The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 12

DECATUR REVIEW Monday, November 13, 1933. THE City Council to Take No Action for Sewer Plan Construction May Be Considered Later on Part of System, Officials Say. No effort will be made by city officials to secure federal aid under the new civil works program to build the entire Central Relief sewer system. After policies to be pursued are announced by the government for the new plan, the city may consider construction of a part of the system from the river to Prairie street. That was the consensus of opinion in a protracted conference by the council, Monday morning, Mayor O.

W. Smith said. No Representative. The city will not be represented at the national conference to discuss the civil works program in Washington on Wednesday. Disagreement on a proposal that the sewer project should be undertaken in any form resulted in letting the opportunity to present Decatur's problem directly to government officials, go by.

Commissioners Earl Smith and Tom Moran reiterated their opposition to the sewer project on grounds that it would burden the people. Other members of the council argued that some effort should to find out just what aid eumade secured from the government that might make construction of the project possible and still not burden property own- ers. Financing Hunt. "There is only one thing we should be considering here," Commissioner A. L.

McNabb told the group when Commissioner Earl Smith launched into a detailed explanation of how concrete work should be done on a sewer project. "We should try to find out if there is: a way this could be financed." Mayor Smith was afraid that by sending representatives to the conference and making an appeal to the federal government for liberal aid on the project, the council would be definitely committed to carry out the project. "The general opinion, I think, is against trying to build the whole thing." the mayor said after the meeting. "If we can find a way to build that section from the river to Prairie street, I think the coun- will go along." No Decision Reached. "As usual we arrived at no decision on anything," Commissioner Walter Rugh said.

"I don't suppose anyone will go, since we talked about everything else." Policies to be followed in extending aid to cities to carry out projects to give men employment under the new civil works plan will be announced from the conference in Washington, Wednesday. After these have been announced, the council will give some tion to the construction consideraof the main section of the sewer from Prairie street to the river if the government's announcement indicates liberal assistance, to Mayor Smith. according Campaign Plans Monday Noon. Majors, captains and Y. M.

C. A. officials met at the Monday noon to discuss membership campaign plans. The drive, headed by Dr. R.

Zink Sanders, will open Nov. 20. Recently appointed majors and captains who will conduct the drive are: Major W. C. Gilmore; captains, Harry Christner, Les Shumate, Fred Knorr, Joe Gauger, Dick Flannigan and Harry Yonkin.

Major Eldon Geiger; captains, Estel Duncan, Lawrence Gibbons. Ed Jokisch, Ira Busher and Robert Haupt. Major Hubert Mills: captains, Ray Myers. Bert Schultz, C. C.

Grimmett, William Weiland and Harry Hazelrigg. tains, Major Haroid Harry Bloomquist; capOsgood. Harry Gidel, Roy Bartrem and Douglas Johnson. Drive Leaders Meet Discuss Y. M.

C. A. Membership Rabbi to Address Club Transportation Club to Have Annual Banquet Nov. 21. Principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Transportation Club of Decatur on Nov.

21, will be Rabbi Melbourne Harris of Peoria, according T. C. Burwell, chairman of the speakers committee. Norman Pitcairn. new coreceiver of the Wabash railway, recently chosen to succeed Walter S.

Franklin. may be a guest at the banquet, Mr. Burwell said. Mr. Pitcairn informed Mr.

Burwell that he will attend the affair if he is in this vicinity at the time. J. W. Phipps, division freight agent for the Baltimore Ohio railway at Baltimore, has been announced as the toastmaster. The banquet will be given in Hotel Orlando, and is expected to be attended by rail and traffic men from all over the Middlewest.

Butchers Union To Meet Tuesday Night Members of the Meat Cutters and union, local No. 233, and Butchers meeting at 7:30 p. m. have an open in Painters hall. All meat Tuesday and packing house emcutters asked to attend this ployes are meeting, as well as all prospective members.

LAWYERS JOIN IN MEMORIAL TO HORACE W. McDAVID Approximately 100 Central Illinois law- Judge Lott yers gathered Monday in the Macon county Judge J. L. circuit court room to pay respects to the C. Dobbins, memory of Judge McDavid.

In the group A. McMillen above, left to right, are Supreme Court Begin Canvass For Red Cross Workers Given Instructions at Luncheon Meeting Monday. Fifty workers in the annual roll call of Macon county chapter of the American Red Cross met Monday noon for luncheon in the Decatur club to receive instructions from Lutz Krigbaum, roll call chairman Mr. Krigbaum divided among the men a list of 5,000 Decatur residents who will be called on in extending the invitation to Red Cross memThe leaders who attended meeting will either make the visits themselves or organize their own groups of workers to assist them. Start Canvass.

Although the roll call officially opened Armistice day. no solicitation has yet been made because of the activities of the holiday. The workers began a canvass of downtown places of business Monday afternoon. In the townships outside of Decatur the roll call is being conducted through organized groups active in Red Cross projects in their own communities. "The workers who extend this invitation to Red Cross membership need not feel that they are working for charity," said Mr.

Krigbaum. "It is as much a part of their duty to carry on the roll call as it is to conduct their business. It is one of the ways in which they are able to pay for the privilege of living in the community." Memberships Received. Several voluntary memberships have already been received in the Red Cross office. Miss Mary V.

Love, executive secretary said. The roll call will attempt to bring in 3,000 new members from all parts of Macon county. Macon county chapter has distributed approximately $160,000 in food and clothing during the last year in addition to functioning in more than 2,000 servcases. Accident Victim Dies Eibo Frericks, 68, Fatally Injured Week Ago When Struck By Auto. Eibo Frericks, 68, of 2105 East William street, died in St.

Mary's hospital at 1 a. m. Monday from injuries received in an automobile accident that occurred last Monday night. Mr. Frericks, who was assistant foreman in the mill house at the plant of the A.

E. Staley Manufacturing had been receiving treatment in St. Mary's hospital for an ailment and had been discharged from the hospital at noon of the day he received his fatal injuries. That night he was crossing East Wood street in the 1700 block, a short distance east of a street intersection and stepped in front of an automobile driven by A. C.

Sim- mons, 2175 East Giles street. Born in Germany. Mr. Frericks was born in Thunum, Ostfriesland, Germany, Oct. 22, 1865.

He came in the fall of 1891 and for several years had been a Staley employe. His only near relative is a brother, John Frericks, Metamora, Ill. The body was taken to the Moran Sons funeral home and will be taken to Eureka for burial in the Olio etery. Dr. J.

J. Hopkins, coroner, conducted the inquest Monday morning at the Moran Sons funeral home. The verdict was that death was caused by shock and injuries accidentally received when struck by the Simmons car. Scout Court Tonight More Than 140 to Be Advanced at Special Honor Meet. More than 140 Decatur Boy Scouts of will honor attend the monthly in Monday night the First Presbyterian church to receive their advancements.

Walter Flora, will be presented his Eagle award and his mother will receive a miniature eagle as memento of her son's achievement. Nine Scouts will be present to be reviewed for first class and 13 will be examined for second class rank. Included in the court's awards will be 15 Lincoln Trail medals to Scouts of troops 7 and 20 and council awards of civic service medals to Scouts who have served the community for a certain number of hours as required. New Rules Will Speed Up Court Action Jan. 1 Decatur Lawyers Plan Meetings for Study of New Practises Act Provisions.

Decatur lawyers will start a series of meetings in the near future to study provisions of the new practises act, it was said Monday by Emanuel Rosenberg, chairman of a special committee appointed to arrange the meetings. The new act, which is designed to simplify and speed the administration of courts, will become effective 1. Abolish Long Delays. Long delays between the filing date and trial of cases in circuit court will be eliminated, although the calendar will be divided into court terms as before. In the county court, terms will be eliminated entirely, and this court will remain in session continuously, except for vacations ordered from time to time by the presiding judge.

The new act, as it the court will remove of appledure criminal. court practise which at times has worked injustice to defendants. Speed Arraignments. Under the present statute, a person charged with crime in a county court information during vacation between court terms was compelled remain in jail until convening of the next term, unless he was able to give bond enter for a his plea of release, guilty. or was ready to Under the new act, such a defendant will be brought at once before the court for arraignment, and if he is ready to waive a jury and be tried by the court, his trial may be had at once upon approval by the court and notice to the state's attorney.

With consent of both parties, any suit may be tried without jury regardless whether the court is in session or in vacation. Set Own Court Term. As often as the county judge deems it necessary, under the new statute, he will call all cases for the docket to ascertain whether a jury should be called. If sufficient cases are found ready for trial, the court will call a jury which he may hold to service for any period not exceeding 30 days. Piatt Drops Grand Jury.

Through statutory provision, the grand jury at the June term of the Piatt county circuit, court is eliminated, unless presiding judges of the circuit order a jury called. In the other counties of the circuit, grand juries will be called for each court term, unless at least two of the judges of the circuit order otherwise. If a majority of the judges of the circuit wish, they may abolish the grand jury for any court term, and pass all criminal cases, if they believe this course may be followed without unduly interrupting the speedy administration of justice. Cases now being filed to the January term of the circuit court will be heard under the new practises act. December term of county court will be the last stated term of that court.

Mrs. Roy Covey Dies At Home Near Forsyth Mrs. Birdie Howell Covey, 48, wife of Roy Covey, died at 9:20 a. m. Monday at the family home, two and a half miles northeast of Forsyth.

She was stricken with paralysis Oct. 19. Mrs. Covey's maiden name was Birdie Howell. She was a daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Howell and was born in Gatchell, May 22, 1885. She and Roy Covey were re married in Gatchell March 18, 1909. They made their home there for several years, moving to Macon county about nine years ago. She was a member of the Christian in Gatchell, but affiliated Christian church churche in Oreana since moving to Macon county.

She had many friends in Gatchell and in Maroa, Forsyth and Oreana. She leaves a son, Doris, and a daughter, Nellie Covey. She also leaves her parents, near Forsyth, and 10 brothers and two sisters: Theron Howell, Gatchell, Asa Howell, Kenney; Kirby and William Howell, Galt, John, Charles and Sherry Howell, Decatur; Paul Howell, Lexington, Dwight Howell, Detroit; Jake Howell, Wellington, Mrs. Etta Martin, Bloomington, and Mrs. Jennie Kellems, Gatchell, Ind.

The body was taken to the Moran Sons funeral home and will be taken to Gatchell, for burial. Rotarians Join Red Cross at Meet Twenty-one members of Rotary club joined Macon county chapter of the American Red Cross Monday noon at their regular meeting in the Hotel Orlando. They were among the first admitted to membership in the annual roll call for 3,000 members. Dean Thompson of the University of Illinois was the speaker. Father-Son Dinner At Church Friday A magician and whistler will be included in the entertainment for the annual father and son dinner of Westminster Presbyterian church Friday at 6:30 p.

m. The toastmaster will be F. A. Fisher, Macon county farm adviser. Tommy Parkinson will give a toast to the fathers, and J.

B. MacGregor will give a toast to the sons. A short talk will be given by E. Nattkemper. 95 YEARS OLD Harvey Button, well known Wabash veteran, celebrated his 95th birthday anniversary Sunday with a dinner for 18 guests in the Kraft hotel, where he and his daughter, Mrs.

John Harry, are living. Guests attended from Bellflower and Urbana. Start Blind Pension Tests More Than 40 Stricken From List to Seek Reinstatement. Examinations of a long list of applicants for reinstatement to the county blind pension list were started Monday on the order of the county pension committee. More than 40 of the 74 persons dropped from the list in September, have signified their intention of seeking reinstatement at the December meeting of the county board.

In the new examinations, the report will show whether an applicant is blind or not blind, without regard to the degree of vision, if some remains. Those recorded as totally be restored to pensions in December, it is expected, unless committee investigation discloses they have other resources adequate to maintain them. Bill on School Debts Drafted Board to Hear Report of Legislation Proposal at Meeting. Decatur board of education at its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon will hear a report on progress to secure legislation intended to validate school debts and make it possible to invoke the Barr bill in this district. The bill in its final form was being drafted Monday following long distance conversations with members of the Chicago bond company negotiating for sale of bonds to be issued by the district when the debts are validated.

First Bill Rejected. One bill for this purpose in process of preparation was objected to by Decatur school officials because it was too general and included in its scope obligations with which the Decatur district is not concerned. Unfunded debts of local schools are those of unpaid teachers' salaries for the last two years. It was expected that one or more school officials would take the completed bill to Springfield either Tuesday or Wednesday in an effort to have it included in the call for another special session of legislature. Other business to be conducted in the board meeting is merely allowance of bills other regular rand routine, William Harris, superintendent of schools, and clerk of the board, said.

Nellie K. McCoy Dies Here Sunday Miss Nellie K. McCoy died at 12:05 a. m. Sunday in the family home, 1127 North College street.

The cause of her death was heart disease, with which she had suffered for some time. Miss McCoy had passed her entire life in Decatur. was a daughter of the late and Mrs. John Mine McCoy, early residents of the city. She was a lifelong member of St.

Patrick's Catholic church. She leaves two sisters, Misses Mary and Clara McCoy. The body was taken to the Moran Sons funeral home, where friends may call. The funeral will be held at 9 a. m.

Tuesday in St. Patrick's Catholic church. The burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Dr. Leighton Will Address Schoolmen Dr.

M. M. Leighton, Urbana, chief of the Illinois Geological survey, will on "Illiteracy in Earth's Literature," at the meeting of Decatur Schoolmasters' club and guests tonight. His address will be illustrated with stereopticon slides and will follow a dinner at 6 p. m.

in Woodrow Wilson junior high school cafeteria. Forty reservations have been made. The talk, beginning at 7 p. is open to the public. RETURNS THIS WEEK Dr.

P. A. Steele, 404 West Macon street, has been in Chicago for the last 10 days doing research work and is expected to return to Decatur at the end of the present week. County Relief Families Get Federal Pork Four Hurt As Auto Upsets Young Woman Seriously Injured Early Sunday in Accident. Mrs.

Albert Edwards, 23, of 141 East Packard street. is in St. Mary's hospital with serious injuries as the result of an automobile accident at 4 a. m. Sunday.

Three others were injured in the accident. They are Mr. Edwards and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Harrison, 834 North 35th street, who were able to go home after their injuries were treated in the hospital.

The accident occurred at the intersection of route 48 and the Rock Springs road. Mr. Harrison was driving an automobile belonging to George E. Miller. As the car neared the intersection a tire blew out, causing the driver to lose control of the car, which ran over two ditches and turned over twice.

Condition Serious. Mrs. Edwards received a broken shoulder and several broken ribs, a long cut on her forehead. and she is believed to have internal injuries. She passed a comfortable night in the hospital, but the report Monday was that while not critical, her condition was regarded as serious.

Mr. Edwards received some broken ribs and severe cuts and bruises. He was taken to the home of Raymond Edwards, 1920 North Morgan street. Alvin Harrison, 23, received severe cuts about the face and hands and one ear was badly lacerated. Mrs.

Harrison also escaped with cuts and bruises. The injured were taken to St. Mary's hospital in the Moran Sons ambulance. Set Judicial Meet Tuesday Chairman of Committees From Six Counties Will Meet Here. Selection of a date for the Republican judicial convention of the sixth circuit will be made Tuesday at a meeting of chairmen of committees of the six counties of the circuit in Decatur.

The convention will be not earlier than Nov. 29, nor later than Dec. 6. E. W.

Jokisch, Macon county chairman. said Monday a date for meeting of the county committee to select delegates and indorse a candidate will be announced with the next few days. The county meeting will be in the latter part of next week, it is expected. False Alarm Brings Downtown Fire Run Firemen answered two alarms Sunday. The crew from No.

5 station went to the south end of Eighteenth street at 1:50 p. m. to extinguish a grass fire before it did any damage. The second was a false alarm that brought the entire fighting force to the 200 block North Main street at 9 p. m.

Some one saw a reflected light in the rear of the Handy-Dandy store and turned in an alarm without investigating. Firemen had leads of hose strung from every fire plug in the neighborhood before it was found there was no fire. They knew that with the high wind that prevailed a fire once under way would be hard to fight and they took no chances on a shortage of water. The usual fire crowd of several hundred persons was there in record time. V.

F. W. Council Has Meet Here Sunday Herbert D. Ryman post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, was host to the Central Illinois Counties council, V. F.

at its regular meeting Sunday. An initiation was conducted by the Bloomington post drill team and luncheon was served by members of the local auxiliary. Election of officers will take place at the next meeting of the council, which will be in Lincoln on Dec. 17. Mention of the fact that the Veterans of Foreign Wars participated in Decatur's Armistice day parade Saturday inadvertently was omitted in the account of the parade.

Herbert D. Ryman post is the largest V. F. W. post in Illinois outside of Chicago and was well represented in the parade.

Child's Death Is Held Accidental In the absence of Dr. J. J. Hopkins, coroner, Justice H. F.

Paine conducted an inquest Sunday over the body of Charles Stull, aged 2, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stull, 819 West Packard street. The inquest was held at the Moran Sons funeral home. The verdict was that death resulted from accident.

The child was fatally burned last Thursday when he upset a pan of scalding water while playing in the basement. He died Saturday night. The body was taken Monday to Ashton, where the funeral will be held. Distribution of U. S.

Foodstuffs Begins Monday; Flour and Vegetables Doled. Cause of Sudden Lake Level Rise Proves Mystery Although the local weather recorder reported but a trace of precipitation in Decatur between Sunday noon and Monday noon, the level of Lake Decatur at dam of a foot in the 24-hour Atroseriod. tendants at the waterworks could give no reason for the rise unless there had been heavy rains to the northeast in the Sangamon watershed. Sometimes the wind has a slight effect on the lake level at the dam but usually it is to blow the water back from the dam so as to lower the registered level. For a week or two the lake had stood exactly level with the top of the dam but Monday noon it measured .1 of a foot over the dam.

Dust Storm Blankets City Cold Weather Follows in Wake of Roaring Winds. (Continued from Page One) states including the upper half of Illinois, brought a sharp drop in temperatures. In Iowa and Minnesota the winds developed almost tornadic proportions, and caused some property damage. For more than an hour the dust filled the air, at times resembling clouds of smoke sweeping down. lights along the streets of the city became dim specks and added to driving hazards.

Switchmen in railroad yards worked under difficulties as the haze hid the signals of their lanterns. The janitor at the Wabash passenger station said he swept more than a quart of dust from off the waiting room floor. Causes False Alarm. pedestrian in the 200 block North Main noted a dim light in the rear of Handy Dandy store and taking the dust for smoke, turned in a fire alarm. Almost every firehouse in the city answered the call and immediately laid strings of hose before it was discovered a false alarm.

The wind pushed the mercury down from a high of 68 degrees in the afternoon to 26 degrees as it kept up its constant pounding on the windows all night. No wind damage to any extent was reported. The streets were pretty well littered with old rotted limbs of trees Monday morning and in the 900 block West King one large limb blown into the street was of sufficient size to block the entire street for a time. Four Injured In Storm Wrecked Plane Kansas City, INS Four persons were found in a wrecked airplane two and one-half miles southeast pf Olathe, today and brought to Menorah hospital here. The plane had crashed into a group of trees during a wind storm late yesterday.

The victims were Dr. B. L. Sulzbacher of Kansas City, a physician; Louis Sulzbacher, his son, Walter Taber, pilot, and Lee Lyon. Roaring Winds Fan Fires in Underbrush Springfield Death and fire early today rode through Central Illinois in company with a dust storm which acted as forerunner to a day of blustery cold.

Lawrence Linn, 27, was killed when, blinded by dust, he stepped in front of an approaching automobile near Bell Town. Fire, starting in wooded bluffs near Patterson, had burned its way to a point near the village of Patterson, but thanks to the heroic work of hundreds of volunteer fire fighters from White Hall, Roodhouse, and the surrounding country, was believed to be losing ground. It was thought that the great McClay, orchards would be saved blaze. Swirls of smoke from the burning woods swept over White Hall, 8 miles away, and terror gripped the com- R. Herrick, James T.

Whitley, McLaughlin, Congressman D. Judge John R. Armstrong, C. and Ralph J. Monroe.

-Herald and Review Photo. Memorial For McDavid Held Lawyers of Judicial CirCuit Join Tribute Here Monday. Lawyers from counties of the sixth judicial circuit joined Monday in memorial services for Judge Horace W. McDavid in the Macon county circuit court. Supreme Court Justice Lott R.

Herrick and Congressman D. C. Dobbins were among those in attendance. After calling the meeting to order, Ralph W. Monroe, president of the Decatur bar association called upon C.

A. McMillen to preside. T. Whitley read resolutions adopted by a special committee which were adopted. Supreme Judge Herrick, Circuit Judges J.

L. McLaughlin of Sullivan and John R. Armstrong of Champaign, and several members of the Decatur bar made short addresses. Firemen Answer Two Blaze Alarms Firemen answered two alarms Monday morning, extinguishing one small roof blaze. The other alarm was turned in from the Bazley market, North Main and liam streets, at 12:55 when a motor in the basement became overheated and started smoking.

There was no loss. Earlier, firemen were summoned to the home of R. R. Ballenger at 1172 North Union street when sparks from a chimney set the roof ablaze. Slight damage to the roof resulted.

Name 3 New Firemen Men Appointed by Moran to Bring Force Up to Requirement. Three men named by Commisioner Tom Moran to be added to the personnel of the fire department will begin active duty Wednesday. They are, Fred Morenz, 1318 Orchard street; Fred J. Bachmann, 925 Morgan street, and Carl Copetz. Morenz and Bachmann will be assigned to No.

2 station on Morgan street, while Copetz will serve as extra man. Lawrence Boland, who has serving as extra man, has been permanently assigned to No. 1 house at Wood and Franklin streets. The three new men start at rookies' pay of $90 a month. appointment is to meet demands of the national board of fire underwriters, Commissioner Tom Moran says.

Gang Tipster Held Woman Believed to Have Tipped Kansas City Criminals Taken. Memphis, woman described by police as Mrs. E. B. Conner, under indictment at Kansas City in connection with the Kansas City massacre, was captured here today.

Federal operatives said Mrs. Conner is the woman who telephoned from Hot Springs, to Kansas City to give the gangsters the information that resulted in the massacre in which five officers and Frank Nash were killed in front of the Union station on June 17. Police said they had hoped they would arrest either Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd or Verne Miller, the Kansas City machine gunner, if either had been in hiding here, they were gone when officers staged their raid on a dinner club' on the outskirts of the city. Another woman was taken into custody, withheld with Mrs. her Conner, name on but the potheory she was not involved in the case.

Boat Overturns; Man Drowns Freeport-AP-David Thayer, 47, of was drowned Sunday when a boat in which he and Dan Miller and Glen Lowry were repairing a sand pump in the Rock river capsized. His widow and two children survive. munity as the glow in the sky grew brighter. A prairie fire blackened hundreds of acres west across the Illinois river from Beardstown and hundreds of spectators watched the advance of the roaring flames. Firemen guarded wooden river bridges from the menacing blaze.

Pork was sizzling in frying pans and mingling its flavor with distribution of the beans Monday as first consignment of federal salt pork was begun by Macon county emer. gency relief committee. five pound pieces, the meat was allotted to relief families according to the number of in each and allocations ranged persons from five to 20 pounds. With the pork went potatoes and other vegetables recently harvested from mass relief gardens. Flour Distributed.

Relief families outside Decatur township received in addition a two weeks' supply of flour sent out by the Illinois emergency relief commission. Since the first shipment to Macon county included only 279 barrels, the flour was not given to families in Decatur township. They will receive flour with grocery orders until another consignment of 278 barrels arrives. Distribution in Decatur is made through contract with Hamman Bros. In the township unemployed men with trucks are delivering the food as a work relief project.

50 Families Off Work Aid. Because of the changing program of work relief in Macon county, no more general orders for Red Cross supplies will be written for the work relief group. Miss Mary V. Love, executive secretary, announced Monday. Approximately 50 families have now been transferred from work relief to direct relief by Macon county, because emergency many relief of the committee.

projects which provided them with work have now been completed. Women on relief are being encouraged to come to the Red Cross sewing room in the old Field Shorb building and use facilities for remodeling clothing and making bedding. Friday 15 comforters were tied in the sewing room. Five More to Camp. Five young men on Macon county emergency relief rolls or in need of relief will leave Decatur Tuesday or Wednesday as replacements for men recently sent from here to Fort Sheridan to train for service in winter government conservation camps.

Certification of the applicants was completed Monday by J. K. Stafford, certifying agent, and the recruits will submit to army examinations Tuesday at 4:30 m. under Lieut. Robert Harper of Rantoul.

George Ferre Dies Former Dalton City Merchant Succumbs at His Home Here. George Ferre, 88. died at 11:15 p. m. Sunday in his home, 820 West North street.

He had been ill for about one week. Mr. Ferre was born in Perry, Pike county, Jan. 6, 1845. He had resided in Decatur for the last 32 years.

He came here from Dalton City where he had been a merchant for 29 years. He was a son of the late Lucien and Ann Ayres Ferre, old settlers of Pike county. His wife, who preceded him in death Aug. 17, 1932, was formerly Eleanor Dalton of Dalton City. He was a member of the First Baptist church and was a life member of the board of trustees of the church.

He leaves two daughters, Miss Louise Ferre and Mrs. Mabel Belden, and one son, Guy C. Ferre, all of Decatur. He also leaves a sister, Miss Emily A. Ferre, St.

Petersburg, Fla. There are two grandchildren, Ann Elizabeth and Guy C. Ferre, and a nephew, Lucien A. Ferre, Chicago. The body was taken to the Dawson Wikoff funeral home.

The funeral will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Dawson Wikoff chapel. The body will be placed in the mausoleum in Fairlawn cemetery. Legion Members To Have Meet Tonight Members of Castle Williams post.

American Legion will attend a regthe post tonight at ular meeting of 7:30 in the Legion rooms at the armory. Business to be discussed at the meeting will include reports membership drive of on the recent the post. A feature of unusual interest has been promised for the entertainment hour to follow the meetchairman of the ing by Ross Boyd, committee in charge. "It'll be something different," Boyd said Monday afternoon in urging fellow post members to attend tonight's meeting. Bits of News in Today's Want Ads Transportation to Sioux City, Water bucket lost.

Hair cut or shave 15c. Practical nurse wanted. Florence heater $10. Braided rugs 25c. Men's gloves $1 up.

Air compressor wanted. 5 room cottage $1900. Oil permanent $3.50..