Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 119, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. He’ler Free, ana Gon. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec’y & Bus. Mgr., Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Poatofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Ratos: Single copit* 1 One week, by carrier— .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail —— .35 Three months, by mail — 1-00 Six months, by mail 1 75 One year, by mall -3.0 u ®ne year, at office...—- 3.00

(Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Send five dollars In for the athletic field project. Its worth it to the community. aMMMMMaavwaaMa The eighty-mile wind which caused destruction in Indianapolis may have been stored either in the city hall or state house. A lot of folks have made quite a hole in next winters coal supply trying .to keep comfortable during this late spring. A New York girl danced the "black bottom” thirty-nine miles, received a silver cup and the title as best dancer of the big city. Wonder what she will do with it, now that she has it? If we could figure out some way to ' cash in the dandelion we are certain we could make a fortune. The little ( yellow nuisance seems to prosper under any and every weather condition. • , Dispatches say the farmers are , plowing by moonlight over in Illinois. , True perhaps but if the farmers of Adams county had tried that the past few nights they would have got soaked to the skin. The business section of Portland was under water this morning, Indianapolis was recovering from a terrific windstorm, cities in other parts of , the state report large losses, each day brings new disasters which should ’ tend to take us all away from the j jazz and black bottom craze. It is believed the flood crisis in the ( southwest states has reached the}! crisis and that reports will soon be'| forthcoming of a fall in the water. Just how this can happen if the rains in the middle west states continue is not plain but we are hoping they know just what they are talking about. Canton may have been a wicked , city with a loose police force but the public will have to hand it to the authorities who have pursued the murderers of Don R. Mellett, crusader for better conditions in his city. Floyd Streitenberger, policeman, was found guilty and is the fourth to have been convicted. The boys and girls who are graduating from high schools and colleges during the next couple of weeks .will do well to remember that nothing they have learned by education will insure a living without work. It should help you but if it takes away any energy or ambition it has been a detriment. Its up to you to make good. In this age when about every kind of a crime and sensation ever known is being pulled, It takes something un-| usual to startle the people but the' man at Bath, Michigan, who dynamited his own home, blew up a school house, killing thirty or forty people and then took his own life by blowing up his own car, certainly figured out about the worst thing that he could have possibly accomplished. Better figure on doing your form- ■ ing and gardening between rains and as you can. Os course it will be difficult and unsatisfactory but it will be a heap better than nothing and time thus devoted may prove a real investment for in many sections of the

country there will be no crops and ’ from a supply and demand basis prices may soar. Keep busy. Contributions to the athletic park ' fund should be made to Paul Graham of the Legion. Several have come in ' ami indications are that the field will be a reality one of these days after the weather settles, but they cun use your five dollars. If yet are for the boys and girls, really, you will want to help them get a suitable play ground. Its a splendid movement and deserving of support. Forty prisoners in Sing Sing went

on a strike because they didn't approve of the beans being only half baked. Os course that was a sad mistake on their part. The warden calleikiin forty extra guards and placed the men in punishment cells where they were glad to get even beans half baked. In twenty-four hours they had all the fight and strike germs out of their systems and returned to their duties. As may well be expected, the people of St. Bernard parish down In Louisiana who sacrificed their crops and their property that New Orleans might be saved are not feeling very kindly about the feedral order which made it happen. We are not arguing the right or wrong of it for we don't know enough about the situation first hand but we can imagine what would happen if Decatur had to be destroyed to save Fort Wayne. There would be some swearing, you bet. „o_, ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Years Ago This Day. ♦ <•♦ + ♦ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ May 19. 1907, was Sunday. o *♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦l ♦ BIG FEAT (IRES ♦ ♦ OF RADIO ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ FRIDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES ’ (Copyright 1927 by United Press) I Central standard time throughout. WEAF —Hook-up (18 stations) 6 p.m. I Goldman band concert. WJZ —Hook up t KDKA, WBZ, KYW t I 7 p.m,—l’hilco hour. j WBZL—Baltimore (246) 8:30 p.m. — I WBAL String Quartet. I WDAF —Kansas City (366) 11:45 p. I • in. —The Nighthawks. I WSB Atlanta (428) 8 p. m. —Army I night. I o j , THE GREAT WAR I 10 YEARS AGO I J AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY j 1. What great island lies off the I east coast of Africa? 2. Name the cape at the southern- I most point on the mainland of Africa. Name three of the four great rivers of Africa. , 4. What two oceans border on Africa? 5. Name two famous groups of islands off the northwest coast of Africa. 6. Is it possible to go from Cape Town to Cairo by land with out leaving Ifritish territory or British protectorates? 7. Is Victoria Falls in the vicinity of Lake Victoria? 8. Name the five chief political divisions along the north coast of Africa. 9. What sea extends along the northeastern border of Africa? 10. What four famous “coasts” border on the Gulf of Guinea? ANSWERS 1. Madagascar. 2. Cape Agulhas. (The Cape of Good Hope lies to the northwest of Cape Agulhas.) 3. Nile. Congo. Niger and Zambesi. 4. Indian and Atlantic oceans. 5. Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands. 6. Yes. 7. No. it is more than 1,000 miles south of the lake. 8. Egypt, Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, and Morocco. 9. Red Sea. 1 10. Grain Coast, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast and Slave Coast. I CALL on M. S. Elzey, jeweler, 3 doors east of postoffice, for repairing of watenes and clocks. Some Torice I “specks” cheap. I can save you money '. on watches, clocks, diamonds, jewelry ■ lot all kinds. 114-12tx

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wOßbimi g | Suit Os Clothes For SI.OO i min i 11 ■■■ We’ve added many more new suits to this great sale and expect to close it with a hang Saturday night. They’re ail new—in light or dark colors and priced from $20.00 to $15.00. You buy a suit and I we’Jl give you an extra suit of the same price for SI.OO. Two men can pick out suits and divide the cost -a fine time for father and son to get outfitted. Saturday is the last day of this opportunity. BOY’S SUITS I 87 All Wool Suits Now SB, $lO, $12.50, sls Go At $4.95 SHOES I DRESS OXFORDS WORK SHOES .. n . f . .I > ir 26 pair of Outing Bal, Panco sole, ail solid, IQ 60 pair of Mens Oxfords, black or tan, gun metal and calf- $3 95 values; during sale go at skin. All solid, values up to $7 41? O At? Sale price tbO.V/D 29 pair of Leather Sole $1.98 Tennis Shoes $1.19, 98c and 89c _____ ___ DIIESS SHOES WORK SHOES 29 pair of Men’s High Shoes, black or tan, broken in r 1 .. 1 . . Bizeß ’ values up to $6.00, QJT L> pair of all solid, manure proof, leather sole, work shoes— Sa i e O rice Isold for $3.50 and $3.25, all sizes QQ During Sale, go at 20 percent off on all House Slippers. MEN ’ S HATS DRESS SHIRTS All New Spring Hats, all sizes and shades. Look at the prices j 47 Fancy Dress Shirts in collar attached and band, all colors $2.50 Hats $1.95 _ , $3 50 Hats $2 95 and patterns, values up to $4, sizes 14 to 18 (PT 4(1 $5.00 Hats .’. '.'.'.’.'.’.’.’. $3.95 Sale P rice V*• * d $6.50 Hats $4.95 I x mi umi nv vva 11 a ODD PANTS 1 OVERALLS is One lot of Odd Pants in dress quality, all colors and sizes * HALF PRICE. Big Roomy 220. white back, heavyweight, spring suspenders, One lot of Trousers for work (I*l 1 O • Sale price tpA®!*' formerly sold for $1.75 and $1.50. Also Blouses, sale price vOL ■ ■ — ■ „ „ DRESS PANTS Boys Overalls, same quality 65c A All Dress Pants, $4.00 to SIO.O0 —20% discount. Hundreds 01 More Bargains In The Store I MEN’S CAPS . WORK SHIRTS All bright, new patterns—All sizes and styles I * $1.50 Caps 98c rca | RO<x j work shirt in sizes 14 to 20, in all colors. lhi» $2.00 Caps $1.19 • on r «•> 9- shirt is full size and easv to wash; I O 14 f '" 'a m SI.OO values, during sale "tR I One lot of Caps for everyday wear 49c I I Tolut-T-MyECd & Sen I xxr I pattern,, price S,e I CLOTH ING AND SHOES B FOR. DAD AND LAD " I and Shirts ■ | Ti., 2< c | Z-DECATUR' INDIANA- I J