Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1937 — Page 1

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iOS HOPE ■avoid any WECIAL MEET leaders 3j 0 \\<>i<l Special I Session ■ ..-o- a',H. 6- <"P> - -J* J, today •"<» the $700000.■Ler clearance low b II- reviaed in the sfr "‘ s MH o f artwniMration lead |( .g'* **** * 3S 61 *° « <U.R> <’”■»- K|, ~|. - —>cbt t" s«whi« .. |kL. .i" th- adininis program in twm K- ■■ '' ■ |K, f „. <l. t.•!••■>• or No ap> i ’■'l "ul’b ly to suew■ i' j, i '!''''op I- - i-Hit-'i "in. how ?■' "i' 1 ' i ' i - v ' i' I l,ll ' <., ’I I'lO b K. y-a- h- d-sired K, «. < lo— to th--M' -d hop- that t " • Cion bnt friends of majorETAlben W. Barkley of _Jy dis« ’Ulltrll such SUggCSbouse, majority leader ; Ibyhttrii of Texas said he i L the president would be I K with “assurances" of Kislatiou in January. Other, ■ W-rs asserted that a deEto call a special session KiMult in postponement of | Eh tax loophole-dosing anil L- and hour measures until i Entire tangles which Erd Barkley to warn the bto speed up if it exm-ct-d Lorn by Aug. 21. included: I |Tbr Wagner housing bill. MM 4 Ct he s<.nat ■ i’i ■on the measure threw con L. 1 its schedule and ir emphasized the strength laalition of southern Demosud Republicans opposing ’ Kut administration meas- | Sen Robert F. Wagner. D.. 1 L expected to try today to I 4- senate to substitute a MM of $1,400 per room In I Bg projects for an amend I adopted Wednesday, fixing ■it of SI,OOO per room and I per family unit. Passage »bill this afternoon was prerrixt’Eu ox page eight) I ■ 0 IFair Sidelights Bbpreraillng fair spirit lias eviBb ipread to Herne. Two b-ye Bitted their own sky-ride with the result that one was BSy injured. Eight year old ; ■tUechty sustained injuries to ■«n» when he fell 10 feet from Btontraption this week. Roy B® and Ray Wittwer were un■•i The boys swung a box fr. an g !f '" to another, hooked to a I P er Moser, proprietor of the > pi"' e garage display in the in- . f* 1 tent, suffered an injury to late yesterday, when he ft the member beneath the Hos a farm implement. He was P*i *t the Red Cross tent. P*. little son of Vilas HabegiMWled away on h-Is kiddiecar rp's'erday afternoon, and the . address system was called f lse to find the tot. ™ lv " were called this morning a truck from the back i °t the Harry Thompson home street. Some concession-, ,'' Pulled into the yard, lock ! truck and set the brake. Mdy the city street depart,r r« works in the early mornI *° c ' ean away the dirt duis that fair-goers spread . es,r eets in the hours before. street flusher has not been ’ ' as some of the concessions a saw-dust floor covering. re once again warned cycl'd riding their bicycles on nudway. Similar warnings ’een broadcast over the pub* ''dress system. They warn ’•> will hold the bicycles of ers until after the eelebraMarie Stanley became ill Paying in the Decatur girls’l Psterday and was administ-' r ’’ aid at the Red Cross ■—2 fter treatment she was 3x TINUED on page EIGHT)

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♦ ♦ Official Program (i Friday 7:00 p. m. Float parade. | i| 7:30 p. in. Bible animal circus, First and Monroe. 9:00 p. m Delmores, Jefferson and Second . 10:30 p. m Lamy Brothers, First A Madison Saturday I 9:00a. m. • Horse pulling con test. Schmitt field. j 2:00 p. tn Bible animal circus, First and Monroe. 3:30 p. m. Delmores. Jefferson mid Second 5:00 p. ni. Lamy Brothers, ; F list Ar Madison 7:30 p. m.—Bible animal cirrus, First and j Monroe. 9:00 p. m Delmores. Jefferson & Second. 10:30 p. ni. — Lamy Brothers, First a. Madison. ♦ * FINAL RESULTS INJERSEYSHOW Huntington County .Judged Best Exhibitor In Parish Show Huntington was judged the ex- | bibitor of the best herd in the Jer- ' sey parish show by H. E Dennison, field man for the Jersey Cattle aeso- ' elation, at the conclusion of the judging. Thursday. On the strength of the Sol Mosser herd. Adame county was named ! second. The Jay county herd was named third. The results of the judging Thursday afternoon were: The grand champion cow was shown by M. A. Milier e.f Hunting : ton county and wae named “Tycoon Brownie" 844,322. The junior champion cow was shown by Grace MosI ser. of Jefferson county. Aged cow: M. A. Miller, Huntington, first: Lois Paxson. Bluffton, second: Sol Mouser, Geneva, third: , Merwin Miller. Huntington. fourth, Ben Bricker, Huntington, fifth: and , Reuben Steury. M- inroe, sixth. Four year cow: Merwin Miller, (first; Arthur Gahman, CraigvHle, I second. Three year cow: M. A. Mil'er, ! Huntington, first; A. R. Bowman, | Huntington. second, and Sol Mosser., Geneva, third Two year cow: Grace Moeser, GeI neva, first ; Robert N. Cavilt. Hunti ington, second; Arthur Gahman, third; Reuben Steury. M nroe, I fourth, M. A. Miller, fifth and Catherine Mosser. Geneva, sixth. Senior yearling female: Arthur Gahman, Craigv-ille, first; Catherine Mosser. Geneva, second, and M. A. Miller, Huntington, third. Junior Yearling female: Rober IN. Cavilt first; Glen Griffiths, Decatur, second; Grace Mosser, Geneva third; Reuben Staury, fourth; Catherine Moseer, fifth; A. R. Bow- ; man. Huntington, sixth and Reuben jSteury, seventh. Senior heifer calf; Grace Mosser. first; M. A Millar, seauid. Catherine Moseer, third; G'en Griffiths, fourth. M. A. Miller, fifth; Glen Griffiths, sixth; David Mosser, seventh. Reuben Steury, eighth and Sol Mosser. ninth. Get-of-sire: — Gahman-Griffiths, I CraUgville and Decatur, first; Mil-Iler-Fisher-Fraaee, Huntingtcn, and (CONTINCEn ON PAGE EIGHT) TRUSTEES LIST TEACHER STAFF Geneva. Blue Creek Township Teaching Staffs Announced Geneva and Blue Creek townsh-.p school teachers for the coming year have been announced by the respective trustees- At the Geneva high schol the teachers will be: R. O. Hunt, Blanche Aspy. Nell Pyle. ; Ruth Mahoney, Andrew Cook, Mar garet Rhodes and John Bauman. Teachers in the Geneva grade 'school: Haro’d Long. Goldie Butcher. Esther Greene, Elizabeth Kroner, Blanche Shepherd, Mary Wheat and Catherine Fravel. The teachers in Blue Creek township schools; Clyde Troutner, R- M. Houck. Eldwvn Sprunger and Elmer Ehrsain. Trustees Jesse Mann, of Wabash township and David D. i Habegger. of Blue Creek announced the above staffs. > It is also reported that severa. applications have been received for the position of fifth grade in the i Berne public schools. A vacancy was created earlier in the wee • when Paul Spul'er announced his resignatian to accept a position at Fort Wayne as teacher. I

’ RUFUS INNIGER IS BADLY GORED BY BULL TODAY Adams County Man Is Seriously Injured At Start Os Parade A note of terror struck its way into tlie Dvcatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show this after-1 noon, when a prize-winning bull suddenly went berserk in the crowd, seriously injuring one person ami throwing panic into the i I entire mob. Rufus inniger, 33, living two miles north of Berne, was seriously gored and trampled l>y the null. Which he exhibited in the local ! Guernsey show. . Coming at the height of activity in the livestock exhibitions, the bull suddenly charged its owner, goring him in the back and tram- I | pling him. Mt. Inniger rolled; away from the animal, crawling I ■ under a nearby truck. I Frustrated in his attempts to I I get at tile injured man. the bull suddenly charged at the crowd. ; Screams of the women and chil- - dren mingled with the shouted I cries of men, until the bull was finally captured and tied. The incident occurred on the | corner of Jackson and Tnird streets, starting point of the parad.-. Women and children, sitting ; ■ on the porch of the Joe Laurent i residence, jammed against the I doors in their efforts to get into I the house and out of the path of ’ the bull. ' Charles E. Baxter, Bill Myers ’ and Jake Grimm hurriedly bundled the injured man into the formers car and rushed him to the hospital. His father and mother. Mr. and ’ Mrs. Abe Inniger and a brother, : Chris, were called to the hospital 1 A group of men, led by Dale D Moses, also an exhibitor at the, show, and several others, were successful in capturing the animal. Thought Serious ’ It was thought that the man was ’ seriously injured. A hole in 'he • small of his back, evidently made 1 by one of the enraged bull's horns, a deep laceration immed- - • lately above his abdomen, and ’ bruises, indicating broken ribs , I 'ONTINCED ON PAGE EIGHT) SCHMITT WINS HORSE TROPHY 11. P. Schmitt Entrant Wins Neuhauser Horse Show Trophy H. P. Schmitt won the Neuhauser trophy by exhibiting the best pure bred mare in the county horse show, judged Thursday by Prof. , Don Case, of Ohio State University. The champion stallion was shown ' by Archie Smitley and the champion grade mare by O. T. Johnson. i Other results in the horse showjudging ranked first to fifth, reI spectively. are: Grade mare, 3 years and over: O. T. Johnson, first and second; Otto Lehman. Christ Knlpsteine. Grade mares, under 3 years: Ad ams county Horse Association, Henry Aschleman, Paul Krueckeberg, Vernon Custer, O. T. John-, son. Suckling colts, pure bred mares: Calvin Liechty. William Mitchell, , Archie Smitley. H. P. Schmitt. , Pure Bred Studs: Martin Grab- ' er, Calvin Liechty, Frank Habegger. Grode Mares: Henry Aschleman, • Paul Kruckeberg, O. T. Johnson, Otto Lehman. Grade studs: Christ Knipstein, Otto Lehman. Floyd Mitchel. Geldings, any age: Fred Ahr, O. T. Johnson, Floyd Mitchel. Pure bred mare and colt: William Mitchel, Calvin Liechty, Archie Smitley, Martin Graber. Calvin Liechty. Grade mare and colt: O. T. Johnson. Christ Knipstein, Paul Krueckeberg, Otto Lehman, fourth and fifth. Get-of-sire, 3 animals, any age: H. P. Schmitt. Archie Emitley. Matched team, any breed, shown in harness; -1 teams to make a class: O. T. Johnson, Fred Ahr, I Archie Smitley. — o —zr - Gov. Townsend To Speak At Portland I — — M. Clifford Townsend, governor of Indiana, will speak at the fairgrounds in Portland next Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock, as the feature of that day’s program of the Jay county fair. The fair will open Sunday and [oentinue until Friday.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 6, 1937.

President Views Hospital Sites

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Various possible sites for a new naval hospital in Washington. D. C . were viewed by President Roosevelt when he made an inspection tour with Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, center, and Senator David - Walsh of Massachusetts, right, chairmen of the house and senate naval affairs committees.

REPORT DISPUTE IN COMMISSION Internal Dispute Is Reported In National Bituminous Board Washington, Aug. 6 —(UP)— A bitter internal dispute over patronage distribution between the labor, capital and 'public represetnatives on the National bituminous coal commission was reported today to have caused chairman Charles F. Hostord to submit his registration. Hosford confirmed that he had handed a letter of resignation to the six members of the commission ,Friday. He said that they had split three-to-three on accepting it. I am not going to resign now.” he added. “I guess I'm still chairman after all.” C. E. Smith, former coal operator and now a West Virginia newspaper publisher, who is backing Hosford in commission disputes, ' said he believed a vote of confidence would be given the chairman at the next meeting. Smith is a member of the h ard. i All parties to the argument were '• reticent about discussing it. but it was reliably reported that John 'C. Lewis and Percy Tetlow, labor members of the body, might demand a public investigation of the commission's activities. Principal points of dispute were underst <>d to be: (Da charge by Lewis and Tetlow that commission minutes were being "edited” and made "unavailable” to them; (2) A heated discussion over the problem of fixing coal prices according (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ' .1 o OHIO YOUTH IS ARRESTED HERE — William Imler Returned To Circleville On Seduction Charge Sheriff Chas. H. Radcliff, of Circleville, Ohio, returned this morning with William Imler. 22. to Circleville, where Imler is charged with the seduction of a minor girl. Chief of Police Sephus Melchi received a telegram late yesterday and within half an hour, he and Policeman Ed Miller had Imler lodged in jail. Imler had been staying here for the past two weeks at the Jennie Smitley residence, 1004 Russell street, police stated. The Pickaway county sheriff and his wife arrived this morning. When Imler waived extradition, he was returned immediately. He i told police that he knew the warrant had been issued for his arrest. Imler told police that he was 1 planning to go to Chicago to avoid apprehension. He stated that he had come here to escape arrest, o Notre Dame Priest To Be Here Sunday Rev. Father Quinn of Notre Dame will speak at all masses at the St. Mary’s Catholic church here j Sunday. Father Quinn will speak . on the Bengal Missions of Bengal,' India. A free will offering will be I' taken to aid this cause.

Augment State Police With Sixty-Five Men Indianapolis. Ind., Aug. S -(UP) I —-Sixty-five of the 106 applicants who underwent a month's training at the state police school in Blooming, n have 'passed examinations and will report for duty on the state police force Sept. 1, Don F. Stiver, state safety director, announced today. Four clerks and seven cadets also were named. Thirty applicants failed to pass the examinations Stiver said. Addition of the 65 men will bring the entire department personnel to 175 men an-’ women. GIVES REPORT ON ASSEMBLY Bryce Thomas Gives Report Os Recent State Rotary Assembly Bryce Thomas, member of the Decatur Rotary chib, presented a report of the state assembly of Rotary club officials, at the weekly meeting of the local club Thursday evening at the Rice hotel. Mr. Thomas and Walter Gard, president of the local club attended the assembly, which was held at Culver. Mr. Thomas spoke principally on an address given by Clarence Brown. Richmond Rotarian, former vice-president of Rotary International. who attended the recent international convetion at Nice, France. Quoting Mr. Brown, the local member said this talk was devotjed chiefly to international fellow 1 ship as displayed at the convention lat Nice, and the better feeling i among residents of various naI tions, I Mr. Thomas closed his discusI cussion with a brief explanation of I | changes made recently in the set-i I up of the U. S. army. ' Walter Gard, club president, also l spoke briefly on the state assemb- ' ly, detailing the more important sessions and speeches. Rev. Charles M. Prugh, pastor of the Zion Reformed church, paid tribute to the late Jesse W. Rice, member of the club, who died Monday morning. o Joe Murtaugh Is Injured Thursday Joe Murtaugh, local G. E. employe, sustained a severely injured left hand last evening at 7:30 o’clock while repairing a machine at the local plant. The thumb was broken and the hand badly lacerated, the attending physician stated this morning. He was admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital. Five Men Held For Public Intoxication Five men, three of whom were Mexicans, were to be brought before John T Kelly, justice of peace late this afternoon on charges of public intoxication following a wholesale arrest last night. The men are Dan McGivinor, of Pittsburgh; Armando Valley, Mexico; Edward Bowersmith, Columbus, Ohio; Joe Ortez, Fort Worth, Texas and Peter Lozano, of Dallas, I Texas.

Parade, Contest Draw Large Crowd To Decatur For Adams County Day; Closes Saturday - — _________

JAP. CHINESE CRISIS GROWS MORE SERIOUS .Japanese Marines Are Landed In City In Central China Shanghai. Aug. 6. —(U.R) Japan, pleading acute danger to its citiens, landed marines today at Hankow, far up the Yangtze river in the heart of central China, and - made dramatic preparations to ! evacuate civilians. Three United States river gun- ] boats stood by to safeguard any 1 of the 200 Americans in the city endangered. I A Japanese news agency reports ■ related a tense situation which caused a decision by the coinmaml,er of the 11th Japanese torpedo boat flotilla to declare “a state of emergency” and land his marines —6OO miles up the Yangtze river and 600 miles south of the fightI ing zone in North China. Japanese ex-service men among the residents of Hankow were mobilized. the reports said, to aid marines in safeguarding and evacuating civilians. Residents were ordered to assemble at the Japanese wharf at 6 o'clock tonight. Five hundred Japanese women and children, dispatches said, left | in two river ships for Shanghai, at the mouth of the river. Plans were made for the 500 I men remaining to concentrate at the wharf and if necessary board a Japanese ship which was to be towed into midstream, in event of emergency, while the marines and mobilized ex-service men covered ' the withdrawal and themselves retired to Japanese warships. Japanese reports of the situation were excited, as if a crisis impended. However, a business man here who succeeded in radiophoning his Hankow office late today was told that the city was quiet and that no , marines were apparent in the streets of the concession near the - Hankow office. This was taken to mean that the marines were being kept at the river front. Communications with Hankow . were congested. Part of the Japanese anxiety seemed due to a blanket boycott slapped on them by student organiganizers who campaigned against . purchase on “enemy” goods by . Chinese. It was said that merchants refused to sell rice, salt or gasoline to Japanese because they were OCONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o BAKER TRIAL NEARING JURY Joel A. Baker Is Described As Power-Mad By Prosecution Indianapolis, Aug. 6 —(U.R) —J°el A. Baker, former Marion county welfare director, was described ■ in criminal court today as a man j who “was going to get more power if he had to mow down opposition with the fists of Pete Cancilia.” Closing arguments by state and defense attorneys were to be concluded this afternoon and the jury will retire to decide whether Baker inspired an admitted assault by Cancilla, his political henchman, on former state welfare director Wayne Coy in the statehouse March 1. Oscar 'Hagemeier, chief deputy prosecutor, opened the final argui rnent for the state. He reviewed ■ the testimony of witnesses against i Baker. "If you jurors.” he said, "find Joel Baker not guilty, you will also find that Judge Dewey Myers j of municipal court is a liar and i a perjurer. “A not guilty verdict also would mean that Charles Fisher is a l.ar anda perjurer. Also that Sarah Kirby (taproom waitrejp) was a liar and a perjurer. And you will have to find that Wayne Coy also was a liar and perjurer. “Baker is on trial because he (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

LOUIS HAINES WINS CONTEST I Wins Lightweight Horse Pulling Contest This Morning Louis Haines, driving the lightest team of the contestants, won the lightweight horse pulling contest by dragging a load of 4.444 pounds one foot and eleven inches, ' before a large crowd at the H. P. Schmitt field east of Decatur this morning. The Haines team weighed only 2.820 pounds. The maximum ' weight in this division was 3,000 pounds. The first prize was S4O in cash. Second in the contest was George Fosnough, driving the second lightest team, which weighed 2,880 pounds. He succeeded in pulling the same weight one half inch and won $25. ' Third was Glen Meyers, driving a team of the same weight which pulled a load of 4,012 pounds eight feet and seven inches to win $lO. Fourth was a team owned by Luther Funk and driven by Paul ' Roehm, which weighed 2,930 pounds' and pulled a weight of 4.012 pounds, four and one half inches to win $5. Fifth in the contest was a young ' team owned and driven by Archie • | H. Smitley. weighing 2.910 pounds, ' which pulled a weight of 3,537 1 pounds four inches to win $5. The contest was announced by ■ Roy Johnson over amplifying equipment owned by the McMillen ' Feed Mills. Judges were Dr. S. M. Friedly, 1 Jacob Barkley and Osia Von Gunten. The linemen were Dan Leh--1 man and Victor C. Graber. The 1 weight committee was composed ' of Leon Neuenschwander, Kermit ■'Bowen, Arthur Bieberfck and Geo. . Brown. 1 The horse pulling contest for (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) : ADAMS COUNTY 1 NATIVE KILLED Homer Earl Egley Is Fatally Injured At Sehumm Sawmill ’ Homer Earl Egley. 31, who lived five miles west of Ohio City, Ohio, died at the Van Wert county hos- , pital Thursday, from abdominal in- , juries suffered Tuesday in an acci- j dent at the Robinson and Smith; sawmill at Sehumm, Ohio. Egley, who had been employed l at the sawmi'l less than three I weeks, was fatally injured when his body came in contact with the blade of a hand-operated power ! saw he was using in cutting slab I wood. He was slashed extensively across the abdomen, and the colon , cut and the Intestines punctured in 12 different places. An emergency operation failed to save his life. The accident victim was a native of Adams county, having been born at Linn Grove July 9, 1936. He resided for a number of years at Waynedale and Fort Wayne, moving to Willshire township, Ohio, one 'year ago. Surviving are his widow, Cecile: three children, Earl. 4, Marilyn. 2, and Mary Estella, 6 months; his | parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Egley of Wells county; six brothers. Har- . old. Chester and Paul Egley at home, Elmer and Howard Engley of Fort Wayne; and two sisters, Miss Edith Egley at home, and Mrs. Dorothy Bingham of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p. ni. at Greenbrier U. B. church west of Ohio City. o TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m. 76 10:00 a. m. 78 Noon 88 2 p. m. 89 WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Saturday; probably scattered showers or thunderstorms; slightly warmer in extreme southwest tonight

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_ — Largest Daytime Crowd Os Week Gathers In City Today; Midway Is Packed Thursday Night I ' ENDS SATURDAY The largest dayUme crowd of the week thronged into Decatur today for the official Adams county day at the Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show. Attracted by the lightweight horse pulling contest this morning, and the prize winning livestock par--1 ade early this afternoon, the midway was well populated at noon. Another great crowd is anticipated t. night, with the final parade of ' the week, that of floats and bands, scheduled for 7 o’clock. Six bands will be in the line of march at tonight's float parade, in addition to the more than a score of floats and decorated cars, entered -in the parade by Decatur business men and industrialists. The annual fair, which promises be one of the most successful in the city’s history, both from the standpoint of crowds and financial returns, will close Saturday with Carnival Day. No special programs are planned for Saturday, with the day devoted to fun and merry making. Three free acts will be presented both afternoon and evening, as usual. The midway will be closed ps“mptly at midnight Saturday, <per annual custom. Crowd At Contest Hundreds of persons gathered at the Schmitt field this morning to : witness the light weight horse pull--1 ing contest, won by Louis Haines. Heavyweight teams will compete ■ at the same field Saturday morning ■jat 9 o'clock. Another great crc.wd attended the ‘ Thursday night program, with the I midway jammed from early in the II evening until near midnight. Fair officials considered the 'arge j crowd remarkable, especially in r view of the fact that no particular feature program had been arranged. As late as 10:30, when the final free act was presented, Madison street was crowded from Second to First street, with hundreds of per- , sons massed ar."und the Legion home to witnes the act of the Lamy ' I Brothers. 0 — ' Fines Bryant Man For Traffic Violation Harold Welch, of Bryant, was fined $1 and costs, totalling $9.75 by justice of peace John T. Kelly this afternoon. He was arrested by state pats’ilman Truman Bierie last night near Monroe for passing a car on a . curve. Report Shows Cost Os Labor Disturbances Washington, Aug. 6 — (UP) — Labor disturbances cost three big corporations. Remington Rand, General Motors and Chrysler—almost $2,000,000, an analysis of their registration statements and annual re- : ports to the securities and exchange commission disclosed today. i o SCHOOL BOARD ISSUES REPORT Decatur Schoo! Board Shows increase Tn Cash Balance t The Decatur school hoard closed ' the fiscal year July 31. with a cash 1 balance of $35,491.79, an increase of about SIO,OOO over last year. The special school fund had a balance of $10,096.64. compared with $3,162.55. Expenditures in this fund amounted to $27,791.85 during the year. In the tuition fund the balance was $23,522.25. compared to $19,710.91. Expenditures totaled $42,628.68. The bond fund has a balance of $1,872.89, compared to $1,970.08. Expenditures amounted to $2,787.50. Next to the property taxes received during the year was $15,000 from the gross income tax. Property taxes amounted to about $52,000. Total expenditures for the school city for the fiscal year were approximately $75,000, the largest being in the tuition fund.