Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1928 — 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. A. 11. Holthouse Soc'y A Bun. Mgr. Dick 1). Heller ..Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. —I • Subscription Rates: Single copies I .02 One week, by carrier. .. 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months, by mail 100 Six months, by mail 1.75 Ono year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere, |3.50 one year. Advertising Rates 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 Dailies. Old Home Week opens five weeks from this morning. Help get every thing in readiness. Velvet dress to cover the knees of the flapper ladies, is a rage in Paris but it will never take hold in this part of the world while the themometor registers ninety-six in the shade. Now it is claimed that along with his other accomplishments, President Coolidge wields a wicked gun. In.his first attempt at trap shooting he brought down seven out of nine clay pigeons. ■ One report says the betting on election results in New York is three to two on Smith while another says its three to one on Hoover. Might take ’em both. You couldn’t lose and there would be a chance to win. The governor of Kentucky has appointed Governor Ed Jackson as a colonel on his staff, probaldy extending that honor as payment for Indiana building a bridge across the Ohio river on Kentucky soil. To many it looks like a very uneven trade. Advertising matter for Old Home Week, including automobile signs, truck banners, fence posters and “ window cards are now ready for distribution. Get yours by calling on Mr. Thompson at the county agent's office. Just as last week, the hottest of the year, was closing, along came a shower, a real breeze and relief from the sweltering weather. It was sure welcome but don't crow too much about it for tiie weather bureau promises warm weather again. Please don’t drive your car up the drives at the Adams County Memorial hospital grounds. It worries patients there. It is also requested that motorcycle riders and car drivers observe lite quiet zone in that vicinity. A nine-year-old boy stole an automobile in Fort Wayne, denied his identity and gave a false name, showing that he lias all the basic qualifications for making a first-class crook in a few years. He will perhaps be sent to some institution where he can be taught the wrong and right of life and living. Many noted persons have accepted the invitation to come to Decatur for the various events of Old Home Week and each day brings others. It will be a great old week, one that will be talked about for years to come as was tiie similar celebration of 1912. Watch these columns for daily announcements. More than three hundred million dollars has been expended on airports in this country the past eighteen months which seems like a lot of money for the few planes we see. Perhaps if we built such a place however we would discover planes are more numerous than most of us think they are. Mr. Hoover will not make any swings around the circle and again announces he will make but a few speeches, declaring he will do nt? ballyhooing. Call it any thing you want

J TODAY’S CHUCKLE Columbus, Ind., August 6 (U.R)-— Herman Stuckey has fitted a harness tn his Urge collie dog so that he may have a four-yegged caddy . to carry tys golf chibs. I; —. ■■ ZT but the voters wish to hear and see the candidates and will not take kindly to any thing that looks like cool- ■ ness on the part of the candidate. ■ ——» The week-end brought the usual number of terrible •automobile accidents. So long as we travel over the highways at a rate of forty to sixty miles an hour, they are bound to occur. With thousands of cars on the roads, each trying to get there ahead of the other, something is sure to go wrong some where and then —an accident. There is one thing sure, we can’t drive too carefully. A million dollar rain was that of Saturday evening and Sunday morning, its worth being shown in the crops all of which have brightened up since. The corn, beets and other crops were just beginning to show the insults of the drouth and the showers revived them. The only unwelcome part of it was the high wind of Saturday evening which scattered the oats and blew down some corn. Fritz Keenan may have been “stringing" Judge Wetter when he told him that he stole a loaf of bread to keep from starving but any way lie put it across and got rid of the fine and received three dollars in cash from the tender hearted judge, which was just about the right thing to do. The judge might have sent the policeman up for arresting the man under the circumstances, when there are so many real criminals getting away with every thing up to murder. According to the weekly resume of the Washington Post, there is a political fight on in every state in the union and strange as it may seem, they see chances for democratic victory in strong republican states and a shot for the G. O. P. in the solid south. They declare the farmers of Indiana may be the balance of power which turn Hoosierdom into a democratic territory and admit chances are much that way in Ohio and Illinois. Dr. Klein, Chicago chemist, has established proof that almost any known mental or physical disease can now be cured by gland extraction. In a talk to the American Chemical Institute, however, he said that his new treatment will not prevent people from growing old or make homely folks beautiful. There is no question but that great advancement is being made in this field of science and it is more than possible that the next *ento turn Hoosierdom into a demothe present because of these and other discoveries. Witii the program for Old Home Week announced, there is added interest for every one admits the week will be a real one. The arrangement at this time is of course tentative, subject to changes and there will be a number of additions, with .surprises for every onb who witnesses any part of the week’s program. The free acts, the musical organizations, the thrillers, the clowns and entertainments for the young folks and the older people who still enjoy a little fun, are now being contracted for. They will be here, plenty of all of them, making a happy, pleasant, profitable and delightful event. The state tax board must indeed be hard up. Not content with placing a horizontal increase on valuations in every township and corporation in Adams county, they have also boosted the utilities about $40,000. There is no use trying to get away from it. When the state wants money, there are several different ways of getting it. The thing that makes a lot of i people feel mean and revengful is the : fact that a few days after they make this kind of a boost, they will be bragging about a reduction of the tax ’ rate. In the meantime it becomes 1 more difficult to meet the expenses. r The trouble is that • the legislature • appropriated about fifty million dol- ■ lars and it has to be raised.

May Succeed Calles I r A ‘ft i ■ wk IF* ' a h * ,’FZ I F ' V " V $ Aaron Saenz, governor of the state of Nuevo Leon and Obregonista chieftain, who is looked upon as the logical successor to President P. Elias Calles of Mexico. (inletnational Illustrated News) ************* * TWENTY YEARS AGO * * From the Dally Democrat File • * Twenty Years Ago Today ♦ ************* August 6—The sum of $21,012 has been expended the past year for employes salaries at the Decatur postoffice. Daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lewton, yesterday. W. J. Craig, hero of the Civil war, builder of the Cloverleaf railroad, former editor of tiie Indianapolis Sentinel, died here yesterday. Mrs. Don Quinn entertains for Miss Jackson, of Paragould, Ark. Robert Peterson establishes a record by Swimming three miles at Rome City Many from here attend Ringling Brothers circus at Fort Wayne. Son born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dorn. Six saloons close at Portland and only six are left there. Andy Baxter completes the new roof on Art building at the fair grounds. Misses Emma Sellemeyer, Emma Schlickman, Lucy Frucjite and Rose Egan return from trip to Niagara Falls. ■"'■Q I ■■ ******i>****** * BIG FEATURES * * OF RADIO * S***********K MONDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WJZ—Network 7:30 pm “Real Folks." WOR —Network 7 pm United Opera Company. WEAF Network 7:30 pm General Motors hour. WJZ—Network 5:30 pm Roxy's gang. WGY—Schenectady (380) 5:30 pm — General Electric hour. TUESDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WJZ—Network 8:20 pm Bach program WJZ—Network 6:30 pm L< wicohn stadium concert. WOR Netwoik 8 pm Hank Simmoim’ show boat. WOR — Newark (122) 6 pm Main Street Sketches. WBAL—Baltimore (2861 8 pm Municipal band. — o —_ ************* * THE GREAT WAR * * 10 YEARS AGO * ************* AUGUST 6. 1918. The German Crown Prince began a campaign to reorganize his shattered divisions while the American troops guarded their successful advances at Fls tnes. • In Paris, the Council of Ministersvoted to make Gen. Fosch a Marshal and the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor was conferred on Pershing by Poincare. —Q BARLEY FEEDING CAUSES TROUBLE Several reports have come into the county agent’s effice during the last few days concerning trouble with feeding bailey to hogs. When hogs are pnt on a heavy barley tation, after having been used to a lighter ration of other feeds, it causes the pigs to become sick and often serious vomiting . results. The cause of this cannot bt* fully ascertained, but it probably is 1 due to several reasons, first that there is consideragle barley of low quality . due to the fact that some fields were highly infected with a disease known ’ as scab which causes a withered and : molded kernel. Another reason for bar- > ley causing sickness is due to the fact ; that it is a very lich food and its sud- ' den introduction into the ration caus- ! es digestive trouble. £ Barley should not consist of more , thnn one-third the ration when it is first fed Ford Christen, county Zgent, • states. After the pigs get used to it, 3 the/ proportions of barley can be increased. Ten bushels of barl.ey are equal to eleven bushels of corn in fattening pigs. A good ration to feed

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when stalling pigs on barlej, If corn is not available. Is barley 10(1 lbs, oats UlO pounds, middlings, 50 pounds, bran 35 pounds and tankage 15 pounds. The pr portion of bailey can be increased after the pigs get used to it and tiie middlings ami brand cun he lessened. In this manner, the pigs will gradually become accustomed to thy barley and no Double should be encountered. O—- ■ — 11 ■ — Comments Made On “LIMBERLOST DAY” By Noted Persons South Bend, Indiana July 23rd, 1928. Secretary. Did Home Week, Decatur, Indiana. Deal Friend Quinn: 1 have received your Invitation to be with you the 11th day of Septembci, and would not miss it for anything. You can count on me to do whatever 1 can do to help make your week a success. I think it is fitting that this dedication in honor pf Gem- Stratton-Porter sh uld be held in her old home town. Gene Stratton-Porter has inspired the women of America to love and help preserve our great outdoors more than any other woman, and we certainly appreciated her help in the early days ,1 the Izaak Walton League. Trusting that 1 may be able to help bring quite a large delegation from this neighboorhood, and witii kindest personal regards, I am. Yours very truly, L. G. Bradford. Editor's note: Hon L. G. Bradford was Piesidenl of tiie Isaac Walton League of Bdiana for 1927. Served a number of terms in tiie Indiana senate and was one of tiie organizers of the Isaac Walton League. Letters From OLD TIMERS Who’re Coming Home i Fresno July 30. 1928 Dear Mr. Archbold: Many thanks for your kind invitation . Would very much like to be with you and know 1 would have a wonderful time but don’t think 1 can make it this year. 1 could find many familiar names on your committee’s and any that were new to me. 1 left Decatur in 'B4. have lived in California since ’BS and am pretty much Californian but have a warm spot for Decatur . Wishing you all a splendid Reunion. I am sincerely yours W. E. Patterson Elk Grove, California, July 21, 1928. . Dear Sirs: I had just completed arrangements for visiting my»“Old Home State" before attending tiie National Convention in Peoria 111.. when your letter was received telling me of "Old Home Week." After reading it 1 decided to attend the Convention first then come to Decatur. I recall a number of amusing incidents which at the time seemed mbre like tragedy but this one I can safely relate. Alter a Rebecca initiation a recess was called when the following comedy was enjoyed. Dr. Millet conferred the 3rd degiee upon the newly initiated male members, one or two of whom were named Baker. The chairs were placed on the floor face down. The candidates weie blindfolded and asked to get on hands and knees and crawl. As each entered the arch he was given a boost by Dr. who used the brush end of a bra.om My husband sends regrets that he is unable to come at this time. We are planning a trip South as soon as I return when we will combine business with pleasure. Thanking you for the notice, Youfs respectfully Mrs. Martha Slnora Clem. Toledo Ohio July 28, 1928 Mr. Roy Archbold Decatur. Indiana D< ir Sir: Your very kind invitation to y. ur “Old Home Coining Week" September 10 to 15 duly received. was lather str. prised, also delighted to be called back to the old home town, I expect Io be there, wife and daughter. So tar as pleasant memories are < ncerned 1 have so many it would take a news paper to write them all so I won't start but will be there if nothing prevents. Very truly yours R. C. Gillig 4340 Kiuksbury Ave. Toledo, Ohio.

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Muncie Indiana July 29, 1928 Mr. Roy Archbold, Secretary To the Committee In Charge of Old Home Week In your city. I am very glad to be still among you tnot younger) but some older. Many a good time in my young boyhood days 1 have had in this old home of ours. 1 will not lie able to attend this week you have set aside not in person, but will think of you all. Thanking yon for your invitation and best of success I remain reap. P. L. Touhey 315 W. Washington St. WOULD BANISH GOING TO FIRE AT COLUMBUS By Ralph H. Maitland. UP Staff Correspondent Columbus, O - (U.R)—lf the plans of Mayor Janies J. Thomas materialize, the great American sport of following fire engines will become a lost pleasure and participants in that diversion will be considered law violators. Probably no other sound, coming when everyone is comfortably settled at home in the evening, Is so electric fying as the shrill scream of the fire siren. Husbands in the fat and flabby forties, who wouldn't be stirred from the house to attend a movie or other form of entertainment, leap from their chairs and announce they’re "going out for a while.” Thomas submitted a model traffic code in which this phase was included. His remarks applied chiefly to autoists who follow the fire engines, and touched but lightly on the multitudes of fire enthusiasts who gather on foot to view conflagrations. Must Keep Far Away Automobiles would be compelled to keep a distance of 500 feet between them and the fire engines when going to a fire. At the scene of the disaster, no one. on foot or in machines, would be allowed within several blocks of the blaze. Persons violating these regulations would be liable to jail sentence. Thomas’ municipal traffic code, as a whole, is indeed model. lAt tiie time of a fire, all vehicles would draw to the curb at the first blast of the approaching tire apparatus, and remain there until the engines had passed. Hizzoner’s plans extend much farther than fire regulations, however. Another suggested law would compel commercial garages and service stations to report to police, automobiles in their establishments containing evidences of bullet holes or of having been in a wreck. Jail Sentences for Violators A heavy penalty would be meted out to persons defacing official traffic signs and lights. Multi-colored lights on automobiles would be abolished. Several colors of lights on a moving vehicle constitute a menace to drivers or pedestrians in that they may be confused with traffic signals, the mayor said. (Inly white and amber lights would be permitted as headlights, dashlights, taillights ami on running boards. Red only would be permissible for the stop signal in the rear of machines. ' Spot-lights, when permitted, would be properly controlled to prevent serious effects on approaching drivers. All regulations would be enforced faithfully, with jail sentences for lAshbaucher’s : MAJESTIC FURNACES ; ASBESTOS SHINGLE | ROOFING < SPOUTING LIGHTNING RODS Phone 765 or 739

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