Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 268, Decatur, Adams County, 12 November 1928 — Page 4

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It must have cost a pretty penny to

bring twenty thousand Chicago floaters to Lake county to vote aud just think how foolish it was now that its known they weren't needed. What's the use of spending all the money for an election if the papers and magazines are going to hold them in advance? Certainly does look like a duplication of effort and overhead this year. Send news items to the Daily Democrat. Telephone 1000 and give us a report on social or other events. You will enjoy the paper more if you and your friends all do that. Start today and make it a habit. After all Senator Curtis may have known to whom he was talking w’hen he said that fellow was too dumb to understand. He and Mr. Hoover carried the town where he made the speech, two to one. Making a trip to South America will be a delightful way of getting rid of the job hunters for Mr. Hoover. He will no doubt have a flue time and every one is hoping lie will briug liar* all kinds of encouragement for general business. Big Bill Thompson's “American first" organization, in Chicago, is defunct and it is rumored that he will resign as mayor. The sooner he does so and his place is tilled by a man who will clean up that city, the better it will be for the middle west. While turkeys are said to be scarce in this country there seems to be a supply of them in the east where they are selling at fifty cents a pound aud plenty of them. Thanksgiving without a turkey is not nearly so enjoyable. , There were some real football games Saturday and a million fans forgot all their other troubles pulling for their favorite team. In several instances the game ended just when it looked like the opposition might put over a victory. That's the way it goes in this world.

A member of the British air force recently traveled in an airplane at the unheard of rate of 350 miles per hour and says that when he did so he was traveling blind and could not see a thing. If we ever travel that fast we hope we are not only blind but deaf and dumb as well. The national election is said to have cost something like a bundled and twenty-five million dollars, a huge sum, but after all just abont a dollar for every man, woman and child in the country. Expect there are those who think it was worth every cent of it. R. Earl Peters, democratic state chairman is out with a hopeful statement and encouragement to fellow democrats, which is of course the right thing to do. Perhaps some time there will be enough citizens help to throw the Jackson-Coffin crowd over board. The Hoover administration wilf be expected to lift the country out of the dumps and get things going. If they do there is little doubt but that

TODAY’S CHUCKLE Houston, Tex. Nov. 12—Honesty was carried to an extreme by a Houston negro who appeared in court admitted he had been on a party and didn't remember what had happened and came by to "check up" and see if ho was wanted.

such an administration will be continned bnt it they fall, no one can tell just what will happen, but there will sure be something doing. Snap out of it boys, quit grumbling about the election and get your smile back. There were a lot of reasons for losing, only one of which is worth mentioning, we didn’t get votes enough. Governor Smith says that every good fellow will take his licking like a good sport, take it "on the chin and standing up." Mr. Hoover is planning a trip to South America where he will talk business and perhaps get in a little diplomatic work looking towards a settlement of whatever controversies may be up now and a friendlier feeling which should exist. Every one will hope for a satisfactory visit and a safe return for the president-elect. The five men arrested for stealing articles in this vicinity were speedily arraigned in court and sentenced to the penal farm, establishing a record here that should be continued. Too often such cases are drawn out and “whipped around” in one way or another until the public gets an idea that justice is a joke. President Coolidge wants more cruisers and a larger navy but before we build more ships some one ought to interview Mr. Hoover and see whether he favors “busting'’ them up. This thing of one president building war vessels and the next one destroying them may get expensive if we continue it indefinitely. This is Children's Book Week, evidently set apart as the special occasion for selecting books as gifts to the children for Christmas and other special days of the year. It is claimed there is an unusual number of attractive books for the youngsters this year and of course no boy or girl ever had enough of good ones for the shut-in days. Just what kind of farm relief can be adopted which does not include the equalization fee, no one seems able to say but every body is hoping tltat some one will get a happy idea that will work and that they get at it just as soon as possible. Several million farmers are about at the end of the game aud when they quit, its going to be tough going for every rural merchant, business man and laborer. Therj is one thing sure and that is that whatever happens in the Indiana legislature or in congress the next couple of years can't be charged to the democrats. These bodies are so lopsided that the danger is going to be for the republicans to operate them without a break-up, which by the way.

would be about as good a thing as could happen so far as the public is concerned. It is amusing to listen to the folks saying that the democratic party is dead nationally. There were more than fifteen million votes cast for Governor Smith out of a total of thirty-four million. A difference of ten to a precinct over the United States would have brough a democratic victory. Killing off a party of that strength with an adverse result is utterly impossible and of course will not occur., Louis Ludlow, elected to congress from the Indianapolis district is not a statesman and makes no claim to that distinction. He is just a plain every day democrat who has spent a lifetime as a newspaper correspondent, but he is certainly a credit to that man Updike who has held the job the past four years. It is a credit to the republicans of Marion county that forgot partisanship enough to supplant this Incapable representative with a man of the size and quality of

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Ludlow. They should have done the same thing to several others who got in via the same route aa did Updike. There will be seven women in tho next congress, including Mrs. Ruth McCormick, daughter of the late Mark Hanna and Mrs. Ruth Owen, daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan. It will be Interesting to watch these two daughters of old political warriors face each other iia the house. If the number in congress keeps increasing we may see the day when a woman’s bloc will have the same edge that the labor party has had the past few years.

ROAD MEN WILL MEET AT PURDUE Plans Are Being Made For Annual School At Purdue During .January Lafayette, Ind.. Nov. 12—Preliminary plans for the fifteenth animal road school which will be held at Purdue University to January 21 to January 25. under the direction of the school of civil engineering and extension department in co-operation with five state highway groups, indicate one of the greatest sessions in years, according to Prof. Ben H. Petty of Purdue, chairman of the program committee. A lengthy meeting of the program committee, consisting of the officers of the various co-operating groups was held here recently and tentative arrangements have already been made with several of the proposed speakers. According to present plans, two whole days will be devoted to sessions of the various co-operating groups while the special meeting for city officials has been moved up from Friday to Wednesday. The program committee has taken advantage ot the fact that there is a basketball game between Purdue and Wisconsin scheduled here for Monday night, January 21. and it is planned to have the game displace the usual dinner-smoker. The annual banquet wil be held as usual on Thursday night. Groups which co-operate with Purdne University in conducting the annual Road School are the Indiana state highway commission, the Indiana county highway superintendents' association, the city street commissioners' association of the state of Indiana, and the highway materials and equipment association. Other short courses and conferences to be held at Purdue include the Gas Metermen and plant officials course November 14 to 16 inclusive and the weding conference from December 12 to 14.

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150-YEAR-DLD DUG-OUT FOUND Clarksville, Ind. Nov. 13 —<U.R>— An old-fashioned dug-out, bearing evidence of being at least 150 years old, has been Lund near here by Harvey Taylor, aged fishterman. The boat, which wns made by huelng the center i ut of a large tree, was dug from the rocks ami sand of Goose Island, near Wisky Chute, by Taylor and Harry Stein a friend. The thccry was advanced by local historians that the old time boat probably had boi ne French traders, Jesuits or frontiersman of Indiana and the Ohio river, when Kentucky ami the Horsier state were but a wilderness. The craft measures eight feet and Imais the maiks of a frontiersman's ax or an Indian's tomahawk. Two feet or more of the tipper cutved bow apparently had been cut away. Historians say the boat is at least a century and a half old because with the coming of settlers to Kentucky the flat beat replaced the heavy and awkward progue. They believe it may date back to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries when French traders and missionaries came west. The tra

Suggestions To Water Consumers

METERS. Water meters are furnished by the Water Department but the consumer is required to keep the surroundings of the meter clean, dry and of easy access and protect the same from freezing. All damage done the meter by freezing or by hot water poured, on or forced back through the meter is charged to> the consumer. PROTECT YOUR METER TODAY. t FROZEN PIPES AND METERS If pipes are frozen they may be thawed in some cases by wrapping cloths around them and pouring hot water on. If there is a bad case of frozen pipes or if a house is to be closed for the winter it is best to secure the services of a competent plumber. Do not pour hot water on the meter. Do not build a lire on the meter as it will ruin the rubber piston and celluloid register in case of a frozen meter call this department before the same thaws out and causes at damage to your property and a waste of water. SILL COCKS FOR SPRINKLING Sill cocks or house faucets on the sMe of the house should be shut off in the basement before freezing weather and when this is done, the faucet should be opened so as to admit air, which will cause the water to run out at the stop and waste in the basement. This procedure should be followed when it is desired to drain the house pipes. Air must be admitted at the top to force the water out below.

Tests of city water are furnished the State Board of Health and their analysis and report is on file in the office of the City Clerk for your inspection. lor further information or for any ser- We are trying to make your water ser vice call WAT&R DEPARTMENT, vice as near perfection as possible City Building, Phone 225. and your cooperation is solicited. Citv Water Dept J. A. HUNTER </ * A. R. ASHBAUCHER ORVAL HARRDH* S u Pk

dors brought iron into the wilderness and traded it to the Indians and taught them how to use it. This they believe might account for a piece of iron, some symewhat resembling a chisel, being found in the bottom of the boat. Belief that the progue may have been wrecked on the falls of a few hundred yards upstream from where it was discovered and swept over them to its resting place was advanced by Herman Rave, Clark County historian. Taylor said he remembered seeing tha dug-out 40 years ago but thought then that It was only a drift log. It was not until he noticed its regular shape recently that he investigated it. — -o * HOSPITAL NOTES * 5Mr. Raymond Hunt, Tocsin, Indiana, underwent a minor operation this morning at the local hospital. Mr. Charles Shoaff. Decatur, route 9, underwent a major operation this morning at the Adams County Memorial hospital. .Mr. Christian Burry of Berne, was admitted to the Adams County Memorial hosiptal, yesterday, as a medical patient. .Mr. Bernard Kohne, Decatur, route 2, was admitted to the local hospital as a medical patient, yesterday. Donald Sprunger, 3521 Johns street,

k\>rt Wayne, underwent a tonsillotomy Saturday at the Adams County Memorial hospital. Martin Lieninger, Monroeville, route 2, underwent a tonsiiiotomy, Saturday at the local hospital. Mrs. Albert Beiberick Decatur route 4, underwent a major operation at the Adams County Memorial hospital. Friday. ,Mr. Joe Kintz, Decatur, route 7 was admitted to the Adams County Memorial hosiptal Friday suffering from a fractured wrist which he susVained from cranking a Ford. Mis. Lewis Reynolds, 722 High street underwent a major operation at the Adams County Memorial hospital. Saturday. Mrs. Charles Kohler, Berne, underwent a minor operation this morning, at the Adams County Memorial hospital.

A. B. C. CO \('ll LINKS CHANGE OF SCHEDULE Beginning November 12, Southbound busses will leave D.,». Chester, Richmond, Cincinnati, and Dayton at 800 A M Wur ~r *'"■ 2:30 P.M.. and 6:30 P.M. Northbound busses will arrive tr» o 0:00A *- 10:00 A.M., 12:00 A.M., 4:30 P.M. and 8:30 P.M. Richmond lt Busses will leave Fort Wayne for Decatur at 7:00 9 on „ and 1:30. 3:30. 5:30, 8:00 and 11:00 P.M. Busses will leave n,.,, :W **’ Wayne at 5:30. 8:00, 10:00 A.M. and 12:00 noon; and 2 m r F,rt 8:30 and 9:00 P.M. ’ 4 8:81.

WATER CLOSETS AND FAUCETS • Water closets and faucets should be examined frequently in order to keep the consumption of water on a normal basis. After a closet has been flushed and the tank is filled, there should be no movement of the water in the bowl; if there is. water is wasting into the sewer. By holding a piece of paper or cardboard against the rear portion of the bowl, a flowmay be detected which an ordinary examination would not disclose. STOP ALL LEAKS PROMPTLY as “a waste of water is a waste of money.” HOW TO SHUT OFF WATER The “shut off” known as the stop and waste, where the pipes enter the basement or building is your immediate protection in the event of a burst pipe or meter and also for the purpose of shutting on an draining the house pipes w here and when there is a ger of freezing; it should be easy of access and in g condition. In some basements it is covered with toa or it is in such had condition that it cannot be turn The man of the house should see that the stop and waste is in good order and that the folks a know how to operate it. To shut off turn han that it is at right angle with the pipe, ® ne ‘ <|U . Ip . turn or if a wheel valve turn to right until comp ly closed. ALL SERVICE MUST HAVE A PRIVATE SHI 1 OFF INSTALLED AND IN WORKING OLLEK.

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