Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 14 December 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. : t R Holthouse.....fi<t’y « Bus. Mgr. flick D. Heller.... Vice-President Entered at tbs Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies ... 1 .02 One week, by carrier — .10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail .35 Three monihs, by mail 1 00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office- 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second rones. Additional postage added outside those zones.) Advertising Rat»»: Made known by Application. Scheerer. Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Have a heart —help save the roads, , Oh well, it wouldn't be Oklahoma! without a riot and impeachment proceedings and Hank JohAston seems to be able to take pretty good care of himself. So does the legislature. Hurrah, we are to have a community Christmas tree. It helps a lot at this season. Be sure to plan to at- ■ tend the first lighting on Friday,. December 23rd. Down at Seymour a good housewife while hunting a mouse in her closet,! dropped a match and set fire to the house. The chemical extinguished the 1 blaze and the mouse at the same time. About the most discouraging thing we know of is rainy weather ten days before Christmas, but it can’t last I much longer and the rest of the buying season should certainly be busy days. Thinking of others rather than your-1 self is one of the oldest rules for surcess in life and one fine way to do that right now is to help boost the > Good Fellows fund along so that a I hundred boys and girls can enjoy Christmas. Did you ever notice that the unsuccessful are usually great believers in luck? Perhaps thats why. The fellow who works hard at his job and I keeps at it doesn't need as much luck | as the one who sits around listening j for old man opportunity to rap. Mr. Gilliom is calling Stephenson a “skunk" which doesn't take as much ■ nerve now as it would have four years ! ago when Art had his eye on the office ' of attorney general. If he had taken ' the same stand then that he does now , he sure would have torn a lid off of something. But thats different. Charles E. Magley is highway superintendent of Adams county and works at the job the year around but he cannot alone keep those who are so inclined from ruining the roads ; when they are soft as they have been the past few days. He wants and needs and deserves your assistance. We are to spend a billion dollars to build up our navy. Now we begin to understand the purpose of the conference held about four years ago when so many ship manufacturers ; were so interested in having our flee* destroyed. If the next, war is to be fought by airplane why not save this ship -money and give the plane manufacturers a chance? Adams county has live hundred more automobiles than houses, according to the comparison of licenses issued anti, the census sis 1920. During this year 4,249 auto licenses were issued in this county while the 1920 government census shows but 3,736 families. We seem to be following the adver-j Using advice of a car lor every member of tho family. Those who have kept track of acci- : dents on the highways of Indiana and! other states the past year declare' that by far the most accidents occur I on the straightaways. While there are numerous death curves and dead man’s crossings, danger ’also lurks along the straight road and especially so when driver attempts to see whether his car will actually go

|as fast as its builders claimed. The coming year—l92B—will be a | prosperous one for those who take j advantage of conditions and opportunities which is perhaps not much different from each year you have lived through. There will be the i same .many who don't make good, but ! the ones alive and alert sure will. The same is true of communities, ; don't forget. Now comes the story that there was , 176,000 worth of controverted notes in the LaGrange bank which closed a j few weeks ago and that when it was discovered, a Mr. Weaver and a Mr.' Walb, the latter better known as republican state chairman, were asked to resign from the board. And lie has also been urged to resign as chairman. Hard luck, it never rains, but it pours. During the next three months ther--will be several occasions, no doubt, when unless the greatest care is ex- ■ ercised the roads will be ruined. These roads, built at a great cost, belong to you tax payers and it should . be your desire and is your duty to help maintain them. You are urged to lead the rules and the laws governing traffic when the roads are soft and not only to obey them yourself but to see that others do so. Decatur will have a municipal Christmas tree, this movement being sponsored by the Woman’s club and every youngster in town as well as a , lot of the grown-ups will say goody, * » goody. Plans are now being completed. The tree will be placed on Lib- ' erty Way and lighted, adding to the Yuletide spirit and there will be a i program around the big tree on the J ■ afternoon of Friday, the 23rd just' after schools have been dismissed. ■ That part will be short with Christmas carrols and other music and then an indoor program,- probably in the library auditorium. Its fine and we are glad these women are thus aiding to make every one think of Christ-i mas and what it means. !•>.<■ — 0 *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* * TWENTY YEARS AGO *1 * ’ * ¥ From the Daily Democrat File ¥ ¥ Twenty Years Ago Today ¥ Dec. 14—Decatur Produce building ' collapses with $2,000 loss and several narrow escapes. New I. U. building completed at co* t I of $140,000. It will house the 65,0(0 volum library. Squiie Stone refuses to be outdone i by Squire Smith and announces offer : to marry “loving couples" free and add a handsome certificate. The Democratic national convention will be held in Denver, 'July 7. Mrs. Leonaid McConnehey wins sil- , ver set in mail draiving contet at the ! i opera house. Squire Smith adds a-certificate and , a bouquet to his marriage off® - . Cold weather has stimulated bu - iness and stores are all busy. Heavy snows have brought out mar." sleighs. Bluffton Elk cleared $3,738 in their ' tall festival. Total school enrollment in Indiana is 538.959, a decrease of 13,000 over last year. Teacheis institute in session at Monmouth. » 0 *¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * If ¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥!! WEDNESDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF —Hcoktip 9:3o—Opera, “I i':i“li*cci." WEAF —Hookup 7:<»0 pm. Great Moments in History. WJZ -8:00 pm. The Continentals. WOll -Hookup 8:00 pm. Famous Composers Hour. WOH-Hookup — 9:00 pm. Columbia Hour, Moran and Mack. THURSDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WOH. Newark (422) 7:30 p.m.—New York Philharmonic orchestra. WJZ. hook-up, 9 p. tn. —Chicago Civil Opera, "Rigoletlo.” KOA, Denver (386) 9:30 p.m.—KOA's Anniversary, Gilbert and Sullivan's “Mikado.’’ I WUC, Washington (169) and WJZ, New York (454) 6 p.m.—United States army band. • ; WBAL, Baltimore (286) 7 p. m.— WBAL string quartet. o ■ Killed By Auto Evanston, 111.. Dec. 14 —( INS) — Charles Pick. 80, father of Albert Pick. Sr., founder of Albert Pick & ■ Company, died in a hospital here to- , day as the result of injuries sustained. when he was struck by an auto- ’. mobile. .

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1927.

I Christmas Presents and Things That Can Be Made ONE of the annually recurring problems of the Christmas seu-j son Is: “What imusuul mid attractive gifts lire simple mid inexpensive enough tor the children to make?" Here are a few suggestions: Among the easiest is a lovely perfumer inude by sticking an apple with cloves until it is completely covered, mid appears to be u brown ball. It will hist for years, lending a delicate I fragrance to lingerie or handkerchiefs. The hostess who entertains often ■ will welcome u scrap book of party I ideas, games, refreshments, etc., which may be clipped from the newspapers mid magazines. These may be grouped as to seasons--Christmas, Halloween I or Thanksgiving. How-to-do-some- : thing items and recipes also make good collections. The latter may be either arranged as menus or classed us soups, vegetables, etc. These books should preferably be of the loose-leaf type, and in any case, the pages should be numbered mid the Items indexed. I A dainty pinliolder may be made from six empty mutch boxes, pasted I together to form u chest of drawers. Cover the front and back of each in ner box, glue the outer boxes together, and paste a colored cover around the top, bottom mid sides. If doth is used, unless it is exceptionally heavy, it will be necessary to paste a cover ot white paper on first, so that the printing on the match boxes will not show through. To each drawer attach a i'ook, snap, button, pin, etc., to serve ns a handle and to indicate its con tents. Not alone women, but men, too, appreciate handkerchiefs. Some are made of crepe de chine or georgette mid edged witli luce. threads may be drawn in them, although this work is easier in pongee or linen. To make them exceptionally distinctivi and personal, in place of an initial or monogram, trace and embroider tin signature of the person for whom the) are intended.—Helen Gaisford. (©,' 1927. Western Newspaper Union.) The Postman Was Loaded With a Burden of Love <<x i rEI.L, John Tracy, you look 11 kt W eld Santa, himself'" callei Postmaster Briggs to John Tracy, tin veteran mail carrier of the Height , section of Midbury. “I not only look like one but I fee . decidedly so, for a funny thing hap fir ned today !” Tracy's face wa. wreathed in smiles as he walkei across to his locker and dropped hi. cargo of mysterious looking package; within. i The gang was all curiosity, hot hr kept them guessing while ho took hi time locking np the steel cabinet and sorting himself for a moment’s rest ‘My customers,” as he always termed his patrons or the comraunit.' which he served, “planned a jib on me. They appointed a committee, 1 understand, to interview every family on my route. They asked that every one refrain from mailing one thing this morning, that I would be empt.’ handed unless it boa present for me For a couple of blocks I didn't know what to think, but at almost every house I found a package for me, and then I began to get wise. So —to makt a long story abort —I carried nothing back with me but things addressed to myself. But, Briggs, it sure was i burden of love! Gosh. I didn’t dream folks thought that much of only THEIR POSTMAN !”—L. 15. Lyons. I®. ISI7. Western Newspaper Union.) Counting the Chickens lx<4 ■ I I # “Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet?" “Heavens, yes! I’ve already fig urod out what I’m .going to receive and how many exchanges I'll make." Singing Christmas Carols The old cnstoln of singing carols li the streets was revived in 1017. In JOIB thirty cities co-operated. It 1expected that carols will be sung t*hi> Christmas eve on the streets, in (he parks, as well as In the churches, schools and public Institutions of communities. Tree Decorations In spile of glittering decorations the Christmas tree would only remain a dark pageant, were It not for thmany colored electric lights which tire 1 deftly fastened all over it. mid which i when lighted up, make It for the youu; people a thing cf beauty and a joyj for that nlsbt at least 1 *

!*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥♦ * THE GREAT WAR * * 10 YEARS AGO * **¥*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥* 1 Premier Lloyd George, in speech, says that ho would regard peach talk now, "when the Prussian military is drunk with boastfulness" as a be trayal of the trust imposed in him by his constitutenta. Five hundred thousand fresh fighting men are gotten ready by Germany in what may be the greatest effort ot the German army since the war began London hears. ■ ■ o LINN GROVE NEWS —by— Miss Louise Ncusbaum Mrs. Rosa Liby, who was injured in a fall Monday. Is improving nicely. Mr. and Mis. Loya) Liddy and daughter Phillis Myrilene. of Fort Wayne. s]»ent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Liddy. Mrs. A. C. Mumo and son, A. Lloyd spent Monday in Fort Wajuie, where they visited Mr. Munro at tile Lutheran Hospital. Issac Wihel, who underwent an operation some time ago, shows no improvement. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McGingan and Mr. and Mrs. Moward Dunning, all of Fort Wayne, spent the week-end at the A. M. Lanning home. Albert Bixler spent Sunday here. L. L. Dunbar was the Sunday dinner guest of Mr. and Mis. Fred Stiener. Eva Liechty, of Berne, s(»ent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Liechty. Hany Meshbeiger was a business sailer at Indianapolis, Monday. Melvin Myers, who was ill ,has been reported much better and able to be at work again. Muri Lybarger has purchased a new Essex car. * Mrs. Walter Stalls spent the weekend in Fort Wayne. Many attende dthe splendid program which was given at the Salem Evanvelical church Sunday night by the Woman’s Missionary church. A missionary play was very well rendered. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Stadler were Sunday afternoon callers of Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Steiner, of Berne. Versal Watson. a student of International College at Fort Wayne, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman A. Watson Lucile Beeler Sunday guest of te f t IW / 31 Corns Lift Off-No Fain! Hard corns, soft corns, corns be ween the toes and calluses lift right ass! You’ll laugh—lt is so easy and ioesn't hurt a bit! Just drop "Freezone” on any tender, touchy corn. Instantly it stops lehing; then shortly you just lift that dd bothersome corn right off with your fingers. It vorks like a IM? every time. Seems >' ■nagic I A tiny bottle of J.'kjjr Freezone" . co s t s inly a few cents at my drug store—Try it!

Announcing Our Pre-Christmas Sale of Fine Coats and Dresses January prices will prevail so you may have your new Coat or Dress during the Holidays. Thursday and Friday - This Week Only Coats that sold to $74.50 at 549.50 Coats that soW to $54.50 at 539.50 Other Coats reduced in proportion. Www / Dresses that sold to $19.50 at 511.95 Dresses that sold to $12.50 at 57.95 liPfeW'' **• '•’? large assortment brought from our Fort Wayne ifm y, * I&S store will be added to my present stock. '.■ '4 Select your Coat or Dress now for the Christmas holidays. SfHvL* i ''jnE Louisa Bradens Fashion Parlor -Wfl , y 718 N. 2nd St. Phone 737 ' Wil

Louise Hoffmann Mae Elston, and Dewey Shen-1 herd, of Bluffton. vWited Mrs. Mary, Sbcqiherd, Friday. Clara Gentis and Win. Martin, cf

V IUI - ■ ■ . - — ——r— 1 ■■ ■ ■-- - ... or —“i. ? or I M Christmas / C Christmas 5 gifts | /a ASi, ; -r-I I ” * I WfjjsS Elegancy, Excellence I I and Economy | % ' i I “ T ~.-r -a <§ Beautiful I t skoes I $ ( '■--i In all the world there is no finer Gift than that which brings comfort, fashion and Z service. Around these three essentials our Shoes are built. Exquisite styles, for every type of foot and every occasion. | $3.95 $4.95 $5.95 i ts SUPPERS FOR EVERYONE | | dM Even when Slippers plain and practical affairs, for the sake of their snug warmth people liked to give them, and receive them at Christmas. Today when they are carefully made in so many novel patterns, they make dainty gifts, as well as practical tor vourg and old. » I — -—-—1 Childrens and Misses VS omans Fur or Ribbon Mens Leather ® K Many colors trimmed Juliets and Felt » 50c ~51.25 $1.19,.,51.49 I I The Famous Rayn Boots. One lot very # § special. First quality. QQ DvV S DUub J All sizes. Black only tpL *7O * Sizes 1 to 6—heavy Pane© damp-proof Our Gift to You— soles. Just the thing for the snow wr and slush. a Greater Savings in All Foot- • $ ■ 'wear —Shoes, Slippers * $4.35 | .jS and Galoshes Dandy Jacknife Free with each purchase, g 5 OP ® |. Winnes Shoe Store.x’x. i £) CORNER SECOND & MONROE STREETS. |

| Bluffton, and Noln Bamter, Flossie | Studlei were guests at the Flank Noushaum home Sunday afternoon. | Mr. and M rs - John Myers and daughter Betty, of Berne, were callers of Mt.

anff Mrs. fted Libr^7' ,? 5 flan Hoffmann, of Hintu., ed his mother, Mrs. Nan i ’ lsll ' Sunday, “ n