Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 42

Friday, January 26, 1934. THE DECATUR REVIEW TWENTY -TWO PAGES TODAY. Bad Reputation Month No Longer the Ship 40 Head Of Horses and Mules Stock Transported to Danville in One of Largest Recent Deals. Glen Stoutenborough shipped out 40 head of horses and mules Friday to Danville, J. H.

Lenover of that city being the buyer and was roont tn sunerintend the ship Enrol New Millikin Students Tuesday Reports of Made During First Semester Being Compiled. Millikin university students will receive grades made for the last semester next Wednesday, accord City Finances Studied; Fiscal Year Near End Reset Hearing On Petition To Next Jan. 31 Heavy Schedule of Court for Saturday Postpones Arguments on Contest of Signatures. Arguments on objections to the netition to abolish commission Single Plea Of Guilty As 16 Are Arraigned Facin Admits Thefts: 7 Loeb to Stand Trial on Charge of Purchasing Stolen Property. Only one of 16 prisoners arraigned Friday in circuit court entered a i-'ea guilty.

He is James Facin, young Negro, who admitted a theft of automobile tires. He made application for probation. Mandel Loeb, a co-defendant with Facin in an indictment charging concealing stolen property, entered a plea of not guilty and was released under bond with Ben Bur-stein as surety. Loeb, who is the manager of an auto accessories shop on East Eldorado street, is charged with purchasing and concealing the tires stolen by Facin. The plea of guilty obtained from Facin is expected to make him available as a prosecuting witness against Loeb.

Asks Charges Dropped. L. E. Stephenson, defense counsel for Margaret Gunther, 33, who is charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of her infant daughter, entered a motion to quash the indictment, and arguments on the motion will be heard Tuesday by Judge J. L.

McLaughlin. Mr. Stephenson said he will question the. validity of the indictment on the ground that it does not charge any assault or other overt act of violence as contributing to the death of the child, which according to Miss Gunther's confession lived less than one hour after it wss born last December. The indictment accuses Miss Gunther of negligence in failing to provide any care for the which was born without attendance of a physician.

The body of the baby was found early in January, concealed in the clothes closet of an apartment in which the birth occurred. Will Plead Not Guilty. If the court overrules the motion to quash, Mr. Stephenson said Miss Gunther will enter a plea of not guilty and stand trial. She is held in county jail in default of a $5,000 bond.

Robert E. Vaughn, who has been held in jail for more than four months waiting trial on a burglary charge was released Friday when A. R. Ivens. assistant state's attorney, entered a motion to nolle the indictment.

Mr. Ivens explained the state has been unable to secure attendance in court of witnesses whose testimony is required to secure conviction of Vaughn. L. E. Stephenson, counsel for Vaughn had made known he would ask release of his client under the statute which gives a defendant the right of trial within four months.

Gilmer Stevens, charged with assault with intent to rape, was arraigned, but Judge McLaughlin granted him time until Saturday at 9 a. m. to secure a lawyer before entering a plea. Others Enter Pleas. Other defendants, all of whom entered pleas of not guilty, are: C.

N. (Bill) Williams, burglary and grand larceny. Daniel Quinn, driving while intoxicated. Quinn was released under bond. Rodell Roland, Willis Sears and Irene Garman, assault with intent to rob and kill William Brummitt.

Miss Garman was released under bonds totaling $2,000. Clarence Miller, grand larceny, Harold Armentrout. grand larceny. Othel Johnson and Forrest Brown, burglary. Brown was released under bond pending trial.

Raymond Bundy and Ralph Cameron, burglary and grand larceny. Alton Freeman. Negro, assault with intent to kill. James A. Henson was appointed to defend.

Oscar Gromkowski. burglary. Helen Harten. burglary and grand larceny. She was released under bond.

Tuscola Demos to Hold Rally for C. Y. Miller By Staff Correspondent. Tuscola Several well known Central Illinois Democrats will attend the political rally to be held here Friday night in which the candidacy of C. Y.

Miller of Decatur for the sixth judicial district judge will be advocated. Besides Miller, Senator L. O. Wrilliams of Clinton and Attorney William Woods of Champaign, will be here to speak. N.

A. A. P. TO MEET. Members of the Decatur branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meet tonight in Traver hall in the 100 block East Wood street.

Mrs-Anna Jordan and Dr. J. C. EHi will lead the program. Bits of News In Today's Want Afe Attorney May Attack Grand 1 Jury Methods Hint Selection of Hill for Vacancy 3Iay Result in Move to Declare Indictments Illegal.

Hint that the manner of empanelling the January grand jury will be attacked due to the selection of former Postmaster J. H. Hill and two others to fill vacancies was given Friday in circuit court by Attorney Carl Miller. Mr. Miller, appointed as attorney for Lester Mitchell, who is under indictment for statutory rape, entered a motion to quash the indictment "on the ground the grand jury was not empanelled in a proper As Mr.

Miller was leaving the court room, Emanual Rosenberg, defense counsel in another case, asked what fault will be claimed in the organization of the grand jury. "How did Jake Hill get on?" Mr. Miller asked in lieu of an answer to Mr. Rosenberg's question. Soon word spread to other groups of lawyers, and the question was the subject of considerable discussion.

Named By Sheriff. Mr. Hill was not designated by the county board as a grand juror, but was named by Sheriff E. C. Wilson as one of three men to fill vacancies.

Mr. Miller was instructed by Judge McLaughlin to make his motion in writing and submit copies to the state's attorney and circuit clerk in advance of the hearing on validity of the indictment, which was set for next Tuesday. Lawyers who discussed the motion Friday morning saw possibility of a technical flaw in the grand jury panel which might support the action to quash. Law on Vacancies. In regard to filling vacancies on a grand jury, the state statute says: "If for any reason the panel of grand jurors shall not be full at the opening of such court, the judge shall direct the sheriff to summon from the body of the county a sufficient number of persons having the qualifications of jurors, as provided by this act, to fill the panel." At the opening of the January term of court, three men regularly designated as grand jurors by the county board were excused from service after stating their reasons to Judge McLaughlin.

The court then instructed Sheriff Wilson to select jurors "from the body of the county" to fill the vacancies. Mr. Hill. Henry Johnson and James A. Moore, all of whom were in the court room on Jan.

8. were designated by Sheriff Wilson to fill the vacancies. It was recognized Friday that question may be raised whether this constituted selection of jurors from "the body of the Lester Mitchell, defendant in the indictment involved in the motion to quash, is charged with illicit relations with a neighbor girl who is under the age of consent. He has admitted the offense, it was said in the office of State's Attorney Arthur O. Frazier.

Rev. Solomon Garber Dies Friday at 85 Retired Church of the Brethren Pastor III Since Tuesday. Rev. Solomon W. Garber.

85. retired minister of the Church of the Brethren, died at 5 a. m. Friday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. C.

W. Ashenfelter. 1332 North Warren street. He had been failing for several weeks, but he assisted in the services at the church Sunday morning and evening. He was taken seriously ill Tuesday with uremic noisoninEf- Mr.

Garber was born in Augusta county, April 25. 1849, and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. ADranam narher. He came to Illinois in 1893 For eight years he resided near Lawrenceville.

He was oraainea a minister in the Church of the Breth ren 50 years ago. He moved to De catur in 1901 and this has been nis home ever since. He has held pastorates in Iowa. Missouri and Kan sas. When he first came to Deca tur he served as pastor of the Mis sion church here.

He retired eight years ago and has since made his home with his daughter. He ana Miss Kate S. Hernsberger were married Sept. 21, 1876- She died in Ottumwa, la Dec. 24.

1916. A son and a daughter preceded him in death. He leaves three children: George Garber. Oakley; Howard N. Oarher.

Mattoon. and Mrs. C. W. Ashenfelter, Decatur.

There are 10 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was the oldest of a family of 10 children. Two brothers and two sisters are left. They are George Garber, Loraine, O-; J. M.

Garber, Meltens, Mrs. Rebecca Kindig and Mrs. Byrd Roudybush, Washington, D. C. The body was taken to the Moran Sons funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.

m. Friday, until 1 m. Sunday. At that hour the body will be taken to the Church of the Brethren and will lie in state there until funeral time. The funeral will be held at 2 p.

m. Sunday. Burial will be in Cerro Gordo. CONTINUE J. F.

CASES. Because all of the state's attorneys were busy with the arraignment of prisoners in the circuit court Friday morning, the case of Andrew Roberts, charged with assaulting Flossie Wells, and Stan ley weaKiey, charged with threat- am Mutton, were con-ustice E. E. Gray until morning. January Losing Weather Records Show Meanest Month of Year Those who proclaim that the seasons are changing mayjbe right to a certain extent- January, which has for years held the reputation of our coldest winter month has cer tainly been doing some queer things in the last few years and is continuing to do so in this new year of 1934.

In the more than 40 years of our local weather records the normal mean temperature for January has ranged right around 26 or .27 de grees. Up until 1931 no single January in this long period of years had scored a mean temperature higher than 34.5 degrees which was in January 1921 and from there on down to' a mean of 13.6 degrees in January 1918. Staley Sales Chiefs Confer Branch Managers Dis cuss New Product in Meeting at Plant Here. At the annual meeting of the 25 branch sales managers of the A. E.

Staley Manufacturing being held this week at the Decatur office of the company, plans for the coming year have been gone over with particular attention to a new product which the company has de veloped for the use in the brewing business. The return of beer has opened a large field for the sale and use of this product which will improve the quality of -the beverage, and the sales managers have been making an intensive study of it. These men come from all parts of the United States and they re port that conditions in business are unquestionably improving and they are looking for a good year in their lines. The meeting was to end Fri day. Men's Club to Have Program at Church Men's club of First M.

E. Church will have a pot luck dinner for their families and guests Monday night at the church. Miss Margaret Romanus will present a three scene nlav entitled "The Order of the Boiled Owls," and Professor Hahn and his German Singers will sing a number of selections. A church quartet and specialty numbers will complete the program. Charles Robinson is chairman of the pro motion committee in charge of the affair.

Husband Freed In Threat Charge Trial Paul Foley, charged with threatening his wife, was discharged following a preliminary hearing be fore Justice Rentfro Thursday afternoon. He was defended by At torney L. E. Stephenson. Mrs.

Foley told the court that on Jan. 13 he refused her permission to go to a dance, although they had not lived together since Jan. 1. She admitted that she had attend ed the dance and that her husband was not there. Two, Appointed For Scout Commission Freeman Wilmeth and Rudy Slceter were appointed to the Boy Scout commissioners group at a meeting Thursday night at scout headquarters.

The scout anniver sary week program was discussed and program duties were assigned commissioners. Scout anniversary week will open Feb- 8 with a birthday dinner at the Masonic temple, celebrating the' 24th anniversary of scouting in America. At 9:30 a. m. Feb.

10 all scouts at three long blasts of the whistles will meet in Central park, following which the scouts successful in the election will take over the city government for one hour, while the remainder of those mobilized will march to the Lincoln theater to hear the President's message to scouts over the entire United States. Broadcasting time will be 11 a. m. (centra! standard time). On Sunday.

Feb. 11. all scouts will march to the Grace Methodist church at 2 p. m. for special scout services.

Arrangements will also be made for Lincoln day and St. Valentine's day programs. Temperance-Mission Program Is Planned Long Creek church will have a combined temperance and mission- ary program Sunday evening at 6:30. instead of the regular Ep-worth league lesson. Mrs.

Fred C. Peterson, president of Riverside W. C. T. will be present with her gospel team and Mrs.

J. P. Story and Mrs. Hays of the same organization will give a playlet. There also will be an altar of candles service, under the direction of Miss Edith Evans, assisted by Mrs.

Eva Myers Bowers. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Phillippe, will give a missionary solo and his sermon will be a temperance message. News From The Sick The condition of Harry Ritter, 2005 North Monroe street, who was operated on Thursday for appendi-cities, was favorable Friday.

He is in Decatur and Macon county hospital. John Boyer, of near Warrens- burg, who underwent an emergency operation lor appendicitis Tuesday evening in St. Mary's hospital is not yet able to have visitors. in Temperature Column. But beginning with January 1931 the mean has been very abnormal each year.

The mean for the month in 1931 was 34.6, a departure of 7.1 degrees above normal and the highest mean on record for January until that time. In January of 1932 the mean went up to 37 which was then 10.3 degrees above the normal and again the highest January mean on record. In January 1933 it again soared to new heights with a mean of 39.4 degrees or 12.7 above the normal and now the present month to date, which does not promise to again make a new high record, still has a mean of about 36.8 degrees which is about 9-3 degrees above normal. Dismiss Citation Against Grandmother Custody of Child in Divorce Action to Be Settled By Court Saturday. Citation for contempt of court against Mrs.

Aggie Lindsey of Toledo was dismissed Friday by Judge McLaughlin in circuit court, on motion of Edgar H. Allen, attorney, for Jacob Lindsey of Decatur. The citation was asked when Mrs. Lindsey, grandmother of Lor-en Keck, 6, failed to return the child to Mr. Lindsey, grandfather, on a date designated by the court.

Custody of the Keck child will be taken up Saturday by Judge McLaughlin in two court actions. One case comes through a habeas corpus petition filed against Mr. Lindsey by Mrs. Wilma Keck of St. Louis, mother of the child.

The other case is a divorce action brought by Elmer Keck, father of the boy, against his estranged wife, in which custody of the child is an issue. Farm Vote On Resolutions More Than 2,500 Present for Closing I. A. A. Sessions.

(By Staff Representative.) More than 2.500 Illinois Agriculture Association delegates heard J-M. Huston, president of the Production Credit Corporation of St. Louis explain the organization and operation of the corporation at the Friday morning meeting in the armory. His speech was followed by Dr. F.

A. Pearson's talk on the gold question and the commodity dollar. Resolutions dealing with state taxation, unemployment, marketing problems, farm surplus, control of oleomargarine, and many other agri cultural problems were distributed among the 180 delegates during the morning session of the convention. They will be discussed and voted upon by the delegates in the afternoon session. Shellon Gang Rifle Range Broken Up Three Arrested for "Riding Acade my" Activities.

By Staff Correspondent. East St. Louis. Efforts of the notorious Shelton Gang to establish a county headquarters in Happy Hollow gulch near Millstadt under the guise of a riding academy had met with complete failure Friday. The effort had caused the arrest, again, of Monroe "Blackie" Arms, gang lieutenant, and another man and a woman.

In the St. Clair county jail at Belleville Friday morning the second man described himself as James Hickey, alias James Ken-ney, 32, while the woman identified herself as Ruth Kirksey, 19. Ken-ney, according to Sheriff Jerome Munie, was keeper and "maintenance man" at the "farm." Fled for Cover The trio was taken into custody here Thursday night in a fashionably furnished bungalow. They had fled for "cover" after a raid on the "riding academy" late Tuesday night. No one was arrested in the search of the farm.

In the bungalow special deputies who made the arrests confiscated a machine gun, a 250-pound drum of machine gun slugs, three 45-calibre automatics and supply of automatic clips. Arms, Hickey and the woman submitted peace ably to arrest. Munie said the gang purchased the "riding acamedy" site, a five and one-half acre layout, two months ago. He learned of the gang's presence there through a farmer, who reported he saw the gang target practising and was nearly struck by a bullet. Marilyn Jean Butts Dies Friday 3Iorning Marilyn Jean Butts, infant daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. George Butts, died at 2:50 a Friday at the family home, -corner of Thirty-fifth and Orchard streets. Her death was caused by mastoiditis and followed an illness of two weeks. The child was born June 28. 1933.

Besides her parents she leaves a sister. May Aileen Butts! Two brothers, George and Gay-lord Dean Butts, preceded her in death. She also leaves her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W.

A. Butts of Casner and Mr. and Mrs. Adam Laux, Eldorado. The bodv was taken to the Moran Sons funeral home, where friends may call.

The funeral will be held at 1:30 p. m. Saturday in the Moran Sons chapel. Burial will be in the La Place cemetery. ing to an announcement made Fri day by Miss Velma Davis of the registrar's office.

Reports of the grades also are to be mailed to parents within the next two weeks. Examinations in progress since Monday morning were finished Thursday afternoon and students were dismissed for the between-semesters vacation. New students in the university will enrol Tuesday and students who have attended Millikin in previous semesters will enrol Wednesday. Classes tor the spring semester begin Thursday morning. Clarence Deakins, university registrar, is confined to his home as the result of an operation performed Wednesday for an infected right hand.

Mr. Deakins was removed to his home from Decatur and Macon County hospital Thursday after his condition was announced as much improved. Birthday Ball Drive Pushed Ticket Committee to Plan Final Campaign at Meeting Tonight. Plans for speeding up ticket for the Roosevelt birthday dance to be held in the armory next Tuesday night, will be made at a meeting of the committee tonight in the city hall. All persons selling tickets for the ball will attend the meeting which is scheduled to get under way at 7:30 p.

m. J. M. Allen, chairman of the general committee on arrangements for the dance, Friday expressed the wish of the committee that Decatur turn out for the event. "I would like to have a large enough attendance at the President's ball Tuesday so that if Decatur should ever want to send a child to Warm Springs for the treatments at the foundation there, we could feel that we had made a reasonable contribution toward the endowment of the institution," Mr-Allen said.

Committees on entertainment and other arrangements were meeting Friday and Saturday to complete plans for the ball. Chairmen of the drive for tick ets were stressing the need for funds to carry on the work of the Warm Springs foundation. Similar birthday dances in cities throughout the nation will provide funds for endowment of the institution which will give an ideal foundation for the treatment of infantile pa ralysis. Mrs. Karoline DeBold Dies Here Early Friday Mrs.

Karoline DeBold, 64, widow of William DeBold, died in her home at 929 North Illinois street, at 8:55 a. m. Friday. She" had been in failing health for five years, but her condition did not seem serious until two weeks ago. Death was caused by heart trouble.

Mrs. DeBold's maiden name was Karoline Kochendorfer. She was born in Germany. Aug. 30, 1869.

She and William DeBold were married in Germany in 1890. In 1891 they came to Macon county and settled near Boody, moving from there to Decatur 30 years ago. Mr. DeBold was stricken with a sudden heart attack while out hunting five years ago and died. She was a member of the English Lutheran church.

She leaves the following children: Mrs. Louise Rush, St. Louis; Mrs. Pauline Croy, Peoria; Mrs. Frieda Dillon, Mrs.

Lena Reich-hardt. Mrs. Leona Boltz, Mrs. El-vina Roberts. John DeBold, Mrs.

Anna May Knorr and Ashley DeBold. all of Decatur, and Mrs. Juanita Anderson, Denver, Colo. She also leaves two brothers and a sister: Paul Kochendorfer, Tulsa, Okla. John Kochendorfer, Decatur, and Mrs.

Sophia Baier, Ed-mond. Okla. The body was taken to the Moran Sons funeral home, where friends may call. Thirteen Bids For Hammond PWA Job Estimates of Cost for Waterworks Project Near S30.000. Thirteen bids were submitted at the opening of bids on the Hammond waterworks project in that town Thursday.

Wfarren Van Praag, engineers on that project, were checking over the bids Friday to see which contractor was the low bidder. The total bids appeared to run about the same as the engineers estimate for the job, $30,033 for labor and materials, but study will be necessary to decide which is the lowest. Three Decatur contractors, F. Weilepp Christy Birt and Anthony Krall were among the bidders. It is expected that the city coun cil will make a decision on the bids at the meeting to be held next Monday night.

Lone Robber Holds Up Gas Station Attendant Orville Turk, night attendant of the Super Service station, at Wood and Church streets, was robbed Thursday night by a poorly dressed man, who escaped in a model Ford sedan. The amount of money taken in the holdup was not made known. Mr. Turk called police and gave them a description of the man and the car. He said he believes the car carried 1933 license plates 1-250-460.

ment of the big drove of stock from the Sanitary Barn, East William and North Mill street, Fri day. ThA Danville buyer is a dealer in horses and mules and bought the lot here for resale. Since Thanksgiving Mr. Stouten-has shipped out nine cars of mules from his headquarters here there being 2b head in eacn car. The mules went to Georgia.

The Sanitary Barn was the Ritz horse hotel of Decatur in the days nf the horse and buggy. With its concrete floor, carefully planned drainage and light it was to other livery stables in town here what the fireproof hotel was to the usual hotel found in the smaller cities of that time. Lift Codes For InventoryWork Added Task of Checking Stock Not Included in Hour Limit. Inventory work of retail trades during January and February will not have to be done within the prescribed limit of daily working hours of employes according to a special ruling from the National Retail Code authority. Notice to this effect was received at offices of the Decatur Association of Commerce Thursday.

The concession was made following a request from the Controllers' Congress of the National Retail Dry Goods association. The order permits the retailer to make a temporary extension of hours of his employes for the purpose of taking the inventory on the basis of a jeak-period week. The hours need not be worked consecutively but the maximum weekly employe hours permitted for such peak-period weeks shall not be exceeded and time and one-half shall be paid for any hours worked in excess of the maximum daily hours permitted in such peak-period weeks. Pair Released After Paying Driving Fines Jack Barnes and Richard Rhoades, Springfield salesmen, who were arrested following a police chase at a 60-mile clip through Decatur's business section, were released Thursday night after payment of fines. They were fined $88.15 each by Justice Luther Morrison, one on a charge of reckless driving and the other for possession of obscene literature.

Mattoon Home Burns in Early Morning Blaze By Staff Correspondent. Mattoon A. two-story frame house located on the city limits on North Sixteenth street was des troyed by fire early Thursday. The house owned by Ed J. Ely of Mattoon, was vacant at the time of the fire.

Loss was estimated at $4,500 on the house and $1,500 on the contents. The damage is only partially covered by insurance. No alarm was turned in to the fire department from the neighborhood. Night police discovered a glow in the sky on the north side of town and reported to the firemen at 4:40 a. m.

When the fire trucks arrived the building had burned to the ground almost. The building was part of what is known as the Fred Book farm. Business Census Takers Selected in Moultrie By Staff Correspondent. Arthur Dean Davis of Arthur, Mrs. Bessie McMullen of Loving-ton, and O.

E. Lowe and O. W. Worsham of Sullivan, have been appointed enumerators to take the business census of Moultrie county. Mr.

Davis' territory will be confined to the village of Arthur; Mrs. McMullen's the village of Loving-ton, Mr. W.orsham's the city of Sullivan, while Mr. Lowe has been assigned to the remainder of the county. The enumerators attended a school of instruction in the' Tuscola court house Wednesday afternoon and were given supplies, with instructions to begin work Friday.

A schedule of every business in the county will be taken. Shelbyville Youths in Car Accident at Pana Br Staff Correspondent. Pana Charles "Chili" Adams and Robert Banning, both of Shelby- vine were injured slightly when the Adams car overturned three miles west of Pana on Route 16 late Wednesday. The two youths were coming to Pana from Nokomis when the accident occurred. Adams said that a- passing car crowded them off the highway and their car skidded and overturned' in a ditch.

Both youths were given first aid here at the office of Dr. D. M. Littlejohn. Bone Removed From Dieterich Man's Leg By Staff Correspondent.

Effingham Lawrence Meyers of Dieterich underwent an operation in St. Anthony's hospital Thursday for the removal of a bone from his right leg. Several years ago Mr. Meyers was injured when a railroad tie was dropped accidentally on his leg. The bone was injured and the wound did not heal.

Favorable Signs in Re cords Despite Probable Reduction in City's Income From Taxes. Members of the city council already are thinking in terms of the next fiscal year. Studies are being made of the city's financial situation when the turn of the fiscal year comes May 1. With cuts in both valuation and tax rates, and with the large amount of failure in collection of taxes this running as high as 15 per cent of the total the financial department finds, it necessary to study all needs and all possibilities with considerable care. Valuations Drop.

The valuation has been cut nine and a half millions, the road and bridge tax has dropped from $65,000 to a possible $38,000 and both must be taken into consideration when the accounts for 1934-35 are considered. "But things could be worse." said Walter Rugh, head of the city finance department. "Anticipation warrants have, in years gone- by, run as high as $391,000. We have gradually cut this amount down year by year until we won't have over $200,000 at the end of this fiscal year against the new taxes." Something which has caused the real saving in interest through this reduction in tax warrants to be not so great as it might appear probable -is that taxes are now paid in two instalments, thus extending the time in which tax warrants can be taken up, with the result of the interest charges being likewise extended. Water Receipts Unused.

Little money has yet been used in the general fund from the water receipts, most of it being kept in the undivided fund of the Water Supply Co. and the city. "I think we will wind up the year with salaries of firemen, policemen and others paid. We will live within our income," said the finance commissioner, who admits that he spends his waking as well as some of his sleeping hours thinking city finance. "Sometimes I think of something when I wake up in the night and for fear that I will forget it I hop out of bed and make a note of it." Sixteen Churches Represented at Meet Missionary Tells of Experiences at Free Methodist Sessions.

Sixteen Free Methodist Sunday schools and churches of the Cow- den district are represented in the district meeting in session at the local church. By noon Friday 87 delegates had registered and others expected in will bring the number to about 100. Rev. C. A.

McDonald, of Stew- ardson, district Sunday school sec retary, spoke Friday morning on "The Sunday School Interests of the District." Mrs. Myrtle Gaddis superintendent of the junior school of the college church in Greenville discussed "Making the Junior School Effective." and presented practical plans that were well received by her hearers. Rev. J. A.

Williams, district cider, spoke on the theme, "The Teacher and His "The Standard" is the theme for the Friday afternoon discussion; Rev. G. L. Kline of Decatur, host pastor, is conducting an open conference following talks on the sub ject. Rev.

B. F. Hibbett of Cen- tralia, superintendent of conference young people's work and pres ident of the conference Sunday- school board, will tell of the work of the board. Outstanding speaker at the meet ing is Miss Bessie Reid, who has spent seven years as a missionary in China. She is to speak at 4 Friday afternoon and again Friday night.

Miss Reid is a speaker -of abilitv and is in great demand among the churches. She will re turn to China in the fall. Miss Reid has worked in Honan province, mostly in the city of Chengchow. Rev. C.

A. McDonald also is on the Friday night program, speaking on the theme, "The Convention Chal Sessions will continue over Sat urday. Rev. C. J.

Turnbow of Van dalia will speak Saturday morning on "The Future of the Free Methodist Church and Holiness." Business will be transacted in the afternoon, and at inght there will be another address by Miss Reid, this session being under the auspices of the Woman's missionary society. i. Iowa Reports Barger Escaped From Prison Glenn Barger. who slashed his throat with a butcher knife when deputy sheriffs from Taylorville went to the home of Ernest Stew art in Mt. Auburn to arrest Barger for the Macon county sheriff, is wanted at the Iowa state reformatory, according to word received from Anamosa.

by Sheriff Wilson Friday morning. It is not known whether Barger will be sent back to Anamosa or first tried on the charge against him here. He is 'said to have escaped from the Iowa reformatory. He is still in the Macon county jail. Moweaqua Contract To Bond Attorneys Moweaqua officials have received their bond contract on the city's water project, and the contract and the ordinance for the project have been submitted to Chapman Cutler, bond attorneys of Chicago, for approval.

form of government in Decatur, which originally was set ior oai-urday, will be continued until next Wednesday at 9:30 Judge J. L. McLaughlin announced Friday in circuit court. Postponement of the hearing was suggested by Judge McLaughlin because he -has a heavy program of court work for Saturday, which might not leave sufficient time for the hearing on objections. Designation of Wednesday for the hearing was done with the agreement of Lee Boland, counsel for the objectors, and L.

E. Stephenson and Dr. T. C. Buxton, lawyers defending the validity of the petition.

Seeks Suit Hearing Mr. Boland, who represents a group of men who signed the objections, sought Friday to get an early hearing on a motion to dismiss a $50,000 damage suit brought against them by Robert Stoy and Carl Oldfield, who claim they are libeled by statements made in the objections. Dr. Buxton, representing Stoy and Oldfield, objected to any action on the suit in advance of the regular return date, which in this case is the third Monday in February. The issue presented is one coming under the new court practises act.

Change Unlikely Judge McLaughlin indicated he will sustain the position of Dr. Buxton and pass consideration of the damage suit to Monday, Feb. 19, unless Attorney Boland makes a showing that he is entitled under the new act to gain consideration before that date. An early hearing may be obtained if defendants enter their appearance, but limited appearance for the purpose of making a motion to dismiss, or the filing of an answer is not sufficient, Dr. Buxton claimed.

Objects to Advancing Fees. James A. Henson raised another question involving the new practises act Friday, when he objected to the recently adopted policy of Sheriff E. C. Wilson in demanding payment in advance for service of all legal papers.

Mr. Henson told 4udge McLaughlin he recognizes the right of the sheriff to demand payment before a return of service is made in court, but said it is impossible for the sheriff to determine costs of service in advance because he is unable to know how many miles he must travel. Judge McLaughlin suggested Sheriff Wilson should secure the advice of State's Attorney Arthur Frazier upon the proper course to follow. "This, is one of a multitude of questions that will come up in interpreting the new act," Judge McLaughlin said. MacGregor Discusses Parents' Problems Prof.

Jay B. MacGregor, president of Woodrow Wilson junior high school Parent-Teacher association, gave short discussions on five subjects for the regular meeting Thursday night in the school auditorium. The questions, -suggested by parents several weeks ago, were as follows: "Movies for Children." "Sorority and Fraternity Problems." "Use of the Family Car." "Grades." "Adequacy of the Present Athletic v-: Burglars Loot Home of Sullivan Bank Official By Staff Correspondent. Sullivan The home of C. R.

Hill, cashier of the Firs National bank, was ransacked Wednesday night between 9 and 10 p. while Mr. Hill and wife were attending a church meeting. The thieves pried open a window. Hill reported that a suit of clothes and all his neckties except one had been removed.

The thieves consumed a pumpkin pie, a plate of peanut brittle, and some milk before leaving. This burglary makes the seventh within two and a half months within Sullivan. The other six were at business houses fronting on the square. Mt. Pulaski Man Hurt in Accident" at Emden By Staff Correspondent.

Lincoln Leigh Lucas, residing four miles south of ML Pulaski, was cut and bruised late Wednesday night when his sedan struck a bridge and overturned near Emden. He was driving on an unfamiliar road and failed to negotiate a turn onto the bridge. Mr. Lucas was cut about the head by broken glass and also bruised but was able to return to his home. The accident occurred as Mr.

Lucas was en route home from Victory School in Prairie! Creek township where he was in charge of a school of instruction in connection with the corn-hog reduction program. CONFER I. O. O. F.

DEGREE Effingham Members of Dallas lodge No. 85 I. O. O. F.

conferred the' third degree on candidates at Stewardson Tuesday night. Besides the Effingham degree team 15 members attended the meeting in Stewardson which was followed by an oyster supper and smoker. The next district meeting of the order will be held at Effingham, Feb. 7. Bus to Chicago $2.50.

Span mules wanted. John Deere tractor offered. Electric sewing machine. Cash for gocd rugs. 160 acres for trade.

Post cards mimeographed. Farm implements. Dates 10c, vinegar 20c gal. Pullets 40c each. i.