Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1928 — Page 4

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National Advertising Representatives Scheerer, Inc., 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Members The Indiana League of Home Dailies. The big show is coming along and indications ate for a wonderful week Catch the spirit, be good fellows, boost it along and remember that we are hosts to all the folks who come. Eleven people were killed over the week-end In airplane crashes. What are they trying to do? Perhaps they will eventually make the automobile week-end casualties look insignificant. About the toughest task for a celebration like the one here is the securing and ‘'spotting" of concessions. If you doubt that ask Herman Yager. Herman Myers or Henry Thomas who have had the job. The keys of the city have been turned over to the guests and thetown is theirs for the week. Os course wp all want to hang around and see what they do and we hope they won’t object.

The pageant tonight. It promises to be a great event it the weather permits. Hundreds have practised and drilled and worked for weeks and we are sure you will be delighted with "Adams County, Yesterday and Tdday.” !■ .... iIK-LLI. ISM’ Decatur is entertaining many distinguished and brilliant people today of which fact we are not unaware. We are proud of the fact and we are all glad to extend the hand of fellowship. We are sure this community is better because they are here and we hope they derive some benefits and pleasures. L - Fred Rohrer, for many years editor and proprietor of the Adams County Witness has been appointed postmaster at Berne. We don't know the inside of it or waat strings were pulled to get it but we can't help but feel that a man who has worked that hard for so many years is entitled to a “snap'' if there is one to pass out.

By the way, while spending your money this week for one thing and another, don't fail to take part in the election of a Queen or the Mardi Gras. This election will close Friday at midnight and the young lady who wins will lead tne parade the following evening. She and her attendants will receive beautiful gifts. We are not trying to talk politics this week for this is the occasion when every body ought to have a good time and get rid of as many worries as possible. However, we expert to start in next week and keep busy for some seven weeks. That ought to be long enough for any one to tell all the reasons why you ought to vote his way. If you want a job that will make your headache, try editing a newspaper during Old Home Week and then If that don't do it, get a job as a printer, pressman or linotype operator. It takes about all the nerves a fellow has to listen to all the bands, meet all the friends and at the same time do a little work, so if there are any undotted “i's" you will know we are doing just the best we can this week. Forty-six years ago last night occurred one of the most disastrous

TODAY’S CHUCKLE Wapakoneta, 0.. Sept.ll—(Uß) When the car of an autolst on the Dixie Highway burst into flames he drove to the front door of the local tire department. The firemen saved the machine. fires in the history of this city and probably the largest, the entire east side of Second street from Madison to Monroe being destroyed. The fire broke out about eight o'clock near the corner of Monroe and Second and continued throughout the night. It will be remembered by many of our older citizens and quite a few of those who are visiting here now.

The folks out California way are having more than their share of attractions this year. -The Pacific coast always has a lot of tourist business and this has been added to this year by the fact that Mr. Hoover went there to receive his notification. Now everybody is looking forward to the hanging of William Edward Hickman on October 19th and according to the warden of the state prison whose duty it is to give out passes for the occasion he has already had three times as many requests as he could crowd people into the available space.

Norbert R. Holthouse has been appointed finance director for Adams county for the national Democratic committee and will immediately perfect an organization and begin the job of raising our share of the funds necessary to conduct the campaign. If you have suggestions he will be glad to have them and he will appreciate any contribution that is made. Mr. Holthouse is one of the younger democrats here, has a lot of pep and ability and is desirous of making a record. He can and will with the assistance of the earnest supporters of the national, sttrte and county tickets.

Harry G. Leslie who is republican candidate for governor and who has been having a tough time of it is to be the hero of old Purdue the latter part of this week. The alumni has been summoned to the colors, the band will be out and there will be a football game, which is certainly a little unusual. As taxpayers, democrats also assist in maintaining Purdue and it scarcely seems fair that their money should be used to start something for a candidate who can't attract attention himself. Frank Dailey is a graduate of Indiana University and was a member of her football team years ago. What would you think if that college was to put on a big celebration for him? The Decatur Democrat did the fine thing for the homecoming, which opens this evening for a week stand, in printing a forty-page paper Saturday. The edition is one to be proud of and the force on the Democrat, edi-

tors, printers and reporters, can stand off and say “take a look at it" with pride. The merchants came forth with a bunch of advertisements, without which these specials are almost impossible. The Banner congratulates the Democrat fellows and the city of Decatur, and advises everybody in Wells county to attend one or more sessions of home-coming week at Decatur. Special programs for forenoon, afternoon and evening, and those who were at Decatur Sunday say the town is beautifully decorated. Adams county always stands by the Bluffton street fair. So let us do some cooperating. — Bluffton Banner. o— — ♦ <♦♦**♦•***♦♦ • THE GREAT WAR * • 10 YEARS AGO • »»#****»***•♦ SEPTEMBER 11, 1918 The French armies are swinging close to La Pere and St. Quentin. British repulse severe counter attacks west of Gouzencourt. French troops take Etreillers. Roupy Seracourt-le-Grand, Clusters and Remigny. Storms hinder allied advance. o NOTICE My cider mill will start Thursday, August <3oth and will operate every Tuesday and Thursday thereafter. 205tf Peter Kirsch. -1 1 Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Payt

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11,1928.

First Telephone In Adams County Was Crude Affair, But Saved Time And Energy

(Uy F. Q ) In Adams county today there are about 3,500 telephones and every day about 15,000 thousand calls, but there was a time, not so tar distant in the past when Adams county and all th" inhabitants thereof did not know the difference between a telephone ami th" fourth dimension. In fact, telephones were not born and it one wanted to "listen in” when some thing snappy was going over the wire, the opportunity did not exist. But there came a time when a telephone was born in Adams county. It was a poor thing. But the darued think worked. You eould talk to it, and listen to it. Kipling said something about a beautiful object as "a rag. a bone and a hank of hair" but this contraption only was a wire and a piece of tin and a button. Here is the how of it; Along about the year ISBO in the town of Decatur in said Adams county, one Alex Bell then living and now living in said town conducted a livery stable (a business now extinct), and had also the government contract for hauling the mall. Part of his occupation was driving a hack from the hotels to the railroad stations and superintending the transfer of baggage to and from railroads to other points of interest in city and county. The Burt House was a hotel located three blocks in a due northeasterly direction from Bell’s livery stable Some times there were passengers from that hotel to transport and baggage as well to railroad stations and sometimes no passengers and no baggage. When there were no passengers and no baggage Alex's visits to the hotel wete distinctly unprofitable and tiresome. That frequent situation annoyed Alex and he thought over the matter considerably seeking a solution There was away out. He had heard of such a thing as a telephone. How. is neither here nor there but he had heard and that was enough He had an idea. One Racy Bowers, was one of his employees. Alex and Racy conspired and conspired to some purpose. They got some broom wire. They

MEMORIES I saw a gorgeous sunrise flame on Pike’s Peak’s snowy crown And watched its tinted shadows change to crimson, mauve and brown; Stood a frowning precipice that towered in majesty And hoard a mountain rivulet pass, gaily singing, by. I've tn, I the city's crowded street 'mid traffics surge and swirl; Heard childhoods happy laughter and the grumbling of a churl. I've entered homes of luxury, and poverty's abode; Have mingled with the friendly throng, and walked a lonely road. But you. Decatur, was my home when heart-throbs measured time. In you I saw my children pass from youth to early prime; You've loyal hearts and friendly hands to greet me when I come, And so I'm hoping soon to turn mj’ wandering footsteps home. 8, 20. 1928. THOS. S. PERKINS, Ossian, Ind.

Active Waltonian .. I? ib I ■ I Os HE [“ 1 ® R Jl** SwKMlk Bo® Senator L. G. Bradford, of South Bend, former president 'of the Indiana branch of the Izaak Walton League of America, has long been known for his interest in conservation and the "Out Doors.” o—- *♦»»**•>•»♦**** ♦ BIG FEATURES * ♦ OF RADIO * TUESDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WJZ—Network 8:00 pm Music of great Composers. WOR—Newark (422) 6:00 pm. Main St. Sketches. WJZ—Network 7:30 pm. Minstrel show. WOBC—Network 8:30 pm. Show' boatWEAF— Network 7 pm. Eveready hour o WEDNESDAY'S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES WEAF—Network 8:30 pm. Gilbert and Sulivan's opera hour. WOR—Network 8 pin Kloster hour. WOR—Network 7:30 pm, United Military band. WJZ—Network 9 pm Slumber music. — o — *•»«*«*«**««* ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO * ♦ From the Dally Democrat File * ♦ Twenty Years Ago Today ♦ ♦ ♦tf****?***** Sept 11—Frisinger and Company's horses take two firsts and a championship at the Indiana state fair. Conter company ships a car of icecream to the Fort Wayne fair. Peaches are selling at $1.60 a bushel. James A. Beery, of Bentley, North Dakota, is visiting hereFred Stfhafer arrives home from

got quite a hunk of broom wire They stretched that broom wire from the livery stable over and above and ar, und such obsticles as may have been, to the office of the Burt House. To the livery stable end of the wire and t > the hotel end they attached a tin quart can, just an ordinary canned corn can, one end of each can being left intact and the other end they carefully removed and through the intact end they made a small hole and run the wire through the hole into the can and held the wire secure therein by using a pants button off Alex's pants. Now at both ends of this wire was the can, upon the wall of each place they suspended, not just exactly an ornament but nevertheless quite serviceable looking. The mechanical and physical features were thus accomplished No ether accessories needed except a leail pencil to use to tap on the can anil a couple pair of lungs. Tap, tap. tap would go the pencil, from Alex at the livery stable to Dick Townsend, landloard at the hotel. ‘‘Hello,'' yells Alex. "Hello yourself” levys Dick, from the hotel "Any passengers?" "No.” "Any baggage?" "No." "By gosh.' says Alex, “See what labor I saved.” Don't forget, however, that travelers and baggage got good service, no waste of energy and Alex gave maximum service with minimum expenditure of activity. That telephone was in service a long time. At last a decided improvement was made by using a small board fastened by one end to the wall (the wire ataehed to it)) so that the other end might piggle and to the jiggling end a small bell was attached. Jiggle the board and the board at the other end with its- bell jiggled. See? Well, anyhow. Alex had the first telephone in Adams county. Not so long ago at that What strides have been made in conveniences. We are so used to improvements and labor saving devices it seems as if we must have always had them, but if you have any gray in your hair you know better and are duly and truly thankful.

a three months tour of Europe. There are 741 pupils enrolled in De-: catur public schools, seven more than i last year. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Butler of route ! four mystery supper for the Misses' Fisher, of Eaton. Indiana, and Miss I Ada Fuhrman, of Carson City, Nev. ] Andrew Welfley buys the interest of I his partner Ed Kintz and the real estate business. Major Robert B Allison is seriously I ill at his home on Adams street. Asthma and the extreme warm weather forces Harry Ward back to Petoskey after two days at home. o IN MY COZY HOI SE CAR I am now within your city Where the lights are all aglow. There is where 1 want to linger With the dearest girl I know. Where the moon is high above you Where the azure sky is clear. I vow to the stars I could love you. I'm so fond of you, my dear. (Cho.) In my cozy little house car Here beneath the grand old sign. I'll lie happy then with you, dear. I will hold your hand in mine. Then I want to hear you whisper Now be good and I'll be true In n y cozy little house car. I'll be contented, dear, with you. Now I have so much to tell you How I like to see you smile. Like to hear you call me Go-Go Makes me happy all the while. Yon are just the one I fancy And I like your winning way You have won my heart, my dearie Can I love you all my days. Composed by— Go-Go, The Clown. o BLOOMINGTON — Students are; starting to arrive for the opening of I the fall session of Indiana university next week. Greek letter organizations are opening their chapter houses and planning for the "rush" season. Approximately four thousand three hundred students are expected to attend the university this year. REFORE RETURNING HOME Go to one of the drug stores, get a 50c tube of TRU ADE for some sufferer from asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, colds, coughs or the like. If it does not prove Better than anything previously used, return the remaining half and get your money. Lariueb Medical Co. FORT WAYNE, IND.

Liquor Raid Fills Brown County Jail; Inmates Sleep Standing Nashville, Ind . Sept 11 — (U.R> j Standing space in Brown county jail I was taxed to capacity Sunday night and Monday after aSheriff'a squad arrested four women and seven men , iu a liquor raid. These 11 added to the four prisoners I waiting trial for automobile and chicken stealing and attempted assault, i forced the inmates to sleep standing. The jail was made famous in the ! state when it replaced the county's log prison, still standing here. o . Dismissal Os Five Dry Agents Reported Pending

Indianapolis. Sept. 11 —(U.R) Dismissal of five Indiana prohibition agents was understood to be pending today. Janies Browning, new acting prohi bition administrator, refused to comment on the action pending arrival of William Woodruff, prohibition administrator for the Indiana-Ohio district. Those slated for dismissal according to reports are: Frank Conroy, of Fort Wayne; J. E. Wright, of Wash ington; Harvey Rhed, of iaike county; Ray Trueblood, of Terre Haute, and L. O. .Rariek. o Urban Shocker. Famous Spitball Pitcher, Dies Denver, Colo., Sept 11 —(U.R) —Urban Shocker, famous spitball pitcher for the New York Yankees, lost his long battle with a lingering illness and died here Sunday. Almost his last thoughts were on his former teammates’ battle for a pennant. Shocker, whose pitching record in the American league over a period of eleven years was IS4 games won and 113 lost, died of athletic heart. He had been fighting the illness here for m< nths.

Census Os Unemployed School Teachers Ordered Indianapolis, Sept. 11 —(ll.R) A census of unemployed school teachers in Indiana was ordered taken by the state hoard of education recently. The majority of board members agreed there is an alarming surplus We W ant Your Trade And Will Treat You Right Groceries, baked goods, ice cream, soft drinks and tobacco. Lunches served. LITTLES GROCERY successor to Strickler Grocery, 715 Mercer Ave. Near Adams County Hospital.

Get Your Dollar’s Worth GRANDMOTHER reads the latest market prices—- “ Lands sakes alive!" she exclaims, “why, when I was voting we didn't have to pay half so much." Yes,’ in “the good old days" milk sold at five cents a quart, potatoes at forty cents a bushel, sugar twenty-five pounds for a dollar, and so on. And, in “the good old days" a laborer was paid a dollar a day or possibly a dollar and a quarter. But who wants to go back to “the good old da vs" ? Not you-not me. Prices are higher now, but wages are higher too. You pay more, but the goods you buy are of better material, they are better made, they last longer. Even footstuffs are better. Inspection and extra care insure their quality. The dollar can still buy a dollar’s worth. Read the advertising in the newspapers and you will find that they will help your dollars go a long way. Advertising tells you where you can get full value for your money. I he young housewife of today shops even more intelligently than “grandma." for the advertisements are her guides, they make her a competent judge of values. Merchandise must be good or it couldn't be advertised. Read the advertisements and get your dollar's worth. Decatur Daily Democrat

of teachers in Indiana. Dr. E. <’• Elliott. Purdue University president, declared ho had received more than one hundred letters from Purdue graduates unable to get K»lU °Dr William U>we Bryan. Indiana University president, said the situation is due to specialization of studeßts on one subject, making them unable to teach other subjects when their special fields arc over-crowded. Dr L. N- Hines, president of the Tetre Haute statu normal, declared the teachers surplus indicated a healthy condition. Education woul 1

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