Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 255, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1914 — Page 1

I,Volume XII. Number 255.

I READY FOR ATTACK I ON CHANNEL PORTS f Reports Indicate Germany Is Massing gt Submarines And Air Craft Ready ■ • For A Supreme Effort

FORCED RETREAT I Superior Numbers of RusBsians Cause Germans to Vacate Poland. REMAINS UNCHANGED Itong Battle Line in Belgium Still Holding Without Decisive Gains. Mk (By Edward Keene) Oct. 29 (Special to Daily Jtetnocrat) —ACuli.cnal •,< -mships have 19<en sent to cl.-aanel •'along the :"*®fiit h west coast cf France.'’ They Will furnish support to the allies in the new attempt which is apparently ifeing planned by the Germans. They ' Will be ready for either an under ter or in the air raid. No doubt is . felt here but tiiat the Germans have WMbssoP their submarines and torpedo craf in the channel n-ar Bruges. They are also reported as moving their aer--I®l navy or at least par: of it into BelTheir strong naval base at Wil IMnshaven is absolutely cut off from the rest of Germany and no person is to enter or depart on any pretext unless he is an officer of the or navy. This precaution is bettered here to indicate that Germany intends making a supreme effort against England as well as against France in the very near future. Fori I ed to retreat from Russian Poland ' she is reported today as depending upon her heavy artillery to hold the frontier defenses and to be withdrawing her first line troops to send back , to France for action against th t oast. ? Paris. Oct 29. —(Special to Daily | Shims rat 1 The all.es are continuing to make progress against the Germans. ■ This is especially noted in the region between Ypres and Arras where th? allies have taken a number of Germen trenches, bv a series cf bril’iar’ g operations. This information was made public in the official statement this afternoon.. It (was also stated that the allies were advancing in the Algonne region and in the forest ot Apremont. Elsewhere along the long ‘ battle line it is stated that the conditions are unchanged. Berlin, Oct. 29—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Admitting that the G< roperating in Russian Poland were forced to retreat because of th immense superiority of numbers, the war office in a brief statement said: "We are again assuming the offensive.” It is understood "that new additional reinforcements have been sent to the east to aid this movement. Petrograd, Oct. 29,—(Special to the Daily Democrat)—The entire Russian army is again advancing against the Austro-German forces. Advises from the front indicate that Austrian troops In Galicia are being enveloped by the Russian left while the Russian center at.d right are driving the Germans back on their advance line of defense including the east Russian front. — head is cut When Piece of Tile Falls from Second Story on Sam Sonday. Samuel Sonday. an employe ot the tile mill, had his head badly cut this morning when a piece of tile fell fem the second story window of the building, and struck his head. Six stitches were taken to close the wound. CENSUS REPORT. — 1 Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Leßrun are rejoicing over the birth of their second Child, a girl, born last night.

War in the East! Peace in the West! “Thank God for Wilson’’ DECATUR DAILY DEM( )C KAT

TIME FAST APPROACHES. 1 For Hallowe'en Party—Boy Scouts'; Will Build Bon Fires. 1 1 The time is fast approaching for the , big Municipal Hallowe’en street party, [1 corner of Third and Madison streets. < Arrangements are nearly complete < land the affair promises to be a splen- i ■did one. The women who are to so- < • 'licit for Mrs. C. V. Connell of the re- I |treshment department, are requested to report to her at once. The Boy 1 [ Scouts will again be in evidence and i have agreed to attend to the building i of the bon fires on Third street. A i number of young men will be in ( charge and see that no damage results : from the bon fires on that evening. ; Tlie ladies requested that mention be ] made of the donations given by Mr. ’ - Downs, the printer, and the two pa- ’ . pers, the Democrat and Herald. \ » — —O' ■ ■ - ■ — DARING TAXI CAB ROBBERY. New York, N. Y„ Oct. 29—(Special | r to Daily Democrat) —Flourishing re- • volvers, four taxi -landits today held i up two men employed by the Stanley > Coke company, who were carrying the '. > 1 weekly pay roll of $4,000 to the conir pany's plant on West Thirtieth street. - The two passengers were so badly - frightened that they could give the - police but very little material to work i i on. As they reached Eleventh avenue ‘ i four men leaped from a taxi standing'. - near the corner. One man remained i • at the wheel while another held the | - door open. Both held revolvers. The ■ remaining two dashed up to the messengers, pushed revolvers into their faces and demanded the bag. Before either had time to speak, the bandits 11 tore the satchel from their grasp and : leaped into the machine. — ——o MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY. , The third epoch of the highly popular motion picture play, “The Million ! Dollar Mystery,” will be given this ev- : ening at the Crystal theater. This se- ; ries is attracting great crowds and is . proving as interesting and fascinating , as it is advertised to be. Many people have started the pictures or are ■ starting them, and you will miss one j of the greatest motion storie ever produced by any company if you do | not join ’the crowd, in addition to ■ this show, a comedy will also b ? given, making a three-film show for the , regular price of admission, five cents, — — ~ ( PLEASANT MILLS ■ HIGH SCHOOL NOTES The High School basket ball team I went to Monhoe yesterday to try their skill against the freshman team of i'that place. Against a team made up' of freshman, sophomores, and juniors, ■ they made a splendid showing. This • is the only team our boys have ever : met and we consider them some play-1 ers. The score was 14 to 9 in favor of Monroe. i The domestic science class has renti fid a special room for cooking and we i have had good success. i The interest of the sewing class is ! growing. The girls soon will be able ■ to take care of their own wardrobes., i Miss Mary Cowan is teacher of the . sewing and cooking classes. Miss Cowan took a course in Domestic Science at Muncie during the past year. I our girls are practical girls, they, learn to do a thing then do it. They j put into practice what they had been , > taught and the result was a splendid s dinner for the teachers of the first i institute. We asked only 25 cents ■'each but th teachers voted us 35 cents J per, an action which we highly appreciated. The Pleasant Mills High School teachers’ are going to Indianapolis to attend the teachers’ convention. The d school will be closed till next Monday.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening, October 29, 1914.

TAKES A BRIDE John Bieneke Wedded to Emma L. Kruetzmann Yesterday Afternoon. AT THE PARSONAGE By Rev. L. C. Hessert—Visiting in Ft. Wayne—Will Live Here. John Everett Bieneke, a well known Decatur man, and Miss Emma Lucile Kreut miann. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kreutzmann, of near Magley. were quietly married yesterday after- , noon at 4. o’clock at the German Reformed parsonage by the Rev. Louis C. Hessert. The couple was unattended. They left for Fort Wayne for a few days' visit with the groom's brother. They will be at home in this city this winter with the groom’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bieneke, on West Monroe strreet. The groom was formerly engaged in the restaurant business in this city with Milton Girod, but is now employed as machinist at the Otto Reppert foundry and machine shop. The bride wore for her weddinggown, as well as her traveling suit, a pretty blue tailored suit, with hat, veil and other accessories to match. The couple is a very estimable one and deserving of all the good wishes which are theirs. to fightniTws National Committeeman Taggart Will Make Newspaper Prove Charges. IN CIRCUIT COURT Mayor Bell of Indianapolis to Also File a Suit for Criminal Libel. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 29 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—National Committeeman Thomas Taggart has begun proceedings against' the Indianapolis News for criminal and civil libel. That newspaper’s comment on the removal of frank X. O’Brien from the demo- i erotic ticket was one of the causes but there were a number of editorial . nd news articles in the issue of Wed- ( nesday which caused Taggart to bring the suit. Among other things the News said: “We have the most thorough going contempt for the machine that is in control of Indiana. It is a menace to the political, social and religious life of the people of the state. Compared with it Cartahage wt.s a Puritan Village. We ask * the people of Indiana to mediate on the shame of having their affairs absolutely controlled by Bell, Donn Roberts, Tom Taggart and Crawford Fairbanks. These are the men who make up our Hoosier Carthage which corrupts and debauches 'everything brought within the sphere | of the influence.” I Frank X. O’Brien was put off the county ticket Wednesday by court or'der, as a candidate for juvenile judge, I when it was discovered that he had a criminal record in St. Louis. The News intimated in its editorials and I news articles that Tom Taggart and others named were aware of the man s i ecord all the time he was nominated. That newspaper then proceeded to < harge that his name had been kept cn the ticket in order that he mignt be used. The fact is that Taggart never even saw the man O'Brien until the : uit had been begun by the Marion county democratic committee to remove his name from the ticket. i O'Brien had been nominated in the I direct primaries last spring. When it became known that Taggart was about to file his criminal libel suit, Richard Smith, ffditor of the News, called Taggart by telephone, stating that the editorials would be cut out of later editions, and there would be ( proper retractions. Billy Blodgett was , rent in a hurry to deliver the same message. But the suit went on. Mayor Joseph E. Bell will bring sim- ( ilar suits because of the same articles, and editorials, j

REBEKAH SOCIAL I II * Everybody Invited To The Masquerade Friday Evening ‘‘Your past, present and future All wrapped up in a dime. Everyone put on your false face And have an old-fashioned time At the I. O. O. F. hall, October 30 at 7:30." This is the invitation extended to the public to the Hallowe’en masquerade Friday evening by the Rebekahs at thb I. O. O. F. hall. There will be plenty of fun, music, entertainment stunts and refreshments. Ten cents will be charged. The proceeds will go to tlie new robe fund. Everybody invited. Assist Lloyd Beery and Kenyon Walters in Entertaining Seniors. AT CLASS PARTY ___ 1 At Beery Home—*The Guests Numbered Nearly Eighty. All the weird spirits supposed to be' abroad on the Hallowe’en, including Mephistopheles, ghosts, witches, hob-, goblins, bats, black cats, and many | others “too numerous to mention,” were called up by Lloyd Beefy and I Kenyon Walters, two enterprising and I heroic young high school seniors, to I assist them when they entertained the sixty-one seniors, ten faculty members and other friends at a Hallowe’en party last evening. The spacious D. W. Beery home was the scene of the party and with its pretty and appropriate decorations was an ideal place for the affair. On arrival the guests were greeted at the door by His Satanic Majesty, clad in black tights with a flowing red robe and cap. Incline your ear and we will whisper gently that this noble appearing personage was Cecil Cole. The setting was most appropriate. The dim light fell through mellow looking tissue pumpkin heads on chandeliers, from pumpkin jack-o’-lanterns on mantels and newel posts. Black cats and black witches rode through space on ' draperies, black and orange crepe streamers were festooned prettily, and cut flowers in vases, fodder in the shock and “frostless” pumpkins, filled in the nooks charmingly. i His Satanic Majesty ushered the guests up the stairway where Miss Dorothy Walters, dressed as a ghost, directed them to the dressing rooms. On each gorl's back was pinned a numpier. To each coy was given a slip of paper. On this he was directed to 'fivd girl number so-and-so, and visit certain places designated and there find their fortunes or perform some Hallowe’en stunt designated. • It was the uncanny lot of some to visit the attic, placards directing the way. Some were directed to visit the witches or palmist's den. This was curtained off and inside by the dim, red light, which 'glowed under her brewing kettle, was seated Miss Florence Myers, dressed as a witch, with long gray hair, flowing, who told their I fortunes. Even more uncanny was the ghost-story den in another part of file attic. To Dr. J. Q. Neptune fell the j lot of playing ghost, and a most formidable one he made, as he sat in the semi-darkness and clanked his chains as the visiting couple entered and took their places on a white-covered ’ seat. As the ghost regaled them be-' tween shivers with hair-raising ghost stories, he pulled a string of a clever mechanical arrangement made by the boy hosts and there from a corner arose a most realistic ghost. To the visitors on leaving the ghost extended a cold, clammy hand to be shaken. I This was a rubber glove filled with ; ice. It is safe to say that a visit to j doc’s usual place of business would be ( preferable and that the screams the ghost brought forth had more real anguish than any that ever issued from doc’s office before he installed his painless gas machine. Then there was the “Eighth Wonder” den in which Herman Myers, hidden in a box, pushed out a snake when the inquisitive couple came to look [through a hole in the box. Still others bobbed for apples, told [ a story “as long as a marshmallow lay j I unmelted in their mouths,” fished for: (Continued on Pago 3)

COUPLE MARRIED Miss Clista Meshberger Os Linn Grove And Lloyd Eversole Married IN PORTLAND TODAY By Rev. Ed Baumgartner— License Issued By Minister’s Brother. The wedding of a prominent Adams county couple will take place In Portland today. The groom is Lloyd Everett Eversole, a well knokn young farmer and the bride Miss Clista Mao Meshberger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John IViesliberger of Linn Grove. The marriage license was issued yesterday afternoon by Deputy Clerk iL. L. Baumgartner, long a friend of the families. The couple then went Ito Portland where today they will be married by a brother of the deputy clerk, the Rflv. Ed Baumgartner, pastor of the Evangelical church. The young couple will then return here and from Decatur will go to Delajware, Ohio, where they will visit with 'Mr. and Mrs. Ben Welker. Mrs. WelIker was formerly Miss Bess Baumgartner daughter of the deputy clerk, so that the Baumgartners play a prominent part in the wedding throughout. WIUTSbAIEO Last Testaments of Louise Kennedy and Cecelia Ehinger ARE ADMITTED TODAY Both Leave Sums to Their Churches—Remainder Divided Among Heirs. The will of Louise Kennedy, execu-; ted August 15, 1913, and witnessed by I David E. Smith and Martin J. Mylott,’ was probated today. She makes the customary provision for the payments of debts. To her nephew. Clement Kennedy, is given SIOO. Her executor is directed to pay to the trustees of the Presbyterian church of this city, the sum of S3OO. To her ne.ph- 1 ews and nieces, as follows, is given the balance of her estate in equal thanes: Louise Myers, of Decatur: Louis Bradley, Louise Rankin McCullough, Frank Bradley, Joseph Brad- • ley, Julia. Fator, Clement Kennedy. She asks that Ed. S. Moses serve us executor and directs that he sell all property and make the distribution I of the proceeds as set out. As Judge Smith was a witness of the will he is disqualified to serve as judge in this matter and appointed L. C. DeVoss who assumed jurisdiction. The will of Mrs. Cecelia Ehinger was also probated today. E. X. Ehinger and Christena Conter witnessed the same, the instrument | being executed March 21, 1912. j The provision is made first for the payment of any debts. She gives S2OO to the St. Marys Catholic church for masses, and to her son, Peter Paul, 'the sum of SIOO to be hfs absolutely. ■Her daughter, Ida Cecelia Salisbury, is ■ made trustee of the sum of SI,OOO to be held in trust tor the aforesaid son Peter Paul. The trustee is to loan this out at interest, and pay annually to said Peter Paul, the net surplus of the income. At the end of ten years the sum of SI,OOO is to be his I absolutely. If the daughter, Ida does 'not wish to serve as trustee, the court |is to appoint someone to carry out the duties of the trust. To the daughter Ida, is given the remainder of the estate. Ida is named exesutrix and this morning qualified as such, giving $2,000 bond. CANDY MAKERS, NOTICE. Mrs. George Flanders, in charge of the candy department for the Municijpal Hallowe’en party for Saturday evening, requests that all those who are |to cotitribute home-made candies, piling the same to her home by SaturIday morning.

MISSIONARY PROGRAM. The following program will be given by the Missionary society of the Pleasant Grove U. H. church to be held Saturday evening, October 31, 1914: 1 Song. Responsive Reading. Song. , Prayer. Song. Recitation —Lilah Murnma. Reading -Bertha Welty. Duet —Mabel Munima and Marie Lebrun. Reading—Golda Nldlinger. Essay—Mrs. O. E. Chupp. Duet —Irene and Tena Bittner. Recitation—Marie Lebrun. Address by the Pastor —Rev. C. E. Chupp. Duet —Edna Welty and Golda Nidlinger. Reports. Offering. Benediction. MEET ftT BERNE[ Adams Co. Sunday School, Association Will Hold Convention NOVEMBER 3 AND 4 Good Program-State Sun- | day School Workers As Well As Local Talent The Adams Couhty Sunday School convention will be held at Berne next week, Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov ember 3 and 4. J. F. Lehman of Berne is president; Clark J. Lutz. Decatur, vice president; and E. M. Ray. Berne, secretary-treasurer. The convention will be attended by representatives of every Sunday school in the county. A very good program as follows will be given: Tuesday Evening Mennonite Church 7:00 O’clock Song Service, led by E. A. Luginbill. Devotional Service—Rev. Hiley Baker. Music. ' “Different Kind* of Bundles,” — •Miss Pearl Weaver, Indianapolis. 1 Music —Monroe M. E. Sunday school. I "The Rights 7>f tlie Teen Age”—E. T. Alberton, Indianapolis. Music —Mennonite. Sunday School. Offering. Miscellaneous Business. Wednesday Morning Reformed Church 9:00 O'clock Song Service, led by E. A. Luginbill. ’ Devotional—Rev. J. H. Rilling. Music —Reformed S. S.. Berne. Address —Rev. D. T. StephensonMusic —Decatur Sunday Schools. “The Sunday School Superintendent and his Opportunities —E. T. Albertson. • | Music —Decatur Sunday Schools. 1 "County Survey”—Miss Pearl Weaver. Announcements. Wednesday Afternoon Reformed Church 1:30 O’clock Music. — Devotional—Rev. E. M. Dunbar. Music —Linn Grove Evangelical S. S. | “Conservation" —Miss Pear] Weaver. ‘ Music —Evangelical S. S„ Berne. “Place for Training Work” —E. T. Albertson. Departmental Reports Reports of Committees. Announcements. Wednesday Evening Mennonite Church 7:00 O’clock Music. Devotional —Rev. Eli Lantn. Music —Geneva M. E. Sunday School. Address —Rev. W. D. Samuel, D. D. Music —Missionary Sunday Schools. Offering. Music. o ; DISASTROUS FIRE RAGING Norin Tonawanda, N. Y., Oct. 29, — (Special to Daily Democrat) —Fire, thought to be of incendiary origin and which early today threatened to sweep all before it, despite the efforts ■of three fire departments, was still raging in the lumber yard of Grady Bro’s, at 8 o’clock this morning. Several business blocks have already been entirely destroyed. The loss so far is estimated at between $350,0000 and $400,000. j «

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MANY HEAR THEM Congressman Adair and Hon. Guy Colerick Spoke to a Crowded House. ON LAST EVENING State and National Affairs Were Discussed—A Very Good Meeting. f • A crowd estimated at between 175 and 200 people filled every seat in tlie circuit court room last evening in this city and for over two hours listened attentively to tlie speeches of Coagressman John A. M. Adair and Hon. Guy folerick of Fort Wayne. The meeting opened witli County Chairman Henry Heller presiding, who introduced Mr. Colerick to the. people. 'The state and natronal afairs were discussed and in part he said: “Were not the repulilican, progressive and independent newspapers all in favor of the laws which the state legislature and the national administration were about to pass and then after the democratic party had passed such laws, didn’t they say th' ( were no good, and added the appropriations set aside for the enforcement of these new law as the cost and even called It tlie extravagance of the state and national administrations? Is that fair?” The speaker then explained the great record of our president. Woodrow Wilson, of the achievements and laws enacted by congress, r.ealing with tlie ariff reduction, the income tax law, the currency law, and stated that our congressman, J. A. M. Adair, was the man who first introduced the bill, changing the money center from Wall street to Washington, and giving the secretary of the treasury the power to put enougli government money in circulation in twenty-four hours to stop any symptoms of a panic in the future. He also said: “Has not Woodrow Wilson’s ‘watchful waiting' policy both in tlie Mexican crisis and at tlie present time proved to be worthy of note?” And, now, gentlemen, when you cast your vote next Tuesday take into consideration all these questions, and if you approve of the splendid record of Wilson and the administration, vote the democratic ticket straight. Do not let personal feeling interfere.” The state administration and the history of the 1913 Indiana legislature was then discussed. He said: “Didn’t the last legislature do more toward the betterment of the laboring conditions than any other twenty legislatures? They also passed the public utility act, and the vocational education law. Here the speaker read a few congratulatory 'etters, most of them signed by republicans, and commending the vocational education law. Now the republican press is trying to have the approprialion set aside for this law as tlie “extravagance of the legislature.” Tlie state tax question was then discussed and Mr. Colerick explained why it was raised in a few cases, but on tlie other hand showed lliat it had been lowered. As the administration had to pay off debts incurred by the republican administration, the tax had to be raised in one instance to meet the debt, but after the first year the entire state debt would be wiped out. Mr. Colerick closed his speech urging the Adams county voters to vote the democratic .'ticket next Tuesday, and stated as a reason the results the non-partisan fight in Fort Wayne last year during tlie city election. I Congressman Adair then took the j floor, having arrived just a few minutes before from Monroe, where he held a “rousing” meeting, and where the crowd demanded his presence a quarter of an hour longer than he was scheduled to speak. Mr. Adair began his speech by thanking the people of | Adams county for their loyal support during his four previous campaigns in his successful races for congress and continued. He spoke on national affairs only and of the great achieve[ments of the special session of congress and the policies of Woodrow Wilson. In speaking of our president he said “that Woodrow Wilson is the . 'greatest president that the country has . had since the pen dropped from the • hand of Thomas Jefferson, or the i sword from Abraham Lincoln.” He 1 then went into detail explaining the ■ great benefits and savings derived since the passage of the tariff law, how the Taft and Kodsevelt adminis,trations were controlled by the men and the trusts and of tlie corrupt (Continued ou Page 3)