Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1926 — Page 4

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kxkx k xx xKxxx x x x x X CLASSIFIED ADS « KXXXXXXX X X X X X X X X FOR SALE FOR SALE -clover seed: 3 tons timothy hay. A. Z. Smith, 2 miles west of Pleasant .Mills,GSt x HHTsXLE -Se e d Corn. William Rupert. Monroe. 76tf FOR SALE—Brick7~slate. lumber and windows. Frank Heimann & Son. at the Old St. Joseph school bldg. FOR - SAI .E - St amla rd make piano, excellent condition. Reasonable price. Robert Garard, 515 Jefferson street. Phone 895.82tf. FOIFsAI.E - Seed corn. Samuel Kaehr. Monroe. R. R. 1_ 84-3tx. FOR - SALE —500 size chick brooder stove. Adolph Schamerloh, Phone 845-T 85-3 t. FOR SALE—Two Guernsey male calves, two weeks old. Ed Miller, 1-2 mile south of Salem. 85-50 FOR SALE - l~soft coal heater, 1 Detroit Jewel gas stove: side board. Davcnnort: some canned fruit: will sell at private ale. 437 Mcßatnes st. Sst3x FOR SALE—Ford touring car. Cheap if taken at once. Telephone 68T. 86-3tx. FOR SAUWllack :horse, weighing about 1400 lbs., sound and a good worker. Dan Baumgartner. 3 miles south and 5 1-p miles west of Monroe. 86-3tx. FOR SALE—A 7-room house, strictly modern, located on North sth St. A real bargain if taken at once. Part cash, balance easy terms. See E. F. Gass. 86-3 t F()R~SALE—Overland 90 parts, in good condition. Phone 139. K. & 5L No. FOR SALE —Dark Barred Plymouth Rock eggs for setting. $4.00 per 100. Mrs. Emily McAhren, Decatur. R R. 9 M>-3tx WANTED W ANTED — Clean, washed rags, suitable to clean presses and type. Must be clean. Not common rags or waste, or dirty clothes. Prefer muslins, calicos and like. No laces, heavy underwear, woolens or heavy materials. Will pay 7 cents per pound for the right kind if brought to this office, but they must he dean and the right size. Decatur Daily Democrat.i WANTED —Some shoats and storm buggy. Paul G. Habegger, Monroe, R R. 2. 84-3 t. I WANTED—GirI to do general housework and toke care of one child for Fort Wayne family. Call 316, this city. 84-3 L AGENTS WANTED—Women easily make $12.00 dartlv Selling “THE HOSE THAT WEAR." made by the or- ! iginators of famous “RACINE FEET." No experience necessary. Permanent position for reliable women. Write today. Racine Feet Knitting Co.. 870 ■Wheeler. Beloit. Wis. 86-ltx. SALESMAN WANTED—LocaI territory. Must have auto and qualifications for building year round repeat trade on lubricating oils and roofing cement from farmers and industrial users in 25 miles radius. We handle credits, collaetions, shipments, from nearby branches. Age limits 28-50. Interview arranged. The Atlas Oil Co., Box 940, Indianapolis, Ind, 86-6tx. LOST AND FOUND LOST- Male black and white Beagle hound, name King. A. M. Mauller, Pleasant Mills, Ind. 86-3tx Wabash. — A rich reward awaits Milo Meredith if he can prove relationship to William* Meredith, who died in Washington, Ind. Meredith left an estate estimated at one million dollars to be divided among distant relatives. o The party is known who took roller skates off the porch at 224 N. Third St. Please return and no questions will be asked. 86-3tx NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Notice is hereby given than MONDAY, MAY 3, 1926 will be the last day to pay your Spring installment of taxes. The treasurer’s office will be open from eight a. m. to four p. tn. during the tax paying season. All taxes not paid by that time will become delinquent and a penalty of ten per cent will be added. Do not put off your taxes as they must be paid and the law points out the duty of the county treasurer. Those . who have bought or sold property and wish a division of taxes to come in at once. Don't wait for the rush. No receipts can be laid away for anyone so please do not ask for it. 82-to May 3 LOTTIES KLEINE, Treasurer of Adams County. > — O DR. C. V. CONNELL VETERINARIAN Special attention given to cattle and poultry practice. Office 120 No. First Street. Phone: Office 143—Residence 102 j —— —c

:xxxxxxxx x x x x x x x x ? X BUSINESS ( ARDS « SXXXXXXXX X X X X X X X X H. I ROHNAPFEL. D. C. DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC A HEALTH SERVICE The Neurocalometer Service Will Convince You at 144 South 2nd Street JI Office Phone 314 Residence 1087 Office Hours: 10-12 am. 1-5 6-8 p.m. ; S.”e — BLACK > Funeral Director Mrs. Black, Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly day or night Office phone 90 Home phone 727 FEDERAL FARM LOANS" Abstracts of Title Real Estate Plenty of Money to Loan on Government Plan. Interest Rate Reduced October 5, 1924 See French Quinn Office —Take first stairway south of Decatur Democrat N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined, Glasses Fitted HOURS: 8 to 11:30—12:30 to 5:00 Saturday 8:00 p. m. Telephone 135 MONEY TO LOAN An unlimited amount of 5 PER CENT money on improved real estateFEDERAL FARM LOANS Abstracts of title to real estate. SCHURGER’S ABSTRACT OFFICE 133 S. 2nd St. 0' - o FARM MORTGAGE LOANS New Easy Plan. Low rate of interest. Office 155 S. 2nd St. First floor rooms. Suttles-Edwards Co. A. D. Suttles, Secy. O Q MARKET REPORTS Daily Report Os Local And Foreign Markets EAST BUFFALO LIVE STOCK Receipts. 1.600; shipments. 4,560; pigs closing slow; heavies, $12.00@ $12.75; mediums. [email protected]; light weight, [email protected]; light lights and pigs, $14.50; packing sows, rough, $11.00; cattle, 100, slow; sheep, 1,900 best lambs. $14.00; clips. $11.50 down; sheep, steady; calves. 200 tops, $14.00. FORT WAYNE HOG MARKET (Doniin Commission Co.) The hog market was 10 cents down Saturday at the Fort Wayne union stock yards. Calves and lambs were steady. 150 to 180 pounds $13.40 100 to 150 pounds 13.25 180 to 200 pounds 13.10 200 to 210 pounds 13.10 200 to 210 pounds 12.90 210 to 225 pounds 12.40 225 to 250 pounds 12.40 250 to 275 pounds 12.05 275 to 300 pounds 11.80 300 pounds and up 11.50 Roughs [email protected] Stags 6.00@ 7.00 Calves [email protected] Lambs, choice [email protected] Lambs, culled to good .... [email protected] CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat — May, (new), $1.60 1-4; (old), $1.59 1-4; July, $1.37; Sept., $1.32 1-4. Corn —May, 71 7-8 c; July, 75 7-8 c; Sept., 78 3-Bc. Oats —May, 41 3-4 c; July, 42 l-8c; Sept., 42 l-4c. LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET (Corrected April 10) Fowls 23c Stags 15c Leghorns ....’ 16c Old Roosters 9c Ducks Geese 8c Eggs, dozen 25c _ * LOCAL GRAIN MARKET (Corrected April 10) Barley, per bushel 75c Oats 36c Rye, per busbel 75c | Good Sound Yellow Corn .... 75c Good Sound Mixed Corn 70c LOCAL GROCER'S EGG MARKET Eggs, dozen 26c BUTTERFAT AT STATION Butterfat, delivered 37c . o Daily Democrat Want Ads Get Results

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/p Si & j. ('leveland Wins Pro : Basketball Championship New York. N. V.. April 10. — The ’ Cleveland basketball flv< won the American Basketball league championship. In winning the title the Ohioans took the measure of the Brooklyn quintet by the close score of 23 to 22 at the Seventy-first Regiment armory here last night before T quite a gathering of basketball fans. . Last night's victory made the third straight for Cleveland over the Brooklynites, the Clevelanders winning the other two in Cleveland. Both teams, determined to win, set out with a stiff pace at the commencement of the game. Not wishing to lose three in a row. Manager Garry Schmeelk ; started the game as a forward and ’ showed the fans some of his old-time form. ■ o Ralph Tyndall Is Judge In Contest At Auburn Ralph Tyndall- instructor of history in the Decatur high school, acted as a judge in the northeastern Indiana district of the state high school discussion contest, held at Auburn last night. The topic was “A County Unit of School Administration.” The contest was won by Edward Mayfield, a pupil in the Auburn high school. The other judges were Dr. Carl Wholl, of Manchester College, and B. S. Gerig, of Goshen. Other participants in the contest PETITION FOR \ VIACinOI ROAD STATE OF INDIANA: COVNTY OF ADAMS. SS: Before the Board of Commissioners of the County of Adams, State of Indiana. We. the undersigned, each and all or whom are resident adult, freeholders and voters of French Township, in , Adams Countv, Indiana, respectfully [ petition your honorable body, that you J constrict and complete a free macad- ' amized road in said township over and upon the public highway situated on the following route, to-wita Commencing at the nortli east corner of the nortli west quarter of section twenty-six (2«) township twenty-six <26) north of range fifteen (15) east, in Adams County. Indiana: running thence south on the half section lino 4 through the center of said section twenty-six (?G) over the already con-| strut ted highway to the south east , corner of the south west quarter of i said section twenty-six (26) in township and range aforesaid and there to I terminate. I Your petitioners aver and say that I the improvement prayed for ih less I than three miles in length, and connects at the commencement thereof with a free macadam road in French township and ends on the free macadam road in said township in Adams County. Indiana: that a United States Rural Mail Route passes over said highway and that the same will be of public utility and benefit. 1 Your petitioners further aver and say I that the highway lierein sought to be’ improved is a putdie highway, already established and in use and is one of the i public highways of said French town-i ship. , I Your petitioners ask that said high-| wav above described be drained and ■ graded and that broken stone be placed j upon the grade and that upon such • broken stone there be placed stone screenings. ' Your petitioners further ask that said highway above described be drained and graded and that the shsnv be improved to a width of forty (40) feet, | and that said highway be graded to a width of twenty-six <2G) feet, and that | broken stone be placed thereon to a I width of ten (10) feet, and to a depth! of eight (8) inches at the sides thereof and to a depth of ten (10) inches in* the center thereof and that crushed’ stone screenings be placed thereon to • a depth of four (4) inches upon such broken stone and that said improvement be made a single track and that the name of the same be THE G. C. MCCUNE, NO. :: MACADAM ROAD. That to pay for said improvement we ask that bonds be issued by the County of Adams in the State of Indiana in twenty semi-annual installments or series and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said French Township, in a sufficient sum to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as (hey become dpe. That said improvement be made and constructed and said bonds be issued i ami said tax be levied upon the taxable property of scid luwndiip in accord- ■ ante with the Acts of the Legislature; of the State of Indiana passed in the year of 1905, beginning on page 550 and as amended in the Acts of 190" I and as amended in the Acts of 1909,1 now in force, providing for the extension of free gravel and macadam roads and all. other and any and all amend-i merits thereto. We further ask the Board to take all necessary steps required by law to have said improvement constructed and made as petitioned for herein; that the same be constructed without submit-’ ting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of said French Township and that the Board construct the same under the laws of the State of Indiana providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads by township taxation. Respectfully submitted: A. B. Biberstein, C. R. Stucky. Mrs. Jos. W. Behind-I I er, Ed Moeschberger, A. E. Rich, Joe W. Schindler, Sam Minger, Moses Augsburger, John J. J. Moser, Mike Biberstein. Mrs. Noah Stauffer, Mrs. Robert A. Habegger, Mrs. Mary Rich, Ernest Balsiger, David Wullimann, D. A. Baumgartner, Chas. Schaffter, Louis Juillerat. Wm. Grandlienard, Wilson Banter. Albert F. Moser, David Runyon, Elmer Runyon. Frank Trenny, Amos Steiner, Seth Biberstein, Abe Wahli, John A. Amstutz, Daniel O. Reinhard. Adam Nussbaum, Mis. Ernest Isch, > August Klickrnan, Augusta Klickmann, Ered J. Isch, A. M. Biberstein, Mallissa Bertsch. Daniel D. Moser, J. J. Kauf- , man. Fred Steiner. Evert O. Rich, Henry ’ Meyer, Paul L. Seesenguth, John Mull- ! er. Levi Fraughiger, Sam Kaehr. Gottfried Rauch, Jeff Gerber, Joel E. ' Schwartz, Joel J. Kipfer, David Levy, Mrs. Andrew Bertsch, Alfred Isch, B. A. Seesenguth, Samuel H. Baumgartner, John J. Minger, Mrs. Ben Baumgartner, w Cornel Baumgartner, Emanuel Joray, ' Mrs. Joseph Liechty, Joseph Liechty, (i. C. McCune. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners of Adams ■» County, on Wednesday, May 5, 1926, " at which time the taxpayer! of French Township may appear and make such objections as the law may provide for. . MARTIN JABERG, Auditor. ’jFruchtee & Litterer, Attys. 10-17.

■ •— i " ' ■' ; — “ were pupils from Routh Slile htph school of Fori Wayne. Shlphowana. Kendallville, Angola nnd Columbia City. The winner will represent the district In the state finals to be held at Indiana University, April 23. o- - Passiac Loses Eastern High School Net Title * Glens Falls. N. Y., April 10.—The B high school basketbull championship g of the east was won by Christian Brothers Academy of Syracuse, by R defeating Passiac, 41 to 31. Track Star Wins Race To Bedside Os Sick Mother i Falls City, Neb., April 10.—(United 1 Press.) —Uoyd Hahn's race from Aus‘ltralia to the bedsitje of his mother ’ • here ended successfully today us Mrs. • Hahn was still conscious—though in 1 dangerous condition —when the Amer--1 lean track star arrived home. Throughout the early morning the ' mother lay awake waiting to hear the 1 train bringing her son from San Fran- ! cisco. Calif., roar into this city. Hahn rushed home from an exhibition tour in the Antipodes when he learned his mother's grave illness. I • o HolT Again Breaks Pole Vault Record Chicago, April 10. —(United Press) —The world's pole vault record is 3-4 of an inch higher today as a result of another vault by Charley Hoff of Nori way. i i Hoff cleared the bar at 13 feet, 8 1-4 , inches at the annual tiwk and field meet of the American Institute of ’ Banking. Nearly 5,000 people waited almost till midnight to see the Norwegian make his record vault. o Big Ten Baseball Athens, Ga., April 10.—The University of Illinois baseball team defeated ; the University of Georgia. 5 to 3, in 113 innings. A home run by Marcolis and singles by Kindcrman and Hoffman gave the mini the game. Lafayette, Ind., April 10. —Purdue used 19 players to win from DePauw, 12 to 2 in the second baseball game i of the season. Evanston. 111., April 10. —The North- ■ western baseball team left today for . Lafayette where it meets Purdue this ' afternoon. 0 Cowens Girl Wins In Discussion Contest At Bluffton, Friday Bluffton. April 10. — Miss Bethel Williams, of Cowens, was tlie winner [ of the district discussion contest, held ■ at the public library in this city FriIday afternoon. Principal John M. French, of the Bluffton high school, acted as < hairman. The other con- • testants were Dorothy Conklin, of i Bluffton, and Esther Grettinger, of Union City. The county unit plan of • education was the subject discussed. ' A second contest held at the Bluffj ton library Friday afternoon was the ;• oratorical on the constitution of the ! United States, for students of Wells ■ county high schools. Miss Louise i Goodwin, of Bluffton high schools was the winner over Ralph Ramsey, of Ossian, the only other contestant. o Lutheran Pastors Oppose Use Os Bible In Schools Fort Wayne, Ind., April 10. —(United Press) —Clergymen of the Lutheran church were today pledged to oppo- ' sition of the use of the Bible in pub- ! lie schools. Delegates to the Lutheran iconven- | tion were pledged to sympathy with 1 the address of Prof. D. H. Mensing, of Concordia College in which he asserti e<l that “introduction of the Bible into the public schools is a danger to America.” | “The moment American introduces the reading of the Bible into the public schools she is bound for the intolerance and persecution of the middle ages,” Professor Mensing declared. | o Wants To Pay For Sack Os Potatoes He Stole While Touring Chadron, Neb., April 10. — (United Press)—Ed Wilkinson, local potatoe grower, believes all men are honest. Wilkinson has jiftft received a request ’ for a bill of a sack of potatoes stolen from his farm last fall and which he had never missed. ' i The request came from a man sign- ■ ing himself James Williamson, 'Mun- ; cie, Ind. In his letter, Williamson • said he took a sack of potaoes from a ; field while touring this section last ’ fall. > I The writer said he was recently ’: "converted” and that he was attempt- ’ ing to right all wrong doings. .. | ~o Daily Democrat Want Ads Get Results

i' Five Aviators Burn To •| Death When Airplanes Collide While Flying 1 Jxmdon, April 10.—(United I*ress) — Two officers and three machnnics were burned to death today when two airplanes collided above the Military Air- ' drome at Henlaw, England. Hartford And Geneva Tie In Track Meet The Hartford township and Geneva high schools finished In a 56-56 tie in n track and field meet held at Geneva Friday afternoon. Hartford scored seven firsts to six for Geneva, but Geneva garnered enough points in sec-J onds and thirds to tie the score. Gerber, of Hartford, by winning first in the 440-yard dash and the mile run, was high point man of the meet. Skyock, of Geneva, scored a finst and a second place for eight ponits. This was the first meet for both teams this season and no exceptional marks were made. o 17 Prisoners Escape From Tennessee Prison! Nashville, Tenn., April 10. —(United Press) —After a desperate battle with police, during which they used a park l policeman as a shield, Lee Allen, Oklahoma bank bandit, and Charley White, burglar, who engineered the delivery of/17 convicts at the Tennessee state prison here last night, surrendered to the police today. Nashville, Tenn., April 10. — (United Press) —Led by a murderer and noted I Oklahoma bandit, 17 prisoners in the state prison who escaped last night, stopped at Pell,Buckle, Tenn., near here and robbed a bank of $15,000,

“YOU ARE ENTITLED TO KNOW THE FACTS” LODGE BROTHERS, INC. Driver Escapes/ IfS'SIITV w^en ste ®l car turns upside down jlINHHpv' 'WJ Hiw JR ' wit - ——• An icy pavement between Piqua and Dayton, Ohio . . . traffic complications . . . and the car shown above plunged through a wire fence and turned completely over. “The driver,” reads the report, “only again in further perfecting all steel found it necessary to operate the win- construction. dow crank in the left front door and And remember that whilc nearly all crawl out. x He had not received a types of motor car appear to be scra c ’ all steel, most of them are simply frames Lucky motorist to have been driving a °f wood covered by a steel shell a Dodge Brothers all steel sedan! fragile substitute for the sturdy construction common to Dodge Brothers Imagine what would have happened, product, under similar circumstances, to a motor n . « a tody of rhe Every automobile body should now XX’biSyW be all steel just as every sleeping car wvu.u js now built of steel. tcrs ‘ And by substituting slim, strong steel All steel bodies are safer. Anyone knows columns for bulky wooden corner posts, that. Steel doesn’t splinter. Steel they almost double driving vision—a doesn’t burn. Steel is tough and strong safety improvement of transcendent —the modern ship metal—the modern importance, aeroplane metal—the modern bridge , . . and building metal. Then there are Dodge Brothers dependable quick-action brakes to protect you. That’s why Dodge Brothers built the And a chassis possessing more pounds of first all steel touring car eleven yetrs diop forgings and costly alloy steels, in ago —the first all steel closed car four proportion to total weight, than any years ago —and this year pioneered other car built, regardless of price. The car will continue to be a “four”. Touring Car $7% Coupe $845 Roadster $795 Sedan $895 Thomas J. Durkin, Distributor Opposite Court House Decatur, Indiana Dodge- Brothers , MOTOR CARS t 0

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