Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1926 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres, and Ges. Mgr. A. H. Holthouse—Sec’y. & Buz. Mgr. Dick D. Heller— Vice President Er.tered at the Postofflco at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies 2 cents One week, by carrier ~... —lO cents One year, by carrier—..ss.oo One month, by mall 35 cents Three months, by mall $1 00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 Ont' year, at olilce 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those zones). Advertising Rates: Nads known by Application. Foreign Representative: Carpenter fc Company, 123 Michigan Avenue, Chicago Showers and we needed them. The outlook for a splendid crop is lino and these showers will help it along. Fifty per cent of all the highways in Indiana have been improved, highest record of any state in the union. We also have more miles of railroad than any other state according to area. The Harding Highway has come to life again and according to information Just received, will be remarked next week, with signs showing the name of the City or town along the line, with population and other information. x These marked highways , don’t hurt any. Let them come. I They run up to the north pole now for a week-end and get back in time

to go to work right on the dot Monday morning, don’t seem to think any more about it than we used to when we planned a trip to the Celina reservoir or Rome City, which we say is traveling rather rapidly. Wonder if they really did pour out all that prewar liquor at Indianapolis or if they didn’t pour out something that looked like it. If they had 11,400 quarts of the real stuff and it whs actually destroyed you could have heard the tear drops splatter a huud'red miles away. Get ready to have a good time at the Better Homes show next week. A lot of folks are taking a keen interest in the event and plans have been made to give you a lot of laughs, a good time and the efforts are to get everybody to thinking along one line and for one cause — your community. Now that the Fort Wayne school board has settled who will teach sports at the south side, it might be well to consider who will give a few minutes instruction each day in rcadin’. writin' and 'rithmetic. Unimportant as these tilings are it seems necessary to still make school appear as though there was something else besides basketball and track work. The approaches to a city are very important and we are glad that Decatur is taking care of hers. At present work is being done on the River road approach and the Fort Wayne road entrance to the city, Thirteenth street is being improved, petitions are on file for the extension of Monroe street and for the Preble road and the east approach is in good condition with a concrete approach for a mile or more. Just at present the south end of Mercer avenue and the Pleasant Mills road is being used mere extensively than any of the others on account ot the Country Club project, the hospital and other activities in that direction and it will be necessary to make some improvements alongthat route. Just what this will be has not been decided but it is hoped it will be planned in the very best way for every one concerned that the road may be one suitable in every way for this popular thoroughfare. There are some folks so constituted. that if you put them into the highest class community in America, they would look at its institutions and privileges in a deprecating sort of way, and would always be criticis jag the faults they would discovet

I there. They would bo constantly ret marking that it they could do as they chose they would go elsewhere, but they merely stay on because they have a Job or buslnuss relations there, / or conditions prevent their removal, t And there are some who, If placed in any old ordinary town, where there is nothing out of the usual, will yet love it and say it is the best place •on earth. They will be such loyal 1 friends that they attract affection, i They will feel such deep attachment to a community where these ties exist, that they would not exchange this environment for anything else that could be offered them. —Franklin Star, Selling Indiana corn through the marketing of Hoosier grown hogs Is the best way out just now for Indiana farmers. There Is a surplus of corn in Boone county and every other corn center of the state. But there is also a strong demand for hogs on all the large markets. There is every reason to believe that the hog market will remain firm throughout the spring and summer months. It Is generally agreed that ten bushels of corn are required to make 100 pounds of gain in the average Indiana hog. With corn at even 70 cents a bushel (and it can be bought at less than that just now) and light hogs at $12.00 a hundred the farmer who markets his corn through hogs will receive at least $1.20 a bushel for his corn. Here is one measure of 'farm relief that can be had at once without waiting for or even soliciting congressional approval or financing. —Lebanon Reporter. Q

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CHICAGO ■ $3.50 VIA ' ERIE RAILROAD i SUNDAY, MAY 16th e Tickets go o d going in coaches only on train 7 leavl ' ing Decatur "at 2:18 a. m. 8 Returning leave Chicago •t 10;20 p.m. Central time-B-l For further particulars call. )r l |G. E. TEEMS, Ticket Agent.|

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1926.

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"How’s thats demanded Lee. "Wto says |t wasn’t!’’ "Sawyer. Found Qulnnlon at a sheepman's place thirty or forty mile# north of here. The sheepman swore Quinnlon had been with him two weeks, was with him that night." "A sheepman can lie,” grumbled Lee. Judith’s brief moment of confusion passed, she ushered Marcia Into the cabin. ‘Tve been simply dying to see thia placel" cried Marcia Impetuously. "I told Pollock that it was a sure sign

j| M 'iMßzw Iff ■BM' ; Bud Lee's Ideal Lady, Thought Judith. he didn't love me any more If he wouldn't bring me. And you and—; and one of the men,” her .eyes on Judith's, “actually were in here, being shot at! Judith, dear, you are Just the bravest girl In the world. If I’d been here I’d have simply died. I know I would." Perhaps she would. At any rate she shuddered delightfully. She found a bullet-hole In the door and put a pink forefinger Into it, giving a second little shiver., “And now.” she cried, going to a chair near the table, “do tell me all about that terrible, terrible night. But do you think we are quite safe here now, Mr. Lee?"’ To herself Judith was saying: “Just the type to be Bud Lee’s Ideal lady I" When they left the cabin, an hour later, Judith challenged Hampton to a ride and so left Marcia and Bud Leo to follow leisurely. CHAPTER IX Poker Face and a White Pigeon. Mrs. Simpson had made a discovery. It was epoch-making. It was tremendous. Nothing short of that! So, at the very least, Mrs. Simpson was prepared to .maintain stoutly in the fa<T

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of possible ridicule. One morning, very early, Mrs. Simpion, from the thick curtains of the living room, saw Jose "prowling around suaplcious-liko in the courtyard 1” Sho had seused Jose's dislike, and thrilled at the sight. She always thrilled to Jose. The half-breed bad gone silently, “sneaklng-llke," by Judith's outer door. He had paused there, listening. He had gone back to the courtyard, hesitating, pretending that he was looking at the roses! Such a ruse on the part of so black-hearted a villain inspired in the scarcely breathing Mrs. Simpson a vast disgust. As If he could fool her like that, pottering around among the roses. She, too, sought to move silently in his wake, though under her ample weight the veranda creaked audibly) Still, making less noise than usual, she peered through the lilacs. She saw Jose at the base of the knoll, going swiftly toward the stables. She saw another man who, evidently, was a third of the “gang,” and who, of course, had risen early to creep out of the men's bunkhouse before the others were awake, to meet Jose. Screening herself behind the lilacs, her heart throbbing as it had not done for many a long year, she watched. Jose and the other man did not meet. Jose stopped. The two exchanged a few words too low for Mrs. Simpson to hear at that distance. But she made out that the other man had something In his hand, something white. A pigeon! For, suddenly released, it fluttered out of the man's hands and, circling high above Mrs. Simpson’s head, flew to join the other birds cooing on the housetop 1 “A carrier-pigeon!” gasped Mrs. Simpson. "Taking a message to the other cutthroats!” From that instant there was no doubt in her mind. This fitted in too well with her many suspicions not to be the clew she had sought long and unceasingly. Jose went on, the man from the hunk-house went back to it, and Mrs. Simpson fled to the house and hastened excitedly to Judith's room. Judith, rudely awakened, came hurriedly to her door in her dressing-gown, her eyelids heavy with sleep. When she heard, she laughed. “You dear old goose!” cried Judith joyously. “I just love you to death. You put fresh interest into life.” Despite Mrs. Simpson's earnest protests, Judith hugged her and pushed her out again, saying that since she was awnke now she would want her breakfast just as soon as she could get it. The housekeeper shook her head and retreated heavily. "You’ve got to show some folks a man cutting their throats,” she muttered to herself, “before they’ll believe it. It is a carrier-pigeon and I know it, And that Black Spanish—ugh! He makes my blood curdle, just to look at him!” "Carrier-pigeons!” laughed Judith, as she began a hurried dressing. “The dear old goosie! And poor old Jose. She'll get something on him yet I wonder why she —” Suddenly Judith broke off. She was standing In front of a tai! mirror, still only half-dressed. As she looked into’

fljg“brlg)it face of Oie aiulTlng girl fix the glass, a sudden change came, Pigeons! Doc Tripp had said that Tre-i vors had got them; had remarked on the Incongruity of a man like Trevora caring for little cooing birds. It was rather odd. Carrier-pigeons—carrier— Judith whipped on her dressing gown again and, slipperless, her warm, bare feet pat-patting upon the cold surfaces of the polished floors, she ran to the oflice. "Send Jose to me,” she called to Mrs. Simpson. “In the oflice. I want him immediately." (TO HH CONTI M ED) gXXXXXXKX X X X X X X X g I TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY K S K H From the Dally Democrat Fife « X Twenty Years Ago This Day X ■ ■ XXHXWKXXXXXKXXXXX May 14—Charles Merryman o f Cardwell, Mo., is here for a visit with his parents. Jlev. Alfred Fowler gave the baccalaureate sermon. “The Benediction of Love" for the Decatur seniors. I Carl Schurz, statesman, lecturer, editor, dies in New York. He was a general in the Union army, a United States senator from Missouri and was secretary of the interior from 1877 to 1881. John Cook and family leave for Cardwell, Mo. D. F. Teeple moves city safe from Butler’s meat market to the library rooms where the council meetings will be held. Corn is 67c today and wheat is 87c. Fred Purcjy, editor of the Indianapolis Sun, is in jail for contempt of court. A. F. Passwater is attending school at Angola.

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