Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1925 — Page 6

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TRACK TEAM IS PICKED FOR MEET ( oacii Kennedy Picks Athletes To Represent I). IL S. In Opening Meet Coach Maurice Kennedy has picked a track team to represent Decatur high school in the quadrangular track and field meet to he held at Fort Wayne next Saturday, and in the annual Adams county meet, to be held al Geneva on April 25. The athletes ate rounding into condition for their opening inter-school meet and have improved their records considerably since the inter dass meet two weeks ago. The schools which will take part in ihe meet at Fort Wayne next Saturday are Fort Wayne Central. Auburn, Portland and Decatur. Decatur has a good chance to win the meet, according to Couch Kennedy and local fans. Miller has been going fine in the too yurd dash uud 11. Myers has been making good time in the 220yard dash and the quarter mile dash. Dierkes is counted upon for first or si cond in the half mile run. In the field event* Miller has been showing up good in the high jump and P9le vault. Bebout is good in the high jump, also, and Beal is likely to win

a place ill the pole vault. At present the locals appear to be weakest in the distance runs, hurdles, broad jump and shot put. Marbaugh. Welker. Dierkes and 11. Myers compose the half-mile relay team and they have ben making good time in practice. Much interest is being manifested in the county meet. Geneva and Herne -are counted upon to fight it out with Decatur for first place, but athletes from other schools in the couunty can be counted upon to-Yake several points. The Decatur team will take part in the sectional high school meet to be held at Fort Wayne on May 16. In the meet will be the two Fort Wayne schools, two from Whitley county, one from Huntington county, two from Wells county, two from DeKalb county and the Decatur team. The winning relay team and all athletes who win first and second places in the sectional meets will go to the state meet to he held at Indianapolis on May Coach Kennedy announced today that the following team of eleven athletes will represent Decatur in the meet at Fort Wayne next Saturday: IbO-yd. dash: Miller and Marbaugh. S2O-yd. dash: H. Myers and Marbaugh. •140-yd. dash: 11. Myers and Welker. Half mile: Dierkes -and Callow. Mile: Owens and Lightfoot. 120 high hurdles: Marbaugh and Reboot. 220 low hurdles: Marbaugh and B •- bout. Hc-li jump :* Vlliler and iici'ioiii. Pole vault: Miller and Beal. Broad jump: Welker and Bebout. Shot put: Miller and Heuer. Half-mile relay: Miller, Marbaugh, Welker, and H. Myers. Mile relay: Marbaugh, Welker. Dierkes and H. Myers. The entries for the county meet will be the same as those for the meet at Fort Wayne. However, there will be no hurdle races and only one relay, the half-mile relay, in the county meet. o ++*++ + + + + + SPORT TABS + ++++++++ + + + + + + + (United Press) BOSTON —Stuffy Mclnnis, veteran first baseman, who has been a hold out. has been released unconditionally by the Boston Braves. — Five nations will bo represented in the annual Penn relay carnival to be held at Franklin field on April 24 and 25. PRINCETON, N. J.—Fielding Yost, head football coach at Michigan, and Harry Emery, one of his assistants, are assisting Bill Roper with spring foot ball practice at Princeton. Roper and several of his staff will go to Michigan next week to assist Yost. NEW YORK—Under the direction of Charles Crowley, the Columbia football squad had its first workout today. It was the first session of a period of six weeks training. CINCINNATI —The University of Illinois baseball team wound up its schedule of practice games here yesterday with a 4 to 3 victory over Cincinnati university. — o Shelbyville.—Excitement was caused at Fairland, near here, with the opening of an oil well by B. M. Hitch- • ock. Greensburg contractor. The v.ell has a capacity of forty barrels each day.

DETROIT AND NEW YORK FAVORITES 'Sport Writers Pick Tigers And Giants To Win Big League Pennants • (Ry Henry L. Farrell. United Press . Staff Correspondent! New York. April 14—New York and Detroit, in a consensus vote of th»» lending baseball writers, will win the major league pennant races which start today with all the usual trim tilings of opening day. From a composite tabulation of the predictions mad*- by 20 of the leading bast ball authorities, the teams in the I two major leagues will finish as follows : 1 National langue-—New York. Pitts- ( burgh. Chicago, Brooklyn, Clncfnnati. St. Louis. Boston. Philadelphia.! American League Detroit. New, York. Washington. Philadelphia. St. ( Louis, Chicago or Cleveland. Cleveland or Chicago, Boston. ( Brooklyn and Pittsburgh wwe ( picked by several of the experts ns tin- pennant winner in the National league but the Giants were rather generally chosen because of known strength of the team and its • efficient management. ( , The one knock against the Giants was the law of averages against a, team that will be called upon again to win more consecutive pennants, , . . A' than any team has ever done before.

in the major leagues. The Giants broke all precedents hist year when they knocked off their fourth championship in a row and if there is any jinx it should have wotked last year. Washington received very few se-| lections to repeat as the American league champions and some critics predicted that the team would have to fight to remain in the first division. These felt that the Senators were lucky to win last year when the Yankees took things too easy in the cocky belief that they could not be beaten. The strength of the Yankees was rather generally- admitted but it was recalled that the team is old. track sore and less ambitious than the Detroit Tigers. Pittsburgh was almost a unanimous choice for the runner up position in the National league and those who picked the Giants for the championship pointed out that the Nation-! al league champions couldn't falter one step without being in danger of defeat. Opinion was almost evenly divided between New York and Washington as the second place club in the American league. The surprising prediction was uiadg that the Boston Red Sox would be the runner up with every vote assigning them to last place. Officials, managers and owners i ■ • " : =-*.7" i-.’,. dieting that this would be baseball's biggest season, advance sale of'dickets indicating that the scandal before' the world’s series last year had not injured the game. BASEBALL GAMES TODAY National League New York at Boston, clear, 3 p. m. Philadelphia at Brqpklyn, clear. 3:30 p. m. Pittsburgh at Chicago, clear, 3 p. m. St. Louis at Cincinnati, cloudy, 2:30 p. nt. American League Washington at New York, clear, 3:30 p. m. Boston at Philadelphia, clear, 3 p.m. Cleveland nt St. I ,->uis, cloudy, 3 p. nt. Chio.igo at Detroit, partly cloudy, 3 p. m. o

SELEC T ENTRIES FOR COUNTY MEET Continued from Page one each instance the judges having much difficulty in picking the winners, and the showing made last night in- ( dicates that Decatur will offer stiff competition in all of the oratorical , end musical contests in the county meet. The schools which will take part in the sectional contest here Thursday night are Pleasant Mills, Kirkland Monmouth, Monroe and Decatur. On the same evening, the contestants 1 from Berne, Geneva, Jefferson and i Hartford will hold a sectional con- - test at Berne. Two contestants will - he selected in f each of the events at each sectional and they will meet, n the final contest at Berne on • April 25. ■ The county track and field meet - will be held at Geneva on the afteri noon of Saturday, April 25, and the i contest in oratory and music will be held at Berne that evening.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1925.

TO OPEN TOURIST CAMP HERE AMIN - Free ( amp To Be Opened In Bellmont Park Again; , To Be Improved Plans are being made to reopen the free tourist (.imp at Bellmont Park east of this city. according to a report made by a committee composed of several members of the Decatur lndiistri.il Asseiatlon at the meeing I last night. The signs on roads leading into this city which direct tourists to the <amp will be repainted and thost* that have been broken down will be replaced. I The committee is at present work | Ing on a jilan to provide more facil J ities for the disposal of the tourists. Colonel Fred Repperf has donated I land again this year and has offered the first floor of the entrance] /building for a rest room and cooking room. There is some talk of employ ] 'ing a care-taker for the grounds and , i the building and charging a nominal' fee for camping on the grounds, but 'as yet it has not been decided wheth-i ler this plan will be tried or not. | Receptacles for tr sh and paper I will be placed at intervals over the 1 grounds and more effort will he ex- 1 tended this year to make the ground' a sapitary place. The same part of the park will he used this year for. I the camp. It will be located just in- • side the entrance on the east side.; i The camp will be opened within the* next few weeks, it is thought by members of the committee, so that early tourists will have a place to camp. Many persons touring Indiana toojii Advantage of last year’s camp and it is expected that a larger number will go through here this year, owing to. the fact that the roads through Adams county are in good condition. I 0

START PRINTING PRIMARYBALLOTS Preparations Being Made For City Primary Election On May 5 Printing of the ballots for the De-' j catur city primary election, to be held May 5, will start at the Daily Demo-j J crut>toiuorrow. F. V. Mills, C. I* Wai-i iters and Mrs. Catherine Kauffman. | city clerk, will compose the election] j hoard. As yet it has not been deter-’ . mined how many of each party’s ballots will be printed. The voting places in the three wards of this city have been determined and they will also hold for the . general city-election in the fall. There is but one contest in the city primary but according to law a primary for i both parties must be held. The voting places are as follows: First Ward. A- Garage of H. F. Linn, i situated on the north side of Rugg j si i cef^^ifttYat >tr t o6p;erage company, situated on the south side of Adams street; Second Ward A i - Decatur Public Lirary, situated on the wosr side of Third street; Third Ward A —Salesroom of Kirsch and Son, situated on the east side of Second street; B—Office of Carper and Zimmerman, situated on the north side of Monroe street. i The Democratic ballots will be printed on white paper and the republican ballots will be printed on ' 1 blue paper. It is probable that the ] election commissioners will be able l . to prepare for the primary election in about one day. Each Ward’s ballots 1 have to be tied in separate packages and sealed. —o L. L. Bears. Civil iit tr.i

War Veteran, Is Dead i L. b. Bears, 79, a civil war veteran and well known citizen of the south part of this county, died at his home six miles west of Geneva yesterday afternoon. I>eath was due to bright’s disease. 1 He is Survived by four children and one sister. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 o'clock at the Union chapel church near Geneva. Burial will take place in the Union Chapel cemetery. I o 4 Storm Causes Much Damage In Indiana Indianapolis, April 14—Heavy property damage was reported in three cities of Indiana today from high wind storm which swept across the i state late yesterday. Houses were unroofed, trees were : uprooted and telephone and telegraph poles were blown down by rhe twister. ■ Most damage way, done at Sullivan and Kokomo. A few houses were unroofed ut Fort Wayne.

COUNTY GETS A HEAVY RAIN I No Serious. Damage Results In County Although W ind Threatened . The first of the usual spring storms o*< tired in this vicinity last night 'and. for a while, had the apearanee I I .'of what might develop into a tornado. No serious damage was re- ] ported in this vicinity. The storm lilt its hardest blow in Allen county and in Ohio couties cast of here, where heavy winds accompanied the rain nnd did some damage. A wind storm, that lasted only a few minutes, swept through th econn- ( try south of this city. Between the ' black Intervals of the sky wore funnel [ shaped clouds that had all the appearance of tornado clouds, but apI parent ly they moved too high to do , any damage. The wind rose very suddenly and many farmers residing southeast of ■ this city say that they experienced I a heavy windstorm and rain for several minutes shortly after 7 o'clock. , The storm swept down from the north ' and took in a wide territory as it moved southward. No destruction has been reported near here, however. | A heavy rain was all that Decatur felt as the results of the storm. The j rain began about 7 o'clock and was aconpanied by considerable thunder and lightning, but little wind. The rain came in several intervals, the | heaviest being at about 9 o'clock. I The storm passed on about 11 o’clock ' and a few stars began to shine giving evidence that the rain was over, at least for a while. |o — • ‘Man Hit Bv Train While Reading Paper On Track

Bedford. Ind., April 14—(Special to Daily Democrat)—lf William G. Cook. 70. recovers he will find a better place tn read a newspaper than a ra : road track. He is near death in a hospital here today sifter struck by a train on the Baltimore. & Ohio line near Loogootee while reading a paper. - o — Terre Haute —Mrs. Sarah M. How- • ard. 72, received a divorce from her husband, John W. Howard, of about j the same age when she complained |he no loiigei loved her and was fa- | miliar with other “girls”. 0 PLANS FOR BOYS WEEK IN DECATUR ARE ANNOUNCED Continued from Page one led and a large crowd had gathered to see the long anticipated flush as it rose a hundred feet above the earth. The “go devil.” a sharp steel objec.t weighing about 10 pounds, was drop,”’l - '• ,l *-.’I five shells. Jacob Rawley dropped the "go-devil", and in a few seconds a sharp thud, like ,distant thunder shook the earth for several hundred set around. Fully four minutes elapsed before a gush was heard and suddenly a large spray of water poured forth more than a hundred feet in the air; The water at first was dark gray and gave I promise of oil. The several men that I had devoted much time and effort to the building stood nearest the I scene of action and drew closer as the water receded. , After the first spray, the water became white and hopes of a gusher became faint. The prevailing opinion i . Davis gives you surer and better baking tgySreHWaHflyyyffjßCTfflMS Ss a w" Jr BFy.l MiJ fell U j

among the oil men who witnessed , the shooting was lliat u dry hole was] hit. A gaseous odor permeated the air and gave hope to those most in ( I terrated that oil would flow after the] balling was completed. Immediately after the gush had , died down, the hundreds of persons 1 standing several hundred feet away rushed toward the well to see if any oil was flowing Several men took photographs of the water shooting i into the air. — OIL WELL AT MONROE SHOWS PROMISE TODAY (Continued from Page One) trie light department; chief of police; street commissioner and fire chief will he appointed by the council and 'mayor, after the results of the flection on April 23 are known. The council will also appoint members of the city school board and these ap-| pointe* will then select their school superintendent. The plan is to eduoate and acquaint the boys with an election as it really is ami with the various duties and responsibilities of the councilmen and mayor and the powers of the different offices. l.ast year all the city offices, Ineluding the school superintendent and appointive offices were placed on the ballots and elected. This year the correct way of electing city officers will be followed. The boys are urged to think of candidates for the different tickets. I Announcement of the convention and primary was made in the schools today and every hoy of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades are urged to take part in the election. Citizenship day is only one of seven days arranged for International Boys week, the week opening on Sunday, April 26 with Boys day in the churches. The other days will! be designated as follows: April 27. hoys day in schools and evening at home; April 28, boys day in citizenship; April 29. boys day in athletics; Plenty of early cabbage and tomato plants. Phone 31, Central Grocery. It Monday, April 20 is the last day to pay your Light and Power bills. Save the discount. ' Just Received new shipment of COATS j Also a few Ensemble SUITS Mrs. M. Moyer 131 N. Sth st. I 'J

Did your Mother think more of your face than you do ? When you were iii your Go-Cart your lints were becoming. Your Mother took time and talent to see that - votl :,s stylish as tiny other son and heir. K 4 Now what’s happened? « Are ' ou as much style as you should J xCI H m// ' for your head? h you will consult us before another day ’"r If goes by we’ll turn you out as stylish as ! ■ J y y when you were in your Go-Cart. NEW SPRING HATS ’ $2.00, $3.00. $5.0057.00 The New Caps are Ready. Fresh Neckwear. Spring Underwear. fsfuL-T-Myeo Go J setts# clotmss ro/i uss J monet-aiwats- ■ • DECATUR - INDIANA •

April 30. boys day in indu-try: .lay 1, lioys loyalty Md health day; May 3, hoys day out of door*. M. F. Worthmttn is general chair man of boys' week and he has appointed chairmen and coipmlttera for the different days. These chairmen will complete their plans this week and report ut Hie Rotary meeting Thursday evening.

SAVE FOR A I DEFINITE PURPOSE. You will find it easier to start saving if you «v , a definite purpose. wv * fa Start a SAVINGS ACCOUNT today, and it w :ii prise you the rapidity with which it will grow if adiUi f ' regularlv. . u "«l 1# i a hi Come in and start your acounl at this hank. THE PEOPLES LOAN & TRUST Cl Bank of Service I THE CORT | TONIGHT—TOMORROW ‘SMOULDERING FIRES” I , A big Universal Attraction featuring Pauline Frederick, Laura La Plante. Tully Marshall and others. How far can a woman go? She didn't know she loved him until it was 100 late. gi “STICK FAST,” a good comedy. 10c 25c I —. .- , — — I THE ADAMS Theatre TONIGHT ONLY “THE GIRL ON THE STAIRS” A gripping mystery story with PATSY RUTH MILLER supported by a wonder cast. i Who killed Dick Wakefield? Was il his wile? Was I il a jealous lover? Was it the girl on the stairs? You’ll shiver with fright and laugh with delight. ALSO—“INTO THE NET," the next chapter of the detective serial. 10c r— 2sc

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