Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1926 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A R . Holt holts* Sec'y & Bus Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vlce-Preeideui. Entered at the Poetoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single cpplea 1 One week, by carrier — .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail — .35 Three month*, by mall 1-00 Fix months, bv mail .> — 1.75 One year, by mail . Z......—— 3.00 One year, ut office 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside zones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer. Inc., 35 East Welker Drive. Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. MEMORIAL PROPOSED: — It is a little less than two years since the thousands of her friends and admireres were shocked by the death of Mrs. Gene Stratton Porter in an automobile accident. She was endeared to two reat publics, which were in part the same, the nature loters, including a host whom she had taught to love nature, and the lovers of a fiction strongly tinged with outdoor life. Born ou an Indiana farm and endowed witli a fondness for the great wo-ld of out of-doors, she grew up with little schooling, but equipped with the results of much reading. An early marriage, with the entire care of a household, might well have cut h-. r off from n literary career, but having added photography to her stock of attainments, she made her entrance irtto the magazines through photographs of birds and butterflies of her own Liberlost country. She followed them up with nature stories and by and by attempted to win a larger public for the love of nature by writing a novel that was “nature sugar coated with fiction." The publisher at first shied at it and, though ft was printed, their judgment seemed for tlree years to be approved. Sud den'.y the book began to make its way and two million copies have since been sold. In 20 years she wrote It novel:- which have had an average sale of mere than a million copies. Hut it was ; iways her message that interested her, not the publicity that it brought. While her novels served to introduce this message to the world and brought her both fame and fortune, it is her straight-forward nature book for which she will probably be best remembered. For it was after all the nature elements that gave theii greatest value to her work of fiction ■•Homing With Hirds," "Friends ’n Feathers." and Moths of the Limberlost," will be read and honored long after her stories have lost their popular! y. In fact, had the public not been so drugged with novels as to be hard to win by any other presents tion of a message, Mrs. Porter would never have spent her time on fiction when she had nature's own true storyall about her and its delight filling her heart. A preacher-farmer's daughter, acquainted withall that farm life means, she never outgrew her love of the country. Later, after means became ample, he had a farm of her own, and took special interest in treeplanting. so her love of nature was not a distant admiration, but an ePc'-tfon both intimate and lifelong. It is a fitting honor to on<- who lured co many of her contemporaries to the fields and woods and taught them the charm of outdoor nature with its magic of color and music, that a memorial week should have been set apart for Mrs. Porter. Rhode Island takes pleasure in sharing the nation-wide commemoration of the present week, and as a special tribute the Metropolitan park commission will plant a r.roup of trees in Mrs. Porter's honor. May they long keep green in the hearts of the American people the memory of her noble and inspiring life. —Providence iR. I.) Journal. Taking an inventory:— Every city likes to grow, and every town likes to develop into a city. It is human nature to desire progress, and it is the progress we make vrhich

| mark* u* from th* lower animal*. Os ' course every aity cannot develop into a metropolis, and all towns cannot develop into great manufacturing titles. But In nearly every city and town it is possible to get better year . by year. 1 There are different ways of developing. The commonest one of course Is to bring new industries into the community. Before thia is undertaken I the community might well lake a sur-i J vey of its industries and its natural 1 advantages. This ought to be done ,* every year or two so that any work > performed by the commercial club or ’ civic organisation w ill not be done I blindly, but with some Mefintte plan in view. Every enterprisng merchant takes an inventory of his business once or twice a year. Why should not the city and town, take stock of what it has and what it expects to do iu the succeeding twelve months? Some cities and towns are ideally situated for certain kinds of industries, and other communities would naturally attract different industries. The thing for the enterprising community to do, of course, is to find out the kind of business it can get and then go after it. If this be done there is little doubt that the average community can do some developing. There are many industries anxious to leave the congested centers of population for various reasons. As a general thing small factories which are apt to grow into big institutions do a town more good than the larger and which are apt to make its industrial life one-sided. And as like attracts like one or two industries of a certain kind are likely to bring similar or correlating industries into the city. Why not take an inventory of our town and see what can be done? A "Jack-the-peeper," who is frightming people about town will receive 1 buck shot surprise one of these nights and it may aid in identifying lim. Os all the low down critters we 'know, the meanest is a grown man who sneaks about peeking in windows md causing alarm sos women anti ihildren. He will deserve whatever ae gets in the way of punishment. . - Alright, the election is over and its time to forget it as much as possible for a while. It Will be two years now until we will have to get out the eagle and rooster, the bands and the drum corps, the red fire and the speak-' ers to save the country. In the meantime lets save it by each one doing his own part as a good citizen. We believe the merchants of Deca.tar would find it to their advantaeo If they would make an organization Tor a Yuietide observation beginning early in December. It would add to the spirit of buying and could be made a splendid attraction. Jay county elected a woman, Mrs. Zoa Wyatt for prosecuting attorney.: Guess the mashers will be good there for the next two years. io 1— >+++♦+♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ » TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦’ ' * b Twenty Years Ago Thl« Day. ♦ ♦ From the Dally Democrat File ♦ Nov. 4, 1006 was Sunday O — Gasoline Consumption Increases 16 Per Cent Chicago, < United Press) —User* of , gasoline consumed 2.370,817,000 gallonr , in thirty?two states of the Union during the first seven months of 1020 ar increase of more than 16.2 per cent ’ over the amount used in the same state* In the corresponding period of 1925, according to final reports fr >m , rax collector* cf thes” states made jub’ic here. — — Albania Has No Trains i Durazzo, Albaania (United Press) — > This country, the only nation in , Europe without a mile of railroid trackage is about to build a railroad.’ T It will extend for only thirty-seven kilometers, connecting Tirana with this port. Under Albanian law, the government Is empowered to ask each r man below the age of fifty years to t work for six days in the year for the i state- and*'under this system of labor 'Jhe railroad is to be built. The cost 1 will therefore be comparatively low. . f /

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4,1920.

~ - MP W I _ 4 fi »W § ■ Bk/ < H | A FEW LINES TO WISDOM

Well, life's begun. She’s on her way To kindergarten school today! , They’ll teach her little bits of verse And pretty lines which she’ll re- | hearse. i And these I do not view with dread. I see the long years stretch ahead 1 And view with genuine concern The harsher lessons she must learn. i Wisdom, I pray, keep undefiled .And sweet and true our lovely child! i And some shail teach her how to play. And some shall teach her what to say; From babyhood she’ll climb to youth I Acquiring more and more of truth. With every fact she comes to know From her some fairy-thought will go.

'' ' (Copyright I»r> Edgar A. Guest

Fortune Tellers Barred ♦ From Streets Os Peking Peking (United Press) — Chin ■*? fortune-tellers, for centuries a feature of Peking’s thronged thoroughfares, are to be banished from the city according to an order just issued The reason given is that the soothsayers are acting as u.u'ots for rellvery of ,-pittm slid • ,1 -r esiiutul drugs. OBITUARY Ricklef B. Johnson was boru in Ost Friesland, Germany, on January 22, 1840. and departed this life at Peterson, Indiana. October 17, 192<J. age 86 years 8 months 25, days His boyhood was spent in German* where he learned the blacksmith trade. I-ater he worked on board ship as smithy and mads 21 trips across the ocaan. He finally decided to stay in the United States and came to Indiana and made his home at first near Friedheim. In 1869 he was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Baker, who proceeded him in death 16 years since. To this union were born eight children, four of whom are deceased Those remaining to morn the loss of a kind and loving father are. Mrs. E. Burt Lenhart, of Decatur* Mrs. Grant Ball, and Wnt. H Johnson, of Peterson, and Herman R. Johnson, who was last heard of iu North Dakota, eight grandchildren ’ and seven great grandchildren, besides a host of relatives and friends Mr. Johnson was an accomplished iron worker, and has made many different articles of iron. He spent his last years in his shop makltg iron letters and fashioning many passages from the Scripture. He has lived at Petersen for the last tbiny-flve years and the sound of his anvil will ring there no more but is ringing in the "Song Triumphant." Funeral services were held st the Beery church, burial in the cemetery nearby. We shall linger to caress him. There will be one vacant chair We shall linger to carress him, When we breathe our evening prayer. Sleep today. O loving father, In thy green and narrow bed Dirges from the pine and cypress, Mingle with the tears we shed. — o Resolutions of Respect We. the committee appoint** 1 *.o draft resolutions of respect to our departed sister, Myrtle Lenhart whose death occurred October 26, 1926 would submit the following: Whereas, it has pleased in His allrise, mysterious providence to call from us to His realm above, the spirit of our departed sister, and whii-> we 1 bow in humble submission to the ’ divine call, it is but. fitting that we ’ bear testimony to her good qualities ’ and express In this h.Anner our deep 1 sorrow, and While we mourn her untimely decease, our heartfelt sympathy goer tc her sorrow stricken family and friends, for them it is an irreparable loss. . Resolveti, That we extend- to her fa mlly and friends ovr heartfelt sympv--1 thy in this, their time of sorrow and 1 commend them to the infinite love and ’ mercy at God. Res Shed. That our charter be draped in mourning for thirty days, and a - copy of these '■evolutions be tpread ov r the minuter of the lodge, a copy Os the 1 sdttte be sent to the family of the de- * ceased sister and also a copy be published in bur city paper. ANNA MALOTT JESSIE FRY C LARA KRUM Committee • 1 O- r 1 Good Roads In Canada 1 Ottawa. Ont., (United Pfe»«>— 1 Canada has spent 1100.000 000 on good 5 roads in 1936.*<ccording to a bulletin 1 issued by A. W. Campbell, federal com- ’ of highways. s . —o ‘ See “Katy Did,” High School 1 Auditorium, Friday night. , 259t3

All this II well, but stUl 1 sigh I On Wisdom’s path great dangers lie. i Some lessons deeply brand and burn. < These may our baby never learn. 1 Deal gently with her. Knowledge wise, ( .Steal not the sunshipe (Tom her eyes. Lead not those happy feet astray While promising a fairer way, t Still keep her clean and pure of heart; , Save her from needless ache and t smart. With beauty keep her cheeks aflame, < Spare her the bitterness ot shame. < To you. today, our child we give, ( Teach her a glorious life to live. (

Obituary t Myrtle M. Steele, third child of Wilson and Sarah J. Steele was borrt in Mercer County. Ohio near Fort Recovery, Ohio. November 10, 1875. in early life she moved with her parents ' to Adams county where she lived all her life excepting n short interval spent iu Ohio near her birthplace. On October 16,1894 she was united in marriage to John M. To this union was born three children Haze!. William and Adrian. Mr. and Mrs Ix-nhart settled in l»ecatur and have lived here ever since.. in early life she gave her heart to God and unitd with the Christian church near Celina, Ohio, latter *hr transferred her membership to the First Presbyterian church of this city. She passrd away peacefully on October 26. 1926 Aged 50 years 11 months and 16 days. She had been in poor , health for some months but the day of her death seemed much bettei than : ’ usual. Hence her passing came as| a great shock. She leaves to mourn J her loss her husband, one daughter I* ■ Mrs. Hazel Weiss of Cleveland and two sons Willian and Adrian of Decatur. Two grandchildren, brother Chancey Steele and a host of friends who mourn her untimely death. o «»■ China Participates In Arts And Science Meet , Peking (United Press). —China will ‘ participate in the Third Pan-Pacific Congress of Arts and Science to be held in Aokyo today until November 1, according to decision of the Cabinet. An appropriation of 85.000 was voted tor this purpose, but it was not divulged where the bankrupt Peking Government was going to get the money. o ' Officials Discharged Peking (United Press)—Desolation has been spread through official circles by the "firing” of ten Foreign Officd offlcia's. arid an intimation that others are on the list for disoharge. Malty Peking pob-holders have sinecures. It Is alleged, and draw pay from halt a dozen government posts without doing real work in any of them.0 _______ Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it P*y* / i : • Pimples y«2e/ 1 a clzan shade, to meet the World i THEY’RE GONE! Those unsightly, annoying pimples that wore such aa embarrassment to you. Absolutely disappeared! S. S. 3., the powerful blood cleaaser and red, blood builder, did it! • Now you know what to do about Buch skin eruptions. Now you know bow foolish it I* to let pimples, blackheads, boils, blotches, eczema and BuCh things remain to handicap you Now that yqu are f.-ee of sueh unsightly things, people will Welcome you—like to see you and talk to you, instead of making excuses to keep out of your way. • When 8. S. S. starts _ N d charging through your (C CV 1 Q blood, skin troubles fade J J away. Your whole sys- \. y 1 ‘ tem is improved—nerves strengthened — appetite returns —strength and power comes , back into flabby muscles—you feel '• like yourself again. S. 8. 8. is sold by all druggist*. Get 3 he larger bottle. It’s more economical. •. ■ '

Policeman Arrests Man As Motorcycle Speeds London (United Press)-|Clgrencß the Cop never made a mor* spectacular arrest in the comic she*ts than that of Police Sergeant Nunn when he caught Victor THcket a very tricky motorcycle thief. The story was told in court at Bast leigh. near Southampton. Nunn, hear ing that Trfcket was in the district, commandeered a car and gave chase. He found the car too slow and com mandeered another. He overhauled his man who refused to etop. Nunn ordered the drivFf of his car to bump the back wheel of the motorcycle. Thk was done and Tricket went sprawling in the road As Nunn approached him Tricket suddenly jumped on his machine and made a second dash tor freedom. The sergeant made a flying leap and climbed on the beck seat of the motorcycle. ' Still Tricket would not stop and he drove the syargean past the police station at speed of forty miles an nour. Keep Fit! Qood Health RexjwirejQoesi Elimination TO be well, you must keep the blood stream free from impurities. If the kidney* lag, allowing body poisons to accumulate, a toxic condition is created. One is apt to feel dull, languid, tired and achy. A nagging backache is sometimes a symptom, with drowsy headache* j and dizzy spells. That the kidneys ■ are not functioning properly is often | shown by burning or scanty passage of secretions. If you have reason to suspect improper kidney functioning, try Doan's Pills —a tested , stimulant diuretic. User* praise them throughout the United States. Ask your neighbor/ DOAN’S Stimulant Diuretic to ths Kidneys Foster-Milburn Co.. Mfg. Cbem . Boffsl'- N. v

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Nuuu had to hug hi* prisoner to keep on the machine and gradually, with a sort of "half Nelson," he Increased the presHurs. choaking his man until he] was forced to surrender. Tricket brought his machine to n safe atop to i save himselfSee “Katy Did,” High School Auditorium, Friday night.

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