Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1937 — Page 2

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Kentucky Negro Executed Today Covington, Ky., Dec. 17—(UP)-— John "Pete” Montjoy. negro sensed

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN TH E Phantom slowly, • gravely, silently approached. J When it came near him, ■ Scrooge bent down upon his knee; • far in the very atr through which • this Spirit moved it seemed to scat- • ter gloom and mystery. ■> It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of U visible save one outstretched hand. But for tins it would liave been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from , the darkness by which it was sur- . rounded. . He felt that it was tall and stately . when'it came beside him, and that • its mysterious presence filled him • with a solemn dread. He knew no • the Spirit neither spoke . • r*r moved. abi in the presence of the Ghost • cf Christmas Yet to Come?” said Scrooge. The Spirit answered not, but -printed onward with its hand. •'You are about to show me shad- • ows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us,” Scrooge pursued. , /‘‘ls that so. Spirit?” The-upper portion of the garment j was contracted for an instant in its folds, as if the Spirit had inclined ; its heftd. That was the only an- L swer he received. It gave hin no reply. The hand ■ •TAs pointed straight before them. "Leed on!” said Scrooge. “Lead . on I -The night is waning fast, and . , it is precious time to me, I know. ; Lead on. Spirit!" The phantom moved away as it ' had come toward him. Scrooge followed is. the shadow of its dress,’. which bore him up, he thought, and curried him along. The Spirit stopped beside one lit- ' tie knot of business men. Observing that the hand was pointed to them, Scrooge advanced to listen to their talk. “No." said a great fat man with a 1 monstrous chin, “I don’t know much about it either way. I only know ( he's dead.” “When did he die?” inquired an- 1 other. t ‘‘Last night, I believe.” "Why. what was the matter with ' him?' asked a third, taking a vast £ quantity of snuff out of a very large t snuffbox. "I thought he’d never i die." s

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of criminally aasaultlng a white I woman, was hanged today in the tiny courtyard of the Covington i municipal building. Only a few officials witnessed the '

"God knows,” said the first, with a yawn. “What has he done with his money?” asked a red-faced gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose that shook like the gills of a turkey-cock. “I haven’t heard." said the man I with the large chin, yawning again. Left it to his company, perhaps. He hasn't left it to me. That’s all II know.” This pleasantry was received with a general laugh. “It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral," said the same speaker; “for upon my life I don't know of anybody to go to it. Suppose we make up a party and volunteer?” "I don't mind going if a lunch is provided.” observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. “But I must be fed if I make one.” Another laugh. “Well, I am the most disinterested among you, after all,” said the first speaker, “for I never wear black gloves, and I never eat lunch. But I'll offer to go if anybody else will. When I come to think of it, I’m not i at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend; for we used to i stop and speak whenever we met. Bve, bye!” Speakers and listeners strolled away and mixed with other groups. Scrooge knew the men, and looked 1 toward the Spirit for an explanation. The phantom glidea on into a; street. Its finger pointed to two persons meeting. Scrooge listened again, thinking that the explanation might lie here. He knew these men. also, pericctly They were men of business very wealthy, and of great importance. He had made a point always 01 standing well In their esteem: in a business point of view. “How are you?” said one. “How are you?" returned the other “Well!” said the first, "Old Scratch has got his own at last, ney?" “So I am told,” returned the second. “Ccld, isn't it!’ “Seasonable for Christmas-time. You are nut a skater, 1 suppose?" “No No Something eise to think of. Good-morning! ” Not another word. That was their meeting, their conversation, and their part.ng. « Scrooge was at first inclined to be surprise a that the Spirit should attacn importance to conversations apparently so trivial: but leelmg assurta that they must nave some hidden purpose, ne set nim-

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11 self to consider what it was likely i 10 be. They could scarcely be sups posed to ha ve any bearing on the - death of 'acob, his old partner, for s that was Past, and this Ghost's : province was the Future. Nor could he think of any one immediately 1 ronnected with himself to whom ■ he could apply them. But nothing • doub.mg that to whomsoever they 1 applied tney had some latent moral lor ills own improvement, he re1 solved to treasure up every word he heard, and everything he saw; ’ and especially to observe the shadow ' of himsen when it appeared. For ’ b e *iad an expectation that the - conduct 01 his future self would give him the clue he missed, and ’ woul-. render the solution of these nddles easy. He .ooked about in that very place for r.is own image; but another I man stood in his accustomed corner, ; and though the clock pointed to : his usuai time of day for being ; there, he saw no likeness of him- . self among the multitudes that ; poured in through the porch. It ; gave him little surprise however; 1 foi ne had been revolving in his mind a cnange of life, and thought and hopea he saw hit new-born I resolutions carried out in this. They ,est the busy scene and ; went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never J 1 penetrates before, although he 1 recognized its situation, and Its : oad repute. The ways were loul and ' narrow; the shops and houses wretched; the people half-naked. 1 drunken, slipshod, ugly. Alleys and 1 archways, like so many cesspools. 1 disgorged their offenses of smell, 1 ana airt. and life, upon the strag- 1 gling streets; and the whole 1 quarter .eeked with crime, with filth and misery. Far in this den of infamous resort, thero was a low-browed, beetling shop below a penthouse roof, ' whert iron, old rags, bottles, bones 1 and jreasv offal were brought. Upon ’ the floor w'thin were piled up heaps of rusty "ttys, nails, chains, hinges, flies scales weights ana refuse iron of aL kinds. Secrets that few would ' like to scrutinize were bred and nidden in mountains of unseemly ■ags masses of corrupted fat and sepulchers of bones. Sitting in 1 among the wares he dealt in, by a ; ’harcoal stove made ol old bricks. ' *as a gray-haired rascal nearly 1 <5 vear of age who had -creened himself from the cold air without oy a frozen curtaining of I miscellaneous tatters hung ypon a

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taker's basket at 8 07 A. M. sheriff i Ennis J. Kenney of Kenton county called reporters at 8:26 A. M. to ani uounce the execution. —— » ■' • Trade tn A (iotxt Town — nrralur 1

line: and smoked his pipe In all the luxurv of calm retirement. Scrooge and the phantom came into the piesence of this man just as a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop. But she had scarcely entered when another woman, similarly laden, game in too- and she was closely followed oy a man in faded black, who was no less startled by the sight of them than they had been upon the recognition of each other. Alter a short ueriod of blank astonishment in which the old man with the rrtpe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh "Let the charwoman alone to be :he uAtl” cried she who had entered flrst. "Let the laundress alone to be the second: and let Uie undertaker's man alone to be the third. Look here old Joe. here's a chance! If we haven't all three met here without meaning it!" "You couldn’t have met in a better place,” said old Joe. removing his pipe from his mouth. "Come into the parlor. You were made iree of it long ago, you know; and the other two ain't strangers. Stop till I shut the door of the shop. Ah! How it sxreeks! There ain’t such a rusty oit of metal in the piacc as iU own hinges, I believe; and I’m -ure there’s no suet old bones nere as mine. Ha. ha! We’re all suitaole co our calling, we're well matened. Come into the parlor. Come into the parlor." The parlor was the space benind the screen of rags The old man rakeo the fire together with an old <t*u -rod, and having trimmed nis smorj lamp (for it was night) with the stem of his pipe, nut it Into his mouth again. While he did this, the woman who had already spoken threw her oundle on the floor and sat down n a flaunting manner on a stool; crossing her elbows on her knees, and .ocrkir.g with a bold defiance “t the otner two. “What odds then! What odds. Mrs. Diiber?” said the woman. "Every person has a right to take ,care of themselves. He always did." “That’s true, indeed!” said the laundress. "No man more so.” “Why, then, don’t stand staring as if you was afraid, woman. Who's the wiser? not going to pick holes in each other's coats, I suppose?” “No. Indeed.” said Mrs. Diiber and the man together. “We should I hope not.” “Very well, then!” cried the |

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Win «r'« i» « ass« w w woman. ''Thais enough. Who’s the worse for the loss of a few things like these? Not a dead man, I suppose “ “No. indeed.' said Mrs. Diiber, wanted to keep 'em after be was dead, a wicked old screw, pursued the woman, "why wasn’t he natural in hii lifetime? If he had been, hed hare had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, Instead of lying gasping out hU last there, alone by himself ” ’lt’S |hd uurot word Uiat ever was spoke," said Mrs. Diiber. "It's a bard judgment on bun." "I wish it was a little heavier judgment,” replied the woman; "and it should have been, you may depend upon it, if I could have laid my hands on anything else. Open that bundle, old Joe, and let me know the value of it. Speak out plain. I'm not afraid to be the first, nor afraid for them to see it. We knew pretty well that we were helping ourselves, before we met here, I believe. It's no sin. Open the bundle, Joe.” But the gallantry of her friends would not allow of this; and the man in faded black, mounting the breach first, produced his plunder. It was not extensive. A seal or two, a pencil-case, a pair of sleeve buttons and a brooch of no great value were ail. They were severally examined and appraised by old Joe. who chalked the sums he was disposed to give for each upon the wall, and added them up Into a total when he found that there was nothing more to come. "That's your account,” said Joe, “and I wouldn’t give another sixpence if I was to be boiled for not doing it. Who’s next?” Mrs. Diiber was next. Sheets and towels, a little wearing apparel, two old-fashioned silver teaspoons, a pair of sugar tongs and a few boots. Her account was stated on the wall in the same manner. “I always give' too much to ladies. It's a weakness of mine, and that's the way I ruin myself," said old Joe. "That’s your account. If you ask me for another penny, and made it an open question, I’d repent of being so liberal, and knock off half a crown.” "And now undo my bundle, Joe,” said the first woman. Joe went down on his knees for the greater convenience of opening it, and having unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large heavy roll of some dark stuff. "What do you call this?” said Joe. “Bed curtains’” “Ah’” returned the woman, laughing and leaning forward on iter crossed arms. “Bed curtains!" “You don't mean to say you took 'em down, rings and ail. with him lying there?” said Joe. “Yes, I do," replied the woman. “Why not?" "You were born to make your fortune,” said Joe, “and you'll certainly do it.” “I certainly shan't hold my hand when I can get anything in it by reaching it out, for the sake of such a man as he was, I promise you, Joe,” , returned the woman coolly. Don t drop that oil upon the blankets, now.” “His blankets?" asked Joe. “Whose elses do you think?” replied the woman. “He isn't likely to take cold without ’em, I dare say.” I hope he didn't die of anything catching? Eh?" said old Joe, stopping in his work and looking up. “Don't you be afraid of that," returned tile woman. “I ain't so fond of his company that I'd loiter about him for such things, if he did. Ah! You may look through that shirt tiU your eyes ache; but you won't find a hole in it, nor a threadbare place. It's the best he had, and a fine one, too. They’d have wasted it if it hadn't been for me.” “What do you call wasting of it?” asked old Joe. "Putting it on him to be buried in, to be sure,” replied the woman with a laugh. “Somebody was fool enough to do it, but I took it off again. If calico ain’t good enough for such a purpose, it isn't good enough for anything. It’s quite as becoming to the body. He can’t look uglier than he did in that one.” Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror. As they sat grouped about their spoil, in the scanty light afforded by the old man’s lamp, he viewed them with a detestation and disgust which could hardly have been greater though they had been obscene demons marketing the corpse itself. Continued Tomorrow

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* RATES | One Time—Minimum charge of | 25c for 20 words or lees. Over | ; 20 words, IJ4c per word Two Times—Minimum charge , of 40c for 20 words or less. I Over 20 words 2c per word for j the two times. Three Times—Minimum charge of 50c for 20 words or less. Over 20 words 2/jc P er word I for the three times. I Cards of Thanks 85c ; I Obituaries and verses. SI.OO Open rate-display advertising 36c per column inch. FOR SALE FOR SALE — Farm lease blanks, three for sc. Decatur Daily Democrat, 106 No. Second St. 276tf FOR SALE —Bay gelding, 4 years old. Two milk cows, 1 freslT'in Jan. 2 heifers, fresh in June. 30 barred rock pullets. Otto Hartman, - mile north of Ma gley, Preble phone. 295-3tx FOR SALE — Seven-room modern I home. Hardwood floors. Double garage. Nice neighborhood. Close! in. Box 241. 294-4tx FOR SALE—Used bicycle. Good- 1 year Service store. Corner Madi- ■ son and Third streets. 295k3tx I FOR SALE- Fresh Country Sausage; apples 30c bushel and up; ' good potatoes. We do custom , butchering. Ralph Shively, 118 S. 11th St. Phone 1114. dec 14-17 x FOR SALE —Baumgartner's Super: Quality Bloodtest Baby Chicks every Tuesday. Order now. Baumgprtncf Hatchery, C miles west and 9 miles south of Decatur, 1 Craigville phone. 250 T. F. FOR SALE — Good building lots,; fine location. Good sewers- Win. I Beineke, Phone 764. 424 N. sth. i 297-3tx j FOR SALE —Mattresses: 50 inner j springs mattresses—s29.so mat-1 tresses going at $22.50; $33.95 fam-' ous Super Sleep mattresses going i at $25; sls mattresses going at | $12.50; Simmona Beauty Rest mat-1 tresses, $39.50; Simmons Deep' Sleep mattresses. $29.50; Simmons I Slumber King mattresses, $24.50; ' Simmons Star King mattresses. $18.50. Sprague Furniture Com-: pany, 152 S. Second St. Phone -99. 1 296-2 t FOR SAI,E —7 large Heatrolas, like 1 new; 1 child s desk, with ehair; ! 3 living room suites, new cover; 3 j buffets; 15 footstools; 10 end tables; 3 radio benches; 1 large white I leather chair;-china closet; dress-: er cabinets; rocking chairs, $1 up; I straight chairs 50c. We do all: kinds repairing. Decatur Upholst ! er Shop. Phone 420. Itx : I NOTICE — Rawletgb's nousehold products for sale by A. J. Zelt. ; 103 No. Eighth Street. Phone 274. 264-ktf

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I, FOR SALE — Photographs. Post card portraits, 15 pictures for 1 $2. Folders extra. Taken at my home, Pleasant Mills. Ind. Var- | lando Clark. 297-3tx o WANTED WANTED TO BUY — Modern or semi-modern small house; priI vate owner. Address Box 243. 1 295-3tx WANTED — To buy several tons alfalfa hay, loose. To sell two fresh cows. Phone 7962, Roy Price. : Route 6. 296-3tx WANTED TO BUY—Second hand sedan, four cylinder preferred. Want to deal direct with owner. Address Box 245, care this office. I WANTED — Place 11 (bredl ewes on shares. Preferably with ’ German people. Box 246 in care of Democrat. Phone 186. 297-3tx WANTED—Loans on farms. East ern money. Low rates. Very lib--1 eral terms. See me for abstracts ol title. French Quinn. 152 m w f o LOST AND FOUND ■ — 1 | LOST — Green purse containing valuable necklace. Return to Democrat. It LOST —Black and white fox hound. Tan face. Call 8625. Pete WhitI right. 297-21 o MISCELLANEOUS NOTICE Parlor Suits recovered. 1 We recover and repair anything. ; Wc buy and sell furniture. Decatur ; Upholsters, Phone 420. 145 South i Second St. 296-30 t o FOR RENT FOR RENT—Six-room house with garden and truck patch. Harvey I L. Steffen, Decatur route 4. Craigj ville phone. 297-:: I FOR RENT—Two room furnished apartment. Address Box 244. 1 care Democrat. 296-2 ‘ FOR RENT — Nine room house, semi-modem, centrally located. ! Phone 607. 295-3 t 0 — NOTICE Notice is hereby given to the I shareholders of The First State Bank, Decatur, Indiana, that there ! will be a meeting at the office of • said Bank,' Tuesday. January 4. ; 1938, between 2:30 I'. M. and |p. M. for the purpose of electing ja Board of Directors for said Bank I for the coming year of 1938. R. E. Glendening. 13 10 17 24 31 Cashier o—: Appoint went <»f Vtlminlalratrlv AO. :m.vs Notice Is hereby given That the 1 undersigned lias been appointed A>»I rninistrator of lb.- stat.' of Albert Burke, late of Adams County. <leI < eased. The estate is probably solvent. . . Lavina Rurke, Administratrix , Hubert 11. Mellenahaß. ttlorney De-. 15, 1937 Dec. 1.-21-21 notice of final OF EMI iTE NO. 3»l« Notice Is hereby given to the ereditors, heirs and legatees of Gerber, deceased, to appear in the Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on the 10th day of January, and show cause, if any, why the Final Settlement Accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Calvin Gerber, Executor Decatur, Indiana, December 15, 193 . MuMrliiian A Unveeaw, Attorney m Dec. 17-24 i o . — Drastic Price Reductions on entire Stock Ladies and Girls Coats. Niblick & Co. Q Irnil. In A Bond Town — DR. C. V. CONNELL Veterinarian Office & Residence 430 No. Fifth st. Phone 102. - N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST Eyes Examined • Glasses Fitted Saturdays, 8:00 p. m. Telephone 135. HOURS i 8:30 to 1130 12:30 to 5:00 .

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