Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1929 — Page 3

SODIUM NITRATE TO BE DONATED Announcement has Just been made by the Educational Bureau of the i Chilean Nitrate of Soda company through its district representative, Walter V. Kell, of laiFayette, that , he y will donate 2,000 pounds of nitrate of soda to members of the Adams County Boys’ and Girls’ Sugar Be et Club. The material will be used for experimental purposes on the club O eres and no doubt some outstanding reeults will be obtained. Nitrate of soda is a valuable source of plant I food material and is used in most commercial fertilisers as a source of available nitrogen. The material donated to the Beet Club members worth approximately seventy dollars. The club members also received one hundred dollars worth of commercial fertilizer from the Indiana Farm Bureau. Plans are being completed to make I 8 personal visit to each Club member in the near future. A committee composed of J. W. Calland. County Agent F E. Christen and several local business men will make the tour. The revised list of club members is as i follows: Walter Barlett, Eileen Byerly Vernon Caffee, Kenneth Chapman, John Dale Cowan, Jr., Wm. Fiechter, I j r . Hugo Fuelling, Ludella Fuelling, Milo Habegger, Martin D Habegger, I Noah Habegger, Sylvan Habegger, I Kenneth Hirschy, Leonard Intel. Roy i Kaehr, Cburtney Lindsey. Robert M. | Moser, Robert F. Myers, Floyd Rupert, Glenn Rupert, Harry gchamerloh, John C. Schenck, Bertha M. I Schwartz, Eli M. Schwartz, Simon M. Schwartz, Naomi L. Schwartz, Roy A. Smith. Ralph Stoneburner. Lester Suntan, Agnes Tinkham and Florence Tinkham. - YOUTH’S DIARY DISCLOSES FRATERNITY’S FATAL PRANKS (CONTINUED rttOM PA«Ji ONE) wouldn’t want you to cause them any trouble; they meant it all in fun.' There is no bitterness now in Mrs. Steinmetz’ pledged fight to save other • boys from the fate of her son. She i blames only the established cuetom, and not the boys who carried out the initiation, and she has left Bud’s room just as it was when he departed, as a place to meditate her problems. The leaf in Bud’s diary speaks dramatically for itself, written as it .was upon that February day in 1928. It | reads: Fri. Feb. 17: 4:30—1 was the first pledge to be put on silence. s:oo—Rought (“heli") week starts with a bang. Got in line with other pledges and let the upper classmen try to make laugh and then "wipe * the laugh off" on the floor. 5:45—1 was made captain to direct the pleges to dining room. Start dinner by having to gulp down pear dessert. Eat rest of meal with wrong end of spoon. Get many licks for doing or not doing “nutty” things. 7:oo—Had to debate with Red Brand on “which is the butt end of a goat.” Other debates followed. 8:00—Go thru military drill with paddles. A lick for each mistake. 9:oo—Still drilling. 9:30 —Sent to bed. 12:00—Begin to realize that pears at dinner must have been loaded with French C. C.’b or some other highpowered laxative. Sat. I:3o—Gotten out of bed. 2:3o—Sent after a live rat to be had by daybreak. 3:00 —At police station. 3:ls—Caught by police and Rose for being with other pledges. Get ten licks on porch of old Delta Chi house. Sent tin different direction from the rest. Went to bakery on Third street. Plenty of rats therein cellar. * s:oo—Catch a rat in a barrel with my hands. Start out from house and rat dies. s:ls—Reach house and talk until 6 o’clock. That was the finish of Buck's diary, o ,— Civil War Veteran Drinks Poison By Mistake Bluffton, June 12— Mistaking some iodine to rcough syrup, Jacob Hoover Civil War veteran endangered his life Tuesday morning when he swallowed a considerable quantity of the poison. The quick work on the part of his daughter, Mrs. McElhaney, in getting the aid of a physician in pumping the aged man's stomach prevented death. Mr. Hoover did not notice his mistake until after the iodine began to have its burning effect. His illness became severe for several hours, but it | thought he will make a rapid recovery. Health and Purity The duty of physical health and the fluty of spiritual purity and loftlense ire not two duties; they are two parts M one duty—which Is living the comPietest life which It Is possible for man to live.—Phillips Brooks. —, o . Miss E. J. Braid, The Scotch ■ady, who has just arrived from the old country, will tell you is new in interior decorat,ng Thursday at Zimmerman's. 1

Adams County, Way Back WhenBefore 1890 Os a Group Os Stories About Pioneer Ute And Events Which. Collectively, Go To Make I P The Interesting History Os The County. By French Quinn.

The Old Taverns No hotel of today can furnish the thrills of the tavers of the early day. No matter how mean and unpretentious nor how hard the beds were or coarse the fare the taverns were havens of rest and a "life saver" to all and sundry and the tavern nt Willshire and the three at Monmouth did a thriving business. May 1 tell you the story of the Willshire tavern? its history is typical and the Monmouth taverns had the same characteristics. “If ever you should go to Modona, stop at. a place called the Reggio gate” goes the old classic, so we might say, if ever you go to Willshire, Ohio, stop at the old tavern. It Is an old tavern, as taverns go in the middle west, built long before the civil war, is now just about as it was when 'Johnny came marching home,’ and to those whose imaginations are not a thing of nothingness, is full of romance and of secrets. Perhaps, however, old taverns do not interest you, well and good, as our friends Bowers might say. different people are interested in different things, don't you know. Now some folks like one thing and some another. As for us we could never see anything much of interest in a so-call-ed full blooded registered pig, one with a red ribbon in its cork screw tail and its mane all braided up most exquisitely. Yet. no doubt, lots of people do and that is all right. We like home made sausage and buckwheat cakes, sprinkled well witli maple syrup, o' mornings these winter days, but we have had difficulty in finding others who felt the sam« way as wo do about it. So, perhaps, you may not be interested in this old tavern but some how or other we are. When that tavern was built along about the year 1850, just before cholera pracitcally decimated the trading point of Willshire — and please remember that then were the days when office buildings, garages residences both small and of a pretentiousness, public buildings and jails, were made of logs, logs mind you. and clinked between their roundness with mud carted from mother earth immediately in front of the building operations — it was constructed of hewn timbers, squared and true, front, side and rear elevations were neatly boarded, overlaping perfectly and its roof was of shingles made by hand and fashioned as only shingle artists of those days could fashion them. The insides of that tavern was of walnut. Black walnut, oh boy, without a knob or knot hole and floors and walls and ceilings of that now costly material showed a craftmanship without a single hammer

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mark. Rooms spacious, albeit the ceilings were not lofty and a right homey place was It for travelers, who afoot or a horseback had wrestled with forest trails and swollen streams. One, Doctor Pierce, was the philanthropist who built the tavern. A man of pills and of powders, skilled as a "fever and ague artist” and what influenced him to build as he budded is still shrouded in mystery. The tavern was a dandy. It wan a palace, ranked in front of all hostelries for leagues and leagues around. Was known most favorably, far and wide. Housed travelers from the eleven points of the compass, rich and poor, adventurers and prospectors, travelers of nationalities a many, too care of man and beast, furnished meat and drink. Drink, you will notice has been mentioned. Drink was quite important those days, remember, and so the bar in that tavern was a point of interest, you may lie sure. We have seen the very room that housed it. and on mysterious winter nights, when all else is still and quiet, you may hear the clink of glasses and the lilt of merry song and the gurgle of the flagons of “o’ be joyful.” The tap room was spacious, as of necessity it had to lie, and the room where all and sundry dined was of a lengthness that permitted two long and substantial tables to be placed therein, strong indeed —for food of dainty daintiness was not particularly popular, one might say—but demanded support for that of a quality and a quantity that could withstand such onslaughts as htfSky coonskin cap wearers instinctively demanded. Years and years before the steam engine had been born, hospitality cf that tavern reigned supreme. What stories were swapped therein. What animated animosities, religious, economic and political, were threshed threadbare. Landlords came and went. Cooks appeared and vanished. Venison and wild turkey, the gray and red and fox squirrel and the possom, gave way to beans and corn bread and sow belly when the hard days of the civil war were on and then with peace once more the jaded travelers xyere unneccessarily tempted with feeds that makes one’s mouth water to remember. They were swashbuckling folks, those guests of long ago and the landlord was, of course, a man. of stern discernment and of requisite physique. They had a code that was scrupulously kept and while to our more effeminate sensibilities the boisterous manners of early days might shock a little, yet, on the whole none need be ashamed of conduct or of honor. One might smile to remember that

rack upon rack was placed for rifles long and pldstols of a hugeness. Blankets uffd squaw shoes and leggings of deer had a cherished place aside j the fireplace when snow and wet (Were all outdoors. Pipes and slabs •of chewing tobacco bulged beside the ! trusty hunting knife. I Many a time, mine host was gladdened when some clever hunter traveler stopped for a lodging and swung a gift of young buck deer off of his saddle toward the landlord. A peep into the, old inn’s cash ‘ drawer would be illuminating. Continental scrip, may be, deer hides, 1 coon skins, the muskrat, shinplasters, j Confederate scrip, silver dollars, of 1 ■ course, and gold eagles and gold 1 'double eagles, would give one an eye

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full. The money till at the liar had ' no doubt all this and a peck or two of "l-O-U’s.” Let’s see. fifty from one hundred leaves fifty, and thin Is the year '2't. that makes seventy-nine years. Seventy-nine years of service, honorable service. Not a bud record, think we. ITo Be Continued) o — ■■ — — Shoes And Hose Lost In Street; Ask City To Buy Them New Ones Cambridge, Mass., June 12 (HP) — Miss Bessie Baker and Mrs. Celia Myers have asked tile Cambridge City Council to buy them new. shoes and

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shoes, but hefoie they could reach the nearby sidewalk, they again became stranded and had to abandon their stocking*, as well. They finally got to the sidewalk in their bare feet. ,