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1 (Sunday Morning, March 5,1922, A I PAGF, picket Campaign to Be Opened Monday. REHEARSAL A Ladies Quartet Will Sing. The Goodman band concert com- znlttee met Saturday a and arranged a uart of what promises to toe the most enjoyable program ever iriven at a band concert In Decatur. One Important feature of the program i be the ladies quartet from the MP'ikm Conservatory of Music. This quartet has been greeted i rapturous applause wherever it has appear.

The Quartet Is composed ot Miss Blanche Ramer, Miss Fredarlcke Green, Miss and Miss Philll M5S. CLARK TO SINQ. Another strong feature will be the appearance of Mrs. Lynn Clark, TV ill sins "Spring Will Return i You," by G. O'Hara, a i perhaps prove one of the most pleasing of the band numbers TV 111 be "The Boy and the Birds," a duct for and Eb clarinet by Clarke.

Among the other numbers by the rjand i be the "Ru BUs." one of Mendelssohn mos tiri.l ant i In 1SJD "The Goodman Band" march, i ten by Professor Robert Walter, is c-ie of the best marches of recen' jcars. "Courts of Grenada" from the Moorish suite by Chapi, is the It- of at Gilmore's famous band. REHEARSAL THIS MORNING. Other numbers for the program il be decided at a spec.al rehearsal the band at 10 o'clock this morning The i sellers i be out in force Monday, for it is the inten tion to make this concert a success. can be no question tt i success musically.

The tickets are ,1 sale at the i of the i i the Haines Edicts brv store. Fied Hoyt's cig.ir store and ohn Spoil's cigar store. should do his best to a tins of the band a i success The band is often called unon to a its services The band seldom asks an; thing for itself. EUROPE'S SENSATION legrees to Be Conferred At Night. The Masonic board of grand exam- lers will fca In Decatur thia week to old a chapter of instruction In Eldo- ado Temple, March 7, 8 and 9.

The A. Degree Is to be conferred by he past grand high priests. The fol- owing will be the program for the chool: Tuesday, March 7, to 12 a. 2 i 5 1, In M. M.

De ree. Tuesday, March 7, 7 30 actual candidates In M. M. Deree. Wednesday, March 9 to 12 a.

to 5 p. in P. and I. E. M.

Degrees. Wednesday, March 8, 30 a. Work In M. E. M.

Degrees. Thursday, March 9, 9 to 12 a. 2 5 p. In R. R.

Degree. Thursday, March 9, 7'30 Work In R. A. Degree. Madame Sakharoff is dancing sensation of Europe.

She's the d.uigh Icr of Admiral Von Tirpitz who a himself somewhat of a sensation as German's submarine chief in the World War. ion o' Fetcr su- nusi- a i be P' ihe. T-mupal of the ChicaEO hools. The am of Mortenson Is 'o educate pnpi 3 to t. and of the M-i vcn's H-ah music sup' successful her i hunger purl's r-as fo-n-'l "TMP 2 tl orchM'ras brat ti na on nnctli or drams, i the th a '-or.

The 3tore Jnzz. "An'iouncins that i i i he ceneial of i i i -and i the Idea of promoting better dance will be nn mn-e so-eallerl "Jazz Bands" booked on anv o.f our engagements" is the formal notice Fent out by an organization i a bands end orchestras in Chicago. Decatur man who is I Jn i one notices Saturday and was Impressed it as cuie of the i of real decline of the percjssltm of dance music. A a Picnic. Ol ie.

Branch Camp, K. A i hold the annual mid i i i on March 20. Final a a i be rrade at the i MomU nlg'it which all member'! are urged to be present. City Looking down upon It on a lower Ing" day from tha bluffs along tha river it appears much Ilka 'Hell i the lid off The Daughters of the American Re volution restored old Fort Pitt, near the point here the river Join--a small square building with a pointed Although Pittsburgh Is best known as i great manufacturing city sha has alsi taken a leading place among cities cul a i art in architecture. She ha: many really beautiful buildings Includ ing her Romans sque Court house costing two and a hale millions.

The jal of similar de" gn, is connected with th court house by a "Brldga o( A i i lo ths world famous Carnegl Library aid Museum proved most Inter i in Philade'phla recently, th: Mavor of that cilv In an address of wel corns spoke of our delegates from Pitts burgh as coming from a city wher they make Iron and 'steel 1 for a living AT JOHNSTOWN. Tuesday was spent In Johnstown th ton after a German settler and pioneer Joseph Jahns who built the first lo hut In 9 settle nent. Then came "vTels iron workers who changed the name Here 13 located tha greates steel mill In the How well I recall, living on th iwav back pa'l ng disaster of modern times--th Johnstown flood Twentv millions of ton of water from Conomaugh Lake, a reser volr i miles up the narrow vallei and more a hundred foet aho tne of the rl'v rushed down i i i swollon ronemaugh river In i IT-? a i a mile vide and i feet high a nwav Tho wl'Ole ra -with soil pnd greit roc coast i and it has a rather i i down Into the ci'i This VE I wa' caught and held bv the grei i i i to a i dis- Tells Interesting History of Cities Visited. Editor i I am spending a verv busy and a I i i in Penns a a visiting i cities in i days, to N'evv York City. A davs spent in Southbridge, JIass as of the A i Ican Optical company a I i spend days in Boston at the Old American a i the annual New a i con- i held there March 14-16, Fnclav, March 17th i be spent at Sherbrooke, Quebec, you -n ill recall Harry Thaw was re-captured several a ago Closing at Sherb Friday i I mil travel steaduv in order 0 reach homo Stm- dav a AT ERIE i i a 2 6 a is i in 's as the a i a i a a co-ncr on Lake Eric.

Tl'is corner or triangle to a i a about miles of i i a by earlv i trianc-iilar tract a leirallv "now The state a it I for 5 i al i i i i from Indians pounds. I bov kl ows tint i rud "ipnal a i a ship ') at the boUo i lund-ed a lught a i iwept ih a caromg away practically th i a i i the I aludlin Tng- i a of hH a 1 I "(1 "nrt he for an it v-ai rt stored and made an obKct it a his tnrlc i i i 1 ted this old relic i moored at 'Vo in a i IN- IRON OITV. i was "pent in the "Gmt I-on i Pun if, rench and I i a i olm'il -war i i famout and a i post, on the p'esent site of i to guard the head of ie, i riser, and named It a the a ich Xaval commander Ma-au rmnuenne lhe British, un- de" a 3 raptured the fort and renamed It Fort Pitt They built a new fort to replace the older one blown up bv the upon evacuation, the new one ng 5300000. i a site was Hid out and tho i a grew In 3112 the i i i was started and i same 5 ear due to the war i Fnsland a cinnon factory was orerted th i a a becoming the Fort Pitt Iron 'VVorka Tno Milage of Fort Pitt became Pitts- a i a i i i of steim. River and nil- i transportation the discovery of natural gas gave marvel ous stlmulatus and today thia city in the seat of the greatest Iron, Btecl and glass industries In America IS SMOKY CITT Pittsburgh Is well named The Smoky N'earb i a thousand lives wre lo ind ten millions In property.

How wp remember one old white-bearded a a who declared that the Johnstow was God a on a i peop'e Poor old a HI" said same i about the San Fran Cisco a a fire I mean, and th nkiag ot the Titanlr Such a folks st-anci'lv together. A -elle of nearly three million') of dollai was contributed from all parts of th world. Quick Called Bard Of Middle West a a perhaps the last of that gallant company of pathfinders and pioneers i eub- duced the great middle nest i a passed i the silence For those who are to come there ill be only the i stories of those stirring days in that land west of the Mississippi In the i i sixties and seventies. Of the minstrels of those das high and gratitude must be given to Herbert Quick, born and bred In Iowa among the very scenes he has so graphically depicted in his epic of the pioneer a of the Hawkey Stale, "Vandemark's Folb Quick has long been known as a and writer on economics, ag- i and sociology. H's acquaintance with the great west is i i a and accurate and with the technic and a i of a genuine artist he has told the story of his state--an epic that deserves to rank with the grreat- stories this rich region has 4 to the world in the past generation.

"Vandemark's Folly" will be read and treasured by thousands of booklorers eTwywhere--folks who fcexe ma-y read of a country ai fascinating In 1U any of the more Bpectacular regions of tTie AT WrLLIAMSPORT. Wednesday, March 1, was ipent nllamsport, of and famous for its immens log boom This boom extended for se' i a miles up ths Susequehanna a a million dollars. It hai a capacit ot three hundred million feet ot lumbe In yea-s gone by br lumbering great I the slopes of the Allag heny mountains being clothed with grea forests of pine and hemlock and Bt time the great boom was eo filled w-lth log one could cross at almost an i on a solid floor ot logs -it-My the great forests a been and Industry has ined In recent Not YVIlhamsport Is tho Htt tv of T.ouishurg. spat of University and cluidnond home of rr i i Mrs liobecca i Decatur. she spent hrr ear a i 1 been a her Interesting stones i the war Npirbv Is i i citv of Int i i a lii-ie lived Priestley, who discovered gas.

IN ALTOONA. Thursday was a very busy a In AHonna--located in a deep notch the midst of the Alleghenies called th Kettlo Near by ia the world famo "Pennsj a i a Horeshoe', the glgant curva on the Pennsylvania railroad i the most completely repr tentative railway city In the whole worl Sha has enormous railway shops and pra t'cally everybody In tba city Is depeni ent upon the Railway sy tem, I recently spent a day In Marlon, Oh! the guest of the president of our Oh Optometrlo Association, Fred A. Stenge Years ago Fred was emplojed In an A toona jewelry store as a watch-make One day he boasted before a group that he could "put a watch gether BO it would run, within 6iv i A wager grew out of tha re mark and ona Sundav morning. In tl'p old Logan house fa hotel i figures in the historv of President Lin coin, you i recall) ha actually won th- Blindfolded Tred sat at a small table tore the watch and reassembled it A feat still spoken of In the craft. ing the trial a small wheel slipped from tweezers and ew to the floor.

Fred commanded ever: man to stand absolu'e- Iy itill and to their astonishment, reached to the and picked up tha missing wheel. He declared i Is a common feat with watchmakers, whosa sense ot hearing la most acute However, ha told mo he felt the tiny wheel strike his foot as it fell, so ha knew just where to feel for It, HARBISBURO. Friday will be spent In Harr'sburg, the capltol and Saturday I hopo to spend i a remarkable gentleman, Dr. Frederick Wilson at Reading. Ha has recent- 1 returned from an extensive trip abroad nere ha visited many of the great factories, studying tha effect of Industrial I on vision and the human eye, work In which I am deeply interested.

Dr. Wilson Is associated with me In the work of the Eyesight Conservation Council of America and we expect to work out some problems In Industrial SCRAPS OF NEWS JACKSON FATHERS MEET. The Fathers' club of the Jackson school met In the third grade room at the school Friday night There vas L. large attendance. Extra chairs lad to fie brought In to accommo date the crowd The fathers plan to lave a smoker at the next i and the motheis wilt serve coffee and doughnuts.

DELIVERING STEEL. Steel for the new Cowford bridg being hauled out to the site the Decatur Bridge Co. and It 1 ixpected that the work of actually setting up the structure -wilt started some time this week. TO VISIT SWEDEN. John Benson and his sister, Mis Fleanor, are expected to return Decatur from California about th middle of this month and that som time In May they i go to Sweden to make a summer visit.

PREACHES IN CHAMPAIGN. Pr. W. Dando Is preachlni Sunday morning to tha Presbyteria 1 students at the state university the Geoisre McKinlcv Memorla church at Champaign. He will retur Sunday afternoon for the evenln service at Westminster church FROM CHORUS TO CASTLE.

May Ethcridge was a London chorus gill. She roamed Lord Edward FiUgciald, had no money and was heir to His brother, the Dul.e of Leinster, recently died and he succeeds to the title, being the premier dulte, marquiss and earl of Ireland. The former chorus girl now presides over a mansion and an estate of 11,000 acres in the county of Kildarc. Nutrition Expert Here for Three Days. Miss B.

Elizabeth Scholcs, i i i expert from the i i of I i nois, will be In Macon county Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ot thib week under the auspices of the Home Bureau, to address the women of the county who are Interested in Coods. She was In Decatur and other points In the in December and was present for the County Farmer? In- fctltute. In her talks here she will i the i on i i which she began in her previous visits. On Tuesday slie will be In War rcnsburg and bpcak in the i i at 10 SO o'clock In the i i and again at 2.00 o'clock in the afternoon. On Wednesday she will speak in Macon at 10 30 o'clock in the morning- and at 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon at the Piesbyteuan chuich.

IN DECATUn. She will be In Decatur on Thursdaj and i tpeak in the Sunday schoo room of the Baptist church at 10 13 and 2-30 o'clock. Her morning subject at each these places be "The Relation of i i to Health." In the afternoon? she ivill speak on "Protects Diets." These talks are not for members the Home Bureau alone but are foi cry woman in the 'county who hai ny interest in food and home eco omics. lance took lilm to St. Mary's hospital, here he soon revived.

He was not seriously hurt, 17 DEATHS. There have been seventeen deaths Decatur d-unng tho last week, besides several In various parts of Macon county. TO ADDRESS ROACH FATHERS. Rev. C.

R. Booth, at St Paul's M. B. church, -will be the speaker at the meeting of the Father's club of the Roach school i at 7:30 o'clock Refreshments i served at the i and all of the comrrtnity are i attend. be men to NURSES MEET.

A meeting of district 13 of th Illinois State association of Grad uate Nurses will be held in the De catur and Maron county hospitn March 7 at 1 30. The session TV 111 held at the nurses' home. At 2 p. X-rav and radium a Dr E. Hart will be given.

A and those interested are invited to attend. GOBS TO "CHICAGO FIRM A Price, son of Mr. and i i a R. Trice his resigned his position i the University of Illinois snll and has accepted one with the farm mortgage department of the John Hancock i Insurance company with headquarters in Chicago. MAIL FOR HAROLD HBALD.

Harold Heald has some mall at the American Legion office and can (ret it by caling at the Legion office In the Armory. His name does not ap- ppar In the city directory. PIKES DELPHIANS The Pine? Delphian Chapter will meet Tuesday a In the Roach School A i i WOMAN'S" COUNCIL. regular meeting of the Woman's Council will he held Mondsy afternoon In the a i i of the W. A A r.

F. Evan? vlll speak The pai a drill will be given by Georpc Bacon, and plans for the bakery sale and bazaar will be dismissed All delegates especially the out of town are urged to be present. Them ha? bien a good response from the organizations In this county, in regard to a i the luncheon tthlch will be served for them Marcn 17 FALLS OFF WAGON. C. Augustine, residing ori rural No 4, fell off a wagon in the 1000 block West Eldorado street Saturday afternoon He was rendered unconscicus by the fall and tho wagon ran over one knee.

Moran's ambu- OUTDOES GEO. W. Mexicans in Communication with All Garrisons. Mexico City Wiieltas telegraphy lua cu itrlMitcd lo keeping i i in Mexico t' i eminent rccosnlrLng Its Is establish ing stations in large city in the republic Officials assert that by using the wireless they are ablo to communic ite directly and i i a i i i a i a a Uius are aUp to he id off many incipient i a i prfow into aerioua if not promptly checked. CtiT "WIRES In the old tha first thins a bdnd of rebels did was to cut all telegraph and telephone ires, thus Isolating the region oC i In its station at CliapuUcpco Park here the a has one of the largest and equipped plants on tha continent During tho Carranra Rflminstratlon tha station i but during pa-st few months It i been used daily by the novernment in scndt.ip: i i a i (o Contra! a South American countries anrl in keeping Itq ministcra and consuls informed of affairs at home FOR OTHER WORK.

It has been announced a gov- expects to oven tha station shortly for commercial work It has also been found i station here can be usnd as a for the land wires throughout Urn ic- ub Me and i ongcslion on tho 1 i i is of tin by the Cliapultcper plant Ignacio Gallmlo. for nuinv a i has been i i i i lielc-ja actu ity in Mfxlco. rfprose it the republic) tho radio-telpgi ipli to be h-pM In Rome next A i More Than $9000 Raised in Campaign. "Tag a netted 5S03 In the Jewish Relief Campaign Saluiday about i Jive gills placed themselves on the corneri of the business rlstrict a button holed every passerby for a i i to tho campaign. Mrs M.

M. Joncsi tmnert in the largest a 5 1 0 7 7 3 i Sam Davk's-on is second with Jf Bicdcrman, i i 56 Celi.i Rosen a old, i $50 50 TOTATj 50000 The tot.il In tlie a a i is con- past tlie a i and members of the coinmilloe tho helicC Saturday insht that the $15000 quota to i cached. A S100 subbcnptio'i i a non-Jew, the, i of a i Decatur laivjej, v-as received Tho headqtiarteis Main street will be several das at 320' North a i a i for BORN. To Mi snfl Stis Peter Rosotlo. 1234 Smith Dorcndo a nine nnil i pound son.

IIo has been named Charles Peter. A Sigh ot Relief. Judge. "I'm going to I I SMO to char trouble a sou 1uit escaped from''" TO DROP CASES AGAINST CO-OP Chicago, March 4 All federal proceedings Implicating tho Coopeiatue fcocicty of America will be dropped, Judge A. Evans announced today after being infoim- ed that attorneys for both sides the case had reached an agreement out of court.

The society came it to court as result of bankruptcy proceedings brought against It Under the agreement, all trustees of the society, except Hairlson Parker, leader in tha cooperative organization will resign to be replaced by appointees of Judge Evans. Mrs Edith Parker wife of the organizer, must relinquish all her holdings in the great western company under the terms of today's agreement Appetite Satisfied George Washington crossed the Delaware once. Ben Gandy, ferry boat pilot, a i crossed It 500,000 Jimimiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. 1 C. L.

BYERS 2205 East Cerro Gordo I Genera! Contractor and Builder All kinds of Building Estimates furnished Free and work anteed. Cabinet work of all kinds finished to order, at half the price anyone else can do it. Call for estimates at 2205 E. 5 Cerro Gordo. 50 YEARS IN CONTRACTING AND CABINET BUSINESS 449 NORTH WATER STREET TEL.

MAIN 1211 "We handle Decatur Mined Pana and Lincoln E. E. LILLTi SON 490 SOUTH FRANKLIN GOAL First Presbyterian The Missionary Society of the Firs resbyterlan church held their reg ar meeting Fiiday afternoon in the lurch parlor i Mrs. H. D.

Spencer residing. Mrs McCaslin had charge the demotions. Her subject was Seivlce." After the devotions Mrs. T. T.

Rob- took cnarg-e. She announced that 10 and Mis Spencer would as lesalcs to the Piesbytenan meei- iB at Mason City, March 28, 29. i gave an account of ome mission woilc of Miss Craig in ew Mexico. Finds Business Conditions Improving. J.

Mackey, manager of tbf Dcc.itur Brass Works and of the Coui- 1011 Fountain reports that he business conditions improving the feeling much better In the when he returned last week from a trip to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other large distributing centers One of the heads ot a very large a i group in New York City, a friend ot the Decatur man, said there i be business for all this year but that i man geU the business, must'go a It. "Tlie day of city money, easy i its and wild expansion Is over," said. AT TOTARY LUNCHEON. While on his trip Mr. MacKcy attended Rotary club luncheons in New York City and In Syracuse, N.

Y. In the latter city he looked into sonic trouble a store keeper was having i a fountain made by a Dc- eatur concein. Already three men had tried to the trouble but i success. Mr. Mackey took off his coat, got right Into the dirt and mess, fixed the trouble and came out again.

"I thought you said you are the manager of that concein," saia the astonished manager the big store. "I am," said the Dccatur man, "but I'm not afraid to do anything that may be necessarj." The fact that he knew how to Jo it and did rot hebitate to do it himself impressed that easterner very much. Mr. Mackey was "ace high" with that man during the remainder of his stay there. News From the Sick.

Little Mailolm Pygman, 748 West street, who has been ill i the "flu," is getting along nicely and probably will be out the first ct the week. Roy B. Biddle, 1360 North College, is confined to his bed with pneumonia following influenza. Typewriter Ribbons Stenographers Note Books Filing Cabinets Second Sheets Carbon Paper Post Binders Ring Books I I At the New Reduced Prices, Every- ihing Marked in Plain Figures, BUY IT AT 129 NORTH MAIN 353 Ledger Outfits Desk Outfits Commercial Stationery Ledger Sheets Pens, Pencils, Diaries. Erasers Quick Service We are prepared lo give you quick and efficient service in Papering and Painting-- get our estimate on the work you wish to have done.

J. O. SPENCE CO. Wall Paper and Paints 351 N. Main St.

Main 1352 Ji I I Bath Rooms All fitted up just as they would look in your home. The best equipped show room in the city. We also carry a line of bath room accessories. I Smith McDaniels Main, 5616. Plumbing and Heating Co.

136 North Franklin Within Reach is the new science that, adjusting the a of disease makes possible Nat ure's best gift--Good Health. Have you personally tried or investigated. CHIROPRACTIC? We invite 5'ou to visit us 1 and learn about its merits. CHIKOFKACTOK Residence I'honc Main Office Phone Main 668 331 Standard l.ilc Bldg. 111.

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