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■poultry THIEVES I ■ CAUSE BIG LOSS E Thefts ■ .odianapclis, Ind. Sept. IS.-iVnit-.pn.ss, lu.imik Fatmers suff.-r atij M'l,l less of nearly $1,000,000 MX, a.'ni.v ~f poultry H Erding to W Ht»d Keep™. assis EE .. editor of the Prairie Farmer. HI '‘‘ K( ,e l ;..n appealed before the state EE board to protest against any ■ •action for poultry thieves - " -.mined in state penal ME ißStltiitions. ■| He pr. . .I the r.-nltr of a survey ■ o(ninr ...unties of the state -howing |9S- 51' ' 1,11 kHH !I "'’ bp “' n stolen in tbese counties since March. EE eUlniat.ul, the loss ■mi rea. Il i 1 throughout the ■ state in a year's time, he declared. ■ Keepers will continue the survey ■ each of the 92 counties In the ■ s , a!t , has I report d. A similar stir- ■ '.',. is in pr press or contemplated in' ■ other midwestern states, he said. , ■ Right now we hav'- about 40 < Li< k- ■ ..„ thlev. . in the -tate prison, the ■ state reformatory ai.d on the state] ■ fenal farm and it is our Intention to ■ k , r p them there." Keepers said. BE k,.appeared recently before ■ the Illinois pardon board to oppose ■ the granting of leniency to chicken ■ a-aino thieves, it is n-ged that dealers ■be required t > keep a record of alii ■ purchases of poultiv. thus enabling ■ ],. w .-nf >r< enu nt officers to check ba< k ■ on stolen fowls. M Results of the survey thus far show ■ the following statistics:. ■ County Farms Chickens ■ Surveyed Stolen 9 carroll ISOO 10.325 9 Boob*' '1647 9 260 |E Grant 1906 11.310 Lapm te 1880 7,654 ■ Madison 1819 11.625 9 Rush 1330 11.745 9 shelby ‘ 1006 * !W fi ■ alien 1703 5.090 ■ Astronomer Produces Figures To Show It Is i Impossible to Shoot Moon ' > K London (United I're.ssl-r-Rttmor-] ■ tl.at somebody in Moscow Wants v> 9'hoe' at the moon has aroused the ■ oiad-m e criticism of Professor A W ■ pick rt n. the astronomer, who savtj ■ flatly in the Daily Mail, that it cannot ■be done. H "In order to escape the gravitation ■cl the earth," he points out. "your ■ projectile needs a velocity of 7 mi.es ■ :< second. ■ "The thermal energy necessary t< ■cany a gramme of matter at this epeed ■is 15180 tab rles. The energy of a ■gramme of a Krupp shell is about 195 ■calories; that of Big Bertha the■ gl■gantic gun which shelled Paris — wi: ■•Chi jhe en,OU> ■>*’ ■glyc’rine—is less than 1.50 U calorie. , ■consequently, if the explosive had ■nothing to carry except its own weight j ■' !| as less than ten per cent of thej, ■eneigy necessary to enable it to <?v ■ ipe the earth. To reach a distance ■of four miles in the air, the projectile! ■*’ou.d n°ed a thermal energy unit] ■mass equal to 7,500 calories When ran we get such Energy? Nobody knows." o _ HO-Pound Baby Born To Bobbie And Joan London (United Press) —A "baby" weighing 110 pounds and a beautiful lhell pink has been born to loan and Bobbie, the famous Zoo’s prized hippopotamus. This is only the third time a hippopotamus has been lorn in captivity in the London Zoo. this one's father was one of them. Joan and her bouncing youngster lave been shut away from public eyes, kt present the baby is still too young j o walk on land and must live in the, pi iter. It wiil presently loose Its flesh I link color and become dark gray and' hick-skinned, like its elders. In about dozen years, then full grown, the aby will weigh more than three tons. I kibbie and Joan are still very young >ut Bobbie weighs two and a half tons nd Joan tips the beam at two tons. — - o—ewel Robbery Occurs At Chicago Union Station Chicago,'Sept. 18. —(United press) -As hundreds of passengers streamed i >!o a crowded railroad station here Tiday a bandit stepped from a throng >to the running board of an auto driv--11 by Gustav Englemann. New York nd robbed him of $6u,000 in diamonds nd jewels. • Following the holdup the bandit ran > a waiting auto and was driven away More an alarm could be sounded.

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I I Blue Eyes Produced By i Perfect Health According To Seattle Health Authority Seattle, Wash.. Sept. 18.—(United Press.) — Your health determines whether you htwe blue, green, gray, hazel, black or brown eyes. Dr. J. D ■ Levine, editor of a health publication. 1 declared in a talk here. If your eyes are blue with a silken finish you are in perfect health, Dr Levine said. Abnormal states of body and nerves are responsible for all oth er colors, he declared. “Every child is born with blue eyes,” Dr. Levine said, "even negro children at birth have grayish-blue eyes, never a deep dark brown. Changes from'blue to green, gr.dy, hazel, brown and other colors are not due to racial, political, religious, climatic, or accidental considerations, but to states caused by toxins, acids, inflammations or congestions in the body. “Ninety per cent of the pteople have brown eyes, which show the presence of toxins. The color may be changed by abstinence from certain food. "The Irish of the old country are I blue-eyed because they are forced to live on a strict diet, frequently and fortunately nothing but potatoes and buttermilk. “Sailors who breathe the pure exygen of sea air and "mountaineers in high altitudes have blue eyes.” o t Indianapolis Is Wicked City; Residents Steal Pavements From Streets Indianapolis Ind. Sept. 18. limited Press.) — Officials of Indianapolis today wore startled to learn that residents ol this city have been tcaliu?: th,. pavements from the city -os. < X-. 7.WJK (SV I Indiana washed out eousiderao. ’ of Indianapolis’ wooden block streate | and before repair work could be started oft thent. residents of the vicinityswooped down with conveyences of all kinds and started to haul the blocks away. Gasoline Gone, Air Mail Pilot Makes Parachute Leap And Lands Safely Ottawa, 111., Sept. 18—(United Press)—Charles A. Lindberger air mail pilot, flying, from St. Louis to Chicago 1 was safe here today, after his plane from an altitude of 4,000 feet and floating to earth with a parachute la-t night. It is one of the few parachute jumps ever accomplished at night, and is said to lie by far the fartnest piuiige ever taken from a at niglit. The jump was made necessary when Lindberger’s gasoliht? supply was exI hausted and a fog made it impossible . for him to find a landing place. Lindberger landed unhurt in a corn--1 field. «Uls plane crashed two miles from him. Three sacks of mall were recovered from the wreckage. o Flood Waters Wash Out Several State Highways Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 18. —(Unitto I)aily Democrat. —While flood waters last week washed out three temi ptorary briilges and one completed structure on state roads and inundated i portions of highways In lowlands, they inconvenienced the public but little because the copimis.don immediately caused run-arounds to be rebuilt and in le-is than six days traffic was moving over new stuc'ures. During high water period it was | necessary. Bays John D.-Williams, ector, in the commission’s traffic; belle- ( tin issued today, to maintain a truck i

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at the Dolan Fill south of Bloomington | on No. 22, to pull motorists through | some 3 fe< t of water that backed up from Bean Creek. A 3-mile detour I went into force for a lew days on No. . 22 when the concrete bridge at Glenn Valley wept out, but this has been replaced with a temporary bridge. A temporary bridge that went out on ths National Road just east of Cam bridge City, and a small structure on No. 12 south of Moorsvllle, have been replaced with temporary crossings and traffic is again being served in an incredibly short time without detours at these points. Fringe Is Important On Evening Gowns And Wraps This Season t By Hedda Hoyt, , (Written for the United Press) , New York, Sept. 18. —(United Press) > —Fringe is most important for evening gowns and wraps this season. We > find three tiers of fringe of five inch > width acting as a flounce effect at the - bottoms of several smart velvet evening coats. Usually the fringe match- • es exactly the color of the velvet and > it dtps downward slightly at the rear 1 of the garments extending upward to 1 ward the front. Frocks using the tiered skirt effect have the tiers edged - in fringe of silk or beads. Hem boriii ers of many frocks are terminated with fringe. Dolman lines are dominating in evening wraps hence wide sleeves and loose wrappy lines are depicted in velvet, fur, metal brocades and gold , or silver lame cloth. Collars and cuffs of these Dolman coats are I usually trimmed in fur. The tendency to raise the waist line upwards in front is typified in many instances on f't’l gowns. Where the rear of the gown has the aeop Lu.ns,. ite ra ' Hw f.s. W times the rear blouse terminates in drapery as it nears the front and <s held by an ornament of some sort. Th ( > brimmed hat must be of drooping type to be considered smart at present. Small medium and wide brims are all being used in felts and velvets and brims are invariably slig tly drooping. The popular street hat has a high draped crown with an irregularly turned-down brim. Some women turn the brim upward directly over the forehead with the remaining brim dipping irregularly. One must wear the hat well down over the eyes to do this successfully. Belting ribbon is the popular trim for these rakish shapes. Though the black shoe wiil be ex trmely popular as fall nears, black patent will not be considered as smart as ebony suede or some of the dulllustered kids. Black shoes trimmed with red insets and red strappings are popular at resorts at present. Mellon Returns From Two Months Visit Abroad New York, Sept. 18.—(United Press) —Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, returned to foe United States from a two months visit to Europe Friday and r eceived reporters for 10 minutes during which he revealed little except a disinclination Io talk. \ Mellon refused to comment on controversial matters of any description, but did venture the opinion that conditions in the countries through which he passed seemed to be improving. He qualified that with a cautious explanation that he had not made any special effort to observe the situation | and form an opinion. Mellon evaded a question designed to determine whether h e had dis'cussed the United States liquor problem in Europe. I

Majority Os Autos Stolen In England Recovered Promptly London (United Press) —Os every. 100 cars stolen in London. <5 are promtly recovered by the police and restored to their owners, according to the roport of the Chief Commissioner of Police for the Metropolitan area. Within a few minutes of the time when the owner reports his every police station in Greater London receives by telegraph a full description of the car. This is immediately mimeographeu, and a constable leaves the station with copies, one of which he gives to every constable in the district. The constable, knowing that he may get a substantial reward for vigilance, commits the description to memory and straightway examines every car that passes. In the meantime a similar description goes out through the provinces, either by telegraph or by mail and it a very short time every constable in England, Wales and Scotland has a description of the missing car in his pocket. • Those cars which a.-e not recovered ale presumed to be those whi'h a?e quickly run into the heives garages and thoroughly changed in appearance, or "cached” for several months until they can be safely taken out and sold. o Oppose Use Os Foreign Steel In School Buildings French Lick Springs. Ind., Sept. 18. — (United Press) —foundations were being laid today for a war on the use of foreign iteel in eonst/uction of public schools in the United States at the Convention of the Concrete Reinforciv." Stei l inuitute w l.i li o|>< n<‘d hi-ri-A report ti be submitted by D. H. Knowlton of Birmingham, Ata., cnair<>f th,- »•.•<• OB "se of for.?of tlie nation to follow the example of Philadelphia hdads who recently specified that American steel be used in all of the new public school buildings there. A demand was made for rigid enforcement of existing laws requiring imported steels to be so marked so that buyers can more easily (listing uish American steel from foreign products. The request for more rigid enforcement was made to the Director of Customs at Washington. The Institute, which fabricates 95 per cent of all new billet reinforcing steel produced in tho United States, will be asked to approve a standard code of concrete reinforcement regulations, drafted to replace the varied existing rules, during the meeting he-e An illustrated address on “Development of Concrete R inforcement,” by A„E. Lindau of Chicago, is a feature of the program prepared for the cm veention. Other feature addresses include a talk on "Standard practice/’ by W. O. Irwin of Youngstowm, 0., and a report of "Conditions on the Picific Coast,” by Edward L. Sale of San Francisco, president of the California Reinforcing Steel Institute. Enrollment At I. U. Is Larger Than Last Year Bloomington. Ind., Sept. 18.—(Untirtl Press) —With the total (mrollment for the first four days of therall semester at Indiana University at 3,262, seventy-seven more students wore enrolled than at the same time last year. Twenty-five additional registrations were made Thursday. NOTICE As we are not living together as man and wife, 1 will not be responsible for any debts Contracted by Ella J. Nidlinger on and after this date. Sept • 15, 1926. | John D. Nidlinger. 219-3tx i

Lady Mountbatten Wins Deauville Vote As Best Dressed Woman In World Deauville. — (United Press.) —Lady Louis Mountbatten has been voted {the best dressed woman at Deauville, which means the best-dressed woman of the world. The competition in (I res Hug-up or dressing Is keener at Deauville in August than anywhere else. This seaside resort, with its beautiful harbor and famous Casino, is the. fashion center of the world when the season is on. Lady Louis Mountbatten, whose husband Lord Mountbatten is the “best pal" of the Prince of Wales and who accompanied the Prince to the United States, has achieved her eminence In style at Deauville by dressing simple. Her gowns are magnificently fitted without being ornate and she decorates herself only with a string of simple pearls and a ring or kv.’o on her fingers. Her restrain in the use of jewels is noticeable because other women at Deauville this season seems bent upon hanging on every gem and jewel they possess, all at the same time. The ' Mountbattens are staying • aboard their yacht, the Shrimp, in Deauville harbor, giving many brilliant parties aboard and going ashore often for bathing, polo, or to the Casino. Lady Louis Mountbatten is heiress to the Cassel millions, prob ably the largest inheritance in Eng- . land. o ' 'Men And Boys Wear Better Fitting Shoes Than Women And Girls Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 18. —(Unit- ■ ed PressV —That men and boys, on the, ■ whole, wear better fitting shoes than i women and girls was conclusively | • proved in a series of tests conducted • at the Indiana State fair here. i Under the direction of Miss Martin -of tl e Purdue University home econo- > mlcs extension department, feet ox . perts from a’local shoe company ex - amined the feet of 795 women, 202 ‘ • boys, 493 men and 310 girls wbo visited the fair. Results showed that only about one . out of five women wore shoes that fit I them well while nearly three out od i every four men were shod in well i fitting shoes. The same average was s true almost exactly for girls and bays The compiled figures of the exami

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ners show the following facti: Os the women examined, 406 wore poorly fitting shoes, 2»3 had "fair fits" and only 96 wore shoes that ooald really be described as well fitting.. On the other hand only 84 of the men had poorly fitting shoes, 137 fair and 272 wete well shod. Os the boys examined 25 wore poor fitting shoes, 68 had "fair fits" and 109 had good fits Like their grown up sisters, the majority of the girls wore poorly fitting shoes, the examination showing that only 72 wore shoes tlat realy tit while 116 were classed as fair and 122 as poor • 1 11 Q 11 —■ Says The Older Women Wear Thinnest Clothes Cambridge,*Eng.—(United Press.) — Women cahnot possibly wear any fewer or,any thinner clothes. Take it on the authority of Lewis Hay, chairman of tlie executive committee pt the Drapers Chamber of Trade of England, the absolute finality has been reached. The drapers confess themselves, unable to discover any way of clothing their clients with ftAver or flimsier clothing. Another feminine secret was let out at the convention of drapers here The older the women become, the gauzier and more diaphanous their garments become. Sir Sidney Skinner. president of the Drapers Chamber of Trade, is authority for this discovery. Sir Sidney poo pooed the idea that cold weather might make women wear heavier garments. “They would rather freeze-to death than wear woolies,” he said. o Men Outnumber Women By 41,000 In Ireland Dublin. —(United Press.) —One reason Irish girls smile is that they are in great demand, for the current census shows that there are 41,000 more men than women in the Irish Free state. This proportion of girls to men is the lowest of any European countin'. in northern Ireland the situation is , Reversed, with 40,000 more men than girls. In Great Britain there are 1, i oOO.OOl) more girls and women than there ae men; in France the excess of women over men is 2,000,000. o The Dally Democrat—-Your Home Paper

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Pathetic Case Before State Pardons Board Indianapolis, Ind,. Sept. I»—(United Press.) — Members of the state pardons board today were considering one of the most pathetic cases called , to its attention in several months. Mrs. Martha Wailace, of near Greenfield, appeared before the board and /pleaded for the release of her husband that he might help her with her family. She declared she was destitute and that the only money she has , is earned by washing clothes together with the $1 50 weekly allowance from the county. « Property Valuation In Indiana Shows Increase Indianapolis, Ind, Sept 18. —(Unitde Press ) —The total valuation of taxabl? property in Indiana this year is approximately $35,000,000 In excest of last year's valuation it was estimated today by officials of the state tax board The estimate was made under reports, available from all counties with the exception of Tipton excluding Tipton county, property in the state has a valuation of $5,272,729 for taxation purposes. Ask the man who has used Anaconda Fertilizer and you will do the same. Decatur Produce Co., phone 380. 215teod Gene Stratton-Porter A little story of the life, work and ideals of “The Bird Woman” Sold by librarian, Decatur, Indiana Wildflower Woods, Home City, Ind. and by agents along Limberlost Trail Price SI.OO i 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. i 9l9iißEl99fifllEß&Es9BßE