Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1929 — Page 3

gRIFTWOOO IN N. L HARBOR IS COSTLY MENACE Propeller Broken By Floating Timber Handicap To Navigation York. July 13—(UP(—TJie. vast .mount ot driftwood and other obstacNew York harbor constitutes a le ’ .. handicap to navigation and ’mX « tl,li,DClßl PCn,hy w o owners. according to a report public today by Edwin B. LapS vice president of the Waterway months of the year. th “ r X; said, members of the New voTic tow boat exchange paid out |4O- - new propellers and the cost of then/after old ones had been JaXd by the drifting debris. But ha" figures does not begin to approxi- ' a e the total cost of accidents Lapham pointed out. but some mishaps been so serious that boats have paired to go to drydock, owners thus using the services of the vessels. Floating and submerged timbers are . ut h a menace in shius that some coast wtse steamers are towed out beyond the pieihead before the engines are ’'yachtsmen. with their lighter craft are among the heaviest sufferers. One yachtsman in a single season had 22 accidents to propellers in Hell Gates a"d East River. Another had seven accidents—one daily—in a week. All pleasure boat owners within a 20-mile radius of New York’s City Hall are affected by the floating debris, Lapham said with night floating all but eliminated because of the danger Four Sources of Debris The Waterway League’s Aids to Navigation Committee has made a study of the problem and concluded that most of the diift material comes from four sources. One of these is the boat “graveyard." where seveial thousand hulls and parts of hdils have been left to the elements. Each winter these ship skeletons are broken up by the ice floes and the wreckage is forced into harbor channels. In the third place, there are tens of thousands of logs, heavy timber and spile buts thrown overhoard by builders and repairers of piers, docks and ferry slips. The fourth menace is supplied by steamers and other ciaft that throw over ship's dunnage, boxes, barrels, kegs, butter tubs, etc. Loading scows for refuse also lose a great deal of debris The Waterway League plans legal action by federal, state and local authorities against owners of vessels or piers which contribute to the navigation menace. o— — New Type Automobile Foot Accelerator Invented Kendallville. Ind., July 13—(UP)— "• E. Dolson, Kendallville merchant, has perfected a foot gasoline feed for automobiles to eliminate changes in gasoline supply reaching the engine when a car is driven over rough suffaces. A metal roller with ball bearing rePlaces the usual type of accelerator

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

1 Banking, Years Ago spent 18 ye ars o f ray use work . ~t he Adam ” Qounty bank and ’ ‘“ e comraun «y lay away its Danr« Clo,bes an <i put on long bZ‘ u SSe Niblick - David StudaWitii ’ Allison, John Meibers, I ns u Spencer - William H. Nib-ilre-t ' • Pnry erkes sway as at th n U this instltu tion and over I T T ? e,atllr National bank. Doctor his snn n W . in Was the Preaident and Holthi DIC » the cashlßr and John B. JJhouse John D . llale p w SffiUh Dirkan'n ° y ’ S ’ p>eterßon and John Dorw inw r re ‘ he dlr(,ctorß- - that r 8 ° ne ° f tbe flnest charactiaMfTr^ new - Handsome, athto the p 'endly, it was a sad blow away in h°i? niu ? lty wben he passed vivid in m . Pa s y twenties - It is very old bank/ m nd the plcture of these back "7 P '° neers 'n their little for loans upon a PPH ca tions Nines w'thhfirt? ing Credit a,ld 80me tins and d l ng ’ * ettin * behind way f or .. a lnd,!st ry and paving the build a Z 8 “ 8 ' ,nai ‘ ia g money to I old ones c.f\ 0T houS6 to replace the drelna Re . ,°f’ urgin ? clearing and 'arttler whls/ » many a ploneer to c ounter > effor ts nature seemed and 'he th/ W ' t ' l fiendish ingenuity *a ß ee r and and one things that ta the £ ’ t 0 d ° and pati " »PO" “«edy '‘ommnnu ° f a stru SKH“g and •nd a dvlce ana y ' ThSt thelr hel P ly used w / d money were judicioustr°?reßa by tbe conti nued 9 and the community

John D. Sinks One t i f i I r 1 t / L ; I I J F- W- J sHfr I ** / IK Lg r John D. Rockefeller, Cr., posed for this exclusive picture on his private golf course at his Pocantico Hills estate near Tarrytown, N. Y. All the thrill of making money has gone from the rich oil magnate’s life, and at the age of 90, John D, Sr., finds more thrill in sinking a ten-foot putt than seeing millions grow. The device is designed with a view to moving with the foot, thus avoiding differences in pressure caused by a jolting ear. The Rolit Company has been formed to manufauture and market the production. 0 Swindler Works Clever Schemes At Anderson Anderson, Ind., July 13 —(VP) —A man posing as a city detective, who swindled a number of Anderson families on two plans of action, is believed to have taken a hasty departure upon learning that his schemes have been disclosed On one occasion he posed as the chief of police, presented a fake search warrant and went through a home; several articles were stolen, the owner reported. On several occasions he has represented that he was an officer of the law sent to force collection of bills. 0 Portland —The United Department Stores, Inc., a combination of several department stores in the middle west, has been formed by Ray Weiler of Portland, Jack L. Rossin and Herman Halberstadt of Anderson, Salo Levite Terre Haute and J. J. Kiser of Indianapolis, Ray Weiler is the president of the organization. The company will issue 7,500 shares of preferred stock having a par value of SSO a share and 50.000 shares of common stock with no par value.

waxed prosperous and the banks forged ahgad steadily in deposits and earnings. What a wonderful period was it along in. the 80’s and 90's. I am glad that I lived at that time. Billy Niblick as he was farmiliarly called was a wonderful banker, a man of shrewd and quick and reliable judgment, intensely active, uniformly courteous and accomodating- his friends were legion and his advice and help constantly sought. Judge Studakaber was a sound and careful financier, not easily influenced and with a marvelous knowledge of values. At the Decatur National bank, Doctor Dorwin was the same kind of a man as Studabaker and also was financial as well as physical adviser to multitudes of people. All was not smooth sailing in those days. The country and towns had their ups and downs, there was periods of hard times, when crops failed and the dollar was a mighty scarce article. Times when the demands for money were met with great difficulty, when rigid frugality had io be practiced, times when business was panicky and crops a failure, yet on the whole there was. a backbone to the finances of the county and a steadiness in her finan* cers that weathered every storm! These pioneers bankers have passed from the stage, but their influence is still felt, the inspiration of their management has been accepted by their successors and the community has grown stronger and better as the days have gone by.

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STATE NORMAL GETS BUILDINGS Mill Ml W Terre Haute, Ind., July 13 —(UP)— Construction of three new buildings for the Indiana State Teachers Col'lege, entailing an expenditure of $344, 652 is in progress and the work will be completed in time for the opening of the fall term in October. The buildings indue a new wing for the women’s residence hall, costing $180,000; gymnasium $73,142, and boiler room $92,142. The old wing of the women’s residence is being cleaned

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and completely overhauledLatent Ideas in comfort and attractiveness aie being built into the new | wing, which will have rooms for 198 i persons. A guest room and kitchen are included In the unit. For the entire building a signal system is being installed. In addition to basketball floors for i men the new gymnasium will include two courts for women Showers rooms and lockers are being installed j u Mother At Age Os 101 Serves As Bridesmaid Toledo, 0., July 13—(UP) A 101 ! year-old bridesmaid wks one of those I in attendance at a wedding in Criders-

ville near here, recently. Mrs. Lorena Wolfe, 101 Cridersville, Ohio attended her daughter Mrs. Mae Claik, 59. when the latter was married to George W. Moore, 50, Toledo city employe. The marriage climaxed an unusual romance. After his father died when the boy was only 10 years old, Moore went to live in the home of his future bride————o Spreading Education The World Association for Adult Education, London, publishes bulletins on the movement In the United States, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Swedeu, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Finland, Smith Africa. Australia, China and Japan.

MACHINE FASTER THAN LIGHNINC Lafayette, Ind., July 13 —(UP)—A machine that operates faster than lightning and which can split a second into a million parts has been perfected by R. H. George of the Purdue university engineering experiment station here- It is a new type of hot catho da oscillograph, for use in studying high frequency electrical activity, such as occurs in power transmission lines during thunderstorms. As lightning flashes the apparatus

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automatically strikes and takes a photograph of what occurs on a power line and at the end of the flash shuts its self off. Ths speed is so great thatlight may travel across the photograph film of .he aparatus at the rate of 130 miles a second, which would encircle the world, a distance of 25.000 miles, in three seconds. In addition to being of gread aid to power companies in recording effects of lightning so that equipment may be made to meet the situation, a new field for the oscillograph has been found in testing voices for talking motion pictures. o Mrs. John Smith is home from Rome City today.