Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1936 — Page 2

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Jinxed' Chorine Tries Comeback ___ i F Morell* Ransom* >V' j®B I — b i <■*, 1 ■■ / A ' , W <_ V .. - , N.' Jf " * [Disastrous dance | : Crowned again ’ W¥ W i-u. .■»' ■f j i O& ' ft ' iW JO, BMh Broadway’s “hard luck girl”, Moselle Ransome, is back on the main stem, determined to again climb the heights and confident that her run of misfortune is ended and the breaks about to come her way. Her career started when she was crowned “Miss Dallas” in 1927 •nd went on to the national contest at Atlantic Ctiy, winning second; She won a part in a Broadway musical but from then on she wag dogged by a jinx. Her career was interrupted five times when various accidents—one caused by a stage balance weight falling on her head and another by a misstep during a dance which ended with her flying into the bass drum in the orchestra pit—each of the

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_ [comic strip. "W*»h Tubbs’’’ ’ | 9. on wiiat river is the city of I Dubuque, lowa ? , 10 What und where U the Bole .de Boulogne? MEMORIAL Dedicated to the memory of Mrs. IF. W Dow*-. County Department ! Chairnuui ui' Edacatio*. tu <1 a forluier County President, whose death occurred March 14. 1936. The mystify of life and death ever abides with us. Each year I brings with it the passing of some (valued friend, the charm of whose !daily living enriched and ennobled the world in which she moved. J Such a one was Mivs. Cor* Downs, land the story of her long and busy l life is the record of achievement I along many lines. : President of Decatur Woman’s club 1921 and 1923. County president of Federated ' clubs 1930. County department chairman of | education. 1936. Now she rests in the garden of j the sleeping at Decatur, the place ■ of her birth and early activities. “Thus she hath departed In the glory of the sunset In the purple mists of evening To the islands of the blessed To the land of the hereafter.’’ i Adams County Federation of Clulat Card of Thanks i lu this manner. 1 desire to thank all of our frientfe and neighbors for I their floral ottering* and kind ex- | prewion of sympathy du ring the I illness and death of my husbandMrs. Janies Sprague ——o ■——■ Just returned from market with new spring coats, suits and dresses.—E. F. Gass store. C MADAME WONDER ( f A True Palmist is Born / 1 She Reads Your Life 1 ( LIKE A BOOK ( / .nt f J and future, also gives advice J f on all affairs of life, such as / > love affairs, business mat- > > ters. family affairs, will- and < * divorces and most every- * J thing pertaining to the wel- J * fare o£ one’s life. * J lam able to point out the J I path to success and happi- I 1 ness and tell you how to > c * 1 and diificulties. Satisfaction ■ ■ guaranteed or money re- f 1 funded. J I LOOK FOR SIGN! I / Hours 1“ A. M. to 9P. M. f A Located in tent, corner 13th * > and Adams st., across front J A Athletic Field, * > DECATUR J 1 Special SI.CC Reading for 50c 1 MONEYS AT S LOWER RATES INTEREST COSTS t REDUCED NEARLY ONE-HALF The "LOCAL’’ always loans fo r LESS. All loans made at less than maximum rat: permitted by law. No indorsers required. You can borrow amounts Up to $300.00 AS FOLLOWS: $ 50.00 now costs only $1 .CO per month ’OO.OO now costs only $2.00 per month 150.00 now costs only $2.50 per month 200.00 now costs only $3.00 per month 300.00 now costs only $4.00 per month Costs of other amounts are strictly in proportion as this new low interest rate governs all loans. YOU SAVE THE DIFFERENCE Costs nothing to investigate. Call, write or telephone. Sped Time Plan £ for Farmers. Local Loan Co Over Schafer store Phone 2-3-7 Decatur, Ind. WMMMMMMBBMMBBBBHMBBi

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District Meeting To Be Held Friday County Agent Archbold hae been advised by L. E Hoffman, assistant County agent leader, that the temporary committee for the new moil conservation propram would likely lie called into a district meeting on Friday. .March 27 In setting up the temporary committee he stated that the president® of the former AAA

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CHAPTER XXXI “If I walk out as here without your money. 111 walk straight to a newspaper editor and tell non my atory, that’s what I’ll do!” said Joe. “You haven’t got a story—nothing any paper would print). But if you had. are you crasy? You’re Cathleen’s brother, what would you want to throw mud on her name for?” “Sure, I’m crazy,” Joe admitted desperately. “I owe money, I'm in bad all around, and so I thought of you. I’d rather get it some other way than putting Cathleen’s name in the paper . . . but I got to get it somehow. If you won’t come through. I’ll go out and do a real •tick-up!” “Well, I’m not going to be blackmailed. and that’s that,” »«id Seward. Suddenly, Joe plunged his hand into his coat and brought out a pistol. “Now. will you sit down and write me a check for five thousand bucks?” . . . m “Don’t be a damned fool, McCarthy. Write you a check now and telephone the bank the first thing tomorrow to stop payment on it? What would that get you? Ard it may surprise you to learn that I haven’t got five thousand, in the bank either, or anywh——” Joe heard a sound behind him and whirled: Seward sprang forward and jerked up his wrist, and the husky menial who had thought it advisable to reconnoitre on hearing a threatening voice raised in the little reception room, easily twisted the revolver from Joe’s grasp and then took a firm grip himself on the boy's collar. "I’ll hold him, sir. while you telephone for the police!” “Nothing like that, Patterson,” Seward said. “He was only kidding. There’s such a thing as carrying a joke too far, though. Just'show him out, will you?”

Seward was glad his father and mother were dining out. He cut his own meal short and ordered his car around. He had to see Cathleen. It was true that he had apologized to her already and she had forgiven him, in the obligatory Christian form that brings so little comfort to the offender. Now he should ask and expect a different form of forgiveness. Now he understood a little of what the poor girl had to struggle with at home. Now he would make her promise to turn to him whenever she was in any trouble. She had said that rich and poor couldn’t be friends. Well, Cathleen’s friendship was not his objective—her love was that! And nobody has ever said that rich and mior can not love and marry. The thing has been done since King Cophetua married the beggar-maid. The discrepancy, if you admit the importance of it at any time, ends with marriage, when the poor one of the couple becomes rich, too. Seward knew that luxury could never be important to Cathleen, but he thought wistfully that it would be fun to give her things, sapphire bracelets that she wouldn’t get angry about and shunt back at him, diamond necklaces and lace and satin evening dresses that wou.d turn her into a fairy princess He had never seen her in anything but dark simple clothes, and if she was beautiful in these she’d take people’s breath away in, say. a silver brocade frock like the one Millicent had on at his mother’s dance, or in a blue one made out of that thin flattery stuff, the right blue.... lie remembered, as he drew up I in front of her house, that she had a bed him not to come to her home. He’d make a little joke about that. | Something about not having promised to obey her yet, about how | well he’d mind after they were I married. He had no opportunity to make a I joke. He had no sooner given his : name to the girl of thirteen or fourteen who opened the door, than a sort of bellow issued from the archwav on the right, and a moment later a grizzled shirt-sleeved man who might have been handsome if his face had not been turkey-red, appeared there. . , “Mr. Seward Ingram, is it—and you dare to step foot in this house! , “Yes. I do, Mr. McCarthy! You’ve got me all wrong, I “It was not us that began the I wrong! Ye took the girl away 1 from her home and kept her through the aight, and its n<

organizations ahould be named and I they in turn select enough men to r l rake up a committee of seven or I eight. Following thin procedure the * I temporary committee for Adams H county is: E. W. Busche. Henry . ißurple. Ed Neuhauser. Ralph S. I Myere. Kermit Bowen, Homer tUr nold. Walter I‘e.k aad Winfred i Gerk ■ Mr Hoffman further suggested I that edeucatlonal meetings tor the . county Would probably be held th

thia house that auch pirv,»-«» ■▼’H be overlooked while I’m th-3 mtsicr of it!” . _ Are they all crany? Seward wondered. “I want to talk to Ca‘AItfn! Where is she?” “She’s where she belongs; in the kitchen washing the dishes. She's a poor man’s daughter, and she should never have had traffic with the likes of you. Can you not find a society young lady to marry or some Broadway girl . . . without bothering after our Cathleen’” A rather sweet-faced woman. Cathleen’s mother, no doubt, thought Seward, came out into the hall. She tried to speak and was drawned out by McCarthy. In any event, she was not on Seward s side, for the few words he caught were “shouldn’t have come—” and “done harm enough—” The small girl who had let him in stood looking at him with solemn eyes. Seward wondered if he should ever be able to get fond of his family-in-law. but he did not weaken on the main point, that there was to be an alliance between him and them. He was struggling to say something that should appease them. when a door at the back of the hall opened, and Cathleen came through it, her face almost as red as her father’s. “ Didn’t I beg of you not to come here?” she cried. He could have faced her family alone, he thought, and he only asked to face Cathleen alone. But he could not face them together, could not plead with her across their hostile clamor, nor silence it by declaring his wish to marry her, before he had won any encouragement from her. Confused and mortified, he moved backward towards the front door.

“I’m sorry,” he said. And he let himself out ignominiously while Patrick McCarthy rumbled, and the others stared in silence. But as Seward was getting into his car, a slight short figure darted around the house and crossed the sidewalk to him. “Please don’t mind Had, Mr. Ingram!” Mary cried. “He’s just terribly old-fashioned. Cathy told me all about why you couldn't get back that night, and / think you're a very nice man, and so does she!” “Oh. she does, does she!” Seward said. “What makes you think so?” “Because she said so. she said she liked you awfully. I’m sure she's feeling just terribly, to have you come here and get treated like this!” “Do you know what I think?” he asked. “I think the girls in your family are a great improvement on the maies. I think you’re swell and I know you and I are going to be buddies!” “Well, what chance is there of me ever seeing you again, when they won’t let you come to the house!” she cried. “You never know! You might get a big surprise one of these days," Seward said, raising his hat, to "her surprise and pride, as ha started his engine. But as he drove slowly away fragments of things Joe had said in the course of their recent interview came back to him disturbingly. The boy had made it fairly plain that he was desperate for money. Seward began to be sorry now that the interview had ended as it had. He ought to have helped Joe for Cathleen’s sake, and he wondered where he could get hold of the boy. It seemed improbable that he was in the house with the others, for if he had been he would hardly have failed to appear. Seward drew to the curb, halfway between Cathleen’s gate and the Elevated line, and prepared to wait and have another talk with Joe. Time was nothing to Seward now, with the fascinating and inexhaustible subject of Cathleen to think about Cathleen, just glimpsed after long weeks of separation, more adorable than ever in her rosy, surprised dismay. Cathleen, who had told her sister that she liked him awfully—and should tell himself that, and more than that, if he ever managed to get her alone. It was growing late before he gave up hope of seeing Joe, and drove away. Next day he'd find the boy, he determined, and see what could be done to help him out of his difficulty. When the glass and wrought-iron

week oi March 30, and the local agent’s office la making plan* «• cordiogly. .Jersey Parish Show Will Be Held Here Representative Jersey breeders of Jay. Welle. Allen, and Adan* counties met in the county agents office Friday evening. March 20. and decided to hold the parish ehow

f;otrt Jeer of 'be Ingram house dosr.i behind him. Joe dug his hands into his pocketa. They were eninti" - «“xn when he had entered the bouse, for he was now even without Ids gun. He walked away cursing Seward. He had been beaten by the unfair tsettes the rich always employ against the poor—by their hireling*. He’d like to meet young Ingram up an alley somewhere. .. . The only thmg left for him now was to go to Butti and ask to be let in on whatever he was doing. He didn’t want to do it, but he saw no other way except to stay at home and wait to be arrested, or join the horde of drifting, hungry, homeless boys upon the road. Though he tried to like the prospect of taking part in a holdup, it made him sick and cold at the pit of his stomaeh. To flourish a revolver at an unarmed person is all very well, but to put himself in a position wh' re revolvers could be levelled at him—revolvers in the hands of coidcyed, ruthiers cops who would rati.er shoot than not—was quite •nothar thing. ... But the Buttu were lucky. He'd go with them this once, and clean up enough te square himself at the office. After that, he’d run straighL He took the subway back to Queens, and went to Tony’s. He ordered a hamburger sandwich with his drink, since he had had no dinner. Gemma was there with Carmine, but Joe regarded them dully, too numbed to be jealous. Vergile Butti was upstairs. After he had put some courage into himself with the food and whiskey, Joe went up to see him. Butti beamed. “Some nights I couldn’t use you but I need a lotta men for this job. You drive a car pretty good? All right. Sure, you get a good cut. Just stick around. Better net drink any more tonight. You gotta rod?” “No,” said Joe, blushing at the recollection of how he had lost iL “I give you one,” said Butti. Joe went downstairs, relieved that his share was to be so easy. All he’d have to do would be to sit behind a steering wheel with his engines running, ready to step on the gas when the boys appeared. Even if there was shooting it would eome from behind. He’d be protected by the other fellows’ bodies and by the car. Joe got in a poker game to pass the time. He didn't care much about winning or losing, and, playing indifferently, he drew good cards and filled straights and flushes. A little after twelve o’clock when the game broke up and he counted his chips and cashed in. he found he had woa more than two hundred dollars—enough to repay what he had taken from the company! Why. he no longer needed to go out with the fellows tonight. Wasn’t that the way of things, though? Just suppose he’d played poker in the desperate hope of getting what he needed that way, he would never in a million years have been a winner! Funny, wasn’t it? He couldn't back out now and have everybody calling his yellow. It was a West Side night club that Vergile planned to stick up. The technique for this sort of job had been well developed and carried out successfully many times before. Carmine in evening dress, sleek and suave, first presented himself, and the others pushed in behind him. The man at the door, the people in the anterooms and cloakroom- were hurriedly lined up. and Carmine again went first into the restaurant and waited a strategic moment to, give the signal for the main attack. Joe had no part in any of this. His job was outside. It was pretty dull, just sitting out in the street at the wheel of a car, missing all the excitement. It was late now and the street was quiet. A policeman passed on the opposite pavement. A cat seurried across his path. He hoped it wasn’t a black cat! Joe looked at his watch: the fellows had gone in a quarter of an hour ago and they might be out any minute now. He raced his engine a time or two, backed a few feet and swung his front wheels out to be ready. He was parked on the side of the street across from the entrance of the club, while opposite him, the gang's other car waited, its engine running. (To Be Continued) ‘ lowngm. 11,1. W IUaS :•»

in connection with the Decatur Centennial celebration. Tlwee present named Sol Mouser, diairman ot the Jersey Parish ahow; Merwin Miler. secretary-treasurer; Telfer Paxeon. director frt>m Welks county; O L. Bryant, Allen; Oliver Steed, Jay and William Griffiths. Aduuia. The «onwnittee ‘r-asaed on the rules, regulation®, and classes and instructed Mr, Mower to meet with the livestock steering committee whenever called upon. MARKETREPORTS DAILY REPORT OF LOCAL ANO FOREIGN MARKETS Brady's Market for Decatur, Berne, Craigviile, Hoagland and Willshire. Close at 12 Noon. Corrected March 23. No commission and no yardage. Veals received Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. 10V to 120 lbs. $ 9.45 120 to 140 lbs 965 140 to 160 I be— 10.15 160 to 230 lbs. 10.55 230 to 270 lbs 10.05 270 to 300 lbs ...._ 9.55 300 to 350 lbs 9.65 Roughs 8.50 Stags 6.50 Vealers . 9.25 Ewe and wether lambs 9.50 Buck lambs 8.50 Yearling lambs 4.75 CLEVELAND PRODUCE Cleveland, 0., Mar. 23.— (U.R) — Produce: Butter, steady; extras, 34 He; standards. 34He. Eggs, steady; extra firsts, 19c; current receipts. 16c. Live poultry, firm; heavy hens, 25c; ducks, spriug. 5 lbs., aud up, 24c; ducks, small. 21c, Potatoes, (100-lb. bags.) Ohio, *i.sO-$i.75; poorer, lower; Maine, $2-$2.25; 15-lb. bags. 34-35 c; Idaho, $2.15-$2.25; 15-lb. box, 55c; 50-lb. box. $2.35; 101 b. bag. 26-27 c; 15lb. bag, 35c; Florida No. 1, $2.25 crate. CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE May July Sept. Wheat .97 .8644 .85% Corn 58'4 .58’4 .58H Oats .25% .25% -26’s FORT WAYNE LIVESTOCK Fort Wayne, Ind., Mar. 28. 4U.R) —Livestock: Hogs, steady; 160 180 lbs.. $10.90; 180 200 lbs.. $10.80; 200-225 Tbs.. $10.70; 225-250 libs, $10.60; 250-275 lbs, $10.45; 275-300 lbs, $10.35; 300 350 lbs. $10.10; 140-160 lbs, $10.35; 120 140 lbs., $10.0$; 100-120 lbs, $9.80. Roughs, $8.75; stags, $7.00. Calves, $9.50; lambs, $9.50. INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK

Indianapolis. Ind., Mar. 23. —(U.R) —Livestock: Hogs, 5,000: holdovers. 50; steady; top, 15c lower; ISO-225 lbs., *10.90-*ll; 225-260 lbs. *10.65*10.80; 260-300 lbs., *10.15-810.50; 300-400 lbs.. 19.55-89.95; 130-160 lbs , $lO-$10.50; 100-130 ins., (9.2519.75; packing sows. *8.75 *9.50. Cattle, 1,200; calves, 500; slaughter (lasses fully steady; no choice steers here; bulk, *7.50*9; most heifers downward from *8; medium to good beef cows. *5 *5.25: low cutters and cutters. *3.50 *4.75; vealers. steady with Friday s opening. *9.50 down. Sheep, 800: steady, limited number of choice latnhs at *10.50, the day top: fed western yearlings. *9.50. EAST BUFFALO LIVESTOCK East Buffalo, N. ¥., Mar. 23. — (U.PJ- -Livestock; Hogs, 2.500; stead/; hulk desirable 140-2*o lbs., averaging 220 downward. *11.25 to mostly *11.35: sparingly *11.40; 240-260 lb. butch ers, *11; pigs anti underweights, *10.75-* 11.25. Cattle, 1.200: strong; light wights eligible around *B.s<> down up most; several loads choice 1.100-1.250-lb. steers, *10.25-*10.50; good steers and yearlings. *8.75-*lO <M«; Dostly *9 (0 down lu-:i g Canadian steers, *8 *8.50; medium bulls, *5.50-36. Calves, 700; vealers unchanged; good to choice, *ll. Sheep. 4,000; lambs 2Kc under Friday: good to choice ewes and wethers, *10.75. Corrected March 23. No. ! New Wheat, 60 lbs. or better 91c No 2 New Wheat, 58 lbs.. StOc Oats 18 to 20c Good 'try No. 2 Yel. Soy Beans 68c New No. 4 Yellow Corn. 100 lbs .....53 to 68c Rye . 45c CENTRAL SOYA MARKET Dry No. 2 Yellow Soy Beans. 68c (Delivered to factory)

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