Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1929 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evsry Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. I. H. Heller...^-..Pres and Qen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Poetofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies ... — • One week, by carrier One year, by carriers —— 60® One month, by mall .86 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six Months, by mall J-’ 6 One year, by mail. 8.00 One year, at office— — - 8-00 Prices quoted are within first and second sones. Elsewhere, |3.SO one year. Advertising Rates made Known on Application... ... .. National Advertising Representatives Scheerer, Inc., 85 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana league of Hone Dailies. Cloudy weather and showers are reported for Decoration day which is | uot to the approval of any one we can find but whats to be done about it? Indications that real estate will move more rapidly the next few months than for several years in Decatur are reported by real estate men who say they are receiving numerous inquiries. Thats always a good sign for any community. Buy your lot now and build a home. 1 hat will help you and your family and your community. There never was a better time to do this. Wheat is down, stocks drop and. congress fiddles at a time when it looks as thougli a little real speed might continue an era of prosperity that started about a month ago and looked real. Farm relief and a hands off policy in Washington might change conditions considerably but the boys in power don't seem inclined to get together for the greatest good of the greatest number. Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant attorney general of the United States and whose support of Mr. Hovvar in last year's election brought out fire ; from many sources is to retire and wil open a law office in New York city where she will probably be more careful in denouncing Al Smith than she was on the stump. Having gained some national reputation she is wise enough now to commercialize on it. Many have told us that they are enjoying "Adams County, Way Back When—Before 1890" and we are sure as you get into the story where pioneer scenes and anecdotes are brought out. many days of your childhood or those of your parents will be recalled. The story tells of many of the old timers who aided greatly in makIng this a good community in which to live by building a firm foundation. Miss Anne Morrow and Col. Charles Lindbergh wit- married quietly, more so than most folks, just a few relatives and no best man or bridesmaid. Few folks are so popular that they have to hide away to get married so the crowd will not interfere but that seems to have been almost necessary in this case. Every body of course wishes them a long and happy j and prosperous lifs and believe they will have it for they are among the finest folk of the nation. The prohibition law enforcement committee is in session at Washington and the public is hoping anxiously that these brilliant minds and they ' are that, will be able to work out some means ".nd methods of not only enforcing the laws pertaining to prohibition but many others as well. Os course'the laws should be enforced and they should be enforced not only against the ‘‘down and outer" but against those whose duties are to enfoijpe! la|’. 1 has large and'important job and one tltejr' will probably not perform in a few days or weeks. Tomorrow is the day set aside for doing honor to those brave men who offered their lives in defense of this country and it should be the most devoutly observed of all holidays.

TODAY’S CHUCKLE Kansas City, Mo.. —(UP)—J- H Aldertown, chief teller of the Federal Reserve bank here, touches from 84,000,000 to 85,000,000 daily—and yet says he has not the slight•st desire become a millionaire.

We owe a debt we can never pay to those who have fought for the old stars aud stripes uud we can at least take time to drop a tear and a flower on the graves that holds their earthly remains. The occasion will be observed here by the younger men, largely those who took part in the World conflict with those of other wars* in positions of honor. Business will cease and the day will be devoted to a program which has been ■ carefully worked out. The city council has approved daylight saving time for Elkhart. It had very good reasons for doing so. Nearly all the cities around us are on the daylight saving schedule, and to maintain the old time would have put us out of step with them. Not only that, but the new arrangement will be convenient for almost everybody, for the days are longer and there will be more time between office and working hours and nightfall. Os course, the new schedule will not please everybody. No arrangement of any kind could be wholly satisfactory for every condition. But we believe daylight saving will be a convenient arrangement for most people, and no harm can come from it for anybody. Some day, perhaps, there will have to be national legislation in reference to the time schedule for tbe summer seasou. The fact that so many cities have adopted daylight saving time while others maintain standard time causes a great deal of confusion, especially for people who travel. It seems we need time reform as well as calendar reform. —Elkhart Truth. Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE A Needlebook The oiled paper found on the inside of a cracker box makes an excellent needle laook. The needles will uot rust. Corns To looseu a corn, bind a small piece of lemon around it and change daily three or four days. Then soak th? foot in warm water aud the corn cau be easily removed. To Whiten Potatoes If, when the potatoes are pared, they are placed in cold water before boiling it will whiten them. —o MODERN ETIQUETTE By ROBERTA LEE Q. For what purpose may an afternoon tea with dancing be given A. It is usually given to ‘‘bring out” a daughter, or to present a new daugh-ter-in-law. Q. Should the bride's family send the groom's people an invitation to the wedding? A. Yes; if the groom’s people live in another city, invitations to the house may be sent liberally. Q. Is butter ever served at formal dinners? A. No.

»*******»»«*« • TWENTY YEARS AGO • • From the Daily Democrat File • • Twenty Years Ago Today • *•««««*(■<««** High school commencement held w ith address by Dr. L. B. Walkersham of Des Moines, lowa. Graduates were Misses Marie Allison, Bessie Boyers, Fannie Hammell, Helen Niblick. Catherine Jackson, Inez Snellen, Verina Smith, Leota Bailey, Fanehion Daugherty, Esther Sellemeyer, Theresa Baltzell, Josephine Krick, Beatrice Van Camp and Messrs. Ben Beavers, Otis Dibble, Tracy Nelson and Hugh Perkins. Avon Burk elected uresidont of law department of Junior class at Indiana University. Mrs. G. H. Myers, of Montpelier, visiting here. C. D. Murray sells saloon fixtures to Mr. Hunkle of Fort Wayne. Bill Brunner captures a mamma opposu mand thirteen young ones DisCoppock Motor Car company has eleven ears ready for shipment. Wind storm unroofs factory of Swiss Condensed Milk company at Berne. Q Preside* at Impeachment According to Article 1 of the United States Constitution, when a President 18 impeached the chief justice presides over the impeachment proceedings-

Adams County, Way Back When— Before 1890 A “Story” Made Up Os a Group Os Stories About Pioneer Life And Events Which. Collectively. Go To Make Up The Interesting History Os The County. By French Quinn.

Founding of Decatur 1 breathed the “atmosphere” of the early day and cau abut my eyes and reconstruct scenes of town and countryside. wade in memory through the bottomless mud of the highways and see the smoke curling out of the mud ( and plaster chimneys built on the j outside of the cabins. See tbe tiny ( bits of cultivated lands and tbe over- j whelming acres of timber lands and the beauty and glory of its magniti- ( cent trees. . . There is a whale of a difference be- ‘ tween the days of long ago in Adams ] Bounty and Decatur at the present. | about as much difference, I presume. t as between Decatur now and the sky ( line of New York and it was a long ( hard struggle for the thousands upon . thousands of people who have sue- * cessively lived, moved and had their ( being in this vicinity since that day • tn 1836 when old Samuel L. Rugg and f his two companions accosted Tommie ( Johnson, as he sat on the banks of the Kekionga river. That is a story ( worth telling. t Just bow the present location of f Decatur was agreed upon and the in- , cidents pertaining thereto were a ( mystery to most persons until a few < years ago. when Jacob W. Johnson. ( of Decatur, related a story that be { had heard his father, Johnson Johnson, tell many times during his life- ( time. ( The elder Johnson, Thomas, was born in 1801 and moved into Adams { county in the year 1833, having heard ‘ from travelers who came to his Ohio home that Adams county was a good . place in which to locate. Johnson ‘ accordingly set out on his journey, « following the trails and river to Will- ( shire, came on down the river to Pleasant Mills, which at the time j was a little settlement, and struck off . from there across country. He locat- ( ed what appeared to him as being a good place for a homestead, staked it J tramped to Fort Wayne and made his entres and got certificates and made a clearing and erected his cabin. The place is still owned by his son, Jacob. At that time Johnson’s isolation was complete; Pleasant Mills was a small settlement on the river. Monmouth had a few souls and one store and a little larger settlement at Willshire. All traffic, such as there was, was by the river. Supplies were barged by canal to Fort Wayne and salt and coffee were boated from Fort Wayne up the river to Monmouth and Pleasant Mills. Salt and coffee was the limit however, to the imports. These two necessities of course, Johnson had to have and he had to come to the’ river and wait with patience for the boat which made weekly trips very irregularly. Where Decatur is and all the adjacent territory was a trackless forest. Johnson blazed a few trees to mark the trail from his cabin to the river and his river object was the high bank, at the foot of what is now Monroe street. There was no other tree marking, blazing, as they were called, in the whole territory. The General Wayne trail made long before by General Wayne and his] soldiers on their march from Win-i Chester to Fort Wayne and known as I the Winchester trail, but that had j been only of such a nature as to let the army wagons and guns through and was long since almost obliterated. One day Johnson was sitting on the bank of the Saint Marys river on the spot where the Monroe street river bridge now stands, waiting for the xupply row boat with its tiny cargo o j salft and coffee to come, having waited for hours and yet no boat in sight', when four men on horseback rode tip and accosted him and introduced themselves as Samuel L. Rugg, Joel Roe find two that Johnson did not remember and stated to Johnson that they had been prospecting for a county seat for Adams county, had iwn over the territory in the center of the county, had found it unsuitable, being low- and swampy and no immediate possibility of drainage, and had investigated the Wabash river section in the south of the county and were now about through with the bamt Marys river section in the north part of the county. . They quizzed Johnson as to his knowledge of the land thereabout and Johnson told them that he had been in the country about three years, had tramped and hunted all around, knew that the ground in this immediate section laid pretty high, that only two creeks ran through it, they being what is known as Borum’s Run and Number's Creek, and to his certain knowledge the spot they were now on. and immediate vicinity was the highest along the river and was no sutypet- to overflow • jim..- uaiU; b° eftsilifj drained. 1 This conversation ’’Took pike? ‘ A along' at&it , noon, and Rugg and his - associates determined that they would go a little farther north and make a circuit, and verify -this information and asked Jbhnson to accompany them, which Johnson declined, stating that he was out of salt and coffee and could not afford to miss the boat — and at any rate would have to start home before dark because he had to follow his blazes while it was yet light. Rugg

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and the othere made arrangements with Johnson to meet them at 9 o'clock the next morning which was done and after some consultation Rugg said that in spite of the fact that the location was considerably north of the center of the county, that other features of the location made it imperative that it be selected for the county seat and he asked Johnson to blaze a tree for the location notice. Johnson was an expert axeman and selected a white oak tree of large diameter and blazed a smooth surface thereon —as smooth as if made by a plane, and Rugg formally marked the location. Johnson accompanied Rugg to Fort Warne, and at Rugg’s solicitation entered the northeast quarter of section trees and while there they prepared for a survey of the townsite. which was soon done, the orig- [ iual survey and plat being bourn'■ ' Monroe street on the north at. < ams street on the south and the riVv. on the east and Fifth street on tbe ( west. Johnson carried the chain in i these surve: . Johnson also carried the chain for the survey made goon afterwards between the village of Vera Cruz, or Newville on the Wabash river in Wells county, following closely the creek now kuown as Borum's Run. to the newly-located town of Decatur. This old angling road is still remembered by a number of people. Almost immediately after the completion of the town survey Rugg gave orders for the construction of a double log building so that travelers' going up and down the river might have accomodations tor man and beast and shortly followed other buildings, and settlers came in. in ever-increasing numbers. This first double log building was located about where the Ashbaucher tin shop on . First street Is now. Mr. Johnson i.s , entitled to the honor of having laid the first axe into the clearing of the ground for the location of the best town in Indiana. GENEVA NEWS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lough a baby boy, Sunday. He has been named Gordon Roy. Little Doris June Grammar has returned from Crawfordsville, where she has been visiting with her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Haviland and child ren spent the week-end with Mrs. Hattie Aspy. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Lough, of Dayton, Ohio, spent the week-end with Robert Lough and family. Janies Houser and family are moving to Mendon. Ohio. Mrs. Myrtle Morrical and daughters Dhea and Katherine, of Huntington. spent the week-end w Ith friends hen-. Boru to Mr. and Mrs. John Boice, a girl baby, Saturday. Dr. and Mrs. Gorman McKean entertained at. dinner, Sunday. Richard I’usey and Miss Erma Stahley, of Fort Wayne, and Mi. and Mrs. William ; Hale. i Mr. and Mr.-. Hamer Greene of Munj cle. spent Sunday here with friends. I Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Earhart aud I Mrs. Belle Schoeff, of Markle, s|h nt Sunday with E. E Conner and family. Mrs. Schoeff remained for a longer visit. Mr. ami Mrs. Maurice Grammar entertained at dinner, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. William 1+ Grammar and son Wallace, of Crawfordsville, and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Deitsch. Mr. and Mrs. David Cross, Jr. are spending a few days in Indianapolis First Heat Prostration Occurs At Kendallville i Kendallville. Ind., May 29 —(UP) — What was believed to be the first heat prostration of the season in ’ Indiana occurred here last yesterday when Mrs. Minnie Misselhorn, 78, became worried over failure of a man to 1 arrive td plow her garden and suffer- ’ ed a stroke when she started spading the land. Her condition was consid--1 ered critical. The temperature here reached the high mark of the season 1 at 88.

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