Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1926 — Page 4

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You are busy this week wrapping your Christmas packages. Don't over look buying a few dozen Christinas Seals. Y'ou still have time —just time —to get your dollar in for the Good Fellow’s fund and the young ladies in charge of this fine Christmas duty . need more money to do the job just ( right. | They are talking about rebuilding , the criminal code in Indiana and it | needs it if they don't make it worse . than it is now. Folks are almost afraid to permit the legislature to do , so important a job. , . • < Its a shock to think that three * hundred coolies enroute to the war front in China froze to death, for mojt people have the idea that China is the hottest place this side of Hades. It isn’t so warm of course, in spots. Authorities have lifted the smallpox I quarantine at Hartford City just in , time for a final rush to the bargain i counters before Christmas and according to reports every body’ in that , section is taking advantage of the ' opportunity. “Red” Grange is going from bad to worse. He left the ice line fbr the pictures and then joined the profess- ’ ional football league. Now he lands in jail in Dallas, Texas, on a»plain < old-fashioned charge of “drunk and disorderly.! Too much fame is bad > for the average college youth. The final rush is on, but don’t feel: badly about the tact that you haven’t finished Cue job of selecting every , thing you need, no one else has and there -fire still plenty of wonderful gifts m the Deeatur stores from which 1 you can select anything you may de- I sire. This is Christmas week so just laugh and be merry. The fire loss in the United States is more than a billion dollars annually 1 and with thfs is a large loss of life. This is a good season of the year to remember to be careful for there is a little more danger around Christmas than at any time in the year excepting July Fourth. Have a good time the next week, but be careful. ' We are a nation of wasters -according to reports from the department of , commerce. This shows that w’e annually waste in transportation more than half a billion dollars, our waste, of coal each year is 750 million tons,| we throw away a billion barrels of oil and five billion cubic feet of lumb- j er, besides billions in other articles. Some day some one will be sorry that we- in this time of plenty were so foolish. Harold J. Croarkin, 2Q, son << a Chicago millionaire and evidently an-j other "spoiled child”, got drunk Sat-1 nirday and brutally murdered six-year-old Walter Schmith. Now he has the audacity to declare that his case was similar to that of Leopold and Loeb and that he killed for the thrill. He seems to be a degenerate of the lowest type and surely will find but little sympathy even among the sob sisters of the “crime city." \ « — If D. C. Stephenson or any other man found guilty of 'murder can be taken out of prison on a habeas corpus writ or any oilier technicality of

law, there is something wrong with 'our form of proceedure. One difficulty ■with curbing the crime wave is that every criminal can find some one to fight his case through if he has tfc money and ft seems they arc always . hunting some way to defeat the pur--1 pose of the law rather than secure justice for ’society as well us the defendant who is charged with crime, at „j - I With the words "Guess I’ll hit ’em 1 up to seventy-five miles an hour," , scarcely off his lips. Robert M. Miller, 1 a Fort Wayne young man enroute to ' a Saturday night dance and driving on the wrong side of the road, hit a bridge and piled ills car and its four occupants in a heap alongside the -road. Miller was killed and his companions badly injured. How useless and senseless. Young men should remember that there are other ways to impress their companions than by doing foolhardy things with a Jiighpowered automobile. Eleven people ouf of a hundred — whose estates are probated *ith the courts —bequeath to their heirs less than $500; ten leave from SSOO to $1,000; twenty from SI,OOO to $2,500; and eighteen from $2,500 to $5,000; about fifteen out of a hundred will leave estates valued from $5,000 to $10,000; fifteen will pass on to their reward and leave from SIO,OOO to; $25,000; between five and six will' leave estates from $25,00 to $50,000; according to figures gathered by the Federal Trade Commission when it-j was making a survey of our national wealth. The records of the probate; courts of twenty-four “sample" conn ties throughout the United States were searched to ree just what the average individual leaves to his heirs, the records covering n period of twelve years. Peru—Clarence Bradley of Peru told police here he “had nothing saved up for ,1 rainy day.” A thief stoie hl's raincoat which he spread over the / radiator of his car here. 1

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1926.

♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ * ♦. ♦ Twenty Year* Ago Thjj Day. ♦ ♦ From the Dally Democrat Flit + H Using an Interperter, Squire Smith , unites in marriage William Lautzen- 1 s hiser and Elzabeth Long, hoth inntex? Judge J. T. Merryman is suffering from LaGrfppe. .1. F. Snow files petition with council asking that a part or the property 1 owned by Fred Schieman south of the city, be annexed to the city. , Brice True is home from Winona. , where he has been In school. Fred Keppert is home from Keokuk. lowa, where he conducted u Hereford sale. Mr. and Mrs J. R. Schafer leave for Dallas, Texas, for the winter. Burton Niblick is home from Mercersburg, Pa. - ARE HAZARDOUS INDIANA MINES State Legislation Needed To Protect Miners, Inspect- j or Declares Evansville, Ind., Dec. 21.—(United . Press) The mine disaster at Francis- < co this month which took a toll of 38 * lives should plead the ca-e of state 1 legislation to protect Indiana miners, | according to G. T. Powell, United ’ States mine inspector. 1 "Hazardous conditions at Francis-' i co mine are duplicated in virtually i i every mine in the state”, Powell de- ’ 1 c’lred. “These mines are filled with ' coal dust, and bcause there is no state j I law compelling operators to to;k dust 1 the mines, the conditions remain." 1 The Francisco explosion would have >[ taken less than half the number ofl< ; lives if the mine had been rock dusted ’ I throughout, in the Phil On- ' ters, Princeton, a bo,--, at the mine for ( I several years. He arid rock dusting 1 was started but never finished in the 1 rush to get out coal while the price > was high. | j | Powell agreed that Centers was cor- 1 r t in his belief that rock dusting "

> would have saved many of those who! z , 1 lest their Uvea from burns. 'l "It is agreed that coal dust Is the cause of the lirgvst number of n>iae| 1 explosions.” Powell said. "And where| the explosion is ffinm gas the deaths | toll and damage usuatly are increased 50 percent because the you) dust Ifc-i nites and exiHodea." Powell expressed hope that thf comii.i I.ii— ————

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| Let Your Christmas Gift Distribute \ | Cheer Throughout the year by Giving \ lirniture |i All Year Round When you give furniture, you give happi less for the years—and since the cost is W only what you choose to spend, it brings large returns in pleasure. Your gift may take the form of a new chair or table, a smoker, a Samp, all the way to a complete new dining room suite for a dear one. We have many beautiful pieces and sets here—woti’t you browse about until you see the perfect gift for some_ one you J care about? • . The Family Dinner I Then on Christmas day \ I have the family sit down |BT M “ \ to dinner around a new wT table. Give mother and — R - n.i g t dad a Wew dining room f IB -J L—suite. We have several I - --T h-T walnut dining room I ' i • suites, in different styles 'IEz?" 4 . I R UIII i ej . SPINET ing a special Christmas prire during this week. —---t." - ' K ! ™^ SKS $135 to $225 | EgNI > . —. Davenport Tables S rC Good Selection of Lamps —a « ———— n g" I*. J A large assortment of new and cheer- v M iS ful damps. New style shades and col- 7** IK - A w, f \l ors—a gift which will help brighten ~~~~~ dS ti t? the home throughout the year. . Bed Room lAmps $2.50 to $5 > -is l ! 4B Always appreciated by K M H v the wome and thev add Bridge Lftmps $lO to S2O grace to the home and F| , sl2 to . * w; i are convenient as well. K w * ° - It*) We have several fine _ * ’ . hogan.'” wa,nut and ma ' A Cedar Chest For HER and serviceable Davenport I jgjl " tables. Thes<\ tables are made tiJ/f X The nne gift always appreciated and of the finest wood, Walnut I tPfcJFj to fey sweetheart, mother or sifter and Mahogany and are worth *, and sreves as a lifetime gift. seeing—worth giving. j Give A Comfort- Genuine Red Mountain Cedar Chests I able Rocker SIO.OO to $30.00 t 0 - - | ? 3 ’ Mother or dad will a P - *’•*>« «*»• Cedar SMOKERS d| Vto preciate a comfortable $25.00 to $45.00 r § rocker. All styles to for the Men nr?ci e cvmnm' ————————— excellent line of fine , S' Wood, leather or reed Usefui gifts in fine furniture through- MDferiatesl and well constructed. nut tin store It’s a pleasure to show na(ural w J an( J painted ex AR w you finishes - I s£>.vv tGtbZt) gj * sl2 | OPEN EVENINGS ’ | Beavers & Fryback | 1 FURNITURE FOR THE HOME « | | 1... |

! Ing »e»rion of th« state lesislsture i J would consider new mine legislation. He said a bill was Introduced but defeated two years ago. I 0 - Texas University After Northwestern U. Coach Evanston. IM, Dec- 21. — Reports I circulating here that Texas univers-

ity wants Glenn Thistlethwaite, Northwestern coach, for its 1927 football' team took the local campus by surprise. Thistlethwaite Is on a hunting MMttMMMMMMAAMMfiNVWM

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