Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1938 — Page 2

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MARRIAGE LAWS Many fundamental changes have been made In the marriage laws of the various States of the Union. To prevent “gin marriages" and close “Gretna Greens" all States in the Union except 19 now ha»e various statutory waiting periods before licenses can be issued or marriages performed. Ten of the States have euacted euganic marriage laws requiring physician's certificates from both parties from venereal disease in communicable form. Five other states require such blood tests of the male applicant only. Age limits for marriage without parents’ consent have been tightened in a number of states: in all but five males must be 21, and in 12 of the states females must be 21. Our Service Bureau at Washington has just printed a complete condensed compilation in a new 24-page booklet of "Marriage Laws of the States.” It tells about all the above requirements, where first cousins may legally marry, the States permitting inter-racial marriages, and much other information on the marriage laws. Send the coupon below (enclosing ten cents) for your copy: CLIP COUPON HERE - F. M. Kerby, Director, Dept. B-160, Daily Democrat's Service Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth Street. Washington, D. C. Enclosed is a dime (carefully wrapped) to cover return postage and other handling costs foi my copy of the booklet "Marriage Laws of the States,” which send to: NAM E—- — and No. —— CITY STATE — I am a reader of the Decatur- Daily Democrat, Decatur, Ind.

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TABULATE BIDS (.CONTINUED S'HOM PAGE ONE) 10 per cent; Elberson Eervice station, General and Corduray tires, discounts 25 per cent, less cotton j tax, and Knapp Sen-ice Sta'ion. Lee tires, all were less 1c federa' tax. W. P. Robinson was given the cantract to furnish bridge plank and guard rail of white oak at his bid of $lO per 1,000 feet. A bid was submitted by the Adams County Lumber company of $45 and SSO per 1,000 feet. Bidders on paint, all of whom sumbitted different specifications and grades, and whose bids were jlaced on file were: Holthouse Drug company, $1.70 per gallon and up; Laurence E. Genack, Tropical paint distributor. >1.77 per gallon and up, and the Kocher Lumber company. |3 per gallon and up. These prices were for exterior paint. Other 1 rices were quoted for interior and special paint. Bids on concrete sand, concrete gravel and gravel were placed on file. Lybarger Gravel company bid $1 per yard on concrete sand; $1 per yard on concrete gravel. Yost Brothers bids on gravel ranged from 65 cents to 80 cents per ton. The Cash Coal and Supply was

given the contract for cement on its bld of $3.35 per barrel. The Kocher Lumber company bid $2.40 per barrel. Other bids were submitted for the necessary constitutanta of cement. The Kocher Lumber company was given the contract to supply dimension lumber at a bid of $43 and up. The Kopper Tar company was given the contract to supply tar anread on the road at 13. S cents per gallon. Other bids at the same price were: Gerald P. Nelson, Decatur; Highway company of Zionsville, 1

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CHAPTER XXVIII When Avis left quietly, Gordon came to Constance and took her shoulders. No longer was there any magic in his touch. She thought, “I can look at him and even smile a little and feel nothing except pity.” “Well.” he said and let out his breath in relief. “I suppose thit is the end of summer." His dark eyes warmed once again briefly. “I’ve held few things sacred. Constance, but 1 want you to know that I shall hold you sacred as long as I live. You’re such a child, my dear.” “Will you be happy, Gordon?” He smiled a thin smile. “Very, 1 think. At last I know what happiness is—for me. I won't tell you what it is for you. But I think you know. And it will eorne to you or you’ll stumble across it. Sometimes we have it and lose it and have to go back to find it." Holding her close and gently as he would hold a frail child, he said, “We had nothing m common. Constance. All that would have been new to you was old to me You want your cup filled to overflowing but 1 could only half fill it Remember that." She drew away and smiled again — remembering well what she thought weeks ago — that loving him was a disease, a fever. But the disease I ad left her and she was whole and normal again. Why had she not seen that her youth was her great attraction for him and that by it he had vainly hoped to recapture his own youth that had been burned out and wasted? She held out her hand. “Goodbye, Gordon.” He nodded. “Good-bye, Constance.’’ As a father would speak to his daughter. . .. Avis was standing by the window in the living room, smoking nervously Constance did not speak to her In the crisp air outside the house she stood a moment and breathed deeply Free I Half ftloud she said. “I’m free!” And thought that instant oi Terry. A chili went through her, a chiD of regret and shame. Oh, don't think of him I But the image of Gordon was out of her heart and the image of Terry was still there! She said. “Terry. Terry.” as she walked across the lawn to the car. But it was too late, too late. .. An ideal nad been broken that day while the storm raged. Terry had torn her from his heart that terrible day Tonight was the dinner party at the Howards And tomorrow? What of tomorrow? “Every day I’ll want Terry back again more and more and I’ll never get him back now, never as long as I live! When you trample a strong man’s pride and love under your heel, you’ve lost him forever " After a long time Avis went back to the study and went straight to Gordon and put her arms around him and wept. "Me. a cry-baby, that’s funny!” she said half-laughing. “Oh, darling wasn’t Constance splendid? No tears, no reproaches. I couldn’t tell what she was thinking.” She touched his face and brought his mouth down close to hers. “Beginning right now I’m never going to remind you of anything that went before And if 1 ever mention my money again. 1 want you to give me a black eye.” Her eyes searched his face. “You don't look happy. Gor-

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I I'lndiana, The Reilly Tar and Cham- ' leal company bid 13.75 cents Meshberger Brother* were given the contract to furnish road oil and ■ materials in blds which differed be- | cause of different specifications quoted. The contract to furnish culvert ' ripe was given to W. D. O’Neal. 1 Other blders were the Logansport Metal Culvert company; the Indiana Toncan Culvert company; Allmetal Highway Products, Earl Walker company and the Beach manufacturing company. 1 A bid to supply grade blades was

don. Oh, let’s be happy and foolish and—and make plans.” He laughed to please her and tried to bring his mind from the thought of Constance's slim figure in brown, retreating. . . . Good-bye, lovely girl, loveliest girl of all the girls I've known, who almost made me young again. Good-bye, lovely Constance, with dreams in you I could never have fulfilled. Where do you go from here? To young Terry Cannon? And you will be contrite and ashamed and offer him your love again. But youth is stubborn and proud and has not yet learned to be tolerant and he may turn you away.... But he said to Avis, “What’ll I do in one of your father’s various factories? Sit at a big desk and push buttons. ..." “And dictate to a hideous secretary! I shall see to it that she’s hideous.” With her brown arms tightly around him, she said, “I thought about us all the way back, Gordon. I saw us getting married today in my house with just my parents there, and running through rice to a train and going back to the hotel room in New York where I left my trunks. I saw my father happy because I'd married the only man I ever wanted to marry. And I saw us getting a boat, darling, and later dancing in Paris and London and laughing, laughing a lot. Then I saw us back in Northwood, living in a new house of our own, and you going to the office every day, and coming home every night a little after five. I saw us sanely and securely married—you happy because you didn’t have to worry anymore, and I happy because I had you. . . .” He took her small brown hands and kissed them. “You’re suggesting the very kind of life I’ve always run away from. Lisbeth’s father ’’ She put her finger over his mouth. “Didn’t I say we were never going to talk about what went before? Well, just once more to tell you that Lisheth married again last week, married a grand person. I ran away from the kind of life we’re going to have, too, at every opportunity. But I was looking for something to fill my loneliness. I craved excitement, fast boats and fast planes and fast horses. But all the time speed was taking me farther away from the one thing I wanted most of all.” The corners of her mouth turned up. “Weariness and worry have brought you out of the skies to earth. Gordon. Loving you has brought me to earth—to stay.” He held her closely and sighed. No longer did it matter what people thought of him because, after today, only two people would be important to him. only two people he would try to please—Avis and her father. Those two he would strive to please and strive never to disappoint. A feeling tang lost came back to him, a feeling of power. Here in Northwood he would be important. No one would dare question the authority of John Bailey’s son-in-law Suddenly his eyes burned as her arms tightened around him again. Hold on. red-haired, green-eyed Avis. Keep those slender brown arms of yours around my neck tightly You love me for my weaknesses and in spite of them. Constance gave me credit for high qualities and strength I never really had Her lashes flickered against tus

sumbitted by the Beach Manufactur- ‘ ing company at a price ranging i' from 48 cents a foot. 1 Gasoline bids were very much the same and were ordered divided 1 among the bidders. Wholesale price* were offered by the Eastern Indiana Oil & Supply company; the Sinclair Refining company; the Socony Vacum Oil company; the De- ■ catur Oil company. In addition to the wholesale price, the following ■ offered discounts: Phillips Petroleum company, 1% cents; Shell Petroleum, corporation, 1% cents per gallon, the Standard Oil company,

face. “We’ll be happy, darling. I'll make you happy.” ' He took her restless hands and kissed them again. Suddenly he couldn’t say anything for a full feeling in his throat He had come t<* the end of a long rough journey. He had come to the end of summer. Her voice was lighter. “Shall we go tell Dad and Mother now? They’re waiting. And they want you because—because you're the only man I ever wanted.” John Bailey wanted a son to carry on, Avis had said. He, Gordon, would be that son. . . . She was holding tightly to his arm when they came cut of the house together. May Constance find her happiness, too. he thought. And may it be as overwhelming as his at this moment ... * • • Ruth was sitting in the shadowy living room when Constance came in. The radio was playing softly and her right ear was inclined in the direction of the music. Her sensibly shod foot tapped in rhythm. A low fire burned in the brick fireplace. Constance stood in the doorway and smiled. Her flecked eyes were clear and calm. Ruth laughed. “Matt sent me a corsage of gardenias to wear to th* Howaids tonight Imagine it! Gardenias and a dress with a slit in the back—at my age! You know, I never thought to ask if Gordon had been invited. They must know about you and him, dear. I’m sure Rosalind has told them.” It was some time before Constance spoke because she was thinking of the study where she had been miserable and then falsely happy, and of the two people who were in the study now making plans to b« married. She could hear Avis’ husky laughter and Gordon’s deep voice, tender and resigned. “I'm not going »o marry Gordon after all. Mother.” And when Ruth’s eyes came up quickly, Constance shook her head a little and said, “Yes, I mean it. I’m not going to marry him. Avis Bailey is. Today I knew I didn’t !o v ® him. Real love doesn’t go out of you as if a gust of wind had come along and swept it out. That’s what happened to me today.” Ruth’s eyes filled. After a moment she said, “Oh, my dear, you—you did know in time! I was afraid you wouldn’t ... I was so afraid you wouldn’t! He is too old for you, Constance. His charm is a mask....” “That’s what I saw today,” she said softly. “Now—now we can forget all about it I left him and Avis together. She loves him very much.” “And you and Terry!” Ruth saw Constance stiffen and her mouth tremble. “You love him. And even if you had married Gordon, you’d have known later that it was Terry you love. That’s what I was afraid of! I knew the day would come when you would wake up from the passionate dream you’ve been in and spend the rest of your life wanting Terry.” “I can’t go to him!” “Why can’t you?” “He’d think that Gordon had discarded me and I was running back to him. That’s why! He’d never believe that today when I saw Gordon as he really is, everything I felt for him, for Terry, came back in a rush.” (To be continued) Copjrtiht OJ Iris Hannan; Dtatrlbutad Oj Kin* Ft*Lures Syndicate. bK

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I A ■• RATES | On* Tim*—Minimum chars* of 26c for 20 word* or loot. Over 20 word*, 1%0 Nt word Two Times—Minimum charge •f 40c for 20 word* or leaa. j Over 20 words 2o per word for i I the tw times. ITh res Imse— Minimum chargs , iof Soo for 20 words or loos. Over 20 words 2/jo par word | for the three tlmee. I Cards of Thanks -35 c Obituarist and vsrses.... 11.00 I Open rate display advertising [ 360 per column Inch. « • FOR SALE FOR SALE — Duroc’s bred gilts. Champion strain*. Reasonable. Location, 10 miles east of Decatur, Indiana on 224. Address H. D. Kreischer, Convoy, O. 292-18tx FOR SALE — 110 acre farm, 4 miles from Decatur, splendid buildings. One of the best bank barns in the county. Electricity. Farm is scientifically tiled every 50 feet. This is a real bargain for anyone looking for a .good farm and a beautiful home. Price SB,000; $4,300 cash; 33-yr. loan on balance. Act quick if you want this one. Roy S. Johnson, Trust Co. Bldg., Phone 104 or 1022, Decatur, Ind. 304-3 t FOR SALE — Leather Jackets, Sheep Skin Vests, House Slippers, made to order. Jackets repaired, relined and zippers replaced. 213 No. First St. 305-3tx FOR SALE — One good Guernsey cow, freshened in a few days. Phone 23. Jim A. Hendricks. 306-3 t FOR SALE —120 acre farm, located northeast near state line In Union township. Good buildings, seven room house, hip roof barn, combined grainery and crib, mixed soil well tiled, electricity. Price $6,000, terms. Enoch W. Heckman, 126 E. Wayne St., Ft. Wayne, Ind. 305-3 t FOR SALE — Used furniture, pianos and rugs — Kalamazoo range, A-l condition, $35; 1 piano, good condition, $25, 1 dining room suite, $25; 1 9x12 Axminster rug, $7; 4 davenports, $1 to $5; 1 day bed, A-l condition, $8; 2 used mattresses, $1 to $3. This merchandise is from good homes in and around Decatur. Was traded in on new. Sprague Furniture Co., 152 S. Second Si. Fuosc 199. 304-3 t c Thief Rob* Thief Montreal (U.R) - Harry Parkins, j, confessed robber, complained uere that “some crook’’ had stolen from a summer home at Laval-sur-le-Lac. After robbing the home, Parkins brought the loot to the city and hid it. When he went to get the goods, they were gone. discounts on grades of 1 or 1% cents.

ROY S. JOHNSON AUCTIONEER Book your sale early. Trust Co. Bldg. Phone 104 Phone 1022 Jan. 4 —A. L. Raudenbaugh, one mile north, % mile east of Payne, Ohio. Jan. 7 —Henry L. Moore, on Sand Point Road, 5 miles southwest of Fort Wayne. Jan. 11—Gum Felver, south of Rockford. Jan. 12 —Mrs. Nedlyn Rarlden, 4 miles east of Harlan, Indiana. Jan. 23 —Ernst Merica and Walter Heirs, 2 miles east and 4 north of Decatur. Jan. 26 — Lewis McMullen, % mile north and 2’/i miles east of Ossian. < " ■ —■ DR. C. V. CONNELL VETERINARIAN Special attention given to diseases of cattle and poultry. Office A Residence 430 No. pi»th B*_ Phone 102. N. A. BIXLER OPTOMETRIST eye* Examined - Glasses Fitted HOU RS 8:30 te 11:30 12:30 to 5:00 Saturdays, 8:00 p. m. Telephone 135 For Radio Repairs Call MILLER RADIO SERVICE Phone 625 134 Monroe St. Residence phone 522. mhhbhbhhhhimhbhhhbhmbmmmmmbmm*

► MISCELLANEOUS FARMERS ATTENTION — Call 870-A at our expense tor dead stock removal. The Stadler Products Co. Frank Burger, Agent. I 210-4$ I WOULD like to secure some reI sponsible family who would ap- ' predate owning an expensive Baby Grand Piano in fine shape, for amount left to pay of $143.30. Arrangements can be made to pay I this balance at only $7.50 per month. If interested, drop me a * card Immediately with references. Will notify where you can inspect “ piano. Address: Y. M. C. A., Box '■ No. 715, Fort Wayne, Ind. 304-3 t I. I - - , I NOTICE —Parlor suites recovered. II We recover and repair anything. t We buy and sell furniture. Deca- ‘ cur Upholsters. Phone 420. 145 * South Second St. 290-30 t c WANTED f ————————— — — r WANTED — Custom butchering, j Prices reasonable. 1 mile south, . 3 miles west of Monroe. Rolla E. j Johnson. 306-3tx f WANTED—Custom butchering of L i all kinds. Also good cord wood for sale, $1.75 cord. Ralph Shiv- ‘ eley, Prone 871-J. 304-3 t ’ WANTED TO RENT—Small furnished apartment with conveniences and garage, by responsible couple. References. Give full pars ticulars to P. O. Box 23, Warsaw, r Indiana. 305-6tx FUR KENT ; —————————— - FOR RENT —Housekeeping rooms, ' furnished or unfurnished; bath; 1 i sink, furnace heat. Private en- , trance. Also sleeping rooms. 827 , N. Fifth St. 306-3tx ’ FOR RENT — Furnished light housekeeping rooms. Private entrance on ground floor. 310 North j Third St. 304-3 t FOR RENT—Eight room all-mod- , em house. Excellent condition. Call 937. 304-6tx 1 FOR RENT—I2O acre farm, nicely located. Good imprvements. Grain rent. Give full details regarding equipment, financial circumstances in answering this ad. Box M. R. care Democrat. 304-3 t i p MASONIC Called meeting of Decatur lodge No. 571 on Master Masons degree at 7:30 p. m. Thursday. Ins aliation and refreshments. 305-2 t H. D. Lower, W. M. o MARKETS AT A GLANCE Stocks, higher and active. Bonds, higher; U. S. governments higher. I Curb stocks, higher. Chicago stocks, higher. Call money, one per cent. Foreign exchange, easy in relation to dollar. I Cotton, easy. Grains, firm (Chicago), wheat up %-%c; corn up around (4c. Chicago livestock, hogs weak: , ' cattle, steady to weak; sheep, weaa. Rubber, easy. Silver bar in New York, unchanged at 42%c fine ounce. 0 Horse Sale Monday, Jan. 2. —Decatur Riverside Sales. Appointment of Execntor N<». XMB Noth ft in hereby given, That the undersigned has been appointed Executor of the Estate of Rosina Amstutz. late of Adams County, deceased. The Estate is probably solvent. William Kauffman. Executor Henry B. Heller, Attorney Dec. 28, 1238 Dee. 29, Jan. 5-12 o NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE NO. 3I»W Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Joseph Knmschlag, deceased to appear in the Adams Circuit Court, held at Decatur, Indiana, on the 12th day ot January, 1539, and show cause, it 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 ot heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Joseph Geels, Executor. Decatur, Indiana, Dec. 21, 3938. Henry B. Heller, Attorney Dec. 32-29

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MARKET REPOI daily report Oe , and fomjgn Xjj Brady's M.rk* t tor Q C 0,,., Closed *t 12 Noot) Wll Co llec t ed No com nilbßlon ana au * I Veal, ■ 100 to 120 lbs ■ 120 to 140 lbs ’ 140 to 220 lbs - ’ 220 to 250 lbs. 250 to 300 lbs ' 300 to 350 lbs'.'"?'' ""I 350 lbs., and up “ . Vealers — Roughs " Stags Vealers —■ Spring lambs "d Yearling buck lambs'"..' Yearlings „ WHOLESALE EGG AN POULTRY QUOTATION Furnished by Metz’* Egg 4 Poultry I Decatur Phone 1 Corrected December 2j Prices for first class offert Clean large white eggs, doz Clearn large brown eggs a. Medium and pullet eggs 20 - doz Me Heavy Springers, Barred or white Rock, 5-Ib. and up Heavy hens, 5-Ib. and up.' Young Hen and Light Tom Turkeys, ib Large young tom Turkeys, IV bite Ducks, 5-lb. and up Geese, Tb Leghorn Hens, 3- Iband up, Leghorn Springers, lb — CHICAGO GRAIN CIO! Mar. May July Wheat 68% .69% .68% Com 52% .53% .54% Oats 29% .28% FORT WAYNE LIVES?! Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. * —Livestock: Hogs, 10-25 c lower; 140-11 $8.05; 160-180 lbs., $7.95; 1 lbs., $7.85; 200-220 lbs., I'7l 240 lbs., $7.55; 240-260 lbs, 260-280 lbs, $7.25; 280-364 $6.90; 300-325 lbs, $6.90; i lbs, $6.80; 120-140 lbs., $7.71 120 lbs., $7.55. Roughs. $6.25; stags, $5 Calves, $11.50; lambs. |9.! INDIANAPOLIS LIVES?! Indianapolis, Ind, Dec M , —Livestock: Hog receipts, 6,000; hull 69; market steady to 10c 160-200 lbs, SB-SS.IS; 200-31 $7.10-$7.90; 300-400 lbs, 16 100-160 lbs, $7.25-$8.00: sou lower, mostly $6.25 $6.75. Cattle, 1,300; calves, fl tive, steady to strong marl all slaughter classes; load 1,202-lb. steers, $12.25; bulk $9.50-$10.50; best heifers, hulk heifers, $7.50-$8.50; mo ! cutter and cutter cows. $4.5 vealu s 50c to $1 higher that nesday's best time, top, sl3. Sheep, 2,500; lambs steady good and choice $9-$9.25. EAST BUFFALO LIVES? 1 East Buffalo, N. Y, Dec (U.RX—Livestock: Hogs, 200: odd lots 140-" t nicked ins 15c lower. $8.!» and choice 180-200 lbs., ra quoted $8.40. Cattle, 125: steady t» barely good offerings held 1 $9.75: medium bulls. WW ‘ lightweights $5.05-$6.2.i tiesbj $5.60-$6: low cutter and cows, $4-$5.35. Calves, 50; vealers steady and choice mostly SH SO: and medium, SB-$10.50-Sheep. 200; good a™ lambs quoted steady to plain and medium sold h interior throwouts downw $5; fat ewes, $3.75-$4.25. LOCAL GRAIN MARKS BURK ELEVATOR CO Corrected December Prices to be pari temert No. 1 Wheat, 60 lbs. or hette ' No. 2 Wheat, etc Oats, 30 lbs. test No. 2 Yellow Coin New No. 4 Yellow Corn No. 2 Soy Beans Rye — CENTRAL SOVA CO. No. 2 Soy Beans Pheasants Take Oil B * Newburyport. , Thomas G. McGl.w W was seeing thins» " ’’ ant flew through his welding shop and ph 8 . fa,,,! McGlew rescued tne turned it over to the 8 den. 50U Sheets S'/tflJj White Paragonl Bona writing paper saccnfnr Democrat <