Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1928 — Page 4

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I) EC ATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Hiller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec’y & Bin. Mgr. Dk k D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, an second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies .' -■$ .02 One week, by carrier - 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall. - .35 Three months, by mall 1.00 Six months, by mall - 1-75 One year, by mail 3.0 b One year, at office ... 3.00 Trices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere, $3.50 one year. Advertising Kates made known by application. National Advertising Representatives Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dallies. • The Adams county jail does not house a single, prisoner, which is very good evidence that we have a lawabiding and respectable lot of folks. Too hot to work, too hot to playgolf, too hot to eat, too hot to do anything but go fishing or enjoy the mountains and lakes, but most of us do it anyway. The details for Old Home Week will be worked out by H. W. Thomp- ' son, who has been appointed assistant secretary and manager. He will have many duties and will see that every tiling is in readiness for the occasion. He is experienced and able and will aid in numerous ways. The Boston Harvard Expedition has discovered that the girls of today are after all not so far ahead of the ancient queens of Egypt. Digging into the pyramids near Caro, they find that the ladies of 6,000 years ago used hairdyes, ointments, gold manicure sets, eye brusnes and lip sticks. The pendulum swings slowly, but it swings, b'gosh. The partisan republican press js now calling George Peek, the Illinois faim leader all kinds of a liar. Up to the present campaign he was a very distinguished republican gentleman. Now that he is conferring with Governor Smith and his managers, he suddenly becomes a terrible foe to everything decent if their story can be seriously taken. They seem to be on the defensive in various ways. A Delphos man claims to have slaughtered and cooked into soup more than sixty thousand turtles during the past thirty years and has prepared 221,000 gallons of turtle soup. All turtles are warned to keep away from Delphos and especially to fight shy of John B. Holtz who is the boy who did it and who is without doubt the undisputed champion in his line. There will be a number of notable people here during Old Home Week. They are corning for Limberlost Day, for the farm and dairy celebration ami for the fraternal gathering. The list will include noted writers and authors, leaders in business, railway and political circles. They will be splendidly received and entertained by our people and we will be proud for the opportunity to show them what we believe is the finest county seat in the best county in old Indiana. William S. Taylor, lawyer, died at Indianapolis yesterday. His passing brings to mind the fact that thirty years ago he was a leading figure in one of the fiercest elections ever held in Kentucky or any other state. He was elected governor but his election was held fraudulent by the legislature, which declared William Gobble, the democratic nominee the governor. The latter was shot from ambush on the day of his inaugural and killed. Taylor was indicted on the charge of murder but tied to Indiana where he has since had protection from extradition. a fugitive who has never dared to return home, perhaps the greatest punishment a man could suffer. in Lowell. Mass., lives a man named Harry Kittredge whom all holdup men would do well to avoid hereafter.

| ■ TODAYJSCHUCKLE Pawnee City, Neb., August 3 | (U.R) Pawnee City has a "lucky thief" candidate in the unknown Identity of one who broke into a metal box at the horse shoe pitching grounds and stole all the horse- , shoes. A bandit attacked Kittredge and his wife late one night recently us they returned home after a drive. Instead of submitting, Kittredge grappled with him. The two fought vigorously, until Kittredge got his hands on the bandit's throat. Then he tightened his grip and held on. After a time the bandit’s body relaxed and he fell, unconscious. Mrs. Kittredge called the police. When the police Arrived the bandit was dead. If more men showed the spirit and courage displayed by Kittredge, there would be fewer holdups. A bandit is essentially a coward; the average holdup man would give up in fear if he thought he were goging to run any real risk. This Lowell citizen who defended himself instead of submitting is to be commended. —Wabash Plain Dealer. By orders from the state tax board the valuations in Adams county must be increased more than a million dollais. They maintain that this county must have a certain valuation so that the state can receive a certain amount of money which they figure is needed, preferring to have it thus shown titan to increase the rate of taxation for state purposes. However, it means the same thing, that we must pay more in ddllars and cents than we otherwise would and the raise coming at this time certainly should not be one that would make either the owners of farms in Adams county or of homes in any of the towns or cities of the county feel Ijke tailing over themselves to maintain an administration which requires this. In each township the valuations have been ordered increased four .per cent on lands and four per cent on improvements, in Decatur, Monroe and Geneva there is a ten per cent boost on improvements and in Berne a thirty per cent elevation over that fixed by the citizens who really knew the values. It may be alright but to us it sounds like a lot of “phony bologna." WANT BUSINESS? John Wanamaker, perhaps the greatest merchant this country ever produced, once said: "the time to advertise the heaviest is when the people are not buying, but I believe in advertising all the time. I never quit.” , There is no question that the time to advertise is when you want business. The time to quit is when you are ready to step down and give the other fellow the limelight. Support your daily newspaper as a selfish proposition —it will pay you liberally and it gives us the power to give you a lively, progressive i>ewspaper, which is a good thing for the community all around. You can take the finest automobile in the world, fully equipped, and it won’t do any thing but stand still'or* run down hill unless you supply gas for the tank and put an inteligent driver in the front seat. Put some real high-power ideas into your advertising tank —jump into the front seat yourself and do some intelligent driving —and your business will make all the hills without a hit of trouble. Right now is the time to try out the power of advertising. Be careful about your copy, be sure to have the articles you advertise and get ready to be surprised at the business you / do in the next few weeks. ' Senator George H. Moses lives in New Hampshire. Mr. Moses is one of the leaders in the republican party. So much does he lead and push that he was the permanent chairman ot the Kansas City convention. As such, ' Moses had much to say, and still is . saying a lot. He even does not work . well in the harness being made by I Dr. Work, the republican national t chairman. Moses says jj' Hoover is defeated it will be Work who should be blamed. But yesterday Moses must - have been caught off his guard. He ) has something to say about almost . everything, and, ot course, will now

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and then "pull one.” Commenting on George Peak, chairman of the corn belt committee, and his visit to New York. Mr. Moses said Peak is a plowmanufacturer and “wants the farmer to be prosperous so he can sell more plows." Well Moses, isn’t that a laudabld ambition. Suppose Peak does sell more plows, and suppose making the farmer prosperous will make him ! a bit more money, isn’t everybody being made prosperous. On the other j hand, would Moses care to be quoted that the only reason he is opposed to farm relief is to keep the farmer poor, so poor that he can not buy plows? In all probability this remark of the Hon. George H. Moses of New Hampshire, will go down as the big boner of the campaign. Bluffton Banner. o *»**»*»» ♦ t * * » * BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * S«i»***¥*****N Friday’s Five Best Radio Features Copyright 1928 by UP WEAF, network, 8 cst -N. B. C. concert Bureau. WOK, network, 7 cst — True Story Hour, | WOR network, 8 cst—Kodak Hour. WJZ. network, 9 cst—Slumber Music. WEAF, network, 6 cst —Cities Service Hour. Saturday’s Five Best Radio Features Copyright 1928 by UP WEAF, network, 6:30 cst- Lewisohn '- Stadium concert, Bernardino Moliuairi conducting. WJZ, network, 6:30 cst — Goldman Band conctjrt. WOR, Newark, 422; 7 cst — WOR's Playhouse. WSB. Atlanta, 476, 10:45 cst — Red Head Club. WDAF, Kansas City, 370, 11:45 cst— Nighthawks. o *«** ¥¥*«««**» * TWENTY YEARS AGO * * - * * From the Daily Democrat File * * Twenty Year* Ago Today * * ¥ * ¥ ¥ ¥ -?»•«** August 3, 1908. Mrs. Douglas Gilbert. of Pana, 111., wins worlds spell ing match at Winona Lake. Mann & Christen awarded contract to build Wren school house on bid of $11,575. New York World announces they will support Bryan & Kern, tired of Roosevelt “jingoism.” Mann & Christen begin work of remodelling First National bank. Liouls Koenemann secures 318 bushels of wheat off l l / 2 acres. Ft lends surprise Mrs. Med Miller on her 34th birthday. • Jesse Hurst attends convention at Silver Lake, representing the Decatuc United Brethren < httreh. ; ’ Will Wilson of St. Paul, Minh., stops here on his way to Detroit. ' Dallas, Texas, signs Ed Coffee to play in outfield. . Ed Hurst completely whips four . men who attack him. Miss Bessie Boyers visits in Fort r Wayne. V' |

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r ~ i Letters From OLD TIMERS . Who’re Coining Home i__ 1 Bellevue,’Ohio, July 26, 1928 1).. Roy Archbold Chairman Invitation Committee Old Home \V-ek Decatur, Indiana. Dear Friend, We uepept with plea--su:o your kind invitation to attend I ‘Old 11 mu Week" celebration. I Decatur certainly is home to me, as I cannot forget some of the tricks I played on my friends when I was a led Maybe some of the “Old Timers’ ” remember Sheriff Mike McGriff who had a pair of white ponies. One day a pal and 1 went into the Sheriff s barn and t ok green paint and made Zebras cut ei till! r lilies. Mr. McGriff had a hard time to restore the original co', r o. iii-. ponies an i if course we were properly reprimanded. We are trusting every no will have a very enjoyable lime in their r. union with old fi’.omls and that "Decatur Old Home Week" will bi- a tremendous success. Yours Respectfully Mr. and Mrs. J. 1). Yager. Belle,ue, Ohio. Shortleaf, Alabama, July 25. 1928 Secretary Old Home Week in Decatur Decatur. Indiana. My Dear Friends: I am in receipt of your letter of the 16th Inst. 1 know of nothing that would give me a . min-i pleasuie as a week spent in Beeatur-during the week of September loth, with the exception of being in Decatur on August 29th which will be the 50th wedding anuiversary of the judge anil his-gpod wife. I consider we aie unfortunate in n it being able to attend both the Family Celebiati n amt the Old Home Week but you undei-stand nothing on earth could keep my family from being in L. catur on the 29th of August. Once along the banks of the river on a Sunday we boys boiled the sap fr..m the Maple Hees. We found the sap. 1 attempted to jump over the can of bailing sap but failed to dear the can. Tie content ; blond, d on the call of I my left leg and today I carry a beautiful mark in mem. ry of that kiJdlsh trick. .Tjiis all happened on the banks Os the St. Marys far away. We will see you in Decatur during I the week of August 29th. Yours very truly > C. A. Met ryman Los Angeles, California, July 25. 1928 “Old Heme Week" Committee DoCatur, Indiana. Deal Siis: 1 want to acknowledge receipt of your invitation to “Old Home Week in Decatur’’ which I just received. , Although I would be pleased to visit your city during tills celebration and meet many cf my Indiana friends again I I resiet that, it is impossible for me to do so. H .ping that you will x have a success- . fill 'celebration, and thanking you for remembering me - with an invitation, 1 am Yours sincetely Mis. Barbara Moser Maiyatl ' ft I Don’t miss the AUCTION SALE at Court House square, i Saturday afternoon and night. Students of Reppert Auction school. It.

GENEVA NEWS Mis. <’■ Shepherd has returned from Otsego. Michigan, where site spent a week with her sister. Mrs. M W. WeginlHer. Mrs. Ravmond McCollum. Misses Dorothy Ln Kite ami Olive Rhoads are home from a motor trip to West Bm en and other points. Mr. and Mis. Selph Martin ami Mrs. ; Filer are home from Cleveland, where Mrs. Filer and Selph underwent operatlons for goiter. Both arc improving. . I Mrs Arch Haughton. Mrs. Joseph Anderson. Mrs. Clara Anderson ami ! Mrs. L. B. Smith were at Fort Wayne, I Tuesday. •* | Mrs. Roy But-, her ami daughter Mojeska are spending the week hi i

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