Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 17 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 Oen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec'y & Hi*. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, as 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 mail 1.75 Ono year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Trices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere, $3.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known by application. National Advertising Representatives Scheercr, Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Memhera The Indiana League of Home Dailies. Lock up the squirrels, a Mr. Nutt has been appointed treasurer of the

republican national committee. Watch your corners and don’t run the signs or red lights. Some one may get hurt. They are having a tought time to figure out just who was nominated in last Tuesday's primaries in Ohio but it is to be hoped they will get it all settled in plenty of time for the fall campaign. Os course it is expected that every one will see that the yards are in their best condition for Old Home Week, that the weeds are cut on every vacant lot and that every thing is done to make Decatur look her best. We are sure you will all help do that. The Old Home Week badge which sells for twenty-five cents is an attractive one, carrying the words, ‘‘Old Home Week, Decatur, Indiana, September 10th to 15th, 1928,” with a picture ot Stephen Decatur at the bottom and the bar to contain your name at the top. Os course you will want one. We wouldn't be surprised if those fellows who have reduced their estimate on the results in Indiana from 250,000 for Hoover to 40,000 have heard from out over the state. A straw vote in Lake county shows Smith and Dailey leading and that's a change of some twenty thousand

votes in that territory alone. Josephus Daniels, well known southern editor and former secretary of the navy during the World War, visited Governor Smith and told him that the south would be for him but probably with reduced majorities. That’s alright Mr. Josephus just so you deliver the goods. No one is going to complain about a little reduction in the majorities. - « —I , 1111— Now they have discovered that peaches and apricots,, those of the dried variety are as good as liver for anemia. That’s a little hard on the butcher but will make the grocer smile, particularly it the prices of these commodities advance as did the price of liver once it was discovered that meat contained the best properties to manufacture blood. It you like to hear political speeches you will have plenty of the dish the next ten weeks. The break is coming soon. Saturday evening Senator Curtis will deliver his acceptance speech. Mr. Hoover will speak at West Branch, lowa, Tuesday and next Wednesday evening Governor Smith will be notified and will give his acceptance. From that date on there will be plenty doing. Better get the old radio tuned tty. An expert advises "care of the

toothbrush” which is probably the wise thing to do but a matter none of us have given very much attention. This man, William M. Gardner says we should not use a toothbrush more than four months, soak It in cool salt solution before using, rinse it after each operation on the teeth, keep it in the air and throw it away when it begins to show any wear. There is one thing you may depend

,1 TODAY’SCHUCKLE Chippewa Falls, Wis. August 17 ~<U.R) While milking at her farm. Mrs. Fred Dumpkoe noticed a starnosed mole scurry from its hole in the walls of the barn. It approached a cow which was lying down and . helped Itself to a generous supply of milk. i upon in the .speech of Governor Smith, accepting the democratic nomination for president and that is he will tell you in plain words what he believes is best for the republic he loves. He will not pussy foot or go around the bush but will tell you his theories and his reasons for them so that at least you may know just what his position He is an honest and outspoken statesman of the Jeffer-son-Liucoln-Clevelaiul type. Mr. Foellinger has again taken up temporary headquarters in Indianapolis, his duties this time being to organize a Hoover club of Indiana.

Seems as though there is so much distrust ot the regular organization and the leaders because of the mean things they said during the presidential preferential primary last spring, that it was deemed w’ise not to take a chance. Oscar will find he has tackled a regular job at which he will get heck if he doesn't show and little credit if he does. A writer in the Voice of the People's column calls attention to the fact that while it is fine to decorate the main part of the city for Old Home Week, we should not overlook the fact that visitors will be in every part of the town and that there should not only be decorations but every lot and every street and alley should look spick and span. That's right and we sincerely hope that this will be attended to by the city officials and that they have the sincerest cooperation of every citizen. From no less authority than the president of the Radio Corporation of America comes the assurance that by 1932 television will be in common use, which means that we may sit at home and see the world series, the great football games, prize fights and even the greatest plays, national conventions and other events of interest. We will be able to see Senator Watson sneeze or "make faces at the kaiser.” it will be very wonderful and one of the things it will probably tend to do is to keep the folks at home. During recent years the trend has been away from the fireside and it may be we are to do an about face. The world is moving rapidly these days.

It seems just a little irregular that the Rev. John Roach Stratton, New York pastor has the right to assail the character of Governor Smith but that the church rules will not permit the governor to reply. If it's fair to charge a person with wrong doing, certainly it is good religion and good decency to permit him to answer those accusations. However it seems not and the governor is right in refusing to enter into a debate with onyone, that being an entirely different matter than asking the right to defend himself in the same place where he was berated. o — **«**«*•••**» • TWENTY YEARS AGO * * From the Dally Democrat File ♦ ♦ Twenty Year. Ago Today • *#***♦♦>••**•» Aug. 17.—L. E. Opliger, county superintendent, convenes annual teacher's Institute at the Methodist church. Lew Corbin and Peter Gaffer given contract to redecorate St. Mary’s Catholic church in Jefferson township. Clayson Carroll escapes uninjured after a thrilling runaway on Winchester street. Miss Maytrfe Deininger leaves for Cleveland and Detroit. Ollie Chroniser off for a two weeks trip to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other eastern points. Glen Glancy, G. R. I. operator, transferred to Rome City. Many attend German day at Cenlivre park. Hottest day of year according to the official dope. Tid Lin is working at Liberty, Indiana. Daughter born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Fleming. Rev. L. A. Stangle and family are at Winona lake.

To Wed French Journalist In t* ■% * WiW’*" ’• r siOk x Wk A wl ME Klopr * wOi If® i ■ IL * ■■■ K • Mary Garden, internationally famous opera star, whose engagement to Pierre Plessis, a French newspaperman has been announced. Miss Garden, who is 51 years old and who is said to often have declared that she would never wed, has made her home in Monaco lor several months.

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Rheumatic-like S' T~? “1 leg pains? Z {VP (J Pain in the arch, I \\ ti II ’ Olir root Trouble 'Free Foot Comfort Demonstration. V Monday, * —by an Expert from Chicago Crooked or overlapping toes, corns, callouses or bunions? Through the courtesy of Dr. Wm. M. Scholl, the famous foot authority, we will have at our store, on the above date, a Foot Comfort Expert from his own staff, for the special benefit of our patrons. This Expert is thoroughly trained in Dr. Scholl’s scientific methods of correction. He will make an analysis of your foot trouble over your stockinged feet, and show you, from the Pedo-graph prints he makes of your feet, just what ails them. He’ll then demonstrate how the latest improved Dr. Scholl Foot Comfort Appliances or Remedy relieves you of every foot pain, and enables you to walk with perfect comfort No charge is made for this valuable service. Don’t miss coming here on the above date. FREE SAMPLES ■fc,. Come in and get a free sample of Dr. Scholl's X' Zino-pads for Corns. They stop the pain instantly and temovs the cause— friction and pressure. Winnes Shoe Store

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the city limits is an absolute disgrace There ale tree limbs hanging over the walk, that must be pulled aside before one can pass. And the weeds meet on the walk. At 16th and Monroe there is a mulberry bush that takes up the entile walk and the branches must be pushed aside in order to pass Between 13th and 14th Sts. there is the stuli end ot a limb just right to gauge one’s eyes out. My clothes and umbrella were spoiled with some kind of black grease on the weeds and 1 even saw balogna rinds hanging in the weeds along the walk and 1 sJw the bricks left over from the lot used by the city in building man holes out there about three year ago, still along the edge cf the side walk, where they were pushed aside by the people who must use this street. If you think this is an exageration, walk out and take a look. xYours truly Ennie Walker. o _ Statute On Dog Tax Fund Is Explained Pleasantville, Ind. August 17—(INS) — i A China nest egg and a white porce- , lian door know used as nest eggs to foil hens also fooled a huge blackI snake on a farm in Carr Township > near here. , The snake swallowed the "nest eggs" ’ and then was unable to crawl through ’ a hole through which he had entered ‘ the henhouse. ■ The farmer s wife later entered the ! henhouse to collect eggs. She discover- ’ ed the'gig snakes coiled up in a nest. The snake showed fight and the ' woman called for help. After consider- - able fighting the snake was killed and it measured mote than five feet in , length. Railing to find any eggs the fanner decided to cut the snake open ami see . if it had swallowed any eggs. Upon . cutting the snake open tiiey found that [ it has swalolwed a China nest egg and . a white, porcelain door knob which no . i doubt accounted for its inability to > I crawl away.

ELEPHANT ROCK LEFT BY GLACIER So many inquiries are being constantly made regarding "Elephant Rock” the following letter from the Hon. W. N. Logan. State Geologist of Indiana may be Interesting: Indianapolis. Indiana Dear Ft lends: The Sample of "Elephant Rock., which you sent mo Is called “gneiss It is probably a metamorphoses granite which had its home somewhere in the old crystalline belt of rocks In Canada. | During the Glacial Period when the larger part of the surface of Indiana was covered with a thick layer of ice this boulder of gneiss was carried I down into Indiana by the ice as the sheet of ice moved southward from Canada. When the ice melted the boulder was left as a part of the Fort Wayne glacial moraine which exists in the vicinity of the St. Marys River. The rock is composed of minerals , such as feldspar, quartz^.hornblende, mica, pyrite, and smaller quantities of I other minerals. The minerals are in the form of crystals of varying size. | While this gneiss is not as durable as I some granites, it will form a very dur- ■ able monument. Such a glacial bowlder Is called an I “eratic” "a wanderer" because it has | wandered so far from its original home. It seems to me fitting that this boul-

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SSO REWARD On August 4, 50 Plymouth Rock chickens were stolen from Mrs. Charles Bentz, Route 1, Berne. We will pay SSO reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of guilty party or parties. This offer good for 60 days. The Indiana Farmer’s Guide, Huntington Ind If You are not a subscriber to the Farmer's Guide, write us and we will gladly send a sample copy free of charge.

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