Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1926 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller....Pree. and Oen. Mgr. A. R. HolthouseSec'y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copitß.o2 One week, by carrier.lo One year, by carrier- 5.00 One moiith, by mail .35 Three months, by maill.oo Six months, by mai11.751 One year, by mail . 3.00 One year, at office! 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Floods in Kentucky caused the loss of a number of lives yesterday, rather an unusual happening for Christmas week. Winter is here according to the calendar and for the next three months you have no right to expect any thing but cool breezes in old Indiana. If Ty Cobb and Tjds Speaker are innocent of any wrong doing then Commissioner Landis should be discarded as a “nosey old busybody.” unfit to act in the capacity which brings him a salary of 355,000 a year. If everybody really feels what they are saying in their Christmas and *New Year cards this week, this is going to be a grand old world in which to live. Just one more day for shopping and to give your contribution to the Good Fellows fund. Be sure to do both and likewise to remember to- buy •a bunch of Christmas seals to make the packages look complete. After all its what we do for others that brings most joy to us. We may be thrilled in other ways but there is bio pleasure quite as lasting as that of doing something worth while for some one else. And this—the Yuletide Season —is a good time to try it. Harold J. Croarkin, the Chicago man who murdered a six-year-old boy because he was afraid be would tell on him and who confessed not only .. .... Jl’.V. :l (lozen others to the light the case in court Tliats not j his idea, but that of someone c. ones] who see a fat fee in sight. Elkhart has landed a Chicago sactory which will employ 900 men and i will locate there at once. Its the |

& B j- SB 1 BIGGER BUSINESS MEANS SMALLER PRICES —make every Christmas dollar measure up to actual worth! Decorated SlaSfaP' TOILETWARE SB.OO to $50.00 Hcfpful hints for Christmas shoppers always suggest Amber, Shell or Pearl Tdlletware. Seta of every size, sets for every taste, priced to meat the requirements of every purse. Exquisite LaTausca Pearls $3.00 to $50.00 M JW Let "her” personal choice guide your >- selection. LaTausca Pearls ara unrivalled for b-.au ty and unmatched for value. Strands come in satin lined gift case. a .ffil T* t ’ Gift Value Surprising 11 iSI-' * •- ‘ “.-Mi 7*l ' Rogers Heirloom Silver 26-Piece Chest $32.00 Every day utility is mother's idea of a common sense gift. Rogers Table silver fills the bill and it’s guaranteed for two generations. Pumphrey’s Jewelry Store Jt Jhf At J& dK

Adams and West Lake company and 1 is capitalized at $4,500,000. It can be done and those cities live enougu to i go after such concerns are the ones which will eventually become real industrial centers. in ■ Ui . . ' "'.W Seventy-five so called clubs, just a fashionable name for “blind tigers,” padlocked in New York by the police. Proprietors will appear before federal judges to tell their aide of the case. Now what will they do in the little old town for New Years leve? Were betting they find some way and some place there to beat it. Two American soldiers have been ’ sent to prison ten years for forcibly 4 kissing two pretty young ladies with s whom they chanced to meet. That _. ought to be punishment severe enough to please the most radical but on that basis what should be done with v the gunmen, highwaymen, murderers, ( hi-jackers. bandits and others who j commit crimes which cause much greater misery and woe? The Marion county grand jury which has been investigating political corruption charges in Indiana since "• October 10th will report Monday. Evidently they have some things to present which would not be appre- . ciated as Christmas gifts. Any way they have found sufficient foundation *■ to the charge? to keep busy eleven weeks and could go on but the judge of the court down there is insisting s». that the matter be closed up. j Germany has completed plans for a six-year road building program which will attract They £ will construct nine thousand miles of a new road at a cost of about $40,000 per mile. This looks large and is a £ splendid program, but the United r States spends twice as much each year as the entire campaign amounts j to. Road building is now the biggest ■ problem in every country. — One of the big department stores of Washington, D. C., recently staged . a unique sale and one which it is • said resulted in a large increase in business. They advertised a "night -t Telephone Sale.” Special prices were offered and ten special phones were installed. These and their regular ’ phones were kept busy several hours taking orders which were delivered i the following day and collections made at that time. The concern was . credited with putting on something '■ new and thus received a lot of extra .* - ■ * 0 — ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago Thi« Day. ♦ i ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ I December 23. 190® was Sunday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1926.

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| “ Messiah." | WPG—Atlantic City 10 PM. Atlantic City Festival Choir. ■■-■O'- — NOTICE.. Notice Is hereby given to the Stock and Lot owners of the Decatur Ceme- ( tery Association that there will bo held at the Office of Drs. Covordale an 1 election for the purpose of electing seven trustees for said Association for the year 1927. Said election to be held Thursday January 6, 1927. J. 8. Coverdale, Sec. Dec. 23-30 Mrs. Jofen Tyndall and sou. Ralph, motored to Fort Wayne laM evening. |

’ ’ ’ ’ ■ - n t ft 'm ! f I ; With a sincere feeling of t ' if good Will and confidence il we extend to you and * Kkr W X . 1 yours our best wishes for ; St B t » 1 1 » A * J MERRY • < GT2 » f If' > CHRISTMAS t i W/ 1 f • and an abundance ■W * a of prosperity B H • for the coming JBL New Year. * I AMERICAN SECURITY CO. t I t East Monroe St Phone 172 H H. M. Gillig, Mgr. I > <• & A Iw W I | (2mS> /■-I I I HHB*- 1 I Tn. I | A MERRY CHRISTMAS i I A HAPPY NEW YEAR > t i to everybody. I HHF 1 I - I gl ?! Wi May you enjoy good health, good ft S times and good business every day of S tht coming New Year and may the !ft holidays be filled to the brim with I ffi goodly cheer. 1~ ' 1 I w Sincerely, I S' g. a | Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc. | 'g . DECATUR, INDIANA f r » f