary for lite company to • ■lla large amount of securities described in the report in order to i finance an extensive building program during the year to meet the ■apidly growing demands for service in its territory. | The report states that expenditures totaling $4,105.154 94 were made dur-, ing the year for the construction of new plants, gas holders, electric, apP'ratus and other equipment necessary to meet the growing demands i for service. Included in the 1921 j building program was the beginning , of the construction of a new gas, manufacturing plant at Port Wayne, i which will practically double the gas I niantiftutiiritig facilities in that city. This plant will be completed early in the summer of the present year. A new gas holder with a capacity of] 2,000,000 cubic feet was built in connection with this new plant and was , placed in operation in December. A now "waterless" gas bolder—the first one of its kind in America —with a capacity of 1,000,000 cubic feet, i was built in Michigan City. New gas making equipment was added to the] gas manufacturing plants in South' Bend and Lafayette. Improvements ' ]and betterments of various kinds w r ere ’ made in all of the communities sev-

! Broadcasting On Inaugural C eremonies Starts At Noon A shift In the lime schoiluk l of the iniiiigural ceremonies at Washington on Wiidtiosday has unused the announcement that radio broadcusting of Hie fentitres inohlontnl to the mlministration of the oath of office to l‘ri ideal t’oolidi’e will begin al noon, nistirn standard time, instead id 11:15 a. tn., as previously announced The opening feature, Hie concert of (fie United Stnte Marine band, will begin at noon through fhu network of stations booked up with WE AE and WRU. About forty-fiv* minutes later the inaugural procession will reach the steps of the capital nnd following the invocation President Coolidge will take the oath of office and deliver his inaugural address. Following is a complete list of stations broadcasting the event: WEAR, New York. WRU, Washington. W.IZ, .New York. WGY, Schenectady. WEEI, Boston. WLBH, Worcester. ' WJAR, Providence. WGR, Buffalo. WTIC, Hartford. WFBL, Syracuse. WCO. Philadelphia. WCAE, Pittsburgh. WEAR, Cleveland. WLW, Cincinnati. WWJ, Detroit. WMAQ. Chicago. WDAF, Kansas City. WHO. Des Moines. WBB, Atlanta. KI.Z. Denver. KFI, Los Angeles. KPO. San Francisco. KLX, Oakland. o Are You Fat? Just Try This Thousands of overfat people have become slender bv following the advice of doctors who recommend Marmohi Prescription Tablets. These little fat reducers are made from the same formula ns the famous Marmola Prescription. If too fat. don’t wait — go to your druggist now and for one dollar (the same price the world over) procure a box of these tablets. If you prefer you may secure them direct bv sending price to the Marmola Co.. General Motors Bldg., i Detroit., Mich. They reduce steadily : nd easily. No need for tiresome exercise or starvation diet and no! unpleasant effects. o Darkest Africa Safer Than Chicago, Says Consul Chicago, March, 3 —There are mote murders in a week i|> Chicago than in (one year among the 35,009.004) native I populations on Central Africa. Willliatn .1, Yerby, United States cons d for j-ortuguese, French British West Africa, declared in an address hero. Yerby is a former Chicagoan. “ The savages are quiet and law- ' .ibiding," Yerby said. "I have trave lled through the remotest portions of ,tin* cohtinent and never met with anv ' dangerous experiences.” Yerby told of tho historic port of ;Goree ast of Dakar, which was in the sevententh century the greatest slave port of the west coast. 'The old dungeons sited out with chains, cannon and torture instru--1 . _il.-J.TJL 'kl sll hf 4 w l>r. Piatt’s Rinex Prescription gets at leal < ituse of Asthma in the MNtem and lemov.a it. Allays worst spasms In few minutes, and guaranteed te bring full i relief In 1,4 hours—or intaiey back. No narcotics or harmful chugj. Get Rlnex today and try it. imple 24-Hour Treatment FREE from your druggist or mat In] by the Clinical laboratories Co.. Cleveland, 0., on receipt of loc to cover packing, etc.. But you take no risk in getting the regular i size on guaraiitee from any druggist—mone> back if aou relieved in 24 hours.

| montfl stand in ths hmirt of :i hnstllnt' I fishing villlngc." Yerby said. "Goree was the farewell port of thousands of anoestor i of pt, ,-nt-d;ty f , Ameriron negroes." < Foreign trade in West Africn , iimounf, | io half u billion <l<dliirs last year, the consul announced. Most of , this was curled on Ihruui'h l'ri-mh, Eiigli: h and Ifi-li'lau tradin’' coinpanr les, he added. Except for a nnmla r of tribe '. In the j L heart of the continent, practit ally all the bla< l.s id' Afrir.i have lx ep eon- I . Vrled to the lailh of I lam, at < ord- ] ; ing to Yerby, "The old ones all know tho Koran , by heart," he declared. , ■■■ -' ' —o—- • Logansport. — Fire of undetermI ineil origin destroyed the Warren ■ Ross farmhouse near here, just an hour after tenants had moved from f the building. Plymouth. — About I.IUO acres of peas and corn in the vicinity of Plymouth have been contracted for by the Si heidt and Dunlap and Ply- 1 I mouth Canning company. Warsaw. — Everytime he used 1 "went" for "gone” and "can” for I “tnuy" his wife who thought he was la college graduate when she married him flew into a rage according io 1 a divorce complaint filed in circuit court here by Samuel E. MedbourneJ 65, against. Mrs. Morales Medbourne. Gary.—Enrollment of public schools this year has reached a new high mark. The 13,927 pupils is 1,500 morel than last year. [bake it best | with - W A ■ ItekW

1 — Jook 9 it’s Quick Quaker that has that wonderful, rich flavor Cooks in 3 to 5 minutes. Cheap, too—enough to feed the whole family costs only a few cents. /CHILDREN are first to notice And—costs so little .... few 1 flavor of oats. cents for a whole breakfast. Get B R Give them the kind they love it today at your grocer. .W.■ c Look for the Quaker They 11 want two helpings of . the "oats and milk” dish doctors on ,!e liSß’jaal Mff I say they need to grow strong and That means Quaker flavor. iWlwTOsf ' healthy. That means 3to 5 minuta j i You’ll notice the difference, tc ■ cooking. I 1 So will 0e men folks. That means the superfine oats Bill/ '• Cooks in 3to 5 minutes. Saves you want—the finest grown, the ■ * kitchen work and cooking fuel. most delicious in all the world. iSsf Standard full size and weight packages — »A ■ , S . j ■ Medium: 114 pounds; h *’>»'; i < Large: 3 pounds, 7 oz. Your grocer now has two kinds of Quaker Oats — 7 OU bave B * wa /s known and Quick Quaker.

SCOUT NOTES Troop otic will hold a meeting (bln evening at seven o’clot I: at th- Ceti- i tral Building faribc. ——— ■ ■ | Learn th.’s‘‘B’i ine’is l >l Happiness’’ J kt/bit <//'/<•/. Salary, |l • Employmrni and matt »pprov> d Di«>tholA JI j I *-» afl i.i tKth.. v m B t iu . f,irt nl ,gt.t BV* b ft-ll.o*l rsprrtn I »nv Mini I« . fillig F ' ■' »' ‘ i • i».> u ar*. MaHnelfo* MOO Tower Court, Chicago

OUR CUSTOMERS feel at home in this Bank - - - - - . Confidential, Personal Relations Are The Basis Os Our Service To Customers, They are not dealt wit|i impersonally as depositors merely; they are ' fronted as clients, in whose financial problems our officers take a personal interest. Regardless of your need or request you can come to us with the assurance that yon will be assisted and advised to the best of our ability. | Old Adams County Bank

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