Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1928 — Page 25

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DECATUR HAS MODERN RETAIL DISTRICT

business men ME LIVE WIRES: STORES MODERN Manv New Store Frorfts Constructed During Last Several Years strangers comment ON RETAIL DISTRICT The modem retail district and the large nunilter of live-wire merchants In Decatur are the envy of most cities of (he slxe of the Adams county metrep lis. Seldom does a stranger visi’ Decatur that he does not comment on the attractiveness of the stores and the progressiveness of the merchants. The modern and attractive store f. ms throughout the business district of the city are unusual in u city of this size. Each year for the last several years, there have been several new fronts constructed until now a large majority of the business houses have modem appearances. Deeatui has three tellable banks and one trust company with total resourses exceeding $6,115,667. There are two motion picture theatres in the city, each presenting first run pictures and maintaining modern equipment. The retail shopping district of Decatur extends five blocks on Second street, four blocks on Monroe street, four blocks on First street, one block in Jefferson street. There are ornamental street lights throughout the business distiict. The retail shopping district includes lit automobile agencies; two bakeries, three confectioneries: four drug stores: four dry goods stores; two florists; six garages; I 9 groceries; four hardware stores; two jswelry stoies; five meat markets; four men's -furnishing stores; one phutggraphei ; four furniture stores; two electrical supplies stores; five restaurants; four sh e stores; two millnery stores; one ladies' ready-to-wear store and two five and ten cent stores. There are several wholesale concerns in Decatur, also, including; cne grocery; one meat; one hardware; one tobacco; and f. urteen in niscellan- J eons lines. I ARMES TELLS WHY HIS SONS ARE FARMERS Marion County farmer Finds That Teamwork With His Sons Pays . Editor’s r ‘e: The following story was by E. S. Mills, of Marion county, Indiana, in an ininterview with C. Henry, of Farm 4 Fireside, and is reprinted in the Daily Democrat through the courtesy of that magazine. lou ask why did three of my four sous stay here on Maplehurt Farms 'Vtth me when so many opportunities '“11 in the city? 1 suppose there is something in being born with a natural inclination or rural life and the farm but T k, ‘ow that my sons would have ac'epted some of the positions offered m other lines if I had treated as | have seen some fathers treat their sons. ■ "1 have never refused to buy any"hM reasonable that the boys wanted way oE machinery and liven, ' lust as soon as a bby reaches ci-u IP ‘Y° lli, ' g aKe he begins to appreh', , le n,anly consideration. If 1 denied niy sons a share in the w ( ,„'i^ e I ment and f thorn °r g ;lg ° have joined 1,1 the can't i, Ot ° Ur " a,ional 'ament, ’You farm' kWP the yo " ng men 0,1 the "■ork"',„ l | ani ' ly WaS ralsed on hard » and cooperation. They all wantthev 1 ed " ( ' a,i °n and knew that ntonev ave ,0 he, P ‘he the #L° Ut ? f the ground - That was forked . IPSS °" 1,1 teamw ork. We col eg ‘T a Plail SPlld ">•*"> a " to W ° ,ked toWard i,s »<>iani Ve r ,°'x B ° ns ’ Mark ’ Summer, ter, Beulah"' vn Wl T’ !"'* one daugh ' “tes of mv ai A ° f '' e "‘ are B radl1 ’ lege. T«. \ ma Mater > Earlham colen short " ° ,lIP l,oys and 1 have takPurdue ,™ urseß ' hl agriculture at Mark, has H ' ersliv ' My oldest son, a degree of doctor of phil- ‘ • /

DECATUR D AILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

oHophy from Columbia University. lie i is a member of the faculty ot Indiana , University In the department of econ- I omits lint would he here on the farm with the rest of us if his health would permit. "My second son, Sumner, has made two trips to Europe, once with the | Red Cross in the A. E. F and then in 1920, when both he and Mark were " sent to London by the Friends' Church as delegates to a world conference I Upon graduation from college, Howaid could have become an athletic coach, while Newlin, the youngest son, was offered an attractive college teaching position upon graduation. Beulah, the daughter, spent a year I nursing at Chalons, France, and is I now teaching in Oakwood school. 1 Poughkeepsie. N. Y. “I tell you this so you will see it not lack of opportunity or education that caused three of my four sons to choose partnership with me. They could all find attractive positions elsewhere. "The home farm here.of 151 acres seemed to be getting a little small sot all of us, so in March, 1924,,we bought 157 acres adjoining us, making us a total of 308 acres. "The Teamwork that started while the boys were helping each other through college still continues. Sumner has charge of the sales and is general business manager. Howard has charge of raising the field crops and the hogs, while Newlin manages the dairy herd and poultry. They all work together anywhere on the farm but each accepts - full responsibility for his own department. "We have a Jersey herd of 60 head which was started with 10 head 22 years ago. We had a national record cow last year and have from 10 to 20 head on advanced registry testing all of the time. "While the retail price of milk in Indianapolis is 12 cents a quart we have no difficulty in disposing of our raw Jersey milk for 16 cents a quart. A select trade in the finest residence district of Indianapolis takes all we can produce, in addition to an average of 60 dozen eggs and 2tf dressed cUick- , ens each week. "Ten years ago we bought a bigtype Poland gilt. She raised 126 pigs for us and when we sold her in Jan 1926. as a fat hog she brought enough money to buy a new suit of clothes with two pairs of pants, an overcoat, a hat and enough more to buy a good i dinner and go to a show. "We now keep from fifteen to eighteen of her descendants as brood sows, and market an average of 200 hogs each year. “Yes. we use a tractor to very good i advantage. We need good horses in j Continued on page 7 section 4

Relates Story Os How Limberlost Received Name IMlmr D-mo-rat: — Manv stories and traditions have Iveen told from time to time as to how the famous "Limberlost Swamp" received its name, but without a doubt the following story, told by Mrs. Elizabeth Studebaker Morrison, daughter of Judge David Studebaker and granddaughter of Peter Studabeker, is the true one. ( Peter Studabakcr came into Adams county in 1822. entered his land and returned to Fort Reeo|very. Ohio, and in 1833, returned to Adams county and together with Robert 'S'misor were the first settlerS of Wabash township, and the first pernrinertt settlers of the south half of the county. Peter Studabaker died in the year 1837, so that the incident of the naming of the "Limberlost" took place, shortly before 1837. The story as told by Mrs. Morrison is practically identical with that found briefly in Snow's History of Adams county, page 191. Mrs. Morrison was born in Adams county in 1857. French Quinn.

The first whites to penetrate the great wilderness of northeastern Indiana found a great swamp miles in extent sunken a little lower than the surrounding coimtry. In it I were great . forests of hard woods towering toward the sb •. thick underggnowth with water every where with no) outlet by creek or river. I Z The Indians called the place "The Loblolly." This depressed Submerged area is supposed to have belpn caused by an earthquake causing the land to settle. This heavily wooded [Swamp later became a pait of the northern Jary county and southern Adams. It was a great hiding place fort bear, wildcat and other wild animals. . The early settlers did not 'have much stock, because of the great difficulty in bringing it into the trackless wilderness, for of course tjhere were no roads of any kind. Therefore the few horses, cattle, sheep'and hogs they did have, were very highly valued, and the loss of even the sn'tallest and weakest was a very serifeus matter. There came a time when the Mild depredations of the wild animals (became unbearable and the pioneier settlers decided to have a grand hiioit of three days duration, killing all tltje animals they could, and frightening others farther back into the woodA. At the end of the first day's hunt, ill M

RETAIL PRICES FIX POWER OF FARM PRODOCTS By Kenneth Clark INS Staff Correspondent Washington. — The agriculture department has adopted a new system for measuring the purchasing power of farm products. It is based on the retail prices that faimers pay for what they buy instead of the wholesale prices of nonagricultural goods for comparisons. Officials believe it more accurately reflects the farmers' financial position because "farmers obtain most of their supplies at retail lather than at wholesale and a retail index is therefore more appropriate as a measure of the exchange value of farm com modifies." The change Is illustrated in the Junqjt rice index number, just determi ined. It showed the purchasing power of farm products was 93 per cent of the level prevailing in the five-year peaiiod from August, 1909, to July, 1914., The general tendency is to show a higher purchasing power. Purchasing Power "It should he noted, however, that the new index numbers do not measure the purchasing power of the farmers, but merely that of a fixed quantity of farm products," the department warned. “Under the new system the department takes the prices since 1910 of commodities purchased by farmers for the family living and for operating the farm. Indexes of these prices are constructed with practically the same base period, 1.910-1914, and as nearly as possible in the same manner, as the index of prices received by farmers foi the commodities they sell. "The prices paid are weighted by estimates of quantities purchased for i the average (arm iii_ period. 1920I 1925. In other words, an attempt is made to measure the purchasing power of farm commodities in terms of the usual things that farmers actually buy. But the list of such things does not include all the values for which farm income is dtstribursed. It does not include, for example, such items as interest on mortgages and loans, rent and railroad fares. "Naturally, measurement of farm commodity purchasing power on a basis of retail instead of wholesale price comparisons tells a slightly different story from that told by the inContinue on page 6 section 4

was found that Jimmy McDowel (pronounced McDole), a youth of sixteen, son of one of the hunters was missing. It was a very serious thing for any one to be lost in the Big Swamp, and every member of the party felt keen alarm for the boy. For three days they hunted boy instead of bear. For three nights they kept big fires to guide him to camp. Two or three times (hey had glimpses of the fleeing boy, but he was so crazed by fear, he thought his friends were Indians and ran from them. They finally rounded him up the third day when he was almost exhausted by hunger, fear and running. Although only sixteen Jim was over six feet tall and very slender.” He was called "Limber Jim.” Well, Limber Jim getting lost spoiled the great wild animal hunt, but it renamed the loblolly. Reference to the great swamp in which Limber Jim was lost became Limberlost. My grandfather, Peter Studabaker, was a member of the hunt and the McDowels were close relatives and I have heard the story from my earliest childhood. There are other descendants of the men who were in this hunt living in these two counties today, who know that this is the true story of how the Limberlost received its name. Elizabeth Studabaker Morrison. ■

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 8, 1928.

Roy Scout Work Well Organized In Decatur; City Has Three Life Scouts '' ZTJMM NM lilWT'll fl : a-- * ’ • • HL Y. . m A *ll ■b- yi j -Mg I x Ms k i -

Boy Scout work is well organized in Decatur, there being four troops with a total membership of moriythan Go in the city at present. Three of the Decatur Scouts were recently made Life Scouts, the second highest rank which a Scout can attain. They are pictured above,

I — — r/' Old Home \ X Week Visitors C>-< / /fe f/ — W *H fin»l the hand of Welcome / open and ready to receive them should they visit this splendid \ /Z Zdli v , ’* I W'' X V.and beautiful recreational center. l iMJ/aN. y ** aX ' 3b<- i \ PLAY GOLF W. 1 A \ T A beautiful nine-hole golf course beckons to the lovers of the 7 X :’'•*?*\ Ftgreat game of Golf. An Old Home Tournament will be held to f '' \ which von are invited ,/?>-< \ A * Y t fIV -1? \ M Spacious Club Rooms affords the visitors and members the conveniences and privileges of its modern facilities. Special Dinners and Lunches will be ( f/ ~ RMXK served upon notification. Please make // j/I all reservations earlv. f / / > SfliSßk' 4 Welcome H mL to everbody jjX_, —flf —“ |/ ‘ JI / Decatur Country Club __XJ . '•s.

reading from left to right; Robert Hite, James Burk and Harry Dailey. Adam; county is included in the Anthony Wayne area council of Boy Scouts, which also includes Wells, Allen, Whitley. Noble. DeKalb, Huntington, and Steuben' counties.

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RED CROSS AIDS PHILIPPINES BY FIGHT ON FEVER By Kenneth Clark, INS Staff Correspondent Washington.—-The Red Cross is winning its fight against tropical ditft-ases in the desolate hinterland regions of the Philippines. Reports fiom the nurses and doctors engaged in the work read like pages from hair-raising movie thiillers. The story is not unlike that unfolded dur-> ing the battle against the yellow fever menace in the canal zone. Traveling on horseback or by foot across mountains and through jungles, in tiny steamers from island to island, in outrigger canoes over lakes and lagoons, sometimes caught in typhoons, at times menaced by croco diles ot deadly snakes, the nurses, quietly and unostentatiously, carry modern health methods into the nipabuilt villages to replace the primitive medicine and superstitions of those natives who live "back beyond" the piogress of civilization. Aid To Agriculture The winning of the fight is an aid to the development of agriculture and industry. Epidemics of cholera, malaria, typhoid and dysentery sweep the native villages at frequent intervals. WhenContinue on page 6 section 4