Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 30 May 1914 — Page 1

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Volume XII. Number 128.

Entire Nation Reverently Bows Its Head In Sacred Memory Os Its Soldier Dead

AS A MILLION BELLS TOLL FORTH AT NOON TODAY Decatur Comrades Decorate The Graves Where Steep The Brave Who Sank To Rest

LILIES AND ROSES Bless the Turf—Memorial Services Conducted This Afternoon REV. B. E. PARKER To Give Annual Memorial Address—lmpressive Services Are Held Today 1* soldiers' memorial day. Again the veterans, with the corporation of the entire nation are pay lag their tribate to the memory of the brave. A nearer, more closely u*u« u : Itond will unite all the comrades today. At noon for a period of five min utes the notes from milliuu* of belle over the entire country »ill toll forth. | Flag* will be at half mast during thia time and the comrades will stand with uncovered heads. Decatur bells will also be tolled and thia observance made, according to the bequest of the last national encampment of O. A. It. The grave* of all soldiers tn Pecs tur and Adams county are being visited thia morning and the turf where rests the bodies of the fallen brave, tenderly •‘Messed with flowers.” The martini music corps gave forth it* stirring notes and by 8.30 o'clock the veterans had assembled at the Sam Henry Fuat G. A. R. hall where, wl’h the assistance of the W. R. C. great banks of flowers had been gathered These were taken by the committees to the various cemeteries, the old Catholic and Protestant, and then by automobile to the new cemeterie* where the graves of the soldiers were fittingly decorated, the bags having l>oen placed earlier in the week. The dawned ideally in all ways- The Intense heat of the past week was alleviated by the shower last evening the dust was laid, and Nature emerge i cool and bright and smiling today to contribute her best. Th* business houses and residentdid honor to the day My donning | their prettiest decoration* of bunting rnd hags. The largo hag on the stay . in the courthouse grounds was hung, and the grounds otherwise nicely d" corated The soldiers. monument. d<* dleated last fail, with Its fountain in full play, and Its urns filled with llv Ing plants, with the name of every Adams county soldier* on it* roll sees the day of general memorial for the first time, and is a prominent feat ure In the memorial day service. The city band In new uniform, a* well as the drum corps, took an active part in the services this morning and afternoon. Ths Memorial Service. The Memorial service proper will not take place until this afternoon where the acene will be transferred to the courthouse and Its grounds. Ihe principal memorial address will be giv« n by tlio Rev. 11. E Porker, of Richmond, son In law of Comrade J- DHute The beautiful cenotaph and unknown grave service will ho held •« Cour ’ street, tn which place the (I. A. R- and W. R C. will march from the Post •tall, nt 1:30 o’clock. The committee has arranged for eve'lent m-u! ’ and ili» <oiirt house and courtyard are »P propriatHy decorated- By n

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

| the mayor, C. N. Christen, business will be suspended from twelve to two o'clock. After a prayer by the Rev. R. N. Ball, the W. It. C. will conduct their ritualistic service at the cenotaph and the firing squad. In charge of J. ; 0. Andrews will salute the dead The adjournment will then be taken I to the circuit court room, where the ' G. A. R. ritualistic service will be I given, after which the following pro- ! gram will be given. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address —Miss Alta Teeple. Flag Drill—Ten Little girls. Reading. "The Bivouac of the Dead" Miss Genevieve Smith. Memorial Address—Rev. B. E. Park- : er. Richmond. Ind. Music —By the Choir. Benediction. The March. After the services In the court room, the line of parade will form on Madison street, right resting on Fourth street: south on Fourth street to Ad'am* street: east on Adams to Second street: north on Second to Monroe street; eist on Monroe street and across the river bridge, counter marching on the levee back to bridge. The services here will be held by the W. R. C. in memory of the sailors and marines who sleep beneath the waters. The parade will then march west on Monroe street to Fourth street; south on Four'll to Madison street; east on Madison to the G. A. R. hall. R. D. Myers, will be chief marshal of the parade, and the formation will be as follows: City Band. School children. Sacred and Benevolent Associations. Martial musk*. W. R. C. G. A. R. and ex-soldier* and Sons of Veterans, Spanish American Veteran*. J. D. Andrews in charge of the firing squad. ■■■—o — SUNDAY DEVOTIONAL. The Epworth league of the Methodist church has prepared an excellent program for the Devotional exercises to he given nt the church Sunday evruing beginning promptly at six-thirty o'clock. An Invitation is extended to pH to attend. The Devotional pro gram is a* follows: Bubjeet: Christainity’s Greatest Rival Mohamrdlanlam. Shing league. Prayer Rev. D. H Htephenson. Rending of leason—A. D. Suttle*. Hong league. Home observations—Hattie S'uda baker. Piano Holo—Josephine Huttte*. Weakness** of Mohomedlanism—D N. Erwin. Plano Duet.— Yager Slaters. Some Comparison*- Rev. W. J. Myer*. Song l-adles Quartette. letter from Dr. Ernsburgcr. Mls»umary In India who receives rupfiort from local chapter- Dorris DeVoes. Song league. Service* begin promptly at «:3®. Come and bring ycur friends. OPEN AFTER MONDAY Beginning with Monday evening. June Ist. the following clothing storewill remain open after supper until eight o’clock. Tie Myer* Dailey Co. Vance AY Hit*. Holthouse Schulte Co. • Twple. Brandyberry ft Peterson.

“DECATUR CAN AND WILL"

Decatur, Indiana. Saturday Noon, May 30, 1914.

GAME TOMORROW Monroe With Re-enforced Team Will Battle With Local Shamrocks » - , AT SHAMROCK PARK Visitors Will Have Team Composed Almost Entirely of Foreign Players I Tlie base ball game scheduled for Sunday when Monroe will bring a team of fast ball players to this city with the intention of capturing the pennant, will undoubtedly be one of the most exciting of the games played on the local diamond this season. Tie Monroe boys did not have the confidence that they could defeat the Shamrocks with their own talent and therefore scoured the surrounding country to secure players. Many of these players have worked with the local team and that they will make a combination that will hustle the Shamrocks to win over Is already acknowledged. The local boy* however have been putting in much hard prac tice and have brought themselves up to such form that it would be hard for a professional team to get around them. Don't fail to see this game as it will absolutely be one of the best of the season. The game will be call I ed promptly at 3 o’clock. HOLD CONVENTION Preble and Kirkland Townships Will Hold Their Sunday School Convention SUNDAY JUNE 7th At the Beulah Chapel—A Very Excellent Program Will Be Given Arrangements have Just been completed for the annual Sunday school convention of the Preble and Kirkland townrhip cladtees. The convention will be held in the Beulah Chapel on Sunday June 7th and a most enjoyable time Is assured those who attend. The following excellent pixfraui will be given: Opening song at 2 o’clock P. M. Devotional. Bong. Address by Rev. John P'.lllips. Bong. Appointment of nominating committee. Address by Rev. D. A. Kalcy. Discussion. Report of S. S. Superintendent*. Offering. Report of nominating committee. Closing Song. Benediction. GENERAL ASSEMBLY REPORT. On the coming Sunday morning nt 10:30 o’clock nt the Presbyterian church the pastor, who attended the reccik meeting of the Gon oral Assembly In Chicago, will give n report of ths same. The memlmr* of th* congregation are urged to la- pre sent, and all friend* of the church are cordially Invited. TO THE MINISTERS. The monthly inertin'- of the Ministerial Association take* place Monday, June lat nt the library nt 2:00 p. m. Those concerned are urged to b- pr sent. ■ 0 True Frlsto* I* home for a few days' visit with his parents.

| sj: * * « * gt >;< * * * * * ♦ ' « ODE TO THE BRAVE. * « .k How sleep the brave, who sink * * to rest, s<< I s’: By all their country's wishes # * blest. ■* When Spring, with dewy fingers sy cold, * Returns to deck their hallow'd # * mould, * , She there chall dress a sweeter a • # rod, * * Than Fancy'* feet have ever trod, >8 By fairy hand* their knell is rung, ft I * By form* unseen their dirge i* * * sung; * * There Honor comes, a pilgrim k * gray, * 4: To ble»» the turf that wraps their ♦ * clay, * * And Freedom shall awhile repair » :I: To dwelt, a weeping hermit, there. * 1 k WILLIAM COLLINS. ♦ ******* ***•> WILL TAKE THE ~ FOURTH DEGREE I Thirteen Local Knights of Columbus Will Go To Indianapolis to Take the HIGHEST DEGREE A Special Pullman Has Been Chartered To Go Sunday Morning at 2:11. «»/ 111 ■■ A special Pullman on the Grand Rap i ids ft Indiana railroad has been chartered by the local Knights of Columbus | for the purpose of going to Indianapo- : 11* Sunday morning where at three i o’clock in the afternoon at the (’laypool hotel IM third decree member* of the Knight* of Columbus lodge from all parts of the state will be initiated into the fourth and highest degree of the brotherly order. Ex- ■ cellent and grand preparations have I been made for tne notable event and I brother Knights from the many diff crent ccuuclls in Indiana will attend ' the doings. Os the 16Y candidates, the i Decatur council No. Stif can claim 1 thiiteeu of whom twe:ve are from thl* city. Mr. Kelley being from Geneva . tut who is a active member of tho * local chapter. The local Knights have 1 arranged for a*pecial Pullman car to be set eff on the side track in thl* city lie tween nine-thirty and ten o'clock. Th!* car is tor the cxyiusive use of the candidate* and those who , will attend the Initiation. The Pull ' man will not leave Decatur until 2:1 Sunday morning arriving at Indianapc Ils the party will attend high ma* I rnd at three o'clock in the afternom the Initiation ceremonies will tak place in the Palm room of the Clay pool hotel. At eight o'clock a gram banquet will be given at the Claypool fCoaanueu on r*** 2) - i i —-—o '■ ■— I EXTRA fejscssooßeaaoasoaoaecckSD QUEBEC. May 30..—(Special to th: Dally Democrat.)— Only 250 bodteu •< the 934 person* who ar* known tc have perished when the Empress of Ireland was rammed and sunk in the St. Lawrerc* river have so far been recover*.t according to wirelese re port*. Badly crippled by th* erseh the Storstadt arrived today under her own eteam.. .She carried no survivors and no dead This make* the Het of 934. There were 1.367 aboard the Em pre**. Those saved and unclaeefied aro, Passenger*. 169. erew 237...Proatrated by the accident. Captain Kendall hoe not yet given any eorltiee Neither he* word been received from Captain Anderoon or the B'oretedt Only the contracting repo it* of theoe two commander* can clear up the cause of the tragedy.

’THE LIVE STOCK — I Os Adams County Is Big [[ Part of Weaith—Assessors Valuation. /IS MADE KNOWN — * k Auto’s Popularity Does Not , Quite Do Away With the Horses — 1 » I County Assessor Georgo Gcntis has completed his total assessment valuation and average for Adams county ’ and the same is ready for sending to the state tax board in Indianapolis. The statistics are quite Interesting. There are 187 automobiles in the , county, valued at $46.4*0 or an average I valuation of $248.53. In spite of the automobile's popularity, there are still 9,374 horses and ; mules left. These nave an average value of $104.20, or a total valuation of $975,853. Cattle number 13,155 head; total value $453,609; average value, $34.48. Hogs number 24,770; total value, $193,033; average value, $7.79. Sheep number 6334; total value. $29,323; average price, $4.69. There are 1747 pieces of farm implements and machinery, valued at $114,581. or an average of $65.53. Household furniture and library outfits number 2273, valued at $111,872, or an average of $49.21. MONTH OF” RAIN 1 ■ ■ " i . According to Hicks Month of June Will be Everything But Roses RAIN AND LIGHTNING Is Due for Nearly Every Day —Much Damage is Predicted for Month • I - - Weather Prophet Hick.< is out with II a prediction of plenty of ram, lights In* and atmospheric disturbances tor ■ June. In part, lie says: > "A regular storm period, which war-. • '-entral on May 30, will be at 1U culminating stages, in the central to i eastern parte of the country during the Ist, 2nd and 3rd. The moon will ia»* southward across the celestial i quator on the 2nd. which fact will ..aust' m»ny local thunder storms on md touching that date. Immediately vest of these storm areas will follow a rising barometer, wind* shifting to 'he west, and change to fresh, cool ■ , weather. ! A reactionary storm peril*! Is cen-' tral on the sth. 6th and 7th. On and to the sth, 6fli and 7th the baro meter will fall decidedly, the tern perstnre will rise, and stories of wind. rain, and Ciunuer will make their transit euMwaraty across the country. A regular storm •period will de velop and run Its course from the 10th lo the 15th. | is central on the 11th, this date being the central day of au annual period of maximum electric and magnetic dlsturlmnce. At thia time Hie earth’s north magnetic pole la mos"t inclined to tin sun’s equahZ causing a maximum charge of magnetlam In the earth and atmosphere surrounding It. During a period of 8 to 10 days, taking June the 11th as the central day. every year, the records will show that there are phenomenal manifestations, in the way of magnetic unrest, atmospheric electricity, trou 1 hie on the wires and In telegraphic I Instrument*, auroral lights, volcanic I unrest and seismic activity. At this i period the whole terrestrial globe takes on such excessive charge* ofj

■ electricity and magnetism, that much of the remainder of the month, as a rule is character!.;.>d by intense electrical storms, with almost contlnous displays of sneet lightning, during the ' evenings and nights, for many successive days at a time. Q DR. BEATTY TO PREACH. Dr. J. A. Beatty, district M. E. superintendent, will preach at the Deca tur Methodist church Sunday evening while the Rev. D. T. Stephenson is conducting services at Monroe. On Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock, Dr. Beatty will hold the first quarterly conference of the year at the local church. SOLDIEjFHOME Observed Decoration Day With Most Beautiful and Impressive Service EVER GIVEN THERE Principal Address Was Given By George B. Lockwood Os Muncie Press. Marion, Ind., May 30—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Doubtless the most beautiful and impressive celebration of Memorial Day in Indiana was that held, today in the Silent Circle at the National Soldiers Home near this city | where more than 2.000 veterans | of the civil war are buried, and when ' nearly as many more now reside in the . barracks and hospital of this great national institution. Che grounds of the Marion Home are among the most beautiful surroundings of any public in stitution in the country, and they are I' especially attractive at this season of the year. A large crowd of civilians, us well as veterans attended the Impressive exercises, which were presided over by Colonel George W. Steele, governor of the Home Steele not only has a feur year war record as a volunteer doldier but served for ten i years as an officer in the regular army. ! a.<( a congressman obtained the loca- ! tion of the Soldiers’ Home at Marion ! more then twenty years ago. Th* celebration began at 9:30 with a parade from McMahon barracks • around Steele Circle to Silent Circle The Home band was followed by the , governor and sytff, school children with baskets and flowers, ladies of the i W. R. C., Col. Asbury Steele Post. G A. R., Encampment No 90. t’nton Vet I eran Legion, Fred d. Ballou camp. Spanish American war veteran*, fol lowed by the ten companies of vet erans from the Soldiers' Home. The program included the decorat Ing of the hundreds of graves, music i by the home band and choir and a: brief address by George B. Lockwood, of Muncie, who declared that the pe cullar glory of having served under the : American flag in both the civil and 1 Spanish-American war* was not simply that of having fought for one’s coun-i I try, but of having at the same time. Jieen enlisted in the service of liberty and humanity. "No plea for peace,” 1 he said, “can ever dim the glory of ' the achievements of those who offered - their lives not merely for the pre*erva-' ! Hon of the Union, but for the extinction of human slavery, not simply for the defeat of Spain In her war against the United States, but to lift the hand of oppression from the Islands of the sea and lend more than ten million people Into the light of liberty nnd opportunity. ■ ■ o PANAMA GRAVES DECORATED. (United Press Service.) Panama, May 30--(Spocial to Imiiy Democrat)—Tlie last rest Ing place* of canal workers, representing more than a score of nationalities were decorated today In the first big Memorial Day ceremonies to be held under the Canal ■ Zone's new form es government. ■ Speeches eulogising the "heroes of the | peaceful army" that has built the j great canal, were made by Zone offii ctsls. 1

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6W FOX CM " ■' LEADS FIRST LIP .1(1 1 Indianapolis Race Starts At 9:59 With An Average of 84 Miles Per Hour ■MB—MN BIG CROWD GATHERS r i With Indications Os Being Greatest Motor Event Ever Held In History Indianapolis, May 30.—(Special to Daily Democrat.) —With Chassagne's Sunbeam, Tetslaff’s Maxwell and Wilcox' Gray Fox in the lead by virtue of the desperate grind and struggle for first place, the gasolene derby was off at 9:50 this morning., Wilcox gained the lead, making the first lap in 1:46- ! 03 an average of eighty four miles an | hour. Carlson in his Maxwell was i tied with the Sunbeam for second place, making the lap in 1:47:02. Tetzlaff in a Maxwell, Christians in an Excellsior, and* Keene in Beaver Bullet followed in order. Indianapolis, Ind.. May 30—(Special to Daily Democrat)—-The greatest aggregation of automobile pilots ever gatiiered for one race spun around the Speedway oval five abreast just be- | tore 10 o’clock today, behind the pacemaking car of Carl Fi her, waiting i for his signal to dash forward into the 500-mile Motor Race de Lux. Thirty drivers chosen with extreme care from the world's best, manned powerful racing machinoi that nad been prepared in every possible way for the two hundred laps, which might mean fame or death. The annual Speedway is rccogni.i.'d as the world's greatest motor event. Entries this year eclipsed those of all torm4r years. Two foreign driven, at the wheel* of foreign cars which under their guidance have captured every Europesn trophy of much value, were mott feared by tbs American contigent. These wero Gcux and Bolllot, drivers of Peugeot cars—the flower of Franc* in drivers and machines. Gcux won the race last year, but shared with hi* racing partner the distinction of being today's favorite, for Boil'.ct is the premier driver of Franco Ranking close to the two Frenchtr.ea end far over-topping them in popular favor, were Bob Burman, the ”world's speed kind.” holder until recently of the Speedway lap record, who Is driving his own car. Barney Oldfield, the deun of tbe auto ra( ing game and most widely known of them ail; Spencer Wishart, New York Millionaire sportsman who finished next to Goux last year; Joe Dawson. Speedway winner In 1912; Earl Cooper. American road racing champion: Gil Anderson, eastern road champion; Teddy Tetalaff. holder of the world's road record and Howard Wilcox, holder of the world'* mile stock straightaway; Ralph DftPaltua nnd Ralph Mulford, prominent American drivers also entered. Joe Dawson, winner with * National In 1912, is driving a Mnrmon today. ■ Illa steady driving allowed him to snatch two laurels from DePalma when the letter's engine went Imd In the last two laps. Dawson recently lowered the track record io 1:36. Fifty thousand dollars in cash prizes > I await the first ten to finish today. Os [ this, s2o.o<m) will go to the sinner, $12,000 to the second man to finish ! and smaller sums tor the rest. The ’ tenth driver wins sl,4tM). There tiro ■ many trophies, valued in total at $28,• ) 000, but these are not held permanentr ly. I‘rise* from accessory bouse* l amount to $15,000. i The winner I* expected to finish the I 200 laps about 4:30 this afternoon. Dawson's record of 6:21:06 in 1912 I *tlll stands. But though the winner ■ is then determined, the ten who re>l main “in the money" will not he 1 chosen until several hour* later. The Immense crowd was still (Coatnuet os v s4r 2)