Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1927 — Page 8

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COST OF LIVING IS ADVANCING Retail Prices Os Food Advance About 1 Per Cent In September Washington, Oct. 20 — tINS) —With the advent of fall the cost of living la advancing. Retail prices of food advanced about 1 per cent in September over August, while wholesale prices of various commodities jumped 1 1-3 per cent during the same period, the department of labor announced today. However, retail food prices are nearly 3 per cent below those in September a year ago, while wholesale prices are 3 1-4 per cent lower. Strictly fresh eggs registered the highest increase in food prices, advancing 16 per cent. Pork chops rose 8 per cent; butter, 4 per cent; canned salmon and oranges, 3 per cent; while cheese, lard and cormneal increased 2 per cent. - On the other hand onions decreased „ 14 per cent; cabbage, 7 per cent; potatoes, 6 percent; prunes, 3 per cent, and flour, 2 per cent. I Advances in hogs, calves, beef - steers, cotton, eggs and lemons, caus- • ed a rise in wholesale prices of farm products. Corn and wheat prices declined sharply. Mushroom Farm Near Hartford City Popular . Hartford City, Ind.. Oct. 20 (INS) — The "Mushroom farm" on the place of Lloyd Dutro. north of here, has be- - come the mecea both for epicures and economic housewives during the past b week. Several fields on the farm abound with large mushrooms and puff balls. One puff ball picked on the farm weighed more than eight pounds. The woman who bought it for fifty cents remarked that it was large enough for two meals for her family of six. The supply of mushrooms seems to be undiminished by the enthusiastic crowds of persons who have visited the field, according to Dutro. DePauw University Is Seeking New President Greencastle, Ind., Oct. 20 —(UP) — Candidates for president of DePauw University are being considered- todaw by a special committee appointed for that purpose by the board of trustees of the school. The committee must reports its findings before next June, when the ; resignation of Dr. Lemuel Herbert Murlin, now pres>ideri| of DePauw, i takes effect. Roy O. West of Chicago is chairman and A. 15. Cline of Bluffton, is one of the members of the committee. o Humming Birds In Plane Set New Flying Record

Itorlin—P'v.v.-:- from B •i enhagen at an average speed of 85 miles an hour, a flock of American humming birds, peewits and chaffinces has established a record. As freight in a Lufthansa airplane they are believed to be the first bird ever to make a flight under any but their own power, They were shipped by a Berlin animal dealer to his Danish ranch. . o_ — : Battle Seen In Tax Suit Against Marsh Foundation I Van Wert, 0., Oct. 20 —The March Foundation tax case, after slowly i meandering over the long route of litigation from the Van Wert county court of common pleas to the supreme court of Ohio while It carried the designation of a “friendly test case,” has been stripped of that modest agrb and today stands in federal court at Toledo awaiting the gong for “a real battle to the finish.” There was no note of friendliness I Keep Kidneys , Active! You Can’t Feel Well When Kidney s Act Sluggishly. *"pO feel always tired, lame A and achy is too often a ' sign of improper kidney action. When the kidneys act sluggishly, waste poisons remain in the blood, and are apt to make one languid, stiff and achy, with dull headaches, dizziness and often nagging backache. A common warning that the kidneys ! are not acting right is scanty H or burning secretions. Assist the kidneys >vith Doan's Pills. Jt Doan’s, a stimulant diuretic, increase kidney activity. Are JR- endorsed from coast to coast. * Ask your neighbor! DOAN’S *5“ 4 Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys Foster. MU bumCcw Min- Chcm.. Bu£alo, N. Y.

in the answer Charles W. Ringer, county auditor, defendant In uction of the suit of Marsh Foundation trusI tees to enjoin collection of taxes, filed 1 Saturday. Ringer boosted the total the county is asking of the Foundation in taxes from approximately $120.000 to *345,848.80 and charged that "The rules of administration of said home (the Marsh Foundation School), as practically administered, have been such that it has been and is of negligible or no public beueflt to Van Wert county or northwest couuttes of ! Ohio.” o —.... Huntington Man Collects His Bet Through Courts Huntington, Ind., Oct. 20—(INS) — R. J. McOreevy, of this city has obtained a court judgment to enable him to j collect a bet which he iqade on the Tunney-Dompsey prize fight at Chi- ' eago. John Mann made out a check in blank, to himself, endorsed it, and gave it to a stakeholder, to be bet on Dempsey, McOreevy testified, McGreevy "covered" the bet for fifty dollars, and shortly before the fight put up his money. Mann, after the fight, stopped payment on the eheck, on the ground the stakeholder had told him there was | no bet. McGreevy was awarded a *SO judgment on the check, by Squire G. W. Stultz, of this city. Mann announced he would appeal to the circuit court. NOTICE I have my office and room at the | James Bain residence. Phone 511 or , call at 310 N. Third street, opposite; Reformed church. D. A. Gilliom, i | piano tnner, rebuild, r of pianos, talk- i ing and sewinb machines. 247t3x Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pay* Put On Flesh OverNight With Wonderful New Tonic Doctors and Scientists have recent- 1 ly perfected away to put the won-1 derful tonic and body building pro- ■ perties of Cod iver Oil in sugar coat- [ ed tablet form. Start today. Be ■sure to specify Burke’s Cod Liver Oil 1 and Iron in order to secure a full IS days’ treatment for SI.OO. Guaranteed to benefit or money refunded.: Callow & Kohne.

“Conserve Our National Resources!” THE forests of our country never had a greater friend than Theodore Roosevelt, whose memory we honor this month on the occasion of his 69th birthday, Oct. 27th. Fore sighted and aggressive, he aided in safeguarding the future Prosperity of this great notion by settingaside more National Forest Preserve acreage than all other presidents who preceded him did together! We recall that act because it points out a worthy moral to you in private life. And that is to “Conserve your Financial Resources" ... to set aside such dollars as you do not actually need and to SAVE or INVEST them WISELY lor your future welfare. We’ll he only too glad to advise you! Come in! ——■ ——— -Old Adams County Bank-

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Occupational Troops To Leave Rhineland Oct. 25 | Berlin. Oct. 20—(INS)- Official an , nouncement wus made today that | France and England will fulfill their | promise to withdraw 8,000 occupational troops from the Rhineland on October 25, Soldiers whose term of enlistment expires will not be replaced until (lie occupational force is reduc- , ed lo.titio. Wild Dogs Becoming Menace To Farmers In Southern Indiana Covington, ind., Oct. 20 — (I'P) Those who regret the passing of pioneer days should harken to the woes of Covington fanners. Wild dogs are becoming a serious menace in tills district, they report, and drives are being organized in an effort to eliminate tile pest. The wild dogs are believed to have originated from a cross with a stray wolf which invaded this county 12 years ago, and are multiplying at an alarming rate, farmers declare. The dogs have been a nuisance for years but recently their depredations have caused a loss of several hundred dollars to the sheep of I). (5. Hendrix, Janies Welch and M. M. Young. There are from six to a dozen dogs in the pack, according -to reports, and

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I they specialize on (lie best sheep und | ! hogs in the vicinity, returning several j times after they have disvoeered the location. The pack makes Its home In foX| burrows, and change,their residence, from time to time. Although several, experienced hunters have gone out after the dogs none have been killed so far. I Says 25. Not 33. Is Prime Os Average Person’s Life New Orleans, Oct. 20 (UP! - The prime of u person's life is reached at 25 years and not at the age of 33, as many educators and physicians have placed It, according to Dr. Oscar Dowling, president of the Louisiana State Board of Health. "From that point it's a downhill Journey, the length of which depends upon said the health superintendent. At the age of 25, Dr. Dowling said, the upbuilding of the human being Is completed, biologically. Few excepCallouses VS Quick, sate, sum relief painful callouses on the feet. V W H Al oil Jruf and that ssorej I j/ Kg; Df Scholl's mM "Zing-pads ■ '■ ; i

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