Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1926 — Page 2

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Fubjlxhsd Evary Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CQ> J. H. Hollar Pm. and G«»- Mgr. a. R. Hel|*»uao....Bac’y A Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Haller Vlce-Preataeta Entered at the PoatoEice at Decatur. Indiana, m second class matter. Subscription Ratos: Single copies I J 2 One work, by carrier -JO One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mail •» Three months, by mail 1 00 Six months, by mail 1 75 Ono year, by mail 3.00 One year, at oSice • • 3.00 (Price# quoted are within first and second sonee. Additional postage added outalde those sones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Schaerer, Inc., 36 East Wecker Drive Chicago 20# Fifth Avenue, New York WELCOME COMRADES:— The boys who marched away to the Spanish American war twentyeight years ago came back today to say howdy," to talk things over, to recite the interesting Incidents of that year of service for the flag they love. And it was a happy reunion, well attended and a good program, the members of Company B of this city acting as hosts. Today occurred the annual reunion of the 160th Indiana regiment of volunteers to the war which followed the sinking of the Maine in the Havana harbor. When the call came at that time, the Decatur company of militia promptly’ responded and were soon barracked in Indianapolis, transferring from there soon to a southern camp and then to Newport News and on to Cuba. They were a part of the 160th Indiana composed of similar companies from Bluffton. Warsaw, Wabash, and other cities in this seclion of the state, a troop of brave young men who left with smiles and cheery words to those who gathered to wish them "good bye and good luck.” They returned with a record of excellent service and annually since that time have met once a year in reunion. Decatur is proud to have as their guests today these boys of '9B. Your hair, we notice, is streaked with gray, your step is not quite as light as it was then but in your eyes we find the same fearless glint and we are sure that if called upon you -o’jld give to the last ounce of your tion we all love. Decatur belongs to you, comrades of the 160th regiment and we sincerely hope you enjoy every minute of your visit here and that your ranks will not be thinned for many years to come. n_ J We live In a "hard-boiled" age it seems and nothing in the way ot crime or graft, seems to frighten us. if a few years ago some one had spent a million dollars to secure the nomination for United States senator, that man would have landed in disgrace if not in prison. Now in almost every state in the Union, gigantic sums have been spent to secure nominations and after a little talk and perhaps a committee Investigation, tba matter is accepted as a matter of course. So general have these election fraud cases become that many are Inclined to the belief that back ot it is a general campaign by the big interests to secure absolute control of the government that they may legislate as they please. We have always believed that when this time came in American history the people would awaken and take care of their own rights but it begins to look as though we intend to sleep right through the painful operation. Engineer Lee of Fort Wayne is now logging the federal highways in this section of the state, preparatory to marking them. The U. S. signs will be of metal and mounted on mzte- posts, carry’nt only the federal road number. Decatur will be the intersection ot two of thes e national highways, the north and south road, which will be U: S. No. 27 and the east and west road which has not yet beon -numbered. In the years to coma thia will prov a a great asset - to this community for those towns

and cities on federal and state highways will have the same advantage as those have had which have had the steam and traction railways. The wise big business men always, find away to legally beat the game. ( kThe General Motors Co. has millions enouKti that they could have, declared a cash dividend of fifty to seventy per cent but If they had done that they would hava had to pay a' largo income tax. Instead they declare a fifty per cent atock dividend on which they will pay annually about eight per cent and so they “have their cake and eat it." In other word* they are simply reinvesting their profits in their own company and iucivaaing their annual, income considerably. Decatur will have a fair September 1 to i and every indication now points to a successful one. A big ad vertiaing campaign covering the territory fifty jailer around began this morning and targe crowds, augment ' ed by the family tickets are assured. l The races will be good, the features better than ever and the auto and manufacturing tents, the stock and' poultry shows right up to snuff. Plan to attend. Indiana has failed only once dur-J ing the past fifteen years in scaring the sweepstake prize for quality corn at the National show at Chicago and during that time took from sixty to' eighty-five per cent of all prizes of quality. The Chautauqua tickets are going rapidly and the committees and President Harting are delighted with the prospects for not only a delightful week but Tor the enthusiasm which assures a continuation of joy weeks. * ♦ * TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ + + * From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago Thia Day. + ♦ * August 16. —Decatur ball team defeats Winchester, 2 to 0. J. A. O'Donnell of Dension, Ohio, opens a law office at Geneva. Indiana oil drops to 87c per barrel. Mrs. Alice Rice Huffman and George S. Diggs married at Marion, Ind. Louis Mailand is at Fort Wayne on business. Mrs. Marion Ellis and daughter. Violet, of Redkey, visit here. Father Wilkens. La urine Keller and Frances Deininger visit at Hesse Castle. ma and Mabel of Belletounlaine, Ohio, ire guests of relatives. Ladies Season tickets, ten games for a dollar—See Dr Archbold nr Will Schrock. _ o >♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ > BIG FEATURES * * of RA D I 0 ♦ ♦ ♦ TUESDAY'S RADIO FEATURES WOC —Davenport. 484 M. 8 p. m. — Band concert. WBAL-Baltimore. 246 M. 8 p. m.— City park orchestra. WJZ—New York. 454 M; WGY. Schenectady, 380 M, and WRC, Washington. 469 M, 7 p.m.— i The Keystoners. WCX—Detroit. 517 M. 7 p.m —Detroit Symphony orchestra concert. WEAF—New York. 492 M. and hookup. 7 p.m.—Everready hour. o REPPERT AUCTION SCHOOL NOTES The auction sale held Saturday' night by the Reppert students was by far the best sale yet. Manager Gause and his staff wish to thank the public for the lively bidding. The cakes and candy hold at both sales Saturday amounted to about 127. Family tickets to the Northern Indiana Fair were sold at auction, also. Coffee presented by Col. Peterson' the clothier, netted the students) about $6. More family tickets to the fair will be sold at future sales. At the close of the sale Saturday i evening, the Salvation Army held a meeting on the sale corner. Don’t forget the lot sale at Bellmont Park Saturday, at 2 p.m. , Col. Prescott has arrived and will i instruct the students today and ! Tuesday. Also, Guy Johnson is on the job. There are several students ! of former classes visiting the school. i— o - , ~ Daniel Falk, of Peru, visited here ever Sunday with relatives

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PURDUE TOHAVE A LARGE EXHIBIT I ‘Purdue Building To Be Mecca For Farmers At . Indiana State Fair Lafayette Ind. Aug 16.—The Purdue building will be a mecca for farmers their wives and children at the Indiana State Fair, September 4 to 11. for it will b* ’he headquarters for specific information as to the gpsults of study and investigation bearing on farm and home management by the Purdue agricultural experiment station an extension staffs. No part of the ■ farm or home life will he overlooked I in aranging the exhibitions and demon I strations for the budding this year ' and a staff of over forty men ami women will be on hand eager to discuss any phase of the exhibits and answer questions of those interested. Those interested in poultry will find 'an exhibit based mainly niton question |of successfully hatching and raising | chicks with information available on I all phases of poultry raising. The livestock exhibit will be based upon beef cattle and hogs, dealing chiefly with * marketing the best quality of them at | the lowest possible coat to the farmer. The dairy exhibit will deal with the proposition of feeding at leas cost for increased production. The soils and .crops deportment will emphasize proped wheat growing, paying particular * attention to such features as high 1 grade seed and seed certification. | Tomatoes will be given prominence ( at the horticultural exhibit, as well potatoes end the oes- methods for high production explained. Other horticultural products will come in for their share of attention. Insect control will be strikingly extyhited and the nature, value and results of Boys and Girls club work will occupy another exhibit. Throughout the building will be exhibits and dem. nstrations which aim for better farm products and better homes on the farm. Women will find exhibits on clothing. food and home management, the adaptibility of electr city to the farm home and a host of others important to the present day sum housewife. It is sate to say that it is impossible to make the trip through the Purdue building without gaining valuable ideas which can be put d.rectly to use on the farm and it should come in for a lengthy visit by every visitor at the fair. — o Don’t Act Like Ape, Warn Zoo Posters Vienna, (United Presst.—Monkeys are the chief victims of the playful whims of visitors to zoos, according to the findings of the management ot the Vienna Zoological Gardens. Deviviiage of offieiaidoin. the" manage m<>ui 1 has now posted the following procla > mation on th e monkey-cage: Don't feed the apes. Remember that three-fourths of the monkeys at this zoo are afflicted with intestinal disorders as the result of indiscriminate feeding by well-meaning but misled public. Don't tease the apes. Any one who isn't ashamed to torture a caged and defenceless animal is himself deserving of the name of a mischievous monkey. When you stand in front of the monkey’s cage, behave in such a (manner that no one is tempted to ' make any insidious comparison between your Intelligence and the apes. o New Cancer Serum Found To Cure Rats London, (United Press)—A cancer serum making lats immune is described in the annual report ot the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Dr I Thomas Lumsden of the Lester Insti tute. preformed experiments on fifty ;' rats successfully, according to the re ’ poit. Injection of the appropriate serum in malignant tumors iu the feet ot i rats, the report indicates, caused the tumors to disappear. Temporary stop i page of circulation in the part affect led is a part of the procedure. It was found, the report declares, the two i j tumors in different feet of a rat could be made to vanish by treatment of I only one and that rats which had been subjected to the serum treatment were , immune co subsequent attacks of cunttcer. —» ——«— Shoots Three Soldiers “Just For Fun Os It’’ i • Mexico City, (United Press). — 1 ' Three soldiers were shot down and in- - 3' ste.ntly killed in a rrAtattrant In Ptrehlt ■ by a man who later declared he shot | them just for the fun of it. When a police took his pistol from him he tic* | nfnd having done the sheeting.

— Vl* 1 ! ’'a Tfe GIRL in the MIRROR Elizabeth Jordan

THE STORT CHAFTBR L—Barbara Deven'e wedting and departure on her honeymoon loaves her brother “lanrlo," euooeeoful playwright but somewhat Inclined to wildness, without bsr restraining Influence. Hts theatrical aasoolates, Rodney Bangs end Jaoob Epstein, promise to “keep an aye on him.* CHAPTER II — Lanrlo, who Is wealthy, refuses te settle dews to work, announcing hie Intention of reeling and seeking "adventure" From his window tn Now York he sees the reflection of a beautiful girl in a mirror tn the house opposite CHAPTER in.—Devon learns from the elevator boy in the girl’s house that her name la Mayo. Again in the mirror a reflection ho sees her with a revolver and fears she moans to commit suicide Ha breaks into her apartment and. winning her oonfldence Induces her to lunch with him. though ohw warns him ot "danger." CHAPTBII IV— Perceptibly agitated by the arrival of a man in the restaurant, she mutters that he has “found her." Learning that she Is unmarried and the man has no claim on her, Laurie incensed, accosts ths stranger. CHAPTER V.—Accusing the man of annoying Miss Mayo, Devon warns htm to end his espionage. The stranger Is politely sarcastic, but from him Laurie learns the girl's first name Is Doris. She tolls him her persecutor Is Herbert Ransome Shaw. CHAPTER VI.—To Louise Ordway, his Invalid slstsr-in-law, and firm friend. Laurie admits ho Is "Interested” tn Doris, not revealing her Identity. CHAPTER Vll.—noris resolutely declines to meet Mrs. Ordway, and sternly vetoes 'Laurie’s suggestion of applying to the police to proteot her from Shaw. ' n TT> apsTcould Jen’ knock on Mint I Mayo’a do', ” he suggested after ■ thought-filled Interval. "That’s all I want," agreed Laurie. “Knock at her door and ask her If Mr. Devon may call at nine and take her out to breakfast. Tell her he has something very Important to say to her.” •Tnas, sah." The guardian was all humility. He accepted the bill, and almost simultaneously the elevator rose out of eight. The Interval before Its return was surprisingly short, but too long for the nerves of the caller. Laurie, pacing the lower hall, filled It with apprehensions and vision? which 4,-ova the blood from his heart. He could 'V nig au eA ’ assuring grin. "Miss Mayo she say, ‘Yaas,’ he briefly reported. Under the foree of the nervous reaction he experienced, Laurie actually caught the man’s arm. “She's there?" he jerked etrt. “Tou’re sure of it?” “Taas. aah.” Henry spoke soothingly. By this time he had made a diagnosis of the caller’s condition which agreed with that of the mghtwgtehman Laurie had just Interviewed. "She say, ‘Yeas,’" he repeated. “I done say whatugmu tol' me, and she say. ‘Tell de genman, Yaas,’ jes like dat” “All right.” Lanrle nodded and strode off. For the first time he was breathing naturally and freely. She was there. She was safe. In a little more than an hour he would see her. In the meantime his urgent needs were a bath and a change of clothing. As soon as he was dressed he would go back to the studio building and keep watch In the corridors until she was ready. Then, after breakfast, he would personally conduct her to the seeqrity qf Louise Ordway's home. Louise need not see her, if she did not feel up to It, but she would surely give her asylum after hearing Laurie's experiences of the night That was bls plan. It seemed a good one. Re did not admit even to himself that under the air of sangfroid he wore as a garment, every Instinct In him was crying out for the sound of Doris’ voice. Also, as he hurried along, he was conscious that a definite change was taking place tn hts attitude toward Herbert Ransome Shaw Slowly, reluctantly, but fully, he had now accepted the fact that ’’Bertie" represented a force that must be reckoned with. He Inserted the latch-gsy into t»j<j door of his apartment with an inward prayer that Bangs woqid not be visible, and for a moment he hoped It had been granted. But when he entered their common dressing-room he found his chum there, tn the last stages of bls usual careful toilet He greeted Laurie without surprise or comment, in the detached, absent man, ner be had assumed of late, and Laurie hurried Ipto the bqtUroom qae] turned on the hot water, glad qf tjje esettee ts escape even a teta-g-tete. * That greeting of Bangs' added ifee

final notes to the minor symphony Hf* was playing for him this nmrulug. As be lay back In the hot water, Ing his stiff, bruised body, the thought came that possibly he and Rodney were really approaching the fins breaking point Bangs was not ordinarily a patient chap. He wae too Impetuous and high strung for that But he had been wonderfully pnnent with this friend of his heart. If It were true that the friendship wee dying under the strain put upon ft, and Laurie knew how possible this wax, and how swift and Intense were Haugs' reactions, life henceforth, however full it might be, would lach element that had been singularly vital and comforting. He tried to think of what future days would be without Bangs' exuberant personality to fill them with work sad color; but he could not picture them: and as the effort merely added te tbe glooiu that enveloped him. he abandoned it and again gave himself up to thoughts of Doria As be hurried into his clothes a strong temptation came to him to tell Bangs the whole story. Then Bangs would understand everything, and be, Laurie, would have the benefit of Rodney's advice and help in untying Doris’ tangle. Doris! Again she swam into the foreground of bls consciousness with a vividness that made his senses tingle. He was sitting on a low chair, lacing bls shoes, and his fingers shook as he finished the task- He drewed with almost frantic haste, urged on by a fear that, despite hla efforts, was shaping Itself into a mental panic. Then, hair-brushes In hand, he faced bls familiar mirror, and recoiled with an exclamation. Dorie was not there, bnt her window was, and hanging from Its centei catch was something bright that caught his eye and Instantaneous recognition. ft was a email Roman acarf, with a narrow, vivid stripe. (TO BE COWTINI ED4 0 — Buy a half acre, an acre oi five acre tract in beautifu Bellmont park, Saturday, Aug 21, at public auction. Easj terms.

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I Half Lost Articles! I Are Never Recovered i-ondon (United Pressl.-Only 42 per cent of the lost property turned in annually to Scotinud >- r ‘‘ "“ r finds its war ha. k homo accord ng to the annual report of the Metro polltan police here. The total number of article! found and turned lb to 'he police during 1925 was 163.579. Among the deposit! last year were a ferret, two human leg bones, a glass ey „. two white mice a parrot and one parcel contained a pair *> f °P er -‘ glasses and a pair of kippers.

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