Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1926 — Page 4

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Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Wecker Drive Chicago 200 F.fth Avenue, New York People evidently like entertainment and amusement. A large crowd attended the fair yesterday afternoon and last night ami the Chautauqua had the largest crowd of the week. Everybody is feeling happy, regardless of the cloudy weather. An orderly crowd attended the fair yesterday. The races were good and those who enjoy this sport got a thrill out of the speed events. The track, although a little heavy, did not keep the horses from making good time and a happy crowd attended the opening day event. Due to the rain on Wednesday. .Manager Williamson announced that the fair would be carried over to Labor Day and as this is a national holiday the public will more than likely take advantage of the extia attractions and attend in large numbers. Green's band gave a splendid concert at the Chautauqua last night and the crowd demonstrated that it liked band music. Nothing thrills a person as much as band music and Director Dillaid proved his ability as a masier with the baton. Members of the organization were also accomplished artists. The programs on Friday and Saturday will also be features of the week and the 1026 Chautauqua will no dojibt be declared one of the most successful, in point of entertainment, ever held here. R. J. Harting, J. S. Peterson and others deserve credit for the successful way in which the Chautauqua has been carried out. These men looked after mo's; or' .thi? iw'raii*. and the sale of ticaets and through their efforts fine entertainment. The sale of tickets for next year's Chautauqua will start tonight and if you have enjoyed the program this year, subscribe tor tickets next year. A local association of Chautauqua directors will then be organized and affiliations made with the company, which in the opinion of the local board, can furnish the best program. "In Peru lives a veteran of the Civil war who is eighty-seven years old. The remarkable thing about this man is that he is as active, vigorous and keenly alert as a man of fifty. His eyes sparkle with the joy of living, but in ills bearing there is the confidence and satisfaction of a man Dealing the completion of a task that has beer, well done. "How do you do it?" he is asked. “Oh. I just took care of myself when I was young,” he replies. He admits that he didn't go out on "wild parlies,” although they had them in his day even more than they do now. Here is a man who has found out that the prime prerequisites for a man to enjoy life are, first, being a man, and second, being a gentleman. For thirty years h e has been putting flowers on the graves of friends of his younger days who sowed their wild oats—Peru Tribune. « ■ ! .l-J-t” '-!BThe Berne Witness company has a souvenir edition, in magazine form, commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of that printing organization. The edition is well edited and contains 116 pages of interesting reading matter, pictures and illustrations. It is a review of what this splendid community has in the •way of business and manufacturing enterprise and a listing of its prominent and successful citizens. It

A MAN'S VIEW Fm glad I’m not a wife. Os one so wise and bland, The way man growls and squeals. And so superbly right. I'd hate to spend my lite • Just thinking up his meals. How can a woman prize \ And cherish all life long I'm glad Im not a wife! A pian, so sure, so wise. How horrible 'twould be Who's never hi the wrong? To havu to spend a life Jus looking after me! I'm glad I'm not a wife, Shoes I would rather shine, I in sure I couldn't stand A man—and live my life Day in and out the sight With such a wife as mine! (Cepytt«rhl tail Edger A. &UMt —————————————ii . . “■

shows a picture of the town as it appeared in 1882 and then pictures its growth from that time initil today. - Berne is an exceptional community it and probably no town of its size, can of as many fine homes and u business blocks. The book required many hours of work and detail ami a the management of the Witness is to be commanded on the interesting and ' splendid computation of facts and history contained therein. r The monthly bulletin published by 1 the Indiana Historical department re--1 calls the growth made in recent years ■ in road building and also points out 1 places of interest where tourists : might go now to see the places of interest in the state and includes De1 catur, as th e site of the Gene Strat- ' ton-Porter memorial. The article reads: ' “Few who drive smoothly along I our state highways, stop to think ’ that 75 years ago, plank roads were considered the best and most approved solution to the road problem. "During the forties, when the canal project was at its height, settlements sprang up along the Wabash and Erie < anals, and goal roads were needed to transport material so them. In 1850 the Indiana legislature, undbr Governor Wright, passed a law to provide for the building of new plank roads, which seemed then to be the best type to meet all needs. These roads were 10 feet wide, made of 2 inch oak planks laid on the ground, resting on sills or “mud sleepers" running parallel. In 1850 there were 700 miles of plank road in the state and 69 contracts had beeq let by the legislature for extensions. "The roads, within five years, proved their Impracticability. Planks decayed and made traveling difficult, rainy weather made the planks slippery, and one settler made the complaint that his sight had been impaired when muddy water shot into 'uis c.es every line his uorSes took a step. on elephant rock in the courthouse yard at Decatur, iu memory of Gene Stratton-Porter, will be dedicated this fall.. The tablet is in the shape of an open book and an inscription is printed in bronze letters. The rock was brought from the bed of St. Mary's river to Decatur last spring under the auspices of the Decatur Industrial Association and the school children of Adams County.” o *+++++++*+♦+*♦♦* * BIG FEATURES * * of R A D I O * + + *♦+♦+++♦*+♦♦♦♦♦♦ FRIDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES (Copyright 1926 by United Press) WGY, Schenectady, 38oM,8:15 p. m. (Eastern Daylight)—W G Y Players. WSM, Nashville. 283 M, JO: 30 p. m. (Central Standard) —Organ Recital. WCAE. Pittsburgh. 461 M. 8 p. m. (Eastern Daylight) —Burt McMurtte’s Music Hour. WCCO, Minneapolis-St. Paul, 416 M, 8:30 p. \n. (Central Standard) —Twin • City String Quartette. i WCX. Detroit, 517. M, Bp. m. (Eastern Standard) —Schueman Band. o +*♦+♦+♦+++*♦♦♦♦+ * ♦ ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ + — ♦ ’ ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Year* Ago Thl* Day. ♦ ♦ ♦ ’ Sept. 3, 1906. —Labor Day observed, i banks and postoffice closes. > September, term of court convenes , with heavy docket. ! Charles A. Van Camp and Miss Pearl Ward married. Decatur defeats Bluffton, 4 to 2, at Fort. Waynfe. J. W. Place is seriously ill at West Baden. Hon. J. A. M. Adair will deliver three speeches in this county next week. The Hub clothing store is adding • I

I a stock of s loes. ; Decatur 'ubuc schools open the 17th, Geneva today and Berne the ' 10th. ' Portland far is on this week. i Cal Miller given contract for north I St. Marys road for 11,747. I 0 RURAL CHURCHES I Decatur M. E. Circuit H. J. Kieser, Pastor. Mt. Pleasant 9:00 —Sabbath School. 10:00—Morning Wo-ship. Beulah 9:3o—Sabbath School. 6:3o—Epworth League. 7:30 —Evening Worship. Monday, Labor Day, the Epworth League will join in the Methodist picnic at Foster park, Fort Wayne. Washington 9:3o—Sabbath School. 2:30 —The second quartely conference in charge of Dr. Wiant. Let's not miss this service. o Antioch Church William Hygema, Pastor. Sunday School, 9:00. Devotional service, 10:30. Afternoon service, 2:00. The Adams County Holiness Association will hold their first monthly meeting here Sunday afternoon. You are invited to come and share a blessing with us. Rev. Levi Cox from Winchester, Indiana, will be the sneaker. Special singing will be rendered. Pleasant Mills and Salem Sunday School 9:30 Morning Worship, Salem .... 10:30 Epworth League 7:00 Evening Worship. Pleasant Mills 7:30 The Pleasant Mills Ladies Aid wil! serve dinners in the Dining Hall at the Van Wert Fair. We,need the cooperation of every family in the church are doing wonderfully we!!. Let us not be .weary in Park, Tort Wayne. He sure to bring your donation to the church after the evening service at Pleasant Mills it will be displayed in the basement. Don't you, want to have a part in the! display? If you do not have hospital | cans we will see that you get cans in raturn for cans you give. Blessed is that one who avails himself of the opportunities of the church, for he will be honored in his community. A religious experience is necessary in a successful life. ‘’The wages of sin is death." "The gift of God is Eternal Life.” F. A. Shipley. oCalvary Evange'ical Church Ralph W. Loose, minister Sunday School will convene at 9:30 sun time. The preaching services will be held at 2:30 p. m. sun time. It is i hoped every member may be present at these services; Friends are cordially invited. The second qaurterly conference will be held at the Evangelical church at Decatur, Tuesday evening. September 7. Proceeding the Conference. at 7:30, the Rev. Berger will preach. Every member of the quarterly conference Is expected and urged to be present. All are corrdially invited The entire community will be pleased to learn that the Building Committee is preparing to erect a bell on the churqji- Subscriptions to the building fund may be paid to Crttis E. Shlfferly, the special Secretary-Treasurer. The first installment of subscriptions are due this summer. Many have paid others will soon. ——< ———o > — Card of Thanks We wish to thank the many neighbors and friends, who so kindly assisted us during the sickness and death of our wile and mother; also for the beautiful flowers, the General Electirc Company, the Rev. Miller for his consoling words. Charles Hill and family. Martin Hill and famfly Robert Gough, of Muncie, is a guest i in the R. D. Myers home this week-end. 1 i ' 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1926.

I INDIANA citizens, recognizing the importance ot precautionary measure* for the prevention of automobile accidents, will meet in a state-wide Safety Conference, at Indianapolis. October 12thi and 13th. Publicity directed to the minimizing the danger'to pedestrians and motorists is expected to work a great benefit to the people of the state. Warning That War In Pacific Is Possible Is Given Australians Sydney, (United Press). —A warning to Australians that "a war was more tnan possible in the Pacific was uttered by Lieutenant-General Sir, John Monash. who led the Australian, troops in the World War, in a publitv speech here. Castigating the apathetic public spirit in regard to defense, Monash said: "Everyone who thinks knows that the future civilization is bound up with the problem of the Pacific. Yet we do not talk about it because people come and cry, ‘What a provocative utterance! You are trying to stir up trouble with the nations in the East!’ 1 "It is the duty of those responsible for the defense of the nation to postulate where a possible attack may come from and to prepare against it. Whatever we may say of the present situation in the Blast, the Washington Conference and the League of Nations, we must not forget that there has seldom been a war which has not come suddenly and unexpectedly. "If there is ever to be war in the Pacific, it will come just as suddenly' and unexpectedly, in spite of the! ameliorative efforts which civilization | has been making to mitigrate war." Monash warned Australians that the only way they could prepare was to provide the necessary modern defense equipmsnt — aircraft, tanks, guns, and the like. o Women’s Farm Colony Permits Presence Os Men To Do Plowing • Lingfield. Eng., (United Press). — Women may be free but they cannot yet make hay without the aid of men. A grim effort to run a farm solely by the work of women has failed,

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I after six years of struggle, and hus'bands have at last been called in to laasfst. The Were Mill Colony near here is no longer an Adamlosa Eden. The colony include* a hundred acres of farm land./ It was started in 1920 by a group of young women under the auspices of the Womens Farm and Garden Association to show an incredulous world that hand designed to rock a cradle can also turn a straight furrow. . The women became tenants of small holdings of three and five acres each, and they helped each other in their work Some special-1 ized in dairy herds, some raised Angora rabbits, some grew vegetables, ' others became orchardists, and severi al developed into pastrymakert and cooks. They set up a roadside stand lon the East Grinstead Road, which I motorists learned to know well as a Typewriting Stenographic Work If you have any extra typewriting or stenographic work 1 will be glad to do ii. Phone 42 for appointment. Florence Holthouse Judge J. T. Merryman's Law ■ (ill ice, K. of ('. Bkig. i—i I ! is one of many rewards of Pure blood. Take S. S. S. to purify your j blood—then watch pimples, ■ boils, blackheads and rashes . vanish. You can take S. S. S. with confi- . dence—millions testify to its mer- , I its. An unbroken record of service for over 100 years is a great testi- j , moniaJ to a great medicine. • Remember S. S. S. is made only from fresh roots and herbs. jtcJu ! SS.S.

stopping place tor tea. The colony! prospered, but In the course of six' i mars It was seen that only a part of 1 I the farm land was being used. • j 'J The strong hacks of men were I needed in the field*. But th e rules I 1 of the colony forbade the admittance ' i of men. So the regulations at last 1 have been change and those women •of the colony who have husbands ' now are allowed to bring their husI bands in. ( Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pays

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