Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1958 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Entered at the Decatur. Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter .Dick D Heller ——Prettoeu* • J. H. Heller — — Vice-President Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Bnbacrlption Batea: By Mail in Adams and Adjoining Counties: Ona year. 18.00; Six months, $1.25: 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year $9.00; 6 months. $4.75; 3 months, 0.50. By Carrier 30 cents per week Single copies. 8 cents

Churches are holding pre-Len-ten services in preparation for the solemn observance. Catholic and Protestant churches alike observe the Lenten season. o o The threat of a complete investigation of unfit magazines being sold in local stores is going down the drain with other left of center charges which die right there. Children still are permitted to get filthy magazines if they have the money. o o Each week now movies are getting better* attendance. This is because of the failure of television networks to give us anything but cheap shows and advertising and maybe a few minutes of entertainment and also the efforts of movie house owners to get better pictures. The two facts are combining to bring the movies back. We hope they have learned their lesson and don’t ever re-turn-to long uninteresting reels of advertising. This could well ruin them again. O O; —— The city has been visited the last several nights and probably days by magazine peddlers, who in many instances don’t even give you a receipt. These peddlers as a general rule don’t even send in the subscriptions. It’s always safer to send your subscription di* rectly to the publisher and then the responsibility rests with him. Don’t fall for these hard luck stories and the claims that you can get them cheaper through a salesman. 'Taint so, and you probably either lose your entire investment or pay twice what the publication is worth.

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The cola temperatures haven’t changed much in the last few days, but each day we get a little more used to the neat zero readings and the days are dry and the air is brisk, but we can't really say it is uncomfortable winter weather and remember Spring can't be too far away. o o— — Income tax reduction bills have been introduced in Congress in an effort to ease the depression and present indications are some tax cutting measure will be passed. It is just one way in which the high cost of survival can be eased down and chances are there will be other money saving measures passed by the present Congress, to help the people and incidentally to help the Congressmen in their bids for reelection, which of course is most important to them. —o—o—' The President's latest statement that everything is going to be alright sounds exactly like the old Hoover document as the nation went lower and lower into the depths of a depression and didn't start coming back until after Franklin D. Roosevelt took charge. Mr. Eisenhower, first part-time President we ever had, seems to think that he can say a few words and all is well. Then he goes off on another golf spree. That won't run a nation as big and as great as ours and we are finding that out the expensive way. We need some good old fashioned federal government for all the people instead of just the rich and we’ll waver and wonder until we get it.

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(Richard E. Lewton, clerk of the circuit court, recently relocated the early election records bf Adams county, lost since the LBBo’s. Early histories of the, county, while they included the winners, had little information on; the elections themselves. This is the first of a series of articles j which will give the history of the early elections as recorded in Record A of the election record reports.) Adams county was organized in 1836 politically, on Jan. 23, and had formerly been divided, the top three tiers of townships — Preble, Root, Union, St. Mary’s, Washington, Kirkland, French, Monroe, and Blue Creek forming part of Root township, Allen county, while the southern tier of townships — Hartford, Wabash, and Jefferson, were part-of Randolph county, before Jay county was formed. When Adams county was first formed, it was composed of two governmental townships, Root and St. Mary's, Root forming the upper one-third of the county, and St. Mary’s the lower two-thirds, which was pretty sparsely populated, except on the Wabash - river. The county was still a large, heavily wooded swamp, reeking with swamp filth, fetid air. and mosquitoes, which made malaria or ague, as it was then called, an endemic plague in the area, something which everyone suffered every year, like colds today. The year 1836 marked the end of Old Hickory's second term, and the popular Democratic president saw to it that his good friend-, Martin Van Buren, the Little Magician, was nominated by the Democratic party that year. The other major party at that time was the old Whifc party, which had not yet elected a president, unless you call the National Republican John Quincy Adams a Whig. The Whig party was the last truly national conservative party, electing candidates in al) I

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states of the union. The two I great,. leaders of the Whig party j were Daniel Webster, of Massa--i chusetts, and Henry Clay, of J Kentucky. i The popular old general, Wil- ; liam Henry Harrison, first territorial governo of Indiana, and soi called victor at the battle of Tippecanoe, was nominated byl the Whigs. Nine electors were on the ballot for each candidate in Adams county in 1836, and William Henry Harrison garnered 72 votes, as compared with 28 for Van Buren, the New York politician who was unpopular in the west. (Indiana was considered the west at that dime). So the first national election in Adams county went to the Whigs. In that early day party lines were not quite as firmly developed as they later were, but perhaps were more firm than they are today. The party was not] mentioned on the early ballot,] and the early biographies give the only clue to the party affiliations of some of the earliest local candidates. State representative drew the most interest that year because there were three candidates, but the Whig candidate, William Vance, won out, with 40 votes, over John Birk, who had three, and Joel Grover, who had six votes, a majority of 31. Nelson McLane defeated John M. Cooley, 17 to 2, for the probate judgeship. Philip Everman was elected county commissioner, re-} placing William Heath, Sr., but! although the county was divided into three districts, it is not recorded which district he represented. The other two commissioners, elected at a special election in April were Jehu S. Rhea and Samuel Smith. Zachiariah Smith, of St. Mary's township, defeated David McKnight for sheriff, 28 to 21. The winner lost Root townshio. 15-14, but carried his home “precinct"

1441, for a seven-vote margin. Smith was probably a Whig. McKnight had been appointed sheriff and assessor in May, 1836. The only other elective office at that time the coroner’s office, and Jonas Pence defeated Zechariah Smith, 23 to 6, a 17. vote margin. Service Award For Bowers Hardware Co. The Bowers Hardware Co., Inc., West Monroe street, has been presented a distinguished service award by Pittsburgh Paints. The award is in recognition of 32 years of outstanding merchandising and ustomer service. The Bowers store, managed by William Bowers, was formerly Lee Hardware.

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; i 20 Years Ago , Today t —— :.. . ——* February 14, 1938 — Pat Denny, - Adams county farmer, la expected s to revoced after atempt at sulcjde. Decatur lodge of Elks will observe 70th anniversary of national founding next Wednesday night Henry B. Heller talks on life of Lincoln at Methodist church in observance of Lincoln's birthday. . Mrs. Fred Dicke, 27, Adams - county native, dies in Fort Wayne ! last night ’ Mrs. Catherine Schwartz, 70, s near Berne, dies last night i 0.0. Mclntyre, noted writer, s dies suddenly this morning. -. George Carpenter, Decatur, is I arrested last night by Fort Wayne

police on charge of drunken driving. More than 174 million barrels of diesel fuel were sold in 1955, 46 per cent to railroads. Trade In a good town — Beset*

MASONIC Past Masters Night—Saturday, Fob. 15th Master Mason Degree will be conferred on i 3 Candidates by Past Masters of Decatur I Lodge Nd. 571—Beginning at 4:00 P. M. CHIU SUPPER at 6:00 P.M. 75c

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