Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1939 — Page 6
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85TH BIRTHDAY | George J. Marott at 81
OF LOCAL Y. M.
T0 BE OBSERVED
Event Opens Tomorrow,
Ends at Open House on New Year's.
Spends Birthday Quietly at | Motel; Host of Friends Send Greetings. By LEO DAUGHERTY
George J. Marott, merchant and ‘host, today at 81 looked out from
The 85th anniversary observance his downtown office upon Washing-
will conclude with New Years Day Tomorrow's featured by net, The até pm tral Y” Parker
the customary open house observance will a reception and bane will be held the lobby of the CenMr. and Mrs nd ban-
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reception in building P. Jordan nH ia at Jordan secretary MC A Jean Miner
pastor,
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The principal evening will he Stone, president terian Theological cago. Dr. Howard J. Baumgartel, executive secretary of the Indian apolis Church Federation, will pronounce the benediction The 85! founding of the Indianapolis Y. M
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evening school observed tomorrow Dax The local school is the only high school in ported Records of that the first school
organization's evening full-time evening the state, it is - the Y. M. C. A. reveal Y. M. C. A evening was conducted in 18675, Semester Ends Jan, 24
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Twelve years ago school was organized a high school. and accredited hy the State Department of Publie Instruetion Today, the school offers & wide range of subjects, combining Christian character building with voeational education The enroliment at present is 154, fanging in age from 17 to 54. The present semester ‘will Jan. NH The school is under the direction of R. Warren Fisher, educational director. The educational committee supervising includes James M Ogden, chairman; DeWitt Morgan, City schools superintendent; Frank C. Jordan, Indianapolis Water Co.; Merle Sidener; Earl Schmidt, Ham-flton-Hamis Co; George W. Stark, Stark-Wetzel & Co; R. N. Phelps, Link-Belt Co.; C. C. Winegardner, Diamond Chain Co, and A. E. Sinclair, Kingan's general manager
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| Its the street on which he has found success, or as he would rather have it said, has maqdg himself suecessful When Mr. Marott on Washington St
first appeared ne was a $10 a
m. In the week shoe clerk, with a lamp-lighted
oom to go home to when he fine ished work, but an ambition in his heart His Ambitions Realized
Today, he is one of the street's merchant vrinces, the proprietor of one of the largest shoe stores in the
palatial hotel which bears his name And the ambitions of bovhood have { been more than realized | Passing his 81st milestone vesterday, Mr. Marott spent the day quietly as host at ‘the Marott, There [was an endless line of friends to with him well and the lobby was banked with formal tributes, The only celebration was a family dinner, It was TO vears ago when only 11 that Mr. Marott decided the wa) to success was “to help myself.”
“And ever since.” he philosophied, '
my foundation for life has been imbedded in a combination of befifeving in God, being gallant in dealing with people and fairly meet. ing any unfair attitude, Trath is the basis for happiness, saneness and Miendship. A man must not be egotistical. but he must be himself and have faith in himself, Egotism is & penalty | | When Mr. Marott was a bav his father owned a shoe factory and the son worked in it. He didn't like that factory His ambition was to be a banker or a railroad builder to make money and to be a success | Saving, even if only a nickel or a dime a week, was among his earliest theories
Saved Half of £10 |
of his $10 a week pay. he (saved half. Three dollars went for] meals and the other two for expenses, including rent for the room ‘in one of the two buildings which then stood on the site of his present Washington St. store, i At 26 with his own savings of $167 and a chattel mortgage of $200 he went into business. Shoe manu- | ; : 1
FUEL TANK BLASTS | | DESTROY 3 BUSSES
| Two workmen escaped injury] vesterday when gasoline tanks of! five Beech Grove Transit Co. busses exploded in a fire at the garage, 104-108 N Noble St. A third man, Gilbert E. McFarland, superintendent, was slightly burned Three of the busses | stroved and the other two dam-! aged, but neither Mr. McFarland nor firemen set an estimate on the loss Schuyler Jesse and Charles Strong were replacing bolts on the frame of one bus when the gas tank exploded. Fire soon covered the garage floor and the other bus tanks exploded. Several garage windows , were broken,
GARY SLEDDERS HUNT
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1 i GARY. Ind, Dec. 11.—Gary children will have to find a new coasting hill, | A high fence is going to be constructed around the one they've used in previous winters to protect newly laid dirt and sod. A new sewer line {also is to be run along the bottom jof the hill, which would completely
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[smoke then, denied himself every [amusement even a smoke for more Father Owned Factory |
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George J. Marott, . "A man | must have faith in himself” | facturers extended eredit on the verbal promise to pay, |
{| DANVILLE,
STUDENT CENTER AT DANVILLE STARTED
Times Special Ind, Dee. 11.<A NYA center for girls is being built at Central Normal College here, It
is expected to be ready by Jan, 1
for occupancy by more than 30 girls. |
The winter term at the college starts today and enrollment of new students is expected to be large Many of the new students will work on the two-year elementary license
Dr, Edwin Barlow Evans has heen | appointed acting head of the Eng-!
lish Department, A graduate of the College of Wooster and Ohio State, Dr. Evans received his Ph. D. from
New York University. He will teach publie |
interpretation of reading, ‘Speaking and drama.
FIREMEN COLLECT TOYS { Timer Special Loeal
for distribution to children of direct relief families Christmas. So far. 1200 items have been received
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“The earnings on the first day the
store was open were $1122" Mr Marott said. my pay for a week. I said to my.
self then, ‘I will be a success.’ ”
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Denies Himself Amusements
Saving the money wasn't easv.! Mr. Marott, who smokes 10 to 15 cigars a day sow, and who liked to
than four years, When that mortgage was paid off, he celebrated. He came home with three Wheeling cigars. The day he paid off that mortgage, he says, was the happiest in nis life He prides himself in the fact that every vear between the age of 35 and 63 his shoe business totaled $50,000 to $100,000.
Began Indiana Railroad
That ambition to be a railroad builder was realized in his starting what became the Indiana Railroad One of his proudest hoasts is that when he sold out one line in 1921 everyone who put $1000 into it got $20,000 back He owned jewelry, race horses. a fancy rig, evervthing that he re. solved to own when the goihg was lean, Mr. Marott believes evervone, including himself at four score and one, should have eight hours work, eight hours recreation and eight hours sleep, His advice to the college or high school graduate is not to expect things to be rosy, but dig in just as he did.
HOLY NAME SOCIETY TO ELECT OFFICERS
The Holy Name Society of The Little Flower Catholic Church will elect officers during a meeting at the church Thursday night, The society closed a three-day retreat vesterday with a breakfast attended by 350 men,
Joseph G. Wood, City Council president, spoke and Claude Roche ford was toastmaster, Other speakers included the Rev, Fr. Thomas Kilfoil, Bloomington, and the Rev Fr. Jerome Pfau, pastor of the church, Carl Simon was chairman of the arrangements committee,
6.0.P. STAFF SCANS | FARMER PLATFORM’
record of platform suggestions made OP | farmers at the Clovpool over the | week-end. About 100 Republican farmers, {representing every district in the | state, discussed issues ranging from | | reciprocal trade agreements to farm | labor conditions. | “From suggestions made by the farmers themselves, a farm platform for the 1940 campaign will be drafted,” Arch N. Bobbitt, State G. | O. P. chairman said. | Mr. Bobbitt pointed out that several other meetings of farmers will {he held before an official stand wil! be taken on anv of the issues W. J. Heim, chairman of the Re- | publican State Farm Division, pre- | sided at the sessions.
SPANISH VETERANS POST PICKS OFFICERS
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Joseph Hines, newly-elected com- { mander of the Capt. William BE | English Camp 84 of the Spinish- | American War Veterans, will be in- | stalled in office Jan. 12. He will | succeed Abner J. Akers. Other officers chosen by the | group are James O. Crosley, senior | vice president; Walter E. Leonard. | Junior vice president; James E. | Rosebaugh, adjutant; George | McDaniel, quartermaster; Alexander | B. Shock, officer of the dav. and Wiley C. Woodward, officer of the Bute
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In the Indianapolis Star — this morning — the Victor Puppet Opera was advertised as being tonight. This is an error. The opening performance is Monday, December 18, at 8:15 P. M.
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Overcome by | * * | His Ingenuity
| Timer Special KENDALLVILLE, Ind. Dec. 11, An “inventive minded” Avilla, Ind, citizen decided upon a plan to rid his home of rats and nearly caused his own death.
Running a pipe from the exhaust of his automobile inte the basement the man started the motor and let the engine run for seve eral minutes, Finally, he ventured into the basement to inspect the results. His mother led him to the open alr . M'NUTT CALLS NYA SESSION FOR DEC. 13
WASHINGTON, Dee. 11 (U.P) | Federal Sec
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| urity Administrator Paul veuth's {V MeNutt has invited business, in shooting was the result of a | dustrial and educational leaders to quarrel between his mother and
YOUTH KILLS UNCLE Cold Nose Gets ~ WHO SLEW MOTHER Fido in Trouble
Fimes Special BERNE, Ind, Dec, 11--Blame the cold nose of John Smeltzer's | dog for the death of 16 chickens, Mr. Smeltzer heard a noise in his chicken house. Arming him- | sell with a shotgun, he went out to investigate, “Come out or I'll shoot,” he said as he jerked open the door to the chicken house, His dog touched his cold nose to his master's bare leg and the
shotgun blasted into the chicken house, The toll was 16 hens. There was no thief,
| PAOLI, Ind, Dee. 11 (U, P). (Jewell Dailey, 21, of Valeene, was [held today in the Drange County | jail following his confession that] he Killed his uncle, Harley Dailey, | 48, of Vincennes, In hig confession, | young Dailey said he had killed the | older man after he (Harley Dailey) | had killed young Dailey's mother, | Mrs. Edna Landrus, 42, Both killings were at the home| of Mrs. Mort Dailey, aged mother | {of both Harley and Mrs, Landrus, Dailey was Killed instantly while Mrs, Landrus died en route to a Paoli hospital, 4
Sheriff Noble Ellis and Coroner Dillinger confession
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Y. M. AID'S WIFE DEAD
the | Times Special the] ANDERSON, Ind, Dec. 11.--Mus, ong Gladys Denny, wife of D, A, Denny, | his associate secretary of the Y. M, C.|
| George said that
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WPAMAY REPLACE FENGES ON ROADS
Approval has been given to use PWA labor for re-erection of fences removec from the right-of-way of highways for new road construction, John K, Jennings, State WPA Ade ministrator, said today,
Although the order provides for labor costs, Federal funds cannot be used to furnish new replacement
[ material,
Five points were outlined in the controller's ruling: 1. The work must he clearly incie dental and subordinate to other work within the right-of-way for improvement of the highway. 2, The work must be for the pub lie benefit, for example, to protect, the traveling public from traffio hazards, 3. Any benefit to the abutting property owner is incidental and secondary to the public benefit, 4, The sponsor must furnish all necessary materials, 5, The fence must be located withe in the right-of-way.
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