Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1927 — 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. Hoithouse Sec’y & Bus. Mgr Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Ratse: Single copi<* 1 02 One week, by carrier —— -10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mail ~.85 Three months, by mail —— 1.00 Six months, by mail 1-75 One year, by mail — — 3.00 ®ne year, at office— — 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second tones. Additional postage added outside those aones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue. New York. Well. well, looks like the weather ' may be settling, but we’re almost afraid to say so. St. Petersburg, Florida, claimed a population of 104,905 and asked the 1 government for adequate postoffice facilities. The government took a special census and has just announced the result to be 48,000. Oh wellwhats a little 56.000 among friends? Jim Watson, senior senator from Indiana, lias finally reached his ambition. His picture and his signature i and a few words of praise concerning a brand of cigarettes, now appear in paid advertising throughout the laud. Some Jim. isn’t he? An eastern woman called her two children in, prepared them for bed.' heard their prayers, tucked them in and then slipped into another bedroom and killed her husband, a very unusual woman witli a very unusual | mind, we would infer. Under the new laws you can drive , on the country roads forty miles an hour which doesn't mean that you shouldn't use good judgment or that this increased speed makes it right l for you to drive sixty or seventy miles, an hour. Why should a seat on the New York stock exchange sell for 3200,000 if, farm lands are worth nothing? Most: of the deals there are on corn and wheat and hogs and railroads which haul those products. If we don't keep on farming they will close the stock ; exchange some day. Its safer to buy | farms than to buy seats on a gambling | board. An Adams county farm, eighty) acres, sold at auction yesterday for. $149 per acre. It was worth more for it had every improvement and was ] fine land, but tliats pretty good for new and better than could have been done any where else we know of. Another farm sold for $74.00 per acre. In a year or two that one can be resold at a good profit if the owuer so desires. It doesn’t take half as much nerve to buy a farm at present pricqji as it did six or seven years ago for it is good judgment. Anyone knows that the farms of this country are its backbone, that they must produce the foods we eat and that land is worth its improvements plus whatever return can be made upon the investment. Those who do not buy land now ate overlooking the very best investment they can make. An athletic field, desire and hope! of the Legion boys and others associated witli them, will be the biggest asset the city can have. It will provide ( lean and wholesome, and healthy entertainment and amusement for the youngsters and not a little amusement j for the grown ups. It will insure better men and women for the years to come and is deserving of your boosting and your help in any way you are called upon. The farmers of this section are the busiest fellows we know of just now. They are trying to catch up with I heir spring work which means plowing. sowing oats, getting the corn ground ready, a hundred things to do and the rush is heavier than usual because of the delay caused by

! live weeks of steady raius. With a r | few days of fair weather most of them however will be In fairly good I shape for the season. We're all pray--1 Ing and hoping the weather man will ! behave himself. r. r. it 1 The Red Cross fund for flood relief ; has been increased to $2,05(1 for this r, 1 county, just double the original quota. Whether that hmount cun be raised 2' or not we do not know but old Adams 0 county always answers a worthy ? cause and not since war times has D 0 their been such a need for funds to ® relieve sufferings as this. The crest 5 of the flood has not yet been reached ' and each day brings new horrors , which mean greater suffering for those in the stricken area. Don't hesitate or hang back. Its a time for charity and every penny will be used for the aid of those who need it. Women and children are suffering, hundreds of thousand are homeless. i We can hardly visualize the suffering. i Give more. -1 a — l . “The finest country club 1 have 1 ever seen in a city the size of De- ■ catur,” is the statement made a few . | days ago by Mr. I. G. Brenner, vice- !' president of Golfer's Magazine and a I recognized authority who has visited more than forty-two hundred golf , I I courses over the United States during the past three years. He was ] enthusiastic about it and did not hesitate to say so. The pedpie of this community should recognize the advantages to be had by such a course and should support tbbse who have made the investment by an immediate payment of their membership dues. ( The course will be opened about the , middie of tile mouth if the weather 1 permits. Mr. Craig, the new manager < ' and a professional and a yard man are now on the job. The Decatur < Country Club will continue to attract wide attention. | O ; I ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Year* Ago Thl* Day. ♦ >+♦+++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« May 4 —Man named Herd, thought ;c. Ire one of the men who held up the railroad stations here, caught at Bluffton and brought here. Dynois Schmitt has a stray turkey which owner can have. Emma Bixler. Bessie Sprunger. Nora 1 ) Gillman, George Wittwer, Tit ma t 1 Soldner and Clayson Smith graduated from Berne high school. Decatur needs fifty $1,809 houses to take cure of growing population. I'l ' . . is judge in an oratorical contest. 1 Peterson and Moren have petition id 1 for construction of the Miller ditch in 1 . Blue Creek township. ! Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hendricks leave for visist at Petoskey, Mich. C. L. Bobilya. of Willshire, pur- .' ases Dibble property and opens livI cry stable. »+***++**«*****« ♦ BIG FEATURES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ ♦+♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ THURSDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAK New York (492) 5:20 pm Talk “The Boy”, by Rogers Hornsby of the New York Giants. W.IZ New York 454) —and KYW— Chicago (535)—6 pm. Arion Male chorus. WEAK —Hook Up (16 sta(ions) 6 pm. laisalle Symphony Orchestra, — Rosario Bourdoh conducting. WCCO —Mpys- St. ) —9 pm. Portal Players Wl’G—Atlantic City 4 300) 6:15 pm. May Festival concert. Q- . . THE GREAT WAR I 10 YEARS AGO I ! First Liberty Loan oversubscribed many times with $7,000,000,000 offered for proposed $2,000,000,000 loan. ——o ——-— J. D. Dailey, of Paulding, Ohio, was a business visitor here this morning. o — , | Special cakes for Mother s Day. Order now. Miller’s Bakery, phone 1. It No More Shiny Noses If the face powder you now use does t not stay on long enough to suit you—- . does not keep that ugly shine away ) Indefinitely—does not make your skin '' colorful like a peach — try this new ’ wonderful special French Process Face i Powder called MELLO-GLO. Remem,l her the name MELLO-GLO. There’s i nothing like it. Holthouse Drug Co. |

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927.

(¥*¥¥¥¥¥¥*¥¥ ¥¥¥¥ * TRYTHE * * NEXT ONE * ¥¥**¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ CURRENT EVENTS 1. What cabinet officer Is now in charge of Mississippi flood relief? 2. Name the seven states chiefly affected by the Mississippi flood. 5. What famous French aviator is now in t.h!s country planning to make a non-stop flight to Paris? 4 What three cities tire now the Informal capitals of the three “wings” of the Chinese Nationalist party? 5. What American flight recently returned to this country after a tour over South America? 6. Name the President of Nicaragua recognized by this country. 7. What prominent English visitor was recently ill in a Philadelphia hospital? 8. What two American flyers recently made a new world's airplane endurance record? 9. What change in woman suffrage is proposed by the government In England ? 10. Name two presiding officers in Congress who are mentioned as possible Republican presidential candidates. ANSWERS 1. Seretary of Commerce Hoover. 2. Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky. Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. 3. Rene Fonck. 4. Nanking. Hankow and Canton. 5. The United States Army Goodwill Flight. 6. Adolfo Diaz. 7. Ramsay MacDonald. 8. Bert Acosta and Clarence D. Chamberlin. 9. To enable all women of 21 years or over to vote. 10. Vice-President Dawes and Speaker Longworth. O .— Portland Legion Post To Open Club Rooms Portland, Indiana, May 4—(UP) — Members of Robert Guy Ayers Post, of the American Legion, are planning ' to open a club room over the Cremer ( Brothers cigar store on North Meri- . dian street. A business and get-together meeting will lie held Wednesday evening of this week. All members are urged to be present, as special business will be transacted. Eats will be served to tlib gang, so be on deck for the chow call. A small buffet will lie installed, which will be in charge of Harry Shepherd. Cigarettes, tobacco, candy and soft diinks will be sold. The profits from the buffet will be used in paying expenses of maintaining the club rooms. Mr. Shepherd will also receive his salary from this source While in oversease service with the Fourth Division, Mr. Shepherd was seriously wounded by a shrapnel, and has been unable to work since that time. Those who patronize the buffet will also be rendering a service to a buddy. All members of the local post will be welcome to the use of the club room, and a cotdial invitation is extended tn visiting Legionnaires to make it headquarters while in the

Kidneys and Back , Made LjfeMiserable Says He’s Full of Pep Now, and Pains are All Gone. "I suffered with pains in my kidneys and back for three years. My back at times seemed as if it would break in two. I was tired out most of the time, and when I came home from work I just felt like I wanted to lie down. I lost flesh until I only weighed 155 pounds. Nothing I took did me any good till I found Viuna, and after taking only one bottle I was wonderfully relieved. My back stopped aching and I began to get some pep. My appetite picked up and I began to gain weight till I now weigh 170 pounds (a gain of 15 pounds), and feel fine and eat anything.”—Curtis Chappell, 1130 East St. Clair St., Indianapolis, Ind. « Viuna acts promptly on sluggish bowels, lazy liver and weak kijnoys. It purifies the blood, clears the skin, restores appetite and digestion, and brings new strength and energy to the whole body. Take a bottle on trial. Then if you’re not glad you tried Viuna. your money will be refunded. 11 at druggists, or mailed postpaid by Iceland Medicine Co.. Indianapolis, Ind. VIUNA The vegetable regulator, • Sold By CALLOW & KOHNB i» 1 ■ SUNDAY EXCURSIONS v i a Nickel Plate Road T O L E D O, tpXj 4 O and Return Sundays during the Summer Season Get full information from S. E. Shamp, Ticket Agent, Decatur, Indiana.

Farmers Want Taxes Lowered In Jay County , Portland, May 4—The Juy County Farm Bureau is preparing and will circulate petitions declaring an intention to take advantage of a bill passed by the last General Assembly regarding assessment of all real estate. This bill which is known as Sen-1 ate Bill No. 168, provides that the first I assessment of real estate made in pursuance with the provisions of the act. shall be made in the year 1928, and a lik/? assessment shall be made in 1932 and every four years thereafter. Provided, however, that if in the discretion of the state board of tax commissioners it shal be deemed necessary, in order to maintain an equitable and just valuation, that real estate be assessed oftener than every' four years, then the state board of tax commissioners shall order a reassesmont of real estate in any taxing unit or units, or of any individual owning real estate, but before making an older for such assessment ten days' notice must be given by publication Jay county farmers claim that taxes on real estate are too high. They say that with the present valuation of land they are unable to make anything on their investment, and in fact, declare that the majority of them have a hard time to make both ends meet and pay Taxes. o Singleton Named Chairman Indianapolis. May 3 —(UP)—Frank T Singleton republican Tuesday took up his duties as chairman of the public service commission after his election to that office late Monday to succeed John W. McCardle. Mr. Singleton did not vote and his selection was made by the votes of Howell. Ellis, republican, and Harvey L. Harmon and Calvin F. Mclntosh, democrats. Get the Habit —Trade at Home, It Pays

The New and Lower ' Os Power and Light Rates 3 Are Now in Effect St# CITY LIGHT AND POWER PLANT 18 to make another reduction in the electric rates. These yI , ' \ V » gggfifl new rates, approved and granted by the Indiana Public / r ' I z Service Commission are now in effect. They are: H | LIGHT RATE— per K. W. H. for first 100 // 5® per K. W. H. ail over 100. No minimum. I ' , POWER RATE—Sc per K. W. H. for first 200 \\ // Z'/jc per K. W. H. for all over 20G MrettWw J // COOKING AND—4c per K. W. H. for first 200 HEATING RATE 2Pjc per K. W. H. for all over 200. No minimum. These new rates mean a saving for the patrons of the Municipal plant and warrant the increased use of City Light and Power. / The New Cooking Rates § /' ' 8 chca P cr than K as ? nd Patrorts of the city plant should be encour- SM =MM I aged to use electric current for cooking and heating purposes. gy ~ ■ i At Your Service For a Bigger and Better Decatur MI L° wer P° wer an d Light Rates. MB City Light & Power Dept. A7

/KIRKLAND GIRLS ORGANIZE CLUB 1 Girls Interested In Sewing Chib Work Organize A 4-H Club Several girls of Kirkland township, who are interested In the girls’ sewing club work, met at the Kirkland high school building one day last week and organized a 4-H club. With Miss Esta Brown as leader, the girls discussed the duties of the officers and then elected the following officers: Mary Cover, president; Mary Dettinger, vice-president; Marie Hili debrand. secretary; Leah Griffiths,] assistant secretary; Jeanette Spade,| song leader; Mary Dettinger, assistant song leader. All but one of the girls will take the first year work, while one will take the second year work. The following girls were present at the meeting: Ruth Yake, Wilda Yake, Jean Houck, Jeanette Spade, Mary Dettinger, Marie Hildebrand, Fern Dilling. Mary Cover and Leah Griffiths. It is thought that several more girls will join at the next meeting of the club. All girls interested in the work are requested to bring their sewing baskets, scissors, needles and other articles to the next meeting, which will be held on May 11, at 1:30 o’clock p. m. o Mt. Lassen In Eruption Red Bluff Calif., May 4 — (UP) — Emitting one of the heaviest outbursts of smoke in years. Mt. Lassen, the United States only active valcano, erupted today. Smoke from the crater shot high into the air and was carried south by the wind.

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a- * > i Keep the Money Here " The more trading yon ( | 0 ■ right here in town, the better K i the home town stores can serve L you and the more prosperous 7 the whole community will be. ; It pays to do your trading at H home. J G Metqtur^lndiana'

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