Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 120, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1931 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. IT. Heller Pres, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec'y & Hue. Mgr. Dick I). Heller Vice-President Filtered at the JtycstofTice at Decacur, Indiana, as second class matter Subscription Rates .. Single copies $ .02 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 6.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six months, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office 3.00 Prices quoted are within first and second tones. Elsewhere 13.50 one year. Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Advertising Represeutati SCREERER, INC. 85 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 115 Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member The Indiana League of Homo Dailies The new version of that party in ’ Gary in which Arlene Dravfs lost her life is even more sickening than the first one and if young Kirkland squeezes out of it he ought to believe in Santa Claus. Here's hoping that the Legion hoys, the Chamber of Commerce , and other organizations get together and put on a Fourth of July cele-1 bration that will please and entire-1 1} satisfy all who remember what ; the occasion meant in the old days. | *■"■ — A Chicago man is now paying i alimony to three former wives, a total of $2,100 per month. Sounds >like a goot who made money so fast he didn't know what to do with it and if he insists on niarry- » 4ng Jnd then forgetting his vows, he ought to be "socked'' good and plenty. Two men were dismissed from the Mishawaka Rubber and Woolen . MiHs at Mishawaka, Indiana, the other day and 2,000 workmen walked out in sympathy and the strike is >an. They are becoming numerous over the country and of course are foolish. There ought to be a meeting point between employers - and employes that would be best for every one these days. Chicago and Cook county seem to be broke or at least so badly bent that some drastic methods will bi' necessary to avoid a receivership. The nigh* years of Mayor Rill Thompson seem to just have about put the “kibosh" on the old town and now bankers, politicians and business men are getting down to brass tacks, trying to figure out a sensible and workable plan. The suit which it was e. petted [ would establish whether or not Senator James Watson of Indiana was I a number of the klan has been closed by the refusal of the United States Supreme Court to review the i evidence, so there's another very important matter that will just have to be guessed at. A man nam- - ed William Rogers had claimed j that Watson showed him a klan passport but the senator denied it and so it ends a draw. Standard Oil of Indiana dropped below par this week, first time in lifstbry, giving some evidence of the low tide of stocks. Those who bought at fifty or more are now

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prone to feel that there is no hot tom and perhaps they are right. Values of stocks are based primarily on returns and when business • is poor, all of them suffer. Stocks will not go higher and stay there • until there is evidence of returning t prosperity. r The third annual street fair will be given September Sth to 12th by j Adams Post of the American Lc ) gion, assisted by a number of busj iness men and citizens. The De- > catur Free Street Fair Association J will be incorporated and the first I rule of the new organiztaion is that there will be no gambling permited. That feature last year brought forth many objections and the LeI gion assures the public that the show this year will be a clean and wholesome one in every way. A cavalry without horses will seem strange to most of us who have read of the world battles with almost as much reverence for the brave horses as for the humans who took part but that is to be the new order of things it seems. Horse drawn carts and vehicles are to give way to motor driven machines with more speed and more endurance. Perhaps they can figure |out away of saving the men also, i Why not have dummies that move | automatically ? Also what pray is Ito become of the horses? He is j about to be shuffled clear out of the picture. The fifty-first commencement of the Decatur high school is at hand land the large class of graduates will at once enter upon the activities of life, taking their places in the ranks of those who have started in previous years. The first class graduated in ISSI and each year since then, the school has turned out students who. have finished the course and are ready for college, business or other careers. The class this year is a splendid one and we congratulate each of them with the hope for every happiness and success that they may have in mind. Rev. L. W. A. Luckey who was reared in Union township, educated here, made good in the ministry, now resides in New York City, but who still keeps old Adams county in bis memories, wants an old fashioned Fourth of July celebration here in this new tangled age. He recalls that sixty years ago the coming Fourth the big feature of the celebration was the laying of the corner stone at the court house and he suggests that one of the features be a speech, telling of the occasion and of the advancements made in every way, since that day. iWe hope the thought takes seed | and that a good old style celebration will be worked out. o ♦ ; < Lessons In English | e- 4 Words often misused: Do not say "In so far as." Omit “in." Often mispronounced. Obstrusive i Pronounce ob-troo-siv.'first o as in i "of," oo as in "tool," accent second j syllable and not ziv. Often misspelled: Glossary; ary. | not cry. I Synonyms: Settle, establish, arrange, regulate .adjust. Word Study: "Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us ini reuse our vocabulary by mastering j one word each day. Today's word. I Rebellious; resisting treatment or i operation. “It was a rebellious disJ ease." o i 4 . 4 Household Scrapbook | By I 1 ROBERTA LEE I ♦— (U.R) ♦ Clogged Sing Pipe I To loosen a clogged sing pipe, disI solve 1-4 pound of copperas in 2 I [quarts of hot water and pour it I down the pipe. Repeat if necessI. sary. A solution of soda and vinegar ' poured down the pipe will dislodge grease. Miuih rooms Sprinkle a little salt on the gills of the mushrooms. If this turns the gills black, they are fit for food; if yellow, they are poisonous. Linens An old sheet dipped in strong bluing waler and laid over the linens will prevent thorn from turning yellow. BARGAINS — Bargains in living room, dining room suite, mat[tresses and rugs. Stuckey and Co., I Monrce, our Phone number in 44 168-ts

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♦ ♦ ' I > The People’s V oice I This column for the use of our readers who wish to make sug- 1 gestions for the general good j or discuss questions of inter- | ’ est. ""lease sign your name to I ' show authenticity. It will not be used if you prefer that it . t i not be. , / Decatur Democrat Decatur. Indiana Dear Friends: Pleas give me five 1 minutes of your time and mark i carefully what 1 have to say and ! i note the cause. j I I am greatly interested in i ele-1 1 beating the Fourth of July this yea: in Decatur. The Fourth marks, not ' only the One-hundred and Fifty-fifth ' anniversary of our National hide-, pendence but the Sixtieth anniversary (golden Jubilee-Day) of the 1 building of our Adams County Court House and the laying of the Corner-' stone thereof on the 4th day of July A. D„ 1872. ■ 1 Some three weeks ago I wtote I asking-to have the cornerstone of th(j court house cleansed so I could , •ret a good sharp picture of it for i our family history which I am writ- [ >ug and hope to hfive in book form ; by July 4th. The stone is a fine specimen of the stones which went into the 1 building, and there is chiseled upon its face the names of the Then j County olfb-ers, and in an aperture I therein (some nine by twelve inches | ieep) there was deposited at the' time many loving mementos, gentle i reminders, among them a c opy of I the, then County paper, which now' is being edited under another name. [ There was a complete list of the irtides which went into the s'one 1 which must have been recorded in | the Auditor's records of the doings : if the County Commissioners of i that day. Perhaps if you examine [ the files of the paper as far back ' as the week of the Fourth in 1872 you will find it. 1 have suggested to some that we celebrate the day and in doing so keep in mind the "Then and Now” I contrasting, the Now with the Then I (Present with the past) and thus enliven the patriotic and civil spirit of the citizenry. Many of the citizens and some of the Civic bodies of the City have expressed their approval and my niece, Mrs. Dr. Smith of lit! Third street is very much moved and enthusiastic aborft it. The constrast is simply wonderful! If our fathers and mothers could only arise out of their sleeping dust which was interred sixty years ago from the little village of the, Then, and behold the fair City [ ' of Decatur Now, they surely would • believe that they were come into I a new world and a very much finer! plate of artistic and refined beauty. I i Then the streets of the place were simply mud much mud and more mud. Then the wagons were stalled in the streets daily, and the , wa'i^i. ways around tfirough the village were only tooth-paths of mud and slush with a single plank | > (slab) laid down here and there to keep the pedestrians from sinking [ [ or miieing in the mud. The street; , from the Jesse Niblick Corner [ , (Monroe street) nqrth was always. in Spring and Fall well night ini- 1 passible. The writer who did some' . teaming for hi" father found him-! , self “stuck” many times in the I j streets and other wagons were [ s'alled daily therein. The fine City block in which your: office is now located was then spar- . ly filled with little shops in small frame biddings of but little or no value whatever. Contrast the farms and the farm- ; ing as done then, as done now and • the mud roads with those of today, , land the machinry used at that time with what is made use of now. and ! 1 the road wagons and ox and horse

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teams with the fast moving and fine autos and trucks of today, and hote in everything, and every way the changes wrought which are to the interest and advantage of the whole people of the County. ' Lrtok ye over now, if you will, on the beautiful Court House and its spacious lawn so neatly kept and imagine, if you can. what occupied that space sixty years ago! Standing where the V. W. V. monument now is there stood then a small log building which answered for court and jail. When tlie cornestone of the Courthouse was laid. I was a poor green, barefooted country lad just approaching my teens. I looked on the proceedings of that day with a marked degree of interest and solemnity. My eyes watched with eagerness every article that went into that big stone. Speaking of being barefooted, why every body wore just such human shot's in those days, especially in the summer time, for few had any other worthwhile shoes to put on. Now you know just how’ I feel, and why 1 want to celebrate the Fourth in Decatur. It would do me good (as well as thousands of the Old Adams County folk) to see some of those old two-horse wagons filled with representative of the early day. drawn through the streets of Decatur, over her finely paved surfaces, and followed by some of the more modern vehicles and autos filled with the genteel c izenry of the City, representive of the now state of affairs. I would very much love to go to (he Old Court home this coming | sixtieth Anniversary-Day and hear ! some, good Adams County boy, like Che present Judge, Dore B. Erwin. I tell me and all those interested in I the County of the “Then And Now” i and make fair mention of the many noble souls who helped make the ; wonderful changes and who sat as I fudges, your own dear father being [one of that number, and some I whose likenesses you yourself look | upon in your own Decatur Democrat office daily. If you conclude to celebrate the coming Fourth let me know and , I will favor you with certain sug- | st ions that may be of help and will assist financially and otherwise in making it an uplifting and long to be remembered event. My Nephew’, Martin L. Smith of Berne. Indiana, tells me that his father, Franklin Benjamin Smith made the brick and that he and his brother William hauled all the hun-dred-thousand (100,000) brick that went into the Courthouse building and there are many still living who can tell many things of interest in the building of the Court house and ■ he proceedings of the laying of the ! cornetstone on July 4. 1872. The City has passed through hard i and depressing things the past few I years. A real old-fashioned Fourth j of July celebration will do much to leliove the pressure, enliven the spirits and strengthen the more or less feeble hands which now hang down almost paralized. It does seem to me that nothing will do the old I town more or greater good than a i rousing, spirited celebration. What I do you say? The five minutes is up 1 and I must close. Yours in the interest of the Old I town and the good old County of l Adams. | Most Truly and Sincerely. Leonard W. A. Luckey New York City. N. Y. May 18, 1931. o 1 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Peterson of [ Dayton will visit here oyer Sunday.

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