Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 170, Decatur, Adams County, 20 July 1926 — Page 6

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PREBLE DROPS I A CLOSE GAME Luther Institute Alumni Team Beats Adams Co., Nine, 4-2 Preblp. July 20,— Although the Luther IntjUtuiV jAlumnl Ax*>i|iation baseball team, or Fort Wayne, col lected only three bits off Ott Luttman. who pitched his best game for Preble, they won over the local nine in a close game, 4-2, Sunday. Luttman, pitted against A1 Grot rlan, his former teammate, pitched a game deserving of victory, but some very foolish base running and sev-1 t ral costly errors paved the way for a victory for the 1,. I. A. A., in the first game of the series. Starting the game with a determination to win, he | struck-out O Grotraln, Henkle and I K. Crotrian in a row in the second ) inning. Henkle was hit by a pitched ball in the third and this was the! only runner to reach first until the j sdxlh. Knepper singled with two down j in the sixth and repeated in the eighth. O. (imtria-r-jsingled in the seventh. After the vistors had been set down In order in the first round H. Kreigh starting things off by hitting the first ball thrown by Grotrian for two bases. He stole third and was out at home when he attempted to sco/e on W. Llndemar's roller to short stop. In the third, I.uttman secured a double off bis. opponents delivery, but he was out when he failed to get back to second on Kreigh’s fly to short-stop. The locals scored their only two runs In the sixth when H. Kreigh tripled with one down and scored on the catcher's error on Lindeman's roller. Busse sacrificed him to second and he scored on the first baseman’s eror. “Shike" Kreigh was the hitting hero of the game with a single, double and triple in four trips to the plate. Uittman and D. Kreigh are credited with the other two hits, the former's a double. A1 Grotrain pitched a good game for the visitors. He allowed five hits and passed one. All the runs were scored on errors and both hurlers pitched a game deserving of victory. These two teams will meet again on the local lot. on August 15. Box score: L. |. A. A. AB H R PO A E Conrad, ss 4 » 1 5 2 1 Knepper, 1b... 4 2 2 0 0 1 Tlelker, 2d.... 4 o U 2 0 « | O. Grotrian.3h 4 1 0 2 3 1 R. Henkle, rs . . 3 0 0 1 u o < E. Grotrian. cf 4 0 0 0 o u K Henkle. 1f... 3 0 0 1 0 0 , Wambsgans, c. 4 0 1 0 2 2 A. Grotrian. p 3 0 0 1 8 0 33 3 4 27 15 5 Preble AB H R l'O A E H. Kreigh. If. 4 3 1 0 u o 1 W.ldudeman, 2b 4 0 1 2 o 1 Busse, cf 2 0 » ! 0 0 I I). Kreigh. c. ... 4 1 0 10 o , ('. Smith, 3h.... 3 0 0 2 0 0 It Undeman, 3 H > <«*»<*)»'• • Shadv. It) . - " " Durr, 4 u 0 4 0 1 Hoff man, rs .. . 3 0 0 2 0 0 I. p. .. . 3 1 0 0 13 0 31 5 2 27 14 4 1* I. A. A 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 o—4 Preble OOUOO2UU o—2 Two-base hits: I.uttman, H. Kreigh. Three-base hit: H. Kreigh. Struck 1 out: by I.uttman. 10; by Grotrian. 7. Bases on balls: off Luttman. 1: oft , Grotrian, 1. Hit by pitcher: by l.utt- ( man. K. Henkle). Umpires: Bultenteler and Johnson. -— ——o National League Pittsburgh, 10; Boston, 4. Cincinnati, 5; Brooklyn, 4 Chicago, 9; New York, 6. Philadelphia, 4; St Louis, 2. American League New' York, 11; St Louis, 2. Detroit, 8; Philadelphia, 3. Chicago, 5; Boston, 4. Washington, 4; Cleveland, 1. American Association No games scheduled. o ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦+♦++♦+ ♦ WATCHING THE SCOREBOARD * ♦♦♦*++*++++♦++++ The Yanks helped themselves to eight runs In the first inning yesterday, disposed of two pitchers, and hung up u victory over the Browns, 11-2. The Giants dropped another to the hard-hitting Cubs yesterday, making It two straight. Fitzsimmons, Scott and Ring were easy for the victors who bunched 16 hits. The Pirates trounced the lowly Biaves, 10-4, to keep even with the winning Reds. Genewich and MeGridge gave the Pirates hits at oppoitune times. The Athletics lost the second Straight game to the Tigers when Quinn blew up iu the Bth. He gave

jfour hits and un error which enabled the Tigers to drive In the winning * runs. The score was 8-3. I Fred Marberry, stellar relief pitch er starting his second game of the season for th,> Senators, pitched a brilliant game, allowing but three hits. The Senators won from the Indians, 4-1. Mostll's first hit of the series against the Boston Red Sox was a Deriding factor for the While Sox In the 9th inning. His single drove It) Si-hulk for the victory. 54. The Phillies spiked the St. I.ouls guns in the 10th yesterday, winning 43. The count was tied in the 9th and the winning run was brought home by means of sacrifice. > PRO GOLFER TO PLAY HERE SUNDAY ————— Rodney Kink, Famous OneArmed Professional, To Play Local Course Rodney Link. America's foremost one-armed prates;! mat Sulf player wi’l he the first professional golfer to appeur in exhibition in this city, it was learned today. Mr. Link, who hat touted the middlewest, giving golf ex hibition-, will play 18 holes in thi city next Sunday afternoon, nt 1 o’clock, on the temporary links a! the Decatur Country club, the manage ment announced today. Mr. Link will play with three Deca tur men. staititig at 2 o’clock. Ail persons interested in seeing the firs professional golfer to appear here an invited to ac otnpany the champioi around the course. G. T. Telfor, engin eer at the now course, will accompany Mr. Link and will select two other Decatur players to compose the foursome. No admission will be charged lo witness the match play, but a collection will he taken during the course ol play. The course will be closed foi other players during the exhibit. Mr. Link was one of the foremost golf professionals in the country un til he had the misfortune of losing hit right arm -everal years ago. Sinct that time he has been playing exhibi tion matches in many states, alwayscreating much interest. Last Sunday. Mr. Link appeared ai Martinsville where he laved the 18 hole course in the city, in a 78, which is par for the course. Those who at tend th“ exhibit are assured of plenty of golf thrills. o Fire Destroys 22 Stores And 7 Houses at Tennyson Tennyson, lnd., July 20.—(United Press.) —With twenty-two stores am seven residences in ashes, Tennyson today did not forget that its telephone operator. Mrs. Iva Spradley, had prob . ........ ! .A4 ■ Wi-asi gw When fire swept the business sec tion yesterday afternon, Mrs. Spradley remained at her post and put in calls for help to Evansville and Hunt ingburg. She stuck to the switchhoard until flames drove her from the building. Timely arrival of outside aid saved the rest of the town. Total damage is estimated at SIOO,000. Only two grocery stores and a hank building besides a few residences were saved. No casualties were reported. o — Helen Deloris Swoveland Dies Last Saturday Funeral services for Helen Deloris Swoveland, 14, were held yesterday afternoon at Spring Hill church in Blue Creek township. The deceased was a neice of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tyndall of this city who attended the services. Helen had been ill two months and two weeks from the flu and its after effects, suffering terribly. She was a patient at the Adams County Memorial Hospital several weeks and was taken home about two weeks ago at her own request. She was horn June 5, 1912, and her death followed that of her mother just two months. Surviving are her father and three sisters. Mrs Vera Jones. Mary and Norma. C. L. Culberson and Rev McNight were in charge of the services. Moris Swathwood Dies At Jackson, Michigan Moris Swathwood, fohner Decatur resident, died last week at Jackson, Michigan. He was buried at Jackson, Sunday Swathwood. whose late homewas at Marion, was taken to Jackson two weeks ago. He was afflicetd with tuberculosis. Surviving are the parents 1 one child and half-brother, George ’ Godfrey, of Bluffton,

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, JI IA 20, 1926

CHANCE DATE FOR 1 WATER CARNIVAL I — Contests Are Scheduled For Thursday Night Instead Os Friday The date for the water carnival to be Staged at the city swimming pool this week has been changed from Friday night to Thursday night, on account of a public concert to he given by the Junior hand Friday evening The various contests announced yesterday, wiil he held Thursday uight as planned for Friday night. The different events to he held at the water cat nival include a spoon and peanut race, relay races, diving contests, duck chase and water basketball. Coach H. L. Curtis will have rharge of the contests. I Gas Well Brought In Near Citv Os Portland Portland, July 20. A gas well was brought in on the Torntohlen Everlay Farm, a poultry farm at the edge of Portland owned by H. V. Torrnoh en, Monday. A good flow of gas was struck In addition to consldt ruble oil. The well wa< drilled by Wilson Rice. It was dfllled for gas, Mr. Torntohlen Intending to use the gn-< on his poultry farm. It was drilled 1,030 feet, 20 feet being in Trenton rock. Following tliei shooting of the well, the gas was lit and it biased to a height of 15 feet I front an 8-Inch casting. The oil is be-1 lag baled out and it is not known how much oil the well will produce. This is the first well so near the city limits that has ever shown any signs of oil although other gas wells have been J struck here. Much News To Be Sent From New Press Building, (Special to Daily Democrat) Washngton, I). C., July 20. —(United Pressed Press)— Washington cor-j respondents who will tenant the Ntv-. tional press Building, a fourteen story home and office building h-'ing erected: here by the National Press Club, it Is] estimated, w ill telegraph or mail from the building dally lo the papers theyj represent, stories tbtajing l.ftOOfnh) j words or I.UOO columns of news, figuring a ihi-usand word) to the avenge] tewspaper column. j Hundreds of American dailies are represented in Washington hy resi* dent of special correspondents. The trade press, business paapers. foreign press, newspaper syndicates ami class mhlications have a similar representaion keeping in touch with government departments for news of interest to the fields their publications cover. Washington has had a rapid growth warranted the erection of a structure that will bring the majority of the news writers, now scattered in office buildings In all parts of the city, undn- one roof where they will have u central locution and all the facilities • • tiled cuVoiiier ap.'troy - 1 tenants will occupy the second .o the twelfth floors and half of the .liirteenth floor. The remainder of the. thirteenth floor and an equal amount nt space on the fourtheenth floor, will be the home of the National Press club. This space connected by a grand staircase will have all the appointments of the modern club. A roof gard°n will he built on the level of the upper floor extending out over part of the roof of the thirteenth floor. The lower and interior portion of the structure will house a 3,500 seat theatre leased from the date of completion The Fox Theatre Corporation for thirty-five yeans at an aggregate rental in excess of $7,000,000. ! The National Press Building when completed will he .dedicated to the American Press, it will be a shrine to the Fourth Estate, within its wails newspaper men will acquint the people of the World with the news from Washington, the World's greatest news center. Killed Man In Poker Game; Gets 2-21 Years Franklin, lnd., July 20. — (United Press.) — Preparations were being made today to take Stanley Hedger, of Edinburg, to the state reformatory to serve a sentence of two to twentyone years for the slaying of Frank Brannan in a poker game at Ediuburg. A verdict of manslaughter was returned after the state had asked that he he found guilty of murder. o — - Truck Driver Is Killed ■ Indianapolis, lnd . July 20. —(United i Press)—lnjuries received when he i was dragged nearly 100 feet after his i truck was struck hy a freight engine > caused the death last night of Joseph Payne, 19.

Careful Crossing Campaign Approved By Gov. Ed Jackson Governor Ed Jackson recently 1»I sued a proclamation calling attention j •to the "Careful Crossing Campaign" ** being conducted hy the members of the American Railway association during the four summer mouths In an effort to eliminate grade crossings due to the carelessness of automobile 1 drivers and pedestrians, > The Erie railroad Is taking an tic 1 five part In the campaign and safety officials of that road believe that It has been effective In the past and • will continue to be beneficial if the ! public can be Interested In saving lives. I The proclamation follows: I I "The safety section of the Anteri ' can Railway association has an-j nounced a ‘Gareful Crossing Cam * paign' to he effective beginning June 1, 1926. and to continue during a per-] ioii of four months following that date. The organization promoting | this campaign is composed of men I who are educated and trained in mati ters involving the safety of their fellowmen and in protecting the public 'against accident. Such effort do,(serves the encouragement anil co-op- ( 'eration of all the people and esnec- . iallv the cordial co-operation of *’l organized bodies of society. | "Therefore. 1, Ed Jackson, Rover- ] nor of Indiana, do hereby extend to make the ‘Careful Crossing Catn- ! paign’ a success throughout the slate •of Indiana to the end that human] ! lives may be saved, anil to the end | that the habit of crossing crossings carefully and cautiously may he formed and may endure long after this catkpalgn will have ended. 1 1 recommend that all public officials, •all public school authorities, all civic 1 organizations of whatever nature, alt church organizations and others, in so far as may seem to them to be practicable, enter actively and earnestly into this ‘Careful Crossing Campaign,' and that railway employes, motorists and pedestrians make a ! special effort to exercise due regard ! and due care in behalf of the right of each other. !(seal) | "IN WITNESS WHEREOF. 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused to I be affixed the Great Seal of the State [of Indiana, at the Capitol, in the City of Indianapolis. "ED JACKSON, “Governor. "By the Governor— | "F. E. Schortemeler. "Secretary of Stake." Chicago To Be Cultural Capital Os U. S., Claims Music And Art Patron Chicago, July 20.—(United Pre*.)— The hulk of the United States soon will be tributary to Chicago—America's Mecca of culture and art. Otto H. Kahn or New York, patron of music and art. believes. Kahn came to Chi- . cego to attend the opening o( the Ravin la opera, Chicago's annual musicI e-' of art. music and lit.-rature its great commercial prowess, ambition! great life and strength." Kahn said. I "There is no conflict between great' commercial power and cultural umhi- I tion. All demonstrates tills. Even in { the smaller cities there has been a | great advance toward the greater I things of life. Prosperity gives man j time to realize that there must be i something better and he strives to j find it." I Chicago’s position in the tealm of I , art will be independent of Europe and I the East, Kahn believes and wi t he | the evpression of the life of America j mostly of the Middle West. Get the Habit—Trade At Homl, It Pay* ! —— -o— I Come out to Sun-Sot. Special ' Hard 1 ime Square Dance Wednesday. Prizes for best dressed couple tor the occasion. Roy Hnkhouse and his Ohioans will turnish the music. Thursday and Saturday night. Ludy’s j Orchestra of Portland will play Sunday evening. Dancing class I rriday evening,

■ I will give swimming lessons at the city pool. I A class for women and I young girls will organized and those wanting '| to take lessons are re- , quested to fiile their application at the pool by J Thursday of this week. J Jeanette Clark.

CANDIDATES TO tourthestate Democratic Nominees To Tour Congressional Districts In August Indianapolis, lnd., July 1 lnil ed Press.)—A lour of each congressional district in Indiana by aetnodalle state etinuiuates traveling by | auto caravan was planned today by R. Earl Peters, demoral if state chair | man. Evans Woollen and Albert Stump, party nominees for the senate, will head the caravan and will he accompanied hy candidates for slate offices, j in each congressional uistrict all' ' oiganizatlon workers will be urged to turn out. Peters said, j The first rally is scheduled for Fifth district at Terre Haute on August 2 anil the last for the Third district on August 30. “*e latter meeting will probably be held at Bedford. other meetings were scheduled by Peters as follows: Second district, ! Bloomington. Aug. 3; First district, Princeton. Aug. 4; Thirteenth district, South Bend, Aug. 9 and 10; | Tenth district, Garv and one other J .city to be named later. Aug. 11 ami, 12; Ninth district, Kokomo. Aug. 16; ( Eleventh district. Marion, Aug. 17; Twelfth district. Fort Wayne, Aug. 118; Eighth district. Muncie. Aug. 19; Sixth district, Rushville, Aug. 27: Fourth district. North Vernon, Aug. 28. David Gillafoil. cf South Bend, was i a business visitor in the city this morning. Notice of Meeting of Stockholders Notice is hereby given that the an nt;al meeting of the stockholders of THE PROVIDENT BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF DECATUR will he held al the office of the Secretary located ai 133 South Second St., Decatur Indiana, at 7 P. M. on Monday. August 1, 1926, for the purpose of electing fifteen (15) Directors and to transact such other business as may conte before them James Cowen, President lienty B. Heller. Secretary July. 20-24-27 31

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