Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1935 — Page 8

MILLIONS SPENT BY KANSAS CITY Kousas City, Mo. (U.R> — This city’s 10-year bond program la not only building a naw and greater Kansas City but a new and greater Kansas City but has been respon-1 Bible for furnishing employment

With grateful acknowledgement o f your friendship, courtesies and loyalty ex- ■ tended to us during the past year, we consider it a pleasure to extend to you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS Health and Prosperity throughout the coming GOOD/yEAH: GREETINGS Your Friendship and Patronage throughout the Past Year has been Greatly Appreciated a n d in exchange accept our Sincere Good Wishes for a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR PUMPHREY JEWELRY STORE few* I<3 hC’kU GREETINGS Christmas returns again to remind us of the Pleasure Happiness we have had in Serving You. It gives us the opportunity to express our sincere wish for a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR R,N,RUNYON&SON

| to thousand* of ralicf workers during the depression, the advisory committee recently reported at he half way mark in the program. Five years ago city officials | drew up lane for a $40,000,000 bond program for public buildings, buolcvards and parks. The program was submitted to the people und received an overwhelming endorsement. 1 The first Important structure to be completed was the new $5,000,-

ÜBCATUK DAILY DEMOCiIAI MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1935.

000 Jackson County courthouse which has been occupied eight i months. It is a 15-story building of modernistic design and houses an escape-proof Jail. Auditorium Is Open One month ago the new $6,000,000 municipal auditorium wns completed. It is also of modernistic design and one of the three largest auditoriums in America. It will seat 25,000 and has two small- I er auditoriums within the building

1, * gg£jgf GREETINGS THE SEASON OF GLADNESS is here and because we can think of nothing better, it is our Pleasure to sincerely extend wishes for a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR DECATUR NORGE SALES r ol Again at Christmas time our thoughts turn to our Loyal Friends and Customers and it is with all Sincerity that we most heartily wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR KROGER STORE GREETINGS B||| It gives us pleasure to extend to you the compliments of the Season. Accept our hearty good wishes for an old fashioned MERRY CHRISTMAS and a Bright and HAPPY NEW YEAR AUGUST WALTER

in addition to 40 rooms to be used \ by small business group*. Work It now being pushed on a $6,000,000 14-story city hall which 1* directly across the street from the courthouse. It will be a duplicate structure and will be ftafthed by January. 1937. Other projects and amounts voted were: , Municipal airport, $600,000, for enlargement and Improvement of the airport to make it one of the

best in the Middle West. Hospitals, $925,000, to be used for improvements on cty hospitals and Leeds tuberculsosls sanitarium. $1,700,000 for Boulevards Parks and boulevards, $1,700,000. This money will be used to widen, repave, landscape and beautify the boulevard system. i Trafficway, $2,300,000, to be used in reducing traffic hazards, widening principal thoroughfares and installing traffic lights and stop signs. Water Department, $1,300,000, to be used for new lines, pumping stations and improvement of present facilities. In addition to the foregoing projects which are either finished or under way, several additional millions were appropriated for two river improvement projects, fire and police departments and sewer lines.

o . , BRITAN STUDIES NOISE TEST FOR MOTOR VEHICLES London — (UP) — Noisy sport* cars and motorcycle*, will -be progressively eliminated from the roads if the recommendations in the first interim report of the Minister of Transports’ Anti-Noise Committee are put into operation. Following a large number of tests with all types of road vehicles, definite "noise standards" have been laid down for the first timeIt Is proposed that these tests shall be applied in the first instance to new cans as they leave the works beginning on August 1. next. A defined degree of latitude, however, would be permitted for a period of ■ two yeans in the case of certain j vehicles. The normal family car is not expected to be affected by the proposed noise standards. Some sports cans, it is stated, would pass the test, and the others could be made to ;ass it. On the other hand, the situation In regard to motorcycles is "definitely worse." Ohian Survived by 120 Kin Toledo—(UP) —Frank Wunieski died at the ag. of 93, leaving 120 direct descendants scattered through four generations- is survived by seven sons and daughters. 60 grandchildren, 47 groatgrand- . childchildren, six great-great-grand- ' children. o Bankers' Town Minus Bank* Saratoga. Cal. — <UP) —A town full of bankers, but no bank — that's Saratoga. At least eight ranking exscutives of San Francisco financial institutions live in this

I flit tth Bift twpSßif A y f ACCEPT OUR MOST HEARTY WISHES FOR A Msrry Christmas and a Happy New Year At Christmas Time with its warm. Human Feeling, think not of us as a Manufacturing Institution —but as “folks”. For it is such that our entire Personnel Joins in Wishing You a Merry Christmas and many happy days throughout the years to come. Central Sugar Co. Central Soya Co. McMillen Feed Mills .1 J.LiAB' B-Wh, rOi -S •/..

' F ninsula residential suburb. A bank woe established here tn 191$, i but recently tt was closed ■ O' "Annl* Oakley’s” Obundsnt Toledo —(UP)— Toledo should • be known as the "pass" city, In the 1 opinion of Principal Harold E- Wil- ■ Hams of Libbey High School. At. each high school game In the city as • many as 1.000 spectator* are ad- • milted free, he told a luncheon 1 meeting. > - OLD WORLD’S CCONTINVEri FROM PAGE O.VEi . lou* hospitals there are olso trees. A great part of the Christmas celebration in southern France, or Provence, is the burning of the , Yule log. Cut some weeks before , with much ceremony. It is saved until Christina* Eve. Then when peasants return from midnight mass, they gather in front of their huge fireplaces for a banquet, sometime* pouring wine over the 1 log ** it burns. - ■ -o Monument Honor* Appl* Wilmington, Mass. (U.R) — This ' town has a monument to an apple. The marble monument has a gran- ■ ite apple on top. and Informs The . sightseer that on an adjoining farm war grown the first Baldwin apple. o Sleet Fell* Ducks Winnipeg. Man. —(UP)—It rain- ’ ed live ducks here the other day. A flock of birds were caught in a I eleet storm and their wings and

m GREETINGS We Sincerely hope this Holiday Will be Filled with Joyous Memories and may Prosperity’ Come to Y r ou throughout the Year 1936 Our Sincere With for a I MERRY CHRISTMAS DECATUR HATCHERY

bodies were encrusted with ice. ’ Unable to move their wings, they

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