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pTest Your Knowledge | Can you answer sexes of these ten questions? Turn to page Four for the answers. >- 4 1. Name the capital of India. 2. Where was Alexander Graham Bell born? 3. Who was flight commander of the six U. S. Army planes which recently completed a good will tour of South America? 4. How many degrees are in a light angle? 5. What do the letters S. 8. before the name of a ship stand for? 6. Name the largest country In South America. 7. Who was Anton Stepanowich Arenski? 8. From what country were tha Virgin Islands purchased by the u s.? 9. What is the oldest organized sport in North America? 10. Who Invented the mimeograph?

I ...™ l 111 J ■■■ MID-WEEK ■ LENTEN SERVICES Every Wednesday evening, 7:30 p. m. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH A hearty welcome is extended the public. B Jesus' fourth word from the cross: "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46. Godchaux s Servall Litter "The finest poultry litter obtainable 'w'v today, because contains no dust; no * * J dirt; no weeds; bright colors; takes f less: lasts longer: expands with use: L , I ft sterilized. Retails not more than & 1C A1- X J Per bale Sold by Pinedale Hatchery. 1 Decatur Hatchery. Burk Elevator Co., Decatur 4 Monroe. Model Hatchsry, Monroe, Indiana. Berne Equity, Berne. Indiana. i Globe Hatchery, Berne, Indiana. i Geneva Milling Co., Geneva, Indiana. i — ■! ' .1111111.. *' ' " .I" . I lm — Rj k 1 We Believe Were Right r M 71 c U-i In Offering — and * | Giving — Truly V ’ Personal Service. W 1 ”” #1 • • It' / We feel that when a family ■ j < 7"P calls us in time of need, we ~ r should give that family our .• interested. PERSONAL attenrjg? *’ on - policy seems to meet with general approval. I W ZWICK FUNERAL HOME ' W.H.ZWICK- ROBERTJ.ZWICK L X ROBERT B. FREE BY ACtinerSfunerul Service, J L_ JI Q atJ&wer3unerul f Prices PHONES:6I-800

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Household Scrapbook By Roberta Lee Sewing on Buttons When buttons are to be sewed on heavy fabrics, put a match across the top of the button and new over the match and through the button. Then remove the match aud wind the thread around the threads under the button before fastening, Crisp Cabbage Cabbage for cole slaw should be crisped in Ice-cold water and kept in the ice box in a tightly covered dish for several hours before using. Headaches A blinding headache can freuqent-1’ ly be relieved by drinking a cup of black coffee containing a teaspoonlul of lemon juice. Q Mrs. Harold iStpe, who has been ■ ill with a heart ailment for the past several weeks, remains about the same.

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SYNOPSIS Jaxie Cameron, lovely young newspaper columnist, travels west from Chicago aboard the Big Chief, extra-fare train, in search of copy for the ■ Star-Tribune's "Friendly Corner." I Aside Car 74X, she spots a bride and groom, and notices a girl who she later finds is Clarice Cole, ex-waitress bound for Hollywood. Carrie Dade, a worn young mother with two small children, arouses Jaxie's sympathy. But the Inmost interesting passenger on the !rain-at least to Miss Cameron-is lirby Elliott, tall and gray-eyed nd humorous. As dusk deepens, hese two remain talking on the observation platform. Mose, the porter, is busy pacifying Mrs. Sanders, a demanding old woman who shares Section 6 with Elliott, and explaining travel technique to Jake Weatherby, gaunt mid west farmer unused to luxury trains. An unassuming little man in khaki sits reading. . . . Finally all the passengers are settled for the night—but not all of them to sleep. Kirby Elliott, in upper 6, remembers Jaxie's brown eyes, bronze hair, and husky-sweet voice. . . . The next morning, Jaxie chats with Marie Bortin, the bride; and with Clarice. Both are thrilled to meet a newspaper woman whose name is a household word in Chicago. Also present are the Misses Yates and Colbin, middle-aged school teachers on a holiday. While the train stops at Kansas City, Clarice sees the handsome man in No. 3 strolling toward her. "Haven’t I met you before?” he asks as they meet. CHAPTER X “Really," said Clarice, "you needn’t be so conventional.” “No —but—well, haven’t I seen you in Chicago, somewhere?" “Nothing is more probable,” she agreed, but did not further enlighten him as to where their meeting might have been. “Then we must be—we are — friends.” Her eyes rebuked him, but her scarlet lips laughed. “That suits me fine.” The irascible woman from lower 6 breakfasted alone in the dining ear. To walk outside as the others were doing might have been much better for her digestion, but her convictions were as fixed as the rock of Gibraltar. Her three-minute eggs, postum and tomato juice had been served precisely as the train stopped at Kansas City, to give her the full benefit of the fifteen-min-ute stopover. The tomato was not cold enough, she fumed, the postum not hot enough; and she had declared to the waiter that the eggs had been boiled at least four minutes. Finally, he had escaped her tirade of complaint and loitered in i the open vestibule within signaling ; distance. He would have liked to descend to the platform, as had the ( rest of the crew, but he dared not. j Why had this old grouch been i wished onto him, he wondered. i Jake had found Martha and was ‘ towing her, bag and baggage, card- i board hatbox and shoebox lunch, t from the station waiting room to the Big Chief. Mose was on duty r with his little yellow footstool at the I steps of car 74X, to act the part of 5 host to the new guest. His white- t toothed greeting frightened Martha, 1 who never had been closer to a col- t ored man than to pass one on the street But it appeared th-t Jake i was surprisingly friendly with this s Jark person. A friend in need was t a friend indeed, to Jake's way of i Chinking. "Is dis yoh missus?” grinned t Mose. i “This is Marthy,” Jake corrobo- r -ated, “and the best little woman in I he country. And Marthy—this here I •'eller can do some o’ the gol-darn- s jest things you ever seen, when it t •ernes to keepin’ house on a train. 1 le kin tell you anything you want t o know about it That'll be a plenty, i ;00. Jist yu wait 'til yu see this here ’ »utfit." Mose assembled Martha’s i lueerly assorted baggage with expert gestures and led the way in- t side, having assisted her up the t

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steps with the gallantry of a Sir , Walter Raleigh. He adjusted ‘her J belongings, disappeared and returned with a paper bsg. Jake was already in»the midst of explana- , tions, like a youth displaying his i first treasure. Martha's round little j eyes snapped with awe and excite- , rnent. “Foh yoh hat, ma'am, to keep it clean,” Mose explained. Martha was appreciative, and told him so. “Thank you, sir!” she said. “See,” exclaimed Jake, “he thinks of everything, even some things you can't. He’s part of the marvel of this here train!” Which pleased Mose immensely. He was human, and so not averse to flattery. The little man across the aisle came in and sat down abstractedly, but his casual glance dampened Jake's enthusiastic monologue. Martha removed her black straw hat and sat down meekly. “Who is he?” she whispered. “I dunno. They’s lots o’ eritters on this train. Did you see how long it is? Ten cars besides the mail carl It’s the fastest train to the coast, too. That porter told me so. You won’t believe your eyes when we git goin*,” he swaggered as if he had personally ordained the speed. Martha was abashed by his garrulity. All his life Jake had been a laconic and taciturn man. Now, ho was positively loquacious. If the trip to California was going to change him like this she wasn’t sure she wanted to go there. “And what’s happened to home, since I left?” He exhausted his information, at length, and recalled that part of his life which now seemed very far away. “Plenty, and then some,” Martha’s lips closed grimly. “But you seemed a heap more interested in this train than in the doin’s at home, so I just let you meander on.” “What now?” he demanded. “Well, all them gold bonds that Nat Bartw-ell sent to Chicago to be put in a safety deposit vault has disappeared!” “What?” Jake's voice was shrill. Martha lowered hers to a hoarse whisper. “He come out to see me jist as I was leavin’ to go to the station. He says he felt it his duty to tell me, seein’ as you wuz away and us goin’ to be gone fer a spell. I was that scared I didn’t know what to do! But I thinks, thinks I, you wud be waitin’ here fer me and I’d best come along, anyway. But," she warned in an undertone, “Nat says we mustn’t talk about it to anyone, ’cause they're tryin’ to trap the thief by keepin' quiet about it." Jake’s face, which had glowed with such pleasure a few minutes before, was ash-gray. “Why, Marthy! them bonds wuz our biggest savin’s, besides the land, that we're goin’ to live on in our old age. That’s why I let Nat send them to Chicago, where they’d be safe, and jist be drawin’ interest.” His voice sounded hollow, as if he had .just received a blow in the stomach. “What’ll we do? Hadn’t we best go right back home now, and not spend all this money goin’ to Californy?” “No, Nat said fer us to go along and not worry. Besides, you’ve bought our tickets, haven't you? So it won't cost us much more to git there and stay fer awhile. Nat said he’d notify you soon’s he heard anything.” “Well, I’ll be gun-swoggled!” His vocabulary was inadequate in such an emergency. “Anyhow, I’d like to know what good them papers would do anyone that did take 'em.” “Why, Nat says they're negotiable—he kept usin' that word. It means they’re jist like so much money, and anyone kin use 'em as has possession of ’em. That’s why he wanted to make sure they wuz safe, and sent ’em to Chicago to put away in the big vaults there. You know our vault at Kingsbury ain’t any too safe fer valuables. Nat says it had to be an ‘inside robbery,' which means that someone who worked at the bank took the bonds." Passengers were returning to the train, following stentorian echoes of the brakeman’s “All aboard!”

r Each one carried a morning psper r that proclaimed in blatant, ninety- - point headlines, “HALF MILLION s BOND ROBBERY." The right-hand - column featured further details of s the crime. e “There!” Marthn’s quick eye had - deciphered the words across the outstretched page which the little t man in section one was reading I “The papers tell all about it. Gitl 1 one, Jake.” | Jake demurred. “Oh, everyone s i got papers. No use fer us to buy i one, when we kin jist as well see f somebuddy else’s. Nothin* we kin I do about it, nohow, I reckon.” , “But I’d like to know es they caught the thief, yit," Martha in- > sisted. , “Well, now, you jist be patient, I an’ you will.” No sooner had he said the words ■ than the man across the aisle tossed i his folded newspaper aside and sauntered away toward the men’s i lounge. Jake waited for several : cautious minutes, then surreptitiously reached over and confis- , cated it “Why, Jake!” Martha admon- ; ished him, “You ain’t got no right to do that!” "Huh, why not. I’d like to know? He’s finished with it, ain’t he? A newspaper that’s been read ain't got no more value than a last year's bird’s nest. I can’t do no harm readin’ it a little, I reckon.” He adjusted his bifocal spectacles to peer through the lower section, his sharp chin raised in line with his vision. “All right, but es you’re goin’ to read it, read out loud so's I kin hear, too,” his wife prompted, a willing accomplice. Jake cleared his throat noisily. “Well, here at the top it says that a employee of the bank is suspected of the robbery. ‘Believed to have boarded a west-bound train after disposing of part of the bonds.' Well, now wouldn’t that beat your carpet for you? On a west-bound train! Say, sposin’ he’s right on this here train with us?” * “Don't be silly, Pa. Dozens of trains go west every day. I should think it wud be purty hard to trace him, even es they knowed he wuz on a train. Jist says they believe he’s on one.” Martha was practical. Newspaper conjectures did not excite her. "Jist the same, I guess I’ll turn Sherlock Holmes, an’ keep my eyes open. I might see sumpin' queer t’ report. I got enough personal interest in this here thing t’ pay me t' help the law es I kin.” Martha smiled a deprecating smile. If the idea gave Jake something to think about, she had no objection. His confinement in this cubicle of space already was affecting him like a harnessed colt. She feared he might bolt into something rash before the end of the following day. • • • Jaxie loitered over her breakfast, reading the morning paper propped against the silver sugar bowl beside the window ledge. She delighted in the floating sensation afforded by the smoothly speeding train and the flying world outside the broad casements which made of the dining car a veritable glass house. She felt buoyant and glowingly alive this morning, with a generous benevolence toward all mankind. Iler judgment of the western paper’s columns and features was less critical. She would not have been a born newspaper woman had she not compared its merits with her own. A good sheet, was her charitable conclusion. Jaxie had dreamed of this experience during the three years she had served on the staff of the StarTribune—to speed luxuriously out into space on a first-class train, representing her paper and her column I Her eyes and thoughts were on the alert every moment She liked to watch people, their expressions, actions and reactions. It had become a habit with her, always and everywhere. (To be continued) Copyright. Edna Robb WolHtor. OUUlbuUd by Klm Feausret By*dlr«u. Im

” ♦ I RATES One Time—Minimum charge of ! 25c for 20 words or less. Over 20 words. per word Two Times—Minimum charge of 40c for 20 words or less. Over 20 words 2c per word for the two times. I Three Times—Minimum charge 1 of 50c for 20 words or less. Over 20 words 2'/iC per word for the three times. Cards of Thanks -—..... 35c Obituaries and voroos SI.OO Open rate-display advertising 35c per column inch. FOR SALE FOR SALE — Farm lease blanks, three for sc. Decatur Daily Democrat, 106 No. Second St. 27 *~ tf FOR SALE —One used Minneap- | oils Moline tractor, good as new. See the Twin City traitor before 'you buy. Now on display. Preble i Oil Co., Preble, Ind. 6S-3tx Ol'R SEMIANNUAL Furniture, Rug and Piano Sale now on. Big reduction on every article In the store. Buy now and save. Sprague Furniture Co., 152 So. Second St. Phone 199. 68-30 t FOR SALE—IO yearling ewes, bred for April lambs; also oats and wheat for feeding purposes. % mile north or % mile west of Preble. John King. 69-2tx FOR SALE—Good four-row John Deere beet cultivator, all attachments. Telford Runyon. % miles southwest Meshberger Bros., Linn i Grove. It FOR SALE — Two-wheel trailer with stock rack. Victor MeBarnes, 4 miles west of Decatur. 69-3tx 1 FOR BALE—Eight big type spotted gilts. Decatur phone M-694. 69 2t FOR SALE—Timothy hay. Mrs. I Christ Helmrich. Craigville phone, mile north Honduras. 68-3tx FOR SALE—Two heavy springer cows. fat. Holstein and Guern- ; sey. Gale corn planter. Two-year-old heavy oats, early or late. Victory Byerly, mile east of Kirk- , land high school. 68-2tx FOR SALE — 2 bushels Alsyke seed. Herman Scheumann. Phone IS6O-K. 67-3 ix FOR SALE Seed oats, 1936, test 35. John Schultz, route 4. Phone 873-B. 68-3tx FOR SALE —Oats good enough for seed. Henry Yake, \ mile north lof Kirkland high school, route 2, Decatur. Craigville phone. 6S-3tx I FOR SALE Adapted Indiana Certified Hybrid Seed Corn. You I can get it any Mon.. Wed., or Fri- ■ day. Plant Hoosier Hybrids, they not only stand up better but yield better. 10 years experience w’ith Hybrids. Herman L. Miller, Bluffton, Ind.. R. 1. 6 miles west and one north of Bluffton. 69-3 t TVA ( HAIRMAN Cl Nll Bl . KHOM PIGK ONVT.» reared to have reached its climax. Three times within 10 days the president called the three directors to the White House and three times j the tall, slightly bald and gray ' chairman defied the President’s unprecedented attempt to reconcile Ills appointees. Notice I will be out of the city from Sunday evening. March 27, until Friday evening, April 1. I’almcr Eicher. M. D.

FOR BABY’S COMFORT A complete line of Nursery Equipment, including: Folding Baby Carriages Teeter-Babe ■ Baby Beds t’ <aby Crib and Mattress I High Chairs Toidey Seats Bathinette Taylor Tot. On Display in Our Window. ZWICK’S Phone 61

! MISCELLANEOUS NOTICE Parlor Sults recovered We recover and repair anything. We buy and sell furniture. Decatur j Upholsters, Phone 420. 145 South Second St. 63-30 t — WATKINS PRODUCTS "Best By Test." Your local dealer will call on you. C. Marsh Crane, 412 Jackson. Phone 1197. 68-30 t —o FOR RENT FOR CASH RENT 80 acres, half ’ mile south Berne on U. S. 27. Berne phone 398. Call 418 East ■ Water St. Berne. Itx , ■ J FOR RENT — Nice country home with garage, truck patch, and i fruit. Inquire Mrs. M. Murphy. ■ 4<4 miles southeast of Monroe. 693tx ■ FOR RENT Furnished apartment. 228 North Fourth St. Phone 355. Mrs. John T. Myers. 69-3 t , FOR RENT — 80 acres, well improved. Cash rent. Make offer. I Immediate possession. Call at 130 East Main St., Fort Wayne. 68-3tx FOR RENT — Nine-room house. Garden space. Three miles east Hoagland. Theodore Lepper. FOR RENT—4 room modern aparti ment, unfurnished. Garden space. Inquire 706 N. Second St. 67-3 t WANTED WANTED — Paper hanging and ' painting and paper to clean. Work guaranteed. Prices reasonable. H. M. Sudduth, Phone 5344. 67-3tx ’ WANTED —To clean wall paper, wash houses, window glasses, clean cisterns and ail odd jobs. Frank Straub, phone 210. 68-31 WANTED — Men to husk coni. Phone 869-G. Oscar Schetner. route 3. Decatur. 68-2tx WANTED — Wall paper to clean. Phone 965. 68-6tx RELIABLE DEALER WANTED to handle Heberling Products in . north part Adams county. Excel lent opportunity for the right man, selling direct to farmers. Esiru-; ' ings S4O weekly not unusual. G.' ■ C. Heberling Company, Dept. 929, Bloomington, 111. 68-3 t ; o I Card of Thanks We wish in thie manner to thank the many friends and neighbors ' who so kindly assisted during the ' recent illness and bereavement of ; our hubsand and father. We wish t also to thank those who sent the beautiful floral offerings, and the pastor for his kind words. Mrs. Christ Mankey and Family. _o Tomato School To Be Held Here Next Week Joseph Koors, president of tho Adams County Totnator Growers Association, and county agent Archbold today announced a tomato school to be held at the Moose Hall at 6:30 P. M., March 29, in cooperation with the Purdue extension service and the Crampton Canneries Company of Celina. The Crampten Canneries will furnish a supper , to contract singers for 1938 and will issue invitations carrying reply cards. Medals and bonus checks will be given to contest winners in the supper meeting. Immediately after the meal, the meeting will adjourn to the assembly hall and any other I people Interested in the discussion I I of proper methods of management of the tomato crop and increased qt'allty and yield will be welcome to attend. This part of the meeting will begin about 7.45. Warns Os Necessity Os Tree Protection Word was received today by County Agent Archbold from Monroe McCown, extension horticulturist of Purdue University, that a study of scab infected leaves indicates that a (airly heavy discharge of apple scab spores will occur with the first rain following March 23, in orchards in Adams county. The orchard should be protected by spray by the third day after the rain begins. Maintain protection by spraying once a week during rainy weather from above date until seven days after petal-fall, using at least one-half gallow for each year in age of the tree at each application. It is unnecessary to spray for scab control before delayed dormant stage on bud development.

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