Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1928 — Page 2

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CLASSIFIED " J ADVERTISEMENTS, J ■ BUSINESS CARDS, ■ ■ AND NOTICES ■ Billißliiißlii W*'-Bli«Bn ■ ■ B B ■ ■ ■ FOR SALE FOR SALE —House at 247 No. 6th st. 8 rooms, gas. water and large barn. Reason for Belling, moving from city. Mrs Orpha Ziegler, at above address. 215t5x I kOR SALE-Seed wheat Inquire of Cecil Harvey, Tel. 873-C. 217t3x FOR SALE Red ripe tomatoes for canning. Trout Farm phone 868-K 218-3tx FOR SALE 42 feeding shoats. Chas. W. Andrews, Decatur R R. 2. 218-3 t Ttfß SaLE—2O light Brahma pullets Walter Tbieme. R. R. 8 phone H 1845. 21S-3t FAR SALE—B pigs to be sold at John Stoneburner sale 2% miles west and 1 mile north of Monroe, September 17. Gladys Shady. 218-2 t FOR SALE —Tomatoes. t 5 cents per bushel. Call Otto Bleeke. 694-T 217-3 t ecd x WANTED WANTED - Salesmen. We ran us wo energetic young men, willing to learn to sell most popular line of cars today; or apply Beacon Motors, Inc. S. Haror apply Beacon Motor, snc. S. Harrison, Fort Wayne, Ind- 216-4tx WANTED —Gentleman roomer. Have nice front room for rent. Phone 150. 218-2 t SALESMAN WANTED: Salesbooks, Manifold Printing, Stationery, Restaurant Checks, Register Printing, Fanfold Forms, Tags. Full or part time. Splendid opportunity. Shelby Salesbook Co., Shelby, Ohio. FOR RENT FOR RENT—Seven room modern residence near business section. Both hard and soft water, furnace, garage. A. D. Suttles. 181TF LOST AND FOUND FOUND —Young Holstein bull. Owner may have same by inquiring at this office. 219-8 t Charles L. Archbold, Noted Advertising Writer, Visits Here Among the Old Home Weekers who came here for the big event yesterday , were Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Archbold and son, of Cleveland. Ohio. Mr. I Archbold and his father, the late | George Archbold, conducted a grocery here many years ago. While here, Charles developed an unusual ability as an advertising writer, attracting outside attention. Leaving here, he j soon became a professional ad writer j and has prospered, being known as J the originator and writer of “En-ar- . co-grams,” which are seen in front of so many filling stations. He is also the editor of the National News, . Canadian Oil News and En-ar-co Booster and is advertising manager for the National Refining company j and the Canadian Oil Company, with headquarters in Cleveland. Ohio. Mrs. Archbold was formerly Miss Erin Bobo, daughter of the late Judge James R. Bobo. They had a pleasant time here. , -NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE NO. 1544 Notice is hereby given to the creditors. heirs and legatees of Catharine ('loss, deceased to appear in the Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur. Indiana on the 2nd day of October. 1928, and show cause, if any, why the Final Settlement Accounts with the estate of ! said decedent should not be approved; ( and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. J. Fred Fruchte, Administrator De bonis non, with will annexed Decatur, Indiana, Sept 8, 1928 Sept 8-15 Fruchte and Lltterer, Atb.ii ■ tfWWMAMVWWWWWWVWV lAshbaucber’s MAJESTIC FURNACES ASBESTOS SHING! j! ROOFING < I SPOUTING ;; LIGHTNING RODS Phone 765 or 739 MWMAAMMMAAAAAAARAAMAM ■ ROY JOHNSON Auctioneer Careful Thought in Selecting an! Auctioneer for your sale will mean j More Dollars and Cents for you. I sell every day. Will be glad to re-1 s«rve date for you. Decatur, Ind., Room 1. People j Loan & Trust Bldg. Phone 608 and 1022

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0 0 —LOANS—ON MODERN CITY PROPERTY i at 6% for 5 years, 10 years or 15 years time. NO COMMISSION | ON.FARM LAND at 5, 5/ a and 6% i —according to the amount borrow- j |ed for 5 years. 10 years, or 20 j | years. The 20 year loan is on j i Government Plan, with new full | . payment plan that is advantage!! >e ; | to borrower. I We specialize in all kinds of INSURANCE, representing 14 Old Line Companies. We will sign your bond. — COMPANY THE SUTTLES-EDWARDS Corner 2nd & Monroe Sts. | Niblick Block Decatur, Ind. | O- V 0 u LORENS'! ELN & HOWER FUNERAL DIRECTORS 1 Calls answered promptly day or night. Ambulance service. Office Phone 90. Residence Phone, Decatur 346 Residence Phone, Monroe, 81 LADY ATTENDANT 0 ( S. E. BLACK FUNERAL DIRECTOR New Location, 206 S. 2nd St. Mrs. Black, Lady Attendant Calls answered promptly day or night Office phone 500 Home phone 727 Ambulance Service N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined, Glasses Fitted HOURS: 8 to 11:30—12:30 to 6:00 Saturday 8:00 p. m. Telephone 135. MONEY' TO LOAN An unlimited amount of 5 PER CENT money on improved real estate. FEDERAL FARM LOANS Abstracts of title to real estate. SCHURGER'S ABSTRACT OFFICE 133 S. 2nd St. H. FROHNAPFEL, D. C. DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC A HEALTH SERVICE The Neurocalometer 'Service Will Convince You at 104 S. Third Street Office and Residence Phpne 314 Office Hours: 10-12 a.m. 1-5 6-8 p.m. NOTICE My cider mill will start Thursday. August 30th and will operate every Tuesday and Thursday thereafter. 205tf Peter Kirsch. O O Office Phone 104 Res. Phone 496 H. S. MICHAUD I I SELLS FARM AND CITY PROPERTY 133 S. Second St. Decatur, Ind. o -c Typewriting Stenographic Work II you have any extra typewriting or stenographic work I will be glad to do it. Phone 42 for appointment. Florence Holthouse Judge J. T. Merryman’s Law Office, K. of C. Bldg. There is some for getsick but none for staying sick when it is Possible to gel 9 IffcJorpmost? Chiropractic adjustments. Phone for an appointment. CHARLES & CHARLES Chiropractors Office Hours: 10 to 12—2 to 5 6:30 to 8:00 12f No. Second St. Phone 628.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928.

MARKET REPORTS DAILY REPORT OF LOCAL AND FOREIGN MARKETS Pittsburgh Livestock Market Hog receipts 1050. Market 1015 c lower. 250-350 lb 813-13.50; 200-250 lbs 313.10-13.70; 160-200 lbs $13.3513.70; 130-160 tt> $12.50-13.70; 90-130 lb $11.70-13; packing sows $10.7511.50. Cattle receipts 175. Market steady. Beet steers sl2-15.75; light yearling steers and heifers $10.50-15.25; beef cows $8.50-11; low cutter and cutter cows $5-8; vealers sl6-19; heavy calves $lO-16.50. Sheep receipts 450. Market weak to 25c down. Top fat lambs $14.75; bulk fat lambs sl2-14.75; bulk cull lambs SB-10.50; bulk fat ewes $5-7. CHICAGO GRAIN OPENING Chicago. Sept. 15. — (U.R) — Grain opening: Wheat, Sept, up %; Dec. up Mar. up May up 1-2. Corn: Sept, up Dec. up 3-8; Mar. up %; May up ’ 4 . Oats: Dec. upl-8; Mar. unchanged; May up 1-8. Provisions unchanged. LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET (Corrected September 15) Fowls 23c Leghorn fowls 16c Chickens 26c Leghorn chickens 21c Old roosters '.... 9c Geese 7c Ducks 11c (All prices for delivered produce) LOCAL GRAIN MARKET (Corrected September 15) Soft Wheat $1 30 Mixed Wheat $1 20 Hard Wheat sl.lO Oats 35c Corn F ., $1.35 LOCAL GROCERS EGG MARKET Eggs, dozen 30c BUTTERFAT AT STATIONS Butterfat -45 c o Peaches, Michigan grown peaches are the best. Car Monday morning. $1.50 bushel and up. Fisher & Harris. NOTICE TO XOA-RESIDEM'i The State of Indiana, Adams County SS: In the Adams Circuit Court, September Term, 1928. Edward W. O'Neil Vs. John W. O’Neil Complaint on Note and to Foreclose Chattel Mortgage No. 13144 It appearing from affidavit, filed in the above entitled cause, that John W. O'Neil of the above named defendant is a non-resident of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said John W. O’Neil that he be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the 19th day of November. 1928, the same being the Ist Juridicial Day of the next regular term thereof, to be holden at the Court House in the City of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 19th day of November A. D. 1928, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in his absence. Witness my name, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 14th day of September 1928. John E. Nelson. Clerk. By Marcella Nelson, Deputy September 14th, 1928, Sept 15-22-29 STOCK SALE We, the undersigned, will sell at public auction at our residence, 1 mile north of Salem and 4 miles west of Willshire, Ohio, and 4 miles east of Monroe and 8 miles southeast of Decatur, Indiana, on FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1928 Beginning at 1 o’clock, the following property: One Gray Gentle purpose horse. CATTLE Consisting of 1 Guernsey cow, 6 years old, with calf by side and a real one; 1 Roan Durham cow, 6 years old, with calf by side; 1 Holstein heifer, 2 years old, been fresh about 8 weeks, the making of a real cow; 1 Red Durham cow. 7 years old, giving a good flow of milk; 4 calves; 1 Guernsey heifer, bred; 1 Guernsey heifer. These heifers are good size. One Durham steer, 1 year old; 1 Guernsey bull, 1 year old, a real one, ready for service. HOGS 14 head of sows with pigs by side. 10 head of feeding shoats, weigh about 100 pounds each. TERMS:—AII sums of $5.00 and under, cash; over that amount a credit of 12 months will be given, last six months bearing 8 per cent interest on good bankable notes. 4 per cent off for cash. No property to be removed until settled for. TEEPLE BROS., Owners Ed Miller, W. H. Myers, Auctioneers.

Pioneers Os Decatur Had Real Courage In Road Building; Plank Road Constructed

(Editor's note: Just at this time when good roads are important and the subject one of interest, it is well to remind ourselves that nearly a hundred years ago, a few men had the courage to construct a road of oak planks, between Willshire and Fort Wayne, through a dense wilderness. That road built today would cost a million dollars and more than lhe cost of a hard surface road through the entire county.) (By F. Q.) One of the things that interests us perhaps is that everything worth while done or constructed, had to originate in some one fellow's thought and that fellow have the everlasting nerve to talk right out in rneetin' to such good purpose that folks would believe him and act on his suggestion and lo' and behold,' the thing would be accomplished. Wonderful, isn't it? Now this observation of ours is not at all startling, not at all, any one will admit that some one has to start things, but nevertheless for us to philosophize about it corrugates our gray matter. Some one had to think the pyramids, the flivver, the telephone and the thousand billion other things that have advanced us poor mortals on the way to ease and comfort. Some one had to think the Cumberland road from the Potomac to Illinois and while he thought it soon after the landing of Columbus, congress quarreled about it until the year 1836 and while 'tis true they splurged some at its dedication they forgot to give the original thinker any credit at all. One could argue that it is a sort of a duke's mixture of thoughts that produces things but we insist that the "way back behind” idea is everlasting individual. Here in our own county of Adams, there has been individuals that have done such individualistic thinking and idea starting and accomplished quick results, quite unlike the Cumberland road proposition. All this above prologue brings us down to the meat that we have been Intending to carve, to-wit: The year 1850 had begun to blazen Its pathway across the maze of pioneer enthusiasims. Adams county was in what one might say, its moulting stage and it was moulting at a right smart place. This and that had been from time to time suggesgted but the suggestors did not belong to the class that we have above indicated and their following agggregated in most instances themselves only. “Howsomeever” as they said in those days, our old friend Samuel I.«. Rugg had a mentality that ordinarily worked at fever heat. He had been, as you know, for a long time county recorder and likewise simultaneously county clerk and to be truthful those dual occupations were not so fatiguing to Samuel as one might think, for he had time to be administrator, executor, guardian, counselor, assignee, trustee, attorney at law, referee, sawmiller, fiourmiller, steamboat operator, land speculator, promoter and !very, very much etcetera. Samuel had listened for nigh onto fourteen weary years to hourly complaints of all and sundry regarding everything that was potentialy unsatisfactory in the fledging county and more particularly to violent expressions of' lurid explotives every time the highways and byways of the youthful county were mentioned. (Here may we parenthetically state that those boys had some right to kick, the highways were very very awful). Something had to be done and Samuel was the lad who could thing basically and fundamentally and originally. Samuel consulted his friend, Joseph D. Nuttman. Mr. Nuttman at that time had pretty well corralled all the available cash and its equivalent loose in the county. Says Rugg to Nuttman. “Let's build a regular highway from the Ohio state line, smack dab across the county and on into Fort Wayne and relieve the atmosphere of some of this sulphuric acid.” “Let's build it of boards, like a bridge, and as it is only thirty miles from Willshire to Fort Wayne,' we will only have to build one support at each end and we can charge enough toll to hold it up in the middle.” Nuttman fell for it and the lads at Fort Wayne got into the game, actually believing Samuel, and the scheme was commenced to be done. Therefore the Fort Wayne and Piqua plank road was born. . Before we commence to tell about It, will you forgive us if we take off

our hat and salute those promoters? To build was a great undertaking. It required nerve, push, money, labor and quite a springling of trees. Bt is remembered, there was already a highway, such as it was, that run from Willshire westward along the "devil's back bone" twisting and squirming its tortuous way to Pleasant Mills and then sinuously ou untangintly it reached Decatur and then on via Middletown until it reached the village of Fort Wayne. Thirteen months out of the twelve, no team, be they ox. horse or ass, could lie driven on that road successfully without the use of adjectives. This then, was all the trail that Samuel had in mind to improve so prodigously. This is what he proposed to bridge. He had thought it. by gosh, and had hypnotised all and sundry. Operations commenced. Maybe about the year 1853, it was, but anyway, it was dry weather when they started. We presume they started in dry weather so as to stimulate moral courage, as it were. Now. there was certain specific specifications that must lie adhered to. Some of which were that nothing but number one clear white oak plank should be used, without knot or knot hole, eight feet long, three inches thick and twelve inches in width, be laid side by side snugly and chumily. Stringers to be laid underneath and to be four by four's and of the same quality of oak. Highway must be cleared of stumps and a slight dump made. On the west side of the plank road to construct a graded dirt road and one each side of highway ditches to be cut to a certain depthness. Then the fun commenced. Thirtytwo miles isn't so very far in these day of the Hivver. but we have not been able to learn how many teams of oxen it took to pull the stumps and grade the right of way and scoop out the ditches and haul the plants. We don’t kqow how many men worked or how long they worked or whethe rthey belonged to the union. We know that it took a little hunk of sawmills to saw the planks and the saws, they used, mind you,, were the granddadies of the circular saws, run by steam all right, hut had the characteristics of the cross cut saw, worked up and down in true perpenicular fashion and made a saw kerf that to the uninitiated looked as if that was the main purpose of the effort rather than to saw out planks. Then those planks and stringers had to be delivered and laid and that took more oxen and by golly, it was a whale of a job. You can see, easily enough, how it was done, and so after a while it was all finished as fine as could be. We are not very good in mathamatics but if these plank were a foot wide and there are so many feet in a mile and there was thirty-two miles all together, there must have been at least a million planks, perhaps. “Clear white oak”—goodness me, oh, to have seen the marvelous trees that towered heavenward so majestically. We asked one of our lumber yard boys what such a plank would cost now-a-days, and he said at least five or six dollars. Can't you see Samuel was dealing in millions—board measure and dollars and cents? Without a doubt that was the longest bridge in the world. Part of the time, in wet weather, we suspect, it was a suspension bridge. The toll, we are told, did not fully support it. The thought, however had become a materialized actuality. Folks at Pleasant Mills could sit on the front porch of the village grocery and chew gum and spit on the planks. Folks at Decatur could sit on the front porch of perhaps a half dozen of such places and do the same thing. The stream of planks unlulated gracefully right down Main street of Decatur, right past Mr. Rugg's court house and My. Nuttman's bank and o f SKF Air Service, Inc. Fly over Decatur and your home in our new Travel Air Airplane, located one mile South of Court House on High Street, Mus se r farm. Passenger rate $2.50 each. For flying training Phone 339 Every passenger insured. Verne W. Bohnke, Pilot O o

general merchandise emporium and those gentlemen could see their handiwork any time they might care to wade out to do so. The highway, however, had some obstructions, namely: Toll gates. That meant that every so often, as much as the public would stand, was a totll gate. A gate tender lived nearby and collected so much per each according to the size of the vehicle and perhaps a little extra from a foreign license plate. At any rate no one in any way was displeased. Other folks extended the road from Willshire to St. Mary's and folks from Cincinnati way could barge up the canal to St. Mary's and play bridge all the way to Fort Wayne. Bully for Rugg and Nuttman and Pliny Hoagland and all the rest of them. Year after year all went as merry as wedding bells. But alas, came the days of trouble. Planks wore out, busted, cracked and splint-

PUBLIC SALE We, the undersigned, will sell al public auction at the residence, 1 mil*' west, l‘« mile north of Monroe, 1 mile west and I'i miles south of Decatur, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1928 Commencing at 10:30 A. M. 3—HEAD OF HORSES—3 Grav horse, weight 17(H) lbs; Bonn mare, weight 1500 lbs; Black mare, weight 12(H) lbs. 3—HE AD OF CATTLE—3 Bed cow, 7 years old, was fresh in August, giving good flow of milk; Jersey and Guernsey cow, 3 years olel, with calf by side; yearling heifer, open. 16—HEAD OF HOGS—I 6 Spotted sow and Duroc sow, due to farrow in November; 11 shoals, weigh 75 pounds each. POULTRY 100 White Leghorn yearling hens; 150 White Leghorn pullets; 30 White Pekin ducks. HAY AND GRAIN Four ton of timothy hay; 3 ton clover hay; 1 ton of alfalfa hay; 30 acres of good corn in field; 350 bushel of oats in inn; 3 acres of sov beans in field. IMPLEMENTS AND TOOLS McCormick binder. 7 tt. cut; 10 hole grain with fertilizer attachment; Wagon; Hay rack; Dain hay loader, new . only made a few acres of hay; Deering mower; I.H.C. corn planter; Spike tooth harrow ; spring tooth harrow; disc; riding breaking plow: walking breaking plow; Budd manure spreader; one riding cultivator, almost new; dump boards; new set of breeching harness, used I months: land drag; 2 brooder houses 10x12 It; Letz 6 in. feed grinder: I.H.C. gas engine 1 h.p.; ti h.p. gas engine; hay rake: 2 brooder stoves, 1000 chick size; Primrose cream seperator; 2 oil stoves; many articles too numerous to mention. TERMS: All sums of $5 and under cash, over that amount <i credit of 9 months will be given on good bankable note bearing interest the last 3 months; 4% discount for cash on sums over $5.00. MRS. ADDIE F. ANDREWS U SON Lunch served by Ladies’ Aid of Monroe M. I Church. / Boy S. Johnson, auctioneer. E. W. Busche, clerk. 10-12-14 la i ■ aWMm IMAi [K “MONEY SENSE” EbS! Almost every business man is Mil % - »always on the lookout for young iagggH men with “money sense." BIN There are always opportunities ■ffiDl for those who have their own >*m ' | accounts and are adding to tn--regularly. You may not be getting a big -■'«•' kUI lEpyßi ary now, but if you hope to get i MVU the future you should bank som ■Pfll money regularly. Come in. We will welcome y° Peoples Loan & Trust Co- M IK3| BANK OF SERVICE

ered. Stringers snapped and driver, snarled. Repair gangs went on Blrik and by 1862, life with that plank rj was simply one doggo ne thing alt “ another. They tell us that the For Wayne gang kept on chargin. toll from Middletown on into Fort Wav as long as 'til 1866. At least, my friends, that was one chapter in our county's history. Tn a glorious chapter while it lasted. So, after all. it was some fellow'j thought materialized May we say. that we have always felt that lack of appreciation ot stupendous effort was one of our weaknesses but in this instance, we feel that any man who could sell an idea like that could certainly sell harness to Henry Ford. ——— o I). H. S. Athletic Association Dunce at Masonic Hall, Saturday Night. September la, Park Dian. 218t2