Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1925 — Page 2

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Publieheff Every Evenlnf Exeept Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Halter, Pres, and Gen. Mgr A. R- Holthouse, Bec'y. A Bu Mgr. Entered at tflie Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies ——— 2 cents One week, by carrier 10 cents One year, by carrier 28 00 One month, by mall 88 cents Three months, by mall 21.00 Six months, by mail 2176| One year, by mall 23 00 One year, at office 23 00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those nones.) Advertising Rates Made Known by Application Foreign Representative Carpentier & Company, 122' Michigan Avenue. Chicago. Monday is Labor Day and along with about every one else in this vicinity we will take a vacation. Its a fine idea after a hot summer and weeks or months of hard work. There is no special program here but hundreds are planning to spelld the day in the manner most restful and enjoyable to them. Property owners along Fifth street have organized and will not permit their street to be further damaged. They are just as anxious as any one that we have a good state road but they prefer not to have their street ruined to get it. We believe the problem of delivering the stone will be worked out satisfactorily in a few days so the highway can be completed before snow' flies. State Superintendent Hinkle and his assistants worked on the problem all day yesterday and believe they can solve it. Clarence L. Ayers, former Decatur man, and now president of the American Life Insurance Company, of Detroit. Michigan, in an address to the Police and Legal Official Club of that city, made a hit which got for his address the first column of the front page of the Detroit News when he declared that the way to stop much of the crime now prevalent is to bar the revolver from the government mails; prohibit its shipment in any manner and America's crime problem will well be on its way to solution. Many have long felt the same way but Mr. Ayers certainly expreses it in a forcible manner. Those people who are driving around the “closed’’ signs on the I stretch of road 21, now under construction. will find if the practise is continued that there is a penalty of from 25.00 to 2500 for such an act of destruction. It cost Mr. Harris about twenty-five dollars to repair the damage done by one young man last evening when he made three trips up and down the mile between the ’Scheiferstine hill and Monmouth. It required a roller team and six men to relevel the road thus torn up. Mr. Harris has the car number and a repetition of the act will force him to file affidavits to protect himself, much as he would dislike to do so. This should be sufficient warning. The teachers of Adams county and Rotary club "have endorsed French Quinn’s idea for a Gene StrattonPorter Memorial which with the approval of the public already given by numerous expressions, assures the success of the proposed movement to erect a suitable monument, mark Limberlost trail and perhaps inaugurate the reforesting idea. It's a constructive idea and a very excellent] one which you can support as hard as you want to. with the knowledge ] that you are, helping a great work] for you are adding to interest in the study of nature which will mean much to the boys and girls of tomorrow. The old question of reapportionment ot representatives fiom the states to congress is up againPresident Coolidge is being urged to’ advocate action which would increase 1 the house niembership from <35 to 438. eliminating existing inequalities in the present allotment to the states. It is understandable that a state should not want its representation reduced- It is also

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Boy. if you’d baffle your foes, Be clean, and be kind. For the aid and the malice of these Who would hurt you with underhand blows Leave no scandal behind: As they search through your years. Have fears Os the facts they will find. Be just to ali men. and be fair, To your standard be true: Live up to the faith you declare. In your past leave no deep-hidden snare That may yet tangle you; Then, when searching for wrong, comes the foe Y = u - may shew Fear of naught he may do.

The People’s Voice ANOTHER MEMORIAL IDEA Willshire, O, R. R. ,Sept. 3, 1925. Decatur Daily Democrat. (Kind Sirs— Just a private opinion. Having read a good deal in your paper ir regard to Memorial to Gene Stratton ' Porter, why not a Limberlost Pan? out of the old cemetery across from the creamery with Elephant Rock 01 some other suitable monument ir center all dedicated to her memory An Interested Former Resident 0 State Electric Light Association To Meet | French Lick. Ind., Sept. 5. —(United Press, i—The trend in state and national regulation of electric utilities and the broader use of electric ■ light and power in rural communities will be the two main subjects of discussion at the meeting of the Indiana Electric Light Association here Sept. 22 and 23. | John W. McCardle, chairman'of the ' slatp public service commission, will ■ discuss utility regulation. Prof. G. I. Christie, of Purdue University, will talk on use of electricity and power cu the farm1 A half dozen utility leaders are to address the two-day session, which will be followed by a three-day meeting of the Great Lakes division of the National Electric Light Association. Titis division includes Indiana, 11lMichigan and Wisconsin. | j * o fed F. Miller public sale, two east of Decatur, Tuesday, Seutember Bth, one o’clock. See Bill. 110-3 t!

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1 Boy. ’tis the clean min who’s strong In the thick of the fight, , The man who has struggled along. Leaving nothing of yesterday's wrong To weaken his might; • Having naught in the stretch of his years Which he fears To be brought to light. Boy, ’tis the clean nun and just i Who can smile when men sneer. And can dare to be true to his trust When madly his enemies thrust With hate's poisoned spear. If no shame they can find in his past, Tn thp Inst % He has nothing to fear.

Big Snake At Large Near Delphos, Ohio Delphos, Ohio, Sept. s—Farmers residing northwest of Delphos arc on the lookout for a large snake which was seen in that vicinity Fr iday morning and which is thought to be depopu’ating the poultry yards there. The snake was reported by Mr. Mor- ' is, who resides about four and a ralf miles northwest of Delphos. He states that he went to the f’eld ’’>.t about sunrise Friday morning to ;ei his horses from pastures. Ho leard a hissing in a cornfield near >y and a moment later saw a large make crawling from the cornfield hrough a wire fence He watched it until a portion | ibout ten feet long was in view and he estimated that only half of the otal length of the snake could be teen at that time. He estimated the width of the head at four and a halfh inches and the diameter of the body at about six Inches. He hurried to the house and then secured the aid of neighbors and a hunt was made for the snake with shotguns. No trace of it could be found at this time, however. Mr. Morris was of me opinion that the snake was taking an early morning jaufit with a view to picking up g springer for its breakfast. He is feeling anything but easy over the Tact that the monster is at large on his farm and the entire neighborhood is considerably exercised over the affair and anxious to get rid fit the big snake. o No Mail Delivery There \\jll not be any delivery of mail on rural rotffes or in the city on Monday, September 7th, in observance 'of Labor Day. Patrons please taka notice. 1 H Fntz:u*er, pcitcuster. I ‘

LOCAL AVIATOR HAS ACCIDENT Hugh Moyer Narrowly Escapes Injury; Plane Damaged In Drop When his motor suddenly tiled. Hugh Moyer. Monroe aeronaut, did some skilled maneuvering In making the semi glide-drop into a field near i'etroleum with h 4 passenger and plane late Thursday afternoon. O. M. McGee, of Van Wert, 0.. salesman for the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., was the passenger a»<l both were given a thrill. Neither were scared | and McGee was taken up immediately afterward in another plane that | Moyer had in the landing field nearby, j In the accidental drop the propeller.' one wing and the rudder of Moyer's ’ plane were broken. The accident occurred a moment: after the airplane started up and the' drop was not over seventy-five feet, i The plane took off the field and then was circling when the motor died. I Moyer started the glide, and had to use skill in clearing a fence. He was too low to clear a telephone pole and some wires, so he allowed the machine to drop suddenly and then brought it to a stop within a few yards before it could strike a fence at the roadside. McGee, in telling friends of the accident. said he wasn't frightened, amt that when the plane struck the ground there was nothing but a hard jolt for the inflated tires absorbed the shock. The force of the drop burst the tire. McGee said he felt nervous when they started down on his second trip, I but the nervousnes did not last long. I He paid great tribute to Moyer’s skill I and declared he wottfd trust the flyer in any future flight. Moyer carried passengers from Petroleum during the street fair there. R. M. Barnes, hardware dealer had just completed a trip before McGee started. The two friends debated as to who should take the first trip. — o Evangelical Brotherhood To Meet Monday Evening The Evangelical Men’s Brotherhood will meet Monday evening. The topic for the evening will be, ‘‘Sug-

I • Bi 11 ' I I IB"' . I - ; '-'k, * _ A. Why not a Trade for the Boy? • / * Fort Wayne General Electric aoprentice school was started in 1913. One hundred and six young men have graduated from the school since that time. The courses are of three- and four-year duration. In 1925, sixty-seven graduates are still working for General Electric. Os the missing, one is attending a university, one is teaching, three are deceased, and thirty-four aife working for other concerns. A boy with a common school education may take a fourpyear apprentice course as a machinist and tool maker, or a pattern maker, or a molder. High school graduates may take a three-year course for electrical testers or draftsmen. The General Electric Com- f' J a. r ) pany h as plants in forty. Crraduates from i any of these courses two cities and towns in the J wuiovj United States; the nearest Can SOCUTG emPloVment at PI th PT Ft one being at the address , x , «•_ J U CHUer rt. given below. w ayne or Decatur. general, ELECTRIC

gestions as to how wc may stimulate the progress of our church. The leaders will be John Schultz, Henry Adler and Gregg McFarland. John Ischnitz, Alfred Elzey. Francis Eady and Henry Barckly will be the hosts. Watermelon will be served. Pioneer Auto Builder Dies At Richmond, Ind. Richmond. Ind., Sept. 5 (—United Press)—C. R. St. John, 69. who made

[ Protection | £3 When life’s shadows grow 91 dint and the twilight of years settles ii|x>n us, the most degfl IR'iidabie and most comfortable Ei companion to cheer us up—lS 1 A SUBSTANTIAL BA N K R ACCOUNT. ' Start now and lay aside a fe: little each week to provide a compensation for your old age. A few cents a day will do it. Come in and let us explain how easy it can be done. I 1 § INTEREST g PAI D mis < I Old Adams I Countylßank WE PAY YOU TO SAVE

the first auto ever built In Richnumd i is dead at his home here. A CARD The Gene Stratton-Porter place, ’’Wildflower Woods o n “ van Lake, will be closed to viaim, I pending negotiations, with the nd? ana Federation of Olubx for the X' chase of same. Should the X, ’ aequ re the place people wl n (h *7 I have ample opportunity to visit it ‘ } C. D. PORTER. mi;