Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 31 August 1928 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller -Pm. and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthonae Sec'y * Bim. Mgr. Dick I). Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana, ua second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mall .35 Three months. by mail 100 Six months, by mall 1.75 | One year, by mail.. 3.00 | One, year, at office— 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second sones. 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. CLEAN INDIANA: Frank C. Dailey, democratic candidate for governor opened the campaign this afternoon, speaking at Salem His address is one that should be read thoughtfully by every voter and we hope you do so. We believe that if the people of the state realize the importance of cleaning out the statehouse this year the results will prove their desire to restore the reputation of this great old state. Mr. Dailey says in his speech: “It is unnecessary to state the facts constituting the proved wrongs of recent administrations. Sworn testimony has been offered in courts of justice, and the facts are more or less familiar to the people. "The latest disclosure, however, comes from the State Penal Farm. Within the past few days it has been discovered that inmates of the State Penal Farm have been leaving the institution at periods considerably antedating the time adjudged by the courts, and it was ascertained that-this extraordinary privilege had been obtained by the unoriginal plan of handing a financial consideiation to state employees. “This is simply an added illustration of the kind of government and quality of service which Jfe- ■ suit from long continued office holding by an organized system. “Let us ask Republicans to lay aside patty predisposition for the moment and to consider impartially the existing situation in Indiana. This is a time for frankness. No change of condition can be made without the aid of patriotic Republicans, men and women who are willing to place state welfare above a party emblem. “The complaint in Indiana is not against a Republican because he is a Republican. The grievance is against a machine leadership because of the place to which it has led and is leading.’’ Mr. Mellon, supposed to be one of the great financiers of the world, missed his guess on the amount of money required and instead of having plenty there is a shortage of $94.000,000. It has even wakened the president from his Brule nap and he proposes to make each department get along with less. Why not? After all isn't that the proper thing to do any way? What they don't have they should not spend and the fact that the total can be reduced such an amount shows that if there had been a real desire for economy and it had been practised during the year, there would have been no scare. And the shortage, don't forget comes from a republican administration which never makes mistakes. If it was under a democratic outfit, they -would sure be proving the inefficiency and making it a great republican issue. Turn about is therefore fair play. Way back in 1902 they estab fished a new congressional district in Arkansas. It was generally conceded that Samuel Taylor Rice would be the man to represent the district. There was however some talk about a boy named Joe Robinson from a little tow’n named Lonoke. When Rice heard it he laughed. That made Joe , mad and he sent word to Rice that while he had not intended to run, if he heard any more jokes he would. Rice laughed harder than ever so Joe got in the race and defeated him. Since then no one in that country has laughed at Robinson when he announces he is a candidate. He is a fighter who never loses but always a fair fighter. He will carry the message of this campaign to every nook

TODAY’S CHUCKLE — Lima, Peru. August 31 —(U.RI—- — and player-pianos ate making too much noise in Lima, and music stores have been ordered to stop the racket. and corner of his beloved south and he will inspire many votes for his party. One of the greatest speeches heard I in many years seems to be the general opinion of those who listened in last evening to the acceptance address of that great southern statesman, Senator Joseph Robinson, democratic candidate for vice-president. He discussed with unusual forcefulness and ability all of the great issues of the present time and there is no doubt that he will prove a great aid in the campaign. His ideas are excellent and he has away of saying things in a most convincing manner. As a running mate to the New York governor no better selection could have been made. They make a great team and wii continue to grow in popularity as the campaign goes on. The Syracuse Herald, one of the. leading newspapers of New York state has announced that it will support Governor Smith for president, declaring that while usually republican in politics, they feel that “the man who administered the affairs of the Empire state eight years with an ability, efficiency and progressive statesmanship unsurpassed, has established a better claim to promotion to the presidency than his opponent, the former secretary of commerce.” Plans for the pageant to be given on Tuesday night of Old Home Week are going ahead rapidly these days and there is no doubt that with pleasant weather it wi!i be one of the high spots of the week. Several hundred will take part and there will be many beautiful scenes that will linger long and pleasantly in the minds of those who see “Adams County, Yesterday and Today.” Mayor Krick is planning to have the debris removed from beneath the Monroe street bridge, although this is a job which rightfully belongs to some one else. However we are going to have a lot of company week after next and the mayor is not going to waste any time trying to find out just who should do it. Thats the proper idea, Mr. Maydr, and we know every one wilil appreciate it. The Old Hpme Week edition of the Daily Democrat will be the largest and most interesting ever published in the county and will go into each and every home. The merchant who fails to extend an invitation to the people of Adams county and surround!ng country to trade with them is overlooking an opportunity. Next week we will all be hustling in preparation for Old Home Week. There will be decorating to do, a change of show windows, painting up and a general stir that will be good for all of us. Get in the game folks and help make it a whopper of an affair. By the way. if you have a vacant lot which may be used for parking during Old Home Week, get it ready and put up a sign. If you give it free thats fine and 4f you feel you should charge thats alright too. Os course those merchants who have boxes and crates in front of their places will clear them away before Old Home Week so the crowds can get along. —..—0 11 — ************* * THE GREAT WAR * * 10 YEARS AGO • ************* AUGUST 31. 1918 , French advance north of Soissons and Geimans are forced back across the Canal du Nord by Gen Mangin. German resistance reported stiffening, but British troops repel all count-er-attacks. British airforce intensify air raids over enemy territory. Almost nightly, house-top. raids made on Mannheim o , NOTICE! We will not operate our sorghum I mill this season. 206t3x Peace Bros., near Honduras.

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| PUBLIC SALE We, the undersigned, will sell at public sale, one-quarter mile south and one-half mile east i»l C.raigville, or two miles north and four and one-half miies east of Bluffton, on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1928 The sale to shift at 12 o'clock, the following property to-wit: HORSES, 5 head— l sorrel horse, 10 years old. weigh! about 1650, good worker; 1 sorn I mare, 8 years old, weight 1600, good worker; 1 bay marc, good worker; 1 'sorrel mare; 1 bay mare. CATTLE, 10 head 1 red cow, 6 years old, will be fresh Nov 1; Holstein heifer. 3 years old, giving good flow of milk; 1 li'ilstein cow, 0 years old, giving a good flow of milk; 1 Guernsey cow, 7 years old. giving 6 gal. miik; 1 Guernsey cow. 8 years old, giving 5 gal. milk; 1 Brown Swiss. 8 years old, giving 5 gal. cf milk; 1 red cow, 7 years old, giving 5 gal. milk; 1 Guernsey cow, 6 years old. with calf by side. These cows are all T. B. tested and good milkers. HOGS, 1 head— l white sow, will farrow in Sept.; 1 spotted sow, will farrow in Sept.; 12 shouts averaging about 80 pounds. FARM MACHINERY 1 McCormick binder, 6-ft. cut, in good shape; 1 Milwaukee mower, 5 ft. cut. good shape; 1 Superior fertilizer drill, 8 hose; 1 double disc, fair shape; 1 tractoi disc; 1 gal. corn planter; 1 single row corn cultivator; 1 clod crusher; 2 fourteen-inch sulky plows; 1 spring tooth harrow; 1 float; 1 hay tedder; ! International low lift manure spreader; 1 wagon with hay ladder, and grain rack, good shape; 2 old wagons; 1 set of heavy work harness, in good shape; 1 set of leather fly nets; 2 horse collars; 1 Sniidley automatic hog feeer; 1 kerosene brooder stove, 500 chick capacity; 1 tank heater; 1 wheelbarrow; 1 oil drum; 1 kerosene stove; 1 good oak extension table; 1 cider press. GRAIN AND HAY 325 bushel good oats; 50 busheF wheat, suitable for seed; 5 ton mixed hay; 4 ton clover hay; 6 ton bean hay; 5 ton oats straw in mow; some baled straw; 15 acres corn; in field. TERMS— S dollars and uniicr, cash. Sums over 5 dollars, credit of 6 months, first 3 without interest. Purchaser giving bankable note. Four percent discount for cash. No property to be removed until satisfactory settlement is made. EL! GERBER and JOHN FIECHTER Jess EUenberger, H. H. High, auctioneers Gideon Gerber, Clerk

WHEAT CHOP FAR BELOW NORMAL By Paul H. King. UP Staff Correspondent Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 31.—(U.R) Indiana’s wheat crop is about one-fifth normal and is selling at ninety cents per bushel as compared with $1.25 a year ago. For the first time in history Indiana is harvesting less soft wheat than hard. Farmer’s, consequently, have failed to profit by the premium soft wheat brought them over heard. If the condition persists, soft wheat millers will go out of business and Mr. City Resident, blandly unconcerned with the farmer’s woes, will complain when friend wife resorts to bard wheat flour to make his biscuits, pies and cakes. Thats the way the wheat situation in Indiana is sized up by B. 1). Refiner, secretary-treasurer of the Central States Soft Wheat Growers Association, in the offices of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, but the problem he says, has deeper signitiance for the farmer and business man. In Indiana, to add to the farmer’s discomfiture, most wheat is grading only No. 1 to “sample’’ instead of No. 2, because of excess moisture and mixed varieties. In the Indiana drift from soft to hard wheat, Benner sees the Hoosier farmer sacrificing a profitable opportunity. "Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio are best suited by soil and climate to produce soft wheat which always commands a premium," he said. “Last year soft wheat sold at 55 cents a bushel above hard. And this year the premium runs from 30 to 35 cents. But soft wheat was hardest hit by tiie weather. The seed costs more and giadually the Indiana farmer is getting away from a profitable source of revenue. “For a time they planted considerable Purffoff and Michikoff semi-soft wheats, fostered by Purdue, but millers won’t regard them as soft wheats and thousands of farmers, already hard ptessed financially, swung over to the hardier but cheaper hard wheats.” Benner* is urging farmers to sow soft wheat for the 1929 harvest, lest ! they should lose control of the premium bearing soft-wheat varieties. “The farmers’ plight,” he said, "is so obvious that the urban residents and business men. so vitally affected by the farmers' welfare, have no excuses for not recognizing it. "The American farmer," said Bunner, "has raised close to a bumper wheat crop this year and the price lias dropped until he probably wii! | not’get as much money for the crop as if it were 200,000,000 bushels less. And yet the world has never had as I much wheat as it would like to eat." Normally, Indiana’s crop, i soft wheat predominating, amounts to 28,000,000 or 30,000,060 bushels. In 1927 the yield was 27,749,000 bushels from the 1.698,000 acres planted. Last fall the acreage planted in wheat in Indiana was 7 per cent above normal. And the yield, Benner estimates, will be 6,000.000 or 7,000,000 bushels, about one fifth of a normal crop. Freezing weather played havoc with the crop in Indiana last winter Benner said. Whole fields were abandoiided as a result. In some it was estimated the crop would be slightly

less than half normal. Then hot weather that month injured that wheat in the milk, and more abandonments brought still lower estimates. "The 24.000,000 bushels of wheat which Indiana farmers were disappointed in not harvesting, would have amounted, at the $1.49 per bushel ‘production cost’ rate estimated by the government, to over $35,000,000 or at the present market pride of 90 cents, OVi 1 $21,000,000." The price drop in hard wheat from $1.25 a year ago to 90 cents this year attributed to the bumper crop, outside Indiana. Kansas expects to show a record crop. * TWENTY YEARS AGO * * From the Dally Democrat File ♦ * Twenty Years Ago Today * St************ August 31—Col. S. B. Fordyce and a dozen other veterans leave for F< ledo, to attend the national convention of the G. A. R. Ed C.'ftee returns from Dallas. Tex as. Too .hot, Ed says. W. A. Lower and L. A. Graham attend Chicago-New Yolk hall game. M. J. Wertzberger. John 11. Porter, D. M. Hoagland and Joseph Helm employed as school house custodians. Mrs. C. K. Bell euteitains for Mrs. R. C. Stone, of Muncie. Mrs. H. R. Daniel, cf Chicago, visits hete Carl Moses is very ill with typhoid fever at the Dr. W. E. Smith home. Jesse Williams brings a 65-foot log in from the W. H. Bollinger woods. W. L. lA'hne is suffering from typhoid fever. Fair officials are busy paying p emiunis. School board raises the special school levy 15 per cent. Come to • n u Washington, 1 ‘The educational •A '' V vantages of« vidt£ a to the Capital of * C our Nation are of ! f inestimable vafay Stop at . rite lee House !sth and L_ Street! Three squares to the White? House. A new and modern Hotel. Refined environment? rooms ' Single room S 3 daily’ Double ”C_«5 oo »"a Sinjleroomfwithmralt) 9 th nxolt) HO?*—GRokerf Block*. ij. J ■ n ’

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Woman To Preach At Monroe Friends Church Monroe, Aug. 31.— (Special)—Miss Leah Parker, a graduate cf the Cincinnati Bible school, will preach at the Monroe Friends' church next Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Tin

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