Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1928 — Page 2

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS, business CARDS, AND NOTICES J FOR SALE JUST RECEIVE^— lairge shipment of matresses, to be Hold from $9 up Pianos and phonographs Hold on terms. Jones and Sprague, Phone 11'9. 1706 t FOR SALE —Dirt, on Nutt man avenue. Macklin & Zehr, contractors. 1 <ltf FOR SALE -Maytag waslier, used 1 year. Perfect condition. A bargain. Inquire Central Electric Co., 103 N. 2nd at. 173t3x FOR SALE House and ioL semimodern within 2% squares of the court house. See ownqr at 422 Mercer Ave., or call phone 499. 174t3x FOR SALE White leghorn eoekrels, Purdue strain. Harold Samples, WiUshire phone 174t3 FOR SAlJ'l — fellow transparent apples. Grant Owens, Decatur rt. 6; Monroe phone M-6. 174tw 2wks FOR SALE or TRADE - Fordson traetor Disc plows Tanks and Cart com plete in No 1 shape for cash or will trade for good cows, one half mile South of Dent School Joe Hann. 172- July 21-25 FOR - SALE*Three brood sows, with pigs by side. Five-two-year old ewes, i Phone O-Bss. 175-3 t FOR SALE -3 cows with calves. L4oo lb. mare with colt and now in fold. Dorus Werling, Decat rR. 9 175-6: x FOR SALE- 1924 Ford coupe, good rubber. Bargain if taken at once. Phone 1089 between six and seven P. M. 175t3 | ■ WANTED WANTED —To rent 2 or 3 rooms unfurnished . Up or down stairs. Phone ! 1073. 174-3tx ! WANTED TO RENT Modern liirni 'i ed three or four room apartment or bouse. Desire, to occupy beginning Sept. 1. Phone 1194. FOR RENT FOR RENT—2 office rooms, second floor of K. of C. building. Heal I furnished. See Dynois Schmitt. 174 W; FOR RENT—A five room house, with in the railroads; modern except fur nace. Possession August 1 Inquire 604 N. Third St. after 5 pm. 175-3tx LOST AND FOUND LOST —tireen parasol. Reward offered. Finder please call Mildred Alley Phone 1171 174-3tx COURT HOUSE Released On Bond C. L. Tyndall, who has been held in the county jail here for the last tew' weeks following his arrest on a charge of passing a fraudulent check, was released under bond today, after the court had reduced the bond from 2200 to $75. Tyndall asked for more time in which to enter a plea when he was araigned in court, recently. o BECOME AN AEROPLANE PILOT, an Uncrowded, High-Salaried Profession. Address Decatur Democrat, Box A. E. R. 175 U o Crops Reported Better In Illinois Than Indiana Indianapolis. July 25—(U.R) —Illinois crops are in better condition than are those in Indiana or Ohio, W. T. Martindale, Indiana farm bureau federation director said today after a weeks tour inspecting farm bureau work. 0 Notice of Meeting Notice is hereby given that tne annual meeting of the stockholders of the Old Adams County Bank will be held at its banking house, Decatur, Indiana, at 10 o’clock A.M. on Tuesday, August 7, 1928, for the purpose of electing niue direc tors to serve for the ensuing year and i to transact such other business as may come before them. D. J. HARKLESS, July 7 to Aug. 6 Cashier. ■ — NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS FOR REPAIR AND PAINTING OF < Ol RT HOUSE Notice is hereby glvrti that the Board of Commissioners or Adams County, Indiana, will on Tuesday, August 7, 1928 and up until the hour of to o’clock am. receive bids fur the repair and painting of the corridor of the Court House or Adams County, Indiana. Specifications for tire work and completion are now on file in the Auditors office of Adams County. Bidder will be required to furnish necessary affidavit and bond as required by law. B. F. Brelner George Shoemaker John G. Hoffman Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. July 18-25 O NOTICE OF Pl Bl,lt LETTING Notice Is hereby given that the Decatur School Board of Dacatur, Indiana will receive sealed blds tor the repair and construction of a floor in the gymnasium up and until eight o’clock Friday evening .luly 27, 192 s at the regular meeting of the Board, held In City Superintendent’s office in the iiign school building. Plans and specifications are found in the City Superintendent’s office, contractors will, please call for them at that place. , Contractors bidding on this repair will visit the premises and make a careful examination of existing conditions before filing blds. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all blds. M. F. Worthman, Supt. July 18-25

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(P > — () u — LOA NS— I ON MODERN CITY PROPERTY I i at 6% for 5 years, 10 yeara • i I or 15 years time. 11 NO COMMISSION ’ ON FARM LAND at 5,5! 2 and 6% | | —according to the amount borrow- j 1 | cd. for 5 years, |0 years, or 20 ’ j years. The 20 year lean is on | Government Plan, with new full I payment plan that is advantageous 11 to borrower. We specialize in all kinds of INSURANCE, reresenting 14 Old Line Companies. We will sign your bond. 1 THE SUTTLES-EDWARDS • | COMPANY Corner 2nd & Monroe Sts. Niblick Block Decatur, Ind. 2 o O L. -0 I LOBENSTEIN & HOWER | FUNERAL DIRECTORS | Calls answered promptly day or | night. Ambulance service. Office Phone 90. | Residence Phone, Decatur 346 | I Residence Phone, Monroe, 81 LADY ATTENDANT I Q , Q S. E. BLACK FUNERAL DIRECTOR New Location, 206 S. 2nd St. Mrs. Black, Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly day or n<o ht Office phune 500 Home phone 727 Ambulance service O u | Roofing—Spouting—Tin Work | HOLLAND FURNACES Auto Radiators Repaired. | Torch w6rk. Will appreciate an | opportunity to serve you. | I Decatur Sheet Metal Works I | E. A. GIROD | 220 North Eighth St. | Phone 331 Res. 1224 I o Q H. FROHNAPFEL, D. C. DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC A HEALTH SERVICE The Neurocalometer Service , Will Convince You at 104 S. Third Street Office ana Residence Phpne 314 Office Hours: 10-12 a.m. 1-5 6-8 p.m. N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined, Glasses Fitted HOURS: B’to 11:30—12:30 to 5:00 Saturday 8:00 p. m. Telephone 135.’ MONEY TO LOAN An unlimited amount of 5 PER CENT money on improved real estate. FEDERAL FARM LOANS Abstracts of title to real estate. SCHURGER’S ABSTRACT OFFICE 133 S. 2nd St. —~——————— —— ————TF-w — 1 •• 'r i . Dr. Brown Re-elected State Veterinarian Indianapolis, July 25 —(INS)— Dr Frank H Brown, of Fortville, today was re-elected state veterinai ian, at the meeting of Hie state livestock board, to serve during the coining year. This is the third time Dr. Brown lias j been elected. He has been opposed by Dr. W. F. Paul Ish, of Franklin. Typewriting Stenographic Work If you have any extra typewriting or stenographic work I will be glad to do it.. Phone 42 for appointment. Florence llolthouse Judge J. T. Merryman's Imiw Office, K. of C. Bldg. i T her e is some ex’Hf jJjJPcuse for getting sick A.' 1 \ but none for staying sick when is possible to get Chiropractic adjustments, y Phone for an appointment. CHARLES & CHARLES Chiropractors Office Hours: 10 to 12—2 to 5 6:30 to 8:00 127 No. Second St. Phone 628. , »

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MARKET REPORTS Cleveland Produce Market Hutter, extras in tub lots 46%-48%, extra firsts 43% 45%, seconds 39%41%. Eggs, extras 34%, extra firsts 33, firsts 28%, ordinary 27%. Poultry, heavy broilers 35-37, leghorns 23-25, heavy towls 25 26, med ium 25-26. Igeltorns 18-20, ducks 1820. geese 15-17, old cocks 16-17. Potatoes, U. S. No. 1, cloth top stave barrels Virginia $1.85. CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE Wheat: July. $1.19%; Sept. $1.22%; Dec.. $1.26%. Corn: July. $1.06%; Sept., 92%-%e; Dec., 77%-%c. Oats: July, old, 46%c; new, 47%c; Sept., 39%.%c; Dec.. 42c. Rye: July, 99c; Sept.,sl.oo%; Dec.. $1.03-$1.03%. Pittsburgh Livestock Market Hog receipts 1500, market strong. 250-350 lbs $11.25-12; 200-250 Tbs. $11.50-12; 160-200 Tb sll-12; 135-160 P> $10.50-11.50; 90-130 lb $9.50 11.25; packing sows $9-9.75. Cattle receipts 50. Calves 150. Market steady. Beef steers sl2-16.10, light yearling steers and heifers $11.50-15.50; beef cows $8.50-10.50; low cutter and cutter cows $5.50-8; vealers sl3-16; heavy calves SB-13. Sheep receipts 250; market strong. Top fat lambs $15.50; bulk fat lambs sl3-15; bulk cull lambs $9-12; bulk fat ewes $5-6.50. Fort Wayne Livestock Market Receipts — Calves 25; hogs 200; sheep 100; market steady to 10c higher. 90-110 111 $8.75; 110-130 lb $9.75; 130-140 Hi $10.35; 140-150 Tb $10.60: 150-160 lb $lO 85; 160170 Tb $11.10; 170200 lb $11.20; 200-250 lb $11.30; 250-300 lb $11.40; 300-350 lb $10.90; roughs $9-9.25; stags $6-6.50; calves, sls down; lambs sl4 down. East Buffalo Livestock Market Hog receipts 1120; holdovers 298; generally steady. Desirable 170-250 11> sl2-12.10; bulk pigs and light lights 150 Tb down sll.lO 11.50; packing sow. $9.25-9.75. Cattle receipts 175; mostly cows and heifers; market slow, steady. Common and medium mixed steers and heifer caws $9.65-10.50; medium cows SB-9; all cutteri) $ 7; bulk dry fed steers Monday $15.25-16.25. Calf receipts 150; vealers actwe fully steady; good to choice largely sl6; cull nad common $lO-14. Sheep ’receipts 300; lambs active, strong; choice sl6; medium to good, sl6; cull and common. $lO-sl4. fat ewes quotable $6-7.50; cull and common $2-4. LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET (Corrected July 25) • Heavy Fowl 19c Leghorn fowls 13c Barred Rock 27c Heavy Broilers ' 26c Leghorn Broilers 21c Old Roosters 10c Ducks 11c Geese 7c Eggs, dozen 26c LOCAL GRAIN MARKET (Corrected Jnly 25) No. 2 Soft Winter Wheat $1.23 No. 2 Hard Winter Wheat $1.03 No. 2 Mixed Winter Wheat $1.13 New Oats » 32c New Yellow Corn, per 100 $1 to $1.40 Mixed Corn 5c less Local Grocers Egg Market Eggs, dozen 26c Butterfat at Stations Butterfat 42c Mis. J. W. Bosse visited today in Fcrt Wayne, the guest, of Mrs. Edward Meyers. —— o NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A SMOKE STACK Notice is hereby given tliat the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana, will on Tuesday August 7. 1928, up until 10 o’clock a. m. receive bids for the erection, construction and completion of a smoke stack at the County Infirmary of Adams County, Indiana, according to plans and specifications now on tile in the Auditors Office of Adams County. Bids will also be received at the same I time for the erection and completion . of a stack of equal size and proportion, this stack to be made of brick; bidder to furnish detailed plans and specifications with bld. Blds must be accompanied with the necessary affidavit atid bond as required by law. Time for the completion of the above stack will be fixed by the Board on the date of letting The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. B F. Brelner George Shoemaker John G. Hoffman Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. July 13-25 . . , ...

CITY OFFICIALS OFFER HELP FOR OLD HOME WEEK (CONTTMICn FROM PAGE ONE) town streets. Committee Is Appointed The committee for decoration and illumination, as named last night, includes A. R. Ashbaucher. chairman, and M. J. Mylott; O. L. Vance, Joe Hunter, 11. M. Gillig, Fred Linn.' councilmen; Orval Harntff, city engineer; Jack Freidt, Amos Fisher, Andy Foos and all city employes. They began their preparations this morning, and will be ready for the week. Fiank Beimer, of Fort Wayne, who is bixtking the free acts and shows for Old Home Week, was here last night and reported that he will be. ready shortly to report details. It is sufficient at this time to say that there will four or. five free acts, all of highest grade, and that only clean attractions will be permitted to show. The midway will be located on Second street, from Liberty Way to Jackson street, and extending off on Liberty Way; Madison and Monroe Privileges will be sold to those desiring them as *;oon as a plat, now being made, is completed. There will be a charge of one dollar for cutting in electric fifty cents per light a week for concessions. The advertising committee has ordered a number of automobile and truck signs; fence cards and other mateiial which will be in next week and will be immediately put out, together with window cards and other advertising matter. The general committee will meet again Thursday night. o GIRLS’ EXHIBIT SET FOR AUG. 4 ICONTINVED FROM PAGE ONE) in this county, a contest has been arranged wheteby each git I must make a pound and a half loaf of bread, one simple kitchen apron which is to be machine sewed, and prepare one can of string beans which should be coldpacked. These exhibits will be judged by Miss Burk and each article will be given equal importance. The girl excelling in all three cr having the highest score will be awarded the’trip. The regular meeting of the B. P. O. Elks will be held this evening at 8:00 P. M. All members are requested to be pt esent. E. F. Eichhorn, Exalted Ruler o r Slayer Os Obregon May Escape Death Penalty Mexico City, July 25.— (INS) —Possibility that Jose De Leon Torai, slayer of President-elect Alvaro Obregon, may escape death for his deed loomed today. Leaders of the Obregouista faction believe that Total was only a tool in the hands of the Laborites. In a public statement they demanded the removal of all Laborite officials from office, saying that members of this minority party had played, upon Total’s fanatical religious views in such away as to bring on the slaying. o — Many Men In U. S. Navy Will Re-enlist An average of 84.410 men for the U. S. Navy wil be required dming the fiscal year 1929. It is expected that of the 19,385 enlistments to expire, 65 per cent will re-enlist. There were 68.5 per cent of the men whose enlistment expired during the 1928 fiscal year er-enlisted, the report shows. The total number of men in the Navy on June 30, 1928 was 84,276. 500 Bottles Os Beer Found In Weed Patch Shelbyville, Ind., July 25 —(U.PJ— Five hundred battles of beer-found in' a weed patch on a farm not th of here are without an owner. Both the owner and tenant of the farm having disclaimed the beer after seizure by police.

l ' we ‘ • BMITHTO CONFER WITH 60V. RITCHIE Albany, N. Y„ July 25 (INS) C-<tv. Al Smith announced * today that lie would leave Albany shortly after noon Friday for New York City, where he will confer with Gov. Ritchie, of . Maryland. it is understood that the two executives will discuss the political situ- ■ ation in Maryland and some of the other border states. , The conference with Gov. Ritchie i is regarded as the most important one tliat Gov. Smit it will have with . any’ of the Democratic leaders be- ; tween now ami August 22, the date of Ills notification ceiemony. o Young Father Drowns But Saves His Baby South Bend. Ind.. July 25 (INS) Fx ■ hausted in his flight to rescue his baby son Edward Las untaine, 28. of South Head. Indiana was drowned in Birch Lake near Cassopolis, Michigan, but bis heroism saved his young son’s life Lafountaine had been rowing with his three year old boy when the b y fell into the water from the boat. The father dived into the water after the child and kept the boy's bead above water until nearby fishermen came to him ami took the child. Then Lafountaine sank below the water and failed to reappear. Divers located and recovered the body about thirty minutes later. ■ o Radio Talks Dealing With Campaign Are Given Washington, July 25 -(U.R)— F»jliti- < ians awaited with interest today tho 1 uhlic teaction to (he first national radio talks openly' dealing with the lloovet-Smith Presidential race. Acting secretary of treasury Ogden L. Mills ami Walter Lippman of the New York World made the addresses, last /light. Both discussed foreign affairs. Mills, a Republican leader, praised Hoover’s foreign trade promotion activities and reviewed the administration's foreign policy. He said. “We do Dr. Harold V. DeVor Dentist Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Lveniugs by appointment. Phone No. 422. 127 No. 3rd st ■!■■■■ vrMIM II Ml I Conte to • Washington, M educational adJ*" vantages ofa visit* rr to the Capital of/* our N dt ' on are * H fTTfinestimable_value! Stop at . The Lee House’ Zsf/i and Z_ ’ squares to the White? House. A new and Hotel. Refined environment? £SO rooms .£so.bathj Single room 63. 5 ® dalh? Double " Single noon) (with meal«) SGT*"/ # M Is your farm bound ■ ■ by the shackles of Na- ■ ■ ture? Impregnated with ® kfi water . and sour Soil? H The easiest, surest, I. R cheapest way io liberate ® your farm from this ® Mb handicap and to produce S ■ good crops is by tliorH ough Drainage. The Krick-Tyndall | Company

1 not shirk our responsibilities as a I world power? bid we maintain our light to define what those responsibility are and to decide under whal circumstances wo shall use . ur power." Lippman said he believed Hoover would tell foreigners how to behave whereas Smith would initiate a policy of ’’not too many arguments with tco many foreign govet aments. o — Indiana Limestone To Be Used in Big Skyscraper Bedforil. Ind.. July 25 (U.R) Indiana limestone will occupy a new place of honor on the new thirty-six story New York Central building in New Y< rk. A giant clock, ten feet in diameter, is being placed on the building. It is made of limestone quarried from the Bloom-ington-Bedford district. Edward MeCarten, sculptor, designed the clock.

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Picnic Train Wrecked; 23 Persons Are Injured Pittsburgh, Pa.. July 25. — ((jpj _ ■ Pennsylvania railroad officials start- . ed an investigation today in the wreck of a special picnic train here last i night. The pknlc train, carrying more than 1,000 employes of the railroad and their families from the annual outing at Canton, Ohio, was sideswiped by a box car which had been derailed ( from a parallel track. Flying glass injured 23 persons. An attempt to wreck another train, the Pittsburgh-Cincinnati flyer, oc'. cm red near the Quaker Valley sta- . lion at Sewickley. A large rock had . been placed across the track. Q _ Get the Habit—Traae at Home, it Payi