Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 30 April 1938 — Page 6

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IBM Among those from Decatur planning to attend the Kentucky Derby to be held at Churchill Downs next Saturday are Mr. ami Mrs. Frederic Schafer, Mr. and Mrs. W illiam Hell and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Schafer. James Foreman, veteran Democrat and well known citizen of Blue Creek township, was a Decatur visitor today. Mrs Bernard Terveer and family have moved into the Delninger apartments on Madison street. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hite, Miss Agnes Cramer and Kenneth Arnold will motor to Cincinnati Sunday to enjoy the day ami attend the ball game. A. L Roop and Miss Pearl Coulter of Fort Wayne were the dinner; and supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. I Samuel Acker of North Second | street Friday. Miss Coulter took: the place of Mrs. Gertrude Myers at the Riley P. T. A. meeting yesterday. Mrs. Julia Ehler, daughter Mar-| garet and son Robert of Bluffton. : will spend Sunday in Decatur at tl For COUNTY CLERK T.- ■ Ifcsk* ***” W x lie 1 ts ■' ? w. 'JIB II W ifc * ii&llfiW-** i'wn M « I solicit your support on my record the past two years, and again pledge courteous service to all. Thanks for your support. G. Remy Bierly Democratic Primarv. May 3. 1938 Ballot number 22. Pol. advt. ,

• have tried to render I efficient and courteous * *5- <1 service and will appre- ” ®Kfe. >«3 . • wSmMM ciate your vote in ,ue>( hty's primary. &W Mrs. Ada fe*WF Jr W; » k.- MARTIN — ■■ Democratic candidate tor ( ITY ( LERKTREASURER No. I*7 on Democratic City Ballot. * Pol. advt. ■ ■ —— -v o>■ V- 7 *stv. -V k FOR many years. Black 3k has been trying — and ■ \ succeeding — to create a ''T& friendly and helpful at- ** mosphere for the benefit . ** °f people who depend .•Wlk on us f° r help. We want " everyone to feel towards us as the - v would towards 'heir friends, we’re here to help, advise, serve! oBKBKfc “' “e e. black 21 . FUNERAL DIRECTOR V <7 Z - PHONE 500 —a

hotne of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Ehler and attend First Communion geri vices for James Ehler. .lodge John F. Decker of Bluffton attended to bnslnees In Decatur I this morning. Sister M. Gabrielita of South Rend is spending two days visiting ! with her mother. Mrs. Minnie Holti house and other relatives. Dr. and Mrs. G. J. Kohne will go to Chicago tomorrow where Dr. Qohne will attend a medical meetI ing. Mrs. Kohne will visit with friends and relatives. They will return Tuesday evening. I, \. Holthouse visited I.eo Weber in Fort Wayne this morning.

Describes School As His “Friend'’ (By John Holthouse) Yes. the school is really our friend. It has educated man to do many great things. Think of Washington. if he hadn't had an education, he wouldn't have become so famous. If Edison wouldn't have studied chemistry and science in school, he couldn't have Invented one of man’s best friends, the electric lights. Marconi has given man one of the greatest inventions, the radio. The radio is mostly used by ships to find their location in storms and fogs So those that don't think that school is our best friend, should give it a thought and ask themselves how so many men have become so famous Schools nowadays offer greater advantages for higher education than those of long ago. but we must give credit to the old educational system for giving us the subjects that are a better means for an education today. CITY'S YOUTH (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) founding of the old Northwest Territory, with prizes for best individual or group of pioneers in parade. Boys and girls will make covered wagons and dress as pioneers. PLEASANT MILLS

Mr. anil Mrs. Steve Longenberger .■ailed on the A. D. Artman familyin Decatur Friday evening. William Noll #on Max and O. L. Brentlinger were business visitors in Van Wert Saturday A. M. Christina Fortney and Harold Dolch spent Sunday evening at the Ihome of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Riley Mtdney Everett of Blairstown, Ohio, has been visiting with his father. Isaac Everett, who remains critically ill at the R. H. Everett home. Rev Alva Barr left Wednesday

STATE OF INDIANA DIVISION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL DEPARTMENT OF LAW Board Administrative Officer Governor M. Clifford Townsend Omer Stokes Jackson Omer Stokes Jackson, Attorney General Attorney General Laurence Sullivan, State Auditor Indianapolis, Indiana April 29. 1938. Mr. J. L. DeVoss, City Attorney, Decatur, Indiana. Dear Mr.'DeVoss: — This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of April 29th. in which you enclose a copy of your city ordinance passed December 20. 1935. You ask as to the validity of th.s ordinance insofar as it provides for additional salary for the Mayor, the City Attorney, the Civil City Engineer and the City Controller by reason of services rendered in the operation of municipally owned utilities. In regard to this question, your attention is directed to Section 48-1233 of Burns Indiana Statutes. 1933 Revision, which reads as follows: "The common council of each and every city shall, by ordinance duly enacted on or before the first Monday in September, 1933, and thereafter on or before the first day of April of the year in which elections for election of city officers are held, fix the annual salaries of all officers provided for in this act at not to exceed the amounts herein specified, and such salaries when so fixed for such officers shall not be changed during their respective terms of office. The salaries as herein authorized shall be in full for all services performed for the city including services for any public utility or utilities owned and operated by such city; except that the common council of any city which owns and operates a public utility or utilities shall, by ordinance duly enacted on or before the first Monday in September, 1933, and thereafter on or before the first day of April in the years in which elections for election of city officers are held, provide that the mayor, city attorney, city civil engineer, and city controller of such city may receive, from the funds of such utility or utilities, a salary in addition to the annual salary herein otherwise authorized, which additional salary shall not exceed the sum total of six hundred dollars (5600 1 per year. It is apparent from the above statute that the common council of any city which owns and operates a public utility shall by ordinance provide for additional salaries for the mayor, city attorney, city civil engineer and city controller, which they may receive for their services in operating such municipally owned utilities. An opinion of the Attorney General issued February 16, 1935. to the State Board of Accounts held that the duty to provide the additional salary for such officials who render a service to a municipally owned utility is mandatory. The only additional question therefore presented by your situation is whether or not the council, having failed to provide for this additional salary on or before the first day of April in the year in which such officials were elected, can. by an ordinance later enacted, legally discharge such duty. It is my opinion that this duty being mandatory a failure to discharge such duty within the time fixed by such statute does> not operate to relieve the city council from the discharge of such duty. The council having met and approved this salary, to become effective January Ist. 1935, which was the beginning of the term of the elected officials, is. in my opinion, sufficient to authorize the payment of the additional salaries provided. Very respectfully submitted. OMER STOKES JACKSON. Attorney General of Indiana. AJS mjt

for Conference and will return next Monday. The conference is being; held in Richmond. Rev. Carl V. Roop of Marion. Ohio ■ was an over night visitor at the) home of his sister. Mrs. Wm Noll. He was attending the district meet- 1 ing of Ministers at Wren. Ohio. i Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Custer and sons. Mr. and Mr#. C. L. Custer vis- i - ited in the Raliph Fuller home at | Leipsic. Ohio. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Evans and! daughter Colleen spent the weekend at Bippns. as guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. McClean Murriel Ann Foor ha# returned to her home after spending two weeks . at Fort Waytie, the guest of her Vncle and Aunt, Mr. and Mrs Ber- 1 yle Byer. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Brentlinger I were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McGills at Van Wert, Ohio. Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Leeter Everett and ' son Albert of Bluffton. John Everett Mr. and Mrs. Cal Peterson of Decatur were Sunday visitors at the R. H Everett resident Miss Berneice Masters. Mr. and Mr#. Benoit Johnson and family < called on Mr. and Mrs. Steve Longenberger Sunday evening-. Mr. and Mrs. Gail Baugham and daughter Mary Lou of Fort Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. H. A Earle. Dick and Carl Glenn A. Ronnie of near Vera Cruz. Mr. and Mrs. Fred McConnell, daughter Patsy, Mr. and Mrs. D. Petser. Mrs Fannie Reichard and

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daughters of Decatur were callers fat the O. L. Brentlinger home SunI day. A group of friends pleasantly surprised Richard Evans on his birthI day anniversary Friday evening. I Those who attended were Mr. and I Mrs. Murry Holloway. Mr. and Mrs. ; Lester Suman. Mr. and Mrs. Merle ' Foor. Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Riley. | Mr. and Mi#. Ralph Longenberger, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Smith. A very I enjoyable evening was spent togethI .-r and later a delicious luncheon ; was served. Those who visited at the parsonage over the week-end were, Mr. and Mrs. George Wagner and son. Robert Berger of Giliard, Mr. and -Ire. Elmer Fite of Macy, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Baniberlen. Mrs. Waii ter Whethter Mr. and Mrs. CharI les Young. Alva E. Boir. Jr., returnled home with his sister Mrs. C. : Young for a few week# stay at ' North Manchester. o Harbor Serves Large Area Ashtabula. O.—(U.Ry—The harbor in this city of 25,000 serves an area with a population equivalent to that of New York City, a brief filed with he U. S. Engineer's office at Buffalo reveals. o Bomos Kill 10.000 Crows Okemah. Okla —<U.R) —Moye than 10,000 crows were killed when the state fish and game department bombed a roost in the northwestern part of Okfuskee county, game ranger Roy Collins has announced.

MONROE NEWS Me. and Mrs. John McKean visited Mr. and Mrs. Howard Keller and family at Circleville Wednesday r.nd attended the commencement exexercise# Mrs. McKean’s grand ' daughter, Txiii Ellen Keller, was one of the graduates Mr. and Mrs M J. Scherer of Fort Wayne visited Mr. Scherer’s parents. Mr. and Mrs Jacob Scherer Sunday. Chauncey Aiirand of Grand Rapids. Michigan visited relative# in Monroe Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Crist visited their daughter. Mis. Hubert Meyers and family at Fort Wayne Sunday. Mr. and Mrs Charley Bell living near (Taigville. visited Mrs. Mandy Llby Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Longenber-j ger of Fort Wayne visited bis par-j ents. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Longenberger Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Floyd spent 1 the week-at Lake George at their) cottage. Mr. and Mrs P. E. Fugate enter-1 tained at dinner Sunday in henor of Mrs. Della George’s birthday anniversary at their home in Monroe. The following guests were present; Mr. and Mrs. Alfred George and daughter Mildred, Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Sehn and daughters Maxine Phylis. and Kay and son Harry of Connersville; Mr. anil Mrs. J. A. Peters of Richmond. Mr. and Mrs.i F. A George of Toledo: Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Egley. Mrs. George received several presents. Mr. and Mrs. Wiiford Rcy and sons Bob and Carl of Grabill visited Mrs. Ray's parent#. Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson and other relatives Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Crist enter-

MMi W» *• » KX- jm ... ®JF V ah ? I Vote For a Home Rule Candidate For STATE REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT H. HELLER Democratic Candidate for State Representative from Adams and Wells Counties. DEAR FRIENDS: I firmly believe in the Democratic principle of home rule—the right of local governments to conduct their own businesses. If nominated and elected I promise to do my best to represent I the will of the people both in the towns and cities and in the rural districts. ROBERT H. HELLER Pol. advt.

K TO THE VOTERS 4 0F ADAMS COUNTY: 'j , hat | en#*; FBgL. .. It has been circulated through this P* I ** JSBr k primary to benefit some candidate. candidates. ■<W .ij’XBSL OWn aCCOrd t 0 Win the nomir,atl ° n 0 e ||| WM W, tam married and have three daughters. Jlfe ever held political office in Adams C° u [}' y ve missed y°“; 1 J , effort t 0 contact every voter and 11 which will M - W means of soliciting your vote and support . appreciated. number on the county j F. J. Schmit W ■' til '' Democratic |, r v J \ A auditor ■assa==ss»^ , *’ ,wir,:W!

[tallied at dinner Tuesday. Mrs. Hubert Meyers and daughter Claudia I and Mr#. Frank Jones of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs J. F. Hocker returned Thursday from. St. Petersburg,) Florida, where they spent the winter. — o I Grapes Enrich California i San Francisco. U.R> California this year harvested and marketed ' th'' largest grape crop and at the ■ highest prices. The returns are ■ estimated lit $45,000,000. —o ———— Depth Device to Detect Fish Sydney (U.Ri Electrical depthfinding equipment is to be used to detect the presence of schools . of fish off the Tasmania coast. The new method of locating fish beneath the surface has been used successfully by Norwegian fishermen. i 0 Ataturk Memorials Grow Istanbul. <U-R> When the inonuimeiit of Kemal Ataturk, the 'Strong [ I Man of Turkey,’ is completed at ' Trebizond. the Black Sea port, i there will not be a single town of ! any importance in the country i without a niemorital to the founder of new Turkey. o Rattlers Nest in Wall Weatherford. Tex KU.Rz Paul Morgan, local carpenter, is use to snakes, but he was frightened when he tore down a plank wall of an old cellar and found a nest of 14 rattlers. Australia Expects Large Crop Sydney UP’ Australia expects i a bumper wheat crop this season of 163.000.000 bushels, about 12,000.000 bushels more than last season. The average yield per acre is estimated at 11.87 bushels. o Profanity Edited Down Sudbury. On 4(J.R7’HeU" i a not

a profane word any more accordIng to Crown Attorney E. D Wil kins. He said the word Is used In the best clubs mid hotels In the land and that he had often heard It In the presence of ladles. O' — Sealing Fleet Ready St. Johns. Nfld. <U.P) Four weather-beaten ships are all that remain of the 57 famous "wooden walls of Newfoundland.'' The ves seis now lay at their moorings ready for the spring sailing hunt.' in which they have served for halt a century. Fiction Idle—Business Good Toledo —(Vl’) Fiction on public library shelves is a sign of good business. Russell Shurik. citv librar-

Bl Wi ■ 1 fl>L. wl If® t ■b.- — ■ - W 71 fl8? r fl TO THE VOTERS:- K We earnestly recommend for your tion the candidacy of Daiy-lit I’. Galiivan State Senate, because: E His life on the farm and work in his association with farmers, factory business men ami others has yriven him a standing 1 of the problems, rights and interests jieople of the district he seeks to represent. ■ His experience for seven years in room, and his knowledge of the law. aid in performing the duties ot ihe "tiicr Senator which has to do with the passage® K But we especially urge his election his fairness of mind, and s:nierity o U because he will listen to votir serve von faithfully and well, and t- *" l ’ Gallivan you will be well represented and «■“ W be sorry. ■ A misunderstanding prevails in some as to relationship and other tact fl dates. Inquire of those who know. ■ Vote for Gallivan. ■ Friends of Dwight F. Gall® Pol. Add prepared and paid for fl He is the only candidate for tl ■ in this district. B

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