Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 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 & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller Vice-President Subscription Rates Single copies ... $ .02 One week, by carrier 10 One year, by carrier 5.00 One month, by mail 35 Three months, by mail 1.00 Six mouths, by mail 1.75 One year, by mail 3.00 One year, at office.. 3.00 Prices quoted are within.first and second zones. Elsewhere $3.50 one year. ■ Advertising Rates made known on Application. National Advertising Representative SCHEERER, Inc. 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago ♦ls Lexington Avenue, New York Charter Member of The mdiana League of Home Dailies Schools open next week. Get set for the big occasion. Vacations are over and its time for every one to get back to work. Rolling kitchens are now being used in southern Indiana to relieve the hungry. In the old days, we believe they called them soup kitchens. Oregon has a city named Ashland and so has Pennsylvania and here is a queer coincident. In the last census each showed a population of 7,164. It won't be long now until football will be the exciting thing, then cQmes basketball and in the meantime the world series in baseball, all of which help to make us forget trivial worries. The Decatur street fair and agricultural show will be worth attending for there will be numerous features and as always large crowds. Its all free and you can attertd every day. Make it your big week. "Be sure to enter something for the fair. It isn't much trouble, adds to tim interest and you may get a dandy premium. - The drouth seems to be broken and its quite probable that we will have enough rainfall the next six months to make up for the shortage of the past couple of years. They say that Coustauce Bennett, a movie actress, receives a salary of $30,000 per week and the ! ♦act is being discussed as to whether or not that is exorbitant. Well a lot of folks would like to tackle Ute job on the basis of working the entire year for what she receives each week. ' Won't you bring in a little of your surplus fruits and vegetables to be I used by the United Charities to teed the hungry next winter if Ahere are any? If you will do so’ and leave such articles at the city | tall the Ladies Aids will see that 1 Jvery thing is canned and put in' condition to be used during the cold months. Its a fine cause. • Daisy Day should have the support of every one here for it will bring hundreds from a long distance. Those conducted here before have proven happy and successful in every way and beneficial to every one concerned. Get ready to boost Dairy Day and help make ft a real event. „ The American Legion of Illinois favors a five billion dollar appropriation from congress to be used on a public work program that will furnish work. William R. Hearst, owner of the newspaper chain likewise favors action of that kind. It We encourage only such methods as will enhance this community’s good will. W. H. Zwick & Son FUNERAL DIRECTORS Mrs. Zwick, Lady Attendant Funeral Heme Ambulance Service 514 N. Second Tel. 303 and 61

might work but of course it must be remembered that eventually we must pay. That’s one difficulty now—we are trying to pay off debts created during the war and the burden gets a little heavy. Mr. Showalter seems to be firm in his opinion that in order to reduce taxes we must reduce expenditures. Any way he is permitting only the building of such improvements as are deemed absolutely necessary, which is perhaps the best method of getting down to earth but we must remember also that such proceedure stops improvements and does not help the unem ployment situation. In every county around here the state tax board has denied bond issues on roads, bridges and other improvements. George C. Cole, state superintendent of public instructions, is strong on the idea that there should be the greatest and closest cooperation between schools ami communities, that the teachers should keep in contact with every thing of public interest and that the children who will be the men and women of tomorrow, should be kept posted and given every opportunity to know what is going on and just how public matters are conducted. Its exactly the right proceedure for after all education is not worth much unless we know how to use it. Eight state legislatures now have passed laws making hitch-hiking unlawful. The bill introduced in the New Hampshire legislature evidently was written by a jokester. It provides that all hitch-hikers using the highways of the state must pay a registry fee of $3.20 to the secretary of state and buy a license from the motor vehicle com missioner for $2.30. Another provision is that each hiker must i carry a metal sign announcing his proposed destination and that he must carry a 1-gallon can of gasoline as his contribution toward the fuel expeuae of anyone who picks hiiu up, . U. he travels at night, this bill provides he must have both headlight and tail light. Because his cattle would not stay in a pasture inclosed with a smooth wire fence, Joseph Gildden twisted some sharp barbs of wire at intervals on the strands. That is how the barbarous barbed wire fence I was born. Glidden sold the patent for $150,000. An idea that men would prefer to have a razor of replaceable blades, assuring greater safety, made a man named Gillette a multi-millionaire. A man named Sturtevant worked out an idea to use wooden pegs in shoe soles and I made $6,000,000. Putting a rubber ’ , tip on a pencil was good for SIOO,000 for its inventor, Hyman Lipman. A father built a little three-1 ' wheeled, self-propelling cart for his i boy and called it a “Kiddie Kar." I ilt made the father a millionaire. : ' There are plenty of million-dollar I inventions yet to make yon a mil-' lion, so get busy. REUMONCALENDAR ♦ —♦ Sunday September 6 Fifteenth annual reunion of Samuel Workinger family, Bert Workinger farm 6 miles eas’ of Decatur. Nineteenth Roop Family Reunion Willshire Park, Willshire, Ohio. Porter family reunion, O. L. Brentlinger home, southeast of Decatur. Brown family reunion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Urich family reunion, Sun Set Park, rain or shineRichards family runion, Sun Set Park, rain or shine. Schnepp and Manley reunion, Sun Set Park, Decatur. Sept. 7—Labor Day 1 Lenhart Reunion, Sun Set Park. Reunion of Millinger Family, Sun , Set Park. 1 Annual Foor reunion, Highs , Grove, 1% miles east of Ohio City, Ohio. I Mumma family reunion, Franke , Park. Fort Wayue. Sunday, September 13 Bell Family Reunion, Legion Me. .orial Park. Decatur. — — BARGAINS — Bargains in living room, dining room suite, mat- ‘ tresses and rugs. St"ckey and Co. Monroe, our Phone number is 44 i

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♦ TWENTY YEARS ] AGO TODAY F~m the Daily Democrat File ] ft —« September 3, 1911 was Sunday. o ♦ ft | Household Scrapbook ' By ROBERTA LEE ♦ <U.PJ ♦ Patent Leather Scratches will not be noticeable on patent leather shoes if they are painted with a mixture of olive oil and jet black ink, applied with a very fine brush. Cooking Rice !>o not. stir rice while cooking, because it breaks the kernels and , makes them mushy. To avoid sticking to the bottom of the utensil, grease the pan before cooking. Coffee To improve the flavor of coffee and make it more digestible, try adding a raw, dry prune to the pot when making it. - -o Lessons In English Words often misused: Do not say, “Neither Frank nor his brother are going,” Say. “is going.” Often mispronounced. Autopsy.

Gordon State Park Sunday & Labor Day Renz & New Equilibratory and Comedy Gymnasts Free Free 808 DIEKMAN and His Orchestra THE PIER BALL ROOM Saturday - Sunday - Day Nite Labor Day Afternoon Labor Day Nite AN UNUSUAL — EXPENSIVE — BIGGER • FREE—DISPLAY-FREE Fireworks ■ JMjtaf''? '■'f * i ' > ‘' J The Pier Bail Room will operate every Wednesday and Sunday Nights after Labor Day and all Winter. —

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Pronounce the au as in "haul" o as in “top," and accent first syllable, not the second. Often misspelled. Symmetrical. Observe the sy. and the two m's. Synonyms: Insert, intercalate, interpolate. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours." Let us in crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Supplicate: to ask for earnestly aud humbly. “He supplicated him for mercy.” o ft- —— ft Modem Etiquette I I I ROBERTA LEE ft (U.PJ • Q. If a host is seriously overcharged in a restaurant, how can he adjust the matter without embarrassing his guests? A. By excusing himself and seeing the head-waiter. Q. When a new acquaintance leaves and says, "I am very glad to have met you”, what should one ' -■ .4, Merely respond with a cordial “Thank you." Q. Are the dessert plates placed on another plate? A. No; tluy are merely placed on the tablecloth.

♦ • ANSWERS TO TEST QUESTIONS Below are the answers to the test questions printed on page two 1. It was named from Alexander Volta. 2. A vacuum. 3. The Revolutionary War. 4. A parasite. 5. Province of Quebec. 6. Australia, or if that be considered a continent, then Greenland. 7. From the Latin word luna, meaning moon. 8. James Madison. 9. By death, resignation, inability of the President to perform his duties, or removal by inpeachment. 10. New Zealand. o — * PREBLE NEWS * * — « Mrs. Wm. Frietag and Marlyn Hoffman spent Tuesday in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Foreman of Garrett called on Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Zimmerman and daughter Tuesday. ‘ Dr. and Mrs. Grandstaff spent several days last week at Muskegon and different lakes in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy Shady and j sons of Fort Wayne are spending a , week visiting the formers parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Shady. John Francis Grandstaff returned , home to Muskegon. Michigan after spending several weeks visiting his giandparents Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Grandstaff. Miss Eva Siples of Fort Wayne) spent several days visiting Eliza I beth and Mary Fuhrman. Mrs. Edgar Zimmerman and I daughter Onalee spent Wednesday 1 visiting Mrs. Richard Bogiftr of Decatur. Mr and Mrs. Geo. Bultemeier and daushters Helen and Aldine, returned home from Snow Lake Wednesday. Mrs. Sophia Biebrick and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Biebrick and son and daughter spent Thursday in DecaI tur. Mr Clinton Zimmerman and daughter Donnabelle called on Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Zimmerman and daughter Thursday evening. Those present were: Edna Worthman. Mabie Borne, Edna Peters, Emma Hilgeman. Lucinda, Borne. Magdeleue Borne, Amanda Fruehte Irene Peck, Edna Borne, Irene | Bloemker, Elsie Kruetzman, Selma , Peters, Ida Borne, Lesetta Worth-' man and hostess Emma Bloemker. |

MSM Sept. 15-16-17-18-19 et ready for the Biggest and Best 'J Fair Decatur has ever had. Plans are nearly completed and we’re all Set for a Week of Fun and Entertainment DAY and NIGHT WONDERFUL FREE ACTS with a complete change in mid-week. Rides-Shows-Bands Agricultural Exhibit Amusements of All That Will Equal The Kinds State Fair Midway In Full Blast Don’t Miss a Single Day Sponsored by American Legion

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