Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1925 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMO CHAI Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J H Holler, Tree, and Gen. Mgr A H. Holthous*. Sec’y. & Bus Mgr Entered at ttio Poetottica at Decatur Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies —— 2 centi One week, by carrier 10 centi Ono year, by carrier — - I5.O( One month, by mail... —3s cents Throe months, by mall ——11.0( Six months, by mail ——- —U-7E One year, by mail 23.00 Ono year, at office ............$3 00 (Prices quoted arc within first and second tones. Additional postage ' added outside those sones.) ■ —■ Advertising Ilates Made Known by Application Foreign Representative Carpentier At Company. 122 Michigan Avenue. Chicago .. . ..i .... Some scientific son of-a-gun lias dis covered a weed that he claims will cure the tobacco habit and an editor over at Alexandria declares »<• has known about that, for it long time and that its a five cent cigar sold in that town. With two building and loan asso ciations under process of organization here there will soon be no reasonable excuse for not owning your own home. You can build what you want and pay for it as rent if you have a small amount of capitol. Mrs. Robert M LaFolletlc has very sensibly declined to become a candidate to succeed her distinguished husband as the leader of the Wisconsin politicians because as she says, "it would be against nature for me to assume such responsibilities." Her son will probably enter the race and it is doubtful if he is prepared for such a job. More than likely the old timers will Hot out a man big enough to defeat him hut it may be his chance to show his “stuff." The stale board of accounts is conducting another examination of the state highway commission's records, this being the third within the past year. It is believed by many to-be a continuation ofthe "inner politics" of the present administration and a desire to remove from office John D. Williams ami Earl Crawford, two of the best members the commission has had. What ever it is the state is spending a lot of money ami surely foolishly. If there is any thing wrong in the office it should have been found the first or second time and if there is not. why this continued strife in one of the most important depart ments of the state? Just when government forecast/ of a shortage of the nation's pig pro duction cause forebodings about the price of ham, estimates of one of the heaviest of all corn yields are publi died. The more corn the more pigs and the sooner the shortage of pork will be remedied. Many farmers have, lost so heavily on some crops ruined by the drought and hot winds of the early summer that if they can make up some of their losses on their hogs and corn nobody will begrudge them what they get. Hogs are one kind of live stock of rapid growth and a year i., sufficient time to change entirely' the situation as to supply. At present it seems probable that the pork consumers will for a while pay stiff prices for what he buys while those farmers who are so fortunate as to be well stocked will be benefit ted correspondingly.—South fiend Tribune. Hood roads are multiplying in this - '■untry. even faster I han trucks can smash them. Long stretches of fine paving are found now in almost every section, running from city to city, and sometimes for amazing distances through the open country. Hut there is always one obstacle that the driver. be he local resident or tourist, runs up against sooner or later. He comes to a jumping-off place, where there is an almost impassable gap between two good roads. It is sudden drop back into the dark ages of transportation. A member of one of the state highway commissions

Solution of Yesterday** Puzzle T . S'TjEi AjYIBBBOjVfEiRTT J A RG Rj Q’B OO RTTIhEXE, ; |G LA. ■ IE W EjBS P I Eioßfr AjT i*i a wlbUer TOd L E PPG ER [sw A Y sBBBR O A R S si ' l 0 -I' ■ •...!« 5 ' makes the| very sensible suggestion iOj that in road-building programs, at--0 tent ton be given first to hard-surfac- ’* Ing these onc-mile and two-mile gaps, e before building any more long pavements that don't quite reach.. Unking up the sound pavements makes the whole present good road system available. Further progress may well start from there. It would transform road transportation in most of the ‘ states if this simple policy were adopted. -Madison Courier. 1 ' r Mr. Bryan lived sixty-five busy .. years, the last forty of which were I devoted to a service to the public I which was laborious to say the least. Had he not lived a clean life ho.could not have given the energy required to lead in various lines during three i decades or more. Many will re- . member the memorable campaign of 4896 when the peerless leader, superb • of figure and matchless in his oratory I traveled nearly 20,000 miles and delivered more than six hundred addresses. His first visit to Decatur was early one morning during that autumn and when his train pulled into the G. It. & I. station the candidate i had not awakened. Notified of his destination he arose and without - completing his dress, appeared before a crowd of thousands who had gathered to hear him. He worked from daylight until midnight for sixty days, eating and sleeping when he could. Few other men could have stood the / ’ strain, but Bryan did and for years he continued at almost the same speed to carry to the people of America his messages. His was a wonderful life but without doubt his years were ■ shortened because of the energy and effort which slowly sapped his life. It was Bryan and he would have had it no otlfer "way, ♦ 4 ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY 4 ♦ ♦ ♦ From the Daily Democrat file ♦ ♦ Twenty years ago this day 4 ♦ < + **4*«*****4**4 July 29 —Traction linos of Indiana are assessed for $26,387,366. just double last. year. Decatur becomes a fifth class city under new law. Election will be held November 7. Citizens Telephone Company asses ed at S7O per mile by the Btgte tax boa rd. Sixty watermelons stolen last night from Worley X- Company wholesale fruit house in basement of Holthouse, Schulte & Co. building. Surprises for Mrs. John Garard on her 39th birthday. The J. S. Peferstm family return from several weeks outing at fflotne City. Jesse Leßrun made a business trip to Fort Wayne. Mrs. R. K. Allison, son daughter, home from Denver, Col. D. E. Studebaker is home from Petoskey. o I Big Features Os | RADIO j Programs Today ( Wednesday’s Five Best Radio Features 1 CNRO. Ottawa, 435. 8 p.m. (EDST) > Studio concert. WSAI, Cincinnati. 326. 11 p.m. (CDST) String quartette. WLS. Chicago, :U.>. 10 p.m. (CDST) Cz.eecho-Siovak artists. WCAP, Washington. 469' WEAP. • Ne«- York, 492: WOO, Philadelphia. 508; WJAR, Providence. 306, 6:30 p. m. (EST) U. S. army baud. WCX, Detroit, 517. 8 p.m. (EST) DeH trolt symphony orchestra. p o a Father Benzinger, of Hessen Castle s was a visitor here today. E. G. Wine, of Fort Wayne, cattec e on business friends here yesterday “ . afternoon.

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CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank the. friends.’ neighbors and relatives who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and death of our darling baby; Rev. Dotson for his consoling words and the choir for their services; also for the many beautiful flowers. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hill and family. i British Commons Refuses To Protect Common Hea London, —"When is an insect not all insect?" This is the question that is agitating London at this tipie; ami the answer , seems to be: “When it is a flea.” k At any rate the matter pt the flea [ interjected itself into a recent debat< F in the rerious House of Commons ot. k the question of an act entitled the f Performing Animals HUI and for Os L teen minutes the staid Commoners I rocked with laughter while Brigadier ' • General Cockrell who was in charge of the bill pleaded for the inclusion of ( the flea under the protective measures ul the act. , Persistent Worker “The flea" said General Cockerell, “is one of the most persistent and wonderful workers in the world and , one of its best performers. But be 1 cause he is an invertebrate he is not! , protected under the benefits of this bill.—l move for his inclusion under its protection. There was no immediate seconding of the motion and General Cockerell [ 0 continued: “I see he has no friends. [Yet the flea can jump thirty time his id own height and draw eighty times his >y own weight, and shows the greatest [alacrity in rising from his place. I

should think that that woyld commend 1 him to the favor of the Liberals. Independent ‘■Furthermore he is absolutely independent of the caplalist and requires no machinery, and that should endear him to the socialists. Again 1 move for the inclusion of the flea under the Per- I forming Animals Bill", But the Liberals and the Socialists , failed to rally to the flea's support and the motion was lost. Discussion of the cyclostome, an in . vertebrae, which from some constitutional defect was unable to keep its , mouth shut was also occassional for tnueh laughter, but here again—pos sibly because of its constitutional de feet—the invertebrates failed of ■ friends in the House, and the motion . for its protection under the bdl was also lost. z o Paving 1 On State Roads Is Progressing Rapidly Indianapolis, July 29 — (United Press.) — Contractors are forging ahead rapidly with work on paving projects of the state highway com ! ’ mision’s 1925 road building program. | Before bad weather sets in in the I tall 21k miles of pavement will have I been added to the state's highway sys-1 1 tern. 1 The pavements are mostly located in tho central, north, east, and west ■j sections of the state. \ ' The' southern part of the state came in for a considerable portion of the 528 miles of stone ana gravel t highways being built this season. 1 Meantime, the maintenance diyis-J • ion of the department is building 45 s miles of bituminous macadamized and s dragging and applying stone and ( t gravel to 3.U00 miles of secondary 1 road.

FARM CROPS TO SHOW INCREASE ('. A. Bradlule Says Farmers Will Have Ten Billion Dollar Income Chicago, July 29 — American farmer* will have a tun billion dollar income from tho crop year. O A Bradfutc, president of the American Farm Bureau federation, told the Vnited Press today. His statement followed completion of a crop survey.

“This is a healthy increase anti will be the second consecutive good year,” Bradfute asserted. It Is a remarkable jump from the low point in agricultural depression reached in the crop season of 1921-1922. when the farmers total income amounted to only seven and a half billion dollars. "While the new crop season Is only four weeks old, conditions all point to a record breaking year Last year showed a decided turn for the better in many parts of the country and the coming crop year which ends next June 30 should be even better. “In 1922-23, the farmer’s total in come was nine billion dollars. The crop season 1923-24 brought the farmer nine and a half billions, and the crop season which ended June 30 ofthis year brought around nine and three-fourths billijuis." —o- —— CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and. neighbors for their kindness and sympathy during the death and burial of our son and brother. Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Durbin. Mr and Mrs Earl Durbin. o EXPECT RESIGNATION Chief Engineer of State Highway Com mision Plans To Quit Job, Reports Say. Indianapolis, July 29 — (I nited Press. > —Reports persisted in the state house today that C. E. Gray, chief engineer fV the state highway commission. will resign because of dis agreement oveF specifications for a road in Marion county. . Gray approved specifications drawn up by George Schmidt, county surveyor, but the commission failed to approve them. It was learned lhat Gray had written three letters of resignation and torn them up. John D. Williams, director of the commission, refused to say whether Gray would quit. Williams and George Hershmann, | Os Grown Point, another commission I member, conferred with Governor Jackson. It was understood the con-

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ference was held over the expected . withdrawal of Gray ln the event of (kray’fi re^lgminon William Titus, state highway brldg engineer, would probably he advanced , as a candidate to succeed him , t name employes heirs • Jackson K. Dering. Millionaire Coal Mine Owner, Leave* $200,000 To Hi* Worker*. Waukegan. 111.. July 29 Employes of Jackson K. Dering, millionaire coal mine owner, will receive >200.00 >j from the Dering estate, it vt* revealci in the will on file here today. The estate is valued at J 2.000.000. The widow receives ons-third, a brother. Charles L. Dering. is tx>- ( queathed one-sixth; one-tenth goes to, charity; $200,000 goes to employes. anl | the remainder w II go t<> Hie son.'

Pay By CHECK A checking account is good business, no matter which way.you take it. The cancelled check is your receipt. No need of keeping a lot of receipted bills. And it is a flood business I reference for the business man, the young man or woman. Lu cause it dcnmnslrates that he possesses inethod. caution anti thrift. Open a checking account today in this bank. It is very important. Old Adams Co. Bank. | WE I’AY YOU TO SAVE

Jackson K, Dering. when he 30 *"• Joseph B. Roynou and Pauley, employes in the cti in6o offices of the Dering company J given $20,000 each; D. B Medlli ' third employe, receives »10,00() wh ? others in the offices and' |1(lw ’’ celve m>U the way from s2oq lo depending on the length of BPrvi( . e ’ ■ ■ ■ —■ W .0 — Twin Boys Born To Couple Near Peterson Twin boys were born to Mr. W( i Mrs. Homer Ginter, living east „f Peterson, last evening The bo" weighed six and one-quarter and sq and three-quarters pounds respecti,,, ly. Mother and babes are g ,. tt||| . aj< ng nicely and tho f our bjß| J daughters in the family w< i, 0 | 11( , U)> arrival of the twin brothers. >$ J- $ WANT ADS EARN-|-t t I I. 1.1..——— «.1