Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 23, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1925 — Page 4

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* . . 1 " , A man who lias electrocuted a hundred and forty men in Sing Sing prison has filed his resignation* and will retire to private life. He may be comfortable financially but we just can’t imagine him having the ease of mind which old age deserves. And yet it seems with the crime wave growing, some one just has to do the job. The G. It. & I may force through their decision to take the two morning trains off but they will certainly ■not be in the dark as to the people along the route, who have supported them for years. Resolutions from many different sources in every town and city between Fort Wayne and Richmond are now pouring in and more will follow. And if we kick long enough and hard enough we will succeed. It snowed in the east yesterday. Vermont and Maine each had lively flurries for an hour or two and the cool breezes here.today indicate it even if the weather man does insist on announcing "not much change in temperature or seasonable weather." Soon you will not only need, but require a tire in the furnace or the stove. Have you bius the wood shed'.’ The two state policemen who got drunk at the Bluffton fair this week and caused considerable annoyance and excitement, cannot be located. Is it possible that these "rough necks" are being protected by their department heads? About the biggest job the state police head gould do would be to show the pufflic that they don’t stand for such actions by employes, but evidently they think it was a fine joke on the communities in which these men worked. We were informed by telephone today that a county oiganization should be made at once for the Penn highway and a report made at the meeting to be held at Huntington next Tuesday afternoon. It will be neces sary to select a president, vice-presi-dent, secretary and treaurer and to show some interest in this project, if we hope to continue a part of it. This should be done Monday evening or Tuesday before the Findlay caravan arrives. Discussions are heard on every hand now as to whether this county ought to support a county fair, a street fair or an Old Home Week for next year. We aro for any or all of them and if some one will get busy and start the organization which looks like real business, it can be put over with all kinds of success. The biggest thing in such an affair is the cooperation of everyone and so we ought to do that which meets the approval of the greatest number of people. Findlay business and professional men arc making a great effort to establish the William Penn highway and we believe they will succeed. The road is entirely paved almost from »• re to Atlantic City and they arc interested in having it taken over as h federal highway and extended to the western coast. They will also strike a very popular chord by having the road marked the same number in each state and it is probable that within the next two or three, years it will become as popular as the Na-

Solution of Yesterday** Puulo [oßbh rdsWaik AolnßeJ UpWl I QH-TN I N oKtA' A A t]Bp’E R I O Osßt O V > R.O.sBS E.Njo sBS H QE. eMgou ro_ A'DMI TagREDEEMg IF L O F I EBe"R’R OH RE E ! L fIS HA DIEBs ER E ARBBD*I EBE'IBIdAM M TBh uR RI C A NTBs I L EEgltbOiVNje lew i r lsßßdwe' l ~s! i ——— tional and Lincoln. That will be a splendid thing for those towns along, the route. Next Tuesday afternoon a caravan of probably twenty or thirty ears will reach here, boosting the Penn road. A meeting will be held at the Industrial rooms in this city and you are invited to join the caravan on the trip to Huntington. The organization in Indiana will try toisecure the paving of the road through

* the stao and Decatur should certainly (show the proper amount of sensible ; enthusiasm over the project. It looks 1 like the best organization of its kind ever proposes] through this section. In a feature headlined "Stay <u your own home town," in Colliers this week, Meredith Nicholson, author of ■ "The house of a thousand candles," and a lot of other “first sellers’’ gives his experience, seme advice and a couple of columns of interesting reading. Wc like his story because we perhaps too belong in that class of "incurable hicks" in which the noted Hoosier author places himself. "Nick" says in one paragraph: “Young men and women might do a fine job in almost any town of s.('<*o by making it so well governed, clean and wellmannered. that pasing pilgrims would go forth to boost it. It’s a pet notion of mine that the elevation of the tone of our politics must begin in the small political units and that it's up to the young sous ami daughters of democracy to do the job.” He concludes with this: "About 95 per cent" of the native sons of the country are a lot better off to remain right where they start, intent upon such labors as God gives them to do, assured that if they are honest and industrious it won't be necessary at their passing tor the mortician’s assistant to do the pallbearing.” o ■ F + + 4-* + + + + + + + + 4‘ + *■ Big Features Os * * RADIO ♦ * Programs Today ♦ *++++*♦♦++♦++♦+ Saturday's Five Best Radio Features Copyright 1925 by United Tress VVTAM. Cleveland, 89, 8 p. m. (E. S. T.l—Anniversary program. WOAW, Omaha, 526, 8 p. in. (C 3. T.l—-Radio exposition finals. KDKA. East Pittsburgh, 309, 8:30 p. m. IE. S. T.): —Band concert KSD. St. Ijou:s. 545, 7 p. m. (C. S. T.) —Theatre program. I WRC. Washington. 469. 10:30 p. in. (E. S T.l— Saturday nighlers. SUNDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright 1925 by United Prewl WEAF, New York, 492; WCAP. Washington, 469; WWJ, Detroit, 353; WEEI Boston. 349; WJAR, Providence. 396; WCTS, Worcester, 268; WCAE, Pittsburgh, 461, 7:20 p m. (EST) - Capital theater. WOC, Davenport. 484, 9:39 p. m (CSTJ —WOC Little Symphony. WEAR. Cleveland, 389. 8 p. m. <EST)—Safety congress reception. WGN, Chicago, 370, 5 p.m. (CST) . —WGN singers and ensemble. WPG, Atlantic City. 300, 11 p. m. (EST)—Organ reci tat o— «■ XX XX XXXX-»*»1-•> XX•» ■» X X K X TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY X SS X From the Daily Democrat File X X Twenty Years Ago This Day X > X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X ’ George Tricker elected president of the Great Northern Indiana fair associal ion. I Tax rate lu Decatur for 1906 will be s■». u 8 Judge Erwin appoints Mrs. W. A. ' Ixiwer, L. C. Miller. Mrs. Gene Strat- * ton-Potter aud Mrs. Catherine Ehinger i member's of board of charities ~ An American cancelling machine is installed at the postoffice. 8 S. G. Humphries repurchases the 0 Burt house from H. C. Donelly a Men wanted to cut 500 shocks of g corn nt the county farm. u P. W Smith of Richmond is ill with sciatic rheumatism. All Decatur meat markets agree to i- close on Sundays. ’ I- H. L. Couter is advocatiui organiza-

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i EdgaFA.J xuestftAj DEXTER CUMMING’S FAMOUS SCORE Out in thirty-one and iu in twenty- He had a three on number oue, a two ntae. on wunber two. There's a round to boast of. and I wish n e missed a putt on number three, as that it were mine; pollers often do. Eighteen holes in sixty strokes, be- And then said Billy Phelps to me: Ts Here it now or doubt it, this boy keeps it up But. I was there and saw it done and \y e u , SPe the greates golf we’ve seen I know all about it; since Rufus whs a pi(p ’’ z So here’s to Dexter Cuinniiiiga. tis for a U( j tt ijeti at. last the nine was turned him to spill this ditty mu shouted: "Thirty-One! For he shattered every record lor the a | la ke bauds with Dexter Cummings, course at Huron City. boys! Another record’s gone." The links belong to Billy Phelps, he built them and he guards them in twenfv-nitu- long shots and true lie And foolish is the golfing wight who finished up the day scornfully regards them; with the record for the course he For golfers, world wide over, both the proudly walked away; greater and the lesser matter what the future holds for Have come to Huron City, Mich., to Dexter Cummings’ game, play with the professor; (jr shall he win or lose the crown But not ’till Dexter Cummings came. which golfers strive to claim. has amateur or pro 1 | t . still can boast that summer day Gone round that course in sixty strok- Goulf granted every wish '-’ s . When he took sixty for the course at That’s something else I know. Huron City, Mich i<'<,|>yrigl,t 1-MgHr A. Guw»*

tion of the Clover Lt>af base ball i league for next year, composed of , Delphos. Decatur, Bluffton, Maron. ( Kokomo and Frankfort. — o I ALL OVER INDIANA FRANKFORT —Florida has nothing on Frankfort. Frankfort has an alligator hunt all its own. The alligator left the city park five weeks ago and is making his home in a small stream. He raids farms of young pigs and has eluded capture sb far WINONA LAKE— Donald Downing, 21, hadn't seen his girl for a whole day and was harrying toward her home at the rate of fifty miles an hour. That's what Sheriff Daley of Mentone said and Justice of the Peace Bowman believed him. Ho fin-d Downing 118. PbYMbI'TH Nathan F.hyart, on a bbl of |I3,!MM has been Warded tl}« contract for constructing the L .K Steel road, in Marshall county. TIPTON Joe .Mobley has also a freak of nature to exhibit. His is t. fqll sized ear of pop corn with three . half cars attached to it. BLUFFTON -The city lays claim . to a budding cartoonist. C. Ciroy Cloud, former emplvyn of a Ideal piano j factory. vWt old frimids here after five years experience in commercial f cartooning/in Cleveland. Ohio. FAIRMONT—James McTurnan is 1 the most unlucky boy here. He first broke both bones of his left arm, later o fractured two ribs during a tumbling act, ami then stepped on. a rusty nail, i- MUNCIE—"SchooI days’’ will be ob-

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served in Muncie schools Sunday. AU teachers, pupils, parents and others Interested tn schools are invited to attend church. WARSAW —Survivors of the Sev-enty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry of the civil War who met at Warsaw < levied the following offiicers: l»uvid Harrington, Wakrup, president; J W. Hibschman. Warsaw, vice president: B. W. Carr .Warsaw, treasurer and W. F. Peddycord, Chicago, sechttary. PIERCETON—The farm residence of Frank Shorb was recently struck by lightaing and completely destroyed with Its contents. The »4,000 loss was partly covered by insurance. WARSAW—DaIe Regonos has a unique way of canning spending money. Several thousand crickets have been caught by him and sold for bait. SEYMOUR—"One-eyed” .automobile driving will ndt be tolerated th or around Seymour, State Police Lawrenti Shields of Brownstown said he wou’d arrest all violators. BRAZ.lf,—Prison authdrities of the Indiana Stale Farm have just completed remodeling the .interior and ’ exterior of the buildings* The streets of the prison have been resurfaced with bricks from the prison factory; three new dormitories have been i added; and a new dining liaß is nearly finished. ELKHART—The Diana Hunting ; Club of Elkhart has secured seven ! hundred. acres -of laud, to. be stocked with game.

KEEPING WELL WHAT KILLS BABIES? UM. rRMOMMICK M. ««■•« K4lt«r •« “HEALTH” THE United State* government b** compiled and is*ued u.nny bulletins en wheat crop*, corn crop*, bay crop*, ahd potato crop*. Now It h»» gotten trnunrf to lnve»tlg«tlng th» most valuable crop ot *ll. th* babg crop. What kill* babies? We know, from the latest report* of the census bureau, that 187,000 bable* less than oue year old die every year in this country. Over half of this appalling number, or 88,000, die In the first month. It does no good to know this. It etmply shocks us. To be of any value we must know what are the cause*. It 1* of course impossible to collect and tabulate the cause of death of each baby In this enormous total, two and one-half times as many live* every year as thia country lost In the World w*r. But the children’* bureau of the Department of Labor has just completed a study of 23,000 babies bom In eight American cities This survey may be taken as a basis, •ince the causes of death among »•> large a number m«y fulriy be con sidered all average for the entire country. From thia report some Interesting facts can be assumed. The mortality for male babies la one-fourth higher than for female babies. The mortality Is highest in the first month of life and steadily decreases each month. For the first month, the rate is 44.8; for the second 9.3; and for the third 4.5. So the longer a baby Uvea the better chance it has. Nearly one-third of the death* In the first year are due to condition* before and Immediately after birth, such as premature birth, failure or defects of development and lack of strength.

The time in the year when a baby 1* bom has much to do with It* chances of living. Babies born in June have the poorest chance, those born Iu August the best. Maybe there's something, after all. In the old idea of the astrologers about being born under a lucky star. First bom children, contrary to the popular Idea, have a higher mortality than the second born. The death rate for premature bable* Is over six times as high as for babies born at the uatural time. The death rate among twins and triplets Is much higher than for single babies. The highest death rate of all is for babies bora within a year of the last preceding baby, while the lowest death rate is for babies* bom after a period of at least four years. Four times as many bottle-fed babies die as compared with breastfed babies. Man has never produced anything as good as a healthy mother lor a baby feeder. I®. 1925. W.it.ra N.wtp>p«r Union.! — Daylight savings time dispensed with beginning Sunday, Sept. 27 and all eastern and central stations now broadcasting on daylight saving time will revert to standard time Sunday morning.

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Store Closed ALL DAY MONDAY ON ACCOUNT OF HOLIDAY. WILL OPEN TUESDAY MORNING. BERNSTEIN’S 1 1 „ V Grows Should you be one of the lucky ones who has a large sum of money drawing inleresl. you know that the inter' est helps materially in meeting all your monthly exjMtises. But if you have only a small interest drawing account. that is all the more \ reason for you to make it grow. We arc always glad to explain how “money grows" when interest is added to it year after year, and how small sums saved each week count up in a year. 4% Interest Paid Old Adams County Bank WE PAY YOU TO SAVE. DEMOCRAT WANT ADS GET RESULTS