Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1926 — Page 2

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J H. Heller Prw. and Gen. Mgr A R. HoithoUM Sec'y * Bub. Mgr Dick D. Heller Vice President Entered at the Postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies I -02 One week, by carrier - .19 One year, by carrier , 500 One month, by mall 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail — 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first sad second zones. Additional post■’ije added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer. Inc., 35 East Wecker Drive Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue. New York Vacation days are over and along with your renewed activities in school and business and sports and other lines, you should remember your church. Tomorrow is Sunday and a good time tp renew acquaintances with your pastor and the few who remain faithful summer and winter. The first snappy weather of the year is here, not serious, but a reminder of what is coming soon. If you haven't filled the coal bin or provided fuel for the winter, it should require no special order to convince you that its the wise thing to do and indications are that" the prices of coal will increase rather than decrease. The city traffic ordinance is being complied with and there is less danger of accidents which doesn’t mean that you should continue to be as careful as possible. You can help to make travel safe for yourself and others by careful driving and obeyance of laws and ordinances. Gee gosh, more showers are promised for tomorrow. Os course showers are a fine thing but we have had so many more than we need lately that we just can't hardly find a place to store any more water. If its all the same we would like to delay the shipment a week or ten days. Well the first frost has been reported and the hickory nuts will soon be ripe, that is they would be if w e had any. In the old days the favorite Saturday sport for the school boys was gathering hickory nuts but its an almost impossible job now ?nd- tho boys will have to content themselves radios. Andrew Mellon-declares that Europe is prosperous but you should remem ber that most of his time was spent with the bankers and the heads of governments, in the first class hotels, taxies and in places where he failed to find the real trend He should talk to some of those miners and millions of others who have been out of work for months, to the farmers and to the small tradesmen if he wants the genuine facts. During the past two years. Governor Jackson has spent $106,831,670.64 to operate the state. Thats a huge sum of money to be taken from the tax payer> and especially when money has been as scarce as it has been for the farmer during this period. We would think he would be more than anxious to let the people know just where every penny A that vast fortune of funds went and especially so when it is known that during the entire eight years of Marshall and Ralston, the total of money spent was $76,254,383.24. A seventy-six-year-old editor, E. R. Sauer, of the San Diego Herald is under arrest on a federal indictment for sending out obscene matter through his newspaper. In an article headed, “Those women of the days of Helen of Troy differed little from Aimee and her kind," Sauer paints Miss McPherson as a wild and untamed shrew and his flights in rhetoric it is claimed by those who have read the story have been rarely ( equaled in American journalism. He I has so far failed to understand how Afme e could “dive into the Pacific ccean and c?m’ up smiling in the

■-— — » great Mexican dessert." | A iwilletln from the Hoosier State Automobile Association calls atten ' tion and wisely to the fact that - schools have reopened ana that the t f “ (t brings an increased hazard on] city streets and country roads for not ’.only in school zones are accidents | likely to be Increased but in other > places because thousands of children I) are on the streets going and coming D * 5 from school. You should bo exceed 3 ingly careful the first few weeks if j you are driving a*ar for the children j ! have temporarily forgotten the danger 'of crossing streets or suddenly leaping out in front of a car. If American farpiers raise only 50.000,000 bushels of wheat to export. Senator Watson thinks the tariff might be effective. Bless you, se iI ator, there hasn't been a year in the ’ lart decade and more when the farrn- * ers of America have exported less r than 150.000,000 bushels of wheat, r And their export of wheaUJias run ( up to more than double that. Much } chance the tariff has of doing any- , thing for the wheat farmer, even on Senator Watson's own figures! But it doesn't fail to take out of the > pockets of Indiana farmers $33,000, . 000 a year in prices increased becau ;e [ of it on the things they have to buy. I Arthur Brisbane s.Vys that Governor- , Blaine, of Wisconsin, who was nomiI nated on the republican ticket this I week as a, candidate for United States senator, defeating Lenroot. a friend of the president, is really a democrat ; and that because he believes this r country would prosper in the long t 000 citizens instead of by a few people 1 who write checks, he will disturb both ! democrats and republicans. Well the r counrty would prosper in the long i run if every member of the senate believed the same thing and the country would last longer. When government becomes concentrated and 5 something happens to the one or two ’ men in control, things go to smash f and its no different now than it was ’ in Nemo’s age. • o +♦+♦++++*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ of RADI.O ♦ . ♦ ♦ i SATURDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURtS I I WSB—Atlanta, 428M.’10:45 pm—Hir- • - - • ; WLS—Ch'cago, 365 M, 6:15 pm —NaII tional barn daiic* 4MII.IEMI I I ■■■■Biel band. KDKA —East Pittsburgs. 7 pm —Westinghouse band. CNRO—Ottowa, 6 pm.—43sM, Markowski trio. SUNDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES ! WBAL—Baltimore. 246 M, 6:30 pm.— > Concert by WBAL orchestra.. : WBZ —Springfield. Mass., 333 M, 7 pm. . . Near East concert. ( WEAF —New Yark. 192 M. hoop-up.5:20 Capitol theatre program. KOA—Denver, 322 M, 6:30 pm —Organ recital. WHO—Des Moines, 526 M, 5 prn.—CbnI cert by Little Symphony orches . tra. — o s . MONDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES > WEAF—New York, 492 M, and Hook ! up. 8 pm.—Massenet's opera, "Manon”, direct from Crystal studio, Radio World's FairWSB—Atlanta. 428 M, 8 pm.—Agricul- > tural program. ■ KOA—Denver. 822 M, 9:25 pm —ProI gram by orchestra and soloists. ( KFl—L<'s Angeles. 467 M, and KPO San Francisco. 428 M, 11 pr.i.— Joint Concert. o—■ : — ■ w. c. T. U. To Meet At Library Monday Afternoon . . I The Decatur union of the Women’s f Christian Temperance Union will 1 ; hold its opening meeting of the fall 1 season at the Public Library Tuesday . afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock. Mrs. John Niblick, who just returned from a trip, abroad with her husband, will 1 glive a talk at the meeting. Mrs. will discuss various things of interest which she saw whll e on I her tour, keeping in mind the work 'of ,the W.C.T.U. Important matters will come before the meeting and all members of the Union are urged to be present.

TAV RATES ARE CUT AND RAISED (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONK> levies lor the county ponqral fund and the turnpike repair fund to raise taxes for the operation of the county govern ment tor the year 1927 and taxpayers will be glad to learn that they mad* a net reductfen of 6 cents on the -100. The levy for th** county general fund was put at 30 cents on the -100 which is a reduction of ten cents for thia fund. The turnpike 1 epair levy was put a' 25 cents, an increase of 5 cents, whFe a T cent levy made last year for rpe clal bridge work was omitted. This makes the total of the tax lev! es adopted by the ccunty council 55 tents on the -100 a decrease <ff 6 cents from the 61-cent total levy adopted last yea - . Valuation Also is Lower The total county valuation this year as a basis for tax collections jn 1927 is S3B, 772, 940, as compared to $39,318,815 this year, making a net decrease in valuation next year of $545,875. The county budget as advertised foi next year under the general fund was $155.053 53. After decreases and e'.iroi nations from tlw budget there remains $136,603.53 to be collected and as explained below the difference will be made up by drawing upon emergency 1 eserve. Portland, Sept. 11,—The Jay county council brought their meeting to close Wednesday, after being in two dr-ys’ regular session, as provided by law, which fixes the date as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September of each year. The total levy for all county purposes for the year 1927 will be 32 cents, which is a reduction of 3 cents from what it was last year. There was ;t decrease in the assesed value of the taxable property in tie county of $260,000.

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September. 11. —Louis Murphy has thigh and leg crushed when caught under a log in the yards of the Adams County Lumber Company. Republicans carry }lame by less than 8.000. W. J. Bryan speaks to great crowd in St. Louis J. A. M. Adair opens his campaign for congress with speech at Pleasant Mills. Decatur defeats Bluffton. 14 to 1 there, and game sch’dtiled for here it called off. Dore B. Erwin declines offer to serve as city attorney. "Everybody works but father" brings a lot of laughs to crowd at the opera house. Mis. Fred Blosser is visiting at Evangelical Sunday school picnic? at Steele’s park.

o 3 COURTHOUSE | Real Estate Transfers

Levi Strahm etux to Samuel Cook etux, lot 770 Decatur, for >2,250. Christena B. Vail to* Lydia A. Bodie lot 558 in Dtcatur. for >l4O. Fred Reppert etux to James W. McDonald ptux lots.. 26-26-27-28-29-30-31 and 32 in Bellmont Park, sl. Willjam McKessisk to Mary J. Dynes. lot 7 in Geneva for >IOO. Mary J. Dynes to Nancy Ault, lot 7 in Geneva for $?5. Jesse,H. Reed etux to Nancy Ault, lot 50 ißFGenpva. for 1200. George £. Foltz.etux to Louise Mar henke, lots 25-26-27 in Williams, for SI,OOO. Wesley G. Amstutz etux to Jacob W. lot 254 In Berne for $1,200. Janies M Ross etux to Simon Smit!*, etuz. 60 acres in Kirkland township, toi sl. Case Dismissed The case of George Kinerk vs. Alfried Droege has been dismissed on motion of the plaintiff. Marriage Licenses Louis Gilliom, truck driver. Adams county, to Stella Kaehr. Monroe. ANOTHER TON LITTER WEIGHED (C**TrXr«D FROM FARM RWB) pounds .which is considered as being exceptionally good. Mr. Sprunger bettered hlg own record of )a«t v?ars gs tq, average weight of pjgs. Since his ton litter entries averaged I about 225 pounds last fall. The two lit ers .in Question were fed along with * the remainder of Mr. Sprunger's spring P'KS. . , , Edwin H. Gilliom, of northwest of Berne, Qualified lor a brcnre medal | by feeding a litter of eight pigs to a j

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.. total weight of 1.766 pound’, In exactly 180 days. The Utter was of crossbred Duroc-I\>laud China breeding. Joel H. Hahogger ho resides about | four miles northwest of Berne, tls weighed up a title.* Friday afternon which qualified for a bronze medal by having weighed l.t't. t pounds. Thus far the folloving me:: have quallt’ed for medals in thy work this year Win Burke, Jos. P. Hahogger, Martin Ha beqger, John E. Heimann Orval Joie«. Ed. Giiliom. Joe! H. Hubegger, Leon ard Sprttnger. — . — -o ———a* KLAN GATHERS* AT WASHINGTON tCONTINURD FROM PAGB ONE) will be named for the position without much opposition. it was first planned to hold thl.meeting at Philadelphia, in the course of a klan demonstration as a part of -he Independence Sesquiccutennial celebration, but Philadelphia author ties were inhospitable to the plans for a huge national meeting in con■lection with the* “klonvocation.” Extra police will be placed on lutyA it is expected, for the period of the celebration, and for the j>arade The parade permit allows the klans men to parade In uniforms, except •hat all of the visors must be lifted ‘o show the klansmen's faces. o FARMERS WILL HAVE SURPLUS (Continued From Page Two) rats, hay and tobacco will be considerably less than less year. Agriculture, according to depar*■nent experts,, has nearly traversed i complete cycle since 1920, rising from a depression to economic stability. Farmers today are receiving better prices for their products than any time during the last five years but the purchasing power of their dollar is still below that of other in dustrles, it was added. o World's Series Games To Start October 2 Pittsburgh. Pa, Sept. 11. — (Unite,' Press) —The 1926 world’s series will begin on Saturday, October 2, ip th, city winning the American league pen mt. Two games wUI be played in tbai -ity on consecutive day.:. The next hree days will be played in the ci'y winning the National 'eague race. Anu the remaining two if needed will b< >n the city of American league wineoi These atrangements were worket >ut this afternoon ir. a meeting at tended by Judge, K ~1. Landis an< representatives. o—► —: Miss Rvan Wins Two Titles In Tennis Meet Philadelp >'a, Chlcket Club, Sc Martin’s Pa.. Sept. 11 —fUni.ed Pres* Miss Elizabeth R'jan o*’ ■Califo’ni:< middle Atlantic states tennis cham pfonships here. She defeated Mrs. George Wight man, of Brookline, Mass., in the ingles, 6-3, 6-2, and paired with Mrs Wightman defeated Mrs. Molla Mai 'ory and Miss Edith Sigourney, Bo t on. 7-5, 6-0, , Miss Ryan was at the top of her game in both matches. In the singles Mrs. Wightman was unable to cope with the hard paced cross-court shots md the fast, accurate services of her opponent. o Work is progressing nicely on the mprovements at Niblick & Co’s, rooms and when complete it will be one of the finest business rooms in the city. o Big Dance Tonight and Sunday Night at Sun Set Park. Mike and his enemies of gloom. Lots of big surprises. Music starts at 8:30 tonight. It —q Roller Skating Rink Opens Tonight.

Gene Stratton-Porter A little story of the fife, work and ideals of “The Bird Woman” Sold by Librarian, Decatur, Indiana Wildflower Woods. Rome City, Ind. and by agents along Limberlost Trail Price SI.OO The proceeds of which will be applied on the Gene Stratton-Porter Memorial Fund. This book is now out of print. It cannot be supplied by the publishers.

ATTEMPT MADE TO ASSASSINATE ITALIAN PREMIER ,< <»NTINTF.o I HOM FAWW OftK* . ed. Crowds gathered around them offer Ing aid. and the Injured were carried to a nearby hospital. Minister Plurlati. who was in Hie public wurk|B building. ’ heard the ex plosion. He s<*<n appeared in front of the building. Crowds gathered and once mere Rome rejoiced that "11 duce" had bone apared. Today’s attack on Mussolini was the fifth instance of actual violence igainst Mussolini since lie became premier, while a sixth would have been, recorded had not a plot against him .a yqar ago been discovered In all of the attempts, however, inly the demented British subject. Violet Gibson, has been able so break sufficiently through the charm which many believe surrounds the life <>( Mussclinl. to Inflict actual injury up- ! on him. Tulsa Girl Wins Title Ol “Miss America Os 1926” Atlantic Cit» N. J.. Sept. 11—(Unit sd Press) —America ruled alone ts queen of fr>auty today. Norma Smallwood, the dark-haired. 18-year-old girj from Tulsa, Okla, was declared the most beautiful oi the picked beauties of America i® the Atlantic City contest. o Conducts Sale of Calves I Col. Roy Johnson. Decatur auteion eer. conducted a sale of 42 stqpr calve] owned by the meiul-ers of the Vai Wert County Boys’ Calf club, at the 1 Van Wert fair Friday. The 42 ealvel averaged $10.60 per 100 pounds. NOTICE The Hoagland Switchboard associa tion will receive sealed bids fol Switchboard Operator to Septembet '< 30th. For information write or call. Chas E. Witte, Secy. Hoagland, fnd 21511141 I o CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat—Sept. $1.33%: Dec. $1.36% May $1.41%. Corn—Sept. 79%c. Dec 85%c, May 91%c. Oats —Sept. 37%c Dec. 42%c, May 47c. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pay

5 Better —l——than. .Ewx-z— I — - _ --- ■_ 1.-. WI K-TN their traditional policy of constant improvement with no yearly models, Dodge Brothers, during the past ’ eight months, have vastly bettered their motor cars in many vital respects. Indeed, there has never been an equal period in Dodge Brothers history when so many refinements of a popular and fundamental nature have been made. The public is registering its appreciation of this progressive industrial service by i » purchasing every motor car Dodge Brothers can build —in spite of the fact . * that Dodge Brothers production, during these months, has broken all previous y I records by an impressive margin. Touring Car .'.5848 CQ«pe 899 ** Sc dan 950 Sport Roadster 1002 • Delivered - Saylors Motor Co. Phone 311 North First Street Dcjdbe* Brothers motor cars

'Knights Os Columbus To Hold Election Monday The anynal ehufmt of officer, of the, Docatnr Kt-igltis of Cd baa wtll be Ldd Monday. September 13. at th.J | K oi C|hab. The meeting will bej |h-ld at 8 f'v ock and every member c j Lutz returned from Indianapolis this morning where he attended to business and spent, a few hours nt the big state fair. Mr. and Mrs. II B. Heller took an I afternoon off and attended the Van |\Vyrt fair yesterday. The high waters in the rivers and ' creaks of Ad tins county are receding and these streams will soon be normal if the rains hold off a few days.

■ |l DO IT I ® Now that • you have tl V DECIDED to win FinJ ancial Success, take a 0 S lively interest in your a s Savings z Account and ?! 1 IT * I Jivital and

Roller Skating Rink One* t Tonight. —' ■ 1 • -0-_ Ask the ma n who h , |s Anaconda Fertilizer and . will do (he sanu, duett (o : phone asp. | Typewriting I Stenographic Work ".If you have llllv exim tv . img or sU nographii w,,,!? t be glad to do it. p| 101)( , ' ' iap|M>iiilnicnt. " r II Florence Holthouse J 1- Merryman's Law Office, K. of C. Bldg.