Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 18 June 1929 — Page 4

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J DECATUR fDAILY DEMOCRAT Published Evsry Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. ! I. H. Heller... __Pre» and Gan. Mgr. l A. R. HolthouM Sec’y A Bus. Mar. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Entered at the Postofflee at Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies —-I .02 One week, by carrier —.— .10 One year, by carriers 5.00 One month, by mail Three months, by mail — 1.00 Six Months, by mall ■ 1.75 One year, by mail - 1.00 One year, at office 5.00 Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Elsewhere, *3.50 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 Home Dallies. Seven persons lost their lives when a plane fell into the English Channel. Six of those aboard were saved. We presume that in time these accidents will be as numerous as railroad wrecks have been the past several decades but just now it will frighten many people who had contemplated trying a journey by this modern method. We are glad the Knight Hawk club, whoever and whatever that is, has had the enthusiasm to mark the roofs of the down town district with the words, “Decatr.r, Indiana.” That’s a splendid improvement and many an air traveler in the future will silently and perhaps publicly praise these young men who thus marked the trial. We sincerely congratulate the club for its enterprize. ( I Nothing is more attractive in a town or city than good looking store fronts and Decatur can now boast of hers. Take a look at the stores in the main I ’ part of the city and all over it for that matter and you will find the fronts as ‘ attractive as can be found in cities much larger. There are many signs » of progress here now but none more • assuring than this. • New York City has a carefully plan- 1 J ned money saving scheme used in 1 the schools and the result is surpris- ’ ing. Last year the boys and girls 1 in school saved more than two and a ! • half million dollars. It might be 1 worth investigating for thrift is one ■ • of the greatest things that can be 1 taught to the average American boy 1 , or girl of today. =T.'. ■ ——. : Dollar Day on June 27th will be the i biggest trade day Decatur has had t for years. Much interest is being ■ manifest and most of the merchants i • will join in making it a red letter i occasion that should draw business ' from far and near. Its the proper : spirit for when a hundred business men join in such movements, only good can result and the patrons of any community appreciate it. Art Schreiber, the young man who rode a plane across the ocean as a stowaway is not a Lindbergh but he , is somewhat of an American for he i no sooner landed than he began com- 1 | mercializing his feat. He has received many presents and is trying to sell his story to a newspaper and his acting ability to the vaudeville companies. Os course he will soon ran out of amunition but he is making ' hay while the sun shines. I One farmer six miles north of Decatur has sold more than two thousand dollars w'orth of strawberries the past three weeks from a couple of acres. He has found the relief that is worth while. Meeting the demands of the public and raisin,? those crops i which find a ready market at a profit is the thing for every farmer to con- , sider. If the old fashioned methods don't work, why not try the newer I pnqs? , » Congress with&t a appropriated *151,500,000 for the newfederal farm board. With that they should make some splash and its high time they performed. For years the country has waited patiently for some action and now finally having secured the passage of some kind of a measure through congress, it is hoped

TODAY’S CHUCKLE Biddeford. Me. —(UP)— While Albert Cordlt was looking at a wrecked automobile by the roadside. he lost control of his own car snd It crashed Into another machine. Nobody was seriously hurt there will be no delay from any other source. The president will no doubt soon name the board. We hope it will include the best business men in the land who are friendly to agriculture and that will speed things up so that real relief will come for this year's harvest. Losses caused by weeds in Indiana reach figures amazingly high, according to the Indiana Academy of Science. These losses are conservatively placed at *44.900,000 annually. This loss is due for the most part to the fact that there has been no practical and effective means of controlling noxious weeds until recently. The Indiana farm bureau purchasing department now introduces atlacide, a calcium chlorate, as a chemical weed killer effective against Canada thistle, quack grass, etc. It is claimed that it is not a fire hazard such as exists in other chemicals that have been used for this purpose. Various state agricultural experiment stations report favorable results from the use of calcium chlorate. Exposure of scandal in Big Ten athletics and the threatened expose of similar scandals in Indiana high school circles is not altogether unexpected. When a sport is commercialized it is a constant temptation to employ the methods of commerce. ' College sports have become commer- , cialized. College trustees are inter- 1 ested in receipts at the box office. 1 Alumni are interested in winning , teams because they add to the popu- 1 larity of the college and swell the en- 1 I rollment. The same forces are at work, to a lesser degree, in many high schools. With this condition prevalent it is a temptation to go out and buy what you can’t get otherwise. The < commercialized sports offer a model 1 for operations. It is easy for overenthusiastic alumni and boosters to step over the line. The buying of the services of college players takes away much of the sport of true rivalry between colleges. The small colleges are removed from competition. "Upsets,” that really furnish the thrills in college athletic contests, become more and more rare as the smaller colleges find their resources unequal to those of the wealthier schools. When the public ceases to give to college athletics attention entirely out of proportion to its importance, athletic scandals will cease. — Kokomo Dispatch. o Household Scrapbook By ROBERTA LEE A Shirtwaist Box A beautiful and useful shirtwaist box can be made out of a large cracker box, such as can be furnished by any grocer, if it is covered with a pretty chintz. Ants Sprinkle cayenne pepper into crevices of shelves, drawers and wherever traces of ants are found. Potatoes Salt added to potatoes when they are nearly done insures their floury consistency and prevents them from going to pieces. — —oMODERN ETIQUETTE By ROBERTA LEE Q When a woman does not observe a regular ‘‘at-home" day; what are the usual visiting hours.? A. Between 3 and 5 P. M. Q. Is it necessary to introduce children to adults? A. It is not exactly necessary, but well-bred parents will do so at every opportunity as a matter of training. Q. Is the dessert considered a separate course? . '•< o- — T CONGRESS TODAY Senate: Debates rule to abolish scret session and bill to increase salaries of congressional employes. Finance subcommittee continue hearings on tariff schedules. House: Meets to consider minor bills.

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.

Were Any Missed? In the story of the "First Land Transfer,” in the series of stories of “Way Back When," is named what the writer believes to have been all the trees and shrubs native to this section. Great care was used to Include all, but perhaps some have been missed. The Daily Democrat would be pleased to have any one write or phone in the name of any tree or shrub that they are sure was nativ«Aiere that was not included in the list as given in the story. The Firtt Land Transfer It was wonderful how fast the county "settled up.” The county recorder had plenty of business and land transfers were many. May 1 tell you a story about the first land transfer and call your attention that its "appurtances” listed all the native growing things? In the year of our Lord, 1853, one James Hipes and Elizabeth, his wife, executed a deed of conveyance to Eli Zimmerman, conveying the north fractional part of the northwest quarter of section twelve in township twentyseven. north of range fourteen east and also the northeast fractional part of the northeast quarter of section , eleven in said township and range, which deed was recorded on the 15th i day of October. 1836. and spread of ( record in Deed Record “A” in the re- ( corder’s office of Adams county and ’ according duly attested by Hon. Esaias Daily, recorder. Now at first blush, that may not seem to be anything unusual, the sim- { pie execution and recording of a deed ‘ of conveyance—there has been many deeds more sensational committed in Adams county—but at the same time and by the same token this was an unusual proceeding because it happened that this deed was the first one ' made and recorded in our beloved county. Somebody had to start the real estate game and James and Eli ® were the boys who started the boom. James and Elizabeth must have had plenty time, paper and ink the day they executed this deed, for If that 1 deed missed any of the “granted, sold ‘ and conveyed" and “appurtances” 1 and “appertaining to’s" we have not - been able to discover that lapse. In * that delt James stipulated that: “bar ’ gained, granted, sold, alienated, released, conveyed and confirmed all his J right, title, interest, claim, demand whatever in law and in equity of in ' and to the said premises and also ' every part thereof together with all J and singular the privileges and ap- < purtances to the same belonging or * in anywise appertaining to the same and the rents and profits thereof to ‘ have and to hold the said premises thereby, bargained, and sold or meant or intended so to be with the appurtances to the only proper use, benefit , and behoof of the said party." ( There you have it, just exactly and ( unconditionally and particularly what James sold. Pehaps James did not believe it necessary to put all that stuff in but might have been forced to do so by Eli. Eli might have insisted on the words “the use and ben efit and behoof” being put in, because from what we have heard of Eli of the old times, Eli was very liable to have insisted on several things. Now. it was just as plain as plain could be that Eli got every blessed thing that James had in and around that real estate but may we ask, what the dickens did James have anyway? We have it from an eye witness (an old gentleman who now has his second sight and who acquired this particular knowledge from his own father) that that land conveyed in said deed at the time of said conveyance was absolutely naked as far as having any adornment thereon placed thereon by any human hands. That in reality and in fact the land so conveyed amounted to seventy-three acres (not to say anything of the Kekionga river, which cut the land almost amidships) and was within a stone’s throw of what is now and what was then to , be Decatur, Adams county, Indiana. I We inquired therefore, naturally to what and for whyfore was the said deed cluttered \tp with “together with all and singular the privileges and appurtances to the same belonging or in anywise/appertaining." Now. there may have been and probably was nothing particularly meant by those profound legal inconsequentials, yet on the other hand perhaps there was. The deal was made in the fall of the year arid the hickory nuts were in bloom also were the , butternut? and walnuts etcetera. , Eli must have had method when he insisted, if he did. that everything be plainly set forth. The glorious October days were finting earth and sky and all the inhabitants thereof and Eli was no doubt enraptured, exalted and desirous. Yellow to golden had become the elm. beech, honey locust, chestnut, red ash and hickory; the black walnut, butternut, white beech and pop-

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lars were green and yellow; the alder, silver mapie and willows yellowed, and the sumachs, red oaks, white i oaks, flowering dogwood and hazel ] nut were a mass of scarlet and crim-! son. The sassafras and red sugar' maples were all shades of purple, I crimson, scarlet, orange and yellow.' In truth and in fact that seventy-three acres was a mass of color, beautiful beyond compare. The elms and oaks towered heavenward and joined majestically in the carnival. Besides all this, every tree had its squirrel, every hole its rabbit and every trysting place its deer. Friend Hipes conveyed to friend Eli great and marvelous wealth on that day of long ago. Besides conveying those broad acres which were also four thousand miles deep and a million miles high, these “appurtances” jvere transferred: Slippery water elm white elm, shell hickory, white histkory pig nui „ . • ory water beech yellow beech, honey locust, black locust, chestnut, willows, yellow popular, sugar maple, white maple, quakin', aspen, hackberry, pawpaw, red haw, black haw, sarvis, june berry, burr oak, pin oaks, sw.-et oaks, red oaks, butternut, walnut, sychmores, spice woods, cotton woods, prickly ash, white ash, black ash, calico ash, linden, buckeye, mulberry, crab apples, wild cherry, wild plumb, red bud, iron wood, pine, black raspberry, red raspberry, wild grapes, blackberries, dewberries, wild current, wild gooseberries, witch hazel, hawthorne, sumachs, red ossier, butter sweet, ginsing, Indian turnips, apikenard, Solomon's seal, and a considerable bunch of may apples. For the whole doggone thing Eli paid that man,the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars. The record says so, and presumably James got the money. Besides that Eli bought isolation and solitude. He could go onto that seventy-three acres and com ; mune alone with nature, if he wanted I to, and no one could say to him nay. ■ As far as that is concerned he could i so commune most anywhere within an area of ten miles of that place. At any rate Eli had paid and Mr. Dailey had put the paper of record by gosh. Many years have passed. Where, o’ where, may we ask, has gone all that glory of autumnal beauty? Saw mills, my boy, and the hungry have levied their destructive toil. What good did it do Eli to insist on “appurtances” being put in that deed? - We cannot answer but perhaps and 1 maybe before the years to come shall have equaled the years since that deed was made a love of nature and its growing glories shall have silencwanton destruction in the hearts of I men and those with the “growing i ed” shall bring into loving visibility! the glories of the original “appurt-1 ances” and those acres become again i "a thing of beauty and a joy forever.”! (To be continued) . o ****** ******* * BIG FEATURES •( * OF RADIO • St«4**«******ll Tuesday's Five Best Radio Features Copyright 1929 by UP Central Standard Time WEAF, NBC network, 7—The Potters. WABC, CBS network, 7—Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra. WLW Cincinnati, and WOR, WLS, 7, —Special program tracing the! history of radio. WABC, CBS network, 8 — Voice of Columbia. WEAF, NBC network, 9—Vaudeville Hour. — o Wednesday Five Best Radio Features WOR—SBS Network 6:00 pm. Hank Simmons’ showboat. WEAF— NBC Network 6:00 pm. Rapee’s orchestra. WEAF NBC Network 7:30 The revellers, Soloists and orchestra WOR—CBS Network 7:00 pm. United! Symphony orchestra. WJZ-NBC Network 8:30 pm. Victory! wagner and symphony orchestra.i o * TWENTY YEARS AGO * * From the Daily Democrat File *| * Twenty Years Ago Today • June 18—Sheriff Meyers and depu ties raid six saloons here and confiscate slot machines. Owners fined, *251 and costs, eachErnst Schlickman leases Webber livery barn and will conduct feed yards. Warrick county votes dry by 237 after a bitter fight. First big automobile race event in Ijiididija opehsiat Crown Point.; • ’’ Thrive aid eighteen entries^-tor the Western Vanderbilt trophy. Dr. W. M. Fowler, of Bluffton, whoj made polar trips with Walter Well-j man here as a witness In the Faylor vs. Studabaker case. Father George leaves for a visit j in Detroit Mrs. H. L. Confer is visiting in Chi-! cago. Sim Burk, Otis Dibble and Harry | Weldy are traveling for a picture I

I house. Miss Mary Callow, 6, has her tonsils removed at Fort Wayne. - —O" — 1 OFFICERS ARE INJURED Celina, Ohio, June 18.—John Brehm and Ed Bernard, deputy sheriffs, were

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