Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1927 — Page 7

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. a R Holtbouse Secretary and Business Manager Entered at the Postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single Copies - * cents OD e Week, by carrier - 10 cent. One Year, by carrier » > 00 One Month, by mall ...... - - 35 cents Three Months, by mall - - »* 00 Six Months, by mai1..... - $1 75 One Year, by mall 00 (Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Additional postage outside.) Advertising Rates made known on application. Foreign Representatives—Carpenter & Company, 122 Michigan Ave., Chicago; Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; N. Y. IJfe Bldg., Kansas City, Mo Indianapolis is borrowing $700,000 to meet the city pay roll. Thats a right sizeable payroll even if it covers an entire year and there are some who seem to feel that the sevices being rendered are not worth what it is costing. * * * Sr * * Stop at the signals of intersec’tions. It may prevent a wreck and serious injury. Remember the driver who is coming 'from another direction expects you to stop and you are taking a big chance if you don’t. So is every one else on the road. * Jim Leichleitner, of Fort Wayne, was fined a dollar and cost for transporting liquor without a federal license. Thats the way to fix ’em. Bet after such a severe punishment this law breaker will never again be caught in the federal net. What a joke they do make of it. ¥¥¥¥-¥¥ If you will drive around the outskirts of Decatur, you will notice several shacks with ill kept yards and grounds which ought to be cleaned up or out if there is any way to do it. Such eye sores injure a community more than you perhaps think and in well regulated cities are not being permitted to exist any more. ¥¥¥ ¥ ¥ * Its perhaps a little unseasonable to remind you that this is the best time of year to put in your winters coal, but it is true nevertheless. It won’t get any lower and the chances are it will increase in price as we near the time of year when we need it and we haven’t heard of any one with nerve enough to predict that we won’t have any winter because we haven’t had any summer. Better be looking around preparatory to doing your fuel shopping. *y* y v y We met a man today who travels over several states and comes in contact with business men, big and small and we asked him how he found conditions. He replied: “Well sir, you know’ I am a republican and am not supposed to tell just what I do believe unless its good but this is just about the most profitless prosperity I have ever enjoyed. Total sales are just about as large as ever but the profits—well, there just ’aint no such animal.” if. if, 45 4; ¥ . ¥ We presume that in a few years when these days of ninety in the shade come, we will climb into our planes and soar up above the clouds where the air is cool and refreshing and where we will not notice the weather. It will save a long and tiresome trip to some climate where the breezes are coding, won’t cost near so much or take so long a time and it will be no more surprising than the development of the automobile industry has been during the past two decades. # Sfi # Sfi Sfi Two years ago Hollywood, Florida, was a great city and real estate there sold for fabulous prices. It had a population of 25,000 people and was growing rapidly. Yesterday suits were filed against Joseph W. Young, the developer of the city and a former Indianapolis man, aggregating two trillion dollars. The city has dwindled to 5,000 or less and is on the financial “rocks.” Young who has made and lost four great fortunes during his life will be the biggest loser. Bubbles blown to too great a size are sure to burst. , ¥¥¥¥¥¥ If Doc Shumaker really means to include every newspaper in his catalogue of “allies of the devil” he is unfair and unfit for any position of leadership. Newspapers as a rule are as great an agency for good as any profession or business. If Rev. Shumakers idea of a newspaper is that it must agree with every fanatical idea, every law, whether it works or not, every freakish suggestion from every source, then perhaps he is right, but he is oyrlooking the fact that the average newspaper works day and n *ght, year in and year out for the community and its people and is the greatest educator of all times. ¥,¥¥¥¥¥ Oh, shoot the luck, the government has just decided not to make any new SSOO or $5,000 bills. Thats going to work a terrible hardship on most of us who have been used to carrying around a great wad of money of these denominations. Os course we may able to get by with the hundred dollar bills and the fifties but we certainly are going to miss the big ’uns. They have also decided not to make any more two dollar bills, because some idiot •■'tarted the rumor that Aiey were unlucky. They may be but we wish they would just gather them all up and dump them on our ront step. We would try to stand all the bad luck they would bring. ¥¥¥¥¥¥ A local minister handed us a copy of a chain letter just received and headed “The Flanders chain of good luck,” supposed be copied and sent on to friends with the promise that if this >s done, good luck will follow on the fourth day. Its a lot of nink of course and means absolutely nothing further than the e ort and slight expense entailed and it is likewise a violation of the postal laws of the United States. Our idea of it is that if you quietly drop such letters in the waste basket and devote the ime necessary to carry out the request in honest endeavor, you V,i get farther and have a “heap” more luck than if you fool around expecting a fortune to drop into your lap as the result of a silly chain letter.

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committee. I’ Stephenson said the committee manifests its sentiment with great en- ! thtislasm and that the members were | unanimously in favor of making a strong bid for the convention. He pointed out that Republican leaders look favorably to a western sojurn for next year anil that Kansas City's central location is a point in Its favor. p, _ Poor English Emigrant Returns With Riches To Build Big Church Leicester. Eng. July 14 —(INS) — The romantic story of a poor English hoy who emigrated to America many years ago anil amassed a fortune has just been revealed by the Primitive Methodist Conference here. The “poor boy,” Robert Watchorn, has returned to England and desires to build a new church at Alfreton, Derbyshire, in memory of his mother. “Mr. Watchborn is rather ambitious in ills scheme." said Rev W. Musson Kelly, announcing the gift. “In fact, his proposals are almost staggering. “The whole scheme will run to about $156,000. It includes a church, school, manse, and eight new cottages to replace others that have been demolish- ■ ed. “Mr. Watchorn is very anxious for the success of the church when it is opened, and proposes to pay the salary of the minister for the first five years and also furnish the manse." Robert Watchorn began life as a pitboy near Alfreton. He crossed the Atlantic at an early age and after adventures became head of the Watchoin oil and gas company of California, and then Immigration Officer of the United States Government, a position from which he has retired. o— Uncle Os C. E. Bell Dies At Denver, Ind. I. N. Bell, of Denver, Indiana, an uncle of C. E. Bell, of this city, died at his home in that town Tuesday, according to word received in this city yesterday. Funeral services will be held from the home (here this after- 1 noon. I. N. Bell was a brother of C. E. Bell's father. o Jacob Atz of Goshen, Indiana called >n friends here today.

MONROE NEWS Mrs. Eflia Steele and G. A. Hah nett and family attended the rural carriers' picnic at Bellmont Park, Decatur, last Sunday. Dorwin Kessler, of Fort Wayne, Is visiting with his grandparents, Mr.l and Mrs. James E. Kessler this week Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Circle and family of Marion, visited Mr. and Mrs. John! Badders, this week. Miss Anna Passwater, of Adams' i county, and Benjamin Fogleman, of Brailsford, Ohio, were quietly married at the home of the Rev. E. M. Foster, pastor of the Methodist church, July 12. Mr. Fogleman is well known here J and their many friends wish them ' much happiness. Miss Veda Andrews and Mrs. Martin , shopped in Decatur, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Shirk and son. 1 Jack, of West Palm Beach, Florida i visited friends in town this week. A. H. Day, of Chicago, was a bus- ] iness caller in town, Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Jones and J children, of Lincoln, Nebraska, are the i guests of Z. O. Lewellen and family | this week. 1 Mrs. E. K. Thompson and daughter ( Frances of Bucyrus, Ohio, are guests i of the James A. Hendricks family. H Leßoy Everhart and family and Mrs. ( Giltord Runyon and Son, of Niles, i Michigan, arived Wednesday to attend ] the funeral of Mr. Everhart's father, ' David Everhart. Arzia Crist and Floyd Niel, of Fort i Wayne were callers in town Wednes- ! day. Mr. Crist remained to attend the Ij funeral of his grandfather. Clarence Smith, of Preble, visited relatives in town Wednesday evening. Ed Bahner and family and Mr. and ‘ Mrs. William Guyer, of Sunburg. Penn -1 sylvania are the guests of Chas. E. Bahner and family. Bunions gff g 1 Quick relief from pain. V Prevent shoe pressure. ■<ll/ I At all Jrut and shoe stores 88l [* J nrSchoU’s Uno-pads ‘teX'S?*

/ — — I A New Directory I I F° r Telephone Patrons I We have just issued and are now disI a new Telephone Directory B and have succeeded in making it comH plete and “up-to-the-minute.” H B f The new book contains the names and numbers of all > telephone subscribers and we kindly ask the patrons to I CONSULT THE DIRECTORY I j for the correct number when placing a call as a numJ her of changes in the numbers have been made. S j| If you fail to receive your new directory within a day or j two please stop at our office for one or call us and deg livery will be made. f New directories will be issued to our rural subscribers ® by calling at our office at any time. I The Citizens I I Telephone Company I I Phone 160 W. Monroe St. I »-■ —— • - ■ ■■ ■■ -- ■ I

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