Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1934 — Page 2

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CLASSIFIED i ADVERTISEMENTS, I BUSINESS CARDS, AND NOTICES ! FOR SALE FOR SALE — Living room suites, $35 and up; bed room suite*. $25 and up; also specials on breakfast sets, mattresses, rugs and oil stoves. See our new heating and range stoves for this fall delivery. Come and see us for bargains. Stucky and Co., Monroe, Ind. 178-6tx FOR SALE — Ice box and cornet. Phone 765, Mrs. A. R. Ashbaucher 175FOR SALE—-Leonard Refrigerator, genuine porcelain lined, 75 lb. capacity in A-l condition. Roy Johnson, 312 No. 10th St, 177-a3t , FOR SALE—Fine city dwelling, excellent location. A bargain , and investment for right party. For information call Fruchte and Litterer. phone 242. 175t3 WANTED For RADIO or ELECTRICAL re- ' pairs call MARCELLUS MILLER phone 625. I specialize in auto radio installation and repairs. Wilier Radio Service, 22G No. 7th st. 172tf WANTED— E.vperien". ed woman, 35 to 50 "years old. for general housework. Small toby. Must stay nights. Phone’97s. 176-g3t WANTED TO BUY—Second hand metal hospital bed with adjustable backrest. Phone 8835. 176tS — o— — FOR RENT FOR RENT — Private cottage at Sylvan Lake, nice cool lake front M. Meivers, 1127 West Monroe St. 176- — : 0 EXPERT TREE SERVICE— Tree trimming and tree surgery. Free in- : spectirm of trees in city. Dent Baitbell or Joe Elzey. 176-g2tx Ki COURTHOUSE Marriage License Ulrich G. Reinhard, filling station attendant, Berne, and Marian M. Liechty, seamstress, route 1, Berne. *• — o - Appointment of AdiuiniMtrator Notice is hereby given, That the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of John I). Moore late <»f Aid amy County, de. ceased. The estate is probably solvent. Harry Moore, Administrator <’. L. U alters, attorney July 26 193 4 July 26 Aug. 2-9 . \ ppoini incut of \dniinist r.i tor Notice is hereby given, That the ' underaigned has been appointed Admlnistrator of the estate of Margaret Jleekard late of Adams County, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. C’u! E. Peterson, Administrator John DeVoes, Attorney 1984 July — ••SUHF<L£AMI*<iTHAI fttSWKS UAUTY 10 CLOT Mt J” Sheets Bros. Cleaners N. 2nd st. Phone 359

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MARKETREPORTS [daily report of local AND FOREIGN MARKETS LOCAL MARKET Decatur Berne Craigville Hoagland Corrected July 25 No oommlsslon and no yardage Veals received Tuesday Wednesday Friday and Saturday 180 to 200 Uw .. $4.30 200 to 250 lbs $4.40 250 to 300 Mm $4.50 300 to 350 lbs $4.30 300 Ibe. up $3.65 140 to 160 tbe. $53.40 120 to 140 ib« $2.75 100 to 120 lbs $2.45 Roughs $3.00 Stags $1.60 Vealera $5.00 Ewe and wether lambs $5.50 Burak laiulbs $4.50 FORT WAYNE LIVESTOCK Fort Wayne, Ind., July 26. —(U.R) —Livestock: Hogs, steady to 25c higher; 250300 lbs.. S4JiO; 200-250 lbs., $4.65; 180-200 lbs.. $4.55; 160-180 lbs.. $4.45; 3000-350 lbs.. $4.50; 150-160 lbs., $3..75; 140-150 lbs.. $3.50; 130140 lbs., $3.15; 120-130 lbs., $2.65; 100-120 lbs., $2.35; roughs, $3.50; stags, $1.75. Calves, $5; lambs, $6. EAST BUFFALO LIVESTOCK East Buffalo, N. Y.. July 26. — (U.R) Livestock: Hogs, receipts, 300; holdovers 120; steady to strong; better lots 170 to 240 lbs., averaging 180 to 210 lbs.. $5 to $5.15; bids $5.25 on 210 to 250 lbs.; few* mixed offerings $4.75 to $4.88. Cattle, receipts, 425; holdovers $125; mostly plain grass steers and reactor cows;'steer trade at standstill; cows dull; barely steady at recent decline; low cutters and cutter grades. $1.70 to $2.25. Calves, receipts, 75; vealers firm; $6 down. Sheep, receipts, 100 only odds and ends here; general market quoted unchanged: good and choice ewe and wether lambs eligible to $7.50. CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE July Sept. Dec. May Wheat, old 96% 97% 99% 1.01% new . 97% 99% Corn ... .. 63% 65% 68% Oats, old 44 44% 45% new 44% 45% LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Corrected July 26 No. 1 New Wheat, 60 lbs or better 88c No. 2 New Wheat (58 lbs.) 87c Oats -38 c White or mixed corn 75c I First class yellow corn Stic I Wool _ 20 to 25 cents - • — « I Test Your Knowledge — i Can you answer seven of these I tese Questions? Turn to page Four for the answers. 1. Who was Charles Stewart Parnell? 2. Where is the Aar River? 3. Who founded the first “5-cent store?” 4. How many counties are in the state of Delaware? 5. What is the name of sciemce of tracing the history of the origin and descent of a family. 6. In which states is Yellowstone National Park located? '7. Which two religious denominations in the U. S. have welldeveloped systems of parochial schools? 8. How long does It take sunlight to reach the earth? 9. Name the second largest city in Massachusetts. 10. Name the capital of Belgium. < 0 Get the Habit — Trade at Home

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CHAPTER XXVI On the same day that I went to Echovillc. Seifert Vail was buried in New York City from a pretentious funeral chapel. His sister, who had cabled instructions for the disposition of his body, had arrived from Bermuda in time to attend the services. The newspapers next morning described the scene. A few friends had been admitted, and so great a press of curiosity seekers had gathered outside that the police had to disperse them. Only Anne Vail and two others had accompanied the singer’s body to the cemetery in Queens. I was in the lobby after breakfast the next day when the sanatorium car which met all trains at Cold Valley brought a visitor —a tall, middle-aged woman with irongray hair and a big-boned body. As she'stopped at the desk, I recognized her from a picture in the Times as the singer’s sister. “I want to see the manager, please,” she said in a deep, authoritative voice. .... . . I looked at her with interest m the moment she stood there, before the operator directed her to Anderson's office down the hall. She wore flat-heeled shoes, a well-tailored tweed suit which must have been very warm that day, and a plain black straw hat. She resembled her brother slightly, but I liked her appearance much more than his. Her features were good, though somewhat masculine, and there was an air about her of a woman who knew her own mind very well. When she had left, I carried the news of her arrival to Mark. I found him being reprimanded by Sue, who had. it seemed, experienced some trouble with him that morning when he was having his diathermal treatment. .. , ... “Men are terrible patients,’ she Mid. “Fussy as children!” “Nurses are hopeless sentimentalists,” Mark retorted. “Contrary to all our knowledge of human behavior they expect invalids to be more reasonable than well people. “I don’t expect that much,” she answered. “But I do expect them to help us when they come here to be 1 cared.” "Stop fighting,” I said. Sue looked at me and smiled. I wasn’t thinking so much of Mr. Hillyer,” she said. “I’m used to his tantrums.” Mark made a ferocious face at her. “But you would think a man as sensible as Mr. Ruxton would take care of himself. He had permission to go to dinner with Loren and me at an inn up near Arrowhead, and do you know, he caught a cold the other day and tried to conceal it so he could go with us. He had an examination yesterday and of course they discovered it.” “Those summer colds are hard to shake off,” I said. “How did he get it?” “Sleeping under an electric fan," Sue answered. , “Well, that’s very interesting,’ I remarked, “but I’ve got some more important news.” I turned to Mark. “Anne Vail is here. She came up en the morning train.” Mark sat up. “She is? Bob, I’ve got to zee her!” “I thought you’d want to. How are you going to manage it?” “You’ve got to do it for me. Bob. Where is she now?” “In Anderson’s office.” “Well, go out and watch the door until she comes out, and then ask her to come to see me. Tell her it’s about her brother, and it’s very impertant.” I did not relish the commission, but it did not occur to me to refuse Mark, knowing how badly he wanted to talk to her. So I went into the lobby and sat where I could watch the door of Anderson’s office until she came out. I stepped into the corridor to meet her and said, "Miss .Vail?” Her quick gray eyes were as candid and direct as a man's. “Yes,” she said. “My name is Fowler,” I said. “I am a friend of Mark Hillyer, one of the patients here. He would like very much to see you for a few minutes about an important matter concerning your brother.” “Hillyer?” she repeated. “Oh, yes, the actor. I remember seeing him in ‘The King of High Jinx.’ That was years ago.” She paused and considered. “Why is he interested in my brother?” There was a certain hardness in her voice as she spoke of the dead man, and I wondered if he had antagonized her, too. “Mark has been helping the sheriff, to a certain extent, in his investigation,” I said, with some embarrassment. “He thought you might be able to assist in it." “You may tell him.” she said, “that 1 have no interest in the investigation, and I could tell him

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nothing that would help him if I wanted to.” "I’m sorry,” I said. I turned away. Her voice halted me. "One minute, please. Why is he doing this?” I looked at her for a moment and decided that honesty would be the best policy in this case. “Life here is very monotonous, Miss Vail, particularly for a man who was as active, physically and mentally, as Mark. To be quite frank with you, Mark is more interested in matching wits with the man who killed your brother than in bringing him to justice. It's a sort of challenge to him, and I hardly think anything can make him stop his investigation.” Miss Vail considered. “In that case, I’ll speak to him myself. Where is he?” I led her, in silence, into the hospital and into Mark's room. Miss Vail did not wait for an introduction. She said: “Mr. Hillyer? I am Anne Vail.” Mark was his most magnetic self. He had a faculty for finding instantly and unerringly the proper approach to every stranger. He treated Seifert Vail’s sister as he would have treated a man, with a comradely cordiality. "It’s kind of you to come to see me,” he said. “Unfortunately, I can't go visiting myself.” I said, “If you’ll excuse me—and started to leave. Miss Vail stopped me. “Don’t go,” she said. “I haven’t anything to say that I wouldn't want you to hear.” She sat down and I took another chair. In the subsequent conversation I was ignored, and I was content to sit and listen. “Mr. Fowler,” she began, “tells me that you are trying to find out who killed my brother. He tells me it isn’t because you have any passion for justice, but because you want to prove you’re cleverer than the murderer.” Mark nodded and said cheerfully, ‘‘Perfectly right, Miss Vail.” “You’re not satisfied, then, that the gardener who committed suicide murdered my brother?” “No, I’m not, Miss Vail. On the contrary, it seems highly improbable.” Anne Vail’s heavy black eyebrows drew together in a frown. “I suppose you have good reasons for that belief,” she said. “Excellent ones,” Mark said. “In the first place—” “I’m not interested in hearing them,” she interrupted. “You have no particular interest in seeing the guilty person punished, have you?” “No, none.” The dead singer’s sister leaned toward him. She put all the force of her strong personality into her next words. “Then please discontinue your investigation," she said. Mark’s arched eyebrows betrayed his astonishment. He cocked his head on one side and looked at Miss Vail steadily for a minute. “You must admit that's a rather strange request,” he said. The woman nodded her iron-gray head in assent. “It is. Nevertheless. I repeat it. I am not interested in punishing Seifert’s murderer. If you will consider my wishes, you will drop your investigation.” Mark hesitated again. “Would it be asking too much,” he said, “to inquire why you have no interest in finding the person who killed your brother?” “Did you know him?” Anne Vail asked abruptly. “I met him only once.” “But undoubtedly you have heard enough about him to know what sort of person he was.” “I don’t like to judge by gossip, Miss Vail, but concerning your brother, all reports indicated that he was an egotistic, embittered, unpleasant person.” “That is true,” his sister said. “Year’s ago Seifert and I ceased to have any contact with each other I considered him a thoroughly mischievous person. He wanted to dominate everyone around him.” She snnled slightly. “You may understand that I refused to be dominated by him. Whenever that happened to Seifert, he became an implacable enemy, and a mean one. I simply severed our relationship entirely.” “That seems to place him in a somewhat different light." Mark said meditatively. “We at Sherwood Forest knew him only after the death of his wife, and we believed that he became the kind of man he was because she died and because he lost his voice afterwards.” “His wife’s death only emphasized his unpleasant traits," she replied. “I do not believe they brought , each other much happiness, for Seifert was inordinately jealous, as i you would expect so egotistical a

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man to be. Even if she had lived, 1 am certain he would have remained , a man who hated those who resisted his domineering and who envieu persons who were happy.” _ “Did you see him after his wife , died?” Mark asked. “That was , about two years ago, wasn’t it. She nodded. “It was in August—the twenty-fifth of August, two years ago. I saw Seifert once after that when he was trying to console , himself with liquor. Persons whe knew him better said he hated ( women after Francine died.’ “Yet a woman visited him on the day he was killed,” Mark said musingly. “She came from New York and drove to the sanatorium, arriving just at the end of the rest period. She went into his room, turned on the phonograph and then, ap- i parently discovering he had been murdered, she left. Have you any idea who she might be? Not one woman had visited him before, during the entire time he was here.” Anne Vail rose. “No, Mr. Hillyer, I have no idea who she was. Are you going to do as I ask?” Mark answered very slowly, “Miss Vail, if this concerned only your brother, I would.” He smiled ruefully. “It would be more of a sacrifice than you may believe. It would mean the loss of the only interest I have found here. But I want you to believe I would do it if this were one single, isolated crime.” “You mean the gardener?” she asked. “Yes. If the gardener did not kill your brother or meet with an accident, he was murdered also. There seems, no possible connection between the two crimes, but there may be one that only the murderer knows. The gardener was a poor, stupid fellow'. He may have had some information that meant nothing to him but everything to the man 1 who killed your brother. Miss Vail, I believe Joe Barker was murdered, and if that is true, I can't stop. No one is safe with a killer at large in the sanatorium.” Anne Vail obviously never wasted time or emotion. She recognized Mark’s determination and accepted defeat. “I understand,” she said, “and I withdraw my request. I sincerely hope the death of this gardener will be the end.” “I hope so, but I’m far from cer tain.” Mark replied. Miss Vail abruptly extended her hand to him. Mark took it in his and smiled warmly at her. “It was very kind of you to come,” he said. “I am sorry I couldn’t do as you asked.” “I understand your refusal,” she I said. “Goodbye, Mr. Hillyer. I hope you will be well soon.” “Just one question, please. What significance did your brother’s record of ‘Waiting For You’ have for him?" “I will answer that,” she said, “because it cannot be of any impor- | tance. Don’t expect me to give you any assistance, Mr. Hillyer. Seifert made that record for his wife shortly after their marriage and she accompanied him when it was made. I believe her taste in music ran to such things. Goodbye.” She opened the door and strode out into the hall. Half an hour later, after giving her brother’s phonograph to the sanatorium and refusing all his personal effects, she left Sherwood Forest. When she had gone, Mark sighed deeply and lit a cigarette. “A strange request from a sister, wasn’t it?” he said. “I wonder if she’s hiding any family skeletons.” “That was a noble oration about Joe,” I said, “but I doubt that it was your real reason for refusing to quit,” “Who knows?” Mark said. “I ; don t. I couldn’t tell you how much truth there is in it and how much rationalization.” He grinned. “Anyway, I’m still on the job, and with I a little more information.” "It didn't seem to me your attempts to pump her were very successful.” “That’s because you don't ever hear what people say in front of you," Mark said. “Vail’s sister hasn’t any idea how helpful she was." He seemed disinclined to explain, and I tried to prod him. “That record’s a blind alley,” I said. “Clendening copied the words. | He thought there was soma secret significance in them.” “A message in code, I suppose,” Mark said scornfully. “No. it’s not quite as obvious as that, but it did I mean something. It was the theme I song of Vail’s marriage. He must I have been infatuated to let as poor i a pianist as his wife accompany him."

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Many Reunions ( Scheduled For , Summer Months. * Sunday Jury 29 , — Fuhrman reunion, Milton Fuhr-, man woods, northwest of Decatur. Annual Haggard reunion, Legion, Memorial Park. Decatur. i Borne family reunion, Sunset, Park, * I Cowan family reunion, buneet Park. Meyer reunion, rain or shine, | Sunset Park. Sunday, August 5 Ninth annual reunion ot Shaffer family, Legion Memorial Park, Di , catur. I Venia family reunion, Sunset park, east ot Decatur. Brunner family reunion, Sunset park, Decatur. Dettinger reunion, Sunset Park, i east of Decatur. Johueon family reunion, Sunset ( Park. Sunday, August 12 Tumbleson reunion. Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. Hitchcock reunion, Cora B. Miller home on the state line. Rettig and Rwhm, Sunset Park. I Beinz family reunion, Sunset park, eaet ot Decatur. Steele reunion, Sunset park, rain or shine. Dellinger family reunion, Sunset Park. Sunday, August 19 Brandyberry reunion. J. N. Burkhead home, 1% miles west of Mon-i roe. McGill reunion, Sunset Park, I near Decatur, rain or shine. Butler family reunion, Sunset ' Park, Decatur. Smith reunion, Sunset park, rain I or shine. Sunday, August 26 Hakes reunion, Sunset Park, east , of Decatur. Droll family reunion, Sunset ■ Park. Schnepp and Manley reunion, Sunday, September 2 Urick reunion, Sunset Park. Sunset Parti# rain or shiue. Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 3 Sixteenth annual Stalter reunion Legion Memorial Park, Decatur. Lenhart reunion, Sunset park, Decatur. Harper family reunion, Sunset Park. Sunday, September 9 Bowman family reunion, Sunset Park, Decatur.

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